"INTRUDER!" A young slightly deep voice shouts, my eyes snap open and I jump backwards in shock. It was no point, the three shinobi were surrounding me. Well, two young shinobi and an older one.
"ITS A HUMAN, WHAT DO WE DO GAI-SENSEI!" The wide eyed one shouts and I gesture for him to be quiet.
"My ears work, surprisingly," I mutter lowly in annoyance. There was a girl with two buns in her hair and her chakra had a metallic feel, along with the loud ass eyebrows boy and a man in a green one piece with a bowl cut.
"Don't teams normally have 4 mem-"
"Whats your business?" A deeper and scarier voice growls from behind me, he had a kunai pressed to the inside of my throat.
"Relax, big guy, I don't have any murderous urges, I'm a friendly stranger," I grunt, my hood falling onto my neck and revealing my face.
"HE'S A CHILD!?!, Let him go Neji-"
Suddenly the guy from behind me is next to bushy brows, covering his mouth.
"Uh Lee, we're kids," The bun girl states and I roll my eyes, I take a step back and wince, my ankle was still sprained pretty bad. The adult, probably also the teams sensei, stares at me before nodding to himself.
"We shall take her back to the village to recuperate," He states with arms crossed over his chest, my eyes widen.
"Uh, no villages please, I'm kind of not from here," I mumble and the 'Neji'
guy faces me for the first them and I instantly notice his eyes.
Neji..Hyuga...
"Ohh, well we should still stay nearby, incase you are a spy. So for now you can help us out with our mission," Gai says, proud of himself for some reason.
"Uh Bushy brows sensei, I can't walk," I manage to admit with an embarrassed smile.
"GAH!" He shouts, flinching like he just got stabbed.
"My name is Might Gai" He corrects me, posing. I roll my eyes and sigh gently, arms crossing around my chest.
"AND I AM ROCK LEE!" The short bushy brows says, posing like Gai and somehow shining like a star too.
"And I am losing my patience, maybe the wild bear could come kill me and save you the trouble," I mumble, sending them a childish grin, turning to where I heard a noise.
"Here he comes," I add lowly, lips spreading to allow a grin on my face.
"We can take on a wild be-"
The massive bear swipes his paw and the trees surrounding us disappeared. It was quite a foe.
Gai stares at me in shock before picking me up and running, his pupils not long behind him.
I jump out of him arms, sick of running from everything like a mouse. I just found someone to protect.
I take my kunai out and aim it at the bear.
"Stop!" Lee shouts and I freeze, my kunai pointing at Lee's nose.
Lee stares at me intently.
"Please don't kill this animal," Lee adds and my eyes widen, I pull my hood on in annoyance, huffing under my breath.
"Why would you defend the animal trying to-"
I look up to see Lee petting the massive bear.
This guy is...
Four days later
Lee wipes his tears, he and Gai were pouring their eyes out and I was close.
"Do you have to go?" TenTen asks in a soft voice and I smile sheepishly at her, scratching my neck. Lee grabs my foot, Gai holding the other one.
"Come and join the leaf village! You'd make an amazing ninja!" Gai suggests and I smile weakly, looking away.
"Yeah I might, later, someone is still waiting for me back home" I yawn, glancing at the sky lazily.
"SAFE TRAVELS" Lee cries, pulling me into a tight hug. I giggle and hug him back.
"I'll miss you Lee~," I whine and he gets off me, still bawling.
"Bye Mika-chan," Gai grins and I smile at him, going to shake his hand but he also pulls me into a tight hug like young Lee.
After everyone says their goodbyes, besides Neji. I put my arm around the Hyuga.
"Bye Neji!" I shout and he huffs a goodbye under his breath and I smile wildly, before jumping onto the roof of the hut we were in.
"BYE GUYS!"
Timeskip to Sakura's blossoming! Swish, hair cut!
A sudden overwhelming rage fills my consciousness, blood burning inside of me and I swear I felt fire inside every inch of my body. I open my eyes slowly, everything was darker and asides from the burning inside of me everything was cold. This felt so wrong and evil. Everything hurt! I climb up and glance around, the unconscious Sasuke was sweating and groaning in pain next to me. Naruto and Noir was also passed out, the fox was laying on the blondes chest, snoring gently.
It took me a few seconds of staring at Sasuke to realise, he was in the same boat as me. We both had this.. gift. We were stuck with eachother. I walk out of the makeshift cover and gasp softly, someone was hurting Sakura. Someone was hurting her! I will protect her!
"Back the fuck off," I hiss in a voice that felt as evil as the chakra inside of me, the mark on my neck burned even more as a new cold chakra filled my body. Sakura winces and steps backwards, fear in those bright eyes. It didn't stop me, long hard bones stretch from my palms and before the three attackers could blink there was a bone inside two of their hearts. The final one was gasping with shock and fear.
I hear Sakura cry in shock and I tense up, Sasuke was awake. The Uchiha and I lock eye contact when he appears next to me, holy shit, do I look like that? Does my chakra feel so.. cold and heartless?!
I groan and collapse onto my knees, the inside of my body felt like burning hot lava. I.. was hurting.. Sakura.. because she was scared-
"Mika?"
Shikamaru? Shit! He's here? No! No! I close my eyes and try to drown out the burning ice cold feeling, I had to think more about their mental safety. They need me to make them happy!
Everything felt warm, almost. It was almost normal. Almost was enough. If it meant that I could control myself then it was more than enough.
"I-I'm sorry you had to see that," I softly let out, my eyes focused on the branch below my body. I couldn't dare be worthy of looking at them. I look up only when the final sound ninja leaves us a scroll and runs away. We already have an earth scroll. Shikamaru and Ino sit down to my left and I glance painfully at the unconscious Lee. Poor thing.. I couldn't get up in time.
"You guys take the earth scroll, we have one." I softly say, still keeping my eyes away from anyone elses as I hand the fairly large scroll to team ten. Sakura and Sasuke make their way to our little circle and sit with us, Choji was eating some berries he had found.
"You guys shouldn't stick around, trouble follows us," Sakura mumbles sourly, begrudingly letting Ino style her freshly cut hair. I blink and bring my knees to my chest. I could have stopped Sasuke from being given that seal, I'm sure.
"We have the same gift, right?" Sasuke asks and I look at him with mild disgust. A gift?
"This is not a gift! It is a trap!" I shout, wincing when Shikamaru tugs on my sleeve. Wait- I look down and blush tremendously. The whole stomach area of my clothes was ripped off and the new seal occasionally glowed as I tried to reach my chakra.
"Mika, what happened to you guys?" Shikamaru asks tentivly, thankfully Sakura answers for me and I just listen. Some of that story was completely new to me.
"Oh, by the way, when I was being attacked by G- the sand team I stole their heaven scroll so we're good to go," I pull the scroll out from my bag and smirk when Sakura's jaw practically drops, Ino reaches for it but stops when she receives withering glares from Sasuke and I.
"What a drag, Ino we both have the heaven and earth scrolls. So, no need in taking theirs-"
"But it is just so.. tempting," The blonde blushes and claps her hands at her new creation. Sakura looked as pretty as ever to me. I smile softly and put the scroll back in my bag, Sasuke was watching me with weary eyes.
"Should we tell Naruto?" Sakura interrupts the Uchiha and I stare at eachother and then we both look at her slowly.
"No way," Sasuke said before anyone else could talk, which was stupid since I knew that Naruto already knew cause I had told him.
"I told him about mine so, I guess you could try to hide it, Uchiha," I smirk when my two teammates sigh in exasperation.
"Is it that hard to lie to him?" Ino asks and I nod instantly.
"Naruto is my closest friend-"
Shikamaru coughs and I grin, punching his shoulder softly.
"Don't get jealous 'Maru, I see Naruto as a brother. I get to see a lot more of you-"
"Ugh!" Ino shouts with disgust, Sakura following her. Sasuke rolls his eyes and mumbles 'classic mika' and Shikamaru blushes and pushes me over. I lay on my back and stare at the trees above us.
"Team ten can leave whenever you want but we're going to stay and wait for Lee and Naruto to wake up," I yawn, Ino and Sakura glance at eachother and smile softly.
"We'll wait," Ino decides, gesturing for me to sit up. I hesitantly do so and suddenly the female kunochi is fiddling with my hair- though there wasn't that much to fiddle with.
"Hmm, you look too much like a boy," She pouts and I wince, hand covering my heart as the rest of squad ten snickers at their blunt blonde.
"Ouch." Ino puts my hair into a tiny ass pony tail, I'd barely consider calling it that though.
"Cute, cut that shirt some more and you'll be a real charme-"
"INO I WILL DISINTEGRATE YOU!" I whisper shout, jumping up and running towards Naruto. I take the blondes jacket off, he had a white shirt underneath, and put it over myself, not giving a shit about the bright orange.
"Girl that does not go with your eyes or anything!" Ino whines, leaping for me but I just dance away from her. Sakura laughs and Choji chuckles whilst the other two just roll their eyes. I trip over a low hanging branch and fall on my ass, blushing when Ino also falls over and lands atop of me. The blonde blushes tremendously and tries to wriggle off of me, I simply start sniggering like an idiot.
"Woah, I think I just got a little bit gayer," I mumble, full out chuckling when the blonde screams and runs away, hiding with Sakura behind Sasuke. I smirk and sit cross legged by the branch, zipping up my new jacket and humming. It didn't look good, at all. Who said being a ninja meant looking good all the time anyway? Plus with this now ice cold chakra in my body it felt nice to be warmer. This 'gifts' chakra seemed to sporadically change between burning hot and ice cold.
Like ten minutes of lounging later and Lee's team shows up, thanking us and then grabbing the clad bound warrior. Soon after that Naruto shouts and woke up, taking like a whole minute to understand what he was looking at. Two dead sound nin bodies, which Sasuke moved away, and two genin teams peacefully relaxing. Then our eyes meet and a huge smile grows on his face.
"MIKA! YOU'RE OK!" He leaps towards me and hugs me tightly, Sasuke scoffs when my face turns bright red. Naruto did to me what I did to Shikamaru without even trying. I lean into the hug and sigh softly, I swear Naruto gave the best hugs. The two of us roll around on the floor hugging before the blonde sits up and rubs his bruised arm in pain.
"Naruto, are you ok?" Sakura asks awkwardly, tugging at the blondes sleeve and giving him a quick once over.
"I've been better, but c'mon! We have a scroll to find."
"Uh.. Naruto... heh I stole one-"
"WHAT?!?? MIKA YOU ARE SO COOL!!" The blonde once again wraps his arms around me and I swear I saw Shikamaru tsked jealously. After a few minutes spent packing up to cover our trail we all took off together to the tower.
And in about an hour we were there, our two teams go into separate rooms and I take the new peace to lay on the cool tile floor and pass out.
"MIKA! OI!"
Iruka? Why was-!
"Sen... sei?" I sit up and rub my eyes, smiling gingerly at my old sensei. The dolphin sensei smiles softly and continues some sort of speech. I bet he had pulled some strings to get here.
"You have a day to spend doing whatever you want, not healing or anything but rest is fine,"
And with that the blast from the past turned into a cloud.
The second we go inside I found the closest bed and threw myself into it, rolling myself in the blanket and only unwrapping it so that Naruto could sneak inside. Sakura and Sasuke send me a judging look but I shrug it off, cuddles are cuddles.
About 3 hours of lowkey spooning later and I sense Gaara's murderous chakra entering the tower. Oooohhh shit! I'm dead! I quickly cover up my Chakra signature and close my eyes tightly, he's going to kill me!
I feel the presence hover at the door and my eyes widen, it's Naruto. Naruto threatened him more than once. Shit! Shit! I flare up my chakra, as much as I could and climb out of the cuddle burrito, Naruto still snoring loudly. I pull the door open and almost scream when I see Gaara, the shadows making him look quite demonic.
"Why does the blonde want to hurt me? He doesn't.. know me.." Gaara growls, sand slowly slithering towards Naruto. I hiss and shove the redhead backwards, flinching when Sasuke appears at my side, well in front of me. The Uchiha growls lowly and sends a withering glare to the sand user.
"Sorry but I still need our wildcard to be alive, sensei wouldn't approve of me letting her die. Back off," Sasuke threatens lowly, smirking when Gaara scoffs and storms off. I blink slowly and smirk slyly at Sasuke, who took one look at me and groaned loudly.
"I didn't- I don't care about you or Na-"
"Ohoho reallllly? You seemed to wake your ass up to save me preeetttyyyy quick!" I whisper shout, easily dodging his punch. Sasuke rolls his eyes and pushes past me, climbing back into his respective bed and laying down, eyes open. I hum and take my gloves off, dropping them and shouting when they make a loud thud sound. Oh right, they weigh what? 20 kg?
I squat down and read the tag, eyes widening when my eyes trail across the numbers.
"What?" Sasuke asks, sitting up and staring at me with confusion.
"Ne, Sasuke, c'mere and pick these up," I smirk, knowing full well that he'll underestimate the weight. The Uchiha blinks very slowly and jumps off of the bed, reaching down to pick them up. The opposing weights makes him fall forwards and flat on his face.
"BAHAHAHAHAH! Oh mY GOD!" I shout, falling backwards and laughing loudly. Sasuke glares at me and reads the tags, his own eyes widening.
"50kg? Are you crazy? Sakura probably weighs that much. That's two Sakura's." Sasuke hisses, watching with wide eyes as I easily slip the gloves on and punch the air. The black haired male growls and looks at me with spite.
"I thought it said 20kg.." I admit sheepishly, I guess I pulled my punches a lot without realising, as a habit.
"Why are you so strong yet you don't use it for anything?" He asks, angry about something beyond me.
"Um, I use it to protect your soft ass," I smirk when he blushes and glares at me harder. We both look at the snoring Naruto in harmony, who grunted and rolled over.
"Can you really sleep with that new curse mark..?" Sasuke asks in a low voice, I tilt my head and sigh softly, begrudgingly even.
"No, I was keeping an ear out for you lot," I admit, Sakura also groans with annoyance and I giggle.
"I'm going to watch the stars to clear my head," I decide, dusting myself off and climbing up. I softly tred out of our personal room and chakra walk up the walls, stopping at the roof and sitting on the very edge. Gaara was lurking around, probably hunting down innocent stragglers. I lay on my back and stare up, the stars always stay there. They never leave.
I watch the starts shine brightly and eventually I start daydreaming, just thinking about how I could have saved Sasuke and what the hell this curse mark meant.
Orochimaru said that I need to go to him with Sasuke and that he thinks Sasuke will be easier than me to be persuaded. Why? What did he need Sasuke and I for?
What do Sasuke and I have in common? Last known survivor of their clan? Black hair?? Oh shit! Kekkei genkai's! Who wouldn't want a sharingan and furthermore who wouldn't want a rare as fuck bone ability.
Maybe he wants us to be in an army of some sort? Like soliders? So why did he not take Naruto too? It has to be more than just that.. he doesn't seem to give a shit about who we are, only what we have. Sure he could steal sharingan eyes but.. my ability? He can't just steal my skeleton. I shiver even at the thought of that.
Enough, that is seriously gross. Whatever this guy wants I am not giving it to him and I sure as hell won't let him take Sasuke either. The second that Uchiha was bitten he became a priority to me. I will guard him with my life as I do Naruto and Sakura.. and all my other friends.
A sudden presence makes me tense up, the Uchiha sits down a few metres away from me and silently stares at the sky. The sun was slowly peeking up and setting fire to the pitch black tarp that covered the land.
"I don't want to talk, I just want to be away from people," He grunts, closing his eyes and crossing his arms over his chest. I shrug, nothing wrong with that.
Sasuke does seem to be more trusting to this curse mark than I am, I mean he outright called it a gift without hesitation. Is he that hungry for power? Is he fighting for a dark cause that I don't know about? I seem to not know a lot about this sharingan blessed boy. Only one way to find this out.
"Yo Sasuke, why are you fighting? What pushes you to become stronger?" I ask, grinning when he glares coldly at me and purses his lips.
"Why should I tell you?" He responds, scooting further away from me.
"Hmmm 'cause you're here and I'm curious and also you're my team mate," I suggest, pointing up a finger as I list off a reason. Sasuke's shoulders tense up and he lets out a low sigh, turning his head away from me.
"I want to kill the person who murdered my clan," His voice was surprisingly soft as he spoke, an underlying tiredness in his tone and in the way he sat. I nod slowly, watching the sun slowly make its way to the middle of the sky.
"Will you kill whoever gets in your way?" I respond slowly, flinching at the glare that was instantly shot at me.
"Are you going to get in my way?" He counters and I shrug, my expression sobering.
"Only if you get in the way of my dream. I want to keep the people I love safe and if you even try to get in the way of that I assure you that you'll suffer a fate worse than death." I threaten lowly, Sasuke glares at me with a firey anger and I laugh sheepishly.
"Idiot. You're one of the people I'll protect so don't go out on suicide missions... the fate worse than death is having me follow you around ruining your plans," I try to lighten the mood but Sasuke just turns away and scoffs, his form still very tense and protective.
"I still think you're an egotistical shit head, but you're team seven's egotistical shit head." I grunt, getting up and dusting myself off. It was time for the next part of the exams, I turn to look at Sasuke and blink slowly when I realise that he was no longer there. Wow ok.
Timeskip
"Congratulations to those who made it this far," The Hokage starts, a bunch of Anbu and Jonin surrounding him. I had found Kiba and instantly was latched onto him, he seemed super glad to see me partly ok.
When the new part of the exams is announced I am instantly at my teams side. Sakura's eyes were watering, because she wasn't about to let Sasuke or I lose control. I slowly slip my hand into Sakura's and squeeze it gently.
"If anything happens, I'm the protector, right? I'll keep him safe," I softly reassure her, the pinkette sniffs and nods slowly, letting me hug her tightly. I ignored how she whispered 'but who can keep you safe?' and I'm assuming she thought I didn't hear her.
The sickly looking guy nods once no one else forfeits (Kankuro had given up) and we all make our way up to the top. Naruto instantly raced to Kakashi and Sakura followed with a small smile. The second the jonin saw Sasuke and I, I was hiding behind the Uchiha (who was glaring back at me), his eye is filled with shock.
"Orochimaru.. I knew he got in but I didn't know what he did.. when your fights are over I'll try to seal them up," The white haired sensei says, tensing up when the first fight is displayed in bold on the screen. Sasuke was up.
Sakura's eyes land on me and I nod softly, her expression relaxes a bit and she lets herself smile when Ino's team wanders over. Shikamaru sits next to me, I was sitting cross legged in front of the railing, and Naruto sits on my other side. The fight was crazy, I think the guy Sasuke fought was on Kabuto's team? The Uchiha made every second count and every hit was filled with precision and strength. It barely lasted five minutes.
The second he gets back up to us he is being whisked away by Kakashi, I blink slowly and watch them leave. I want to.. go with them.. but I can't..
A few fights later, between people I didn't know, and a familiar name pops up on the screen. Sakura verses Ino. The pinkette winces and I smile at her widely, which seemed to make her smile and blush in reponse. When the two get down there Naruto and I began our cheer.
"SAKURA SAKURA SHE'S OUR GAL! SHE'LL KICK YOUR ASS AND THEN TELL YOU HOW!" We shout in harmony, grinning when the pinkette turns bright red and glares darkly at us. The protractor rolls his eyes and starts the match.
This one.. had a lot of emotional backstory to it. A lot of inside pain and distrust. A lost friendship. I almost cried when they both passed out on the floor, Naruto seemed to be worried as all hell for our team mate. At some point Lee wanders over too, complaining about the long wait.
I was starting to doze off against Naruto when he suddenly shot up. It was him verses Kiba. No fucking way.
"Naruto, do well," Shikamaru says lazily, smirking when the blonde blushes and nods. Naruto's eyes land on me and I muster up the biggest smile I can.
"Show them your greatness!" I cheer, he practically beams at me and leaps off of the railing. This fight was.. interesting. Kiba was being cruel. He was being a bit of a show off too, shooting me a smirk every now and then. Neither of us were expecting Naruto to plant secret paper bombs under the dirt, and for Kiba to step directly onto one. The second that the brunette was down Naruto and his clones beat him senseless. Naruto was letting himself be beaten to a pulp- well he was letting a clone be beaten to pulp (but only the jonin and some of the chakra sensors could figure that out)- to tire Kiba out and then with one strategic shove the Inuzaki was half unconscious already.
I cheer loudly and clap my hands like a proud soccor mum. Naruto won and the two remaining were put on a stretcher. Shikamaru and some sand nin I think were next and he obviously kicks his ass, the guy wasn't on Gaara's team so there must've been two sand teams. At this point Noir had wandered over from wherever she was sleeping and plopped herself in my lap. There were a few more matches (Hinata and Neji, Choji and another sand ninja guy.. ect) Lee continues to complain from behind me and it was like fate was striking him right in the face.
Rock Lee verses Sabuko No Gaara.
I close my eyes and bite my lip roughly. Shit. I can't. Lee is going to get hurt if he doesn't fight at one hundred percent.
This fight.. was hard for me to watch. I.. I was on edge the whole time. I secretly wanted Lee to win because.. because if he lost he wouldn't just be losing a match. He could lose his life.
When Gaara tries his finishing move I do something that a wild card would do. I take off my gloves and punch him in the face- I leapt from the railing to do so- which sent the sand user flying into the wall. There was a series of gasps and Kakashi stood protectively in front of me.
"Why.. did you hurt me..you said you don't hate me..?" Gaara hisses when he climbs out of the small Gaara shaped hole he made in the arena. I bite my lip when I notice his bloody lip and the cracked sand. That was a pretty fucking hard hit.
"Sometimes to show someone how much you love them you need to teach them a lesson when they're being an idiot," I explain, flinching when his sand tries to reach out to me. Thankfully his siblings and his jonin leader take him away before I ended up decapitated. Kakashi slowly turns and shoots me a completely dumbfounded look.
"You're completely lacking in the brain department, aren't you?"
"Heh, maybe.. how is Sasuke?"
This made Kakashi's eye harden. He tenses up and shakes his head.
"Just go back up to the others-"
"Mika Kaguya.. verses Mikano Kaguya."
"Isn't she.. dead.. Mika?" Kakashi shot me a very confused look.
What the fuck? No. No she is dead! I watched her die!
"I.. I.."
But standing right in front of me was none other than myself, not literally. Mikano, those lifeless cold eyes and that skinny pale face. She was alive all this time. She sneezed and I felt a weird sensation but I brushed it off as confusion.
"WHAT?!? MIKA HAS A TWIN??"
"I'd say long time no see but uh.. I never did see you so it's more like all the time no see." Mikano awkwardly chuckles and I almost choke on a sob. Mother fucker.
"What the fuck..?" Was all I could say that wasn't an incoherent scream. Kakashi awkwardly teleports back up to Naruto and I look at the coughing proctor. Shit. I need more time to talk to her. She looked so different to when I last saw her, so happy.
"The match begins.. now."
I take a few awkward steps back, my whole body trembling slightly. Mikano stares lifelessly ahead, her chakra felt sandy and dry. It started flaring up and then it completely returns to normal. I stare at her with wide eyes, she can sense my chakra too. Right..
"You're going to have to make the first move," I growl lowly, my eyes locked on hers as I take a few steps backwards. Mikano tilts her head and smirks.
"Why? You're too nice to take on the blind girl?" Mikano sneers, the sand all over the ground starts shaking and rising, moving towards her. I blink slowly. She had a lot less chakra than me but she still had a fair amount and it seemed that using sand jutsu would be useless for me, since she was clearly having the upper hand with that element.
I take a deep breath and leap towards her, moving faster without the gloves on my hands. I don't even pull back my hits, she somehow slides away from my punches and dodges like a complete pro. Everywhere my punches aimed a burst of wind slammed against the walls and cracked them a bit.
"Shit, you have some serious muscle," Mikano compliments softly, still dodging perfectly. I growl and try to step back when she attempts her own punch but sand had attached to my foot.
Wait- that's my sand- Her fist collides with my cheek and I could feel the chakra buzzing behind that hit, my lip starts bleeding and I could feel a bruise forming on the place she hit.
I look back at Mikano with shock, her face was a breath away from mine. Her greyish green eyes glowed with humour.
"Go on, use it. Use the kekkei genkai that nearly got me killed. I know you want to. It's all you're good for." Mikano sneers, punching me again and starting some hand signs whilst I try to escape. I had only just got my foot out when her sickly voice fills my ears.
"Suna Ryuu no Jutsu," Mikano shouts, my eyes almost pop out of my head. I turn around and scream when a gigantic dragon made of sand slams me into the floor. She'd have no chakra after that, right?
"How can she see, Kakashi-sensei?!" Naruto shouts and I whimper, small cuts covering my body even though I used sand manipulation and chakra manipulation to soften the hit. I sit up and watch Mikano struggle to stay standing as the amount of chakra that move used would be incredibly draining. I bite my lip and shakily stand up.
"How can I see? Oh I can't see. Not like you, anyway. I see with my chakra. I've filled this whole arena with a small dust unseeable to the human eye, filled with my chakra." Mikano explains lowly, leaping towards me and grabbing my wrist. She-she's sucking it u-
I slap her away and wipe my lip, she's trying to steal my chakra. Where could she have learnt that? I growl and we both start hand signs.
"Kyuuten no Raikiri!" I shout, Mikano blinks with shock when the loud buzz of electricity fills the room. A long blade of electricity extends from my kunai and I slice at the girl, who tries and successfully dodges it. I continue following her in the high paced dance, every time the blade of electricity got too close to the girl she winched and leapt away. Eventually the chakra in the blade dies out and I throw a kunai (filled with electricity) at her, she backflips to dodge but it didn't matter. She couldn't see. She couldn't see the kunai purely buzzing with electrical energy, so when she tried to kick it out of the way she almost collapsed on the spot. I was about to punch her whilst she fought the spasms of pain but she had started handsigns and when my fist hit her cheek and sent her flying across the arena, the jutsu was starting.
"SAND TORNADO!"
Wave after wave of tornadoes are sent after me and I can do nothing but dodge them and try to keep myself from being impaled by the kunai that were hidden inside of the tornadoes.
"USE IT! I DARE YOU!" Mikano shouts once a tornado finally hits me, the impact makes me slam into the wall of the arena, my breath all escaping me. I gasp and struggle to breathe as more and more of her sand tornado's slam into me. She uses her-my chakra so well. Who taught her??
"IT WILL KILL YOU!" I warn, the curse mark throbbing painfully as I quickly do a substitution and appear behind Mikano. I'm running out. Bones start slowly growing from my wrist and I bite my lip softly, letting them grow until they're about the size of my arm. Mikano turns around and stops her tornado jutsu. She turns and faces me with a remorseful expression.
"I was hoping that you were above that, pathetic. That little container friend of yours really should consider getting better friends- it'll be your fault that he dies in the next stage of the exams." Mikano points at Naruto and then raises her hands, the air around me felt heavy and I knew I had to move fast.
I growl loudly and run towards her, engaging in a quick hard taijutsu battle. Every hit sent her flying across the arena but she just took a deep breath inwards and suddenly her chakra was replenished.. what the fuck is she doing, exactly? Kakashi's scoff was enough to make it click, the dust! She is using her chakra infused dust to suck up the people watching's chakra-
"That Naruto sure has a lot of chakra on him, maybe I'll do him a favour and kill him after I take it a-"
I was pinning her to the wall, which was almost reduced to rubble beneath the force of my attack. I quickly cover her with a thin layer of my chakra, blocking off her chakra stealing technique. I was hissing lowly, tears falling from my eyes as Mikano just sighs lifelessly. I heard the proctor explain that Mikano was going to die if I kept it up. I was so close to pulling away but she just had to open her mouth.
"You know, I could have come back to you. Been with my twin sister.. but being Orochimaru's little suicide bomber just felt so much more worth it."
Sand started wrapping around Mikano and I could feel her chakra pulling towards Naruto, she was going to teleport to him! She was going to kill him! I slam her head against the wall until there was blood covering every part of my arms. But I couldn't stop there, I COULDN'T STOP!
"MIKA! NO!"
Third person
Fire shook inside of her small tanned body, blood burning and raging through her viens. Her heart pounded viciously and her whole body was trembling with the purest emotion. Usually soft green eyes were sharp and murderous and her lips were pulled into a tight frown, blood dripping on the floor between the twins.
The bone went right through the blind girls throat and blood was dripping along it, staining that sickly white colour. Mika didn't even blink as she pulled away and let the bone return into her body, turning as the lifeless body collapses. Mika spat out some of the blood that had gotten in her mouth and wiped her face, walking away slowly. She couldn't hear anything, it was all white noise compared to the screaming in her head.
Mika didn't even speak as her sensei pushed her towards a room, her eyes were open but everything was blurry and blank. She couldn't see or feel.. anything. Those blue eyes.
"WHY DID YOU DO IT?" "WHY?" "WHY?" "WHY?"
She did it.. for him.. for Naruto.. for Gaara.. she did it for herself. She killed Mikano.. because who even needed a living relative, anyway?
Mika and Mikano were born looking completely alike.. for about a week. Then they saw the sightless eyes on the skinnier baby and the mother knew that this child would be killed instantly. There was literally no hope, even if she had the kaguya kekkei genkai, she was blind. After further inspection they noticed the child also had weak, thin bones and was born with barely enough chakra to live.
They were going to kill Mikano as an infant but a sanin was what stood in their way, not that they knew it was a sanin in the first place. To them he was just a well trained doctor with experience on his hands, a liar.
"I've met another Kaguya child bearing the gift of that kekkei genkai, he was a sickly one and even to this day he is usually bed ridden. But kami help the people who get in his way.."
It was just two sentences, barely even a paragraph, but it made the power hungry father and daughter reconsider everything. Orochimaru wasn't about to steal the baby from them, he was in no mood to raise a child, no he'd just steal the girl when she was already potty trained and could kill a man. The essentials. No one suspected the chunky healthy baby to be of any use but they let her live.. because they wouldn't put all their trust in an attractive stranger.
At three years old, Mika and Mikano were so close that it was almost magical. If one child was getting their bloods tested, the other would flinch and cry the whole time. They ate at the same time, bathed at the same time and even slept at the same time. Even though Mikano was blind she could almost see through her sister.
"Ne ne! 'Kano! 'Kano!" Mika stood up and ran towards her paler sister, slapping the rock that was nearing the others mouth out of the way. The mother scoffed and rolled her eyes, bored with the two girls. It was barely a pebble, why did Mika have to make a big deal out of it? The mother was just itching to kill the fat baby, because, seriously, that thing broke every rule and pushed every button.
"What? What is it 'Ka?" Mikano looked around blindly and lazily put her hand on the taller childs shoulder. Mika giggles and yanks the other away from the mother, poking her tongue out at the tall well built woman.
"Kaa-san is being meann, we should go! I wanna play outside!" Mika cheers, almost singing mockingly because the toddler had somehow figured out that the mother had no power of the twins. It was the grandfather that pushed all of the buttons. So when he was around the mother was practically powerless, Raizon-sama was the puppet master and their mother a beautiful manipulative puppet.
"Ehh? B.. but it's scary.. I not love the outdise.. outside.. stay in stay in!" Mikano stops and the mothers eyebrow tugs upwards with interest. Mikano never usually spoke up like that. Mika turns around and stares at the other, stomping her foot and tugging on the other even harder.
"No! I not love inside! Mummy is inside! Let's go out!!" Mika almost fell over when Mikano pulled back on the other, slapping her hand out of the others grip.
"I love mummy, mummy is not 'KA." Mikano cries, running away and slamming into a wall. The mother childishly snickers, a blind baby, what fun. Mika stood still with disbelief in those shining eyes, not even moving to help the screaming twin. Though she did flinch at the impact.
"Mummy is evil, 'Kano! She hurt! She hurt Kano! She hurt Ka!" Mika shouts, pushing towards her sister and yanking her up roughly. The mother sighed and stood up, smirking viciously. She would build a divide between them, it wasn't her original plan but it was oh so genius.
"Oh come here my precious Mikano, did Mika push you over? Naughty Mika," The woman picked up the sobbing toddler and patted her back softly, grinning down at the shocked girl. Mika glares at her mother before storming off, hatred running through her veins.
At five years old Mikano was smart enough to figure out that the mother was a cruel and heartless selfish cheating beast. Yet the scar between the twins was already permanent.. they stopped feeling eachothers pain and waking up at the same time. They acted the same but something deep inside had died, the pure trust and love.
"Mika, why is Raizon-sama so angry at you?" Mikano had crawled up onto the bed and sat next to the angry tanned baby. Mika was covered in slap marks, but Mikano wouldn't have known if she didn't hear the screams and whacks. Mika sniffed and crossed her arms over her chest tightly.
"Because I'm not the right twin, you are! Don't you ever listen? Besides.. I couldn't do the swimming test that sensei gave us and I..
I'm not blind!" Mika shouts, still traumatised at the fact that the two of them were just shoved mercilessly into the lake (which was hard to find since it was the sand village). Mikano flinched at the last part of that statement and she sniffs, head lowered.
"I was just doing what sensei told me-"
"I don't care! Sensei hates me! Because I'm not you." Mika climbed off of the bed and ran out of the room. Mikano listened silently as the other ran through the house, knowing that Mika was trying to find Gaara. She wasn't expecting Mika to return, crying, and then tackle her in a wet sad hug.
"I-I'm sorry 'Kano! I love you! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Even as Mika slept now all she could do was say 'I'm sorry'
