Chapter 3! Now things will get more interesting.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

"Demon"

(Flashbacks)

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When the gang arrived back at the Leaf Village, Mika was quick to escape from her teammates, including her brother. She disappeared as soon as she saw the chance, making sure that no one followed her. She ran on the roof tops of Konoha until she finally reached the small forest on the edge of the Village.

'Maybe now I can have some peace and try to contact Okami again.'

Mika was very eager to meet the wolf demon once more and had tried to meditate back at Tazuna's. However, between Naruto and Sakura, she found no peace.

Now finally she had found the perfect spot and sat in front of a tree with her legs crossed, palms up and her eyes closed.

'I hope this works'

5 minutes later . . .

"Damn it Okami! Talk to me!" she lost it.

"Yes pup?"

Mika fell onto the grass and grabbed her hair with her fingers, "What the fuck?! Okami, I've been trying to reach you for days you damn wolf!"

"Watch your tongue! Besides, all you had to do was call out my name in your mind, little Mika."

"That's it?"

The demon wolf growled in response.

"Okami I have some questions for you."

The wolf in her mind chuckled, "I figured"

"If I can hear you then can Naruto hear Kurama?"

"Hmmm" Okami rumbled, "I doubt it. Knowing Naruto through your eyes and mind, I would have to say that the moment Kurama spoke to him, Naruto would tell you. Why haven't you told him about me yet Mika?"

Mika shrugged her shoulder, "I don't know. It's just that Naruto can get a bit jealous over anything. I'll tell him eventually. Don't worry Okami. Now the next question. Shouldn't there only be ten-tailed beasts? I've read about the beasts in books before when I was younger but they never mention an eleven tailed demon."

Okami growled, "That is because I rarely show myself, child. No one knew of me before you and Naruto were born. I hid in the shadows and in the forests for centuries. I never had a Jinchuriki before until you. But then I was taken over . . ."

"Taken over? What do you mean Okami?"

"Never mind" the wolf shook off, "You are not ready to know. There are actually twelve tailed beasts. The twelve-tails, however, I do not know. She had remained hidden since the beginning. That is not important right now. However, I believe that you should learn some knew jutsu. It is important that you learn to control your own and my chakra in battle as well. How about asking your sensei for help? You need to at least tell HIM about me."

Mika sighed, "But do you really think Kakashi would help someone like me?"

"Just go, Mika." Okami was tired of Mika's poor self-judgment.

"Wait! One more question!"

"Yes?"

"How come my sense of smell has increased?"

"It hasn't increased, Mika. When you left the Village for the first time you could smell different things that you were not used to smelling. This is because of me, though. I'm a wolf demon and therefore I have a very acute sense of smell. My chakra helps you gain that power as well."

"Hmm. Interesting." She stalled.

"Just go find Kakashi, brat."

The girl rolled her eyes and did as her demon told her to do. Although it wasn't easy searching the whole of Konoha for the most elusive Jounin in the Leaf Village, she finally found him on the streets reading his weird book again.

Once she landed in the streets and in front of Kakashi, the silver-haired man looked up at her in surprise, "Mika, I was wondering where you ran off to. Have a good nap?"

"Nap? I didn't nap, Sensei. I was wondering if you could help me?"

The man cocked his head slightly to the side, "Help you? With what?"

Mika rubbed the back of her head, very similarly to how Kakashi does, "Could we go somewhere else without so many people first?"

"Sure." Kakashi closed his book and they bounded off back into the small forest and training grounds. Once they arrived there, Mika was still fairly quiet.

"Alright now Mika. What is it that you wanted to talk to me about?"

"I – uh. . . My tailed beast has contacted me, sensei."

She waited for the scolding that wouldn't come. Mika looked up to Kakashi to see that he was smirking under his mask, "Really? What has he said?"

Mika was relieved that Kakashi wasn't angry with her, "Nothing much. He introduced himself to me back in the Land of Waves when I had been unconscious in the battle saying that he wanted to help me. He was really nice and HUGE! I just contacted him again a while ago though and he has told me that I need to learn more jutsu and better chakra control over both of our chakra. He recommended you, Sensei."

Kakashi was quiet during her spiel but when she was finished his one eye that showed lit up with excitement, "Really? The great Eleven-tailed Wolf demon suggested me?"

"He doesn't like to be called that, Kakashi-sensei."

He raised an eyebrow.

"His name is Okami."

"I see. Alright then. I can't help you to control both of your chakras. However, I can teach you some new jutsu if you're willing to work hard."

Mika bounced up and down, "Yes! Of course I am! I'm ready!"

Kakashi took out two pieces of paper, "This is chakra paper. The tree that made this paper was fed chakra continuously. With this piece of paper, we will find out which element you belong to."

"Element?"

"Yes. There are five elements: Fire, Earth, Wind, Water and Lightning. The paper will tell which element you are by action. IF you are Fire then the paper will ignite in flame. If you are Earth then the paper will crumble away like dirt. If you are water then the paper will get damp. If you are wind then the paper will tear in half or if you are lightning then the paper will wrinkle."

Mika nodded to show that she understood.

"However, besides the five basics there are also many others like the Wood element, Ice, lava, blaze, storm, boil, dust, explosion, scorching heat and magnetism. Don't be discouraged, though. You are not just tied to one element. As you train and get older you might be able to control more than one. The Third Hokage for example can control all five basic elements."

"Whoa. Cool."

Kakashi smiled.

"So what element are you, master Kakashi?"

"Oh me? Well why don't I just show you?" with that the Jounin held one of the papers with two fingers and released chakra into the paper. Instantly, the paper wrinkled.

"You're a lightning element!" Mika remembered.

"Good job. Now you try it. Just release some chakra into the tips of your fingers and into the paper."

Mika nodded and concentrated hard, 'Just concentrate'

"Just do it" Okami said in her mind.

'Shut up Okami!'

"You do better if you just wing it, pup. It's like on your Land of Waves mission when you had to concentrate your chakra in your feet."

Mika closed her eyes and immediately heard the paper rip in half. She opened her eyes.

"Wind" she whispered.

Kakashi nodded, "It seems that you are. Now you said that you can use Okami's chakra as well?"

Her master brought out another piece of paper, "Try using his chakra this time. I want to see what element his would be. Out of curiosity."

Mika took the paper, 'Okami? Lend me some chakra?'

She didn't even have to ask as she took the paper in her hand and she felt his Chakra roaring through her like a storm until her aura was black and the paper wrinkled and grew damp.

When Mika stopped the flow and looked at it she was confused, "Two elements?"

Kakashi held a finger to his chin, "Hmm. No. It appears that Okami's element is Storm which combines Lighting and water together. That means that you can use three different types of elements."

"Sweet" she grinned.

"It also means that I could teach you plenty of Lightning and water jutsu but I'm afraid you'll have to find someone else for Wind. I'm not very experienced with that element."

Mika leaned against a tree, "Alright so who would I contact to teach me wind?"

Kakashi merely shrugged his shoulders, "There's only two teachers I think would be suitable enough for you but they both are not available yet. One is Asuma but he is busy on a mission with Shikamaru, Ino and Choji. The other teacher is Jiriyah the Sanin."

"Ji-Jiriyah!? The legendary Sanin and pupil of Lord Third?! Where's he at?"

"No one knows." Kakashi spoke aloofly.

"Ugh! Kakashi!" she whined.

"Don't fret now" he chuckled, "I'm sure Asuma would be more than happy to teach you some moves. I'll teach you something that hardly anyone can, though. The Chidori Lightening Blade. You concentrate lightening in your palm with chakra. When you have mastered it, it will look as if you are carrying lightening in your hands."

Mika grinned maniacally, "When do we start?"

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Two weeks later Mika was finally able to master the Chidori.

Kakashi said he was very impressed and that it took him months to prefect it. Although without any boundaries or interruptions Mika had a time advantage. Now that she was able to master the Chidori, however, Kakashi now felt that she was ready for the summoning jutsu. But that would have to be for later.

He didn't give her an explanation by she had to wait but Mika sure was annoyed.

During her training of the Chidori, Team 7 went on more D rank missions after the Land of Waves and Mika swore that she could feel a killing intent by the way Sasuke and Naruto glared at each other.

Now they were currently walking back into the gates from their D rank mission and Naruto looked angrier than ever.

Sasuke just had to make it worse, "If you're so tired of being outdone by me all of the time why don't you just get better than me?"

Mika quickly caught Naruto before he did something stupid and attacked the Uchiha.

"Naruto that's enough." She whispered to him and her brother went slack as Sakura went over to flirt with Sasuke.

Mika smirked as she was quickly shot down.

However, she was surprised when Sasuke called her name, "Hey Mika! Why don't you come with me? I need to talk to you."

Naruto and Sakura glared at them as Mika hesitantly followed Sasuke.

'I wonder what he wants' Mika thought, 'He's never wanted to talk to me in private before.'

Once they were far enough, Sasuke nodded up to a tree and they jumped up on a branch together.

"Mind telling me what this is all about show-off?"

Sasuke smirked at her, "You're disappearing quite a lot now a days since the Land of Waves mission. You leave about the same time as Kakashi does. What's going on between you two?"

Mika cocked her head to the side, "What do you mean? I go of on my own."

"But I sense that you've gotten stronger." He stopped her, "Are you training privately with Master Kakashi?"

Mika looked away from him and sighed," Fine. Yes. He's been helping me master my elements."

"Elements?"

"I'm sure that if you asked him then he'd tell you himself. Stop bugging me and go to him." She was about to jump off the tree when Sasuke caught her wrist.

"Let go Uchiha." She growled but Sasuke kept his grip and glared at her.

"You will not surpass me. Remember, though, what I said back when we had to introduce each other to Kakashi? My dream is to one day kill the slaughterer of my clan and then restore my clan."

"So what? Does it look like I care? And besides, I've already surpassed you."

"You will one day."

The girl glared at the showoff with many mixes of emotion mostly anger.

Once again Mika was about to jump off when an incident happened in front of them and Mika could smell a few new scents.

"Hide" she warned Sasuke and they hid closer against the tree as Naruto, Konohamaru and his two little friends were running away from Sakura. Mika could have almost laughed until Konohamaru slammed into someone. Mika watched as the new ninja were presented.

'They smell like earth and wind.'

"Sand ninja" Okami clarified in her mind.

Mika watched as the sand ninja in black held up the little boy by his collar. Mika was angry that the boy would dare to do such a thing to the grandson of Lord Third. Although she didn't much care for the Hokage, he was someone that deserved respect as should his family be.

There was a girl with him as well and they smelt similar as if they were related. She wore light purple clothing and had a giant fan on her back while the boy had something else on his own back wrapped in tarp.

Mika sniffed more until she realized that her and Sasuke weren't the only ones in the tree. She looked over to see that there was another sand ninja with them but on the other side.

'He's quiet. If I couldn't have smelt him I would have never seen or noticed him'

"This one's dangerous, Mika" Okami told her.

The boy was the same age it seemed as they were, had short red hair and pale blue eyes. The only really peculiar about him though was that he wore a gourd on his back and he sported kanji on his forehead that read 'love'.

Mika stared at him not even paying attention to the fight below until the boy suddenly looked at her, noticing that he had been spotted.

Mika then felt Sasuke throw something towards the boy in the black, knocking Konohamaru out of his grasp.

Sasuke told him to get lost and the boy and him got in a small verbal skirmish. All this time Mika just stared into the red-haired boy's eyes. They were so full of hate and confusion.

'This kid's been through a lot'

"I don't like it."

'What do you mean?'

"He's a Jinchuriki. Like you, he holds a tailed beast."

'Really?! Cool!'

Okami was about to argue when Mika put her full attention towards the boy again who still just stared at her like she was nothing.

He didn't say anything to her but merely paid his attention back down below them, "Kankuro, don't!" he rasped.

Mika looked back down to notice that 'Kankuro', the boy in black, was about to start a physical fight.

"You're an embarrassment to our village" the red head spoke again once more in the same raspy and deep voice that sent shivers down Mika's spine.

"G-gaara" Kankuro stuttered.

"So that's your name" Mika smirked at him.

Gaara merely glanced at her while he spoke again to Kankuro, "You're so pathetic to lose control over yourself in a fight. Have you forgotten already why we came here in the first place?"

Mika glanced at Sasuke who had a shocked look on his face, 'Didn't even realize the kid was here the whole time. What a moron. Some Uchiha! Ha!'

Then the boy started to argue with him, "But they started it!"

"Shut up" Gaara interrupted, "Or I'll kill you."

Mika's eyes widened. She could sense that the boy was serious. Very serious.

Gaara looked back over to Mika and Sasuke, "Sorry about my 'friends'."

"You see now Mika? He may be a Jinchuriki like you but he's not like you. He's different."

'I see'

Mika narrowed her eyes at him as he disappeared in a cloud of sand and reappeared in front of his comrades.

"Let's go" he growled but before they could leave, Sakura just had to open her big mouth again.

"Wait!"

Gaara turned back around and glared at her, "Yes?"

"You're ninjas from the hidden sand village right? State your business here."

"Oh my God, Sakura we have to work on your people skills." Mika told her and she got the supposed reaction.

"What?!"

Mika smirked and turned back to the sand ninja, "What she means is why are a couple of cute guys and your sister doing in the Leaf without an escort? Perhaps I should come along with you to make sure you find where you're going?"

The sand kunoichi growled and stepped forward, "That won't be necessary! Didn't you idiots hear? We are here for the Chunin Exams!"

"Who are you?" Mika was curious who this obnoxious bitch was.

"The name's Temari."

Mika raised her chin in dominance and Naruto asked, "What are the Chunin Exams?"

Naruto had a confused look on his face but Mika shoved him, "I'll explain later, bro."

"Wait! You're related to that little punk?" Kankuro asked her.

"Yeah he's my brother! We're twins. What about you guys? I can smell that you all are related somehow."

Kankuro seemed impressed but the girl seemed disgusted, "Yeah we're all siblings. Wait, you said you could 'smell' us?"

Mika smirked at him, "Yeah, it's a special skill of mine but listen." She shifted closer to him, "I was serious about escorting. Then we could all get to know each other better." She winked and touched his chest with the tip of her finger.

Kankuro laughed, "You're cute, I'll give you that!"

"Thanks. I try." She passed him to walk up to Gaara until she was a couple of feet away from him, making Kankuro feel a little jealous.

"Come find me later, will ya? I promise you won't regret it." Mika knew that she was flirting outrageously with the two boys but she really didn't care. She wanted to know more about them and this was the easiest way besides stalking.

"I don't think so." Was Gaara's reply but Mika wasn't about to give up.

"Are you sure?" she came closer to him and Kankuro blanched. Mika smiled at him and Gaara glared at her.

"Yes."

"Alright!" Mika turned back to Kankuro, "Maybe we could hang out sometime."

Kankuro was about to touch her face to flirt when Sasuke grabbed his wrist and shoved him away.

"Touch her and it'll be the last thing you do, paint face."

"Cool it Uchiha. Never took you for the jealous type." Mika teased him.

"Will you guys just shut it?!" the girl yelled at them.

"Whatever." Mika suddenly found a change of attitude.

Sasuke backed off, dragging Mika with him back over to Naruto and Sakura much to Mika's aggravation, "What's your name again?"

Gaara noticed he was talking to him, "Gaara of the desert. And you two? What are your names?"

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha." He said coolly and Gaara looked over to Mika next.

"I'm Mika Uzumaki. And that blonde knucklehead over there is my brother, Naruto Uzumaki."

"Sis! I can introduce myself!"

"I don't care about him." Gaara growled.

"You will." Mika said to him causing the boy to narrow his eyes a little more before walking away with his siblings.

"You made a bad decision in making yourself known to him pup." Okami spoke to her.

"What's the worst that could happen?"

"What? What are you talking about Mika?"

Mika blushed. She didn't even realize that she had spoken out loud, "Nothing! Nothing, just talking to myself."

Okami chuckled in her head.

"Whatever, I'm out of here." Sasuke huffed and left the scene.

Mika smirked and ruffled Naruto's hair, "Hey! Quite it, sis!"

She laughed, "I'm gonna take a walk, okay bro?"

Naruto's blue eyes lit up in anger, "What?! You're always saying that you're walking around Konoha! You never stick around! Where are you going all the time, Mika?!"

Mika sighed, "I'll tell you later."

With that, Naruto's sister bounded off into the trees, leaving her brother behind and disappointed.

When she finally reached a safe distance, she stopped and leaped onto the ground again by a clearing.

She fell backwards and landed on her butt next to a tree. Carefully, she started to practice her Chidori to have better control of it. Kakashi said that she would only be able to use it twice in one battle but that didn't mean that she had to use it full blast. Mika discovered that she could create small pieces of lightning that would do some damage but not as great and devastating as the full version.

"Hey! Mika!"

A familiar voice called out to her and she twisted around to find Kiba was watching her.

He came closer until he was leaning on the tree looking down at her. His hoodie that he normally had on was gone and he was left in a training shirt and pants. The shirt showed off his muscular arms and without this hoodie on, she could see his full face.

Mika blushed as she noticed she was staring too much, "Yeah?"

"What are you doing?"

It was a stupid question obviously by Mika smiled, "I'm training. Kakashi taught me the Chidori so I'm practicing it."

"Oh really!? Cool! It looks like it's coming along great."

"Yeah."

There was silence between the two before Akamaru finally made his entrance, "Bark!"

"Oh hey little guy! Where did you come from?" she giggled as Akamaru jumped over to her and licked her face. Mika was forced to stop her Chidori and give the puppy attention.

"Akamaru! Leave her alone you little furball!" Kiba tried to get him off of her but Mika stopped him.

"No, it's okay really! I love dogs! I love you Akamaru!" she cooed to him and the puppy barked and wagged his tail happily.

Kiba couldn't help but to laugh. Mika stood up with the puppy in her arms and scratched behind his ears. The little pup didn't even stand a chance and his little foot started kicking rapidly.

"Wow, you're so good with dogs. Usually Akamaru keeps to himself but he seems to really like you, Mika."

Mika blushed at Kiba's words and handed Akamaru back to him, "Here you go. Take him before I steal him" she joked and Kiba took his puppy back.

"Hmph, I was wondering. . . that is. . . if you'd like to hang out, Mika?" Kiba usually wasn't this shy about asking something so simple but Mika smiled.

"Sure. I'm not doing anything today anyways. It's almost lunch time. Do you want to go get some Ichiraku Ramen with me?"

Kiba's face lit up, "Sure! Let's go!"

As they walked through town, Kiba tried to hold her hand but Mika smartly avoided the gesture by changing the subject. She liked Kiba, but not like that. Not yet anyways.

As soon as they finished eating at Ichiraku, they walked through town again and Mika as surprised to find the Sand Ninja eating lunch near the market stand where that old man had been so mean to her a couple of months ago. Surely he had let it go by now?

"Hey you want to get a sweet with me?" Mika asked Kiba and the canine lover nodded.

"Sure. Over there? Wait" he stopped her and saw the new ninja, "Are those sand ninja over there? They must be here for the Chunin exams. Kurenai told us about it. I don't think I want to go over there, Mika."

"Why?" Mika teased him, "You scared?"

The boy blushed, "What!? No! No way! Fine, let's go over there and get something. Happy?"

Mika smiled at him and punched his shoulder as they crossed over to the small bar near the sand ninja. Gaara was the first one to notice her and he stared at her ominously.

Then the old man near the bar that held the vegetable stand noticed her, "Hey! You little monster! What are you doing here?!"

Mika looked over at the man and glared at him, turning back over to Kiba, "Don't mind him."

Kiba glared at the older man as well, "Why's he calling you a monster?"

Mika was silent before the man came over and pushed her against the bar where they were getting their sweets. Mika flipped around, "What's your problem, old man?!"

The elder snarled at her, "You are my problem! Get out of here you bitch, no one wants you around!" He swatted her on the head and Kiba jumped up.

"Leave her alone!" Kiba defended her and Akamaru growled at him from on top of Kiba's head.

"She's the reason my son is dead!" the old man was making a scene and people started to watch the sight in curiosity, even the sand ninja watched the show.

"I never did anything to you or your son, Sir." She tried to talk but the man interrupted her.

"My son died that night the Fox and Wolf attacked! Your wolf demon killed my son!"

"Mika?" Kiba was confused.

Mika finally understood his anger, 'Sigh, I understand sir but that wasn't me. I'm not the Eleven-tails" she whispered to him so no one else would hear, "I'm just a girl that the wolf has been sealed inside of."

"No! You're a beast! Wolf! Witch!" the man kept yelling until a fist connected with his jaw. Mika turned to see that Kiba had punched the old man.

"That's no way to talk to a pretty girl, old man. Come on Mika. Let's go somewhere else. We're obviously not welcome here."

Mika glanced over at the Sand Ninja and saw that Gaara was still staring at her. He was curious.

Kankuro looked a little respectful while Temari just looked at her with pure hatred.

"How about you go without me? I'm gonna go talk to those ninja over there. Don't worry, I met them earlier. They aren't bad guys. See you around?"

Kiba was a little disappointed but sighed, "Alright."

Akamaru barked and Mika giggled at him, petting his good-bye. When Kiba walked off, Mika stared down at the old man who was knocked out unconscious but she paid him no mind and walked away over to the sand ninja.

"Hey, fancy meeting you guys again so soon, huh?"

Kankuro laughed, "Yeah, it's like it's fate. Was that your boyfriend that just left?"

"Nah but I just came to clarify some things. First off, this is the worst place ever to eat in Konoha. Their barbeque is just tasteless. Trust me, I know my meat."

"Didn't need to tell us that" Temari snarled as the bit into her tough and grisly barbeque meat.

"The best place to go to is the Ichiraku Ramen bar. It's amazing. Second of all, that was not my boyfriend. He's just a fellow Genin."

Kankuro snorted, "Does he know that?"

Mika ignored him, "How much did you hear of that over there?" she nodded over to the unconscious old man who was now being picked up by some people and taken care of.

"Everything" Gaara finally spoke.

"Sigh" Mika growled and sit in an empty chair with them, "Let me clear that up then so you don't get the wrong idea. Twelve years ago the Nine-tails and Eleven-tailed demons attacked Konoha. The Fourth Hokage sealed the fox demon in one newborn baby and he sealed the eleven tails wolf demon in me as a baby. That's what the old man was talking about."

Kankuro asked, "Well who did the Hokage seal the fox demon in?"

"None of your business." She snapped, "Now if you'll excuse me." Mika got up and was about to leave when she felt a hand grab her wrist.

It was Gaara's, "He called you a monster. However he was wrong. You're too weak to be a monster."

Mika wrenched her hand out of Gaara's grasp, "You don't know me." She was pissed now, "But I know you. We are the same."

Before she could give them any time to speak, Mika ran off. She didn't stop running until she reached her and Naruto's apartment. When she went in, she scurried off right into her small studio and grabbed her sketchbook pencils.

'He's so interesting. I have to draw what I remember of him. So frightening and yet it's exhilarating!'

"Be careful Mika" However Mika just ignored the wolf demon.

After around two hours, she had sketched Gaara multiple times, trying to get the look in his eyes just right. But whenever she finished his eyes they were always filled with hate.

She hadn't drawn for a while but she was good at it anyways. Drawing and Painting was an ability that you never lost. Once you learned, you never forgot how. She had many different sketches of different animals (mostly canines), landscapes and even people (Mostly of Naruto).

And now she had a new face to decorate her studio walls.

The face of Gaara.

She lay in her bed and wondered about the red-headed Jinchuriki. What had happened to him that all he saw was hate?

He had siblings like Mika had Naruto.

What was so different about them?

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