How Did You Get to Me?
A Zabuza Love Story.
Chapter 10: Ominous Signs.
A couple of days pass since the incident on the bridge and you all are finally heading back to Konoha. "About time we left! Geez, I told you I was fine Kakashi, but, oh no, you had to insist that we stay at Tazuna's for a couple of days to rest." You say, pretending to be mad at him.
"Hmm…" he says, his nose buried in his Make-Out Paradise book.
"And don't you be getting any ideas from those books….Half of that stuff's impossible to do anyway."
Kakashi looks up, "How would you know? Have you tried it?"
Your face goes bright red, "N…no. O…of course, not. What kind of girl do you think I am?" Needless to say, you remain quiet after that embarrassing episode and don't bring up the subject again. You listen to Haku and Naruto talk about techniques and strategies while Sasuke pretends to not be listening when he really is. Sakura is busy gushing over Sasuke and Zabuza…well Zabuza is walking while looking up at the sky, bored to death. You walk a little bit closer to him but he just ignores you.
It's noon now and everyone has fallen quiet. Finally you can't stand it anymore and need to break the silence. "I'M HUNGRY!" you shout, right behind Kakashi and he jumps a little.
"I'm sorry…could you shout that again? I think I still have some hearing left in my left ear." Zabuza says, sarcastically.
"Kakashi sensei, I'm hungry too…can we take a break?" Naruto asks, taking your side.
"I'm hungry too." Sakura agrees.
"Wimps…" Sasuke says, only to have his stomach contradict him by letting out a loud growl.
Kakashi puts his book away and rubs the back of his head, "Well, I guess this is a good spot to take a break."
Haku puts down a basket, which he usually uses to carry herbs in, but which now contains food given to you by Tsunami. Zabuza walks over grabs a sandwich and an apple, "I'll be lookout." He then jumps up into the highest tree and sits at the top. You grab yourself a sandwich and start to follow him up, but he shouts at you. "Get back down there! I don't need or want your company!"
You feel tears threatening to fall, but you wipe them away and head back down the tree. You sit down next to Kakashi and he looks at you, "What?"
He shakes his head, "Nothing."
You finish eating and pull out your deck. You lay one of your dirty shirts on the ground and shuffle your deck. "Ok, let's see what my family has to tell me today," you say and pick up a random number of cards from the top of the deck. You place them face down on your shirt and see that there's nine cards in total. You then begin to flip them over one by one, "Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Deepsea Shark, Light and Darkness Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Mysterious Puppeteer, Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle, Zera Ritual, Pot of Greed, Lady Ninja Yae, and Prometheus King of the Shadows." You stop, 'Wait a minute…it can't be…' you begin shaking from head to toe. "No…no, no, no, no, NO!!"
Everyone is looking at you now, even Zabuza who is still perched on top of the tree. "Lily chan are you alright?" Naruto asks.
You are freaking out as you examine the cards time and time again, but there's no deigning it…you are staring at the nine Akatsuki members. Red-Eyes Black Dragon; Itachi Uchiha, Deepsea Shark; Kisame Hoshigaki, Light and Darkness Dragon; Zetsu, Red Dragon Archfiend; "Tobi", Mysterious Puppeteer; Sasori, Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle; Deidara, Zera Ritual; Hidan, Pot of Greed; Kakuzu, Lady Ninja Yae; Konan, and Prometheus King of the Shadows; Pein. You feel faint, "They're coming for me….He must have seen what happened at the bridge…."
Kakashi looks at you in alarm, "Who's coming for you? Who saw what happened at the bridge?"
You flop down on your butt in disbelief and close your eyes, "The Akatsuki…."
****MEANWHILE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KONOHA****
"I can't believe Leader-same sent us to fetch some little girl." A man dressed in a black cloak with red clouds on it, complains to his partner, who is dressed in the same cloak. They are resting against a couple of trees waiting for Team 7 to return.
"Stop complaining, Kisame. I don't want to listen to you whine all day."
The shark nin grumbles to himself, "Why do we need this girl, Itachi? What's so damn special about her?"
"Zetsu said that she is VERY powerful and that she knows about things that haven't even happened yet."
Suddenly, they hear the sound of shifting sand and a large Venus flytrap emerges from the ground. The flytrap opens and reveals a two-toned man with green hair and glowing yellow eyes. "Zetsu…what are you doing here?" Kisame asks, slightly surprised.
"I'm here to help you with the capture of the girl." Zetsu's white side says.
"Thanks, but we don't need your help." Itachi says emotionlessly.
"Oh, but you do. Not only does she have Hatake protecting her, but there's another man, Momochi, who has become fixated on her, he never takes his eyes off of her even at night. That's way I couldn't just nab her while she was sleeping. But that's not the worst part…she can summon monsters to protect her."
"Momochi? As in Zabuza Momochi?" Kisame chuckles, "That kid's no problem."
"Monsters?" Itachi asks, curious.
"Yes, mostly dragons from what I've seen. There is one in particular that rests around her neck that we must prevent her from summoning at all cost….She also has 4 separate chakras."
"What?" Itachi and Kisame ask together.
"I don't understand it either…but three of her chakra are immense."
"So I'll just use Samehada and drain her chakra…."
"No…we can not take her by force. If she summons that creature on us…we will all die."
"Then what do you suggest we do?"
"She seems pretty lonely…we get her and Momochi to hate each other…then one of us makes her fall in love with him and she comes with us voluntarily."
"But which one of us should do it?" Itachi asks and both his and Zetsu's heads turn toward Kisame, who is looking at his fingernails.
He notices them looking at him, "What? Oh, no."
****BACK TO TEAM 7****
It's sunset by the time you all reach Konoha. The guards at the gate stop you and Kakashi talks to them about what's going on and they reluctantly let you all pass through. You all head straight for the Hokage's office and Kakashi tells him about everything that happened.
"I don't know if we can just accept Zabuza into our village…it might cause a war between the Leaf and the Mist after all we would be harboring one of their most wanted criminals."
"Yes, one…but not the MOST wanted…or the most dangerous." You say and everyone looks at you. Once again your mind has gone back to Kisame. "What it's the TRUTH!"
Naruto asks, "You mean there's someone out there from the Mist Village that's more dangerous than Zabuza?"
"Yeah, but we don't need to worry about that…yet. Right now we need to focus on the Chunin Exams and the hidden threat to Konoha that it brings."
Everyone looks at you in alarm, "What do you mean?" Kakashi asks.
You sit there in silence for a while, thinking about rather or not you should tell them about Lord Hokage's death. "I mean…Konoha has rough times ahead and any extra help would be a blessing."
The Third Hokage finally agrees to let Zabuza and Haku stay, but only if Kakashi watches them closely. You, Kakashi, Zabuza, and Haku are heading for Kakashi's house. He sighs, "Good thing my house is big enough for all of us."
You giggle slightly and when Zabuza looks over at you, you blush. He looks away again.
"Hey! Lily-chan!" someone shouts your name and you turn around to see Guy running at you.
"Oh dear, Gods!" you shout and try to run away but Guy is too fast.
"Hello, beautiful." He says and blocks your escape route by placing his hand against the wall and leaning against it. You hear Zabuza snort in irritation, "That was a pretty good trick you used on me last time but this time you're not going anywhere."
Suddenly you're jerked roughly backwards by Zabuza. "Come on let's get going…." He starts to pull you along by the arm.
"Wait!" Guy grabs your other arm, "I think Lily can decide what she wants to do by herself."
Zabuza releases your arm, "Whatever." He begins to walk away.
You pull your arm out of Guy's grip and run to catch up to Zabuza. Unfortunately, Guy follows, "Wait! Kurenai, Asuma, and I are going to a bar tonight…you three are more than welcome to join us….Especially you Kakashi…I will drink you under the table because I have the power of youth on my side!!!"
"Ok, since I just turned 21…." You say, wondering what a bar is like.
"What!? When?!" Kakashi and Guy shout.
"Yesterday…."
"Why didn't you say something, Lily-chan?" Haku asks.
You shrug, "It's no big deal."
"Sure it is…we have to throw you a party!" Haku says, now getting excited.
"A party? For me? For my birthday?" you ask in shock.
"Sure…haven't you ever had a birthday party before, Lily-chan?"
You rub the back of your neck and chuckle, "Well…no, actually."
"What!!!" Guy falls face first to the ground in surprise. "You poor girl!" He says picking himself up, "Then we'll just have to make this a birthday party! I'll go and tell Kurenai and Asuma! Bye!" He then takes off running, waving goodbye, and blowing you a kiss.
You pretend to choke and Zabuza asks, "What the hell is that guy's problem?"
"I think he was dropped on his head one too many times when he was a child." You say and earn a laugh from Kakashi and a snicker from Zabuza, but he covers it up by coughing. "Ok, let's go home."
An hour later and there comes a knock at the door. "Lily! It's for you!" comes Zabuza's voice from downstairs.
You jump up from your bed and rush downstairs. Zabuza had went back to the couch and is now staring at the television. Standing in the door is Kurenai, "Oh, hello, Kurenai. We haven't been properly introduced yet, I'm Lily Grey." You hold out your hand and she shakes it.
"I'm Kurenai, of course."
"So Kurenai, what can I do for you?"
"I've come to take you shopping for a new outfit for your birthday." She grabs your hand and begins to drag you along with her. She takes you to a dress shop and you start to complain.
"Kurenai…I'm really not the dress type of girl…."
"Maybe not, but tonight you're wearing a dress." She picks up a pink ruffled dress with no sleeves and lace. She holds it up to you and shakes her head, "Pinks a big NO." She then picks up a spaghetti strap, leopard print dress and holds it up to you, "Nope! Your boobs would fall out!"
"Yeah, lets try to avoid that."
"Do you have someone that you like, Lily-chan?" she asks, picking up a blue silk dress with straps that tie behind the neck. "This one you have to try on."
You blush, "Y…yes." A dress catches your eye and you walk over and pick it up. It's black and lacey with only one long sleeve and silky material underneath that covers you from above your breast to your mid-thigh except the sleeve which is just lace.
"Oh, good choice. So who is he?" she asks picking up another dress. This one is a red halter top with one side of the dress barely long enough to cover anything while the other side is down to the ankle.
"That one looks like someone already wore it, stepped on the one side, ripped it, then returned it." You whisper to her and she chuckles.
"Be that as it may, you're going to try it on." She says and your face falls.
"Fine." You walk over to another dress that caught your eye. It was a pretty dark blue dress that has a sexy crisscross wrap around top, a bare middle, and is really sexy. "A…actually…I…like Zabuza, but I don't really know how he feels about me. He keeps giving me mixed signals."
She's looking at the dress with approval, "That's the one! Don't worry, I'm sure he'll fall head over heels when he sees you. Now let's try it on."
She leads you back to the dressing room and the woman back there smiles kindly at you. She lets you in a room and you try the really sexy one on first and…it fits perfectly. "Wow," you look at your reflection in the mirror: your breasts really stand out now and they're perfectly accented by your slight six pac.
Kurenai knocks on the door, "Ok, sweetie let me see." You unlock the door and she comes in and stops. "Oh, wow…you look great!"
Naturally, you buy the dress and some matching high heels. You and Kurenai return to Kakashi's house, "Ok, next we're going to do your hair and makeup."
After you take a shower, she begins to do your hair and makeup. When she finishes she stands back and whistles, "Wow! There's not a guy there that won't get a nose bleed when they see you."
You blush, "Do you really think so?"
She nods, "Come on! We're going to be late!" She grabs your hand and drags you out of the house and towards the bar.
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET OUT!