A/N: Sorry for the wait! You guys enjoy!
Disclaimer: Don't attack me with fandomness… I do not own Naruto. But the recently forming squad 12 is mine! All mine! Mwahaha!
Chapter 20: What's Going On Here?
It's been a few days since Sasuke's attack, and Aki and I have been training with my jutsu. We learned how to combine both of our family gifts to create a more puncturing attack. We are honestly almost impossible to destroy.
Aki and I were sitting in the tea shop, discussing our maneuvers for our fighting style, sipping on a cup of tea. We both paused for a moment to finish off the tea, and when we both finished, we looked at each other with excitement.
"Did you feel that?" Aki asked, a smile forming onto her pale face. I smirked at her and nodded my answer. A second flash of Kito's chakra signature flowed through my veins. My smirk grew into a toothy smile. I sprang to my feet as Aki did and slapped the money for the tea onto the table. And with that we raced out of the door and ran towards the entrance of the village.
When we got there, I instantly saw the flash of blue hair, and a slightly taller figure. Aki and I shared a happy smile and ran towards Kito.
"Kitooooo!" Aki and I yelled, waving our hands in the air. Kito's attention turned towards us, the frown on his face turned into a slight smirk as he looked at the approaching figures. When we came closer to Kito, where he can see all of his features, he beamed.
"Aki! Suki! You both look great!" His attention focused on me for the first time since he left. "Suki." His voice was soft, he reached his hand forward to me, but pulled it back regretfully. He finally settled it to dangle on his side. "You… came back to your right age. And your hair… it's not blonde." His fingers came up to my hair to finger a few strands. His eyes locked onto mine.
"Is there a reason why you made it black and blue?" A faint blush covered my face as I remembered the real reason why I chose these colors; I looked away from his eyes.
"I made it these colors because your hair's blue and Aki's hair's black. I missed you guys so much; I felt that if I made my hair both of your hair colors, I wouldn't be as lonely without you." I looked back up at him, he gave me a faint smirk to cover up the slight blush that he had. When he looked away, I took that chance to study his features.
He grew even taller, and he had a lean build. I could see his chest muscles through the black sleeveless shirt, and his arm muscles were built as well as his body. His face grew out so his pudgy cheeks that he used to have toned out with the rest of himself. He also allowed his blue hair to grow out, and a single thick bang cut in front of his face between his eyes and turned towards the left at the bridge of his nose.
To be honest, he looked hot.
Aki let out a sigh, I felt her disconnect from my thoughts and then connect back.
"Give him time. He just got home. And you know what he was doing there." I sighed at Aki's telepathic message.
*Yes I know Aki. I just can't believe it. Him becoming an AMBU there? He being someone who has been after me since the realization that I was a part of the Akatsuki? He being the one who not only threw fruit at my friend for fun, but the one who almost killed me?" Kito raised an eyebrow at me in the middle of my thought, when I finished, I unschrunched my face and looked at him with confusion.
"Is something troubling you Suki?" I looked away from him.
"Nope." I'm such a liar.
"She's lying Kito." Aki deadpanned. I turned to glare at her.
"Aki. Stop meddling into conversations. This is an A and B conversation so C yourself out." She gave me a pout and glomped me. I moved my footing in time to not fall from the impact.
"Aki's just trying to help her Suki! Aki thinks she's too sad!" Aki cooed to me, rubbing her cheek on me. I frowned at her.
"Don't speak in third person Aki. That's not you." My voice grew cold, it wasn't the playful tone I had when I told her to stop meddling into my business. She let go of me and looked into my eyes, when she saw what I saw, she nodded and stepped away from me. Kito looked at me suspiciously.
"So how was Konoha when we were gone Suki?" *Small talk and an investigation I see…*I looked at the boy who said it to me.
"Have no clue. I didn't pay attention to what was going on around the time after you guys left, and after that, I have no clue." I lifted my arms above me to give myself a catlike stretch, I closed my eyes.
"How come?" I peeked an eye open to look at him and stopped my stretching.
"I left not long after you two. I know you already know that Kito." Ahh I love deadpanning people (:
Kito was ready for that reply, and he had placed himself in a fighting stance, his eyes squinted at me in distrust.
"So it was you with the Akatsuki. How could you betray your village?" I sat on the ground and rolled my eyes, Kito watched me with distaste.
"How could you betray your squad?" I pointed at him for emphasis, his nostrils flared in anger.
"I wasn't the one to leave the squad first." I squinted at him.
"For your information, I know why Aki had to leave. And she had to. You? No. You could have stayed. But you chose not to." Tears stung my eyes and a lump caught in my throat. I swallowed it down and looked at the ground.
"You left me here, wounded with the loss of Aki. And instead of trying to cheer me up, you ran away. What did you expect me to do?" I looked up at him again and fresh anger. "Do you think I was going to stay here? EVERYONE knew you guys left." I looked away from him again and towards Aki. "Everyone. And they knew that you guys left me to go on your own." I looked at the dirt and started drawing something in it with a stick. "I had no one." My voice cracked, but I sucked down the tears begging to pour out.
"What about Kinoto?" He questioned, I looked up at him and scoffed.
"He wanted me to leave since the death of my parents. He wants nothing to do with me, and I gave him that. He had three years away from me. He still doesn't want me to be here now." I looked back at my dirt drawing. It was Deidara's clay owl. I frowned and brushed it away.
"Kinoto does want you here Suki. You're his student!" I looked back up at him, a smirk smacking my face.
"How about you ask him then Kito?" I looked behind my shoulder and towards an old man on the street standing there.
I did a few hand signs after I squinted for a while. "Release." I said in a monotone towards the man. When I finished, the man poofed into white smoke. When it blew away, Kinoto stood there, eyes slit at me.
"Hello Kinoto. You might as well join." I muttered unkindly, moving my hand in a signal, meaning that he could approach. When he reached casual talking distance, he opened his mouth to speak.
"You have a question for me Kito?" His eyes never left me.
"Y-yes Kinoto-Sensei." He bowed in respect and shock.
"Well what is it?" He barked. I glared back at him when he yelled at Kito.
"You don't treat your subordinates like that sensei." I seethed, he tore his gaze away from me to look at Kito.
"Did you want Suki to leave when she did?" Kinoto let out a sigh.
"At the time… yes. I felt that it was her fault that you guys left the village, like how I felt it was her fault for her parents' deaths." I glared daggers at his back, he didn't bother to turn and look at me. "But now, I realize that I was making a mistake, and I was wrong." He let out a sigh and looked towards me. "And I know what I did should never deserve an apology, but, I can't help but ask for one." I sent a glare at him and looked at the entrance of the village.
All I wanted to do was run out of there and away from here, back to the Akatsuki, where I created a home. But I know I will never be allowed to go back there, it's written in blood that I should never go back. I looked at Aki, she sent me a glance that told me 'fuck no, you're not leaving' and 'you should accept the apology.' I let out a sigh and looked back at the ground.
"What the fuck ever." I stated, not bothering to look at any of them anymore.
Kinoto let out a relieved sigh, bringing my attention to him. When I looked at him, he had a smile on his face.
"So." Kinoto continued. "Tell us Suki about your gift. I heard so much about it from your parents." I looked up at him in disbelief.
"You knew my parents?" I stated in shock, I gawked at him. He smiled at me.
"Yes, I was in fact a member of their squad." He looked up at the sky, reliving the memories.
"You look a lot like you mother when she was your age." He trailed off, continuing to search for clouds.
"Did my parents have the gift?" He let out a chuckle and looked at me.
"Your mother wasn't a part of the family, and the gift skipped your father." He let out a chuckle. "He was a mischievous little kid." I let out a half hearted laugh and looked at Aki. She nodded at me to allow me to tell them my ancient family past.
I looked at the two men.
"It all started when the Uchiha clan came onto the land of my people…"
And the story of Suki's life begins.
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