This is a work of fan fiction using characters from the Naruto, which is trademarked by Masashi Kishimoto. Everything aside from the original characters are created from the wonderful mind of Kishimoto.
Misaki, Kaede, Akihiko and Kazuhiko are the original characters of mine.
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Chapter 10:
After the attack on Konoha, repairing the damafes was easier said than done, especially so since Konoha is now without a hokage. Misaki, together with team Hayate have been tasked to help with repairs. Fighting no matter how life risking it is, is always the easiest part, repairing the damage done is the hardest, part of a fight, sometimes, some damages unsalvageable.
Misaki had her head in the clothes as she stood on an unfinished roof, thinking about the fall of their beloved hokage and how it would be bad for a strong shinobi village to be left leaderless, after all a boat can be as big and as strong as it can be, but without a captain, it would be left without a course, without purpose.
"OI! Misaki" Akihiko said throwing Misaki a hammer from a hole in the roof, a hammer which she caught easily.
"Seriously, what's up with you guys spacing out lately, well scratch that your head is always in the clouds, but Kazuhiko's been doing worse than you" Akihiko said pointing towards Kazuhiko who was staring straight ahead, mind elsewhere, even though he continued hammering a nail on against a roof.
"Oh no, he's going to-" Misaki started followed by a loud grunt from the very person they were watching.
"-get hurt" she finished with a sweat drop. It was very unlike Kazuhiko, he was a man with a few words, but he was rarely ever seen distracted or unfocused, much less with his head in the clouds. Being the brain of the team, Kazuhiko made it a habit to always have a present mind thinking of ways to build up strategies and such.
"Oi, Kazu-chan! Did you lose your brain somewhere?" Akihiko teased, earning him a hammer heading his way, which he ungracefully dodged by falling in the hole in which he came out of.
"FINALLY! Some well-deserved break, man working hard labor sure is hard" Akihiko sighed as he flexed his back, trying to stretch his muscles as they walked the streets of Konoha.
"You barely did anything, Misaki and I did all the manual labor, while you ruined the work, you useless loud mouth" Kazuhiko said digging his knuckles in Akihiko's head bringing tears to his eyes.
"You're so cruel, Kazu-chan I finished a part of the roof too!" Akihiko whined.
"Yeah a roof that was too poorly made Misaki had to redo it!" Kazuhiko argued back, Misaki all the while walking behind them and laughing at their antics. It's a good sign that Kazuhiko was slowly getting back to his usual self, with the death of the third hokage taking a toll on everybody, most especially their family, particularly him and Konohamaru, the only grandchildren who were spoiled rotten and loved dearly by Sarutobi Hiruzen.
As a matter of fact, Misaki would bet Kaede's life that Kazuhiko was thinking of the village's would be hokage and how it would be difficult to accept the next hokage, when all he's ever known as the village's highest figure is his grandfather, quite honestly Misaki herself didn't knew any other hokage besides the third hokage, the reigning hokage from the moment they were born, well the day after she was born, since she remembered from her lessons that the fourth hokage who succeeded the third hokage died on October 10th, twelve years ago, the day she was born, the new hokage would be welcomed, but it would feel alien not only to them, but she suspected the whole village who had been under the third hokage's jurisdiction and protection.
Kaede was walking by the stream irritated, today had not been her day. First, since Misaki and Kakashi were busy helping with the repairs inside the village, so she had to personally, meaning she had to walk out of her own home and buy her sweets herself, the man by the shop staring at her in a ludicrous manner as she ordered everything off of the menu twice over. What was worse was she had for her sweets in a public place, alone with people whispering about her behind her back, it would have been alright if she really couldn't hear it.
The worst was whilst waiting for her sweets, drinking her tea, Jiraiya had invited himself over to her table, as if the loud mouthed perverted old sage didn't get that she didn't want to be involved with anything he was in. Then he began a trip down memory lane, remembering how she used to be that little fat kid who was always munching something whenever he saw her, as a matter of fact she ate so much he thought she was an Akimichi. Kaede was tempted to secretly wrap his threads around the old pervert's neck and be done with it, but then she thought with the third hokage gone, he would be the first in line of suggested hokages to follow.
However, her thoughts were quenched when Jiraiya revealed he had more motive than just sitting down at a sweets shop to insult her.
"Tche-the nerve of the man to request such a thing, to think that the old pervert would like to take Misaki for a mission, with him a pervert!" Kaede growled as she continued down the stream, it had the least people, even though it was a longer route home.
Kaede's head was snapped out of the gutter when she heard splashing ahead, she looked up in alarm, no one was supposed to be by the lake at this time, not even the boats were functional since all hands were dedicated to rebuilding their homes, putting Konoha back to its former glory as much as they can.
Up ahead, were four Konoha jonin, namely Guy, Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai, standing in front of two strange unknown men dressed in black cloaks and littered with red clouds. Kaede dropped her purchase, running towards the commotion, breaking every promise she made to herself to never to return to this life again. However, she found herself drawing her threads out the moment she realized Kakashi was immobilized on Guy's shoulder.
"Ninpou: Thread binding jutsu" Kaede said and dropped her threads into the water unsuspectingly. Then reeling it to wrap around the two cloaked figures before them.
"My my, here comes another one, you're pretty well met in your own village" Kisame said as unseen thin binding wrapped around their bodies.
"But, chakra string won't be anything to me, samehada would just absorb it" Kisami said, but samehada wasn't absorbing anything, nor was the bindings, getting any looser.
"For shame, these aren't chakra strings" Kaede said jumping next to Guy checking Kakashi who was perched on his shoulder. Kaede cursed herself when she had realized that the fault in Kakashi was not out something physical borne, but mental, a dangerous genjutus wielded only by those who bare the sharingan of the Uchiha clan, the Tsukiyomi. The only thing out of her capacity to heal.
"Kaede, Kurenai, take Kakashi to the hospital, Asuma and I would take care of things here whilst we wait for the Anbu" Guy explained.
"No, I'll stay here and fight" Kaede said, realizing that it had been Uchiha Itachi standing in front of her. One of the known member of Akatsuki, Misaki held this man in a high regard, but Akatsuki has a goal and it involved grabbing Naruto for what's sealed inside him, and that simply would not do. Kaede had already prepared herself for battle when the big blue guy tried to pull his big blue sword up, however Itachi had intervened.
"We didn't come to create a war, it's too bad, but no more of this nonsense, we're leaving" Itachi said using a small amount of amaterasu flames to burn away Kaede's threads. Kaede glared at the place where they had once stood, now that Itachi and his akatsuki friend are here, they can only be here for one specific person.
Uzumaki Naruto.
"Oh, Naruto, Jiraiya-san" Misaki said entering Kaede and Naruto's favorite ramen shop, Akihiko and Kazuhiko had both returned to their respective clan homes to help in reconstruction their compounds. The Namikaze compound was magically left untouched, much to Misaki's wonder.
"Misaki-chan, just the person I was looking for, come come, would you like to join for a training?"
"Training, I thought activities are postponed to give way for the reconstruction of the village?" Misaki asked sitting down next to Naruto.
"But this is a different training, besides Naruto we'll be there too, eh" Jiraiya exclaimed.
Nevertheless, Misaki reluctantly agreed, with the huge help of Naruto's insistence and the fact that Kaede had begrudgingly given her consent for Misaki to join the journey, of course Jiraiya had left the 'begrudging' part out. They decided to meet up at the village's gate, leaving only a moment to gather things for the journey.
"Mom, I'm home" Misaki said, and immediately knew something was different when Kaede didn't even notice her come into the compound, even though she was just sitting by the porch.
"Mom, are you alright?" Misaki said waving her hands in front of Kaede's face, still nothing.
"Oh! Dango!" Misaki exclaimed.
"Where, where?!" Kaede immediately snapped out of her trance, with Misaki sweat dropping, leave it to Misaki to have more concern for food other than her daughter.
"Sorry, I only bought home Ichiraku Ramen" she said lifting the container for Kaede to see.
"Mom, Jiraiya" Misaki started but Kaede wordlessly handed her a bag already packed.
"Here you go, be safe okay brat" Kaede said ruffling Misaki's hair before grabbing the ramen out of her hands.
"Well then go on, you don't want to be late" Kaede said entering the main house and closing the door behind her. Leaving Misaki, flabbergasted, usually Kaede would be the one adamant that she not leave the village at all, Kaede was clingy to a fault, most especially with Misaki and Naruto, and try as she might to deny it, that possessiveness also extended to Kakashi as well. After much thought, Misaki decided to shrug it off and shouldered her messenger bag leaving as she yelled her see you soons and I love yous at Kaede.
Once Misaki was out of the compound, Kaede stood behind the door.
"I'm sorry Misaki, but it's safer for you and Naruto to be with Jiraiya right now" Kaede whispered, thinking of how it would kill Misaki to know that Itachi, someone precious to her, is targeting Naruto, a boy she treated like her own brother, more than she could even know.
When Misaki got to the village gates, there stood Naruto, trying to drag a bag bigger than him, making her sweat drop.
"Naruto, we're going to civilized village Naruto, I don't think you need this much stuff" Misaki said laughing at Naruto's antics. After much argument that they were not going to some deep uninhabited forest, Naruto had reluctantly traded his larger than man bag to his regular backpack.
On the road Naruto had been Ero-sennin here and Ero-sennin there, as he excitedly wondered about what they were going to train about, things such as walking on fire and walking on air, making Misaki laugh in amusement, until finally by a bridge, Jiraiya had enough of the ero-sennins, making them pause as they stood before a small wooden bridge.
"You keep calling me Ero-sennin, you have no idea that I am a superb person" he said glaring at Jiraiya.
"Superb Ero-sennin?" Naruto said absent-mindedly. Jiraiya's patience finally snapped and walked to the top of the small bridge.
"Toad sage is only a disguise, as a matter of fact, North, South, East and West, I'm the white maned toad charmer, and one of the legendary Sannin whom even celestial beings can't defeat, such a stud, that he strikes fear in the hearts of people, I'm no other than Jiraiya-sama yes, I'm talking about me!" Jiraiya said, whilst doing intricate and boisterous body gestures as he introduced himself to the two young shinobi. Once finished, he looked at Naruto who has a blank face, and Misaki who had a small smile on her face while clapping, who walked silently behind Naruto as he proceeded ignoring Jiraiya's previous display.
"Atafuku town is ten kilometers from here!" Naruto exclaimed reading the sign.
"It's Otafuku Town!" Jiraiya corrected, making Misaki smile.
"Jiraiya-san sure traveled wide?"
"Yeah, I've travelled everywhere researching passionately for any materials I can use for my book" Jiraiya bragged looking down at Misaki, it still astonishes him every time he looks at Naruto and Misaki, how nostalgic their vision is.
"Hey, ero-sennin, you chose us to be your traveling companions, so does that mean, which we're potentially a genius? Why did you choose us?" Naruto asked in glee.
"A long time ago, the fourth hokage was my disciple, you both remind me of the fourth hokage, it's almost funny, and that's the only reason" Jiraiya explained and walked further than them.
"Reminded him?" Misaki thought out loud as Naruto celebrated the fact that looking like the fourth hokage must be some kind of sign foretelling his own future as a hokage, all the while steeping on a few dog poop.
"Neh, Jiraiya-san what was the fourth hokage like?" Misaki asked as they walked after Naruto, who walked ahead of them as gutsy as ever. Jiraiya paused his steps to look intently at Misaki, who paused after realizing that Jiraiya had paused his walking.
"Is something wrong?" Misaki asked, face clearly worried.
"It's nothing, besides why do you want to know about the fourth hokage?"
"Well, I heard that he risked his life to save the village from the nine tailed beast the same beast that was sealed inside Naruto" Misaki said, remembering her readings, chin between her thumb and point finger.
"Well, the fourth hokage was a stubborn man, he was a great shinobi, but he didn't like killing. He was kind and shrewd, young and ambitious" Jiraiya said, looking to the clouds as if seeing the fourth hokage's very face in the skies.
At a temple, they decided to have a quick rest while Naruto played with the bells.
"Hey, ero-sennin, what kind of student was the fourth hokage?"
"I guess you could say that he developed to that extent because he was my student, you're one lucky guy to be taught by me" Jiraiya said, followed by four Narutos groaning in disagreement.
"You look dubious, a good teacher produced good disciples that goes without saying"
"Then who taught you ero-sennin?"
"Me, I learned from the third hokage, back when he was still young lively"
"Young and lively?" Naruto mocked before the bells fell on him, wrapping him around with its cloth and rolling way down the stairs.
"But, don't you think it's pretty brave of the Fourth Hokage?" Jiraiya looked back to Misaki who had just calmed down from laughing at Naruto.
"What is?"
"The fourth hokage was young, and ambitious, but he chose to give up his life protecting the village, but it's not just his life he sacrificed, he sacrificed a lot more than that. He also sacrificed a lot of things that could have happened if he lived. I don't think I could ever be that brave" Misaki said earnestly.
"However, I think Naruto is the type of guy who would do whatever it take to fight, not for anything but to protect, and that is why I believe he will one day be the hokage, and I want to be there to watch him be the hokage, no matter how long and hard it takes" Misaki said, looking at Jiraiya in the eyes, her bright blue eyes reflecting more than her resolve, but the resolve that her father too carried proudly.
"So you learned from Kakashi, which means you took the bell test too?" Jiraiya asked.
"Yeah, I ended up being tied to a tree trunk" Naruto said, and to this Jiraiya laughed.
"What?! You too?"
"What do you mean you too?" Naruto asked as he continued to struggle against the bells.
"Nothing, just return that will you?!"
"I'm trying, it's kinda hard to get out of these" Naruto said squirming, Misaki stood and jumped down to detangle Naruto from the bells.
All the whole Jiraiya continued to laugh, making Naruto and Misaki look at him and think if they had really made the right choice travelling with Jiraiya.
"It seems that they haven't found Naruto yet" Guy said as he sat down next to Kakashi's bed where the copy ninja laid still unconscious from his last squabble with Itachi. Asuma, Kurenai and Kaede watched him as he lay still not showing any signs of moving.
"But don't you think it's strange, they have already infiltrated the village, it should be easy to find Naruto in this village" Asuma said sitting on a table and taking out a cigarette as he talked.
"Itachi knows Naruto's face,"
"Jiraiya took both Naruto and Misaki with him on a trip to look for Tsunade-sensei" Kaede explained. Kurenai was about to question the safety of the decision when Guy shushed them right before Sasuke opened the door.
"What's going on here? Why is Kakashi sleeping, and why have jonins gathered here?" Sasuke said entering the room ever the vigilant one.
"Nothing, in particular" Guy said trying to brush off Sasuke's sharp glare, right before another jonin entered the room screaming everything they have been trying to hide, from Itachi returning to Itachi hunting down Naruto.
"Idiot" Kurenai muttered as the latest jonin to join them realized who had been in the room. Kaede's temper flared as she released her threads ready to strangle the idiot, stopping as she saw the expression in Sasuke's face change rapidly, then bolting from the door.
"Sasuke!" Kaede yelled after him, but in a yukata, she had no chance catching up.
Sasuke had first stopped by Naruto's house, where he found Sakura just about to exit.
"Sakura, where is Naruto?"
"Huh, I just got here too" the moment Sakura said the words, Sasuke ran off to look for Naruto, with only Naruto's well-being in his mind. He stopped by Ichiraku ramen and asked the owner if he had seen Naruto that day.
"Oh, Naruto, as I remember correctly, Jiraiya-sama came here around noon, followed by Misaki-chan, they ate ramen together and he said he was going somewhere," the old shop keeper said, trying to remember vividly what happened earlier.
"Where did they go?"
"hmm, I think he said to a post station some distance from the village, and then he left with Jiraiya-sama and Misaki-chan"
"Jiraiya?"
"One of the three genius sanin, in appearance he looks like a big white haired old man" the shop keeper explained.
"Big and white haired huh" Sasuke repeated before bolting out. Gritting his teeth, if Misaki was there and she'd stand between Naruto and Itachi, and she could end up wellbeing collateral damage, Sasuke thought, hating to put his mind on what Itachi could do to Misaki.
Jiraiya, lead the two younger shinobi through the town, Misaki amused at Naruto's amusement with the town surroundings.
"This is a pretty weird town"
"It this your first time here?"
"Uh, aside from a few missions just near the village, and that mission on the land of waves, I haven't travelled that much" Naruto said as he continued to wonder around town.
"Naruto, Misaki, we're staying here!" Jiraiya called them and they soon followed inside the inn. Misaki was looking around at the inn's interior when she saw both Jiraiya and Naruto reacting to a scantily dressed woman.
"Hey Naruto, this is the key to the room, why don't you go practice with chakra and sleep early" Jiraiya said before leaving them to follow the woman.
"This always happen to me when I am with ero-sennin" Naruto grumbled as they sat on their beds in the room, Naruto, following just as Jiraiya had instructed albeit begrudgingly.
Misaki had fell asleep when Naruto had begun to stay silent and concentrate on chakra molding, all the whole forming a few shadow clones.
Misaki woke up with knowing on their door, that was beginning to grow louder and louder.
"Hey did she dump you already?" Naruto said, however, Misaki's blood ran cold as she recognize the chakra behind the door.
"Naruto don't!" Misaki yelled trying to stop him, but it was too late, the door had opened revealing Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame, dressed in black cloaks with red clouds. The two of them froze as the two domineering figures stood before them.
"Tche, to think that a kid like you would hold the nine tails inside of you" Kisame said entering the room carelessly.
"Naruto, will you come with us" Itachi said and Misaki began to panic, in an instant, she bolted beside Naruto, choosing to observe at Kisame, instead of Itachi. Naruto looked to Misaki in confirmation who nodded, the two of them stepping out of the room before the two missing-nin.
"Hmm, it we only need one, so maybe I could chop you up" Kisame said looking down at the small red haired girl. Misaki stood her ground, before Naruto measuring Kisame as he walked towards her slowly, hands already at samehada's hilt.
Before anything can happen, Itachi had alerted every one of the new presence that had joined them.
"It's been a long time, Sasuke" Misaki froze, forgetting Kisame and looking at Sasuke who had sharingan activated, eyes glaring at Itachi.
"Uchiha Itachi"
"Oh, sharingan, what's your relation to him?" Kisame asked
"He's my little brother"
"But I heard the entire Uchiha clan had been murdered, by you"
"Uchiha Itachi I will kill you" Sasuke said in voice full of anger, heart lurching as if she was on the receiving end. Sasuke formed the chidori in his hands, then ran towards Itachi, dragging his justu against the halls. Misaki had grabbed Naruto and pushed him away from the explosion, just as Itachi skillfully grabbed Sasuke's hand and slammed his jutsu away.
"You're in the way" Itachi said breaking the wrist that he held in his hands making Sasuke scream in pain.
"Sasuke!" Naruto said and started gathering that eerie red chakra of the nine tailed fox. He was about to use summoning technique, when the samehada swung at him. It didn't touch him, but Misaki felt the chakra disappear.
"My sword, the samehada has the ability to cut through and eat chakra" Kisame once again tried to slam his sword at Naruto but his sword collided against another sword. Misaki had unsheathed her katana and held the sword above, her with two arms, blocking the imminent strike, just as Jiraiya appeared behind them.
"You don't know me at all, this man Jiraiya does not fall victim to any woman's allurement, but rather his forte is winning women's affection, I'm not made to blindly follow after a woman's feminine charm, when you get to my level, women yelp with delight at my sex appeal." Jiraiya declared, and amongst the serious faces, it had been Misaki's voice to break the silence.
"Jiraiya-san, are you drunk?" making him freeze in embarrassment.
"You were totally excited by a lame tactic like a woman winking at you, you shouldn't be the one to try acting all suave and cool you ero-sennin!" Naruto lectured as he pointed an accusing finger at Jiraiya.
"Like I said, don't call me that in front of people" Jiraiya said as the the younger blond continued to scold at him.
"More importantly, these people aren't normal ero-sennin, did you hear me ero-sennin, ERO-SENNIN!" Naruto continued to blabber until Jiraiya pounded his head.
"I told you not to call me ero-sennin" Kisame started laughing.
"You are after all, Jiraiya-sama one of the legendary sannin, I didn't believe that I'd be able to stop you that easily, despite the fact that you are a huge womanizer," Kisame explained to which Naruto exclaimed in shock.
"You knew ero-sennin's identity"
"Seems, like you release the genjutsu we had to put on that woman" Kisame wondered, before his sword began pushing back against him, indicating that the one he was crossing swords with is fighting back.
"You shouldn't use such a low trick such as casting a genjutsu on this poor girl to separate Naruto from me. Just as I though, Naruto was your target" Jiraiya said as he placed the woman by the corridor. Misaki took this opportune moment of silence to free her already shaking arms.
"Sorry, but I am your opponent" Misaki said before swinging her right leg and kicking Kisame full force in the stomach, sending him to the end of the hall. Misaki swung her sword several times before raising it before her.
"And I'm not going to let you take Naruto, at any cost" Kisame smirked at the little girl in front of him who managed to send him to his ass. Talk about look can be deceiving with that cute little girl.
"No wonder even Kakashi knows about it, the information source was you, to abduct Naruto is the No. 1 priority place by our organization, Akatsuki,"
"I won't let you take Naruto, this is perfect I'll dispose of you both right now" Jiraiya proclaimed. Misaki looked at Itachi, and her heart felt like it was chocking, is that how it feels like to stand against a friend, one you have held so close to your heart.
"Don't butt in, the one who is going to kill him is me!" Sasuke growled as he struggled to get up,
"Right now, I have no interest in you!" Itachi said, his voice as cold as ice.
"Don't mess with me" Sasuke said lunging at Itachi only to be kicked back, clashing with the wall at the end of the corridor. Misaki moved to ran towards Sasuke, but Kisame had intervened.
"My, my didn't you say you were opponent little girl" Kisame said swinging his sword, with Misaki barely dodging Kisame as he swing his sword relentlessly. Misaki watched in helplessness as Itachi continued to trash Sasuke. However he drew the line when he held Sasuke by the neck and placed him under tsukiyomi, with Sasuke yelling in agony.
"Stop it Itachi Stop!" Misaki yelled using the Flying thunder god justu she had placed on Sasuke appearing before the brothers and kicking Itachi away from Sasuke, with Misaki barely having enough time to let go of her sword in favor of catching Sasuke. Tears spilling down from her face to Sasuke's as he cradled him closer. She had been there, she had been the one who found Sasuke that night, and it never was a state she would ever like to see Sasuke ever again, but here they were.
"You know, I believed in you Itachi, I believed in your vision, and I still continue to believe in your vision even if you don't believe in it anymore" Misaki yelled at him, sending a kunai hurtling towards him.
Jiraiya chose that precise moment to use a summoning technique: toad mouth bind, trapping not only their enemies but them as well in its sticky walls. With one last look at Misaki and Sasuke, Itachi had called on Kisame and decided to make a run for it, with Jiraiya and Naruto pursuing close. Misaki had been cradling Sasuke who had been staring blankly up ahead.
"Sasuke, look at me, please Sasuke" Misaki said tapping his face gently, when he didn't answer and simply stared ahead wide eyed. Misaki plressed her forehead against his, tears falling once more, she barely even noticed the noisy arrival of Might Guy.
Naruto stared at Misaki and Sasuke, it had been a pain to see Sasuke sink so low and get hurt so badly, but what Naruto was most bothered about was Misaki crying, he didn't know why, but making Misaki smile had always been a top priority for Naruto, and her crying right now, makes his chest hurt.
"I'm going to chase those black capes and get them! It's me they want right?! Then I'll make my way over!" Naruto declared.
"Tche, you're only going to be killed if you go now, they're at a totally different level from you, I just managed to get you away from them," Jiraiya explained
"Then, are we just going to keep running away? Are we supposed to be living in fear?" Naruto yelled.
"Shut your mouth for a second! You are weak" Jiraiya yelled back at Naruto, shook in anger with his words, but didn't deny.
"Jiraiya-san is right, if we choose battles way out of our league, we'll only end up doing more harm to those we are trying to protect Naruto," Misaki said gently sitting Sasuke up, as she stood and walked towards Naruto and bumped her forehead against his.
Jiraiya watched as Misaki served as a panic blanket to Naruto, who calmed down, his anger contained.
"Sorry Guy, I thought that I had spared the boy's feeling, but I should have saved him much sooner" Jiraiya explained.
"Kakashi has also come down with the same jutsu as well, we don't know when he'll regain consciousness"
"Kakashi!"
"Kakashi-sensei!" Misaki and Naruto said in unison, the look on Guy's face saying it all.
"When my precious student was hurt, I always wished from the bottom of my heart if that person who is a medical specialist were here,"
"That's why, we're going to find her" Jiraiya said
The moon shined bright, its light seeping through the window and into the room. Kaede sat beside Kakashi, never once leaving his side as she caressed his face.
"It's been a while since I had last seen you sensei, wonder how you would react to your prodigal student" Kaede wondered out loud staring at the moon.