Chapter 3: Play Time and Jutsu Tricks
A/N: Hey everyone! Here we are with the next installment to this wonderful side story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Final Fantasy 7. I do own Mikomi and Usagi though.
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Usagi Talking"
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After breakfast was done, Mikomi helped Tifa with the dishes.
"Thank you for the meal, Tifa-san. It was really good"
Tifa smiled at her.
"It was nothing. Thank you for helping me with the dishes. And call me Tifa"
Mikomi smiled at her as she dried off one of the dishes.
"She's really nice"
"Yeah, and she's an awesome cook. 'Burp' I've never been this full before"
Mikomi mentally sweat dropped at her inner demon.
"You're too much for me sometimes, Usagi"
She went back to drying dishes and talked with Tifa as she did.
Marlene came down a few minutes later dressed for the day. Denzel came down a few seconds later with a soccer ball in hand.
"Tifa, can we go play outside?"
Tifa nodded.
"Just stay out of trouble, ok?"
Denzel nodded and went outside.
Marlene went over to Mikomi and tugged on her pants.
"Do you want to play with me?"
Mikomi looked at her for a moment then at Tifa to see if it was alright.
The martial artist smiled and nodded.
"You go have fun"
Marlene cheered and pulled Mikomi outside.
"Come on! Let's go play jump rope!"
Mikomi almost tripped as the little girl tugged her outside.
"Wait! I need to get dressed first!"
After getting dressed in her normal clothing, Mikomi played jump rope with Marlene.
'I haven't done this since I was 5' she thought.
Marlene was counting how many times she could jump without tripping over the rope.
Yuffie was playing soccer with Denzel and she made a goal.
"She scores! The crowd goes wild!"
She made a victory cheer as she ran around.
Mikomi giggled as she watched the Wutai ninja run around. She reminded her of Naruto.
"36, 37, 38"
Marlene kept jumping without tripping over.
"Wow, Marlene. You're really good" Mikomi said.
She gave up jumping at around 12 jumps.
"You just suck at jump rope"
Marlene grinned at her.
"Thanks"
Barret and Cid came out to watch the kids play.
Yuffie made another goal and cheered again.
"Do you have to be so loud, Yuffie?" Cid asked.
"It's just a game"
Yuffie stuck her tongue at him.
"You're just jealous because you can't play as good as I can"
"Trust me; you don't want me to play. I'll just embarrass you by winning"
"Like you can beat me, old man"
A tick mark appeared on his forehead.
"Old man, you say?"
He stood up and put his cigarette out.
"That's it! You're on!"
He ran out and took the soccer ball.
"I'll show you how it's done!"
Mikomi and Marlene sat next to Barret as they watched Cid kick the ball away from Denzel and Yuffie.
The pilot was pretty good, considering his age.
Marlene sat in Barret's lap and had Mikomi sit next to them.
Mikomi nervously sat next to Barret and looked up at him.
It wasn't that she was afraid of him, she was just nervous about that gun arm of his.
Barret seemed to have noticed that and let out a loud laugh.
He patted her on the shoulder, and gave her a huge grin.
"Relax kiddo. I'm not going to shot you"
Marlene nodded.
"My daddy is really nice. He's like a giant teddy bear"
"As long as you don't hurt Marlene, I won't hurt you" Barret added.
"Why would I hurt a cute, little girl like her?" Mikomi asked.
Barret laughed again.
"You're alright, kiddo"
Mikomi gave him a nervous smile.
Cloud came out with a package in hand.
"You have another delivery to do?" Barret asked.
The blonde nodded and got on his bike.
"You just keep your spiky head safe"
Marlene waved to him.
"Bye, Cloud!"
Mikomi gave him a small smile.
"Be safe"
Cloud just looked at her for a moment. His face seemed to be blank. He gave her a nod and went off.
Mikomi sighed.
"I don't think he likes me"
"Don't be like that" Barret said.
"Cloud is always like that. Just give him some time to warm up to you"
Mikomi nodded dully.
"Ok"
"Aw man!"
They turned back to the game to see the ball was stuck on the roof.
"Way to go, Yuffie" Cid said sarcastically.
"I didn't do it on purpose!" she protested.
Denzel sighed.
"Now how are we going to get it?"
Mikomi stood up from where she was sitting and stood near them.
"I'll get it" she said.
Cid just looked at her.
"And how will you do that? You can't get up there without a ladder"
"I'll jump then"
"huh?"
She sent chakra to her feet and jumped into the air. She landed on the roof cat like and picked up the ball.
"That wasn't so bad" she thought.
"Yeah, but don't be a little show off about it" Usagi said.
Mikomi nodded and jumped off the roof to land right in front of her friends.
She handed the ball back to Denzel.
"Here you go"
The boy just had a stunned look upon his face as he took it back from her.
Cid and Yuffie wore the same expressions on their faces.
Mikomi looked at them confused.
"What?"
"How the hell did you do that?!" Cid cried.
Mikomi rubbed the back of her neck.
"I just did a chakra jump"
"Catra wha?" Yuffie asked.
"Chakra" Mikomi corrected her.
"It's basically a natural essence that ninja like myself use to perform techniques"
She summoned up her chakra and had the blue energy glow around her body for a moment.
"As long as I have Chakra, I can do just about anything"
"What exactly do you mean by anything?" Cid asked.
"I mean anything"
She sent chakra to her feet and walked up to the side of the bar and walked on it.
"I can walk on walls"
She walked under the porch.
"On ceilings"
She landed back on the ground and performed handsigns.
"I can breathe fire"
She performed the fireball jutsu and spewed fire from her mouth.
"I can make two of me"
She performed the shadow clone jutsu.
"Change my appearance"
She transformed her clone to look like Yuffie.
"I can do just about anything as long as I have chakra"
She dismissed the clone and looked at the others. She sweatdropped when they were giving her weird looks.
"I take it this world doesn't use chakra?"
"We've never even heard of it" Cid said. "Nor have we seen tricks like that either"
She laughed nervously.
"I guess I stick out then, huh?"
"Great, I'm a freak on this world too"
"Get used to it"
Denzel tugged on her pants.
"Can you do something else?"
Marlene ran up to her and tugged on her pants as well.
"Yeah! Can you do that fire trick again?"
She looked at the two kids.
"I thought you wanted to play soccer?"
"We can play soccer later. We want to see you do more tricks!"
Mikomi didn't know what to do.
"Usagi, what should I do?"
"You brought this upon yourself, you take care of it"
"Should I show them a few tricks?"
"If that will make them shut up, then fine. Just don't do any drastic moves or else you'll get hurt"
Mikomi gathered her chakra and performed a few handsigns.
Electricity covered her hand and formed into a type of whip.
"Lightning whip!"
She snapped her whip a few times to create an electric charge.
Denzel and Marlene were jumping as they watched.
Mikomi pulled out a few mini targets she kept in her weapon pouch and threw them into the air.
She snapped her whip at them and watched as the targets exploded. Every time she hit a target, it was like watching fireworks.
Yuffie was enjoying this too and kept encouraging her to continue with the kids.
Cid sat next to Barret and watched as their guests amazed the kids with her trick.
"Cloud found one strange girl" Barret said.
"Yep" Cid agreed.
They watched her fool around with the targets for a few more minutes before Mikomi felt drained from her chakra.
"Ok, that's enough for today"
The kids and Yuffie pouted when she put her whip away.
Mikomi staggered over to where Cid and Barret were and flopped down on the steps.
"I forgot how my lightning whip nearly drains my chakra"
"You just suck at chakra manipulation" Usagi said.
Mikomi was too tired to argue with her.
"You alright, kiddo?" Barret asked.
Mikomi gave him a weak smile.
"Yeah, I just used too much of my chakra"
Her eyes became a little droopy.
"I can't use a lot of my chakra or else I get really tired. If I use up all of my chakra, I'm as good as dead"
Yuffie gasped and ran up to her.
"I'm sorry, Ninja buddy!"
She pulled her into a giant bear hug and swung her around.
"I didn't know I was slowly killing you! What kind of person am I! I'm murderer and I didn't even know it!"
Mikomi's face went a little green as Yuffie kept swinging her.
"Yuffie, she's gonna throw up if you keep swinging her like that" Cid said.
Yuffie gasped again and set her on her feet.
"Now I almost made you sick! I'm a monster!"
"Oh yeah, she is definitely a Yuri clone" Yuri said.
Mikomi held back the urge to throw up as she regained her balance.
Yuffie was bawling as she rubbed her face against hers.
Mikomi managed to pull away from her and patted her shoulder.
"It's ok, Yuffie. I'll be fine. I just need to eat and have a good night's sleep and I'll be good as new"
Yuffie looked at her.
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
"Oh, it that case"
She pulled her back into the bar.
"Oi! Tifa! Mikomi needs something to eat!"
Tifa came into the room looking confused.
"Huh?"
Mikomi explained to her about chakra and what it does to her.
"Oh dear, I'll get you something really quick. Hang on"
Mikomi just sat in one of the booths in the bar and let her head hit the table.
Denzel and Marlene slowly came up to her.
"Um…Mikomi-Chan?"
Mikomi opened one of her tired eyes.
"Yeah?"
Marlene tugged at her dress.
"When you feel better…do you want to play again?"
Mikomi gave her a weak smile.
"Sure, why not?"
The little girl grinned and pulled Denzel outside to play.
Mikomi smiled a little and closed her eye again.
"Aw, is someone tired?"
"Shut up, Usagi"
"Hey, this is what you get for showing off your Justus. Now you must pay the consequences"
Mikomi didn't say anything and just went to sleep.
It was nice that she was able to play for once, but for now, she needed to take a nap.
She just hoped that she would have more fun when she woke up later.
A/N: I know it wasn't glamorous, but it's better than nothing.
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Ja ne