{ She who Cries, can Smile as well }
Baylon had shown Neji and Shikamaru around and they were shocked to see so many books, and many games, but it was organized.
" So you like shogi? " Shikamaru asked, she only nodded and pulled a book down from one the many shelves.
" I really didn't play often, it was my father and grandfather. They had a board in every room, still do. It's just natural to assume my dad will come home from a mission and my grandfather will challenge him, and the dad would use his strategy of the mission and beat him, " She said, she held the book close and then she walked to another shelf to pulled another book or two.
Neji watched and then when she looked at him she smiled, a smile that looked real. He realized that when ever she smiled, she had forced or faked one. But he saw a smile that looked and felt real. He smiled at her and he felt her look away. She went into another room, Shikamaru and Neji both looked at her and followed.
She entered the sealing room and saw that more scrolls were in here then in the scroll room it's self. She placed all the books she had accumulated down and looked at the doorway, " Can you two help me carry all these scrolls to the scroll room, just carry four or five, I have re-organize them by what their nature is, " She said, her voice was showing that she was happy. They looked at the walls of the room, and realized it was sealing room. It was covered in what looked like dried blood. Shikamaru remembered that Tsundae said she was a jinjuriki.
Shikamaru and Neji nodded, they grabbed 4 each, and followed her.
She walked into the scroll room, and started to read the nature of the scrolls and place them in the correct spot, she had been in here so many times in her childhood. She was dazed as the two entered and she was smiling and she grabbed a scroll from Neji and read it, she smiled a bit bigger and started to laugh quietly.
" What's so funny? " Neji asked.
She handed him the scroll, and said, " It was a scroll I made, apparently it was of use beside for my assassinations, " She pulled it back and placed it in a different place all together.
" I'm going to fix all this, and make it right, " She said.
Shikamaru laughed at her a little, " Sounds like someone we all now. How troublesome "
Neji nodded and said, " Yes, it is familiar alright. "
Baylon looked at them, and said, " I was talking about the scrolls, there supposed to be by nature and person, but I'm going to make it where its by era, nature, and person. I always wondered what was in here, But I was never able to reach those up there.," She pointed.
Neji grabbed one and handed it to her. She punched him in the shoulder and worked open the scroll, when she read it, she found something shocking. " Its a reviving jutsu, " She said, and then she passed it to Neji and Shikamaru.
" It was made by a Kurako Choshin, " Shikamaru said. Baylon ripped it from his hands and held it to her chest.
" Dad, you made this? " She asked, she read the nature and sure enough, it was her father's name, writing, and his nature.
" Neji go grab me a book from the main room with the name and writing like this, " She said.
" Shikamaru go help him, " She called.
As he left, she dropped and tears fell from her eyes. She held that scroll to her chest, and she couldn't let it go. She had never been able to see what was in the scroll. She felt herself be hurt and her eyes opened. She read and she realized she could do the jutsu.
Neji came back and held his lover back, " She broke down, give her sometime, " He said, he held the book she had asked them to get tighter.
After she stood up and cleared her eyes, she called, " Did you find one? "
Neji came in and handed it to her, " Here you are Baylon, " He said, he pulled her out, and Shikamaru pulled her to the seal room.
" Can you tell me which seal is the one you have? " They both asked.
She nodded and pointed to the big wall seal, " That one. Its an angel seal, " She said, she held her upper body, and trace the marking sensations, it may have vanished, but the pain it left was traced into her memory.
" It was sealed there wasn't it? " Neji asked, and she nodded.
" Yeah, well the mark itself is gone, but the pain it caused has etched the mark into my memory. It was the most excruciating pain I ever felt. Even as a child it was painful. I was the only child at the time that could hold him. He was killing my grandmother, and she was getting to old and no other was able to have him, not even til I was older, " She said, her grip on her body tightening up.
Neji nodded and went on his way to looking at the book. Shikamaru went and looked at seal, " Its worse then any sealing mark I've seen. "
" It was created by my ancestor, the first one to hold him, she had found him and found out he was lusting after bloodshed and it was during an era where samurai were big, but then, he was claimed to have been sick, which he was, ad whoever hold him has it. She created the seal so no one would have to deal with his nosy and loud being. Some say they fell in love, and she did it out of his love. She didn't want him to die, but it was to late, he had already only been left to his chakra and some slight human nature, " She said, her voice quiet as if it had memorized.
" Is there proof? " Neji asked, she tossed him the book.
" Yeah, kinda. Its all about Souji, written by my great ancestor. She had a kept a journal from when he fell, to the time he lost. It was quite a selling book among the clan. No one ever knew him, she was the only one to actually understand and love him. After he was sealed in her, she had white hair, and her eyes paled out, make the color yellow. She originally had dark brown hair, and honey eyes, she changed after him, but she could also keep her features their original look. He made her a bit cold, he does that almost everyone of his jinjurikis. " She said, she took another copy, her copy, from her belt pouch.
" Ever ask him about it? " Shikamaru ask, he looked through the book behind Neji.
She shook her head, " Yeah, he would never answer though. He hated saying he loved her, but he did, I found that much out, " She said, her smile was glowing.
Shikamaru nodded, " Is this a version of her story or his? I can't get a feel of who's speaking. "
" Its all Chizuru Choshin's point of view, but still third person, somewhat. Because she had always questioned him, or that's what he said, " She said.
" And since I am his jinjuriki, I had to read this. To understand how I'll turn out, " She said, her eyes scanned the book again.
" Really. That sounds really horrible, how troublesome, " Shikamaru said, and Neji nodded.
" That does sound horrible. "
" Its not really. The book is something I cherish. I hold it dear, my edition is the first and foremost book, it is the hand written version, " She said, showing them.
Then a knock hit her door, " I''ll get it, " She said walking and putting the book in her pouch.
She opens the door and in comes Tenten, and Lee. Baylon sighed and said, " Well, come in, I'm going to get some tea, anyone want some, and Shikamaru and Neji are here as well. "
Lee and Tenten nodded and she walked away, " Their in there, " She pointed and walked to the kitchen. Tenten followed her.
" Baylon, its been so long since someone lived here. I'm shocked its yours. " Tenten said, Baylon nodded then turned handing her a cup of tea.
" Here, I'll bring the rest, " She says, and she shows Tenten the way, and Shikamaru is reading along with Neji and Lee is looking through all the scrolls.
" Those scrolls are forbidden Lee, I wouldn't read them, " She called.
Neji looked up and snatched the scroll, " And here Neji, green tea. Shikamaru figured you'd want coffee, and Lee, you too. " She handed them their mugs/cup. She took her cup and sat on the chair.
Everyone sat down somewhere and Baylon stayed quite.
Baylon coughed and then pulled her book, " Baylon, can you read aloud from that handwritten journal? " Shikamaru asked.
She nodded and started, " Once Upon a Time,
A angel fell to the land of man, when he fell, he landed as gracefully as any other angel. He was seeking something that had made him fall from his home.
Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, Pride, Envy, and Wrath. He held all these.
His wrath was his undoing though. Being wrathful towards God, it caused him to fall from the grace he was once held in. As he fell, he realized he had been that way. He watched as he fell, and that war raving the lands, and then he landed, and he looked different from when he was in Heaven. He had formed a reddish brown color hair style, and emerald green eyes. He was wearing a loose red, gray, and orange top and green hakama with tape on his lower legs.
He had been sent there to realize his mistakes and regain his grace. But he could never become an angel like he once had. He instead became a Arch Angel. He became something unheard of.
He roamed and then he came across a place, a samurai home, he lived in it for many a years, until, I came along and showed him something unheard of as well.
He didn't believe me at first, and when he did start, he fell for me. He tried so so hard to hide it. But it was to hard to hide, even behind his cute little crush on our co-captain. He thought of me as more then someone to use. He idolized me, I guess in some ways. He showed me how to fight, how to show my strength.
And when the time came, he taught me how to seal him so he could live. He had been becoming sick in the past few weeks, and was not allowed on expeditions. Souji never liked sitting so he roamed the grounds and would pick wild flowers for me when I returned.
Once he showed me how to seal him, I told him I wouldn't. I couldn't. I confessed that to him, and he said it back. But he ended up coughing blood the whole time, and he was rushed away from me. I hadn't felt such pain in my life.
It came time when the captain thought he was dead, I checked and he was slowly leaving me. And then I sealed him, within myself to save him from the inevitably hard truth, as he was in me, I contracted the disease. I fell ill, and was bed ridden, then I met another man, the man I later called my husband.
He took me and cared for me, I treated him as he treated me, and when the time came, we had children, who were amazingly beautiful, Souji even complimented them. He then told me that one of them would one day be able to hold him, and that I would have to seal him away in the child, the young unsuspecting girl I called a daughter, would one day met a fateful day where I had to seal him, and I gave her this book, to remember how it was to hold him, and he as well wrote some of it himself. This book was going to be about how you care for yourself and others around you when carrying Souji Okita, the Arch Angel that only wanted bloodshed among the many lands. "
Baylon sighed and breathed, she looked at everyone and Neji had looked at her and realized, that even if he was sealed away, he could kill. Shikamaru had long since given up on hope to help Baylon, but hearing what that prologue had to say, he had hope she could live with him, in peace. Tenten looked at Baylon and passed her a tissue, she had started tearing up when she read it. Lee had finally understood something, " That was a very beautiful chapter. "
Baylon sniffled and held back her laugh, " Yes well, I have very odd family. "
Shikamaru leaned over and snagged the book, " Its quite short. "
" Yeah, well, I have been planning to add to it in another book. I already did. I started when I was 6, I was just starting out in this village. Its in my room, I guess I dropped it when I was 16. Its been about 1 and a half years since I've looked in it, " She said, she went and grabbed it.
" I kinda want to see what's in it, " She said, eyeing some of the pages.
Shikamaru wanted to know more about her, " Go for it, read something. You'd make a good mother that way, and you'd also make a good babysitter," He said. Neji nodded to what he said, and Tenten giggled and nodded along with them.
" Okay, Let me- Oh, this is perfect ; Day 1
So, my mother said I need to write about my experience with Souji, the family monster. Its been six months since I lost my grandmother and left the Land of Hot Water, and I lived in the Land of Wind, and now I live in the Land of Fire's, Village Hidden in the Leaves. I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad. I haven't seen Hidan since the time in the old home. Mother said he went missing on a mission and he may have died, but I'd never lose my big brother he was strong, and promised to protect me.
Father said I would be going to the Academy and I'll become a shinobi or kunoichi. I'm scared really. Its just that I've heard real bad rumors about the latter. I'm just going to sit through all the class anyway.
When I entered, I was introduced and I got the feeling in the pit of my stomach, the feeling like everyone hated me, even if they were smiling, but as I looked around, one boy's feelings stood out, his were kinda warm, and I liked them. I saw his face and he showed a bored expression. I was supposed to sit by him, and his name was Itachi Uchiha. He was very good looking. " She stopped to laugh at her younger self's girlishness, as well as everyone else, " He looked at me and said, and I quote, ' Hi, I'm Itachi Uchiha, and your clan is my rival, I can already see your a prodigy. So that means we'll be rivals. ' He looked about the same age as Hidan, but he seemed younger. Hidan was 9, and this boy seemed to be about 7, and he was advanced by the way. He helped me work with all the new things. I wasn't allowed to do jutsus when I was younger. Hidan said something about me being sick all the time.
After classes I was ushered home ad Itachi had walked me, we played at a park first, then we walked to my home were my father was waiting for me. He nodded to Itachi and I waved, til I thought about it. I was going to ask him.
Father pushed me in and I pouted, he scolded me for being girly, but then realized I was his only little girl, the he kissed my head, He walked away, and I took off after Itachi, I caught up to him and asked for help with my work, he nodded and lead me with him to his home. He walked to his door and held it opened it for me. I blushed and walked in and pulled him in, it was really embarrassing.
I looked at him, and he showed me to the dining room, his mother was there, and I was as quite as I could be. I didn't want her to see me, and get mad at me. He asked me if I wanted to stay for dinner, and I nodded. I looked at my friend and smiled.
A young boy walked in and hugged Itachi, and stared at me. the boy " Hi..." Sasuke said to me, becoming really shy.
Itachi smiled, and said, " This is my brother, Sasuke. He is shy when you first get to meeting him. "and then poked Sasuke's forehead.
I nodded and said, " Well, hello to you too, I'm Baylon. Nice to meet you. " Sasuke nodded and sat by me and Itachi, watching us work. He was surprised at my learning rate.
I giggled when Sasuke laid his head on me and slept. Itachi snickered and picked him up. " Sorry, about that. Were done for today so we can train, or whatever you want to do. "
I nodded and started putting all my things in my bag, I smiled and then felt a stare. It was Itachi's father, Fugaku, and his mother, Mikoto, looking at me, I waved at them.
Itachi walked in and said, " This is Baylon Choshin, she is the new girl I was telling you about, she really is quite smart. "
She nodded and Mikoto looked at me, " I know you, your Nanami's little girl, " I nodded as Mikoto said my mother's name.
Fugaku nodded as well, " Yeah, and she's Kurako's daughter as well, " He said.
" Wow, I guess my parents are really from here, " I said.
Itachi nodded, and then pulled me out. " So, do you know what I can do? " He asked. I shook my head no, and he made his eyes flash red and black.
I gasped and made mine blue, we both snickered, and from that day we were friends, " She finished, her chuckling was quite and she smiled.
" I was such girl back then. Oh, I miss those days, feeling freely, and friends with a great person, " She said, closing her book, Tenten had laughed at the silly ending.
Neji chuckled and Shikamaru laughed his ass off, " Who knew the assassin that scares everyone had a soft and sweet side. "
Baylon glances at him, " That's not a side, that was me, I lost my feelings in the assassin academy. I almost my femininity. I so instead I got rid of feelings, " She said sadly, and held her stomach.
" Really? " Tenten asked. Baylon nodded.
" Yeah. Oh! Its getting late. You guys should get going, " She says, " I'll show you the door. "
She shows them out, and waves bye.
She mutters under her breathe, " She who cries, Smiles as well, " She had cried and smiled today, she was starting to feel again, and she had to read more of that amusing book of her's.