Gerimis

Temari laughed as Kakashi jerked away from Naruko’s grip. It broke the heavy atmosphere which had permeated the room since the revelation that Naruko’s parents were here.

“What is that Kakashi?” Naruko asked. She was sure she had seen something like that before.

“That is a Sharingan.”

“That’s cool but why would you keep it hidden all this while?” Naruko asked. Her face was open, in awe at them. She was greatly intrigued, but then she remembered that she shouldn’t be this excited, this CHUNIN had been keeping things from her and they deserve her anger. She sat down and frowned again looking away.

Sensing Naruko’s changing demeanour from stressed to excited and now confused, or was she stressed again? He was not sure, but Kakashi decided that treating her like usual would ease her situation. He ruffled her hair and said, “Nah, nah, don’t be angry. You have seen it everywhere, it’s a traditional shape called Tomoe. I have been told that the tomoe in traditional Konoha art was based on it.”

“You role here will be of a Jinchuuriki. We will get to that later. Jinchuuriki plays an important part within CHUUNIN.”

“Ha?” was all Naruko could say.

“I will use it to tell you about your parents, there are things that is better being seen then told verbally. Are you ready?”

“Show me,” she mumbled uncertainly. It would be the first time she would be seeing her parents.

“Here, hold my hand,” Kakashi said offering his hands.

Naruko looked at him, she had trusted Kakashi once and now he was non verbally asking her to trust in him again. She did not see no reason to pull away, maybe this was her last chance to have something back in her life. The obvious answer was to agree, so wordlessly she placed her palm on top of his open palms. Smiling in his mask, Kakashi closed his fingers around her hands and looked at her. Instinctively she looked at his eyes and her attention was averted to his red eyes which swirled again. The three tomoes changing into a fan like shape.

The room disappeared and….

A white haired boy with a mask on his face. He was scrawny wearing only a very old t shirt and a pair of cargo pants.

Naruko assumed it was Kakashi, it had to be him. The white hair and the mask was similar but both eyes were revealed, both looked black.

This Kakashi was smiling at someone taller who had his back to him, “What is it that you wanted to show me sensei?”

The man turned around and shouted, “Happy birthday Kakashi!” He had a box in his hand which was wrapped in brown paper.

Naruko looked at the man’s hair and it was blonde and spiky, it was longer than most man had, but Iruka’s hair was definitely longer.

“This is for you, we thought that you would want something useful.”

Suddenly from behind the man emerged a red haired woman, her long hair swayed behind her. She turned around slightly and her hair was shown to reach her waist.

“Happy birthday Kakashi-chan, you are going to be a big brother soon, so here is a matching coat for you,” she said while handing him a colorful paper bag.

“Kakashi’s going to be a teenager soon, we should start calling him Kakashi-niisan,” the man said. The woman laughed and they both turned to Kakashi.

“Thank you auntie!” Kakashi said. He grabbed the paper bag and opened it. Inside was a khaki coloured jacket with patches sewn on it.

“This is cool!” Kakashi shouted. He wore it and the sleeves were too long so he folded it back. He approached her and looked like he wanted to hug her but something stopped him.

The woman was also readying herself for a hug but when she noticed that none was coming, she asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Is it okay?” he said looking at her abdomen.

“Don’t worry, Naruko won’t feel a thing. She is in a waterball which protects her, like how you are protecting her.” Her voice was gentle. “Nothing will hurt her. Now, come here, you owe me a hug!” She said sternly this time.

“Okay!” he said and gently hugged her

Naruko? Is that my mother?

The scene changed and Naruko was standing on a clearing. She could feel her feet on firm ground. Something was burning as there were smoke and fire.

“Run to the bunker Kakashi!” a white haired man shouted.

“No, I need to save sensei!” Kakashi shouted.

Naruko turned around and saw Kakashi running towards a huge moving object in the horizon. It was chaotic and she wondered why was Kakashi so adamant to run into trouble.

“Sensei!” Kakashi screamed as a sudden blast pushed him to the ground.

“Run and hide,” A voice boomed over the air, even if she was just watching the scene, Naruko shuddered at the voice’s malicious tone.

“Your beloved Yellow Flash is no more, I have come and gotten what I want, you weakling say goodbye….”

Another boom and something fried everything down.

“No!!!” Kakashi screamed.

“Kaka-sensei!”

Naruko blinked and she felt tears hot on her cheeks. She wasn’t sure what she had seen but she knew that the one they called Yellow Flash was her father and he was dead.

“Why didn't you tell me Kakashi-san? You lied to me all this time? I thought I could trust you?” she said. She was not really looking at Kakashi, to hell with him, she thought.

“Naruko, this is not the time for that. We need to rush Kakashi-sensei to the hospital. Something triggered him, he shouldn’t be doing this, he couldn’t do this alone. Sasuke, let’s go.

Naruko blinked and realized she was back in the room and she was still sitting on the chair. Kakashi was being supported by Sasuke to stand up and his eyes were bleeding.

“I warned him before about this, come Naruko let’s go.” Temari was strict as she followed Sasuke to walk Kakashi out of the room.

Going a few floors up they reached the hospital. The door to the hospital opened to let them enter, but Temari stopped Naruko from entering.

“This does not concern you. Orders are that you are now staying with the Jinchuuriki, only Kakashi can tell you what’s happening with you and your parents. I am sorry about this.”

Naruko nodded. Temari was being very professional with her, she sternly told herself to act mature.

“Where do I go?”

“I’ll walk you to the Jinchuuriki quarters, your peers are ready to meet you.”

“Thank you,” Naruko said. It had been weird but she knew it had been the right thing to say.

“Come on, let’s go. Frankly I am sorry that you are being handled like this. But i am glad that you are being placed with the Jinchuuriki. They will make you feel welcome.”

Naruko saw what she thought was a faint smile on Temari’s face. They were walking away from the hospital going through a series of aisles and elevators. CHUUNIN was really a maze.

“What’s that?” she asked.

“Oh, I think I should tell you this. My brother is a Jinchuuriki, but he is not the most friendly when you meet him. The first few times, but i think he’ll grow on you.”

“Oh,” was all Naruko said. This CHUUNIN thing was really making her stressed out. Looks like she would need to act cool. Cool like Sasuke, that bastard! Was he hiding things like Kakashi too?

Then she grimaced, Kakashi had suffered by telling her about her past. Or about people in her past. She could not help worrying about him.

“Will Kakashi, err. Kakashi-sensei be okay?”

Temari glanced at Naruko and placed a hand over the younger blonde’s shoulder. “He knew what he was doing, nothing Shizune can’t heal. But it will take days before he might be able to show you. I told him words was better than verbal. But Lalashi said, you would rebel either way.”

Naruko nodded. She thought she might be angry, she was, but she was somehow calm.

I was once a baby in a red head’s abndomen. She frowned and frowned.

Temari took her hands from Naruko’s shoulders and sighed.

“I could understand your anger, my brother is still angry too. But it’s our life, whether we wished otherwise.”

Naruko was intrigued again. Temari knows a lot.

“You handled this quite well, I'm surprised Kakashi-sensei hadn't gotten a bloodied nose from a punch. Sasuke too.” Temari chuckled.

“I've known him for a few months but he's been nothing but nice to me. Anyway, I am not usually violent.”

“You don't have to excuse yourself. Kaka-sensei’s, suffered things much worse than that. But it's all in a day's work. And you'll be seeing the Sharingan a lot later. So I think Kaka-sensei was right in showing it to you now.

They stopped in front of an elevator and the door opened just as Temari punched the ascend button.

“You will live and train with the Jinchuuriki from now on until further notice. A lot will happen from now on, so brace yourself. I'll be here for support as I'll join you in training too.”

A question popped in Naruto’s mind suddenly. Temari seemed to notice it too and so she asked, “Anything you want to ask before we arrive there?”

The elevator seemed to take a long time to arrived and Naruko thought it was sensible to ask. “Sai and Ino were they Jinchuuriki too?”

“Nope. There are only ten of you. Sai is an officer here, but Ino is a civilian and pay when she needed too. Were you wondering whether they were really friends to you?”

“Ah. Hmmmm…. Yes.”

“Well, you'll meet them soon enough. We are all on the same side here. Everything will be unveiled. I shouldn't say this but as a sister to a Jinchuuriki I know how you feel. I'm also sorry CHUUNIN decided to spring this on you like this. Well, I'll get into a lot of trouble for saying that.” Temari’s eyes glanced upwards at the cctv installed on the roof of the elevator.”

“Ask Fu on how to contact me if you want to talk.” Temari said.

The elevator opened and someone shrieked. Naruko turned to the door and saw a mint green haired girl about her height outside.

The girl rushed forward and shouted, “Aww you're so cute.” She engulfed Naruko in a bear hug, let her go and pulled her out from the elevator. “Well goodbye Temari-chan, meet you soon.”

Naruko looked anxiously at Temari but the older girl only stayed in the elevator and waved at her.

“See you soon Naruko.”

“I'm Fu, you are Naruko right? We will be housemates from now on. Now tell me what's the latest movie showing now? Kakashi-sensei said you work at his cinema right?”

Naruko blinked confusedly.

“Ah, how unthoughtful of me to make you chat outside. Let's get home, well your new home from now on.”

Naruko hesitated but the girl pulled her forward. She hoped things will be cleared for her soon. Everything was a mess in her head right now. What the f*** a Jinchuuriki was, with all the messed up things they were handing here. she knew the answers were here.