Hotaru and Utakata
Somber song -
"Hotaru, will you wait here for me?" Utakata had asked the young girl "I want to go get permission to train you"
Hotaru nodder her head, her hair flowing in the wind, in the field of flowers. "Sure"
Utakata set off to find the ANBU squad of the Hidden Mist, he sent out on of his bubbles to find and relay a message of meeting, but no response.
'Odd' he had thought to himself. "did something happen to them?" he asked aloud.
He wandered the forest for a moment when he was confronted by six figures, all with bright orange hair and black cloaks, adorned with red clouds, the Akatsuki.
"Six Tails," the leader of the group said, "I shall have you feel Pain". The Orange haired man hardly blinked when he signaled one of his men on Utakata. Who then fired projectile weapons, explosives.
Utakata made a dash to escape.
Utakata was half buried underneath a landslide, the six figures above, victorious.
Utakata's final words, he hoped to reach Hotaru.
"Hotaru, you must live.." and with his final moments he blew bubbles to her.
The last she would ever see.
Hotaru twirled in the field of flowers, her dark blonde hair twirling around her shoulders, she twirled and twirled around and lay herself down onto the colorful field.
She smiled, happy to know she could be with someone she truly respected, her Master.
As she had layed her self down and flower petals had risen into the sky, no latter did bubbles fall.
They fell graciously all around her, one landing in her palm. She gazed into her face reflected in the bubble.
Hotaru thought it strange that it would take Utakata so long to gain permission to train her, though he was a rogue ninja so maybe he was aressted she had thought.
Even though she had been asked to wait here in the field she ran in the direction her Master had left to find him.
She ran until she found the place she was once held hostage, to be traded for Utakata because of the leaf village ninja's mission.
The place was so different from before, un natural.
A battle had taken place here. She looked around picking up soe lose branches, looking around searching for him.
"Master.." she whispered.
She travelled back to Mt Katsuragi to speak with Tonbei, a servant and dear friend. But when he had said he hadn't seen or heard from him, she ran to find the ANBU that Utakata had been searching for.
She wandered around and back to the battle sight and found an ANBU mask of the HIdden Mist. All cut up with a stain of blood across it.
Hotaru picked it up and wondered what had happened and if her master was anywhere to be found, she shook her head. She didn't want to accept the possibility he wasn't going to be around the area.
She also noticed a black rod on the ground that was out of place with the area, she picked it up, puzzled.
She was now standing on top of a landslide, looking down she saw her a piece of her master's clothing.
Hotaru's eyes widened and she covered her mouth. She jumped down picking it up clutching it close to her ample chest.
"MASTER!" she cried out. She dashed off in different directions. Searching desperetly. Tears streaming down her face. She knew but she wish she didn't.
He was gone. Her master was gone. Utakata was dead.
Her heart lurched and she cried for days.
It wasnt until a few days later she heard a somber song being played by villagers playing flutes in the village, that seemed to make her think of bubbles.
Hotaru smiled to herself and touched the ribbon, she had used with her master's clothing, in her hair. She smiled up at the sky ready to move on.