A World Over
A kunai hit another steel metal weapon then spun into a tree. A fagitued girl backed up slightly, her breathing heavy and labored. Another kunai was gripped in her hand.
"Again." A male voice called out. The girl didn't nodd her head only charged forward her kunai ready to strike. The girl's right hand was at her weapon's pouch on her right leg. She jumped up into the air and threw the kunai down on the boy below her. Her right hand came up with three skuriken in it. She spun around in the air and threw them down as well. She landed on the balls of her feet.
The boy used a repcialation jutsu to avoid the weapons that rained down on him. He appeared behind the girl with a kunai to her neck. The girl gasped all the air coming out of her lungs.
"I win again, Sarai. What's wrong...you've been like this for weeks now..." He removed the kuani and put it back in his weapon pouch. He sat down on the ground beside of the girl.
"I'm sorry, Taiska-sama." Sarai sat with her head bent down.
"It's fine. You just need to rest for a while, come up with a new staragy and then we'll spar again." He said with a grin on his face. The girl, Sarai, sighed.
"I don't understand. We used to be able to tie against each other or one win then the other...Now I can't win at all."
"It's just stress," The boy sighed as well. "You've been like this since I became a..."
Sarai jumped up her feet, her back facing the male. "No, Taiska-sama, it's..I don't think I'll pass the test..." Taiska stood up behind her.
"Sarai-sama, you'll do fine. It's the same test that I had to take and you've mastered it fine. So this really has nothing to do with me becoming a genin before you?"
Sarai turned to face Taiska. She shook her head. "No,...I'm just..nervous..The test is tomorrow and I'm afriad to mess up."
"Let's walk," He said and turned his back on the young girl. Sarai nodded her head and followed till she was side by side with her older cousin. "You, Sarai-sama, are of the Head, I am only the Branch. You will be able to do things that I cannot."
The forest changed from crowded trees to an open meadow. Blue, yellow and red wildflowers blew on the breeze. This was where the two family members went whenever they needed to talk or just to be alone.
"But your father, Neji-sama, can do what any other Head member can."
"Yes, Sarai, but I'm not like him. I don't hate the Head, no matter what. Yes, I want to protect you with my life. And I'll do that too, but I don't see don't the point of trying to be better then I am. I'm me, and I'm not going to change that. I like the way I am. I wouldn't have wished that I were in your place and you in mine. No, I don't want that. I don't want you to have to go through what I have to. You are my cousin, my family, but you're my best friend too. I want to protect you no matter what. Whether my father ever let on, he wanted and still does want to protect your mother no matter what, as I do you."
Sarai saw a bug crawl over her foot, she looked at it. Once it was gone, she looked up. "I...I..don't know what to say.."
"You don't have to say anything. I wouldn't want you to. Go home and get some rest. You'll do fine on the test tomorrow. I promise." Sarai watched Taiska disappear into the trees. She knew it wouldn't be long till he learned how to use the transportation justu he'd been working on for a while. She sighed and sat on the ground.
So, unlike his father at his age, he doesn't believe in fate. He makes his own decisions. He has since he was born. He was born of Hyuuga Neji, the greatest Branch member and Hyuuga ever. Yet,...I don't know. Somethings are just...I don't know. What am I going to do?
Sarai layed down on the grass. Her arms placed under her head. Mother told me about her fight with Neji-sama, but I...still. I can see his point. Fate put us where we are. We can get out from where we are by hard work. Naruto-san proved that. It seems like everyone I know did something important, but me. Even Taiska has done something important. Not me. I still have something to prove.
Sarai's eyes shot open. She didn't know that she'd fallen asleep. She woke up to the sound of footsteps coming closer. Sarai's nose twiched. She knew the smell. It was Naruto himself. She sighed and sat up.
"What do you want, Naruto-san?"
"Your mother asked me to come and get you. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here." He said in the annoy voice that Sarai grew to hate, and Naruto knew it. He poked her in the back on the head.
Sarai jumped up onto the balls of her feet. Her back to him. "What time is it?" She asked, keeping her voice from showing how much she wanted him and his annoying voice to get lost.
"Two am," Naruto answered. His arms were crossed over his chest. "Now do I have to carry you home or are you going to go now your own?" Sarai huffed then turned around.
"I'm going on my own and if you dare tell my mother how long I was out here, Taiska and I will double team you. And you know very well you can't beat the two of us together." She said with her eyes narrowed.
"Fine then, see if I care." Naruto placed his hands together and released a small amount of charka and disappeared. The transportation jutsu that Taiska was working on getting. If he succeded, he'd be the first genin to learn a high level jutsu like that. Even Naruto didn't learn it untill a year after he became a chuunin.
Sarai sighed and walked back through the forest. She hoped that she wouldn't get caught by anyone. Once she was out of the forest, she saw at the edge of the village. She walked into the gate and to her clan home. Once she saw the gates or wall really sighed. There was a light on. But instead of seeing her mother waiting for her at the door, Hyuuga Neji was there waiting.