Author notes: Hello all!

Just a few notes I wanted to make. First, this is a sequel. Second, this is not nearly as canon as part one. Third, there might be some things that are kind of canonney but mostly it is not canon. Fourth, I understand this probably should be in the crossover section, but part one wasn't so I don't want to put this one there either.

This is completely post war, with a flashback or two of during the war. This is going to be much more romance than the first so there will be smut. There is also harsh language.

Small Recap:

Avery is a witch from another world that landed in the ninja world after someone killed her entire family. She has a faded triquetra mark on her right hand and a witches knot tattoo on her collarbone. She has long dark blue hair and violet eyes and is the same age as Temari. She lives in the leaf village and is very good friends with Naruto and was on Team Kakashi with Sakura, Naruto and Sai. I don't even totally know what to put here. The first part had a couple of pairing hints at it like kakaxtenz and shikaxoc but shikaxoc took a turn when Temari and Avery had an argument about him.

If you guys have questions feel free to leave them in comments or message me, I'll answer them. There are a lot of spoilers in part one so some people might have skipped to part two.

Thanks for reading! Please let me know what you guys think!

Also, I will be uploading every Wednesday.

Enjoy!

Chapter Fifteen

Avery ran through the woods in a blind panic. The reanimated shinobi were still after her teammates and she knew she needed to get to them. She couldn't afford to lose anyone, she had to save them. She rounded a corner into a grouping of trees with dozens of ninja strung up on trees or laying on the ground dead, but every single one of them was staring at her. Each shinobi's lifeless eyes were fixed on her, and when she moved, they followed.

You could have saved us…

It felt like the whispered words went through her as soon as she heard them. Her blood ran cold in her veins as her pulse thumped heavily in her head. She gasped as she was suddenly surrounded by all the dead ninja in the forest. They were all muttering about how she could have saved them, or that she was weak. She shook her head as they came closer, causing her to scream when they touched her. She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to orb away from where she was.

When she opened her eyes again she wasn't there anymore. The orb hadn't actually happened and she was increasingly confused about how she got there. She looked around; her head foggy with confusion as she realized this was where she had found the nearly dead Kage.

From far behind her, she heard and felt an explosion. She knew immediately, the headquarters! They were in danger and she knew she had to get to them. Avery orbed immediately and appeared inside the headquarters. Each of the shinobi that had occupied headquarters was already slain when she got in there. Each shinobi had blood pooling under each of their bodies.

This isn't right… They were alive!

Suddenly, she was wrenched out of headquarters and fell onto the ground at the main battlefield. It was completely deserted, except for Shikamaru. He was standing there looking as handsome as she always knew him to be, except for the unusually cruel scowl on his face. She took a careful step toward her friend and recoiled immediately when his body let out some kind of inhuman hiss.

"You let them die," he shrieked as he attacked her. All of the blame and guilt Avery felt for not being able to save anyone at headquarters was tearing her heart in two. She didn't even try to protect herself as Shikamaru punched her and then dove at her with a kunai. She could literally feel a ripping in her chest and began to claw at her body, desperate to make it stop.

That was when she realized everything smelled far too clean…

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A scream escaped her mouth as she shot upright. She was in a bed, in a hospital room, in Konoha. She blinked her eyes several times as if trying to make sure she wasn't hallucinating or imagining it. She could feel the cold sweat making her deep blue hair stick to her face and neck and quickly tried to wipe it off with her hands. She took a deep breath, trying to slow the frantic heartbeat pounding in her chest and slow her breathing to a normal pace.

"Are you actually awake this time? Or are you going to throw things at me again?"

Avery jumped what felt like a mile out of her skin. She looked around for the source of the voice that had startled her, only to see she had a roommate. Kakashi was occupying the other bed in her extremely clean and far too quiet hospital room. He was lying back in an extremely relaxed position with a small orange book in front of his face. Both of his eyes were uncovered, but his usual mask was in its normal place over his mouth and nose. She noticed his eyes matched now, two balls of dark grey amusement staring at her.

That's right, he lost his Sharingan.

She opened her mouth and tried to speak, but she found her mouth and throat were so dry that she just managed a mangled whisper. She smacked her lips a little like she tasted something foul and tried to decide if she was stable enough to go find something to drink.

"There's water on the nightstand," Kakashi said in a bored tone.

Avery turned too quickly and her head spun. When she regained balance, she realized he was right. She picked up the large class full of water and downed the entire thing.

"Kakashi," she said louder this time. Her voice still cracked but she ignored it. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm recovering, duh," he said like she was being ridiculous. "You must actually be awake this time if you're talking."

Avery nodded slowly and rubbed her eyes. She was so stiff it almost hurt to do anything. "How long have I been out?"

"You've been here a week."

"A WEEK?" she shrieked and immediately regretted it as it reverberated in her skull.

"Geez, loud for a girl that just woke up," Kakashi complained halfheartedly.

"I've really been out for a week?"

"Well, you've woken several times, but not actually been present," Kakashi said his tone and expression suddenly becoming very serious. "The first time, you woke and wandered down the hall and collapsed in the middle of the hallway. That was about five days ago. The second, you woke complaining incoherently. No one could really figure out what was wrong and then you just fell back asleep. That was about two days ago. Then really early this morning, you woke and began throwing anything you could get your hands on at me before coming over and crawling into my bed. That was strange."

Avery rolled her eyes a little and tried to recall any of those things happening. Nope, couldn't remember any of it. She shook her head and scooted back so she could sit up against her pillows and tucked her knees to her chest.

"Am I okay? I don't feel injured."

"You aren't injured. Just energy exhausted," he replied as his eyes found his place on the page. "That is also why I am here, but I am probably going to be released today or tomorrow. Or at least I hope so."

"I can't imagine you're a very good patient," she teased.

Kakashi snorted; normally he was a very good patient, aside from the complaining about wanting to get the hell out of there. This time around though, he had snuck down to Tenzou's room as often as he could. Not that Tenzou had even known he was there, not in his condition. When Kakashi looked back up at Avery she had laid her head on her knees and closed her eyes. He wondered if she was asleep again, until he realized she was singing to herself. She had been having those nightmares all week long. He wanted to ask, but he didn't know how she would respond.

"Have I woken up screaming each time?" she asked finally. He had seemed so undisturbed by it that she wondered how long she had been having nightmares.

"No, the last time there was no screaming. The first two you were though," he said softly. "Nightmares are common after war."

She nodded, a shiver running through her body. She was freezing. She gathered up her covers and brought them up tighter around her. She had to be careful of the IV she had in her right hand, but she was glad to see that was the only thing she was connected to.

"Here," Kakashi said as he climbed carefully out of his bed and brought her one of the extra blankets they had left in the room for them.

"Thanks," she said as he tucked it in around her. He sat down on the end of her bed and brought his legs up to sit facing her with his legs crossed.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm okay. How is everyone else? Is anyone else here?"

"Well, let's see. Naruto is totally fine, he wasn't even forced to be here. He got a few examinations and they deemed him fine to go home. Sakura was ordered to take a few days off of hospital duty to regenerate the chakra she lost. Neji was forced to stay here a night or two after almost dying, but they deemed him fine due to the healing he had received, aka, you."

He stopped and thought a bit, probably trying to figure out who else to mention. There had been a lot of people she wouldn't necessarily know that had been or were still at the hospital. When he decided he had touched on all the easy people to mention, he moved on.

"Gai is still in pretty critical condition, but he'll live," Kakashi mentioned. "They just aren't sure he will be able to continue being a ninja at this point."

"Oh no," she said, tears stinging her eyes for Gai. She had tried so hard to heal him.

"You can't feel responsible, he's lucky to be alive," Kakashi muttered. "Opening the eighth gate, he should be dead."

"I tried so hard to heal him," Avery muttered.

"You and Naruto are the reasons he is alive," Kakashi said. "So don't beat yourself up."

"Yeah, alright," she sighed.

"Obito is still here, recovering. He hasn't been in a good enough condition to go through a trial of any kind yet so he still hasn't been exonerated, but Sasuke has," he said watching her reactions. She didn't really look surprised about either of those two pieces of information.

"So Obito is alive," she said slowly.

"Thanks to you, yes. I've been able to talk to him a couple times, enough to know he's nervous about the trial. He's convinced he won't be pardoned," Kakashi shook his head a little. "He's recovering well; I think they are planning on doing it within the next few days."

"Where will he go after?"

"Well, if he isn't pardoned he'll go to jail until it's decided what will be done with him," Kakashi said rolling his eyes. "Or he will be forgiven and he will most likely come live with me. We talked about that a few nights ago after I convinced him he needed a place to stay in case he is forgiven."

She nodded a little, "and Sasuke?"

"He moved into the Uchiha memorial house that was built over where the Uchiha district was before the village was destroyed. It had been built as a monument to the Uchiha. Though, I think it was also kind of built for Sasuke."

"What, like in case he ever decided to come back?" Avery asked, resting her chin on her knees.

"Yeah," Kakashi nodded absentmindedly. The last person he needed to inform her of was Tenzou.

"Anyone else?" she asked, as if she already knew; which she did, her empathy probing Kakashi even despite her low energy levels.

He sighed and looked at her, "Yamato is here too."

"Is he okay?"

Kakashi didn't answer right away. He wasn't, not, okay technically; and, at the same time, he wasn't okay at all.

"He's… in a coma," Kakashi said finally.

The words burned his tongue like acid as he finally said them aloud for the first time. Every time he snuck out of his room and went over there to sit there and be with him, he had to make sure Obito was asleep before he could reach out to him. Obito had caught him sitting there staring at Tenzou a few times, though Kakashi couldn't find it in him to care about that. He was just praying continuously to see his Kouhai's eyes again.

"Seriously?" Avery was shocked to hear that. "Can't anyone heal him?"

Kakashi shook his head, "he has to wake up before anything will work."

Avery knew she wouldn't be any help either. She healed injuries; she couldn't fix exhaustion or things like comas. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "He's probably been out all week too?"

"Even longer technically; he was out when we found him."

"Found him? What do you mean found him?"

"He had been captured before Naruto even left the island they were on. Kabuto had stolen him when he couldn't get his hands on Naruto in order to use him."

"Use him? How?"

"He has the first Hokage's cells in him. It's how he can use the wood style. He was experimented on as a child by Orochimaru and I think that was how the made all those White Zetsu stronger," Kakashi growled out.

He hated knowing they used him as an experimentation tool in their stupid war.

Avery could feel the fury rolling off Kakashi's body. She knew he had unexpressed feelings for Yamato, and she wished she could get him to talk about it.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

Kakashi didn't answer, he just stared toward the ground until he managed to calm down and he took a breath. "Anyway, everyone else is fine. I haven't heard about many other too serious injuries from anyone you would be familiar with. There were a couple people from other villages here to get treated by Tsunade because she's the best. I think they are actually still here."

Avery nodded, frustrated that he ignored her question, but she knew he wasn't going to answer it. She yawned; surprised she could still possibly feel so tired after sleeping for a week.

"I should probably get a nurse in here to check on you and make sure you get some nutrition in you before you pass back out," Kakashi said.

"Might be a good idea," Avery said with yet another yawn.

Kakashi stood fluidly and walked out of the room to go find someone. She was slightly jealous that he was in actual clothes and she was in a hospital gown, but she had also been out for a lot longer than he was. She was sitting there with her arms folded over her still tucked up knees when the door opened again and Naruto poked his head in.

"I just saw Kakashi Sensei, he said you were awake. How are you feeling?" he asked as he came to sit down on the end of her bed.

"Yeah," she said trying not to let her eyes close for too long. "Just surprisingly still tired."

"Well you've already slept for one week straight, how much more sleep do you need?" Naruto teased her lightly. "I'm kidding, you're recovering."

Avery rolled her eyes; she didn't get too much more of a chance to talk with Naruto before Kakashi came back with a nurse. The nurse had some broth for her to slowly sip and she did while she listened to Naruto talk about how everyone was doing. Shikamaru and Ino were taking time with their families to mourn their dads. Mostly everyone else was resting at home and helping get the village back in order for every day normal rather than war. When she finished as much broth as she could, she laid back onto her pillows and fell back asleep listening to Naruto talk about how it had been to have Sasuke back.

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Avery was woken up by sunshine on her face. Her eyes fluttered open and she was shocked to see she was lying on grass with wildflowers growing in patches around her. She slowly sat up, taking in her surroundings. She was warm and relaxed, but she didn't know how she got there. She stood up and turned slowly in a circle, looking around at the circle of trees around the little meadow.

Where am I?

She looked down at herself to see she was wearing her white converse on her feet with her favorite pair of jeans and a plain dark green t-shirt. She could hear birds chirping in the trees and feel a gentle breeze kissing her skin.

"Avery."

The voice that said her name whispered over her entire body. His deep, rich, velvet voice spoke her name as soft as a lover's caress. She turned to look for the voice, but she was alone. Where was he?

"Avery."

She heard it in the trees the second time. She jogged over to the tree line and hesitated before entering the shelter the trees created. She searched around the trees, looking for the black hair and pale skin of the handsome face that matched the sexy voice.

"Avery, there you are."

She spun around and saw him, looking even sexier with the charcoal dark grey eyes rather than the Sharingan she had seen before. She felt him literally take her breath away and she felt weak at the knees.

"I've been waiting for you," he breathed as he drew her closer to him. His hand came up to graze her cheek with his fingers and she completely lost all ability to think straight. She was gasping for air and she wasn't even doing anything to lose air. She watched her handsome temptation lower his lips to her neck and her eyes closed as she moaned softly, holding onto his shoulders.

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She woke with a start in the hospital bed. She had been clutching the sheets in her hands and her skin was extremely hot. She sat up slowly and looked around the room. She was alone, no Kakashi in sight.

Thank god…

She stretched her arms out to the side and then in front of her, curling her back over and stretching each vertebrae of her spine. She wanted to get up, but her hand was still attached to an IV and she didn't feel like she should be the one taking it out.

"Knock, knock," Kakashi strolled into the room with his book in front of his nose. "I'm glad to see you're awake now…" he said with a teasing tone.

"How long was I out this time?" She asked as she continued her stretches from her bed.

"Oh, about ten hours… I wasn't here for most of it, though when I came in about forty-five minutes ago I had to leave again because of the… um… well sounds you were making," Kakashi was trying to keep himself composed. He had mirth dancing in his eyes though which told Avery, based on the dream she was having, exactly what kind of sounds she might have been making.

"Oh no," she said covering her face with her hands.

"Oh yes," he said cheerfully, trying not to laugh outright. "I had to take a walk because someone was being a little loud in her apparently good dream."

"Someone kill me," Avery groaned and slipped back down under her covers.

"Oh come on it isn't that bad," Kakashi said laughing.

"Why don't you make yourself useful, you eavesdropping pervert, and go find someone that can take this damned needle out of my hand?" She growled at him.

"Now, now… no need to get so uppity," he said snapping his book shut and putting it down.

"No need to go find anyone," Sakura said as she walked into the room with a clipboard in her hand. "I was coming to check on you anyway."

"Good, cause I really want to get the fuck out of this bed," Avery said.

"Yeah I can't say I blame you," Sakura said as she came over to take her vitals. She asked Avery a few questions about how she was feeling and she determined she could take the IV out and see how she did without it. She carefully removed the needle from Avery's hand and pointed out the freshly cleaned clothes they had settled on the shelf on Avery's side of the room.

"Kakashi, you should take her to the food court so she can get something to eat," Sakura said. "Keep it light, Avery," she warned and then checked a few more things off on her clipboard before she left. "See you guys later."

Avery hopped out of bed as soon as the needle was out of her hand. She was a little dizzy and felt like she was a little weaker than normal but she pushed through it to get to her clothes. They weren't anything special, just a pair of black stretchy pants and a black tank top with the proper under garments, but she would take it.

"If you don't want to see me change I would suggest looking away or walking away," she said to Kakashi as she grabbed at the ties on her hospital gown. She was naked underneath it but she did not care.

"I'm not really bothered by it," he said as he sat down on his bed. He had his book again and was looking at it.

She just shrugged and untied the gown, letting it drop to the floor. She picked up her bra and underwear set, and it was actually hers, and slipped the panties on quickly before slipping her arms through the straps of her bra and clipping it behind her back. She threw the tank top on and then the pants, only to find they were a bit too big around the middle. They definitely weren't hers. She sighed and looked around for some way to clip them so they wouldn't fall off her ass.

"Here," Kakashi said as he came over with a long string in his hands. He had taken it out of the hospital gown and came over to help her tie it around her waist to keep the pants up. Once they had the pants secure, she reached down to roll up the bottoms before slipping her feet into her shoes.

"Okay, lead the way," she said wearily. She was already tired from just that little bit of effort, but she was also starving.

They walked slowly to the cafeteria where she got a sandwich and some chips to nibble on while she and Kakashi talked about how long they were going to be stuck in the hospital. Kakashi was being released that night, but Avery could be there a few more days.

"Sakura might take pity and let you out though, you never know," he said as he fiddled a cup of tea that had grown cold.

"Maybe… let's go back," she said with a yawn.

They stood and got halfway back before Avery stopped. Kakashi stopped about two feet ahead of her and turned to see what she was waiting for.

"Where's Yamato's room?"

Kakashi sighed a little and motioned for her to come with him. He took her down a hallway in the opposite direction of their room and around one corner before turning into a room. Avery walked inside and saw Obito sleeping peacefully in his bed on the left, and Yamato seemingly also sleeping in his bed on the right.

The biggest difference was how many monitor machines Yamato was connected to. He had a heart monitor attached to him by his index finger as well as a few wires on his chest under the hospital gown. He had an IV in his arm, and a few wires attached to his head, as well as an oxygen tube under his nose. The last monitor Avery wasn't sure what it was or even how to read it.

"What's that one?"

"Chakra monitor. It hasn't changed stats since he got here," Kakashi said barely loud enough for her to hear him.

"He's not building chakra?"

"It's one of the signs of a ninja being in a coma. You don't regenerate any chakra during a coma," Kakashi said as he took a seat next to Yamato's bed. He didn't really need anyone besides Obito knowing how much he came in here, but that didn't mean he couldn't be comfortable and close to Tenzou while he was here.

"Does Obito sleep a lot?" she asked, unable to form words over the lump in her throat over Yamato's condition.

"Well he is still actually injured, rather than just exhausted like some of us. So yeah, I guess he does kind of sleep a lot," Kakashi said absently.

"Only when people don't wake me up," Obito mumbled from his bed. He hadn't actually moved at all so Avery hadn't realized he was awake. He opened his eyes and looked at Avery, having already known Kakashi was here. "Avery, good to see you're awake."

Avery smiled at how grumpy Obito sounded, "Hope you're having a decent recovery, Obito. I am tired though so we'll just go back to our room," she said and lightly pulled on Kakashi's arm. "Sorry we woke you, Obito."

"S'fine, I'm going back to sleep," he said and was out again before they left the room.

Avery and Kakashi got back to their room and Avery collapsed onto her bed. She pulled her feet up just enough to take off her shoes, and then crawled under the covers and closed her eyes.

"Are you going to have any more fun dreams?"

"Fuck off, Hatake," she yawned.

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Avery was released from the hospital the day before Obito's trial. She collected her things from the hospital and was escorted home by Naruto. It was the first time she had actually gotten to talk to him about how he was doing since the war and it seemed like he was fine physically, but was having trouble readjusting to normal life.

"Certain things about everything that happened come back to haunt me a little at night," he admitted as they walked. He didn't really seem ashamed of it, but it did give Avery an idea.

"Why don't you stay with me for a few days? It could help us both," she suggested.

"Yeah, okay. Couldn't hurt," he said with a teasing smile.

"How's Sasuke?"

"He's alright… a little distant, but what else is new. He at least is trying more than he ever has before. He agreed to come with me and Sai to start visiting Captain Yamato when Obito is out so we won't bother him." Naruto paused a moment and sighed. He hadn't been back to see Yamato at all. "Granny Tsunade told us talking to or around someone in a coma can sometimes help them wake up. We haven't had much chance to be up there since we brought him in, but Sai and I also have been kind of avoiding it."

"Why have you been avoiding it?" Avery asked.

Naruto didn't answer right away; he seemed to be lost in thought at that moment. "I feel responsible in a way," he said finally.

"How do you figure?"

"Well, if I had been allowed to leave the stupid waterfall area while the fight was happening I probably could have stopped Kabuto from taking him," Naruto said. Avery was surprised, and a little impressed, that he didn't really sound angry. He just wished he could have helped.

"The whole point was to keep you safe, Naruto. I'm sure you understand that," Avery said calmly.

"Yeah… I just don't know what I'll do if he doesn't come out of this," Naruto said emotionally. "He has been a huge part of my growth over the last year."

Avery didn't say anything after that. They walked in comfortable silence until they got to Avery's apartment and went inside. Avery was feeling the walk by the time they got there and set her things down before she flopped onto her bed. Naruto had laughed and said he was going to get a few things from his apartment and would be back in a bit.

By the time he had come back, Avery had been totally passed out in the same position he left her in. He let himself in and as he was setting his things down, her eyes fluttered open and she stretched with a yawn.

"Did you enjoy your nap?" he teased.

"Shut up, I'm still recovering," she pouted.

"I know you are," he said and walked over toward her bed. He kicked his shoes off and then reached to take her shoes off for her before he sat down next to her on her bed.

"Do you think Obito will be pardoned?" she asked as she sat up next to him.

"I think so," he said. "He started helping us after a certain point, and was a critical part to us winning. He has been on his best behavior since, and while that's only been in the hospital it still says he's not going to fight us." Naruto shrugged, "I guess we just have to see what happens tomorrow."

"What happened at Sasuke's trial?"

"Well, a trial in this village is really just getting questioned by Ibiki, then having a meeting about the results with the Hokage and the village elders. Lady Tsunade knows how to work the elders in her favor most of the time and had decided she was going to pardon Sasuke before the meeting even started," Naruto laughed as he said the last part.

"And how has everyone been taking that?"

Naruto shrugged, "It hasn't seemed to really bother anyone much. He was a huge part of us winning the war, especially bringing the four Hokage with him," Naruto scratched his foot as he talked. "I guess everyone just kind of forgave him and moved on."

Avery could tell something was bothering him, "What's up with you?"

"Nothing," he lied.

"Naruto, you really should know by now that I can tell when you're lying," she said unimpressed.

He rolled his eyes and looked away from her, "I just… I guess I was hoping things would go back to the way they were if Sasuke ever came back. We'd be rivals and friends, teammates, and train together and whatever. But Sasuke has avoided me quite a bit."

"Didn't you say he agreed to come with you to visit Yamato?"

"Well, yeah, but that's about the extent of conversation I've had with him and it was with him and Sai," he explained. "He doesn't really talk to me one on one at all and I guess I just don't really understand it."

"He's readjusting to the village," she said. "It might take him a little while."

"That would be a great point in an argument if it wasn't for the fact that he does talk to Sakura; often."

"Oh… well there's that," she said with a shrug.

"I don't get it though, he never had any interest in her before," Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Why are you jealous? You turned Sakura down remember?"

"I didn't turn her down, she wasn't being honest. And I'm not jealous. I don't even like Sakura that way anymore. I just wanted my friend back and now I feel like he's still unreachable from the same damned village."

Avery pursed her lips while she thought about what to say to him, but nothing came to mind. Instead she got up and suggested they go get some ramen for dinner. They continued talking about trivial things, like about how the village was going and how everyone else was adjusting to the village again.

"How are Neji and Tenten?" Avery asked at one point.

"Openly dating," Naruto responded, knowing where she was going with that. "They have been since we got back pretty much."

"Oh good, cause I don't have the energy to go beat sense into them," she said as she turned back to her ramen.

"Lee is happy for them, but he has been spending a lot of time with anyone else he can lately because he doesn't want to feel like a third wheel," Naruto laughed.

By the time they got back to Avery's apartment, Avery was so tired she just wanted to go to bed, so Naruto went to bed too. They both changed into comfortable clothing and each slipped under the covers on her bed. Avery sighed and snuggled up to him with a smile on her face and they fell asleep together.