It was the same dream again. The same one that she had been having ever since she had been ten and had gone to live at the orphanage after her family had been killed in a car wreck.
Find me. Please... Find me. I need you... The stranger spoke the words so softly that she couldn't hear him over the sudden gust of wind that blew around him. Lifting some of the crisp golden, reddish-brown leaves at his feet and sending them dancing through the air. Momentarily distracting her while obscuring his face at the same time. All she could truly see of him was the long silver hair he kept tied back in a ponytail and the strange yet oddly beseeching mis matched eyes.
One a lovely shade of brilliant and glittering sapphire blue. And the other a lovely shade of eerie ruby red.
Both shone with intelligence, and cunning, and no small measure of ruthlessness while at the same time appearing kind and gentle.
The stranger held a hand out to her as if asking her if she would please take it and hold onto him. As if she were his life line or last thread of sanity or something. She stood there with her heart thudding against her ribs, staring at the offered appendage for a moment before raising one of her hands to take his own and was just about to slip her hand in his when the dream shifted.
Becoming darker and much more frightening. The sky turning as red as blood as the stranger wheeled around and all but shouted, "No! No, no, no, no, no!" Before turning back to her with wide horrified looking eyes and yelling at her to run.
Scared and unsure of what was going on or what to do, she just stood there shaking her head no while thinking, I can't. I can't leave you! Because leaving him would be cruel now that she had found him.
"Go! Run!" He urged her as he held a hand up to his mouth and bit into the flesh of his wrist while simultaneously creating a barrier of bluish white light with his other hand, again she stayed still and merely shook her head no. She couldn't just abandon him. Not now. Not after finally figuring out what being away from her cost him everyday.
He looked at her over his shoulder to see if she was doing as he bid her, his mis matched eyes glowing in the darkness. Almost like an animal's eyes would, she noted before she heard him say. "Please go! I will find you again I swear it." He was lying of course. She felt it in her bones.
Whatever thing or force he was currently trying to hold back from her- it was dangerous. Far too dangerous for him to survive even a small struggle with it...
And it was there to consume them both.
It was of course at this point in the dream when she usually woke up. However due to the fact that she was outside of the nearest city or town and was laying on the ground off an old mountain trail leading too... Ugh... Well, absolutely nowhere is she were to be totally honest.
Which is why she seemed to sleep for so much longer than usual. And why the dream seemed to repeat itself over and over in her head until finally at about eleven am, a small mountain animal snapped a twig somewhere close to her- thus waking her from her seemingly never ending cycle of a dream. As she jack knifed up into a sitting position with a loud scream.
And took a moment to look around and really wake up when she found the source of the sound that had woken her. A raccoon blinked back at her from it's spot several feet away where she had dumped her backpack the night before when she had decided to finally stop for the night and get some rest. As it turned out, the little pest had already dug around in her pack and strewn about her clean clothing and her toiletries. And now was looking for something to eat.
Something that she couldn't spare since she was down to some trail mix and four protein bars. Which was why the quiet peace of the morning was once again interrupted by her screaming as she chased the little bugger off.
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The sound echoed further than a normal person's voice should have carried, drawing Kakashi's attention from his breakfast of fish and rice, to the front door of the house. Half way across the room. What- No who was that? He wondered as he slowly chewed the food in his mouth. His mind already drifting to his other half whom was now fully aware of the presence on it's mountain.
A human was making it's way closer and loser to their home.
And not just any human either. His other self could feel the not so subtle thrum of power pulsing through the human's veins. Whoever the human was, he/she was the last of their blood line. The very same bloodline that had created the gate that he protected.
And the fact that said human was steadily moving closer to the gate only meant future trouble.
