Disclaimer- i do not own naruto, but i do own kirana shinnisuke, my original.
this is just a different way kirana and kakashi could have happened...an alternate way, you could say. same characters, but just a different setting...anyway, i like it way better than pain of love, and i hope you like it too. dont worry, ill still work on pol.
"It really is a mission of epic proportions." Hokage said, trying to spark Kakashi's interest.
"What is it?" Kakashi asked indifferently.
"Well, there have been certain rumors in the east. Recently a request was made from a village, and they want us to investigate these…rumors…"
Kakashi sighed. He wished the Hokage would just come out with the mission. "What rumors?" He prompted.
"This is a very sensitive matter, which is why its so important that we send you, our number one ranking jounin."
"You flatter me. But I need to know about the mission in order to do a good job, sir." Kakashi said politely.
"Ah, of course." Hokage cleared his throat. "Well." He cleared his throat again. "The rumor is that a so-called dragon woman is terrorizing this village."
Kakashi raised his eyebrows.
"Dragon…woman?"
"Yes. Why she's called that wasn't mentioned."
"Hmph, convenient." Kakashi murmured. He sighed. "right, well, a map to the village is included in this report, so I'll be on my way…"
"Wait, Kakashi!" Kakashi turned around.
"This information I'm about to tell you isn't included in that report you're holding, but it's very important." Hokage didn't wait for a response to this.
"This woman…they said that she is very beautiful. The village leader said she was capable of seducing a man with her first glance. Be careful, Hatake, don't underestimate this one."
"Don't worry, I wont fall prey to that." Kakashi said with a slight chuckle as he left.
He couldn't have been more wrong.
It took him the better part of five days to reach the village. Luckily, he had his faithful adult book, Come Come Paradise(volume 3), to keep him company on the road.
The first thing he did when he got there was seek out the leader of the village, who had submitted the request to the nearest ninja village, konohagakure, on behalf of his people.
"It's a great honor to have you here, sir!" He said, shaking Kakashi's gloved hand vigorously.
"It's a pleasure to be here. So, explain the situation, if you please."
"Ah of course, of course!" he sat down on a floor cushion and invited Kakashi to do the same.
"There's a woman we call the daragon woman. She lives up in the mountain that looka over our village" The man took a sip of tea he was holding. "You see, the mountain is one giant labyrinth of passages and caverns. It is said that the dragon woman has made her home in the very heart of this great maze." HE drank more tea. "More and more people enter the mountain everyday. mostly men but even some woman. Not one has every came out of there alive before, though we have had a few of their corpses float down the river."
"Have you tried not bothering her? Maybe she just wants to be left alone." Kakashi suggested.
The mans face darkened.
"Aye, you would think that." He took a deep swig of tea. Kakashi vaguely wondered if it was spiked, the way the guy was drinking it.
"What happened?" Kakashi asked.
"We blocked off all the entrances to the mountain a year or so ago. We set up a watch and allowed no one entry." he sighed heavily.
"What happened after that?" Kakashi prompted.
"A week passed…we thought all was well…some of the villagers even began to party. That night the event happened."
"What event?"
"She attacked our village. That was the first and only time I've ever seen her." The man shivered.
"Don't leave anything out, Tell me everything you know about her."
"She had a symbol charred onto her head. I dont recall it exactly, but I think that something abot this mark drove her insane. She also had…tattoos or something all over her left arm, across her chest and shoulders, and onto her cheek." HE shivered again, and took another deep swig of tea. Yep, definitely spiked. "The scariest thing was none of the above. IT was her eyes…"
"Her eyes?"
"They were white, with only the tiniest trace of a pupil. And they were angry…so angry! Pain and angry were reflected in them. The clothes she wore were but rags." HE stared intently at Kakashi.
"I am no ninja, Kakashi-san. But I could feel the terrible power reverberating from her, I could almost see it, it was so thick, it filled me with fear. And also…also…"
"Also…?" Kakashi asked gently.
"She was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Despite all this, she was very beautiful."
"So I've heard. Well, I'd better go pay dragon girl a visit." Kakashi stood up and walked away.
"Be careful, Kakashi-san!"
Kakashi waved in response.
Kakashi climbed up the mountain with new purpose. The leaders words had troubled him greatly. HE wouldn't be sure until he saw the girl, but so far it was sounding more and more like a new form of a cursed seal. if that was the case, then there was a good chance this mission could end in tragey.
He hoped he wouldn't have to kill this woman.
The entrance to the mountain passages was almost completely hidden. It was a mere two and a half feet wide, and not even two meters tall. Kakashi had to bow his head to be able to fit through it.
The passage was surprisingly lined with torches, which he could only guess the villagers kept lit. As he neared the end of the lighted part, there was a sign, which Kakashi read aloud: "Beyond this point you are on your own. God have mercy on your soul."
"I have a feeling this isn't going to be fu. Hmm I wonder where I got that idea?" Kakashi muttered to himself sarcastically. He wrenched one of the torches off the wall and began to descend deeper into the mountain.
She woke with a start, staring at the entrance to one of the passages that began at this chanber. Echoes were reverberating down the walls of the passage. Footsteps.
A plus of her home, even if the intruder was making no noise, she would hear them miles off, that was just the way sound traveled within the mountain.
Very cautiously, she walked toward the tunnel and pressed her ear to the floor. Still two miles or so away…She thought. Soon.
With a small smile she sat on her bed and waited.
Maybe this time…they'll be the one to rescue me from this place…maybe…they'll be the one…
Kakashi sighed at the seemingly endless tunnel. He was sure he'd been walking at least two miles already. If he didn't reach the source of the meek power he was sensing soon, his torch would go out,, and then he'd have to work in the dark. Kakashi did not like that idea at all.
Very suddenly there was light all around him. He covered his eye, trying to adjust to the light as quickly as possible. Squinting against the sudden light, he began to make out the shapes that were slowly coming into focus.
HE was in the mouth of a tunnel. Across the room, there was a woman staring at him with intense curiosity. She was sitting cross legged on a bed.
He studied her features. Yes, she was indeed beautiful, and her clothes were rags, but those were the only things that matched the village leaders description.
Her eyes were green ; incredibly bright green, and she was looking at him without a hint of anger. Her body was unmarked, not a single tattoo adorned it that he could see, and her forehead was smeared with dirt, but there was no burning mark. He couldn't see or sense any curse seal, either.
But he wasn't deceived. He wasn't going to make any theories yet, it was still too soon.
After several minutes of holding each others eyes , silently observing each other, the woman spoke.
"Your torch went out." Her voice was a little raspy, probably from lack of use. Kakashi looked down at the extinguished torch at his side.
"So it has." he began to advance into the chamber. After a few steps, she quickly stood up.
"Stay there. Don't make me take aggressive action."
Kakashi decided to play by whatever rules she laid down. He sat down on the floor and discarded the burnt out torch.
"Are you the one they call the dragon woman?" Kakashi asked.
"Ha, that would have to be me, but…they call me that?" She laughed slightly.
"Are you really her? the description I received doesn't fit you at all."
The girl approached him cautiously and squatted about five feet from him. Kakashi couldn't believe this woman has struck so much fear in the hearts of the townsfolk! She was just a timid, scared girl, driven to poverty beyond poverty by those…those…people! This was one of the most cruel scenarios Kakashi had ever seen.
"You're awfully brave to say that, you know. That makes me want to know what those townspeople's description of me was, if it doesn't fit. Tell me."
"Pushy, aren't you?"
"You're lucky, if you hadn't sparked my interest, not interest in you! I mean interest in what that grubby little village is saying about me!, I might have killed you already!"
Kakashi sighed.
"Tell me!"
"Said you had white eyes, tattoos all over you, a mark on your forehead, very powerful. None of that is true so far. I sense hardly any power emitting from you, just enough for me to tell you're alive. But the weren't lying about the fact that your clothes are rags."
Her eye twitched.
"Can I help that?! Everything I have I have to steal! And I usually am concentrating on getting more important things, like food!"
Kakashi noticed that fact now that it was mentioned. She was horribly thin. Her rag clothing hung very loosely on her skinny body, and overall, Kakashi could tell she was starving.
"AND FURHTERMORE!" She shouted. " I heard that you can't sense the power of the kyuubi kid from your village until he releases it, so don't you DARE judge my power!"
"Easy, easy." Kakashi said hurriedly. "I wasn't trying to provoke you."
"Hmph." She said. She sat down, still keeping her five feet of distance between them. She never took her eyes off of him though, she just continued to stare. Kakashi found it slightly unnerving, but he didn't say anything. Instead he found something else to fill the growing sticky silence.
"How did you know Naruto-I mean the kyuubi, came from my village? and how do you know what my village even is?"
"I haven't lived in a cave all my life, you nimrod." She responded sourly.
Kakashi fought hard to keep eye contact with her powerfully piercing stare.
"How am I supposed to know where you have lived?" He responded, rather coldly.
"The 'upper class' never knows anything about the minorities. Whatever." She said, and, too Kakashi's great relief, she looked away.
"Come on now, that's hardly fair, I just met you ten minutes ago." Kirana shrugged, and turned to look at him again, but this time a new fire burned within her eyes. She stood up in a rush.
"On to the main event!" She said, pointing at him accusingly. "Let's go!" She cracked her knuckles menacingly.
"What are you talking about?" Kakashi asked, not moving an inch.
"You…didn't come to kill me?"
"No." Kakashi said easily. "I'll defend myself if you attack me of course though, but you haven't."
"Well, If you didn't come to kill me, why did you come here?" She asked, her voice filled with suspicion. She backed up another couple of steps and sat down again.
"To learn. I need to learn about you, an discover what I am able to work out between you and that town."
"I don't want anything to do with that pissy little grunt village! They all hate me anyways."
"If a mutual agreement can be made, it will be better for you and the town."
The woman made another hmph sound.
"You think about telling me about yourself, and how you're living right now, and then think if coming to terms with the town would be to your benefit. I'll be back tomorrow with food- and new clothes if I can."
With that, Kakashi stood up and left, leaving behind a very flabbergasted woman.
"Hey, WAIT!"
Kakashi turned around.
She turned and ran to the back wall of the cavern and pulled a lit torch out of the wall. She quickly threw it to him.
"I'm not the only thing that lives down here, you'll want light. And that torch is one of my special ones, it wont go out on its own, and it's reusable."
Kakashi gave her a smile. "Thank you." He said as he started down the passage he had come down.
She watched him disappear down the tunnel until she could no longer see the light from the torch or hear his footsteps.
yes…he could be the one to take me away form here…
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