Symone: A Naruto Side Story - "The Heart Of Rain".
Chapter Six: The Curse Of Transparent Blood.
Symone finds a possibility of hope in the mysterious Hidden Grass country she had encountered as she was introduced to a man who goes by the name Kuso No Mikomi - Hope of the Grass. It seems now that Mikomi-sensei has entrusted his pride into making this young kunoichi(female ninja) as strong and powerful as himself. A destiny of sorts follows trails as hope lingers along side the dreams of Symone. Will Symone be able to turn that cursed blood into a charm of strength? Destiny awaits in the halo-shaped woods around the Hidden Grass.
"We need to help you control where your chakra flow is going... so terrible incidents will not occur again in your life" said Mikomi, displaying a serious look on his face. Symone replies, "Okay then... I'm gonna give it a try..." as she holds her hands up towards her chest, sticking her two pointer fingers upwards from one hand, cupping the other one from underneath, concentrating her chakra flow within a seal in hopes she will find a way to control this brutal curse of blood and change it in to a thing of strength. Mikomi is seen eyeballing Symone intensely as a clear colored chakra gently flows visibly like rising heat from her tiny little body. She sticks her feet into the grassy, muddy ground, holding her balance as best she can as her thoughts try becoming a pedestal for the efforts of placing chakra in her bodies water supply. "Come on, Symone... focus it!" Mikomi thinks, holding his head with anticipation as his eyes hypnotizingly graze the body of Symone. Suddenly, Symone falls to one knee, releasing the seal. Her chakra takes admission back within her body as she opens her eyes, swallowing hard. Mikomi stands over her, lifting her up by her right hand roughly. "Ooh! I felt it! It was so close! Try again!" Mikomi had said with a rigid look in his omnipotent light green eyes. "Hmm.. okay" Symone replies to Mikomi as she stands in position, reforming the seal like before. Mikomi stands back towards the side a little, watching onwards at her student. "Feel the water in your body like you can feel the chakra. Then try mixing them the best you can" said Mikomi as Symone agreed with her eyes closed, nodding her head up and down. "I can do this..." Symone thinks to herself as slowly, chakra gently erupts in a transparent format as if it were rising heat, bending the air over her body again. She tries imagining her chakra flow in her body, and then tries picturing the water from her center. Symone grinds her teeth a bit as she tries mixing the two images as suddenly, they swarm over one another. Symone hears a sound that seems somewhat like rubbing metals as she opens her eyes, looking to her abdomen with a gentle shock performed within her eyes, noticing a line of ice emitted from it. "Well! Look at that!" Mikomi had yelled. Symone worries as she speaks. "What do I do with it? It's freaking me out!" yelled Symone in anxiety as Mikomi replies, "Try manipulating it with your chakra now as you would your Tate Iji No Jutsu(Shield of Memories Technique)". "Okay. I'll try!" replied Symone with that same worry-like expression in her face, but quickly... she closes her eyes, attempting to manipulate the ice that had emitted from her abdomen. Symone then somehow manages to manipulate the ice as she holds her right hand out. The ice travels from her abdomen, along her stomach, ripping her shirt as it cut all the way to the end of the sleeve of the right arm, traveling into the palm of her hand. Symone looks to her plam as she grips tightly around the ice, breaking it. She lifts it up, looking at it with a weird shock in her facial expression. Her lips curled just a tad as Mikomi walked over to her. "So this is your bloodline-limit? Let's test the strength of this ice that seems to be embedded by your chakra, shall we?" said Mikomi as Symone replies, "Alright... but how, Mikomi-sensei?". "Walk over to a tree... any tree, and then try slicing it" said Mikomi in reply to Symone as he notices the shine of the sharp tips and sides. "Okay!" yelled Symone with her tattered shirt showing a partial piece of her uncovered, premature breast, walking over to a tree that was located to the left of her. She holds up the thin stream of ice, swinging it right through the tree, nearly effortlessly as it collapses down on her as she notices the tree was falling fast with Symone as it's target. Symone then holds up the stream of ice, holding her head down with her eyes tightly closed, swinging recklessly through the bombarding tree. "Symone!" yelled Mikomi as he ran over to Symone, grabbing her by the wrist as Symone dropped the ice to the floor. Symone opens her eyes as she lifts her head, realizing she diced up the falling tree into multiple pieces around her. "Hohhhh!... Did I do that?" Symone said in shock, looking at the logs on the ground. "Did what? Make fire wood for tonight? That you did, Symone!" Mikomi had said, smiling at Symone as she giggles. Mikomi then walks away as he speaks. "Come, Symone. We must train a little more, okay?" he said as Symone runs up to him replying, "Okay!". Symone stands in place right by where she was before walking off to the tree as Mikomi appears leaning against a boulder, looking to Symones side-profile. Symone then tries to do a repeat of what she did before to allow the ice to emit from her body. Symone stands still with her hands to her side, along with closed eyes as her chakra flow seems to be emitting outside of her body again as if it were rising heat. Suddenly... Symone widens her eyes quickly with intensity, emitting 3 long shards of ice from the left side of her back, tearing her shirt yet again as she then falls on one knee, holding herself up by her right palm. A gentle moan of pain is heard as Mikomi widens his eyes a bit, hearing her. "Are you alright, Symone?" said Mikomi. Symone stands up. Her purple hair covering her face as her head stays looking downwards, replying back to him. "I'm... I'm fine, Mikomi-sensei" Symone had said with a sudden, depressive tone, though Mikomi knew she was hurting. "Symone. Try to return the ice to your body" said Mikomi as Symone replies with angst, "...okay". Quickly, Symone focuses on her chakra... imagining it whirling from within as if it were a vacuum on her back. Suddenly, the shards of ice slowly enter her body again. "Hmm... She can emit it from the skin in such a large size, but why doesn't she tear her skin or flesh?" thinks Mikomi as it suddenly hits him, noticing the droplet of water fall from her back between the tears of her shirt. "Hoh!... It surfaces as water first before being formed into ice by the chakra. Interesting..." said Mikomi as Symone turns her head to him. "Is that good... Sensei?" she said with a sad look in her eyes. Mikomi replies, "Yes. Good enough for now. Let us take a break and get something to eat, okay?", knowing that Symone is getting slightly depressed, knowing this is troublesome to learn, fearing the worst from it due to her bloodline-limits past. "O-okay!" yells Symone.
20 minutes goes by as Symone and Mikomi are seen standing in the lake not far from their living location in the woodlands, hunting down fish for them to eat. "Symone. You shared your bloodline-limit with me twice today and once 2-3 days ago. I think you deserve to atleast see mine... no?" Mikomi asks Symone, knowing that if she can see the progress he went through with his own blood, it might give Symone hope as well. Symone replies, "I wanna see! I really do, Mikomi-sensei!". Mikomi laughs a little. "Okay! Okay! This is how I catch a fish when I'm hungry... ready, Symone?" stated and asked Mikomi, smiling a little bit stupidly as Symone replies, "M'm-Hmm?" in curiousity, yet agreeing to her Sensei. Mikomi looks into the water, watching the salmon swim towards the current of the stream. Mikomi plams his hand forward, standing sideways as his face looks forward towards the fish. "Ninpou: Chakra Supaika No Jutsu!(Special Ninja Art: Chakra Spiker Technique!)" yelled Mikomi as a crack in the lake a few feet wide and several dozen yards forward is seen, showing some of the muddy ground as suddenly, Mikomi lifts his hands upwards a bit, raising a few fish in mid-air as they bleed through a hole in their body! "But... How are you doing that, Sensei?" yelled Symone in curiousity as the fish appear to be moving into the hand of Mikomi. "It's an invisible stream of chakra. I told you that was my bloodline-limit!" said Mikomi, throwing the fish in a bucket to his side. "That's amazing!" yells Symone. "Hehe! I guess" replied Mikomi, scratching the back of his head with a gentle laugh jumping from his mouth. "Wow... HIS Sensei taught him that without even having a bloodline-limit himself... so maybe Mikomi-sensei CAN actually help me turn my blood in to something good!" Symone thinks to herself as she smiles cutely back at Mikomi. "Let's head back. We have enough fish for the night" Mikomi said as Symone replies, "Okay then! We can use that tree I beat up with my ice jutsu to make a fire and cook with!" laughs Symone as Mikomi laughs as well, replying. "Sure thing, kiddo!" said Mikomi as the both of them leave the water, dripping a trail of water as they walk back into the woods side-by-side. "By the way, do you like the shirt I picked out for you, Symone?" asked Mikomi as Symone replies, "Uhh.. yeah... sure! I love it!", as she then thinks to herself..."Why would he have such a stupid shirt?", narrowing her eyes as the t-shirt is seen, showing an image of a cute girl with kissy lips with the text under it reading "I Want You...Baby!".
Back at their home in the woods, Symone and Mikomi are seen in the night, eating the fish they had caught off of sticks they had found laying on the ground as they sit next to one another on a log right next to the fire. "Is it good?" asked Mikomi, referring to the charred fish in Symones hand. "Yes! It's great!" she replies as Mikomi smiles joyously. "Good. I'm glad!" said Mikomi. "Symone..." Mikomi quietly spoke as he looks towards the flames, chewing down on a piece of fish. Symone just looks to Mikomi in question as to why he had just said her name. "Today... I was easy and gentle on you because I knew you'd be saddened. I figured I'd try to make you comfortable by showing you my own progression from the boy who killed to the man who tries to make changes. I figured it would give you hope to run on for the future. Your training will get so much harder, and I want you to push through it. It will probably be a few years before you can defend yourself properly. Time is what makes experience, so please look forward to it" Mikomi had stated as Symone looks up to him; her right eye sparkling in the flames as the left reflects the gorgeous glow of the full moon. "Mikomi-sensei... I understand... and if there's a time where it's as if I hate you... I probably don't. I bet I would just be angry or upset over something. Okay?" replied Symone to the statement Mikomi had spoke. Mikomi laughs a little, rubbing his hand over Symones hair just as Souitai used to. "I got'ya!" replied Mikomi as he smiles. Symone begins to laugh as they both stop playing around for a moment, looking up to the beautiful starry night with that bright omnipotent glow of the full moon. "The moon is wise, Symone. It watched ancient to modern man, and awaits for this world to evolve even further, as do the stars. If there's no one in the world to try to impress and make an impression on... always look up and impress the moon and stars because they truly know what change is about" said Mikomi. "The.. moon and stars?..." Symone asked in question. "Yes. Also, don't forget that if there's ever someone you're thinking about while looking at the moon, that usually means they're looking at the moon at the same time as you are... somewhere else on this Earth. It's a sign that both your hearts are entwined" replied Mikomi to Symone. Symone looks deep in to the soul of the moon. An image of Souitai bursts in her head randomly as her eyes widen a bit with sadness. "Now that i think of it... maybe Brother isn't dead after all!..." Symone thinks to herself as Mikomi looks to Symone. "Are you alright, Symone? You seem frightened" said Mikomi. Symones expression becomes depressed as she replies. "I'm fine... Mikomi-Sensei" she said, waving her hair behind her head. "Okay then..." Mikomi replies as he looks to Symone with saddened eyes, knowing her thoughts are troubling her again. "Let's just look at the moon together... Mikomi-sensei" said Symone as Mikomi replies, "Sure thing, Symone" as they both glare up to the sky, admiring its dark blue glow.
Young Symone... the introduction to the tiny kunoichi is soon to be done. The story will proceed soon in to a new direction, so be prepared! A new story with new action and some serious situations are soon to be thrown your way! Keep checking in for what becomes of Symone and expect Part 2 of the series to be exciting!
The tiny glow of this child - Symone. Will her path be brought to pain or will she manage to pursue the happiness she dreams of? "I hope I'm happy". Her smiling face is to be recognized as a dangerous foe, even for such a young child, "I only mean well... but I'm so hurt. This curse... is it still a curse in my future?". She admires the night of the new full moon as her heart thumps with optimism, "Souitai?...Are you home? I only want to hug you". Her passion for strength comes to such new heights in the next Chapter of "The Heart of Rain", so please... look forward to the pride and passion.
"You'll always have a little piece of me in you for protection..."
"Mom. Dad. You guys forgot to wish me a Happy Birthday, but it's okay... because I know you're wishing me one from Heaven now"
"Well! In that case... My name's Kuso No Mikomi(Hope of the Grass)"
"...just lay your head and cry. Soon enough, this curse will be a sign of how you've grown my child"
"Be grateful you have pain... because without it, you wouldn't know happiness"
"Just remember if I ever get out of hand... I'll still always love my pupil"
"if there's ever someone you're thinking about while looking at the moon, that usually means they're looking at the moon at the same time as you are... somewhere else on this Earth" - "Souitai?"...