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"There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child"-N.K. Jemison

Kaida was starting to have a love-hate relationship with chakra.

She loved the way it defied all laws of physics, how it was basically magic that everyone had. It was extremely fascinating to her how everyone's chakra had their own unique feel to them. Her mother's signature felt like the cool ocean, always churning around and flowing. She always knew when her mother was nearby by the sharp briny tang that distinctly reminded her of the sea. Her father, however, was the complete opposite. His chakra simmered quietly, softly glowing like burning ashes. She had a thought that if he was ever angered or defending his family, it would rise like an inferno, turning all who dared to harm his family into dust.

However, she absolutely hated the way she couldn't control it. Every time she attempted to direct the flowing energy into, say, her hands it would always slip out of her grasp. It felt like trying to grab onto water, being able to feel it, but unable to actually hold onto it. To say it was frustrating was the understatement of the century. The most she could do was stretch and compress it, unable to use it for anything useful.

With nothing to do, Kaida had begun to continuously repeat her stretching and compressing chakra exercise every day, only resting when exhaustion started to set in. She often pushed herself past her limits so that when she slept, she would (hopefully) be too exhausted to have any recurring nightmares about her past. At least she was pleased to find that the continuous stretching of her chakra caused it to increase in it's capacity albeit slowly. Her familiarness with the alien substance had also grown with the interaction, though it wasn't enough for her to control it well. No wonder babies cried all the time, she would bawl all the time if she didn't have something to occupy her overactive mind.

Kaida had thought about restraining her obviously more advanced mind, but decided against it. She highly doubted that she could hide anything from her (not) parents who she suspected to be shinobi. As if she, an inexperienced infant, could stand a chance against trained murderers who had years of experience in reading body language. Pfft, she may not be suffering from any self esteem issues, but even she wasn't as cocky enough to assume that she could get anything past them. She'll put some effort in not seeming too much of a prodigy though. As if she would willingly add more things to stress about on her plate.

'The toddler years are going to be painfully boring,' Kaida thought.

After 4 months, she decided that it was time to talk. She could say that it was because she wanted to get a head start on the foreign language but really, she was just annoyed with the constant "say tou-san, Kaida," or the much more insistent "no, say kaa-san!" Kaida once heard a saying back then, "happy wife, happy life."

So that settled the decision on what her first word would be. During breakfast, while her mother,(Amaya, was it?), was washing the dishes and her father,(Haruki?), was trying to coax words out of his twins, Kaida mentally smirked and opened her mouth.

"Kaa-san."

There was a sudden clattering as the dishes slipped from Amaya's hands as both parents openly gaped at Kaida. '...Did I overdo it?'she thought, musing about what went wring as she continued to innocently smile on the outside. She was so lost in her musings that she missed the long, heavy stare between her parents. They quickly broke off the silent conversation and turned their attention back to Kaida.

"Whoo I knew you were mama's girl Kaida!"

Feeling a little pity on her father, who was currently slumping in his own depressed corner of woe, Kaida gave one last effort in talking.

"Tou-san"

She swears that the man used genjutsu when everything became bright with sunshine and Haruki's eyes literally sparkled. Glitter and all.

"Kami, you two are adorable. Tou-san loves you both very much," he cooed.

Shivering with a mixture of horror and regret of her decision to start talking, Kaida simply smiled and reverted back to babbling nonsense.

Later, as the twins slept in their room, faint, hushed whispers could be heard in the parent's bedroom.

"All the evidence points to her being a prodigy Amaya."

"What are we going to do? With how Kiri has been getting restless, there have been talks of a bloodline purge."

"With the high possibility of Kaida being a prodigy too, they're going to come after us soon."

There was a brief moment of heavy silence, before a fiercely protective voice rose in anger.

"If anyone even dares to harm our family, then I'll kill them all, the village be damned. I will not allow anymore of my loved ones to die because of the village Haruki!"

A placating voice with hard, unseen eyes answered "The both of us will protect them. I'll keep an ear out for any more information in my division."

He continued with "No matter what, we are all going to get through this together."

One month later.

After 5 long, insufferable months of being unable to move around without rolling to her intended destination, Kaida could now crawl. Because she didn't have a clue about childhood development, she just estimated (aka stumbled around blindly) for the approximate age that a toddler should start walking. Crawling around the admittedly sparsely furnished room, she toddled over to where Karin was currently attempting to eat a rubber kunai.

'Having weapons around kids. Wow, now that wasn't obvious at all, the way people are trying to desensitize their kids from weapons at an early age,' she mentally rolled her eyes at the sight.

Karin let out a happy gurgle at Kaida, excitedly waving her arms, rubber kunai still in her mouth. Scooching over to Karin, Kaida quickly took the kunai out of her mouth, placing it aside and discretely wiping her hands, she babbled to Karin "Wa'ch me," before struggling to stand up. With Karin watching avidly, Kaida first attempted to balance in a tripod position, before, clutching the wall, proudly standing up and hobbling a few steps (she had better be proud after the endless hours secretly practicing for that moment). She briefly basked in Karin's clapping(which reminded her of another sister whose eyes had shone just as brightly) before chirping "You try 'Rin-chan," again, surpressing the memory of a certain brown haired girl with purple facial tattoos.

The sight of Karin concentrating on the daunting task with the tip of her tongue sticking out brought out a giggle from Kaida as Karin shakily tried to stand up. She quickly fell on her bottom after a second, her muscles not yet used to the exertion. "Aww," Karin pouted cutely (though Kaida will never admit it) before crawling on all fours towards Amaya, who was sitting by a low table (what's with everything being so low? Low tables, low chairs, though it was easily accessible for a short toddler like her.).

"Kaa-san!" Kaida babbled as both the twins crawled over to their mother, who seemed to be practicing her calligraphy. They both looked in awe at Amaya's graceful and elegant brushstrokes, each character standing out starkly against the white scroll.

"Ohhh" the twins simultaneously breathed, eyes widened in wonder.

"It looks like the Uzumaki heritage runs strong in their blood" Haruki chuckled, startling Kaida, who wasn't paying attention, though Karin merely glanced up at him, as if she had already noticed him. 'Does she already have the Mind's Eye sensing?' Kaida's crimson eyes narrowed in thought.

"Indeed, they're gonna go places someday. " Amaya's ocean blue eyes were filled with pride as she smiled at the fraternal twins. The aforementioned kids both turned to their parents, blinking, not understanding their conversation.

Amaya turned back to her daughters, an idea slowly forming in her mind.

"How about it my dears, do you want to learn our Uzumaki tradition of sealing?" 'This should help protect them, if anything happens', She thought.

Scarlet orbs widened, before both nodding their heads emphatically, hair flying around wildly.

"Alright then, lessons start tomorrow morning."

"Hey hey, once they're old enough, I could train them in taijutsu and other things" Haruki supplied, 'So that when the time comes when they have to run or defend themselves, they'll be ready.'

Kaida, oblivious to her parent's thoughts, merely giggled happily that she could be better equipped to protect her precious people.

Repeated beeping echoed throughout the sterile room, reminding all nearby patients of their limited time.

Labored breathing could be faintly heard, along with muffled painful groans.

"Nurse, where's Olivia?" a raspy voice pleaded.

"She's in critical condition right now miss. She'll be undergoing surgery later."

"Please, just save her, I don't care if I die, just please, let her live."

Kaida frowned at the unwanted memory flashing through her mind.

'I will not lose anyone else because I was helpless. Never again.'

'There is nothing more terrifying than someone hellbent on protecting their family.'-Me

Author's Note:

So, yeah a brief snippet of Kaida's past continues to leak through. The story will slowly be picking up the pace, an I'm working on making the chapters longer then the previous one. That will mean that updates will probably be slow. Finals are coming up, and damn my schedule is packed. On a brighter note, 1,129 hits, 37 favs, 64 alerts, and it's in 6 communities! Whoo! No one reviewed the last chapter though. Oh well, reviews will still be welcomed with hugs and a happy dance. And of course, a cookie.

Any constructive criticism will be GREATLY appreciated, as it will help improve this story. Random "good jobs" work too.