samurai nomads

Alright lets go

"word" normal talking

'word' thoughts

"word" telepathy

Enjoy
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Information.
To know this or know that.
It could mean life or dead.
Expectedly to a ninja during a war.
To know this, or know that.
But who knows? Who holds the information??

“Hanachi!”
The whole council almost jumped in shock, when the name was mentioned, after almost ten minutes of total silence. But the dark-haired jounin casually continued:
“If they don’t know, no one does!”
A big redhead nodded in agreement
“Hai! They have ears and eyes everywhere! You can barely sneeze without their knowledge!”
Another council member spoke up:
“So what! They might be aware! But even then, how do we reach them?”
Now every one seemed to have something to add, at the same time.
“They’re everywhere and nowhere!”
“They’re nomads, remember!”
“If they don’t want our appearance around them, they’ll simply move before we can reach them!”
“They’re outlaws, responding to no one!”
“They will not just tell us what we want to know!”
“Jiraiya-sama used them for years!!”
“But no one knows his contacts!!”
“ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!! CAN THEY HELP US?! YES OR NO?!”
A long silence followed, then a little grey man stuttered:
“H-hai Tsu-Tsunade-sama!”
The blond Hokage stood up from her chair.
“I remember them! There was an alliance?”
“Hai Hokage-sama, but they called it off… shortly before the fox-incident!”
“An alliance that lasted for more than seventy years and now there are no contact at all! How comes? You said Jiraiya used them?”
“Hai, Tsunade-hime! The alliance was formed shortly after the war; we got more young students and information, they got a place to meet and protection during their horse training! But when they got better political stands than this village they saw the alliance as useless and…“
“CALLED IT OFF, YEAH, YEAH! You said Jiraiya had arrangements with them!”
“H-Hai Hokage-hime! It seems Jiraiya-sama had some personal friends among their lines, who shared information with him! But we have no clue who these contacts are!”
“Well if I’m right, they have always comes together once a year! WHERE AND WHEN!!"
"Thr-three days from now in the land of rivers! But it'll be way too dangeru..."
"We must reach them there! Shizune!! I want to see the files on every Hanachi-kid who ever studied in Konoha!! YOU’RE ALL DISMISED!!”
The counsel almost tripped over each other’s feet to get out.

--The day after: the hokage’s office--

“This is a drag! It’s the same story for all of them! They came here; studied in the academy and then… failed the genin examination!!”
The hokage’s black-haired assistant gasped:
“All of them, but Tsunade-sama that can’t be!! There… there must have been… hundreds!!”
“Eight!”
“NANI!!”
“Out of all those brats all except eight failed, like they putted an honour into it!”
“What! But… but what about those eight?!”
“Oh, they stayed and became jounin, some even anbu! But for most part it’s over fifty years ago, all dead by now. I looked it up! All seven names are engraved at the memorial!”
“Seven?! But you said there was eight?!”
“Hai, she is proberly still alive! Take a look!”
Tsunade handed her assistant a single file! The picture showed a brown-skinned ten years old, she stood with her head bowed so her raven lion mane of hair felled down and hid the upper part of her face. A team picture, she had her eyes closed! But it was the boy by her side that took Shizune’s attention.
“UCHIHA ITACHI!!”
The hokage nodded:
“They were team-mates, apparently... Hanachi Azumi, she became genin, nine years old, chunin the year after second try! Obtained jonin status after just two years, later she was badly hurt during a fight! After that she returned to her clan! Shizune I want to see all there is on this girl”
"Hai, Tsunade-sama!"

--A Hanachi camp in the sky country--

“ATJOOOU!!!”
“Bless you! Seems someone has a word about you! Been a bad girl? Huh, Azumi-imoutochan?”
Her fingers stopped their path over his body.
“Are you trying to sneak into my mind again, Onii-san?”
She could clearly feel his laughter in her hands as she slowly dragged them down his back, Azumi moved backwards so she reach her stepbrothers butt, she carefully started to move her hands in big circles over it. He sighed pleasantly:
“Mmm this is good! You’re the best Imouto-chan! I think there must be magic in those hands of yours!”
He paused thoughtfully before stating:
“You know, I wouldn’t have to sneak in, if you just told me what’s bothering you!”
Azumi moved back once more starting to work on her brothers tights.
“It’s no good for you to know everything, Jojin! Besides it’s really nothing!”
“Are you two bickering again? Nii-san! Stop bothering my sister, Nee-chan! Get done will you! We’re leaving in an hour!”
A double voice responded quickly:
“Hai! Imouto-sama!!”
“Jeez! Who putted a stick up her ass?”
“Karai-neesan!! I heard that!!!”
Azumi got up from her kneeling posture, just to let herself fall down sitting.
“Ok! I’m done!”
Turning to her sister:
“Why an hour more, if we don’t leave soon we will have to ride non-stop!.. Karai do you hear me, why are you pointing… oh!”
Jojin smirked as he got up.
“Hmm… Seems our leader’s libido gets first priority, huh!”
Azumi and Karai nodded, Azumi raised an eyebrow.
“Wasn’t she with Kauro-kun?”
Karai sighed and Jojin shook his head.
“Last week Imouto-chan! And you know how it is, she almost sees the males in the pack as her personal harem!”
He stroked his body and walked away.
“Urrmmm! I’ll go find Yura-chan! See ya , double-face!”
Karai glared knifes at his back.
“Double face!! Like he could even see a resembles!!!”
Azumi sighed as everyone turned to see what caused the yelling.
“Karai would you mind keeping your voice down!”
Not that she was wrong; Jojin was blind, but shouting always draw attention and In the Hanachi-clan where the most spoken language was telepathy it was the double. And however they were not identical twins for nothing.

“Well!”
Azumi got up and turned to her sister.
“We better help out, an hour isn’t that much! And we haven’t had a real break for way too long! Stupid ninja morons!!”
“You said it! Why do they have to hang on our buts? Not like they’re getting anything from it! This sucks! I’m starving!”
“Stop complaining! We’re all hungry!”
Azumi’s harsh voice fated, and she pressed a hand against her growling stomach. The tribe had used the last week moving from or fighting ninja-squads, that simply seemed to continue showing up and that held them from hunting and gathering and drying herbs, vegetables and fruits. Which meant they where running out of food fast, way too fast. And that was not all. Their constant moving also caused the horses to starve because of the lack of time to eat. If it continued much longer it sickness would break out, among humans as well as horses.
‘Luckily they won’t reach us in the dale’
“No, none of them are that stupid!”
“Karai! I would be very grateful, if you would keep out of my mind!”
“Sorry!”
Why didn’t she sound sorry?
Their conversation ended as they reached the rest of the tripe, they remained silent. No one mentioned the fact that the rations they were given barely fitted a meal, and definitely not rations for a two day long ride.