To train

Setsuko came into Naruto's room early in the morning after she locked up all of the forbidden Jutsu scrolls. She smiled at him before holding a bucket of cold water above his head.

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Kakashi stood in front of his team. Once more, Naruto was not there. He was keeping his promise, much to Kakashi's dismay. With a shake of his head he dismissed him. He'd have to talk with Iruka. He'd know how Naruto thought. Of course . . . that might not be considered a complement. Anyway, off to see if Iruka can talk sense into Naruto.

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Setsuko stood out on the Estate grounds. There weren't any trees there as she stared at a wet Naruto with an amused smirk.

"Come now Naruto, it is time to train. I want to see how well you fair against a Demon." Naruto frowned.

"Setsuko-chan! Why the hell do you always call yourself a demon?!" He demanded as Setsuko gave him a faint smile with sad eyes.

"Naruto . . . it is the same reason that I want to teach you the proper path . . . I am no longer human because the demon's soul is my own. Because our souls merged . . . I am a murderer, I am now the one who slaughtered the Hidden Rain village. But I won't let that happen to you. You won't be turned into a demon." Setsuko finished with determination in her voice.

"Dammit Setsuko! Stop saying your a demon! I'm not and I am just like you! Kyuubi's sins are not mine! Aka Yuki's sins are not yours!" Setsuko glared at her cousin.

"Naruto, I am a demon. I live as though I was a demon. All I know is death. All I know how to do is kill. That is the way of a demon. The kind of things you tell me of, kindness, love, friends. They all escape me. As they would any other demon." Setsuko closed her eyes for a brief moment before letting her hateful eyes rest upon Naruto once more. "Naruto-kun, if you wish to change my mind, then you must be able to defeat me completely. Defeat me so bad that I am near death. A demon cannot be defeated by a human. But a human can be defeated by another human." Naruto stared at his cousin as he debated with himself. Finally, he nodded.

"If that's the way you want it!" Naruto charged towards Aka Yuki. She started to perform several hand seals as Naruto prepared his Rasengan for her. A bright orb of blue formed in her hands as she gripped it with one hand, pulling it back slightly. As their hands reached each other a familiar pair of hands grabbed their wrists and sent the two flying. Setsuko landed in a heap of dust and was pinned to the ground as her arm was twisted behind her. Naruto had arms wrap around him to hold him still as he landed and was squashed under someone's weight.

"Naruto!!!!!! What in the world are you doing?!" Iruka yelled as he squashed Naruto under his weight.

"Setsuko! What the hell were you thinking?!!!" Kakashi demanded as he held Setsuko's arm behind her back. Iruka picked up Naruto, still holding him tight so he wouldn't escape. "Iruka, you take Naruto back to the Uzumaki house and talk to Naruto. I'll take care of Setsuko." Naruto began kicking and scream the second Kakashi finished.

"NO WAY IN HELL AM I GOING TO LET THAT PERVERTED MASKED FREAK BE ALONE WITH MY COUSIN!!!!!!!!!! LET ME GO SO I CAN BEAT HIM TO A BLOODY PULP!!!!!!!!" Naruto screamed as Iruka carried him off. Setsuko tried to get out of Kakashi's grasp.

"Get the hell off of me!" She snapped.

"Setsuko, you'll have to dislocate your shoulder to get out of this and even then I still have your arm." Still she struggled. "Setsuko, please, do not make me hurt you." Setsuko glared at the ground. "Good, now why did you and Naruto start to attack each other like that! Your intent to kill was felt a mile away!" Setsuko sneered.

"Naruto doesn't get that I'm a demon." She hissed. "He wanted to prove me wrong." Kakashi sighed.

"He's right Setsuko. You are not a demon."

"Idiot! I am a demon! How else can you explain my existence." Setsuko snapped. Kakashi glared at her, irritated by her stubbornness.

"That's it!" He picked her up after wrapping his free arm around her waist. Setsuko kicked as she tried to get free. "I'm stick and tired of your whole demon existence story!"

"Let! Me! GO!" Setsuko screamed as he carried her away.

"Not until you get the fact that you are human!"

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Iruka managed to open the door to the Uzumaki house and close it while holding Naruto tightly so he wouldn't break free. The teacher threw down his former student and glared at him.

"Naruto! Stop acting like a little baby!" Naruto glared at his former teacher.

"I'm an not acting like a baby! Now get out of the way so I can stop that masked freak!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto, don't disrespect your teacher in such a manner!" Iruka snapped. "Why are you so neglectful of training lately? Kakashi told me that you haven't been showing up and now this? What is going on?!" He demanded.

"It's because he's so dumb he's hurting her!"

"Who?" Iruka asked Naruto, confused.

"Setsuko!" Naruto yelled at Iruka.

"How?"

"He's too dumb to get that Setsuko loves him!"

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Kakashi stopped beside a lake as Setsuko struggled to get free. He shoved her down onto her knees and forced her to look in the water at her reflection.

"Setsuko, tell me what you see?!" He demanded. Setsuko glared at his reflection before looking at her own. Some of her green hair had fallen out of her bun and a few wisps of hair hung out in front of her elegantly pointed ears. Crimson eyes blazing with anger stared back at her. Pale skin, tinted blue, stood out against her black clothing.

"A monster." Setsuko replied. "A demon who slaughtered hundreds. Someone who bathes in blood." She whispered darkly. Kakashi closed his eyes and sighed. After a moment he looked at her reflection.

"Setsuko, you once said you had a dream. And that you loved Naruto. Demons can't have dreams and they can't love. You are not a demon. You are not Aka Yuki. You are Uzumaki Setsuko." Setsuko looked away from her reflection. "Monsters can't feels things. You are human. You talk like one. You laugh and smile like one. You breathe, you run, you walk, you shop. You're in this world and you try to make the best of it. You hope just like any other person. You are human, Setsuko. I don't understand how you believe otherwise." Setsuko slowly looked back at her reflection. For a moment Kakashi swore he saw a faint rose color on her cheeks.

". . . but . . . if no one believes it . . . are you human . . ." He saw the sad look on her reflection. If Setsuko could cry, she would have. ". . . just . . . just like Naruto . . . I was hated . . . spat on, cursed at, beaten, humiliated . . . but . . . unlike Naruto, no one every even thought of me as anything more than a monster . . ." Kakashi listened as Setsuko whispered barely above the still wind. ". . . things only got worse when I changed on my 13th birthday . . . a thousand times worse . . . the people decided to hunt me down to kill me . . . that's when . . . that's when I slaughtered all of them . . . like it was nothing . . . I stood there, watching my own blood slice through them . . . I don't remember being scared after that . . . I learned the reason of their fear . . . I learned how powerful I was . . . so I stood there, watching them . . . watching them die without the slightest pity as they were slaughtered . . . children, men, woman, babies, elderly . . . all of them were destroyed . . . and I didn't care one bit . . . I thought it was grand . . . to watch them suffer like me . . ." Setsuko looked away from her reflection in shame. "Can a human kill so many with such joy, to watch their village be slaughtered and be happy? Happy that they got what they deserved?" Heavy silence hung over the two as Kakashi thought over her words. Finally, he broke it.

"Setsuko . . . anyone would have done the same, even me. You can't fix the past but you can learn. You're guilty for what happened, that's makes you human. A monster can't feel guilt." Setsuko felt Kakashi let go of her as she stared at the ground. Kakashi stepped back as if to leave.

"Kakashi . . . don't go. . . . I don't want to be alone . . . I've been alone too long . . ." Kakashi nodded as he sat beside her while she stared at her reflection.

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Naruto glared at the door that Iruka stood in front of. He had to fight every urge in his body not to go outside and beat up Kakashi. Iruka said that if he moved then he would never treat Naruto to ramen ever again. It was the only reason he was still there. The front door opened and in stepped Kakashi and Setsuko.

"Setsuko-chan!" Naruto ran in between the two and glared at Kakashi.

"Naruto-kun, I'm sorry I worried you." She cast a glance at Kakashi who in turn nodded and motioned for Iruka to leave with him. Soon, the cousins stood alone in the main hallway. "Naruto . . . please don't worry about me. You should train." Naruto glared at Setsuko.

"No way am I training with that jerk!" Setsuko gave Naruto a tired smile.

"Naruto, you need to train and become Hokage. And what makes you say Kakashi is a jerk."

"He's too stupid to notice you love him." Setsuko's eyes widened and she looked away while a blush swept over her cheeks.

". . . how . . . how did you . . . figure it out?" Naruto sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Not that hard to put two and two together. I might not be the sharpest bulb in the drawer but I can figure things out." Setsuko stared blankly at her cousin for a few minutes as the wind howled in the silence.

". . . . you . . . mixed up your sayings Naruto . . . ."

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The sad things is, I've actually said that when I was trying to be totally serious. Well, review soon!