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"Our culture forbids battle and encourages intellectual pursuits... so there are not many on this country left who can enjoys such things. ... It is a small pity. There are so few left who understand the artistry inherent in fighting."

"...Don't you have fighters here...?" She asked, straightening herself slowly. "I know I have seen guards."

"It is a necessity we acknowledge reluctantly. It is not something we pride ourselves on, or strive to excel at. We merely strive to be able to defend ourselves... should the time come that invader makes battle on us." ... There was a small silence between them then, before she continued.

"But enough about that. I have come to tell you, that you and your friends will be receiving a visit from one of our fighters soon. she will introduce you to the test you have been pausing for. she is not of our race, she is an outsider and she is very strong. You should prepare yourselves thoroughly."

"Prepare ourselves...? Why...?" She asked, dumbfounded by the statement the elder had made.

"You shall see! ... Carry on." ...And without another word said, the smallish shinobi began to walk away again... leaving her to reflect on her words. What did she mean...? Prepare ourselves...?

Back at the Elder's Chambers

...Suddenly the door to the Elder's chambers swung wide and slammed against the stone walls loud enough to stir the shinobi from her concentrations. Glancing over her shoulder, momentarily, she saw a red skinned shinobi bearing makeshift armor and a blade strapped to her backside. her jet black mane was tied back into a neat ponytail, and anger was etched into her sculpted features... "How dare you desecrate this temple with your presence traitors??"

Genin, still known then as Hikaru, was held by her authority, who had a stern, if not angry glare at the baby. she could obliterate the child with that glare if it understood it. The scene moved as one of the Unknown came into view, one who held a smile as her bent figure hobbled towards the woman and babe, "She was brave, my friend." The cracked smile formed as the Unknown held her arms out for the baby and her voice grew gentler, yet firm,

"Now don't let her sacrifice be in vain. Give me the child so that we may prepare it." The Unknown was forced to remove the babe herself, gently and slowly. The authority then shook with rage before the Unknown turned her back to the woman and started to hobble away.

"Why her?" The quest held the shakiness of one who readied themselves for tears, yet she knew the answer. She had birth Hikaru, the wolf child that was foretold to become a godly shinobi. Yes, she knew why she had to bare the child, but what she wanted to know was why she had to then be tore apart as she was, why she had come to love, protect, and take care of her for those nine months. Why did she have to love her enough to become one who wanted vengeance?

Down on the cold, stone, floor of the Iron Elder's chambers, Hikaru sat quietly with her legs crossed in deep trance concentration. She'd been lost to the silence and darkness inside her own mind for two hours now, thus far completely uninterrupted by anything even despite the presence of others who came into the chamber to do things or who may have already been there.

Chapter three:

Hikaru was wandering around, minding her own business, when out of nowhere, an explosion erupted from across a field. She ran towards the field, knowing that it was probably pretty serious and started looking around for details. There was nothing much to say other than the was a massive crater in the middle of a huge field and there were two shinobi going at it like there was no tomorrow. She would have gotten into the fight, but she figured it was best to sit back and watch shit happen.

She watched as one formed a giant dragon looking attack in the sky and had it strike down. It was most likely a Kirin jutsu, but Hikaru couldn't be sure. She was too used to stuff just getting blown up to care about this kind of jutsu. She needed to get away from it all and take a break from being a shinobi. She was tired of being a lowly genin and there was no point in being a shinobi if you didn't move up in cranks. She was most upset about the fact that she was not able to participate in the chuunins due to I foreseeable circumstances beyond her control. Sadface.

Hikaru walked up and pushed the man on the ground. There was nothing he could do about it now. Hikaru bent down to loot the body but there was no loot and his eyes were missing. Oh well.

Exits

But Hikaru would not do that. her loyalty was far more to her own friends and allies than it was to some random Hikaru, out here on Iron country... However the next day she woke up at her home, having almost completed the technique. They had apparently found smoething wrong with her and felt as though she was not quite ready for the technique. What a shame. She'd get it next time for sure.

That night, dreams whisked her away to an ancient country. The people here are nice, but they're all weird. They have green bodies with fake antennae. I was practicing with my sword, when dreams walked up behind me and startled me. When she yelled in my ear, I threw up my sword and ended up with a cut in my leg. I yelled at her about it, but she just blamed me.

That was when one of the weirdoes came up to me and told me to hold still. she grabbed me by the leg! her hands got covered in my blood, but then a moment later, there was a strange sound and the wound was gone. It was amazing! I thanked the young woman for hours, as she invited me into the village.

There, she prepared some of the oddest tea I'd ever tasted in the galaxy. It was made from the bark of a original tree. After I drank it, I asked her how she made my cut go away so I could do it, too. she then pointed me to the elder's house. After trading recipes, I went off to the old woman's house. The foreigner's were nice... most of them. The one's who weren't friendly asked me what I was doing. They were strange, but nice. I thought this was a fun visit.

The woman laughed, throwing back her head for several moments, still flickering around Ginny's attacks. “A part in a play, you say? No evil?” the woman asked, before grinning and extending a hand towards Ginny, a sphere of lightning chakra starting to build, there. “If I have no intention of being evil and killing, then what say you I kill your friend right here?” the woman asked, watching Hikaru's expression as the fighter frowned, watching her face down Ginny, who suddenly looked a little less sure of herself.

She was able to use her chakra slightly, but this fellow appeared far and above anything that they'd been able to muster on Konoha. “So what will it be, Senpai? Will you chance your guesses on the life of your comrade? Or will you do what you know you wish to do, and attack me?” the woman spoke, and Hikaru gave a slight grunt, still not drawing her blade.

“You come here, just as we are to be tested about the hiraishin technique. You show up, you speak of you as if she were a fool and that you had transcended her, and yet you make no move against her, nothing that even begins to speak that your motives are clear. Thus is my decision, shinobi.

This whole attack is an elaborate setup in order to test us and our abilities, or our motives. I am not clear which is currently being tested, but honestly, I don't really understand why you would try to do so when your disguise is so thin that a child could see through it,” Hikaru spoke, her eyes narrowing a little as the gargantuan being watched the other. The woman gave a long low look at Hikaru before she let out a guffaw,

It appeared to pass right through the woman, before she appeared a short distance away, mocking. "she will be almost impossible to hit... I do not know if you can defeat her,” the elder spoke, and the way that her words were stated... Hikaru could almost feel a hinting from them as she watched the other, before frowning. There was something, there...

“Take this!” Ginny called out as she attacked wantonly, her attacks striking the other, or at least it appeared to, before once again the woman vanished before appearing behind Ginny and attacking her, sending the Konoha shinobi stumbling forward. “Damn!” the being hissed before it looked to Hikaru, who was still standing and pondering. “Senpai! We can surely hit her if we work together!”

the woman called out, and Hikaru gave a slight nod before she looked back at the Elder, frowning. she shot forward then, before she withdrew her blade and made a few steps forward before she realized that perhaps this wasn't the best way to go about it. “Senpai!” Ginny called out again, and the Konoha shinobi shook her head before she advanced another few steps, releasing a few blasts of chakra, which the fighter, the unnamed human, weaved around, before appearing before Hikaru, and swinging a fist at her stomach.

The creature used the shield to block her arm before darting backwards, just as Ginny came forward, and Hikaru released another blast of chakra from her maw, aimed at the human. “Ha!” Ginny called as she too released a blast of energy. However, the two blasts collided in mid air, then, exploding and sending a cloud of smoke through the garden, while the human jumkped a short distance away, smirking. “Hah! You outsiders are all alike! IF you think that you can defeat me by force, you've got another thing coming!”