Chapter 9- Okano Bloodline
Koi wrapped his arms around his neice lovingly. "Oni! Get away from him!" Fushimi pulled her away from her uncle, he turned to see a hand moving quickly to his face.
Byuu grabbed Oni's hand before it could make contact with her teammate's cheek. "Dudette, tell us now what is going on." Byuu snarled pulling her closer to him.
A gulping noise came from her throat then she smiled sheepishly "...um...well...I-...t-this is m-my...u-uncle...K-koi..." she stuttered nervously.
Both of Oni's teammate's eyes widened, "Wha- I thought Kyo was your only family." Byuu asked contemptuously. The taller man walked over to put a hand on Byuu's sholder.
"So Oni actually graduated, wow, how surprising." Koi mocked.
Oni glared playfully then seriously "Where did you go for all of these years?"
Koi turned his gaze to an enormous marble building in the distance.
"Well?" Oni's tone grew serious as she tooks a large step toward her uncle.
He turned back to the little girl, "Did Kyo tell you anything about your mother?"
"No..." She responded with a wonderous look, "...Why?"
Byuu tapped his younger teammate on the sholder, "Hey, Oni, we are on a mission, we should really be going. Maybe you can come back later..."
Oni turned on her heal to look at the violet eyed boy. "You and Fushimi can go ahead, I'll catch up with you."
Fushimi and Byuu exchanged glances through the pitch-black night and nodded. "You need to catch up with in two hours or we'll come to get you."
Oni watched the two boys jump ontop fo the tank with a bull-whip in hand. She watched until she could no longer see, It was a new moon so it was an even darker night than usual.
"Oni." The kunoichi turned around to face her uncle once again. "Come with me," Koi held out a hand to create a green light from his chakra, Oni followed.
"This is where we used to- no, now live..." Koi raised a finger to point at a beautiful mansion made from marble, It had a brightly lit symbol above the door frame. Oni went pie eyed, she had never seen a home so beautiful before in her life.
"Pulchritudinous isn't it? Too bad the owners of it were scum." He continued with deep contempt in his voice. Oni looked at him questioningly, only Koi would use a word like 'pulchritudinous' in an actual sentence, "But weren't they your reletives?"
A breeze of frozen wind blew by them causing a shiver to go down Oni's spine. Koi had walked a few meters ahead so Oni ran to catch up.
Koi opened the door to the palace of a bulding, "Come on sweet, inside now, your cold." Oni stepped inside the dimly lit home but stopped halfway through the doorway.
"...wow," was all Oni could say to explain what she saw. Splendid sculptures and fountains of water, she could tell even from the doorway that the water was warm. Paintings and murals of tremendous size sat on almost every wall, and for each wall they didn't cover was a statue.
Koi stood impatiantly on on the other side of the middle fountain, "Come on, I do not have all night." Oni smiled and timidly walked through the door, as she moved further into the room the stronger the smell of...well she could not quite place the fragrence, but she loved it anyway.
They walked through the house strait to the back sliding door, "Come with me-" Koi looked over to the girl to see his sister, he shook his head and instead saw his neice again. He let out a breath, 'I must be overtired or something,' he thought. Oni gave him a peculiar look and followed him outside.
A small whimpering noise could be heard once they moved fully through the door. Oni flinched and began investigating the noise, 'It didn't sound like any kind of animal.' "It was the grass." Koi stated flatly. Oni glanced around to see weeping blades of grass alongside a black pool of water.
"The plants cry for what happened here, but you are a bit to young to hear that piece of history." Koi continued with a more sarcastic sounding voice. Oni knew that voice, he was going to tell her anyway. "Or are you?" He added connecting his green eyes with her lesser ones. Oni almost jumped, Koi's eyes looked exactically like Kyo's!
"Please tell me Uncle," She whined in a childish way, Koi covered his ears allowing the long sleeves of his robe to fall from his arms. Koi's arms were tatooed from his wrist on, Oni examined as many as she could before he covered them up again. Each tatoo was of a person's name or that symbol.
"Uncle-" Koi shot her a look before looking out over the black water. "Oni, I have taken up a huge responsibillity here. I am sorry that I could not be with you for so long, the rules of our bloodline are strict. If I were to break them you and your broher would be in danger." Oni smiled at her uncle nervously, "What bloodline?"
Koi smiled at her warily, "Kyo didn't tell you anything did he." Oni nodded. "Well, our bloodline is consideably new compaired to some, I am from a broken branch of the Okano family tree." Oni looked at him like he had not spoken a word of english. "You don't even know who the Okano are? Wow, I'm actually impressed by your lack of knowledge. Well, the Okano's bloodline allows them to controle temperatures with their chakra."
"Our section of the bloodline only allows us to drop temperatures, or freeze things in general, which is why Yuki resides in you Oni." Koi dropped his gaze to the pale blue mark on her face. "What is Yuki though?" Asked Oni.
The black haired man's sholders dropped, "Yuki is an apparition who..." Koi's eyes dropped to Oni's necklace. Oni noticed imdesiatly that her uncle was having a hard time with his words.
"So whats with that story?" Oni asked happily trying to change the subject. Koi laughed sat down and patted a patch of soft short grass next to him, "This is a long one."
"Well, When your mom and I lived here we lived under a strict roof; we could not be friends with people outside of our bloodline, we could not go to normal schools and we could not marry who we wanted." Koi began. "Sumei and I always snuck away from this place, your mom was a great person. She always did what she believed was right." Oni beamed at her uncle's words.
"But one time, her good intentions were very wrong. We were sitting over there durring the winter solstace-" Koi pointed to a dock about thirty feet away. "She put her trust in someone she shouldn't have. She was only about...fourteen years old maybe- ah wait, do you know how ...um...life works?" Koi asked nervously turning toward his neice.
Oni nodded, she had learned durring Kunoichi class for if anyone was going to become a seductress. "Okay good, then you understand what... rape is right?" Koi continued. The little girl went blank for a moment until she remembered one time, while her bother was telling her about strangers and how she should never talk to them. Kyo had told her about what some strangers did to little girls and one of the words he used was 'rape'.
"..I think so." she responeded after a long pause. Koi's expression grew bitter, then he sighed and looked back to the small blonde to his right. "That is what happened to your mother."
Dark green eyes widened to this newly gained knowlege "But how-" Koi held up a hand for a moment signaling for silence. "I havn't finished the story have I? Well, for once durring the solstace there was snow, lots of hard snow. Sumei and I were fine in a teeshirt and long pants, so we went to the dock in warm weather clothing." Koi smiled at the fun memories. "It was a bad choice."
The story in Oni's head was beginning to add up(1). "On our way back home a man stopped us, I knew him from the oposite end of Ocean Front, but I had never personally met him. I of course had three kunai out, but your mother trusted him not to hurt us."
"She was wrong, the first thing he aimed for was her, every time I tried to hit him with something he could melt the kunai right out of the air. He was from a very distant branch of our family, he took Sumei away for almost a month, our parents were not even worried about her. After losing that battle I hung up my chuunin clothing, I never considered myself a shinobi again."
Koi glanced to his right to see his sister sitting beside him once again, but this time he wanted her to stay.
"Your mother got pregnant with your older brother, Kyo. Everyone in the village and in our family resented her for it, no one bothered to look for the culprit." Koi sighed and looked around the beautiful area. "This is exactically where I killed him..."
Oni jumped up, her sweet uncle Koi would never kill someone! "No, your lying!"
w00t? Um yeah, woo Koi is a murderer...yay...i guess...my brother would, wouldn't yours?