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Her Fathers Daughter
Chapter 3: Training Skillz
Kakashi sat on the roof, staring at the moon. They had reached Tazuna's house a little over four hours ago. Noriko's body now lay in one of the spare rooms. He was on the roof because of that little insensitive boy, Inari.
Flashback
The nins sat around the table with Tazuna and Tsunami, his daughter. They had just finished eating and discussing the bridge when a little voice was heard.
"Why do you bother?" They turned to see a little boy looking at them. "Why do you bother? Your gonna die anyway."
"Inari!" Tsunami scolded.
"You're just going to die! Just like that girl in the spare room!" Kakashi couldn't stand it. He simply got up and left.
"At least he's listing to sense." Sasuke, for all his cool, lost it.
"You have no idea what you're talking about! That girl in the spare room? Her name was Noriko. Hatake Noriko. Sensei's daughter! Don't even pretend to understand what he's going through right now! You may have lost your father, but he lost his entire world. Anyone he gets close to dies! So just shut up!" Sasuke stormed out of the house.
End flashback.
"Kakashi-sensei." He tuned to see Sasuke on the edge of the roof.
"Hn." Was all he said.
"The 25 code of shinobi conduct states that a shinobi must never show his emotions." Kakashi nodded, slowly. Sasuke sat down next to him. "But didn't you say that those who don't follow the rules are trash?"
"What's your point, Sasuke?" He snapped.
"You also said those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. Doesn't that include trashing their memories by refusing to show emotion? Noriko-chan would have wanted you to get it over with, and go on with your life. Emotions can only be kept in so long." Kakashi looked at him.
"What about you? You've manage to keep it in." Sasuke gave a bitter laugh.
"Do you really think there's a single night were I don't wake up screaming? Or a single day where I don't have to get away from people before they see my tears? I don't keep it in; I'm just a really good actor." He walked off of the roof. Kakashi watched him go with wet eyes.
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The next day, Kakashi lead the two genins out to the forest to a small clearing. He had a small scroll with him, and was refusing to tell them what it was. They stopped in front of some particularly tall trees.
"Alright; today you're going to work on your chakra control." He demonstrated to them the method. "If you manage to reach the top of the tree, come find me. But be very careful of when you approach." He dripped some blood on the scroll. A jet-black katana appeared in a puff of smoke. White Kanji reading 'kuro shikon' (black fang) were inscribed on the blade. "You don't want to get caught by this." He walked off.
Sasuke and Sakura spent the rest of the day climbing the trees. By three in the afternoon, they had reached the top.
"Sasuke-kun, let's find Kakashi-sensei." Sakura panted. Sasuke nodded and they went off.
Following his chackra trail, they began to feel strong chakra spikes. Way stronger than anything they had ever felt. Taking to the trees, they came to a river. What they saw shocked them into speechlessness.
Kakashi stood in the middle of the river, blade in hand. No less than ten trees lay felled around him; hacked by something like claws or split down the middle. A boulder stood next to him; cleaved in half. The waterfall behind him and three large trees were the only things left untouched. But not for long. Kakashi suddenly shifted his sword so that the blade rested along the back of his left arm. Rushing at one tree, he called out…
"Dageki no Kuro Hoshi!" (Strike of the dark star) Faster than the eye could see, the tree was cut with a star-shaped mark. Apparently, the mark went all the way through. He tapped it with the hilt of his blade and jumped away. The tree fell into pieces. Turning to another tree, he shifted the blade so it was vertical across his face. He charged again, calling…
"Kuro Fenikkusuken!" (Dark phoenix blade) Black flames ran along the blade as he slashed the tree. The entire thing erupted in flames and exploded. Pausing a second, he pulled up his haite-ite, he quickly made handseals, with the blade. Finishing, blue electricity covered the blade. Charging, he called out…
"Raiken!" (Lightning blade. Raikiri is lightning edge.) Thrusting the blade at the last tree, it sunk until it rested at the hilt. Panting slightly, he pulled the sword out and his haite-ite down, he turned to the waterfall. Plunging the sword into the shallow riverbed, he called out…
"Heki Yami!" (splitting darkness) A black aura grew at the tip of the sword. Stepping forward, he ripped the blade out vertically, sending a line of blackness through the water and up the falls. A second later, the water split along the line, forming two separate lines of water. A few seconds later, the separate lines became one again. Jumping to the banks, Kakashi sheathed the sword across his back and sat down, breathing hard. Seeing that it was safe, Sasuke and Sakura landed beside him.
"You ok, sensei?" Sakura asked. Kakashi nodded. Sasuke observed the damage he had caused.
"What kind of sword is that?" Kakashi chuckled.
"It's just a sword, Sasuke. What makes it special is what you do with it." He thought for a second. "If you have swords of your own, I can teach you some of my katas." He looked at Sakura. "Even though you would find more use of a pair of razor fans. Actually…" He pulled out another scroll. "I never found much use for these, but maybe you can. Just put a little blood on the seal." Sakura did so, and two metal rods appeared in a puff of smoke. She flicked them open to reveal two steel fans with razor-sharp edges. Standing up, Kakashi motioned for one. Taking one, he held it with his thumb up the back with his fingers splayed across the front. He threw it with deadly accuracy, sending it spinning across the clearing and out of sight.
Sakura looked at him questionably when she saw a blur of silver coming back to them. Catching it deftly, closing it in the process, he flicked it open and handed it to Sakura. "That's the advantage of steel fans. They can be thrown as shuriken or kunai, but, when open, they return to the person that threw them. Also, like kunai, they can be used in hand-to-hand combat." Sakura smiled, flicked them shut, and hung them on the belt that held her weapons pouch. "The best part about them is that they take very little training to use." He ended with a smile.
"Sensei…" Sasuke started. "What weapon would best suit me?"
Kakashi gave Sasuke an appraising look. "Most likely wakizashi or a katana. Unfortunately, I never bothered to learn how to use a wakizashi, and I only have one katana, mine. So, wait until we get back to Konoha, and we can deal with it then."
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Kakashi spent a week training Sakura to use gunsen (the fans) and gave a Kanton jutsu to Sasuke to keep him occupied.
On the last day of the week, they came to the bridge to see the workers dead or dying. Mist crept in around them, obscuring their sight. Dark laughter was heard.
"So, Kakashi; Back for round two?"
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Back at the house, Noriko awoke to a scream and a crash.
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