Just a little character development practice, using the very minor but full of potential character, Yugito Nii, the Nibi host. 9 prompts, two chapters. Enjoy, and give the minor characters some love.
2 a.m.
She wrapped her arms around herself tightly, trying to supress her shriving, cold body. She felt a hand rest over her shoulder. It gave a light, reassuring squeeze. That didn't stop the bile rising from up her esophagus as she looked at the corpse below her, its blank eyes staring at nothing.
"Harness the nekomata's chakra, and focus it into the corpse." Yugito looked over her shoulder, pleadingly eying the woman behind her. She simply titled her head, her arms crossed over her chest, "Come on, we haven't gotten all night."
Yugito titled her head up, her dark eyes noticing the forming storm clouds above. The smell of rain and electricity are overwhelmed by the corpse's more putrid scent.
She knees down slowly next to the corpse, carefully avoid any physical contact. She folds her hands together, eyes tightly shut as she summons the nekomata's chakra. Yugito jerks back, still not accustomed to the Nibi's burning chakra. Her eyes open, bi-coloured in yellow and green, pupiless. She looks down to her hands, a flame of blue-purple chakra, engulfing them.
She looks back to the woman. She nods in approval as she eyes the sky carefully.
Yugito hands hover above the corpse, shaking. Perhaps this is mother's way of letting her have one last chance to play with sister.
2.Metaphor
Cat's have nine lives, or so she has been told. She asked auntie Naomi if that was true. She simply answered, "It is just a silly superstition, and there are no grounds to it at all."
Yugito doubt that as she looked at the mangy stray with pity. She'd seen the cat get into many fights with other neighbouring cats, running away from dogs or angry fishmongers, swaying their fishing knifes high in the air.
She cannot begin to count how many countless times the scared-covered cat had survived many a brush with death. She began to admire the stray more with each day; for every fishing knife missing his tail just in inch, for every dog left barking madly at him as he perched himself high in a tree in victory, to every fight he ends up as victor.
For every kunai or shuriken that miss her just an inch, for every enemy shinobi cursing at her swift escape, to her opponent lying lifelessly below her, she knows, cats do indeed have nine lives.
3. Sky
Yugito once asked her mother what the sky was made of, "Air, different gases, like oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide…" She had no idea what those were, so she felt slightly disappointed. Her dark eye squinted in scrutiny at the cloudy sky. It must be made out of something much more interesting than "oxygen" or "nitrogen".
She looked over to her Uncle as he smoked his pipe, staring peacefully up at the sky with her. Maybe it was made up of all the smoke from Uncle's pipe. Yes, that made perfect sense, she assured herself as she saw Uncle blow out a thick puff of smoke. It danced and swirled upwards.
Yugito smiled warmed as she looked through glassy eyes up, imagining the clouds above being smoked out of E's pipe as she felt herself being dragged over the rugged terrain, the carrier muttering curses to his partner.
4. Degrees
The Nibi's flames burned at 250 degrees Celsius.
She didn't need to tell him that; he was more than sure that the flames that engulfed her hand were indeed hot.
Just the heat from the flames could cause first-degree burns.
He trashed and jerked in his set, his eyes watering as he whimpered.
She found she could increase the Nibi's flames up a few degrees, with practice.
She told him she once suffered second-degree burns from over exerting herself as she tried to do this. His eyes widen.
Once she was able to adjust the temperature of the Nibi's flames, she could adjust just how severely she could burn an enemy.
She asked him if he had ever heard of a fourth-degree burn. She ran a finger over his damp forehead, dripping the sweat over the other, enflamed hand. He winced as he heard the sizzling noise it made.
The Nibi flame had a unique way of burning the victim internally, leaving the surface unscathed and can peacefully burn them and extinguish itself once the job was done.
Yugito walked casually out of the building, looking over her should only to see a blue light flickering inside the basement window of her targets house.
Notes: 1. In Japanese mythology, nekomata(cat's that tail has become forked and enchanted) where thought to be able to raise the dead. Yugito's Biju is a nekomata, so I thought this might be one of her Biju's techniques Kumo might try to teach her to harness. I think it might be a lot like Shinobi puppetry, but more usefu for recon missions. ;)
Host are usually relatives of Kages, so I thought it might be quite possible that she'd be related to E(the forth Raikage).
Yugito is at different ages through these drabble. The first one, I'd say about 10, the second, 10-, the third, 29, the forth, 20's.
