"Hello Bailey, how are you this youthful day?" Gai asked when I arrived at the ninth training grounds.
"Hi Gai, I'm just not feeling safe at the moment, that's all," I answered with a soft sigh.
"Why Bailey? Did something happen to you after our youthful training session yesterday?" Gai asked edging closer to me to place a hand on my shoulder.
"I got kidnapped walking home and I'm afraid it may happen again," I answered looking up to his face. He gave me a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry, Bailey, next time you will be youthful enough to take him out," he said as a green dot appeared on the horizon. "Ah, look, Lee is here."
When he arrived, seeing my impassive face, he cringed. Gai explained to him about my kidnapping and to make me feel better he gave me a "youthful" hug.
"YOSH! Now on to the youthful training." Lee said and thus the hell began. For an hour we did nothing but warm ups such as running laps, doing push-ups, sit-ups, and all sorts of torture. Then he taught Lee and me some new Taijutsu moves. He tampered all my flaws I had and that commenced for a good two hours.
Finally, when the training was done, they let me go do whatever I wanted. That is, until my next session. I headed off to Ichiraku Ramen. I arrived to find Naruto, scarffing down his fifth bowl of ramen.
"Hey Teuchi, one bowl of chicken ramen, please," I said seating myself next to the hungry blonde ninja. My ramen came and the stand was once again silent with only the sounds of eating. By the time I had finished, Naruto had down his seventh bowl. He smiled happily, patting his full stomach. I paid for mine and was about to get up to leave when a hand brushed against my shoulder. I tilted my head over to see Naruto giving me his puppy-dog eyes.
"Bailey, I can't afford to pay for all my ramen, can you help?" he said in a completely innocent voice. Oh that voice.
"You're still paying for some," I said giving him enough money to pay for the majority of the meal.
"Arigatou, Bailey!" he answered, paying. He walked out of the stand with me. "So, where are you going now?"
"To kick Shika's ass in shogi, want to come?" I asked glancing side-ways at him. He gave me an excited look, which I took as a hint as yes. Although him shouting "YES!" and jumping up and down, helped me understand what he meant, too.
We arrived to find Shika and Asuma deep into a match of shogi. I held a finger up to my lips, motioning Naruto to be quiet. He nodded and we each took an empty spot around the shogi table. I scanned the board. Shika had Asuma beat and could win in one turn. Asuma seemed to be struggling, considering that there was no way he could possibly win. Shika placed a piece down. I smirked.
"Check Mate," Shika said looking up at his sensei. Asuma sat back sighing, beat again.
"I challenge you, Shikamaru Nara, in shogi, to a battle of the most youthful!" I proclaimed standing up.
"You've been hanging around Gai and Lee this morning, haven't you?" Shika sighed. I nodded and looked around sheepishly. I sat down in the seat Asuma had moved from. He now occupied mine.
The match began. Moving piece by piece, we attempted to break the others plan. I smirked, mine was still intact. I had done big, bold moves to get this far and he still hadn't figured it out. His plan, I could tell was in shambles. He made every wise move he could, but my plan was winning. Moving my last piece into place, I smiled victoriously.
"Check Mate!" I said beaming from ear to ear. "That is how a person beats the lazy ass here." Naruto and I gave each other a high-five. Man did it feel good to win. Shika stared at the board surprised. I had beaten him with-
"How in hell did you beat me with a stupid pawn!" he cried. Yep, I had beaten him with a pawn. I smirked at him. "Oh don't give that smirk!" I laughed at him; he always did hate losing in shogi. We continued to play for several hours. I beat Asuma in every game and Shikamaru beat me in our rematch.
"Hey, Shika, you know that you're going to be my teammate in my Orochimaru mission," I said to the lazy ass. Naruto had left part way into my shogi game with Asuma.
"Troublesome, who's our other teammate?" he asked sitting up from watching the clouds.
"The ANBU taichou, going by the name Mitchell," I said. Knowing that the lie would work on the lazy ass that didn't care.
"Great, I'm the weakest on the team, what a joy!" he proclaimed throwing his arms in the air. I laughed at his answer. I waved goodbye to him. Be prepared Kakashi Hatake.
I arrived to see Kakashi sitting in a tree on the outside of the training grounds. He sighed, closed his book, and jumped down from the tree. I walked over and gave him a hug. He was never late to our training sessions.
"I heard about the kidnapping," he said hugging me closer to him, putting a light kiss on my head through his mask. "I won't let that happen again. I promise you." I looked at him and smiled. "Now let's get down to business here. Let me hear that voice." I sang him a quick song with the jutsu enabling my voice to be deadly and to blow the eardrums. Although, I sang it at a low frequency just as Kakashi-sensei had taught me to.
The training continued until dusk, when Neji stopped by to pick me up, just like what a normal brother would do. However the bad thing is was that he came right in the middle of the sparring match between Kakashi and me. I jumped into the air, dropped my foot to get a hard kick into his shoulder. The match ended there. Neji walked over, bowed to Kakashi and began walking away for me to follow.
"See you tomorrow Kakashi!" I shouted giving him a wave goodbye, then sprinted off to catch up with Neji-nii-san. "Why must you always come and get me Neji-nii?"
"Because I'm your brother, and it's getting dark," he answered.
"Yet, you still treat me like a child! There is only a two year difference between us and I'm stronger than you!" I protested. He looked at me. I froze, though not from him. Someone was coming. I moved him into the bushes nearby, masking Neji and my own chakra. A man walked past, wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it. He was cursing to himself; his silver hair was gelled back. We didn't come out until he was a good ten minutes away.
"Who was that?" Neji asked.
"I don't know, but he didn't give me a good feeling," I answered. We finished our walk to the Hyuga mansion in silence. I went straight to bed. Too much had happened today.
My mind was black. Clouds began to appear as it looked as if I were watching with my Byakugan. A man with evil chakra rushed into view. My vision then moved where I watched a little girl with flowing black hair leap up and begin running towards the Uchiha compound. Tears flowed down her eyes as she took off. A Hyuga man rushed out of the building calling her name, trying to get her to stop. She paid him no heed as she kept running, her tiny legs moving fast, even faster than the grown man running after her. She had made a huge distance between them when she arrived.
"Otou-san! Okaa-san!" the girl yelled looking around. Bodies littered the streets of the compound. She ran to a house towards the end of the street. She rushed through the rooms, tears still flowing down her eyes. She stopped in one room, the bodies of a man and his wife lay in the middle of the room. The girl rushed to their side trying to find a pulse. The wife's eyes slowly opened.
"Be a good girl, my baby," she said and then lay motionless on the ground.
"Okaa-san!" the girl cried harder.
"Oh do you miss your mommy?" a man said stepping out of the shadows towards her, his eyes containing the Sharingan. The girl stood and bolted from the room. However, he caught her as she ran. Pulling his sword from his back he swung it at her.
At the other side of the compound, a boy was running from the same house, and was soon knocked out by his older brother. A scream echoed toward him. The older brother's eyes widened and he muttered a name, and he took off running toward where the little girl was. He came to the scene to see a man over the girl.
"You promised me that neither one of them would be hurt!" the brother yelled angrily. The older man looked at him with pity.
"Well, then I lied," he said. He darted off whispering something to the brother as he ran past. The older brother darted over to the girl and tried to heal her as best he could before he felt someone approaching. He ran off, tears streaming down his face as he ran.
The Hyuga man ran up. He grabbed the girl and carried her, retrieving the little boy and running toward the Konoha Hospital. When there, the nurses rushed in and grabbed both kids as he began to pace in the waiting room.
The nurses whispered amongst themselves an hour later, when treatment was done.
"I hear, those two are the only ones that survived the massacre," a nurse said.
"Yeah, plus it was their brother who killed the others," another nurse said.
"I can't believe he attacked his sister like that, too," the first said, "She is going to have that scar for life now! Poor girl."
I awoke with a start at that moment. My face and neck was coved in cold sweat. Neji was by my side, a worried look on his face. I looked at the clock and saw it said it was only one in the morning. I got up and retrieved a glass of water with Neji trailing behind me still with that worried look. I sat down at a table and Neji sat down next to me.
"I had that dream again," I explained.
"That's the third time this year!" Neji proclaimed. I nodded and we just sat in silence. We ended up going back to bed without another word being spoken.