Hello~

Getting two chapters out in one day~

I was very bored and had nothing to do

Anyways, enjoy!

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Last Time:

One thought made it through my head: I need to save Kakashi.

I pulled my katanna out.
"I'm coming for you, Kakashi," I said, charging at the clone.

"Kyoko! Don't!" Sakura cried out.

I lunged at the clone with my sword, he block it with his own. I backed away, knowing that his sword could probably destroy mine. I ran towards him again, he hit me, but I used the Substitution Jutsu. A log was in place of where I was. I was up in the trees, preparing my next move. I struggled against the urge to just lunge at him and rip him to pieces, because he'll probably kill me before I'm able to strike. I threw a few shurikens in a way it came from a different direction. He blocked it and I quickly tried to get him from behind. Our swords clashed again and I back away.

"I'm at a disadvantage," I smirked nervously, "Your sword could probably destroy mine."

This time he made the first move. I jumped to dodge the gigantic sword, which instead hit a tree. I brought my katana down on him, he dodged. He was able to get his sword out of the tree and move away from me before I was able to do anymore damage. I kept going, trying to land a hit on him. He swung his sword, I tried to dodged but got hit on the side. I didn't even feel it, I kept going swinging my sword at him, and he kept dodging. He found an opening and kicked me in the stomach, making me fly across the field.

"Kyoko!" I heard Sakura cry.

I steadily got up. I fell down to my knees, feeling excruciating pain from my left side. I held my side.

'What?' I removed my hands to see my own blood, coating my hands, 'I got cut? Why didn't I feel it before?'

I couldn't get up, the pain held me down. I saw Zabuza in front of me.

"...shit..." I said, looking up at him.

"End of the line for you, huh?" He said, holding his sword up, "I was hoping for more of a fight.

"Kyoko!" I heard Kakashi call out.

I clenched my eyes closed, from the pain of the headache and the pain coming back to my head.

'Guess I do have to fight your fight.'

"Naruto!" I heard Sakura shout.

"...what?" I looked up to see that Naruto pushed Zabuza out of the way.

My jaw fell opened to his sacrifice.

"Naruto! Why would you do that?" I asked him.

The pain to my head slightly disappeared. Naruto quickly joined where I was.

"I didn't want you to die," he told me.

He helped me over to the others.

"Kyoko! Are you okay?" Sasuke asked me.

I nodded.

"I just got hit, I'm fine," I told him, but the blood seeping out was not helping me.

"Just try to save Kakashi first, then you can take care of me," I said.

Sasuke hesitated but nodded.

"We have a plan, sit tight, Kyoko," Sasuke told me.

Naruto did his famous Clone Jutsu, which attacked Zabuza. He was able to get all the clones off of him, making them fly in the air. The real Naruto then transformed into a demon shuriken when Zabuza wasn't looking, Sasuke took the shuriken and threw it.

Me, being me, was scared that Zabuza would catch on, so I lunged at him to keep him distracted.

"You thought you could get me with that shuriken?" He asked.

"You think it was for you?" I smirked.

The shuriken going towards the real Zabuza who was keeping Kakashi in the water sphere. Zabuza dodged the demon shuriken with ease. Sasuke smirked. The demon shuriken transformed back into Naruto, who threw a shuriken directly to Zabuza's hand. Zabuza had no choice but to remove his hand to dodge, which also released Kakashi from the water prison.

"Kakashi!" I smiled as the plan worked.

I forgot about the clone. It threw a punch at my face. Blood trickled down my chin from my mouth. I felt a random, painful, jolt throughout my body. Next thing I saw was me holding the clone's wrist behind him, uncomfortably, while my sword drove right though the clone's body. The clone then dispersed into water, as well as the giant sword. I felt a wave of pain and tiredness throughout my body. I fell to my knees.

"Kyoko!"

Naruto and Sasuke made their way to me, helping me up. They helped me over to Sakura.

"Kyoko, are you okay?" Sakura asked me.

I shrugged Naruto and Sasuke off, telling them I was okay to walk.

"As long as I hold up until Kakashi defeats Zabuza, I'll be fine," I told them.

I looked at my clothes, they were ripped apart, tattered, wasn't even clothes anymore. I look at Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke's clothes, their clothes were perfectly fine after battling, only with a few scratches.

'...the world's a sexist place,' I sighed.

'Fuzen, you need to stop doing that,' I told it, 'If you're gonna continue, then you need to leave. I don't need you to teach me how to use the Jikangan, I'll find out on my own.'

'Unfortunately, I can't leave,' Fuzen chuckled darkly, 'You'd have to find out how to do so on your own.'

'Tch.'

We all watched Kakashi and Zabuza fight. Kakahi was using his Sharingan to the fullest of its power, he copied everything Zabuza did. He even copied what he said as if he was reading Zabuza's thoughts.

'He's only doing that to piss him off,' I thought as I watch them do the exact same hand symbols, doing the same Jutsu.

It was like they were mirrored images of each other. I watched their hands signs closely.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" The both said at the same time.

Two dragons made of water rose from the river, circling each other. Those of us that were still on land braced ourselves when the dragons attack each other, creating a giant tidal wave. Zabuza started shouting at Kakashi, but I couldn't make out what he said. Everything around me was blurry and I tried my best to hold on. I don't know what Zabuza said, but for sure it sounded like he really wanted to kill our Sensei. Kakashi did some other Jutsu before Zabuza did. We were once again forced to shield ourselves from the on coming water. I was able to regain sight, but I was fairly weak. But the bleeding seemed to have stopped, so that was good. I looked to see Zabuza out of breath, unable to fight, while Kakashi went to finish him off.

"It's over," Kakashi said.

"How can you see the future?" Zabuza inquired.

"Pretty obvious, you're gonna die," Kakashi told him.

Two senbon needles flew through the air and embedded themselves into Zabuza's neck. I looked up to see where it came from. A masked person up on a branch was the source of the needles.

"Thank you so much, I've been looking for a chance to kill Zabuza for a while now," the masked person said.

"A hidden mist hunter ninja," Kakashi said, looking at the person.

"Yes, you are correct," the masked person said.

Something wasn't right here. I needed to get a closer look at the needles, where he threw them. But as I took one step, everything went black and I fell to the ground.

~.~

I felt something wet on my forehead. I slowly opened my eyes, there was a damp cloth on my forehead. I sat up, only to grab my side in pain.

"Ouch..." I noticed that someone had bandaged me around my waist, and that my clothes were different.

I was wearing Sasuke's shirt.

'Right, clothes got torn apart,' I remembered.

I looked over to my left and noticed Kakashi who was also knocked out.

"Kakashi," I said softly.

The fight scene went through my head till the part where the hunter nin popped into the picture.

'He used senbon needles...unless that person got over perfect aim, that hunter nin couldn't have hit the spot on the neck that could kill someone, and senbon needles can't go deep enough to kill...unless applied enough force, then maybe...' I noticed that Kakashi looked like he was going to wake up.

I sighed, laying back down and closed my eyes in relief. I had a feeling, this mission would take way longer than a month.

I saw Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura walk through the door.

"Hey," I said, giving them a small wave.

"KYOKO-CHAN!" Naruto exclaim, practically running towards me.

Sasuke quickly held the blonde back.

"I'm still pretty battered up, Naruto," I told him.

"It's good you're awake, how are you feeling?" Sasuke asked me.

"Better than yesterday, that's for sure. Thanks for the shirt," I said.

"No problem," he nodded.

I could feel a wave of jealousy from Sakura.

'Don't make eye contact,' I thought.

She sighed and straightened up, "Are you hungry, Kyoko?" Sakura asked.

"I'm not that hungry at the moment , thanks," I said, "Kakashi looks like he might wake up soon," I informed.

They all turned to our Sensei.

"I said might," I told them.

"Kyoko, you were being more reckless than usual," Sasuke told me.

"There's a usual?" I joked.

"Seriously, you had us all worried," Sakura told me.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," I told her.

"Your eye," Sasuke mentioned, "Your right eye, I've seen it turn yellow before."

"That? Uh," I bit my lip nervously, "That's my Kekkei Genkai."

"Eh?" Naruto questioned.

"I call it Jikangan," I said, "It's...kinda unknown. I don't know too much about it either, all I know is that it has similarities to the Sharingan."

Sasuke perked up from hearing me mention the Sharingan.

"I can see the next attacks before it hits, like the Sharingan," I explained, "As well as copy other Jutsu. I can speed up my movements and sorta manipulate time of myself. You think I'm in front of you, but that my Genjutsu, you're seeing the memory of when I was in front of you, when really I'm behind you," I said, " I can see others when we're separated, so I can use it in some reconnaissance missions," I told them, "Although, I'm still figuring out things about it."

"I...I'm confused," Naruto told me.

"It's easier to explain while demonstrating," I said, "Unfortunately, I'm in no condition to do so."

"Good to see that everyone's okay," Kakashi smiled at us.

"Kakashi!" I exclaimed, "Good to see you're not dead."

"Says the person who lost the most blood," Kakashi teased.

"Hey, looks like our patients are alright," A young women walked in with Tazuna, "I'm Tsunami. I just changed your bandages a few moments ago so you'll be fine for now," she told me.

Tsunami had long black hair, wore a pink shirt, with a red collar and red sleeves, and a long navy skirt.

"It's funny how our medical ninja is one of the ones who got injured," Tazuna joked.

"H-Hey, I'm strong, I-I gotta help fight," I said.

'Calm down, you needa get over the stutter,' I thought as I took a deep breath, 'There's more important things needed to be addressed.'

"There's something I realized," I said to everyone, "I believe Zabuza is still alive."

"You're gonna drop the bomb out of the blue like that?" Kakashi asked me.

"What do you mean? The hunter nin killed him," Sakura said.

"He didn't exactly kill Zabuza," I said as I reached into my bag to pull out a pouch where I contained my senbon needles, "I've been studying these. If anyone checked is Zabuza was dead, they probably won't feel a heartbeat. But, if the needles are impaled in a specific spot on the neck, you can put someone in a near/temporary death like state. Basically fake death. The hunter-nin is working with Zabuza," I explained.

Kakashi nodded in agreement. He started adding additional information.

I rummaged through my bag to make sure I had everything. I looked around and found my katana leaning on the wall.

"How long do you think he'll be out of action, Kyoko?" Kakashi asked me.

"Well, it'll be a while before he's up and killing again, but I'm not sure on how many days. But we should start training now," I told him.

"Sure, we'll train now, it'll be fun," Naruto said excitedly.

"That's not fun."

We looked at the doorway to find a little kid.

"Inari! Where were you?" Tazuna asked the little boy.

He glared at us and ran over to hug his grandfather.

"Welcome back grandpa," the boy greeted.

"Inari, say hello to these people, these are the ninjas who protected grandpa," Tsunami told him.

He glared at us again.

"Mom, they're gonna die," Inari said bluntly.

"What did you say, you stupid little brat?" Naruto asked angrily.

"There's no way you can win against Gatou," the boy continued as if he knew everything.

I bit my tongue.

'He's like 5, he's just a kid. Kids think they know everything, it's fine, you and Kakashi totally didn't almost die trying to save Tazuna,' I thought.

Naruto started saying something about being a hero and being the Hokage.

I sighed.

It was another Hokage speech.

"There's no such things as heroes," the boy said, deflating Naruto's balloon of excitement.

Inari walked out of the room. Naruto was furious with the kid. I stopped him before he could rip the boy apart.

"Let it go, he's just a kid," I told him.

"You looked like you wanted to punch him," Naruto told me.

"Yeah, I don't like kids. But I know things, kids don't know anything. They don't know any better," I told him, "Anyways, lets train."

~.~

We went outside to start our training. Kakashi ended up having to use crutches to walk while I was perfectly fine with walking...besides the pain I felt from my side. Kakashi started talking about chakra control and how we don't know how to control our chakra usage. We apparently ended up wasting most of our chakra in battle.

"Even if you are able to release a high amount of chakra, unless you can control it properly, the Jutsu will be weakened or won't work at all. And by wasting energy, you won't be able to fight as long," Kakashi explained to us, "This is also very important with Medical Jutsu, Kyoko. I know you've practice chakra control, but I want you to refrain from using any Medical Jutsu until your chakra control is better."

I nodded, "Okay, Kakashi."

"Chak-ra?" Naruto question.

I sighed, "Naruto, do you pay any attention to any of Iruka Sensei's lessons?" I asked him.

He chuckled sheepishly. I looked over at the pinkette.

"Sakura," I nudged her over to the yellow haired knuckle head.

"Fine, but listen up Naruto, I'm only going to explain this, in the most simplest way possible, once," Sakura told him.

I noticed Kakashi looking at me. I walked over to him.

"This is also important for your Jikangan. You might be using excessive chakra while using it. When you use it next time, pay attention to your chakra," He told me.

"Okay, Kakashi," I said as he patted my head.

"...I didn't understand any of the complicated explanation, but isn't this something you learn with your body?" Naruto asked Sakura after her explanation.

I sighed, "Chakra equals energy. This energy is used to do Jutsu. Energy is your body energy plus spiritual energy. Those two combined make chakra. And when chakra is released from body, you can perform a Jutsu. Basically. Chakra is energy, energy is body energy and spiritual energy together. Chakra is released to make Jutsu, understand?" I explained.

"Uh..." Naruto chuckled nervously, "So how are we going to train chakra control?"

"Tree climbing," Kakashi told us.

We all looked at each other, confused.

"Without using your hands," he finished.

"Oh," I said, realizing what we were doing.

"How are we suppose to do that?" Sakura asked.

"Watch," Kakashi said, making hand seal.

He slowly walk to the trees on his crutches, then started walking up the tree. Sakura and Naruto looked at him, astonished.

"That's how. You focus chakra on the soles of your feet, making you able to cling onto the tree," Kakashi said, walking down the tree.

'Alright then,' I thought.

We all focus our chakra to the bottom of our feet.

"Okay, start," Kakashi told us.

All of my teammates quickly dashed towards a tree.

'...they're eager,' I thought.

I looked at Sakura, she was fine.

I turned my head to the other two boys. Sasuke started running up, but his foot broke into the tree. He back flipped back onto the ground. As for Naruto, when he took his first step onto the tree...he fell.

'Too much chakra, I'll end up like Sasuke, too little, I won't be able to cling to the tree and be like Naruto,' I analyzed.

I went to find a balance for my chakra and started walking to the tree. I slowly walked up the tree, making sure I was able to stick. I started walking faster up the tree, still minding my injury.

"Hey, this is pretty easy," Sakura smiled, sitting on a high branch, mid way up the tree.

"I gotta agree with that," I said, as I continued to walk up, farther than she went.

"Whoa! I knew you guys would be able to do it!" Naruto cheered.

I looked down, catching a smirk from the Uchiha.

"I wanted Sasuke to notice me," I heard Sakura sighed.

'...not the time Sakura,' I thought with irritation.

"Looks like the ones who are best at chakra control are the girls," Kakashi mocked the boys, "Looks like Kyoko and Sakura are way ahead of the so called future Hokage. The Uchila doesn't seem like they're as strong as I thought."

That got the boys ticked off.

"Kakashi, that's a mean way to get them revved up," I told him.

"Maybe so, but it works," he said.

We trained for the whole day. While everyone else was training, Kakashi had been sitting on the porch, drinking tea that Tsunami had set out for him. From the branch I was on, I watched him with a worried expression. I gently touched my side where my injury was. I went back down the tree and without any of my team mates noticing, I walked over to Kakashi.

"Shouldn't you be training?" Kakashi asked me as I sat next to him.

"Yeah," I said.

"Is your injury preventing you from doing this?" He asked.
I shook my head.

"What's the matter then?" He asked.

I stayed silent and leaned on his shoulder.

"I...I'm glad you're okay," I said quietly.

He chuckled, "Is that all?"

I gave a slight glare, "I was worried."

"I should be worried about you, I've never seen you be so reckless," He told me, ruffling my hair.

"It just got so real," I told him, "You're the Jounin. You got trapped and we either had to run or fight. But both choices had consequences. If we ran, you surely would be killed. If we fought, we all could be killed," I sighed, "We got lucky."

"Got a taste of how real this world could be?" Kakashi asked.

"Barely," I said, "I feel like... I know there's more to this."

He put an arm around me for a side hug.

"You have the right view of reality, but it's scary when you live through it. We're all safe right now. Let's keep our minds on the mission," He said, "And maybe think before you act. It scared me a little to see you act so recklessly."

"I'm sorry," I told him, "I just wanted to save you."

"Well, you had your fight with Zabuza, so when we face him again, I need you to listen to me," Kakashi told me.

"Okay," I said, hugging him back, "I'm glad you're okay, Kashi-nii," I said the last part in a whisper.

"What was that?" He asked.

"Nothing," I said, standing back up, "I'll get back to training."

He chuckled.

"I haven't heard that in ages."

~.~

Kakashi called it a day, we went back in for dinner.

After dinner, which I ate a lot of. I upstairs to the room I was suppose to share with my team mates, while Kakashi had his own room. I just laid on the cool floor.

'Thank you Shikamaru,' I thought, reminiscing about the day of the last test.

"...what are you doing?" Sasuke asked, "I almost tripped over you."

"It's cool on the floor," I answered, my voice muffled by the floor.

"Sleep on the futon instead," Sasuke told me, "That's why it's there."

I lazily rolled onto the thin futon.

"You trained in my shirt and now your gonna sleep in it?" Sasuke asked.

I nodded.

"I'll change tomorrow, guy clothes are comfy," I mumbled.

Sasuke chuckled.

"Night," He said throwing the blankets over us.

"Night," I muttered.

'Fuzen, why the headache?' I asked.

'You called?' They asked.

'Answer the question,' I told them.

'You should've just let me take over. I'll admit it, the headache was me trying to take over. When your eyesight was darkening, the pain in your head. You fought back until I decided to let you have control. You fought back my powers for too long. Once there was an opening, my power takes over, but only for a moment,' Fuzen admitted.

'..what the hell?' I questioned.

'You almost died, you should've just let me take over,' They told me.

'I can't trust that, if anything, you'll kill my friends along killing the enemy,' I told them.

Fuzen laughed, 'Can't be so sure of that. Sleep, tomorrow's a big day.'

I decided to just leave it at that. I was tired, and there was probably more training tomorrow, I let myself fall asleep.

~.~

Little kids were running through an old building, screams of horror and pain was heard throughout the entire building. Cries for help were cut off, prayers unfinished. Something was killing everyone and everything in its way. A girl made a sharp turn and was now at a dead end. She turned around, her face was full of fear.

"Demon! Monster! Hel-" she screamed in pain and agony as the demon cut her to shreds.

~.~

I shot out of bed, covered in sweat.

'Either I have a really good imagination, or I'm really fucked up in the brain,' I thought.

I was breathing heavily. I looked over to see if I had woken up Sasuke, or any of my team mates. I sighed in relief seeing that everyone was asleep.

I got out of bed and walked over to the balcony outside the room. It didn't have any railings so I just sat on the edge with my legs hanging off.

'That was a messed up dream...blood and spilled organs of little kids, that thing ripping limbs right off their bodies easily like ripping up a piece of paper,' I sighed, 'That was really gruesome.'

I admit, it scared me. But it was just my imagination working overtime, scaring the shit outta me.

'Probably because of the near death experience,' I told myself as I leaned back, laying on the floor of the balcony, looking at the stars in the night sky.

'I wonder if Shikamaru looks at the night sky like he does when watching clouds,' I wondered, 'Does he remember the constellations I showed him?'

I ended up pondering about this mission. I didn't think it would be this hard, but of course, it wasn't suppose to be a C-ranked mission anyways. This village has become very poor, so it makes sense it he couldn't afford to make it a B-ranked mission.

'But we're inexperienced,' I sighed, 'I guess we...we just have to do the best we can for now.'

I suddenly saw a certain raven-haired team mate into view.

"Boo," he said bluntly, taking a seat beside me.

"I'm so scared," I said sarcastically, sitting up.

"You looked scared when you practically jump outta bed," Sasuke told me.

"If you were awake, why did you decide to come out now instead of before?" I asked him.

"Let you cool off a bit," he answered, "Nightmare?" He guessed.

"I guess you could say that," I said, bringing my knees to my chest.

"...wanna talk about it?" He asked.

"No, I can't really comprehend what happened," I told him.

He nodded. I rested my head on the crook of his neck. I asked him a question that I've wanted to ask for a long time.

"Sasuke?"

"Mhm?"

"...are you really gonna kill Ita-kun?" I asked him.

I felt him tense up.

"...yes..." He answered, "And don't call Itachi that."

"...why not?" I asked.

"Because...he's not the Itachi that you know anymore," he told me.

I sighed.

"A guy who kills off his own clan is a person you shouldn't trust," Sasuke told me.

"I'm not saying what he did was forgivable...do you really wanna be on that path of revenge though?" I asked.

'Even though I got myself into a small argument, at least I'm getting my answer and steering him away from the topic of my dream,' I thought to myself.

"He spared me so I could become stronger, I don't know why he kill the clan, but I don't give a damn if he has any excuses," Sasuke gritted his teeth.

'...got him mad,' I sighed.

"Sorry for bringing that up, lets just go to bed, you need to defeat Naruto in tree climbing...or something," I said, trying to change to subject.

"Fine," he grunted.

I stood up with him and walked back inside. I felt a little bad for bringing Itachi up, but Sasuke can't just jump to conclusions and end everything by killing. He laid down on the futon.

"I'm just gonna go to the bathroom," I said to Sasuke before walking down the hall.

I washed my face from the sweat.

'This mission is...a lot,' I sighed.

I walked out of the bathroom, but I hesitated to go back into the room.

I decided to creep into Kakashi's room.

He was asleep.

I had left my stuff in his room since I thought it wouldn't crowed the other room more than it did. I had my violin with me, hidden in a scroll. I pulled the scroll out and summoned my violin.

'Usually people use these to store weapons, here I am storing my violin,' I sighed.

I walked back out to the balcony and began to play. I played the same melody as I always did.

~.~

Kakashi was awake when Kyoko walked into the room. It wasn't long til he heard the familiar melody of the violin.

'...she's nervous, isn't she?' He thought, 'I didn't imagine she would be this uneasy.'

~.~

Once I felt like I had calmed down, I let the song end. I went back into Kakashi's room to put away the violin.

I looked over at him.

I bit my lip nervously before crawling under the blankets and snuggled beside him.

I sighed in relief, relaxing a little more and fell asleep.

~.~

Kakashi opened an eye to see Kyoko had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Jumping from D-ranks to B-ranks must be a lot for her," Kakashi said, running his hand through her hair, "She's realized it...she can tough it out."

He pulled her close and fell asleep.

~.~

I had started sleeping in Kakashi's room, anytime I had the nightmares, I would either turn to him and fall asleep again, or go out to play my violin. His presence was calming. I'm grateful he never said anything about it. I would never hear the end of it.

"So are we still training?" I asked Kakashi as I ate my breakfast.

We both had woken up earlier than the others.

"You and Sakura are done training," Kakashi told me, "While Naruto and Sasuke are continuing training, you and Sakura will help guard Tazuna while he builds the bridge."

Kakashi told me. I nodded.

"We'll leave in ten minutes," Tazuna told me and Sakura.

"Alright, I'll get changed and get ready," I said, walking back upstairs.

I changed into my extra clothes, which were another set of my black clothes.

I tied my headband around my neck, put my hair in a ponytail with the hair tie Ino gave me. I strapped on my weapon pouches and my Katanna around my waist.

I quickly made my way downstairs where Tazuna was waiting for me and Sakura.

"Sakura shouldn't be much longer," I told Tazuna.

She soon appeared, tying her headband as she made her way down the stairs.

"You already ate, right?" I asked her.

"Yeah, I'm ready to go," She smiled.

"Let's go then," Tazuna said as he walked out the door, me and Sakura quickly following him.

~.~

Got out two chapters in one day~

Having cute sibling moments between Kyoko and Kakashi

Signing off,

BlueBirb