This dream was odd enough already. Mainly because it wasn't a nightmare. It felt like the nag of consciousness, picking at my brain. I had been on the run for months and this was the longest break I'd had in weeks; not quite sleeping but definitely not awake. My torso tied was tied to a trunk, by yours truly. Cause if I fell then I'd be as good as dead.
My eyes snap open and I lean forwards, the rope pulling against my stomach. The dark cool air blows against my bruised and scratched up skin. Today is.. my birthday. Better yet, Mikano's birthday. My deceased twin sister...If it weren't for me she would be ten years old. She probably have long black hair and hopefully I'd remind her to eat well so that her body was healthier. I had promised her that I'd find a new home by the time we turned ten, I promised us a new home. I clench my hand into a fist, letting some tears fall from my eyes. I hear footsteps and I quickly untie the rope and use a sand teleportation, getting myself behind the intruders.I had heard four feet- but now my eyes are staring into that of a large deer. I relax a bit and reach out to pet the large creature.
Suddenly the deer vanishes and is replaced with one of the people who attacked me earlier that day.
"Finally, you're all mine Kaguya," She hisses and my eyes widen. They never mentioned my name before. I sniff the air and send the weird girl glare, why is she on her own? She had at least two team mates last time..
"Why are you hunting me?" I ask, using my kekkei genkai to make small sharp bone daggers grow from my palm. The girl stares at me with wild eyes, the darkness only making her creepier.
"My lord wants to use your body-your ability. You will make my family rich," She says in a sing song voice, making goosebumps grow on my arms. My body? My ability? What could anyone do with my ability? Is his lord like my mother? Using me for protection?
I easily dodge attacks from the woman, keeping my bone dagger hidden in my palms. The second I have an opening I slam my palm against her chest, letting the bone grow to be 2 metres long. Bright red blood contrasting against the soft white bone. I pull the bones out of her and undo my kekkei gengai, letting out a breath. The womans body collapses onto the floor, her blood pouring all around her. I stare at her body with furrowed eyebrows, putting my foot against her back.
"Who? Who is your lord?" I ask, but it was useless, the woman is dead. Very dead. Theres no point talking to her. Slowly I take my foot off of her I let out a loud sigh, sniffing the air and wincing. Her friends are on their way.
I quickly put chakra into my feet and start running as fast as I can, trying to remember the directions I was given. The village hidden in the leaf, in the land of fire. My passport only allowed me to stay 3 weeks tops, but that was plenty of time to hide from...whoever these guys are.
When did I fall asleep? I sit up and look around lazily, the sun very much risen. Shit, I'm meant to meet my new temporary sensei.. A hand finds itself atop of my head and I had to try hard to suppress my shout of shock. I only calmed down when I heard Sakura's squeaky happy voice greeting me.
"Morning Miiiika!" Sakura leans down and smiles at me, a hand holding my shoulder softly as I tried to climb up. She pushes me down slightly and I raise an eyebrow with confusion. She slowly kneels down and holds down both of my shoulders, using chakra control against my aching muscles.
"Uh.. let me up..please.." I draw out slowly, pretty fucking confused as to why the pinkette was holding me down so firmly. Sakura laughs sheepishly and tightens her grip on my shoulders, especially when the whoosh of a teleportation made me tense up. A smell filled my nose that made my skin crawl and my eyes widen. If Sakura weren't there I'd blow the whole place apart.
"Sensei didn't tell you.. did he?" Sakura asks softly, Iruka knelt down and watching us wearily from nearby. Sakura was doing some chakra control training with Iruka, as per my request, and in return she helped him teach classes. Little kids admired her and behaved better, Iruka considered dying his hair pink for the cause. I hiss lowly and roll my shoulders underneath the Kunochi's hands, my curse mark throbbing painfully as I feel my anger rise with every passing second.
"Why the fuck are they here?" I growl, trying to turn around but not wanting to hurt Sakura. Plus.. she is pretty strong with that chakra control. She's not the only one who can do it though. I close my eyes and concentrate and suddenly Sakura's pressure on my shoulders is almost weightless. I slowly stand up, the pinkette losing her balance for a second but quickly getting into a fighting stance. Guarding those.. killers!
I turn around and electricity started pulsating from my hands, chirping and singing the song of their death. The twins. They both looked paler and skinner than last time, more than a few bruises all over their skin. Kakashi stood next to Sakura and ruffled her hair softly, sending me a stern look.
"Maa, your loyalties lie with the hokage, right? If they did you wouldn't even thinking about killing these two." Kakashi calmly explains, gesturing to the two blondes (who were glaring me down with intense hatred). I growl lowly and the electricity in my hands gets louder and brighter, Sakura took a step behind Kakashi.
"Iruka-sensei, take Sakura-chan home." Kakashi notes, appearing before me and grabbing my hands casually. I put as much of my electricity into his hands and he doesn't even blink, he watches me listlessly.
"Mika, you're not as strong when you don't concentrate. Let me show you," Kakashi sends me a closed eye smile and suddenly I'm on the floor spasming wildly. What the fuck? I look up at him and catch him shaking his smoking hands, I grin and jump up, pointing at him accusingly.
"I did hurt you! You hid it!" I shout and Kakashi rolls his eye, the twins watching us with discomfort and restlessness. Apparently they knew better than to attack with Kakashi here.
"Yeah. When you didn't know that you were pretty intimidated, huh? So if you hide your anger, these criminals would think that you're super confident. Intimidation is important." And after briefly resting his hand on my head Kakashi disappeared to continue training Sasuke. I catch a kunai and redirect someone's punch. The two start double teaming me, only using Taijutsu since they didn't have kunai on them and probably stole that one from me when I was asleep.
About five minutes later they were both sitting on the floor, my eyes were clouded over as I stared down at them. They were too weak to stop me this time.. I could kill them.. I slowly lean down to their level and growl in the lowest and feral way, tilting my head to avoid Yuu's headbutt. I stand up and dust myself off, putting my gloves on the floor and staring at my scabby bruised knuckles with disgust. It is seriously gross.
"Why won't you kill us? After what we did? Are you really on his leash?" Ryu asks, flinching when I abruptly turn around and snarl at him. Yuu starts chuckling and I turn to her, eyes burning with anger.
"Nooo, she's in denial. She thinks that she's more than some Kaguya."
I was about to respond when a body suddenly collided with me and I was underneath a black haired, grey eyed girl with a deadpanned expression. The girl looked a lot older than me, taller too, her hair was long and straight and her headband was worn around her neck (proudly putting the Kaguya clan tattoo on her forehead on display). She wore a black skirt with fishnet leggings underneath and she wore a red crop top that stopped just below her breasts (a fishnet shirt on underneath said crop top). Her skin was fairly tanned but pale compared to my sun kissed skin heh.
"Mika.. Kaguya?" The girl asks lowly, shifting a bit but continuing to pretty much straddle me. I glare up at her but no matter how hard I struggled she just stared at me, unmoving. Eventually I nod, watching her warily. The apparent Kaguya's light pink coloured lips curl up slowly and she looks back at the twins.
"I'm your twin sisters maid, Kaida Kaguya. You two weren't the only ones." The girl leans down and starts pinching my cheeks, eyes filled with humour but expression otherwise blank.
"You look just like her." Kaida finally decides, climbing off of me and standing at my side, glaring at the twins now. Said blondes were breathing heavily and glaring at the two of us.
"Are they needed dead?" She asks and I just start at her with confusion. Kaida looks at the twins silently, lips curling up into huge grin as she tilts her head mockingly.
"You two grew up looking just like your parents, asides from the whole knife through the throat part." Kaida calmly insults, smiling even more when the twins both charge for her, tears spilling from their eyes. Kaida easily dodged and in less than seconds the two were on the floor with strange curled blades against their throats. I'd compare to them the Kirpan type blade but the curve was almost a scythe like and the blades were thick and golden. Kaida looks at me expectantly and I finally find something to say.
"What? Who? Why? Uhh Kaida?" I try and she continues to stare at me expectantly.
"Shall I kill them in our families honour, Hime?" Kaida asks and I almost fell backwards in shock. H-hime? I shake my head weakly and the twins are knocked out in seconds. Kaida stands silently by their bodies and stares at me, I stare back. She continues to stare.
"Kaida.. you were Mikano's maid? Why? Why did you call me hime? Why are you here? Who else is in your team? Are you in league with Orochimaru? Are you.. did you know the Kaguya clan?... why are you here?" I rush out and Kaida blinks very slowly, grey eyes emotionless.
"Maid, servant, protector; call me what you want. I am a loyal guard to the last survivor of the clan and that promise remains the same even now, even if you chose to be a Raidon clan leader instead. My other team mate was in love with Mikano and they left to return to the sand.. they hate you Hime.. I'm here to protect you, Orochimaru doesn't care about your safety therefore he is an enemy of mine. I am 18 years old and yeah I was with the clan before they died, I got lucky and here I am." Kaida bows softly and looks up through her eyelashes innocently. I still couldn't grasp what the fuck she was saying.
"Kaida.. you're from the sand..?" I draw out, pointing at her neck. The long dark haired adult smiles dryly and tugs the headband off of her neck, stepping on it and looking back up at me.
"My loyalty lies with my clan, we can rebuild the Kaguya clan in the leaf if that is what you'd like-"
"Maa maa, what is going on here?" Kakashi barely had time to dodge when Kaida attacked him with those blades again, moving with the speed and silence of a snake. The grey eyed girl only stops when Sasuke jumps down and glares at her with the sharingan. She slowly steps back to me and tilts her head backwards in my direction.
"The Uchiha smells like you, is this your team?" She asks and I seem to finally snap out of the daze, yanking the girl behind me and glaring at her.
"Yes, they're on my team. I'm so sorry for her.. she just showed up and started calling me hime and I think I'm stuck with her now," I admit weakly and Kakashi glares at the girl behind me, wrapping a bandage around his now bleeding arm.
"Yes, you are stuck with me. You're my faithful Hime and I am your mere bodyguard." Kaida once again falls to her knees melodramatically and I send Kakashi a look that begged for help. The jonin rolls his eye and crosses his arms over his chest, looking suspiciously at the knocked out twins on the floor.
"She is you and you are Naruto." Sasuke explains lowly, talking for Kakashi. Apparently he knew me well because that made perfect sense. I look back at the confused Kaida and then back at the annoyed Kakashi.
"So you're starting a gang, Mika?" Kakashi asks and I look back at Kaida once again. I send a helpless smile to my sensei and he rolls his eye again, pushing me out of the way and standing in front of the girl. The unnecessary physical push apparently made Kaida angry because her two interesting looking blades were out again.
"You want to stay in the village, right? Maybe you should put those away then. Unless you want to become a wanted nin. Now, you want to stay in the village and serve as Mika's uh body guard, right?" Kakashi kept his blank expression as Kaida silently nodded, watching me walk towards Sasuke from the corner of her eye. I ignore whatever my sensei is doing and smile lazily at my teammate.
"How's sensei treating you?" I ask and Sasuke tilts his head towards me, dark eyes with delicate black lashes and almost perfectly shaped dark eyebrows glare through me.
"It's been a day, only you can have life changing events in a day." Sasuke finally says, turning his head back to our Sensei and clenching his hand into a fist. I think Kakashi was half lecturing Kaida on the rules and half interrogating her.
"He's teaching me the chidori, you already know it.. don't you?" Sasuke asks and I hum in agreement, the hand seals reflecting in my mind as I remember the classic move. Mine was different to Kakashi's and I sure as hell didn't call it the chidori, I just have referred to it as that ever since I learnt about Kakashi's self made move. Mine is nowhere near as dangerous and quick.
"I could teach you the Raikodan, if you'd like. That one is easy enough- just have to have a clear head so that the electricity doesn't fight back and put you in a storm of pain." I giggle slightly and smile at Sasuke, who seemed less than impressed at the fact that I just laughed at myself. Plus my joke really sucked. Sasuke looks at Kakashi who was still leant down over the bored Kaguya and then he looks back at me.
"After I perfect the chidori," Sasuke decides and I smirk, putting my hand on my chin and grinning evilly.
"Only if you do some speed training with me after the chunin exams..I need to get fast," I note and Sasuke's straight face turns into a frown, eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Do I have to train with you?" The uchiha questions and when I nod he sighs and pushes his hand out, a pinkish tinge on his face from my loud victory cheer.
"Sweet!" I slap my hand into his and we shake it once before separating. Kakashi had finally finished and Kaida was suppressing a yawn as she walks over to me.
"So, tonight we're taking her to the Hokage.. since you and Sasuke cannot be separated, that or I leave you both here and I handle it myself." Kakashi groans and Kaida steps behind me, a calm expression once again on her face.
"Leave us here, with the twins aroun-"
"Yeah ok, we'll all go." Kakashi grunts, picking up the unconscious twins and waking them up. The white haired male looks at me and points at Kaida with irritation.
"She is just watching, ok?" Once I nod Kakashi grabs Sasuke and teleports back onto their own hill. Kaida clears her throat and I glance back at her, eyebrows furrowed with confusion.
"Am I sitting out for today, Hime?" Kaida asks, eyes on the floor or maybe her feet. I rub my shoulder and sigh, why is she my responsibility?
"Yeah, we should probably listen to Kakashi-sensei for now." I decide and Kaida suddenly looks up, grey eyes shining from tears.
"People don't like us, the Kaguya's?" Kaida's bottom lip quivered slightly but with one deep breath she regained some of her composure and just continued to look at me with sad eyes, it didn't really sound like a question, though.
"No one does, I thought you didn't care.." I attempt and the grey eyed woman shakes her head, cracking her knuckles anxiously as she did so.
"I don't like it, especially since no one here seems to know me but they act like they do.. I'm not bad.. I just do as I'm told." Kaida clenches her hands into fists and our sincere moment was interrupted by the shift of chakra in the air, a large katana in both of the ex chunin sensei's hands. Ryu was staring at me with hatred whereas Yuu was simply smirking dryly.
"I guess we should do what we came here to do, teach you some stances for sword fighting and sword use. You'll be using that disgusting kekkei genkai to make your swords." Yuu explains slowly, flinching when Kaida growls but sits down on a nearby rock. Ryu takes his turn to speak and puts his thumb up.
"First we will practise attacking stances and how to quickly change between them," Ryu explains, putting up a second finger. "Then we will practice defensive stances and changing between them quickly," Ryu smirks when he puts up his third and middle finger.
"Two verses one."
Time skip
I expected this to be somewhat fun, but I guess they were taking this seriously. Three hours later and I'm still learning new stances for attacking. The bones in my wrists were stretched out to be the same length as the Yuu's Katana. Yuu was doing the poses and Ryu was naming them and explaining what they were used for. Most of them were fairly simple buthe rest were incredibly complex and usually ended with me on my ass, the stances on their own were easy but they needed me to change between them and if I wasn't quick enough..
"Go from the sha no kamae to the o gasumi. to the shin no kamae!" Ryu lists off lazily, Yuu watching every hesitant move like a hawk. I manage to get to the o gasumi easily enough but when I tried to picture the last one my mind drew a blank and Yuu kicked my hard in the back. I fall onto my stomach and roll onto my back quickly, glaring up at the blonde. Yuu just smirks and gestures for me to stand up, I retry the positions again and when there was no blunt force I look up with shock. The twins nod in harmony and I grin, cheering and jumping around.
"Now you understand the basics.. lunch break!" Ryu calls out with a grin, I turn around with shock but before I could talk my stomach urked loudly; so I sat down and watched the two chunin take their food pills. I don't have any food pills on me.. Kaida slid next to me and started munching on an apple. I look at her meekly and sigh, I felt like I was on a leash and that Sasuke was the one on the other end.
"Hime, I must say. For someone your age you really shouldn't be eating so much," Kaida suddenly spits out, poking my tummy and flinching when I push her away. I knew I was a bit.. bigger than most but it wasn't.. I'm not overweight.. I look down at my body, my thighs and all. I definitely wasn't like Sakura, she was gorgeous.
"Kaida-san, should I eat less? Am I unhealthy?" I suddenly ask, pouting when the twins both start cackling evilly. Just ignore them. Kaida tilted her head and moved closer to me, staring at me and smiling.
"Not unhealthy, just not skinny." Kaids states calmly, taking a final bite of her apple before throwing it away. I sigh and look away from my body with disgust.
"You can't be muscley and skinny at the same time, idiot," Yuu calls over from their side of the clearing and Kaida rolls her eyes, standing up and stretching.
"I suppose, still.. my hime should be gorgeous and powerful." Kaida explains, this outright made my stomach clench. Am I not already attractive? When Kaida saw my upset expression she tilted her head with confusion.
"Is something bothering you, hime?" She asks, leaning down and looking at me. She was so lean and tall and pretty.. what does that make me?
"No..."
Time skip to a week later (they continued training and were now up to the spars)
"Haven't you taken enough from me?!" I cry out, fed up with the insults and shoving and patronising words. The twins glance at eachother and step towards me in harmony, hatred in their matching eyes.
"You took my whole family, your clan ignored our cries of pain and begs for mercy. Why should I care about yours-"
"BUT JAY WASN'T A KAGUYA! She didn't do ANYTHING! She did not deserve this! She was innocent! Happy! She never hurt any body!" I cry out, aware that Kakashi was now keeping an eye on my yet again. Kaida was even standing up now. The twins didn't even blink, not a shit given. I didn't understand!
"SHE HAD A FAMILY! I CAN BARELY LOOK HER MOTHER IN THE EYE BECAUSE WHENEVER I DO SEE HER IT JUST REMINDS ME THAT MY HURTING IS NOTHING COMPARED TO HERS! YOU KILLED SOMEONES DAUGHTER! SOMEONE'S PRIDE AND JOY! YOU KILLED MY BEST FRIEND! I DON'T CARE IF YOU HATE ME, SHE DID NOT DESERVE THIS!" I scream, my throat being torn apart as sobs starting bursting from my throat. Yuu takes a deep breath, hands trembling slightly as my speech finally struck a nerve. Ryu was looking away from me.
"It was a necessary evil."
"OH BULL FUCKING SHIT! SHE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS! SHE WANTED A FRIEND, IS THAT SO WRONG? WHY DID SHE GET PUNISHED JUST BECAUSE I AM A PIECE OF SHIT? WHY DON'T YOU CARE? DON'T YOU REALISE THAT NOT ONLY DID YOU KILL AN INNOCENT TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL, BUT AN ENTIRE FAMILY?! YOU ARE FUCKING WORSE THAN I AM! DON'T YOU SEE THAT? YOU MANIPULATIVE FUCK!" I was seeing red and my curse mark was pulsing with ice cold hatred, Yuu had to cover her mouth as tears started building in her own eyes. Ryu just stood silently, though I could see he was shaking violently.
"You asked me where my heart is, I heard it loud and clear.. but where is your heart?" I whisper, my hair sticking to my cheeks as I cry my pain away. All of the pain. Kaida wasn't standing next to me anymore, she was kneeling on the ground and praying for someone she didn't even know.
"We're sorry, ok. It doesn't matter even if we are sorry, she isn't coming back." Ryu stood next to his sobbing sister and held her shoulder tightly. Yuu looked up at me and I saw a glimpse of a child who just wanted to avenge her mother. A child who was so scared and hurt. I lower my head and bite my lip.
"And she never will, death is permanent. Killing her didn't bring your family back and killing me won't either." I remember what Yoshino (Shikamaru's mother) had told me and it made my heart pound with a new warmth. I slowly walked towards Yuu and Ryu, my hands held out.
"I'm sorry for your loss and I know that my clan is an awful one. If I could have done something I assure you that I would have." I blink in shock when Yuu grabs my hand tightly, after a few seconds Ryu grabbed my other one. I sure as hell didn't expect them to snap both of my wrists and slam my face into the ground, if Kaida and Kakashi weren't there the twins would've killed me. Kakashi leapt down and quickly tied up the ex-chunin, dark grey eye cold and hard.
"You could have redeemed yourselves and made amends, I guess this trash can never be recycled." Kakashi lowers his voice and knocks both of the blondes out, he turns to me and sends me an apologetic look. I was simply staring at my broken hands with shock, tears spilling across my face for more than just one reason. Kaida starts cracking my hands into the right place (which hurt a shit ton) before wrapping them both tightly in a fairly professional sling. After Kakashi leaves with the twins, returning them to their cells, Kaida falls to one knee.
"Mika Kaguya, you spoke like a true clan leader. That kind of forgiveness and sympathy is something that touched me to the core.. I promise that I will follow you until the day I die," The grey eyed girl slices her hand open, blood spilling heavily down her arm but she ignored it. I wipe my eyes with the back of my arm and slowly kneel down too. Kaida suddenly slapped her hand on my face, all I could taste was metallic blood and in an instant I had kicked her away from me, spitting out her blood.
"What the fuck?!" I shout with mild disbelief, furiously trying to wipe the blood away. Kaida just grinned lazily and bandaged her hand.
"It's my own personal blood oath-"
"Ah no, it's disgusting. Do that again and I'll punch your teeth in!" I threaten, leaping towards her like a fucking trex since my hands were out of order for the time being. Kaida ran away from me and started giggling loudly, falling onto her back and laughing even louder when I stand above her, sneering down.
"Ne ne, Hime! You'll hurt yourself!" Kaida leaps up and hugs me tightly to keep my arms at my side, I groan and begrudgingly sit down with her, catching my breath and drinking some water.
"Kaida, we're friends. Ok?" I smile and Kaida looks away, blushing tremendously.
"Ah.. Ok Hime.."
Kakashi had appeared next to us and watched with humour as Kaida leapt away from me and coughed lowly.
"Those two'll be in jail for a lot longer; thanks to that act of betrayal. I won't be able to find a replacement to train you, Mika, but I'm sure you'll find away to entertain yourself. Cya!" Kakashi gave us a peace sign and disappeared back up onto the clearing with Sasuke. Kaida looks around the clearing and start collecting fallen kunai and weapons, piling them up around me before sitting down and sharpening them. She had her talk with the Hokage and throughout the month she'd need to pop in and answer any and every question she was asked. At first she refused half of them but after I yelled at her she was much more responsive. Apparently it wasn't too hard to get her to join this village, it was just a matter of talking things out with her old sensei and the kazekage.
She also was getting promoted to a chunin, definitely, after the exams finished. Kaida was ridiculously powerful and it made me weary of her by the minute. Even though at the moment she just acted like a loyal pup. Whilst she sharpened weapons I started going over my sword fighting stances, wearing my weights this time to keep my muscles growth at an all time high. I should buy some heavier ones.. there is only so far I could get on 50 each arm.
Maybe I could get some leg weights too.. geez that sounds like a total pain. Even more painful is the fact that there are still three weeks left.
"What did Mikano talk about? When she was in your team.. did she mention me..? Does she hate me?" I look over at Kaida as I continue fighting an invisible opponent, weaving and striking at air. The grey eyed woman looked over at me and whistled lowly.
"Mikano-sama was a bitch, she never cared about anything or anyone that wasn't herself. She talked about you in spite.. mostly. Saying that you stole her ability and how she was meant to be the prodigy and now she was stuck near dead and as Orochimaru's backup plan. She really hated you," Kaida bluntly spits out, casually continuing to sharpen mine and her weapons. I shiver slightly and move even faster, my arms aching a bit due to the broken bones.
"She wasn't always like that, she used to be the smartest person I knew. She could do anything even though she was blind, she was stronger and better than me. Mikano did always hate Gaara.. maybe she was jealous.. because she thought of me as her little tool.. like Kaa-san an-and Raizon-sama," I hesitate, knowing that if I was right than I was playing into Mikano's manipulation completely. I was just a tool to all of them. Kaida grunts and stands up, lifting my arm up a smidge and nodding slowly, I nod and continue the stances as she watches me.
"Raizon was her grandfather, yeah? She adored him.." Kaida informs me, lowering my arm as I get into a different set of stances. I tsk at my mistake and continue with my arm a little lower, it felt a lot more natural in that position.
"Adored? He beat the shit out of me whenever he got the chance and his idea of testing was breaking every bone in my body and recording how long it took for them to heal," I sulk, turning around and ducking as Kaida starts pretending to fight me. She set a faster pace for me so it was harder to keep up the conversation. She was mainly on the offence whilst I dodged the imaginary sword.
"My parents didn't care about raising me, I'm pretty sure they just handed me to some poor villager and eventually when I was old enough to do some damage I stayed with the clan head as a body guard... the kaguya's were pretty awful." Kaida breathes deeply as she starts getting into more defensive stances, me moving into more offence based ones. I look up at her and smirk weakly, clenching my hands into fists. We had silently decided on a taijutsu spar and it began instantly. We both moved quickly and without any restrains, though I really didn't want to punch her and shatter my bones..
"Your... parents?... how cruel!." I huff out, dodging some well aimed kicks and using my chakra to leap away from her at speeds that she couldn't follow. Kaida nods and rushes for me, fists moving in a vicious and precise action. I bring my fists to my chest and twist to dodge her, landing a weak blow on her stomach before jumping away again. Kaida snickers and stops, stretching and falling backwards into a sitting position. I smile dryly and sit down in front of her, tying my hair into a tiny ass pony tail. It was barely longer than my pinky finger, probably was the length of my pinky actually.
"Mikano never could grow long healthy hair like me.. when she wanted me to die in her place she cut my hair for me... it feels weird if it gets any longer," I explain hesitantly, eyes travelling over Kaida's expression (which was lazy humour).
"You suit short hair but I believe you'd look gorgeous with long hair too, are you.. erm I believe the word is 'crushing' on that Uchiha preteen?" Kaida asks, snorting when I make a disgusted expression.
"Is there anyone who earns your interest?" Kaida questions and she smirks evilly when my face lights up in a bright pink shade.
"Aheheh, not really.. I can barely chose a gender, let alone a person." I admit, covering my face when she starts snickering.
"Ohoho, you want the best of both worlds, eh? Sorry Hime but I got my eyes set on the hunk with the red hair-"
"No shit! You like Gaara??!" I shout and Kaida glares at me with the fury of a murderer. I smirk patronisingly at her and she groans, looking away.
"Not entirely, he is just appealing to me.." Kaida drawls out, a very hard to notice blush on her face. I grin and point to myself.
"Gaara is my childhood bestie! Although I kinda called dibs years ago I may let you have a go at him.. if he lets you.." I grin even harder when Kaida glares darkly at me and sighs loudly.
"As I was telling you I knew it was a bad idea-"
"Gaara's caught himself in a little Kaguya love triangle, eh?" Kakashi suddenly interrupts and I shriek with shock, jumping away from the Jonin. He and Sasuke were standing against the darkened night sky, each holding a few bento boxes. No way..
"Kakashi thought that you girls might be hungry..." Sasuke explains, dropping into a cross legged position and sitting the boxes down in front of him. I crawl towards him and grab a box, opening it and grinning with excitement. Food! Kaida hesitantly takes one from Kakashi and sits next to me, the Jonin sitting in front of her and next to Sasuke.
"Don't lie my cute little genin, Sasuke wouldn't stop nagging me about how Mika couldn't get any food and how he was so desperate to buy her the best of the best-"
"Shut up, that's a total lie." Sasuke spit out and Kakashi chuckles, opening his own box and finishing all of his food before we could catch a glimpse at what was behind his mask. Sasuke and I lock eye contact and I could see the loss in his dark eyes, he wanted to see what was under the mask, too.
"Awh I'm so honoured that you boys considered me and my hunger.." I slowly go off topic as I look down at my less than skinny body. I look between the food and my body before sighing and pushing the box away (after picking out some vegetables). Kaida and Kakashi's eyes land on me and I almost shriek under the intense glares that came from the both of them.
"Oi oi, are you planning on starving to death?" Kaida hisses, shoving the box back towards me. SHE STARTED IT BY TAKING A STAB AT MY SELF CONFIDENCE! Meanwhile Kakashi was nodding and slowly taking out a spoon.
"It would be rather tiring to force feed you.." Kakashi threatens and I instantly start scoffing my food down. Sasuke tsks and sets his empty bento box down.
"You should think about doing that for Sakura too, she eats less than enough to be healthy," Sasuke informs us, blushing when Kakashi and I grin at him. Well it looked like Kakashi was grinning, anyway.
"Or not, I don't care," The Uchiha grunts, shoving his hands in his pockets and standing up.
"C'mon sensei, I want to get out of here."
"Maa maa, such an impatient boy. Lets sit back and talk all about the cute little Sakura," Kakashi winks (or really blinks but I figured it was a wink) at me and I smirk.
"Yeah let's talk allll about her cute little figure and those beautiful eyes and soft to the touch hair! She's the kind of girl that makes other girls go gay YAGH"
"Ahh Mika, you took it too far," Kakashi stares as Sasuke kicks my face into the dirt, standing up and dusting himself off. Meanwhile across the village somewhere, poor Sakura was sneezing for no reason.