[H]eartfelt

[Raku]

[Word Count 141]

Raku nodded lightly, "You're right. I'll tell her what happened...They did talk to me for a little bit." She finally let go of his hand, only to brush a piece of her hair out of her face. She had to remember what they were saying, which all was childish fighting. "Let's see...what happened. They fought like children, had an argument about if that blonde liked me, and the blonde was sooo nice..." She thought with a smile. "Cha! That blonde was cute! Why did you fight back against him? I don't know what is wrong with you..."

[/u] Her inner self nearly yelled. Raku sighed lightly, wondering if anyone else but her sister and her even had those annoying inner selves.[/center]

[Aster]

[Word Count: 140]

"What are you smiling about!? Nevermind... i dont need to know." Aster said walking upstairs until they both reach the hokage's room. He opened the doors to see Tsunade sitting in a chair behind her desk with Shizune standing beside her. He glanced around the room not seeing Naruto thinking that he was late. "where's Naruto?" Aster asked. "I thought he was with you..." Shizune spoke glancing at both Raku and Aster. "what... he said that he had to meet Ero-sennin, then he was coming here..." Aster spoke looking at Raku. "huh? Jiraiya has been at the Sand Village for the past week... so, that's impossible." Shizune spoke worriedly. "well... i knew it was a joke, but he must have been here by now." Aster said thinking that Naruto was in trouble.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 211]

Raku glanced around worriedly. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to find his high chakra level. "I..c-can't sense him in the village. He is quickly moving south." She spoke clenching her fists. Tsunade glanced at the two, "Tell us what happened..." Raku nodded quickly, "I met an Akatsuki in the ramen shop early this morning. He then asked me to meet him later, so I did out of curiosity. He wanted me to join, and Shika and Gai sensai came to help. Itachi knocked them out, and I agreed so they would leave the village alone. Then as we were walking they started arguing and Itachi san kept mentioning that Deidara san liked me. They fought like...well Naruto and Aster. Then Aster and Naruto came and we fought off Itachi and Deidara." Raku spoke nearly turning blue from lack of breath. Tsundade nodded, "So..You haven't seen Nartuo since? I see..We'll send out ANBU to track them down. In the time being, you two need to stay in a safe place. Try and stay together, it would be hard to fight off both Uchiha and Deidara alone."</sup>

[Aster]

[Word Count: 125]

"We were acctually better than the ANBU... the ANBU got their asses handed to them..." Aster spoke clenching his fists. "What do you mean?" shizune asked not understanding how they can be better than the ANBU Black ops. "I'm saying that they took out a whole group of ANBU without trying!" Aster yelled looking towards the ground. "T-That's impossible!" Shizune yelled terrified at the fact that they took out ANBU but not the 3 demon hosts. "I dont care what you say... im going after him!!" Aster yelled running out the doorway and down the stairs. "Wait! Aster, hold on! You need to rest!" Shizune yelled running to the door. Aster just kept running, ignoring what they said.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 172]

Raku sighed deeply, and she grinned sheepishly. "It was true...We barely had a scratch left on us after the fight. The ANBU were dead..." She spoke with a grin. Tsunade couldn't believe her ears, "H-how...You three..are only gennin! The ANBU are highly trained!" Raku simply waved, "I better go make sure he doesn't kill himself...He might also need a medic nin!" Raku quickly turned into a dusty brown wolf, and ran after Aster. "I swear Aster and Naruto are twins....So headstrong...and Raku acts like her sister so much." Tsunade spoke shaking her head. "Shizune, send ten ANBU after those two knuckleheads...." Tsunade said with a chuckle.

Raku ran as fast as she could, finally catching up to Aster. "Alright! Lets go kick their sorry asses again!" She spoke with a triumphant smirk. She transformed back into her human form, still running to keep up.</sup>

[Aster]

[Word Count: 120]

"Yes, Tsunade-sama!" Shizune yelled running out the door to do what she was told. Shizune ran into a room full of ANBU. "Tsuade-sama has ordered ten of you to follow two gennin to the River Country!" Shizune said as most of them nodded agreeing to the mission. She ran back to the hokage's room as 12 of them jumped out the window to find the two gennin.

"alright!.... I swear, im going to kill all of them if I find out that any of them did anything to him!" Aster spoke still running. "It's takes two to three days to get there. So, we might have to hurry." Aster said still running.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 140,un]

Raku nodded, but stopped running. She preformed multiple hands signs, and pulled a scroll out of her shuriken holster. She bit her thumb writing in blood, for her summoning. Then in a poof of light and darkness two horses reared up. Each around three stories tall, and the exact opposite of each other. One was fully jet black with a mane of fire, and deep red eyes. The other had a wreath of flowers around her neck and was pure white. Her azure eyes glistening, as the other snorted angrily. Raku nodded and leaped onto the black horse's back. "Aster! Get on the other, we can get there much faster!" Raku spoke as the horse bolted off. Lightning cracked under its hooves as a trail of fire was left.</sup>

[Aster]

[Word Count: 175..... un!]

Aster looked up at the huge horse and was about to jump on to it but noticed the ANBU behind him. "......... damnit! Tsunade-sama made ANBU come..." Aster shouted out to Raku as he jumped onto a tree branch. He jumped from tree branch to tree branch continueously. He was moving slowly as the ANBU met up with him. "We've gotten orders from Tsunade-sama to follow you both and to listen to what you both say! So, what's the problem?" One of the ANBU asked as the others stared at the huge horses. "ok... we're going towards the Akatsuki in the River Country to kill and retreive a leaf village ninja." Aster spoke still jumping from tree to tree. "What?! The evil organization Akatsuki?" one spoke. "exactly..." Aster replied as he jumped onto the other horse and caught up with Raku while the ANBU behind them discussed the problem. "...... Hey Raku! Shoudn't we get Sakura, Shikamaru, and the others to help?!" Aster shouted out to her.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 121]

Raku grinned lightly, "Shika would drag us down, Sakura would be concerned we would hurt ourselves...and besides I want to take on the guy who took Naruto myself." She looked to Aster with a fanged grin. Her wolf like fangs glimmering in the moonlight, as the crackle of lightning under her horse's hooves rang on. "Good job Raiga, just a bit farther." She spoke soothingly to the large demonic horse. It whinnied with a deep nod, its mane slapping its nape in the motion. Raku grew her claws quickly, as she clenched her fists tightly. A bit of blood dripped from her closed hands, as she chuckled evilly.</sup>

[Aster]

[Word Count: 121]

"did you know that they're both demon hosts!?" one of the ANBU spoke to the one that was talking to Aster. "what really?" most of them spoke. "yeah... i dont know about you guys, but im sitting this one out." one of them spoke. "yeah... me too!" the rest of the ANBU spoke stopping as they al headed back to the village.

"alright then... i just need to have a talk with these ANBU about us!" Aster yelled to Raku making the horse slow down. He looked back noticing that the ANBU were all gone. "............. Where the hell did they go!?" Aster yelled speeding back up to Raku. "the ANBU are gone!" Aster yelled to Raku.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 138]

Raku glared over towards Aster, "Damn...Tsunade samma wont be happy with them." She quickly leaped from her horse's back, landing with agile grace on the ground below. "Raiga, keep going with Aster and Eega. I'll catch up." She spoke to the large black horse. Referring to the white horse as Eega, Raku turned back after the ANBU. Ten dusty brown tails grew, not of chakra for once. She finally caught up with them, and placed her clawed hand on one of their shoulders. "Where do you think you all are going? Tsunade samma wouldn't be happy with you...Neither would I. Would you dare defy Tsundae samma and the feared demonic mistress of wolves?!"She spoke with a wolf like growl.</sup>

[Aster]

[Word Count: 165]

"..... uh... we were just saving our energy! that's why we're so far behind! Right guys?!" one of the ANBU spoke in fear of Raku. "yeah... that's the exact reason!" the rest of the ANBU spoke as they started to speed up.

Aster continued to go on with Raiga and Eega. Aster looked back to see if Raku and the ANBU were coming yet. He looked forward to see that a giant clay bird was flying towards him. He tried to dodge it but it was too late as the bird swept him off the horse and flew towards Raku and the ANBU. The bird flew past them with Aster caught in it's beak screaming. The bird flew high up into the air as it blew up along with Aster.

The ANBU looked up into the air in shock. "what the hell was that!?" one of them spoke looking into the air waiting for the smoke to clear.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 129]

Raku's eyes widened, "Deidara san...." Her hands dropped from the ANBU's shoulder, as her eyes desperately drifted around to find the blonde. Hell yeah! Her inner self screamed happily. Raku sighed, the damn inner self. She looked up, Aster!!" Not even noticing for awhile that her friend had gone up with the bird. She once more desperately looked for the blonde, as she let her summoned horses go off. "Deidara san! Show yourself!" She yelled into the night. Oddly adding a formal ending to his name, even though he was pure evil. Something about Kei maybe, who knows. She clenched her fist, letting blood drip down her hand once more.</sup>

[Aster]

Deidara laughed as another giant bird came and caught Aster on its back. Aster was dead. The bird flew at a high speed forward, past the horses as Deidara and Itachi jumped on the birds back along with Naruto. Deidara put down Naruto as Itachi checked Aster's pulse. "oh great! you killed him!" Itachi yelled in a mad tone. "what? no way, un!" Deidara spoke checking his pulse seeing that he really was dead. "oh well..." Itachi spoke as they both sat down infront of Naruto and Aster. Aster's demon had awakened once he was dead. 'I wont allow you to die!' Kazune said in Aster's mind. Aster was surrounded by a deep green hued chakra. He had eleven green chakra tails and two chakra wings. Aster got up and grabbed Naruto's shirt. He punched the birds main chakra point causing it to blow up. Itachi flew towards the River country while Deidara flew towards Raku and the ANBU. They both stopped sliding on the ground as Deidara looked up seeing Raku. "oh... hey, Raku, un!" Deidara spoke still lieing on the ground.

[Raku]

<sup>[Word Count 114]

Raku looked down, and fell back screaming in surprise. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" She spoke still sitting down from shock. Fate and destiny are on our side, cha!</sup>

[/u] Inner Raku seemed to scream out. Raku looked away, trying to hide her blush from her inner self. He seemed so different around her then when he was around Aster. Everyone she had fought, actually fought her the same as her other team member. She was still sitting in shock, afraid of his sudden falling. A small sigh came from her vocals, as she looked down at him.[/sup][/center]