"OWWWW!" I say as Katara pierces my ear and a small amount of blood drips from my ear.
"Sorry Narita, I am trying hard not to hurt you to much." Katara says as she puts the back of one the earrings on.
"It still hurts!" I say holding a wet cotton ball up to my pierced ear as i get ready for the next one.
"So your mom had to go through this? ouch, you got on tough momma." Sokka smiles as he watches me and i glare at him.
"OWW!" I say again as the other ear is pierced. I hold another cotton ball up to my ear pouting.
"Oh its not that bad Nari, it will only hurt really bad for 10 minutes." Suki smiled as she comes up to me and cleans
around the ear with alcohol.
"So this is a symbol of the ino-shika-cho trio huh? well thats a pain." Toph jokes as she laughs at her small pun.
"I think your mother was a very wise woman to give up such a big role in the three clans, for her cousins rightful place."
Iroh smiles as he sips some jasmine tea.
"well Nari, you have gone on quite a bit of an adventure today huh?" I hear a voice and turn and see Kakashi.
"Where have you been all day?" I say looking at the masked man.
"I was on a small mission, i heard about everything from Tsunade, you have had a very busy day." He smiles as he comes in
and sits on the couch.
"I guess, tomorrow is right away training, if i am going to be ready for Kabuto, and since my mom is on my side that means
i can probably expand my jutsu's and bending styles even more." I say smiling.
"Actually besides my blood bending training, you will be having training with Gaara's siblings and i hear they can be a bit
brutal." Katara smiled and everyone looked at her.
"YOU are going to teach her blood bending?!" Aang asked slightly worried.
"Its going to be fine, it is how she killed orochimaru after all so advancing it could lead her to an even higher victory
against kabuto." She smiles and sokka slaps his forehead.
"You are a very gutless sister." he said and she smiled.
"I didn't know that is how she killed orochimaru." Zuko said as tylee plays with mai's hair.
"Yeah, that and i sucked the air from his lungs." I say and look to Aang his eyes wide.
"That is a terrible way to go." He said looking a little sad but then smiles and looks up.
"At least he is gone though right?" he smiled and i laughed a little.
"yeah " I smile.
I then begin to think about the note...2 weeks should i tell them? "Guys..." I say getting serious.
"Yeah Narita?" Iroh asked and i look at them all.
"I have two weeks until Kabuto wants to fight me for my possession." I say and they all give a slightly worried gasp.
"Nari why didn't you tell us?" Zuko asked worried.
"Because I didn't want to worry you all, but i guess i have to tell you guys now." "Narita, we will make sure you win, just believe that!" Suki smiled. "Thank you guys, im just worried, i don't want Kiba to get hurt." I say slumping in my seat.
"don't worry i know Kiba, he should be able to stand against Kabuto for a while, he is very strong willed." Kakashi smiled
and i looked at him.
"Well still, im going to worry." I say looking down i then hear a voice.
"For what i know he is okay, try not to worry to much and work to get him back."
My mom's voice echoes through my ears and i smile.
"He is okay for now but that doesn't mean i will stop training." I say as they all look at me.
"How do you know?" Sokka asked slightly confused.
"My mom told me so, come on i want to go to the training grounds who is coming with me?" I asked standing up.
"Why don't me tylee and mai come with you." Suki smiled and i nodded yes.
"Alright we will back in a bit!" I say as we walk out the house.
We walk to the training grounds and i see the three posts.
"Mai, you can do target practice over there by those trees, tylee you can swing around the trees if you want and suki and
i will practice physical training." I say directing them to there places.
"Alright suki, you wanna spar?" I ask standing in my new stance lee showed me and she was first surprised and then a grin
spread across her face.
"Yeah! lets go!" She said running toward me she then jumps and lands a a kick, i block it and then push away before she
tried to back hand me, i blocked with my hand and grabbed it twisting her arm she groaned and pulled away. Next I threw a
punch and she blocked it i then throw another punch while she was still blocking my other hand and she blocks with her
other hand, i then find the open spot in the stomach and i fly my foot up and it just barely misses her as she flips out of
the way.
"Gotten quicker yes?" She smiled and i shake my head.
"yes but i also got more observant." I laugh as I run toward her and she gets ready to block but i fall to the ground and
slide in between her legs behind her i kick from behind leaning on the ground for support. I hit her and she falls forward
and i quickly sprint in front of her and as she leans forward i slide under her and kick up as she flies up in the air. I
jump up and kick her to the ground with a thud.
"Wow, that training wasn't for nothing, not just that but your blows are much more forceful." Suki gets up and runs toward
me.
Alright the way she is running her right arm will come up to hit me, I will block, grab her hand and she will throw another
punch out of hesitation, i will grab her other arm and kick her in the stomach she will fall i will then pin her. Spar won.
She throws the punch i grab her wrist and she then throws another punch as i grab her other hand she struggles but my grip
on her wrists will keep her still. i then throw my foot out and with a strong kick she is taken to the ground i climb on
top of her and pin her, i look at her and i begin to remember, Kiba...
After a few moments of a pause i get off of her and pull my legs into my chest.
"Whats wrong?" She asks sitting up.
"Nothing i just remembered me and Kiba's training day." I say rubbing my arm.
"its okay to stop now but in battle don't think about those things." She said rubbing my back i look at her and smile.
"your right." I say and stand up.
"TYLEE! WANT TO HELP ME STRETCH OUT !" I yell to her and she comes flipping down from a tree.
"YUP!" She smiles.
As i sit there stretching with Tylee i begin to think about Ninturo, my father.
"Hey suki,Mai, Tylee? Have you ever heard of a man named Ninturo?" I asked stretching my legs.
"Actually i heard Toph talking about him a few months ago." Suki said walking over to me.
"She said something about her parents mentioning a wood bender, they were extremely rare and that there was only 5 families
in the entire world that had possessed this ability. Her father had been friends with a man named Ninturo, which was one of
the benders that had this ability. He was amazing is what her father had said, he could make cages from wood that not even
fire could burn, and that he could grow a tree any were from a desert to the middle of the ocean." Suki said explaining with
great enthusiasm.
"Wow..." I smile and Mai looks at me.
"Why did you want to know anyway? How would you even know who he was?" Mai asked messing with her sleeves.
"He is my dad." I say with a grin and suki's eyes light up.
"NO WAY! THAT IS AMAZING!" Suki jumped up.
"You could be just as amazing as he could!" Tylee chimed in and i sit there smiling.
"I don't know he sounds like a very great bender, that is something hard to live up to..."I say looking at my wrist.
"And im already at risk of loosing all my powers..." I say lightly brushing the seals.
"Nari, you will be fine, i believe you can do this, everyone does." Suki gives a smile and she hugs me.
"Alright we should get back, food should be ready!" Tylee flips up and begins to swing back to the house as we all follow
behind laughing.
xXx
We arrive home and Katara is waiting for us with the food as we walk inside and sit down katara begins to explain things
about how blood bending is going to work.
"Okay Narita, when we are blood bending you must remember that when training you must ONLY use this technique on animals.
Also this type of bending is illegal back home so teaching you this is a bit of a chilling matter. When i teach you these
things only use this bending style in emergencies, this can be used to save people and it can be used to kill people."
Katara said as we ate our noodles and curry.
"Another thing i must mention, when using blood behind things can go wrong, you could change blood flow patterns and stop
the heart like you did orochimaru, so in this training things may die, animals being the correct object." Katara looked
down to her plate.
"Katara, you don't have to teach me if it bothers you that much." I say as i look over at her sighing expression.
"No its fine, its just i learned blood bending...differently, more like being tricked into something..." Katara began.
"This lady named Hama used to use people as puppets, using them against there will to become imprisoned or hurt. When we
first met her we thought of her as a harmless little old lady that could water bend. But when she began to teach me her
ways of water bending, they just weren't right, i guess is how you could put it. She told me that in everything there is
life, and the symbol for life is water, meaning water is all around you and you can use it to your very strong capable
abilities for more than you can imagine. But what she meant by everything had life was people themselves, i did not know it
at the time until her true colors were revealed in almost the killing of aang and sokka, but i myself moved them with my
own ability to blood bend, soon realizing my powers to bend this living liquid i was heart broken and felt dirty, I
considered myself a monster, to be able to use such a cruel power... but now realizing its great true and helpful powers i
don't find it as such a burden anymore." Katara said as she looked to me.
"Katara, the difference between your ways of being taught and mine is that i have a sane teacher who is the master of the
water, she is my great friend that is noble and courageous, she is a true warrior." I smile as i touch her hand.
"Nari, that has truly made me happy." She smiled and hugged me.
"If anything goes wrong I will work hard to fix it." I say standing up.
"Its getting dark I am going to go to bed." I smile and bow as i leave the table and make my way up stairs.
I walk into my room and close the door, i then grab a few blankets and open my window, i climb out on to the roof and cover
myself with the blankets i brought.
I look out into the night and down at the people still walking about, some drunk merchants, others watch ninja and others
just working citizens. I look up at the hokage statues and eye each one carefully. I then look out over the gates of Konoha
and feel an urge to explore, I ignore the feeling as i look out over the green forests that surround the village. The darkness completely covers Konoha like a blanket and i still sit up there now laying on my back looking at the stars.
"Nari!" I voice that sounds familiar my peaceful silence causing me to shoot up from my position.
"Mom?" I ask as i begin to worry from her troubled tone.
"Your friend, Kiba he is in trouble." My mother began and my eyes widen.
"What!" I say standing up nearly loosing my balance.
"I can see him, would you like to see?" She asked still slightly worried.
"Yes." I say as i close my eyes and begin to see a familiar setting, the buildings structure reminded me of a dream i once
had, the same castle like building. I watch the White haired man begin to walk around a boy, Kiba. he was being held up by
a snake, his body being tightly crushed.
"Her weakness, tell me...what is it." Kabuto asks as Kiba struggles to breath.
"I don't kn-ow." He gasps as the snake begins to coil around his neck.
"Really? You seem to know her very well, in fact you are the one who really connected with her, asking her about her past,
the ways she learned all those bending styles, you should know this by now, or are you a slow learner?" The sly man hissed
as he circled Kiba directing the snake to tighten around his neck.
"Sh-e never m-menti-oned a we-akness." He choked as i watch in complete horror.
"Seems to me that you know more than your not telling me." He grinned. He then directed the snake to bite Kiba i watch his
face turn to pain as i hear a scream leave his throat the snake grinds its teeth into Kiba's neck. He then drops to the
ground he isn't moving.
"Until you tell me what her weakness is, that venom will take control of your mind, leaving you a loonatic, a phycotic
possibly even mad destructive being, it depends on what runs threw your thoughts, it also might burn, really bad." Kabuto
chuckled as Kiba's screams echo threw my ears his eyes wide, his neck bleeding, his arms clenched with pain. I open my eyes and i run. I jump down from the house landing hard on my feet leaving a small stinging feeling. I run to
Tsunade's office tears flying off my cheeks as the winds pushes away the bitter flow of water. I make it to the hokage's
building i sprint up the stairs pushing people out of the way who were blocking me from going faster. i finally make it to
the door and slam it open a startled jump from Tsunade was seen and i stop in front of her desk weeping, the tears just
wouldn't stop.
"Tsunade...He...Is ...hurt...Kiba...kabuto..." I break down into loud sobs. Tsunade rushes to my side and helps me
up, my face red, full of dried and wet tears, my eyes red. My head pounded from my loud sobs and my throat began to hurt
from the screams as i try to get out of Tsunade's grasp to try and leave her office to go find Kiba. Soon Team avatar and
many other members of the konoha ninja showed up trying to calm me down.
"Nari, you need to relax." Ino said as she comes to my side, i push her away and try to walk out the door when i hear a
rather familiar voice but not a familiar tone.
"NARI!" I turn and see Hinata Face serious.
"THAT IS ENOUGH!" She said a bold tone suit her but was still very new to me. Everyone stared at the young lady just as
surprised as i was.
"Why are you crying so carelessly! Crying gets you no where! what you saw was a way to get you to come, to lure you out, I
thought you were smarter than that! I know Kiba Inuzuka, i have for many years and i know he wouldn't just give up any info
even if it killed him, he is a strong trustworthy ninja who you shouldn't doubt, that you shouldn't worry for. If you cry
so much for him yet you do nothing you are not worthy to love him!" She said strong stance and a bold attitude.
"Hinata.." Naruto said quiet surprised.
"Narita Nara, If you are who you say you are, then you should have no doubts on either him or yourself, worrying is okay
since it is natural but this is plain NONSENSE!" She said as she walked up to me and but her hand on my shoulder.
"Kiba will protect you, he said that you were very important to him, so i know no matter how much he gets tortured he is
doing it for you, so do something for him and save him and this village, no...This world." She said as she hugged me. I am
still quiet surprised but i hug her and i can feel the dried tears stain my face.
"Lady Hinata, that is a very noble, and leader worthy thing to do, your father would be very proud, he must know
immediately." Neji bowed as he smiled.
"She is right, i will work, but every time i see him hurt i just freak out, but no more of that." I say shaking my head.
"Good, now go home and go to bed, you have a tough day with the sand siblings tomorrow and i hear your going to be doing
some bending training as well so hurry off to rest,and if you have anymore problems do come and see me okay?" Tsunade
smiled as she all lead us out of her office.