The Smiths Tools (Akihana)

Alright! So the Dusk group would spread out and look for the Aki's one of which the real Dusk had his eyes on. He didn't move from his spot yet stared with a certain intensity until he had hopped from the tree and slowly sauntered over to her area. While he did this Dusk #2 had walked around the area, feeling the chakra from every little thing around him until he picked up on a flower. Dusk had known that every little thing and yet when he saw the flower he bent down and looked upon it for a moment," Ohhh pretty~ I wonder if Aki-nee has seen this yet," reaching for it he tried to figure out how to pick it up before accidentally poking at it. Meanwhile Dusk #3 had been dancing in the rain not really paying attention to the game anymore, the young male simply enjoying his time within the rain. Happy like the original he continued to do a weird dance that continued onward.

Dusk #4 and the last had been heading to the gazebo looking around though as he got around he could see a chakra signature around besides his own. Sneaking around he would attempt to ambush the person there before tackling them into a hug and snuggling," Found you!" Meanwhile original Dusk had finally stood face to water face with the original Aki, his eyes looking around the water pool before attempting to touch it before pulling his hand back," I want to hug you but the water is in the way...can you come out please?," those big blue eyes watered up in an attempt to get her out of the water, though as he did he wondered if it would work.

After everything had been resolved Dusk would hug Aki and thank her for all that she had did for him thus far before. Hugging her tightly he slowly would let go and look up to he with a simple smile on his face,' Thanks again Aki and can we train some more later? I'd really like that," with that he would wait for her response before walking out of water gardens, of course after dispersing his rain.

[Exit ^^]
2563 wc
1000 words for Hidden Mist (half wc due to being taught)
1500 for Earth

12 stats also

The game promised to be an epic one and it was indeed. Throughout the water games, Akihana kept track of all the dusks as they kept track of her, the amusement lifting her spirits more than anything else could have at the moment. She had started out that day with a lamenting refusal to attend a wedding ceremony and now she was, soaked through and happy, all thanks to the little boy who simply couldn’t tell the difference between making others happy and being happy himself. In his case, one always led to the other and it would be this quality of Dusk’s that would take him far. There were amusements few enough in the life of a shinobi so anyone who found it in him or herself to be happy was always better off, at least htat was what the golden eyed kunoichi believed.

She wasn’t surprised at all when Dusk and his entire little troop found all her hers one by one, following his acute chakra senses the way he was. Playful the boy might be but there was no denying his natural talents. Soon he would be a powerful shinobi in his own rights. Akihana made a note to recommend the boy strongly to Den. The quicker little Dusk unlocked his wood release, the quicker he would be able to serve his village. When the original finally came up to it seemed like he could see her through the small whirlpool. Interested in how he was going to banish the water in order to get to her, the blonde medic waited and then, at his method, let out a small giggle. He had asked politely and insisted the water was in the way. It reminded her of her own chunin exam. Whereas everyone else had attempted to take down a disguised raikage, Akihana had slipped and fell, keeping faith that the wolf would look out for his own.

Her faith had been rewarded, and now she owed it to Yaju to carry on that legacy. “Of course,” she replied, as the whirlpool disappeared in a soft hiss of steam and she rushed to hug the boy. “Well done Dusk, you are now a very strong ninja,” she congratulated him as she hugged and danced in the rain, Akihana joining him for a moment because it had been a lifetime since she’d danced in the rain, and she probably never would again.

As Dusk sprinted off, Akihana cleared the rain and water from the area, dispelling all jutsu and applying new ones to make it as though there had never been any elemental excessiveness in the first place. Once she was done, the kunoichi turned her attention towards the old ANBU tattoo she still had. Only two of the old team had survived - her and Fenn. And last time she’d spoken to her partner and friend, he had been determined to fight Youka. Tentatively touching the tattoo, the blonde spoke up softly. “Hey Fenn…”

There was no response; she hadn’t expected one, not after the way she’d left things off the last time. Akihana had all the love and concern for Fenn that a sister would for a brother or a mother would for a child. It just hadn’t been what Fenn wanted. He had every right to be angry with her but the tattoo would at least let her speak to him, let her know he was okay. “You were right you know,” she’d begin slowly trying not to have her voice tremble too much at speaking with her closest friend after so many months. “I thought I could just stay here, forgive Youka for what he did to our home… And I have. But I can’t forgive myself. You were right all along, we have to go back to where it all started…”

The decision had been some time in the making, but now as she said it out loud, Akihana knew it had to be true. he couldn’t just sit here and do nothing while people she had loved and cared for remained victims to Youka’s cruelty. Perhaps she would perish in her silly quest to bring some kind of justice but that had never stopped her before.

“So what do you say? You, me? one last adventure?” she asked, trying to smile despite the tears that threatened to slide down her cheeks. “It’ll be like the old days. We can even go back to my place and I’ll make a casserole afterwards?” she offered, her voice breaking at the last word. Nothing was the same anymore, perhaps it never would be. But with Fenn, they could pretend for a little while.

With her hand still on the tattoo, Akihana waited for a reply that would never come

(Exit)

TWC: 3018

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