Tenshi
ran, she knew Kakashi wasn't far behind
She grinned to herself, it
had been to long since she had enjoyed the thrill of a chase
The
fact that she was the one being chased didn't matter at all
She
ran into a large crowd of people and did a Shadow clone jutsu
She
quickly did a transformation jutsu and swapped places with a slow
moving little old lady
She pretended to stop and look into her bag
and noticed that Kakashi had also done a clone jutsu
He sent his
clones off after hers
She grinned, he was also following her in
her little old lady disguise
She wandered slowly into another
crowd and transformed again
This time she combined the two jutsu's
and sent her transformed clones on the loose
She sat back and
watched
Kakashi looked around and had one of his clones follow
each of hers
He glanced around again and walked very quickly away
in the opposite direction
She decided to do some shopping while
she was there
She grinned to herself and started to whistle
Kakashi
sighed to himself
He lost the girl
But on the plus side Tsunade
would be happy to know that her skills as a ninja were amazing
He
looked around and wondered where it was he went wrong
He thought
back and suddenly cursed
There was a elderly man who had watched
him
A man with violet eyes and a cheeky grin
He cursed again,
then he laughed
She was good
But he was better
Tenshi
opened the door and yelled out "Kids food"
Suddenly five
children came running over to her
"Tenshi, Tenshi, what have
you got"
"Tenshi look at the drawing I made you"
"Tenshi! Huana spit at me"
Tenshi laughed "We have
Ramen, the drawing is beautiful and Huana if you ever spit at Kosage
again I will make you spend a time out alone in the basement"
There
was a chorus of "Yay's" and a "Aww"
She
grinned at an elderly couple who walked in
They smiled back
"Tenshi you're home, welcome"
She lost her smile and
mouthed "later" to them
They nodded
"Well lets
eat"
Tenshi
stretched her arms above her head and yawned
The children were all
fed, bathed and in bed asleep
It always tired her out
She heard
someone behind her and spun around, her hands reached down for her
weapons
She let out a sigh and smiled at the couple
Kiamo and
her husband Sudda were the housekeepers at the place of her
enslavement,
She would never think of that place as home
They
had risked their very lives helping her and the children escape
They
discovered that the master had sent word to some people that she was
there, they also discovered he was planning to sell the children as
slaves
Tenshi had convinced them to come away with them,
She
knew that if the worst happened she would have to fight with her
life
But if it happened then the children would be alone
She
couldn't do that to them
So the couple had come, they settled down
in this village and Tenshi went out everyday
She either came back
with food or money she earned or that she stole
But they had made
sure they taught her to only steal from those who could afford
it
Stealing from those who were just as badly off as they were was
no better then beating up a child or elderly person
It was just
wrong
She looked
back at them and smiled slightly
Kiamo sighed "You must
leave?"
Tenshi nodded
Kiamo walked over and placed her
hand upon Tenshi's face, she pulled her head down and rested it upon
her breast and pulled her into a hug
Tenshi returned the hug, she
sighed "I'll send money regularly until I know its safe"
Sudda
muttered "And then when it is"
Tenshi looked at him
"I'll send for you all"
Kiamo sighed "When will you
leave?"
Tenshi looked up at the sky "Just before dawn
breaks, I want to leave before the children wake up"
Kiamo
nodded "That is smart, otherwise you would have a line of
children following you"
Tenshi grinned "That would
really cut in on my travel time"
Sudda muttered "Be
safe, don't talk to strangers and remember we men can not be
trusted"
Tenshi nodded "Because you're all liars,
thieves and after one thing only"
Sudda nodded "That's
my girl"
Kiamo sobbed "I know that you must be excited
to see your brother again after all this time, but I think of you as
my daughter, I don't want to lose my daughter"
Tenshi smiled
and rubbed her back "I know, but don't worry about me, please
don't worry"
Sudda looked over "You know if you met a
nice man and got married, we wouldn't object"
Kiamo glared at
him "We agreed not to bring up marriage until later"
Tenshi
rubbed a hand over her face "What is with the obsession to get
me married"
Sudda shrugged "You are young and beautiful,
you should not be alone"
Kiamo added "We would not
object to grandchildren, but Sudda is right, for once, you should be
going out and being with people your own age, instead you spend all
your time with us old folks"
Tenshi grinned "Bah, I
don't see any old folks"
Kiamo grinned "Where would we
be without you to keep us sane"
Tenshi shrugged "Insane"
They
all stared up into the night for some time
Finally Tenshi let out
a sigh "I have to go pack, I love you both, be safe, look after
everyone, I'll be in contact soon"
She turned and walked
inside
Tenshi was
walking along the road singing softly to herself when she heard
"You're very good"
Tenshi grinned "At singing or
escaping you"
Kakashi stood next to her "Both"
She
winked at him "I know"
"Where are you going"
She
looked up at the sky and smiled "To see my brother"
Kakashi
nodded "Then it looks like I get to play escort instead of
kidnapper"
Tenshi grinned at him "Disappointed?"
"You know your attitude has changed from angry and belligerent
to sassy and annoying"
Tenshi laughed "Good to
know"
They walked along in silence
They had
stopped at nightfall and set up camp in the woods
Tenshi was
sitting in a tree looking up at the stars
Kakashi appeared next to
her with a book in hand
Tenshi looked over and gasped "Is
that the Make out book"
Kakashi looked at her "hmm"
She
sat up "Is that Make out Paradise?"
He nodded
She
looked up at him "Oh please tell me that when you finish it I
can read it"
Kakashi looked at her "You want to read
it?"
She nodded "I love the Make out series, but I
haven't read make out paradise yet, is it good?"
He looked
shocked "You like them"
"Pfft, like them, I LOVE
them, it is the best book series in the world"
He sat down "I
know, aren't they well written"
She nodded "I know most
people think of it as porn, but its such a thrilling read, its almost
like you're there"
He nodded "The way it is has you
feeling exactly what the character feels, its a really deep book"
She
grinned "I wouldn't say deep, but it is" she trailed off
and just shrugged
He nodded
again "I know what you mean, did you know there's going to be a
movie?"
She gasped "Oh my god, really?"
He
nodded
She clasped her hands together "Oh, I want to see it
right now, when will it be out, who will be in it, I want to know
everything"
He told her what he knew
She sighed when he
was finished "It seems we will have to wait forever then"
He
rubbed her arm "Don't worry, it will be out sooner then you
think"
She sat back and stared at the stars again
He read
his book
She looked
over at him and found he was staring at her
She sighed "Was
it true, I mean about the Third, how Orochimaru was involved"
Kakashi
nodded
She sat up and rubbed his arm "I'm so sorry"
He
shrugged "We have the Fifth now, a wise woman named Tsunade, she
leads us well"
Tenshi nodded "Its still so sad, he was
such a good man, a wise and wonderful leader"
Kakashi looked
at her "I thought you would have been bitter towards him"
Tenshi
looked at him in shock "Why?"
"Because he sent you
away from Naruto and to that place"
"But it was a good
place"
"For how long"
Tenshi smiled "You
know"
He nodded "You also have the mark of a slave on
your back, you covered it with a dragon tattoo"
She laughed
"Very observant my friend"
He moved his hand "So?"
She
sighed "When I first arrived I was so angry at him, I didn't
know anyone, I didn't want to know them either, but then time went on
and he treated me so well"
She looked up at the stars
"I
still miss him, he made sure my training was up to my skill and made
sure I was taught more, he said I was like a sponge, that there was
nothing I couldn't be taught, I absorbed knowledge like a sponge,
hence the fact he called me one"
She took a sip of water from
her canteen and lit up a smoke
"I came to respect him, I
think partly he was disappointed by that, I think he thought of me as
a daughter, but I couldn't think of him as family, he was my teacher,
that was all"
She sighed and looked down
"I think
towards the end he knew what was going to happen, he tried to prepare
me best he could"
Kakashi frowned "What do you mean
tried?"
Tenshi smiled "There are some things you can't
prepare someone for, unfortunately what happened after he was killed
was one of them"
He frowned "In what way"
"No
one can prepare you for slavery, it has to be taught by trial and
error, and that was the one thing I took a long while to learn, I
never knew my proper place, I defended the others and stood up for
myself, I believe that is what the bastard hated the most, he
couldn't break me, god knows he tried, but he failed"
Kakashi
looked at her "He was killed a year ago"
Tenshi grinned
"Good, somehow it doesn't surprise me"
He nodded "I
wondered if you did it"
She shook her head "Sometimes I
wish I did, but no, I ran instead"
Kakashi forced her head up
"When you have something you need to protect running can be your
best option"
She looked at him "How did you know I had
others with me"
"Because the same night you vanished so
did two elderly housekeepers and five children, they were thought to
have been sold, but knowing you, I say you took them while you
ran"
She laughed softly "I'm not the hero of that story,
it was the elderly couple who saved us and got us out of there"
He
nodded "But without you would they have made it"
She
sighed "I don't know"
He looked at her silently then
held out his hand "Come we need rest, tomorrow afternoon we
should be at the village"
She looked at him and took his hand
As they
laid in the dark she looked over at him "How is Naruto"
Kakashi
grinned "He is part of team 7, my team"
She smiled "Is
he still an idiot"
Kakashi laughed "Yes"
She
sighed "Tell me"
"Well in my team is Naruto, he
has a crush on the only girl in the team Sakura, the other is his
best friend and rival, Sasuke Uchiha"
She looked over
"Uchiha?"
He nodded "Sasuke needs you, that's why
we came in search of you, he is deeply troubled, without your help
its feared he will turn rouge"
She stared at the stars "What
can I do"
"Sleep, tomorrow will be soon enough"
MEANWHILE THE NEXT DAY A KONOHA??
Naruto and Sasuke were sitting down
with Asuma and Kurenai
and their teams when a ninja burst in
He looked at them all and
muttered "Is it true?"
Asuma glared "Is what
true"
The ninja looked excited "Is it true that Kakashi
Hatake is coming back to the village after a mission to retreave the
last female Uchiha?"
Naruto sat up and whispered
"Tenshi"
Sasuke stood up and yelled "WHAT!"
Asuma
shook his head and looked at Kurinai "Why do we bother trying to
keep secrets from Sasuke when this idiot blurts them out all the
time"
Kurenai
just shrugged.
