Chapter 4: Nightmare

Eight years ago. Kakashi Hatake's P.O.V.

I tossed and turned all night long, I needed to sleep but I just couldn't get that girl, her eyes, out of my head. Sure, I was worried about the girl, but those eyes, those eyes wouldn't let me sleep.

Where the hell have I seen those eyes! Why do I even give a damn!

I eventually thought that I had convinced myself that I didn't, when I finally rolled over and drifted to sleep. But apparently I didn't do a very good job of it. I dreamed of the night the Nine Tailed Fox appeared at the gates of our village.

People ran around frantically screaming, there was total chaos around me. I tried to shout instructions to them but no one seemed to hear me. The lifeless bodies of other ninjas lay in bloody puddles around me, as I looked at the confusion around me everything felt wrong. Then a monstrous shadow was cast over me, I look up to see the Nine Tailed Fox looming over me, red eyes blazing, fangs bared. But the movement behind him makes me catch my breath, the eyes. Staring at me out of the shadows of the ruined forest, a pair of golden amber eyes. But instead of blank like the girl's their narrow slits stared straight into mine. I felt hypnotized, I couldn't move and the jaws of the Nine Tailed Fox clamped around me. The golden eyes watched in pleasure as he killed me.

I sit up quickly, my eyes wide, breathing hard from the dream, no, the nightmare. I look out the window, warm morning light spilling in through the cracks in the blinds. I get up and go to the bathroom to wash my face. I splash water on my face and look up at the mirror, my own strange eyes looking back at me. I watch my sharingan in the mirror for a moment.

Was it just their odd color? Just the color of her eyes that brings a nightmare? Or is it a mere coincidence that the girl, like me, given eyes out of the ordinary? Or is it even something more?

I don't want to think about it anymore. I grab a towel and dry my face making up my mind to pay the girl a visit.