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"Kakashi-kun please don't leave me!" Kimiko said with tears welling up in her eyes. "I'm going on an A-ranked mission that's too dangerous for you. I don't want to put you in danger, Kimiko-san." Kakashi told her with his back to her.

"I need to be with you Kakashi-kun please!" He turned around and came close to her, wrapping his arms around her, holding her to him, and looking down at her.

"Don't worry Kimiko, you'll be fine. I have so much confidence in your abilities, I'm sure you can do this mission with no problem. Just have faith in yourself and trust your teammates who will be going along with you." Kakashi reassured her.

"That's right Kimiko-chan, we'll be right beside you the whole way, so don't be scared." Nash said as he put his hand on her shoulder, giving it a little squeeze.

"Feh, you're the biggest scaredy-cat Kimiko-chan. I can't believe you. It's only a C-ranked mission. I don't know what you're so damn scared of." Arkuna chimed in, crossing his arms and glaring at Kimiko.

"You're not even worthy of being called a ninja of Konoha. Why don't you just give up now and stop wasting our time with your whining." Rolling his eyes at her, Kimiko starts shaking from rage. Tears start to form in her eyes again. Looking down at the ground, she whispers

"No. I won't give up and I won't be scared. A ninja must have complete control over their emotions at all times. I will do this mission, it should be easy enough, given it's only a C-rank." With determination apparent in her eyes, she forces back her tears and takes a deep breath.

Pulling her mask up over her nose, concealing her lower face so only her eyes show underneath her ninja headband, she takes out one of her kunais and lifts it in front of her face. Glaring she says. "Let's go" and disappears in a flash upward into the trees.

Arkuna grins at Nash, who grins back. Taking out their kunais, they follow her in the same fashion, jumping into the trees and leaping on the branches, gliding along them with ease, their feet just barely tapping the thick branches.

'I will not die. I will continue living. For you, my beloved Kakashi-kun.' Kimiko vowed to herself as she spotted three enemy ninjas from the Water Village. They were about ten meters ahead of her.

Arkuna and Nash finally catch up to her. Crouching down in the branches, Kimiko telepathically relays to her teammates. Closing her eyes and putting her index and middle fingers in between her eyebrows, just above her nose, she slowly thinks of what to do. 'So what do we do now? There's three of them, so we could easily take on one each.' 'Right Kimiko-chan, we'll take the two guys and you can have the girl down there. Will that be okay with you, Arkuna?' Nash said back, using his telepathy powers also.

Looking over at Arkuna, he nodded and all three of them jumped down in front of the water ninjas, slicing them. But by the time they did, each had quickly slipped away and splashed into water. "Crap, why didn't we see this before? They're water clones." Arkuna said angrily as he gripped his kunais in both hands tightly.

"Calm down Arkuna, they've gotta be around here somewhere so don't let your anger cloud you." Nash said calmly as he searched the trees. "Be on your guard guys, they could be anywhere." Kimiko said, getting behind their backs.

The enemy ninjas jumped down from the trees about five meters away from their position. Zigzagging back and forth, yelling war cries as their kunais clashed together. Grunting with her teeth bared, Kimiko had to use both of her hands just to keep the ninjas weapon from slicing her head off. Keeping her left foot firmly on the ground, she uses her chakra to deliver a bone-crushing kick to the ninjas head. "Cha!" She shouts as her body flips into the kick and kicks the female ninja again in her stomach with her left foot.

The water ninja goes flying back and hits a tree backfirst, but not without first flinging 2 kunais and 3 small shurikens at her, which Kimiko easily dodges and knocks away with her kunai. "Give it up, you've been defeated already." Kimiko says menacingly as she walks towards the female water ninja who is now in obvious pain. Laughing the ninja glares at Kimiko. "Do you really think you can defeat me little ninja girl? Go home and play with your dolls, you're not wanted here." Crouching down to look her in the eye, she calmly replies "If I'm not wanted here, then why are you the one on the ground defeated?"

The enemy ninja closes her eyes and says "Because…" Opening her eyes, she winces in pain, gripping her chest, as she coughs up blood. "Ugh, what did you do to me anyway?" Chuckling, Kimiko stands up and looks down at her defeated enemy. "That…" She says as she turns around and starts to walk away "is a trade secret."

She leaves the injured ninja down on the ground to go and see how her comrades were doing with their battles. They had done considerably well, with each of their counterparts defeated rather easily. "Huh, that was a lot easier than I thought." Kimiko said as she stretched her arms upwards, her shirt lifting up, exposing her belly button. "See, Kimiko-chan I told you you could do it" Nash said, putting his arm around her shoulder and giving it a squeeze. Giving Arkuna a prideful smirk, he finally said "Yeah I guess you did okay kid."

"Yes all three of you did exceptionally well." Kakashi said from behind them. All three of them turned to see their sensei standing there, with his one exposed eye closed, which they all knew meant he was smiling under that mask of his that he never took off. He was standing not less than three meters behind them. "Come on, let's go home for the day." He said and turned around.

All of a sudden, two giant shurikens came flying out of nowhere, hitting Kakashi and splitting him into three pieces. "NOOOO!!!!!!" They all screamed and ran to his side. There was blood everywhere. "Kakashi-kun!!!" Was all Kimiko could scream. "Run away run…..please….." was all Kakashi could choke out before he faded away. "Kakashi-kun? KAKASHI-KUUNN!!!!" Kimiko screamed as Nash picked her up by her waist as they ran, tears streaming down her face. "Nash, put me down! I gotta go save him!" "Kimiko he's gone." Arkuna told her seriously. "It's too late, Kimiko!" Nash said as he hefted her over his shoulder.

Okay guys that's the end of chapter one. Hope you guys like it so far. Please review for me, let me know what you think, and I just might write more. Don't worry, it gets better as the story goes along. Send me an email with your suggestions please. I would love to hear what you have to say about Kimiko and Kakashi's story