Still being tired from her 'training' with Fox, she slowly made her way towards the smell of food. Her half-lidded eyes scanned the room, as she spoke, "Good morning. "
The tension that suddenly filled the room was noticeable and everyone who hadn't even realized she was up, threw shuriken at the intruder. "Silver!" Tekeshi yelled, racing towards her as quickly as he could, but knew he wouldn't make it.
Silver shut her eyes tightly, as she was frozen in place, by the sudden attack. The sound of metal hitting metal, was all that she heard and a few seconds later, her eyes slowly opened revealing someone had protected her, but with as tightly as her eyes had been shut, her vision was blurry and she couldn't tell who.
As her vision returned to her, the figure turned around and leaned down. "Are you alright?"
"Fox-san." was all the trembling girl could say. Said man nodded, before picking her up and taking her away from the group. The others watched in awe, they weren't sure if they should be more surprised that they hadn't sensed her or if they had just seen what they thought they'd seen.
The older ninja, set the girl down on the stairs, "Are you alright?" She nodded. "That's good." She was still shaking and he could understand why, so he sat down next to her and placed an arm around her, trying to calm her down. "You know, that sneaking up on them like that was very good, but you need to learn to react quickly to attacks."
"I'll never be able to do that." she paused and it seemed like there were tears coming out of her eyes. "Not after that night."
"Can you tell me what happened?"
Her frightened eyes looked up at him, she was scared, but she still wanted to tell someone, "I can't tell you much, just what I remember." He nodded and waited for the child to continue. "My parents had gone out to a large festival, mother was excited, but she seemed mean. Father was worried about Serendipity and I, but mother wouldn't let us go." She had stopped as if she was starting to fully remember what had happened.
"Have you ever been to a festival?" Fox asked, not wanting to scare the child more.
She shook her head. "Mother wouldn't let me leave the house."
"I see, perhaps, I can take you to the next festival." Her eyes lite up, "That's if you want to go." the man finished.
"Yes, I would love to!" She squealed happily. He smiled, before they both heard someone tell them that breakfast was ready. Standing, Fox offered his hand to the child and led her back to the main hall, as she skipped along beside him.
Seeing the child happy again, made Tekeshi feel relief. ' If Fox hadn't stepped in, she might be dead.' The Shinobi No Mono Captain thought to himself, but that still didn't stop him from, walking over to the girl and giving her a hug, just to make sure she was alright. It was strange how this child was effecting them already. She could make them happy or sad, just by her mood. Not to mention the fact that she impressed all of them. Honestly, he couldn't be more proud to be her sensei.
All through out breakfast, his thoughts were on what he knew of the child. Everyone else had their thoughts on other things, but one thought was common, 'How did she sneak up on me like that?'
Fox understood that they were confused by this, so he devised a plan, "Silver?" She looked up at him with large curious eyes. "I know they are wondering, like I was, how you learned to be so good at stealth."
The girl looked around at the others, "Really?" They just nodded, then she told them about her mother not wanting her to learn anything about the ways of ninja, and her father teaching her. After breakfast, everyone went off to train, Silver followed them, until she heard Tekeshi, call Fox to the side. "What are you after with her?" the shadowed man simply looked at him. "Tell me Jicho." Jicho smirked,
"I knew you would be possessive over her. Why is that?" Tekeshi glared at him, but waited for the other to continue. Knowing what his Captain had planned, he whispered something into his ear. "I will not let you take her."
"She's six, you have many years to wait, also I'm her sensei, so she is in my care." He began to leave,
"You're forgetting that there are restrictions on that arrangement." Tekeshi was surprised to find the child sitting on the stairs waiting for him.
"Tekeshi-sensei?" He nodded in acknowledgement. "When do I start training?" She had only been here one day, but already she wanted to train.
"Now." He stated simply and began the assent up the stairs. He took her to the third floor and down the hall until he stopped at a door, when he opened it, she wasn't surprised to find that it was just a dark gloomy room with nothing in it. A blur caught her attention as she noticed her sensei's hands, then saw the room begin to change. "You will train here." She nodded dumbfoundedly. "You will learn to deal with oncoming projectiles." Stepping inside, she realized that she was in a forest. "I will be your opponent." A voice called, resonating throughout the room. "You shall be trained as I would train an Shinobi No Mono. Understood?"
"Yes sensei, but what am I supposed to do?"
"Follow your instincts." A whistling sound behind her caused the girl to jump to the right, only to find a kunai sitting on the ground where she had just been. A glint of light coming from in front of her made her grab the kunai and throw it at the object. She didn't have time to think, or breathe, so she simply reacted to the numerous waves of attacks she was receiving. It had been an hour and the rampage finally stopped for a moment. Letting the girl pant heavily. She was so weak from exhaustion, Tekeshi didn't know how she was still standing. The room faded back into being bare and dark. Every inch of her shook as she collapsed. Luckily, her sensei had been there to catch her and lifted her up gently into his arms, before taking her to her room. "You did well." He stated as he left her.
That was all she had needed to hear as she fell into a peaceful sleep. It felt as though she had closed her eyes, when a knock at the door, caught her attention. "Come in." The door, opened revealing one of the ANBU. "Kali?" The girl smiled. "Are you alright? Captain sent me to check on you, while he's on a mission." She nodded. "You're tired aren't you." The child nodded again. "Well, I'll tell you what. When you get up, we'll go shopping."
"Shopping? For what?"
The older girl's eyes gleamed, "Specialty items for Shinobi No Mono." The child nodded and the ninja left her.
Now that she was awake, she knew she couldn't go back to sleep, so she got up and stretched, before heading downstairs to find Kali. Walking into the main hall, she saw Kali was trying to talk Mihi into going, but it wasn't working. "Kali-sempai?" a small voice from behind called. Said girl spun around happily,
"Are you ready to go Silvy-chan?"
Before Silver had a chance to answer, Mihi spoke, "You're taking her with you? You better not take her into your specialty section. Captain would be livid with you and Fox might kill you. You know how they are on those matters."
"I wouldn't dream of it." The blond answered smiling. "Well then, we're off." With that she turned around and took the genin's hand in hers taking the child out the door. "So how long have you been in Taishu?"
"Um, eight months."
"I see." A figure caught both their attentions as it stepped out of the shadows. Silver recognized the figure and immediately coward behind Kali. "What do you want?"
"Oh?" The figure came forward revealing the girl. She had a devious smirk on her face. "Is that anyway to treat your authorities?"
"After what you did, yes."
Silver wasn't sure what the lady had done, but she was scared of her and it was then that she heard that voice again. 'Let me out and I shall protect you, child.' She wanted answers from the voice, but this hardly seemed to be the time. 'Who are you?' 'I am your protector.' 'No you're not.' The voice laughed. 'Really? Let me out and I will show you what I mean.' Feeling the fear still surging through her, she couldn't fight the voice as she felt her vision fade. "Tell me girl, what do you have against my container?" a voice that wasn't a child's voice, but one that was older, wiser and definitely more dangerous.
The kunoichi was startled by the sudden change in the little girl. "You have no right to speak to me like that."
Her eyes narrowed dangerously and the term if-looks-could-kill, took on new meaning.
A deadly smile appeared on the child's face, who ever it was, was amused by the reaction of the ninja. "It is you who has no right." Just as the girl started to retaliate the voice cut her off. "SILENCE!" the girl did as she was told, shocked by the change. "You shall treat me and my container with respect, lest you wish for your death to be imminent."
Wide-eyed, the girl immediately bowed, "My humblest apologies Aisu-sama. I didn't realize that this child was the one whom is your container."
"You should not treat any child in this manner. Am I understood?" The child's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Of course." with that the girl vanished, and the expression of the child returned to normal. Kali was stunned by all of this, the child in front of her was the container for Aisu.
"Kali-sempai?" The girl didn't respond, "Kali-sempai?"
Shaking out of her shock, "Yes Silver-san?"
"Are you okay?"
The older girl smiled, "I'm fine, now let's go." The child nodded and they continued the rest of the way in silence. 'Note to self: Torture the Captain later for not warning us about her.'