Chapter 4: The Princess of War Part 1

Natsuki P.o.v

Kakashi-sensei flashed the two bells in front of him and we all stood stiffly as, Team 7, waiting for him to tell us to go. Sakurai gulped as he glared at Kakashi-sensei carefully, examining his every movement. Saito did the same. I've done this test a lot, but I've never actually passed once, he was always on top of me, thrusting at my every movement no matter what I did.

"Ok…Start."

We all dispersed in seconds. Saito acts as an individual and hides separately while me and Sakurai lay in the bushes together. It was so quiet that I could the live beating of a heart.

*Ba-Dump! Ba-dump!*

It wasn't my heart though. I looked over, Sakurai blushed and tried to turn away to hide it.

"Sakurai-kun, whats wrong?" I whispered to him.

"Y-Your leg..It's on me (blushes redly)."

"(notices) Ah gomen Sakurai-kun ^^; (moves leg)"

His heart didn't stop though. Was he nervous? Was he scared? I doubt it. Sakurai is a strong person, he may be clumsy and shy sometimes but he's really brave. So what was causing his heartbeat exactly? I don't know.

"Natsuki, Behind you." At first I thought it was Sakurai who called me until I reached for his hand and it wasn't there.

Shaking, I turned around and my eyes widen. It was almost as if everything was in slow motion, All I could do was watch kakashi-sensei's fingers lift up his head to stare at me with his sharingan. It was a gist of the moment where your mind is there physically but disappears mentally. His eye spun and spun like a spiral and my eyes turned blank. I fell back as if I was shot and hit the ground. Don't get me wrong, I'm not usually this weak, but I should have concentrated more on the lesson more carefully.

What will Kakashi-sensei show me today?

Through genjutsu, he usually lets me see my childhood memories, the happy bits of course. But today was a little different. As a child, people wanted to lock me up for a few years so that I could control my chakra so that I would go wild. My dad absolutely hated the idea of locking me up so instead he decided to train me personally so that I could learn to not let the Kyuubi loose control.

What I saw was the day Sakurai and I met. Dad urged me to be friends with him because he knew Sasuke and Sakura so well. We were so young then, my eyes stood out a lot more then and so did Sakurai's pink hair. I hid behind kakashi-sensei, He told to just approach him causally. Well I wanted to at least but he flared his sharingan at me so I got a little nervous (starts sweating). Sasuke hits Sakurai, "Is that how you greet a girl?" Sasuke twitched angrily.

I've always thought of it as an arranged friendship of some sort, but ever since then we've always been so close. This is what kakashi-sensei showed me in the illusion.

I woke up lying on the ground as Kakashi-sensei satrea at me from above.

"How long were you planning to stay like that?" He mocked me.

"Meanie." I teased him.

Everything was fine and all until I looked up and saw him from a different perspective. Before I knew it I relised that I shouldn't be looking that way and turned away.

"What's wrong?" He asked me confused.

Must reply to him in a calm casual manner.

"Ahem* Coughs and blushes* Nothing at all Kakashi-sensei." That was the worst reply I have ever heard in my life.

"eh?" Kakashi-sensei isn't dense, he just likes to hide his thoughts by acting confused. And I get the feeling I just made the tension between us really awkward…

"So what were you and Sakurai doing in the bushes Natsuki?" Kakashi-sensei asked.

"(stands up) WE WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING!" I yelled at him, embarrassed.

"That's right sensei!" Sakurai snappd.

"Didn't look like that to me." Saito said.

"(both blush) WE WERE NOT!"

*A few minutes later*

"Sensei, I'm telling you we weren't doing anything!"

"Hmmm really?"

"Yes! It was only an accident-"

"Natsuki!" My dad ran down the streets directly to me.

"Dad? What is it?" He instantly grabs me and Kakashis' arm and pulls us off.

"I have a mission for you two." What already? =_=' I always get missions, why don't I ever get a break?

Dad gave us the information forms for our mission. We had to bring a princess under attack to her own country in the North-west safely and unharmed. According to the papers, she's about eighteen years old and is accompanied by a bodyguard who will be coming along with us.

We both waited for her in front of our village with Saito and Sakurai who will coming with us. The princess arrived with her bodyguard, she has a fringe like sakuras and long dark brown hair.

"You there (points to Natsuki)." The princess said.

"M-Me?"

"Yeah you, can you really call yourself a woman looking like that?" She was right, after training just today, my clothes were dirty and my hair was slightly messy. (In gloomy mood) If only dad hadn't given me a mission so suddenly. I feel so depressed at my feminity right now…Kakashi-sensei pats me on the head with his reassuring hand, it was a feeling like no other. It's not the same when dad does it to me, Kakashi-senseis hand just feels so alluring to me. Sakurai wanted to start an argument with her but I stopped him.

"Are you princess Haruka Nitami?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes she is." The bodyguard answered in her place, he had a scar across the face and wore a Yakuta which made him look like a samurai with the sword and all. His hair was really spikey and was dark blue.

"Let's get going already." Saito insisted.

"Don't tell me you're expecting me to walk there?" Haruka snapped at saito.

"Quite a delicate name to go with an ignorant person." Saito snapped back. "It's almost as if that name was-"

"Saito!" Kakashi-sensei yelled at him. Saito stayed quiet and pouted. "Sorry, Haruka is it? I'll carry you."

Kakashi-sensei is carrying Haruka?! I tightened my chest. I've never seen him carry another girl before except for me…Well it shouldn't be so hard, (brimming with confidence) I can handle this!

*Later*

(depressed)…It's not as easy as I'd thought it would be, watching the person you love carry another woman is not that easy to endure. And also…

"(looks at Haruka)."

"Mhmmm? (smirks and giggles evilly) (Wrap hands gently around kakashi's chest and tightens legs around his waist)"

"(angry mark appears)" Tch. Really this girl really pisses me off so much right now…

"Oi Natsuki!"-Saito

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?!"

"(Flinches so much that he jumped back completely)" Ah…(puts hand on mouth) I yelled at him, I've never done that to Saito before…He's usually so calm and cool but he looks as if he just survived a heart attack…I glare and Sakurai and he starts sweating a lot, he doesn't want to get yelled at so he puts his head down and walks off silently. Urgh…This jealousy is really getting to my head, I can't stand it. It's like trying to endure a volcano erupting in your body.

*At night*

Finally we get to rest! (giggles quietly) I usually always sleep with Kakashi-sensei on missions ^u^

Well at least I was planning to anyway, Kakashi-sensei has to share a room with Aoki (the bodyguard's name) and I have to sleep with Haruka =_=.

"(lies down) Why do I have to share a room with you anyway? I want to sleep with Aoki and Kakashi."

"(sweatdrops appears) What are you? A prostitute?" She ignored my after comment and turned around. I turned off the lights and tried to sleep.

Kakashi P.o.v

I sat outside in front of the fire while Aoki drank some saki beside me.

"So how old are you Aoki?" I asked, trying to stir up the night.

"It's rude to ask for ones age but I'm 28."

"Mhmm…I guess we have something in common then."

"Don't be silly, my only intention is to protect the girl, not molest her."

"=.\\ Please Don't say it like that, Aoki." This guy...He can really tell everything that we hide just by meeting us.

"(drinks saki) Do you find our princess annoying?"

"Well, if I said that I'm completely fine with it then I'd be lying; I mean she does seem to be bothering my beloved student afterall."

"(sweatdrop appears) Then why don't you stop her?"

"Because it's fun to watch ^.^"

"You sadist…About her personality, just ignore it, that kid's been through a lot since she was a child." He spins the cup of saki around in a spiral cautiously, not losing a single drop of alcohol.

"What do you mean?"

"As she was a child, her mother gave her life away saving the village, opposing the royal rule of keeping the Queen safe no matter the cost. She never lost track of that memory and strictly followed the rules everyday; Always believing that her mother was no more then a person not fit to be queen." My eyes widen.

This girl…She's just like me.

To be continued (part 2) ^w^