Chapter two

Kakashi walked close next to her as she dragged her cane on the ground in front of her, people noticed this and moved out of her way quickly. Skylar could feel the movement of air in front of her and sighed as she felt people moving out of her way ahead and she could still sense Kakashi close by next to her.

"So, what do you stare at all the time?" Kakashi finally asked, wanting answers out of her.

"I don't stare, it's kind of impossible… I'm focusing I guess you could say. I felt my chakra network was damaged and it felt cold so I concentrate on moving my chakra at that point and it may burn for a few seconds but it wears off anyway. I can't do anything about my coil though but maybe once it's healed or close enough, I can try gaining my chakra back…" She said, stopping and staring off again in the middle of the street. Kakashi could see her nose twitch and ears also twitch slightly meaning she was sensing something.

Skylar wasn't sure of the feeling that washed over her but it was a feeling no less as she listened and sniffed the air. It was almost like a fog lifted and it wasn't like seeing again but rather knowing where everything was like a mental image as the wind blew gently down the streets. The closest she could explain it was it was like the byakugan, more sensing than seeing down the streets and people around her and her lips quirked slightly, she was getting better slowly. She heard Kakashi call her name carefully and she looked up to him and smiled.

"Sorry, I just kind of blanked out for a second… How about we go out for lunch today?" Skylar suggested.

"Sounds great." He said with an eye smile when he saw the lips quirk up like they use to as she hooked his outstretched arm, picked her cane up and Kakashi led the way.

Tsunade and Naruto were chatting happily in her office with a smiling Shizune handing them tea and rice balls for a small snack. Naruto was explaining how quirky the spy's were and some of the funny stories he came across on his travels.

"So how is Skylar's condition doing?" Naruto asked carefully as he drank his tea, watching Tsunade's face.

"Her network has healed nicely but her coil will take some time… It's not built to produce and have chakra ripped out of her at such a high rate. I'm also looking into her eyes and trying to figure out if there's something I could so she could see again… I see she was one hell of a ninja but Kakashi kept her skills brief… Mind explaining more?" Tsunade asked the blonde. Naruto nodded solemnly.

"She's wind natured like me with her second and third elements already having training on them as well as extremely bright and quick to catch on, she's also good at seals and her taijutsu is a bit different but effective as Kaka-sensei would say." Naruto said with a bit of a smile at the mention of his sensei.

"I'm surprised for a civilian before that she caught on so quickly but I suppose when you grow up in war you get good quickly, survival of the fittest. Did she have a specific sensei?" Tsunade asked with interest.

"Kaka-sensei was her sensei." Naruto said and Tsunade choked on her tea and coughed with Shizune patting her back.

"He willingly taught her?" Tsunade asked with surprise at the now confused Naruto.

"Yeah why?" Naruto asked.

"It took Sensei having to force him into retirement and forcing him to take a team to finally find you guys that he found worthy enough to take on… He must see a lot of potential in her… How powerful is she really?" Tsunade asked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow at Naruto.

"She beat Kaka-sensei using that Akatsuki guy's scythe and Zabuza's sword after taking it from him, plus she learned and modified the Hiraishin from the scrolls after sneaking in here one night. Also Guy-sensei and Lee can fight her on equal terms." Naruto said with a shrug and continued to eat and drink. Tsunade's jaw was hanging open, as was Shizune's. This just made her pranking test on Skylar more fun and she began explaining to Naruto what was going to happen.

Kakashi was dragged into a club like restaurant and he was now wondering how it got so far as it was now. Skylar was dancing with the barmen on the bar and singing with them, another foreign language that they seemed to understand with her hoodie now tied around her waist… She was acting as if she could see but he could see her using her cane, feeling the ends of the bar so she could dance without worry, throwing the cane in with her moves. He does vaguely remembering her saying she knew that song, standing up on the table and singing 'Ole Ole'.

He had to admit, the language sounded sexy as were the way they were moving to it. Kakashi began to figure out how Naruto fell for her so quickly and easily. Sure she was cute and an amazing person but he just didn't see her quite that way so he was happy with the bond they shared plus she was taken… He was such a pervert and a hypocrite but he could still look and tease Naruto and her, making the blonde blush was so easy and it was interesting to see how Skylar would deal with the situation… The last time he got a pillow to the face.

The two bulky and muscular barmen lifted her gently down onto the floor as the place went back to normal and Skylar swirved through the crowd easily and even bended backwards to avoid a tray aimed at her head by a waitress… She was still a mystery to Kakashi and he hated things he couldn't figure out as she sat down at the table again, a little out of breath but with a smile on her face, almost like her eyes had gained some colour back to them, some life.

"What language was that you were singing in, it was very sexy?" Kakashi commented and she blushed with a smile.

"Its called Latin, I'm surprised you have different languages here but I guess it's a world just like all others, different yet similar in ways… Sorry I left you behind but you could have joined us, I know for a fact there's a few of your fangirls in this club right now." She said with a grin as she pulled the straw to her drink into her mouth and drank, still smirking around the straw. This time Kakashi blushed and pulled the straw into his mouth and also drank, no one noticing it was just a simple genjutsu over it.

"Why the sudden change in attitude lately, especially after you attacked me this morning and saved me?" Kakashi asked but he saw her freeze and become unresponsive again as she let the straw slip from her mouth.

"It's time to get back to my old routine now that I'm healing… I haven't been sensing very well lately and I mistook you for an intruder and it was just a natural reaction to the kunai, I heard how it broke and thinking where it could be aimed, I just created a collision coarse with it." Skylar said coolly and Kakashi hummed in agreement but it still didn't explain enough for him.

They left the restaurant late afternoon and he walked her into the training grounds and greeted the Rookies they met along the way as well as officially meeting Choji and Tenten, Kakashi could see they'd get along very well with their interests in weapons. They were currently deep in a forest and chatting happily when she heard Kakashi 'oomph' and his presence was gone in a second… Could it be an attack? She stood calmly and placed her cane on the floor in front of her with both hands on the top of it and waited.

Kakashi was talking when he suddenly was snatched up by a large orange flash and dropped a kilometre away from Skylar with Tsunade smirking at him.

"Naruto, what are you doing attacking your sensei like that and not your girlfriend who has been missing you?" Kakashi asked as he crossed his arms across his chest after standing up… Face to face with the blonde now after his sudden growth spurt over the last nine months since he saw him last.

"He did it under my orders. I'm intrigued at what she can do… Alright, start phase one." Tsunade called into a radio and he heard many reply before feeling the mass of chakra towards Skylar.

"Fire style: Grand fireball jutsu." Skylar felt the chakra increase around her and the fire… She became unimpressed and scowled while her chakra spiked and the vortex began around her with the fire before she dispersed it. The wind continued to rage as she mapped out the enemy and then was cut off and smelt dirt and earth, knowing they had trapped her in an earth barrier, obviously not knowing her skills well enough. She began with Chidori Nagashi and focused as small sparks began to appear, and throwing her whole self into it, began releasing huge bolts of lightning, destroying the dome and her map came back to her again as she held her five senbons between her fingers and began her onslaught, flashing from one enemy to the other and then she found Kakashi and threw Naruto's special senbon and held a kunai to Kakashi's kidnapper as she retrieved her senbon that just missed his head.

Tsunade was laughing almost manically as she watched the wind connect with the vortex thinking if Kakashi actually trained herself but then it turned into a fiery vortex and dispersed.

"I told you, her wind stood up to and beat Madara's fire jutsus Tsunade-obaa chan." Naruto whined and Tsunade called for phase two as an earth box formed around her not expecting her to get out of it.

"You should have paid more attention to what Naruto explained to you Tsunade-sama." Kakashi said, smirking under his mask. Skylar broke through the box with Chidori Nagashi and then he saw the senbon but before he could react, one flew past his head, slammed into the tree next to Naruto and within a red flash, Skylar had a kunai to his neck. Naruto stood absolutely still as did everyone else, the look in her eyes had darkened to her old purple and her face held hard as she seemed to stare into the back of Naruto's head as she retrieved her special senbon and hold it out around Naruto, he reached for it and took it as the kunai fell from his neck and he turned to face her with a grin.

"Is that anyway to greet your sensei and your girlfriend Naruto?" She asked with a smile as she attached herself to him in a tight hug. She let go and faced Tsunade, their arms still around each other. "And you, you could have killed me you old hag!" Skylar said out with anger and Kakashi's eyes widened as he saw the vein on Tsunade's head pop out and raise a fist but before she could hit, there was a flash of red and Naruto and Skylar were gone.

"She's quicker than Minato was." Tsunade growled out and Kakashi laughed sheepishly. She jumped down with Kakashi to check on her attackers and almost laughed with unbelievable amazement. She hadn't killed a single person but only gave them a few good hits and knocked them out. Kakashi headed home once everyone was woken up and wondered where Skylar flashed to.

Skylar and Naruto landed rather hard on her bed at her home. Skylar rolled off of him and lay there while Naruto turned onto his side to watch her with a happy smile.

"I think I overdid it on my coil… It feels like damn heartburn." She whined out with complaint and harsh breathing as she kept her eyes closed. She felt the bed shake a little at Naruto's laughing and smiled.

"Get some rest, I'll be here when you wake up." Naruto said as he brushed the hair from her face and kissed her forehead, Skylar already asleep. Naruto got up carefully and moved into the living room where he sat down and relaxed for a while until Kakashi got back.

Kakashi got back not too long after Naruto had sat down in the small living room where he sat on the other couch and they watched each other closely. Kakashi couldn't help but smile at how Naruto had grown in since the last time he saw him, he was as tall as Kakashi now and a little bit broader with a slightly deeper tan but he had the same eyes and smile which could only be seen on Naruto.

"She's missed you." Kakashi stated plainly and Naruto nodded with a small but sad smile.

"I know I've had… Responsibilities to catch up to plus I wanted to make sure the world was free from everything again so we don't have to go back into our previous situation. When did she finally wake up?" Naruto asked as he leaned back against the couch.

"About three months ago, you've been gone a long time but it looks like some travelling has done you some good." Kakashi said. "What's really been going on Naruto?" Kakashi questioned harshly as he sat forward, noticing the hesitation in his looks and movements, he had been avoiding making eye contact. Naruto sighed and rubbed his face tiredly as he sat forward and finally met Kakashi's eye.

"Kabuto's stirring things up again plus Sasuke's situation doesn't look good either, he's been locked up since he returned and old man Raikage and Tsuchikage-jiji aren't going to let him get away without any punishment, Mei and Gaara don't care but Tsunade-obaa chan is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If she lets him go with punishment that isn't fit for Raikage and Tsuchikage, they're likely to wage war for him but if Tsunade-obaa chan decides death… I won't stand for it and neither will Suna surprisingly though I'm not sure about Kirigakure." Naruto said sadly, staring down at the table, his hands linked between his knees.

"You know, once they deal with Sasuke… They'll likely move onto what threat Skylar poses and it's going to cause more problems besides, Tsunade spent three years protecting Sasuke from the other nations when he went rogue, she won't let him die so easily, she'll fight for you and the fact he saved the ninja world." Kakashi said, trying to reassure his student.

"Maybe this should be sorted out in one go then." Skylar said from her door as she leaned on its frame, arms crossed. "When's the next summit, I'm going but first I'll need to talk to Sasuke." She said determinedly as she moved towards them and sat down in her regular seat by the window with Naruto.

"You will be doing no such thing!" Naruto said angrily. Skylar sighed tiredly before staring outside like everyday while the sun set. Kakashi noticed the rings under her eyes, she had already pushed it too far for the first day she moved around like a ninja. Naruto let out a tired sigh as he released his anger and sat back again. "Sorry but you're in no state to worry about that right now Skylar, that's why I left and now that you've lost your sight and your chakra coil being so damaged, it's not worth the risk right now." Naruto said calmly.

"Okay but we'll need Sasuke to take down Kabuto, he knows his inner workings better than any of us whether he's changed or not, old habits die hard even when you're insane. So let's start with saving Sasuke's ass first, how's that, deal?" Skylar said as she turned to face Naruto on her seat.

"Deal but you really should be resting… You look like crap." Naruto said with amusement tainting his tone and Skylar punched him lightly in the stomach with an annoyed but happy pout.

"You try being inactive for nine months and then doing everything to the best of your abilities all at once." Skylar whined and Kakashi and Naruto laughed as she pouted and crossed her arms like a five year old. Naruto stood up and in one swoop, picked her up and threw her over his shoulder with her kicking and screaming to let her down.

"If you want to act like a child, you'll get treated like one… Night Kaka-sensei." Naruto explained to Skylar and carried her to her room with a smile at his sensei.

"I don't want to wake up to any odd noises during the night." Kakashi called, he watched Naruto blush and turn to walk the rest of the way into the room with Skylar scowling at him with her arms crossed and her back arched so she could stare at him.

"Pervert." She said at him as Naruto closed the door. Kakashi couldn't help but laugh and pull out his Icha Icha for a while.

Naruto woke up to hearing Kakashi moving around already so early in the morning. He got up and detached Skylar from his chest carefully without waking her and tucked her back in, pulled on his shirt and went to use the bathroom before meeting Kakashi in the living room with a yawn and a stretch as he walked into the kitchen to find something to eat.

"Morning Naruto… Sleep well?" Kakashi asked as he leaned against the counter adjacent to Naruto who blushed at the implied meaning and the sly look in his sensei's eye.

"Yes I did actually, it's good to be back in Konoha again. And you sensei?" Naruto asked as he stuck to eating an apple and turning the kettle on before sitting at the table.

"Well I didn't have to wake up to any strange noises now did I?" Kakashi asked slyly as he put some protein bars and dried fruits and nuts into his pouch for later when Naruto isn't around to eat.

"Perv!" Naruto snarled under his breath as he bit into his apple hard. "So, what's your schedule today sensei?" Naruto asked, chewing on his apple.

"Tsunade wanted to see me so once I'm done with my morning routine I'll go and see her, what about you?" He asked, leaning on the counter across from Naruto with his arms crossed.

"I think I'll visit Sasuke today, I haven't seen him since I came back and maybe everyone else and Iruka-sensei and con him into getting me some free ramen since I'm a bit low on funds… Just relax for a while before I have to shoot off again when new information arrives." Naruto said with a shrug as he threw his apple core into the dustbin and leaned back with his hands behind his head. "Do you need me to take care of Skylar while you see Tsunade-obaa chan?" Naruto asked him after a moment of silence.

"I think that will be for the best, I'll be back a bit later. See you later." He said with his usual salute and disappeared in a poof. Naruto smiled and continued to lean back in the chair and feel Skylar's presence and just feel better about being back in Konoha again as he began humming to himself. He heard Skylar shuffling around and the shower turn on so he got up and made her coffee, since she couldn't wake up without it or function properly as he continued to hum not quite remembering where the tune came from but it made him feel happy.

He took the coffee back into her room and put it on her bedside table as he collected his clothes he dumped last night before going to sleep and his bag that he dumped down as well. The bathroom door opened and he turned to her to point to the coffee before stopping all thought processes completely and stared. Skylar had come out in just a purple towel wrapped around her that barely covered over her thighs, he didn't even want to know how far it covered over her nice shaped ass and he swallowed and Skylar opened her eyes to hold a blank gaze at him.

"The bathrooms free and there should be enough hot water for you to have a nice shower, thanks for the coffee." She said coolly as she walked to her closet and began searching around for clothes. Naruto's eyes followed her all the way to the closet and his face heated up as did his nether region down below as he looked at the towel just showing the very top of her legs and the beginning of her ass.

'You're staring kid.' Kurama reminded him in the back of his mind and Naruto just nodded but couldn't or rather didn't want to move so Kurama took control and gave it back once he shut the bathroom door for him. Naruto slid down the door as soon as he regained control and Kurama just sighed and went back to sleep.

"Oh my god…" He said to himself as he tried to get his thought processes back and calm his racing heart. Once he calmed down slightly, he was a bit annoyed that he forgot his clothes but decided he could get them afterwards since she wouldn't be able to see him in just a towel anyway and proceeded to shower.

Skylar dropped her towel and pulled on her underwear and bra and then a regular black jaytee and loose grey pants and she fell onto her bed and was back asleep in seconds. Naruto slung a towel around his hips, took a deep breath and opened the door to Skylar's room and smiled at what he saw. She was asleep again and curled around his clothes he left on her bed so she didn't knock them off of wrinkle them. He got dressed in his usual orange jumpsuit and shook Skylar gently by her shoulders to wake her up.

"Come on Skylar, I've got things to do today and you're spending the day with me since Kaka-sensei is busy." He said with a smile as he sat on her bed next to her and helped her to sit and wake up but he scowled when he noticed the deep dark rings under her eyes, worse than yesterdays. "Are you feeling okay?" Naruto asked as he rubbed her arm soothingly. She rubbed at her eyes and yawned as she stretched and winced a little at the movement.

"Yeah I'm fine just a bit stiff and sore after yesterday and doing taijutsu again, I should ask Guy and Lee to help me get back into shape again… I'll just get my pouches on and slip on a jacket quickly and we can get what you need to done quickly and have lunch together at Ichiraku's, I'll pay plus I've never had ramen before." She said with a smile as she crawled off of the bed and put her pouches on and threw on a darker grey long sleeved top over her jaytee and they left.

"So where are we going first?" Skylar asked as she kept her arm hooked with his and their hands entwined with her cane in her other hand.

"We're going to visit Sasuke then we'll walk around and find the other rookies and chat and hang out with them for a while. Is there anything you want to do today?" He asked casually as he waved to people who greeted him with a smile.

"I had nothing planned but maybe if we find the Rookies on the training grounds I could do some sparring with them and we can all go out together or something…" Skylar said with a shrug, a smile dropping from her face as they reached the ANBU Headquarters and Skylar shivered as they entered the dark building. Skylar gripped his hand tight and kept in close contact as her head whipped around with her senses, it felt like the Akatsuki base all over again.

They sat down into cold metal chairs as Naruto filled out a form to see a prisoner and they waited. The door buzzed and in walked two ANBU with Sasuke walking calmly in between the tense guards as they jumped off into the shadows to watch.

"Good to see you awake Skylar… Dobe." Sasuke greeted with a smirk of happiness.

"Teme… I hope they've been treating you well." Naruto said with a smirk back to his friend as he sat down.

"Mmm, better than Orochimaru surprisingly. Did you just get back Dobe?" Sasuke asked calmly.

"Yeah, yesterday afternoon but I got stuck with helping Tsunade-obaa chan yesterday." Naruto said back calmly.

"When did you wake up Skylar?" Sasuke asked. She turned her head in the direction of his voice and smiled, Sasuke flinched, it was easy to see that she couldn't see and he felt a bit sad at that.

"Three months ago but I've been recovering for the time and I only got out and about yesterday… Thanks to Naruto and stupid Tsunade." She growled out as she punched Naruto's arm gently and smiled again before becoming serious again and facing him.

"I might be able to get you out of here and trusted again however… I have to reveal yours and Itachi's story, going against your brother's wishes and staining your family name… Before you say anything consider this… Kabuto's on the move again and doing something underhanded, you know his twisted mind best… It's your choice, stay here until you die or give up your pride again." Skylar stated calmly and she could feel the turmoil running off of Sasuke, she didn't even need to see his anguished features.

"I made a vow… When I arrived at the battlefield and to the previous Hokages… I know that I can never become Hokage and I won't be trusted for a long time by most… I want to help lead this world from destruction that has been caused through the ages and if staining my name is all I have to sacrifice, then you can have it, just get me out of here and doing something to help lead this world." Sasuke said with determination and slight reluctance at the same time. The conversation went to happier things afterwards, thanks to Naruto.