A/N: ... My friend is dancing to Hero's Comeback LMFAO! It is an amazing song though... Anyway back to the story YAY!
"What about Sai?" Tsunade asked Yamato and Sonea.
"Yes. Just as you predicted, he was assigned a top secret mission by Danzo." Yamato reported
"A secret mission?" Tsunade asked.
"Under Danzo's orders, Sai carried out his mission as an ANBU. He was assigned to assess and eliminate dangers to Konoha. Sai joined Team Kakashi as a means of getting to his target, Orochimaru and then carry out his mission of eliminating his future body, Sasuke." Yamato explained.
"I never could stand that man. He is pushy, overbearing and his methods are too brutal. And yet at the same time he's just thinking of Konoha's well being." Tsunade said.
"I suggest you hold that thought until you've taken a look at these." Yamato said, handing over the ANBU records. Yamato and Sonea watched in amusement as Tsunade ordered Shizune to change all guards and pass coded now. Yamato explained how Sai helped on the mission and what he said and Tsunade decided he could stay on the team from then. Sonea laughed but then flinched from pain in her still broken ribs. Unfortunately Tsunade saw it and dragged her back to the hospital room where Kakashi and Jiraiya were waiting.
"Either of you peek and I will bring you to an inch of your life!" She said to the two men who nodded quickly and the curtain was pulled around. Tsunade quickly removed her top and weapons out of her reach and began working on her ribs again. "What happened this time?" She asked. Sonea would have sighed if it didn't hurt.
"I moved in to attack Sasuke, misjudged my timing and he kicked me square on my healing ribs but they were probably already weak when I had some rubble fall on me. The lung was healed quickly by Sakura and I've been careful not to puncture it again." Sonea whined out in a board monotone. Tsunade finished and handed her a plain t-shirt and track pants.
"You will be staying overnight so I can check the healing in the morning." Tsunade ordered and opened the curtain after bandaging her ribs and she had finished getting dressed. Tsunade walked out of the room. Sonea had an angry look on her face as she threw the blanket back and got into the bed and flopped on her back with her hands behind her head, completely ignoring the pain, and stared up at the ceiling with an angry scowl. Jiraiya and Kakashi stayed dead quiet for a while and watched her.
"What?" She asked after a while and slid her head to the side to look at them.
"Nothing." Jiraiya said quickly. "I'll see you around Kakashi." He said, slipping out of the window. Sonea continued to scowl at Kakashi although her eyes had softened a bit. She sighed and faced the ceiling again. The hospital room stayed quiet as Sonea stared and Kakashi read his Icha Icha Paradise and they both enjoyed the quiet company.
"Kaka-sensei, we came to visit… Oh, Sonea, you're here too?" Sakura asked as Naruto and Sai followed in behind her.
"Yeah, Tsunade caught my broken ribs and decided this as punishment." Sonea said, jerking her head in Kakashi's direction. He looked up from his book and looked at Sonea with his eye smile.
"Did you say something Sonea-chan?" He asked. Sonea just sneered and looked away.
"So, you're the new team member… Sai right? Nice to meet you." Kakashi said to Sai who was rubbing his red cheek like Naruto.
"Yes sir." Sai said to him.
"Sakura, come here." Kakashi said, waving his hand lazily to her and whispered to her. " I see they have some scratches… Did they get in a fight already? I know Naruto well enough not to be surprised but…" Kakashi whispered to her and she jumped up.
"No, it's not that. Honestly, we get along well." She said happily.
"Oh, I see, that's good." Kakashi said.
"Kaka-sensei, while we were on our mission…" Naruto began.
"Yamato told me everything including Sasuke." Kakashi said, looking down with a bit of sadness and Sonea decided to turn on her side carefully and prop up her head on an elbow in her hand and listen.
"We're running out of time. At this rate he'll… We can't bring Sasuke back, not like we are now. He's to strong." Naruto said, a bit disheartened.
"Then, you'll just have to become even stronger right?" Kakashi said, looking back at his book.
" From what I saw, he's gotten so strong so fast, it was unbelievable. I asked Tsunade-sama, she said he's probably been learning forbidden techniques. And considering he has Kabuto behind him, probably using special drugs as well. Just reading isn't going to help me understand people who experiment on human beings." Sakura explained to Kakashi.
"Then we'll have to get stronger in an unbelievably short amount of time too." Kakashi said easily and Sonea just rolled her eyes.
"But how?" Sakura asked with a bit of frustration.
"You think I've been lying around doing nothing?" Kakashi said, not looking away from his book.
"Well it looks like that." Sonea sniggered but Kakashi ignored it.
"I've been mulling over this the whole time I've been here. And I've finally got an idea. But the trainings more suited to Naruto. Or more accurately, Naruto's more suited for it. Naruto, if this works, you may in a sense, surpass me." Kakashi said, looking up from his book.
"Me, surpass you?" Naruto said, a bit stunned.
"Yes. I'll be working with you the whole time but it'll be unlike any training you've done before." Kakashi said slyly.
"Even more different to my training style Kakashi-kun?" Sonea called over with a sadistic smirk and Kakashi seemed to shiver.
"You'll be learning the most powerful technique you can do by creating it yourself. Meaning you'll be learning a technique more powerful than rasengan. But to do so, you'll need to invest a massive amount of time and effort. It's not like those stories where the main character get ridiculously strong in a few days and also, it's going to be more difficult than rasengan, which someone else created. And which you learned through careful instructions." Kakashi explained, ignoring Sonea completely.
"Massive amount of time… but we don't have time, Sasuke's…" Naruto began in a panic.
"Relax, I figured out we can do it in no time at all." Kakashi said.
"How?" Naruto asked.
"Well we…" Kakashi began.
"How ya doing Kakashi?" Asuma asked from the door with his team.
"Asuma-sensei, at least knock first." Ino complained.
"Well, if it isn't Naruto and Sakura. You already finished your miss…" Shikamaru said, walking in with his team before eying Sai and scowling. "You're that guy…"
"Hi there." Sai said with his smile. Sai and Naruto began to explain why Sai attacked them when they were hanging out together. Sonea was hoping for a fight and was sitting up while Ino and Sakura joined her on her bed and Asuma sat on Kakashi's.
"I see, so that's what you were doing. All right, good enough for me." Choji said, eating his chips.
"Please, just call me Sai." Sai asked with his fake smile. "Don't worry about any suffixes." Ino leaned over to whisper in Sakura's ear.
"He's kinda cute, isn't he? He reminds me of Sasuke-kun." Ino said with a flirty look, Sonea just snorted and turned over to face the door and closed her eyes.
"Physically yeah but he's nothing like him. He's totally clueless." Sakura whispered back. Shikamaru walked over to Naruto.
"I heard about Sasuke from Tsunade-sama. I can help you next time something comes up now that the stupid chunin exam is over. I figured you'd make chunin easily this time too." Shikamaru said to Naruto who just looked down and smiled. "Ah well, maybe next time." Shikamaru finished.
"So, why're you all here? This isn't a lounge." Kakashi finally asked Asuma.
"True, true. You guy's go ahead to the barbeque. Team Kakashi's invited to join too. Kakashi and I have a few things to discuss. It's my treat, so no objections, right?" Asuma said and everyone left after Naruto freaked out about training. The door finally closed and Asuma stood up and Sonea stood up and walked over to Kakashi's bed and sat down next to him to listen.
"It's good to see you Asuma." Sonea said with a smile to him.
"Yes it is good to see you too… May I have a word with Kakashi?" He asked. She moved to leave but Kakashi caught her around the waist.
"She can stay, she knows more than any of us do… If you are about to talk about what I think you are." Kakashi said protectively. Asuma nodded and moved to the window.
"Word is the other villages are gearing up too." Asuma began.
"So it's true…" Kakashi said, gripping Sonea tighter.
"If they're after the bijuu, they'll clearly target the village. Well, Naruto at any rate." Asuma began. The door suddenly opened and Shikamaru stood there.
"You don't have to leave me out. I'm concerned about Akatsuki's movements too." He said, eying Sonea and Asuma caught it as Shikamaru moved into the room. "Will Naruto be all right? I mean, they even took Gaara. If they come after him…" Shikamaru said, stopping next to Kakashi's bed.
"He wouldn't stand a chance…" Kakashi said sadly, pulling Sonea closer. "Not yet." Kakashi said, looking determined and Sonea smiled slightly.
"Sonea, may I ask about what you know of the situation?" Asuma asked, turning to her. She closed her eyes and smirked.
"Shikamaru… Would you like to explain my situation to your sensei?" She said with amusement in her voice.
"Shikamaru knows to?" Kakashi asked, surprised.
"He caught me when we were working on the chunin exams together and began placing the pieces together, he would have figured it out eventually. Nothing gets past a Nara." She said smiling at Kakashi and Shikamaru.
"Okay, now I'm really confused. What are you talking about?" Asuma asked and Shikamaru sat on Sonea's abandoned bed and began to explain Sonea's situation. "This is bad, does Akatsuki know about this?" Asuma asked, a bit freaked out.
"No. In the past, only Hokage's and jinchuuriki knew about this. The only other people who know right now are Shizune, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Sakura, Yamato, Shikamaru and now you… That's a long list…" She said, thinking of it sarcastically. Asuma sat on Sonea's abandoned bed next to Shikamaru with wide eyes.
"So what exactly happens if we don't change fate and loose all of the bijuu?" He asked, like he had just seen a ghost.
"My seal will break and the part of the Jyuubi I contain will return to its original body and I will die. The world will be trapped in the torture of the Jyuubi once again, however Akatsuki want to use it." Sonea said heartlessly. A little while later they both left and Kakashi just held onto Sonea.
"Oh, so now you want my attention?" She said with her arms crossed with mock annoyance, looking at him.
"I'm sorry… It just feels a bit awkward to act around everyone else with you." He said, pulling her under the covers and they lay down with Sonea's head on his chest, listening to his beating heart. She smiled and closed her eyes.
"Well now Asuma know about us and I think Guy might know as well but however you want it right now… I don't mind as long as we get moments like this." She said happily as he ran his hand through her hair he loved so much. Naruto came in a bit later and took Sonea's bed as his own and Kakashi and Sonea ended up sharing for the night. The next morning Sonea was cleared to leave under light duty and she moved over to check Kakashi.
"Everything seems fine. Okay, we'll discharge you today." Tsunade said with a slight sigh.
"Is it because you want me to rid of the extra baggage over there?" Kakashi asked and they all looked over to Naruto sleeping and wrapped around a pillow like a monkey.
"That was a factor." Tsunade said.
"Naruto. He's been holed up in here the whole time saying his training could start any minute." Sakura complained.
"Well, your not the one who lost their bed to him last night." Sonea said with her arms crossed and leaning against the windowsill.
"I thought I'd have a few days to be lazy… Er, recover at my house. But I'm completely out of books to read so we might as well get his training going." Kakashi said before Naruto began shouting in his sleep. Sakura stalked over to him and yelled right in his ear. She beat him up quite spectacularly after calling her a 'ugly whore' in his half asleep state. Tsunade, Sakura and Naruto, after telling him his training would start that afternoon, left the hospital room and Sonea left with some lame excuse and arrived at her club that was still closed. She sighed; she had nothing better to do so she began to work on her slack muscles on a pole and began chanting through the pain.
Kakashi walked in a while later and began watching in awe. He watched her lips chanting;' Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger.' Kakashi was now leaning against the bar and decided he had watched enough and whistled out a cat whistle which stopped her dead upside down by one leg arching her back and other leg back and now glaring at him.
"What do you want?" She asked with her arms crossed, still hanging off the pole upside down.
"Well, since you know Naruto so well, I was wondering if you want to help me train him… Tenzo will be there too." Kakashi suggested in a boarded tone with a shrug. She swung into a standing position and leaned against the pole with her arms crossed.
"Fine, but I have a mission later." She said, studying him. Her eye glanced to the clock and knew he was already late and was waiting for her. She put back her weapons and followed him to the training field.
They decided to get going and Naruto expressed how happy he was to be trained by Kakashi again and how nostalgic it felt. He began talking about chakra nature and shape manipulations and Naruto already had shape manipulation down thanks to his rasengan. It was always amazing to watch Kakashi form Chidori but step-by-step, it seemed all the more awesome. Kakashi then began to explain the five-chakra natures; Lightning, Wind, Fire, Water and Earth and luckily left out light and dark manipulation for much later.
"You currently have zero chakra natures." Kakashi said, taking out the paper to determine your chakra nature. "You don't even know which elemental natures you're more suited to." The paper in Kakashi's hand crumpled to show lightning natured chakra and explained what the other four would do. Naruto received a piece and it ripped in half for Wind nature, which wasn't a huge shock since Minato was Wind natured.
"Your manipulation training starts now. It usually takes a huge amount of time to learn the method. But, I've thought of a way to make it extremely fast. What we'll do is…" Kakashi started as Yamato came bounding onto the field.
"Hey, what kind of nature manipulation is your wood element?" Naruto asked him excitedly. Kakashi whispered to him for a demonstration and an explanation that it was both earth and water mixed together to form wood. A huge cliff and waterfall were formed. Kekkei genkai's were briefly explained as that is what the wood release was and how they couldn't be copied.
"Hey, Sonea-san, what elements do you use, I've never seen you use any before so …" Naruto asked Sonea who smiled. She grabbed a piece of paper from Kakashi and held it up in front of him. The paper crinkled, ripped and got soggy and Naruto stared wide-eyed.
"I have many kekkei genkai's as well as something called a kekkei toura. What you just witnessed was my toura, I can use wind, lightning and water at the same time to create a new element, Storm release. A genkais consists of two elements but a toura is three or more and is extremely rare. My genkai's is my eyes and blood. My red eyes are the same as that boy Ranmaru you met once but I can't cancel out the byakugan. My blood, I am able to manipulate freely as well as cells of the body which is why I can form my wings and tail." She did just that." With my blood, I can separate it into different components like this." She concluded by forming a kunai out of the iron in her blood and passing it to Naruto to throw. Yamato brought it back down and handed it back to her and she reabsorbed it. Naruto looked like a kid in a candy store.
"So can you only use those three elements?" He asked lastly and Sonea shook her head.
"I can use Lightning, wind, fire, water and a few earth as well as dark manipulation similar to Shikamaru… This should also explain why Choji can use the expansion jutsu as his bloodline carries that particular gene to use it." Sonea explained and all eyes were now wide and on her.
"You… What about yang release?" Yamato asked quickly. Sonea smiled and shrugged.
"Never got the hang of it… Now, where were we?" She asked Kakashi, quickly changing the subject.
"How to make training take no time." Naruto reminded them. Kakashi then went on to the use of shadow clones and gave leaves to his clones to try and cut with chakra. They all leaned against the now bare tree and watched on.
"How can you use so many elements?" Kakashi grabbed her and pulled her by her shoulders behind the tree with Yamato listening from the top. She currently had her back against the tree and his hands tight on her shoulders and watching her intently.
"All the elements for storm release were learned before my seventh birthday. Yin release by the time I was ten. Fire by fifteen and earth by sixteen when I finally had the Jyuubi sealed into me." Sonea explained with her arms crossed and feeling a bit defensive. Kakashi fell on his ass at this comment.
"Even before you became immortal, you had that talent… Amazing! I never knew, I thought it was impossible." He said in slight shock.
"Bullshit, I know you have at least one jutsu for each of the five natures in your inventory of a thousand jutsu's, you're just as talented. Now, if you two have finished interrogating me, I have a mission to get to." Sonea said, walking among the sea of Naruto's to the original. "I have a mission now but I'll be back soon, good luck." She said, patting him on the shoulder and heading for ANBU HQ.