AN: So here is the new chapter, hopefully you guys like it. I worked really hard on it :)
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Chapter 3: Welcome to Konoha
"….Kohaku …Kohaku...Wake up! Wake up!"
"Hmmmmm?" said the 10 year old young girl as she slowly lifted her face off of the carriage window from where she had decided to nap. She sat up and lifted her slightly muscled tan arms above her head as she stretched the sleep out of her body. She looked at the person that had awoken her up from her slumber.
"What, who, where, when, why?" the young girl's bright blue eyes found chocolate brown ones as she found herself nose to nose to her new brother, ginning widely at her.
"Well, I, Kiba, woke you up, we are now in Konoha, the time is now, and because we wanted you to see your new town," replied Kiba answering all of her questions.
Tsume and Hana were laughing at the two young kids.
"Huh?" Kohaku's eyes traveled over to the women as she tried to understand why they were laughing at her and Kiba
"We..are..now…in..Konoha," Kiba spoke so slowly acting like she was a deaf person.
"I..can..understand….you."Kohaku huffed crossing her arms and becoming very angry towards Kiba for making her feel like an idiot.
She turned her head toward the window. A grin spread on her face as she finally realised why Kiba had woke her up. Outside she saw Konoha, with all of its beauty. She looked up at the sky trying to figure out what time of the day it was, the sun was still quite high up in the sky showering its light across the peaceful town, so according to her calculations it was about mid afternoon. Kohaku's eyes traveled down toward the town and gasped in surprise. The town was such a beautiful town, the tiny little houses and stores lining up the cobbled walkway with trees in between, made the town look more like a dream to Kohaku.
As Kohaku widely stared around the town, trying to take everything in at once, she spotted some little toddlers out playing in the sandbox. It was then that she realised that she had been so busy taking in the scenery that she had forgotten all about the people! There looked to be hundreds of people everywhere that Kohaku looked; some were doing errand, or have a peaceful stroll or even out with their family/friends. Kohaku longed to be out there with the people enjoying the beautiful day and not sitting in a carriage looking in at the outside world.
As Kohaku continued to look out the window at a whole new world she noticed that some of the people that they past were smiling and waving at her. Overjoyed that the people were accepting her into their town, she immediately stuck her whole head out of the window waving to almost every single one of the people, trying her best to please them so that they would accept her even more.
"Kohaku stop waving for a minute and turn around so I can talk to you," said Tsume as she watched Kohaku waving at the people.
Kohaku sighed and turned around, hating the fact that she had to stop looking at the new and interesting world.
"Good," said Tsume as Kohaku faced completely around to look at her, "I have something important to tell you."
"What is it," she almost growled still angry at her new mother for taking her away from the village.
"When we get to your new house there will be something that may surprise you."
"What, what is it?"
"There are……………….."
The carriage suddenly stopped making all of its inhabitants fall over in surprise, "We have arrived Mrs. Inuzuka."
"Thank you Tegoshi," said Tsume as she stood up wincing before proceeding to walk out of the carriage.
"Wait, Tsume!" Kohaku ran out of the carriage trying to catch up to the walking women.
"I told you call me mom," Tsume replied as they walked up a lane surrounded by trees.
"Okay, mom, what did you want to warn me about?"
"It was nothing, Kohaku, besides you will find out soon enough." She replied as they came to a stop in front of a two story house painted a very light but beautiful dusty yellow. There was a garden all around the house. It seems that Tsume and Hana had planted flowers all the colours of the rainbow all over their garden, making the place look like there are tons of little candies all around it! At the back of the house there was trees galore, giving shade and making a good contrast to the colourful garden in the front.
"Wow," Kohaku smiled at the beauty of the little cottage before her.
"This Kohaku is your new home!" said Tsume spreading her arms as wide as she could.
"My…new home," Kohaku started to walk toward the house, her eyes always looking around at her new surroundings, "a...New life…where I can start fresh."
Tsume and Hana watched Kohaku as she walked toward the house wearing a smile that light up her small face.
"Are you sure this will be ok?" Hana asked.
"What do you mean?" Tsume looked back toward Hana with a confused expression on her face
"Well her twin brother is here."
"So?"
"So! So as she as she knows she will run to him and forget all about us!"
"Not exactly," said Tsume a sneaky little smile growing on her face.
"Mom, what are you planning?" Hana started to back off knowing that her mother can be really evil/crazy when she is planning something.
"Oh, it's nothing like that dear," replied Tsume, "All I am planning is that we do not tell Kohaku that her brother has moved here and instead wait until they meet at the chunin exams in two years."
"That way she may have a connection with us, so when she meets her brother she may not want to leave us for him," Hana immediately caught on to her mother's plan.
"That's right Hana, but it could be risky, she still could want to go to her brother and if she does we can't stop her from doing what she wants to do."
SS
While Hana and Tsume were talking about their amazing plan, Kohaku was examining her new house and the garden, trying to take in every small detail that her bright blue eyes could find.
"Kohaku wait up!" yelled Kiba as he ran as fast as his ten year old legs could take him to catch up to his new sister.
Kohaku immediately stopped and turned around waiting for Kiba to catch up to where she was. "I'm sorry Kiba-kun."
"It's ok," he said coming to a rest beside her, "you sure do walk fast when you want to Kohaku-chan," Kiba straightened up and smiled at the ten-year old girl.
Kohaku turned a nice pink when he said that and quickly looked at the ground, "Thank you Kiba-kun."
Kiba smiled at her blush and put his hand behind his head in an embarrassed like gesture. He watched as she slowly brought her gaze back up to look at him before smiling and looking around at his house. He saw her look towards the house with a longing gaze in her eyes, smiling he came up behind her as quietly as he could, "do you want to go into our house and look around?"
"Eep!" Kohaku jumped and turned around looking at him, her expression on of anger, "don't scare me like that!
Sorry, sorry," he brought his hands up almost like he was trying to protect himself, "but do you want to take a look inside?"
"Huh?" Kohaku tilted her head, "oh ok, sure I would love to see inside the house."
Kiba smiled a huge smile that looked to Kohaku that it took up his entire face. "Ok then, let's go!"
"Ok," Kohaku smiled at Kiba before following him toward the house.
As they began to walk closer and closer toward the house, Kohaku started to hear some sort of barking sound coming from the house, getting louder and louder.
As the sound continued to get louder and louder, Kohaku walked faster until she was walking beside Kiba, "Hey Kiba-kun?"
"What is it Kohaku-chan?"
"What is that noise?"She indicated toward the house with her head.
"Oh!"Kiba realised what she was talking about, "that noise is our dogs," he answered flashing a smile in Kohaku's direction, "Do you want to meet them?"
"D-dogs?" Kohaku replied looking to where she thought Kiba was.
But it was too late; Kiba had already run toward the front door of his house and was waving at her to try to get her attention.
"Wait Kiba-kun," Kohaku tried to stop Kiba from opening the door, but as soon as Kiba saw that he had her attention he turned toward the door and slowly pushed it open. All 5 of their dogs ran full speed toward Kohaku all trying to be the first one to make friends with the new occupant of the house.
"AHHHHHHHH!!" screamed Kohaku as the dogs charged toward her.
SS
"AHHHHHH!"
"What was that?" Hana and Tsume both turned toward the house where the scream came from.
Kohaku streaked past them in a flash of yellow. Before either of them could react their 5 dogs also ran past them barking their heads off making Kohaku scared even more. After a couple of seconds just when Tsume and Hana had finally digested what had happened, Kiba can running toward them screaming his head off.
"What happened Kiba?" boomed Tsume as she turned toward her son, her eyes blazing with anger.
"I'm sorry Kaa-san," Kiba came to a halt beside his mother and sister, "I just wanted her to meet the dogs."
Tsume eyes lost some of their anger as she looked toward her only son, "Well…I guess that's a good reason," Kiba brightened up, "But you still should have asked us first so that we could have calmed the dogs so that this would not have happened."
Kohaku screamed again adding on to Tsume side of the argument.
"I'm still sorry Kaa-san, I will not do it again," sweared Kiba looking at his mother.
"That's my boy," Tsumes face showed a proud expression, "but now I think we have to help Kohaku."
"Okay!"
The 3 Inuzuka's ran toward the new Inuzuka member, who was now slowly backing up toward a tree as their dogs started to close in. The dogs were slowly coming closer and closer, they were almost there when suddenly a trig snapped from the bushes. The dogs looked up and around toward the sound. In the bush Tsume and Hana looked toward the male of the family and glared, he ignored them.
The dogs' tails started wagging at once as they recognised who was behind the tree, the head dog; a black and white male dog that had an eye patch covering his right eye, which Kohaku thought was a battle scar, barked and leaded the other dogs towards the bushes. Kohaku leaned against the tree and sighed.
The dogs had found their owners; the head male dog and a pure white female dog ran straight towards Tsume, while 3 gray and white teenage dogs ran toward Hana showing the energy and spunk that only a young dog would have.
"Why were you chasing our new family member Kuromaru," Tsume looked towards the big dog.
He barked at Tsume, like he knew she could understand him. Tsume nodded her head every now and then. Kohaku who saw this realized that her new family, could just maybe, understand dogs.
"Kohaku." Kohaku's head shot up at hearing her name and saw that it was Tsume that had called to her.
"Yes, mom," she slowly walked away from the tree and toward the family.
Kohaku reached the family, Tsume smiled at her, "our dogs did not mean to scare you, they only wanted to meet you they are very sorry for scaring you."
'Yep, they can understand dogs.'
As to add to Tsumes apology the white female dog nudged her noise against Kohaku's hand and whined softly. Kohaku looked at the dog, which looked sincerely sorry for scaring Kohaku. She smiled softly at the dog before petting her head softly. The dog actually seemed to smile at her and Kohaku giggled at the thought.
Kiba slowly walked toward the two, "I'm very sorry for opening the door and letting the dogs come out and scare you."
Kohaku looked up at Kiba and blushed, "It's ok Kiba-kun, I don't mind."
Kiba smiled, "thank you!" He also blushed.
"Ok, Ok," Hana broke up the moment, "now that you have met the dogs, why don't you get to know their names."
"Ok!"
"I have these three dogs," Hana indicated toward the three gray and white young dogs who were sitting around her, "They are all siblings, Nyoko and Aneko are the two sisters," Hana pointed to the two smaller dogs, "and this one," she said pointing toward the biggest dog sitting in front of her, "is the male, Ginimaru." The three siblings barked in greeting to Kohaku.
'Ok now that one is Nyoko and this one is Ginimaru, no, no, that one is Aneko and this one is….Ak! It's so confusing!'
"You already know Kuromaru," Tsumes voice made Kohaku snap out of her thoughts and look toward Tsume and her dogs. Tsume was pointing toward the black and white head who barked happily in greeting. "Hi," Kohaku petted the dog and smiled. "And this young lady is named Yukiko," Tsume gestured toward the white female. "She is actually Kuromaru's mate and the mother of Hana's dogs."
"Wow," Kohaku looked toward the female dog that was happily wagging her tail and grimaced as she thought about having to give birth to that many children at one time.
"And, she was just had another litter of five puppies, they are in the house," Kohaku grimaced again, "Do you want to see them?"
"Ok," Kohaku let Kiba lead her toward the house.
Hana, Tsume and their dogs followed the two children inside the house, where Kiba had lead Kohaku through the living room and into the kitchen, where he opened a cupboard. Before Kohaku could adjust her eyes to the dark, Yukiko strode into the cupboard and blocked her view.
As Yukiko settled down into the cupboard, Kohaku saw flashes of white, gray and black fur surrounding Yukiko. As she took a closer look Kohaku could make out 5 tiny puppies wiggling all over their mother mewing softly, like they were talking to her.
"Aww, they are just soooo cute!" Kohaku leaned down to get a closer view of the puppies. In the litter there was 2 white ones, 2 black ones and a tiny, little gray one at the bottom of the litter.
"See that one," said Kiba pointing toward a little white one that was crawling all over his brothers and sisters to be the first one to his mother.
Kohaku giggled at the puppy's antics, "Yes I do."
"That one is going to be mine as soon as he grows old enough," boasted Kiba looking at the puppy with affection showing in his eyes, "I even have a name for him!"
"What's that?"
Kiba had a soft smile adorning his face as he watched the puppy, "Akamaru."
"Such a nice name," watched the puppies with a longing look on her face.
Suddenly Yukiko whined and Kohaku looked up at the dog, her face changing to worry, "is she ok?"
"Yes, she is just fine, but she says that you could have a puppy if you want to."
"Seriously," Kohaku's literally screamed her face turning to look into Tsume's coal black eyes.
Yukiko barked in response to Kohaku's scream. Kohaku turned her face back toward Yukiko's and saw through her eyes that she meant that. She smiled at Yukiko before looking back at the puppies studying each one to see which one would be the right one for her. Her eyes glanced toward one of the black puppies. She had glossy fur and a soft kind face, as the puppy opened her eyes, Kohaku noticed that the puppy's eyes were a beautiful sea colour.
She picked up the small pup, "can I have this one?" She cuddled the small puppy giving it her warmth
"Yes you must certainly can."
Kohaku smiled a tender smile toward her small pup, "what gender is it?"
"She's a little girl."
Kohaku looked at the puppy, "a girl huh?" She studied the puppy's face, "Ehime."
"Ehime."
"Yes Ehime," Kohaku looked at her puppy, now christened Ehime. "Do you like your name Ehime?"
Ehime in response to her new name jumped up in Kohaku's arms and started to lick her face. "Stop Ehime, bad girl," Kohaku waved her finger in Ehime's face trying to make the puppy behave.
"Hey, Kohaku."
"Yes," she turned around back to her new family
"For tomorrow, you are now going to join the academy."
"What is the academy?"
"It's where you are going to train to become a ninja," Kiba popped out of nowhere, "It's so cool."
"A ninja," Kohaku looked at Kiba with a shocked expression.
"Ya, and maybe, just maybe, you would be in my class," Kiba was jumping up and down with excitement.
"Would you like to become a ninja?" Tsume looked down at the young girl.
Kohaku looked between the two of them, thinking hard about what she wanted to become. She turned to Tsume, "I would love to train at the academy and become a ninja."
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Ginimaru - means silver
Kuromaru - means black
Aneko - means older sister
Nyoko - means a gem
Yukiko - means snow child