Alright people I'm back to updating... yay right... i now have a new computer so no more mean icky computer glitches. And heres preying that i don't screw this up within minutes like last time... my computer is so strange... it has a number pad... a number pad people... so my mouse isn't in the middle of my computer... weird...
anyway this is a new chapter of luna moth. and finally the wave mission was over... so it was fun and all but now we get to move onward and me and trisha have plans.
I don't own Naruto.
warnings... rated m for strong violence, language, and ummmm content... weird and demonic humor too... it all comes back to how ummm crazy we are... so rated R because the author and brainstormer are totally fucking insane.
oh their is a little time skip in this episode.
URG IT WON'T LET ME SPELL CHECK... SORRY IN ADVANCE. I KNOW THERE ARE ERRORS. I HAVE FIXED THEM FIVE TIMES AND FF WON'T KEEP/SAVE THE CHANGES
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"Welcome back guys. How was you first mission out side of the village." The guys at the gate were only trying to be friendly. However it had been a long journey and an even longer mission. Lexi just wasn't in the mood at the moment for their happiness. She was tired and cranky and she had had to walk the entire journey since she had had to carry Haku.
At least Haku turned out to be a nice baby. He didn't cry overly much. Only for the necessities and usually a familiar face could get him to stop. He also thank god was able to eat baby mush. Of course since they hadn't know exactly known how old he was, and without a hospital to take him to to find out, they hadn't wanted to take the chance on not feeding him properly so she had ended up buying a bunch of formula from the town in wave. A bottle here and there couldn't hurt him. Come on some kids are breast feed for years and they don't die.
However with her still smarting arms and a baby to take care of, the journey had taken its toll on Lexi's mood and body. She was tired. She hurt and she just wanted to sleep for a month. So screw her if she couldn't really get excited about returning home.
"Not so good i'm afraid. We are one man done." Kakashi was filling out the papers for verification about their id and mission as Lexi shifted Haku from one shoulder to the other. Her arms were killing her. Come on couldn't one of the others have helped carry him. Making her carry Haku the entire trip wasn't a nice punishment. It was done right cruel to make a six year old carry a baby for days on row.
"Report to the hokage. He will want to hear the details. I'm sorry for you loss Kakashi." The gate gaurds' smiles were gone at least. However the serious formal faces were just as boring. Wonder if they would lose that serious face if she told them that the lost genin had become fish food.
"Thank you." kakashi shuffled and pushed the group through the gate before Lexi had any chance to bother or mental harm the gate guard. How dull. She could only hope the hokage would be more fun to play with then the guards.
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The hokage wasn't happy. Not in the least. He stared at the strange group of ninjas before his desk with sad and old eyes. He had sent two groups of genin and a jounin on a simple escort c ranked mission. And now to find out that the c ranked mission had turned into an a ranked one. That one of the genin had been lost. That two of the other genins had been injured badly enough to be still showing injuries even though they had taken over a week to return. Plus the jounin had wounds all over his person. Was not how he thought his day would be going.
He hadn't even taken the mission seriously when he gave it to them. It was just a simple escort journey for a drunk. The worse thing he thought would happen would be one of them killing the client. He had thought the drunk was just worried about bandits. It was a common worry lately, so it hadn't seemed strange in the least.
It would have original been a one team mission. However with Iruka's injuries he had just wanted to get the demon sisters out of the village for a while. He had thought making Kakashi take them would give him a break from being their hokage. He was just so tired of the complaints that had been coming in all the time from villagers and ninja's alike. So sending them on that mission had given him a break.
It had been a nice break actually. He had gotten a lot of paper work done and Iruka had healed and been placed back on active duty. Of course he now didn't think it had been worth it. He was one genin short and his jounin was injured. No the time of peace hadn't been worth it.
"So can you all explain how this happened?" He needed to retire. This job was going to kill him with all the stress.
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How it had happened. Well he probably didn't want to know that she had killed Shigure. Even if he did want to know she wasn't planing to tell him. Innocent until proved otherwise after all. And their was no way to prove their involvement. After all if their was any evidence Kakashi would have said something when he talked to them before leaving wave.
The wind blew gentle through the woods as the last thump of dirt falling to the ground is heard. They had decided to bury Zabuza here in wave before they left.I think they had buried him mostly because Naruto and Sakura were babies. If it had been for her to decide she would have just let him rot in the water or on the bridge. That or she could have just burnt the corpse up. God what babies those two were.
Though the strangest part of this burial was that Lexi hadn't even complained about the wasted time. She was just so tired, Trisha could see it in the fall of her small shoulders as she held Haku to her chest. Her eyes hardly stayed open during the entire burial. The healing had taken a lot of her charaka it would seem and with her still being injured her body was observing more of it than normal to fix the damage.
Kakashi had of course looked at the burns again. However he said their was no real reason to heal them further and waste the charaka. They would heal with time, scarless if they were probely treated. And with the boss and his troublemakers dead there was no reason to heal her to 100 percent. Especially since they would more than likely not see any battles on the way home. So Lexi would have to deal with the injuries and the charaka drain until they arrived in the Leaf village.
Lexi had been oddly quiet since Kakashi had given her a lecture on mission conduct. Turns out you were not suppose to kill the enemy with a surprise attack and then stomp off leaving an army of bandits for your teammates to deal with. Kakashi had been pissed. He had spent an hour yelling at them both. Lexi for running off and Trisha for just not helping for most of the fight. Plus he wanted to know what had happened to Shigure. He hadn't liked their answer when they had said that they hadn't done anything to the guy. Trisha was almost sure he could tell they were lying however he had gone out and researched it and found no proof.
And now here they were before two graves. One empty for their died genin teammate and one with the headless corpse of Zabuza. Sakura and Naruto didn't know that. Kakashi had removed the head and sealed it for evidence that the man was died. He would have to be removed from the bingo book after all. Plus no real ninja turned away from money.
Kakashi had made the empty grave to symbol something she was sure. He was waiting for her and Lexi to show some form of guilt or remorse. He probaly would have taken Shigure's death better if she and Lexi had broken down her in front of the grave. If they had shown any tears or sadness. however she couldn't pull up such an emotion at the moment. Shigure had picked his career knowing that one day he might die at enemy hands. He had been trained and smart. He's death was in a way his own fault. After all he should have know not to trust any ninja, be them teammates or not.
There was no sadness at the lost of a life. There was no guilt that she had stolen someone's son or brother. No remorse that she would now never see him again. No angry that he had been too weak to protect himself. The only thing she felt was empty acceptance. He was died. She had killed him. She had planned and schemed until she had a plan and then she had killed him and now he was forever gone. That was it. That was what had happened and there was no changing it so why would she cry about it.
Kakashi and the team 7 soon left to finish packing however Trisha and Lexi didn't bother to move from their place on the cliff. Both eyes were focused on the sun that was slowly rising in the distance. A beautiful warm sun rise. Haku was held gentle in Lexi's tired arms, his small breathing the only sound that disturbed the quiet still morning.
"Did you get them Lexi." A bird flew across her vision blocking out the red of the sun rise for a moment in time.
"Yes the wave headbands are stored in my storage seal. I'm sure one day they will be useful." One moment in time was all they had to watch the world. The world they had entered and wish that they were somewhere else. A place with buildings that touched the sky and smoke polluted the air. One moment to remember all they had lost.
"Yes, I'm sure they will be. It's time Lexi." One moment and then they had to return to realty. Trisha turned away from the colors of a new dawn and gentle ruffled Lexi's black hair. It was time once again to go back to reality after all if they lived in the past they could more than likely end up dead.
Kakashi was still pissed at both of them she could tell even though he eye smiled at them and was always just as polite to them as he was to the other team. There was just some things that gave his angry away. He didn't joke. He didn't call Lexi a demon and hadn't ruffled Lexi's hair with that sad look of his the entire way back. Plus he hadn't said one word that hadn't been needed to Trisha since they had started to head back. Oh he was polite. Good morning, good night, be careful, try not to get lost while getting wood. All nice and polite. However he hadn't made any comments on her dull reading material or any good reference she could also try to read. He use to at least give her a hint about jutsus she was studying or point her towards a different book. Now he hardly spoke.
The worse part was she knew if she would only show a fake sign of grief he would be his old self. His distant but fun self. He had always jokingly called them demons and now he was seeing the truth and he didn't want to admit that it was real. That such young children already lived in his blood filled world. He didn't want to admit that they could and would kill in cold blood with out a single emotion. However Trisha would not fake an emotion to make him feel better. He was going to have to face fact. Trisha and Lexi were just as goal driven as a full grown adult. They would kill when they had too. They would follow orders when it suited and benefited them. And they would do illegal acts to move ahead.
The hokage was still staring the whole group down. Sakura and Naruto were fidgeting from his old and angry eyes. They were nervous and so was Sasuke even though he did better to hide it. Kakashi looked ancient, his shoulders slumped and his hands hanging loosely next to his side. His eyes looked old and like he was more than ready to give up. He had lost his first genin team. He had lost his sensei and his best friend and now he had failed a mission and lost another member in his team. He wasn't taking it well at all.
Trisha was about to answer the hokage with more lies and half truths when she felt a small tap on her hand. They had invented this method of communication months ago. After time and time in the hokage office with just getting by with the skin of their teeth. They had decided to use a simple tap or bump to tell the other that they would answer this question. That small tap on her hand was Lexi's way of saying she had this problem covered.
"Geeze grandpa are you getting old and forgetful. First Iruka-sensei got hurt and then you gave use this really lame mission with team 7. Who by the way are such meanies..." Well there were worse ways to die then by ninja. Think she could have been killed by a giant gold fish.
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Kakashi was shocked to say the least. Lexi was her normal demonic self. She was causing the hokage to go insane again as she answered and yet directed the question away from her and her sister. He was shocked to say the least. He was sure she would get away with it too. She always did.
How can she be the same. She had killed a man in battle. Played with the man as she covered herself in his blood. Her team mate been either killed by her and her sister or killed in some freak accident that was hard to believe. She had killed Zabuza by stabbing him in the back as she held a crying infant in her hands that had just minutes ago had been her enemy. How could all of that have not effected her in some way.
How could she smile like she had no care in the world. Like she was humoring them all with a tale she had told over and over again. Like this tale was a story in a book she had read or a movie she had watched. How could such a child exist in this world. Even a full grown man took it hard when a teammate dead even if you hated them. Anbu took it hard damn it and yet this child acted like she had just returned form a nice Sunday stroll in the garden and had played with butterflies and watched fish swim.
Lexi wasn't a monster. She was a child trying to stay alive in a place that she had landed without her consent. She was just a lost and confused child. He didn't know if he could stay mad at her and her sister. They were just trying their best to stay alive. If they had really killed Shigure, they more than likely had a reason. He may not know or even agree with the reason but there was probably a reason.
"And the baby? What's up with the baby, Lexi?" Kakashi turned into the conversation going on as he watched Lexi smile up shyly at the hokage, her small feet slowly kicking the ground nervously.
"Ummmm... Trisha said i could keep it. I can right? I promise to take good care of it Grandpa. I will feed it, walk it, and i promise to change his litter box. I will play with it and love it forever and ever. I promise Grandpa. So please can i keep it." Lexi had thrown herself at the hokage and was pleading him by gripping his robe and crying like any small child would. The baby had been transferred to Trisha in there some where and the hokage looked like he was frozen in shock. Guess it wasn't the response he had been looking for. See time away from them must have allowed them to have more of an effect on his sanity since Kakashi was hardly fazed.
The hokage was still frozen in his seat, Lexi was giving him the puppy eyes and Kakashi couldn't help but laugh out loud. Lexi would win he knew it. The hokage never stood a chance.
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Kakashi's laughter drifted into the room as the hokage in his shock agreed to her request. Lexi sighed mentally and let a real smile touch her lips as she continued her act throwing her hands around the old hokage's head and thanking him loudly. Kakashi was back to normal. Thank god.