Honey & Kunai - A Naruto Fanfiction-

Six: The Emotional Range of a Child...

'I would like to apply to the Academy please.' I even added a bow. What followed were a series of gasps and a small cry from Mim.

"Hachiko, being a ninja is not a joke. It's a serious career. It's dangerous and you, I'm afraid your disability will become a problem." I gaped.

'Dad did not just say that.'

I angrily jingled my bell to and in a flurry signed away.

'I know what it entails. I have given it full thought. I know it will be hard and that it requires hard work but I am willing to put in the effort. Don't you believe in me?' Dad looked stern and Mim was shaking silently.

"Hachiko, it's not that I don't believe in you, I do it's just that-" Didn't even get to finish his sentence.

"No! I will not lose another child." Mim erupted and I froze and noticed and Dad go rigid.

'Another child? What?'

'I had a sibling? Why didn't you mention it!' I signed angrily and Mim looked hesitant to say anything.

"We were focused on getting you better. Rei… She was just a Chunin. We didn't get a warning, the fox appeared on this street and Rei in her valiant effort tried to buy time for us to get away through the underground tunnels. I watched my oldest child be swatted as if she was a fly by that monster." Dad said very darkly towards the end. I began to tremble at his words. I had a sister. I had a sister and she was a kunoichi. I had a sister who died in futile attempt to buy time. My emotions were starting to get the best of me. I wanted to cry, to be angry, to throw a fit but I let my rationality take over.

'This all happened to Hachiko before I ended up in her body. Stop feeling like it happened to you. It didn't happen to you. It happened to Hachiko… But why do I feel so betrayed?'

Mim took over Dad's tale as he began to choke up.

"When you woke up we were relieved and when we learned of your disability, we focused on you since there was no point in dwelling in the past. We planned to tell you of Rei but with time, it felt best to keep you unaware." At this point both Mim and Dad were crying. Mim took out a small picture form her pocket and placed it on the table. I stared at the small photograph and went numb.

"That's Rei." My feelings and senses betrayed me. This was my big sister. She had wavy brown hair, light brown eyes and sunkissed skin.

This was my sister from my other life. This person, Rei, I knew her as Rose. She was an exact copy of my Rose. Rationality went out the window as my body began to tremble and tears began to pour out of my eyes, not out of sadness but out of being homesick. This entire time I had avoided thinking about my real parents, my sister and now it all came at me in one full swept rollercoaster of emotions. I was coming undone and my breathing got erratic and it hurt to breath. The last thing I heard was Mim's cry.

"Hachiko!"

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I could hear talking but I couldn't make out the words.

"Be fine…. panic attack… shouldn't have... tell her the tr-" I could hear Medic Duelo as he spoke. I slowly came to and slowly understood what was being said.

"She asked to be enrolled in the Academy. What were we supposed to do? Let her follow Rei's absurd dream? Reach the same fate?" Dad replied.

"Rei was a fine kunoichi. She knew what she was doing. We both know that. Rei loved Hachiko and would die for her all over again if it meant Hachiko would live. You and I both know that is what any mother would do." I froze in my bed.