Bluebird (Naruto Fanfiction)

Part One: 9, no pain no gain

*Aiko's Perspective*

It's been almost two months since we received the news from Tsunade, we have improved greatly. Kakashi has really helped us, although we are still not at the level we need to be at. Both Kiyomi and I mastered the Dragon Push jutsu, it took me a few days longer than her but it was much more simple than I imagined. The jutsu came almost naturally.

Since then Kakashi has been trying to expose us more to our second chakra natures. Kakashi has been focusing on training with Kiyomi since they are both lightning style wielders. Naruto decided to help out by introducing me to Yamato sensei, a wood style user. At first, I wondered why I was being trained by someone with a different chakra nature, but he soon explained that in order to make wood style he needed earth and water.

Yamato has been pushing me and making me work hard to master Black Rain jutsu, It's black raindrops that are made of oil and can be shot out as liquid or formed as a cloud and then disperse it. I also mastered a simple water style jutsu called raging waves where basically water just shoots out of my mouth and then can be altered later.

Kakashi and Kiyomi have been working on Kakashi's jutsu Chidori. From what Kiyomi has explained, Chidori is a jutsu in which the caster gathers lightning chakra in their hand, when the chakra is gathered the caster will have to charge towards their victim to strike them.

I still did some training with Guy, but not as often. He made sure that I kept my physical strength up, he's even had Kiyomi join a few times. Guy was slightly hurt when I told him I had asked Kakashi for guidance, but he soon understood that I needed Kakashi and Yamato in order to learn ninjutsu. In the end he was okay with it, saying something about the power of youth.

"Aiko?" Kiyomi called, peering her head into the room.

"That's me" I smiled, waving to her.

"We have a very important day ahead of us, it's time to get excited!"She cheered, jumping onto my bed.

"What, did Kiba finally ask you out or something?"I teased. Kiyomi hit my arm, and gave me a death stare.

"Kiba is just a good friend."She told me for the millionth time, I let out a small laugh.

"So then what else is there to get excited over?" I said, grabbing an apple from the table beside me and taking a bite out of it.

"We are going to meet Master Jiraiya today, down at the field by the waterfall."She informed me. Kiyomi and I have become much more comfortable in the leaf, we know our way around and don't mope around as often anymore. We know that obviously Gaara will want us to return to the sand one day, but at this moment in time we were perfectly content with the leaf.

"Finally, we can learn about this stupid jutsu people keep trying to kill us for" I joked. "When do we leave?" I asked Kiyomi cocking my head to the side.

"Now."Kiyomi said throwing her long hair into a high ponytail and walking out the door.

"Thanks for the heads up"I laughed. I quickly followed her, considering she was the one who told me where we were going. As we walked out of the building we ran into Lee.

"Oh hello, Kiyomi. How are you on this mighty fine day"He asked, his determined look never faltered.

"I'm great, thanks" She smiled. Lee turned to face me, his eyes widened.

"The beautiful Aiko is here as well, how are you my love?" He said passionately, grabbing my hand and kissing it gently.

"I'm fine Lee, but there's no need to do that. You and I are friends"I answered uneasily.