Translating the Name: Ha ha ha…I bet some of you were wondering what the hell was going to happen and what the hell is going on, but don't worry, everything shall be explained in due time…
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!
"Kyuubi"
'Kyuubi Thoughts'
"Dark & Light Kirei"
"Dark Kirei"
"Light Kirei"
Chapter 06: Wave Arc!
Itachi's face was blank and cold but if one were to look inside of his coal colored eyes, they would see a small bit of warmth. He stared down at the girl, who sung sweetly and softly,
"Did you enjoy that?" she said smiling. Itachi took several steps in the clearing calmly and peacefully as if afraid to disrupt the moment, "It's just like old times," she whispered softly although he still heard her. He walked closer and sat down beside her with his right bent and his left leg stretched out. His right hand was resting on top of his right knee, "so, what brings you here…Itachi?" she asked looking up at him. He looked down at her and took the damp black strand of hair from her wet face. He twirled it in between his fingers,
"Don't you remember?" he asked in a low whisper. Kirei frowned,
"Remember what?" she asked sitting up and resting her head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her not caring he was getting his black with red clouds cloak wet,
"Your singing lures me to you," and she smiled and snuggled closer. They stayed that way for ten minutes
"So, how long are you staying for?" she asked, almost fearing the answer. His chest rose indicating he was sighing,
"Maybe thirty minutes, it depends when Kisame-san notices I am gone," he replied holding Kirei tighter, "I remind you that it is best to meditate under a waterfall when you have a towel," Kirei pouted looking up at him. She removed his straw hat and tossed beside her. She then put her hands on his pony tail and removed the elastic and watched as his hair blew free,
"And you letting loose once in a while wouldn't kill your appearance and personality," she smirked. She suddenly shivered as a cool breeze blew by. Itachi pulled her closer to him. Kirei blushed when she realized that she was in between Itachi's legs, "I-Itachi!" she whispered. Itachi remained quiet. He lay down with Kirei still on his chest she blushed a little more before moving up so she could face him eye to eye. Itachi raised an eyebrow,
"What's the matter?" he asked. Kirei averted his gaze and bit her lip,
"I…" her eyes began to water as she looked back into his, "I don't want you to leave! I only get to see you once in a blue moon!" tears fell from her face and onto his. Itachi's gaze softened as he took his hand and wiped her tears away,
"Kirei, I'm sorry," he said Kirei's eyes widened before two more tear drops fell. She put her head back on his chest and cried softly while he rubbed her back soothingly, "It's going to take a very long time before we complete our goal, not to mention the fact that Leader promised us a spot in the new world," Kirei stopped sniffling and looked back into Itachi's eyes,
"Really?" she said while he wiped away the rest of the tears on his cloak and kissed Kirei softly,
"Really," he said. Kirei smiled brightly before looking towards the spot where Itachi came from. Itachi sat up and looked in the same direction, "He's coming," he said in his usual cold voice. Kirei nodded then looked back at him,
"When can I see you again?" she asked feeling an unknown presence approaching. Itachi looked back down at her,
"Maybe after we find another tailed beast, but don't worry," he smiled causing Kirei to blush, he was beautiful, "I will never let them harm you," he said. He then removed his Akatsuki ring and slid it on her left ring finger and planted a soft kissed her on her forehead, "It seems I underestimated Kisame-san," he stood up and offered a hand to Kirei which she accepted even though she was still in a daze, her face turned a whole new different shade of red. He hugged her and she hugged him back then pulled away,
"Goodbye Itachi," and a large gust of wind swept her away and she vanished,
"Goodbye Kirei," he whispered then turned back to where Kisame was coming from. Suddenly a figure popped up from the top of a tree and landed (surprisingly) quietly considering his large figure. He had blue skin and blue hair and wore the same cloak Itachi wore. He made a toothy grin looking at Itachi up and down,
"What happened to you?" he asked his grin growing. Itachi bent down and picked up his straw hat and put it on,
"Let's go Kisame-san," and walked in the direction he came from. Kisame shook his head in disapproval before following.
Kirei appeared in her back yard and wiped away her tears and put on her nice guy grin then walked 'happily' through the back door that lead to the kitchen. She was greeted to the sight of Himitsu happily sitting down at the table with a cup of tea reading the Konoha Newspaper,
"I'm home!" she said rather enthusiastically as she walked in deeper into the kitchen so Himitsu could get a better view of her,
"Welcome home!" he said looking up from his newspaper and smiling at his daughter. Kirei grinned,
"What's for supper?" she asked taking off her shoes and washing her hands in the sink. Himitsu put down his cup and looked at the back of her head,
"Whatever I can think of why, is there anything you want?" he asked frowning. Kirei smiled then wiped her hands on the towel then flicked her wrist and a gust of wind opened the highest cupboard door revealing a box of pocky. Another gust of wind and the box fell only to be caught by Kirei herself,
"Nope! Just call me when dinner is ready!" she smiled then headed to her room. She closed the door and collapsed on her back on the bed. She opened the box and pulled one out only to devour it in a matter of seconds. She took another one out and didn't eat it but left it like a toothpick in her mouth. She gave a sad smile.
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Kirei woke up still a little depressed about Itachi leaving. She took a deep breath while sitting on her bed,
"YOSH! TODAY WILL BE A BETTER DAY!" she screamed pumping her fist in the air. She jumped out of bed and dashed to the bathroom. She brushed her teeth, used the toilet, took a shower and came out in her black short shorts and bandages wrapped on her fore arms and shins. All of her hair was in a pony tail and she wore her big brother Iruka's fore head protector on her fore head. Her black tube top was switched into a black plain t-shirt with a baggy long sleeved black fish net top over it. Her kunai pouch was where it always was, above her left butt cheek. She zoomed downstairs and sat at the kitchen table with chop sticks that magically appeared in her hand, "FOOD!" she screamed and Satsuki came out in an apron with two plates filled with eggs, toast, cheese, bacon and salad and a bowl filled with ramen and a glass of orange juice. Kirei ate with guts and finished one hour later, "MORE!" she called while Satsuki ran back to the kitchen with the exact same thing as earlier,
"Kirei, are you depressed? Usually you don't eat this much," she said with a concerned look. Kirei looked up at her with noodles dangling from her mouth. She swallowed then asked,
"Why do the people you love, hurt you the most?" and waited for a response. Satsuki had her mouth hanging open and was speechless. Kirei turned back to her food and finished wiping her mouth, "I'm off to my exam, I'm already two hours late," she got up and smiled in Satsuki's direction, "Bye bye!" and she walked to the back yard and slipped on her black ninja sandals and a gust of wind swept her away, and she reappeared next to the memorial stone then walked over to Sasuke who was perched on a tree with Sakura sitting on the ground beside him. Kakashi was reading his book on the opposite side of Sasuke and made an eye smile at Kirei,
"You came one minute right after me!" he said cheerfully, "I already explained to Sasuke and Sakura that they each needed a bell to pass his exam but, there are only two bells! Well…START!" and Sasuke and Sakura dashed towards the bushes and hid. Kirei still stood in the same spot now pulled out a pocky stick and began munching on it,
"Great…" she mumbled while Kakashi inwardly deducted points for not being a good ninja and concealing herself. Kirei finished her pocky and stood facing Kakashi. She took a deep breath then pointed a finger at him, "LISTEN HERE YOU SAD EXCUSE FOR A SCARE CROW! I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS CRAP SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST GIVE ME A FRICKEN BELL AND NOBODY GETS HURT!" she screamed. Kakashi blinked five times then Kirei pulled out a kunai and ran towards him. Kakashi merely side stepped and dodged her attacks while she struggled to hit him. She jumped back and smirked and made a familiar seal and mumbled, "Shadow clone technique," and five Kirei poofed into existence and pulled out six senbons. Kirei merely watched while her clones placed the senbons in between their fingers and launched them at the same time at Kakashi.
'She's aiming for my nerves!' he thought while deflecting them with a kunai. He finished deflecting and looked up noticing that he was the only one in the field and wondered where she went, 'Oh well, lets see what our favorite fan girl is doing?' and headed to find Sakura.
Kirei sat down and started panting, she was taught better then venting her emotions on others then why had she done it? She took a deep breath and gathered some of her thoughts and decided to ask Sasuke what he thought about the test. She stood up and closed her eyes trying to sense his chakra and found it then dashed towards him.
Sasuke scowled at his position, he was stuck up to his neck in he ground, courtesy of Kakashi. He glared at nothing for a while until he saw Kirei zoom towards him. She stopped in front of him and blinked at his position, then burst out laughing like a mad man. Sasuke rolled his eyes,
"I don't need your help," he spat then wiggled around trying to break free. All of a sudden Sakura walks through the bushes and her eyes widen in surprise at the scene before her. She did the only thing she was good for, she fainted which caused Kirei to laugh harder and fall to her knees. The sound of a bell breaks Kirei from her hysteria and Kakashi poofs in front of everyone,
"Times up," and he smiles. Kirei regained her composure, did a few seals and mumbled,
"Earth Release: Earth Decapitation Counter Technique," and Sasuke was slowly ejected from the ground by a mountain of dirt. He 'hned' in thanks still a little peeved about her laughing at him. She turned to Sakura and did a few seals then water shot out from her mouth and hit Sakura dead on. She sat up spitting out water and screeching,
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!" then she looked around and noticed Sasuke then jumped up and lunged at him. Sasuke side stepped and walked towards Kakashi followed by a giggling Kirei. Sakura crashed onto the ground and cursed Kirei for Kami knows what. After five minutes, everyone was sitting in front of Kakashi wondering if they passed or not,
"I have some very important news to tell everyone," everyone leaned forward to hear his verdict, "You guys should quit being ninjas," that left Sakura gaping and Kirei to stare in disbelief while Sasuke's scowl deepened, "Sakura," he turned to face her, "You were so concerned about Sasuke's well being that you completely forgot about Kirei's not to mention your own, not only did you not even stay conscious for more then half an hour, you showed almost no ninja skills whatsoever," Sakura hung her head down as Kakashi turned to Kirei, "Kirei, you by far, did something worse, you came onto the battlefield with emotions. Do you know how reckless that was? You could put your comrades and the mission in danger if you never think before you act," Kirei tightened her jaw and glared at Kakashi,
'If only you knew,' she thought
"Sasuke, I know you are better equipped in Taijutsu and Ninjutsu then the others, but that doesn't mean that you can do things on your own," Kakashi sighed and his gaze hardened, "This test was about teamwork, something team seven lacks a whole lot, now, I'm willing to give you guys another chance but first things first," he appeared behind Kirei and dragged her to the middle post behind them and tied her up. He smiled, "Kirei gets tied to the post because she was late and was the most reckless! Whatever you do don't give her any lunch!" and he poofed away. Kirei was deep in thought, all she could think about was what Kakashi said about her being reckless, of course she realized after but it still didn't justify her actions. She sighed and closed her eyes trying to gather her thoughts. When she opened her eyes, she saw a confused Sasuke with a bento in hand she smiled,
"What's the matter?" she asked. Sasuke regained his composure and showed the food in Kirei's face,
"Thought you might be hungry, besides, we need you at full strength, dobe," Kirei beamed. Sakura watched the scene in disgust and immediately put on a fake smile and stood up and ran over to Kirei,
"I agree! Besides, I'm already on a diet so no harm and no foul!" she added a laugh to top it off while she took her chopsticks and took a lot of rice and shoved it down the poor girls throat. Sasuke backed up at this while Kirei was choking,
"Thanks, cough," she said trying her best not to punch the poor girl if she ever got free. Suddenly a dark cloud with thunderbolts came and in it was a large face of Kakashi with the evilest face ever. It sent chills down everyone's body,
"YOU GUYS…"
"Hold it sensei, you say the test is about teamwork," Sakura said standing up and entering a fighting stance which socked Kirei but if one could read Sakura's mind,
'LOOK SASUKE! DON'T I LOOK KOOL?'
"I also agree with Sakura, we are a team, and we can't leave our teammates behind," Sasuke said, following suit. Kirei beamed. Suddenly, the clouds disappeared along with the evil looking Kakashi,
"PASS!" he added with a victory sign which gave the new team seven a slight shock, "All the other students I had were a bunch of idiots always following everything I said, they would never make good ninjas," his face become cold again, "Those who don't follow the rules are trash, but those who abandon their teammates are worst then trash," he let that sink in for a while, "Take a look at that stone behind you, those are the names of all the shinobi who are considered heroes and died in action. My best friend is one of them and he was the one who gave me this quote and I expect you guys to follow this too as my new subordinates," he smiled, "Meet here tomorrow at nine to begin our missions as Team 7," and he poofed away. Sakura stood up and smiled at Sasuke,
"Do you wanna catch a movie with me?" she asked batting her eyelashes again. Sasuke looked at her like are you crazy? Which caused Sakura to flick her hair and walk the other way. Before leaving, Sasuke turns to Kirei and grins,
"Aren't you going to untie me?" she asked pushing out her bottom lip. Sasuke smiled an evil smile,
"If I recall, when I was in a similar situation, you laughed so, I rather not," he waved at her before walking out laughing. Kirei pouted again before taking a deep breath,
"Wind Blades," she called and a strong gust of wind came and cut up the ropes. She turned behind her and smiled,
"I can sense your youthfulness from here Kakai-sensei," she said adding a nice guy pose, which cause Kakashi to almost drop his book, "So what is it you request?" she asked getting out of her pose. He looked up from his book and stared at Kirei face to face,
"I can feel a great evil in you and at the same time, great purity," he put his hand on his covered left eye and revealed the sharingan, "I'm just going to take a look alright? I mean, you already caught me," Kirei grinned at that statement. After a minute of staring at each other, Kakashi pulled down his fore head protector and coughed, "Well then…goodnight, lets just say this never happened," and he poofed away. At the back of Kirei's mind she could hear Kyuubi and LK laughing their asses off and she shrugged her shoulders and walked home.
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It's been at least one month and team 7's overall teamwork increased safe for Sakura, who was still a bitch towards Kirei and every other girl within a mile radius of Sasuke. Today was a sunny day and you could see Kirei hiding in a bush with a head set (wearing the same thing the day of her genin exam). Up in the tree across from her was Sasuke with another headset and Kakashi and Sakura was at the base of the tree where Sasuke was,
"Weasel's Girl five meters away from target," Kirei said into her head set.
"Emo Kid at ten meters from target," Sasuke said.
"Demented Scarecrow and Billboard Head ten meters away from target," Kakashi said into his head set.
"I swear, this is the last time we ever let Kirei pick the codenames," mumbled in annoyed Sakura to her sensei,
"Nonsense, I think these names suit us," he smiled while she rolled her eyes,
"Weasel's Girl is going in, I repeat, Weasel's Girl is going in!" Kirei said into her set then jumped out of her hiding spot and dashed towards the target. She caught it and it instantly sat atop her head that was in a pony tail and began scratching furiously around. Kirei tried her best not to summon a wind blade and cut off the poor animals head and settled for trying to pry it off. By the time she got hold of it, her bandages were tattered from where the animal scratched her and her elastic was missing due to the animal cutting it off. Her hair hasn't grown and it still reached up to her waist. The rest of team 7 jumped out and stared at Kirei smirking at a cowering cat,
"It's best we head back to the Hokage's office and return Tora-chan," said Kakashi while walking towards the tower followed by Sasuke and Sakura. Kirei sighed then looked down at the cat now in her arms,
"I should use your fur as a new hat to cover my hair," and the cat sneezed and purred. Kirei sighed and jogged to catch up.
Team 7 watched as Tora-chan the cat, was being squeezed to death by his owner while exiting the office. The Hokage took a drag from his pipe and pulled out a paper,
"Team 7, your next mission will either be to walk the Inuzuka clan dogs and clean up after them, pull the weeds from Miss Youhna's garden or clean the Hokage monument," said Sarutobi. Kirei groaned,
"Come on JiJi, we have already established the fact that our team is more then capable of these pathetic missions, give us something to test our abilities," Kirei's eyes got really big and she turned into a chibi form, "pwetty pwease," she said batting her eyelashes while tears began to form. Iruka was twitching,
"Kirei, like that trick would work on a Hokage," Iruka said folding his arms across his chest. Kirei turned to Iruka,
"Come on big brother, you don't mean that don't you?" she asked wiping her tears for effect. He began to melt. The Hokage coughed and turned to the ANBU at the door,
"Send Tazuna in," and Kirei immediately turned back to normal and made a nice guy pose,
"YOSH!" she yelled. Tazuna walked in drinking and drunk,
"Are these the brats that were assigned to protect me? They don't look like much, especially the blonde runt," Kirei twitched and tried to remember not to think with her emotions,
"Team, we will meet at the front gate in one hour pack a tent!" Kakashi called watching as his team dispatched.
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Tazuna and group were walking down a path each with a bag pack on their bags. Kirei decided to not use her sealing techniques and just go normally. While walking, Sakura was flirting mercilessly with Sasuke and trying to make Kirei look stupid. Kirei decided to walk beside Kakashi to escape the crazy talk of her female teammate when she noticed the ring Itachi gave her began to glow blue and she brought it up to her face and stared into it without blinking. She didn't notice the puddle of water on the ground. She felt as if something inside of her awakened and she began to shake.
Out of nowhere, chains wrapped around Kakashi and tore him to shreds. Sakura squealed in surprise and ran in front of Tazuna. Kirei turned around in time to see two Hidden Mist shinobi running towards her holding the chain they just used to rip her sensei apart. Suddenly Sasuke appeared in front of her and launched a kunai at the chains that both attackers had. They stopped in their tracks and he jumped on there chains with kunais at their necks staring down at Kirei with a shit eating grin,
"What's the matter dobe, scared?" he taunted and Kirei was to surprise to say anything. Suddenly, the kunai holding the chain gave out and it caused Sasuke to jump off which gave one of the attackers enough time to lash out at Kirei scratching her left hand and the other one to run towards Tazuna ready to do the same. Two Kakashi's appeared one knocked the one near Kirei out and poofed out of existence and another knocked the one after Tazuna out and caught him before he fell. He dragged that one and tied him to a tree the walked over to Kirei and did the same for the one at her feet.
"Good work Sasuke, you were quick to take action and Kirei, I'm a little disappointed that you froze but at least you didn't die although we have to go back to the village and get that cleaned up considering the amount of poison in it," Kakashi said while squatting down next to the attackers. Kirei got a determined look on her face and took a kunai from her back and stabbed it onto her scratched hand. Everyone froze and stared at her in shock,
"I'm not a baby anymore, I don't need to run away, I don't need protection. I suffered enough from being weak and I'm tired of it, and I'm also tired of crying, as of now, there will be a new Kirei in town and she's a lot tougher then the one before!" she ended with a grin. Kakashi smiled,
"That's good and all but you might die of blood lost!" and he watched in amazement as her hand glowed white and turned as good as new. Kirei flexed it a bit and smiled,
"All better, so what are we going to do with the attackers?" she asked. Kakashi's gaze hardened as he answered,
"Find some answers,"
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"What do you see?" asked DK mediating. Kyuubi was sitting down watching the big TV to the outside world. LK was sitting across from DK, LK's body was glowing a white with her hands circling around a misty white ball. Her eyes were glowing the brightest and she seemed to be in a trance,
"A man with unruly and spiky blonde hair, he has the bluest eyes that you can drown in. He is built and tall and carries an aura of authority. This man seems to be in pain and a lot of it. He is holding the hand of a delicate woman with long navy blue hair and her eyes, her eyes are coal black. Kirei is standing alone watching them when she is suddenly enveloped in darkness. Kirei is also changing, she will go through a drastic change that will ever torment her," LK replied. DK went into deep thought
"Is there anyway we can stop it?" she asked looking calm,
"Only by killing the Sand,"
After finding out that they were lied to about this C rank mission gone borderline A rank mission, team seven found out that the attackers were merely chunin level missing ninja who were sent by someone probably jounin level to eliminate Tazuna who later explained that his country was really poor and they needed to complete the bridge to get rid of the poverty Gatou the Business man dished out, they accepted the mission. Now they were heading down the road after getting off a boat towards Tazuna's house which wasn't too far away.
There was rustling in the bushes and Kirei shot a senbon needle in that direction hoping to paralyze whoever was there. When Sakura went to check out what happened, she found a white rabbit with a needle sticking out of his neck with fear etched onto its face. She shrieked and began scolding Kirei for harming a peaceful animal when Kakashi screamed duck and she was pulled down by none other then Kirei herself who also pulled down Tazuna. A large chopping cleaver was embedded in the tree,
"Seems you guys got lucky," a deep ruff voice spoke into the air. Kakashi stood up and looked as a man with cow print leg and arm warmers and blue pants with black lines who by the way was not wearing a t shirt pulled out the weapon. He tilted his head to the side allowing a view of his face which was half covered by bandages. His brown hair flopped to the side,
"Momochi Zabuza, Demon of the Hidden mist," Kakashi said putting a hand on his fore head protector. Zabuza chuckled,
"Hatake Kakashi, Sharingan Kakashi or Copy Ninja of the hidden leaf," you could feel Zabuza smirk as he stared at team 7, "You guys are going to have to hand over the old geezer," everybody tensed,
'Sharingan?' thought everyone.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that Zabuza," Kakashi replied lifting his for head protector to reveal the Sharingan eye,
"Oh? So I witness the Sharingan already? How lucky," Zabuzu turned to face them. Sakura's eye brow twitched,
"Sharingan this, Sharingan that! What is it anyway?" she replied angrily,
"The Sharingan is a dojutsu that the eye creates and the pupils activate. The dojutsu can see through any genjutsu, taijutsu and ninjutsu and cancel their effects. It is one of the many dojutsus around and only accessible to Sharingan possessors," Sasuke answered,
"But the scariest part is that it can understand an opponent's technique and copy it," Zabuza continued. A thick mist surrounded the group and they soon lost sight of the enemy, "In the assassination squad, we learned of a man who copied over 1000 techniques, Copy Ninja Kakashi from the hidden leaf," he said before jumping onto the water and increasing the mist. Team seven jumped in front of Tazuna each holding a Kunai save fore Kirei who was holding a handful of senbon needle between her fingers,
"Momochi Zabuza was known for silent killing," Kakashi said, "I can not use the sharingan and full potential so keep on your guard," and team 7 lost sight of their sensei.
"Eight points, jugular vein, heart, lungs, spine, liver, kidney, collarbone and the larynx, which should I take out first" Zabuza called out into the mist. Kakashi flared his chakra dispelling most of the mist around him and his team. Suddenly Sasuke clutched the Kunai tighter in his fist, feeling killing intent for the first time,
'If I stay here for an hour, I will surely loose my mind!' he thought shaking in fear,
"Calm down," Kirei murmured,
"Kirei is right, I won't let anyone die. I will protect you guys with my life," Kakashi said turning around and smiling at them. Sasuke visibly relaxed but it was short lived for Zabuza was already in there formation with his large chopping cleaver ready to chop everyone's head in one swift movement. Kakashi ran towards them as team seven ducked to make more space between Zabuza and them also allowing Kakashi a better striking distance. Tazuna backed up as Kakashi stabbed Zabuza causing him to turn into water when behind him was another Zabuza who chopped Kakashi who also turned into water. The fight continued like that until Kakashi ended on top of the water. He was suddenly locked inside of a large water bubble being held up by Zabuza,
"You fell for my trap," Zabuza smugly said. Kakashi bit his lip and decided what to do,
"Team run and save yourself as well as Tazuna! His water clones are only one tenth of his original strength and can't go farther then the owner!" He called out hoping his team would answer his team followed instructions,
"Hell no, we ain't leaving you or going nowhere, you said that whoever abandons their friends are worse then trash!" said an angry Kirei. Sasuke smirked in agreement while Sakura swallowed and went to stand in front of Tazuna. Zabuza summoned four clones and Kirei shot three senbon needles at three nerves on the neck and it instantly collapsed and turned into water. Sasuke shot a kunai at one but it easily dodged and headed straight for him. Kirei bit her thumb and pulled out a scroll and smeared her blood all over it. Her weapon poofed out tinted blue and she dashed towards all the while swinging her weapon (im calling it Moon) with her arm. She was about a meter away when she grabbed Moon by the handle with the arm that was swinging it and stopped abruptly with Moon vertically behind the Zabuza clone. She made a small lifting motion weapon and murmured,
"Dance of Wind" and a white crescent line came from Moon stabbing the Zabuza clone in the back. It exploded with water spraying all over the Uchiha who glared at her,
"Show off," he said rolling his eyes. Kirei stuck her tongue out and noticed both clones were headed towards Sakura and Tazuna. She ran towards them and swung Moon horizontally and it glided through the air at an amazing speed. It made an arch and headed straight for both Zabuza clones that were both closing in on Tazuna and Sakura. Kirei made a few quick hand seals and clapped her hands together,
"Wind Release: Cutting Wind Edge," and Moon was surround by spinning wind giving it a longer reach. Moon looked as if it were spinning in a small tornado only the tornado was the same seize as it. Moon sliced through both Zabuzas necks and came back towards Kirei. She caught it and it poofed out of existence. She opened her pack and pulled out a windmill shuriken,
"Sasuke!" she called and shot it towards him. Zabua laughed as he produced one more clone,
"Like that can hurt me," he watched as Sasuke shot the windmill straight towards Zabuza clone. It went around the clone and headed straight towards Zabuza who held still was holding Kakashi in the water bubble. He jumped over the shuriken,
"Told you so," and he realized his mistake for he heard a poof behind him. He slowly turned around to see Kirei holding a senbon needle in her hand with a big grin as she shot it towards him at an alarming speed. Zabuza couldn't dodge it as it lodged itself into his shoulder where his arm was holding Kakashi. Immediately, his arm went numb and he let go of the bubble. Kakashi fell into the water as Zabuza tried to remove the needle, but it was in too deep,
"Let's continue where we left off shall we?" Kakashi stated pulling out a kunai and dashed at Zabuza intent on ending his life. Suddenly, a handful of senbon came out of nowhere, causing Zabuza to roll his eyes at the back of his head and collapsing into the water. He was suddenly caught by a masked hunter, who looked a little older then team 7,
"Thank you for weakening Zabuza for me, I have been on his tail for months," the hunter nin bowed the disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Kakashi dropped to his knees holding his head,
"Kakai-sensei!" Called Kirei rushing over from sitting on top of the water, Sakura as well as Tazuna rushed over also,
"No need to worry just a little tired from keeping my Sharingan open for so long. A good nights rest would do fine," he added before Kirei wrapped his arm around her shoulders and let him balance his weight on her. Kirei turned to Tazuna,
"Lead the way," and he nodded and they continued.
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"You have a delicacy of a butcher Haku," said an angry Zabuza from his position on the bed. Haku looked sheepish,
"Sorry, but the girl put that senbon in you pretty deep," Haku answered. Zabuza grunted and shifted trying to get comfortable,
"Well at least you have a challenge in speed eh?" he chuckled while Haku merely nodded.
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"Thanks for letting us stay at your house Tsunami and Tazuna-san," said Sakura. Team 7 were all sitting down at the kitchen table at the super bridge builders house enjoying lunch after the ordeal on the way home. A little boy in a white hat with a black band around it and green overalts watch the scene with a cold expression,
"Inari, say hi to our guest! They saved grandpa!" Tsunami said smiling down at her son. Inari glared at his mother,
"They wouldn't have to if grandpa listened to me!" he yelled and ran upstairs to his room. Tsunami had a sad expression on her face and looked back at the Konoha group,
"Sorry, he's still a little skeptical about the whole thing," she looked down at her mashed potatoes and played with it a bit,
"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. I'm done anyway so I don't mind going to introduce myself!" Kirei smiled getting up with a clean plate and putting it in the sink. Tsunami sighed gratefully and gave a nod of encouragement while Kirei headed upstairs. She opened the door quietly ignoring the fact that the boy was crying while looking at a picture. Kirei walked right in and sat next to him and began crying as well but a little dramatically,
"Oh the humanity! The dread of it all! Somebody save me!" she said in between sobs. Inari stopped crying and stared at the crazy girl beside him,
"What the hell is your problem? Get out my room!" he yelled at her. Kirei stopped crying and looked over at the boy,
"I'm simply showing you how you will be for the rest of your life. How many times do you cry a day moping around and wallowing in self pity?" Inari opened his mouth to say something, "Don't interrupt. Where does it get you? Do you feel better, do you feel worse? If you can answer all these question with positive responses then go ahead and cry, but if not stop. You're a big boy and you moping about remind your family of the pain that they tried to get rid of. But if you keep carrying on like this, they will end up depressed like you. You're not the only one in the world you know," she finished.
Inari stared at the girl in disbelief, "What do you know?" he asked,
"I don't know what's wrong with you, but I was acting the way you are now when I was sad that somebody important to me died and it was my fault. I know what you feel like and I'm only helping you because you're making the old man and your mother sad so answer those questions and get better for them and yourself," she stood up and left the room and headed to he bedroom where she would be staying. She went inside her pack and took out bandages for her fore arms and shins and rewrapped humming a little tune. There was a knock at the door and it opened,
"Kakashi sensei says we should start training now," Sasuke said rather boredly. Kirei giggled,
"Don't you mean Uncle-Kakashi-sensei?" she said laughing while Sasuke glared,
"He is not related to me in any way, now get up before I leave you here and we train without you," he said glaring. Kirei finished wrapping and stood up,
"Okay, I'm coming!" and they headed to the backyard. Kakashi was standing up holding onto a cane with a glass of water in his hand. Sakura was standing in front of him listening to what he was saying,
"Oh good, you got her! Now we can learn about chakra control," Kirei and Sasuke stood beside Sakura, "Now the best way to increase chakra control would be to mold it in one of the most difficult places to mold, your feet. Mold to your feet and walk up the tree and see if you can stick on," he demonstrated and while he had his back turned he drank the water and shot the cup down on the ground and proceeded to climb up the tree. He was half way up when he smiled down at his students, "Better get started," he said smiling.
Sakura had a determined look on her features as she gathered chakra and headed half way up the tree. Sasuke gathered chakra and went on the tree only to slip
'Too little chakra and you'd slip,' Kakashi thought. He turned to Kirei who was gathering chakra and she walked up the tree easily. Kakashi smiled since he figured she would know how too, "Good job everyone, keep practicing, when you've mastered it, you must be on guard duty with me or, you can learn a more advanced technique, which is water walking which is the react same thing as tree walking!" Kirei smiled,
"I would like to do water walking please,"
"Then head to the small stream behind you," Kakashi said as Sakura made it to the top, "Sakura, guard duty or water walking?" he asked still smiling,
"Guard Duty," and she followed after Kakashi who shrugged his shoulders. Kirei turned to Sasuke after the other members left,
"Need help?" she offered. Sasuke snorted and continued where he left off. That was only a test since he practiced on walls around the Uchiha compound; he just never practiced on trees. Kirei rolled her eyes and headed to the stream, although she already knew how to water walk, she needed an excuse to practice a new technique.
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So far everything was going well, and Inari made an attempt to be friendlier. Six days already passed and everything was a routine from the first day. Yesterday Kirei practiced out so late and woke up early in the morning forest. She rubbed her eyes and noticed a beautiful girl in a pink kimono and she was gathering herbs. Kirei sat up and stared at the ground blushing,
"Did I wake you?" the girl asked and Kirei shook her head,
"Carry on doing whatever it is you were doing before," she said looking away from the girl. The girl chuckled
"Why can't you look me in the eyes?" she asked and Kirei bit her lip,
"You're really pretty, I don't want to stare," Kirei replied looking at her hands that were folded on her lap. The girl laughed,
"I don't mind, why you don't try?" she said and Kirei looked up curiously and cautiously and stared into the eyes of the girl. She saw something she experienced before she met her family,
"Loneliness," she whispered and the girls smile faded,
"Do you have somebody precious to you?" she asked and Kirei smiled sadly,
"Yes. I would protect them with my life, although some of them do not need protecting," Kirei answered. The girl smiled sadly as well,
"The more precious people you have, the stronger you become when you need to protect them," the girl stood up and went on her way and that's when Kirei noticed her filled basket, "Nice talking to you, by the way, I'm a guy," and he laughed as he looked back at Kirei's opened mouth.
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Kirei practiced her knew move for the rest of the day. It was getting late so she checked on Sasuke who lay on the ground panting,
"I did it, I mastered it," he said pointing to the tree. Kirei smiled and walked over to him offering a hand,
"Oh? And what do you think you can do with that?" she asked. Sasuke took her hand and stood up and used Kirei as support to walk back to Tazuna's house,
"Better control of jutsus," he answered as they continued walking. Kirei laughed and pumped a fist in the air,
"YOSH, the stronger we get, the stronger we become to conquer our goals!" she said while Sasuke rolled her eyes,
"If I ever meet someone else who talks like you, I will shave my head into a Mohawk and pierce my nipples," he said rolling his eyes. Kirei raised an eyebrow and made a note of that comment.
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Sakura stared at the door the whole time waiting for Sasuke to walk through the door but she didn't mean holding a sweating and fuzzed up looking Kirei. She saw green, she was unbelievably jealous,
"Ah, it seems you guys mastered the technique, which means everyone can come guard Tazuna tomorrow!" Kakashi replied cheerily while Kirei put Sasuke on the chair and sat beside him. Everyone continued there meal in light chatter and Inari watched Kirei smile and laugh,
'How does she do it? She said it was her fault they died, yet she smiles and laughs like nothing is wrong. She said she fights for her friends and families maybe that's why she's strong,' he glanced at his mom and grandfather, 'I will fight for them', and he continued his meal with a lighter mood then before.
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Kirei woke up with a yawn realizing that she was the only one there. She slipped on her fingerless gloves and wrapped her bandages and put on her short shorts, black tee and fishnet sweater. She slipped her scrolls into her pouch and headed down the stairs. She waved a goodbye to Tsunami who was in the kitchen and continued on her way to the bridge. On her way she noticed a dead boar with cuts all over it. It looked like someone cut through it with a sword. There wasn't just the boar but trees and rocks and other things surrounding the area. Kirei stopped and looked back towards the house and felt like something was wrong so she made a few seals, removed her gravity seal and headed back.
Inari walked up and answered the door. In front of him stood two samurai with their hands on their sword staring down at him menacingly,
"Where's your mom kid?" one of them asked and he slammed the door and ran towards her. The door was suddenly kicked down and the samurai walked in pointing there sword at Tsunami. They walked towards her and Inari remembered what Kirei had told him. He suddenly felt stronger then before and he rushed the samurai kicking one in the shins. That set him off and he brought his sword down to cut the little boy to pieces. There was a blur and Inari closed his eyes feeling that he accomplished something in his life already. Inari took a peek when he noticed he wasn't dead yet and saw Kirei holding a large circular blade againts the mans sword,
"You did great Inari, but I think I can take it from here," she said looking down at him and smiling. Inari slowly nodded and ran over to his mom standing in front of her holding a piece of the broken door. Kirei looked back at her enemy and smirked, "If we were outside, there would be blood," and the samurai guys snorted,
"What could a pretty girl like you do?" he said adding more force to blade. Kirei pushed him back and he stumbled out the door. It gave Kirei a chance to put her arms againts the blade holding it up. She put her palms out and pushed forward again,
"Wind Release: Rejection of Kamura," she said and there was a flash of black light so Inari and Tsunami covered her eyes. When they opened it, the swordsman in the house was holding a large slash on his chest but it was no use for the blood squirted againts the wall and collapsed. Tsunami and Inari didn't think it necessary to see what happened to the man outside. Kirei walked back in and her weapon poofed away, "Sorry about the blood, but they ticked me off," she said smiling sheepishly. Tsunami swallowed,
"Uh…I guess its okay I mean it was to protect us right?" she said shaking. Kirei made a hand seal "Shadow Clone Technique" and three other Kirei's poofed out of nowhere,
"I hope the clones I left here will help clean up," and she bowed then ran towards the bridge again. Inari and Tsunami watched in complete fascination as the clones began cleaning the blood on the wall, fixing the door, and dragging the body out of the house before he puts more blood into the floor,
"If I knew that, think of all the time I would save," Tsunami mumbled then looking down at a grinning Inari, "What's wrong?" she asked him,
"I have an idea," he replied looking up at her.
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"Got to move fast, got to move faster, got to move faster faster fastfastfaster!" she sung on her way to the bridge in full speed. She was a thousand pounds lighter and enjoying watching the bugs flying off of her. She reached the bridged and saw a dome of ice mirrors, thick mist, Sakura standing in front of Tazuna and the shadow of Kakashi fighting Zabuza. She made a few seals and put back on five hundred pounds of weight and ventured into the dome of ice. She walked right in and saw the hunter boy inside the mirrors and Sasuke with senbon needles sticking out on every limb of his body, "Sasuke! I'm here to preserve your youth!" she whispered to his body on the ground. Sasuke stood up with difficulty,
"You dobe, what the hell are you doing in here?" he asked kind of relived that she was okay. Kirei smiled and pat her chest,
"I'm going to save you!" she made a hand seal and whispered "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique," and a lot and I mean a lot of Kireis's poofed into existence. They were all squishing inside of the dome and some got mad at each other and punched each other. Sasuke sweat dropped while Kirei laughed sheepishly, "I'm still working on it," she laughed nervously after her statement. Sasuke felt a tingling sensation in his eyes when Haku jumped out and killed the rest of the clones. He looked over at Kirei and she understood and she made a little less then that and Haku came out and killed them,
"Two more tries and I think I can get it," he said and Kirei smiled knowing that she was useful inside the dome. She did it two more times and Sasuke unlocked his Sharingan. Kirei thought he looked exactly like Itachi with that on and she couldn't look at him. Haku noticed the change,
"You have the same eye as the jounin," he stated and Sasuke smiled,
"Now I'm certain you won't win," Haku sighed and shot out more needles but mostly towards Kirei. Sasuke saw it coming and dodged the ones that he was quick enough to dodge. Kirei twisted and turned to avoid the needles but keeping out the gravity seal earlier was taking it's toll for now the five hundred pounds she got rid off was coming full force and she fell to the ground coughing up blood, she wasn't the one who put the seal on in the first place,
"I'm sorry, but I have to complete my orders," Haku said as he aimed all his needles at Kirei's coughing figure on the ground. Sasuke looked shocked and he did the only thing he could think of, he jumped in the way. Kirei looked up to see Sasuke impaled with senbon needles and watched as he fell to the ground,
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"Kirei, can you do me a favor," Itachi asked looking down at the young girl who sat beside him,
"Of course! I will do anything for you!" she said smiling. Itachi grinned,
"My position does not allow me to protect my family, promise me you'll watch over my little brother? He needs guidance," Itachi whispered. Kirei nodded enthusiastically,
"On my passion of youth I promise!" she said adding a hand to her chest. Itachi poked her fore head,
"Don't talk like that"
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"SASUKE!" she screamed not caring at all if anyone heard her. She made a promise and she never breaks promises, but now, how can she face Itachi? She huddled over to his side and he still had a few breaths left in him,
"Kirei, you're such an idiot, next time you move out the way," he said as he stopped breathing. Kirei couldn't stop the tears in her eyes as she watched her promise be broken and somebody she grew to care for die before her eyes. She brushed some hair out of his face and stood up. She turned to one of the mirrors and black chakra began licking at some mirrors causing them to break. Kirei closed her eyes trying to find the original Hunter nin and she opened them then jumped to a second story mirror and rammed her fist through it. Haku came out flying but Kirei wasn't done as she used a large shard as momentum to follow after Haku,
"You bastard!" she said in between tears and punches. Finally Haku hit the floor a while away from Kirei and she walked over to him, then jogged then full out sprinted towards him. The black chakra around her grabbed onto Haku as she settled for a final blow but his mask cracked and slipped to the ground. She stopped mid punch as Haku stared at her in the eyes. She lowered her fist and the black chakra receded. Kirei looked back at Haku,
"Why did you stop? I hurt somebody you love, why would you not hurt me back?" he asked very confused as to what was going on. Kirei suddenly dropped to her knees and held her head in pain. Some of the black chakra that disappeared came back and stuck to Kirei like a second skin. She screamed and fell to the ground on her stomach panting not being able to move. Haku looked at her in shock but felt that he needed to be with Zabuza.
Kakashi charged up the chidori hoping to end this quickly and go see what the hell that chaotic and evil chakra was coming from. He rushed towards Zabuza and he was about to shove it through his chest, Haku appeared through a mirror and Kakashi hit him instead. Kakashi slid Haku off his arm and looked over at Zabuza, who seemed to be saddened,
"Haku," he whispered. He looked over at Kakashi and glared but before he could lunge at him, there was clapping being heard from the other side of the bridge. Both jounins turned to see Gatou standing there surrounded by many bandits and swordsman,
"Good for the little wench, that bitch hurt my arm, now Zabuza, It's time for you to die," Gatou laughed while Zabuza grabbed his chopping cleaver and said,
"Kakashi, I have no reason to continue our battle," and he turned to Gatou and charged with his weapon in hand. He cut through bandits like no tomorrow until the only on standing was Gatou himself. Zabuza grinned and brought his cleaver down vertically and Gatou separated into two. He looked back at Haku's figure on the ground and slowly walked towards him. Sakura, Tazuna and Kakashi walked over to where Haku was and watched as Zabuza pet his silky hair. Sakura looked around and noticed the village standing there with weapons in their hands,
"It's Inari!" she chirped and watched as the group advanced. They saw the bridge flooded with blood and turned green. Everyone laughed nervously. Kirei stirred from the ground and stood up slowly. There was pain in her right eye and it hurt whenever she looked a something. She closed it then slipped her fore head protector down over it. She walked over to Sasuke and sat by his side. She started pulling out needles from him while tears made there way to her face. She pulled out the needles around his head and neck and he suddenly started coughing
"Sasuke," she said smiling as he sat up and looked around. He saw Kirei with her weird looking fore head protector and decided not to ask. Sakura suddenly came running and she jumped on him screaming and hollering. Kirei got up and turned away and headed towards Kakashi. She saw Haku with a large whole in his chest and crouched down beside him, "It's my fault," she whispered as Zabuza looked up at her,
"What did you do?" he asked knowing full well that this girl had a guilty conscious for no reason. Kirei put her hands on the wound hoping to use some of her priestess powers to bring Haku back to life. Her hands glowed white as the wound started to heal.
'More…more…' she thought as she kept pumping him with everything she had. Little did she know that she was using LK's power and a lot of it. After five minutes Haku let out a large gasp for air and sat up panting. Zabuza immediately hugged the boy and cried in thanks. Kirei smiled up at Tazuna and gave a nice guy pose,
"YOUTH PREVAILS!" and she collapsed with a searing pain in her left eye.
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Kirei woke up with bandages around her eyes in a bed. She slowly brought her shaking hands to the bandages and began to unwrap it. She blinked a couple of times realizing that her vision was fine. She turned to her side and saw Sasuke lying on the bed staring at the ceiling. Kirei shifted towards Sasuke and it caused him to turn to his side and look over at her. His eyes widened when he looked at her,
"You're eyes are weirder then before," he said. Kirei raised an eyebrow and headed to the bathroom. She stared at her reflection and shrieked, the pain in her eyes was from them changing. Her right eye looked like the black eye from DK and the left eye was white just like LK's eye. Her now blonde hair was almost gone, but the front of the left side of her hair was white while the right side was black. The back of her head was blonde and Kirei thought she looked silly. She sighed and headed downstairs wondering what was going on. She looked down at the table and saw Zabuza, Haku, Sakura, Kakashi, Tazuna, Inari and Tsunami sitting at the table,
"Interesting," she murmured watching as Sakura flirted mercilessly with Haku.
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Team seven said goodbye to Zabuza and Haku who both claimed that they had unfinished business to complete and stayed in Wave until the bridge was complete. Today was the day they were leaving and Inari wouldn't let go of Kirei,
"Promise you will visit?" he asked. Kirei ruffled his hair and nodded,
"Promise," she replied. He let go of her and they waved goodbye. Inari looked up at Tazuna,
"What are you going to name the bridge grandpa?" he asked. Tazuna scratched his beard,
"I was thinking Tazuna's Super Bridge but I guess you can name it," he said grinning. Inari put his hand on his chin,
"How about Kirei's Bridge of Courage, I think it suits the situation," he smiled. Tazuna nodded watching as Sakura bonked Kirei on her head and Kirei dropped kick her in the back yelling something at her.
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It was time to camp out but Kirei had a very bad feeling about sleeping out. Kirei told everyone but they claimed she was paranoid. They all went to sleep but Kirei had to force herself to sleep using a jutsu to actually fall asleep. There was a soft humming noise and it caused Sakura to stand up in a trance. She followed the humming noise to the edge of a cliff where she fell off. There was a horrible crunching noise and Sakura died. There was a cloaked figure walking to her dead body and it absorbed a glowing white ball that came from her mouth. The cloaked figure laughed bitterly,
"Need more…Need more souls…."
Translating The Name: I don't really have a plot for this except the judgment day thing when LK and DK fuse together and fight Ragnorok. I always loved that name…Ra-g-no-rok. I was going to make this a Gaara/FemNaru fic but somebody requested Itachi pairing so I will do it and make another story with a femNaru fic. If I ever complete this fic thought.
