DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS/PLOTS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
New Emotions
I narrowed my eyes and pulled out some shuriken from my pouch. "Hey Scarecrow, hand me that shuriken right there."
"Get it yourself Haruka."
"Just get it for me!"
"You have like three in your hand."
"So? Just go and get the other one on the ground." Kakashi groaned but stood up and walked over to where the kunai was laying on the ground.
"Tell me why I'm here again?" He asked as he handed me the weapon.
"Because I need to get better at my aim." I spread my legs out a little and took a deep breath to calm myself, to loosen my muscles and lower my heart rate. Locking my eyes on the red of the circle, I pulled my arm back and threw as hard as I could.
Thunk
I turned towards my friend with a large smile on my face. "See, all the training I did today paid off."
Kakashi scoffed. "You were training for the past hour Haruka, I could hardly call that progress."
I sneered and crossed my arms over my chest. "I'd like to see you try. Accuracy with weapons isn't my best and you know it. I'm far better at close-hand combat to mid-range fighting."
You know if I think back about it, I shouldn't have challenged Kakashi like that because of well, ANBU and all.
Within like the span of two seconds -two seconds- he threw eight of those accursed weapons to the target and of course, they hit the bullseye and stayed attached to the board. He did all of this without looking. Instead, he was staring at me with a smirk on his face (you really couldn't tell if he had one or not but I've known him long enough to tell when he was or not).
"You know what Kakashi-"
"What?"
I sighed. "Screw this. Obviously, I'm not going to be as good as you are Mr I'm-in-ANBU."
"Well, you're good at close-hand combat." He pointed out.
"Please. Compared to a ANBU Captain I'm like a Genin."
"You're a Jounin though."
"A pretty pathetic one if you ask me." I sat down against the tree, Kakashi doing the same thing next to me. "The only reason why I became Jounin is because Konoha was running out of them." Kakashi remained silent next to me, not bothering to change anything I said because he knew that was the truth.
I didn't work that hard at getting the rank that I have right now.
"Quit pouting and train then. That's what you're here to do right?" He said as he turned to me a few minutes later.
I cocked an eyebrow. "You're pretty optimistic all of a sudden."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I try."
...Training, that's what I've been doing for the past few months. After Raijin getting attacked and a mission that went slightly wrong, I realized how...weak I was. I looked up and saw Kakashi standing, his back turned to me.
Well if I was here to train, what's better than an ANBU Captain helping me fight?
I quietly stood up and smirked. Oh, this is going to be fun.
I tackled Kakashi to the ground and saw his shocked face beneath me before he used a Kawarimi jutsu to change with a log.
"Goddamn it Kakashi, stay still!"
I was standing alone in a training field while Kakashi was somewhere along the trees surrounding it. He was concealing his chakra, which meant I would need to either sniff him out or listen for any abnormal sounds. I took a deep breath and could smell him-
I quickly whirled around with a speed only a shinobi hand and raised my arms to block a kick. Pushing him back I quickly jumped behind.
"Why are we doing this again?"
"I need to train and you happened to be the only person around Scarecrow."
Gathering chakra around my feet, I smirked before I shot off towards him. He dodged my punch and kick but in turn I blocked the punch he threw behind me. I swung my leg across the ground to trip him but he jumped high into the air. I jumped into the air along with him but with a kick aimed at his midsection. He blocked it with his arm but I quickly threw my weight a little forward for my punch. It hit his face and with his confusion I did a front flip and brought my leg down on his body. I fell to the ground along with Kakashi, but I dropped onto my legs and not my whole body (like him).
When the dust from his fall cleared up, he was standing up and holding his jaw. "And you say you're not good."
"I'm not that good."
"You landed a punch and kick, I say you're pretty good." I shrugged. "Well, I guess it's my turn then."
Then Kakashi did the one thing I just didn't want him to do. He moved his hands to his face and raised his hitai-ate, revealing...that eye.
"...Shit."
I was breathing hard, Kakashi doing the same thing underneath me. With our body positions we probably made a plus-like symbol, me sprawling along his stomach on top of him.
"I...fucking...hate you." I muttered in-between the deep breaths I was taking.
Kakashi tried lifting up his head but he failed and let it fall back to the ground. "Same...here." I chuckled before I slid off his body and crawled next to him. I laid back down on the ground and looked up at the sky.
"I think we destroyed the field."
Kakashi looked around and stared at me with his right eye since his left eye was closed. "You're the one who brought out ninjutsu."
"You're the one who brought out the Sharingan!"
"So?"
I growled and poked his cheek. "It wasn't fair. I could never beat you in taijutsu if you used that!" Despite my body's protest, I sat up and forced Kakashi to sit up too. I sat there admiring how much two people could destroy a field when I looked back up to the sky. "What time do you think it is?"
"I don't know." I sighed before realizing something.
We were supposed to meet up at the dango shop with everyone.
"Shit! The dango shop!" I tried to stand up but failed when I realized that with having used most of my chakra in the fight and the big-ass bruise on both of my legs, I was going to have trouble walking.
"I don't think we'll make it Haruka. Not in the state we're both in." I looked around and wished that Raijin didn't choose this day to go see his pack. Why Raijin, why?
I motioned with my hands for Kakashi to come closer to where I was. Concentrating my chakra, I moved him to where his back was facing me. "What are you doing?
"I'm healing you." He tried to turn around but I forced him to stay still.
"Why? Heal yourself-"
"You better get over your people can't touch me vibe right now because I'm going too whether you want me too or not." I moved his shirt up and saw that along the bottom of his ribcage it was bruised horribly, like something had broken. "But I heard the crack when I broke your rib, pretty sure this comes first Scarecrow." He sighed in defeat and let me continue my healing.
A few minutes of silence went by until I removed my hand, revealing a perfectly healed rib.
"Since when can you heal broken bones?" Kakashi asked as he turned around.
"Since yesterday."
"...What."
I raised an eyebrow before lifting the front of his shirt. "Yeah. Pretty cool right?" I looked back down to his chest and my eyes widened. "I managed to do this?" He nodded his head painfully. "Damn, I am good." I started laughing and felt a sudden burst of immaturity; I poked the pretty large bruise on his chest.
"Ow!" He grabbed my hand and glared at me. I laughed even harder before I raised my other hand in defeat.
"I won't do it again, I swear!" Giving me a you better not look, he let go of my hand and let me heal him. Sitting in between his legs, I placed both of my hands on Kakashi's chest (because I was getting tired and healing with one hand was getting hard) and started my healing.
Huh, I just realized he had abs.
...Well then.
Anyways, we stayed silent for a few more minutes until I healed up most of the cuts and bruises that I had inflicted on the (poor) Scarecrow sitting in front of me. When I pulled my hands away and admired my handiwork, I realized there was a large scar on the side of his stomach.
"Hey, what happened here?" I asked him while I got closer to look at it.
"That?" He asked. Kakashi slightly jumped when I touched it but he didn't necessarily push me away from him. "I was being cocky and didn't pay attention to the enemy in front of me." I traced the scar from the beginning of it to the end.
"You were sliced clean through..."
"Yeah. One of my first missions too." I looked up to ask him a question but when I did, I didn't realize that he was leaning a little down too so that meant our faces were only an inch away from each other. His eye widened but neither of us moved.
"Haruka, Kakashi!" I whirled around and saw Rin standing by the entrance of the field, an angry look on her face.
Shit, I completely forgot about meeting her at the dango shop! I quickly stood up and turned around to get Kakashi but when I did, he was...gone.
The only thing that remained was the wind that still smelled slightly like him.
September
"I'm sorry but we can't fix this for you." The man at the counter said as he looked at the broken Saber and it's pieces.
"Do you happen to know where?" I asked.
"Probably Jin." He pointed down the street. "He runs the shop now since his brother died, but me personally, Ren was better."
I smiled at Hiro. "Thanks." I walked out of the shop, still holding Kakashi's broken saber in my hands.
In literally two weeks, Kakashi's turning 16 and I needed to get him something but then Raijin was like fix that sword of his, which led me to realize that he had a great idea.
That's why I was walking down the market to see if anybody could fix the saber; I've been to either six weapon shops that sell and fix weapons but none of them had the special metal on Kakashi's saber.
Goddamn it Kakashi, why do you do this to me?
I walked up to the store that said 'open' and pushed the door open. There was a small bell that told whoever worked here that someone had walked in, and it rang letting Jin (I think) know that I was there.
"Hello, what can I do for you?"
I handed him the saber and the shiny silver pieces. "I was wondering if you could fix this saber?"
"Hm…"
Jin continued examining it, making me even more restless than earlier. "Well, can you?"
He placed it down and started tapping his finger on the surface of the counter. "I can do it, but it's going to cost a lot of money and some time."
...Crap. "How long?"
"Usually people ask how much money before time." He pointed out. "But I would say at least ten days, latest two weeks."
"That's good. So how much is it?"
"150 thousand Ryo."
My eyes widened and I almost dropped the bags that I was carrying. "That much? Why?"
Jin pointed to the weapon. "The metal that this was made out of is chakra conducting metal and it's hard enough to get, but with the rebellions in the Land of Iron it's gotten even harder. Not impossible but just harder." He rubbed his head sheepishly at what was probably my expression. "It's chakra conducting metal miss, they have to soak it in chakra for at least two and a half years until you can actually start using it and even then, you have to be careful to not break the metal or forge it wrong."
Of course, the moment I actually find a place that can fix the damn thing I don't have the money for it. Fan-fucking-tastic.
"Is there possibly any way I can pay you when I come to pick it up? I don't have that kind of money with me at the moment..."
"Of course!" Relief flowed throughout my body and it must have showed on my face because Jin started laughing. "Don't worry, many other shinobis come with the same request as you." He pulled out a paper and wrote something down on it. "I'll definitely have it done by the 14th. Also, since this is a special request I'm going to have to have you come down and pick it up."
"About that, I might be gone on a mission so either Nohara Rin or Uchiha Obito will come and pick it up if you don't mind."
"That's fine, they're just going to have to show identification to tell me that it's them." He handed me the paper and smiled. "Have a nice day." I smiled before turning around but I noticed a picture on the wall and for some reason it caught my eye.
"If you don't mind me asking, who are the people in the photo?"
"Oh, that was Ren and his wife." He did a sad sigh before continuing. "They both lost their lives to the Kyūbi attack and left their daughter alone. I'm taking care of her now."
"What's her name?"
"Her name is Tenten." I managed to hide my shock from realizing that it was a girl from the same time as Naruto.
"Well, thanks Jin. I'll see you soon!"
One thing done today. Now I have to go on a A-Rank mission that'll let me get my hands on some money.
I pushed open the door to the mission desk and saw the Hokage sitting with a few other chūnin's.
"Ah, Haruka, what can we do for you today?"
"I'm requesting an A-Rank mission please."
The Hokage ruffled through some papers before he pulled one out. "Here we go." He quickly read through it before handing it to me. "It's an A-Rank like you requested. Your target is an enemy-nin about Chunin level that has been terrorizing a small farming town right outside of Konoha." I looked down at the reward and I could imagine money falling right into my wallet. The reward?
150 thousand Ryo.
12 days later...
"Raiton: Gian!" Lightning shot out from my mouth and hit the person in front of me but he broke into pieces of rock. Damn, it was an earth clone.
"Pup, behind you!" Raijin shouted before biting the clone in front of him. I swept my leg across the ground behind me and tripped the enemy. I quickly whirled around while doing handseals and placed my hands on his legs.
"Raiton: Jibashi!" Takeshi Yūji, the man I was after, started shaking from the lighting chakra flowing from my hands to his body. Raijin must have killed the last clone because he ran up to me, the smell of worry stinking the air around him.
I stood up and wiped the blood from my nose. "I'm fine."
"You...bitch." Yūji stood up on shaky legs, thinking he could still fight me. Damn, he's so stupid, he can barely stand!
"Uh Pup?"
I waved my hand nonchalantly, knowing there was nothing he can do to actually hurt me. I turned around and punched the guy right on his nose. I felt the satisfying crunch of his nose before he fell back, unconscious. "Well, that's done. Now I just have get back in like two days for that idiot's birthday."
"That's right, he's turning what, 16?"
"Yup." I sighed and looked down at Yūji. "What am I supposed to do with him now?"
"I don't know, search him?"
I shrugged my shoulders and kneeled down. Opening the pockets on his vest I found stuff like money and lists of things I don't care about.
"I was thinking about it before but I realize there was something familiar about him." Raijin said to me.
"Really?" I furrowed my eyebrows and continued searching. I pulled out a scroll and unfurled it. My eyes widened and I realized why Raijin felt like he's met the guy before.
He's an Aotomi.
"What the hell? This guy's real name is Aotomi Yūji."
"That's...right." We whirled our heads to Yūji, shocked that he was awake. "You think...we wouldn't know...that you were sent for this...mission?" He started laughing maniacally and blood started dripping down his chin. "He's always...watching."
I grabbed the front of his shirt and brought him up closer to my face. "My father?"
"We know...all about your relationships..." Yūji smiled, revealing blood on what was white teeth. "About...that dog summoner. What was his...name? ...Kakashi?"
I growled and could feel my canine teeth grow sharper from my emotions. "Don't you dare-"
"You think...you are safe?" Raijin also growled behind me and my grip tightened. "We will...get what...we want-" A kunai suddenly flew out from the trees surrounding us and cut me on my arm, dropping the man. Another shot out and hit Yūji in the neck.
My eyes widened and I whirled around, I sensed someone running away but I didn't chase after him.
"Pup, he's dead." Looking at Yūji, blood was pooling from his neck and his eyes were still open. I sighed and closed his eyes. Standing up, I noticed the state of both me and Raijin. I had a few cuts and bruises here and there but with Raijin I could never tell because of his black fur.
"Are you hurt anywhere?"
"I'm fine Pup." Taking one last look at the man, I went through the handseals for a Katon jutsu.
Despite being an enemy, no one deserves to be left lying there, dead.
Two days later…
I walked through the gates to Konoha, the sky turning darker and darker. "Raijin, can you give the mission report to the desk? I have to give Kakashi his gift."
"Sure Pup." Raijin started walking towards the Hokage Tower, the scroll I wrote everything down on in his mouth.
At least I made it back before the sun was fully down, right?
I jumped onto a roof and ran towards Rin's house. Before I left for the mission I made sure Rin would get the saber from the shop.
After a few minutes of running and jumping, I reached Rin's house. "Hey Rin!"
"Haruka?" She opened the door in her civilian clothing. "You're back!"
"Yeah." I smiled. "I wish I could stay and talk longer but I need to give Kakashi his gift."
"Of course." Rin walked away from the door, leaving it open. "We had lunch with him earlier but he disappeared soon after that. I don't know where he went but I have a pretty sure idea where though."
"It's fine." She smiled at me and handed my the box.
"I hope he'll enjoy this gift."
I snickered. "He better, I paid good money for this." She laughed and waved me off. "Don't forget that we're all meeting up at Yakiniku Q in about two hours, okay?"
"Yeah, I'll remind him." Waving goodbye, I started walking to where I knew Kakashi would be.
His father's grave.
I entered the cemetery, Kakashi's gift in one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other. Before I got here, I went to a flower store that was open and bought the last bouquet they had. Sakumo's grave was located at the corner of the cemetery, a place my mother thought was the best to place him. Kakashi was too young to decide when Sakumo had died and he had no other family.
As I got nearer to where his resting place was, I could see a lantern glowing, indicated that Kakashi was there. I walked up to his kneeling form and placed the flowers in the only empty flower vase.
"Hey Haruka."
I placed my hand on his shoulder. "Hey Scarecrow." Kakashi suddenly stood up, making me turn my head up to look at him.
Within these past few months Kakashi had to have hit a growth spurt because he grew almost overnight, towering over my five-three height by eight inches. It wasn't even just that, if I look at it now I see that his shoulders have widened and his voice has gotten a lot deeper than before (not to mention that jaw-line, damn). While have muscle definition since a young age because of training, they're more noticeable now and actually fit the body.
"Thanks for the flowers, he'll like them."
I smiled. "No problem, I figured they were pretty." And the only ones left, but he doesn't need to know that. "You're finally 16. How do you feel?"
He shrugged his shoulders before turning around. "Same as usual. Let's leave, I don't really like the cemetery for obvious reasons." Kakashi started walking away, leaving me to jog after him.
"Everything okay Kakashi?"
He turned his head toward me, his only eye revealing nothing of how he felt at the moment. "Yeah, why?"
I cocked an eyebrow, slightly confused about his mood. "I don't know, you seem kind of...down."
"I'm fine." Turning his head back without another word, we walked in silence until we reached the entrance. "I'm sorry, it's just that it feels weird without them here on my birthday, you know?" Kakashi suddenly said, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, I know." I looked down to my feet. It was on my birthday last year that made me rekindle my friendship with Kakashi after our big fight the year before that. "Anyways, here's your gift!" I shoved the box into his hands and looked at him, wanting to see his reaction.
"Oh, thanks." He unwrapped the cloth on the wooden box and slowly lifted the lid. Because of that stupid mask, I couldn't see his full reaction but the widening and shock in his eye was enough.
"Is this…?"
I nodded my head excitedly. "Yup. I kinda had to sneak into you house-"
"What?"
"But, I figured you'd want this fixed." Kakashi grabbed the hilt of the saber and carefully lifted it up. The metal gleamed in the moonlight.
"You got the metal and everything too." He looked at me. "I went to over a dozen places and none of them could fix it, I had almost given up hope of ever using again."
"Well, I hope you like it." I suddenly felt shy and I couldn't look up at him. What would happen if he didn't like it? Maybe he was mad that I touched the saber? Maybe it was involved with bad memories-
"I love it." Arms were suddenly around me and I was looking at a grey colored vest. I slowly wrapped my arms behind his shoulders and squeezed. "Thank you so much Haruka."
He pulled away and I smiled. "Well, Rin wanted me to tell you that we're all meeting at Yakiniku Q, so come on!" I patted his chest and turned around.
"Alright." Giving me a one-worded answer, I didn't bother turning around to answer back.
What I didn't know was that I left behind a flustered Kakashi.
"Rin, we're here!" I announced, Kakashi following closely behind.
"Haruka-chan, Kakashi-kun!" Rin stood up and jogged to where we were standing. "Happy birthday!" Giving him a quick hug (poor Kakashi, he hates human contact), she led us to the table that everyone was sitting at. There was, of course, Rin then Obito. There was an empty seat next to him and then to that side was Kurenai. Sitting beside him was Asuma and Gai, and of course an empty seat next to him for Kakashi. That sums up everyone-
Wait, there was a girl that was pretty familiar sitting in the seat next to Kakashi. I sat down where Rin and Obito saved my spot, Kakashi sitting in front of me.
"Happy birthday my eternal rival!" There was a loud cheer from the whole table. "Let us dine on the food called yakinuki!"
I tapped Obito on the shoulder, bringing him closer to me. "Yeah?"
"Who's the girl next to Kakashi?" I asked.
"Oh, is someone jealous that a girl is talking Kakashi-" He was cut off when his head fell forward because of a smack from Rin. That girl is as sweet as dango (because those things are sweet) but she could be scary as hell too.
"Obito, it's not nice to tease people, ne?" He furiously nodded his head. "Good." She turned to me and smiled. "That's a friend of Obito's from the Military Police Force."
"Oh." I leaned against the wall and furrowed my eyebrows. "She smells so familiar though."
Rin shook her head. "Only you and Kakashi would say that." She muttered to herself. "Remember Aomi?" I shook my head. "The Uchiha girl you punched on the first day of the Academy."
Punch...first day of the academy… "Oh!" I clapped my hands together. "Yeah, I broke her nose!" I said louder than I actually wanted too. That girl Aomi, must've heard me because she gave me a dirty look before drinking whatever she had ordered. Obito snickered but immediately shut up when I whacked him on the side of his head.
"Haruka..." Rin said embarrassingly. I shrugged my shoulders and started grilling the meat that I had ordered. While I waited for the meat to finish I watched as she kept touched Kakashi's arm and fluttering her eyelashes.
Of course, it was obvious that she had an infatuation with him. The smell she was emitting alone was enough to tell.
"Is someone jealous?" I heard Obito's voice whisper into my ear. I shot him a glare before flipping my meat over quite roughly.
"Of course not. I have to reason too Obito." I heard him snicker but I ignored it.
"Well at least we're all here. We haven't done this in like two months."
"The last time was when we helped you babysit Itachi, Shisui, and Sasuke."
Obito suddenly perked up and pointed to me with his chopsticks. "Shisui's been asking for Haruka-nee. You should come by more often."
I cocked an eyebrow and placed the grilled beef in my bowl of rice. "And into the Uchiha Compound? Please, you know that place gives me the creeps."
Obito leaned his head against the wall. "Don't worry, it gives me the creeps too, especially lately."
"Really? Why?" I raised some rice and beef to my mouth.
"I don't know why but there's like some Clan meeting every few weeks by the Naka Shrine and not everyone is invited." He continued. "It's only Fugaku, the Elders, and the higher up Jounins."
Clan meetings in the Naka Shrine with important people? That sounds suspiciously like the Uchiha's future coup d'éta.
"But it doesn't really bother me, I'm still deciding on going into the police force or staying as a Jounin for missions and crap."
I swallowed my food and smiled. "Well, can't help you there." I went back to paying attention to the grilling meat, but couldn't help but look at Aomi and Kakashi again.
She was holding onto his arm and laughing while Kakashi looked very uncomfortable.
My grip on my chopsticks suddenly tightened. "Haruka, what's wrong?" Kurenai suddenly asks, looking at my hands. I did too and realized that I had unconsciously used chakra and bent the metal chopsticks.
"Nothing, just thinking about something." I lied. Hiding them under a napkin, I grabbed the extra pair next to Obito.
What the hell is wrong with me? What are you doing?
"Rin, carry me home!" Obito suddenly wrapped his arms around Rin's shoulders, causing the girl to grunt before getting used to his weight.
"Who the hell let you order alcohol?"
"Me." Obito pointed to himself and slurred.
I facepalmed myself. "Of course-"
"Pup!" I suddenly looked to my right to see Raijin walking down the road.
"Raijin?" The wolf ran up to me and licked my face. "How did you know I was here?"
"Obito came to the house to pick you up for the party, but you weren't home and he told me where you guys were going." I patted his head before turning around to the remaining group. Out of the eight people that came today, three of them were drunk. And out of those three, two of them were people I never thought would get drunk. That was Kakashi and Kurenai.
I looked at Kakashi and noticed how Aomi was plastered right next to him, gripping his arm. "Kakashi, are you...okay?"
He looked at me, his face slightly pink and his eyes were glassy from the alcohol that I don't know how he got. "Yeeah, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
He opened his mouth to say something, but Aomi started talking. "What are you, his mother? Quit asking him all these questions, Kakashi-kun's obviously fine."
I narrowed my eyes at her. "I'm his best friend, I'm going to worry if he's fine or not." I turned back to Kakashi. "Are you fine walking home? Raijin and I can walk you back."
"He'll be fine, I'm walking him home."
"Kami, I wasn't asking you so why don't you butt out?" I said to Aomi, annoyed.
"Excuse me? You can't talk to me like that!"
"Well, I just did." Aomi suddenly let go of Kakashi's arm and stomped up to me.
"You wanna go, you bitch?"
I growled and sneered. "I'll break that little nose of yours again if you don't take a step away."
"Bring it."
"Why you-"
I hand was suddenly on my shoulder, pulling me slightly back. "Haruka, don't."
Damn, I almost let my emotions get the best of me. Being the better person that I am, I took a step back and turned around, silently thanking Rin for stopping me.
"That's right, run behind your little pet like last time."
Never mind, I guess I'm not the better person.
I quickly whirled around and grabbed Aomi's shirt. Pulling my arm back at a pretty impressive speed, I punched her square on the nose, breaking it again. "Grow up, that was ten years ago." I hissed in her face. I dropped her onto the ground, everybody's shocked eyes staring at me.
Rin, being the angel that she is, pushes the drunk Obito onto me and runs to Aomi's side. "Please, let me heal that for you."
"Catfight." Obito whispers to me before giggling.
"You need to lose some weight. Kami, you're as heavy as Kakashi." I mutter, ignoring the occasional whimper from the other Uchiha in the group.
"Uh, we're going to go. We'll see you tomorrow I guess. Bye!" Asuma suddenly said to break to awkward silence in the air.
"Happy birthday Kakashi!" Kurenai shouted out while being dragged away by Asuma. Gai shouted out some nonsense that he always says before walking away, leaving a still drunk Kakashi and Obito, a girl with a newly healed nose, a healer, and a wolf and his partner.
"Well, I'm going to a good person and walk away." Aomi said in her nasty voice (it's nasty to me). "Come on Kakashi, I'll take you home."
Kakashi, being the drunk idiot that he is, follows after her. I stood there (mouth hanging open) shocked, still carrying a semi-conscious Obito.
"Haruka, is everything okay?" Rin asked, wiping her hands with a handkerchief. "You usually never let your emotions go like that."
"Yeah, it's just been a tiring day today. Right Raijin?"
"I guess so Pup."
The next day…
"Hey Kakashi, open up!" I slammed my fist against the door a couple of times, only to stop when I heard the click of a lock.
Opening the door was the guy himself, his hair messed up from what I'm guessing is sleep. He was shirtless but still wearing a mask, his pants on inside out. He had a red mark on his...chest... "Haruka?"
"Kakashi, who is it!" Hearing a disgustingly familiar voice from the back, I look to Kakashi right to see Uchiha Aomi, standing there with a blanket wrapped around herself because she is obviously naked underneath that. "Oh, it's you." Her voice suddenly changed, revealing her dislike for me.
"Is that…?" I looked at Kakashi.
"...Yeah."
"Okay then, well...um...I was just seeing if you were, uh, okay. Yeah." I gave him a fake smile before taking a step back. "Uh, Rin and Obito are, um...at the dango shop. I'll be there...so yeah. I guess I'll see you later?" I turned away not bothering to hear Kakashi's answer.
Why did I feel so...sad at seeing that?
October
I didn't feel like getting out of bed today. I wanted to stay under my covers, trying desperately not to cry because of today. It's that date.
It's October 10th.
"Pup, I know you don't want to but you have to get out of bed, interact with the world like everyday." I felt Raijin place his head on my body, but I just stayed there, lying in a fetal position.
"I d-don't want to Raijin. Please."
He pulled the covers away from my body. "No, I want to go on a walk Haruka. You're coming with me."
I turn to him. "I can't, they're going to be mourning them today and I just...can't."
Nudging me with his snout, he sat me up and walked over to the closet. "No, it's not good for you. You've been holed up in your room all week." Pulling out the standard shinobi uniform, he walked over to me and placed my clothes in my lap. "Change. We're going to go get some breakfast."
"Fine." Despite not wanting too, I did exactly what Raijin said. I changed into the clothes and made myself presentable to the outside world.
A few minutes later I grabbed my money and started buckling my shoes on. "What do you want to eat?"
"Some fruit would be nice for a change." I nodded and grabbed an umbrella.
"Let's go." We both walked out of the house and started heading towards the Market.
Just like I had thought, there were people already drunk walking around at around noon in the Market.
"Pup..."
I shook my head, feeling nothing as I watched them. "It's fine." I walked up to the only open stand and bought four apples, three for Raijin and one for me.
"Here." I pulled out the stalk and gave one the Raijin.
"Where are we going?" He asked after he finished eating one. I gave him another and shrugged my shoulders.
"I don't know, anywhere I guess. I don't." As soon as he finished that one, I handed him the last apple. "I don't want to bother Obito and Rin, they deserve to mourn by themselves or together."
"You sure?"
I placed my hand on his head and gave him a real smile. "Yeah. I have you, don't I?"
"Of course, I'll always be there for you."
"Promise?"
He licked me on the cheek. "I'll be there for you when cry, I'll be there for you when you get your heartbroken." Raijin chuckled before he continued. "I'll be there for you when you get married and have children. I'll always be there for you Pup." I looked down, slightly overwhelmed by what he said to me. "I don't say it often, but I'll say it now." Raijin walked in front of me and sat down, despite the ground being wet from the rain. "I love you Haruka."
Goddamn it Raijin, don't you know my emotions are everywhere today? Tears filled up in my eyes. I quickly wrapped my arms around him to hide my tears.
"I love you to Raijin." I said into his fur. I pulled away and wiped my face. "Come on, let's go."
We were walking in a comfortable silence until I suddenly stopped in the back of an angry crowd.
"What the-"
"Kill it!
"It's the demon!"
"Kill the brat!"
My eyes widened before I looked around, noticing where my legs took us.
It was the Orphanage. I jumped onto Raijin's back and noticed that a small crowd had just broken into an empty Orphanage. "Raijin, why is that place empty? I remember hearing someone saying that there was suddenly a large amount of orphans because of last year."
"Rin was talking about how they made a new one across the village. She said that they moved yesterday and I think today actually." I jumped back down and looked at him. "But I can sense a person in that building. Just one though."
"Who?"
"I don't know, but you can probably take a guess, can't you?" My eyes widened and I dropped the umbrella in my hands. I quickly took off towards the place, chakra boosting my speed.
Someone had left Naruto alone in an abandoned building on his birthday. I pushed past the angry crowd and pushed open the broken door to the building.
I was overwhelmed with the smell of pee, blood, dirty children (I think), and the smell of anger.
These people didn't know where Naruto was yet, but it would be soon because I could hear a baby crying.
I ran up the stairs to the room I had gotten familiar with because of my midnight travels to see how Naruto was. I could hear the angry men breaking into rooms down the hall, but I didn't bother turning to see. My only focus was on Naruto.
I quickly opened the door, to see the blonde baby sitting in his crib, crying. "Naruto!" I ran forward and quickly grabbed him.
Someone heard me shout out his name because not even five seconds later, the same men that broke into the place came running into the room.
"Give us the demon!"
"Kill it!"
I let out a pretty loud growl, and held Naruto closer to my chest. "Don't you dare come near us."
"It's the Kyūbi, kill it!"
I don't know what happened, but I must have let my emotions get the best of me because not even a second later, black chakra was surrounding both Naruto and I. My eyes were probably glowing the red it usually did whenever I got into this state and my canines were sharper than ever.
"Stay away, or else." I threatened. The civilians started freaking out, one even called me a demon too. They quickly ran out the room, smart enough to not fight on an angry shinobi.
I loosened my grip on Naruto a little and looked at him.
"Haru! Haru!" He didn't seem fazed at my state but instead, seemed interested in it. Naruto started patting his eyes and let out a sound that may have been his attempt at a growl. I laughed and got my emotions under control, but not before a dark, demonic voice went through my head.
'Let me out, I'll kill the ones that hurt you.' I gasp at the voice but it quickly disappeared, making me doubt that it was real or not.
"Haru?" Naruto suddenly said. Giving him a smile, I quickly left the building and ran over to where Raijin was standing, my umbrella in his mouth.
"What just happened?"
"I let my emotions get the best of me."
"Kami, Haruka, you're lucky the baby's still alive!"
I looked at the blonde baby before grabbing the umbrella. "Well, he is and now we have to go to the Hokage." I started running towards the red building, Raijin following closely behind me.
By the time I reached the Hokage Tower, the rain had gotten harder, leaving a soaked Raijin and a slightly wet Naruto.
"You can't just walk in here-"
I ignored the front desk lady and continued walking up the stairs to the Sandaime's office.
I opened the door, revealing the Hokage standing, smoking from his pipe. For once, there was two ANBU standing in the room too. "Haruka."
"Sandaime."
"Why do you have Naruto there?"
"He was...abandoned in the old Orphanage and an angry crowd demanding payment for the Kyūbi's attack broke in, trying to find him." I continued. "I found him and decided that bring him here was the best choice of action."
Sandaime walked up to me and motioned with his hands to hand over Naruto.
"Haru?"
Smiling at the boy, I carefully placed him in the Hokage's arms. "Bye bye, Naruto." I bowed and turned around.
"Thank you Haruka for saving him."
Placing my hand on the door, I turned my head around. "I think you should change who protects Naruto, sir. I sensed, and smelled, all of them just standing in the trees, not bothering to protect him."
"I will Haruka." Opening the door, I walked out but not before seeing Naruto in another persons arms.
It was a Gecko masked ANBU that smelled suspiciously like Genma.
Smiling to myself, I walked over to Raijin. "What's so funny Pup?"
"I just realized that there are other people that worked for Minato-Sensei that care about Naruto just as much as I do."
After all, Genma was on the elite guard for Sensei.
A/N: I FINALLY FINISHED OMG I'M SO SORRY! I have no excuse to why I didn't update sooner. The only thing I can say is that I watched 201 episodes of Fairy Tail over the weekend. I just couldn't help myself, I'm totally stuck onto that anime/mange now! That's why I spend all day today working on this chapter, hope you liked it because it's FRICKEN long a HELL. My head XD
So Kakashi's finally 16, which means I can start my romance (hehehe). SO I have like this headcanon that Haruka is super dense when it comes to anything related to romance-type of love. So that's why she doesn't understand why her heart goes all doki doki on her xD
I'm having so much trouble on how I should write about that Uchiha Downfall because it doesn't really happen for another six to seven years. So should I do a time-skip or something? Because SPOILER ALERT, something happens in between these years that involve Haruka and the Aotomi Clan. Also, I have like this major headcanon that Genma took care of Naruto because he cared for the blonde baby xD
I totally recommend Glory by Eiruiel because come one, who doesn't like Minato and a OC story about his cute little cousin?
So that's about it-
WAIT, so anyone in the Fairy Tail Fandom PLEASE recommend to me some Fanfic's of them! I'm in like total desperation right now to read some but I don't know, I can't find any good ones that catch my eye.
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Until next time!~
150 thousand Ryo = 15 Thousand dollars
Raiton: Jibashi = Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder
Raiton: Gian = Lightning Release: False Darkness
