Chapter Ten
I was awoken late one stormy night by a small messenger dragon and was ordered by it to get to Chief's room now. Springing up I threw some clothes on and shot off into the pouring rain, with lightning flashing all around me as I pushed huge amounts of chakra into my white wings trying to fly faster. I slowed my pace and landed just outside of his cave and walked in calmly. In there, there was Sora on one side of his father and Chief's cream coloured wife, Leena, on the other.
The council came up behind me as Chief lifted his head and wiggled a claw at me, telling me to come closer as he raised his head off of the floor to look at me better. I walked forward as water dropped off of me and evaporated as my body temperature was so high because of the Jyuubi. Stopping in front of him, he pushed his snout against my stomach and I hugged him as tight as I could.
"My time has come, little one," He spoke softly, not moving his nose away, "I must now pass on into the next life. You have become strong and you are able to return to the human world with grace and dignity as well as much revered control, to find a seal master and take your place with full control to lead the humans away from a world of the Jyuubi. Find a group of people that deserve your trust and power next to them for the rest of their lives and children's' lives. I will miss you and please never forget me and make sure Sora doesn't get into any trouble.. I must go now. I love you all, daughter, son and beautiful wife." He closed his eyes and his head became limp in my arms.
I let out a heart-wrenching cry as the council pried away his body from me and Sora grabbed me with his claws and held me against his other leg as I lost my third father. The overwhelming emotions felt like I couldn't express them enough through my cries. I pulled away from Sora and Pulled the Jyuubi's chakra in my veins as I ran out into the storm and flew as fast as I could. I don't know where I ended up at but it had lots of large rocks that I could smash to my desire. So I did. My knuckles were bleeding and burning, cracking and breaking but I couldn't care, the loss hurt a lot more than this.
As I drew my firs back again, a claw stopped it and I looked up at Sora's soaking wet body and grieving features. He pulled me gently against him again and I started to cry again and pushed my chakra into my knuckles to fix them before they set themselves wrong. The pain from the fixing knuckles helped with the crying and internal pain to match on the outside. Sora let me go and bent down so I could climb onto his neck. I fell asleep quickly and dropped back into my blonde self once again.
I woke up the next morning, in my bed, and feeling numb. It was a nice feeling as I got dressed into the clothes Chief gave me years ago, along with the dragon leather skirt, placing all of my weapons on me, even unsealing the two katanas, Akuma and Youkai, On my left hip, I prepared to give Chief a shinobi's funeral. Sitting on my bed, putting the kunai pouch on my right leg, Sora's head popped in through my door to tell me silently that it was time for the funeral. Creating white wings and shape shifting the skirt into a white tail, I left my room with Sora to the funeral.
No emotions crossed my face as the funeral progressed but it was my turn to comfort Sora and Leena, his mother. I did the best I could with being small next to them but we managed. I left them to grieve together afterwards. I went back to my room and sat on my bed to think.
' Like Chief said, it's time for me to return to the human world and start again and sort out my seal once and for all. It has been nearly five hundred years since I saw another human being. I will talk to Sora in the morning about leaving as soon as possible. I will have to remember that no one I knew will be alive anymore… Including Ryuu.' My heart clenched at the thought. I really miss him and I will never see him again. I stood up and began packing my things away into a bag, ready to leave when Sora gave the go ahead. Taking off my weapons and clothes, I got into bed with just my bra and panties on. Tomorrow I will leave here and go back to the real world of shinobi's and humans and I was a little excited.
I woke up again the next morning and got dressed into the same things I was in the day before. As I finished, I took the three old journals out of a scroll that I used to preserve them in and put them into one of the waterproof pouches on my belt. Checking my holsters were correct and the katanas on my left hip, I looked around the room for one last time. It had been my home for the most part of my life and I grew attached to it even though it was bare and uncomfortable in the beginning, I got use to it and now I was going to miss it.
Grabbing my bag and slinging it across my shoulders, I smiled back to my room and fell from my door, created my white wings and a tail, I soon turned upwards to the 'Dragons Hoard' as everyone has come to call it. Going to talk to Sora.
I made it to the mouth of his cave and didn't bother putting my wings away. Without looking up from his work, Sora spoke.
"Leaving so soon, huh Sonea?" He said finally looking at me sadly.
"I thought that it would be for the best. You don't have time to baby sit me anymore and must take up the full responsibility of Chief. You don't need me to distract you anymore and you must live out your life now without me. But I will summon you once in a while to catch up." I said as tears began to well up in both of our eyes. His dropped first as he walked up to me and lay his huge head down in front of me, pushing his snout up against me. I smiled as he began to talk.
"I would like that very much and summon me if you ever need any help and the messenger dragons will be at your disposal. I'll miss you Sonea. " He said as he licked me from ankles to head. I turned away from him and ran to the door and shouted back.
"I'll send you a post card for your birthday. I love you and see you soon." I smiled as I took off out of the door and into the skies.
I dived with my wings behind me as I descended down the side of the mountain and changing to my demon mode with my sharingan blazing. Closing my eyes as I fell. I felt for human chakra and found a large bundle of it coming off of the south so I allowed it to lead me as I swooped just off of the floor and began my new adventure.
I was flying for five days straight before I finally got hungry and decided to go hunting. Landing, I switched back into my blonde state and put away my tail and wing for now and began suppressing my chakra as it was unnaturally large for a humans and made it barely detectable as I started my hunt.
An hour passed by and it was just after noon, when I finally caught up to the deer tracks I was following. They were surrounding a small pond and drinking happily. Raising my palm out towards one of the smaller and weaker deer, I pushed some chakra to the blood cells and the iron was pulling away from them and forming into a lightning natured acupuncture needle. As it was nearly fully formed I shot it out and it struck the deer deeply into the heart and killing it quickly and painlessly with the lightning.
Moving into the clearing and scaring away the remaining deer, I walked over to the dead deer and drew out the needle and placed it back into my system before bringing my teeth out and sucking the deer dry of blood. I know that it's disgusting but deer blood isn't to bad, not nice but sustainable and it also kept the meat for longer.
Making a small campsite near the pond I began to get to work on the deer. Creating a small fire, I threw away the useless parts into the pond so as not to attract predators. I put the meat over the fire and watched as the sun began to set over the trees.
I walked over to the pond to gather some water and wash away the sweat I had gathered in five days, I got undressed quickly, washed the clothes and put them on still wet, they would dry very quickly with the outside temperature and my very high body temperature.
Returning to my campsite with water to last me for a while, the meat was cooked and I began to eat and watched the stars as I leaned against a tree.
Putting out the fire and cleaning the site so my presence was gone, I hopped up into a tree for some much needed sleep after five days. I fell asleep in seconds.
I woke up to falling out of the tree the next evening. Twisting skilfully, I landed on my feet in a crouched manner with my hands on the floor between my hunched legs. Turning into my normal demon mode, I sniffed the air and activated my sharingan to look where the noise was coming from. I realised very quickly, the smell of fresh human blood and the sights of battle. It looked like two huge clans were battling up ahead and took off towards them.
Watching and listening and smelling as the battle continued, I realised that their chakra both felt very similar but after five hundred years I couldn't remember where I felt this before. The sun set quickly as the one side began to pull back but the other side continued their skilled attacks almost like the fading light didn't affect them but it was on the other side. Running out onto the battleground and unsheathing the katanas on my left hip, I swung them with a wind natured jutsu as it cut the battle into the two sides.
I stood in the middle and watched both sides cautiously with my sharingan blazing, I turned to face the other side with shock and extremely wide-eyed.
'How do they have the sharingan?!'
Two people stepped forward from each side and stood chest to chest on either side of me.
'Daichi and Kazuya? No they are dead, these must be their descendants.' I thought as I watched the two arguing over who I was. I rolled my eyes at this and sheathed my blades as they turned to me and stared before arguing again. The brown haired man spoke first.
"She must be one of yours Tajima. She has the sharingan." He argued to the longer black haired man.
"I'm telling you that I have never seen her before in my life, Butsuma. I think I should know my clansmen. He argued back. As they both put their hands on their sheathed katanas and took a fighting stance I decided to step in.
"Listen here, you over-sized apes. I do not belong to either of you. I belong to myself and I am telling you now to back off and go home you barbarians." I said through gritted teeth, letting a little killing intent loose. Taking in a deep breath and letting my eyes fade back to plain red I spoke again.
"You can carry on after you send me in the direction of a seals master. Then you can kill each other to your hearts content like the two jealous brothers you are." I slapped a hand over my mouth and stared wide-eyed at their reactions of what I just said. Then they began to laugh and so did I before it abruptly stopped. The dark haired one put a hand out to me and spoke.
"I am Uchiha Tajima, the clan's head and we would be honoured to have you in our clan." He said before being pushed out of the way by the brown haired man who did the same gesture and spoke.
"I am Senju Butsuma and I would be honoured if you joined MY clan." He emphasized the 'my' and smiled at me with his eyes closed.
Tajima regained his composure and the boys/men started a pushing battle with their chests. I got a good look at them. They must have been in their early twenties and were the splitting images of the Rikudo's sons. Sighing at this I decided to get to the point, literally.
I whipped out me katanas and held my right, upwards facing katana to Butsuma' s throat and my left, downwards pointing sword at Tajima's throat and pushed them back with the blunt sides. They turned their wide-eyes at me as I felt the clans get restless behind me. I decided to ignore both.
"Look. If I wanted to be in a clan I would have started my own by now. All I want is directions to someone who is a seal master and then you can go back to killing each other. Now," I continued with a lot of killing intent and a sneer to my voice, "Where can I find a seals master?" I commanded turning my eyes to each of them in tern.
"Whirlpool Country, Uzushio village, the Uzumaki clan can help you." Butsuma said with a slight snarl.
"Which direction?" I ordered.
"East." Tajima said.
Sheathing my katanas, I stepped back from them, formed my tail and wings and winked at them.
"Carry on." And I took off towards the east.
I was laughing as I flew away. My giggles finally died down as I reached sea port and decided to land and ask for directions and change back to my normal blonde to allow my chakra coils to rest. I watched people gambling in the street and decided I needed money and I was an expert gambler thanks to Daichi and Natsume.
Walking over at a group who were now staring at me, I spoke up.
"I want in." and I sat down on the ground. The men started to laugh at me and I stayed perfectly still.
"Well I think we should play with this little girl, don't you think boys?" and they started to laugh deeply because I knew what they meant by this. I decided to play along.
"Fine. I'll be your slave for twenty-four hours if you win but if you loose you will all give me all of your money." I said in a dead and challenging tone.
"That's okay with me sweetheart. Get ready to be in a world of pleasure for the next twenty-four hours." The man laughed as he started to deal cards.
We gambled for a while and I got a royal flush with a small glamour over one of the cards. I smiled as I gathered all of my money and walked away from the beaten up group of men as I laughed counting my winnings.
I walked into one of the better looking bars, I could because I was dressed like a shinobi, and sat down at the bar.
"What can I get you kunoichi?" The barman asked.
"What would you suggest for a lady like me?" I leaned on the bar seductively.
"One sex on the beach coming up." He smiled at me as he turned away to make my drink.
"What's a cute thing like you doing in a place like this?" a husky voice asked by me ear. I had a kunai targeted on his stomach before he finished his sentence. I turned around on my stool and kicked him down and left me boot on his chest as he lay there on his back, propped up by his elbows. I looked up to the silent and staring crowd before talking in a dead and commanding voice.
"Will someone tell me how to get to Uzushio?" I said. The man squirmed under my foot and caught my attention.
"It's a three day sail from here, dead east. I can take you if you would like." He said in an apologetic tone as I removed my boot from his chest and helped him up. And I smiled sweetly.
"No thank you, I'll be fine." And I turned to my now delivered drink and began to sip. 'I wonder if alcohol even effects me anymore.' I wondered as I finished my drink and paid.
I stood on a dock and readied myself to take off after I stopper at a small convenience store to get something to eat. The moon was high in the sky so it was around midnight. I took off dead east and flew for two days before land came into sight.
It was early afternoon and I stopped a kid to make sure I was in the right place.
"Yeah ma'am this is Uzushio." He said walking away.
It was a beautiful little town full of trees everywhere and houses just to make it into a homey feeling. I smiled as I walked into a restaurant/bakery to get more detailed information.
"Can I help you miss?" I turned around to a light sweet voice with red hair and brown-eyed teen.
"Yeah, you might be able to. Do you know of any shinobi around here?" I asked in a cautious whisper. She cocked her head to the side in confusion then straightened up again.
"Oh you mean ninjas. Well you will have to go deeper into the forest to find any. They don't come into town unless it's for business, if you know what I mean." And she glided away.
'So, shinobi are now collectively called ninja now? To the forest I go.' I thought as I walked out of the bakery after buying bread and some water for my trek through the forest.
Well I guess I should have known that finding ninjas are harder than tracking animals. I had been out here for a week avoiding traps and bandits that it was making me frustrated. I finally decided to screw it and changed into my demon mode to track them by blood scent. Closing my eyes I took a whiff of the air and caught a scent immediately and chased after it.
After a day of following it I knew something was up. I grabbed the Jyuubi's chakra and looked carefully and saw that I was in a genjutsu. 'Stupid, stupid, stupid!' I thought banging my head against a tree.
"Doesn't that hurt miss?" a small boy's voice called from behind me and I instantly tried to hide my wings and tails as I turned around. Calming down a bit I dropped to my demon state and put my wings and tails away as I looked into the boys dull brown eye's, full of concern for my already healed head. I shook my head as I cleaned the blood off of my head with my thumb and licked the blood off. He watched me with awe now and I decided to speak up.
"No it doesn't hurt for me. I'm a kunoichi so pain is part of my every day life."
"I'm training to be a ninja too." His eyes brightened up but I could already see that this five-year old boy has killed before. I smiled at him softly.
"What's your name?" I asked the red head boy in front of me.
"Uzumaki Taka (Hawk). Yours miss?" He asked politely.
"Sonea Storm Shadow." I replied.
"That's a beautiful name. Do you need directions?" He asked politely again.
"Well, I don't know if you can help me but it's worth a shot. Do you know of a seals master anywhere?" I watched his face as his brows furrowed in thought then it straightened again.
"I can help," He said smiling, "My father is training me to be a seals master because he doesn't have the power to be one." He smiled sadly. What luck. A trainee right in my grasp. I couldn't help but smile and start jumping like an idiot. The kid just laughed at me but then concentrated on the bit of the seal he could see on my back and he stepped forward and ran his fingers across the seal, his brows furrowing again in an angry frown. I looked at him over my shoulder and watched several emotions cross his face; Concentration, anger, amazement then anger again. I furrowed my brows in confusion as he looked up at me again, his face clear of emotions as he forced a smile up at me.
"You must come to my fathers house. There is something wrong with this seal." He said sadly. I couldn't help but turn around and stare at him. First was shock that he could see that something was wrong in a tiny section of my seal. Then it was excitement as I smiled because I knew he would be able to help me in the near future. I knelt down to his level and spoke.
"I will come as long as you think you can help me in the near future. Deal?" I asked holding out my pinkie finger to him. He smiled and took it with his own and started pulling me with him.
"I promise." He called over his shoulder.