Well thankies for the reviews~ I appreciate them so much. I know that my chapters are extremely short and that is something that I hate about them. I do, however, relish in the fact that my descriptions are indeed getting better and therefore increasing the size of each chapter. I call this "beefing it up" or "completely rewriting that piece of shit I mistakenly called a story." Sometimes I call it both. Then proceed to laugh with my friends about how bad my stuff used to be.
Kakashi: Is this story a piece of shit?
Is it not worth your time?
Have you reviewed?
If the answer to all of these questions is a no, then I do not own Naruto!
On a side note, the Prologue was set in the day when the Kyuubi was attacking the village(also known as the day Naruto was born), and since this is an AU, I bent the space-time-continuum and made it so that the Kyuubi was temporarily still. He may be a giant, furry ball of evil and anger but that doesn't necessarily mean that he wants the world to end, now does it? So he may have been a little OOC and I apologize, but when it comes to the children of Nature and Time, who are the Eternal Siblings FYI, generally everyone backs down to a certain degree.
Chapter 1
Another day gone by and no one had realized the pain trembling inside the young Jonin boy wandering the streets and back alley ways of modern day Konohgakure. Pain is a very hostile companion; it eats away at sanity and replaces it with a dark and ominous reality. This pain, however, was nullified by one person in the boy's life. A person who seemed to understand what it felt like to live in such a dark world. "Kashi-kun!" The boy stopped instantly in his tracks at the voice, life flooding into his eyes. A flickering flame of hope had arisen inside of him. He turned and watched as a greenette ran up to him.
"Hey, Kara-chan. What brings you to this side of the village?" She grinned brightly at him and lamely slugged his arm a few times. "Slow down there." He laughed lightly and caught one of her fists, arcing his arm over her head, pulling her in close. "You might end up hurting me." He whispered it quietly. She froze in that instant, fire racing across her face. He released her hand and moved his own to her shoulder, pushing the stunned girl forward.
"Kashi-kun..." Her voice was strangled, forced into the open. The sound brought fear into his eyes and his hand instinctively tightened its grip. He had heard her speak like this before and it always left him feeling like there was a monster lurking around every corner. "You'll stay with me tonight won't you?" His silence terrified her so she stumbled over a cover, "O-or at least u-until I f-fall asleep..." She sensed him nodding and smiled a little bit while they walked past the training grounds. She glanced upwards at her companion's face and saw the tension hidden beneath his navy mask. His wary demeanor confirmed her fears. "They're here."
Fear riddled her voice, and Kakashi subconsciously pulled her closer as he scanned every tree, crevice, boulder, and shadow around them. He could feel her warm flow of chakra reaching out and touching every living creature. They walked at a slower pace, concentrating on the ever present figure hidden from their sights. Soon they reached an impasse and turned to head through the woods and were faced with the grin of a masochistic Jonin. "Good to see the little whore is still alive." He felt her go rigid underneath his arm and let out a small growl as a warning to the much older man. "Oh, so her new play-thing is you Hatake?" She flinched under his gaze and continued to try to retreat into nothingness. His giant paw of a hand reached out toward her when a rather large dog came out of the trees and attacked his hand. Blood flew and splattered across her face, the sound of bones cracking ringing through her ears.
"Run Kara-san!" The dog barked at her and growled, lunging forward again. She was frozen in fear and shock, clinging to Kakashi as she watched her sensei fight her companion. "Hatake, take her away from here now!" He didn't need to be told twice, scooping her up he turned tail and ran.
Formulating a plan on how to get her away from that hideous creature for good and hopping over roof tops is quite challenging. When you're carrying someone and they're screaming their head off. "Tobi-kun!" Her fear had worn off and now all she could think of was that she would have to bury her dog tomorrow morning. "Kakashi, let me go! Put me down now!" She squirmed in his grip, but it was no use. "I SAID LET ME GO!" She screamed and in that instant she was gone.
He was so surprised that he tripped and fell onto his nose. "Kara-chan? Kara? KARA?" He scrambled to his feet and ran back the way he had come. "KARA?" He had this sinking feeling in his gut and his heart felt like it was being strangled. Dark clouds were rolling in and thunder could be heard in the distance. People below were squealing with excitement and running every which way, trying to get to shelter before the rain hit. He could barely feel her chakra signature and it was fading, growing cold. Kakashi let out a strangled sob and ran faster, trying to get there before it was too late.
She stood over her dog, glowering at the man in front of her. "You bastard!" Kara growled viciously and jolted forward, pulling shurikan from thin air and throwing them at his face. During the barrage she let her hands fly, using Kage-bunshin. Her clones in turn threw more shurikan, giving her more time to dodge behind his arms and landing a kick on the back of his head. She pulled out a kunei and tossed it to a clone towards her right. Flipping backwards she spun on her hands, flying through the air and releasing another jutsu, letting fire rain down upon him. Her clones growled as one and did a few hand signs, collectively combining their strength to bring forth a field of lightning.
Kakashi stood on a rooftop, gazing at her battle. Was that man really a Jonin? Or... "Kara! Watch out!" Without acknowledging his body's decision to move he was in front of her, kunai lodged in his stomach. "C-chidori..." The sound of a thousand birds filled their ears as he lunged forward. Just as his hand was about to hit it's mark his arm was thrown wide.
"Shizen! Take Kakashi to the hospital. Your captain is coming with me to see the Hokage." Bright yellow hair and stunning blue eyes filled the boy's vision. "Don't worry, Kakashi... you'll be okay." There was a flash and he was gone. Kakashi could hear the poofs of dismissed clones and the warm arms of Kara picking him up.
"Minato-sensei is right. You'll be fine, okay?" He could hear the distress in her voice, the fear was back but it wasn't for herself. "You'll be okay..." She repeated the mantra to herself as she ran. In mere moments, although they felt like hours dragging limply by, she arrived at the hospital. "Somebody help him! Please! Anybody!" All at once people were yelling for crash carts and someone to come apply emergency attention.
Medic-nins were running around in a flurry of papers, white uniforms, and medical equipment. He was ripped from her arms and placed onto a sterile bed before being rushed to a secure room. She followed quickly but by the time she had made it to the room they had shut the door and locked it. A nurse came over and placed a gentle hand onto her shoulder and gestured to a waiting room. The greenette ripped her arm away and marched through the archway and into the lobby. With a glance behind her she dashed through the door and around to the side where she could see the bustling bodies behind the curtain.
Without a second thought she forced chakra into her hands and feet, leaping onto the walls and climbed until she reached the window of his room. She saw doctors and ninjas fly hurriedly, rushing to stop the bleeding. "I need a Jonin! Someone go find one!" Her eyes widened in fear as a woman with fiery red hair pushed against Kakashi's chest, the pressure stifling the blood flow. "I meant now!" Some frightened intern scurried through the door and started yelling for assistance.
Rain broke free from the sky and pounded down onto the land below, soaking it with the tears from the heavens. Finally a blonde woman ran through the doorway pushed everyone aside. Except the redhead. "Kushina, great job now go clean yourself up. The Hokage wishes to speak with you." Green light filled the room as Kushina ran out and the blonde forced chakra into her hands, grimacing at the sight below her. "Did anyone bring an oxygen tank? He needs support." Another nurse scurried away to comply with the orders. Bleeding stopped and Kara sighed with relief. "Well, he's out of the danger zone now. He just needs to rest and let his body do the rest. Where's the oxygen tank?"
A boy rolled it inside and smiled sheepishly at her. "My bad... sorry about the delay..." Something about him seemed off, wrong and untrustworthy. It made Kara's skin crawl the way he leered at Kakashi.
"It doesn't matter! Just hook the boy up. Someone give him a sedative. We don't need him to wake up in the middle of the night screaming his head off." The woman nodded at a man in glasses and he walked over to the cart, picked up a needle and prepared to inject Kakashi with the substance. Kara winced from the window as the needle pierced his skin, she could practically feel the fluids enter her own system. The woman nodded, satisfied and left the reset of the crew to clean up and head out. "Don't forget he needs new sheets and linens now. The blood isn't good for him, mentally or physically." She was gone and everyone else left, with the exception of a nurse who changed his bedding. Kara watched carefully as he breathed, the doctors and nurses were sure that he was fine, but she had to be positive.
Carefully she opened the window and stepped through, onto the window sill, sopping wet from the rain. She was terrified to move, worried that she might disturb something that was keeping him alive. "This is my fault." She stared at the floor, at war within herself. "If I hadn't gotten cocky… if I had watched my back…" She stepped down quietly and padded across the room to his bed. "You wouldn't be here." Her bright green eyes flickered to his face and watched his it intently.
His chest rose and fell in an almost relaxing rhythm. Water mingled with her tears as she watched him closely, examining every detail on his body. The bandages wrapped around his stomach were a pristine white and stood out against his sun-darkened skin. The white puff of his breath was splayed across the clear mask providing him oxygen.
All was quiet as the drum of rain sounded against the roof. She walked further into the warm room, gazing at his face and tilted her head quizzically when his brows furrowed. His nose began to twitch in agitation as he lay on the clean bedding. She made it the rest of the way to him and knelt down to be on his level. "Kakashi-kun?"
He seemed to stir and his head tilted in her general direction, coal eyes cracking to bring her face into focus. "Kara-chan… you're alright…" He smiled slightly under the mask before his expression became dark. His breath hitched and he twitched slightly. The white puffs floating against the clear mask stopped. His eyes began to go blank and Kara searched them helplessly. Finding nothing, all she could do was scream.
Thanks for reading the chapter, and this note. I would like to point out that saying NWI under Guest is indeed insulting. I am sorry that it happened and I will not go on a rant about it. I am simply stating that it is rude, and very much so.
On a happier note, since I got all my reviews I would like you guys to bring the total number to 10. That's just 5 more reviews. Please? I left you with a major cliffhanger and I really want to get the next chapter out. I really want your opinion, and I know people are reading this. The stats say so. So please, please, please review. It's open to guests and those of you who do have an account, especially you guys, please review.
