Starlight
Don't own Naruto
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'Thoughts'
"Talking"
'Someone Else Talking in a person's mind'
(----) Different point of view
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Chapter 17
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He listens to Brim's scout report. It seems that some Oni have found a cave by the waterfall by the mining town. He looks over at Kiba and Akamaru; both look ready to for a fight. He grins a bit at this and then nods his thanks to Brim and Brim just grins. They watch as Brim takes off into the air before they begin to stalk forward.
It took them a good forty minutes to find the group of Oni and then they split apart. Akamaru goes left and Kiba right. He just shakes his head as he remembers the twelve year old that first came to Light village for the chuunin exam. It's been a year since then and both Kiba and many others of that age group have matured too.
He knows that he's grown too. Already he is engaged to a wonderful girl by the name of Recca Cloud. They are to marry in three years, when both of them are eighteen. He smiles at the thought of his girlfriend. Recca is a few inches taller then he is. Recca's hair is a sandy color with grey eyes. Recca is also the oldest of her siblings, Recca has six other siblings with only two of them being sisters. Recca and him had five missions together before he finally asked her out on a date. He wouldn't have had the courage if it weren't for Brim.
Since the chuunin exam, there were now a good thirty beings living at Light village, that weren't human. There were also members of the other six races living at hidden Leaf too. The most human looking races were the Gargoyles, Arace, and Virell. Then there are the CerYo, Water Drakes, and Qualcoals who were very odd looking.
The Gargoyles all look different but have similarities between them all. They have three fingers and a thumb. They have wings on their back, though some remind him of bats or sugar gliders for their wings were connected to their arms and legs. They come in a ray of colours, like dark green and blue to the lighter colours like white and gold. Gargoyles at one time use to turn to stone during the day and back into flesh at night. But thanks to the Water Drakes, they no longer transform into stone statues during the day. They grow old slower then humans and also live longer too. They were also taught by the Water Drakes on how to use chakra. They were very close allies with Water Drakes, like to live by the coasts and other large bodies of water.
Arace tend to be close to six feet tall and over, much like the Jraz. Unlike the Jraz, they were not lizards. They have elongated heads with two points where they can breath. They also have black hair and as they get on in years, their hair goes grey or white. They were also a telepathic race, so the windpipes were separate from where they swallow their food. They have two sets of legs to walk on as well as arms like humans, only with short claws at the end. Also the legs were digigrade with only three toes on each foot, with three-inch claws. They tend to be shades of brown with black markings. Each clan has a certain pattern and they inherit this pattern from their mother, so their clan trace their heritage through their mothers. Both females and males look a lot alike, the only difference between the genders were the simple fact that females prefer their black hair to be braided.
Virel were the last of the races to have hands remotely similar to a human. They tend to grow to be between five and half feet tall to seven feet tall. They remind him a bit like a weasel or an otter. They have slender bodies that were flexible and also three to four and half feet tails. Their ears were small and they're fur could be black, grey, dark brown, light brown, tan, dark red, and white. Like weasels and otters they have lighter colours for their bellies and snouts. They were also very easy going and playful. They also used chakra and were the ones who taught the first settlers of Light village on how to use chakra effectively.
The CerYo race were almost similar to the Kir!ron, for their were about the size of the Kir!ron. That about all they have in common though. Their front paws have retractable claws. They remind him something crossed with a leopard and a wolf, for they have long canines and the way they move, with a cat's grace, but with a wolf's stamina and fluffy mane. They could have spots or stripes on coats. They have the same colours as a wolf but could be turtle shell in colour too. They have short but strong muzzles and pointed ears like a wolf or cat. Their tails were long and flexible like a cats, but with the wolf's fluffy fur thrown in. They live in groups and they could mate for life like a wolf or not at all. They could growl like a wolf or yowl like a cat. They also could howl like at wolf, most of their songs were combos of howls mixed in with some yowls. It makes for interesting listening though.
Qualcoals are a race of fliers; their wings were a mixture of a bat's wing with feather like scales. They're a good ten to forty feet long with twenty to eighty feet wingspan. They do continue to grow, as they get older, that's where the forty feet individuals come from. They come in a rainbow of colours, and like to mix them up too. For they can change colour by just using chakra to change the colour. They have long necks and have hind legs with long toes tipped with claws. They don't have fingers like the IrKiv have on their wings, only a single thumb claw. They can also change their body shape, with in a certain boundary though. They can add horns or make their scales look more like feathers. He'd have to admit, they were like works of art when they want to be.
Then finally Water Drakes; they were related to Cave drakes but were smarter and more social. They also prefer to live around bodies of water. They, like Cave drakes, don't have wings. They were more then apt at using chakra outside of water jutsus. He's new teacher is a Water Drake by the name of Lex. Water Drakes were larger then Cave drakes and could like the Qualcoals change their colours and some of their body structure. One might ever go as far as saying that they sometimes enjoy having their colours play around over their bodies. He remembers how during this one lesson, Lex's colours of red and black move around throughout the whole lesson. The play of red and black remind him of lava moving. When he asked about why Water Drakes do that, Lex answer was, "It helps with control." Water Drakes were very vain and if Qualcoals could look like works of art, then Water Drakes could be beautiful moving landscapes.
He snaps out of his thoughts as a sharp bark from Akamaru is heard. He then takes one last look up into the sky before focusing on creating a mist. Soon the mist forms and the Oni are alerted and begin to group up together. They just help make Akamaru and Kiba's job much easier. As he focuses on creating water binds to hold the Oni, Kiba and Akamaru charge forward into the mist of the Oni.
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He walks through the streets of a village close to hidden Sound. He reflexes on the pass year. The fact that his 'master' couldn't escape the seal placed on him by the demon fox carrier didn't faze him at all. He also knows what sets it off. For one a month, the seal actives and whenever they try to seal it or remove it. He finds it fitting, truth be told. The seal wasn't just on the body, but also on the very spirit. He remembers the encounter with Orochimaru's old teammate, Tsunade.
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They track Tsunade and Orochimaru offers to resurrect Tsunade's little brother and boyfriend. They give Tsunade a week to think about it and then head away. He's been going over stolen scrolls about Orochimaru's condition, but has found nothing that helps.
When they meet up with Tsunade, she's alone without her assistant. Then he notices how Tsunade's acting, and finds it suspicious. He stops her from getting too close to Orochimaru. He doesn't really care about what the conversation that happens next, only that Tsunade has never in her life heard about green chakra and that she did plan to kill her old teammate.
They soon are retreating away from the medic Nin. They planned for this and so when they were out in an open field, they then turn and attack Tsunade. He then uses Tsunade's fear of blood against her and as they move in to capture her, Jiraiya and Tsunade's assistant come upon them.
Soon Jiraiya and Orochimaru have summoned a toad and a snake. He's too busy fighting the assistant to get close enough to Tsunade. He heals himself quicker then what the assistant could attack him with. It then becomes a draw until a few kunai are thrown in their direction. They find a team of genin, mostly Gai's team without the little clone. They have no real choice but to retreat.
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Personally, he didn't mind the fact that they failed to capture Tsunade. He already knows a trick that few medic Nins would ever use. It always surprises him that nobody ever thought of it, but then, the first few tries almost kill him.
He smiles at finally perfecting that ability. He learnt how to transform cancer cells into other tissue. It was easy to make cells go cancer like, but harder to get them to get transformed into other cells. For if in a way, cancer cells were like stem cells, they didn't do a function, but have the genes in them to. He was the only one to think about even trying this, and he finds that other then it being draining, it works perfectly.
He wonders just how he'll kill Orochimaru, for there has never been any doubt that he'll kill the ghost, one way or another. Then he'll just fade away and continue researching on that odd ability that allows cancer cells to repair damaged genes. Then he'll have a way for true immortality, not like what Orochimaru is doing. He plans on covering his trail very well when that happens.
To Readers:
Hope this answers some of your questions. I might not remember much from Biology, mostly about how cancer cells can repair the ends of the genes and that they don't differentiate either. I wonder why doctors don't try to get cancer cell to differentiate, but then it might just be a dream that they ever could. Also I finally got around to the remaining races too. As for the Gargoyles, if you even seen Disney's TV show Gargoyles, that's what that race is. I liked that show and still hoping for more seasons to come out on DVD. Also it was Sakura with Neji and Tenten. Hope you liked what I came up with. I'm also thinking of posting descriptions for the ten races to help keep track of what they look like and what they can do. So do you guys think I should? Review answers or something, don't mind any questions either. Till tomorrow!