Naruto: Dawn of a new era.

Standing there in the field, thoughts running through his head, Riyoshi clasped his chest in pain of that day just 5 weeks earlier. Reaching his free hand into the holster on his left leg, Riyoshi removed 2 shuriken. Removing and reaching his right hand from his chest, he grabbed one of the shuriken and dropped his hands to his side.


I can not let another thing like that happen! I refuse to be beaten by anyone else! Not anymore! Riyoshi thought furiously.


Charging the chakra in his right palm, the shuriken started to spin. Periodically getting faster, the shuriken started to hiss after a little from the speed. Throwing the one from his left hand at a normal rotation, Riyoshi took in a deep breath while trying to force more chakra from his body into his right hand. Whipping his hand up and throwing the shuriken as fast as he could, it soared through the air and quickly caught up to the other shuriken. As the blades connected in mid air, the faster spinning blade started cutting through the other like a knife through butter before sticking 3/4 deep into a tree. Smirking at his accomplishment, Riyoshi walked over to the tree to examine the damage from the shuriken.


"Wow." Escaped his mouth as he seen how far the shuriken entered into the tree.


Never going to get that back. Riyohsi thought as he looked behind to see that the other shuriken was neatly in half, a top and a bottom. Still able to be thrown, but would literally do no damage for it had no weight behind it anymore.


Reaching his left hand up to rub his shoulder, his chest started to ache again. Was it from the stress he was under now that he is a full fledged ninja, was it from that day 5 weeks prior, was it from that weird chakra? Only time will tell if it was anything in particular. Meanwhile, off in the distance, a figure lay hidden in a tree and observing Riyoshi. Leaping from the tree tops, easily hidden from view of Riyoshi, the man could not even be spotted if you were looking directly at him.


Looking around, Riyoshi pinpointed the village's kage building and headed directly towards it. Quickly picking up speed, Riyoshi was soon in a full sprint with the man hot on his tails. Still clinching his chest, Riyoshi grit his teeth in pain.


I need to get back to the village. I shouldn't of even left the hospital. I was no where near tip top shape. I should have listened to the nurses. Riyoshi thought as he cringed in pain.


As his right foot hit the ground inside the village's barrier, his father was waiting. Tilting his head, Gari looked upon his son. Removing his hands from across his chest, he soon place them at his sides.


"Look at you. Are you happy with yourself? I can clearly see that you were not even half as good as you should be and you are out and about just playing around. You need to start listening to your fellow shinobi. They told you not to leave. If you would have listened, you would be ready to graduate with your classmates. But now, you are going to be half as good as they are tonight. I can not have that. This is the reason we moved here in the first place!" Gari said in a very scornful voice.


Hanging his head in shame, Riyoshi was sad to hear his father yell at him. His head quickly rose to hear the last part of the lecture. Wiping the tears from his eyes, Riyoshi looked his father in the eyes.


"What do you mean, the reason we moved here? Are you saying that we are not from here, nor is our clan from here?" Riyoshi asked in an astonished and dumbfounded response.


Looking at his father like a ton of bricks just hit him in the face, Riyoshi soon found himself with a major puzzled expression.


"This is nothing that we should explain in the open. Follow me back to the hospital and i will explain everything to you then." Gari responded to Riyoshi in hopes to lighten the burden on himself.


~~~~~ONIKAGE> http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs14/f/2007/039/1/0/ninja_girl_running_over_roof_by_DrawingNightmare.jpg ~~~kage building~~


As she sat in her chair and looked at the 5 men standing in her office, she spread out folders across the desk.


"As you all know, the next generation of ninja is now upon us and we are here to welcome them. This festival is one that can not be taken lightly. From the reports that we received earlier this month, there have been some disappearances and they are starting to get closer and closer to the villages surrounding wall. I will need you five to all form separate squads of 4 and take guard at each of the towers." She said in a very firm voice.


"Kage sama, are you sure that it wil get to the point to need to use us? I mean, you yourself could end this in one shot after all." The man on the far left of her replied.


"You do not understand. Those disappearances are not to be taken lightly. Each of the kidnappings happened within the week and none of them close together until they got close to us." She explained to the man.


The man in the middle of the group reached down and took one of the folders and started to read it.


"So we are the front line of defense to protect these children?" the man on the far right of her asked.


"That is only half wrong." The man in the middle replied.


"According to this report, Each of the villages had at least one of the bloodlines taken. But the weirdest thing is, why they would be collecting something like that." the middle man said with a puzzled tone.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Sitting on his bed in the hospital room, he looked at his father with wonder and questioning fear.


"So, what did you mean?" Riyoshi started off with.


"I guess i need to tell you before anything happens again." Gari replied.


Sitting on the end of the bed, Gari placed his hands across his lap and took a deep breath.


"It was about 9 years ago, back in your home village, a war within the village broke out. A coup de'tat started this. The previous kage was to be overthrown because a few ninja thought he was not doing a very good job. They thought war was better then peace. What would ninja be if there was no war." Gari explained as he clinched his fist.


"Really! So what happened? Why did we have to move?" Riyoshi asked.


"Just let me finish. When you were 1, this great ninja fought the treacherous ninja and repelled most of them. His skills in ninjutsu rivaled that of even the kage himself. But when time came down to it, even he was taken down by the invading force." Gari continued on with his story.


"Wow, who was that ninja? He sounds awesome!" Riyoshi said with astonishment.


Taking in a deep breath, Gari closed his eyes and looked down towards the sheets. As tears filled his eyes, they started to drop on the sheets.


"Hey, whats the matter dad. Hey, i have never seen you like this." Riyoshi said as he leaned forward, hugging his father.


Sniffing a few times, Gari reached up and pushed Riyohsi back so he could look him in the face. Reaching his hand up, he wiped away the tears from his face and cleared his throat.


"That man was none other then Saito Nihoma. Your true father. But before he died, he entrusted you with something that no other ninja could handle." Gari said in a choked up tone.
 
:: Tasuki sat on a bench on the side of the main street, watching the traders and travelers from all over bustling their wares, she was eating a new foreign foor she had taken a liking to "Chocolate Crosaunt" it looked like a strange roll, but she liked them ::


:: she finished her meal and stood up, every night she kept on thinking about that night when they were attacked, and every night she haed herself for breaking down and crying instead of helping... even if it was a test. ::


:: since then, she has been training every day, her jutsu has improved, her taijutsu skill has skyrocketed... but her mind is still fragile, although she is smart as well as strong, she lacks the mental strength to use it ::


:: she stood up, and went into the hospital that was luckily only about a block away, she came up tot he reception desk ::


Tasuki: "umm... excuse me, i'm here to see Riyosh-"


Receptionist: "room 334"


Tasuki: "oh.. t-thank you..."


:: she scurried off, soon coming to Riyoshi's room, she knocked on the door and poked her head in ::


Tasuki: "h-hello?"


:: after she saw Riyoshi with Gari, she closed the door ::


Tasuki: "i-i'm sorry! i didn't know you already had a visitor"


:: she sat on the chair outside the door, waiting her turn, in her hand she had a small box of chocolates with mint and strawberry fillings, as a "thank you" for protecting everyone in the incident 5 weeks ago ::
 
Sitting on the porch to her clan's home, she watched the street carefully. A bright shiny black eye stood out on her face, as well as a few other bruises across her stomach, back, and legs. Ghoda had not forgiven what had happened,had played her cousin getting hurt on her, and as long as he saw fit, he was going to remind her that she was worthless. His method? Beating her till she passed out.


Said it built character too. Spitting on the ground, she turned her head, listening to her father screaming at her mother. Hand balling into a fist, she pulled a needle from her sleeve carefully and threw it. It went through the screen door and everything inside went silent. Then a roar from Ghoda ripped out and she could hear him storming across the room towards the door. Standing up, she waited just long enough for him to see her before she took off across the place, knowing that it might give her mom time enough to leave for a bit, or be forgotten. Masa had always been like that, a self made scape goat when the sexism and abuse of her father got to much for everyone...


Moving swiftly, she had a funny feeling she was going to miss the ceremony. Or if she made it, she wasn't going to be moving very well. Up ahead, she saw Shin, and gave a small wave. Instantly he knew what was going on and stood, seconds later, he took off, going for one of the two people who could actually calm his uncle down.


Hearing Ghoda behind her, and catching up quickly, Masa had to mentally flinch, there wasn't much she could do except for run, if she tried to fight him, she'd lose, if she tried to hide, she'd get it worse. Jumping to the roof of their home, she made a turn around going for the road. He wouldn't hit her in public, at least, badly. The most he would do is smack her. She could deal with that.


Nearing the road, she heard him yell for her never to come back. The eldest clan member would disagree with that though, after all, you can't very well kick out the next leader of your clan. On the street, she started walking, a bit less scared, but out of breath. Moving around the people, she just walked as far away from her home as she could.
 
As Riyoshi stared at who he had thought his father was, his eyes filled with tears before they streamed down his face.


"Wh...wh...what?" Riyoshi muttered out between breaths.


"I know that was alot to take in, but trust me. This was all for your own protection." Gari replied to Riyoshi.


Reaching his hands up, Riyoshi wiped the tears fro his face and pointed towards the door. Taking a deep breath, Riyoshi then spoke up.


"Can you give me some time to take all this in. And on your way out, let her know she can come in." Riyoshi said in a slight relaxed tone.


"Sure thing. I will just wait outside." Gari replied to Riyoshi as he walked towards the door.


Opening the door, he walked out and looked at Tasuki.


"Hes ready to see you know." Gari said as he wiped a few tears from his face.
 
:: Tasuki nodded a but, then went into the room, she was wearing a pretty dress and her hair had been combed, she walked up to the side ofRiyoshi's bed and offered him the chocolates ::


Tasuki: "h-here, this is for protecting everyone all those weeks ago..."


: she looked away ::


Tasuki: "i'm sorry it took so long for me to bring these to you... but i thought i should wait... especially considering your wounds"


:: she turned to the bunch of flowers beside his bed, and she began re-arranging then, when she finished, the vase looked far better ::


Tasuki: "after that fight.. i think i began to realize that.. i can't keep complaining all the time like i was back then... i can't just keep crying all my life..."
 
Riyoshi couldn't he;p but smile at how nice she was being. Nodding his head at her, he cleared his throat.


"That night so long ago, i did what needed to be done. To be honest, I am not sure what happened that night. It was as if my body moved on it's own to sacrifice myself for you." Riyoshi replied to her.


Smiling at her, Riyoshi wipe a few tears from his face.


"It is ok. My wounds will heal. I just would like to know how you are doing?" Riyoshi asked as he awaited her reaction.


"True. We are ninja now. We can't be relying on our parents anymore. We have to rely on ourselves and our teamwork." Riyoshi said as he lightly rubbed his chest.
 
:: Tasuki stiffened up as he said that he sacrificed himself for her, and she blushed wildly ::


Tasuki: "o-okay!"


:: as he said about not relying on parentsanymore, she loosened up a bit ::


Tasuki: "yeah... thats exactly it..."


:: she decided to change the subject ::


Tasuki: "Oh! i learned a new jutsu and i've been practicing it over these weeks as well! and now i can bat away kunais with my bare hands"


:: her hands were absolutely covered in blood-soaked bandages ::


Tasuki: "of course... kunais are sharp and skin is soft so..."


:: she scratched the back of her head and laughed a bit ::


Tasuki: "but dont worry, its only small skin-cuts, nothing serious!"
 
Riyoshi's eyes widened as he seen how hard she had been working.


"And i thought my wound was bad." Riyoshi replied as he just started to laugh.


"And i too, have a jutsu. It might not sure it is as awesome as yours. But it should be up to par." Riyoshi said as he shifted around on his bed.


Climbing down off the bed, Riyoshi walked over to the window, sliding it open, he looked over at Tasuki.


"Are you wanting to come with me? I would like to show you something." Riyoshi said as he leaped out of the 3rd story window.
 
:: Tasuki sighed, and wrote a small note for the staff, telling them that she is looking after him and that he will return ::


:: then, she lept out, quickly catching up to him, considering he was bedridden and she had been outt practicing, his muscles had faded somewhat and her muscles had grown, so she caught up easily ::


Tasuki: "okay, so what is this thing you want to show me?"


:: she seemed to be able to avoid stuttering when she was running ::
 
Seeing how she caught up to him made him feel proud of her. Maybe next time she could save him? Nah, not if he is to figure out his destiny.


"I see you are faster then you were before. You must have been training super hard the last 5 weeks or so. I myself have trained some too, but not a lot. If i manage to escape the hospital room that is." Riyoshi said to Tasuki.


Turning right down an alleyway, he continued to run, until he saw a 5 foot high stone wall. Stopping in front of the stone wall, he looked right, then left, until deciding on which way he would run. Nodding his head, he headed down the left way and ran beside the wall for about 60 meters.


"All my training was never physical these last few weeks for the wound on my chest. But i have perfected my new jutsu as well." Riyoshi said to Tasuki.


Slowing his run down to a walk, he placed his palm on the stone and slid it across the wall as he continued to walk. As his hand slid across the wall, he smiled before calling out to Tasuki. Stopping in his tracks, he did a hand seal the placed both of his palms against the wall.


"We are here. On the outskirts of the village, just before you get to the village barrier, lays a secret meeting place to which only one family is allowed to enter, This is that place." Riyoshi said as he pushed against the wall.


As he pushed on the wall, there appeared a door way. The rock wall seemed to swing back like it was on a hinge. Opening up, there was a staircase that seemed to curve around. Bringing his hand up, he waved at Tasuki to follow.


"This place is only accessible to the Nihoma clan. In here, I want to tell you something." Riyoshi said as he wiped his face.


Still looking away from Tasuki, it may have looked like he was wiping sweat from his face, but in reality, he was wiping tears from his eyes. Maybe she could tell that he was crying a little by the tone in his voice, but that would be up to her and if she paid enough attention to hear that from him. Walking down the stairs, they soon approached a large open room. It was about 20 feet by 25 feet. It wasn't a giant room, but it had enough scrolls in there to level a small village. Each of the scrolls had a home in the wall, but oddly enough, there was one scroll laying on the podium up front. That one scroll, out of thousands that rest in that room, it seemed kind of weird.


Why is that one scroll out? That is weird. Riyoshi thought to himself.
 
:: Tasuki raised an eyebrow when the boulder opened ::


Tasuki: "umm.. it it really okay if i go in? i mean, its only meant for you're clan and i'm not of your clan, and probably never willl a-"


:: she stopped after he waved her in, she followed, soon coming to the room of scrolls ::


Tasuki: "Amazing, there must be enough scrolls in here to collapse half a mountain!"


:: while Riyoshi was looking at the one scroll out of place, Tasuki was looking through the summoning scrolls ::


Tasuki: "people, toads, snakes, monkey.. oh my... even the spirits of long-dead ninjas!.. i thought those were all burned decades ago...."
 
"Shhh. You are the only one so far not of my clan to ever know about those. Gari told me stories a few years back about these scrolls. About that one particular one that you are holding. The summoning scroll. It is called the forbidden scroll for it holds a curse in there so secret, that every ninja whom wants power, will come after it. But in actuality, i thought he was just blowing smoke." Riyoshi said as he walked over to the scroll on the podium.


"So you managed to come here after all? I figured you would come here, but to bring someone outside the clan in here?" A voice said from the shadow of the staircase.


"Of course i would come here! I have known about this since mom told me about this place! That is if she is my real mom!" Riyoshi yelled back at the man.


Stepping out of the shadows, Gari stood half hunched. Walking over towards Riyoshi, Gari reached into his butt pouch, he pulled out one scroll. Placing it above the scroll that was on the podium, he nodded for Riyohsi to read the scrolls. Looking down at the scrolls, Riyoshi started to read the pre-opened scroll. His eyes widened at what he had seen.


"This is.....You mean, this man...?" Riyoshi muttered about.


"Yup, that is him." Gari said.


Looking around at Tasuki, Gari watched her every move. For having a non clan member in here was not only an awkward move, but an unforgivable mistake. Only death of the member would succumb the charges.


"Hey Tasuki chan, come here. Look at this." Riyoshi called out to Tasuki.


Pointing to the picture on the scroll, he pointed to a man, his real father. http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs29/f/2008/165/9/4/Samurai_by_lubliner.jpg
 
Tasuki came over and had a look ::


Tasuki: "hey... he looks like a warrior... maybe a samurai but... "


:: she scratched her head ::


Tasuki: "i don't know... i could swear i've seen this face somewhere before..."


:: she stopped scratching, and turned to Gari ::


Tasuki: "please, sir! please forgive me being in here, i won't tell anyone i swear, i'll even agree to have the interogation corp erase my memories of this place, just please forgive me!"


:: she doubted her begging would lessen the punishment for tresspassing here, much lessen Riyoshi's punishment ::
 
Shin moved swiftly, using a small jutsus of sense to find and locate another of his uncles, Gari. Moving towards the location, he stopped him just outside the hospital. "Forgive me for the intrusion, Sir. But I have need of your help. Ghoda. "His hand tightened. "He's on a war path again. Worse than usual. He already scared off Masa for protecting her mother but I can't get Nari away from the house to safety. And when Masa returns, I can tell looking at him, he wants to kill her."


Shin spoke rushed, hurridely, tripping over his words but the general message was gotten across. He needed Gari's help in stopping Ghoda.


~


Masa sighed, leaning in an ally, rubbing her good eye. SHe needed to go back at some point, but for now it wouldn't be a good idea. Sliding down the wall, she leaned back and looked at the sky, staring straight into the blinding sun and tried to think of what she was going to do.
 
Coro, strolling through an alley on his way back to his house, munched on sweets. He felt pretty good lately. His sister had let him take the day off from study and practice since he'd been doing better. That little event with the gorilla had scared him.


Come to think of it, he pondered, he hadn't really talked with anyone since then. He'd kinda just tuned everyone out lately. That wasn't like the great Coro Tsuyoshi! He was the star! The center of attention, and the most promising student in the village!


Feeling on top of the world all of a sudden, he noticed a girl. A girl he knew.


"Hey! You're that smart-mouth girl! What the hell happened to you?" He asked, putting a hand on his hip, swallowing the last of his candy, and raising an eyebrow.
 
Masa blinked once, turning her head slightly to look at the person who had spoken, only to have the constant white like glare you get after looking into a source of light for far to long. Not really sure who it was, she just shrugged. "Um..." Rather than pretend to be all gangster and tough, Masa just sighed, "Parents...well, parent." As the light faded off, she was a bit surprised to see it was Coro, one of the last people she would have ever thought would care about her in the slightest. "And were you've been too lately?"
 
Coro's raised eyebrow furrowed down, into a sort of scowl.


"What the hell kinda parent beat's their kid black and blue? I mean, you're practically one giant bruise!" He exclaimed, throwing his arms into the air for effect.


"..... I hope you guys were training." He added, rubbing the back of his neck. "Like I've been. That's where I've been. Looking over my dad's old notes and getting help from my sister." He proudly explained.


"You remember who my dad was, right?" He asked with a grin.
 
"I haven't been allowed to train since Riyoshi got hurt." Masa admitted with a shrug, letting him draw from that what he would. "And Yeah, I remember who your dad was, really cool looking guy." She smiled at him, "Didn't know you had a sister though..."


Pushing off the wall, she stood, "You ready for graduation?"
 
Coro's grin went a little dark.


"Riyoshi got hurt? Nice." He replied, thinking she did it. He patted her shoulder while giving her the thumbs up. "And yeah, I do have a sister. She's older, and retardedly strong, but she's no shinobi...."


Coro blinked, and sighed, shaking his head.


"Of course I'm ready for grad. I'm like, top of the class. C'mon." He explained, grinning, having no clue where he stood in the class in reality. After that other time he played at being a teacher, and got the sensei pissed, he had a feeling he wasn't doing great.


"..... But really, why're you so beat up?" He asked after a pause.
 
"It's not nice." Masa said, rather protective of her cousin. "He got hurt protecting a lot of us, about 5 weeks back, he's been in the hospital this whole time." Shaking her head, like it wasn't that big of a deal, she laughed lightly at what he said, "Yeah, you would be."


As he asked what really happened, She looked towards the end of the ally towards the people. "Um..." She shrugged, "My dad doesn't like failures."
 
Coro paused, and sighed.


"..... Where do you live again? And.... Would your dad be home?" He asked, glancing away from Masa.
 
Raising an eyebrow, Masa shrugged, "Not around here. Unfortunatly, it's why I'm not there now." She looked over her shoulder after a moment, she could have sworn she saw someone staring at them. Shaking her head, she looked back at Coro not having a clue where he was going with that.
 
Coro shook his head.


"Then don't worry about it." He said afterwards, now feeling kinda sorry for Masa.


"I.... I have some bandages at my house. And other good stuff. You know, if you'd swallow your pride and use them." He explained, motioning for her to follow him.
 
Shaking her head, Masa sighed, wanting to say no, but, this was the first time before Hao, she had spoken to someone who didn't treat her like shit or just snub her for the way she acted. Following behind him, she studied him carefully. "Why are you being nice to some one you don't like?"
 
Coro was yawning, and nearly choked when Masa asked him her question.


Coughing a bit, he looked at her funny while walking.


"Who said I didn't like you? Sure, you're obnoxious, but I'm forgiving." He explained, sounding a bit full of himself.
 
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