~ Yuki 4 hours ago ~
She walked on the grass and picked up all four jackets. "What's wrong?" "Huh? Oh nun! Misaki usual clumsy self banged her head on the door and is gonna go get it healed!" She said holding a thumbs up like it was nothing.
She turned around and saw through the glass door to the inside.
Inside was Misaki and Deidara. But, Deidara was trying to get Misaki's attention and she fainted. "Misaki!" She ran inside. "What happened!?" "Hell if I know!" Deidara said shaking her. Yuki leaned down, put the jackets next to her, and lowered her ear to her mouth.
"Oh thank goodness!" She said getting up and exhaling. "She's just sleeping." She said like a kid. "She didn't get much rest since she's been helping me this morning." He said walking towards them.
"Pain." They all said with also Sasori finally coming inside the house.
"I'll allow her to have this nap. Meanwhile, Yuki you must continue your training." "..Yeah I know."
Pain left with that and left them alone. Yuki got up and faced Sasori.
"Sasori. If it's alright..can we keep on practicing?" "Eh. Alright." The two walked back outside. "What the hell am I supposed to do with her!" He said glancing at Misaki's chest and back at her face. Then he noticed their jackets.
~ An hour later: 11:00AM ~
Yuki was somewhat panting and still had her guard up. Sasori looked thru the glass door. "Itachi!" He called over.
The onyx eyed man walked outside and joined them. "Take over practicing. I have somewhere to go." Itachi nodded and switched places.
First he looked all over her body and saw all the marks and scratches. Before he could finish making his thoughts she interrupted him.
"C'mon! Don't worry about me!," she said jumping side to side. "I wanna start already!" She said eager. He nodded and took his fighting stance. At first she hesitated.
"What?" "Y..You're not going to use your sharingan?" "Basics first." "Yeah alright."
She sighed in relief and finally got into her stance and stopped hesitating. Yuki ran towards him, that's when their training finally began.
First a couple punches and kicks flew by out of nowhere. Itachi pulled out shurikens between his fingers.
Before it was too late when she noticed him pulling them out. Thankfully right when he threw them she ducked and did a 360° spin. When her body angled to his direction she threw a kick to his stomach.
Just like he grabbed Sasuke's arm in another diff. episode ;), he grabbed her ankle and squeezed it. She grinded her teeth from the pain and finally got out of her daze and took an action. She flipped to the other side of his body with her other leg and she managed to her his hand..when he gripped that leg with his other hand.
Yuki counteracted by heaving up and punching Itachi's face. But she didn't hit em hard enough since he quickly let go of one of her ankles and grabbed her wrist..
He pushed her away and she did a couple backflips a few feet back, she straightened herself in a couple of seconds and took out a kunai, which she already threw at him.
he swayed left and right easily dodging every move she made. For a while he continued to let this happen, but already getting tired of it he started to perform hand signs.
Crap! That's probably his fireball jutsu!
Just like she thought, Itachi said: "fire style, fireball jutsu." Since she didn't have any jutsus to counter it she got away once it shot out his mouth and hid behind a tree.
Luckily, she didn't get burned. She first felt her ring to kill some time then peaked her head and saw Itachi that wasn't there anymore. She gasped and quickly ran away back into the open area.
Right when she did a ball of fire hit the tree right where she was standing before.
"How did you know where I was?" "Since you weren't there, I assumed that you came after me...so..ya know..I ran." She said giggling.
They got back on track and continued fighting. Even though they were fighting she kept staring at his blank face, his onyx eyes and what they truly held inside.
Thinking about what he had to go through. How his genuine face looked right before he died.
From being distracted the kunai in Itachi's hand swung in her direction, fortunately she was able to duck and it didn't scratch her, but it cut her the small piece of her hair band, which made it pop and fall on the ground, leaving her brown hair fall on her shoulders.
She did a hand flip backwards and felt her hair when she got up. She flipped her kunai into fighting position and lifted it up.
She grinned.
"Well this was unexpected." She said mostly to herself. She stopped thinking of Itachi's past and future and got her head into the game.
'Gotta get'cha, get'cha, get'cha, get'cha head in the game.' XD
Once again they continued to fight. Unfortunately even though Yuki ducked from one of the shurikens Itachi threw it cut the ends of her hair.
AH! I hate fighting with my hair down! How does Misaki do this!
Without wanting to Yuki started to think about Misaki and wondered how she was doing.
"Focus Yuki," Itachi said snapping her out of her thoughts. Just like before there was a kunai hurling to her, but this one was right near her face, she only managed to sway to the side, but she wasn't fast enough and it sliced her cheek.
Blood started to drip down from it.
Before he could get another hit on her, she counteracted and her kunai clashed with his. Obviously she wasn't a match for him in strength wise, so she fell back. (Not literally just sayin)
She had to do another backflip, when she straightened her back she was very out of breath.
"Let's take a break-" "-No!..not yet. I can make it a l-little longer..I want to..g-get better."
He nodded and they continued fighting. She started using more of her feet this time, and carried her self by keeping her hands on the ground. But she made sure that he couldn't catch her ankle/foot like the last time.
She did a spin and manage to hit his fingers when he was backing away. But still it was his fingers so it didn't do much. She kept throwing her kunais every time she did a kick or a backflip.
Itachi jumped back a few feet and threw shurikens on the ground. Since she was currently on her hands she had to do a spin and flip backwards.
But she also had a move up her sleeve and threw a kunai. Itachi easily moved his body to the left, but slowly from the corner of his eye he saw the tag on the handgrip of the kunai.
His eyes widened a little and he quickly got out the way while she lifted up her fingers.
The kunai hit the tree behind where he previously was before, and exploded.
So close! She thought, snapping her finger.
Yuki ran after him and started to punch him, he kept dodging by shifting her arms away and taking steps back, but then she started to get a little faster.
She tried her hardest to hit Itachi, that was her only goal right now, to just knock him out, because that's all she wanted right now. Just to get a good single hit.
She kept punching and soon her hits started to get harder and pierce thru the wind. Finally deciding to make the last and final punch, she did a spin and tried to hit him in the face.
It almost worked though.
Itachi gripped her right wrist and then the left wrist that was coming towards him and stopped her spin. She was now in front of him with her body facing away and her left arm up with his hand gripping it.
"That's enough for now. I'm actually very, surprised you were close." He said emphasizing very.
Then he realized that she was extremely out of breath.
"Take a break." "But-" "I'm not asking. You also need to take care of that wound before it gets infected."
She gasped when she realized that she forgot about it.
His grip lightened and his hand moved forwards and touched her face. She lightly jumped from the sting of her wound when his fingers patted it.
"It's not too bad. Still, you should go and get it healed. Also have somewhere to go soon, so our training is over for now. After you finished tending to yourself, wait for Kisame to get back for your kenjutsu practice. Right now I have somewhere else to be anyway."
Itachi left with that in smokes.
Her arm fell down, and her hand turned into a fist. She took a deep breath and unclenched her hand. She smiled.
"Why do I keep thinking about that again?" She said to herself.
Yuki left her thoughts, and walked inside.
She stopped in front of Deidara, and Sasori's room when she did heard faint sounds inside. First she wiped off the blood of her face before lightly knocking.
"Come in." She heard Deidara say inside. She slowly opened the door and peaked her head inside.
She saw Misaki lying on his bed, and Deidara sitting at her feet.
"..W-What are you doing Deidara?!" Yuki said panicking. "Shh! She's sleeping you idiot!" He yelled whispered.
She quietly giggled and came inside while shutting the door gently behind her.
"So..what're you doing..sitting next to her like that?" Yuki said asking with each step she took forward.
"Eh, it's not like that!-shut up..what're you doing here anyway?" "I wanted to see how she was doing..how is she doing?" She said getting serious in the last part. She stood in front of Misaki and moved her bang out of her eye.
"She just needs some sleep like you said. Hey don't worry about her, she seems strong enough to handle something like this." He said reassuring her.
"Yeah, you're right. But..I can't help but worry.."
He gasped when he looked down and finally noticed blood on her hand.
"What happened?" He said grabbing her hand. "Eh..I was training and I kinda got hurt." She said suddenly with her cheek dripping blood again, from the scratch Itachi made with his kunai.
"What's that!" Deidara said jumping up touching her cheek and his face getting red like her blood. Making their face be inches apart.
"Oh that was why I had blood on my hand." "..You're an idiot you know that? Go get that healed." He said with an attitude. But she could tell he was actually worried about her. She smiled and kissed him on his cheek. He blushed.
She smiled and looked back at Misaki before leaving.
When she walked down the hall and felt her shortened hair. Suddenly she bumped into someone. Usually she could catch herself but right now she didn't have the energy to.
But for some reason she had stopped falling. She looked up and noticed he had caught her.
"Thanks Tobi!" She said giggling, he helped her stand up straight and stared at her. "What's wrong, Tobi?"
"..How come Yuki looks different?" "Huh? Oh uh see, I was training with Itachi, and his kunai accidently cut the ends of my hair." She said petting it.
Tobi laughed and jumped all around.
"That makes sense! Yuki's a good girl! And Tobi's a good boy!"
What does that have to do with anything? She thought.
Suddenly Tobi stopped and jumped in front of her, touching her cheek. "Why's Yuki bleeding?!" "Oh uh see..Itachi kinda scratched me with his kunai there too." "No! Itachi's not a good boy!" He said holding both of her hands together. "We have to clean Yuki up!" He said dragging her along.
She started to laugh.
He looked over his shoulder while he was hurling to the kitchen, and saw Yuki smiling and laughing.
"What're you laughing at!?" He said seeming embarrassed for some reason. "Tobi you're so funny you know that-..."
Once again she couldn't help but think about what everyone was like. It seemed like everyone in the akatsuki was the complete opposite on the inside of what they acted like..well besides Hidan and Kakuzu.
But she started to think about what Tobi/Obito was actually feeling. How he was still hurting about the loss of his friend, and how that friend was the girl he was in love with and cared for the most.
She snapped out of her thoughts when Tobi stopped in place and 'stared' at her.
"Is something wrong with Yuki?" "Tobi...you really don't..have to act like this in front of me."
There was a dead silence. There was no one around and the only people in the house was them, Misaki and Deidara.
"What does Yuki mean?"
She smacked her forehead in her mind.
"I mean, look Tobi...I know the truth about you, so please. You can stop." She said more gentle on the last part.
He was quiet for a while again. Soon he got closer and cornered her to the wall. He smacked his hand on the wall next to her head.
"What do you know?" He said with his voice very deeper. Yuki didn't seem scared in the least, she still looked happy but just in a calm way, and she kept a small grin on her face. For some reason this was a little funny to her.
"Are you saying you know the truth?" "Yup." She said simply. "Alright then. So you know I am..Madara Uchiha-" "Oh my gosh-Tobi! The truth, as in the truth!."
He gasped and his body lightened up like he was confused.
"I am Madara-" "No you're not! You're the one and only, Obito!" He gasped when he heard that name again, then he gripped her wrist and pinned her to the wall.
"How the hell do know that? Just who are you!" "Like I said before..I'm Yuki." She said giving a warm smile.
"Look I know it may seem weird, but trust me..I know everything about you guys. Well mostly.."
They really didn't give off much of a backstory for Hidan and Kakuzu..
"I know what happened Obito.. in you're past."
His grip lightened and his hand fell.
He'd never stopped thinking about what happened before, but never in reality was he reminded, besides each time he looked at his other eye. The place where he kept the eye that he had given to his best friend, the same one who killed the one he loved.
Suddenly he snapped out of his thoughts when he felt a gentle warmth on him. He looked down and noticed Yuki was hugging him and crying. Obito was confused. "Why are you the one who's crying?" "Be-Because..i-it's just so s-sad!"
He chuckled.
Obito gently placed his hand on her hand and hugged her back.
What am I doing?
He was still confused, but this time for his actions. He didn't care about her at all, he didn't even know her! But yet, he couldn't help feel attached to her.
Since she looked like, Rin.
~ Presently ~
Itachi and Misaki walked towards the door that led to the outside.
"Careful. Don't trip." "That's very funny Itachi." She said in her same monotone voice.
Once she slid open the door she froze, then smiled.
Up ahead was Yuki and Tobi fighting hand-to-hand combat. She was sweating all over, her hair was down and out and seemed a little shorter, and she had a band aid on her cheek.
"She's an idiot." She said quietly to herself. Itachi stared at her then looked back at the field.
"Would you still like to train?" "Of course, but is there somewhere else where we could train? I don't want to interfere with Yuki's training."
"Of course. But it's outside the hideout-" "-Would Pain accept me leaving the hideout?" "As long as you're with me, then he won't have anything to say."
She nodded and they turned around and left thru the other way.
~ Training ground #2 ~
Misaki looked around where they were standing.
It was a small, uninhabited forest that was filled with a small fog, and the clouds covered the sky. In the middle was mostly open space, but around that was large rocks.
First they started off fighting for the beginning of the training, but soon it turned into 'see if Misaki could land a hit on Itachi' training practice.
She was fast, already fast as Yuki after she finished her training. Yet of course she wasn't faster than Itachi, since he was trained his whole life, and this was still new to her.
At first it was hard to comprehend that Yuki was training so much, but now she might have realized why she wanted it so much.
A long time had already seem to pass, and while she kept thinking of Yuki her body started to get faster, the fact that her best friend kept training for four hours made her almost happy, happy enough to make her even snicker. Itachi stared at her wondering what she was thinking about.
Misaki soon kept getting faster, and her punches were getting stronger with every thought.
"You and Yuki seem to be opposites, while when she thinks she can't focus on fighting, while you almost seem to be getting better." Itachi complimented.
"No."
He almost gasped at her sudden response.
"Knowing Yuki she was probably thinking the wrong things at the time. She isn't very good at hiding her emotions either."
She was most likely thinking about Itachi's past since she has to constantly look at Itachi while they're fighting. She thought.
"If Yuki's thinking of bad thoughts that made her unfocused, you must be thinking good thoughts, and that's what makes you become better. So tell me, what is Yuki thinking about, and what is it that you're thinking about?"
Misaki was still smiling and they continued to do what they were doing for a little while in silence. Finally she gave her response.
"Yuki was thinking about you. I, was thinking about Yuki." "What do you mean..thinking about me?" "As in..you're past."
She said getting serious in the end part. Itachi almost stopped completely, but then kept dodging when Misaki was very closed to hitting him.
"What do you know?"
"Everything."
He actually gasped once she said that.
"How? Like what?" "It's hard to explain but.." She chuckled. "I know basically everything about you and some other people. When I say everything I mean, you're past, present, future." "Future?" "I know how everything is going to end out." "Everything-"
"Don't worry." Her eyes lowered a bit and she smiled again, "it's going to turn out okay."
He was silent for a while. Just as unexpected as her smile, he smiled too.
"That's good to hear."
As a matter of fact, she even giggled. Itachi opened his mouth when he remembered.
"Actually, you're not the only one here who knows someone past." He said seriously, making her serious also.
"Did Yuki tell you?" "Just a small part?" "What did she say?" "You're sister had died in an accident, you haven't apparently cried in public, since." "That's correct, but..I wouldn't call it an "accident," I would say she was killed."
They continued fighting, and Misaki wasn't making showing emotions.
"Why haven't you cried?" Asked Itachi. She seemed almost confused, it took her a while to answer.
"I..I don't know." She said looking down but still fighting. "Have you cried to yourself?" "..No." Suddenly Itachi stopped, which made her also.
"What's wrong?" She asked acting like her usual self. "You said you know my past. That means you know about the clan massacre, how I had to kill my only family." "I did." "Even I cried, even during the time when I had to..-" "Yeah, I also know that." "Why won't you cry?" "Itachi please-" "There's something that you're not dealing with. What is it?" "Itachi.."
Weirdly her throat started to get dry, she gulped but it was still dry. It was a long time since she had felt like this.
Misaki sighed and looked passed next to Itachi and stared at the sky.
"It was about 8 years ago when it happened."
~ Flashback ~
It was already dawn when Misaki and her little sister were outside, helping Misaki practice for her soccer tournament, while Yuki was inside in the kitchen. Misaki and Yuki was 13 years old and her little sister was about 8 years old.
"Misaki! Mai!" Yuki yelled to the outside from the kitchen.
The two walked inside, Misaki's hair and bangs was a little bit shorter, also was in a ponytail.
Misaki and Yuki only looked a bit younger, and wore the same colors they did before, but for today they wore it in a sports outfit.
Following behind Misaki was her 8 year old little sister, Mai. She had long black hair in a ponytail like Misaki and looked like a mini version of her, but had light brown eyes instead.
Misaki patted her sister on the head and gave a warm smile.
"Thanks for helping me practice." Mai gave a huge smile and giggled. "C'mon I wanna watch the movie now!" "Yeah!" Mai yelled holding a thumbs up running up behind her. "Thanks for teaching her that, Yuki." Misaki said sarcastically.
Yuki walked out of the kitchen and froze suddenly when she saw the door open.
A man with wearing a black mask popped out and he held up a gun at her.
"Mai get out the way!" She said quickly pushing her behind her while ducking.
The man with the mask came inside with three others following behind, one with a rope around his shoulder.
Misaki grabbed Mai's arm and put her behind them both.
"Don't move!" He said still holding up his gun. He walked over and grabbed the two by their arms, he looked over his shoulder and noticed Mai.
"Huh, trying to hide her? C'mon you too!"
Mai stood there wide eyed. "It's okay, come over here next to me." Misaki said calmly like she wasn't scared at all. The man took one step to make Mai jump. She ran over and grabbed on to Misaki's leg.
"This is a huge one!" One of the robbers said. The third one tied them up and pushed them against the wall.
It was starting to get darker outside while the moon came up, and the thieves ran all over their house.
"Turn off all the lights!" The one holding the gun told the other robber. He did was he was told and turned off all the lights.
The lights were off and it got dark, the light from the moon shined on their face while they continued to sit there tied up.
The robbers scurried around their house while the first one stayed in front of Mai with his gun pointed to them one by one.
"Hmm..I wonder who I should kill first." He said with an evil smirk, finally he pointed at Yuki.
"How about I let you decide." She gasped. "If you can't decide then i'll just have to kill you. Or..I could always decide for myself." He said looking at Mai.
"No!" She screamed. He laughed.
It had been already 10 minutes when they stopped taking the looking around and taking the small things into their van.
The three sat against the wall with their hands tied up with rope, but with their faces either calm or scared.
He was starting to get tired of waiting for an answer, he smirked and pointed in front of him. Their eyes widened when he pulled the trigger back.
She closed her eyes and looked away. Her body flinched in a second when it shot.
Tears started to roll down their faces.
~ End of Flashback ~
It went silent between Itachi and Misaki. She looked down and stared at her ring.
"You seemed to have been very attached to your sister."
She chuckled. "She always wanted to be with me..well you know the feeling."
"..What happened afterwards?" "The police came, apparently next door, Yuki's parents had saw thru the window robbers coming into the house."
"Where were your parents?" "Work, they usually didn't have free time." "I see. As you know my father was almost the same. Always busy and concerned about work...do you miss your sister?"
She looked him straight in the eye.
"Of course." She looked back at the sky.
"You know..we had this big tree in our backyard with a large, thick branch. I used to climb to the top all the time and lie there, looking up at the sky. Mai, she was really young so she couldn't climb it. One day, I was up there and she kept saying she wanted to get on top. But, that time she said she wanted to see the world from the way I see it. For some reason that made me want to show her, so I got down and she got on my back while I climbed up again. She was terrified, she kept looking down most of the time."
"Then what happened?" She giggled. "She had to sit on my lap, to make sure she didn't fall off. I remember looking up at the sky with her on that day, I never had a chance to..go up there again with her."
She gripped her hands into a fist. Without knowing, her eyes began to water, then soon fall on her cheeks.
She jumped forward and grabbed Itachi's cloak and began to cry.
"I understand now. You weren't able to cry before because you stopped thinking about the times you had with your sister, and only thought of Yuki."
"Y-You're right!" She said crying out loud. She almost gasped if it wasn't for so many tears running down her face distracting her from when Itachi had held her.
"Itachi!" She said crying out loud once again. He patted her head. "It's okay."
She wiped away her tears.
This isn't like me. I knew I would one day cry again, but not like this. I've been holding this in too long that I can't control myself.
She still had tears flowing but not as much as before.
It's true, I do miss her. And it took me until now to realize..that i'm actually sad about it. I was always distant or unemotional about everything. But now I..
"I think i've finally come in terms with my feelings." She said mostly to herself and looking up into his eyes. "Itachi." She said with a smile.
"Thank you."
He gasped at her sudden change of emotion. "I didn't do much." "No Itachi you did, I wouldn't have came to this if it wasn't for you. And you know what it's like being away from someone you care about the most, so you're the only one who could get me."
"Before you said everything in the future is going to be okay.." "Sasuke will lose his way, but in the process he'll find out the truth and he'll realize what actually needs to be done."
"Does he become strong like I hoped?" "Yes Itachi, he does." She said like she was answering a little kid.
"Oh thank goodness." He hugged her and buried his head on her shoulder. "I knew that he'd be screwed up while he was growing up, but I did everything for him-" "Itachi you don't need to explain. I know." He squeezed tighter.
She was shocked when she heard him making noises. But it wasn't crying.
Itachi was laughing.
His laughter started to grow more and more with each chuckle. He pulled away and he was genuinely smiling and laughing.
She giggled from seeing him laugh so much.
"Actually I didn't know that you could laugh this hard." She said laughing in between. "I'm just very..-" "-Happy?" She answered with a smile.
"Happy, but also relieved. Thank you." "Hm? For what? I didn't really do anything." "Yes.."
Well then..
"But you were able to reassure me." "Oh Itachi." She said softly.
Quickly he leaned down and kissed her. She wasn't sure if he was just so happy he wanted to kiss her, or if it was a passionate kiss.
It didn't matter anymore, she couldn't help but go along with it anyway.
~ A couple hours later; 5:00pm ~
The two stood in front of the door of the Akatsuki base. Itachi's face had turned back to straight and unemotional. However, Misaki was able to seem happy again.
She sighed in relief then opened the door.
It's good that I can feel this way again.
"Where were you!" Deidara yelled getting her face. She giggled while trying to lightly push him away. He gasped from her change in personality.
In the background she heard muffling sounds, but Deidara was in the way so she couldn't see past him.
"Why are you in a good mood?" "It was just..a very productive training session." "Training! You said you were just going to check on Yuki! Ah whatever." He said mumbling under his breath.
After Deidara had gotten out of her way she noticed Yuki lying on the sofa next to some of the other Akatsuki members sitting down. But she was starting to wake up, and her eyes were half opened. "What happened to her?"
"She over exerted herself." Sasori answered. "I'm fine." She said trying to wave her hand, even barely able to get the words out her mouth.
"Yeah I should've saw that coming. Has she improved?" "Hell yeah." She said smirking with her eyes closed. "It's actually impressive, at first she was okay not as good as you were in our first training. But since when you were sleeping she still trained, and she started to improve already. Actually she's caught up to you already."
Misaki chuckled.
"She isn't the only one who's been training. I haven't been training as much as her, but I know she won't be able to catch up with me now." She said smirking.
"Is that so!" Yuki yelled jumping up with holding up a fist. "You just wait Misaki! After I take another nap it's training time again for me!"
Misaki laughed. Yuki hesitated and was surprised.
"Misaki."
"We'll see about that. See i'm still not tired after my training, I had to stop for Itachi's sake," she said sarcastically, almost bragging and also holding up her fist too, "but now i'm ready for my next training session!"
"Oh really! After I finish my nap i'll have 100x more energy than you! Just wait Misaki! I'll beat you!"
"Alright then it's settled!-" "What the hell is all this yelling for?" Kisame and Pain said walking in. They stopped when the first thing they saw was Misaki and Yuki holding up fist to each other grinning their ass off.
Most surprising was the fact that Misaki was grinning at all.
"Kisame! Don't train her!"
"Kisame! Train me!"
Yuki and Misaki said simultaneously.
Kisame was still confused what was going on but shrugged and agreed.
"Aw man Kisame!" Yuki yelled plopping down on the sofa. "Hey what are you gonna train with! You don't got no sword!" She said making fun of her.
"Don't worry about me, you should get some rest if you wanna catch up." Misaki said laughing and walking away with Kisame.
"Hmph." Yuki looked over and saw Itachi.
What happened? She thought while her face getting straight, she lied back down on the sofa and went to sleep.
Only an hour passed and Misaki was exhausted.
"Alright kid, that's enough for today." He said putting down samehada. She put down the branch she used as a sword and threw it into the pile of broken branches she had used before.
"Not bad. You're fast on thinking of your next move, make sure you heal any wounds you have." He said patting her shoulder and walking away. She nodded and sat down under the tree she was once were before, before Pain had given the schedule announcement.
She smiled when she looked up.
It's definitely not the same, but it still has the same feeling.
"You know I really didn't know what you'd come up with as a sword..this was definitely not expected." She said walking to the outside to join her.
"What did you think I was going to use?" "Well, I thought you would've done the same thing as I did. Borrow someone elses." She said making fun of her.
"That's exactly what I was planning to do." "Hm? Then why didn't you?"
She smiled and looked away.
"I'd be embarrassing if I rushed out to start practicing and then come back inside and ask to borrow someones."
Yuki laughed.
"You can be an idiot sometimes you know that." She said sitting down next to her next to the tree. She looked up with a straight face.
"Back home you'd always sit on top of your backyard tree and stare at the sky." "Yeah. I don't know if you remember..but I once carried Mai up and-" "-Alright what happened!" Yuki yelled facing her now.
"What?" "Something happened. You're laughing with everyone, getting excited about small things, being competitive again. And..you don't ever talk about Mai."
"I know."
Yuki gasped.
"It's been years since the.." "Yeah." She sighed and looked at her ring while also fixing her bangs. "Itachi and me got on this subject, and I told him what happened." "You told him?" "Yeah. Then we started talking about Mai."
"You talked about Mai?" "Yes. Even the tree story, and I guess that was it." "W-What was?" "The thing I needed to trigger my emotions." "So..did you finally cry?" Misaki chuckled.
"Yeah."
Yuki sighed in relief and relaxed again.
"That's it?" Asked Misaki. "Hm? What was?" "You're okay with it?" "Of course I am, I mean..I wanted to be the one to help you get threw everything like you did for me. But, i'm just glad you're okay now."
...
"What a minute!" Yuki said jumping up. "Is that all you did during the training!?" Misaki giggled and jumped up too. "Of course not! I was training my ass off in the beginning!" "Oh in the beginning! What happened to middle, and end!"
A blush went across her face.
"Misaki!" Yuki started to stutter some words but couldn't find the right thing to say. "And you said you could beat me, ha!" "Psh I can do it with my hand tied behind my back!"
"Alright then! Fight me!" Yuki yelled. Misaki grinned. "When!?" "Right now!" "Alright if that's what you want!"
Misaki jumped forward for a punch, still smiling. Yuki moved to the right out of the way just in time.
"So I guess it's starting!" "You did say right now didn't you!?" Misaki did a turn for a kick. Yuki grabbed her foot and pulled her towards her. She put her hand into a fist and aimed to punch her.
Even though Yuki was holding Misaki's foot she "limboed" and punched her straight up. Yuki's face flew up and accidentally loosened her grip.
Misaki saw that as an opportunity, and took it. She slid her foot out of her grip and did a backflip.
"Nice move." Yuki complimented. "You too, I didn't expect you to grab my foot."
The two smirked and aimed to punch each other.
*Like Ino and Sakura ;)*
It was an inch before they were close enough to touch the other, and they both flipped their bodies around and aimed for a kick or a jab in the stomach.
The two grabbed their side and did a backflip away.
"I'm surprised you got a hit." They said and laughed at the same time. They continued hitting each other while Yuki was grinning her ass off.
"What?" Misaki said smiling. "While you were having fun with Itachi," Misaki ears turned red, "I actually learned a jutsu!" She said using her open hand to point at herself.
"A jutsu!" "Yeah how about you find out!" Yuki did a backflip away while doing multiple handsigns.
Misaki thru some kunais and shurikens at her but she easily jumped out the way of each.
Ah damn! No fair! Itachi only taught me the hand signs, i'm only as good as Sasuke was when he first learned his fireball jutsu!
"That was a nice episode." Misaki said to herself out loud. "What the hell are you talking about?" Misaki warmly smiled and then ran to throw punches at her.
Ah! What the hell?! Yuki thought.
Yuki turned and flipped as much as she could to avoid getting hit, and still continuing her hand signs.
That's when Misaki pulled out her kunai and started using it, almost like a sword.
"Hey!-" "-It's not cheating." Misaki said already knowing what she was going to say. Misaki scratched her hand with her kunai, and her hand started to drip blood.
"Sorry." She said apologizing while still continuing to try to hit her. "Ah it's fine girl." She said evilly laughing.
"Ha ha ha! Water-style! Water whirl technique!" Yuki yelled.
Misaki looked around and saw two small whirlpools on each side of her. Water started to spiral out and aimed to hit her.
...
It had splashed her face.
Yuki started to bust out laugh. "What was that?! You basically gave me a bath." "Psh did you really think i'd master a jutsu that easily!?" The two smiled and started to laugh.
"To be honest Itachi taught me a jutsu too, but I'm only as good as Sasuke was when he first learned it-" "-Oh I LOVE THAT EPISODE! IT'S SO CUTE!"
They smiled and plopped down on the ground.
Misaki stared at her hand, "you should go take care of that," she said seriously.
The blood was still dripping out and started to fall on the ground.
"Yeah it's looking pretty bad." She heaved herself up and walked to the inside and closed the door behind her.
She walked thru the hallway and focused her energy threw her palm, that's when a blue glow started to form. She put more chakra in her hand and held on to her wound. Slowly, as in very slowly the scratch was starting to patch up.
~ Flashback ~
"Just do it." He said. "Tobi I don't think I can do it.." "Yuki, without a doubt..you're a healing type." "But how do you know?" "Yuki, please try." She did what he told her to and her chakra started to glow in her hand.
She placed it on a small scratch she had on her arm, and then it disappeared.
Her eyes widened. "Yuki! You're are a healer!"
~ End of Flashback ~
The blood had stopped but the scratch was still there.
She stopped in place and lowered her head, her face was serious, she gripped her hand into a fist and tried to hold back the tears.
Misaki...
The door opened next to her.
"Hm? Yuki..what happened?"
She jumped on him and hugged him, then started to cry and laugh. He managed to stand but went back a couple steps.
He managed to kick the door closed.
"I'm sorry, Deidara." Yuki said still smiling. "I'm so happy!" She said bursting into tears again.
"What hell? About what?"
She started to laugh.
"Misaki. I'm so happy for her!" "Misaki?"
Sighed and told him about her (Misaki's) past.
...
"Damn.." "Yeah," she giggled. "But..now she was finally able to fully get over it, and now..she's the Misaki I knew years ago."
She looked up and smiled at him.
He put her face in his hands and leaned down to kiss her.
Inevitably she gave in and kissed back.
