Chapter 26 Family Secrets
Chapter 26 Family Secrets
Don walked through the darkness of the streets until he made his way to the south area of the village. We walked through the empty street of houses. He then approached a rather larger house than the ones on the street and stood on the porch.
When he tried to open the door he found it was locked. He went around back to the garden and saw the stone statue of a bear. He stuck his hand in its mouth and pulled out a key, which he then walked around front to open the door.
He entered and closed the door behind him and stood in the darkness of the room. He looked around the all-deserted house. Silence. There were two archways, one on either side of the room. The one on the left went to the hallway of bedrooms. The one to the right went to the dining room and kitchen. Also a back door which led to the porch.
Don walked down the dark hallway of the house and peered into every room. All were empty. There was a room at the end of the hallway and Don entered it and looked around the long forgotten room.
This room was his father's room. It had a king sized bed in the middle of the room and next to the window to the right of him was a chest. Don sat down infront of the chest and made a hand sign. A burst of chakra hit the lock and the trunk clicked unlocked. He opened the chest and gazed upon the scrolls and documents that his father had stored in here.
Right ontop of it all was the large scroll with black trimming. Without any other concern for the other scrolls he took the large scroll and went outside to his garden in the back yard. Don looked up at the night sky and noticed the moon was full.
He laid out the scroll and gazed upon the names that were on it. The last name was his fathers. The other names were his father's master and his master's master and so on. Don remembered his father told him when he became of age he could put his name on the scroll and learn its secrets.
He bit his left thumb and with the blood seeping out he wrote his name on the scroll. The blood glowed and was sealed under the full-moon-lit sky. Don smiled and then went back inside.
He grabbed a bag out of his old room and went back to the trunk. He grabbed all the scrolls he knew were necessary for him. He remembered the ones that his father would have told him to take when he reached this age. He also took the scrolls that his father would have not let him take yet, only for future use.
He left the house and returned to the garden out back. He put his bag down and read over the scroll and imitating the hand motion that was written on it as best he could. Once he had the hand motion down he focused his chakra and began his summoning.
He made the hand motion and send his palm into the ground and smoke appeared. He was befuddled to see a brown fur ball with closed eyes and small round ears. He dismissed it and tried again.
All through the night he tried and failed at his summoning. Finally about midnight something happened. On his next try of his summoning the creature actually took shape. It was no longer a big fur ball. It was a cub. He just stared at it and watched it as it slept.
Don walked over and picked it up and held it in his arms and walked over to the scroll. As he read through it he found that to awaken the bear, more chakra must be put into the summoning. When the bear is summoned, it will awaken.
He sat down and put the cub in his lap and continued to read. The more chakra he put into it the bigger the bear. He could get a full-grown bear, once his chakra grew enough. For now he had to settle with the cub. Its specialties were in taijutsu and ninjutsu, more or less nature type ninjutsu.
Don had grabbed many nature scrolls that his father had left behind for him. Maybe it was to cope with the bear summoning jutsu. Don got up and placed the cub at his feet and tapped its forehead and dismissed it.
For the rest of the night Don became more consistent. He continued to get the cub, though it never did awaken. When morning was about to arrive, Don could feel his chakra leaving him. Don put forth one more effort for the summoning. He put his palm to the ground and then collapsed from exhaustion.
The cub appeared and opened its eyes and looked around. It saw Don and walked to him. Don felt a nudging and looked up and saw the cub nudging him. He smiled and blacked out.
The cub went over to his bag and dragged it over to Don and put it on his stomach. The cub strapped the large scroll around it and then returned to Don. Despite its small size it began to drag Don to his apartment.
Temari, Rain, Gazu and Baki-sama were all in the living room of their room waiting for Don to come home. They had not seen him since the night before. They waited almost half the night for him.
The group turned to the door as they heard scratching at the door. Temari got up to answer the door. The cub began to nudge Don awake. When Don opened his eyes Temari opened the door and the cub dismissed itself.
"Guys come quick, it's Don!" Temari shouted. The group all came to the door and Baki-sama and Gazu lifted him up and placed him on the couch. Temari grabbed his belongings that were in the hallway outside the door and even picked up the large scroll with black trimming.
All at once everyone began to ask him questions like where he had been and what happened to him. Don heard it all but it all went blurry because of his exhaustion he fell asleep.