Itachi's Point of View
I couldn't stop the tears from falling as I held the lifeless girl in my hands, the last link to the one I love. Her eyes were wide, showing the terror that she saw before she inhaled her last breath and Kakashi stood to the side, looking as if he wanted to cry himself, a kunai dangerously close to his wrist. While Orochimaru stood to the side disgust displayed plainly in his eyes, he hadn't wanted to do it, but I guess he'd have done anything to keep my love from me. I held in a scream of agony as I stared at the girl in my arms….my daughter. Her white hair swayed gently in the winds of the coming storm, her lavender eyes, glazed over in death, I couldn't take it, I pulled the girl close to me and let out a heart-filled scream, that was drowned out by the sound of thunder and pelting rain…..my rage slowly becoming fiercer and fiercer…I would find her and bring her back to me….
But maybe we should start from the beginning…
Chapter 1: "They always forget…."
Kakashi's Point of View
I walked into the Hokage's office, the same old bored look plastered to my face. I wanted to receive this mission, hand it over to the guinen and go home, but no the Hokage always has other plans.
"Kakashi…," the old man asked looking at me like he would probably regret saying what he was about to say. "this will be probably be turned into an S-ranked mission."
"Then why are you giving it to squad 7?" I asked confused, staring at the man.
"I'm not," he whispered, looking down at the paper. "It's a special request for the ANBU Op Hatake Kakashi." My mouth nearly dropped at what he said before I burst into a malicious laugh.
"That person is dead," I stated bluntly, looking distractively out the window. I heard the Hokage sigh, before rambling through a drawer.
"Well you're going to have to revive that person and complete this mission." The Hokage's voice was starting to deepen, filling with anger that I'd never known, making the me cringe in shock.
"What's this mission?" I finally asked, turning my eyes to the old man in sudden curiosity. "And why did they choose me?" The Hokage sighed and handed me an overstuffed manila folder, it contents nearly falling out. My instincts told me to turn down the mission and leave the room, but instead I opened the folder.
"This is a joke, right?" I said nervously as I stared at the picture inside. The Hokage silently shook his head, his somber look telling me what I didn't want to hear. "So you're telling me that I'm supposed to protect some legendary Kunoichi from one of the legendary Sannin?!" I had to restrain myself from knocking the hat off of the old man when he once again nodded. "Explain."
"He's apparently has been looking for strong shinobi," the old man stated, resting his chin on his hands and staring into space. "For some reason he appears to be after this young woman. Her last bodyguard has died and her family requested you personally to watch over her. Sadly it will be a 24/7 job, but I couldn't refuse the Mizukage." My eyes went wide against my will and I stared at the man in pure confusion.
"Don't tell me-"
"It's his adoptive granddaughter," he said solemnly, looking at me like he felt sorry for me. "She for some reason is one of Orochimaru's prime targets….."
"Damn…"
From the way the Hokage put it, I knew I had to hurry and that was exactly what I did. I took off out the gates, as prepared as I'd probably ever be, but apparently I wasn't prepared enough.
The village looked deserted. I stared around, looking for eyes in the windows… Anything that would suggest that there was human life, but there was absolutely nothing. I decided it would probably be better to head to the Mizukage's office. Running to where I thought it would be located, I opened the door to the place to see a trail of blood leading up a flight of stair. Either someone was dead or dying.
"Dammit!," I cursed, looking up the stairs, hoping to glimpse anything that would suggest someone was up there.
Racing up the stairs, I started to try and piece some of the things that the Hokage had said together. This girl was supposed to be some sort of legendary kunoichi, a chuunin at the age of 6 and a jonin at the age of 7. She had also led the special ops team of the village at the early age of 9, making as many enemies inside the village as outside. The more I put together and the more blood I saw, the more this seemed to feel like an Itachi case, but the way it was put, she was way better, which meant this would be way worse.
Suddenly I heard the clink of metal hitting metal and I realized I was in front of a door. There was a battle going on inside and I just hoped that the girl hadn't killed her whole village like Konaha's last little nut job.
"Leave me the fuck alone Itachi!," a female voice screamed, alerting me and making me fling open the door. She was definitely going to be an interesting little case. On a table was a young woman, maybe 18 years old, long white hair spilling onto the floor and her dark blue eyes on the Uchiha hovering over her. I watched in horror and slight arousal as the man licked her neck, causing a small whine to escape her lips.
"Stop it you dumb ass!!" That somehow woke me up making me pull Itachi by his hair and hold a kunai to his neck.
"So how are you, Kakashi?" the man mocked, doing a replacement justu and appearing behind me. "You're not worth my time…So give up now, before I'm forced to kill you. I'll need you to make my brother stronger."
"Kakashi?" the girl whispered, trying to wear her kimono in a more honorable way than Itachi had left it. "Hatake Sakumo's son?" At the mention of my father I automatically froze and stared at the girl in part anger and part curiosity.
"How did you know my father?" I asked, or actually more like growled. She drew back and blushed, before looking at Itachi. As if she had suddenly remembered him, she ran at him causing him to push me aside and block her kunai. I stood amazed, mostly at the fact that she could run in the ridiculous outfit she was donning. She was move by move with Itachi, her speed incredible.
"Dammit Itachi stand still so I kill you, ya' son of a bitch!!," she screamed, once again running at him and missing by a hair. He snickered and appeared behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and whispering something in her ear. A maroon colored blush broke out across her face, and she attacked once again, making a nice cut across his cheek and surprising him.
She took that chance and elbowed him in the face, dropping to the ground and side-sweeping his feet. He hit the ground hard, making a satisfactory grin cross her lips.
"Now what?" she mocked, staring down at him like trapped prey. He simply smirked and put his hand into a seal.
"I leave," he said and sank into the floor, disappearing. Her eyes widened and she looked at the ground in anger, before collapsing onto her knees and groaning.
"So what was that about?" I asked and she looked up at me as if just realizing I was there.
"They're trying to get me to join the Akatsuki," she whispered. "But Itachi seems to have other motives for inviting me into their little exclusive club." She grimaced and turned towards the wall.
"So where's the rest of the villagers?" I asked leaning on the wall and looking her over with a slight interest.
"Oh they're in the real village," she said not turning back towards me. "This is just a decoy village we use, to meet with other villages and avoid attacks. I was just here to meet my new bodyguard." I cocked my head to the side at her and frowned, there was something that seemed a little strange about her. Nonetheless I bowed and introduced myself.
"I'm Hatake Kakashi, you're new bodyguard and you are?"
The girl returned the bow and smiled, "The name's Hawatari Asuna." With that she turned back around and faced the wall. "So what are you going to do about my little Orochimaru problem?" I moved closer to her and tugged slightly at her knee-length hair, making her turn around.
"I'm taking you to Konaha," I said and she looked away.
"It's been a long time since I was in Konaha," she whispered softly. "No one will recognize me…." I looked at her stupidly, but before I could even phrase my thoughts she answered them.
"I wasn't born here," she said smiling sadly. "My parents died in the fight against Kyuubi…the Mizukage took me in just a couple of years ago…" I just stared blankly at her, before shrugging and turning around. This girl was going to be a interesting piece of work.
"What the fuck do you mean she's staying with me?!," I yelled at the Hokage, who merely laid his head on his hand.
"Will you please calm down?" he simply replied and sighed briefly. "As a bodyguard you'll have to be by her side 24/7, it'd be easier for her to move in with you than to have a place arranged for her and having you move in with her."
"But there's only one bed!," I whined. "Where's she going to sleep?!"
"Use you're imagination," the Hokage said, with a mischievous smirk. I almost fell down in annoyance.
"Seriously, what am I going to do?" I asked and he simply smiled.
"You're team is waiting," he said finally, making it clear that this discussion was through.
"Who's the chick?" Naruto asked, looking over at Asuna with a slight spark in his eyes. Sakura giggled and smiled mischievously. "Is she your girlfriend?"
I could feel a heat cross over my face, but thankfully my mask covered it. I furiously shook my head and Naruto, Sakura, and even Sasuke smirked mischievously. I turned to see Asuna holding in a giggle.
"This is Hawatari Asuna, and I'm her bodyguard," I muttered, glaring at team 7 in anger who merely smiled innocently in reply. "And that is all!" Their reply was to simply burst into uncontrollable laughter. "So you guys wanna' play games? Then you can use all that energy in training today." That shut them up and gave me something to laugh at. That's when I felt a tug on my sleeve, I turned to see Asuna with a childish look on her face.
"Um Kakashi-san," she said softly. "I'm bored." I stared at her blankly and she merely kept that same puppy look, that was starting to turn me on. My body was taking on a mind of it's on and getting closer to her...
"Oi! Kakashi-sensei! If you get any closer to her you'll be kissing her," Sasuke said mockingly. Asuna looked over at the boy and her eyes widened.
"Oh my God!" she yelled directly in my ear. She rushed over to his side looking him over like a lab specimen. "You look just like Itachi did when he was young! Though his hair was straighter…" My eyes widened as Sasuke grabbed her by the collar of her kimono and pulled her to his level.
"How do you know my brother?!," he half-screamed at her. Before I could blink she had grabbed his wrist, turned him around, and pressed him face-first into the ground, with her foot on his back.
"The next time you touch me," she snarled. "It'd better be for a better reason." With that said, she pressed her foot farther into his back forcing him into the ground and dislocating his shoulder. I saw Sakura faint, heard Naruto gasp, and Sasuke scream in pain. She merely threw his arm to the side and stood up straight, flipping the hair that had fallen into her face back behind her. I grabbed Asuna's wrist, before she could do anymore damage and stared into her eyes, what I saw scared me slightly, her eyes were red, with the familiar black markings of an…..
"You're an Uchiha?!," I gasped and she simply stared at me blankly, before her eyes returned to their normal blue.
"Half-Uchiha," she said defiantly, trying to tug her wrist out of my hand. "Why does it matter?" I simply gaped at her, unable to process this new information. Then it hit me, no wonder they had chosen me as her bodyguard.
"Dammit," I muttered letting go of her wrist, which she shook like it was numb. "How come no one filled me in on these details?" She merely laughed in response.
"Would you have taken on this mission if you'd known?" she half growled at me. "I'm a hybrid, the main reason that Orochimaru wants me." Suddenly Naruto was by her side, looking Asuna over with a peaked interest.
"If you're a hybrid, that means you're mixed with something else," he said to her. "What's the other half?" She looked away, staring at a writhing Sasuke who had somehow managed to flip himself over and a now awake and crying Sakura.
"My original last name was Hyuuga," she replied simply, as if it didn't matter. Both mine's and Naruto's eyes went wide in shock. I smiled suddenly.
"Then I can take you to the Hyuuga clan!," I exclaimed. "That way you can have your own room instead of staying with me." She laughed uneasily, and looked at me with sad eyes.
"They won't remember me," she scoffed, before laughing strangely. "They never remember, they hated my guts…They claimed I was a disgrace, for my blue eyes and that the sharingan shouldn't be anywhere in a Hyuuga." My face fell and I know my eyes were dulled with guilt.
"I'm sorry," I said looking into her eyes softly. "If I had known…I would never have suggested it." She smiled simply with her reply, "It's not your fault, when grandaddy put in the request for a bodyguard he made sure to leave a few little details out." The only problem: I have no clue what these "little details" were.
I opened the door to my apartment and sighed. After dropping off Sasuke at the hospital, Sakura had constantly started fights with Asuna, that I repeatedly had to stop, while Naruto clung to her like a lost puppy, playing with her white hair. I on the other hand had other problems: trying to keep my arousal as low as possible.
"Nice place," Asuna whispered suddenly, knocking me from my thoughts and making me turn and look at her. "So where am I sleeping?" My mind went blank for a second as I looked at her; she was pulling off her freakin' kimono…
"Um…What are you doing?" I asked and she gave me a blank look before revealing the outfit underneath.
"Did you actually think I wore that stupid thing all the time?" she questioned in a bored tone, then she smirked. "What? You thought I was getting naked in your living room?" She was in all black, I guess a sign of her ops status. She had on a tube top, which stopped mid-belly, underneath she apparently was wearing a fishnet top. Her shorts stopped just above her knees and her arms and legs were covered in what looked like black bandages and to complete the look, were her fingerless gloves and regulated shinobi sandals. All in all the kimono had did no good in showing the gorgeous curves of her body like this outfit did…small wonder Itachi was after her."Are you alright?" she asked, looking at me with worried look. "You're all red." I shook my head trying to clear away my clouding mind.
"Why were you wearing the kimono if you didn't need it?" I asked trying to compose myself, she shrugged, kicking the thing from around her feet.
"My dad wanted me to look 'honorable'," she said using air quotes, "when I met my bodyguard." I looked at her strangely, but nodded in response…"Since we're asking questions here…why are you covering so much of your face?" I looked away unwilling to respond.
"Is it because you feel disgraced?" I turned back around to face her, suddenly angry, she simply stood casually, ignoring it. "Well?"
"No," I tried to say it calmly, but it came out as more of a snarl.
"Then take it off," she said bluntly. I stared at her like she was stupid. "I want to know what my bodyguard looks like." Before I knew what was happening she had her hands on the corner of my mask, ready to yank it off. Then she stopped and hooked her fingers under the mask that was underneath the first. Before I could stop her it was off, I watched in confusion as she pulled away her face completely red.
"What?" I asked worriedly. She merely shook her head and stared at me. "Am I ugly or something?" I was starting to get annoyed.
"It's quite the opposite," she said almost as if she were in a trance. Suddenly she gained her composure and reached back up and placed her hands on my headband. My hand shot up lightening speed and grabbed her wrist. Immediately her other hand shot up, which I grabbed.
"Aren't you through exploring?" I asked in a flat tone. She shook her head and glared at me.
"So what's behind the headband?" she asked, with a smirk.
"Nothing that you need to know about," I growled, her smirk grew and she moved herself closer to me, causing my arms to go higher. Without warning she ground her hips into mine, making me frown. "Asuna…" I tried to put the words into a warning tone, but it came out a little whiny.
"Let me see what's under the headband," she whispered sexily in my ear, before grinding her hips into mine once more, "and I'll stop." I simply grinned at her and she gave me a cautious look.
"Who said I wanted you to stop," I whispered and she gasped, which I took as the chance to crash my lips on hers. I kept my eyes open, watching the reaction that I was getting. Her eyes widened at first and she started to struggle, but she slowly began to close them, as she returned the kiss.
I closed my eyes and licked her lips for entrance, which she eagerly gave. I let my tongue wander her mouth before rubbing it against hers, coaxing her to battle. As she began to wrestle her tongue with mine, I slowly let go of her wrists. Without hesitation she tangled them in my hair, trying to deepen the kiss even more, while I slid my hands down her back, before grabbing her butt tightly. She squeaked slightly into the kiss, and moved her body closer to mine.
"Kakashi-sensei?!," a voice yelled. We turned to see Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, whose arm was in a sling. Their mouths were wide open and Asuna had shifted away from me to smooth down her hair. At the sound of the voice, I had pulled my mask up.
"Um….why are you guys here?," I asked embarrassedly.
"We came to let you know that Sasuke is out of the infirmary," Sakura said slowly, eyeing me and Asuna suspiciously. "The question should be what were you two doing?" Asuna blushed before trying to escape behind me.
"Are you together?," Naruto asked, I could hear a hint of jealousy in his voice.
Asuna quickly spoke up with a loud, "No!" I winced visibly and so did the team. "This was just a complete accident! And it will never happen again! Right Kakashi?," the way her voice was, I could tell she was serious…I nodded gently and moved towards the team. I suddenly saw her clutching her arm fiercely, her face almost in a grimace. I'd have to check on that later.
"Asuna, you'll be sleeping up stairs," I said in an exasperated tone and she moved her way upstairs, escaping in seconds.
"How was it?" Naruto asked mischievously, which earned him a slap upside the head.
"Sakura. Naruto. Go home. Sasuke, I need to talk to you about something," I said exasperated. They groaned, but obeyed, trudging home whining. I turned to Sasuke who looked at me with his usual bored face.
"What do you know about an Hyuuga Asuna?" I asked, making him look at me strangely.
"I've never heard of her," he said, looking at me as if I was stupid. "Wouldn't it be better to ask Neji or Hinata?" I sighed, but nodded.
"I guess it would," I whispered, before looking at Sasuke's arm. "How's the arm?" Sasuke shrugged, but then winced. "It hurts like hell, huh?" He nodded before looking at the ground.
"That woman, Asuna….she's strong, I didn't even sense her movements…"
"Yeah….she's strong alright," I replied thinking.
"So why does she need a bodyguard?" he asked and I looked at him and then back away.
"You know what? That's a good question…"
Almost a month went by and Asuna had gotten comfortable in Konoha, and there was no sign of Itachi or Orochimaru. Then there came a day that was not only awkward but annoying. Sasuke had somehow found a healer in the middle of the night and the second he saw Asuna, it somehow became his life mission to sneak up on her and attack. I had to keep her separated from Sakura who I think was secretly trying to poison her. While constantly pulling Naruto off of Asuna…I felt like I was running a daycare!
Not only that but somehow Asuna had became the talk of the town. Everyone around gave us these strange smiles that caused Asuna to repeatedly lose her temper. I felt like I was going to have to chain the girl up. I also had to keep my persistent little problem under wraps from the world…I was beginning to hate this job….well hate it more.
"Sakura!," I yelled. "Would you stop bothering Asuna! She's already told you she wasn't thirsty." "Naruto get off of Asuna's back!" "Sasuke put that damn kunai up!" "Asuna don't hit the man, he didn't mean it that way." My patience was seriously growing short…but then everything changed when Asuna suddenly started screaming while clutching her shoulder.
Naruto was instantly by her side, trying to figure out what was wrong. Sasuke was next glancing up and down at her in worry. And Sakura…well Sakura simply ran to Sasuke's side and stared. My first thought was that either Sakura had finally got her to drink the water or Sasuke had stabbed her with something.
"Asuna what's wrong?," I whispered in her ear softly, she turned to me slowly, before grabbing my vest tightly. Suddenly her mouth started moving but she wasn't speaking. I grabbed her shoulders and shook her softly. "Dammit Asuna! What's wrong?!" She let out another ear-piercing scream, before yelling, "It hurts!"
"What hurts?! Tell me what's wrong!!," I yelled back. Suddenly the screaming stopped and she stared at me blankly before silently whispering, "He's close…." With that her eyes slowly rolled into the back of her head and she passed out limply in my arms. I could only guess what she meant by he.
"Hokage-sama," I whispered, knocking the old man from his thoughts. "I think she's been bitten…" He sighed softly and stared slowly at the unconscious girl who lay motionless on his desk.
"It would explain her episode," he replied softly. He slowly pulled his pipe out of his mouth, and set it down beside Asuna. "But if what she says is true, then he's following her and that means he's close to Konoha…"
"Then what are we supposed to do then?," I asked, my glance slowly falling to Asuna, whose eyes were clenched tightly in pain.
"We can't do anything, the Chuunin exams are too close for us to send out a party," he said looking at the ceiling, "besides the pain seems to be a little severe for just a curse mark. I wonder…" The old man got up and slowly walked to the other side of the girl so his back was facing me. I walked closer, in time for me to see the man unwrapping the black bandage away from the girl's arm.
"Damn," I gasped, staring at the black marks that wrapped around her arm like snakes. "What the hell is that…"
"It's a Uchiha Seal," he replied, absently-mindedly. "But this isn't from Orochimaru…Did you kiss her or anything like that?" I looked away, silently giving him his answer. The Hokage hit me playfully upside the head, but his face was deathly serious. "I think this is from the Akatsuki…you said that Itachi was after her right?" I nodded, staring at him strangely. "Then this is probably his doing, it's an old Uchiha curse, used on promiscuous wives…Sort of like a shock collar….It'll go off whenever he gets close. I can seal it, but you may not like the consequences…"
I backed away instinctively, "What consequences?"
"I can seal so it doesn't focus on Itachi, but it's going to need a new target, one with a sharingan," he said mischievously. "and once that's done, this missy is going to need some tending too…"
"If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, she can stay in pain," I said nervously. "It'd be like sleeping with a 10-year-old!"
"I'll let you think about it for awhile, right now take her to the hospital so she can rest…"