Kakashi and I were staring down whilst Sasuke and Kaida watched with irritation. It was the day of the third exam and Kakashi wanted to show up late with Sasuke but I couldn't, because there was no way they'd let me get away with it. Also Noir was now sitting on Kaida's head, honestly that fox was more of a team mascot than a partner. She already refused to fight against Naruto so I guess that was mostly true.
"I'll be kicked out instantly, don't use that Kakashi favoritism on Sasuke when I'm right here!" I shout and Kakashi sighs with annoyance, knowing full well that I was right but being a total pain in my ass anyway.
"Finee, we'll sit outside the arena and eat dango before the match or something," Kakashi sighs with irritation, teleporting the four of us to the arena. Turns out Kaida was the one who lost to Shikamaru, so she was only watching. I get inside the arena and smile widely at Shikamaru, whose face relaxes in relief at my presence.
"I thought it was just me and these killers for a minute, thank you," He admits, eyes widening when I stand at a respectable distance to his side. I smile softly, eyes meeting with the tense Gaara.
"You're a lady killer in the making, don't sell yourself short," I grin when the shadow users face turns bright red and he sputters out some sort of excuse before storming off to talk to Naruto, who barely made it on time. Before the proctor could start lecturing us with rules I slid up to Gaara and sent him a sincere smile.
"Hey there, you ok?" I ask and Gaara stares at me with slight disbelief.
"Are you not the one who almost died, because of me?" Gaara questions, sighing when I start snickering with childish agreement.
"Maybe I am but it's fine, almost dying is a normal thing for super hot and cool ninja," I explain and Gaara nods, totally not having a clue what I was saying. Thats when the proctor started talking and I decided to shut up. I listen to like half of the boring rules and lectures, flinching slightly when mine and Naruto's names are called out first. Yeesh, it still stings. Shikamaru rests a hand on my shoulder and grips it softly.
"Don't hold back, you know it'll hurt him more," The brunette reminds me and I nod weakly, taking a deep breath and letting any emotions pass me. All that was left was my target, Naruto, smiling with excitement. He didn't know that Kakashi was ready to kill me if I lost control, which was very likely since I'd been doing it all month.
"I can't wait to see how you've improved, Mika!" Naruto cheers, I smile softly and send him a thumbs up. The blonde grins and copies the action and when the fight begins he sends a flurry of kunai and senbon needles my way, nof wasting any time. He doesn't own that many kunai, he's probably using a substitution on his shadow clones like in that Zabuza fight. I leap away from the blonde and quickly throw senbon, real ones, next to all of his 'kunai' setting off an electrical current between them all and smirking as all of the Kunai turn back into clones and then poof into dust. A roar of excitement starts to grow through the crowd, shocked that Naruto had probably tricked them too.
Naruto smirks at me and starts trying to use taijutsu, to me it felt like he was moving slower than usual. Everything was easier to dodge, what was he doing? Wait.. he's wearing weights? Is that going to do him any good?
I continue to dodge his punches and kicks, finally placing my own one at the centre of his chest, winding the Uzumaki. Naruto slams into the edge of the arena and an even louder, dickier cheer grows in the audience, I scowl and stick my middle fingers up at the viewers before following up with my punch. Naruto quickly rolls out of the way and my fist slams through the wall, I quickly pull it out and dodge my bestfriends punches.
Naruto huffs and clutches to his chest, jumping away from me and making familiar hand signs. Here we go.
"Multi shadow clone jutsu!" He calls out and I groan lowly, easily over 300 Narutos' surrounding me. The best option was to show off and take them down with my new sword fightings/kekkei genkai moves but the easiest was to use a powerful sand jutsu that Kaida helped me perfect. Eh I guess I should show off, I start letting thin sharp and long bones grow from my wrists and wink lazily at the clones. They all start charging me, I heard roars of approval as I start going over the stances. I perfectly side step 5 different clones, turning and destroying them all in a quick spin movement. I was almost dancing through the huge crowd of bright blonde hair, dodging every hit and taking them out with one single movement. I watch as the number slowly drops to one hundred and return the bones to my wrists, quickly starting an electrical jutsu. Thanks to my walking on water practice I could use this move to the fullest, wasting as little chakra as possible.
"RAIKODAN!" My shout travels throughout the arena, the loud buzz and chirps of the electricity made my ears feel numb but it didn't matter, in seconds the last clones were all gone and Naruto was kneeling down, coughing out blood and gasping deeply. A tug on my heart almost stops me from kicking Naruto down and placing my foot on his stomach. I did it anyway, I had to. I had to show him as much mercy as I would anyone else.
"Give up." I try to sound as cold as I could but Naruto could see my tears from there, I couldn't lose this. I wouldn't lose it. Naruto shakes his head and shoves my foot away, throwing a paper bomb to get some distance. I jump a few feet back and watch as he slowly climbs up and wipes his lip, eyes filled with determination.
"I'll never give up! You know that!" He shouts, charging towards me and shouting with shock as I easily punch him away. I did feel a chakra strain after my jutsu but after getting better control I was still doing fine. My broken wrists, however, were in great pain.
"And you know that I'm stronger than you," I shout back, picking up his body from the ground and kicking it across the arena. He has to give up! I can't keep hurting him!
"We won't know that until someone wins this match!" Naruto shouts, throwing a kunai at me, I sigh and dodge it, shouting in shock when the shadow of the kunai turns out to also be a kunai and hits me right in the thigh. Fuck. I yank the sharp blade out of my leg and quickly dodge some more of Naruto's double kunai, biting my lip hard and doing some hand signs.
"You have to give up! Multi- Sand tornado no jutsu!" I shout, tornado's the size of me appearing all around the arena and moving quickly towards the blonde. Naruto gasps and sends a shadow clone to every tornado, once the shadow clone is destroyed the tornado stops and soon it was just the two of us again. That was smart. I growl, it doesn't matter, if I don't seriously knock him out the match will never end. Idiot!
"Hit me with all you've got!" Naruto shouts, screaming when I'm suddenly holding his throat and lifting him from the ground, a small bone from my wrist pushing against his neck as our eyes lock in a silent conversation. An empty threat on my end, more obvious than his orange outfit.
"Naruto just give up, please. I can't control myself enough right now, I could kill you," I attempt and Naruto just glares at me, biting my hand and in a flash of smoke I was being doggy piled by like thirty clones. I groan with frustration, that damn curse mark was throbbing with pain and blood lust was seeping through my body. I grow some bones from my fingers and knuckles, getting rid of the clones and jumping up, blood still spilling from my thigh. Naruto had set a trap, one step and I would be standing on a paper bomb in any direction. The blonde throws 5 kunai at me and I blink slowly, letting out a deep breath and shaking my head. Kakashi would stop me. He promised to stop me, to kill me, if I tried to kill Naruto.
I catch the kunai and throw it down on the bomb, leaping backwards quickly as a makeshift smoke screen fills the arena. My hands go through hand signs and soon I was making an actual dust smoke screen that was too thick for any one without sharingan to see through. I make about 9 sand clones and give them electric filled kunai, they all hunt down Naruto whilst I bandage my thigh and the slight burns on my legs and hands. I hear a scream of pain and feel two of my clones return to sand. I stop the fog jutsu and the crowd gasps when they see Naruto laying on the floor, electricity buzzing through him as he spasms randomly. The remaining seven clones fighting his own shadow clones and after a few seconds they were reduced to piles of sand. The proctor steps towards me and begins to speak, gasping when Naruto sits up and smiles, rocking a black eye, busted lip and electrocuted hair. The blue eyed idiot slowly stands up and gestures for me to come and I shake my head, he's basically unconscious ready. He should be. The amount of me that was ready to kill him was too much.
"Fuck this, I give up. I'm not going to kill the future hokage," I hiss, shoving the proctor out of my way and storming up the stairs. Why was my blood lust so out of control? I had to fight myself more in than fight than anything else, because so many parts of me wanted to finish the job. To kill him. When I know I'm separated from any prying eyes I punch the wall as hard as I can, tears freely falling from my eyes.
"What is wrong with me?" I choke out, my hands aching from not being properly healed or treated. I probably ruined any healing that they went through during that month.. I could feel the scabs on my knuckles bleeding inside my gloves and down my wrists.
"You're ignoring your fate, what you were born to do, Mika-chan," Orochimaru speaks and I flinch, the fuck is he still doing here? I thought he was done already? The Sanin smirks and rests a hand on top of my head, the pressure enough to let me know that if I even tried to call for help I'd be dead. I close my eyes and let a low growl settle in my throat.
"What am I ignoring, exactly?" I ask sarcastically, flinching when the snake summoner flicks my ear with his other hand like an owner scolding it's pet. Fucking Sanin.
"Your family heritage, you're more Kaguya than Raidon, your sister knew that, your family knew that and your village knows that. They all know that you're a murderer and that eventually you'll lose control and kill all those who are close to you. If you come with me now, I can change that. I can help you control all of your abilities and blood lust, you can be the perfect protector for Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru informs me and I turn my head, disgust obvious in my expression. The long haired fuck wasn't even phased by the sound of another match beginning. Cocky fucking prick. Fucking fuck face. I think he heard my silent cursing because he chucked and ruffled my hair in the most unpleasant way possible.
"I'm not stupid. You want our abilities, you'll just kill me when you can get what you want." I tsk and Orochimaru chuckles again. Like a cliche super villain except at least they knew how to dress, he looks like a blanket with a face. Ugly sonovabitch!
"That's not entirely true, but good guess. It doesn't matter if you join now, I only asked as it was obvious that eventually that lack of natural chakra to fight against the curse mark would lead to you losing that control you crave so deeply. Heh, and with that Kaguya blood lust you'd really do a number on all the innocent people who get in your way," Orochimaru grins down at me and I shove his hand off, taking a deep breath and meeting his eyes. My knees were shaking slightly as fear pounded through me.
"Eat my sensei's dick, asshole." I growl, storming off and joining Kaida on the stands. I kept my mouth shut, since I naturally assumed that Orochimaru only came to make that stupid offer. Kaida regards me with a nod and in response I simply smile, feeling unnerved. Naruto was fighting Neji since Kakashi still hadn't shown up, I was quite surprised that Naruto was healing so quickly. Gaara, could smell my fear and was regarding me with a confused look from the other end of the waiting area.
"You could have beat him so many times, you held back, Hime." Kaida informs me and I shrug, my body aching as I reminder that I was indeed making it harder on myself.
"Sometimes it's better to take an unnecessary hit, rather than take a deadly risk." I mumble, rolling my eyes when the black haired girl shoves me lightly. Shikamaru stalks towards me and grabs my wrist tightly, coal coloured eyes alight with his firey annoyance. He pulled his hand away when he felt the blood that started to dry there, my knuckles started to scab up yet again. He moved his grip to my hands, which hurt a shit ton. My arms were both in incredible pain, broken wrists, fucked up knuckles and all.
"You gave up?" The child genius scolds and I turn my head away, tugging my hands out of his grip and tsking softly.
"So did you," I note and Shikamaru glares at me before storming off, sitting with his team and shooting me glares every now and then. I lean over the edge of the railing, staring down at the cheering Naruto. Would he be angry, too? Judging by his shit eating grin, I doubt it. Sasuke and Kakashi finally arrive and Gaara starts his walk down to the arena, our eyes meet and Gaara's upper lip twists into a very unsure and fake looking smile.
"You fought... well?" He attempts and I send him a thumbs up, the redhead's face returns to a glare and he nods back. Gaara storms down the stairs, Kakashi was getting a replay off of Sakura and Sasuke was standing smug in the middle of the arena. I lower my eyes and sit down, Kaida hugging me lazily from behind and smirking.
"The sand god looked at us, Hime-"
"What? He looked at me!" I shout and Kaida giggles, flopping onto the ground and staring lovingly at the sky. Idiot. I turn my attention to Gaara's fight, eyes hard with uncertainty and discomfort. I didn't care about Sasuke nearly as much as I do Gaara but that means nothing; I'd never let either of them kill eachother. Sasuke was actually fighting surprisingly well and if it weren't for the chance of Gaara dying then maybe I wouldn't have jumped down there. Maybe I would have listened to Kaida and Kakashi's shocked screams but I didn't.
Gaara's ultimate defence brought a spike out to stab Sasuke and as I teleported between them it lodged right through my right shoulder, on the other side Sasuke tried to pull back but the Chidori had got me on my other shoulder. Shooting pain slammed through me and when I threw my head back to scream I saw it, a genjutsu. Orochimaru wasn't done yet. I grit my teeth and look down, tears dropping to the floor as I try to release myself of the genjutsu even though I couldn't feel either of my hands.
Gaara's siblings start talking, trying to pull the red head away from my side. I wasn't focusing, my brain was just filled with screams of pain; my screams. I could barely keep my eyes open, I just wanted to fall asleep.
The curse mark burns along my skin and whatever was holding back my chakra suddenly burst, maybe Orochimaru stopped his stupid jutsu but all I know is that the amount of chakra inside of me doubled. I start to focus it on my shoulders but I could barely feel my arms and my vision was blurry. Sand starts wrapping around me and when Gaara speaks it all became clear.
"I'm not letting somebody that loves me die." It was spat out with hatred lacing every word but I felt at ease in the sand. Even when he started moving at great speeds I could only think about what he said. Even as I heard Sasuke call for me, reminding me of the rule, I could barely nod as my eyes close off. Maybe to never open again.
Third person.
Kaida slammed herself against her ex-villages chunin, slicing their stomachs open as they stand between her and her hime. Noir was already down with Sasuke, leading the Uchiha to his teammate, since they had to be a certain distance apart and all. Kaida was so close to grabbing her from the edge of the balcony but apparently someone wanted her to jump because she was pulled backwards into the heat of a fight with like 30 sand nin. Kaida snarls and snaps her teeth at them, blood flying and covering the vicious Kaguya.
She knew that this was going to happen! How could she let it slip from her mind? Now her clans only hope was a step into her final minutes of life. She saw her hime, she saw all of the blood and how the colour left her face. If someone didn't tend to those wounds, Mika would die. After killing the useless sand shinobi Kaida grabs someone dressed as a healer nin, throws the sleeping body over her shoulder and starts following her Hime.
Kakashi sent Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru off to follow Kaida, the three genin did it with little hesitation and when Kaida saw the three genin following her she slowed down.
"A-ano Kaida-san, we're here to save Mika and Sasuke-kun," Sakura speaks up as the intense looking Kaguya glares between them. Kaida lowers her head slowly, grey eyes flashing with shock as she catches the smell of at least 10 sand nin.
"We have a tail of at least 10 ambush ninja, there is no way that any of you could stop Sand-kami at his best without me," Kaida explains lowly, Naruto nods and makes a hand sign, 30 of his clones poof into existence and Kaida blinks with surprise.
"Ah, Naruto, maybe set up 60 more and spread them out. I'll stay at the back incase the sand shinobi manage to destroy the clones and Naruto can leave a clone with me to let me know if I need to attack." Shikamaru spoke with a tense and aggressive look in his eyes and Naruto barely hesitated to follow his friends orders. With a final nod the four of them take off again, Shikamaru about 8 metres behind the others with a Naruto clone a few metres behind him.
Shikamaru knew that something was up with Mika, that she was losing her control. He never thought that she would protect an enemy nin, that sand using bastard. The redhead showed up and suddenly Mika was a lovesick murderous idiot. The Nara let out a low sigh, he really wished that Sasuke would hurry up and kill Gaara already. Before the kid genius did something stupid and tried to do it himself. Also, why was that strange Kaguya holding one of their medic nin?
Meanwhile Gaara had stopped because of his elder siblings, Kankuro and Temari's minds were boggled by what their little brother was doing. Or really what he wasn't doing. Sure, they remembered Mika. When they were little Gaara had loved her more than his uncle, but she left. Normally that meant that she'd be as good as dead to him. Now that same kid was holding the scaled girl in a cocoon of sand, growling at either of them if they got to close.
"G-gaara-sama, if you leave her in there she will bleed to death," Temari tries to explain, flinching when her brother sends a tendril of sand towards her throat. It stopped though and their brothers eyes were wide with shock.
"She'll die?" Gaara repeats and the blonde nods, gasping when the small leaf nin was placed into her hands and her brother was glaring darkly at her.
"Fix her." Gaara snarls, turning to Kankuro when he chuckles nervously. Temari shakes her head, laying the girl down on the oddly thick branch and clicking her tongue.
"Kankuro, keep watch from afar for that Uchiha cutie," Temari demands and the puppet user says no more, leaping away. The fan user awkwardly glances at Gaara, who was watching her intently.
"I will need to undress her to be able to see the entire wound," Temari speaks to empty ears, Gaara did, thankfully, turn away though. The blonde slowly peals the blood soaked yukata off of the small girl and gasps at the sight. Her left shoulder was singed on the top, blood pouring in thick bursts down her arm. That was the good shoulder.
"Gaara- I-I'll need your help. Could you put pressure on her left shoulder so she doesn't bleed out?" Temari asks and Gaara instinctively turns around, blushing and looking away again, sand was now covering the left shoulders wound and the bleeding started to lessen. The right shoulder had a hole through it, and Temari felt like she was very overwhelmed. Though she could see Mika's chalra attempting to heal the wound, it wouldn't be fast enough. Temari couldn't believe that she was saving a stupid leaf nin brat.
The blonde did need to practise her healing, though, the academy only did small wounds so this would be either a great opportunity or her last moments. It seemed that if Mika dies Gaara would absolutely kill his sister without hesitation. Temari shudders and puts one hand on the bottom of the wound, green chakra glowing on her hand and slowly building a scab. After about fifteen minutes, Temari noticed an alarming fact. Mika wasn't breathing.
"Temari." Gaara growled and his sister prayed repeatedly, gasping when a white haired nin leaps down. Kabuto. Gaara turned to the new person and started trying to attack.
"Ah! Wait! I was sent to save her, if you keep this up she will die!"
Gaara and Temari glance between eachother and slowly move away. True to his word, Kabuto starts performing CPR. After a few tries Mika took a deep breath inwards, Temari found herself sighing in relief.
"I need one of you to find some blood, I don't care how." Kabuto orders and Gaara smirks, taking off instantly in a whirl of sand. Temari slowly moved towards the odd leaf nin, blue eyes filled with uncertainty.
Kabuto was moving quickly, sealing off the left shoulder with chakra so it would stop bleeding and beginning to repair the right. Normally he'd be much more laid back but he knew very well that if Mika died Orochimaru would kill him in the most painful way possible. How did he know this? His master had been hunting for the miracle child for years, because he knew that Mika was one in a million. The last chance of a kaguya with that kekkei genkai, she would live a healthy long life compared to the other kekkei genkai holder.
Gaara returned with two corpses, Temari covered her mouth and looked away. Kabuto scoffed and gestured for the redhead to bring them closer.
"This one has her blood type, the other is useless." Kabuto mumbles, pulling out some medical equipment from his bag. Temari walked away from the scene, hands clenched into fists. They're betraying the Kazekage, all of this was classed as treason and they'd be killed instantly for even talking about it. Oh why did her brother need to be so unpredictable.
"Temari, Kankuro is outnumbered now." Gaara muttered lowly and the blonde blinks before nodding, leaping off to find her other annoying brother.
Kankuro was ready struggling enough against the Uchiha but when four other nin appear, one of which being taller than he is, he knew he would be screwed. Kaida had taken her swords out and in seconds the ninja was pinned against a tree trunk. Sasuke and her lock eye contact and she nods, the ravenette takes off quickly and Naruto follows him.
"He's caught in my jutsu, you can let him go," Shikamaru regards and Kaida pulls away, snarling at the middle child of the sand sibling team. The Kaguya hated Kankuro the most, because of literally nothing. She just did now.
"You betrayed the village just like that?" Kankuro asks her, smirking when a sudden breeze almost knocks them all over. Temari had found Sasuke and Naruto. Shikamaru and Sakura nod and Kaida takes off to help the others. Noir leapt onto Shikamaru's shoulder and nudged his cheek softly. Shikamaru didn't realise he was crying, until he saw the tear drops on the foxes dark fur.
"That little mini Kaguya was basically dead when I left, and since my sister isn't there healing her I'd bet Gaara changed his mind and killed her." Kankuro sneers, yelping when Sakura punches the spot by his head, bark shattering beneath her hand. Shikamaru was glaring intently at the awful puppet user, how dare he try to piss them off when his life was in their hands?
"Mika is too annoying to die," Shikamaru mutters, stopping his jutsu when he senses his father nearby. Backup. Shikaku leapt onto the branch and quickly knocked out the hooded boy, watching the pinkette tie him up and patting his crying son's shoulder. Shikamaru's tears were only dripping down bit by bit but Shikaku knew his son was in much more pain than it seemed.
"She's not dead." Shikamaru tries to sound laid back but the desperation in his voice was clear. Shikaku nods and picks up Kankuro, following the Genin to where Temari, Kaida, Sasuke and Naruto were. Shikaku instantly caught the fan user in a shadow possession, Sasuke, the only one left, sighs in relief and quickly knocks her out, tying her up with Kankuro and leaving them for the next set of back up. Shino and his father.
When they all got to where Mika was, the scene was a mess. Kaida and Kabuto were fighting whilst a leaf medic nin messily tried to continue doing what Kabuto was doing, and Gaara was fighting Naruto. The blonde seemed to be radiating with a certain chakra that made Shikaku's hair stand on end. Shikamaru let out a strangled gasp and races towards Mika, who looked better than she did 15 minutes ago but still looked like she was seconds away from dying. Shikaku wanted to help take out Gaara but considering that the blonde was currently riding on top of what seemed to be a giant nine tailed fox and the redhead was unconscious above a one tailed beast, The Nara leader decided it would be best to just help with what was going on below the terrifying battle.
Kabuto ended up fleeing and Kaida didn't try to hard to chase him, instead rushing to Shikamaru's side and watching with panic filled eyes. Shikaku was ridiculously confused, who the hell- why was there another Kaguya?? She seemed to be not hostile to them but wasn't the boy she just fought a part of the genin exams? Shikaku shook his head and went towards his son, gently pushing everyone aside and picking up Mika.
"I'll be taking her to the hospital, Shikamaru, Sakura, Sasuke, Kaguya-san and Medic-nin-sensei please stand by for Shino and his father, also try to help Naruto.. not die.." Shikaku took off at incredible speeds that only a jonin could possess and he quickly found himself at the makeshift medic hut that was built safe from the battle. He takes Mika to the most skilled medic on sight and easily uses his authority to get Mika taken in instantly. God this whole thing was a mess.
Two days later
Mika's pov
Oh my god, everything fucking hurts! I-I can't move my arms! I CAN'T MOVE MY ARMS! A really loud and annoying beeping sound starts getting faster and louder and the sounds of doors being slammed open almost make me flinch with shock. What the hell is going on??
"She's waking up!"
"Uh Yeah no shit! Why am I blindfolded asshole?? I mean, Unblindfold me now please!" I shout as loudly as I thought I could but my shouts came out raspy and barely louder than my normal volume. I tried to thrash or do anything but my body wasn't responding, my mouth felt dry, my lungs, neck, shoulders, arms, wrists and hands felt like they were on fire and being electrocuted at the same time. Also, I COULDN'T MOVE MY ARMS OR HANDS AT ALL!
"Mika Kaguya, please take a deep breath."
A deep breath? BITCH I AM BREATHING VERY DEEPLY! OH, she means a slow breath. I very slowly inhale, letting the weirdly cold air fill my lungs. Shit that's not air! THAT IS NOT AIR!
"WAIT STOP-!" I tried to cry out but everything started getting quieter except for that damn beeping!
A few hours later
"Why didn't you let her wake up?"
Beep beep
"Sir, please, she was about to have a panic attack and it could have reversed her healing."
Beep Beep Beep
"I understand, Naruto stop bothering the nurse. We still have at least a week until she is able to wake up again."
Beep beep beep beep
"That is how a medically induced coma works, medokusai."
Beep beep beep beep
"A WEEK IS TOO LONG!"
Slap
Beepbeep beepbeep
"NARUTO AT LEAST TRY TO THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK! DON'T YOU WANT HER TO BE OK?"
"If you all keep shouting you will need to be removed from the area."
Beepbeep beepbeep
"Oi, nurse, aren't you going to do something about that beeping?"
"Maa maa, Sasuke she knows what she is doing."
"C'mon, visiting time is over."
BeepBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP
Guys? GUYS?!
"Her body and chakra is rejecting any and all medicine.. she might end up killing herself."
Five days later
"I can't leave her, pervy-sensei. Not until she wakes up."
"Oi kid, quit calling me that in public. This job is more important than some stupid friend, this is a hokage."
"Naruto, you know Jiriya-san is right."
"Kashi-sensei! How could you say that?! You said friends are more important than missions!"
"Hehe yeah but this is different, Mika is hea.. she's safe with us."
"B-but.."
I could feel my body, unlike the other times I woke up. I could feel my arms, hands and fingers, toes and feet and all. I try hard to open my eyes and to my surprise my eyelid actually twitches, which was apparently enough to earn my sensei's attention.
"Uh Naruto.. call a nurse."
My eyes instantly open and I force myself to sit up, taking in the sight of my best friend, sensei and one of the legendary sanin. All of which looked very shocked. I was about to open my mouth to speak when a huge burst of pain slammed through my body and I had to cover my mouth to stop my screams.
"Mika!" Naruto cries out, Kakashi grabbing him before he could leap towards me. Jiriya, I believe his name is, chuckles and steps towards me.
"Man, kids these days. You do realise you're under enough sleep medicine to knock out a sanin for a week, yet you keep forcing yourself to wake up. Tsunade would hate you." Jiriya chuckles and I weakly nod, biting my hand to stop myself from crying and screaming in pain. If this is me under the influence of drugs then holy shit it must be really fucking painful without them. Tears start brimming my eyes, it hurt so fucking much. Naruto suddenly grabs my arms and softly pulls my hands away.
"Mika, I'm so happy to see you.. but you should let yourself sleep." Naruto softly spoke to me, gently pushing me back down into a laying position and dabbing a warm wet cloth on my forehead. I stare at him with wide, tear filled eyes.
"N.. naruto..." his name came out as a weak whisper, the drugs making me feel all fuzzy and blurry. My blonde friend smiles widely and leans his forehead against mine, it felt so safe with him there. I have stop rejecting the disgusting liquid, knowing that Naruto would never let me down or lie to me. As it took over my body, my eye lids shut and everything returned to silence.
Final time skip
Four days later
"And she should be waking up soon." A soft yet stern voice was the first thing I hear, followed by beeping. Ugh, I hate that stupid beeping. I can even hear it in my dreams.
"She made an incredible recovery over the past five days, it's just a shame that her blonde boyfriend isn't back yet," The same voice continues, this causes someone else in the room to scoff. Followed by a female snickering.
"He is not her boyfriend, they're practically related." A very familiar lazy voice argues and that same girl giggles again.
"Oh shut it Shikamaru, you jealous idiot." The girl teases and Shikamaru tsks again, both the nurse and Ino laugh at that. It didn't hurt too much this time, the pain was mainly in my right and left shoulder and a little in my wrists. It wasn't unbearable, though. My eyes blink open and I frown, same old ugly roof as the other time. I tilt my head to the left and can't help but smile when I see the excitement on Shikamaru's face, said Nara moving closer to me.
"Hey, Kaguya, you're finally up," Shikamaru looked like he was trying hard to not smile but it was clear that he was overjoyed with it all. I smile weakly back and Ino's face suddenly appears in my view.
"You know because of some weird seal Sasuke has had to sleep next door even though he's perfectly fine. Well more like perfect and finee. So when you get some strength back you should go over and apologise-"
"Ino!" Chouji scolds and the blonde blushes and moves away, letting her two male teammates talk to me instead.
"Ah, where is Naruto?" I manage to ask, my voice a little scratchy but still clear enough to be understood. Shikamaru's small smile shrank into a frown and he turned away, shoving the snickering Ino off of him.
"He went on a mission! To find the next hokage! Sakura is probably helping Iruka with teaching and learning chakra control so you're stuck with us!" Ino calls out and I smile softly, looking back up at the roof and slowly pulling myself into a sitting position. Once I successfully do that I turn and grin at Shikamaru.
"C'mhere and give me a hug," I demand and Shikamaru's eyes widen, his frown lifting a bit. The Nara trudges towards me and sits on the edge of the bed, wrapping his arms around me gently. I hug him back loosely, trying to ignore the throbbing pain in my shoulders. Ino coos us and Shikamaru instantly pulls away, crossing his arms over his cheat and blushing furiously.
"He missed you alot. Like nagging to visit after every mission and always bringing you fruit incase you wake up-" Ino was interrupted by Shikamaru shoving her out of the room and locking the door. I chuckle and shift backwards until I'm leaning against the wall behind me, arms rested in my lap.
"Ino is a liar, please ignore everything she says." Shikamaru practically begs me and I laugh softly, lifting my arm so that Chouji could hug me.
"Sure thing 'Maru. Does anyone know when I'll be released?" I ask and the two boys glance at eachother.
"Well the nurse said that you were kept in the coma until you were completely healed, since your sensei told them to. You're actually pretty much allowed to leave whenever." Chouji explains and Shikamaru nods when appropriate. My eyes widen and I tsk, slowly climbing out of the bed and looking down at my hospital gown with distaste. Plus the ground was cold beneath my feet.
"Of course he did, he's an asshole. Well it's too late to complain now, anyone know where I can find some my clothes? And weapons?" I ask, slowly gaining enough balance to walk to the nearby cupboards and pulling them open. All I found were bags of fruit, bento boxes and sweets. All with either Shikamaru's name signed under or Sakura's. Shikamaru slams the draws shut and opens another one, pushing my clothes into my arms and clearing his throat.
"My uh.. parents made me bring those.." He attempts and I grin, thanking him and slowly walking to the bathroom. I lock the door behind me and start getting undressed, gasping when I see my reflection.
There were scales, hundreds of them, covering both of my shoulders where I'd assume I was injured. It looked.. beautiful. I slowly trace my finger along the scales, it was hard and cold, and blink with shock when I see my knuckles. For both of my hands my knuckles are covered with large scale for each one, with small ones around them. Holy shit. Holy shit. This means I don't need to hold back! These scales are awesome. Thankfully my face scales didn't increase, I could live with the shoulders but my face is already crowded enough.
I get changed into my clothes and take out a kunai from the pouch, cutting off the gloves where my fingers start. Fingerless gloves are so in style. I jump out of the bathroom and pose dramatically, grinning at Shikamaru, who blushes and rolls his eyes.
"Seems like you're fine," He sighs and I nod with excitement, tying the bandage around my waist and wrapping an arm over my Nara's shoulder.
"Lets go nag Sasuke, he probably hates my guts," I muse, the shadow user smirks lazily and signs the sign out sheet for us before following me to the room next door. Before I could even open the door Kaida and Noir had leapt towards me, pulling me into a breathtakingly tight hug.
"Hime! You idiot! You're awake!" Kaida cheers and Noir barks with joy, Sasuke slams his door open and glares at me.
"Finally, I hate this hospital. Let's go." Sasuke starts to tug on my arm and Shikamaru scoffs, nodding a goodbye to me and going in his own direction. The Uchiha pulls me out of the hospital, Kaida and Noir following me like lost puppies.
Whilst Kaida gossips about what I missed during my 'medically induced nap' I catch an incredibly familiar chakra type. With Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai. What the fuck? Are we under attack again? I shove Sasuke's hand away and blink slowly, I should go and check it out..
"I need to take a shit, stay here guys," I lie easily, rushing off to the bridge where I could sense Kakashi's chakra. I stop when I catch a sight of all of them, standing on the water. I don't know who it is but.. he's related to Sasuke. I pull my gloves off and set them to the side, leaping behind my sensei and glaring at the stranger.
"Mika- Yy-you're awake???" Kakashi sputters, probably very confused. I nod softly and step forwards, scowling at the tall Uchiha and the one holding a sword.
"Who the fuck is this guy? He feels like Sasuke." I growl and Kakashi grips my shoulder tightly, shoving me behind him.
"It's his older brother, Itachi."