Chapter 18: Strange happenings

'Hey Phire, where did you get that necklace? It's gorgeous on you,' Tsunade complimented Phire when Phire went to check in. She looked down.

'Oh, um,' Phire didn't know what to say. 'Just somewhere.' Tsunade smirked.

'Who's the guy?' she asked, giggling. Shizune smirked as well, and Tonton smirked as well and they laughed.

'Um, he doesn't want anyone to actually… know about this,' Phire told Tsunade. Tsunade laughed.

'Eh, that's okay, but you'll have to tell me when you get married; or are you not a virgin?' Tsunade asked. Phire shook her hands, meaning that she was still a virgin.

'No! I'm not married yet! And I'm still a virgin!' she yelled. Everybody but Phire laughed. Phire kept the necklace deeper into her shirt, so nobody would see it this time.

'Can you not tell anybody?' Phire asked Tsunade and Shizune. They nodded, and Phire left.

'Yo,' Kakashi greeted Phire. She smiled and greeted him back.

'Hey, Kakashi-kun,' she told him. He raised an eyebrow.

'Since when did you start calling me "Kakashi-kun"?' Kakashi suspected something going on. 'Let me guess… you're married.' Phire raised an eyebrow.

'No… I'm perfectly fine,' Phire told him, acting normal. Kakashi half bought it and half didn't. Just then, Team 7 came.

'Hey, Phire!' Naruto exclaimed. Sasuke was bored as ever, and lifted his head up and nodded, indicating a "Hi". Sakura ran up to Phire.

'Hey guys,' she greeted them. 'Guess what? I'm going to be helping with the third part of the academy exam for becoming a Genin,' she told them. They raised their eyebrows.

'I think we aren't going to be getting any Genin, Kakashi-sensei,' Sakura told Kakashi. He laughed, and Phire smiled. Just then, there was a fly on Phire's shoulder, and when she "dusted" it off, a part of her necklace was shown, and Kakashi noticed it.

'Hey Phire, let me ask you something between us two adults,' he told her.

'I'm 17, Kakashi,' she told him. He shrugged.

'You're a young lady, so that is still an adult,' Kakashi told her. She rolled her eyes, and he put an arm around her playfully and whispered into her ear. When he meant adults, he meant 16+.

'Where did you get that necklace?' he asked. She looked to her shoulders, and a very small part of her necklace was showing.

'Chikushou, I have to be more careful,' she thought, putting her t-shirt properly this time.

'Does it matter?' she asked, raising an eyebrow. He nodded.

'I just bought it for myself, okay? I've got to go now,' she told him, but he grabbed her wrist, so he teleported with her to the exam area. Kakashi blinked.

'Kakashi!' Phire growled. He left, but glared back at her before he did.

After the whole exam was done, Phire left about 9:30 p.m. As she left, she felt a hand grab her shoulder, and she grabbed the hand and threw the person to the ground. It was Kakashi.

'What do you want?' she growled at him. He glared at her.

'You don't like jewelry; who gave you the necklace, Phire?' he asked her, angry. She teleported away, and Kakashi was about to lose it when Sasuke went over to him.

'Hey, Kakashi-sensei,' he told him. Kakashi calmed down.

'Hi,' he told him. Sasuke looked at him.

'You seem angry; what happened with Phire?' Sasuke asked him. Kakashi raised an eyebrow at Sasuke.

'She is hiding something from me,' he told him. 'Sasuke, I advise you to leave now.'

'Why don't I spy on her? She won't suspect me,' he told Kakashi. He shook his head.

'If you are spying, it is out of your own free will; I never asked you,' Kakashi said as he left. Sasuke didn't know where Phire lived, but with the pair of sai, he could probably use them to help track her down.

It was about 3 in the morning when Sasuke sensed Phire's presence. He felt another presence, but he couldn't tell whom it was.

'What is the other presence?' he thought, confused. He ran straight up the façade of the building, and when he reached the room he sensed Phire was in, the presence of Phire just disappeared.

'What's going on?' he thought, trying to see through the window. Just then, he saw three tomoe, and he widened his eyes, using his fully developed sharingan, but it wasn't strong enough, and as he fainted, he screamed Phire's name, and held his head, as he kept seeing Phire in his head with Itachi, closer to him than she should be. Even when he fainted, in his dreams (nightmares) he kept seeing it, and no matter how much he wanted it to stop, it wouldn't.

'Itachi-kun, what's going on?' Phire asked Itachi, teleporting back into the room.

'It was Sasuke, just like you said it would be,' Itachi told her. She looked outside of the room, and saw Sasuke's body in a small pool of blood.

'Why'd you have to hurt him that bad?' she asked him. He raised an eyebrow to Phire.

'Does it matter? I didn't kill him,' Itachi told Phire. She shrugged, and then teleported his body to Konoha, but she couldn't erase his memory because her power was down.

'I can't erase the memory, Itachi,' she told him. He sighed.

'Whatever,' he told her. 'Let's just go back to sleep,' he added in, going into bed with her.