Derek and I returned to Konoha and we spent the following year we did our missions and such we made a good team Derek, Sarae, and I. I seemed to be the strongest but when Derek brought this up I always denied it because I was only strong because of the demon sealed inside me.
It was nearing my fifteenth birthday and Tsunade had summoned me about a mission. Most likely about America she gave me a scroll to look at when I got home either way the lecture was over and I was heading home, it was dark outside and I saw something move out of the corner of my eye and I followed it, it was a dog a wolf or maybe a husky or maybe a mixed breed like Sarae but none the less he was injured badly I used my healing abilities and went to work after a while the dog seemed stable and I asked him "Will you stay with me, Derek, and Sarae? The dog barked and began to follow me. So we went home and I named the male dog Karu. Though he was a new addition to the family no one seemed to mind and Sarae seemed happy that a dog had come into the family. He seemed two years old, about the age of Sarae. Me and Derek went on a lot of missions that summer, though we weren't always together on the missions and there was only one incident where I was forced to cut my hair for it was around my rear but now it was above my shoulders.
Around June fifth I was left alone as for missions until the eighteenth and I knew why. "WAKE UP DEREK-CHAN!" I yelled at the top of my lungs on the morning of June eighteenth he woke up and looked at me like I was insane and I knew I was but still….he seemed to think about it for a minute probably thinking of why I was smiling with my hands over my head then it hit him that it was his fourteenth birthday. "But this means…." I had put my arms down and I was looking at him he jumped up and we were hugging I felt my heart pick up. "I am sorry. I forgot and I was on a mission." He seemed really upset "Don't worry about it, my birthday, June 6 is nothing to celebrate. All my birthday celebrated is the death of my family and the fact that I have a spirit sealed in side me." "Don't say that your birthday is celebrated about those things, your birthday represents you." He let go and went to go get dressed. I went to make breakfast. Derek came out and he walked past me and then ran like there was no tomorrow. I was standing there and whatever I was holding got crushed for he had grouped my butt. With that event I screamed "DEREK!" he was now out the door and he began to run even faster as I began to chase him I didn't shut the door, I knew that Sarae would do it and I heard the door shut. I continued to chase we were running down the road and I was yelling every word I could think to him the entire time. Both of us were dodging people, carts, children, and then I saw ahead that Derek was going to run into a food cart but he did something classic. He made it across and I was the one going to crash. Well I was a ninja so I just jumped over the cart and continued to chase him, yelling at him the entire time still at the top of my lungs not caring who hears me. But then I ran into Kotetsu. I ran into him and his shinobi vest which was very, hard. I fell back and Derek saw this turned around and goes to help me up I took this as an opening I grabbed his hand and I pulled him over my shoulder, I got up and looked down at him I sighed and said "What did I tell you about letting your guard down?" he stood up and scratched the back of his head. He then grabbed me again and ran. I knew my face was as red as the blood that flows through my veins I'm sure I could have lighted up a dark room. I had tears of rage down my face as well. He began running as well as I heard him say "Kid's asking for a death sentence." We were both running through the park and no one was there I was still chasing him yelling "GOD DAMN IT DEREK GET BACK HERE NOW!" with him running in front of me yelling back "ONLY IF YOU CAN CATCH ME!" we ran around the merry-go-round he rode it for a few seconds then hopped off, we jumped over the little swings on springs, he jumped through the swings, I fell face first. I got up and by now I was covered in dirt from all the trips, Derek doesn't have a speck of dirt on him. After several attempts I caught him by jumping on his back and sitting on his chest. "Caught you, damn it." I said "Yes, I guess you did. Congratulations." "WHY THE HELL DID YOU GRAB MY ASS?!" I threw at him. "Eh, it's my birthday, can't I have a little fun?" "You were never like this before Dare. You were always calm and collected, and now you're like this." "Well Reiko, yes I was always looking on the bright side I guess because I was happy to be with you so I was calm, and recently I've gone into denial-" "Wait? What? Denial?" I asked he stood up as well as I. "I have been in denial because I think I'm in love with you." He said I stood there not saying anything, I smiled a little and he did too. He then put his arm around my waist and pulled down making us both fall onto the ground we were both laughing. We finally went home and I washed up we decided to go somewhere for dinner to celebrate both of our birthdays. I needed to talk to Tsunade so while he was washing up I told him I had to go see Tsunade I said good bye to Sarae and Karu. And I went off once I got there I handed her the scroll with my mission reports. And off I went
I still had plenty of time to wait so I stood outside but I started thinking and soon enough I was talking to myself, mumbling that I was careless and a fool I knew that Derek liked my hair long and it was then when he showed up. He grabbed a lock of my hair "I like you hair." "Derek-" "Reiko, there's something I need to tell you, one thing that I found out just recently from Tsunade is that my name isn't Derek, you see there was a mix up with some I.D. papers and it turns out that my name is Skyler. This was huge news. "Oh." Was all I could say. "Yea sorry I meant to tell you sooner I was going to tell you inside I just couldn't wait anymore." "That's ok." I smiled and we went inside and ate. Once we finished that we decided to go home. Skyler flopped down onto the mattress and almost passed out immediately, I sat around a little, pet my two dogs, then I finally just sat at the foot of my bed, I almost never slept there if I did it way by accident but that night I did fall asleep, for when I sat at the foot of my bed I laid back to make my spine pop, I stared at the ceiling then for some reason I was incredibly tired and I fell asleep right there.
I awoke to being under the blankets, and I looked around he wasn't anywhere to be seen. Oh well I got up, and got ready, I found out he was in town for the day and I knew that I had to go see Tsunade again, I feared that it was because I had to go to America again, and when I got there my fears were confirmed. "WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE TO RETURN?!" "Because you are required to attend the high school now that you attended the middle school." "DAMMIT I AM NOT GOING!" I yelled back. "Do you really think that?" she said in the calmest voice she could use. "HELL YES!" "Look its true that you have to attend high school but I will see what I can do as far as location." "What ever." When the conversation was over I went to the door, Kotetsu and his friend were standing next to the door, I looked at them with my sharingan blaring, the stepped aside knowing that I would be out for blood if they didn't, I did somewhat over rank them as well. As I stepped out side I realized that Tsunade had only said I was to return to America. Did that mean that, skyler?
"Kotetsu take this scroll to Reiko, she forgot to grab it." Tsunade said while pointing to a scroll addressed to me on her desk. And Kotetsu was off to find me, I made it as hard as I could mainly because I was still faster than him by a lot, by the time he was looking out the door I was down the street, though he had a good guess as to where I would be, for I had decided to go to the bath house to meditate a little bit, I paid my admission and as I went into the girls area Kotetsu saw my back but he was too late, I wasn't going to come out until I was done. Once I finished however I changed and went outside I saw him, I tried to run past him but his old reflexes kicked in and he threw his arm up around my waist and hoisted me over his shoulder again, he knew this was her one position that I had trouble with now, but by now I was used to it. I didn't say anything all I said was "Take me home." He tossed the scroll behind him and I caught it I opened it inside it read Reiko Uchiha and Skyler "Derek" Namikaze were to go to America for one hundred and eighty days. "Put me down Kotetsu-san" I said and he did as I asked, we walked for a while and I noticed something while doing so, that was that when I was surrounded by people I seemed like a normal girl, but I was walking down the street with Kotetsu and no one was really near us I seemed more like a small child than the head assassin. Once the two of us reached my apartment I turned to Kotetsu and I realized that I was departing soon, I smiled and said "Thank you for being a friend Kotetsu-Chan." "As well to you Reiko-Sama." He didn't realize what he had just done, a small spark went off "DAMN IT WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT PEOPLE CALLING ME THAT! Ga, damn I'll see you again eventually." I said that and went inside leaving Kotetsu with the job of explaining the several large bumps on his head. I told skyler about our mission and we began packing. We were to set off tomorrow morning. During that night while we all should have been in our beds none of us were. Sarae and Karu stayed in they're spot on the floor and I told Skyler to go to bed while I was on the ground with my dogs but he didn't he got down on the floor with all of us and we all fell asleep on the floor that night.
When morning came we all ate a light breakfast and while doing this I noticed that Sarae had developed some strange eating habits so I tried to make it easier for her if what I suspected were true. None the less a week before school started Sarae gave birth to a single normal female puppy. I decided to name her Sarin and everyone agreed. And along with the birth of this puppy Sarae and Karu would stay home to protect Sarin, this also meant that they didn't have to wear those stupid collars, for the school had decided since my dogs were too big that they had to be restrained at all times and that I should be grateful that they even get to stay.
They also decided that I could train Sarin when she was big enough. Sarin looked exactly like her mother a completely white puppy only every one of her paws were black like her father she was a beautiful dog and Sarae and Karu seemed proud.
School was coming up it would come along with the rituals of me beating the crap out of people who defied me. The students had learned last year to just leave me alone but there were always the brave ones or they were just plain stupid. And soon enough the school infirmary would be full of dumb students that had challenged me, I had to give some of them props they had taken fighting classes just to fight me but that wouldn't be enough.
It was about halfway into the school year and Reiko was beginning to take Sarin outside to explore. And it became known that Sarin liked the outside world a lot more than the inside world, again a lot like her father. I began to take her to school with me, Sarae and Karu would stay home they trusted me enough to take her plus they didn't want to wear the stupid collars, though I tried to make them look better by putting my insignia on them they still didn't like them and I wouldn't either but I wore them I used Karu's like a necklace and Sarae's normally went on my belt loops and Sarin was too small to wear a collar, I wouldn't focus in class I would just be spinning Sarin around in circles on my desk. Though there were times when I had to come to the real world, not for the problem or questions teachers learned to not ask them I would just get the answer right even though I had no clue what subject I would be listening to, either way I normally got sent away, because this school had uniforms, but there was no way I would wear a skirt, the infirmary is already full I didn't need to send anymore kids there than normal so I normally wore the male uniform which infuriated my teachers. That and they thought that I had dyed my hair white because two locks of white hair appeared in my bangs, I knew it had something to do with the spirit inside me but I knew that it was a white dog with black ears which is why when I was in normal form I had black ears. I wasn't going to tell anyone that, no she just took the "old" jokes and beat up the kid that had said it. I knew that I had four forms there was sub-zero form which was when I looked like a normal human. No fangs, no ears. Though I didn't have to always use this form in school it was a pain, that form required me to send chakra to the top of my head and to my teeth were to prevent it from showing. But I had a trick, I had put holes in a head band and slid it over my ears, which made my ears look like a headband the only bad part was not moving them, or letting people touch them. There was normal form where when I didn't use any chakra I just had the ears, and fangs. There was also demon form, I hadn't used that form very often it was only when I needed some of the spirit's power and I also have a berserker form where I loose it all. But I never went into that stage, not often.
None the less school seemed to end quickly and me and skyler were off to Konoha and when we got there it was a little different. I told skyler to go on ahead because I was going to visit some old landmarks that I hadn't seen in a while and when I got to the village gate I was in such a daze that I didn't stop. "Halt." Kotetsu said. He didn't know it was me. My hair had gained the white bangs, and for some reason the previous day my eyes had slowly changed colors and the finished today, yesterday they were black, today they were gold. There as also the fact that my hair was really long so I mustn't of been familiar. "No, I am a resident here and I don't want to stop. I said in a bored voice. "I have never seen you before I demand you to come here." Kotetsu said. "Bull shit." I replied. I crossed my arms. "Honestly Kotetsu." And I walked off. He was some what stunned but he still didn't know who I was so he went after me. Once he found me at a local sweets shop he tapped on my shoulder, I looked at him with a stick from one of my sweets sticking out. "Yo, look don't you think that Reiko Uchiha would show up after Skyler Namikaze showed up?" "Wait was that…skyler?" I sighed "Skyler is Derek, Derek was just a nickname. And I'm surprised you didn't recognize me all that happened was that my hair got longer and a lock of hair changed color and my eyes are completely opposite." "Oh, right because that can happen to anyone." He replied. "Yep." "But if that's the case I'm surprised, I barely recognized Dere-Skyler and it didn't hit me that the next person coming could be you until now." "Well that's nice." And with that I left and he waved.
As Tsunade was walking down the street because she was called upon. "Never mind." Kotetsu said as he watched Reiko re-unite with Skyler and they walked down the street next to each other with all three dogs in between the two of them. "They've both changed a lot haven't they Lady Tsunade?" "Yes Kotetsu they have changed, I'm just surprised that Skyler hasn't figured it out yet."
Some how Sarae had gotten pregnant again and she gave birth to another puppy this time it was a boy and he too was completely white except a small circular area of black fur. We all decided on naming him Haru. I named him this because when I first saw him I thought of Naruto.
It was the beginning of the summer and I decided against training any of my dogs, I didn't care I didn't send them on missions anymore, they had gotten too precious to me, I couldn't live with myself if they got hurt so I didn't want to make the pups into ninja dogs. It wasn't until about a week after we returned I got a scroll saying that there was some royalty coming and that there would be a meeting between Reiko and Tsunade about it some time next week. I had some other problems on my mind, for one skyler had confessed his love to me about a year ago but we never talked on the subject, in fact we began to get further and further away, from the time I was asleep to when I woke up I never saw him and I would wake up and he wouldn't be there and I wondered where he slept when I fell asleep in the bed, I knew I needed to get another one, but it was low down on my important stuff to worry about list. There was also the fact that two years ago skyler had told me about his existence but as it progressed I began to forget more of it and when I asked about it the answer became wrong, he seemed confused a lot lately and I asked him if he had been getting any sleep and he replied with "A little." Which worried me so one day the following week before I was to meet with Tsunade and skyler about a mission I did some snooping, and I found some old scrolls I found it odd that skyler had the same last name as the fourth Hokage even though skyler did have some resemblance like the eye color and his hair color. So when I read some of those old scrolls I was shocked to see what I did, I went Tsunade for answers, his profile in my hand.
"TSUNADE I DEMAND ANSWERS!" I yelled as I barged into her office. "Your early what is it? And what are you talking about?" she said it was then when she saw the profile in my hand. "Reiko, why do you have that?" she was suddenly serious. "I want an explanation there is no way, SKYLER IS SEVENTY-FIVE!" Tsunade sighed, "Yes, Reiko there is. But it is a long story." "I've got nothing but time Tsunade, start talking." I wanted answers and I wanted them now. It was then when skyler walked in. "Reiko, you're early." "Skyler were talking about something different before we go over mission details." "Uh, ok." He replied. "Go on Tsunade." I said. We listened to what she said as she told the story of Skyler.
"Skyler Namikaze never existed, however Skyler Kyuuketsuki did." I interrupted thinking out loud. "Wait, Kyuuketsuki means vampire. But," I trailed off. "Yes Reiko that definition is correct, Skyler Kyuuketsuki lived seventy years ago and believe it, he is sill alive. And his birthday is on June eighteenth. The thing is, is that Skyler Kyuuketsuki is stuck at the age of fifteen, and every fifteen or so years we wipe his memory and relocate him, there are cases that he can keep the name skyler though his eyes have a fun trick of changing colors every decade or so." "So, that day, you rushed me to get out of America, you didn't want skyler to have any contact with Konoha." I sat there in disbelief. "So, Skyler is supposed to be some eighty-five year old frozen fifteen year old?" I almost yelled. "Yes though as I said we seal his memories every fifteen years or so." I froze at this, for Skyler's fifteenth birthday is coming up soon. "SO WHAT THE HELL IS HE?" I yelled after this, tears were at the edge of my eyes. "Is, is he a vampire?" I asked in a second thought. Tsunade sighed again. "Yes it's the only way to describe it." "BUT! But it's been fifteen years." The tears fell. "You aren't going to erase his memories, are you?" Tsunade sat there. "I don't exactly…" she trailed off. "No." was her final answer. I didn't cry anymore, I would do that tonight or something. "Now, about the mission?" "Ah, yes. There is a royal member of the Tsuki family coming. You've been assigned to accompany her where ever she wishes to go." "Why didn't you tell us before?" "That is your mission but you will get called when she arrives, she hasn't arrived yet, now Skyler I have some questions for you. For one you haven't reacted at all during all this." It was then when Skyler finally spoke up. "This doesn't surprise me for the reason that recently I've been having random dreams amongst the normal ones, at first I passed them as nightmares but after awhile I learned that they weren't. They were memories" Tsunade didn't move I twitched. "They were my memories. The leaf Village has been erasing my memories every fifteen years or so, before they start coming back. Also my appetite has not really changed, before I liked to eat but I never enjoyed the taste, now I don't particularly care if I eat or not." I remembered that vampires drank blood but shook off the thought. 'Reiko." He said I looked up. "Listen to my heartbeat." I stood and put my head to his chest. I silently enjoyed the contact but as I listened I realized something. "It doesn't…." I stated, I had never noticed that, I was shocked. He nodded. "Also Reiko look into my eyes." I looked to him "They seem to be changing colors. They're turning a goldish color." He nodded. "My senses are appearing to be getting more and more adept as well as my strength." Tsunade finally replied. "Yes Skyler those are the traits of what you are. And I don't know what will happen in your future either, but we will discuss that when the time comes. I suppose I shall get the ANBU members to release your memories. If they're coming back as dreams we may as well release them all." Skyler nodded, "Thank you." He said. I nodded as well. "Wait a minute." I suddenly said. "When I was first in America. When I was about to leave. You wanted me out of the city immediately, that something was getting relocated." I accused. Tsunade nodded. "It was Skyler." I gasped. "Reiko, we never intended for you to go back to America the fact was that you were bound to go back due to a stupid deal. You met Skyler completely by fluke." I stood frozen. "Though, I'm happy she did Tsuande if she didn't I wouldn't be here about to recover everything I lost." Skyler spoke up behind me. I gasped. "I know which is why we didn't stop you when you brought him back, or trained him. We knew it was no use." So the boy whom I had feelings for, I had met completely by accident. "b-but." I started. "Don't Reiko, we met that's all that matters now." Skyler said into my ear. I nodded. "Kay…" I agreed. Closing the subject. Tsunade continued as to what she was saying. "That is all for that subject, however I have a mission for you two. Take that scroll, it contains the details." I nodded and bowed. Skyler had to hang back to get his memories so I decided to head back to the apartment. Skyler said he would be back fairly soon.
I went home and read the scroll.
Tenshi Tsuki, and her pet Koori will be staying with Reiko Uchiha and Skyler Namikaze.
I scratched out Namikaze and put his right name down.
She will stay with them until she see it fit that she is ready to return home. The Tsuki are a noble family and are required a maximum guard when they travel, on short notice you two will be assigned. She is debating on coming to this village permanently.
Oh joy, a baby sitting mission. Well if she was going to stay with us then she would probably need a bed. I went into the spare room and began to drag out the spare from the closet. I cleaned the room and after a few hours looked at my work. It was a decent job she could fix it if she didn't like it. I pulled out the other mattress out from underneath my own, I didn't know when Skyler would return and it was getting late. I decided to take a nap while I waited, though the nap turned to sleep and with the sleep came nightmares. I began to sleep talk from the extreme discomfort from those nightmares. "Skyler don't leave…..Skyler….please." I would repeat and repeat. It wasn't until morning that I woke up about two hours after dawn. I woke to find Skyler lying down next to me on my bed, us both uncovered, him tracing the veins on my arm. I stared at him, I blinked, he was there, I blinked again, still there, I blinked again, and he was gone. I quickly rolled over to get up to see if he had been there. But I was lying on the edge of my bed. And when I rolled over I fell off, I landed on the pull out bed but instinct. "OW!" I was in some what of a daze, but Skyler chuckling brought me to, he was standing up laughing at me. "WHATS SO DAMN FUNNY?!" He looked down at me. "You, I was just lying down-" "IN MY BED!" I cut him off. "Yes, I'm sorry about that, but your must admit your reaction was funny." "Oh," was all I said. I had zoned out and was remembering yesterday. "So what took you so long?" I asked trying not to crack. "Sorry again, but they had to unseal my memories fifteen years at a time. None the less I still found it funny that I was still named Kyuuketsuki even though I was human." "Mm-hmm and? Is there anything else you want to say?" Wrong question. He was behind me before I blinked. "Yes, I do have that diet but we had a theory, and that was because I didn't know what I was the scent of blood didn't effect me as much as it should of. And because I'm so used to most of the people that live here their scent doesn't bug me, like yours." He finished by purring in my ear. I shivered, remembering one of my nightmares, Skyler hunting me. But before I could say anything, I was up against Skyler's chest. "Huh?" "Reiko, I will never leave your side, even in death I will follow you." I shuddered at the thought. "And Reiko, do you remember your birthday? I told you I loved you. In fact I'm more obsessed with you than you could ever be, and not because of your scent." I was speechless somehow Skyler had found each of my fears and he had found them and completely taken them apart. "H-how did you know?" "You were talking in your sleep." My face flushed. Skyler stared at me. My face grew redder and I buried it in his chest again. He chuckled, and my stomach growled. He chuckled again. "Now let's get Little Reiko some food." "Little?" I asked in disbelief. "Yea squirt, I'd say I'm, oh, eighty-five and you're sixteen. So I'm sixth-nine years older than you squirt." "Don't call me squirt." "Why?" "It makes me feel short." He looked down at me and laughed. He lifted me up to his shoulders. My eyes were wide by the sudden movement. "Do you fell short now?" "N-no." He chuckled and let me down. He sat me down and went off to make something for me to eat. For the next few days we prepared for Tenshi. She seemed ok once we got some more information on her. But along these days I found something else out. I had become very, very attached to Skyler. True at first when I met him I gave personal space and he normally did the same. But now he would lie down next to me each night, and I didn't mind, sometimes even under the blanket with his arms draped across my waist.
My nightmares disappeared.
"Ah Reiko, about time you showed up." "Shut up Kotetsu." I replied. Me along with Skyler, and my ninja dogs, Sarae, Karu, Sarin, and Haru entered the room that the Hokage was located it. "Reiko, you're late." She pointed out. "Yea, yea, save the lecture, so when is this "royalty" showing up?" "Soon, Reiko be patient." I sighed and crossed my arms. It wasn't several minutes later that there was a knock on the door. Skyler crossed the room to wake me up. I had fallen asleep again though Skyler kept the nightmares away I still had a hard time sleeping. He woke me up and I stood up and next to Skyler. The door opened and one person came in. She was a female. Maybe a year older than me. She had long red hair and the tips of her bangs were black, she had a necklace that looked like a triangle with some bars running through it. It reminded me of a fox for some reason. "Ah Tenshi you have arrived." Tsunade said. "Yes, now who are these two guards you spoke of?" She said in a mannered tone. "Tenshi if you look to your side you will see our ANBU Black Ops Captain, Reiko Uchiha and her comrade Skyler Nami-" She stopped her sentence due to the glare I sent her. "Skyler Kyuuketsuki." She corrected. "Yo." Was all I said. "They are mere children though." She said. I had been using my chakra to prevent my demon ears from coming out but I lost concentration and they came out. "OI! Who are you calling kids?! You're as young as us!" I exclaimed. "Maybe so, but surely I should have a guard older than myself." She said, she walked over to me and patted my head, she was taller than me. "But I suppose you'll do since you're so cute." She said. A small growl came out from my chest. Tenshi smiled. "So that's it?" She asked Tsunade. "Yes, they shall escort you where ever you decide to go." "Ok, then lets go." And so my person hell begins.
When we got back to my apartment Tenshi looked around, I kicked off my armor and Skyler sat on the bed. I sat down next to him and flopped back, I then rolled to where I was using him as a pillow and staring at the ceiling. I heard a giggle. I looked up and Tenshi was laughing at me. "What?" I asked annoyed. "Oh nothing, nothing." I sighed. "So what shall I call you?" I asked her trying to be nice. "Just call me Tenshi." She said. I nodded. "Reiko, Skyler." I gestured to me and him. And that's how the following week went, when Tenshi wanted to explore we let her. We slowly got along epically one day in particular.
We were exploring the village, Tenshi wanted to look at the academy, she had told me the previous day that she was going to become a shinobi. I shook my head at her and sighed. She didn't get it so I explained the real deal with being a ninja, she still seemed determined. So plans were arranged and Tenshi could take lessons and then see if she liked it. It was a pain sitting in the academy again, waiting for Tenshi's class to be finished. We decided to take a walk before lunch, I and Skyler took her through all the little trails. Showing the way. I was zoned out, Skyler as well. Turns out that tenshi really liked foxes she had since she was a child so she had replica fox ears that were on a headband that she frequently wore. We weren't paying attention until Tenshi screamed and fell backwards. We both looked up and saw a snake in the middle of the path, it didn't seem poisonous or too dangerous, I went for a closer look to see what breed it was, but when I took a step it lunged for me, it was immediately pinned to a tree with two kunai, one thrown by myself the other by Skyler. The snake's body twitched a few times, from the nerves but it died none the less. Upon closer inspection it was a venomous snake and could have done some serious damage if we had made it too mad. But it was dead. End that story, Tenshi was grateful to us for killing it though. It was later that day I pointed out something. "Tenshi you know your going to have to go home."
"Why?" "Well it doesn't have to be permanent but you know you'd have to report in person sooner or later." She nodded, "Your right." "So when are you heading back?" "I suppose tomorrow." We had spent a good month together and Tenshi wasn't a bad person, kind of like a sister. No exactly like a sister, it would take a sister to walk in on me and Skyler in the middle of the night. "DON'T GET ANY IDEAS DAMMIT!" Truth be told, Skyler was leaning against the wall and I sat in between his legs us, his head on my shoulder, both of us staring out the window at the sky. Tenshi promised that she would come back as soon as she could. Her father was easy to bend apparently. None the less we would escort her half way through the forest. That night I had insomnia again. Every time I closed my eyes, that demon was there, Skyler had gone to the trouble to give me a necklace that would seal it, well it normally did, unless I was extremely fatigued, which I was so it was there, and I didn't sleep. Later that morning. I was in the bathroom looking myself over making sure any wounds would be healed when I saw something I didn't like one bit.
They way my seal is set it, it has two main parts, there is a part on my chest and a part around my navel together the two connect down my front. I had talked to the demon once. The seal on my chest granted me extreme power, I had used this ability many times before but it came at a cost. And that was my life. Every time I activated the seal, once it cleared, it would become more and more like a full circle, if a day ever came that it was a full circle, the worst may happen, while the second half granted me the stamina to harness the first seal.
I noticed as I look at myself, that the seal was incredibly close to becoming complete, I had my pants on and I was wearing a tank top I opened the door. "SKYLER!" I yelled. He was behind me in a minute. Tenshi was asleep I closed and locked the door. "We-We've got a problem." I stated. I pulled down my shirt enough for him to see the seal, his mouth opened slightly. "What should we do?" "Tsunade." "Tell her?" "Yes." "When?" he sighed. "Tenshi has to get up any minute and we have to make sure she's halfway in the forest in half an hour, I guess we tell her after we drop Tenshi off." I nodded. "Ok." "Reiko…" he said. "Huh?" He pulled me into a hug. I froze for a minute, then hugged him in return. "I love you." He whispered. "I love as well." I said. After a few minutes he unlocked the door. "Tenshi's awake" he said. And he was gone. I finished cleaning and dressing myself, I went to the main room and sat down, waiting for everyone else to be done. I was in a mental panic. The necklace had held it off this long, how much longer could it hold?" I kept asking myself. I only calmed down when I was in Skyler's arms again. As we waited for Tenshi to be done with the bathroom. And my dogs sat in silence.