Tutii-fruity… that is all…
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Recap:
Sakura, a wanderer, is the lone survivor form the mass slaughter of her village. She is after Prince Sasuke, who was the one who ordered the attack. Along her quest, she has met Hinata, elfin princess of the forest. Her father was also slaughtered by one of Sasuke's assassins. Hinata joined Sakura, and now they continue their quest to bring down the evil prince…
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Noon…ish…
"Hinata…" Sakura stopped in a clearing.
"Yes, Sakura?" Hinata asked, sitting by where Sakura was.
"Remember when you said you had a gift…?" Sakura scanned the area for unwanted visitors.
"Yeah…" Hinata said putting down her pack.
"I have somewhat of a gift… you've heard of people who have animal demons sealed within them, correct?" Sakura said, placing her pack down as well.
"Yeah… they're called… um juni…erm juri… uh Jinchuuriki or something right?"
(Btw: I know the bijuus, but the only ones that I'm using are Gaara's & Naruto's)
"Yes… I am one of those demon vessels…" Sakura whispered
"There are nine, right? There was the raccoon, the panther, the phoenix, the bear, the crane, the dragon, the fish, the wolf, and the fox has nine tails, correct?"
"Yes, care to take a guess on which animal I am…?" Sakura smirked, and she took off her cape, and her fangs grew, she spread her arms wide. "I'm in complete alliance with my demon, and I can control it freely… but occasionally…I'm let out to breathe…" Sakura's voice changed… in fact her appearance changed as well. Her eyes dilated, and turned into a golden color. Her golden chakra started changing color, all different hues of amethyst, sapphire, emerald, gold, amber, ruby, and pearl, and started to take shape. The chakra slowly made a multi-colored, swirling blanket around Sakura's elegant form. Two small cone shaped horns formed in the chakra, and a pair of huge wings formed as well. One by one, longer spurts of chakra sprouted, and tails formed. Sakura's fingers became claws, and she herself sprouted horns on her forehead, she cried out in pain. Sakura growled, but it wasn't her voice, it was the one that had spoken before. Hinata was taken back, and backed herself up against a tree. Sakura went on all fours, and her skin turned scaly, and a very light pink. Her small ivory horns stretched upward to her hairline, making themselves bigger, and sharper. Small white spikes sprouted from the sides of her face, and a long scaly tail developed. Her tail stretched to sixteen feet, easily. Her other limbs made their reptile-like appearance, as her claws turned to talons, and her teeth grew sharper. Her underbelly was the whitest of whites, with just a tint of pink on her sides. And finally, her wings… She roared as the wings ripped the fabric of her clothes and spread themselves out. The Bat-like wings were ripped at the ends, showing signs of battle, the appendages had the color of her underbelly on the insides, and the claw at the top was made of ivory. A split second later the creature looked at the frightened elf, and burst up in the sky with an enormous amount of energy. It flew in one complete circle before heading to the ground, to where the girl sat motionless.
"No need to fear, Elf… My name is Ryuai, Sakura and I are in content agreement with each other, and I am not a violent creature, but…" The voice said soothingly "I am a Dragon, and need to quench my thirst for blood once in a blue moon. I do not usually come out in full form; I just use Sakura's body. She can also use my body, which you may see in a real battle… For now, you are Sakura's friend, and I will protect you as if you were from my own pack…" The voice growled once more, and the multi-colored chakra disappeared. Sakura's eyes returned to the emerald they once were, and she reverted back to normal, then she casually picked up her coat as if nothing had happened. Sakura look down at her body and sighed, she was stark naked (did you really think her clothes wouldn't rip?!).
"And yet another set of clothes is ruined… oh well…" Sakura covered herself with her cloak, and new clothes appeared. It was almost the same dress, but instead of the long flowing skirt, it was a miniskirt dress. Still black, clingy, with her navel and cleavage showing, but the bottom of the dress stopped to the middle of her thigh. She also had small black gloves on her hands. She put her crimson cloak on and sighed happily.
"You're …the Dragon?" Hinata asked, and Sakura grinned. "Yup"
"I...Interesting…"
"Are you afraid, Hinata?" Sakura tied her hood.
"Kind of… a little…" Hinata said while twiddling her fingers.
"There are worse things to be scared of in this world…" Sakura said coldly. Hinata gulped, Sakura smiled/smirked at Hinata.
"I won't bite, I promise…" She laughed.
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Sakura then looked around "Well, I'd like to test your skills, spar me… right here." Hinata looked at her.
"N-now?" Hinata asked
"Yes, now. You need to learn how to take care of yourself, Hinata. I may not always be there to protect you… You need to defend yourself." Sakura grabbed her katana, but did not un-sheath it.
"If you say so, Sakura…" Hinata took out her kunai and ninja stars "Would I really need to? I mean with my abili- Never depend on only your ability by itself, if the enemy had chakra bonds, then what would you do?" Sakura lectured in a monotone voice.
"… Shall we get started?" Hinata asked activating her Byakugan.
"Yes, now come at me with full force… as if to kill me." Sakura explained.
"I don't know if I can…" Hinata sighed
"I can make you, but you may not want me to do that…"
"Do it"
"Alright…" Sakura put two fingers to her forehead "Transforma enoma"
Sakura was gone in a poof of cherry blossoms, and standing in her place was the vile creature that had killed Hinata's little sister Hinabi. Hinata was taken back and a single tear dripped down her cheek. She screamed and lunged for the beast as it nimbly moved out of the way. She quickly threw her kunai at the beast who easily deflected them, she ran out of kunai and had to use ninja stars. When she was all out of her weapons, only one seemed to have scratched it. She couldn't see the chakra signals on the beast so she resorted to her special ability. Her eyes shone a beautiful pearl as her veins pusled near her eyes and forehead. Sakura could feel a slight "pulse" in the air, and by this time, Hinata's eyes were just holes of light. Sakura felt a slight whoosh next to her as a handprint was crushed into a tree. Sakura realized that this was the ability she was talking about. (yes elfin lied… :D)
'Sakura…'
'I know, Ryuai…'
'She is very powerful, make sure that the enemy doesn't take this one'
'I didn't plan on it…'
Hinata continued to fight with Sakura, and she was fairing pretty well for a beginning fighter, of course Sakura wasn't seriously fighting, but she did have to put in some effort trying not to be ripped to shreds by Hinata's "gift". Hinata finally tired out after a half of an hour of hard training, and Sakura turned back to normal. They sat down under a big shady cherry tree, which was like the only tree that wasn't totally destroyed in Hinata's training.
"Very good Hinata, I congratulate you, you did well."
"Thanks Sakura…" Hinata smiled as her breathing began to return to it's natural quiet rythem. "How did you become so strong…?" Sakura thought how best to explain "Experience." Sakura quickly ended the subject. Hinata came to understand that her past wasn't the best conversation starter…
"Stupid Dragon…" A small voice was heard.
"Did you say something?" Sakura turned to Hinata, and scoffed at the statement
"Stupid Elf" Once again the voice was heard.
"I beg your pardon?" Hinata was puzzled at the insult.
"Ruining MY home... damn it!" The two girls looked at one another and looked at the source of the voice. A small fairy was trying to clear the rocks away from her smashed home at the bottom of a broken tree. She turned to the two "Thanks a LOT you two!! Now where am I supposed to live?!" The firey tempered fairy put her teeny hands on her hips, and scoffed. She was really pretty if you could see her, it was kinda hard because she was only six inches tall. As everyone knows, all faeries make their clothes out of natural things like plants. Her fairy dress was made of bright pink and dark green foxglove petals, and her feet were covered in the small green cherry blossom petal shoes. A green tie of some sort rested below her breasts, and she had pink gloves and green arm warmers on her slender arms that were on the middle of her arms. Her hair was tied in two buns, and had very small cherry blossoms on each bun. Her chocolate eyes were burning with anger. Her beautiful green, pink, and brown wings stood straight up in frustration. Sakura and Hinata just stared at the poor creature that had just lost her home.
"I'm terribly sorry about your house Miss…-Tenten." The fairy cut in.
"Sorry isn't going to fix my house!"
"You're right… Well since I wrecked your house, I'll fix it." Sakura said
"How?" Tenten asked a little less mad now.
"Like this… "Creatum msiodio pyonus rona" The house began to re-build itself, little by little, until it was good as new! The fairy went inside of the house, and came back a few moments later.
"Well… uh thanks… I guess…" Tenten said with reluctance in her voice "I guess you'll be going now?"
"Yes…" Sakura said and then got up from the ground, dusting herself off.
"You too…?" Tenten looked at Hinata
"Yes" Hinata got up as well. Tenten's wings drooped "Just like that…?"
"There is no reason for us to stay." Sakura stated.
"Well… okay then… Goodbye" Tenten said quietly, it was apparent that she was quite lonely, at least to Sakura it was. The two started walking and a few yards later, Hinata spoke up.
"Should we just leave her there? She seemed to be a little lonely…" Hinata looked back at where Tenten was.
"Just wait Hinata…"
"Wait?... for what?"
"You'll see… five…four…three…two…on-"Wait!" Sakura smiled to herself, and turned around. "Tenten…?"
"I was wondering… would you like to come to a fairy party with me? I need to bring two guests, otherwise I can't come… so…" Tenten trailed off. (every fairy must go the yearly party a guest must be invited as well.)
"I'd be delighted to come, what about you Hinata?" Sakura asked, knowing the fairy law, but didn't bring it up.
"I as well. When is this party?" Hinata asked.
"In a few minutes." Tenten said "It's just over there." Tenten pointed to a massive wall of trees about a half mile away. "Are you ready?"
"Yes" The two said simultaneously.
"Then lets go." Tenten stated flying toward the tree, making Hinata sneeze with her fairy dust.
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Tenten knocked three times on the bark of the tree.
"Passphrase?" Fairies don't use passwords, they use secret phrases instead, everyone knows that! It's a custom to the fairies that the fairy who throws the party must make the poem themselves. It must describe what they do, or what they look like.
"Roses are Red… Lovers beware!!" Tenten stated
"A thorn through the heart, Lovers despair!!
The act of heartbreaking, awaits in her stare.
A smile so cruel, spiteful and cold,
Her spells of betrayal are too strong and bold" Tenten ended the poem.
"Good, do you have your guests?" The voice whispered.
"Of course I do!" Tenten exclaimed.
"Come on in then." The trees started to shake as a doorway was formed through one of them. Tenten went in first, followed by the other two beings. Sakura and Hinata looked around, Hinata had never seen a Fairy party before, and she was amazed. Flowers and exotic flora were everywhere. A fountain of golden nectar was located in the middle of the party, and different games were being played all around. Ranging from Roley-Poley bowling (also known as pillbug bowling), to flower weaving. Each fairy had a separate and unique flower, or leaf dressing, to show what they were the fairy of. Like Tenten for example was the Fox-Glove fairy. Tenten stayed near Sakura as they walked into the party.
"Anyone up for Roley-Poley bowling?" Tenten asked.
"We're too big…" Hinata sighed, Tenten sighed as well.
"I can fix that." Sakura said "Hey Tenten, Can I borrow some fairy dust?"
"Sure Sakura." Tenten flew over where Sakura's cupped hand was. She fluttered over Sakura's hand and made her wings go incredibly fast. The same golden dust that made Hinata sneeze was piled into Sakura's hand. Sakura then took a small clear pouch out of her side bag which contained a dust like substance, but it was silver. Sakura poured the golden dust into the silver dust and closed the bag.
"Mixious Maxious…" Sakura chanted as the dust in the pouch turned into a pearly color.
"Hinata come over here for a second…" Sakura said, Hinata came and Sakura took a little of the pearly dust and sprinkled it over her and Hinata's heads. "Transform!" Sakura's and Hinata's surroundings grew larger and life-sized, and the shrunk to six inches themselves. They each sprouted fairy wings, Sakura's were pink and red, and Hinata's were blue and purple.
"Cool!" Tenten said, "Now how about that bowling?"
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The three went twards the "Lane" and got their pillbug balls. As they got closer to the game, the other fairies stopped playing, whispered to one another, or just looked away.
"What's their problem?" Hinata asked.
"Me… I guess" Tenten whispered.
"Why you, Tenten?" Sakura asked.
"A rumor…" Tenten said sadly.
"What kind of rumor?" Sakura asked.
"The kind that gets you shunned…" Tenten said reluctantly.
"Care to share?" Hinata asked in curiosity.
"It's not the best story to tell…" Tenten commented.
"I would like to know as well." Sakura said.
"… Alright…" She flew onto a sunflower, and beckoned the two others onto it.
"It's kind of a long story…"
"Take all of the time you need" Hinata comforted her.
"Okay… well it all started when I was just a small child… I came home from the fairy academy…"
Flashback…
An eight year old Tenten said goodbye to her friends, and she came home for the day.
"How was your day, Tennie?" Tenten's little brother asked
"It was fine Gin… where's mom?"
"Upstairs, I heard some noise earlier, but she tells us not to wake her if she's sleeping, so I didn't go up."
"Okay, I'll go check on her…" Tenten went upstairs, there was no sound whatsoever… which was weird, because usually her baby sister Chii was crying for her mother… but there was no sound at all… Not even a little bit. She went to check on her baby sister, but she was gone. 'She must be in mom's room…' Tenten thought. Tenten knocked on the door of her mother's room, which was also silent. She saw a droplet of blood on the carpet, as the door opened with no effort. Tenten wondered why it was so dark in the room. "Mom…? Chii…?" She turned on the light, and her entire world had collapsed in that mere second. Her mother's mutilated body was sprawled onto the bed, her father's as well. Both were missing limbs that were scattered along the ground, one was breathing but Tenten couldn't tell which one so she ran to the bed.
"M-mom…?"Tenten wailed, and her mother looked at her wearily. She was going to die soon. "Tenten, run… it's a… chavera…!" Tenten was shocked a chavera was the most dangerous of creatures, it can change it's size, and shape, and was sent to murder anyone or anything, in the most painful way. It wouldn't stop doing it's job until its master said so. "Protect your siblings… I love you baby…" her voice trialed off, as she passed on. "MOM?! MOM!! MOMMY!?" Tenten screamed. Then it hit her… it was still in the house… Tenten ran down the hallway, and went to grab her brother… but he was already unconscious in the arms of the chavera, so was her little sister Chii. The shadowy, bloody figure ran out the door with her siblings. She chased it outside, where other fairies screamed at the sight. "STOP IT, LET THEM GO!!" Tenten screamed, and the creature looked at her pondering what to do, and it shook it off, taking the children with it. Some tried to take it down as it slaughtered them, it slaughtered most of the nearby fairies, until very few remained. Tenten cried out as she made a last attempt as getting her siblings, and failed. The chavera carried her siblings off. The remaining villagers panicked, and contacted the other fairies in the forest. Soon all of the other fairies were there. The elder fairies tried to find a scapegoat to this tragedy, and at last they had found one… Tenten.
"It was her house that it came from…" One said.
"She was the only survivor of her family… why is that?" Someone said.
"I bet she was the chavera's master…" The queen accused. Throughout this Tenten said nothing, as her entire world was gone… she was speechless, an unnatural void of a being.
They accused, and accused, and she never denied any of it… so they shunned her, and left her to fend for herself…
End the flashback…
"That was eleven years ago…" Tenten said.
"I'm sorry for that Tenten…" Hinata said sadly, she couldn't imagine the pain she went through.
"It's not your fault don't apologize…" Tenten said. A child came up to Tenten, a pebble in hand, and glared at her. The boy took the pebble and threw it at Tenten. Some other fairies had gotten pebbles and joined the child. Tenten stiffened and cried out in pain. She heard the children sing a rhyme, which haunted her since that faithful day.
"Clever little Tenten
Had plans for her kin,
Little did they know of
The trouble they were in
She ripped them to shreds
And tore off their heads
As the chavera made
Off with her Gin"
The children sang, as others just shouted at her.
"Monster!"
"You killed my husband"
"My child is dead thanks to you!" The crowd sneered, and called her names, Sakura and Hinata glared at the people. One last statement was the last straw…
"Leave; No one wants a freak like you around…" Sakura roared, at the crowd
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO SAY SUCH THINGS!?" She screamed, and a lady spoke up, "I did." The smug fairy crossed her arms. The queen fairy came into view, and snickered.
"She deserves to be punished for her crimes…" She queen smirked.
"Did you even think of how Tenten felt through all of this? You people just accused her, and she never even said a word. She's just a scapegoat to you people." Sakura grabbed Tenten and Hinata "Let us take our leave" She spat, they left the party with Tenten in tears, and Hinata tried to console the crying fairy. Both Hinata and Sakura reverted back to their normal states after exiting the gate.
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"Tenten, I cannot allow you to stay here. You must accompany us." Sakura said caringly.
"I'd like that, Sakura…" Tenten said quietly.
"Good, so get your things and then meet me in my house." Sakura said.
"Okay… but where's your house?" Tenten asked
"You'll see, just get ready." Sakura said, taking out her scroll that her shack was sealed into and placed it on the ground as Tenten went inside her home, and packed a small bag with her necessities in it, she was about to close the door to her bedroom when she heard a 'poof' noise. She locked up her home and saw that outside there was a small shack. Tenten knocked on the door, "Come in Tenten". She went into the open door, and looked at Sakura quizzically. Sakura had a small cloth in her hand, which looked like a cloak.
"Tenten, come over here please. Sakura motioned to a nearby table, and sat down in the chair next to it. Tenten flew onto the table with her backpack in-hand.
"Tenten, this is your cape, it will protect you from fire, and is nearly impenetrable. It can also hide you from your enemies." Sakura said, Hinata remembered that phrase from when Sakura was telling her about her new cape.
"Just put a drop of your blood on this white tag, and it will be forever yours. Hinata can show you some of its ability… right Hinata?" Sakura asked in a sweet voice. Tenten bit her finger, and let it dribble onto the tag, it glew a bright green, and the white cloak turned a flower stem green. (not exactly neon green, but not forest green either… :p).
"Cool… what does it do Hinata?" Tenten tied on her new cloak, and watched Hinata as Sakura had said.
"Oh, okay. Watch this." Hinata said softly, she closed her cloak and put her hood over her head. She closed her eyes, and vanished in a sudden 'whoosh'. Tenten gasped.
"Hinata… that was… so… so… AWESOME!!" She screeched, she tried it for herself, by thinking herself invisible. She 'whished' instead, because of her size. She went on like that for ten minutes straight, just popping in and out of nowhere. She finally collapsed on the table, and pointed her arm and index finger toward the ceiling, laboring her breathing.
"I'm (gasp) done! (gasp)" her arm fell onto the table in a tired heap.
"Tenten?" Sakura asked snickering at the escapades that just occurred.
"Yeeeeeessss?" She answered in a silly deep voice.
"You still need to pick your weapon…" Sakura said, and Tenten sat up.
"Weapons…? For what?" She asked.
"On our journey, there will be many enemies, guaranteed… some worse than the chavera. You need a weapon, for protection." Sakura said.
"Oh…" She trailed off, and with a sparkle in her eyes she asked excitedly "is it going to be like yours?" Tenten looked over at Sakura's katana. Its sheath and handle was an ivory, pearly pink color. There were many white cherry blossom petals at the top of the sheath, and they lessened as they went toward the end. The butt-cap was gold, and so was the guard. "How many weapons do you have? Are they sharp? What are they made of? Where did you- Look for yourself…" Sakura interrupted the overly excited fairy, she opened her secret hatch under her closet, the fairy zoomed past Hinata as Sakura turned on her light. Tenten drooled at the weapons; she apparently had a soft spot for pointy objects.
"These are a little big for you aren't they?" Sakura asked, chuckling.
"Maybe just a little…" Tenten sighed. Sakura pulled out a small chest, "I knew these could be used for something…" Sakura said quietly to herself. "Hey Tenten." Tenten looked toward Sakura, who had a small gold chest in her hand.
"These seem just perfect for you, Tenten." Sakura opened the chest, which contained a glowing orb, the size of a marble. Also it contained a silver stick, which was about half the length of a lollipop stick, Tenten looked confused, and slightly annoyed.
"What can I do with this pole thing…?" Sakura smiled, and remained silent.
"It's not like it's an axe or-" She stopped looking at Sakura and looked at what was in her hand. Instead of a silver pole, it was a shining silver axe with crystals embedded into it. Tenten looked at Sakura, who still had that 'I know more than you do' smile on. She blushed, and realized the thrills she would have with her new "toy".
"Sword!" Tenten said, and the axe transformed into a sword.
"Scythe!" It transformed once again.
"Shield!"
"Spear!" (lots of S weapons aren't there?)
"Stick!"
"Spoon" (so what if it's a little silly, you can do damage with a spoon)
"Knife!" (Finally!)
"Scepter" (Damn)
"Mace!"
"Club!"
"Bow and arrow!"
"St- That's enough Tenten." Sakura said, slightly stern. "Your other weapon is the orb of elements. When you use it, you must stay "Elemental orb:…" then say what element you want to use. To activate and deactivate these items so no one else can use them, say "I call upon my weapons of transformation" to deactivate them say "Weapons of transformation, Deactivate". She explained. Tenten repeated "Weapons of transformation, Deactivate…" Tenten's silver bow and arrow transformed back into a plain silver pole. She attached her new weapons onto her belt, and sighed happily.
"Let us be on our way…" Sakura said, and she heard the two girl's stomach grumble.
"Once we have lunch that is…" Sakura laughed, and began preparing food…
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Elsewhere… Well… a few hours ago elsewhere
"Did ya feel that Gaara…?" A late teened boy with blue eyes and blonde hair asked the blazing red-head that was across from him.
"…" The redhead "Gaara" seemed to be in deep thought.
"You did right Shikamaru?" The blonde asked after no response.
"We all did Naruto…: the brunette with the spikey ponytail said.
"What a power surge…" Naruto said overenthusiastically "I mean, WOW! What could have caused it?! That would be like if I… no if Gaara unleashed Sh-Naruto…" Gaara growled.
"Yeah, Gaara?" He grinned
"Be Silent…" Gaara warned.
'The Kyuubi cub is right… That was a mighty powerful surge…'
'It was… it wasn't human either.'
'It was defiantly a Jinchuuriki… and of the female sort… kukuku…'
'Out of all of the demons to get stuck with, I get the one with the eternal sex cravings…'
'Well, something has to make up for your virginity…'
'Shukaku…' Gaara growled at his inner demon
'What could you possibly do to me? I'm you remember?' Shukaku laughed.
'This is not over…' Gaara said, and snapped out of his concentrated state, and stood up.
"We're going to investigate the source of that power." Gaara stated.
"Is it Sasuke?" a long browned haired male pixie asked, and came down from the branch he was on
"No, Neji… it was much bigger than that bastard…" Gaara spat. The four guys started running toward the source.
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Back with the others… Present Time
"So where exactly is camp going to be, Sakura?" Hinata asked, noticed that the sun was setting.
"The next clearing, Hinata" Sakura stated. She heard the small snap of a twig a few meters behind her, "GET DOWN" Sakura yelled, as three arrows zoomed past their heads. Sakura looked at her attacker, as she jumped into at tree; two more arrows were in the ground where she was a moment ago. She took out her hunting knife from her boot.
The attacker shot two more arrows, and of course Sakura got out of the way. The attacker… or should I say attackress, the blonde attacker had four spikey ponytails. They both jumped down from the trees, and the girl shot three more arrows, Sakura dodged them, and pinned the attackress against a tree.
"Who are you and why are you attacking us?" Sakura growled. The girl looked at her with her purple eyes, and huffed. The girl had a black top that was like a sports bra, a brown vest, cuffed brown shorts with miscellaneous pockets, brown musketeer shoes, brown leather gloves with amour plating on them, and a bow, which fell from her hand.
"Who are you?" Sakura was getting irritated with the girl, who was about her age, if not a bit older. She still was silent.
"I will ask once more, who are you and what is your business with my friends and myself?" Sakura demanded. The girl stayed silent, and smirked. She then spoke something; it could have been words… It was more like a series of hums. Sakura knew of this language, all too well. It was the language of animals. Kinda like how zombies moan, but a bit more distinct. Only animals, people with animal spirits, animal reincarnations, Jinchuuriki, or animal spirits themselves could speak the language.
"Mmmm ohmmm goh Temario, lomm semakah forni! Lomm honu on kiommm uppah wiss sawinnn odd nigh?" The girl asked cockily.
(My name is Temari, you dense woman! You have no idea what I'm saying do you?)
Sakura snorted and shook her head.
"Wiss noom samm semakah samm lomm jonah, ookami. Wi yonom lomm speckra humman samm dello, som can weih…?"
(I'm not as dense as you think, wolf. I know you speak human as well, so can we…?)
To say Temari was shocked was an understatement, not only did this mysterious pinkette speak the sacred animal language, but she knew she was a wolf reincarnation. Sakura released Temari, and smiled.
"Nice to meet you Temari, I'm Sakura!" She smiled. "So, why did you attack us?" Temari's stomach grumbled, and she blushed.
"You smelled like food…" She trailed off.
"Well, that wasn't worth attackin us like that" Tenten said.
"I apologize." Temari said, and picked her bow off from the ground. Sakura noticed that she didn't carry any arrows.
"Where is your arrow case?" Sakura asked.
"Don't need one" Temari stated, she looked at her hand, and three arrows appeared out of thin air. Her stomach grumbled again, and she sighed.
"I'll make you something to eat, what do you like?" Sakura asked taking out her scroll.
"…"Temari pondered, "Meat…?" She asked, making Sakura laugh. "Meat it is." She ran her index finger over the scroll, and placed it in front of her, and her little shack came up.
She went inside, and a few minutes later, she came out with a plate of chicken, duck, beef, pork, and turkey, both light and dark.
"I didn't know what you liked, so… here!" Sakura gave the drooling Temari the plate.
"Thank you… Sakura. I owe ya one." She disappeared in the trees. "Goodbye!"
"Where did she go?" Hinata asked.
"To feed her pack most likely… I have a feeling that we won't see the last of her… Anyway, let's set up camp, shall we?"
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A few hours later…
"I'm going to go wash up, I'll be back." Sakura said, and took a small cloth with her. They camped near the river, so it wouldn't be too far of a walk. Sakura took off her boots, and sat on the bank, letting her feet dip into the water. She started dipping the cloth into the water and washing her face and limbs. She heard a smell whining sound, and then a yelp. Sakura dried off herself, and put her boots back on. She took a look around where she saw a small wolf pup. Its leg had been caught in a bear trap. Sakura came closer to the petrified animal, it turned to run, but its wound prevented that… in a very painful way.
"Poor thing…" Sakura said to herself, "Itsa awramm, chiisai ookami… Wiss hora toya yommo." (It's alright, small wolf… I'm here to help.) The wolf pup looked up at her, and nodded, it was apparent it couldn't speak yet. Sakura looked at the animal trap, and pulled apart the two sharp sides apart, and the pup limped out of the trap. Sakura held the pup in her left arm, and held her right hand over the wound. A green tinted chakra emitted from the palm of her hand, and the wound closed. She put down the pup and let it try its leg out. The pup looked at Sakura, and looked at its leg. It took a few steps, and then ran happily in circles. It jumped on Sakura, knocking her over, and wagging its tail.
"Whoom lomm jike meh toya ta-ke lomm verafolor?"
(Would you like me to take you home?)
The wolf pup nodded, and pointed the way to its den. Sakura could smell the scent of the wolf pack nearby. She picked up the pup and followed her nose. They ended up near a cave by the waterfall, where the river started. Sakura saw that it was a fairly big pack, with both wolves and humans. She saw Temari there too, she looked worried, she looked at Sakura, and looked at what was in her arms. A wave of relief came over Temari, as she ran toward Sakura. (I'm just writing it in English, since everyone is speaking the sacred language :D)
"Koki, what did I tell you about wandering by yourself like that? You had all of us worried…" Temari scolded the pup.
"Thank you again Sakura, I owe ya another one!" She laughed. "This is my little brother Koki… How did you find him?"
"His hind leg… it was caught in a trap…" Temari was shocked and inspected his leg, only to find a scar, no blood, just a scar.
"Don't worry I fixed it." Sakura smiled. "I gotta get back to my campground, so goodbye!" Sakura walked away, the elder wolf sat next to Temari
"That one is powerful…" He said as Koki snuggled him.
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Sakura came from the clearing, and sat down by the fire.
"Where were you?" Tenten asked.
"Out and about" She responded. They watched the fire for a few moments, and out of the blue Tenten asked
"If you can just poof out your shack, why do we have to sleep in tents?"
"My shack can only stay out for an hour, then in can't be summoned for six hours. So if we were to camp there, then we would be open to attack…"
"Oh… that's why." Hinata commented "Hey… do you smell smoke?"
"Other than the fire that's right in front of us?" Tenten asked sarcastically.
"No… she's right, there is smoke… over there…" Sakura said, as Hinata stuck her tongue out at Tenten. Sakura looked over at where the smoke was the darkest. Her eyes grew wide.
"Temari…" Sakura sprinted off in the direction of the smoke… where the wolf den was.
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Somewhat nearby…
"Gaara… Smoke!" Neji said "It's where Temari…" Gaara knew this already, and went faster toward the blazing fire where his sister resided.
"Damnit…" Gaara seethed. There was not much time.
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FINALLY!!
Ah… it's been a while hasn't it? A new chapter… and a very looooong one… I've been working on it for a month on and off. I went to fanime, but not as nurse joy TT But as Freya (Dark Chii) my little 10 year old brother was Sora! He was soooo cute!
TTFN,
Supasquib