Chapter 6 - Another One?
Around 10 o'clock in the night, Tsunade sat down lazily in her office. Massaging her the bridge of her nose, exhausted from filling up some paperworks. She yawned greatly, tears leaking out of her eyes. Shizune helped her organizing some of the finished ones. Shizune took the files and put them somewhere onto the table.
"Here's the last files, Lady Tsunade." she said, in sing song tone, smiling innocently. Tsunade huffed, tired.
"*sighs, such a joy of being me." Tsunade uttered to herself as she took another paper to work at.
"Well, this is the last. Might as well you finish them and take a long nap." she added, teasingly. Tsunade furrowing her brows.
"You don't need to tell me that, Shizune!" she responded, a bit annoyed. Shizune grinning sheepishly. Then, the knocks on the door were heard. Tsunade sighed once more. "Come in!"
The door opened and revealing an Anbu behind it. The Anbu entered the room, walking closer to her and bowed down. "We've found something amongst the ruin of the hospital, Milady." he informed, Tsunade rested both arms onto the table in interest.
"Go on!" she ordered, calmly.
It's 6:30 in the morning, Kakashi still asleep in his cozy bed. Peacefully drowned into a comfortable darkness without any disruption or anything stressing. That is, until the alarm clock ringing. Kakashi squinting his still closed eyes as he groan in annoyance with the loud sound from the clock. Slamming the snooze button down, he tiredly sat up, still feeling dozy. Struggling to opened his glued eye open, he exhales deeply. Rubbing his sore eyes with his hands, he stood up in swaying motion. He didn't believe how tired he was that he can barely stand up properly.
Nonchalantly, he shrugged it of, yawning as he went up towards the desk right between the bed and the window. There he saw a hammer and a note attachhed to it. He stared at it for moment, then he slided open the curtain to let the morning light brighten up his room. Flinched by the sudden brightness, squinting his one opened eye and his hand protecting it from the sharp light. He approched the hammer and picked the note.
"Thanks for the hammer! I cleaned it too for you. See ya! Sign, Kay." as it goes the message he read. Kakashi raised his eyebrow as he read the side note, "Hammer Time!!" right near the corner of the paper. He shook his head, crumpling the paper and threw to the trash can. He went towards the window and sliding in opened to let the morning fresh air blew right, take a moment glancing outside then he walk away. Then, rushed back at the window with a shock on his face.
As he see from the distance, the house where he left Kay was miraculously disappeared out of sight, like it was being lifted from the ground. Leaving nothing but a huge marking that signing that something was there before. "What the-" he flustered. Quickly enough, he went out of his appartment, not taking any time to change and leapt towards the place.
He arrived at the no-longer-existed-house marking. He looked around incredulously. Hoping to find Kay and find out what in the world is going on with the house. But right now, Kay was nowhere to be found. He scratches his head, aggresively. He decided to asked some people who walked by.
"Uh, excuse me. Have you seen a guy that looks like me somewhere around here?" he asked politely. The man shrugged, ignoring him afterwards. He sighed in disappointment as he stared back at the markings. Suddenly, Kay walked passed right behind him with a long log resting on his shoulder, whistling a tune. Kakashi heard the whistling and quickly turn around. "Kay?" he called out.
"Hm?" Kay responded, turning around but the long log also moved as he is and hit Kakashi on the head, fell onto the ground. Kay gazing right and left, searching for the voice who called him. Kakashi let out a painfull groan, making him to look down. "Oh, sorry. I didn't see you there!" he dropped the log and helped Kakashi stood up. He clutching his sore head as he get up.
"Ooww!!" his tone a bit tired as he moan for the pain, slightly opened his one eye, furrowing towards the stinging sensation on his head. "Feels like a... concrete." Kay inhales deeply.
"Well, it is an iron wood log, so..." Kay didn't finish his sentence when Kakashi burst out in anger.
"Iron wood?!! Ooww!!! Why the hell do you need iron wood?!" he protested, flinching to his wounded head. Kay shrugged.
"For my new house, of course. I need a strong wood to sustain the heavy wind gust." he explained, Kakashi exhales greatly. He hissed as another stinging pain pulsing in his head.
"Your house? Where the house anyway?" he questioned, a bit irked as he pointed towards the marking.
"Oh, I moved it to the woods around the portal." Kay answered. Kakashi's eye jutting out, slackjawed.
"YOU MOVED IT?!!! Wha- How?!" Kakashi yelled out to the top of his lung, completely disoriented by his incredulously shocking words. Kay shrugged composedly.
"Well, a wise man used to say, 'Where there's a will, there's a way.' and I'd find the way." He enunciated with a poetic tone. Kakashi tilted his head, frantically. "So, uh... About your head. Do you need help with that?" Kay offered, trying to amend the bruised ninja.
"No, thanks! I'm good!" he replied, stepping away from Kay. Then, another throbbing pulse hits his head. "Aagh!!" Kay watched in concern as he flinched.
"Hey, let me get some ice for that, okay?" he said offering his help, again. Kakashi raised his hand to him, refused the help.
"It's okay, I got some ice in my appartment." as he keeps holding his head, walking away without stopping. Kay rubbed his head, feeling a bit guilty.
Kakashi laid down on the bed, eyes closed, holding a bag of ice onto his bandaged head. He sighed lazily. Opened his one eye and stared the wooden ceiling, questioning his sanity whenever he thought about the guy. He still has a sparce of suspicion towards him. The guy is extremely... flustering. How in the world can someone moved a house in one night, or Kay probably just playing dumb, or maybe, he's the dumb one. Whatever that Kay's doing, is utterly didn't make sense at all. And, whatever it is, it made him totally bamboozled.
When he about to take another sleep, loud knocks barraging to his door. Kakashi huffed, reluctantly make his way to the door, still holding the ice on his head. He take a peek into a small hole on his door and saw a Naruto, seemingly infuriated by something. Then, he realized that it was his time to train Naruto about the new jutsu for him, pinching his bridge on his nose for the fact. He putted down the ice silently and opened the door, facing the angry face with a bored face.
"Sensei! Come on! It's time for my training! Me and Captain Yamato already waiting for you for 2 hours!" he clamored loudly, making him flinched as the noice pulsing and hurting his head. Naruto noticed the slight reaction, catching the glimpse of white sheet wrapped around his sensei's head.
"What happened to your head, sensei?" asked concernly, lowering down his tone. Kakashi eyesmiled at him.
"Just a small bruise. Nothing serious." he informed, feeling like he lied just because it's more of a cracked skull than just a bruise. Naruto watched him for a few moment, reassuring himself that he's telling the truth or not.
"Well, can you come to the training then? Or, you can't because of your head?" Naruto inquired him, there's a little doubt in his tone. Not sure if he should come or not.
"Of course, I'll come to the training. I need to keep eye on you, even if you with Tenzou all the time." he joked with a smile.
Slide the scene to the training ground, Yamato sneezed as he waited for Naruto to come back. Slide back to Kakashi and Naruto. Naruto's arms akimbo, glaring.
"Then, what are you waiting for? Let's get going already!" he urged impatiently, craving to start the training as soon as possible. Kakashi smiled sheepishly.
"J-just one moment, Naruto! Let me get ready first, okay?" he said, as he walks back inside and closed the door. Naruto pouted.
"Well, YOU BETTER HURRY OR I'M GOING TO DRAG YOU OUT OF THERE!!!!" he yelled to him indignantly. He huffed, a puff of steam. "Man, does he ever gets serious when it comes with arriving to the training?!" he crossed his arms anxiously.
"Well, if he does, it won't be him!" Naruto jumped as he heard someone talked to him from behind. He spun around and met Kay's eyes.
"Kay! You're here!" he greeted, loudly and contentedly, raising his fists in excitement.
"Hi!" he greeted in return, tilting his head afterwards. "You seems excited, Naruto!" Kay uttered curiously. Naruto grinned in glee.
"Hehe, of course, I am! It's my training after all. Especially, for me!" he greatly pointed himself.
"Oh, I see. So, it was somewhere in between those episodes, huh?" he thought out loud. Naruto's head tilted.
"What did you say?" he couldn't hear the partial of his words. Kay smiled without worry.
"Nothing at all." he emitted. When the door opened, they both changed their gaze towards it. Kakashi stood there with his jonin uniforms but still having the bandage wrapped on his head. He stared at them both, then locked his gaze onto Kay's, which eyesmiled at him as a greet. Kakashi deadpanned by the simple gesture. He stepped outside and locked the door. He turned to Naruto's contented smile.
"Finally! Let's go! Captain Yamato is waiting!" he exaggerately pointed out. Kakashi sweatdropped. "Oh yeah! Hey, Kay! Come see my training!" he invited, Kakashi flinched, widened his eye as Naruto letting Kay to come along.
"Sure, why not? But, I still have something else to do, so... I'll catch up!" he accepted the offer. Kakashi lowered his head instaneously in defeat. Naruto grinned, showing his teeth.
"Great! You will see how awesome I am!" pointing his thumb to his chest proudly, Kakashi sweatdropped even more. Kay chuckled.
"Alright, gotta go! Bon voyage!" raising his thumb. Then, he vanished in electric bolt with a zap sound heard from it. Kakashi shocked as he witnessing the strange jutsu he used. Naruto startled, glancing around in astonishment. Kakashi winced his eyebrows, mesmerized by the sudden event.
"Was that shushin no jutsu mixtured in lightning chakra? Or was it something else?" Kakashi thought trying to decipher how the jutsu worked. Curious as he held his headband that contain his Sharingan, reminding himself to use it when it happened again. Perturbed by the scene, he increased the level of his surveilance on Kay due to his otherworldly different jutsu technique than he had. "So, he also has different techniques, the ones I've never seen before. But, was it possible that he use the same jutsu as Minato sensei? No, that can't be it. Or was it? I need more information about him. If he does has the same kind of thing, then that guy is potentially dangerous." fidgeting by his own thought, he warned himself to not letting his guard down for one second.
"Sensei?!" Naruto break him out of his mind-castle. Kakashi startled and gazes at him. "Stop daydreaming and move your butt! I won't get any improvement if we still standing here!" Naruto scolded, pulling Kakashi's hand and left towards the training.
A few hours later in training ground. The field is filled by Naruto's clones, work very intensively trying to concentrate their chakras onto the leaf in the hands. Yamato sitting in the center of the pillar fencing with his arm facing the clones as the defense system, making sure that the Kyuubi chakra still dormant. Kakashi observed him intently, watching every single clone as he wondered which one has the most successful rate. The training is filled with Naruto's clone voices and the sound of birds chirping.
Somewhere between the trees and bushes, something lurks as it spies on Naruto's clones. Naruto was too focus to his training, didn't even notice the fact that he's being watched. Then, the creature charged towards the real Naruto in a mere coincidence. Kakashi and Yamato surprised by the creature's appearance, it was big enough to be seen from a far.
"Naruto!!" Kakashi yelled as Yamato uses his wood jutsu to prevent the creature from harming Naruto. The woods creates a wall between them, causing the creature to stop. Naruto jumped away in surprise, the clones set their eyes locked onto the creature.
"What the-" Naruto observed the creature as it crouches terrifyingly and growled. The creature has no eyes, the only visible thing in its face is its huge jaw with large jagged teeth pouring down transparent liquid from its mouth. The whole body covered with muscles in marron skin. Its hands armed with long white claws intimidatingly tapped to the ground. Naruto disgusted and horrified by the creature's appearance. Kakashi jumped beside Naruto with a kunai in his hand.
"Naruto, are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah!" Naruto replied, not setting his sight away from the beast. The creature growled even louder as it crawled slowly towards them. The clones perform the Rasengan jutsus and leapt towards the creature, ready to attack.
"HAAAA!!!!!!" they all let out their battle cries at the same time, "RASENGAN!!!!!". But then, a invisible wave emitted from the creature as it roar. All of the sudden, the clones vanished at once, as well as the pack of rasengans depleted and vanished before it touches the beast. Naruto and Kakashi widened their eyes in complete shock to what happened to the clones. Yamato urgedly use another wood jutsu towards the creature, but another wave struck the incoming woods and rotted it to the core. Yamato startled.
"What just happened?" he befuddled by the scene. The creature growled some more and ran towards Kakashi and Naruto, ferouciously. Kakashi pulled Naruto behind as he readied himself for the upcoming attack. Naruto becoming more horrified as it ran dangerously close.
Suddenly, the sound of thundering thump was heard and the creature got flung away to the side. Kakashi quickly turn towards the sound, Kay stood there with his gun pointing at the creature, staring at the creature with glare. He walked closer as he shoot some more. The creature struggled to get up but was knocked down again by each impact landed on its body. Bleeding, the creature went rampage and charges directly towards Kay. They all watched the creature went pass them. Naruto called him out to warn him.
"Kay! Look out!" Kay stood still, with the gun pointing the towards it. As the creature leapt, he waited for it to get closer. Naruto's yells indistinctly heard. When was close enough, still in mid air, Kay pulled the trigger and launches the bullet in slow motion. The bullet went straight towards the creatures head and blew it to pieces, the impact made it hold the velocity and fell right in front of his leg and the blood sputtered onto Kay's front body, not flinching by it. The creature died in pointblank shot.
The three of them froze as the stared at Kay who is covered by the monster's blood. Kay slowly lowered his gun and gaze at the dead creature with killer eyes. For some reason, Naruto having shivers seeing Kay's expressions. Kakashi felt the same thing. As he watched him, those 'Bloodlust Stare', he might have witnessed his dark side, he saw... a killer. Kakashi frowned by the sudden changes of personality. His eyes was gleaming dangerously as he stared down onto the thing. He gulped in silence.
Then, Kay took a deep breath and exhales greatly. He put back his gun onto his holster and take out his handkerchief to rub clean his face from the blood calmly. The three of them still froze as they observed him. As Kay clean his face, he stared at them one by one. He raised his hand to his side as he speak.
"What?! You guys looked like you're seeing a ghost." He said, very calmly. Kakashi astonished by his sudden changes of personality. Naruto shook his head, walked towards Kay who inspecting the monster. Kakashi begin to feel more uncomfortable having Naruto getting close to him, he went up to him followed by Yamato.
They all gathered around the creature, eyeing the thing for moment. An awkward silence afficted in each of them, even Kay hadn't say anything about it. Kakashi and the other stared at him, expecting to have words coming out of his mouth. Still, nothing. Kay keep staring at the beast, crossing his arms and gazed down to it intently, deeps in thoughts.
"Where's this thing coming from? And, how?" he thought. Naruto tried to meet his eyes, concernly trying to talk.
"Kay? Is something wrong?" He asked, yet still no response from him. Kakashi take his turn to talk.
"Kay? What is it?" Kakashi questioned him. Kay took a deep breath.
"Okay, uuh... stay back! All of you!" he ordered. Without further question they dif what he said. As they went back far enough, "Alright, stay there! I'll be right back!" he ran towards the trees. The trio watched him go and ran back to the with a backpack on his hand. He dropped the backpack and unzip it. He took out four objects shaped like a silinder. Then, he went towards the creature's body, attaching the silinders around it as he press each of its button until it made a beep sound.
They watched him accurately placing the devices down. He went back at his backpack and put out some sort of a remote. Kakashi's head slightly tilted. Kay reached in to his pocket, he took out a paper and a pen. He kneeled down and write the paper on his leg as a table. Naruto stepped closer trying to see whatever that he's writing. As he finish, he folded it and put the paper onto the beast body. He stepped further back on the opposite direction from the trio. He exhales and pressed the trigger button on the remote.
Each silinders extracted some sort of orbs which glowing in purple lighting. Then, it glows even brighter as it make another small earthquake. It summons back the purple portal on the creature. They all watched in amazement. Finally, the creature vanished along with the devices, leaving nothing but an impact marking. Kay put away the remote as they walked towards him.
"Kay? Is there something's wrong? You looked worried." Kakashi asked again. Kay scratches his head, don't know what to say. He still confused of what's going on. How there's a another of those creatures roaming in this world? He thought that his friends accidently sent another one in here.
No! There's no way it happened again. If they did, they could've told him. Not to mention that the creature looks different. It looks like it's,... evoluted. There's definately something's wrong happening here. It seems like it's too fast for him to go home now. Right now, he needs to stay a lot longer. At least until the whole monster problem were solve.
Then, an Anbu appeared right beside. They turned their gaze on the Anbu. "What is it?" Kakashi spoke first.
"Lord Hokage wants to meet all of you! It is really urgent!" they facing each other with curiousity.
"Alright, we'll be right- uuuh- Where can we meet her?" Kakashi asked some more, trying to get the details.
"Lady Tsunade will be waiting at the hospital." their eyes went wide. Why would the Hokage wants to meet them at the burned down Hospital. "She wants meet all of you, at once. Especially, him." he pointed to Kay. Kay stared at him with a serious look.
"Let's hope this lead somewhere." he thought for the opportunity. Then, the Anbu leaves in a puff. They stared at each other, wondering why she called them all.