Still dreaming.
Bold sentences is Kimi-mai and Italicized sentences are Emiko's thoughts.
((Emiko 8 yrs. Old…Yuuki 9 yrs old….. Kakashi 11 yrs old… Itachi 12 yrs old))
"WHAT! with who?"
with a small smile she said "Jiraiya"
I breathed deep through my nose, I couldn't believe my mom was going to let me do this.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Chapter 3: I'm Dead
Early morning
huff huff I couldn't catch my breath.
"What, tired already?" He asked me jokingly. Damn this girl is fast. And she's also a fast learner.
"Hell no. I'm not tired." I told Jiraiya.
"Good" he replied "because when I'm done with you Tsunade is up next, and lemme tell you something, what are you doing saying 'hell', your eight you can't say that!"
Dodging a shuriken he threw at me I laughed and said, "Well, I'm kinda mature for my age. So I don't think it matters."
"Yeah right. Well to tell you the truth I don't care what you say as long as you don't cuss me out."
"Yeah, yeah" I replied, making 5 extra shadow clones.
Our battle continued for another 20 minutes when I felt her chakra. It was like fire but it felt calm and reassuring. She was probably trying not to scare me. Again.
Continue your battle she told me pretend I'm not even here.
HAHA. Kinda hard to do with your talking to me.
Concentrate. Continue your training while we talk.
Well, um... what do you want to talk about?
I hid behind a tree while I caught my breath. I could hear Jiraiya was on the other side of the tree so I decided to use some of my genjutsu.
Well, first off. What is your name ? She asked me, with a curious light in her voice.
Your in my head and you don't even know my name? How is that? I asked her while I tricked Jiraiya with some hallucinations.
Look, I've been locked up inside you, actually kinda locked up. Lets just say I chose you but you know during the time that I've been locked up I couldn't communicate with you or anything. At least up until now that your chakra is strong enough to sustain me out of my locked up place. And you still haven't answered my question.
My name is Emiko. What's yours?
Emiko. Doesn't that mean "Blessed beautiful child"? huh. Nice name but mine is way better. You know you should seriously consider changin' you name later on in life.
You still haven't answered my question.
My name is Kimi-mai.
And what does it mean?
Kimi means "She who is without equal" and Mai means "Brightness" You know what I noticed... our names go good together. And you wanna know something else I noticed?
What did you notice?
That your sleeping.
"What!" I shouted, bolting up from my sleeping position next to Jiraya who was drinking tea next to the tree. "Hey! Your up. Its almost time for your little meeting with Tsunade. Are you tired?" he asked me.
"Umm. No. um. How long have I been sleeping and where do I meet Grandma Tsunade?" He chuckled and told me that "You've been asleep for like ten minutes... Anyways if you call Tsunade 'Grandma' while you train, she's going to go extra hard on you."
I shrugged "I don't care." I told him.
"Well, its a good thing your father is training you after Tsunade, that gives her enough reason not to kill you." He told me in a serious tone while he was looking at some birds.
He got up and started walking away when he talked to me over his shoulder. "I gotta go do some research for my book, just go up to the mountains and she'll be waiting for you there. I'll see you later, that is... if you don't die." I rolled my eyes and yelled "Shut Up!"
Noon
I was walking up the mountain thinking when I was going to hear her voice again when I saw Kakashi with my dad.
"Hey." Kakashi called to me. ''Where are you going?"
"I have to go meet Grandma Tsunade." I told him.
My dad walked up to us and smiled at me. "When your done with Tsunade meet me at the lake next to the bridge."
"Okay." I told him.
Kakashi then asked me if I could train with him, Yuuki and Itachi. "I would lo-"
"No. " My father cut me off, "She's only going to train with us." He said firmly, staring straight at me.
Kakashi looked confused, "Why?" he asked. Dad kept staring at me while he answered Kakashi simply by saying that I have to go through "special training"
My dad looked at me then, silently ordering me to leave. I looked at Kakashi and tried my best to hide my sadness, but of course he wouldn't be fooled, "Meet me at our Sakura tree tomorrow morning." I simply told him. He probably understood it was something important because he simply nodded.
I looked to my dad, "I'll see you later, Dad." He nodded his head and turned to Kakashi, probably to resume whatever they were doing before I interrupted them.
I kept running up the mountain silently praying that this "training session" wouldn't kill me.
I passed the big trees and tall ferns. I stopped for a moment and looked up at the sky, searching for clouds. One of my many hobbies: looking up at the sky and just thinking and relaxing.
"Hey! You little brat! What's taking you forever?" I heard Tsunade call out to me. I looked up to the right side of the little path up the mountain and she was sitting on a tree branch holding a bottle of sake. The only thing that popped into my head was: I'm dead.
"You are 3 minutes late." she said, taking a swing of her bottle of sake. She then looked at me seriously and said, "Don't tell your dad I was drinking before I started training you."
I nodded my head."What? No Grandma today?" She asked me raining an eyebrow."Well since your in no mood to talk, I guess I'll start off by telling you that I'm not going to train you, just going to tell what I'm going to teach you. Hopefully you'll perfect it over the years."
This certainly got my attention I looked around and sat down on a rock while she jumped down from the tree and landed straight in front of me. "So, you don't want to hit me?" I asked hesitantly. She laughed and said, "You know what, sometimes I really want to hit you but to tell you the truth I kinda like you."
"You like me?" I asked, disbelief in my voice. "Yeah, your alright." She sat down under the tree in the shade.
"So, Grandma, what is it that your going to teach me." She narrowed her eyes at the word Grandma but went on, "It's a chakra-storing seal called Souzou Saisei, you can make it a diamond on your forehead like mine of change the shape and put it anywhere in your body, but all in all, it serves it's purpose" She shrugged, closing her eyes, putting her head back
"What does it do?" I asked trying to sound indifferent but I was excited that I was going to learn a new jutsu.
She chuckled, looked a me and said, "No need to look excited" and I frowned she knew me too well. "Any ways this jutsu is really special and I'm warning you.." She looked at me straight in the eye "... don't use it unless you really need it and your in trouble. Okay?" I nodded my head. She kept staring at me and finally she leaned back against the tree, took another gulp of sake, and started telling me what this jutsu does.
"Souzou Saisei is a Ninjutsu technique, over time you will concentrate chakra to any spot on your body that takes the form of anything you want. The more chakra you store the bigger the seal. When you release the seal on the jutsu, the chakra disperses and stimulates the proteins of your body to increase the speed of cell division and reconstruction of cells. This allows you to recreate all organs and tissues. The technique itself does not regenerate the old cells, rather it hastens the creation of new ones through division."
"Wow." was all I could say. "That's one I'm going to teach you and another called Ranshinshou."
"What does that one do?" I asked curiously. "Ranshinshou is also Ninjutsu technique, and since you know some about medical stuff I guess this jutsu will work for you. Ranshinshou changes the chakra in your hand into electricity, you can create an electric field to disrupt your targets nervous system. Because the brain and body communicate using electrical impulses, you can use the field to disrupt your targets ability to move."
"Isn't that something like Kakashi's Chidori?" I asked her.
"Hell No! It's nothing like Kakashi's Chidori, Ranshinshou is more precise and direct."
She looked insulted so I decided best not to push the subject, especially since she was looking a bit drunk. "Okay this was fun, um.. when are you going to teach me?"
I asked her looking down on at the floor. "Well, Come back tomorrow early in the morning, before the sun comes up for a tattoo." She said with a smirk.
"What! Your giving me a tattoo! You can't do that I'm eight years old, my parents will kill me!"
"Don't be so stupid I know your mother would kill me, not you, if I ever tattooed you and it's a jutsu I'm sure you parents won't mind."
"Oh right." I said slowly. "hahaha" chuckling nervously. " Souzou Saisei" I was thinking on asking her if it will hurt but she would probably get pissed off. "um, will it hurt?"
She looked away and said, "The pain only lasts a couple minutes, you need to leave, it's time for you dad's training."
I got up off the rock and started walking away I heard her tell me over my shoulder to think of a symbol or something for the Souzou Saisei seal's form. I kept walking not looking back, thinking about what my dad will do to me.
Late Afternoon
I walked toward the bridge next to the lake. And finally making up my mind of the symbol I would want to have on me forever would be a dragon. I looked toward the sunset and I finally felt super tired. "Tired much?" came a playful voice behind me.
"Yes and it's all your fault and why can't I train with my friends? It's not fair."
"Look I'm sorry, but it's not because I want you to be unhappy, it's for their protection." He looked down at me and motioned for me to sit down at our bench. I walked over with him following. "So what your saying is that you think I would hurt people I care about?" I asked trying to keep the malice from my voice.
"It's just easier this way for all of you." He looked sad and I guess I could forgive .
"So are we going to train or what?" I asked exasperated that I didn't actually train it was just a work out session with Jiraiya and talking with Tsunade. I was ready to work on a new jutsu.
"No." He said.
"Then what are we going to do?"
"I'll just show you what I'm going to teach you and then we can go home."
"Jiraiya actually kinda trained me, Grandma drank sake and we talked and now you are going to just show me. I don't think this is gonna work out. I can't see myself getting stronger like this."
"Did you say Tsunade was drinking?" Narrowing his eyes at me.
"What! Oh no that's not what I meant."
"Yeah sure."
"Okay, whatever just forget I said that, just show me, so we can go home."
"Fine." He said getting up from the bench. He stood in front of me, like a teacher. "I'm going to teach you Rasengan."
"Really?" I asked excitedly and started jumping up and down, throwing myself on him. I felt his laugh before I could hear it. "Yeah, now sit down so I can tell you about it."
I sat down with probably the goofiest smile on my face. "Now" he started, "Rasengan is a technique for close combat. It's very powerful, so be careful when you use it."
I nodded my head, "When are you going to teach it to me?"
"Just listen and then I'll tell you what to do. These are the steps so please listen carefully, Emiko-chan." He probably thought I would space off as I usually do, but heck no I wasn't gonna do that. I really badly wanted to learn this one.
"You will have to successfully train to accomplish Rasengan and these are the tasks you have to achieve before you do so. The first step is learning how to burst a water balloon by spinning the water inside in multiple directions at once using only your chakra, which emphasizes second step is for you to burst a rubber ball, and since rubber is thicker and air is completely different from water, it forces the user to use denser chakra to break it. This step emphasizes third and final step is to combine both step one and two by spinning chakra inside a balloon without moving the balloon itself, emphasizing stability of the sphere shape" He looked at me then. "You got it?"
"Say that over again." I replied with a sheepish smile. He narrowed his eyes, "Are you serious?"
"It's cuz you talked to fast. and you used really big words." I replied trying to hide a frown. He rolled his eyes and bent down to pick me up and threw me over his shoulder.
"Hey! Dad. I can walk you know! And aren't you supposed to at least show me. Please." I heard him sigh, I knew he loved it when I said please. He put me down on the ground and told me to watch closely.
He put his hand at my eye level so I can see. He explained as he did.
"Concentrate your chakra to the palm of you hand." I nodded, intently looking at his hand.
" Then when you feel the chakra become dense, pull it out of your body, into the palm of your hand." I could see his hand was starting to glow a blue light. It started as a small ball.
"Make the ball by rotating your chakra in different directions, making it bigger as you add more chakra to get the size of the Rasengan you want." He had a perfect Rasengan, not too big and not too small.
"Can I touch it?" He laughed and asked, "Why do you always have the need to touch everything you see? That's not good you know, this Rasengan can blow your hand off."
"Yeah, but it's so pretty." He laughed again, "Come" he said starting to walk away, "Your mom, as beautiful as she is , she'll kill us if we don't make it to dinner again." I ran after him, all of a sudden very hungry.
So here it is. Finally;)
I (Zellie) wrote this chapter and I'll probably write the next one too. Lanae went to go see her grandma :(which means no internet): and she'll be back in the later you enjoyed this chapter and please review... Any questions? PM me :) I'd be happy to answer them.
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Zellie:)