There was a time skip so Kana is now 15. (If you didn’t know she was 14 in the last chapter.)
KANA:
Kana laid flat on the ice, she had been laying there for hours, and her black hair was concealed inside of the white fur jacket. All of her clothing was white; bandages covered her exposed upper-neck all the way up to her lower eye lids. A bow rested on the ice in front of her, a few makeshift arrows laid next to it.
About a hundred yards in front of her sat a polar bear. Its black eyes were focused on the seal hole at its paws. Kana would wait. Wait until it finally makes its catch, then she would wait some more. One good thing about the wilderness in the Land of Snow is that it had taught her patience over the years. As long as it meant survival, she would do almost anything.
As Kana watched the great white bear her thoughts drifted into her memories. The few that she remembered of her family, the day the village was attacked, and the day Boe found her. The days she spent wandering the forest after his death. Boe had once asked her to leave the Land of Snow if something happened to him; he wanted her to go to Suna. Where the shinobi were used to harsh weather all year round and the people were less likely to ask questions. But she couldn’t leave, not yet.
A loud splash startled Kana back into the present. The Polar bear was scooping a large seal out of the hole, blood stained the bears paws and the surrounding ice. The white beast clamped its powerful jaws around the animals’ thick neck, after a few minutes the seal’s struggling ceased. Satisfied, the bear dragged its prey away from the hole, slowly making its way over to Kana’s hiding place.
Kana tensed her muscles and held her breath. Praying silently that the beast wouldn’t spot her. Then the wind betrayed her, shifting so that Kana’s scent would travel towards the predator. Kana slowly outstretched her arm towards her bow, when her fingertips touched the smooth wood the bear dropped its kill and sniffed the air. Black eyes scanned the mounds of snow. He sniffed the air once more, and then turned back to his meal. Kana let out the breath she had been holding, the bears head whipped around and stared at her.
Damn it! Kana scrambled for her bow and an arrow, the bear was lumbering towards her its huge body accelerating across the ice. Kana jumped to the top of the hill of snow and strung her bow. The bears massive front paws smashed into the compacted snow, Kana stumbled slightly her arrow lodged itself into the bears right shoulder. The bear’s jaws parted in a pained roar, the beast snarled at her and reared on its hind legs so its claws could reach her. Kana released another arrow, this time it planted itself into the creature’s throat. The white bears growls turned into desperate gasps for air. Crimson blood flowed from the wound.
Kana took a deep breath and quickly gathered both of her arrows. With her Kunai she skinned the bear and gathered what meat she could. The rest she cut into strips and laid them on the ice. She gutted the seal and dumped the bear and seal entrails into the seal hole, which she covered with snow.
She took a large white blanket out of her knapsack and wrapped all of the extra meat in it, then tied it up securely and buried it in the center of the snow drift. She cut out large blocks of hardened snow and formed a wall around it like a small igloo. Then she gathered up all of her things; the meat, her bow and arrows and as many of the bones that she could carry.
The moon was high over Kana’s head when she finally reached the small cave that had been her home for the past 2 years. A couple small white wolf cubs playfully attacked her as she entered. Kana tossed them a seal bone, which they carried off happily stumbling under its weight. A large grey male wolf trotted up to her growling happily. He was followed by a pure white female, her belly swollen in pregnancy. The male nudged her hand with the tip of his snout.
