Nebula's Echo (a Naruto Fanfic)

Chapter 23

AN: Why hello there, dudes and dudettes. Sorry for not updating for so long, I'm not sure if you have this in your school or even your country, but I just had two "Test-weeks". If you don't have them, rejoice. Cuz lemme tell you, those things ain't fun. So, we're nearing the chuunin exams... heehehehee, so much action is going to happen during the chuunin exams... Just endure for this chapter, my dearies, I will put in some action later on!

Have a  good read~

Ceiren's POV

I was sitting at the dinner table, swinging my legs cutely back and forth, an amused smile on my face. Yesterday really was one adventurous day...

I looked towards Kakashi's door. It was already early afternoon, and according to the memories I implanted into my teammate's heads, we were supposed to meet at the bridge at ten. But, since Kakashi was gonna sleep in anyway, why should I come on time?

Exactly, there's absolutely no reason for me to be on time. Things like "moral support" and "friends suffer together" don't really matter, right? You're absolutely right, it definitely doesn't. I wanna be lazy.

In case no one figured it out, I wiped their memories. Yep, wiped them clean. The whole wave mission was wiped and I replaced it with the way things would have originally gone, plus adding myself next to Sakura. And with her being as useless as she is, I didn't have to alter the scenes that much. Their memories will be a bit fuzzy, because it's been a long time since I've seen the anime, plus, it's not like the anime showed every moment of their day. So there was absolutely no way for me to make perfect replacements, but I still trust that it'll take them a while to figure it out.

I sighed.

Well, it isn't like the memory tempering is permanent. It is, after all, just a genjutsu. It'll break when the right requirement has been met. But that requirement isn't that easy to meet, so they'll probably have to live with those incomplete memories for a while. Until they've figured out my real identity, they'll just have to deal with it.

I snapped my head up when I heard a door creaking. Whipping my head to the side, I have Kakashi a bright smile. He smiled back at me, his only visible eye closed in amusement.

"Well, I think it's time we get going Cei. Before the others are thrown into madness waiting..."

I let out a chuckle.

"Completely honestly, sensei, I think it's too late for that."

He lifted his arm, scratching his head in slight embarrassment.

"Yes, I think you might be right about that..."

I laughed and jumped off to where he was standing. He turned to smile at me and I stood beside him, my eyes twinkling with mischief. Our eyes met, then shifted to the window and met again. And then we grinned.