Chapter 7: Fight! Fight! Fight!

"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEE…"the alarm clock shouted. Dana hit the off button drowsily. What a night! Ugh. I'm not liking this Orochimaru guy more and more. Even after the memory transfer I still get the same side effects as if I didn't remove those memories at all! Well, at least it's only one night's nightmare. Dana thought while slowly getting out of bed. She groaned sleepily. "I was at least hoping to get some sort of a break. I just got back from last mission and now I'm going through training again? Well, better grin and bear it!" She said to herself while walking to her bathroom to freshen up. She threw her clothes and jacket on and was out of her apartment by 6:30.

Walking down the street to get to the old training grounds, she found herself thinking about Ed again. I wonder what he's gunna do today. She thought then laughed quietly. Probably going to find Sczesca and press her for anymore books on the stone. That, or complain about some new mission he's on. She watched her breath steam as it hit the cool December air.

She heard her stomach growl. Well, might as well make up your mind, Dana. Eat and be late, or drink some snow when you get there…Well, that's an obvious choice. I can tell Kakashi doesn't like it when someone's late. Inner Dana said to herself. (A/N: Yes, folks, I advise you all NOT to eat any snow that has already touched the ground. Dana is allowed because she's a skilled alchemist, and also because this is a story that I'm writing…so…yeah…just don't eat fallen snow in real life…it's not that good for you…in my opinion…back to the story…I'm shutting up now…)

Dana was turned the corner and accidentally ran into a girl with pink hair. "Oh, I'm sorry, are you alright?" she asked the girl.

Yeah, I'm fine, thanks. What are you doing out this early in the morning?" the girl said.

"I have to meet some people. What about you? Most people are still in bed at this hour, right?"

"Yeah, well, I have to meet some people too. Where are you heading?"

"To the old training grounds. You?"

"Same! I'm Sakura Haruno. What's your name? I don't think we've met."

"Dana West, it's great to meet you, Sakura." Dana said, offering a handshake, which Sakura took kindly. "You want to walk together?" she offered. (A/N: AWKWARD MUCH?)

"Sure, I wonder if we're meeting the same people."

"Maybe, who are you going to see?" Dana asked. The two girls were already walking towards the training grounds.

"My squad. You?"

"I'm meeting Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Kakashi Hatake."

"Are you serious!?! That's my squad! Well, except for Kakashi-sensei… he's obviously our teacher. But, how do you know them?"

"They picked me up the day before yesterday and brought me here."

So that's the mission they went on. Sakura thought.

"Wait, if you're in their squad, then where were you when they came to pick me up?"

"Oh, I was sick. But I'm better now. So, how do you like the group?" Sakura asked.

"They're fun. Do Sasuke and Naruto get along? They don't seem to talk to each other that much."

"Sasuke and Naruto? Well, putting it lightly, they're rivals. But they deal with each other. So, do you like Sasuke?"

"What do you mean by that? I think of him as a friend, if that's what you mean. Why do you ask?"

"Well, that's hard to say… Can I be completely honest with you?" (A/N: AWKWARD AGAIN!)

"Yeah, I won't tell a soul if you don't want me to."

"Well, I have a huge crush on Sasuke. I've liked him ever since…8th grade. And we've worked together for a while now."

Wait…Naruto said that Sakura had a huge crush on him…wow…that's ironically funny! Dana thought. "And do you think he likes you back?" she asked. Sakura looked down hopelessly.

"Well…when we first started working together, he didn't like me what so ever…but now, I'm not so sure. Is that Naruto over there?" she asked after seeing an orange figure off in the distance.

"Probably. You want to go meet up with him?"

"Um…Let's let him come to us. We're not so close, Naruto and I."

"Why's that?"

"Well, you've seen him, haven't you? He's so annoying! He drives me insane." Sakura said. Dana laughed. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing. Just that if you think Naruto is annoying, then you should see the guy I live with."

"Oh, gosh, I don't want to know…wait…you live with a guy?"

"Yeah, don't ask how that came to be…it's a long story." She said as Naruto approached the two girls. "Hey, Naruto. How'd you sleep?"

"Great, I saw your note. Thanks." The blond said.

Sakura gave Dana a questioning look. "I dropped him off at his home last night. Nothing to worry about." Dana explained, giving Sakura a kind smile. "Is that Sasuke over there?" Dana asked when she saw a dark figure walking towards them.

"Yeah!" Sakura said when she saw him. "Hey, Sasuke! Over here!" Sakura called.

Dana held the urge to laugh. Wow she's desperate…can I even try to help her? She thought. "Hey, Sasuke. What's up?" she said when he came closer to the group. He shrugged. Oh, shit! Does he like her!!!! That's so exciting! I'll ask him later. She thought smiling.

Wonder what Dana's thinking about. Sasuke thought and looked down at the ground.

"So…this is a great conversation…" Dana said after a few moments of awkward silences.

"Yeah. Kakashi-sensei is usually late. What time is it anyway?" Naruto said.

"It's a quarter after seven." Sakura answered, looking at her watch.

POOF

"Yo." Kakashi said when the smoke cleared.

"Your late." The group said in unison.

Kakashi shrugged. "So, I see you already met Dana, Sakura. Now that that's over with, let's begin."

"What're we gunna do?" Naruto asked.

"We're going to work with the bells again, Naruto. Think of it as an introduction for Dana." Kakashi said, taking out three bells from his pocket. All four "students" head dropped. Kakashi explained the rules of the "game".

"Wait, there are three bells…one of us wouldn't get a one. What do you intend by that?" Dana asked.

"That's the trick."

Well, if I was on a mission, and one of us would stay behind…I wouldn't volunteer anyone…DUH DANA, VOLUNTEER YOURSELF! "I volunteer myself to not get a bell." Dana said.

Kakashi's eyebrows rose. "Well then you'll just have to stay behind and fight. You three may go." He said.

"What! Really! Thanks' Kakashi-sensei! See ya later, Dana!" Naruto said and started walking towards the exit.

"But, sensei, this is a team work exercise…Why are you letting us go?" Sakura asked.

"Because Dana already showed team work by letting all of you get the bells and not herself. Now go warm up, Sakura." Kakashi said.

"Okay…well…I'll see you later, Dana." The pink haired girl said.

"See ya." Dana replied and smiled at her new friend.

Dana heard Kakashi clear his throat as Sasuke and Sakura left them. She turned to face him.

"Alright, well, Sakura was right; this exercise really is about team work. Normally I wouldn't have accepted your proposal. But part of my mission is to find out more about you for the Hokage…So, shall we?" Kakashi said. (A/N: O.O.C…I'm sorry…)

Dana smiled. "You make the first move." She said, stepping into her fighting stance.

with the rest of the group

"Hey, you coming, Sasuke?" Sakura asked as the group reached the entrance/exit of the training grounds.

"No. I'll see you two later." Sasuke said, while going to lean on the gate next to him.

"Oh…okay…well, I'll see you later." The girl said, slightly disappointed.

"Later, Sasuke." Naruto said.

After they left, Sasuke could see that Dana and Kakashi were already fighting. This should be interesting… He thought.

with Dana

Hold nothing back…that's what he said…but I can't kill him…shit! Where'd he go? Dana thought, noticing that Kakashi wasn't where she thought he was.

"Behind you." He said into her ear. She felt a sharp object touch her lower back. Immediately, she dropped to kick his shins. "Too slow." He said. She clapped her hands in order to create a circle, but Kakashi caught her off balance and she ended up not being able to finish the circle.

Dana looked around again and found that she was having trouble seeing where Kakashi was. The silver haired man wasn't in sight again. "Am I really that slow, Kakashi? Come at me from any direction!" she called out to where ever Kakashi was.

with Sasuke

"Come at me from any direction. I didn't want to get too serious, but I have no choice!" he heard the girl shout when Kakashi disappeared.

She has no idea what she's getting herself into…or…does she? With the fight with Orochimaru…SHIT! Kakashi's the one who doesn't know what he's getting into! Sasuke thought.

with Dana

She heard something. Was it a bird? No…it sounds like more than one bird…as there was thousands of birds…chirping. What the hell? Hardly any birds stay through the winter around here…most of them migrate south…what's that…that light? All this snow is making it hard to see. Change of color might do well… She thought and bit her thumb to make it bleed a little. Dana then clapped her hands and placed them on the snowy ground from white to dark red. There…that's better. Now what is that thing? She thought while trying to track down that "bird-sounding-white thing".

with Kakashi

Interesting...will I need to use the sharingan on her? He thought as he finished his chidori. He started running down the tree while dragging his arm.

with Dana

There he is…and here we go! Dana thought, smiling when she saw Kakashi running towards her. But what she didn't expect was something behind her, ready to spring.

with Sasuke

"Shit!" he muttered. He's serious! Dana can't go two against one with Kakashi! That's gotta be worse than Orochimaru!

with Dana

She felt something grab her lower arms and pull them behind her back. She looked behind to see…another Kakashi? "What the…" she muttered. Gotta think fast…Two against one…she thought while looking ahead. One's gotta be a clone…but which one? There's one way to find out. I just hope I don't hurt the real one. She put her chin down to where her loose choker necklace hung. On the necklace was a bumpy piece of metal in the shape of her favorite transmutation circle. Kakashi was still charging forward when a huge shock of blue light exploded.

with Sasuke

"Shit" This is really getting bad…I've got to stop this. He thought when he saw the blue light. He started running towards the scene. They're both too serious about this. Chidori…something gotta be wrong. He stopped when he felt something grab his arm.

"Don't get into this, Sasuke. You'll only cause more trouble." He heard another Kakashi say.

Is he the real one? Sasuke thought. He heard a poof behind him. Wait…I didn't hit him…that means…FUCK! He thought and broke out in a sprint toward Dana and Kakashi.

with Dana

I won't be able to hold this out for much longer…where's Kakashi? Dana thought as her defense started to weaken. She wasn't being held back anymore, but she needed to stay exactly where she was in order to safely and her circle.

"DANA! STOP!" she heard Kakashi scream. She stopped the transmutation circle immediately. The next scene was something that she would never forget.

Kakashi was on the ground, shaking violently. The man was drenched in his own blood and on his stomach.

Oh shit! This is…this is like…like before… Dana thought as she dropped to her knees in horror. Becca…NO! Becca's gone…but you can help Kakashi!

She saw someone running towards them, but she didn't care. The only thing on her mind now was saving Kakashi. She stumbled over to him and turned him onto his back. Checking for his pulse, she noticed that she was crying. Finally, after a few moments of groping (A/N: yet I know that sounds wrong…) she found the pulse in his neck. Oh, thank god…at least he's alive. She thought while taking his jacket off to see his wounds.

I tried to control it a little and only attack him around his legs, but I don't think it worked…It doesn't look like it did…SHIT! She thought when she saw an off-white color sticking out of his chest. Now she was really starting to panic. Ok, Dana…5 seconds of panic…that's it!

5…

4…

3…

2…

1…

…she thought while shutting her eyes. "Sasuke!" she called to the boy standing behind her. "What the fuck happened?"

I'll tell you later. Just back away from us if you don't want to end up like him. And don't interfere. Got that?"

"Yeah." He said while backing away.

"Alright…lets to this." She said to herself. Guide me through this again, teacher. She thought while shutting her eyes and clapping her hands. She took a deep breath, knowing what the up-coming surgery would be like. Opening her eyes, she placed her left hand on top of her right, and focused the alchemic power with a huge amount of effort. With the utmost caution, the Memory Alchemist proceeded to bend the copy ninja's rib into place. Once it was exactly how it started, Dana began to close up the remarkably large wound. Luckily, the wound just below the belly-button.

Shit…this isn't good. She thought when the first pang of exhaustion hit her. You know exhaustion is one of the side effects of that defense, Dana. So don't start complaining! Gotta stay awake.

There was still one more wound that she could see. Moving towards Kakashi's head, she realized that this wound went below where his mask ended. (A/N: MUHAHAHAHAHA… I KNOW I'M SOOOOOOOOOOOO CRULE!!!!!!!!!!) She pulled down his mask in order to heal the wound. …guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… NO DANA!!!! STOP AWING AT HIM AND FIX HIS FACE! Inner Dana screamed as she saw what was behind the mask. Ok, Dana snap out of it… she thought as she shook her head. She moved her hands towards the beautiful face in front of her and healed it.

Putting the mask back over his face, she quickly mended the tear in the cloth.

She then sat back and sighed. She looked at her blood stained hands and then at Sasuke. "Come on, you wanna help me bring him back to my apartment. I guess he'll have to stay there until he wakes up…" she said. She cleaned her hands and sighed. So…tired…

Sasuke went to pick Kakashi up silently. What was that? So strict all of a sudden. Was it the fight? Did the chidori get her? He thought as the two started walking to Dana's apartment.

By now it was nine o'clock and people were just waking up to face a snowy Saturday.

When Dana, Sasuke, and Kakashi reached the apartment, she told Sasuke to lay Kakashi down on her bed while she found him some clean clothes. "Would you mind changing him…since…I don't think he would like me doing it for him?" she asked Sasuke. The black haired boy simply nodded.

She left her apartment, and let herself into Kakashi's home. It was much the same as hers. There was a small kitchenette and a bathroom on opposite sides of each other, a bed next to the window, and a table with four chairs in the center of the room. There were two dressers; one of them was also a nightstand while the other was near the foot of the bed.

Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain coming from her left side. She fell to her knees, grasping for air as the pain worsened. When she felt as if she could handle moving, she crawled to Kakashi's bathroom and checked herself for any wounds. Sure enough, she found one below her ribs and reached down to her mid hip. She started healing herself while sitting on the bathroom floor. Heh. Too bad the state was too fixed on my memory skills to notice my healing ones. They could have names me something to do with that instead of the Memory Alchemist. After all that was over and Dana could move again, she started looking for Kakashi's clothes.

After rummaging for a few minutes, she found the Copy Ninja's clothing and was out the door in no time.

She came back to her apartment to find Sasuke sitting backwards on a chair, watching Kakashi. "Here, I'll go make some tea. I brought a few bags from my house. You want some?" she said, handing Sasuke the clothing.

"Sure." He said monotonously. He got up to start changing his teacher's clothing. (A/N: yet again, awkward.)

"Oh, if you don't mind, when you're done, could you put the clothes into the tub in the bathroom? You can wash off the blood on your hands off in there too. You'll probably get some on them." She said before the entered the small kitchenette to start boiling the water.

I should apologize to Sasuke about before. That was really rude of me, saying 'don't interfere' like he was a bother. The girl thought while staring blankly into the boiling water. And now I'm exhausted too. Great, I can't even sleep in my own bed! Well, it's my own fault. I shouldn't have done that transmutation. Well, what else was I supposed to use? That was a tough attack. She thought.

The water began to boil and Dana turned off the stove. After pouring the water and soiling it with the tea bags, she called out to Sasuke. "Hey, you done out there?"

"Almost. It's okay to come out now."

She walked out to see Sasuke bringing the clothes to the bathroom. Kakashi was in the new clothes already. She sat down and sipped her tea quietly.

After a few minutes, Sasuke came out of the bathroom with a wet spot on the bottom of his shirt. "What happened?" Dana asked when she saw the spot.

"Nothing."

"You sure?" she asked.

"Yeah. I just got some of his blood on my shirt."

"Oh. Did you clean it out with cold water?"

"No. warm."

Dana sighed quietly and got up. "Here, let me fix it." she said as she walked over to Sasuke, who was still standing.

She clapped her hands and covered the spot with her palms. Luckily for Sasuke, she wasn't looking at his face. He was red as a tomato from nervousness. Oh Kami, oh Kami, oh Kami…just relax, Sasuke. Don't let this bother you! He mentally screamed, trying to get a hold of himself.

"There. That's better." Dana said and got up to go back to her seat.

Sasuke sat down, facing away from his sensei, and drank his tea. After a few moments of awkward silences, he heard Dana speak. She said: "Sasuke, I'm sorry for what I did out there…I was rude and I didn't intend to act the way I did…are you really annoyed with me now?"

Sasuke looked up to meet the saddest blue eyes he had ever seen looking at him. He shook his head. "No, I'm not annoyed at all. I understand why you acted in the way that you did. I would have been the same if I was in your position. Don't worry about it." he said.

Damn it Sasuke, you made her think you fucking hated her. Why can't you just tell her that you fucking love her?! Doesn't she want to know what you think of her? Inner Sasuke screamed.

Dana let out a joyful sigh. (A/N: sighing AGAIN!) "Well, that's a relief…I defiantly don't want to make enemies this early on." She said. Sipping her tea, she looked over at the unconscious Kakashi. Her usually clean blue eyes were now clouded with heavy thoughts.

Sasuke followed her gaze. "Is he gunna be okay?" he asked.

"Yeah. But I wouldn't put him in a hospital if he doesn't want to. Do you think he'd go?"

"No. he doesn't go to the hospital unless he has to."

Dana nodded. Didn't I have something else to do? What was it? She thought. "SHIT! I'll be right back, Sasuke!" she said while jumping out of her seat. Opening her door, she added: "If Kakashi wakes up, don't allow him to move at all. Tell him not to move until I get back. I'm so sorry, Sasuke."

And she was out the door sprinting towards the old training grounds.

Rebel Angels yes, although she is the memory alchemist…I guess things tend to slip her mind. Think of her kind of like Sczesca…Dana has a photographic memory and based her training around that…but she also leaned the alchemy that Ed and Al learned…but you'll find out about that later…please review what you think!...see you next time!