Chapter 3:
Dreams and Wonders
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
- Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven)
Mebuki woke with a jolt, her heart beating as if she had ran several miles in a second. In a way it felt as though it was going to burst out of her chest. She looked around, she was alone in her tent meaning that Kazashi was outside helping the others rebuild Konoha. She put a hand to her heart, she had a such a crazy dream but the voices and sound wasn't present... She quickly got dressed and made her way outside. Unlike the way she felt, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brilliantly. The children were playing around as if there wasn't a care in the world.
She saw that there were fewer ninjas in the construction sight, to her relief, they were looking for the Hokage and the other children, like Sakura...
She sat down by a tree that was near the village. Thoughts flooding her mind.
"Hey, Mebuki!" called an all too familiar voice, it was Yoshino Nara, a fellow member of the Allied Mother's Force. The brunette ran up to her and immediately saw that Mebuki was troubled, "...Are you okay?..."
The blond shook her head, "...No..."
"You're worried about Sakura aren't you?" Yoshino guessed.
"Not only her..." Mebuki stated, "Do-...do you remember my son, Sanshouo?"
"Yeah, he disappeared during the attack of the Nine-Tails, what about him?"
Mebuki sighed, "My heart says that he is where Sakura is; but...its been so long-, I know they're both alive…but how can I know for sure?..."
"I see," Yoshino said, "you've been feeling like this for a while haven't you..."
"Yes! But that's not it, I-...I had a strange dream...I think its about them..."
Yoshino raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Tell me about it."
"Well...it starts off with a boy that looks a lot like Sanshouo but...he looks to be the age that Sanshouo would be if he were here today…he was walking around a small village and he was accompanied by a flying blue cat... the cat got scared off by Akumaru who I have no idea as how he got there, but the boy didn't even seem fazed by it and continued to walking... the boy then went into a hospital and got into a conversation with the nurses...I guess the nurses said something and the boy was shocked at what they said after that he walked out of the hospital and he seemed to have something on his mind after that...I have no idea what was being said...the voices and noise was completely silenced in my dream...if I try to remember...I can't read their lips..."
Yoshino thought about what her fellow mother said, "Well...maybe we can have Inoichi check your memories and see if he can find out what was being said in that dream of yours..."
"That's a good idea..." Mebuki smiled, but it soon faded due to her worry, "I'm worried about them... I'm so worried about Lady Hokage and the kids..."
Youshino nodded, "I am too...but in this situation all we can really do is hope for the best..."
"'Hope for the best'?! 'Hope for the best', te?! Is that the best you can come up with?!" Fuwa growled as he looked into his Transition Lacrima, "Oh, how boring~ te!"
He cut the magic flow and grabbed his traditional 'grim reaper' scythe and used it like a magic broomstick to fly up near the roof of the cave that he hid in. He used his magic in such a way that he could lay down on the broom and not worry about falling off. He was the only mage to ever blend Wind and Air Space magic; he liked to call this form of magic 'Wind Space'.
"I sometimes wonder how is it that mothers can be so~...dramatic?...actually scratch that- girls! How can girls be so dramatic~ te?!" he asked no one in particular.
He looked around only to find that he was still alone. He let out a depressed sigh. He wasn't one to be depressed, actually far from it. He was always a cheery boy with too much energy and too little time. He would always come up with scenarios in someway-shape-or form and a ask people about them. But that was just a small part of his personality. He was never cruel to anyone nor thought himself to be cruel. No, not even in the slightest... but if provoked he could be. He considered himself normal and thought of himself to be the good guy, but... there was something that he always had the habit of doing; besides saying 'te' at the end of every other sentence; he had the habit of thinking too much into something. Usually...the one who was closest to his heart would always point it out and get him to stop. But she was no longer with him, he had scared her off and she left him to his own devices... he missed her dearly...
As his thoughts of the past grew deeper, he reached into his pocket and pulled out two pictures, both having the one person who would ever understand him... his sister...
One picture was of him and his sister when they were kids, the other showed his sister with two ungrateful boys. Oh how he hated them yet envied them all at once. He envied them because they get to spend time with his sister; his reason for hating them is because those two dunderheads asked her out. They're lucky he wasn't there when they did, he would've kick both of their asses so hard that they would've wished that they were never born.
But Fuwa can't be anywhere near his sister because he scared her off when she was eleven, and he was positive that she still hates him to this day. But it is his job as her older brother that he will see her again, and make sure that she is in his protection. And as his first act as being her older brother is bringing Fairy Tail here and making her a hero. That is why he is here…is to make her dreams come true... after all...she told him that it was her dream...
He looked deeply into the two pictures...
His sister was very young, petite, teenage girl, she was fairly slender, and was pretty short for her age. She had shoulder-length, sky blue hair and hazel eyes.
"...Bookie..."
Flash back
It was in the middle of summer. The sun was shining and the heat was almost unbearable outside, but thanks to the nice air conditioner in a small house in a small town in the kingdom of Fiore, eight year old, Fuwa was able to be nice and cool as he was reading a long, wordy, book on Wind Magic. Life was good.
There was suddenly a knock on his door.
"Coming!" he shouted.
When he opened the door, he was shocked to see his seven year old sister in her swim suit, standing outside his door.
"CHOOOWA!" his little sister exclaimed, "Come outside and play with me!"
"Bookie its too hot!..." Fuwa sighed. He never minded his nickname, after all it isn't her fault that she couldn't pronounce his name until she turned five.
She huffed and stomped her one of her feet against the carpeted floor, "Don't call me 'bookie', you're more of a bookworm than I am!"
He let out a small chuckle, "Okay Book- woops, I-mean Levy."
Levy glared at him, she knew he stumbled on his words on purpose. Fuwa just smiled at her.
"Well since you're not going to convince me to do what ever it is that you wanted me to do, I'm gonna go continue reading~" he turned his back to her but suddenly he felt ice-cold water be thrown onto him. He was soaked from the head down. He slowly turned to see Levy, giggling at him.
When she realized that he was glaring at her, she stuck her tongue out at him then ran away. Fuwa began chasing after her as he shouted, "OH YOU'RE GONNA GET IT NOW!"
During the chase the two were on tiled floor and due to the fact that the older brother was soaking wet, he slid into wall, face first causing the little sister to laugh at him. The chase continued and the next thing he knew, he was out side and Levy was in a deep kiddy-pool, she had her little lime green floatie on. She was smiling at him. "One point for Levy! Zero points for Chowa!"
He face-palmed, "You got me good..."
"Yup!~"
"I'll go put on my swim-trunks..." he sometimes wished that he had a little brother instead, but he still loved his sister with all his heart...
Soon he was outside and in the pool with his little sister. He was using his Wind Magic under the water, creating a current so Levy would be going around the pool without having to do anything. She was continuously saying 'wee' was she was being pushed by the current.
"Hey, Chowa?" she said in a curious tone.
"Yeah?"
"You're really good at a Magic, when are you going to join a Guild?" she asked.
"Huh," he hummed, "I never really thought about it..."
"Well then why do you study magic, if you're not going to join a guild?" she huffed.
"To protect you of course!" he grinned.
"Protect me?" she was shocked by the answer, "Why would you need to protect me?"
"You're my little sister, and I vowed to protect you whether you like it or not!" he stated as if he was a knight is shining armor.
Levy then gained a determined look on her face, "Then as your little sister, I'm going to protect you! I mean it, and I'm going to become a hero! I'll to prove it to you, I'm going to join the best guild in all of Fiore! FAIRY TAIL!"
"Okay then, what kind of magic are you going to use?" he taunted with a sly smile as he stopped the current.
She looked up and began to think, "I don't know..."
He then got an idea, "Well...how about Solid Script?" she looked at him curiously, "it's a type of magic that uses words and gestures, like if you were to say...Fire, the word 'fire' will appear and will shoot fire at the your opponent!"
"REALLY?!" she said excited.
"Yeah, I read about it! And it really suits you...Bookie!"
Levy splashed water on his face, "I'll show you a bookworm! I'll become the greatest Solid Script Wizard in all of Fiore, and you'll be the one who needs protecting!"
"What ever you say!" he splashed her back. And soon they were both getting water everywhere.
Fuwa's heart ached, she was right, she is great mage; although she shies away from battle, but she is slowly becoming assertive when it comes to it. He wasn't crazy, he was going to make sure that she becomes a hero, and fulfills her dreams. He was just trying to be a good big brother. That is all, even if he has to fool a few others into his plan.
He kinda felt bad about sending Natsu into another world, but when he looked at what happened in the long run, he did the right thing, even if it meant one unhappy family. But hey, he is righting his wrong,...even if it meant making an entire village vulnerable...and cause some magic to leak into this ninja-filled world.
"Its all for Bookie..." he thought to himself, "its all for Bookie... for Levy..."
He was doing all of this for her. And only her...
Shino sat atop the headquarters of where he, Tsunade, and their friends were staying; his mind mulling over what had gone on when he was summoned to Tsunade's office. It was like being talked down like one would do to a child; her way or the highway, no where else to turn, just...complete the task.
It was a simple order, but the feeling of dread that was seeping into him was draining him of the energy that he had. The dread was formed from the frustration that Tsunade had. She had been that way after a week of being in this strange world of magic. The stress had gotten to her, the stress of worry for her shinobi and her villagers, making sure that everyone was in line, order, kempt, fed, taken care of. No one can truly ever take the stress off her back. If the Aburame thought about it, the last time he saw that she had a good nights rest was... about "five days ago?..."
He sighed. He held a mosquito on a finger. The female insect stared at him, she needed the protein from the blood to form her eggs, but he needed her for a part of his mission. He needed her to get blood from Dragneel for Tsunade to use to perform the first part of the test, to see if he really was Sanshouo. Due to the fact that the blood sample would be very small, the Hokage will have very little white blood cells to extract DNA and work with in order to see if they match up with Sakura's. Once that is over with, Shino will have to bring the Fairy Tail team to the hide out and get Natsu to willingly give them a blood sample so the kage could have more to work with.
Sakura and Ino will be doing the tests when the mages get there due to the fact that Tsunade has been healing Hinata's wounds from the attack that happened not too long ago; not to mention making sure that everyone was prepared for their 'guild war'.
The Aburame gave the insect instructions and sent her off to retrieve the blood; she would be free to do what she pleases after she did the small favor.
"Hey Shino!" he looked over, it was Kiba and Akumaru, "Lady Hokage's stress boiled on top of you, didn't it?" he and his animal-nin sat down beside him.
The insect user nodded, "She gave this feeling that she was about to kill me..."
"Yikes…" the Inuzuka cringed at the thought, "Well on a lighter note, she told me about that Dragneel guy. Do you really think that-...well, you know - that he really is Sanshouo?"
Shino thought about it, the memory of when he first saw Natsu playing in his mind, "Well...if you were to have saw the way he was about to attack Fullbuster, you would've thought it was Sakura about to attack Sai or Naruto..."
"They're that much alike?" Kiba's eyes widened.
"It was the way he raised his fist- you and I both know how Sakura raises hers when she's mad - he did the exact same thing..."
"Even the grit teeth and wild look in her eyes thing that she does?"
"Uh-huh..."
"Damn. I don't even want to know what he's like when he's full blown pissed off..." Kiba bit his tongue, "I mean, Tsunade told me that he is a fire user, so-"
"He's a Fire Dragon Slayer..."
"WAIT WHAT?!" Kiba looked at his comrade with eyes wide as saucers, "DRAGONS! YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!"
"I thought it was metaphorical as well...I did some research, and no…its not metaphorical... They do exist, they disappeared a long,...long time ago... if I were to take a guess, it would be when we were still in the academy when the dragons flew off somewhere..." Shino stated, "Also apparently, Dragon Slayers are children that were raised by Dragons. That means that Natsu was raised by a dragon through out his life..."
The Inuzuka sat there, eyes wide and teeth grit. A moment went by the two boys and the dog as if it was only a second. Kiba tried to process the information. "Every second that I'm in this world I feel more out of place than I already am..."
"I know how you feel..." said Shino, watching one of his beetles crawl around his hand, "You should've seen the way they looked at me when I used my insects to stop Dragneel from attacking Gray. They all looked at me the way we did to Gaara during the Chunin Exams... as if I was a monster..."
Kiba's brows furrowed, "Damn... It seems like we just can't get a break... No matter what we do... But the big question is: If we do find a way to get back, and if Dragneel really is Sakura's brother...what'll he do?"
Shino shrugged, "That will be up to him… If he wants to meet his family that his choice. But the thing is, all his life he has lived in this world, its all he knows, if he comes back to our world he'll have to adapt to it… But that brings up another question: What if he doesn't? What if he doesn't come to our world? If he does, what if he doesn't adapt?"
Kiba smiled, "Well its up to him to decide..." his smiled faded, "I know I wouldn't be able too... but there is one thing I can decide!"
"Oh and whats that?" Shino asked.
"That I'm going to kick Sai's ass straight to hell!" Kiba grinned with fire in his eyes.
Shino face palmed, "He'll never let you and Sakura live it down, and you'll never be able to beat an ANBU Black Op! Just be glad you got him to laugh for once in his life!"
"NO! I REFUSE! IF SAKURA AND INO ARE ABLE TO PUNCH HIS LIGHTS OUT THEN SO CAN I! I WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO KEEP CALLING ME AND SAKURA THE 'PINK PUPPY COUPLE'!" Kiba growled. "AND YOU'RE HELPING ME KICK HIS ASS!"
Shino rolled his eyes he remembered the day clearly. Kiba and Akumaru were fighting over a bone and Sakura was going to go check up on Naruto. Due to bad timing and chance, Kiba ran into Sakura is such a way that he tackled her down into a...sexual position and since that day forth Sai began calling the two the 'Pink Puppy Couple'. Every time Sakura and Kiba are in the same room they make sure that someone is in between them.
"I am not getting involved in a problem you created..." Shino glared
Interrupting the conversation a mosquito perched itself onto Shino's hand. It was the very mosquito that he had sent to get the blood Tsunade needed. With that Shino got up and signaled Kiba to come with him to take the blood to the Hokage.
