In Your Eyes (Kakashi x OC Love Story)

Chapter 3

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Kikyo Ito sometimes wished she was a normal teenager, not a teenager in a war torn world. She vaguely remembers when the Third Shinobi War started years prior. She had been young, aged 10 years old when the war started and could comprehend that her village was at war with others. Her parents death had occurred at the beginning of the war when the village was still adjusting their tactics to battling on a different field and against strengths that were vastly different than their own.

She remembers the dream she had of her parents death.

The skies were grey and whether it was overcast or the vast amount of smoke that plagued the skies, Kikyo didn't know. She could smell the smoke and fire and rotting flesh in the air to the point it was suffocating. For some reason, she was in her nightwear and she couldn't help but shiver. Her feet were bare, the feeling of wet stone beneath her feet felt strange. Whatever she was standing in, she knew it wasn't completely water. Kikyo had walked aimlessly or so she thought; subconsciously she was following the sounds of battle that was just behind the large stone wall that was before her.

Kikyo had never seen her parents so heavily in battle, she had only ever seen them spare with one another or when they trained her. Her mother was beautiful on and off the battlefield, Kikyo concluded at the first sight of her mother fighting another shinobi. Suki Ito's hair was in a high ponytail but her hair seemed wild compared to the straight strands of silk it was at home and a Konoha headband kept some loose strands of hair off her face. Suki wore what many knew as a traditional Warring Era battle outfit, a loose fitting black kimono with maroon body armor. She wielded a katana in her right hand as her left went through what Kikyo could only assume was single handed hand signs, she didn't know her mother was that skilled!

Kikyo's father was on a whole other level compared to her mother. Chi Senshi Ito was ruthless, that much Kikyo knew even from the stories he would tell her as they trained. Chi Senshi, wearing a similar outfit to his wife but with dark blue armor, was drenched in blood. Whose blood Kikyo didn't know, she could only hope it wasn't his. His once white hair was covered in splotches of blood and his happuri had slashes and cracks all over but still sat on his face. He lived up to his name proudly.

The two were weak and breathing heavily but there were still ten shinobi left to take down and they feared they wouldn't be able to get the job done. Kikyo watched as Chi Senshi jumped beside his wife, Suki sheathing her katana and pulling out chakra wire with mutiple kunai tied to it and Chi Senshi did the same. Kikyo watched in amazement as her parents threw the kunai attached to the chakra wire, each kunai lodging itself itself deeply into an enemy and the wire glowing making it impossible for the kunai to be pulled out. Chi Senshi held out his right hand and Suki grabbed it with her left, the two performing a series of hand signs with each other as if they had done this a million times before. What Kikyo didn't anticipate was a large white figure appearing behind them.

She remembers shaking in fear at the sight of the figure, it took a moment but she recognized what it was, WHO it was. There were instances in the beginning of her priestess training where her parents made her go through a guided spirit travel and was introduced to the Shinigami, the death god. Her parents made her aware that over the years as she grew older and more in tuned with her powers she would see him whether she called upon him or not. The Shinigami had stuck his hands through both her parents stomachs and one by one grabbed the souls of the enemy shinobi. And one by one they fell onto the ground, dead.

Kikyo didn't know when she had moved closer to her parents, but before she knew it she was standing in front of them. Her parents were smiling sadly as the Shinigami ripped his arms out of their stomachs, a large seal placed on their stomachs to mark the souls that were now sealed within them. She remembers the Shinigami pulling her parents souls out and eating them and his tongue licking the blade that had cut the souls of the enemy shinobi and of her parents.