RyuNeko: Hi! My first Naruto fanfic!
Wildcat of gale: Hi! I´m wildcat. I belong to RyuNeko-chan! Those who know what Beyblade is probably know that I´m a bit-beast, I´m a snowleopard with twelve big, fluffy tails which is black at their tops, I have long claws and teeth, cerulean eyes and a pair of wings. Now you know of my beauty.
And I´m the second muse that help RyuNeko-chan, I´ll use my claws and teeth to attak those that disobey her in the fics. The first is the spirit of her black and white norweigan forestcat, Kompis, that died during a terrible storm – he got run over by a car and found later.
Dare use us and RyuNeko´ll give you hell..
Kompis: Stop telling them that! And don´t you dare tell them I lost my tail years ago, it was another accident, damn it! But I survived that one!
RyuNeko: -.-, You just did that yourself, Kompis...
Kompis: Damn! But I´m back as a spirit to help my owner! In your face Wildcat! I was here first! ;3
Wildcat: And I still have tails, as in plural, and you only got that little excuse for a tail! It look more like a bunnys.XP
RN: Stop it! I don´t care of those things, do the disclaimer, Kompis – Wildcat´ll do it next chapter. V!
Kompis: Sure! RyuNeko- sama does not own Naruto, but she own us and her characters. Nor Jeanette or Nadia, they are Ryuneko´s friends. Let´s start now...
- speaking
thinking
demon to human human to demon
( authoress notes)
/ Felines to Nadia/
# Plants to Jeanette#
Chapter one – gone?
It was ten o´clock in the morning and all young ninjas were there, exept one, Uzumaki Naruto was the only one that hadn´t arrived yet.
- WHERE THE HELL ARE NARUTO! The hokage yells, her brown eyes looking annoyed and worried at the same time, her blond hair was now visible since she couldn´t stay calm – her hokage hat had fall off when she started shaking her head in a protest.
- Well, hokage-sama, Naruto didn´t look too well yesterday. I met him when I was walking home, he looked like he was about to die, but I didn´t think it was more serious then a overdose of Ramen again – he looked almost the same after he had eaten thirtynine bowls of that stuff. Perhaps I was wrong...
The brownhaired man with a scar said.
- Iruka, I know that brat eat too much of that junk, yet he never eat so many bowls that he can´t handle.
- No, I guess, but then again – I have barely seen him for a week...
- Kakashi? He´s in your team?
A silverhaired man with only one eye visible and a mask covering his face answered.
- Yes, that´s true, Hokage-sama. But he have been very tired the last couple of days, and not very social, perhaps he´s only getting sick and forgot about this meeting. I´ll transport myself there and see if he´s at his apartment...
- so go then! The blond woman barks.
So Kakashi transport himself immedeatly.
At Naruto´s apartment.
- No one is here, Kakashi sighs, but this place speaks for itself.
And it could not have been more true, the place was a total mess, everything was destroyed and showed that there had been a intense struggle and some blood was splattered over the kitchen floor. So Kakashi summoned his little brown nindog, Pak-kun (spelling?), to get more information.
- What is it, Pak-kun grumbled, I was sleeping...
- What can you tell about this?
- It have been a battle here, that blood is Naruto´s, and so is this home. I can sense the smell of forest that is his special scent and a faint scent of ramen, he smell like the deepest forest and the summer fields, it changes often, so it´s damn hard to track him down. But forest and field is what he usually smells like, if it was another nindog, one that don´t know about that – have no chance whatsoever to find him. Even I will have problem... But there are more scents, it must´ve been many attackers, I can´t separate the smells – it´s too many and too hard to get a reliable tracking.
- well, I´d better tell Hokage-sama that we have lost one ninja, he´s kidnapped. I can´t belive I lost a teammate like this! I don´t know how they did it, but they wont keep him, we will retrive him. Afterall, he´s my student, and I never want to see the official letter that tell me that I have lost another important friend and teammate again.
Kakashi is fuming, release the summoning of his dear nindog, and return to the meeting
- Kakashi? Well, did you find him? Hokage ask inquisitivly.
- No, Tsunade-sama, I have to report... Uzumaki Naruto have been kidnapped. His apartment is filled with all signs of intense battle, he fought back harshly, I even spotted some blood in the kitchen. Pak-kun identifed it as his blood, the foes were too many. He couldn´t have used kage bunshin no jutsu to even his odds, that apartment is too small to have a battle in. Pak-kun told me there is no certain outcome if we try to track him with nindogs, they probably wont be able to find anything. If we send people after him, said people have to look randomly
- WHAT! HE´S GONE!
- Yes. No signs of him at all, and I found his forhead-protector, so it doesn´t take a genious to figure out what must´ve happened.
- I guess I´ll make a search team then, Tsunae growls ( Wildcat: Scary woman, but I´m worse when angered... Rn: Shut up! I´m working. Here, have a brownie! And share it with Kompis, will ya? Wildcat hurries off with the brownie and I have to give Kompis another one...)
- Yeah, hurry, Tsunade-sama. Shizune, Tsunades lady in waiting, insist. You must get Naruto-kun back!
- I want Shikamaru-kun, Kiba-kun and Akamaru, Shino-kun, Tenten-chan, Neji-kun, Sasuke-kun, Iruka-san and Kakashi-san follow me to hunt the brat down. The rest of you shall meet up with Nadia-sama, she´s the hokage in the hidden village of moon, and Jeanette-san – the head councils lady, and still young, I thought councilsmebers usually were old... The hidden village of moon are our new allies, and they use nincats the same way some use nindogs, but they have no small housecats as nincats – really big cats, but they do keep housecats as pets, not many small cats though. I need you to take care of them and show them around. ( they partly have the wrong idéas of Jeanette) Give them my deepest apologise for not been able to stay, Shizune take care of my job while I´m gone, and that´s all! Get your stuff and meet me in two hours, at the mt.Hokage. ( the place every Hokages face was carved into the mountain, five people now, four men and one woman coughTsunadecough. On with the story!)
Everyone obeyed and scattered in different directions.
In the hidden village of the moon.
It was a glorious day, everything continued as usual, and the people did what they did every day.
In the Tsukikage´s office .
Chaos was a normal thing.
Dressed in the lightblue official kages outfit stood young woman, she was snickering and smiled, her prank was well planned... Her long midnightblue hair reached to her knees. Her eyes was really deep blue with golden streaks and cat slits in her eyes sparkled evilly. She was 170 cm tall and had a lithe figure, not overly beautiful, but not ugly. Now, let that damn man that call himself her father, come and complain about her great defence system. No one who did not know the way could find her office wihout manage to not get lost on their way, fall into numerous traps and probably get harmed – not killed – she knew when the limit was reached. Only those who was invited or used the special justu only her fellow villangers could use to transport themselves to her office. 3...2...1.Boom! a fire jutsu exploded and a bucket of water fell down on her father. She started laugh as there was no tomorrow, this was just too fun! And he called himself a member of the ANBU squad? That´s pathetic. But she had never really been attatched to her father, he had left when she was 2 years old and didn´t really keep in touch, and the damn man liked and kept a dog!
Her mother took care of her, and supported her to become a ninja – which was what she wanted. Her mother raised all the villagers nincats, that was a very big confusion to some, one wouldn´t call these animals " cats" they are huge, most of them.
Nadia´s P.o.v
I have trained a lot animals alone since I was three years old.. And I´ll keep on doing it always.
Her father was a very tall man with ebony hair and brown eyes, he was kind an mild natured, but yet exactly like a puppy... Hyper,and he´s at least 45 years old. He was dressed in a simple black shirt and a pair of blue pants, all looking very civilian if he didn´t always weared that ANBU vest, he had a dog mask, and his dog, a crossbreed between god-know-what. The dog was called Coal, the dog was as big as german sheppard, black fur, big brown eyes and very big paws. I didn´t like that dog much, but he was a nice dog, terrified of even the smallest cat – but in battle Coal were a real fighter. Coal went where my dad went. But back to business.
- What is it, father? I´m working, just knew you would drop by and prepared a welcome suprise for you, but keep it short.
- Damn! Nadia, act like your age! You are 17 years old.
- The same to you, then, you are 45 and act like you are ten. Spill it now.
-Aurf!
- Hello, Coal, keep an eye on him.
- I request you to reconsider the new alliance with the leaf, Konoha is known for getting in small wars and such...
- No. Wont happen, I have decided, and the leaf are good people. I don´t want to hear such things nor that my security system are too advanced! I´m the head Kage of this village, and I don´t want to be questioned. Jeanette-sama!
I summon one of my best friends, Jeanette, she is second-Tsukikage. She have long honeybrown hair and eyes like a mild summer sky, she is rather tall and, like me, a lithe bodyfigure. She is one year older then me, but we agree on most things. She appears in a cloud of crimson smoke.
- Yes? What is it? Nadia-sama?
- Just call me Nadia or Nadia-chan when talking to me. I don´t like to be called "-sama", it make me feel old, and I´m younger then you... But can you inform this man that a kage´s decision does not need to be questioned. You are allowed to use your specialjutsus if you feel like it.
- Yes, Nadia-sama, but I wont call you anything else unless we are alone or with the strangers that also is our allies.
Jeanette get her little insane smile, one you hardly never sees unless she get to use her waterjutsu: water of doom! She also have her: wind of crushing defeat! Those are her primary attacks, she is best at healing, but she can use the darker side of her knowledge to her advantage in battle. She is no pushover. My father is taken care of for now, I start to plan my journey to Konoha. Only me and Jeanette-chan, our partner nincats, and some of my new litter-in-teaching. Those damn guards is not needed,my sense of pranking tastefully and set up traps, all my jutsus , and Jeanette-chan´s knowledge. Not to talk about our companions. Jeanette-chan have a black panther, big as a full-grown bear, with golden/green eyes. I have a Snowleopard, white with black spots strategical placed, big paws and a both long and fluffy tail, the tip of her tail is totally black. Her eyes are golden with streaks of deep blue and she´s the size of a human ( she´s not as big as Jeanette-sama´s, but she´s the one I´m destined to be with). She is my cat sister, our destiny is together, once I come of age – I´ll grow a tail, fangs, retractable claws and catears. Jeanette haven´t grown her yet, either, but her fangs is eveloping nicely, and her tail is starting to grow too. I´m not jealous, she´s older then me, and I made her second-kage and councilslady so that I have someone I trust to help me in everything , except training my darling "kittens". My family have a natural ability to talk to and understand felines, it´s one of my bloodline limits, me and Jeanette-sama both have three bloodline limits.
Mine: felines speech ( ability to comunicate with felines) Wind sister ( I can use wind to attack, or storms...) and silver vision ( alomst like crimson vision, only that silver vision comes with illusion power and silver eyes.)
Jeanette-sama´s: Plant heart ( she can talk with plants and use them in battles or to gather info), diamond fist of fury ( when angered, she attack with a fist that gets harder and sharper then a diamond, no one can survive that. That´s why I´d never thick her off...) and crimson vision ( her eyes get crimson and her senses get stronger and fire use get more effective.)
She returns with sly smile on her face.
- How did it go, Jeanette-sama?
- Good. I don´t think your father dares to go against us AGAIN, damn man!
- I couldn´t have agreed more... I usually say the same thing... my father, I can´t really belive he´s related to me, and I have no clue whatsoever on how it´s possible. Very well, are you ready for our trip to Konoha? Things might not be as good as here?
- I´m ready, she replies, and Konoha can´t measure up to Tsuki – but there might be some great people there and Tsunade-sama need our help...
- the Hokage,that´s right, that´s the reason we´re going... because the new alliance and we both can have use for it, Konoha is a village with great power among them with many interesting jutsus. Their two most known, and sometimes feared, families are the Uchiha and Hyuuga. Their bloodline limits are Sharingan and byakkugan. among the latest genins, they have a demon-wielder too, a genious, the Inuzuka´s that work with nindogs, a ninja that only use taijutsu, a weapon mistress and ninja that have "big bones". The other two girls, I don´t know much about, none of them interesting. We should go home and fetch our parners and package.
- I know all that too, I read the scrolls too, and yes – we´d better be going...
At the western gate. Konoha.
- Tsunade-sama? why this gate?
- Because I found the brat´s keys here, so I think they went this way, LET´S GO, I want him found as soon as possible!
Kakashi´s nindogs are immedeatly summoned, and ordered to start searching for tracks, finding none – they walks in a random direction.
- I can´t catch any scent! And Akamaru can´t either! Nothing!
- That´s because there is almost no scent to catch, Pak-kun explains, so no one can. His scent are deep forest and summer fields when in a normal state, storm and wet soil when angered or upset, like a field of flowers and sunny days when happy, and like a river and sea when sad, when he´s nervous he smell like citrus fruits , his scent change after his mood or when in different situations. So I have no real scent to follow.
- That baka, can´t even be tracked down like the rest of us, that´s plain creepy. Kiba mutters. But then again, much stuff is off when it comes to Naruto...
they keep on walking until they reach to a clearing, it have become late, and it´s time to set a campingplace. And build a fire, that becomes Sasukes job, which went fast. All tents get up fast and everyone relax beside the fireplace. And wherever there´s a fireplace, there´s ghoststories, in which everyone participate.
- And then there was a bloodfreezing howl of agony, Neji tell, and it sounded so human...
Right after that said, a real bloodfreezing howl of agony and pain was heard over the forest, and that´s not the worst part. It sound both human and something ancient and evil howling as one being – before suddenly going totally quiet.
- That´s just plain weird! Tenten wail, that sounded so humane and yet inhumane at the same time. And somewhat familiar... Could that have been Naruto? And something else?
- I´m not sure, Sasuke answers, but it might´ve been. It doesn´t matter now, in this darkness – we can´t find a thing. If we tried, we can get lost in the forest, an then we´d be no use to anyone. We have to wait until sunrise, but now we know we´re on the right track, so we´d better get some sleep now.
- T-t-that´s right, Tsunade say in a shaky voice, but I don´t like the sound of that. What if we came too late?
- No, Iruka say in a steady and calm voice, Tsunade-sama. If they wanted him dead, they´d never brought him this far, they´d kill him outside the border – which was several miles away... They might have injured him badly, but not killed him, and the sudden silence must´ve been that he lost conciousness. We all need to sleep now, to be able to track him down before anything else happen, and that´s our mission. So good night.
With that, everyone go to sleep, no argues made.
Early next morning, everyone get ready to leave, breakfast is done.
- How are our chances for completeing this mission today? Small or none? Kiba mutters. We don´t even know if he´s still live.
- We don´t know if he´s dead either, Shikamaru snaps, so we can´t leave before we really know – wether it´s goo or bad news.
All of them are weary and uncomfortable, the nightly fright made that to all of them, but they continue.
They feel tired and unsure of the outcome, even the stoic Sasuke also show small signs of nervousness, and they get really annoyed and that affect the rest.
Iruka decide to try lighten the mood.
- It´s at least a pleasant weather, sunny and a gentle breeze, and no signs of storm... these days are ment to be cherised, it´s not too hot nor too cold, the perfect wheather – yesterday was way too hot and it rained in the middle of the night.
- And the moon was red, Neji mutters darkly, a bloodred moon mean that either something evil is going on, death, or a demon runing loose.
The last comment make the three adults freeze in horror, they can´t know about Nauto´s secret, that´s illegal knowledge to anyone that wasn´t told by Naruto himself or those who was there when the Kyuubi no kitsune attacked, or the Hokage.
But they can´t let them know, so they make their bodies relax, and continue their way further towards the goal. The teens didn´t notice, all too buisy to search for any tracks.
- the people that did this must be good at hiding their tracks, there is nothing, nothing at all to follow.
- I have to agree with Uchiha, they must have much knowledge of hiding tracks, they are good. But everyone has their flaws.
They run or most of the day, until they come to somthing that remind them of a zoo – animals everywhere, they enter it to refill water, food supplies and ask for direction or if they have seen Naruto.
- I´ll go to the manager, that building must be his office, Neji ask the nice lady over there if they have any food to spare and pay her if she´s willing to share Shikamaru get some more water. Iruka and Kakashi, look around in the inner place, you´ll never know what one might find. And Sasuke, I want you to take Pak-kun and go around the edges, to make sure there is no sign.
- Hai!
- Scatter !
And everyone obeys without hesitation.
Tsunade reach to the office.
A middle-aged man open the door, he´s dressed in a pair of jeans and a black shirt, green hair and eyes.
- And what can I help you with, Miss? Want to buy a special pet? We have very exotic animals here... or do you wish to just look around?
- No, thanks, I only want information. Which way is the closest hotel, inn, village or something like that? Tsunade use her puppy-eyes on full force.
- Ok. I always enjoy helping a lady in distress, but why are you out here?
- I search after my adoptive brother, he´s this tall, blond, blue-eyed and have three whisker-like scars on each chin, seventeen and a half years old. I miss him soo much! She wails and look all teary-eyed.
I´m a great actress! Hihi.
- Oh. I´m sorry to hear that, miss, he sound like a cute boy. But I haven´t seen him. Sorry, miss, but you can buy a pet instead? They´re much more quiet and well behaved...
- No, thank you, I want my little bro back...
- I see. Nice to meet you.
- Ditto. I have to leave soon, thank you for your time, I appretiated it much – even if I did not find my brother. Bye!
Tsunade leaves, acting sad and defeated, and meet everyone, exept Sasuke, at the place they separated.
- Where is Sasuke?
- We don´t know, all of them replies, haven´t seen him.
- I can summon Pak-kun back and ask, Kakashi suggests, that way we´ll know if they captured them...
Kakashi doesn´t wait for an answer, soon, the little nindog appears.
- Where were you? Are Sasuke ok?
- Yes, Pak-kun replies, but we have shocking news. We found Naruto, but he´s not as fine as we´d wish... And not really himself...
- What! How is he!
- Hokage-sama, he´s alive and mostly unharmed, but there´s not a easy way to say this... He got changed a lot in short time, and I mean it, which have caused a lot of pain. He´s not speaking anymore, only whince in pain and curled up as a ball. He does not remember anything and Sasuke tries to get him out, but Naruto is too stressed, he´d kill himself trying to break free. He can´t understand much either, he´s changed back to a three-year-old and have nine, fluffy, blond tails and foxears and small fluffy, white wings. Really cute, but I don´t think it´s any good news, that´s what I know. This is why we are late.
- show us there, Kakashi orders and they all look pale, fast.
- ok.
The group hurry all the way there.
Sasuke stand outside a big cage, inside they see the blond bundle, whimpering softly in pain, and as soon Sasuke comes closer – Naruto tries to move, but as he try, he shriek in awful pain. It sound so heartbreaking, the tails wrap themself around him for protection, ears flattened in fright. Close to Naruto, a water bowl and a bowl with something that can´t be identified as anything but disgusting. Sasuke use a small flame to cut through the bars as Naruto tighten the grip on himself, from there Sasuke make it fast, when Sasuke finally have him – a soft and questioning whining is heard.
- It´s okey, we´re not going to harm you, just calm down and be quiet. Can you understand me?
- Nyuu.
Naruto wag his tails hopefully and smiles weakly, then he fall asleep, and Tsunade check him for wounds and similar things – finding many smaller one, but the biggest pain came from the body´s sudden changes and a broken arm, which she soothed and healed fastly.
- How did it go?
- Fine, Iruka, his body will heal itself from now – I only helped it get started. Now, let´s go!
So they run away, Iruka carry Naruto, and no one notice at all.
Tsunade tell the group to teleport to her office and that they´d talk then.
After that, all do as told, and reappear at Hokages office. Shizune greet them and get really worried when she see Naruto.
- A-are Naruto-kun ok?
- He´s healing well, Shizune, but there´s still problems left... Where shall I place him? He can´t be left alone for obvious reasons. Iruka have class, Kakashi is needed to help in the academy, they´re short on teachers, Shikamaru is so lazy, he´d probably forget the whole thing, Hyuuga Hiashi would kill me if I sent him there, I can´t do it... I guess I´ll leave him with you, Tenten.
- I can´t! I´m going on a long-term mission starting tomorrow, and I know nothing of kids, especially not foxkids...
- Sigh, I´ll take him, how much trouble can a three-year-old be? And I guess it´s reasonable. I´m his teammate and like him, I have no family that can dispprove. Not that I know why almost eveyone hate him in this village...
Great! I promise to pay you, Uchiha, look on it as a mission. A b-rank. Because many might try to kill him, now when he´s weak and a easy target, I can´t tell you why – only he is able to do so without getting punished by law. It´s complicated.
- I think I know, Shikamaru answers, I overheard two old ladies talk... But I don´t understand the whole picture, I think he´d told us if he wanted to, and seeing he didn´t do it – I guess he really don´t want that told yet.
- Good. Well, shoo! I have work to do. Shizune? Have the Tsukikage´s arrived yet?
- No, they sent a message they had to stop. Their nincats had gone ill by posion, so the two Tsukikage´s stopped to heal them back to perfect health, before continue the trip here.
- How many people need a place to stay? How big is their protectionsquad?
- No one, Hokage-sama, the Tsukikage´s decided to only bring their companions. There are totally two people and five nincats, the two cats that belong to them and three " kittens" that are under training – much like our genins, but they are felines, and the three "kittens" have just started their journey to become full-fledged nincats. But they perhaps can live in the Uchiha estate? There are plenty of room there that goes unused, we might be able to talk Sasuke-kun to lend us two rooms for a week?
- Ok. But I´m not sure we can ask more from Uchiha, he will probably have it tough enough with Naruto, it will cost us a lot. I have given him a big amount for taking Naruto in, to cover all costs and nessecary stuff and of course – the payment. But I guess that it´s he only way we have, since I ruined our guestrooms after finding Jiraiya peeping from the balconys, that Ero-sennin, as Naruto would have said it...
- You are worried? I think he´ll manage to speak again, I read the report, and Sasuke-kun will mak sure no one harm him.
- We´ll see.
Somewhere in the forest.
- Jeanette-chan, I think things are getting better, they look much better, ne?
- Hai, Nadia-chan, but they´re still tired. Only the kittens have fully recovered, go train them, I need to work better on our friends here and you only worries Tsuki, I don´t know why you insisted on nameing her after the village...
- I did no such thing! I named her after her birth, it was a fullmoon and I did the same with Yami, when Yami was borned – there was no moon at all, and the stars was the only light on the skies, which also went out soon before her birth. It was so dark, I almost lost her, but she struggled and survived. She was destined to be with you, you are much alike, she are mostly friendly and docile. But when angered or in battle, she´s a real fighter.
- Do you name all of them?
- most of them, but not all, mother name her tribe and I name mine, we have separate tribes. I have the larger ones, she prefer the smaller ones and the housecats, that´s the way we do it. I make sure they are well trained, fed, groomed and healthy. It hurt to see my "babies" harmed, damn thiefs! I´ll kill them! The kittens might need experience to hunt down and kill the enemies...
- No, calm down, no need to overreact.
- Ok, can I get you something?
- Nope, go train the kittens and let me do what I´m good at, I can do this alone. And those three wont learn a thing if you keep worry about Yami and Tsuki, I´ll take care of them, teach those kittens how to become warriors.
- I´ll do so, I sigh, see ya later then.
Nadia´s P.o.v
The three kittens play in the new surroundings, it look cute!
First, we have Kion, he´s black with large lightbrown spots and forestgreen eyes. He´s the oldest in this little group, and named after his father, Orion, and his mother – Kia. That´s the first time I named one after it´s parents.
Then we have Sora, the second oldest, she have brown fur and golden ,with some brown in them, eyes. I named her after her ability to jump high and the fact that she was borned under a cloud-less sky.
Lastly we have Utae, the youngest, she have redish fur and blue eyes. I named her this because I heard a bird sing so happily the moment she was borned, I usually name them after something I noticed when they came to this world, that´s how I do the nameing.
- come on, Kion, Sora and Utae. We have a lot training to do today.
/ But we wanna play, Kion whines, we had so much fun/
/ Yeah! Sora agrees, why now/
/ I-I don´t mind training, Utae says, I like training. I want to become a good nincat, so my special human will be happy with me, and so I can protect us – Like Yami-sama and Tsuki-sama did/
- That´s good, Utae, and I know the one for you will be proud over you. And your training today is tracking something easy at first, then I´ll move on to hide things that´s harder to track. And my scent will be all over the place, so it´s not only to follow that.
Then the training begin for real.
Jeanettes P.o.v
She´s still too worried, but she have taken care of them since birth,it´s easy to understand.
I heal the wounds, those posioned needles the thiefs love so much stung deep, Yami is so much bigger then Tsuki and that is to Yamis advantage when dealing with posion, yet both fought well and got badly injured in the battle. I wont tell Nadia that I almost killed one with my diamond fist of fury, I got angry when Yami got hurt, Nadia would only try to kill the rest for harming her " babies". She think of them as her own children.
# Jeanette-sama, the kittens also got hurt, but they recovered by eating us herbs and drink a lot of water. We want you to use us to heal your older cats, we became so happy that someone spoke to us, all we want to do first is to reproduce ourselves – so others can take our place. Give us ten minutes to reproduce, then pick as many of us as you might need, we will become honoured to be helpful. And in this way, we´ll become four times as many next month, we have soon reached the end of our lives. We have all lived for three summers already, and we carry the wisdom from earlier and more experienced herbs then ourselves, it´s genetical.#
- I will honour your sacrifice for three summers then, by bringing your heirs to my village and grow them to beome powerful and helpful, and help them spread there.
# We accept, another plant replies, and this is the biggest honour we could ask for. Both being helpful and have our heirs to grow and spread in your village, so that they can be strong and helpful to you as well, dear plant hearted Jeanette-sama#
They are so kind and unselfish, I must honour their wish and their sacrifice. I don´t think Nadia would disagree on letting me fulfill my promise, she is as thankful as I am for this.
If she do, I´ll ignore it, a promise is a promise and I intend to keep it .
# We are done and ready.#
I pick up some seeds that will help me fulfill my promise. Then I begin picking the herbs, they encourage me to do this, I can´t help but feel sad. I imagine this is like killing ones closest friends, and it hurt like hell, even if they will live on in their heirs – It just wont be the same thing. When I´m done I make the herbs softer and cook them in boiling water, sometimes there´s the times I wish I couldn´t undrestand, that I could do this without feeling like a killer. But Yami and Tsuki need my help and the herbs wanted to help, so I guess I´m just doing as they wished, and there´s no shame in that. I give Yami a kettle filled with the potion, and Tsuki another kettle, they drink it as fast as they possible can. I watch them fall asleep, rest is good to do when regaining strenght. Nadia return with three dirty and smelly kittens, if one can call them that, they´re the size of border collies. But Nadia always liked the bigger part of the tribe, they call it tribes, because they live as a pack. Her mom have always been afraid of the bigger ones, that won´t work out, but then Nadia came a took care of them. I have a similar situation, my mom dislikes the more difficult plants, but I find them amusing. It´s fun to work with them and make them strong enough to be used or healing and medication., mother prefer the easy plants – those that mostly need water, sun and someone to talk to. I take those that need more than that, those who need special care, it´s no fun if one doesn´t get a challange.
- Hi! Nadia smiles, the kittens did well today. Now I have to bathe them though, but I´ll just summon my stuff and get done.
She´s about the only one I know that summon a fur-cleaning-set with brushes and everything from home, instead of dumping them in the close-by river to get clean. Normally one does not summon those things, I sweatdrop slightly at the mere sight of her beloved set, it´s huge, normal people only summon different beings to fight – not grooming stuff from ones home. But then again, she is a bit weird, yet nothing one can´t learn to like...
- We are late to our meeting with he Hokage, I say worried, I don´t like getting late.
- Neither do I , she say with a frown, but we don´t have a choise. They´ll understand. Tsunade-sama seem to be a understanding woman, short-tempered and such, but kind-hearted.
- Yes, but there´s no need to use that to our advantage...
- We don´t, Jeanette-chan, we had to stop. And if they doesn´t like it – then screw this alliance, I´m not going to be allies with any village that rather have us there on time, then careing for our partners and teammates in need.
- I guess so, but it still feels bad, and I can´t help that...
- I know, but stop thinking of it and come help me with Kion, it ´ll be better.
She wash, dry and groom Kions fur, it look fun. I try with Utae, she´s not as hard to work with, and it went well. Utae purrs and curl herself to a ball, soon asleep, and waiting for dinner. I would´ve been hungry too, it´s not easy to follow our young first-hand-Tsukikage´s training program...
- Well done, Jeanette-chan, Utae is well taken care of. Want to take Sora?
- No, thank you, she´s not as easy. And I think she don´t really likes me..
- She doesn´t like many people at all, Nadia replies, so don´t take it personal.
- Understood. I´ll start the dinner..
- Me and Sora caught a rabbit, yes - it was wild, and I made it ready. It´s just to cook it. Kion and I caught a large deer too, it´s also ready to cook. With Utae, I caught larger fishes, I put it in a pit with hot rocks and glowing coal, covered it with sand and grass. I also made a small amount of water drop on the hot surfaces,so it´ll become smoked, I wrapped it in thick herbal leaves – so it wont get destroyed. Then I´ll smoke some deer, so don´t use it all for your caserole...
God knows why on earth she have to do that, smoke perfectly fine food... But it taste rather good and last longer.
- Ok, I hope you didn´t left anything disgusting...
- I did not, but somethings I spared. The hearts will became nice catfood, as goes with the liver and kidneys, the lungs and lastly the brain...
- Ewww! That´s the stuff I talked of...
- Don´t worry, It´s already done and I have brought it to the cats, you don´t have to see it.
I can´t belive she have the gut to do that and still feel ok about it, less talk of it and then eat anything. I swallow my sudden illness and start with our dinner...
Ryuneko: HI! First chapter done.
Kompis: Yay! And I get another brownie? Right?
Ryuneko: Right! hand everyone a brownie
Wildcat: Yummy! I love brownies!
Ryuneko: And I love reviews! smiles at the readers So please review!
Kompis: I agree! She´ll give us muses more brownies if you do... I love brownies, even if I´m dead and a spirit and so on.
Wildcat: yeah, dead, but not gone. Unfortunatly.
