WOOOO!!! I FINALLY updated Chapter Three for this...due to bugging by Nicachan510 here...Ha Enjoy!
Central 12:15 PM
"What was it that you wanted to talk to me about, Colonel?"
"Ah, Edward shorty." Ed, as his nickname was, popped a vein and started yelling at him, meaning to attack him, but his brother, Alphonse or Al, had to hold him back. Al was in a suit of armor, from a failed human transmutation to revive their mother, which was a forbidden art in alchemy. Ed had blond hair and a braid, with automail for his right arm and left leg. Alchemy always needed something in return, so when Al and Ed attempted the transmutation, something had to be given, in this case, Al lost his body, Ed his leg. Ed desperately wanted his ototo back, so sacrificed his right arm to bring back Al's soul, and attached it to a suit of armor. Like this, Al could live forever, unless it the blood seal that allowed him to live in this world was scratched or anything. But the way he was revived into this world meant that his body was also a time bomb.
"Nii-san!!"
"I AM NOT SHORT AT ALL!!!" In fact, Ed was. At age eighteen, he was five feet one inch, while his brother was A LOT taller than him, being one year younger than him. Well, he was in a suit of armor after all.
"You have a mission. Gather the Valley of Wind chieftain, Hokage, the animal batsus from the Forest of Shisi Gami, and Dentech City netsavers. Orochimaru apparently has made his move on the war, so now we need to gather all together and become one. Understood, Full-Metal?"
"Hai!" Ed saluted.
Camp 3:00 PM
"The assistants from Konohagakure, Fuhrer, Chieftain of Valley of Wind, netsavers, and the animals of Shisi Gami have all gathered."
"So what is it that we have all gathered at this place for?" Okkoto asked.
"As you know, Orochimaru has made his first move." King Bradley said. "We all know that he is after Morro's daughter, since she has all the bloodlines, yet she does not know that."
"I understand what you mean, Fuhrer. Now, let me go to search for her. She has come back." Morro walked away from the gathering, with San and her cubs following.
"Where should I set her?" Sakura asked.
"In my home."
"Hm?" Team 7 said. They all glanced up as Morro approached the team.
"Let me have my daughter back." Sakura placed Kiko on the ground, where Morro sniffed her. "She has been tainted by him, hasn't she?" Team Kakashi was rather scared of Morro's size and strength, and nodded minutely. "San." San came forward, and placed her on one of the wolf cubs.
"Wait!" Sakura exclaimed as the clan started to move away. "Why does Orochimaru want her?"
"That our clan cannot tell." San said. Then the five of them moved away.
Kiko opened her eyes, and saw a blue sky stained with gray. Behind her and to the sides was a high cliff, at least twenty feet high. In the front of her, there was an open field with a camp not far away smelling of ash.
'Hmm?' She turned her head around, and saw San's clay mask, spear, and knife made of wolf fang along with some clothes. There was a slightly ragged white t-shirt with something like a robe of fur hanging down the back attached to it and loose brown capris. She sat up, and noticed she was in an isolated part of a camp. 'Where am I?' Kiko had a flashback to when she saw Sakura.
Flashback (Kiko's POV)
"Kiko! Kiko! Kiko!!!"
"Uh…" I opened my eyes a slit. "Sa…Ku…Ra…" Then I closed my eyes again.
Reality (Normal POV)'So she must have carried me back.'
"So you're awake." A voice said. Kiko turned her head again and saw a black and white haired boy with camouflage pants, a black shirt with gold trimmings and a red vest.
"Hi Chaud." Kiko smiled. Chaud was rather surprised, but remembered he was an anime figure, after all.
"So your name is Kiko, right?"
"Yeah. Did San leave these here?" Chaud nodded. Kiko gathered the clothes. "So I'll look for somewhere to change.
"Don't need to." Ed said, appearing out of nowhere.
"Hi Ed shorty." Ed started running at me, popping veins, but luckily Al was there to hold him back.
"GRRRR!!!!! I'M NOT SHORT!!!!" Kiko giggled.
"Well, what was it that you said no?" Kiko asked.
"Like this." Apparently Ed had calmed down. He clapped his hands together, and four walls surrounded her. "Just call out when you're finished."
'Hee. Don't need to.' Kiko thought. She changed into her new clothes, and noticed she looked remarkably like San. 'All right. Time to test my strength.' She put her hands together to channel chakra into her hands, and did medical ninjutsu.
"HEEEYAHH!!!" She aimed at the weak point in one wall, and it burst open, rocks spraying everywhere.
"AAIIIIIIEEE!!!!" Ed yelled.
"Huh? So it does work."
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!!!!?!?!?"
"Medical Ninjutsu." Kiko tilted her head to her equal sized companion. "What's wrong?"
"YOU NEARLY KILLED ME!!!!" Kiko smiled.
"Hee." After Ed had chilled his temper, he noticed the clothes that Kiko wore.
"You look like San."
"Yeah, I kinda figured." She picked up the knife and spear made of wolf fang and hefted them, giving each a small swing. "So light. No wonder why San is so good at fighting." Looking at Ed, then at Al, she asked, "Are the homunculus still after you?" There was a short silence from Ed.
"Yes."
"So are they with Orochimaru?" Ed looked at Al. They shrugged. "Kuso."
"Well, we are going to try to make a peace treaty with him." Al said. "So you and San along with the rest of the Wolf Clan will be in the front, with some ninja behind, in case of an attack."
"He's not going to." Kiko said. "He a teme, and a chou-teme at that." She started walking into the main area of the camp. "So I'll go look for San."
"Kiko." Kiko heard San's voice from behind her and turned.
"Hai?"
"It may be sudden, but this was originally planned out. Since you are going to be with the Wolf Clan, your name will have to change to Takane, and me your older sister, my mom your mom. Is that okay?" Kiko…er…Takane, was nearly bursting with happiness. She had always wanted to have San as a sister and Moro as her mother and danced around with joy.
"Living with the Wolf Clan! IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE!! YATTA!!!" She stopped moving. "Did I just say that out loud?" San nodded. Takane blushed. Kakashi appeared.
"Hi Kakashi-chikan." Kakashi's eyebrow twitched.
"It's about time for the treaty, although I doubt he'll agree."
"Who's going to be in the back support?" Takane asked.
"Me, ANBU, that's basically it."
"Wow." Takane said sarcastically.
"Takane, one of my wolves, you'll be in charge of him."
"REALLY??"
"Err…Hai."
"ARIGATOU!!!!"
"No problem." San whistled, and the two cubs came. Takane jumped onto one of the cubs, and the party set out.
"Hey, San, do you know how to speak Japanese?" Takane was an immigrant from Japan, so all the anime lovers in her school also envied her for being Japanese.
"I do." San replied in Japanese, instead of English, which made Takane happy.
"I do too. This way, Orochimaru won't know what we're saying, right?"
"I guess." They soon arrived at Orochimaru's place.
"I hate this place…." Takane hissed.
"Back so soon, Kakashi?" Everyone heard Orochimaru's voice. "And 'Takane'?" Everyone was shocked.
'Shit.' Takane thought.
"You know why we're here." One of the ANBU said.
"A peace treaty. You Konoha people are too involved in peace." Orochimaru did a jutsu, and the ground rumbled. A black portal opened before us, and out came a Tatari Gami. Orochimaru threw a golden kunai with a letter attached to it.
'How-? He used that forbidden jutsu. DAMN.'
"Stay back!!" Takane yelled to the ninja. "This is a Tatari Gami, a Cursed God, which if it touches you, the curse is inflicted, and slowly, you will die." She looked at San, who had her spear in hand, and she did the same.
"Ashitaka got this, didn't he?"
"Yeah." The Tatari Gami charged, heading at Takane.
"Quickly. Run." Takane said to her wolf pup.
"I know." It replied. He ran in a zigzagging path, the Tatari Gami still following.
"It's after me. I'll jump off of you."
"No!" But it was too late, Takane had jumped off the wolf, and it ran back to San.
"Run! Now!" San lingered for a while, but led the others farther away. Takane did Kage Bunshin, and each did Chidori. In total, there was twenty bunshins, and all of them attacked the Tatari Gami, Takane safely out of range. Suddenly, all the bunshins disappeared, and the cursed god had a tentacle extended, aiming at Takane's body. She managed to dodge the outstretched arm, but it caught onto her left arm.
"Kuso!" She winced momentarily at the pain in her arm. "Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu!!" She did Sasuke's favorite jutsu, and it killed the Tatari Gami. The 'worm' arms had aimed at her again, but the fireball dissolved the worms, along with the ones on the god. Takane recognized the god. It was Nago, the recent leader of the Boar Clan. Nago collapsed to the ground with breathing labored.
"Ahh…." Nago said. "The daughter of the Urufu Batsu…Arigatou…Hell. Summoned me…I can do nothing but harm…forest's clan…How you have done such a deed…" Nago dissolved in an instant, leaving a sound ninja's body dead. Takane ignored the melting 'worms' on her left lower arm. San ran over with a pitcher of boiling water that she had asked one of the ninja to prepare in case of the death curse, which had happened. She poured it over the wound and quickly bound it with cloth.
"Argh…" Takane looked back at where Orochimaru was…he was gone. 'Teme….' She gripped her arm. "Ow…" The wolf cub came back to Takane, nosing her right arm, avoiding the poisoned wound.
"Jump on."
"Arigatou." Takane leapt onto the kind wolf and everyone went back to the camp.
Meanwhile (Camp) 3:45 PM
Ashitaka was sitting on a rock, kindling a fire with broth in a pot hanging over it. Lumps of seafood rose to the surface of the porridge-like broth every once in a while.
"Ow." He gripped his right arm, where the curse once was. 'But it's gone.' He thought. 'Since the Shishi Gami died.' Ashitaka looked up to the darkening sky. Crows crossed the sky. 'Did someone else get the wound?'
Chaud was walking around the edge of the camp, wondering about Takane—Kiko.
"Protoman?'
"Hai?"
"What do you think about Kiko?" Protoman did an invisible smile.
"Do you like her?"
"…." Chaud blushed. "I guess a bit."
"Hmph…Like Lan and Maylu, Megaman and Roll."
"Do you think she would like me?"
"…" Now it was Protoman's turn to be silent.
"Protoman…"
"Nani? It probably depends…Since Orochimaru and all that…" Protoman for the first time, didn't give a straight answer to his master. Chaud noticed the party from Orochimaru coming back. He saw Takane with a bandage on her left arm.
'Takane….' Chaud approached her.
"Takane? What happened to your arm?"
"Oh, this?" She lifted her arm up. "Just a long scratch from Orochimaru. I'd look stupid wearing five bandages for this." Takane smiled reassuringly. Chaud dismissed the idea that something happened to her, and waved good-bye as he went back to his stroll around camp.
"Ane-san."
"Nani, imouto?"
"Do you think Chaud likes me?" San suppressed a smile.
"Yeah." The two walked to their home, chatting together. Sasuke hid in a shadow of a tree, watching the return of 'Kiko' when he noticed her bandaged arm.
'What happened?' He narrowed his eyes. 'And why does Orochimaru want her?' Sasuke slid away. 'Then if he was after me as a container, why her now?'
It was night, and there was no attack from Orochimaru whatsoever. Takane lay next to her 'ane-san', who was curled up in a ball having a peaceful sleep. She woke up from the pain in her arm, and stood up, walking up the cliff with a cloak and her dagger hidden from view. It was a clear night, with a full moon and an endless sight of stars.
'Kuso…My arm…' Takane gripped the wound. "Uh…" She heard a crackle of a leaf behind her, and her hand immediately went to her dagger, unsheathing it and aiming at the intruder's neck. It was Chaud. Chaud immediately froze. "Oh!" Takane lowered the weapon. "What are you doing here? And maybe don't sneak up next time."
"I couldn't sleep." He walked over to the edge of the cliff and sat there, feet dangling. Takane joined him later and talked together.
"Is…it true that your kaa-san died when you where young?" Chaud didn't answer. "At least you knew your kaa-san, I didn't know mine. I was from an orphanage, but at least my adoptive parents loved me. I loved them back…" She looked into the face of the moon. "I miss them."
"Takane." Takane jumped at her kaa-san's voice and turned. Morro was standing a few yards away with the moonlight glaring off her glossy silver coat.
"Kaa-san."
"You do know what infected you, don't you?"
"Hai, kaa-san. So…Why is Orochimaru after me anyway?"
"…" Morro wanted to tell her daughter the truth, but knew that she couldn't…Takane had to find out for herself.
"Kaa-san?"
"You must find out for yourself. If I told you, it would only breed more hate, like the bullet in my chest to kill." Morro turned away and disappeared.
'My daughter…I am sorry for all this trouble I have done to you…had I kept you, you may have been safe.' Morro shed a tear. …Plip.
"Thanks for keeping me company, Chaud." Takane stood up. "Gotta get sleep if I'm going to battle, ne?" The dual-haired boy nodded.
"It gets lonely up here too, so I enjoyed it as well." Chaud rarely smiled, but he did for Takane.
"See ya." Takane jumped off the cliff.
"Takane!" He nearly fainted from Takane doing such an act. No harm came to Takane however, doing a flip and landing on her feet. The speck waved to Chaud and he waved back, walking back to camp the long way.
"Did you talk with him?"
"San, you've been awake?!"
"Ashitaka did the same thing before."
"Do we start the war tomorrow?"
"Hai." She snuggled up in her blanket. "Get some sleep." San rested and so did Takane.
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