Disclaimer: Alright, here it is, chapter 10. Finally, a whole number! It's taken awhile but I think this is the longest sotry i've ever written. I might just finish this one.

Music suggestion: Wind by Akeboshi. (It's from Naruto :P)

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CHAPTER TEN: Fierce Competition.

Mayu walked around the kitchen, studying everything. Kakashi had finally gotten her to control her Kogenkan, however she was still shaky. It turned out that the best way for her to concentrate was in desperate situations, so Kakashi put her through a series of life threatening tests. Most of which weren't very hard, but it wasn't like he wanted her to die or anything. She did pass all of them. The last one had been particularily hard, because Naruto and Sasuke had joined in, against her.

It was proving frightening to the three men how incredibly fast she was. She had immense power she didn't even know about. How sad loosing a memory is...

"So which country does the Kogenkan origionate from?" Naruto had asked Kakashi when Mayu was finished all her tests and incredibly exhuasted. She had looked up at the question, just as curious.

"I have no clue." Kakashi replied honestly. "No one does. Not even the fourth hokage knew. It's such an old blood line that all we have to know it actually exsisted is an old scroll."

Mayu lifted her hand and ghostly touched a cupboard. The house seemed so empty. The lights were on everywhere Mayu had stepped, mostly because Sasuke wasn't there with her. He was out getting supplies for dinner. Of course, that was another thing Mayu had forgotten. How to cook.

If she forgot how to cook, then why didn't she forget how to speak, or walk? Maybe her memory only made her forget moments in her past.

Mayu sighed and sat deaftly at the table. Somewhere a clock was ticking, and almost everywhere the floor seemed to creak pariodically. Every creak sent shivers down Mayu's spine until she finally settled for sitting wither her back to the wall. She wasn't sure what she was so afraid of, but she wanted to make sure it didn't catch her from behind.

Mayu jumped in alarm when the door slammed open. She couldn't help but let go a small scream. When she looked up, Sasuke was standing in the doorway with a confused look on his face, two paper bags in his hands.

"I-I'm sorry." Mayu apolagized, running forward to help Sasuke with the groceries. He watched her curiously as she scrambled to make it right, trying to make him forget her little scream. There was a fear living inside her. "What is this?"

Sasuke glanced down. She was holding a cup of ramen in her hand. Sasuke felt his jaw clentch.

"That's the last time I go shopping with Naruto." He muttered.

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For the next week Kakashi and the two younger men worked on honing Mayu's ability until she was as good as they could get her. Now she could control the images and call them up at will, and she promised not to reach into anyone's future unless it was vital.

They were still keeping Mayu a secret from everyone, just in case she wasn't who she was supposed to be. No matter how hard they looked, no one could find any bit of information on Mayu's past. They even got the ANBU black ops to go ask around about her. It was if, before Sasuke and Naruto had found her, Mayu hadn't exsisted at all. Of course, they didn't even know her real name, so it was proving very difficulte.

Mayu sunk down onto the small cot Sasuke had set up next to his bed where she was sleeping. She still felt ashamed about her fear of being alone in darkness, but so far Sasuke hadn't leaked that information to anyone, which for some reason surprised Mayu. He had just seemed like the type who would take every opportunity to make someone feel miserable. But living with him wasn't so bed, except for the creepy old house that seemed empty ecept for the key places Mayu and Sasuke usually went in and lived in. Like the large living room, the kitchen, the stairwell, and the bedroom. Other then that, Mayu was too scared to explore, and she got the feeling Sasuke was uncomfortable with her being there. Like he had a secret...

Unfortunatly, Mayu's Kogenkan only saw the future, and not the past. If that were so, then there would have been no way she could loose her memory.

As Mayu stared at the cot, she couldn't help but think something over. It kept occuring to her how strange it was.

"What's strange?" Sasuke had asked when she approached him the night before in the kitchen.

"I can't..." Mayu took a deep breath, trying to find more words. "I can't see my own future..."

It was something not even Kakashi understood, but even when Mayu stared at herself in the mirror the images didn't come. It was almost as if there were none. As if she had no future, but if that were so, then did that mean death? Was death the only future she could have? Fate?

Mayu sighed an buried her head in her pillow, her legs still crossed underneath her. The door opening signalled that Sasuke was done in the bath and ready for bed. Mayu didn't move as she listened to Sasuke's shuffling steps make their way to the bed, then creeking as the bed springs screamed from Sasuke laying down.

When Mayu peaked up from the pillow she found Sasuke under his sheets, one hand behind his head and he other proping a book open. There was a lamp on the bedside table that provided him reading light. Without is head protector on, his hair was free to spill down in front of his eyes. He looked younger for some reason without the peice of metal that recognized him as a ninja of Konoha. He looked like the teenager he was supposed to be.

"What?" Sasuke murmured, turning a page in his book. Mayu blinked in surprise. She was sure he had been concentrating on his book and not her. A blush formed on her cheeks when she saw Sasuke glanced at her from the corner of his eye.

"It's just..." Mayu always had to think hard to find the right things to say in those situations. Og course, being a naive as she was, she had no idea what some of the things coming out of her mouth meant. "You look nice without your head band."

Sasuke's brows furrowed slightly and he grunted, closing his book tightly and flicking off the light before anyone could see he pink coming to his cheeks. Mayu always did things like that without realizing the affect they had on people.

"Go to sleep." He muttered, shifting under his sheets. Confused at Sasuke's actions, Mayu pulled the blanket over her body and settled in for the night.

"You do though..." She murmured, before falling off into a pleasant dream. "Look nice..."

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Naruto grinned at Hinata as she tried to decide between flavors of ramen. She was so cute when she was confused. He was distracted from her however when he glimpsed Sasuke walking past towards a book shop.

"Hold on." Naruto said to Hinata, before running over to Sasuke. "So how is she?"

"Mayu?" Sasuke muttered, checking the price on a hard covered book. He shrugged when Naruto nodded. "Fine. Why?"

"No reason." Naruto replied, grinning. "It's strange though. With all the time we're spending with her it's kind of like she's a part of us now neh?"

Sasuke looked up at Naruto curiously. "What are you talking about?"

"Well, don't you ever worry about someone?" Naruto asked in his naive way. "In a way, I guess I think of her as a sort of sister."

"You get too attached to people Naruto." Sasuke sighed, putting the book down so he could argue with Naruto more efficently.

"Of course I do." Naruto said, actually sounding a little hurt. "Friends are the best thing anyone can have. You're my friend aren't you?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Maybe, but I wouldn't go as far as to call you my brother."

Naruto clutched his shirt and made a look of fake hurt.

"That crushes me inside Sasuke." Naruto wailed, drawing looks from nearby shoppers. Sasuke sighed and rubbed his temple. It was hard to go places in public with Naruto, he drew much too much attention to himself. Suddenly, Naruto grinned and gave Sasuke an uncomfortable look. Like he knew something Sasuke didn't know. "Maybe you don't think of her as a sister at all. Maybe-"

"Don't finish that sentence." Sasuke growled, narrowing his eyes at Naruto. The blonde just grinned further and spun around.

"I have to get back to my girlfriend." He teased, latching his hands behind his head and striding away. "You should run home to yours too."

Sasuke glared daggers at Naruto's back. Sometimes it was really mind numbing how immature Naruto could be. But it was genuinley Naruto.

"Loser." Sasuke muttered before grabbing a book and walking to the till.

There you go, Chapter 10 over and done with. Thanks for the reveiws! I still need information on that hand signs thing. Anyone?

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