Chapter II: New Life

I woke up to a bright morning, on a soft bed… softest I've ever been on… looking at the white ceiling; I heard footsteps coming from outside the room door. I pretended to be asleep in hopes that they would think so and talk about why I'm here. They entered the room. Sounded like two women, nurses talking. One was talking about what I was doing here.

"He was on a horse that ran itself into the door." The other replied, "The horse was Red with white hair. He had blood wounds and was passed out. Our chakra doctors noticed an unusual amount of chakra emanating from his body. Like some kind of soul protecting him."

"Maybe he has THAT much control of his chakra, the dumb kid" The first one said. That tore it… I immediately rose up and yelled at her,

"I'M NOT A BRAT YOU STUPID BI- OWWW!" my wounds still hurt like hell. I hunched on the bed sitting up.

"Stop that kid, you are badly injured! My name is Tyra, and this is Tikal." The first nurse said. She was blonde and didn't look older than 17. I looked at the second nurse. Brunette, blue eyes and I'd say about 15. Too young to be nurses… something didn't make sense. With my good arm I pulled out a kunai and pointed it at them. "Relax dammit!" Tyra shouted.

"Then where am I?! Why are you two nurses?! You both are too young!" I shouted back.

"Shut up and I'll explain!" Tikal shouted at me furiously. She explained what had happened on their end of the story. How Red made a new doorway to get me in this hospital. She's always been a mother-figure to me. Tikal explained how Red wouldn't leave me. They needed 8 ninjas to bring her down. She is outside attempting to be freed from a chakra field by force. I heard her neighing outside.

"Let her go please. Allow her inside!" I beckoned to them. They said to give them a minute. I waited, keeping my ears focused down the hallway. I put down the kunai and it landed with a bang on the floor. With this I knew the floor was wooden. I heard gallops coming down the hallway (with multiple screaming people too). Red Hare came inside and buried her snout into my chest. I yelped in pain and happiness as I hugged her. "Red! I missed you so much!!" I told her, tears seeping out of my eyes. I felt tears leak on my arms. She was crying too. 5 minutes later Tikal entered the room with a clipboard in her arms smiling. Multiple people looked in through the door at this 'cute' sight. That part made me sick. Tikal handed me the clipboard. "What's this?" I asked.

"Write your information here. Your name, age, where you are from etc." Tikal replied while removing my bandages. I wrote down my name and my age. My profession, business, and all that stupid stuff I put N/A. Where I was from, Japan. But that question hit me so hard, another came out of it.

I outburst, "Where am I anyways?!" Tyra entered the room.

"The Village hidden in the Leaves" She said walking up to me. "One of five hidden villages. Actually six due to the sound ninja." Six villages of ninjas? This is cool. The perfect place to start my new life, The Village Hidden in the Leaves.

After my wounds healed, I worked toward getting a place to stay. I was hopping along trees when a newspaper flew into my face. Below me, Red hare was grazing and I ended up landing on her, we landed on the ground in a loud thump. I pulled the newspaper from my face and saw Hideyoshi's picture! He was killed!? Tokugawa's troops took over from where he left off. The article said that all my work was for nothing… I had a discouraged look.

"So, even through all that, what I did with YOUR body did nothing. Shame… I actually liked that leader." The deep voice! What the hell, who the hell was it?

"Who's there!? I know you were there during that night at the burning building!" I yelled.

"Ah but your body served me so well then… Caranomaru Kinoshita!"

"How do you know my name?! Who are you!?"

"I am the soul that kept you alive and protected. The soul of the 8-tailed Wolf. The demon who once was 9-tailed, like that annoying brother of mine. Damn him for ripping it off."

"Soul of the 8-tailed Wolf huh? Why did you inhabit my body that night?"

"Too many questions for one boy to have. I was with you before you even learned to use a weapon. That seal on your back, I made myself."

"The giant Wolf's Paw? That was you?! And who the hell is this brother you talked about?"

"Yes THAT symbol was MY doing and my brother, well, you may know him as The Nine Tailed Fox."

We conversed and I felt pretty good that he was on my side. Red was watching me the entire time, talking to myself. After we knew who our enemy was and who our allies were, Wolf and I worked on controlling each other's chakra and using it in battle. We created somewhat of a jutsu allowing Wolf control of a shadow clone of mine, only more like my demonic form. He looked like I was back when he ripped Mitsunari to shreds. I just hope that if we meet the Nine Tailed Fox's host, we don't immediately fight or cause trouble.

It was about 5 p.m. I am guessing when Red Hare and I went to go look for shelter. Lucky for me there was actually a house for sale. I had some revenue from when I separated from Hideyoshi's military. I used that and still had 2,000 yen to spare! That much money for a house and I still need to buy groceries! I felt tired from the training and so I set up a bed and just dozed off with Red landing in a giant thump next to me. She was tired as I was and just slept like a pony. As I fell asleep, I wondered what the future would hold for me in this new village. The Village Hidden in the Leaves… catchy!