39 Chapter 39 : The W (1/2)
Alright. I decided to move this story to every other day so it will give me more time to work on my book I'm writing. Yeah. A legit book and stuff. It's good stuff. There is no way I'm dropping this story and I have a few others planned after it, so I'm not leaving. And to make it better for you guys, I'm doubling the length of the chapters for this one, so the story will still progress the same.
Esketit.
I really need to stop saying that.
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”Why would you erupt a volcano on a town?” Kakashi tried to stay rational about this. Nothing great would come from getting worked up.
”Well. Maybe I just wanted to play. Hmhmhmhm. Why don't we play some more.” Mei inched forward. Kakashi searched. Sharingan blaring. There had to be some weakness. Some small crack in her fighting style that could give him the advantage. Wait.
Kakashi stared into Mei's face with concentration. The center of her forehead was dark. Not complexion, but the chakra contained, swirling around her temple. If he didn't have the sharingan, he wouldn't have notice. The dot of devilish chakra on her head was minuscule.
”might as well try this” Kakashi rared back and waited.
Mei charged at him. Kakashi flexed his left eye, swirling into something new.
”Kamui!” Kakashi charged against her. He warped her weapon into his dimensional jutsu. It was gone, but Mei didn't stop her charge. Kakashi met her head on, not focusing to much on defending himself. He focused himself. He needed every piece of concentration for this. Kakashi swirled his eye once more. He fluxed away the tiny bit of chakra in her head. Careful not to make her head disappear also.
Mei slumped to the ground, covering her forehead. ”What.....ah. This hurts.” She complained while Kakashi fell to the ground. He overdid it. Blood trickled from his now closed eye. He heaved through his mask.
Mei looked around. ”Wh...what...where am I?”
She gazed at Kakashi, who was on the verge of passing out.
”Who are you?”
Rei crossed the river, still holding the hand of the girl. She didn't look to hot either. Her limp was obvious. ”Rei.” Kakashi managed to say. ”Good job.”
The little girl was returned to her parents, they thanked Rei and Kakashi tremendously, but they didn't really care. It was just another day. Rei eventually brought the prisoners back across the river. The villagers marveled in her skill. No one had even seen anything like this since the Uzumaki weren't really around. Mei didn't remember anything, so Kakashi named this a mission for Inoichi to find out. To probe her mind and find information. She willingly surrendered herself to Rei's prison.
When everything was said and done, the villagers regrouped, helped each other out, pitched camps, rebuilt. It was a start, but the damage was done. When Mei was awakened from her 'state of mind' the volcano ceased. The people were angry at the Mist group. Traveling by the cages at night just to throw stones and whatnot. A few Leaf Squads came by and away they went. Kakashi and Rei apologized to the mayor, since apparently this was their fault, but he was understanding. He knew they were good people and It was rare to see that from a ninja. Doing something for the people.
Kakashi and Rei chose to leave. Rei helped rebuild for a few days while Kakashi recovered from exhaustion, but insisted since there was a chance of retaliation. They limped through the narrow road into the opposing forest while everyone watched. Rei felt better than ever and Kakashi noticed.
”Something good happen Rei?”
”Hmh.” She smiled from ear to ear. ”I found it!”
Kakashi gave her a believing eye smile. ”That's great.” He began to see an outline of Kushina from his student with a touch of his sensei. He stared into the sky.
”I promise to help her become the greatest ninja she can Ms. Kushina, sensei.” He thought.
”So.” Kakashi pulled his book out. ”Tell me about your fight.”
Rei immediately began blabbering without stopping. Details and even things not even related to her fight spewed from her mouth. Kakashi could only listen and smile, walking side by side with his student, on to bigger and better things.
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On the other side of the Land of Fire....
Kenji held his arms behind his head, pondering on Jiraiya's words.
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Flashback. bruh
Once more. Kenji practiced his new technique.
”Not bad Kenji. Your almost better than the Hokage himself.” Jiraiya laughed.
”Hey, old man.”
”Whats wrong?”
”Why did you want me to stay in that village? You had us stay there for a year, and never asked me what I learned or why, like you said.”
”Hmmm. Lets see. Well what do YOU think that was about. What did you notice about everyone?”
Kenji sat next to the man. ” I don't know. I guess the villagers. The way they interacted. It was like everyone was family.”
”and?” Jiraiya smiled.
”And they even treated us like family. Even though we were strangers.”
”Exactly. The point of our stay was so you could see how everyone relies on each other to survive. Even as ninja, we have to rely on our medical ninja to heal wounds, our trackers to locate the enemy, our teammates... to survive. We wouldn't have survived this long if we didn't. So don't close off your doors. Rely on your mother, your teacher.....your family.”
Kenji nodded. He understood Jiraiya. He had been closing a few doors lately.