The morning was overly quiet as I looked around sitting on a log around the small fire. People moved around as Naruhito talked. I spotted a famous man and I just stared.
Minato Namikaze the yellow flash.
Three young kids walked behind him as they moved around the area like they have been here for a while. They were a little older but it was nice to see young kids as I looked them over.
"Yamanaka!" My eye's moved Sensei across the fire. "Listen." He glared at me like I was crap.
"I was." I said softly.
"What did I say?" He crossed his arms looking down on me.
"We are sent to Elephant point to watch over the canyon to make sure no one get's passed us." He nodded his glare fading but he was still angry. A random ninja patted my head as he walked by.
I moved to make sure it was still nice and he did not mess it up making him roll his eye's at me. I guess at some point they will take out a bridge and we need to watch all area's that are closer together even if they are still wide and open.
It can be crossed just not quickly.
We found a high point with a few tree's to hide in. Two will be watching at all moment's and we must not get distracted because ninja's are fast as shit. Uchiha and I were to sit in the closest tree hidden in the leaves as the other two went to make sure the area was clear that we were watching before we settled in.
I slid down the trunk and got as comfertable as I could.
"It is colder out here." I spoke.
"Ya."
Sensei handed us some soft warm buns after we sat here unmoving for a few hours. I waited for the change in guard so I can move around.
"Do you have the eye?" The teacher asked our Uchiha but he stared out before shaking his head no. "What about you?" He looked.
"I can only take over a body. But it is slow, my aim sucks and if I miss I am down for three minutes and my body is vulnerable." I looked at him.
"Don't look at me." He growled, I nervously turned back straight eating my bun. "Look out there, always."
"I thought I was getting strong kids." He mumbled. "I get these." He moved off. "Why are we here, we don't have the skills to even just watch." I heard him talking to himself.
"I don't like him." He spoke to me.
"Ya." I said back.
I got to move as I walked around and stretched as the two boy's were on watch. Our third day here when I heard the bird call telling us they spotted someone. I looked at Sensei as we headed over to the lookout tree fast.
Far down the canyon on the other side was a large group of brown vested people, to far to get a good look at them.
My first enemy in my life and there was six of them.
Our leader stuck a small note to a birds leg and he flew away with speed lost in the sky.
We ran fast in the tree's towards the area. Watching them toss some rope or kunai across the canyon before it fell short and they did it again.
I was cold and my mind was clear and shockingly I was not afraid as it stuck on the other side of the large canyon. He pulled it tight and tied it to another tree. One man got up and started to run across the thin rope with ease.
A second jumped on it knocking the first off as he fell hanging on the rope we were far but his angry yells vibrated in the canyon.
The second did not care and started running.
"Stay here, Knock him off." He whispered to me and waved the two boy's ahead. I paused where I stood and squatted focusing on the one hanging as he was not moving. My mind went flying to him but he shifted as I lightly hit his head flying off in the wrong direction.
All I could see was the haze white light and a small view of what was in front of me.
I tried to turn myself around.
I opened my eye's to the branches of tree's, the sound of fighting in the air. Sitting up fast I worried, I fucked it up. I looked out as the last one was crossing the rope when it was cut on our side and he fell to his death.
I ran forward when a large tree landed in front of me knocked into another on fire, the black smoke rising into the air alerting both sides there is a fight occurring here. I panicked on what to do when I heard a noise, looking up a giant ass wave came right for me.
I was to slow to dodge as it pulled me down in a roll I did not know what way was up as I tried to get out to breath. I was spun around when my back hit a tree and the water continued where I did not. I was upside down, my feet pressed the the bark of the tree as I finally could breath.
Fuck I hated that.
I rolled my eye's and got back up. "Stupid ass girl." Passing the tree that was now out. Knowing none of my team uses water I assume it was an enemy that did that. I went high in the tree's peering down at the burnt, muddy and destroyed area.
The three of them were fighting four, no other bodies.
Uchiha tossed weapons blocking some and spitting a fire ball making two dive to the sides, one right into Sensei as he slammed his foot into him shoving him into the fire. These two were taking on four as our smallest teammate tossed some kunai at one but he dodged with ease.
One ran around my team, his long sword being pulled as he ran at Kaito, the sword moved to his neck. I was in between them fast, using a small kunai to try and block this large sword.
I pushed with all my strength but he was stronger as I stepped back my foot hitting Kaito's feet. A small dark smirk on his face as I tripped over Kaito's leg falling on him kicking this mans left leg.
I was scared as he moved to stab me but I blocked again and told Kaito to run as I got on my knees pushing him back and onto my feet using chakra for any extra help.
Sensei called my name worried but he could not get away from a ninja, moving with speed as the guy kicked him into the air.
I was so sure Kaito was moving as his legs stopped hitting mine and I heard him shuffle back so I switched with a log behind this man. I got my footing and ran at him from behind but Kaito did not move as the sword went deep into his left arm as he called out in pain.
Fear in his eye's staring at this man frozen in place.
Kaito.
In the same second the female went smashing into a tree as Sensei was in front of our baby slamming his foot into his chest at this sword wielder shoving him towards me on purpose.
The man's head turned as he slid in the mud towards me but I was to close as I rammed my Kunai into his back at the perfect point to hit his heart, ducking the sword as he spun, blood pouring from his back releasing my weapon.
I rolled away as his lifeless body hit the ground and I moved to help the Uchiha while he fighting another. The one he was fighting moved around with such speed but that seemed to be his main ability. He was hard to hit or watch his movements but he did not use a jutsu and swung long thin duel swords.
I moved to help when one of them came at me.
Kaito was on the ground holding his bleeding arm still staring in fear on his small face at the back of this man that stood between us. "Look at you, small little girl." He stood up with this smirky smile on his face. "Are those eye's Hyuga?" He stared into them with thirst.
"No." Kaito yelled dumbly for such a smart kid, it just made this man pissed his face going dark.
"Then what use are you."
He brought a hand up to his face doing some handsigns as I froze getting ready, I ran over all ways to counter or run when I find out what he was about to do.
His head his went flying to the side like a dog trying to hear his eye's large and in shock. Then blood splashed all around me and on my face as I jumped back scared, looking to my right a thin kunai covered in blood stabbed into the tree across from his left.
My eye's grew as his body slumped over and hit the ground looking to my left where a leaf jonin landed and then another. I was stunned as they helped our leader take down what was left.
I stood there numb as someone tried to stop Kaito from bleeding.
"Move." Sensei pushed me along. "Get over it." He sighed as I finally looked at him. "Come on weakling." He shoved me again and I started to walk back to our post.
"Did I do anything?" I said quietly.
"You did knock one off."
"Good."
"Not really."
I stepped on a small branch breaking it under my feet, I just picked it up spinning it my hand as I followed them away, sliding it into my weapons pouch for no real reason.
It felt like a trophy.
I was just out of it, my mind so far away I did not even know what it was thinking.
The place was so dark all I could see across from me was the red eye's of Itsuki, a small blackness spinning like he could hypnotize me with it. He nodded at me and I nodded back jumping up a branch and looking over the small camp for the enemy.
His hand pressed into my back as I peered around and found my target sitting in front of the fire alone looking a little lost in his mind.
Perfect.
I pulled up my hands and sent my mind into his. I was suddenly on that side of the fire before looking at it but also looking around without moving.
No one noticed.
I stood up and looked towards the main tent, I slid inside behind everyone and was still unnoticed, a small map on a table with small markings as they talked about the mission some will have come morning.
I stood there and took it all in.
This thin but built motherfucker looked at me, I blanked my face to not show but I was panicking inside until I told myself I am fine, my body is now deep in the woods, we can run with ease. I did the hand sign in my pocket ready to finish it and dive out.
The issue is they would change there plans and this was pointless.
"Hey." He said and nodded at me making many look my way.
Oh shit.
"You know." I would be pissing my pants right now if I could. "His power might be better in that group." He slid a small trinket to another group or three they are planning.
"Ya, your right." Another spoke and they got back to it as I calmed down. I learned all I could before I wondered back out of the tent.
Now what, I can not let him go to tell them something was in his body, I can not have him run off and they may change the plans and use my failed information against my side. Another I can't just kill myself as I sat on the log that he started on trying to look normal.
How do I do this and I need to to do this fast, I am running out of time.
Maybe a freak accident?
I looked around casually as a few people just wondered around.
I watched some man place freshly sharpened swords on a wooden case to hold them, the point's pointing up. I kicked a large rock over near them and then after a minute of not being watched I dropped a gross looking watery snack next to it. Dropping it as I passed looking like a pink piece of goopy shit.
I walked around with purpose between moves.
Running out of time.
I sat on the fire again, another person came and sat with me trying to hold a conversation, I sat for a minute before I faked a yawn and stood up smacking my legs like many men do. "Well." The sign 'I am going to bed.'
I was paying attention to everyone's small movement's and no one seemed wierded out or questioned I was different.
I shared a nod with some random man to seem like I was distracted just in case someone was watching me, I slipped on the food, tripped over the rock and fell full body first right into the swords.
It hurt like a motherfucker stabbing me in the chest and arms as I fell to the ground hoping this is not outing me, in a roll they fell out of my body as I leaked all over the grass, people came running over to help.
"Oh shit." I said looking up at the man that nodded at me in the tent.
"What happened?"
"He tripped." I heard a yell at the man from the fire.
"But how?" He yelled as he tried to stop the bleeding, my eye's were fading black as I reached out to him like he was my lover as my hand fell back to the round and I let myself leave before he was fully gone.
I woke up the red eye's as he held me in his arms, I sat up awkwardly and heard the panic of everyone there. We sat for a moment and we never heard anyone wonder if something was off. Waiting for anyone to say or do something that could change the plans.
We headed back to camp.
I will give them information on there next move while also making sure they know there is a chance they may change it to there favor if someone had a single idea that that man was not himself.
I was cleaning up my stuff in the empty tent as come morning we will be heading to a new camp.
"Kaito." I laughed as he swayed to the small lute being played somewhere outside as we made sure we had everything. I think I heard him mumble about a birthday a month ago so he may be nine.
"It is amazing." He was my height now, I think he will be a tall man.
The last time he wanted this man to stop singing so it made it funny to me. The man sings the same song a lot, it get's old.
He reached out and grabbed my hand spinning me. "Dance with me." He started to sing the song he was playing and I moved with him. .
I never danced with someone before and it was fun. He spun me and showed me how to dance, something I never knew he knew how to do. We stepped over people blankets not caring.
Then he moved around so wildly making me laugh, he gave no shits so I moved silly and stupid, if anyone saw us we would look ridiculous.
I started to sing with him after and we finished packing as we sang.
"Here." Kaito handed over a warm bun for me to eat around the campfire. "We need to eat all we can before the next mission."
"Thanks'." I smiled at him.
A teen female sat next to us reaching with a bowl for the large soup that was cooked. From the top of her eyebrow around her temple down to her cheek bone was a large bruise. "Damn how did that happen?" I asked.
"It's a birthmark." She glared at me.
"Oh sorry." I said staring at it.
"Stop that." She got angry.
"Ya." I did not look away. "I see it now."
"Urg." She walked off.
Kaito just shook his head at me.
"I thought the same thing." The dark quiet voice spoke.
"Uchiha, damn ghost, when did you get here?" I mumbled and ripped into my bread roughly. He looked at me like I should have known. "You need to speak more, sure is a nice voice, right?" I asked our sensei.
"I guess so." He shook his head at me grabbing more soup. "Wait." He looked at me with his dark glasses. "Was that a dig on mine?"
"I don't know, was it?" I bit into my bun again looking away, I heard a quiet 'fucking girl' under his breath.
"Mine is better." We heard as the white haired boy from our class sat next to us, another strange man grabbing his own bowl of soup and walking off.
"It is okay." I said rudely.
I smiled at my old friend, glad he is still around, I reached out and pulled his long white hair from the back of his shirt and fixed it to look better.
"You and hair." He laughed bumping into my arm with his. "So we are all going to the front lines tomorrow?"
"Shocked it took us so long." Kaito spoke.
"You were not ready." Our teacher spoke. "You have had the time now in the background, you also don't freeze up anymore." He looked at the smallest like he made a joke but he just hid inside himself.
I looked into the packed tent of young sleeping boy's, the smell was overpowering making me shut it and sigh at the moon. I then sniffed my top and it smelled just as bad, running my hand in my greasy hair.
There is a pond a little walk into a forest, most people clean there. I walked alone through the packed area unseen and headed that way. If I can help the others around me by smelling just a little more fresh. Never a bad thing.
There was a dark figure sitting along the pond as the moon reflected on it. The only place in the safe area that does have the sense of peace. I did not want to bathe in front of some kid a few years older then me even if I was going to be fully clothed.
I did not want to go back to that freaking tent.
I peered down on him who did not even look my way. His light gray hair stuck out, a mask over his face, black clothing. I dropped my weapon pouch, kicked off my shoes and ditched my vest as I sat down not to far from him.
"Hey." I spoke. "Nice spot."
He made an annoyed noise and stood up, I felt a little bad almost said stay but I could not speak, he was kind of intimidating.
He almost stepped on my weapon pouch as I snatched it pulling it out of his way. He paused and bent over. "You dropped your." Tossed it at me as a caught it. "Stick." He sounded confused and walked off.
"I forgot about these." I mumbled, I grabbed a few when we first came here. "Thanks'." I stared at it as I stood up and walked into the water pulling my ponytail out and sunk into the water rubbing my free hand over my hair until I needed to breath.
I just stood there as I could touch the ground and the water only came to my chest. I spun them in my hand before I sighed and tossed them away loosing it in the dark.
I was so bad at the start and took them make me feel better, new camp, new mission. Why do I even want them taking up room.
Wishing for soap I rubbed my clothes down before sitting at the edge to dry enjoying the reflection on the calm waters and the stars in the sky that I could see from here.
It really was a nice spot to sit.
Sorry for kicking you out but I was still glad to be here alone.
I would rather sleep here then in that damn tent.
"Fuck my life." I cried trying to lift this large dead man off me, the smell and pressure was just the worst. The sounds of weapons and screams surrounded me. We were not at the front, front but somewhere near the back of the main war but still getting plenty of action as we tried to get them farther away from the nearest camp.
I finally got him slightly up and tried to shimmy when a large wave of wind blew him off of me and blowing my hair around, a few cuts to the right side of my body, looking over one leaf was fighting a small women who's wind just saved my ass.
"Thanks for the help." I said to her but she did not see me or hear me.
I ran towards them keeping my small body directly behind the leaf ninja to not be seen, the sun was down hoping to not be spotted. He jumped back to avoid something and I slid between his legs as her leg was flying towards his left side.
He blocked it by grabbing her ankle.
She was shocked but it was to late as my kunai rammed just above her genitals deep into her. He used her looking at me and what I did to smash her in the face and she went rolling away. He patted my head and moved to get the last blow and I headed back to find my team.
We ran around as small people to be more support then the main damage, sometimes we got the killing blow but due to our size and dark clothes we moved around with a lot more ease. I would take over minds when I needed to giving people one less to really fight, normally the strong ones.
We were sent back to camp for a break and I needed it.
We have been on the front lines for ages, every once in a while people switched out for a rest and some water and to be in top fighting shape. It was quiet as I downed the water feeling it in my body and just relaxed for a moment.
"I need new shoes." I heard some random spoke as peeked at his gross and dirty feet making me cringe and look away.
"I hate feet, not sure why they just bug me." I mumbled to Sensei.
"Your in a war and feet bother you?" He looked shocked at me.
"Yup." I grabbed more water.
"Weird ass kid." He smiled at me in one of his rare moments.
The sun was setting as we stood in a small zone slightly deep into the warzone using each other to help and help others. I used my kunai to block some random ones before shoving someone into another with a strong push, who then took it out.
"Yamanaka!" I looked behind me and was being waved by my sensei. "Go with them." He pointed at a group of four young teen boy's waiting for me. One was that kid from the pond, I quietly followed them as we headed to the far edges trying to sneak around.
They seemed to know when a straggler was near and we moved fast and silent to take them down. I was impressed at the speed and detection wondering why I was here and what I was doing but to speak may be a mistake out here.
We came to an edge where there was a large creator and one half naked beast of a man standing in it surrounded by so many dead leaf as he fought another taking him down pretty quickly, the man trying so hard as they moved around.
I was shoved forward by one of them telling me to do it.
I assume do it is mind transfer.
I pulled his palm to me and tapped out. "He needs to stop moving." Into it in code and he nodded at me, pointed to two of them and nodded them out while patting there hands.
The two jumped out in front of the bleeding Leaf. He squatted relief on his face, holding his side, blood starting to poor over his hand. They moved around, the large heavy man was fast but looked completely unhurt.
I barely saw it but I spotted the paper a second before it vanished, some form of paper jutsu as he moved the man right on top of it. His body froze in place, Ah Paralyze seal.
I did not waste time and shot all of me into his head.
I opened my eye's but I could not move, I was towering over these boy's. I gave them a cocky smile and one ran right for me stabbing me into the heart, I closed my eye's in brace for pain but I felt nothing.
Looking down the damn dagger was bent in a 90 degree angle.
"That is, weird." I said with a sigh and pulled out a bomb sticking it to myself, feeling a decent sized pull as he tried to kick me out but I had a stronger mind.
"That is not going to work." The hurt ninja spoke but I set it off anyway. They jumped back but again, it did not hurt this man's body even a little.
"Now what?" I sighed.
"Damn this really is easier then fighting him." One spoke.
The other one started digging in his vest. Another turned to help that leaf we saved and the third came out of the forest and started to flip a body, pulling and peeking into his eye.
The man handed me a small pill I recognize. I have one on my body. A pill they give us so if we get caught to be used for information, to kill ourselves, I have one on my body as well.
I popped it in my mouth and just stared at them and looked around for enemy. The one who handed it to me started to search body's with the other.
I could feel the pain starting in my stomach, bile coming up my throat. I knew I did not want to feel this and the man is as good as dead but I waited another minute. It started to burn and I coughed out a ball of white foam before I nodded at them and left his body.
I woke up to the masked kid with one covered eye sitting next to my body, leaning on a tree, his arm over his knee blending into the dark. He looked down on me seeing I was awake and we both got on our feet moving to the open zone.
I watched the large man fall to his knees making a creepy noise before he face planted.
They then pulled the eye's from a Hyuga making me finally understand and look away feeling sick and spotted a chunin Uchiha they did the same to. One lit a small fire and tossed them in. It was disgusting I tried not to look but that is what the clans would want so no one, even leaf, can steal them.
That guy must have been way to strong.
She was quiet but we all noticed the women running at us. Anger in her eye's, glinting in the moonlight as she started to do hand signs.
"Deal with that." One young kid said casually making sure they got them all in the area. The masked boy vanishing from the area as I looked around for him quickly before I tossed Kunai at her, she just freed one hand still doing the hand signs and blocked mine with her own.
I ran at her sliding low through the mud or blood, it was to hard to see on this dark ground. I switched shoving chakra into me last minute I moved to punch her chest but she shifted just getting out of the way. I flipped in the air landing behind her as her hand hit the ground causing a big wave to appear under the ground.
They all tried to stay on there feet.
I stuck my feet with chakra to stay up like I was surfing while moving towards her feeling ashamed I missed. I gripped the back of her pants and pulled with all my might throwing her away I basically gave the women a massive wedgie. I spun and rammed my elbow into her face, she tried to dodge but I hit her square in the nose having her head snap back.
She flipped me before kicking me away, I adjusted like a cat about to attack as a strange noise of birds filled the air.
Suddenly a large ball of bright electricity was sticking out of her chest. I jumped back startled and watched it be pulled right threw her as she fell to the ground. Behind her was the masked boy, the light vanished and he slid his hands into his pockets like nothing just happened.
I just stood up and joined him.
It was not long clearing the dead body's of stealable jutsu I was sent to run back to my team.
I split off but one of the boy's ran with me, some black haired cute one. I don't care he was cute, I just noticed, damn he was cute. I did not say a word that whole time I was with them. Don't even know their names.
They did push them back in that time I was gone, the area we were at was pretty empty, wondering if they moved forwards I headed closer to the real front lines. I moved with ease in the dark dodging jutsu's. I saved a man at one point as I looked for my team. I could not find them.
Did they retreat for a break?
I then headed back to camp, opening the rested tent worried with force and panic everyone looked at me startled, a quick scan and they were not here.
A man ran by me missing an arm towards the main med ninja tent's. I breathed in feeling his pain. "Ouch."
Starting to worry I headed to the main tent for healing, most med ninja are out in the field but we have this for critical ones.
My heart was in my throat as I caught them laying a thin blanket over the head of Naruhito Sensei. His leg's were gone and there was blood everywhere. I got cold when I looked at the small body covered beside him.
I stepped forward passed a female ninja who tried to asked kindly if I was hurt.
I shook my head and pulled back the blanket.
There he was.
"What happened?" I croaked out.
"No idea, a Uchiha brought them in and ran back out." I spun on my feet.
Itsuki is out there.
I must find him.
