Disclaimer: I'm back! And I'm here to say that I do not own Naruto! Bahh… this is getting boring already. XP
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Training/Kaori's:
His piercing blue eyes gazed around the area in heavy concentration, searching me out through the leafy foliage of the forests around us. I slowed my breathing, doing so to decrease my heart rate. I had to do whatever I could to hide my presence and I continued to breathe deeply as I twirled my aromatic slashers calmly.
When my attacker was looking away, I threw a cannonade of needles towards my opponent. He noticed this and dodged it with inhuman speed, his eyes now fixated on the tree I was currently hiding behind. He and his animal familiar flew towards my location and blocked a kick. The boy smirked, and grabbed onto my leg, throwing me into the treetop to ensure less damage upon me.
I hid a smile as I picked myself up, walking down the trunk easily thanks to the tree-climbing jutsu. "I should've known you'd be able to see those senbon needles with those eyes of yours, Tsubasa-kun."
I frowned. "But you didn't have to throw me into the leaves. Did you forget who I am? A healer? More specifically an Amakusu member? Ahem! Of course I'd be fine! So don't go easy on me again!"
Tsubasa grinned, his face leopard from the bits of sun that peeked through the shade of the trees. "I can't help it if I care for you too much! You're just so precious!"
I rolled my eyes at his teasing. "Oh shut up! If you can't take me seriously on your own, then I'm going to have to force you!" And with that, I did a series of hand seals as I made several clones of myself, immediately running towards my teammate. He dodged every hit (A/N: Imaaaaginary hits!) My bunshins could offer, as he was still unsure which were the illusions and which one was actually me.
I managed to sneak behind him and with another hand seal as I yelled. "Bakuhatsu no Jutsu!" and planted my hand firmly on his back… or so I had hoped.
For instead of a Toriwa, a log flew from my blast and cracked into many pieces. Tsubasa on the other hand, was nowhere to be found. 'Everyone keeps doing the same thing!'
"Aww! Our little Kaori is finally fighting like a big girl and trying to hurt me! I'm so proud of you!" His voice taunted, echoing from all directions.
I could feel the anger marks erupt on my head. "Shut up! I'll find you! I guarantee it! Just do me a favor and fight me seriously already!"
Tsubasa flew down from wherever he was just now, and smirked. "If you say so, Kaori." He made a few hand signs and said, "Hane Furu no Jutsu."
Crap.
Oh crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap.
This could get dangerous.
I have to choose my next decision wisely if I want to survive.
So, I bolted.
I jumped out of the way as a countless number sharp feathers quivered into the air. With Tsubasa's chakra fueling it, he locked the sharp quills onto their target.
And you can bloody guess who that is.
So now I'm frantically running away from crazy heat-chakra-sensor bird things that are out not to assassinate me, but to tickle me under Tsubasa's orders.
Did you know that's called pteronophobia? Being tickled by feathers?
Everyone seems to know I'm ticklish!
Anyways, back to the subject at hand. I'm still running and there are less feathers (Argh) now because I threw a few kunai with exploding tags at the cluster and after nicking one, it set off a giant blast and so to put it quickly, 'feather go boom, feather now dead.'
"Tsubasa-kun, shame on you! Sitting there like you have nothing to do, and making me run around with feathers chasing me! I hate you!"
He just yawned, as he and Suzumaru continued to watch my chase. "No you don't. Besides, you might encounter these things during a real mission. It's good to prepare."
"Liar! You just thought of that right now!"
"Oh, oh, watch out! In front of you! There's a-!"
BAM!
"Oooh! Face plant into a tree! That's gotta hurt!"
"Damn well it did! You're a terrible sparring partner!"
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Afterwards:
"Huff… huff… I hate… you so… so much…"
After I finally killed all the feathers, I once again pounced on Tsubasa, growling with vengeance as we continued to wrestle and land blows on each other. This had been going on for the last maybe 45 minutes and we were now laying side by side, taking a long break in prep for our next fight.
Tsubasa rolled his eyes as he turned his head to face me with a smile. "It's… okay… I know you… you don't… mean that…" He wheezed, he lifted his hand to tap my head, but dropped it limply. Finding even that task too much of an effort to follow through. Suzumaru, on the other hand, twittered around us, as he still seemed to have an unlimited amount of energy left in him. Stupid birds.
I snuck a glance over at Tsubasa. His chakra level was near zero.
I considered giving him my chakra. I mastered how to transmit my chakra through both animated and inanimate objects a long time ago, and he might need it…
I groaned. Blah, forget that. I'll do it later.
I continued to look at the sky from my laying position; it got a little bit darker, as the sky started to sink past afternoon mode. It was at the borderline between afternoon and evening. "Heh… Makoto-chan… heh… sure is missing out on a lot of… heh… fun right now…"
Tsubasa shrugged, not finding her absence too surprising. "Her family's teaching her politics or something. I mean, the Majikan clan's pretty powerful internationally too."
"And Hikaru-sensei's being chased by 'Her'." I added. 'Her' or 'She' was the new name for the person that was chasing after Hikaru-sensei. So far, that and "Mit-" was the only thing we really knew about her.
"Yup."
I gave a happy sigh as my face held on a thoughtful look. "Wow… This was one of the most fun training sessions I've had since Kiba-san. I mean with you, I can focus on long distance attacks, close-range, and genjutsu. With Kiba-san I could only use ninjutsu and taijutsu. And we all know my genjutsu skills aren't very sufficient."
It had been a few days since that time with everyone. After avoiding Kiba for a while, I found that I could talk about him again. My friends seemed to sense this, as they didn't ask questions. "This was really fun."
Tsubasa blinked solemnly, actually listening to what I have to say. "You felt like he was improving more than you were."
I nod. "Yeah sort of. I mean, I haven't sparred with him in a while, but he was still a worthy opponent to fight. I mean, he's really strong, so I can never win a match twice in a row. I've always had fun trying to think of a plan to beat him. It was great, he was a challenge."
Tsubasa-kun said nothing as he thought about what I said.
"I might be going overboard on this, and thank you for hearing me out on this, but I sometimes think he sees me more as a training tool or something to laugh at than a friend. He's always the first to tease me. But I never really cared. So he probably finds no challenge from me whatsoever. It's annoying how I let him get away with things. I find it kind of hard to say no to him." After telling myself this many times, it didn't hurt as much and I found it easier to accept. "Terrible, isn't he?" I laughed.
Laughing. That was all I seemed to be doing these days.
Tsubasa sighed, considering my words thoughtfully. "So you like him. For how long?"
"Liked." I pushed. He raised a brow and I shrugged. "Well, for a few months, anyway."
"Does he know?"
"Nope. Not a clue." I heaved a sigh myself. Not really sure why I was telling him this. "And he doesn't need to either because I already know he doesn't see me like that."
"I don't know... Are you sure?" I nodded. "What makes you think that?"
I gave a half-hearted smile as I turn my head to face Tsubasa once more. "As far as I know, he likes Hinata-chan. So I should at least let him be happy pursuing her. Even though we all know she likes Naruto-san."
"Was that why you were so depressed that one time?"
My breathing hitched for a second. He must still be on the party... I once again felt the guilt creep up before nodding.
"That bastard! I can't believe he didn't... but you don't know for sure if...!" My friend looked really angry before he stopped himself, thinking better of it. "I'm sorry... But still, that's very... I guess, noble of you."
I jolted forward, surprising Tsubasa, as he cautiously sat up as well. "Noble? Uhh, not really! If I did tell him, then it would create all this unnecessary drama, make him uncomfortable, and then I'd be the one getting hurt! I'm supposed to be from a healing clan, and I'm afraid to get hurt! Haha! Noble, my ass!"
He looked sad now. "Kaori..."
I shook my head and made a move to heal him, wanting to at least keep my hands busy during my counseling session. "Who else knows by the way?" I asked, as his chakra coils began to fill up with my own chakra.
"Just me and Majikan. But that's only because we know you best. Otherwise, you're good at hiding these things." He frowned. "Too good. Are you sure you don't want to tell him?"
"Definitely." I furrowed my brows. I was suddenly feeling scared for a moment. "You're not going to tell anyone, right Tsubasa-kun?"
He raised an eyebrow. "Of course! And same with Majikan and Suzumaru."
"Okay, thanks." There was a pause. "Hahaha! Noble! That still cracks me up!"
"…"
My laughter died with each awkward look my friend gave me. "Okay, I'm done." He gave me the face of a skeptic as one last giggle escaped my lips. "No, really! I am!"
Tsubasa grinned, probably guessing I was still feeling a bit miserable as he joked. "Well, don't worry! Hinata should like me just as much as she likes old Naruto, so Kiba has competition! There's still hope for you!"
"I assure you, that's definitely not going happen."
"But Kaori...!"
"I actually feel bad because I was avoiding him too." Tsubasa rolled his eyes at my concern. "I think I'm finally ready to talk to him again, I mean I like being in the 'just friends' zone with him." I gave a chuckle. "But right now, all I'm really trying to do is get over him, you know?"
"Still! You can't be too sure, Kaori-chan."
I shrugged.
Tsubasa snickered, a mischievous light playing in his eyes. "You know, if Naruto won't take Hinata, we all know he still has Sasuke."
'Back in the academy!' I snorted. "Oh, don't say that! Hinata-chan would be devastated! That's terrible!" I giggled despite myself.
A smirk appeared. "Still, you gotta consider the possibilities."
I couldn't stop laughing. Even though his method was terrible, it was real sweet of him to cheer me up like that. And it worked. "I can't believe you! Seriously, just give it up! I'm fine!"
He gave me an amused grin as he stood up, deciding not to pursue the topic further for my sake. "Then shall we continue our joust, mistress?"
I beamed at him, and grabbed his arm to hoist me up. "Yes, we shall, kind sir!"
Once we were in ready position, Tsubasa said a few familiar words and made more feathers as they begin to zoom in on their opponent. Which is once again, me.
"Aww! Come on! Not again! Tsubasa-kun! I want my chakra back, you backstabber!"
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Hane Furu no Jutsu: Means Feather Rainfall, or Rainfall of feathers. Hane meaning feather, Furu meaning fall (the rainy or snowy kind) and I'm sure you guys can figure out 'Jutsu'
I noticed that this chapter seemed like a kind of KaorixTsubasa-ish moment, but trust me this ficcy is going to end up KibaxKaori in the end (I don't know when that'll happen, but it'll happen!). So I'll make sure to add Kiba in the next chapter (maybe in a sort of antagonist light, hmm…) Kekekekeke, review and I'll see what I can do!
I'll update after two months! I have a wedding and a program to attend on the other side of the world (Korea is kinda on the other side of America right?) So have a great summer! Thanks for reading! Please review me!
And I was kidding in the disclaimer. I really do own every newbie that came up, it just felt like something fun to say (type?) XD
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