AN: so I have one more exam to do next week then I'll have one more week of study before I go on break. I'll have around two weeks for a break so I can do some planning for this story!
Just a side note, I've been looking for a lot of Naruto fanfiction lately to read during the break and I always get so psyched when I come across my own. Is that sad?? Idk, anyway here's the chapter.
It had been a couple of months since her first ANBU mission and since then her life has pretty much worked around a stable routine. She was still going to the academy every day to help Iruka and even learn about the history of the Hidden leaf village, she helped Naruto with his homework. Sparred with Sasuke, continued to train with Hinata on the weekends, however, she was still having trouble with her medical ninjutsu training. Lucy didn't know why but she just couldn't weave her chakra through other people's bodies, she knew where everything was and how it worked but her chakra just wasn't cooperating.
Not to mention that Lucy still hasn't made any progress in her magic deficiency problem, no matter how hard the Hokage and Ibiki tried, they didn't know how to help because they don't know how to detect other nano. It frustrated Lucy to no end and Kakashi was getting suspicious about what she's been working on. While Lucy had never lied to him she had used the excuse 'it's just something from my past,' or 'it involves my spirits,' too many times and Kakashi was getting annoyed with the constant avoidance of the questions.
Currently, Lucy was sitting in front of the Hokage, she had just finished reporting back to him from her latest ANBU mission. They were all related to Itachi in some way, so she hardly had to go on missions.
"Lucy, I've heard that you're having trouble with your medical ninjutsu training," the Hokage said after she finished giving her report,
"Ahh yeah, I'm not sure why though," Lucy said as she started to look embarrassed and rubbed the back of her neck,
"Well I know someone who's a medical ninjutsu master, unfortunately, I don't know where she is at the moment," Lord Hokage said and Lucy looked at him annoyed,
"And you're only telling me this now because?" Lucy asked sarcastically,
"Well, you seemed to be doing well on your own so I didn't think it to be necessary. Now though, you seem to be having trouble," Lord Hokage replied to her, "I have some of her information for you here, if you would like to you can try to find her," at this Lucy looked at the Hokage in shock,
"You mean, leave the village for awhile?" She asked him unsure,
"That is of course, only if you want to," he said and Lucy hesitated,
'How long would I be gone for? How would I even begin to look?' Lucy thought to herself in concern, 'but I would be learning medical ninjutsu from a master, with this I can finally get my hands on the Hyuga clan scrolls. I could heal people while on missions,' she reasoned with herself,
"If you're concerned with being gone for too long, you could always come back to report in. I will be sending you a special mission every now and then so make sure to take your uniform with you. Should you decide to go," the Hokage explains,
"Can I have a few days to think about this?" She asked him and the Hokage nodded his head,
"I would like your decision by the end of the week," with that Lucy got up and bowed before leaving. She walked through the village lost in thought, travelling could be a good thing for her. Gather information about this world and maybe find others to teach her somethings before her medical training. Lucy shivered suddenly and pulled her cloak around her tighter, it was mid to late December and the winter breeze was brisk.
Lucy walked through the door of Kakashi's place and headed towards the kitchen to make herself hot chocolate to warm herself up.
"Oh Lucy you're back," Kakashi said as he looked up from his disgusting book,
"Yeah, I just came back from the Hokage office,"
"What did you do this time?" Was Kakashi's blunt reply and she scowled at him,
"What makes you think I did something?" Her tone was sharp and cutting,
"Did you?"
"No, he was proposing an opportunity to me," she replied and Kakashi looked up from the book that he had turned his attention to,
"What type of opportunity?"
"One that could help me with my medical ninjutsu training,"
"That's great, what is it?" Kakashi asked lightly and Lucy paused,
"To train under a medical ninjutsu master," she said calmly,
"Isn't that great though, why aren't you more excited?"
"They're not in the village,"
"Then how are you supposed to train with them?" Came Kakashi's reply and Lucy turned her head to look at him, "Oh," Kakashi whispered in realisation, "Absolutely not," he said calmly before turning back to his book,
"Excuse me?" Lucy yelled out in shock,
"You are not leaving this village alone to travel with complete strangers,"
"You don't get to decide that Kakashi," Lucy yelled at him and continued before he could get a word in edgewise, "this is a great opportunity, training under a master, I may never get a chance like this again. If I'm going to go and find her then I need to leave before the Hokage loses contact with her again," she tried to reason with him,
"Lucy, you are eight years old. You aren't leaving this village alone," Kakashi yelled as he stood up,
"We both know that my age is of no importance, I can take care of myself. I've been doing it for years," Lucy yelled back, raising her voice to match his volume,
"You will do as I say, Lucy, this is not up for discussion," he said tensely and gave her his famous glare that would have scared anybody else,
"You are not my father, you don't get to make my decision's for me," she yelled back and turned to storm up to her room, completely missing the look on Kakashi's face. Lucy was sitting on her bed glaring at her bedspread when she suddenly heard the front door slam shut, the noise echoed throughout the house and shook the walls. Lucy flinched, she's seen Kakashi angry before but he's never been one for dramatics, she's always the one slamming doors and throwing things. Lucy looked back down at her bed sadly before turning into her side and trying to fall asleep.
With Kakashi
Kakashi was currently sitting at a table in a bar nursing a drink.
"Oh Kakashi, it's not like you to be in a place like this," he heard from behind him and turned around, he saw Asuma, Gai and surprisingly Ibiki were behind him. Asuma continued, "What are you doing here? You get dumped or something?" He said chuckling but stopped when he didn't see Kakashi humouring him, "Don't tell me you actually got dumped, I didn't even know you were seeing anybody," he said startled and Gai started to dramatically cry, yelling something about Kakashi never telling him anything, while Ibiki just stood there
"I'm not seeing anyone," Kakashi said exasperated, "Just got into a fight with Lucy," he groaned out,
"Should have known, considering Lucy is the only female in your life," Asuma said laughing, "So what was it about this time? Did Pakkun rip something of hers up or did you get another book in the 'make out' series?" He continued with amusement,
"Neither, Lucy wants to leave the village," he said simply and both Asuma and Gai stared at him in shock but Ibiki didn't look surprised at all,
"What do you mean she wants to leave?" They shouted in unison and the people around them turned to look at them,
"She told me that the Hokage gave her permission to leave to train,"
"Oh, for a second I thought you meant permanently," Asuma sighed out in relief, "why did you guys fight though?"
"I said that she couldn't," was all Kakashi said, Asuma groaned and Gai looked at his rival with pity,
"Let me guess she yelled at you, telling you that you don't have a say and you got angry and yelled back," Asuma said,
"Kind of,"
"You know that she's right Kakashi, you may be her guardian but it's not exactly official. You haven't adopted her or anything, if the Hokage gives her permission she can do as she likes," Ibiki said, knowing that it would irritate Kakashi, "besides this is a great opportunity for her. Training under a master medical user," Ibiki said and Kakashi stiffened before he turned to face him,
"You knew?" Kakashi asked him and Ibiki nodded his head,
"I did, in fact, I suggested it," he said and Kakashi grew angry,
"Why would you do that?" He yelled at Ibiki and both Asuma and Gai looked at him in shock,
"Because she can take care of herself, besides she'll be with a healer, no place safer for someone like Lucy," Ibiki said a matter of factly,
"She's a little girl who has no place being out in the world alone,"
"She has already been in the world alone, she's gone through more than what either you or I have combined. Why can't you see that she's a strong shinobi of the leaf?" Ibiki asked sternly, finally getting annoyed by the way Kakashi treats Lucy like she's a toddler. Kakashi fell silent not really knowing how to respond to that,
"There's something else isn't there? I mean you guys have had fights like this before and you've never resorted to drinking," Asuma pointed out and Kakashi looked back towards his drink,
"It's nothing," he grumbled and took a large gulp of the drink,
"If it was really nothing you wouldn't be here," Gai said,
"It really is nothing, I don't even know why I'm so affected by it," Kakashi sighed as he went back to nursing his drink,
"She told you that you weren't her father didn't she?" Ibiki guessed since it was the only thing that really got him so worked up lately and Kakashi's silence was all he needed to know the answer, "if you hate it so much, why don't you change it?" He suggested and Kakashi looked up at him agitated,
"I can't just suddenly become her father,"
"Why not? Just go pick up the adoption papers from the Hokage office, I doubt he would be opposed to the idea," Ibiki said like it was no big deal,
"I can't just go and make that decision on my own, besides if I show up now with the adoption papers she'd think it would only be to keep her in the village,"
"So then wait until she comes back from her training," Asuma suggested,
"Like I said I can't just go and make that decision on my own, besides I don't want to force her to look at me as a father figure,"
"Then don't adopt her as your daughter, adopt her as your sister," Gai spoke up and all three men turned to look at him,
"I'd never thought I would say this but that's really smart, Gai," Asuma said laughing and Gai smiled a toothy grin and stuck up his thumb for a moment before pausing with a frown,
"Look I don't know, what do I know about kids?" Kakashi grumbled,
"This isn't about just any kid though, this is about Lucy and don't tell her I told you this but she would be more likely to listen to you if you adopted her. To her it would be similar to creating a contract with her spirits, remember how she went on about the promise that's made between them," Ibiki said and Asuma and Gai looked at each other confused,
"She does take promises very seriously, one time I promised to make her the best strawberry smoothie that's she's ever tasted and she made me practice until it was true," Kakashi said amused at the memory, "Look I should probably go," he said and placed money down next to his unfinished drink before leaving.
Once he made it home he went to check on Lucy and saw her sleeping. She was turned onto her side facing away from the door on top of her covers. Kakashi quietly walked around her bed so he could see her and became worried when he saw it scrunched up in pain. He saw her mouth move and learned to hear what she was saying,
"Natsu," he heard her mumbled and then let out a whimper,
'Why would she be dreaming about summer?' (Natsu: means summer in Japanese) Kakashi thought to himself as he continued to stare worriedly down at Lucy, "Lucy, wake up. It's just a dream," he said as he shook her awake,
"Natsu," Lucy gasped as she sat up and looked around, she had been dreaming about the dragon cry mission that Team Natsu had gone on before the war between Alveraz and Fiore took place. Lucy let out a deep breath as she realised where she was and looked at Kakashi in confusion, "what's going on?" She asked him quietly,
"Can we talk about this afternoon?" Kakashi asked her,
"Now?" Lucy questioned as she looked around her room to find it dark, Kakashi turned the lamp on her bedside table on and sat next to her, "this can't wait until morning?"
"I need to say this Lucy," Kakashi said and took a deep breath, "I know I don't have a say in your decisions and I know that I'm not your dad or anything," Lucy Looked down as he said this,
"When I said that I just meant," she started but Kakashi interrupted her before she could finish,
"I know what you meant and you're right. I'm not your father and I don't have a say in your life. You're just such a worry Lucy, I mean you tripped over the air this morning," Kakashi stated and Lucy looked up at him with a tick mark on her forehead,
"I hope you have a point,"
"I'm just saying that I'm worried about you, trouble just seems to follow you everywhere you go," Kakashi said in a defeated tone,
"I'm going to be fine, I have to check in with the Hokage every few months anyway and I've already decided that if I don't find this medical ninjutsu master in a few months after I leave then I'll come back for a few weeks before trying again. I wouldn't just leave for years," Lucy said, "I know what it's like to be left behind," she whispered and Nastu's brief letter to her before the guild disbanded came to her mind before she shook the thought away. "I'm going to be okay, I always have my spirits and tigers with me,"
Kakashi reluctantly nodded his head, "I still don't like it but okay, you'll check in with me as well when you visit the Hokage right?"
"Always, now how am I going to beak this to Naruto?" Lucy asked him sheepishly.
Time Skip
"You're leaving?" Naruto shouted at her and everyone looked over at them. They were currently having lunch in the classroom, it was too cold to play outside today.
"Only for a little while, I'm going to be training in medical ninjutsu and my dojutsu," Lucy said and nervously rubbed behind her head, "Don't worry I won't be gone long and I'll send you letters all of the time,"
"When do you leave?" Naruto asked her quietly,
"The day after New Years, I wanted to spend the holidays with everyone before I left," Lucy said and Naruto nodded his head sadly,
"You're leaving?" Lucy heard a whisper from behind her and saw Sasuke standing behind them,
"Yeah, I'm going to find a medical ninjutsu master to train under for a while, don't know how long I'll be gone for exactly but I'll check in every few months," she explained to him but he still wore his blank expression,
"Hmm," at his response Lucy got a tick mark on her forehead and smacked him upside his head with her notebook,
"Use your words," she said sternly,
"Don't hit Sasuke like he's a fly," Lucy heard a shrill voice say and turned to see Sakura standing there with her fists raised,
"Anyway, I'll come and see you every now and again, I promise," Lucy said as she turned back to Sasuke and he nodded before going back to his seat. Lucy sweatdropped as she turned back around to face Naruto,
"How did you become friends with that guy again?" Naruto asked with a frown on his face, "I don't know how you can stand him, he's so full of himself," he continued,
"Yes he maybe kind of obnoxious but he's still my friend and I expect you to at least act polite while you're around him. In front of me at least so it looks like I'm not picking sides," Lucy said to him,
"Fine," he grumbled and finished scoffing his lunch that Lucy brought in for him.
Time Skip
"You're l-leaving Lucy-sensei?" Hinata asked her straight after the academy got let out, she had a sad look on her face,
"Yes but don't worry I've put together this scroll for you for your training. Each stage will only appear if you've completed the one before it, the stages will mainly be how many exercises or stretches you have to do per day but some of it will be things like chakra control or taijutsu training. If you need any help I'll be coming back to the village every few months so make sure to write down any questions that you come up with," Lucy explained as she handed Hinata a scroll,
"Th-thank you Lucy-sensei, I-I'll work h-hard and make you p-proud," Hinata said with determination,
"You already have Hinata," she said back to her warmly and gave her a hug before walking towards Kakashi's place, leaving the determined yet shy girl watching her walk away.
Time Skip
It was Christmas Eve and all of the Jonin's had gotten together for a drink,
"Kakashi, I didn't expect to see you here. You never show up to these things," yelled Anko as Kakashi walked through the door of the bar,
"Lucy made me come, the academy students are having a get together at the barbecue place down the road and Lucy was excited because they were doing Secret Santa. She said that she wouldn't be able to have fun if I was quote 'wallowing in self-pity,' unquote," Kakashi said sarcastically and rolled his one visible eye, the rest of the Jonins laughed,
"She has you wrapped around her pretty little finger doesn't she?" Asuma said from his seat beside Kurenai who was giggling,
"Ahaha yeah, that girl could make you do almost anything," Anko said and raised her sake glass, Kakashi only sighed and took a seat at the end of the table before turning his gaze to his book.
With Lucy
Lucy was currently sitting in between Naruto and Sasuke, the latter of which she had to physically drag out to the barbecue restaurant,
"Okay, so who's going first?" Lucy asked excitedly and clapped her hands together, "remember this is only secret Santa if any of you have any other gifts to give you will have to do it after we've eaten," she said while turning to look of Sasuke's fangirls who turned away whistling innocently. Lucy sighed and turned her gaze back towards everyone,
"I'll go," Naruto shouted excitedly as he jumped up in the air, "I picked Hinata for my secret Santa," he said as he handed Hinata an envelope, said the girl was looking like a bright red tomato. As Naruto said all of this Shikamaru looked pointedly at Lucy who avoided his gaze, she may or may not have rigged Naruto's choice of names when they were picking from the hat a week ago.
Hinata opened it up to find a ramen coupon inside and Lucy facepalmed herself but Hinata blushed and thanked him for it. After that one after another gave their gifts to the person they picked out of the hat.
Hinata gave Shikamaru a glass shoji board and set. Shikamaru gave Shino a history book about bugs. Shino got Choji a discount at an all you can eat buffet. Choji gave Ino a bag of his favourite flavoured chips, which she yelled at him for. Ino gave Kiba a bouquet of Germaniums which meant stupidity. Kiba gave Sakura a hair comb that had a kunai switchblade in it. Sakura gave Lucy a charm in the shape of a cherry blossom. Lucy gave Sasuke a handmade kunai set made specifically for his hand size and Sasuke gave Naruto a voucher for the local supermarket albeit reluctantly.
Shikamaru also looked pointedly at Lucy when Sasuke gave Naruto his gift, for which she again looked away from him.
"Now we can eat," Lucy said excitedly as the waiter came and placed everyone's orders in front of them.
Time Skip
On Christmas morning Lucy had woken up and made her way downstairs to make breakfast for herself and Kakashi but was surprised to see him already in the kitchen, "morning Lucy, Merry Christmas,"
"Merry Christmas, you're cooking breakfast?" Lucy asked him,
"Actually I think I'm burning breakfast," he said with uncertainty,
"You really should only cook what you know Kakashi. You know you suck at anything new," Lucy said as she came up beside him and tried to see if anything could be salvaged,
"Well excuse me," he said under his breath as he moved aside and let Lucy take over, "So how long until you leave?" He asked they hadn't talked about her training trip since the last time a couple of weeks ago,
"Straight after New Years," Lucy replied as she tipped whatever used to be in the frying pan into the bin, "I'll check in after three months of travelling, if I haven't found her by then I'll stay for a few weeks," she continued as she started making pancakes,
"That's good, do you have everything prepared?"
"Yes, besides Virgo would know if I was forgetting something," Lucy waved off Kakashi's concerns.
"Just let me know if you need anything," Kakashi said as he started reading the morning newspaper,
"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind," Lucy said as she went back to cooking.
Later that day
Lucy was running around the Village trying to find everyone that she had gotten gifts for, she didn't want to bring all of them yesterday when she met up with everyone from the academy. First, she went to Shikamaru's place and dropped off his present, it was a guide to astronomy since he looked really interested whenever she talked about the constellations with him and Choji.
Next, she went to Hinata's and dropped off a necklace that had a yin and yang symbol with the Kanji for 'kindness' engraved on the back. Then she went to Choji's to give him a book of recipes from earth land. After that,t, she went and gave Shino a spiders egg that she had found a couple of days ago and asked him to take care of it. Then she went to Kiba's and gave him a pair of ear muffs that looked like dogs ears as a joke, she also gave Akamaru a dog bone. After that,t, she went to Sasuke's place and he caught her sneaking in,
"What are you doing here Lucy?" He drawled out bored,
"I just came to give this to you, Merry Christmas," Lucy said and handed him a small package, confused he took it,
"Didn't you give me something yesterday?" He asked,
"That was for secret Santa silly, this is for Christmas," she said to him happily, "well open it then," she said to him impatiently
"Hmm," he said and Lucy got a tick mark on her forehead but let it go as he started to open his present, inside was a photo of them together after a day of training. They were both covered with bruises and dirt but Lucy was laughing while he was turned away from her pouting because he lost again. None of Lucy's bruises was even made by him they had all been her own doing from training earlier that day, "thank you," he mumbled out and Lucy giggled,
"Okay well I have to make a couple more stops so I'll see you later," she said as she jumped out of his open window,
"She could've just used the front door," Sasuke said to himself.
Lucy was whistling as she walked through the village, rubbing her hands together to keep them warm. Walking towards Naruto's place she climbed through the window and immediately started cleaning up the apartment. As she did whenever she was here, she was in the middle of throwing out old milk when Naruto came through the door,
"Ah, Lucy Merry Christmas," he yelled out loud and hugged her tight, it had become a regular occurrence to see her in his apartment unexpectedly. Not unlike how Natsu used to always sneak into Lucy's place back on earth land, however, Lucy didn't just help herself to Naruto's food, unlike the pyro-maniac she was so fond of.
"Merry Christmas Naruto," she said and they sat down on Naruto's newly made bed to exchange gifts, Lucy opened hers first.
On the inside of the small package was a very familiar kunai with the constellation of Aquarius engraved into the hilt, Lucy's eyes watered at the sight of the kunai that looked identical to the one that was in Axal's shop. "Naruto, where did you get this?" She asked him quietly,
"Why? Do you not like it? I can get you something else," he said melancholy,
"No, no it's wonderful, it's just that I think I've seen it before," she said to him,
"Hmm I don't know how you could've, a civilian traveller sold it to me when he was passing through the village. I told him about you and he gave this to me half price," he exclaimed excitedly, while Lucy had mixed emotions about this new revelation.
"What did he look like?"
"Let's see, he was quite large, had white, grey hair and stubble on his chin. He also looked like he was trying to take a crap whenever he talked," Naruto said giggling when he finished explaining. Lucy swallowed a lump that had formed in her throat,
"Did he have a tattoo on his shoulder at all, looked like opened jaws?" She asked him, remembering that Axal had been apart of a service similar to the ANBU during his ninja days,
"I don't know he had them covered, why are you asking so many questions? Do you know him?" Naruto asked her and Lucy just shook her head no, but didn't know if she was trying to convince Naruto or herself,
"No, I don't think so anyway," Lucy took a deep breath and shook her head before pulling out a small package and giving it to Naruto, inside was a key, similar to one of Lucy's summoning keys, "if you ever need me just call for me like I would with one of my spirits. I have one that connects to it, it will tell me how to locate you or vice versa. I won't tell you how I don't want to confuse you but it will. This way no matter how far apart we may be, we are always connected," Lucy explained to him, knowing that he was anxious about her leaving. Naruto looked like he was tearing up however and sniffed really loudly to stop himself from crying, making Lucy giggle at his attempts before she hugged him.
Later that day
Lucy finally got back to Kakashi's place after spending hours with Naruto. Collapsing onto the couch on top of Kakashi's outstretched legs she groaned loudly,
"So, how was your day?" Kakashi sang out in a smug voice and he got a groan from Lucy in return, chuckling slightly he snapped his book shut and looked down at her. Lucy was face down on his legs, with her own hanging off of the couch and on the floor. "Come on sit up properly Lucy," Kakashi said and pulled up Lucy's legs onto the couch, she rolled over so that she was facing the ceiling with a worried look on her face, "what's with the look? It's Christmas," Kakashi asked her and Lucy sighed before she sat up,
"Naruto said something that concerned me today," she said thinking back to the kunai that he gave her, pulling it out she showed it to Kakashi,
"This is beautifully made, very similar to how you make weapons," Kakashi said as he inspected it,
"It was a gift from Naruto, he said that he told a civilian traveller about me and he sold it to him for half price," she whispered,
"What's so concerning about that?" Kakashi frowned at her,
"Because this kunai was made by my previous sensei, Axal," Lucy said and Kakashi's eyes widened,
"Are you sure? Maybe it's just a replica?" Kakashi asked her unsure but Lucy shook her head,
"I would know this kunai anywhere, he told me that it used to be a part of a set before his store got robbed and this was the last one left. I was always looking at it whenever I cleaned the store. The metal is the same, the weight the texture, it's all identical," Lucy said as she started to panic,
"Okay, it's okay, everything's going to be fine," Kakashi said as he pulled her into him after placing the kunai on his coffee table, "tomorrow why don't we take it to TI to have it checked for curses or seals to make sure that you can use it. Who knows maybe it was a parting gift or something," he said soothingly and while Lucy didn't really believe it she nodded her head anyway.
"Why do these things always happen to me?" Lucy whined out loud and Kakashi laughed.
New years eve
It was finally New Year's Eve and Lucy had dragged Kakashi out to the festival, Lucy was wearing a Kimono that Virgo had designed and Lucy made Kakashi wear a Yukata but he still had his regular mask on and forehead protector. Lucy was eating a stick of dango and was dragging Kakashi around by his hand to all of the stalls.
"Let's try this, no wait that one first, ooh later can we do this," Lucy rambled on as they walked past every stall and Kakashi sighed out heavily, knowing that he was going to be exhausted the next day. "Ooh Kakashi I want to try this one," Lucy pulled Kakashi up to one of those mallet strength tests and gave the guy running the game the required amount of yen. Lucy smiled as she lifted the mallet up above her head ready to force it down onto the target but before she could she underestimated the weight of the mallet and fell over backwards. Lying on the ground dazed, "ouch," she whispered to herself,
"What just happened?" Kakashi asked her as he grabbed the mallet that Lucy was still holding onto and lifted both it and her into the air, "Lucy I've seen you create craters in the ground," Kakashi said sceptically,
"Yea with chakra or Taurus's abilities, I forgot that I'm not that strong on my own," she said sheepishly as she let go of the mallet and Kakashi sweatdropped at her,
"Alright I'll do it," he said and lifted the mallet up with both of his hands and brought it down onto the target with a lot of speed. The puck shot up from the target and made its way up, however it didn't stop and the belled ended up slitting in half, "oops," Kakashi laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head, the guy manning the game stared in amazement at the damage before glaring at Kakashi mumbling something about 'damned ninja,' Lucy was holding a hand up to her mouth trying to stop herself from giggling.
"Here," the man that ran the game growled out before he pushed a stuffed toy into Kakashi's arms forcefully before walking off to write a complaint to the Hokage. Lucy was still laughing at Kakashi as he handed her the toy, it turned out to be a small red dragon and it made her want to cry. Shaking herself out of her thoughts she smiled up at Kakashi in amusement,
"Thanks, but maybe you shouldn't play any more of those types of games," she said giggling and Kakashi looked away slightly embarrassed, "come on, let's go get something to eat," she said and grabbed Kakashi's hand before dragging him to every stall that had a strawberry flavoured option.
After a few more hours Kakashi finally had enough of walking around, "Lucy, can't we just go home already?" He groaned out as Lucy was just about to drag him to another game, she looked at the ground sadly,
"I suppose this isn't very fun for you," she said and fiddled with one of the many toys that she had gotten as prizes from games, some Kakashi had won and others she did, "Sorry, come on let's go home," she said and started walking in the direction of Kakashi's house. Kakashi frowned as he watched Lucy walk home in front of him, it was weird considering the entire night she rarely let go of his hand and now she was acting like she didn't even know him.
Once they got home Lucy went into the kitchen to make herself a hot chocolate and then went into the lounge room to read a scroll on human anatomy, meanwhile, Kakashi was wondering what he did to get the silent treatment.
"Lucy, are you okay?" He asked her hesitantly,
"I'm okay, why do you ask?" She replied shortly,
"Well, you haven't said a word to me since we left the festival, nor have you looked me in the eye. I was just wondering if I did something?" He said unsure,
"You haven't done anything wrong Kakashi," Lucy answered honestly,
"Well I must have done something because you're upset with me," he said in amusement as he sat down beside her on the couch. Lucy sighed and closed her eyes,
"No you haven't, I'm just being silly," she took a deep breath and opened her eyes to continue reading the scroll,
"If you're sure but you can tell me anything, okay," he said to her and placed a hand on her head, she nodded her head yes.
"To get my mind off of things, can I tell you a story Kakashi?" Lucy asked him as she looked up,
"I guess so," he said confused, Lucy smiled at him and began,
"In a land far, far away lies the Kingdom of Fiore," Lucy started with a smile and continued to tell Kakashi about Earth Land the same way she told Naruto. While Kakashi sat there listening intently with a look of confusion constantly in his one visible eye.
Time Skip
It was the day after New Years and Lucy was at the village gates, she was wearing a black cloak with a hood, combat boots with kunai knives slipped into them, black durable leggings, a ninja pouch on her left thigh and her key pouch on her right hip that now had her seals inside. Underneath the cloak attached to the middle of her back was her fixed ANBU mask so that she could complete missions the Hokage would send her throughout her trip. Lucy wore black fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows that had extra shuriken stored inside, her forehead protector was still wrapped around her right wrist but her guild mark was well hidden. Her left shoulder was wrapped in a bandage to hide her new ANBU tattoo, she was wearing a dark blue, sleeveless, high collar, shirt with a mesh shirt underneath for extra padding. Lucy had a small travel backpack on her back with the bare essentials, because Virgo had stored away all of her clothes, food and camping supplies.
Naruto was currently clinging to her refusing to let go while the Jonins that Lucy had gotten to know plus Sasuke were all sweatdropping at the sight, besides from Gai who was being physically held back from doing the same thing by Kakashi.
"Get off of her you knucklehead," Sasuke said annoyed after about ten minutes of him blubbering non-stop, shoving Naruto to the ground and out of his way Sasuke turned to face Lucy, "here," he said as he shoved a scroll into her hands while looking away,
"Sasuke you didn't have to get me anything you know," Lucy said with gratitude,
"It's just a basic fire jutsu scroll, you said that you didn't know how to perform and so I thought it could be useful," he grumbled out while still looking away, while the Jonins were now all looking at them with interest,
"Aww thank,s, Sasuke but are you sure I can take this one? It has your clans crest on it," Lucy asked him and the Jonins all looked surprised at this information,
"It's fine, I already know it anyway," he waved off her concerns, and Lucy shrugged before asking Virgo to store it for her. Hugging Sasuke quickly Lucy then moved onto the Jonins to say a quick goodbye, turning towards Kakashi, she didn't know what to say.
"I-I'll see you in three months," she finally managed to get out and Kakashi looked slightly disappointed before nodded his head,
"Yeah, three months," he sighed out and everyone, including Naruto, facepalmed at their goodbye, Lucy started to walk away before she ran back and gave Kakashi a hug before turning and walking away for real. Kakashi started walking back to his place with a small smile on his face.
Watching Lucy walk away Asuma turned towards the youngest Uchiha, "do you really know what it means to give a family scroll to someone to keep?" He asked him and Sasuke nodded his head,
"Of course I do I'm not stupid like that knucklehead," he said annoyed, "from this point onwards, whether Lucy knows it or not, she is an honorary Uchiha," he said out loud.
AN: Hey everyone! So Lucy has finally, kind of told Kakashi about her past! I know this chapter is kind of touchy-feely but the next two or three should be really fast paced. I've already written the chapter for the first episode of Naruto, it's just about getting there. Which shouldn't take too long, anyway, I hope you liked this chapter and I'll see you again soon.