Chapter 7: You are so annoying!

A smile slowly appeared on Yuko's lips as he recognized her and she tilted her head a bit to the side. "Long time no see, Kakashi." She said and waved at him.

Kakashi looked at Yuko and was still surprised that she was there. He thought that he would never see her again after she left the village with her parents twenty years ago. The boy with the whiskers once again waved his hand in front of Kakashi's face and then he looked at the woman with the magenta hair. "Do you know Kakashi-sensei?"

Yuko looked at the boy with a smile and nodded. "Yes I do. I used to live here twenty years ago and Kakashi was my frie-… No, I won't call him a friend, because that's not what he was. I don't really know what he was to me." She said and looked back at Kakashi, who looked like he had returned to reality. "Yuko… What are you doing here? I thought you left Konoha forever." Kakashi said and rubbed the back of his head.

Yuko shook her head. "Well, I didn't. After living in Kumogakure for twenty years I decided to move back to the village where I was born. I arrived just two days ago." She said and moved her hair behind her ears.

"Really? Did you move back here on your own, or along with your parents?" Kakashi asked curiously, but Yuko ignored his question, since he had no right to ask about her parents, and she did not want to talk about her parents, so she just looked at the three teenagers. "Are those your students? How old are they?" She asked, since she was curious to know their age.

Kakashi nodded lightly and looked at Yuko. "Yes. This is Naruto, Sakura and Sai. Sai was added to my team just recently. Naruto and Sakura are 15 years old and Sai is 16 years old."

Yuko nodded understanding and blinked when Naruto suddenly stood right in front of her and looked at her as if he was examining her. "Are you really an old friend of Kakashi-sensei's?" He asked and crossed his arms over his chest.

Sakura's eye twitched annoyed and clenched a fist before she hit Naruto on top of his head. "Naruto! Don't get so close to her! You don't know her! And it's rude to get all up in the face of someone you don't know!" She scolded him and looked angry.

Yuko sweat dropped lightly and rubbed the back of her head. "It's okay. It's not like he was all up on my face, so there's no need to scold him. And I wouldn't really say that I'm an old friend of Kakashi's. More like an old acquaintance." She said and shrugged a bit.

"Yuko." Kakashi said and stepped closer to her and placed a hand on her shoulder to get her attention. He had something he wanted to ask her.

"Hm?" Yuko asked and looked at him with a slightly annoyed look on her face. "What is it?" She could see a smile playing on his lips behind his mask, which made her raise an eyebrow at him and question what he had to say to her.

"Why did you interrupt my training with my team? I find it hard that it was only to say hello to me." Kakashi said and kept smiling the same smile. He was acting like everything was okay between the two of them.

Yuko kept her eyebrow raised and folded her arms over her chest. "I told you that when I grabbed my kunai from the ground. If you want to improve their weapon skills you should give them something more challenging than just throwing kunais and shurikens at a target."

Kakashi raised his eyebrow at her and crossed his arms over his chest as well. "Is that so? Since when did you become a weapon expert? Last time I checked you couldn't even hit the targets even though how much you trained." He said, but short after regretted saying that. He did not meant to bring up something from the past, but it had just ticked him off a bit that Yuko was questioning his training methods. After all, as far as he knew, Yuko could not throw a kunai or a shuriken the last time he saw her and he had no idea of how much she had improved since then.

Yuko's eye twitched when Kakashi made that remark and she felt like breaking him into two for saying that, but she knew that she could not do that and took a few deep breaths to calm down. "For your information, Kakashi, I became an expert and specialist on weapons when I was 19, and if you would have cared to show up at the third training ground yesterday when the tests started, you would have seen my weapon skill test. Instead you showed up late and came with some lame excuse that you had to help an old lady with her groceries." She said and looked away from him before she would explode.

Kakashi sweat dropped a bit and rubbed the back of his head. "Lame excuse? It was true enough though. I really did have to help an old lady." He said instead of saying anything else about how Yuko used to handle her weapons when she was a kid. He figured that it would probably piss her off even more if he did it again, and he honestly did not want to piss her off. He had only seen her again for a few minutes and considering how she reacted the day before when he mentioned something from the past, he already had a pretty good idea that she had a short temper.

Both Naruto and Sakura got in front of Kakashi and began to shout at him. "You always show up late and come with some lame excuse, Kakashi-sensei!" They pointed at him while shouting at him, but Kakashi just ignore them and took a step closer to Yuko, who just frowned a bit and took a step away from him. "You're hopeless Kakashi!" She reached into her weapon holster and grabbed three kunais between her fingers and moved her eyes to the side, glancing briefly at the targets that was placed about thirty meters away. She looked back at Kakashi and threw the three kunais, hitting one of the targets bullseye. She huffed satisfied when she saw that Kakashi was staring at her. "So, Kakashi. Do you want to eat the words you said to me twenty years ago?" She asked and raised her eyebrow at him.

"I, uhm…" Kakashi trailed off, as if he did not know what to say, and rubbed the back of his head as he looked at the three kunais again. He was honestly surprised that she had managed to improve her weapon skills that much over the past twenty years, considering that she could barely hit the targets when she was just five meters away from the targets when she was a kid. He was about to say something when he heard Gai yell in the distance. "Yuko-chaaaaan~"

Yuko blinked when she heard someone yell her name in a way she recognized. She looked to her right to look at the person who called out her name and saw Gai come running towards them and before she knew of it she was tackled to the ground by Gai, who hugged her tightly and made her laugh. "Gai! You're hugging me too tight!" Yuko said while laughing.

"Yuko-chan~! You are back!" Gai said and rubbed his cheek against Yuko's while crying like he did the day she left Konoha, which made Yuko giggle lightly. She pushed him off of her and got up from the ground. "I sure missed your silliness and personality Gai. Although I'm a little puzzled how you recognize me now when you didn't recognize me yesterday. How come?" She asked and dusted her clothes off.

Gai got up from the ground and looked at Yuko with a confident smile on his face. "I sure missed you too! Konoha wasn't the same after you moved, and I recognized you yesterday after your fight with Kakashi, because you flipped out on him, but you disappeared before I got a chance to say anything to you. I heard someone yelling at Kakashi just now and you're the only one I know who has yelled at him like that."

Yuko nodded lightly and was about to apologize for just disappearing like that the other day, but was cut off before she even got to open her mouth when someone called out Gai's name. "Gai-sensei!" Yuko looked in the direction Gai had come from and saw two guys and a girl run towards them. She could recognize the girl from the day before. It was Tenten, the girl se did the weapon test with, but she did not recognize the two guys though. One of them had long brown hair, which he had tied in a very loose pony tail, and his eyes looked like he was blind. The other guy actually looked like a mini version of Gai. It freaked Yuko out a bit, because it was just like looking at Gai when he was younger.

Gai looked at the three teenagers and then back at Yuko. "Yuko, these are my students. Neji, Lee and Tenten. You probably recognize Tenten from yesterdays test. Guys, this is my childhood friend, Yuko." He said and smiled widely while patting Yuko's hair.

Yuko gigged and grabbed his hand to stop him from patting her head. "It's good to see that you haven't changed at all Gai. I sometimes missed your silliness when I was in Kumo. I could have used you to cheer me up on many occasions." She said and then looked at Kakashi with an annoyed expression on her face. "You don't seem to have changed either, which is a shame. And before you ask, no, I did not miss you."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at Yuko and crossed his arms over his chest. "Oh? I feel so loved now." He said with a somewhat cheeky and teasing tone in his voice, which really annoyed Yuko. "You're so annoying!" She said and huffed at him as she slapped him across the face, making everyone blink and stare in surprise. "You deserved that!" She said with a sharp tone in her voice.

"Woah! Why did you do that to Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked as he looked at Yuko and then looked at Kakashi again, who was rubbing his cheek and looked surprised himself.

Yuko glanced to the side at Naruto before stepping away from Kakashi. "Let me guess. He never told you guys how mean he was when he was a kid?"

Naruto and Sakura both blinked slightly surprised by her question and shook their heads no at the same time. Their sensei never spoke of his past, so they had no idea how he behaved as a kid or how his childhood was.

"Okay then. Let me tell you a little about your sensei." Yuko said and looked at Naruto and Sakura. "Kakashi used to tease me endlessly about my poor ninja skills, but he mostly teased me about my weapon skills. I may even say that it was close to bullying. I was not a good ninja as a kid, nor was I smart or good with weapons. I was only 5 years old had just started in the academy, but he was pointing out my flaws almost every day and up to the day I left Konoha with my parents." She said and looked at Kakashi after she finished explaining to Naruto and Sakura what he did her when they were kids.

Kakashi sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "I'm really sorry that I did that to you Yuko. I really am." He said and looked at me with a guilty look in his uncovered eye. He looked like that he really was sorry about it and that it was really nagging him.

Yuko raised her eyebrow a bit in disbelief and crossed her arms over her chest. "Hm, sure you are Kakashi. I've been here for about half an hour or so, and you haven't given me a proper apology yet." She said and looked away from him.

"I truly am sorry about it Yuko. I know that a simply apology won't be enough to make it up to you, but I want to apologize to you properly. Let me start out with buying some weapons from your parents' weapon shop when it opens again." Kakashi said and slipped his hands into his pockets.

Yuko frowned a bit when Kakashi mentioned her parents and their shop. She clenched her fists to not yell at him. "Well, you can't do that." She said and kept looking away from him.

"Come on Yuko. Are you really that mad at me that you won't let me buy weapons in your parents' shop?" Kakashi asked and raised an eyebrow.

Yuko felt the tears fight their way to her eyes and she did her best to fight them back. She did not want Kakashi to see her cry as one of the first things after all these years. She was not the same weak crybaby as she was when she was a kid, but her parents were a very sensitive subject for her. When she felt Kakashi's hand on her shoulder she could not fight them back any longer. She pushed his hand off of her shoulder and turned around to look at him. "You can't go to their weapon shop, because they're not coming! They're dead!" She snapped at him and looked into his visible eye and watched as it widened when he saw the single tear that ran down her cheek. "Yuko, I-..." He was cut off by Yuko when she shook her head. "Don't. Just don't." She said as the last thing before she disappeared from the third training ground.