Of Storm and Fire
Chapter Twenty-one:
It's Easier To Believe
"I am Uchiha Tenshi, son of Uchiha Sasuke and Naruto. I am the Oourjironoki, and I'd be damned if I let you harm my sensei and friends!" Tenshi yelled, growling afterwards like an animal. Chuukou laughed.
"Oh this will be so much fun." he laughed standing up right.
"Oh," Tenshi said, the Uchiha smirk in place, "you're going to regret the day you joined that damned demon Daija!"
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Note to self, kill Chuushin when done with this.
I'm sorry!
Zip it!
That's what Tenshi thought as his back went through a tree due to the force of Chuukou's blow. Chuushin had "brightly" suggested that he fight like he did when fighting Kohaku. Fight with what he had dubbed his "Genin abilities" which meant not fighting with all he got. It was so he wouldn't show to everyone else what he could really do so he could fit in more. But just his "Genin abilities" did him no good, as Chuukou was hardly effected by them.
Then us your damned Jounin abilities or whatever! Just fight this guy! But, do me a favor and kill him with a lot a blood.
Tenshi winced mentally.
Uhh... I'll pass on that last part.
"Tenshi-sama, what are you doing?!" Riri yelled at him, now in his half human form, Shima staring at the wolf Ittan, "Stop fooling around!"
"I'm not fooling around, Riri!" he yelled back, flipping up and into the air.
"Ah, Tenshi-chaaan don't be like that!" Chuukou whined, an evil smirk on his face, "Come down and PLAY!" An arm shot up at Tenshi again, stretching like rubber and Tenshi had to flip around the duck to dodge it.
"Uchiha Tenshi! Make this frog stop protecting me and make her let me pass!" Neji yelled, trying to get by the frog a little more the half his size. Cici would not him get involved in the battle now.
"This is the masters duty as an angel! He must fight, not you!" she kept yelling while keeping him back. Tenshi had ignored his sensei and raised a hand in the air.
Kaze no Yaiba. (Blade of Wind)
Using the wind and his chakra, Tenshi controlled the power, strength and speed of the wind attack, making Chuukou fly backwards and into a rock, creating a good sized dent in the rock. Neji's eyes widened.
That was Kaze no Yaiba, a A rank offensive ninjutsu attack. Not something a genin should be able to do.
"You brat!" Chuukou yelled, standing up and pushing off the rock at the angel. The angel landed on the ground, dodging the mans blows. Tenshi bent backwards a little, avoiding Chuukou's fist, and he dropped to the ground, swinging his legs around quickly and tripping the man. Right as Chuukou started falling backwards, Tenshi quickly flipped backwards, landing on all fours facing Chuukou. He bit his left thumb and ran it across his right palm. Then he pressed his right palm to the ground, while doing the hand sign for 'Boar' with his other hand. Within a second, Tenshi raised his right hand quickly, palm facing the ground, up and a perfect circle rock rod followed his hand, the top of it pressed to his palm. Once it was almost four feet tall, Tenshi swiped his wrapped foot (sandles abandoned in the beginning of the fight) to where the rod was connected to the ground and broke it off, then kicked that end up into the air. It flipped in the air and Tenshi caught it in his right hand, spinning it for a second before holding it in a comfortable, fighting position.
Thank you, Taran-san, for teaching me this.
The rod Tenshi held was like a bow staff and what Taran said was the hardest thing in the world to break. She had created the technique herself for Mikomi and had decided Tenshi should know it too.
Chuukou stood up, glaring at the boy. Tenshi twirled the staff again, holding it out in front of him.
"Come on." he said, daring Chuukou to fight him with weapons.
Kohaku rolled his eyes at the angel.
Show off.
Chuukou just chuckled and before Tenshi could do much of anything, bit his thumb and did a summoning. Two dogs, about the same size of Kohaku when on all fours, stood on either side of Chuukou. They were ugly, furious looking dogs, with massive jaws and crazy red eyes. They were a unnatural dog color. They were both a lime green and one had dark blue on it's front and the other had a light purple on it's behind.
Egh! Hell hounds.
Got that right. Gross, nasty mutts!
Chuukou suddenly snapped his fingers and the two hounds jumped at the angel, snarling and spit flying from their mouths.
Eeek! Kill them! Get them away! Chuushin shrieked and Tenshi swore he could feel Chuushin shake and the demons hair stand on end, or maybe it was just him... Tenshi didn't have time to think about it as one of the hounds tried to bite him. If Tenshi still had his cat ears, they'd be laying flat on his scalp and his tail would be rigid. Tenshi dodged one of the hounds, and raised his rock bow staff as the other came at him and he pressed it against the beast chest, keeping himself and the animal his full arms length back. It snapped and snarled at him, trying to bite the koneko's face.
Hai, please child. Get that...thing away from us. Kill it! Datenshi hissed. Tenshi jumped up as the other hound went at his back and it ran into the other one.
Both hounds recovered though and turned back to him and charged at him. Tenshi dodged them, keeping them back with his bow staff, while fighting the urge to hiss at them like a cat and swipe at their snouts with his (almost like claws)nails. Finally, the Uchiha hit one of them, making it yelp, but it's paw struck the boys chest as it past from Tenshi's blow, making said boy fall on his back onto the ground. The other hound took advantage of this and pounced on the young raven. But Tenshi was ready and he lifted his staff, the hounds paws ramming up against it and Tenshi holding them back. The hound tried to lower his head to bite Tenshi, but he couldn't reach. Tenshi managed to get his legs under the beast and he pushed the hound off him and over his head. He heard the sound of the hound colliding with the other and he flipped up quickly. Only to have to raise his staff quickly to block Chuukou's sword that was swung at him.
Chuukou whistled three times and the hounds stood up and both ran with lighting speed at the others. One towards Neji and Cici and the other towards Tenshi's team mates, and Mimi, and Riri. Tenshi tried to push Chuukou off to get to the hounds, but couldn't. He looked at them, noticing that Riri, Mimi, Kohaku, and Shima saw the one coming at them. But Cici and Neji did not.
"Cici! Look out!" Tenshi called and said frog whirled around, just in time to move quickly and push Neji and herself out of the way. The hound missed them both by a few feet.
Tenshi watched out of the corner of his eye as Cici turned into her half human form and Neji did his Hakkesho Kaiten (Eight Divination Palms Swirling Wind Rotation) on the hound attacking him. Tenshi glanced over at the other four to see Shima quickly taking out her pad she used for her drawing jutsu's, his first two Ittan's dancing around the hound and Kohaku ready to fight it.
"You should pay less attention to them, Uchiha, and more to me!" Chuukou yelled, bring up his sword and swinging it down at the koneko, which Tenshi countered with his staff.
/./Kiki! Ignore my order from before! Get out here and help Neji-sensei, and Cici-chan!/./
And Kiki darted out of the woods, as Tenshi told her.
"What are these things?" Kohaku asked, while bring up a shield in front of himself and Shima.
"Hell hounds." Riri responded curtly. Kohaku raised an eyebrow.
"Hell hounds are," Mimi started, shifting into her human form, "strong creatures. They aren't exactly demons because they can't talk and they don't have a human-ish or half demon form. They don't think like them either."
"Hell hounds are like extremely dumb ass dogs, except they are very strong and their skin is the one of the toughest kind of armor there is." Riri finished for her, ducking the hounds paws and ramming into it's side hard.
"One of the toughest?" Shima repeated him.
"Hai!" Kiki called a few yards away from them, "Nothing can really penetrate it. Not even Atsuko-nee, with her amazing strength, could shove anything or her fist into this creature like she could with others. The guards on Masters thighs are made of Hell Hound skin."
"Then how do you defeat them?" Neji asked, dodging the hound attacking him and hitting it in the neck.
"Everything has a weak spot." Riri muttered, glancing at his master, who was currently dodging Chuukou's sword. "The hell hounds weak spots are," he paused, bending down, quickly stealing the kunai in Kohaku's hand before lunging at the creature. He turned so his shoulder would ram into the hound and he shoved the kunai into the hound, right were it's front leg connected with the rest of it's body. The hound yelled out, backing up from Riri some, the kunai in it's skin.
"Right were their legs connect to their bodies and the junction between their neck and shoulder." Riri said, standing up right.
"Master had to study creatures like these two years ago. Hell hounds happened to be one of the ones he studied." Mimi informed them, extracting her claws.
"Anything Master knows, we know because when he learns it, he puts it into our heads. Since we are a part of him, we will learn what he does, but yet," Cici paused, flipping away from the hound in her half human form, "if we learn something that he does not, he will not know." Kohaku frowned.
"That's just weird." he muttered, shaking his head. Suddenly, he heard Riri hiss and he looked over to him, seeing the wolf grab his right arm that had a cut from his elbow to his wrist. Kohaku then heard a small startled gasp that only his inhuman hearing he got from Atsuko could pick up and he looked up in Tenshi direction. He saw the angel lick his two of his fingers and quickly run them down his right arm, over a cut that went from his elbow to his wrist.
Kohaku blinked as the wound on Tenshi started to heal, the same kind of wound that was on Riri. It was the same size and on the same arm. Kohaku quickly glanced over at Riri, to see him not holding his arm anymore and his wound was healing quickly!
Kohaku blinked again, glancing back at the angel to see the wound was gone and same on Riri. Kohaku wanted to ask Riri what was up with it but shook it off, seeing the hound trying to attack Shima. Kohaku was about to move to help her with Mimi appeared. He watched as the hound rammed into her hard, making her left shoulder slam against a rock hard, making her grunt in pain.
He heard a startled hiss from Tenshi and looked over at him, to see him blocking Chuukou's sword with his staff in his left hand, and his right hand was holding his left shoulder, his teeth grinding together, his left arm shaking a little. But he quickly let go of his left shoulder so he could block the foot that was coming up at him.
Kohaku's eyes narrowed.
Can Tenshi feel everything the Ittan's feel?
He remembered Tenshi telling him that the Ittans fed off of his chakra in battle, but he never said anything about him getting inflicted with any wounds the Ittans got.
Kohaku watched as the hell hound fighting his father, Kiki, and Cici, bit Kiki on the left leg, making the bunny yell out and kick the hound hard in the nose. He then quickly looked over at Tenshi, who's eyes widened and he wobbled on his right leg, his left legs raised off the gound, bent slightly at the knee. He hopped over to the right avoiding Chuukou, all the while hissing in pain. Kohaku's eyes narrowed on Tenshi's left leg right on the outer side of his shin and he saw the hounds jaw marks appear there. His eyes narrowed further.
Tenshi licked his hand quickly and swiped it down at the bit mark, making it heal very fast. Kohaku looked over at Kiki, to see her wound healing just as fast as Tenshi's did.
Ah, so the Ittan's are an advantage and a disadvantage. Kohaku thought. They can fight along side him in battle, making more enemies for who ever they are fight. More help for Tenshi, but yet, Kohaku's brow rose, if the Ittan's are hurt in anyway, Tenshi get's hurt with the exact same damage they got. I'm guessing in order to heal them too without touching them, he much lick his hand and run it over the wound. Since they have a connection, when he heals like that, they do too. Plus, they feed off his chakra. If Tenshi uses a lot of chakra and so do the Ittans, then his chakra depletes faster then normal. All five of them have to be very in sync and good to survive a tough battle.
Kohaku looked back at the angel, watching him intently.
You risk more then necessary in fight, Tenshi. You risk your own life and health in a battle like this, which isn't necessary.
Kohaku scowled, not liking what the Uchiha was doing at all. He had the urge to go out there to the Uchiha and pulled him out of the fight by force and let his father take care of the bastard. But the thought of going out there was cut short when a voice yelled out to him.
"Hyuuga! What the hell are you doing? Those powers of yours would be great!" Riri snarled, knocking the hound away from Shima as she quickly drew an animal on her pad. Kohaku looked back at him, raising a hand to raise a shield in front of Mimi as the hound tried to hit her as she rose from being knocked to the ground. The shield protected her and Kohaku looked over at the wolf, an eyebrow raised.
"Happy?" he asked and Riri glared, snorting afterwards, and turned from the twelve year old.
Tenshi jumped to his right, avoiding Chuukou's sword as it slammed down, cutting the air and almost hitting the ground, but Chuukou stopped it from doing so. Chuukou quickly swung his sword at the angel, making the angel flip up to the air. But as he got ready to strike at the man, a sharp pain coursed through his back and he grunted in pain. The ground he had imagined under his feet so he could stand on air disappearing and he fell to the ground on his butt, the hand not holding his staff grabbing his back. One of the connections in his mind shook and stung and he knew that connection as Riri's.
"Dang it, Riri! Be more careful you mutt!" he yelled out, glancing at the wolf, who was on the ground in the same position he was, his ears folded back.
"Gomen, moron-sama!" he snapped, making Tenshi's sharingan eyes narrow and glare at him, a small growl forming in his throat. But he saw the wolfs eyes widen. "Master!" he called out, and Tenshi sensed what he was saying and he quickly looked back in front of him. He managed to roll to the right, avoiding Chuukou's sword once more.
"As I said, pay more attention to me, Tenshi-chaaaaaan! I am more of a threat right now!" Chuukou snarled, chuckling afterwards and lunging at the angel.
The black snake Shima had made quickly wrapped around the hound and bit it on the junction between it's neck and shoulder. The hound snarled, swing its head around, trying to get the snake off. Kohaku patted Shima back quickly as he pasted.
"Good job, Shima." he said, darting past her with a kunai, throwing it at the hound. It hit right on target next to the kunai Riri had planted earlier in the hound. He glanced over at his father, who had a kunai in every weak spot on the hound he was fighting.
"Alright, I'm getting tired of this!" Mimi yelled out. "Kiki, when I give the signal, I want you to spread a paralyzing gas!" she yelled at the bunny nodded. "Cici, get everyone else back five yards. Riri, drag the other hound closer to this one!" Mimi yelled, calling out orders. They all nodded and Cici ushered the two Hyuuga's and Shima back five yards. Riri dragged the hound Neji had been fighting with his telekinesis closer to the other, the hound panicking, not knowing how he was moving. Riri jumped back next to Neji, keeping the hounds in their place. Mimi nodded her head and Kiki released a toxin from her body, both hounds breathing it in, and becoming parallelized. Mimi looked back at the youngest Hyuuga.
"Kohaku-san, I need you to put a shield around me!" she called. Kohaku nodded and put on around her, his hand raised to hold it in place. It was a little hard, since his body was tingling with feeling a new heaven power around him. He was absorbing Kiki's ability and it was hard to concentrate.
Mimi then closed her eyes once the shield was around her and pressed her hands together in front of her. She took a deep breath and opened her mouth, a lovely tune coming out. She sang a song in a different language, but the others could tell she was singing of sleep.
Kohaku's body was tingling like crazy, causing him to shake. He was still absorbing Kiki's power and now his power was making him absorb Mimi's power. He had noticed before when he was younger that certain powers were harder to control, like Atsuko's fire power, Masami's intangibility power, Hikari's water power and space bending power, and Tenshi's telepathy and healing. (Which, he found, he was having a hard time bring them up to work with. They didn't seem to want to work for him) Also, those powers were harder to absorb as well. Mimi's power was hard to absorb, and that plus Kiki's power was making it hard to concentrate. He had already absorbed Cici's power once during training, and Riri's he already had.
So Kohaku had to close his eyes and strain slightly to keep the shield up around the kitsune. But, luckily, the hounds were soon both asleep and Mimi made Kiki send out a deadliest toxin, saying they'd breath it in better asleep, which was true. That was done quickly and Mimi told Cici to suck in the rest of the toxin so none of the others breathed it in, which she did and Kohaku was able to release the shield.
"Now that," Neji said, smirking at the four Ittans, "was team work." All four of them smiled, but their smiles turned to frowns quickly and they wheeled around, as Chuukou knocked Tenshi's staff from his hand.
"Master!" Kiki called out, and Tenshi glanced at her, moving before Chuukou could hit him. Neji's Byakugan eyes narrowed.
"Stubborn child. He should let me fight that man. He is too small and young for this. Besides if he got hurt, Hokage-sama would murder me." Neji grumbled. "He is just like his Chichiue." he muttered, shaking his head.
"We should go help him now." Cici muttered.
"Right!" the other three Ittan's said at the same time, and all four took off towards their master. But before they could get there, Tenshi stopped them.
/./No! Don't! If you come over here, he is going to hurt you to make me get hurt. It isn't safe. Stick to what I said!/./ he barked at them, going under Chuukou's sword. All four Ittan's stopped, staring at Tenshi.
"Who cares?! We'll be careful! You need help master!" Riri called out, clearly angry.
"No! Stay you stinking mutt!" Tenshi yelled, making Riri's ears lower some in anger. Riri took a step forward.
"Tenshi!"
"Stay!"
"Mast--"
"Stay, dang it!"
"Grrr, Tenshi-moron--" Suddenly, one of Chuukou's arms shot out towards Riri, quicker then the normal eye could catch. But Tenshi saw it, but could do nothing as he had to avoid the sword coming at him. Riri's eyes widened the moment the arm, which had turned into a sharp blade as it headed his way, struck the back of his legs. He let out a loud cry that sounded just like a dog getting hurt as the back of his knees were cut open. Only a second later did Tenshi feel and get the damage Riri got and his yelled out in pain, his knee's giving out on him as Riri's did.
The three Ittan's eyes widened and they knew to tend to Riri before even going over to Tenshi, knowing the koneko would just growl and snip at them, telling them to go back.
Shima's eyes widened along with Neji's, but wider and she ran forward.
"Tenshi-chan! Riri-kun!" she cried out.
"You had to say something about him getting hurt, didn't you?" Kohaku snapped, annoyed at his father, before taking off after Shima to try and stop her before she ran to Tenshi. Neji scowled at his son before following.
Tenshi hissed in pain as the open wounds on the back of his knees stung.
Kuso, kuso, kuso! Gotta heal it, gotta heal it! Chuushin yelled in Tenshi's head. Don't look! he yelled out as Tenshi turned his head to look at his wounds, Let me heal them! One second. Whatever you do, do not look!
Chuushin quickly healed the wounds before they could bleed to badly to where it would scare the young angel.
"Shima, heal him quickly!" Mimi called out as said girl fell to her knees next to the golden wolf. Quickly, she healed him best she could, closing up the wounds and making Riri stop bleeding. Then, Mimi and Kiki did a few hand signs quickly and put their hands over the puddle of blood. The blood came up to their hands and disappeared. Then, once it was all gone, they looked over at Tenshi, who was on his knees, his wounds gone and healed, his eyes watching Chuukou, his hands on the ground in front of him, doing his best not to look behind him. He glanced at Mimi, who nudged her head and quickly, Tenshi scrambled to his feet and and ran to his right, away from where the puddle of his own blood laid. From where they were, Kiki and Mimi raised their hands in the direction Tenshi was sitting at seconds ago and the blood disappeared. Both Ittan's sighing heavily in relief, closing their eyes.
Kohaku and Neji looked at the two curiously, both their brows furrowed.
As Tenshi scrambled to get away, he lost focus on Chuukou for a second, and paid for it. Chuukou hit him hard, sending the small boy flying back and he slammed into a tall rock, knocking all the wind out of him. He slid down the rock on to the ground, groaning. Chuukou smiled, turning from him.
Everyone else saw this and all the girls gasped.
"Tenshi!" Shima cried in alarm. Neji step in front of her, seeing Chuukou staring at the girl.
"You leave these children alone and fight me now." he said, glaring at the man. Chuukou shrugged.
"It's all the same. You'll all die no matter who I fight. Well," he paused, smirking dangerously, "besides the Oourjironoki that is." Right after that was said, Chuukou charged and their fight began.
Through out it, Chuukou tried continuously to strike Neji with the black stuff Tenshi had told Kohaku about, and said Hyuuga was ready to hop in the fight to block his father from it if needed.
Tenshi slowly opened his eyes, watching Neji fight Chuukou. He grunted, trying to stand up. He couldn't let Neji get hit with the black substance, but his body felt heavy and it was hard to get up.
He hit you hard. You're body is trying to recover. Give it a minute, cub.
I can't! I have to help, now!
Tenshi groaned again as he tried to get up. He looked up as the black stuff shot at Neji, but Kohaku jumped up and stuck his arm out, blocking it. Tenshi smiled slightly.
Good job, jaa'ku.
Kohaku blocked it a few more times and Chuukou got tired of him. He swung his arm out, catching Kohaku off guard, and stuck the boy with a kunai across his arm, making the boy stumbled to the side in surprise, grabbing his arm. Neji's look at his son.
"Kohaku--" he sensed something coming down at him and he moved, only to have to move again when the black substance shot at him, making him move away from Kohaku.
"Now, lets get rid of you!" Chuukou yelled, quickly turning, raising his sword in the air and he started to bring it down on Kohaku. Tenshi's eyes widened, and he knew he would not be able to make it to Kohaku in time to block it and Kohaku was to surprised to do anything to avoid or block it. Tenshi managed to stand quickly, and was about to move that way when the sound of a sword tearing flesh stopped him.
Kohaku stared, wide eyed at what was before him. He could feel the splatter of blood on his face, and his breathing was ragged.
Blood dripped down into a puddle on the ground at his feet and a agonizing pain coursed through his body. He grabbed the blade that was in his chest and pulled it out slowly, grunting and hissing in pain. He pulled it out and pushed it back away from him, making Chuukou step back two steps. A evil smile was on the mans face and he looked like he was about to start laughing.
He grabbed the wound on his chest and bent over a little, his breathing very ragged, and his hands becoming soaked in blood.
(Cue naruto ost 'Oh! Student and Teach Affection')
"Do-don't you d-dare..." he gasped, glaring at the man, "ha-harm one of the-these kids. Do-don't touch... m-m-my s-son." Neji coughed, some blood coming up in his mouth.
"Otousan..." Kohaku muttered. Chuukou laughed.
"Foolish man! You should of just let me kill the kid. At least you might have lived longer." he laughed.
"Sensei!" Shima yelled, running up to Kohaku's side. Neji tried to move forward, but his wound was too great, and he fell back, Riri and Cici moving to help Kohaku and Shima catch him. He coughed up blood and they laid him on the ground.
"Hurry, we have to stop the bleeding!" Shima yelled, tears coming to her eyes. Mimi got next to her.
"Let me help you." she said. Both girls tired to stop the bleeding and were planning to try and heal him some once they could stop it. Chuukou laughed again.
"Now let me kill you a--" he paused, hearing a strangled gasp behind him. He smirked, turning around slowly to see the young Uchiha a few feet behind him. The kids eyes were wide with fear and he was staring at the blood at Neji's feet and on him. There was a puddle of it, a lot, clearly showing it was a bad wound. The boys body shook lightly and he paled quickly.
"N-Neji-i...-sen-sensei-ei..." he whispered, his eyes locked on his teacher and his eyes starting to burn.
Riri and Mimi looked up at him and gulped, eyes widening a little.
"Master..." they both whispered. Kohaku heard them and looked up at Tenshi. His eyes widened at the look on Tenshi's face and the fear in his eyes.
"Whats... wrong with him?" he asked in a quiet tone. Mimi glanced at him, but said nothing.
"What's wrong, Tenshi-chaaan?" the man taunted, his smirk growing when it seemed that Tenshi wasn't paying attention to him. But he knew the small boy knew every breath he took, even though he was a deep fear at the moment. The two demons inside the child would not drop their guard.
Chuukou brought up his sword, bring the tip of the crimson covered blade to his chest. "Is it," he paused, thrusting the blade forward at the small boy, "this stuff?" he asked, almost innocently. Tenshi's torn his eyes from his wounded sensei and his eyes zoned in on the blood covered blade in front of his face, and when he realized what it was, his eyes widened and he took a step back, his body shaking. Chuukou's eyes flashed. He brought the blade back towards himself and wiped some of the blood off. Then he shoved his hand towards Tenshi's face, letting the blood drip off his hand.
"This smelly red stuff?" he asked, and he was sure the boy's eyes could get any more wider from fear.
He raised his hand, making it hover over the koneko's cheek. A drop of blood fell off of it and on his cheek. Tenshi, parallelized in fear, did nothing but stare, his body shaking a little more, chest tightening more.
"Man, if I would have remembered that this stuff freaks you out, I would have done this at the start." Chuukou laughed. He bent down, swiping his hand in the puddle of blood on the ground, then raised his hand again. "Look child. There's blood covering my hand." he said, bringing it close to the Uchiha, who blinked once and tried to take a few steps back, trying to smack Chuukou's hand away.
"Don't touch me--" he cut himself off as Chuukou dropped his sword quickly and caught Tenshi's wrist with his "clean" hand.
"Look, it's a lot of blood, isn't it?" he asked in an innocent tone. "And, it's your sensei's." He raised his hand and made a fist, letting the blood drip off it. "Look familiar?" he asked. Tenshi's frame shook more, a knot tightening in his throat. The man's fist was replaced with the same moon that was in his nightmare, dripping blood.
Chuukou snickered, bringing his hand closer, about to touch his face. But suddenly, Tenshi's eyes snapped shut.
"Get away!" he yelled, bringing his free hand forward. Chuukou's eyes widened for a second as he saw what was spinning in the young boys hand and he jumped away, nearly avoiding the Rasengan.
He formed that quickly. He thought, staring at the panting boy who had the Rasengan still spinning in his hand. Within three seconds he formed it and it's complete. And I didn't even notice till I saw it. Amazing.
Chuukou's brow rose and he smirked.
"Very good. You formed it quickly, and even when you can barely move because of fear!" he cracked his knuckles as the Rasengan faded from the young Uchiha's hand. "But it's not really going to help." he said and Tenshi bit his lower lip. "As you can see, your sensei lost a lot of blood. There is a puddle of blood on the ground and all over my blade and hand. He could die." he said, and Tenshi's eyes grew a little wide again, his body starting to shake once more as the fear took over again and he looked back at the blood. "He could die..." he repeated, "Just like some of those people in that village did. Die of blood loss."
The memory of the day he found the massacred village came back to him and he found he couldn't breath. He felt the anxiety coming, hurting his body and chest, and he was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
"Master, don't listen to him. We stopped Neji-san's bleeding! He can't bleed to death, he wont die!" Cici called out, knowing the thought of his sensei dying was a reason the anxiety was coming to him.
Chuukou ignored the frog Ittan's words and moved closer to the koneko.
"Just to let you know," he whispered, trailing a blood covered finger on Tenshi's arm, "that day, I was ordered to brutally kill all... blondes." The angel tensed up more, the anxiety even closer, "And I did," he moved his head down so he was whispering in the boys ear, "and I will."
(End naruto ost 'Oh! Student and Teach Affection')
Anxiety hit him as he got just what Chuukou was saying. But before he could do anything, a fist struck his gut, making the wind fly out of him and sending him back. He slammed against a rock, making a bad, gross sounding thud. Chuukou laughed and slowly made his way over to the fallen boy.
"Master!" Kiki called out, trying to move and go help him, but Mimi stopped her.
"No, we can't. We have to stay here and help Neji-san. Besides, if we fight, any damage we take will be given to Tenshi-sama. He doesn't need anymore damage." she said sternly.
"But if we don't help, Chuukou's going to give him more damage!" Riri yelled.
"But he wont kill him!" Mimi snapped back. "He can't anyway!"
"What the hell is going on?!" Kohaku yelled, glaring at the four Ittans.
"Hai, what's wrong with Tenshi-chan?" Shima asked, her voice quivering, "Why wont he fight back? Why is he quivering like that?" Mimi looked at her closely, before sighing. She was about to answer when Neji coughed, blood coming from his mouth.
"Ah, he needs to prop his head up. Shima, I'm going to set his head in your lap." she said and the girl nodded as she did so.
"What is going on?" Kohaku demanded, grabbing Riri's shoulder roughly. Riri glared at him before speaking.
"The master," he paused, "is afraid." Kohaku blinked.
"...A-Afraid?" he asked.
(Cue Naruto ost 'Glued State'. Sorry, having to much fun with these. XP)
"Hai. Of blood." Cici said for Riri. Kohaku blinked again, before scowling, his face turning slightly red in what the others guess was anger.
"Blood? How the hell can he be scared of blood?" he shouted, "We're ninja for goodness sake! Blood is apart of our job! We're suppose to fight others, sometimes kill them! Blood is life, when you kill someone they bleed!"
"You can always kill someone with no blood shed." Kiki said, looking up at him.
"Yeah, but it's hard!" Kohaku snapped.
"It wont be for Tenshi." Mimi muttered, "Telepathy allows someone to go into another's mind. Tenshi could easily, with some training, go into someones mind and shut it down, kill them. With you it would be easy too. With telekinesis, you can use it to crush someones lungs or heart. It's simple really." she said, and Kohaku glared.
"Still, it's hard to have a fight with no blood in it." he muttered.
"Tenshi-sama isn't afraid of blood like that. A little bit of blood does not effect him." Mimi told him.
"What does is a lot of blood, enough to show that someone has a major wound or signal death of blood loss or something like that." Riri said and Kohaku's brow furrowed.
"Why?" Shima asked, "Why is he so afraid? Something had to have happened to make him that way." All four Ittan's nodded.
"Well--"
"Wa-Was it... be-because of th-that day? When I-I fou-found him in that ally... co-covered in all that blood... Wi-with the dead man not fa-far from him?" Neji asked, coughing some, cutting Kiki off. "Be-because of all tha-that... bl-blood?"
"Hai. That is one of the reasons." Mimi said. Neji closed his eyes, shaking his head some.
"Tha-that day was bad enough... to ma-make anyone like this." he coughed, then he looked over at his son. "You remember us telling you about it, right?" he asked and Kohaku nodded. "It was a ba-bad day son... Even if it happened to you, I bet you'd be the same way Tenshi is right now." Kohaku closed his eyes for a second, before looking back at the white fox.
"Mimi, anything else?" he asked and she nodded.
"Soon," Cici said, glancing over at Tenshi, "he'll have an anxiety attack, and be powerless to do anything."
"Like right now." Riri growled, standing up, facing the direction Chuukou and Tenshi were. All the other Ittan's looked that way and their eyes narrowed, ears back.
"Alright, Riri, but be careful." Mimi suddenly said and the wolf nodded. Suddenly, he shifted to his full wolf form.
Right as Chuukou raised his arm to give Tenshi further damage, big, sharp fangs sank into his arm painfully. He yelled out, swinging his arm and looking over at what was biting him. His eyes met angry blue eyes.
"Don't you harm my master!" Riri growled, yanking his jaws away, ripping some of Chuukous flesh, who just winced.
The others watched Riri deal with Chuukou, till Mimi turned her head back to look at Kohaku.
"What are you doing Hyuuga?" she asked. He looked down at her, an eyebrow raised. "You are part of Tenshi-sama's guards, you should be doing your job right now! With the power Tenshi gave you comes great responsibility. You're job is to protect him when he needs it! Go get Riri, who's job is to fight along side Tenshi, not for him or protect him, and you take his place. That mark on your chest and hand shows that you are responsible for the Oourjironoki in his time of need!" she snapped, making the Hyuuga's brow rise. Kohaku had to admit, the marks on him were burning something fierce and they hurt badly. They only started hurting when Tenshi saw the blood, but they had been burning since the first time Chuukou hand landed a hit on the angel.
"Our marks are like showing we are a part of him, like we belong to him." Kiki said, rubbing one of the marks on her shoulder.
"With these marks, I feel like I've been branded. Like I am his or something. Like he owns me." Kohaku said, growling.
"But they don't mean that. Tenshi's siblings have the same marks. With those marks, it shows you are the protectors of him. It also shows that you are very strong. You have to be strong to be one of the Oourjironoki's guardians. They only way to mean that he owns you would be if that mark was on your hip, which it isn't." Mimi said. Kohaku stared at her for a minute, not liking the whole "guardian" thing. But he finally sighed and looked over at the man and Riri.
"What do you want me to do?" he asked and he could see Mimi smile in the corner of his eye.
"Fight him. Keep him at bay till the master his better or we think of something." she said. "You have a lot of heaven powers, use them. They are most useful." she told him and he nodded.
(End Ost)
As Chuukou made a moved to stab Riri, a purple shield rose up in front of the wolf. Chuukou glanced over at the youngest Hyuuga coming his way.
"Leave Riri alone. You fight me now." he growled and Riri quickly darted off, back to the other Ittans. Chuukou laughed.
"Alright. Another little boy I have to fight. Sure, this should be easy." he said and Kohaku glared.
"I'm far from... easy." he sneered, his arm shooting out. Big pieces of the ground around the twelve year old rose up and shot at Chuukou. He dodged them, smiling.
"Ah, so you are the one like Daija." he sneered, smirking. "You're this brats fourth. He chose you." Kohaku scowled at him.
What's he talking about?
"Just shut up and fight, bastard." he growled. And they did, while Tenshi fought his anxiety and trying to keep his vision from getting blurry.
Dang, I can't see! And I can feel Kohaku fighting Chuukou.
Cub, you have to calm down and get up. You can't let Kohaku get hurt. You just now got your fourth, you can lose him now. Chuushin said, urging Tenshi to stand.
I've tried. I can't. My body wont move. I can smell it, Chuushin. He paused, taking a shaky breath, And when I see it... I freeze up. I can't do anything. It's too... scary.
Damn it, brat. Get up! Who cares, it's blood. Blood is good! Blood is life! Life tastes good! Datenshi sneered.
Don't you start aniki! You've been controlling yourself just fine. Don't lose it now! Chuushin growled.
Guys, come on I need help! Tenshi cried.
Cub, I can do something to help you. Chuushin muttered.
I don't care what it is, just do it!
But--
He was cut off by a loud thud sound and a pain yelp of pain. Tenshi's eyes snapped open and he looked over to where Chuukou and Kohaku had been fighting for about three minutes.
"Kohaku!" he heard Shima shout.
Chuukou had Kohaku on the ground, his arm bleeding profoundly. Tenshi tensed up when he saw it.
Ahh! Blood! More of it! He yelled in panic.
Chuukou stood over Kohaku, blade raised.
"You're not strong enough yet. You haven't had the proper training in your powers. You are too weak to be a fourth." he growled, a scowl on his face. "The fourth is suppose to be stronger or equal to their angel in power and strength. Sorry to say, you are not to his level quiet yet. And I'm not going to give you a second chance!" he laughed. Tenshi's eyes widened as Kohaku's did.
He's going to kill him! Chuushin yelled in panic.
...Chuushin! Do it now! I don't care what it is! Just make me get over this so I can stop him!
Suddenly, right after he said it, he felt a warm feeling spread over his body and could tell Chuushin chakra was going to work. His nose began to burn and so did his eyes. His eyes watered and he took his a deep breath as he suddenly got the feeling of someone pinching his nose. The warm feeling turned to burning and his head began to hurt. And then, he felt the creeping of another chakra slowly coming to him, and he knew Chuushin was pushing some of Datenshi's chakra to him, but only a little and not enough for Datenshi to take control. Just enough to change a few small details on Tenshi.
Hurry Chuushin!
Chuukou's sword went higher and he smiled evilly down at the Hyuuga. "Time to die!" shouted, bringing his sword down.
Kohaku could not think properly with the hurt and burning in his hand and chest, also the pain in his arm. He couldn't summon up his power or anything. So he closed his eyes, bracing himself for the impact of the sword.
But it never came. Instead, he heard a loud growl and a few seconds afterwards, a loud, pained scream that came from the man before him.
He opened his eyes, and nearly gasped at what he saw.
Tenshi had his legs sort of wrapped around Chuukou's waste from behind, his heels digging into the front of the mans hips. His hands were pressed tight against the mans biceps, long nail like claws on Tenshi's hands digging into and breaking the skin on Chuukou's biceps. Tenshi's head was at the base of Chuukou's neck, animal, demon like fangs buried into the side of Chuukou's neck like a vampire trying to drink his blood. But what really caught Kohaku's eye was the three sort of rough whisker like marks on Tenshi's cheeks. They looked just like the Hokage's, Atsuko's, and Masami's.
Chuukou tried to claw at Tenshi, trying to get him off. But the angel's grip only tightened and his teeth sunk further into the mans neck, making said man yell out in pain. Chuukou tried to buck him off, he spun, clawed, did everything he could to get the angel off. Finally, Tenshi let go himself and pushed off Chuukou, kicking him square in the side, making the man fall a good three yards in front of him. Tenshi landed on the ground in a low, crouched position, his eyes blazing with the Sharingan. He wiped the blood from his mouth, sneering at Chuukou.
"Don't you touch him!" He snarled, sounding demonic, making Kohaku's eyes widen. Chuukou turned to him, holding his neck tenderly. He glared at the Uchiha, panting.
"You... You brat... You drained most of my chakra." he gasped and the Uchiha smirked.
"That's what you get for harming the ones I care for." he growled, standing up.
"Tenshi..." Kohaku said softly.
"Hn." was what Tenshi grunted back.
"I thought..." Kohaku trailed off, blinking up at Tenshi.
"What?" Tenshi asked, turning his head to Kohaku. But Kohaku noticed the boys eyes weren't looking directly where he was, like he always did. He always looked Kohaku in the eye when talking to him. But his eyes weren't looking at his head, more of, over his shoulder.
"Tenshi?" he said and he noticed Tenshi's eyes slightly move, but the went back to where they were. Kohaku's eyes widened. "You can't see... can you?" he asked. Tenshi smirked, rubbing the back of his head.
"No, I can't." he replied. "Can't smell either. Its so I can fight. I don't have to see it or smell it. I'll be fine as long as I can't see or smell it." he said, and Kohaku's brow rose.
He found a away around his fear? Smart.
"Why do you have," he pointed at Tenshi's cheeks, "those whisker marks on your face all the sudden?"
Tenshi was quiet for a minute before speaking, "I get these when I get very angry." He decided not to tell him that also when some of the two demons chakra is given to him, he can get them.
Tenshi turned back to Chuukou. "Now, time to get rid of you."
Chuukou glared, baring his teeth. "You filthy brat! How dare you bite me! How dare you do that! You demon!" Tenshi's eyebrows twitched and he bend down some in an animal like position, baring his own sharp teeth. Kohaku blinked.
Demon? He thought.
"Filthy demon child!"
Kohaku's brow furrowed once more.
Do people still call him that?
"Can't see or smell, huh?" Chuukou's brow rose. Suddenly, he grinned and disappeared. Tenshi seemed to noticed because he straightened. Kohaku looked around for him with his Byakugan, trying to find Chuukou, with no luck.
"I can't find him." he told the angel. Tenshi inched closer to Kohaku, standing more in front of the boy.
"I can hear his thoughts." the raven said. Kohaku noticed his voice had a hint of that demonic sound it had earlier, "He wants to attack and finish you. Keep on the alert. I can see chakra signatures but he masked his."
"Why me?" Kohaku asked, his tone a little harsh.
"Because you are one of my guardians. He sees that killing you will help his master in the near future." Tenshi told him as he turned his body slightly this way and that, trying to hear Chuukou better.
"How--" Kohaku cut himself off as he saw Chuukou appear out of the corner of his eye. He moved to block the mans punch and defend himself, but a smaller, pale hand shot out at the last second, grabbing Chuukou's wrist and swinging him off to the side into a tree. Kohaku turned his head and looked at the koneko in front of him, scowling.
"I could have done that myself." he grumbled but Tenshi shook his head.
"You just stay alert and try to avoid getting hurt if you can. I can protect you." he said, causing Kohaku to grow angry, his pride surfacing.
"I thought I was the guardian! Aren't I suppose to protect you?" he asked, but Tenshi did not respond. "I don't need protecting, Uchiha! I can protect myself!"
"Don't call me that..." Tenshi muttered, before growling softly, "He can't hurt me but he can hurt you."
Kohaku's eyes narrowed, and before he could stop himself, he said exactly what popped in his mind after Tenshi said that.
"No, he can hurt you Tenshi. I wont allow you--one of my team mates to get hurt! I wont stand aside and watch!" he snapped. Tenshi's body tensed with his words and he turned slightly, looking where he saw Kohaku's chakra.
"No, he can hurt you Tenshi. I wont allow you to get hurt. I wont stand aside and watch."
Kohaku realized what he said and pressed his lips tight together. He hadn't meant to say that out loud. He was suppose to be acting like he didn't care for the angel as much as he did when they were young!
Kohaku adverted his gaze from Tenshi and the angel turned back to face forward, a small smile on his face.
Seems like he doesn't hate you completely, cub. Chuushin said, and Tenshi could feel him grin.
Chuukou stood, glaring at the angel. "That's it! I know I can't kill you, but I can harm you! I'll damage you and kill him at the same time!" he yelled, beginning to charge at the angel. Tenshi's Sharingan eyes narrowed.
Kill him, huh?
Tenshi spread his legs out more, holding his ground better. He pulled up more of Datenshi's chakra, but not enough for him to take over still. He let it sharpen his hearing more and increase his strength, which made his whisker marks stand out more, becoming rougher, his nails become sharper, and fangs a little bigger, but not to look too demonish.
He shoved his right arm straight down, like he was trying to touch the ground, but not letting any other part of his body lower any. He grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and summoned up the right amount of chakra for his attack.
There was a crackling sound, then the sound of birds chirping could be heard. Tenshi formed a perfect Chidori in his hand, and pulled his right arm back, so the Chidori was level with his face.
Chuukou neared, confident that he would dodge the angel's attack and get under him to attack the boy behind him.
To execute this perfectly, Tenshi thought, I need to go at him at a fast pace, so...
Chuukou was right in front of the angel now, and the man watched the Uchiha's arm. Right as Tenshi moved his arm forward, he ducked down.
Perfect! he thought, as he was sure Tenshi's attack missed. He had a perfect view of the other boy, and it was clear for his attack. Right when he was about to, something came flying at him at a speed so great, he could tell before it hit him the blow was going to be hard.
Right as Chuukou was about to pass under his right arm, Tenshi pulled his left legs back, and with all the strength he could muster, he send his knee crashing into the mans face. It sent him back, and Tenshi did not hesitate to lunge after him, a low, deep, almost beastly growl coming from his throat.
"I said, don't touch him!!" he roared, shoving the Chidori forward and right into the front of Chuukou's shoulder.
Chuukou landed with a loud thud on the ground and Tenshi landed on his hands and toes a yard or two away from him. But, only a few seconds after he landed, did Tenshi shift and let his knees hit the ground, so he was now on his hands and knees.
Chuukou fought to pull himself up, the pain in his shoulder was immense. The kid had done a number on him when he summoned up one of the demons chakra. He slowly picked himself up off the ground, holding his shoulder and using a tree for support. He looked at the raven haired boy, he was crouched low, growling like an animal and glaring up at where the boy could see his chakra signature. Chuukou debated with himself weather he should continue fighting or leave so he didn't get himself killed, that he'd come back another time, preferably when the angel's powers weren't working and his chakra was down. Finally, after a minute, he decided.
"Screw this!" he spat, spitting some blood from his mouth, "I can't fight anymore." he panted, his hand tightening on the wound the Chidori gave him, blood running down his fingers. "I'm leaving." he muttered. It was a good idea. The boy had blinded himself and knocked out his sense of smell, and was still giving Chuukou a run for his money. It was best to leave while he could.
"I'll be back, Oourjironoki. And I will do as I had intended." he growled. Tenshi growled at him.
"If you are going to go, leave before I decided to finish you now." he said, and Chuukou did just that, and in a flash, glaring at the young Uchiha.
Once he could no longer sense the man, Tenshi let out a puff of breath and he started to pant. He pulled his arms in against his chest and rested his forehead against the ground. He head had been pounding since Chuushin took his vision from him, plus his body was aching from the attack he had earlier over the blood and from the fight with Chuukou. It wasn't a good day to fight someone like him. For tomorrow was the day his powers were cut off and his chakra would be very low, and always the day before that happens, it's hard to fight, since his body is preparing to lose it's abilities for a whole day. Then at midnight, after the whole day without powers, when it rushes back and causing the Uchiha a major migraine and bad cramps all over his body.
He heard the sound of feet softly padding up next to him, and then a soft grunt.
"Gah, Uchiha, the back of your head is bleeding." he heard Kohaku mutter in a calm voice. Tenshi grunted, coughing afterwards.
"Don't... call me that!" he wheezed. He felt Kohaku kneel next to him.
"Are you okay?" he asked, "These marks are hurting and burning like mad... Tenshi?" Tenshi noticed his voice didn't show much concern, but he could tell he was frowning. "Oi, get up, man. You just kicked that guys ass and then you just crumple? Get up, don't embarrass yourself." Kohaku said, his voice a little hard. "Come on. Up." he nudged Tenshi's shoulder none to gently.
Tenshi grunted again, a small smile on his lips as he gasped for the breath that he could not catch.
"Uchiha, get up! Don't just stay there like that. Stand! You aren't that hurt!" Kohaku growled, and Tenshi could sense at least some worry in his voice.
"Heh," Tenshi coughed, smile still in place, forehead pressed against the ground, eyes closed. His grip on his shirt tightened, "Thanks for your-r concern, baa-bast-bastard." he gasped. "And don't... call me that." he shuttered, his headache getting worse and his body growing much weaker. He faintly heard Mimi and Riri running up to him before Chuushin willed him to sleep.
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It was luck. Pure luck that they were close to a village when the fight ended. Both Tenshi and Neji were out, and Riri and Cici had turned into a form that he had never seen before on them, one where they looked human. No animal tail or ears on them at all. They had ran to the village and got help. They had run into a lady about Neji's age or older, and she decided she would help, that they could stay at her place till they were good to leave.
Kohaku sighed, looking down at the sleeping boy next to him. Tenshi had been out for a while. It was already the day after the fight, but only nine something in the morning. He was expecting the kid to wake soon.
Kohaku looked down at his hand, running his fingers over the place where he knew the mark was. He couldn't see it anymore, and he was going to ask Tenshi about when the boy woke and was able to answer any questions.
The marks... He could still feel a light stinging on them. They had been hurting pretty bad after the fight till a little before midnight. Kohaku thought it would go away completely once Tenshi's powers went to work and healed. But they never did, which surprised him. The boys body was bruised and cut, and nothing healed. He had seen that as Mimi and Kiki wrapped him up. Mimi said it was because he was very tired, and she told him that today his powers would not be working. Once a month Tenshi's powers stop working, which Kohaku found strange.
The Ittan's had explained to Shima and him all about the Ittans, more then Tenshi had before. They also explained some stuff to do with the marks on Kohaku and what he'd be able to feel with them. Kiki also said that he could use the marks to his advantage. She said that the guardians, especially the fourth guardian, have to been equal too or stronger then the angel, in order to do their job. But the angel was the one to stop whatever evil was in the world in his time. Kohaku already knew all about the whole, 'destroy a cruel evil' thing from when he was little. He wondered how the angels guardians were (or could be) stronger then the angel when the angel is to be stronger then anyone and destroy the evil, when his guardians could do it for him. But Mimi and Riri just said that the guardians had to be equal to or stronger then him till he sprouted, whatever that meant. They never bothered to explain, and when he asked them, they didn't answer.
Kohaku had asked them what was up with the whisker marks that had appeared on Tenshi's face, the long claw like finger nail, sharp teeth, and evil sounding voice. They said it had something to do with Naruto being one of his parents, and also, that the his angel powers can make it easier for him to tap into his more animal like side. When Kohaku gave them a confused look on that, Cici explained that every human has a 'inner animal' so called and Tenshi's was a type of feline. She said it was more of a lion then anything. And since Naruto was his parent, this animal side effected him more, so he often acted or had little things like a cat or lion did.
And Tenshi was like a cat, Kohaku had thought. He moved gracefully like a cat, he was stubborn, and if he didn't want to do something, he didn't do it. He liked to sleep (something he remembered from when they were young), he liked attention from others. He knew cat's were notorious for jealousy, he wasn't sure if Tenshi got jealous easily, he'd have to find out later. Just all together he could act like a cat (of kitten), hence the old name Kohaku used to call him and his siblings do call him, 'koneko-chan'.
As Kohaku thought on how the boy was like a cat, the thought of introducing him to his doggy cousin, Kataro, came to mind. Seeing has how he saw Tenshi react to the hounds, wanting to get them away from him, he could see Kataro maybe freaking out the young koneko, and Kataro being able to tell that he was like a cat. Then his animal, dog-ish ways would take over and he would chase the young Uchiha. That would be something the young Hyuuga would pay to see, and it would be highly amusing, though he was sure Tenshi would kill him afterwards.
Eh, but knowing Kataro, his boy-ish hormones would take over first. I'm pretty sure he is gay, by the way he acts and all, it's not to hard to tell. Knowing that horn-dog he'd ignore that Tenshi was a cat and try to get naughty with him, though Tenshi would probably bite him and beat him up for trying to touch him. Kohaku mused, Tenshi is pretty good looking. Has a famine look to him, like a feline. Looks uke-ish too--
Kohaku blinked, then shook his head harshly.
Gah! Why am I thinking this? I must be reaaaaaaallly bored.
Kohaku glanced back down at the raven, before looking up at the wall opposite him. His father was in the other room. The Ittan's said they would explain everything Tenshi was to explain to Kohaku to Neji. They said they didn't feel they had the right to tell Kohaku, since he was Tenshi's new guardian. So Kohaku had to wait, as his father got all the information at that very moment.
Neji had woken a little bit before midnight. They had wrapped him up before and once he woke up, Shima and Mimi went to heal him the rest of the way. So his father was okay, but could not get out of bed just yet.
Mimi and Riri has slept in the room with Tenshi during the night and only felt the room to help out the others at six in the morning. Kohaku had also slept in the room with Tenshi. When his father had woken up, he instructed that Kohaku do sleep in that room. He said once more missions come up where they are gone from the village for more then a day, Kohaku and Tenshi would share a tent or room, so he better get use to it now.
Kohaku had woken at seven thirty. He only left the room to go get some breakfast. At first he didn't have to stay in the room with Tenshi, but when he went out to get something to eat, Mimi asked if he could stay in there, since they couldn't. So when Tenshi woke up, he wasn't alone. Kohaku agreed, trying to act like it annoyed him, when truly it didn't at all. He didn't mind at all. Besides, he would have stayed in there anyway, since he was still hurt and needed to rest.
His body was still tired and his arm still hurt. He refused to let one of them heal him, saying Tenshi and Neji needed it more then him. He said he'd be okay, and he'd try to practice his self healing powers, which didn't like him apparently. They wouldn't work with him at all, and he guessed that since he had just now started to try and use it, that it was the reason why it wouldn't work. He had soon given up and just stuck to waiting till it healed on it's own, or someone else could heal it.
(Give'em Hell: Through the rest of this whole part, till it goes away from Tenshi and Kohaku, we were listening to the song, "Blue and Yellow" by The Used. Don't know why, just popped up on iTunes at the time and we played it over and over again.)
Kohaku sighed, rubbing his hurt arm. It was a little chilly in the room. He tried to warm himself up a bit, rubbing his arms and pulling his legs up closer to himself, but his short sleeved purple shirt and black cargo shorts were not helping. He was about to get up to go change clothes when he heard Tenshi shifted and a soft groan escape his lips. Kohaku glanced at him, before quickly turning his body a little, so his back was facing Tenshi slightly.
Tenshi opened his eyes a little, his vision blurry. His head was hurting, and he could feel his temples throbbing with his heart beat. He shut his eyes, squeezing them shut and letting out a low groan. He turned his head a little, sensing someone else by him. He opened his eyes and first saw a purple blob. Then he blinked a few times and his eyes wandered up some, and he saw brown hair.
"K...K'haku?" he mumbled, squeezing his eyes shut again for a second. He saw said boy sit up straighter.
"Hmm?" he grunted.
"Wha-what happened?" Tenshi asked, trying to sit up and a sharp pain shot up his spine, but he ignored it. But suddenly, two hands that were a little darker then his own shot out and grabbed his shoulders, pushing him back down on the futon he was resting on.
"Don't sit up or move around much just yet." Kohaku said, his tone emotionless, "You're still a little hurt." Tenshi blinked at him before nodded and pushing the blanket that was on him down to his waste.
The angel raised a hand, his arm feeling a little sore and saw that his right hand was bandaged. He moved his hand to try and rub his temples, but then found that his head was wrapped up a little. He fingered the bandage, looking up at his forehead as if he could see the bandages clearly. He brought his hand down to his chest, and could feel something other then smooth, pale skin under his black, short sleeved shirt. He lifted up his shirt to see his torso wrapped up too. He frowned before looking around the room.
"Where are we?" he asked. Kohaku didn't answer at first.
"When you fainted, sensei was already out. You were both hurt pretty bad, your body wouldn't heal itself like normal. Luckily, we were close to a village, and Riri and Cici found a women that decided to help us. We are at her house. The women and the girls dressed yours and Oto-- sensei's wounds." he told the angel, who nodded.
"For how long was I out?" he asked, and Kohaku thought for a minute.
"Five days." he said plainly. Tenshi's eyes widened, and he gapped like a fish.
"F-FIVE DAYS?!" he yelled, sitting up abruptly, only to have Kohaku's hands back on his shoulders, pushing him down.
"Joking." he said in mono-tone. Tenshi blinked, then scowled at the older boy.
"I always told you that you and joking together in the same sentence-- heck, the same paragraph is dangerous." Tenshi grumbled. Kohaku bit back a chuckle at the boys words. He heard the angel give an annoyed huff while muttering "Bastard" in a low voice. "So, seriously, how long was I out."
"The fight ended around five something yesterday. And it's about nine thirty something right now. You do the math." the Hyuuga sighed, closing his eyes. Both boys were quiet for a minute, till the raven broke the, as Kohaku saw it, 'wonderful silence'.
"Why are you watching over me?" he asked, and Kohaku glanced at him.
"What? You don't want me by you? Would you rather have Shima or one of your pets? Just not to long ago I thought you wanted me around you." he scruffed. Tenshi gave a nervous, slightly taken back and panicked expression.
"Ahhh, no, it's fine-- you being by me. I don't mind, and I do want you around. I was just wondering..." he paused, looking away from the Hyuuga, "why you are willing to stay by or around me alone. Just by the way you have been acting lately, I wouldn't think you would want to or be willing to do that." Kohaku stared at him for a minute, before frowning slightly.
"I..." he paused, looking away from the angel who was turning his head back to look at him, "I don't... hate you, if that's what you think." he said in a quiet voice, frown still on his face. Tenshi stared up at him, blinking.
"You... don't?" he asked and the Hyuuga shook his head.
"No, I don't. But," he added quickly, "I don't like you so much either. But I can tolerate you and be around you for a while. It doesn't kill me, you know." He scratched his head, "I really guess I can't hate you, since I now have this and all." he waved his right hand in the air.
Tenshi frowned in disappointment, and looked away from the bigger boy.
"Hn..." he mumbled. Kohaku looked back over at the boy, seeing his eyes close and his lips thin out into a line. They were quiet for a minute, Tenshi relaxing his body, getting use to his powers being gone, and Kohaku staring at the angel's face, his fingers dancing over the mark on the back of his right hand.
After a minute, Kohaku's eyes traveled down from the angel's face and his eyes landed on where he knew Tenshi's feet were under the blanket. He stared for a minute, before speaking.
"So, it is true." he started in a quiet tone. Tenshi made a light grunt sound, showing that he was listening. "You do still wear it."
Tenshi opened one eye and looked at the brown headed boy. He stared at him for a minute, trying to figure out what he was talking about. Then he noticed where the Hyuuga heir was looking and his mouth form the shape of a small 'o'.
"Ah, hai. I do. I never have taken it off since the first time you put it on." he answered. Kohaku didn't say anything, just closed his eyes. Tenshi then sat up, making a grunt noise as he did. Just as before, Kohaku's hands shot out to make him lay back down, but Tenshi slapped them away softly. "I'm fine, Kohaku-kun. Even without my powers I heal quickly. You know that." he told them, and Kohaku dropped his arms to his lap.
Tenshi then moved the blanket from his feet. Kohaku watched as he did so, and a ankle bracelet came into view on Tenshi's right ankle. It was made of three different colors of stretchy like bands, all weaved through each other. One of the bands was white, another black, and the last one gold. On the bracelet was a small, flat purple plate that connected the ends off all the bands. On the plate was the Hyuuga clans crest, and Kohaku knew on the other side that was against Tenshi's skin was the Uchiha clans crest. A light glow of purple and white was around the bracelet, but it was very hard to see. And if one looked closely at the bands, they could see a very thin line of brown that was against the white band. It was simple looking, like a mere child made it.
Tenshi's fingers brushed against it, running over the Hyuuga crest softly.
"It seems as though we made it right. It stretches as I get bigger, but never cuts off circulation or anything." he said, staring at the ankle bracelet. He then looked over at Kohaku. Said boys sighed, and uncrossed his legs. He moved his left leg out, his legs being a little numb from sitting on it so long. He looked down at his left ankle, seeing a bracelet that looked similar to Tenshi's there.
Kohaku's was just the same, except, the colors were different. The colors on his were purple, black, and gold. The plate on it was white and the Uchiha crest was on it, on the other side, was the Hyuuga crest. The same purple and white glow was there, and just as on Tenshi's, if one looked closely at the bands, they could see a thin line of blue-ish black that was against the purple band.
(Cue Naruto ost 'Swaying Necklace')
"You still have yours..." Tenshi muttered, staring at the bracelet on Kohaku's ankle. Kohaku scowled.
"I can't take it off. We sealed it by our chakra, and I've held it there for so long I forgot how to let it go. It's so strange." he said, huffing. Tenshi sighed, not responding to what he said.
"You know, these look so simple. But they aren't..." he muttered.
"Kind of like us..." Kohaku mumbled and Tenshi looked up at him, blinking, before smiling.
"Yeah. That's what you said after we got them..." he sighed and Kohaku closed his eyes. Both of them could remember the day they gave these to each other.
:- Flash Back -:
"Jaa'ku-chan! Haku-chan! Ne, ne, ne, Haku-chan!" a five year old Tenshi yelled, running down the path to his lavender eyed friend.
Five year old Hyuuga Kohaku heard his hyper friend the first time he called his name when he was on top of the hill. The angel had now called his name about 30 times, he guess. He lost count at 23.
The Hyuuga turned around to look at his best friend, who was almost to him.
"Ah, koneko-chan, I heard you already." he said, his hands plunging into his pockets. Tenshi skidded to a halt in front of the boy, smiling brightly. Kohaku was sure it would turn him blind one of these days.
"Ne, ne! What's Kohaku-kun doing?!" the koneko asked, waving his arms around at his sides. Kohaku raised an eyebrow at the kid.
"Did you eat a lot of sugar and drink a lot of cokes this morning again, Shi-chan? You're really hyper." he asked and said boy nodded quickly.
"Yup!" he chirped and the older child sighed. He turned half way away from the young boy, putting out a hand towards the angel.
"Come on, baka." he said, motioning with his hand for him to come along. Suddenly, Tenshi's eye widened like he remembered something.
"Oh yeah! Kohaku-kun, I have something to give you." he said, digging in his pocket. Kohaku turned back to him, looking bored. Tenshi then pulled out a small bracelet and held it up to the taller boy. "Look, look, look Haku-chan! I made it just for Haku-chan!" he chirped and dropped it in Kohaku's hand.
Kohaku looked at it, running his small fingers over the Uchiha symbol on the bracelet.
"What," he started, "is it, exactly?" Tenshi smiled, wiggling his small hips back and forth like he does when he is happy or feeling playful.
"Its a friendship bracelet!" he said excitedly. Kohaku blinked.
"So do I put it on my wrist?" he asked. Tenshi shook his head.
"No. Its an ankle bracelet, it goes on Kohakus ankle." he told him and Kohaku gave him a funny look.
"But, I thought these things go on your wrist?"
Tenshi smiled sheepishly.
"Well..." he sighed, his hands going behind his back, "I thought Kohaku-chan would think it would be... girlish if we put it on your wrist. So I decided an ankle bracelet is better! Chichiue thinks it's a good idea!" Kohaku stared at him, before nodding.
"Yeah, I guess that would be a little girlish..." he muttered.
Tenshi suddenly bowed his upper body a little and craned his neck up towards Kohaku, his head cocked to the side. His face was slightly under and a few inches from the other boys, and his eyes sparkled. He often did this when he was feeling playful, Kohaku knew.
"Does, Haku-chan like it?" he asked. Kohaku looked at the ankle bracelet in his hand, then to his best friend before smiling.
"Hai, koneko-chan. Kohaku-chan does like it." he said, making the smaller boy smile brightly again and giggle.
"Yay! I'm so happy!" he chirped, "I made it so it shows we will always be friends! It has Kohaku-kuns colors in it, but my clans crest. Chichiue and even Otousan said it was a nice idea and sweet." he giggled and Kohaku nodded.
"Hai, it is, Shi-baka."
The next day...
"Oi, Shi-baka." Kohaku said calmly, getting the ravens attention away from drawing in the dirt with a stick.
"Ah, Haku-jaa'ku! I've been waiting for you." he said, jumping up, lacing his hands behind his head in a lazy fashion.
Kohaku reached into his pocket and pulled something out.
"Look, I made you something." he said, holding a bracelet, that looked similar to the one Tenshi gave him, to the Uchiha. Tenshi blinked, leaning forward to look at it. Then he brightened.
"Aw, Kohaku-kun! You made me one?" he asked as Kohaku handed it to him.
"Yeah," the young Hyuuga said, folding his arms and looking away from the younger boy. "It's your colors. White, black, and gold." Tenshi smiled as he saw the Hyuuga crest on the white plate and the Uchiha crest on back.
"Thank you, Haku-chan!" he giggled. Kohaku then pulled out the one Tenshi gave him.
"Let's put them on and keep them together with chakra. Otousan said it would be a good way to practice chakra control." he told the angel, who nodded and sat on the ground with the older boy.
"Let's hold them both with our chakra together!" the younger one said, smiling. The older boy nodded, but stopped the other boy before he put the bracelet on. Tenshi looked up at him, "Nani?"
Kohaku pulled at a strand of hair from his head and grabbed Tenshi's bracelet. Then with practiced ease, he weaved the piece of hair in the bracelet. Tenshi blinked, looking closely at it.
"So we are even more there by each other." he explained. Tenshi smiled even more after that, wiggling some.
"Hee hee, so Haku-chan and I are always by each others side even if we are separated!" he cooed and Kohaku nodded. Kohaku then grabbed Tenshi's bracelet and leaned forward, putting it on the angel's right ankle, and then bound it with his chakra, something is father had taught him not to long ago. Then, getting what Kohaku was doing, he took Kohaku's, pulled a strand of his own hair out and weaved it into Kohaku's ankle bracelet. Then he put it on Kohaku's left ankle, bounding it with chakra, as his parents, Chuushin and Datenshi taught him to do only a few days ago. Then both of them put a little bit of chakra to their own bracelet.
Tenshi leaned back on his hands, staring at his friend.
"You know, these look so simple. But they aren't..." he said, wiggling his right foot a little.
"Kind of like us..." Kohaku muttered, running his fingers over his then Tenshi's. Tenshi smiled, before nodding.
"Got that right!" he laughed, grinning at the Hyuuga.
"When we wrap our shins like we do, we should wrap over the bracelets. To protect them." Kohaku said, running his fingers over his left ankle. "'Kay, Shi-chan?" he looked up at the boy, who was giving him an unreadable look.
"Like we're protecting our friendship?" he asked and the older nodded.
"Let's never take them off. Keep them on forever, because," he looked up at the koneko, "we will be friends forever. I'll always be your best friend." Tenshi gave him a sort of surprised look and Kohaku grinned, showing some of his pearly whites. A rare smile it was, but it made the youngers heart swell.
"Kohaku," Tenshi said, and the other boy opened his eyes.
"What is--" he cut himself off as Tenshi did something unexpected.
Tenshi leaned over to his best friend without a sound and quickly. He brought his face close to his friends, and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek, close to the other boys mouth.
Kohaku's eyes widened, a blushed spreading over his face, his ears turning red.
Tenshi pulled back, weaving and twisting his fingers together in front of him, smiling sweetly, with a little giggle.
"Arigato, Kohaku-kun." he giggled.
For being the best friend I ever had...
Kohaku pressed his lips together, his eyes darting down to his lap, his blush growing a little more. Suddenly, Tenshi stood up.
"Come on, jaa'ku! Lets go bother my Chichiue in his office!" he said excitedly, turning to run to the Hokage's office. He started walking away, waiting for Kohaku to join him.
Kohaku looked up at him, watching his back for a minute when he suddenly felt this small tug in his heart, like something was telling him to do something.
He sprung up and grabbed the smaller boys wrist, pulling him to a halt. Tenshi glanced back at the older boy, surprised.
"Koha--"
Kohaku spun him around to face him and pulled him closer. He leaned his head forward, closer to the angel's face. He pulled Tenshi's arm so his wrist was level with Kohaku's side and Kohaku had to get up on his toes only a little, barely at all, to reach his destination. He kissed the angel's forehead.
Tenshi's eyes widened as he felt soft, warm lips on his forehead. But then his eyes softened and a small smile spread over his face.
Kohaku pulled away, his hands resting on the youngers shoulders.
"Your welcome, mitsukai (Angel)." he said, smiling softly. Tenshi grinned, rubbing the back of his neck, both of them absentmindedly lacing their pinky's together.
(;Always tied together by an unbreakable and invisible thread...;)
(End Naruto ost 'Swaying Necklace')
:-End Flash Back:-
Tenshi's hand moved up to his forehead without he realizing it. His fingers brushed against the spot where he remembered little Kohaku pressing his lips too. And at the same time, Kohaku's hand traveled to his cheek where little Tenshi had kissed him. But Kohaku recovered first and dropped his hand quickly. When Tenshi heard his hand make a soft 'thud' in his lap, he realized what he was doing lowered his hand.
They were both quiet for a minute, lost in their own thoughts. But soon, Kohaku shook himself from them, and looked back at the angel.
"You were..." he cracked his knuckles, "going to tell me all about this?" he said, getting Tenshi attention. Tenshi cut his eyes over to the older male, and nodded. "Then get on with it, Uchiha."
Tenshi frowned, "I told you not to call me that."
Then Tenshi went on, telling the older male all he knew about the angels. How many angels were before him, there angel names. All about the heaven powers and top heaven powers. The cycle of the angels, and how he was the end of it.
He told him everything he knew, besides the fact that the angel's traveled down a bloodline and that all angel's died before they turned 20.
He even told him about Daija and his story, about his jealousy and all that stuff. And he told him about all Kohaku could feel from him and how all that worked. And Tenshi told him how he could cut the connection with Kohaku and his guards anytime he wanted, but Kohaku himself could not. (He also told him the group name for the guards, Keibi.) Tenshi also told them how strong the fourths were suppose to be, and Kohaku wondered (out loud to Tenshi) why the guardians were so strong when the angel had to do the whole 'destroy the cruel evil thing' when the guardians could do it themselves. Tenshi told him the guardians were only stronger then the angel till the angel sprouted. But he said usually the fourth guardian and the angel were equal. Kohaku asked what 'sprouting' was, and Tenshi answered by saying that it was when Tenshi was at the peak of his angel powers.
By the time Tenshi finished, it was almost eleven.
Kohaku rubbed his temple, his head hurting a little bit from the over load of info Tenshi had thrown at him.
"Well," he started, "that was a lot of stuff."
Tenshi smiled nervously.
"You asked for everything."
"I know."
There was a pause, and Kohaku leaned back on his hands, staring at the wall across from both of them.
"You know," Kohaku stared, turning his head a little, "if I would have known all this sooner, I would have given in to those weird guardian feelings I was having and I would have helped more in the fight. And maybe you wouldn't be so hurt." Tenshi blinked at him.
"But Kohaku, I'm suppose to do all that. You don't need--"
"Hai, I do. You said I was one of your guardians, part of your Keibi. My job is to protect you." he sighed.
"My job is to fight people like Chuukou and destroy them. You can't do my job for--"
"Hai, that is your job. But my job, Uchiha, is to protect you--"
"Don't call me that."
"--and if you can stop me from doing my job, I have all right to stop you from doing yours." he snapped, and Tenshi just stared at him.
"...Kohaku--"
"Listen to me, Tenshi. You risk more then needed in battle. You need to let us fight some too, you know. You can't do everything on your own. Believe it or not, you're not that strong. You can be put down." the Hyuuga said, closing his eyes for a moment. "You need to not let your Ittans fight so much too. If they get hurt, you get hurt. You need to let us fight for you Tenshi."
"But I can't get killed--"
"Hai, Tenshi, you can. Not once did you say you were immortal. You said you were, in a way, invincible, but never immortal. You said you could die of old age or if someone managed to turn off your powers or get into your mind and shut you down. Hell, someone could kill you right now." he looked over at the angel, "What if, what if Tenshi, you ran into someone who could do that. That could kill you? That is trying to. He could get in your mind and kill you. What are you going to do then?" Tenshi opened his mouth to speak, but Kohaku didn't let him, "You back off, that's what you do. You let your Keibi do it. You let us, Neji-sensei, Shima, and me do it. You stay back-- stay safe and let us-- me protect you. Use your head more, man. Don't do that whole, 'I'm the Oourjironoki-- Oomizu-- whatever! And it's my job to protect everyone no matter how stupid and foolish I am at the moment. Why? Because I'm a stubborn, foolish, arrogant, crazy, and idiotic Uchiha!' Don't do that shit. You are suppose to stay alive long enough to do your duty and kill that son of a bitch thats trying to do hell knows what to destroy us all!" (1) He snapped, looking away from the other boy and closing his eyes. Tenshi stared up at him, his face a mixture of surprise, awe, and warmth.
"Wow... You're serious about this, way more then I thought you'd be." he said softly, twisting his hands together, a nervous habit, Kohaku guessed.
"It's just..." he paused, turning his head more away from the Uchiha, cheeks a little pink, "Damn it Uchiha,(Tens: "Don't call me that!") you have to let us fight for you. Don't be so reckless and brave-- a brave idiot... Don't..." he paused again, lowering his head, eyes closed once more. "Just don't... Don't get yourself hurt to much or killed. Be more careful, got it?" his voice was stern, serious.
For some reason, even unknown to Tenshi, the light ting of pink that was always on Tenshi's soft cheeks (FACE) grew darker, and he bowed his head some, nodding slightly.
"Hai, Kohaku-san." he said softly.
I think, cub, Chuushin said, smiling a little, that he still cares for you, in a weird sort of way.
Yeah, me too. And if snapping and acting like this is his new way of showing it, I'll accept it.
Right when Kohaku was going to say something else, a loud, low, rumbling growl was heard, cutting off the Hyuuga and making both boys blink. He looked back at Tenshi, to see said boy's hand on his stomach, the angel staring down at it.
He seemed to realize Kohaku was staring at him and looked up at him. His cheeks lit up when he saw the raised eyebrow Kohaku had. He lowered his head, laughing nervously.
"Hungry, much?" Kohaku asked, folding his arms. Tenshi smiled sheepishly.
"Maybe..." then his stomach made itself known again by roaring loudly, and Tenshi scowled down at his stomach, "Zip it, will you? You'll get some food in a minute!" he yelled at his stomach, making both Kohaku's eyebrows meet his hair line.
Not soon after, Kohaku's eyes brows pretty much stayed up by his hair line while Tenshi ate, same for Neji, as he witnessed the young Uchiha eating as well. They found out that the small angel ate just like his blond Chichiue, Naruto did. He practically inhaled a bunch of food really fast.
Neji wondered if Uzumaki blood was more domanit then Uchiha blood.
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"Tenshi..." Naruto said in a stern voice as the other three members of the new team seven walked out of the room and Naruto looked down at the mission report.
Tenshi didn't look up at his Hokage. His eyes stayed down on the ground, hands, yet again, twisting together. Naruto sighed, seeing that his son wasn't going to answer him.
He reached up and took of his hat, setting it down on the side of his desk.
"Tenshi-chan," he started again, folding his hands together on top of his desk, "how come you never told me of your fear?"
The angel didn't reply, just shifted his eyes some.
"Why did you not tell your Otousan and me about your hemophobia?" he paused, "Are you afraid to show us some sort of... weakness?" He was trying to think of what might be the reason Tenshi never told them, his own parents, about this fear. He thought about, if he or Sasuke had this fear, why they would not tell someone that could help them.
Tenshi bit his lower lip.
I don't wanna lie to him. He thought.
Still, the young Uchiha did not reply, just shifted his weight.
"Son," Naruto said softly, sighing afterwards, "how come you did not tell us? We're your parents, we can help you. Why didn't you--"
"You're right." Tenshi finally spoke and this made the blond blink. "I was afraid to show weakness..." he muttered, still not looking at the kitsune. "Blood is... apart of a ninjas life. It gets shed sometime within a ninjas life time... I'm the Oourjironoki... An Uchiha, I can't have people know that I have a weakness, even my own family. Let alone have a weakness at all."
Naruto sighed, shaking his head.
"I guess it doesn't matter who you mix them with," Naruto said, "Uchiha's will always think the same." Tenshi looked up to him at that.
"Nani?" he asked, noticing that his Chichiue's hat was off. That meant that Naruto was not the tough Hokage at the moment, he was Uchiha Naruto, Tenshi's caring, gentle, and loving Chichiue.
Naruto motioned for the koneko to come to him, which the kitten did, slowly at first. He went around his Chichiue's desk as said man pushed back in his chair, making it side back from his desk enough so Tenshi could fit between him and the desk without his small body touching anything.
The kitten stood before his Chichiue, in between the chair and the desk. His head still bowed, fingers twisted together in front of him.
"Tenshi-chan," Naruto said, his hands going to his sons shoulders, "everyone has a weakness. Everyone has a fear. All humans do, no matter who or what they are."
"You don't have one as I have, nor does Otousan. You guys don't have something that could freeze you in combat and not be able to do anything. Something that makes you go blind and numb." he said in a quiet voice. Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Hai, I do." he said and Tenshi looked up at him, a little surprised.
"...Really?" he asked. The kitsune nodded.
"If some how, someone managed to get in my mind -- like someone with telepathy-- if someone was to some how make me think that I was never needed anymore, or will always be alone... That everyone I love is gone for good, it would be the same as you are with your hemophobia."
Tenshi blinked at him.
"Why is that?" he asked.
"Because when I was little, till Iruka, Kakashi, Sakura, and your father came around, I felt just like that all the time. Alone, like I was never needed. Sometimes I felt that no one would miss me if I were to die." Naruto ran a hand through his hair, "Heck, I thought that a few times when things were going bad for me even after they came along." He looked back at the koneko, letting his hand drop from his hair and back to the boys shoulder. "You're father... in a way... has the same kind of fear. But his is more..." he paused, thinking for a second, "Like he is afraid we are all going to get murdered... like the clan did long ago." Tenshi blinked before lowering his eyes.
"Just like I said with me, if some how someone made your father believe we were all gone or if he "saw" it happen in a genjutsu or something... he'd react the same way you did... So many times has your father come home from a mission where he had to hear about, or witness, or help in the murdering of a family or see the bodies of them. So many times he comes home, and though he might look fine, when he goes to bed that night..." Naruto paused, his eyes moving away from his sons, "In your fathers own way, he sort of breaks down. It take a while to 'fix him'. He is really afraid of that happening to all of us. Now, he says he sometimes thinks or has dreams that one day he'll get news that Itachi and his wife and kids are dead, murdered. It scares him."
He looked back at him, "Remember the times, usually the day after he returns, when he'll try to hang out or mess around with you or your siblings a lot? Or you'll be doing something in the same room he is in and he'll just watch you? I've seen him do it."
"Or like," Tenshi cut in, "at bed time he'll suddenly hug us extra hard, but not to hurt us. Or he'll suddenly start to goof around and that's usually when the claw comes out when it's not time to wake up. And he--"
"Holds you there when he's done tickling you till you are all the way calm again?" Naruto said with a smile and Tenshi nodded.
"And he just stares at you..." Tenshi finished, reaching up with one hand and gently holding on to Naruto's forearm.
"You're father is really scared about that. I'm sure, that if one of you or I were to die or something before he does... Or more of really if he were to see us die, and not of old age or an illness... I'm sure he would never be able to be a shinobi ever again."
"He'd freeze in battle if something reminded him of it..." Tenshi muttered and the blond nodded.
"As would I." the fox murmured. "Tenshi, fear like yours and ours is normal. Everybody has a fear. But the important thing is you found a way around it, from what Kohaku-kun said. If you can do that, then you are okay."
Tenshi sighed. "But blood, Chichiue? It's apart of a ninjas life--"
"It's more part of a medical ninjas life though." Naruto suddenly said. Tenshi blinked up at him.
"Nan--"
"Tsunade-baa-chan used to be scared of blood." he said and Tenshi eyes widened.
"No way. Baa-chan was afraid of blood?" he didn't believe it, but he could tell his Chichiue was telling the truth. "But she's a medical ninja, they see blood all the time!"
"I know," Naruto nodded as he spoke, "but she was. Although it took a while, she finally over came it. Maybe you should talk to her about it sometime. I'm sure she can help you." Tenshi suddenly made a face.
"You know, she'd gettin kind old, so is Jiraiya-jiji. I wonder--"
"When they are going to croak?" Naruto finished for him, grinning. Tenshi send him a stern scowl.
"Now when you say it that way--"
"Oi, it's only the truth!"
"You're old too. I wonder when the great stud muffin Hokage is going to croak?"
"Oi, watch it kit! I'm not that old!"
"Well, your old age plus Kyuubi's ancient age equals mega, ultra old."
"You little brat, watch it! Now you got Kyuubi yelling in my head and it's going to give me a headache!--GAAHH! Kyuubi, shut up! Now look what you did, you made him mad."
"Hn."
"Are you happy now?"
"Hai, very, baka-kitsune..."
"Don't talk to me like your father, young man!"
Tenshi giggled before suddenly crawling into his pouting 'mothers' lap and hugging his neck. Naruto blinked.
"Thank you, Chichiue! You make me feel better." he said, and Naruto smiled, hugging his son back.
"Aren't you getting a bit big for this?" he asked. Tenshi shook his head, blue-ish black locks swinging from side to side.
"Nope!" he chirped, then gave into the cat like temptation he was having and nuzzled his face against the side of his Chichiues, letting out a soft purr.
Naruto smiled, moving a hand to gently stroke Tenshi head, a common gesture he did often to the boy when said boy was little, and the other was placed on the small of his back, holding the young koneko up a little better. Naruto nuzzled back, letting out a purr of his own.
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It had been a month exactly since the time Tenshi told Kohaku all about the angels and his new 'job'. An exact month, which meant that Tenshi's powers were not working, and what a day for their sensei to decide that Tenshi and Kohaku needed to train their asses off together. All. Day. Long.
Neji had successfully 'kidnapped' Tenshi from the Uchiha manor at 7:30 in the morning. The koneko wasn't even up at that time. Neji had thrown the cat, literally, out of bed and made him get dressed quickly, and stuffed a piece of toast into the groggy, half alive boy's mouth while pushing him out the door. Heck, the young Uchiha wasn't even half aware of what he was doing. By the time he had come back from the dead and to the living, he found himself next to a grumpy Kohaku in the middle of the woods, thinking what he was doing there, he had the day off, which was what his sensei had told him the day BEFORE!!! But he never told him of an all day training-of-the-ass-off escapade with the one kid that still, even though he worked his duty as the fourth guardian a little, seemed to not like him at all, that was going to be on the day that he said they would have OFF!!
Tenshi wondered if Neji-sensei knew what having a day off meant...
The koneko knew there was no way he was getting any cat naps in on this day at all.
Kohaku and Tenshi had successfully worn themselves out by the time it turned 7:45 PM. Neji had instructed them to clean their dirty, mud covered selves off in the small lake that was near by and to relax for a little bit before going home. He told them he had packed a small bag with towels for them to dry themselves off with and a first aid kit. He then told him after that they could go home, but they should talk some and if they could, discuss some fighting moves and stuff, the help the other. After that he left, leaving the two dirty boys next to the lake to wash themselves off and relax before they went home.
They managed to wash themselves off while being in only their boxers without doing as much as looking at each other. They acted, or more of Kohaku acted, like the other wasn't there. That is, till Kohaku saw Tenshi sitting on a rock in the water, form slouched over, eyes closed. He could tell the other was drifting off to sleep. So he shook the koneko's shoulder gently, waking the boy, and he noticed that his shoulder seemed really tight and stiff. No where near relaxed or comfortable.
Both went to sit on a ledge that was about three feet from the ground on the giant rock wall that was half over the lake water, half over dry land. Kohaku's body was tired, and Tenshi offered his shoulder for leverage. Kohaku gladly took the offer, pushed off Tenshi's shoulder to get on top of the ledge, again he noticed the stiffness. Tenshi climbed up after him, Kohaku grabbing his arm to pull him up, knowing that Tenshi's body hurt and was tired more then his own.
They both sat on the ledge, not saying much of anything. The marks on Kohaku were feeling strange to him, and he knew it was because Tenshi's body hurt and he was very stiff, so stiff, Kohaku was sure it was unhealthy. He had seen Mimi or Riri try and make Tenshi unstiff many times, saying that he got stiff easily and it wasn't good for him. So Kohaku offered to message the young Uchiha's shoulders. Kohaku told himself that this was only to make his marks stop yelling at him.
(Just so you know, they are still in only their boxers.)
As Kohaku messaged the younger boys shoulder and back, he found himself becoming fascinated on all the muscles he could feel in the youngers back. They were well form and shaped, the Uchiha was really well built for his age. He also found the mark on the nape of the youngers neck interesting. He had brushed his fingers against it, to feel the Uchiha shiver. Then he pushed down on it hard, and heard the other boy hiss in pain. Kohaku asked what it was. Tenshi told him that the demon Daija put it on him when he was young. It was a curse to make him lose control of his chakra. But his parents had taken care of it so it doesn't work properly. Kohaku was amazed that he never noticed it before.
A few moments afterwards, Tenshi mumbled something, and Kohaku had to ask him to repeat it.
"If what you said was true..." the angel muttered, "then why do you still act like you hate me most the time?"
Kohaku's eyes narrowed on Tenshi's neck, as if trying to glare a hole in it. Kohaku had merely responded by asking why Tenshi would ask that question. Tenshi just told him he didn't like it, and that he didn't want Kohaku to hate him. And if he did really hate him, he wanted to fix it so that he didn't. They talked on about it, or more of, Tenshi said what he thought or felt and Kohaku would say something back rudely, all the while Kohaku still rubbing his back and shoulders.
Soon, they got back to when Tenshi left, and this conversation was starting to make the Hyuuga mad again, and he was getting close to losing his temper as he is so good at doing. Soon, Tenshi started talking without thinking, which usually led to trouble. He asked why the Hyuuga was so angry, why would he not let him explain his self. He asked him in a demanding tone why Kohaku didn't want to be friends anymore. Why he wanted it all to end. All the while, Kohaku's grip on the boy got tighter, Tenshi not seeming to notice. Kohaku was getting madder. He didn't want to talk about this. He wanted it to be all left alone. If they talked about it, he'd end up telling the angel all the real reasons.
Kohaku took Tenshi's tone of voice as if the angel was trying to force him to tell him, though truly, the angel was leaving it open for him to answer. He never said, 'Respond' or 'Answer me'. The angel was just letting out his thoughts, not noticing said thoughts were making the older boy angrier.
Kohaku's hands moved up to Tenshi's shoulders, and his grip tightened. Something in the back of Tenshi's mind noticed.
"...Why do you wanna break the ankle bracelet...?" he asked, his head lowered, feeling pain at the thought of them never being friends or anything like that ever again, "I didn't do anything wrong..." he whispered, but the Hyuuga heard him, and that seemed to break his control. What he didn't hear was the rest of the sentence, "...intentionally or on purpose."
Suddenly, Tenshi felt Kohaku's grip grow steadily tighter, so much it started to hurt, and Tenshi was sure it would leave marks.
Kohaku had forgotten everything else. Everything was gone but the anger in him and the burning in him, and the words he just heard the angel say.
"I didn't do anything wrong..."
Kohaku thought other wise, and he was mad at the angel that he would think he did nothing wrong. By leaving the village without a word meant he left him. He hurt him and that is something wrong.
"Didn't do anything wrong?" he growled, his grip tightening so much it made Tenshi hiss in pain, "Didn't do anything wrong?! You left Tenshi! You left me and you promised me you wouldn't! You hurt me!" he snapped, glaring at nothing in particular over the ravens head. "I'm angry because you left me! I've told you that already." He let the heat in him release and he felt the familiar feeling of his hands becoming really hot, something that happened when he got very mad.
Tenshi on the other hand, felt a sudden burning on his shoulders and on the left and right edge of his curse mark on his back. He knew Kohaku's thumbs were there, and his eyes widened some.
"I wont let you 'explain yourself' because I already know the story! There is no need for you to, it wouldn't matter!" he snapped. Tenshi felt the heat grow hotter.
He hissed out in pain, "Ahh, Kohaku..."
"I don't want to be friends cause..." he paused, growling, fighting inside if he should really tell him why. "Ah, screw it!" he yelled, feeling the familiar warmth grow hotter.
Tenshi felt it too, and he knew it was burning his skin now, not to mention the death grip Kohaku had on him. Tenshi then figured out that Kohaku was losing control of two of Atsuko's powers, super strength and fire control. If the angel's powers worked, he could easily make Kohaku stop by making the powers negative, but his powers weren't working. Oh what a perfect day...
"Gah, Kohaku!" he called out, wincing in pain, but the older boy didn't seem to hear him.
"I'll tell you the truth, Uchiha! So maybe you'll leave me the fuck alone!" Kohaku yelled, anger swelling, though something deep within his mind was call to him, telling him to calm down, but he ignored it.
"Don't call me that..." Tenshi panted, biting his lower lips.
"I don't wanna be friends because if you leave again I don't wanna be hurt like I was before!" Kohaku's grip tightened and hands got very hot after that.
Tenshi's eyes widened and not from the pain that ran through his shoulders.
"If I have nothing to do with you, if I'm not your friend, then if you do leave again for some damned reason, I wont be hurt." he growled, "You risk so much in battle. What happens if one day you get killed, huh? I don't wanna be your best friend and feel so hurt so... miserable when you leave in anyway! I don't want to feel that pain." he snapped. "I know that I can protect you from that, like I said before. But I don't want you to leave! The way you suddenly came back," he paused, letting out a low growl, "it's like it also shows how sudden you can disappear again! It scares me to think you can just leave one day with nothing stopping you. I makes me so mad!"
The burning and pain got worse for the younger one, and he was soon sweating, panting in pain and letting out loud moan and hisses of pain. His eyes were squeezed shut and his teeth were grinding together. He could tell that Kohaku's hands were on fire, and he had to get the boy to stop soon, or it wouldn't be good for him at all. Since he couldn't heal himself now and all...
"Ko-Kohaku..." he hissed, leaning forward, his hands griping the ledge tightly, arms shaking, "K'haku stop!" he ground out.
"I want to break the ankle bracelet so I wont be connected anymore! But part of me doesn't want you. And that part of me wont let me remember how to break it!" Kohaku yelled, eyes snapping shut. "I want it to all end and yet..." he let the burning feeling take over more, "I don't want it too..." A voice in his head was now yelling at him to calm down and to stop hurting him.
But... I'm not...?
A wave of burning heat flew through Tenshi's shoulders, causing the boy's eyes to snap open and his back arch away from the burning hands of the older boy.
"K'aku... stop!" he called out, his whole body shaking from pain, "Kohaku stop! You're hurting me!" he cried out. Finally, the older boy heard him and his eyes snapped open.
The suddenly smell of burning flesh hit his nose, making him wrinkle his nose at the gross smell. He looked down at his hands on Tenshi's shoulders and his eyes grew wide when he saw the death grip he had on the angel and that his hands were on fire!
He pulled back quickly, surprised and shock beating down the anger.
Tenshi gasped when Kohaku suddenly let him go. He leaned forward, trying to catch his breath, his shoulders and back in extreme pain.
Kohaku stared at Tenshi's back, fear and guilt hitting his body hard. There were good sized third-degree burns on the koneko's shoulders and top of his back. And worse... they were in a faint shape of Kohaku's hands.
He could see dark, black and purple bruises around the burn marks. A thin layer of sweat covered the youngers body and he was shaking, gasping for breath.
It took him a minute, but Tenshi finally managed to gain back his breath and he slowly reached back to touch his left shoulder, his arm shaking. But half way there, pain shot through him and he lowered his arm.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" he muttered, taking a shaky breath.
Chuushin?
I can't heal it all the way, but I can save it from infection.
Kay...
Tenshi then turned to where he was sitting cross legged on the ledge, and to where he could see Kohaku. Kohaku wanted to ask him if he was okay, but Tenshi answered him before he could voice the question.
"I'm okay." he said, then hissed. "Ah, oh wow. You can get it pretty hot, Kohaku." the boy laughed weakly, "I'm impressed." Kohaku blinked at him, then scowled, using his telekinesis to make the first aid kit come their way. Tenshi grabbed the kit when it was close and pulled what he needed out. "Atsuko would be impressed! Nice." the boy laughed. Kohaku scowled more at him.
'Stop hurting him.'
Kohaku closed his eyes, the voice in his head still telling him to stop hurting Tenshi.
I'm not hurting him now.
He kept his eyes closed for a few minutes, and when he opened them, Tenshi already had himself bandaged all up and Kohaku saw a clone 'poof' into smoke. Tenshi then smiled, rubbing his hand on his knee.
"There, that's better." he said in a cheery voice. Kohaku frowned, lowering his head some.
"How can you be so happy?" he asked softly. Tenshi blinked, looking at him. He couldn't see the older boys eyes, his bangs shadowed them, but Tenshi could tell from his body language that he was not happy.
"I just hurt you... and your not mad?" the Hyuuga asked. He raised his head, scowling at the younger boy, "Why aren't you mad? Why are you happy and acting like it wasn't a big deal?! How come you aren't mad at me?!" he half asked, half yelled. Tenshi frowned, flipping some of his blue-ish black bangs away from his face.
"It was an accident. You did not mean to harm me." Tenshi said to him.
"I lost control. I should have more control of these powers." Kohaku snipped, crossing his arms. "I hurt you, why aren't you mad?!" Tenshi blinked.
"I just told you the answer to that." he said plainly.
"If someone did that to me, I would be mad. If someone hurt me I would be mad at them. It's wrong to hurt others that don't deserve it!" he barked.
'Stop hurting him.'
I'm not!
"Kohaku," Tenshi said, brow furrowed, "you did not mean to hurt me. You never intended to. Why would I be mad at you if you didn't do it on purpose?" he asked and Kohaku glared at him.
"Because, I should have more control! I shouldn't loose my temper so easily! I should be strong enough to control these powers. You should be mad because I lost control, that I lost control of the gift you gave me. You should be mad at me for harming you with what you gifted me with!"
Tenshi stared at him, one eyebrow raising slightly.
"Kohaku-kun," he started again, "did you lose control on purpose? Did you hurt me with the intention to? Did you do it on purpose?" he asked. Kohaku growled, shaking his head.
"No! I wouldn't do such I thing. But I lost control!" he snapped.
Tenshi then pressed his palms lightly on the ground on either side of his thighs. "You just said you didn't do it on purpose. So I can't be mad at you. I can't make myself be mad at you in anyway. I don't even feel the need too." he said calmly. Kohaku shook his head violently once more.
"But why? Damn it, I am your fourth guardian, right? I'm part of your Keibi. My job is to protect you, not harm you. And I just did! That should be... unacceptable!" he growled, his hands clenching into fist. Tenshi stared at him for a minute, thinking.
He's mad at himself...
He's acting like he wants you to be mad with him. To lash out at him, young one. Datenshi said in a calm voice, Interesting.
Tenshi cocked his head to the side, "Why do you want me to be mad, Kohaku?" he asked, in an innocent manner. The older boy brought his fist up to his chest, gritting his teeth. Kohaku couldn't tell whether or not he should tell Tenshi why he wanted him to be mad or not. Tenshi just sat patiently, watching the older boy closely, his back and shoulders throbbing painfully still, but he ignored them.
"Why, Kohaku-kun? Why do you want me to be mad? I don't like being mad... Why do you want me to be so?" he asked. Kohaku growled, looking at the younger boy, his Byakugan turning on like the Sharingan does to the Uchiha's when they are mad.
"Because!" he yelled out, "Because I want you to be! To show that you aren't the same little koneko I made that promise too! So it'll be easier to do this, to not wanna be friends!" he took a breath, "That little koneko never got mad when someone hurt him without meaning to. He never lost his cool at stuff like that. It was hard to make him mad. He only got mad if someone hurt someone he cared for! He never lash out or harmed someone that hurt him. Unless they had the intention of killing him. He never did. Get mad! Show me you can get mad at something like this!"
'Stop it. Stop it now. Stop hurting him.'
I told you, I'm not!
Tenshi's brow furrowed, the corner of his lips turning down some. "Kohaku, I am the same koneko. I don't lose my temper easily unless someone bad mouths or hurts someone I care for. Losing ones temper is not a good thing. You're a Hyuuga. Hyuuga's are known to be wise and patient, they usually don't lose their temper so easily, like you do."
Was I the cause of this?
"Don't talk like him either!" Kohaku yelled out, growling some, "Lose your temper, get mad! Stop being like him! Why wont you get mad? I've changed since I was little. You have to have changed, not just being older and smarter! You're personality has to have changed!"
'Stop hurting him, damn it!'
Damn it, shut up! I'm not hurting him!
"I've had no reason to change it," Tenshi said in a stern tone, scowling, "This is how I am. How I'll always be." he took a breath, then fixed Kohaku with a very stern, serious look that made Kohaku's eyes widen, "I will not get mad or wish for revenge on someone who does not deserve it. I will not get mad at someone who harmed me without meaning to." he paused, eyes narrowing a little, "Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace. Something you don't seem to have."
Kohaku blinked, staring at the younger boy, who stared back, his stern, serious look still in place, not faltering once.
'Stop hurting him, please.'
I'm... not...
"While I have the chance, I'm going to explain myself." the angel said, turning his head a little to the side. "The reason I had to leave was because I was more unstable, in a way. My control on my powers were not so good, and my parents didn't want to risk something bad happening to me or someone else. I had to leave ASAP. When my parent told me this at about nine or ten something at night, it was to late to come see you, and my parents wanted to leave that night. I didn't want to go at all. I begged them to let me see you before I left, to leave the next day so I could tell you. When they refused, I ask if I could stay in contact with you... They said no." Tenshi sighed, "I tried to stay, I didn't want to go. They knew I wouldn't go without a fight... So Otousan knocked me out. By the time I woke up... I was already at my uncles, where they wanted me to be, and it's far away from here. I didn't know the way back and it took my parents a long while to get there. There was nothing I could do..." Tenshi closed his eyes and Kohaku stared at him.
He was... knocked out? Far away?
"I really wanted to come back... but I couldn't. I ask millions of times... I even begged just to come back for a small amount of time just to see you... But my request was denied every time. There was nothing I could do." he opened his eyes, "I'm sorry if I hurt you... I didn't want to, and I didn't mean to. Don't be mad at my parents, they were doing what they thought was best for me... and others." Tenshi finished, looking Kohaku in the eyes.
They just stared at each other, Kohaku's head swarming with Tenshi's explanation. He faintly remembered Masami telling him when he was young, not long after Tenshi left, that their Otousan had to knocked Tenshi out. He had forgotten about that, mainly because he wasn't paying a lot of attention since Masami said he would be gone a long time.
"Is that so..." Kohaku muttered after a few minutes, and Tenshi sighed deeply.
'I said stop hurting, you jackass!'
Damn it, I said shut up! I'm not!
Tenshi stood up, pain coursing through his back, but he did his best to ignore it.
"Well, I'm going to go home now. Gunna see if Hikari-nee or someone can fit this." he motioned to his back. Kohaku just stared up at him, his face and eyes showing nothing, but inside he felt guilt start to swell up in his chest. Tenshi got down from the ledge slowly, Kohaku not bothering to help him at all. Tenshi used what little chakra he had left to walk across the water to where he left the rest of his clothes. He put them on slowly, feeling Kohaku's lavender eyes piercing his back of his skull as he did. Once he was done, he looked back over at the other boy, who was still sitting on his knees, his arms at his sides, hands still clenched into fists.
"See ya." Tenshi called out quieter then usual, and lifted his hand in a short wave. He was hurt a little when all he got from the other boy was a small narrowing of his eyes.
Kohaku saw a flash of hurt on the others boys face before he quickly concealed it and turned around. He walked away slowly, weary of his back and shoulders. Kohaku watched him till he was out of sight, and the voice came back again.
'Bastard, I told you to stop hurting him.'
Kohaku didn't respond, just tightened his fist. But then he felt this weird feeling on his hands, like it was kind of wet. He opened his hands and looked at them. His eyes widened at what he saw.
His hands had a thin layer of red all over his palms and fingers. He knew it was Tenshi's blood from burning him like he did. Tenshi's blood from him harming the angel.
He had Tenshi's blood on his hands.
He had Tenshi's blood on his hands.
He had Tenshi's blood on his hands.
He had Tenshi's blood on his hands...
'You have Tenshi, the koneko's, blood on your hands.'
Suddenly, Kohaku lunged himself forward towards the ledge, throwing himself onto his stomach and leaning over the edge. He pushed his hands under the water, washing the blood off his hands viscously.
It's dirty. Blood is dirty, must get it off.
He rubbed his hands raw, making sure there wasn't even a blood stain on his hands, before pulling them up out of the water. He stared at them, seeing them spotless and free of Tenshi's blood. He stared at them for some time, before he closed them into fist and closed his eyes.
They still feel dirty...
An image of an six year old version of himself appeared before his eyes, glaring heatedly at him, angry radiating off of the boy.
'Damned bastard! You hurt 'Shi-baka! You hurt koneko-chan. What's wrong with you?' His younger self yelled at him, seething in anger. But Kohaku could tell his younger self was not angry. No, he was livid. 'You can't possibly be me. I'd never hurt koneko-chan, unlike you. You asshole.'
Kohaku folded his arms and buried his head into them, still laying on his stomach.
Kami-sama...
The burns and marks he left on Tenshi flashed in his mind, making him grimace.
What have I done?
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Give'em Hell: Yeah, we had to cut out a few lines because it was too long. The last two lines we cut will be at the front of the next chapter. The other two will be in the next or a chapter coming up soon. It just didn't fit in this chapter. This chapter was more focused on Tenshi and Kohaku. So stuff with the Uchiha family didn't really fit.
Kitsune-chan: Here are the lines for next chap!:
"Can we got back to that... how it used to be?"
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"Where's my smile, ne?"
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"Oi, lost kitten! What are you doing?"
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"I'll kill you till you die!"