The next day in training
"YOU GUYS ARE LATE," Yuu shouts, pulling Jay into a headlock. Jay screams, definitely not in the mood for headlocks. Ryu tsks in a disappointed tone, making me roll my eyes and cross my arms lazily over my chest. The purple haired girl scowled loudly and tried to bite at the hand holding her hostage, making me snigger with humour before stepping closer to intervene.
"You are the ones who picked an obscure time to train," I point out lazily, Ryu rubs his chin, sending me a small smirk and stepping between me and his sister. I grunt with irritation.
"Are you sure Lord Hokage didn't pick it?" He asks sarcastically. Yuu smirks a little and takes out 2 Kunai.
"Who cares, lets spar!" She shouts, throwing them at me and letting go of Jay. She jumps towards her brother, standing side by side. I glance at Jay who smirks and steps in next to me. Oh and I caught those Kunai.
"So what? 2 vs 2?" I ask and they nod in harmony, Ryu stares at me for a while which makes me shiver. Suddenly a hand covers my eyes and I yelp.
"He's putting you into a genjutsu, idiot, your gunna have to fight blind-" Jay mumbles, I feel her move in front of me and I can sense her chakra growing.
"What are you going to do?" I ask and she smacks the top of my head.
"I have a few tricks up my sleeves, but that means you definitely have to close your eyes," She muses, I could tell she was smirking. Yuu tells us to make our first move and I feel Jay's hand leave my face. I let out a deep breath, honing all my other senses. I hear footsteps and I start doing hand signs, when I finish my last hand sign I quickly rip a kunai from my pouch.
"Electric current jutsu" I declare, I fill the Kunai with electricity and listen closely to my teachers breathing, getting into a defence stance. I block an up close attack from Yuu, the electricity passes through the metal of our Kunai and zaps her. She makes a noise and disappears, well I stop sensing her anyway.
I sniff the air and quickly turn around, blocking a...Senbon needle? It goes flying off in some other direction, thunking in a tree 2/3 metres away. I hear Jay growl and my stance falters, I turn my ear towards her, her heartbeat is speeding up and her breath is ragged, we have to end this soon.
"Jay, are you ok?" I ask with concern, dodging 6 more senbon needles. I was getting mildly pissed with this whole eyes closed crap.
"Uhh...define ok" Jay says between the sound of metal clashing. I take a deep breath, tapping my left foot on the floor and growling lowly.
Suddenly a fist slams into my face and I go flying backwards. Ok, looks like I'm going to step it up a notch. I open my eyes just at Yuu lands another hit. I take the hit and kick her in the chest, giving us some distance. That punch was definitely the real deal, it kind of worried me a bit.
Her long blonde hair covers her eyes and I smirk, that my friends is why I have short hair. I run towards her and punch her in the face.
Poof.
"Ohhh crap-"
I turn around and quickly dodge another hit, wow she is really good, and shes fighting with the full intention to kill, its a bit scary. We start using Taijutsu to attack each other. At some point I hear Jay 's startled gasp and I jump towards her, catching her falling figure. What was she doing in a tree?
"You ok?" I ask as I put her down, the twins take their places opposite us and I quickly look at their feet, not wanting to be cast in a genjutsu.
"Yeah...listen, this isn't working-"
"I was thinking the same thing," I add and she sends me a smirk, holding her fist out. I fist bump her and we both look at our sensei's with eager looks in our eyes.
"Time to take it up a notch..." I say with a smirk, putting my hand on Jay and giving her enough chakra to complete our special move.
Jay does some really quick hand signs, and so do I, for this technique we need to be in perfect harmony. I taught her this move when I found out her chakra nature was earth.
"WIND RELEASE; INFINITE EARTH CLOUD BREAK THROUGH!" She shouts, punching the ground and destroying it, at the same time I shout-
"WIND RELEASE; INFINITE SAND CLOUD BREAK THROUGH"
We actually changed the move around especially for her. Jay's move makes a huge explosion, sending all the earth flying towards our sensei's, at the same time I use the now sand like material left over from Jay's move to send a huge bullet of sand.
Once the dust clears I notice Yuu and Ryu were both scratched up pretty bad. I smirk and Jay suddenly does a genjutsu release hand sign, wait, did we seriously get caught in-
Bang
The two of us get punched really hard on the head and we fall over. I sit up quickly and hold my head, pouting at Ryu who smirks, tapping his temples. Jay lets out an exasperated sigh. I sniff the air and frown, is there someone nearby? It smells a bit like-
"He caught us in a Genjutsu, we were attacking the air," she says, sounding smart for once. I let out a weak laugh, forgetting about the thing I smelt.
"Surprisingly, you two passed-"
"HUH?" Jay and I shout in harmony, Jay starts cheering, dancing around like a crazy person.
"You worked together as a team" Yuu says, giving us both pointed glares. Whilst Jay dances I look at the twins, who had a look of tension on their faces. Whats up with them?
"You two want to go on a mission? It sounds pretty interesting," Ryu asks and I nod swiftly, Jay stands in front of me and sends me a closed eye smile. She offers me a hand and I reach for it, but my hand slips right through and 'Jay' vanishes.
"BAHAHAHHAHAH DUMBASS YOU FELL FOR IT HEHEHEH!" She shouts, punching me on the top of my head. I growl, jumping up pointing at her.
"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE TURD!" I shout and a fire sparks in her green eyes.
"DON'T CALL ME LITTLE!"
TIME SKIP
After a couple D ranked missions Jay and I met up with Shikamaru's team for BBQ, which made Choji and Jay turn into vicious meat eating animals. Ino's eyebrow twitches and she turns her attention towards her crappy salad. Shikamaru and I have an average amount of food, well sorta. Shikamaru fell asleep, his head slowly leaning towards the burning hot bbq we were using to cook our food. Ino starts laughing, as well as Jay (who spits out her food like a feral) Choji didn't notice and I watch in horror. Shikamaru screams when he smacks his head against the burning surface, gaining the attention of the entire shop. Shikamaru shouts swear words as I grab 3 cups of ice cold water pour them over his head, his hair falling out of its ponytail thingo. Jay says he looks like a girl and Choji starts choking on his food so Jay punches him really hard on the back, making all the food he was trying to swallow...uh eject from his body and it all ends up on Ino, who does the most high pitched scream I had ever heard.
"IF YOU GUYS DON'T GET OUT OF HERE IN THE NEXT FOUR SECONDS I'LL HAVE YOU ARRESTED!" The shop owner screams and I quickly rush out of the shop, Shikamaru and Jay not far behind me. The 5 of us go to a lake to wash Shikamaru's burned forehead and Choji's vomit off Ino. Well that was the plan but when Jay saw Ino and Shikamaru leaning over the lake she thought it would be a good idea to push them in. Of course Jay and I start howling with laughter then Ino uses her possession jutsu to make us both jump in. Then Choji cannonballs from the top of a tree, making a huge wave go over us. Jay decides that its a great idea to do the same thing, then she forces Ino to do it, except Ino does a boss ass dive.
"WOOOOAHH GO INO!" Jay shouts, high fiving Choji before jumping in after the blonde girl. Then Choji did a belly flop. Shikamaru and I were sitting on a rock in the middle of the lake, I start splashing Shikamaru (who was trying to dry his hair so he could put it up again) and he turns and glares at me darkly, pushing me off the rock. Then I jump out from the water and tackle him, making him sink below me. When the two of us emerge Kiba's team had found us and were all joining in. Hinata was sitting with her feet in the water, Shino is talking to the leaches and Kiba is...begging Hinata to do a chicken fight against Jay and Choji. Shikamaru splashes water at me and I look away from my other friends, getting a full frontal of the attack. I spit out water at him and it hits him directly in the face. He spits with disgust and glares at me.
"Thats disgusting Kaguya," He grunts and I laugh, diving into the sparkling lake and opening my eyes, watching the bubbles of air escaping. After I resurface I feel a pair of arms wrap around me, I look up to see Kiba's messy brown hair and I cheer softly, nuzzling into his warm chest with a slight blush.
"Hey Mika-chan I thought you hated water," He says, looking down at me and smirking at Shikamaru, who was grumbling as he tried to fix his hair. The dog boy tightens his grip around me with one hand and gently runs his other hand through my hair, chuckling when I sigh softly.
"No, I love lakes because they are calm bodies of water but the ocean is alive," I mumble, pouting when he pulls away and smiles with interest.
"Why do you still have your mask on?" He asks and I look away from him, Shikamaru had waddled over to us and was standing with his arm on the top of my head. I smirk between the two as Jay swims over, pushing them both away and pulling my head against her chest.
"She is minee! Back off dog dick and uh... fuckin'... Shadow nuts!" She threatens, screaming when a blur with blonde hair and no shirt shouts loudly. I slip out of her grip and wearily pull my mask higher, trying to hide my bright pink cheeks.
"YOU GUYS ARE THROWING A PARTY WITHOUT MEEEE?" Naruto screams as he practically rips his clothes off and jumps into the water, Sakura talks with Hinata for a while before sitting down next to the drenched Hyuga (yeah her and Kiba got recked by Jay and Choji). Hinata turns bright red when she sees Naruto swimming shirtless and Sakura throws a rock at him. The rock misses and hits Kiba who howls in pain, Akamaru pops up out of nowhere and jumps onto Kiba's head and the two of them run towards Sakura who rolls her sleeves up (probably getting ready to kick Kiba's ass) Naruto swims up to us and sends me a smile, I blush and let him hug me tightly whilst Shikamaru just sighs and scolds him for being so loud. Naruto tried to pull away but I just snuggled against him tighter, I had missed him a lot for the past two days. If you ignore the fact that I visited him both days before bed and brushed his hair for him and cooked him some healthy shit.
"Sorry I just thought you guys were celebrating something, asides from Mika's greatness," He grins and I blush tremendously, splashing him with water. After like 5 minutes almost everyone was involved in this water fight, asides from Shino and Sasuke. We are all doing some hardcore to the death battles kinda stuff. Shikamaru was mainly hiding behind me and dodging Ino's attacks (Ino was dodging Sakura and Hinata's) Jay was completely owning Kiba in a one on one. Choji and Naruto were both ganging up against me and well, it was probably the most fun I've had with these idiots.
The next day
"I'm not sure" The hokage draws out, I swing an arm over Jay, sending him my nicest smile, Jay does the same, throwing glitter into the air to add empathises (she always keeps glitter in her pockets for special occasions/pranks).
"C'mon, the four of us could totally handle a C ranked mission- maybe even a B ranked" Jay says confidently, I hear an excited noise escape Yuu's mouth and I roll my eyes, sometimes I wonder which one of us is older. The hokage stares at some paper in front of him, then he looks at us, then at the paper. Finally he lets out a laugh and looks at us again.
"Fine, I'll give you a C ranked mission, only 'cause I have faith in you lot, plus we had less D ranked missions this week," He takes a deep breath and reads the paper.
"This mission involves climbing up some mountains a few miles from here, all you have to do is scout the area, make sure no one has been up there...there had been reports of...activities going on, don't engage in any fights unless absolutely necessary, if it comes to that try to escape and get help, understand-"
Yuu and Ryu start bowing repeatedly, thanking him like 1000 times. He gives us the coordinations and we set off for our first C ranked mission.
Third person
The hokage sends out an eagle to alert Kakashi, although he seemed calm he was worried about the twins. They had lost their family to the Kaguya clan, and until very recently they argued and argued about working with Mika. The Hokage knew he should have faith, yet he doesn't. So he sent them on that mission, it was his last test. Yet he also wanted Kakashi to watch over the whole time, to make sure there aren't any casualties.
The Hokage takes a deep breath, and blows out the smoke from his pipe thingy.
"Nothing bad is going to happen" He mumbles just as Kakashi opens the door.
Mika's pov
"How the hell are we going to climb that?" Jay asks, Yuu and Ryu exchange a look. The mountain we were meant to climb looks very steep, and very high. You know, I wish we accepted the mission with team 8, the only reason we couldn't go was 'cause stupid 'Shino his name' or whatever thought we were going to get in the way.
"Its called chakra control Jay, here watch me," I say, doing a hand sign and walking towards the mountain, I start walking up it easily, after a while I turn around, looking at the rest of my team with an evil grin.
"Hurry up," I shout lazily, sitting down and watching the twins pull Jay up the mountain. I watch with amusement, I knew Jay couldn't handle this yet, I should probably carry her but, I'm already up here. Finally everyone catches up, I put Jay on my back and then I start walking alongside the blonde twins.
"Do you think we'll end up fighting anyone?" I ask Yuu who shrugs.
"Hope so," She says, Ryu nods and I roll my eyes, those two are serious thrill seekers. It'll end up killing us...
Time skip
"Jay just walk the rest of the way," I groan, my back aching, I've been carrying her for like 10 minutes. Its killing me. After arguing with me she climbs down and tries to use chakra control again, I still have a tight hold on her arm. She takes a few steps and her eyes widen. The top of the mountain is like 15 steps away, we had to walk extra slow for Ryu's sake, since he sucks at this, not as bad as Jay though. I laugh at her pained expression as she takes another weary step. She starts cheering and I roll my eyes again, Yuu shushes us.
"If there are people up there they can hear us, so shut it," she says and we both nod swiftly. I let go of Jay and she starts walking by herself, I get to the top first. If you look at it, it seemed very deserted. But something in the back of my mind said to be careful, I turn my back to the others, walking around carefully, keeping an eye out for traps. So far there were none, which was relieving.
"Mika!" I hear Jay scream, I turn around, watching as the twins push her off the top of the cliff. Before anyone could even blink I had a grip on one of her hands, Jay looks at me with tear filled eyes. With my other hand I manage to throw some Kunai at the twins to get them away from me, cursing them loudly.
"Mika, Mika please!" She cries out, squeezing her eyes shut, I could see her body trembling in fear, similar to mine. Every single part of me felt chilled down to the bone, my adrenaline pores through my veins. I start pulling her up when suddenly I feel a foot on my back. Yuu kicks me in the back and I end up hanging over the edge by the top half of my body, I quickly put chakra in my legs so I don't fall. I quickly look at Jay to see a strange look on her face, her tears pouring from her eyes.
"Its ok, I'll save you," I whisper, trying my hardest not to cry. I hear Yuu laugh and a kunai is slowly pressed against my back, I feel it pierce through my skin and I let out a pained whine, my grip only tightening on my friend.
"Let her go Kaguya," Yuu whispers and tears start filling my eyes, I blink them away and ignore her, once again trying to pull up Jay. I can feel the woman carving a particular thing, but I took no more notice, some part of me was angry because it knew that they were just playing with me.
"Mika," Jay whispers and I look down at her. She sends me a weak smile and wipes some tears from her face with her free hand. I can tell by the look on her face that she had given up.
"Jay NO, I can save you, ju-ah!" I shout out as Yuu stabs the Kunai into my lower back again. Tears drop from my eyes and onto her face, a wind blew between us and a strange smell fills my nose. Its a person, someone is here.
"Its ok Mika-"
"No, No, Jay don't say stupid thINGS!" I scream, my tears now spilling from my face to hers. I feel her grip on my hand loosen and I start shaking my head viciously, ignoring the cuts being traced onto my back, ripping up my clothes.
"NO!" I scream, Yuu pulls my right hand back, so I'm stuck only holding her with my left. They were dragging out this moment for as long as possible, being sadistic and cruel.
"Jay PLEASE!" I beg, my left arm starts burning. Yuu kicks me in the side and I flinch, still holding Jay as if my life depended on it. My body burns and my heart is beating so hard I could barely hear myself think.
"Mika...I love you, you deserve to be protected," Jay says with a huge smile. I see her eyes glow and I know she had me in a genjutsu. My eyes cloud over and I end up in the scene where Jay and I became friends. I knew this genjutsu, it messes up your sense of time... just one second in the real world could be like 10 minutes in the genjutsu. This genjutsu distracts you with a random memory, sometimes its a memory that relates to your thoughts.
In genjutsu
I watch, my body was completely unnoticed by the mini Jay and Mika. Mini Mika was training and starting using the kekkei genkai, Jay jumps out a bush, a wicked smirk on her face.
"Oh yeah Mika," She smiles and Mini Mika rubs her elbow awkwardly. Mini Jay didn't even notice Mika getting rid of the bones sticking slightly out of her wrist from practising her infamous kekkei genkai.
"Hi Tomato lord," Mini me awkwardly teases (Jay had insisted on being called that due to her random obsession with tomatoes). Mika looks at the taller girl with a confused face. Jay glances over shoulder with an evil 'hehehe'.
"Who are you hiding from?" Tiny me asks and Jay smirks, her eyes sparkling.
"Kibaka, I put the mutt in a genjutsu and he finally figured it out," She says slyly and mini Mika smiles a bit.
"So you're good with genjutsu?" She asks and Jay shrugs, looking over her shoulder again.
"I guess, but I honestly don't care either way...I want to be a ku-whatever the word for female ninja is, for sure; But I'm more in it for fun," Jay sends mini me a wicked smile. Mini me blushes and sends Jay a gentle closed eye smile, because of the mask and all the other didn't see it.
"That sounds like a nice life Jay," Mini me says, I mouth her words while she says them, tears falling from my eyes as I collapse onto my knees and watch the scene before my very eyes.
"It'd be nicer if I had some real friends," Jay says, scratching her neck with a confused look on her face. Suddenly Kiba bursts through the shrubs and throws a kunai at Jay. Mini me instantly deflects the Kunai, grabs Jay and runs far away.
After mini me puts Jay down the girls start laughing.
"Thats awesome, I've never seen anyone move so fast..." Jay comments and mini me rubs her neck.
"Thanks Jay-uh Tomato lord," Mika says with an embarrassed blush. Jay starts pissing herself laughing.
"You don't have to call me that, we're friends now, Kay Mika?" She teases, rubbing Mika's hair. Miny Mika stares at her with awe, the taller girl smiles smugly.
"Everyone I've tried to protect has died Jay...I don't think you'd be safe to be my friend," Mini me stares at her hands with disgust, suddenly Jay wrap an arm around the black haired girl, a serious look in her eyes.
"I'll protect you by not dying...kay?" Jay says, sending Mika a bashful smile.
"You promise?"
"Of course I promise, Mika"
The genjutsu is released
"Jay NO!" I scream, the Genjutsu fades away and I blink a few times to focus on my friend.
But it was too late, with one last smile Jay starts falling. I start screaming loudly, suddenly I'm picked up and thrown backwards. I slowly stand up, rage and sadness taking over my body.
"Oh sorry, was that your little toy we dropped Kaguya?" Yuu hisses, to this I growl. I let out a pained gasp when I hear Jay stop screaming. An eerie silence fell over me, I couldn't even hear my own breathing as I stare down the twins, snarling my teeth and letting electricity discharge from my hands, my eyes glowing with fury.
"What are you going to do Kaguya, kill us?" Ryu asks, taking his sisters hand, I feel chakra pass through between them and I watch as my tears fall onto the ground. I shout in anger, standing up and running as fast as I can to the twins. My body was in fight mode, I don't care what or who the hell they are, I'm going to kill them.
"I'LL FUCKING TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!" I yell, my eyes glowing with rage, while running I activate my Kekkei Genkai, Shikotsumyaku, it gives me the ability to manipulate my bone structures, it's a very rare Kekkei Genkai. I'm about to use it to wipe these twins off the face of the earth! I start growing my bones from my palm as I run, making sure the twins couldn't see it. I slam my palms into both of their chests, a cloud of dust makes my eyes widen and I quickly do a sand clone jutsu, the real me was hidden behind them. Yuu laughs, making clone me turn around with fake shock.
"You know, when we were training yesterday I was about ready to finish the job on you two," Ryu says, cracking his knuckles. Yuu laughs, she and Ryu summon a Katana each.
"But we knew Iruka was nearby, so we had to change the plans, but thank god the hokage gave us this mission, cause now we can finally finish you," Ryu and Yuu say in harmony, the each slash their Katana's at me. I start some new hand signs, letting my tears fall onto the dry earth.
It was my clan that killed Jay, I'm not going to use it to kill them, no, I'm going to use my most destructive jutsu, maybe it will even kill me in the process.
Just before their katana's make the clone poof away into sand I shout to gain their attention.
"MIKA MOTHER FUCKING KAGUYA, REMEMBER THE NAME WHILST YOUR GETTING SENT DOWN TO HELL! NOW, ONE THOUSAND HEAVENLY SPEARS!" I scream, just as I finish the last hand sign, I hear someone shout and a kunai is thrown expertly at me, not by the twins but by, Gagashi?
I dodge, catching the Kunai, my jutsu still plays out but it gave him time to take the twins and me and jump off the cliff. My eyes widen and I try to slip out of his hold.
"WHAT THE H-"
My voice is cut off by the deafening loud sound of thunder smashing into the mountain, Gagashi quickly teleports us away but I still hear the terrifying cracking sounds, and I still see the mountainside collapse. Suddenly a huge pain forms in my head and body.
"M-my chakra," I cough out, Gakashi quickly ties up the twins and lays me down, I start coughing out blood, my eyes roll back and I pass out, the last words I hear are 'how the hell did you learn that move?'
Two days later
I stare at my new team with curiousity, a lump in my throat and a large fake smile on my face. Naruto pulls me into a hug, saying nice things to show his pity, Sakura sends me a sad smile and Sasuke glances away from me awkwardly. It didn't matter, smiles didn't bring Jay back. Smiles don't fix that mountain I destroyed. Smiles don't take back the hours of tortured interrogation I suffered. I didn't even get to mourn my own friends death. Smiles don't kill those twins. Smiles don't unbreak Jay's promise.
"Err...could you introduce yourself, Likes, dislikes, hobbies, dream for the future?" Kakashi asks, yes I learnt his name. Naruto separates from me and looks at Kakashi, I also stare at the older man.
"My name is Mika Kaguya, I like my-" I take a deep breath and push back anything to do with that dreaded day.
"-I like kicking ass and cuddles, I don't like being ignored or disrespected, my hobbies include sleeping? And uh I dunno, fuck, I'm too young to have a dream yet," I mumble with a sheepish laugh. Kakashi scolds me for swearing and I roll my eyes, pulling Naruto into a hug silently and nuzzling against his soft blonde hair, blushing when he giggles and hugs me back. Sasuke and Sakura both scoff, the pinkette pretending to gag but stopping when I growl lowly. Kakashi pulls us apart and mumbles something about how I was going to be a pain in his ass. The second he turned away I hug Naruto again, only stopped when he started nagging Kakashi.
"C'mon, we need to go on some more missions," The jonin mumbles, walking off with his hands in his pockets.
"Kakashi-sensei these missions all suck!"
"Yeah?" Kakashi asks, looking back at Naruto with an irritated face.
"Then this should be good, since you suck," He adds, chucking his hands in his pockets and leading us to the Hokages office. I stand at the very back, watching them with a small smile, following them in a slower pace.
When we get halfway there I hear a loud howl and my head shoots up, I am suddenly pulled into a crushing hug.
"Mika, I'M SO SORRY!" I hear Kiba shout. I hear Akamaru's quiet whines and I smile weakly. Kiba had taught me to understand a bit of dog language, so I knew that Akamaru was paying his respects.
"You know-" Kiba sniffs and pulls away, holding onto my arms. His eyes were slightly watered.
"I really liked Jay too, and I just wish I could have been there ya'know?" He sniffs and I smile widely, pulling him back into a hug and letting go slowly.
"Thanks Kibaka," I tease, noticing how he seemed a little confused before he shook his head stubbornly.
"No, you can't thank me, I haven't done anything for you," He argues stubbornly and a small chuckle escapes my lips. His eyes widen and he smiles excitedly.
"Actually, I have some good news, you see, I never really ever gave you a birthday present and well, you're my best friend, so I needed to find something for you. Then the other day me and Akamaru saved this fox and it was almost dead, we healed it up pretty good and started training it..." My eyes widen when he trails off and smiles at me. It wasn't his super happy smile but it was genuine.
"I know she won't replace Jay but maybe she can be a new friend," He suggests, he brings his hand to his lips and whistles really loudly. Suddenly a ball of black fluff is on his head. The small black fox barks twice. Huh? Did she just tell Kiba to-
"Oi" Kiba swats at the fox, the fox simply jumps off his head and calmly hops towards me. She sniffs my feet and looks up at me, her green eyes almost on par with my own. She barks four times and I blink slowly. I think she asked if I was Mika?
"Uhhh yes?" I attempt and I see the fox light up. She turns to Kiba and barks really fast, I didn't catch all of it but I'm pretty sure at one point she said thanks for nothing.
"Her name is Noir, she's a bit stubborn and uhh annoying...like Jay, you two should get along," Kiba sends me a warm smile. I look down at Noir, who was staring at me already. She barks a few times and I frown.
"Sure?" The second I say that she is sitting on my head, much like Akamaru. She licks me a few times before laying down.
"You should probably get to your team now, so Uh I'll see you later..." Kiba turns around.
"Oh and, your being really strong Mika, I admire that, so does Noir"
Timeskip
After a few crappy missions Kakashi was signalled by a hawk or something and had to leave so everyone took off to do their own thing. Before I was like 5 minutes into walking home I came across Shikamaru. The quiet boy watches me silently from Ino's flower stall, after a few seconds he pushes himself off the brightly painted wood and walks towards me.
Noir growls and bats at the air and I shake my head softly, reassuring her that he was trustworthy.
"Ah.. hey Kaguya.." He mumbles, glancing at me and then looking at the floor silently. The brunette takes a deep breath and looks at me again with genuine sorrow in his eyes. For some reason it was harder to fake around him, with Naruto it came naturally because I wanted to always see that boy happy and with Kiba too.
"I am really sorry to hear about your loss, we all lost a good person that day.." The lazy boy was clearly unsure on what to say, it was pretty typical of the tsundere. I wordlessly pull him into a hug, smirking slightly when his hand finds its place atop my head.
"If.. you need you can stay at my place? Mum and Dad wanted me to invite you over and I wouldn't mind your company either..." He mumbles and scratches the back of his neck nervously. I pull away from the hug and nod softly.
"Cool, so uh.. who is the fox?" He asks and I shrug, laughing softly when Noir barks with distaste.
"Kiba raised her for me, I guess she's my new partner?" I shrug again and Shikamaru smirks softly, resting his hands behind his head as he starts walking towards his home. The Nara residence was always welcoming to me. I follow behind him quietly, my hands in my pockets.
When we got to the house Shikamaru's parents both gave me a hug and apologised and called me strong, I thank them both and smile sadly.
We ate, the family bickered among themselves. Shikamaru's mother nagged at him for being late again and his dad asked about missions and Ino and Chouji. Shikamaru replied in short, quick answers and both parents got irritated as they wanted more details. Noir was passed out with a stomach full of my food as I sipped at the glass of milk silently. They were used to seeing my face without the mask, which made me more comfortable.
"How about you Mika, how are you liking Kakashi?" Shikaku asks suddenly and I grunt in annoyance, setting the cup down and pulling my mask up.
"He's troublesome, I wanna kick his ass," I mumble, smiling a very small smile when Shikamaru snickers and his mum nags at him for making me used to the catch-phrase.
"You boys are going to be an awful influence on my future daughter in law," She groans as she starts cleaning up the dishes, I blush slightly and swat at her lightly.
"C'mon Kaa-san, we all know that I'm too good for Maru-kun," I tease with a hidden smile, said boy blushes and sighs loudly, storming off to have a bath.
We both wash the dishes in silence, any moment I spent here was a moment I could spent digging a kunai into those mother fuc-
"Revenge is hard to let go of Mika, I know that. Not personally but I am aware of what a broken heart can do to someone," The womans voice broke me out of my thoughts and I glance at her silently, raising my eyebrow slightly.
"I just, I want you to let go of revenge because revenge cuts a person in a way that will never heal. You're too sweet a girl to bare that scar." She adds, softly brushing my hair from my face with a smile. Speaking of scars..
"Kaa-san, I need you to look at my back."
After Shikamaru got out of the bath the woman and I walked into the bathroom, she watched me as I undressed, my back to her. She gasps softly when my bare back is revealed and when I look back to see her face my eyes widen. Tears were building in her eyes.
"No one messes with my babies." She growls, a sudden fire in her eyes that made me shiver slightly but I thank her quietly, it made me feel warm inside for some reason.
"W-what does it say?" I ask, remembering well that whatever was written was written by Yuu. The woman bites her lip softly and I shiver when her cold hand traces over the scars.
"On the left.. it says 'where's your real heart?' and on the right it says 'its time to say goodbye' Mika I'm so sorry.."
I felt her hand trace over the words as she says them and I close my eyes tight, biting my lip and nodding.
"Is it ok if you leave me to have a shower?" I ask coldly, I hear her soft sigh as she says yes, walking out and shutting the door behind her. She leaves me some old clothes of hers to wear as Pajamas.
As I stood under the cold water, washing the dirt off my body, I let myself shed a single tear. What was written doesn't make sense but it also does. It hurts. I'm a monster.