Oy, look a bad sequel! I do not own the rights to SDK and no, Aniku is not in the books. Please also note: this is FAN FICTION so anything I post doesn't necessarily have to be correct. (besides only up to volume 14 has come out in the USA and I don't speak and read Japanese in order to translate (And as some of you might know, the Anime sucks with details about certain things.)) Enjoy!

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"Looking at the stars at night,

Wondering if you're alright

Please don't be mad at me,

Just know I'm safe

Up in a tree

I long to see your happy face

But I know that I am in my place" Sasuke said looking up at the stars high in a tree on Mt. Kudo, "Pah. Poetry is for the weak and for those who want to confuse idiots with big rhyming words." The boy looked over down at the ground and at the house that was there.

"But still… I do wonder if you are alright, Aniku. Kotaro is… but what about you? Onee-chan… I miss you. But I am never going back to that forest. EVER!" Sasuke thought as he jumped down from the tree and headed towards the house. Yukimura-sama was waiting for him and Saizo was on a mission so Sasuke had to make sure that Yukimura stayed out of danger. He couldn't afford to be sitting around daydreaming.

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"Hey Kyo! Wait up!" A Young boy with white-ish hair and blue eyes ran after the Samurai. The boy looked no older than 13 and he carried two swords at his back.

"Akira don't run to far ahead!" A deep yet feminine voice yelled out after the boy.

The boy was running for a samurai in red armor and long straight red hair and demonic red eyes. "Oh let him be, you know how much he idolizes Kyo." A Tall unshaven muscular man with an eye patch said to Akari, the one with the deep feminine voice. Akari Had long pinkish hair and carried a staff.

"I know, I just don't want him to get lost trying to catch up." Akari said, obviously with little confidence in the young boy.

"Let him get lost. It might do him good." Another warrior, Hotaru, said. Hotaru had green cat-like eyes, strawberry blonde hair that was pulled back into a braid that reached to the middle of his back, and a katana with another blade attached at the hilt.

"HOTARU!" Akari said, then sighed and gave up.

"We camp here." Kyo said stopping in a small clearing in the middle of a bright forest, the sound of running water close by.

"But Kyo, it is only mid-day." Akira asked confused, but he instantly saw that Kyo's attention wasn't focused on Akira of anything else, except for what lay in the direction of the water sound.

The rest of the group shrugged and started to make themselves comfortable. Where they were all sitting and relaxing they heard a sound come from the very direction that Kyo had been glaring at. Unwilling to move, they made Hotaru get up and go check it out. Grumbling Hotaru got up and went towards the water. Hiding behind various bushes and trees like the skilled warrior he was he snuck up and looked out to see a lake with a mini waterfall. In the lake a young girl had her feet dipped in the water. She was leaned back with her eyes closed and face up as if to catch every particle of the sun on her face. Hotaru's breath caught, not expecting to find a girl so… DEFENCELESS, out in the wilderness. He was debating weather or not to go back to the group or look a bit longer when the girl said, "It's okay, you can come out. I promise I don't bite." She opened up one eye and looked over at the direction of his hiding place.

Hotaru froze. Being one of the Shiseiten, or four emperors, he was use to everyone NOT knowing where he was. To have a simple girl all of a sudden be able to detect him came as a great shock. He stepped out of his hiding spot and the girl gave a smile. "How-… never mind." Hotaru said reaching for his sword.

The girl held up her hands and said, "Wait, I'm unarmed. I just thought I'd save you from holding stock still for a while!" She said and he stopped pulling out his sword. Hotaru then noticed a sword a couple yards from where she sat and he took a couple steps toward her. He stood there staring at her for what seemed to be a life time.

"Hotaru!" Akira said bursting out from the trees running up to his comrade. Akira looked over at the girl and was surprised that he hadn't felt her. Coming up behind him was Bontenmaru (the unshaven man), Akari, and Kyo was lingering in the back.

The girl gave a small smile and got her feet out of the water and stood up. She was a bout as tall as Hotaru, but no where near as tall as Bon. She went over and retrieved her sword. "Kyo, is this why you wanted to stop in mid day?" Akira asked, not fazed at all about the girl with a SWORD. It was so un ordinary to see a female traveling alone out in the wilderness.

Kyo just kept quiet, meaning a "yes", and Bon went over to the girl and said, "Aw…don't mind him. So what do we owe the pleasure of such a young girl out here all alone?"

The girl gave a look that plainly said "why do men have to be such pigs at every chance they get". "What do I owe the pleasure of a group of warriors seeking me out?" she asked.

Hotaru was still fazed by getting detected, and Akira was starting to make conversation with the girl. "Aniku huh? So that's your name. WOW now we have Aniku, Akari, Akira, Hotaru, Bontenmaru, and Kyo!" Akira said pointing to each person in turn.

"So why are you out here?" Akari asked looking Aniku up and down.

"I'm looking for… some one very close to me." Aniku said trying to figure out a better way to word it, "He… was like a younger brother to me. I want to make sure he is okay."

Akari nodded in understanding and then Kyo spoke up unexpectedly, "You're from the forest, aren't you?"

Aniku looked up and smiled, "Yes, though I wasn't born there. The sea of trees… the forest of Aokigahara…the forest of death. I'm sure you would know as well." She said looking through Kyo.

He grinned and said, "Aniku… I think I've heard that name before. Nice to finally meet the 'lonesome dragon' "Kyo said.

The others just gave a questioning look. Aniku gathered up her stuff and said, "I don't deserve a war name. It's not like I am part of any great group like, oh say, the Shiseiten." She gave a smile and packed in the last of her stuff in a back pack type thing.

"What ever you say." Kyo said.

"Besides, what good would it do to the samurai's pride to have a female go and become one of the strongest?"

"Well a bit to late for that."

"It is never to late to disappear though… but you are right. Oh well. By the way, if you are looking for a battle I hear a big one is going to start soon, you may want to check it out."

"Until next time then."

Aniku just kept silent and Akari asked, "The person you are looking for, what is his name."

Aniku paused and said, "Sasuke, Sarutobi Sasuke." And she headed off towards the sun.

"Looking at for you all night and day,

Hoping to see your face today

I long to see your happy face,

Just just to know that you are safe

I wander this lonely path awhile

But still I wonder… why and I doing it?" Aniku chuckled to herself and though of what Sasuke would've said about her bad poetry.