Section: Naruto
Genre: Supernatural, Romance
Pairing: male OC X (Surprise) male
Summary: A normal person from the real world dies and ends up in the world of Naruto or better known as the nightmarish world full of death and destruction. Slash. Yaoi.
Warning: Yaoi, shounen ai, slash, boyxboy whatever. Mentions of rape. Dark themes. OC with skewed morals and questionable sanity.

Chapter Twelve – En route towards Wave.

My first encounter with a higher ranked shinobi had been anticipated. Of course I had calculated and re-calculated how it was going to happen. I had, for the first real time in a long while, thought about my foreknowledge and planned how the events would occur. As a fail-safe I had also planned a scenario where none of my knowledge would come true. After all my mere presence in this world could cause a certain butterfly effect and for all I knew the man who was after our client (supposedly, depending on my memories) could very well have died before the mission or something, thus my memories could not be relied upon. I could not depend on them after all as a simple mistake could take my life.

What I had not expected though was of how I would react. Oh, no, I did not freeze like my idiot brother, nor did I jump in arrogantly to show off how good I was. I… was truly confused about how I should feel afterwards.

It was three days after having left the village that it occurred. Having travelled at civilian speed we were still far enough away from the village that it would have taken a while for back up to come to our rescue, so it was understandably a good time for our enemies to attack.

I had been tense and ready for battle the moment we stepped foot out of the village gates. I was mentally prepared to engage in a fight where my fate would be uncertain. Maybe I was too mentally prepared.

The moment Kakashi was attacked by chains I froze for a millisecond and immediately cursed myself as a millisecond could decide the outcome of a fight in a ninja battle. Naruto also froze beside me and as Uchiha took a step forward to engage the two ninjas in battle, I reacted.

With a burst of speed and adrenaline, my feet might or might not have been coated with chakra, I rushed towards them with a simple thought in mind, 'Annihilate.' My hands snapped forwards and two paralyzing seals were shot towards them. They dodged, but it was enough distraction. Before they knew what happened, sharp red hair flew and wrapped tightly around them.

I skidded to a halt and tightened my grip on my hair and pulled. They struggled against me and I admit that I had not been prepared for the backlash. I stumbled forwards and almost lost my balance as my hands were viciously cut by my sharp hair through my battle gloves. Absentmindedly I noted that I needed new and better ones… again.

Then one of them managed to escape my trapping hair and something in me… snapped. In a split second I almost felt like an angry predator whose prey was getting away. Before anything else could be done, I braced my feet on the ground and twirled, my long – bloodblood – hair flying around me. I distantly heard screams amongst the disturbing, though fascinating, sounds of flesh being viciously bitten and crushed.

When I looked back at my… artwork, my face as usual blank though my eyes were curious about what I had been able to do, I found one dead ninja lying on the ground in an almost undistinguishable mass of gory flesh and blood. I could see that my hair had cut slightly through some bone, at the joints but mostly they had remained stuck as I apparently did not have the physical strength to actually cut someone to pieces completely, yet.

The other ninja was still screaming as he held his left arm in obvious agony; his left arm that was as damaged as the rest of the ninja on the ground from the elbow down.

Behind me I vaguely heard vomiting but I was more spellbound with my little piece of work. Without my consent, my head tilted in contemplation and words rolled from my lips, fortunately in English, "how delightful."

Suddenly Kakashi appeared behind the enemy and promptly knocked him out with a well-placed blow in the neck. Fortunately I did not attack my teacher as it would most likely have a bad reception. I schooled my features into a blank mask – blanker than usual – as Kakashi turned to me, an unreadable look in his one visible eye.

Had I done something wrong? I had simply incapacitated the enemy after all. Maybe I should not have? Oh, well, it did not matter. It had been fun.

Never did it cross my mind that this had been my first kill nor that I should feel something after taking the life of a fellow human being. Did that make me a monster? I knew not, but what I knew was that I would not let something as silly as pity, compassion or even guilt to come between my goals and I.

"Well," Kakashi drawled as he turned to our client. "Before we start I have something to do. Team, guard Tazuna-san." With that, he grabbed the two other ninjas, well, what remained anyway and disappeared in the trees. Meanwhile, Uchiha, Naruto and I went into formation around the client. It was strange having the old man shying away from me, along with Naruto who kept his distance – for once – while Uchiha shot discreet looks towards me; those looks seemed surprised but at the same time contemplating. I was at least satisfied that the Uchiha did not look at me with fear like Naruto. Well, there was some apprehension but he did not seem like he was going to let his apprehension control his actions.

This made my disgust for my darling brother shot up. How did he expect be a shinobi if he did not take a life. What, was he just going to knock them down and give them the opportunity to come back after him again? Stupid. We had been taught at the academy to be ready to kill the enemy and to be ready for our first kill. It was expected in the life of a ninja to be a killer and if he could not stomach watching someone killing then he was even less of a ninja than I already thought him to be.

A few minutes later Kakashi returned, conspicuously alone and questioned the client about any information that had not been divulged. Tazuna hesitated before he finally revealed that there was a man after his life who might be sending other ninjas after him. He tried to invoke pity as he mentioned his grandson and daughter waiting for him back in Wave Country but Kakashi did not seem to be in the mood as he cut him off and asked the rest of the team if we wanted to continue the mission.

Not surprising Naruto was the first to pip in with his loud headache-inducing screaming about becoming Hokage, and what other non-sense he liked to spout. Apparently it meant that he wanted to continue the mission as Sasuke added that he would not give up yet. Then they all turned to me expectantly, Naruto paling slightly and shying away to hide behind Kakashi, Uchiha with more arrogance than anything else and Kakashi still with that undecipherable look in his one visible eye.

I simply tilted my head and then nodded. With that it was decided that we would continue our journey. However, because of the previous excitement, Kakashi believed that it would be best for us to find a good place to settle down for the night before taking back the road early in the morning.

It was later that night that Kakashi finally approached me. We had already eaten and the other three had gone to sleep while I stayed up for first watch. Tazuna, Uchiha and Naruto were sleeping at the other side of the camp when Kakashi sat down silently beside me. He kept quiet for a while before finally deciding to ask me what had been on his mind all this time.

"Are you okay?" he asked me. I was understandably confused; why would I not be? I nodded simply, if only to make him go away. I felt uncomfortable having him speak to me alone while the others were sleeping. Usually we were always around Naruto and Uchiha when he addressed me and even then he rarely spoke to me. He scratched his clothed cheek before he added, "You know you can come to me for anything, right?" My eyes blinked at him twice in minor curiosity before I shrugged a shoulder. He sighed. "Well, if you want to talk you know you can come to me. I'm your sensei after all; it's kind of my job."

Kakashi glanced at the red-haired boy beside him from the corner of his eye before he sighed again and leaned against the tree behind them, his one visible eye shifting to stare at the starry night sky. He really did not know how to be a sensei; he had told Hokage-sama that he would not be the best for the job but the old man had persuaded him to take a team, only because he had been taking too much S-ranked missions to be healthy. According to the Hokage a break would be good for his mental health. However, Kakashi felt that the man had finally gone senile.

Sure, he liked his team; they were good kids, but for all his accomplishments as a ninja he really did not know how to approach the subject with his most silent student. He was no Minato-sensei; how should he know how to talk to the boy about his first kill?

True, Minori seemed to be taking what had happened earlier quite well, but the boy was frighteningly good at hiding his feelings. For all Kakashi knew Minori could be traumatized or burying the event in the far back of his mind, which was unhealthy as it would most likely come at the forefront of his mind at the most inopportune moment. He resolved to keep an eye on the kid for the next few weeks. Even Kakashi had been affected by his first kill after all and if not for Minato-sensei he most likely would still have had nightmare months afterwards.

Maybe it was because the kid was afraid of having nightmares of the earlier incident that he had volunteered for first watch? Well, whatever was going on in his student's mind, Kakashi would be there when he would be needed. He might not be the best sensei – he was far from being Minato-sensei's caliber – but those three were his kids now. He actually liked them for all their faults and craziness. He wanted to be there for them when they would need him. None of them had any other adult to go to for those kinds of things since they were all orphans. Well, Naruto had Iruka-sensei whom he was close to but the other two were more loners. The only one Kakashi knew that Minori even talked to was the Hokage and even that was rare, and Sasuke only ever thought about training and revenge. So, Kakashi resolved to be the one adult in their lives they could go to for advice and support, like Minato-sensei had been to him.

That was why Kakashi had been angry that Tazuna had been hiding such an important detail. Oh, he had known from the very beginning that their client had been hiding something; he had been acting shifty even before they had left the village, but he had never thought that one of his kids would have had to have their first kill so soon. It was only their first C-ranked mission – that was now most likely an A-rank – after all.

But more than anything he was angry at himself. He had wanted to test his team. The two enemy ninjas had been only low chunnins at best, so it should not have been too difficult for them. He had wanted to see how they would fare in a situation where they would have to rely on only themselves. He had wanted to see them work together as a team. Instead one of his kids had to experience his first kill and another was terrified of his own brother. The only good thing that had occurred was that Sasuke was taking Minori more seriously. Maybe those two could start working together, when it did not involve taking petty revenge on their other teammate.

He was such a failure as a sensei...

Sorry for being so late in updating this story. I was a little stumped in how to make Kakashi address the problem with Minori so I finally settled for this. As you can see here there are many unresolved issues here. My OC is a little not well in the head, you have to remember, and Kakashi has his insecurities. Naruto is still a child and he has just seen his brother viciously killing two grown man; keep this in mind. However, he does love his brother, so no, he is not going to suddenly hate Minori.

Well, do leave behind a review and tell me your thoughts.

Leight