Kaji

A long silence follows his words as I stare at him in utter shock. This guy... Kai was it? He claims to be my twin brother, but if this was true, were was he through all that suffering? Why would he leave me alone like that?! Wait... from his appearance it looks as if he went through the same experience as I did, with the experiments. Fine I'll admit if that if he truly is my brother he has a reason for not being there for me during those years... but what about after that? what happened when we were dumped in the dessert? Did he hate me? or did he run like a chicken because I went insane? My head starts to hurt as I think over the possibilities, so I grab my head and curl up slightly, trying to block out the world. Kai's words reverberate in my head in a never ending circle making my head hurt so much that I felt like being sick.

"Kaji?"

A hand touches my shoulder and I stiffen. Looking up I'm faced with a bored yet strangely caring expression. Kai kneels down beside me, motioning Sai should move away so he could talk to me. He then starts to talk in a low tone.

"Kaji. I know this is all very confusing. Loosing your memory isn't a fun thing. I would know, they erased the part of my memory that contained you. The same as they did with you... but I remembered and I know you can do the same. If it'll help any I'll explain everything from the day we said our first word to the day I decided to stop worrying about you, but I can't do that right now. Right now we need your fire so we can get to hat waterfall you heard. Yes I know you heard it, so don't try to fake confusion. It' s crucial that we get there soon too, or the people we're meeting there will leave."

By the end of his, strangely long speech-like thing, I've calmed down considerably and the pounding in my head has decreased to a dull thud. I look over to Sai who is sitting patiently at the edge of the circle of light. His back is turned to us so I can't see his expression, but for some reason I get the feeling he's already decided to trust Kai. Giving in I nod slightly showing that I'll help them, I look back at Kai. He gives a light smile, his eyes never changing from their bored look. He then stands up and calls Sai back.

"Sai you'll have to carry Kaji again. It's not a good idea for her to be exerting any more energy than she already has to, and I need both my hands free to deactivate traps and such. Oh and before you go picking her up... carry her on your back."

That last bit almost sounded like a command... or I could just be hearing things. Getting on Sai's back I lean lightly against his back, with my left arm I hold on to him, by placing my hand on the right side of his collar bone. My right arm I stick forward and form a bright ball of fire around my hand. I look to Kai and he nods his approval, then heads towards the back of the cavern. Sai follows and I look at my surroundings. Stone. Stone. Stone. Oh look a stalactite! Oh and a stalagmite! Stone. Stone. Stone. Oh! was that a bat? no... never mind, just a shadow. These words seem to be on repeat as I observe my surroundings. This had to be the most boring ride ever. Eventually I just start to doze, leaving the sustaining of the fire to my natural chakra flow.

When I finally come to we're at the mouth of a gigantic cavern lit by what looks like millions of glowing mushrooms. I stare in awe as we head into the center. There a large pool of water flows serenely. The water is aluminize by the bright blue glow of the mushrooms, making it look like it's glowing a beautiful green-blue light of it's own. The spectacle is only enhanced by the beautiful waterfall feeding the pool with new water as the old flows down a dark tunnel leading likely to the outside or to some distant spring. By the pool stands three people. Their backs are turned so it is hard to tell who they are, but from the feel of their chakra their at chunin level. As we get closer one of them turns around.

It a young girl no more than 15 and around my height. Hardly any of her skin shows, for her clothing consists of a black full body suit, with dark blue, knee-length shorts, and a black, loose belly top over it. On top of that she wears a long black trench coat that ends just below the bottom of her shorts, a crimson sash around her waist and a matching scarf rapped around her head and neck so only one of her eyes are showing. The eye that is showing is a bright, electric yellow. Around the opening showing her eye, hair pokes out, it would match her eye if it wasn't for the bight blue tips. From what I could see at this distance and in the strange light the skin that actually shows is a normal skin tone, except or large splotches were it almost looks like her skin was dyed an ice blue. A metal plate in attached to the part of her scarf that covers her right eye, on it is the familiar hourglass symbol of suna.

The person beside her looks over the back at us as he realizes what she was looking at. He then turns his attention to the girl on his other side and tells her something. I don't get a good look at her though, because she quickly nods and disappears.

The boy then looks back at us. He look about the same age as the other girl, but is way taller. He looks to be the slightly shorter than Niwa, who is 5'7" , probably only by around a half inch. I've seen a lot of bizarre things in my life time, but this guy was definitely one of the more bizarre ones. He has a pretty normal hair cut, or would if it wasn't for one small detail. Besides his hair being a light green it's in a normal, if slightly longer than normal guy cut. The bizarre part isn't that it's green it's that in random spots long bits or dark green hair stick out like, then flop lightly over so they point forward. Besides that the guys has a light complexion and wears dark purple goggles that make in impossible to see his eyes. His clothing consists of black shorts with slits up the the waist band on both legs, the slits are then held from randomly flapping around by green straps that are connected by bolts. His shirt is a lighter purple guy tank pop, with a strange contraption over the right side of his chest. At closer examination the contraption looks like a octagonal metal disk, with a smaller octagonal glass compartment in the center, filled with a strange green liquid. On the surface of the glass Suna's symbol is printed clearly in black. Running from six of the eight sides of the metal plate are black straps that likely meet up in the back.

Kai continues to move towards the two until he stands beside them. He then faces us.

"This"

He motions towards the two.

"and the girl who disappeared earlier are my team. Denkou Ryuu."

He motions towards the girl.

"and Kumo Kaze."

He motions to the boy.

"The other girl is Kumo's older sister Cho. I think she's older by about nine months..."

He turns his attention to Kumo and asks

"Right?"

Kumo seems to have been spacing out cause he shakes his head lightly then answers quickly

"Hai!"

Kai nods then snickers lightly

"Day dreaming about someone in particular again?"

Kumo's eyebrows raise in shock and his face turns pink. I couldn't see his eyes but I suddenly got the feeling he was looking over at his teammate out of the corner of his eye. So the spider is interested in the mysterious scarfed girl.

These two had very interesting names. Very descriptive in ways that they would almost seem to have been given to them not at birth, but once they had been given time to develop skills and personalities. Interesting that Denkou would be called lightning dragon. Lightning could be referring to the elemental jutsu she preferred. But dragon as a family name was unusual.

Dragons as highly respected mystical beings had left the world in the hands of man a long time ago, though some theorize that they didn't actually leave but rather hid away or took on human form and were breeding in to the human race. This was thought because every so often a baby would be born with "special traits" be it patches of small scales, small horns, or even at times a tail or wings. Depending were they were born they were either seem as a miracle or a bad omen. The ones who were seen as bad were often killed before their mothers could see them and possibly grow attached to them. The ones that were considered good often grew up to be healthy members of society and might even apply their abilities to help protect their homes or communities. Unfortunately some of these "Dragon Children" that were allowed to live turned evil. They would turn into killing machines and wouldn't stop until they were exterminated. One thing remained the same with all of them though, they were all given the last name Dragon, or at least a variation of it. I wonder if that was the case with this girl.

The sudden feeling of being watched pulls me from my thoughts. I look in the direction of the person to look Denkou straight in the eye. We look at each other for a short moment before I finally look away, directing my attention back to Sai.

"Sai, you think you could let me down?"

"But you shouldn--"

I cut him off before he can protest farther by saying

"I slept the whole way here I think I can handle walking the short distance to the edge of the water. And besides if it'll make you happy I won't move from that spot unless told to."

Sai sighs as he lightly lets me down to the ground. As I stand I wobble slightly, seems my legs had gone numb along the long trek. Flexing my legs I wait for the feeling to return the promptly fall over.

"GAHH! PINS N' NEEDLES! PINS N' NEEDLES"

I clutch my legs in pain as everyone looks over. The scene must have looked hilarious because everyone except Denkou laughs slightly. Instead of laughing Denkou walks over to me a kneels down. Placing her hands on my legs she says in a very quiet voice

"this will hurt a bit but it'll help the pins n' needles go away"

I nod slightly taking my hands away from my legs and clenching my teeth. I was right about her preferred element. A small shock goes through my legs as she slightly squeezes them. Strangely the shock doesn't leave my legs. Clenching my teeth tighter I bare with it, until she stops. After she grabs my arm and pulls me to my feet.

"There. How do your legs feel?"

I smile as I test my weight on them then say

"Great! a little tingly but besides that there's no pain at all. Thanks."

She nods slightly then pushes me lightly towards were I was headed before I met the ground. I nod in return then head over to the pool.

Kumo

I watch as Denkou lightly pushes Kai-sensei's sister on he way. She then heads towards me, stopping beside me.

"That was a rare thing from you. Didn't know you knew how to heal using electricity."

She looks over at me her one showing eye keeping it usual emotionless look, then says

"You'd be surprised what you can do with electricity."

Then continues towards Kai-sensei and the man who if I heard the woman correctly is called Sai. Following her over I then give my attention to Kai-sensei.

"Ok as I know you bother heard my sister say, this is Sai a friend of my sister. My sister's name is Kaji add what ever prefixes you wish to her name but always remember to respect her as you would me. Anyways getting to what we're doing here. The reason, Sai, why we are at this specific location is because it's a very safe location, with no risk of having people randomly stumbling upon us. What we are going to do here... well you already know I'm trying to help my sister remember her past correctly, rather than that... uh... inaccurate version, she's got in her head, but there is another reason for me seeking her out now of all times. You are likely going to be a big part of it to, but we'll get to that when it happens... anyways this other reason you're going to have to keep from Kaji for the time being. Got it? Good"

I mentally laugh as, as usual Sensei gives him no time to actually answer the asked question and continues on with what he was saying

"As you know Kaji and I aren't exactly naturally cat-people, but out of some strange turn of events that had something to do with our DNA being altered we ended up being almost exact copies of a race of people that died out millions of years ago, of course we're more advanced mentally but besides that there are no differences. You likely don't know about what actually happened to Kaji in the past to make her how she is today, but that doesn't matt--"

Sai-kun suddenly cuts sensei off by saying

"Actually after loosing a bet were I had to tell her a secrete and her telling me anyways, I don know what happened"

Sensei's usual bored expression gets a tint of interest as he says

"Oh? well that will make things a bit easier. Ok so you know that there were others who went through the same thing except with other animals. Well truth be told the reason behind that whole thing was to try and make a new species of human that was perfect for fighting and pretty much nothing else. In the cat section they succeeded, though it was likely only because certain people in the human race are actually descendants of a few of the cat-people who decided to cross-breed with humans, so they are more susceptible to having that gene made dominate. I really hate talking this much so I'm going to make the rest short and you can ask Kumo or Denkou any of you questions cause they know all about it. Anyways since my family were one of the people who were able to have that happen we became what we are. Now getting to the main point. Since I told Gaara-sama all about this he's made it clear that he doesn't want the race dyeing out again... his reasons I'm not exactly sure... but eh. Long story short Kaji as the only female pretty much has the survival on her shoulders. Now if you'll excuse me I need to got talk to Gaara-sama."

Sensei finally stops talking, abruptly turns around and walks about three steps before disappearing in a gust of wind.