Chapter 7
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After the weapon demo session, the sun was starting to set and the students had left for home. Students that were staying at the academy decided to go out for the night and left as well, leaving the Anidos, the rangers, Sensei Watanabe and Leanne at the school. The group arrived at the front steps of the academy and started to walk up them and inside with Hunter still carrying Kaze at the end.
"Can you put me down now? I don't think its a good idea, carrying me up the steps." stated the white ninja.
"Fine, fine." and Hunter dropped the other to his feet.
"Thank you." and Kaze grabbed his hand and started up the stairs.
Once the group arrived at the top and entered the main room, Kaze's mom was there waiting for them.
"Its getting late, why don't I go start on dinner. Kazel, why don't you come with me and help." Mrs. Anido asked her son.
"Okay. Guys, why don't you go clean yourselves up while dinner is being made. Hanami can show you where the bathrooms are, will you sis?" the white ninja turned to the others as he heads after his mom.
"Sure." Hanami answered as her brother disappeared behind a door that their mother walked into.
"Well guys, follow me and I'll show you where the bathrooms are." and the pink ninja started to leave as the others followed her.
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An hour later...
The guys cleaned up, refreshed and had taken either a bath or shower and now they were sitting back in the main room, kneeling around the table along with Sensei Anido and Sensei Kinoi who was on the table. The two senseis along with Hanami and Leanne was wearing bath robes while the others were in sleeping t-shirts and shorts in their respective color. Everyone was chatting and Sensei Anido decided to get to know Hunter a bit better, if he was going to be with his son.
"So Hunter, from what I heard from my son, you and your brother Blake were adopted. Is that right?"
"Yes sir." Hunter replied in a polite nervous voice as he turned to his boyfriend's dad.
"You don't have to be so formal with the sirs, just called me sensei for now. I'm just trying to get to know you better, you don't have to be so nervous about it." Sensei Anido chuckled a bit with a smile.
Hunter relaxed a bit and gave a small smile.
"I also heard that your adopted parents died when you were kids."
"Yeah." Hunter answered sadly.
"I'm really sorry to hear that. It must be had been hard for you and your brother growing up without any parents."
"It was but we had Sensei Omino who took us in and took care of us and trained us like he did with our parents."
"Yes, Sensei Omino is a good man. I was glad that he was chosen to be the sensei of the Thunder Ninja Academy."
Then Sensei Anido's expression changed into something more serious.
"What are your goals in life?" the storm sensei asked seriously.
"My goals?" Hunter answered with a confused expression.
"What were you think of doing in the near future."
"Well I was thinking of finishing my studies in school first, before of thinking anything else."
"Ah, finishing your studies, that very important you know. What about interests or hobbies?"
"Well, I do like motocross racing a lot."
"Motocross racing," Kaze's father said with a nod, "thinking of going professional?"
"I'm not sure yet."
"Are there any other things that you are thinking of accomplishing? You are also a ninja, you know."
After mentioning that, now Hunter knows what Sensei Anido is trying to find out.
"I can assure you sir, I know what happened with Kaze before with the first person he was with but my only interest with Kaze is being with him, thats all."
"How can I be sure that you're not lying?"
"You can't but you have to believe me that Kaze is the only one I want out of our relationship." the crimson ninja said truthfully.
At that moment Kaze walked into the room still wearing his ninja gear and was holding a basket in one hand.
"Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes." he announced.
Sensei Anido turned to his son and nodded.
"Hunter, can you come and help me for a minute?" asked Kaze nicely.
"Uh, sure. Excuse me sensei." Hunter did a quick small bow and the storm sensei nodded.
The older Thunder brother stood up and headed towards where his boyfriend was and left the room with Kaze, down a hall.
"I heard what you were talking about back there, sorry about that. My dad could be quite over protective sometimes."
"Its okay, he was just looking out for you. I can see he loves you and doesn't want you to get hurt again." giving a smile and wrapped an arm around the other's waist.
After awhile of walking, they ended up at a door and Kaze slid the door open and it revealed that it lead to the outside. The white ninja stepped out onto the concrete floor pathway and pulled along his boyfriend by the hand, after him. The two of them walked as the storm student was in front and less than a minute not far from the school they came up to, what seems to be a greenhouse. A large greenhouse a matter of fact.
"You do gardening as well?" Hunter asked curiously.
"No, this belongs to Hanami. She's learning to be a herbalist and this is where she does most of her studying. She plants, grows and gardens almost all types of plant herbs here. No one is allowed in here except for dad, mom and me." chuckled Kaze.
The younger Anido opened the two glass panel doors of the greenhouse and stepped inside and turned on the lights. Kaze stepped inside and Hunter followed and looked around the entire place and couldn't believe the amount and type of plants there were. Everywhere were pots, planters and tables full of exotic plants that a person can tell which were from all over the world. Kaze headed towards the back end of the greenhouse and Hunter followed. They came up to what seems to be a mini vegetable garden, growing vegies and cooking herbs.
"Hold this for me, would you?" Kaze handed the basket to Hunter, who took it.
"Thanks." and the white ninja kneeled down to the ground and started to sort through and pick out the herbs that were growing.
Hunter crouched down next to his boyfriend while he picked the herbs he needed and placed them into the basket. Once the basket was nicely filled with the stuff that the shogun needed, he stood up again pulling the crimson ninja up with him.
"Well that should be good enough, lets get back so I could get dinner finished and have it started." and they started to head back in.
As the two almost reached the school, Hunter started to wiggle his nose a bit and leaned over close towards his boyfriend and sniffed him a bit.
"You smell." pulling back a bit.
"Thank you for stating the obvious. Wouldn't you think that after a workout and slaving over a hot stove to make dinner for you guys, that I wouldn't be sweating underneath?"
"Well I think it makes you a bit sexy."
After that comment the white ninja went silent and started to go red in the cheeks.
"Oh, come on...." and grabbed hold of his boyfriends arm and started to drag him back inside.
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15 minutes later...
Everyone was sitting back at the suppose dinner table and a few minutes later Kaze, Hanami and and their mother, brought out the meal. The two Anido siblings were each carrying two certain dishes of food and their mother, a small pot. Bowls of rice and pairs of chopsticks were already set on the table and were just waiting for the main meal courses. The three of them set down the dishes on the middle of the table and sat down in their spot, that were saved for them. Kaze sat beside Hunter who was next to Blake and then Tori. Next to Tori sat Shane, Dustin, Cam, Sensei Kanoi, Sensei Anido, Mrs. Anido, Hanami and Leanne who was next to Kaze.
"These looks great!" commented Tori.
"Thanks." Kaze smiled back.
"So what kind of dishes are these?" asked Leanne.
"Well first off we have what I like to call Golden Lucky Fish." pointing to a dish with a golden brown fried Tilipia fish, drizzled and smothered in a red kind of creamy sauce.
"Next is Rainbow Stir-fry." pointing to another dish of stirfry vegetables of all sorts of colors.
"Then we have Egg Tofu Fooyun." a dish mixed of cubed tofu and eggs in a creamy sauce.
"Curry Chicken." a dish of chicken pieces, potatoes and onion.
"And finally Miso Soup." lifting the lid off the small pot.
"Well dig in." said the white ninja and everyone picked up their chopsticks and bowls and started to eat.
As everyone started to pick up food with their chopsticks, Dustin was having trouble with his and he was fumbling with them in his hands.
"I still haven't got the hang of using these yet." he stated embaressed.
"Here let me show you." Cam put down his bowl.
The green ninja grabbed hold of the earth child's right hand that was holding the utensil and fixed his fingers into the right position. As Cam was doing this, Dustin was going red in the face blushing and stayed silent. Some of the others watched the two with some amusement as they started to eat.
"Now you move your fingers like this." instructed the samurai as he moved his chopsticks, showing Dustin.
The yellow ninja followed the movement and after a few tries, he was able to move the chopsticks without any trouble.
"Now try to pick up something."
Dustin reached out and grabbed hold of a piece of chicken and lifted it up without dropping it and placed it into his bowl.
"Thanks Cam." Dustin gave a smile to the other.
"No problem." Cam giving back a small smile and picked up his bowl again.
"This tasted great!" Dustin who taken a bite of the chicken.
"Yeah you should go pro." suggested Shane.
"Go pro?" Kaze gave a confused look at him.
"Yeah. You know, a professional chef and stuff." said Blake.
"Didn't you take a one year cooking course, after you graduated from high school?" questioned Cam.
"I did but I don't know..."
"Kaze, if you want to be a chef then I'm not stopping you. You choose what you want to do in life, you don't have to stay here and take over as the sensei of the academy if you don't want to. There are others that are good enough be the next master of the Storm Ninja Academy, so you don't have to worry about what I think alright." Sensei Anido assured his son.
"Thanks dad. That means a lot to me."
"You know there is a course that you can go for back at Blue Bay College, maybe you should go and try it." suggested Tori.
"Yeah, if you really want to try to be a chef then you should really go for it." Hunter added to support him.
"Maybe I will."
"Enough talk for now. How about we finish dinner first, the food is getting cold." interupted Mrs. Anido and everyone continued to eat.
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After dinner...
The dishes were washed and table was cleaned up and the guys started to head towards Kaze's to have some fun playing games, except for Hanami and Leanne who went off to have some girl talk and the adults decide to retire for the night. When they arrived to Kaze's room, Shane and Dustin immediately went over to the storm ninja's playstation and library of games and started to sort through them. The others came in soon after and Kaze went over to his drawer and started to pull out a change of clothes which includes a white t-shirt, underwear and shorts.
"Dude...I didn't know you were into sports games." said Dustin as he held out a skateboarding game.
"I'm not. The sports games you find in there, belongs to Terry. He often comes in here to play, I'm more of a rpg, fighting type style game person."
"Oh really."
"Anyways you can play them if you want. There are extra controllers and a multi-player connector in the cupboard, under the t.v." the shogun told them as he walked out of the room and headed towards the bathroom.
Dustin went to the cupboard and sure enough there were some extra controllers and an adapter as well.
"Found them! So who want play?" the earth ninja asked.
Awhile later.....
It had been two hours since Kaze went to take a bath and wasn't back yet and his boyfriend was wondering, where was he.
"Its been over two hours. I don't think it takes that long to take a bath." stated Hunter.
"Maybe he accidently slipped on the bar of soap and hit his head and now is unconcious in the bathtub." Blake joked as he was watching the t.v. screen.
"Very funny, but that could have happened.....I'm going to check on him." the older Trejo started to stand up head towards the door.
At that moment the door to the room slid open with Kaze coming in and with Hunter almost crashing into him.
"There you are, where have you been?" the crimson ninja questioned.
"Oh, to make you guys dessert." answering and held up a large plate.
On the plate it was filled with some sort of sugar dough treats shaped like animals, mostly of white rabbits and birds, pink pigs and yellow chicks.
"No way!" called out Shane.
"I can't believe you won!" Dustin said suddenly.
Looking over to where the guys were, Shane, Dustin, Blake and Cam were all holding playstation controllers and they were playing a car racing game.
"Don't you know that in his free time, he plays online games?" Kaze smirked.
"Dude, what other things you're hiding from us?" Blake asked.
"Well you will just have to find out later." replied Cam.
Kaze walked over to the guys and sat down along with Hunter and held the plate he was holding out.
"Dessert anyone?"
"Cute, whats that?" curiously asked Tori.
"Sweet dim sum, try some."
Everyone grabbed one and took a bite.
"Mmm, chocolate filling." Dustin popped the entire thing into his mouth and went for another one.
"Actually its red bean. So who's up next! I want to play." reaching out to one of the controllers and they played games all night.
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The next morning...
It was around 10 and Dustin who happened to sleep in a bit, just started to wake up. He sat up on the bed, stretched his arms out, yawned, got out of bed, washed up and changed into his ninja uniform. He started to head downstairs and arrived at the main room, where Shane and Cam who were already awake and in their own ninja uniforms, sitting at the center table.
"G'morning guys."
"Hey Dustin." Shane greeted.
"Morning Dustin." greeted cam who was working on his laptop.
"Where are the other guys? Don't tell me they're still asleep." Dustin looked around wondering.
"No, they're awake early this morning and Kaze decided to take Hunter and Blake out and teach them some thunder techniques and Tori went with them." answered the air ninja.
"Oh... So whats for breakfast?" the earth ninja said with a lopsided grin.
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Somewhere in the forest area, near the academy...
"Alright, you guys are doing great. Now remember you must keep your focus."
We come to a small clear where Kaze, Hunter, Blake and Tori was at for the moment, with the Thunder brothers training to use the Thunder technique that Kaze used against Ninkana. Tori was sitting at the side on a log watching and Kaze was standing infront of the Thunders. Hunter and Blake was standing a good distance apart with their eyes closed and had their hands, palms facing towards another with some space between them and lightning like energy started to form in their respected colors. After a minute of concentration, both of them managed to form a ball of electricity of the Thunder Ball technique.
"Okay, now you got the hang of creating the ball. Now I want you both to hit the two trees in front of you with it." Kaze instructed and pointed at the two trees that were behind him.
Hunter and Blake opened their eyes and looked to where the white ninja pointed at and both thrusted their hands forward in a fireball throwing motion and released the attack. Both thunder balls soared through the air and hit the trunks of the two trees, leaving a scorching burn mark.
"Not bad on your first try." commented the storm ninja.
Then out of nowhere, Hanami walked right into the clearing they were in.
"Hey nee-chan, whats up?" greeted Kaze.
"Uncle Oji is here."
"He is? Race you guys back!" and Kaze jogged a couple of steps towards where the school is and with a leap, he was gone in a streak of white.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" called out Hunter and both he and his brother jumped and was gone in a streak as well, going after the white one.
"Boys...They never change." sighed Tori as she walked up next to Hanami.
"Then shall we?" the other female ninja turned to her.
Tori just smirked and both girls 'ninja redeyed' out of there as well.
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Back at the academy...
We see five streaks of colors bouncing in from the forest and landed on the top steps of the stairs to the main entrance of the school. The five ninjas walked into the main room where the other rangers, the senseis, Mrs. Anido, Leanne and Terry was at the moment along with the Anido's relatives.
"Uncle Oji, Aunt Nasumi! You here!" Kaze greeted happily.
"Nephew, its good to see you again." his uncle greeted back.
"Hey, don't forget me!" stated Hinita as she put her hands on her hips.
"As if I could ever forget about you." and the white ninja went to hug each of his relatives.
"Well Kaze, we met Cam, Leanne and your friend Shane and Dustin, so who are your other friends?" asked his aunt.
"Oh well, this is Victoria Hanson." pointing to Tori.
"But my friends call me Tori, nice to meet you."
"Blake Trejo." gesturing to the navy ninja.
"Hi."
"And Hunter Trejo." he finished shyly introducing his boyfriend.
"Hello."
"So you're Hunter." stated Oji.
"Um, yes sir."
"He's more handsome and cuter than you describe him to be." Hinita peered at her cousin's koi.
At that comment, Hunter started to blush and went red in the face.
"Hinita!" her mother scold, "Its nice to meet you Hunter." she shook the older Thunder brother's hand with a smile.
"And guys, I want you to my Uncle Oji, Aunt Nasumi, my cousin Hinita and the newest addition to my family, Genji." Kaze introduced his family to the rest of the rangers.
"I think its time to get your journey started rangers." announced Sensei Anido.
All the rangers turned their heads towards him and nodded.
"Then follow me." and the master of the Storm Ninja school walked off into one of the halls, with everyone following.
The group travelled through the hallways of the school until they reach what to be seem as a indoor training dojo that was in the middle of the school, almost the size of half a gym. All four walls were covered with paper with wood frame traditional walls. At the far end of the room was some kind of alter cover with statues of all sorts as well as urn pots, incenses and other stuff. Sensei Anido walked into the room and up to the said placed alter and stood in front of it and reached out and moved something. Then suddenly a small portion of the floor in front of the alter, opened up and revealed stairs that lead downwards.
"Cool! A secret passage, just like the movies." exclaimed Dustin and the others just stared at him.
Sensei Anido walked to the entrance and started to walk down the set of stone stairs that were quite dark and everyone else followed. The set of stairs were quite long and it took them awhile before they ended up at the bottom and came up to what seems to be a tunnel cavern. The group started to head through the tunnel and as they did, torches magically light up showing the tunnel path. It wasn't a long tunnel, it was short in fact and they ended up in a large cavern room way larger then Ninja Ops.
Immediately the room lit up and by stone lanterns that were place around the cave. The cavern itself was partly furnished with japanese paper wall screens that were place around the outer edge walls of the room. There were carpets and rugs, placed around the place and a low level table in the middle of the room as well as pedestals holding up all sorts of asian objects, statues and other artifacts. There were stalactites and stalagmites of all sizes formed around the cavern and near one end there was a large circular ring, formed from the rocks and stones in the cave almost like a doorway gate.
"Lets begin then." stated the Storm Academy sensei.
"I will need awhile to set up before we started." the Shinto priest announced.
15 minutes later...
A regular size height table was set up just a couple of yards in front of the circular stone gateway with a praying alter setup. On the table there was pot filled with sand and had three incense sticks, that were lit and were stuck into the pot. On each side of the the incense holder was a white candle that was lit as well with a stalk of bamboo in a vase, beside the candles. In front of this was a jar of purification water and a jar of rice. Along with those were a stack of paper charm talismans, six small triangular flags of different colors and a harai-gushi layed across the table near the edge. Everyone was standing around waiting for things to be ready, the rangers were standing together talking except Cam is nowhere to be seen.
"Here Kaze, I think you should have this back." said Terry who held out the Wood morpher.
"Keep it. Hanami will need some help if Lothor decide to attack the academy while we're gone. Besides, I think you're meant to have it." Kaze smiled.
"Um okay, thanks. I'll try my best and use it wisely." the wood ninja strapped the morpher back onto his wrist.
"I know you will."
"Alright, everything is ready and its time to begin!" announced Kaze's uncle who wore an entire shinto priest outfit and headed towards were the alter is.
"Wait! Where's Cam? He's not back yet." exclaimed Dustin as he looked around.
"I'm right here." the samurai called out and we see Cam walking out from the tunnel entrance where they enter before holding something under his arm.
"Where did you go? We're about to begin." asked Shane.
"Oh just this, here." and Cam helded out what seems to be their ninja swords and staffs from their ranger powers.
"Our thunder staffs and ninja swords but how?" Blake along with the others were totally confused.
"I thought that we lost our ranger powers, then how did you get these?" questioned Tori who raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well these are not exactly the weapons from our ranger powers, they're actually duplicates of them. They have the same durability as the real ones but with no power at all. With the data from the lightning and wood morpher, I manage to recreate them. Also your ninja swords can't change into blaster mode as well." the green ninja explained.
Everyone took their own weapon and strapped them to their backs with the straps that were attached to them.
"I thought it would be a good idea to have them just in case. You never know what can happen, so I thought it would be good for us to be armed with something."
"Good old reliable Cam." stated Hunter.
Once everyone had their weapons strapped on and was ready to leave, Sensei Anido walked up to his son holding some sort of pouch in his hand. The pounch had a pull string opening and seems to be filled with something that had a bit of some weight to it and was solid.
"Here, there is about 10000 okane in here. It should help you on your journey, if you need it." handing over the money to Kaze who tied it around the waistband of his uniform.
"You have the morphers, Cam?" Sensei Watanabe asked his son.
"Yes dad, I have them right here." Cam gestured to the make shift backpack on his back that was made basically from a large square cloth with the morphers in the middle, wrapped up like a burrito and the two long ends tied together in the front with one end over a shoulder and the other under the other arm.
"Alright then, now we can begin." Oji announced once more.
The Shinto priest walked up to the alter and picked up the harai-gushi and Hinita followed and stood a little ways behind her father.
"Wait, Cam your glasses." the white ninja pointed out and held out his hand.
"Oh. Right." remembering his glasses and took them off and handed them to his friend who in turn, gave them to his sister to keep.
"Now remember once I open the portal, everything outside the boundaries of the school will be frozen in time."
Immediately Kaze's uncle started to say a japanese chant and started to swing the stick around, back and forth to the sides in front of him. After about a minute of chanting, the priest grabbed a handful of rice with his left hand and toss it in front of him, over table. Then after a few chants, he scooped up some water with his left hand and sprayed it in front of him as well. After doing that Oji slammed the harai-gushi right back onto the table and picked up a paper talisman, one in each hand and lit them up by the candles. He crossed his arms then go right into a twirling wheel motion with them and toss them forward as well.
Right after he slams the palm of his hand right onto the table top, making the flags launch flying into the air and with one swing of his arm, he grabs them all with his left hand. The flags themselves were in six colors, red yellow, green, blue, black and white, each with the japanese character of the six major elements on them. They include Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Dark and Light. The shinto then launch the flags forward into the air like darts and the flags inplanted themselves into the circular stone gateway in a hexagon pattern. Then picking up the harai-gushi once more, he did a flew more chants then spears the rest of paper talismans with the stick. The talisman themselves were somehow attached together like a long chain with one end attached to the stickand it flutter threw the air as Uncle Oji waved it around.
He then swung the harai-gushi in sharp gestures and strokes and as he did that he left trails of energy in the air which formed the japanese character for 'Time' and then raised his right arm up above his head with the harai-gushi pointing forward. With one last chants he thrust the stick forward and the energy made character shot forward right at the stone gateway. The spell hit the center of the open circular stone gateway and spread out to the edges and the chain of talismans disappeared into the hole, infusing the six flags with energy and with a flash, a portal was created.
"It is done." the priest stated as he placed the harai-gushi back down onto the table.
Kaze's uncle walked to his nephew and pulled out three white paper talismans with writings on them, from his sleeve.
"Now remember Kaze, the portal I created will stay open with no time limit but remember the longer you all stay in the past the more dangerous it is that you can change the future we know, so becareful and try to get back as soon as you can."
"I'll keep that in mind." Kaze nodded.
"Also when you go through, once you end up on the other side, the portal will disappear. It will be invisible to everyone so that no one from the past will accidently come through. When you are ready to leave just burn one of these charm talismans at the place where you exit the portal and it will emerge and reappear to you again." and he handed the talismans over to Kaze who took each one and placed one in his sleeve, another in one of his boots and the last into the chest of his uniform.
"But just in case if you happen to lose them all.....here Hunter, you keep one." and he grinned and handed another one to the crimson ninja who with a smirk placed it in a safe place, upon his body.
"Hey!" Kaze pouted and his uncle just chuckled and ruffled his hair.
"Now be careful and have a safe journey."
"Be careful my son." Sensei Watanabe looked at Cam.
"I'll will dad."
"You too Kaze." Sensei Anido added, looking at Kaze.
"I know."
Then everyone else started to bide them farewell and have a safe journey too.
"I'm leaving my son to you now Hunter, so I expect you to look after him." stated Sensei Anido.
"I will sir."
"You guys ready?" Hinita looked at the group and they nodded, "So who's first?"
"I'll go." Shane volunteered and turned towards the swirling portal, took a deep breath and jumped in.
Next was Dustin who also took a deep breath and jumped in too and Cam right after. Blake and Tori was next and they looked at each other and grabbed hold of each other's hand and jumped in. Finally was Kaze and Hunter who were also holding hands and with one last look behind them to their friends and family, they too entered the portal.
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Well after two weeks on vacation and a writer's block, I finally got inspired again to continue. Anyways read and review please, thanks a lot for waiting.
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After the weapon demo session, the sun was starting to set and the students had left for home. Students that were staying at the academy decided to go out for the night and left as well, leaving the Anidos, the rangers, Sensei Watanabe and Leanne at the school. The group arrived at the front steps of the academy and started to walk up them and inside with Hunter still carrying Kaze at the end.
"Can you put me down now? I don't think its a good idea, carrying me up the steps." stated the white ninja.
"Fine, fine." and Hunter dropped the other to his feet.
"Thank you." and Kaze grabbed his hand and started up the stairs.
Once the group arrived at the top and entered the main room, Kaze's mom was there waiting for them.
"Its getting late, why don't I go start on dinner. Kazel, why don't you come with me and help." Mrs. Anido asked her son.
"Okay. Guys, why don't you go clean yourselves up while dinner is being made. Hanami can show you where the bathrooms are, will you sis?" the white ninja turned to the others as he heads after his mom.
"Sure." Hanami answered as her brother disappeared behind a door that their mother walked into.
"Well guys, follow me and I'll show you where the bathrooms are." and the pink ninja started to leave as the others followed her.
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An hour later...
The guys cleaned up, refreshed and had taken either a bath or shower and now they were sitting back in the main room, kneeling around the table along with Sensei Anido and Sensei Kinoi who was on the table. The two senseis along with Hanami and Leanne was wearing bath robes while the others were in sleeping t-shirts and shorts in their respective color. Everyone was chatting and Sensei Anido decided to get to know Hunter a bit better, if he was going to be with his son.
"So Hunter, from what I heard from my son, you and your brother Blake were adopted. Is that right?"
"Yes sir." Hunter replied in a polite nervous voice as he turned to his boyfriend's dad.
"You don't have to be so formal with the sirs, just called me sensei for now. I'm just trying to get to know you better, you don't have to be so nervous about it." Sensei Anido chuckled a bit with a smile.
Hunter relaxed a bit and gave a small smile.
"I also heard that your adopted parents died when you were kids."
"Yeah." Hunter answered sadly.
"I'm really sorry to hear that. It must be had been hard for you and your brother growing up without any parents."
"It was but we had Sensei Omino who took us in and took care of us and trained us like he did with our parents."
"Yes, Sensei Omino is a good man. I was glad that he was chosen to be the sensei of the Thunder Ninja Academy."
Then Sensei Anido's expression changed into something more serious.
"What are your goals in life?" the storm sensei asked seriously.
"My goals?" Hunter answered with a confused expression.
"What were you think of doing in the near future."
"Well I was thinking of finishing my studies in school first, before of thinking anything else."
"Ah, finishing your studies, that very important you know. What about interests or hobbies?"
"Well, I do like motocross racing a lot."
"Motocross racing," Kaze's father said with a nod, "thinking of going professional?"
"I'm not sure yet."
"Are there any other things that you are thinking of accomplishing? You are also a ninja, you know."
After mentioning that, now Hunter knows what Sensei Anido is trying to find out.
"I can assure you sir, I know what happened with Kaze before with the first person he was with but my only interest with Kaze is being with him, thats all."
"How can I be sure that you're not lying?"
"You can't but you have to believe me that Kaze is the only one I want out of our relationship." the crimson ninja said truthfully.
At that moment Kaze walked into the room still wearing his ninja gear and was holding a basket in one hand.
"Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes." he announced.
Sensei Anido turned to his son and nodded.
"Hunter, can you come and help me for a minute?" asked Kaze nicely.
"Uh, sure. Excuse me sensei." Hunter did a quick small bow and the storm sensei nodded.
The older Thunder brother stood up and headed towards where his boyfriend was and left the room with Kaze, down a hall.
"I heard what you were talking about back there, sorry about that. My dad could be quite over protective sometimes."
"Its okay, he was just looking out for you. I can see he loves you and doesn't want you to get hurt again." giving a smile and wrapped an arm around the other's waist.
After awhile of walking, they ended up at a door and Kaze slid the door open and it revealed that it lead to the outside. The white ninja stepped out onto the concrete floor pathway and pulled along his boyfriend by the hand, after him. The two of them walked as the storm student was in front and less than a minute not far from the school they came up to, what seems to be a greenhouse. A large greenhouse a matter of fact.
"You do gardening as well?" Hunter asked curiously.
"No, this belongs to Hanami. She's learning to be a herbalist and this is where she does most of her studying. She plants, grows and gardens almost all types of plant herbs here. No one is allowed in here except for dad, mom and me." chuckled Kaze.
The younger Anido opened the two glass panel doors of the greenhouse and stepped inside and turned on the lights. Kaze stepped inside and Hunter followed and looked around the entire place and couldn't believe the amount and type of plants there were. Everywhere were pots, planters and tables full of exotic plants that a person can tell which were from all over the world. Kaze headed towards the back end of the greenhouse and Hunter followed. They came up to what seems to be a mini vegetable garden, growing vegies and cooking herbs.
"Hold this for me, would you?" Kaze handed the basket to Hunter, who took it.
"Thanks." and the white ninja kneeled down to the ground and started to sort through and pick out the herbs that were growing.
Hunter crouched down next to his boyfriend while he picked the herbs he needed and placed them into the basket. Once the basket was nicely filled with the stuff that the shogun needed, he stood up again pulling the crimson ninja up with him.
"Well that should be good enough, lets get back so I could get dinner finished and have it started." and they started to head back in.
As the two almost reached the school, Hunter started to wiggle his nose a bit and leaned over close towards his boyfriend and sniffed him a bit.
"You smell." pulling back a bit.
"Thank you for stating the obvious. Wouldn't you think that after a workout and slaving over a hot stove to make dinner for you guys, that I wouldn't be sweating underneath?"
"Well I think it makes you a bit sexy."
After that comment the white ninja went silent and started to go red in the cheeks.
"Oh, come on...." and grabbed hold of his boyfriends arm and started to drag him back inside.
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15 minutes later...
Everyone was sitting back at the suppose dinner table and a few minutes later Kaze, Hanami and and their mother, brought out the meal. The two Anido siblings were each carrying two certain dishes of food and their mother, a small pot. Bowls of rice and pairs of chopsticks were already set on the table and were just waiting for the main meal courses. The three of them set down the dishes on the middle of the table and sat down in their spot, that were saved for them. Kaze sat beside Hunter who was next to Blake and then Tori. Next to Tori sat Shane, Dustin, Cam, Sensei Kanoi, Sensei Anido, Mrs. Anido, Hanami and Leanne who was next to Kaze.
"These looks great!" commented Tori.
"Thanks." Kaze smiled back.
"So what kind of dishes are these?" asked Leanne.
"Well first off we have what I like to call Golden Lucky Fish." pointing to a dish with a golden brown fried Tilipia fish, drizzled and smothered in a red kind of creamy sauce.
"Next is Rainbow Stir-fry." pointing to another dish of stirfry vegetables of all sorts of colors.
"Then we have Egg Tofu Fooyun." a dish mixed of cubed tofu and eggs in a creamy sauce.
"Curry Chicken." a dish of chicken pieces, potatoes and onion.
"And finally Miso Soup." lifting the lid off the small pot.
"Well dig in." said the white ninja and everyone picked up their chopsticks and bowls and started to eat.
As everyone started to pick up food with their chopsticks, Dustin was having trouble with his and he was fumbling with them in his hands.
"I still haven't got the hang of using these yet." he stated embaressed.
"Here let me show you." Cam put down his bowl.
The green ninja grabbed hold of the earth child's right hand that was holding the utensil and fixed his fingers into the right position. As Cam was doing this, Dustin was going red in the face blushing and stayed silent. Some of the others watched the two with some amusement as they started to eat.
"Now you move your fingers like this." instructed the samurai as he moved his chopsticks, showing Dustin.
The yellow ninja followed the movement and after a few tries, he was able to move the chopsticks without any trouble.
"Now try to pick up something."
Dustin reached out and grabbed hold of a piece of chicken and lifted it up without dropping it and placed it into his bowl.
"Thanks Cam." Dustin gave a smile to the other.
"No problem." Cam giving back a small smile and picked up his bowl again.
"This tasted great!" Dustin who taken a bite of the chicken.
"Yeah you should go pro." suggested Shane.
"Go pro?" Kaze gave a confused look at him.
"Yeah. You know, a professional chef and stuff." said Blake.
"Didn't you take a one year cooking course, after you graduated from high school?" questioned Cam.
"I did but I don't know..."
"Kaze, if you want to be a chef then I'm not stopping you. You choose what you want to do in life, you don't have to stay here and take over as the sensei of the academy if you don't want to. There are others that are good enough be the next master of the Storm Ninja Academy, so you don't have to worry about what I think alright." Sensei Anido assured his son.
"Thanks dad. That means a lot to me."
"You know there is a course that you can go for back at Blue Bay College, maybe you should go and try it." suggested Tori.
"Yeah, if you really want to try to be a chef then you should really go for it." Hunter added to support him.
"Maybe I will."
"Enough talk for now. How about we finish dinner first, the food is getting cold." interupted Mrs. Anido and everyone continued to eat.
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After dinner...
The dishes were washed and table was cleaned up and the guys started to head towards Kaze's to have some fun playing games, except for Hanami and Leanne who went off to have some girl talk and the adults decide to retire for the night. When they arrived to Kaze's room, Shane and Dustin immediately went over to the storm ninja's playstation and library of games and started to sort through them. The others came in soon after and Kaze went over to his drawer and started to pull out a change of clothes which includes a white t-shirt, underwear and shorts.
"Dude...I didn't know you were into sports games." said Dustin as he held out a skateboarding game.
"I'm not. The sports games you find in there, belongs to Terry. He often comes in here to play, I'm more of a rpg, fighting type style game person."
"Oh really."
"Anyways you can play them if you want. There are extra controllers and a multi-player connector in the cupboard, under the t.v." the shogun told them as he walked out of the room and headed towards the bathroom.
Dustin went to the cupboard and sure enough there were some extra controllers and an adapter as well.
"Found them! So who want play?" the earth ninja asked.
Awhile later.....
It had been two hours since Kaze went to take a bath and wasn't back yet and his boyfriend was wondering, where was he.
"Its been over two hours. I don't think it takes that long to take a bath." stated Hunter.
"Maybe he accidently slipped on the bar of soap and hit his head and now is unconcious in the bathtub." Blake joked as he was watching the t.v. screen.
"Very funny, but that could have happened.....I'm going to check on him." the older Trejo started to stand up head towards the door.
At that moment the door to the room slid open with Kaze coming in and with Hunter almost crashing into him.
"There you are, where have you been?" the crimson ninja questioned.
"Oh, to make you guys dessert." answering and held up a large plate.
On the plate it was filled with some sort of sugar dough treats shaped like animals, mostly of white rabbits and birds, pink pigs and yellow chicks.
"No way!" called out Shane.
"I can't believe you won!" Dustin said suddenly.
Looking over to where the guys were, Shane, Dustin, Blake and Cam were all holding playstation controllers and they were playing a car racing game.
"Don't you know that in his free time, he plays online games?" Kaze smirked.
"Dude, what other things you're hiding from us?" Blake asked.
"Well you will just have to find out later." replied Cam.
Kaze walked over to the guys and sat down along with Hunter and held the plate he was holding out.
"Dessert anyone?"
"Cute, whats that?" curiously asked Tori.
"Sweet dim sum, try some."
Everyone grabbed one and took a bite.
"Mmm, chocolate filling." Dustin popped the entire thing into his mouth and went for another one.
"Actually its red bean. So who's up next! I want to play." reaching out to one of the controllers and they played games all night.
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The next morning...
It was around 10 and Dustin who happened to sleep in a bit, just started to wake up. He sat up on the bed, stretched his arms out, yawned, got out of bed, washed up and changed into his ninja uniform. He started to head downstairs and arrived at the main room, where Shane and Cam who were already awake and in their own ninja uniforms, sitting at the center table.
"G'morning guys."
"Hey Dustin." Shane greeted.
"Morning Dustin." greeted cam who was working on his laptop.
"Where are the other guys? Don't tell me they're still asleep." Dustin looked around wondering.
"No, they're awake early this morning and Kaze decided to take Hunter and Blake out and teach them some thunder techniques and Tori went with them." answered the air ninja.
"Oh... So whats for breakfast?" the earth ninja said with a lopsided grin.
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Somewhere in the forest area, near the academy...
"Alright, you guys are doing great. Now remember you must keep your focus."
We come to a small clear where Kaze, Hunter, Blake and Tori was at for the moment, with the Thunder brothers training to use the Thunder technique that Kaze used against Ninkana. Tori was sitting at the side on a log watching and Kaze was standing infront of the Thunders. Hunter and Blake was standing a good distance apart with their eyes closed and had their hands, palms facing towards another with some space between them and lightning like energy started to form in their respected colors. After a minute of concentration, both of them managed to form a ball of electricity of the Thunder Ball technique.
"Okay, now you got the hang of creating the ball. Now I want you both to hit the two trees in front of you with it." Kaze instructed and pointed at the two trees that were behind him.
Hunter and Blake opened their eyes and looked to where the white ninja pointed at and both thrusted their hands forward in a fireball throwing motion and released the attack. Both thunder balls soared through the air and hit the trunks of the two trees, leaving a scorching burn mark.
"Not bad on your first try." commented the storm ninja.
Then out of nowhere, Hanami walked right into the clearing they were in.
"Hey nee-chan, whats up?" greeted Kaze.
"Uncle Oji is here."
"He is? Race you guys back!" and Kaze jogged a couple of steps towards where the school is and with a leap, he was gone in a streak of white.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" called out Hunter and both he and his brother jumped and was gone in a streak as well, going after the white one.
"Boys...They never change." sighed Tori as she walked up next to Hanami.
"Then shall we?" the other female ninja turned to her.
Tori just smirked and both girls 'ninja redeyed' out of there as well.
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Back at the academy...
We see five streaks of colors bouncing in from the forest and landed on the top steps of the stairs to the main entrance of the school. The five ninjas walked into the main room where the other rangers, the senseis, Mrs. Anido, Leanne and Terry was at the moment along with the Anido's relatives.
"Uncle Oji, Aunt Nasumi! You here!" Kaze greeted happily.
"Nephew, its good to see you again." his uncle greeted back.
"Hey, don't forget me!" stated Hinita as she put her hands on her hips.
"As if I could ever forget about you." and the white ninja went to hug each of his relatives.
"Well Kaze, we met Cam, Leanne and your friend Shane and Dustin, so who are your other friends?" asked his aunt.
"Oh well, this is Victoria Hanson." pointing to Tori.
"But my friends call me Tori, nice to meet you."
"Blake Trejo." gesturing to the navy ninja.
"Hi."
"And Hunter Trejo." he finished shyly introducing his boyfriend.
"Hello."
"So you're Hunter." stated Oji.
"Um, yes sir."
"He's more handsome and cuter than you describe him to be." Hinita peered at her cousin's koi.
At that comment, Hunter started to blush and went red in the face.
"Hinita!" her mother scold, "Its nice to meet you Hunter." she shook the older Thunder brother's hand with a smile.
"And guys, I want you to my Uncle Oji, Aunt Nasumi, my cousin Hinita and the newest addition to my family, Genji." Kaze introduced his family to the rest of the rangers.
"I think its time to get your journey started rangers." announced Sensei Anido.
All the rangers turned their heads towards him and nodded.
"Then follow me." and the master of the Storm Ninja school walked off into one of the halls, with everyone following.
The group travelled through the hallways of the school until they reach what to be seem as a indoor training dojo that was in the middle of the school, almost the size of half a gym. All four walls were covered with paper with wood frame traditional walls. At the far end of the room was some kind of alter cover with statues of all sorts as well as urn pots, incenses and other stuff. Sensei Anido walked into the room and up to the said placed alter and stood in front of it and reached out and moved something. Then suddenly a small portion of the floor in front of the alter, opened up and revealed stairs that lead downwards.
"Cool! A secret passage, just like the movies." exclaimed Dustin and the others just stared at him.
Sensei Anido walked to the entrance and started to walk down the set of stone stairs that were quite dark and everyone else followed. The set of stairs were quite long and it took them awhile before they ended up at the bottom and came up to what seems to be a tunnel cavern. The group started to head through the tunnel and as they did, torches magically light up showing the tunnel path. It wasn't a long tunnel, it was short in fact and they ended up in a large cavern room way larger then Ninja Ops.
Immediately the room lit up and by stone lanterns that were place around the cave. The cavern itself was partly furnished with japanese paper wall screens that were place around the outer edge walls of the room. There were carpets and rugs, placed around the place and a low level table in the middle of the room as well as pedestals holding up all sorts of asian objects, statues and other artifacts. There were stalactites and stalagmites of all sizes formed around the cavern and near one end there was a large circular ring, formed from the rocks and stones in the cave almost like a doorway gate.
"Lets begin then." stated the Storm Academy sensei.
"I will need awhile to set up before we started." the Shinto priest announced.
15 minutes later...
A regular size height table was set up just a couple of yards in front of the circular stone gateway with a praying alter setup. On the table there was pot filled with sand and had three incense sticks, that were lit and were stuck into the pot. On each side of the the incense holder was a white candle that was lit as well with a stalk of bamboo in a vase, beside the candles. In front of this was a jar of purification water and a jar of rice. Along with those were a stack of paper charm talismans, six small triangular flags of different colors and a harai-gushi layed across the table near the edge. Everyone was standing around waiting for things to be ready, the rangers were standing together talking except Cam is nowhere to be seen.
"Here Kaze, I think you should have this back." said Terry who held out the Wood morpher.
"Keep it. Hanami will need some help if Lothor decide to attack the academy while we're gone. Besides, I think you're meant to have it." Kaze smiled.
"Um okay, thanks. I'll try my best and use it wisely." the wood ninja strapped the morpher back onto his wrist.
"I know you will."
"Alright, everything is ready and its time to begin!" announced Kaze's uncle who wore an entire shinto priest outfit and headed towards were the alter is.
"Wait! Where's Cam? He's not back yet." exclaimed Dustin as he looked around.
"I'm right here." the samurai called out and we see Cam walking out from the tunnel entrance where they enter before holding something under his arm.
"Where did you go? We're about to begin." asked Shane.
"Oh just this, here." and Cam helded out what seems to be their ninja swords and staffs from their ranger powers.
"Our thunder staffs and ninja swords but how?" Blake along with the others were totally confused.
"I thought that we lost our ranger powers, then how did you get these?" questioned Tori who raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well these are not exactly the weapons from our ranger powers, they're actually duplicates of them. They have the same durability as the real ones but with no power at all. With the data from the lightning and wood morpher, I manage to recreate them. Also your ninja swords can't change into blaster mode as well." the green ninja explained.
Everyone took their own weapon and strapped them to their backs with the straps that were attached to them.
"I thought it would be a good idea to have them just in case. You never know what can happen, so I thought it would be good for us to be armed with something."
"Good old reliable Cam." stated Hunter.
Once everyone had their weapons strapped on and was ready to leave, Sensei Anido walked up to his son holding some sort of pouch in his hand. The pounch had a pull string opening and seems to be filled with something that had a bit of some weight to it and was solid.
"Here, there is about 10000 okane in here. It should help you on your journey, if you need it." handing over the money to Kaze who tied it around the waistband of his uniform.
"You have the morphers, Cam?" Sensei Watanabe asked his son.
"Yes dad, I have them right here." Cam gestured to the make shift backpack on his back that was made basically from a large square cloth with the morphers in the middle, wrapped up like a burrito and the two long ends tied together in the front with one end over a shoulder and the other under the other arm.
"Alright then, now we can begin." Oji announced once more.
The Shinto priest walked up to the alter and picked up the harai-gushi and Hinita followed and stood a little ways behind her father.
"Wait, Cam your glasses." the white ninja pointed out and held out his hand.
"Oh. Right." remembering his glasses and took them off and handed them to his friend who in turn, gave them to his sister to keep.
"Now remember once I open the portal, everything outside the boundaries of the school will be frozen in time."
Immediately Kaze's uncle started to say a japanese chant and started to swing the stick around, back and forth to the sides in front of him. After about a minute of chanting, the priest grabbed a handful of rice with his left hand and toss it in front of him, over table. Then after a few chants, he scooped up some water with his left hand and sprayed it in front of him as well. After doing that Oji slammed the harai-gushi right back onto the table and picked up a paper talisman, one in each hand and lit them up by the candles. He crossed his arms then go right into a twirling wheel motion with them and toss them forward as well.
Right after he slams the palm of his hand right onto the table top, making the flags launch flying into the air and with one swing of his arm, he grabs them all with his left hand. The flags themselves were in six colors, red yellow, green, blue, black and white, each with the japanese character of the six major elements on them. They include Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Dark and Light. The shinto then launch the flags forward into the air like darts and the flags inplanted themselves into the circular stone gateway in a hexagon pattern. Then picking up the harai-gushi once more, he did a flew more chants then spears the rest of paper talismans with the stick. The talisman themselves were somehow attached together like a long chain with one end attached to the stickand it flutter threw the air as Uncle Oji waved it around.
He then swung the harai-gushi in sharp gestures and strokes and as he did that he left trails of energy in the air which formed the japanese character for 'Time' and then raised his right arm up above his head with the harai-gushi pointing forward. With one last chants he thrust the stick forward and the energy made character shot forward right at the stone gateway. The spell hit the center of the open circular stone gateway and spread out to the edges and the chain of talismans disappeared into the hole, infusing the six flags with energy and with a flash, a portal was created.
"It is done." the priest stated as he placed the harai-gushi back down onto the table.
Kaze's uncle walked to his nephew and pulled out three white paper talismans with writings on them, from his sleeve.
"Now remember Kaze, the portal I created will stay open with no time limit but remember the longer you all stay in the past the more dangerous it is that you can change the future we know, so becareful and try to get back as soon as you can."
"I'll keep that in mind." Kaze nodded.
"Also when you go through, once you end up on the other side, the portal will disappear. It will be invisible to everyone so that no one from the past will accidently come through. When you are ready to leave just burn one of these charm talismans at the place where you exit the portal and it will emerge and reappear to you again." and he handed the talismans over to Kaze who took each one and placed one in his sleeve, another in one of his boots and the last into the chest of his uniform.
"But just in case if you happen to lose them all.....here Hunter, you keep one." and he grinned and handed another one to the crimson ninja who with a smirk placed it in a safe place, upon his body.
"Hey!" Kaze pouted and his uncle just chuckled and ruffled his hair.
"Now be careful and have a safe journey."
"Be careful my son." Sensei Watanabe looked at Cam.
"I'll will dad."
"You too Kaze." Sensei Anido added, looking at Kaze.
"I know."
Then everyone else started to bide them farewell and have a safe journey too.
"I'm leaving my son to you now Hunter, so I expect you to look after him." stated Sensei Anido.
"I will sir."
"You guys ready?" Hinita looked at the group and they nodded, "So who's first?"
"I'll go." Shane volunteered and turned towards the swirling portal, took a deep breath and jumped in.
Next was Dustin who also took a deep breath and jumped in too and Cam right after. Blake and Tori was next and they looked at each other and grabbed hold of each other's hand and jumped in. Finally was Kaze and Hunter who were also holding hands and with one last look behind them to their friends and family, they too entered the portal.
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Well after two weeks on vacation and a writer's block, I finally got inspired again to continue. Anyways read and review please, thanks a lot for waiting.