Hikaru Uzumaki
Dark: Dark here.
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Dark: Syryus your self-proclaimed co-writer
Syryus: So? A co-writer is a co-writer.
Dark: Anyways here's the next chapter of Hikaru Uzumaki.
Syryus: You really need a better title (Gets knocked out)
Dark: Baka. I don't own anything from this story except the storyline. And PLEASE leave reviews to me. Oh and this chapter is going to have quite a lot of time skips so it's gonna be long. And like I said at end of the last chapter. No reviews. No updates.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demon/Spirit/Demonic talking"
(Creators note)
Recap
After about five minutes the explaining was done. "What's magic?" Hikaru asked confused after the the member of Kuroi Tsubasa had stopped talking. "Their techniques using only your spiritual energy and chanting spells. People who use magic are often called mages," Dark explained. Hikaru nodded. Dark then looked at the sky. "We should all go to sleep now. We got a long journey ahead of us tomorrow," he said laying down. Others nodded and laid down as well. Soon after everyone was fast asleep. Hikaru had fallen asleep with her head on Darks stomach. Everyone was unaware of the adventured that were to come.
End recap
Chapter 2
The next morning Hikaru woke up on the happy singing of the birds. She slowly sat up rubbing her eyes. She then looked around noticing that she wasn't in her own apartment. Slowly the events of the previous day started to come to her.
"So, your awake," came a voice from behind her.
Hikaru turned to look who it was and saw Dark sitting near her. Hikaru nodded and yawned still a bit sleepy. Dark then proceeded into lighting the fire again. He then took a big scroll from his robe and opened it revealing several storage seals. He then started to unseal several different things from it such as frying pan, bowl, flour and such.
"What are you planning to make?" Hikaru asked while watching Dark.
"I was thinking of making pancakes," Dark replied as he started to mix the ingredients into the bowl.
A huge smile came onto Hikarus face.
"I guess you like them," Dark said smiling.
Hikaru nodded.
"Ojii-san made them for me once," she answered happily.
Dark started to flip the pancakes. As Dark continue to make the pancakes the rest of the Kuroi Tsubasa started to wake up from the good smell that was lingering in the camp.
"Something smells good," Nabushi said sitting up and stretching.
"Yeah and that something is Darks pancakes," Scayth said moving next to the fire and sitting down.
"So, what direction do we go from here?" Rain asked sitting next to Dark.
"We were thinking of going towards Kumo," Dark said flipping over another pancake.
"It'll be about a weeks journey by foot. And we need to stop every now and then to teach Hikaru," Nabushi pointed out.
"Well we're in no hurry so we can take longer. We got seven years," Scayth said.
"Very true," Yaz said.
"I suggest that whenever we come to a village we spend few days there to train Hikaru-chan," Rain said.
"Sounds like a good plan to me," Dark said finishing making the pancakes.
Everyone then started to eat. About ten minutes later everyone had finished and the grown-ups were packing up the camp.
"By the way, which way is Konoha?" Hikaru suddenly asked.
"To the west," Yaz said pointing west.
Hikaru faced the direction with determined face.
'Good bye, Hinata-chan, Himeko-sama. See you in seven year. I promise to return stronger,' Hikaru said in her mind while looking in the direction of the hidden leaf village.
"Saying your good byes?" came Nabushis voice from next to Hikaru who nodded.
"It'll be seven years before you'll return there," Nabushi said in which Hikaru nodded.
"Come on you two. We're leaving," Scayth yelled from behind them.
Hikaru and Nabushi soon joined the others and with that they left the clearing.
Couple of hours later
Dark suddenly stopped and started to dig around his robes.
"What is it, Dark?" Rain asked standing next to him.
"It's about time for Sarutobi to give out the announcement," Dark replied pulling out a crystal ball.
He then placed it on the ground and placed some kind of lens on top of it. Dark then started to move his hands around the ball and soon an image of Sarutobi appeared on the air just above the lens.
At the same time in Konoha
Sandaime was standing on the balcony looking over all the villagers.
"My dear villagers. I have called you here because of a tragedy. This morning we found the mangled body of Uzumaki Hikaru. We do not know who the killer is so no one has been arrested," Sarutobi spoke with loud voice.
Soon there were several cheers from the crowd. However not all were happy. The Nara, Yamanaka and Akamichi clans were sad. You could also see few Hyuugas sad. Hinata was crying on her moms kimono while her mom had look of disgust on her face towards the villagers. Hiashi who was standing next to his wive and daughter had an emotionless face but Himeko could tell he was also disgusted by the villagers reaction.
Back with the group
"Those people disgust me," Rain said looking at the floating image.
"Same here," Yaz said.
"I'm surprised that some of the clans were sad over me," Hikaru said.
"They were friends with your father," Dark said.
"By the way who was the man standing next to Himeko-sama and holding her hand?" Hikaru asked.
"That was Hyuuga Hiashi. Your father and him were pretty close friends. Your father also tried to work on a way to remove the caged bird seal from the Hyuuga clan," Nabushi explained.
"What's that?" Hikaru asked.
Scayth then explained what the seal was and what it did.
"I'll find a way. I'll find a way to remove the seal," Hikaru said with a serious voice.
Dark then put the lens and the crystal ball back into his robes and stood up.
"Lets head out," he said as the rest of the group stood up too.
They then started to walk again.
Three weeks later
Hikaru and the Kuroi Tsubasa were standing out the entrance of Kumo. Dark was talking with the guard so that they could enter the village. Dark soon came back to the group.
"So, can we enter?" Scayth asked.
"Yes, as long as we don't interfere with any village business while inside the village," Dark said.
"Sounds reasonable," Rain said.
"Hikaru. While we are inside the village you can't say that your father is the Yondaime Hokage," Scayth said.
"The reason for this is because he made a lot of enemies during the last great ninja war," Yaz said.
Hikaru nodded at this. After a while the group was walking along the streets of Iwa.
"Now we need to find a hotel to stay in," Nabushi said.
"Just go die, demon," came a boys voice from a street at groups right.
As they looked they saw a boy no older than twelve standing over an unconscious girl who was around the same age with blond hair. The boy kicked the girl and walked away. Rain was about to go help the girl when Dark placed his hand on her shoulder.
"We promised not to interfere with the villages business," Dark said with a slightly saddened voice.
"But..." Rain started.
"Even if we don't like it we need to follow the villages rules," Scayth said.
Just then Dark felt a small tug on his robe. As he looked down he saw Hikaru stand there.
"What is it Hikaru?" Dark asked.
"Kyuu-neechan says that that girl has a faint scent of cats on her," Hikaru said.
At that Darks and Rains eyes widened a bit.
"I suggest we pay that girl a visit tonight," Dark said and Rain nodded.
"Come on guys. I found a pretty decent hotel for us to stay," Yaz said as she started to walk.
Soon after the others followed.
Later that night
Dark, Rain and Hikaru were running along the rooftops with Hikaru on Darks back.
"Which way Hikaru?" Dark asked.
Hikaru sniffed the air for a second.
"To the left," she replied pointing to her left.
About two minutes later the three landed in front of a rundown building.
"Reminds me of my home back in Konoha," Hikaru said in low voice.
"Lets go," Dark said and started to head towards the building.
Rain and Hikaru followed him.
"How do you plan to get inside?" Hikaru asked.
"Through the window," Dark said as he started to walk up the wall.
Rain and Hikaru followed the same way(Yes Hikaru know the tree climbing exercise). They soon found the right window and went silently inside. They found the girl sleeping on her bed her bruises slowly healing.
"Lets do this," Dark said in a low voice and started to go through hand seals.
Hikaru and Rain placed their hands against Darks back.
"MINDO NO JUTSU," Dark said in a low voice touching the blonds forehead entering her mindscape.
In the mindscape
As Hikaru opened her eyes she saw a sight which she saw when she first entered her own mindscape. Leaking pipes and angle deep cold water. Dark and Rain were there as well. Dark had his twelve panther tails and ears out. Rain had purple cat ears and six cat tails out. Hikaru herself had also changed. She now had small fox ears and a single fox tail on her(Kyuubi made Hikaru into a kitsune). On one of the few dry spots slept the blond haired girl who's mindscape the group had just entered.
"Man this is as bad as mine was when I first visited it," Hikaru said.
"Think we should wake her up?" Rain asked looking at the sleeping blond.
Dark nodded and walked over to her. Just as he was about to start to shake the girl she jumped to her feet and got into fighting stance.
"Who are you three? What do you want and... what is this place?" the girl asked looking around her.
"I'm Kaito Dark. This is my wife Kaito Rain and the kitsune is Hikaru," Dark said.
"As for what this place is. It's called a mindscape. A personal space inside your mind," Hikaru said.
"So we're inside my mind?" the girl asked.
"Yes. And who might you be if I may ask," Rain asked smiling to the girl.
"Yugito. Nii Yugito," the girl answered.
"Earlier today we heard that boy call you a demon. So, I'm guessing your a jinjuuriki," Dark said making Yugito nod slowly.
"Then your the same as me," Hikaru said making Yugito look at the young kitsune.
"How so?" Yugito asked.
"Hikaru is the jinjuuriki of Kyuubi," Dark said.
Just then there was a sound of a big cat.
"Nibi," Yugito said with a low voice.
"Lets go meet your demon," Dark said and started to walk deeper into the mindscape with the others following.
After a while they arrived into a huge room very similar to the one Kyuubi was sealed.
"Yugito-san. You can change what this place looks like by thinking it inside your mind while in here," Hikaru said while looking around the room.
Soon the seal room had changed into a spacious house. Soon after there was a sound of someone walking into a wall and falling over.
"Ouch! What the hell!" came a girls voice from what looked like a living room.
A girl around fifteen with long light purple hair, cat ears and two cat tails was sitting on the floor rubbing her forehead. She was wearing black jeans, red sleeveless t-shirt, red, gray and black sneakers and a wristband in each of her wrists. She also seemed to have a collar around her neck. Rain and Dark stiffened a bit when they saw the girls.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch. What on earth happened? One moment I'm inside my seal and the next moment I'm in this spacious house," the girl said standing up still rubbing her forehead.
She suddenly heard a small gasp which made her turn around to look towards the lobby. As soon as she saw Rain and Dark her eyes widened. Tears started to appear into Rain eyes as she saw the girls face.
"Ame-chan," Rain said with a voice barely above a whisper as she slowly started to walk towards the girl.
"Kaa-san?" the girl asked as she slowly walked towards Rain.
Soon Rain and Ame were crying and hugging each other.
"What going on?" Yugito asked confused.
"That girl. The Nibi sealed inside you is Kaito Ame. Mine and Rains daughter," Dark said while looking at his wife and long lost daughter.
Suddenly Dark was tackled and pinned to the floor.
"I win Otou-san," Ame said smiling widely.
Dark just chuckled.
"Your 3000 years too early to think that," Dark said slamming three of his tails on Ame's side causing her to fly off of Dark who was soon on his feet and with his clawed hand near Ame's throat.
Soon Dark and Ame were both laughing.
"I missed you Otou-san," Ame said getting up.
"I missed you too," Dark said enveloping his daughter into a big hug.
"So she's the reason I'm so hated," Yugito said pointing at Ame.
"Actually the one who sealed her into you is at fault," Dark said.
"Yeah. So, don't go pointing your finger at me," Ame said a bit pissed.
"How about she would come with us when we continue our journey?" Hikaru suggested.
"I guess. And I could alter the seal while we go the same way as I'm going to alter Hikarus seal," Dark said placing his hand on his chin.
"What kind of alteration?" Yugito asked.
"It would let Ame partially get out of the seal," Rain said.
"Sounds good. But how are you going to get me out of the village?" Yugito asked after a while.
"We could use the same idea as with me," Hikaru said.
"But how do we get the body? Konoha was easy because Sarutobi is our friend," Rain pointed out.
"True. That's the only problem," Dark said starting to think.
"Could we continue this some other time? I would like to get to sleep. Missions in the morning," Yugito said.
"Of course. We'll be staying in Iwa for about two months. So, I think we might have come up with something by then," Dark said.
"We'll see you some day soon, Ame," Rain said giving her a hug.
The small group left soon after from Yugitos mindscape.
Two months later
It was the middle of the night in Iwa and the whole village was asleep. Well except for seven people inside a rundown building.
"Do you have everything you need Yugito?" Scayth asked looking out the window.
"Yeah," Yugito replied.
"Good. Now use the jutsu I taught you," Dark said.
Yugito started to flash through hand seals stopping on an unknown seal.
"KISEI BUNSHING NO JUTSU,"(Death clone jutsu) Yugito said in a low voice making a mangled clone of herself with it's head cut off appear next to her.
Everyone had a little hard time to hold their lunch.
"Okay. Lets go," Rain said heading out the door or at least what was left of it.
The door had been completely broke down and parts of it seemed to be missing.
"If this doesn't convince people of the fact that your dead then nothing will," Yaz said following Rain.
Dark pulled out an ocarina as he walked through the remainders of the door. Everyone covered their ear as they saw the ocarina. Dark then started to play the same song he had played back in Konoha when they had left with Hikaru. Few minutes later Dark stopped playing and put the ocarina back into his robes. As they neared the entrance of the village they saw the guards fast asleep.
"Works every time," Dark said with a grin.
With that the group of seven walked through the gates and disappeared into the night.
About two weeks later
It was nearly four in the morning. Even in the darkness of the night you could see a group of seven walking through the desert. Well two of them were being carried.
"How much longer till we get to Suna?" Rain asked as they kept walking.
"Maybe about an hour more. You know we need to walk during the night while we're in the desert. It would be too hot to travel during the day. We would die," Dark said while walking.
"True. But the desert is the most dangerous during the night since it comes alive then," Nabushi said cutting a snake in half with his scythe.
"Why the hell are we the ones that have to carry these two?" Scayth and Yaz asked at the same time while carrying sleeping Yugito and Hikaru on their backs.
Yugito didn't wear her Iwa headband anymore. She has long since discarded it after slashing it with her kunai.
"It's because you two lost the bet back at the previous village," Nabushi said.
"I can't believe that it has already been about three months since we left Konoha with Hikaru," Dark said looking at the two sleeping containers.
"Yeah and she already know so much," Yaz said.
"Her chakra reserve are getting bigger as well," Scayth added.
"But we must wait until the second part to start teaching her anything," Dark said.
The others just nodded. About an hour later the entrance of Suna came into view. Dark walked to the guard to try and get the group inside the village. After a little while Dark came back.
"We can go in. It's the same as in Iwa," Dark said.
"So, we can't interfere with the villages business," Rain said and Dark nodded.
"We have to do it even if we don't like it. We need to follow the villages rules," Nabushi said.
Scayth and Yaz nodded and the group walked into Suna.
The next morning
Hikaru woke up finding herself in a bed. She slowly got out of bed yawning and looked out of the window.
"Where are we?" she asked from no one in particular.
"In Suna," came Rains voice from behind her.
Hikaru had already gotten used to sleeping with atleast one of the female members of Kuroi Tsubasa. So, she didn't get surprised by the sudden speaking in the room.
"What time is it?" Hikaru asked while still looking out the window.
"Eleven in the morning," Rain replied.
Hikaru nodded at this.
"Lets wake Yugito up and go for breakfast," Rain said walking towards Yugito.
During the travels Yugito had started to relax around the rest of the group. These days she rarely jumped when someone was going to wake her up. About ten minutes later the whole Kuroi Tsubasa group was happily eating breakfast and chatting amongst each other.
"Hikaru, Yugito. While your inside the village your free to roam the streets but you can't interfere with the villages business," Dark said while eating making Hikaru and Yugito nod.
After Hikaru had finished eating she walked out of the hotel they were staying. After a while of walking she arrived to a small playground. A group of kids was playing with each other by kicking a ball from one another. Hikaru sat down and started to watch the kids play. She soon noticed a boy with a rust red hair and black circles around his eyes sitting on the swings all alone holding a teddy bear. Hikaru got up and walked over to the boy.
"Hi," Hikaru said happily sitting on the swing next to the boy.
The boy looked at her a bit shocked.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Hikaru asked.
"Aren't you scared of me?" the boy asked.
"Why should I be scared of you?" Hikaru asked confused.
"Because I'm a demon," the boy replied looking down.
"Demon eh. They used to call me that too back in my home village," Hikaru said looking at the sky.
"Really?" the boy asked surprised.
"Yeah. I got beat up almost every day. More so on my birthday," Hikaru said a bit sad.
"I'm sorry," the boy said looking down.
"Don't be. It's not your fault. I'm Hikaru by the way. Uzumaki Hikaru," Hikaru introduced herself.
"I'm Gaara. Sabaku no Gaara," Gaara replied.
Gaara and Hikaru then started to chat happily until they heard one of the kids that were playing with the ball earlier complain that they couldn't get their ball from on top of the wall. Hikaru was about to get up and start to walk up the wall when she saw sand lift the ball and float towards Gaara. It soon landed on Gaaras hands. Hikaru looked at the kids who the ball belonged to and saw absolute fear on their faces. They soon started to run away from Gaara. Hikaru walked next to Gaara and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Normal humans will never understand us jinjuurikis," Hikaru said causing Gaara to look at her.
"How do you know that word?" he asked her.
"I'm the same as you," Hikaru simply replied.
"There you are Hikaru. It'll be lunch time soon. Who's your friend?" came a mans voice from behind Hikaru.
"This is Gaara," Hikaru replied while turning around coming face to face with Dark.
"Nice to meet your Gaara. I'm Kaito Dark," Dark said walking next to Hikaru.
"Gaara's the same as me. And he can control sand," Hikaru said slightly excited.
"Shukaku," Dark said looking at Gaara.
Suddenly Gaara grabbed his head.
"She's my friend. I won't kill her," Gaara said holding his head and seeming to be in pain.
Sand started to swirl around Gaara.
"This definitely is Shukakus power. But she's always so kind. Why would she want to kill anyone?" Dark said looking at Gaara who seemed to slowly calm down.
"Think we should have a look, sensei?" Hikaru asked in which Dark nodded.
Hikaru placed her hand on Darks back as Dark went through some hand seals.
"MINDO NO JUTSU," Dark said touching Gaaras forehead.
Just as he did so Kyuubi send some of her chakra into Dark getting pulled into Gaaras mindscape as well.
Gaaras mindscape
As Hikaru opened her eyes she noticed that she was in the middle of a desert except that it wasn't as hot. She also noticed that Kyuu had also managed to slip in there.
"Where are we?" Hikaru heard Gaara ask.
"In your mind," Dark answered holding onto a staff.
"Why is Kyuu-neechan here too?" Hikaru asked.
"I got bored. You never visit your seal these days," Kyuu replied.
"Lets go you three. We need to get to the bottom of this," Dark said as he started to walk towards of what looked like a temple.
Hikaru, Gaara and Kyuu soon followed him. About five minutes later the small group was standing in front of the temple like building. Dark slowly pushed the big double doors open as he walked inside the temple. The inside was lit by several torches and on the other end of the room was a staircase. The group had reached the half way point of the room when a sand swirl appeared in front of the staircase. A woman on her late seventies appeared on the sand.
"Who are you and what have you done to Shukaku?" Dark demanded from the old woman.
"You don't need to know that because your going to die here," the woman said and with a wave of her hand send three fireballs the size of a football at Dark and the others.
"Stay behind me," Dark said crossing his arms in front of himself.
The fireballs hit Dark creating a thick smokescreen in front of him. Once the smoke cleared the only thing that had happened was that Darks robes sleeves had been burned a bit.
"Is that all you got?" Dark asked lowering his arms.
The woman looked a little pissed.
"Let me show you how it's done," Dark said closing his eyes while crossing his arms. "Oh, source of all power, light which burns beyond crimson, let thy power gather in my hand. FIREBALL!" Dark chanted firing a fireball twice the size of the ones the woman had fired.
The older woman tried to block the incoming fireball only to be blasted back as the fireball exploded upon contact with her.
"You guys head into the second floor. I'll take care off her," Dark said gripping his staff tighter.
"Right. Lets go you two," Kyuu said grabbing Hikarus and Gaaras hands and starting to run towards the staircase.
"I won't let you," the woman said firing a fireball at the group only for it to be batted aside by Dark.
"I'm your opponent," he said getting into a fighting stance.
With Kyuu, Hikaru and Gaara
Kyuu was running up the stairs holding onto Hikarus and Gaaras hands. After a while of running the group reached the end of the stairs arriving into a room full of different kinds of scrolls and books.
"Wow. That's a lot of books," Kyuu said looking around herself.
"Who's there?" came a womans voice from above the three.
The three looked up seeing a woman on her late thirties with sand brown hair trapped in a bird cage.
"Shu-chan!" Kyuu yelled looking at the woman.
"Kyuu-chan? Is that you?" Shukaku asked looking down from her prison.
"How did you end up there?" Kyuu asked.
"That nut put me here. She also took my staff," Shukaku replied.
"Do you know how we can get you down from there?" Hikaru asked.
"Who are you?" Shukaku asked.
"She's my container," Kyuu replied.
"Alright. You need to solve that puzzle over there to get me down," Shukaku said pointing at a pedestal.
The small group ran over to the pedestal.
"Make all the lines connect so that none of the ends is left unfinished," Kyuu read from the pedestal.
The trio started to turn the pieces on the board. As they were nearing the end Hikaru noticed something bad.
"This is missing three pieces," she said looking at the puzzle.
"She's right," Kyuu said after looking the puzzle over.
"They should be somewhere in this room," Shukaku yelled from her prison.
"Lets find them," Kyuu said and the three split to different parts of the room.
Back with Dark
Dark and the older woman had moved their fight outside the temple. The woman was panting heavily while Dark wasn't even slightly winded.
"Are you done yet?" Dark asked with a bored voice.
The woman only replied by casting aqua edge.
Dark only swatted it away half heartedly.
"Enough with those beginner level spells," Dark said.
"What do you mean beginner level. Those were the strongest spells I found," the woman said.
Dark started to laugh at that. At that the woman started to fire several fireballs at Dark who just kept laughing. The fireballs created a thick smokescreen around Dark and his laughing stopped. The woman started to laugh.
"I win," she said while laughing.
"I dough that," came Darks voice from the smoke.
When the smoke cleared Dark was standing there with only few scratches.
"Let me show you how it's done," Dark said lifting his staff above his head and closing his eyes. "Wind which blows across eternity, gather in my hands and become my strength! BRAM GUSH!" Dark chanted firing an arrow of wind at the older woman.
The arrow burst upon hitting the woman on the chest shedding her clothes to pieces and leaving several deep gashes on her.
"How... could I... lose?" the woman asked while gasping for breath.
Dark walked next to her and picked her staff from the ground.
"Because you do not know how to use the tools given to you," he replied looking down at the dying woman.
"You... bastard," the woman said taking her last breath and turning into sand.
Dark noticed something poking out from the sand where the woman had been and picked it up.
"I wonder what this is? Looks like a piece to a puzzle of some sort," Dark said putting the piece inside his robes and started to head inside the temple.
In the second floor
"Damn it. We only found two of the three missing pieces," Kyuu whined as she looked at the incomplete puzzle.
"Where could the last piece have gone to," Gaara wondered.
"How about with the old hag," came a voice from the staircase.
Everyone in the room looked towards it seeing Dark walk up the stairs.
"Dark!" Shukaku yelled happily.
"Yo Shukaku. How's it hanging?" Dark asked and chuckled afterwards at his little joke.
"Very funny Dark," Shukaku said sarcastically.
"So, what did you mean when you said that the last piece was with the old hag?" Kyuu asked looking at his uncle.
"This," Dark replied pulling the final piece from his robe.
Hikaru ran up to Dark and took the piece taking it back to the pedestal and putting it on it's place. Ones she did that the puzzle glowed and the cage Shukaku was prisoned in started to lower itself to the ground. Once the cage was on the ground Kyuu opened it with the key she had found while searching for the puzzle pieces.
"Finally free. Now all I'm missing is my staff," Shukaku said walking out from the cage.
"You mean this?" Dark said throwing the staff he picked up to Shukaku.
"That damn bitch. It's almost drained of all it's power," Shukaku said after examining her staff.
"Well it'll gain it over time," Kyuu said.
"It'll take about six to seven years for it to be in full power again," Shukaku said a bit sad.
"Well you'll have the time," Dark said pointing at Gaara.
"Oh yeah. I'm sealed in him," Shukaku said looking at the redhead.
Gaara was shivering a bit from fear.
"Don't worry Gaara-kun. I'm not going to hurt you," Shukaku said smiling gently.
"Shu-chan is one of the kindest of us," Dark said.
Gaara nodded slowly. Dark looked at Shukaku.
"I'm sure I can trust you to train him to use your abilities," he said to Shukaku who nodded.
"Well I think it's time we leave," Dark said looking at the group.
"Ummm... Shukaku?" Gaara asked shyly while looking at the tanuki demon.
"Please, call me Shu-chan, Gaara-kun," Shukaku said smiling.
"Ummm... could I call you mother?" Gaara asked after nodding.
Shukaku kneeled in front of Gaara enveloping him into a warn hug.
"Of course you can little one," she replied as Gaara hugged her back.
"Well it's time to leave. Gaara you can return here whenever you want but concentrating on this place," Dark said and the group soon left the mindscape.
Eight months later
It was evening in Suna as a group of seven was heading towards the gates.
"Man we stayed here a lot longer than we intended," Nabushi said while walking.
"No kidding. Eight months instead of the four we originally planned," Scayth said.
"We doubled it," Yaz said.
"Well when we made the plan we didn't know that Shukaku was here," Dark replied.
"True," Rain replied.
"Hey isn't that Gaara-kun?" Hikaru asked pointing towards the gates.
During the eight months that the group had spend in Suna Hikaru and Gaara had become close friends.
"Your leaving?" Gaara asked once the group reached him.
"I'm afraid so. We have more places to go," Rain said.
"I wish you could have stayed longer," Gaara said looking down sad.
"Don't worry Gaara. You'll meet us again if you come to Konoha after about six years," Dark said smiling.
Gaara nodded at this and turned to Hikaru.
"We'll see each other again someday Hikaru-chan," Gaara said with a small smile.
"Yeah. We will," Hikaru replied giving Gaara a hug which he returned.
"It's time for us to go Hikaru," Yugito said as she started to walk toward the gates.
The rest of the group left as well and soon disappeared into the deserts sands.
Three months later in Konoha
Hinata was kneeling next to her mothers bed. Ever since Himeko had given birth to Hinatas younger sister Hanabi her health had started to slowly get worse. During the last few months her health had been so bad that she had been barely able to eat.
"How are you feeling today mother?" Hinata asked her mother.
Himeko smiled weakly to Hinata placing her hand on her daughters cheek.
"Just fine dear," she replied slowly stroking Hinatas cheek.
"No your not. Your even paler than before," Hinata said with sadness evident in her voice.
"Don't worry dear. I'll be alright," Himeko replied.
Hinata only looked down.
'I could ask her about that now although she's no longer alive,' Hinata thought to herself.
"Ummm... mother?" she asked shyly.
"What is it, dear?" Himeko asked looking at her eldest daughter.
"You remember the day when we met Hikaru-chan?" Hinata asked looking at her mother.
Himeko nodded weakly.
"Well back then when I looked at her I couldn't help but blush when I looked at her. So, I was wondering if you know what was wrong with me back then," Hinata told her mother.
Himeko chuckled a bit only to start to cough after a bit. Hinata quickly handed her mother a glass of water which she drank.
"I think you had a crush on her," Himeko said after she had calmed down.
"But how could I have a crush on her? I mean she's a girl," Hinata said empathizing the word girl.
"The ways of the heart are unknown. Now go play I am going to sleep for a while," Himeko said slowly closing her eyes.
Hinata softly kissed her mothers cheek causing a small smile to spread her lips. Hinata then left the room.
'Goodbye my dear,' Himeko thought to herself as she closed her eyes for the last time.
Eighteen months later somewhere in the water country
Nabushi was standing on a clearing with Hikaru. Hikarus clothes had changed drastically on the last eighteen months. She now wore black sleeveless t-shirt, black fingerless gloves, gray wristbands with a black kanji for fox on them. She also wore black ninja sandals and black shorts along with red bandana around her forehead. She had a wooden sword strapped to her left hip.
"Alright Hikaru," Nabushi spoke standing in front of Hikaru. "It's time for your first scythe lesson," he continued handing Hikaru a wooden scythe which she took. "I'm sure Dark has explained the reason why we don't use real weapons during training," Nabushi said in which Hikaru nodded. (I'm sure everyone reading this know why they use wooden weapons during training. If not... FIGURE IT OUT!)
Nabushi then started to explain how scythe is used and soon after showed Hikaru the first set of moves.
About three and half years later somewhere in the mountains of Wales
The members of the Kuroi Tsubasa were walking up the mountain.
"How much longer do we have to climb?" Yugito whined while walking.
She was wearing a black cloak that hid her clothes.
"Not long. Just thirty minutes or so," Dark replied.
"WHAT!!" Yugito yelled causing everyone to cover their ears.
"Don't worry Yugito-chan. We'll be there soon," Rain said with a smile.
"But mom, I'm tired," Yugito said.
During the time Yugito had been with the Kuroi Tsubasa she had started to call Rain and Dark as her parents since they sorta were. Hikaru soon noticed something. She was wearing an orange cloak with a red and black nine-tailed fox stitched into the back.
"What's that?" she asked pointing a little to the side of their trail.
Dark looked and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"That's..." he said and started to head towards what Hikaru had pointed the others following him.
The group soon found themselves at the edge of a villages ruins.
"Well this brings back memories," Nabushis said.
"Yeah. And none of them are good," Yaz said.
"What happened here?" Hikaru asked looking around herself.
"Demon attack," Rain replied.
Hikaru looked at the Kuroi Tsubasa with wide eyes.
"Wasn't us though. No. This was done by a normal demon clan," Scayth said.
"Everyone in this village got turned into stone," Dark said looking at the remains of the village.
"Except for two people," Rain added.
"Who were they?" Yugito asked.
"You'll meet them once we reach the academy," Nabushi said and started to head into the direction they had been going with the rest of the group following him.
About half an hour later the group was standing in front of a big castle.
"Well we're here," Scayth said.
"This is an academy?" Hikaru asked looking at the castle.
"This place is huge," Yugito said.
"Okay everyone. Hoods on," Dark said pulling his own hood on to hide the top part of his face.
He still chewed on a senbon needle. The rest of the group also pulled their hoods on and headed inside the castle. Soon after the group was sitting in the waiting room to the principals office. Nabushi was flirting with the secretary trying to ask her to a date.
"Come on Evangeline-san. All I'm asking is one date," Nabushi said looking at the young secretary.
"Like I said no. I already have someone I like," Eva snapped at Nabushi.
"He can't be better than me," Nabushi said inching closer to Eva.
"Back off or I'll hit you," Eva threatened.
Nabushi just inched closer.
"I would do what she said," Dark said looking down.
The warning of course came too late and Eva's fist made contact it Nabushi's jaw causing him to fly back and his hood being knocked off his head. At that moment Dark and Scayth started to laugh loudly.
"Oh man. That's almost as funny as it was fifteen years ago," Scayth said while laughing.
Eva looked at Dark and Scayth confused. She of course hadn't recognized any of them because of the hoods.
"Very funny you two," Nabushi said standing up causing Eva to look towards him.
"Nabushi-kun?" Eva asked uncertain.
"Been a while Eva-chan," Nabushi said smiling and was soon tackled into the ground by Eva.
"Nabu-kun," Eva said happily hugging the wolf demon hard.
"Eva-chan... need... air," Nabushi sais gasping for air.
Suddenly the door opened and a man with red hair stuck his head out from behind it.
"What's with all this noise," he asked looking around the room until finally noticing Eva on top of Nabushi with her arms around him.
"Nabushi-san?" he asked looking at the two.
"Long time no see Negi," Nabushi said trying to get out from Evas grip.
"It's been a while Negi-bouzu," Dark said standing up and removing his hood.
The rest of the Kuroi Tsubasa did the same. Negi smiled as he saw who the visitors were.
"What are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"Can we talk in your office?" Scayth asked.
Negi motioned them to follow.
"Eva-chan... Can't... breath," Nabushi said causing Eva to quickly let him breath.
Nabushi then got up and went into Negi's office with the others.
Inside Negis office
"So Dark. What are you guys doing in Wales?" Negi asked as he sat down behind his desk and the Kuroi Tsubasa had sat down as well.
"I want to enroll these two to the school for two years," Dark replied placing his hand on Hikarus and Yugitos shoulders.
"Do their parents accept this?" Negi asked.
"Hikarus parents are dead but we talked about this before they died and as for Yugito she has become mine and Darks adoptive daughter," Rain explained.
Negi nodded at this while leaning against his hands.
"Any other reason?" he asked after a while.
"Their demon containers. Hikaru holds Kyuu-chan and Yugito holds Ame," Scayth said.
"What!" Negi yelled causing others to cover theirs ears.
"Dark however altered the seals so that those two can now come out from the seals but the link between the two stays however," Nabushi explained.
"I see. But what are you planing to do during that time?" Negi asked.
"Work here I guess. That is if you have any jobs available," Dark said.
"Well it just so happens that two of my teachers retired, one resigned, one left into maternity leave and one more left for paternity leave," Negi told the group.
"Great. We can fill in for two years," Nabushi said smiling.
"And we can start right away," Yaz said.
"Alright," Negi said shaking Darks hand.
Two year later
"Well today was the final day," Dark said sitting down on the couch at Negis house where the group had stayed for the last two years.
"Yeah. It's already been two years," Nabushi said.
"It's kinda sad that you have to leave. Umi-chan is going to miss Hikaru-chan and Yugito-chan," said a woman with blue hair and light red eyes.
"Nodoka-san is right. And where we're going is going to be pretty far so visiting will be extremely difficult," Scayth said leaning against a wall.
"There might be a way for us to visit each other," said Negi who had just walked into the room while reading a book.
"Really?" Rain asked.
"Yeah. It'll take a year but it'll work," Negi explained examining the book.
"What is the way Negi-kun?" Nodoka asked as she moved next to her husband and looked at the book he was reading. "Door of traveling?" Nodoka read from the book.
"I've heard of that. It'll let you travel between two points almost instantaneously,(Say that fast three times)" Dark said standing up.
"Exactly. All you need to do it draw a door to the wall and the name of the place you want to go," Negi said.
"You also need to make a door to the destination in order to make the door work in both ways," Dark explained.
"That's great. That way Hikaru-chan and Yugito-chan can come to play any day," Nodoka said happily.
"But what if there are other door in the area," Yaz asked.
"You need to think of the person living in the area to get to the right door. And after the door way has been created it stays active," Dark replied.
"Besides no one in Konoha knows about this stuff," Nabushi said.
Just then the front door burst open and Hikaru and Yugito ran inside along with a girl around six years old with blue hair that had red highlights on it.
"Good timing you three. Dinner will be ready in a few minutes. So, go wash up," Nodoka said heading to the kitchen.
"By the way Negi. Where is the closest magic shop?" Dark asked looking at Negi.
"In a village about twenty minutes down the mountain. Why do you ask?" Negi asked.
"Hikaru and Yugito need their own staffs," Nabushi explained.
Negi nodded at this.
"Dinners ready," Nodoka called from the dining room.
Rest of the night the group ate and chatted happily. Early the next morning the members of Kuroi Tsubasa packed their stuff and left Negis house.
"I feel bad leaving without saying good bye to Umi-chan," Hikaru said while walking.
"I know but don't worry. You'll see her again in about a year," Rain replied.
"Really?" Yugito and Hikaru asked in unison.
"Yeah. And Hikaru. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to place a jutsu on you that'll make you look like a boy," Dark said.
"But why?" Hikaru asked.
"To hide you from the villagers. Once your a ninja you can't hurt them no matter what they do to you," Yaz said.
Hikaru just nodded.
"Don't worry. It's only going to be while your outside the house. While your inside you can take it down," Nabushi said making the young kitsune hanyou smile.
"So, where are we going now?" Yugito asked.
"Into a nearby town to buy you two your own staffs," Scayth said.
The two hanyous nodded at this with a smile.
"And we're going to do the same thing to them as we did to your other weapons," Dark said.
"Right," Hikaru replied as Yugito only nodded.
Dark: There this chapters done.
Nabushi: Nice work Dark. Where's Syryus?
Dark: Knocked him out and stuffed him into a closet. (Banging sound comes from a nearby closet)
Nabushi: Nice.
Dark: I know. Well this chapters over. Look forward to the next one. And please leave reviews. Remember no reviews no updates. This goes for my others too.
Nabushi: Isn't that a bit mean?
Dark: I want to know what people think of these. That's why I want reviews. Well anyways Matane.