THE SAND CHRONICLES, CHAPTER 10.
"Sister, I'm glad you're spending your only day off with me, I'm really very happy," the little boy said, embracing Ann.
They were walking, along the commercial street of the Village. There were many stalls that offered take-out meals and snacks.
"I am also happy," she responded to the hubbub of her minor. "Draco-chan Do you want to eat a cotton candy?" She asked with a smile on her lips, stopping just in front of the store that offered that product.
"Hmm, I do," he answered enthusiastically. "I want a giant one, a very, very, very big, that seems to touch the sky," he exclaimed while making an exaggerated expression with his hands.
Ann could not help but let out a small laugh at the request of her beloved younger brother.
"Okay, I'll buy you a big one, though I doubt it'll ever touch the sky." The young Taiyō entered the line, waiting for her turn to be treated at the store.
"Great, thanks onee-chan!" Replied the boy, while still hugging his sister's waist.
The people around could not help but stare at them, it was very strange to see the Taiyō buying and living outside the domains of their clan, not to mention that they attracted attention because of their golden appearances.
After many minutes of waiting, it was their turn.
"Good morning, children of the sun How many cottons will you want to take?" The salesman said in a friendly tone.
"Old man, I want a cotton candy, so big that it gets to touch the sky," the youngest impatiently ordered.
The seller cleared his throat, he knew he could not fulfill that request.
"Draco, don't be so impolite. Father would not have liked that you were like this," Ann said, scolding him. "Good sir, excuse my brother, he is quite impatient," she added, addressing the merchant. "Please, give us two cotton candy balls, extra large.
"Ah... don't worry... here it is, thank you for your purchase, young lady, come back soon," said the vendor, a bit embarrassed.
Ann received both cottons and walked out of the store, her brother wrapped around her waist like a Koala.
They began to walk at a slow pace, separately.
"Onee-san, you're bad. Why did you scold me in front of the mob?" Questioned the child, looking pouty and removing one of the cottons from his hands.
"Because you need it, Draco," she pointed out. "Mother pampers you too much, and I can appreciate that she has not taught you manners; You can not talk to your elders as you wish. You must learn to know how to live in society. Not everyone is your servant, nor do they have the duty to endure your bad manners ..."
"You say that, but when I see you talking to your students, you verbally attack them," Draco grumbled, as he took a big bite of his candy.
"That is very different, I am your superior and the only way that those clumsy ones understand me and react well to what I order, is shouting at them," explained the Taiyō.
"What about Gaara-nii? You always talk to him in a dry and unpleasant way, though he is your superior, if I understand correctly..."
Ann stopped short, it seems that her brother's words had affected her.
"That is a separate and very different topic."
The boy noticed the inertia of his sister and also stopped, looked at her with curiosity, his face had changed from a calm expression to one of much discomfort.
"Did I say something wrong, sister?" He asked this worried, noticing her reaction.
"Draco ... I don't want you to refer back to the Kazekage as if he were your older brother. Your only older sister is me, and nobody else! Answered seriously, Ann, as she approached Draco and hugged him spontaneously.
"You should not be jealous of Gaara-sama, Onee..." he said as he returned the hug. "I like him very much, but I love you more than anyone ..."
Those words made Ann's annoyed look disappear.
"I'm glad to hear that."
They separated and started walking again.
Draco had finished his candy in a short time, while Ann had barely taken a bite of hers.
"Here, I'm already full," she offered her cotton candy.
The blond boy hesitated a few seconds, he did not want to take the candy from his sister, but he could not resist the desire to continue eating his favorite food.
"If you don't want it, I'm going to throw it away..." "No, do not do that, I want it, I'll eat it, give it to me!" Exclaimed the little boy at the threat of his sister.
He took the cotton and began to eat it with enthusiasm.
Anngelius sketched a small grimace of acceptance, while looking at him sideways.
"But I keep insisting that Gaara-sama and you would be a perfect couple," Draco pointed directly as he continued to gobble up his precious candy.
"Go back and say silly things like that and you're going to have good punches raining on you, Draco," Ann warned.
"But, it's not silly sister, my intuition as a younger brother tells me," said the Taiyō in his defense. "When Gaara-sama sees you, it's as if he wanted to devour you with his eyes ..." He put on a mischievous face, then nudged eloquently, "I'm quite sure that you call his attention and ... "
A blow to his head interrupted him, it came so unexpectedly that he almost fell to the ground.
"Why are you hitting me sister? I hate you, I hate you," Draco said as he began to sob in an exaggerated way and began to hit lightly on his older sister's arm like a tantrum.
"I warned you to stop talking about that unpleasant redhead, I comply with what I say," she said this without remorse, while walking.
"Hum... you can hit me all you want, but I'm not going to stop shipping you," the little blond said firmly. "You will always be my OTP, even if you hate each other..."
"Ship you? OTP? Heavens, what kind of words do the youngsters of today use, thinking of love and other sappy things," said the Taiyō, letting out a sigh of resignation. "They don't even know how to clean their snot and they are already thinking about things for the elders, they are foolish ..."
"Well, I just wish that someone, someday, loves and cares for you in the same way I wish," said in a more subtle tone, Draco, as he lowered his eyes a bit embarrassed.
Anngelius looked at him again in an intrigued way when she heard that last part.
"We do not all have the same desires and dreams, Draco," she explain gently. "Your intention may be the most noble, but I, your onee-san, don't need the love and attention of anyone other than yours. I am not a helpless princess who needs a prince to rescue her. So can I count on you, my dear brother?"
The boy looked at her in amazement, without a doubt making him happy, knowing that his sister would always see him as his priority, as well as he did her.
"Uh, always count on me, sister."
And so, the two continued talking while they lost themselves in the middle of the crowd of villagers.
The Kazekage, was still in his office, and it was not long before he finished all the paperwork that was pending, his table clock, marked a quarter of an hour before eight o'clock at night.
Then two figures entered without knocking on the door.
"I told you, Gaara is still here," the brunette said firmly as he sat on the sofa in the place.
"Now, don't be too proud to have guessed right this time," Temari said as she walked straight to the table where the youngest of her brothers worked.
Gaara looked at them sideways, but continued to concentrate on his own things.
"Gaara, did you already receive the confirmations we were waiting for?" Asked his blonde sister as she rested one of her arms on his desk.
"Ah, it was not easy to convince everyone, but everyone confirmed their presence, even the Daimio. And you, where have you been lost at all day?" He asked this with interest.
Both Kankurō and Temari looked at each other in complicity, at the words of their youngest. They smiled at the same time.
"I feel that you are excluding me from something," said the redhead when noticing that those two looked suspicious.
"We took advantage of the good day to go training outside the Village. We practiced our combined attack. In case we need to use it in what will happen here in a few days," said Temari.
"I see..." The Kazekage finished, refocusing his eyes on the papers he was reviewing.
And since that day that they had agreed to an alliance of the Sand siblings with the Chief Medic. Both Gaara and the others returned to their common activities so as not to provoke suspicion and wait with patience the day that indicated when they would carry out the plan they had devised to dethrone the current leader of the Taiyō Clan.
Ann, as a double agent, had put the Sand's people up to date on the intentions of her mother, wanting to replace all the most important leaders of the Wind Country with her clones. And it is that she did not aim only to control a country, her ambition had reached beyond what her eyes could see. Her main goal was to control the current Jinchuriki of the bijus, wanting to take advantage of the great friendship that Konoha and Suna had. And it's because, who would distrust the dear and noble 5th Kazekage? She would only need a few samples of the genes of the famous Uzumaki Naruto, to create a clone in his likeness, and the other Kages why not, it would be a waste not to take advantage of it. And there was nothing easier and more practical for some geniuses, that instead of defeating someone, they would replace then with a similar beings that would obey them fervently.
But for that, they needed to have control of their Village first. Daena-san had planned to gather all the leaders with the false excuse of asking for forgiveness for the way she had asked to be paid the debts. Sh knew that this would not be enough to get everyone to congregate on the same day, so she would use Ann as a "traitor" giving her false evidence that could impute her to the degree of losing her position. No leader would miss the opportunity of wanting to see the leader of the Taiyō be accused of treason in public. Whoever, that would never happen.
It was two unsettling weeks of waiting, but the day had come, the beginning of the full moon would begin that night.
As planned, the most important leaders of the Village and the feudal lord himself gathered at the banquet that Daena-sama had offered as an "apology" for what had happened in the past.
It was a lunch that lasted until late afternoon. All the guests seemed to enjoy the moment ingenuously.
"One moment, please, I would like to say a few words before ending this pleasant meeting," Daena began, while extending her glass and making it sound with a spoon in order to attract attention.
Everyone present remained silent, giving way to the hostess speaking.
"I am certainly very grateful that all the guests have been able to give us the honor of their presence, today in my humble Clan, to iron out our differences and reach an agreement..."
All the guests applauded by way of acceptance.
"Thank you, thank you, but I still have not finished speaking, I wanted to thank everyone here, individually," she pointed this out with great confidence and jubilation in her voice. "Thanks for the support, Niashi-san, Kazekage-san ..."
She went on naming all those present, without forgetting any. When she finally finished, she extended her glass and asked everyone to imitate her. The servants appeared and filled the guests' cups.
"And now, let's give it for new beginning, a new era for our Village!" The leader exclaimed, then drank the contents of her glass.
"For Our village! For our village! For our village..."
Everyone exclaimed the same thing in unison and then drank the contents of their glasses.
"Well, I think with this we terminate this banquet, again, thank you for your assistance," said Daena again, as she rose from her place, implying that she was leaving.
"Not so fast, Daena-san," the Feudal Lord said firmly, as he took out some papers from his place. "I enjoyed your banquet very much, but I am afraid that this new era our village will begin, be carried out without you ... I have come to dismiss you from your position, and to arrest you for attempted treason against our country..."
All the other guests could not hide their happiness at such words coming from the Daimyo.
Daena made a face of despair, she could not believe what was happening.
"Kazekage, please, you can start with your arrest, capturing the traitor," ordered Niashi-sama.
Gaara got up from the place where he was sitting with his siblings and started invoking the sand in the direction of the Taiyō leader.
It was a matter of seconds before she was trapped and wrapped in the Kazekage's sand, her children, who were sitting around her, were paralyzed with amazement.
"Ann! How could you betray me?" Daena began to scream insanely, as she struggled with the sand that imprisoned her.
Ann on her part, got up and took her brother, separating him and putting him a few meters away from where they were.
"Onee-san, what's happening? Why is Gaara-sama attacking Mother? I don't understand... What is happening?" Draco began to speak desperately, as he struggled with his sister to free him.
But Ann hit him on the side of his neck, causing him to faint, she certainly did not want her brother to witness such a moment.
"Ann! Ann! Ann!" Daena kept screaming, the Kazekage's sand was about to cover her mouth to prevent her from talking.
The other clan leaders watched with satisfaction as they watched their equal, who had cause them so much trouble, be humiliated. But the Daimyo looked a little distressed at such a scene.
"Ann..." Said Daena with her last breath, before being covered by it completely, "Good job ... Now it's your turn," she smiled with malice, before getting completely buried.
It was then that Anngelius put her fainted brother on the floor and jumped to the middle of the huge table where all the leaders were gathered.
She began to position her hands at the speed of lightning.
"Ninja Art, heaven jutsu : disconnection of minds."
A kind of blizzard spread throughout the room, causing everyone present to fall precipitously to the ground.
"What is this? I can not feel my body, but I am conscious," thought Niashi-san when he saw how those around him were in the same situation as him.
Even Kazekage himself was vanished into the ground, resulting in the technique that imprisoned Daena-sama vanishing, leaving her free in a matter of seconds.
She began to laugh loudly, as she began to walk at a slow pace towards her immobile guests.
"Did you really think I would fall into his trap?" She approached the feudal Lord and pulled him from the little hair he had in his head, to force him to see her in the eyes. You were all very naive in believing that my own daughter would betray me and support you in your plans against me.
The extensive Daimio, could not utter a word due to paralysis but his eyes showed great fear.
"Oh, Niashi-san, I'll give you a quick and painless death, you don't need to be afraid," Daena went on, letting go of him and letting his head fall abruptly to the floor. "But unfortunately, others will not run with your same luck ..."
Ann got off the table and started walking towards the exit.
"Where are you going Anngelius? You still have something pending to do here. Have you forgotten already?"
The mentioned one stopped and redirected her steps towards where the sand siblings. She pulled out the huge, golden sword that hid behind her back and fixed it on the youngest of the siblings.
"Leave the best for last, why don't you start with this nasty brown head?" The Taiyō leader said, while raising Kankurō's arms and throwing him aside.
Ann lowered her sword and placed it in an attack position, in the direction of Kankurō, he had his eyes open and she could not help but notice that he was staring at her, he seemed to smile at her with sadness.
"Well, what are you waiting for to start?"
Ann began to move her sword, only a single attack would be enough to finish him off.
"I'm sorry you had to see me like this, Kankurō-san," the young Taiyō said in her mind.
Lacking a few inches to reach her target, she changed the direction of her sword's blade, aiming it at her mother.
She reacted and it wasn't difficult to avoid the sword.
She was going to claim the reason for her change of attack, when she saw that Ann was struggling with the huge fan that the blonde older sister of the sand carried, to which she had turned her back in a huge oversight.
"But how? Nobody can get rid of this technique, let alone in such a quick way," exclaimed, between worried and annoyed, the older Taiyō.
Temari remained silent, a smile not her own, flooded her face, beneath her, a huge and long shadow was given space and extended to disappear in one of the pillars of the place.
"You promised me they would not hurt her, keep what you promised, you damned undomesticated blonde," Anngelius said angrily, holding her sword tightly, forcing Temari to back away. "Or I'll take my revenge on your foreign friend you brought..."
"I apologize, but it was necessary, we had not anticipated that they would try to attack Kankurō first, the target was supposed to be me," the Kazekage articulated, as he slowly got up off the ground like the others present.
Daena panicked, she began to retreat with nervousness, she could not understand how it was that everyone had come out of the trance so quickly. Unless…"
"I'm sorry, mother, but I've decided the path to follow, unfortunately, you're not in it ..."
Anngelius released her sword and began to walk in the direction where her beloved younger brother was passed out.
End of the chapter.