Hey, I thought about doing a Christmas chapter, but I don't think I will. I may put up a oneshot of a Shia Christmas, but it'll be it's own story, separate from this. And I'm not promising that it'll be up.
Shikamaru
I heard rolled over in bed and heard something off. Shia was talking. Slowly I sat up to see the girl unconscious, still sleeping, but looking panicked. I couldn't understand a word she was saying, it was as if she was speaking a different language, but I knew she wasn't. She was just mumbling. I thought about waking her up, bringing her back to reality, but something told me not too.
"Hmpha citnhg 'tachi...kage..." I sighed, I should probably wake her.
"Shia?"
"kage...'tachi..."
"Shia?" I shook her slightly, but her eyes stayed closed. "Shia wake up."
"Kage-'tachi-dumphl..."
"Come on Shia."
"Naphle..."
"Shia Uchiha open your eyes."
"Gomenynt..."
"Shia!" I groaned shaking her harder, but nothing seemed to work. "Shia open your eyes!" She rolled over, falling to the ground.
"What?" Her head appeared as she snapped up. "Oh..." She seemed to relax when she saw me. "Hey."
"What were you dreaming about?"
"Hmm? Oh, nothing."
"Didn't sound like nothing." She looked at him and sighed.
"Let it go Shika." Shia said, standing up and walking out to her room, "I've got to go think this over."
"Think what over?"
"Use your brain, Shika."
I wish she'd stop saying that. I know I'm smart. I know I don't use my brain the way she wants me too. I just don't know how she wants me to use it! Telling me to use my brain-she's so troublesome.
Shia
Why can't he just use his brain? I've been working to figure out Itachi's issue and-wait. Why was I dreaming about the Hokage and the government figures here? I wrote it in my notebook. Was that my subconscious remembering something that I didn't notice, or just me being paranoid? Why am I suddenly so stressed?
"Shia?" I glanced back at my closed door. Not Shika, he would have opened it. "Shia can I come in?" Aki?
"Sure." The door slid open and Aki walked in. "Hey Aki, what's up?"
"Shikamaru said that you're stressed." Aki said as her walked in and sat on my bed. "So, what's up?"
"What's up?" I looked back at my book and than something hit me. "Aki, what's you're bloodline do?"
"Well...I don't really know."
"How can you not know?"
"I don't have it."
"But your sister does."
"That's because all girls have it."
"So what does it do?"
"I don't know."
"What does your sister do with it?"
"I don't know." I face palmed.
"How can you have no idea what it does?"
"Try asking Lexi."
"Okay." I stood up and walked out of the room.
"Where are you going?"
"To find your crazy sister!"
3rd
"Lexi?" Shia called as she walked into the hospital. "Lexi you here?"
"Shh!" Lexi said, "You'll wake the patients."
"I need to know what your-"
"Bloodline does?" She asked, a small smile on her face.
"Did Aki-?"
"No." Lexi smiled, "My blood did."
"You do realize how creepy that sounded?"
"Just creepy enough." Lexi smiled as she signed out of work, "So, you want to know what the Shi blood can do. May I ask why?"
"Hey, remember that coma you were in?" Lexi laughed
"Alright," She said, "Walk with me." The girls walked into the woods, where everyone tended to go now days.
"So, how is it that Aki has no idea what your bloodline does?"
"Well, Aki wasn't paying attention when we were kids and were learning about it. In his mind, since he didn't have it it didn't matter."
"So he was a ignorant pain?"
"Was?" They laughed, "Anyway, my bloodline."
"Right, you said something about your blood telling you I was coming."
"Yeah, well the Shi line is nicknamed Knowing." Lexi started, "If you get good control over it it becomes nearly impossible to be caught off guard."
"Why?"
"Because, something in you tells you that someones coming." She said, "The girls in the Shi family used to guard the important documents of our clan, so we needed to know if someone was coming. That's why guys don't tend to have the line."
"So, is that all it does?"
"No, that's just what it's mostly used for." Lexi thought about it, "Probably what that guy was after when he tried to steal it."
"What else does it do?" Shia asked, needing to be sure.
"Well let's make this very clear, I can't do it," Lexi started
"Do what?"
"Well, when you have a extremely strong grasp on the bloodline..."
"Yes?"
"You can read documents by just touching them, you don't have to open them."
"How could that not be what he was after?" Shia barked, "You have a good grasp on the bloodline, so he must have figured that you would be the best person to steal it from. That way he wouldn't have to work as hard to become advanced! Lexi-!"
"When did you become a detective?"
"Lexi this is serious." Shia hissed, "That's why he didn't get you line. The bloodline is only compatible with girls, so the guy's blood couldn't use it."
"Alright, I'll play." Lexi said, "So why didn't he come back with a girl?"
"Because you were in a coma." Shia said, though she was talking more to herself. "The jutsu wouldn't work if you were unconscious. You could die before it was finished, so he needed to wait till you woke up."
"But he didn't expect it to take four years for me to wake."
"Because he hadn't finished studying that jutsu, he didn't know how to wake you up." Shia continued. "And he couldn't find a way to do that, or he didn't know how to solve that little riddle on his own. He didn't know what the chakra from the dead is."
"So even if he had a girl it would be pointless to try to get the line again."
"And they couldn't go after Aki because he doesn't have it." Shia added
"Wait, but who would want that line?" Shia rolled her eyes
"Lexi, any S-class criminal on earth would want that!" She yelled as someone stepped on a branch, "And we're in the woods, with a conscious you. Alone." The girls looked at each other.
"Run." Lexi said, and with that the two were off.
"How did you not see him coming?"
"I was busy playing detective!" Lexi shouted, "And it's not just a guy!"
"Great." Shia growled, "Why is it so hard to have a normal day in this village?"
