Dead?

-Three Days Later-

Her Team, The Hokage and Iruka were the only ones there. Her own mother couldn't seem to be bothered to go for the funeral. Kakashi walked away last, saying sorry over and over...for failing yet another Teammate. He welcomed the rain, the world could cry for him on that one miserable day.

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She woke up in the dark, it took her a few minute to realize it wasn't the dark of Kakashi's living room and after feeling around she figured out rather quickly why it was so dark. Never in a million years would she ever expect to wake up buried alive, the last thing she remembered was summoning Kokoro and taunting Orochimaru while Kakashi snuck up behind him. She stayed as calm as she could and began to try and dig her way out. Several minutes later she pushed her way free of the darkness and found herself laying next to her own head marker. Civilians cringed away in fear as she made her way to Kakashi's, so intent on finding him she didn't notice the obvious changes in her stature. She didn't notice her now older features, or how tiny her once baggy clothing had become. She didn't notice the silver snake mark on her throat, that had caused it all. When she finally reached Kakashi's building she found herself with no key so sh pulled chakra to her feet and climbed the wall till she reached his window. As she landed in the small bedroom she realized something was wrong very quickly, one minute she was standing by the window the next she was pinned to a wall kunai at her throat and Sharigan blazing angrily at her. She was being lulled into the empy void of his Sharigan when her marks came to life. Kakashi stared in confusion as the grey eyes began to glow and darkened to a liquid black and silver vines began to spread across the kunoichis body, but what threw him the most was that she broke his Sharigans hold on her mind. And as quickly as it had happened it was gone, the girl slumped forward held up only by Kakashi's arms. "Sensei?"

Kakashi carried her into the bathroom and filled the tub and began to rinse the mud off, he had her washed dried and tucked into his bed in a matter of minutes. The words she'd spoken running through his head. Logic told him it wasn't possible that she was dead but the girl on his bed did in fact resemble her only a much more grown up version. He sat there waiting for her to wake up, hoping he wasn't crazy...that this wasn't an illusion...hoping she was real and swearing if she was that he'd protect her this time.

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This time when she woke up it wasn't darkness that greeted instead it was the bright sunshine of Konaha, and a sleeping Kakashi. She got up to use the restroom before she decided to wake him, if only that had gone as planned...

Kakashi woke to a scream, he looked around for Katsumi and began to panic as he ran for the bathroom where she was still screaming. He found her sitting on the floor, fist bloody shards from the mirror she'd punched lodged in her fist and crying. "What happened to me Sensei?" He knelt down and began to pull the glass out, "I failed you, You died. But now you're back and I won't let you down again." She smiled up at him sadly.

"Promises, Promises Hatake...should I be worried, you're going soft." The both turned to stare at the man who'd spoken, Katsumi stopped the scream that bubbled up at the vision before her. There stood Orochimaru or so it seemed, "You're safe for now child but your precious Sensei wont always be there to protect you, one of these dark night I will catch you unawares and then you'll be mine." Kakashi stood between her and her fathers apperation but as soon as he'd appeared he disappeared, leaving behind a visibly shaken girl and a protective Shinobi who's new vow was to protect her at all cost. "He won't stop Kakashi, he won't ever give up...the only way I'll survive this is if I'm better than him." She sat there shaking until he picked her up and carried her into the livingroom setting her down on the couch while he started to bandage her hand, "Well then I guess we have our work cut out for us, tomorrow we can begin training."

~Fight or Flight~

"When faced with an opponent you need to quickly asses everything and decide in a matter or minute whether to stay and fight or run, today we're going to work on the basis that we've decided to run. Your oppenent is stronger and faster so you need to be even stonger and even faster than him." Katsumi looked around in confusion, Kakashi had disappeared. All she heard was his whisper in her ear. "Run..." She threw herself forward and into the tree's, she narrowly dodged a kunai that he flung at her head. She pushed her body to its limit and releasing the curse marks she pushed past it. Kakashi appeared in front of her and knocked her to the forest floor. "You're dead." She glared at him as the marks receded and she dusted herself off. "Those marks aren't for your use, you don't use them. Thats exactly what he want you to do, and you're playing right into his hand."

She spent the next few weeks running, everytime she'd try to defend or change she *died* eventually she started to not only train with a Kakashi but the rest of Team 7 and anyone else who was willing to have her. Only Kakashi new the truth about her as far as everyone else was told she was new to Konaha. It was while she was running alongside Sasuke and Naruto that the idea came to her, if she could run far enough she could hide so she tried it one day while Kakashi was momentarily distracted by Sasuke she took a page from his book and hid herself underground masking her chakra in the process. She waited there until she felt Kakashi's frantic chakra signature appear where she'd disappeared and she sprung into action. She was up out of the dirt with a kunai at his throat before he could blink. "You're dead, Sensei." Kakashi smiled beneathe his mask, hidden up in the tree's as the clone dispersed leaving her looking very confused.

"So you have the run and hide part down, now you need to be able to fight. Your Taijutsu is crap, Your Genjutsu is non-existant...Kurenai and Gai can help you on those you'll have extra training with them whenever they can spare the time. Your summons is useless against Orochimaru, forget your snake and readjust your tastes to something more warm-blooded we're going to the Inuzuka Compound today for you to find a new Teammate/Summons. One of Hanas dogs just had puppies, she said you may have your pick of the litter."

She ended up picking two of the dogs of the nine that were there, an all black pup she names Yin and an pure white pup she names Yang. She smiles and carries them away with her as Kakashi pays Hana for the pups. "You owe me your soul for this Katsumi." She ignores his complaining and runs after the puppies who' ve decided to play tag with her and Kakashi. All fun and games ended soon enough. For the next Several months she found herself training three times a week with Kurenai, three times with Gai and every day with Kakashi and her dogs. All she did was train, every day till she was exhausted. She was exstatic when Team 7 got their first real Mission out of Konaha, it seemed like a simple escort mission to the Land of Waves but quickly became much more complicated.

A/N: So I didn't like the previous post of this Chapter and I decided to change it up, I'll have a new Chapter up soon. Sorry I've been away for so long. I've been Kinda stuck on writing, it just wasn't happening...I'm not even totally happy with this chapter itself but I need it to start out the basis for my story idea.