Konoha's Lost Kunoichi

Blood Technique No More! A Lonely Man's Resolve

Haru and Hawaki stood petrified. Their usual handsome faces are scrunched up in utter disgust. Both of them stepped back, moving behind me, using me as a shield to the atrocity in front of us.

Kaname collapsed onto the couch, or what I assume is a couch underneath all that filth. Clothes, trash, old takeout containers, and some item's I'm not even sure what they are.

Oh, I think that one moved.

Haru had gone ghostly pale at the sight and I felt pity for him. He doesn't like uncleanliness.

"Huh? Who the hell are you? Get lost brats." Kaname's words were so slurred I could barely decipher them.

"She's the girl who needs help with Blood Release? Remember." Haru asked bitterly. Kaname turned onto his back and placed one hand on his forehead.

He turned his bloodshot eyes to me. "I don't take on students. Leave." My temple throbbed at his words.

Why this! "You just said you'd train her." Hawaki snapped. Kaname didn't even flinch. "I said that you didn't have to look anymore. That I'm the man you were looking for. I never said I'd teach you."

He's not wrong, but it pisses me off nonthess. "She's been looking for you for ages and crossed many lands to do so." Hawaki's voice is cold but firm. The two of them are sticking up for me.

Haru never really liked it when people showed me disrespect or got mouthy. A drunk who has only referred to me as a brat? Yeah, not on the go list. Seem's Hawaki isn't fond of him either.

"I'm not leaving until you take me on as your student." I crossed my arms across my chest defiantly and narrowed my eye on his dark blue ones.

He stared right back at me. No emotion is showing but that only made me more stubborn. The mess that was his living room became a distant thought as tension filled the space and all that there was is me and him.

Even in his drunken state, his presence is huge and I can feel his chakra move around, trying to intimidate mine. Like a lion standing his ground. Even Haru and Hawaki fidgeted under the pressure he was emitting.

Mixed in with it is a dormant sense of bloodlust that seemed ready to come out at any given second.

There's no doubt that he is Kaname. This confirms it. And in turn, made my resolve harden.

I tried my hand in making my presence known. Reaching out towards his chakra with my own, showing my readiness to do battle and gave him a preview of the bloodlust that I'm always fighting with to keep hidden.

Because the two of us were doing this, the room became heavy and harder to breathe.

Despite his state, his is definitely more threatening and powerful. But I won't back down. Not now. I need to fix what's wrong with me.

Sasori gave me this opportunity. I'm not letting it go to waste. There's no way in hell I'm giving up.

Never give up. That's my brothers ninja way and god damn it I'm gonna uphold it.

His presence vanished into thin air and he let out a sigh, covering his eyes with his hand. "You're a nuisance. But since you came all this way, you all can stay here for the night. But not for free. If you're serious, then put it into work and clean." He turned on his side, his back to us.

Haru and Hawaki looked appalled at the mere suggestion. I eyed the mess that leads further into the house. And it looks worse the more you go in.

With a sigh, I took out my pigtail and put my hair up into a high ponytail and began to head more into the place. "Are you crazy?! You'll catch something!" Hawaki hissed. I glanced back at him with a blank look.