I took a little time out after my massage to write this story. Hope you like it-
Hachimata
“Ahhhh nothing like a little resst and relaxation at a ssspa to get away from it all,” Hachi said as he lay comfortably in the hot spring water.
It was up in a mountain resort spa, and he had gotten a free all expenses paid trip thanks to Ohoma Theater Productions. Hachi had told everyone of his departure for the next two days, but they seemed perfectly fine with the idea. It was not as if he was the center of the world or anything.
“Mmmmm and all the water feels ssssssssso good on this ssscaly sssskin of mine,” Hachi sighed.
There had been a choice of wheatear to go to the mud bath or the hot spring, but since it was still early in the morning, he had decided to go to the springs to soak.
“Hey are you just going to sleep here the entire time?” a voice asked from above him.
Hachi shielded his eyes and saw the outline of what appeared to be another person getting ready to enjoy the springs. This boy had brown hair that seemed to stop at an awkward place right before his ears stopped giving him the look of a person stuck between childhood and adulthood.
Ahh the lovely thing about being a demon, Hachi thought, eternal youth.
“Hey I’m asking a question here!”
“Ssssorry,” Hachi said relaxed. All the water was draining his chakra faster than a sponge cleaning up a mess, but the hotness of it made Hachi feverish with happiness.
“I said, are you just going to sit there the entire time and sleep?” the boy asked.
“That wasss my plan,” Hachi said seeping his chin in the water.
“Man you are no fun. You are just like the old people who come here,” they boy answered, “and what is up with your S? You sound like a snake. And you have scaly skin! What are you? Some weird ninja?”
“I have a name you know,” Hachi said still dazedly, “It’ssss Hachi.”
“Like that demon snake Hachimata? Man isn’t he supposed to be with that crazy ninja Orochimaru?”
“Don’t sssay that. Orochimaru is a friend of mine,” Hachi said accidentally.
“What the? Are you serious? How could a super cool rogue ninja possibly know you a stupid lazy snake like guy who has no sense of how to pronounce S. Hey is way too cool for you.”
“Don’t you have sssome one else to bug?” Hachi asked sleepily.
“Hey you never asked my name! My name is Kai Shono and I’m going to be the best ninja ever!”
This child sounds like what’s his name….Naruto back at the village. Man who would have thought I would find one of those here. Why can’t humans just leave me alone.
Hachi closed his eyes and was about to put his entire face in the water when it seemed it all evaporated. A gust of wind blew by and nearly froze Hachi to the bone. With his hair wet, he stood up and looked at this Kai.
“What in hell was that?” Hachi nearly screamed at the boy. He grabbed his towel from one of the rocks and walked out of what was left of the spring and up towards the boy. Anger was flaring and daring to start a fight. Hachi was already listing the jutsus that he would use to punish the boy.
“Wasn’t that amazing?” Kai asked happily.
“You baka! All you did was evaporate the water! That is not amazing, and I am so going to punish you for interrupting my…..” Hachi stopped as he felt his body fall forward.
Dam! Hachi thought. All my chakra was wasted to that water, and now if I move even an inch, the last of it will leave and force me back into my snake form. Kyuubi would surely get hear about it and sick a drunken Shukaku on me….
“Hey Hachi-dude! Are you ok?” Kai asked almost sounding worried.
“Kai,” Hachi said trying to keep the remaining chakra in, “I need a doctor.”
Ryuza sped off, and within seconds, he came back brining with him the doctor on call for the spa.
“What happened?” the doctor asked.
“I don’t know,” Kai answered, “one minute he was fine the next he was hitting the ground. Doc, do you know what’s wrong?”
Hachi felt his body being flipped over as the doctor went to feel his heart.
“His heart is beating really slowly and he is very clammy. We need to get him into the medical facility as soon as possible,” the doctor replied.
My chakra….. Why in hell did I say doctor? I need to hold it just long enough for me to replenish it with sleep. But if I sleep there may be a chance that I will transform. Kyuubi and the others wouldn’t make it in time either. Crud I am so screwed! I have to hold on….
“He seems to be going to sleep! We can’t let him sleep or he might die!” Hachi heard the doctor’s voice echoing around him.
“Hach stay with me! Hachi!” Kai ordered.
When did he decide to be my best friend? Hachi wondered.
In the end, Hachi went to sleep in the medical facility, but as doctors began to scan him using chakra and other things, all the found was that his chakra was diminished. They released him to the spa bedroom later that day where he remained for a good three hours. It was around five when Hachi regained consciousness again.
“Mmmmmm. What a nice nap,” Hachi said as he awakened. No wait! Did I transform? No it seemed I am still in my human form. They would have probably killed me already if I had transformed…hehehe like I could be killed, but still.
“Hachi! You are awake!” the sound of Kai’s exited voice nearly made Hachi groan.
“Lucky it was just your chakra Hachi-san,” the doctor said calmly, “but you have been out for several hours and your first day at the spa is already over. It is approximately eleven at night. It would be silly of you to try to do anything now. By the way, I want to know what jutsu you were using so much or your chakra for anyway.”
“It’ssss just the water. I’ve always had a problem with the water eating up my chakra,” Hachi explained. He hoped that the doctor wouldn’t push it any further.
“I see,” the doctor said calmly, “Kai-kun, please leave while I tend to Hachi-san.”
“Awww, but I want to stay!” Kai pleaded.
“It is eleven at night, go to bed.”
“Fine,” Kai sighed and left. As the door closed, the doctor got right up in Hachi’s face.
“What are you doing here Hachimata you snake demon?” the doctor asked as his anger created balls of destructive blue chakra. His left hand was an inch from Hachi’s face and it shimmered with blue chakra. Hachi felt the immense chakra the doctor was forming in his hand, “I could feel that irregular chakra a mile away. What is Orochimaru making you do? Are you going to destroy this place? Tell me!”
Hachi sat up and placed his hand on the man’s. Chakra fang drain jutsu Hachi thought and all the chakra the doctor had mustered was gone. The doctor recoiled but he was not hurt. There was no reason to kill any humans at the moment, but if this man proceeded Hachi would have no choice.
“Sssso you know about me. I am not doing anything besides enjoying the fee spa I won. And I am not with Orochimaru at the moment, sssso you have nothing to worry about. Can’t a demon enjoy a spa without you humans bothering the hell out of him? Humans are pathetic thinking that all demons do is destroy and cause chaos. I jusssssst wanted to relax and get away for a while. And now it is time for me to asssk the questionssssss. How do you know about my chakra. Normal humans would find it no different from their own and yet you did. I would think that it is because you are a doctor, but then I remembered that I had protected myself from that, so how do you know. Only Ororchimaru would know it was me. Actually maybe that Kabuto boy as well, but you….What are you?”
“My name is of no concern to a demon. All you have to know is that if you try to harm this area, I will seal you up. Leave tomorrow peacefully and never return, and I will not go after you. I came here to grow old in age and be happy, but I was once a great ninja, and I had the power to feel certain irregular chakras. That is all I will tell you. Now answer me, will you leave peacefully?”
“All you humans are sssso…..hm….what would the word be…..predictable. Yesss I will leave peacefully, but I will stay one more day to finish my retreat. My sssskin issss ssstill sso terrible. I want to ssstay one more day.”
“Hachimata, give me your word that you will not harm these people, and I will let you stay one more day.”
“Fine, but you know a demon’s word means nothing when said to a human,” Hachi retorted smiling.
“I would have guessed a demon would be more serious, but fine. I will tell no one and then tomorrow you will leave. Is that understood?”
“Ssssure, oh and by the way, that boy Kai….I know what he isssss.”
The doctor froze as Hachi smiled at him happily. As the doctor grew paler and paler, Hachi began to laugh.
“I can feel chakra like you can, and I know what he is. And I know that you wanted to protect him from me. He is a demon. What I want to know is what he is doing in a human body and why he seems not to know himself.”
“Kai is…. Special. A demon like you appeared her a while ago and threatened the spa and the people in the surrounding area. A wolf demon I believe. I was still a young man at the time and managed to stop him, but once I defeated the demon, he changed.”
“Changed?” Hachi asked now intrigued by the story.
“He became a human…a baby. He had thought to use it as a ploy to make me lower my guard, but I decided to seal the demon completely inside the form. All the memories and everything the demon once knew was taken and a human baby was left in his place. I raised that baby as my own. That baby was Kai.”
“Sssso a wolf demon eh? And now the boy doesn’t even know what he is. Such a pity, but that is your affairssss not mine. If you want to raisssse a demon child go on ahead, but you must know that sssssomeday when the boy is fully grown, all those memories will return. And then he will kill you.”
“I believe that by then, I will already be gone. Hachimata may I ask a favor of you. When I am gone, will you take the boy and raise him up to be a proper demon like yourself?”
“Hahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha a proper demon? That is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my long old life. Man you are hilarious. Why in the world would I do that? And have that crazy child who managed to nearly blow my cover around me twenty four sever? Never.”
“Hachimata please. I need him to learn before his memories return. Please.”
“No way. Sorry, but I’m a demon not a human. I don’t really have those sentimental virtues that humans have. Partly I blame it on you humans for making it really hard to live as demons. I was forced to live as a human for who knows how long. And now a human asks me to raise a demon with no memories of ever being a demon. Hell no. Now if he awakens his demon powers and what not maybe, but I don’t think a shrimp like him could do it. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Like I said earlier, I came here for relaxation and nothing else.”
“Hachimata, the boy…”
“Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha You are going to give me a heart attack and kill me here if you keep talking like that. Man I’m tired.”
“Hachimata please think about it. Please.”
What the doctor did not know but Hachi knew was that Kai had heard the entire thing. When they stopped talking, Kai raced off to his room and lay down in bed. His heat pounded in his ears like a gong. I am a demon. And Hachi is too. Hachimata the giant snake, he is here. And me….I am a demon. Doc, why did you never tell me? Hachi said that he would not stay….he even laughed. What did humans ever do to him? And am I really that bad of a human? Hachi….*gurr*
Just as the anger poured over Kai, the demon part of him awakened. The wolf awoke from his sleep and took control. Kai felt his body begin to transform back to a wolf back to his real form. Do why didn’t you tell me? The wolf grew and grew until he broke out of the room and shingles fell onto fur. Overcome with this new sensation, Kai felt anger and rage overtake him.
“Jumata the wolf demon has awakened again,” Hachi frowned as he looked up from the hospital bed. The doctor had left to check on Kai, but what he would find would be the wolf demon. “I am such a bad demon. I better stop this before Ju destroys everything. Then I wouldn’t get my last day on the resort. Release”
Hachi felt the human body peel away as he resumed his true form. The eight headed snake was once again in his true form. This has certainly made a very interesting vacation. The others would certainly be interested. Go figure I go on a vacation and find so much work needing to be done. *sigh*
Ok people! I have to get back to my spa! I’ll write in a couple of hours if I get the chance! Later!
~Hachimata