I own Ana
Kakashi's POV~
I stared at my partner, Ana Sarutobi. She had bright red hair, a perfect body, and even rinnegan. We had been on the same Chunin team. Ever since day one, we had been close. I was always ahead of everyone, becoming a Chunin at six and a Jonin at 13. Ana was always right behind me. We both took the Jonin exam together, became ANBU together, and even went on most of our missions together. She was the person who persuaded me to stray from the ninja code.
If I had never met Ana, I would be alone. Living a life strictly by a code that tells you to show no emotion, have no attachments. But she came as a smack to the face. Her fiery, caring personality convinced me to come out of the shell I'd created. She was my best friend, and she always will be.
Ana and I ran through the forest, enemy ninja right behind us. We had just killed their boss, as part of our ANBU mission. Now we had to kill them all. It was fifty to two, and Ana's left leg was injured pretty badly. Not great odds, but we could manage. We always did when it was just us on a mission. We functioned better with just the two of us compared to a full team.
We stopped in a clearing, turning to face the flood of apposing ninja. Ana was perfectly still, observing the situation. I had my sharingan activated. They stopped as well, watching us. Ana reached her arms up slowly, as if to surrender. I turned my attention to her.
"What are you doing?" I whispered. "Go along with it, I'm sure you'll figure it out. Now be quiet," she whispered
She had her hands up in surrender. I put mine up, as well. What the heck is she doing, I thought. The enemy ninja came towards us, seemingly inch by inch. Ana remained motionless, so I did the same. I desperately wished I knew her plan. She's going to get us killed, I kept thinking. Then it hit me; I needed to trust her for any plan of hers to work. So I stopped worrying. She'd probably get us out of this alive.
The enemy were about fifty feet away when Ana jerked her hands down and began rapidly doing hand signs. She used Earth Release: Sticky Earth Drop. The gang of ninja were coated in mud. I didn't get her strategy at all until she used Sixteen Pillar Bind. The huge pillars shot out of the ground, enclosing our enemies. I tried to remember what the jutsu did; it was supposed to be like an oven. Which meant that she would need to use fire next.
But right when she started making her hand signs, she collapsed onto her knees. She screamed in pain, clutching her injured leg. I hadn't noticed until then that there had been poison on the weapon someone had used to make the injury. The wound was bleeding badly; her pants leg was soaked. Ana screamed again.
"Finish the jutsu, Kakashi," she said between hissing breaths.
I finished the jutsu, knowing that the enemies inside were dead. There was no way they could have survived that attack. I turned to Ana. She was lying on the ground, still clutching her leg. I picked her up and began running. The village close by had a hospital. I ran as fast as I could, trying to comfort Ana as I did.
I remembered one of the rules of the ninja code: 'a shinobi must always put the mission first'. Normally, I would have stuck to this as if my life depended on it. But I had to help Ana. Even if we still had to kill the gang, I would have taken her to a hospital instead. I just couldn't leave her to die.
The doctors took her immediately when we got there. I had taken and hidden our ANBU masks and arm plates. She looked like your regular ninja to them. I paced the hall outside of the room she was in. Then I started to think; why was Ana any different from any other shinobi? I should have followed the code, and left her there, right? But I couldn't. Why?
Maybe it's because she's only fifteen, I thought. Or because she's my friend, perhaps. I started thinking about her smile, and all of our missions and adventures together. She couldn't die on me now! I didn't know what I'd do if she died. I loved her too much...
Wait, I thought. Did I just say I loved her? It must've been a mistake on my part. Ana was my closest friend, the most amazing person I've ever met...That's how I realized it. That one little subconscious thought opened my eyes; I loved her. I was in love with Ana.
The doctor came out, his face serious. His eyes looked sad. That scared me. What the heck was going on? Was Ana ok?
"Your friend in there is fine; she's going to live," the doctor said, taking off his glasses. There had to be a catch to that...
"What's wrong?"
"She most likely will never be able to use that leg again."
"...What?"
I just stared at him for a minute. She wouldn't be able to use her leg. What the heck? Wasn't he a freaking doctor? Couldn't he do something? I clenched my fists, trying hard not to slug the guy right there. He sighed, as if he knew everything. Well obviously he didn't, considering that he...I stopped myself there. I was being childish; just because he was a doctor did not mean he knew everything. I sighed.
"I'm dreadfully sorry. We tried everything we could. There is the slimmest possibility that she will walk again, though," he said.
"Then I guess we'll just have to hope for the best," I sighed.
When I finally got to see her, Ana was staring at the ceiling. That was the first time in my life that I had seen her look scared. Not once on our ANBU missions, or any other mission, had she looked close to scared. Now, her expression resembled that of a child that was scared of the dark locked in a dark closet. It nearly killed me inside.
"Ana-chan?" I said, walking over to her. She looked over at me and smiled. Her eyes looked pain-filled, and yet she smiled for me. That shot a kunai through my heart.
"Hi Kakashi-kun. I'll be fine, ok? Don't worry about it," her voice was soft; I knew she was just trying to hide pain.
"Try telling yourself that. You look...so scared..." I said. She sighed, looking back up at the cieling.
"Guess we can't be a team anymore, huh?"
"Now don't go negative on me now, Ana. You've made it through tons of lethal things before with a smile! You can't give up now,"
She looked back at me, almost surprized. There was a light in her eye; she knew I was right. She smiled her devious smile, and sat up. Ana grabbed my hand, and pulled me close to her.
"Just so you know," she whispered in my ear. "You're goin' to help me through this. No matter what, ok?"
"Ok," I said, smiling. Even with my mask she could tell I was smiling.
"And if I walk again, I get to see your face. Understood?"
"Alright. And if you don't walk again, I get to take care of you. Understood?"
She laughed. I just knew she would make it. Ana wasn't the type of person to submit to any odds against her. She'd walk again just to prove how tough she was. Ana had a dream to be one of the best kunoichi to ever come from Konoha. If I knew her, nothing would be able to stop her from achieving this except herself.
Something in my gut told me that she would be the first person outside of my family to see my face.