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Chapter 2 : Flashbacks

AN : In this chapter, I write about Yuki's past, how she met Kakashi at the first time, and the things when she was in Minato's team. so it's all flashbacks (Well, obvious from the title, right ? :)...)

I hope you guys like this ! in the next chapter, I'll be back to the present :3

First Meet (7 years old)

"Ok, guys, now I would like to introduce our temporary member, since she hasn't got a team yet. Yuki, come out now." Minato's usual happy voice sounded.
"Ha-hai, Minato nee-san." A brown-haired girl came from behind a tree, and stood shyly behind Minato. The only feature that showed she has family relationship with Minato is her blue eyes.
"Guys, this is Yuki, Namikaze Yuki. Yuki, here's my team."
"I'm Uchiha Obito." the black-haired boy said and smiled warmly.
"I'm Nohara Rin, nice to meet you." the only girl in the team said.
"I'm Hatake Kakashi." the silver-haired one spoke.
"Well, I hope you all will get along, we'll work together until Yuki get a new team. Ok, now I'll give you one day to know one another, and tomorrow we'll head for a mission."
"Hai, Minato-sensei !"
After his student's reply, Minato disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Nee, Yuki-chan, how old are you, there ?" Obito asked.
"Se-seven.."
"Eeeh... Still seven ? And in what class are you now ?" The young Uchiha asked again.
"Chuunin" She answered.
"WHAT ! You're in a same class as Kakashi-teme there ! Oh, damn it ! Rin and I are still genins even we're ten already !" He squealed.
"Obito, you don't have to squeal right in front of her, do you ?" A cold voice said, Yuki knew it belonged to the silver-haired boy from before.
"S-surely it's okay, Hatake-san."
"Kakashi, call me Kakashi. By the way, he's a loudmouth here. So you can ignore him if you want to." He pointed at the raven-haired boy beside him.
"What ? Watch it, Kakashi-teme ! I'll someday be powerful and surpass you when I awaken my sharingan ! Don't be so arrogant there !"
"Who does speak big usually obtains nothing." the other boy replied.
"You're always too cold, expresionless metal-pole !"
When the 'fight' continued, the girl appeared beside her.
"Don't worry about this, they always had a quarrel like now, you'll be used to this." the brown-eyed girl smiled and giggled.
"Ha-hai, Rin-san."

...

Training (7,5 years old)

"Watch out, Rin-san ! Suiton : Circular Barrier !" Yuki blocks a fire attack in time before it hit Rin.
"Good job, there, girls !"
"Minato-sensei, why must you teamed us up like this !" Rin complained while she was busy dodging shurikens that Kakashi threw towards her.
"I teamed you chuunin-genin, so you'll get same power in each teams."
"But why I should be teamed with Kakashi-teme here !" Obito squealed as he tried to launch some other fire jutsus at Yuki, who dodged it or blocked it with her water barriers.
"I think you'll be a good combination. And by the way, change your opponents now, you must fight the one in a same class !" Minato said again.

"So I guess I must face Rin, then. Bakakashi, we change ! You fight Yuki !"
"Ok, here we go !" Kakashi chaged his direction, and then charged some shurikens and kunais to Yuki's direction, while she depleted it with her kunais in both of her hands. But then, Kakashi jumped above her with his tanto in his hand, ready for the attack.
When Kakashi is already on top of her, her body suddenly melted into water.
"Mizu-bunshin ?" Then he whipped his body in time to crash his tanto with Yuki's kunai. Still pressing each other's blade,
"Yuki, you're good back there."
"Ka-kakashi-san too."

"Kakashi-teme ! Finish her !" Obito shouted as he tried to aim his punch towards Rin, but the said target kept dodging and blocking his punch and kicks.
Finally, he was able to land his fist into Rin's palm, who then strongly hold his fist while stepping backwards to gain her balance.
"Ok, guys ! Finish there !" Minato's voice rang out.
Kakashi and Yuki both place their blades in their pouch, while Obito released his fist from Rin's palm as she hold it.
"How was it, sensei ?" Rin asked.
"That was a good one, but I think you still need more teamwork there. For today, it's enough. Ok, guys, who want to be treated ramen ?"
"Of course I want ! Let's go, sensei !" Obito answered enthusiastly .
"Kakashi, Rin, Yuki ?"
"Sorry, sensei, I must head home now, there are still much work to do." Kakashi answered.
"Wee, you are always as cold ! Just go away, teme !" Obito stuck his tongue towards Kakashi.
"Yeah, I'll obviously be going..." The other boy replied as he walked away.

"So, Rin, Yuki ?"
"Hai, sensei, we'll be coming, right, Yuki ?"
"Yes.."
"Ok, right, we are heading to Ichiraku !" Obito's voice rang, and he darted toward his destination.

"Yuki, what do you think about Kakashi ?" Rin asked when they're walking (Obito and Minato has gome far away in front of them, of course).
"Eh, Kakashi-san ? Well, he's strong, obviously. And I think that he's intelligent, but, doesn't he be too serious back there ? What do you think, Rin-san ?"
"Ye-yeah, I think that too... I want him to be less serious and cold, actually."
"And, what do you think about him, and why are you asking me, Rin-san ?" Yuki's ocean eyes looked at her curiously.
"Well, Kakashi is..."
"Rin-san ! You're blushing !"
"N-no, it... It just..."

"Rin, Yuki-chan, faster please, I'm starving !" Obito's voice came to Rin's rescue.
"Yes, we're coming !" Rin ran towards Obito and her sensei, while Yuki quickened her pace and smiled.
"So that, Rin-san likes Kakashi-san..." She made a mental note.

...

One of The Missions (8,5 years old)

"Ano, Kakashi-san, I heard Minato-sensei won't join us in this mission. Is it true ?" Yuki and Kakashi were in the training ground three, waiting for Obito and Rin to show up.
"Yeah, Minato-sensei will be on different mission this period of time. You know, we're kinda short of people right now, so Minato-sensei's assistance is really needed for our shinobi in the battlefield." Kakashi answered while checking his weapon pouch.
"Ah, I see... So, Kakashi-san, what's our mission today ? You haven't told us anything, right ?"
"Well, this is our squad's first mission since Obito and Rin became chuunin, so this mission won't be too hard. Our mission is to search for a specific plant used as medicine herb, and deliver the plant back to Konoha. I don't see any potential obstacles, but we know that things aren't always go smoothly on missions." Kakashi answered.

"Kakashi ! Yuki ! You two came early, didn't you ?" Rin arrived with a grin on her face.
"Eh, hello, Rin-san, err.. Where's Obito-san ?"
"You know that Obito always late, don't you ? I think you can't miss that habit, especially if you're already one and a half year in our team." Kakashi answered lazily.
"Ah, well..."

15 minutes later...

"Hh, hh, did I make it ?" Obito came, running and panting.
"No, you're late, AGAIN, Obito." Kakashi answered icily.
"Kakashi-teme ! It's only a few minutes ! Besides, in my way here, I met an old lady and..."
"Oh, shut up with that reason. Now, I"ll explain the mission. Our mission is to collect this medicinal herb (showing a picture of a distinct plant) from this region, beyond the northern border of Konoha. Then it's clear that we must bring the plant back to Konoha. Everybody got it ?" Kakashi explained briefly
"OK !" The three replied and nodded.

Konoha's northern border

"Kakashi, is the growing place of that plant still far away ? I still don't see any of them yet." Rin asked.
"No, the plant only grows in a 2 kilometres radius, and we are approaching that region in 3 kilometres. It's not too far, right ?" The addressed boy answered.
"Ok, we're going nearer, yosh !" Obito said cheerfully as he leapt across the trees faster, followed by three of his teammates. After leaping across hundreds of trees later, Yuki found something.
"Kakashi-san, is that the plant we're searching for ?"
Kakashi looked down, and confirmed her. "Yeah, it is. Obito, Rin, we're going down ! We'll start collecting the herbs."
"OK !"

Konoha's northern border (again)

"Kakashi... What are those guys doing here ?" Rin asked hesitantly.
The four of them were done in collecting the herbs, and now they were hiding behind a tree, and in front of them were many people, some from Konoha and some other from Iwa, fighting, charging weapons at each other in a chaotic mess, with a clear aim : To kill their enemy.
"It's clear that we're trapped in a battlefield, and in this condition, we can't go anywhere if we don't want to interfere. So, what will we do ?"
"What if we use kawarimi and mask our chakra so we won't be recognised ?" Yuki asked.
"It'll be too dangerous. I think it's better for us to use shunshin." Kakashi answered.
"Kakashi-teme ! You know that Rin and I still can't aim our distance in shunshin, what if we end up not outside, but inside the battlefield instead ?" Obito replied panickly.
"In that case, I think we must follow Yuki's suggestion, we'll sheath ourselves and our chakra, so we won't be recognised." Kakashi answered, much to his annoyance.
"Ok, let's go !" With Obito's command, all of them blended themselves with their surroundings, and masked their chakra as well. Then they started to walk slowly and silently across each gaps in the battlefield. But then...

"Clink..." Obito unintentionally kicks a kunai and accidentally, it met a shuriken thrown by one of the Iwa shinobi.
"Damn..." He muttered under his breath. But before he got fully alert again, the previous Iwa shinobi threw another shurikens towards his direction. Obito, unprepared, just stared widely to the incoming shurikens. But the impact of the attack never reached him. Someone protects him, acted as human shield.
The said person hissed quietly, and that's when Obito knew if his human shield was Yuki.
Then Obito felt the air in front of him flickered, a sign that the younger girl have shunshined away.
"Obito, Rin, we will do the shunshin now. We're already halfway across this. The distance is enough, right ?" Kakashi gave his command, still whispering.
"Hai." The two of them answered, then shunshined away.

They arrived beside a big tree, just outside the battlefield, and the tree has a big hole in its trunk, big enough for the three of them to hide.
They stepped in, and to their surprise, their team-mate has already there, but not in a good condition.
Sitting there and panting, she placed her own healing hand on her stomach, three bloodied shurikens rested beside her body.
"Yuki-chan !" Rin charged towards her and shoved the boys outside.
"Rin-san..." She smiled weakly and Rin could see blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.
"Lean down, please, and stop your chakra flow, I'll heal you." Rin said softly.

15 minutes later

The two girls went out of the tree's trunk, the smaller one limping beside the other, still panting. Resting her company beside the tree, Rin said to her team-mates.
"I don't bring any painkillers, so I just healed her to stop the bleeding. Now, what will we do ?"
"We'll get forward to Konoha, obviously. I'll carry her." Kakashi said, walked towards the said girl, then carry her on his back.
"Ka-Kakashi-san ?"
"Don't worry, just lean on me. We'll get back to Konoha."
"Don't move too much or the wound will re-open." Rin patted her shoulder and smiled.
"Ha-hai, Rin-san."

...

A New Team (10 years old)

"Minato-sensei, Rin-san, Kakashi-san, to, Obito-san. Thank you for these three years." Yuki bowed her head towards her three team-mates as Tsume, Izumo, and Kotetsu stood behind her. Yeah, she has got a new team. Izumo and Kotetsu were just graduated from the academy, and she was placed in their team under Inuzuka Tsume's tutelage.

"No problem Yuki-chan. Thank you too for your participance in this team." Minato smiled.
"Good luck with your new team." Rin patted her shoulder.
"Arigatou, Rin-san." She smiled, then walked back to her new team to do her next mission, when Obito shouted "Bye, Yuki-chan ! Be good okay !" And waved his hand. Kakashi also waved his hand slightly, much to her surprise.
She smiled and said "Hai.. I'll do my best !"
Then the team of four leaped quickly out of Konoha, when Minato's team went to the opposite direction, get ready for doing their next mission : Sabotaging the Kannabi Bridge.

...

Rin's grave (14 years old)

A brown-haired girl in a light blue dress approached a grave in Konoha cemetery, the very grave that Kakashi usually visit. She started to spoke.

"Rin-san, it has been four years, right ? Right now I'm an ANBU member, and Kakashi-san is still here."

Silence

"Ano.. Rin-san, you won't be angry if I start to like Kakashi-san will you ? I just want to make him back from his grieves. Rin-san, would you please forget me about this ?"

Silence

"Rin-san, I'll be going in my first ANBU mission. Back in the past, you always protected me on mission. But now, I will protect myself, I'll become strong, so you can see that what you have taught me was not a waste"

This time, the autumn breeze strokes her hair softly, as Rin was saying "Good luck, Yuki, I'll protect you.." Just like in the past