The next few weeks were full of activity as the team from Suna arrived and started to gather supplies after they were told of the mission. Hinata was given her father's blessing to start dating Naruto and for the mission to Alagaësia. Kiba was starting to spend more time with Haku after his mother invited her over and laid down some ground rules for them seeing each other.
In a training field there is a dome of mirror like ice. Inside were two people; one liked to be in her late teens with long black hair, a pale blue kimono, and a kind face, the other is Lucian.
"Again Haku," he said. Haku then sighed and melted into a mirror she then threw needles that were made of ice at Lucian. He started to doge the needles. "You need to be faster to hit an elf let alone me."
This went on for five minutes before she nicked Lucian on the cheek. Very good Haku, now you can rest," said Lucian with a smile.
Haku let the mirrors melt as she sat down on the ground. Lucian walked over to her and sat down. Pulling out a box he offered Haku some poky. Just then a girl around nineteen with chocolate brown shoulder length hair, deep silver eyes and sand brown cargo pants with a skin tight blue shirt, unfortunately she looked like a guy having a flat chest and a temper. Her sand headband was around her arm. This young woman is Kamai Baki, "Your early you know. How is Gaara?" questioned Lucian.
Kamai sighed and said, "Gaara is fine but Shukaku is scared to be here because of you and your sister." Lucian knew she was Gaara as a little brother and she did care about his sanity. They both had the smell of death but he thought it was because they were ninja and Gaara was influenced by Shukaku until after the chunin exams.
"Tell him to go to the hot springs and relax. Maybe I could make him something to help him relax and not fear me," Lucian mused
Kamai laughed at the man knowing he wasn't human but being kind to others. Heck he even offered to train them and they were from another village. They start a taijutsu sparing match before moving to ninjutsu. Lucian made a dome of ice around them as sand wings spread from Kamai's back. He then threw ice needles which Kamai blocked with her wings. Next Lucian threw throwing knives made of ice and fire which were harder to block because of how they were made. Kamai then took the offensive and formed a ball of sand that shot at Lucian as he passed by her. The ball hit him in the side as he left the mirror to strike. "That kind of hurt, what is you sand made of?" he asked.
"Sand, glass, and metals," Kamai replied, "Packed to the level of Gaara's sand armor. So how about you use the full move."
Lucian sighed but did as asked, the fire kunai turned from red to a blue color and formed into a ball about the size of a marble. Lucian then said, "Nova Dome." He then disappeared from sight as the balls rained down on Kamai. 'Please let her live, Gaara would kill me if she died,' Lucian thought as he sped up even more and time seemed to slow down for him.
To Lucian's surprise Kamai was still standing after two minutes of the attack. "Was that all?" was her smart ass reply to his socked look.
"What …How are you not even burnt!" screamed Lucian as he started to panic.
"Fire never seemed to hurt."
Lucian's jaw hit the ground when he heard this. The only beings fire did not hurt were dragons, his family, and Death's family. He didn't think she was part of the first two groups, so maybe she was… "Here catch." Lucian threw a fire ball at her.
The ball slammed into Kamai's face making her land on her back. Getting up she yelled, "What was that for?" Her face was slowly healing from the fire confirming Lucian's theory. So Kamai was related somehow.
Cloud Village
A young man around sixteen was walking down the main road in the village; he was wearing a dark gray t-shirt, black cargo pants, and black sandals. His hair was a dark red almost crimson in a fighter's cut. On his head were two fox-like ears. The young man turned a corner into an ally way and saw a girl around his age on the ground of the ally way.
She had blue cat-like eyes, long blond hair tied in a braid, and overall cat-like grace. She was wearing blue pants that stopped below the knees with bandages from the bottom of the pants to her ankles, a green shirt, blue sandals, and her hair was wrapped with the same material as her lower legs.
"What is your name?" the young man asked gently seeing her try to move away from him. For some reason it hurt him on the inside.
"Yugito, what is yours?" the now named Yugito replied.
"Jacob. What happened to you?" he asked. Yugito looked down to the ground but told him her story. Jacob cursed and said to Yugito in a kinder voice, "How would you like to come with me and leave these stupid humans. They don't deserve to have such a beautiful kitten to grace this flea bag of a village."
Yugito looked at Jacob in shock as what he said registered. 'Well Kitten it looks like someone has tast. Although he smells like a fox, maybe Hitomi's kin,' said the Nibi.
Yugito asked him why he would help a demon like her. Jacob's eyes softened and answered, "If you are a demon then so am I. I think that 'demons' should stick together. Besides who said you were a demon?"
"The council said I am a demon and sends me on suicide missions at least three times a week," was the san answer.
Jacob uttered a string of curses in three different languages. "Those stupid fools," he said softly and then to Yugito, "You will be coming with me to my home village to be with those who understand what we are."
Yugito looked like she was about to refuse his offer when Nibi said, 'Trust him and leave here, it is better with him. Besides you could always run from him.' Yugito liked that idea. Getting up she limped over to him. Gently picking her up Jacom activated the seal on his wrist.
Konoha
Lucian felt the seal on his wrist start to get warm, meaning that Jacob needs to talk to him or Lessa. 'Yes son?' Lessa asked over the mind link the seal created.
'Could you summon a container and me please? Also she needs to be healed, her village was not as kind to her as we thought,' Jacob told them what he found out about Yugito and her life.
'Just give me a moment to set up the seal to summon you two,' said Lucian. Hitomi raised an eyebrow as he left the training ground. Then she saw the red paw print on his wrist. In a spare room in his home Lucian started to draw a seal on the floor and onto the walls.
When he finished he ran through hand seals in a blur of motion, on the last one he slammed his hands onto the center of the seal array. With a plume of smoke Jacob appeared holding a young woman bridal style. Yugito squealed from the feeling of being reversed summoned.
After Yugito got her feet back under her, she looked up to see a man with silver hair and fox-like fetchers. "Who are you and were am I?" Yugito asked.
Lucian chuckled and replayed, "My name is Lucifer, please call me Lucian in this form, and to answer your question of where we are this is my house in Konoha. The kit who was holding you is my son."
Nibi purred in Yugito's mind at the knowledge of who saved them. 'So he is Lucian's son. Kitten you should keep him, you won't find another like him in these lands.'
Lucian led them to a hallway with eight doors leading to different rooms. "The third door on the left is the bathroom Yugito, why don't you take time to relax and Lessa will bring you up some close."
"Who is Lessa?" Yugito asked while tilting her head to the side.
Lucian and Jacob looked to each other and said, "She is m sister/mother." Yugito looked like she was getting ill so Lucian explained, "As a kitsune I have the ability to take on a female form, Lessa is that side of me."
With that said Lucian led Jacob down stairs to the forge. 'Just think if Jacob has that ability he could do so much more for us,' purred Nibi.
'Shut up you perverted little neko,' growled Yugito as Nibi sent her different scenes of them. She started to blush from the thought of what Jacob would look like as a female.
Two hours latter Yugito introduced herself to Jacob's family, Naruto, and Haku. Naruto looked sad that someone and gone through what she had to, but happy she survived. Hitomi was growling about killing an entire village for harming an innocent girl, Kira and Haku would help her do just that. Lucian just had a blank look on his face, and Jacob, well he already knew what had happened to her.
Finally Lessa could stand the silence no longer and said, "Well you know what they say, 'Love's the only house.' So who wants to go party my treat?"
When they left the house to find some place they ran into Hana, Kiba, Gaara, and Kamai. Gaara and Kamai were singing a very upbeat song with Gaara's sand forming balls and exploding with the beat. Lucian and Naruto started singing along as balls of fire and ice mimicked the sand.
As the ramen stand came into view they saw Tsunade waiting on Naruto for the ramen she had promised him so they left the two at the stand. "Stupid ramen obsession," muttered Hitomi.
Just then they heard someone groaned out from around the corner of an ally. Lucian looked to see what had happened only to find Neji in a trash can. "Well, look were the screw fell tonight," was Lucian's dry response.
Neji shot him a dirty look but said nothing as he tried to get out of the can. Kira and Gaara came into the ally when they caught Neji's sent and helped him out of the can.
"Lucian you're an ass you know that right?" Neji demanded. Kira smacked him in the head for insulting her dad.
'You know that was not nice to say "son",' a voice said in Neji's mind.
"Did you hear someone say anything?" Neji asked and Lucian tried not to laugh when he saw Neji's reaction.
Gaara looked confused by the question and raised a nonexistent eyebrow when Neji told what he heard. Kira on the other hand was glaring at her father. "That's mean daddy, quite picking on Neji."
Lucian put on an innocent face and replied, "Why do you think it was me and not one of the Yamanaka or an elf?"
"You were smiling when Neji told us of what he heard. Plus you're the kitsune prince, aka the 'Silver Tongued Prince'," Gaara answered in a monotone.
Lucian just stuck out his tongue and started walking into the shop.
Time skip
When the shop closed the group just walked around the village going from store to store gathering supplies for the trip. They walked by the ramen stand only to find Naruto and Tsunade still eating with the young dragon. "So what did you name her Tsunade?" asked Lucian as he sat down and ordered shrimp ramen, the others following his example.
"Well she liked the name Cynder. Oddly that was the only name that I thought of the sounded female," was Tsunade's answer as she drank her sake.
"So little one how do you feel to be going to our home?" asked Lucian and then added, "You will meet your mother's rider."
'So I get to meet the mysterious Brom. When do we leave for home?' asked Cynder.
"We'll leave in the morning so rest well tonight and be ready to be reverse-summoned to Alagaësia."
When everyone had eaten they left for home after promising to meet at the Dragon's Forge in the morning. That night Tsunade dreamt of a woman with long black hair, slanted cat-like eyes, and for some reason dragon wings coming from her back. The woman was straddling her waist and was about to lean down when Tsunade woke up in a sweat and aroused.
'What was that?' wondered Tsunade. She then looked at her clock and noticed it was five in the morning so she when to take a shower.
As that took place Cynder shared Tsunade's dream and realized the woman was her human from on top of Tsunade. To say it was awkward is saying Hitomi's fox form is huge, it was an understatement. 'Well now I should tell Tsunade how I fell and see what she will do,' thought Cynder as she transformed into her human form. "I really need to thank Lessa for this trick," she said to herself still surprised she could speak in two-legged tongs as she called it.
As Cynder walked into the shower she saw pictures of Tsunade's family. One had her grandfather at the founding of the village, in the corner was a tall man with silver hair, fox-like ears and tails that had golden fur she knew this person to be Lucian but he looked like he was under much stress. Under the picture she noticed a date stating it to be nearly one hundred years old.
Tsunade heard the door to the shower room open. Thinking it was Shizune she did not say anything about it until the person climbed into the shower with her. Turning around she saw the women from her dream climbing in. The woman wrapped her arms around Tsunade's waist and hugged her close. "Tsu you can relax around me. Your coldness hurts me," she said. Tsunade recognized the voice and turned her head to face her and asked one word.
"Cynder?" The woman nodded so Tsunade did the only thing that came to mind and returned the hug with all her feelings.
One hour later
When the group gathered at the forge Cynder winked to Lucian. "So now we will need to brace ourselves to be reverse-summoned to Brom in two minutes," Lucian told everyone as they gathered around him.
Fox on dragon wings: Fox here. Well this is chapter is going to be split in two parts as it seemed better to me.
*Cynder and Tsunade walk in*
Cynder: So what do you think the readers will think about us Fox?
Fox chuckles: well what you two did in the shower was steamy I'll say that
*mysterious man walks in*: so when do I get to come in?
Fox: I'll see what I can do you should be coming in soon though.
*Lessa runs into the room*: there you are! *drags man into another room*
Fox: well that was strange. Until next time R&R
