Chapter 23

Pain

Jord rushed to the hospital bed of his comrades. And talked for a while, about nothing important, until he moved on to MinMin's bed.

When she heard him come in she smiled.

"Hello, MinMin, how are you?", Jord asked.

"In quite a lot of pain, even though the wounds closed up, I have to internally heal, Tsunade's healing just speeds it up.", MinMin explained.

"Sometimes, I'm not so sure about that.", Jord looked at her, smiled, and looked at the floor again, and blushed.

"Pain…I've felt it more than anyone's have.", Jord whispered to himself.

MinMin looked at the ground and then into Jord's eyes.

"This is the room I was born in, look.", Jord pointed at the wall, there was a crack that looked as if it had been cut by a blade.

"One of the only shuriken that missed me. Odd thing is, I don't remember any of it."

MinMin stared at her covers. "I've never felt the kind of pain you've felt. Death and loss are a huge part of growing up."

"I almost forgot…It's your birthday tomorrow, isn't it?", Jord asked.

"Yeah it is, I think I forgot too…", She frowned and began to sob.

"MinMin…", Jord said with a concerning look.

"You…were too young to face such a large loss.", She continued to sob.

"Really, it's okay, just please, stop crying.", Jord didn't like it when people cried.

"Okay…", She sniffled, and wiped her eyes, and stopped crying.

"When you're fine, come and get me.", Jord said, and he left, "Goodbye…"

Jord walked outside of the hospital, and then behind it, and fell asleep on an accident.

He woke up with MinMin lying next to him sleeping and she was dressed in her normal attire. She wore a fire red shirt with a mini-skirt, in a shade of black.

Jord woke her up.

"MinMin…", He said softly.

She slowly opened her eyes, looked around and said, "Oh, you're up."

"Jord looked at his watch, it said 12:30 pm.

"We've been asleep for a while.", said Jord, standing up and stretching along with MinMin.

"The hospital released me and said I was okay.", MinMin smiled.

"Good. The other Jonin wanted to see us, and man, this thing is uncomfortable to sleep in", He pointed at his ANBU armor.

MinMin and Jord walked to the center of the forest where Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke did the bell exercise, holding each other's hand.

"Hey love bird's!", Gai shrieked into the sky. MinMin's eyes widened, pulled her hand away and blushed. Jord stared at the other Jonin.

"Sparring time!!", Gai shrieked again, punching the air.

"Okay, MinMin, Jord in positions.", Kakashi ordered.

Jord stood by the three wood stumps, and MinMin by the water.

"We are doing this exercise in order to find Jord's fighting flaws, and work on those, so he's in shape to be in ANBU. BEGIN!!!", Kakashi explained.

Jord rushed in and tried to hit MinMin, and she did a front flip over him, and kick Jord across the water, and he fell in. He used his chakra to land on his feet. He turned around.

"Water Style: Water Vortex Jutsu!!"

The water began to go in a circle in front of him when he saw two MinMin rush to the sides of him.

The punched him with all their might and poofed away, he stood up straight to hold up the jutsu.

He blasted the real MinMin with water, then did more hand signs that no one saw, and pulled kunai out of his pocket and threw them, she jumped over them and onto the water.

"Hah, missed!", MinMin taunted.

"You'd think so, wouldn't you?", Jord said.

Then a few clones grabbed her feet and spun her around and tossed her into the air, and she spun like a kunai.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Bomb!!!"

She attempted to dodge but was spinning to fast and was struck through a tree, and stood back up.

Jord pulled out more kunai and tossed them at her, she wasn't going to fall for the same trick, so she dodged them, went on water and ran after him.

"Katon: Gokakyuu No Jutsu!!"

MinMin jumped back, but she was a little bit too late, she was struck by fire, but it wasn't serious, she pressed her palm on it and it burst into bubbles. The bubbles floated to the sky and burst into fire, it began to rain fire. Jord dodged the mini fire rain drops until it stopped and he rushed into attack MinMin, and ended up getting punched back into the water, but this time, all the way under.

Jord used the Shadow Clone Technique and his clones rushed out of the water at his opponent.

Jord came out last, and used more fire jutsu, "Katon: Ryuuka No Jutsu!!".

MinMin was punched into a tree again. She stood up, and did something no one's ever seen before. She used her chakra and pulled the real Jord onto land, and did a few hand signs.

"MAGMA EXPULSION JUTSU!!!"

The ground began to shake and then magma came rushing out burning up all the clones, and the cracks rushed towards Jord.

Jord knew he had to stop her, but he didn't know how, if she had to stay I the same spot to the jutsu, he could get to her, but the magma surround her. The crack began o open under him, he took a bet.

He took off his waits as magma came pouring out, and tossed the weights at her, she flew back into a tree again, and stood back up, the ground went back to normal.

Jord stared at the sky, keeping his guard up, but MinMin saw it s an opportunity for her to win.

And what an opportunity it was. Jord had let his guard down for not even a millisecond and was kicked into the water again, and then several hundred clones began to kick him further down into the water until they reached the bottom.

MinMin's clones held Jord down, while she did some mediocre Genjutsu. It was another magma trick. She made him think he was in an under water volcano that was about to erupt. He activated his Mangekyou sharingan and dispelled it and reversed it.

Jord smirked at her, she jut panicked and bit her lip and bled so it cancelled it out, Jord was at the top of the water breathing hard by now and she came up and used clones so she pulled him under again, and began punching him as the clones held him wide open for an assault. Jord was out cold and the clones tossed him on land and he woke up, his sight was blurry, but he could make out MinMin, Kakashi, and Gai talking, he stood up.

"I see why you became an ANBU squadron at such a young age. You have something none other ANBU has, Uchiha Blood, and determination., stated Kakashi.

Jord was coughing up water, and finally his lungs were empty of the dirty water.

"Well…what are my flaws?", Jord asked.

"That's pretty rough, you fought well, but it's your attacks, they should take less time to deal out.", Gai explained.

"Hmmm…I've been working on that."

"And you should be aware of your enemies movements, such as the two clones to the side of you. Use defensive jutsu after you start an attacking jutsu, then you'll be set.", MinMin said.

"Go on, we're don here, and besides me and Gai still have our little sparring match to go!", Kakashi said. But Jord and MinMin were already gone.

It was nighttime, and Jord was at Ichiraku again talking to Naruto, when MinMin came in, and sat next to Jord, Jord and Naruto continued talking, and then Naruto decided to leave for home.

"Hey there.", MinMin flirted.

"Hi.", Jord said his mind somewhere else, and then, there was a rush of powerful wind and in the middle of it all Jord saw a robed man with a chain-sickle that had a rather large blade at the end, and the top of it was a really green and blue wood, and no one else saw him. But, Jord didn't see him well enough to get a full description.

Jord stood up and left in the direction of the Uchiha Clan, MinMin followed him. Jord went inside his old house and sat down on his old bed.

"What's wrong?", MinMin asked, massaging Jord's shoulders.

"Nothing…Nothing that concerns you, at least, I hope it won't."

"What?"

"The twins…Death and Loss.", Jord said.