Chapter 4: The mystery continues.
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The peaceful mystery village:
Hikaru walked around waving to the different people. Everyone went on with their life and the children laughed, and played running about. The adults were talking selling items like sweets, and groceries.
"Something you need Hikaru?" An old man at a fruit stand, squinted his eyes at her with a smile. "These fruits of my labor this summer are freshly picked. I'm sure your mother would love to make a pie from them"
The teenage girl smiled back at him and shook her hair sending the dark locks in a circle around her from her half ponytail.
"I'm sorry Kakeru-san I don't have any money with me." But Hikaru reassured him she would come back within the hour with money very positive that her mother would love to buy some fruit from him.
Kakeru nodded and left the conversation at that.
Hikaru continued on, to where she was originally headed. It was a place she loved to go and simply think on the things in life that bothered her.
Last night she had dreamt of her twin brother again. How many years had it been since she last dreamt about him? Though her thoughts never truly forgot him ….Sasuke…. her own flesh and blood. When Hikaru passed a mirror she saw her brother in her, she saw all of her family in her. Though, Sasuke's characteristics were more prominent as to her eyes were a little dull when her mood was down. (and the fact that they were born within minutes of each other…)
She perked up a little and the regular sparkle returned to her onyx eyes when she thought of the life she now had, instead of the past.
Hikaru walked and she finally reached the edge of the village which was one of the seven entrances to the village and she slipped through it and she trotted along with her hands laced behind her back. She looked at the lush green leaves, turning from green to white in the wind.
Hikaru closed her eyes and she heard voices in the far distance. Her mother in the village had taught her that the wind carried many voices, but if you listened hard enough, you can know exactly where they are coming from.
Hikaru walked…she thought of the day she had decided that she no longer would be a part of her brother's life. She had thought she was going to cry herself to death after that experience…
She shook her head to get the bad thoughts away. Things were bright and happy right now….the day was wonderful, she saw some ninja far in the distance, and the animals were about- and then she snapped her head to look down far the road and she was stuck where she was.
So she simply made a bypass and went into the actual woods, trying to hide herself as she wanted to reach her destination. Since they were ninja Hikaru decided to walk a ways into the forest and then go to the place….
Little did she know who exactly she was avoiding….
The ninja group had been walking for a short time when Naruto asked. "So where exactly IS this village I've never heard of until this morning?"
Kakashi pointed ahead of them. "It's this way of course. Not much farther."
Shikamaru asked the next question on their minds. "Why exactly is the village so close and no one knows about it?"
"To keep the violent unwanted away. You see, the village has a justu surrounding the entire perimeter of the village so as to 'blend in' because when you are violent you only see things as they are. We are a special cause and have permission to be there so they have let it up so it won't deflect us… and we can easily see it if we open our minds."
Sasuke thought he heard rusling and he turned just to see a darting figure in the trees…maybe an animal. Just in case he activated his sharingan.
Sasuke hissed slightly as he saw the chakra of a person slowly walking away from them in the forest. The first instinct was to pursue, but it seemed as though the person was doing no harm so Sasuke let it go and continued on.
Hikaru:
Soon Hikaru relaxed when she was far enough away from the group of ninja. Ikuto would be wondering where exactly she was soon… but that didn't really matter. She stopped for a moment and closed her eyes listening to her surroundings.
The birds were twittering among themselves, and a there twigs breaking from the wandering animals.
Hikaru started to hum. The tune was soft and light, a little lullaby that her mother sang to her when it rained, the mother in the village that comforted her when she cried when her own twin rejected her very existence.
Not that it mattered. She could no longer go back, sine she promised herself she would cause no harm to him.
The Ninja squad at the 'entance':
Soon the group reached an entrance that looked to a be a temple gate. Beyond it there looked to be a burned down temple from long ago. Naruto groaned. "Kakashi-sensei, this is just an old burned down pile of logs! Admit it, we're lost!"
Kakashi chuckled and he simply stepped through the gate Kakashi disappeared.
Shikarmaru looked at Naruto. "You were saying?" Then he stepped through.
Naruto grumbled. "Well Teme..guess it's time to go."
"Yeah, after you Dobe." Sasuke smirked and Naruto punched his shoulder playfully and grumbled more, but stepped through.
That only left Sasuke then….who knew what layed beyond, but soon… soon enough he would meet a surviving member of his clan…. What would this Hikaru be like?
Sasuke sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. He relaxed himself and stepped through the gate and what he saw amazed him.
Hikaru a little further down the road:
The young raven haired girl reached a lake where she took out a flute from the backpack she wore.
She put it together carefully and she sat down on the slight hill facing the crystal waters that were bathing in the soft morning light.
Carefully the child put the instrument to her lips and played.
It was a soft tune and the air she blew made her sound project, never wavering with the notes.
Their came a pause and a string instrument responded. Again she began to play. The two instruments then played together in a harmony. Hikaru couldn't help, but smile as she played.
Soon, all too soon the song ended and emerged the dark blue hair and eyes person of her brother.
"Thanks for playing with me Ikuto." Ikuto smiled and plucked at his instrument. "It was the least I could do for you sis."
Hikaru looked out at the crystal waters for a moment. "I wonder what nature was thinking when she made this lake…it's just so peaceful."
"Nature was probably thinking. 'Hey look! A place to make a lake!'"
Hikaru smiled giggling a little.
"Yeah…" Her brother walked closer to her and sat down next to her and played another tune more upbeat. Hikaru caught on and played after the string was over and she even danced around for a bit while she played.
This went on for a few minutes and everything finished, Hikaru was laughing and she was very happy…HIkaru couldn't imagine anything that could go wrong for the moment.
Everything was right with the world
The Ninja squad in the village:
The five Ninja weren't stared at per say more like observed by a lot of eyes that were wide open. Some children didn't even notice them walking through except for the occasional parent taking their child in for 'a snack' at least that's what they told the children.
"Kakashi-sensei, do these people not like us?" Sakura looked at the masked man with the question she had asked and Kakashi sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"No….they just think we kill with no thought or care in the world."
Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sakura all looked at their squad leader thinking that these people had the basics pretty much down.
Still it was a LITTLE rude of them to be acting like this. Sasuke sighed and looked at Naruto, who looked all peachy keen with all the stares. That's right Naruto had been stared at with hatred his entire life…Well at least now he could get a taste f what the blond truly went through, and when Sasuke thought about it all, this feeling wasn't very pleasant in the least. Kinda looking at an animal in a cage then being on the same situation…minus the part when people PAY to throw stuff and stare at you. This….is for free.
So Sasuke decided to look at the dirt beneath his shoes. Finding it more interesting.
"Like the dirt Teme?"
"More interesting than staring at the cabbage carts."
"But fruit also flourishes fluently forever here….such as tomatoes."
"Tomatoes are a vegetable."
"Let's call it a hermaphobe."
"Hermaphrodite. Go back to grade school you moron."
Naruto snickered. Sasuke was now looking at Naruto square in the face….and he was looking back. For a single moment they were caught in their glances when Shikamaru decided to cut it.
"As I have said before; The newlyweds should get a room….and now we are possibly in a village that's accepts your sexuality."
Sakura sighed and shook her head.
"If you guys are gay…leave me out of it."
Kakashi chuckled listening to all of this and lead them to a building smack-dab in the middle of the village.
If you were in any major village, this looked to be where a Kage would live…and for the leaf this would be perfect for the Hokage…
"Here we are you four. This is where we will meet the Kage of this village, and then we will go meet Ikuto and begin our 'mission'." If he was smiling only his eye was showing to prove Sasuke's suspicions.
Naruto began to grumble about something that sounded like 'if these people hate biting (Sasuke was pretty sure he meant fighting) so much why in the hell do they have a Kage."
Sasuke sighed unwilling to answer the dobe, but Sakura had him covered and punched Naruto in the head.
"Because, you moron, these people need a leader too! This is not anarchy!"
Naruto yelped in pain and held his head. This little scene made Sasuke chuckle and almost want to comfort the poor excuse of a Ninja…almost.
When they entered the lobby it was a fairly simple design of white tile and yellow walls, it was oval and there were stairs cases on either side of the building.
At the very end of the wide expanse looked to be a receptionist.
Kakashi told them to wait there and so they did. The two people began to talk. From what Sasuke could see was that it was a woman…if he cared she would have been a pretty.
If Sasuke bothered to think about it, even the receptionist would be shammed by Naruto's beauty…his blond hair beat her purple, the tan skin was more even-Sasuke stopped himself before he went even further almost wanting to puke,
Was he thinking about how pretty the DOBE NARUTO was?
Sasuke put his hand on his forehead to see if he had a fever. No…no fever, then Sasuke checked his cheeks. They were burning…yeah.
This was very bad….if Naruto saw this the Dobe would surely-
"Hey Teme why, you blushin'?" Naruto was squinting into his face, invading his personal space.
Sasuke sighed harshly. "Because, you Dobe-" Sasuke pinched Naruto's nose and covered his mouth. Naruto didn't even last ten seconds before he needed to breath and he pulled away harshly gasping and coughing.
"You Teme, you could've killed me!" Naruto's voice was high piched and course 'from lack of oxygen' Sasuke merely chuckled and that's when Kakashi came back.
"Yo, time to meet the Kage."
They walked up some stairs to their left that seemingly weren't that short a distance, but when you looked back you were at least fifteen feet in the air.
"Huh.." The place was officially weird. Shikamaru stretched his limbs by bending slightly backwards with his arms above his head and he sighed. "This is such a pain..." Sasuke shrugged in response.
"Maybe there are ground rules." said Sakura as she was leaving them behind.
"Maybe." The two boys headed off down another hallway which had pictures of what seemed to be the village as it evolved.
At least when the camera was invented, for people who cut themselves off from the world, they were very high tech….
The team met a door after walking past so many that just 'looked' like a door for a Kage office. This one strangley…beat the other doors they had come across. Let's hope it wasn't like the one with the freaking lion in it.
"Well, there's no need to keep these lovely people waiting." Kakashi opened with the door with caution, since at like the third one down Sensei nearly lost his head..leterally. The wall has the scratch from the blade that was flung at his head.
What met their eyes were two people sitting side by side. Both mirrored the other perfectly. Both were boys that didn't even look twenty… no…not even sixteen.
They both looked up disheveling their light green hair, and they smiled kindly. The one on the left said, "Hello, My name is Takahiro, this is my brother-"
"I'm Takashi." Takashi was soft spoken and looked at his brother nodding.
"You see, me and my brother are a temporary replacement for our grandmother who is out on a mission in another country." Now Takahiro seemed more outspoken than the two…probably as irresponsible as Naruto…
As the thought crossed their minds, they had said 'temporary'.
Then they understood. These two were mere backups.
"I suppose we have to tell you what you are and are not allowed to do."
"More like the things they can't do, otherwise they will be here a while Takahiro."
"True." They both turned back to the squad. "The number one rule you have to understand is; No Ninjustu." When they said that they looked at each other seeing if that was all and they nodded. "You may leave. I hope your stay here until your long lost citizen is done smoothyly." They all were frozen to their spots.
That was all? The only reason they came up here was for introductions, and the statement that they aren't allowed to use jutsu that will cause harm?
They didn't even get a chance to introduce themselves to them….spoiled brats…. They probably have everything given to them on a silver platter.
Sasuke had his arms crossed over his chest, and kept his thoughts, and expressions, to himself.
These guys weren't any older than them and they already were getting on hiss nerves.
Kakashi lead them out so that Naruto wouldn't make a fool of them.
"Well, that went well don't you think?"
Kakashi walked ahead of the still confused team and Shikamaru shook his head, "Those twins were of a different sort…"
"You're telling me." Naruto had his eyes squinted.
"Hey Dobe, do that with your eyes for too long and they'll get stuck like that."
"Huh, What did you say Teme?" Naruto opened his eyes just fine.
"Oh, nothing. Just thinking on how great it would be if your eyes could no longer open so that you wouldn't have to look at the same things I do would be."
"You wish Teme." Sasuke chuckled.
Little did Sasuke realize that he was looking at Naruto's back as the Dobe walked away.
So whaddya think so far? ;) Like what you see? I know, I know…where's the bad guys right? Well be patient and review and I may put the threat to this peaceful village in my next chapter. ;)