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Chapter 21
Meiyo, Nenriki and Trinian were standing in the Hokage's office forming a plan of action.
"The Shikyo clan is ruthless, they believe that women cannot fight" Trinian continued, describing the clan to the Hokage "They attacked me and it is only a matter of time before they realize I live here, I need to protect my grandchildren"
"Describe these swords"
"The swords can only be used by twins that have bonded with the blade. If someone has not bonded with the blade and attempts to use it, or tries to bond with the blade when it has been bound to someone else, they will die" Trinian explained.
"So a twin could use both blades"
"No, if a twin tries to do that, even if they have been bonded, will die, the blades are symbols of unity through twins, each has one, with their primary hand opposite of each other." Trinian explained
"So if the Shikyo clan thought one of your grandchildren is dead, they would attack correct?"
"They would try to find out where the other blade is and then attempt to bond with the one they found" Trinian explained, "Why?"
"What if we split the two up, one goes to another country and the other stays here, and we fake one of their deaths."
"That… would work" Trinian said "And they could each carry one of the swords." Trinian said "Just in case anything happens"
"Which one should leave the village then?" the Hokage said
"Nenriki should" Meiyo said, the older men looked at her
"Why?" the Hokage asked
"Because the Shikyo clan believes that women are useless, even if I am a powerful kunoichi, they will underestimate me, probably torture me, rather than just outright kill Nenriki and then ask questions later." Meiyo said. Trinian smiled and patted her head
"Very well, Meiyo-chan" Meiyo looked at the older man "How well can you act?"
Meiyo ginned at her twin, and he looked confused for a moment
"Why are you wearing a mask?" He asked, he grin faltered
"Just shut up" Meiyo said as she looked at the five remaining, completely shocked members of the Shikyo clan. Meiyo's eyes rested upon her blood sword as Kakashi looked on in complete shock, her brother was alive?
Meiyo smirked, unseen from the mask and pounced for her sword, the boy that spoke from before reacted and did hand seal. Meiyo took note of this and did a summersault after grabbing the sword and thrust it into his stomach before he could finish. Lightning danced around his eyes as he fell limp onto the sword. Meiyo stood and kicked the body off and did back flips before the other Shikyo men could react to their numbers drastically decreasing. Meiyo put her back against her twins and felt the familiar warmth come back to her. How she had missed her brother. She was glad he smelled the same. The two held their swords out defensively in front of them, waiting for the remaining Shikyo fighters to react.
"So, any ideas?" Nenriki asked
"Bunshin" Meiyo said "Even though Senjutsu is supposedly your good point"
"Oh shut up, you were always the observant one"
"Better to be the observant twin than the lazy late one" Meiyo muttered
"HEY" Nenriki said
"Pay attention" Meiyo chastised, grinning. Meiyo was glad her twin had not changed that much. "Let's split up" Meiyo wrote on her arm, ignoring the scars that danced along her fair skin,
"Why the hell should we do that?" Wrote back
"They will underestimate me and it will be fun" Meiyo wrote back
"You are insane" Nenriki's final response was when they jumped apart. As Meiyo expected three went to fight her brother and one went off to fight her
'Stupid bastards' Meiyo thought as she took a senbon needle out of her cincher and hid it in her hand as she held her blood sword out
"Whore, because of you the Shikyo clan has been disgraced" The man seethed
"Because of you my life is ruined" Meiyo countered
"You stole the swords" He accused
"No, that was my Ojii-san, I stole that scroll" Meiyo said, smirking as anger broke through the emotionless bastard in front of her as he pounced. Meiyo scratched him on the cheek as she dodged and he clutched his throat. Meiyo backed off a bit and dropped the senbon as she grabbed another, making sure it was the one that dripped red poison. She smirked and dropped her sword, running to the man who thought could cut her brother's head off and stabbed him in her shoulder with the senbon, retracted and hit another man's hand, and Nenriki stabbed the last man in the stomach. "Well that was fun" Meiyo said, picking up the poisoned senbon needles as the two men began coughing up their internal organs, Nenriki looked disgusted
"What the hell did you do to them?" Nenriki asked
"Poisoned them" Meiyo said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"When did you start working with poisons?"
"A long time ago Nenriki, a long, long time ago. How have you been?"
Nenriki called out a clone and waited in the house as Meiyo finished getting ready for the mission
"I am going to miss you" Nenriki said sitting on Meiyo's bed behind her.
"Me too"
"Remember to act it out well" Nenriki said, hugging his sister. Meiyo clutched his hands towards her more as she leaned back into his chest
"When do you think we will see each other again?" Meiyo asked
"Soon" He said as he let her go, it was not good to be late. His clone came in and smiled, he was here to get her to go.
Meiyo walked down the stairs with her brother and his clone and their grandfather handed Nenriki his blood sword and leaned in front of his granddaughter and said
"Remember, you must act like Nenriki is dead, give a spectacular performance and when the Shikyo finally do come for you they will not kill you in belief you are the only one left that knows where the swords are"
"What happens after that?"
"Then you tell your brother through writing and he will come back, keep acting, act as if you don't care if you die, and they will be less wary over you and of your sword" Trinian said to the girl. She took a deep breath and hugged her brother
"Where will he go?"
"I am going to Kumogakure while you are on mission, Meiyo, I will hide Nenriki along with my swords and ten get a job set up for him to be a blacksmith's apprentice, he will be in a henge the entire time just to make sure they will never suspect him" Trinian said and Meiyo nodded "You need to go" Trinian said as he cloned Nenriki's blood sword and took Meiyo's as well. Meiyo nodded once more and grabbed the clone's hand and rushed out the door
"I've been good" Nenriki said as he gave his sister a hug. She smiled in his embrace, oh how she had missed this. She had missed feeling his embrace, and the confidence that came instantly when by his side. She looked him over, noting his cloak and black attire, but he seemed a lot more buff that he had when she last saw him. But this was expected since he was a blacksmith. He was the same height as she was and his hair was in a choppy hair cut, his bangs swooped to the side, as did Meiyo's and constantly fell into his right eye, the exact replica of Meiyo's hair. "You don't have your hair in a braid" He noted, tugging his fingers through her tresses, she had put it in a ponytail that day, and she smiled as he felt her hair. "How do you get your hair this soft?" He muttered and Meiyo grinned
"If you want I can show you" Meiyo said playfully
"Ha no, I don't want people thinking of me as if I was queer"
Anko took that moment to run into the intersection
"A cloaked man ran through the gate without paperwork, all Jounins are asked to sear-" Anko stopped as Nenriki looked over, curious at the newcomer, and noticed Kakashi, still standing in complete shock. Anko's jaw dropped "You… are…" Anko looked between Meiyo and Nenriki, her head spinning faster and faster
"We should probably get you to the Hokage Nenriki" Meiyo said, shoving her brother playfully in the arm when Anko's eyes widened even more
"He's... He's dead… how is he still alive?" Anko asked. Nenriki grinned, a similar grin hid behind Meiyo's mask. Nenriki got closer to the woman and tilted his head
"Simple" he said, still grinning "If I am alive, I can't be dead" Nenriki said playfully as he winked at the woman. Meiyo glared at his back as Anko's cheeks turned a light pink.
"Come on, you player" Meiyo said, tugging on her twin's arm. "Let's get this mess straightened with the Hokage before ANBU start attacking you" Meiyo said, pulling on his arms
"Do I know you?" Nenriki asked Anko "You look familiar" Anko's face went from a pink tinge on the cheeks to a full blown red
"Nenriki, you can flirt with Mitarashi Anko-chan later, right now we need to get you to the Hokage to sort this mess out" Anko froze… Someone was flirting with her?
"Anko-chan? So you know her?" Nenriki said, finally following his sister
"Yes, I can tell you everything you want to know about her on the way to the Hokage Tower, including how to get in her pants" Meiyo said, smirking as she waited for her friend's reaction to come. Meiyo did not have to wait long
"Meiyo-chan?" Meiyo's smirk turned into a full-blown grin and she walked away with her twin now fully intent on finding information about the girl
"Hokage-sama" Meiyo said as she poked her head into the room.
"Yes" Tsunade said, not looking up
"I have a surprise for you" Meiyo said, her mischievous ways now back into play. Tsunade looked up, annoyed
"What is it, Meiyo? I have a lot of work to do, and I don't have time for your games" she said, giving a pointed look to the younger girl. Meiyo grinned, crinkling her eyes before opening the door up wider and pushed her twin in the room; he stumbled a bit before regaining his balance and looked up at the new Hokage, smiling wide in embarrassment. Tsunade dropped her pen in shock as Meiyo said
"Look who decided to come home"
"Sorry about just leaving you there" Meiyo said to Kakashi as she caught up with him later "But ANBU were on his trail and it had to be dealt with immediately" she said, crinkling her eyes as she smiled. Kakashi softly smiled at the woman, she seemed more alive than she had before. Green goop fell from the roof and a man's laughter filled the air. Meiyo flicked some off of her in annoyance "NENRIKI!" She yelled, and her twin jumped down
"Take that Hatake-dobe" He said and Meiyo whacked him hard in the back of the head in irritation "What was that for"
"You are an idiot"
"I was pranking the Hatake-teme, what's the problem"
"They are going out" Anko said, coming up from behind Meiyo.
"We are not!" Meiyo said indignantly
"You practically are" Anko said causing Meiyo's face to turn a bright red in embarrassment
"Hello beautiful, I didn't think I would see you so soon" Nenriki said, casually walking closer to the woman. Meiyo glared at her brother and went to help Kakashi get the goop out of his hair.
"I am so sorry Kakashi-san" Meiyo said "I forgot about the stupid rivalry we had when we were younger" she said, flicking a piece of the goop off of his shoulder. He sighed and smiled.
"It's fine, why don't you come over and help me get this out?" Kakashi suggested and Meiyo looked over her shoulder at her brother, who was flirting with Anko like mad. She sighed at the sight and nodded. She made it two steps away from the scene when saw Ibiki
"What the hell?" He yelled, and Meiyo cringed "I saw you die! You can't be alive!" Meiyo made her way over to the man and put her hand on his shoulder and simply said
"It was a clone"
"You didn't act like it was a clone!" Ibiki said, rounding on the woman
"That was the point" Meiyo said as she went back to Kakashi's side and walked him to his house.
She put his head under the sink and poured hot water on top of it. Kakashi sighed; he was expecting for her to help him in the shower… she wasn't thinking the same thing apparently
After the washing of his hair via the sink, and after Kakashi changed his clothes and put the product in his hair to make it defy gravity… and after it had dried properly, Meiyo asked
"What are we going to do today?" Kakashi smiled at her question, after all that drama she still wanted to be around him
"Don't you want to be around your twin? You haven't seen him in twenty years"
"Normally I would agree but right now he has eyes for Anko… so you will have to do today" Meiyo said from her spot on his couch as she flipped through one of his many jutsu books. Kakashi sighed, that was a bit cold
"I was thinking a walk would be nice" Kakashi admitted and Meiyo shrugged, getting up from the couch and walked out the door, Kakashi followed and closed the door behind him.
The two had gotten used to holding hands, and Meiyo was trying to get herself comfortable with getting hugs from Kakashi, which could come from the front side or from behind. She wasn't used to the affection, the last time she had was when her grandfather was alive, and she realized the slight affection Kakashi allowed himself to give the girl was nice. After being tortured and treated like a worthless piece of crab, Kakashi's gentle sweet attitude and actions appealed to Meiyo, and she enjoyed Kakashi's company more than the loudmouthed stubborn female friend she had. Kakashi was quiet, and kind, the exact opposite of how she was treated in the interrogation room on the Shikyo Island.
Kakashi and Meiyo were walking along a dirt part that led to a small bridge over a creek. The two decided to stop there and enjoy the scene around them. Kakashi wound his arms around Meiyo's middle gently leaning his head against hers as they looked towards the creek.
"When are you going to show me what they did to you?"
"Never"
"Why?"
"I'm hideous" Meiyo said simply. Confused Kakashi turned the girl around, and gave her a hard look
"You are not hideous"
"Yes I am"
"No you are not, why would you ever think that way?"
"You haven't seen the scars that run along my body Kakashi" Meiyo said, looking down. She wasn't angry, just disgusted with herself.
"Is that why you wear the mask?"
"Yes"
"They can't be that bad" Kakashi said, trying to cheer her up. She gave him a pointed look
"A nurse screamed when she pulled off my mask" She said sadly. Kakashi lightly touched either side of her face and Meiyo looked up at him again
"Please let me see" he said
"You won't like what you see"
"I doubt it, scars give a person character" Kakashi said, and once again her eyes met his. "You are still the same person, it doesn't matter how many scars on the outside you have" Kakashi said, and Meiyo closed her eyes and nodded. Kakashi gently pulled down the mask that covered the woman's face and took a sharp intake of breath. Small scars, barely visible except in the sunlight when they turned a light silver, covered the lower half of her face, but the major thing was the two deep cuts that started on either side of Meiyo's mouth going upward. He gently rubbed his thumb over the scars and felt extreme pity on the girl. He felt something wet hit his fingers and noticed she was crying. Kakashi leaned down and kissed the tears away before planting a very light kiss on her lips, he felt her cheeks flush before he pulled away and looked into her eyes, they were swimming with mixed emotions
"You kissed me" she whispered
"Of course I did" he said as softly enjoying her reaction, he wrapped his arms around her torso slowly; he didn't want to make her mad
"Why?"
"Because I like you" Kakashi said simply, leaning his forehead against hers "And you are beautiful" he added for good measure, smiling as her reaction turned to one of light shock
"You think… I'm… pretty? Even with the scars?"
"Scars don't mean anything, I have a scar" Kakashi said, raising the hitai-ate to prove it "