(UCHIHA) .:[Until Death Do Us Part]:. (SASUKE) - 06
"Kakashi-sensei! This is hidden mist no jutsu, right?!?" Sakura asked.
"No, Haruno. This is obviously not hidden mist no jutsu." I said sarcastically, shaking my head. To my left, Sasuke was shaking again. But it was different from before. He wasn't scared this time.
"Long time no see Kakashi." The familiar voice said. Like last time, it was floating through the air, feeling like it was coming from everywhere. "I see you still have those brats. He's shaking again… Poor kid." When Sasuke picked up his head, there were several clones of Zabuza.
"I'm shaking from excitement." He said, smirking.
"Sasuke. Do it." Kakashi-sensei said. In a split second, Sasuke had taken out all of the clones. I blinked. Was he always this good?!?
"Hmph. He saw through the water clones. That brat has grown." Zabuza said, stepping into view followed by the Hunter-nin. "It looks like a rival has appeared… eh, Haku?"
"It does indeed." The boy beside him replied.
"It seems my guess was right on mark." Kakashi said. "That masked one. He's obviously Zabuza's comrade, standing right next to him and all…"
"I'll fight him." Sasuke said. I stepped up beside him.
"You don't get to be the only cool one today." I said, smirking, turning my Zetsumeigan on. He looked at me through narrow eyes as if saying 'Don't get in my way.'
"Sasuke-kun, you're so cool!" Sakura squealed.
"An impressive young man. Even though the clones only have a tenth of the strength of the original… Still very impressive."
"But we have gained the first advantage. Let's go." As soon as Zabuza said that, Haku appeared in front of Sasuke. He used a kunai to block Haku's attack. He's fast… They fought and I didn't interfere, knowing I would just get in Sasuke's way if I tried.
"Sakura! Guard Tazuna! Let Sasuke and Arashi deal with him!" Kakashi-sensei said, running to go confront Zabuza. Sakura got in front of Tazuna holding out a kunai.
Suddenly I felt my head start to spin, the world around me start to darken. I fell over, feeling numb and cold. Great. I'm dead and I didn't even get to fight.
"You're not dead my little koin." The voice was eerie and spoke as if he were speaking to a child. I sat up, whipping my head around. There was a faint glow that looked like a dull blue flame. "Yes, I'm over here." He seemed impatient so I got up and walked quickly over to it. Walking up to the flame, it looked as if it were floating above a column. Behind it was a little temple with incense burning. Feeling a cold breeze, my head snapped to the right. Floating there was Shinigami-sama. Just like he looked like in the scroll I found at the old complex. I bowed deeply then stood up, scratching the back of my head.
"Uh… I'm not dead am I? Cause there's a fight outside and I kind of need to help…" He chuckled.
"You aren't dead." I faced him again.
"So why am I here?"
"Your father was one of my koins and he's dead. You are his replacement." I nodded slowly.
"Can't this wait until later though?..." He growled.
"Today is your twelfth birthday. The age at which you inherit the title of being my koin. If you do not accept this now, I will not offer it again. Your cousins will have the right-"
"Okay!" I shouted, cutting him off. I can't let those bastards get any more power. If there's already eleven out there and I have to kill them all later, that's going to be one hell of a fight. "So what do I have to do?" I asked, crossing my arms. He chuckled and floated in a circle around me.
"First." He said, taking out a large scroll. He held it out and I took it. "Your name. In your blood. There." He said, opening it. There were four empty slots so I assumed that that meant I had a couple years, months, days even, to figure out who they were and make sure they don't make the pact. Like I said before, the less of his koins I have to go up against, the easier it'll be when I kill them. I bit my thumb and ran my finger over the paper, spelling out my name. I stood up and closed up the scroll, handing it back to him. He grinned a sickening sort of smile and the scroll disappeared in his hand. "Second. You have 20 favors now that you've become my koin. The amount of favors I need depends on what you're going to do with them. Healing – 5 favors. Protection against harm – 8 favors. Lengthening a persons lifespan by 5 years – 15 favors. Revival – this one, we can talk about. But if they've been dead for 24 hours, then I can't do anything about it. But if you ask for this one, I get to take part of your lifespan to get them back up and breathing." His eyes closed for a while then he held out a round mirror in front of him. "Now might be a good time to use those favors, eh?" Staring into the mirror, Naruto was fighting with Haku and Sasuke was on the floor. They both looked like porcupines, senbon needles sticking out from every inch of their body.
"Hey, Shinigami-sama, is he dead?" I asked, referring to Sasuke. He took a look for himself then nodded. Grumbling, I thought. "Alright. Twenty favors and one-tenth of my life span."
"One-third."
"One-fourth,
that's all I'm going to go!" I said, getting impatient.
Shinigami-sama sighed.
"Alright, alright. That kid better mean
something to you." I looked away, scowling.
"Just do it and get me out of here." Shinigami-sama let out a chuckle.
"I can't do that, you see?" He had already revived Sasuke but I was stuck in his gate between the world of the living and the dead. She glared at him.
"Why not."
"You don't have any favors to get out of here."
"You never told me I needed any!"
"Well… I can let you out a ghost for now." I slapped a hand to her forehead. The tint of the mirror changed to blue and showed several dark orbs floating around. I squinted her eyes at them. They seemed to giving off a faint glow and were wandering around as if lost.
"Those are?..."
"Souls. Normal humans can't see them. But you and my other koins can. This is so that they can gather them. Those souls will turn into favors when you turn them in and each soul is worth ten favors, no more, no less." Right now, there were two close by. With no more questions, I felt a gust of cold air and shut my eyes. When I opened them, I could see the souls and caught them carefully and looked around trying to figure out how to get back. I walked over to my body and poked it with my foot, the gust of air bringing me back in front of Shinigami-sama. I held the two souls close to me.
"So what happens to them after I give these to you?..." I didn't want them to end up going to hell for nothing.
"I send the good ones to heaven and the bad ones…" He trailed off and I felt a chill in the air. Holding the souls in my palm, they floated up as if knowing where to go and landed in Shinigami-sama's hand. He placed them on an ancient balance and directed them to follow the path lit by floating blue flames. "Alright kid, it takes two favors to get you out of here so you have 18 now. And this scroll-" He handed me a light grey-blue scroll tied closed with a red ribbon. "-is to get yourself here, so I don't have to call you myself." I nodded, putting the scroll in my back pouch. "Good luck." He chuckled and my soul went back into my body. I sat up straight, looking around. Kakashi and Sasuke were looking at me worriedly. Sakura and Naruto were talking to the villagers. I stood up and walked over to Kakashi.
"What happened?" I looked up and saw his eye widen slightly.
"What?..."
"Your eyes." Sasuke said. Taking out a polished kunai, I looked and instead of the pinkish-purple they once were, they were bright red. I shrugged. Kakashi-sensei however, looked as if he already knew what had happened. I'll have to ask him later.
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The day after we got back, Kakashi-sensei called us for a mission. Instead of the usual meeting place, we met on some random road. I stood there with Sasuke and Sakura, Naruto being late, knowing Kakashi-sensei would be anyways. Recently, I found out that I could capture souls without becoming a ghost. Apparently, when I had the Zetsumeigan on, I could see souls. And Shinigami-sama gave me a special little box that would hold the souls until I saw him again.
Sasuke, Sakura, and I were there, Sakura fawning over him as usual. I found myself yelling at her in my mind. Hey! Get offhim, you witch! That Uchiha belongs to Arashi~ I blinked, wondering where the hell that came from.
What the hell…
Oh hey there! I groaned in my head, thinking myself to have gone crazy.
Should there really be another person in my mind?...
Ahaha… Guess who I am, sweetie!
I have no idea.
The other voice in my head cleared his voice. I'm guessing it was a 'he' since it had a masculine voice, awkward with his bubbly personality. I am your father. He said seriously, before breaking into laughter. Naruto got here running and waved.
"Hey Sakura-chan! Arashi-chan!" He said happily. He turned his head to glare at Sasuke at the same time Sasuke did. They both turned away, crossing their arms. I walked over to Sasuke and kicked his butt.
"Quit being a jerk face." He brushed off his shorts and raised an eyebrow.
"Hn. Quit being so immature." I pouted and crossed my arms. Ooooh~
You stay out of this! I scolded. Of course he can't be my dad, right? He's dead. Naruto was trying to talk to Sakura who was trying to get away from him.
But I am your daddy!!! Shinigami-sama put me in that scroll… I imagined the man on the left side of my locket pouting and acting like a little kid, giving me puppy eyes. Oh yeah! Congrats on becoming his koin~
Hey… If you are my dad, why'd my mother marry such an immature person? Once again, my imagination put forth an image of him whimpering, a waterfall of tears streaming down his face.
S-she said she liked my personality!
Whatever.
Why is my daughter being so mean to me?!?
Why the heck are you so childish!
Sasuke was looking at me funny so I shoved him, pouting and went to talk to Naruto.
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Eventually, Kakashi-sensei came and as if it were routine, Naruto and Sakura jumped up and pointed at him, calling him a liar and scolding him for being late. He apologized and jumped down in front of us. Naruto started rambling about how he wanted to get a super awesome mission. Because he wants to show off to Sasuke. I glanced over at him and looked back at Kakashi-sensei when he caught me.
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We got done with today's boring mission and Sakura ended up helping Naruto walk, his arm over her shoulder. I almost laughed at that. Well you know, he wanted to walk down the street, arm around her shoulders. But not when he was exhausted and looked the worst out of all of us.
"Sasuke, it's all your fault the teamwork is messed up!" Naruto shouted at him, shaking a fist.
"I think it's you." A bird flew overhead, one of the special ones that Kakashi-sensei always left us when he saw it.
"Well, I'm going to turn in this mission report." He said, as I expected him to. Sasuke turned to walk away. I looked at Kakashi-sensei who was still here.
"Hey, didn't you say you were going to leave?" He grinned under his mask and held up a finger to his lips and pointed at Sasuke and Sakura.
"Then, I'm going home." Sakura jumped at his voice and skipped after him.
"Sasuke-kun! Then how about the two of us work on our team-"
"To be frank, your as bad as Naruto." She wilted. "No, you're worse than him. If you've got time to bother than me then try learning a jutsu or two." He walked away, leaving Sakura looking buried beneath his words. I gaped at Kakashi-sensei. Naruto, not being able to read the atmosphere, jumped and waved his hands at Sakura.
"Sakura-chan! Forget that stupid prick, let's train together!" He said happily. The air around Sakura darkened and Kakashi-sensei poofed away. Naruto looked around stupidly, asking "Where's Kakashi-sensei?" I shook my head and walked over to Sakura.
"Hey, wanna go train?" She looked hollow and shook her head slowly, glaring at Naruto. "Nevermind then." I said, nearly tripping over a box. A box that was hopelessly trying to look like a rock.
"What kind of rock is square with two holes in it?!?" Naruto shouted, pointing at the kids that crawled out of the box.
"Hey, it's Konohamaru!" I said, waving. He grinned and crossed his arms, standing in front of Naruto.
"This is the man I view as my rival." He said proudly. I walked over and crouched in front of him, pointing to myself.
"What about me?" I asked, tilting my head.
"And is this is Arashi-nee-chan. She's cooler than Naruto-nii though." He whispered the last part to his friends behind his hand. Naruto didn't notice and crossed his arms behind his head.
"What's with the goggles?"
"We're copying the old you, Naruto-nii!" Now that I looked, all three of them had on the same green goggles that Naruto used to wear.
"Um… Are you free today?" The little girl asked.
"Nope! I'm training today!" They all whined, pouting at him.
"But you promised to play ninja with us!!!" Sakura had walked over sometime and still carried that gloomy air with her.
"What kind of ninja would play ninja…" She said, her voice monotonous.
"Hey, nii-chan, who's this girl?" Konohamaru asked, pointing at Sakura. He though for a moment and then patted Naruto on the back. "Not bad nii-chan." Naruto had a confused look on his face. "She's your…" He wiggled his pinky finger. "This." Sakura saw and glared at the both of them. Naruto chuckled, a blush on his face and rubbed the back of his head.
"Wrong!!!" Sakura yelled, punching him in the face, sending him flying.
"Nii-chan!!!" Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon ran over to him. Maybe it was just that I was used to this that I didn't bother trying to help him anymore. "How dare you, you ugly bitch!" I slapped a hand on my forehead and shook my head, hearing Sakura crack her knuckles. By the time she was done, Konohamaru and Naruto had big bumps on their heads and several bruises. "Geez. That huge ugly big forehead… Is that really a girl nii-chan?" Sakura stopped in mid-step and started chasing them.
"Naruto, I'm going home!" I shouted after them, walking in the other direction.
I sighed, thanking my luck for not being Naruto. I hadn't even gotten off of the street when Moegi came running into me, tugging on my jacket. "Yeah?" She had a worried look on her face.
"Konohamaru-kun is in trouble!" I sighed and picked her up, running in the direction she pointed in. I set her down when I saw two Sand ninja, the one in black holding Konohamaru up. Just to be safe, I activated the Zetsumeigan. Naruto was on the floor, a glowing blue string of chakra wrapped around his ankle. I ran over to the guy, seeing his face shocked when his little chakra strings didn't work. Yay Level 1!Even though it's still weak! I drew my fist back and punched the guy in the face after he dropped Konohamaru. Glancing at his hand, there was a cut and a line of blood. I looked up in the tree and sure enough, Sasuke was there, tossing a rock up and down in his hand.
"What are you bastards doing in our village?" Konohamaru ran in front of Naruto.
"Naruto-nii, you suck."
"Tch. Another guy who pisses me off. And what's with this little brat…" He directed the last part to me, staring curiously at my eyes. I switched the Zetsumeigan off but turned it back on, focusing on a spot in the trees. That wasn't any normal chakra. And a lot of it was concentrated in a gourd-shape, on the back of a person around my height, I would guess.
"Hey, you're even going to use Karasu?" The girl asked , holding a hand out to him.
"Kankuro, stop it." The voice came from a guy with red hair hanging upside down from a tree branch. "You're an embarrassment to our village." I turned the Zetsumeigan off when his eyes met mine and turned to look at something else.
"G-Gaara…"
"Losing yourself in a fight, how ridiculous. Why do you think we came to Konoha?" His voice was so… eerie. Stay away from him. I blinked and would've started looking around if my hand hadn't reached up to fiddle with my locket.
Well, haven't heard you in a while. I already noticed something was strange about him. So don't worry-
"Shut up. I'll kill you." I gulped. Weren't they teammates?...
If you can avoid him, avoid him. Don't get near him. Especially in the Second Exam.
Exam? What Exam?
You'll learn soon enough.
"We didn't come here to play around." In a swirl of sand, Gaara was beside his teammates.
"I know, I'm sorry…" From the tone of their voices, Temari and Kankuro seemed to be scared of Gaara.
"Let's go."
"Hey, wait!" Sakura shouted. They turned around and had to listen to her nag at them for being in out village. Temari took out a slip of paper and held it up, chuckling.
"What, do you guys live under a rock?" She tucked it away and put a hand on her hip. "We're here to take the Chuunin Exams." Naruto had to make us look even more stupid and ask what it was. She explained and could've just as easily said it was to see if the Genin were ready to be promoted to the Chuunin level.
"Hey, what's your name?" Sasuke asked after getting down to where we were.
"Sabaku no Gaara. I am also interested in your name."
"Uchiha Sauske." He stated proudly. They left, Gaara giving a last glance at me before following his teammates. Naruto pouted and glared at Sasuke, most likely jealous.
If you guys get in the Chuunin Exams, don't use your Zetsumeigan so much around people. And there's probably going to be a lot of souls floating around there, so don't forget to pick them up.
Okay, okay. I already thought about that. Except for the "a lot of souls" part. It's not going to be a walk in the park, is it.
Nope. He seemed to have calmed down from before. Or maybe he just had split personalities.
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"Naruto, get over it and teach me Kage Bunshin!" I said, following after him and pulling on his sleeve.
"I already told you how to do it!" I let go and fell back, laying down in the grass. He sighed and sat down cross legged and crossed his arms.
We trained for a while and the most I could make was around 25. But they didn't last long, especially when I had the Zetsumeigan on. When I tested how far we could be separated, I found out that their… 'memories', I guess you would call it were brought back in me, so I could see what had happened.
"Hey, Naruto." I paused, taking a sip from my juice box. "When are you and Sakura gonna go out?"
"Whenever she gets over Sasuke and realizes how much cooler I am than him!" I laughed and sat up, pulling the ribbons out of my hair and brushed my hair with my fingers. "Hey, how come you only use those ribbons?" I shrugged and tied them back up.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow. See ya." I said, standing up and waved, walking back to my house.
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"I don't get it!!! Why does the person that asks us to meet have to be late!" Sakura yelled, fed up with Kakashi-sensei's habit of being late.
"Then just get here later. Geez." That's what I did. Actually, I had just gotten here.
"What about the feelings of a young girl that didn't have time to blow dry her hair?!?" Naruto was right beside her, cheering.
"Yeah, yeah! I overslept too and didn't wash my face of brush my teeth!" We all took a couple steps away from him.
"Eww… Naruto-kun, that's gross." He laughed and scratched the back of his head.
"Morning guys!" We all looked up at Kakashi-sensei who was sitting on the top of a gate. "Today I got lost on the road of life."
"Yeah right! Quit lying!" Naruto and Sakura yelled in unison. Kakashi-sensei jumped off and stood in front of us.
"Well anyways… This is sudden but I've entered you guys in the Chuunin Exams." He said calmly.
"What did you say?!?"
"You think that makes up for-"
"Here are your applications." He said, holding out four slips of paper. All of us were at some level of happiness. Naruto especially, who jumped on Kakashi-sensei hugging him.
"Kakashi-sensei, I love you!!!" After the hug fest was over and everyone calmed down sensei started talking.
"All I've done is entered you. Whether or not you want to take the exam is up to you. Those who wish to take it should sign those forms and turn them in at room 301 by 4PM tomorrow. That is all." He poofed away and left us staring at the papers.
"I'm definitely going to take this." I stated, digging out a pen. I signed the paper and folded it carefully, tucking it into my pocket. "What about…" When I looked at them, Naruto and Sasuke both looked ready to win this. Or maybe they just wanted to fight some really strong people. While I was walking along lost in my own thoughts, I didn't even notice that we had left Sakura behind to think on her own.
(Heeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy…I haven't been writing since forever, as you may or may not have noticed. Haha… But thanks to uh… sorry, I can't remember your name XI I've decided to pick up the story again. Lol. So I know this one sucked but I thought it was a good place to end this chapter before it got too long, if it wasn't already. Keep reading cuz I've decided to BS school work and spend my time writing or playing GW. PM me if you play! XD)
