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Three Words

Three words. With a sample sentence, the fate of their word will be changed. Manaba will learn this fact that the hard way, when she's even a gift, one she can't return.

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Chapter One- Shraga Vs Yamya

The sound of clashing blades could be heard from miles. The dead would forever show their agony as they laid on the broken battle field. Families on both sides trying to protect each other as they fought the enemy. Both had given up and began to flee, no one trying to stop the other side as they left their dead loved ones behind.

The clans of the Shraga and Yamya still fought, along with their younger siblings. Manaba and Hedwin had once been friends, before their fathers figured it and then they became enemies. Hedwin was tired of fighting and he knew she was as well, but nothing seemed to stop this war. A war no one knew the reason behind or even when it began.

Manaba was going to attack with her katana, but something stopped her. A shout from Hedwin's sister and her own brother coughing, before a loud thump was heard.

"Jamari!" Manaba shouted as she looked at her brother's body. He was on the ground a blonde girl standing over him, her sword aimed over his heart.

Hedwin saw where Manaba was looked and quickly ran to his sister, his old friend was frozen and was just staring at her. He put a hand on his sisters, telling to her stop. She looked at him, but put her sword away.

"You can't win and you know it, Manaba," he told her. Snapping out of the trance she seemed to be in, looking at Jamari with a blink face. It was like she was between a rock and a hard place.

Jamari cursed himself, he let his guard down and that allowed the blonde to cut his side. He was dying and unless he got to a medic soon, he wouldn't have a change at staying alive. Not only that, but his sister was in the hands of their most hated enemies.

He didn't care that blood was coming from his wound or from his mouth like a small river. He wanted his sister to live and he didn't care if he died. "Manaba leave. You can't trust them. You know they want us dead."

"What about you?" she asked. She didn't want to lose her last little brother. He was all that remained of her family. While the clan was like family, she knew that they would have no time for her and would be left by herself until the next battle.

"Why don't we end this?" Hedwin asked the pale female, while she just looked at him with cold blue eyes. "Why don't we end this war? We could end this and no one will have to die. Manaba, you know you can't win."

"Sister don't do this," Jamari shouted. Why wasn't she leaving? Why did she look like she wanted to cry? He just wanted to protect her and the clan. "Please leave, sis, live and protect the clan."

"Heal my brother and I'll do what you want," Manaba told the tall brunette, who just nodded and looked at his sister.

"Manaba?"

"I want to protect them too, but this is my choice." She slightly closed her eyes hiding her face with her long hair. "I don't want anyone to suffer more than they have to."

"Hedwin are you sure?" Tullia asked her brother. His brown hair was always a mess and his green eyes showed that he meant it.

While she hated the Yamya clan, and would always have her father's words about them ringing in the back of her mind, she trusted her brother more. He didn't treat them like objects, who's only goal on life was not to die on the battle field and continue a war, one that has been going on for generations.

He wanted peace, but he wasn't able to get Manaba to agree for years. He wasn't able to talk to the other female, since she would attack him when he tried.

"I'm sure Tullia, allies need to able to trust each other," he told her. He needed Manaba to come closer, he didn't need Jamari trying to refuse treatment and bleeding to death, which he will if he wasn't treated in the next few minutes. "I need you to bring Manaba closer."

"Of course."

Hedwin only looked at the boy behind him. Both he and Tullia were only sixteen. He frowned at the blood pooling around the younger male. He could need to heal it enough so he could take him to one of Shraga's medical rooms.

Tullia looked at her brother's glowing green hands, before walked over to Manaba. Her brother's old friend, she still remembered how he wouldn't talk to anyone for a week because she didn't want to be friends with him anymore. She didn't want to think about his reaction, if they continued fighting and the women ended up dead.

At the moment she didn't see the feared leader of the Shraga clan. "Manaba you'll need to come with me."

Manaba nodded. Their brothers were only a field away, but still, she followed the blonde back. She wasn't going to anything and she was sure Tullia wasn't either, not with their brother's lives on the line.

Jamari hated himself. Watching his rival bring his sister over, all the while Hedwin healed his wound. While many couldn't read his sister's emotionless, he barely could and he could see a slight fear in her blue orbs.

"Manaba, I'll heal him here, but we'll need to go to the Shraga compound," Hedwin told her the two standing behind him. "Some of his organs have been it. I won't be able to heal all of them here, but he'll be fine."

"Do what you want as long as he lives." She wasn't a medic, so she didn't know it he was lying, but she wasn't going to risk of her brother's life. Not when he could be saved.

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Both Manaba and Tullia were sitting in one of the guest rooms, both one different beds looking at each other. Tullia knew that the older girl didn't have any energy or chakra to fight. However, she didn't trust any of the males, besides her brother, in the compound not to do anything to the tired leader.

Females didn't usually become ninja's. Most clans thought it was too risky, they could their bloodlines easier. It was one of the reason her hair was cut short and her chest was bound. So enemies didn't know she was a she and not a he.

"Don't worry Manaba."

"Who said I was?"

"He'll be awhile and the doors are locked." She didn't expect an answer from the older female, but she knew that she was worried. The raven was hugging her knees.

"And?" Manaba didn't know why Tullia was telling her that. Sure they just got out of a six hour fight, one where many people had died. She had already sent a message to them about the alliance, even if she hadn't signed anything. Of course, she wasn't going to tell them how or why the said alliance was made.

"Sleep. I'm sure when you wake up Hedwin will be done."

"How can I trust you?"

Tullia could only sigh. It could take a while for either of them to trust the other, but she wasn't going to be the one who left her brother done. "Brother wants this alliance to hold and I won't do anything he doesn't want me to."

"So you trust me, because Hedwin does?"

"If it makes you feel better, I had also planned on going to sleep soon."

"A bit."

The two just watched each other, until the battle had caught up to the raven causing her to close and open her eyes, she didn't want to sleep not until she knew about her brother, but her bodies needs had won and she was dead to the world.

Tullia just rolled her eyes. She was just like her brother. If they roles were different then Hedwin would've done the same thing. Trying to stay awake until he knew she was alright.

She knew that she could need to more her into a move comfortable position. The women's back would be sore if she was left like that. Making up her mind, Tullia got off the bed she was one and carefully walked to the older female, moving her until she was lying down.

"This is going to be a long night."

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Before they moved him to the compound Hedwin had to know the younger male out. Jamari didn't want to be healed by a Shraga, not one who had hurt his sister. The only good news was that after five hours, he was completely healed, even if he was to watch what he did for the next week.

He was going to the guest bedroom where his sister most likely took his friend. She had put a seal on the door. If that was the case, it was the one that only he and knew how to activate and deactivate.

When he got into the room, he saw that the two of them were sleeping. It was close to nine when they came in, so it was almost one in the morning now. He was glad that Manaba said 'do what you want', since that meant the village could be built.

That and the Yamya could live with them. Unlike his own clan, the Yamya had lost a lot of their members, due to the fact that they didn't have a lot of healers. So they were down to around three hundred members, one and fifty of them ninja.

While his clan had around four hundred, half of them ninja. They'd have enough room for the two of them since the clan compound was designed for around eight hundred people. He only smiled at the thought, reactivating the seal. Tullia had put it up for the reason and he could always tell her when she woke up.