How to love!

Chapter 12

For the next week, I train with my team to understand Naruto's fighting style and for him to learn mine plus Sakura's new techniques. Naruto was a very unique character and always fun to be around. Sometimes I did find him a bit overwhelming with his outgoing personality but he knew how to have fun and was easily likable. I admired his determination towards his goals and he always used my goal to be a great queen to push me while training. He thought my goal was just like his to become the best Hokage. I also used my new rule for myself and only ever spoke to Kakashi during training. Even the two times I ran across him outside of training; I was a wimp and turned around taking a longer route to get where I needed to. I could tell that Kakashi saw this, and so did Sakura. She thought I was being stupid and should go back to just acting like we did before the kiss, but I didn't know if that was doable. I told myself avoiding him outside of training and missions was what I had to do.

I sit at my dinner table with Naruto and Sakura while they eat breakfast. It was a Monday so I didn't need food but it was before training and this was our new routine. We chose either my place or a small restaurant to eat breakfast, sometimes Sakura and I would cook. If there was training, we would always eat breakfast together.

"So it doesn't have to go into your bloodstream?" Naruto asks, still trying to understand how my Kogosie worked.

"No, I can use blood given to me via mouth as well, while it does go into my stomach it digests into chakra," I explain.

"Weird." He says. "But you directly took the blood into your vein the first time we fought. So how does that work?"

"I treated it as my blood at that point. Making myself use my blood tires me out but I can turn it into chakra as well."

Naruto is about to ask another question when there is a knock on the door.

"I'll get it. Rest a bit more, Kane." Sakura says when I sigh. She was always so helpful on Mondays when I was tired. She opens the door to our Sensei. "Kakashi Sensei, are we late for training?" I laugh at the thought of him ever beating us to training and look at the clock; we still had a good 30 minutes.

"No, Sakura we have a mission, we are to be at the Hokage's in 30 minutes," Kakashi explains.

"Our first mission all together!" I exclaim excitedly looking at Naruto.

"Awesome!" Naruto pumps his fist in the air. "Let's go!" He jumps up, almost spilling his food.

"You have time to finish your food, Naruto, calm down." I laugh out while getting up to stretch. I let out a groan when my neck pops.

"Are you going to be ok, Kane?" Kakashi asks from the Genken.

"Of course, sir," I say, barely looking at him. I can see Sakura sigh next to him as his eyes narrow on me. I turn away and start to clean up the breakfast stuff.

I glare at Sakura as we make our way into Tsunade's Office; she knew my rule of trying to stay two feet from Kakashi when I was around him, yet she purposefully put me next to him on our walk over, She grins as she feels my frustration towards her actions, Tsunade's voice pulls my attention.

"Come in!" She yells and I realize I missed the knock, and I turn around to see Team 10 walking in. Ino and the others wave to us as we all move a bit to allow them some room as well. "So now that both teams are here we can go over the mission. As you can see this is going to be a joint mission. In Kusagakure the princess has been kidnapped." She explains handing over a file to Asuma. "Team 10 your job will be to locate her and get her home safely; as you know Kusagakure is skilled at diplomacy and information gathering they do believe that Otogakure may somehow be involved in the kidnapping. Team 7 your job will be to assist team 10 but also, Princess Shinokane, you are to be standing in for and doubling as the missing princess." She turns to me as she hands two folders over to Kakashi. He opens one and I see a girl with similar features to me. I was a tad shorter than her according to the file and her hair was blond instead of white but we did look similar to each other. I could pull this off if you didn't know her well. "The reason we will be having you act as Princess Rona is because her chosen suitor from Takigakure will be visiting and with tensions between the two lands being as high as they are we can not have them finding out that the princess is missing."