The next morning Kakashi and I left the apartment to meet up with Jiraiya. It didn't take long to find him spying on some women in the hot springs. Shaking my head I snuck up on him and, with a devilish glint in my eyes, scared the shit out of him. This however alerted the girls in the springs causing them to dash back inside. Before he could start complaining about what I had done Kakashi introduced Jiraiya to me.
"Syrin, huh?" Jiraiya questioned after we made it to a small café talk over tea.
"Yes, I'm sorry to have to pull you away from your 'research'." I giggled lightly, "This is going to sound bat shit crazy but you have to believe me. Master Jiraiya, I was told that you were to train me so I could take down a very powerful enemy."
"Jiraiya, you need to believe her. If you need proof then just look into her eyes." Kakashi explained as Jiraiya did as told.
The first thing he noticed about my eyes was that deep down they were as cold as Orochimaru's. Yet they weren't snake like at all. They were wolf like but then they changed straight to looking like Orochimaru's.
"Syrin, I won't help you. Your eyes are as cold and dark as Orochimaru's. Yet they aren't snake like at all. They're wolf like but they changed to snake. What are you?" Jiraiya stated calmly but his eyes clearly showed his panic.
"I'm a creature call a Mutt. I'm a combination of a wolf, a snake, and god knows what else. All I do know is that my father was a snake. My father, it's Orochimaru. Father wasn't always like the person that you know. Master Jiraiya, please, if I don't get this training then I could lose everything that gives me meaning and that gives me a reason to live. That even means you, Master Jiraiya. You don't recognize me do you?"
"No, should I?" Jiraiya questioned.
"Think back to when you were just a teenager. Remember that really cute girl that had purple hair and green eyes?" I sighed.
"Yes but what does that have to-"
"That girl was me. She died. I died. I was returned to my home world and then came back as the girl you see before you. You would've done it for her so why not for me?"
"…"
"You loved me back then. You love me now. If you don't help me then you'll never be able to see me again. Jiraiya, you have to help me." I practically begged.
"Wow! Wait just a moment. Jiraiya loves you? Then, you knew who Jiraiya was from the beginning?" Kakashi snapped.
"Yes Kakashi. I've always known Jiraiya, but I needed you to find him. My powers are returning without hast and I can't control them very well. Jiraiya helped Naruto control the Nine-Tailed Fox, so why can't he help me control whatever it is that empowers me?"
Kakashi just stared into my eyes and got lost within the darkness that engulfed them. When he returned from his gaze, Kakashi just looked utterly lost. The darkness was indeed like Orochimaru's, but then again it was nothing like it.
"You're not the same Syrin. You're more like your father than you realize." Kakashi said as he started to slightly shake.
"I'm his daughter Kakashi. That doesn't change who I am. I'm still the girl that you wanted as your wife. The one that is willing to lose her life just to save you from being a slave to Lagzar. Kakashi I'm not the girl I once was. I'm not Zabuza's pupil anymore. I'm not the tyrant that enjoyed seeing people get hurt. I'm not the killer that was blinded by darkness, loneliness, and betrayal. I've changed and you can see that in my eyes. Behind the darkness. Behind the Orochimaru look. Behind everything you know exactly who I am. Or is that not true?" I said.
"No…it's true. I see a wonderful woman and a beautiful wife." Kakashi smiled.
Once Kakashi and I got Jiraiya to help us, I went out to the forest and started training. Jiraiya and Kakashi followed but couldn't catch up. Somehow Kakashi knew exactly where I had run off to.
Within five minutes Jiraiya and Kakashi were in the middle of a clearing with the most beautiful waterfall they had ever seen. There was a little rainbow at the bass where the water collided with the pool. It was almost like they were in some fantasy novel or some movie. Kakashi was stunned at the beauty of the place while Jiraiya was more focused on what his new student was wearing.
Kakashi looked up to see his girl wearing a black leather corset looking shirt, short black leather shorts, black leather knee high boots, and my hair was up in a pony tail. It was then that he realized how long my hair had grown. It was also back to its natural black color. He was in so much shock that he fell flat on his ass. Jiraiya was just trying to prevent himself from drooling over my beautiful figure.
"I'm ready for my training Master Jiraiya." I stated as I helped Kakashi to his feet.
"…Right, can I ask you why you brought us here?"
"It's peaceful. My father brought me here right before he left me…us." I sighed sadly.
"You mean Orochimaru?" Kakashi questioned.
"Yeah, before he turned to the sound ninja and became the person that you know him as, he was a good man. He loved his family with everything he had. I don't know what changed in him."
"Before we start your training, I want to get to know you. I like to know my enemies before I fight them." Jiraiya stated as he sat near the pool of water.
"All right, look into the pool. You can too Kakashi, it'll help both of you understand me better. When I was little, shortly after father left, I became a lonely street child. Look…" I said as I pointed to the pool. There in the water showed my life as a child living on the streets, steeling food, and doing whatever I had to do to survive. As the water continued to show them my past I started to sing in an angelic voice. "I still remember the world from the eyes of a child. Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now. Where has my heart gone? An uneven trade for the real world. Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything, and knowing nothing at all. I still remember the sun, always warm on my back. Somehow it seems colder now." The water showing the image of when Iruka took me in. "Where has my heart gone? Trapped in the eyes of a stranger." I sang as the pool showed the first day I met Kakashi. "Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything. Jesus, wondrous king and noble conqueror, ineffable sweetness, he is all lovely. Where has my heart gone? An uneven trade for the real world. Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything. Oh, where, where has my heart gone? Trapped in the eyes of a stranger." Finally the water returned to normal as Kakashi and Jiraiya looked to me. "Oh I, I want to go back to Believing in everything. I still remember." I finish singing.
They now knew absolutely everything about me. At least the parts that I knew. I walked into the pool and just stood there, waist deep in water, looking up at the waterfall. I felt alone all over again and didn't know why.
"You were an outcast just like Naruto You never really had a family or a real true friend." Jiraiya sighed with pity in his voice.
"Don't pity me Jiraiya. I don't want it…let alone need it." I snapped never looking away from the water cascading down the cliff side. I sighed and turned towards them. "Yeah, I've always been a runaway so people don't get hurt. For the longest time I had thought that I was destined to be alone, but then Kakashi changed all of that." I smiled lovingly at the silver haired ninja. "So, are we going to start my training or not?"