Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Girl Named Yama ❯ Chapter 18 - Rivals ( Chapter 18 )

A Girl Named Yama

 

Author: XoXSilverDragonXoX

 

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from `Naruto'. The only thing I own is my main character, Umari Yama, and maybe some unrecognizable characters that you may see.

 

Brief Summary: A girl finds herself dumped into Hatake's bed one day in a different world to deal with an emotional Sasuke, a hyperactive Naruto, a flirty Genma and lazy Kakashi. And of course, to deal with all the glory of life in Konoha to boot!

 

Notes: All information taken about Akatsuki (quoted) from Wikipedia dot org.

 

Last Chapter:

 

After a brief meeting with the Jounins and Hokage and an unpleasant encounter with the council members, Yama manages leaves unscathed. But within the Chuunin exams coming up, there's a sudden infiltration in Konoha! Who is it? Why, our lovely Akatsuki bunch, of course!

 

Warnings:

 

Hints of Shounen Ai.Seeing as this story is rated `M' be expecting a bit of language now and then.

 

[.a.g.i.r.l.n.a.m.e.d.y.a.m.a.]

 

Chapter 18 - Rivals

 

Hatake Kakashi slammed his fist against the walls of one of the numerous apartment buildings he stood by. Where the hell were they!? Taking no notice of the now cracked wall and scared woman who had just turned the corner, Kakashi's thoughts continued to race.

 

Ever since hearing Naruto's so called 'message' from Umino Iruka, the Copy-nin had all but been searching relentlessly throughout the area near the Ichiraku Ramen stand, but to no avail.

 

No scarred Chuunin.

 

No red tinted black hair ninja.

 

A few people who were passing by gave Kakashi a startled look, before promptly giving him yet another meter of space. The silver haired Jounin eyes scanned the area once again, before taking a deep breath.

 

"Ma..." Kakashi murmured, "Looks like I'll have to use that new move I just learned..." Kakashi formed the few seals for the Ninpou; teleport, and appeared in a tree a second later.

 

He pushed up his forehead protector, revealing his Sharingan.

 

Quickly forming the dog and tiger seal in two quick movements, he muttered, "Miseru no jutsu!" (Revealing Technique) His eyes slid around the Ichiraku Ramen stand and zeroed in on one type of chakra signature. It was red and flowed steadily from one spot. Beside it was another chakra signature - a light green one.

 

This new technique allowed the user to see chakra as clear as day - as well as the path that the chakra had taken. Of course, any Sharingan allowed you to see chakra but this technique had its own unique powers. If strong enough, it was possible that you could pick up left over chakra that had been there for weeks on end.

 

He smirked. Found you.

 

Then Kakashi hesitated, seeing yet another chakra signature trail by - also red. He cursed. There was only one other person who Kakashi knew of that had a red chakra signature. Damn that stupid student of his. Why on earth would he take a stroll now? But wait… Sasuke had a dark blue chakra signature. Who else had red? He frowned.

 

Damn.

 

He hesitated. He had to pick now before it was too late. The chakra signatures had the possibility that it wouldn't stay too long. In fact, they could disappear after the user of the chakra was no longer present for 15 minutes - at the level he managed to train the jutsu, anyhow. If he wished to see older chakra he would need to train it up more.

 

Another problem with this technique was that chakra was never stable. His eyes weren't trained enough for this technique yet either, so the chakra could disappear for him soon.

 

Yama had been here not too long ago. The chakra marks still glowed with warmth.

 

Kakashi bit his lip, before he noticed that the first red chakra signature had a glowing aura around it. He surged forwards, and stopped, frowning when he felt a blow of chakra to his left.

 

Whipping his head in that direction, his gaze narrowed and he disappeared.

 

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I let out a brief curse, and I backed up a step. My gaze drifted around; to my left, right, and above. Where was he?

 

Thump.

 

My back hit something firm and solid. Oh. I could see Iruka—who was to my left—widen his eyes and open his mouth in warning, "Yama-"

 

Eyes shriveling around, my gaze met head on with the burning gaze of Uchiha Itachi. Concealing a grin, my gaze drifted on his attire. My eyebrows rose. He hadn't ditched the 'cloak' thing of his and was wearing completely black. I could spot the top of a mesh shirt underneath the cloak. I was just guessing that his pants were black as well. Heck, even his cloak was black.

 

His long dark hair was drawn up in a lazy, low ponytail and his red eyes surveyed me, "You are not hurt?"

 

It was more of a statement than a question. My eyes narrowed slightly, "After all this time, that's all you can say?" I demanded. I crossed my arms. "Some brother you are..." I muttered. He stared at me. “Your eyes…” Oh, so he finally noticed? I touched my eyelids slightly. “Yeah… they're like that now. I can't use the sharingan anymore either.”

 

Itachi's eyes narrowed slightly at that but made no comment.

 

I heard Iruka draw in a sharp breath and he had the audacity to look sheepish. I suppose he'd known but never actually thought about Itachi's relation to me.

 

"Tsk, tsk, Itachi-kun." Deidara clucked his tongue. "Why can't you ever let me have my fun? But I suppose I can—”

 

"Deidara," his partner said sharply. "We're leaving,"

 

The blonde whirled around, "What! What about the girl?" he snarled. He was absolutely seething. "And why should we leave, huh? Ya think that I can't bust this pretty boy's ass all the way back to hell, yeah?" Deidara pointed an accusing finger in Itachi's direction. Oi, I don't think you're in a position to call someone else a pretty boy.

 

The Uchiha raised one expectant eyebrow in reply.

 

Sasori let out a snort. "We leave, now." His statement left no questions or protests to be made. Deidara scowled, watching his teammate disappear in a swirl of sand.

 

The blond glared in Itachi's direction. "We're not finished yet, yeah." he hissed before there was a huge explosion of smoke. I started coughing, even though Itachi had used a part of his cloak to shelter me and soon the smoke cleared away to reveal... nothing.

 

Hearing a huge thunderclap, we all shifted our gazes upwards - and saw Deidara leaving on the back of a huge bird— an eagle, I think. The bird was fully dull gray, indicating that it probably wasn't real—probably another one of his clay figures. The Akatsuki member shot one last scathing look in our direction before disappearing into the above clouds.

 

Silence settled around us.

 

Itachi turned his gaze onto me. I noticed that he still had his Sharingan on.

 

"You can turn that off you know..." I muttered, "It must be hard on your eyes..." He blinked in surprise, before his gaze slid over to my left. I rolled my eyes, "Iruka-sensei isn't going to hurt you..."

 

"Speak for yourself," the dolphin retorted, staring suspiciously at the missing-nin. Itachi didn't reply to that and stared at my side.

 

"You're hurt." Huh? Didn't he just say earlier that I wasn't hurt?

 

His usually emotionless voice had a tint of concern in it. I saw Iruka's eyes widen slightly in surprise. He must have caught the emotion in Itachi's tone as well. Itachi knelt beside me, fingers grazing my side.

 

I drew in a sharp breath.

 

"You have a wound on your right side, and your left ankle is spr-" Oh. I was covering my side with my arm, no wonder he hadn't sensed it. He must've seen the blood and did one of his weird diagnostic jutsu's to see where I was injured.

 

"Get away from her!" Itachi whirled and I heard a metallic clink as something clashed together. I let out a yelp when Itachi grasped me around the waist and we whipped through the air. Stumbling slightly when Itachi landed on a large boulder, I heard that familiar voice once again.

 

"Release her..." it was filled with malice and anger. It was...

 

Startled, I glanced up, surprised to see Kakashi standing beside Iruka, who winced and 'attempted' to calm the Copy-nin down. I glanced sideways, seeing my brother smirk, "And what if I don't?"

 

I mentally groaned. Why did he always have to make things worse than they actually were? "Itachi..." I said in a warning tone. He cocked his head at me, giving me another smirk.

 

"Yama! Are you all right?" Kakashi called. I saw his two eyes narrow slightly. He had his Sharingan revealed, "Get away from him," I sighed. Now this was going to be a pain to explain.

 

"Kakashi..." I said tiredly, "Can I explain?"

 

Kakashi glared at me, "About what?"

 

My head dropped backwards.

 

This was going to take a while.

 

[.a.g.i.r.l.n.a.m.e.d.y.a.m.a.]

 

A little while later...

 

"Ow!" Kakashi grimaced as I dabbed lightly at a wound with disinfectant. "Gently, Yama..." We were currently in the Hokage's office, the Hokage himself sitting in his chair, eyeing the occupants of the room warily.

 

The 'occupants' included me, Kakashi, Iruka and Itachi himself. Not to mention that various Anbu were scattered about the room. I could even see a few Jounin in the room. I had spotted Asuma, Aoba, Kotetsu, Hayate, and Kurenai as well.

 

I glowered at him and stage-whispered. "Well if you would've stopped when I told you to stop, this wouldn't have happened!" If it were not for the Hokage's insistent orders for an emergency meeting, the hospital would be treating Kakashi and not me. This was the second meeting today. And I really hope those damn council members don't bust in on us again. I don't think I can handle another meeting with them. I rolled my eyes towards Itachi. I don't think he could either, considering what had happened in the past.

 

"Yama." a toneless voice stated. "You should treat your wounds." I continued to stare at Itachi, who was leaning against the back wall of the Hokage room—near the door. I was treating Kakashi on the left side of the room while he sat in a chair.

 

"... You're hurt?" Kakashi asked quietly. I heard Itachi snort.

 

"If you would've listened to her at first, you probably would've seen that already," My eyebrows rose, along with the rest of the room's occupants. The sentence was completely loaded with sarcasm. Kakashi merely glared at him. Why? Why me?

 

I let out another sigh. This was certainly going to be a problem. Kakashi hates Itachi. Itachi hates Kakashi. Itachi is my younger brother. Kakashi is in a strange relationship with me at the moment. What's to say that this was going to work out? I was stuck in the middle of all of it. Great.

 

Silence.

 

"Uchiha Itachi." the Hokage started. "Why are you here?" The Uchiha gave him a stone-faced look.

 

"That is none of your business. Besides," Itachi cocked his head slightly. “You should know.”

 

Immediately four Anbu surrounded him. The latter only raised his eyebrows, and his Sharingan was activated. One of the Anbu backed up a step and I saw Itachi's eyes twinkle in amusement. Damn. The guy was having fun! Kakashi stopped my hand that was attending to his wounds. He had a couple of bruises and a few other small open wounds but nothing much.

 

Itachi, on the other hand, had a few scratches, bruises and one main wound - on his arm. It was altogether, a good fight. Not for me though. I'd spent the entire time trying to break the two apart. Iruka had to hold me back.

 

The two had fought evenly at first, until Itachi started being serious. He didn't even look like he wanted to fight. But then again, does he ever look like he wants to fight? Kakashi had put up quite a fight, since Uchiha had used a couple of high-classed moves.

 

Kakashi held out his hand and I obligingly handed over the bottle of disinfectant, yelping when he suddenly applied it to the wound on my side. No, my shirt wasn't off. It just so happened that when Deidara or his partner, Sasori, attacked me, they had taken out a patch of the shirt as well. Not so much so that it was embarrassing, but enough so that the wound could be cleaned properly with the shirt being removed.

 

The wound altogether wasn't that large but wasn't small either. It was around the length of two to three inches. At least it wasn't a twisted wound. That meant that the wound was altered by the weapon so that the blood poured out. I know, gruesome. Fucking Sasori had claws or something. It looks liked a bear had mauled my side. Well, at least he hadn't taken out a huge chunk of skin.

 

I was lucky and had only received a straight wound - a straight line so that the blood only seeped out slowly, not poured out. And it turns out my left foot wasn't sprained - it was only bruised because I had landed on it wrong. Nothing that wouldn't go away by using a quick healing jutsu. The wound, however, was a different story. It was deep but not deep enough for the medic-nins to use chakra— something about the medic-nins not wanting to use chakra unless they absolutely had to. So that cut was stuck having to heal the old fashioned way.

 

Kakashi dabbed - I think he was going this on purpose - none too gently on the wound.

 

"Ow!" It was my turn to curse. This caused the twitching beginnings of a smile on some of the occupants of the room. Mainly Genma, Iruka and the Hokage. I couldn't tell if the Anbu members were laughing at me or not though. "Gently!" I hissed. "Or I'll do it myself!"

 

"I am doing it gently, Yama, you're the one that's moving around too much." Kakashi said, a hint of amusement in his tone. I glanced up at him. His head protector was pulled back down, but that didn't stop his eye from being trained cautiously on the missing-nin who was behind me.

 

At least he was starting to calm down - a good indication of that was that he had started to tease me again "I'm not moving around, Kakashi-san," I emphasized the last part, giving him a look, "It'll be Kakashi-baka if you don't hurry it up!" He gave me a mock hurt look.

 

"Really, Yama-baka?" My glare intensified. Kakashi shook his head.

 

I heard Iruka cluck his tongue, muttering, "Really, Yama..." I could tell that he was not impressed with my childish behavior. Heck, I couldn't believe that I was acting like this. And in front of the Hokage too! I guess some people just bring out the worse in me. Ahem. Pointed look at Kakashi.

 

He raised an eyebrow in reply. What?

 

The Hokage cleared his throat. "Ahem. Now, Uchiha Itachi; I believe you need to explain what had just occurred just a few moments ago in the curre—" I frowned slightly.

 

"You need to wrap that wound." the Hokage raised a hand to stop an Anbu who was ready to leap on the Uchiha. The Hokage had very loyal ninja's behind him. Even though I have to admit... Itachi was being kind of rude.

 

"Tachi-kun..." I muttered. Surprisingly the entire room heard my mutter. Whispers began to rise in the background.

 

Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Tachi-kun?"

 

Itachi glared at me. I could feel the room temperature drop a few degrees; "You do not have my permission to call me that." he scowled. I gave him a smirk in reply. "And what are you going to do about it? Kill me?" I snorted. At my words, three quarters of the occupants in the room tensed. Okay, everyone except for Itachi and I had tensed.

 

I didn't have any fear of him anymore. I mean, after what he had told me that one night... I trusted him enough. And after hearing the truth behind the Uchiha clan's annihilation… I don't think I had the emotion in me to hate the guy for killing the clan off anymore. Besides, the guy's ego needed a bit of deflating. This is what happens when you don't have any siblings around to make you feel stupid.

 

Like Sasuke for example. Hey, that is a good example! Just like Itachi, he had been isolated for a while, and his ego was as big as ever. Was. I suppose Naruto had deflated that ego a bit already...

 

We both glared at each other.

 

The room went completely silent. The whispers stopped. I suppose half of them expected Itachi to kill me right there, right then. I even saw a few of the Anbu members take a few steps closer to me.

 

Imagine their surprise when he did nothing but let out a sharp hiss of air and pointed glared out the window. "Get that wound wrapped," he muttered, crossing his arms.

 

Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "In here?" I gave him a horrified look. Getting this wound wrapped meant taking my shirt off. And I was not about to do that in front of a roomful of people. Most of them were guys, too! What was he, crazy?

 

The Copy-nin abruptly stood. "Come Yama,"

 

Itachi stood up straight, "She's not going anywhere without me.”

 

Kakashi glared at him, "She's not going anywhere with you."

 

Silence.

 

Sparks were flying between the two. The occupants of the room had backed up from the duo, obviously not wanting to be caught in the crossfire. I stayed seated, fighting the urge to bop their heads together. Couldn't they just cool it for a bit? But I suppose Kakashi didn't appreciate the last time Itachi knocked him out.

 

"She's not going anywhere with you, for that matter." Itachi replied emotionlessly. It was amazing how fast he could mask all of his emotions. Kakashi gave Itachi a scowl.

 

"She's not going anywhere without me."

 

I buried my head in my hand. This was going to take forever.

 

That's when I brightened. I swear, a light bulb lit up over my head. Abruptly, I lifted my shirt, leaving my bra still covered. However, this technique revealed my stomach and a part of my belly. Well, at least the wound could be wrapped now.

 

The duo and everyone in the room's gazes' had shifted towards the small movement I had made.

 

Itachi stared.

 

Iruka stared.

 

The Hokage politely averted his eyes.

 

The Anbu... heck, I couldn't tell what they were doing!

 

Genma stared.

 

Kakashi stared... and something tells me that his eyes glittered. And... Was he drooling?

 

I glared at him. "Well?"

 

"What are you doing?" Kakashi had finally found his voice. I sweat dropped.

 

"Waiting for you to wrap it," I retorted, "I can't leave the room with or without either of you, according to you two. And leaving alone with someone else is downright impossible... So this was the last plan that I had..."

 

Kakashi shrugged and gave me a small wink. "It's a fine plan to me."

 

I flushed, turning bright red. "Just… Kami-! Wrap it already!" He did, and did it ever so slowly. My eyes narrowed, "You realize that I've giving the whole room a pretty good view, right?" At that, I found myself wrapped around the waist in a flash, my shirt down.

 

Kakashi flashed me another wink. "Then I'll just have to wait until we're alone," My face flamed.

 

"That's not going to happen, buddy." Kakashi let out a laugh and merely ruffled my hair.

 

"Ahem" The Hokage cleared his throat loudly. "On with it, please?" Everyone's attention landed on the older man, who gave Itachi an expectant look. Itachi in return stared at him blankly. I sighed and glared at my brother, whose eyes rolled in my direction.

 

He sighed. "The two Akatsuki members, Deidara and Sasori, were present in Konoha today. I felt their chakra signatures, because that was what I was trained to do— and so are the rest of the Akatsuki members— and came immediately."

 

One of the Anbu stepped forwards. "No tricks, Uchiha,"

 

Itachi glared at him, "Whether you believe it or not if none of my business. I no longer have any ties with Akatsuki."

 

There was a moment of surprise within the room.

 

"... I quit a while ago."

 

The Hokage's eyebrows rose, "Wouldn't that only endanger you? From our research, the Akatsuki group does not take betrayers lightly." Itachi snorted.

 

"If they can kill me, they are welcome to."

 

The Hokage nodded slowly, "Then why are you in Konoha?"

 

Itachi's gaze hardened, "I do not have to explain myself,"

 

"Itachi..." I glowered at him, "Don't make this any harder than it already is." Silence. I rose to my feet, giving him a look. He leaned against the wall again.

 

"I'm here to protect someone."

 

Sandaime's eyebrows rose slightly but he did not comment, "Then you do not have any ill intention on my village?" Itachi snorted, "No, I do not."

 

At that, the Hokage nodded to the rest of the Jounin and Anbu members. One of them protested, "But Hokage-sama! What if-" The Hokage gave him a stern look, "I trust his word. And if he tries anything... we do have Anbu guards around this building, do we not?"

 

With a hesitant nod, the Anbu let out a shrill whistle and all members disappeared. I saw Asuma sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time..." Kurenai gave him an amused look, "Better than playing Shogi with Shikamaru - you were losing anyway,"

 

Asuma protested, "Hey! I was close this time!"

 

Genma laughed, "Whatever." With another nod at the Hokage, the Jounins' left.

 

Iruka gave me a small look of encourangement before the door clicked shut behind him.

 

The Hokage immediately turned to us. "Now, how about we settle this more accurately?"

 

Kakashi stood up, "Hokage-sama, it turns out Yama and Iruka-san were attacked by two Akatsuki members—Deidara and Sasori. They did not intend to kill, but rather capture Yama.” He frowned. “And they were either very confident in their abilities or were very interested in her.”

 

"Thank you, Kakashi. Mmm. It was unfortunate that I had decided to pull the Anbu that were following you away for the time being. I had suspected that the Akatsuki had perhaps pulled away momentarily last week... but obviously not. It seems we will have to double our scouting around the border of our village. Yama-san, I do not know how well I can guarantee your safety. The council members downright refused to provide extra security for you."

 

I rolled my eyes. Figures.

 

Itachi gave me an amused look. "The Akatsuki also want you because you were injured by the Fusing Shuriken that we were experimenting on," My eyebrows rose. I had forgotten about that. I tensed slightly. How did they know about it? There wasn't anything. I raised my right palm slowly. I froze. When had that line appeared?

 

The rest of the room had noticed it as well. “Yama.” The Hokage asked seriously. “What is that line?” I stared back at him, wide-eyed.

 

Itachi approached and touched it lightly. “Since she was near headquarters, the tablet affected her as well.”

 

Kakashi's eye narrowed. “Explain.” Itachi gave him a bored look but answered nonetheless. “When the Leader first started to extract jinchuuriki's from their hosts, he wanted a more secure way of combining our power in order to do that. He found a way, through experiments of fusing different people's chakras. He came up with this method.”

 

“Why a shuriken?” I wondered aloud, fingering the small black mark on my hand.

 

“Because when we discovered the method it just so happened that we had no anchoring substance, so it had to be what just so happened to be in Leader's pocket—a shuriken.” Itachi said dryly. I stifled a laugh. Terrifying leader or not, the guy didn't know how to plan ahead.

 

“So… this tablet?” Sarutobi asked carefully.

 

“It was made as a center for the process. Since those people we experimented on tend to run off-”

 

I felt myself shudder. I hated how Itachi said `we.' I know he was there and he helped with it, but even if I know that he isn't a bad person it still didn't make it right.

 

“—the Leader decided that we needed a concrete way of detecting and finding those who escaped. It just so happens that the hallway Yama wondered by had the tablet in one of those rooms. The tablet glows in response to close contact with someone who has been affected by the fusing shuriken, therefore the Leader knew that Yama had to be the one; no one else new had been in the headquarters. And since the previous people we experimented on tended to… expire—” Died. “—the Leader was fascinated to find that Yama was still alive and well.”

 

Twitch. Great. Turns out that not only am I the last surviving female Uchiha, I'm also a surviving test subject for some stupid project Akatsuki was working on. Just wonderful.

 

"If you still have it," Itachi spoke softly, "There is a way to break—"

 

That's when there was the sound of pounding feet, people shouting and the door burst open. An orange blur zoomed into the room. "Yama-chan! Kakashi-sensei! I heard that you were - !"

 

Naruto froze. He stared up at Itachi, who stared down at him in turn.

 

I swallowed. "Naruto? Where's Sasuke - ?" Bad... bad Naruto! I hope Sasuke's somewhere else...

 

Naruto's pale face turned to me. "He's right be-"

 

Sasuke appeared in the open doorway. Various emotions passed through his eyes. First recognition, then shock and lastly... anger, "Itachi..." Sasuke spat. His Sharingan flashed on. I saw his right hand grip his left wrist. I paled. No way... he... how... he...

 

A chirping noise filled the room.

 

"I'll kill you!"

 

To be continued…

 

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