WHATS KICKIN MY SHIZZLE!
Okay, here it is. I got a review from someone other than Shang, and I'm posting up seven more chapters. I'm a man of my word, so I guess I have no choice really. Well, here it is.
I don't own Naruto. I do own a kilt though, and I enjoy wearing it.
Junichi woke with a start in the small apartment in the sand village. Everybody had been sitting around with nothing to do, just waiting for him to wake. As soon as he did so they all rushed around him and began asking him what had happened, with the exception of Gaara who merely stood back calmly.
Junichi slowly pulled out a hitae-ate from a random pocket from his pants and stared at it. On the center was a ying-yang. The symbol of life and death, heaven and hell, good and evil. The basis of his father's newfound ambition. This symbol would be the object of their torture.
"It's my father…" Junichi said slowly "He's alive and he plans to destroy the sand and build his own shinobi empire, eventually taking over other villages."
"We know." Kanoe said shortly "But now, all we can do is warn the kazekage and get our pay. Currently the enemy has left and thus, we have completed the mission. We'll be leaving in a few hours after we talk to the kazekage."
Everyone dispersed. Deciding to let the talking up to Kanoe. Nobody knew what they would do when they got back to their normal lives. Probably about a million D rank missions would be their fate. I don't think they minded.
Saotome and Temari walked down the streets hand in hand, knowing that in a few hours time they would have to part. Both were saddened, even though they knew the time would have to come. They simply wanted to enjoy each other's company while they could.
"Temari chan, I will leave today. I have a duty to my village and besides, this place is windy and the sand gets in your eyes." Saotome said quietly as the walked along.
"I know." Temari said with a sad smile "They would kill me if I left here, and I wouldn't want to either. I have too much here to leave."
"Then what to do?" Saotome asked, "What are we going to do about it? Are we just gonna give up and go home to our respective lives? Are we just gonna forget anything ever happened?"
"No. We wont forget. We will remember always, and await the next time we might meet again until one day things will be good enough for us to be together again. Then we will be happy and everything will be well." Temari said simply as she put her head on his shoulder.
"I guess that's all we have left." Saotome said sadly "Nothing but waiting for things to be better. I guess it's better than nothing though. I'll take it."
"Me too." Temari said as she looked into his eyes. Slowly she leaned forward as did he. Their faces were mere millimeters apart for a second, and then they touched. The deep, passionate love of two people who would soon be separated for an unknown period of time was said to stop the wind from blowing for a second, just a second, in honor of these two who would separate from each other for the sake of their villages and undergo the constant pain of waiting.
Junichi sat on top of the abandoned watchtower with his new sword. He wondered what would become of him. He wondered what would become of his father. He wondered what would become of the shinobi as a whole. He heard a soft step behind him.
"You know boy, you did very well." Eva purred with a grin "For one who didn't know how to use the vampiric abilities, you defeated a powerful man. Not something most children can do."
"Be that as it may, I still wasn't able to do a thing against my father…Will I ever be able to beat him? Will I ever find peace in his death?" Junichi asked quietly.
"The truth is, I don't know. Long ago when I was a human, my father used to tell me that if we were not meant to see into the future, and that we had to live each day as it was. After many, many years, I have finally begun to understand the wisdom of the many things he told me, and I'll one day tell you."
"Eva sama, why did you choose to come to me? You said that you came here by choice, but why?" Junichi asked.
"I felt the need to see humanity again. I wanted to be with humans again and see them with eyes that were human. Vampirism is like a disease. Many vampires go insane and kill themselves after a few hundred years of life. Through you, I was able to relive what I lost." Eva stated simply as she crossed her arms over her rather busty chest.
"When do I get to meet the other guy?" Junichi inquired quickly after Eva finished speaking.
"You get to meet him when he chooses you are ready to accept his power" Eva said as if she were telling a child to be patient "I will say though, that I have met him, and he is a strange fellow. He sees things in a different spectrum from normal people, and he is more powerful than even I."
"I see" Junichi said as he stood up and strapped the sword to his back "Well, I think that's about all I wanted to know for now. I hope nobody sees me talking to absolutely nothing. They'll lock me away for good."
"Oh, you'd be surprised boy." Eva answered with a grin as she faded away into thin air, not leaving any trace that she may have been there.
Junichi walked toward the gate where he would meet his team to leave, knowing that he would make everything okay for his people and for his mother's memories. He knew because he would train every day to be stronger than the last day.
"It is saddening to see you leave." Gaara said unemotionally "You are a good fighter Junichi, and I have respect for you."
"You too Gaara." Junichi said with a smirk "Don't let that shukaku push you around. If it's your body, you're the boss."
"If you don't write me I'll send you a bomb and you'll die a horrible death!" Temari almost yelled at Saotome who was flinching from the noise, and the death threat.
"Don't worry about it!" Saotome exclaimed as he lifted his arms in the air as if he were some sort of mob boss "I got everything covered dollface, I promise I will write every day."
"Did you just call me dollface?" Temari asked angrily as a vein popped out on her forehead.
"Well…yeah…" Saotome said, unsure of what would have been the right answer to this question. It turns out "no" would have been good. "no ma'am" would have been and even better answer. She punched him in the face, like many women had.
"All of you people freak me out," Kankuro said to the departing shinobi "Especially Junichi. That whole demon thing was just plain weird. If I'm in Kohona, I'll probably go out of my way to avoid you."
The Kohona ninja left smiling as they could hear Kankuro's screams in the background as Temari pulverized him. They had all come out of this mission alive and they were feeling like they were on top of the world. Home would never be so warmly accepted in all of their lives.
Yeah...short one, but still pretty good nonetheless. Now on to review responses! I have new reviews!
Shang: yeah...that interview thing...I'd rather forget it...As for the story, thanks. Kankuro doesn't know how to go with the flow. Don't worry, I get him later. As for Junichi's father...alls I gots to say about him is don't make any assumptions about him just yet.
Mayaku-chan: yeah...that's about what it sums itself up to...don't be too hard on her, I didn't develop her character too well and...she's not very interesting. I'd rather just cut her loose, but I have to explain it...poor Kanoe...