Chapter 18 edited
Lucy was currently sitting in front of Inoichi telling him of how she first met Axal and how he became her teacher, "I had been separated from the people that had been taking care of me, I ended up alone in the forest. I heard some people nearby talking about a town nearby so I started walking in that direction. I stayed the night in the forest and ended up in the town by late afternoon the next day and tried to get a job in the town. I had no idea where anyone I knew was or where I had ended up, I had no money or a place to go and no one wanted to hire me. This was just over two years ago, so I was six at the time. Someone pointed me in the direction of the blacksmiths, said that they were looking for an apprentice. That's where I met Axal, he owned the place," Lucy paused at this trying to remember what exactly happened and Inoichi was patient, waiting for her to continue on.
Lucy continued to explain everything about her time with Axal until she got to how she got captured, "About ten months after I became his apprentice I had finally finished my sensory training and went into the forest to do a powerful technique, this technique took all of energy to do and completely drained me, it was also very destructive so I went where no one could be hurt. Once I finished it though, I was ready to pass out when someone came out from behind the trees," Lucy shuddered at the next thought,
"It was him wasn't it, Orochimaru?" Inoichi cut in gently, seeing as how she was struggling to come to terms with what happened, Lucy nodded and continued,
"He tried to capture me and obviously he succeeded but before he could Axal came, they fought and long story short I saw Axal die by a sword to the stomach, or I thought I did at least," Inoichi looked confused,
"You saw him die? But wasn't he involved in your mission?" Lucy nodded her head solemnly,
"When he offered to train me it was because Orochimaru told him to, Axal was getting me ready to give me to Orochimaru but when he saw that I wouldn't hurt anyone unnecessarily they planned for him to 'capture' me," Lucy clenched her hands at this, "anyway, once he did I spent eleven or so months in his stupid cave while he did experiments on me and threw me into 'the pit,' as we liked to call it,"
Inoichi placed his pen down where he was taking notes to compare to later on as he saw this getting more serious and harder for Lucy to talk about, "would you like to take a short half hour break? You could get something to eat and some fresh air if you like," Lucy nodded her head wanting to get out of the room as it suddenly felt tighter and got harder to breathe.
Lucy jumped slightly when she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Kakashi staring down at her in concern, "Let's go get something to eat," Kakashi suggested and lead her out of the room. Lucy kept her head down as they walked through the village, Lucy was lost in thought and Kakashi left her alone. Knowing that the next part of her past wasn't going to be as easy to explain.
Lucy sat pushing the ramen around in her bowl not feeling hungry, "Hey Lucy, you going to eat that?" Lucy heard Naruto ask from beside her as he pulls up a stool beside her, Lucy shook her head no and passed it to him knowing that he would eat it.
"You okay Lucy?" Naruto asked with a mouth full of food, Lucy smiled at him with closed eyes,
"Of course, I was just thinking," Lucy turned around to look at the clock that was hanging up in the corner of the stall, "I should get back, I'll catch up with you tomorrow, okay Naruto" Lucy waved behind her as she walked out of the little stall.
"O-okay," Naruto whispered and looked down at the bowl of ramen sitting in front of him,
"Oi Naruto," he heard from behind him and saw Iruka standing behind him,
"Iruka-sensei,"
"What's wrong?" Naruto looked down at that,
"You know my friend? That girl I told you about?" Iruka nodded signaling Naruto to continue, "she looked upset and I don't know how to make her feel better,"
"Maybe she's just having a rough time Naruto, why don't you give it a few days and then see how she is?"
"You don't understand Iruka-sensei, someone like Lucy should always be smiling," Naruto stated firmly and Iruka softened his gaze and let out a small chuckle,
"Why don't you get her something then, girls like gifts," Iruka suggested, Naruto started smiling and quickly finished his ramen before running out of the store,
"Thanks, Iruka-sensei," he shouted and Iruka chuckled behind him but stopped once Teuchi came up and handed him a bill, Iruka got a tick mark on his face and grumbled before handing Teuchi the right amount of money.
Meanwhile, Lucy was walking with Kakashi back to the interrogation room, she didn't know where he went off to earlier when she was conversing with Naruto but he seemed to be in a better mood. Like he was hovering less than he did, which is something that Kakashi has started to do lately. Lucy didn't mind because he never put his nose in her business and just asked her like a normal person if he was curious about something. Once they were outside of the interrogation room Lucy took a deep breath before walking back inside and seeing Inoichi there sitting in the spot that she left him in and sat down across from him with a calm look on her face.
"Okay Lucy, when you're ready," Inoichi said, Lucy nodded and took a deep breath,
"I remember waking up in a cell," she started,
Flashback starts in Lucy's POV
I groaned as I opened my eyes and looked around, I have a massive headache and my vision was hazy. I shot up into a sitting position remembering what happened to Axal-Sensei and felt tears start to form in my eyes. I wasn't strong enough to save him, all of that training and hard work feels like such a waste now. I turned my head as a heard a large creak come from the side and saw a huge metal door open and someone came through. I couldn't tell the gender but they had long black hair and the palest skin that I have ever seen. I froze suddenly remembering that this was the one that killed Axal-Sensei and made me watch. I pushed myself into the corner only to hear the person chuckle,
"So you appear to remember me, that's good, it means I don't have to threaten you," I heard him hiss to me, I glared in his direction but that only seemed to amuse him, "You should rest now, you're going to need it for what happens next,"
Flashback end back to 3rd person
"After that, I was either being punished, experimented on or in the pit," Lucy said and tried to keep her voice steady,
"The Pit?" Inoichi asked and tried to keep the pity out of his voice but failed. Lucy sighed as she heard the emotion in his voice but ignored it and tried to explain,
"It's like a fighting arena, for testing new experiments and 'improvements' that are made not to mention Orochimaru's amusement," Lucy snarled when she said his name had to take a deep breath to calm down, my first time in the pit is where I made my first kill, it was about two weeks after I had first gotten there,"
Flashback start in Lucy POV
I looked around and noticed that I was in an enclosed room, I tried to move but realised that my arms and legs were chained to the floor and walls. The line door on the other side opened and a cloaked figure made their way to me, they blindfolded me before they unlocked my chains and tied my hands together and started shoving me outside of the room. At first I didn't know where I was going but then I heard murmurs from the people in their cells and knew that I was going to the pit, I heard rumours from the others, eventually, after you get experimented on enough Orochimaru sends you into the pit.
I was thrown to the floor and got a mouthful of dirt before my blindfold had been taken off. I looked around and realised that there was another person on the other side of the arena, a big burly man with multiple scars and was wielding an axe. The person that dragged me here untied my hands and slammed the door that he threw me through behind him,
"This will be a battle to the death," I heard from above her and looked up to see Orochimaru standing on the outside of the arena, I looked back at the person across from me and saw that he looked smug, "this is my favourite, he has never lost," Orochimaru said and I realised that I had to fight to the death. The man across from me started running towards me and I dodged the axe that nearly hit my head. I continued to dodge and avoid being hit until I felt myself being shocked by something placed on my back, "If you don't fight you will die," Orochimaru shouted from above them,
"I won't kill him," I yelled back, the man still looked smug and you could tell that he didn't feel bad for anything that was happening,
"Why try and protect this man? He didn't hesitate in trying to kill you,"
"I won't kill simply for the sake of it," I yelled back and dodged yet another series of attacks,
"What about for your life," the man I was facing grumbled as he aimed for my head once again, I stopped the man's axe from hitting my head and pushed chakra into my free hand. I punched the man on top of me in the stomach and released the chakra on contact and I suddenly felt him stop, I felt liquid running down my arm.
I pulled my arm back and looked at it to find blood costing my hand and I panicked. I looked at the man that had dropped to the ground beside me and saw he wasn't moving, "well done," I heard Orochimaru whisper to me.
Flashback end 3rd person
Lucy chuckled dryly, "he congratulated me, on killing his favourite competitor," Lucy shook her head like she still couldn't believe it. "Most of the time only one person ever made it out of the pit,"
"Most of the time?" Inoichi asked her, Lucy closed her eyes and nodded,
"Sometimes he would send someone inexperienced against me and I would quickly knock them out before anything could be said, I would get sent into punishment for that. Each person I didn't kill was a couple hours of punishment longer than the last," Lucy stated dryly, "eventually he realised that torturing me wasn't getting him anywhere persuasion wise so he started looking for other means of making me more obedient,"
Inoichi swallowed a lump in his throat and took a deep breath while Lucy was trying to stay calm and get this over with, "I'm afraid I have to ask how he tortured you,"
"No you don't but I know you're just doing as you're told," Lucy stated bluntly, almost accusingly before continuing anyway, "at first it was physical torture, using whips and welding irons and stuff, most of the damage was healed so there aren't many scars. After a while he tried using mental torture, that's how I found out that genjutsu doesn't work on me. So instead of creating a mental image in my head he decided to actually make those images a reality," Lucy swallowed and choked back tears, "he started experimenting and torturing others in front of me," Lucy whispered and looked down. From behind the two-way glass, Kakashi's eyes were wide at what Lucy was telling them and the Hokage had closed his eyes in regret. Ibiki was standing there stiff as always and he doesn't appear to have changed his opinion in any way on Lucy.
Inoichi looked at Lucy and felt his heart go out to the poor girl, you could tell that watching others get hurt in her place was what she has taken the hardest. Lucy really does have a kind soul, "this is the way it stayed for the remainder of your time there?" He asked quietly and once Lucy nodded her head he moved onto other questions, he was already going to make her relive it after so he wouldn't pry too much about it now.
"So you've told us about Axal and Orochimaru now what about before all of this? You said that you got split up from the people that were taking care of you? What about your parents?"
"My parents are dead," Lucy stated bluntly and took a deep breath before she continued, "my mother died a while ago and my father and I were at odds before he grew ill,"
"What do you mean at odds?"
"After my mother died he started to neglect me, he was a businessman of sorts so he threw himself into his work. Once I overheard him making arrangements to have me married off as soon as he was able to, I ran away from home that night," Inoichi looked at the girl closely as she was talking,
'An arranged marriage at this age? No wonder she ran away but she's so young and would have been even younger then.' Inoichi thought to himself.
From behind the two-way glass, all three of the men had different thoughts running through their heads, 'I guess she has been taking care of herself for a while,' Kakashi thought.
'This child has definitely got the will of fire in her, her hope seems endless,' were the Hokage thoughts.
'So the brats been through a lot doesn't give her the right to disrespect Lord Hokage,' Ibiki thought stubbornly to himself. Inside the interrogation room, Inoichi was trying to find the right way to tell her that he was essentially going to go through her mind and see whether or not she was telling to truth.
"Do you have any more questions or are you just going to go through my mind?" Lucy asked suddenly when she saw Inoichi pause,
"I have asked all of the questions that I have needed to," Inoichi said looking slightly uncomfortable, never before has he been so unwillingly to look through someone's mind.
"May I ask how that works?"
"If it would make you more comfortable, as you might know, my clan specialises in mind jutsus. There are different types of mind jutsu's such as mind transfer jutsu, this would allow me to take over a person's body, there is the mind destruction jutsu which is a very dangerous technique that would allow me to kill somebody and then there is the mind reading jutsu which is pretty self-explanatory but I'll go into more detail if you want. When I use the mind reading jutsu on you it will be really similar to the mind transfer jutsu, your body will go limp while I search your mind. Unfortunately, it'll be like you're reliving everything but it'll also feel like it's a dream or maybe it'll be more accurate to call it a nightmare," Inoichi took a deep breath and looked towards Lucy's face to see that she looked slightly panicked, "Ah don't worry I'll make sure to take breaks when your mind seems to be in distress or unstable and I'm not making this sound any better am I?" Inoichi tried to calm her but it just made her panic more, the door of the interrogation room opened and Kakashi made his way to Lucy. He picked her up and sat her down on his lap and tried to calm her down.
"Just hurry up and do the Jutsu before I make a run for it," Lucy stated firmly but held down onto Kakashi's arms tightly as she looked Inoichi in the eyes. Inoichi nodded and quickly did the required hand signs before form a circle with his hands and looking Lucy in the eyes through them, suddenly both Lucy and Inoichi went limp, Kakashi didn't let go of Lucy the entire time they were under.
In Lucy's head
Inoichi walked down a brightly lit hallway and stopped at the first door and opened it up, it was the memory of the mission that she took with Anko. After viewing that memory he made a mental note to talk to the Hokage about it after this and continued to walk down the hallway.
Coming across a door that was golden he opened it up to see an image of a beautiful blonde wearing an elegant gown with a bright smile on her face and Inoichi concluded that this must be Lucy's mother. "I wonder if Lucy will take after her mother when she grows up?" Inoichi mumbled to himself and watches as a three-year-old looking Lucy ran straight into her mother's legs and stared in wonder at a golden key that her mother had passed to her.
Walking away from the memory Inoichi came across a greyish door and decided to look inside, inside was a memory of Lucy crying in front of a grave and when Inoichi could get a good look at it he saw that it was her mother's, Layla Heartfilia, "What a strange last name," Inoichi mumbled before walking away from the memory.
This time Inoichi came across another grey door but this time it was a slightly lighter shade, walking through he saw that he was in a fairly large office. He saw a dark blonde man with a moustache working at the desk, hearing the double doors open he turned to find a version of Lucy that couldn't be much older than the previous memory, she was holding what looked to be a rice ball with a face on it.
"Daddy look, I made a rice ball with your face on it," little Lucy exclaimed excitedly, "I made it special for you Daddy, it's not good to work on an empty stomach," the man that was apparently Lucy's father just grunted and said dismissively,
"Come back later I'm busy," Lucy looked down,
"I'll just leave it here in case you get hungry," she said smiling once again while placing the rice ball onto his desk, "today's special you know because it's..." Lucy tried to continue but her father growled and started yelling,
"Lucy, don't you ever listen I don't want your silly rice ball, just go back to your business studies," he smacked the rice ball off of his desk and Lucy looked scared before turning around with a quick apology and walked slowly towards the door,
"umm, daddy?" Lucy turned back around slightly,
"Just go and stop being such a pest," Lucy ran out into the hallway crying,
"But today's my birthday," Inoichi faintly heard before he made his way out of the memory.
'Poor girl,' he thought to himself as he made his way to another door, this door had a symbol on it. It looked to be a winged creature with a tail, trying to open the door Inoichi found that he couldn't although he could faintly hear voices coming from the other side, "Natsu, Happy," Inoichi could hear but decided to move on since he couldn't open the door.
Then he came to a door with a snake symbol on it and tried to prepare himself for what he was about to see. Opening the door, he found that he was inside a cell and he watched the events of the next eleven months play out. When it came to the point where Orochimaru starts his mental torture Inoichi feels as though he's going to be sick.
Inoichi could only stare as Orochimaru brought in a small boy that couldn't be any older than Lucy and Lucy looked terrified at what was going to happen because she knew that the boy wouldn't be leaving alive. Inoichi heard the boys screams and Lucy beg for him to be let go, all Orochimaru did be laughed at the site of Lucy begging. Once Orochimaru was done with the boy he left him to bleed out on the cold floor and Lucy had to watch as he slowly died in front of her unable to do anything to relieve his pain.
End of Lucy's mind
Inoichi pulled himself out of Lucy's head and started to gulp down air, he was sweating from head to toe and was so pale. Lucy didn't look much better as she hid her face in Kakashi's Jonin vest, she was breathing deeply and had tears pouring out of her eyes. Inoichi himself looked as if he was about to cry.
"You should take her home Kakashi, I'll take care of the rest," Inoichi managed to get out of his mouth and at those words, Kakashi scooped Lucy up and settled her on his hip and carried her out. Lucy was clinging to his neck and had her face on his shoulder trying to calm her breathing. Kakashi was walking out of the interrogation room and didn't stop to look at the Hokage or Ibiki as he continued to walk to a place that he could teleport from. Once Kakashi had teleported into his sitting area he sat down with Lucy still attached to him. Kakashi was stroking Lucy's hair not knowing what to do or to say. He didn't see what Inoichi saw but Inoichi looked like he was about to break down,
"Do you want me to get you anything?" He murmured to her quietly and all Lucy did was shake her head and tighten her hold on him, "not even a strawberry smoothie? I know they're your favourite," he said teasingly but frowned when Lucy shook her head no once again.
"What about Pakkun? Do you want to see him?" Kakashi tried once again but all he got was another head shake, Kakashi was beginning to get frustrated, not knowing how to make her feel better and also not wanting to let his frustration show, "then what do you want? How can I make it better Lucy?" He tried to ask soothingly but it came out a little rough.
"Just stay," Lucy mumbled, she could hear the anger in his voice and hoped that he didn't get annoyed and leave her alone.
Kakashi froze slightly at her words, wasn't he terrible at this? Wouldn't she prefer something or someone else? "Stay, please," Lucy said again and if she could hold onto him tighter then she would of.
"O-okay," Kakashi finally relented and relaxed into the couch with Lucy on his lap.
Kakashi woke up to find himself on the couch covered with a blanket and tried to remember yesterday's events. He groaned slightly remembering how he fell asleep on the couch trying to comfort Lucy and looked around trying to see if she was still in the house. Concluding that he was in fact alone he was slightly worried about where she could be, getting up and walking into the kitchen he found a note on the table,
Kakashi,
I left early because I promised Naruto that I would meet up with him today, there's food in the fridge,
Thank you, Lucy.
Kakashi frowned slightly seeing as he's never had Lucy's cooking before, the whole time that they've been living together he's just done the cooking before Lucy could even get hungry. Kakashi didn't even know that she could cook, walking to towards the fridge he saw a plate stacked high with pancakes with bacon and eggs on the side. He was surprised that she didn't wake him up while she was cooking and that everything in the kitchen was already cleaned up.
Kakashi quickly finished the food and left to go to the memorial stone as he hadn't been there nearly as much now that Lucy had taken up some of his free time.
With Lucy
Lucy was sitting at the ramen stand waiting for Naruto to arrive, she didn't think that he forgot because they agreed to get ramen and he would never pass an opportunity to eat ramen. Lucy sighed as she remembered the events of yesterday and wondered how much Inoichi told Lord Hokage and Ibiki, she felt Inoichi try to see her memories with Fairytail and had struggled to keep it locked while he was in her mind. She almost let him through, she needed to train with her magic more.
'Lucy, I've been looking into why you passed out so suddenly after your mission. It wasn't because you used too much chakra too fast it was because you used too much magic power too fast. This world doesn't generate enough ethernano to replenish you when you use too much,' Crux told Lucy through his key,
'Is there a way for me to store extra ethernano somewhere so that this doesn't happen? Like with the seal I placed on Aquarius's mark but just dedicated to ethernano?' Lucy communicated back,
'I suppose you could but it would have to be a magical item, the seal that you used on Aquarius's mark didn't specify which type of energy you would be gathering. If you used a magical item, it would limit the amount of chakra that you could store inside of it because the item would be made out of ethernano particles. They would be embedded into the item,' Crux tried to explain,
'So basically what you're saying is that if I use something that has been made by ethernano particles than I could still use the seal that I placed on Aquarius's mark because it would dictate that I need that particular energy source?' Lucy asked Crux,
'Yes, Miss Lucy,'
'Then why didn't it work for Aquarius's mark? That was made by magic power,'
'Because you are not made by pure magic power, there are small particles of chakra within you that had grown over your time here. You need to use an item that is pure magic power,'
'Could I use a gate key?'
'I'm not entirely sure Miss Lucy, while the keys are made of magic power they also store beings from a different world. You might just be transferring magic from that world to this one,'
'Thanks for all of your help Crux, we'll have to talk more about this later. You and everyone deserve a break for all of your help,' Lucy replied and was snapped out of her conversation with Crux by a hand on her shoulder, turning around she saw a man with the Konoha forehead protector on his forehead with brown hair and a scar over his nose, extending to both of his cheeks.
"You're Lucy right?" Asked the scarred man,
"Yes, may I ask how you know that?"
"My student Naruto talks about you a lot," Lucy blushed slightly and looked away embarrassed,
"I'm afraid to ask what he's said," the man laughed slightly,
"Don't worry he only said about some pretty girl saving him from bullies," Lucy flushed bright red, recalling when he called her that the second time they met. Teuchi laughed as he overheard their conversation, "You're all he ever talks about nowadays," he continued,
"I'm sorry I didn't get your name," Lucy suddenly said trying to change the topic, the ninja teacher laughed,
"I'm Iruka, Naruto knows me as Iruka-sensei," he held his hand out for Lucy to shake, she looked at it for a moment before extending her hand to shake his.
"Lucy," Lucy heard someone call from behind her and turned to see that it was Naruto running towards her with a box in his hands, "sorry I'm late," he huffed put and put the box down in front of her.
"What's this for?"
"You looked sad yesterday so I wanted to cheer you up," Naruto said and Lucy looked up in surprise,
"This, is for me?" Lucy asked quietly and Naruto suddenly blushed,
"Y-yeah, um, I wanted to get you something special but everyone just threw me out of their stores so I made you something, t-that's why I was late, b-believe it," Naruto said and looked away from her, Lucy looked at the box with a soft look on her face,
"Can I open it?" She asked,
"S-Sure," Lucy slowly opened the box and looked inside to see what looked to be a wooden cylinder with three pieces of glass placed inside the wood by a carved opening. Lucy looked at Naruto confused,
"I made you a telescope, because you said you like stargazing," Naruto mumbled, Lucy's eyes widened in surprise and looked down at the telescope and brought it up to her eye. Looking through she gasped as she looked at Naruto, "What? What is it?" Naruto asked worried,
"Your head is huge," Lucy stated bluntly and laughed as Naruto sweatdropped, Naruto looked away embarrassed again,
"D-do you like it?" He asked cautiously, Lucy put the telescope down and looked at Naruto she leaned forward and pressed her lips to his cheek,
"I love it, Naruto," Lucy said as she pulled away and turned back to look at her telescope. Naruto's eyes were wide and his face was all red, behind the both of the them Iruka and Teuchi were watching the whole thing and they were laughing at the sight of Naruto embarrassed.
"A-are we going to eat or what?" Naruto announced before he ordered and Lucy laughed beside him and ordered as well,
"I actually can't stay long I have something to do today," Lucy said as they were eating,
"You always seem so busy Lucy, what are you going to do this time?" Naruto said with a mouthful of food,
"I'm going to the library to look up some books on medical ninjutsu," at Lucy's words both Naruto and Iruka stopped to look at her, "What is it?" Lucy looked at them confused,
"Why the sudden interest?" Iruka asked,
"Just thought it would be useful," Lucy mumbled put and took another bite of her ramen,
"If you're really serious about it I'm sure that one of the nurses in the hospital would be happy to help you," Iruka suggested,
"I'll keep that in mind," Lucy said as she finished her bowel, "I'll catch you later okay Naruto," Lucy asked as she got up from the bench with her telescope in her hands and started running in the direction of Kakashi's house to put the telescope away. Once Lucy got to Kakashi's she put the telescope away and was about to leave the house again when she opened the door only to slam it into something. Looking up Lucy saw that it was Kakashi, the door was in his face and his arm was extended as if to grab the handle, "Kakashi, I'm so sorry," Lucy apologised as she moved the door away from his face and saw that it now had a red, vertical line on it, at least on the few parts of his face that weren't covered up.
"It's okay, I just didn't expect you to be home," Kakashi said as he rubbed his face,
"I had to put something away, I was just about to leave for the library so I'll see you later," Lucy tried to leave,
"What's the rush? What are you researching anyway?" Kakashi asked boredly, in truth he was just checking her over to see how she was doing,
"Just something that interests me," Lucy replied,
"Like what? You know Lucy, I've been around for a while I could help you know,"
"I really don't think that this area is your expertise so, I'll just be on my way," Lucy tried once again to leave but Kakashi was now suspicious of what she was doing,
"Now wait for just a minute young lady," Kakashi said and mentally sweatdropped at his choice of words, as did Lucy, "What are you researching and why are you hiding it?" Kakashi continued,
"It's just an interest of mine, nothing to worry about," Lucy tried again,
"Lucy," Kakashi stressed once again trying to get an answer,
"I was just going to get a book on, medical ninjutsu," Lucy mumbled the last part of her sentence,
"Why the sudden interest?" Kakashi asked, worried about her overworking herself,
"Just thought that it would be useful," Lucy said and tried to avoid his gaze,
"This doesn't have anything to do with your mission does it?" Kakashi asked and Lucy stayed silent. Kakashi sighed and knelt down to her eye level, "You're not responsible for everything bad that happens to Lucy, you can't always save everyone,"
Lucy looked up at Kakashi at this, "I have to try though, right?" Lucy questioned him, she sighed and ran a hand through her hair, "I've got to try Kakashi, that mission was cutting it too close. Despite the fact that I got you to Gai, there are too many what ifs going through my head. If I need to learn medical ninjutsu to stop that then that's what I'll do," Lucy said and Kakashi sighed at her explanation,
"Alright, just promise me that you'll take it slow, medical ninjutsu is probably one of the hardest and most time consuming to learn," Kakashi stressed. Lucy has just relived her memories and Kakashi doesn't want her to overdo it. Lucy smiled up at him and nodded her head,
"Right, there's also something else that I wanted to look up in the library," Lucy looked thoughtful for a second, "something happened to my vision when I released the chakra that I sealed away," Kakashi frowned at that,
"What do you mean?"
"When I released my chakra I could suddenly see through people; I mean I could see their insides. I could see their muscles, blood vessels any injuries they had. I didn't think too much about it at the time because I was in a rush but that's not normal, right?" Lucy asked and looked up at him confused, Kakashi looked thoughtful and looked down at her,
"I'll look into it and see what I can find," Lucy nodded at his words and moved around him once again to leave for the library. Kakashi watched as she left and frowned in thought, 'seeing someone's insides? I've never heard of a kekkei Genkai like that before, the closest that comes to it is the byakugan but I've never heard it going into such great detail before.'
Lucy ran towards the library not looking where she was going and numbed into someone as she rounded the corner, "I'm so sorry," Lucy said and looked up at the person she ran into and saw that it was Anko, Lucy gasped quietly. This is the first time that she's seen her since the mission, Lucy put on a guarded expression and Anko looked hurt for a second before rearranging her features. Anko swallowed,
"Hello Lucy," she said quietly, almost hesitating,
"Hello," Lucy said before moving around her and continued on her way but stopped when she felt a hand on her shoulder,
"Wait, I want to talk to you," Anko said and Lucy turned around,
"I'm sorry Anko I'm busy at the moment, perhaps another time," Lucy said and quickly made her way towards the library before she bumps into anyone else. Lucy knew that she couldn't avoid Anko forever but she didn't want all of her memories with her to be a lie, she wanted to hold onto them for as long as she could because she's scared to find out the answers to all of her questions.