(("Speech" 'thoughts' 'thought speech'))
(Age: 6-7)
[Forest Surrounding Konoha]
sniff... A wolf stood sniffing the air trying to find the scent trail. Rustle...rustle Leaves fall from the tree above the wolves' head. The wolf appears to be frustrated and tries to follow the chakra trail. The wolves' blood red eyes widen and it takes off heading away from the village.
{? POV}
I watched the wolf as it tried to find my scent. I knew that the moment it found me it would strike. I jumped from the tree that I had been hiding in to another tree. I watched as the wolf looked about and took the opportunity to study my opponent. He had black fur and one white sock on its left foreleg. I watched it look around one more time before its eyes widened and it took off away from the village and me. Once it was gone I breathed a sigh of relief and jumped down from my hiding spot. I winced as I landed on my right leg. I knew that I had hurt it when I had fled from the crazy fan girls that were chasing me earlier. I felt something roll down my leg and leaned against the trunk of the tree for support. I was breathing heavily and the next thing I knew I was falling forward. Before I could hit the ground an orange and black striped pelt caught me. I felt myself being turned over and the last thing I saw were two blood red eyes filled with worry looking at me and then darkness surrounded me.
{My POV}
I was walking through the forest, collecting healing herbs, alongside my youngest daughter Tigerpaw, when my oldest son came running up to us.
'MOTHER! There is a boy up ahead who's hurt pretty badly' he said to me.
"How far up ahead?" I asked worry clear o my face.
'About one hundred meters' he replied.
"Okay go tell the others and we'll go on ahead to help him," I said taking off into the direction his scent was coming from. I ran as fast as I could and heard Tigerpaw running after me. When we got there the boy was falling forward. Thankfully Tigerpaw was able to catch him before he could hit the ground. I rushed to his side and very carefully turned him over and saw him pass out.
"Tigerpaw make a place for me to lie him down on after I heal him and then come and watch so you can learn how to do this," I asked her in a calm voice. She just nodded her head and started to make a mat out of the grass and leaves for me to lie him down on. I very gently laid the young boy on the ground and made the hand sign for darkness and light so that I could check his wounds. After I finished the hand signs a ball of white light appeared in my left hand and I sent this light to run over his body. Whenever it found a wound it would stop and turn a shade of red to signal how bad the wound was. When it got to his right leg it turned the color of blood and I knew that he had a broken leg at the least.
"Tigerpaw can you go and rip two very straight tree limbs off a tree so I can mend his leg?" I asked my youngest daughter who smiled and purred a yes to my request. When she returned I had her help me set the leg correctly and I performed the hand signs for my healing jutsu. My hands became surrounded in a blue color to match his chakra and speed the healing process. As his leg finished healing my brothers appeared and watched me gently lay the boy down.
"Well it seems that we rushed over here for nothing," my eldest brother said. I shot a glare at him and returned my gaze to the now sleeping boy.
"Knock it off, Tigerstar," My youngest brother whispered to Tigerstar. Tigerstar just rolled his eyes and continued to study the boy. I climbed the tree that the boy had been leaning against for support and returned my gaze to the boy. As I looked at him I figured he couldn't be more than six so we where about the same age. I also took the opportunity to analyze what he looked like. He had raven black hair, somewhat like mine, very pale skin, a dark blue shirt, and shorts. All in all he looked like my mother when it came to features.
"Hey, sis, you want to go hunting with us or what?" my younger brother asked.
"No, but thanks anyway, Faolan, "I replied with a shake of my head," I'm going to set up a fire though so I can cook for the kid." Faolan shrugged and headed off deeper into the forest along with Tigerstar and a few of my sons and daughters.
***Time Skip***
I was asleep in the tree that I had been sitting in the night before when I heard growling. I sat up and looked down at the camp site. I saw a man with white hair reading a book and talking to my brothers, who had their hands on their weapons. I also saw Bloodeyes, Wolfspirit (both male wolves), Iceeyes, and Bloodtiger (both female tigers) standing ready to protect the boy from yesterday from the ninja.
{Kakashi's' POV}
I had been dispatched that morning to look for a missing child, who hadn't returned home the night before. I decided to start my search in the forest around the village since the kid obviously wasn't in the village. As I walked out the gates I noticed that the birds weren't chirping like they usually did on a good day like this. I jumped into a tree and started to head away from the village and deeper into the forest. I saw a clearing up ahead and noticed that there were quite a few wolves and tigers in the area and this put me on edge since wolves and tigers didn't mix well. Just as I decided to avoid them I saw the boy that I was looking for unconscious and lying in the midst of the group. I cursed my luck as I saw a pair of wolves and a pair of tigers stand and look ready to fight.
I decided that it would be better if I just teleported over to the boy and took him when I noticed that the four animals were standing over the boy that I was here for.
'You may as well come out we know that you're here' I heard. I looked around to find the person who said that and only saw the wolves glaring at me. 'I must be going insane. Wolves can't talk' I thought to myself.
'Actually we can talk just as well as your ninja hounds. By the way next time make sure that you wash your clothes before you go on a mission in the forest' the voice growled inside my head. My eyes widened as I realized that these must have been ninja wolves or something along those lines. I sighed and walked out of the bush where I had been hiding. As soon as I walked out two ninja jumped up and joined the animals with their hands on their weapons.
"Listen if you just give me the boy I'll let you walk out of here without hurting you," I said as I pulled out the latest copy of Icha Icha Paradise.
"And how do we know that you're not an enemy ninja who's going to take this boy and hold him as a prisoner?" the boy with his hand on a katana asked.
"Well how do I know that you didn't kidnap the boy for the same reason?" I retorted. He just growled at me and I heaved a sigh. "Listen I'll give you to the count of three and this will be over and then I'm leaving with the boy," I said snapping my book shut and launching myself at the one who had spoken. At the same moment the wolves launched themselves forward and blocked my attack and the other ninja stood and performed some quick hand signs and made a cloud of smoke envelope him. My kunai clashed with the first ninjas' katana and I jumped away. As I flew back the smoke around the other ninja cleared and in his place stood a weretiger and in the next second the first ninja had dropped a smoke bomb and when it cleared a werewolf stood in his place. The two growled at me before launching themselves at me. The werewolf struck first and I barely blocked his attack with my kunai before the weretiger stuck at me with his claws which I blocked with a different kunai.
'Crap these two must be from the Village Hidden in the Legend' I thought as I mentally cursed my luck. I quickly aborted my first plan and instead made a direct line for my target. The wereanimals took off after me and I had to dodge the attacks of the regular animals so I had to stay focused. I jumped over the first wolf, who tried to bite my vest, spun to the right to avoid the second wolf, ducked under the first tiger, and dodged behind the second tiger just in time to avoid being clawed on the left side. Just as I was about to grab the child a weight landed on my shoulders and pushed me to the ground.
"Next time make sure there are only as many enemies as you see before you attack," a feminine voice whispered in my ear. I looked to where the wereanimals were and saw that they had stopped their advance on me. 'Just who is this person on me' I thought to myself.
{My POV}
I looked over at my brothers and kids to make sure they were all right before returning my attention to the man beneath me. "Who are you and why do you want this boy?" I growled in his ear. I could smell the fear he as giving off and knew he was terrified that he was going to die here, but I also smelled acceptance of what was going to happen. "Answer me!" I growled louder next to his ear.
"My name is something you don't need to know and as for that boy all you need to know is that he belongs in the Hidden Leaf Village and that if you don't give him back more ninja will come after you," He said to me.
"Good answer," I chuckled as I got off him. He sat up and grabbed a kunai from his pouch then looked at me in shock. "Awe. What's the matter expecting someone older than me?" I chuckled at him. From the look he gave me he obviously was and this really got me to laughing. "God I love doing that way too much," I said causing my brothers to roll their eyes at my humor.
"Well will you give me the boy back or do I have to go get reinforcements?" the strange man asked with a guarded expression. I rolled my eyes at his comment and laughed even more.
"Please your whole village wouldn't be able to take me out, but then again I am here to talk to the Kage of this village if you would be so kind as to take me to him I'll explain what happened to him and only him," I said being completely serious.
"And why would I do that?"
He looked at me like I was crazy to think that anything I offered would be able to change what would happen. "Listen just take me to him and I'll tell him what happened and I'll tell my brothers to stay here along with most of the others. Agreed?" He looked thoughtful for a moment then nodded his head yes.
"However you can only bring one of the others with you," he said at the end. I shrugged my shoulders and gestured to Tigerpaw that she was going to go with me. I went over and gently lifted the boy onto her back as my brothers morphed back into their human forms, not bothering with the smoke cloud technique.
"I don't like this sis," Tigerstar said to me.
"Well it can't be helped brother besides you knew that when we got here I was going to have to go in alone anyways," I replied to his concerned remark. He just sighed and resigned himself to the hard truth behind my words.
"Well be careful at least." I just nodded my head and went to follow the ninja to the village. As I followed I kept my focus on him in case he tried any funny stuff. After a few minutes of running we made it to the village and we started to teleport to our destination so we wouldn't draw as much attention to ourselves. When we reached the Hokage Tower we were sent straight to the Hokage.
"Hokage-sama may I speak to you alone," the ninja asked. The Hokage nodded and sent the others who were in the room out.
"Alright we're alone now what is it, Kakashi?" he asked. I stepped forward and began the tale of how I found the boy and what had happened up until the time where I was standing in his office. The Hokage just sat through my tale his expression never changing.
"As much as I want to believe you the only one who can prove you story is asleep on your tigers' back," he stated and went to wake the child. He gently shook the child awake and I watched as the child opened his eyes. I drew a sharp breath as I saw that he had black eyes just like my mothers.
"You, boy what is your name?!" I demanded feeling tears gather in my eyes. The boy looked at me scared. "I said what is your name!" I said once again taking a step forward to make sure he knew how serious I was being.
"M-my n-name's S-Sasuke U-Uchiha," the boy was able to stutter out. My eyes widened in shock. 'Could he be..? Well one way to find out' I thought to myself.
"What is your mother's name?" I demanded once again. I felt something I hadn't felt since the day HE killed my family and forced me to leave my home.
"Her n-name is M-Mikoto," Sasuke stuttered out. My red eyes grew even larger and I moved over to where he was and proceeded to crush him in a hug while I let my tears flow down my face.
"Cousin. I didn't think I would ever be able to do this," I said hugging him tightly. Sasuke just stiffened at my confession as did the other two in the room.
"Kakashi go to the Uchiha district and get Mikoto and tell her what happened here now," the Hokage told Kakashi. I just held my cousin and cried on his shoulder. A few minutes later the door to the office was thrown open as Mikoto and Kakashi came in. Mikoto just looked at m and rushed over to me.
"I-is it really y-you M-mei-chan," Mikoto stuttered as she spoke to me. I looked at her and released Sasuke in favor of wrapping my arms around my aunt.
"Y-yes O-oba-chan. I-I'm s-so s-sorry I couldn't save y-your Nii-chan," I stuttered out to my aunt. Mikoto just held me and gently rocked me back and forth until I had stopped crying.
"Kakashi please leave us," Hokage-sama requested. I heard a poof and knew that he had left. "Now Mikoto you need to explain what this girl is talking about," he said to her.
"No. It's my job to tell you what happened Hokage-sama, not Oba-chan's. After all I'm the one who failed in my duty as leader. I couldn't even protect my parents," I said my voice full of bitterness and resentment at what had happened. The Hokage looked at me in surprise and Mikoto just looked at me with regret in her eyes. After the Hokage had nodded his head for me to continue I told him of what had happened in my old village and how people I had trusted betrayed me and took my parents and mate from me, I made it a point to leave out what I had spent the last year doing though. At the end of my tale the Hokage gave me a look of sympathy and said he believed me.
"Listen to me my Mei-chan you need to stop blaming yourself over what that boy did to you and you need to stop blaming yourself for my sisters' death," Mikoto said kindly to me. This just made me cry again and I whispered, "But I can never forget what happened Oba-chan."
"Why not Mei-chan?"
"Because I was supposed to be the next Kage of Densetsu Village," I said with more bitterness in my voice. I saw the Hokage's eyes widen in surprise, but Mikoto just looked at me hard.
"Listen to me now. It's not your fault that your parents died whether you were going to be the Kage or not it just means that they did it to get to you," Mikoto said without taking her eyes off mine. I just looked at her in shock as her words sunk in.
"You're right Oba-chan. I shouldn't blame myself but the people who were responsible for their death," I said after her words had sunk in. She smiled at me and I smiled back at her.
"Alright now that that's finished. What do you want to do Whitetigerstar?" the Hokage asked me.
"If you will allow it I would like to stay here as a ninja for Konohagakure if you agree, of course," I said to the Hokage.
"Of course you can stay here but you will start at the bottom of your class along with everyone else," he said.
"Actually I won't start at the academy until Sasuke starts. And as for my name from now on I'll go by Kiba Ulrika Fenrisúlfur," I said with determination shining in my blood red eyes. The Hokage just smiled at me in understanding and began to pull up the documents that Mikoto would have to sign in order for me to be allowed into the village.
"May I have that Kakashi man as my god father in case something happens to you Oba-chan?" I asked as she got to the part about who the god father was. She just nodded and put down Kakashi's name. I smiled and went to stand with Tigerpaw and Sasuke. Sasuke smiled and took my hand in his and said it would be nice to have someone his age in the house. I smiled and was happy I had brought him some happiness after what had happened. After all the paper work was signed we left and I sent a message to my brothers saying they could return to Densetsu and their families. Then I went with my family knowing that soon enough I would have new friends as well.
((One year later))
A lot has happened in the last year. I started at the academy, alongside my cousins, Sasuke, Kiba-kun, and Neji, my two youngest kids earned their full names and are now named Wolfspirit and Tigerspirit, who is our official healer, and I have also advanced to the top of the class in just the first few months. I was also able to make a friend of the villages' Jinchuuriki, Naruto Uzumaki; we enjoy going and training after class and I don't really mind that he has a hard time learning new jutsus. In all honesty it reminds me of when I was first starting out. However, I was lucky because I had my family and sensei's. I was also able to befriend Shikamaru Nara, Shino Aburame, and Rock Lee. We usually gather together after school to train and learn from everyone.
Then it happened. I was late getting back to the Uchiha district that day and as soon as I stepped foot in the area I knew something was wrong. I could smell that something was off the farther I walked into the district then I realized what it was that I had been smelling. Blood. There was so much blood everywhere I looked there was blood and dismembered bodies. 'Sasuke' I thought to myself. 'Please Kami let my little cousin be alright. Please please' I thought to myself as I felt something brush against my back. I growled and turned around only to find Dragonheart and Wolfspirit behind me. I must have been using the link without noticing because before I knew it more of my family started to line the roofs of the buildings.
"Alright then I want you to split into groups of three and spread out. If you find Sasuke or the person who did this notify everyone and don't do anything stupid," I said with a small smile on my face as the ones who had the Sharingan eye activated it and began to join their respective groups. I activated mine as well and took off in the direction of Sasuke's house. I was followed by Dragonheart and Wolfspirit and needless to say we were beyond pissed at whoever did this. As we got closer to the house I heard a scream and instantly knew that whoever it was they were trying to hurt Sasuke. I barred my fangs and focused more of my chakra into my legs making me run faster than before. Right before I got there my little cousin came running out of the house followed by Itachi. I gave him one look and allowed my claws to show since I knew he had killed them. He killed them all. With every step forward my older cousin took the more blood thirsty I became and the more I wanted to defend my slightly younger cousin from him. When Itachi realized that I wasn't going to back down and believing that he had killed the whole clan he began to reach for his sword.
"Don't even think about it," I was able to growl out. "I won't let you touch Sasuke or my family teme," I said in a calm and somewhat emotionless voice.
"And you think you can stop me little cousin? You honestly think you could stop the head of Konohas' ANBU's?" he laughed at my stupidity. I just laughed at him I knew that he didn't have it in him to kill me or his brother no matter what he said, but I also laughed because I knew that if he tried to kill me I would have already killed him before he had his sword out of its' sheath. He just looked at me with tears in his eyes and tried to attack me with his Mangekyou Sharingan technique. I looked him in the eye and saw what he was showing Sasuke, but because my Sharingan was stronger I felt what Itachi felt with every image he showed Sasuke. I knew that he thought I was just seeing what he was showing Sasuke and I pretended that it was unbearable to watch and then I created a clone of me and Sasuke and put Itachi in a genjutsu that made him think we were still in the vision. At that point I broke the attack on Sasuke and me and picked him up. I started running into town I knew there was only one ninja that I could trust after what had just happened. 'Oh Kami let him be home and not on a mission' I thought as I ran with my crying cousin in my arms. I got to the fairly large house and banged on the door a couple of times before he opened up.
'Kiba-chan? What are you doing here? AND WHY ARE YOU HERE AT 2 AM?" the white haired ninja asked.
"Sorry Kakashi-sensei but you said that if it was an emergency that I could come here for your help. And well obviously it's an emergency," I said as I walked into his house and set Sasuke down on one of the guest beds. After that was done I explained to Kakashi what had happened and asked if I could leave Sasuke in his care for a few hours so I could go and make sure that my clan mates were safe and uninjured. He agreed and I left immediately while thanking him profusely.
I ran from Kakashi's house to the area were we agreed to meet in case something really bad happened that called for the whole clan to come out in force. When I arrived I was greatly relieved to see that there weren't any serious injuries. I told everyone to stay on guard and returned to Kakashi's.
"AHHHHHH!" I heard the yell come from the direction of Kakashi's and figured that Sasuke had woken up. When I got there I found Kakashi arguing with Sasuke through the bathroom door about whether he could be trusted. As I walked in the door Kakashi stepped back letting me take over.
"Hey Sasuke," I whispered through the door.
"K-Kiba-chan? W-why are y-you h-here?" Sasuke stuttered out making it obvious that he was crying pretty hard.
"Sasuke, I'm here because I knew that if we came here we would be safe. Now will you please come out?" I asked him concealing the pain and just showing the concern for my cousin.
"N-no. I w-want m-mom," he stuttered again.
"Oh Sasuke. I-I'm so sorry but I-I wasn't able to get there in time t-to save her. You probably think that if you had been there that your parents would still be here now, right?" I stated with emotion in my voice. Silence greeted me before the door flew open and Sasuke flung himself at me crying his eyes out. "Listen I-I know i-it hurts a lot b-but you have to remember that no matter what I will be here for you. Whether you need a shoulder to cry on or just someone to talk to I'll be there, even if I'm in another land I'll be there because of the mental bond we share," I gently whispered to the boy.
I sat there for Kami knows how long until he stopped crying and fell asleep. I put him back in the room where he was when he woke up and left to go to the rooftop. I just sat there and cried because I knew that I had failed to protect the people I loved. I stayed like that until the moon began to set and then I let loose a long and mournful howl. I howled until the sun had risen in the sky and I knew that my family had stayed up all night in respect for the dead. This went on for a week or so and then Sasuke and I returned to the Uchiha district and we stayed in a new house that was specially built to house me and my clan. We never went to check on the other houses because we knew that it would destroy us if we did.
So we went about our normal lives and everything went back to normal, to a certain degree anyway. Then one night Sasuke and I were out taking a walk through a part of the district that wasn't painful to look at when we heard loud rumbles in the air. I looked around and saw a friend of mine named Bloodwings descend from the sky and landed in front of us.
"Why are you here old friend," I asked confusion in my voice. He didn't answer me with words instead he held up the necklace that I had given to Gaara. I gasped and said," Tell me everything that happened." He told me how Gaara's uncle had tried to kill him, how I was ordered by the Kazekage to be his friend and how I had never really cared for Gaara, and how he rejected my gift, Bloodwings, and me. He then told me that Gaara had sworn to kill me the next time he saw me.
In that moment I felt something in me snap. "Sasuke. I-I need y-you to g-go to K-Kakashi and tell him what has happened. Bloodwings will go with you to make sure that you're safe," I choked out to the worried boy. He looked like he was about to refuse then he saw the pain that was on my face and took off as fast as he could in the direction of Kakashi's place. Bloodwings left a few seconds later.
As soon as they were gone I let the rage take control. I felt my body grow larger, my face elongated, my arms and legs grew longer, and I felt my tail begin to grow. My teeth grew sharper than a kunai, as did my nails, and my pupil shrank to the size of an angry cats'. Finally I felt myself grow larger as two pitch black wings grew from my back and scales started to spread over my body. The last thing I remembered was destroying the half of the district where everyone was killed, setting a section of the forest on fire, and creating a clone so I couldn't be blamed for the damage before I let the beasts take control of my body and return to the hunt of the people who had harmed me when I was three.
(FYI Bloodwings, Dragonheart, and the form Kiba takes are dragons just in case that wasn't clear. Feel free to leave a comment.) ~Kiba