Welcome all once again! We begin a new story, a new batch of obsticales and emotions for our lovers to come into contact with. So kids here we go. I don't own Naruto, I just own all those that don't appear in the series are mine. Something new waits at the end of this story, will you like it? :3 I know I do. So hear we go, Goddess 2nd set.
Shadows
Three years later
He sits in a meeting, Nara Shikamaru, watches as Lady Tsunade goes over a mission with a few of the people in the room. Just to his right sits his father, nodding now and then at what the lady as to say. Shikamaru looks passed the Lady to the clear blue sky behind her.
'No clouds today, but still a good day for a nap, Yae,' His thoughts wonder back to his days in the hospital.
Three years ago he'd woken to white walls and crying parents. One word had wrung out in the hospital ward and it seemed to bring his parents to him. His father first then his mother, her tear stained face was heart breaking, but all he could do was close his eyes.
"SHIKAMARU!" Her yell made him grown and her hands crushing his made him groan even more.
"Mom…please," He moaned out and opened his eyes.
"A few more months and winter will be in," Said His father as his thoughts cut off quickly. The war was coming, troops rallying now but come the next year it will be war time. Shikamaru turned his attention back to the Hokage who at the time was staring at him.
"Something to add Shikamaru?"
"Intel states that once the ball starts moving they will attack the Raikage first, cut the head off the snake," Shikamaru's words are calculated. He lets nothing slip to her.
'I know what you want, me to act out.' Thought Shikamaru as he looks down at the paperwork before him. They think he'd just backed off the subject, but he hadn't, for two years she haunted him.
"Where's Yae Cho?" He asked a few days after waking. Choji and Hinata sat in his room while his parents returned to the estate. Hinata stopped fixing the flower vase and looked over to the plump man.
"Cho?" His voice sounded weak but that was due to his coma state. Choji looked at him his face serious.
"She's gone; Tsunade sent her way a few hours before you woke,"
He'd known. It had been days, she hadn't come. His parents hadn't answered the question the first day. So he'd stopped asking, Tsunade had given him a run through the battle. Not a word had been said about Yae. The incident was labeled an invasion, rival Akatsuki trying to get passed the gate.
"She came to see you," says Choji as he pulls out his bag of trusty potato chips. Shikamaru smiled at the large man as Hinata leaned over his shoulder and pulled a chip out. She popped it in her mouth, as Choji stopped munching.
Snapping back to the present, Shikamaru stood as his father stood.
"Shikamaru, come back tomorrow morning. You and three others will have a mission to the Mizukage." He stops in his tracks and looks to the Hokage.
"I'm allowed out?" He asks emotionless. Shikaku jabs his son and walks out.
"I figured we'd come down to this. I know you resent me for three years ago, but understand I'm protecting this village," Says Tsunade as Shikamaru gives her an emotionless smile. His eyes close as he smiles wide.
"Understood Hokage sama," He turns away from her and walks out of the office. The smile drops as he walks down the hall. His father joins him but stops as he finaly looks at how tired his son really is.
~Kirigakure, Village hidden in the Mist~
The water rushed under her, she sat crossed legged on the raging waters. She was calm, as her body glowed and each time she glowed, it was a different color. Red, Green, brown, and blue. The blue lasted longer as it sucked at the water below her.
She wore a short dark blue dress with pale green sleeves down to her wrists. Under the dress she wore pale green shorts and on her thighs were bandages. Wrapped around her neck was her bright red scarf. Her dark green hair had grown longer, resting in the water as she sat.
"Water, Fish, Dragon, Cat, Water Goddess Suireijutsu," the hand signs were quick, no longer fumbled but sure and strong.
"Water Art number 8: Suireitsukai Eria," Water rose around her and swirled to an orb before her. Within the water a snake swirled and its tongue popped out here and there.
"Eria, go," The snake launched itself from the orb and landed in the water. It took off quick down the lake and out of site.
Ebisu Yae stood up and looked to the darkened sky. It was hardly ever sunny here; the village hidden in the mist was a grey dingy place. But hidden here in the mist no one asked, no one looked twice as she set her roots on the outskirts of town.
Turning from the lake, Yae jumped to the shore and watched as a three year old child pushed a few rocks around on the ground. The child's long black hair was pulled up into a spiky pony tail. They wore a pale blue turtle neck with no sleeves, and black spandex shorts. On their legs and arms were fishnets. Wrapped around her waist was a pale green scarf.
"Shizu you ready?" The little girl looked up to Yae, red eyes meeting red eyes. Shizu sprang up and latched herself on to Yae's leg. Shizu looked down and tapped at Yae's leg.
"Are we going to play Karuta when we get home?" Yae reached down and picked up the three year old. Shizu was big for her age, at three this little girl was shining. Her speech had not developed yet, but Yae was no match for the child's mind.
Shizu nodded quickly and pulled back from Yae, she jumped down. She gave a shy smile as she pulled her hands together and formed hands signs slowly. Each one went slow and precise, as she stopped at the last sign she waited. Her smile faded and her hands dropped.
Yae squatted down to her daughter and pulled her close.
"You know the signs, just got to speak up Izu," Yae kissed her daughters head as the little girl sniffed and gripped on to her mother tight. Yae stood up and looked to the darkened sky.
"You are just like your father, this sky's just not for you," Yae began her trek back to the village, crying child and all.