Chapter 7

Eight months later…

"Come on Ryuu! Let's go!" Akira said pulling me by my headband on my waist.

"Go where?" I asked.

"On our mission of course." she responded.

"What mission?" I asked.

"We have to go to some place called the Sumo Village." she said.

"How come I wasn't informed about this?" I asked.

"I don't know," she said, "but why are you wearing a bucket hat?"

"Because I can!" I yelled.

Akira and I met the other four members of our squad at the front of the village: Naruto, Neji, Kiba and Akamaru.

"So guys," I said, "what exactly is our mission?"

"We don't know." Neji said.

"But we'll find out once we get there." Kiba added.

"We'll rest here for the night." Neji said after three hours of walking.

"Uh, no we won't." I protested.

"Why not?" Naruto asked.

"It's not safe here." I said.

Neji used is Byakugan and said, "There's nothing here."

"Yet," I said, "but there will be."

"How do you know?" Naruto asked.

"Uh…because I lived in these woods for ten years of my life!" I yelled.

"You know, she has a point." Akira said.

"Well, where are we going to stay?" Kiba asked, not bothering to think for one second that I just may not know.

"I know," I said, "follow me."

"Whoa!" Akira said falling off the tree branch after about 20 minutes of jumping from branch to branch.

"Akira!" I yelled, going after her.

"Ow!" she said rubbing her ankle.

"You alright?" I asked helping her up.

"No, not really." she said limping.

"Well, we're here." I said. We approached an old house that seemed to get broken a lot.

"What are we doing in this old place?" Naruto asked.

"Well, if you must know. I have family that lives here." I said.

"Really!?" Akira yelled.

"Yes." I said.

We approached the door to the "old" house and before I could knock, someone answered the door. He was almost six feet tall and had black hair. "Hey Shigure," I said a little nervous, "you probably don't remember me, but I'm Ryuu Sohma."

Shigure gasped and said, "I thought you died in the fire."

"That's what I thought too!" Akira blurted. Everyone stared silently at her. Shigure even backed away a little too. Out of the blue, another male showed up and appeared to be five foot something and had purple-grayish hair.

"Do we have visitors?" the young boy asked.

"Yuki, you remember Ryuu." Shigure said.

"Oh yes," he said, "but I thought she died in the fire."

I got out my kunai and started gripping it tight. "Down girl." Akira said patting my shoulder.

I sighed and said, "I know it's a little sudden but--"

"We need a place to stay." Kiba said cutting me off.

Shigure chuckled and said, "Let's talk about this inside."

As we all walked into the house, I walked up to Shigure and said, "You're not being kind to us just because Akira is a high school girl, are you?"

Shigure put on a sly smile and said, "Of course not, but why are you wearing a bucket hat?"

"Because I can! Geez!" I yelled smiling.