Uh ... This update didn't take as long as I thought ... I think it's pretty long compared to my other ones. I have nothing else to say 0o
Breaking the Habit
Part nine
" ... Urgh ... " I moaned slowly opening my eyes. I had awakened to see Kakashi Sensei carrying me on his back with my arms around his neck and him supporting my legs. "What ... Happened?" I asked yawning.
"Hmm? Oh, you're awake!" He said cheerfully, Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura looked up at me.
"I'm tired ... And where are we?"
"Were leaving the Land of Waves!" The blonde haired ninja exclaimed. "We beat Zabuza and Haku ... "
I looked over at Sasuke with a questioning expression on my face. "Zabuza and Haku both died." He said. "Soon after Gatou and a team of his men came along, Zabuza killed some of his men and then along with Gatou after Kakashi got rid of Haku."
"Oh, well, cheers to a mission accomplished!" I said happily.
"Yeah! Once we get back I'm gonna get Iruka Sensei to fix me up a whole lot of ramen to celebrate!" Naruto said smiling. "And wait until I tell Konohamaru, the kid's gonna worship me!"
"Hey," Sakura suddenly said.
"What?"
"Not you, Sasuke when we get back do you wanna go out and do something?"
"I don't think so, thanks." He said in a bored voice. Sakura stopped for a minute and we kept walking, Naruto quickly went up to her and asked her if they'd want to do something instead.
I waited until both of them were a few feet behind us then I poked Sasuke in the shoulder with my foot and he started up at me 'Wanna do something when we get back?' I mouthed.
'Sure.' He mouthed back and I smiled.
The two of them caught up with us after they were done and Sakura never ended up going out with Naruto.
Pretty much of the rest of the walk back to the Hidden Leaf Village was silent until Kakashi Sensei suddenly stopped walking, Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke turned around. "Uh, you know I can get off your back if you need me to." I told him. "Really, I think I can walk fine, I don't mind ... "
"No," He said. "why don't we take a break?"
"But were almost there!" Naruto whined.
"It'll only be for five minutes, I need to discuss something important with Chi."
"You do?" I asked.
"Yes, you three stay here for the next few minutes. I'll be a little farther into the woods, call my name if you need something." They all nodded and Kakashi Sensei took me into the woods.
He pulled me off his back and stood me in front of him. "What's so important?" He bent down to my level, making me feel shorter then I already am.
"How come you never told me? Or anyone else in that matter?" He was serious now.
"What do you mean?"
"I think you know perfectly what I mean."
"No, no I really don't." I said starting to aggravated. "Tell me what this is all about!"
He sighed. "The transformation you went though back at the bridge ... "
"Oh ... That ... I still don't know how that happened ... "
"You mean, you never knew you had the curse?"
"Nope, what curse?"
"It's called the Tiger Curse, I'll tell you all I know about it since I do suppose you have the right to know." He paused for a moment. "Every five hundred years someone is born with something called the Tiger Curse, in this case you, and from the day that, that person is born the tiger gets stronger everyday. Eventually when the person becomes around your age the Tiger Curse will show it self. Now, it can only show it self at certain times."
"When?"
"Well, it can only be shown though emotion; Confusion, anger, sadness, happiness, and one other. No one knows what is yet."
"But I've no doubt been though one of them a whole lot of times, how come it didn't show?"
"It has to be all at once with a certain amount of Chakra."
"Oh, am I able to release it on free will or not?"
"I'm not to sure." He said straitening him self up.
"Hey, Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto's voice came. "Are you almost done? We wanna get going!"
"I guess we should go shouldn't we?" I said starting to walk away.
"Chi," I turned around and faced Kakashi.
"Yeah?"
"You are not to speak of this to anyone, I'm serious. You can't even tell Sasuke."
"What? Wait, how'd you know?" I took to long to ask because he already walked past me and I immediately followed.
We all were back on course within seconds and already I had at least a million questions in my mind that I wanted answers to. Why do I have to have some stupid curse? How does Kakashi sensei know about Sasuke and me? Why can't I tell anyone about the curse thing I born with? Am I going to die? Why only every five hundred years someone gets it? How come no body told me before? Did my parents know? After a long while of thinking, oddly enough I had noticed I was a lot like Naruto in a weird way.
We both don't have any parents, we were both different from everyone else, we raised ourselves, and most of all we both have a demon inside of us.
We got to the Hidden Leaf Village at around sunset and we all split up and went home. Sasuke was supposed to come to my place at quarter after seven because we had both figured they might all get suspicious if we went to ether one of are houses together. Since we both live on opposite sides of are village.
I reached home in a few minutes and I opened the door and walked inside and took off my shoes. It was cold and dark inside ... Well, I guess that's what anyone would expect if they left their house for a week with out heat and light.
I went upstairs into my bedroom and flopped down onto the old futon I had for a bed and sighed. He'll be here in fifteen more minutes, should I change? He won't so I probably should ...
I opened my small walk-in closet and pulled out a baggy pair of jeans and a nice black top. I pulled my long hair into a low phony tail and looked at myself in the bathroom mirror and smiled. "Chi, I think you've out done yourself this time!"
I herd the doorbell come from downstairs. "Hmm, I wonder that could be?" I said sarcastically. I opened the door and Sasuke was standing in front of me with his hands in his pockets.
"Hey ..." He said.
"Hey, wanna come in?" I stepped out of the way ad he walked in and I shut the door. "What's up?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing ..."
"Yeah, same." I said looking at the floor. "How're you feeling?"
"What d'you mean?"
"From earlier today, you know?"
I think this is the first time in my entire life that I had appreciated the floor so much.
"That, yeah I'm fine."
"That's good then."
"Uh huh."
We were silent for what seemed like forever.
"Nice place you got here."
"Thanks,"
About an hour later we were downstairs (A/N: Or ... a real nice basement if that's what you wanna call it.) just sitting on the couch next to each other and Sasuke's arm was around my shoulder and we were talking. Romantic much? No, not really ...
"So ... " He started. "Why did Kakashi drag you into the woods to talk about?"
I knew that question would come up sooner or later, I just still didn't know how the heck I would answer it yet. "Uh, just about something that happened on the bridge." He raised an eyebrow. "Okay not really, I would tell you. Trust me I would. But he told me not to tell anyone."
"That's fine then."
"Really? I mean ... Sure."
I herd him laugh, that's a first. "We haven't talked a lot before this have we?"
"Not really I suppose."
"We barely know anything about each other do we?"
"Nope, why? Do you want me to tell you about me?"
"That's up to you, I was just saying that 'cause it's true."
"Oh, even if I tell you about me you probably won't tell me about you? Am I right?" (A/N: That ... took me five minutes to figure out what I was writing in the first sentence ... )
"Chance's are you're right."
"Yeah," I said feeling real stupid. "You know what I just noticed?"
"What?"
"I barely did anything on are missions yet."
"Sakura didn't do anything ether."
"Well, that's Sakura, what do you expect?" (A/N: Sorry to anyone who likes Sakura!)
"You're right."
"What do you think are next task will be?"
"Probably de-weeding or something stupid."
"Heh, Kakashi sensei will probably think that's best after are last one."
We sat there for a few more hours and talked to each other until we both fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning next to Sasuke like the night before. I yawned and rubbed my eyes. "Are you awake?" I said in a sleepy voice.
"Nope."
"Aren't we supposed to meet Kakashi sensei and the others this morning so we can start new task things?"
"We still have another hour."
"Oh, okay. Do you want something to eat until then?"
"I don't care, what do you have?"
"Not to much, just mostly cereal, waffles, and pancakes ..."
"Can I have some waffles?" Ever in my entire life have I even imagined Sasuke would eat waffles. Think about it, the almighty Uchiha Sasuke likes waffles!
"Okay."
We both walked upstairs and into the kitchen and had breakfast and Sasuke waited for me while I took a quick five second shower and got dressed into different clothes. I put my leaf headband on and we left.
Sasuke and me Sakura down at the small bridge connecting one side of the village to the other. Naruto got there about ten minutes after us, Kakashi Sensei arrived hours later like usual with the same excuse as always, 'I got lost on the path of life'. He also gave us a handful of 'missions' consisting mainly of errands and household chores.
Naruto ended up messing up most of them by trying to prove himself to Sasuke. He not only de-weeded a lady's garden but had removed all her herbs as well. He almost got pulled over a water fall until Sasuke saved him (Yet again) and he chose the biggest dog to walk and instead it kept taking him the other way around and into a closed off area.
Kakashi sensei soon told the four of us to go home because he sensed it was an off day for teamwork.
The young Uchiha took another shot at Naruto by telling him that if he doesn't want to owe him anything Naruto will need to become stronger then him. Then he left to go home but Sakura run up to him and asked if he would like to practice a technique or two with her, he told her that she was just like Naruto and that she should practice before asking him. And that her level was even lower then Naruto's.
When he left I went up to her and told her not to worry about him and that I haven't done a lot out of the four of us ether.
I returned to the bridge about twenty minutes later. Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke (Who, oddly enough was sitting on a thick tree branch in a tree with a stone in his hand.), three little kids (Probably friends of Naruto ... ), and four other unfamiliar ninja's from another village were there.
One was a girl with blonde hair in four short but long phony tails, she whore light purple clothes, she also had what looked like a huge folded fan strapped onto her back, another had dark purple designs all on his face, he whore all black clothes that were mostly covering his entire body from head to toe, and he had what looked like to be a wrapped up corpse on his back. The third one was hanging upside down on the tree branch opposite of Sasuke, he had short red hair, he whore clothes that would be good if you were going though the desert, and had something on his back like the other two but I had no clue what it was. The last one was a boy with long black and red hair, he wore simple ripped jeans and a long dark coat, and unlike the others had nothing strapped to his back.
"What's going on?" I asked walking up beside Sakura.
"Outsiders." She whispered.
"Oh." I nodded and turned my attention back to them.
"You're an embarrassment to our village." The red haired ninja said to the guy dressed in black. "Have you forgotten why we are here?"
"I know, I mean, they challenged us, here's what happened-"
"That's not true is it?" I asked Sakura.
"Not a word." She said.
"Shut up." The red haired guy said.
"Yeah, sorry I was totally out of line, sorry Gaara." From the looks of it he sounded and seemed pretty scared of Gaara.
"I'm sorry for any trouble he may have caused." He said looking over at Sasuke. He vanished and then re-appeared on the ground and faced away from us. "Let's go, we didn't come here to play games."
"Alright." They started walking away but Sakura took a few steps forward.
"Hold on!" She said and they all stopped and turned around. "I can tell by your headband that you come from the Village hidden in the sand. Of course the land of fire and the land of wind are allays but no Shinobi can enter another's village without permission, so state your purpose and it better be good!"
"Really?" the girl with the blonde hair said. "Have you been living under a rock or what? You don't know what's going on do you? We have permission." She pulled out what looked like an ID with her picture on it and other information. I saw it said her name was 'Temari' "Of course you're right, we are hidden sand Genin our home is the land of the wind and were here for the Chuunin exam." She put her ID back into her pocket.
"The Chuunin exams, what's that?" Naruto asked. "Well, I never herd of any exams. Believe it."
"I 'Believe it' alright, that you're totally clue-less."
"Hey boss," said one of the little kids, Konohamaru, the Hokage's grandson. "that's the exam every Genin has to take to graduate to become a full on Chuunin."
"Oh, well why didn't you say so? I am so there!"
They all turned around and started walking away again. Sasuke jumped down from the tree and spoke. "Hey you."
"You mean me?" Temari said pointing to herself.
"No, him the guy with the thing on his back." He pointed at Gaara.
"My name is Gaara of the desert, I curious about you to. Who are you?"
"I'm Uchiha Sasuke."
"Hi there! I bet you're dying to know my name to?" Naruto said pointing a finger to himself.
"I could care less what your name is." They kept walking and left.
Naruto asked Konohamaru if he was un cool or something. "Naruto if you want a real answer don't ask pre-schoolers okay?" I told him. They both got mad at me and I laughed.
The four of us (Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, and Chi) met at the same bridge we did yesterday at 7:30 this morning. "Why! Why! Why!" Sakura screamed in frustration. "It's insane, Kakashi sensei set's the time and we have to wait hours for it! What about my feelings? I rushed here so fast I didn't have to blow dry my hair!"
"And I didn't have enough time to brush my teeth or change my underwear!" Naruto said.
"You didn't? That's really disgusting ... " I told him.
Kakashi sensei appeared across from us. "Good morning everyone! I'm sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of live."
"YOU LAIR!" Naruto and Sakura shouted in unison.
Kakashi sensei ignored them and went on speaking. "I know this is a bit sudden but I recommended you for the Chuunin exams, all four of you. These are your application forms." He held out four slips of paper each one with our names and other information on it.
"Application forms?" I asked curiously looking at them.
"You're repeating me Chi, this is voluntary this is all up to you if you want to participate. If you don't feel ready you can wait until next year. Who ever wants to take the exams sign the application and come to room 301 at the academy, it's at 3:30 five days from now."
"Count me in." I said taking my slip and reading it over.
This is sort of important ... Well, yeah anyway I'm sorry I haven't gotten much fighting or anything in for Chi but I hope I will be able to real, real soon so ... look forward to it is all I can really say ...
And yeah, I'm confused, what is a Mary Sue? Is it an OC that is just there to take place for the writer and is exactly like them in personality/looks/interests/ and ect? Or is just a girl OC overall? 'Cause I'm just gonna say now that I'm nothing at all like Chi and I didn't really even tell you how to picture her, I left it all up to you.
But whatever, I just wanted to know ...
-Kai