Author's Note
: Hello dearest readers! I apologize for the late posts. I'm working on getting some more items taken care of. As I have said before (Maybe?) I have at least four notebooks full some KoiXKisame goodness. Its just the chance to sit down and type that's my problem. T~T Just bare with me. Also thank you to the new followers and favorites. Y'all are amazing!
P.S Keep a weathered eye out! I will be updating with more chapters soon. if there are grammatical errors my apologies!
"That's the last thing I remember," Koi sighed. The giant shark man didn't move from his spot. His arms around her reminded him that she was safe for now. Kisame pulled her closer. His inner shark was calm and collected at this point. Only his guppy had this power to do this. Only his. However he never understood how the smalling things could mean so much to Koi. What was only minutes seemed like hours as a knock came from the door. Kisame let Koi go as she knew it was Yuki.
"Koi-chan.." Kisame lost his words. Koi turned to look at him. She knew. He knew that she knew something was going on.
"Kisame-kun," Koi sighed, "Whatever it is-"
"Shishou is leaking information." Kisame blurted. Koi's face didn't change. She knew that her lover's master was a snake in the grass. She hated the orange haired bastard. A scowl graced her face as the knocking rang throughout the room once more. "I'm going to take the Samehada and kill him." Koi knew that the man before her had more honor and loyalty than anyone. Yet he was being lied to and he couldn't take that from a man that was supposed to trust.
"I've never liked him." Koi muttered. The knock at the door turned into a pound. Koi opened the door and saw Yuki standing there with a dog. The pug looked at her and then at Kisame.
"Pakkun?" Koi asked, "What are you doing here?" The pug produced a scroll and disappeared. Yuki opened up the scroll and a new found rage burned in her belly. The boys have been attacked within her own home. Koi's fury swirled around her as her chakra flared. Kisame came to her side and read the scroll. He knew that Koi had adopted another child indirectly. But for them to be hurt was another story. His guppy was like a bear when it came to her children. Hell hath no fury like Koi scorned. Kisame put a hand on her shoulder and gently pushed her out of the room.
"Go to them." He smiled. Koi calmed down and looked up at her lover. Her grabbed her chin and brought her into a kiss. "I mean it. I'll send a scroll when I can." Koi headed out the door.
"Kisame-kun," She looked back before he closed the door, "Please be safe."
"I love you too, guppy." He laughed. The door closed and Koi hurriedly gather Koto and left.
Word had been sent to the Hokage of Koi's arrival in the village. The genins were fold they had to face the very woman of the boys. Shisu started to worry as a knock came to the door. Before the hokage could do anything the door opened and it walked Koi. She looked calm and serene, but she was far from it. She bowed deeply and acknowledged the three in the room.
"Homage-sama," Koi hissed. She had great respect for the man, however, her children were harmed. She stood up, the honey color in her eyes swirling like they were liquid. These men knew that she was a force to reckon with and could be a power ally or enemy.
"Koi-hime, I apologize to have you find out this wa-"
"What did they do?" Koi asked. The two genin looked at her with horror on their faces. This woman's chakra had the aura of certain destruction and would take down anything in its path. A knock on the door turned everyone's attention. Koi saw the boys beaten and bruised they entered the room followed by the Dog ANBU. Koi's fury bubbled within her. She turned to the Hokage then to the genin in shackle. She gave them a sickly smile as thoughts of violence graced her mind. The Hokage put a hand on her sholder and sighed.
"What would you like to do?" He asked. The genin's jonin just watched Koi's face as she thought about that to do about the boys. A thought popped into her head that would satisfy all of them.
"I want to spar with them." She smiled. The Hokage knew that smile and could only think of the last time she was sparring with someone that crossed her.
"Koi-hi-"
"Upon the behalf of my students, we accept." Shisu accepted the match. He bowed to Koi and the Hokage, "When would you like to schedule the match?"
"Now." Koi's response was firm. She wanted to show this man she was not the one to trifle with. He nodded and began to follow her to the roof. The children looked to the hokage, questioning if this was the right thing to do. He just sighed and ushered the children out them. The Hokage pondered the outcome. This can go two ways, she will kill him or she will let him live. If she lets him live, he will be useless for a shinobi. The Hokage knew that this may end up happening, but perhaps she won't.
At the roof, Shisu and Koi stood facing each other. Koi's smile never leaving her face. The children stood behind the Hokage as the ANBU next to him was the one to initiate the match. With the signal, Koi's eyes shimmered as she activated Sairen no koe. Shisu looked at her eyes mesmerized. He went to move but only found he was frozen.
"I got you." She laughed, "You all call me a foreigner. A stranger. You have rules not to talk about certain things. Yet, you let your genin hurt my children. You let them call them freaks and monsters. I will not have it. Take your kunai and put it to your throat." The children watched in horror as Shisu did just so. The kunai aimed at his throat, Shisu started to panic. What type of demon was this woman? Was this even a woman? Koi never moved. All she did was open her eyes. He just bore in to them. They seemed to swirl and shimmer, captivating Shisu much like a being hypnotised or a genjutsu. Fear swelled in his brain. He couldn't move. He couldn't fight. The only time he had heard such power was during the war, but the Ningyo was supposed to have died. She couldn't be the very same girl.
"Koi-chan." The hokage coughed. As the woman turned away, Shisu dropped the kunai and fell to the ground. She had released the genjutsu. The men watched as she took Sora and Naruto by the hand and led them away. The Hokage dismissed the Genin and looked to their sensei.
"Uta no Koi is a power ally." He said, "Be sure to remember that." Shisu vomited as the Hokage left.
Koi smiled sadly as the two boys held on to her. The silence was uncomforatble for her as the two youngsters always chatted and joked with each other.
"Sora-kun, Naruto-kun," She stopped and knelt down to face both boys. They avoided her eyes as they felt like they were in the wrong. "In the rice field, there is always that one bad patty. Does that ruin the harvest?"
"No," the two said together.
"Then let this be a lesson. What happened today was wrong and should have never happened. However, you two are young and joyous and the most handsome boys I have ever met." She smiled at them hoping to gain at little reaction from them. They finally met her eyes. They told her a lot with their silence. Koi pulled Naruto and Sora in for a hug. "I will never let anything like this happen again. I swear as long as I am a shinobi nothing with stop me from protecting my family." The boys embraced her with tears slowly falling. In the middle of the street, she held them tightly not wanting to let go.
"Okaa-san," Naruto hiccuped as he pulled away, "Where is Koto-chan?" Sora looked up too realizing that his sister was not with his mother.
"She is home with Obaa-sama." Koi smiled. She stood up, taking the boys hands and leading them home. "I have ramen and dango home too if you are hungry." Finally, the excitement of ramen and dango had the boys cheering.
"Kaa-Chan!" A voice yelled. Koi cover her head with a pillow to drown out the noise the row children made.
"Kaa-san!" Another joined in. Couldn't she just sleep a little bit longer? She groaned as she sat up. It was graduation day for Sora and Naruto. They would be shining today. Koi rubbed her eyes as three bodies jumped on her. She sighed and pushed the three youngins off and glared at them.
"You three know know that I need my beauty sleep." She joked. Koto looked at her and smiled.
"Kaa-Chan," she smiled, "You are already beautiful." Koi patted her head. She was trying to sucker Koi into something, but what? Naruto only grinned as Sora gave a smirk. They were up to something.
"Thank you, Koto-Chan," Koi smiled, "now out so i can get ready!" The children clamour over her and out the door. She smiled. Yes, her children would be shining today. Koi got out of bed undressed from her nightgown, and started to pull on her fishnets. She thank Kami that she showered the night before. Her hair was a bit of a mess, but that was just a brush away. Koi pulled on her kimono top and began to tie her obi. Her little Sora, well not so little anymore, was going to be a genin. She couldn't believe it. How could her live just flown by? Oh yeah… children. Koi wished that things could have been a little different. Much like Kisame being apart of their lives more. But since the scrolls and letters stopped coming she could only understand why they had to end what they had.
With a sigh, Koi wrapped the fabric scroll around her waist. Her thoughts went back to Kisame. Was he okay? Was he even still alive? Of course he was still alive. The man can punch through a freaking wall. A smile tugged at her lips as she remembered the moments they had. The sound of glass breaking caught her attention as she pinned the last piece of fabric together.
Koi rushed out to the living room go see a glass shattered and milk on the wooden floor. A scared Sora hid behind Naruto who started to cower. Koto looked as if she was about to cry. Today was a day of celebration, she reminded herself.
"Naruto, get the broom," Koi smiled, "Sora get a cloth. Koto, help me with breakfast."
"It's already done, Kaa-Chan." Naruto beamed at her with a broom in hand. Koto was already grabbing a cloth to clean up the milk. Koi smiled. She made sure that her children were responsible even though they would be shinobi. Her thoughts ventured off to a distant realm and Sora and Naruto sat down to the table ready to partake in the breakfast they had made.
Pictures on the wall reminded the family of the years that passed and how they ended up where they were. However it seemed there was an absence among them. The people who were in them were happy and cheerful, but something was missing. It wasn't until everyone was finished and Koi was cleaning up the dishes did Koto speak up, "Mama, will Papa be coming to Sora-kun and Naruto-kun's graduation?"
"Imouto-"
"Sadly no," Koi gave her a sad smile. She washed the dishes and set then aside to dry, "He… He is extremely busy with missions. Being a shinobi is hard." Koi lied partly. She didn't know if Kisame was still at Kiri nor did she know what was happening over there. It was two years since he killed Fugaku. Word had come both from the summons she had received and the Hokage. Ibiki, the untrustful bastard, has Inochi search her mind to make sure she was still loyal to the village. It was a precaution. If Kisame defected, chances that may as well be slim to none, he would be labeled as S-Class. He was loyal to the village. However maybe it has faltered.
Koi watched her young daughter's face fall. Koto expressed they she did not want to become a shinobi. Even at a younger at she watched her brothers train and decided it wasn't for her. Every year in March, Koi would take her to leave a photo for their father when Yuki-sama suggested leaving her the inn when the old woman passed. Koto enjoyed the idea of owning the inn. It was a lot of responsibility for a six year old however they give children the option to be shinobi's at that age.
"Koto-chan," Koi sung, "Play me something. Play me a tune." Koto smiled and embraced the woman. "Thats my girl." Koi smiled. Her children were her pride. Koi thought about her younger self and her lover. Oh how they hated each other. Yet they made a powerful couple.
"Kaa-chan?" Naruto called.
"Hai?"
"Would you tell us a story about the Ningyo and the Kaijo no Bijuu?"
"Yeah!" Koto cheered, "Can we hear about their first kiss?"
"Alright, we have time for one story," Koi agreed, "Now, shortly after the chunin exams, the Ningyo experienced a tragic loss…"
Koi's birthday was that very day. Instead of celebrating it, she holed herself up in the family dojo. A constant thud could be heard to anyone who walked by. She was throwing senbon in to a dummy.
"Koi-hime?" Sota called for her. The paper door rattled in its track. However, Koi stuck a kunai making it difficult for anyone to get in. "Koi-chan, you need to come out. Its been a few days. All you have been doing is training." He was right. Her muscle ached with how much she had been training. But feeling anger was better than feeling nothing at all.
Thud. Thud. Thud. She kept throwing the senbon from where she was perched. Another voice made her stop. It was her Chunin partner, Hoshigaki Kisame. No she needed to ignore them and finish her training. It was the only way to get stronger. Thud. Thud.
"Koi-san." Kisame knocked, "How are you going to face death? You are a kunoichi. Let it go." She threw a senbon in to the door. She didn't care if he got hurt, but she did. "You are being a child." Rage roared in her belly. A child? A CHILD? How dare that overgrown fish boy called her a child. Koi jumped down from the rafters and ripped the door off of its track. Koi pulled Kisame in the dojo and with all her strength, threw him in the room.
Kisame looked at her small form. She was thirteen today and was recently promoted to chunin in the eyes of the shinobi world. Yet, her body seemed small and her skin was blotches of red and dried with blood. He watched as she charged at him, full force. He dodged her attack and went defensive. Koi threw senbon his way, which was only deflected thanks to the Kunai. Her aim was impeccable as always.
Her hands moved fast as she ran through the jutsu signs. Water clones stood before Kisame all with some sort of weapon. The real Koi held a tanto blade. Kisame once more readied himself for the attack. He knew this was her coping mechanism. Her mother's death triggered a rage he had never seen before. While he was still a kiri shinobi, Kisame felt that the assassination of Koi's mother was uncalled for. It was a power trip. Koi's small village was growing up in the rank and her mother was the center of it all. The nobles thought with her gone, it would be easier to keep the village under their thumb. Kisame knew all of this because it was a member of the Seven Swordsman who committed the act.
In a flash, the clones and Koi attacked Kisame. He unsheathed his own sword and blocked the attacks. Koi's emotion got the better of her. She misstepped and landed into Kisame's chest. Soon the clones stopped attacking and disappeared as Kisame dropped his swords and wrapped his arms around the young girl.
"Why can't you leave me alone?" Koi cried. She was broken for now. Her mother's death was something that hit her hard. She cried into his vest. Kisame just held her. He really wasn't the comforting type, but he never wanted to see Koi this hurt.
Koi felt safe wrapped up in Kisame's arms. For days, she had been training and stretching her limits to keep her mind of the assassin. However today, she just couldn't take it. She cried, screamed, even beat a dummy to pieces but nothing helped the ache. Yet with Kisame holding her, she relax. She thought he hated her, but at this point in time all she wanted to do was sleep. Koi felt Kisame tighten his grip as he picked her up.
"Sleep," He commanded softly, "I will stay her till you wake."
"Mmm," Koi hummed closing her eyes allowing sleep to take over.
Kisame took Koi to her room and laid her on her futon. Sota followed curious at the entire event. He smirked at the pair and cursed his mother for making a bet against the two. He loved her and doesn't know it yet. Their mother was right.
"The Ningyo's mother was right, even though she have passed on. The two would eventually find their feelings." Koi finished the story. The trio of children watched as they held tears in their eyes.
"How did the mother die?" Naruto asked. Koi looked at the clock and saw that they were going to be late. She jumped up and ushered the children to the door.
"Assassinated by the Kaijuu no Bijuu's teammate. Now hurry before you are late." She rushed. Yuki knocked on the door as the boys left.
"They wanted another story?" The old woman asked. Koi only smiled before giving Koto a kiss on the head.
"Hai," Koi said putting on her sandals, "I'm late for work. Koto is ready to go with you this weekend after the graduation."
"Go on now," Yuki waved Koi off with a smile. Koi shot her a grin and went about her way. She finally stretched in the sun's rays. The children sure keep her on her toes. At least she is ready for the mission the Hokage is going to send her on.