Holy Ifrits! It's been three months since I last updated anything! Long overdue, doncha think? I've been working on a few new fics as well as trying to work on ones that are posted, which isn't going well. Writer's Black wants to be an ass and not let me go! Well, where there's a will, there's a way, right? And I'll find a way, count on that. I'm not one of the ones that gives up easily. The other day my laptop got a bug on it and it wouldn't let me access the security software so I had to go on a roundabout route to rescan the system and purge the bug. Took all morning, but I did it. I'm so proud of myself. ^.^
Well, my two latest will be getting a chapter three upgrade. I might even post a brand new story for you all, but what, I don't know. I've got a few Hellsings I want to post as well as two new FF7s, a Vocaloid and a beyblade.
Chapter 3
She was about to go inside and explore when Rin pricked up her ears and uttered a soft growl. Kisara turned to face the danger. The 'danger' turned out to be a young male walking beside a large white dog. She noted the red triangles on his face and marked him as Kiba Inuzuka and his dog as Akamaru.
"So you're the new neighbor. Welcome, my names Kiba and this is Akamaru." He offered his hand. Kisara had to admit, he was cute. Even if he was younger than her by quite a few years. If only her village had been flooded when she was younger, she sighed mentally. Of course her rescuer was cute on his own standards.
"Mine's Kisara Masarikki. Formerly of Kirigakure. This is Rin." She took the offered hand and picked up the still growling cub. "Rin! That's enough with the growling. Quit. They're our new neighbors. Behave." Rin stopped and wagged her tail. Akamaru sniffed noses with her and Rin licked his nose.
"Kiri? What are you doing here?"
She looked down and Rin's ears drooped. "My village was destroyed by flood. Me and Rin were the sole survivors."
"Sorry about your loss. If my family can help in any way, let us know."
"Thank you." Kisara looked back at him and rubbed Rin's ears.
"Come meet my family." Taking the hand that had been rubbing Rin, he walked her to the next house. They walked around behind to see two women seated on the grass in the back yard and they were surrounded by a small wolf pack of about five or six. "Mom, Hana. Meet our new neighbor, Kisara. Kisara, this is my mom and my sister Hana."
Kisara nodded. "Pleasure meeting you. This my wolf Rin."
Tsume lifted her head and sniffed. "Why do I smell the ocean?"
"I am formerly of Kirigakure."
The older woman raised an eyebrow. "Formerly? What happened?"
"A flood wiped out my village and me and Rin were the sole survivors. I had refused to leave my destroyed home and Rin came here, seeking help. Kakashi Hatake and his dogs were sent to bring me back." Kisara explained.
Hana stood and hugged younger woman and cub. "If we can help, let us know."
Kisara smiled up at her. "Kiba told me the same thing."
She looked over at her brother. "Did he?" He nodded and Hana ruffled his hair. "You're smarter than you look little brother." Kiba growled and charged. Laughing, Hana skipped away with her brother chasing after. Akamaru laid down and watched his master chase his sister. Rin struggled to get down and Kisara put the cub on the grass. Rin jumped on the much larger dog and got an ear in her little teeth. With a flick of his head, Akamaru sent Rin rolling across the grass. Rin yipped and charged back in, this time, jumping on his neck. Kisara watched the larger dog gently play with a much smaller Rin.
"Looks like Rin has found a playmate." Tsume commented and Kiba stopped chasing his sister to watch Akamaru and Rin play.
"Where there other wolves in Kiri?" Hana asked.
Kisara shook her head. "No, Rin was an only cub. It was a few months ago and I was walking in the woods when I heard something whining. I go to check it out and there's this little cub by itself standing next to its dead mother and siblings. From the look of things, mother and cubs were the victims of an attack. I take the cub home, name her Rin and raise her as if she were my own puppy. When she got older, I thought of a way I could interact and train with her and thought of the transformation jitsu. Deciding that the universal jitsu was child's play, I came up with another jitsu that oriented on wolves."
"What did it do?" Tsume asked.
"Would you like to see?" Kisara smiled.
"I'd love to see it." Kiba told her and Kisara held up her hands, making the signs for her unique jitsu.
"Wolf Mimicry Jitsu!" Once again Kisara was surrounded by her chakra, morphing her into a black wolf. "Well?" she asked.
"That is so cool! Do you think it can be tweaked for me and Akamaru?" Kiba asked.
"We can try." Kisara replied as she released the jitsu and showed him the signs. For the next hour, Kiba and Kisara worked on her jitsu so Kiba could use it. Finally the signs that would work for Kiba and Akamaru were put in place of Kisara's own. "Give it a shot Kiba." She told him when the tweaking was complete.
Taking a minute to get his mind and chakra in the right state, he made the new hands signs. "Canine Mimicry Jitsu!" The next minute, he had become a brown dog half the size of Akamaru. Kisara sat back on her heels and looked at the new Kiba.
"Well?" Rin yipped and pranced in place, excited. A new playmate!
He looked back at her, tail wagging furiously. "This is so cool!"
She smiled happily. "Glad you like it so much. Kakashi thought it was interesting. He asked me the same thing you did: if it was tweakable for dogs. I'll have to tell him the tweaking was successful." She told him. Kisara looked up at the sky and noticed it was well into the afternoon. "Shoot!"
"What's wrong?" Tsume asked, watching Kiba explore with his new form. Hana had been watching Kisara carefully and had done the same signs, becoming a brown wolf. Seemed she preferred being a wolf over a dog. Tsume herself liked wolves.
"I was supposed to return to Tsunade's. She said she was going to find someone who would take me shopping." Kisara replied, giggling as Hana pounced on Akamaru and the two play-fought.
Tsume whistled and a hawk glided down from the house roof, a scroll tied to a leg by a red ribbon. The hawk landed on her shoulder and Tsume untied the scroll from his leg. She reached into her pocket and withdrew a pen, writing on the scroll. Done with her message, she retied the scroll and threw the hawk into the air. They watched the hawk as it angled its wings toward Tsunade's.
"I sent a simple message telling her that we'll take care of you. Knowing her, she might be expecting the message and won't have anyone waiting for you to show up." She explained. Not ten minutes later, the hawk was back. He landed on Tsume's upraised arm and she untied the scroll from his leg. Reading, she nodded. "Yup, just as I thought. She says she was expecting the message and to tell where ever we go to put it on her tab and she'll pay it. She does want you to return in the morning when you're awake." She looked up at morphed brother and sister as they played. "Kiba, Hana. Release that jitsu or you're gonna get stuck that way." Obeying their mother, they released the jitsu and returned to normal.
"Yay! Shopping trip!" Hana squealed, thoroughly happy and Kiba groaned.
"If you like, Kiba, you can stay here and keep Rin occupied." Tsume told her son and noticed him perk up.
"Thanks mom." Kiba told her.
Three hours later, the three women arrived back at the Inuzuka house carrying bags and laughing.
"You ladies have fun?" Kiba grinned, walking around from the backyard, Rin and Akamaru prancing beside him.
"The most fun I've ever had." Kisara grinned as she used her free hand to dig in her pocket for her keys and unlocking the door. She said goodbye to her new friends and closed the door with her foot. She leaned against the door. "Goddess, that was fun. Did you have fun with Kiba and Akamaru Rin?" In response, the cub yipped, her tongue hanging out. Kisara picked up the bags again and hefted them upstairs to her room where she set them down on the floor. She rummaged in one of the brown bags for something to wear to bed and picked out a white tank top and Scooby Doo print sleep pants and carried them to the bathroom.
Once she had showered and put her new clothes on, she put her wet hair up into a bun and set out to explore her new home. In Kiri, she had lived with her best friend. Now she had a place to call her own. The decor was simple, but over time that would change to reflect the personality of who lived here. She entered a room in the back of the house and discovered there was one window. It was a bay window with a glass domed top. Kisara decided it was a perfect reading spot on sunny winter days. She would have to see about getting her Icha Icha collection again. Maybe Kakashi would know where to get them. Her bare feet lightly padded across the wooden floor as she finished her exploration and returned to her room. She opened the window and vaulted up onto the roof. She laid down on the roof tiles to gaze up at the stars.
Rin's barking caught her attention moments later and she looked for the cub. She spotted her at the other end of the roof, barking down at someone with her tail wagging. Must be someone she knew. Kisara crept along the roof and gazed down into a tree. At first she didn't see anything, but as her eyes adjusted, she caught a darker shape among the shadows. As she stared, she recognized them.
"Kakashi?" He looked up at her from where he had reading on a branch. She smiled. "How the hell can you read at night?" She knew the answer as soon as she asked the question. "Nevermind. What are you doing here?"
"Tsunade wanted me to keep an eye on you for a day or so, see how you were coping." He answered, putting away the book and leaping to the roof to sit beside her.
"That's kind of her, but I'm fine."
"I noticed. Seemed she was right when she said you two would get along great with Kiba and his family."
"You doubted your Hokage?" Kisara grinned.
"She's your Hokage now too." Kakashi told her.
"I know. It's going to be a little odd saying Hokage instead of Raikage, but there's nothing you can really do about it." She shrugged. "I'll get used to it."
"I know living in a new village is going to take some time getting used to. You'll have to learn your way around all over again." He replied.
"I told you my sense of direction was uncanny. I wasn't lying. I can find my way around pretty good already by what I've mapped just by shopping with Tsume and Hana." She told him. "Speaking of shopping, of all the bookshops I stopped at, I couldn't find what I was looking for."
"Which was?"
"I want to restart my collection of Icha Icha again."
"I don't know where you can find them at."
"Don't you buy the books?"
"I get mine direct from Jiraya." He replied, his good eye glinting with amusement. Kisara's jaw dropped.
"You personally know Jiraya?" She asked, her violet eyes huge.
"He is a Leaf shinobi." Kakashi answered. Kisara thought for a minute.
"That explains why my friend in the wind village had me notify him when the latest book came out. As we were closer, we got them sooner."
He nodded. "Exactly. Tomorrow I'll see if I can get in touch with him. Maybe he can work something out with you." At his last words, Kisara shivered. It wasn't lost on him. "Cold?"
She shook her head. "No. From what I've heard, he's a sucker for beautiful girls."
He sighed "That's true. I guess it's where he gets his inspiration from for Icha Icha. Naruto calls him Pervy Sage." He told her, his right eye glinting.
Kisara giggled. "From all I've heard, the name suits him. I remember one time about a few years ago, he came to Kiri," Here her face drooped but she continued her tale, "And was caught spying on the Raikage's daughter and her friends while they were in the private hot springs of the Raikage. What a commotion that caused!" She laughed. "I've never seen my uncle so pissed."
He laughed. "Wow. Wouldn't put it past him to do it. Tsunade's kicked his ass plenty of times just for staring at her chest too long. I believe you won't have anything to worry about." He added.
"What do you mean?" Kisara looked over at him.
"He tends to go for the bigger chested females." Her violet eyes glinted fury for a second then calmed. "You're not as angry as I thought you'd get." If he had mentioned what he had a few seconds ago to Sakura, she would have put him through a wall.
"My cousin was bigger in the chest than I so when we went out for a girls day, she got the most male attention. I didn't mind, I just told myself she might have the looks, but I've got the moves and I could take her on anytime." Kisara shrugged. There was something she wasn't telling him, but he let it slide. He was surprised that she had opened up this much to him.
"You seem pretty confident on your fighting skills." He commented, changing the subject before he actually pissed her off.
Seemed he made the right choice. Kisara nodded, smiling at him. "Not to brag but I was one of Kiri's best fighters, often heading a team for S rank missions."
"What's your specialty?"
Kisara thought. "Jujitsu, probably, through I'm just as good at Genjitsu and Taijitsu as well. I've trained so much in all three areas that I'm well balanced in all three."
"How would you like to prove your fighting skills tomorrow?" He was interested in seeing what she could do.
"When? I'm supposed to meet with Tsunade tomorrow for something from what Tsume told me earlier."
"Hmm. What she probably wants won't take long. So how about after lunch?"
"Where?"
"Will Rin be able to find me by my scent?" He looked down at the wolf pup snoozing in her lap. He found it amusing that she wore cartoon print pants.
She shrugged. "Dunno, probably." She poked the cub. Rin looked up at her mistress. "Do you think you can find Kakashi by his scent tomorrow?" The cub tilted her head to the side for a moment then yipped. "She says she can. We'll find out tomorrow." She told him.
He stood. "I shall see you tomorrow then. Good night K." With that, he vanished in a cloud of smoke. Kisara's keen eyes caught him reappear not far from the house, take the book out and walk away, reading.
She summoned a ball of wind, whispered, "Night Kashi." and sent it toward him. She saw the ball gently sweep across his cheek like a butterfly kiss, relaying her message. These little wind balls were her best friend Kimi's idea so they could talk at night as Kisara didn't have a computer. They were great for sending messages back and forth. All the user had to do was work up a ball of wind, say their message, and send it to whoever they wanted by keeping the person's face in their mind.
It made him pause and look back toward her. His head tilted to the side and she guessed he smiled at her. He lifted his hand in a wave and resumed walking. Kisara watched him until she lost sight of him before going to bed. She left the window open as she snuggled into the covers and fell asleep.
I love the ending to this chapter, I thought it was cute. Anywho, tell me what you think so far. Just click that little button below.
