Chapter 20- Amnesia Demon

~Kakashi's POV~

"What's the last thing you remember Tsukiko?" I asked her as Tsunade and I stood in the hospital room with her.

"I remember that I just got back from a simple anbu mission and Kurenai invited me to a dinner she was holding for all of us! Remember Kakashi-Kun? She invited you too! So as you can both see, I can't be here in the hospital because I feel fine and I need to go pick up Naruto from Daycare. I'm sure he's ready to come back home for a nap by now." Tsukiko said.

"Tsukiko how old are you?" Tsunade then asked.

"Silly Onee-san you forgot my age!? Well I won't say it in front of Kakashi-kun! I don't want a boy knowing how old I am." She replied and blushed as she glanced at me every once in a while.

"You're birthday is coming up in a few days Tsukiko… You'll be 16 right?" I then asked her casually.

"How did you know that Kakashi! Awe now you know how old I am! This is embarrassing!" She said as she did a face palm.

"Tsukiko…you won't be turning 16 in a few days…you are actually turning 29 next year." Tsunade said.

"That's not right! There is no way I am that old!" She said as she crossed her arms in shock.

"Naruto isn't at the daycare anymore…he's actually 16 now. You saw him standing in the woods with us yesterday. He's been training under Jiraiya." Tsunade then stated.

I don't know if she will be able to handle the truth like this…

"…It doesn't make sense…have I been asleep for almost 12 years!?" She then asked with anger.

"No. You…you died on an anbu mission that you carried out with Kurenai, Asuma, and I. 12 years ago the devil took your soul and you became a reaper. Then you escaped and came to live with me for a few weeks while you recovered from being injured." I said to her in a soothing manner.

"WHAT! I'VE BEEN LIVING WITH YOU!?" Tsukiko said as I could see a nosebleed about to happen.

She really doesn't remember! She's been acting like she's 16 again…I can tell because I remember how cute she looked when she tried hiding her crush on me.

"Wait…if I was gone for so long….who took care of Naruto?" She asked with sadness instead of anger.

"The third made sure he had money and a place to stay but he's been on his own." Tsunade said.

"HOW COULD YOU ABANDON HIM LIKE THAT! I promised Minato and Kushina Senpai that I would care and love Naruto as if he was my own little brother! I knew he would have a hard time in the village because no one would love him and understand his situation like I would! The same thing happened to his mother and I helped her out the same way and she became a wonderfully kind hearted person! I love Naruto and you just let him suffer loneliness in the village!?" She shouted at us with anger again before tearing up.

Tsunade saw it before I did and she immediately got a pale and helped get Tsukiko through a sudden sickness. She's so shocked that her body can't handle the sudden series of event changing.

"Onee-chan it's okay." We suddenly heard Naruto speak from the behind us.

Naruto entered the room with a look of sadness and he approached the bed.

"It's not okay Naruto…I bet you felt so hated and alone." She said with tears as she reached out to touch his face.

"It was like that for a while but I grew up and was able to make friends! Things are not as lonely anymore! I even saved the village and helped bring Tsunade in to become the Hokage and now people respect me!" He said with a smile.

"You made friends? How are you handling the nine tails?"

"I've broken out a few times and did some damage but Yamato sensai and Jiraiya are teaching me how to harness the chakra. The seal is a little weak though. But I was able to make a great deal of new friends. I wasn't alone."

"Naruto...I'm so glad." She said as hugged Naruto and then looked puzzled again.

"Tsunade…what happened to Sarutobi sensei?" She then asked.

"Sarutobi passed during Naruto's Chuunin exams. Orochimaru killed him." Tsunade said.

Good. She didn't say that Tsukiko was the one to take Sarutobi's soul as the reaper. Naruto doesn't need to be knowing that yet.

"I see. That's tragic. So much has happened…" Kiki then said quietly.

"-sigh- I think we've overwhelmed her enough. Tsukiko you must rest now. We can try restoring your memory later when you have rested." Tsunade said before she made the Naruto and I leave.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for shouting earlier." She then said quietly.

"Rest now onee-chan. It'll all be okay." Naruto said.

Knowing Tsukiko, I don't think she'll try and rest…I better take patrol outside for a while to see what she does.

"Good night everyone. Try to get some sleep too. We need to help Tsukiko retrieve her memory…whatever it takes." Tsunade said before turning and heading out towards the Hokage building.

"Kakashi-sensei…will she really be okay? Do you think she will really get her memory back and kill the remaining demons?" Naruto asked as his arms were casually resting up and behind his head as we stood in front of the hospital.

"You're big sister didn't make it into anbu because of just having good looks. She's a great deal stronger than we give her credit for…just give it some time. She'll pull through." I said as I glanced up at her window in front of the hospital.

The shimmering glow of the village's lights gave a dim but warm glow inside her window and made it easy for me to see her looking down at us. I looked out and saw restaurants and bars open for late dinners and drinks as people laughed and walked by in a calm manner.

"No matter what happens, I will be there for her and will definitely work to get her memory back. Just wait and see." Naruto said with a wide grin as he waved goodbye and walked off.

There's no doubt about it. She will pull through. However, my little spy inside her white room is not resting like she should be.

I put my hands in my pocket and walked down the entrance of the hospital and around the left side. I knew she was watching me so I made sure to make it look like I went home. When I was out of her sight, I jumped into the nearest tree by the hospital and watched. Sure enough, she opened up her window after a few moments and jumped down. She landed gracefully and made sure no one was watching as she snuck around the left side of the hospital's entrance and through the woods that I was standing in. She ran with great speed and I quietly followed her.

A few moments later, she stopped in a very familiar place to me…the KIA stone by the cemetery. She stood there for a few moments before kneeling down and holding her head in one of her hands.

"So it's true…I really did die. Not just I but Hayate and Sarutobi sensei too…just like Tsunade said." I heard her say before she silently wept.

I decided to try and comfort her so walked out from the bushes.

"Kakashi! What are you doing here!?" She then asked in complete shock as she stood up and looked at me.

"I could ask you the same." I said as I crossed my arms.

She looked away from me and rubbed her eyes with the sleeves of her hospital shirt and frowned.

"I didn't believe what I was hearing earlier. I had to come see for myself." She said as she looked at the stone.

"I know this is hard for you Tsukiko but you have to try and remember." I said as I moved a little closer to her.

"What do you think I've been trying to do this whole time!? I looked at myself in the bathroom after you all left me in the hospital last night! There are scars and tattoos that I don't even know where or how I got them in the first place! My body has developed and my friends have died and I'm so confused Kakashi!" She said angrily to me as she lifted up her sleeves and shirt a little to show me the seal mark, bite marks, and tattoo.

"Seriously Kakashi, there is something you guys are not telling me! Look at these bite marks on my arms, legs, and hips! Where did these come from!? Why does my lower back say reaper!?" She said as she started to tear up again and rub her arms frantically to try and rub off the scars.

"Tsukiko…enough." I said calmly before grabbing her and hugging her.

"Kakashi-kun how did I get this way…" She then asked as she wrapped her arms around me and hugged me back.

"A demon inside you is doing this to you. Don't be afraid though Kiki because you will not be fighting it alone. You do have us here to help you. We can't destroy this for you…this is something you have to beat yourself." I said as I held her in my arms.

I have been intimate like this to anyone before…I hope this is helping.

"A demon is inside me? I don't understand…"She then said before she let go of me and sat down in the grass.

I sat with her and decided to try and help her sort this out now…knowing her; she won't go to bed until she has sorted this mess out.

She sat there with her pointer finger on her chin and her knees propped up as she thought.

"I just thought of something." She said after a few minutes.

"Oh?"

"If we are older now…what…what am I to you? If I became a reaper in the past, I never was able to tell you…" She said but then blushed.

"Tell me what?" I asked even though I knew what she was already talking about.

You loved me all throughout hell as I loved you up here…just try and remember Kiki…

"Never mind Kakashi-kun! It's nothing…really." She then said with her hands up midway and flaunting in embarrassment as her blush turned cherry red.

She is so damn cute.

She got back to thinking again and then after an hour or so she lied in the grass.

"Kakashi this is difficult…just yesterday, we were about to go to dinner at Kurenai's and today its already 12 years later. Naruto isn't 4 years old anymore and able to be in my arms...I haven't sang him to sleep in years now." She said quietly.

She lifted up her sleeves again and looked at the bite marks on her arms.

"These are big enough to have come from a giant wolf….wolves….5 of them. It must have been recent…the flesh looks like it was penetrated maybe 2 weeks ago." She said.

"How do you know?" I asked in a somewhat surprised tone.

"I can…feel it. It tingles and each bite is different. There are 5 different sets of marks on me. I just…I just know." She then said before sighing and looking up at the stars.

It seems like it's trying to come to her but it looks like this demon is really taking its toll on her. I wish there was just something I could do to help her…it makes me feel bad that she doesn't remember our love.

A few hours later, it was pretty early in the morning but I don't think either of us felt tired. I decided to take my book out after a while and read.

"That book! You read those too Kakashi-kun?" She asked with a kind of shock yet disgusted expression.

"Yes, I started them after I left the Anbu Black Ops." I said as I took a glance at her.

"Great now your perverted too…I thought I was the only one…" She mumbled as she perked her lips out like a duck and tapped her pointer fingers together.

"-chuckles- Actually Tsukiko, Jiraiya sama is the one that is the most perverted out of all of us. His books have actually improved over the years. They are more romantic that perverted." I said with a smile.

"And they all ran into the sunset holding hands and kissing at the top of the hill to the sweet sounds of freedom." She suddenly said.

"Tsukiko…" I said in a bit of a surprise.

"That's the ending…that's the ending of that book! I remember you reading that to me!" She said with a smile.

"What else do you remember? What happened after that?" I asked in hope that she was getting closer to remembering our love.

"…I don't know. Sorry." She mumbled.

"-sigh- its okay…you've made some good progress so far." I said as I went back to reading.

"That's not all I remembered…you asked what happened after and I don't know. But…I do know that I was really in hell. Bits and pieces are coming back to me." She said as she looked to the horizon.

"What do you remember from hell?" I asked curiously.

She crossed her arms over her chest and reached as far as her mid back. She was hugging herself tightly and closing her eyes as if it was playing in her mind.

"You don't need to know." She then said as she released herself and looked sad.

Did he take advantage of her? I will kill him in the most painful way possible.

"Very well. It's okay, just try and remember something else." I said in my normal tone to hide my anger.

"My brain is stuck on the night before I died! I'm missing something important! Something special." She said in a bit of frustration.

Something special…this reminds me of the drawing she was talking about last week. Wait…the drawing!

I stood up and put my book back in my bag and looked down at Tsukiko.

"Are you going to take me back to the hospital? I don't wanna go back. I feel so close. Something very important is jabbing at my brain…I just need a little more time!" She said eagerly.

"Kiki-chan…stay here. I will be right back." I said before heading back to my house.

I grabbed what I wanted from the nightstand next to my bed and looked out the window to the morning sun approaching. I left my house and ran back to where I left Tsukiko and saw that she hasn't moved at all.

"Tsukiko, this should help." I said as I handed her the warn out sheet of paper.

She looked at me curiously and unfolded it. She then gasped and stared at it with wide eyes.

"I know this…I know what this is." She said as she held it close to her and smiled.

"Kiki?" I asked.

She suddenly froze and looked out at the sunrise. The warm yet weakly heated beams of light reached her face and her green eyes gleamed with beauty. Her expression then turned from happy to a bit angered.

"I remember…everything." She then said before she did some hand signs.

"Ninpo, poison extraction jutsu." She then said before her finger tips lit up in gold and she clenched her chest.

I was taken by surprise by her actions and watched what she did next. She twisted her hand and moaned in pain as she griped something from inside and then carefully and slowly pulled out a black goo that hissed. Once she had it out, it looked like a giant black worm in her fist. She looked at it with hatred.

"Amnesia demon huh? So he did the Six Demon Seal on me? What a cheater." She then said as she looked at the worm and then squashed it in her hand and a golden flame soon took over it and it disintegrated.

I am completely mortified. Nothing usually frightens me but the way she looks at things with hatred or anger really makes me pray to god she doesn't kill me.

"Kiki?" I then asked after a moment.

She looked up at me and smiled but that smile soon dropped as she stood up.

"Kakashi…I can't believe that I almost forgot about our love and what's been going on with Naruto and the village. Thank you…thank you for bringing me what I needed to remember again." She said as she looked at me with her beautiful sage green eyes and smiled again.

I couldn't hold myself back any longer. I suddenly tackled her and carried her with me quickly to the trees beyond the KIA stone and hidden from plain sight.

"Kakakshi! What are you doi-" She yelped in surprise before I pinned her against the tree and placed my index finger on her lips to quiet her.

I lifted up my other arm and slowly pulled down my mask. She looked at me with shock and then smiled.

"All this time and that's what you've been hiding? I can see why you wear it…If you didn't, every girl in all the 5 nations that ever glanced at you would fall for you in a heartbeat. Come here Kakashi." She then said before standing on her tippy toes to kiss me.

Her lips are so soft…I thought that I would never feel them on mine again…not after what's been happening with the demons. I was caught up in the moment and I pinned her farther into the tree. I put one leg in between hers and she moaned in the kiss. I smirked and she started messaging my right thigh with her slightly propped leg. I noticed she tends to do this unconsciously when she loses herself in the moment.

"Kakashi…no more." She then said before she gently pushed me away.

"What's wrong?"

"I can't…we can't do this anymore." She then said with a bit of pain.

"Tsukiko what's happening, why are you pushing me away?" I then said as my chest suddenly hurt.

"I shouldn't have kissed you the other night. I don't care what you say to me now, I can't do this. You really need to fall out of love with me or something because I can't do this with you anymore." She then said.

"Calm down Tsukiko. There is no need to push this away anymore…I'm here and I will protect you." I said as I tried reaching out for her.

"Stop it! I said no! Look let's just be friends okay? I can't be close like this with anyone. My fate will only lead to sadness." She then said before she ran away and towards the hospital.

What the hell is she talking about!

MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND TSUKIKO! Actually she has good reasons but WAIT don't go and say this story sucks just yet. I am purposely writing it this way so please stay and read the new upcoming chapters and hopefully you'll start feeling satisfied as I weave the story together! I tagged this as a romance story and you will get one! Thanks for reading and please review!