As you can see this chapter as well is considerably longer than the other ones, but i thought it was worth every tiny detail that i put into it. Hope you like it and sorry for all the errors it was just so freaking long my checking wasn't up to date for this.
Haru held the tower door open as she watched Jen and Naru walk past her. She frowned as she watched the blond limp and swallow rapidly like she was trying to keep herself from vomiting. She had seen more than enough pain and blood for the day and she wasn't so sure if she could take anymore. Closing the door behind them she let her hands rest on her hips as she slowly walked behind the two girls.
Everything just wasn't making any dam sense, she racked her brain for any reason that Orochimaru could have been here for and what he had done to Naru. But nothing came to mind. She had only been able to take a small look at the red seal on her friends stomach for a few minutes and since she wasn't experienced in seals she couldn't really tell what it was. She watched with sad eyes as Jen set the injured girl down. She cursed herself at the top of her lungs, she had made a promise. A promise to make sure that neither of them would get hurt while here. She knew that she couldn't stop them from getting hurt on mission, but she could make sure they didn't at least while they were here.
"Let's open them." Haru took out a Scroll of Heaven from her back pouch and Jen followed with the Scroll of Earth. They stared at the scrolls for a second mentally preparing themselves for anything that could happen. From the corner of her eye Jen looked at Naru waiting to see the girls reaction to this, there were no objections. She could only think of what could be waiting for them when they opened the scrolls. Was it going to be a person that they had to battle, would they fail the test for opening them wrong, could it be some type of animal they had to defeat. She didn't know, but she could only pray that whatever came they made it through."Now!" Haru ripped her seal open and Jen copied her movements like a mime.
Naru watched with disinterest, but that could have to do with her on the verge of her head exploding. She was still trying to finger out why these memories were entering her mind and where they were coming from. The first time it had only been a short glimpse of people but that soon progressed into something that could last form 10 to 1 hour of flashbacks, and they got longer too as time went on. But that had only been up to the point of the beginning of the second Exam. After Orochimaru had put the seal on her they were coming at her faster, and multiple ones at a time and they were becoming more clear. Before they had been a little fuzzy but now they were crystal clear almost like water. They were so many of them that she couldn't think properly anymore she couldn't have a dam thought with out a flashback happening. It was like everything she thought of triggered a flashback, so she did the next best thing to stop them. She stopped thinking. But that wasn't helping at all either matter of fact it was making things worse.
There was a puff of smoke and she turned back to her teammates silently watching for what happen next. The white smoke cleared from the air and everyone looked at the red head Suna Anbu standing just were the scrolls had been thrown. Everything was cleaned and shinny and maybe even knew, but she knew better. This Anbu just so happen to take care of their equipment well much like they all were suppose to. But the armor on this one was different on sight it looked like this person demanded respect, like they could and were above everyone else. The female wore a a sand red armor chest plate and shoulder plate, a black skin tight long sleeve shirt, a pair of arm protectors, black baggy pants, and then a white mask with a simple wave design on it painted a dark brown.
"God Aka you scared the shit out of me." Haru composed herself, though she looked at the the katana strapped to the woman's back. She had been correct in some way it had in fact be a person that came out of the scroll but from the females relaxed stance they didn't have to fight her. "What are you doing here?" Jen asked she ran her fingers through her hair she had just about enough of surprises for the day.
"Sorry but the Kazekage informed me on such a short notice that I would be coming for the second part of the exams." Aka scratched at the back of her head in what you could guess was embarrassment, but it was hard to tell. It was never easy to tell what an anbu was feeling other then their body language you had to rely on your ability to detect the feeling in their voice which was almost non-exsiting.
"Aka-oneesan?" Naru asked she couldn't really tell what was happening everything was a blur and fuzzy, but she could totally tell it was the female by her voice. She just wanted to make sure that her hypothesis was correct. She was beginning to feel dizzy but for the sake of every ones worries she kept her head on straight, focusing only on the shadows of her family. But that too was becoming hard quickly.
"Naru!" Aka ran over the girl catching her just before the girl fell to the ground. She shook the females should only to get no reply and to only deepen her worries. She looked over her shoulder at Jen and Haru and pointed towards the hidden hallway. "Go straight down that hall and find room 208, run hot water and get the bed ready." Jen nodded and dragged Haru down the hall running.
"Come on Naru don't die on me?" she asked the girl. She had set her hopes to high again, only for them to crash down when Naru stayed silent and limp in her arms. Shaking her head she got it back together and picked the blond up before following in the same direction as her sisters teammates. She prayed that the limp girl would be alright, that she wouldn't die. Different scenarios went through her head about what could happen most of them being bad. She silently reminded herself that it was normal and a natural reaction to think about the negatives in a bad situation, that she was just panicking.
She kicked the door open not caring much that she just broke the lock or that a piece of the edge broke off. She quickly came to the bedroom and laded the girl down just as Haru came back with wet rags and Naru started to hyperventilate. Naru griped the sheets unconsciously in a death grip as her body arch off the bed and a scream ripped from her lips. Her body fell back onto the bed but her grip only tightened.
"What's happening she was just fine on the way here." Jen rushed to her friends bedside taking the girls hand in her own as, biting her lip to keep from screaming when the blond squeezed her hand, hard. She had felt a punch from Naru and it hurt but to have the girl squeeze your hand and she wasn't holding back, she not only felt sorry for anybody that went up against her but she was sure she would have no hand after wards. She prayed for the person that married Naru and had to be with her through pregnancy.
"The Memori Sharingan is wearing off." Kina walked into the room her her arms hugging her almost like she was sad and she was trying to comfort herself. But her eyes told a different story they showed everything that the girl was going through, from the moment the met to now. Her eyes were the gate way to the past as well as future and maybe to unanswerable questions, or all the questions. Haru could tell that if you stared to long into them you could be put into a sleep you could maybe never wake from. And she wasn't talking about the ones were you wake up refreshed. Kina walked over to the panting girl her hand coming to lay on the the red seal.
"A Chakra feeding seal." Kina traced the outline of the seal on the girls stomach her mouth in a frown. Her eyes analyzed the girls condition and she made a bold choice. Her fingertips light up with a white fire each finger tip holding one of the kanji for tiger, snake, fox, rabbit, and boar. "What are you doing?" Aka asked stepping closer to the female. Kina ignored her trying not to loose her focus.
"Sorry, but this is going to hurt." she whispered to the lifeless girl. She rammed her fingers into onto the seal and a blood crawling scream ripped from Naru's mouth as her body jerked off the bed. Her eyes shot open and fear was evident in them, and her hands clawed at the hand that had moved to cover her mouth to silent her screams. Tears started to pour from her eyes as the pain coursed through her blood veins and with no way for an output.
As Kina pulled back her hand she gave a sigh happy that the moment was over. Naru looked at her and her eyes widen in realization. "Kina?" Naru asked and then her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she black out. Standing back up to her full height she stared at the group of females that were standing, tense. Deciding it would be best if she put a little distance between herself and them. She walked to the other side of the room and leaned up against the wall.
The faintest of a smile could be seen on her face. She was happy, almost excited though she didn't show it. She had thought that Naru wouldn't remember who she was even after the Memori sharingan had no effects on the girl there was still a high chance that Naru wouldn't have remembered who she was, but she did and that changed everything. It meant that she would remember everything even about her time with Mizuki not that they were as bad as she had made them seem when she implanted them into the girls mind. She frowned as she thought that everything the girl knew about her time in Konoha had been mostly a lie, sure there was the occasional true fact or event that happen but there was very few of them.
After she had left the girl in the forest she had made her way back to Konoha sneaking in through a break in the wall that no one knew, she had take resident in the her old house located in the Uchiha compound. Other than staying unknown she had been training, and leaving Konoha every other week for bounty hunting. She had to get money some how. She had waited for this moment to happen in so many years. Her face constructed into confusion as she wonder why she felt so much for the girl. If it was any other person she would have felt nothing for them, but Naru had something that other people didn't have. She didn't know what she just knew she did and she wasn't to keep it that way. She had learned a long time ago that somethings were better left unknown and this was one of them. She didn't know why she felt this way just that she did and nothing else mattered after that.
"What's the Memori Sharingan?" Haru asked taking a seat on the edge of the bed she looked back at the female. She could feel the power rolling off her in big waves. She didn't want to seem rube but if this mystery woman knew some answers she wanted to hear them. She wanted to know anything that posed a threat to her teammates even if it was nothing but a small powder they were allergic to, she wanted to know.
"It's a rare stage that little sharingan users can achieve, but that's mostly do to the fact that to unlock it someone that already had it has to have used it on you or you have to be a blood descendent of a user that has unlocked it." Kina looked at Naru. The girl would be her responsibility in training on how to use her Kekkei Genkai correctly as well as her other ones. She couldn't believe that Naru had learned everything she knew so far by herself and maybe a little help from her senseis.
Jen sat next to her teammates still feeling a little left out of the loop like she was missing something important. She stared at the woman and finally realized who she was. "Your from the Uchiha clan. I thought Itachi Uchiha and killed everyone?" Jen asked. Her eyes narrowed like hawks as she stared at the female across from them. Looking back up at Aka she silently wonder why the other red head hadn't slipped into a battle stance yet.
"That is correct." Kina started to fidget with the button on her trench coat and decided that it would be best to just put them into her pockets. She felt blues burning into her and the blank black holes in the Anbu mask only made her feel self conscious.
"Than why are you alive?" Aka asked her hand going to the handle of the katana strapped to her back. Something about this other female was making her feel uneasy, she could feel it now the aura of death that seemed to cling to the female, she had been to focused on Naru earlier to notice but she did now. It was heavy and made her want to vomit. She watched as Kina started to sway on her feet a sign that the female was hiding something.
"Well, I'm not." Kina said. She saw the look of confusion on the groups face and let a sigh out. Take a seat in a chair that was near by, she looked at Naru as she let her feet tap out a happy tone. Turning to look back at the group she finally let herself relax a little. "It would be best if I explained after Naru has awake, so I don't have to repeat it."
"I see." Aka let a sigh out, and her hand fall from the handle of the blade. Looking back down at her sisters friends she took off her mask, letting it rest on the side of her face. "We have three days left so we have some time to rest up and get your wounds healed up." she really didn't want to think about what could happen in the next three days, but being the one in charge or highest rank she decided it would be her job to go ahead to make a schedule of their time waiting in the next three days.
"She'll probably be unconscious for the next to days, but her body should have regained it's natural strength once she wakes up." Kina looked at the sleeping girl and smiled it felt nice to just relax, but at the same time she felt like a wast of space doing nothing. Look back over to the other females she saw that Haru and Jen were breathing hard and scratches, and deep cuts marred their skin. "In the meantime I could heal your wounds and you can take your showers after wards, if you like of course?" Kina asked.
Haru and Jen looked at Kina for a while before finally seeing no harm in letting themselves be heal and given an advantage over the opposing teams. They stood from there spots and moved so they were sitting in front of Kina. Once the tension in the room disappeared everyone seemed to finally be able to relax around one another, and once the soothing sound of hot shower water running started everyone suddenly started to feel the weight of everything and wanted nothing more then to sleep. But the need to be clean won over Jen and Haru and they quickly took their showers and changed back into a clean set of their normal clothing. They had to be prepared for everything at least.
Two days went by without much problem for team 1 and they got the sleep and food they needed to continue on with the exams. Rooms started to fill up as teams started to arrive more and more each day. Naru had started to show signs of life again her skin turning back to it's nice tan, and her breathing becoming normal, and you could see the girl muscle mass returning though it was odd how it was happening but they pinned it all up the Kyuubi. Either way Naru was looking better then ever and was if possible the healthiest she had been in her whole life though she had yet to wake up, but there were small signs that she would soon like the small twitching of her fingers, and how her eyes would flutter ever now and then.
But the biggest thing that had happen was when Gaara and finally decided to check on the blond, but it had gone much different then they had thought. Even Kina was surprised through her time staying with team one and Aka she had started to learn about them and she found herself becoming attached to them. But she had expected it to happen, but when Gaara had walked into the room and only gave a moments look at the blond before placing a red ring in the girls hand and leaving they all knew that I was over between them. This had put a dampener on every ones mood and everyone was starting to brood around, and Kina had started to look a little to much like Sasuke which only scared everyone.
Haru sat down in the small lunch room that everyone that had arrived at would have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was mostly empty this late at night but that was how she liked it quiet and peaceful. It gave her time to think things over and sometimes she could plan things out if she was in a good enough mood. Mizu had always taught them to think two steps ahead of everyone, and she had taken it to heart. Much to his pleasure that at least one student listened to him. She hadn't seen him around yet but she guessed that she would when they announced what they would be doing for the final Exam.
"Haru-chan!" Jen ran as quickly as her legs would let her to the black and silvered haired girl who sat eating a bowl of fresh noodles. Coming to a stop in front of the girl she bent over trying to catch her breath. Jen stared shocked at how her teammate could be so calm in time meant for joyous celebrating. "Naru-chan's awake." she was able to say through gasps of air. She stood to her full height smirked at Jen who was frozen like a statue.
"Don't just sit there come on." Jen exclaimed. Pulling at Haru's hand until the girl got to her feet and then proceeded in dragging her down the hallway. Reaching their room they pushed open the door and the sound of running water invaded their hearing.
"She's taking a shower." Aka said looking over her shoulder at the panting girls. A small grin was spreading on her face like she knew an inside joke, but nevertheless a smile.
Kina was laded out on the bed letting the sun bath her in it's warm glow like she was a tiger having the best day of it's life. But she was really trying to compose herself for the explanation she would have to make do. Her life was complicated almost like it was that math problem that was just so long and hard that you just skip it and never figure out what the answer was until you went to school the next day and the answer seems so simple as the clear sky. She herself sometimes had a hard time understanding her own life story.
Everyone looked up excitement in their eyes has they heard the water stop and the drawing back of curtains. There was a long moment of silence before the door creaked open and Naru walked out. Skin a slight pink from scrubbing so hard. New formed muscles could be seen under her shirt that only made her look more intimidating. Fresh clothing and washed hair made her look less like a peasant now, and a small smile was on her face.
They gave her little time to adjust to her surrounds and soon Haru, and Jen were on top of her. Hugging to death, and she gasped for air though there was a big smile on her face as she wrapped her arms around their waist. She felt tears dropping down onto her neck and she pulled her arms around her teammates tighter. They stood there for at least a whole two minutes before Haru and Jen pulled back faces flushed and small dried tear trails. The peaceful moment was forgotten as a sudden growl filled the room.
"Maybe we can discuss this while Naru eats." Kina said finally making her presences known. Her eyes locked with Naru's and she had to resist the urge to touch the girl. She wasn't sure just yet if the female actually remembered her or if it was just the heat of the moment and the girl just so happen to call out her name.
After everyone had agreed they made their way out of the room and back down the hallway towards the Mess Hall. Upon entering Naru didn't wait long and ran towards the food line piling a tray up with ramen, oddly some pancakes, and anything else that she liked that was there. Everyone sat in silence as Naru filled her empty stomach. Surprisingly Haru, and Jen sat across from her and Kina and Aka sat on either side of her.
She looked between the two females and couldn't help but notice how Kina looked extremely tense while Aka looked relaxed like she was watching the clouds go by (She loved doing that) but decided not to question the two females on it. After a while she finally sat down her bowl and looked at everyone her eyebrows knitted together with confusion.
She sighed "Okay what's going on? Why is everyone so silent?" looking towards Kina her eyes soften like she had found her long lost mother, her voice barely a whisper "And how is Okaa-san here?"
Kina looked at the female shocked that she actually remembered, but soon gave a small smile. Deciding it was about time that she took control of the situation. She quickly did a short summery of what had been happening from the time Naru had been brought to the tower to now.
Naru looked at Kina in confusion mixed with sadness. She was having a difficult time understanding what the older female meant by how she was dead because she looked alive to her.
Kina decided to stop playing guess who and would just explain it for them." I look alive, I am alive I eat, drink and everything else like a live person but yet I'm not not. My body is physically dead, but my soul isn't or at least I don't think it's dead. In other words I'm just a dead body with a living soul."
"How is that even possible?" Jen said.
"Their only one person that I know that had the power to do something like that, or at least trying to gain the power like that." Aka said. Her eyes narrowing as she stared at the female who was fidgeting in her seat.
"Wait your not thinking...he couldn't have... where in the world would he have found her body and even worse where did he get the type of chakra to do that. Only someone that was related to the Sage of the Six Paths and possessed the power of the Yin-Yang chakra could do something like that." Haru said shell shocked. If that man had really achieved that much power than they were all doomed.
Kina nodded her head sadly. "I was the one successful experiment to immortality created by Orochimaru."
Gotcha didn't expect that did ya well to put it truthfully neither had I. most of my idea surprise even myself these days well some of them do but anyways review and tell me what you think, it'll motivate me to finish the next chapter and well if you don't be repaired for a long wait because I'm not going any where and neither is the next chapter.