Hikari; The Forgotten Otsutsuki

Chapter 17

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci

It was relatively a calm morning, apart from the constant ruckus that arose from the tiny hut on the snowy mountain. Hitori was hastily packing her things to move in with Hikari at Konoha. Things would have been done well if she had done it beforehand last night but, being lovers as they are, their shenanigans last night wouldn't be of much help. Hikari, on the other hand, stood outside of the house, staring aimlessly on the falling snow. He was distracted since the day before but on that morning, it was worst. His face was of concern.

"Hikari-kun?" Hitori called for him as she peeked out of the doors. The boy wouldn't budge. She narrowed her eyes and made her way out of the house, concerned. She noticed that he was worse than before. When she arrived in front of him, his eyes didn't even catch her yet. It's like the light in his eyes had faded. She reached for his face and when she touched his cheeks, he immediately woke up from his trance.

"Oh, hey! Are you ready?" Hikari said and smiled at her. She didn't answer as she looked deeply into his eyes. After a while, she nodded.

"Something is not right is it?" she finally asked.

"Yeah, I felt a little off for a few days. It's like something bad is going to happen," he murmured as he reached for her hands that were on his cheeks. But instead, she let go and disappeared to a few meters from him. She glowed brightly and the snow around her began to sizzle. The glow became brighter and larger and when she was finished, she was in her Phoenix form.

"Get on, we need to get you there now. I can always get my stuff later," Hitori's voice was looming all over the mountain. Her tone was not to be messed with so he hopped on her back. She opened her wings and with one swift stroke, they were airborne.

Hikari was yelling all of the time. Her speed was not something he was used to and that is saying something.

"Hitori-san!! It's too fast!!!" he yelled as he gripped her fur hard. She suddenly made a dive and the speed was getting faster and faster. When they were a few shy meters from the bottom of the mountain, she stopped, flapping her wings and pitched up to level out the flight.

"Well that's one way to go down a mountain," she giggled. "Are you alright, Hikari-kun?"

A paler than usual Hikari was hugging the bird's back for dear life. He slowly raised his head and croaked.

"I think I'm gonna be sick."

"Ehhhh? Forgive me, dear. I should have warned you beforehand. But I am worried about you so we should head to Konoha as fast as we can," she reasoned. Hikari didn't say anything in return because he felt like he was going to barf something out and he held it in.

"I don't know if you wanted to hear this. One of my ninshu is the interplanetary travel," she suddenly said and Hikari immediately swallowed his throat. "Before you asked me anything; yes, I taught her the principle behind the technique but the one she developed ended up being another thing entirely. My ninshu can only connect point A to point B through a portal but hers was intricate enough to manipulate time and space continuum. That would explain how you can be sent to the future. Regardless, it was one hell of a complicated ninshu to do."

"I know that it's a piece of disturbing news. I only said it to distract you for puking on my fur. Given that it did work. I am glad," she continued.

"Actually, it answered some questions in my mind apparently. That solved the mystery of how do you both breathed in outer space and got here so fast. My mother said that she arrived through a door. It seemed ridiculous at the time," he chuckled while she laughed along with him.