Chapter 52
Tori hears a drop of water in the distance as it echoes in her ear. Soon she hears four more drops of water but she smelled smoke all of a sudden.
W-What is...this? Tori opened her eyes slowly of feeling extremely tired for some reason.
Her expression changes quick, eyes widen of the enormous fire blazing through a village as she heard screaming coming from the villagers fleeing the destruction. Tori was too shock to run as she was standing in the middle of the street as people ran past, screaming for their lives. Houses were being burn to the ground as many Shinobis dead bodies were spilled everywhere. Tori hears shoes walking behind her.
"What is this?" She says as her body couldn't move.
Her body was frozen of her eyes desperately trying to eye behind her but she couldn't as she felt a large amount of chakra of whoever was easing up behind her.
Why c-can't I...move? Why can't I? Sweat started to come down her face of unsure what is going on, her heart beating like crazy as she couldn't calm herself down. She couldn't understand why she was so frighten. It didn't make any sense to her. This is a dream! This is only a dream! Tori closes her eyes to focus to wake up. Wake up! Please wake up! I beg you.
Tori halts for a second in waking herself up of hearing the footsteps stop. Tori close her eyes tightly of not wanting to open of what awaits her if she does. She feels a cloak around her body accompanied by two arms around her waist. The body next to her was warm, safe as her body stops trembling in fear, as deep inside her she didn't want this person to let go of her. Tori finally open her eyes of still surrounded by flames; her body was still unable to move which made her not able to see who was holding her.
"Are you not satisfied?" A man says behind her in her right ear.
Tori was stunned by the voice she was hearing as it sounded similar towards Kyuubi voice.
"Did this village not satisfy your thirst?" He says. He moves his arms to her shoulder. "Do you want more?"
Tori couldn't say anything as her body was weak, lacking chakra of maybe why her body couldn't resist his chakra. He pulls out his right hand from the cloak as his hand was glowing red chakra. Tori looked down of the chakra her body wanted so much. Her mouth was thirsty of the present he was giving to her, as her mind was fixated on consuming more chakra. Her eyes were glowing golden-yellow. She opens her mouth of her normal canine teeth started to grow as saliva was dripping from her mouth.
The mysterious man smiles at her craving for chakra. "Then I will give you my own of only serving you...Master."
Tori wake up, breathing heavily, sweat dripping down her face of her eyes watching the ceiling of the horrible dream she just witnessed. She pulls herself up and holds the side of her head of feeling great pain of somebody just took a hammer and whack her upside the head with it. She only had these migraines when those terrible dreams happen that she couldn't understand fully herself. She wondered if it was her dreams or Okami but the dreams were always filled with death, hatred, destruction, things Tori didn't want to experience. She mostly wanted happy dreams like normal people but her dreams were either nothingness or horrible dreams. She couldn't understand it, she wanted to but couldn't, which made her more afraid of them even more.
Tori eyes her shaking right hand of her body still trembling from that dream. She wanted to ask Fukushu about them but she actually didn't want her to worry about her then she already does, which she hated because she felt weak compared to her. It was probably what she would of call Tori a weak little child.
Tori eye the window curtains of the morning sun shinning in her room. Nezumi was right below her always sleeping in her bed as she never sleeps in her own room that made Tori smile a bit. Somehow she always forget about her nightmares soon after when Nezumi was around in which another mystery that Tori couldn't explain.
Nezumi was different then the other kids, which is hard to believe of always being energetic, outspoken, and thinks everybody is apart of her family, but she was special as Tori felt it when she first met her. Then as it is now she wanted to protect Nezumi with all her strength and maybe why Tori trains almost everyday because of this. Tori really didn't want Nezumi to fear the outside world like she does. She wanted to keep her innocent eyes of the ugly truth behind being a Shinobi. But what always bothered Tori was why anybody would throw a child away.
Flashback
It was midnight, eleven year old Tori was walking through the forbidden forest in her village, called Teutoberg Forest, that many Shinobis try not to venture off into because of the deadly beasts that prey in the forest, mostly large snake, tigers, boars and wolves. These large animals were called Gods of the forest as they kept inhabitable from humans of the secret forest demon that lives in the forest, never to be awaken again because of the great devastation it caused when he was released five hundred years ago.
Animals in this forest can not be controlled by any humans that set foot into the forest. Basically you were on your own as the animals have no pity on the souls who intrude in their land.
Tori wasn't afraid of entering the forest, actually it was her safe haven from her broken home. She wanted to stay here forever if she could. The animals didn't attack her; actually she was the only human the animals allowed to come into the forest, that's because she was the vessels that held one of their great God animals in her body, Okami the Goddess of the Wolves.
Tori was near the end of the forest, as she looked up at a high cliff above her. It was 100 feet high above the forest that made it impossible to see anything in the forest if you were looking down into the forest, of the dense fog that settled above the gloomy trees, which made it look more frightening resembling a ghost forest. She sees three people dressed in hooded cloaks which made it difficult to see their faces. The wind was blowing rapidly, as the cloaks were flapping in the wind which made Tori get a glimpse of the clothing underneath their garments that seemed they were Shinobi's clothing, unsure what village it was because it was not Jishin attires.
Who would be out this time of night? Tori thought. She eyes the three characters of one of them in front of the others sticks out their arms holding something in their hands wrapped in a blanket that resembled more of a baby over the cliff. Their hands let go of item they had as it falls into the forbidden forest. WHAT THE!
Tori puts her hands to her face quick, of getting an idea what that is under the blanket, and focus her chakra to her body. Tori's body in a split second teleport. The item wrapped in the blanket falls into the fog, disappearing from the site of the three people up top. What awaited below for the unknown item was a sharp edge of a tree sticking out that was waiting to plunge it branches into it. Tori body flashes below the item, catches it and flashes towards the ground in a second.
Tori catches her breath of making it in time but hear a noise coming from the blanket, it also felt heavy, and moving too.
"What the?" Tori unwraps the blanket slowly, taking a big gulp of haven't felt nervous about something in years. Her eyes widen of the life that was under the blanket. A baby?
A baby no older then a couple of days was eyeing Tori in the face with her left eye was green as her right eye was grey. Tori was speechless, shock, amazed, puzzled, of why anybody would throw a normal baby off a cliff. Judging by the babies features is was clearly a girl. For five minutes, all Tori just did was stare at the baby, thinking what to do with it or maybe keep it.
What am I talking about? Tori thought. I can't keep a baby. What would my father say? I'm not supposed to be wondering in the Teutoberg Forest anyway.
'Maybe we should keep it.' Fukushu said.
'Fukushu?'
'Who else talks to you,' Fukushu says sarcastically, 'Besides I always wanted a little sister. She so cute.'
'Cute, since when you start talking like that.' Tori ask of the only thing Fukushu thought was cute was when she was torturing somebody.
'I don't know. But I doubt the people that tried to kill her is in a giving mood of taking the baby back.' Fukushu stated.
'But we know nothing about babies,' Tori eye the baby of her sleeping in her arms. 'I don't want her to share the same life as me. This world is already in chaos and nothing good comes from it. It's all a bunch of lies anyway. Always killing...always betrayal...always in chaos.' Tori stands up with a emotionless expression. 'I'm giving the baby to my father. He can do whatever with it. I don't care. I can not have any distractions. I must train to become stronger, to face him...and to kill him.'
'Tori you have a lot to learn about how to live...when to live...and why to liv-'
"Don't patronize me! My mind is made up. I giving her to my father and that's that. I don't care about the child and she is not my responsibility." Tori cold voice was absolute in her decision.
Fukushu was tired of arguing with Tori. Her hatred, loneliness, and her broken heart left by this soiled world made Tori difficult to control at sometimes as it greatly affected her judgment. 'Fine do what you please!'
Just a note pay close attention of this forest and what I put in it becasue just a little spoiler it involoves Okami and Kyuubi a lot.
