Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Haruno Kayume ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi. Enough said. =]

 

Haruno Kayume

By: Hatake Kayume

 

Chapter Four

 

 

 

 

For the remaining nine days of training with Kayume, the trio had improved. Their speed had increased, perhaps even more so than what she had initially planned. With Naruto and Sasuke always competing and Sakura's general dislike for Naruto's annoying behaviour, the three worked hard to take the other down. Even if it was mostly Sakura chasing Naruto for provoking Sasuke, but all in all their petty squabbling pushed them to newer heights.

 

Kayume had something to prove; she was the better sensei when compared to Kakashi. Heck, she was probably better than him in everyway.

 

Yeah right Kayume; you fell for his charm so don't get ahead of yourself. Her conscience pointed out.

 

The teenaged sensei not only managed to up their level of movement, she also taught them a new jutsu.

 

Tori, hebi, uma, tora. All three genin performed the seals at the same time.

 

“Returning blade jutsu!” The trio yelled at the same time as a bright beam of chakra shot out of their closed fists and bent on an angle.

 

They all threw this chakra boomerang across the field at the same instant to see which would cut down the trees directing across from them first.

 

Naruto's reached the other end first, but because of his bad aim it missed the white target line drawn on the tree and flew passed the tree instead. It would comeback in a little bit.

 

Both Sakura's and Sasuke's hit their targets dead on; Sakura's chakra boomerang was a little slower moving but much more precise.

 

Kayume had yet to reveal to the genins why she restricted Sasuke's and Naruto special abilities. It was obvious in some ways. She wanted to train them to be able to feel the movement of chakra, but with Sasuke's ability to see it made it more difficult. Limiting Naruto's supply of chakra only made him work harder to increase his own reserve, thus in the end his overall storage would be greater.

 

Sakura was a special case altogether. All she had was her chakra control and genjutsu. Because her control was so accurate and her chakra limited, her genjutsu casting became mentally and physically damaging. Her older sister had taught her how to cast a genjutsu that caused the victim to believe he had been pelted with senbon needles. Whilst in the illusory state, Sakura would use chakra needles to immobilize her opponent [1]. Her extensive knowledge of key pressure points in the human body proved useful during this training. She was now a genin to be reckoned with.

 

“Come over here you guys!” Kayume called out to her pupils. Naruto was blaming his miss on Sasuke being a distraction.

 

“Today is the last day you're with me until the next two weeks with Kakashi-san are up,” the pink haired sensei grinned. “For today's last training session, I'll make it a three on one sparring match between you three and myself. Lets see how well you perform as a team with improved abilities.”

 

Kayume dug her hand into her pocket and pulled out two very familiar and very troublesome bells. Her grin grew wider. “By the looks on your faces I'm guessing you remember these right? Your perverted sensei let me borrow them. So lets get started shall we?”

 

The three began to move backwards. Naruto knew better than to go head first into this. “Oh, and one more thing, if you three manage to get both bells from me I'll treat you all to lunch. Hmm… I'll make this even easier on you guys, I'll blindfold myself.” With one hand she pulled her hitai-ate from her forehead down to her eyes. She clipped the bells to her waist.

 

“You've got one hour and the limitations are removed. Ready? Go!”

 

The genins all leapt away in different directions.

 

Hmm… So Kakashi-san, you're here to eh? “Why don't you join them?” She whispered, only he would be able to hear her.

 

“You couldn't handle it,” the silver haired jounin said as he appeared two feet behind her.

 

“Try me ero-sensei,” she replied with a smirk. “Oh, and this is a team effort, why don't you go converse with your team mates?”

 

Kayume could feel the grin Kakashi was wearing before he disappeared.

 

You should know one thing Kakashi-san, his blood runs through my veins too. Don't underestimate me, I've got lots of tricks up my sleeve, and you'll never know them all.

 

She stood there for a minute, waiting for them to do something. It was getting boring.

 

Far away, out of Kayume's hearing range…

 

A pink ball hit Naruto on the side of his head.

 

“Kakashi-san's joining you guys.”

 

Suddenly, the jounin appeared in a poof of grey smoke behind the strategizing trio.

 

“Yo, I'm here to help.”

 

Naruto showed them the ball.

 

That cocky hmm Nee-san? Inner Sakura shouted angrily.

 

“Alright, if I know Nee-san, she's probably bored right now, and her defences would be down,” the younger Haruno said quietly rather irked by her sister's ability to take Team 7 and the copy nin so lightly.

 

As the four man team decided on a plan, Kayume was bored, so she laid down and relaxed on the soft grass.

 

Kakashi and Sasuke were perched on the tree branches on the west and east side of Kayume, she was lying directly in the middle. Naruto and Sakura were on the ground in the north and south of her.

 

Kayume smirked and directed the flow of chakra to her eyes. Little did the four know, her eyes were very much like those of the Uchiha clan; she had a hybrid type of the Sharingan.

 

Flashback

 

“Mmm… Itachi-kun… you made a mistake giving me your blood. You can't possibly expect me to kill Sayuri-chan can you? The Mangekyou… is that what you and Orochimaru were interested in this entire time? Did you use me, my love for you to infuse the cursed Uchiha blood into mine?”

 

The murderous Uchiha said nothing and only stared back at the kunoichi. The Akatsuki members around only looked on at the silently seething girl.

 

“Did you honestly think, did you believe that you could get away with this?” the pink haired girl demanded and lifted a fresh female corpse by the hair. “Whoever Orochimaru revived was not Sayuri-chan. He didn't do a very good job finding a personality that was hers. Yeah she knew the history, what happened and all, but this is not Sayuri.” She threw the body at Itachi's feet.

 

“Ah… So Kayume-chan… You figured it out? Ah well… I guess the normal Sharingan will have to do, I'll find a way to attain the Mangekyou once I have them,” the snake sennin said as he walked into the lighted area.

 

“Orochimaru…” she seethed, “…and you Itachi-kun…”

 

Kayume's glare softened and her gaze was cast downwards. Her bangs hid her face and the tears that slid down her cheeks. “How could you Itachi-kun? All these years… My absolute devotion, I told no one of your intentions, I followed you when you left, I even killed Uchiha-baa-san… And now… it comes to this?” Her voice had been barely above a whisper, but everyone present heard her confession.

 

“So she was the one that killed your childhood nanny?” A loudmouth Akatsuki member asked with a smirk. “C'mon Kayume-chan, be reasonable, it's not like Orochimaru-san's going to take your eyes and not—” A chakra charged kunai whizzed by Itachi's head and into the Akatsuki's mouth and directly through to the other side. It made a nice ping as it hit a metal object behind; the loudmouth fell to the ground, blood flowing out the front and back of his head.

 

“Leave everyone, Itachi-san and I will talk to Kayume-chan,” Orochimaru said and waved his hand at the others.

 

Once everyone was gone Orochimaru approached the pink haired kunoichi.

 

“You should leave as well, if you want to live that is, you piece of shit.” No one in their right mind would've ever dared to speak the evil sennin that way, but Kayume at the moment was on the verge of killing every member of Akatsuki and the possibly herself afterwards.

 

“What insolence!” Orochimaru exclaimed and raised a hand to slap her.

 

She was already gone and was now standing less than a foot away from her lover.

 

“What the…” the serpent user muttered and turned around and stared the couple.

 

“How could you Itachi-kun? I thought… that all we've been through… all those times… I thought you… loved me?” she whispered quietly.

 

This was probably the one and only time Itachi had looked something other than stoic.

 

It was a look of…

 

Pity.

 

Those crimson eyes revealed his utmost feeling of pity for the girl that devoted herself to him.

 

After a long while of staring into each other's eyes the monster that was Itachi spoke, “Kayume, you were and are a fool to have thought that I would have loved someone so weak.”

 

Kayume's heart shattered at his words, but he wasn't done with the emotional assault just yet.

 

“I despise those that are weak, those who let emotions rule their lives. Do you now understand why the Uchiha clan had to die? They were becoming weaker every generation; the blood was becoming tainted with…love.”

 

“You will never love me then Uchiha-san…” Kayume said, her voice clear and steady, but her gaze was elsewhere.

 

“Never.”

 

Something snapped that day inside her. It was either the infusion of the cursed substance or his confession of his inability to EVER love her. Kayume took a few steps back and stared into his eyes. Her vision blurred, her body felt like lead and then fell to her knees, hands balled into fists. Her entire body was trembling at this point; with her head bowed, pink locks hiding her tear stained face, it happened.

 

A realization. You won't ever love me because I'm weak…

 

Kayume stopped shaking, blood had already been slowly seeping out from her fists. She gradually stood, her eyes still locked onto the ground. She was beyond the sadness, no longer was she going to be “weak.”

 

Suddenly she stood mere inches away from Itachi. Kayume looked up and directly into the Mangekyou Sharingan. Her own emerald orbs deepened into a black before the blood coloured irises emerged from the darkness. Itachi could feel her abnormally high chakra level and thus proceeded to cast his deadly genjutsu on her.

 

It's all over Kayume-chan… Was the last thought the Uchiha had before he was bombarded with kunai and shuriken. He blinked and he was still standing before the enraged kunoichi. She had turned his own jutsu on him!

 

But this pain… What is this pain I'm feeling? He thought silently to himself before looking down to see a kunai embedded into his chest. She was holding onto it.

 

“Excellent Kayume-chan…” Orochimaru smirked a few metres away.

 

With one glance the snake sennin was also trapped in the same genjutsu Itachi had tried on Kayume earlier. He collapsed a moment later.

 

Her attention was once again on her former lover. His eyes widened only slightly, mostly in shock that she was able to counter his jutsu and also wound him. He stepped back, she held onto the kunai. It slipped out of his chest, blood dripping onto the ground.

 

“Itachi-kun, do you still think I'm weak?” She asked in an odd tone before looking into eyes once again.

 

He didn't answer but decided that only one of them had to die. And hell, it wasn't going to be him.

 

“I underestimated you Kayume… But that doesn't mean you're going to get out of here alive,” his clear statement predicting her death was followed by a set of rapid seals. This was then followed by a massive fireball that destroyed everything in its path, the kunoichi included if she hadn't already been standing behind Itachi when he released the jutsu.

 

“I believe that applies to you as well Itachi-kun…” Kayume said and plunged a kunai into each of his arms at the point where the nervous system controlled movement, thus disabling his use of ninjutsu. She leapt back and he turned around to face her.

 

The air was heavy with the scent of blood, his blood. It was tearing her in two just seeing him like this, but she had no choice.

 

“You love me, yet you're willing to kill me…” Itachi snorted.

 

Kayume smirked, “Ironic isn't it?”

 

Itachi ran headlong towards Kayume; he would kill her with pure chakra alone.

 

Her eyes caught sight of his plan before he was even within a metre of her. She reached out her hand and let it sink into the hole in his chest. He stopped dead in his tracks; his breathing was laboured and slowly his gaze shifted to the hand inside his body.

 

Kayume's fingers were wrapped around something. She knew what it was; he felt the searing heat of her fingers on his—

 

Heart.

 

The bleeding man fell to his knees, Kayume followed suit supporting his weight with her own body. Her hand was still inside his chest, still holding onto what he so carelessly ripped from her. He was slumped over onto her and she wrapped her free arm around his waist, his head rested on her shoulder.

 

Itachi chuckled. Through the gurgle of blood in his throat Kayume heard him laugh. She couldn't help but laugh herself too. The soft laughter died down, he was slipping fast.

 

“Itachi-kun…I guess you'll love me when you're dead, huh?” Kayume said softly into the crook of neck and smiled sadly.

 

The dying Uchiha smiled although Kayume couldn't see it she knew this was it. Her grip on his heart had been tightening the whole time. With one more squeeze he would die instantly.

 

“I'll never love you… Kayume-chan…” he muttered as his heart was crushed by Kayume's small hand.

 

“And I, will always love you Uchiha-san…”

 

His eyes slid shut. The legendary Mangekyou Sharingan of Uchiha Itachi no longer existed in this world. Kayume laid his body down and withdrew her fist. She opened her hand to see the destroyed organ. Forcing the raging chakra to her hand, she decimated his heart.

 

Her bloodied hand moved to cup his expressionless face.

 

“Even in death, you're beautiful…”

 

Tears fell on his pale cheeks, slowly something changed. The third teardrop in her eye emerged; the Mangekyou had surfaced in her crimson orbs. She didn't have time to ponder about this. Then she realized something. If I leave him here like this, there's no doubt Orochimaru will take his eyes. Glancing over at the despicable sennin and then letting her eyes settle on her dead lover's face, she filled her hands with chakra.

 

Those lives… for these eyes… Kayume reminisced about the clan's slaughter.

 

There was no more time to waste; Orochimaru had begun to awaken. She pressed her glowing hands to Itachi's eyes and proceeded to obliterate the spheres.

 

With one last glance at her love, she kissed the bloodied lips and the last tear fell on his eyelid and slipped into the former Mangekyou container.

 

Kayume fled.

 

End Flashback

 

 

 

 

End of Chapter Four

 

[1] Chinese acupuncture uses needles strategically positioned to relieve pain and illness.

Apologies to Itachi lovers!! X_X Please don't hurt me… *hides in corner*

Am I sadistic or what? xD My friends are probably all nodding their heads. Oh well… What's really disturbing be about this ending is that I feel completely unmoved by it… o_O …Wow… I AM sadistic… Muahahahhahahaha xD

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