Lucy's P.O.V
After an hour since Naruto left I kept training. I decided to slow down and work on my agility without the transformation, so after awhile i jumped to the next branch. I must of used too much Chakra because the branch broke. I tried to jump to the next tree but I was out energy. I started to fall so I closed my eyes and started to brace myself to hit the ground. "So you are still at it I see." I heard a males voice. I opened my eyes to see kakashi looking down at me with a smile. Kakashi set me on the ground.
"Ah thanks.." I blushed. "Well can't let you get hurt before your first mission." He replied. Man even after all this time I still have this feeling for him. My heart is beating so fast with him being so close.. "Come on let's go and head home." He said while turning. Ah yeah sleep sounds good right now.. I started to turn but fell forward but Kakashi caught me again. "Here let me help you." He pulled my arm around his neck and placed his other hand on my hip. I looked down embarrassed. "Ok let's take it easy." He continued. When we finally made it town we were bomb barred by a lot of women. "Kakashi your back." "How's about we go out for dinner tonight." The women yelped around kakashi, it took them a moment to realize I was there.
They stares were like daggers. Uhh.. I didn't know he had fan girls.. I took my arm from and put some space through us, as my heart sunk. "Ah I'm sorry I wish I could but I have plans" Kakashi replied. My eyes widen he wants to be with them instead. I'm just a burden to him again. "Oh no its fine I have something I want to do ah.. I'll meet up with you later.. bye." I said while running away.. I ended up a bridge on the edge of town. I looked up at the sky. Maybe I should work on a way to get home... I decided to go back out and train again when I bumped into something hard.
Huh, I don't remember a post being here? I placed my hands right next to my face. Wait it's warm. I looked up to see a person with huge eyebrow and jet black hair. I pushed off his chest backing up saying "Oh I'm sorry!" I back up over the rail. The man caught me before I could fell into the river. "Man I'm just a clutz.." I smiled. "You seem familiar.." he replied. I looked at his face again... "Wait I know! Your kakashi's friend Gai!" I yelled. He set me down and said "Wait you know kakashi... hmm wait... no..." I laughed "I'm Meiko.. I was the one who called kakashi, kenshi.." I looked down embarrassed. "Oh yeah your the one we fought that gruesome battle of rock paper sisciors for." He replied while slammed his hands together. Huh the one they fought for?
Oh yeah I forgot kakashi saved our last few hours together for beating Gai in a rock paper sisciors game.. "Oh yeah I guess that was me." "You sure haven't changed your as beautiful as the day we met." "Ahhh thanks.." I smiled but I thought, yeah you haven't changed, still very direct. "Umm I spose I should get going.." I continued while rubbing the back of my head. "Oh well let me walk you home." He replied. Damn i can't go back to kakashi's apartment with him walking me that would cause more problems and if I go training he might stay out there and train also.. "Ahhh okay..." I said out loud.. but where am I going to go? Oh yeah I can go talk to Lady Tsunade quick.. but where would she be at this hour...
I just picked a direction and started to walk while Gai followed me. "So how have things been since I have been gone?" I asked. "Hmm well what you expect for Shinobi." He replied. "Oh you must have your own students like kakashi right?" I smiled back at him. "GAI SENSI!" I heard someone running towards us. "Here is one now." Gai smiled. The boy stopped right in front of me. "Introduced yourself lee." Gai told the boy who looked almost like Gai. "I am Lee. You have caught a good one sensi." Lee smiled and gave Gai a thumbs up. Huh wait.. "hi I am Meiko.. and me and Gai are just friends.. I guess we are more just acuatances since we only spoke one time about 16 years ago.." I replied but it didn't seem like either one heard what I said. I need to get out of here.
They looked deep into conversation. Okay good time to sneak away. I turned around a corner into a dark alley. I waited a second before running down the alley to make sure they were still talking. Once I started to run, I didn't really know where I was running but I didn't stop. That's when I realized I was in front of kakashi's apartment.. maybe I should grab my bag before I go back to the training grounds again. I walked up the stairs and put my hand on the door knob, but I couldn't turn it.. what if he had some other women in there... I would just cause problems.. maybe I will get it tomorrow... "Lucy" a voice whispered into my ear!
Kakashi's P.O.V
When I whispered Lucy's name into her ear, she basically jumped out of her own skin. She turned around surprised to see me. "Why did you do that you jerk!" She yelled at me while blushing. "Haha that was payback for making me run all over the village to find you." I laughed. I looked into her eyes. My heart skipped a beat.. I don't remember ever seeing her look this beautiful.. "Well I should be..." she started to speak but I interrupted her saying "No. Go inside. Or do you have another place to stay?" I asked. Her shoulder lowered and she wouldn't make eye contact with me.
"I don't want to be a burden..." she whispered. I sighed and opened the door. Once the door was opened i pushed her in while saying "I never said you were a burden so get in." She walked over to my desk and said "Fine if you say I can.." she looked down at the glass of water on the desk and smiled. "You know this isn't the only dimension I have been to.." she continued " the other was called edealos.. I met the alternative me haha we had the complete opposite personality." I probably had a questioning look on my face because what she said next "you must think this came out of no where huh... Haha I was just thinking out loud.."
"lucy.." I started to speak but she interrupted "you look a lot happier now.." she turned around and smiled at me. " What do you mean by that?" I asked. "Well your eyes don't seem so sad." She replied. "My eyes?" I asked. "Well since it's hard to read your expression through your mask I learned to read your eyes.. and when we first met they were filled with sorrow.." she replied. She learned to read my eyes.. my heart started to beat fast.. "we should get to bed... I got you a futon to sleep on." I said while walking to the closest to pull out the futons.
"Here let me help you." She said. I could barely sleep with all the thoughts going through my mind of how I could roll over and... come on I got to get my mind out of the gutter maybe I should stop reading jiriaya's books.
The morning of Lucy's first mission she woke me up at 6. I groaned and pulled the covers over my face. "We still have two hours before we have to meet Naruto and Sakura." I protested. "But I made breakfast and it will taste better warm." She puffed out her cheeks and pouted. "Fine" I groaned. "Yay" she smiled and clapped her hands. She was right it tasted way better hot. "Thanks for the meal it was delicious ." I said to her. Lucy's face turned red. Haha how cute..
we packed for the mission and by 7:10 am we were out of the house and heading to the main gate to meet up with Naruto and Sakura. Lucy had a spring to her step. She must really be excited to go on a mission. Haha she kind of reminds me of Naruto when he got excited for a mission. By 745 Sakura and Naruto were walking up to the gate. "Sensi your actually here early?" Naruto yelled in shock. Huh I guess I am usually the last one to arrive.
I debriefed them on the mission on hand. " Ok so we have to make it here before it gets dark." I finished. They all nodded in agreement. "Ok let's get going!" Lucy said with excitement. "Before we leave let's take a picture to remember Mieko's first mission." I said while pulling my camera out. We got to where we needed to be before dark. "Let's rest while we can." I said while leaning against a tree. "So Mieko where are you from?" Naruto asked. My eyes widen I forgot to come up with a cover story for her to tell them.. shit!
"I'm from a little island in the middle of the ocean called tenrou." She looked at Naruto and Sakura's expression and continued "you probably never heard of it cause we never traveled to the main land. The only reason I ended up in the village was because I drifted to the main land due to a storm.. I wondered around aimlessly for days not knowing where I was or even who I was. Until I meet kakashi I realised my name but everything else was still fuzzy. But with help from.. Kakashi and the rest of the people in the village I was able to get my memory back and went home.." she explained. Huh she came up with that story pretty fast but no time to ask her the moon was rising. It was a special moon that only show once every decade, it is called a blue moon. The reason how it got its name was pretty easy to tell because the moon was a light of blue in the sky. Once the moonlight hit Lucy, she froze still.
Lucy's P.O.V
What is this feeling? I feel like some thing is calling to me. "Listen to your instinct" a voice called out to me. Huh? Listen to my instinct? I felt something on my shoulder which snapped me out of my thought. "Are you ok?" Kakashi asked concerned about me. "Yeah I am fine... Hey look!" I pointed to the tree behind kakashi. When the moonlight hit the tree a door appeared. "Okay you guys let's do this. Don't forget to stay close we don't know if there is a trap inside." Kakashi explained. We went inside to find a big empty room with nothing inside besides a lot of writing. I looked closely to the writing. Wait this is ancient writing from home... "I wonder what this says. Do you know sensi?." Sakura questioned.
I read a few sentences. "No I have never seen this kind of writing before." Kakashi answered. What! This can't be.. I looked over at Naruto. "What's up Mieko?" Naruto questioned. "Oh um well maybe we should take some pictures so I can translate this later.." I replied while focusing on the writing again. "Wait you can read this?" Kakashi asked. I nodded while taking pictures. "What does it say?" Sakura and Naruto asked. I finished taking pictures and put my hand on on each of the words on the wall. "It talks about the 88 heavenly bodies.." I replied. "The what?" Naruto asked confused. I walked over to the other side of the room, I heard a click when I stepped on one of the bricks. Shit. I felt the floor underneath me disappear but for some reason I wasn't worried I was going to get hurt but this is the place where we need to go.
I felt something grab my hands before I fully fell down. I looked up to see Kakashi and Naruto both grabbed my hands to keep me from falling. I know! "Kakashi let go of my hand so I can grab my whip!" I commanded. His eyes seemed hesitant. "Trust me!" I smiled. Kakashi let go of my hand and I quickly grabbed my whip that Virgo gave me. "Ok Naruto let go in the count of three!" I told him. "No you will fall of I do!" He protested. "I'll be fine I got a plan." I replied.
"One! Two! Three!" I counted out. I felt the warmth of Naruto's hand leave mine. I focused my energy to the whip and swung it to capture a part of the ceiling. Once it wrapped tight, I started to propel myself down the wall. Once I hit the ground I called up to the other "ok grab the whip and climb down!" Once every one was down, Naruto and Sakura got in my face asking about my whip. I guess it is different since it's blue with stars and stuffor. "Come on you two we have a mission to do!" Kakashi scolded them. Whew I was saved. We found the treasure but there was more writing. I knelt down to read it. That's when Naruto grabbed the treasure off the pedestal. Shit! "So where are the other two?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi pulled out his map and pointed to where we needed to go. "We won't have enough time if we don't split up." I said out loud. "Huh what do you mean Mieko?" Sakura asked. I pointed to the timer on the wall. "Once the timer runs out the temples will disappear.. and so we only have anot hour to get both treasures to complete our mission." I explained. "If that's what it says Naruto and.." I interrupted kakashi by pulling Naruto close to me while saying "me and Naruto will go to this on and you and Sakura go to this one.. and we will meet up here." I circled it on the map. I could tell by the look kakashi was giving me that he was going to shoot down my plan, but his eyes softened and he replied "ok." My eyes widen, he trust me! I never thought I'd see the day where he would trust me! Sakura and Naruto both were shocked too.
"But sensi?" Sakura was about to ask why when Kakashi got up and said "can I have a word with you Mieko?" I stood up and walked over to him. "Are you sure about this?" He whispered to me. "Yes.. if anything happens I will send one of my spirits to find you.. and you can send one of your ninja hounds to us if something happens on your end." I replied. "Okay I trust you will protect Naruto for me. So we will see each other soon." Kakashi gave a heartfelt smile. I could feel my heart jump a beat.
sorry it took so long to post this chapter! But since it did take me so long I will post another chapter Thursday or Friday this week and then hopefully post one or more chapters a week. If you like the story so far please leave a comment! And if you don't like please comment on what I could do to improve it.! Thanks! ^^,