Ninja Love

Merry Christmas

Jack was leaning in against the tree for what he guessed was to be three hours now based on the shadows around him. Kagome was still passed out on his chest, the stress of everything still evident on her face. Soun'g was now in its sheath and strapped on her back. Jack lightly ran his hands through her hair as he felt two chakra signatures. He paid them no mind as they drew nearer and nearer until Kagome's new strays were on a branch in front of him.

"How'd you find us?"

There was a reason Kagome chose the forest behind their home instead of leaving the compound to hide. The trees were a perfect defense for her against trackers. The trees that he grew gave off immense amounts of chakra, completing covering her own and he'd manipulated the many plants that fed on this chakra to overproduce their scents, prevent those with a heightened sense of smell from tracking anyone who entered. And above all else, their size left way to much ground for anyone to cover before reinforcements arrived. If that wasn't enough, they always had the mass genjutsu that Shippo had put around the forest against anyone with ill intentions against the clan. Enemies would run in circles until they were either caught or dissolved it themselves. This was the Jack's ultimate defense for his family. And only he knew how to completely navigate it. Traps and all.

So how did two missing nin ( reformed they may be ) get in and find them without so much as a scratch?

"We followed her." Zabuza said, jerking his chin in Kagome's direction. He made sure to keep his voice low when he saw the sleeping heiress. "She's and us have a sort of... connection. We just follow the pull on our chakra and it led us here. We could feel her distress."

"My sister calmed down and has been asleep for hours. If you felt her distress, why are you only here now? Hours later." Jack's eyes were narrowed in suspicion, his arms tightening possesively around his twin. Until he was sure that Zabuza and Haku were of no harm to Kagome, he'd keep his guard up around them.

Zabuza huffed in annoyance, a slight tick developing in his brow as he remembered the events of that morning.

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Flashback

Zabuza and Haku were awaiting their summons to the Taisho main house to meet the clan's head when they felt a tug on their chakra. A phantom feeling of distress washed over them before moving into the forest on the compound. The two jumped out of the window of the room they were given in a old cottage on the clan's training grounds. They only made it to the edge of the cottage's garden before a a wall of blue fire stopped them. The looked up at the direction of where it came from and were surprised to see a small child on the cottage's roof. The boy had pointed ears and large green that took in everything about the former missing nin. He wore a blue happi under a tan fur vest that was tucked into blue hakamas that ballooned at the ankles of his bare feet. The kid's head tilted to the side in curiosity before he asked them,

"Where do you think your going?".

The way he said it might come off as a innocent question to most, but Zabuza hear something off about the child's tone. He just couldn't place it.

"Papa wants to see you."

At these words a focus grin covered the child's face.