Blitz: Well, Kakashi-sensei, please start us off if you don't mind!
Kakashi: Right, today's chapter is chapter 6.
Blitz: Thank you and let the story begin
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Sakura gasped while Sasuke's attention was to the discarded body on the floor.
"Yo" Naruto said casually, holding a mysteriously bloodless kunai in his hand.
"Naruto…" Sakura hesitated for a moment. "Where's Kitai-chan!" She finally said with a sound of worry thinking that the body was Kitai's.
Naruto pointed to a shadow behind a wall, out came Kitai, still covered in bandages but as she came out a body fell onto the ground. Sakura shrieked while Sasuke looked at the body noticing it wasn't covered in blood. "Hn." Sasuke said.
"So, what took you so long? Did you two start to have more time for each other?" Kitai said mockingly.
Naruto snickered with Kitai. Sakura stared for a while and turned away. "Wait." Sasuke suddenly said. "Two bodies, seemed like they would die, Naruto, you were holding a kunai, and Kitai you could have shred the other one with your jutsus, yet I see no rocks or ice needles everywhere." He explained.
Kitai and Naruto stopped walking. Sakura's eyes widened, she now understood what was going on. "You're not Naruto and Kitai!" She shouted.
"It took you long enough to figure it out." the fake Kitai said cruelly.
The two bodies changed and the fakes were part of the mist ninja. The two bodies on the ground were Kitai's and Naruto's.
"What did you do to them!" Sakura screamed once more.
The mist ninja started to laugh uncontrollably. The ninja carried both bodies to the middle of the room. "This one was blind so she counted sense us in the mist, how worthless." The female nin said while throwing Kitai's body to the wall.
"And this one, such a big mouthed child and yet he couldn't take us on." The male nin said kicking Naruto.
"STOP IT!" Sakura cried out.
Sasuke threw kunais and shuriken at the mist ninja. "Why do you try, child? Not a mere boy such as you could have what it takes to kill us." The female nin laughed.
Sasuke had let the shuriken and kunai go around the two and suddenly pulled back with his arms. They clamped together, unable to move and were shocked. He was pulling with more strength than ever, the wire was about to go through the nins' skins. He pulled one last time and shouted, "Gaton: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"
A wave of fire it the two trapped ninja and a blood piercing scream was heard throughout the land. Sasuke stopped breathing fire but was still not satisfied. Sakura let out a gasp of horror. "Sasuke-kun… Look…" She whispered.
He turned his slowly and saw water, everywhere. Sakura looked around. She looked up and saw kunai and shuriken heading towards Sasuke. "Sasuke! Watch out!" Sakura screamed while pushing him out of the way.
She did her hand signs quickly and disappeared. What was left of her was only a log. She was now by Naruto's side trying to help him wake up. The two mist ninja were now standing next to Kitai. They picked her up and threw her across the floor. "How sad, this girl couldn't even put up a fight. Her powers are limited, her skills undesirable."
Kitai got up suddenly and looked at the ground. "And yet you don't give up, how big of a pride but too bad your strength doesn't match." The male nin said kicking Kitai away.
Kitai was on her side and did hand signs quickly. She slammed her fist onto the ground and stalagmites shot up around the two mist ninja. "Ha! Just illusions… You can't expect us to believe this is real, can you?" The male nin cackled.
"That's just the thing, it isn't." Sasuke said with satisfaction.
"Cyclone no jutsu!" Kitai shouted while doing hand signs.
A whirlwind soon appeared around the two trapped ninja and they were starting to collide into each other and the walls. "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!" Sasuke shouted while breathing fire into the cyclone.
"You did it! You guys really did it!" Sakura shouted in joy finally seeing the two mist ninja being finished.
"Huh… Did what?" Naruto said finally waking up on Sakura's arm.
"Well, have you now returned to reality now, dobe?" Sasuke said smirking.
Kitai ran to the door down the corridor. She pushed but it didn't budge. "Naruto, Sasuke, come here and try to knock down this door." Kitai commanded.
They both walked over to the door and punched it as hard as they could. For a second, they felt like the bone in their arm crumbled to dust. Sasuke slowly put his hand in his pocket while Naruto started to whine like a baby. Kitai and Sakura sweat dropped.
Sakura sighed, "Men…"
Kitai jumped and kicked the door hard. She put her leg down and saw the door creak slightly, she twitched. The door start to open more and a crack started to appear. Naruto and Sasuke looked away looking like total doofuses.
"Hello, hello. From here on I will bestow, the blond haired boy and the brunette. Please come and stay for the show, you can't even leave this chateau." The rhyming man cackled.
Kitai looked shocked, she couldn't move. Again, more pain from this madman, lucky me. But this time, it's Naruto and me. So now, whatever the rhyming man has in store is much worse than the dream quill. I'm sure it's not that bad…
He turned to Sasuke and Sakura, "I have no use for you two, so I must bid you adieu."
"Wait!" Sasuke shouted. "Before you escape once more, I want to make a deal."
The rhyming man stopped, "A deal? Please reveal."
"If we make these two stop whatever you do to them, you must stay and we are aloud to fight you. But if we can't, you'll have the pride of two murders and an escape." Sasuke said without showing any sign of emotion.
"I see. I will now start the spree." The man paused and cackled. "Of laughter!"
He disappeared and gas started to gather around Kitai and Naruto, "Kitai don't breathe." Naruto whispered.
Naruto and Kitai stood there with their cheeks puffed up. Naruto's nerves couldn't handle the pressure and took a breath. He immediately fell to the ground in laughter. Kitai looked away still holding her breath. I can't breath, I can't breath, I can't breath. No matter what you do Kitai, YOU CAN'T BREATH!
She started to tear and her cheeks growing red with impatience. She finally took a breath after her nerves almost exploded. She fell to the ground with uncontrollable laughter. Sakura looked away with tears in her eyes. "They're going to laugh to death." She sniffed shakily.
Kitai and Naruto were both crying in pain, wanting the laughing to stop and they hugged each other. Sasuke kneeled down and slapped both Naruto and Kitai. They stopped for a while and turned their heads to Sasuke, who was smiling in satisfaction. They continued to laugh. "Sasuke! Hahaha, I'm going to kill you!" Naruto said laughing like crazy.
Kitai suddenly turned quiet, her head hung down, hair drooping over her pale face. Sakura gasped and saw that she fainted from laughter. Naruto soon turned quiet. "There, it stopped. Now show your face." Sasuke said leering into the darkness.
Out came the rhyming man, smiling with glee. "My puppets! My puppets! Arise at once and reveal me your secrets!" He cackled into the air.
Naruto and Kitai arose into the air and tears came rolling down their cheeks. Whispers filled the air. One whisper after another, "Nii-san, don't leave me here… In the darkness…" Another roamed the air, "Why can't people accept me? Others had no family and people still give them love and respect!"
"Their nightmares and their worst fears… Coming true in their minds…" Sakura hiccupped, still perched with fear.
Sasuke was ready to take on the rhyming man before he saw two white figures slither out of Naruto and Kitai's mouths, their souls being taken away and ripped apart. "HELP US!" They screamed out.
The man laughing insanely was now full with power. Sasuke took out kunais and shuriken and threw them around the rhyming man. He pulled back and the man was now trapped, but he looked calm. Sakura threw kunais at the trapped man but the sudden white aura around him grabbed them and threw them back. Sakura fell back and reached in her bag, searching for the kunai Kitai gave her. She took it out and hit the kunai coming back at her. They fell to the ground, all split in half.
Sasuke ran at the man and kicked him into the air. "Lion Combo!" He shouted as he was kicked the man to the ground.
Cackles of evil filled the room; he got up and used the white aura to grab Sakura. She shrieked. "Let her go!" Sasuke shouted.
"Your choice Uchiha boy, either I kill this lovely girl or you can save these two puppets from their eternal death."
He looked at Sakura who was crying and the Naruto and Kitai who were on the floor, motionless. "I-I… choose…"
"Your choice… bo-"The man said suddenly stopping.
Kakashi appeared out of nowhere and stuck a kunai into the back of the man. He fell to the ground and let Sakura go, she ran to Kakashi and held him tightly, "Arigatou! Arigatou!" She cried out still crying.
Kakashi saw Naruto and Kitai sprawled on the ground and put Naruto over his back and Kitai in his arms. The five walked out of the castle, never to return again.
Next Day…
Kitai woke up and saw Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto all smiling at her. She blinked and whispered, "If you don't mind, can you just, well uh… LET ME GOTO SLEEP WITHOUT PEOPLE STARING!"
She flopped back down on the blanket and turned her attention to the window. "Well, you've been through a lot, so we couldn't let you be unguarded, especially when you cried." Sasuke said smirking.
Kitai's eyes widened and resisted from looking at the three who were sitting on the floor. She finally got up and looked at Sasuke, "I cried?"
Naruto was smiling along with Sakura. Kitai looked at them dully. "How do you know I cried."
"Sasuke and I saw it." Sakura replied.
"And Naruto, if you were caught in the same mess as me, how you looked so confident enough to give me a vivid report in words to tell what happened." Kitai grumbled.
"Well we gave him a vivid description in words, orally, may I mention, of what happened in the castle." Sasuke said starting to agitate Kitai.
"Smartass…" Kitai mumbled.
"I heard that." Sasuke replied, looking at Kitai slyly.
"I know, I only wanted you to hear the truth." Kitai said getting even more ticked off by Sasuke's remarks.
"Oi, oi! Settle down you two, you don't want to end up in the hospital again, do you?" Kakashi said waving his finger in the air like Iruka sensei would always do.
"No, no, Kakashi-sensei, their dispute over something that doesn't really make sense is pretty funny." Naruto piped in.
"We have to return to the village. And if we return before night fall, let's get some more ramen, my treat." Kakashi said happily.
Sakura's stomach grumbled, "Ugh… It feels like I haven't eaten in days."
"Alright, more ramen! Do I have to pay this time Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto cheered.
"If you don't make Kitai sick again…" Kakashi said dully.
"Hey that wasn't my fault!" Naruto shouted.
"Naruto, just shut up and open your big mouth when we get back to the village!" Sakura shouted punching him in the noggin.
Sasuke smirked and almost forgot about Kitai, he took a glance at her and saw her expression dull but saw that she was almost, curious.
After paying their thanks to the hidden leaf ninja in the mist village they set off on the road back to the village.
Kitai was in the lead with Sasuke behind her. He walked faster and was up to Kitai. Kitai noticed and quickened her pace. He started to go faster and Kitai was speeding up. Their faces met and saw the race they had just created, lightening roaring in their eyes. For a while they were fast walking and then started to jog.
"Hey Kitai, Sasuke! Stop going ahead of us, you'll get lost!" Sakura shouted after them.
They were running like speed devils, Naruto ran after them. "Cry baby." Sasuke whispered harshly.
"Uzuratonkachi." She whispered back even harsher.
They were both speeding off while Naruto was gasping for air. "K-Kitai… S-Sasuke… What… idiots…" Naruto gasped.
Kakashi sighed heavily thinking about what the two could do to each other since they ticked each other too much. "Come on now, let's go find them, they couldn't have gone too far."
After a while, the two stopped, panting. "Giving up… already?" Sasuke said.
"Did I say I was giving up? Anyways, I do." Kitai smiled.
Sasuke looked at Kitai like she was a three eyed cat. "If I said that I wouldn't give up, the rest of the team wouldn't be able to find us, so for now, let's relax." Kitai said calmly and plopped herself down on the ground.
Sasuke sat down next to Kitai. She took out a kunai and started to twirl it around it fingers. "What are you doing…?" Sasuke asked dully yet curiously.
Her eyes turned white and twirled it around her fingers even faster. The wind blew and some leaves fell off a tree. She threw it at a leaf and hit it in the middle, deep into a tree trunk. "Being bored." Kitai replied.
She started to laugh. "What's so funny?" Sasuke grumbled.
"Ha, just remembering how you couldn't open that door along with Naruto. How pathetic…"
A vein mark appeared on Sasuke's head, "You looking for a fight?"
"You wouldn't want to end up in the hospital again, do you?" Kitai remarked.
The wind blew and more leaves swirled around the two. "So, tell me Uchiha… What makes you so different from the others?" Kitai asked.
Sasuke put his back to Kitai. "Well, Ryuuki, what do you think." Sasuke replied.
It was as if she pulled out a scroll and rolled it out on the ground and read it. A sea of words. "To start us off, you're mostly apart in the group, solitude is your attitude. You think you can do everything by yourself. You're hair looks like the back of a chicken. You have the Sharingan…" She stopped. "But I'm only rambling; there are more reasons than that Sasuke."
Sasuke was facing her now, twitching, he was being mocked by the girl who was beaten by him twice. "You talk as much as Sakura does." He said dully.
"Only to get you talking for once." She said.
Sasuke stopped and said unexpectedly, "Sometimes, you remind me of my mother."
Kitai looked at him confused and then smiled. He made something like a mixture of a smile and a smirk. A sudden shout in the distance startled them, "OI! SASUKE! KITAI-CHAN!" Naruto hollered.
Sasuke hit him and then Sakura who started to shout, "DON'T SCARE SASUKE-KUN OR KITAI-CHAN LIKE THAT!"
Kakashi and Kitai sweat dropped and walked off with the three following.
Ichiraku Ramen Shop
The five sat down and ordered their ramen. Kitai looked at her ramen and picked up her chopsticks. "Itadakimasu."
She ate her ramen quietly and saw the whole team and ramen workers stare at her. "What?" She asked.
"Young lady… T-That's our shop's spiciest ramen, probably even spicier than 100 w-wasabi r-rolls." The worker stumbled.
"Kitai-chan, you could probably burn your throat by eating that…" Naruto twitched.
"Kitai-chan… Are you okay?" Sakura asked in worry.
Questions were being asked from all direction and Kitai just sat there eating her ramen quietly. She slammed her chopsticks down and said twitching, "Airgatou Kakashi-sensei for the meal. I'm finished. I'll walk myself home."
"No way kiddo. You're coming with me." said a familiar voice at the entrance of the Ichiraku ramen shop.
Kitai looked up to see her nii-san smiling, "ANIKIII!" She squealed in happiness. "But, why'd you come here?"
"I had a thought that you'd be here eating some more ramen. Konnichiwa Kakashi." He greeted. "Listen, I got a surprise for you at home." He explained.
The two trotted home and Kakashi smiled, "It's nice to see her happy with Ryu."
Sakura turned, "What do you mean Kakashi-sensei, based her sayings, it seems like she's always around him!"
Naruto and Sasuke nodded in agreement. "Actually, you're wrong, those two have an age difference and Ryu is, in many ways, advanced. He's been so busy on missions; he would have no more time to see her." Kakashi explained. "But on the weekends he treats her to train with her in his techniques, this is why she's still developing in the area of wind and ice. Just now Ryu has gone to the rank of Anbu."
Sasuke looked surprised, "Looking at her aniki, he looks about 16. Is he that advanced?"
Kakashi nodded. Naruto looked baffled, "We should at least help her feel better after she hears the news…"
The team nodded in agreement and prepared a plan.
At the Ryuuki Residence
"What is it aniki?" She asked curiously.
"I'm in Anbu now!" He said joyfully. "This means I'm going to teach you new techniques!"
Kitai felt a fake smile appear on her face, "I-I'm so proud of you aniki!" She tried to say happily. "B-But what techniques are you going to teach me now?"
"I'm going to teach you the art of the sword. The most bountiful yet most graceful!" He said with his hands in a peace sign.
Kitai smiled back and made an excuse to go up to her room. Walking up the stairs, she thought about the first time he became a chuunin, then a jounin. She opened the door to her room and saw a sword lying on her bed. Atlas I can master using a sword. She thought dully.
Kitai drifted off to sleep, the day awaiting her soon.
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Blitz: Oi… this kinda sucked… a lot…
Naruto: Sasuke you told Kitai that she reminded you her your MOM.
Kitai & Sakura: …
Sasuke: ….;
Kakashi & Ryu: -laughing really hard in the background-
Kitai: SHUT IT!
Blitz: Eh… R&R I guess…