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I start dusting myself off and fix my hair into lose ponytail, quietly, because if he sees me then I am going to have to do a lot more explaining than I feel like doing.
Ok how all I have to do is put on my headband. Thunk, it drops into the sand. "Today is just not my day," I say to myself. I look up to see if he heard me; he doesn't look like he is in a good mood. "Darn it! Ok today is defiantly not my day." I quick put it on and start jumping on houses toward the desert. I look back, not a good idea, he looks more ticked than before. I turn back and seconds later a stream of sand shoots passed me. I sense another come up behind me while the first one circles around. Good strategy but I'm not stupid. The sand collides were I was a moment ago. I smirk to myself and then feel a mountain of sand fall over me. I blackout and wake to see the Kazekage sanding over me, looking very ticked off now. "Great," I say out loud, "I'm stuck here and now my ego is bruised. But," I say to him smiling, "since you caught me I suppose I'll answer your questions."
She sat smiling with her dark-golden hair with pure silver strands falling down around her face covering her crystal stormy-blue eyes. Looks harmless enough but so did that clay bird flying over my village that night. "Who are you?"
"Hikari."
"Why are you here?"
"Well I'm not here because I want to be."
"Then why are you?"
"Because my clumsy other self pushed me into the healing ring around your body and now I'm stuck here with you until she can either free me or, if she can't, for at least about another 18 hours."
"Why are you helping me? And where is here?"
"Mostly because my conscious wouldn't let me let you die and here is in your subconscious, in your dreams really."
"Where are we in reality then?"
"Seesh what's with the twenty questions? Be happy that I'm saving your life because I'm breaking the rules by saving you myself and if I'm not pardoned for it then all I've done is for nothing and your future is not a happy one. But I suppose that if you must know we're in a room in an Akatsuki hideout. Where they waiting for me to get done healing you so they can steal the Shukaku and dispose of me as well. Satisfied?"
I nod and release the sand around her.
"Well about time I was getting sand burns." I stand and try again to brush the sand off myself with little success.
"Here." I can see Gaara's chakra flash and the sand moves off of me and back into his gourd.
"Thanks," I say quietly. I turn back to the sunset. It's almost twilight if I move fast perhaps I can see my village again on this night in his dreams. "Where are you going?" He says to my back.
"I'm going to my home. Even though this is your dream my dreams and memories can add on to it and this is one of my favorite memories. I suppose you can come if you want, we have up to 18 hours to kill. It goes faster if you have someone to talk to," I reply turning back.
"How long does it take to get there from here?"
"About half n' hour flying but since we can't do that about 4 hours, maybe a bit less."
I opened my eyes and found the treads of blue, of my family, and wove them into a small dragon-like creature, more like a wyvern, outlined in silver. I mounted her and we took flight, her scales a lovely azure in the setting sunlight. I waited a moment. I turned back to find that my new "friend" had not moved. "What are you waiting for?" I called as my wyvern hovered.
"How are you doing that?" he yelled back. I had forgotten most people can't see the threads that connect everyone to each other. I gathered a little more chakra and my wyvern glittered into the purple sky.
"I thought that we weren't going to fly?" Gaara's voice said amused a few feet away and the rest of him on a mass of floating sand beside my wyvern.
"I said 'we' not I. Besides, this is a dream isn't it? I don't need to summon a real dragon to fly me there"; well, I should say an invisible dragon to most people.
It was almost midnight before we got to my village, a dewdrop in the middle of the black mountains. I remember this night well, one of my favorite here and one of my last as well. We landed at the base of Sky Mountain, where the Blue Moon festival was being held at the summit. The path up the mountain was lit by the blue, red and black lights woven from the bonds between us. These lights, however, were not bright enough to ruin the moonlight but were bright enough to attract thousands of fireflies that glowed along the path. "We must hurry," I whispered so as not to disturb the fireflies, even thought it was impossible to do so, "the rain will start soon and this path can get rather muddy."
"I thought that rain was a bad omen on such a special occasion?" Gaara said as we got about halfway up the path.
"It normally is but this storm is a good one. My mother's name is Arashi (meaning storm) and I am taking over her position and the gods are pleased and send the full moon and a storm to show they accept me and will continue to watch over my mother and their sadness for the end of her duty."
We walked in silence the rest of the way up until one of my younger family member walked through me which caused them to turn and stare at where I was for a few minutes until I walked through him again and scared him back down the mountain.
"What was that all about?"
"This is a dream. They can't see us but we can feel the other's energy."
"So are ghosts just the sprits of your villagers walking in other's dreams which in the past are real?"
"I have no idea what you just said"(seriously I don't)
Everyone was all ready at the top of the mountain standing peaceful and still as statues. The council of elders stood to one side and the healers' guild to the other. My mother stood on the small platform near the cliff's sheer drop off. She was in her master healer's flowing robe, the color of the stormy sky with the moon peaking through, just like tonight. Her eyes shone with wisdom and a slight color of our family's long line of mixed bloods. We all waited, then, a boom. A flash of blue lighting streaked across the sky and with a deep, wet rumble. Everyone turned to her, the master healer was regarded with the power and respect of a great Kage. We have always let the council of elders handle the leadership and decision making but they looked to us for approval, if the healers were not on board with an idea, the rest of the village wasn't.
My mother waved for me to join her, I wanted so much to join her there again, but, the "real" me walked through the parted row to join her. I stood in the middle of the platform. I faced toward the stormy sky and spread the wings of our Sprit, The Moon Dragon. My wings, a purer white than even the first snows of winter, were an ancient jutsu passed only from master to master, not that I needed to learn it. We stood silent, waiting for a sign of my acceptance by the Moon Dragon, not like I needed to ask for it, I had already been chosen for this, only, no one knew but I and my mother. This is one of the few times that I have even been without the star-dappled cloak I normally wear, to cover up the evidence on my back. Here I needed to only use a small amount of charka to make my back look completely normal.
The minutes ticked by, and the stormy clouds turned dark and angry. The moon had been covered for some time; I needed it to come back out. I willed for the lightning to cut a hole in the clouds and a huge bolt of black lightening tore open the clouds and made my wings black as the flames of Amaterasu.
The blue moon glowed once more above us and the hole in the crashing clouds stayed in front of it. I turned back to my family with wings whiter than snow and began to draw on the bonds of blue, red, black and the few shining blues and reds among us. My master cloak began to form, to product of no one but the sprit of our true selves. Mine became scale like, with the night sky painted onto it, and a ying-yang symbol with a single dragon turning white to twilight on the center of my back.
I opened my eyes to my true color, and the rain poured diluting its sharp hue difference from the rest of my family, and from I and Gaara and hiding the tears that I shed for the last special time I had spent with my family. Then the dream began to fade, had it been 18 hours already? or did my other half find a way to free me? To me it didn't matter, I would never be able to come back to them and all I wanted to do now, was stay.
My world faded from me, the last I saw of my mother was she and I standing side by side, she was so proud of me, like she knew that I would somehow redeem my family line. She never got to see me do it. As the last part of me faded from the dream a whispered, "I will kill him for you mother. I will make sure that they are all dead somehow, but there are always rules… But I swear I will kill him myself, even if I give up the rest of mine as punishment… Good-bye." My tears were the last thing to fade away and back into the task given to me at birth.
I was lying on the bed mat in the corner of the room when my mind returned to consciousness, though I willed it to go back to the dew drop village in the mountains. I opened my eyes, quickly closed them, and turned them back to stormy-blue. When I opened them again my eyes stared back at me. "I'm not in the mood," I said still trying to compose myself before my other half. I sat up and stared into nothing. "You ok?" she said. I glared at her again, she always could feel how I was feeling so why did she ask now? "I'm going to mediate," I stated and slipped my mind into the other plain. "FINE, just leave me to deal with him," my other half groaned into my now deaf ears.
I would be annoyed with myself if I left myself alone with some dude. Wow.... can anyone make sense of what I just said? Well I guess that it was just rather random but what's wrong with RANDOMNESS? RANDOMNESS IS AAWWWWWWEEESSSOOMMMEEEEE!!!!!!..... IGNORE ME!!! And one other thing I'm sure you guys noticed that I didn't have a name for Hikari eyes because I want YOU GUYS to think of an AWESOME name. If you have any cool ideas then PM them to me. So put on your thinking helmets and send me your AWESOME ideas, even if they're not that awesome, so you think, still send them because I might think they're AWESOME!!!........ YAY!!! AND REVIEW THIS TIME WOULD YA!