Chapter 15
"Kira... It's time to talk. Sit down." Kakashi calmly tells me waiting for me to sit on the floor beside his futon before speaking again. "Would you like to explain how you can fight like that or even heal broken bones in less than twenty-four hours?" Looking down I bite my bottom lip. I knew questions like these would come sooner or later. So now I just have to pick the correct way to answer, right?
"Kira…" Kakashi's tone was gentle causing me to look up towards him. Noticing his soft gaze as he waits patiently, I curl my fingers into loose fists on my knees.
"What if I wouldn't like to?" I mumble trying to smirk so I could pass my question off as a joke if need be.
"Kira, I can tell that you wish to tell someone everything that you keep bottled up. It has not only hardened your heart but has made you push others away.."
"The questions you asked have nothing to do with that!" I snap at him before looking down again. "The reason I don't want to is because they aren't just my secrets. Besides, I owe a lot to Aphro, and she likes being where she is." Silence followed my words causing me to sigh. Yup, there's no way he's going to let me out of this.
"What makes you think anything that is said here will leave this room in order to affect Aphrodite's or for that matter your own position?" Kakashi questions causing my breath to catch as if something was squeezing at my heart. Looking up again I meet his closed eye smile. Was he seriously going to keep everything to himself? "Now that I have said that. I must say that if let's say you two are actually spies intent on harming anyone in the leaf or the village then I would be obligated to report you." Smirking at him I shake my head nearly laughing at the ridiculous comment.
"We aren't spies or anything Sensei."
"Good, then I won't have to report you." Giggling lightly at his words I relax a little from the pressure I had once felt. Kakashi keeps to his word he has proven that much.
Taking in a breath I try to rearrange everything in my head. Maybe I can calm down a little. He has already said it will stay between us right? Just him, Aphro, and I. Nodding to myself I decide on what I am going to do. "Aphro has been training me the way her mom trained her. She is the sole reason why I'm good at anything here…" Against what I was aiming for I felt my voice grow small so it was just above a whisper.
"So, that day in the woods…" He began and I nodded.
"I'm the brains. I wanted to use a ploy to make you believe we were harmless. I had been through a lot that week. I just wanted something to go right. Probably because I hoped it would give me something else to think about."
"What happened?" His warm voice threatened to coax me into telling him more than I had initially decided. Kira, pick your words carefully or you can destroy the life you have. Closing my eyes I take in a breath to steady myself. Even though I think that I already knew deep down. He is right. I need to tell someone. I need even this small contact with someone else.
"First you need to know something similar to this has happened to me before. Where I 'fell' into another world. I was seventeen years old." Opening my eyes I peer at Kakashi who takes in a slow breath. "I know hard to believe right? Since I was somehow five when we first met. Anyway. I was alone before it happened. No one to talk to or anything. I only had myself to learn from. Skills that are absolutely useless here. One day I fell into a different world. I didn't know how to get back home. A cousin of mine who I had not known previously found me and taught me what I needed to know in order to leave. But, by then Aphro was too late. I had already built a life for myself. A better one than I had before. I fell in love… well, five days before the circumstances happened that trapped us here. He died." It was then I felt the very tears I had denied myself since leaving the hospital, begin to slowly roll down my cheek. "I wanted nothing more than to return to the life I had, being locked away in that house. But, fate had other plans."
"So you met Aphrodite in this... Otherworld?" He questions causing me to nod.
"My parents are very important... People... I knew they had siblings and in turn, their siblings had children but I had never met any of my cousins. I was always locked away in that house, with no visitors other than the times my parents would actually return home or my aunts and uncles that would tend to stop in just to check on me. Sometimes my parents would come home for a couple of hours and others for maybe a week at most. Aphro knew of me and desperately wanted to meet me, being the only other female beyond the adults in the family."
"I see." He mutters more to himself ushering me to move on with my story.
"Aphro, who had been trained by her mom since she was little was light years ahead of me in skill. I never wanted to fight. Not even when I had been attacked when I was eighteen. But, my body automatically reacts." I watch as his brow raises showing he was listening intently. "I killed one of the attackers before I even realized what had happened. When I didn't even know how to punch something. Anyway, Aphro had been at the house when I returned, to save me. She threw herself in front of what possibly could have killed me while I was just staring at the light in awe. Even when it was aimed at me a second time I couldn't seem to look away or react. Aphro grabbed me when I had been hit too and pulled me off of the roof."
"Damen didn't want me to get away so he claimed he would make it so no one would find us. He opened the portal beneath us and locked this world away from ours. We believed that if we could get strong enough we could unlock the "Doors" so to speak. So that day in the forest I decided to attack you as the first step in our plan when we realized what you were. In our minds, we needed to become ninja and learn… Chakra rather than energy. So that we could figure out how to mix the two. But, we soon found out that your chakra and our energy are actually basically the same thing." I fall back on the floor so I was now laying down looking up at the ceiling. Speaking my thoughts as they come to me. "I could fight against the silent kill technique because of what Aphro has taught me. I haven't mastered it though. Well, not the way she has. It requires you to feel around yourself with your energy. To feel your enemy's every move before he can even make a sound. It's hard. I can only turn it on blindfolded right now because that's how we've been training."
"So, you don't like fighting yet your body moves on its own as if on instinct when necessary, but you have been training so you can get home…" Kakashi breaks it down a bit as if to make sure he is understanding.
"Yes. I use my head not my physical strengths… well I used to anyway."
"I see. And so the girl in those pictures, really are you. Aren't they?"
I shouldn't be surprised I had already known there was a high probability that Gramp had taken Kakashi into my apartment so he could get a better feel of who was to be a student of his. "Yes, they are of me and the family I had been accepted into in that other world."
"Now... How can you heal broken bones in less than 24-hours?" At his question, I felt my heart stop beating. I had so hoped I had kept him distracted enough to not even remember the other part of what he wanted to talk about. Sighing heavily I get up off the floor and move to the window behind Kakashi. Leaning against the sill as I fold my arms just beneath my chest. So I was now looking out at the ocean.
"Shouldn't the answer to that be obvious Sensei? If not then I feel you not only wore out your body but your mind as well." He remained quiet as he continued to look ahead of himself. "You should know from looking at my photographs and now knowing that the girl in them really is me. Then you should surely know, I don't age once I reach the age of eighteen. What does that tell you, Sensei?" Looking away from the ocean I move my gaze to the back of his head. He was sitting motionless as if unsure if he should voice his thought allowed. Uncertain if it could possibly be true. "I'm not human. Neither is Aphro or anyone else in my family. Damen is her little brother so it goes without saying he too.. isn't human. Weird right?" I comment at the end looking towards the ocean again. "A family of immortals is weird enough but to find out that my family is royalty with Aphro's family being destined to serve at our side even though they are blood. Just makes it even weirder so much so it borders the line of insanity doesn't it?"
"So... You two are... Immortal?"
"I'm not so sure about Aphro, because let's face it, she and I don't really talk. All we've done since we've met is train. But since she was at my house when I returned looking just like she did when I first met her. I would have to say she is too."
"So, you cant age or die?"
"Is that so hard to believe?" Shrugging I nip at my bottom lip momentarily. "Well, we aren't perfect. We can die, just not by old age. Like the scariest thing about this world, which is probably why Damen chose it. Is because here. You guys have the power to kill us. We may be more... Indestructible than everyone else but we can still be killed with energy and our bodies can only handle so much damage. To us. We are normal where we come from. Only our bloodlines are stronger than anyone else's. When my mom dies. I'll be Queen."
"You say that as if you don't care if she lives or dies. It doesn't seem like you."
"I don't know her. How could I care? The only mom I truly remember was the man I fell in love with, Light's, own mother. I realized how empty my life is by being with them. I often wondered if that was truly what a family was like. I had found a reason for my own existence."
"So, the reason behind your distance and hardened heart. Is from the loss of those you could call family." Kakashi finally turns his head to look over his shoulder at me. Looking towards him I could see his closed eye smile. "I understand now. You are afraid to lose anyone close to you again. That is the true reason why you became a ninja. You wanted to become stronger so you can protect the only other person close to you that is also immortal like you are. Someone who won't die of old age. That was one truth you spoke that day to the Lord Hokage and myself. You wish to protect Aphrodite."
Scoffing a bit I look away from him. "It's true though. There isn't much I am afraid of and I am willing to face the majority of my fears so that I do not have to realize my biggest fear again."
"Majority of your fears? What could you possibly be afraid of?" Kakashi seems to chuckle causing me to roll my eyes. I know it's weird, someone like me that is difficult to be killed. What could I possibly be afraid of, how bad could it be right? Sighing I shake my head at my own thoughts, I know my fears are silly.
"Heights…" I mutter officially silencing him before a sudden fit of laughter bursts from within him. "Yeah, haha. Laugh at me all you want."
"Well, Kira…" He says as he finally gets himself under control. Grabbing the crutches that lady had left behind for him and standing. Turning to me amusement visibly swirling in the depths of his dark eye. "You are going to love the training we are going to undergo." How is it... With the tone he was using and the way he said the word love. I was suddenly dreading this training that was going through his mind. Enough so I felt like my world was spiraling out of control making me want to vomit. Kakashi turned and began to leave the room causing me to follow, against my better judgment.
