Yay! I just rewrote this, it seemed to have quite a few grammatical errors, heh whoops...
Oh well I fixed all the one's I noticed so, please...
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-Leopard.
Blood Bonds
Chapter 2
They landed with an ungraceful thud on the forest floor, which luckily for them was only covered with grass and small clusters of ferns and various other forms of forest plant life. When they had recovered from the shock of the fall, Dawn glared accusingly at Christine, shouting angrily, "What the heck! What was that?"
Smiling apologetically Christine responded sheepishly, "Sorry 'bout that, I tripped. We shouldn't be worrying about who's to blame, we need to find out where we are." She finished sensibly.
After Dawn reluctantly agreed Christine got up and offered her hand to Dawn still smiling apologetically. Dawn's glare didn't waver, but she grabbed Christine's hand begrudgingly nonetheless, still not having forgiven Christine for getting them into this situation where ever they were.
Dawn's anger was slightly appeased when out of nowhere the nine runes used in the cast dropped from the sky and bounced off Christine's head and onto the ground, her anger almost totally dissipated when the book that Christine had given her so that she could figure out the meanings of the runes and the bag containing the rest of the runes also fell on Christine's head and she hissed in pain and clutched her head. The corner of the book hit her head just so you get where her pain is coming from.
At seeing Christine's series of bad luck and now obvious pain, Dawn could barely contain her laughter; Christine smiled despite her pain, glad that her friend's mood had lightened.
Once Dawn's laughter had ceased both of the girls finally took notice of their changed appearance. "What the crap, last I checked we were only 13 years old! Now we look like 15 or 16 year olds!" Dawn exclaimed looking at both hers' and Christine's now older bodies.
After carefully examining both of their bodies Dawn stated crossly, "And you're still bigger than me." Noticing that Dawn was referring to her chest Christine quickly changed the subject, while embarrassedly thinking, 'pervert!', "It seems like we have less overall body fat now, and our body structure seems more athletic or is that just me, but either way this is really strange. At least I'm still taller than you."
Dawn quickly countered, "Yes you're right, and this is really is strange. And you're only taller by an inch or two." Christine ignored Dawn's comment smiling happily at still being taller than her friend, while she gathered up the fallen runes thinking that they may be important if they came through the same hole they did.
"So what should we do?" Dawn questioned as she observed their surroundings.
Before Christine could answer, both of them heard a very audible snap of someone stepping on a dead twig. Looking around Dawn was about to shout something out to see if there was anyone there and possibly ask for help or information about where they were; but before she could say anything three, what they recognized from the anime Naruto to be, sound ninjas.
Immediately recognizing the ninjas as threats Christine didn't waste a moment as she shouted at Dawn to hide, and quickly dove into the undergrowth and made an effort to conceal herself among the plants, while Dawn responded just as fast as Christine and shot off, running at an impressive speed away from the sound ninjas.
Unfortunately luck wasn't on her side as the sound ninjas immediately shot after her apparently forgetting about Christine and despite her running speed and agility being enhanced though she did keep ahead of them for a short time it was merely a matter of time before the sound ninja caught up with her, knocked her out and took her with them.
After hearing the sound ninja leave in pursuit of Dawn, Christine looked around and cursed at the situation. She took a moment to calmly think of a solution to her current problems.
Dark side:
Dawn had probably been taken by sound ninjas. (she didn't actually see Dawn get taken but knew she hadn't hidden like Christine had told her to)
She may or may not be alive.
If she is alive than they probably would have taken her to the base.
If they took her to the base then there was a chance that Orochimaru or Sasuke would be there both being very, very dangerous.
She had no idea where the base was.
She had no ninja skills what so ever to help her save Dawn.
She knew absolutely no one that she could actually trust.
She didn't know why they (the sound ninjas) had taken Dawn or if it was just random or on purpose.
She had no idea where she was *cough, lost, cough*
Feeling extremely pessimistic about the situation after looking on the dark side for assistance in finding a solution she looked on the bright side.
Bright side:
… Uhhhh….
Not being able to come up with good things Christine thought harder hoping to find something that would make this situation even a bit less hopeless than it already was.
Bright side #2:
… She had the runes and book?
After finding that one, not quite good thing, she gripped the runes and the rune book in her hands and began to make her way through the undergrowth, while avoiding any prickly plants.
She hadn't traveled for than more than a few moments when she heard an unknown feminine voice question, "It looks like your buddy's in quite a situation, huh kiddo?" Pausing in her march through the forest Christine looked around not knowing if she was hearing correctly and if the voice was really addressing her.
Her head was turned to the right in her search for the source of the voice, the next thing she knew a blue blur practically tackled her from her left and ended up with an arm around her shoulders in some sort of hug. Instinctively she moved her hands to jab the person sharply in the side, a technique she used on the people she knew who tried to hug her or got too close in general.
But she hesitated just before her hand made contact, purely out of her unfamiliarity with the person and she generally reserved the more violent aspects of her personality for friends and people she actually knew well.
Instead she stiffly asked the stranger that still had her arm over her shoulder, "Um, who are you? And would you mind getting off?" In vain Christine tried to pry the strange woman off her after several attempts Christine gave up and settled for studying the woman that had her arm around her shoulders.
She was fairly tall and looked no older than 30 years old; strangely she had dark blue hair and eyes with lightly tanned skin. Bluntly Christine thought, 'Yup, we're in Naruto, where peoples' hair and such come in all the colors of the rainbow.'
Patiently, Aoi watched the girl while still remaining hidden; she took the time to study one of the sources of the strange chakra that had come from this area. Inwardly smirking Aoi thought happily that this girl would be perfect for her to train as her apprentice. Even now she could sense that this girl had a fairly large amount of chakra and was good at concealing it despite obviously not having been trained in the ninja arts. But to Aoi what made her perfect to be her apprentice was the way her chakra system was arranged…
Unable to restrain her excitement at having the an apprentice Aoi rushed up to the brown haired girl and wrapped her arm around her shoulders; pleasantly surprised at her almost immediate semi-violent reaction and the fairly polite, if not stiff address followed by several attempts to dislodge her until settling for examining herself like she had been doing while hidden from sight. Feeling very pleased and excited, Aoi waited for the young girl to finish examining her before answering her question, "I'm Kita Aoi. It is a pleasure to meet you…" Pausing Aoi prompted the girl to give her name.
Christine was reluctant to give the strange blue haired woman, who called herself Aoi, her name; the less anyone besides her and Dawn knew the better. Not being good at thinking up names off the top of her head especially ones in a different language/culture, she remained silent looking down at the ground instead of at Aoi.
When the silence continued Aoi decided to give the young brunette a name instead; giving the girl's shoulders a quick squeeze Aoi jumped in front of her and excitedly told her, "Okay well then I'll call you Megumi. How does that sound eh, Megumi?"
Shocked, the newly named Megumi dumbly nodded her head at Aoi internally pleased at the alternative.
Calming down Aoi became slightly more serious before addressing Megumi about what she had seen in the forest, "I saw your friend get taken by those sound ninja; I assume you want to get her back."
Megumi's eyes narrowed suspiciously before nodding slightly, "Well in your current position, it'd be more of a suicide mission then a rescue mission." Aoi informed Megumi bluntly.
Megumi looked Aoi in the eyes before nodding sadly in acknowledgement. "And if I happened to offer you the chance of improving to the ability level capable of breaking your friend out of the sound hideout in three days. What would you say?" Aoi questioned attempting to be sly; an effect her cheery disposition seemed to cancel out.
Still looking slightly suspicious Megumi asked, "What's the catch?" Smiling widely Aoi responded, "Call me Aoi-sensei."
Not sensing any deceit and honestly having no other options, Megumi smiled and accepted happily, "Okay, it's a deal then, Aoi-sensei."
Okay I hope you enjoyed the chapter! I'm sorry there hasn't been many updates lately but both me and wolf have started high school so we're kind of busy.
Oh well we'll do our best to update more often and make it so that we don't have to go and rewrite stuff as often, as in do it better the first time around...
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-Leopard.
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