Starlight
Don't own Naruto
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'Thoughts'
"Talking"
'Someone Else Talking in a person's mind'
(----) Different point of view
-+-+ Scene change
-/-/-/ Flashback
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Chapter 20
(---Hor'Ja---)
He looks around the clearing. They worked long and hard to have things set up. He sighs and listens to the music while spying most of the members of Light village ninja and a few hidden Leaf ninja. It's been a long hard year and they needed this. He grins and then walks to where he last saw Sasuke and Sellen. He knows that humans were very flexible when it comes to courting. They nod in his direction as he approaches.
Soon they walk around together as they talk about the year and about future plans. They find a spot to sit and continue to talk about things. Ganmaru and Riley, who then added their thoughts about what has happened and about future plans, joined them. It was relaxing to be among friends. He wonders how his clutch sister Ko'Sil is doing. He misses his pack and most of all, his sister Ko'Sil.
(---------------------------------------Koichi---------------------------------------)
He sighs as he connects with this plane's chakra. He feels a disruption in it, like something is either breaking through or is being sent through. He wonders which it was, but knows that it'll be a few days or weeks before it comes. He can't help but frown a bit as he feels out the disruption. He wonders just what's trying to get through…
(----------------------------------------Yue-----------------------------------------)
He grins as Hige entertains his younger cousins. He finds that Hige has some imagination. He sits a bit away from the group, but close enough to hear what Hige was saying.
His thoughts try not to think about the long mission that's coming up. It'll be just Koichi, Shonie, and him. Shonie is a friend of his dad's and was going to be in charge of the mission. It's to be a long one, a good month or two.
He shakes his head trying to get his thoughts out of his head. Now wasn't the time to think on such things. He has time enough to worry himself silly later. Now he just wants to enjoy his time with his friends and family. He looks behind him and finds his twin there, watching Hige as well.
"Quite the story teller, huh?" He says softly. Ruby blinks and looks at him and then nods. "True. It's just odd that a TerCa is here, and is so … entertaining." Ruby says weakly. He grins a bit at that. "I'm leaving tomorrow. I really don't want to think about it though." He tells her. She sighs and says, "Me too. I'll be gone for a month. Going south to Lox City." He looks surprised at that, few humans other then the traders go all the way to Arace's capital city. "I'm going into the mountains to find the Grrroar Tribe. The mission is to kill the lot of them." He tells his twin sister. She looks stunned and then grins a bit. "Well, good luck. You going with Koichi, though?" He nods and adds, "Also with Shonie Elf." She looks a bit surprised, saying, "I thought he was retired." He shrugs and then they both turn to watch as Hige finishes up the story.
(--------------------------------------Itachi-----------------------------------------)
He closes his eyes as he listens to the sounds of these creatures. He is the only survivor of the whole of the Akatsuki. Just four weeks ago, they all headed south towards the Taijor mountains in hopes of getting pass them to get to Light village. Then they would have looked for and then capture the Kuuybi carrier.
'It sounded so easy. Should have known that it wouldn't be. There's a reason, a very good reason, as to why nobody ever heard from people who ever heads into the mountain range. If it's not a pack some things then it's more odd things attacking. I wonder just what these things are, though.' He thinks as he closes his eyes. He was getting a headache from all this grunts and growls. He wonders if now might not be such a time to try out that translation jutsu he copied that one time from observing that Leaf Nin using it while listening to a tape recorder.
He does the jutsu and soon finds that it works, for he now understands why these beasts were celebrating. It was because they captured him and were hoping to have him breed with some of their females. He just pales at hearing this, for he wonders which of these things are females. It wasn't until they began to have sex with each other about a good hour later did he realize that the differences must be few between males and females.
When one of the things approach, he decides to speak, "I'm not interested." The six-foot tall creature blinks at this and then just stares at him for a good minute before saying, "You not Light." He blinks and then decides that the creature was talking about Light village. "I am of Leaf." He says slowly. Not caring that he's an ex-Leaf Nin. The creature then seems to think about this and says, "You north human?" He just nods and says, "Many humans north." The creature thinks about this and then grins a bit. "Females too?" He nods, and begins to get an idea. "Many humans. Better chance at breeding." He states. The creature then laughs and nods, "Lead tomorrow." He is then relieved at this and just nods.
Then watches as the creature moves off to speak with others of his kind. He wonders if maybe he just found some lackeys. That thought make him feel much better. He then drifts off into sleep, for he'll have a long day tomorrow. He could learn much from these beasts, for it seems that they don't like Light village much.
(--------------------------------------Hinata----------------------------------------)
They had encounter a group of TerCa today and Lex had spoken with them. They also now have a better idea on where to go. She wonders just what things that will happen, for the few times she has tried to see the future, it's been full of new paths. Only one thing has standout though, that is a large group of Oni going north. The leader looks almost like Sasuke, only older and with three dots. She wonders just what that means but she just pushes the thoughts about that out of her head, and tries to get some sleep. They have a long way to go and they'll have a rough time of it later.
To Readers:
This is the last chapter for Starlight. The next one will be out after January of 2006. I'm going to focus in trying to finish Lay of the Worlds and then my December story. Hope you like this chapter, for it'll be awhile before I get around to writing the next one. As to that disruption, you'll just have to guess about it. Thanks for reading Starlight! Also thanks for all the people who have reviewed. Bye for now!