Two chapters in one day :P Aren't I cool:D
Previously...
Itachi nodded and right before he leapt off the fox's back, Kireina grabbed his arm, "How old are you Itachi?"
"I will be turning 21."
Kireina nodded, "I'd like it if I could be your older sister as well."
For once, a look of surprise entered his face before he allowed himself to smile slightly, "I think I'd like that too."
Kireina released his arm and smiled. The peace was shattered though when Mizuno appeared, out of breath.
"What is it Mizu?" Kireina asked worriedly.
"Cloud just attacked!"
Continued...
Kireina wasted no time performing more seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Itachi jumped from Kyuune's back onto Daisuke's so he was riding with Sasuke. Kakashi easily settled in behind Kireina. The white tiger with silver stripes that Kireina had summoned became Kisame's ride. His name was Himitsu (Secret).
"Mizu! Fly ahead and help them out as much as you can. We'll be there shortly,' Kireina instructed.
With everyone on a summoning of some sort, the pace picked up and it wasn't long before the group spied the battle. The chuunin at the gates were doing pretty well holding off the attacking shinobi but it was obvious if they didn't receive help soon, Konoha would be invaded.
"Kyuune! I need you to take your normal form," Kireina said.
The fox nodded her head. Kireina held on tightly and made sure Kakashi had a good grip too. Kyuune began to grow bigger and bigger until she was just a little smaller than Kyuubi.
"Himitsu, Yuki, you guys go into Konoha and help evacuate the children. Himitsu, drop Kisame off first, he can help defend the gates. Yuki, take Naruto to Iruka and help them hide the civilians. As soon as you're sure they're safe, bring Naruto back to the gates and he'll defend. Daisuke, you'll have to go to your normal size too. Follow me and Kyuune. We'll attack from the back," Kireina gave her orders and the group split up. Daisuke had grown to around the same size as Kyuune, possibly a little larger.
Kyuune and Daisuke sprinted forward and leapt into the attacking shinobi. The defending chuunin breathed a sigh of relief when they noticed Kireina and Kakashi. Kyuune grabbed several men with her tails and dropped them which was a very efficient way of killing nine men at once. Daisuke made short work of several ninjas by just stepping on them. Itachi jumped off of Daisuke's back and began fighting. Kireina and Kakashi stayed on Kyuune using the jutsus they had accumulated over time. By the time Konoha backup got there, more than half of the Cloud shinobi had already been taken care of. When Akatsuki arrived, the Cloud decided it wasn't worth the trouble and retreated. Kyuune and Daisuke shrunk back to the size they had been before. Kireina lightly jumped off of Kyuune's back followed by Kakashi and Sasuke.
"Bring all the injured here. Kyuune and Daisuke will get them to the hospital faster. If there are any critical injuries, bring them immediately to me," Kireina told Kakashi and Sasuke.
The two guys nodded before running off. Kireina hurried through familiar seals before biting her thumb and swiping the blood on her wrist. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Puffs of smoke appeared and when it cleared, in front of Kireina stood two large horses. The female was silver with gold streaks in her mane and tail and golden eyes and the male was as black as night with silver streaks and silver eyes.
"Yume (Dream), Akumu (Nightmare), I need your help carrying the wounded to Konoha hospital," Kireina explained, "You guys will be able to get them their faster than any of us can."
Yume and Akumu merely nodded. Sasuke showed up with Neji. Both were helping injured shinobi walk to Kireina. Kireina examined the men's legs before motioning for Sasuke to put his man on Akumu.
"You broke your leg. I'm going to set the bone first so it'll be less painful then the doctors can look at it more in depth." Kireina's hands flew through seals and her hands started glowing with silver chakra. "Seikotsu no Jutsu!" Sasuke heard a pop and winced when the shinobi flinched in pain. Kireina told Neji to help the other man onto Yume.
Kakashi appeared with a puff of smoke. He carried two shinobi under his arms. Kireina placed one on Akumu and the other on Yume before sending the horses off with the four wounded men instructing them to be careful. This went on for awhile, but gradually the wounded were all carried into Konoha by the horses, lions, and fox. Daisuke brought the last of them in. Kireina leaned against a tree wearily pushing her hair out of her eyes. Kakashi dropped to the floor next to her and Sasuke sat next to him. Itachi and Kisame soon appeared before them as well.
"Are any of you hurt?" Kireina asked.
"Small cuts," Itachi replied, "I already took care of them."
Kireina nodded, "Did anyone see if Naruto ever got back?"
Sasuke shook his head, "I think the Cloud retreated before all of the civilians were evacuated."
"So none of the Cloud got in?"
Sasuke shook his head again, "Kisame made sure of that. Good thing Cloud didn't summon any giant animals like Orochimaru did when he attacked."
Kireina nodded, "All right. Let's go back then. Sasuke, I think I'll teach you teleportation now."
Sasuke sat up straight, "Really?"
Kireina smiled and showed him the seals, "Just think about the place you want to go to and if it's within your radius, you'll be transported there."
Sasuke nodded. Kireina put a hand on his shoulder just in case he ended up somewhere different from where he wanted to be. The two of them disappeared. Kakashi, Itachi, and Kisame disappeared soon after. Sasuke and Kireina appeared just inside Konoha's gates where the other three met up with them.
"Itachi, Kisame, if you'll come with me to see the Hokage, we'll see about getting the Akatsuki some temporary living quarters," Kireina said.
Itachi bowed slightly, "Actually, if we could just stay outside of Konoha's gates, we'll be fine. I don't want too many people to know about Akatsuki yet."
"All right, but you'll still have to meet Tsunade-sama."
Itachi nodded. The group began walking to the hospital and along the way, they met up with Naruto.
"Hokage-sama! Uchiha Itachi is outside demanding to speak to you!"
Tsunade looked up slightly annoyed, "Who's with him?"
"Hatake-san, Namino-san, Uchiha Sasuke, some blue guy, and Uzumaki Naruto are with him."
"Send them up."
"But Hokage-sama—"
"I said SEND THEM UP!"
The doctor flinched before scampering away. A second later, Team 7 along with Itachi and Kisame filed into the room. The patient Tsunade had been healing gasped.
Kireina darted forward and pressed a tenketsu immediately sending the man into a deep sleep.
"Thanks Kireina. I can't take my hands off," Tsunade said.
Kireina smiled, "Tsunade-sama, the Akatsuki request permission to reside outside of Konoha's gates. I brought Itachi and Kisame in."
Tsunade peered behind her and smirked, "It's about time you came back Itachi."
Itachi bowed, "Konnichiwa Hokage-sama."
Tsunade finished healing her patient and stepped forward and gave Itachi a quick hug, "You've gotten taller and skinnier and darker. Have you been eating?"
Itachi nodded. Sasuke stared at his brother, dumbstruck. Kireina tugged on Sasuke's shirt.
"Come on Sasuke, I have something I want to talk to you about."
Team 7 left Itachi and Kisame with Tsunade to talk about Akatsuki.
"Sasuke, instead of having all three of us crowd out Kakashi at his house, would you mind if we lived at the Uchiha compound until I can find another place for us?" Kireina asked.
Sasuke tensed at the mention of his old house, but relaxed when he remembered his brother hadn't been to blame for the deaths of his clan. He nodded.
Kireina beamed, "Thank you Suke-chan!"
Sasuke scowled at the nickname but let Kireina hug him anyway.
"All right. Let's go around the hospital and see if any of the nurses or doctors needs any help, ne?"
The four of them set off to see if there was anything they could help with.
"Sakura-chan! Hinata-chan! Is there anything we can help with?" Kireina called.
The two chuunin looked up from their patients in the waiting room and a look of relief settled on their face.
"Kireina-sensei! Thank goodness you're here! All of the chuunin that were on guard duty are badly injured. There are some that are even about to die," Sakura explained.
Kireina's brow furrowed, "Let me see the charts."
Hinata handed Kireina a stack of papers. Kireina looked through them before pulling three out.
"Okay. Sasuke, Naruto, you guys go with Hinata and Sakura. Help them out as much as you can. Getting bandages, holding people down, whatever you can do. Sakura, Hinata, you girls take care of the minor wounds okay. If a patient ends up having a wound much more serious than you thought it was, send Mizuno," Kireina instructed.
Kireina summoned Mizuno and informed her of her job. Mizuno nodded and settled on Sasuke's shoulder.
"Kashi-kun, can you come with me to look at the more seriously injured shinobi? I think I might need your chakra," Kireina smiled sheepishly, "I summoned too much and I don't know how much I have left."
Kakashi nodded and the group split up.
Kireina started to sweat as she poured more and more of her chakra into healing the man lying before her. He had been the chuunin who had first alerted the rest of the chuunin on duty of the attacking shinobi and had received the full brunt of the attacks. He had 2 deep gashes in his stomach, his left leg had snapped and his right forearm was shattered. She could feel her chakra starting to deplete but she stubbornly ignored the warning signs, intent on healing the man. She felt Kakashi place a hand on her shoulder to stop her but she shrugged him off. Gradually, the wounds began closing and Kireina collapsed onto the ground exhausted. Kakashi knelt next to her alarmed.
"Kireina? Are you okay?" Kakashi gathered Kireina into his arms gently.
Kireina cracked an eye open and smiled faintly, "How's the man?"
"He's fine."
Kireina nodded and then passed out. Kakashi quickly picked her up and ran out of the room. He ran into Shizune on his way out.
"Shizune-san! She used too much chakra," Kakashi explained.
Shizune nodded, "Take her to the doctor's lounge. Do you know how to transfer chakra?"
Kakashi nodded.
"Good. In order for her to gain her chakra back quicker, you'll have to transfer a little of your chakra into her. Just a little bit though, not too much. If you try to put too much in her, not only will it harm her, but you'll be in trouble too."
Kakashi nodded again and then teleported away in a puff of smoke.
Kakashi gently laid Kireina on the couch in the lounge. He grabbed a chair and settled himself next to her. He took her hand and gently pushed some of his own chakra into her. He was startled when his hand started glowing silver like Kireina's did when she used chakra. Kakashi furrowed his brow and wondered why his chakra was suddenly silver. A thought struck him and he dropped Kireina's hand quickly.
"What if I'm taking her chakra instead of giving her chakra?" he muttered to himself, "That's impossible. I've transferred chakra tons of times."
Kakashi forced his chakra into his right arm as if he was doing Chidori but instead of the explosive noise of birds chirping, he contained the amount of chakra that was let out. He stared at his hand. His chakra was still silver. Kakashi scratched his head and shrugged. It didn't matter to him whether his chakra was silver or blue, as long as he had it, he was fine with anything. He went back to transferring chakra into Kireina. Just as he finished, Sasuke and Naruto burst into the room.
"What happened?" Sasuke demanded taking his older sister's hands in his own.
"Chakra exhaustion," Kakashi answered, "I've already transferred some of my own chakra so she'll be fine in an hour or so. Where are Sakura and Hinata?"
"Tsunade-baa-chan needed them for something," Naruto responded.
Kakashi nodded, "Let's take her back to the Uchiha compound. Sasuke, lead the way."
Sasuke allowed Kakashi to pick Kireina up before leading them out of the hospital and through the streets of Konoha to his large house. After Kakashi placed Kireina in a bedroom, he joined Sasuke in the living room. Sasuke handed Kakashi a cup of tea which he accepted gratefully. The two of them sat in silence for a while before Kakashi noticed the absence of Naruto.
"Where's Naruto?" Kakashi questioned.
"He went to take a nap. Some man at the hospital tried to attack him while Naruto was holding him down," Sasuke explained, "Apparently he had escaped from the mental institute."
Kakashi nodded and it was silent again.
A few minutes later, Sasuke spoke up suddenly, "Do you like my sister?"
Kakashi promptly burned his tongue on the tea and sputtered, "Why would you ask that?"
"Because you flirt with her all the time and you worry about her."
"I worry about all my friends."
"I think you like her," Sasuke declared.
Kakashi half-turned towards Sasuke, "I think your sister is a wonderful woman and an excellent choice for a future spouse, but at this point, she and I are strictly friends. Neither of us have the time for a relationship. Especially not during war. We can't afford to have emotional problems."
Sasuke remained silent and after awhile said, "I still think you like her."
Kakashi sighed and shook his head, "You're starting to sound insistent like Naruto."
Sasuke shrugged, "Living with the dobe does that to you."
"Sasuke, what did I say about calling people names?" came a sharp reprimand.
Sasuke and Kakashi spun around on the couch to see Kireina leaning against the wall looking exhausted. Kakashi hurried over and helped her over to the couches.
"How long have you been standing there?" Kakashi gaped.
"Long enough to hear you say Sasuke was starting to sound like Naruto," was the reply, "What was Sasuke being insistent about anyway?"
Sasuke opened his mouth to answer but Kakashi hurriedly clapped a hand over his ex-student's mouth. Sasuke looked offended and glared at Kakashi who sent him a large, cheesy grin. Kireina watched this exchange with interest.
"I'm curious now, but I'm not sure I want to know."
Sasuke pried Kakashi's hand off his mouth, "Nee-chan, do you want some tea?"
"That would be wonderful sweetie, thanks," Kireina said gratefully.
Sasuke nodded and left to the kitchen.
"When are you going to start calling me sweetie?" Kakashi teased.
Kireina lightly smacked his arm, "Thank you for giving me your chakra by the way."
Kakashi shrugged, "I couldn't just let you lie there. Although there is something I wondered about."
I might upload one more chapter :P I'm behind on this story T.T Sorry >P