Leo Vulpes: Yippee! Sasori and Shukaku didn't leave me!
Sasori: Whatever, now left me fuck my uke in peace
Leo Vulpes: I wouldn't do it there if I were, that's where Neji and Shika did it, and I haven't gotten the couch cleaned yet, why do you think I don't sit on it now?
Shukaku: 0.o -looks around at the stains-
Sasori: -.- Oh, mood killer.
Leo Vulpes: Hah! And the bed was taken up last night by Kiba and Gaara -sticks tongue out- What now puppet man!
Sasori and Shukaku: Shut-up Leo.
Leo Vulpes: Oh get over it. Now it's time for the wonderful-
Disclaimer: Naruto... not mine. Yu Yu Hakusho... not mine. OCs... mine. Damn, I don't own two out of three, I hate fractions! They make the world unfair!
My Other Life
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Chapter 7
The Return Part I
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"Tsunade-sama!"
Said blonde Hokage's head shot up as Shizune came running through the door… but a little too late. There in front of here were the ninja who'd been missing for the past week, assumed dead.
She tenderly reached a hand out to Naruto's shoulder, to check if it was real. When it didn't disappear she drew her hand back quickly. "You're all really back?"
"Hai."
The simple words made her leap and jump for joy, calling up some certain ninja who would enjoy seeing them back.
When Kurenai, Chouji, Lee, Tenten, Asuma, and Gai came in, they were over joyous at seeing their teammates back, and not dead.
When Kurenai grabbed her team, she suddenly reeled back, a sharp scream emitting form her as she looked over at Shino. "Shino, you- you feel like you're on fire." She spoke, looking at her hand which was red from the intense heat she'd felt.
Shino lifted up his hand and stared at it. "I know. I can't feel it, but it killed all the kichikai bugs."
Even Kiba looked up at this finding, that was something… how could no body have realized that Shino's body was becoming so hot? Or maybe someone knew and didn't tell.
"Oh that, it's normal Shino-kun."
Tsunade and Shizune searched for the holder of the unknown voice and found a girl with long blonde hair and onyx eyes standing within the group, holding a note which she tossed to Tsunade. The Hokage's eyes widened as she read the note, then crumpled it up and handing it back. "Yes, well, thank you Siya."
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Ino walked back into her house, her parents overly happy to great their daughter. Of course they would, she was unseen anywhere for a week on a mission that was only supposed to take about two days give or take. "Konichiwa, Tousan, Kaasan." She greeted, darting to her room to set her bag down.
The blonde looked in the mirror, and saw someone completely different from when she last looked in this mirror. She wondered if her parents… wait… her dad and step-mother would notice.
"Ino-chan, you okay?" Her dad asked, peeking his head inside the door. "You rushed up here so fast."
Ino waved it off. "I'm okay, Tousan, really."
Ino's dad grinned. "Okay, well, Sakura's here, should I let her in?" After nod from his daughter, he opened the door even more and let the rosette step inside before shutting the door once again.
"Hey."
"What's up? Why don't you go home? You know, show your parents-"
Sakura flinched. "I can't. It's just not right, they're being forced to take care of me. It's more painfully obvious now than ever. I notice things. The hateful stares, the urges to get me out of the house."
Ino sighed and nodded. "I know what you mean, I can't look my mother in the face anymore." She revealed, a painful smirk on her face. "Think of how much this is going to damage Konoha when they find out. Their best shinobi are going to go live somewhere else, we won't be here. At least, I don't plan to."
The green eyed girl smiled to her friend and nodded. "Yeah, I don't either. I'm going to get what's rightfully mine."
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"Tousan… Kaasan… Why are people staring?" Of course she would notice this, she wasn't one to not.
Riritsuku was currently walking in between her parents, holding each of their hands as they strolled down the main street, and took in the sight. But people were giving angry looks at them, and scoffing, whispering, and Riritsuku, Oni, and Kage could hear every word.
'Tch. Fucking faggots.'
'Gay ass people, go die.'
'Who the hell do these people think they are.'
'That poor child, being raised in such a poor environment.'
The last comment burnt up Oni's last nerves and he turned to glare at the woman, death gleaming in his eyes. "Shut the fuck up you old hag. My child is properly raised and has more manners than yourself, so if I were you, I'd shut my mouth before someone slaps it off." He spat, growling under his breath, Kage picking up Riritsuku behind him.
The old woman smirked, spitting on his face, causing the red head to drop her and back away with a look in his eye, and she gasped at the look. The Sharingan was spinning wildly in his eyes as he wiped the spittle off his face. "You fucking demon possessed idiot. Gay faggots like you don't deserve to live." She retorted.
Oni scoffed and walked back to Kage and Riritsuku, taking his mate's hand and kissing his baby girl on the cheek. "Come on koi, some trash doesn't have the right to be picked up or messed around with."
Walking off Oni grabbed Riritsuku from her father's arms and spun her around in wild circles, grinning at the giggling squeals that came from his daughter.
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The next day, training was resumed, plus a few people extra, and the Jounin had been chosen to test some of the new comers who were said to be Jounin skill, and boy did Kakashi ever feel sorry for the others.
Asuma elbowed Kakashi in the ribs to get his attention. "Those three right there-" He pointed his finger at Kiya, Siya, and Kibou who were playing around… well two were. "-they act a lot like your previous team."
Kakashi glanced over and indeed they did act like them. Kibou was clinging to Kiya, who was brooding over something while Siya bounced around in the background. Behind them, on a large boulder, Kage sat with Riritsuku in his lap, who looked out at everyone. Oni and Kumori had teamed up and decided to annoy the fuck out of Koi, but it wasn't exactly working. Karu was busy chasing his sister for his last rubber band which she so graciously pulled out of his hair, while Chibi laughed at the antics of it all.
Kurenai clapped her hands, getting everyone to stop. "Okay, now Hokage-sama has requested that we test you all to see if you are Jounin material. All…eleven of you- wait. I see only ten people here."
"You're forgetting me." Came the small squeak from Kage's lap. And there was Riritsuku, raising her hand and gazing determinedly at the other Jounin. "I'm to be tested too. It's on the paper the old lady gave you. Riritsuku."
Kurenai laughed, throwing her hand through her hair. "Come on little child, this is a grown up's game. No little kids allowed, and certainly don't give if your parents say you're the strongest."
"Actually," Riritsuku hissed. "I'm the weakest." She admitted, folding her arms across her chest.
The lady Jounin looked to Kage. "She can only go through with this if I get consent from both parents."
"I'm fine with it. She's chosen what she's wanted to do since she could walk." Kage said, ruffling the tiny girls hair.
"And her mother?"
"I'm down with it." Oni spoke up, causing everyone but Kakashi to look to him. "My baby's gonna kick some ass though." He cheered, jumping up on top of the boulder and taking Riritsuku into his arms, who squealed and hugged her mother.
Kurenai sighed, ignoring the fact that she'd lost the battle. "Okay, well, the first one we are going to test is Akayume no Kumori."
Kumori jumped up from his seat in the grass, cheering and dancing around in circles. "I'm first! Yippee! I'm finally first! Take that Kage!" He pointed a finger at his twin, a smirk on his face.
Kage sighed and cradled his head in his hand. "Of course, moron. Just go."
The twin huffed and turned to face his competitor. A man with bandages laced over his nose was there in front of him. "The name's Kotetsu." He held a hand out for the raven to shake which he gladly took.
"Ne, I'm sure you already know my name. So can we start?" He asked eagerly, awaiting when he would get to fight.
"Hai."
After the affirmative, both jumped to either side of the cleared area, Kotetsu pulling out a kunai while Kumori stood up with a smile shining on his face. This pissed Kotetsu off, was the onyx eyed boy not taking him seriously? How the hell did they get this anyways? These people randomly show up out of nowhere and what? They get treated like fucking royalty.
Kotetsu charged, and at the last split second, when the kunai was about to pierce Kumori's right arm, he moved. It wasn't a simple move to the side, no it was a move to the other side where Kotetsu originally stood. But something was glinting in his hand… was that? Kotetsu's hair suddenly caught in his vision and it was true, Kumori had a hold of his headband. Shit. He didn't even notice until he looked.
"Ne, ne, Koi, wouldn't it look great on me?" Kumori asked, looking over to the green eyed man who was watching intently, and holding the headband, which he'd now tied around his wrists, above his head and wiggled his hips suggestively. And it took all of Koi's might to not jump over there and ravish what was rightfully his, though that didn't stop the blood from dripping down his nose.
Kumori grinned, but turned his attention back to the situation at hand. He untied the headband and threw it back to Kotetsu, hitting the shinobi square in the head. "Oi, next time, pay attention numb-nut." He playfully teased, getting into an unfamiliar fighting stance. "Now bring it, seriously."
Kotetsu smirked and charged once again, invisible wires strapped to his kunai. If he could pin the raven down to the ground, or a tree, it would be over. And so, with that thought in mind, he threw the sharp shuriken and kunai at him, but something totally unexpected came out of nowhere. Kumori was now holding a shuriken that was as big as he was. He held it in front of him and it cut the wires before they could even touch him. What's worse? There were two. One for each hand.
"Ne, didn't I say seriously?" He asked, starting to spin the shuriken rapidly in his hands. And then he threw them, and they came whirling at Kotetsu, but he wasn't moving. Just as suddenly, Kumori was right in front of him, holding the shuriken in his hands once more. His face was centimeters from Kotetsu's. "I win." Came the cheery reply as said winner pranced off to go sit with everyone else. "Ne, it's been so long since I've used those old toys. My arms aren't used to it." The Akayume groaned, rotating his arm and trying to work out the cramps in his muscles.
Kurenai finally tore her eyes away from the scene where Kumori could have ripped Kotetsu to shreds to the sheet in her hands. "Okay, then we have… Ah, Akayume-Uchiha Riritsuku."
Riritsuku smiled devilishly and she jumped down and faced her opponent. "Better fight me seriously." Asuma spoke, pulling out his knuckle blades. "I won't go easy on you."
"I don't plan on it." The small girl retorted, awaiting the signal.
"Begin."
Neither moved for about two minutes, just staring at each other, just staring into each other's eyes. And at three minutes on the spot, Riritsuku's eyes flickered red with the Mangekyou Sharingan and Asuma was now floating in a totally empty lake, strapped to a raft. "You should know better than to look at an Uchiha's eyes." The eerie voice flitted from nowhere. "Or were you so bent up on beating a little kid that you forgot?" The voice echoed all around him, he couldn't tell where it was coming from until he saw a black fox step out of the surrounding woods. "Tell your lady friend if she hurts my mother, there will be consequences. Now, give up or I'll let you starve for seventy-two hours. I'd do it. All you have to do is say, I give up. And it'll all be over, meanwhile you might want to be weary of the termites on there, and the carnivorous lake fish."
Asuma was dreading this already, he hadn't eaten anything in the past twenty hours, so this… this was pointless. If he wasn't strapped down, he could paddle to the shore, but he was. "I give up."
The black fox smirked and released the genjutsu.
"Yippee! I beat Asuma-kun!" The small girl cheered, going over to her mother and jumping on him, who was sitting in her father's lap. "Did you see me?"
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By the end of the day, each of the eleven trainees had a headband with them. Kibou smiled and wandered into the woods, completely oblivious to someone following him. He found a clearing and spotted a small lake. He gasped and ran to look at it. He kneeled down and looked at his reflection. It was then he spotted the figure following him, he whipped around to be staring into one blue eye that was so dark it looked black almost. "K-Kakashi-kun, don't do that!" He playfully shoved the other man. "You gave me a mini-heart attack."
Kakashi's eye turned upwards as if in a smile. "That was pretty impressive out there."
Kibou grinned. "Yeah, I showed that Anko woman who to call cute!" He held his fist up in a mock fight.
"Yes, no one would have thought that you'd use a bow and arrow. It even surprised me."
"Hey, I'm not some weakling like most people think. I hold up a nice fight when I want to." He pouted, pulling his knees up and putting his head down. "I get really angry when people do that."
Kakashi sat next to his sensei's son. "What?"
"Think I'm weak and pass me by. It's really frustrating. I'm apparently too cute for anyone. Girls see me as a best friends, not like I'd want them anyways, and the guys see me as a weakling that's too petty to deal with: a spoiled rich kid who doesn't know how to fight. It makes me want to scream my head off and- and!" He vented, grabbing a pebble and chucking it out into the water out of frustration. "And then people who don't think I'm weak make fun of me. What use is the power of light? Oh, so I couldn't suck the life right out of them? I get so jealous when I see people always trying to go after my sisters or brother. I- I- I just want to disappear sometimes."
Kakashi stayed silent through the boy's entire rant, listening actively to what the younger was saying. "Are you sure there isn't someone who doesn't do that? Someone who sees a strong person when they walk by you? Someone, who thinks your cute, but also a brave fighter? Someone who thinks you're not a spoiled rich kid? Someone who fears you in a part of them for your usage of the light? Someone who doesn't like your face when you get so sad from being jealous? Someone who doesn't want you to disappear?" With each question, Kakashi's face got closer to Kibou's, and they were now only millimeters apart. "Someone- Someone who- who…" Kakashi, the famous Copy Ninja, was at a loss for words as he was now facing his desire.
"Who what?" A red tint was radiating off of the blonde's flushed face. His deep onyx eyes darting around the other's face, looking for anything, but for what? His heart was feeling like it would burst out of his chest any moment now, and his breathing was ragged.
"…who decided you're something who needs love, and wants to give it to you. Someone who wants the light you control, to radiate from you every second of the day." Closer and closer, now they couldn't move any closer or they would touch.
"K-Kakashi-kun…" Careful fingers slowly pulled the silver haired mans head band up and gripped the edge of the mask, slowly pulling it down, revealing the smooth pale skin.
"Kibou-chan." And then Kakashi took that leap of faith and pressed their lips together, a sweet, passionate brush of lips, slowly broken as the elder pulled away. He looked at the blonde who was as still as a stone, yet had an iron grip on his sleeves that were attached to the hands that found their way to his face. His thumbs graced over the smooth cheeks, feeling like velvet against his calloused fingers.
Kakashi went to retract his hands but was stopped by the other boy, who held onto his sleeves tighter and prevented him from doing so. "N-no." The silver haired man looked at the younger as he crawled carefully into his lap, released his sleeves, and wrapped his arms around his torso. "Please. Please, just hold me." The whimper was so low, Kakashi thought he was hearing things at first, but understood a moment after.
The plea went noticed and he wrapped his arms around the smaller boy, like forming a shield from the outside.
Kibou glanced up and was met with Kakashi's sparkling mismatched eyes as a smile was on his face. The kitsune grinned at this, and could feel the rumble of Kakashi's chest as he started a deep chuckled, that seemed contagious as Kibou started to laugh as well.
Kakashi pulled the blonde closer as they continued laughing and nuzzled his hair, inhaling the smell.
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Kibou walked into the apartment that he and his sister's had rented out for their stay here, a grin on his face as he plopped down on the couch right in between his triplets.
Siya glanced over to her fellow blonde and sighed peacefully. "Seems like someone had a good time. Ne, Kiya, don't you think so too?"
Kiya nodded, getting up and walking into the kitchen to grab a snack. "I think he had a good time with a certain student of Tousan. Ne, Siya, don't you think so too?" Kiya teased.
The blonde female snickered. "I think the certain student was a guy by the name of Ka-"
"-ka-"
"-shi." They both teased back and forth, watching Kibou's face go up in flames. "But don't worry, Tousan will just have an easier time kicking his ass if he hurts you."
The male sighed, resting his head in his hands. This was why he hated having more sisters than brothers.
Leo Vulpes: So, how'd you enjoy the 7th chapter?
Sasori: Boring
Shukaku: What are you getting at in here?
Leo Vulpes: Shut-up, both of you! I was asking my dear readers and future reviewers -hint hint-. So tell me what you thought.
Sasori: I thought it was a load of shit
Leo Vulpes: Oh hush, just because it doesn't have you and Shu fucking like bunnies, you're pissed
Sasori: Damn straight
Shukaku: Interesting to say the least.
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