It had been a few days and they were still travailing but had, had no trouble so far until today. Katana, Hinata, Kiba and Shino were talking amongst themselves while walking while Kurenai and Tazuna talked. A group of ninja were hiding in the trees waiting for them to get there. When Katana ran off and started doing something without any of them knowing the ninja jumped out and attacked.
"Watch out!" Katana yelled running and jumping behind Tazuna taking the blow to her stomach and pulled it out.
"How did we not notice?" Kurenai said to herself and they all started fighting.
A few hours later they were still fighting while protecting Tazuna. Kurenai was fine, Hinata was struggling, Shino was doing okay, Kiba was alright but Katana could hardly stand on her own two feet while standing in front if Tazuna protecting him from harm. Two large shuriken went at Katana with chains attached to them. Katana froze to the spot with her sword held up in front of her, patting heavily, trying to get air into her lungs. Shino noticed this and threw a couple of Kunai pinning the chains to trees and the shuriken stop and crash into the ground. Katana breathed quicker then she would normally do. She closed her eyes and took in a long deep breath of air before opening her eyes again with a new look in them. A look of determination, strength and fury, she took in one more breath before skidding on her heels and ran for the large shuriken. When she got to them she grabbed them and threw them back at the men as she went running round and nearly crashed into a man standing there with a huge metal sword on his back with a hand on the halt of it.
"Who are you?" Katana asked wanting to just ran but she wound never do that.
"Why would you want to know girl?"
"What's your name?"
He sighed. "Zabuza,"
Katana's eye's widened. "Your kidding right?"
"No, do you know me?"
"No but I'm sure a friend of mine does," Katana said backing away slowly.
"Really and who would that be?"
"Um... I don't know... I just think I might have heard your name around."
He glared at her and at her bandana. "Your from the leaf village?"
"Yeah, what of it?"
"I hate that village!" Katana went stiff. He hated the village? Now that wasn't a smart thing to say.
"And why is that?"
"I have my reasons,"
"Reasons! Everyone has their reasons for things and what are you meant to be a ninja from the village hidden in the mist or something like that!" she growled. He grinned.
"Your not to bad for a Genin,"
"What about it?"
"You even guessed where I was from."
Katana stopped and looked at his bandana. Gee... that was a lucky guess I didn't even notice that before. She thought and started walking backwards again. She quickly turned and ran back to the others as five ninja jumped out in front of them.
"Kakashi-sensei, Kaya, Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura what the heck are you doing here?" Katana said and Kaya turned and looked at her.
"Hay Katana, where just doing what we were sent to do. Hunt down the merciless killer Zabuza Momochi and looks like we came the right way. By the way hi everyone!" she said the others and Tazuna was confused.
"You might want to continue on with what you were doing and get Tazuna home. We can take care of this guy and his little friends." Kakashi-sensei said and Kaya went back to what she was doing.
"Okay, bye!" Katana said and her squad went on and left Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke, Naruto, Kaya and Sakura to deal with Zabuza and the others.
"No, you don't!" one of the ninja growled and attacked Katana from behind. He grabbed her and held a Kunai to her throat.
"Mmmm...." Katana mumbled into his hand.
"What was that?" he said moving it.
"I said... Let me go you bloody skum!" she growled starting to kick her legs around. Hinata stopped and turned around.
"Katana!" she called and the rest of the squad and Tazuna stopped. Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke and Naruto were fighting Zabuza while Kaya and Sakura were fighting the ninja. Kurenai-sensei turned around and looks at Katana trapped and Hinata running over to Katana to help.
"Hinata!" Kurenai-sensei called but Hinata didn't hear her. She put her hands together and concentrated.
"Byakugon." she said and opened her eyes. She ran straight at them and skidded to a stop in front of them.
"Hinata, what are you doing?" Katana asked her quietly. Hinata didn't answer and the ninja wasn't paying attention to Katana anymore so she slowly and quickly got out of it and ran to Hinata. Hinata did a little nod and ran at the ninja and started to fight, hitting his Chakra points.
"Katana, are you alright?" Kurenai-sensei asked running over with the others.
"Yeah, I'm fine. No harm done. I don't think." Katana said the last part to herself. She lifted a hand to her throat and felt it but nothing was wrong. Katana breathed in and closed her eyes, she heard something from behind her and clinched her fist spinning around and hit them square in the face. She opened her eyes and looked down at the ninja.
They glared up at Katana and she just grinned. "I thought you ninja were supposed to be good," she commented, "I didn't think you could get hit that easily." she tried not to laugh at it.
"Yeah, yeah, brat!" they growled to their selves and got up. Out of nowhere a hole army or large group of ninja jumped out but only went running at Katana, Kaya, Sakura, Hinata, Kurenai-sensei and Tazuna not caring about the boys that were there. Two of the men went for Katana and she ran for it in the opposed direction away from her friends and ended up at a lake. A lake, just at the right time when I need one, Katana smiled and turned as four ninja jumped out, who were after her. Katana clapped her hands together and made hand-signs.
"Water style: Ice dragon!" she called and a huge dragon came out of the water and moved around, when the ninja went at her, she smirked and the dragon went at them. One of them got hit and taken into the lake with the dragon. The other three moved out of the way and when the dragon was gone they sprinted at her. Oh-no! She thought. This isn't good, damn them! She made more hand-signs and dodge the Shuriken thrown at her. "Multi shadow clone Jutsu!" she said and multiple clones of her appeared confusing the ninja as she attacked them. Ok, time to try out this special technique of mine! Katana thought putting a hand at her side open and facing the ninja and the other in front of her face with two fingers pointing to the sky and her eyes closed. She stayed like this for a few moments until a aqua blue-green light started appearing in a ball in her hand.
Kiba was fighting off ninja helping everyone but soon noticed that Katana was gone and had knocked the guy out then ran off in the direction her could hear loud noises. He ran until he saw four ninja attacking a girl and knew it was Katana. He stayed in the trees just encase she would need his help while fighting off other ninja. All her clones had been taken out and now there was only her and two ninja, they looked at each other then at the ball of Chakra in her hand but ran at her anyway. Katana snapped open her eyes and went into a sprint toward the guys with her hand to her side and called out. "Armato Sumorata!" when she got in close range she hit one of them and the other got behind her and stabbed her with a Kunai, she whined but stayed focused until it had taken effect on the guy and the other guy had moved away and thrown a few Shuriken at her and got her in the back, legs and one of her arms. Kiba saw this and went running out of the trees and over to her and before she hit the ground he caught her and the ninja attacked her and Kiba. Akamaru growled and sprinted at the guy and started attacking him. Taking out one of his legs and arms so he couldn't do anything. Katana tried to sit up but when she did she fell back again. What did he do to me? She thought to herself and looked at the guy and his smug grin.
"What's so funny!?" she growled trying to sit up again and managed to this time.
"Nothing, just blocked off Chakra points in your body with my Kunai and Shuriken," he smirked as Chakra started to flare off the Kunai in her back and the Shuriken in her.
"Ahh... Damn you!" she hissed grabbing her right arm as it started to shoot pain throw her body again like it did a year or so ago. Damn it, what is it with this stupid pain striking me at times when I need to be consecrating the most and getting memories or peoples voices and all! She growled in her thoughts and that same chain of voices came back to her again. 'Katana you need to calm down. One day you will meet a boy and won't ever know till the time in your life. You have someone else there.'an older females voice rang in her head 'when I grow up I want to be just like you, Katana!' a little girl smiled 'you can win if you put your mind to it and when the times are hard you will have others that care about you and one will like you more then a sister or friend and you will never let anything happen to any of them. We love you Katana.' a male said hugging his eldest daughter. I still don't get it but I think they might have been talking about Kiba but what's with the pain coming from my arm? She sighed and tried to ignore the pain but it only got stronger. Damn it! She growled and fell to the ground still holding her arm. Why can't I get rid of it!? Kiba looked down at Katana and grint his teeth. The guy grinned and got up and started walking over. Katana could hear the footsteps and opened her eyes after a few moments. Akamaru growled at the guy while standing in front of Katana in an attempt to protect her. The ninja pulled out his sword and held it up over Kiba's head and brought it down. Katana jumped and pulled her sword out throwing it over his neck with her arms about it and her holding the blade with her other hand, the guys sword clashed against hers and she held it there even though the blade was cutting into her hand. Kiba looked down and to his sides, Katana's arms on ether side of his head and her sword above his neck with her in a lying down yet sitting position. Something dropped onto his neck and he lifted his hand up and wiped it bringing it back down and looked at the red liquidly stuff, then he knew it was Katana's blood. He looked up to one side and saw her hand under the blade of the sword but it was up right instead of being on it's side to block and was cutting into the palm of her hand. He looked back at her and her eyes were clinched shut and her teeth grint together, her sword was shaky as are her hands.
"Just put the sword down girl," the guy growled pushing harder.
"Not on your life," she breathed in and opened her eyes. "There is no way that I will do that."
"So you would do this just to protect this boy?" he laughed still putting more pressure onto her hands. "Just give up and take it."
"Never," she growled out. "You just don't get it do you!?"
"Get what?"
"You don't even understand what your saying. Giving up is one of the worse things you could do, it could cost you a friends life or your own. That's not the way of a ninja," she paused drawing in air. "If you ever knew what it was like then maybe you wouldn't be telling me to just give up and let someone close to me die. If I did that I wouldn't deserve to be called a ninja. Cause you know what?"
"What?" he smirked trying to keep the blade pushing down on hers but somehow she was pushing his away.
"Understand this," she paused as a tear fell from her eye and she kept pushing her blade away from Kiba's neck even though she had blood dripping from her hand. "One day I'll be Hokage, then the village will stop disrespecting me and treat me like somebody, somebody important. I never go back on my word and I never run away!" she growled pushing his sword away and him backwards as she got to her feet. Kiba was sitting on the ground behind her amazed at her. "Don't think you can count me out. I never run away, I don't give up and I won't hide!" she growled and ran at the guy with her sword and her hand to her side with blood all over it from her sword.
What is it about this girl that makes her so strong and yet when she's hurt she will still fight!? The ninja thought fending off her attacks.
Kaya and the others were getting some where in this and were winning. They had injuries but could still fight and wouldn't give up. Kakashi had been hurt and Tazuna was in hiding so he wouldn't get involved in any of the fighting and they could do their job. Tazuna was looking around and noticed that two of the Genin who were protecting him had disappeared and he decided to go find them without getting seen, seeing as these ninja wanted to kill him and he went off to look for Katana and Kiba.
Katana had managed to knock the guy unconscious for a little while but he woke up again. The other three had ether run away or were still knocked unconscious from earlier. Katana put her sword in its sheath and made hand-sighs as he ran at her again and the aqua blue-green Chakra became a ball in her hand again and she ran at him. He had his sword out and held in front of him as he ran. Katana went straightforward and held her hand to her side until she was in front of him and held her hand at his stomach with the point of his sword only inches away from stabbing her in the stomach. When she hit him with all she could and her Chakra ran low tiring her out he fell to the ground letting go of his sword and the Chakra took effect on him. Quickly burning him on the inside and slowly melting him on the outside. When it was done Katana smiled and fell backwards onto the ground breathing heavily trying to take in the air. Kiba walked over to her and knelt beside her.
"How are you?" Katana asked breathlessly.
"I'm fine but I should be asking you that," Kiba said and Katana sat up and started coughing.
"I'm fine, I think I might have just over used my Chakra a little," she smiled and fell back again breathing unevenly.
"A little? Katana. You mean over used it a lot." Kiba laughed and Katana lightly hit him in the arm.
"Okay, okay. I over used it a lot but it was worth it, especially to protect one of my closed friends!" she smiled and sat up grabbing her arm again as it send pain throw her body again. Not this again! She sighed and looked up at Kiba, who was looking back down at her. Katana blinked and looked over to the water where the three guys walked out and took one look at her then bolted off and away as far as they could. She smiled and lifted her hand above her head and looked at the really deep cut one her palm from her sword with blood still dripping out of it but it was drying quickly stopping the blood from coming out anymore. She sighed and dropped her hand to her side and looked back at Kiba. Again I've gotten myself into a bad situation to protect someone and still come out of it alive but as long as Kiba and Akamaru are okay then I don't care. She smiled to herself and sat up. Kiba had a small smile on his face and leaned down to Katana and yet again Katana was utterly and completely confused but soon knew what he was doing. Kiba leaned right in still looking into her eyes and kissed her again and hugged her to him but this time Katana hugged him back and closed her eyes. I might not get what any of this is but I sure as hell don't care anymore, they can say all they want about me but I know I have people who care so stuff them! Katana thought and the males voice came back to her mind. 'you can win if you put your mind to it and when the times are hard you will have others that care about you and one will like you more then a sister or friend and you will never let anything happen to any of them. We love you Katana.' a male said hugging his eldest daughter. Katana felt hers and Kiba's heart miss a beat and his grip tighten on her and hug her closer to him. Katana knew what was going on but didn't know what to do and she was in shock. She heard footsteps coming their way and stop not to far from the trees. She guessed Kiba heard it to cause he pulled away and looked to the side a little then back at Katana with a small smile on his face. Katana looked around Kiba and went stiff. Oh shit! Did they see that!? She thought and nudged Kiba a little and he looked and clinched his fists. Damn it, this isn't good and it won't end well ether! He thought with a sigh. He let go of Katana and she slowly moved away from him and watched the people standing there. Kaya and Naruto didn't seem to care while they rolled around on the ground cracking up laughing, Sasuke stood there with his hands in his pockets just looking at them not caring at all, Shino was cocking an eye brow at the two of them, Hinata, Tazuna and Kakashi-sensei where dumbfounded and Kurenai-sensei was lying on the ground with a hand over her head like she had just had a bad nightmare or had a major migraine. Sakura. Well Sakura wasn't taking this two well and looked like she was going mental.
"What the hell is going on here?" Sakura asked trying not to yell. Everyone looked at each other then at Katana and Kiba and Akamaru but they weren't there. "Hay, where did they go?" they all shrugged and went to find them meanwhile Kiba, Katana and Akamaru were hiding under the dock near the lake watching everything that was going on with their friends and nearly cracked up laughing at Sakura's reaction. Kaya, Sasuke and Naruto walked over to the dock and sat on the end of it with their feet over the edge. Katana smiled and slowly swam over to them and stoped behind their feet.
"When did they get together?" Kaya asked out loud.
"I don't know but that was funny!" Naruto said starting to laugh again. Katana smiled and grabbed his feet pulling him in and went under the water and went back over to Kiba and Akamaru.
"Naruto, you're not supposed to fall in, you idiot," Kaya laughed.
"I didn't fall in, I got pulled in!"
"Sure you did, who could have-" Kaya started but cut off when she went into the water pulling Sasuke with her by accident. Katana held her breath watching them fall in the water and growled at Naruto but she couldn't help but laugh when Kaya started swim chasing Naruto around. She went under and popped up behind Sasuke a little away and cracked up laughing. Kiba shook his head and swam out as well getting up on the dock and sat there watching.
"You know you two never seem to get any less funny!" Katana laughed out looking at Kaya and Naruto who stoped and looked at her.
"Katana!" Kaya said and Katana swam off under the water and up behind Naruto.
"Yeah?" Katana said and watched Kaya turn around and swim at Naruto. Katana smiled and went under the water and transformed into another Naruto dragged him under and a few moments later came up at the same time looking at each other and both looking like idiots.
"Witch one's, Naruto!?" Kaya said and looked at Sasuke and Kiba sitting on the dock watching and they shrugged. "You two are know help at all." she growled and they grinned. Katana was acting like Naruto but went into uncontrollable laughter and change back into herself and flouted to the shore, got out and run and sat behind Kiba and Sasuke and they just looked at her then back at the water and Naruto who was very dizzy right now, Kaya hit him over the head and got out after Katana and sat with them and finally Naruto got out and just lay on the dock with his eyes closed.
"Hay, Katana?" Kaya asked
"Yeah?"
"What happened to your hand?" Kaya took Katana's left hand with the really deep cut on the palm from her sword.
"Nothing, just got cut is all while fighting," Katana said taking her hand back and looked at it them put it in her lap.
"Katana, what happened?"
"Just like I told you, I cut myself when I was fighting. It's know big deal,"
"What's it from?"
"My sword," she said and looked away and into the sky.
"Your sword! How did that happen!?" Naruto pipped in jumping up.
"Do you really need to know, cause it's nothing that impotent," Katana grumbled closing her eyes and a few moments later they snapped open. "All that we need to worry about is getting Tazuna back home and to his family." Katana said and sat up with a sad look in her eyes.
"Katana, are you okay?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, just getting lost in thought is all, come on lets go find everyone else." Katana put on a brave smile, stood up and helped the others up. Naruto was running around with Kaya after him and Sasuke not far behind them, Kiba next to but behind Sasuke and Katana was trailing behind them all not paying attention to where she was going. Naruto ran back and grabbed her shoulders bringing her out of thought and she was looking at a big thick tree trunk. "Thank-you," she said and moved away from it and walked over to Sasuke and Kiba to make sure she really didn't run into anything or fall off a cliff walking behind everyone. They walked back to where they got attacked and surprisingly Kakashi-sensei, Kurenai-sensei, Tazuna, Hinata, Shino and Sakura were there and as soon as Sakura saw Katana and Kiba she ran over to them and pulled them away. Sasuke shook his head and sat down with Kaya and Naruto and the others.
"What is it, Sakura?" Kiba asked pulling his arm away from her and crossed them.
"Are you two-" Sakura started, Katana yanked her arm away from her and hit a tree and it was the hand with the cut on it.
"Nothing is going on, it's none of your business and you don't need to know anything about it! So just shut up, butt out and stay the hell out of my life!" Katana snapped and walked away and continued to where she was going before they got attacked.
"Did she just?"
"Yes, she did and she really doesn't need you interrogating her," Kiba said with a sigh.
"Uh... did she hurt herself earlier?" Sakura asked looking at the tree.
"Yeah, why?"
"Cause well there's blood on the tree her hand hit," Sakura said pointing at it. Kiba looked at it and turned to where Katana walked off.
"She's crazy." Kiba said and ran off after her leaving Sakura very confused and Kaya, Sasuke, Naruto, Shino and Hinata walked over.
"You really should learn to stay out of other peoples business, Sakura." Kaya growled at her with her arms crossed in front of her.
"What do you know anyway, Kaya!?" Sakura bit back.
"I know a lot more then you do about, Katana, so I suggest you just stay out of her way and leave her alone unless necessary!" Kaya growled putting her arms to her side and clinched her fists. Sasuke and Naruto grabbed her arms and stopped her from lunging at Sakura.
"Really, and how much do you know about her? That she's still a child that has nothing. Yeah, I know that much. She doesn't have a clan or family, she's an outsider, an outcast, she's nothing but a worthless little-"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!" Kaya yelled with tense mussels. "You don't know anything about Katana or how to be a human being! If you knew anything you would know when to keep your mouth shut! If you knew anything about her you wouldn't be here bad mouthing her! If you knew anything about her or the others then maybe you would have friends! But no all you can seem to do is sit around brushing your hair all day and bad mouth someone else who could have just left you somewhere to die but saved your life at the cost of her own! Maybe you should try getting off your ass and train like everyone else does instead of paying more attention to boys and your hair and stop bad mouthing everyone! Get the hell over yourself and shut the hell up!" Kaya snapped as her voice started to get cocky. "You don't know the first thing about Katana and you serenely don't know the first thing about anyone in the hidden leaf village cause if you did you wouldn't be here bad mouthing a girl who lost everything when she was five and then again at ten! You wouldn't be bad mouthing her if you know anything about her or anyone else in the village that have lost everything in there lives! You wouldn't be talking about her like you are!" she paused taking in one huge breath. "Listen here, Sakura, if you ever bad mouth my best friend and sister again... I will kill you!" she said in a very threatening and foxes like growl. Sasuke and Naruto had loosened their grips on Kaya's arms as they listened to her snap at Sakura and if they could they would help but they knew this wasn't their place to do anything although they knew exactly what Kaya was talking about. Kakashi-sensei and Kurenai-sensei were astonished at what was going on and speechless none-the-less. Kakashi-sensei stood up and walked over to the Genin.
"Sakura, what is this that you are talking about?" Kakashi-sensei asked kneeling down to her height.
"What are you talking about Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked in her innocent voice.
Kaya growled shaking violently ready to smash Sakura's head into a tree.
"Why did you say such things?"
"I..." Sakura couldn't finish as she hit the ground.
"Who did that?" Kakashi-sensei said and looked up and there herself Katana was standing her fist's clinched and her nails digging into her hands, teeth grinding making clicking sounds and was giving her the promising death glare and her eyes had a bit of red in them.
"When did you get here?" Kaya asked and looked behind Katana and Kiba was holding both her arms so she couldn't do anything else.
"Just got here, but since when could Katana run so bloody fast?"
"Fast? What do you mean fast?" Sasuke asked looking at Katana and her red and blue eyes filled with pain and hatred. "Did she hear what Sakura said?"
"I'm guessing so cause otherwise what other reason could she have to do that,"
"She could have just heard me yelling at Sakura and figured out what was going on," Kaya said in her crackly voice.
"Katana?" Kiba said and she turned her head. "Did you hear what, Sakura said?"
"I didn't," Katana said calming down and he left her go. "Sara did."
"Sara?" Kurenai-sensei said, "You mean the Jaguar inside you?" Katana turned and looked at her and nodded and looked back at Sakura. "Your just lucky I won't let her take over and knock you senseless and leave you out here to die, because I'll tell you this," she paused, "I might be an outsider or an out cast to you but I don't care what you have to say. You have no idea how hard life is, Sakura. You don't know what it's like to lose your entire family and friends just in ten years on life or trying to get half way across this place is like. If you think it's so easy to live like that then why don't you try changing lives with one of us for a few years then maybe you'll understand what we go through every single day in our lives," she sighed blinking back a tear that wanted to fall from her eye. "Why do you think Naruto is always trying so hard in his training and always doing the wrong thing?"
"I don't know," Sakura, said holding her back as she sat up.
"Well let me just put it this way to make it easy for you," she took a breath in. "He has nothing and is trying to get somewhere. All he want's is to be seen and heard and not get pushed around and ignored by the village just because of what, the nine tailed fox inside him did! Well if you ask me, that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my entire life! It makes me sick to just think about it and having to go through that same punishment and cruelty as he does," she looked at Kakashi-sensei and Kurenai-sensei. "I've said it before and I'll say it again; Just like the knucklehead says. One day I'll be Hokage, and then the village will stop disrespecting me and treat me like somebody, somebody important. You know, If anyone ever listened to Naruto whenever he yells that out maybe they would understand how hard it is. If you listen to his voice but you know. I'm just like Naruto with that. So for once in your life, Sakura quit thinking about yourself and think about others who put your life before their own. I know Naruto would do anything to protect his friends and village and if I ever could I would go back and do that for my clan and the water village but I can't, all I can do is move on and help anyone else that I can in life." Katana sighed and turned to walk off as a tear escaped her eye. Hinata was shocked but also happy. Naruto was stand and blinked a few times before it got to his head and he looked up at Katana facing the other way and Kiba was hugging her, they really didn't care so what would it matter. Sasuke, Kaya, Shino, Kakashi-sensei, Kurenai-sensei and Tazuna were speechless one because they didn't know what Katana was talking about but two because they did but they never really thought to listen to things Naruto said and now Katana had opened their minds and understood why Naruto always yelled it out, why he always stayed strong, why he never did anything but try his best to get to where he was now, Katana had opened their minds and just told it how it was. She didn't want anything more then to just get respect and get treated like somebody and just have a family to care for her and others to listen and all. Kurenai-sensei sighed and walked over to Katana and Kiba. She rested a hand on Katana's shoulder and in seconds flat she was sitting on the ground, hugging Kurenai-sensei around the waist, crying into her and breathing heavily. Sakura slowly go up and went over to Katana.
"Katana, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"
"Just leave her alone, you've done enough damage for one day." Kaya said and knelt beside Katana. Naruto and Sasuke went over and sat with her. Kakashi-sensei tapped Sakura on the shoulder and they went off to talk away from everyone.
"Katana, are you okay?" Hinata asked, Katana looked up and at her friends and nodded a little as fresh tears started falling. She breathed in and wiped them away, shaking her head to get it out of her mind. "What are you thinking about that you keep getting distracted and nearly crashing into everything?"
"It's nothing,"
"Katana, it's always something so what is it?" Kaya said with a hint of a weird look on her face.
"Okay, you really want to know?" they all nodded. "Fine, I've been thinking about my clan and the water village and trying to remember my family but even when I do I never see them."
"What do you see, Katana?" Naruto asked sitting down next to Hinata.
"I see my clan getting killed in front of me and I can hear them crying for help and the people who did it laughing. Then it goes to the village but I can't see anyone cause the whole place is on fire and I just stand there watching it burn to the ground and that same laughter echoing through the village," she said sadly and looked away from everyone and to the sky. "But I just stood there and watched them burn to the ground and my clan get saluted right in front of me. I didn't do anything to save them!" she growled at herself and got up and lost her footing and fell, Kaya and Hinata quickly moved and caught her. "Thank-you." she barely said over a whisper.
"Don't worry about it but how are you meant to go on if you can't walk?"
"I will and I can, I'm not staying here and I'm not getting carried." Katana growled and grabbed a tree branch near her pulling herself up and leaned against the tree. She looked at her hand with the cut on it and glared at it and grabbed the branch with her hand and tried to pull herself up with it.
"Katana, what the hell are you doing!?" Sasuke snapped up as she pulled herself up onto the branch and grabbed the next one using her feet to help her up.
"Climbing,"
"With your hand that got cut?"
"Yeah, of cause. It can't do anything so why should I care." she said and jumped on the branch she was on and used both hands to grab the next one and pulled herself up, once her feet were on it and stood up and kept going up the tree. They all looked up the tree but they couldn't see Katana anymore, as she got higher up.
"Katana, come back down!" Kurenai-sensei called with a hand over her eyes looking up. Katana didn't reply as she was climbing, when she got to the top she grabbed the trunk and held herself to it. She could see for miles up there and there was a group of ninja heading their way. Katana clinched her teeth together and looked down but jumped. Sakura looked up into the tree and saw something coming down, she looked closely at it and her eyes went wide.
"What are you doing!?" she yelled as Katana started to come into view of everyone and they all moved out of the way. Katana landed on a branch and looked down.
"Nothing but we might want to get going,"
"Why is that, Katana?" Kakashi-sensei asked.
"Because there's a group of ninja heading this way and I don't think their friendly." Kurenai-sensei nodded and got up, as did everyone else. Katana stood up on the branch and started running throw the trees with them on the ground. Could that be Orochimaru's followers or just another group of ninja that think we have something they need? Katana thought looking out at where the group was.