"The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still..." ~Maya Angelou
Disclaimer: I, Dreams-Wishes-Hopes, do not own Naruto.
Zekuro is owned by my partner, KuroAmaterasu
Dedicated to: Life, I guess?
-First Person Perspective-
"May, for the last time, stop touching the paint!" Kurosutaru scolded, handing me a handkerchief.
"I can't help it! Do you know how weird this feels?!" I yelled back, snatching the cloth out of his hands and wiping my fingers.
Kurisutaru was placing more seals on my arm. It had been a year since I woke up, and my hair was back to normal color, there were just a couple of complications. Training was simple really, all I had to do was control the demon-I mean soul-trapped inside me. At least now I had a damn good reason not to leave this beautiful, ninja world.
Kaguya Otsutsuki is, to put it bluntly, trapped inside of me. Her soul, or at least most of it, was sealed into me. The body once was, as well, but it was decided that holding her body inside me, were it can possibly regenerate by using me as an energy source, was not beneficial. That was the main purpose of me having to go through that terrible process. The other purpose was to improve my health, as I was told, since having a corpse inside of you can ruin your health.
Anyway, the seals being painted on me right now were just precautions. While the body was physically removed, chakra wise, it was still there. However, now, should my grandmother try to regenerate it, the process would be much longer, since she would have to start from scratch. I was instructed to use as much chakra as possible whenever I could, as an attempt to stall the regeneration.
"I'm almost done! Just stay still for five seconds," Kurisutaru reassured me, placing finishing touches on his work. After he was finished, he got up and threw me some clothes, before exiting the room. "Try not to smudge my work!" He yelled from behind he door as I began to change into my new clothes.
The top was sleevless, so that the fresh ink wouldn't stain any sleeves. It was a light purple, and while the front of it ended at my thighs, the back reached past my knees and flowed out. I was also given a new pair of grey pants. It was from Kurisutaru's betrothed, and was embroidered with dark purple flowers and leaves. Kurisutaru's betrothed was a really nice girl, and was one of the few people allowed to enter the room and see me. Usually she came to give me food, but ocassionally she would come with Kurisutaru, who would be exclaiming that I needed interaction with another female.
Besides that there were only simple accessories. A pair of sandals and a hair clip with the Otsutsuki clan insignia on it. The most interesting things I saw was an anklet and a matching bracelet. The anklet was white while the bracelet was black, and if you looked closely you could see seals painted onto them in the opposite color.
Slipping on the bracelet and securing the anklet I head towards the doors, before stopping dead in my tracks.
'What if...what if they don't accept me anymore? What if something happened to Asura-chan and Indra-chan? Damn it! The one time I actually need their support, Shiro and Kuro disappear to who-knows-where!' I thought to myself, before slapping my face a couple times. Well, if what I did could even be considered slaps seeing how my hands only patted my face. 'Pull yourself together, Nollaig! You now have a valid reason to be here and not feel guilty for leaving Zekuro and Jean behind! In fact, knowing those two they'd probably kill me for not bringing them along to the Naruto-verse. I mean, half of Jean's life is dedicated to the Naruto world, and Zekuro's the one who introduced it to us in the first place!'
I told this to myself, over and over again. After reassuring myself for the tenth time I drew a shaky breath, and placed a hand on my head. My hair was still not long enough to hide the head protrusions, and probably never will be beacuse every time it got past my shoulder, Hamura would order me to cut it so ot wouldn't interfere with seals on my back. My bangs were long though, so they were being held back by the provided hair clip, something I had actually requested to have.
'Stop being serious! If Jean saw you she would have slapped you upside the head! Now get out there and let your Naruto fangirl instincts, that you have held in for so long, go wild!' I announced to myself, before slamming the door open and nearly crushing Kurisutaru.
"What the-Are you trying to kill me?!" Kurisutaru said, looking at me with bewildered eyes.
"Well, no, if I did that then I could have accidentally destroyed the exsistence of Hinata and that would just ruin everything," I replied, letting go of some of my fears. It wouldn't hurt the Naruto timeline to only say their names, right? I mean, I fell from the sky and had most of Kaguya's soul sealed into me, the Naruto timeline and history was already fucked up.
"Yeah, yeah, keep your crazy rantings to yourself. And please try not to make a scene," Kurisutaru said, as we began our journey to...well, I don't know where we're going so I'm going to assume it's a surprise 'Congratulations on Surviving" party. The last "Congratulations on Surviving" party I had been too was actually partially planned by me, as a way to congratulate Zekuro for surviving Jean's wrath when he accidentally walked into her room while she was changing clothes.
Oh, and don't worry. He was only in the hospital for a week.
Nene: I'm...uninspired.
Emerald: Ignore her, she's just going through a phase.
Nene: Don't tell Kurohime...but I ate all of her Kalamay Ube.
Emerald: Sigh, again? I'll go get Shirohime to buy more.
Nene: -Looking into your soul- Review.
