I've sent a message to the Hokage telling him I will be missing for a few days as I continued to fight with Kurama's chakra. It's not the first time, and it's never the last.

So far it's been day 2 and the adrenalin has yet to leave my body, so I continue to fight. Chakra making sure that my hits are still stronger than the average ninjas even as my hits weaken.

My heart races and my blood continues to pound. Water fell down from my forehead due to fighting and falling on top of the water.

I am tired, my movies are slowing down and getting softer, but each still leads with deadly precision. I've fought for longer, but not with this stile.

In the back of my mind, I wonder how long I can continue. This thought is clearly dismissed because even I am not that much of a masochist.

One of the things that make me one of the strongest in the village isn't my strength or even speed. I can't just jump into a fight without a plan like Naruto, but that is what makes me so stronger, and him so unpredictable.

My ability is the reason I was first introduced to Shikaku Nara and Itachi Uchiha.

It's my ability to predict my opponent's moves before they make them. Itachi taught me how to spot the movement more clearly and Shikaku taught me what each movement meant and how I could use it to my advantage.

I can see your every effect I have on you not by having a Sharingan but by looking at stances and twitches in the body, and each twitch means something different, and each person has a different tell.

If I know my opponent well enough, like Neji, Itachi, and Asuma I know how they will lead and there moves because I know them. I know how they will start, stop, and continue the battle.

Asuma likes to wait it out.

Neji likes to fight head-on.

Itachi likes to get the jump and surprise you before the battle starts.

Mabey you should stop

Rin tells me as I roll on top of the water. I enter my mindscape keeping my form by doing Katas.

She and Kurama have been mostly quiet. They know that when I get like this nothing is stopping me. I keep most of my raw emotions locked up until times like this I release them.

" I'm fine," I tell her and she shakes her head.

Not fighting, keeping your emotions in check, Minato did this, but when he exploded, he exploded and I have the luck of never seeing it. Kakashi has though once. He told us it was the most terrifying thing he ever witnessed.

Rin commented and I flinched at the thought of someone watching me when I lost control.

Rin and Kurama don't count. They have been with me for so long that I literally have no shame with them, I guess you could say the same thing for Itachi.

But if Naruto saw me like this. Shikamaru. I don't think I would like that outcome.

And it doesn't help that I've been told that even though I have my dad's why of controlling anger, I have my mother's rage. Which is ten times worse than dads.

It's clear that Naruto is the opposite of this fact. He barely has anger, but when it shows he speaks up that second.

I, however, have anger but choose to release it when I know I can't kill anyone.

Our anger is different too.

Naruto is like wind, unpredictable strong, and fierce. I am like water a wave of frigid anger tightly reigned in. Naruto's eyes fill with conflicted rage when angry, mine are an icy cold sapphire or Ruby when Kurama is with me.

I am jumped out of my thoughts by someone knocking on the sealing barrier surrounding me.

Only one person knows where this is.

I spark chakra into one of the seals. bypassing it and allowing him to enter.

I drop my Kata's and walk over to the tree atop the small cliff and sit down. My breaths are large and calm as I close my eyes. I feel his chakra fluctuate as he sits next to me. His arms wrapping around my shoulder and pulling him closer to me.

" Hey Shika," I say my forehead resting against his shoulder.

" Troublesome Kari" Vibrations rumble against his chest making his voice sound deeper then it already is.

No more words were spoken as we watched the clouds in comfortable silence. And for one of the few times since Itachi left, I felt safe.

I closed my eyes and heard him chuckle before I fell into welcoming darkness.