We walked down the worn down dirt path as we made our way to another village in search of my brother. I wonder if I'll ever find him. It's been a long time already, so long that most would have given up hope by now. But not me, I will find my older brother and nothing and I mean nothing will stop me. Akane and little Mr nameless boy (okay that's entirely my fault, I never asked/ heard his name, that's going to bug me) have already made their way on the road. I don't know why but something just doesn't feel right, I'm not sure if it's about them or if it's about the Leaf Village.
"You want to go home don't you?" Shikamaru said casually looking ahead of him.
"You can tell huh?"
"You keep on looking over you're shoulder."
"I am?"
"Yup."
"Oh…" I trailed off, what if something were to happen to Akane and Mr. Nameless? What would I do? It's not like I can help them. And Aito….well he's Aito. I know he's the 'chivalry' type, but he just doesn't seem the same, something's different about him, and it's not a 'good' different.
"Why don't you just listen in?"
"Huh?"
"I used the same device you used on me when you first came to the Hidden Leaf on him. If you're so worried about them then why not just listen in?"
"You saw it!"
"Yup, nothing misses these eyes."
"Obviously" I mumbled.
"Or these ears."
"You've got to be kidding me!" I grabbed the listen device from Shikamaru's hand he had outreached. I put it in my ear. I listened to the conversation that was taking place miles and miles away (/kilometres and kilometres away*).
"So…umm….who are you?" little Mr. nameless asked with confusion in his voice.
"Aito." He said coldly.
"And how does Hazuki know you?" great, now I really feel bad, he knows my name and I'm still oblivious to his.
"Long story Kiddo."
"We've got the time." Akane said.
"Just nothing gross okay?" the boy said happily.
"Okay" Aito said kinder than before "Where to start…Well I don't know how it started. I was forced by my parents to work for this warlord so I did, I needed the money and so did my parents, otherwise we'd be kicked out of our home. And that wasn't really an option we wanted to take. So my brother and I went looking for work. That was when I first saw Hazuki, when my brother and I were walking around town looking for a job. He; as in my brother, freaked out because a beautiful girl was finally in town. We didn't see many so this was a huge deal to him. He walked over to Hazuki as I watched from the sidelines. He tried to hit on her; she ignored him; that was until he touched her. She wasn't all that happy and she basically kicked his ass. He came crawling on his hands and knees back to where I was. That was when I tried; I left my brother on the ground and walked over to her. I apologised for his rude behaviour and that was the end of that. I didn't try anything because I didn't want to end up like my brother.
My brother and I ended up getting a job for two different warlords. Mine was the idiot, my brothers was a beautiful young lady who had gained control of great land. My brother being my brother; married this girl. He's the lucky one, always has been. Anyways, to get back on topic. I had worked for the warlord for maybe a couple of weeks when Hazuki invaded his palace thing. She killed everyone one by one with 100 cuts, and she somehow managed to come out alive unharmed and untouched. It was the first time I had seen such power, power I didn't really want to have to die because of, so I didn't get in her way. I just watched her as she killed all my friends. She finally met the idiot of a boss I had, and killed him. She had slaughtered so many yet she remained emotionless while doing so. As any writer and historian (i.e. me at the time) would have been I studied her from afar, I'd follow her from place to place and she'd sometimes do the same. It finally came to a point where she was ticked off and stopped me dead in my tracks. She said to me 'Do you mind? You've been following me ever since I killed your master. Now leave me alone!' I told her about the book and she left. It wasn't until later that I bumped into her. We talked again and I later got the courage to ask her out, luckily, for my sake, she said yes. We ended up dating for like a month, we never kissed. Nothing at all. It was more fights now and then and just the whole 'getting to know you better' phase. It ended quickly, we had nothing in common, but we vowed to remain friends even if we were on the other side of the world. Now I've become a hopeless flirt because of her. I don't blame her though; it was mostly the influence of my brother. So yeah. That's basically all the 'relations' I've had with you're sister."
"Why did you guys break up?" nameless asked.
"She was too opinionated, too right, and we just argued a lot over the stupidest little things."
"And you're just a person who blames someone else for all the mistakes you make." Akane said
"Excuse me?" Aito asked offended
"You keep on blaming this person who says she's my sister, you say the whole reason you two are over is because of her. Have you ever thought you were part of the problem?"
"Why would I be?"
"You're an egoistic flirt." There was silence on the other side.
"I'm tired." Nameless whined "Carry me!"
"Agh, if it weren't for Hazuki I wouldn't be in this mess!" Aito muttered "Fine." He said with annoyance in his voice. The boy jumped on his back and held on tight.
"You're….ch…ok…ing….me!" Aito gasped for air.
"Oh…sorry!" Little Mr Nameless said with an innocent voice. I swear I could almost hear that young boy smile. The rest of the following seconds was just the crunching of the dirt road under their feet. I gave the device back to Shikamaru. But something still doesn't feel right. It's not Aito, but the leaf village, something bad is going to happen. I just know it!
"Shikamaru we have to go back to the Leaf!" I exclaimed.
"Why?"
"Something just seems wrong. I don't know how, but I have a gut feeling that something bad is going to happen and soon."
"So we're following you're gut?"
"Umm, Yeah!" I exclaimed sarcastically.
"Fine we'll go back."
"Thank you! C'mon!" I grabbed a hold of his wrist and turned around walking so fast I might as well be running, and you know what? I am. Jumping from tree to tree, just as long as we get home and fast!
~~Mini Time Jump (two or three days later back at the Leaf village.)~~
"Are you happy? Nothing's wrong." Shikamaru said annoyed.
"Well something felt wrong okay?" I exclaimed annoyed myself. Things weren't going so well and we were on edge, and to top it off I was having my period, I know TMI but it causes so many more problems than it's worth.
"Well go home, say hi to you're family, we might as well stay for awhile."
"What about my brother? And my other siblings? I have to find them!"
"Well you can find them later! If you don't remember the whole reason we came back was because of you!" he said raising his voice.
"Well you went along with it!" I raised my voice as well.
"Lower your voice people are starting to stare!"
"Don't tell me what to do Shikamaru Nara!" I almost yelled.
"I'll tell you what to do if it means you'll shut up! I've been running around this whole damn time and I've had to listen to you're bickering and having you cry all the time! It's so fucking annoying!"
"Well maybe you shouldn't have come in the first place; maybe you should have stayed here!"
"I wish I had! I wish I had never gone with you! I wish I'd never met you!"
"Fine." I lowered my voice. "If that's what you want that's what you get. From now on we're strangers. Nothing more, nothing less. It'll be as if we never met." I yanked the necklace off and threw it at his feet; I walked away, leaving him behind. The tears coming quickly, leaving the dirt road moist with the fresh salty tears, I ran, ran as fast as I could. The further away the better.
~~~Side note!~~~
Dun dun duh! What will happen? Oh my! Haha okay this isn't the end, blah blah blah. Another chapter and before my exams too!
God, I had a really bad writers block before I came up with this chapter. I mean I had it all planed out, but it was like I forgot how to write! So instead I worked on the book I am writing at this moment (had like 5 months of writers block for that…not fun.) Anyhoo, (yeah it's not a real word, get over it) I HATE exams if y'all haven't noticed. Yeah not fun. And I hate studying, and because of these stupid exams I wasn't able to update which makes me very sad.
I also have a lot more in the progress of planning to write and to put up on FanFiction, so tune in when those are up. I'm working very hard with these stories for two reasons really. I sort of want this story to end, but at the same time I don't. Second reason is: so I have more time to focus on my other stories.
I'm actually really surprised at how popular this story got. I didn't think it was very good to tell you the truth, so I didn't think I would have gotten the amount of support I have now. All of which I am very grateful for and I thank you again for the support.
It's really sad on my part when I edit for the first time, and the second time and I come back to the chapter for a reference and I realize I made a spelling mistake or highlighted something so I would remember to look it up but I still upload it. Kind of embarrassing. Even when I look over it so many times and I still find mistakes later on…
Sorry for the f-word, I know some people don't like it but I had to use it.
I'm sorry the chapter is so short! It had to be I had to study! Sorry!
On my Word Document that I have all 29 chapters on it's 119 pages! And 56,853 words! That's by far the most I've ever written for one story in my entire life! Okay that was random.
Okay…Also thanks to the reviewers of the last chapter(s) and to Shikacrazygirl this is the next chapter and you're basically the reason why I updated. But I WILL NOT be updating anymore (until summer) because my exams are in a week and I really need to study so I can go forward in life. So…I won't be updating for the next three or so weeks. Sorry! But I have to do this as much as I don't want to I have to! Okay bye!~
