Ibiki awoke to the sound of a crackling fire and cooking fish. And something else, something familiar. I just can't seem to put my finger on it. Ibiki thought as he stirred a little.
"Hey Ibiki wake up it's time for breakfast!!" Kira yelled into his ear making him fall off the tree he was in.
"Hey I was already awake!! Besides wasn't that a bit juvenile?!" he asked as he got up painfully and walked over to the fire where Senji was eating his fish.
"Morning Senji how was your sleep?" he asked as he grabbed his own fish. "It was pleasant enough, but you should really watch what you say to the lady," he replied as Ibiki felt Kira's chakra behind him.
"Ibiki the reason I did that was to get you up, and besides don't you remember that that's the way I always woke you up on our missions?" she reminded him as she grabbed a cup of tea and handed it to him.
"That's right and you would always have breakfast ready with your special tea. It's been so long since I've had some decent tea," he told her as he accepted the tea he had smelt earlier.
After they were done eating Ibiki helped clean the campsite and was about to put the sacks on Senji when Kira shook her head and took them from him.
"That won't be necessary Ibiki. Senji is now a free wolf again," Kira told her former student as she put all the sacks into two separate backpacks before turning to face them.
"Ibiki when I first started this journey I ran into Senji. He was wounded but since I didn't understand him I used a jutsu I had created to understand what he was saying. Once I learned what was wrong I asked for his permission for me to heal him, he agreed and soon after he was better. I was about to leave until he asked if he could join me I agreed on the condition that he could escort me until it was time for me to go home. So here we are and our agreement is complete, so I guess its good-bye forever Senji," Kira said as she leaned down and hugged the giant wolf who licked her.
"You know this doesn't have to be good-bye," Ibiki said looking from his sensei to her friend.
"Actually it does, you see Senji is a rare breed among wolves so it's time for him to head home, and so should we," Kira said grabbing one of the packs and tossing it to Ibiki before putting on her own. Senji nodded and walked to the edge of the field before turning back and looking at his oldest friend before continuing on.
Kira sighed and turned in the opposite direction signalling to Ibiki that it was time to leave. Once they were deep in the forest they took to the tree's leaping from on to the next, heading in the direction of the village.
Before they reached the village gate's Ibiki stopped next to Kira, "Kira-sensei just to give you a head's up, everyone in the village thins your dead," Kira looked up at Ibiki and gave him one of her famous smiles that would make any man weak at the knee's.
"Well I guess we'll just have to prove them wrong. Okay listen, once we're inside take my things to the Hyuuga estate, they know I'm coming, then alert the Hokage and tell her I'll be there in two hours. And tell her to summon all the Jonins and Hiashi Hyuuga," she instructed him as they walked to the village gate's.
When they reached the gates the two guards looked at her suspiciously as she walked up with Ibiki behind her.
"We'll have to see some identification miss…" the guard with brown hair asked/said.
"There's no need for that I can vouch for her. Men I would like to introduce my sensei and the youngest ANBU captain and Jonin elite; Kira Hatake a.k.a the Demon Wolf of Konoha," Ibiki introduced her to the men as she tool out her identification and paper's and passed them to the guard who wore his headband on his arm.
"But she's supposed to be dead!!" the first guard said looking at Kira than her paper's than back at her.
"I don't die that easily, so are you going to let us in or does Ibiki have to get the Hokage?" she asked with a bit of anger in her eyes. The guards looked terrified at this point.
They opened the gates for Ibiki and Kira as soon as they finished looking at Kira's paperwork.
"Okay well do you mind taking it from here? I have some people I have to catch up with," Kira asked as she handed her pack to Ibiki who nodded and headed in the direction of the Hyuuga estate.
Time to meet some old friends she thought as she headed to the academy.