Beneath the Blue Sky Chapter 10, a naruto fanfic

"I will new-la-oh-knee, come after you." Shadow Wolf said threateningly. His mind dead set on keeping her in the village for her own safety.

He could easily track her. He could easily capture her and drag her back to the village. It wouldn't take much effort. After all even if she did know much about his people and their customs. She was still a woman, and while she was intelligent, he doubted that she knew how to cover her tracks and disappear.

Winter's blood chilled at the softly spoken threat in Shadow Wolf's words. Yet that didn't stop her from climbing out of the rive and onto the bank on the other side and looking back at him and growling.

"You would be a ah-gah-la-yuh-wee, foolish person to come after me!" Before she turned and ran up the small bank and disappeared into the trees as Shadow Wolf turned around and headed back to the village to get his horse.

After all, he would catch her much faster on his mount than on his feet.

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Winter wasn't a fool. Never had been. Never would be.

Yet she couldn't help herself when Shadow Wolf had threatened to come after her.

She knew that she had been baited by his words, and the softly voiced threat in them but that hadn't stopped her from telling him off or running into the woods. She knew what his next move would be to get his horse and chase her down.

And she intended to make it as hard for him as possible.

She didn't care if it was stupid of her. Or if he would perceive her actions as some sort of a challenge and chase her to the very ends of the earth.

She was going to show that foolish man that he was an idiot to think that he could find and catch her easily. She had an entire wooded area to run wild in. A wealth of herbal plants that could be turned into poison and other dangerous weapons.

There were animals aplenty to serve as distractions.

And plenty of places to hide and wait him out. After all, he had to return to the village at some point. It would be irresponsible of him not too when his people had suffered such a painful blow. She ran about half a mile before she stopped and with a devious smile and started using the tracks that she had made before to back track to a certain tree that she decided was as good a place as any to hide for a few minutes and quickly climbed it and settled herself on a thick branch surrounded by leafy foliage on both sides of it and sat there waiting for Shadow Wolf to come around.

Shadow Wolf was watching the ground, the trees and bushes and looking for signs of the snow haired woman heading any one way and was puzzled to find no traces of her except the foot prints that she had left in the dirt. There were no broken limbs or sticks or twigs to give him a clue about where she might have gone. No scared or frightened animals to give her away.

No scents. No sounds.

Not even a trace of blood or a piece of clothing could be found. Gah-go gay-say-ee he-yaw ah-gee-yaw? Who was this woman that she could simply vanish into thin air? He pulled his horse to a stop under a tall pine tree and stared at the tracks for a few moments before getting down and walking the last thirty feet or so where her tracks simply stopped and she seemed to disappear.

It was as troubling as it was vexing that he couldn't pick up the snow haired woman's trail. He looked up at the sky and saw the pale moon peeking form between some branches and knew that he couldn't stay and look much longer.

His people needed him too much for him to sacrifice the time and effort for much longer. He closed his eyes and said a silent prayer to the Great Spirit. Please let her be safe. Before turning his horse around and calling out to the creatures of the woods.

"Ooh-nah-jee ah-gee-yaw ah-yaw wee-lee find nay-he!"

Snow woman, I will find you! He thought as he pressed the heels of his feet into his horses sides and rode off planning to search the woods and settlements around the area to find the woman so that he could repay his debt to her for helping his people.

OH MY GOD!

You would not believe the day I've had today kittens.

I went to see my mammaw Kay today, and she doesn't know me anymore.

And I was almost literally kidnapped.

I was walking out of my grandmother's room at the nursing home and the next thing I know some little ol lady comes running up and grabs my hand and starts dragging me off. I don't think I've ever been so nervous before in my life!