Again first to answer the question gets the dedication!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Chapter 21

It’s cold… why is it cold? Isn’t death supposed to be… I don’t know. Peaceful? Because this doesn’t feel peaceful. I feel like I just walked into snow.

I wonder if Sakura is laughing at my death? I wonder if Naruto will be okay? Sasuke would be fine. And Kakashi too. Deidara… I am so sorry. I love you my brother.

“Sensei… what are we going to do with… her?” Someone asked from beside me. They had a feminine voice.

With who? I can’t see a thing.

“We’ll have to bring her back to the village. The Hokage will want to see for himself,” someone said, with slight tenseness in his masculine sounding voice.

“My best friend. Sister in all ways but blood. Dead? It’s not fair. Why her?” Some sobbed out, it hurts my heart to hear that. It’s like I knew them.

The person doesn’t suit this tone of voice. At all. They should be happy. Can I help them?

“She’s gone! Idiot! She protected us, and now she’s dead! Dead!” someone hissed at the person before. That voice, sounds so angry, how can someone sound so angry?

“Shut up! You didn’t know her!” the sobbing person screamed at the hissing boy.

“Naruto! Sasuke! Calm down! She wouldn’t want you to fight!” the masculine sounding person yelled at them.

Naruto? Sasuke?

“Kakashi sensei! It’s not fair,” the feminine person pointed out.

Kakashi?

“I know Sakura, but in the ninja world. Things aren’t fair,” the man told the person.

Sakura?

Holy Jashin! I’m not dead! I am freaking alive! When I realised that. I could feel the pain in my body. The cold hit me more. And I shivered.

“Why… does it seem… like you guys… put me in… a freezer?” I choked out. I heard gasps. I forced my eyes open. I could see that everyone, well, my team, Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari. Then snow. “Alright… it’s snowing…” I don’t like snow… “Right, I’m going back to being dead.”

“Emi!” I felt a weight on my chest. I yelped in pain.

“Off!” I screamed out, and then I tried to push them off of me.

“Naruto!” Sasuke yelled at Naruto, pulling him up off of me. Then I felt someone help me sit up. I looked and I saw it was Kakashi.

“Your alive,” He pointed out and I rolled my eyes, nodding my head.

“By the looks of things, yah,” I answered as I moved my hands onto the ground, palm down. Before pushing myself up and onto my feet.

“Emi!” Naruto yelled, running to my side. He held onto me to make sure I didn’t fall. I pouted.

“I hate being helped,” I whined and Naruto shock his head at me.

Then I saw someone standing in front of me. My eye twitched. It was Sakura. I saw tears going down her face. Before… she hugged me!

I screamed out in pain. And then I tried to push her off. “Off, you useless girl!” I screamed at her and she let me go.

“Useless?!” she yelled, and I nodded my head.

“Yep, you do not have any injury’s and you screamed like you were being murdered! Thus making me become distracted and then getting hit by needles!” I told her off. Naruto chuckled at me.

“You’re alive!” Naruto then spun my around. I laughed as he did. When he stopped, I hugged him.

“I didn’t go out in a bang, of course I lived,” I brushed him off, letting him go. I looked at everyone as they laughed, chuckled, and breathed out in relief. Guess who breathed out in relief? You guessed Inari? You were wrong. It was Sasuke.

I smirked at him. He smirked back at me. I then looked over at the bodies of Haku and Zabuza. Huh, I guess I didn’t kill Haku. When I move the clay from one hand to the other, the concentrated chakra in the clay must have been messed up a bit.

 “You killed his arm,” Sasuke told me, seeing where I was looking. I looked at with him with a thoughtful expression.

“But it’s still there…” I muttered, and then I made Naruto walk me toward Haku.

My team followed. When we got to the body’s. I dropped to Haku’s side and I picked up his arm. Sakura gasped.

“Emiko! Don’t disrespect the dead like that!!” She shouted, and then I brushed her off.

“Useless, this is me checking my jutsu and the effect it has for the future,” I tried to explain to her.

My hand flew to my scope which was still on me, and then I looked at Haku’s arm. I could detect my own chakra in his arm, I looked over his arm carfully, and I saw a singe on his arm. My eyes widened. “Oh, this is cool. Thank you Haku for helping me with a knew art style,” I muttered, and I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I looked up and I saw Kakashi looking at me. “What did your explosion do?” he asked me, and I smiled.

“Well, it was supposed to be a E2, where someone implodes instead of explodes. But this, my chakra instead of doing that, it exploded his nervous system, and chakra system in his arm, even if he didn’t die, he would never be a ninja again. Oh my Jashin, imagine what I could do with this! That oh course, I have to study this, how to do it again without it being a fluke. And that takes time, but oh this is great!” I jumped from the ground and beamed at sensei.

Kakashi looked at me weirdly, before he shock his head and did a closed eye smile.  “Even though you almost died, you still care about your art?” Kakashi asked. I glared at Kakashi sensei.

“My art is my life,” I growled. “I will care about it above my life,” I turned my head from him with a pout.

“Good thing this hasn’t affected you Emiko,” Tazuna pointed out. I beamed at the man with a cheesy smile.

“Death isn’t something I’m not used to. Come on, I’ve seen death, and caused it. I’m used to it! I’ll get over this like nothing,” I brushed everyone’s worries off. “I’m not a weak little girl.”

“We know that, Emiko,” Kakashi said with a closed eye smile at me. I rolled my eyes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I’m not weak, and you all better not think that! Or I will make you my next canvas.

****timeskip- to a few days after bridge battle******

I was leaning on a tree, looking at the graves of Haku and Zabuza. The ones we did ourselves. Naruto explained to me how Haku felt about everything, even after I ‘died’. When I did ‘died’ Sasuke thought. ‘Hey, let’s protect Naruto and join Emiko!’ well, that’s what I’ve abbreviated what Naruto and Sasuke told me.

Okay what happened Naruto froze when I ‘died’ and Sasuke moved me to the ground and stood in front of Naruto, protecting him from the needles that Haku threw at the frozen Naruto after my explosion.

Let’s just say, when I found that out. I ran at Sasuke and I hit him over his head a few times, before hugging him. Saying thank you for protecting Naruto. I think Sasuke was confused for an hour. Heh heh. Sakura wasn’t happy I hugged Sasuke, but she can stick a strew in her popper and suck it! (AN! Popper is what aussies call juice boxes! Kk?)

Anyway, off topic. After Naruto told me everything. I felt bad for Haku in a way. I think that’s what happened to Deidara in a way too, having no choice in something he didn’t want to do. So it hit a soft spot for me.

Right now, Sakura was kneeling at the graves after she had set some flowers there. Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi were steading a bit in front of me.“Kakashi sensei, I was wondering. Does a ninja really have to be the way they said a ninja should be?” Sakura asked of our sensei.

Sakura stood up and faced everyone as we all looked at Kakashi. “Ninja are not supposed to seek their reason to exist,” Kakashi explained. I snorted. “it’s important that they exist as a tool. That idea exists in Konoha too,” Kakashi added.

“Yep, same in Iwa. I was born a tool really. When I had my kinjutsu born and not implanted. I was the village’s hidden weapon. One reason Dei got me out though,” I added in my own way. “I was tested on when I was younger, but I was never told what was in though tests.”

Everyone looked at me weirdly. I sighed. “What I am trying to say. Is that even though we’re supposed to be tools, doesn’t mean that we can’t find our own reason for being ninja. Mines for my art and finding my brother, Naruto’s is to be recognized for more, and Sasuke’s is to be strong enough to kill that man. We’re not supposed to look for our reason. But we will anyway,” I informed them with a shrug. “Sakura, you’re the only one who might become a tool if you don’t find your reason to exist,” I told her. “And Sasuke isn’t a reason to either,” I added as an afterthought, before she thinks that’s a reason.

“Emiko, you are strange,” Kakashi pointed out, and I threw a smirk at him. “Your weird and explosion happy, and then you say something deep,” he added.

I did an thumbs up. “I like to keep people on their toes. I am fleeting after all. My ways have to be fleeting also,” I explained. Naruto laughed at me.

“She’s right. I’ve been her best friend for years and I’m never used to her sudden mood changes,” Naruto laughed. I smiled at him.

“And don’t you forget it, boy,” I ran to his side and I ruffled his hair. He hit my hand away from his head.

Naruto looked at the graves of Haku and Zabuza. And let out a breath. “But what Kakashi said. Does becoming a real ninja really mean that?” Naruto asked, looking back as Kakashi sensei. “I don’t really like that.”

“Same, if my speech before didn’t mean anything,” I pointed out.

I turned around with Naruto. As Sasuke looked toward Kakashi. “Do you think so, too?” Sasuke asked of Kakashi.

Kakashi looked to the ground in thought. “Hmmm, well, no. That’s why ninja unconsciously suffer from that idea. Like Zabuza and that boy,” my head dropped.

I looked at Naruto as he stood tense. “Alright!” He exclaimed. My eye brow raised in question. He looked at the sky. “I’ve decided! I’m going to follow my own ‘Ninja way’. I’m going to run straight down the path where I’m not going to regret anything!”

I beamed at Naruto with a bright smile. “Yeah! Naruto. I’m with you on that,” I tackle hugged my brother of everything but blood.

We fell to the ground, laughing our heads off. He hugged me back. We were both lying on our sides hugging each other.

“Alright you two, get up,” Kakashi order us. We both looked at Kakashi. I stuck my tongue out.

“Nope, I’m having fun hugging my best friend who’s like a brother,” I stated simply.

I saw Sasuke walked over to us. Sakura followed. Sasuke kicked my side when he got to us, and Sakura put her hands on her hips and frowned down at us.

“Get up,” Sasuke ordered me and I shook my head. Naruto laughed in my ear. “Emi,” my eyes widened.

“You called me it again!” then I pulled away from Naruto. Then I smiled at Sasuke. “You listened to me when I said to call me Emi,” I pointed out. He frowned at me.

Sakura waved a hand in my face making me look at her ugly face. “Can I call you Emi?”

I then clenched my fist. “No, you’re not my friend,” then I turned around, pulled Naruto up off the ground and grabbed Sasuke’s hand before I pulled them away from Sakura. Making her lonered.

****Timeskip- to the bridge****

There was a bunch of people here to say goodbye to us. It was weird. I was playing with my scope. Fixing it in place. I felt weird without my training weights on. Yeah, they kind of got lost during the whole ice mirror fiasco.

“We’ve completed the bridge thanks to you, but we’re going to miss you,” Tazuna told us and I smiled at me.

“Thank you for everything,” Kakashi thanked them.

“Now, now, old man Tazuna, we’ll visit you again one day,” Naruto promised. I rolled my eyes. I have a feeling that if they day comes; Naruto is going to drag me with or without my consent. Great.

I saw Inari’s shoulder start to shake as he stood in front of Tazuna.

“Promise?” Inari asked us.

 Naruto and I both went eh? At the same time after he said that. I saw Inari’s eyes watering. Oh Jashin, please don’t make this a sobby goodbye.

“Inari. You’re going to get lonely, aren’t you?” Naruto asked of the little boy. I looked at Naruto and I saw that his eyes was watering. “You can cry, you know. Cry…”

“Sensei…” I muttered and Kakahsi looked down at me. “If they cry, may I use them as art, please? No sobby goodbye, I’ll freak-out,” I begged. Kakashi chuckled at me, ruffling my hair.

“No Emiko. You have to deal with it,” Kakashi whispered to me. I gulped. Looking back at Inari and Naruto.

“I’m not going to cry! You can cry, too, Naruto!” Inari exclaimed. Oh Jashin take me now! Please, I do not want to see this!

Naruto and Inari were shaking in effort to not cry. “Is that so…” Naruto muttered.

They looked at each other, trying to not cry before the other. Both were shaking hard. “See you!” Naruto exclaimed before turning around. Crying like a waterfall. I looked at Inari and he was doing the same.

“NO! The sobby goodbye!” I shouted raising my fist in the air, before falling to the ground onto my knees.

I heard someone walk to my side and kick me. I glared up at them. It was Sasuke. He rolled his eyes at me, before reaching down, and heaving me onto my feet.

“Move, loser,” Sasuke said as he walked onto the bridge. I shook my head, before following.

The rest of my team was in front of me, so I jogged to catch up to them. When I was in front of them, I started to walk backwards.

“So, team. Everyone excited to get home?” I asked, doing a little jump in my step. Naruto beamed at me.

“Prank Emi? For old time’s sake? That entrance made me miss it,” Naruto asked of me. I laughed.

I did an thumbs up. “As long as you stay out of my clay, sure. We need a target though,” Naruto and I both thought for a second and then smiled at each other.

“Iruka,” We both said and then laughed. “Alright! But before that. I’m going to have Iruka sensei treat me to ramen to celebrate the completion of this mission! Also, I’m going to make Konohamaru listen to my tale of bravery!” Naruto added. I laughed.

“Naruto was deprived of his Ramen was he?” I cooed and Naruto eye twitched before he tried to reach for me and strangle me. I laughed at him. “Kidding!” I sung. “But you’re going to lie to Maru, eh? I guess I’ll tell him the truth of what happened,” Naruto’s eye twitched again.

I saw Sakura eyes look over at Sasuke for a second. Ah oh. “Hey, Sasuke, do you want to go on a date once we return to the village?” and there she blows!

“No, I decline,” Sasuke said in a monotone. I coughed to stop myself from laughing.

Sakura’s face fell, and she froze in shock. Ha! Naruto stopped walking, and I bit my lip. “Hey, hey, I will,” Naruto said in excitement to Sakura.

Then she punched Naruto over the head and started to choke him. “Shut up! Be quiet, Naruto!” Sakura screamed at him. My eye twitched.

“That’s in, brat is dead,” I was about to run at her but Kakashi grabbed the back of my shirt and pulled me along, stopping me from killing her.

Third pov!!!

As Sakura threw Nauto over the bridge and Emiko tried to kill her making Kakashi have to stop her. Sasuke was watching them all. Well, watching Emiko more like it.

He doesn’t know what to do about her. She protected him, or was it Naruto? She confuses him. Sometimes he can read her like a book but then he can’t. His heart beats faster when she smiles at him. He can’t tell if she was happy before when he rejected Sakura because was she happy that Sakura was hurt, or because Emiko likes him? Sasuke’s never been controlled by his emotions in a long time, and now Emiko is starting to fill his mind when he sees her.

Emiko isn’t seeing the looks Sasuke was giving her and no one did. Well, Sasuke thought so. Little did the little duck know, Kakashi saw the little look’s one of his students was giving another.

Kakashi had a little smile hidden under his mask. It’s a love line, not triangle. Naruto likes Sakura, Sakura likes Sasuke, Sasuke likes Emiko, and Emiko like’s… no, LOVES her art.

Now Kakashi wonders, if Emiko will see Sasuke’s liking in her. Will she react to it in a positive way, or a negative? Only time will tell he guesses.

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SOOOOOOOOO Emiko isn’t dead, and she has figured out a new E art, but it will take a while for it to make an appearance again as it was a mistake for it to happen like it did, and I think I have a perfect place for it to come back too!

 A love-like line have formed, oh no! No good huh? Oh and I hope you all know that the pairing quest from a chappy a while back still stands now, okay?

Thank you all for your ideas. One or two of them I had already come up with or is simular and has a place in a story already but you guys had it a bit differently from the way my head came up with.

Okay, Questio TiMe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As school is starting again tomorrow at my school for my year, I think it’s going to be a school related question. Okay here it is.

What’s your favourite class?? Mine was a between English, art and dance last year (Even though I can’t dance to save my life) Your least favourite class?? Mine is maths last year with the teacher, and then same with Drama, because of the teacher, I love Drama otherwise. (Oh and I said last year, because I have no idea what the new school year with bring this year :))

You know the drill, fan, vote, comment and answer the question if you want too :)