Author's Note:

Alright guys, we are finally going to get back to our roots of the funny! I wasn't very happy about Hikari having a psychotic break, I felt like I was actually hurting her, but I'm keeping it. Her psych profile is still pretty abysmal. Multiple personalities, hearing voices, severe dependency issues, She is still a pretty fucked up human being, but like I always say, if she was normal, she probably wouldn't be our protagonist. Alright, well I haven't actually said that before… BUT IT APPLIES! Regardless, I really hope that you enjoy what you read, and keep up your incredibly conditional love and support! :D

Eyes of the Predator

Chapter 19

Hikari bowed before the Great White Snake Sage seated in front of her. Her hair had gotten longer while she had been training, her long black locks now hovered behind her knee while she stood at attention, in her current position on one knee, it pooled around her. She would need to get it cut. Her usual attire had been changed as well. She still wore her long-sleeved grey shirt, black pants, and black sandals, but over that she wore a short-sleeved white coat that went down to her knees, with a black esoteric snake pattern wreathed around the hemline. The purple markings she had around her eyes reached the bridge of her nose, and then kept falling to reach the sides of her lips, like purple tears.

"You will need to become even stronger then what we have made you if you are to fulfill your destiny, but my part in your path is complete. You know what it is that must be done. I trust you to do it. Rise, Kurai, Sage of the Serpent." The large white snake took a long drag of his cigarette.

How did he manage to get a cigarette that big? Did the snakes grow it themselves? You'd think she would have found out after three years in this cave, but she'd never actually seen him change out cigarettes. There was just a new one every time she turned away. It was like Kakashi and his mask.

Kurai slowly moved up to a standing position. Stretching before a wide smile spread across her cheeks. "It's about time!" She said excitedly. "It means I finally get to leave! Do you understand how hard it was to go through puberty without any eye candy? I mean, snakes are well and good and all, but you aren't the most attractive of creatures. It's not your fault, the Kami didn't give your species a butt, but I should have been allowed a couple of Sabbaticals every once in a while!" Kurai said with a fire in her eyes.

"Why did I let you keep those books…?" The snake said as he slowly shook his head. "I realize you like playing the fool, but just try not to embarrass us." He sounded exhausted, like the weight of Kurai's personality had made him feel as old as he was.

"Oh, come one! Snakey-Sama! If I'm going to be hated, I might as well make it a bit amusing. I wonder if Jiraiya's come out with more books yet? Now that I'm done, I can go check right?" She said enthusiastically.

"You are free to go, but I would suggest that you go about killing Orochimaru quickly. The longer he's in possession of the snake summons, the more disgusted I become." The sage said gravely.

"Sweet, about these clothes… do I have to wear this robe?"

"YES, NOW GET OUT!"

Kurai looked onto the gates of Konoha. Three years. It had been three years since she had begun her training as a sage. She didn't feel particularly old or wizened, which was what one would typically associate with sages, but she could probably fake it until she makes it… like that one girl from the Makeout series.

She nonchalantly passed through the 'bubble' that informed the border patrol that there was a person with significant chakra levels making their way towards town. She probably could have avoided it, but she wanted the attention. It was an easy way to get caught, and there was a couple of people she needed to talk to. She didn't even quicken her pace when she felt the four patrolmen take up positions around her. Unseen, of course, they weren't amateurs, but she could feel their presence as plain as day. Time to lay on the charm.

Please don't flirt with them. The only human interaction you've had for three years has been that porno of yours. The real world doesn't happen like that. He was definitely moderately annoyed at her behavior. You used to be so cute and innocent… why did I ever let you read that stuff?

Shh, Mamoru. I'm trying to be cutesy and you are distracting me. "Hello, boys!" She said as she dramatically emphasized her curves (She wasn't all that curvy, she was a b-cup, but damned if she wasn't going to give it her all!). "Come to see li'l old me into town?" She could hear Mamoru smacking himself in the face all the way from Ryuchi Cave.

The four ANBU patrollers moved in front of her. ANBU Cat, Monkey, Boar, and Wolf all stood in front of her. "Name and registration." Wolf said as he eyed the strange figure in front of him.

Kurai seductively put a finger up to her mouth and rubbed it slowly across her lower lip. ANBU Cat (who was most definitely a female, that long purple hair couldn't trick Kurai) looked incredibly perturbed, but the rest of them just stood stock still. "I'm afraid I don't have one of those that's been updated, I've been out of town for a very long time. I'm just… visiting some old friends of mine."

Please stop that. Manda doesn't like it either.

You're no fun.

The four ANBU drew their weapons as Wolf spoke again. "In that case, we suggest that you come quietly with us."

Kurai seemed to contemplate things for a few key seconds. "Hmmm… What to do, what to do? I can't just kill the four of you, that'd be bad, I'm trying to make a decent enough first impression, but I'm also not too keen on being taken to interrogations… Can we make a deal?"

The four of them held their weaponry at the ready, waiting for some unseen command to charge at the young woman standing in front of them. "What sort of deal are you proposing?"

"I beat all of you unconscious, and you don't hold a grudge." She said as she disappeared from their line of sight. "I think this will be good enough to get the Hokage's attention." The young woman reappeared in front of ANBU Hound and tore off his mask, and then disappeared again before any of them had a chance to react.

"She's so fast!" Boar said as the ANBU created a circle so that they could see her, regardless of the angle she attacked from. Boar had barely finished his sentence when he felt his own mask get pulled from his face.

One by one, the ANBU masks were taken, and the pale girl hadn't even suffered a scratch, but she hadn't dealt one either. The girl appeared a few yards away wearing Cat's mask. "This one's pretty cute, do you wear it for your boyfriend? I mean, I know cat-girls are a bit of a fetish for some people, but I just never really understood why." She stood still after that, as if honestly expecting an answer from the only girl on the team.

There were quite a few seconds of awkward silence. "SHE TOTALLY DOES!" The girl said as she began excitedly jumping around. She tossed it back over to her. "You can keep that one, I'd hate to get in the way of a blossoming love." As soon as she finished her sentence, she appeared in front of Wolf and kicked him squarely in the chest, knocking him into the forest where his body connected with a tree with an audible crack. "That's gonna hurt later." She said as she dodged underneath the surprised swing of her opponent's ninjato. She nimbly moved out of the way and then teleported up into the trees with an audible pop and a flash of black.

The girl drew four senbon, and licked the edge of each one. "Now… If you promise to stay still, I promise that you won't be in as much pain as that guy is in." The girl tossed a kunai, which Boar easily dodged before she appeared exactly where the kunai had landed, and stabbed two senbon into Boar and Monkey each. The two were very still for a second, before collapsing to the ground. Leaving only her, and Cat remaining. "Alright, ANBU Kitty Sexfiend, you are the lucky winner of today's who gets to stay conscious extravaganza!" She said as she excitedly waved her hands in the air. "Tiny stipulation. I have to tie you up."

Cat balked and held up her sword to block any incoming attack. "I know, I know. Usually you'd have to pay someone for this kind of service, and here I am. Just giving it away for free. Well, I'm going to the village to get some much needed info, and I can't have you just running up to the Hokage, telling him that I beat you up and stole your lunch money." Kurai paused for a second. "You might as well just put your sword down, I've already tied you to the tree. Genjutsu is just so awesome."

Cat blinked and felt chakra wire cutting into her wrists and ankles that were tied behind her back as she suspended in mid-air. "WHAT THE HELL!" She said as she began trying to move. This was pretty embarrassing.

Kurai walked in front of the suspended Cat swinging in midair and put the mask back on her face. "I totally would have tied you up in a position that was less… kinky, but I've been reading a lot of Makeout Domination recently, and I wanted to check it out for myself." She scratched at her chin for a couple of seconds. "I'll be honest, still not a big fan. Maybe next time." As Kurai walked off she let a question escape her mouth. "Now, where's my Shishou? If memory serves, he had one of the nicest butts in the village."

And with that, Kurai made her entrance into Konohagakure.

Tsunade hated this job. The paperwork was never ending, and Shizune hid her alcohol from her, and replaced it with candies. At least her other apprentice still worshipped the ground upon which she walked. Sakura had taken her training as a medic with a gusto after the Chunin Exams had finished, While Kakashi had descended into a rather severe funk. He still got that strange far off look in his eyes sometimes, and he would still occasionally barge into her office and ask to follow up on some lead he'd found that might lead him to his apprentice.

It was almost sweet enough to make Tsunade forget what an impudent brat he was sometimes. ALMOST. He was pouring his everything into training Sasuke to be an excellent shinobi, but she was afraid that if he lost this one too, he'd be done for.

Naruto was off training with the self-proclaimed "Super Pervert," and was scheduled to be returning to Konoha in a couple of months. He was a sweet boy. A bit thick-headed sometimes, but he meant well, and tried his hardest at everything he did.

Hinata was the only one from that group that she didn't fully understand from that particular lot. Hinata had returned to training with such a single-minded focus, that you wouldn't even had guessed that she rarely even spoke anymore. She already displayed jonin-level talent, but her communication skills were virtually nonexistent. Any time the girl didn't spend training or on mission was spent in front of the Memorial Stone.

She'd had this damned job ever since the Sandaime had gotten incredibly sick during the Chunin Exams three years ago, she had been forced to return to Konoha to heal him, but even after that he had been too weak to resume his duty as a Hokage. He'd been almost 70 years old at the time, but it was strange to think of her old Sensei as frail.

"Wow, when did we get such a busty Hokage? Seriously, you beat out Anko with those fantastic jugs of yours. WE HAVE A WINNER!" Suddenly a bunch of confetti fell from her ceiling as a banner spread out over her door that read 'Best Tits.'

Tsunade's vein pulsed in her head. She wasn't angry at the statement, it was pretty common knowledge that Tsunade was the bustiest in the village. It was the cavalier method in which it was said. A strange pale girl fell from the ceiling and dropped three ANBU masks at her feet. Tsunade froze. "Well what do you think?" The girl was pointing at the banner behind her, and plainly ignoring the masks she had thrown on the ground. "I got the idea from an old Sensei of mine, she always did love her banners. You know, I was going to surprise her with it, but since it isn't true anymore, I thought you should have it."

Tsunade's knuckles whitened as her grip on her desk tightened and threatened to grind the edge of it into a wooden powder. The only thing that was stopping her was the fact that she'd already broken three desks this month, and didn't want to hear the scolding that Shizune would give her if she exceeded her desk budget again. "Who, pray tell, are you?" She said while grinding her teeth. She was used to dealing with frustrating and weird shinobi, but they were HER shinobi. She had no idea who this strangely dressed pale girl with the same weird eye thing as… Oh shit.

"Kurai, daughter of Orochimaru of the sanin. I would like any information you have regarding his whereabouts." Her tone was incredibly serious

Kurai? No, that wasn't right. The Sandaime had said Orochimaru's daughter had been named H-something. Did he have another daughter? Why hadn't she been informed? "Why would we want to share any of the information we have to you?" Tsunade said as her mind began working at a mile a minute.

"Because I'm going to kill him, it's a little something that needs to be done so that I can get some other things prepped." The girl said with a strange smile. "Of course, I could just take the information I want and leave, but I'd prefer staying on more affable terms with you Tsunade-Sama."

Tsunade's eyes narrowed. "You must realize breaking into my office was a fool's errand. I've got entire teams of ANBU that are headed my direction as we speak."

"Well, then it's a good thing I have the ability to transport instantaneously along great distances." Kurai said as she pulled out a kunai and lobbed it to Tsunade. Tsunade caught the kunai in midair, they were close enough that if it was some kind of explosive seal it would probably take them both down, but Kurai lacked Tsunade's regenerative capabilities... probably. Tsunade didn't actually know anything about this girl.

She looked at the kunai for a moment and her eyes widened. "Where did you get the Hiraishin?" She asked as her grip around the kunai tightened threatening to break the metal handle of the kunai. It had a couple of slight modifications, but the overall look was the same. The only person with the ability to create a seal like this that she knew of was Jiraiya, and even he didn't use the Hiraishin (for sentimental reasons she suspected),

"I reverse engineered it with a gift someone gave me." She paused and then her face lit up like she remembered something funny. "Oh no, wait. Not a gift, it was 'an investment in my future.'" The girl said the last part trying to sound like some strange old man (she wasn't very good at impersonations). Her face looked a little guilty for a second. "I may not have been entirely honest with you, Hokage-Sama." She pulled her arm behind her head in a very Naruto-y way. "I may, or may not, have gone through your confidential files on Orochimaru with shadow clones, and I may, or may not, have found what it was I was looking for… Maybe."

Tsunade moved to take a punch at the girl standing in front of her, but by the time she got there her fist only connected with the wall that Kurai had been standing in front of. Tsunade cursed as she pulled her arm from the drywall and looked at the sizable hole she had created in her office. Shizune is going to be pretty upset about this one. "GET ME KAKASHI HATAKE!" She screamed through the hole in her wall, if it was going to be there, she might as well make use of it.

Hinata was walking home for the lunch she had neglected to pack for training today. Her stomach grumbled and protested at being told to wait, but her stomach could shut up, she was working on it. Her hands were already incredibly sore from the amount of chakra she had been pouring out of them while she had been training with Neji. It would have been rude to say that she had wiped the floor with him, but she didn't talk, so no one was going to judge her for what she said in her head.

She opened up the door to her house and smelt the familiar scent of dust and dog… no, actually she didn't. The house smelled like store-bought air cleaner and pancakes. No one had broken into her house since Hikari had disappeared, it seems a bit strange that someone would break in at lunchtime. She quickly activated her Byakugan and searched the house. Sure enough, someone's chakra signature was pantomiming flipping a pancake in one of her skillets.

Hinata walked forward slowly. The person didn't seem outright hostile (indeed, making pancakes rarely makes you seem like a particularly violent opponent), but she wanted to be careful just in case it was some kind of strange trick Kakashi was playing on her. Something about 'never letting your guard down in seemingly innocuous situations' she was sure.

When she turned the corner, what she saw was heart-wrenchingly surprising. A pale girl, with black hair down to her knees, was dancing to a tune that Hinata did not hear, while wearing only her panties, a ridiculously large chef's hat, and an apron with a comically enormous stack of pancakes to her left (who stacked pancakes twenty high on a single plate? It was a recipe for disaster). Kakashi had gone too far with his genjutsu tricks this time, this couldn't possibly be real. It's gotten to the point where I should probably tell him he has a problem. Hinata quickly attempted to dispel the genjutsu, but the scene in front of her didn't change.

Which meant this was one of two possibilities. Option one, it was a much better genjutsu than Kakashi typically produced. Option two, that was Kakashi wearing a henge… she felt herself get physically ill at that prospect.

"Are you going to quit loitering at the door and wish your sempai a warm welcome, or am I going to have to beat a hug out of you?" A voice that sounded exactly like Hikari's said.

That was just cruel. Whoever had done this could just die for all she cared, but this was a joke made in incredibly poor taste. Hinata felt tears start to reach her eyes as she held the wall for support. She suddenly felt weak and terribly out of breath.

The chef dropped the last pancake onto her stack and turned around. Her jaw immediately dropped and she stood completely still for a few seconds. "WHEN DID YOU GET THOSE!?" She said as she pointed accusingly at Hinata's breasts. "Seriously, did something happen to the village's water supply? Wait…" She tilted her head inquisitively. "Are you actually pregnant this time!? THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH! All the extra food in the fridge, the fact that you haven't been cleaning up. WHO'S THE FATHER? IT'S DEFINITELY NOT ME THIS TIME!"

She stopped her line of questioning when her Kohai buried her face into her shoulder and started weeping. Maybe this was a little much.

OH? YOU THINK!?

THIS WAS HOW THE PROTAGONIST GREETED HER HUSBAND IN 'MAKEOUT DOMESTICITY' DON'T JUDGE ME!

If this was the worst thing you've ever done in the name of the 'Makeout series,' I might not, but this barely breaks the top 5.

Kurai began slowly patting Hinata's head. She would have hoped to have avoided an emotional reunion if she could have. She normally wouldn't have gotten near emotions with a ten-foot pole someone else was holding from a mountain on the other side of the world… but this was her kohai so she felt like she owed it to her. "Why did you leave my kunai on your bedside table?" She asked as her kohai got salt water all over her new apron. It was bright pink and said 'Ninja cook, try to kiss me and I'll stab you.' It was pretty funny, she liked it.

She didn't get an answer other than pained sobs. She pulled her Kohai closer to her and pressed herself against Hinata's mounds (that part was only slightly intentional, they were just so bouncy and enthralling… she was probably channeling Anko's spirit somehow). "I gave that to you, so that if you were ever in trouble, I would know, and be able to help you. That kunai doesn't do either of us any good if you leave it at home." She said seriously.

Hinata mumbled something into her shoulder that Kurai couldn't even begin to comprehend. When Hinata entered whisper mode, you just had to wait for her to get over it. Kurai breathed in deeply, Hinata still used that coconut shampoo that Hikari had hated. "It-It was the only thing I had left of you…"

Kurai realized what her actions must have made Hinata feel. She already suffered from pretty severe abandonment issues, and she had up and abandoned her. The worst part was that Kurai was pretty sure that if she had asked Hinata to leave with her, she probably would have. "I'm sorry if I made you suffer." She said as she began running one of her hands through Hinata's silky hair (The shampoo might have smelled like coconut, but damned if it didn't do its job). "The last thing I've ever wanted was to hurt you." She paused for a long time as her Kohai snuffled and wiped her tears away on her apron. "But I'm going to be going down a path I don't want you to follow."

Hinata's grip around her tightened, like she was holding onto a lifeline for all she was worth. "Why not?" Her voice was quiet, soft. Not the strong kunoichi she had been when Kurai had left, but the little girl that Hikari had found.

"Because what I am going to do will make people suffer. There's no place for happiness on my path." Hinata felt a small sting on the left side of her stomach, she inhaled sharply as she felt herself slowly drift into unconsciousness. "I'll always protect you."

With that, Hinata's world was shrouded in darkness.

Kakashi eyed the hole in the wall from his position in front of the door to Tsunade's office. That didn't bode well. Typically when Tsunade was in one of her moods like this, he would put off showing up for one or two or three hours, or maybe even an entire day if it was really bad. However, it seemed like it was incredibly important, and he wasn't in the habit of endangering lives. "Come in." Tsunade said sweetly.

Oh, no. She only uses that voice when she's really mad. Quick Kakashi, think! What have you made Sasuke do recently that you would get into this much trouble? His mind was completely blank on subject matter as he sheepishly opened the door. When he stepped in, he noticed an incredibly large amount of confetti strewn across the ground, with a banner wreathed over the doorway. He turned to see what it said… Best Tits… Anko's not one to make banners for someone else. The sign wasn't necessarily wrong, just out of character. "Did… Did you throw yourself a party?"

Tsunade's vein throbbed. "No." She said calmly. Too calmly for Tsunade. "I just had one of the strangest interactions of my life, and I need a few questions answered." Kakashi slowly nodded his head. "How many children does Orochimaru have?"

Kakashi looked incredibly confused. "Uhh… One?"

"That's what I had been told, but I just had a visit from a pale girl claiming to be Orochimaru's daughter. With the ability to take down at least three ANBU level without taking any bodily harm whatsoever. She said her name was Kurai, though. She also hung up that banner. She said something about her getting the idea from an old sensei of hers, but the only ninja I've ever seen use banners has been Anko, and the only apprentice Anko's ever had has been Hikari. I've double checked."

Kakashi looked like he was frozen in time and space. "She was here?" He immediately summoned Pakkun. "Pakkun, do you smell anything out of the ordinary here?"

"What? It smells a bit like snake and that perfume Tsunade-Sama's wearing. Why?" He looked at the banner behind Kakashi's shoulder. "Has Anko been in here?"

"She used the Hiraishin." Tsunade said as she held out a kunai. Kakashi took the kunai in his hand and sent out a small pulse of chakra.

There was a popping sound and a black flash followed by a girl appearing in between the two of them with Sharingan in her eyes. She was chewing on something and had a pancake in one of her hands. "You rang?" Kakashi stared wide-eyed as Tsunade threw a punch at the pale girl between them. The girl dropped to the floor and grabbed onto Kakashi's foot before he felt the two of them being tossed through time and space.

Tsunade looked at the (second) hole in her wall. "DAMNIT!"

The two of them were in front of the Memorial Stone. One of her kunai was laying in front of it with a note that said 'from your favorite student' on it. Kurai laid on the ground in front of it, while Kakashi stood upright, still too stunned to speak. "I left that here because I didn't think I'd see you before I left." She said as she sat up, and reappeared directly behind the kunai. She picked it up and put it back in her pouch. "You can keep that one, though." She said as she pointed to the one Kakashi was holding.

"You… When did you learn this?" Kakashi asked as his attention oscillated between the girl who was obviously his student, and a Hiraishin seal.

"Three years ago. Right before I left the village actually." She stood up and looked at the Memorial Stone. "I see, you've put her name up." It was more of a statement of fact than an emotional response. "That's good. Hikari's been dead for three years now."

She heard the Chidori crackle into life behind her and smirked. "What did you do to my student?" He said darkly.

Kurai turned and leaned against the memorial stone. "That's not the question you should be asking Kakashi Hatake." Her Sharingan swirled to become a triangle around the center of her eye, with thick lines moving from the middle of each side of the triangle into a small ball at its center. "The real question is 'what did your student do to herself?'"

Kurai activated her own Chidori, and stood in front of her old Shishou with a smile on her face. "Why?" He asked as the anger that had covered his features was replaced with grief. "Why did you leave the Leaf Village? Why would you attack our ANBU? Why did you do that to Hinata and I?"

Kurai's gleeful expression darkened as the electricity she had built up in her hand dissipated. "I was created to do what had to be done." With a black flash, and a popping noise, Kurai disappeared from his sight.

She was gone again. She had been right in front of him, and then disappeared. What had happened while she was gone? Had another village brainwashed her? What had she meant by 'created?' Typically if she wanted to have said something cryptic like that, she would have said 'born,' but 'created' made it sound like she was an artificial construct, and not a person.

What had happened to her?

Alright, one more to go, Mamoru-Kun!

Please tell me you aren't going to use the Makeout series for your entrance this time.

Relax, if I showed up in front of Sasuke with a reference to that he'd probably… Honestly, he'd probably think I was Naruto using a black-haired Sexy jutsu and punch me in the face. It's probably best if I just play it cool this time.

Thank you.

She nondescriptly knocked on the door to the house that Sasuke had been living in since he was a child. The only reason she knew that he was home was because he was literally the only human in the entire Uchiha district. It had to be a lonely existence, but he probably made it work somehow.

Sasuke opened the door and gave her a wide-eyed stare. "So, have you gotten Sakura pregnant yet or haven't you? I want to be an Aunt someday, and you're ruining my life goals sitting here."

Why did I ever trust you? She could hear Mamoru smack his face all the way from Ryuchi Cave.

Sasuke managed to make the single greatest 'bitch face' she had ever seen a human being made before throwing a punch. Kurai easily evaded his Taijutsu as she bent her form and deflected his punches with the fluidity of her Serpent Style Taijutsu. "Oh, Sasuke-Kun. You certainly have gotten a lot better than the last time we sparred, but you still don't hold candles at me… or something like that."

The two of them activated their fully formed Sharingan. Kurai let her smile get even bigger. "Oooooo, when did you get those?"

"Chunin Exams." He said as the two of them continued their impromptu spar. "Developed when I protected Naruto and Sakura from a giant Bear-tiger hybrid."

"That sounds like it was a lot of fun." She said as she narrowly avoided a strike to her cheek. "I would've taken you to lunch to celebrate if I was here, but I was a bit preoccupied." She said as she landed an opened palmed strike on his stomach, launching him a few feet backwards. She hadn't put any chakra into the strike, she wasn't trying to kill him here.

He reengaged and the two of them continued their game of blocking and striking. "What were you up to?" He was intrigued, but kept it out of his voice as best he could. He would wonder how Hikari had ended up in the middle of Konoha later, but right now he wanted some answers.

"Training." She said as she caught a kick Sasuke had aimed for her head, and threw him across his front yard. "You didn't think I'd been twiddling my thumbs for three years did you?"

"I thought you were dead." He said as he flipped into a standing position. "Glad to see you aren't."

"Aw, that's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me." She said as she dodged a punch he had sent towards her face. He had definitely been trained under Kakashi. Sasuke had speed, and no doubt a prodigious talent for Ninjutsu, but he lacked the kind of raw hitting power that you get from a Taijutsu specialist, like the Green Beast or his protégé.

Of course, if she entered Sage Mode, she would probably crush him into a fine powder, but she wasn't just going to use that kind of power for a spar with her cousin. She would however, use this.

Her Mangekyo Sharingan swirled to life, and Sasuke stopped mid swing. "How…" he didn't get any further than that as an opened palm connected with his chest and sent him sprawling away from her, knocking the air from his lungs.

"I got it the night I killed Hikari Hebi." She said stoically. "Hikari is an entity that no longer exists, my name is Kurai." She paused for a second. "Would you like to see what these eyes of mine can do?" When he stared at her with eyes filled with anger her smile faded. "My left eye is the Omoikane. It takes the predictive capabilities of a regular Sharingan to the extreme, allowing me to see all possible scenarios of a fight in an instant. Of course, it only gives me knowledge about the next couple of seconds. My right eye is the Hachiman. This lovely eye pulls me and my target into a nearly unbreakable genjutsu in which my target is forced to fight legions of fallen soldiers for days on end without the chance to rest. You can only escape if you are killed, or if 48 hours of time in my realm passes." She paused for a few seconds before her smile returned. "Of course, dying in the genjutsu will only result in a recoverable coma like state, if you have a good enough medic on hand. Any of the suffering you experience while in the genjutsu will feel incredibly real, you will continue to feel the injuries for a few days after we're finished."

Kurai stared at him for a long time before she deactivated her Sharingan. "To think, you're going to be one of the people who is destined to kill me." She sighed. "Tell Kakashi to ramp up your training, I am incredibly disappointed that this is all he's taught you."

She turned to leave. "Oh, when Naruto comes back into town, tell him I said hi." She paused again before turning her attention back to him. "You better make me an Aunt soon, or I'll never forgive you." She said with a big smile on her face. Before disappearing in a black flash.

Sasuke slowly returned to a standing position. What had she meant by 'the night she killed Hikari?" That was so obviously Hikari, that it didn't even make sense. He deactivated his Sharingan and stretched. He was going to have to redouble his training. There was no doubt in his mind that if that girl had really wanted to beat him around like a toy that she could have. She was holding back so that they could have that conversation. But what purpose did that serve?

He let out a sigh and returned to his usual slumped posture as he put his hands into his pockets and walked towards the Hokage Tower. Might as well report this to the Hokage, hope she isn't in too bad of a mood.

Tsunade read the four different reports she had made the ANBU squad, Kakashi, Hinata, and Sasuke write up about their interactions with Hikari (or Kurai, or whatever the hell the girl called herself). There was literally no other explanation for why she would randomly decide to come to the village and wreak moderate havoc. She hadn't caused any damage (Tsunade had technically been the only one to break anything), but Tsunade could not think of any reason for her to have shown herself.

She had been able to garner all of the information she had needed without alerting any of the elite ANBU of her presence, and Tsunade wouldn't even have known she was in the village if it hadn't been for the little display with the banner (she should probably take that down).

Hikari had been playing with them.

Omake (a short one, but it made me chuckle when I thought about it)

Hayate Gekko stared at the suspended ANBU Cat with a small smirk on his face. This wasn't the first time he'd seen her like this (Bow Chicka Bow Wow). "If you say one word, I will fucking stab you."