Chapter 34
Misaki is on her way to the cafe to meet Kurenai. She walks around the village without paying attention to her surroundings. It's been a week since Naruto left to learn Sage Mode on Mount Myoboku. She's sure he'll be able to master it in no time.
"Misaki! Over here!" she hears Kurenai calling out to her from one of the shops.
"Hey Kurenai. You look great, pregnancy suits you" she tells her friend as she reaches her side and eyes her swollen belly.
"Thank you, Misaki. When are you and Kakashi planning to start a family? I can't wait to see a mini-Kakashi running around the village."
Misaki blushes. "We have talked about it. Once everything settles down we'll probably try… but enough about me, tell me, when is the due date?" she asks trying to change the subject.
As Kurenai is about answer they hear an explosion not far from their location. "What's happening?" Kurenai asks.
"Let's move out from this area" Misaki says as she holds her friend's hand and teleports them closer to a safer area. "Stay here just in case, I'll go and see what was that about."
"Thank you Misaki. Be careful." Kurenai says before she moves closer to where the explosion has taken place.
There are more explosions all over the village, clouds of smoke rising up to the sky. She runs towards one of the damaged areas, spotting dead shinobis in her path. She checks their vitals but she's unable to find a pulse. Who's attacking the village? This is bad.
She hears another explosion behind her before she teleports to the Hokage's office. "Lady Hokage, what are your instructions?"
"Misaki, we believe the Akatsuki are behind this attack. We've sent the messenger toad to get Naruto back while we evacuate the civilians. In the meantime, gather all the intel you can on our enemies, there are severals members but we don't know how many and who is attacking. Don't make contact, teleport yourself back here as soon as you find out who are they."
"Yes, Milady" Misaki says before teleporting back to the village.
She spots Iruka carrying an injured shinobi. "Iruka! Are you alright?"
"Hey Misaki, I'm fine. I'm taking Kuro to the hospital. Have you seen the Hokage?"
"Yes, I trying to find the identity of the Akatsuki's members behind the attack. Do you know anything about it?" she asks him.
"I've just encounter one of them, he's after Naruto. He had Rinnegan eyes, orange hair and some weird looking black rods on his face. He's just behind that building now fighting Kakashi but you should let the Hokage know. Kakashi will be able to handle one Akatsuki."
"Thanks Iruka, that matches the description we have for the Akatsuki's leader, Pain. I'll go informthe Hokage that Pain is in the village and then I'll return to avenge Jiraiya sensei." Kakashi, be careful. I'll be back in no time.
Misaki finds Lady Tsunade up on the roof of the Hokage's building. She's sending her chakra to the clones Katsuyu the slug has created so they can heal all the injured in the village.
"Lady Tsunade, you're going to exhaust all your chakra at this rate in no time."
"Don't concern yourself with me, Misaki. I'll will protect the village no matter what. Now, what have you found out?"
"One of the attackers is one of the Six Paths of Pain. I wanted to let you know quickly before I head back and identify which power he posses. Kakashi is currently engaging him in combat" Misaki says quickly before moving to Kakashi's location.
When she appears there she cannot believe what her eyes are seeing, she's only been gone for a few minutes. The whole area is destroyed, Kakashi's body is half buried on the floor, one of Pain's body launching an attack towards Choji, who's trying to run away from there.
Suddenly Pain's weapon aimed at Choji disappears as Kakashi uses Kamui on it before Misaki can make a move towards Choji so she goes to Pain and lands a blow on his face.
"Mi-Misaki" Kakashi breaths out before passing out. She runs to him as dread fills her as she realises that there's barely any chakra left in him.
"Hold on, Kakashi. I'll give you some of my cha-" she senses someone trying to punch her from behind so she moves quickly, then turning around she faces another Pain. The reading of his chakra tells her that it's far more greater than her own, she could probably hold him for short moments but she needs to get to Kakashi as quickly as possible.
She teleports back to Kakashi so she can teleport him to a safe area but, as she's about to touch him she feels a blast of energy hitting her, sending her hundred of meters away and crashing her head against a wall.
Before she's able to regain her composure, Pain appears in front of her and grabs her neck, lifting her in the air.
"Tell me where Naruto Uzumaki is," he demands.
"N-never" she chokes out.
"I don't need you to tell me, I can find out in another way" Pains says as he places his other hand over her head. Misaki starts to feel her chakra being taken very quickly as something invades her mind and starts going through her brain when she notices the last thread of Kakashi's life chakra leaving his body.
Realising the man she loves has died right in front of her eyes, she loses the will to fight for maybe a second before she snaps out of it. She won't let the likes of him find where Naruto is. Kakashi… I swear I'll make Pain pay for this. Misaki thinks before kicking Pain in the guts with all her strength and teleporting herself far away as soon as he lets go of her neck.
She finds herself in the middle of a street before her knees give out as she barely had any chakra left before she teleported there, if Shisui were there he'd probably had a go at her. Tears pool in her eyes as darkness starts taking over when she sees one of Katsuyu's clones approaching her.