Starlight

Don't own Naruto

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'Thoughts'

"Talking'

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Chapter 2

He stares tiredly at his baby sister. She's only two years old and he is four years old. He had taken it upon himself to look out for her. He just sits there, watching her play with the blocks. He has skipped his nap to be here. He yawns tiredly and tries to whip his eyes. His hand doesn't make it close to his face as his mom comes into the room.

His mom raises an eyebrow and then sighs. He looks sheepishly at his mom as she walks up to where he was sitting. "Koichi, I thought I told you to go to sleep." His mom says as she knees down. "But someone has to protect Jeri!" He protests as him mom messes with his spiked hair. His mom just smiles a bit at this and says, "I'm here and so is uncle Tori. So, it's nap time for you, little mister."

His mom takes his left hand and then they get up. He yawns as they make it out of the room. Soon he finds himself in his room and on his bed. He really did try to stay awake but failed miserably. He is soon dreaming of fighting a huge arm of Oni and other enemies that he has only heard about. He was winning too.

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He remembers when he resented Jeri. It was just before her second birthday. He didn't like the fact that Jeri took away his parent's attention from him. He complained long and hard about hearing Jeri's cries in the middle of the night or how a messy eater Jeri was.

It changed when his great granddad told him that he was now old enough to help his parents take care of Jeri. His great granddad had also told him that it was up to him in the coming years to protect his little sister from being bullied.

That was about ten months ago and he still remembers what his great granddad had told him. He frowns as he watches Jeri hold onto her bed to stand up. He's at a small desk drawing a picture of what he thinks a stone drake is. He wonders if he should go and get his dad. For Jeri falls down and hurts herself, he'll wish that he did.

Frowning as Jeri then lets go of the bed and then takes steps away from the bed. He sighs as she walks over to him and then says, "No!" He blinks at this. He cocks his head to his right and watches as Jeri opens her mouth and repeats the word. "No! No! No, no, no!" He then says, "Shhhhh! I'm drawing here. Go and play with your blocks!" Then Jeri then says loudly, "Koichi!"

He just stops and stares at his little sister. He was stunned at the fact that she knows a new word. Jeri knows the words mom, dad, yes, and no. Now she knows his name.

He's now five years old and has been for five for six months. His sister's birthday was two months away. He was already thinking about what to get her for her birthday. He sighs and takes Jeri by the hand. He opens the door and then heads down stairs.

He finds his dad in the kitchen and his dad looks up. "Koichi! Why did you bring Jeri down stairs." Then Jeri says, "Koichi!" His dad just stares at his little sister and the lets his jaw drop. Jeri then repeats the name, "Koichi!"

He looks proudly at his dad and says, "She knows my name. So, can we go outside to play?" His dad sighs and remembers what he told him about three months ago. It was along the lines of when Jeri says his name was when they're aloud to play outside, unsupervised. His dad recovers and just sighs. His dad gets up and opens the door to the backyard. He grins at his dad and takes Jeri outside and begins to point at things to get her to repeat the names.

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He's now eight years old and he's trying to sleep in. He had a late night last night. He hears someone open the door and he hopes that she'll just turn around and leave. He waits for it and soon feels and hears someone get onto the bed.

He cracks an eye open and finds Jeri crawling towards him. He closes his eye and mentally sighs. He wonders why nobody has shown up yet to get Jeri out of here. He then summons some chakra and tries to stick Jeri to the bed, it didn't work.

For then Jeri jumps up and yells, "Koichi! It's wakie, wakie time!" He groans and opens his eyes and grunts, "I don't need to get up now, Jeri. Go bug mom and dad." Then he closes his eyes and then Jeri says something that really wakes him. "But mom and dad left when a messenger came for them. It's just you and me!"

He sits up and looks Jeri in the eye. "Just you and me? I guess I can walk you to school." He then gets out from under the sheets and rolls up his matt. Jeri just sits on the floor and watches as he then puts on some pants and a shirt.

He then looks at his little sister and motions for her to walk out of the room. He then follows her out of his room. He also stops and then turns to get his wooden dagger set. He strap them to his left hip and then grabs a belt and pouch with three scrolls that he had been assigned to study.

He walks into the kitchen and then races to stop Jeri from touching the frying pan. She pouts a bit as she then sits at the table. He grins at Jeri and then checks to see if the eggs were ready. They were and he turns off the fire and cuts the eggs up. Then puts the places two eggs on his sister's plate and three on his own. He then puts a lid onto the pan as he sets the pan back onto the oven.

He then takes out some juice from the ice-chilled box. A simple jutsu was used to keep it cool. It was also easy to renew, for all you had to do is send some chakra to the simple symbol. It's one of the many things chakra is used for. He hopes to one day learn just how to caste such jutsus.

He takes out of some glasses and pours some juice into the two glasses. Then he puts the juice back into the box. Then he turns and picks up the glasses and sets them onto the table. They each pick up a fork and a knife. Then they dig into their meal.

Soon they finish the eggs and he puts the plates by the plates. The eggs weren't that filling, but lunch would be. He then waits for his sister at the front door. Soon his sister came into the area with her homework. He grins as Jeri smiles happily at him. He sighs as he opens the door and then walks out.

They soon walk to where the school is. His age group was learning how to work by night for the last month. But that still didn't stop his baby sister from deciding to wake him up in the mornings though. He had a good five more months like it and he hopes that Jeri gives it up. He really would like to get good nights sleep.

As they are in sight of the school, he stops and turns to his left. As he watches a man in a green cloths comes racing from that direction. He just stares as the man then notices Jeri and him. "The seedlings of youthful fire! O how great this village is from just looking at such young children! It reminds me of why I choice to become a teacher!" The strange green cloth man says as he stops in front of them. Jeri just giggles and he just blinks owlishly. Jeri then says, "You're funny!" The tall green man just sighs and then, he swears that this happened when asked by the elders, the man just summons a background with a sun on it with red lines coming out of the red sun. He watches as what looks like fire coming out of the guy's eyes. "What burning passion! I can't wait to get back home and confront my eternal rival! Now, could one of you please tell me where I am?" The whole background thing and fires disappears as he asks the last part.

Before he could say anything, Jeri answers, "You're in Light village. I'm Jeri Geo and this is my older brother Koichi Geo." The green man then looks depress for he hunches over and everything looks gloomy around the odd man.

Jeri then moves to comfort the man. But as soon Jeri puts a comforting hand on the man's shoulder, some people that he knows are professional ninja show up. The odd man soon is on the run with his sister in his arms. He just stares dumbly at where the man took off. He just stands there as the ninja also take off to where the green guy raced off.

He shakes his head and soon takes off after them. He wasn't going to disappoint his parents or his great granddad. He can't jump as high as most or stick to the walls either. He could begin to think on where his sister would direct the guy, for if it was on thing that he's proud of is knowing where his sister likes to hide.

He heads for where the pool training area is. His little sister hadn't visited for a while and it's an odd place to get to. For the pools had large water beetles living there. His sister likes to watch the three-foot long water beetles swim around. He hopes that some of the rumors that he heard weren't true. For if they were, then it's not just three-foot beetles living in those waters. He just hopes that he gets there in time to warn them.

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She giggles as she watches as Gai walks around on the top of the water's surface. There weren't as many three-foot long beetles as she remembers. She watches as some of the water beetles swim in circles around Gai.

She knows that nobody but Koichi knows that she likes to hide. She then watches as the beetles all scatter from where Gai was walking in circles. Then Gai stops and jumps out of the way as something tries to ambush him. She takes a sharp breath as she catches a glimpse of some kind of lizard.

She couldn't help but frown at the sighting. Then she turns to see her brother standing behind her. "So the rumors are true …" She hears Koichi say. She looks at him and asks, "What rumors?" Koichi sighs and answers, "Just a rumor about something feeding off the beetles." She looks our raged at hearing this. "What did the beetles do to get eaten?" Koichi smiles a bit at this and answers, "You remember that time with that spider?" She looks puzzled at this but nods. "Same thing happening with the beetles. Only a large lizard." Her brother informs her. "O" she says.

Then turns to watch as Gai deal with that lizard. It's a good six-feet long and was dark green with yellow spots on it's back. It's tail looked like it was growing, almost like something took a good chunk out of the tip of the tail.

Gai was just toying with the lizard, for he'd only dodge at the last second. They just watched as the lizard changes its tactics. As it surfaces with it's mouth open and Gai dodges it. The lizard snaps his tail like a whip, this catches Gai by surprise. This sends Gai to shore and the lizard then picks up speed to get to Gai before he has time to recover.

Then a wooden dagger lands in the lizard's way. It's then followed with another two begin thrown. She turns to see her brother with another three wooden daggers in his left hand, ready to throw them. She grins at her brother and then turns to watch as Gai gets up. "My thanks! Now to finish this off!" The man seems to vanish and in a blink of an eye, the lizard is send flying a good mile away. The lizard is knocked out and Gai poses.

Suddenly many ninjas appear out of nowhere and surround Gai. "Well, it was fun while it lasted." Was all Gai would say. She turns to her brother to give his a hopeful look. Koichi just sighs as he puts his wooden daggers away. He sends her a small grin and she sighs, knowing full well that there was nothing that they could do for Gai.