Sanctuary Within
Arc One, Chapter Six: Getting Down to Business
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, which belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. Aren't you getting tired of these as they appear in like every first page of every Naruto Fic. you read? I am… I hope I'm not alone…
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"Alright now, this exercise will be simple…"
"What is he going to do?"
"Cough… I was getting to that… Hiatari," Kakashi turned to me.
"Yes?"
"Your objective is to simply dodge whatever I toss at you…" he said.
"You won't throw kunai or shuriken at him, will you?" Tsuki chimed in, again.
"No, no! Of course not… yet…" Kakashi answered her, saying the last part in whisper.
I gulped. I couldn't help but be worried.
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"Well… You survived so far… Are you sure it was the Sharingan that you activated? You're sure the blood didn't rush to your head?" Kakashi asked me, sounding unconcerned.
I, however, was on my knees, vastly cut and bruised as my clothes were torn and scorched. I looked up to him, "I… I swear… I activated the… The Sharingan…" My breathing had become transformed from an involuntary bodily function to a competition to survive.
"Swearing is bad for children." Kakashi said, nonchalantly.
"Why you-"
"Alright then, how about we go inside, patch you up, eat a full meal, and we can try again later… How does that sound?" he said, probably grinning behind his mask.
"That…" I sighed, "does sound… good…"
My world slowly faded to black.
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"Oi… Oi! Hiatari, get up…"
I started blinking repeatedly, so as my eyes could focus on the new illumination of where I currently was.
The first thing to come into focus was Kakashi standing over me with Tsuki by his side.
"Tsuki?"
Kakashi put his hand over my forehead, "Relax… You just have a fever… I didn't expect for you to pass out, but you did. I'm going to keep you here until I can give you something and send you home for the day. Is that alright?"
From the way he asked me, I understood that it wasn't a question. "Yeah, got it…"
He slowly stood straight up and walked away. Tsuki loomed over me and touched my face.
"Uhh… Tsuki… I…"
"You're burning up…" she said, worried.
I smiled, "it's just a fever, I'll beat it…" – She didn't seem to sure – "I promise."
Her expression showed surprise, but she quickly replaced it with a smile of her own, "I know, but you have to stop pushing yourself or you might… well, just don't push yourself..."
My smile became a grin, "I'll be fine, alright?"
She nodded, "Yeah."
Kakashi came back holding a bottle, "Here, if you drink two teaspoons of this every two hours, you should be cured of your fever… So that means if I give you four teaspoons every single hour, your healing time will be cut in half. Hmm…"
… What Kind of Logic is that!?
Tsuki quickly got angry and snatched to bottle from the Hokage… It made her seem like god…
She took a deep breath, about to completely drop a bombardment of large bombs that would forever scar the Hokage in his use of modern medicine. "That's not how you use medicine! You'd kill him with that much, or at least hurt him badly! Do you want that, huh!?"
As Tsuki continued to yell at my future teacher, I pondered on how women of all types, even if they have no shinobi skills, can bring down the fiercest and most deadly of men... with words no less. I wonder if it was inevitable for me to fall to that, but looking at Tsuki, it didn't seem so bad of a fate… Even though I would be on the receiving end of that…
Finally, Tsuki's rampage had quelled itself as she huffed in air deeply as the Hokage in front of her seemed darker, almost hurt, but physically unaffected. "Sigh… I wish Tsunade-sama were here…" he said to himself.
"Kakashi-sama," I spoke up.
"Hmm?" he turned to me.
"Just give me the regular amount right now…we'll see if I can't train with you right afterward…"
Kakashi looked at me, slight surprise showing in his eye. He smiled, "Alright then."
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"Hiatari, do me a favor," Kakashi said, "when your Sharingan activated, did you see it… like a mirror image of it?"
I thought about it and snapped my fingers, Tsuki turning her head towards me in question, "Yeah, I did see myself in a water reflection."
He nodded, 'hmm'-ed, and said, "Well, do you remember what it might have looked like?"
I thought about it, "Well…" – I said to nobody in particular – "it was hard to see, but my," I paused and looked at Tsuki. I smiled, coyly, "eyespots," – she frowned – "turned entirely red. I had a small black parts in each of my eyes, but it was off center and it looked like it was trailing off… kindof like a comma…"
He nodded, "A tomoe… How many did you have?"
"One in each eye…" I answered.
"Hmm," he said again, "just like Sasuke…" he said in whisper.
"What?" I said.
"… Hmm? Oh, nothing… well, anyway," Kakashi said, "If we can train your use of the Sharingan, eventually you'll develop it to its full base potential.
"Full Base Potential?" Tsuki and I said in unison, asking about the wording of that more than the meaning.
Kakashi sighed and pulled his forehead protector up, so as to stop covering his left eye. He opened it.
I finally saw it. The eye of the magnificent Copy Nin Kakashi. The Sharingan.
Tsuki pointed at it, "You have three commas!" she exclaimed.
He chuckled, "I do. This is the fully developed Sharingan."
"How do I get it?" I asked him.
He looked at me as he covered his Sharingan eye again, "Train… Train, Train, Train…"
"What," I said, "but I bet you didn't have to train that eye!"
"That's not true," he said, coyly, "when I first got it, it had two tomoe. I've trained it so that it's even better than then. Much better… The Sharingan can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of someone bad. It's almost like an eye of a god…"
I coughed, that couldn't possibly be true…
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"Alright, are you ready for some exercises?" Kakashi asked me as we were once again in the field.
Tsuki wasn't here this time. But Genai was watching, so I felt safe… sort of…
"Do I have a choice?" I said. It was more of a statement than a question.
He smiled as he ran at me.
This was obviously not his full speed, because I could see his movements clearly.
He reached me and pulled his left arm back and punched at me. I ducked under it and sprigged back up under his arm as I threw my own fist at his chest. He caught my fist with his free hand. He grabbed the back of my shirt and with both arms, lifted me up and tossed me far behind him without turning around.
I flipped in the air as I landed on my feet, spraining my ankle slightly. I cringed in pain and stood back up. He still had his back to me. He reached into his side pocket and pulled out that light blue book. He made a sweeping motion at me without turning and opened the book. I felt a pain in my shoulder. I looked at it and saw it was bloody. There was a needle sticking out; a senbon.
I looked back at him. He was slightly turned at me and he said, "You know… if you move too slow, you'll never survive as a ninja…" He turned a page and turned to it. I growled and pulled the senbon out of my shoulder and ran at him with it in hand. He turned another page. I jumped up and tossed the senbon towards his head. He ducked under it with ease. I threw my left leg out to dropkick him, but he counter by turning his free arm upside down and grabbing my foot.
"Too predictable…" he said, sounding bored. With what seemed like little effort, he turned his arm, causing me to spin in the air. He then threw a rather slow backhand punch at my chest and sent me flying back four feet as I rolled on the ground in pain.
"Ugh…" I said as I struggled to get up.
"C'mon, Hiatari… You can do better, I'm sure… I heard you managed to punch Genai over there… Let me tell you now," Kakashi looked up at me, "distraction won't work on me…"
"I'll get you!" I yelled as I ran at him.
He sighed, "Its always the loud ones…" I jumped at him but he disappeared in a quick puff of smoke. I felt a serge come down on me as I fell straight to the floor. He laid on top of me. "Charging head first solves nothing, how are you going to activate the Sharingan if you just-"
I turned to him quickly and stared at him coldly. He stopped talking and just looked at me.
He smiled. Genai jumped down in front of us and Kakashi got up off of me.
"Congratulations…" Kakashi said.
"Huh?" I said.
Genai held up a pocket sized mirror to me.
I looked at myself.
I had the Sharingan again.
Unlike last time, though, I had three tomoe in my eyes instead of two.
"We're going to work on that," Kakashi said, "we need you to activate it by other means than just rage…"
I touched my cheek, observing my eyes. One eye had two tomoe and the other had one.
The Sharingan…
"Ohhh," Genai said, "We're gunna have fuuuuun" he said, in a singsong manner.
I grinned like Naruto.
This is going to be fun…
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A/N: Alright! I'm back in action! Haha! I'll update more frequently now, so don't fret. Maybe twice a month! WHO KNOWS! Haha!