** The image above is not mine, belongs to: Naruto-Crow flight (Itachi, Shisui) by Kazaharya on DevianArt. Scrowling through the artist's page, I was awestruck by their creations.

"Blaarraaaaa raaaa aaahhhh!" I frightfully shout as my cheeks and hair continues to flap because of the harsh wind hitting my face full on. Oh my gosh, this brought up a memory. I see what I believe are hands calmly holding onto an object called chair? But why am I also behind another chair? It seems that I'm inside of something, something round, surrounded by chairs. My memory then shows me looking outside a small window. I'm flying? Wait, I'm flying inside a huge metal bird. What was it called again? Umm, not a bird, but a umm.. plane? Yes! A plane! I giggle at the memory but then sensing that we were now gliding, I can see and feel the vast difference.

Being up in the golden purple sky from this angle is an experience that not even being on a plane could be clearly described. This is beautiful! Feeling a strong hold on my waist, I laugh outloud and place my hands toward the sky, "this is sooo fun!!"

Smiling toothly I glance back at Radu and see that besides his tense smile and enlarged eyes, he has some spit on his face. Ooops. With a slight twitch in my smile, I try to clean his face with my morph paw. Hopefully my fur can clean my saliva off better than my skin. Radu gently smiles back and purrs softly.

When finished, I look back toward the front and try to pin point where we're at. Surprisingly, Jack starts off with flying close to the village. From here I can see grandpa Liam shaking his fist at us. Ooops, I'm supposed to be staying still. Contrary to him, nearby I spot his apprentice Charles waving happily at us. Not too far away from them is Nancy, grandpa Liam's female, walking with some of her males to one of the stalls.

Hmmm for some reason there are fewer vendors today. Could it be because of yesterdays attack? Glancing around, I don't see our leaders nor Vick. "Papa Jack can we head over to the river of bears?"

Jack caws and smoothly flys to that direction. Besides now seeing how our river looks like an enormous snake, I spot fewer bear beast than the usual. Could be because of the time? Clenching a little harder onto papa Jack's back, I begin to worry about where our tribe males are at.

Suddenly Jack caws and swoops down. Radu let out an unexpected short scream while the wind once again hits us forcefully. Seeing that we we're getting too close to the body of water, Jack slightly flaps his strong wings and starts to glide on top of the river. Placing one of his claws barely into the water has causes a rippling affect which made it look spectacular with the water glistening in waves beside us, behind us and into the air. Not caring that I was getting soak, I merrily laugh at this joyous ride. Though, given Radu's unbreaking hold on me and his hilarious femalish scream, I think he prefers to be on land.

Flapping back up to the sky, Jack then flies over to some of our tribesmen dens. In one of the dens I spot Natasha and her mother doing weird positions. They look like they're about to wrestle? Leaning over, papa Jack flies slightly closer. Seeing us, Natasha's mother's dark brown eyes glow but when she sniffs and see's us closer, she then nods her head at us and returns to instructing her daughter. Natasha, on the other hand, happily waves at me but soon she is falling backwards on the ground. Huh? Did her mama just attack her feet? Getting back up, I then hear her laughing cheekily at her mother. Smiling at Natasha, I wave goodbye. I see, so they're training. I want to train like them too.

Papa Jack then flies over to another side of our territory. We ended up flying over some of the dens where I got to see some familiar cubs from papa Liam's class playing with their fathers. Though their play looks kind of rough, ouch. Papa Jack then flies near some caves. Huh, I've never noticed that we had caves. Here, some males were seen coming in and out of the caves. Some were carrying preys, while others ran outside to various areas. Few of these males glance back at us. We then flew over another den closer to the mountain area but in this one only some of the males were out. They didn't place much attention to us but there was one, a male panther beast who nodded at us. Who could that be? Flying closer, I then got to see a small figure jump happily to this beast side. Leaning over papa Jack's side, I think this little figure is Elena. Since she didn't notice us, papa Jack once again flap his wings to head higher.

We then arrive near a place where I couldn't help but to start biting down on my trembling lips. Radu, sensing my unease, began to nuzzle his face into the side of my face. "Shhh Suki, we're far away from there and look," he says as he signals, "nothing is there."

With teary eyes I glance down and didn't see any females but I did see some beasts circling the place. "Noo, there are!" I shout back to Radu.

Radu nuzzles again into my cheeks, "Suki, look again and try to smell their scent."

Feeling Radu's strong embrace, I clench my hands onto his arms and look again. The beasts are actually wolves with a bear beast for every three wolves. Seeing familiar beasts, I try to sniff the air but couldn't come up with anything. "We're too far" I whisper.

Jack, unfortunately hearing me, caws and starts to slowly glide down. As we go down in a huge circle, I try to take another sniff. Wrinkling my nose, I cry, "I smell them, they're still here!"

A hawk cries out above us and morphs into his half form, "No Suki, try to catch my scent." He then flies closer to us as I slightly whine and slowly lift my nose to his direction. "You smell like.. like meat?" Papa Jack cackles in his crow form. Meanwhile papa Shawn blushes, "yeah, I ate some prey not too long ago...um try again." Barely smiling, I close my eyes and try again. Sniff sniff, I smell Radu and papa Jack, and sniff sniff, I'm starting to smell a woody scent. Is that papa Shawn? Opening my eyes, I slightly shout as I see that he is flying really close to my face. Smiling with his dark brown eyes, he adds, "you caught it!"

Flying at a more normal space, I shyly nod my head at him. Papa Shawn then comments, "close your eyes again and try to sense what's the difference between my scent and the enemies." Biting down on my lip, I follow his instruction. By passing the woody scent, I try to pin point the area where I remember the reptiles who were sent to attack Natasha and her mother while they howled into the sky. A dry musky unwanted scent is smelled but why dry? Wrinkling my nose, I push some air out of my nose. Sniffing again, I pin point papa Shawn's scent and notice that though he now smells farther away his smell is fresher. Opening my eyes, I once again wrinkle my nose but this time at this oddness.

Radu then speaks, "did you find the difference?" Suki tilts her head, "theirs smell dry?" Radu purrs into my ear, as papa Shawn flies closer and lectures, "a scent is dry when a day has passed since the beast or animal was there." He then adds, "the drier the scent, the older it is"

Nodding my head, I then glance down at the spot where I smelled their dry scent and see that one of the wolves is peeing on it. Huh? Whaaaaat??

Seeing my perplex face, papa Shawn smiles with a twitch in his lips, "beasts, like that wolf, find it faster to place their own scent that way." Suki opens her mouth, "wo wolves?" Radu laughs behind me, "don't worry Suki, most bear beast don't do that." He then shrugs his shoulder and adds, "they mostly leave deep claw marks at the place." Huh? Scratching my head, I still had to ask, "but why pee on it?"

Papa Shawn then shows a cruel smile, "it's to make sure that the Sandstorm Tribe's scent will forever be gone from our territory." Hearing his words, I let out a happy sigh.