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~INVINCIBLE~

"Right Here Waiting"

Kakashi x OC x Itachi

Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto

Invincible © Sokuryokudo Kyoutendouchi

~Opening Theme~

"Right Here Waiting- Staind"

Chapter 5

"When You Lose Something..."

Everything hurt when I came to.

My imaginary bleed from every pore couldn't have felt more real in that moment.

I wanted to cry out, to beg for it to stop, but I knew I wouldn't be sanctioned. My eyes opened slowly to focus on the world around me. At first I didn't understand why the ground was moving, maybe I was just that dizzy and hanging from a tree branch, but then I felt something tighten around me.

I was being carried.

"Let go of me." I grumbled, but even that hurt. The person slumped me up and down a bit on their shoulder, and I couldn't bite back a small groan that escaped my lips. Shit, what the Hell happened?

"Nice try girl, not bad on that attack you used on me," So it was Kisame that was carrying me? Fuck I'd need a bath later. "But did you really think a Genjutsu attack would work on Itachi?"

At that moment, my attention went straight to the figure walking beside Kisame. I could see Itachi walking, but not looking over to me whatsoever. What the Hell happened? Did he beat me, or did I pass out from my wounds? The only thing I could remember was the Sharingan, that wheel spinning in never ending spirals inside my head. He must've nullified the Kyuubi's chakra when I let it loose, but how? How the Hell did he fend off the fucking Kyuubi? I had to use 80% of my chakra reserves just to do it!

I frowned at Itachi's back. He's gotten so much stronger, he's probably in a whole different league from me now. Just picturing us actually going at it seriously made me shiver slightly. Those dark eyes never looked at me, not even once as Kisame continued to carry me. I didn't seem to be in any immediate danger, and I was too damn tired to fend off two S-rank Shinobi, so I pretended to be a good sac of potatoes and just hung there limply.

After about a solid four hours of just hanging there, I realized the sun was beginning to set. However before I could question where we were going, I was abruptly thrown from over Kisame's shoulder. Instinct kicked in enough for me to land on my feet, but the sudden upright position I was thrown into made me shudder and fall to my hands and knees. Fuck it hurt, everything hurt so much it felt like I had endured the Tsukuyomi again. Had I? Was that how he had beaten me again? Dammit it all!

I knelt in front of the two, panting slightly. Kisame had that smug smirk as he looked at me down his nose, while Itachi simply ignored my existence again.

"What the Hell? Where are we going?" I growled, upset that my rest had been interrupted. Kisame grinned a little bit wider before pointing his sword at me with a purpose.

"We won't be going anywhere if you keep up that attitude."

"Bite me, Fish Man." I hissed, watching his sword a bit warily. It was then, and only then, that I sensed Itachi's eyes on me. I dared not to look in fear he'd look away. He must've heard the weariness in my voice that most would miss, and I'd be lying if I said I was well rested. My stamina may be higher than average, but most Shinobi wouldn't be able to move anymore after taking on not one, but two S-ranked criminals.

"Kisame," Itachi began slowly. The blue skinned asshole slid his eyes over to Itachi, and so did I. He was openly staring at me, at my body, at my wounds. He was thinking something in that complex mind of his, and I figured wherever we were going, he wanted me well rested. This made me even more nervous, because if Itachi needed me at full health, he clearly had no plans of watching out for me.

I'm just the container.

Shii doesn't exist anymore, does she, Itachi?

That look in his eyes, it wasn't a look I would've thought he could make five years ago. It was the sort of face he used to be afraid to see too, God Itachi, what's happened to you? Before I could voice any of this though, Itachi continued to speak.

"We should stop at Oritake's home for the night." He said casually, but it only sprouted multiple questions in my mind. It especially worried me when Kisame gave me a leery look afterwards. I tensed a bit, especially when he directed me to walk at swords length. Honestly, if I couldn't feel each of my pores crying right now I may have booked it out of there, but right now I was royally fucked anyway.

We walked for another impossibly long four hours, before I caught sight of a rather large house. It wasn't fancy or anything, but it was quite large and looked like it had a lot of rooms.

We walked inside, Itachi leading the way, and I instantly lost hearing in one of my ears.

"Itachi! Ma! Itachi's back!" A girl, looking in her late teens, came running out of the house shrieking at the top of her lungs. Who the fuck was she, and why was she speaking so fondly to my Itachi? My list of questions was furthered when I took in her appearance. She had that look to her, she looked like the kind of girl who cared more about boys and split ends than training and kicking ass. I could tell by her manicured nails and make up covered face, she dressed to impress and was definitely working the lane today. She ran up to Itachi, and I stared at her with a dumbfounded expression as she latched right onto him, burying her head into his chest.

...

Did I just miss something?

Okay, Girl in late teens... dressed like a whore...runs up to Itachi...and buries head into chest...? Holy fuck, I must still be sleeping!Wait, why is Itachi holding her back?! He was! He was draping an arm around to hold her head to his chest, and I could see the tender smile on the woman's face. Itachi wasn't facing me, but I just tried to picture anything other than -blank- written across his fine features.

"I missed you! Itachi you're been gone for months! We have..." She looked up to him, jutting out her bottom lip with a small smirk on her face. "...so much to catch up on." She said a little slower, but from what I could see, Itachi just stared. Kisame snickered from beside me, and I looked up to him with a curved brow. He noticed my confusion and looked at me from the corner of his eye. We were out of earshot for the low voice he was using, but I doubted he actually would care if the woman heard.

"That's Ishou Oritake, she's kind of like a stress ball. All Itachi has to do is give her a hug once and a while and she makes her mother let us stay here and... release stress." He said slowly, but I didn't understand. The look I gave him, he must've thought I was stupid or something. "Oh, you've got it written on your face girl, you've never done it before." He laughed a little harder, looking me over with leery eyes. I leaned away slightly, not liking the situation. Turning back to Itachi and the girl, I finally realized why I didn't like her so much.

It was because of her eyes, because as I suddenly walked up to the girl, she and Itachi seperating as she sized me up, I got a bit more confused with each step. My unique trait, the one thing I was supposed to have and nobody else, was my eyes. I used to have dark green eyes when I was small, but as I got older they got lighter. Not they were this color that I'd never seen on anything else, and I loved them because they were so bold, light, sharp, and so ever uniquely mine. Yet here this girl was, standing there with a shade less brighter, standing there with near duplicated eyes.

This girl, where the fuck did Itachi find this girl?

Itachi seemed to know I had caught on, and I looked at him sharply. No, I full on glared at him. What the Hell was going on? Where did he find a woman with theses eyes? Was he mocking me? Was he taking away the one trait about myself that I idolized? That bastard, Itachi you bastard, you're downgrading my value! As if it wasn't low enough as things were, now the one thing I have to myself is nothing?

"Who the fuck are you?" Ishou asked. God she even had that whiny voice down pat. I glared at her, but when our eyes locked she looked utterly upset.

"Hey, your eyes are prettier than mine, I might have to claw them out." She said, but she definitely wasn't joking. I reeled at that, and growled. This wasn't some game, and the look that she was giving me, like I should feel blessed that I was this close to her, I couldn't stand it.

"I'd love to see you try, sweetness, but I can guarantee, if you put any part of your body within a foot at me at anytime, I will snap it like a twig with my bare hands." I growled so low, so unlike my usually average and soft voice, that I almost scared myself. I thought that she was going to whine for Itachi to defend her, but I was reveling the fact he wouldn't, so I was surprised when he actually stepped in between us. He was looking down at me, as though I was the one that was worthless. That caught me, and my eyes widened tremendously when he looked at me.

"Do not harm Ishou." He said, the girl curling into his side. I just stared, so utterly shocked and surprised, I had thought that if Itachi would look at me like that, he would look at everybody like that, but he looked like he actually cared for that mimic. Forcing myself to swallow, I silently backed off even though I wanted to tear her to shreds. My legs felt wobbly as he escorted her into the house, the woman looking at me with a devious gaze like she had just won the battle.

She sure as fuck wasn't winning the war though.

Wait, what war are we waging even? Over Itachi? Why was I-

Oh fuck.

I can't be...fuck I am, right?

I can't be in love with Itachi, can I?

KAKASHI

"Hokage, I'm not sure I understand." I said, honestly confused. What did he mean she wouldn't return? Answers, I needed answers now. Yet he seemed to be taking his time, testing my shattering patience as it was.

"You see Kakashi, I sent her to go and find Itachi."

He might as well of said he dubbed her a Missing Nin. He knew as well as I did, that the bond between the two ran much deeper than anything he could come up with. Her number one, the person she loved the most, he was right within her grasp now, possibly holding her or doing things I was supposed to be doing. I felt so frustrated, how could he do that? How could he give her the easy card out?

"You seem upset, I can understand your feeling," 'No you don't!' I wanted to say, but I held my tongue. "But you must have faith in Yuushima to make the right decisions on her own." He said it with a smile at that, and for a moment I was happy he couldn't see the frown under my mask.

"Lord Hokage, please forgive me, but I doubt your belief." I said, gaining a lower stance as though bracing myself a bit. My calm demeanor was steadily chipping away, and it scared me.

"Oh?" He sounded amused as he said this, as though this was what he wanted to hear.

"She doesn't think straight, especially when anybody with the name Uchiha is put into the mix. She's very irrational and will probably just hurt herself. There's a chance that she might die before she even reaches Itachi. There is also the fact that she's so gentle to Itachi, she wouldn't fight him even if he meant to kill her." I said, fisting my hands, not wanting to scream at my leader. Yet the frustration just kept on building, and I had no way of letting it out.

"Was that all, Kakashi?" Hokage said, making me frown. I hesitated for a moment, before nodding. The Hokage smiled, as though coming to the same conclusion. Yuushima only left before I was here, I was protecting her boys and I wasn't leaving the village either. She probably wouldn't have if I was still in the ANBU.

"Despite what you have told me, I think you and I both know. Yuushima is the top Kunoichi in this village for a reason, even if the road is long and hard, even if she's pushed over, that girl will just keep on springing back up. She doesn't know when to quit."

I thought about what he said for the remainder of the day, night, and today, and even while carrying out D-ranks with my squad, I just couldn't stop. It's not like it mattered, I just had to stare at the pages of my book for a bit, not like Team Kakashi even noticed really. Looking over, I realized that Naruto really was just a male version of Yuushima. The same perverted antics, love for ramen, even her stubborn as an ox attitude. All of it was utterly frustrating, yet what I loved most about her.

I looked down at my book, and debated on reading it later. When I looked back up, Naruto was slowly going of the edge of a waterfall. Perhaps I should intervene...nah Sasuke caught him, good enough. I went back to reading, hoping to cure my mind of that stupid, bloody haired, unevenly tanned, tiny toothed, smart, pretty..

..Dazzling green eyes...

Slamming the book, I tried not to show irritation. Instead, I called Team 7 back in to complete the mission before trying to desperately think of anything to talk about. With any of them. Unfortunately, Naruto only wanted to talk about Ramen, Sakura kept sneaking looks at Sasuke, and I had a feeling that talking to Sasuke would really be like talking to a wall right now, but to my surprise he spoke up without encouragement.

"Hey Kakashi," Sasuke began, making us all look to him, myself from the corner of my eye. "When will Shima be back?" He asked, and although he made it casual, I could tell that he was honestly curious. The only reason I could tell was because I had given the same hint of desperation when speaking with the Hokage.

"Hey yeah! Yoshi is still on that super cool mission! When's she gunna be back Kakashi-sensei? Huh huh?! When?!" Naruto cried, and I resisted the thought of rolling my eyes and sighing, like she would've done. Sakura looked a little bit confused, so she turned to me as well.

"Kakashi-sense, I'm confused, why is everybody waiting for her to get back?" She asked, and I was honestly glad to answer that instead. Looking down at her, I refrained from facial expressions solely because there was no point.

"You don't know? Yuushima Kyouten, The Blue Flicker, she was the one who raised Naruto and has had ties with the Uchiha Clan since she was your age Sakura." I said softly, but the look on her face was priceless. She looked between me, Sasuke, and Naruto, before back to me with a confused expression. Then it dawned on her, about training, and I remembered how Kyou had tensed up when Sakura hit Naruto. She turned red, probably remembering that moment.

Come to think of it, despite not fighting when Itachi's name was shamed, she had no problem beating anybody who hurt Naruto. I could remember when she stormed into my apartment after dropping Naruto off at the Academy, she was so angry and was literally shrieking as she ran up to me.

"You know what this guy did to Naruto? He wanted a mask, and was going to pay, but the guy actually shoved Naruto out of the shop and threw masks at him!" She screamed as I leaned on the kitchen table. She sat across from me, arm wrapped around her torso because she didn't trust herself to actually touch anything in case she broke it.

"I'm sure you're over reacting Kyou." I said, even though I knew it would only make it worse.

It did, she was livid then.

"He had a bruise on his cheek! The bastard gave him a bruise!" She growled, as though she were wringing his neck as she spoke. As much as I wanted to comment about her giving me more than a bruise on common occasion, I had to admit I liked my body intact and not strewn across my kitchen table.

"Well, what did you do about it?" I asked, a little worried at the shrug she gave.

"I let him off easy. With the same arm he used to throw those masks at Naruto, I just fractured it." She said it so casually that I sighed. She was so strong, it made me worry what she really could've done if she wanted to. Knowing her, if Naruto wasn't watching, she would've torn the arm right off and painted his shop with his blood.

She was merciless.

I hesitated in step for a moment, looked up to the sky, then kept walking. I really wanted Kyou to come back, Konoha just wouldn't be the same without her. Sometimes I wondered if she knew, if she knew just how important she was here.

Clearly not if she was going to throw it away for that asshole.

Kyou...

Just come back dammit.

Ending Theme Song

"So Soon"- Marianas Trench

READ THE GOD CHEESY DAMN NOTE!

Ugh, I'm so sorry guys.

Seriously, I've been putting off these chapters for a while because school is a BITCH, work IS A BITCH, AND DRAMA (though I love in stories) IS A MAN WHORE.

Seriously though, I've been writing this in like two hundred word segments, and it drove me insane. I'm so sorry, and I'm sorry this chapter is short, but I had to put something out before October ended!

Anyway, I hope you guys liked this lame chapter, it honestly wasn't that great in my eyes, and I'm praying to the lord nobody's too OOC.

I'M DEAD SERIOUS. If anybody seems OOC, TELL ME ASAP and I will change it.

So this chapter was originally going to be Yuutachi bonding time, but then I realized the fangirl side of me just wanted Yuu to get in Itachi's pants lol, so instead I figured we should just shove them in the opposite directions, no? LOL what do you think of Ishou? BTW I never checked if that was an actual name, I just put 'I' and 'Sho' and 'U' together really quickly, because Mimi sounds way too cheesy of a name, no? And I want this character to stick around for a while, oh just wait until you see her mom.

I actually am sticking to my devious plan for when she returns (if she does) back to Konoha (I was mildly debating her return rate...), but I'm scratching a bunch of fluff and probably going to give y'all one fangirl scene of Yuutachi, because Yuu's gotta realize, Itachi's changed now (I DON'T CARE WHAT ANY MANGA SAYS!) and he's probably never going to be the same. She either has to face it and move on, or...well, y'know, learn to love the new him.

Isn't she already doing that with Kakashi?

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