Chapter Eighteen: The Discovery
Keiko, Sachi, Kizashi, Konohamaru, and Saki all met on the training grounds a little while later. "Alright Saki, show me how well you've progressed on the private training that I've been giving you." Keiko instructed.
"Right!" Saki exclaimed before all of a sudden her eyes turned white and she levitated a rock off of the ground and up into the air for a few moments before it fell down again. Her eyes suddenly changed back to brown and then she heaved a deep and heavy sad sigh afterwards and hung her head. "I still can't do anything right." She said.
"No Saki that was perfect, you've made tremendous improvement in the past week and it took me much longer to master that skill than that. Great job!" Keiko cried excitedly before she turned her head over to look at Konohamaru and Kizashi. "Alright, so now what can you boys do?" she wondered.
"Well,.. I know how to do Rasengan." Konohamaru boasted. "Naruto taught me." he told her with a proud grin and pointed back to his chest with his thumb but Keiko didn't seem all that impressed and just simply turned her head and looked back over at Kizashi.
"What about you? Can you do Chidori like your father can?" she asked him as Konohamaru just simply folded his arms and scowled at her for the lack of acknowledgment that she was currently showing towards him.
Kizashi shook his head and sighed. "No I can't." he began before he looked over at Sachi. "Can you teach me how?" he asked her.
"Huh?" Sachi questioned while widening her eyes in complete and utter shock.
"I'm sorry, did you just say that you wanted a girl to teach you how to do the Chidori?" Konohamaru questioned him.
"And what's wrong with that!?" Keiko hollered angrily at him while her eyes slowly started turning red. Konohamaru gulped and felt his body begin to tremble while he shook his hands in front of his face and started to sweat.
"Nothing toots,.. nothing at all." He told her.
"Don't make me have to repeat myself!" she yelled while placing her hands on top of her hips and then pointing a finger at him afterwards. "My name is Keiko and Sachi is great with the Chidori. I've seen her do it before. She definitely knows what she's doing." She said.
"Umm,.. right,.. sure. Anything you say toots." Konohmaru said with a nervous chuckle while Keiko's pupils began to grow and widen as she growled angrily at him and then she levitated a rock straight off of the ground and hit him in the head with it.
"It's Keiko!" she shouted on the top of her lungs.
"Please guys now isn't the time to be bickering with each other." Sachi began. "Uncle Sasuke and Kakashi-Sensei need our help and this is about rescuing them remember?" she questioned as Keiko heaved a light sigh and her eyes slowly changed back to blue.
"Sachi's right. Right now we have to worry about saving big brother and Kizashi's father." She began before she grinned slyly at Konohamaru. "After that, he's all mine." She said and then for some strange reason or another Konohamaru started to blush.
"Well, I've never taught anybody before but I guess if I want to become the hokage someday that I better start practicing now." Sachi said.
"Really? I didn't know that you wanted to be the hokage." Kizashi said as Sachi nodded and then sighed.
"A lot of people already think that I'm some kind of a monster since I have this stupid cursemark, and I'm a trouble maker because of the fact that my father was involved with the great Uchiha massacre." She explained.
"But Sachi, that wasn't your fault. You didn't play any part in it. You weren't even born yet." Kizashi told her.
"I know, but that's sort of a similar situation as the village used to see Naruto. It isn't his fault that he has the Nine-Tailed fox sealed inside of him but still people treated him like it was. I still don't have any doubt in my mind that he will be the hokage someday, but I'm going to be next because I want the same thing he wants. I want the hidden leaf village to look up to me and respect me like I'm somebody important instead of a nuisance." She told him when all of a sudden Keiko rolled her eyes.
"Oh that's great, all we need around here is another Naruto." She said sarcastically.
"Why? What's wrong with Naruto?" Konohamaru questioned her.
"He's just really annoying that's all." She began. "Not like Sachi is though, I was just saying." She quickly added. "Anyways, I pretty much know what I'm doing so I'm going after Sasuke and Kakashi while you guys stay here and train." She said.
"What!?" Konohamaru exclaimed while widening his eyes with incredibility and disbelief as he felt his heart starting to pound frantically against his chest. "Are you nuts!? You can't go after Sasuke and Kakashi-Sensei all by yourself what about Orochimaru!?" he cried. "I mean you're just a kid!"
"That's what we all are." Keiko pointed out. "But I'm not like any ordinary kid, I have magical powers remember? I can handle Orochimaru." She said before she turned around and started running towards the woods.
"What!? Keiko no!" Konohamaru cried before he turned back over to look at the others. "Come on! We have to stop her! Otherwise Sasuke isn't going to be too happy about this." He said while everybody else simply just nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile Keiko had been running through the woods as fast as her legs could carry her. In fact she was running so fast that she couldn't really see where she had been going. That's when suddenly she ran smack dab into the trunk of a tree and collapsed onto the ground knocking herself unconscious.
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A little while later she opened her eyes again and she found herself surrounded by thick smoke and she slowly sat up and started coughing. "Big brother,.." she squeaked out feeling as if she had never been more frightened in her life. "Mom,.. Sakura,.." she said inside a hoarse whisper while placing her hand to her forehead in agony. She really didn't want to die right then and there. Especially when she hadn't even made her teenage years yet and she was really looking forward to watching Ami grow up. That's when all of a sudden she heard a familiar voice.
"Kushina! I think that somebody's in there!" she called.
"Sachi?" Keiko questioned with uncertainty but it turned out to be somebody entirely different even though the woman that was now standing behind her looked exactly like her.
"Oh my God it's a little girl!" she cried as Keiko slowly turned her head and finally saw who she was for the first time and gasped.
"You're Sachi's mother." She realized since she had seen her picture before. "But how can you still be alive? Orochimaru poisoned you and stole your body." She said but since she didn't have a clue what she was talking about she simply just ignored her.
"Are you alright sweetheart?" she questioned her while she quickly raced over to her aid. "What's your name and where are your parents?" she wondered while she knelt down beside her.
"My name is Keiko and I'm afraid that I don't have any." She replied as Sachi's mother suddenly gasped.
"You mean that you're an orphan? Oh you poor thing." She said but Keiko quickly shook her head.
"No, I mean I haven't even been born yet. I have a feeling that somehow I managed to get stuck inside the past again." She told her when suddenly another woman hurried over to them who looked exactly the same as Sachi's mother and knelt down right beside her and that's when Keiko was really starting to feel confused.
"Are you alright little girl?" she asked her.
"I'm afraid she isn't sis, it looks like she has major head injuries." Sachi's mother told her while the two women turned to look at each other.
"Sis!? Wait a minute, what's going on!? Where's Sachi and everybody else?" Keiko wondered as Sachi's mother raised a questioning eyebrow at her.
"Who's Sachi?" she asked her.
"She's your daughter for crying out loud!" Keiko hollered. "I realize that she hasn't been born yet but I would have at least thought that you would have figured that part out." She told her.
"It's alright sweetie, you just need to relax. Kushina and I will take you to the hospital. You just have to trust us." Sachi's mother said as Kushina simply just nodded at her.
"You don't have anything to worry about little one, Aiko and I will take very good care of you until we find your parents." She said.
"Wait a minute,.. Kushina? As in Kushina Uzumaki?" Keiko questioned with uncertainty. "You wouldn't happen to have a son named Naruto would you?" she wondered.
"Yes, I do." Kushina began with a nod. "But how did you know that?" she asked her.
"It's sort of a long story and I'll tell you later." Keiko began. "So if you and Aiko are twin sisters, that means that you're Sachi's aunt and that means not only is she related to Naruto,.. but Sasuke is as well." She realized.
"Sasuke? How did you know about Sasuke?" Kushina questioned with disbelief.
"Come on Kushina, we have to get this little girl out of here first. We can figure everything else out on the way to the hospital." Aiko said before she picked Keiko up and hoisted her inside of her arms and then afterwards ran though the forest as fast as her legs could carry her.