The Sun Goddess Son
Chapter 23: Awakening
While Team 7 was on a mission to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, Yuki was in Kamui for a three year long training, since there also has to be the part as to what happened to her when she wasn`t in Konoha. So let`s start at the beginning but close.
It started when the she wolf meet three siblings, in actuality one of them still hadn`t of been born by then, well get to it when we do. Anyway it started with a brother and sister.
Their coat looked like that of a lynx. The male one had blue eyes, his fur was a light green with a dark blue underbelly and black spots. Whilst his sister was a soft almost white pink and blue underbelly and black spots and the most beautiful purplish blue eyes that Yuki had ever seen. Their names were Midoriiroyamaneko and Pinkuyamaneko or Green Lynx and Pink Lynx respectively.
Yuki met the two siblings together with Kakashi. The two of them didn`t go all ´Wow you`re a god! Can you do this and that for me pretty please?´ No the twins were pretty chill around the god, treating him like they would any other Oina and it wasn`t much of a surprise when the four of them became good friends.
And just like in any other pack, the Oina also have different ranks. Such as healers, trackers, hunters, warriors, merchants, priest, elders, chief and so on. Different member`s trained for different ranks in order to keep the tribe taken care of. But all youngsters still needed to know as to how to do defend and hunt to at least some extent.
Both Yuki and Midoriiro were training to be healers while Pinku trained to be tracker. It surprised Yuki the first time she heard the news as to what the two siblings would be training for, but the she wolf shrugged it off in the end.
The morning started with hunting, sparing and breakfast, after which the youngsters split up and went their different mentors. Both Yuki and Midoriiro spent most days with other healer trainees learning different techniques in healing, herbs, wounds, sickness, treatments and even helping senior healers.
All the while Pinku learned the different and easiest ways of tracking prey, humans and enemies.
After a tiring day of training, helping other healers it was time for dinner, after which many a pup went home for a good night`s rest. Yuki spent those three years with Oki. In the she wolves opinion it was lonesome without Kakashi but the white wolf just shoved that felling into the back of her mind. The two friends weren`t exchanging much letters during those three years since neither of them had the time (Yuki) or didn`t wish to tell their friend of any kind of loss (Kakashi). But Yuki still tried to send at least one letter per week even if she didn`t get any in return.
It was a few weeks after the Kannabi Bridge (not that she knew) and since coming to Kamui when Yuki and Midoriiro were in the forests surrounding Wep`keer collecting herbs. It was a great day, the warm feeling that came from the shining sun and active forest they were walking through gave the two trainees a sense of serenity. Neither of them were worried that there could be anything dangerous in the forest.
The two of them were having a conversation about the other day.
˝And then he goes and hits on the head healer. The next thing I know the guy is lying on the floor with Lady Lika growling at him.˝ Yuki said with barely contained laughter.
Her green furred friend was laughing as well. ˝Now I know to never piss off Lady Lika.˝
˝This is also the guy that once beat me in training after which Kakashi scared the crap out of him.˝ Yuki continued. The wolves looked at each other and they both again dissolved into laughter.
˝Guess I`ll need to get some scaring the others lessons from Kakashi next time I see him.˝ The lynx patterned wolf said.
The mention of her friend made Yuki lover her ears.
˝Something wrong?˝
˝Sigh. Kakashi hasn`t sent me a letter ever since I got here. Literally noting. It`s like he`s forgot about me even existing.˝
Midoriiro looked at his fellow trainee and put a hand on her shoulder. ˝Hey, I`m sure that he hasn`t forgoten about you. Maybe he`s just busy. You did say that he is finally a jonin right?˝
That seemed to give the she wolf some closure and she smiled. ˝Thank you Midoriiro.˝
The two gazed at each other like that for some moment, when they heard a screech and their heads snapped up. It sounded terrified and in pain. The two of them didn`t waste time in running into the direction of the sound. When they did arrive they were left horrified.
There lying around were many of the hunter and tracker trainees covered in their own blood. Only five or so were still fighting and one of them was Pinku. Then she took a better look at the beast.
It was as if the bear was made out of shadows. The beast was as black as the night itself with blue markings and glowing silver eyes. Yuki stood there in shock just staring at the beast before her. It wasn`t until she heard Pinku`s shout of rage that Yuki snapped out of shock.
She went around helping as many of the trainees as she possibly could, but something made her freeze. There wasn`t a sound or lack of there forth. The she wolf turned around and saw the five remaining tracker and hunter trainees lying around. She could see Pinku lying on the ground, but what horrified the white she wolf was the fact that the pink furred wolf looked as if someone had gone and squeezed the lower part her body. As Yuki took a look around she found that Midoriiro lying in a worrisome puddle of his own blood.
And she heard a male voice whisper into her ears. ˝Young one. You made the mistake of befriending the Child of the Sun, for being with him will only bring you pain.˝
The she wolf looked at the bear that stood on its hind legs observing and growling at her. Yuki lowered her head to the ground with her eyes squeezed shut with tears streaming down her cheeks. The beast lifted one of it`s paws ready to strike the only standing wolf, but as the mighty bear brought it down, there was not a sound of breaking bones. No it was the sound of a bear paw hitting the hard ground and in the next moment there was a white blurr attaching the bear from all sides. It was overwhelming to say the least. There was a shadow like substance leaving the various wounds from the beast`s body.
Yuki wasn`t relenting, it suddenly felt like she could literally see this weird flow that the beast and many a plants, animals and trainees possessed. It felt as if she were moving faster than ever before in her life, yet Yuki knew that she was dealing great wounds to the shadowy beast.
She landed on the ground and jumped up and sinking her fangs into the beasts neck. And as Yuki did so she gazed into the beast`s eyes and for a moment she thought she saw the reflection of a black wolf in them. Then as if the beast had never been there it dissolved into nothing. Yuki gazed around her at the battlefield.
If someone would off been awake at the time they would off told you that her eyes gained three tomoe in her sky blue eyes before they closed.
A few day later Yuki regained consciousness Oki informed her of Midoriiro`s and many of other trainees deaths. Some of them survived and would be returning to normal lives, others like Pinku whom suffered injuries beyond complete healing would forever be dependent on others to care for them.
Yuki after the initial screaming she got from Pinku didn`t even try coming near the pink furred she wolf whom blamed Yuki for her brother`s death and even then the white wolf did not have any wish of confronting the other.
In the following months Yuki performed poorly in her training and Oki was allowed to train her more privately and she started getting over the attack that happened. In one of their many training sessions that had been going on for at least a year if not more, Oki once gave her a letter that Minato had sent the previous day. Needless to say Yuki was exited to receive said message (even if it wasn`t from Kakashi himself, at least someone still remembered her), but later on she would of wished to have never read it.
Dear Yuki.
It will soon be two years since you`ve left. I have some news and none of them are good. Obito died on the Kannabi Bridge mission. He finally awakened his Sharingan, but later on gifted his left one to Kakashi after and Iwa nin injured it. The Uchiha clan wasn`t to happy, but Fugaku let Kakashi keep the Sharingan in order to honour Obito`s last wish. He personally gave Kakashi some lessons on how to use the Sharingan.
A few months back Rin got captured by Kiri, whom used her as a jinchuriki to the Sanbi. They intentionally made a faulty seal and when Kakashi was about to use his Chidori on some Kiri, Rin jumped in front of him and… I think you can figure what happened.
The last two years have been hard on all of us, but let`s forget about that for a moment. The Third Hokage has handed his Hokage hat to me. Kakashi joined ANBU not too long after that. And Kushina is pregnant with our child (Kakashi is keeping an eye on her).
We`ll see you next spring and until then good luck.
Minato
The young she wolf cried for her deceased friends, but at the same time she was happy for her sensei and his wife. Yuki always thought of young children or pups as a blessing. The white wolf kept on training under Oki`s guidance not knowing of the demise that awaited the young parents to be on night of their son`s birth.
Yuki as part of her training looked after Samickles and his mates Inko (whom is from Suna) three young pups Uzura, Sekirei and Puchi. The three pups had grown quite fond of their sitter and she of them. Yuki`s job was to make sure that the pups were safe and protected.
It was a warm summer day so Yuki and the three pups were on the edge of Yoshpet. The young pups were rolling around, playing tag and so on. It was then that she felt it, the same aura as the bear she had went up against.
Yuki stood up and stalked into the direction of the aura, but a blood curdling cry made her turn back. And to her horror attacking the pups was a pack of raccoon dogs. All of them black, with blue markings and silver eyes. The white wolf was ready to jump into the fray when she felt a weight of many smaller but numerous raccoon dogs on her back.
Yuki fought the dogs surrounding. She snapped fangs at them, closed her teeth around their necks in which the main artery bled from. It must have been minutes when the raccoon dogs stood back and it was in that moment that Yuki came face to face with bleeding bodies of three pups. The pups she had been keeping an eye.
Yuki hurried to the pups, one of them looked up at her with glazed eyes. ˝Y..Y..Yuki. What`s going on?˝
Said she wolf pulled the pup into what she could only call a hug. ˝It`s okay. Help is on the way, just hold on. Alright?˝
¨I fell so tired. Can I go to sleep?˝
At those words Yuki felt herself freeze, she could fell the tears in her eyes and forced herself to speak. ˝No!˝
The pup looked startled even in this pitiful state.
The older wolf breathed to calm herself. ˝Just don`t, alright. You`re parents will be here soon and whatever you do don`t close your eyes.˝ She gave the younger wolf a tearful smile.
The pup gazed at her a moment longer, but somehow fate wasn`t on the young one side for the pup closed it`s eyes never to be opened again.
Yuki lay there with the pups body still in her paws, with tears welling up she howled to the sky in hopes of releasing the pain.
The raccoon dogs were still idling around not at all concerned for themselves. They should of ran when they had the chance for the white wolf turned around to face them with her eyes closed. And the moment she did open her blue orbs the raccoons wished that they would off taken the chance to run.
For the she wolves eyes were different than before. They were still the same blue as before, with a few exceptions. In the middle was a dot, surrounded by a circle from which six swirls, on each one, circle extended outwards.
The raccoon dogs felt were surrounded by white blue flames of fire. They screeched in fear knowing that their demise was near. Even if the flames weren`t hot, their coldness chilled anyone and everything to their very core. And there wasn`t a trace left of the raccoon dogs.
In the end Samickle ordered Yuki to leave Kamui, for he and many others believed (some and Oki certainly didn`t) that she was cursed. The young she wolf left for Konoha not even a week later, returning home to Konoha never suspecting the aftermath of the Kyubi`s attack.