AN: Soooo last chapters lemon will a real surprise for me because I didn't think about it or even expected on so early in the story especially with Lord Yukihito. At least not yet...But I finally posted the first five chapters to the website and I'm nervous about what people may think...I hope you all think well and leave a gosh darn review to let me know if I'm doing a good job?!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Chapter 6
Kyo sat at the camp that him and Yumi sat up from them and Hikari. It had been 4 years since they started her official training to become their alpha and he couldn't help but feel...irritated? Maybe it was this passed meeting with Saiya and Ryota but he was starting to second guess that this small child was supposed to lead their clan. They had to regrow their numbers but every time a woman in their clan got pregnant she was lose the baby shorter after being born because of the lack of a standing alpha..He felt like this after every meeting he had with them.
Whenever a new pup is born into a clan the Alpha of the clan has to bless the newborn babe with their blood infused with their youki, or what youkai call their chakra. But in order to be able to bless a pup you had to have you first heat so you can connect spiritually with the pup. And their alpha was a pup herself!
The Oedo clan had 37 clan members left, and for some reason it took their ex deceased Alpha's mate over 300 years to give birth to their alpha. There used to be hundreds of them and over the last couple of centuries, their alpha taking their sweet ass time to be born had dwindled down from 782 to 37...
Sighing Kyo looked over at Hikari and saw her practicing throwing her kunai and couldn't help but smile before chuckling defeatedly earning him a weird glance from Yumi.
It wasn't Hikari's fault that their numbers had decreased so rapidly it was the fault of war among themselves and asshole humans who hated them for things beyond their control, and then having to recover from all of it.
Kyo was 823 years old, he was one of the eldest leaders of their clan next to Saiya who was 738. Yumi was 526 and Ryota was 524. The 37 youkai left in their clan were but children when their last alpha died and looked to them for leadership. Try, trying to take care and watch over their dead alpha's mate and keep her pregnancy a secret from the world and then take care of a bunch of children and youkai who are dying from a deadly poison that was picking them off like flies.
How Kyo hadn't died from being poisoned was beyond him considering he was on the same battlefield Noboru was when he got poisoned. To this day the way that they were all getting poisoned was a mystery to them all. A few hyphothesis here and there but nothing but theories without proof.
Kyo sat their watching Hikari imagining it was him throwing those kunai and it was her father that was teaching him how to do it. Their clan suffered with his death and continues to do so, at least until Hikari learned how to bless the pups of their clan..
All the other clans once recovered from war and well after the humans had forgotten about their existence 200 years ago they started to repopulate, their numbers were as low as the Oedo's now but they were prospering and they were in limbo.
"How many more years do you think it will be till we will see new pups more in our clan Yumi?" Kyo asked keeping his gaze on Hikari noticing a problem with her form and before he could mention it she stopped and plopped on the ground angrily.
"I don't know..." Yumi answered back also watching the young girl throwing a silent tantrum. "Maybe she would progress more if we actually pushed her and stopped treating her like a glass doll" Kyo responded earning him a glare from the woman next to him. "She's too young to be learning how to kill people Kyo, to young for that kind of responsibility-" "She already bears the responsibility of our clan and the expectations of it, we may not trouble her with a lot or tell her how much our clan is already looking at her and wondering if she will be able to lead our clan" Kyo said interrupting her before continuing. "We may not tell her of others expectations but she already knows, she isn't stupid or as naive as you would like to believe Yumi. And if we keep babying her Saiya is going to get what she wants and then what? Noboru didn't want Saiya leading this clan as alpha her place is beta, just as mine is.."
Kyo could feel Yumi staring at him but he didn't care. "If Saiya gets what she wants you will be Alpha too, I thought that's what you wanted too" Yumi said getting frustrated. "At one point in time yes..." Kyo sighed leaning forward resting his forearms on his knees. "After Noboru had died and the mark of Alpha did not appear on my head and instead was on a child who had not even been born yet I felt cheated...I was angry and yes I had agreed with Saiya and had at one point thought of killing Nasturi...But then I remembered how Noboru died in Nasturi-sama's arms and told her how he was sorry that he couldn't stick around to see her stomach swell with their pup and how much he loved them both. And he looked at me and told me to watch over them and to take care of his pup and make sure that they grew to be a proper alpha it was his last order to me, and I stopped my selfish thoughts...
Hikari is alpha, it is her birthright and Noboru wanted it to stay that way. And if we don't train that girl properly Saiya will challenge Hikari for leadership when she reverts back to her prime and will win. And then she will be Alpha and I'm not sure about you but I sure as hell don't want to live in a world where Saiya is alpha"
Yumi listened to Kyo and started to feel bad, looking over at Hikari she watched the pup stand up and pick it the discarded kunai and started again. "Let's wait a little longer Kyo...give her a few more years to just be a pup before we really push her.." "How long are you wanting to wait?" Kyo said finally looking up at her when he noticed Hikari fixed her stance and was finally able to hit the kunai in the center and started whooping and doing a weird victory dance.
"Thirteen is when pups consider themselves teenagers right? I think then would be a good time" Kyo sighed and scratched his head looking at Hikari as she bounded over to them. "Kyo-senpai, Yumi-senpai did you see me hit the bull's eye?!" Hikari said laughing, obviously very proud of herself. Kyo smiled and nodded, and Yumi patted her on the back. "Good job Hikari-sama, go do it again!" Hikari nodded with a bright smile and ran back to try again.
"Fine, until thirteen and then she's not getting babied anymore" Yumi smiled at Kyo and nodded.
Three years later Kyo found himself still in the clearing that was their home as they trained Hikari, and he could tell the girl was getting frustrated that they were taking it easy on her and it was driving them apart...
Slowly every since the meeting him and Yumi had with Saiya and Ryoto, Hikari seems to have been pulling away from them. Wanting more independant training time and less time with them. He couldn't blame her if he knew that his teachers weren't pushing me to his full potentional. But it wasn't just with training it was her attitude as well. She still acted the same but every once in a while a look he couldn't quite recognize would cross her face when she would look at them and she would recoil from them.
"Dammit Yumi she hates us" Kyo said growling wanting to kick something, so he did he kicked a stick into the fire. Wasn't good enough. "Kyo she doesn't hate us" "Oh? Do you see the way she looks at us sometimes? And how she looks after we're done training her? Knowing that we're going easy on her? I told you letting her hit us would only hurt her ego more than what did you say? Stroke it?" "I meant boost her ego you asshole" Yumi sighed angryily before she looked over at Hikari and frowned. She noticed it too but didn't like mentioning it outloud.
"It was supposed to raise her confidence.." She continued earning herself a small twig being kicked at her. "It was stupid" Kyo said watching as Hikari walked off into the woods to do her personal training.
"I haven't trained with her in a week, That's the longest time either of us have gone without giving her some sort of direction" Yumi mentioned sadly thinking that maybe Kyo was right about everything..maybe they should have pushed her from the beginning.
"I think she's hiding something from us.." Kyo said out loud as he watched the trees Hikari disappeared into. "Like what?" "I don't know but she's hiding something she's been smelling nervous and anxious for the passed few days now" Kyo said as he looked over at Yumi to see her preparing dinner, which consisted of rice, and beef.
"I think we should start pushing her first thing tomorrow morning" Yumi said making Kyo choke on the water he attempted to drink. "Are you serious?" He said regaining his breath.
"Yes...you were right all along Kyo and I don't want to push Hikari-sama any further away from us" Yumi said trying not to tear up. Kyo rubbed the back of his head awkardly, Yumi wasn't one to cry and when she did it made him uncomfortable. "Look..its not like I didn't agree to take it easy on Hikari either...we'll just have to start making up for it tomorrow" Yumi nodded as Kyo sighed and walked off to find something to do that didn't involve having to think.
Later that night Kyo growled as he sat down on the ground watching Hikari stand in a seal drawn deep in the dirt she was standing on. Yumi was beside him looking on worridley as Hikari watched the moon, waiting for it to get to its highest point.
"I don't like this one bit" Kyo grumbled out a whisper. The clearing started to feel eerie and it gave him goose bumps. The clearing didn't feel that way normally and he could sense something big coming and it gave him a sinking feeling in his gut. But he wasn't alone on that thought.
"If we stopped Hikari from doing this it would just further push her way from us...we have to let her do her Amaterasu things herself, we can't help her with that" Yumi responded starting to feel equally creeped out by the atmosphere. "I know that but...I don't trust this God of death guy...I've heard the legends about him and the Amaterasu clan before and how he liked to take some of the prettier women to the underworld to sleep with-" "She's a child Kyo!" Yumi whispered harshly at Kyo's assumptions.
"She's not going to be a child forever Yumi.." Kyo said feeling awkward. Suddenly he felt the presence of three different chakra signatures and saw them glow. Each was a different color but they were balls of chakra, and not Hikari's chakra. He knew that whatever was going to happen was starting and the feeling in his gut worsened.
Hikari started chanting and she started to glow with her chakra as well and both Yumi and Kyo were on edge. Feathered wings sprouted from Hikari's back and made Yumi gasped ou tloud and Kyo sat there stunned. "Hikari?" Yumi said softly, but Hikari's chanting only got louder and the clearing started to hum with chakra.
"Hikari?" Yumi asked again starting to feel scared as the seal started to glow blue and Hikari held a kunai over her palm. Kyo sprung to his feet when smelled Hikari's blood. It dripped to the ground and suddenly a barrier exploded around Hikari and Kyo saw the outlines of women where the chakra balls were and he saw a man...gripping Hikari's chin.
"What the fuck?!" Kyo said angrily as he rushed to the barrier Yumi on his heels.
"You can't go any further demon" One of the spirits said as she moved to block him and his view. He saw Hikari speaking with said Lord Yukihito and and glared. "What's going to happen?" Yumi asked dread filling her stomach she felt like she was going to vomit.
"Lord Yukihito is going to take her to the underworld to train her" "The hell he is!" Kyo said growling as he tried attacking the barrier, claws forming on his hands as he swiped at the barrier but to no avail it didn't even waiver.
"He can't take her, she's ours!" Yumi yelled as her hands went through seals and a water dragon hit the barrier, she saw Hikari look at them with a sad expression before she looked back to Lord Yukihito and they started to sink into the ground.
"No! Hikari-sama!" "Hikari!"
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