Kayla sighed. Virginia; not where she wanted to spend her summer. She had just graduated from college. She wanted to spend it in Jamaica with her friends not in Virginia in the house of her missing grandfather. Her missing Japanese grandfather she had barely remembered. Not her idea of a good time. Oh well.
She looked out the window at the rain. It was sunny and eighty two in Jamaica today. "Responsibility sucks."
The plane landed and she walked down the causeway. A sign with her father's name made her sigh heavily. "Higarashi Kayla." The woman bowed. "I am honored to meet you."
"Thank you." She bowed. Her father had taught her how to act. He had loved her and cared for her right up until he and her mother had died in a car accident two years before. It still hurt to be reminded of the loss.
She smiled though because that's what you do. You smile. Even when it breaks you in two you smile.
She watched the landscape change as her cousin Kim drove her to her grandfather's house. She being the only direct descendent of his son she had inherited everything.
She hated this life all the damn traditions and superstitions of these people. She had trained with her father and could hold her own. She however did not believe you could harness your life energy and utilize it. She was a doctor. Or at least she would be when she returned to her home in Connecticut. They drove to a huge open house and the dojo stood beside it. It was all very Asian.
"Well here you are my dear. I will see that David comes and gets your bags just go and explore. It's all yours now."
"Just until I sell it." She muttered as she walked into the house. She had no intention of keeping this house in this washed up back water.
She walked in and looked at the polished floors and reed rugs. This place had been kept immaculate. Her grandfather had disappeared more than ten years before. She was fourteen when it happened. She was now only a few weeks away from her twenty fifth birthday and the place looked like he could walk out. Tiny bonsai trees grew on the tables trimmed and trained. Low benches and couches were strategically placed around the room to give it an even more open appearance than it truly had.
It was pretty she supposed. If she had to judge. She didn't hate it anyway. Kayla wandered the house and then moved slowly to the dojo.
She walked in and found the floors here were also polished to a high gloss and the mats were fresh. She sighed and sat down. "Well grandfather I wonder what you would have taught your students." She rolled her eyes. He would have told them they could walk on the ceiling. At least that was what he told her when she was young. She scoffed.
She grabbed a Kitana from the shelf and slid it free. It had been recently oiled. This part she was familiar with. She slid it over her arm and held it then moved like the praying mantis. Down and up like the tiger.
Leaping and landing like the stork. She continued through the motions only stopping when she had lost her ability to continue she was exhausted the flight had been long the drive longer and now she was in here training like some kind of shinobi she must be losing it already the boredom ready to kill her so soon. She laughed at her self and replaced the sword. "At least I still know how to do it."
She set it back and went to the house to sleep. She woke the next day to the smell of rice and she took a deep breath. She stood and wandered to the kitchen. Kim was making her breakfast. "Thank you." She murmured.
"It is my responsibility." She smiled. "I care for the house and you are part of the house."
"Thanks anyway." She sat down and began to eat. "Hey I saw some boxes in the dojo what's in them."
"It is what was in there when we found it empty. There are several scrolls and things in there they are yours now." She shrugged and left.
Kayla ate the food and smiled it was good. She certainly missed her Dad's cooking. She wandered slowly to the dojo to investigate the boxes. It was something to do. She pulled out one and set it on the floor.
She decided to work out again. This time she dressed for it. She pulled on a kimono and slid the sword in place. She worked until her muscles shook then she slid the sword on her back and sat down to look at the things in the box.
It was full of a weird managerie. She pulled out a book and looked at it. "Naruto." She murmured. She opened it and frowned. "It's manga."
She read a few pages then set it down intending to finish it later. It looked pretty good really. She had never read this story but she had heard of it.
Several scrolls of different sizes. She pulled one out and opened it. A message from her uncle in Japan about an evil that can move between worlds a youkai. A demon. "Looney." she sighed. Another was blank then one had a seal on it. And a symbol for Leaf on it. She set it down. There was a vial that looked suspiciously like blood, gross.
She frowned and set it down. She picked back up the book and was reading when she heard a thump she looked up and jumped as a cat leapt at her. She wasn't frightened of cats she just didn't expect one to be here. It knocked over the vial of blood. She frowned and picked up the unopened scroll but, her finger slid over the edge and she broke the seal and sliced her finger wide at the same time. "Ouch shit."
The scroll slid open and started to roll into the small pool of blood that should have been dry years ago. She grabbed for it not wanting it ruined. Now in this universe things just happen sometimes. Things that seem random but probably aren't well this one was apparently one of those things.
She slid her fingers over the strange symbols in the middle spreading her blood just as the blood from the vial soaked through the bottom.
She closed her eyes as the world went white. She stayed like that for a few seconds afraid of looking honestly.
"What the fuck was that?" She said softly and opened her eyes. She was in a grassy field. The cat yowled unhappily and leapt away. "What the hell is going on?" She jumped up. "Holy shit what is happening to me? Where in the hell am I?"
She was ready to panic. She was in the middle of no where. She looked up to see some power lines something that would tell her she was still near the house maybe she had blacked out.
Nothing in the trees nothing at all. She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths. "I'm alright I'm not going to panic."
"You there who are you where are you from?" She froze.
She turned and looked at the man that was standing in a tree not far away. Okay that wasn't so bad he was wearing pants and a shirt there seemed to be so discrepancies with him and the rest of the world like he was wearing bandages on both arms but, maybe he had been burned.
He also wore a head band that was a little weird. It even had symbols on it. Okay so maybe he was in a gang. She looked at him and smiled. "I'm lost could you point me back towards Carroll?"
"What is Carroll?" He frowned. "You are going to have to come with us."
"Us who?" She frowned.
Then she saw there were several other men and a woman even in the trees. They leapt down and walked towards her. She frowned they had been pretty far up to just jump and land on their feet like that. They sure were dressed strangely.
And each of them carried a weapon. Not exactly the kind you would expect either. They were old weapons. One had a shiriken on his back the size of a ceiling fan.
Okay she definitely was not in Kansas anymore. Her first thought she dismissed was that she had somehow gone to wherever her grandfather had gone. But she shook her head. Perhaps she had suddenly begun sleep walking and ended up in the forest with some of those role playing geeks that hide in the woods and pretend to be ninja. She looked at the book in her hand. She rolled her eyes. This was probably one of her grandfathers tricks he had played with his students.
"Okay I'm going to go back now you have fun." She stood and headed south. That should take her home based on the maps she'd looked at. The northern part of the property was where the forest was the thickest.
"I can not let you leave. You will come to the village." She looked at him and frowned.
"No; what are you going to do? Hit me with your foam sword I assure you mine is real. Why don't you go back to your mom's basement and get back to your Warcraft."
"What is she talking about?"
"We need to take her back to the village. She seems unbalanced."
"I seem unbalanced you're running around in the woods dressed like ninja and I'm unbalanced." The man looked at her clothing and frowned.
She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Okay I guess that might not be the best argument since I'm dressed like one too. Damn where is the village?" She stepped towards them. "Yes take me to your leader then I can get directions home. You people didn't kidnap me right this isn't some ploy to gain my trust is it."
They just continued to look at her like she was nuts. "Whatever." They walked beside her surrounding her.
"Come we will travel faster through the trees." They all leapt into the trees. All but, her who watched them and frowned.
"How did you do that?" She waved her hand around. "Are there wires or something. What the hell is going on?"
"Perhaps she can not mold her chakra." One of them said softly.
"But, she is carrying a Kitana."
"You heard her maybe she is pretending. That's what she said." She frowned.
"I said you were pretending not me." She narrowed her eyes. "If anyone here is crazy it's you people."
They all sighed and landed on the ground. She just glared at them. "Just come on. It's a twenty minute walk from here on the ground." The woman sighed heavily.
Kayla looked at them every once in a while and then she noticed that there seemed to be more of them. She could see them every once in a while in the trees following her. She wasn't really feeling this trip much. As they reached the village a mist surrounded them. "Where the hell is this place?" She was pretty sure Virginia wasn't prone to random fog what the hell did this mean.
She was starting to wonder if she was in some terrible nightmare. Maybe a beam fell out of the dojo and landed on her head. This was some kind of dream to cope with the pain of her head wound. She was a doctor she could see the logic in that.
They stopped at a tall wooden gate. The mist swirled as the gate pulled wide. They led her to the center of the village to a huge sprawling mansion. "Okay where are we now."
"So this is the wandering crazy." She frowned and looked at the man that had spoken. His eyes were the oddest color of lilac and his hair was almost blue it was so white. His teeth were strange. He smiled and she had to hide her cringe. They were sharp.
"I am not crazy. You have shark teeth and I'm crazy." He just laughed.
"Master Suiguetsu Is Lord Mizukage busy."
"Nah, he's with Lady Iruki in the solarium. I'll take her from here guys thanks."
They left and she looked at the man. "You people are really weird, I knew I should have stayed in Connecticut."
"Proabably wherever that is. Lord Kisame isn't fond of intruders." He smiled again.
"I'm not an intruder this is my grandfather's land."
"Is your grandfather from the Mist. You don't look familiar." He looked at the woman as she rolled her eyes in exasperation. She was beautiful. Her eyes were the color of a midnight sky the darkest blue he'd ever seen and her hair was so black it flashed purple every once in a while. Her skin was golden and warm to look at. And, she had a fire he really liked.
They walked into the solarium and the scent of flowers was so thick she sighed. "That is lovely." She wondered if her sensory perception could really come up with so many scents all at once. She closed her eyes for a moment.
"Well I think we should just welcome her. I mean she is harmless right she doesn't even use her chakra. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone who cares." She listened to the woman she could see the back of talk about her presumably.
"My dear I can not just allow any random person to just wander the village she could be a spy." The woman scoffed. She turned and smiled with obviously sightless eyes. She was pretty though even though you could see that she was in her fifties she was still very pretty. Her hair was long and pale. She looked happy. Kayla had very rarely seen many truly happy people in her life. Her parents had been happy.
"Well ask her?" She waved a hand towards her.
"She appeared to have come from a scroll my Lord." She heard that voice and frowned. Where the hell was that coming from. "She appeared with this book and a cat."
"A ninja cat."
"No just a yellow tabby cat." She looked at the book that seemed to come out of the plant. A large aloe. She frowned and looked more deeply. There was a man in there. He was hiding in the plant how odd. She sighed. This was so weird.
"Thank you Zetsu." The man that wore the robes the leader that they had spoken of. The Mist shadow they had called them. The symbol on the hat he wore said water. "So young lady why did you come here?" He opened the book and frowned. He had seen something like this before. He took off his hat and Kayla was very glad for her training in medicine because she could look at him and not scream. She did flinch. And she thought the guy with the sharp teeth was strange this guy had teeth like a shark and a face like one too. She looked at his wife and wondered if she had any idea what he looked like. "Well I guess you must be a little surprised." He smiled.
"About what." She just watched him.
He grinned and squeezed his wife's hand. "You're tough aren't you." He laughed. "Well I think I know where you came from. But, why did you come here?" He held the book out.
"What it's a manga a fictional story about ninjas of course I guess you would like it but, it still doesn't make it real. It's fictional." He smiled.
"Maybe you should look at it." She rolled her eyes.
She took the book and looked at the cover there was a man with black hair and some kind of strange pattern in his eyes. He looked very still and menacing. A sword in his hand. She opened the cover. "I don't see where this will do anything at all I mean come on." She looked at the book and frowned. A face. A young man with lilac eyes and sharp teeth Suiguetsu. Wait wasn't that the name of the man that had… She looked at a man that seemed to be part plant. She looked slowly to her left at the man that was named Zetsu. Her eyes strayed to the other page and she looked at the very tall man in front of her. "Kisame." He raised a smooth ridged brow and nodded.
She closed the book slowly and wondered what she should do. She looked around her and decided running would be good yes she was going to run. She threw the book at the tall man and ran as fast as she could to the door.
"You can't let her run off like that." Iruki sighed. "She's terrified her heart is racing and she's panicking."
"Yes dear." He looked at the orchid vine behind him and nodded.
She reached the door but, it was covered with vines. "Oh hell no." She backed away. The vines surrounded her. She pulled her sword and sliced at them. Iruki touched her arm.
"Enough child calm down."
"Lady if you could see you wouldn't say that to me." She smiled at the frightened young woman.
"I know very well what it looks like to you my dear." She smiled reassuringly. "Just calm down." The sword slipped from her hand.
"I'll just keep this until you are a little less upset." Kisame smiled at her.
"Right and that's going to happen soon." She was shaking. "What the hell is going on?"
"I would say you were brought here on accident. I will find out as soon as I can until then my wife and my cousin will keep you company. Just relax no one is going to hurt you." He looked at the plant. "Go and get Hikari he should still be close enough to catch before he gets too far. He will want to know of this so he can tell his parents." The plant nodded and slipped into the ground.
"Oh god I am going off the deep end. It's the stress that's what this is I have had a psychotic break." She just let Iruki lead her away. Kisame sighed.
"Poor thing I feel sorry for her."
"She'll be fine look at Andrea and the others they ended up fine." He nodded to his cousin.
"Go and make sure she doesn't hurt herself."
"Alright. We better keep her away from Jugo while he's here. She's so agitated she'll upset him."
"He hasn't had an episode in years."
"No but, he still doesn't do well smelling fear." Kisame just nodded.
"Very well."
She was led to a pretty parlor with soft colors and a seascape painted on the wall it seemed like a lot for someone who can't see. "Just have a seat dear and we'll try to make sure that this isn't any more traumatic than it has to be."
Hikari leapt to the next tree he really wanted to get home. He had a date with a pretty blonde waitress. He stopped and sighed. "What is it Zetsu?"
"A woman appeared we believe she is from your mother's world. She is very upset." Hikari frowned.
"From my mother's world how the hell would that happen?" Zetsu shrugged.
"We still do not understand your mother. She is the only random happening there was. Olivia had the ability to summon your mother was a sensor but she had no clue how to use it. But, he thinks that you might be able to help and perhaps she should go back to your village." He frowned.
"Great." He sighed. He turned and leapt back toward the village in the mist.
Kayla watched the world pass by and she sighed. She looked out the window at the strange world. "This is too detailed to be a dream and you can't read in dreams."
"You are trying to think of this with a logical mind my dear." Iruki smiled softly. "You should think with your heart."
"If this is my mind you must be the lonely part that wishes I was married." She frowned. "To a shark." She sighed. "I wonder what the hell that represents?"
Iruki laughed. "You think my husband is a figment of your imagination."
"Well do you blame me? Have you ever seen him?" She sighed. "Never mind."
"I know very well what my husband looks like." She said quietly. "He is the most beautiful man I've ever known. His heart is as big as he is. I love him, it took me a long time to get him to even be willing to kiss me because like you he cared about the outside which matters so little. It is our hearts and souls that matter my dear not our hair and eye color."
Kayla frowned at herself. "You're right I know that. I'm sorry I didn't mean anything by it I'm just…"
"You are upset and rightly so. You are in a strange place and you are frightened. That is expected." She smiled and squeezed her arm. Suiguetsu shook his head. He would never figure out how his cousin could end up with such a lovely woman. He was an ass. She treated him like he was the most wonderful man in the world.
Hikari leapt up the railing and swung over. "Alright I came back where is the mystery girl?" Kisame sighed.
"She's with my wife in the sitting room. She's pretty upset."
"Well let's go see." They walked down the hall and Kisame opened the door. Hikari saw Lady Iruki standing by a slender young woman her hair was up in a twist on her head but it looked a little worse for the wear. It was black every bit as black as His father's but, the highlights were red not blue. She wore a kimono. He raised a brow. She turned and looked at him and he smiled. Suddenly the waitress didn't really matter anymore. This girl was pretty. Her eyes were dark blue really dark and her face was soft. Her big almond eyes and straight hair gave her a very distinct look. She was gorgeous.
"Hello." He smiled wolfishly.
She frowned. "What the hell would he be in my mind?"
"A predator." Iruki whispered. "Just as he is here. He's really sweet though just a little too much like his uncle I think."
"If I knew who that was maybe this would mean something to me."
"He won't hurt you." She patted her hand.
"Right." He stepped forward and held her gaze. He was dangerous. She could see it. And, his face was perfect. Big dark eyes black eyes. Red hair but, dark mahogany it was a very heady combination. Broad shoulders and tall. He was definitely something to see. His clothing was tight fitting showing just how nice he was under there. Dear god if she was right and this was her subconscious this man represented something. What the hell would that be. His eyes suddenly changed and she gasped and fell back. "What the hell is that?"
He watched her closely for a moment and let his eyes fall back. She had been looking at him a little warmly now all he saw was apprehension and nervousness. She had no clue his eyes should have been able to do that and the Uchiha were not so rare these days. She looked like the rest of the people from the other world there was chakra but, it was soft and unchanged. Just smooth lines no bright points anywhere. "Well we better take you back to Mom she can find out what happened and how you ended up here."
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." She frowned and backed to the window.
"I'm sorry to tell you, you have little say in the matter." He sighed. "You will come with me and we will travel to the Leaf."
"Leaf." She frowned. "The scroll my grandfather had it had a Leaf on it."
"Your grandfather huh?"
"Who was your grandfather my dear?"
"Okano Higirashi." That made Hikari perk up.
"Well that makes things interesting. Come along we'll have to start now. With you moving so slowly it will take almost two weeks to get to the village." He sighed.
She didn't want to go anywhere with this man. She looked up at the man named Kisame. He grinned looking very much like something that could eat her. She sighed and followed after him. "I should have gone to Jamaica." She muttered unhappily.
"I've been there very pretty. Beautiful women." He smiled.
"Right." She rolled her eyes.
"Not nearly as beautiful as you are though." She raised a brow.
"You aren't impressing me mister I've dealt with men like you for the last six years in college I resisted them I'm sure I can resist you too." She rolled her eyes.
"I love a challenge." He smiled.
"You're an arrogant ass." She narrowed her gaze.
"Yes." He grinned.
"Very much so."
They headed out and she followed beside him. "Isn't there going to be anyone else going with us." He smiled wolfishly at her.
"No just you and me for the next two weeks." He smiled and leapt away. She frowned then shivered at the breath that fanned her ear. "Why; nervous?"
"Good god would you stop. I don't even know you." She frowned. "I still think this could be some kind of dream."
"It could be, and we don't know each other yet." He smiled. "I intend to spend the next two weeks getting to know you very well."
"Good luck with that." She growled and walked away. He laughed softly and followed her.
She was really nervous she had been a little worried that he would attack her or something but, his actions were perfect gentleman it was apparently just his words that were horrible. Even that wasn't all that bad. She sighed. They were ready to bed down for the night. He smiled. "Here use this." He handed her a bed roll and a pillow.
"But, what will you sleep on." He smiled.
"I won't be sleeping down here with you. I'll be up there in the trees." He watched her for a moment and smiled. "Unless you wanted to share that."
She took back all the nice things she thought. "Not on your life."
He shrugged. "If you change your mind." He raised his brows and leapt straight up into a huge oak tree.
"Fat chance." She muttered and laid out the pallet. He was so nice to her and then he would say something that would make her think he was a complete jerk. He fed her fish and never said a thing but, then when they were on their way he mentioned that since he had taken her to dinner didn't he at least get a kiss. She wasn't sure if she wanted to laugh at him or hit him. Probably both. She laid down and stared at the stars listening to the birds. "Hopefully I'll wake up on the floor in my grandfather's dojo and this will have all been a dream."
"If it is a dream you certainly didn't take advantage of it." She rolled her eyes.
"I'm sure you think that. You are apparently the part of me that really wants to get laid." He laughed.
"Apparently not that badly or I would be down there or you would be up here." She had to laugh at that too. She closed her eyes.
"You are funny I'll give you that and if I was going to fantasize about a man I would certainly like you." She murmured.
"Well that's something then." He said softly. "Get some sleep." She let herself drift she was exhausted.
Hikari watched her sleep and sighed. His mother had believed she was in a dream until she had simply realized it wasn't. If he remembered correctly she had been very disturbed. He felt for this young lady. What a pretty woman. Her name was beautiful too. Kayla. It just sounded like something soft and sweet. She was that as well. She had a fire in her but, like his mother it was overwhelmed by her kindness. She was a doctor or at least that was what she said to Iruki. He didn't really want to use his eyes to delve into her mind. It was intrusive and she was very frightened of his eyes.
He watched her sleep as he stretched out on the limb. He felt it and sighed. "Yes kinsman."
"Kisame told me of her I thought I should come and see her."
"She is asleep down there." Madara looked and knelt down.
"Is she Okano's granddaughter?"
"I don't know and since he passed away there isn't really a way to tell until Mom looks at her." Madara nodded.
"Too worried to look in her mind." Hikari sighed.
"I considered it but, she was very nervous about my eyes."
"Would you like me to do it?" He said quietly.
"No." He smiled. "I'm enjoying this. She is a very interesting woman."
"I see. Well try to remember your mother would not like you taking advantage of her vulnerability and she would know. Just one look and she would see." Hikari frowned.
"I am a better man than that." Madara looked at his angry face and held up his hands.
"I wasn't insinuating anything." He smiled. "I was merely mentioning a fact. However your defensive behavior gives you away." He stood. "Be careful, if you end up caring for her and she goes home to her world you will either end up with her or very lonely." He was gone.
"I know." He looked down at her and sighed. He just wasn't sure how he felt. Hell he didn't know her. The feeling he had when he met her was just a reaction to his attraction to her. That's all it was. He had felt it a thousand times. At least that was what he told himself.
He let himself drift but, he held on to a piece of consciousness to follow the progress of the night.
The next day they traveled through a small village. "Would you like to get some dumplings?"
"I guess." She shrugged. They headed for the shop and sat down. Kayla watched him as he bought the dumplings and spoke to a man that looked like another ninja. His head band had an I on it. That was odd. She had read the manga and had been disturbed. She was a little worried to meet these people. Especially the younger Uchiha he was not a nice person. He had tried to kill his own team mate. His sensei and his child hood friend.
She took a drink of tea and ate a dumpling. Her eyes strayed out of the room and she smiled. Some children were playing with a ball and some puppies. "It's beautiful isn't it?"
She looked at him and smiled. "Yes it is." His fingers slid over hers. She frowned and pulled her hand away. He raised a brow at the tremor he saw.
"You are fighting your emotions you like me."
"I like puppies too, doesn't mean I want one." She muttered and ate her dumplings.
He just grinned. They left and headed out he managed to get a few more miles by dark. He built a fire and laid out her pallet for her. "Well good night my dear."
He watched her and smiled. His eyes were dark. "Back off Casanova."
He laughed and leapt to the tree. "Get some sleep."
The traveling was slow but, steady. He watched her and wondered what it would take to thaw her. She was attracted to him but, she was determined. She fought him at every turn. He needed to try something more forward. He watched for his opportunity. She was packing her things away. She had read the manga and knew a little about his family. Of course it didn't exactly paint them in the best light. He touched her shoulder. She stood straight and froze. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing." He murmured as his fingers slid over her shoulders slowly. He massaged the tension away. She dropped her head and sighed.
"Oh man this is really hard to refuse." She moaned. She pulled back. "Stop." She growled. "Damn it leave me alone." That day was quiet he left her alone. She stayed angry for a while. He got her dinner and left her to her own devices.
Kayla sighed and stretched. "Well you didn't wake up in your grandfather's dojo again." He said softly.
She moaned and opened her eyes. "Yes I noticed when I heard you drop from the tree."
"You heard that."
"You sound surprised." She sat up. "I was trained by my grandfather. Just because I refused to believe that you could wander around on the top of the water doesn't mean that I didn't learn what he did teach me." She was on her feet looking down at him and she smiled. "Care to spar, you carry a sword too." She raised a brow.
He pulled his blade slowly. "Are you sure about this? You trained I know but, this is my life."
She just watched the sword sliding over her arm. He met her gaze then he let his eyes slip down her body her stance was very familiar it was the way his mother fought. She would spar with his father sometimes he remembered watching them and thinking he'd never seen anything so beautiful.
"Get a nice look." She frowned.
He met her gaze and smiled. "Yes." He leapt at her and she met him which surprised him a little. He didn't think she would be able to hold her own. He raised a brow and grinned. "Very nice."
He slipped over her head and ran a hand around her waist and the blade at her throat. "But, as I said this is my life." His lips grazed her ear and she shivered. He had an instant reaction. He wanted her and it was all he could do to let her go. He closed his eyes and slowly pulled away. She stood very still. He was afraid he had hurt her feelings. She turned and looked at him.
"I'm not dreaming." She said it as if she had just realized it but, he knew better. "And, you really are a ninja in this nutty place."
"Yes." He sighed. "My mother had to come to the same realization but, she was happy to be here. She loved my father before she ever met him."
She nodded. "So who are you?" She slipped the blade back into place without looking. She really would be amazing if she trained in their methods. She pulled the pack around and took the book out.
She opened it and looked at the list of characters. Her eyes narrowed and she looked at him. It was his eyes. There was something about them. She looked at the page and sighed. "You are the son of one of these two men right." She held up the book. He looked at his father and Uncle. He nodded.
"Yes I am the eldest son of Sasuke Uchiha. My name is Hikari Uchiha."
"Okay so this was set at least twenty four twenty five years ago then." He took the book gently from her hands.
"Twenty six, this was just before my kinsman Madara brought my mother back from your world." He smiled and even blushed a little. "They were pretty happy to see each other."
"I see." She blushed too. "And, somehow I got brought to this world. Is this another dimension or is this some kind of worm hole." He shrugged.
"My mother has tried to figure that out for years. It appears to be a completely different plane of existence even time passes differently here." He moved towards the village and she followed. "We believe that my mother ended up here as a fluke. The rest of the small group that got here either arrived with her or they were brought here. My Uncle was actually brought to your world by a woman that can summon without meaning too." She frowned.
"Hmm. And what happened to them." He smiled.
"He married her and they live in Ohio." He grinned.
"Ohio?" She looked at him incredulously. "This man lives in Ohio." She pointed to Itachi." He nodded.
"He doesn't use his powers there none of us do unless it is an emergency but, yes he does. This is not a dream or a delusion. It isn't a fantasy it's just different." She nodded.
"So you are not some kind of fantasy I made up." He raised a brow at her almost sad tone.
"Oh if you'd like me to be a fantasy I'm positive I could make it come true." She frowned. "But, no I'm not."
"Can I go home?" She looked at him and her eyes were sad.
"Of course you can." He smiled.
"My kinsman will take you home." He watched her eyes. "If that's what you want?"
"Yes." She said emphatically. He nodded and hid his disappointment.
"Well then let's get to the Leaf and you can be back to your life." He moved forward.
They traveled slowly. That night he bedded them down in a meadow he liked along this journey. She watched him as he did his own training. He sat his hands pulled up the light formed around him and he started to spark. She looked at him and her eyes widened. She didn't say anything she just watched.
He let the, what looked like lightning, curl around him then it was gone. It was replaced by fire. Damn him and his talk about fantasies he certainly looked like one now. He flipped into the air and landed on one foot. He did this every evening. They had been out here for four days now.
She just watched him and felt her heart flutter. She had tried to spar with him several more times. But, it had ended the same each time she was either flat on her back or plastered to him. His hands touching her far too intimately for her tastes. Okay well for her own good anyway. She sighed and laid down.
Hikari stopped and sat down. "Would you like a bath."
"Oh god yes can we go and find a motel." He laughed.
He stepped to her side and held out a hand. "What do you want?"
"I'm not trying to take advantage of you I promise. But, I travel much faster than you." He smiled and pulled her to her feet. He was slick from the sheen of sweat from him working out. He smelled very male without being funky. It was really, really hot. And, she should get the hell away from him. She gasped as he pulled her into his arms. "Hush." He laughed softly.
"I didn't know you were going to pick me up." He laughed. She was stiff and frowning. He grinned and leapt into the trees.
"It's faster this way. Haven't you ever been in a man's arms before." He watched her eyes never even looking where he was going. She shivered and looked at him. He raised a brow. She hadn't. He could feel it in the tension in her. Well that was interesting. In his world for her to be innocent wouldn't be all that uncommon. For her world it was not as common. They landed by the spring and he set her on her feet. "I'll let you have the bath first." He smiled softly. He jumped up into the trees.
She dropped her head. She felt like a fool. "Thank you." She whispered.
He smiled. Well so much for that. He wasn't going to deflower any virgins. She walked to the water and slipped out of the kimono it left her in only her slip. He raised a brow how sad.
Kayla smiled as she slipped into the water. "Oh god thank you." She moaned. "I have never been in a hot spring."
"They are nice." He smiled his eyes still closed.
"You could come down here." She sighed. "I won't bite."
He laughed. "I might." He mumbled.
She looked up at him and saw that his eyes were closed. All this time he had been so seductive and now here when he had the chance to do something about it he was balking. "Come on for crying out loud." He opened his eyes and looked at her. "Are you scared."
He smiled. Now she was goading him. She laid her head back and closed her eyes. He smiled. "You might want to be."
His voice was soft in her ear. She shook and looked but, he wasn't there. "How the hell do you do that?"
"Maybe it's magic." He stood behind her on the water.
"It's chakra just because I don't use it doesn't mean I don't understand it." She rolled her eyes and closed them. She was beautiful and she was tempting him on purpose. "You are starting something you can't finish." He said softly.
"I don't know what you mean." She looked away and blushed.
"You know exactly what I mean." He was gone and she frowned. "You are tempting me and you shouldn't." He was in the water when had that happened. She jumped and looked at him. "I might give in." His voice rumbled through her. "You are innocent." He looked at her and slid a finger over her arm. She watched his eyes.
"How do you know that?" She frowned.
"It is obvious my dear." He smiled. "Just be content to be here in the spring and stop tempting me. I don't have a lot of control." He sighed.
She was angry now. Who was he to tell her what she could and couldn't do. He was perfectly fine with her when he thought she was apparently a slut or something. She frowned and looked at him. He was sitting on a shelf of rock and his eyes were closed. She narrowed her eyes. He wasn't going to just dismiss her like that.