Saki: Wow it's been forever since this story's been updated. Good to be back right?
Kohana: (grumbles unahppily.)
Me: (Curses underbreath)
Saki: Right neither of you two are happy. (Turns to reader) Kohana and our lovely authoress both got called attention seeking whores by some cowardly jackass that wasn't brave enough to read all of the chapters and only left an anonymous review.
Me: That person if they choose to read this can seriously kiss my ass. I started this thing in like the seventh grade but posted it in 09 because of my friends and lovely beta who I'm super happy to say is back. This fic has only been up for some odd months i'd have to check to be accurate not FIVE YEARS. If your going to be rude and flame someone please get your facts right and read the entire fic. Also maybe instead of being mean and hurtful you could give constructive critisism and tell me what you think i should do to fix it.
Saki: Are you done now.
Me: one more thing I think that person is a t-total BITCH. AND KARMA IS ALIVE AND IT WILL GET YOUR RUDE ASS. I HOPE YOU DEVELOPE HERPES!
Saki: She's not serious...about the herpes thing at least. She's not that mean. Just hurt.
Sasuke and Kakashi teleported moments after Shikamaru's fight had ended. The first thing Sasuke noticed was a rather raged looking Kohana unconsciously leaning against Naruto for support. In a mere blink of the eye he was by her side with a very obvious worried look.
"Is she ok?" Kakashi asked Asuma who though looked as relaxed as ever was still clearly worried for his youngest niece.
He huffed a little as he crossed his arms over his chest, "She's fine, stupid girl was nearly on her last ounce of charka when they finally called it a tie." He took a long drag of his cigarette before continuing, "If it had gone on for a minute longer, they'd have both been dead."
Sasuke tore his onyx eyes away from Kohana's sleeping face to look at her uncle, "Who did she fight?"
"Saki."
"Saki?" Kakashi asked in quinine surprise before he began to chuckle, "Well I can see why they called it a draw. If Saki's grown to be anything like her sister I'd say she's as stubborn as hell." He looked down at the unconscious Kunoichi with pride, "Neither one would be willing to actually place the other in harms way, but neither would be willing to give up or back down."
Asuma nodded in agreement before saying in all honesty, "I was actually worried that I'd have to bury both of my brother's girls there for a moment," he sighed sadly his eyes showing the years and years of wear and tear that being a Shinobi brought, "I don't think I'd be able to bury anyone else."
Sasuke ignored the rest of the talk between the sensei. The only thing on his mind was Kohana and to put it simply and honestly she looked like crap. Her ponytail was on the verge of coming completely undone, though most of her hair already fell into her face. Her white Capri pants were stained with a mixture of dirt and her blood; the only future for them was the garbage. Her black halter top was in a little better condition, though the same could not be said for her black mesh undershirt.
"She's going to be ok Sasuke," Naruto said bringing him out of his stupor, "One of the ANUB said she'll just be sore and weak for the next couple of days."
"Hn," was Sasuke's only reply before they called his and Gaara's names for the finale match. Before teleporting down he cast Kohana one last look.
'I'm sorry Kohana.'
After Saki's fight Gaara had stuck closer to her side then he usually did. The ANUB who had been sent to check on her was momentarily frightened when he approached the unconscious girl. The artic glare that Gaara had sent him had almost made him run for the hills. The only thing that had made him remain calm was the knowledge that the Hokage was awaiting news on his granddaughter's condition.
Yes, this is what years of grueling training had prepared him for.
Of course he got the hell out of there once he announced Saki was fine, but would be rather weak and sore for a while.
Gaara watched in silent amusement as the 'elite' ANUB ran half scared out of his wits. If only Saki had been awake then she would have vocally noted the ANUB's terror and make a huge joke out of it just to make the others laugh.
Temari who was sitting to the right of her unconscious teammate had a rather solemn look on her face. "I don't feel right about this," she murmured mostly to herself though she knew Baki, Gaara, and Kankuro would hear her, "without having Saki with us."
Ever since Saki had come to live with the sand siblings Temari had adopted the girl as a younger sister being as she only had two brothers. It felt wrong to do something like this without her.
"She wouldn't help us Temari," Baki said repeating what he had already told his teammates. "Saki may be our comrade but you can't forget this is her birth home. The chance that she would turn on us to help out the Leaf is far too high." He let out a deep breath before looking at the blonde girl with a serious face, "I promise nothing will happen to her though. She's not going to be strong enough to fight even if she wakes up."
"You don't know Saki," Gaara spoke up making his siblings and sensei look at him in shock, he walked pass them to get to his fight, "Saki will fight until she dies."
Kohana was abruptly awoken from her exhaustion slumber by the sound and force of an explosion. Before she had even had time to get to her feet or ask what the hell was going on she found herself being grabbed by the arms and forced away from her friends.
"HANA-CHAN!" Naruto yelled before he was overpowered by the Genjutsu that rendered him and the other's unconscious.
"LET ME GO!" she screamed at her captor as she was forced to the roof where the Hokage and Kazekage had been seated.
She had no idea what was in store for her.
Just like her sister, Saki too was awoken by the sound of the explosion coming from the Hokage and Kazekage's spots. Though unlike her sister Saki was able to get to her feet and see Gaara on his knees holding his head in his hands. Temari, Kankuro, and Baki were beside him talking about something. She then noticed Sasuke looking rather confused.
"GAAR-AHHHH!" she let out a loud piercing scream when she was roughly grabbed from behind and whisked up to the source of the explosion. She struggled in vain with her kidnaper until she was roughly thrown onto the roof of the building. She groaned in pain landing on her already bruised and probably cracked ribs. Her eyes snapped open when she heard a very similar groan.
Kohana was lying on her side with her legs curled up to her chest with her arms around her sides; tears were evident in the corners of her eyes. She had also been thrown to land on her cracked ribs. Why the hell did a simple cracked bone hurt so much worse then a broken one? It makes no sense!
Tearing her eyes away from her injured twin her stare was directed at the two cloaked figures. She gasped in surprise when she instantly recognized the Kazekage she had lived with for the last six years holding a kunai to her grandfather's throat.
"Ka-ka-Kazekage-sama?" she asked her voice shaking at the theory that was rushing through her mind, 'Please God let me be wrong.'
"He's not the Kazekage, Saki," Sarutobi said in a surprisingly calm voice, "Stick close to your sister no matter what."
"Papa-,"
"No buts Saki!" her grandfather barked, "Stay close to Kohana and erect the protection barrier your mother taught you two. No matter what happens, stay inside the barrier with your sister!"
Reluctantly Saki crawled over to her sister knowing that her grandfather had a point, she had no charka left to fight whoever was pretending to be the Kazekage. She was barely going to have enough to use the barrier jutsu her grandfather was speaking of. They'd have to do it…
"Kohana," she said softly helping her sister up to a sitting position, her identical hazel green eyes fluttered open with a whine of protest, "We need to use the technique that mom taught us. We have to make a protection barrier."
Kohana nodded as she clasped her left hand with her sister's left. Focusing both girls focused all of their charka together to make more of it.
"What is this?" Orochimaru asked in awe as he watched dark purple charka form around the two small girls. (We all know who he is already so I'm just using his name. I think I read somewhere that Orochimaru had purple charka but I don't give a damn. That's these girls colors, PURPLE IS AWESOME!)
Sarutobi couldn't help but in pride at the technique that his granddaughters' had created at a very young age, "Their combining their charka together to make a bigger reserve. Their bonds as sisters, twins, and friends are all factors in making it work correctly. Love is the binding force here." He paused for a moment to add lowly, "Not that you could possibly remember that, now do you Orochimaru?"
Orochimaru chuckled in amusement, "So you figured it out eh Master?"
Kohana groaned as she leaned against her sister for support, the combining of charka technique that they used was very tiring. It was pretty bad when you had all of your charka but it was even worse when you were on your last ounce of it.
"This is going to be bad," she whispered softly.
"I know."
"PAPA!" Kohana and Saki both screamed in unison as they watched the blade Orochimaru threw go straight through their grandfather's back sending the old man to his knees coughing up blood.
Orochimaru stood hunched over with his arms hanging uselessly by his sides. His face was twisted in shock and worry. He was too wrapped up in his own predicament that he never noticed the now crimson eyed twins charging at him with the same determined look in their eyes.
His death.
"OROCHIMARU-SAMA!" Kabuto (once again we all know it's him) yelled entering through a break in the larger barrier to aid his 'sensei'. All he really was able to do was take a rather deep swipe to the face leaving a wound that would make a very prominent scar in the later future. Courtesy of the razor sharp claws that now adjourned Saki's hands.
"Move boy!" Kohana hissed venomously though the voice that spoke had a certain melodic/terrifying ring to it that defiantly did not belong to Sarutobi Kohana, "This Sannin will die."
"By our hands," Saki continued; her tone was also different having a soothing tone as well as an acidic side. It was highly unnerving and confusing to Kabuto.
"What are they?" he whispered in a mixture of fear and awe.
"Not now," Orochimaru rasped as one of his lackeys picked him up, "We have to go NOW!"
Kohana and Saki both made another dodge for the snake when they were forced back thanks to a rather handy wall of earth compliments of Jirobo. When they were back on their feet the Sannin and his minions were long gone.
Slowly both sisters turned to look at the lifeless body of their grandfather before inhumane screams tore from their throats. A million different emotions were rushing through their veins but there was a certain thing that was BRIGHT red.
Blood
Jiraiya looked up at the now clear roof where the Hokage and Orochimaru's fight had taken place, the inhumane screams that had just echoed through the entire village making every Shinobi shake in terror for a moment could only mean one thing.
The twins were slowly giving in…
"KAKASHI!" he barked getting the Jonin's attention, "Find Konohamaru and bring him to the roof top as fast as you can! Asuma, Gai, Anko, Kurenai follow me!"
The Jonins stared after the Legendary Sanin in confusion for a moment before they hesitantly followed him to the roof top. They were all speechless when they saw the dead body of their Hokage. What was even more upsetting were the twins, who were on their knees at his side with their faces in their hands.
"Kohana-," Kurenai started to reach out for the young girl when her head snapped up with inhumane speed.
All of the adults gasped at the eerie blood red eyes that had replaced her normal hazel green.
"Oh god no…," Asuma muttered.
Without a sound both girl's lunged at the teachers in a blinding rage of fury only wanting blood, blood, and more blood. Their inner beasts were calling out for the sweet red liquid.
Jiraiya had barely managed to grasp both of Saki's fists into his hands when she pounced at him. After swirling her around, he crossed her arms keeping her prisoner. Seeing this Asuma, did the same thing with Kohana keeping her pinned in herself yet close to his body to prevent her from thrashing around to much and escaping.
"I've got Konohamaru now wha-," Kakashi froze seeing his pupil thrash and kick heatedly trying to escape her uncle's grasp. Her eyes were crimson red reminding him of blood.
"Saki? Kohana?" Konohamaru called out his voice quivering as he stood behind his sister's mentor just incase things got out of control, "ONEESAN!" he yelled with tears in his eyes making the twins freeze up. Their faces were contorted with pain and sadness as they went limp in the men's arms letting their strawberry blonde hair fall in their faces.
Carefully Jiraiya and Asuma let the two down then took a giant step back to make sure they were in the clear.
The two sisters sat there with their heads bowed in utter silence for a few minutes before Kakashi got brave enough to approach Kohana. Squatting down to her level.
"Kohana?" he asked softy pushing the hair out of her face to see silent tears rolling down her face. Her eyes slowly blinked open to see the concerned face of her sensei. Before she even knew what she was really doing she threw her arms around his neck and began crying her heart out.
"I tried…" she whimpered before she finally fell unconscious in the Jonin's arms, "I tried…"
Asuma sat in one of the uncomfortable plastic chairs they kept for the guest in the hospital rooms. Kohana and Saki both lay in opposite beds side by side completely unconscious. Konohamaru was curled up in a rather uncomfortable looking position in the chair across the room by Saki's side; the poor kid had passed out as soon as he heard his sisters were fine. Both girls were unharmed for the most part though; they did have cracked ribs and a few cuts and bruises that would leave them sore for a while. But it wasn't this that was concerning Asuma.
No, it was the fact that they had BOTH been using the Kekki Genkai that they knew would eventually lead to their downfall if they kept depending on it.
Asuma drifted into thoughts of the twin's mother: Tanaka Amarante. The Sarutobi children's mother had originally be a part of the Village Hidden in the Rain before the Sannin Medic Nin Tsunade had taken her in as her apprentice. Amarante had left her home without a look over her shoulder being as she had already been disowned by her clan and cared for no one in her village. She had traveled for a long time with Tsunade before deciding to settle in the Leaf Village with the Third Lord's permission. In the Leaf Village she was just a normal Kunoichi and she enjoyed that very much. When she met the Third Hokage's oldest son it was instantly love at first sight.
She loved him so much that she even told him her deepest darkest secret.
Her family's 'cursed' Kekkei Genkai.
Every person born into the Tanaka line had the ability to acquire super strength that out did Tsunade's, super speed, sight, hearing, and smell. They even had the ability to become immortal. But the price they paid for this was the in an almost uncontrollable lust of human blood.
Amarante's family had been rather sinister, as they didn't care whose life they took for power, but Amarante was different. From an early age she had developed a conscious that told her that mindless killing of people just for power was wrong, but with this gift came another price. Whenever she found herself in a rather dangerous predicament or at her rope's end, she would hear a dark menacing voice in the back her mind trying to get her to give into her 'true' nature.
Amarante never gave in and was able to be a powerful Kunoichi on her own without the help of her Kekkei Genkai.
When she had become pregnant she had been worried that the Kekkei Genkai would be passed on to her children. And unfortunately it was…to the three oldest. Kyo, Saki, and Kohana. For years Amarante and Asuma's brother worked hard to instill the same conscious that had been their mother's saving grace. It appeared that the twins naturally had it from birth, but Kyo was a different story.
He had a darker side to him that Amarante chose to ignore, though the whole Sarutobi family could see it.
Her denial soon became her undoing.
Normal thing three reviews and I'll update. But for all of you loyal readers that have reviewd numerous times and everything I want to thank you and give you my love and prayers. But in your honest opinon if you think this story sucks ass please tell me and I'll pull the plug. This was my very first attempt at a Naruto fic and I've got at least two more different ones I could work on if this one isn't as good as I thought.
But enough depression. I have a new Naruto story it's my first attempt at a SakuraxSasuke story. Wish that asshole would read that. I don't hate Sakura NOW in the beginning she was a royal little bitch but now she has grown on me and I like her.
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