Chapter four is here! But I only have one review for this thing! I want some reviews people! TT_TT
I'm tempted to not update my other stories until this gets more reviews, but that's just mean... TT_TT
Important note: Every person in this story has long, pointy ears, much like in the actual Legend of Zelda series. Secondly, spells for the Gods' Baton, the fic's equivalent to the Wind Waker, do not exist in the real game and are inspired by moves from the game, Ōkami. And finally, I'm replacing almost all of the items in the chests that would of had Joy Pendants/ other items with original items inspired by Shen Gong Wu from Xiaolin Showdown.
Also, I'm putting up the different colors of the rupees and their price so I don't have to type as much:
Green: one rupee
Blue: five rupees
Yellow: ten rupees
Red: twenty rupees
Purple: fifty rupees
Orange: one-hundred rupees
Silver: two-hundred rupees
Disclaimer: Legend of Zelda belongs to Nintendo and Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei.
'Other than saving Neji-kun, why am I risking my life in this place?'Kyoko thought with her back against the outer-part of the Ryuusu Cavern, waiting to sidle across a narrow edge as a horizontal lava vent shot out blasts of fiery death.
Naruto, who was in her hat, was also questioning why this was being more difficult than it should be. After entering Ryuusu Cavern, she had to move objects and fight two monsters, Naruto then explaining what Warp-Jars were and how they worked when she gave said jar a questioning look. She then traveled into the next couple of rooms, dodging lava shoots and bat-like creatures, before entering a room which held the Dungeon-Map and weird jelly-like monster with a red pigment, which she later found in her monster-guide was called a ChuChu.
After going into the next room, she had to fight more monsters, where she acquired a key she needed for a locked door in the main part of the dungeon. After opening said door, she fought off more ChuChus and a Bokoblin and stepped onto a switch, opening a door to the next room of the dungeon. When she had entered the next room, she and Naruto were greatly surprised that it was an outdoor area, but quickly shook it off as they continued on, defeating a Bokoblin and went up a ladder, waiting for the lava vent that was shooting lava at them to stop before continuing up the ladder.
As she made it to the top of the cliff-like landing, she noticed a bird-like monster, which she knew from the monster log as a Kargoroc, perched near the ladder and quietly told Naruto to use a paralysis spell on it. With that, the monster's death was quick, leaving behind a large feather with gold and other colors on it. Naruto told her it was a Golden Feather, a beautiful ornamental feather that is hard to get among the Hyuuga, mainly meaning that Hyuuga women go gaga for them. Kyoko put it in her bag as a present for Hinata, after rescuing Neji of course, before moving onward.
Now back to the present; Kyoko was now on a ledge, plucked a Bomb Plant, and threw it at this large rock, which then crumbled to reveal a door back into the inner part of Ryuusu Cavern. It was a small, dark room with no enemies, just stacks of blocks on the other side of the room. Kyoko moved the blocks and went into the room that lead to the second floor of the cavern. The room she was in now was just as dimly lit as the previous room, but was a bit bigger and she saw some rats scurrying about, to which she and Naruto made a face about the fact. She then turned to left and went towards the block, but she then suddenly felt the Pirate's Charm vibrate and glow slightly, which caused her to jump slightly before pulling out the gem in question.
"Kyoko, if I may, I wish to give you some advice concerning the rats in this room..." Madara's voice said from the magic, red stone, which made Kyoko raise an eyebrow.
"Madara? How are you able to contact me through this stone? I thought Sasuke was the only one who was able to do that..." Kyoko inquired, many questions rising within her thoughts.
"U-um... That's not of importance right now," Madara quickly countered before continuing with, "But what is important is that the rats, although they may be annoying, have items that they're willing to bargain with if you spread some bait near their nest... Just some food for thought..."
With that, the charm stopped glowing and Kyoko was taking out some of the bait she bought before she went on this crazy adventure, which she threw some near the nest entrance to see if Madara was right. Sure enough, a rat came out and ate up all the bait she placed near the nest, before she got a red potion in her empty bottle, which Naruto told her it replenishes health if one drinks it. After getting the Compass and the key needed to go to the next room, Naruto glad that Madara was able to dodge that sticky situation, Kyoko then went through said locked door and into another outdoor part of the cavern.
"On the plus side, at least we get to breathe some air that isn't completely filled with sulfur..." Naruto said in a some-what sarcastic tone, Kyoko agreeing in an equally sarcastic manner before continuing forward.
She defeated a Kargoroc, gaining another Golden Feather, and got the key needed to continue, before Kyoko thought, 'Why the hell are most of these fucking doors locked?'
But as she quickly went through said door, she soon found out this room was barely lit by the single torch by the door she entered through and it took a minute or so for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
"Wait a minute, I sense a large group of those bat-like monsters we saw in the room with the vertical lava-shoots..." Naruto said, his fairy glow illuminating the room a bit as Kyoko's facial expression changed from one of confusion to one of recognition to displeasure before she groaned in aggravation.
"Damn-it! I hate those things! They were cataloged in the monster book, but they didn't have a name, so I'm calling those things Keeses, because the name is just about as annoying as the fuckers themselves!" Kyoko ranted angrily as she got the Gods' Baton to perform a spell that will kill the Keeses off quickly.
Kyoko conducted the magical baton in the pattern of: downward left diagonal, right, and another downward left diagonal, creating a lightning bolt shape and ball of lightning killed off all the Keeses. As Naruto collected all the dropped items, grumbling indignantly under his breath, Kyoko got a Deku Stick and lit the torch in the first part of the room before she noticed a chest hidden in the back of the small, circular part of the room. She opened the chest to reveal a pair of earrings with small crystals that changed color depending on the light. Since she had her ears pierced in more than one place, she cleaned them and put them through the upper parts of her pointed ears, and she noticed that her hearing was strong than it was before.
"I knew those crystals looked familiar, those were the Gems of Tamonten, and when they are incorporated into jewelry, mainly earrings, one's hearing becomes sharper and more powerful, and can also understand different languages.", Naruto explained, excited that found such an item in a place like this.
Kyoko smirked before merely saying, "Awesome...", before moving on.
When she got to next room, she noticed from the corner of her left eye a huge cage and a door, which she took note of as she used a Bomb Plant to destroy a large rock that was on top of a Warp-Jar that released blue smoke before she moved on. The room she now entered had a Bokoblin sitting unaware of her presence, until the two doors in the room were covered by iron bars and it woke up ready to fight. After defeating all the Bokoblins in the room, unlocked the doors, and got a map-like item that Naruto said was a Treasure chart, which made rupee-shaped objects appear in her eyes, she entered the next room which had, not surprisingly, had more lava.
But what wigged her out was the large centipede-thing that was crawling on the small earth platform in the middle of the room. She quickly looked in the monster log, but there was no entry for it so she created a quick sketch of it and called it a Magtail. After defeating it, she wrote down few more notes: that it was difficult to attack, is unable to be killed by fire/lava, and it had a weakness to ice/cold conditions, before she got a jar of water and threw it at the lava shoot to go to the next level. She quickly went into the next room, but was stopped to take in the room itself: it had a high ceiling with an overhead pole, a Warp-Jar that was covered with a large rock, another large rock blocking a door, a lava pool, and, on the other side of the lava pool, two treasure chests, a Magtail, and a large, ominous door with weird-looking lock on it. Since she couldn't get over the lava pool, much to her disappointment, she destroyed the two rocks and went through the door, only to meet bright light and angered/pained dragon roars.
Since she could go to her left, which was earth platforms and poles that could be used to travel if she had the right item, so she went to her right, but soon found out that she had to move quickly because the stairs crumbled behind her. When she got to the top and caught her breath, she Neji was in a cage far in front of her which was guarded by two Shield Bokoblins, but after she drew her katana and kodachi and moved forward, the gate closed behind her and it caught the attention of Neji and the two Bokoblins. She quickly dealt with the Bokoblins and was about to try to release Neji from the cage, but a Kargoroc dropped a Moblin, which was the same hog-like creature she encountered in the Forsaken Fortress, into the arena and she had a difficult time defeating it. Once the Moblin was defeated and she collected the treasure it had, Naruto said it was a Skull necklace and when shown to the right people it could be worth a pretty rupee, she walked over to Neji's cage and unlocked it, freeing him.
"Thanks for rescuing me, but may I ask what took you so long?" Neji inquired, to which Kyoko gave him a dirty look.
Naruto answered for her by saying, "Maybe because she doesn't have wings and had to go through the inner part of the cavern to get here? Geez, for a Hyuuga, you can be pretty dumb..."
Neji then recalled that small fact and smacked his forehead with his hand, before he continued with, "Right, forgot about that. Sorry. But I found out what's causing Soraiki-sama's pain and distress: some monster is doing horrible things to his tail..."
Kyoko and Naruto suppressed their laughter, to which Neji added, "Yes, I know it sounds funny, but this is a serious situation."
The two quickly shut their mouths and Neji continued where he left off, "Soraiki-sama's tail hangs down into the room below here, so that must be where the monster must be. The monsters who kidnapped me must have something to do with this as well, so we must quickly deal with this problem. I'll inform the clan of the situation."
Neji reached into his pouch and pulled out a long rope with a grappling paw-like item before he said, "I used this to get here when my wings got tired, and I'm giving it to you so you can get out of this area. It's a device that us Hyuuga used before we developed wings..."
Neji handed her the item, to which he said it was called the Grapple Claw and gave basic instructions on how to use it, before he flied to the suspended pole-like branch near two ledges and use to the Grapple Claw to get her out of the area. After swinging and landing on the next ledge, she turned to thank Neji, but he was gone and only a few stray feathers indicated that he was there at all. She shrugged it off before she went down the path, smashed the wooded beams, and dropped down from the ledge to land on the platform she was on before she rescued Neji. Instead of going to her left, that she could now explore because she now had the Grapple Claw, she went through the door and back into the room that had the Warp-Jar that spewed yellow smoke, to which Naruto groaned in frustration.
"Are we really going back to the first floor just so you can get the treasure we saw earlier?" Naruto asked in an annoyed tone, but he already knew how she would answer.
"Of course! And besides, we can always get back to this room and do what we need to do after-wards..." Kyoko said, rupees gleaming in her eyes as she, with Naruto hiding in her hat for the duration of the trip between Warp-Jars.
After the little side trip, Kyoko getting another treasure chart and found the travel pattern of the Warp-Jars, she was back in the room that had the Warp-Jar with yellow smoke coming out of it.
"See? Now was that that so bad?" Kyoko asked tauntingly to Naruto as he looked a little disoriented.
"Kinda... I now remember why I disliked Warp-Jars..." Naruto groaned out, before he continued with, "If I don't have a few seconds of rest between each warp, I get a bad case of motion-nausea which can only be cured by rest..."
"Fair enough, but if you puke in my hat, you know what happens..." Kyoko threatened, causing a cold shiver to go up his spine as she moved onward.
She then through the door that lead them back to the outdoor area of the third level of the cavern and used her newly acquired Grapple Claw to swing to the next few ledges and went through the door on the last edge. The room she just entered had a draw-bridge, a Bokoblin on said bridge, a ledge with a few pots on it, and a lower level, as Kyoko killed the Bokoblin on the bridge with ease before she approached the opposite edge. The single large pot on the ledge burst open, revealing another Bokoblin, but this one had a Deku stick, but she quickly killed it. She picked up and lit said Deku stick, before she ran back and forth on the bridge, burning away the rope until it was all burned up. She only had to wait a few seconds before the bridge collapsed and Kyoko landed safely on the land bridge that was under the wooden bridge, moving quickly towards the treasure chest she just spotted, causing Naruto to sweat-dropped again, for he lost count long ago.
She opened the chest to reveal a necklace with a charm that looked like a mouth with a tongue sticking out on a leather string, to which Kyoko gave an inquisitive look before she said, "What the hell is this thing? It looks like it's taunting me..."
Naruto looked over her shoulder, him being outside of her hat made her raise a brow in question, before he explained with, "That's the Tongue of Bangoku, which can make you speak any language every known when activated."
She shrugged slightly before she put the necklace on, turned around, went across the land bridge, and opened the door to go into the next room. The room she entered was the same room that had the Warp-Jar with blue smoke coming out of it, but in the upper part where the door and large cage was, before she went into the cage and noticed that it was only held up by three ropes.
'This may just be the craziest and best idea I ever had...' Kyoko thought as she drew her sword and kodachi, cut all three ropes at the same, and grabbed onto two of the ropes as it fell downward, causing Naruto to scream like a little girl as he grabbed Kyoko's hat and some of her hair in a vice-like grip.
As it landed in the large lava pool that was on the first floor, the platform was apparently magically lava-proof, and after Naruto let go of her hair and healed her scalp from the shooting pain, she saw a small opening and went through it. From there, she jumped from one platform to another to a ledge that had a ladder and climbed up the ladder to a ledge and a sealed door she saw earlier, but wasn't able to get there before.
She couldn't open the door, but she then saw a vertical bar that she could use her Grapple Claw on and thought, 'Hell why not? I've done crazier shit earlier in my life, let alone today...'
While Naruto tried in vain to convince her not to do it, she had already grappled the horizontal bar, her weight triggering a mechanism that unsealed the door behind her, before she landed back on the platform on the full height of the back swing and quickly opened the door, barely missing getting harmed by some Keeses who had noticed her presence. After waking Naruto, who had lightly fainted from Kyoko's actions in the previous room, Kyoko grappled, jumped from a few platforms, and grappled again until she got to a room that had two small lava pools, a Magtail, a pressure-activated switch, and an ornate chest surrounded by a ring of fire.
This caused Kyoko sweat-drop before she asked out-loud, "Why can't things be easy?"
Naruto, being a bit of a smart-ass, replied with, "Because if it was, then anyone could get through this place unscathed, but then again, you're not normal..."
Kyoko 'hmph-ed' at Naruto's comment as she thought, 'He better be glad I see him as a good friend, or else his fairy-ass would have been dead by now...'
She quickly went over to the pressure-activated, stepped on it, and the fire ring went out, revealing the chest, but went she stepped off the pressure switch, the fire ring reactivated and caused Kyoko's eye to twitch angrily. She went over the Magtail in the room and quickly conducted a spell that summoned up very cold ice and snow, but she only needed for one purpose and was given her desired response, which was for it to curl up into a ball. She picked up said curled-up Magtail and placed it onto the pressure switch, causing the ring of fire to go out once again, before she opened the ornate chest and pulled out a large, ornate key that radiated some magic from it.
After quickly examining the key Naruto then said, "You know that large door with the big lock on it in the room with the Warp-Jar that spews yellow smoke? This is the key to that room."
Kyoko then replied with, "So if I unlock that door with this key, I get to fight the monster that's been tormenting Soraiki...?"
Naruto nodded, already knowing the tone in Kyoko's voice before she put the key into her pouch as she said with a dark grin and fiery passion in her eyes, "Well then, let's go teach that mother-fucker a lesson!"
After a few minutes of backtracking back to the room with the Warp-Jar that releases yellow smoke, using her Grapple Claw to get over the pool of lava, defeating the Magtail, and opening the two treasure chests, one revealing a yellow rupee and the other revealing a belt-like item that Naruto said was called a Knight's Crest and was a symbol of a true hero, before she stood courageously in front of the door that held Soraiki's tormentor.
"Ready to kick some monster-ass Naruto?" Kyoko asked with a 'totally-in-fight-mode-right-now' tone and equally matching expression as she got the large key, which was slightly glowing, for the large lock, which was also glowing.
Naruto, wearing a matching facial expression said in the same tone as Kyoko, "Hell yeah!"
And with that, the large was unlocked and opened as they both quickly went in, the large stone door closing behind them with a low, loud 'thud'.
As Neji ran out of the entrance to Ryuusu Cavern, Hiashi, Hizashi, and two guards were near the entrance, worried and slightly angered looks on their faces.
But before they could scold him, Neji panted out, "Soraiki-sama's pain... caused by monster... Kyoko-san... rescued me... might be... fighting the... monster..."
Neji had then caught his breathe, shocked and worried expressions on their faces, before he thought, 'I really need to get more flight practice in...'
Neji then explained, before a slightly pained, questioning sound came from Soraiki, causing Neji to explain more quickly, fearing the worst.
The room that Kyoko and Naruto were in was fairly decent for the fight: it was a cavern with a narrow pathway encircling a huge lava pool, from which the monster will probably rise from it to attack them. The monster had trapped Soraiki's tail in the ceiling of the cavern by hurling gobs of hot lava that has cooled and hardened, meaning if they defeat this monster, it will calm Soraiki. Kyoko drew her swords and Naruto readied himself as they moved closer, but suddenly the ground started to shake slightly, causing the lava to pulsate slightly, before the large, off-white colored Magtail-like monster came partially came out of the lava, spewing molten lava from its mouth, as it then slammed its monstrous pincers into the narrow pathway. Kyoko stumbled from the force of blows to the ground a bit, before regain her footing and facing the monster face-to-face.
Both Kyoko and Naruto quickly dodged an attack from the giant creature's pincers, before an idea popped into Kyoko's head, to which she loudly said to Naruto, "Naruto! Can you distract this thing for a second? I've got an idea on how to crack its armor!"
Naruto nodded as he then cast an illusion spell on the monster so it saw a fake Kyoko next to Naruto, while the real Kyoko got out her Grapple Claw and aimed it Soraiki's trapped and dangling tail.
She then stated, at the same time unknowingly activating the Tongue of Bangoku, in a hushed tone, "Sorry Soraiki-sama, but to get rid of this thing for good, you may feel some painful tugs on your tail..."
With that, Kyoko swung her Grapple Claw at Soraiki's tail and hooked onto it, before she started swinging a bit. After getting some momentum, she released the Grapple Claw's hold on Soraiki's tail and landed on the upper area of the cavern, just before the hardened-lava that trapped said tail fell onto the monster's head, causing a loud 'crack' and she saw bits of its armor come off.
Naruto quickly flew up to where Kyoko landed and loudly asked, "What the hell are you doing? Doing that will...!"
Kyoko quickly pointed to the monster, whose armor was cracked and was about to shove Soraiki's tail-trap back into place, and merely explained with, "The tail-trap it made for Soraiki is hard enough to crack its armor and Soraiki is strong enough to completely dislodge its own tail-trap after I loosen it."
Naruto's eyes widened in understanding before he grinned at her and nodded, to which the monster had just finished putting Soraiki's tail-trap back into place, but Kyoko now had some leverage, so the next two times she was able to grapple Soraiki's tail with little effort. But after the third time, not only did Kyoko land on the narrow pathway, but the monster destroyed its own armor as well as Soraiki's tail-trap, making the monster very, very angry. Kyoko, thinking on her feet, grappled the monster's eye and it was pulled towards her, to which she quickly drew her swords and slashed the monster's eye, until it convulsed slightly and its body exploded.
Its eye and head fell onto the pathway near Kyoko and Naruto, before the pupil of the eye turned into the kanji for flame and exploded, leaving behind a heart-shaped item, and the rest the head fell apart, leaving behind ash, dust, and... a person? Kyoko quickly told Naruto to heal and purify them, something that needs to be done to a person when they have come in contact with evil magic, as she went over to the heart-shaped object. She then touched it, to which she remembered Naruto telling her about Heart Containers and how they increase how long one could last in battle, before it phased into her chest-cavity and she felt not only healed, but also felt much stronger.
She heard a male groan, to which she turned, walked over to where Naruto and said male was sitting up, and crouched down near the male as she dusted some off the ash off before she asked gently, "Are you feeling better now?"
The male she was helping stand up had grey-white hair, green eyes with red marks around them, lightly-colored skin, and was wearing a pale purple yukata, dark purple obi, a pair of loose-fitting blue pants, and a simple pair of sandals. He nodded, confirming he was okay, before he stood on his own and dusted off the rest of the ash and dust from his body.
He then said, a very light smile on his face, "I know this may seem odd to introduce ourselves, but I would like to thank the person who saved me by knowing their name. Mine is Kimimaro and I originally came to this island to get a job at the on-island post office."
Kyoko smiled lightly, causing a barely noticeable blush to form on Kimimaro's cheeks, before she said, "My name is Kyoko Akacho, and I'm on a quest to save my half-brother."
Just then, a swirl of magic and wind formed in the center of the now-cooled lava pool, to which Naruto yelled, "Come on! I can't keep this portal out of this place open forever!"
When Kimimaro raised a brow in question, Kyoko lightly laughed and said, "That's my fairy-friend, Naruto. He helped me defeat the spell you were under and healed you afterwards, so he's a good guy to know as a friend..."
Kimimaro nodded, understanding her explanation, before the three of them went into the swirling portal, which teleported them out of there for good.
Soraiki now knew its tormentor was finished and let out a long, happy roar, causing the dark, swirling cloud near the top of the mountain to dissipate, the long roar catching the attention of the Hyuuga near Ryuusu Cavern entrance, which cut off the end of Neji's explanation.
Soft footsteps drew closer, before a soft female voice asked, "So did Kyoko-san defeat the monster that was torturing Soraiki-sama's tail?"
All them turned to face the female whom just spoke, before they all inquired, some more loudly than others, "Hinata-sama?"
As Kimimaro, Kyoko, and Naruto were teleported to the shore of Ryuusu Island, Naruto had quickly explained 'The Gems Of Evil', multiple artifacts of evil elemental powers that could only be controlled by a master of truly dark magic, to Kyoko and Kimimaro, to which Kimimaro added that once he stepped onto the island, dark, magic-induced flames surrounded him that all he remembered before Kyoko saved him. When they fully landed on Ryuusu Island's shore, a Hyuuga guard informed the others that they were safely returned, causing Hiashi, Hizashi, Neji, and a female, holding a large orange pearl-like gem to run up to the group.
After a few minutes of explaining things, Kimimaro was welcomed in as the Hyuuga's part-time helper, before the female who held the large, orange, pearl-like gem approached Kyoko with a shyness about her. She had long, blue-black hair, very light skin, pale lavender eyes like all the Hyuuga had, and had a very well-woven, very comfy-looking, dark purple-blue yukata.
"K-kyoko-san, I-I humbly thank y-you for keeping your promise. A-at first I didn't believe you would be able to calm Soraiki-sama down, but you did, and for that, we of the Hyuuga clan are forever grateful. I apologize for not talking to you face-to-face earlier, but I hope I can make it up to you..." The shy female said, her stuttering lessened as it neared the end.
Kyoko smiled and scratched the back of her head in a humble manner, before she said, "It was no big deal, Hinata-sama, just doing what anyone would've done if they set their mind to it, and trust me, I'm a very headstrong person!"
Hinata giggled lightly before she held out the large orange pearl to Kyoko and said, "As thanks for your heroic deeds and for helping me out of my self-pity, I hope you accept Pyria's Pearl, which my mother gave to me when I needed courage. I have a strong feeling you may need it to save your brother..."
Kyoko gently took the pearl from Hinata, smiling thankfully at her as she said, "Thank you kindly! This will help me greatly on my quest," to which Hinata replied, "No problem at all, and please, call me Hinata-chan."
Kyoko nodded and then remembered something, to which she put Pyria's Pearl into her pouch and took out the two Golden feathers, which made Hinata gasp audibly, as Kyoko said in a loud, happy tone, "Happy Belated-Birthday Hinata-chan!"
Hinata gently accepted the feathers, still a little disbelieving, before Soraiki gave a benevolent roar, which Kyoko understood, but heard Neji say, "Soraiki-sama is very thankful of you, Kyoko-san..."
What Kyoko then heard from Soraiki was, "O Heroine! I greatly thank you! O Heroine! Please use the wind god's wind!"
Neji gave a some-what confused look as he said, "Use the wind god's wind...? I wonder what he means by that? He must be referring to the Wind Shrine that's through the tunnel... But by any means, he named Kyoko-san a true heroine."
"Well, I believe we would all agree that Kyoko-san is a true heroine," Hinata said, to which all of agreed with a nod of the head, before Hinata inquired to Kyoko, "If I may ask, could you please stay for my Birthday party, just for tonight?"
Kyoko gave an inconspicuous glance to Madara, who was a few meters away and had heard the whole thing, to which he nodded and then mouthed, 'But you will have to leave as early as you can the next morning.'
Kyoko grinned lightly before she said, "It's okay with me. Although I have to leave as soon as possible the next morning and have to take care of a few things first, I would love to stay for your party Hinata-chan."
Hinata smiled lightly before she said, "Thank you Kyoko-san! When you see me at the party later, I'll have the best pair of wings ever!"
With that Hinata turned and ran as fast as she could, smile on her face, before Hizashi followed after her, as to make sure she was safe on her journey towards the now calm Soraiki. Neji, Hiashi, Kyoko, and Naruto smiled at the scene, before Neji and Hiashi lead Kimimaro to the postal area and to start the preparations for Hinata's party. When Kyoko and Naruto were alone, Kyoko went through the tunnel, Naruto floating closely behind, and saw the Wind Shrine on a small islet before swimming over to it, Naruto floating over the water to the shrine. The shrine held two blue monuments, one was broken and the other was still intact. Kyoko went over to the unbroken one and tried to read what it said, but most of it was in an ancient text and could only read the directional markings on the monument. Kyoko took out the Gods' Baton and conducted it: up, left, and then to the right, almost like a swirl of wind, before a gust of wind blew towards the east from the west, the wind feeling nice against her neck.
As she stood there, admiring the breeze she created, she heard a light, male say next to her, "That was a very nice breeze you created..."
Kyoko nodded, a small smile on her face from the feeling the breeze caused, before she turned to face the male that had spoke and what she saw surprised her. The male had lightly sun-kissed skin, deep purple eyes, shoulder-length sand-blonde hair, wore a blue and green kimono, and was sitting on a light blue-green cloud, before he turned and looked at her surprised face and grinned lightly.
"My name is Yashamaru and I am a god of the wind." He said, answering a few unanswered questions that were on the tip of Kyoko's tongue, before he continued with, "So you must be the new Conductor of the Gods, ne? Quite good. For a beginner, you have a skill and a good sense about you. I find that to be quite a good trait about you."
Kyoko rubbed the back of her lightly in a humble manner, before she quickly asked, although it was off topic, "I read that human souls can appease the gods into getting into heaven by being messengers that have some of their power, are you one of those?"
Yashamaru nodded, before Kyoko inquired with, "Because a friend of mine had an uncle by the same name, so I was just wondering, did you have a nephew named Kankuro?"
Yashamaru turned to her, surprised on his face this time as he nodded yet again, before he smiled lightly and said, "Yes, but I believe we're getting off-track here. The song you just played was the 'Kaze no Indou' and it gives one the power to control the direction of the wind. And depending on how the wind is used, it can be a very good... or very bad thing..."
Yashamaru's became somewhat sad as he continued with, "My sister and Kankuro's mother, Karura, is a strong example of how wind can be used in a bad way. She got angry when the shrine dedicated to her part of the power of wind was broken, and now she plagues the seas with large cyclones..."
Kyoko, a little confused, then asked, "But isn't she abusing her power, thus revoking the deal and sending her to hell?"
Yashamaru turned to Naruto and asked, "She's quite the wise, intelligent child, isn't she?"
Naruto nodded and said, "Yeah, but she never really flaunts it though. She's also powerful and brave too..."
With that Yashamaru contemplated something before he said, "If I may ask you to do one thing, if you see any cyclones out at sea, it would be a big help if you chastised her for me."
Kyoko laughed lightly and said, "Don't worry, one of the things I know how to do best is to give a good scolding!"
Yashamaru smiled back at Kyoko and said, "That is my only request, so for now, goodbye."
With that, Yashamaru was whisked away by a strong breeze, a light chuckle that faded into the horizon.
A fun-fact that she now knew about the Hyuuga clan was after all the formal parts of it, Hyuuga parties can get become fun and crazy. The place was decorated tastefully, there was a large, delicious feast, and large amounts of booze and dancing for the ones who didn't have much work to do the next day. Kyoko only had one alcoholic drink, but it barely affected her, her island one of the biggest producers of a strong sake, so she had a small fruit smoothie and was dancing with Hinata, who now had her adult wings, and few other Hyuuga females.
Near the end of the party, Naruto not even intoxicated even although he had five bottles of sake, the music quieted down and Hiashi loudly said, "Today is a joyous occasion that will remembered for ages among the Hyuuga, for it is not only remembered for my eldest daughter's coming of age, but also for Kyoko-san's heroic actions that ensured that all future Hyuuga will get their wings."
Kyoko was brought towards Hiashi as she got a standing ovation, before he continued with, "If I may ask Kyoko-san, but can you please conduct a song for us to commemorate this day?"
Kyoko nodded with a light blush on her face, before she pulled out the Gods' Baton and conducted the shape of a musical note. Then she conducted a song, a song that had harps, violins, and many other musical instruments playing the song, and the song seemed to tell a tale of long journey. When Kyoko opened her eyes, she saw two ghosts playing along, one on a harp and another on a violin, but she had just finished the song so the ghost disappeared before she could get a good look at them. A loud applause followed her song, to which Hiashi gave a short speech before almost everyone went to their rooms to sleep, Hinata giving Kyoko and Naruto a futon in her room.
That night, Kyoko had a very realistic dream, but when she woke up in the middle of the night, she remembered that some of her birthmarks were in the same places as the wounds she got in her dream, before going back to sleep and continuing the dream.
In her dream, she saw a beautiful kingdom with large fields. A girl who looked like her, but younger, talking to a younger version of a guy who looked like Sasuke named Kiseki, who was the prince of the kingdom. There was then a man who she assumed was Orochimaru, a magical ocarina, and a glowing sword, before the girl who looked like her was put into a seven-year spiritual sleep. When the girl who looked like Kyoko woke up, she was told to find the six other sages and when all the sages were collected, she faced off against the person that she figured was Orochimaru and defeated him, freeing Prince Kiseki from Orochimaru's clutches, but Orochimaru destroyed the tower in a last-ditch effort to kill them. All, but the girl who looked like her made it out, and she faced off against him, but this time as a large snake-like monster, but he was defeated again and sealed away, still with a golden power and vowed revenge.
The girl who looked like her went on many other adventures, although they weren't as memorable as the first adventure, before she woke up slowly and found it was morning. After getting up, getting dressed, woke up Naruto, and went to have a quick breakfast with Hinata and Neji, and Hinata gave her some leftover food on her journey before she left. She kindly thanked them before they quickly went to Madara, set up the sail, changed the wind direction so it came from the north and flow to the south, and started sailing to their next destination.
As they were about to get to the next quadrant, a male voice then said, "Oi! Hold it right there, carrot-top!"
Kyoko immediately stopped the boat, with a little help from Naruto's magic, and looked around for the jerk who called her by the nickname she hated the most, before a merman with pale icy-blue hair, lightly sun-kissed skin, and the lower-half of a shark jumped over the boat, landed in the water a meter in front of Kyoko, and resurfaced with a sly grin.
The shark-merman then said, "I don't know where you got that Sea Chart, but from the looks of it, it has nothing but ocean drawn on the damned thing! It would be insulting to even call that thing a Sea Chart!"
Kyoko and Naruto gave sideways glances towards to the front of the boat, where Madara had heard the whole thing, and saw that he had a somewhat depressed expression on his face, before the merman continued with, "Don't give me that look carrot-top, I'm just trying to help, for your Sea Chart is in need of some desperate help and I'm willing to give it to you... for a price..."
Kyoko quickly dug out some onigiri she made before she left home from her pouch and gave one to the odd merman, who gladly ate the yummy snack, after which he said, "Pretty good, but let's get down to business: Open up your Sea Chart and make it quick!"
Kyoko, a little miffed at the merman's attitude, got out her Sea Chart and held it out towards the merman. He swam closer and placed his palm over the square on the map, before muttering an unknown spell which caused that part of the map to glow slightly.
When the glowing ceased, the square on the map now had a detailed drawing of Ryuusu Island, with notes on few little-known facts about the island, before the merman said, "Since I'm feeling generous and bored, I'll tag along with you guys and help fill up that pathetic Sea Chart, in exchange for more of carrot-top's hand-made food. Whenever we get close to the next island, I'll make sure we stop, mark up the map quickly, and be on our merry way. And trust me, it's a good idea to have a well-mapped Sea Chart, for you get to find stuff more quickly and stuff."
Kyoko sighed in slight defeat and then said, the last part in a somewhat mocking tone, "Fine, but m' name isn't 'carrot-top'. It's Kyoko, Merman-san!"
The merman chuckled lightly before he said, "And my name's Suigetsu, not 'Merman-san', and I'm still gonna call you carrot-top."
Kyoko grinned evilly and said, "Then I get to call you Sui-kun!"
With that, she immediately sailed off, laughing maniacally while Naruto laughed along with her, with Madara chuckling too, as Suigetsu swam quickly to catch up with a slight blush on his face.
After an hour of sailing, adding more islands to her Sea Chart, mild bickering, treasure hunting that got her an extra empty bottle and some rupees, and some humorous conversations, they finally reached their next destination, Mori no Reidou, which looked like a giant tree that sprouted out of the sea. But what made them, mainly Kyoko, uneasy was the structure next to it, which was a tall tower completely made up of vegetation, mainly giant, thorny, vines that surrounded the structure.
When they landed on the only place they could, Kyoko and Naruto got out of the boat before Madara told them, "This place holds Sarutobi, The Great Deku Tree and spirit of the earth, who holds the next sacred gem known as Gaia's Pearl. But I fear Orochimaru may have already sent his evil this way, so be on your guard, Kyoko."
Kyoko nodded, before Suigetsu lightly joked with, "And I'll make sure Madara doesn't get stolen by some random monsters..."
Both Kyoko and Naruto chuckled at the statement, before moving forward, as Madara then said lightly so only Suigetsu could hear, "I think she now knows of her past life..."
Suigetsu smiled with a hint of sadness as he said, "She's a spitting image of her past life too, but their personalities are different in more than one way."
Madara nodded lightly before he said, "Indeed, but she still has many things to learn and experience before she awakens her true power."
Suigetsu nodded as he got himself comfy, knowing that this will take awhile.
And... Done with this chapter! ^_^
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