Old and New Abilities
I haven't worked out the pairing yet, so still taking suggestions. Also haven't decided what her full abilities will be or how to bring up her priestess powers. How will the Naruto cast find out about her past is another part that I am having trouble with. So please review tell me how this is going and any hints or help will be greatly appreciated.
Arriving at the testing ground
Sasuke had left earlier than needed for the testing field. He didn't have anything better to do so he had assumed that he could get in some training or find a chance to talk to his sensei. He didn't remember how just yesterday Kakashi had been a little over three hours late. However he was surprised to see Kagome already sitting there and reading a very large, very thick book. He approached her in the hopes of finding out more about the fourth member of the team. He sighed just thinking about his team; Naruto the class clown, Sakura the fan girl, Kakashi the well he appeared to be a slacker and then there was Kagome the girl no one knew anything about.
He remembered how back at the academy she had always sat in the back row and didn't leave the room until the end of the day not even for break or lunch. The teachers had made a point of asking her as many questions as they could, but she only answered on occasion. She had always stood back on tests doing the minimum required to pass. He had never even heard the name Higurashi, and if her family was from anywhere around the area it should have at least reached his ears.
"Can I help you, Sasuke?" She asked not bothering to look up from her page. The pages in the book were yellow showing their age; the writing was fine and looked as if it would be hard to read. He was also surprised because he had entered the field from behind her and was staying behind her the whole short trek to her location.
"How did you know it was me?" He asked trying to not let the curiosity seep into his voice. He didn't succeed, or if he did in any degree Kagome was better than he was.
"Your steps are strong and controlled; you also put more weight on the inside of your left foot. Also your average step is around two feet in length, the way you walk in unique as it is for anyone. To be truthful it's not that hard to identify anybody by their footsteps." Her tone was patient and seemed somewhat bored as if the answer were actually quiet obvious.
"Who taught that to you?" He asked hoping to find something about Kagome; his curious side was in full swing.
"No one taught me, I just listen. I don't mean to be rude but I'd rather not talk to you, I can't understand you and I don't know if I want to even try." She said as she finally looked up from her book and over her shoulder to make eye contact him for the first time ever.
"What do you mean?" He asked completely baffled.
"I don't believe in revenge, it is an idiotic concept that people focus on so that they don't need to think of the pain they are in. Losing your whole family to your brother who at one time you obviously admired must be hard, but from experience I can say that vengeance will do nothing, but fill you with an empty void were your heart belongs." She paused as she turned and it appeared from his position that she was rummaging in her hip pouch. "Here you should read this." She handed him an old book, the cover was worn and some of pages looked like at one time they had been folded over.
"What is it?" He asked, as he tried to find a title some place on the spine or cover.
"A book," She stated simply and smiled with a smile laugh at the look he gave her, "An old priestess friend of mine gave it to me many years ago, but I think that you may need it more than I do." Her smile failed as she stood and looked to her right, his left seeing how they were facing each other, and a few moments later an annoyed Sakura came with Naruto following close behind trying to engage her in conversation. Sasuke gave Kagome a weird look wondering as to how she knew they were coming; he hadn't even sensed their approach. She smiled softly as she walked over to a tree and sat down leaning against it, reading her book. He looked at the book in his hands and then put it in his hip pouch not seeing anything wrong with reading later.
After two hours of waiting Kakashi finally arrived and explained what they were going to be doing, he even explain why there were only two bells. He had just released Naruto and told them to start the test; every one other than Kagome immediately disappeared. She just stood there staring at him; she smiled briefly as she put her over sized book in its place in her hip pouch.
"You seem confident for a genin right out of academy." He said as he gazed at her with is lone lazy eye.
"For good reason, have you ever heard the expression 'Look beneath the underneath.'? You should seeing as you have designed a test were we have to work together to pass even though you set everything together so that you wouldn't work together. Also to make it worse Naruto and Sasuke can't stand each other, and Sakura has obsession issues so the chances of them working together is slim to nil." She smiled at his surprised look as she kneeled and laid her right palm flat over the bare earth.
For a mere moment nothing seemed to happen as she just kneeled there, but after a few seconds the soil in front of her shook and some tree roots and vines burst through and grew straight up for a few more moments growing to massive height and then without warning they flew at great speeds towards Kakashi. He dodged to the left as quickly as he could but the vines and roots seemed to grow and followed closely behind him giving no room for error. A vine rose from in front of him and went to grab him, only for a cloud of smoke to appear and a log was in his.
"Nice try, but you should never allow the enemy to get you from behind." Kakashi said as he appeared squatting behind Kagome with a Kunai to her back (Sorry didn't know if I spelt that correctly so if not send a review and it won't happen again.) He did realize however that something was wrong, so he applied some pressure to her pack only for her to turn into a pile of fresh earth.
"An earth clone, now that's surprising." Kakashi stepped away from the upturned roots that had frozen in place when the earth clone was dissipated. Hidden in the trees Kagome sat with slightly shaky hands due to the amount of chakra that was used. Naruto was sitting in his true trying to keep himself from shouting in surprise and saying something along the lines of 'That was so cool!' at the top of his lungs. Sasuke was kneeling on his branch with the normal face of indifference in place and Sakura was in her place under a bush with her mouth hanging wide open.
'It had to be done, in this place I can't use my priestess powers and the other abilities I picked up until this chakra is completely used up. It would help if I could completely master some techniques other than the ones I created myself. That one \was Soulful vines a technique I created in memory of dear Shippo.' Kagome thought with a sad note as she tried to focus on the growing power of her priestess side, she just needed a little more time and just a little bit of luck.
Kakashi stood in the center of the field waiting for somebody to make a move, he was still thinking about the move that Kagome had used and the fact that she new the purpose of this exercise. Only to have Naruto appear just a little over ten feet in front of him, standing with his arms crossed over in front of him.
"You know compared to the others you're a little weird." Kakashi said as he waited for Naruto to due something, the whole time he was also waiting for some one else to use this as their chance.
"The only thing weird here is your haircut." Exclaimed Naruto, as he pointed at Kakashi with an angry and slightly annoyed look on his face. Naruto then ran at Kakashi only to fall back when Kakashi reached in his hip pouch only to pull out a book.
"Hey, what are you and Kagome, related?" He shouted in annoyance. Up in her tree hiding place Kagome's eye brow twitched as she tried to hold in her temper.
You know how everything goes, up until Naruto is tied up to the log for trying to eat the lunches. Kakashi has just explained everything, then they disobey what he says and they pass.
"We should all go out for Ramen as a team!" Naruto yells in his excitement. Sasuke snorted and would have walked away if Kakashi hadn't grabbed him by the shoulders and started pulling him after Naruto.
"That's a wonderful idea, Naruto." Kakashi said as he watched Sakura start to follow as well. He looked and saw that Kagome's face was down cast, she then started to walk the other way.
"Sorry but I think I'll have to pass. I don't care much for Ramen." She said as she smiled gently and then turned again to walk to her apartment. Everyone watched her retreating back as she slowly faded from sight. Naruto smiled anyway and led everyone to his favorite ramen shop. Sasuke only tried to leave early twice, and Sakura finding out that she might not hate Naruto as much as she originally thought.
'Why do I have to like them? I was going to do what I set out to do, but I didn't want to grow attached to any one. No matter what I do some day something will happen and I won't be able to stop it, and then more pain will come. I must be one of the biggest hypocrites to ever live. I used to tell Inu Yasha that it was better to have a small amount of happy time with some one than it was to never care for that person. Now here I am trying to protect people with out getting to know them and keeping them at arms length. Tomorrow I will change; I will have to just work twice as hard to make sure nothing bad ever happens to them. Mainly Sasuke, he could go both ways, unless I'm careful I just may have to protect people from him.' Kagome thought as she cleaned up her small apartment and started getting ready for bed.
"I hate avengers." Kagome thought with a sigh as she drifted off to sleep. Her dreams were of the days when she was the one being trained by more experienced fighters. She smiled in her sleep when she remembered how Sango's face had seemed so joyful when part of Kagome's training included carrying the heavy boomerang around all day. As her dreams shifted to other things a single tear escaped her eyes.
