Ahhh, chapter nine! This story is drawing to a close, so be prepared to say good bye to this story...it was a good one. Enjoy!
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Enter Valena!
Chapter Nine
Cat Ears!
Meande found herself right outside of Konoha in a field beside the woods. She looked at her father as he stretched and prepared to start training her. He sighed and faced her and smiled. She couldn't help but think her father looked handsome that way, standing in the sunlight, head cocked weirdly at her. Why didn't Kurenai like him? She wasn't sure the answer to that, but she walked closer to her father.
"I can tell you have good chakra control, my daughter, and you get that from me." He stated, patting her on the head. "These tasks should be easy for you."
"Prolly." She stated, trying to have his same confidence, but she wasn't sure what he had ion store for her to learn.
"OK, you start by making the same of the horse, monkey, tiger, horse, bunny..." Meande raised her eyebrows in surprise at his train of words and he laughed. "I'm kidding. You don't have to do all that. Just the horse, and you channel your chakra to the senses that you want. Like sight, speed, and agility. They will be heightened as long as you want." Meande nodded and went thru the steps he explained. She decided to heightened sight, speed, hearing, and agility. She opened her eyes and she noticed that she could see a lot farther than what she had before. She also heard a chipmunk in the woods nearby, and she looked in the direction she heard him, and spotted him nibbling on some acorns. She smiled.
"It worked." Kyoshiro nodded.
'She's a lot better than thought she would be. She picks up fast. Maybe I should go ahead and show her the ultimate move of our family.' He thought to himself, as he prepared to show her how to bring out her true cat ability.
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Back in the room, Kiba kept looking out the nearby window, trying to see if Meande was coming back and if she was ok. Sadly, he never saw her in the distance.
A knock came at the opposite door, and Kiba jumped to his feet.
"Meande!" He screamed, as he ran to the door, of course Asuma made it there before him, and opened the door to reveal Gaara looming in the doorway. Kiba growled.
"What did you do to her!" He shouted, pointing his finger at Gaara, who just looked at him.
"I did nothing. Someone else got to her first." He said, brushing passed Asuma and Kiba, whose mouth fell open.
"Is she dead?" He asked, following the strange boy, doing everything but grabbing him and turning, because he knew he couldn't. "Please tell me! What happened?" Gaara stopped and turned to Kiba, causing him to stop dead in his tracks.
"I don't know, someone just grabbed her and took her away." He stated calmly and turned away again. Kiba looked back at Asuma.
"See if you would have let me go after her, we could have saved her!" Asuma shook his head.
"Even I f I did, you couldn't have stopped her from being taken. It's her father that got her." There was a silence that filled the air, but it was broken by Kurenai's scream.
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Meande watched her father closely as he made two signs and watched has he grew cat ears and a tail.
"As long as you balance your chakra, you can control this and can stay in this form for a long period of time, but when your chakra is gone, you will pass out, so you must be careful." Meande nodded. "Ok, make the sign of the horse and tiger." Meande did so, as he nodded. "And center all of your chakra, then let it explode to all you sense points." Meande got her chakra centered, but she couldn't make it explode.
"AGH!" She screamed as she tried to make her chakra explode, but still nothing would happen. "It's not working!" She shouted at him, and he laughed.
"It's ok, it took me several tries to get it." Meande rolled her eyes, and blew her hair from her face, and sighed in frustration.
"I'm going to get this if it's the last thing I do." She stated, making the signs again.
She started screaming again as she tried harder and harder.
'I must defeat her! She is trying to ruin my life with Kiba! Blaming me for something I did do, but she can't prove it!' She started screaming to herself in her head, then suddenly her chakra exploded and burgundy cat ears and a tail popped out.
She opened her eyes and grinned. "I did it, daddy!" She cheered and jumped up and down a few times, then gave him a thumbs up.
"Wow, you defiantly have some drive." Kyoshiro confessed, smiling at her. "It took me at least four times." He laughed and slapped her on the back, and she stumbled forward slightly. She chuckled, and coughed slightly, rolling her shoulders from the hit.
"I'm coming Valena, are you ready?" She stated, smirking, and her father gave her a weird look, but continued to smile.
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Kurenai ran out of the building, followed by Kiba, Hinata, Gaara, and Valena, trying to find Meande and get her away from that man that Asuma called her father.
"Hinata, use your Byakugan to find her." Kurenai demanded, and Hinata nodded.
"She's about a mile that way." She said, pointing ahead of them, and they continued to run. "But something's not right about her. She looks different." Hinata confessed, after seeing her cat ears and tail.
When they found Meande and Kyoshiro waiting, they stopped and Kurenai backed away.
"Get your hands off her!" Kiba shouted, stepping towards them, and Kyoshiro shook his head. Meande smirked.
"Step away from him Valena." Meande said, voice eery and low. "Get away from Kiba. He doesn't like you." Valena squeaked, she didn't even realized that she had clung onto his arm. She backed away quickly, and hid behind Kurenai.
"Meande...what's wrong with you?" Hinata asked, walking towards her. Meande smiled at her.
"Nothing is wrong with me. I just didn't want her clinging onto Kiba." Hinata frowned, and looked into her eyes. She acted different, but her eyes appeared the same.
Gaara just looked at her, he didn't know she had that kinda of chakra control. He didn't really know how to take it, but he could tell that Meande wasn't doing this for show. Something was going to happen to one of the six other people standing around her.
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Ah, cat-girl, very random I know, but you had to wonder why she had cat eyes, yesh? Prolly not...oh well, next will be the last chapter. R&R
