Hi people i'm back, sorry for the late update but my laptop broke near christmas and I only got it back a couple of weeks ago, i've also been buzy with college but i will try update as much as I can so please keep reading :)
Although Shizune has left with Wei, their disappearance didn't go unnoticed. Back in the temple, the center statue's eyes glows green.
Back in the house, Yukino got up from her bed with a gasp. Something has gone very wrong! After checking her granddaughter's bedroom, her fears have been confirmed.
"Shizune is gone!" Yukino cried as she ran into daughter and son's bedroom waking both of them up.
"What?!" Tsunade said in alarm. Shizune gone? But how and why?
Jiraiya then looks at the table and sees that his conscription notice has been replaced by Shizune's hair comb. He put two and two together...and they don't make a pretty picture.
"No...she didn't." Jiraiya said horrified. The man runs to his cabinet and opens it. His worst fears had been confirmed as well: the armor is gone! "Oh no!"
He runs out of the house screaming, Shizune's name He fell to the ground because of his leg. Getting up, he sees the gates swinging meaning that they have been used. "No." Tsunade ran out and knelt to her husband concerned. Shizune has decided to take her dad's place. While noble, it also comes with disastrous results.
"Jiraiya, you got to go after her before she gets killed!" Tsunade insisted.
"I...can't. If I expose her, she will be killed anyway." Jiraiya said sadly. He knew of the law. If a woman is caught disguising herself as a man, it could mean treason and the punishment will be death. The parents hung their heads in sadness. There was nothing they could do now. Shizune was going to be killed either way.
Yukino watched the two sadly as she mumbled while praying, "Ancestors, if you could hear me, watch over Shizune..."
Back at the temple, late at night, Yukino's prayers had been heard as the wind blow the incense at the center stone's base out. Soon the stone turns green and a ghostly came out, It is was one of Shizune's ancestors.
With a nod, he turned to a hanging incense holder with the dragon statue as he said, "Gamakichi, arise! Come forth now!"
The statue begins to glow. Then came to life and fell to the ground on his back covered by smoke.
Rising from the smoke, the dragon stretched his arms. It is a small dragon with yellow skin, claws and a tail. When he stood up, he yelled, "All right! I am alive once more! Okay, people, talk to me! Who do I have to save, huh? Tell me and I'm there!"
"Gamakichi." the ancestor said with a frown. Gamakichi used to be a guardian...though not anymore and he is getting on the ancestor's nerves.
"Let me tell ya. Any idiot who thinks to mess with our family, they will meet the business end of my foot!" Gamakichi said as he growls.
"GAMAKICHI!" The ancestor snapped shutting the dragon up. Rolling his eyes, the ancestor nods to the statues that where obviously more than what they seemed. "Perhaps you have forgotten. These are the family guardians. They..."
"Protect the family." Gamakichi said with a groan as he has been through this many times before.
"And what do you do?"
Gamakichi sighs as he said, "Ring the gong and do nothing else."
"Good. You do learn. Now wake up the ancestors." he ordered.
"Time for the reunion...as usual," Gamakichi got the gong and rang it yelling, "Okay, folks, get your corpses out of bed!" As he continued, the other stone tablets glowed as well. "Move it, get going! You don't need your beauty sleep, I should know!"
Soon the spirits of Shizune's other ancestors wake up and sat down on their stones. They know what Shizune did...and it didn't make any of them happy at all.
"Figures. The moment she was born, she was a big troublemaker like someone I know." one of the ancestor scoffed as she glares at her husband
"Hey, don't blame me! She got it from your side of the family, " he snapped.
"I may be dead but I can still kick your butt for yelling at me, moron!"
"Hey! Don't call me that!"
"What's the problem? She was only trying to keep her dad safe." Another ancestor, assured.
"But what if she is found out?" asked another ancestor while holding up a calculator in concern. "If that happens, her father will be shamed for all time. Dishonor will end up with the family and the values they have will be ruined."
"Not to mention they will lose the farm, I reckon." Another ancestor, added.
"At least my kids don't get into much trouble." one scoffed. "They all become acupuncturists!"
"Yeah! Well we can't all become acupuncturists!" another snapped.
This argument got more intense as all the ancestors argued. All but one who rolled his eyes at this. He has to go through this every time a reunion would occur. Gamakichi meanwhile sat there, looking bored as usual.
"Hey, I have an idea! Why don't we send one of our guardians to bring Shizune home?" one anestor suggested. To the other ancestors, this sounded like a good idea. After all, when the guardian does that, no more embarrassment or trouble will happen.
"I agreed!" one said as he grabs a startled Gamakichi and the gong, holding them to a statue. "Let's send the most cunning!"
"No!" another protested as he held Gamakichi and the gong to another statue. "Let us send the swiftest!"
"That won't work!" another ancestor yelled grabbing Gamakichi and the gong, holding them to another statue. "The wisest always work well!"
"Quiet all of you!" the oldest ancestor yelled making the other ancestor drop both Gamakichi and the gong. "If we must do this, it must be the most powerful guardian we have..."
"Oh, I get it, I get it!" Gamakichi laughed as he got on an empty pedestal with a grin. "You want the most powerful, which is me!" The ancestors gave an odd look at the dragon...then they laughed. Gamakichi frowns at this.
"Hey come on! I'm serious!!" Gamakichi insisted. Then he downs some mega-doses of chili powders and spits out a small flame. "Ha! I'm hot! I'm..." He was interrupted when flame blasts came out of his rear.
The ancestor scoffed as he said, "If we recall, you have your chance to help out the Shizune's family."
"Because of your stupidity, my brother's war career ended in disaster!" an ancestor remarked with a frown.
Sure enough, nearby is another ghost whose head has been cut off which he is now holding. He remarked sarcastically, "Yeah, thanks a lot."
Gamakichi bitterly comment, "And your point is?"
"Our point is we will send a real guardian to get Shizune back." the ancestor said as he came up to him.
"What, are you nuts?!" Gamakichi grabs the ancestor's beard and yelled at his face in disbelief. "I'm a real guardian! You got to admit that!"
"A guardian not worthy of this spot!" the ancestor snapped as he shoved the dragons arms away. He grabs Gamakichi off his pedestal and motions him to the statue of the grate dragon outside as morning had arrived. "Now go and wake up the grate at once!"
Gamakichi groaned as the ancestor throws him out of the temple. Gamakichi recovers and peeks back in saying, "So uh...we will get back to my old job thing later?"
The ancestor throw the gong at Gamakichi hitting him in the face, making the dragon collapse while the ancestor groans in annoyance.
Gamakichi mumbled as he heads to the dragon statue, carrying his gong with him. He could't believe it. He waited all this time for another chance and like before he has been rejected.
"All right, I made one bad mistake, but can't they see in whatever they use for hearts to give me another chance?" Gamakichi groaned. "It's not going to kill them...figure of speech anyway."
Gamakichi sighed as he got to the statue. Time to get this over with. As he bangs on the gong, he yelled, "Hey Grate dragon, wake up! You got to get going and bring Shizune back!"
Gamakichi paused waiting for the grate dragon to wake up. And then...nothing. With a frown, Gamakichi went to the side of the statue as he said, "Come on, get up! Go on!" He throws the gong stick and whistles, "Hey boy! Get it!"
Again nothing happens. Gamakichi looks annoyed. Even guardians of the ancestors don't give him respect, statue or not! With a growl, he climbed up the statue. When he got to it's ear, he tries to yelled, "Hello! HELLLOOOOOOO!" He bangs the ear with the gong hoping that would wake the dragon up. Unfortunately, he ended up hitting it too hard causing the ear itself to break. He yelps and grabs the ear. A cracking sound was heard.
"Not good." Gamakichi groaned. Sure enough, the dragon statue collapses to the ground. The only thing that remained was the head that was missing an ear.
Gamakichi looked nervously as he got out of the broken stones, knocks on the status head saying, "Hello? Grate dragon? Oh, come on. Don't break down... okay, bad choice of words!" Gamakichi smacking his forehead. "The ancestors are going to kill me!!"
"Grate dragon," Gamakichi yelped and hid behind where the grate dragon once stood. The ancestor called from the window, "Did you wake up yet?"
Thinking quickly, Gamakichi held up the status head using it to cover his own. The ancestor looked from the temple. Thanks to the Gamakichi's quick thinking, the ancestor can only see the statue's head, so he thought it was the grate dragon who finally awaken.
"Yes. It's me...I woke up!" Gamakichi said, trying to imitate the grate dragon. He waves and poses as he continued, "Good morning! I will go and get Shizune back"
"Good." the ancestor said nodding, falling for it. "Go and save the fate of the Sizune'sfamily from falling into disaster."
"No problem, I won't lose." Gamakichi then fell and went rolling down the hill. He got to the bottom and yelped as the head fell on his own.
"Geez, note to self, get better insurance." Gamakichi groaned as he ditched the head. "Well, I fool them. But now what? I am in big trouble now! What am I gonna do?"
Gamakichi looked up to see the lucky cricket come up. "Do you have a problem?
"Well, what do you expect? Shizune is out there and the ancestors expected a guardian to go bring her back!."
"Well, why don't you do it?"
"And get her back, are you nuts?" Gamakichi snapped in annoyance. "After what happened to the fire breathing dragon up there, it will take a miracle to get back in the temple in good graces. It's not like I have to get the girl a medal for doing something! Heck, the only way that would happen if I make her a hero or something and I train her!"
Gamakichi pauses then he grind. getting an idea. "Wait, I got it, that's it! If I can trained Shizune at the camp and help her become a hero, this would show the guardians how great a guardian I can be! When that happened, they would be begging me to come back! Man, I am a genius, With a grin, Gamakichi stood up and heads out in hopes to get to Shizune in time.
"Hey, Gamakichi! Wait for me!" the cricket said as it ran to catch up to Gamakichi.
"What? You want to come? What makes you think you're important?" Gamakichi scoffed.
"Because I can bring good luck to everyone. I can help you because I'm lucky."
"You lucky? What, you think I was born yesterday? I am not stupid!"
the cricket rolled it's eyes and said, "You are stupid."
What did you say"?!" Gamakichi yelled angrily as he ran after the cricket. "How about I break your wings off and throw them in the nearest ocean! Then we'd see who's stuipd!"
"Your still stupid"
Gamakichi scowled as the cricket laughed. The two continued as they went off to find Shizune to help her.
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