Just a thought before you read!
"Blah" Means they're thinking
"Blah" Means they're talking
'Blah' Means thinking back
'Blah' Means somebody is talking through their minds to a directed character.
CHAPTER 3 – Shishin and Shitenno
Sasuke woke to a day like any other day. It was sunny out, perfect for training. Sasuke left his house through the village. Usually he would spot Sakura. She would always be heading towards a place. Sasuke never considered the thought that she was training.
On his way to the forest on the outskirts of the village, he ran into nobody he knew. He simply ran into people who wanted to know him. Though they were mostly girls.
"Odd…" Sasuke thought.
So he peacefully went to the forest just outside the village. He was looking for a good spot to train only to sense chakra. He followed the source of the chakra. He spotted the perfect place to train, but the source of chakra was there. He quietly landed on a tree and hid. He peeked past the trunk to see who it was.
"Sakura?" Sasuke whispered, surprised.
He felt awkward in calling her. He felt even more awkward watching her train. Sakura had a talking bird flying around her. Not that the talking part was surprising. She also had a talking three tailed fox nestled in the grass beside her. He saw her summon a wolf and overheard her conversation with them.
"-want you guys to get familiar with me as your new master" Sakura grinned.
"Master? Sakura?" Sasuke thought bewildered. He couldn't hear the rest of the conversation because it was too quiet. He hid there waiting to see what Sakura was doing with three, what seemed to be, summons.
After a while the fox and bird huddled with Sakura, and she retired to sleep.
"Peh…You probably only trained for about half an hour and you're already tired enough to sleep?" Sasuke scoffed.
Petals were falling all around and the breeze was blowing in more. Sakura mouthed something he couldn't hear and went to sleep.
"What a waste of perfect training space and weather…" Sasuke thought. After about 10 minutes he was about to leave until he felt the wind blow a little stronger. He looked back at sleeping Sakura. She slowly lifted her arm in the air.
"Is she awake?" Sasuke thought.
Sasuke kept watching. The wind blew again picking up all the petals that got in its way. The wind and petals blew towards Sakura. Sakura slightly moved her hand in a circular motion. A long faint blue shape wrapped around the wind and flowed with it. The wind and petals blew strongly around her. All three animals had their eyes open watching what was happening. The wind kept revolving around Sakura dragging the many petals and the blue shape drew closer to Sakura. Sakura suddenly dropped her arm and whatever force was pushing the wind suddenly stopped and the blue shape settled into her chest. The petals scattered still revolving around Sakura to the ground and the wind blew in all directions. The bird and the fox lowered their heads and rested.
"What…the hell?" Sasuke's breath calmed down. Suddenly the wolf's head shot up looking in Sasuke's direction. Sasuke quickly pulled his head out of view.
Sakura slowly woke up. She noticed Hyouketsu was staring into the forest, and his ears alert.
"What is it Hyouketsu?" Hinotori and Aoen lifted their heads looking the same way from Sakura's lap.
"...I sense a strong presence among us." He replied. Scared that Sakura would sense him too he dashed into forest.
"Who do you sense?" Sakura asked
"A young child with an advance bloodline. It seems he has fled." Sakura stared in Sasuke's direction.
"Too late now I guess…" Sakura said. Sakura got up and faced her summons. "It was great to meet you guys!" Sakura bowed.
"You mustn't bow to us!" Aoen pushed urgently bowing to Sakura.
"She is right." Hyouketsu agreed.
"Bwahahahaha!" Hinotori laughed. Aoen furrowed her eyes and shot a glare at Hinotori.
"It was our pleasure." Aoen corrected.
"I guess…you're all dismissed then." Sakura commanded.
"Hai." Aoen said firmly before disappearing in a burst of blue flame.
"Understood." Hyouketsu said before disappearing in a cloud of cold steam. (A/N you know…the steam off of ice on a hot day ;)
"Ai!" yelled Hinotori after flying in circles for abit. She burst into red flames and disappeared. (A/N haha! Let's make it fancy XD)
Sakura let herself fall back onto the grass and stared into the sky. Sakura stared at an oddly shaped cloud passed by slowly. Almost like…a creature of some sort. It had a long nose, thick body, thick legs and small arms. There were big shapes attached to what seemed like its back. After a while, Sakura gave up. Her eye caught the book just as she sat up. Sakura reached over and started flipping through the book slowly, reading every page in detail.
Sakura found that there weren't actually that many summons. One summon took up quite a few pages, explaining all about the summons in detail. None of them particularly caught her eye except for one on the very first page of the profiles. It was some type of lizard. The picture was uncertain, there was no colour, and the profile wasn't very long. The beautiful script read:
Every few generations, 4 children of 4 clans inherit the ability to summon 4 powerful creatures. They were the Shijin. Of the four powerful creatures, one who could cause a tsunami with a single roar. One who could destroy a forest with single swing of its claw. One who could burn a village with a single breath. And another who could transform metal with a single glance. They were all equally powerful. Of the four, there was another. One that could destroy mountains with the single swing of its tail. Between the seasons of summer, autumn, winter, and spring for a certain amount of time, this demon was able to do all of what the four summons were able. They were the Shishin No clan was able to form a pact with this demon. Demons with no pact are not summons and are forever misunderstood. This demon suffered many attacks from nearby villages. The attacks drove the demon to insanity. The demon now refuses to be near a human. (A/N Shishin is another name for the '4 guardians' from the myth. Shijin is the same thing, but Shijin is in the tradition of onmyodo. In this case Shishin are the summons, and Shijin are the people who could summon them. It was really interesting when I was reading it so I merged the story and the myth kinda…)
Now the text changed. It was less elegant. Simple even. But it was beautiful nonetheless. It read:
The demon has been contained. One from our very village has been brave enough to stand up to the demon. Or so the people say. Only 2 people know the truth. Rei and I. The demon was tired. It just wanted to disappear. Nobody in the world was strong enough to destroy him. Nobody could form a pact with it in the state it was in. The man from Konoha offered to shelter it from the constant attacks. The demon was wary, so it agreed. Before he proceeded, he had asked the demon to protect its container. He lost his life sealing the demon. It was sealed inside a boy who had nothing left. His parents were killed by the very demon sealed in him. We are forbidden to speak of this incident. Not even to those who know. I respect the 3rd very much. But the rule is stopping me from speaking the truth of what has happened. All I could do is listen to what he says. That is my duty as his former comrade, and as a ninja directly under his command. (A/N Let's say the person was an anbu. What this person meant as former comrade is that they used to be on the same team not just 2 random ninjas in the same village. They knew each other.)
Again the text changed. It was noticeably rushed.
After searching for so long I have finally found the location of the 4 summoners. The four who had sickly mothers due to the fact that their bodies are able to take the stress of containing the 4 summons. The last time the Shishin were alive at the same time was 600 years ago. It has finally happened. This could mean the war of shoukan jou. (A/N shoukan jou means summons I think. I tried to come up with something that sounded better than summons...) The 10 summons may destroy the world like they almost had 600 years ago. Like light, the 4 summons and the demon have shadows. Five other summons with equal power. The Shitenno. (A/N The 4 heavenly kings. That's hardly what they are, but I got the idea from another myth. They watched over the 4 directions east, south, north, west while the Shishin were the guardians of the 4 directions. I don't know how that works but this is my story so they're against each other! Haha) There is another, but that is still unknown. The Shishin must be found quickly. I am dying. Whoever is reading this must gather the Shishin before it is too late. One from the Haruno family, one from the H----- clan -ne fro- --- U---- -am--- --d --e --om ------ih- cl--
The paragraph had been covered in an ink spill and the pen looked as if it slid across the page. (A/N Maybe this is a bit too easy to make out…well not to Sakura it isn't!)
"What…is this?" Sakura breathed.
Author's stuff
So! At the edge of your chairs yet? I tried...haha
Well who wrote the 3 entries in this book is a little obvious...to me at least. Wanna know who they are? Review! It gets me motivated and writing. Haha! Well this whole idea came to me when I was trying to find the ultimate summon for Sakura, then I came by this myth that related to my 4 main characters very closely. I'll explain it when I get there. I finally have a plot in mind. It's completly different from my previous one...but I think it's ALOT better! What did you guys think?
