Disc: Flame of Recca and the original characters belongs to Anzai Nobuyuki.
Endless Road Chapter Four
16 years later,
Saitama, the urban fringe area,
A sixteen years old boy ran down the hill with amazing speed. His dark purple hair blew anywhere covered his face. Ordinary people maybe can't see his step. So fast, his body disappeared and changed into shadow. He run towards a girl who standing at the border of the street. And the boy gloriously stopped in a second right in front of the girl who claps her hands.
"Very good, you can be a winner in Olympic!!" shouted the shaggy brown- haired girl.
"Hey, it's cheat! I can't use this technique if I want to get fairly winning!" The boy replied in laugh. There is no gasp in his breath after run like that. There is a drop of sweat at his forehead, the girl see it and she takes a handkerchief out of her purse then she wipes the sweat from the boy's face.
"Thank you!" The dark purple haired boy smiled. He encircled his muscular arm around the girl's shoulder and they walked together down the hill.
"What time is it?" The boy asked. The girl looks at her watch.
"Emm, it's 7 o' clock pm." She replied.
"Oh, no! We promised to go home at six, didn't we?"
"Yes we are, but Tokyo is up to 24 kilometers from this place. If we going there with subway train, it needs more than half an hour to go home!"
"How much time that we need to go there by run?"
"Fifteen minutes, if we run without stop!" The girl smiled.
"Shall we go home by run? I'm afraid my mother will punish me!"
"Are you a young Jounin or what? You're still afraid of your mother?" The girl laughs.
"My mother and yours are different!! She can attack me with various kinds of technique! Don't forget that my father and your father now in Kyoto to get an observation at Hokage's clan in Kyoto! Nobody can protect me from her! I'm sure that your mother must to heal me again!"
"Oh, come on! It's already dark, and we must go home as soon as possible!"
"Okay! I'll show you the speed of Hokage's Junior Jounin!!!" The boy smirked.
"Don't forget, I'm the leader of Hokage's Junior Kunoichi, do not ever underestimate my speed!" They made a position.
"Go!!!!!" the boy shouted. And they bodies changed into black shadow. They run faster than bullet. Leaving some dusts and footprints behind.
Tokyo, fifteen minutes later,
"Fiuuh!!" The dark purple haired boy take a deep breathe in front of the big house. The girl's house.
"Come in, let's have some water!" the girl invited him. He nodded and then followed the girl. Using Uzuregakure technique, they tried to move secretly towards the kitchen to get water from the dispenser. But unfortunately, one-steps more to reach the kitchen…
"Hey, what are you two doing here?" a boy's voice comes from their back. They jumped. A boy stands behind them. Smirk. And then he shouts.
"Moooommm!!!! Ranki and Arashi are here!!!!!"
"Enki!!! Stop that!!!" The girl named Ranki screamed. But it's too late. A second after, there are two women stand at the kitchen's door. One woman wear a kimono and the other one wear a jeans and white T-Shirt.
"ARASHI!!!!" screamed the woman who wore T-Shirt. She put her arms on her hips. Her face looked horrible.
"Mom?!!! What are you doing here?" The dark purple haired boy named Arashi get surprised when he saw his mother. The purple haired woman walked towards him.
"What am I doing here? That's not your business! But you have to explain what YOU are doing so you back home late!!" She faced her son. "Do you think your auntie and I not worry about you two? Now your father is not at home so nobody can give you any protects against me!!!"
"Oh, Fuuko! Come on, don't be too strong to your son!" said the brown haired woman who wear kimono. She smiled to Fuuko. "Just make sure that they will never do this anymore!" She pointed at the two teenagers who gazed at the floor.
"Just believe them. Arashi, Ranki, promise us that you two will never do this anymore, would you?" Yanagi asked them. The teenagers quickly nodded.
"Good. Now you two must be hungry, right? Let's have a dinner together!" Yanagi invited them all to the dining room to have a dinner.
"Enki! How could you betray us!!" shouted Ranki angrily at the living room after the dinner.
"Yeah, I almost get a heart attack when I heard my mother's voice!!" Arashi pouted. The purple haired boy lies on the big sofa. The boy called Enki just grinned.
"Let it be! I do that for my revenge because you two didn't ask me to join!"
"That because I know your schedules today is training to find out your fire's form! Remember, Otousan told you not to go anywhere because you have to get enough exercises!!!" Ranki moved closer to her brother to kick him. But Enki avoids her.
"I've done my exercises! And it was ended up with big fail! I hate it so I must find something funny to get back my mood! And then I heard that aunt Fuuko come here and get mad because you two come back late. When I want to steal some chocolate from the refrigerator, I found you two used Uzuregakure to move, so I called mom!" Once again the evil grin comes out from the black haired boy's face.
"Failed, huh?! Unbelievable, you are the next Enjutsushi?! I can't imagine how Hokage clan's condition in the future!" Ranki pouted. But Enki just laughs.
"Uhm, the next question is how can I believe that you two are twins? You're never at peace! Oh, my!" Arashi ousted his comments, and closed his mouth quickly when he saw two shuriken flying towards him; he caught it with his bare hands. "Hey!!! What are you doing? Do not using shuriken in house!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Shout the fifteen years old-twins together at the same time.
"Arashi, let's go home now!" Fuuko called her son. One second later, Arashi stand up besides her. They excused themselves to Yanagi and her children. Then they walked together to reach their house not far from there.
"Arashi, actually where have you been?" Fuuko asked her son as they walked to their home. She looks at his face curiously. The dark purple haired boy lifted up his face.
"I'm so sorry mom. Ranki and me is just trained our ninjutsu, but we forget about the time. We went to Saitama, and needs fifteen minutes to run home."
"So, you're run from Saitama to Tokyo? Well, you must be tired now. Okay, after this, take a bath and go to sleep. I'll massage your feet if you want." Fuuko rubs her son's hair and smiled at him. Arashi smiled too.
"Thank you mom! Our house is near from here, so let's have a run competition!!" said Arashi cheerfully. Fuuko just smiled and shook her head.
"No, I'll be the loser if I take your challenge! I'm not your equal in speed! You must challenge uncle Kaoru or your father to do this!" but Arashi didn't care. He grabbed Fuuko's arm and pulled her to force her to run.
Next Sunday,
Raiha sit down at the sofa in the guestroom and read the newspaper. After married with Fuuko, he used Kirisawa name as his family's name. Ten months later they have a child named Kirisawa Arashi. The means of Arashi is storm.
Arashi have dark purple hair. Like Raiha. And dark blue eyes like Raiha too. But his face reflects his mother. The child was trained to be a good ninja since he was kindergarten. As the descendant of the Hokage leaders, Arashi now have a responsibility as the leader of Hokage's Junior Shinobi or Hokage's young male's ninja.
Arashi is a good friend of Hanabishi Enki and Hanabishi Ranki. Recca's twin children. Enki is the candidate of the next Enjutsushi because he has the power to control fire like his father. The means of Enki is 'Fire Energy'. Everybody said that he looks like Recca when he was at the same age as Enki. He has black hair like Recca, a little bit different with his twin sister, Ranki. Unlike her father or her twin brother, she have long brown hair with shaggy style, she looks like her mother, Yanagi. She was a good kunoichi after all. Ranki is the leader of Hokage's Junior Kunoichi or Hokage's young female's ninja.
There are some leaders of Hokage's clan. Recca is the main leader of Hokage's clan. Raiha is the vice leader of the clan. They are the true 'Hokage' level of the clan.
(For notes: I borrowed this level in ninja's clan from Naruto. First, the low-level ninja called Genin; Genin is a predicate for young ninja under fifteen years old or the new cadet of ninja academy. Second, the mid-level ninja called Chuunin, the predicate for teenager ninja. Third, the high-level ninja called Jounin, Jounin is a predicate for strongly trained ninja, and most of them are adults, but Arashi, Enki and Ranki had been reach this level.. Fourth, the leader-level ninja called Hokage (I don't know if there any link between this 'Hokage' with Nobuyuki Anzai's Hokage, but I think Nobuyuki-sensei just wanted to tell us that Hokage ninja is the 'best' clan among the others clan such as Iga-clan, Kouga-clan, or Fuuma-clan. ^_~!) Hokage is the highest level.)
Raiha's peaceful rest is broken as his son rushed out suddenly from the living room. Arashi stood up in front of Raiha, grabbed his father's hands and pulled him to stand up.
"Arashi? What's going on?" asked Raiha confused. But Arashi just trying to hide himself at his father's back using Kannongakure techniques (ninja techniques to hide).
"Arashi!" No longer, Raiha knows what caused his son's face looks like in horror mode. Fuuko run towards him with a plate at her hands.
"Hey, hey! What's happen? Fuuko, calms down!" Raiha tried to calm his wife.
"Where is Arashi?! He didn't eat his Katayaki today!" Fuuko handed up a plate of Katayaki (a very hard rice crisp chips). Raiha looked at the plate. There is only one Katayaki at the plate, but he knows exactly why his son avoided the food.
"Oh, Katayaki? Come on Arashi, did you say that you wanted to be a great ninja? You must eat Katayaki to make your weight stable." Raiha smiled and turned back his head. Slowly, Arashi appear from his back.
"I don't want to eat it! It's very hard! I'll get my teeth broken if you force me to eat it!" He pouted at the Katayaki.
"That's why you need a wooden hammer to shatter it." Raiha handed a little wooden hammer to Arashi. "I ate at least five Katayaki everyday when I was a Genin."
Sighed, Arashi took the hammer and begin to shatter his Katayaki. He shattered it until the rice crisp chips form change to a rice powder.
At night, Raiha decided to talk with Fuuko.
"Fuuko, still remember Tokiya?" Raiha asked his wife. Fuuko is sitting down on the bed and facing her husband.
"Yes, off course! Why?"
"Did you miss…Tokio?"
"Yes I did. But I know he'll be okay with his father." Fuuko sighed. She closed her eyes to remember her son's face. "He must be grown up to be a handsome person like his father. This year he will be 21 years old."
"Do you think they'll return to Japan?"
"I don't know. It's been so long since we have the latest news from them. And then we never hear any news about them. Hey, why did you ask that question?"
"Nada. Let's go to sleep!" Raiha pulled the blanket and covered himself.
Everything goes to normal. Their daily life is perfect. Arashi, Ranki and Enki still endure their routine schedules together. School, practice, teach the young ninja, playing, teasing each other, and else.
They live into two worlds. The ninja's life and ordinary teenager's life. From the outside, Arashi, Ranki and Enki look like ordinary teenagers. They wear the most fashionable cloth, goes to mall, watch movie, and else, but in the inside, they are a high-level ninja.
Three times at week, Arashi teach the young ninja at Hokage dojo. As a young Jounin, he was able to teach. Ranki and Enki always do the same. Ranki teach the young kunoichi or females' ninja. Actually they just represented their parents, but their skill is good enough to fulfill the position.
Enki often trained by Recca or Kurei. As the next Enjutsushi, he must be able to know the form of his own fire. Since Kurei didn't married with anyone, he's the only one candidate to be the next leader of Hokage clan. Everybody could guess that he lived in suffer when his uncle Kurei back to Japan once for a month.
The teens didn't handle any madougu yet. Ninja techniques were enough for them, for this time. Their parents decided not to give any madougu until they reach the qualification to be a Senior Jounin. But they received the knowledge about kinds of madougu and how to use it from their 'young grandma', Kagerou.
One peaceful day…
"Arashi!" Ranki called him when he polished up his Shinobi Gatana at his room. Arashi lifted his face and he faced two shadow appeared in front of him.
"Ranki, Enki? What? I'm busy!" Enki just grins. He pulled Arashi's arm.
"Come on! We've been observed our warehouse! There are many interesting items there! We know that you'll like it."
"Okay, I'll come with you!" Arashi smiled and then join them.
Ten minutes later, at Hanabishi's warehouse.
"Errgghh!! There are many dusts here!" Enki grumbled when he slapped off spider from his hair. Arashi coughed then he blew the dust from the top of a box that he found at the corner of the warehouse. He opened it and he saw some album photos inside.
"Hey, look at this! I found some old album photos!" he called the twins. They move closer to him. Arashi bring out the box from the warehouse and cleaning it. Then he put some albums. They opened the album together.
"Wooww!! Look at this! Is this our parent's picture when they was at the same age like us, isn't it?" Ranki blinked her brown eyes.
"Look! Look! Is that our father?" Enki pointed at a picture, which displayed Recca and Raiha together. "And this is uncle Kaoru with his Kougon Anki! From the date of the picture, this photo was taken 24 years a go!! It means uncle Kaoru at this picture was still 12 years old!!" he was so excited.
"Hey, this is uncle Kurei!" Ranki handed a picture of Kurei. "Hey, do you know the story about 'Ura Butou Satsujin'?" She asked the boys. They nodded.
"Uhm, yeah. I've heard it from my mother. The heroic story where Hokage team wins the tournament against uncle Kurei, isn't it? If I not wrong, there are five members at Hokage team." Arashi replied.
"Look at this one! See? I think this is the picture of the five members of Hokage!" Ranki showed them a picture which displayed five young people showed their happiness after win the tournament. "Do you remember them one by one?"
"As the descendant of Hokage, off course I know them!" Arashi pointed his fingers at the photo. "This is uncle Domon, with his Kuchibashou, Recca-sama, my mother with Fuujin, uncle Kaoru with Kougon Anki, and this man………" he stopped for a while.
"He's Tokiya Mikagami! The wielder of Ensui, one of the most powerful madougus." Enki cuts Arashi's words. "We never met him. I heard from my father that he moved to Indonesia with his son, I forget who his son's name is, and they never back to Japan since 16 years ago!!"
"I've heard about him from my father too, he said that Tokiya Mikagami is one of the most powerful people at Hokage clan. He's a high rank fighter and clever. And my father told me that he was a master of Hyoumon Ken. A very amazing sword technique which can only be passed to one person! May I look at the picture?" Arashi took off the photo from Ranki's hand. The photo displayed Tokiya Mikagami holds his Ensui.
Ranki steal back the photo from Arashi's hand.
"Well, if only he's not too old right now. He's so good looking, you know! Blue eyes, silvery long hair, nice jaw line, he's cute!!" Ranki smiled at the picture and blushes a little. Enki and Arashi get a sweat drop.
"Ignore her! Let's continue!" Enki took another album. "Hey, this is the picture taken 17 years a go. They looks a little bit more grew up." Arashi and Ranki moved near him to see the pictures.
"Yeah! This is the picture of our parents!" Ranki pointed at the picture, which showed Recca, Yanagi, Raiha and Fuuko together.
"Hey, I can't open this page!" Enki tried to open two page of the album which stuck each other, so difficult. Arashi helped him. No longer, they separate the pages but two pictures fall from the album. Ranki took them.
"Uhm! It's must be Tokiya Mikagami and his son!" she gazed at the photo which displayed Tokiya Mikagami carried a little boy at his hands. They smiled. The little boy looks no older than five years old. Ranki could guess easily that he was Tokiya's son because the boy's looks and Tokiya's looks were similar. They share the same fair skin and same silvery hair, but Tokiya's hair is long and the boy's hair is short, same face look, but their eyes colours are different. If Tokiya's eyes are blue, the boy's eyes are light purple. "This boy's eye-colour reminds me to aunt Fuuko." She whispered. She looks at another photo. And then she gasped.
"Th…This…!" she shook her head and look at the picture once again to make sure that she's not wrong. But the photo's still displayed the same object.
"Doushite, Ranki?" Arashi turned to her and took the photo from Ranki's hand. A second later his face changed into surprised mode. He raised his eyebrow. He clutched the photo tightly. His body shivered.
"What its means?" his voice arose. Ranki shook her head. Enki come to them and look at the photo in Arashi's hand from his back. He blinked for a seconds.
The photo displayed Tokiya Mikagami, the silver haired boy, and Fuuko Kirisawa together. They hold each other.
To be continued
A/N : The Junior Hokage belongs to me. The ninja-leveling system belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Thank you for reading. I love you all.