Sasuke embarassingly covered his face with his right hand as he leaned his head against the wall.
"How's the situation over here?", his ears perked up, noticing his teacher walking towards the unconscious man lying on the floor.
"Some pervert tried to peek on Lhexi when she was taking a bath.", he explained, earning a tickmark as he glare at the black cloaked guy.
"Ehh...that's rather unfortunate for him...he targeted the wrong girl.", Kakashi crouched down, lifting his hood, his single eye widening. "Sasuke. Call Lhexi here."
Sasuke parted his lips a little before nodding without a word. Kakashi looked rather serious about it.
The Uchiha swiftly turned towards the sliding door that abruptly opened when he was about to touch the handle. He stood tall, staring down at the girl who gave him a flustered look for one moment that instantly disappeared within split second.
Sasuke moved out of her way. "You called for me, Kakashi-sensei?", she asks as she fix the sleeves of her green yukata.
"Come here. I want you to take a look at this."
Stopping next to her teacher, her purple eyes simply narrowed in suspicion and confusion. The man had his eyes turn white, his mouth hanging wide open. Half of his face was black and so was the right side of his body including his one arm and leg.
Kakashi removed his two fingers from the man's wrist. "He's gone."
Sasuke on the other hand, watched perplexed before shooting a quick glance at Lhexi.
Kakashi's single eye moved towards Lhexi. "Don't worry. You didn't killed him. Most likely, he was killed by hypothermia. That was the reason why he was at the onsen. He probably thought he could reverse the symptoms by soaking his body in warm water."
Naruto watched everything from a close distance just a few meters away from Sasuke. His blue cerulean eyes, glimmered down after witnessing someone dying before his watch.
Kakashi slouchly stood up before placing his hand on Lhexi's shoulder. "Cases like this are pretty normal here in the Land of Iron, even ninjas can't escape them.", he simply walked past her, towards the two boys who remained silent throughout their conversations.
"You two, hurry up and change. Get a quick rest, we will leave early tommorow. Inform Sakura of the situation. And Lhexi--", much to everyone's shock, Lhexi was studying the dead corpse as she cut through his shirt with a kunai from the man's pouch.
Lhexi twisted the kunai on her hand before stabbing the right side of his abdomen where it turned black.
"Lhexi-chan, what are you--?!"
Before Naruto could finish his question, a part of the dead man's body began to crack. Lhexi watched with unmoving eyes as half of his body shattered to many broken pieces, falling around her feet.
Everything was silent only the sound of the noise coming from the opposite hallway. It felt like an eternity as they all watch the girl who picked up one of the shards, pointing it towards the light, assessing it with her eyes.
"I'm pretty sure this isn't normal, Kakashi-sensei."
Kakashi was stupefied although he did a good job at hiding it. "We need to be careful. This is most likely caused by a man not nature."
Naruto shivered. "Lhexi-chan! You should not touch them carelessly, dattebayo!"
"Idiot, she knows what she's doing. If you're careful, you woundn't get frostbite that easily dobe.", Sasuke said before stuffing his hands diagonal to his sleeves to provide some warmth.
"How would I know anything about frostbit or hypo--hypo--Ahh! Forget about it!"
They might be trying to forget about what just they saw by arguing but, deep down they were a little bit concerned.
Lhexi eye smiled, picking herself up after secretly dropping a small fragment on her pocket, saving a note in the back of her head to check up on it later. "Let's get to Sakura. It's dangerous to leave her alone in this cold."
"You three go on ahead. I still have to do something.", Kakashi motioned them to shoo away by flickering his wrist.
"Sensei! You better not be slacking off, ttebayo!", the blonde shouted as he got dragged on the collar by none other than the Uchiha.
As the three disappeared from his view, a sigh escaped his mouth. "She really made a mess out of his body." Kakashi formed a few handsigns, the ground open up engulfing the corpse before it closed up, hiding away the dead body before someone else notices it.
"Sakura-chan! We're back!", Naruto greeted after slamming the door open. "Sakura-chan?", he called out in a nicer tone this time after noticing that Sakura didn't made any reaction.
"Don't get so loud in the middle of the night!", Sakura yelled. How ironic.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan...!", he whispered as he clap his palms together.
"Anyway, did something happen? Why are you three back here so quick and at the same time at that?", she questions.
"Someone died on the hallway after getting frostbite. Kakashi instructed us to get some sleep, we will be starting our search early tomorrow.", Sasuke explained as he fix his bed, leaving the pinkette dumbfounded as if nothing happened.
"O-oh, r-really?", she stuttered.
"Yeah! Even if its karma for peeping on Lhexi-chan, what happened was too much!", Lhexi silently grew embarassed by the Uzumaki's open thoughts.
"Eh?! Lhexi, something like that happened?!", Sakura interrogates the girl who just layed out her futon.
Red tints dusted the cheeks of the black haired female as she nodded im return. She swears that if Naruto says one more thing that would greatly embarass her, she's definitely going out for his head.
"It's all right, Lhexi-chan! There's nothing to be seen anyway!", Lhexi finally exploded in embarassment as she look down at her flat chest. Even if she was mentally an adult, she's still a child physically.
Sasuke threw his pillow dead shot on Naruto's face who tipped over on his bed.
"Sasuke! Oi!"
Sakura cracked her knuckles, and Naruto gulped in fear. "M-matte! S-sakura-chan!"
"Naruto...", she started. "You crazy little perverted bastard!"
Naruto picked up his pillow against his face, blocking Sakura's attack yet her fist still made an impact, it collided right on Naruto's left cheek through the soft pillow.
Sakura continued hitting Naruto with her fists as the boy could only lighten up the impact using his pillow. Lhexi finally joined in their little fight like a child who haven't stepped out from her door all her life.
Sasuke sighed at the scene.
Lhexi used kagebunshins, much to Naruto's surprise but, it disappeared instantly when she held him down, tickling him everywhere. After accidentally hitting one of Lhexi's shadow clone, Naruto ran for his dear life towards Sasuke.
Sakura threw her white pillow at a neck-breaking speed hitting Naruto on the back of his head. Sakura laughed out loud only to be tackled down by Naruto's Kage Bunshin, tickling her on her stomach.
"S-stop! Naruto! Pfft! Hahahaha!"
Sasuke made a deadpan look as he fixes his futon once again only to be accidentally hit by Lhexi's pillow, right on his forehead. That was meant for the real Naruto when he tried to pin down Lhexi.
"Ah--gomen.", she gave him a peace mark which irritated him for no reason.
The real Naruto bursted out laughing slapping his knees in the process.
"Lhexi...! Naruto...!", Sasuke growled, his patience was disappearing as seconds progresses.
Naruto grabbed Lhexi's wrist, pulling her away from Sasuke's reach leaving the Uchiha catching nothing but a strand of her hair, they laughed before they made a run for it across the room. "Hurry up Lhexi-chan! He'll definitely kill us!"
Sasuke agressively pulled his arm and the two stumbled down together.
"Oi! Sasuke! No use of weapons!", Naruto screamed prying the wires off from his feet.
"Heh. If Ninjutsu are allowed to use then so are weapons."
Sasuke grabbed Naruto's face with his bare hands, trying to crush his skull as payback. However, Lhexi took advantage of the wires on Sasuke's hand and pulled it down, resulting to the Uchiha getting taken down after slipping on the matt.
He tried to stood up only to realize Lhexi tied his wrist using his own wires as she straddled him to his own amazement. Her back arced in an indecent manner while her hand remained on his tied wrists, the other one on his shoulder to keep him from getting up.
His mouth remained agape with her thighs against his hips, until she was pushed down by the pinkette. Truth to be told, that made him weak.
"Shannaro! Lhexi! Hands off from Sasuke!"
"Sorry not sorry Sakura!"
Sasuke regained his consciousness from what just happened and twisted the knot, relieving him from getting tied up. Naruto's shadow clones however snucked up behind him, gripping him from his underarms.
Sasuke pushed his feet against the floor, flipping on air before twisting his body to get away from Naruto's clone.
The two rivals smirked at one another, setting up a fight. A playful one but, neither of them will back down easily.
And so they fought, and so they laughed. Friends. Unknowingly becoming inseparable.
Lhexi's and Sakura's fight was rather amusing. They groped each other's body and Sakura smirked in triumph. Lhexi was flatter than Sakura.
"My win!", the pink haired crossed her arms in prevailed success.
Alexa kneeled on the floor in defeat, still stuck in disbelief.
The moonlight bounced on Kakashi's silver hair as he rests on the cold roof of an abandoned building watching the white puffy clouds roam around the sky. He glanced down at the footprints that overlapped together on the snow that was soon gonna be piled up with yet another layer of snow when the sun rises.
"Why don't you stop hiding in the shadows and reveal yourself?", he asks in the stillness of the night. "You've been constantly annoying me lately, it has become a little irritating."
He glanced sideways at the dimly lighted area. The freezing wind brushed against the enemy's white cloak as his face remained in the dark.
"Hatake Kakashi it's an honor to meet you."
Kakashi's single eye narrowed suspiciously as his pupils contracted. "Considering you didn't showed up infront of my students, I'm your only target, aren't I?"
The eerie silence proved that Kakashi was right.
The enemy blinked his eyes and in that split moment, Kakashi's kunai already reached a few centimeters away from blinding his right eye.
The kunai plunged through in between his fingers, quickly noticing the silver-haired Jonin was gone and now behind him. Kakashi grabbed his free arm before it could reached for the sword on his waist.
The enemy used the kunai that was in between in fingers to strike Kakashi to which he dodged by squatting down, all the while performing a jutsu in his left hand. He started with an S-ranked jutsu right off the bat to quickly finish things up.
The cloaked man, however percepted this and blocked his attack using his own jutsu.
"Raikiri!"
"Ice Release: Winter Demon!"
To Kakashi's brief surprise of the enemy managing to supress the damage impacted on his chest, he didn't iddly stood by and watch. Instead, he went for a quick kick on his lower abdomen, before throwing several punches on his body, breaking his ice armor as he skid through the tiled roof.
"Water Style: Water Prison!"
Kakashi didn't wasted any time. He might be hella one of a ninja but, he still have limits. And two of those are his stamina and average chakra storage.
The enemy watched the water swivel around him, encasing his body with a water sphere, like a hamster trapped in his own water wheel.
So his plan is to capture me alive and take out informations...huh?
Kakashi was plainly suspiscious and carefully draws out a secret private conversation with himself to plan out what happens next. The sound of cracking immediately pent up his nerves as the water prison that Zabuza once trapped him into get frozen. A fist broke out of the ice shell until it cracked down around his feet.
The Jounin made a frustrated smirk underneath his mask. "You're rather troublesome, aren't you?"
"I just lowered the wind temperature, that's all."
Kakashi's blazing sharingan was now revealed and he instantly sensed danger behind him. Crossing his arms to make a defense barrier as soon as he turned around to block the impact of someone's foot almost hitting his face.
A clone?!
The silverette was blown on the foot of the building from a heavy kick, his back landing on top of a snow. The white cloaked man, soon followed where he was thrown at. If it wasn't for the soft landing, Kakashi could have broken his ribs. He found himself struggling to stand up as he clasp the blade that almost run down his neck with his gloved hands.
He took this opportunity to send a surge of electrical current to the sword user who instantly backed away, shivering from the blue sparks. Kakashi stood up, maintaning his calm composure.
The leaf shinobi formed the ram sign, igniting the paper bombs attached on the person infront who was in no state to avoid that.
He watched with his sharingan as he exploded before looking up. Finding his enemy's silhouette contrasted against the full moon, after realizing he was fighting a clone on the ground.
I need to finish this quickly.
His instincts told him that danger was approaching when he saw the man forming handsigns he recognized very well.
"Hidden Art: Great Purge of Darkness."
Kakashi muttered a curse underneath his breath when snow began to fall from the clouds. He sweatdropped while watching the snowflakes turn into giant icicles all pointed at him.
The moment his enemy flickered his wrist down, Kakashi slammed his palms on the ground.
Icicles swiftly descended down hitting his spot, storming the snow around the area as they plunge through the soil underneath the thick cover of snow. Making the enemy unable to see through the white snow that danced where Kakashi originally stood.
"That should have got him.", he muttered while being incredibly patient until the snow settle down.
He looked around the huge crowd of giant icicles all situated in one place. Jumping down, he walked past the gaps between the icicles and found himself staring at the renowned copy-cat ninja who had his stomach pierced through.
Head and abdomen bleeding out furiously, Kakashi layed still. The enemy was about to take something out of his pouch when he heard the cries of thousand birds above him.
"Chidori!"
At the same time, Kakashi's supossedly 'dead' body turned into a log in a puff of smoke. That's it. He hates Kakashi's substitution technique dearly.
It was physically impossible to run now considering everything that was blocking his escape route. Kakashi took advantage of his enemy's own jutsu and turned the tide around.
The lightning jutsu pierced him through his chest before Kakashi could land beside his body. That should have determined the death of his enemy however, his body began to turn into a shade of a transparent blue.
Kakashi stumbled back as the enemy before him become nothing but a fragile glass of ice that begam to crack. To his shock and incredulity, it bursted into shards that became smaller fragments until they were only now a cloud of dust.
Kakashi sighed, looking suspiciously around him.
"He managed to run away."
Kakashi stepped out of their battlefield and leaned his back against the wall of the abandoned building. He panted out of breath, exhaustion finally draining him.
He didn't got any wounds except for the small cut on his right palm when he grabbed his blade earlier only to see his blue veins popping out of his right arm very clearly like spider webs.
Removing his fingerless glove on his right hand, he saw violet spider-like veins surrounding the small cut on his palm.
"This doesn't...look good...", he muttered in a tired tone as dizziness clouded his vision.
Black spots danced around his vision and he knew he was gonna pass out soon enough. But, he had to pass out anywhere other than outside the cold weather.
Summoning Bull, who was the largest of his ninken with the remaining chakra stored inside him, he immediately dropped on his back, the poison kicking in a rapid pace.
"...to my...adorable students...", was all he could say and Bull immediately tracked the scent of Kakashi's team using his sole memory when he was last summoned.
He fought back the urge to close his eyes or the poison would only sped up destroying his nervous system, killing him in the process.
...........
Kakashi found himself inside the room of his students who layed out their futon together to provide a better warmth as they snuggle against each other. Sakura and Lhexi slept quite peacefully next to each otherwhile Sasuke had his head leaning against Naruto's shoulder who was snoring loudly.
Who knew, the Uchiha was actually the cuddly type.
The scene was quite cute to be honest that he even let out a small chuckle, followed by blood dripping off his lips.
Kakashi's heavy trudges that left bloodprints on the wooden floor woke someone insomniac before he finally dropped to small arms, bleeding everywhere on his body where his veins bursted.
His body finally shut down as soon as his eyes fluttered close. His pale skin was runned down with spider web violet veins, the poison was at its climax.
Lhexi deliberately contemplated what to do at the moment as Kakashi rests his slumped form against her. She finally had the chance to end Kakashi's life. A feat that she vowed to do.
And yet why is she hesitating?
...........
A/N
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I got lazy halfway through writing this, I kinda rushed it so it didn't turned better than I expected.
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