The Phoenix Child
My team?
I went to the compound very late at night, it was so late that the stars had disappeared and the moon looked faraway, clearly indicating that it was about morning. I did not know how the time passed so quickly with me just sitting on the rocky ground, crying and then later, wishing I was just dead. But most of the time, I just sat there thinking about what kind of fate I have and what I was going to do if this keeps up.
It was all very depressing.
I still did not want to go back to the compound but my Phoenix insisted me too because it was cold. I was cold too but I wasn't admitting it… after all, fire and coldness are totally opposite. My Phoenix told me that if I sat there one more minute, it will probably get all extinguished and something terrible would happen. It was always like that; I couldn't touch anything cold because it would probably hurt me and the Phoenix. Though I haven't experienced something like that because I was always warned by my Phoenix first. He was my first and only hope.
So I was heading home; cold, hungry, numb, tired, depressed and my eyes and head were throbbing like hell because of my continuously crying and rubbing. I wondered if my mother was awake, waiting for me, worried sick. I would be happy to see that she did care about me. But another part of me said that she would have gone to bed with my father just after dinner.
And I strongly agreed with that part because I was depressed.
I started dragging my feet to the stupid compound, wishing I had another place to stay the night instead of breaking in (that what my brother calls it when I usually come home). I sighed loudly, not caring that I will get into major trouble if some drunken man just passed by… though I wasn't worried about that because probably he will run away, screaming and spread another mindless rumor about me.
I looked at the slightly bright sky as I walked towards the place I clearly dreaded. Something just told me that the team selection would be a major bummer too.
I stood in front of the mirror and looked at the shiny forehead protector in my palm. I thought of tying it around my forehead like everyone else but I did not want to because it will prevent my red hair from falling onto my face. I liked it when they fell on my face and eyes, not because they gave me a scary look, but because they acted like a shield to all the people's stares, comments and dirty looks.
I thought of it tying around my neck and suddenly a depressing sarcasm came into my mind; yeah, tie it so tightly that can't breathe. My Phoenix laughed at me and I ignored him before reconsidering the idea of the neck. I suddenly twitched in irritation and nevertheless tied it around my neck loosely. I could not believe it that I spend almost ten minutes of my life, which I admit wasn't the best one, thinking where to wear the stupid forehead protector to make a fashion statement. I mean who would even care that I wear a forehead protector on my head, on my neck or even on my waist! They are going to hate me like always.
I looked at myself in the mirror again. I usually wear a combination of red and black. Nothing more or less than that except for the now blue velvet and shiny plate on my neck now. I was wearing a full sleeved red T-shirt with a black and red leather jacket with a hood on it. The black caprice weren't really tight but I like them nevertheless and my red leather combat boots were different from the rest.
Or in other words, whoever looked at me thought that I was weird, a psycho, emo and loved gore.
I yawned loudly and rubbed the sudden water from my eyes. As soon as I slipped through my window, the sun was already up and the noise of my mother making breakfast was very tempting. I never had an appetite, I just ate like I have to or I will never become a ninja like I always wanted to be. I did not like to be weak but that what I was in everyone's eyes including my father's.
I slid open the door and headed downstairs towards the kitchen. I entered with a small whisper of good morning before sitting obediently down. My mother was standing in front of the stove whereas my brother and father were in a small conversation about something. Nobody replied my good morning and they just continued doing whatever they were. I felt a pang of hurt at the ignorance but I continued staring at the wooden table blankly.
"Phoenix?" I thought inwardly.
"Yes,"
"When the prophecy will take place, what will happen after that?" I asked.
My mother placed some bowls of rice porridge in front of us. I took the chopsticks and picked up the bowl.
"Well in the end, the world is either going to get destroyed into nothingness or you will destroy all evil in this world,"
I helped myself to another bowl of rice. My brother raised an eyebrow at me because it was my first time taking seconds.
"I know that but what will happen after that?"
It took some time for my phoenix to answer me this time. I suppose he was thinking what to answer. My questions are either none or the ones which are too complicated to answer. I placed the empty bowl on the table and placed my chopsticks on top of that. I grabbed the tea and started to gulp it down. Everyone was staring at me because it was the first time I was acting like this. I don't know why but I just wanted to get out of there quickly.
"Well I guess you get to live your own life if something good happens or you will probably die too if the world will get destroyed,"
I slammed down the glass and got up from the table quite aggressively. My mother's eyes were wide in surprise and my brother had a strange confused pout on his face and most strange of all, my father's eye brows were raised and he looked like he was glaring at me and my very bad manners.
I just cannot believe that I acted like that. I quickly bowed and walked out of the kitchen, not really meaning the slam on the kitchen door. I sighed out loud, maybe I was frustrated. I scowled to myself; it was so hard to figure out my emotions because all of my life I have only felt was sorrow and grief.
I walked out of my house, my red bag on my shoulders and I again jerked my head to allow my hair to fall on my face as I started to walk towards the school.
"If I get to live, will you be there with me?" I thought as soon as I realized.
"I am not sure about that but I don't think so anyone of us going to live after the Day of Fire," he replied, this time his voice soft and quiet.
I wasn't surprised at all though I again felt a million of emotions run through me that I never thought were there before. I felt slightly sick and tired. Every minute of my life, I heard bad news. I thought that the holder of the prophecy was given respect and love so that the person will not chose evil and destroy the world and all the people in it though I think everyone wants to make my life miserable so I should destroy the world. But obviously I won't do that even though I wished for it because I mostly hated everyone and everything including my life. Why? Because I had a huge conscience and something called, well as my phoenix says, the power to go through pain. The Day of Fire was the day when the prophecy would come true and until that day, I won't die. Even if that day comes after fifty years or just tomorrow. But whenever it was, I wasn't looking forward to it because I knew that something probably will go wrong. It has to and it will be… I just knew it.
And surprisingly, I didn't feel any kind of excitement when I thought about being a part of a team like I did yesterday. Maybe because I knew something will go wrong and I would be left alone again.
Not that I am already.
I wondered what my father wanted to talk so urgently with my brother and my mother yesterday. I gulped quietly. I hope it wasn't about me.
The school came in my view and I saw students running around the ground, I lowered my eyes, feeling tired out. I just wanted to sit in a nice quiet hot place to clear my head.
"Don't think too much, it will probably make you feel more horrible than before,"
I took the Phoenix's advice at once. I trusted him a lot and I at once cleared my head and started to walk towards my classroom.
I think my depression and the strange flow of emotions are because of no sleep. Also I think that my dark circles are even more prominent than before and as my eyes are almost half closed and I probably look like a corpse with this pale skin of mine, the students were not only muttering discontent about me but were praying, I say, very loudly to God and in the name of their loved ones that I wouldn't be on their team and they would be safe from me.
I think I am too tired to do or react in any way except that I am getting more and more irritated. My exercise of not thinking ended up as a failure as usually I occupied myself by talking to my head all the time. Bad habit, I know but, what else am I suppose to do?
Usually I don't sleep much either but I hadn't slept the day before that either because I was up all night studying because I was tensed about the exam. Now it had been two days and I feel quite sick. And if anything bad happened, I knew that I will start breathing out fire.
Which was certainly a bad sign.
So I closed my eyes and I tried to relax my brain and my soul like in meditation except the problem was that when the class acts like a fish market and there is so much screaming, no one can meditate.
I cracked my eyes and saw the most horrifying thing that almost scared me.
Uchiha and Uzumaki Naruto… were… were… kissing?
And my Phoenix started to laugh so loudly that I felt like joining in too. It was funny, I mean, to see something like that and I couldn't help but turn pink and slap my hand on mouth to suppress my giggles.
So this is what it feels to laugh.
They suddenly broke up and starting spitting on the floor disgustingly, their hands on their necks as though they have tasted some poison or something. Well if something like that happen to me, I would probably kill the next person and destroy the whole world… even if the person was of the opposite sex.
It was just plain EW when people did that. I hated it and I was not interested. Well, a girl like me, who can be nominated as the ugliest monster in the whole world, would of course not be interested in something like that.
And that is why it was so funny for me. Here I was, feeling so tired that I felt dead and here they were, doing something that could actually make me laugh. Wow, miracles do happen.
And now as the fan girls started to beat Uzumaki Naruto up like it was his fault, I removed my hand from my mouth and surprised to see that I was holding my breathe so I wouldn't laugh loudly. And at once, I bent down, and giggled silently, my shoulders shaking slightly. After a few minutes, I dried my eyes with my sleeve and looked up, my face pink with doing something I have never done before.
And something actually good happened that nobody saw me laughing. It would have been just weird if that would happen.
And then my stomach filled with dread when my eyes moved towards the Uchiha, who was standing now, his hands stuffed in his pockets and his eyes fixed on me with an expression of total disbelief and shock on his face.
I could not believe it that of all the people in this world, he caught me laughing! I mean, sure it was funny and all but still it must be freaky for him to think that I was actually laughing at him.
And surprisingly I did something that I would NEVER do and I totally blame my lack of sleep and irresponsibility on my Phoenix for not stopping me because I think that I have never acted so childishly before.
I stick out my tongue at him and quickly turned away, jerking some red hair on my face to hide my embarrassment.
And I was relieved when Iruka-sensei entered the class and everyone took their places. Uchiha took his place too, probably thinking that I was nuts.
My Phoenix's laughter was even more deafening and embarrassing.
"I cannot believe that you did ALL that!" My Phoenix yelled.
I shifted my gaze on the wooden desk.
"I think lack of sleep makes me do crazy things," I thought.
After the class settled down, Iruka-sensei started his speech about becoming excellent ninjas and all of them had been a great experience for him to teach. Then he took out a sheet of paper to announce the names when he suddenly remembered one thing. He rubbed the back of his neck lamely.
"Oh I totally forgot, Yesha Kimiko, the Hokage wants to see you,"
It was like the whole class's attention was turned towards me, a person who was about to go to sleep, and started to whispered again. I blinked sedately. Why would the Hokage want to see me? Does he not want me to be a ninja? Has he changed his mind? Is he going to kick me out of Konoha?
I quietly got up, my body going through a series of sorrow and sadness. It was like I haven't experience laughter and childishness before; it was like I had been betrayed by kismet again and that one joyous moment was just a mistake.
I walked out of the room without another word, suddenly feeling foolish… suddenly feeling like crying. Why did I experience such joyous things when I know something was obviously going to go wrong? I quietly shut the door and started walking towards the Hokage tower, which was probably a good fifteen minutes away from the academy.
I reached the Hokage Tower in ten minutes than in fifteen. Though I was tired and all, I still ran there and now I stood just outside the door, panting. I would probably maintain my breathing before I go in because I didn't want to show any weaknesses… like it would matter for him to tell me something bad. I gulped and straightened up. The run was good and bad in one way, because of lack of sleep and energy, my legs felt numb and pained terribly. The good thing was that because of the pain, I could now see things more clearly and I had stopped yawning or giggling or something extra ridiculous that I did not how, but just happened.
I was thankful for the pain because I did not want to act like a jerk in front of the Hokage.
So, gulping again, I just knocked, trying to gather enough courage to face him and see what he wants. It wouldn't really be fair if he just went on "I am sorry Kimiko, but you need to quit being a ninja and get out of Konoha. You are too horrible and dangerous to be kept here,"
"Didn't I tell you to stop your thinking? You are exaggering a lot," My Phoenix said in a stern voice.
There was a loud come in from inside and closing my mind completely, I entered, shutting the door behind me as I did. I walked forward, looking at the Hokage and at the silver haired man who was leaning against the wall.
I glanced at him and saw him looking at me curiously with his one visible eye. I looked back at the Hokage, patiently.
The Hokage put down a stack of paper that he was signing and looked at me with a small smile. I tried not to twitch.
"I was expecting you Yesha Kimiko. I personally wanted to inform you something," The Hokage said in a serious voice.
I didn't answer even though my patience was wearing off. I think I sometimes do look like a corpse… no wonder the Hokage quickly went to the point.
"This year, we did not have an expecting result. Few of the students failed, leaving the graduated ones in an uneven number. So in order to create a team, we have to make an exception of the rules,"
My eyes slightly widened. No way! I could not believe it… they were not putting me on any team? Was I going to be a solo forever? Why was everything going like this?
The Hokage noticed my devastated expression and he quickly cleared his throat.
"But obviously, it wouldn't be just right for you to be left out so I decided that you stay on Kakashi's team for awhile. I mean, I know he is capable of looking after four students at a time but I also know that you have great potential as a ninja so Kakashi is extremely happy for you to be on his team,"
I quickly changed my expression into the previous one. I looked sideways at the man named Kakashi who waved a little in a friendly manner.
"Yo!" he said, smiling.
I openly twitched before looking back at the Hokage.
"For how long am I going to be on this team as an extra?" I asked, straight-forwardly, something I would never do but just did because the pain was wearing off and the tiredness was going to my head, messing up the vibrating signals.
The atmosphere became tensed. Hokage shuffled with his paper for a while, trying to think what to say. Kakashi looked at me, his smile vanished.
"You are not really an extra but a member of Team 7. But if you insist, I will change your team when the next batch graduates,"
I was about to answer with a rude remark that just popped into my head when my Phoenix took control of my actions. My eyes turned redder and a hint of orange came into it.
"Ok, is that all?" I asked. I think my voice had changed too. It was more expressionless and like a robot.
The both men were slightly taken aback.
"Yes that is all. Return to the academy and Kakashi would be there in a minute," The Hokage said after a pause.
I nodded and walked out of the door. As soon as I shut the door behind me gently, the phoenix gave back my will and I grabbed the wall beside as I panted heavily.
"Don't do that again," I muttered.
"You were about to call him a really bad word Kimiko. Maybe lack of sleep is really bad for you. I won't do it again as it takes my whole power to do it if I don't use my chakra. But please do be careful,"
"Ok fine,"
I straightened up and I suddenly heard voices from inside.
"I hope this decision was right," came the Hokage's voice.
"Don't worry. She seems to be a nice kid," Kakashi's voice was more serious than before.
"Yes I know but just be careful. She had been through a lot and I don't think that Yesha Clan is right about what they are going to do to her,"
I gulped loudly and stood on my tiptoes to listen. What were the Clan going to do?
Suddenly the door opened and I jumped back, surprised. Kakashi poked his head outside and smiled cheerfully at me shaking with embarrassment and tension of what will happen.
I suddenly panicked. I turned and ran down the hall before he could say anything, my heart beating way to fast to control it.
When I was fairly out of the Hokage tower, I let out a huge sigh.
Unbelievable, just simply outrageous, simply disgusting, simply not right, simply unfair. I gulped down a huge amount of fresh air and eased my racing heart.
'Well only one good thing came out of it,'I thought to myself as I straightened up myself and looked at the 'fire' sign on the tower.
'I need to watch my step in the compound from now on and do things that does not include what I did in the morning,'
I started running.
Whatever it was that the Yesha Clan was planning for me; I needed to be extra extra extra careful.
I was sitting in the corner of the same now empty classroom, beside the window where the clouds blocked the beautiful hot sunshine again and again; making me feel even more miserable than I was before. I felt so miserable that I just wanted to go home and sleep the rest of the day, if I was eighteen, I would probably go drinking in a pub and then die in my own agony.
But I couldn't do either because I was just sitting and waiting for my sensei to come in and take me and the rest of the team to someplace and do something there and whatever.
The most shocking thing was when I discovered who my team members were, I mean I always believed in luck but this was extra freaky. My team members was a boy who thought about stupid pranks and did some weird dirty jutsu, a girl who thought that she was the greatest in the whole world and loved to call me names and a boy who was giving me suspicious looks for sometime because he had seen me laughing and now looking worse than a corpse.
Or in other words, Uzumaki Naruto, Sakura and Uchiha; I had no idea what Uchiha's first name was and Sakura's surname but I didn't really care because I was just feeling dead and Sakura and Naruto just kept giving me weird looks because we were the only one who were left in the class and I didn't have the courage or mental capacity to tell them that I, too, were on their team as an extra loser that they probably didn't want and they can ignore me because I don't know how to work as a team because I am an emo.
I stared harder at the wooden desk.
I hate my self.
I hate my self.
I hate my self.
Wow, that is a good exercise. All I need to do is keep repeating this sentence until something happens.
"Kimiko!" My phoenix yelled and I flinched as my side burned a little. He had probably used a minute part of his humungous chakra to punish me. "Get a grip!"
Naruto picked up a duster and said something that I probably didn't want to hear. Sure he was once alone like me but he was so cheerful, open minded and full of energy that I feel like that he isn't like me at all. He was too bright and cheery… and very annoying.
I actually found everything very annoying around me because I was not in a good mood.
Naruto put the duster on top of the door and Sakura yelled in such a high shrill voice that I flinched irritably.
"That is not going to work dobe; our sensei is probably a Jounin, an elite ninja," Uchiha said from his spot.
He looked cool sitting there like a businessman that it made me look away from the wooden desk and look at him. He didn't look anything special then so I looked back at the desk and decided to do something, I normally won't do.
I quietly clicked my fingers and a flame shot from my index finger. Not even caring to see that my team mates might be staring at me, I started to burn the desk and write something on it.
And obviously, there was this weird quiet silence in the room and everyone was looking at me like I was insane. And I will even admit it if they ask, that I am insane. It isn't anything to be proud of but not many people are there who are insane so it kind of makes me unique.
So that's what I wrote with a number of depressing blood crusting words, actually a whole poem.
For the love of Man Kind.
For the love of Lost Sight.
Destroy the evil
Destroy the world.
I know it didn't make any sense, nor did I care if it did but I just wrote it because I was bored. Though there was a huge point in the poem, not that I am blind or something, but that in order to destroy evil, the world should be destroyed so people should begin living again, this time with new and better intentions.
So whatever I decided, the world will be a better place someday eventually.
And I got another pinch from my phoenix and a huge amount of flames came through my finger and the desk was on fire.
Ooh… I wish I could do that everyday. It was so beautiful and amazing, the flames were dancing and the colors were reflecting on everyone's astonished eyes.
"Kimiko, don't let me torture you!"
"Ok ok, fine, geez,"
I moved my hand slightly and the fire was gone like a puff and the classroom was filled with black smoke. I opened the window so there won't be any kind requests for me later.
"What the hell were you doing!?" Naruto shouted so loudly that I felt like jumping out of the window and running far far away from them.
I looked down at the desk. It was not entirely burned or had fallen; it just had a huge junk of wood gone at a side. So I innocently (yeah right) looked at him and spoke to the first student in my life.
"What?" I muttered.
My phoenix shifted warningly inside me.
The rest were surprised to see me talking. They probably thought that apart from being an ugly monster, I was also deaf, blind and mute. And the topic hand was at once forgotten.
"Hey," Naruto yelped "You can talk,"
It was like saying that to some kind of supernatural thing like it happened in books and movies. But my reply was totally different.
"I can kick too, you know… want me to do it?" I said so coldly and scarily that it even frightened me.
"You do know that is why you don't have any friends. Try to get along,"
"I feel sick, tired, hungry, numb, cold, and insane and you are now telling me to get along? What is with people these days?!"
But before Naruto or even the Phoenix could reply me, the door suddenly opened and Kakashi walked in and as soon as he did, the duster fell on his head.
He was about to say something when he glanced at my burned down desk and sighed.
"My first expressions on you guys are that you all are complete idiots," he said like it was the nicest thing to say.
Everybody flinched except me. I didn't really feel anything because somebody calling me an idiot was the nicest thing anybody ever said to me.
He said something else and everybody got up to follow him. I got up too and the other three members stopped and stare at me.
Kakashi looked at me for a second and I expected him to go on and say "What are you doing following us when you are not on the team? You are just an extra and I will only be your sensei when I have some extra time,"
But all he went was.
"Don't worry, that sweet kid is on our team too. I am honored to have a fourth student. With us all, we are going to be a great team,"
And I couldn't help but grimace when Kakashi turned his back on us and started to walk away. The others looked at me in hatred and started to walk again.
I blinked a couple of times. I was about to turn around and run away towards the compound when my Phoenix, who was chuckling since he heard the word sweet, poked me again and I had to move unwillingly towards wherever the hell we were going.
We were sitting on the roof. I was sitting next to Sakura who strongly smelled of some perfume that made me even more airheaded. Kakashi-sensei was leaning against the railing and looking at us.
"Now we are going to introduce ourselves," he said.
Everyone stayed silent.
"How are we going to do that?" Naruto asked.
More silence.
"Why don't you give us an example by doing it yourself," Naruto said again.
Kakashi lazily rubbed the back of his head.
"Ok. Uh, let's see," Kakashi muttered and then still smiling, he began, "My name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes are nothing of your concern and neither are my hobbies. My dream… umm… I don't really have one,"
He looked at us with a wink in his one visible eye.
I wanted to bang my head onto the cement floor again and again until I bled to death. I mean, come-on! What did he say except his name? Nothing! I twitched as Naruto started to introduce himself. It looked like he was advertising the Ramen Shop down the street rather introducing himself. It was so annoying.
Then it was Sakura's turn and she started to yelp and blush and look at Uchiha shyly. I rubbed my temples. But I did find out that her full name was Haruno Sakura. This wasn't anything useful really.
Then it was Uchiha's turn and everyone turned their attention to him, well obviously except me because I was looking at the sun which wasn't really hurting my eyes.
"…I don't have a dream but I have an aim. Something that will come true, I will revive my Clan and kill a certain someone,"
I turned my head lazily at him. Wow and I thought I was the only one insane here.
Now it was my turn but I turned my attention towards the sun and just did not care about introducing myself.
Minutes passed and Kakashi cleared his throat. Then something so horrible happened that I felt I wanted to transform into my fire state at once and kill that certain person too.
"I will do it for her," Sakura generously offered. She cleared her throat, "Her name is Ugly Red. She loves to make other people miserable because she is a monster. She dislikes beauty products. Her hobby is to sit in the corner and do nothing and her dream is to open up a haunted house,"
I felt heat rush up to my face but I quickly controlled it. I was still staring at the sun in a daze, thinking of what to do next as everyone was looking at me. Naruto was trying not to laugh. So I did what I never thought I would do. I turned my head towards them lazily.
"Did you say something Suck-ura?" I asked slowly so nobody missed the seriousness in my voice.
Sakura flinched and clenched her hand into a fist.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" She shouted.
I looked at her innocently.
"Oh? You want me to repeat it?" I asked.
"Now now now, girls… don't start a fight. We are after all a team," Kakashi spoke up.
Sakura huffed and turned her head away from me with a pout.
"I will spare you this time," she said like she was doing me a favor.
"Spare me what?"
Sakura flinched again and Naruto started babbling something comforting which made Sakura punch him on the head.
"Now, Kimiko, please do introduce yourself," Kakashi said as everyone settled down.
I clicked my tongue irritatingly.
"My name is Yesha Kimiko. I dislike everything and everyone in the world and I wish I could kill them all because I loathe them so much that I want to set all of them on fire,"
There was small pause.
"I like nothing. Absolutely nothing. Well except myself of course but sometimes I feel like killing myself too so nobody and nothing on this planet should exist in the future and God should make a new kind of humans that are possibly better than us,"
More weird silence. My Phoenix was shaking with laughter.
"My hobbies includes making plans how to destroy the world and kill all the people in it because I detest them so very much,"
Sakura and Naruto shivered slightly.
"And I don't have a dream because as Suck-ura happily pointed out for me, I am a monster. Monsters don't suppose to have dreams. They just have to do something that they are supposed to do ever since they are born. So as I am a monster, I need to fulfill the prophecy and destroy the whole world and kill everyone and everything in it,"
Though at this last speech, my Phoenix stopped chuckling and I felt him softly feeling me from the inside, trying to comfort me. Naruto had this weird expression that looked between astonishment and sadness. Sasuke had his eyebrows raised. Kakashi looked extremely uncomfortable. And Sakura…
She was looking at the new polished nails and muttering something like "God, people like her… urgh…"
I grunted.
"Now what?" I demanded, breaking their expressions.
Kakashi cleared his throat.
"There would be a test tomorrow. Come to the Third training ground early in the morning. Be prepared and don't eat breakfast," Kakashi said, empathizing hard on the last few words.
There was a minute silence.
"You can go now," he said.
I got from the floor and dusted myself.
"Thank god, I thought this torture would never end. Forcing people to say something that aren't suppose to be said. How pathetic," I said and stretching my muscles, walked away from the still seated team members and went through the door.
As soon as she was gone, I tried not to shiver in fright. I mean what was she? Was it just too late?
I was about to jump when somebody grabbed my legs. Surprisingly it was Naruto and Sakura.
"Please Kakashi-sensei, we don't want to her on our team!" they both wailed, their faces desperate. I looked at them, confused.
"She is insane," Sakura yelped.
"Please, we three are ok! Why her? Why not anybody else?" Naruto yelped.
"Please… have mercy on us!"
"I can't stand her if she bad mouthed anyone again!"
I sighed.
"Now guys, she is our team member. I believe she just acted like that because she was in a bad mood. And you shouldn't entirely blame her," I said, clearly and gently.
At this, they both silenced down and looked at me in a confused expression.
They both got up from the ground and looked at me demandingly.
"What do you mean, Kakashi-sensei!?" Naruto wailed.
I smiled and rubbed the back of my neck, tiredly.
"You guys need to figure that out by yourself," I said and before anyone could say anything else, I saw a hint of red by the door way and a quick blur as it disappeared. I sighed again and did a hand seal before transporting towards the Hokage's office.
"What is that you need Kakashi?" he asked without even looking from his paperwork.
"It's about Kimiko,"
The Hokage at once stopped working and looked at me seriously.
"I think she had made up her mind,"
The Hokage's eyes widened.
"She says that she wants to destroy the world and kill everyone… even herself," I continued.
The Hokage turned his chair to look out of his window.
"That's not good, that's just horrible," he muttered underneath his breathe.
There was a small silence.
"I think you and your team might make a difference," he said.
I flinched when I remembered her words, Sakura's taunts and her overhearing everything the others said.
"The others hate her already," I desperately said.
The Hokage turned towards me and smiled.
"Don't worry; everyone hates everyone at the start. Everyone will get used to her. I believe in you," he said.
I felt pride swirl up in my chest. I nodded determinedly and started to tell him the rest of what she had said and what had happened.
Wow. another chapter from me! hooray! lol
i think my writing style in the previous chapters and in this chapter is different. is that true? do tell me if it is.
and a critique told me that this story would be perfect if i used some humour in it. so i added a few stuff. Now Kimiko never acts like that but she only did because she was sleepy.
because i do strange things when I am sleepy too. Totally.
Please review or i will kill myself!