Chapter 36
Because it was long overdue for something like this to happen
Samui sipped her tea while professionally ignoring the quarrel between Omoi and Karui. It was always like this right before practice. At least their contradicting personalities did not clash as often during missions...well, most of the time.
Her straight blond hair slightly moved by the force of what seemed to be the impact of Karui's fist upon Omoi's head. He really should stop comparing their chests, it was absolutely childish, not to mention trying, even for her. He was a lot more intelligent for these foolish fights. His choice, though.
'Omoi, Karui, break is over.' Samui stated as she finished the last sip of her tea.'Back to practice.'
Karui and Omoi glared at each other, black and gold exchanging charged spikes. They glared for another moment or so until they broke it off and headed after Samui.
Practice was going better than usual, for Samui that is, until...
'Hidden Cloud Technique: Lightning Strike!'
Samui was an excellent Kunoichi. She specialized in resisting the urge to face palm.
'Karui! Don't you know that that kind of attack can rip a person to shreds! This is training! Forget ripping a person to shreds! What if you ripped the reality open and then that rip went into another reality? What if a PERSON gets sucked in? Have you ever though about that? You never think things through Karui...'
'And you think too much, you ...you...pessimist!'
'Ninja should and must be cool. What if Killer Bee-Sen...'
Suddenly Samui moved just in the nick of time to avoid cushioning something's fall... or rather someone's...
'SEE? Now look what you did!' Omoi exploded with worry and his over-thinking...err..yeah.
'Shut up, Omoi, it's probably not what you think it is.' Karui frowned while Samui knelt next to the body of a young girl and her luggage.
LINELINELINELINE
Summer groaned. Her back hurt. Her head hurt. Hell, everything hurt. Almost as if she fell from a 2 story building with mostly bruises to prove the tale. She wasn't very coherent. For all she could register in her highly dazed state ( concussion anyone?) there were people around her. It was dark but she knew it was warm and sunny outside and the dry ground smelled of … sea? The air was different.
'She's awake.' someone said and Summer immediately regretted opening her eyes. It was so bloody bright it hurt! She squeezed her eyes shut again and felt someone's shadow looming over her. Slowly, oh so slowly she opened her eyes again. She squinted at first. Then she opened them fully. Then she blinked slowly. THEN she closed her eyes again. And then she opened them and stared. That was the best Killer Bee Cosplayer she had ever seen and the AFC didn't even have one for God's sake! She was soooo going to convert him to the AFC.
'Wow! You're amazing.'she blurted out and tried to poke his incredibly shiny and realistic Hitai-Ate that only the incredibly fanatic devotees like those in AFC would have.'Nice! It's real metal! Where did you get it? Can I buy one from the same place?Wow!'
And then she lost consciousness again. A quick chop to the back of the neck. And that was it.
LINELINELINELINE
'She's a civilian but...there is something...' Killer Bee murmured and he was thoughtfully looking at her. Team Samui was in the hospital room as well, not to mention A, the Raikage and a mednin.'The examination gave us nothing wrong except recently being exposed to high amounts of excess chakra. As if she was hit by a powerful jutsu...'
'See what you did Karui? What if she had died! Huh? A poor helpless civilian girl!'
'HOWEVER, she does not show evidence of any other damage, save from the fall she took to the ground. The bruises have been taken care of and the concussion is the only thing we need to worry about for the next few days.'
The Raikage nodded and the Mednin left.
'Bee, what is it?'
'Call over Yugito-san. I need to check something...' Killer Bee seemed unusually transfixed in the unconscious girl.
'Bee...'
'It can't be...'
'Samui, go get Yugito Nii right now.'
'Hai, Raikage-sama.'
Samui disappeared in pursuit of the Nibi Jinchuuriki.
'Ne, Sensei...?'
'It's her chakra, Omoi. How can you not feel it? It's the same as Yugito-san's.'
LINELINELINELINE
Yugito Nii was a young woman of 29 years of age and ash blonde straight long hair which she always braided when she had work to do. Right now however was her second day of her week long vacation and she was enjoying it by playing her favourite shamisen. It was very relaxing, the view of Kumogakure adding to her sense of tranquility and peace. She wasn't playing any particular tune or anything on her shamisen, but rather merely reflecting her own sense of relaxation via the instrument. The glass door to her balcony was slid open and the warm sea breeze of the outside was gently caressing her sitting form. Suddenly she stopped playing. She had felt a presence approaching.
'Samui-san. What can I do for you?'
'Konnichiwa, Nii-san. Raikage-sama has requested your presence immediately. Follow me, he is in the hospital.'
'Hai.' Yugito left her shamisen to the side and followed Samui through her balcony, her long ash blonde hair waving behind her.
Soon enough, the two kunoichi stepped through the window of the hospital room where the Raikage, and everyone else, were. Immediately, Yugito felt it. The pull was so strong that she even bypassed the Raikage as if he was not there at all.
'You felt it as well, didn't you, Yugito-san?'
'Hai, Killer Bee-sama. She is...me...like me. Not me...but...that's impossible...two Nibis...'
'Bee, what is going on?' A almost shouted in irritation.
'This girl... she is no ordinary girl, brother. She is also a Jinchuuriki. Another Nibi Jinchuuriki.'
The room was shocked into utter silence, save for the transfixed wake Jinchuuriki. Yugito sat on the bed and took the girl's hand into hers. There was something there, a connection. A presence like no other, one closer than even her bond with Nibi. It was a divine form of kinship. It was the only way she could describe it. And it was as if she had always known this girl. She was a nice, down to earth girl who liked to play on stringed instruments as well, she was motherly and wiser beyond her age, she was kind, loving, respectful. She was a lawful good if one could say so. She was not like Yugito, but her essence was practically the same. As if their very souls were in this moment connected by a divine force through the contact.
'Her name is Natsuko.' Yugito all so suddenly spoke, breaking the thick silence. Summer. That was what that girl was. It was her essence. And there there was the presence of her Nibi. It was a separate essence, different from her Nekomata, more similar to something far less malignant, despite the identical chakra. It was then that she finally understood what was going on. It was a psychic bond of sorts between them, caused by the chakras of their Bijuu. It was an overwhelming sensation to feel and to utterly understand another being. Such sense of closeness...
'What are you waiting for? Wake her up so we can question her!'
'Yes Raikage-sama!' they all answered. Yugito and Killer Bee were still staring at the girl.
A/N: edited: removed last paragraph for consistency's sake. Moved it to chapter 37