A/N: As requested we have a special guest appearing for the disclaimer for this chapter! And here he is…Sasuke!
SASUKE: You kill me and bring me back for this?
REYNA: Never said you were really dead now did I?
SASUKE: Fine…Reyna owns herself and only herself. She does not own me or anything related to Naruto! Which is a good thing because if she did I would have to hurt her.
REYNA: So freaking mean to me…huh, fine you have fulfilled your obligation. You may now return to wanting to destroy the Leaf.
SASUKE: Good *walks out scowling*
A VERY EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUE
Over the next several days while she was recovering, Kakashi refused to let her do much. He insisted on cooking for her and would question what she was doing every time she stood up. It was nearly two weeks later before she was cleared by Tsunade to return to light training with a caution that if there was any additional pain or if anything felt odd that she was to report to the hospital immediately. Reyna agreed, looking forward to spending some training hours with Naruto and Sakura again.
"Where are Naruto and Sakura?" Reyna asked when she and Kakashi reached the training grounds.
"Sakura's working on something at the hospital lab for some sort of poison and Naruto went on a mission with Jiraiya. It's just the two of us for the next couple of days."
"Damn I was looking forward to training with them again."
"Well, you're stuck with me," he grinned, his mask firmly back in place the moment they were heading for the door to his apartment.
"Great. More hovering," she muttered, earning a slap to the back of her head.
"Why don't we just start out nice and easy today?"
"Fine," she growled, breaking into a jog.
"Chakra control!" he called after her, "Let's climb some trees!"
"Are you freaking kidding me? I'm not a bloody Genin!"
"No, but you've been sitting on the couch for the past two weeks."
"Because you wouldn't let me do anything!" she snapped back.
"Then humor me and prove that you don't need the practise again."
"Fine!" she snapped before changing her course and jogging to the nearest tree and then up the trunk of it. She was three quarters of the way up when she stopped and turned around to look down at Kakashi who was casually walking up the tree next to hers. "See? Happy now?"
"Alright, so maybe I'm being a little paranoid," he admitted.
She grinned triumphantly, hands on her hips when her control slipped just enough that she detached from the trunk of the tree. In a heartbeat, Kakashi leapt from his own tree to hers and wrapped an arm around her waist, catching her before she fell more than a couple of feet.
"What were you saying again?" he asked a smile in his voice.
"Oh, just shut up," she growled as he chuckled and dropped to the ground with her still in his arms.
The second he placed her back on her feet, she jumped away from him and reached into her hip pouch for a kunai. A second later she yanked her hand back out with a yelp of shock and stared at the blood dripping from her palm. Instantly Kakashi was beside her and had a hold of her injured hand.
"Maybe you really shouldn't be training yet," he sighed as he pulled a bandage from his pocket and set to wrapping the injury.
"Since when do you randomly carry bandages on your person? I get it that you carry them in your pack for missions, but this is paranoid even for you," Reyna muttered as she watched him secure the bandage around her hand.
"Since I started travelling with you and Naruto; I really don't know how the hell you two manage some of your injuries," he replied, taking a step back once he was sure that the bandage would remain in place.
Reyna growled under her breath and without warning dropped her shoulder even as she flung her body at his. She caught him in the stomach with her shoulder, knocking the air from his lungs as he fell backwards. She tried to flip her body over Kakashi's but he wrapped his leg around hers as he fell, pulling her down on top of his body. She fell with a grunt as he grappled with her on the ground, despite still fighting to pull air back into his lungs.
"Gai-Sensei! What technique is that? It looks highly effective!" Lee's voice reached their ears.
"Lee! Don't look! Don't look! You are too youthful to worry about that!" Gai's frantic voice followed soon after.
Reyna glanced over her shoulder to see Gai wrap an arm around Lee's head, effectively blocking the younger ninja's view of her and Kakashi. Beneath her, she both heard and felt Kakashi laughing at Gai and Lee.
"You know, Gai, it is a highly effective technique to get exactly what you want!" Reyna called after them.
"And what is it that you wanted from Kakashi-Sensei, Reyna-Sensei?" Lee called after them, attempting to get out of Gai's grip.
"What any girl wants from her boyfriend, Lee!" she laughed as Gai's face turned red at Lee's new questions to his sensei as Gai pulled him away from the scene, "Geez, I was talking about chai and fuzzy pants."
Kakashi took advantage of her distracted state to flip her off of him and regain his feet. He looked down at the still laughing Reyna and shook his head before he pulled her to her feet as well. They returned to their original training plan and Reyna's bad day of training continued. By the end of the session she was bruised and sore, but figured she'd rather have a bad day training than a bad day on a mission.
"Why did I become a ninja again?" she muttered as they headed back to his apartment that afternoon.
"Because you wanted to be cool like me," he grinned in response.
Reyna had been back in training for a week before Tsunade sent Kakashi on a scouting mission for the Leaf. She was worried about something, but Kakashi had no idea what exactly she was looking for. All she wanted to know was if there was any unusual activity around a neighbouring village. He left the following afternoon, leaving Reyna alone for the first time in a long time. She spent the first few days training alone, redefining her shadow abilities and ensuring that she could perform any and all of them on the fly. She did not want to make another mistake like she had when she had faced Sasuke.
After those few days, she was far more confident with her shadow abilities and she was heading for the training grounds that Saturday when she ran into Iruka. He offered to train with her, joking that only if she took it easy on a poor Chuunin like himself. She laughed and agreed and they spent the afternoon training together.
The next day, she ran into Gai and Lee who were heading out to get some training in and asked if she wanted to join them. She agreed, thinking that getting in some serious taijutsu training would be a good idea. She made it half way through their training session before she found herself tiring and wondering just how the hell the two of them could keep up that kind of pace. She suddenly felt very sorry for Tenten and even a little sorry for Neiji.
She headed for Ichiraku as soon as she managed to convince Gai that she had gotten in more than enough training for the day. The two of them were still going strong when she left and she shook her head. She fell into a stool at the counter and ordered herself a bowl of pork ramen and relaxed while she waited for it to cook. The conversation of the two ninja sitting not far away from her caught her attention and she automatically fell to eating her ramen while she listened to the two of them.
"I still can't believe that genin team was taken out. It was a basic mission; hell all they were doing was tracking that stupid cat. Who would be stupid enough to attack an entire team like that?" the one asked the other.
"For that matter, how the hell could they manage to not only take out the three genin, who from what I've heard were extremely talented, but also their Jounin. It's not like he was a slacker."
"What really gets me," the first continued, "is that the ANBU that went out to track them reported to the Hokage that he was following human footprints, but about ten feet away from the attack they turned into paw prints. The genin that survived managed to describe the guy that attacked them though. He was big, around 6'5 or something like that and muscled; grizzled like he lived outside like some sort of animal with hard hazel eyes and a scar that ran from his left temple to his left eye and then continued down the side of his cheek and neck. Sounds like one tough dude."
"Really? Maybe it's some kind of new jutsu that we don't know about?"
The first shrugged, "Maybe, but I heard that Tsunade sent the Copy Ninja to look into things and see if there's anything unusual going on around the area."
Reyna dropped the money to cover her meal on the counter and bolted back out onto the street. She knew that the Leaf Pack wouldn't attack a ninja team. She was royally pissed off that Tsunade had sent Kakashi to look into the incident rather than her. She was the one who could scent a week old trail and who would most likely be able to tell her which of the packs it had been or if it had been a lone wolf. She was already pretty sure who had done it though, and why. The description of the attacker that she had heard told her exactly who it most likely had been.
She was nearly at the main gate when she remembered that Kakashi was supposed to be back in a couple of days. She had no idea how long it was going to take her to find the attacker, assuming he was actually alone. The way her luck was running, she was going to end up facing off against the entire rogue pack. She growled under her breath as she reversed direction, heading back to the apartment. She quickly scribbled out a note to Kakashi, tacking it to the table before she headed out of the village immediately.
She ran as hard as she could into the trees, scenting the wind every few steps. Finally she caught the scent she wished she could forget; that of her father. She growled under her breath, focused on following that scent so intently that she missed every sign around her that told her she was walking into a trap. Before she realized what had happened, she was lying face down in the dirt and once again felt the dread of having a collar wrapped around her neck. Her father stepped out of the trees ahead of her laughing.
"Now, you are mine you little whelp," he snarled, "and with your help, we will destroy the Leaf!"
"Not bloody freaking likely!" she snarled in return, launching her body at him in an attack only to hit the ground a second later as pain shot through her body flowing through her chakra.
Those around her laughed as she groaned on the ground. She didn't even bother struggling as they drug her through the trees, towards what she was pretty sure would end up being not only her death but the death of everything she cared about. They dropped her in the center of their camp, and she finally realized that every single wolf there was walking around as a human. She was curious about that, but decided to bid her time until she could figure out how to get that damn collar off.
A/N: Alright so that's that… Reyna once again got herself caught…Now, click the button, review and I will try to get another done for tomorrow sometime. Any suggestions for disclaimer guests let me know!