We had finally gotten too land of claw with no incident so that meant the assassin was probably going to attack here. Tensions were high, and not because we had a rouge ninja lurking around waiting to kill us, but because me and Kakashi had to act lovey dovey. It was really awkward, and it takes allot to make me awkward.
"Hey Masa, could you pass me the soya sauce dear." I said plastering a smile on to Machi's face.
"Of course." Kakashi smiled passing it over. Could that smile be any more awkward? Shut up Yuki you aren't making anything better.
"So do you have office work today?" please god have office work, please god have office work.
"Em no Arata has it taken care off, due to recent events he thought he would give us time to decompress. We can just relax today." well that's just peachy.
"oh well that was very nice of him." I smiled. Kakashi smiled back. Hopefully the assassin wasn't looking as closely as to make sure our smiles were reaching our eye's. There was a knock on the door. Please be someone trying to kill us. "Come in!" I called out. Arata came in to the house looked around seeing us in the kitchen and coming up to us.
"Good morning you two I trust you slept well?" if by well you mean not at all sure.
"Yes thank you Arata." Kakashi said to the man.
"so what are you planning to do today." we both looked at each other.
"I was going to see about having a bath, the trip was very hard." I said sweetly in Machi's voice.
"good Idea I will have someone get things ready for the both of you." he said 'both of you' pointedly. I think if we killed Arata now than the assassin would come right out.
"Don't take offence Masa, but I think I just need time alone after the few days." I could see the relief on his face.
"That alright, you have as much alone time ass you need." he said back. Both of us were delighted with our quick save. I planned on drowning myself in that bath.
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"Goodnight Machi." Kakashi said as we hopped into bed laying down beside each other. Just like the night before he was going to take the first half of the night watch and I would take the second, it was really weird though because we had to lay in bed and pretend to be sleeping.
"this mission is the weirdest." I whispered quietly to him, to any body but him it would have sounded like nothing more than a breath.
"It wouldn't be so weird if you would just stop being so awkward." He whispered back.
"Your being equally as weird."
"No I'm not, and if I am its because your being weird." he whispered irritated.
"oh so it's fault."
"It really is all your fault." well that was a loaded response. I set a area of effect genjutsu, to any one watching we would be silently sleeping next to each other, but I couldn't keep it up for long, an hour maybe two tops. I sat up from the bed and looked down at him.
"Something you want to get of your chest there bud?" I asked in my normal voice.
"What the hell!" he whispered angrily sitting up.
"I set off a genjutsu. Unless the assassin is a Uchiha or a Hyuga they wouldn't notice." I stated.
"It's nothing Kina just go to bed." I starred at him, I didn't really want to have another fight with him, they usually left me angry and destructive, and it's not like I could go level a forest on a mission. I sighed and laid back down. Fine if he felt like pretending it was nothing than that what I'd do. "you know what it is something. This mission would be allot more pleasant if you would just stop acting like I have the plague!" he said angrily.
"You have been acting the exact same way!" I sat up again. Kakashi made an angry noise.
"No I haven't though I'm sure you'd like to pretend I have." It was really weird hearing Kakashi's voice come out of Lord Masa, Masa's face was to friendly to be bent in anger the way Kakashi had it now.
"Well what's that supposed to mean?" I asked him in a furious tone.
"Do I have to spell everything out for you Kina?"
"Well when your being all weird and cryptic yes, believe it or not I can't read your mind."
"Well that's for damned sure. Your making yourself believe I'm being awkward and cold just so you can keep me at a distance, because you don't like talking about why I'm mad at you." I was kind of glad for our different faces, it made it easier somehow.
"I'm only keeping you at a distance because you bring it up all the damn time! I don't know how many more times I have to convince you, but I know I'm sick of it! It's my life and I don't understand why your so hell bent on getting me to change it." He looked furiously at the blanket.
"Because it should have been me, I should have been the one with you. If you hadn't gotten that arranged marriage it would have been me. I was content to wait, wait how ever long really, but than you were with him and it wasn't because you liked him, it was because of some arrangement. If it was your own choice I would have accepted it but it wasn't you forced something to be there between you guys. It was there naturally for us, I let you in, I let you see me, the real me that I didn't even know still existed, we shared pain together. You made me feel awake, like before I was just sleep walking and when I'm not with you I'm sleep walking. It hurts without you, which is why I kept trying to accept you decision, but it hurt ore to see you with him. It kills me to see you with him." I sat starring at him stunned, there was a tear running down Masa's face. Kakashi's tear.
"Kakashi, you- but." I blubbered not able to hold on to a thought long enough to say it, but Kakashi understood.
"Since the day I came to you after Obito died. You made me feel after I was so sure I was forever numb. With you I could finally breath. Of course I feel this way how could I not, not when you have been there for me, cried with me or for me, of course I love you. But you love him now, I know that. I can tell by how you smile when you look at his letter. I'm not dumb I've known that you've grown to love him probably longer than you have, but no matter what I try or do I can't stop feeling this way about you. I want to because it hurts, it literally hurts me, but I can't. I can't make it go away." I just sat and starred at him, I wanted to comfort him, hold him in my arms and say it's okay, but I couldn't not for this, I wanted to wipe his tears away, and say sorry but how could I. "Please say something Kina." he begged me. What was I supposed to say. Sorry you feel that way? Maybe when Shisui dies would could try something out? No that's retarded. "Anything Kina, just say something."
"I don't know what to say or do, I want to comfort you but that will just hurt you more, I want to say sorry but that doesn't really matter. I don't know what to do." my voice was only a whisper. "I wish I had known. I wish you told me sooner and I wish you didn't feel that way so I wasn't causing you so much pain because I hate seeing you hurt like this." I was talking down into my lap, this was a situation I didn't know what to do in, and I hated it. I always knew what to do, but this situation didn't have a road map or even a road, it felt like wandering through the darkness.
"Just tell me your not going to go away this time, your not going to act like I'm a stranger or just some person that you used to know. I'd rather hurt by seeing you with him than sleepwalk through the rest of my life." I looked up at him sharply. That wasn't what I was expecting him to say. Fresh tears were running down his face and before I could really think about that I was doing I wiped them away with my thumbs, I lifted up his eye patch to try and wipe under it.
"Lay down, and get some rest I'll watch tonight." he did as I said laying down than turning on his side away from me, I curled my body around his holding my arms around his waist. "I'm not going anywhere, I promise." I whispered to him before dropping the genjutsu.
I was extremely glad he didn't fight me on taking watch for the whole night because I needed time to think. Kakashi fell asleep within a matter of minuets in my arms. How does anyone handle this situation, I felt so overwhelmed I didn't want to hurt Kakashi but I loved Shisui. I wanted to cry, but what right did I have to cry I had two men who loved me and by picking one I was hurting the other, so why should I feel sorry for myself. I was distracted by a flicker of chakra, it was a flutter, but it was a big fluctuate that was quickly hidden, so it couldn't have been a civilian. I waited for another sign, because unless he was close to us when we decided to reveal ourselves he could just run away and get to the real lord. We had to wait for him to come for the kill shot. I poked Kakashi in the back three times signalling him to wake up and be aware of the surroundings but not to act. I felt his breath go in sharply than level telling me he understood. I felt the assassin in the room, he wasn't hiding his chakra any more, he was coming up to Kakashi's side of the bed. 5 feet away, 4 feet, 3 feet. There was the slight sound of a kunai being pulled out, I jumped up into a crouching position, flipping onto his shoulders grabbing a good hold than finishing the flip throwing him onto his back. I was going to feel that tomorrow, my back muscles where cramping already, I felt Yuki heal it. That's what happens when you flip a large man with out stretching. I felt Kakashi jump out of bed and come to my side gracefully. The would be assassin recovered quickly, he wore a black tank top and black pants with a black scarf thing wrapped around his face, with his slashed hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead. Someone is a little zealous about the whole assassin thing.
"Leaf ninja I assume." the assassin's voice was gravely, but you could tell it was forced. " who are you? you have to be jounin since I took care of those chunin effortlessly." he said smugly. I repressed the urge to growl at him.
"Why would we tell you and give you clue's o our abilities and how to defeat us." Kakashi asked him.
"The bingo books don't even hold a fraction of my ability's so I'm okay to tell you who I am. HAI!" I yelled breaking my seal, to reveal myself wearing lady Machi's night gown.
"Mujakina Uchiha, kill on sight. Your body would probably sell for allot after I kill you princess." he growled out.
"Oh shoot you now what? I don't think he got the new copy of the bingo books, do you?" I asked Kakashi in a totally relaxed voice.
"Nope I really don't think so. You see Kina, is a do not engage- run on sight ninja now." Kakashi helpfully explained. "It's pretty stupid to say run on sight, because it's not like running helps she is faster than the yellow flash of the leaf." that was a lie but what ever, we could tell our intimidation tactics were working.
"Hey I can't remember were we supposed to bring him back dead or alive?"
"We weren't told so which ever one is more fun for you I suppose." I lunged towards him aiming a punch for his stomach, he obviously hadn't fought with many people smaller than him, he had trouble defending and blocking my hits, I slid in-between his legs than yanked him back while sweeping his legs. He jumped up quickly we both punched at the same time, mirror jabs, our fists collided, I saw it coming so I had time to reinforce my fist with chakra, his fingers cracked and buckled under my hit, he screamed in pain hugging his nasty looking hand to his chest. Even with the chakra reinforcement my fist hurt, I shook it out.
"Well now you cant use jutsu or taijutsu." He held is hand's to his chest and came at me with his feet and knee's. I used the defensive move I had shown the boys recently on him flipping him onto his back then chopping a his neck knocking him unconscious.
"Have fun?" Kakashi asked.
"I really messed up my back, who knew fighting after a day of doing nothing could be so dangerous." I said stretching out my back for good measure.
"I'll interrogate him, and deal with him, you send a message back to Konoha and find Akata." I nodded, by deal with him he meant kill him and as much as I was better at that I didn't like to kill opponents that were already beaten. I left the Lord's suite in the palace which reminded me of a condo, and scampered off to kind Akata's suite and when I did he was ecstatic. I sent out a messenger pigeon for the hokage saying me and Kakashi would be heading home and that he could send the Lord and lady home in the morning. I might even make it back before Itachi and Shisui go out of their next mission.
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We were on the last leg of our journey back home, we had just gotten off the boat and were walking down the dirt road we had traveled up before, but this time in our own body's. We had decided not to tree jump home, since the second we got home it was more likely than not we would be sent on new missions.
"So tell me about the last year of your life." Kakashi asked, I didn't have an overly interesting life, I went on missions, I trained, I worked in my lab and that was pretty much it.
"Well I fired Renka as my assistant and made her take her own research grant, she was to talented to just be an assistant ya know?" I said walking with my hands laced together behind me back.
"Yeah I heard about that, everyone did since she made the deodorant stuff." He smiled. "Though she said it was technically your idea, when you were firing her you said a whole bunch of bizarre thing for her to create so she did." I had always found it weird how this world had shampoo and conditioner and other hygiene things but not deodorant so I'm very glad she actually created it here.
"Yeah, her deodorant is pretty great though." I thought for a second "Found out I have a biological brother, and my real parents died."
"Yeah heard about that too, I was half expecting everyone to be upset that you weren't a real Uchiha but no one even mentioned it."
"Em well, there isn't much else, I made a break through on hormones to keep mothers strong during pregnancy, we haven't had a mother die since, though it means allot of work for me until I find someone who is skilled enough to do hormone therapy." My life was pretty public, the only things that everyone didn't know was my science, it doesn't make good gossip.
"Yeah I read all of your paper's." he said smiling proudly ahead.
"Okay than tell me about your life than."
"My life is pretty boring. I'm an anbu captain, I'm always on missions and when I'm not I'm running from Guy."
"Isn't it strange how our lives are so interesting yet extremely boring at the same time." he made an agreeable sound. "So I made my own version of thunder gods seal." It was something I had told no body. "I don't use it though, it just feels wrong somehow you know?"
"So not even you could use Sensei's formula?" he asked.
"Nope he coded it to only work for him, it would take allot of chakra to use his formula's so I made my own." I explained to him.
"Well that's a pretty handy seal to have. Wait so your telling me you could transport us home right now?" squinting his eye at me.
"Yeah but what would be the fun in that, when I get home I only have an angry Sasuke waiting for me, and an eager Naruto."
"both their same old selves?" he asked wryly.
"Yup, sometimes I wonder how Naruto is sensei's kid, he is so clumsy and he never thinks when he is in spars, he just feels and ends up looking like an idiot. And Sasuke is still a brat, he thinks he is better than Naruto so if Naruto gets the upper hand in anything he goes crazy, my Dad has handed their training over to me because they both need a mean task master which he doesn't want to be. But of course Sasuke see's it as Dad wasn't impressed enough and didn't think he was good enough, so now I can't even be home without both of them pestering to be trained. It's exhausting." I rambled to him. "Sorry you probably didn't want to hear all that."
"It's fine, so they have a rivalry going on between them?" Kakashi asked.
"Like you wouldn't believe, they even fight to eat more than each other. It doesn't help that the girl Naruto likes has the biggest crush on Sasuke. So Naruto is hoping that by being better than Sasuke it will get Sakura's attention, and Sasuke thinks always being better than Naruto will get my Dad's attention." I explained.
"Sounds like Sasuke has an inferiority complex, not that I blame him he has two of the strongest prodigy's of Konoha as his older siblings."
"Yeah but if he would just stop trying to himself to everybody he would see that we all already think highly of his ability's, and he is a prodigy in his own sense, he may not be a graduate by 5 or 6 prodigy or awaken his blood line at 8 sort of prodigy, but he was able to learn the fireball already and that's pretty damn impressive." We spent the whole way home talking about random things, it wasn't awkward- it was nice. It wasn't that bad of a mission after all.
