Life was so weird now that the boy's were genin, they left at six in the morning and would come home as late as ten at night, Genma was taking more shifts guarding the third, the house was empty more often than not. Today I was supposed to be taking on a mission, but my bed was so comfortable, and it's not like I had to make the boys lunch or breakfast.
I sighed.
Better get going. I sat up, they boy's had been gone for about a week and were going to be gone for two-to- three weeks longer, so I could finally take a long term mission, I hadn't been one since the massacre, in fact I hadn't ha much time to myself since the massacre, and it was weird, being able to go to the lab, to train, and study. My life revolved around the boy's and my students for so long, now I only saw the other seven students, once maybe twice a week. I changed quickly strapping on my weapons and restocking on everything, starring down mournfully at the bag of food pills, those were not something I missed.
I nimbly hopped into the hokage's window. "Hello!" I said cheerfully, startling the old man.
"Lady Kina! Just in time, I have received a mission from the lord of land of waves himself." The old man reported handing my a large folder. "you should leave as soon as possible." I grabbed the folder skimming it over, Gato a business man who did what ever necessary to gain more power. He had the Land of waves at his mercy.
"Understood I will leave right away, this will be more than plenty to start." I said waving the folder around them leaving out the door. Someone this rich probably could buy an army of thugs. It would take me a day to travel to the sea then a few hours by boat, or I could I could run across in half the time.
Wait the boy's mission was in land of waves wasn't it?
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I creeped around the corner of the hall that led to Gato's personal quarters, it had taken a three days to find a safe way into the strong hold, and another four to actually find out where Gato stayed in this monster of a building. He was a short ugly man who wore the mort horrid suit, but maybe I just hated him because I knew what he was really like.
No one was guarding the door? Weird, I silently walked up to the large wooden doors forming my finger into an ice key to unlock it, so far the only limbs I could use my kekkei genkai, but mom told me that was normal for beginners, though my brother could already turn both his arms to ice so I think she was lying. The door squeaked when it opened, I winced but no one ran at me to attack me, so I think I was okay. There was a small form on the bed.
"I know your not Gato, so if you just tell me where he is, and pretend this never happened I wont kill you." The form on the bed began to shake.
"I can't he will kill me." It was the voice of a young kid, probably the only person they could find close to the shady mans height.
"Well I'll kill him first." I spoke confidently.
"He went to the new bridge being made, to kill everyone and ruin the bridge." Wait isn't team seven guarding the person making that bridge?! I quickly turned and ran out the door after quickly telling the kid to run ten minuets after I was gone. I ran to the small town where the bridge was being built, it wasn't to far from his hideout, maybe a ten minuet run with the pace I was at. Though allot could happen in ten minuets.
I jumped through trees than roofs barely noticing the difference until I reached the bridge, there was knocked out workers, some injured but none dead, as I walked further onto the bridge I saw broken ice which looked more like broken glass, and in the middle was my little brother needles sticking out of him, not breathing, and pale as paper. He had no heart beat, and no chakra. He was dead. I dropped down in front of him hands hovering above his lifeless face scarred to feel the coldness of his skin. My little brother was dead? How could this be? Was I cursed? Why did my whole family have to die? Everyone I love is always torn away from me.
"WHO DID THIS!" I screamed in a voice that didn't even sound my own, it was full of misery and anger, and sounded almost inhuman. I stalked forward only to see Kakashi with his hand through a women's body with a man behind her. Zabuza of the seven swords men. I stalked forward tears streaming down my face breathing in sharply.
"WHO KILLED MY BROTHER!" I screamed, everyone noticing me but no one answering. I stalked forward towards the missing nin, of course it was him who killed my last remaining family. "YOU WORTHLESS SCUM I WILL RIPP YOU APART!" Punched him across the face kicking his sword in the other direction as I did it.
"Kina!?" Naruto called after me, but his voice was far away, the only thing I could focus on was my pain and bloodlust. I turned my fingers to ice jabbing the man who had yet to recover from my last blow in both his shoulders. The flesh and blood in the area froze on contact making his arms useless to him.
"Now you can't use your arms, you can weave signs. In an hour they will fall off. Not that it matters, I wont let you live that long." A hand came down on my shoulder.
"Kina let me handle this." Kakashi spoke softly thumb running along my shoulder. "Be with your brother now." he whispered mouth inches from my ear. I starred down at the bandaged man, he didn't even have the decency to look scared.
"My brother is dead." I said in a low growl. "My brother is dead... He was my last family member I cant loose him, I was supposed to make wool underwear and be with him." I was rambling now. "And now he is gone." My voice stopped sounding angry and now it just sounded broken. "Why dose everyone leave me, why do people keep killing my family." I starred into the mist demons eye's. "I have to kill him."
"He didn't kill Sasuke, that boy over there did." Kakashi said pointing to the body, of what I thought to be a women. I looked into Kakashi's eye's, and I knew it was the truth, he just wasn't saying it so I wouldn't kill this man. I looked back to the bleeding dead body of my brothers killer. I slumped down to my knee's sobbing, I could vaguely feel Kakashi rubbing my back as I screamed in pain, and Naruto's blue eye's on me.
"Oh good, you all tired each other out, now it will be easier to kill you all, and the bridge builder." I heard a disgusting voice yell out. Zabuza and I stood at the same time facing off my own target along with a sizable army of thugs.
"We had a deal." The swords men growled out.
"Well I'm breaking that deal, instead of paying you I'm going to get these men to kill you along with a bridge builder, all of them put together cost me less than you." He shrugged. "It's just good business." He kicked the body of Sasuke's killer. "I owe this boy for breaking my arm. To bad he isn't dead." I growled, even if I hated that boy, that's no way to treat the dead. Even if he killed my brother, and destroyed my life he was still human.
"are you just going to let him treat Haku like that? He lived for you and died for you! Are you saying he means nothing to you!" Naruto yelled from behind me. So that boy was just following this mans orders, and zabuza was hired by Gato. Who was at fault them. Zabuza? Haku? Gato?
"I have a mission to kill you so that's what I'm going to do!" I yelled grabbing a tanto in each hand, when the short man saw me advance he slinked into the back of the crowd.
"Protect me!" He cried as he retreated. I stopped in front of the crowds.
"Naruto you go to Sasuke and wait with him, don't look this way no matter what." My voice was still shaky. I didn't want him to see me like this.
"KINA! You can't just killed everyone!" He yelled at me.
"People like me do these jobs so people like you can do the good jobs, and keep hope alive. We do the dirty work and bare all the hatred, for people like you. So turn around and don't look no matter what." I said sternly. "Kakashi?" He nodded standing beside me firmly ready to fight. The mist demon stood on the other side Kunai in his mouth. I looked him in the eye's coldly, surprised to see tears.
"I wont let anyone disrespect Haku and live." He growled around the Kunai. What a change in character.
"If you live through this I'll kill you myself." he nodded in understanding, and I advanced on the enemy they where cocky at first, clearly thinking that their numbers would save them. They were wrong three S class ninja, even if two were injured and exhausted wouldn't be beaten by random thugs for hire. I twirled around with my blades slashing and killing, throwing Kunai at two who would have gotten Kakashi from behind. I made my way towards Gato, his back was to me and Zabuza was at his front, the missing nin had swords and spears sticking out of his body. We both advanced at the same time, my blade stabbing him in to back and Zauza's in the front, Zabuza fell to the ground after backing up a few steps, I turned back to the other opponents, there were only ten left. An arrow came out of no where.
"Leave this town!" a large group of civilians yelled holding pans and pitchfork, I almost laughed. But I think that's mostly to do with shock. The remaining thugs took the invitation to leave gladly and hightailed it away, the crowd erupted in cheers. Of course they wouldn't care civilians never cared when ninja died to save them. They didn't care that Sasuke had died. I slowly walked over to his body. Sakura was holding him and sobbing, though when she saw me approach she let go and backed up still sobbing. I lightly touched his cheek, a sob escaping my lips as I felt his cold skin. I bent down placing a kiss on his forehead. My eye's were blurry with tears when I sat up again as I one by one began pulling out the needles, I could feel everyone watching me, but I let me tears flow. This was my little brother, basically my own child and he was gone, so ninja rules be damned. I carefully removed the needles from his neck than moved along to his arm I almost thought it was me being hopeful at first when I felt the beat of his heart. I started pumping his chest anyways, Kakashi kneeled next to me.
"You can't bring him back now he is go-" He must have felt the same small flicker of the boys chakra I did. I leaned down breathing air into Sasuke's lungs, than back to pumping his chest, his lungs suddenly took in air by themselves and he tried to sit up but my hands were still on his chest.
"Kina?" He asked in a gravely voice. "What happened? Why are you here?" I lifted him into my lap sitting cross legged, he fit into my arms perfectly.
"Oh god, never EVER do that again. You are NOT dying before me!" He wrapped his arms around me neck squeezing me back.
"Okay." He whispered.
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Sasuke slept in my arms that night, he tried to fight it but I think he realised I needed it. I still felt jumpy and disoriented, my brother was dead this morning, I needed to feel him alive now, Sakura was on the other side of Sasuke, I guess her crush on him never faded. Naruto was sleeping on the other side of the room, he still wouldn't talk to me after the bridge, I had never tried to sugar coat my missions for him but it's not like you tell your little brother, "I'll be back in the morning, just got to go kill a crime lord or two." and when they asked about my missions it's not like I'd say; "It went well I had to kill ten of men to get to my target but he died fast so that's cool." Maybe he just didn't think I killed people, but he should know that shinobi killers, I had killed so many I've lost count years ago, and many of the people who died at my hands, were nameless to me, just people in the way of my real target. I killed, but I killed for the sake of the village and innocent, though I'm not sure if that makes it better.
"Kakashi?" I whispered in the dark bedroom the nice lady of the house let us sleep in. Kakashi was leaning on the wall under the window reading.
"Hmmm?"
"Does Naruto hate me now? He hasn't even looked at me since I told him to look away."
"I don't think it's that." He said softly. "I think what you said, and what Haku told him are bothering him."
"your just saying that to comfort me." he chuckled a bit and scooted towards me so he could look me in the eye.
"Naruto is very naive to the way of the shinobi, and today he got two ugly truth of this world. That ninja's are tools to be used, and that they kill people." I looked towards the blonds sleeping form.
"Don't they get taught that when they are in the academy?" I may not have gone, but Itachi came out of it fully accepting the idea of killing others for the sake of the village.
"Not like they used too, it's not war time anymore, I think they want to keep the young generations hearts full of hope for as long as possible." I sighed, I knew this, I was part of the decision after all.
"People like us do the hard parts, so people like them-" I gestured to my brothers. "Don't have too." He nodded.
"We bear the hate, so they can keep on hoping." I smiled sheepishly at the silver haired man. "Well I should head back home tomorrow, my mission is finished." I stroked Sasuke's hair tugging him closer to me.
"We have to stay until the bridge is finished, we should be home in a week." He stated. "You should get some rest." He slipped the covers up to my chin patting my head. I smiled and closed my eye's.
I will never let my brothers die. I wont let anyone die. I've had enough loss, I don't plan to loose anyone else.
