I trained hard all day and all night after being dismissed from the Hokage's office. I wasn't going to let myself fall down on the job. I was part of Team Kakashi now and I wasn't about to let my new teammates down. Everyone was surprised that I've risen up to Naruto's level in such short time and I was too. I suppose that my past as being a victim of abuse was what made me stronger not only mentally but physically as well. I could take all kinds of punishment. Killing my emotions off as well was rather easy since I couldn't show any weakness in front of my parents as they beat me. It was almost a year after the daily beatings that I was able to cut my emotions off.
I created two shadow clones for me and each of them represented my parents. I was so focused on my clones that I didn't realize that I had an audience. I gave the clones a hard look as they began to taunt me. This was what I wanted. Their insults and taunts motivated me to attack. I had a lot of rage from my horrible experiences. The pain came forth as I remembered everything that they did to me. Instead of lashing out though, I controlled my actions. I focused every movement that I made. This was the goal I wanted to achieve in my training. I needed absolute control. With control, I could easily manipulate the frightening strength that I discovered. Naruto had commented one day that I made Haruno Sakura and Grandma Tsunade look like kittens. He was lucky that neither one of them was around to whack him on the head. It certainly would have earned him a whack for sure.
Don't lose your focus. I thought.
I unleashed a barrage of shuriken and kunai knives, enveloping them with my primary element of fire and bolstering the attack with my secondary element of wind. If I combined my fire power with the wind, I noticed that the power of my attacks increase not only in size but in strength as well. The two clones barely dodged this attack. I decided to make a powerful tornado by spinning myself at high speeds. At the same time, a spewed a stream of fire, which made it a fire tornado.
My fire spin.
This eliminated the two clones. I took in some deep breaths, reigning in my anger and pain. I decided to do some meditation to calm the anger that I felt. I had felt better than I had in a long time when I viciously attacked my clones, but the rage was still there so I decided to find another quiet spot in the village that was well suited for meditation. As I walked away, I was nearly ambushed from behind. I blocked it immediately, only to find Kakashi behind me.
"Good block." He complimented.
The both of us backed off and stood in relaxed stances. He asked me if the two clones that I had created were my parents. I nodded, my anger slowly subsiding. The two of us talked a little more in-depth about my past. This was the first time I opened up to anybody before and Kakashi had commented on it. He was right, of course. I felt like I needed to talk because it all came out. I didn't notice Shizune had showed up until she asked for the both of us to report to Tsunade's office.
"It's urgent."
When the two of us arrived, Naruto and Sakura was already there. Judging by the look on her face, I knew that the invasion on the Sand Village had begun. Apparently, Yura had taken out a few key point guards before being caught and detained by Baki. According to the Hokage, Kankuro had been the one to send the correspondence about the current situation. Tsunade gave me a critical look and I knew that I would become a rather useful ninja to her and the village. However, I would probably be useful to others in ways that I didn't want to be. I briefly wondered about the village council before turning my attention where it should be.
"It would seem that you were correct in your predictions." She said. "Baki caught Yura, who pretty much confessed to what he had done."
I nodded and waited for her to continue.
"However, one Akatsuki member has already infiltrated the village and is attacking."
"With clay bombs, I imagine." I said.
Tsunade nodded. She assigned us our first mission and that was to assist the Kazekage in his fight with the Akatsuki. I sighed heavily as I imagined the battle that was in flight. This was it. This was what I had trained for. We were dismissed and we were to leave as soon as possible.
