Chapter Two : Kakashi's old friend.
A 12 year old Kurage was looking over the ledge of her bathtub. She sunk deeper into the water and began to blow bubbles and moved her eyes so she could see if Zabuza was looking. He was in the tub as well with a towel over his face, she glared at him for a while until he nudged her under the water.
"Ow!" She said and splashed water to him. She looked at him trough the steam and leaned back at the other end of the tub. "I don't want to train tomorrow, not with Mangetsu, he's so mean." Zabuza didn't say anything. She exaggerated her sigh and leaned back her head. Zabuza had just come from a mission and had bruises all over his arm, she stared at them for a while before he moved his arm to rest it on the ledge of the tub. She sunk in the water again and began to blow bubbles, he nudged her and she kept on doing it, he nudged her again, she kept on blowing the bubbles, he ripped the towel off his face.
"Stop." he said calmly.
"When am I going to go on my first mission?" She asked looking at the ends of her hair.
"Soon."
"Really?" She said with a smile.
"But you don't want to train, so I guess you won't."
"Hey..." She put on a sad look, Zabuza leaned forward and stared at the face of his sister. "What?"
"You look like you're eight."
She smiled. "That means I'll look young when I'm 40, and when I'm 80 I'll look 40." She grabbed her cheeks. "I'll look more amazing then that Old Hag Tsunade!" She said with wide eyes.
Zabuza sighed. "If you want to go on a mission it has to be with Mangetsu."
"Ok!" She said with a bit more enthusiasm. "Who's going to be our leader?"
"No one."
"Huh...?" Kurage was confused.
"The Mizukage has reason to believe both of you may be a perfect match as teammates."
Kurage leaned back and thought. "Mangetsu does seem to know everything I'm doing." She then narrowed her eyes. "I did tell him all my secrets though, maybe that's it."
Zabuza stared in wonder. "Secrets."
"Uh...I mean, techniques." She nervously laughed.
"Mmm...I told the Mizukage to give you a lower rank, but he's going to give you an A Rank Mission."
"Really, no way!" She said with a smile.
"Since you've been practicing on Seal Making, he wants you to go to Konoha to get old Seals that were taken by a certain someone."
"Hm...can we die on this mission?"
"Only if you get caught."
Kurage looked down at her reflection. "Would you be sad if I died?" Zabuza slowly blinked and stood up, he grabbed a towel and began to wrap himself in it. "I know what they say about me." Kurage sunk into the water. "They say I think being a Shinobi is like playing, they're calling me a clueless demon, that I don't know my own strength." She tried to smile but Zabuza could see sadness in her face. "I can take the water from the air and trees, I don't know how to make my mist go away," she wrapped her arms around her knees. "Zabuza, I can even make clones be like real people, I—I don't know how I do it, am I a demon?" She grabbed her head, it looked as if she were trying to pull the locks of her long hair off.
Zabuza began to change into his pajamas. He sat for a moment at the chair against the wall. "You're not a demon, if you were, you'd be like Mangetsu." Kurage looked at Zabuza. "You see us Swordsmen as your family, a demon would see us as a potential enemy, you could never make an enemy Kurage, even the Mizukage said you could never make it into the Bingo Book, even if you killed me, you have a way with people, that's why I could never have you as a student."
Kurage looked down again. "Then find someone who can be your student."
"Get out and go to sleep, your mission is early." Zabuza said.
Kurage opened her eyes to that memory, she got up and looked outside to see Gigi and Suigetsu who were watching Juugo doing jutsus that involved him forming into a monster. She then looked down at herself, it was because of those words she spoke to Zabuza such a long time ago that might have caused him to die at the bridge all those years ago. She got up and set the black yukata on and walked into the living room, she saw a bowl of rice and hot tea ready for her to eat. As she sat down and looked at he door open to the three teenagers laugh.
"I haven't seen you control yourself like that before, Juugo." Suigetsu said.
"It's the Seals Kurage put up." Gigi said. "Oh, you're up, we didn't wake you did we Kurage?"
"No." She said and began to eat her rice.
"Kurage-sama, is it true, there's Seals up?" Juugo asked.
Kurage pointed a finger ad the doorway, ripples began to show appear in the middle of the wooden door and a seal began to emerge from it, it then flew in between two of Kurage's fingers. Her eyes were closed as she sipped her tea. "I've put up barriers so Chakra level stay at a minimum."
"I see...I haven't heard of a seal that could do that without permanently being imprinted on someone." Juugo sat down at the table.
Kurage looked at her Seal. "When someone is sick they find ways to make themselves better, in a way I'm like that, I cannot control my Chakra level just like you Juugo, but instead of me turning into a monster, my jutsu's go out control."
"Ah, I remember, like the time you made it rain." Suigetsu said leaning on the windowsill, "how many people died from that mudslide?"
"Suigetsu!" Gigi said.
"It's ok Gigi, I should have known better at that age."
"How did you stop it?" Juugo asked.
"The Mizukage said I had to find out myself, that if I knew how to start it I should know how to stop it. And it took me hours, I did, but I ended up wiping out dozens of houses and the families that were in it." She looked down at her cup of tea. "That was one of the many mistakes before I began to teach myself to do seals."
"I'm sorry to hear that." Juugo said.
"You shouldn't." Suigetsu folded his arms. "Auntie knows how to make a seal for anything, even to postpone the spirit leaving the body so someone could fix their body and revive them."
"Like I said, I have made many mistakes, unfortunately people began to tamper and change my seals."
"Like Orochimaru?" Suigetsu said.
"Yes, but there are more people who took my seals, I've made thousands." Kurage rolled up her sleeves and extended her arm. Several slips of seals began to come out of her, everyone stared with wide eyes. "So many people would kill a whole village for these, that's why I hide them in my body."
"What if someone killed you?" Juugo asked.
"I have a Seal in my body to destroy the others in me, but that will only happen if I die."
"What can those Seals do?" Suigetsu asked.
"Imagine the power of one Shinobi given to someone for their own usage." Their eyes widened, "Imagine the Jutsu of someone being permanently blocked while fighting, Imagine never being caught in a trap...to tell the truth I don't know why I made half these Seals, I guess I knew my Chakra would let me do anything, so I made Seals as a hobby." The Seals went back in her arm and then into the door. Kurage lowered her hand and used it to grab her cup of tea.
Suigetsu walked up to the table and sat on the ground beside Kurage. "Auntie...Kurage-senpai, we need to get Zabuza's sword back, I think Orochimaru's men took it for their own use."
"Gigi, get me my book please." Kurage said, Gigi walked into an other room. "Suigetsu," she took an other sip. "There's nothing to worry about, the only people who could properly use those swords were the Seven Swordsmen, and they're dead minus one or two, not including you." Suigetsu looked like he was hit by a tone of bricks. Gigi set the book in front of her.
"What is that?" Suigetsu asked.
"I know who's using the swords by the Chakra signature flowing through the sword." she opened the book while resting her head on her palm, "Like right now Zabuza's sword is laying..." She paused, Juugo looked around as he felt a surge of Chakra go throughout his body.
'Is it possible to have this much power?' he thought to himself.
"Impossible..." Kurage said to herself.
"Kurage, what is it?" Gigi asked.
"Zabuza can't possibly using the sword as we speak...can he?" Suigetsu's eyes widened as she said this.
The house began to rumble, Juugo looked out the window and saw clouds form in the sky, he turned around to see Kurage's eyes turn all white. Her hair began to rise as if she were in water. Gigi grabbed Suigetsu and the table slowly moved away from her. Seals began to shoot from the wall and wrap around her arms. The door slowly opened as she took her first step. As her foot touched the ground it sounded as if a giant thunderstorm screamed throughout the air. Suigetsu couldn't believe what he was feeling.
"No one brings my friends...no one touches them..." her face burned red with fury. "Suigetsu, Gigi, Juugo...stay here, how dare they, how dare all of them." She disappeared and everything was silent.
Sitting alone in a room Kabuto slowly opened his eyes. 'So she's deciding to show herself.'
Kakashi was panting though his nose as Sai sealed Zabuza's and Haku's body up. He held the sword and looked at the other shinobi fight off the other six swordsmen. He was getting ready to jump in to attack, he then felt a chakra signature. It takes a lot for me to get mad. He remembered someone saying. The sky went black, all the shinobi began to look up, even the six swordsmen. Rain began to pour down on everything, Kakashi looked at Kuriarare and his needle sword, someone was standing in front of him looking down. She slowly raised her head with a terrifying look.
"Unforgivable..." she whispered to herself.
Suigetsu pulled a sword from a pile of hundreds. "I'm not surprised Kurage-senpai has these."
"I'm only showing these to you because Kurage never acted like that before." Gigi said and stared at the swords. "These are nothing like Big Brother's."
"Why do want the swords so bad? I want to hear it from you." Juugo said.
"Are you bored of this already? You offered to help me." Suigetsu asked annoyed of him. Gigi just sat near the window thinking where Kurage went.
"You're the one who gets fed up of everything, but when it comes to the swords you get so serious, you even yelled at Kurage-sama."
Suigetsu looked down and smiled. "I have to stay motivated, if I'm gonna reform the Seven Swordsmen and become it's new leader."
"Reform?" Juugo repeated. 'Kurage-sama was right then.'
Kakashi's hair blew throughout the wind and rain, all the shinobi around him watched as a women raised her arm and lowered it, but her chakra stayed on the spot looking like a blue arm was still raised in the air. She did this until there was three chakra arms around her, she resembled a Hindu God. The arms began to do their own hand signs of two Ox Seals and two Boar Seals. Her paper Seals began to fly out of her back and stuck onto the foreheads of the six swordsmen.
"Release." Kurage said.
Instantly the swordsman's bodies seem to look as if they were let free, they began to look around, Kuriarare looked at Kurage.
"Kurage-chan...please, we've had enough." He said as if begging.
"What the hell is going on Kurage? Are you responsible for this?" Fuguki yelled at Kurage.
"Hey, hey, Kurage-chan, can you let our bodies free for a bit, maybe we can play like old times." Mangetsu said with a smile at her.
A shinobi looked at Kakashi. "Who is this, Kakashi-san?"
"That women, her names is Kurage Momochi." Everyone around him was shocked as they heard this. "The women who buried whole villages in water that had the shinobi responsible for killing a Swordsman."
Munashi looked at Kurage. "Well Kurage, I see you're quite the woman now, how about you put us where we belong?"
"Awe, no one wants to play?" Mangetsu said laughing.
Ringo shook his head. "Put us back Kurage-chan, please, we want to go back."
"Speak for yourself." Mangetsu began to walk towards Kurage.
Kuriarare held out a hand so he couldn't go any further. "Stop it Mangetsu, you know we're better off there."
Kurage turned around and smiled at them. "Don't worry, I'll have you back soon." The seals then went inside their bodies and they soon began to fade away. She slowly turned away from them and they soon disappeared, the sky then turned back into the dim blue sky. Kakashi looked at Kurage and had a kunai at hand.
"Kurage-chan—"
"It's Momochi-san, Kakashi-san." Kurage said as her chakra arms began to seep inside her again. She held her chest. "There, now everything is back to normal..." she whispered to herself. Kurage began to pick up the swords as several shinobi surrounded her. "What is this?" She asked Kakashi.
"You're considered an enemy, Kurage-chan—"
"It's Momochi-san!" She snapped at him. "Did it not occur to all of you I just stopped probably the most deadly fight, you should know Kakashi, you're lucky I didn't sink that place where the 'Great Naruto' bridge is, in fact it should be on my to do list!" She yelled out at him, she looked down and tried to jump away before shadow arms wrapped around her. 'Damn it, I have to release all my Seals to get out of this!' she thought to herself. Her teeth clenched as she felt a hand wrap around her neck. "Please, I just wanted to release my former teammates, I have nothing else to do what is going on here." Kurage said out loud. Her dark hair covered half her face.
"Sorry...Momochi-san, but we can't let you go, we're in a war." Kakashi said.
Kurage relaxed, her arms lowered. "Gather the swords for me at least, please." Kakashi signaled two shinobi to do so, they picked the swords up and wrapped them. The wrapped body of Zabuza feel apart as one of the Shinobi tried to pick him up. "Zabuza is gone, there's no need for that anymore." She said. "As for Haku-kun, I—I can release his body later so he can pass on."
Kakashi looked at her. "Kurage...how long has it been?" Kurage didn't say anything as she looked down.
Kurage sat on a chair facing a window, she wondered how Gigi, Suigetsu, and Juugo were going. She thought perhaps if she had done some good planning things would have turned out much smoother. But she acted out of passion, causing her to be in this state. The room was completely empty, she thought she would have at least been in a room with other enemies so she would at least know what was going on. The door opened behind her. Kurage would have known who it was, but she activated seals so none of her chakra could be sensed. She was in Konoha now and there was no telling what they wanted to know. A table was set in front of her and an other chair, her arms were let go from it's chains. She saw it was Kakashi, he set a tray of food in front of her and a cup of hot green tea.
She smiled. "Kakashi, you never fail to be a gentlemen do you?" She said as she grabbed the spoon to begin drinking her soup. She she swallowed the spoonful she looked at Kakashi. "I heard you're quite the Shinobi."
"People talk." Kakashi said.
"You're in line to be Hokage, how does it feel?" she drank her tea.
"I fight for Konoha and to protect it's people."
"That worked out well."
Kakashi slowly closed his eyes and opened them. "Why did you come here, Kurage-chan?"
"When someone resurrects my brother they're messing with me." Kurage's eyes lowered showing off her long eyelashes. "How was fighting him for the second time?"
"It wasn't fun."
Kurage smirked. "When was fighting him ever fun?" She laughed. "Stop looking at me like I know something, you want me to tell you what I know?" she leaned in. "Two 16 year old experiments, one being my sisters old friend, and the other a screw up walk up my door saying they want the swords, I tell them they're ridiculous and try to prove to them no one has them with Seals I implanted in them a while back, then I find out Zabuza himself is using his sword, and then I knew something was up, I came to see what was going on, and now I'm here, is that what you wanted to hear Kakashi?" Kurage threw her cup and it hit the wall, she laced her fingers together under her nose and glared at her plate of food. She then looked at Kakashi's one eye while shaking one foot, she then lowered one hand shoved the plate of food to the side but didn't knock it off. Kakashi raised his arm and set a hand on her fist as beads of tears formed on the corner of her eyes.
"Kakashi...what if he finds me?" She said looking at their hands. "I've been trying to get rid of their existence and people keep trying to bring them back..." her eyes looked as if she were seeing death straight in the face. "What if he finds me?"
Kakashi looked at her with sadness. "I've been helping you avoid that for a long time," Kakashi said. "But we know Madara is alive and well." Kurage looked at him with a shocked face.
"So he isn't dead...no wonder Kisame said he couldn't help me with the swords." She said.
"Huh? You spoke to Kisame?"
Kurage stared at Kisame with wide, shocked, eyes. Kisame was looking down at her. "Kisame, we used to train, we used to spend all the time together..." she said to him.
"I can't help you anymore, I've helped you hide the swords enough already, but you lost them, so they are your problem." He said, he looked away from her. "I'm part of Akatsuki, you could get in a lot of trouble being here with me."
"What happened to you? I helped Itachi get better with my medicine, I pretended I was the one who flooded those villages,"
"I can't help you."
"You're...you're not a swordsman." Kisame began to walk away. "There's no way you can be a swordsman, just like Raiga...you've turned your back on us all..." He kept on walking, she glared at him and clenched her teeth. "You better make sure your body is gone," he was further away. "YOU BETTER MAKE SURE THER'S NOTHING LEFT OF YOU—YOU TRAITOR!"
Kurage was sitting on a bed, Kakashi was on a chair next to her. They were silent for a moment. "Kakashi, do you know what he wants?"
"No, no one does." He said looking at her. "Tell me Kurage-chan, how are you?"
"Fine, I've been doing fine up until now, I heard a lot of people have been dying, especially all those Akatsuki members."
"Yeah, you heard correctly."
She laid on the bed and looked at the ceiling. "Kakashi, you tell me, how many people think I'm evil?"
"Almost everyone." She flinched when she heard this. "What do you expect, you even told me to lie for you, to cover you, and the swordsmen, you told me to lie and make them seem like they were all evil."
Kurage closed her eyes. "I think I might have screwed everything up."
"We'll think of something, we did last time." He said and set a blanket on her.
Gigi was looking out the window while Suigetsu and Juugo were fast asleep. "Kurage...don't leave me." She said to herself.
A/N School started, I'm kind of bummed out because I liked just going to work and coming home to draw and play games all day, but hey, at least I have the choice to go right? lol, well I hope this is at least an interesting story so far, I'm not so confident in terms of the ending, but I really don't want to NOT continue this. Hope you enjoyed. n.n' RR