Hey~ Another quick update!
I'm really just trying to breeze through the stuff I've already written haha
That, and I'm procrastinating through school work haha
Enjoy!
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Last Tine:
'Finally, it's the last day,' I thought to myself as I woke up.
I felt arms around me.
"Nara, get off of me," I said, trying to shake Shikamaru awake, "Today's the day we get separated, get up, I don't wanna be stuck to you forever."
Shikamaru looked at me.
"What? That's hurtful, how could you be so mean to me?" He said in an exaggerated hurt voice.
"I do what I want," I said casually, joking a bit.
I've started making more jokes and be a lot more sarcastic, as a joke, being around more people.
"Come on, get up, lazy ass," I said, pulling him outta bed, making sure I didn't fall backwards.
"Fine, fine," He sighed.
Shikamaru followed me downstairs. I spotted Akumu begging Kakashi for his food downstairs.
'Akumu, you little freeloader,' I smirked.
"Good morning," Kakashi greeted.
"Morning," I yawned.
I looked at Shikamaru who had his normal lazy expression on.
"I did not make anything for today, let's go early and maybe we can pick something up on the way," I suggested.
Shikamaru simply nodded in agreement.
"We're going," I announced to Kakashi as I slipped on my ninja sandals.
Akumu rubbed his head against my leg as a way of saying goodbye. I scratched behind his ears before leaving.
"Line up for Transformation Jutsu practice."
Everyone groaned, you could hear a certain yellow-headed idiot groan the loudest.
"Come on, let's do this before I set you guys free," Iruka told us.
We lined up at the front of the class. Iruka called us up by names and we'd have to perform the transformation jutsu.
"Haruno Sakura," Iruka Sensei called.
Sakura made the hand symbols for the jutsu.
"Transformation Jutsu!" She announced, smoke covered her.
The smoke clear to reveal another Iruka.
"Good job, Sakura," Iruka praised as he marked something off his clipboard.
Sakura transformed back and smiled.
"Did you see that, Sasuke-kun?" She asked the Uchiha, turning to face him.
As always, he ignored her. The pink-haired girl frowned. Ino snickered.
"Uzumaki Naruto."
The spiky yellow-headed kid had a negative aura around him.
'It's just the transformation jutsu, easiest thing we've learned,' I thought, rolling my eyes.
"G-good luck, N-Naruto-kun," I heard someone say, I turned around to see the shyest girl in the classroom, Hyuga Hinata. Irony that she's from the strongest clan in the leaf village but she'd pretty weak.
Naruto, still chained to Sakura, did the transformation jutsu, but shouldn't have done it...that way.
"Transformation Jutsu!" Naruto exclaimed, making the hand symbols.
A large cloud of smoke covered him, then revealed an older girl, teenage, with yellow hair in pigtails, and was not wearing any clothes. Basically, Naruto transformed into his gender-bend, naked. His...er...her..? Naruto's private parts were only covered by the remaining clouds from the transformation jutsu. Iruka just looked at him/her with a "What the fuck" look, Sakura had the sane expression. Some people laughed. Shikamaru sighed, Ino was pale, whiter than her already pale skin.
'...well he transformed into something...' I thought, 'Might be good as a distractions on missions...? Maybe?'
Naruto transformed back to himself and laughed at our reactions.
"How do you like my Sexy technique Jutsu?" Naruto laughed.
"DON'T MAKE USELESS JUTSU, NARUTO!" Iruka scolded him.
Sakura hit the back of his head.
"I CAN'T BELIVE YOU DID TAT WHILE YOU WERE STILL CHAINED TO ME!" She yelled at him.
"Ow...that hurt, Sakura-chan," Naruto said, rubbing the back of his head.
Sakura glared at him. Iruka sighed.
"Hatake Kyoko," I stepped up.
"So you did take Kakashi's last name," Shikamaru wondered out loud.
"Not my real one, but whatever, right?" I said, with a shrug.
"Transformation Jutsu," I said, transforming into Iruka.
"Good job, Kyoko," Iruka smiled, checking me off on his clipboard.
I spaced out for the rest of the Transformation Jutsu practice. I snapped into reality when I felt the chains that imprisoned me with another living being freed me.
'...I'm free?' I looked at the chain, 'Yes! I'm free!'
I was visibly happy. I flinched when I heard happy screams coming from Ino and Sakura, and some of the other girls.
"We're free! We're free!" Ino and Sakura chanted, jumping up and down.
I laughed a little. I looked at the clock, it was almost lunch. I looked around, everyone was occupied with being free from the project. I inched my way towards the window. I slipped out right as Iruka Sensei announced that it was lunch.
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I sat on a branch of the Sakura tree on the roof.
'Alone at last,' I thought, bringing my arms behind my head to use as a pillow, 'I needed a break from people. I think my energy level to deal with them is below low.'
'Really? Going back to the way you were just because the project is over?'
'Haven't heard you in a while,' I said.
'Miss me?' Fuzen asked.
'Yeah, I totally miss the most irritating voice in the world who happens to be stuck inside my head,' I said in a sarcastic voice.
'Aw, well I didn't miss you at all,' Fuzen said in a cheery tone.
I closed my eyes.
'Are you finally gonna teach me something?' I asked in a serious tone.
'Yeah, as you already know, you can make yourself go faster than the speed of light, like back then when you almost killed Ino,' Fuzen darkly chuckled.
'...right, thanks for bringing that memory back,' I sighed.
'So you're able to bring things from the past to the present, not living things, but it has to be from your memory,' Fuzen explained, 'You can show scenes from your memories as well. Your Jikan no me is very useful for Genjutsu, being able to go into someone's memories and finding their worst moment, making them live through their nightmare.'
'...wow, I know nothing about my Kekkei Genkai,' I thought.
'That's why I'm here,' Fuzen told me.
'Tell me how to do the transport items from memory thing,' I told it.
They smiled.
'Okay, but let me just say, if it's something in your room right now, your not gonna have another one, you basically mess with time to make that item to be with you instead of where it was before at that time. But if you have the item in your hand, you can duplicate it, again, messing with time,' Fuzen told me.
'Alright,' I said, Fuzen showed me the hand symbols.
I stood up and copied the symbols. I thought of an item from my memories.
"Time Jutsu: Transport, Past to Present," I said, holding my hands out, my index fingers connecting to my thumbs to form a frame, opening my right eye to look through the frame.
My right eye changed from blue to yellow, a Roman numeral clock was shown in my eye. The clock hands started moving backwards. A portal opened up. I saw my Katana sword appear in front of me. I grabbed it before it fell. I looked at the sheath.
'Yup, this is mine,' I thought, looking at my name I carved into the bottom of the sheath.
I unsheathed the sword. I admired my sword that I didn't touch for a week because of the project. I was about to swing it for fun before I heard someone.
"You shouldn't play with knives," I heard someone lazily say in a joking manner, which almost startled me.
I turned around to look at the lazy-nin himself.
"What?" I asked, my eye had deactivated.
"Where did you go? Ino was looking for you when Iruka Sensei dismissed us for lunch," Shikamaru told me.
I turned back to my sword and put it back into my sheath and putting it on my back so I didn't have to hold it.
"I went for lunch," I simply stated, sitting back down.
"Just saying, your lucky you weren't wearing a skirt today," Shikamaru joked.
"Don't look there," I told him.
"I'm just saying," He shrugged, "You mind coming back with me so it wasn't a waste of time to come find you?"
"Uhh...I don't have the energy to deal with people," I told him.
"No worries," He said, "I might just stay here so I don't have to deal with Ino."
I stood up to jump off the branch, but somehow I slipped and fell.
'Shit,' I closed my eyes, waiting for the impact of the fall, but it never came.
Instead, I was caught by the Nara just in time.
"Troublesome, be careful," He said, putting me down.
"Thanks, Nara," I muttered.
I turned to him, "Anyways, I'm going to ask Iruka Sensei if I can leave early today, I wanna catch up on my training."
He gave me a look.
"We have our exams today, remember?" The Nara asked.
"...I forgot," I sighed.
"Good thing about this, no school next week except Friday. They're gonna figure out the teams during the week and we meet our Sensei on Friday," Shikamaru said.
I took a minute to think.
"Shit, that means I should train right now, what's the test on?" I quickly asked.
"Just simple shadow clones, have to make at least two other clones of yourself," The Nara told me, putting his arms behind his head.
"...oh...right he told us like a week early. That stuff is easy," I said, calming down.
"That reminds me, Naruto was looking for you too," Shikamaru said.
"Why?" I asked.
"He wants your help on making clones, he seriously can't make one," Shikamaru told me.
I raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry, I really don't have the energy to deal with high energy Naruto," I told him.
"I don't blame ya," Shikamaru said.
"I'm gonna be training for a bit, so you can stay here if you want but I won't be here," I told him.
"Training? Right now?" He asked.
"Just for the rest of lunch," I shrugged, "Did you grab the bento?"
"Yeah, you left it on my desk," He said, "You aren't making it cute anymore."
"Cause I don't wanna be embarrassed," I told him, "Anyways, I''ll see you in class."
I back flipped off the roof and landed on the roof of other parts of the school and slipped into one of the windows to find some peace. I sighed in relief that I was in an empty classroom. I decided to train a bit. Little bit of Ninjutsu, specifically, clone techniques, and some Bukijutsu. I made the hand symbol for making shadow clones.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu," I announced.
Two other copies of me appeared, both also with swords.
'Perfect,' I thought.
I made one of my clones disappear, it has to be a one on one battle too be fair. I unsheathed my sword, and so did my clone. I readied myself, waiting for my clone to attack. It held the sword with one hand and ran towards me, it swung the Katana at me and I jumped to dodge. Landed behind the clone and I swung my Katana at it's head. It quickly blocked my attack with it's sword.
'You can duplicate your sword. Do these hand signs and make your frame again while holding the sword and use the Time Duplication Technique,' Fuzen told me as I dodged another hit from my clone.
I managed to kick the clone to the other side of the room and made different hand symbols and formed the frame again, and used my eye.
'Thank god this room is empty,'I thought.
"Time Jutsu: Duplication technique," I said, and appeared another sword.
I smirked as my clone ran towards me again.
"Kenjutsu: Double Blade Dual," I said with one swift move, I swiftly went past the clone, a poof of clouds appeared as the clone disappeared, notifying that I had defeated it.
'This, makes things easier' I thought, letting the second sword disappear and slipping the original sword into the sheath on my back.
'Do you want me to teach you how to do the memory scene thing?' Fuzen asked me.
I thought for a moment.
'It may come in handy, plus I got time, so why not?' I thought.
'Alright. The frame hand symbol has a lot to do with the Time Jutsu, just saying.'
I listen to Fuzen and copied her movements. I made different hand symbols and ended with the frame. I pulled my hands right at my right eye. I opened my eye for the third time today. I thought of one of my past memories.
"Time Jutsu: Memory of the Past," I said, then pulling my hands away from my face, but still straight out.
It was my memory of how I got Akumu.
I was walking to one of the convenient stores in the village, Kakashi was on a week long mission and wouldn't be able to buy food for this week. It was raining so I had an umbrella with me.
'Stupid rain,' I thought, 'Kakashi's coming back tomorrow. I probably should've waited til tomorrow but I'm already out.'
Normally I wouldn't mind the rain, but it was just down right pouring. I arrived at the store and spotted a cardboard box in front of the store, it was pretty soaked. I decided to peek into the box, I was about 7 years old, so I was a little curious. I looked into the box to see a small black kitten with yellow eyes looking right at me. I quickly closed the box. I stared at the box.
'...someone will come for it...' I thought, walking into the store.
I was in the store for quite a while, thinking about what to make for dinner, and about the cold kitten that was outside. I paid for the food and walked out with the bags. I walked out of the store and the box was still there. Not only that, the weather got worse, it looked like there was gonna be a storm tonight. I hated storms. People that were passing by didn't even glance at the box. I sighed and gave in, knowing the poor animal wasn't going to survive tonight unless someone took it. I opened the box, the kitten was still there. It was shivering. I quickly picked it up. It was small enough to fit into a pocket, I put it in my pocket that was om the inside of my jacket. I quickly bought some last minute cat food and ran home.
I quickly unlocked the door and ran in. I checked on the kitten inside my jacket.
'Still alive, warm. Okay, good,' another thought ran through my head, '...will Kakashi approve of this?'
I thought for a moment.
'We'll go over that bridge when we get there,' I quickly put the groceries away and took the cat food and two plastic bowls.
I walked upstairs and went into my room, closing the door. I put the food and bowls down. I took the poor kitten out and put...it down on my bed.
'...boy or girl?' I wondered.
I quickly picked up the kitten to check.
'...alright, boy,' I opened one of the cans of food and poured the contents into on of the plastic bowls.
I went into the bathroom to fill the other bowl with tap water. I put the bowls on the ground and brought the kitten to the ground. He immediately scarfed it down.
'Hungry little thing, aren't you?' I thought, petting the cat.
"I'm not sure if I'm allowed to keep you so your going to hide out in my room for now, okay?" I told the cat in a quiet voice.
It let out a small meow to answer. I rubbed behind his ears.
"You're gonna be spoiled, I'll give you that, I never talk to anyone," It looked up to me.
"Imagine if Kakashi finds you...that might be a nightmare," I told him. It purred.
'Nightmare...'
"Hmm...what should I call you?" I asked the cat.
It looked at me.
'Nightmare...Akumu..?' I wondered in my head.
"Akumu...what about Akumu?" I asked the cat.
It seemed to agree, as long as it got a good home and food.
"Alright then, Akumu," It purred.
We both jumped at the flash of lightening and the crackle of thunder. The lights turned off.
'...power outage...' I sighed.
I cradled the scared kitten in my arms. It was more afraid of the storm than me.
"Your not the only who afraid," I assured Akumu.
I carried the kitten to my bed, nothing else to do but try and sleep through the storm. I made some space for the kitten, not knowing if it was okay to snuggle with it. I closed my eyes, after another flash and thunder the kitten was right by my side. I lightly hugged the kitten, drowning in its softness, I fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up, I opened the curtains to let in the sunlight, happy that the storm was over.
'Storm...the kitten...' I looked on the bed to see a ball of black fluff beside my pillow.
Curious, I poked it, to see what would happen. The kitten jumped and hissed at me. I blinked.
"I see...I fed you, and gave you shelter from the storm..." I told him,"And this is what I get in return," I sighed.
I opened the window.
"If you want to leave, then leave. You can go outside, I'll close the window tonight, you can choose if you want to stay or leave by then," I told it.
I filled it's bowls with food and water, I didn't want him to starve, I'm not that cruel. I walked into my bathroom to get changed.
I walked into my room in black shorts and a t-shirt that was a little big on me. I looked around my room for a ball of fluffy fur. My eyes wondered to the food bowls, they were empty. I sighed.
'Take the food, and leave,' I made my bed and looked out the window, 'Maybe..he's just an outdoor cat? Maybe he'll come back...' I sighed, 'With my luck, it's not likely.'
Kakashi was coming back tonight, I decided to leave the house to train. I left the house from the back and went into the forest to train.
Before I knew it, the whole day had passed, it was night time already. I decided to pack up and go home, after a walk in the cool night air. I looked at the night sky while walking, it was more darker than I expected. The dark sky reminded me of the adorable nightmare.
'I wonder if he came back...' I wondered. I shook my head, 'Probably not, that cat seems to hate me,' I sighed.
I continued to walk the dark path, I turned to a corner to head home. A hand suddenly covers my mouth, and an arm is wrapped around my body.
'Shit, not good,' I thought.
"Be a good little girl and stay quiet," The man told me.
'Hell no, I'm not dying yet,' I thought as I tried to struggle out of his grip.
"Stop squirming!" He told me.
But obviously I wouldn't listen to him. I kick backwards to kick his leg, I bit his hand, hard, and he let go of me in pain. I ran through the streets.
'Damn it! Why did I go the opposite way? Now I'm in trouble,' I thought, running as fast as I could.
I could hear him catching up behind me. I turned a corner, bad move. It was a dead end.
'...way to cliché,' I thought.
I heard the man behind me.
"You're a fast runner, I'll tell you that," He said, coming closer to me, "But I have to complete this mission," He said.
'Mission?' I wondered, 'The mission is to capture me?'
"You look confused, little one, but I guess telling you would be fine, you're harmless after all," He said, taking another step closer.
I stepped back.
"You see, I have to capture other little kids, like you, and round them up in a place. You will stay there, until someone comes for you," He explained.
'...someone comes for me...,' I wondered, I widen my eyes in realization, 'Their gonna sell kids like slaves...'
Memories from the orphanage came back.
'No..not again...never,' I was in shock, I couldn't move.
I didn't realize how close the man was. He quickly pinned me to the ground, my back facing him, taped my mouth and tied me up with a rope.
'No, no, no, no. I can't go back to that life!' He picked me up over his shoulders.
I kicked my legs, and tried to scream. No luck.
"You're a feisty one, aren't you?" The man asked, "Maybe I should just knock you out, it'll make you easier to handle," he chuckled darkly.
He dropped me onto the floor, he had some kind of blunt object.
'No! Kakashi! Someone, please...save me,' tears welled up my eyes.
He raised the object above me. I closed my eyes for the impact. I heard hissing sound followed by the man screaming. I heard the object he was holding fall to the ground. I opened my eyes.
'What the hell?' I saw something on the man's face, 'No way...Akumu?'
"Get off me you fuzzball!" The man shouted.
Now was my chance to escape. I did the escape jutsu I learned from the academy. Luckily the man didn't tie the knot up well. I stood up and grabbed the object he dropped.
'...this is a huge bat...was he trying to knock me out, or put me to eternal sleep?' I wondered.
The man was still trying to claw Akumu off. I raised the heavy bat above my shoulders.
"Akumu, get off!" I told the cat as a swung the bat with as much force as I could.
The black cat jumped off. I manage to hit the man on the back of his head. The man fell on the ground. I saw blood seeping out of his head.
'...blood...' I may have killed the man.
I dropped the weapon because of it's weight. I was about to run out of the ally but remembered the kitten who saved my life.
"Akumu?" I quietly called out, looking around.
I saw two yellow eyes staring me from the shadows.
"...thank you," I said to the cat, I held my hand out.
It inched it's way to my hand. It sniffed my hand and put its head under it. I pet it's head, he purred.
"If you want, you can stay with me, my window will always be opened, and if it's not, I'll probably be in the room so just tap on the glass," I told him.
He looked up at me with those bright yellow eyes.
"You're alone like me, aren't you?" I asked, he nodded.
"It's okay, even if you don't like me, I'll still give a place to sleep and food," I told him, he looks at me curiously.
"I guess it's a little weird, but it's thanks for saving me, I guess," I said.
I looked at the man.
"We should go, you wanna come home with me?" I asked him.
He climbed onto my shoulders, which I took as a "Yes" and I quickly walked out of the ally, scared that the man might regain consciousness...unless I really did kill him.
It took a while, Akumu did go out the window, but then came back. Soon he just stayed. Hopefully not just because of food.
"So that's how you found your cat," I jumped at the voice, which messed up my Jutsu.
The Nara chuckled and jumped off the windowsill.
"Geez, what's with you and randomly showing up?" I asked him.
'If he noticed how I froze when the man explained his "Mission", he might ask about it,' I silently prayed for him to not ask about it.
"What do you need?" I asked putting my hands on my hips, "And how long were you here for?"
"I made the wrong decision on going back, Ino yelled at me cause you weren't with me and Sakura and Ino were yelling at Naruto for failing the clone jutsu when they were trying to help him. Ino told me to go find you again and bring you back to help Naruto," He sighed, "They're such a drag."
"As for how long I was here, I saw most of it," He said, "How did you do that?"
"Naruto should know, he failed the exam, twice," I said, not answering his other question.
"Well, Ino's gonna kill me if I go back without you, or if I don't go back at all," Shikamaru sighed.
I shrugged.
"That's okay, as long as it doesn't involve me," I said, walking out of the room.
Shikamaru followed me. I looked at the time.
"Iruka's gonna call us in soon, don't think we'll have time to meet up with them anyways," I told him, "Let's just walk back to the classroom."
He nodded in agreement.
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Signing off,
Bluebirb