Chronicles Of Glacier

Chapter 20:

The Rebuild of the past and the journey towards the future

They went far hidden within the forests and deep valleys, on the way back towards Glacier. However Hanazawa didn't really agree on going to that village, He was a Curretian after all and so he nagged about her kidnapping him and that he was a friend of the Curretian Kage and top Shinobis of the village, They would surely seek revenge and she would get caught.

For hours he continued nagging, Until she finally got enough.

"You little annoying boy, can you for once just shut the hell up!, YOU ARE NOT FROM CURRENT! YOU ARE RAISED WITHIN GLACIER." She screamed towards his face, when she single handled held him with his legs dangling in the air.

Her eyes were sharp, like the edge of a sword ready to strike without hesitation.

"Y-yes M's..." he said as he was engulfed by her capturing eyes, he tried to stop looking into them, But he was unable to, he was dragged into their depths, Engulfed within her seriousness he nodded towards her, The tension then disappeared, it was like it had never been there, instead he feelt loved and a warm feeling as he still couldn't take away the eyes from hers, she was now smiling towards him. She putt him down and ruffled his hair.

"you know Hana-kun, I know that you are confused, but you know that it all will be ok. Trust me? Ok?" she said with a gentle subtle voice while tilting her head towards the right. Her black long silk like hair, made it all to a beautiful scene that washed away all doubt. The dust shining forest that casted it's shadow and the light that penetrated the tree tops had that magic touch to it.

He couldn't help but to smile back to her as she held her hand in his hair after she had ruffled it. He then followed her silently as the path changed it's appearance from step to hilly, from deep forest and finally to the great step, with only bushes and yellow grass that managed to live in this semi frozen landscape under the gigantic mountain chain that separated it from the land of pure white snow and fierce blizzards.

For days they had wandered, slowly progressed forward within enemy borders avoiding non shinobi villages and open roads, staying hidden in the shadows of any possible human contact.

This of course wared them down, due to the food supply becoming more dense and even the animal life became more and more scarce. A few miles into the tundra they found a hole under a big rock, it was nothing near the rock, it was as if someone had just randomly placed it there, They took shelter under it and the girl made up a fire from the last bit of wood they had in her backpack for them to keep the temperature that had over the last few hours dropped drastically, it surly was under minus ten Celsius by now and the weather had turned more fierce with high air moisture making it seem even colder and put up a big strain on their bodies. Though the fire protected them from the cold temperature and warmed up their wet clothes it still wasn't enough. The girl grabbed Hanazawa and dragged him into her embrace to keep him warm, holding her arms around his stomach, Hanazawa fell asleep almost instantly resting against her.

She looked at the entrance with glued look, and if someone looked from outside the only thing they could see would be a fire and a dark shadow with eyes that burned like the fire.

The cold fierce dusk became to dawn and a strip of light searched it's way through the entrance under the rock, only partially lit it up. The girl gently laid Hana on near the glowing fire before slowly sticking her head outside the entrance to see how the surroundings now looked, there was a thick fog around the tundra and not a soul could be seen in the distance, it seemed okey for now and due to them using the last piece of wood for this fire they quickly needed to climb over the mountains and get to the bottom of it on the other side if they would like to be able to live through this.

She then got back into the hole and waked him up from his slumber.

"We need to move now if we want to be able to cross the mountains and emerge on the other side." she said with a serious yet gentle voice towards him, as she helped him up on his feet.

"Okay Miss" was only he said with a tired voice still trying to get more conscious and focused on what happened around him.

"And Hana-kun, you can call me Mayumi-Neesan" She said with a happy voice before she instantly dragged him out forcing him to run towards the beginning of the mountain chain.

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The village of Glacier who still suffered from the Civil war still had funerals and rebuilding the areas that had suffered from collateral damage. Many Shinobis had fled from the village, those that was loyal to Desu even after his death, and by a whim they tried to join Current and the other villages in hope of finding peace and be defended from the hunter shinobis that would be after them.

The village stood without a kage though and this showed great weakness to all outsiders, the quickly needed someone strong enough to take the place, and if it couldn't be permanently they needed a temporary one until everything eased down a bit. The nominated was of course Khane, Anasya but also Jubei a man who wasn't longer bound to the village yet always had served it, He was powerful and a respected Shinobi through out the whole known world, there was no one that didn't know of his name or accomplishments. He was a legend so to speak.

Anasya turned down the offer since she had her hands filled with treating Panama, who still was alive, it must have been a miracle, and this Jounin surely possessed a strong will and a strong heart seeing that he saved Khane from the destructive Jutsu Desu unleashed towards him, He was a hero without a doubt.

Between the treatments Khane and Anasya had countless of conferences with other higher shinobis of the village to trying to come up with a solution and trying to find the new leader of the village.

Khane kindly refused as he didn't see himself as a good leader in that sense, however he would help finding someone suitable.

A week passed and the rebuilding showed progress, slowly the village started to look more like it former self, though it would take months for that to happen, Panamas life wasn't in danger anymore and the fight to keep him stable was finally over, he was soundly asleep now, resting his now patched up body only undergoing minor surgery treatments to fix his trashed chakra veins, something only Anasya knew nowadays, But she thought it was time to choose three new students to pass on her skills to.

Tenari,Kotoko,Fooze and Kaze had returned to the village and helped out with what they could, so did all Genins, though they helped the civilians more than actual labor, they still helped rebuilding the village. But they all missed their brother and comrade, he who had been lost for a long time now. They all thought he was dead, killed by an enemy ninja. This had saddened them but there was no time for sorrow now, at least not over a single person, the village had suffered far to much more that it seemed out of place and selfish. But it was still there lurking within them all, oh how they all prayed that they at least could see him go away happy instead of at the grip of an enemy.

The hunter nins was scattered on a wide area around the village searching for the traitors that fled, there was over four squads out looking the borders early in the foggy morning, lead by Jubei as a commander commanding all through earphones, they were acting as a search and destroy party and first line of defense. One of the teams was stationed near the mountains and patrolled the area around it, when they suddenly saw a very odd shaped silhouette emerge within the fog, at first they thought it was an animal and didn't pay much attention to it, but as it grew bigger and came closer they could see it was a person having someone on their back.

They informed Jubei about the suspicious persons and asked for what action they should take, it was clear they were not civilians due to closest road where miles away in the more easy climbed parts of the mountain chain.

"Surround them and restrain them, lets take them in for questioning." He said calmly and dispatched the closest squad to help restraining them, he himself also got on his way towards the area to directly confront them.

And so without a warning the two persons were surrounded by shinobis, The girl slowly eyed the suspicious shadows that now was around them, waiting for confirmation of friendlies or enemies.

One person emerged closer to them, walking up slowly and unconcerned of any threat that she could prove to be.

"Stay where you are, it is futile to try anything, you are surrounded by four hunter nin squads" The male voice said as he stepped into their line of sight.

She looked at him, giving out a fierce killing intent, like a lioness defending her cub from starving and mad hyenas, not leaving anything open, she didn't respond towards his empty threat.

"I say again, Give up or we will take you down with force" the male voice said again still calmly walking up towards them.

But when he got a glimpse of her face it was as if he saw a ghost, he couldn't believe it.

"Mayumi! Is that you! You know you have quite the bounty on your head for leaving glacier like that seven years ago!" he screamed towards her.

She looked surprised, the voice started to sound familiar, more and more with every word that was spelled out by the mans tongue, and then it struck her as lightning.

"Ha ha ha Scarz-san is that you? Surely I know that I am considered a criminal, however not entirely. In the eyes of many I am. But that isn't the point, we need to hurry, give me a blanket,start a damn fire and for god sake stop standing there looking stupid, We need something warm." She said with a sarcastic and amused voice.

Scarz quickly became confused, she took command in second and started to order him around.

"Who do you think you are! You are a criminal and will be punished as such!" he ended smirking.

"SCARZ! Now is not the time, can't you see I kinda have a situation HERE! And I do not care about this bounty and criminal thing right now, what I do care of is getting Takeos boy safetly to Glacier, BUT to do SO we need to stop him from freezing to death! Is that clear!" She said while raising her voice to get him to understand.

"Yes Mam!!" was all he answered and did what he was told.

A while after the fire had been put up and Hanazawa was treated Jubei arrived, he saw Mayumi sitting next to Hanazawa letting him rest on her lap, He walked up to her and Scarz that was close.

"Good Job Mayumi, you managed to find him finally after all these years, I bet you are happy now seeing how you finally once again get a hold of your own flesh and blood, and it seems your infiltration mission was a success 12 years ago. I'm sorry that you had to do it while you where pregnant." Jubei said with a calm and happy voice.

"Yes Jubei-sensei, I am happy, really happy, However the Curretians knows about the pendant and I guess it won't take long until they try to gather it, a great war might emerge soon on Glacier, and from what I heard it has suffered a lot under the civil war, for that I am sorry." she answered while caressing her sons hair as he soundless slept on her lap, Not knowing he was finally on his way home again... hidden within the land of pure white, though as peace finally ends, new problems arises in the distance, waiting for the right time to make their move on this seemingly endless board of chess filled with darkness and despair.

Author note: Well here is chapter 20 sure it isn't as fast paced filled with action,comedy and or romance, but it is a build up, we do need build ups in stories also. Chapters that connects and lay foundations to new interesting things. I also have started to re-use characters again as you can see, putting in a couple of new ones in the last and this one, and surely more will come later on as the story progresses.

Anyway I hope you all like this chapter and that you enjoy the story.

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