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Chapter 12: It All Slowly Creeps In

I felt someone shaking me while I was sleeping; they kept making me go in and out of sleep.

My back was cold but my front was warm, I snuggled closer to the warmth.

...It was breathing. SOME THING WAS BREATHING UNDER ME!! My eyes shot wide open; only to meet cold, dark gray, almost onyx-like eyes, but hidden deep inside them I could see that same emotion as last night.
...I noticed I was still laying on him.
AHHHH!
WACK!
I groaned from the pain my backside was enduring from landing hard against the grounds surface.
I saw him roll his eyes about my pathetic state when he was getting off from my bed!
I wiped at my foggy eyes, making sure I wasn't seeing things. Yep... It wasn't my imagination. I pointed at him, "Sasuke! What the hell were you doing in MY bed?!"
He sighed annoyed. "Well, I was trying to wake you up so we could go to the bridge for our team mission, but you wouldn't wake up so I pulled off your covers... And since you were cold you grabbed onto the closest thing 'warm' to you... Which was me..."
I crossed my arms over my chest. "Still doesn't explain why you stayed there!"
He grunted and ignored my statement. No point in wasting his breath on me. I slightly glared.
He picked up my sleep depraved body from the ground since he noticed that I wasn't going to budge. I smiled thankfully at him... I was still tired from last night's dancing.

The air was chilly; the sun peeked through the over cast clouds; leaves rustled in the breeze as we sat there, early in the morning. The water under us reflected the sky's colour, giving it greys, dark blues, and small ripples of glistening light. We hadn't been waiting on the bridge for too long, so we weren't bored, yet. I was sitting besides Sasuke on the bridge's rail... Well Sasuke was leaning against it, not sitting, as we were waiting for the other three to arrive.

In the corner of my eye I saw Sakura walking over to us. She was swaying her hips, trying to strut her 'stuff'. We saw a flash of orange pass her, making her clothes and pink hair follow the blurs direction. The blur cheesy smiled as it stopped right in front of us, it was Naruto. Sakura huffed with annoyance as she went to fix up her hair, which had gotten slightly out of place from Naruto passing her.
I looked at them with a bored expression as Sasuke's emotionless eyes didn't even flicker away from the streams running water. It was strange; they turned a dull black colour. I had seen his eyes like this many of times now; them being swept over with a cold and emotionless blanket, like he had been ripped and torn away from any sort of life...like they had no soul, as if nothing was in him...like he was dead.
But his eyes only turned like this when he was around other people...not me...Strange, very strange...

"...You're early for once," I stated.
He smiled from behind his mask.
"Hey! Hey! Where's Sai?!" Naruto demanded.
"Mission," I responded.
He pouted about not being able to go on as many missions as to what Sai does.
"Ok everyone, one on one spar." Kakashi instructed us.

.:Sasuke's view:.
Blue chakra gathered around her fist as she went to punch him. He quickly dodged her hit.
Kicks, punches and blows were happening all over the place.
I suppose Sakura and Naruto had improved, a little.

"Ok. Enough," Kakashi said appearing in the middle of them, holding back both of their attacks; they had been at it for a couple of hours. They were both sweaty and worn out as they were trying to catch their breaths back.

I lazily rested my hand on my hip facing Jade. Her arms were crossed over her chest as her head was tilted towards the ground, shadowing her eyes, but her body was also facing me.
"Alright. No rules, except don't kill each other!" Kakashi demanded as he and the other two watched from the sidelines.
"WOO, GO SASUKE-KUN!"
"GO JADE! YOU'LL WIN! BELIEVE IT!"

I jumped up as I felt a gust of wind sweep near me. She appeared below me a second after I was drifting in the air. Raven hair brushed away from her high cheek bones as she looked up to me with a smirk formed on her lips.

She vanished again.
Wack!
Throbbing pain surged through my jaw as I got kicked backwards by her. She's fast, I analysed. I activated my Sharingan. Pulling out a scroll, she started to quickly draw on it...this was the same technique as Sai.
As some of her drawings went around me I let off sparks of electricity, destroying all her creatures...but her drawings were different compared to Sai's. Once hers had gotten destroyed fire from them erupted around me; streams of the fire travelled down my lighting, slightly scotching me.

.:Jade's view:.
I smirked again as I saw my little plan had worked on him. He disappeared. I blocked the punch that was aimed for my face. He kicked me on the left hip as I was keeping his hand away from me;
Fuck! I hissed out in pain as it swept from my hip all the way down my leg. Fuck, I still haven't healed since that mission four months ago!
My left shoulder started to sting a little, but I was used to it now. I tried suppressing the mark back...the mark he gave to me at the same time as Sasuke.
SHIT! Chains of black flames started to cover my body, my hip was really distracting me, Orochimaru's mark had finally released...Maybe I shouldn't have been so stubborn with Tsunade and actually let her heal me! Oh well. After I kick Sasuke's pride up his ass I'll get her to fix me.

I made vines wrap around his legs, keeping him in place. I brought fire to my hand, making him retreat his fist from my face. I crookedly smirked. I carefully leaned on my left leg, trying to give the pathetic thing the least amount of pain possible, and swept my leg into the side of Sasuke's right shoulder...corking it. A smile crossed my blood thirsty lips.
He burnt my vines away and reached behind his back taking something out. I started concentrating more as my conscience was finally kicking in. The curse mark finally retreated...stupid mark!
I looked back up at him. A sword? ...Since when did he use a sword?! I brought my sai out of their holders, preparing myself.

There were chunks out of ground missing, scotch marks, and vegetation gone.
I looked over him; he had blood oozing out from my clean, deep-ish cuts. I then looked at myself; Blood trickled down my arm, leaving a sticky substance. Electrical burns from earlier were over my stomach and back.
It seemed like we were at a tie with damage and power...but who had more will power?

He went to do an over the head swing, but grunted in pain...I smiled proudly. My cork worked.
I quickly ran to the side of him and held my sai to his neck. He widened his eyes in surprise, probable thinking how I got here without him detecting me with his Sharingan. I smiled wildly while drawing a small trickle of red liquid from his neck. "It's over," I whispered close to his ear. Kakashi was about to agree with me, but Sasuke beat him to it; He quickly twisted his sword around his hand to change the directing of the hold on it; he hit my sais out of my hands and pushed me away from him to get more distance. I landed on my back. "You really think that would work?" I asked, lying there. "Look besides you."

He turned his head and found a line of cutting electricity held to his neck from the other me that was standing about three meters away from him.
He turned his head back to me. I waved bye bye to him and disappeared into a cloud of smoke, leaving a burning log in my place.

He looked back to the real me with hard eyes, carefully trying not to cut himself on my electricity. I looked at him strangely...what's up with his eyes?
"Great match guys! Good going Jade," Kakashi said to us.
I let my lighting fuse out and turned to the others with a bashful smile on my face.
I heard squealing and turned my head to see.
"Sasuke-Kun!" Sakura squealed about him losing. She went to hug him but he roughly pushed her into the dirt.
"...Don't. Touch. Me..." he murmured to her icily.
"Now Sasuke-" Kakashi got cut off by the said person stuffing his hands deep within his pockets; he walked away from us without a single word spoken.
I looked at his retreating figure strangely. I shrugged my shoulders about my confusion towards him and started to leap to the hospital.

On the way to seeing Tsunade at the hospital a little voice in the back of my mind kept echoing to me, asking and wondering why most of my powers revolve around nature and fire...there like opposites, well not really, they don't balance each other. Instead fire actually kills plants. So why am I able to use fire so easily when there's none around...especially when my clan is more of a vegetation/nature clan?
No one from my clan, the Mitsuki clan, was able to use fire, well none that I could remember...SO WHY CAN I?!

.:Some flashbacks in snippets:.
Breathing heavily my small limbs ached with pain. My little legs wobbled trying to hold myself up from falling over.
"Good. Again!" My father ordered.
I slowly brought my hand up with my pointer finger and thumb connecting each other, forming a circle together. My body quivered as I brought charka to my mouth, reading myself to perform grand fire ball technique again. I went to suck in air-
"Stop this ridicules training, right now!" My mother ordered as she raced outside the house and held my wrist away from my lips. She looked at my father with tight lips; she was being stern. "Look at her! She's shaking!"
I looked at her surprised; she moved so fast!
My father spoke after some silence of thinking things through, "fine but, we will be moving onto the modification of this attack tomorrow. Be prepared."
I collapsed into my mother's chest from exhaustion. She picked me up with a warm, loving smile.

--

"Good since I've described it to you try doing grand vine burn now. Remember it's just a modification of the grand fire ball," My father told me. He and my mother had the same colour eyes as me. His hair was jet black while my mother's hair colour was the same as mine, raven.

--

I watched as the people fought below us. They used plaints, vines, leaves, and rock...all the main elements that were around us of what the earth was providing them. The crowd roared with excitement as someone came into the arena with a strange looking mask that had a poison ivory imprint on it, their mask covered their face...I pouted. I tried looking closer trying to spot anything on them that would identify who they were or where they came from.

The guy from our village was breathing heavily while the other looked like he or she hadn't even broken a sweat!

A huge black fire ball blasted out from his mouth finishing off the match...the fire ball was different to any other sort of fire I had ever heard or seen of! Within its blackness it looked like there was something in it...but the licking flames were too thick for me to identify what it was.

...I cheered with everyone else, for once, when the masked person won...the attack was soooo cool!

--

"Hehehe, tag you're it!" I ran away from my dad.
After him chancing me, he and I passed mummy. He tagged her. She went to get me then.
I squealed in delight as I just missed her tag. I giggled.
I ran behind daddy to hide from mummy.
"Tag," he said with a cheeky smile on his lips.
I pouted. "Noooo ffaaarrrreeee!! You cheated! Mummy was IT!" I turned away from him while crossing my arms over my chest.
"HehehehahaahHAHA! S-stop-p t-tickling me-e!!" I tried escaping from his wiggling fingers but he picked me up. A tear of happiness escaped my eye.
"No more angry with daddy?" he asked with a pretend sad face while poking my tummy. I shook my head no while smiling.

--

"Mummy, can I help?" I asked while trying to put on the biggest adorable eyes of what my best friend does when she wants something.
She laughed and shook her head.
I pouted, "why not?"
"Because the kitchen is for big people, darling"
I puffed my chest out while standing on my tippy toes. "I'm big. I'm big!"
She laughed again. "How about this, you can lick the chocolate spoon?"
I pretended to be in thought. I nodded happily looking up to her.

--

"MOTHER! FATHER!" I yelled as we both rounded the corner to the dining area.
They looked up to me.
"Come on! Are you ready yet? You said you would take us to the lake today!" I said and then smiled happily to my best friend, Ruby-
.:End of flashbacks:.

I vigorously shook my head as I grimaced and looked ahead.
I can't believe I started thinking of her!
...And who the hell was the masked person in the arena...where did they come from?!

--XXXXXXXXXX--

She sighed. "You know if you didn't come to me now you would have had to live through pain the rest of your life...your ligaments and muscles were torn, as well as you having a hairline fracture!"
My face turned ghostly as I looked down at my hip. I went to rub it, "you're a lucky wittle hippy now aren't joo now! Yes you are, yes joo aree!" ...I would have kissed it if it was physically possible to bend in that direction...
I looked back up at Tsunade after my stupid little baby talk. She was looking at me strangely but smirked none the less.
"Thanks ma'am!" I said while giving her a quick hug showing my gratitude for her fixing me up.
She smiled then shooed me out of the room saying she has other patients, and that next time I shouldn't be so stubborn with her or she'd ground me.

I only acted like that with Tsunade because Naruto had gotten me into the habit of trying to annoy her with him... but instead she became more of a motherly figure with me, especially when I was nonstop training under her for half a year.
...Her grounding me was a joke though!

--XXXXXXXXXX—

I walked inside. Everything was quiet. "Hey Sasuke I'm home!" I called out, trying to see if he was here.
Not a sound of movement, not a breath...not a word.
I shrugged.

I slowly walked to the kitchen. As I got closer I could feel his presence.
"Hey are you ok? I tried calling out to you!"
I rounded the corner and saw the back of his head. I raised an eyebrow...why didn't he reply?! ...Stupid jerk...
I walked in front of him. I didn't say a word as I looked down to him...he didn't meet eye contact, he didn't even show any sort of recognition for me being here... My eyebrows knitted in annoyance. I glared and scoffed.
He finally looked at me...
...He looked at me with those eyes.

...To be continued

Authors note:
Alright, so I kinda noticed that this story has been either all anger or happy--er--ish... (Well, it was starting to get my happy anyways :) ). So I decided there needed to be some sadness for her...
Shit, I better stop typing now :S...

Also, sorry, I won't be able to update for some time...well probably not until the holidays because I have lots and lots of studying to do (major tests), hooraaa -.-'

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