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The story so far has gone on like this.
A palace was invaded and its army defeated by 3 ninjas namely Saburo, Shin, Ryu (Prologue). Team Kakashi was sent to a mission and that is to go as backup for Prince Skye's personal bodyguard, Ruirein. At the rendevous point, Kakashi told them of a little girl surviving an incident that ended the Sun Village. Then, Naruto met a mysterious lady who appeared and disappeared before him. It turned out that she was the prince's personal bodyguard then. Naruto also caught Kakashi in the middle of the Sun Village trying to commemorate something. From there, Kakashi told him a thing that only the two of them knows so far. An incident took place that almost got them all killed and triggered Ruirein's feelings for her past, who all along does not have any memory of her origin. Only a mark that she would have to cover with a hood or a mask to keep it from glowing against the sun and blinding her vision.
I didn't notice the length of time that this next chapter has to come out. Sept.18 was when I had Chapter 7 and now its already Oct.8 - ngeks! I wanted to finish this story sooner but I was really stocked up with plotting the next part of the storyline.
So where were we? Ahh, I have the following things for us to find out:
What happened to the little girl of the Sun Village? What did Kakashi tell Naruto? Who is Ruirein? Who and where are the villains? And then we were left out with a conversation that tells us that a spy have been implanted amongst our heroes.
This chapter is going to be an opener for the answers to those questions.And as usual, you can choose to read between the dialogue and the full version.
DIALOGUE:
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A palace was invaded and its army defeated by 3 ninjas namely Saburo, Shin, Ryu (Prologue). Team Kakashi was sent to a mission and that is to go as backup for Prince Skye's personal bodyguard, Ruirein. At the rendevous point, Kakashi told them of a little girl surviving an incident that ended the Sun Village. Then, Naruto met a mysterious lady who appeared and disappeared before him. It turned out that she was the prince's personal bodyguard then. Naruto also caught Kakashi in the middle of the Sun Village trying to commemorate something. From there, Kakashi told him a thing that only the two of them knows so far. An incident took place that almost got them all killed and triggered Ruirein's feelings for her past, who all along does not have any memory of her origin. Only a mark that she would have to cover with a hood or a mask to keep it from glowing against the sun and blinding her vision.
I didn't notice the length of time that this next chapter has to come out. Sept.18 was when I had Chapter 7 and now its already Oct.8 - ngeks! I wanted to finish this story sooner but I was really stocked up with plotting the next part of the storyline.
So where were we? Ahh, I have the following things for us to find out:
What happened to the little girl of the Sun Village? What did Kakashi tell Naruto? Who is Ruirein? Who and where are the villains? And then we were left out with a conversation that tells us that a spy have been implanted amongst our heroes.
This chapter is going to be an opener for the answers to those questions.And as usual, you can choose to read between the dialogue and the full version.
DIALOGUE:
Skye grieved over loosing the royal family of the Yellow Country but he did not allow it to weaken him. As heir to the throne, he must uphold their family’s virtue and part of that is to help the Yellow Country protect a powerful symbol. Those shinobis may not only be after getting a village of their own.
He needs Ruirein’s advice but he could not find her. After what happened when she woke up three days ago, she has kept her presence from him and that was just so unusual of her. No pranks from her, no picking, everything was at peace and yet so unusual.
Skye: *in thoughts* “She’ll show up herself, soon’.
500 meters away from them, beneath the shadows of the trees, is a man surveying the vast area of an open space, whose grasses glittered from the light of the moon above him.
???: “Hiding with the Vanishing Light Limit at night times wastes too much chakra eh, Miss?”
Startled, Ruirein materialized and jerked to face where the voice was coming from, her back against the moon hiding her unmasked face from the shadows of herself.
Ruirein:*in whispher, startled* ‘Oh, darn, a shadow clone!’
She was just behind him while he stood under the moon’s light gazing out to the wide space. And now, he stands under the moon-cast shade of a tree behind her.
???: “I know that you have been following me every night, so tonight, I thought that it would be a good time for you to reveal your intentions.”
Ruirein: “I did not. I-I was just - -“
???: “I could you see you - - despite your ability, I could see through you.”
Ruirein’s twisted her lips in shock. He was right, she have been following him. But she means no harm. For the past three nights she have been gathering her courage to approach him to apologize about her actions and to ask him what exactly happened to her. She feels that he knows something more than anyone in the group. Besides, his dominant aura is so familiar that she could feel that a part of her past must have come from where has.
Ruirein: “Y-you can see me?”
???: “Ah, clear as the moon above you.”
He replied coldly and with his hands against his head, he leaned his back to the tree, one foot on the ground the other bended resting on the tree and his head held up to the moon.
Ruirein: “B-but how?”
???:“You envelop yourself with light causing everything to reflect against the naked eyes. It works efficiently at daytimes because your bloodline has the ability to manipulate solar radiation allowing you to gather as much light as you can. You are most likely Water, Earth, or both by element since water and earth have specifically high heat capacities allowing you to store solar energy reserves when the sun is out.
This makes the Vanishing Light Limit inefficient by night because you concentrate your chakra to convert your stored solar energy into that certain amount of light you needed to envelop yourself.”
Ruirein: “And what does that have to do about you seeing me?”
???: “Ah! You don’t get it, do you?” He lowered his head to her direction.
???: “You send off intense chakra signal in the entire process that High Class ninjas could easily detect, making you an easy target.”
With a soft sarcastic laugh, he stood straight, shaking his head and dug his hands into his pocket.
Ruirein: *in thoughts*‘Damn this man!’
Ruirein: “And you’re an High Class ninja?”
She tried to reply back with sarcasm. But he only continued to sarcastically laugh at her that she felt her entire body blush with anger!
???: “Is this what this is all about - - a show off of your class? It’s a pity though; you would have to wait for the night to sense my presence.”
???: “Mah, even if I am, I don’t have to use any sensing skills to find you nor do I have to wait for the night to come. I can see you both day and night, with light or without light.”
Ruirein: “Ha! Trying to be a god?!” She replied a little intoned this time; her anger reached her voice that she could not help but let it out.
???: “No - *swiftly moved closed* “But I have these.”
In a blink of an eye, he now stands just an inch apart from her face that she totally lost balanced. Kakashi swiftly caught her up in to his arms and she shrugged him off to help herself up.
Kakashi: “You get startled easily. My name is Hatake, Kakashi.”
He said with a low respectful voice. He tried to take a closer look on her face to confirm something but she was quick to avoid.
Kakashi: “So who are you, where are you from and what is your purpose here?”
Ruirein: “What?! Are you interrogating me like I’m some sort of a spy?!”
Kakashi: “I didn’t say that. You did.”
Ruirein: *charging with her sais* “Argh!”
Kakashi: “Not so fast young lady.”
Before she could take a single step, Kakashi was behind her with both her wrists imprisoned with one hand and her nape the other, immobilizing her to move forward.
Ruirein: “Hah! And that was fast for you?” *on one of tree’s branch with her hood back on*
Kakashi: *in thoughts* ‘A shadow clone’
Kakashi was surprised that she outrun her with a shadow clone. He was about to turn her into the moon light but she disappeared. Now, she s
Ruirein:“Kuchihiro-ge Kako Sanbon Shurikken! (three flaring shurikkens)” *standing on one of the trees’ branches behind Kakashiwith a black cloak and hood on*
Before Kakashi could move, three shurikkens, flaring like the sun came whirling around one after the other towards him, hitting three of his vital points.
Kakashi: *in a whisper behind her* “Getting rid of me, eh?”
Kakashi: “I can’t believe you’d really want to kill me.”
Ruirein:“You bet I would!”
Gnashing between her teeth Ruirein did a sideward flip, took out her sais, and put them together into a sword. Landing back on the same branch, she swayed her sword to slice through but failed. With his kunai, Kakashi blocked her sword and they both ended up with a forward stance battling strength against strength.
Kakashi:“Hmn! Not bad, you’re quite strong.” He mockingly said.
Ruirein’s eyes flared like fire as her anger dug deeper through her. Panting with frustration, she broke through the truce pushing Kakashi’s kunai off her sword. Kakashi jumped off to gain his balance and Ruirein followed through him in mid air with successive attacks. Each of the attacks failed as he blocked each of them swiftly with his kunai.
Kakashi: “Hmn! And you’re good with your sword, too. But not as good as keeping your emotions to yourself!”
Kakashi scolded with a low voice and pinned her to the nearest tree.
Kakashi: “Focus in the fight, and don’t let your anger drive you.” He whispered fiercely from the back of her head.
Ruirein’s eyes widened as those words tried to surface from the depths of her mind with a deafening echo. It felt like she has been lectured with those words a million times before.
Ruirein: “P-please, I-I don’t mean any harm.”
She said with a broken voice. She tried to hold back the tears that usually replaces her anger and frustration. But then, the echo of his words continually rung through her head causing an unendurable pain.
Kakashi felt her anguish that he carefully let go of her. The silence between them caused an eerie air that they just stood still with their backs to the moon, facing the tree.
Ruirein: “I-I j-just wanted to apologize with my behavior and I guess I just caused more.”
Kakashi did not say a word. He did not really feel anything dangerous on her but he can’t be complacent, too. With one hand on his pocket, he stepped a little to the side to let the moonlight shine on her back.
Ruirein: “Please forgive my behavior, I beg of you.”
Taking off her hood she turned to face him with knees down to ground and head bent down in respect.
Kakashi: “Huh?!”
Ruirein: “Please, kind Sir. I’ve really been having a lot of confusions in these past few days.”
Ruirein: “I-I know it should not be an excuse for my actions towards you, but I really hope you would be considerate and accept my apologies.”
Kakashi: “Ah, that’s really nothing.” *helps her to stand and started to go”
Ruirein: “Please, let me ask something before you go.”
Kakashi: “Okay, go ahead.”
Ruirein: “W-What hap-pened to me - - back there?” - - “In the rendezvous point, I mean.”
Quite surprised with her question he turned to face her and walked back to her.
Kakashi: “You did not know?”
Ruirein: “N-No – y-yes – I-I don’t know…I’m all confused. I never really had any memory of who I am, where I am from but those things never bothered me until, -“
Kakashi: “You have a special kind of bloodline limit that would have killed us all if I haven’t stopped it.”
Ruirein’s brows crossed in confusion.
Kakashi: “Your ability to conceal yourself with light is one. And what could have burst out that day was another at a different level; a level that could consume an entire village.”
Ruirein: “How - -“
Kakashi: “You lost your guard when I gave you back. I knew you had a plan but aside from you being unable to calculate how high you should jump to fall back to the ground while the beast must have gone past you, you just knelt down with your sword buried to the beast, stunned and unable to move.”
Ruirein: “I-I have exactly calculated the height that I needed to jump up but I do not have the capabilities of jumping that high.” She lowered her head in admission to her weakness. “I think I must have injured my ankles badly somewhere in my past, disabling me to kick start a higher jump.”
Kakashi: *in thoughts* ‘No, it can’t be!’
Kakashi’s eyes widened in surprise upon hearing her words. First was the bloodline limit, and now her incapability to jump higher like a normal ninja? Surely, those could not just be coincidences.
He could never forget that tragic night. He was 16 and she was probably 12. If she is who he thinks she is, then he’s doomed. If he gets a chance to explain things, will she ever forgive him? Every time their paths cross, she seems to be getting closer to the person whom he had taken a lot from; her friends, her love, and her life. Is fate trying to get back at him? Is this all but a coincidence? Or is this all just a ghost from the past that continually haunts him?
Now, I think I'm giving us more things to find out instead, right? Like, what did really happen that night? What is Kakashi doing there and why would he wanted to be given the chance to explain and beg for her forgiveness?
Anyway, as I said this chapter opens up the answers to all these mysteries. So, I'm sending out chapter 9 sooner, by Sunday or Monday perhaps. Or even earlier. I wanted to put in Ruirein's sketch in this chapter but I still have to get it scanned. I don't have a scanner.
He needs Ruirein’s advice but he could not find her. After what happened when she woke up three days ago, she has kept her presence from him and that was just so unusual of her. No pranks from her, no picking, everything was at peace and yet so unusual.
Skye: *in thoughts* “She’ll show up herself, soon’.
500 meters away from them, beneath the shadows of the trees, is a man surveying the vast area of an open space, whose grasses glittered from the light of the moon above him.
???: “Hiding with the Vanishing Light Limit at night times wastes too much chakra eh, Miss?”
Startled, Ruirein materialized and jerked to face where the voice was coming from, her back against the moon hiding her unmasked face from the shadows of herself.
Ruirein:*in whispher, startled* ‘Oh, darn, a shadow clone!’
She was just behind him while he stood under the moon’s light gazing out to the wide space. And now, he stands under the moon-cast shade of a tree behind her.
???: “I know that you have been following me every night, so tonight, I thought that it would be a good time for you to reveal your intentions.”
Ruirein: “I did not. I-I was just - -“
???: “I could you see you - - despite your ability, I could see through you.”
Ruirein’s twisted her lips in shock. He was right, she have been following him. But she means no harm. For the past three nights she have been gathering her courage to approach him to apologize about her actions and to ask him what exactly happened to her. She feels that he knows something more than anyone in the group. Besides, his dominant aura is so familiar that she could feel that a part of her past must have come from where has.
Ruirein: “Y-you can see me?”
???: “Ah, clear as the moon above you.”
He replied coldly and with his hands against his head, he leaned his back to the tree, one foot on the ground the other bended resting on the tree and his head held up to the moon.
Ruirein: “B-but how?”
???:“You envelop yourself with light causing everything to reflect against the naked eyes. It works efficiently at daytimes because your bloodline has the ability to manipulate solar radiation allowing you to gather as much light as you can. You are most likely Water, Earth, or both by element since water and earth have specifically high heat capacities allowing you to store solar energy reserves when the sun is out.
This makes the Vanishing Light Limit inefficient by night because you concentrate your chakra to convert your stored solar energy into that certain amount of light you needed to envelop yourself.”
Ruirein: “And what does that have to do about you seeing me?”
???: “Ah! You don’t get it, do you?” He lowered his head to her direction.
???: “You send off intense chakra signal in the entire process that High Class ninjas could easily detect, making you an easy target.”
With a soft sarcastic laugh, he stood straight, shaking his head and dug his hands into his pocket.
Ruirein: *in thoughts*‘Damn this man!’
Ruirein: “And you’re an High Class ninja?”
She tried to reply back with sarcasm. But he only continued to sarcastically laugh at her that she felt her entire body blush with anger!
???: “Is this what this is all about - - a show off of your class? It’s a pity though; you would have to wait for the night to sense my presence.”
???: “Mah, even if I am, I don’t have to use any sensing skills to find you nor do I have to wait for the night to come. I can see you both day and night, with light or without light.”
Ruirein: “Ha! Trying to be a god?!” She replied a little intoned this time; her anger reached her voice that she could not help but let it out.
???: “No - *swiftly moved closed* “But I have these.”
In a blink of an eye, he now stands just an inch apart from her face that she totally lost balanced. Kakashi swiftly caught her up in to his arms and she shrugged him off to help herself up.
Kakashi: “You get startled easily. My name is Hatake, Kakashi.”
He said with a low respectful voice. He tried to take a closer look on her face to confirm something but she was quick to avoid.
Kakashi: “So who are you, where are you from and what is your purpose here?”
Ruirein: “What?! Are you interrogating me like I’m some sort of a spy?!”
Kakashi: “I didn’t say that. You did.”
Ruirein: *charging with her sais* “Argh!”
Kakashi: “Not so fast young lady.”
Before she could take a single step, Kakashi was behind her with both her wrists imprisoned with one hand and her nape the other, immobilizing her to move forward.
Ruirein: “Hah! And that was fast for you?” *on one of tree’s branch with her hood back on*
Kakashi: *in thoughts* ‘A shadow clone’
Kakashi was surprised that she outrun her with a shadow clone. He was about to turn her into the moon light but she disappeared. Now, she s
Ruirein:“Kuchihiro-ge Kako Sanbon Shurikken! (three flaring shurikkens)” *standing on one of the trees’ branches behind Kakashiwith a black cloak and hood on*
Before Kakashi could move, three shurikkens, flaring like the sun came whirling around one after the other towards him, hitting three of his vital points.
Kakashi: *in a whisper behind her* “Getting rid of me, eh?”
Kakashi: “I can’t believe you’d really want to kill me.”
Ruirein:“You bet I would!”
Gnashing between her teeth Ruirein did a sideward flip, took out her sais, and put them together into a sword. Landing back on the same branch, she swayed her sword to slice through but failed. With his kunai, Kakashi blocked her sword and they both ended up with a forward stance battling strength against strength.
Kakashi:“Hmn! Not bad, you’re quite strong.” He mockingly said.
Ruirein’s eyes flared like fire as her anger dug deeper through her. Panting with frustration, she broke through the truce pushing Kakashi’s kunai off her sword. Kakashi jumped off to gain his balance and Ruirein followed through him in mid air with successive attacks. Each of the attacks failed as he blocked each of them swiftly with his kunai.
Kakashi: “Hmn! And you’re good with your sword, too. But not as good as keeping your emotions to yourself!”
Kakashi scolded with a low voice and pinned her to the nearest tree.
Kakashi: “Focus in the fight, and don’t let your anger drive you.” He whispered fiercely from the back of her head.
Ruirein’s eyes widened as those words tried to surface from the depths of her mind with a deafening echo. It felt like she has been lectured with those words a million times before.
Ruirein: “P-please, I-I don’t mean any harm.”
She said with a broken voice. She tried to hold back the tears that usually replaces her anger and frustration. But then, the echo of his words continually rung through her head causing an unendurable pain.
Kakashi felt her anguish that he carefully let go of her. The silence between them caused an eerie air that they just stood still with their backs to the moon, facing the tree.
Ruirein: “I-I j-just wanted to apologize with my behavior and I guess I just caused more.”
Kakashi did not say a word. He did not really feel anything dangerous on her but he can’t be complacent, too. With one hand on his pocket, he stepped a little to the side to let the moonlight shine on her back.
Ruirein: “Please forgive my behavior, I beg of you.”
Taking off her hood she turned to face him with knees down to ground and head bent down in respect.
Kakashi: “Huh?!”
Ruirein: “Please, kind Sir. I’ve really been having a lot of confusions in these past few days.”
Ruirein: “I-I know it should not be an excuse for my actions towards you, but I really hope you would be considerate and accept my apologies.”
Kakashi: “Ah, that’s really nothing.” *helps her to stand and started to go”
Ruirein: “Please, let me ask something before you go.”
Kakashi: “Okay, go ahead.”
Ruirein: “W-What hap-pened to me - - back there?” - - “In the rendezvous point, I mean.”
Quite surprised with her question he turned to face her and walked back to her.
Kakashi: “You did not know?”
Ruirein: “N-No – y-yes – I-I don’t know…I’m all confused. I never really had any memory of who I am, where I am from but those things never bothered me until, -“
Kakashi: “You have a special kind of bloodline limit that would have killed us all if I haven’t stopped it.”
Ruirein’s brows crossed in confusion.
Kakashi: “Your ability to conceal yourself with light is one. And what could have burst out that day was another at a different level; a level that could consume an entire village.”
Ruirein: “How - -“
Kakashi: “You lost your guard when I gave you back. I knew you had a plan but aside from you being unable to calculate how high you should jump to fall back to the ground while the beast must have gone past you, you just knelt down with your sword buried to the beast, stunned and unable to move.”
Ruirein: “I-I have exactly calculated the height that I needed to jump up but I do not have the capabilities of jumping that high.” She lowered her head in admission to her weakness. “I think I must have injured my ankles badly somewhere in my past, disabling me to kick start a higher jump.”
Kakashi: *in thoughts* ‘No, it can’t be!’
Kakashi’s eyes widened in surprise upon hearing her words. First was the bloodline limit, and now her incapability to jump higher like a normal ninja? Surely, those could not just be coincidences.
He could never forget that tragic night. He was 16 and she was probably 12. If she is who he thinks she is, then he’s doomed. If he gets a chance to explain things, will she ever forgive him? Every time their paths cross, she seems to be getting closer to the person whom he had taken a lot from; her friends, her love, and her life. Is fate trying to get back at him? Is this all but a coincidence? Or is this all just a ghost from the past that continually haunts him?
END OF CHAPTER EIGHT
Now, I think I'm giving us more things to find out instead, right? Like, what did really happen that night? What is Kakashi doing there and why would he wanted to be given the chance to explain and beg for her forgiveness?
Anyway, as I said this chapter opens up the answers to all these mysteries. So, I'm sending out chapter 9 sooner, by Sunday or Monday perhaps. Or even earlier. I wanted to put in Ruirein's sketch in this chapter but I still have to get it scanned. I don't have a scanner.
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Skye grieved over loosing the royal family of the Yellow Country but he did not allow it to weaken him. Despite the arranged marriage for royal stability, the Princess had been a very good friend to him. As heir to the throne, he must uphold their family’s virtue and part of that is to help the Yellow Country protect a powerful symbol. Those shinobis may not only be after getting a village of their own.
He needs Ruirein’s advice but he could not find her. After what happened when she woke up three days ago, she has kept her presence from him and that was just so unusual of her. No pranks from her, no picking, everything was at peace and yet so unusual.
‘She’ll show up herself, soon’. He said to his self and joined the rest of the group who have gathered together in the campfire.
Sakura, Sai, and Naruto joined in too as they have been relieved of their posts. And 500 meters away from them, beneath the shadows of the trees, is a man surveying the vast area of an open space, whose grasses glittered from the light of the moon above him.
“Hiding with the Vanishing Light Limit at night times wastes too much chakra eh, Miss?”
Startled, Ruirein materialized and jerked to face where the voice was coming from, her back against the moon hiding her unmasked face from the shadows of herself.
‘Oh, darn, a shadow clone!’ She whispered dully to herself. She was just behind him while he stood under the moon’s light gazing out to the wide space. And now, he stands under the moon-cast shade of a tree behind her.
“I know that you have been following me every night, so tonight, I thought that it would be a good time for you to reveal your intentions.” He demanded with a firm cold voice.
“I did not.” Ruirein denied. “I-I was just - -“
“I could you see,” A pause and he continued. “despite your ability, I could see through you.”
Ruirein twisted her lips in shock. He was right, she have been following him. But she means no harm. For the past three nights she have been gathering her courage to approach him to apologize about her actions and to ask him what exactly happened to her. She feels that he knows something more than anyone in the group. Besides, his dominant aura is so familiar that she could feel that a part of her past must have come from where has.
“Y-you can see me?”
“Ah, clear as the moon above you.” He replied coldly and with his hands against his head, he leaned his back to the tree, one foot on the ground the other bended resting on the tree and his head held up to the moon.
“B-but how?”
“You envelop yourself with light causing everything to reflect against the naked eyes. It works efficiently at day time because your bloodline has the ability to manipulate solar radiation allowing you to gather as much light as you can. You are most likely Water, Earth, or both by element since water and earth have specifically high heat capacities allowing you to store solar energy reserves when the sun is out.
This makes the Vanishing Light Limit inefficient by night because you concentrate your chakra to convert your stored solar energy into that certain amount of light you needed to envelop yourself.”
“And what does that have to do about you seeing me?”
“Ah! You don’t get it, do you?” He lowered his head to her direction.
“You send off intense chakra signal in the entire process that High Class ninjas could easily detect, making you an easy target.” With a soft sarcastic laugh, he stood straight, shaking his head and dug his hands into his pocket.
‘Damn this man!’ Ruirein gritted her teeth, enraged with his sarcasm.
Never has anyone treated her this way! And what’s worse is she could not fight back. His personality is just too strong for her to handle. Plus, he was right about using the vanishing Slight limit at night. She did not realize, though that her chakra transmission can be an easy target for enemies that way.
“And you’re an High Class ninja?” She tried to reply back with sarcasm. But he only continued to sarcastically laugh at her that she felt her entire body blush with anger!
“Is this what this is all about - - a show off of your class? It’s a pity though; you would have to wait for the night to sense my presence.” She mocked.
“Mah, even if I am, I don’t have to use any sensing skills to find you nor do I have to wait for the night to come. I can see you both day and night, with light or without light.” He bragged.
“Ha! Trying to be a god?!” She replied a little intoned this time; her anger reached her voice that she could not help but let it out.
“No - - But I have these.”
In a blink of an eye, he now stands just an inch apart from her face that she totally lost her focus and fell off balanced. Kakashi swiftly caught her up in to his arms and she shrugged him off to help herself up.
“My name is Hatake, Kakashi.”
He said with a low respectful voice. He tried to take a closer look on her face to confirm something but she was quick to avoid.
“So who are you, where are you from and what is your purpose here?” with a firm interrogative voice, Kakashi asked Ruirein.
“What?! Are you interrogating me like I’m some sort of a spy?!”
“I didn’t say that. You did.”
“Argh!” unable to hold back, Ruirein took off her sais and intends to charge toward him but she was unable to move. Before she could take a single step, Kakashi was behind her with both her wrists imprisoned with one hand and her nape the other, immobilizing her to move forward.
“Not so fast young lady.”
“Hah! And that was fast for you?”
‘A shadow clone’ Kakashi was surprised that she outran her with a shadow clone. He was about to turn her into the moon light but she disappeared. Now, she stands on one of the trees’ branches behind him with a black cloak and hood on.
“Kuchihiro-ge Kako Sanbon Shurikken! (three flaring shurikkens)”
Before Kakashi could move, three shurikkens, flaring like the sun came twirling around one after the other towards him, hitting three of his vital points.
“Getting rid of me, eh?” Kakashi whisphered softly from behind Ruirein’s ears. He was so close that she could hear him breath underneath his mask. She was standing on one of the trees’ branches when she threw him shurikkens and she only hit a replacement.
“I can’t believe you’d really want to kill me.”
“You bet I would!” gnashing between her teeth Ruirein did a sideward flip, took out her sais, put them together to form a sword. Landing back on the same branch, she swayed her sword to slice through but failed. With his kunai, Kakashi blocked her sword and they both ended up with a forward stance battling strength against strength.
“Hmn! Not bad, you’re quite strong.” He mockingly said.
Ruirein’s eyes flared like fire as her anger dug deeper through her. Panting with frustration, she broke through the truce pushing Kakashi’s kunai off her sword. Kakashi jumped off to gain his balance and Ruirein followed through him in mid air with successive attacks. Each of the attacks failed as he blocked each of them swiftly with his kunai.
“Hmn! And you’re good with your sword, too. But not as good as keeping your emotions to yourself!” Kakashi scolded with a low voice as he tugged Ruirein to the nearest tree.
“Focus in the fight, and don’t let your anger drive you.” He whispered fiercely from the back of her head.
Ruirein’s eyes widened as those words tried to surface from the depths of her mind with a deafening echo. It felt like she has been lectured with those words a million times before.
“P-please, I-I don’t mean any harm.” She said with a broken voice. She tried to hold back the tears that usually replaces her anger and frustration. But then, the echo of his words continually rung through her head causing an unendurable pain.
Kakashi felt her anguish that he carefully let go of her. The silence between them caused an eerie air that they just stood still with their backs to the moon, facing the tree.
“I-I j-just wanted to apologize with my behavior and I guess I just caused more.” She finally spoke out. She wanted to turn and face him but it felt like her feet were glued to the ground.
Kakashi did not say a word. He did not really feel anything dangerous on her but he can’t be complacent, too. With one hand on his pocket, he stepped a little to the side to let the moonlight shine on her back.
“Please forgive my behavior, I beg of you.” Taking off her hood she turned to face him with knees down to ground and head bent down in respect. “I’m begging you.”
“Huh?!” shocked with her display of sincerity, Kakashi went down on his knees and held her by her shoulders and motioned her to get up but she refused to. She lifted her head to face him and put her trembling palms together as if to pray.
“Please, kind Sir. I’ve really been having a lot of confusions in these past few days.” She said with shaky voice.” She stared straight to his eyes and for a moment, their world stopped spinning. It just occurred to her that she had seen those eyes before. Tough but gentle, ever ready to strike but is swift to protect. She heaved a deep sigh as her heart suddenly felt like burning. It all felt like she has known him from somewhere, but where? In her dreams? In her past? And then she stopped thinking and continued with what she has wanted to ask him.
“I-I know it should not be an excuse for my actions towards you, but I really hope you would be considerate and accept my apologies.”
Kakashi let out a deep sigh and what looked like a gently smile formed from beneath his mask telling her that it was alright.
“Ah, that’s really nothing.” He assured. With his arms still on her shoulders, once again he motioned her to stand up with him and she did.
Kakashi then walked past her to leave.
“Please, let me ask something before you go.” Ruirein called to halt him and he did.
“Okay, go ahead.”
“W-What hap-pened to me - - back there?” She stammered. “In the rendezvous point, I mean.”
Quite surprised with her question he turned to face her and walked back to her.
“You did not know?”
“N-No – y-yes – I-I don’t know…I’m all confused. I never really had any memory of who I am, where I am from but those things never bothered me until, -“
“You have a special kind of bloodline limit that would have killed us all if I haven’t stopped it.”
Ruirein’s brows crossed in confusion.
“Your ability to conceal yourself with light is one. And what could have burst out that day was another at a different level; a level that could consume an entire village.”
“How - -“
“You lost your guard when I gave you back. I knew you had a plan but aside from you being unable to calculate how high you should jump to fall back to the ground while the beast must have gone past you, you just knelt down with your sword buried to the beast, stunned and unable to move.”
“I-I have exactly calculated the height that I needed to jump up but I do not have the capabilities of jumping that high.” She lowered her head in admission to her weakness. “I think I must have injured my ankles badly somewhere in my past, disabling me to kick start a higher jump.”
Kakashi’s eyes widened in surprise upon hearing her words. First was the bloodline limit, and now her incapability to jump higher like a normal ninja? Surely, those could not just be coincidences.
He could never forget that tragic night. He was 16 and she was probably 12. If she is who he thinks she is, then he’s doomed. If he gets a chance to explain things, will she ever forgive him? Every time their paths cross, she seems to be getting closer to the person whom he had taken a lot from; her friends, her love, and her life. Is fate trying to get back at him? Is this all but a coincidence? Or is this all just a ghost from the past that continually haunts him?
Now, I think I'm giving us more things to find out instead, right? Like, what did really happen that night? What is Kakashi doing there and why would he wanted to be given the chance to explain and beg for her forgiveness?
Anyway, as I said this chapter opens up the answers to all these mysteries. So, I'm sending out chapter 9 sooner, by Sunday or Monday perhaps. Or even earlier. I wanted to put in Ruirein's sketch in this chapter but I still have to get it scanned. I don't have a scanner.
He needs Ruirein’s advice but he could not find her. After what happened when she woke up three days ago, she has kept her presence from him and that was just so unusual of her. No pranks from her, no picking, everything was at peace and yet so unusual.
‘She’ll show up herself, soon’. He said to his self and joined the rest of the group who have gathered together in the campfire.
Sakura, Sai, and Naruto joined in too as they have been relieved of their posts. And 500 meters away from them, beneath the shadows of the trees, is a man surveying the vast area of an open space, whose grasses glittered from the light of the moon above him.
“Hiding with the Vanishing Light Limit at night times wastes too much chakra eh, Miss?”
Startled, Ruirein materialized and jerked to face where the voice was coming from, her back against the moon hiding her unmasked face from the shadows of herself.
‘Oh, darn, a shadow clone!’ She whispered dully to herself. She was just behind him while he stood under the moon’s light gazing out to the wide space. And now, he stands under the moon-cast shade of a tree behind her.
“I know that you have been following me every night, so tonight, I thought that it would be a good time for you to reveal your intentions.” He demanded with a firm cold voice.
“I did not.” Ruirein denied. “I-I was just - -“
“I could you see,” A pause and he continued. “despite your ability, I could see through you.”
Ruirein twisted her lips in shock. He was right, she have been following him. But she means no harm. For the past three nights she have been gathering her courage to approach him to apologize about her actions and to ask him what exactly happened to her. She feels that he knows something more than anyone in the group. Besides, his dominant aura is so familiar that she could feel that a part of her past must have come from where has.
“Y-you can see me?”
“Ah, clear as the moon above you.” He replied coldly and with his hands against his head, he leaned his back to the tree, one foot on the ground the other bended resting on the tree and his head held up to the moon.
“B-but how?”
“You envelop yourself with light causing everything to reflect against the naked eyes. It works efficiently at day time because your bloodline has the ability to manipulate solar radiation allowing you to gather as much light as you can. You are most likely Water, Earth, or both by element since water and earth have specifically high heat capacities allowing you to store solar energy reserves when the sun is out.
This makes the Vanishing Light Limit inefficient by night because you concentrate your chakra to convert your stored solar energy into that certain amount of light you needed to envelop yourself.”
“And what does that have to do about you seeing me?”
“Ah! You don’t get it, do you?” He lowered his head to her direction.
“You send off intense chakra signal in the entire process that High Class ninjas could easily detect, making you an easy target.” With a soft sarcastic laugh, he stood straight, shaking his head and dug his hands into his pocket.
‘Damn this man!’ Ruirein gritted her teeth, enraged with his sarcasm.
Never has anyone treated her this way! And what’s worse is she could not fight back. His personality is just too strong for her to handle. Plus, he was right about using the vanishing Slight limit at night. She did not realize, though that her chakra transmission can be an easy target for enemies that way.
“And you’re an High Class ninja?” She tried to reply back with sarcasm. But he only continued to sarcastically laugh at her that she felt her entire body blush with anger!
“Is this what this is all about - - a show off of your class? It’s a pity though; you would have to wait for the night to sense my presence.” She mocked.
“Mah, even if I am, I don’t have to use any sensing skills to find you nor do I have to wait for the night to come. I can see you both day and night, with light or without light.” He bragged.
“Ha! Trying to be a god?!” She replied a little intoned this time; her anger reached her voice that she could not help but let it out.
“No - - But I have these.”
In a blink of an eye, he now stands just an inch apart from her face that she totally lost her focus and fell off balanced. Kakashi swiftly caught her up in to his arms and she shrugged him off to help herself up.
“My name is Hatake, Kakashi.”
He said with a low respectful voice. He tried to take a closer look on her face to confirm something but she was quick to avoid.
“So who are you, where are you from and what is your purpose here?” with a firm interrogative voice, Kakashi asked Ruirein.
“What?! Are you interrogating me like I’m some sort of a spy?!”
“I didn’t say that. You did.”
“Argh!” unable to hold back, Ruirein took off her sais and intends to charge toward him but she was unable to move. Before she could take a single step, Kakashi was behind her with both her wrists imprisoned with one hand and her nape the other, immobilizing her to move forward.
“Not so fast young lady.”
“Hah! And that was fast for you?”
‘A shadow clone’ Kakashi was surprised that she outran her with a shadow clone. He was about to turn her into the moon light but she disappeared. Now, she stands on one of the trees’ branches behind him with a black cloak and hood on.
“Kuchihiro-ge Kako Sanbon Shurikken! (three flaring shurikkens)”
Before Kakashi could move, three shurikkens, flaring like the sun came twirling around one after the other towards him, hitting three of his vital points.
“Getting rid of me, eh?” Kakashi whisphered softly from behind Ruirein’s ears. He was so close that she could hear him breath underneath his mask. She was standing on one of the trees’ branches when she threw him shurikkens and she only hit a replacement.
“I can’t believe you’d really want to kill me.”
“You bet I would!” gnashing between her teeth Ruirein did a sideward flip, took out her sais, put them together to form a sword. Landing back on the same branch, she swayed her sword to slice through but failed. With his kunai, Kakashi blocked her sword and they both ended up with a forward stance battling strength against strength.
“Hmn! Not bad, you’re quite strong.” He mockingly said.
Ruirein’s eyes flared like fire as her anger dug deeper through her. Panting with frustration, she broke through the truce pushing Kakashi’s kunai off her sword. Kakashi jumped off to gain his balance and Ruirein followed through him in mid air with successive attacks. Each of the attacks failed as he blocked each of them swiftly with his kunai.
“Hmn! And you’re good with your sword, too. But not as good as keeping your emotions to yourself!” Kakashi scolded with a low voice as he tugged Ruirein to the nearest tree.
“Focus in the fight, and don’t let your anger drive you.” He whispered fiercely from the back of her head.
Ruirein’s eyes widened as those words tried to surface from the depths of her mind with a deafening echo. It felt like she has been lectured with those words a million times before.
“P-please, I-I don’t mean any harm.” She said with a broken voice. She tried to hold back the tears that usually replaces her anger and frustration. But then, the echo of his words continually rung through her head causing an unendurable pain.
Kakashi felt her anguish that he carefully let go of her. The silence between them caused an eerie air that they just stood still with their backs to the moon, facing the tree.
“I-I j-just wanted to apologize with my behavior and I guess I just caused more.” She finally spoke out. She wanted to turn and face him but it felt like her feet were glued to the ground.
Kakashi did not say a word. He did not really feel anything dangerous on her but he can’t be complacent, too. With one hand on his pocket, he stepped a little to the side to let the moonlight shine on her back.
“Please forgive my behavior, I beg of you.” Taking off her hood she turned to face him with knees down to ground and head bent down in respect. “I’m begging you.”
“Huh?!” shocked with her display of sincerity, Kakashi went down on his knees and held her by her shoulders and motioned her to get up but she refused to. She lifted her head to face him and put her trembling palms together as if to pray.
“Please, kind Sir. I’ve really been having a lot of confusions in these past few days.” She said with shaky voice.” She stared straight to his eyes and for a moment, their world stopped spinning. It just occurred to her that she had seen those eyes before. Tough but gentle, ever ready to strike but is swift to protect. She heaved a deep sigh as her heart suddenly felt like burning. It all felt like she has known him from somewhere, but where? In her dreams? In her past? And then she stopped thinking and continued with what she has wanted to ask him.
“I-I know it should not be an excuse for my actions towards you, but I really hope you would be considerate and accept my apologies.”
Kakashi let out a deep sigh and what looked like a gently smile formed from beneath his mask telling her that it was alright.
“Ah, that’s really nothing.” He assured. With his arms still on her shoulders, once again he motioned her to stand up with him and she did.
Kakashi then walked past her to leave.
“Please, let me ask something before you go.” Ruirein called to halt him and he did.
“Okay, go ahead.”
“W-What hap-pened to me - - back there?” She stammered. “In the rendezvous point, I mean.”
Quite surprised with her question he turned to face her and walked back to her.
“You did not know?”
“N-No – y-yes – I-I don’t know…I’m all confused. I never really had any memory of who I am, where I am from but those things never bothered me until, -“
“You have a special kind of bloodline limit that would have killed us all if I haven’t stopped it.”
Ruirein’s brows crossed in confusion.
“Your ability to conceal yourself with light is one. And what could have burst out that day was another at a different level; a level that could consume an entire village.”
“How - -“
“You lost your guard when I gave you back. I knew you had a plan but aside from you being unable to calculate how high you should jump to fall back to the ground while the beast must have gone past you, you just knelt down with your sword buried to the beast, stunned and unable to move.”
“I-I have exactly calculated the height that I needed to jump up but I do not have the capabilities of jumping that high.” She lowered her head in admission to her weakness. “I think I must have injured my ankles badly somewhere in my past, disabling me to kick start a higher jump.”
Kakashi’s eyes widened in surprise upon hearing her words. First was the bloodline limit, and now her incapability to jump higher like a normal ninja? Surely, those could not just be coincidences.
He could never forget that tragic night. He was 16 and she was probably 12. If she is who he thinks she is, then he’s doomed. If he gets a chance to explain things, will she ever forgive him? Every time their paths cross, she seems to be getting closer to the person whom he had taken a lot from; her friends, her love, and her life. Is fate trying to get back at him? Is this all but a coincidence? Or is this all just a ghost from the past that continually haunts him?
END OF CHAPTER EIGHT
Now, I think I'm giving us more things to find out instead, right? Like, what did really happen that night? What is Kakashi doing there and why would he wanted to be given the chance to explain and beg for her forgiveness?
Anyway, as I said this chapter opens up the answers to all these mysteries. So, I'm sending out chapter 9 sooner, by Sunday or Monday perhaps. Or even earlier. I wanted to put in Ruirein's sketch in this chapter but I still have to get it scanned. I don't have a scanner.
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