"Talking"

"Thoughts" and sound effects

"Telepathic speech"

PREVIOUSLY:

Yuyake paused as she heard a movement "He's coming! I-I have to-" She looked to Naruto and she briefly remembered when he froze up and her legs propelled her forward towards him. "Look out!," Kakashi shouted to his team. "NARUTO GET DOWN!" Naruto looked up "Who said-" He was cut off as Yuyake tackled him to the ground.

Whoarh!

WHoarh!

WHOArh!

WHOARH!

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Chapter 6: The Oaf that was broken

Clhing!

A large sword implanted into the course bark of a tree. It was at least 6ft long and the blade was slender, 1ft wide, and took up 4 of the 6ft of the entire stucture. Yuyake's eyes went from the tip to the man standing on its handle. He was tall and muscular and- "He dresses bad ass too! Seriously! What's up with the bad guys looking awesome?!" Yuyake mentioned in her head. The man had greyish skin of with exposed torso and baggy white and black were on his calves and he had pants, a lash of material over his chest, probably to store his weapon. His messy hair of dark spikes was hope to a crooked head bang, and his face was covered from the nose down in bandages.

Yuyake got more serious, "This is the man I sensed…." She could still feel his brainwaves… they were brutal. Everyone stood to their feet by now, but Naruto was so confused. "Kakashi sensei, did you hear that?" he asked, was that some attack from the enemy? Kakashi felt it was worth addressing: "Hear what?" though he kept his eyes on the attacker. "A-a girl's voice! I-it was in my head, it was young, it told me, to get down" Naruto relayed. Kakashi pondered and his Silence annoyed the genin "Well?" There was a chuckle, "You're lucky, you were the first person to hear your teammate speak," Kakashi informed him.

Naruto's eyes widened. He what? "It's me, Yuyake…" Naruto jumped and turned to look back at the black haired girl who waved. "I can talk now!" She beamed, though it dwindled when she felt her chakra part in waves. Naruto "But your lips didn't move…." He was soooo confused. Yuyake seemed to giggle, and simply waved the subject off for later. Naruto nodded, turning back to the man.

He wouldn't let Sasuke show him up this time. "Well, well, if it isn't Zabuza Momochi, rogue ninja from the village hidden in the mist," Kakashi spoke to the attacking man. A boy ready to prove himself ran toward Zabuza only to have a hand stop him. "You're in the way, get back," Kakashi warned, Naruto was nowhere near ready for this. "But why?" The blonde frowned, was everyone determined to get in his way of glory? "He's nothing like those other ninja; he's in a whole other league. If he's our opponent, I'll need this," The grey haired Jonin reached for his head band. The Genin watched with shock, they had assumed that he only had the one eye, but there was something behind his headband?

"This could be treacherous…" Kakashi was wary of Zabuza, after what he'd done…. How could he not? "Kakashi of the Sharingan eye…. Did I get that right?" Zabuza's voice sent chills through Yuyake. "It's too bad, huh, but you'll have to hand over the old man," He twisted his waist to survey the trash at his feet. "What… did he say Sharingan?! How could Kakashi-sensei get his hands on one of those? The Uchiha clan is..." Yuyake tried to formulate a plan "I don't think I'm ready for this guy…. But We have to protect that bridge builder…." She felt like all the formations they knew were useless here, well she knew a few… but only Bokuso-chi could complete them properly…Elite ones.

"Now quick! Monji formation, Protect the bridge builder, and stay out of this fight" Kakashi Ordered. The smind speaker nodded, that one might actually work, "I taught you teamwork, now it's time you use it," finally he pulled his headband away from his eye and Yuyake almost jumped at the sight of the red pupil with the 3 commas surrounding the iris. So he really did have a Sharingan…. "I'm ready," Kakashi greeted his opponent.

"Well, looks like I get to see the Sharingan in action, this, is an honor." Zabuza turned completely, still on his sword's thin handle. He was ready too. "Everyone keeps saying Sharingan, Sharingan! Will someone please tell me what Sharingan is!?"

"Sharingan, it's a rare power that resides in the eyes, the user of this visual Jutsu, or Doujutsu, can instantly see and copy any Genjutsu, Taijutsu, or Ninjutsu and reflect it back at the attacker. Sharingan is a rare type of Doujutsu, however, there's much more to it than that." Sasuke answered the cry of oblivion. "You got it right boy, but you've only scratched the surface," Zabuza praised. The boy was sharp, he'd give him that, "Sharingan can analyze an opponent's attack, then copy it to the smallest detail.

Yuyake watched as the air around them thickened to a dense mist. "What's going on?" She watched her Teammates disappear before her. Quickly she closed her eyes and let their familiar frequencies enter her conscious. They hadn't moved. "As for you Jonin, in the assassination unit of the hidden mist, we had a standing order to destroy you on sight. Your profile is in our bingo books, they call you the man who's copied over a thousand Jutsu…Kakashi, the copy ninja," Zabuza's voice pierced through the fog.

"Enough talking, I need to exterminate the old man, now," The forgotten Tazuna tensed at this statement. It was then the Genin remembered their sensei's orders, they all took out a kunai and moved to cover the client. Yuyake on the builder's right, Naruto the left, Sasuke alert and in the middle. They were ready.

Zabuza had moved to be in a crouching position as he regarded his new target. "So I'll have to kill you first, aye Kakashi?" Zabuza was elated, he was hoping for a good fight, sure the pay was nice, but the fights were really what he lived for. "So be it," In a flash, Zabuza used his foot to free his Sword and had disappeared into the mist.

Then Yuyake saw him "He's over there! Standing on the water!" Naruto called. The mist shinobi stood with one arm up and two fingers pointing and his other hand in the same position at his chest, "Ninja art, Hidden mist Jutsu!" Zabuza Shouted to the heavens. Yuyake dug into her years of Bokuso-chi studies for information on the jutsu. She didn't need to dig far, it was obvious when the vapor further multiplied. Dang she couldn't even see the bridge builder.

Kakashi's chakra seemed to eat the mist about them hungrily. The brisk breeze it thrashed filled Yuyake's lungs with oxygen and her blood with excitement. Oh what a rush, reminded her of training with mom. But apparently she was the only one feeling nastalgic. A glance to Sasuke and he seemed like there was a building pressure in his chest, so unbearable that he was ready to self relieve with a kunai through his flesh.

A cat-ish smile curled on her lips. "What's wrong, Uchiha? A little chakra got you shaking in your ninja gear?" The way the words licked at his head like a teasing Cheshire disgusted the boy and snapped him out his stupor. "Shut it, Bokuso-chi," Their jonin gave a furtive smile, nice of her to help a teammate. Still, he gave them all a promise of protection.

"Don't be so sure," the rumble snapped the promise with its proximity. Instantly, Naruto and Sasuke cleared while Yuyake found her kunai in the man's shoulder. When she noticed her folly, the heiress jumped out the way like her teammates. When she turned, Kakashi had hold of the weapon she'd left in the water clone, the switch happening so fast it looked like Kakashi had stabbed him. Yuyake sighed. Why was she so stupid? she had been doing so well with covering up for years, then, her first mission, she almost blew it.

Maybe she should just be quiet for the rest of the mission? The idea was kicked out her head with kakashi as he flew in air, then it was drowned when her sensei was captured in a water prison. "Why is it, that now in days," she stepped forward, spinning a kunai on her index finger "I just can't seem to keep myself back?" Her hands clutched into fists. Sitting out this fight could put her team and her life in so much peril... But going at it strong could put her entire family at risk...

As an heiress, she needed to put her clan first.

She needed to be out this battle... else she'd blow it. She took the kunai and charged, using all her training to do everything wrong. A trip got her a punch in the face, a faulty swing almost got her a broken neck, and a messy dive got her what she wanted: her head slammed into tree and her world painted black.

"Yuyake!" her team mates shifted focus.

Those fading word put Yuya under a heavy, dark sleep.

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"I'm up" Yuyake snapped awake. Looking around, she saw said grey haired male was actually free. "whoa..." She scrambled up and scurried over to Sasuke as Naruto was in the water, excited, "Did you guys do that!?" she asked the nearly submerged comrade. A red powdered his cheeks, "Yeah, it was all, my idea" the smug in his voice wasn't missed. Tazuna huffed, "It was a fluke," he insisted. Sasuke nodded in agreement as he moved to guard the old man, Yuyake following suit.

Then the real fight began.

The elixir of life became the barer of death, and protectors of villages became destroyers of protectors. Together they riled tides above the heads of the children, almost sweeping the girl away, if not for her male anchor. It was a trial where the judge was blood, the jury was skill, and the only verdicts were life or death.

With every move, Kakashi grew closer to vowing his opponent's expiration. Just when it seemed like Zabuza was to be married to his end, an objection occurred. Another voice entered and Yuyake was sure it was a boy about her age. He was dressed more humbly in orange and green draping cloths and a mask she was sure belonged to the hidden mist's anbu. He paralyzed Zabuza with needles in the neck, but that's all the guy did. Paralyze him, Zabuza still had those horrid brainwaves but the guy said he killed him. he grabbed the body and Yuyake ran forward, "He's lying!" she spoke to Kakashi. but the boy shot senbon at her feet and was gone.

Kakashi turned to his student. "I had a feeling he was... but we have other matters to attend to," there was something wrong, it seemed like he was more so addressing the boys, ignoring the Bokuso-chi altogether. Yuyake noticed, "Kakashi sensei...?" brown shoulders slumped and moisture from the fog roll away from her, like they're disappointed.

Then Kakashi crumbled to the ground.

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Yuyake entered the home of the bridge builder, "We need help! please!" she called to those of the household. In the distance, there was a breaking of glass. Tazuna called out and this time, they were greeted by his daughter. "Oh, it's you! I heard this-" "Our sensei needs help!" Naruto spouted. It took a second, but she noticed the man in question. When he's settled, The daughter turned to her father, "I heard this small child's voice in my head right before you spoke earlier. "Oh that was me!" Yuyake tugged on her skirt as punctuation and it was like she saw a mouse. "O...oh..." Yuyake pulled her hand into her chest, cradling it like it'd been burned. "I... I can stop..." she offered, noticing the discomfort. The the dark haired woman leaned over to regard the girl. It looked like her face had fallen lower than her spirits.

"I'm sorry, I just, I don't know if I can deal with a voice that's not mine popping up randomly in my thoughts. I hope you understand," Yuyake nodded. Naruto didn't like the fact she was cutting off Yuya's tongue, but he could understand her discomfort with it. Especially since he wasn't sure if Yuyake could hear his thoughts when she talked to him...

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Yuyake brought a cup of water to her teacher's bedside, on her way, she attracted Sasuke and Naruto. When they entered the room, they were surprised to see the man of the hour awake. She floated to his side, her hair lingering in her wake. Naruto spoke next, "Alright! The sensei is up," The grey haired man erased the brown-skinned girl from his sight. "I over did my sharingan," was all he said. As he continued to speak to all but her, she took it as her dismissal. Yuyake set the water down and got up, leaving the room. The only one who seemed to notice the treatment was Sasuke, but deemed it insignificant.

Meanwhile, Yuyake was outside. "Yuyake?" She jumped. That voice. She looked around "Up" the voice commanded. There, in the trees was an anbu in tight black clothes, it was a girl, with a mask of a cat, hair short and red.

The mute kunoichi stood to her feet and glanced around before throwing herself in the lush tree with the ninja. "Of all the times to run into my sister, it would be on my first mission" the aunbu gasped at the genin, "Oh my gosh you're talking!" Yuyake smiled and nodded, "When did this happen?" "Like a couple days ago?" the younger girl deemed with pride. "That means you couldn't have been training for more than a month... Wow..." Yes! She had impressed her sister, though she realized she didn't have the chakra control to do it often. Unlike herself, the sister's words were actually aloud. You see if one has the gift, there are expected abilities, a general list: being able to mind scramble with chakra, heal, talk, etc. The truly gift tend to take a particular aspect to an extreme. Her sister was able to convert her brainwaves to audio waves. Some called it 'universal brain wave frequency' making her words hear-able, when she chose.

"What are you doing here?!" Yuyake finally inquired when it seemed her sister wasn't going to volunteer. At this, her sister shifted, "You should know I can't really tell you..." she was hiding something. "Akane?" Said red head tensed, "Trust me I want to tell you. I said no" she was switching between both; she's being watched... "They would figure it out if i told. Telling you about any of my missions is forbidden. Just please, watch your back, stay alert, and keep your head down. I've to go, love you sis," the two share a parting hug, but the peek it gave into the worry deep with Akane was unsettling to Yuyake. "Our cousin is trying to help, but he's kicking up dirt in the process and its about get in your face," she added and she was gone. Yuyake could still feel the warmth of her sister's body on the insides of her arms.

"Yuyake! Yuyake come on! Kakashi- sensei is about to train us!" Those injuries didn't stop him from teaching the three how to climb a tree with concentrated Chakra? After demonstrating, the Jonin watched his pupil atempt and watched 2 fail: Sasuke and Naruto.

Yuyake took some steps back and inhale a large gulp. Her feet carried her up the rough bark as if it were her god-given right. she decided to show off a little since she usually doesn't get to. She front flipped onto a branch and backflipped onto another before she snapped the branch in a pounce, 25 feet up she slammed her feet back on the forgiving trunk and sprinted to the top. Tossing herself to sit on the sturdiest branch she could find up there, she waved at those below who had shrunken back with distance.

"Whoop!" Yuyake threw a peace sign. Sasuke grumbled a "Show-off!" but the victor merely shrugged. She stood on her branch of sucess only for it to snap beneath her ego.

Kakashi watched as she landed upon the grass with the grace most ninjas possess, then shifted his attention to his other pupil. It's not long before the heiress and the adult orphan head inside to leave the two training.

Over all, it was a pretty mundane time, Naruto and Sasuke were in competition, and furtively they included the brown-skinned girl. Naruto gave some advice to the grouchy grandson about heros. Yuyake was caught staring out the window and an Uchiha turned to her, "What?" His voice made her jump; he seemed to talk so little for someone who could do it freely. So sometimes his voice was a shock to her.

She just frowned into the night. Sasuke took a look out the window, not really searching for anything, still he turned to her, "It was probably an animal," Yuyake looked at him like that was the dumbest thing he'd ever said; Then she threw her hands up and walked away, "This is why you're an Uchiha" she went out the front door. She knew it wasn't very safe to go out with rogue ninja scurrying about like mice, but she just didn't want to stay inside.

And that's how the week pasted, with Naruto and Sasuke training, Yuyake pondering, and Kakashi ignoring her. The last night was when she'd had enough. In the dead of night, she approached the Copy ninja. "Why are you ignoring me? I know you hear me when I speak to you" she frowned.

They were in the backyard, Moonlight watching the scene unfold. Kakashi turned his back away from the girl and she was punished with the cold stare of a man who had seen death in the face and was furious the being hadn't come for him yet. The girl shrunk back. "I try to limit my contact to my team and those involved in my mission." was what he said. a rock fell in her throat. "But.. I'm part of the team and the mission..." She was looked down upon like she was the man who slaughtered her entire class for graduation. "You threw yourself at Zabuza like an idiot, making mistakes even Naruto wouldn't when he isn't serious. You purposely knocked yourself out of the fight," he stated. when the mute didn't respond, he continued. "One of your teammates could have died from such a reckless action, but you felt it more important to play the idiotic newbie, if you're so desperate to be weak, why become strong in the first place?" his hands were in his pockets but it didn't hide that they were clamped into tight fists.

"I have to think of my people! I don't want them dead or missing because I wasn't willing to hold back in a fight I'm sure is going to end in a survivor..." her hair suddenly elongated and gained defined waves, when her eyes relinquished the ground from their hard, scared gaze, they no longer look like a day's end. Instead they faded from purple to blue. She body developed to that of a teen and Kakashi's regressed to a younger age. He was back in his aubu days and in a forest The grey haired anbu looked about himself where bodies of allies and enemies mixed. If she had just fought seriously...

"No, What's wrong with you? You killed them and you could have killed me! You almost got yourself killed too," she stepped back "W-what? I... I meant to... to help, It seemed like the greater good! My people... I-I'm an heiress..." she shoulder slumped, letting her guilt roll off her in waves. "As far as I'm concerned, you're off the team as soon as we get back,"

Those eyes, the eyes he'd fallen in love with; they looked at him: briliant with tears and dull with sadness. "No! Kakashi! I can do it, I can fight seriously, I can stop abandoning my team, please..." his eyes narrowed. "No, good luck on your new team, Yoru," In that instant, the woman of his dreams reverted back to his pupil. Yuyake's eyes widened, "My... my mother betrayed you the same way..." she concluded. Kakashi didn't respond, only looked down at her like a corpse.

It... really was over after this mission...

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They, Sasuke, Yuyake, Tazuna and Kakashi, were on the bridge-in-progress when they were next attacked by Zabuza and his aparent lackey. As it was before, Kakashi ordered them into formation and the air about them thickened with water vapor. But something was different, or at least Yuyake thought so. She kept seeing things in the distance, it caught her attention since she couldn't see poop in the area around her last time.

The dashing objects didn't seem to bother Sasuke, and more importantly it didn't seem to put Kakashi on edge. So if he wasn't worried, maybe it was nothi-

What was that?! She squinted to clear the distance. There was something... orange there. Within the barely visible orange spot, there was a flash of red. Yuyake went to lean forward and get a better look until Zabuza was before her. She gasped and slashed her kunai at him and charged mind scrambling charkra in her fist when he dodged. The force in her blow threw her out of formation but she landed her hit. Instinctially, the confused Zabuza launched a kick at her and she grabbed his leg only to be flung farther from her from team. She got up and looked around.

Oh crap, the fog made it impossible to tell directions. She had no idea were she'd come from, "SASUKE!" she connected, looking in the direction she thought might be where she came from. Back at the formation, he couldn't tell the distance of her cries. Confused, He turned to where he was pretty sure the Bokuso-chi dobe was in the formation. "Yuyake?" he called back.

"Yuyake! Yuyake this way!" she heard her team call back in the opposite direction she was facing. The brown skinned kunoichi about-faced and sprinted off to their voices. Naruto must have caught up. She would have called for Kakashi sensei but she didn't want to distract him while he fought. Besides, her teammates got her. The 12 year old stopped when she was sure she had run far enough to reach them. "They couldn't have been further than right here"

"Yuyake! We're over here! Where are you?" the lost girl frowned, how had she misjudged the distance? She was known for having great hearing, and she could usually perfectly pin point a sound's origin. But she was off... like way off. Whaever, this wasn't the time to be thinking about her skills. She sped off but stopped when she walked into water. How...? Oh geeze! She had been flung really far if she needed to cross water... She summoned the chakra into her feet soles and dashed over the liquid. How could Zabuza spread the fog this far and not be out of Chakra?

Back with the others, Sasuke frowned, why hadn't Yuyake answer him when he asked what was wrong. He turned to where she must be, "Yuyake?" he reached out, "What? Oh man. We've got a problem!" Sasuke jolted and turned to the battle. At this Zabuza chuckled deeply, "Lost one your runts, huh?". "What did you do to my student!?" Kakashi's ferosity growled forward. It was actually Haku who answered, "She ran off. At first she was slashing her kunai around at nothing, then she just left," he informed.

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"There they are!" Yuyake smiled when she saw her team, "Naruto! I'm right here!" the jinguriki turned to her and smiled, "There you are!" he extended a hand to her and seemed relieved. The girl jumped, a little excited to see him after being lost in the middle of such a dangerous fight. The moment her brown arms encased his neck, hell broke loose. Her eyes reopened after closing in jovial spirits.

Where was the mist?

She looked around. She was in the middle of the water with no land in sight and it was as clear as day. She turned back to Naruto to ask him about the anomaly, but... Naruto, wasn't there...

in his place were a set of legs coated in a drapping black cloth with red clouds on it. "No..." her heart stopped. her hands gripped the clothing in disbelief and fear.