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[Koresephone]

This is the story of what happened during Sonyo's search for her parents.
Will get updated sporadically.

Latest Update:
Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:00 am

 

[Koresephone]

[ 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝒪𝓃𝑒: 𝐿𝑒𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒶𝑔𝑒 ]


Sonyo adjusted the bags on her shoulder, taking a brief look back at the village. She had been surprised that, upon asking to find her parents, Lady Ayame had not only allowed her to go but also gave her the promotion to go herself. Sometimes she was too hard on herself, she forgot how far she had come since she came to the village from Otogakure. The young female looked downwards, towards her now tanning skin, and thought about just how much she had changed and how much she still had to change. That was one of the most important things when being a shinobi; growth. One could never become stronger and protect the ones they cared about if they never grew, and so a shinobi would consistently change and grow throughout their short or long life. With determination, Sonyo gripped her hand in to a tight fist, turned her back to the village, and started her long journey. Soon a hawk would bring a letter to Nari, making him aware of her absence. Not bringing him with filled her with a sense of guilt and a ball in her stomach, she felt as if she was letting him down; but she had to do this on her own, she had to.

As she walked from the village she pulled out a map and a compass and started charting her path that she would take, the trip itself was several days long and that's if everything went smoothly and she didn't run in to any other leads that lead her elsewhere. The lead landed her parents somewhere in one of Otogakure's neighboring villages; Takigakure, or the Hidden Waterfall Village. They must have crossed through the Land of Iron, a neutral country, knowing it would be safe; her mother must have planned that, she was always the planner and her father the do-er. So she would have to go through a vast majority of the Kaze no Kuni ( Land of Wind ) desert, then through parts of Kawa no Kuni ( Land of Rivers ), Ame no Kuni ( Land of Rain ), and Hi no Kuni ( Land of Fire ). She would only pass through one of the noteable villages on her way there, which was the Hidden Valley Village. The journey would be long, and hard, but she could do it. It was worth it, to see her parents again, to make sure that they were okay. The trip would take anywhere from 4-5 days without delays and with minimal breaks, so she'd be home in about two weeks.

The first day of travel was grueling, she mainly stuck to the main road but the heat was horrible. She had left in the early morning, hoping that she'd beat a majority of the midday heat, but she had timed it wrong and now she was suffering. She could see the heat waves off the sand and her body ached for shade and comfort. She had brought her lightest clothes, but even then she was sweating profusely and the light cotton fabric was sticking to her skin. The heat here still surprised her, it was much different than Otogakure's heat. In the Oto, the heat was heavy and thick with moisture; the heat clung to you like wet clothes and laid like stones in your lungs. Here, however, though it was still heavy the heat evaporated nearly any moisture it touched. It seemed like even minutes after Sonyo took a drink from, her mouth would be dry and cottony again. She would have to make attempts in the future to create some sort of shade to travel under; perhaps she would ask Theo about it. The thought of home nearly knocked the wind from her; though she had traveled through this stretch of desert once before it was with Liz or Theo, it was a much different experience traveling this road alone. The companionship had given her strength and had made the trip quicker; but now she was winded and bone-deep tired with no one to keep her going. Night fell pretty quickly, unlike in the village there were no ridges to gradually take away the sunlight; one minute it was there and the next it was gone. Sonyo traveled for a while in the dark before coming across her saving grace, a hotel on the fork in the crossroads.

The service was amazing and the staff were kind, in a hour or so Sonyo found herself bathed, full, and laying in bed. The chuunin spent some time staring up at the ceiling, thinking of home. She was worried about Nari, hoping that the news that she had left wasn't too much for him and that he was getting along well with his Bijuu. She thought about Theo, too, her best friend. She wondered about how he was doing with his new team, and if his students were treating him well. She couldn't imagine Theo taking any nonsense from the gennin under his control, however. Though he was a sweetheart, Theo also had somewhat of an authoritative feeling to him. She remembered being a little scared of Theodin at first, it didn't take a sensor to feel the strength radiating off the man; he had seen and been through so much, like Nari, like everyone else in Suna. It was definitely the village where diamonds were formed under the intense desert heat and the crippling pressure. She hope some day she could be half the shinobi that everyone else was. Sleep quickly overtook her after a few hours, exhausted from the first day of her journey.