AN: YO! I'm back my friends. So, as always I must remind you all that English is not my native language.

Unfortunately, any and all mistakes are the result of genuine ignorance, although I am improving over time, it is not happening as fast as I would like, but it is happening relatively well.

Besides, I am posting and reviewing the chapter on my cell phone, so there are probably several errors that I missed. We all know that the original story belongs to Kishimoto-sama, I'm just messing up this universe at my pleasure.

Doubtful timeline and possibly getting more and more blurry and strange. Chapters will be posted when I learn to stop procrastinating. Wink. I hope you all like it, any help is welcome. Enjoy...or not. See ya!

That's all, folks.

Age of 3

When Kakashi turned 5 he entered the academy and spent the whole day there, Sakumo then decided to train me in the forest near Minato's house (which was not far from the orphanage). He trained me all morning, and in the afternoon Kushina helped me to train and improve in my sensory skills (my reach still remained at about 15 yards).

The Sannis also intensified my training, Tsunade thought it was better to start training medical ninjutsu so that I could start doing other types of ninjutsu. Jiraiya started training my writing and sealing techniques, Minato also trained me, but only taijutsu and it was so rare that this area of my ninja was probably falling behind. Being a sensor Minato would be more suitable to train me for this skill in general than just taijutsu, but as he rarely stopped at home Kushina covered that need.

Today was a rare day off, so I decided to run to the academy to stalk...er, watch the other kids. I ran to the academy, climbed a tree using chakra and extended my tracking field until I could feel Kakashi's chakra inside one of the rooms. I decided to wait until lunch to try to talk to Kakashi about Sakumo that I hadn't seen in days.

After several minutes the brats started to spread out in the courtyard, I came down from the tree and ran to where I felt Kakashi's chakra. When I got there, several children were around the two boys, one of them was Kakashi and the other was ... Guy.

"My rival!" he yell at the top of his lungs. Kakashi looked bored, the children around looked amused and whispered excitedly. Would the two of them fight? "I challenge you …"

"Nah, I'm not interested" interrupted Kakashi in a monotone. Guy cried anime tears and then was filled up with determination.

"I Might Guy, challenge Hatake Kakashi to..."

"I already said that I am not interested."

The children around started to laugh and insult Guy, Kakashi looked slightly sorry, but at the last second he turned to leave. Guy was curling up in a corner, trying to physically move away from the offensive words.

"OI!" I screamed to get everyone's attention, even Kakashi stopped and opened his eyes wide. "I accept the challenge in the place of Kakashi-kun" I said looking into Guy's eyes and tried not to cringe with all the sudden attention from those naughty children.

"You ..." started Guy with anime tears streaming down his face "THIS IS THE POWER OF YOUTH!" he yell and made the "nice guy" pose (thumbs up, wink, and winning smile, I swear that I heard the ping) but I kept myself firm *sweat drop*. "It looks like I have a new rival, what's your name?"

"Keiko" I replied smiling sweetly.

"Okay, Keiko-chan, let's run!" he yell overly excited.

"HEY! Idiots" yelled a boy in a loud and unpleasant tone. "Two losers shouldn't be competing to demonstrate skills they don't have" he said in a mocking tone.

"Wow, a caveman like you shouldn't be able to form whole sentences like that" I replied angrily.

"OI! You wretched brat…" he yell in rage as he advancing aggressively towards me. My eyes widened in frightened disbelief. Oh Fuck!

OMG, my taijutsu is mediocre, at best I could is dodge it, at worst I will have my ass kicked in front of the entire ninja academy. Suddenly, I felt things move more slowly, I saw Kakashi and Guy running towards me, as well as two other children that I assumed were Genma and Asuma. They are cute.

The boy's fist was inches from my face. No fucking way that I will be the damsel in distress! Minato may not be teaching me every day, but I was training under the fucking Yellow Flash. Anyway, if nothing work, I would act like Kushina and punch that brat's face.

Instinct took over me, I dodged to left and with my right hand I grabbed the boy's wrist, using his own impulse and weight against him I threw him against a tree, his body hit the bark so hard that everyone cringed, the boy fell on the ground unconscious. Oops!

His friends ran away leaving him sprawled on the floor, Guy and Kakashi stopped beside me while Genma and Asuma stopped halfway looking between the unconscious body and me. Well, it looks like my taijutsu is not that mediocre. Surprise, surprise!

"That was awesome Keiko-chan!" yelled Guy as he threw an arm over my shoulders.

"He's bleeding" said a new voice. Then I noticed that there were only nine children in that area of the yard, counting with me and the boy lying on the floor, there was Kakashi, Genma, Asuma and Guy. As well as Obito, Kurenai and Rin that had decided to join the happy party (the rest of the brats disbanded).

I pulled myself away from Guy's grip and went to the boy on the floor, my hand shone with green chakra on his forehead, luckily despite bleeding a lot and of the strength of the blow that he received, he was fine. I healed the cut and did one last check just in case that I accidentally gave him a head trauma. Just because I am going to be a murderer in the future doesn't mean I have to start anytime soon.

"He'll wake up soon," I said as I stood up and wiped his blood on the hem of my dress. Then I realized that everyone's jaw was dropped, Guy's jaw was almost on the floor. I sweatdrop and scratch the back of my head.

"You know medical ninjutsu!" exclaimed Rin with glee. I felt my cheeks flush.

"Just the basics" I replied in a low voice while kicking a rock and avoiding looking at all those stunned faces.

"Keiko-chan, what did you come here for?" asked Kakashi in exasperation.

"I want to know about your father Kashi- kun" I mumbled, still avoiding eye contact.

"Dad went on an important mission, he'll be back in a few months." he replied embarrassed by the nickname. I bet he is blushing.

"Ah."

I really hope that wasn't the mission that I think it is, even because Kakashi was on the eve of becoming Genin. Shit, maybe that was that mission. I tried not to show my internal turmoil.

"... and you know they'll be concerned." I heard the end of what Kakashi was saying. Deciding to risk make myself a fool in front of my favorite characters, I replied anyway.

"Kashi-kun, no one will notice that I'm gone until at least dinner time". Now that I think about it...it's kind of sad to be honest. Soooo sad.

Kakashi sighed, however before anyone could do or say anything, the signal alerted the beginning of the afternoon classes.

"Go home Keiko-chan" he said and turned to leave.

"Hai!"

"Wait!" called Guy "Tomorrow you have a free day ..." I looked at him trying to understand "I thought ... you ... I mean ... "

"Okay, Guy-kun," I agreed after remembering our sudden "rivalry".

"YES!" he yell as he made the "nice guy" pose.

"You have training," recalled Kakashi.

"Not really, only Kushina hasn't been on a mission lately, but she'll only be free after tomorrow"

"In that case, I will find you at your home!" Guy yell almost jumping in joy. I was slightly uncomfortable and was about to say that I lived in an orphanage when Kakashi interrupted.

"In mine," said Kakashi, my shoulders relaxed. Guy looked like he was about to do a victory dance when Asuma interrupted.

"We need to go, and someone needs to take this boy to the infirmary."

"I do this" I said, already bending down and pulling him up by one of his arms.

"I'll help you" said Obito.

The boy was moaning incoherently, we hardly could keep with his weight, Asuma, Genma (each holding one leg) and the others follow toward the infirmary.

In the end, they ended up arriving late to class and I had to be taken to the Hokage's tower. Fucking Awesome.

-Omake-

It turns out that I was not severely punished, but the Hokage made me help in three D rank missions (without pay). And that was how I met Shisui. I would have to help a few genins to be babysitters for the children of the Uchiha clan. How difficult would it be to care of a one-year-old baby?

Shisui was a cute baby, I would have to help my partner take care of him, luckily besides being cute he was also a love and hardly cried. The girl who was my partner hasn't tried to carry him since Shisui started crying desperately in her lap.

Being a babysitter was my last mission/punishment, so I could go back to training full time with Kushina, I was teaching Shisui to put together a puzzle when a beautiful Uchiha woman (damn perfect genes) approached.

"Ohayo!"

"Ohayo, Uchiha-sama" I replied getting up and bowing.

"There is no reason for so much formality, you may call me Mikoto, what's your name?" My internal fangirl was screaming. I just met Itachi's mom, mentally took a deep breath and prepared myself not to freak out.

"Mikoto-sama ..."

"Mikoto"

"Mikoto...sama" I said hesitantly, the Uchiha woman was smiling but she had an irk mark showing up at her forehead.

-Time skip no jutsu-

Age of 4

Tsunade finally started training me in the practical part of medical ninjutsu as well as to taijutsu so that my body would be prepared to possibly develop super strength. Shizune was also receiving the same training but was still in the basics so she was trained with Tsunade in particular, being our only shared lesson on poisons and on rare occasions anatomy.

Besides Tsunade, Duy-sama also trained me in taijutsu - Guy as a tag along - the rest of the training intensified after I finally reached my sensor skills, my current limit being of about 20 yards. Kushina thought it would help blend it to the taijutsu so when Minato was home he would join us and basically attacked me randomly -kicking my ass using Hiraishin- sometimes with pure taijutsu, sometimes with kunai and shurikens.

Sakumo, like the others, decided that he would increase the difficulty of his contribution to my training, so now the nikens would appear randomly and attack me (I lost count of how many times I ended up eating dirt or getting sticky with saliva -apparently even retired nikens can make me sweat- lovely). Jiraya was still focusing on sealing techniques, and after I begged a lot he agreed to teach me the Rasengan, but only if my medical training with Tsunade was complete (it sucks, but I could always go to Minato).

Hiruzen agreed to keep it secret since received monthly updates on my performance, apparently I already was in genin level and this has assured me a pass to the academy in the next year. Kakashi was already considered a chunin, however he would only receive the formal title when he took the chunin exam in a few years.

Lately Sakumo was really down and the whole village was treating him like garbage, which confirmed my suspicions that the mission that Kakashi had mentioned was the fateful mission that would lead his father to develop depression and consequently lead him to death. I spent weeks trying to think of what to do to prevent Sakumo-sama from killing himself. In the end, nothing I thought could be of any help. It was a night after a few months of the damn mission that I noticed that Sakumo was appearing to be going downhill, and if that continued...well, the worst was getting closer and closer to happening.

When we were in training I could notice the lack of sparkle in his eyes, there were times during the practice of ninjutsu that Sakumo simply stopped our training and hugged me as if I were a living teddy bear. It was exactly at those moments that I noticed his tears soaking my hair and to console him I tightened my arms around him and we stayed like that for several minutes until he recovered and we continued the training like everything was normal.

I wanted to cry over his misery, but it would probably make him even sadder, so I just bit my lower lip to the point of bleeding and closed my eyes. Some times when that happened I fall asleep in his arms, and when I awake up… I am in my bed in the orphanage. But this time there was something wrong in the air, this time when I woke up I had the distinct feeling of imminent doom.

Outside the sky was darkening with heavy clouds, it would be a stormy night ... Wait! Is today! I kicked the sheets and ran as quietly as I could, I just stopped trying to be subtle when my bare feet reached the grass and that's when the rain started, I ran at full speed. During the whole way I mumbled a mantra ... Please don't! No! No! Over and over again.

The rain delayed me a little, but my despair was so strong that even that would not stop me from trying to go faster and faster. The door of the Hatake's home was a few steps away when I decided to make a shadow clone (unfortunately I could only do one), the clone already knew that has to get Duy-sama and then go after Minato-sama or the Hokage. The clone nodded and left running in another direction, all that happening while I still running frantically.

My ears caught the sound of a sharp blade being drawn and with that my rhythm became even more frantic, and without subtleties I hurled against the door, I heard a loud crack, and then the door opened (well, more like it fall down). Sakumo still kept the tantō blade against his stomach, but his face was turned towards me in a surprised expression. He looked scared and ashamed.

"Don't you dare!" I screamed in anger and pain "JUST NO!"

Keiko-chan, I..." he started already lowering the blade and coming towards me. I ran towards him, his arms were already open waiting for the impact of my small body. We gave what was probably the most uncomfortable hug in the ninja world, my forehead collided with his collarbone, his chin hit my head and I probably hit his ribs, and probably some more sensitive parts of his anatomy judging by his grunt of pain.

We were holding each other as if our lifes depended on it (in his case it probably does) and crying like babies, that's how Duy-sama and a Anbu found us. Hours later Kakashi came in through the newly fixed front door and oblivious to the dark mood in the room he start to tell us about his day. If he found it strange that Guy's dad and I spent the night he just ignored it.

The next morning Kakashi took me back to the orphanage before going to the academy, Duy stayed with Sakumo all day. In that same day I discovered how terrifying Tsunade could be, and amid threats of death and dismemberment, a very pale and fearful Sakumo agreed to see a psychologist of the Yamanaka clan. And even though the threat was not directed at them…Minato (he had just arrived from his mission) and Day were pale with fear, I had never seen a person reach that shade of white in my life (both lifes actually).

-Time skip no jutsu-

Age of 5

Sakumo was much better, but the people of the village still treated him with a certain disdain, fortunately now he had a shadow that followed him everywhere, Duy became Sakumo guardian angel of his own free will. Apparently only the Hokage, Tsunade, Duy, a young Inoichi and I were aware of what had happened that night the year before.

Hiruzen decided to put Sakumo into a forced retirement, so now I would be his only obligation. I was more than satisfied, unfortunately that means that my training with Sakumo turned into training sessions with Sakumo-and-Duy, with the occasional participation of Guy and Kakashi. Total torture. But I'm becoming a complete badass.

Finally Sakumo started training me in more advanced ninjutsus, it turns out that my chakra natures were raiton and doton, complete opposites that could not work together or so I thought until he showed me that yes I could use both and kick many asses.