Whirl of the Light!
I don't own Naruto
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 13
(----Hinata----)
She watches as a symbol appears before her. Then around the tattoo appears a forearm of a white bear. The tattoo is that of a bluish purple sword that seems to be going through a heart. She didn't know just what to think, for this is the first time that something like this has happened before.
"While I guess Trick was correct about you. You wouldn't faint on seeing me, much better then that fawning priest of the JenFe!." The bear says. "Trick?" She asks. "He's not important. Anyway, I'm here cause your TerCa friend will be needing your support when he gets around to informing the others about his friend. You see, the JenFe! are in the process of becoming two races. What'll happen with the new race is clouded, but some of my kind believe that they'll have better success outside of this dimension." The bear says and gets a distant look in his eyes. "I'm babbling, just try and not to feel too betrayed when the cat's out of the bag, ok? He's young and he's the only seer among his kind, the others have become blind to truth. Understood?" The bear looks at her and even though she didn't understand most of what the white bear is saying, she nods her head.
"I'm off then. Good luck with that snake. He's only getting what he deserves. Or as Glory would says, 'Reaping the whirlwind he as sown.'" The bear then fades and she comes out of her meditation.
She blinks and looks around, only to find that the others were still sleeping. She sighs and begins to pack up her bedding. After she finishes, Koichi wakes and says, "Morning." She looks on as Koichi yawns and says, "Morning."
She can feel him study her and asks, "Something wrong?" She sighs and says, "I dreamed of a white bear with a tattoo of a sword going through a heart. He spoke about Hige and hints that something big is going on with the JenFe!." To her surprise, Koichi says, "I once dreamed of an odd golden wolf with what looked to be a dragon tattoo. He spoke of me being able to stop a dimensional portal from being formed. Never gave much thought about it, you know? It's beyond me about everything that the wolf said. He also mentioned something about something having more then one side to it. Even added something about having three sides to it. Got me what that means." She looks kind of relieved that Koichi also had an experience like hers. Though she did look thoughtful about the part about something having three sides to a story.
They soon weren't the only ones up and they all began to eat and pack up their sleeping bags. They have more traveling to do and she now has something to puzzle over. They soon cave the shelter in and they continue on their way. They have only two more days to get to the fortress and to hopefully end of the war.
(----Trick----)
He watches as Frost stumbles over towards him. He grins and says, "Things went while with the girl?" Frost nods his great white head and says, "You think it'll be enough?" "Who know? With Raigi around and being that thing's son, things are anything but predictable." He says. Frost nods and says, "I can't be believe that the Hazard is no longer around. It was an interesting being to watch, even if it was far older then us and our dimension."
He smiles sadly and nods in agreement. "But I do believe that the son will have more surprises in store then we'll ever know. I'll miss the baby when he's gone." He says sadly. "The fact that he can destroy us never bothered you, did it." Frost states. He snorts and says, "And we could have kill him before that. Who cares? Right now we're equal with him and in time he'll surpass us, that's his potential. He'll look after the new race and they'll have more interesting times ahead to boot. They'll still believe in us and therefore we'll be able to monitor them if we want. So lets just watch and see how things turn out, shall we?"
Frost glances around and finally asks, "Where's Glory? Or for that matter, Reef?" He yawns and says, "Glory is flying in the demon world and for Reef? Stalking some deer in the human world." Frost sighs and they then mix their energies together and a pond is formed in front of them. They sit back and watch as things unfold.
(----Koichi----)
They finally make it through the inner wall and into Orochimaru's inner sanctum. He hopes that they're guesses prove correct in this endeavour. They can't let either Kabuto or the snake ninja from escaping. For both are wanted dead and it's their job to take their heads back to one of the camps on their home lines. Once they hand over the heads, they'll prickle them and send them to hidden Leaf to be burned. They didn't want to take any chances, though he believes it would be far easier to burn the corpses without taking their heads.
He soars over the crowd of ninja and lands on Gaara's floating barge of sand. He slaps Gaara on the back and Gaara smiles and smacks his head in response. They just let the sand take them over the mod, they'll be confronting the snake and they hope to keep the guy occupied until the sword has the seals placed on it.
They jump off the sand and as they run on the walls, Gaara's sand reforms into the gourd. They soon come across a sickening scene as they burst through the doors. They look around at all of the dead bodies and finally spy Kabuto's corpse among the dead, the ex-Leaf's throat was riped out and it looked like someone broke his rib cage and took a bit out of the guys heart and liver. They can still see the parts close to the body.
They continue onwards into the room and find a door open with some bloody handprints on it. They ended into the large room and come face to face with a tiger demon. He notes that it's a young one and also female. He looks around and spots a body unharmed on a table.
"You went for the demon. And switched minds I take it? Predicable." He says. Gaara nods in agreement. "Only someone desperate would resort to this, Orochimaru. You'll be insane within a week." Gaara comments. He adds, "You really thought that mind swapping with a demon would get rid of the seal? Fool, it only makes it stronger! I used the raw power that the demon connected with to get it's own power from. You only made the seal advance into a Burning Soul seal." Then the demon yowls in pain as the advance seal begins to activate, it grows and covers a good third of the body, before fading.
He snorts and says, "You mind telling them that we'll not be needing the sword?" Gaara says, "Why not. The demon want's blood, though his currently laughing his head off at this." He listens as Gaara walks away, leaving him alone with Orochimaru.
Orochimaru tries to move, but the seal once more activates and it again grows, then fades within the minute. "You see there are three kinds of chakra in the world, as humans we can connect with this plain's chakra while demons only do it once and that's to gain chakra before becoming physical. It takes a lot of time for a human to learn to connect with that green chakra, but it's usually worth it. You see, all things produce chakra and the access energy is then pooled in with the plains chakra. That chakra then recalculates back into lava, which in time leads it to become rocks and then rocks into dust and then into soil. I believe you get the picture." He says and watches as once again the advance seal pulses and grows yet again. He notes that the next one will be the final one.
Orochimaru moves as quickly as he can towards him, but the movement activates it for the final time. Orochimaru begins to yowl and roar out in pain, even when the body itself can no longer make such noises. The body breaks apart and then burns green. The green fire leaves nothing, not even a burnt mark on the floor. He sighs and takes out a dagger as he walks over towards the body on the table.
He swiftly cuts off the head and grabs hold of it by the hair. He walks out of the room and notices that Gaara also took Kabuto's head too. He finds everyone still fighting and then some of the enemy ninja notices the head in his hand. Then the fighting begins to stop as the snow and sound ninja all turn towards him. He then holds up the head and shouts, "The snake is dead! Surrender or died."
As one, all of the enemy ninja drop their weapons and as the reinforcements arrive, they too notice the surrender and then the head. They too drop their weapons, though five of them leave to spread word of the death of Orochimaru.
Ino walks over with a bag and he drops the head into it. He then looks to the sky and wonder if it wasn't better this way. He sighs and says, "Haku and Ino will take the heads back to our line. The rest of us might as well get things organized on this end." He feels a hand rest on his shoulder and he turns to look into Gaara's understanding face and they then begin by collecting the weapons. He trusts Shikamaru to make plans; he notices that Hinata is gone.
Then as they were about half way through, Hinata's voice can be heard all over the base. "Orochimaru is dead. As is Kabuto, the combine forces of Light and Leaf are on their way, cooperate and you'll live. Resist and you take your fate into your own hands. I repeat, Orochimaru and Kabuto are dead." He grins and could laugh if it wouldn't scare the prisoners shitless. He really didn't think of doing that, but he's happy that someone thought of that. He'll have to remember to get Hinata something real special when they get back to Light village. He truly had to for what she did today, for in her way, she stops needless deaths from occurring.
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He sighs as he tries to relax some. It's been a busy month since the Orochimaru and Kabuto have been killed. He and the others organized the fortress as best that they can as well as get the enemy ninja from killing each other. He can't believe that Orochimaru or Kabuto would allow the conflict between the Snow ninja and Sound ninja become what it was, but then they both probably enjoyed the mini war among the ranks.
He tries to think of something besides that headache. He then muses over the news about Haku wishing to visit his old mentor's grave in the land of Waves. His wife Recca was also going with him, he wishes Haku and Recca a safe journey.
He then turns onto his side and tries to get comfortable. He really could you the sleep, for there's a big ceremony happening tomorrow and he really wants to be rested for it. He then does a sleep jutsu on himself and he finally blacks out.
(----Calling Wing----)
She climbs up onto the roof and finds Hunho relaxing up there already. She smiles at this and moves to sit by the young mage. She knows that both Raigi and Hunho have been distracted by something from the north, she asked Hige about it too. It seems that the humans up north are busy in some war and that Raigi and Hunho have been noticing the chakra that's being used in said war.
She then says, "Nice night, huh?" Hunho looks startled for a second and then nods. "Beautiful." Hunho says. She asks, "The war getting worse?" Hunho sighs and says, "No, it's over from the feel of things. It's just odd though, a demon crossed over but the demon isn't around anymore. It wasn't seal or sent back. That's troubling I think." She had to admit that troubling to think that someone might have obliterated a demon.
They don't speak any more, just sat side by side. She wonders what the future will bring as well as what her feelings are towards Hunho. She just doesn't understand them one bit. She also spoke with Summer Watch about it, but her best friend didn't know either. She just decides to wait it out and see where everything leads.
To be continued …