Impossible Dreams

Setsuko leapt from tree to tree. It was midnight so there was no need to worry about Naruto missing her. He fell asleep after they came home. Setsuko jumped to the ground and slid a little, causing a small cloud of dust to rise. She placed her hand upon the tree next to her a fought back her worry. Her strange dreams of the demon. This boy with Kyuubi. Her choice of his last name. These things were all connected somehow. Setsuko shook her head clear of such thoughts as she started to remember her last dream.

The Demon was there. It was on the same rock and wasn't moving. It seemed like it wasn't going to move for a while. It finally moved. It fell back, laying over the rock. Its arms dangled off of the rock. Gold eyes stared off into space as the head hung upside down. Only one leg had moved and it dangled off of the rock as well. The demon moved its lips without making a sound. The wind blew the long hair up and about. As the hair danced in the wind the demon lifted on hand to its mouth and bite down on the thumb. Blood splatted onto its face. The crimson liquid poured from the thumb and filled the mouth. Soon a stream of blood was coming out of the corner of its mouth. It pulled its thumb away from its mouth and swallowed the blood. The blood on the wound stopped flowing. The demon sat back up with its hair still being thrown about in the wind.

Setsuko rubbed her eyes as she remembered. She stared down at her own thumb.

'Was that how . . . was that how it gained that ability . . .' She sighed and leaned against the tree and slid down it. Setsuko looked up and stared at the sky, atleast what she could see of it.

"What are you doing out here so late?" Setsuko glared at the little amount of sky she could see.

"Why did you follow me Kakashi?" She hissed.

"I wanted to make sure you weren't going to run out on Naruto." Setsuko sighed.

"If I was going to leave, I think I would have taken my things with me."

"You could buy new things."

"With what money?" Setsuko snorted. "You need a better excuse than that."

"I'm watching out for Naruto. He is my student, I will not let you hurt him."

"I won't cause the boy pain."

"Maybe not intentionally." Setsuko rolled her eyes.

"Whatever." She snapped. Kakashi was silent for a moment before speaking.

"Why are you here?" Setsuko thought over her words carefully.

"I am staying here to teach the boy what only another can teach."

"Cryptic enough?" Kakashi replied with sarcasm dripping from his words. Setsuko stared down at the ground as she poked a pebble around.

"Do you know your real age?" Kakashi stared at her. Setsuko flicked the pebble away and looked back up at the sky once more.

"Why do you ask?" Setsuko shrugged.

"Just humor me." He rolled his eye and stared at her.

"26." Setsuko smiled softly. "What about you?" She pondered over his question before answering.

"I believe I am 25. I am not sure of my birthday though. Are you?" Kakashi stared at her.

"What's your real name?" He countered. Setsuko snapped her eyes over to him and scowled.

"Is that the only things you and that woman can say to me?!" She stood up quickly. "I'm getting sick and tired of it! Why do you care anyway?" She snapped.

"He's my student." Was his simple reply.

"And you know what the boy holds within him?!" Kakashi nodded.

"Of course I do. As do all the adults."

"Yet you care?!" Setsuko yelled as though it was impossible.

"Why shouldn't I? He didn't do anything wrong." Setsuko glared at him.

"You care even though you know?" She snorted at the idea. "I find it hard for humans to do so!"

"Humans?" Setsuko clamped her mouth shut. She had said too much. "You are not human." Setsuko ignored the comment.

"I am no fool!" She snarled.

"I never said you were." He stated as Setsuko glared at him.

"You hide it better than others, but I know the look!" Kakashi raised an eyebrow.

"What do I hide? What look?" Setsuko's eyes pierced his soul.

"I am no fool!" She repeated.

"I never said you were." He replied once more.

"I have seen the way these villagers look at him! Hate . . . disgust . . . anger . . . I know it too well. That is why I hate people. They are so narrow minded! So when I leave, he will come with me." Kakashi rose an eyebrow.

"I don't think that he will." Setsuko narrowed her eyes.

"Why is that?"

"His dream is to become Hokage. How can he become Hokage if he leaves?" Setsuko was silent. A chuckle passed her lips after a few minutes. "What is so funny?" Setsuko smirked.

". . . It appears impossible dreams are part of the territory." Kakashi tilted his head slightly as if he was contemplating something.

"And what would your impossible dream be?" Setsuko turned her back on him.

"Something you will never understand." She disappeared in a blur. Kakashi sighed and disappeared in a puff of smoke to report to the 5th Hokage.

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Kakashi stood before Tsunade. He had just told her every word the two exchanged. The 5th Hokage folded her hands together in thought. After a few minutes she looked back up at him to confirm what she heard.

"Are you positive that is what she said?" Kakashi nodded. There was no doubt he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, 'I find it hard for humans to do so.' It is exactly what she said." Tsunade pinched the bridge of her nose as she lost herself in deep thought again. Finally, she looked up at him.

"This is not good Kakashi. Yuki might be a demon trying to free Kyuubi." She muttered as she stood up form her desk. "Kakashi, I want you to keep an eye on her. If she is indeed after Kyuubi then this situation is extremely dangerous!" She paused, letting her words sink in as she stared off to the side, as though she was waiting for someone to come out of the shadows. "I don't want to have to try and fight Kyuubi. It took the life of the Fourth just to seal it away! I don't know what it will take to kill it." Tsunade shook her head and looked back up at Kakashi. "She already has positioned herself close to Naruto. I don't want this getting out of hand." Kakashi nodded.

"Anything else Tsunade-sama?" Tsunade paused for a moment. She looked back up at Kakashi with deadly seriousness.

"I want to know every secret she has and I want a sample of her blood. We need to find out exactly who and what she is!" Kakashi nodded. Tsunade stared out the window. The 5th Hokage wasn't sure if she had to say it. Tsunade didn't want to say it. If Naruto ever found out . . . if he found out . . . then the seal might break, releasing Kyuubi out into the world to wreak havoc. He might not know her that well but . . . if she was indeed family . . . may God have mercy on her. For she feared that Naruto would not. Kakashi was about to leave before her voice stopped. "Kakashi . . . if you are given reason to believe that she is an immediate threat . . . do not let Naruto know that you killed her."