hehehe srry for the wait on the update...i had a evil lil plot bunny attacking my brain but i was able to get rid of it with a oneshot that i jus posted lol and i think i might have come up with a good idea to get around this new writer's block that is the size of the great wall of china so i should be posting faster like i usually do if this new idea works...if it doesn't then it'll be about a week before i post the next chappie on this lol
dis: do i have to repeat myself??
She looked up at him.
He saw the question in her eyes. "It's horrible. 63 dead and many more still wounded. I didn't find Naoya-kun either."
Sora froze where she stood. Kakashi could see the emotions running behind her eyes as she tried to gain control of herself so as not to cry. She had been worrying about the boy all day. Kakashi weaved around the people to her and stopped in front of her. The woman was shaking slightly from suppressed sobs. Gently, he reached up and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, holding her close. Sora gripped his shirt tightly as she still tried to hold everything in. A few sobs escaped.
"It's alright, Sora-san. Naoya's a strong boy. I'm sure he's fine."
She stood there in his arms still trying to get a hold of herself. After a few more minutes, the sobs stopped escaping and she leaned her head against his chest, crying quietly. Kakashi looked around at the full room. Wounded were all lying next to each other, sleeping peacefully. He noticed the man that was awake, but he was looking away. Another person was stirring near him. Kakashi pulled Sora from his embrace and looked at her downcast face. Tears still streamed down it. Kakashi wiped them away.
"You've got people who need you and I need to go hunting."
She nodded and turned away. Kakashi watched her walk amongst her patients for a little bit then went into Tenten's room. The young kunoichi was still sound asleep, and from the faint light coming in from the main room, he could see most of the color had returned to her face. Walking quietly over to where their packs were stored, he fished through his and pulled out a new shirt. The one he was wearing had blood on it from all the dead. Glancing once more at the young girl to see if she really was asleep, Kakashi quickly switched shirts then grabbed his kunai pouch from his pack and strapped it to his right leg. Walking quickly out so no one that was conscious could ask what it was on his leg, he stepped into the cool evening air. The breeze from earlier had stopped, but the blood could still be detected faintly. Taking a deep breath he smelled where the others were hiding. Walking quietly over they saw him and watched him come. Once in the tree line, Kakashi sighed and leaned up against a tree.
"63 dead, numerous wounded. Most likely ninja."
"What?!" the others hissed.
"The dead had small wounds from kunai or shuriken, broken bones, or at most 3 sword wounds. The broken bones were in the places that if hit hard enough, would kill, and they did. Also it seems that they picked up the weapons that they threw. All except for 3, a kunai and 2 shuriken. Those are in the hands of the village head."
"If the weapons were picked up then they must've been fast and kept count of exactly how many they threw," Sakura noted.
"But I thought there weren't any ninja around here?" Naruto stated.
"There isn't, that's why this is strange," Kakashi answered. "Another thing is that it was Kyoshiro-san who came up with the idea of the enemy picking up their weapons."
"His reason for being here is strange," Gai said quietly. "If there aren't any ninja villages in this valley then they were either hired, or some one taught them and has access to our type of weapons. Yet, who would do that to attack a village in the middle of no where?"
"There are 3 villages in this valley and they are all fighting with each other," Kakashi answered.
"Why?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi shrugged. "Even Sora-san doesn't know and she advised me to not go around and ask those types of questions either because she had the whole town hating her for it one time."
"That's ridiculous! She's their healer!" Sakura whispered loudly.
Kakashi shook his head. "She'll heal any body, that's why the villagers don't really care for her."
"That's stupid," Naruto said huffily.
Kakashi smiled slightly.
"Oh, Kakashi-sensei! Guess what Neji-san found out?" Naruto said excitedly.
The jounin looked at the younger jounin.
"I might have found a way to use my byakugan, to an extent."
Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
Neji pulled out a small sapphire jewel. "I found this after we came off the waterfall. For some reason it had a faint glow about it so I decided to examine it. After a while, nothing happened so I decided to try my byakugan again. I had forgotten that I was holding it while I tried, and something happened. It's hard to describe, but it was like I could sense every living thing that was touching the ground around me, but only for a second. After that I felt exhausted and the jewel was glowing a little brighter. I've been working with it off and on for a while and I can now sense in a radius about the size of Sora-san's clearing around her house, but only for a few minutes. After that I need to rest for about 10 minutes to regain some strength, but each time the jewel dims with use and then glows a little brighter."
Kakashi looked at the small gem and noticed the faint glow it was emitting. He held out his hand and Neji placed it on his palm. Instantly Kakashi felt something tug at the inside of him. He realized that tug was on his chakra he could feel, but could never have used during his time in the valley. Curious, he focused on the little gem and pulled some chakra into his hand. He could call his chakra out. Looking at the tree he was leaning on, he pulled a large chunk of bark off and held it in his other palm. Kakashi focused some chakra, did a few seals (while holding both gem and bark) then concentrated on the bark. It disappeared in a small poof of smoke and in its place was a kunai. The others looked shocked at it, but after a minute it changed back into a piece of bark and Kakashi was breathing a little heavier than normal. He looked back down at the sapphire. Its glow was getting brighter and he felt his chakra flowing out of his hand into it. Kakashi was about to drop the stone when it stopped pulling his chakra and the glow dimmed.
"What the hell?" Kakashi muttered.
"Are you ok, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.
He nodded and looked at Neji. "Does it take some of your chakra when you get done using it?"
Neji nodded. "At first I believed that it took the same amount that we use, but after each time I used it, it got a little brighter."
"What exactly happened, Kakashi?" Gai asked seriously.
"I think it opens whatever is hindering our chakra and allows us to use it, but at a cost of some of our chakra."
"How would it allow us to do that?"
Kakashi shook his head. "Unless we're using what's stored in the jewel itself and it takes from us to replenish itself."
"I've never heard of a jewel taking chakra on its own," Naruto said.
"Neither have I," Kakashi mumbled. He handed it back to Neji. "If you try to use your byakugan, why can't you see like you normally do?"
Neji shook his head.
"Maybe it only allows us to do things that it has a capacity to do?" Sai said.
"That's understandable," Lee said.
"Oh well, I need to go hunting, otherwise Sora-san will kill me out of hunger."
"I will join you, my rival, and whoever gets the most animals wins!"
Kakashi just stared at Gai.
"I think it is an excellent test of our abilities!" He smiled brightly.
Kakashi sighed and walked deeper into the forest with Gai following loudly behind him.
I doubt I'll find anything with this loud-mouth tagging along, Kakashi thought to himself.
Three men walked down a wide hallway. Towards the end they entered through a door into a small, unused room. Walking quietly to the closest they passed through a hidden door at the back of it. The hallway they now walked in was narrow and had small doors every few feet. They passed through one into a room full of other people. The only light showed through the fusuma door that was on the opposite end of the normal door.
"Are we all here?" a man near the fusuma asked.
"Yes, all that can get away unnoticed," one of the 3 men answered.
"Good, tell me of the devastation, Seita-san," the lone figure behind the fusuma said quietly.
Seita sat up straighter. "A total of 67 is dead now, my lord."
"And the weapons?" the voice asked.
Seita bit his lower lip, but continued to look at the fusuma, "All but 1 kunai and 2 shuriken were retrieved. Those are now in the hands of the village head."
Silence. Everyone squirmed quietly after a few minutes of it. Seita was almost sweating buckets.
After a while Seita spoke up, "My lord, what should we do?"
"Has anyone figured out what type of people those weapons belong to?"
"Yes," Seita whimpered.
"Who?"
"Kyoshiro Yuichi and a white haired man by the name of Kakashi Hatake."
"Kyoshiro-san wouldn't bother us, but this Hatake, did he have only one eye?"
"Yes, from what I could tell. His left eye was covered by a cloth," Seita replied.
There was silence again.
"My lord?" Seita whimpered again.
"Sharingan Kakashi, eh? So those men weren't lying about a white haired demon with a red eye. Who is he staying with in this valley and is there anyone else with him?"
"He's staying with Sora and as far as we know, there is no one else with him," Seita answered.
"Good, get rid of him, but be careful. He is a jounin ninja and ex-anbu after all. If he starts getting into this fight, then our chance of winning disappears."
"Yes, lord!" everyone answered.
"My lord?" another man piped up.
"What?"
"Should you leave town, just to be safe and all?"
Laughter came quietly from the other side of the door. "No, if I do then I'll be suspected. Besides, I'm not leaving without that boy. Is that understood?"
"Yes, lord," the man answered.
Naoya ran. He had been running all day. If it weren't for the full moon, he wouldn't have made it so far into the forest. He didn't understand why they were after him, let alone know them. All he was doing was walking around town when these men came out of no where and started killing everyone. He ran like everyone else, but one man grabbed him then laughed and shouted at the others saying that they had found the boy.
What do they want with me? Naoya thought as he panted through the forest.
After the man had picked him up and shouted that, he rammed his elbow into the man's diaphragm and ran off into the forest. At first he could hear them following, but then he couldn't tell anymore. H just continued running. Like he was doing now. Fear was continuing to drive him forward. A small creek appeared and he jumped it. The shrubs and bushes were getting thicker, making it harder to run and causing all kinds of scratches to appear on his unprotected skin. Howling broke out around him. Naoya stopped and looked around in panic. Light showed through better to his left, so he ran in that direction. As he got closer to the clearing the howling came louder. Naoya put on more speed then fell. He didn't just fall on the ground, he fell under it. When he landed, a sharp pain with a dull crack came from his right leg. Screaming out, he grabbed his leg and sat back. The scream reverberated back to him and he looked up. Light was streaming down from the roof where he fell through. It illuminated a small cave. Water was flowing in a tiny stream at the other end that was probably 3 feet away. Looking around revealed absolutely nothing. In all, the cave was only 4 feet in diameter with the ceiling low and sloped up to the opening that was about 7 feet up. Naoya leaned back against the dirt and rock wall, sobbing. The howling was loud now.
Can anyone help me, he thought closing his eyes and breathing hard with sobs.
and the conspiracies deepen lol reviews still welcome : )