I do not own any of the Final Fantasy, Inuyasha, Naruto, Fushugi Yugi or any other characters from anime's and games. I don't own Kuro, Kosarai or D3pa1. I own myself and Ukeo (Please don't steal...) I'm sorry if my Indents don't show up!! Since they don't show up, a new paragraph will start when there are three things like this ʓʷʷ And if those three thingies don't show up I'm sorry if they don't;
Oh! And thank you to Firamaster for letting me use his characters!
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"Kakashi! Doomie!" I cried
"Momuntai" he said turning around and smiling "I don't let my comrades die, now go carry out the orders I gave you" I swallowed and managed a salute
"Hai!" I turned around and saw Tazuna and the others and began running towards them
"We'll see about that" I saw a blur and Zabuza was in front of Tazuna-san and between the other Genins
"CRAAAUD!!" I shouted nonsense. I saw another blur as Kakashi pushed past me and stabbed a kunai into Zabuza
"Alright!!" Kel shouted, his grin disappeared when Zabuza burst open and water showered everyone, I saw a strange haze behind Kakashi
"DOOMIE!!!" I shrieked in warning running in circles
"Are you insane?!" Zero shouted
"Sensei! Behind you!" Naruto shouted pointing
"Too late!" Zabuza laughed as he swung his head cleaver slicing Kakashi in half. There was a red haze of grief until Kakashi's remains splashed into water, next thing I knew it, Kakashi was behind Zabuza with a kunai to his throat
"Don't move" Kakashi hissed. There was silence until Zabuza began to laugh
"What's so funny?" Naruto asked
"Very clever Kakashi" Zabuza chuckled "Copying my water clone no jutsu and distracting me, you got the clone to say those words while the real you hid in the mist and watched me, well" Another Zabuza appeared behind Kakashi "I'm not that easy either" Slicing through the clone with his kunai, Kakashi ducked as Zabuza swung his giant sword just missing Kakashi.
"You cut my hair you jerk..." Kakashi muttered, Zabuza had a vicious glint in his eyes as he stuck his sword in the ground grabbing the hilt and kicking Kakashi into the lake
"Kakashi!" I ran forward but was stopped when someone grabbed my arm
"He'll be fine! Stay here otherwise you'll get killed!" Kel shouted
"No! I won't watch him die again!" I argued trying to pull away. I saw something metallic slide in front of me grabbing my shoulders
"Sorry kid" I choked as an iron fist punched me in the gut and I curled into a ball to reduce the pain
"Zero! Why'd you punch her?!" Sakura cried "Kiako-chan are you ok?" Tears rolled out of my eyes from the pain in my stomached as I pushed myself up to my knees. Wiping the tears, I pushed myself up on my feet and ran towards the lake, I felt relieved as I saw a water logged Kakashi floating in the lake.
"What's up with this water? It's heavy..." I heard him mutter as he looked up at me his eyes grew wide "Kiako don't move!!" I skidded to a halt and saw a dark figure loom over Kakashi
"Bad idea!" Zabuza laughed performing a seal "Water prison no jutsu!" Instantly the water slammed into Kakashi forming a water bubble
"No! Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto cried
"You won't be able to move in this prison Kakashi" Zabuza said standing on top of the water, I wonder how that's possible? "I'll be nice, and finish your comrades quickly" using one hand to hold Kakashi in the prison and using the other one to preform half a seal, a Zabuza water clone appeared in front of me
"Crud...." I whispered. The Zabuza clone drew its long sword and walked towards me, I began to walk backwards matching his steps. I was doing fine until
"Whoa!" I squeaked as I tripped on a fallen branch, Laughing, the clone quickened its pace swinging his sword at me
"Kiako-chan!" Sakura shrieked
"Die cat!" he laughed. Quickly recalling the night before, I preformed the seals, suddenly, everything just went to slow-mo. Ya know, like when you press the pause and play buttons together on a TV remote. Grabbing the branch I tripped on, sticking it in the path of the sword and running away, everything went back to normal and Zabuza chopped through the branch slicing it in two. I sighed in relief
"Waaay to close for comfort...." I said
"Kawarami? When did you learn the technique of replacement?" Sakura asked
"Oh! Is that what you two were working on last night?" Zero asked snapping his fingers, I nodded.
"You guys!" Kakashi shouted "Run away! Leave me! As long as I'm trapped in this prison I'm no use! Take Tazuna and run!"
"You mean leave you?" Kel asked
"As long as I'm in here, Zabuza has to stay and keep the prison up" Kakashi said "And the clone probably can't get too far away from the actually body, so go! Run!" I shook my head
"I'm not budging" I said stubbornly
"Kiako that's an order!"
"I don't give a damn!" I argued "I'm not moving!"
"It's what shinobi do! They make sacrifices for their team to live! Now GO!" Kakashi ordered. I swallowed to prevent me from swearing as bad as Cid
"Me not move!" I huffed
"Shit Kiako go!" he swore. Sasuke looked at Tazuna-san
"Your the one who got us into to this, so what'll it be?" he asked, Tazuna-san closed his eyes and smiled
"Well, I guess it'd be super useless to argue over you guys" he said tipping up his rice hat "Fight to your hearts content" With a roar, charged towards Zabuza kunai in hand
"Naruto!"
"Go Super brat!!"
"Let Kakashi-sensei go!" Naruto shouted throwing his kunai, in a flash Naruto was knocked away and crashed into Sasuke as his forehead protector flew off.
"HAH!" Sasuke said jumping up and attempting to spear Zabuza with his kunai
"That's just naive!" Thrusting out his arm, Sasuke gave a choke as Zabuza grabbed his throat and threw him back
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura screamed.
"Blondie!" Zero yelled pointing where Naruto cowered in fear as Zabuza towered over him supiorly. Without a thought, I snatched my garment grid and pressed the button with a gun on it; there was a whirl of flashy colors and in a blink, I had a pair of guns in my hands, a weird purply blue cloth thing over my left leg, some snazzy high boots, a pair of short pants but not shorts, a red tank top and a belt with a pouch that probably held ammo.
"Leave him alone!" I fired away and surprisingly, almost hit Zabuza! but I almost hit Naruto too... Hey my aim isn't perfect like Kuros ok!
"Your a nuisance" I whipped around only to get smashed in the chest and tumble in the dirt, I heard a clang and the whirling started again as I returned back to Festival goer.
"Hmm, interesting" Zabuza said walking over to where my garment grid was laying, I thrust myself forward and covered the grid with both hands as a hard boot slammed onto it
"I was hoping to destroy it without you around, your really getting annoying" Zabuza twisted the heel of his shoe harder, my hands were the only things between the boot and the grid
"I can't...let you break it..." I growled in pain as my hand began to bleed, I yanked the grid out from under his boot and held it close "KURO WOULD KILL ME IF IT BROKE!!!" Jumping out of the way with ease, Zabuza flipped over and landed where Naruto's forehead protector was
"Heh, you think you guys are ninjas, slapping on forehead protectors and talking about dreams about being great ninjas" Zabuza sneered "A ninja is someone who has survived numerous slips of death"
"What're you getting at?" Kel asked reaching to his belt, I tucked the garment grid back into my kimono
"That exam..." Kakashi said "They called it the blood exam...."
"What exam?" Naruto demanded. Zabuza laughed
"The exam in the village of the mist was different then the other exams" he said
"What're you talking about?!" Naruto shouted
"Friends that ate lunch together, trained together, shared dreams and hopes," Zabuza said "They all died"
"Nani?!" I cried in confusion
"That's inhuman!" Kel shouted
"And more insane than Kiako!"
"Zero this isn't the time to be making fun of me! You can do that later!"
"Yes, students and friends were pitted against each other in an exam to fight to the death, only the ones that survived passed the exam" Zabuza said grinning behind his mask, Man, I could never think of fighting with Kuro and D3pa1! That'd be horrid! Plus I'd have no chance, course Kuro would probably be happy to kill me
"There was also once in an exam," Kakashi started "That one boy who they called the demon boy, he killed all the students in that one exam"
"That exam?" Sakura said "Then the boy must be..." There was silence and a shadow passes over Zabuza's eyes
"That sure was fun" he said looking up.
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"That sure was fun" In a flash Zabuza was in front of Sasuke shoving his elbow into him. Sasuke shouted in pain as he flew nearly five meters and Zabuza gave chase. When Sasuke landed, Zabuza slammed his elbow down on Sasuke making him cough out blood
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura screamed
"You bastard!" Naruto shouted in anger running towards him only to be knocked violently away
"Baka! What're you doing charging in alone like that!" Sakura shouted "Even Sasuke-kun couldn't-" she stopped and looked at Naruto. As he slowly stood up, clutched in his bandaged hand, was his forehead protector.
"Hey eyebrowless freak!! I don't really give up that easily" he said then sighing and laying the forehead protector in his hands, placed it back on his forehead "So add this to your note book, the ninja who'll be the hidden leafs next Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Great comeback shorty!" Kel cheered
"Now" Naruto said turning to Sasuke, Sakura and me "Let's get wild! Hidden leaf style!" he put his hands into a seal "Kage bunshin no jutsu!" A horde of Naruto's popped up all drawing kunais
"Oh?" Zabuza said in amusement
"Here I come!" the Naruto's charged and piled over Zabuza. Sounds of fighting erupted from where the pile was
"Not good enough!" Zabuza shouted, all the Naruto clones flew in all directions disappearing
"Ack!" Kel bent backwards dodging a clone flying past him and Zero, well, he kinda had an encounter with at least six clones bowling him over...
"It's super useless!" Tazuna shouted.
"We only have one chance!" Naruto cried digging in his bag "Sasuke!" he tossed something to Sasuke. Catching whatever it was, I saw it was a single blade, like a scythe without the pole. As if Sasuke knew what to do, he held out the blade and it began to unfold.
"Evil windmill shuriken!" he said "Shadow shuriken no jutsu!" Sasuke flashed out of sight and reappeared in the sky hurling the shuriken at Zabuza. Instead of hitting the Zabuza water clone, it flew straight to the real Zabuza holding Kakashi captive!
"Wha da?!" I exclaimed "I didn't know you can control which direction shurikens go!!"
"Course! You can control it using your chakra!" Sakura said.
"Nice try" Zabuza (The real one) said reaching his free arm out "But not good enough!" snatching the shuriken out of mid-air, his eyes widened as another shuriken zoomed towards him
"Another shuriken hiding in the first ones shadow?" Sakura said in awe "So this is shadow shuriken no jutsu!"
"Still not good enough!" Zabuza shouted jumping over the shuriken as it sliced beneath him
"No way!" Kel, Zero and Tazuna-san cried together, I was too surprised to even yell WARK! Or something along those lines...
Behind Zabuza where the shuriken flew freely, there was a puff of smoke as Naruto hung in the air where the shuriken was a moment ago, now this time...
"WARK?!?! NANI?!?!" I shouted
"Now!" Naruto shouted whipping a kunai at Zabuza.
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The kunai soared straight for Zabuza's arm that held Kakashi's water prison. He couldn't catch it with his other arm cause the shuriken was in it and his other hand was in the prison, so pulling his arm out of the bubble he jumped out of the way of the kunai. Instantly I smelled blood and peered at Zabuza, under his eye, was a tiny cut where blood seeped out, on top of that, the Zabuza water clone got hit by the same kunai and disappeared into a puddle.
"He actually hit him" Kel said with a touch of amazement in his voice
"Aw I could've done that" Zero boasted
"Then why didn't you?" I asked raising my eyebrows
"I didn't feel like it"
"YOU DORK!" I shouted sticking my foot in his face
"Get your foot outta my face before I seriously kick your ass!!"
"You damned pervert!"
"Shut up!"
"Ah whatever Puffy cakes!!" I said and ran to the lake
"It's ZERO!!"
"You damn kid!" Zabuza shouted the windmill shuriken spinning in his hand
"Naruto! Run! Er, Swim away!" I shouted hooking an explosive note on a shuriken of my own and throwing it to Zabuza's feet. With horror Zabuza knocked my kunai/explosive back at me! Landing where I was standing, the note detonated sending me careening into a tree
"Hey you ok?" Kel called rushing towards me
" Moon nerds get their pants pulled down and spanked with moon rocks" I half consciously said seeing the whole world spin, when it all stopped, everyone was upside down
"Anything broken besides your skull?" Zero asked poking me
"Hey you guys might wanna see a caropractor, your all upside down" I said with my brain only half working, I felt something pull my foot down and I fell face first and looked up seeing everything back to normal "Nevermind, your all ok now"
"Maybe that hit to the tree rattled her brain a bit" Kel said
"Man it was rattled the second we met her" Zero said shaking his head. Standing up, I raced back to the lake where the scenario was still as it was before I got blasted by my own note
"Naruto-kun! Swim away!!" I stopped at the bank of the lake, I dunno if I know how to swim!!
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"Die!" Zabuza pulled his arm back ready to release the spinning shuriken, I turned away and covered my eyes. There was a clash and a splash, removing my arms and felt my mouth drop open
"Kakashi!" I stared seeing the shuriken blade impaled in Kakashi's hand, dark red blood dripped into the lake water
"Nice work Naruto, you too Kiako" he said
"It was simple really" Naruto said grinning "The objective of the Kage bunshin no jutsu wasn't to defeat Zabuza, I just thought that maybe, maybe if we set you free we'd have a chance!"
"You made up a plan in less then ten minutes?" I asked
"Yup, when the clones all got knocked away, there was one clone remaining" he explained "Then I transformed into the windmill shuriken and my clone threw me to Sasuke. As soon as he grabbed it, he knew it was me and preformed Shadow shuriken no jutsu and as the shuriken flew to Zabuza I hide in it's shadow and then, success!"
"That was smart thinking" I rubbed at my head. I looked back at Zabuza to try and see his reaction, yet there was none. Giving the shuriken a twist, Zabuza flooded the shuriken right on Kakashi's hand
"You cheap bastard!" I yelled
"Kiako stay where you are!" Kakashi ordered. With a grunt he flung the shuriken away and jumped back from Zabuza and began to do a multiple of seals
"Huh?" I looked from Zabuza to Kakashi and back again, they were doing the exact same handseals
"Bird!" they shouted at the same time "Water element, water dragon no jutsu!" In a dangerously beautiful wave, the water on both Kakashi's and Zabuza's side began to rise assuming the shapes of dragons. I watched in awe as they clashed, biting each other and disappearing in a splash of water, I was so concentrated on them I didn't even hear Naruto screaming as he was swept away by the current.
In between the cascades of water, I saw Kakashi using a kunai to deflect Zabuza's head cleaver sword. They finally broke and circled each other, then without warning, Kakashi and Zabuza both shot one of their arms up in the air in half a tiger seal and the other hand in front of their mouths in the same half seal.
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Third person P.O.V
Something's wrong, Zabuza thought. He's-
"Copying my every move right?" Kakashi said. Zabuza's eyes widened and he lowered his hands into another seal and Kakashi followed at the exact same moment. Every muscle in his body was tense
How'd he know what I was thinking? Zabuza thought with confusion, Man that-
"Freaky eye is creeping me out right?" Kakashi said again finishing his thought
Kiako P.O.V
I stared in amazement, Kakashi had said some things and Zabuza seemed freaked.
"ARG!" Zabuza snarled
"I'll shut your mouth you monkey bastard!" both Kakashi and Zabuza said at the same time, his eyes widened in shock. While he was in shock, Kakahshi did one more seal
"Water element! Water explosion no jutsu!" Kakashi said. A ring of water appeared in front of Kakashi and sent a tsunami of water towards Zabuza, I looked around the lake for Naruto and saw him clinging on a branch
"Tidal wave!" Zero pointed. I looked up and water crashed on top of me.
As I swirled around, I held my breath, this is so not helping my asthma!! Just when I felt like my lungs would explode in my rib cage, I felt someone heave me over the surface of the water. I couched and sputtered sucking in as much air as I could
"You ok?" a water logged Kel said holding onto a tree. I nodded still coughing
"Kiako!" Sakura waded over to me with Tazuna and Sasuke "We should find Naruto and Sasuke!"
"M'kay!" I replied
"We should be able to find them if we follow the current!" Kel said "Just stay floating!"
"But I sink like a rock!" I said pointing to my bag
"Yo! Kiako-chan!" I looked up and saw Kosarai
"Kosarai-san!" I was happy to see him, so happy!!
"Don't worry, hand me your bag, that way you won't drown" he splashed down from the tree beside me and took hold of my backpack "The water in this lake is salt water so you should be able to float no problem!"
"Really? How?" I asked
"It's all Science! You'll learn in grade 8"
"Aww..."
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Letting the current carry us, we made it to another clearing. Currently, Naruto was shaking the water out of his hair and Zabuza was against a tree with kunais in his arms and legs
"Are...Can you see in the future?" he groaned
"Yes" I looked up and saw Kakashi in a tree "And your future, is death" All of a sudden two glints flew in and struck Zabuza in the back of the neck, he gave a cry of agony then fell. Kakashi jumped down and looked at his fallen body
"Your right, his future was death" we all looked into another tree and saw a person with a mask on, I couldn't tell if it was a guy of girl, well, it sounded like a boy, but his hair was long and in pigtails! With a bun on top of his head! Hmmm, aww great now I got another mystery in my head!!
"Thank goodness you caught him," the boy said jumping down and picking up Zabuza's body with ease "I will dispose of the body" he did a half tiger seal and was gone.
"Dammit!" Naruto punched the ground
"Something wrong?" Kosarai-san asked "Here's your bag"
"Thank you" I said slipping it back on.
"Dammit!" Naruto punched the ground continuously "It took everything we had to try and beat him! Then this kid comes along and just kills him!"
"Naruto, calm down" Kakashi said slipping back on his forehead protector "It's just the life of a shinobi"
"Aren't you angry?!" Naruto shouted "All that hard work?! Wasted!! And we get nothing from any of it!! How.... How are we so weak!?!" He stopped when Kakashi put his hand on his head
"It's just the life of the shinobi, It's ok, you will get stronger" he said and took a step forward. He suddenly stopped and I saw him shudder
"Kakashi?" I walked over to him "Kakashi are you ok?" His knees crumbled beneath him and he collapsed
"Kakashi!!"
"Sensei?!"
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"Kakashi!" Everyone rushed to where he laid, Kosarai kneeled beside him
"We better get to somewhere dry" he said hauling Kakashi up from under his arms. I zoomed beside him and helped carry Kakashi
"But where is there somewhere that's dry?" Sakura asked "Even I'm not dry!"
"There was a clearing here somewhere, I checked it out before" Kosarai said pointing beyond a few trees.
Setting Kakashi down gently, we immediately set up camp, Kosarai grabbed a few branches and pointing the tip of his sword into the middle of it, made a fire burst magically.
"Hopefully we can all get dry before it gets dark" Kosarai sand "It gets cold around here at night, trust me" I dug in my backpack and pulled out seven towels
"Here" I tossed a towel to everyone
"How come you can cram so much stuff into that bag?!" Zero asked draping the towel over his shoulders
"I dunno! Ask the people who made the damn bag!" I said "Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna go squeeze the water out of my kimono"
"Just don't go too far" Kosarai said.
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I took off my kimono and squeezed the water out of it as it all splashed back into the lake. Nothing like returning water from the lake to the lake. I swear I could have my own private pond with all the water that came out!!
"Ho boy..." I muttered as water still dripped out of the pink silk, on top of that my clothes were still wet too. I light flashed over my head and a small ping rang. I looked up and my head was suddenly dunked in the water. I heard another splash and I lifted my head out of the water sputtering and shaking water out of my fur and eyes
"Geez! What kind of place is this to land! No da!" Looking up, I saw a shivering boy with blue hair and his eyes were into upward curves like he was smiling. He was also wearing a beige-ish kind of Japanese shirt, a bead necklace with both green and red beads and he had a big purple cloth with a green swirly pattern covering his right shoulder and a golden staff similar to Miroku's. Just nicer looking
"Excuse me, no da" the boy said shivering "Could you please help me out? It's really cold...." Grabbing the boys hand and hauling him back to the bank, he still shivered.
"It's-It's so cold here no da!" he said
"Come on, me and my friends are camped out over there" I said slipping my kimono back on. It was still wet but not as much as before.
"Hey Kiako!" Kosarai greeted with a kettle boiling over the fire, probably making tea "You dry yet?"
"I met someone at the lake" I said gesturing to the shivering boy "And no I'm still wet as a dog"
"H-Hi no da!" he said hugging himself for warmth.
"How can you be as wet as a dog when your a cat?"
"Can it Naruto..."
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After we wrapped the boy in another towel and a spare blanket I found in my back, and after I changed to the warm robes of the white mage dress sphere, Kosarai handed the boy a mug with tea in it, he drank it gratefully
"Ah!" the boy let his breath out along with a small white puff as his warm breath contrasted with the cold air "Thank you! Now I feel better! No da." he smiled.
"So what's your name?" Sakura asked
"Oh! My name's Chichiri! No da!" he said sipping his tea again "So who're you guys?"
"I'm Uzimaki Naruto!!"
"I'm Haruno Sakura"
"Uchiha, Sasuke"
"I'm-"
"Mr. Puffy cakes!"
"Shut up you stupid cat! I'm Tazuna"
"Kelvis Draken, nice to meet you"
"I'm Zero! Master theif!"
"If you can be called a master..."
"What'd you say porcupine head?"
"Ninja puffy cakes!!"
"Heh, I'm Kosarai"
"And I'm Kiako Ornitier" I smiled
"AKA the super hyper annoying kid that speaks gibberish and is amazed by shiny objects and simple things" Zero said. I hit him over the head with my fist
"That's mean! Only I can say that about myself!" I shouted
"Who's that over there?" Chichiri asked pointing to where a couple of silver hairs poked out of the end of a bed roll
"Oh, that's our teacher Kakashi-sensei" Naruto said "We just had a big battle! So he's tired"
"Oh? I see, no da" Chichiri said sipping again. I noted that since his hair was dry, his bangs automatically stood up, talk about gravity defying!! WHOO!! GRAVITY DEFYING BANGS! IT'S SO AMAZING!!! Oh boy I really need Kuro here, maybe her hitting my head kept my brain in check....
"Kiako why're you waving your arms around?"
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"Mr. Puffy- er Tazuna" I said, heh heh, Puffy Tazuna.... "How much farther is your village? We can't carry Kakashi forever"
"We should reach it by tomorrow" he said gruffly "We can stay at my house until you teacher wakes up"
"Can I tag along no na da?" Chichiri asked "I need to look for my friends no da"
"Sure" Kel said
"Hey! It's sensei's decision!!" Sakura said
"We're not traveling with you, just at the same pace as you" Zero said "So there, ha ha!"
"Makes sense" Sasuke said
"If it's ok with Sasuke-kun ok then! The more the merrier!!" Sakura said.
"We should get some rest if we're gonna make it to the village by tomorrow" Kosarai said "Hit the sacs!!"
"Yessir" I said laughing and saluting.
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I opened my drowsy eyes.
"Oh god night time still??" I muttered trying to roll over but ended up falling out the tree I was sleeping in, Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I peered around the camp and saw everyone was asleep. Jumping out of the tree I was sleeping in (I let Chichiri sleep in my bed roll and Kosarai had his own, Kel and Zero, I have no idea where those two went) I walked over to where Kakashi was still resting and looked for his hand. After finding it, it had dried blood crusted all over it
"Oh boy..." I took out some tissues and a bottle of water along with some antiseptic and bandages.
"You really care about him huh no da?"
"He's my friend, I'd do anything for my friends" I said nodded pulling a knot of Kakashi's bandage "Hey, what're you doing up?"
"The bell around your neck woke me up" Chichiri said yawning
"Opps, gomen" I said bringing my hand up to hold the tiny bell. It tinkled and I smiled
"So, we're you come from? Your not exactly human" Chichiri said sitting beside me
"I am human, just this isn't my dimension" I explained "Back in my world I'm just your average annoying teenage kid"
"No your not, your different then most girls I've met no da"
"Huh?" I tilted my head to the side "Well, it is true I'm the outsider in my class, and on top of that I have more enemies and fights and less friends then the average girl" He smiled, which made me smile, which made me feel all fuzzy inside.
"So where're you from?" I asked
"Me? No da?" he said looking up "I can't really say no da" We sat in silence, listening to the crackle of the fire.
"Look, no da" Chichiri said pointing up at the sky. Tilting my head upwards, I felt my mouth drop open
"S-Sugoi!" I breathed as the moon poked out from behind the clouds "It's so big!" I swear, it was HUGE! The size of a volley ball up close! I swear it was HUUUUGE!!! I stared at the moon in silent fascination
"Hm, your much more mellow at night time no da" Chichiri said
"Well, mostly everything I do in the day time is involuntary" I said rubbing behind my head in embarrassment. Again we sat in silence. I grabbed my bag and began rummaging through it for my pencil and sketch book.
I examined Chichiri and started drawing his face, which was easy. The drawing wasn't realistic or anything, I only draw in an anime manga kinda of way.... I thought of a chibi me doing a tragic sigh in my head. Woe on me for being a horrible artist. Well I'm not horrible but not really good either.... Woe on me... When I finally got to Chichiri's bangs, I kept looking from his hair, to my paper and back again at least ten times
"It, there something in my hair no da??" Chichiri asked
"No." I said still looking from my paper to his gravity defying bangs "GRR!" I growled in frustration and shoved my book and pencil back into my bag
"What is it? No da?"
"Congratulations! Your hair is the hardest to draw!" I said slumping "That or I am not meant to be an artist! AHH!!" I hit my head with my fists. I knew exactly what Kuro would say if I told her. She'd say, OH GOD YOU SUCK!!!
"Aw don't get upset about it no da" Chichiri said "You just have to practice"
"I guess, I'll probably be able to draw properly in another thousand years..." I groaned.
"Aw, don't be so hard on yourself no da" Chichiri said patting my shoulder
"Yeah but self criticism is my way to push myself," I said "Plus my friends Kuro and D3pa1 help me by cruising my work too!"
"That's your problem no da," he said "You have no self esteem no na da, try to put more faith into yourself ok? No da?"
"Ok, I'll try" I smiled.
"Now you better get some sleep no da" Chichiri said scratching behind my ears, ooh, that feels nice.... My eyes began to droop
"Don't scratch me there..." I muttered sleepily
"Oh! So scratching behind your ears makes you sleep huh? No da!" Chichiri said "I wonder what'd happen if I tickled the back of your neck! No da!"
"Oh no no no!" I giggled as his fingers lightly brushed over my neck "Noo! I'm being attacked by tickles!" I felt something behind my ears
"Go to sleep now" Chichiri said hugging me. Oh god he's so warm!! I fell asleep before my eyes even closed
"Good kitty"
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"Good morning no da!"
"Ohiyou..." I muttered and fell out of the tree
"Are you ok no da?"
"Trees...evil... hurt..." I said, then felt a rubbing on my head
"It's just a bump, I'm sure you'll be fine" Chichiri smiled rubbing my head
"Morning already?" Sakura grumbled rubbing her eyes
"Yup" Kosarai-san said "Morning Kiako, Chichiri" he grinned.
"Hey!" Zero called pushing though the bushes and holding up a rabbit "I caught breakfast!!"
"NOOOO!!! How dare you eat the poor bunny rabbit?!?!?!" I shouted waving my arms around
"Well what other thing can we have??!" Zero demanded. I blinked at him a few times then rummaged in my bag
"I found cereal, granola bars, trail mix, Coffee Crisp, gum oh wait that's my eraser and nutri-bars, Oh and I think these are Life savers, Back off! The green ones are mine!!" I said "Take your pick"
"Wow, Miaka would probably eat everything in your bag!" Chichiri said taking a nutri-bar
"Miaka?"
"She's a friend of mine, she's always studying for what she calls entrance exams and she loves to eat"
"Ah" Kosarai said putting out the fire
"Set the rabbit free!" I said in a commanding tone to Zero
"After all the trouble of me catching it? No way!" Zero said holding up the rabbit "When we have dinner I'm not sharing!" As I fumed over the rabbit, Chichiri walked over to Zero and smacked him in the head with his staff
"OWW! What the hell are you doing?!?!"
"Setting it free" Chichiri said untying the rabbit and stroking it's ears before letting it hop away
"NOOO!! MY SUPPER!!!"
"Yay! Save the bunnies!" I shouted. Chichiri turned and smiled, his gravity defying bangs bobbing up and down
"Shall we get going?"
"Ok! Everyone's got some breakfast and we're all in a good mood right?" I asked carrying Kakashi on my back, course his feet dragged which was a problem...
"I'm ready" Kel said munching on a granola bar
"Me too...." Zero sulked, hmm, I wonder why he ain't eatting, probably his shiny helmet.
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"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No..."
"Are we there now?"
"NO! DAMMIT SHUT UP YOU STUPID CAT!!" Tazuna yelled
"It's just too much fun annoying you guys!!" I laughed shifting my shoulders
"Just.. be quiet..." There was a long pause of silence.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" I asked over and over again
"That's it! Your dead!" Zero cried drawing a kunai
"Oh damn...." I muttered
"I suggest you start running!"
"I shall commence then!" I began to zig zag and run in circles and up trees
"She's so cute when she's running for her life" Kosarai grinned putting Kakashi over his shoulder
"Yeah, no da." Chichiri smiled, well, he always smiles pretty much, oh well!
"Get back here!" Zero shouted as I ran near a tree and Zero passed right through me smacking right into the tree
"Huh?" Everyone blinked for a moment
"AHAHAHAA!!" I laughed falling out of the tree I was hiding in and clutching my stomached "You actually fell for my clone!"
"DIE! DIE DIE DIE!!!"
"Ahh!"
"Hey! You two!" Tazuna called "We're here!"
"Chocolate thun-da!!" I screamed running around "Are we there yet?"
"YES WE ARE!! AREN'T YOU LISTENING?!?!?!"
"Nope" I started forward and slammed into a solid wall of muscle
"Ogre!" Chichiri said pulling back on my collar.
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The air suddenly filled with a mesmerizing song and a strange warmth took over
"Ahh! It's so cold!" Sakura squealed
"Are you serious? I'm slowly baking!" I said rubbing my head. There was a sound of an eagle then a birds singing. Next thing I knew it, a blue red flaming something flew over my head and tackled the ogre. Then it flew into the sky and I saw, it was a phoenix.
"Suzaku?" Chichiri said "Wait, it doesn't look like the Suzaku I studied..."
Then phoenix let out a screech and beating it's feathers set a wave of black fire towards the ogre setting it a flame. It roared in anguish and disappeared in a swirl of fire.
"Whoa" I blinked. The Phoenix was looking right at me and after preening it's feathers, began to slowly walk towards me. Chichiri back up slightly and threw himself in front of me holding out his arm defensively and his staff at the ready
"This isn't the god Suzaku," he said "The Suzaku I studied was a bird of red fire, not this red and blue one that spouts out black fire!"
"Hey you didn't say no da" Naruto pointed out. I stared at the phoenix, straight in the eye, oh man my vision's splitting to double again!!
"Chichiri," I put my hand on his shoulder "I want to try something"
"It might fry you no da"
"I feel like, I know it" I said smiling reassuringly, but my smile could've scared him even more, I dunno, been a while since I last saw myself smile. I walked to the phoenix, feeling it's intense heat
"May I ask a question?" I said. The giant bird fluffed it's feathers up with it beak and nodded, it's eyes filled with amusement
"If a number was doubled and multiplied by five then you have a new number," I started "Then divide it from the first number and subtract seven, what's the number?" The bird screeched and began batting me with it's wings
"Kiako duck!" Chichiri cried throwing a piece of paper with writing on it; I reconized it as a talisman, or a shikigami or whatever. I gotta review my stuff.... The bird cooed and the paper burst into a black ball of fire
"Your gonna need more then that puny piece of paper" the phoenix was engulfed by flames and a very familiar silhoutte was behind the fire
"Oh and the answer to your silly question is three" A black mage walked out of the flames "Yo"
"Yo, Kuro Suzaku"
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Author's notes: I'm sorry, it's just that when I saw Chichiri in a Fushigi Yugi manga I borrowed from the library, I just HAD to put him in here! I just love him so much!!!!
Zero: Geez, obsess much?
Kiako: Shut up puffy cakes...
Chichiri: Puffy cakes no da?
Sorry if I got some stuff wrong in the Zabuza and Kakashi fight, my computer crapped out on me and I had no time to re watch the eps. I'm also sorry if the end or the whole thing bored you....TT I hope you enjoyed this chapter though!! Bye!!