Rayne Chapter 5, a naruto fanfic

Alright well here is the (not-so) long awaited fifth chapter of my story. I have to warn any Kankuro fans out there that as I write this story I seem to be making him just a tad bit out of character. It doesn't seem to bad but I just wanted to warn you. Alright well go on and read the story. *Insert usual fanfiction disclaimer*

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A door swung inwards, shedding light from the hallway into the dimly lit home office. Kankuro walked in and sat down in a chair across from his youger brother's desk. It was late and he was ready to go to bed. It had been a long day.

"How is she?" asked the young red head.

"Out cold but mostly alright. God, today was a long day." he sighed. He had just gotten back from checking up on their "house guest". Besides a few new injuries from her little "adventure" today she really was okay. "So what are we going to do with her Gaara?"

The Kazekage sat for a little bit thinking then spoke. "I'm not really sure. But..."

"But what?"

Gaara looked up at his brother. "I do have one idea..." he said quietly

Kankuro had the sudden feeling he wasn't going to like this. "Go on"

Gaara placed his elbows on the desk and folded his hands under his chin. "As you know, lately our village has been running a little short on shinobi and we could use all the help we can get. Recently, a genin team lost both the third member of their team and their sensei"

"Damn it, I can see where you are going with this and I already don't like it."

"She can't leave until we find out whats going on with her and, as seen from todays fiasco, she can't be trusted to stay put here. I need someone to watch her but I don't have any one skilled enough that I can just put out of their shinobi service. Plus it would help out the village. Killing two birds with one stone, ne?"

Kankuro sighed. "I don't get you. I really don't get whats behind your madness of insisting on keeping her here. Why not just send her to jail like any other intruder or send her back to where she came from like any other missing-nin? What's so special about this girl? "

Gaara was again silent for a moment. "I don't know. I honestly don't know that answer myself. There's just something about her. I think she is a demon host as well. I just want to figure this out alright? Plus I wouldn't feel right about locking her up". Not with that look in her eyes at the mention of going back. Her eyes... they are so familure. Ones filled with hate and sadness just like... Uchiha's? My own?

"A demon host? You have got to be kidding me. This is crazy but alright" sighed the oldest of the brothers "Tell me what your plan is"

"You'll help?"

"What the fuck? Why not? That's what brothers are for right?" What is going on in your head Gaara?

"Alright, I was thinking..." started Gaara as he told Kankuro of his plan.

Light was shinning through the window when Rayne woke up the next morning. She quickly looked around, afraid of where she might be. She sighed anngrily when she realized that she was back in this fucking bed in this fucking room in this fucking house. At least she wasn't back in Konoha.

"At least not yet" said Madarou

"Yeah, jeeze just do me a favor and kill me now. It would make things a lot easier" she chuckled.

"Well I'm glad you find this funny, were stuck back in the same situation and we could be sent back at any moment. That Kazekage boy knows too much Rayne. You told him to much. What were you thinking?" he scolded

Her smile turned to a frown."I don't know, I guess I assumed we were skrewed so it didn't matter anymore. I'm getting tired of this Madarou. I'm tired of running and hidding all the time. I'm just so tired of all this" she sighed

"I know honey. Just hang in there. Soon we will have our revenge and then we can..." he paused not sure of what to say next

"And then what? They will still be after us. They always will."

"We will think of something. We will do something. We'll run away to some remote corner of the world and start a new life there."

"Yeah I guess so" and with that she stretched and let out a yawn. She found it hard to believe that this situation could ever get better. She looked around again, noticing that all her bandages had been replaced. The thick white cast was still on her forearm. She scratched at it without even realizing it. Then there was a knock on the door. Rayne sat back up, alert, ready for anything, and anyone for that matter, that came through the door. It was only Gaara, not that it made it any better.

"Rayne" he said, more as a gretting.

"Kazekage-sama" she stated.

"You have caused quite a few problems for me Rayne"

Good! That's what you get for interfearing! she only looked at him.

"But I think that I have found a solution that will benefit the both of us" he continued

Oh this should be good...

"As of lately, our village has been running low on shinobi. Just last week we had a genin squad loose its sensei and one of its students."

"And how does this pertain to me?" She asked trying to remain calm. She looked out the window trying to avoid his gaze.

"Alright Rayne, here's the deal. I know you have shinobi training so I will be assigning you to a genin team with my brother Kankuro as your team's new sensei. You will help out in the village while remaining under carefull watch so you don't try any more stunts like yesterday. You will be staying here when you are not working with your team and you will behave yourself"

"No, I refuse" she said as she glared out the window. "I'm not going to work for you. Plus I am too old and too good of a fighter to be put on a team with a bunch of brats that I'm older than by at least four years. I could easily make jounin now and you know it."

"You havent earned that privilage, and I can't trust you. The way I see it, you don't have a say in this matter."

"And what if i still refuse? You can't force me to work on this team"

"You refuse, or you start causing trouble and I will send you back to the hidden leaf." Her gaze flashed up to him. She was angry now, but other than that he saw fear in her eyes.

"You can't do that!"

"I can and I will. This is my village Rayne and you are going to follow my rules. Now what will it be? My genin team or a cold cell back in the leaf village."

She was silent for a while then "I hate you. I really hate you"

He couldn't tell if she meant it or not but it didn't matter. He was really doing what was best for her. He didn't want to send her back. He may not have known what had gone on while she was there but he certainly knew what it was like to be hated and feared by your village. This really was the best option. And this way he could find out morea about her. "Well?"

She sighed deeply and said "Fine, I'll join you stupid litttle team." This was not working out the way she wanted. When did it ever? Ever since her last mission from the leaf village it had all been down hill.

Gaara was glad, he wouldn't admit it but he was, very. "Well then I would get some rest if I were you. I will be back in the morning to take you to meet your new team."

"Fantastic" she mummbled. Her arms were now crossed over her chest and she turned away from him. She didn't even look back at him as he got up and left, closing the door behind him leaving her to ponder her thoughts while she waited for a sleep that never came. She closed her eyes but remained fully aware for the rest of the night.

When she "woke up" the next morning Kankuro was already gone. He walked down the road to where he was going to be meeting his now students. He was already dreading this. He hated kids so much, they were all annoying little brats. How could Gaara do this to him? This was wrong on so many levels...

He arrived at the meeting 5 minutes late. Two younge boys stood outside of a restaraunt, one standing shyly behind the other. The one in front stood with his arms across his chest. His diry blond hair was short and spiked. His dark blue eyes were glarring. He wore a dark brown shirt over a pair of light tan cargo pants. He stepped up first.

"I take it you are our new sensei?" he asked, his voice sounding cocky and very arrogent.

"Ugh yeah. The name's Kankuro" he said shoving his hands in the pockets of his black pants.

"I'm Akio" he replied. "And this is Hitoshi" he said motioning to the boy behind him. His dark hair was worn in a ponytail behind him, his shaggy bangs hiding his brown eyes. He wore a blue hoodie with a brown stripe running down the right side along with a pair of baggy white shorts.

Kankuro gave a quick wave. "Hey"

An akward silence soon developed. Kankuro glanced at each of the boys. "Soo..." sighed Kankuro

"I don't like you..." Akio said bluntly.

"Excuse me?" growled Kankuro. He hated kids. HATED them.

"You heard me, I don't like you. And let me tell you now, you will never replace our sensei and we wont take orders from you. Right Hitoshi?" he spat. The shy boy just nodded his head.

Kankuro's head throbbed with annoyance. "You better watch yourself kid"

"When is the other guy from our team showing up? He should be here by now." he asked, completely ignoring the fuming Kankuro and changing the subject.

This Aiko kid was really getting on his nerves now. He reminded him of another loud-mouth, annoying blond he met in the leaf village. He had no respect, talking to him like that. He better watch his mouth or this kid was going to get his ass kicked. He had no patience to put up with this shit. "She" he said with annoyance trying to keep his temper down "will be here in a little bit. The Kazekage will be bringing her here himself so show some respect.

"Wait a minute!" cried the blond. "Our new team mate is a girl?"

"Yeah, what of it?" shrugged Kankuro.

"This is great, just great. I didn't think this situation could get any worse. First we lose two members of our team then we get stuck with a loser like you as our sensei and to top it all off our new team mate is a girl! Girls are the worst! They are spoiled and are always getting in the way. They suck at fighting and are always in need of protecting. We don't need a no good, ugly ass bitch on our team!"

"Kid do you have any idea who your talking to?" He picked the boy up by his shirt getting a suprised yelp from him. "I am the brother of the Kazekage, the most powerfull Shinobi in this whole damn village! Now you better give me some respect or I swear I will-"

He was cut off when someone cleared his throat from the side. The two young genins and Kankuro turned to see the Kazekage standing there with a scowl on his face and a very pissed off Rayne standing next to him

"Shit" cursed Kankuro.

Earlier that morning.

A gentle knock woke Rayne from a light sleep. The door slid open and the Kazekage stepped in. Rayne sat up, fully awake immediatly.

"It's almost time to go." He said dropping of a bundle of clothes, which she rocognised as her own, at the foot of the bed. "Time to get ready. The bathroom is in there if you want to wash up. I'll be waiting outside so be quick" he turned and left without another word.

Rayne grudgily got out of bed. With a low moan she walked to the bathroom after grabbing her clothes. Making use of the bathroom she quickly undressed and hopped in the shower. She washed up quickly and was out in a few minutes. On the counter sat a tray with a few necessary things like bandages, hairbrush and a toothbrush and her other jewelery. She stopped to inspect her injuries. Most of her original wounds were gone. The cut on her side was still a little tender after being fixed again but would be fine in a few days. She flexed her once broken fingers to find them fully healed as well. On the other hand she had few new injuries from her escape attempt. She looked at her arm that wasn't in a cast to see that there was a large area of skin that had been scrapped of when she slid down the wall. Her palm was also still healing after it had been cut open on the top of the roof. A new layer of bruises also covered her arms from her fall and her fight. The skin on her legs was also a little red from where the sand had scrapped away at it. It was no big deal though. She really did heal fast. She might not have the recovery skill of that Uzumaki boy but hers were still quite better then the average person. She quickly wrapped bandages around her chest and injuries then pulled on her white tee-shirt and black pants.

She slipped her prison tag over her neck followed by a small sliver ring on a chain. She held the ring in her hand for a while sliding her finger over the engraving on the inside. There were three names neatly printed on the inside of the band.

Rayne

Kaede

Himiko

She smiled to herself and then placed her multiple rings back on her fingers follwed by her leather bracelets that hid her horribl` y scarred wrists. After that she brushed her red-brown hair out and then brushed her teeth. She looked herself over in the large mirror and frowned. She looked pretty shitty. Her skin was pale and discolored in many places from bruising and healing wounds. She had lost weigh, too much weight. She frowned and pulled at the bulky cast still on her forearm. After deciding there was nothing more she could do she slipped on her shoes and left the bathroom to go meet the Kazekage in the hallway.

They walked out of the house in silence. Gaaras gaze following her closely watching for any indication that she was going to try something. He had been smart enough not to give her her weapons back just yet but she made it pretty obvious that she didn't need them to get two walked outside and down the street, still neither speaking at all. Walking in silence to meet her new team brought her back to her days at the academy.

A younge Rayne walked through the streets of Konoha. Rayne, and only Rayne occupying her body. She was back in a time before her life was ruined. Her older brother walked along beside her. His long brown hair in its pony tail moved in the breeze. He was dressed in the normal jounin vest and uniform. His face as plain, stoick and emotionless as ever. His eyes were cold and cinical. He pushed his thin glasses further up his face as he went on lecturing her about the importance of training hard, following the rulesK and bringing honor to her family. Rayne sulked behind him not even listening. She was still upset at her father. It was suppose to be him that was walking her to her first day at her accademy class. But of corse he couldn't take her, even though he had promised. No, he was busy again. He was always too busy for her and now she was stuck with her older brother. She didn't get along with him. He was mean and she didn't understand what was wrong with him. He sucked the fun out of everything. Before she had known it she had reached the school. Her brother gave her a quick farewell, not even caring enough to walk her in, and then headed off to his mission. She stood at the entrance for a few moments watching all the other children get dropped off by there parents. She saw a young boy with blond hair and blue eyes walking in by himself alone. He was fine, so why wouldn't she be fine as well? She took a deep breath then walked in with her head held high ready to make her mother and father proud.

She walked in to meet her classmates, two of which would later become her friends and team mates. They had not gotten along well at all in the start, you could even say that they had hated each other, but after a horrible failed first mission they had become close friends and since then they had been unstoppable. They had been amazing and would have made it all the way through the chunin exams had it not been for that mission before it. It was suppose to be a simple mission. How could have it had gone so wrong? Except she did know what went wrong, at least she did now. It had all been because of him that they were attacked. It was his fault that she now had a demon inside of her head and it was all his fault that she ended up in prison. That no good-

"Hold on"

Rayne looked up to see Gaara stopped in front of her."What?" She asked. She realized that they were already at the meeting point. She had gotten lost in her memories... again.

"Just hold on a second"

She stopped to listen for a second. She heard voices coming around the corner of the building.

"Wait a minute! Our new team mate is a girl?" came a younge man's voice.

"Yeah, what of it?" Rayne recognized this voice as Kankuro's. Great she thought to herself sounds like this new team of mine will be just great...

"Who the hell?" she asked. She was going to stranggle that brat!

"Just wait a moment, I want to see how Kankuro handles this." said the Kazekage quietly. So they watched. Rayne was fuming now. She was going to kick that little punk's ass.

There was a small suprised yelp as ankuro quickly reached out to pick the kid up by the front of his shirt. He spoke quietly but with Rayne's hearing, she easily picked up what he said. "Kid do you have any idea who your talking to? I am the brother of the Kazekage, the most powerfull Shinobi in this whole damn village! Now you better give me some respect or I swear I will-"

Gaara cleared his throat causing the three boys to look up.

"Shit" swore Kankuro

"Kankuro... whats going on?"

He quickly dropped the kid, who stumbled backwards a few steps. "Sorry Gaara it wont happen again..." The young boys looked waringly at the Kazekage.

"Make sure it doesn't. Rayne, meet your new team. I have to get going so I will see you two later" he said glancing at Kankuro and Rayne. He looked like he was about to say something else but instead turned and left leaving Rayne standing there to glare at her team.

"Rayne this is Akio and this one is Hitoshi." said Kankuro. She nodded and watched them carefully, unfazed by the one named Akio's glares.

She waited till she was sure the Kazekage was out of earshot before speaking. "So I'm a no-good, ugly ass bitch?" she asked with a chiling chuckle.

Hitoshi shifted unconfortable. Akio shifted his weight and crossed his arms. "You look like shit. What happened to you?" he asked noticing the bruises and cuts on her arm and her cast.

"Got into a fight... or two." she said as she glanced at Kankuro. He smirked a little.

"Well that's just great, well you better learn to handle yourself in a fight. I don't want to be saving your ass." He looked her straight in the eye. This brat pissed her off and reminded her of another blond haired blue eyed boy that she hated.

"I should be saying that to you. You should see the guys I fought yesterday. They look worse than me." Which wasn't exactly true but she still had beaten them and there had been more of them than her. Plus she wasn't even at full strength. She considered that to be pretty good.

"I highly doubt that, when I first saw you I thought you were a walking corpse. You look like your ready to keel over at any second." he eyed her for a moment like he was waiting for her to do just that.

"Oh yeah? So you don't think I can handle myself in a fight? Why don't we see right now how well I can handle myself?"

"That wouldn't even be a fair fight. It would feel right for an experienced fighter as myself to take on a frail woman like you."

Kankuro watched as the two bickered back in forth while Hitoshi tried to sink into the wall. "Woman? Listen, I don't think you cold even scratch me kid" she laughed.

"Don't call me kid! You're not that much older than me." he shouted as he pointed a finger at her.

"Four years but who's counting" she grinned slyly. "And if you are such an amazing fighter, why did you lose two members of your team?..Hmm? Why couldn't you save them?"

"Rayne" said Kankuro warningly.

Pure anger flashed across Akio's face. "What did you say?" he growled. She had crossed the line with that one.

"Guys knock it off" interupted Kankuro.

"You heard me." she grinnned. She was egging him on now, itching for a fight. She was going to teach him a lesson for the way he insulted her.

"Shut the hell up!" he said lunging at her. She quickly side-step, avoiding his fist. He swung out in anger again. This time she grabbed his fist with inhuman speed and beant it down forcing him to his knees with a cry of pain. She sent a knee to his stomache, faster than he could even hope to dodge, sending him sprawlng backwards. A small gasp came from a group of civilians as they hurried by to avoid the fight. Kankuro watched, a little shocked at the fighting abilites she had. Gaara had said she was good but he didn't understand how good. Rayne walked over to where Akio layed panting on the ground trying to catch his breath after having the wind knocked out of him. His wrist curled protectivly near his chest. She grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and lifted him to eye level.

"Whose the better fighter?" she laughed wickidly. "Don't mess with me punk, I'll crush you" She raised her fist to hit him again. There was a tug on her hand as she went to punch him, preventing her hand from moving. She looked back to see chakra threads attached to her fist.

"Thats enough you two" called Kankuro now slightly angry. The chakra threads that bound Raynes fist connecteed to the puttetears fingers. "Let's call it a day befor someone gets hurt." He released Rayne's hand and she released Akio, shoving him back. She had proven her point. He now knew not to mess with her. Hitoshi seemed to understand as he watched her with fear in his eyes.

"Don't talk about things you don't know anything about" mumbled Akio as he whiped a tear from his eye. "Have you ever lost a team member and a friend?"

Rayne sighed and turned away from him with a frown. Yeah she has, she had lost her whole team. They might not be dead but there was a good chance they were never going to see each other again. She realized she had gone too far but her pride prevented her from apologizing. She stared at the ground while Kankuro tried to help Akio, who just shrugged him off.

"Alright listen guys. I sugest we all get home and take it easy. Akio I want you to get that wrist checked on and healed. I want you all rested because we have our first mission as a team the day after tomorrow. Lets try to make it a little more productive than today. We will be meeting at the construction site in the old part of the city at sunrise where we will recieve further instuctions." He looked at each of them making sure they understood. "Alright then, we'll be going then. Come on Rayne"

Kankuro Gaara and Rayne all sat at the table back at the house. Rayne sat quietly picking at her food while Gaara and Kankuro talked about work. She decided she couldn't eat anymore and stood up. "If you don't mind me, I'll just excuse myself" She left her plate sitting on the table but slipped her knife into the pocket on her pantleg. Gaara simply nodded and returned to his conversation.

With nowhere really to go she wandered down the hall way before slumping against the wall with a sigh. She really didn't have anywhere to go. Not even a room to be alone in. This wasn't her house and she felt unwanted here, like she wasn't suppose to be here. She slid down to the floor and leaned her head against the wall. She sat for a moment before drawing the knife from her pocket. She observed the edge of the blade, sliding its jagged edges along her thumb. It wasn't very shart but it would do. She placed it on her arm and began to saw at the cast, determined to get the damn thing off. It took her a while but she finally managed to remove it. She flexed her hand and bent her wrist. It seemed to have healed completely now. She leaned her head against the wall again.

Madarou?

Yeah honey?

...nothing, just making sure you were still there... she sighed

Why wouldn't I be? he asked puzzled

I don't know. Just havent heard from you in a while thats all.

Don't worry I don't plan on going anywhere, even if I wanted to he chuckled, his laugh sounding more like a raspy bark.

Good point. Where else would you find such a crazy adventure if not with me, ne?

Only you darling.

Yeah Rayne yawned.

You seem tired, why don't you go to bed? You have a long day tomorrow.

I would but I have no Idea where I am suppose to stay. She laughed in her head I have never felt so out of place in my life. I feel like I am in a strangers house. I don't want to touch anything or go anywhere because I feel as though I am not allowed. I have no idea what to do with myself.

I understand. We could go ask them. he suggested

That's quite alright I think I will just sit here instead. Less work...

I swear you are the laziest ninja I know.

How many other ninjas do you know? smirked Rayne

Not many... he laughed again in his raspy bark.

Rayne smiled and then a few moments later yawned again. She pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. She rested her head on the tops of her knees and was soon driffting to sleep in the middle of the hallway.

Goodnight honey...

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Well? What did you think? Let me know, please :) Thanks to everyone who has reviewed already, you know who you are. I will try to get another update up by next Sunday. Also you may have noticed I changed the rating on here. After receiving a suggestion, I lowered it so lets hope it gets more reviewers.
Reiko