Chapter 2

"Tiger and Wolf"

*Kari*

I layed on my bed in the quiet night, I was staring at the ceiling. I was trying to get some sleep, but it didn't want to come. Well, until three o'clock. I closed my eyes and had a weird dream.

I was floating in an oblivion, I felt like something was keeping me up, but I didn't want to open my eyes.

"Wake up honey" I heard a gentle, woman voice say. I fluttered my eyes open and I felt someone grab my hand, pulling me up right. My hair was out of it's ponytail, which I usually did when I slept, the woman took some of it in her hand.

"Who are you?" I asked her, gently putting my hair away behind my shoulder.

"That isn't important right now Kari, you must listen to me..." She stroked my hair.

"How do you know me?" I asked her.

"I don't have much time, listen, soon, you will see that your true fate will awaken, but you must be careful, follow what Minako tells you..." She touched my cheek, making me wake up from this dream.

Sitting there for a second, I looked at the clock, it read 6:13, I got up and went to take a shower.

"Who was that woman?" I asked myself as I rinsed my hair. "And who is Minako?"

I stepped out and got dressed, I put my headband on my left thigh, it didn't feel right putting it on my forehead. I then ate breakfast, brushed my hair and teeth, and put my hair in it's low ponytail. I walked to the academy.

It was shame that I had to waste my day indoors, I wanted to be outside. As I sat down in a seat in the back, a photographer was outside.

"We're taking our pictures today?" I asked Kiku.

"Yeah..."

I sighed and made my way to the camera. I sat down and readied myself. He counted to three, and flour spilled all over me. And that was my picture, no do-overs. I heard snickering and saw Uchiha with an empty bag of flour overhead.

"UCHIHA!" I ran towards the door to get to him.

Kiku and Krikudo tried to stop me from ripping the boy to shreds, But I jumped in front of him, close to his face.

We stared at each other, electricity crossing each other. But then I felt something push me.

And our lips touched, everyone looked in surprise.

"Hey, get off her!" Kouji tugged me away from Daichi's lips.

"How dare you kiss her?!" He growled at Daichi. I put my hand on his forearm.

"Kouji, you were the one that pushed her into him" His brother pointed out.

Kiku and Krikudo pulled me across the room.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" I said wiping my mouth. "That was disgusting!" I slumped on the chair and started to think.

The problem was I didn't hate the kiss.

*Daichi*

Kenya and Cheko were yelling at me, it was clearly an accident that we kissed, but the truth was?

I didn't hate it.

As sensei walked in I hardly paid attention.

"Team 5 Kiku and Krikudo Inuzuka, and Kouji Kuna" I looked at the twins, they were high fiving each other.

"Team 6, Kenya Yamanaka, Cheko Akimichi and..." It was a name neither of us knew.

"Team 7" He scanned the room, then back at his list. "Kenichi Kuna... Kari Uzumaki... Daichi Uchiha" We were both on our feet.

"Sensei, you have to be kidding!" Kari blurted.

"For once I agree with her!" I yelled. She didn't feel sparks when we kissed.

Sensei sighed. "You'll have to deal with each other" He said.

*Kari*

As I walked around the village, I had my headband in my hands, smoothing the symbol with my thumb.

In my headband's reflecting thing, I saw something covered with cloth, something on a pedestal. I put my headband in my pocket, where my lucky kunai was. I felt something weird coming from it, a surge calling out to me.

"I wouldn't touch it if I were you" I spun around, a woman with metal claws attatched to the top of her knuckles was looking at me. "That will only bring you greif, but now that you see me, I guess I'll have to kill you now"

She headed towards me.

And that's when she was pushed aside.

"Konohamaru!" I said happily as a dark haried 18 year-old ninja who faced the claw lady.

"Hey Kari" He smiled at me. "Are you okay?"

"Thanks to you yeah..." I looked around, I suddenly came to realize we were in the old Uchiha compound. When did I get here?

Konohamaru engaged in battle while I stared at the thing hidden by cloth. I was so mezmerized.

"Shadow Art, Shadow disintergration jutsu!" I looked at the fight, Konohamaru was being consumed by... I don't know what, but I heard bones crushing.

"Konohamaru!" I yelled.

This woman was evil.

"He had it coming, it's your turn now" She looked at me, black chakra was now surrounding her. I charged at her, my kunai out and ready.

Without touching me, she sent me flying, I hit the thing covered with the cloth, it came off, but I flew over it, slamming into the ground five feet away. I was in pain.

She smiled and walked to the statue, she put something on the pedestal She did a few handsigns as I got up.

"Spirit of the tiger guardian! I call upon you!" She said. "Give me your strength!" It glowed for a second, but then dimmed, I body slammed the woman, just like Konohamaru did. I had a second to look at the statue.

It was a tiger, sitting on the pedestal, it's front paws each standing on something. One, a crystal ball that was stone, and another a scrool, also stone. In it's mouth, it had a Chokuto, it said Uchiha on it, but it was stone.

I reached to touch the chokuto, and as soon as I did, It's eyes glowed, and so did the stripes, rainbow chakra was flowing from it.

"What?" I was consumed in a light, then, the same woman from my dreams was standing before me.

"Kari" She had the chokuto in her hand. "You have reawakened the power, the needed Spirit of the Tiger, the snake has reawakened, just when we thought we had destroyed it..."

"What are-" But I didn't get to finish, she put the headband in my hand.

"A wolf meets a toad... A tiger meets a slug... But a snake meets another snake" And I was facing a crumbling statue.

"NO!" The woman stood. Dark chakra was surrounding her.

I felt different, a power was coursing through me, not my own.

"Shadow Art: Shadow collapse jutsu!"

The ground underneath me shook, I threw the sword away and pulled out my headband. I tied it to my forehead.

I jumped from the ground and landed on a roof, I scanned my surroundings. Konohamaru.

I headed towards him, jumping on rooftops.

"Take this!" A black shadow claw was thrown my way.

"Rainbow Art" I said. "Rainbow punch jutsu!" I punched the woman in the face before she hit me with the claw.

She flew across into a building, I went to Konohamaru.

"Hey Kono, are you okay?" He wasn't breathing, his lifeless body was just... There...

"He's dead" She said.

No... He's not, the shadow chakra is stopping all vital signs, but he's still alive, you can heal him...

I did a few hand signs, and with one hand I was healing him, the other was holding his head up. Soon, black blood dripped from his mouth, no doubt his blood had mixed with the chakra. I then closed my eyes and listened, there was a faint pump. I heard it twice and then it quickened.

It was the chakra coming out of his blood, I felt it come out of him.

"You'll be fine" I whispered to him. "Now..." The woman was gone, she was a coward.

*Daichi*

I was training in the forest when I saw it, a statue of a wolf, a man was standing before it, he was summoning on a power force, but it wouldn't come.

"Fire style! fireball jutsu!" I had given my position away.

The man dodged my attack, he had a metal ball attatched to a chain, he spun it and threw it to me.

I thought I had dodged it, but when it wrapped around me through the dust my fireball caused, my heart sank.

I was pulled forward, pretty fast too, and my head contacted with a tree, my headband hardly protected it.

I slid from the tree trunk and was swung again, this time, I was slammed into the statue.

"Take that!" Moegi, she had attacked.

"Moegi!" I yelled, though it was painful.

"Daichi!" She yelled. "Just stay where you are at, you're too hurt to move!"

But her fate wasn't better.

The man had a sythe now and he swung it at her. She dodged the first attack, but the second one came and hit her in the leg.

He then muttered something and she collapsed.

"Now, where were we?" He asked me with a smirk.

I looked at the statue, the wolf standing on a crystal ball and scroll, a Yondaime kunai in it's mouth. It had the name Uzumaki on it. Kari's last name.

I felt compelled to touch it. And I did, a bright blue chakra with red streaks came out of it.I was forced back, something crawling underneath my skin.

*Narrator*

The enemy snarled, Daichi had gotten to the chakra before him. He charged the boy, unfazed.

But the boy was glowing blue and red, a wolf shape formed around the boy.

"Dang" He whispered. "It does exist still, the chakras of beginning." He whispered to himself as the boy charged.

"Wolf Art! Wolf needles jutsu!" The wolf's head opened and needles, real needles shot out, the enemy scowled.

"Shadow Art! Shadow sheild jutsu!"

A shadow sphere whirled around the enemy.

But it burst as two giant paws clasped onto it, smashing him into a burning chakra.

The enemy disappeared, with his life.

Daichi howled then looked at Moegi. She was hurt.

*Sakura*

I looked at the explosions, one in the Uchiha compound, the other in the forest near the village.

"Hokage-Sama, it's Uzumaki and Uchiha, they found the statues" I looked at Minako, their group leader.

"Did they now?" I looked at her. "And the weapons?"

"Gone"

"So, the power was released from the statues?" I asked.

"It seens so..."

*Narrator*

Daichi reached his uncontrol point, seeing his friend bruised and battered and having no vital signs.

The chakra expanded, swallowing Daichi into a cacoon now, making a full wolf shape. But it wasn't skin yet.

He crashed into the trees, destroying everything in his path.

"What?!" Shikamaru, Tenten, Lee, Shino, Kiba (with Akamaru), and Hinata looked at the sight.

"What is this?" Tenten asked.

"Could it be..." Hinata started. "That the power was released?"

"Impossible" Tenten said. "The children would've released the power, and we all know that they had no children"

"Are you positive?" Shino said. "It could be possible"

But none of them wanted it to be true.

"Moegi!" Lee finally noticed the young woman laying on the ground, crumpled and lifeless.

Kiba and Lee checked to see if she was alright.

"No vital signs" Kiba concluded. "She's dead"

"No, she isn't" They looked up to see Kari Uzumaki looking down at them. "She's very much alive" She jumped from the treetops and landed next to Moegi. She sat on her knees.

"Rainbow Art: Rainbow heal jutsu" She did the same thing to Moegi that she did to Kononhamaru. It worked.

"She'll be out of it for awhile, but she'll be fine... No jutsu's for a week though" Kari told them. "Now, another friend needs my help" Everyone looked at Kari, this wasn't like her, she was too serious.

Kari ran after the beast that was now Daichi.

"UCHIHA!" She yelled.

The boy turned around, Kari noticed the sharigan eyes, she stopped.

"Where are you going?" She asked.

But he howled at her, sounding a giant sound wave towards her.

Kari put her hand up calmly, deflecting the howl and sending it back to him.

Daichi then jumped up and started to come down on her.

Kari dodged, she did a few handsigns. A tiger with a fox tail surrounded her, it was made of chakra.

"Rainbow Art: Tiger roar jutsu!" A roar that was a tiger's shot towards Daichi, hitting him and forcing him into a tree trunk. He started to calm, but it wasn't enough.

"Wolf Art: Twin wolf jutsu!" Two wolves shot out of the chakra, charging at Kari.

"Rainbow Art: Rainbow Tiger swallow jutsu!" A giant tiger head appeared before the two wolves, swallowing one of them.

"Now!" She summoned her weapon, the Yodaime kunai. It shot into her hand and it transformed, a double sided kunai, about three feet tall, it was easy for her to use it, she slashed through the second wolf.

A Chokuto was soaring right at her. She jumped over it, shoving her kunai into the tree trunk so she can land on it, the branch she was standing on, snapped.

"Stop this!" Kari growled at her teammate. Her feet landed on the blade lightly.

A paw went for her, the other, the chokuto. As she jumped off her kunai, she did a flip and grabbed it, pulling it out of the trunck, she sliced the chakra hand and started for the ground, but went back up to the trees.

Kari knew her chakra was running empty, so she did a finishing blow.

"Rainbow Art: Rainbow capture jutsu!" Where she stood, a trap formed and she moved as Daichi landed where she was, now he was captured in her trap.

He stayed there until he calmed.

"What happened?" Daichi asked, looking around.

Kari smiled, but felt suddenly weak as her chakra died.

*Daichi*

I was standing in a different place in the forest. I didn't know how I got here. But I glanced up, Uzumaki was swaying on a branch not too far away.

Don't fall! I hoped, as she fell forwards.

I jumped and caught her. She had passed out. I just stood there and stared at her. She was in a battle.

"Daichi!" Shikamaru Sensei and Hinata Sensei came over.

"What happened?" Hinata asked, looking at Kari.

"I don't know..." I confessed, I truly didn't.

"Here, give her to me" Shikamaru Sensei held out his arms.

"Okay" We gently shifted Kari from one pair of arms to the next.

*Kari*

I woke up in the Leaf village hospital, though no bandages were on me. I sighed as I slowly sat up.

"You finally awake?" I looked at my old sensei, he was sitting there, playing against Temari in checkers.

"Shikamaru Sensei?" I raised an eyebrow. "Temari?"

"Hey Kari..." She smiled.

"Shoot!" I got out of the bed, I looked at the nightstand. My lucky kunai rested next to another one, a yodaime kunai. I picked it up. "Sensei, is this yours?"

"No, it's yours, it has your last name on it..." I turned it over and sure enough...

"Thanks Sensei" I started to put them in my pocket when Temari stood.

"Wait Kari..." I looked at her, she tossed me two kunai holders. One would go on my leg and the other on my waist.

"Thanks" I attached them to their appropriate places, shoving my lucky kunai in the one in my leg one, and the yodaime kunai in the one on my waist. It had some shuriken in them and another type of kunai, which were great for wind chakra users. As I ran out of the hospital, I felt something and looked up, a portal thing appeared in the sky.

"What the heck is that?" And then, I was sucked into it.

To be continued