REAL SUMMARY: Okay, here's a bit of info for you reviewers out there. "This is about a boy named Ruka, who can't speak much Japanese, mysteriously enters the Naruto world in the Wave Country but...he doesn't know how he got there! He is rescued by Tazuna's family then later, leaves with Team 7 to Konoha. All the while, he meets another person who's in the similar situation as him but is Japanese. Apparently, someone is after Ruka but who? And what's this? The newcomers are WHAT?! But they better hurry or Ruka will loose everything, even his name!" Now, if you don't like a bit of OC yaoi, then...WHY THE HELL ARE YOU READING THIS? That includes you, PhantomFaustfan and anyone who dislikes reading or watching any yaoi! All right, thank you! Now, enjoy the story!
'Japanese or English thoughts.'
"Japanese." - "English."
"English to Japanese words."
--(START SCENE)--
Mission 1 - "Outsider."
Twitch. Twitch.
"So...I'm still in the...Wave Country...?" A young girl asked out loud. Her right eye twitched as she stared out into the big, blue sea outside in the back of Tazuna's small house once again. "I still can't believe I'm here. It's like a dream come true! My friends are gonna be SO jealous! ...Oh...heh heh, that is, if they're here." She mumbled sadly. She bent her head down and saw her reflection in the water before lowering herself until she lay down on her stomach, lazily watching its currents go by.
'Dammit, I still can't figure out how I got here! I wonder if my friends are worried about me? Hmm, I doubt it. Who would worry about a fag like me?' The girl thought.
She rubbed her nose, which had a bandage across it, trying to get use to smelling the salty ocean and playfully glared at the water before smiling a little. 'Heh, if it scars, I'll look just like Iruka-sensei! Kyaaa! Maybe I shouldn't've gotten so excited then I wouldn't have hit that stupid tree.' The girl thought, pushing her loose bangs out of her face. Then she frowned then sighed.
"Man, if only I studied Japanese a little more harder then I wouldn't be having such a hard time understanding them!" She whined, madly clawing her hair out of its ponytail with her hands.
"Ruka-chan!"
The girl, known as Ruka, turned around to see Inari's mother, Tsunami, standing there with a gentle smile on her face before quickly getting up, forgetting about her now messed up hair with the band barely hanging onto the left side of her hair, which looked like it just survived a civil war. Ruka quickly bowed to her, receiving a light chuckle from the woman. "Heh heh heh. What are you doing out here, messing up such pretty hair like yours, Ruka-chan? Why don't you come inside and fix your hair?" Tsunami waved a hand towards the house since they discovered she couldn't speak their language. Ruka blinked then nodded upon realizing what she meant, walking ahead with Inari's mother following behind until they entered through the door inside the house.
It's only been four days since Ruka arrived into the world in the Wave Country but still, every early morning, she would think it would all be a dream. Of course, you can't blame her. She didn't know how she had gotten there but all she remembered was being on shore before Inari and Tazuna found her. But whether it was a dream or not, she always went with Tazuna to help build the bridge, despite the warnings she received, though she couldn't understand but knew what they were trying to say. Luckily, all five of her moving bags were saved, just wet but by now, they're just fine and dry.
Tazuna laughed heartily when he saw Ruka's hair all messed up while Inari just stared at the girl like she was stupid. Ruka blinked then grinned sheepishly when she remembered her hair, scratching her nose a little before walking off to the guest room she was using. She went in and grabbed her smallest bag then unclipped it from the strap that keeps it shut, reaching in and pulled out a yellow brush in hand. She pulled her hair back in a ponytail then brushed it for a couple of minutes before tying it with the same band until it became a high ponytail again.
"Good. That's better!" Ruka smiled at herself.
She walked out of the room and into the living room to see Tazuna saying goodbye to his family and she knew the reason why, it's just she couldn't understand him. Ruka walked over to him until she got his attention. Then she smiled and lifted her hand up with a small wave. "Ja ne, Tazuna-san." She whispered in Japanese, putting her hand down.
Hey, just because she can't understand doesn't mean she can't learn!
Tazuna smiled and petted her head.
"That's right. Good, your language skills are improving a little. Keep it up." He encouraged before turning to Inari.
"Now, Inari, I want you to be the man of the house and protect your mother and our guest while I'm away, okay?" Tazuna asked, throwing his pack on his back.
Inari only nodded then hugged his grandpa tightly around his middle, crying, trying to tell him not to go when they're only going to die. Ruka didn't understand it but knew little Inari didn't want his grandpa to go, saying something about dying or whatever. But Ruka watched as Inari let go and Tazuna left to Konoha Village before growing angry with herself and the men, who keep tormenting this poor village.
'Dammit! Even back at home, my skills aren't good enough! Argh, I already know how to do the signs with my hands and I'm still practicing with the one hand thing but I need help how to control my chakra if I ever wanna do something about it! ARRGH!'
Her arms were instantly in front of her and twitching rapidly (you know when anime characters go loony, it's a bit like that but twitchy so go ahead and imagine it) from all the excitement and irony of it all, getting weird looks from Inari and Tsunami before sighing. They figured she just had a twitching problem whenever she thinks too much or something's too much for her to handle.
It's like she's hyperventilating but it's just a habit of hers, I think.
"Ruka-chan, why don't you help me make breakfast? I'm sure everyone's hungry." Tsunami suggested kindly.
She blinked stupidly at her, not sure what she was saying until Inari's mother waved to the kitchen then she got it. Ruka happily nodded and followed her to the kitchen to help.
'For now, this is all I can do. But I swear, I'll keep practicing until I master it! ...And god dammit, I gotta learn how to speak Japanese!'
(NEXT SCENE)
"Ruka! You've been working hard in Tazuna's absence but I think you should go home. Take a break." Tazuna's best friend yelled over. Ruka, who was carrying some of the building wood over, blinked at him, still not understanding everything but only the last sentence. She nodded and put the wood down, wiping her arm over her forehead before blinked upon seeing the fog appear then grinned widely.
"Tazuna-san's here!" Ruka squealed, dancing in circles before running off, which received odd looks from the workers.
'Tazuna-san's here! Even Team seven is here! Oooh, I can't wait to meet them!' The brunette mentally squealed as she kept running.
Unfortunately, Ruka is a bit clumsy so she gets into a lot of trouble. She squeaked in pain when her foot twisted on the side, sending her stumbling sideways towards the railing. She ran into it and flipped over as she fell towards the water...which is hundreds of feet below!
"THIS IS SO NOT COOOOOL!"
With that, she hit the waters with a huge splash, gasping for breath but all she got was salty water in her mouth. She quickly swam to the surface; breaking through with coughs and gasps while splashing for a minute before calming down. Ruka finally opened her eyes and looked around then flailed her arms angrily in the air, not even realizing she was splashing the entire time.
"Ahhh, GREAT! Why Did I Have To Be So Stupid At A Time Like This?!" She wailed.
"Iruka-sensei?! What Are You Doing Out Here?"
She blinked her teary eyes when she felt a pair of hands under her flailing arms and lifted her up onto a boat. She snapped her head around to see only a mass of blonde hair and blue eyes in her sight. "Eh? Na...ru...to...?" Ruka whispered in shock. Naruto blinked, not sure if he heard the girl call his name once realized this wasn't his sensei.
Well, so far as he could see, she didn't seem dangerous or anything like that. She had dark brown hair tied up in a high ponytail with a few bangs over her face and pearly black eyes just like his father figure, Iruka. She wore a plain white shirt with almost elbow length sleeves and a wide collar around her neck, white pants that reached above her knees by two or three inches, and underneath are net like clothing (I dunno what they're called but think of it as Shikamaru's net like clothing) that were a few inches longer than the sleeves, sticking out a bit, and navy blue sandals that were similar to what all the jounins (not sure if everyone wears them) wear in Konoha.
Her skin wasn't as tan as his Iruka, her height was a couple inches shorter than him, and she looked about his age, though she really lacked in the chest area. She seems fine and her figure was thin and slender and she looked fairly healthy. Push aside the bandage on her nose and she probably is the feminine version of his former sensei. But something was off with this girl that Naruto didn't like, though.
"Hey, do you think she's the enemy?" The blonde asked.
"Most likely. But she seems pretty weak to be the enemy." Sasuke hmphed.
"I doubt it. I mean, maybe she's the one we heard that fell off the bridge earlier." Sakura said.
Ruka, who was rubbing her hurt ankle, glared with a pout, understanding the "weak" part.
'How weak do they think I am?! Besides the fact that I nearly got killed by falling off the bridge! ...Okay, I'm clumsy so what?! That doesn't prove a thing!'
"Nah, she's not the enemy. My grandson and I found the girl on shore a few days ago and she didn't have any weapons on her so she's completely harmless." Tazuna explained.
"Tazuna-san! You're back!" Ruka cried excitedly.
"Shhh! Be quiet! You don't want them to know we're here, don't you?!" The boat owner hissed quietly, looking around uneasily. Ruka slapped a hand over her mouth, eyes wide when she understood the shush part. Then she released her hands off her mouth, making her hands look like butterfly wings on each side of her face as she gave a sheepish smile. "Sorry about that." She muttered quietly. "Huh? What did she say? She talks weird." Naruto said, scratching his head.
Everyone shrugged in answer, which made Ruka sweatdrop, having forgotten about her situation.
"Ah, I'm sorry about that. I forgot to introduce you all. This is Ruka, she's pretty small but she's a hard worker so I let her help me with the bridge." Tazuna chuckled.
Kakashi placed a hand under his chin thoughtfully. "Hmm...but why is she speaking a different language?" He asked.
"I don't know but I figure she's from a different country but I don't know anyone who can speak the way she does." The bridge builder replied, rubbing the back of his head. "But she seems to understand when you separate the words. She understands most words but not all. Like this."
Ruka blinked when she noticed Tazuna was staring at her. "All right, Ruka. Tree."
"Tree?"
"Good. Now...water."
"Water, water, water!"
"Very good. Heh, I figured that's her favorite word." Tazuna chuckled.
"We can see that." Sasuke snorted.
"Anyway, back to the situation at hand. Try...bandit."
"Ban...dit?"
Yes, that's right. Now try...horse."
"Horse?"
"Nice, good job. Now-"
"Ninja!" Ruka chirped, pointing at the now thoroughly confused ninjas. "Ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja!" Ruka continued her rant until Sasuke smacked her over the mouth.
"Shut up. We get it, we get it!" He snapped quietly.
Then, for some reason, Ruka glared at him and slapped his hand off her mouth before pointing accusingly at him. "Bad. Bad. EVIILLLL!" Ruka exclaimed. Sasuke gave the brown-haired girl a weird look while the others looked confused at her statement. "All right, now. Settle down, let me see your ankle." Kakashi waved, bored. The child blinked when he grabbed her foot and was about to attempt to smack him senseless when she realized his fingers were pressing down a little on her injury.
"AH!" Ruka winced.
"I thought so. You really should be more careful if you want to help Tazuna finish the bridge." Kakashi sighed, pulling out some bandages from one of the weapon bags.
"What's wrong, Kakashi-sensei? Is she hurt?" Sakura asked worriedly as they watched him wrap the bandages on Ruka's injured ankle.
"Yes. Apparently, that little fall she took did a bit of damage so she shouldn't be walking for a couple of days but she should be fine." Kakashi explained, finishing his job. The brown-haired girl blinked when he released her foot and stared at it for a moment and moved it a bit before smiling brightly for the elite jounin.
"Arigatou, Kakashi-sensei!" She grinned.
Kakashi blinked then coughed into his hand, looking away immediately but Ruka kept smiling.
Ruka then stopped smiling all of a sudden and looked up at the bridge as if realizing she was suppose to be up there. Then she looked at Tazuna and pointed up, flailing the other arm as she spoke.
"Up! Bridge! Work! Boat! Tazuna-san! Happy! Run! Ouchie! Foot! Trip! Fall! Water! SPLASH!" Ruka tried to say something but it came out in syllables.
"Okay, okay, what the hell is she saying, old man?" Naruto demanded, only to have Sakura smack him upside the head. "Shut up, Naruto! We have to be quiet!" She hissed. "I have no idea. I try to understand but I just...can't. Her way of saying things is just too hard to understand." Tazuna looked terribly lost while Kakashi pieced together the girl's words before lifting a hand up.
"I was up on the bridge, working until I saw you on the boat nearby. I was happy so I ran ahead to meet you but I hurt my foot and tripped so I fell off and hit the water with a big splash." Kakashi said monotonously.
Everyone, even Ruka, who barely understood Japanese, stared at the jounin like he grew another head. Then Ruka dived at Kakashi and hugged him for all she's worth, grinning from ear to ear as Kakashi's eye widen considerably at this. "Yes, yes! Right, right!" She chirped excitedly.
"SHHH!"
Within minutes, they made it to shore as the fog finally cleared. Everyone got off and thanked the owner of the boat for his help as Ruka suddenly stopped and moved her legs apart while being careful of her injury then held her arms out like a gorilla or a sumo wrestler. Sakura blinked along with the others before speaking up.
"Hey, what are you-AH!"
Ruka started furiously shaking herself, water drops flying everywhere before stopping, grinning from ear to ear and when she turned around, her grin turned into a sheepish one when she saw everyone staring/glaring at her, all wet, more or less. Ruka rubbed the back of her head with a small blush on her cheeks. "Heheh, opps. Sorry." Ruka chuckled nervously. "Grrr! You Think That's Funny! C'mere, You Little Brat!" Naruto yelled. Naruto chased the girl around in circles for a bit until Ruka decided to take refuge on Kakashi by flinging herself at him, arms around his neck and legs around his torso, whimpering as Kakashi almost fell over at the sudden force.
"Whoa! Hey, what are you doing?" He demanded, only to receive a small whimper from Ruka.
He sighed then looked to see Naruto trying to get at the girl in his arms. "Naruto, stop it! I'm sure she didn't mean it." Kakashi assured, petting the blonde's hair with his free hand.
"But she was laughing at us! You heard her!" Naruto argued.
"I don't think she meant it. She did say she was sorry, didn't she? Remember, she can't speak the way we do so try not to misunderstand her, okay?" Kakashi said.
The blonde grumbled then nodded with a cross of his arms, bottom lips sticking out with a fox look on his face. Ruka giggled at this and then gasped before lifting her head up, speaking in separate words to the elite jounin while Kakashi pulled his head back a little so he could see the girl without getting hit by her flailing arms. "Please! Help! Train! Kakashi-sensei! Know! Techniques! Don't! Control! Chakra! Kage Bushin no Jutsu! Henge no Jutsu! Some! Ninjutsu! Genjutsu! Taijutsu!" She exclaimed before taking a deep breath from saying all that in one breath, receiving a shocked expression from the man.
"Um, Kakashi-sensei, what's she saying?" Sakura asked, a little surprised as well.
"...Please help me! I want to train with you guys. I know some techniques but I don't know how to use my chakra. I know Kage Bushin no Jutsu and Henge no Jutsu and some other Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu, too." Kakashi translated.
"What? No way! She can't just demand something like that with just the snap of her fingers! Who does she think she is?" Naruto growled. "Hmm, Ruka, I don't think it's wise to train with us, especially if we're on a mission that might be dangerous. You should stay and help Tazuna build the bridge." Kakashi said, putting the girl down as they followed Tazuna to his home. Ruka shook her head and pulled at Kakashi's sleeve.
"No, no! You got it all wrong! Well, it didn't come out the way I wanted it but you were close but that's beside the point! I wanna learn how to control my chakra 'cause before you guys were here, I was practicing and I got it right but I didn't know how to use or control my chakra unless someone helps me! Please, help me with my chakra control!" Ruka asked.
Unfortunately, that time, they didn't understand anything she just asked. "Um, Kakashi-sensei, did you understand what she just said?" Naruto asked quietly.
"Um, that time...no." Kakashi mumbled, rubbing his head to ease the headache.
Ruka groaned loudly and ran ahead, yelling all sorts of stuff that sounded a lot like, "Stupid!" or "Language!" or something along the lines until she grabbed a tree and, for some CRAZY reason, started banging her head against it. Tazuna, Sakura, and Naruto scrambled over and had to peel her off the tree to stop inflicting pain on herself as Sasuke grunted and Kakashi sighed, a hand over his face. Then Ruka rubbed her forehead a little to ease the throbbing pain (wonder whose fault that was) and glared at Kakashi before yelling again.
"No! Mean! Already! Know! Techniques! Need! Help! Control! Chakra! Fine!" Ruka grounded out.
"Oh...OH! That's what she meant!" Kakashi eye smiled. "What did she say?" Sasuke asked.
"She didn't mean it like that. She meant she already knows some techniques and she needs my help with her chakra control then she'll be just fine." The silver-haired jounin grinned.
"Are you sure that's what she said?" Naruto demanded, not buying it in the least.
"Yes, Naruto, I'm sure. Anyway, let's continue on." Kakashi groaned tiredly. 'I just want to get this over with already.'
"Kakashi-sensei? Please?" Ruka whispered, attaching herself on the jounin's arm.
The copy ninja sighed then nodded, which Ruka squealed with happiness and jumped a little to give him a quick peck on the masked cheek. At this, Kakashi almost back paddled in shock at Ruka's innocent action, staring at the brown-haired girl as the ever-oblivious Ruka tilted her head a little to the side and blinked cutely, wondering what's wrong with him. But she smiled at him with her hands folded behind her back, walking off with a spin or skip here and there as she hummed a little before singing, though they couldn't understand but still, it was pleasant.
"Mr. Raccoon, Mr. Raccoon, can't you play with me somehow?"
"No, I can't. I am eating dinner now."
"What's for dinner? I want some!"
"I am eating pickled plums."
"Can I have a little crumb?"
"Don't be such a greedy bum! Get your own! (battle cry in Japanese)"
The jounin blinked upon hearing the song then his eye went half-lidded in tranquility. 'Hmm, what kind of song is she singing? It's a bit too homely but...it has a nice ring to it.' Kakashi thought as he watched the little girl skip and jump as she hummed as if she didn't have a care in the world. 'Wow! Whatever it is, it sounds like a nice song! I hope I can learn to sing it when she can speak our language soon!' Sakura thought with a smile.
'What the hell is she singing? It's stupid!' Sasuke mentally grumbled.
'What's she talking about? Is she talking trash about me?! Grrr! I'll prove to her and everyone else that I'm the greatest and one day, I'll be a Hokage!' Naruto thought.
Naruto then decided to run ahead a little and throw a kunai in one direction, scaring everyone, which made them all quiet and alert. Then Naruto mumbled something about it was probably a mouse and repeated it once more. When Kakashi checked it to see it was a quite terrified and traumatize white rabbit, an angry pink-haired kunoichi clobbered him.
Ruka started cooing at the poor rabbit then glared hotly at Naruto. "Bad, Naruto! Bad! Bad!" She declared.
"What?! Hey, I said I was sorry! I thought it was the enemy! I'm sorry, you poor little rabbit! I didn't mean it!" Naruto wailed, hugging the poor animal.
Kakashi looked around the area as the children argued in the back, trying to figure out why the rabbit had white fur when it wasn't winter anymore. His eye widens in realization and whipped around. "Everyone, get down!"
Everyone dropped to the ground just when a HUGE sword sailed right over them and hit a tree, implanting itself in it. "Oh my god! That was...too close!" Ruka whispered with her brown head under her arms. Everyone looked up to see a bare-chest man with bandages wrapped around his mouth and nose stand on the handle of the sword in the tree, glancing down at them over his shoulder. Before Kakashi could say anything, Ruka jumped up on her feet, legs apart as she pointing accusingly.
"ZABUZA-SAN! ZABUZA-SAN! ROGUE NINJA! ROGUE NINJA!" Ruka shouted with awe.
Zabuza smirked a little as Team seven and Tazuna got up from the ground.
"I see. So they hired a bunch of brats to protect the bridge builder." The mist ninja sneered as he turned to face them. "Hey! Who are you calling brats, huh?!" Naruto yelled, waving an angry fist in the air. Naruto tried to run at him but Kakashi held his hand out in front of him, stopping the boy from attacking. "You're in the way. Get back." Kakashi ordered in a low, icy tone.
"But why?!"
"He's not like those other ninja. He's in a whole other league. If he's our opponent, I'll need this." Kakashi grabbed the hitae-ate but didn't lift it...yet.
"Now, quick! Manji Formation. Protect the bridge builder and the girl...and stay out of this fight!" He ordered.
The others were in awe, intensely watching him, waiting for him to lift that band. "I taught you teamwork. Now it's time to use it!" Kakashi said then lifted it to reveal his Sharingan eye.
"I'm ready!"
Everyone, even the infamous and powerful ninja, Zabuza, jumped with Ruka squealed loudly and started going twitchy again, despite the seriousness of the situation. Ruka's face went from twisted to ear-to-ear grin as she jumped a few times in the same spot. "Sharingan! Sharingan! Kakashi-sensei! COOOOL!!" She squealed.
"..." That's everyone's reaction to the girl.
'She's cute but...she needs to keep the volume down.' Kakashi sighed.
Sasuke growled before reaching over and smacked her a good one in the back of the head. Ruka yelped and crouched down on the ground, ducking her head with her hands rubbing her poor little head, grumbling words they couldn't understand or...they just couldn't. Then she looked up and glared accusingly at the Uchiha, who grunted and turned back to the current situation at hand. Zabuza blinked then narrowed his cold eyes on the kneeling girl as if he recognized her.
"Hmm...there was another person I was suppose to annihilate. A little girl with brown hair and white clothes, whose been causing nothing but trouble and misfortune for Gato's men for the past few days. Hidden trap holes, missing weapons, and a few other pranks... all caused by one, small girl." Zabuza said, not caring if the others heard.
"What?" The ninjas turned to see the said girl, who blinked upon realizing what caught everyone's attention.
"What's wrong with you guys? Why are you staring at me like that?" Ruka whined softly, shrinking back until she hid behind Tazuna.
"She did that? To Gato's MEN?!" Kakashi whispered disbelievingly as he glanced at the small, frail girl. 'But that's impossible! A girl like Ruka could never stand a chance against Gato's men! Even if she could, how did she escape...alive!?' The jounin thought and turned to face Zabuza. "We'll talk about that later. Right now, what's most important is to protect the bridge builder!"
Ruka watched the genins surrounded them and both Kakashi and Zabuza fought until Kakashi was caught in his Water Prison Jutsu. When Sasuke tried to attack and was thrown aside like a sack of potatoes and Naruto shaking like a leaf, Ruka tried to go to them but Tazuna grabbed her wrist before she could.
"Don't, Ruka! You'll just get killed!" Tazuna warned.
Ruka blinked, not sure what he's saying but got the picture by his expression on his face and backed down.
'Sure but...I can't stand feeling helpless! I wanna do something to help but...I'll only get in the way.' She thought, angry with herself.
The girl then decided not to pay attention to the battle and crouched down, drawing on the dirt in patience but her brow kept twitching every now and then in excitement but held back, even when Naruto and Sasuke freed their sensei. But she did pay attention when Kakashi and Zabuza used the Water Style, Water Dragon Jutsu at the same time, which made the water hit them. Unfortunately, Ruka didn't prepare as she yelped and was dragged under water by its powerful currents as Sakura, Sasuke, and even the bridge builder attempted to help her but she slipped away.
Well, the good thing is that she wasn't completely swept away.
But the bad thing that she was stopped by hitting a tree with her back and was held there until the water ceased, leaving her sputtering and coughing on her hands and knees.
Tazuna ran over to help her as Kakashi almost made the final blow but a tracker ninja beat him to it by using senbon needles. When Ruka got all the water out of her lungs and looked up to see Kakashi checking to see any signs of life remaining in Zabuza's body. Then she got up and ran over to the silver-haired jounin, ignoring Tazuna's shout to come back but tripped because of her injured ankle and fell at Kakashi's feet, who looked mildly amused as he looked down at the girl.
"O...Ouchie! Face. Hurt." Ruka whimpered, rubbing her dirty face with the back of her hand.
"Heh heh, you need to be careful...if you want to be a ninja." He eye smiled.
Ruka blinked stupidly at him. Kakashi sweatdropped when he remembered she couldn't speak their language.
Naruto started shouting at the boy, demanding to know why he killed Zabuza. "Easy, Naruto." Kakashi said, walking over to the upset blonde. "That's not the point. We were struggling to fight Zabuza and he takes him down in, like, one blow! He made it look so easy! What does that make us? We're just playing around! How can I accept that?!" Kakashi stopped near Naruto then glanced over.
"Even if you don't accept it, it DID happen, Naruto." Kakashi bent down a little then patted the boy's head with his hand. The tracker ninja quickly came down and appeared next to Zabuza's body before picking it up.
"Your suffering is over for now. I must take care of the remains. Farewell." He whispered and disappeared with the body.
Ruka watched sadly as Naruto ran to the spot where the tracker and the body use to be before falling on his knees and punching the ground with his fists in anger, not hearing Kakashi's sigh as he pulled his headband down. 'He's angry. And...he's hurting.' Ruka thought.
She forced herself to stand up as best she could with her injured ankle before limping over until she was beside the demon vessel. Naruto blinked when Ruka's hands grasped his fist, holding it almost delicately then placed a kiss on it, receiving a dark blush from the blonde before rubbing a thumb over the bruised knuckles.
"Naruto-san. Stop. Hand. Hurt. Sad. Naruto-san. Broken. Tazuna-san. Home. Please." She whispered sadly.
Naruto squinted his eyes at her, trying to decipher her weird way of communicating but couldn't. "Uh, Kakashi-sensei, I STILL don't get what she's saying." He mumbled. Kakashi sighed then glanced over.
"I want you to stop hurting yourself. I feel sad that you're broken up about this. Let's go to Tazuna-san's home, please." He replied, quietly.
Naruto looked away a bit, a little relieved that someone worried over him and a bit shamed to make the little girl come close to tears. Sure, she didn't understand Japanese but she understood what they were going through. Ruka closed her eyes to keep her tears in and, still holding Naruto's fist, she pulled it in front of her face while her body was shaking a little, whispering, "Onegai." a few times.
Naruto sighed then pulled his hand away to place on top of her head, which Ruka blinked, teary-eyed. "Hey. Stop crying. I'll stop, just don't cry anymore, okay?" He said quietly, hoping it would calm the distressed girl. Despite her language problem, she seems to understand as she smiled a little before nodding. Then Tazuna sighed heavily as he rubbed his head. "We better head to my place. I'll let you guys rest there when we get home." He chuckled.
"All right, team, let's go. We need to take the bridge builder to his bridge." Kakashi announced turning away as they began to walk.
But, for some reason, Ruka was alert suddenly. "Kakashi-sensei!"
Just when she said that, Kakashi's body froze and then fell on the ground, unconscious.
--(END SCENE)--
Onegai (please)
Kunoichi (female ninja)
Ja ne (see you; see you later)
Hitae-ate (forehead protector; headband)
Nursery Song from Pom Poko
-Sensei (Used after the name of a teacher. An example is Iruka-sensei.)
-Sama (Used only on formal occasions, and to show a great deal of respect. An example of Tsunada-sama, Gaara-sama, or Hokage-sama.)
-San (The most commen suffix. It can be used after either the first name, last name, or the entire name. Some examples are Hatake-san, Kakashi-san, or Hatake Kakashi-san.)
-Chan (Used for babies, small children, and close friends. It is used after the first name. An example of Sakura-chan or Ino-chan.)
-Kun (Used after a boys name, although sometimes for girls as well. It can be used after the first or last name. An example of Neji-kun or Hyuuga-kun.)
-Dono (Used after the entire name of a man or woman. This is only used on rare formal occasions. An example of Uchiha Itachi-dono or Hyuuga Hinata-dono.)
-Tachi (Used when referring to a group of people. An example would be saying Tazuna-tachi. This means Tazuna and everyone with him.)