Tenshi and her big secret!
Robin looked at Tenshi. She was blushing bright red. Her secret had been discovered by the shinobi. It was a known fact for those who lived with her at the Celia Mountains, but to these strangers, it was a shock. She glanced over at Yoko who stared at the big man, Jiraiya was it? Robin turned her eyes to the man. He had been able to discover something no one else could unless they knew her enough to call themselves family. Her mind briefly drifted back to events leading up to this.
Flashback
Setsuko felt Kakashi put her down. The girl turned to him and only stared. Yoko moved over to her and pulled her to the side. They had been running for over a hour. Akira said that Bensha would not come after them and the Branch Family seemed to except his words without hesitation. Robin stood by a tree near Setsuko and Tenshi checked Hinata. The three males took to their own ways. Akira sat down and leaned against a tree to rest, Masaru meditated, and Yukio simply scouted the area. Ino and Sakura stood next to each other, quietly thinking of what had happened before they left. Sasuke sat in a tree and absently placed his hand over his cursed seal as the words Robin spoke during her fight echoed through his mind. Shikimaru and Choji talked amongst themselves. Kurenai helped Tenshi and Kiba petted his dog while Shino stood off to the side in his own world. Tenten sat close to a standing Neji who mulled over his fight. Janghoon sat under the tree his sister stood in and Riki grumbled about not fighting. Asuma stood close to Kakashi and the two stood in silence while Naruto stood close to where Setsuko was. Gaara stared at Robin and Temari stared at him. Kankuro stood away from his siblings with his puppet. Lee and Gai were talking about the speed Tenshi displayed.
"Gai-sensei, how could Tenshi be faster than me?" Gai shook his head and sighed.
"Lee, not only is she older, but she must have spent most of her life on her speed." Lee looked down for a moment before looking back up with determination burning in his eyes.
"I will beat Tenshi in speed or I will run around Konoha 200 times!" Gai smiled and patted him on the back.
"That's the spirit!"
Tenshi sneezed a few times. Kurenai looked at her.
"Is something wrong?" Tenshi shook her head.
"Iie. Maybe someone is talking about me." She muttered before going back to Hinata.
Asuma glanced at Kakashi. The two stood in silence.
"So," Asuma broke the silence. "What is going on with Setsuko?" Kakashi sighed and shrugged.
"Things seem to get more complicated as we go. From what I learned, the Setsuko with us now carries the soul of Setsuko we know, but at the same time, she's not Setsuko or even human." Asuma stared at Kakashi in confusion.
"Then what is she?"
Neji glared at Robin. The girl glanced over to him as the genin marched over to her.
"Is there something you want?"
"Why did you let me live? You obviously dislike me, you won. Why spare me?" Robin closed her eyes as she leaned against the tree.
"It . . . it was not your time. You were able to last over ten minutes with me. I used the first stage. I consider you a worthy opponent. But you are filled with illusions. In order to beat me, beat them. You can't fight with every ounce of your body if you do not have a clear mind. You'll hold yourself back."
"What do you know about real life? You've lived your life in the mountains. You couldn't have fought enough times in order to know what real battle is." Robin's eyes snapped open and glared at him.
"I have killed enough to know the difference between illusions and reality. I have killed enough to know what is the fine line that makes it possible to overcome your disabilities and win. When you have nothing holding you back, when you can fight and know the truth behind it all, that is when you truly win! Because you aren't blinded by fantasies is why you can push yourself beyond all possibilities. You know that you have no lies, nothing to hold you down. No nagging thought about how you should act to make those fantasies come true. You can surpass everything. Because you have fought your demons and won. That is when the mind can overpower the body. That is how you win when it seems as though you are tied or losing. Once you are able to banish your demons, face me. Then we shall truly see who is to win. Because it will be a true test of skill. Until then, you will never be able to stand against me." Robin left the boy to his thoughts as she moved closer to Yoko to speak with her.
Robin dropped to the ground with a light thud. It had been several days since the incident at the mountains. She checked over her shoulder and turned to Yoko.
"What should we do now?" Yoko sighed and rubbed her forehead.
"I do not know. This world is new to us." Tenshi dropped down next to Yoko.
"Yes, but perhaps Konoha is were we should go. It is the home of the Uzumaki. We would have lived there if it wasn't for Toshiko taking us and our parents to the Celia Mountains." Masaru nodded his head in agreement.
"Hai, Tenshi is right. That is the only place we have left to turn to." Yoko glared at the ground.
"I do not like it. We do not know this place."
"We don't know any place." Robin countered. "Toshiko-sama made sure of that. The only place we even know of is Konoha and the Uzumaki estate."
"Hai." Tenshi agreed. "Toshiko-sama made it that way. So we would return because that is where our family is." Robin sighed and nodded.
"I don't know why though. But enough about this, I'm getting hungry." She looked around as she put her naginata down. "I'll go hunt some food." Tenshi rolled her eyes.
"Always the tomboy."
"Always the girl." Robin retorted before she darted off. Masaru shook his head and turned towards Yukio as the large man came over to them.
"Yukio, how are you doing?" Yukio smiled.
"Speed ain't my thing. Strength is. You know that." Masaru laughed lightly and nodded. He looked at Yoko.
"Yoko, isn't it time for you to change into something suitable?" Yoko looked down at her clothes. The traditional meiko outfit was torn up and dirty. She sighed and nodded.
"Hai." She wandered away from them.
Kakashi glanced over at the clay doll. She stood behind them staring off into space. Robin had left and she seemed to be the only one Setsuko would willingly talk to. Naruto sat away from everyone. The copy cat ninja made his way over to the blonde. He quietly sat down and waited in silence.
". . . Kakashi-sensei . . ." He looked at his student. "I . . . I'm sorry." Kakashi's eye widened in surprise and confusion.
"What do you mean?" Naruto sighed as he stared at the ground.
"When . . . when I first found out that Setsuko-chan loved you . . . . I hated you . . . because you could take her away." The boy sat up at the sky and continued before Kakashi could say anything. "Then . . . I didn't want her to get hurt by you . . . I wanted to make sure she was safe . . . and guess what happens then? She disappears for a month . . . I was scared that she would be hunted down . . . after she came back . . . she died . . . I didn't want to think that she was dying." Tears lined his bright blue eyes. "I wanted her to stay . . . because she was the one just like me. She knew. She cared. She was my big sis. She understood it all and always wanted me to be happy . . . when . . . when I found out . . . I was mad at both you and her. I was mad at you because . . . she liked you more . . . because . . . she chose you . . . over me . . . and I was mad at her because she said she'd never leave. But she was leaving. I thought she lied. I hated her. I hated you. I hated everyone. Because once again, I was alone. I never wanted to share her. I wanted her to be with me always. She was my sis. I loved her like it. I didn't want her to love you more."
"Naruto . . ." Kakashi placed a hand on his shoulder. "It is possible for someone to love another the same amount as always and still love a new person. Setsuko . . . she didn't know what she was doing when she disappeared." Naruto wiped any tears away with the back of his hand.
"I know. But I miss her so much. I knew her just for a small time . . . but it felt like . . . . like a lifetime. She was there for me. She understood better than anyone else." Kakashi nodded sadly.
"Yes, but unfortunately, Setsuko has always harbored a general hatred towards humans." The two turned to see the clay doll staring at them as she spoke. "I feel this whenever I met someone new. Hatred grows rapidly whenever I met a human. It was amazing that the Setsuko you talk of was able to have these feelings towards you. I doubt that she would have been able to form these emotions towards others. And I cannot fathom how she was able to even like you Kakashi. You are merely human. Not at all like Naruto. It is odd that this would happen. She was hunted by humans at a young age and forced to become a killer." Kakashi stood up quickly.
"You said you didn't remember Setsuko's life!" The woman merely stared at him.
"When Bensha and I are close, I will have fragments of her memories for a short time."
Robin swung herself off of a tree branch and leapt into the air. She pulled her arm back and threw several kunai at the ground. The girl landed and jumped back while throwing more kunai. She landed on the ground and slid back a few feet while crouching. Robin looked up at the two rabbits she had just killed. She knelt down and pulled two knives out of her boots. She looked over her shoulder in surprise. Gaara stared at her.
"Yes?" He didn't say anything for several minutes.
"You killed your mother too?" Robin nodded slowly before turning her back to him.
"So what if I did? I was too young at the time. Besides, she already chose her fate. She just used me to accomplish her goal."
"So you hate her?" Robin shrugged.
"I don't know her. She's just another faceless person that I have killed. How can I hate someone I don't know?" Robin sighed and looked at the sky. "But . . . I do thank her. For teaching me." She looked back at Gaara. "Was that all you wanted?" Gaara shook his head.
"No, I want to test my existence."
Yoko slowly moved her hand into one of her sleeves and searched for something. After a few minutes, she pulled out a pouch. Carefully she pulled off her robes and sat on the ground in her underwear. She pulled the pouch open and laid out small bundles of string. She looked through them all, checking what colors she had. Red, gold, yellow, a egg-shell white, black, another red, green, blue, another black, another egg-shell, another gold, orange, and another red. Yoko sighed as she dug into the pouch once more. She pulled out a thin metallic wire.
Robin dodged a wave of sand.
"You fool!!! This is not the place!" She jumped out of the way of more sand.
"This is a fight, not talking time." Robin rolled out of the way of sand and turned. Sand was come right at her. She didn't have the time to dodge so she held her arms up on front of her as shield for her face. The sand slammed into her and threw her into the air. Robin coughed out alittle blood before she felt her eyes harden. Her fist clenched as she spun in the air and landed perfectly on her feet. Robin stood to her full height. She performed a rapid series of seals.
"I will grant you the joy of seeing my favorite summon. It will be a glorious death for you." Two strange white balls of light appeared. Each one connected to one of her arms at the wrist. Two large blades formed and were strapped to her wrists. The blades curved in slightly and each had a handle that she grab to control the blades better. Robin tightened her grip on the handles before charging. The sand came at her and Robin slashed it in half and continued running. She tackled Gaara only to be stopped by the sand. Robin slashed at it several times but nothing happened.
"ROBIN!!!" Robin turned her head towards Tenshi. The older Uzumaki threw her away from the boy and turned to Gaara. "Listen kid, I don't know what the hell is going on, but I don't care! Just save your flirting till after Robin finishes."
Robin dropped five large rabbits and seven large fish onto the ground. Masaru smiled at her.
"You seem to have taken awhile."
"Hn." Was the only answer he got as the girl disappeared. Yukio came over and picked up the fish and rabbits.
"I'll fix it." He muttered before wandering off. Masaru rolled his eyes and sighed.
"What's wrong?" He turned to see Yoko. She was red pants and a oriental top. It had long sleeves and it reached down pass her but as though it was a dress. The bottom half was red and ended at a gold line close to her armpits. The rest was an eggshell white. In between the two colors and on her heart was a yin-yang. The shirt was trimed with a dull gold. She had black slip on shoes. Her hair was pulled up in a pony tail and had a tight braid looped around that. The girl had a dark red panted onto her eyelids and even darker red lips.
"Things . . . just seemed to move fast, that's all." Yoko sighed and nodded.
"Hai." She twitched her fingers slightly. Masaru looked at her curiously.
"Why are you doing that?" Yoko shrugged. "You'd leave a trail so you can't do that as we move and once Yukio is done we'll get going." Yoko sighed.
"I guess I just don't want to be caught off guard. Besides, this is the most I've ever had to practice on others. I just want to see what I can do." Masaru sighed and shook his head.
"I'll never understand women." Yoko smirked.
"And Tenshi?" Masaru only sent a dry glare towards her.
They moved the next few days without stopping unless they were going to rest for a short time or eat. Gaara and Robin seemed to be at each other's throats the entire time and Naruto spent a lot of time with Hinata along the way. Robin had spoken to the pale girl after she woke and later announced that she and Hinata would train together from now on. Tenshi had only laughed and patted the girl's head, saying that little tomboys were funny. Yoko seemed to always twitch her fingers when they rest. It was until the third day into their journey back that they learned the reasons.
"Kuso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Naruto yelled as a kunai cut off some of his hair. A ninja from sound had seen them and attacked. The Branch Family merely held the others back as Yoko smirked.
"Naruto-sama, please stay back." She started moving her fingers quickly.
"What is she doing?" Sakura asked Masaru. The older man laughed.
"Well . . . Yoko had a reason for twitching while we've been traveling." Yoko moved her hands around and it was then that they realized something was attached to her fingers. String. She smirked before she moved her fingers again. The sound ninja hung in the air, dead with his mouth and eyes sewn shut. Blood dripped from small cuts all over. "She has been weaving string around the areas in case something like this happened." The woman turned back to the others.
"How far until we reach Konoha?" Akira was silent for a moment before speaking.
"There is a large group of people northeast from here, might be about half a day's walk." Yoko nodded.
"Then we run." She took off run. Robin turned to the other's questioning looks.
"Because Akira is blind his other senses are amazingly strong. He knows where people are within a certain distance."
Yoko waited as Kakashi explained to the Konoha guards that they weren't going to be a problem. She turned to Robin.
"You have revealed many secrets to these people Robin. Care to tell me why?" Robin was silent for a moment before speaking.
"Toshiko-sama spoke to me about this when we made the clay doll. She told me to watch over Setsuko until her soul is returned. She also said that in order to do so, I cannot keep many secrets from them." Yoko looked annoyed as she turned her head towards the shinobi.
"Hmph, I sense many things from them. I do not trust them. Something is wrong about many of them."
"Really? Which ones?" Robin seemed interested as Yoko only smirked.
"You many not be bothered by telling your secrets, but I do feel bothered when I tip my hand to all." Robin smiled.
"I see. So you're worried about Setsuko-chan too!" Yoko blinked as she looked at Robin before rolling her eyes.
"I hate it when you aren't serious. Like a little kid."
"If you hadn't noticed, I'm 13. I'm allowed to be like this." Robin deadpanned and Yoko rolled her eyes once more.
"The second your duties of protecting Setsuko-sama is over, this is what it is going to be like, isn't it?" Robin shrugged as she glanced at Setsuko. Her face hardened as she turned back into the distant Uzumaki known as the Emotionless Executer.
"When it comes to my duties, I will never allow myself to be off guard or fail. It is the way things are. As a ninja, I must not allow anything to interfere with the mission. If I see something or someone that may be considered a threat, I must eliminate them. I can not be a young child but a warrior during my missions. If I have no duties to fulfill as a ninja, then I will be a young girl. That is how things are." Yoko gentle placed a hand on the girl's shoulder.
"I don't think Neji was a threat to Setsuko." Robin glared into space.
"I felt offended that someone would treat those that they are to protect with such disgrace. Those who fail at being a true ninja are considered a threat to me." Yoko sighed as she pulled her hand back.
"I see." No more words could be spoken because Kakashi had come back. They could go see the Hokage now, all of them.
The Uzumaki entered the woman's office on edge along with several ANBU. They were not happy about Robin and Masaru carrying their weapons. Akira had also refused to part with his bow and arrows. Yoko had simply moved the ANBU to the side with her string and marched forward. Tsunade and Jiraiya looked up at them all surprised.
"Who are you?" Robin glanced at the clay doll who hid behind Yukio. Yoko was introducing them when Setsuko stepped out from behind the huge man. Tsunade stared wide eyed at them. "S . . . Setsuko?! They brought you back?!" The Hokage smiled as she slowly stood up.
"Tsunade, don't. She's not human." Robin looked at him surprised. Not many people were able to tell the difference. No one in a single glance. Tenshi stepped forward to try and keep things calm.
"Listen, it has been a long a tiresome journey. Perhaps it would be best if we just have some tea and relax. The men should probably leave too. That way there won't be too many embracing situations with what we have to show you."
"NANI?!!!" Naruto yelled.
"Why do you get to stay and we get kicked out?!" Tenshi rubbed her forehead.
"Well, Setsuko might have to take her clothes off so it would be easier if just us girls stay. I know that Robin, Tsunade, Yoko, and I won't mind. If some of the other girls don't mind they can stay."
"Why are you staying?" Jiraiya demanded. Tenshi looked at him alittle confused.
"What do you mean, what's wrong with me staying?" Jiraiya glared at her as he announced a huge secret of hers.
"Because you're a guy!!!"
End Flashback
Robin stared at the man. Everyone but the Branch Family and Jiraiya stared at Tenshi in shock and disbelief. Tenshi was bright red and had looked away embraced and quite flustered. Yoko sighed and shook her head.
"No one has been able to discover that without being told." Robin commented quietly. "You are indeed something else. Tell me, how did you know Setsuko was not a human and Tenshi was male?" Jiraiya smirked.
"The proportions are all wrong. Setsuko has a smaller waist by four inches, slimmer legs and arms, and her breasts are three inches bigger and her butt is two bigger. And the cross-dresser has no feminine aura. I feel nothing when I look at him." Jiraiya announced. Naruto gapped at Jiraiya for looking at his cousin like that, Kakashi felt his eyebrow twitch as he glared at the man, Yoko stared at him in horror, Tenshi was close to tears, Tsunade was about to strangle Jiraiya, the old pervert stood tall, proud he knew such things, and the rest were either in shock or disgust. Robin, however, sighed and shook her head. He was something else alright. He was a super pervert in a class of his own.
Wow! Betcha didn't see that one coming!!!!!!!!!!!!