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A/N: Love you guys ;) I'm still new to this whole fan fiction stuff because I was never able to read on the website T.T Evil old piece of poop phone! *clears throat* Anywhoo, I'm here now so I am glad to know that some of you guys are liking the story I've been trying to update ASAP but it's hard to when I'm always at my dad's. =. = I don't write there, why? I don't want some creeper I'm related to looking at what I write. Why? Because I swear, and I'm not going to as my dad says, "Clean it up." … I just realized that sounds wrong o.o … lmao I apologize for ranting… shank yous very much for reading :3
Chapter 4: The living dream, the dream demon
It was the next day, I was too afraid to fall back asleep after that dream. Plus, I wanted my comrades to get at least some sleep and quit worrying about me. So I just sat up on the floor in the corner, thinking. I kept my eyes locked on the floor. My leg has been burning since the dream attack; I was waiting for the sun to leek into the cave village to find out what was wrong with it.
1 hour of silently sitting later…
I looked up towards the window I was sitting under; light began to leak into the room. I scooted into the light, and rolled up my pant leg and looked. Marks of wolf teeth pierced my skin, I stared in awe, the bite was glowing, similar to my slash on my face, and I'm pretty sure the mark on the back of my neck/shoulder was too. "Shit." I muttered under my breath. Aki began to stir on the bed. She sat up, rubbing her eyes tiredly.
"Suki, what's wrong?" Aki asked me.
"Nothing…" I muttered as a pulled down my pant leg.
"Bitch, you know I can read you mind. You can't hide ANYTHING from me." Aki stated as she got up off the bed and sat next to me on the floor. She pulled up my pant leg. "Something is going on with you. Do you think it has something to do with the curse mark on your neck?" Aki asked me, pulling my pant leg down and looking at my neck.
"What does it look like?" I asked Aki as she looked at it.
"The symbols….the ones circling the mark. There, moving. Towards and away the mark." She whispered as now she stared in awe.
"Is there something wrong with the mark?" I whispered back, fear filling me.
"Y-yes. It's glowing purple." Aki stuttered, still looking at it. She snapped out of her trance and fixed how I hid the mark.
"Maybe there's something inside me, and the curse mark is trying to get it out?" I asked to myself, Aki just stared at me.
"That's would make sense, maybe that's why Orochimaru bit you so long ago." Aki mumbled petting my head. I heard her whisper something about me being her poor little sister but I blew it off. Aki soon stopped petting my head.
We slid back to the wall and sat in silence, waiting for the sleepy heads to wake up from there deep sleep. It seemed like forever until Kinoto started to stir awake. He sat up from his place on the floor, and scratched the back of his head while looking around the small room. I was pretty sure he forgot where he was.
He rose from his spot, unaware of us sitting behind him against the wall. He was just wearing boxers; we stared at our sensei's unseen muscles as he walked to the bathroom and shut the door gently. Aki and I giggled at each other when we heard our sensei in the bathroom complain about our disappearance. He walked out of the door when he was finished doing whatever, and hasn't looked up at us yet.
*Dummy, he's going to scare himself.* I thought to myself.
*I know! Just stay still! It's going to be soo hilarious!* Aki sent to my head.
We watched Kinoto rummage through his clothes bag, still grumpily mumbling to himself about us being irresponsible for not leaving a note for him. He found a change of clothes and set them on the bed, as he turned to close his pack he looked towards the wall we were on.
When he noticed we were sitting there looking at him he jumped like a cat and landed on the peacefully sleeping Kito on the bed, startling him awake. "HEY WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR SENSEI!" Kito yelled, pissed that his sleep was rudely ended. Aki and I burst out laughing. Then we cut into business.
After Kito and Kinoto got ready for the day, we were all set to investigate everything. We traveled to the houses of the people that disappeared. They repeatedly said things about the strange dreams they were having, and they would wake up with strange marks from their dreams.
Kinoto concluded that the best thing to do is to use me as bait, and the squad to sleep in the same spot with me so they can follow me to where everyone is located, and to help fight off whatever it was.
It was the next night, sensei made us train extra hard today so we will fall asleep faster and kill whatever it is faster. I crawled into the tent we decided to set up; we assumed that everyone will be together so they will all dream the same dream. Out of exhaustion, I passed out quickly. But before I did, I could feel the huddling of my team to me, surely hoping I will be protected.
The dream begins…..
I'm startled awake from the familiar growl from the night before. I swung open my eyes to the darkness and sat up. I looked towards Kito, who was hugging me again. I punched him in the side as hard as I can 3 times; it was time to pay him back. "Ow! What was that for!" Kito yelled as he stood up. "Wait, I'm up in your dream, and I FELT that!" Kito said.
I heard a second growl and claws scratching onto the earthy ground outside the tent. I grew stiff. The familiar wolf, now 2x bigger ripped open the tent and pounced on me, once again biting onto my leg and dragging me away. Kito looked towards Aki and slapped her in the face and startled awake, and then punched Kinoto in the stomach, waking him up too. *Shoulda kicked him in the balls….* I thought as the pissed off wolf monster pulled me away.
Aki, Kito, and Kinoto tracked behind as the wolf dragged me. I let myself get dragged, but my ankle was searing in pain. It was hard to not call out in pain, but I held it in by biting down hard in my lower lip. We soon reached a pitch black cave, where the wolf almost knocked me out by dragging my head into a rock.
The wolf dropped my ankle and lifted me up by biting my shoulder and then nuzzling behind my back to hold me up. I heard a dark chuckle. Suddenly, a pair of yellow eyes pierced into my vision. I shivered, but looked back into the eyes. The owner of the eyes stepped out of the shadow of the cave, and into the moonlight shining into the cave lightly.
"Hello, I've finally got you here Suki." The old man that we talked to before said, but this time he was younger then before and his eyes sunk deep within his eyes.
"Yeah and? You're just an old geezer. You don't scare me." I stated as I glared. The old guy chuckled.
"Yeah I am aware of that, but I know you're scared of that." The geezer said, motioning towards the wolf thing that growled from holding me up. I narrowed my eyes.
"What do you want with me?" I asked more than curious.
"I want your youth." He hissed at me. He snapped his fingers, and the wolf suddenly jolted from behind me, causing me to fall. The wolf then pounced on me, snapping at my face, as the old man began doing hand signs.
"NOW!" I called out of the cave, wolf still on me snapping. But no one came in. Not so long later, Bunbun came bouncing into the cave, with the most determined face she ever had on. I sighed in relief and did our secret jutsu hand sign. "Demon transform jutsu!" I called as Bunbun poofed into smoke behind me. She began to form, this was her original form. She grew as high as me, her coat color changing drastically to a pitch black with gray slashes. Her eyes turned into a blood red, and her buck teeth into razor sharp fangs. She snarled, digging her newly formed claws into the cave floor.
Bunbun pounced onto the snarling wolf on top of me, that was trying to bite my face off. The wolf flew off of me, but before I could get up to my feet, the geezer took the wolfs position. One hand was choking me and the other was above his head, with a purple glow illuminating off of it. He slammed his palm onto my chest, the illumination sinking into my skin. Pain rushed through my body. I yelled out a blood curdling scream, and only then did my team come in to rescue me.
When they got the now young geezer off of me it was too late, he already drained some of my age, making me appear as 20. Bunbun finished off the wolf (that turned out to be a very advanced clone) and poofed back to normal. She hopped to me, and whimpered at my new state.
Kinoto ordered me to return to the tent, even though how much times I refused, as Aki and Kito took turn beating the shit out of the man. I walked back to the camp, and waited for them to arrive too. It was around 2:30 when they came back and we drug into the tent, laid back down, and went to "sleep."
Dream ends…
I startled awake, breathing heavily. I lifted my body up, my shoulder stung. I looked towards Aki, who had a fresh cut on her arm. *I guess last night was for real.* I thought to myself as I got to my feet, limping on the leg I was dragged from, and went out of the tent. By how the sun was, it was only 6:30. We slept in late.
I sighed, and began to make a fire for the breakfast I was going to make for my squad who saved my life the night before. I made something I barely made, bacon. The first one up was Kito. He rubbed his eyes, which were still closed, then opened them and glanced at me. A couple moments later he gave me a double take. "Shit, last night WAS real!" Kito said, he eyes bugging out of his face.
"What?" I asked worried. He shook his head.
"You'll find out later." He said and squatted next to the fire, staring eagerly at the bacon. When it was done I threw pieces of bacon on a plate and handed it to him. He happily ate what I gave him. Soon Aki and Kinoto filed out of the tent. Aki now had a patch on her wound. They both opened their eyes tiredly and looked at me obviously shocked.
"Shit. We were too late." Aki muttered, coming up to me and squeezing my face. Kinoto looked at me wide eyed.
"What? Now I KNOW something is wrong with me!" I yelled not knowing what happened.
"Remember last night?" Aki asked. I nodded yes. "Well, he used his aging jutsu on you and took 7 years from you, causing you to age to 20 and him to become 7 years younger." Aki said, cutting straight to the point. That was one reason why I liked her; she went straight to the point.
I was in shock. Now I was the oldest one in the class, and I was just a genin! "SHIT!" I yelled as I punched the nearest tree, when I punched it, it toppled over. After they calmed me down and they finished their breakfast, I refused to eat now, we decided to check on the village. When we got there they said our mission was completed and we could now leave the village.
It took 4 days for the trip back, but we were trill early to arrive back into the village. When we got back, we informed the hokage that we finished out mission and he asked to speak to Kinoto and I privately. I knew it was because of my current state.
"Suki, I am sorry to inform you that the jutsu that was used on you is irreversible. You will have to stay 20 and keep aging from now on. I understand your birthday is next week. So that will make you 21 legally." The hokage said, obviously not fond that a supposed to be teenager was just forcefully skipped to 20 years of age. I sighed, understanding.
I listened to them talk briefly with each other and then Kinoto finally left. I had to ask the hokage something. "Uhm, hokage?" I asked scratching the back of my head.
"Yes?" he replied looking at me.
"Is squad 7 back from their mission yet?" I asked hoping they were, I needed to talk to Kakashi. The hokage nodded yes.
"Do you know their condition?" I asked, making sure they were okay.
"Nothing too serious, well, for Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi. Sasuke got pretty banged up." The hokage stated. I really didn't care about Sasuke's condition.
"They only have a few cuts and small things like that. Oh and Kakashi told me to tell you to meet him as soon as you get back. He said that he will be at the coffee shop everyday and 2 pm and wait for you there. It's 1:30 now so you can go meet up with him." The hokage informed me, and then dismissing me. I walked out of the door, I didn't really want Kakashi to see the state I was in, but at least my cuts didn't glow anymore.
When I got there it was 1:45 pm. So I went inside of the shop and ordered a tea. I slowly sipped it as I waited for the grey haired ninja to arrive. Surprisingly, at 2:00 pm, there he was, walking into the shop and sitting at the counter. I sighed and got up from where I was sitting. I walked up to Kakashi, and tapped his shoulder. He lightly spun around and looked at me.
"I'm sorry but do I know you?" Kakashi asked me, looking at me curiously. I looked at the ground.
"Yeah, you do. It's Suki. I kinda got caught in a life draining jutsu on my mission." I said, totally embarrassed at myself. He shook his head understanding my situation.
"Ah I see. How old did this person make you?" Kakashi asked curiously.
"20, so since it's my birthday next week I will be 21." I replied, now blushing while Kakashi stared wide eyed at me.
"Have you told the hokage about your situation?" Kakashi asked me, getting up from his seat. I paid for my tea and then we left to go on a walk around the village.
"Yes, once we arrived back in the village we went to talk to him." I replied, easily keeping the walking pace because now my legs were longer than a couple days ago.
"And what did he said about your age situation?" Kakashi asked me, trying to keep the conversation up.
"Well it's irreversible. So he told me that I will have to continue living my life at the age I am now." I sighed, as I looked at the clouds. I suddenly bumped into someone.
"Hey watch where you're going." Mumbled an annoyed Kiba as he rubbed his head.
"I'm so sorry Kiba I'll look where I'm going next time!" I apologized to him quickly. Thank god that he did not know it was me. Kakashi was laughing at my dumbness. I gave him my shut up glare and he quit his laughing.
The hokage ended up calling all the village ninja to a meeting, including the genin. He made me stand where he was, and then he thought it would be okay for him to TELL all the ninjas that I was actually Suki who got in a really bad jutsu and I can't go back to normal. THANKS. My face was a bright red the whole time. I hated getting any attention from anyone.
The next day after my training with Kakashi I met up with my squad. Kinoto told us about the chunin exams. We all agreed to take it. We knew that we were ready for this.
a/n: okay, I'm sorry for how long it took me to finish this, but school started for me and I was super busy and everything! Sorry! .
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