A/N: Okay, i had a huge argument with myself about this next chapter regarding the Naruto Movie involvements in my story. I've included the second movie: Bonds and the third movie in this story because the other's are just to hard to include and fit in in the right time places and such. I was thinking of doing a little side story connected to this series of mine full of little drabbles and such and maybe include the other movies into them and if i get enough of a calling for them i'll do it but if not then i'm not going to bother. Enjoy this chapter and i'm making it a double post because i feel bad about not posting for a while. R&R
Sonea was resting at home after the strain of the massive amount of Jyuubi chakra and natural chakra she used when Sora went on a rampage. She was relaxing in the armchair with her eyes closed when she heard an explosion off in the distance. She was at the window like a shot and saw hundreds of flying ninja? With machine kunai launchers? This was bad news, she geared up quickly and took to the skies where she would have the advantage for the village.
Sonea was pissed but excited as she got to play on home ground, she launched off of her tower with her wings and tail in iron and blades running the length of her arms and began an onslaught of her own. Wrapping her wings around her in a twisting motion, the kunai's bounced off of her and twisted with her wings spread out when she came to the enemy to cut up their chakra infused flying gear, yes, she was giving them a run for their money when they came up against her. After a while they began to pull back because they had run out of chakra so Sonea created a transformed shadow clone to follow them back and went straight to Tsunade at the same time as Kakashi and Yamato.
"Tsunade-sama, thank god you're safe." Yamato confirmed.
"Yes… But I wish I had been the only one who got hurt… They've overrun the entire village but they didn't finish us off which means they must have some greater objective in mind." Tsunade concluded sadly as she stared out at her ruined village.
"Shinobi from Sora no Kuni?" Kakashi said a bit bewildered.
"I've had a shadow clone follow them back and confirm their destination as they only fell back because they were running low on chakra. I will alert you of their position as soon as possible." Sonea spoke up as she entered the office a bit slowly and noticed the blood she was loosing. "Sorry, I'm bleeding on your floor." Sonea said as she pulled a kunai out of her leg and began healing it. She was picked up bridal style by Kakashi quickly and placed on the couch and noticed her predicament. She had a few kunai in her legs as well as her back and sides. Tsunade and Shizune rushed over and helped with the healing and noticed her wings and tail as well as her blades. "They weren't to happy when I fought back on their home grounds, Sai will be useful as well with his talents if we are going to strike back." Sonea said and Shikamaru rushed in as well as Neji.
"I've calculated the remaining chakra they had with Neji's help to give us an exact distance as to where they could be recuperating." Shikamaru said as he rushed in and noticed Sonea. He went over to Tsunade's desk with her and he began to point out the possibilities and Sonea listened while Shizune and her finished with her injuries. Her shadow clones memories suddenly rushed back to her.
"They're at the sea boarders, I got a clone to follow… Any plan Shikamaru?" Sonea asked as she went to stand with him by the map to point out where they were.
"Yes but it'll rely heavily on you and Sai's stamina and I'll also need Shino for the main attack on their ships, are you ready to go?" Shikamaru asked with a grin at Sonea who returned it back.
"Sure." She said eagerly.
"Okay then Shikamaru, I'll also send Kakashi out with you as well and good luck, we're counting on you." Tsunade said as they walked out of the office to find Sai and Shino. They were soon found and the squad began on their way to the coastline at full speed.
"Okay, here's what's going to happen. Sai and Sonea will keep the enemy distracted, making them think we don't have the military power to fight them on their grounds with Kaka-sensei and I as back up if they get tired. During that time, Shino will sneak up on them and destroy them from the inside using his insects to take the ships apart, does everyone know what they are doing?" Shikamaru asked as they arrived at the coastline and they all nodded and Shikamaru led Sai to the coast first, just out of their sight and Sai went to work.
"Just as Tsunade-sama said, looks like they're getting ready to move to their second objective. Astonishing, their aircraft carriers are here just off of our coast. You're calculations and Sonea's quick thinking were perfect." Kakashi praised them.
"Well, it's the same way worker bees get their way back to the beehive, I just narrowed down the possible flight distance from the chakra amount I got from Neji's byakugan and thanks to Sonea and her quick thinking and abilities, she narrowed it down perfectly." Shikamaru said modestly.
"Even so, sending a single five-man squad was bold. Typical Shikamaru." Kakashi said.
"Well, with those ships, they could always retreat to the open ocean, so I figured we should let the Sora nin think that we don't have the military means to counter them, that way, they'll stick around long enough for us to do some real damage." Shikamaru said and they continued to watch Sai.
"Looks like Sai are at his limit." Kakashi said, getting ready to move out before Shikamaru stopped him and Sonea stepped out with a grin, to take Sai's place and sent out a spark of lightning to signal him.
"You take care of the rest." Sai said as he passed over Sonea. She stretched and spread her wings, colliding straight into the last person Sai didn't get to and carried on, wary of the mistakes she made the last time she faced the Sora ninja. She decided it was fun to have someone on the same level as her regarding the flying and played nicely with her toys, dodging every attack they threw at her and taking them down quickly. Shikamaru signalled for her to return to the beach and landed as they all came out of the bushes and watched on at the ships.
"It's about time." Kakashi said, itching for battle.
"It appears they have finished refuelling. We'll have to go up against another full-scale attack." Sai said.
"Don't worry, if it comes down to it I can do it." Sonea said, fiddling with her locket beneath her clothing when Shino appeared out of the water.
"There is no need to worry about that. Why you ask? Simple, because there is no way that I failed." Shino said calmly as their ships began to fall apart and Sonea began to giggle at how Shino put it.
"Now that was something else." Shikamaru said to Shino with relief and slight amusement. They watched for a while to make sure no other attack was coming when Sonea felt a massive power surge and grabbed everyone onto the ground as a massive blast shot across the sea… Everyone was in shock.
"What the hell!… I'm going to check it out, any objections?" Sonea asked, still in shock.
"No… be my guest." Shikamaru said, also still in shock. Sonea then took off, following the carnage that the blast left as she felt the Kyuubi chakra flare and die down again and came across an air ship and saw Hinata on it and landed on the deck. Hinata rushed over to her as well as a red haired girl.
"Naruto-kun is still in there!" Hinata said in panic as she pointed to a breaking down flying Temple. Sonea flew at full speed towards the temple as she knew he had no way off of the thing. Naruto spotted her and they shared a look before he jumped out of the dying building and began to fall. Sonea took the hint and began to dive for him, using the iron to weight her down more to go faster. Once they got each other in a strong hold, Sonea reopened her wings and began to pull up with wind chakra enhanced flaps and she eventually slowed her decent down to land safely on the beach by Kakashi, Shikamaru, Sai and Shino, surprisingly, Jiraya was also there now as well. Sakura, Yamato, Neji and Choji as well as a few other ninja who came along. The airship landed and Hinata and the red haired girl rushed over to him and Sakura gave him a lecture while she healed some of the damage he had.
Sonea moved to the cover of the forest to rest as pain struck her in her eyes. She took out a hand mirror and removed the genjutsu to see two tomoes in her one eye now, meaning that the Niibi was being sealed at that moment.
"Are you okay?" Kakashi asked from behind her. She placed the mirror away and stood to look at him without the genjutsu and he understood. "Well, Naruto is okay but he'll have to stay in the hospital for a little while to recover and everyone is on their way back now, want to walk with me?" He asked, offering her a hand that she happily took and kept all the way back to Konoha as they travelled at the back. They let go as they came into view of Konoha and they both went straight to Tsunade's office to report.
"Report!" She asked straight away, obviously, something was on her mind.
"The Sora-nin are no longer a threat and were finished off by their own weapon that Naruto successfully destroyed and has been taken back to the hospital for his injuries." Kakashi reported and Tsunade looked up with a steely gaze.
"And your previous mission Kakashi?" She asked.
"I've confirmed there were seven battles in five neighbouring countries with a two-man shinobi team. While they haven't crossed Hi no Kuni boarders yet, judging from their path, it's only a matter of time before they try." Kakashi informed Tsunade and Sonea.
"Alright, anything else from either of you two?" Tsunade asked coldly.
"Yes, there is. The Niibi has been captured and is being sealed at this very moment, it began before we started to make our way back… And may I ask, why the fowl mood Tsunade… What did the council say this time?" Sonea asked, noticing the type of look she got from her.
"They called Konoha a laughing stock, nearly being destroyed by four shinobi and that I was a bad leader… Damn them!" She shouted, shattering her desk in two. Kakashi flinched while Sonea remained impassive.
"Ignore them Tsunade, they don't know what they're talking about. If they shared their information, we probably wouldn't have gotten into that situation and they don't know the work you are doing to protect the ninja world by protecting Naruto from Akatsuki either so ignore them like I do and they will soon realise you're not a push over like your sensei was… As for Danzo… Just treat him like a robot." Sonea said and Tsunade actually laughed. They were dismissed and left a laughing Tsunade behind.
"Well, I'm going to visit Naruto and make sure he stays in the hospital and doesn't slip out to train. Are you coming with me?" Kakashi asked Sonea as they walked next to each other.
"No, I better get home and clean up but I'll meet you there later and maybe we can go and have some lunch… We did promise each other a date when we have the time and now seems like the only time." Sonea said with a little blush and Kakashi eye smiled. "So… See you later." Sonea shimmered to her home to clean up.
She began to think as she walked out of the shower and began to dry her hair. She had some time to kill and her apartment needed a good clean out. She dressed quickly and put on a long sleeved shirt and apron over her uniform to protect it from dust and dirt as she began to clean. Her secret panel opened after everything in her cupboard fell out and she noticed her photo album. She picked it up and sat on her bed, she smiled with nostalgia, as the first page was three group photos of her circle and herself, each with the new member, almost like a team photo. She turned over and there were pictures of Sora, Chief and the dragons, Turtle Island and Mount Myoboku. Sora was so young in the one photo as Sonea laughed at the funny faces it was a good day.
The next page had the Senju family, one of the rare times they were together and all smiling. There was a picture of Kenjin, Taka's dad and she ran her fingers over the pictures and memories in her head that she had left. Turning over was pictures of the peace ceremony of the Senju's and Uchiha's and pictures of Konoha in its beginning and the Senju brothers with Mito.
She didn't even notice Kakashi come in or that she had tears running down her face. He watched from the door as Sonea had a small smile and loving hooded eyes as she looked at the album, he didn't want to ruin the moment so he leaned his shoulder against the door, crossed his arms and one foot over the other. She turned over again and smiled, they were pictures of Minato and Kushina when they were younger and Sonea had just met them, even Hiruzen was in two of them. She wiped her tears and her smile faded as her head dropped and her body started to shake with the crying and pain she felt. Kakashi moved next to her and sat next to her as he wrapped his arm over her shoulder and pulled her to him as he pulled the album to rest on both of their laps and he looked at the pictures.
"This was just after I met them and brought them to Konoha… They never changed, did they?" Sonea said emotionful and Kakashi nodded in agreement as he turned the page. Kakashi's eye welled up with tears at what he saw, it was a group photo of his parents, Jiraiya and Light and they were all smiling with Sakumo's arm around Nozomi. "This was taken just after your parents got together… Surprisingly Jiraiya introduced them." Sonea told him and Kakashi pulled of his hitai-ate and rubbed at his crying eyes.
"That's Light… He was a part of your circle wasn't he?" Kakashi asked as he pointed to the white haired teen next to Sakumo and Sonea nodded and cried more.
"He was the first Yang release to my seal… He found your dad on a battlefield between here and Kumo at the age of three and took him in and looked after him and even became his summoning by accident, the same day your parents met… He was also Storm's twin brother…" Sonea cried, placing her face against Kakashi's shoulder to cry and Kakashi let a few tears fall as well as he turned the page. It was his parents wedding day, he let the images burn into his sharingan as he had never seen many pictures after his mom died as it was to painful for his father and they were all burned. He turned the page again as Sonea had calmed down and looked back at the album, they were pictures of Sakumo and a pregnant Nozomi and Sonea smiled this time at the pictures she was forced into. The page turned again and Sonea's breath caught with shock as did Kakashi's, she had forgotten about these pictures that were given to her as she couldn't stay around. There were pictures of Sakumo, Nozomi and a new born little Kakashi with a tuft of silver hair sticking out from under the blanket, Sonea laughed a little before frowning at the next picture, it was her and Nozomi lying together with the blood transfusion happening and the doctors trying to save her. It had been taken through the little window through the door.
"What's happening here?" Kakashi asked as he pointed at the photo.
"I was saving your mom… She knew how risky her pregnancy was but still went through with it. This was right after she gave birth to you, she was loosing to much blood and so I stepped in for a direct transfusion which saved her life for those two years, I couldn't let you not have a mother for some of your life but now that I think about it, it was also selfish of me to save her but I think your dad would have broken then and done something stupid, she was my best friend after all." Sonea said as she stared at the photo with guilt.
"Thank you." Kakashi said in a whisper before turning the page and laughing, Sonea looked away with embarrassment. They were the pictures Sakumo took when Sonea held Kakashi for the first time and had fallen asleep with him as well as both of them lying on the couch as well as lots of other pictures with them when Kakashi was a baby with his parents and Sonea in a few of them as well as Light and one with Storm in it too. "Your eyes were so clear and blue back then, just like Naruto's." Kakashi commented. There was one special photo that Sonea ran her fingers over with a smile, it was Light and Storm with a smiling Kakashi being held between them. Kakashi turned the page with a large gap in the time lines as the first picture was Minato purposing to Kushina in the club and then their wedding and Minato becoming Hokage, holding up his first white robe with red flames at the bottom and his trade mark grin and lastly a picture of Sonea Minato and Kakashi who were standing with the new Hokage in his office. Sonea and Kakashi laughed a little before turning over to action pictures of Kakashi and Sonea in a taijutsu fight and the last picture was Sonea and Kakashi in their bloody ANBU uniforms after Kakashi's first mission, both holding their masks.
The next page was pictures of Itachi and Sonea with Sasuke in a few of them and the last one being Itachi and Sonea in their bloody ANBU uniforms after Itachi's mission, also holding their masks. Kakashi noticed how dull her eyes seemed to be since before the Kyuubi attack and after it and it made him a little sad. He turned over and smiled a little, they were pictures of a little Naruto with Raven as they laughed and played games and helped him with his homework and techniques and a picture of his entrance to the academy. They turned over to pictures of Kirigakure with Mei and Ao and the rebels who now had control over Kiri and pictures with Sonea, Anko and Ibiki for the chunin exams. Kakashi stayed quiet and turned over where pictures of her, Jiraiya and Naruto littered the pages during the chunin exams and their two year journey when Sonea met up with them as well as Tsunade and Shizune in a few of them. The next pages were pictures of Sonea with the rookie twelve and some of the missions she took with them when Konoha was still low after Otogakure and Sunagakure's invasion, pictures of her and Shikamaru playing shogi, with Lee in a taijutsu battle, the rookie girls and separating a brawl of the rookie boys while Sasuke and Naruto stared each other down… She had become close to most of them during their time as he flipped through pages of those pictures and stopping when he saw pictures of their trip with Yamato when they went to look for the jinchuuriki's while Naruto was off training with Jiraiya then pictures of the sand siblings and Shikamaru when she was ambassador with him before Naruto returned.
The last few pictures were depressing, as it was all pictures of funerals of her loved ones as well as his loved ones. Her parents, clan, sensei, Natsume, Mika, Chief of the dragons, Senju Kawarama, Itama, Mitsuki, Butsuma, Hashirama and Tobirama, Light, Kenjin, Nozomi, Sakumo, Obito, Rin, Minato, Kushina, Taka to name a few, so many names that were familiar but not as he flipped through the list of names with wide eyes, she had lost to much.
The album ended on a happy note, as there were pictures of the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan together at the peace gathering. Tobirama's team and Hashirama and Tobirama with a young Hiruzen. Hiruzen with his team, Jiraiya with his team, Three pictures of Kakashi's team with Minato and Kushina's genin team as well as his father's genin team with Light then a few pictures of his team; Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and himself, and a few times his team hung out with Sonea. Finally, a recent picture that was taken with the rookie eleven and Sai with the jonin sensei's and the last picture in the album being of his squad now; It was Kakashi, Sonea and Yamato standing at the back with Naruto in front of Sonea with Sakura and Sai on either side of him, Sonea had her arms wrapped around Naruto and hanging over him as they both grinned. He closed the book gently and they sat for a while in silence, the tears had stopped a while ago as it hurt too much.
"I can't even remember some of their faces properly anymore… It's sad isn't it?" Sonea asked with a saddened tone, Kakashi could see the empty eyes from the pain but then they swapped and she wiped away her tears and nose and placed the album away safely and turned back to him like nothing had happened. "You said you were going to see Naruto so you can wash your face and see him and I'll clean up and meet you at the hospital, alright?" Sonea asked with a smile. Kakashi sat dumbstruck for a while before he shook himself out of it.
"Yeah, I'll see you there." He said as he stood up with his hitai-ate and moved to the bathroom and then left for the hospital. Sonea threw out a lot of things as she cleaned her room quickly there was no point in keeping things if she couldn't take them with her if she died.
She stopped by the shinobi registration office to change her next of Kin to Naruto and Kakashi and left her Will there then she left for the hospital afterwards and watched as Asuma and Kurenai left Kakashi watching after them.
"Now I really want to know…" Kakashi said to himself.
"What do you want to know?" Sonea asked as she hopped in the window next to Kakashi.
"Well, Asuma said he had something to talk to me about and he kept stalling then when I finally asked him up front, Kurenai appeared and he said he would talk to me later. But now he's got me all intrigued." Kakashi said, looking up and scratching his masked cheek absent-minded.
"Well maybe it was something involving their relationship." Sonea said and Kakashi turned to look at her.
"Whose relationship?" Kakashi asked, genuinely confused. Sonea sighed and pulled him after her towards the restaurant district.
"I'll explain while we have lunch on our first official date." Sonea said smiling and hooked her arm around Kakashi's as they walked.
The next day, she decided to check up on Naruto and his training. She watched as all of the Narutos celebrated, cutting the leaf and began to disappear when she noticed him falling and instantly shimmered to catch him, just before Kakashi did. He helped her carry Naruto over to a tree to lean against while he rested.
"Pushing himself when he's just recovered…" Kakashi complained.
"Plus, the mass shadow clones are to make his training more efficient. There's no need to use it just to show off the results." Yamato also complained.
"Well, that's our Naruto." Kakashi said with fondness and Sonea smiled at the happily sleeping teen. Sonea sat on the other side of Naruto to wait for him to wake up when he began to stir.
"You awake?" Kakashi asked and Naruto seemed disappointed and annoyed that he passed out again. "Keep resting. Overuse of mass shadow clones will tire you out easily too. We'll start the next level of training after you've rested a bit more…. Next. The next step is to cut the waterfall." Kakashi explained.
"Place your hands on the waterfall, and slice it in half using your wind chakra. This exercise requires you to use nature manipulation on a large amount of chakra in an instant. If you can't, you'll never cut the waterfall." Yamato explained, sitting on the other side of Naruto.
"At the very least, clearing this stage means you'll be able to use wind chakra in real combat." Kakashi said to him.
"Kaka-sensei, if I can do this, I'll have mastered one chakra element right?" Naruto asked desperately and Kakashi nodded with his eye smile. Naruto got going and Yamato created a shelf for Naruto to stand on, a bench for Kakashi and he sat down to hold back the Kyuubi's chakra. Sonea jumped when Kakashi reached into her pouch and pulled out his book and waved it in front of her and she blushed.
"Next time I catch you breaking into my apartment and stealing my books will be the last time after I give you punishment." Kakashi said silkily into her ear and he moved to the bench and lounged across it and Sonea moved just off to the side to do some training of her own and ended up causing a small storm and she decided to rather read over Kakashi's shoulder than risk causing another storm.
"I think he is ready to see an example." Kakashi said, reading his book and snapping it shut and sitting up." Would you mind Sonea?" He asked sweetly and she couldn't resist.
"Fine, I'll show him how to cut the waterfall. Hey Naruto! Come down here, I'll show you an example of cutting the waterfall!" Sonea called to him, removing her dragon skin and weapons while walking to the waterfall where Naruto jumped down next to her as she jumped up. She stood at the waterfall and placed her hands against it and concentrated before releasing the massive amount of wind chakra that sliced the waterfall in half and even cut into the rock. She turned around a bit sheepish as the waterfall continued again. "Sorry, I guess that was a bit much." She said, hopping down next to Naruto. "You need to concentrate it for longer in your body and then release it, eventually it will become easier and quicker but right now you are training to do it so don't rush even though you don't have the time." Sonea explained to him.
"Don't I need more clones?" Naruto said. Kakashi looked up from his book.
"You won't be able to cut the waterfall unless you generate large amounts of wind-natured chakra. The more clones you make, the less chakra each one gets. Besides, the waterfall is only wide enough for ten of you. You know, nature manipulating normally takes years. Even cutting a leaf in half is supposed to take six months." Kakashi said, returning to his book and Sonea shook her head.
"You managed it in just a few hours. There's no need to rush. You're advancing much faster than we expected." Yamato explained to him.
"When I taught Sasuke the Chidori, a true genius, it took him several long days to get the lightning element down." Kakashi explained and Naruto became more determined to go faster and Kakashi gave in.
"I'll extend the waterfall, Yamato you extend his standing area, and I know you are wearing down…" Sonea said, as the water burst over the edge of the cliff and Yamato pushed himself to create the shaft.
They all began to camp out there for the next few days. Sakura left soldier pills for Naruto that Yamato ended up using and Sonea took over for Yamato a few times, keeping a constant flow of natural chakra to him by placing a hand on his back and giving him some advice as she could sense his chakra flow and how it needed to feel. But the Jyuubi's chakra was becoming harder to control and use so she only did it once a day for Yamato as the second tomoe appeared in her other eye. She also began to train during the night while the others slept to keep herself in peek condition to handle the Jyuubi and the complications it had been giving her. The chakra started to come easier to her as she kept pushing through the pain and even pushed up the level of medication to level eight. Kakashi voiced his worry but didn't try to stop her, as he knew that she knew what she was doing but kept an eye on her anyway and watched her sleep during the day across the bench with his lap as a pillow.
It was a huge shock the first time Naruto cut the waterfall and he and his clones began to celebrate and dance as they were dispelled.
"This training is something else. To think Naruto got here so quickly!" Yamato said, with surprise.
"No, it isn't all due to the training method. Sasuke's driving him too. Well done! It's time to start making a new technique." Kakashi said as Yamato relaxed and Naruto fell to his side. Both Kakashi and Sonea rushed up to him and Sonea began checking him over.
"Are you okay Naruto?" Kakashi asked with concern.
"Sta… rv… ing…" He whispered out and Sonea laughed and Kakashi eye smiled.
