Book Two: Nozomi's Purpose- Chunin Exams: Pain In The Tails!

Shukaku's POV

I blinked in the sunlight that crept through the window shutters. "Morning, Gaara."

"Morning. Now get off of my head." Gaara sat up slowly. I slipped off his head. "Why do you like sitting on my head anyway?"

I shrugged.

"So what were you and you siblings talking about?"

Knew that was coming. "Nothing." I said nervously. I'd always been a bad liar.

"Alright, then…" Gaara said he made the hand signs that I knew all too well.

I was surrounded by smoke and then the next thing I knew I was in the dim light of the holding chamber. Crap. You really are a pain you know that?

Yeah, I know. You can stay there until you decide to spill or until I feel like it. - Gaara

CRAP! Sumi, I so hate you right now! I wonder how Aoko's holing out?

Aoko's POV

I uncurled myself from my basket. I stretched and sat down on the light blue fabric. I looked up at Yugito who was just getting out of bed.

"Morning, Yugito." I said stepping out of my basket.

"Moring, Aoko." Yugito stroked my head and I purred.

She went into the kitchen to make breakfast. I went out into the garden. A blue bird... I stalked quietly across the ground. I'll get that stupid thing today.

"Morning, Aoko!"

The bird flew away mocking me with its song. As usual.

"Rats!" I looked over at the fence. Some of the Nii Clan's kids stood behind the fence. "You scared away my bird." I said.

"Sorry!" "Oops!" The Nii Clan had taken to me right away. None of them opposed me being here.

"It's alright! I'll get the next one!" I chirped. If it ever come back to this garden! Oh well.

One of them gasped. "We're gonna be late for class!"

"Bye!" "See ya, Aoko!" the tree kids ran off. I watched them take off for the Nii Clan Estate's gates.

"Aoko! Breakfast!" I hear Yugito call.

I caught the whiff of tekkadon. My favorite! I jumped through the window that Yugito always left open so I could get in and out of the house.

Yugito stood in the kitchen holding my bowl.

"Thanks!" I chirped.

"Ah, uh, ah." Yugito said. "First talk." She held the bowl away from me.

"I can't tell you anything." I said. "Sumi won't let us."

"Then I guess no tekkadon for you." She moved the bowl back and forth. I followed it. This is torture!

"Sumi won't let us tell you guys but I agree with Kitsune."

"And what does Kitsune think?"

"That you guys have the right to know what's going on." I paused to eat a bit. "But we're out voted." Man she is trying to bribe me with this! I hate you Sumi. I really do!

Yugito sighed. "Here" She said reluctantly.

"Thanks!" I wonder what torture Cho's going through?

Cho's POV

I fluttered over to the bowl of sugar water Fu had kept out for me. I love this stuff. It's too bad I don't have sugar like this back home. I drank from the bowl, the water tasted different than usual. A truth serum...

"Nice try Fu. I'm immune to truth serums."

"RATS!" I heard Fu call from the bathroom.

Right now I think I want to change my vote to 'Tell them.' I wonder how much luck Kitsune's having.

Kitsune's POV

"Moring, runt." I said sliding out from under Naruto's neck.

Naruto yawned and sat up slowly. "Soooo…."

"So what?" I asked.

"What were you guys talking about?" Naruto asked.

"Nothing."

Naruto squinted at me. "What were you talking about?"

"Even though I want to I can't tell you."

"Tell me."

"I can't."

"Please?"

"No."

"PLEASE!"

"No." This is going to be a very, very long day. I really hate you right now Sumi.

Sumi's POV

I wiggled out of Nozomi's arms. She stirred. "Morning Sumi."

"Moring, dear." I said jumping lightly to the ground. Any second now she'll be asking me what my siblings and I were talking about.

"So what you wanna do today?" Nozomi asked.

What the? "I don't know." She doesn't want to know?

"You really slept yesterday."

And here it comes.

"I guess it just takes a lot of chakra to maintain yourself in this dimension or something." Nozomi said offhandedly.

She isn't curious at all? "Uh. I guess so, dear."

"Come on we should get going. I want to do some training with Wood Style today. I have something I want to try out."

"Alright." She isn't curious... AT ALL?

"Wood Style, Strangling Roots!" Nozomi said loudly. Roots came from the ground and wrapped itself around the Wood Clone. Nozomi had infused the Wood Clone with chakra. She was trying to drain the chakra out of the Clone and into herself. I was working.

"Nice job, Nozomi." I said. When is she going to start asking me?

"Alright. I think I'm going to practice this for a while. You can go do something else if you like." Nozomi said still trying to perfect her technique.

"O-okay..." I took off into the woods leaving Nozomi alone.

I raced through the forest I used to know so well. It had changed so much since Hashirama and I used to play here. I don't know how fast I was going but everything was a blur. I stopped when it was near noon. I had reached the place I'd been meaning to go for so long.

I skidded to a halt. The sight was just as breath taking as it was all those years ago. The entire valley was just as I remembered it.

Flashback

"Where am I?" I looked around. The cliffs were tall enough to hide me in full form, the waterfalls cascaded down over the sides of the valley. Where's Kuro!

I looked around, he wasn't in the valley.

"Hello!" I heard someone shout. I looked down. A small two legged creature, male by the sound of his voice, stood in front of me.

I bent down to get a closer look at him. He had black hair and grayish-purple eyes that had a ripple pattern to them. What is this strange creature?

"I am Nobuyuki. What is your name?" The odd creature asked.

I blinked in surprise. He spoke my language. "My name is Sumi."

"It is a pleasure to meet you." The creature named Nobuyuki said.

"What are you?" I asked.

"I'm a human." He didn't find this question odd. "What are you?"

"My people call themselves Tails." I said.

"Tails?"

"When we are born we have multiple tails." I waved my tails gently. "As I have eleven tails it means I have ten little siblings. One for yourself and for each little sibling."

"That's weird." Nobuyuki said blinking his rippled eyes.

"It is odd to you perhaps but for my people it is natural." I said calmly.

"So what are you doing here? And where did you come from?"

"I came here because of my brother..."

End Flashback

"This place hasn't changed a bit since I met Nobuyuki." I sighed. "Someday I'll take Nozomi here."

I turned and raced back to Nozomi. When I got there she was exhausted but she had a triumphant look on her face. "I take it you figured it out?" I asked.

"Yep. Took me a while but I finally got it." She said getting up.

It's sunset but she hasn't asked anything yet! Me being gone all day didn't help but she suggested it.

"Come on Sumi, I'm starving!"

Okay that does it! "How are you not curious! How are you not curious about the Akatsuki! Who by the way want to capture my little siblings and as a result kill all the Jinchuriki?"

She smirked at me. Oops...

Authors Notes

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