"Where will you be going now Racoon?" Emi asked Gaara with a smile.
"I don't leave for Suna for another few days. I was just going to go back to the room Tsunade booked for me." Gaara answered. Emi looked up at Kakashi with pleading eyes. She only had a limited time to spend with Gaara until he left. She wanted to make up for leaving him, and to get to know him as he was now.
"Dad, can I train with Gaara-kun? I know we've only just been reunited but I will be living with you and Gaara will have to leave soon." She pleaded with him, her eyes wide and ears flat to the top of her head. Yin and Yang watched, trying not to laugh at the face that Emi was pulling. Kakashi sighed, she was right, they had plenty of time to get to know each other, and she was living with him before anyway. Gaara only had a small amount of time with her. Besides, he couldn't say no to that face.
"I don't see why not, don't stay out all night tho." He warned her with a smile and walked home, no doubt he would end up on the receiving end of a failed ambush attempt from Iruka trying to find out where Emi was.
Emi smiled and lead Gaara to the training grounds.
"Kitty I missed you." Gaara admitted quietly. Emi looked at him and smiled.
"I missed you too Racoon." She told him.
"Why did you bring me here?" He asked her, he had been wondering why the whole walk there. Why would she want to train with him?
"I wanted to spar with you, to get to know your techniques. I wouldn't mind being on a team with you one day." Emi explained with a small smile and a little blush on her cheeks, her tail swaying happily. Gaara smiled.
"I'd like that." He answered honestly. He had wanted to spar with her even since she disabled his attack back in the Chunin Exams. Emi nodded and took her place on the training ground. Gaara stood opposite her.
Gaara sent his sand straight for her. She quickly pushed it back with a sound wave. Gaara smirked and surrounded her with his sand. She used her sound waves again to push the sand back. There was no point in using her song jutsu, his sand might slip through her shields. She quickly made clones of herself and ran at Gaara. Gaara quickly put up a sand shield. She laced her fist with chakra, causing the sand to crack as she hit it with clones. Gaara quickly surrounded her with sand again. He readied himself to use sand coffin but he won't do it to her.
"Is that the best you've got?" He heard her whisper in his ear. Gaara jumped and let her go, thinking she had escaped his sand somehow. He turned to see nothing.
"W-what?" He gasped and turned back around. "H-how?" He asked.
"Sound waves Racoon." She explained with a smirk. Gaara frowned, she could trick him into thinking she was in one place but she would be somewhere else. She must be able to manipulate sound to change how he heard it. He couldn't rely on his hearing anymore.
While he was distracted she had started to sing, her first shield was already up. He couldn't get her now, unless he went underground. Gaara quickly worked this out, he had watched her fight Dosu at the Chūnin Exams. He quickly dug a hole with his sand, making it move towards her.
Suddenly Iruka turned up.
"Emi-hime! What would your father say!?" He shouted at her, making her jumped and stop immediately. Iruka received a cold glare off Gaara for adding 'hime' to her name.
"Please don't tell him." She quickly begged Iruka.
"Too late." Kakashi said coming out of his hiding place.
"You were spying on me!?" She shrieked at Kakashi, causing all the males to cover their ears.
"Yes, I had to make sure you weren't going to use that jutsu. " He told her looking annoyed. "Only use that with me when you're training, that way I can make sure you're ok." He then ordered and Emi's ears fell flat to the top of her head. "It's dangerous, too dangerous to use regularly." He pointed out. Everytime she used the jutsu, she struggled to stand and stay conscious, not to mention the nose bleeds.
"Yes dad." She mumbled, lowering her head and Kakashi smiled. She knew he was right but it was only jutsu she felt confident in.
"Iruka is staying for dinner, I was wondering if Gaara would like to as well?" He said while looking at Gaara. Gaara nodded and gave a small hint of a smile. "Well then, I best get back and see what to cook. Be home by six, have fun you three!" Kakashi added before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"MISTRESS!" Two voice screamed. Emi turned to see both Yin and Yang being chased by white puppy.
"Akamaru!" A male voice shouted. She watched a boy with scruffy brown hair in a hoddie running closely behind the dog. Gaara quickly sent his sand to save the two cats, surrounding them with the sand. Emi thanked him and smiled, walking towards the cats while the dog was trying to dig through the sand. The boy that was chasing after the three animals smiled sheepishly at Emi.
"Sorry about Akamaru, he's still a pup." He quickly apologised, rubbing the back of his head. He recognised her from the exams.
"It's alright." Emi replied with a smile and bent down to pat Akamaru's head.
"I'm Inuzuka Kiba." He introduced himself as he picked Akamaru up, placing him on his head.
"Hatake Emi." She replied, picking up both Yin and Yang as Gaara let his sand fall away. Kiba was taken by surprised by her last name, he was unaware Kakashi had a relative of any kind. Both Yin and Yang glared at Akamaru as they took their normal places on Emi. "This is Yin." She said lifting Yin a little higher in her arms to signal it was him. "And Yang is the one hiding in my hood." She added.
"I'm not hiding!" Yang shouted in protest.
"You could have fooled me." Yin answered back in a sarcastic tone resulting in a hiss from Yang. Emi laughed at the two.
"So Kiba-san, you were in the preliminaries of the Chūnin Exams? Emi asked, she remembered seeing him there at least.
"Yeah, I was beaten by Naruto." He answered laughing. Emi nodded and smiled.
"Yes, I remember. I was under a different name then, you might remember. I was known as Otogakure Hime." Kiba eyed her with caution.
"Why were you called that?" He asked with suspicion. Gaara stepped forward annoyed with Kiba.
"Watch your tongue." Gaara growled at him. Emi looked back at Gaara.
"Calm down Racoon. I don't blame him being cautious. Orochimaru did well to convince Tsunade-sama that I was his daughter." She looked back at Kiba. Kiba looked slightly shocked that she got away with calling Gaara 'Racoon'. "I was found outside the gates and now suffer with amnesia. Tsunade-sama asked if anyone knew me, Orochimaru told her I was his daughter but I wasn't." Emi explained.
"So you have Kakashi-sensei's last name because?" Kiba asked a little confused.
"Because I am Kakashi daughter." She said with a small smile. Kiba looked at her in shock before laughing.
"Good one! You almost had me!" He managed to say though his laughter.
"She's telling the truth." Iruka calmly spoke. Emi had forgotten he was there, he was being quiet around her for once. Kiba nodded.
"So you're the girl with the cool sound jutsu then." Kiba stated trying to change the subject. Emi nodded and smiled.
"I would show it to you but dad doesn't like me doing it without him around." She explained with a sigh. Kiba smiled anyway.
"Well I have to get back to my team but it was good meeting you." Kiba said as he heard his name being called in the distance.
"Like wise." Emi replied and turned to face Iruka and Gaara. With that Kiba left. The three of them trained together until it was time for dinner. Iruka and Gaara had spent the whole time trying to show off and outdo each other one a number of different things.
"Just in time!" Kakashi shouted as he heard the door open. Emi strolled in happily with two tried ninja following. Kakashi smiled at the two men, both must have been competing for her attention. They ate happily and chatted with each other till it was time to go. Both Iruka and Gaara didn't seem keen to leave but soon left when Kakashi glared at them. Iruka knew this was his 'back off my daughter' glare that he had developed since Emi had turned up. Over the next few days, Emi and Kakashi grew closer together, almost becoming inseparable.
Tsunade called Kakashi to her office with a plan to help save Naruto from Akatsuki. He arrived and bowed, waiting to find out why he was there.
"Kakashi-san, there was something in Gaara-san's report you might find interesting." Tsunade spoke after a brief silence. Kakashi gave her a confused look, didn't she tell them everything before? "While Sakura-chan and he had stopped to heal Emi-san, Itachi turned up." She added and hearing an angry growl from Kakashi. She ignored it and carried on. "He helped them escape Kabuto." Kakashi looked at her in surprise, completely stun by the news. "Itachi seems very willing to help Emi-san to the point where he'll ignore an advantage to get a Jinchūriki. Therefore I will be putting Emi-san on Team Seven." She added when Kakashi got over the shock.
"But that would mean I would be her sensei. Isn't there a rule stating I can't be a team leader to her?" Kakashi asked, he wouldn't be able to control himself if she got injured in anyway on a mission. He only taught her when she first came but she was never a part of Team Seven.
"That is correct, that's why you will no longer be part of Team Seven. Yamato-san will be taking your place. I will also be assigning Sai to Team Seven until I feel that Emi is emotional ready to go on a mission outside of the village." She informed him and in return she earned a strange look from Kakashi.
"Emotional ready?" He asked confused. Why would she have to be emotionally ready?
"Every time she leaves the village she will have to walk past the place she was found. I don't know how she will react just yet. I want her mind to heal some more before taking her there and see if it bothers her in anyway. After that she will only be able to go on small missions outside the village and none of them can ever be in or around sound. I won't risk Orochimaru getting her again." She explained and Kakashi nodded in understanding. "Once she can do this Sakura will be taken off the team so she can study with me more closely. I also want you to help her and Naruto become close friends. It may stop Itachi from attacking Naruto if Emi is there."
"Very well. Should I tell the Team the news?" He then asked not sure how they would react to the news.
"Yes but take Yamato-san and Sai-san with you. They should be outside waiting for you." Tsunade said and went back to looking at a pile of papers she was yet to do.
"Yes Hokage-sama." Kakashi said as he bowed and left.
Just like she had told him, Yamato and Sai were stood outside waiting.
"They'll be at the training grounds, I'm already an hour late." Kakashi said to the two men while rubbing the back of his head.