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Ok, now that we have that fixed up… we can get to the story!
The Tyrant
15 years change
Chapter 1
After the Forrest God had blown up, Lady Eboshi decided to build a 'New Iron Town' somewhere else. She picked a spot where there was more than iron, but copper and silver were found there too. Lady Eboshi also made a truce with the forest animals, she would only take would and anything else she might need from a small portion of the forest and then they could start rebuilding the mountains. Lady Eboshi and her people start to build New Iron Town and now 15 years later it is running smoothly, nothing is going wrong.
San eventually gave in to Ashitaka's love, enjoying the new feelings she never got before. San bore twins, a boy and girl, and named them Sasuke and Sakura, respectively. Both were now 13. Sasuke had a blue-ish tint to his hair that was short and rough. He stood about as tall as his sister, 5 foot 5 inches. He looked noble standing tall, and serious too. Her had watery blue eyes. Sakura looked more playful and happy, though she could be just as serious as her brother. Her hair was a dark brown; almost black color, and black eyes. Sasuke had inherited San's attitude, while Sakura was more easy going but firm and determined like Ashitaka. But both had the stubbornness from their mother and battle skills from both parents.
They all lived in the forest still. San was firm about staying in the forest, and Ashitaka didn't want to leave his beloved San, so he stayed too.
Lady Eboshi and San's family get along, but just barely. They both still hold a grudge against each other, but they both control their feelings.
And the Wolf clan, you ask? Well, they somehow produced offspring, so there were several more of them, and the clan was slowly getting bigger. There were now about 12 wolves.
Yakul was very very old and not very active. He still had his young spirit though, just an old body. Poor Yakul…
It was a beautiful summer morning. The sky had strips of white clouds dotting it; the air was cool and breezy. Sakura was standing of the edge of a cliff, overlooking the whole forest. Many kadoma's (um…spell check?) fidgeted at her feet, waiting to follow her to some interesting place.
I wish I could fly… She thought. Sakura felt like jumping off that cliff. It overlooked the whole forest, and you could see mountains from afar. She sighed deeply. If only I could fly, then I can explore the whole land…
She turned and walked slowly back into the forest. Sakura looked down; where she saw the kadoma's running to keep up with her. She smiled at them. She really couldn't understand why her brother disliked them…
Crack!
Sakura quickly spun around with her dagger out. She scanned her surroundings with her keen eyes, and saw a flash.
"Get out from there, Sasuke!" She yelled at him.
He jumped down from a tree. "How did you know where I was?" He asked.
"Your own dagger's flash gave you away." She said in a matter-of-fact way.
"Stupid dagger." He muttered as he shoved it back into its case on its hip. "Anyways, now that I've found you, check this out." Sasuke dug into his pouch on his waist and pulled out some purple-black looking berries.
"Ooooh, Sweet Berries!" Sakura said in awe. She made a grab at them but missed.
"Nah ah ah, these are for Mika." Sasuke said.
"You're going to spoil that wolf to death, you know!" Sakura said while crossing her arms. Sasuke pulled out a rock with a hole in it and blew. In a minute a large female wolf appeared.
"Hey Mika, guess what I got?" Sasuke said.
"FOOD!!!" she roared excitedly.
"Hey, wait!" said Sakura while standing in front of Sasuke. "You have to go find Neko before you get food!"
Mika ran off to find Neko.
"Sakura! What'd you do that for?!" Sasuke fumed.
"Pipe down. She needs the exercise, and I need to see Neko. He's been out for a while now…"
Sasuke shook his head and sat down on a rock.
Mika and Neko arrived and sat expectantly, waiting for the Sweet Berries. Sasuke threw some in the air and the wolves both caught them in the air.
Sakura swiped a few for herself, and Sasuke glared at her. She grinned back at him triumphantly.
"When's dad gonna get back?" Sakura asked Sasuke.
"Soon." He answered.
"How soon?"
"Like today soon."
"When today?"
"How should I know?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura shrugged her shoulders. "You should just know."
Silence.
"Dad should be over there, if his trip was ok." Sasuke mentioned.
"Did you count that rainy day?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah." He answered.
"Ok." She replied.
Silence.
"I'm going to see if I can see him." Sasuke said while getting up and climbing onto Mika.
"I'll go too!" Sakura piped.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and sped off.
"Fine, I won't go then!" She yelled after him, but he was long gone.
"Neko, you can go back to whatever you were doing." Sakura said to him. Neko got up and started trotting away, looking for a sunny spot to nap in.
Sakura watched his tail disappear in the bush, then started a slow walk back to her cliff. It's what she called her 'sanctuary'. While heading there, she found the Sweet Berry bush Sasuke had found. She picked and ate some berries, listening to the birds twitter and sing while doing so.
Sakura finally got back to her cliff and felt a pleasantly cool, strong breeze picking up. She stood still and took in a few deep breaths and listened to everything around her. Only something was missing…
The birds…they're silent…or maybe the wind is drowning it out. She whipped around and found a flock of birds take flight. Sakura turned back around and enjoyed the rest of the breeze, when she heard the softest footsteps in the sand.
Sasuke, are you sneaking up on me again? I'll just pretend not to notice him and get him by surprise when he's right behind me and about to pounce. A small smile spread across her face, and she got ready to confront Sasuke.
Ok, first chapter is done! I don't know how well that went, but I'm going to continue if I just get 1 review. ^.^
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