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The Ultimate DIY Container Garden
Perhaps you remember I told you I grew up on a farm. Well, big things are happening there this spring (in very small packages).
The real brains of our farm is, of course, my dear ol' dad. Always the innovator, he's experimenting with a no-frills container garden made only of re-purposed materials he had around the house (reusable shopping bags and a puppy wading pool).
Here's the plan:
• The reusable shopping bags are breathable, so they contain the potting soil but provide air and water flow to the plants.
• As their root system grows, the plants will air-prune, or naturally stop growing when they run out of soil and hit the edge of the bag, keeping them healthier and able to absorb more nutrients.
• Regular container gardens, because of their small volume and non-porous materials, are especially difficult to keep perfectly damp and often require water a few times per day. Here, keeping the pool filled with several inches of water means that, through osmosis, the plants will draw just the water they need, avoiding both overwatering and dried-out soil.
As with other container gardens, this set-up is extremely portable and would lend itself perfectly to a balcony or patio. If you're after a more streamlined look, color-coordinating the materials would go a long way and still not break the bank.
It's an experiment, so we'll see how it goes. I'll keep you updated on our little guys as the season progresses.
Aspiring urban gardeners, unite!
(Image: Jim Hunter)
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Dear old dad has been watching pot growers on TV. LOL.
Has he considered that the standing water in the pool will be a growing medium for mosquitoes?
I may like the functionality of this, but the other part of me feels the need to have something somewhat attractive looking. It would even work better for me if the pool was one solid color.
oh i was totally into this idea until Mouse39 brought up the mosquito issue. drat.
I did a similar experiment with bag gardening but it was made from a polyblend of plastic and cotton. The issue with the bags was drainage and at the same time, keeping the soil moist. The idea of the wading pool sounds interesting - a fellow gardener suggested that there be a column of gravel within the center of each bag to allow drainage for plants with a rich humus blend to retain moisture. Your father's idea looks like a good solution, especially during the hottest months where watering frequently enough becomes a challenge.
As for the mosquito issue, I think I've read that if you throw a drop of soap in there, it breaks the surface tension and does something to not allow the eggs to be deposited. Either way, I think there are a lot of natural remedies online to deter mosquitoes laying their eggs in the still water.
I wonder if there will be rot problems because of the moist environment of the soil or if the osmosis watering will be just right. Has he selected the kinds of plants he will be growing? Please do keep us updated! Very curious!
I used one of those bags to grow borage and lovage on my Harlem fire escape last summer, with a layer of gravel at the bottom. My plants seemed pretty happy in it! There are a couple photos of them in their seedling days here:
Very clever, especially breathable bags. Even a saucer of water will breed mosquitoes but there are several remedies including disturbing the water. Where we live I would worry about too much water in the Spring. If that is the case I guess you could punch an overflow outlet or two into the sides part way up the main container. I think the plants will like being gathered together like that. One of my friends used those saucer/dish shaped slides that kids use in the snow. It didn't work that well because there was too much slant but bags would adjust to that. You could put the water lovers in the centre and those that need less water around the outside.
I would love to see an update later in the year about this. Really interesting.
Ikea sells some brightly colored plastic bags for planting. They are fairly attractive and cheap. We plant herbs in them on our deck each summer and they work really well.
This year I'm also going to try straw bale gardening. Here's a link to an article about it.
If you let the water get sucked up completely every few days it might keep the mosquitos from hatching and growing. I'm not sure how long they need.
I think it is going to work. I would wonder about how quickly the bags will dry out in summer. Love the kiddy pool idea. You could try an inch or two of pea gravel in the bottom of the pool so the roots don't rot.
Definitely gravel in the bottom, especially if it's a drier climate. Not the most attractive garden but certainly functional.
Maybe I'm a different kind of gardener but I'm wondering why you wouldn't use a regular container with some good drainage? Of the plants and herbs in my house, I don't see why a breathable bag would be required, or even help, in order for the plants to grow and be healthy. I guess the "air prune" method will keep your plants from growing too big. In that case, what are you growing?
This is a really interesting idea. I would be a little concerned about what's in the "plastic" part of the bags (contaminants), especially if they were from China. Re the mosquitoes, there are "dunks" you can put in water tanks (like for watering my horses) that are "safe" for livestock, not sure if safe for human consumption. I also like the "soap" idea and wonder how that will work? Please do keep us posted on this unique idea!
Looks like Dad has been watching Larry Hall's channel on Youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h64ACHLImB4 Also, not all shopping bags are created equal. Some brands have high percentages of lead.
Another container option: They make rectangular black plastic tubs intended for mixing concrete, available at box stores like Home Depot for under $20 in at least 2 sizes. Particularly for small spaces with corners, like balconies, this shape would probably fit better than a kiddie pool (especially if you don't have one of those to recycle.) Of course, they would probably hold fewer bags, too.
You can get a similar effect with self-watering containers, which are the only ones I use in the hot, dry climate here. You pour water in the reservoir at the bottom and it wicks up to the plants as needed. There are some here for growing tomatoes: http://www.gardeners.com/Tomato-Success-Kits/8587284VS,default,pd.html?start=1&cgid=VegetableGardening_TomatoGrowing, but you can also google instructions for making your own.
Pouring some mineral oil onto the water will kill mosquito larvae. I'm pretty sure those mosquito dunks are safe, but probably not organic.
cool idea
This is just too ugly for words. Ghastly. An absolute horror...
quit being so bitter. more people will like you.
Those who worry so much about how it looks could use the concrete curved edging to place around the pool and get a solid colored pool. That would dress it up a lot! Living out in the desert, I don't care how it looks
This could be a great idea for people who want to start a garden even though they know they will be moving mid-summer. It also looks like a fairly handicap-accessible method.
The size of the bags allows you to grow larger plants than in most pots, and the pool reduces the time for watering. Weeding is a minimum.
If you don't like the look of it, don't do it -- or try it with a galvanized tub (somewhere on this site there was an article about someone's DIY pool from a livestock watering tank.)
Why worry about dressing up a tomato plot? They will be really ugly, no matter how pretty their contained, come November.
This is so clever! I wonder how it will turn out. I love gardening. http://www.antrailer.com/containers.shtml


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Last-Minute Christmas Decorating: Quick & Easy Printable Paper Stars
Christmas kinda snuck up on us, didn't it? Since Thanksgiving this year fell on a late date in November, don't feel bad if your Christmas tree hasn't been decorated (or if there's no tree at all... whoops!). Some of the most chic decorations for the holidays can be made fast and for free, with just scissors and paper.
Paper stars are the perfect last-minute holiday decor since they're non-denominational and—when life gets busy and the decorations don't end up coming down until February — just festive enough to be incorporated into year-round decor or other party themes.
Paper decorations don't have to look like kindergarten projects. I fell in love with the idea of decorating with paper stars after spotting Heather's simple Scandinavian-inspired holiday mantle on her blog, The Lovely Cupboard. She used an HGTV tutorial to create white paper stars from card stock that were then finished with a gold paint pen edge. Fun!
There's a bevy of ways to customize any of the projects below. Make big stars to hang over a mantel or as ornaments on the Chritmnas tree, or make tiny stars to fill a vase or string into a garland. Use plain white or colored paper, or get crazy with patterns, textures and unique papers (think sheet music, maps, or pages torn from books). Happy crafting!
- Basic Paper Stars / HGTV
- 6-, 7- and 8-pointed Paper Stars / How Did You Make This?
- Starburst Paper Stars / Home by Linn
- German Paper Stars / A Subtle Revelry
- Sheet Music Hanging Stars / Crafty Nest
- Spiky Star Urchin / How About Orange
- Wrapping Paper Stars / Spoonful
- Origami Wishing Stars / Lucky Paper Stars
(Image credits: The Lovely Cupboard; HGTV; How Did You Make This?; Home by Linn; A Subtle Revelry; Crafty Nest; How About Orange; Spoonful; Lucky Paper Stars)
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I really hate having to pack/store anything that I only use once a year so this type of decorating appeals to me.
How was the writing on the mirror done?
Now how the heck is Santa supposed to come down a chimney stacked to the brim with logs?! What is the point of stacking wood in a fire place like that? I don't get it. If the fireplace can't be used as such then make it at least look like it is functional. Sigh... Anyway, cute stars.


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Am I Committing Crab Heresy?
I'm fairly new to cooking crab, since I grew up in Kansas, live in Denver now, and only recently bought a large steam pot and basket. I've been steaming Dungeness crabs every other month, when I'm near an Asian market to pick some up. I usually don't do anything but steam it with a crab boil and seasoning, because live crab is too expensive here to be doing anything other than letting the meat stand out on its own, although I typically use a clarified butter for dipping.
However, last night I cooked a snow crab cluster and used some leftover papa john's garlic butter sauce I had for dipping and it wasn't bad. I'm thinking about picking up more for a Dungeness cook for a few people tomorrow. I like it because it's easy and pretty tasty, though it is almost too thick and rich for crab.
My question: Has anybody or would anybody use chain pizza garlic butter for their crab? This is my first post on this site, so let me know if you like the idea, but I will not take offense to a good cursing out.
Also, any suggestions on what to do with the crab butter/mustard/tomalley would be appreciated. From what I understand, they are the same thing.
re: Cherylptw
I agree -- you're the one eating it, so your opinion is all that matters (I agree that the PJ garlic butter is tasty, btw)
I don't like the mustard -- I scoop or rinse it out, depending on how I'm using the meat. It seems to be one of those love/hate things -- and there's no shame in not eating it if you don't like it.
Thanks for the replies so far. I agree that we all have our guilty pleasures, and in certain circumstances, we might as well indulge. I always cook to my taste when I'm only cooking for myself, but I am very self-conscious when cooking for others. Especially, when cooking seafood for my east-coast in-laws.
re: jaykayen
You could make a seafood pasta sauce and mix the tamalley in it.
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The chances are you are not getting 'real butter' from PJ's. No offense to them but in a restaurant chain that size using a 'butter-like' substance means a better bottom line. They all do it.
We are able to set our crab traps out and catch Dungeness crabs whenever we want. Our favorite dipping sauce is 'brown butter' with a very small amount of finely chopped garlic added just as the 'ghee' butter is starting to brown. When the garlic is just coloring remove from the med heat and add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and a sprinkle of fine chopped Italian parsley. Put the crab pieces in a big bowl on a plastic table cloth. Provide medium size plates for your guests to 'play with' the crab. Warm wash cloths for everyone and individual bowls of hot finger water and a few pairs of shinny new/clean pliers to share and a BIG bowl of fresh sliced baguette and a couple of pitchers full of chilled Pinot Gris. A big bowl of mixed salad greens with a small amount of lemon juice and olive oil tossed in. Provide individual small salad bowls. If you were to have your guests put the salad on the same plate as the crab there's a good chance a little sharp piece of cracked crab bone could fall into the salad. You don't want the taste of the dressing to compete with the delicate flavor of the crab meat. Just make sure there's lots of crab or the whole experience will sort of fizzle It's sort of a two hours plus dinner. A 'melon-ball' desert with at least three types of melons . Drizzle the melon balls with honey and lemon/lime juice a couple of hours before serving. Refrigerate. After an hour or so carefully 'turn' the fruit salad to get the honey/lemon/lime mixed in. Tip: When you're trying to 'dig' the crab meat out use one of the 'pointy' ends of a crab claw is a 'winkle picker'. They work great. Enjoy!
Er... do what you like, but why? It's margarine and garlic powder with water and cellulose or some modified starch.
Just melt some butter or margaine and either add some chopped garlic or garlic powder. Much cheaper and no middle man.
re: AnnieWilliams
Let's see......one of the best highest quality seafoods on the planet served with a substance containing aluminum,nickel,solvents and 'coloring agents' etc. someone called margarine and powdered garlic. Yummy.
re: Puffin3
To my taste, I agree. It's not like melting butter is hard work. Even adding some mashed garlic cloves is easy. Hell, the OP should at least have some plain melted butter around for the sake of the guests.
Then, again, I don't eat food from corporate chains. Last time I tried PJ's garlic glop was probably around twenty years ago.
If you enjoy it, use it. Period. Never succumb to the advice of the masses when it comes to preference. They ain't eating it.
Quote: I cooked a snow crab cluster and used some leftover papa john's garlic butter sauce I had for dipping and it wasn't bad. I'm thinking about picking up more for a Dungeness cook for a few people tomorrow. I like it because it's easy and pretty tasty, though it is almost too thick and rich for crab.
"it wasn't bad and was pretty tasty" doesn't sound to me that you thought it was really good. You're investing in the crab - use your melted butter. You could have one with sauteed garlic and one without for those who don't like a lot of garlic. Easy and cheap.
as far as the "crab butter/mustard/tomalley" goes, I'd reserve it for smearing on toast points or bits of baguette.
but dogs and cats like it too.
I lean towards the considering it 'heresy' side as I also grew up in crustacean-free midwest (MO) so it, of and by itself, (OK maybe a good squeeze of lemon) is treat enough. but as others posted, it's really your call. I'd probably find it too rich and the flavor drowned in PJ's dip. but ehh just don't waste that liver, if you don't eat it, your pets will love you even more and wonder why it isn't around every day. (can't we have that stuff again?)
re: hill food
While I love the "green stuff" in lobsters and blue claw crabs, I avoid it in Dungeness crabs. There are occasional outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning (caused by algae) on the Pacific coast. Mollusks, at least the filter feeding clams, etc, are not sold from areas where and when PSP occurs, but crabs are OK....however, its the meat of the crabs that's OK, not the liver. So as tasty as it is, I avoid it when I eat Dungeness. On the other issue, I tend to season my dungeness crab water very heavily, but beyond that, its just plain crab meat...no added anything. (I have to admit that I do like the taste of PJ's garlic "butter" though....) If I want to do something extra, I get 2 crabs, and make crab cakes from the body, and eat the legs and claws separately.
re: EricMM
excellent point about the poisoning.
re: EricMM
well ignorance WAS bliss while it lasted...
Sometimes I'll sear Peconic bay or sea scallops and mix them in with some SpaghettiOs and shaved Parmesan. Masterful! Saying this, I will suggest that if you like the flavor of butter you experiment by cooking seafood before-hand and use clarified butter for dipping. Add salt and garlic if you like and if it's not your thing, then by all means go with Papa.
go for it, if you like it. probably i'd only suggest two points:
it'll be better if you make your own with real, good butter and freshly pressed or minced garlic (some would say garlic granules or powder for even dispersal). just keep it light on the garlic. i'd add in some finely chopped parsley at the last minute, and maybe some finely minced shallot and a touch of white wine -- basically a snails bourguinonne sauce! go easy on the garlic to start. crab is delicate, and you don't want to overpower it. http://www.cookstr.com/recipes/snails....
second, it will be less expensive than buying papa john's (i'm *guessing*).


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Sad to hear of Tom Price's death. I met him at one of the Mountain Lit festivals at Bretton Hall around the time his book "Travail so Gladly Spent" came out. A modest unassuming man, yet quietly efficient and with well-grounded values as his book illustrates. It's a bit fragmentary in places but still gives a real flavour of what might be termed "the early modern" period of mountaineering. His career is summarised on the BMC website as befits a past president. Well-respected in Switzerland through his friendship with Andre Roch, local dignitaries were asking after him at the Weisshorn 150th Anniversary event when I was there in 2011.
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Just like any two-year old, Melbourne toddler, Aelita Andre loves to finger paint - Except her paintings are considered works of art and, are fetching thousands of dollars.
Aelita, rose to fame earlier this year, after a gallery added her 'abstract' paintings to their collection, not realizing that she was just two years old. By the time the gallery owner found out, he had already added her work to his marketing catalogues and decided to see what happens. He needn't have worried - Aelita's paintings sold like hot cakes and the rest as they say, is history.
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|'Nikko Blue' Flower Head
The Mopheads (Hydrangea macrophylla) are the most widely planted hydrangea in home landscapes and are usually blue or pink in color with large leaves.Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue' is very well known in the landscape for its large blue ball-shaped flowers that bloom towards the later part of the summer and deepen in color as they mature. 'Nikko Blue' Hydrangea does bloom on old wood, which means that if you are looking to prune your plant it needs to be done immediately after flowering before the fall. Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue' grows best in moist, well-drained soil in partial shade. It reaches 3-5 feet in height and is hardy to USDA Zone 5.
|Hydrangea 'Endless Summer'
An alternative to Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue' is the new culitvar Hydrangea 'Endless Summer' which blooms on both old and new wood and 'All Summer Beauty' that blooms on the new growth of the season. Both of the later mentioned also have a much longer bloom time and repeatedly bloom throughout the summer. Each of these plants grows to approximately 3-5 feet in height, each grows best in partially shaded conditions (afternoon shade) and moist well drained soil and are hardy to USDA Zone 5. Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blushing Bride' in the Endless Summer Collection displays white blooms that turn pink with age.
|French Miniature Hydrangea macrophylla Pia 'Pink Elf''
Hydrangea 'Pia' is a miniature French hybrid with broad pink flowers growing only to 2 feet in height, a good candidate for small spaces. 'Pia' also grows best in partial sun with afternoon shade and prefers a rich organic soil.
|Hydrangea 'Tokyo Delight'
|Hydrangea 'Twist & Shout'
|Peegee Hydrangea Tree Form
and is hardy in Zones 4-8.
|Panicle Hydrangea 'Tardivia'
|Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle', a native of the U.S., is a more shade tolerant hydrangea that produces showy ball shaped white blooms in summer, grows 3-5 feet in height and is hardy to USDA Zone 3. 'Annabelle' blooms on new wood and can be severely pruned in winter in order to restore shape.
|Hydrangea 'Bella Anna' (Endless Summer Collection)
|Oakleaf Hydrangea
The last two varieties of hydrangea are Hydrangea quercifolia or 'Oakleaf 'Hydrangea and Climbing Hydrangea. The Oakleaf hydrangea serves as an excellent plant for massing in a woodland setting. The name 'Oakleaf' comes from the oak-shaped leaves that turn a bright mahogany red in fall for a brilliant display. The upright panicles of large white flowers appear in June and the plant has a rounded habit, grows 4-6 feet in height and is hardy to USDA Zone 5. Hydrangea quercifolia does well in partial shade in a well drained most soil. This hydrangea blooms on old wood and should be pruned immediately after flowering. Climbing Hydrangea (H. anomala petiolaris) is an upcoming variety becoming more popular in the landscape. As the name implies this hydrangea once established produces vigorous vines and a profusion of lightly scented blooms.
|H. anomala petiolaris-Climbing Hydrangea
|Endless Summer Collection
Hydrangea has been a favorite plant of gardeners for centuries and will continue to show off their beauty in the landscape. There are selections for every taste and with the new cultivars that bloom on new and old wood pruning is now made easier. Hydrangea can fit into a variety of landscape styles and serve as an excellent addition for color in a partially shaded area. Give this plant a chance to shine in your garden and you will be happy you did!
Author: Lee@A Guide To Northeastern Gardening Copyright 2011. All Rights Reserved.


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Categories > Anime/Manga > Naruto > Spiral Out
Part 1: When I Take the Path1 Reviews
In which Sonmei is disobedient, meets his new teacher, and sees off the last of Sound.
"There's something I want to learn," he told his mother as he followed her through the streets one day. He was twelve, and he was confident that if he needed to, he could take on both his parents in combat, quite possibly at the same time.
Sometimes he wanted to. They were both hiding in their pretend retirement, fussing over the secrets they pinned on him and doing nothing about the real problem.
People were still dying from the occasional strategic attack by Sand, or from the sabotage from the same. Sonmei didn't really understand the politics between Leaf and Sand, himself; his father always found a way to shut him up before he could learn more.
People were still dying due to rogue Sound incursions. Most of the Sound had been wiped out, first by the original leader's death years and years ago, then by Kabuto's assassination six years later. But they could still cause damage, especially backed by the same people who supported Rain and Grass.
People were still dying because Rain and Grass were constantly gnawing away at the Leaf. Sonmei didn't know why, and this bothered him tremendously, because he was sure the adults knew something they were very deliberately keeping from him. Maybe it was something to do with the cloaked interlopers who shadowed the battles, aiding Leaf's enemies whenever they could. But Sonmei had never seen one of these people, so sometimes he wondered if they were just a desperate tale concocted by battle-weary ninja.
He didn't think so, though. Shinobi wouldn't do that.
But then, shinobi wouldn't tell him not to learn things, either, and that was what his mother was doing now.
"Save your brains for your lessons with Tenten," she said, patting him on the head and smiling down at him. She looked back up and started selecting fruit from the stand in front of her.
"I don't think Tenten-sensei knows about this," he persisted.
"You shouldn't worry about things your sensei can't teach you, Sonmei," Sakura chided him without even looking.
"The Hyuuga might know something, though," he said. "With those eyes of theirs." It was the most he'd spoken in public for some time, and several passersby had stopped to regard him curiously.
Sakura paused and pretended to concentrate very hard on an apple. "You shouldn't bother the Hyuuga."
"I want to learn to see like I did five years ago," he said.
The moment he finished speaking, he could sense something uneasy gathering in the bystanders. His mother gave it little time to brew, though. She set the apple down firmly and leaned down to hug him. He grimaced into her shoulder as she pulled him close. "Sonmei," she said gently, "I know you liked the healing jutsu I used to help you out back then, and I know you loved the medicine that went with it. But we didn't know at the time--it was doing terrible things to your head. You can't go around seeing stars and colors everywhere."
"You're a /liar/," he snarled. "And you always have been."
She tightened her hold on him and leaned in to whisper, "You don't want to see like that again. Not now. Not ever, if you're lucky. There's only one man left alive with those eyes; the last two died over a decade ago. One was a psychopath and the other a failure and a disgrace, and the one who's left can't find out you have his gifts...at least not until we're ready to handle him. Because..."
Her voice, though soft, had become more intense as she spoke. Her grip on him had slackened. With her mind somewhere in the past, she couldn't focus on her body in the now.
Sonmei bolted and ran before he could hear the rest of her explanation.
The door to their home did not slam as satisfactorily as Sonmei would have liked, but he was pretty sure he made his point. His father actually looked away from the ceiling to give him a puzzled stare. "Hm?"
"Tell me what's going on with Sound," Sonmei said before he'd even finished catching his breath back.
His father lifted a brow.
"I know something important is going on," he said. "Why won't you tell me what it is? I could /help/."
Shikamaru sighed. "Yeah. Okay. Come here."
Sonmei advanced a few steps, eyes slitting with distrust. "So?"
"You're not going to sit down, are you." His father rolled his eyes upwards. "First of all, why do you think I know what Sound is doing?"
"Maybe everyone else believes that retirement crap," Sonmei said, "but I know they're not letting you get away with it. You're Godaime-sama's secret strategist."
Shikamaru closed his eyes. "You inherited those damn brains of mine, huh?"
"Very funny."
"Not really." He opened his eyes again. "The thing is, Sound is almost finished off. They've been dying since they lost Kabuto, but we've gotten them down to one last encampment now..." His gaze slid lazily to the door.
And Sonmei knew he had about two seconds to run, or he'd be stuck here until his mother walked in that door.
"What encampment?" he began, lifting his hand as if to scratch his head in thought. Instead, he slapped his hand to the lightswitches and turned on every light in the room.
Five seconds later, Shikamaru knew exactly how he could get his shadow back and hold Sonmei until Sakura's return, but by that point, the boy was gone.
Children were troublesome. He was glad he had none of his own.
Sonmei was over a mile out from the village before he realized that he had probably made a mistake. He was another mile out before he realized someone was following him.
He'd taken off in the directions that attacks these days tended to come from--what he assumed would lead him to the Sound encampment. He was thinking that maybe that had also been a mistake.
The ground flew by beneath him as he bounced from branch to branch. He was going to have to do this fast. He could handle that, though.
In mid-jump, Sonmei activated his invisibility genjutsu and swerved to the side. Instead of going for the next branch, he slapped a hand onto the tree trunk and, sticking himself there with chakra, carefully scuttled down to the ground. He was moving instantly, running silently through the woods as he tried to trace the path of his unknown follower and determine where they'd come from. If they were chasing him from Konoha, all he had to do was keep going in the other direction. If they were from elsewhere, on the other hand...
It was harder than he'd imagined. Whoever they were, they knew what they were doing; all he could tell was that they hadn't come from Konoha. There were barely any indications of their travel through the forest. Sonmei was nearly ready to give up when he almost stepped on the remains of a camp.
There were no ashes. Whoever it was had been smart and stealthy enough to avoid lighting a fire. But there were marks and scuffed earth and stamped-down ground, all of it consistent with someone having spent some time here--or at least, that fit with what he'd been taught, but he'd never had the chance to put his knowledge into action before.
It was more than a little exciting. Sonmei just wished Tenten-sensei were here to see him.
As for the identity of the camper, he was inclined to suspect his pursuer. At least they seemed to have stopped following him by now. That was a relief, but he'd still take the opportunity to investigate here.
He paused at the sight of something poking out from under a pile of dead leaves and sticks. Wary of traps, he carefully brushed the debris aside...only to find a simple book underneath. It was an old one, maybe older than he was, with gaudy and, he suspected, marginally obscene images on the front. He settled down to read it.
Sonmei heard the footfall right behind him, but by then it was too late to do anything useful. As he spun around to face the other ninja (because they were clearly another ninja), he wondered if the book had been a trap after all; if perhaps it had summoned his pursuer back to his side. Surely they couldn't have followed him all the way back here without him realizing at all.
The man Sonmei found himself facing quietly failed to launch any attack. He didn't even seem very fazed, but then, it was hard to tell: he was wearing a cloth mask over his lower face and dark glasses over his eyes. A long scar scissored through one of them. Sonmei forced himself to prepare for some kind of delayed attack instead of stand there staring.
The man held out a hand. Sonmei reacted immediately, whipping out a kunai and slicing at the exposed skin--
--or trying to. The stranger's other hand was suddenly around his wrist. Sonmei got the nasty impression that the man was smiling underneath his mask.
"The knife is yours," he chided, voice mild and very faintly amused. "The book is mine. Can we switch?" He was wearing a jounin's uniform, but it had taken Sonmei a while to recognize it, because all the insignias had been stripped off.
"You were following me," Sonmei said.
The masked man was definitely smiling now. "You were heading for some dangerous territory. I thought maybe you were lost and could use someone to take you back to Leaf."
"I don't need to go back to Leaf," Sonmei said sharply. "And I hope you're not going to try to take me back."
"I won't make you do anything you don't want to do," the stranger said.
Sonmei shoved the book at the man. "Fine. Then you won't stop me from leaving." He dropped his kunai back into its sheath. "But I'm not going back to Leaf, so don't bother trying to follow me there."
"Ah? Why would I want to follow you to Leaf?"
"I don't know," Sonmei snapped. "I mean, it can't be to find the way there, because that's pretty damn obvious. Maybe you thought you'd wait until we were close, then henge into me and sneak in..." He shrugged. "I don't claim to know the minds of Sound spies."
Soft laughter greeted his words. Sonmei snarled. Feeling his patience give way, he stopped resisting the urge to fight. He flicked shuriken out of is sleeve and down his palm, flinging them hard at the strange man. They sank into their target--
--and the chunk of wood shattered, spraying splinters everywhere. Sonmei stared.
A half-gloved hand settled lightly on his shoulder. "That's amazing technique. I wasn't sure at first, but...you really are his son."
"What?" Sonmei spun around. "You know my real father?" Tell me, he almost said, but at about that point his brain caught up with his mouth, and he realized that the stranger was gone. He couldn't even see what direction he had taken off in.
Sonmei let out an irritated huff of breath and settled down to think. The man had said he'd been heading for dangerous territory--so he'd been on the right track. He was pretty sure he wasn't being followed anymore, so it was probably time to get back on course for the Sound encampment.
When he was younger, Sonmei had thought of Sound as the timeless enemy, looming just out of Leaf's reach in some ill-conceived combination of stone fortress and giant hornet's nest, darting out stinging attacks every so often. That had been when Kabuto was still alive and providing central authority. At the time such a man had seemed untouchable, but he knew now that such leaders were as vulnerable as any other human being.
Which wasn't to say that destroying them was easy. The mission that had brought Kabuto down had claimed the lives of his sensei's teammates.
The current state of Sound reflected nothing of its past glory. It was a threadbare assortment of tents surrounded by rudimentary defenses. Sonmei found himself slipping through them before he even realized what he was doing. Once he did realize it, he paused a moment to consider the wisdom of his actions. Then he decided to go ahead with them anyway.
For all that their camp was nothing fancy, the Sound-nin noticed him the instant he stepped out of the concealing shadow of a tent. A compact, fierce-eyed man grabbed him by the collar and shook him sharply. "Leaf's here," he called out. Then he sneered. "And they sent a child."
"I'm /twelve/," Sonmei snapped back, only belatedly realizing that this was not the most mature comeback possible. Scattered laughter broke out around him. He suppressed an angry flush. "Leaf didn't send me. I ran away from the bastards. I can help you out."
"Child," said a long-haired woman holding a strangely-shaped flute in tattooed hands, "how could you help us out? And why would you want to? We're destroying your home." She smiled as she said this. "We've probably killed people you knew."
"Good," Sonmei spat. He forced himself not to show the way he was scanning the surrounding area for anything that could be used as a weapon. "I'm done with them."
"Eh," said the man, "if he changes his mind later, we can kill him then. Nidasu, make sure he's not planning anything nasty and see what you can get out of him." He let go of Sonmei and turned to go. The woman stepped up and lifted the coiled flute to her lips.
Sonmei blinked at Nidasu as she started to play. The music was very strange, and he felt his guards sliding down one by one. Why shouldn't he drop the lies and tell these people why he'd come? What was wrong with that?
It was the music.
He didn't give himself any more time to plan or to succumb to the music. Instead, he took a step forward, tentatively, awkwardly, and then pretended to stumble. When he fell, his hands wound up by a pair of tentpegs supporting one of the smaller tents. He grabbed them, but instead of pushing himself back to his feet, he channeled chakra into them, at once sharpening them and blasting the earth away from them. When he did return to his feet, he held them as weapons.
Around him, the demeanor of the Sound camp changed. A nearby man leapt to his feet and whistled out a piercing note of alarm. Nidasu stopped playing her flute and pulled a tiny switch on it; a blade sprang from the end. He didn't give her time to use it. Even as she moved toward him, he lunged, then drove one tentpeg deep into her abdomen. When he pulled it out, blood made his grip slippery, but he held on.
He left Nidasu where she fell and lifted his makeshift weapons to deflect a rain of kunai, then threw one of the tentpegs at the Sound-nin who'd thrown the kunai. In the same motion, he twitched several kunai of his own out of his sleeve and at his target. The man had time to register surprise before the flashing blades struck him.
Sonmei twisted around to drive the remaining tentpeg into his nearest opponent, but he caught the slender young woman a glancing blow to her thigh instead of anything more vital.
She drew back her lip in a snarl and lunged at him with a razor-edged fan. There were strange holes in its blades, and he could almost see the air rushing through them. No--he could see the air rushing through them. He could see everything, down to the smallest detail.
His eyes had finally turned on again.
Sonmei darted out an arm and caught the woman's fingers just so, bending them back against her tessen until he heard the bones snap. Then he grabbed the fan before she could reassert her grip and slashed her throat with it. She went down with her eyes still wide.
He took her tessen in one hand and drew a long knife with the other as he turned to face the club-wielding man approaching him.
Wait. Clubs? What sort of ninja used clubs?
Sonmei got his answer when, instead of striking with the weapons, the Sound-nin knocked them together just so, and the vibrations hummed through the air. He could see what the sound waves would do before they struck him, but he couldn't get out of the way. The invisible blow caught him, and he felt his bones go jelly-like. He glared up at the Sound-nin as he sank to his knees.
"Gave us a bit more trouble than we thought," the man with the clubs was saying, "but now--" He stopped. He looked harder at Sonmei's face. "Hey. He's got Sharingan."
Sonmei didn't see why it mattered now, but all the same, it was nice to know what these strange eyes of his were called, if that's what the man was referring to.
Before it could all end, though, a figure melted out of nothing behind the small cluster of Sound-nin that had gathered in front of Sonmei. It was the masked man he'd met on the way here, but his dark glasses were gone.
"He's not the only one," he said softly, his tone calm and faintly amused.
Before Sonmei could properly understand what was going on (although he could still see it down to the last detail), two of the Sound-nin were on the ground, choking up blood. The remaining one, a wild-haired woman wearing claws and bells, scrambled back and hissed as she took in the new arrival. "Who are you?"
The man smiled at her, his mismatched eyes squinting shut in mirth. "I wouldn't expect you to know anymore." He drew a strange, slender sword. With a jolt, Sonmei recognized it as the same kind as the one his mother kept on the wall as if in decoration, the same kind as the one he sometimes saw with Tenten, though she'd never used it around him.
"/Tamashii no ken/," the masked man murmured, and with the faintest hum, pale blue light lanced down the blade's length. "This is a chakra sword," he said, lunging at the clawed woman. She barely dodged. "It's difficult to master, but--"
He lunged again, this time sending the blade right through her heart. "More effective than most people would imagine."
Sonmei caught sight of an older man rushing at the stranger from the side. He forced words out of his mouth. "Look out!"
The man with the chakra sword turned just in time to deflect a flurry of shuriken with his blade. The weapon moved with an unnatural grace, as if it were a colder, sharper extension of its wielder's arm.
"I know you," the older Sound-nin said. "Copy Ninja Kakashi."
"Yes," Kakashi said before lashing out again with the sword.
"But you're--" the other man said, cutting off when he died.
The effects of the clubs were wearing off. Sonmei shoved himself to his feet. "Whoever you are, 'Copy Ninja,'" he said, "I'm not letting you do this alone." He stripped a pair of blades off the most recently fallen enemy and straightened.
Kakashi gave him a swift, appraising look. "Don't strain yourself."
Sonmei gritted his teeth. "I won't."
And he threw himself into the fray.
Blood lay everywhere. Sonmei stared at it all, feeling suddenly very weary. The glitter of red sank out of his vision.
"Let's go," Kakashi said sharply. He was staring intently at a spot at the edge of the clearing; to Sonmei, it looked no different than anywhere else.
"Are you sure...?"
Kakashi didn't answer. He just held out his chakra sword and watched while the glow faded back into cold steel, then sheathed it and vanished into the trees. Sonmei just barely made out his outline fading into a cluster of vines and short trees. He hesitated, then followed.
He was only a few steps into the shadows when he heard someone's approach in the devastated camp behind him. He turned and crouched behind a tree, not stopping to consider that perhaps he didn't need to see this.
A man in a dark cloak stood in what remained of the Sound encampment, regarding the dead ninja around him dispassionately. He nudged a body absently with one foot. Sonmei frowned absently at the cloak, trying to figure out what was bothering him about its design.
The man suddenly leaned down, took hold of the hair of a woman who'd gone down near the end of the battle with kunai in her belly, and yanked her head up. "Don't die yet," he said in a low, nearly emotionless voice: not a plea but a command, and a calm one at that. "Speak."
The kunoichi groaned and spat up blood. "Put that jutsu away and let me die..."
"No. Not until you've told me what happened here."
Her eyes focused, then widened. "My lord--I didn't realize it was you--"
He gave her an impatient shake, and Sonmei abruptly saw what was wrong with his cloak. It was patterned with dark red clouds, but their shapes were obscured by countless dark stains. He had a fair idea of what those stains might be, or at least what someone viewing the cloak was meant to think they were.
The woman spoke more freely now, her words nearly tripping over themselves to get out of her mouth. "There were only two of them and one was a boy, but even he was good, and the other one could have been a god or one of the sannin--"
"Idiot. There's only one of them left now." The man sneered (Sonmei could see it even from a distance, the nasty crook of his mouth). "If a boy and one of Leaf's elite bitches can take what's left of Sound down, you probably deserved it."
The sudden vitriol in his previously calm voice made Sonmei draw in a sharp breath of surprise. He froze as the man's gaze flickered in his direction, then relaxed slightly as it went back to the dying woman.
"But my lord," she said, "you promised the Akatsuki would help us until the end."
"This is the end," he said, his voice cool once more.
"There's one more thing, lord," the kunoichi pressed on.
"I hope it's worthwhile."
"They had Sharingan."
Judging by the way the cloaked man paused, it had been worthwhile. "Which one?"
"Both of them, my lord."
"Impossible," he said sharply, but something about his stance suggested that he was more eager than he let on.
"But true. The boy's weren't mastered, but he had them. The man didn't look like an Uchiha, but he had--"
"One." That dispassionate voice was distant now. "His left eye. I know."
"My lord?"
The man threw the woman's head back at the ground. Sonmei heard the snap of her neck breaking and saw her stop moving.
Then he saw dark eyes meet his own. The man smiled. It was an unsettling, out-of-place expression. "Come out of there, boy."
Sonmei considered disobeying, but decided to indulge his curiosity. He stepped out from the trees. "Who are you?"
"You'll find out eventually."
"That's not good enough," Sonmei said.
"It'll have to do for now," said the cloaked man. "Because it's not time for you to come to me yet."
Sonmei went over his inventory of weapons in his head. "If you don't tell me anything, I don't see why I should ever go to you, if that's what you want." Most of them weren't in position to be quickly drawn after the battle, but he had a kunai sheathed under his collar.
The man drew up that misplaced smile again. "You want to learn how to use those eyes of yours, don't you?"
Sonmei stared, and he began calculating how fast he'd need to get his kunai out.
"And don't think that the man you fought with could do it," the cloaked man said dismissively. "He's a terrible teacher. Apparently a better survivor than I thought, though."
"People have a habit of doing that," Sonmei said. "Surviving."
"You'd be surprised." This time, the accompanying expression was a smirk, not a smile, and it fit much more comfortably on that face. "What's your name?"
He hesitated, but he wasn't going to walk away from this without at least giving a name. "Sonmei. Who are you?"
"It's not time yet," the man chided. "Where did the other ninja go, Sonmei?"
Sonmei was pretty sure that he knew where Kakashi was hiding; he was also pretty sure that if he set this man after him, there would be bloodshed. So far he found both of these two older ninja quite irritating. Intellectually, he wasn't sure if he cared if they lived or died. And yet--his instinct was to protect Kakashi from whatever the cloaked man had in store.
He stared back at his questioner, letting himself seem enthralled by those dark eyes. "He went over the tree branches," he muttered. "Further north."
The man in the bloodstained cloak smiled once more, and then he was gone.
Sonmei stood motionless for several minutes, staring straight ahead, refusing to focus on any of the corpses around him. Finally, a tree rustled briefly, and Kakashi said, "He's gone now."
Sonmei turned to face him. The dark glasses had been replaced; the everpresent mask was still there. Not much of his actual face was visible. "Who are you really?"
"I'm your new sensei," Kakashi said. He paused, then added, "If you want."
"I don't know," Sonmei said slowly. "I heard something about you being a terrible teacher..."
Again that airy little smile behind the mask. "Better than none."
"I have a sensei," Sonmei said. "She may not be the strongest ninja in Konoha and she may not know much in the way of legendary techniques, but she's /good/."
"You don't have to decide right now," Kakashi said pleasantly. "You've got at least until we get back to Konoha."
Sonmei eyed him warily.
"There's not much point in hiding now," Kakashi said. He started walking.
They spoke little on the way back, but Sonmei couldn't resist the urge to ask a question here and there.
"Did you know that was the last of the Sound encampments?"
"I should hope so, since I was only this close to Konoha in the first place to spy on them."
"Why wouldn't you be close to Konoha otherwise?"
"A few reasons."
"Convenience," Kakashi said. "Self-preservation. Sanity."
And further on, as it was starting to get dark:
"Why are you coming back to Konoha now? How do you know they'll even take you back?"
"The Hokage and I worked it out before I left," and Kakashi would give no more information.
They stopped to spend the night partway back. As he was preparing to sleep, Sonmei caught Kakashi giving him a strange, almost sentimental look. He stared back, frowning.
Kakashi almost smiled beneath his mask, and it was somehow more real than any of the actual smiles Sonmei had seen from him thus far. "You're twelve, aren't you?"
"Same age your parents were when I started teaching them," Kakashi said.
Sonmei opened his mouth, then shut it, unable to think of the proper questions to exploit this sudden opening.
Then it was gone. "Now go to sleep."
If he hadn't been so worn out from the chaotic day, Sonmei wouldn't have obeyed.
It was almost midday when they reached the edge of the village, and it wasn't until half an hour later that they got to Sonmei's house. Without ever actually saying so outright, Kakashi had insisted on taking all the circuitous routes that would keep them out of public view.
"If you're so sure you'll be welcomed back..." Sonmei began, but he stopped when he saw that Kakashi wasn't paying the slightest bit of attention to his words.
There were shadows moving behind the drawn shades. "My mother's home, then," Sonmei explained. "My father doesn't move around so much."
"Your father...?"
"My mother's husband," he said darkly.
"Ah," Kakashi said. "Excuse me for just a moment..." He walked up to the windows, then ducked out of sight around the corner of the house. After a few moments, he reemerged. "Let's go see your mother, then."
Sonmei hesitated. "Should I go in first?"
Kakashi shrugged. "If you want to."
Sonmei straightened up, walked up the back steps, and pulled open the door. "I'm home," he said.
His mother immediately stopped pacing and turned around to take in his presence. "Finally," she breathed. "What a mess this all is--"
She stopped. She was looking over his shoulder at the man behind him.
"Sakura," Kakashi said.
There was a moment of stillness. Then, in movements so swift and graceful she might as well have been dancing, Sakura picked up a kitchen knife off the table and threw it at him just so.


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