Chapter eight
They woke up early and Skylar said a quick good bye and flashed home to find Kakashi cooking breakfast and he raised an eyebrow at her attire, still only in her underwear, bra and one of Naruto's black t-shirts. She blushed under Kakashi's gaze.
"Nothing happened, we went swimming." Skylar said as she rushed to her room and cleaned and packed quickly. She dressed in a loose black long sleeved shirt with black fingerless gloves, black pants and her normal black sandals with her maroon pouches and holsters and x-shaped straps over her chest, holding both the three-blade scythe and the Executioner's blade, crossing at the back, the scythe on top. She returned to the kitchen and sat down and ate with Kakashi, his eyes boring into her head.
"Ma, Kakashi, stop glaring at me, I can't stand it." Skylar whined as she tried to eat and not blush under his gaze.
"Where were you last night?" He asked. Skylar sighed, of all the times she wished she had parents and older siblings…
"Naruto and I went swimming for the day and I fell asleep and he took me back to his place, that's it, we watched clouds… Use Thousand Years of Pain on him and I will kick your ass ten times harder than yesterday." Skylar added after seeing the specific glint in his twitching right eye. They ate silently and left, Kakashi wearing the white and red coat and Skylar wearing the same design coat but slightly longer and in black, met the group at the gate and they were off.
It was a surprisingly quick trip but it was snowy but they reached the Land of Iron with half a day to spare, Sakura and Skylar sharing, Yamato, Sai and Naruto sharing and Kakashi and Sasuke sharing while Tsunade got her own room of coarse. The samurai had eyed her and her weapons and also eyed Sasuke out as well but said nothing, still as statues. They were both under room arrest until their 'trial' the next day and Skylar lay on her bed, dreading the next day as she went to sleep.
Skylar and Sasuke were transported to the summit room in a box of samurai with Darui and Cee as their ninja escorts and they stood outside of the concrete room for what felt like hours, not even allowed to talk or even look at each other. The doors were opened and Skylar entered on her own, feeling the Kage's guards behind the curtains, tense to attack at any time as she moved to stand within the semi circle, in front of Mifune's table. The Kages kept open gazes while there was a little bit of whispering behind the curtains, Skylar being in full gear, scythe, blade and all.
"Uzumaki Skylar, Killer of Uchiha Obito and destroyer of the Tsukuyomi, welcome to the Five Kage Summit. We have brought you here to question of your strange and sudden appearance into our world and ability to kill someone as powerful as Uchiha Obito as the jinchuuriki of the Jyuubi… Do you swear to tell the truth during this whole session?" Mifune asked her, looking dead into her eyes and her staring back expressionlessly.
"I do Mifune-sama." Skylar said calmly. He nodded and she turned back to the Kages waiting patiently.
"Raikage-dono, speak the first question." Mifune said. A stood up calmly.
"Welcome, I am Yondaime Raikage of Kumogakure no Sato, A. How did you resist the Tsukuyomi?" A asked calmly but with command.
"I arrived a year after it had been cast and as the group who found me discovered, unless you had some sort of defence mechanism, long time exposure to the Tsukuyomi would take effect. I was one of the ones with the defence mechanism." Skylar stated.
"What do you mean 'defence mechanism'?" Mei asked calmly. "Godaime Mizukage Terumi Mei, nice to meet you." She added.
"Uchiha Sasuke and Hatake Kakashi were not affected as I'm sure it was discussed and Uzumaki Naruto had the Kyuubi inside him who wasn't affected and snapped him out of it. I arrived and I was given a borrowed power that nearly killed me, the rinnegan." Skylar explained.
"Is it true that you have lost it and it was just something built into your eyes for a specific use? I am Sandaime Tsuchikage, Ohnoki." Ohnoki said.
"Yes, I no longer have the rinnegan." Skylar said to him.
"How is it that you had a team with you when the Tsukuyomi was broken, excluding the three mentioned above." Ohnoki asked again.
"I was also given the ability to break it and give them some sort of defence mechanism against it… I never figured out how it worked but it did."
"What abilities do you have that gave you the ability to destroy Obito when everyone else failed?" A asked with a little bit of annoyance.
"I was given what Hatake Kakashi explained as a bloodline sage mode, it was discovered by accident and I had Uzumaki Naruto next to me, also in sage mode."
"Bloodline sage mode, I've never heard of such a thing, and if you have it then why doesn't Uzumaki Naruto have it?" Mei asked.
"To answer that I will need to start with where I came from in the first place." Skylar said, noting everyone was sitting and waiting patiently, she began her story from the other dimension all the way to when she first used it and the dragons that appeared.
"I would like to meet those dragons as proof." Mifune asked and all the Kages nodded.
"May I enter sage mode?" Skylar asked and they were hesitant but let her and she went into her sage mode, the black scales around her slitted purple eyes and the black coat with the dragons embroidered on appeared with the swirls of Uzumaki around the bottom. The dragons appeared off of her coat and surrounded her protectively. "Kages, meet the Four Gods, Seiryu, Suzaku, Byakko, Genbu and Kouryu." Skylar said and the dragons growled low in their throats as a greeting and the Kages inclined their heads.
"So these are what Madara was going on about, it's obvious proof that this girl is the daughter of the reincarnated Rikudo Sennin. Please exit sage mode so that we may continue." Mifune said, Skylar nodded to the dragons who returned to the coat and she powered down sage mode and sagged a little, one of the samurai guards brought over a chair for her and she sat down.
"It is obvious she is telling the truth and she had been severely damaged during her battle with Tobi. Your name has been cleared and you may continue to live freely among the ninja world, you may return to Konohagakure." Mifune.
"Shouldn't we decide where she lives, if she's so powerful, people will be after her." A said and Skylar shot him a look with deep purple eyes.
"Konoha has been my home for the past year and the last to be attacked by Akatsuki, they can protect me well enough with the power Uzumaki Naruto has." Skylar said defensively.
"They were only last because the Kyuubi had to be collected last." A challenged.
"No." Was all she said and the Raikage's killing intent began pooling out. "They came after him last because of Uchiha Itachi and I know for a fact that they could have easily captured him when he was twelve and kept him as the Gonbi and Nanabi were captured early and kept as prisoners until such time came to seal them. Konoha can and always has protected it's own, don't test me Raikage-sama." Skylar challenged and his lightning armour came out as did the guards for the Kages, Darui and Cee staying back as he stepped around the table and up close to Skylar who still looked up defiantly and flared her chakra, the wind vortex protecting her as she released killing intent to match his with stone cold eyes up at his furious ones. With one last push, she drown out the Raikage and the wind was breaking down his armour and he submitted and sat back down as she calmed down as well.
"I choose to stay in Konoha unless someone else wants to test me." Skylar stated harshly. Kakashi and Yamato, Temari and Kankuro waited quietly and at ease at their Kage's sides.
"What do you mean about Uchiha Itachi?" Gaara asked and Skylar looked at him to see the other Kages had interest showing in their eyes.
"The Kyuubi attack on Konoha nearly twenty years ago was caused by Uchiha Obito and the sharingan was plain to see in the Kyuubi's eye, leading the village to be suspicious of the Uchiha. A few years later, Uchiha Itachi joined ANBU and talks with the Uchiha were becoming difficult and The elders and Shimura Danzo gave a peace loving man like Itachi two choices, watch the village turn into a civil war or kill off your clan. It was around this time Itachi met Obito and he helped Itachi kill the clan but Itachi failed to kill his little brother Uchiha Sasuke and threatened the elders to keep him safe and planted revenge into his brother's head because he wanted to die by his hands and leave Konoha a hero who killed him off but then Orochimaru interfered and twisted Sasuke a little more, offering his one goal in life and after loosing to a battle with Naruto, he left for power to kill his brother.
As Itachi once said, Sasuke was easily dyed a different colour and Orochimaru messed him up further. Then after killing his brother, Obito took the chance to gain someone stronger than Itachi and also destroying their agreement to keep Konoha safe if 'Madara' got his revenge upon his own clan. 'Madara' twisted the truth of this in his favour to gain Sasuke on his side and it worked which is why Sasuke 'helped' Akatsuki for a short time and Danzo was the reason Sasuke attacked the summit those years ago, to get Danzo which actually did everyone a favour, you're all aware how sneaky that bastard was and Sasuke did the world a favour as well as helping out with the war… Take this story as my plea for Uchiha Sasuke to be deemed not guilty from my side, what he did was understandable." Skylar concluded to the stunned Kages in the room.
"And where's the proof?" Ohnoki asked cockily.
"Here it is…" Sai said, hopping into the room and laying down a file by Tsunade before bowing and leaving to the shadows again. The file and papers were passed around and eyes grew even wider.
"Bring Uchiha Sasuke in now, I would like to confirm this story with him." Mifune ordered his guards who opened the door and Sasuke walked in and stood next to Skylar calmly. They asked Sasuke question after question about what happened and he answered clearly and truthfully and much to A and Ohnoki's distrust of him and such, they were over ruled with both Mei and Mifune agreeing him not guilty of his crimes however they wanted punishment in exchange and Tsunade and Sasuke accepted it.
"Now, onto more important information… The bijuu have been seen and claimed back by their countries except the niibi of Kumo, Yonbi of Iwa and nanabi of Taki… Does anyone know where they are?" Mifune asked once Skylar and Sasuke left to the shadows with the Kage's guards when Skylar had to jump down again.
"I know where they are." She said once again. "Yakushi Kabuto has them in jinchuuriki already."
"What!" A said, slamming his fist on the table.
"How do you know such information?" Gaara asked carefully.
"When I was kidnapped with Naruto during the Tsukuyomi, I came across Yakushi Kabuto who was as shady as ever and his whole posture said he would stir things up again. I was out on a simple mission as education about a month ago and we came across him and three girls, the girl I fought had the demon cloak and liked to brag, that's how I came across the information. Please tell me Turtle Island is secure Raikage-sama, we don't need them gaining the jinchuuriki's powers as well as the sharingan… It seems during the Tsukuyomi, Madara, Tobi and Orochimaru were still doing their experiments and Kabuto picked it up from there and succeeded with the girl I fought, it was fully functional as well as able to activate and deactivate it. This was brought up now for all the Kages to look out for, the girls are extremely loyal to Kabuto." Skylar explained as Tsunade passed out the information on the girls and Kabuto.
"Any idea how he gained the bijuu and these three girls?" Mei asked, handing the information over to Ao.
"No, we didn't talk long enough but as soon as I slandered Kabuto's name, she had the demon cloak of the niibi on her, I must say that they seem familiar to me in this world but there's something off about them so warn your ninja, for all of our sakes, I ask please." Skylar said bowing to the Kages, which surprised them as she bowed once again and moved to the shadows once again.
Skylar lay tiredly on her bed after the meeting, it went well as everyone was rushing around and confirming everything and passing the information around quickly.
"You have visitors." Kakashi called, sticking his head around the door. Skylar sat up and fixed her hair and got up to walk into the corridor where A, Mei and Chojuro were waiting.
"What can I do for all of you?" Skylar asked politely.
"The Executioner's blade, we would like to know where you got it from?" Chojuro asked.
"My sensei Hatake Kakashi got it during the war when his company came across the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and defeated Momochi Zabuza for it and kept it since then. Once I found my three-blade scythe, he challenged me with the blade and he gave it to me, saying I had won it fair and square." Skylar explained.
"Kirigakure would like it back, we will pay for it." Mei said calmly.
"To me, this blade is priceless. I understand it is a huge part of Kirigakure and such but I cannot let such a beautiful piece of weaponry out of my clutches, it is also important to me regarding someone close to me, a turning point for them in a way, memories mean more to me than money and so I must apologise. I know that the sword Samehade is apart of Kumo's inventory since the last owner of it passed suddenly but I'm sure Raikage-sama has also refused to sell it to you for the same reason, I apologise Mizukage-sama, Chojuro-san but I cannot give or sell you my blade." Skylar said respectfully and both Mei and Chojuro studied her face.
"This is understandable but I ask that you take care of the blade and bring it home one day, whether it be your students or children, it would be nice to have all of the blades together again, thank you Skylar-san." Chojuro said with a bow and left with Mei.
"What can I do for you Raikage-sama?" Skylar asked.
"Konoha will be holding the next chunin exams and I expect to see you there, it will make an interesting event for me and the other Kages." He said with a lighter tone than usual before turning around and leaving.
"Well, that was awkward." Skylar said, leaning back against her door next to Kakashi who was leaning on the wall the entire time and watching.
"He's said the same thing to Sasuke and Naruto… The interesting thing is that I've already spoken to Tsunade-sama about it and she's putting you on a team with Naruto and Sasuke for the exam under my team." Kakashi said with disinterest.
"Well, it looks like the exam won't be so boring after all." Skylar added with a slight smile.
"If you don't mind me asking, why is that blade so important to you?" Kakashi asked, standing up straight to watch her.
"They were the first two enemies Naruto faced that changed him for good, giving him his nindo, making him stronger and setting him on this path. And when Team 7 were apart, it found all of you again some how and reminded you all… I guess it's a sentimental thing." Skylar explained with a nostalgic smile.
"I sometimes think you know too much for your own good." Kakashi said with a slight laugh as he walked back to his room. Skylar shook her head and went back into her room and slept some more.
Soon enough they all returned to Konoha after Skylar was asked more questions during the two-day stay there while the Kages sorted out some other things and such.
A few days later, Team Kakashi walked in looking a bit ragged and torn up after their D-ranked mission with a smiling and laughing Kakashi, completely unscaved. Skylar held the devil cat with the bow on it's ear by the scruff of its neck as it hissed at her and swung it's claws at her.
"I am never retrieving Tora again… That is a devil cat!" Skylar shouted as the big woman took her cat with her and Sasuke grabbed her and shut her up with his hand over her mouth.
"Sh, she'll loose it again on purpose and request our team if you don't keep your big mouth shut Dobe." Sasuke whispered into her ear. Skylar 'humphed' and crossed her arms over her chest and Sasuke let her go.
"Alright you two, there's no more missions for today that we can take so I guess you're dismissed." Kakashi said, returning to them with a shrug. The team turned around and walked together saying they all live by one another, Kakashi had sold his old apartment and moved in permanently so he could 'save Skylar's virtue' and such, being a little over protective.
"Ah, why did Naruto's team get that stupid long mission when we just got back." Skylar whined with annoyance and she heard Kakashi chuckle behind her. An ANBU jumped down in front of them and they all stopped.
"Tsunade-sama has requested to see you all in her office right away." He said and then went off again.
"What does that mean?" Skylar asked as they all turned around and took to the roofs in a run.
"It means she has a special and urgent mission for us." Kakashi said, slipping through her window with Sasuke and Skylar following behind.
"Thank you for coming so quickly, I need you to go as back up for Yamato's team right away, they came across Kabuto and the three girls and didn't fair well against them… Here's the details, I want you to leave right away." Tsunade explained and the group were running across the rooftops to get home and pack quickly.
"What the hell happened, what was their mission?" Skylar shouted through the bathroom at Kakashi.
"It was a simple escort mission, I don't know what went wrong we'll have to find out when we get there, let's go." Kakashi said as they met Sasuke outside and they were off again. When they got close enough Sasuke sent a hawk ahead and Kakashi summoned Pakkun to find them. The hawk returned as an explosion was heard the team began running for them.
A Chidori met a rasengan, a fireball met a water dragon and a wind slash met a fireball as the team jumped in front of their injured comrades.
"Ah, I knew you would come if you heard your poor Naruto-kun was in danger." Kabuto said, coming out behind them, cornering them in a rock ravine with Team Yamato very injured. The two teams stood back to back as they watched the enemies around them, sure it was only four of them but three were powerful jinchuuriki.
"Shut up Kabuto." Skylar sneered.
"A bit defensive are we?" He taunted. Out of the corner of Skylar's eye, she noticed some sort of Kabuto clone appear within the other groups formation and before the others could react, she had her scythe out and the blades flew for it and wrapped around him lightning fast and the group jumped away as the first Kabuto disappeared while the other stood wrapped in the scythes cable, that was when the girls attacked. Naruto still being able to move, took on Gin, Sasuke against Kiiro and Kakashi against Kuro. Skylar stood far away from the caught Kabuto and knew nothing was as easy as it seemed as she unsheathed her blade and held it against his neck and nicked it slightly, blood poured from the wound.
"What are you playing at Kabuto?" Skylar questioned as the others kept the girls back. Kabuto grinned manically and Skylar nicked his cheek. "Tell me." She ordered.
"I'm making the perfect warrior, you see, these girls have improved since the last time… Thanks to the bijuu, sharingan and now the curse seal, they'll be unstoppable and at my full command." He said with a crazed tone. Skylar ducked the fireball over her head but what she didn't see was that Kiiro jumped in front of Kabuto, cut him loose and sent the fireball back towards Skylar who had enough time to flare her chakra as the wind reacted to her will. Kabuto and the girls used it as a distraction and escaped, Skylar retracted her scythe and clipped it back with her blade as she turned back to the rest of the team.
Sakura was healing Sai and Yamato was sitting next to them, looking pretty beat up as well and talking to Kakashi who was on his haunches next to him while Naruto and Sasuke stood together quietly watching and almost brooding over something.
"That damn bitch cut right through my cable." Skylar whined, as she looked at her scythe while everyone rested around a fire a little later, Sai, Yamato and Sakura sleeping.
"They were stronger than before." Kakashi stated.
"They had the curse seal. Kabuto wants to make the perfect ninja, a bijuu, sharingan and the curse seal, he still isn't finished yet, he just won't stop because there are so many powerful powers out there and he won't stop unless we stop him ourselves." Skylar said to the shocked looks. "It seems people just love bragging to me."
"No, he's just being cocky, he's always been like that." Sasuke said.
"I'll take first watch tonight. Get some rest, especially you Naruto." Skylar said as she kissed his cheek and they moved off to their sleeping bags as Skylar sat up, trying to fix her scythe. Of coarse, her mind refused to rest as she thought over everything Kabuto and those girls had ever said and done as she kept her fingers busy on her scythe.
She's not sure on how much he knew about her when they first met in that cell up in Kumo but he did know her name and look. She didn't see him until Naruto went out looking for him then those girls showed up while her team was looking for Kabuto. Gin fought her and tried to take her or get a DNA sample of her blood and now they show up again with Kabuto taunting her about Naruto, how she would come to save him…He wants the perfect warrior with the sharingan, bijuu and curse seal but it's not complete. There was something that bugged her when he said 'make' the perfect warrior, who were those girls before they became his lackies? And how did they become so loyal and such, why were they loyal when he played with their bodies? Again the word 'make' stuck in her mind. The girl with the grey hair with lightning, the girl with the black hair with fire and the girl with the blonde hair with wind… Sounded too much like Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto.
Her eyes shot open and she felt sick as she pushed the bile back, the sun was rising and her scythe fixed but everything just made sense, why Kabuto wanted her DNA and who those girls were. She scrambled up and away from the campsite before emptying her empty stomach onto the ground, sick images kept playing in her head as things fell into place about everything. She stumbled back and fell onto her ass on the sandy and hard ground as she just stared in horror. She regained her control and scrambled back to the campsite.
"Wake up now, we need to get back to Konoha." Skylar shouted at the group with panic as she cleaned her stuff up and began gearing up quickly while everyone watched with confusion.
"What's going on Skylar?" Naruto asked, leaning up on one elbow to look at her. She turned to him and ran off again, needing to empty her stomach again.
"I'll go and check on her." Sakura said, standing up, giving Naruto an evil eye as she went over to the wrenching Skylar just over the ridge. Naruto noticed everyone watching him with mixed expressions and wondered what he did wrong. Sakura checked Skylar discreetly for signs of pregnancy but found none and let out a silent sigh of relief before continuing helping Skylar with her throwing up while the guys packed up camp. Sakura came back, half supporting Skylar and sat her down for a while as she gathered her things.
"What's the panic Skylar?" Sasuke asked, being the least insensitive of the lot.
"I just figured everything out, we need to get back so I can alert Tsunade… You're not going to like it." Skylar warned them. Sasuke carried Naruto's bag while Naruto carried Skylar on his back as they went full speed back to Konoha.