Naruto Uzamaki that dorky little blond kid had finally built up enough courage to talk to Sakura Haruno his long time crush. Though not outright unpopular, Naruto was far below her in the social hierarchy. "Hey Sakura!" His voice dripped with untold adoration.
"Hey Naruto." She responded Kindly, Gently, tenderly, not like her best friend Ino, who enjoyed the finer parts of psychological torture.
He rubbed the back of his head shyly. "I was just wondering…" He couldn't look her in the eyes, those beautiful Emerald eyes. He could only look down at her feet. At her hundred dollar sandals and that little heart shaped tattoo on her ankle, right where the bone kind of juts out. "I was just wondering if you had the notes from science, I kind of zoned out and didn't take any."
"Oh." She chirped, maybe a little surprised. When Naruto wasn't in the principles office for fooling around he was a pretty solid student, and he always took really solid notes. she knew she studied off of them! Maybe she was just disappointed it wasn't something more personal. She shrugged to herself as she pulled out her science journal. Naruto was a strange guy, kind of different, but in a good way, like when you bite into a chocolate and you taste peach instead of strawberry. "There you go." She handed him the journal. "Just give it to me tomorrow, kay?"
Naruto nodded his thanks. He waited for Sakura to round the corner before he slammed his face into his locker.
"Not bad, you managed to score a notebook." That was Garaa, Medium height, medium build, a voice that could peel the bark off of a tree. He was the only person in his family tree to have red hair, he says it's the blood his mother spilled on him when she died giving birth, and he has a bad enough reputation that no one questioned his mother fidelity.
Despite his frigid Exterior Naruto sensed a kindred spirit in Garaa, and once Naruto saw some good in you, he wasn't going to stop until you saw it to. "I was so close Garaa, just a few words away."
"Close, only counts in love. Which is a funny expression, because…" Naruto shot him a glance. "Alright, alright all I'm saying is that maybe you want to set your sights on someone you can talk to." He looked over Naruto's shoulder and smiled. "Like maybe, the lovely Hinata Huyga."
Hinata Huyga walked over shyly. She's got long black hair, the kind that you play with when you're nervous, like the way she is now. It's anyone's guess what her body looks like since she's always wearing big bulky jackets and sweaters, though at just the right angle you could see her jacket struggling against her chest. "Hi guys, hi N-Naruto."
"Hey Hinata." Both Naruto and Garaa mutter. Garaa rolled his eyes. There was something about the two of them, something about Hinata and Naruto together that he found, attractive. He could see it all; marriage after college, her daddy pays for a big wedding to impress all of his corporate buddies, and forgets to invite Naruto's parents. They settle down, in a nice neighborhood with a white picket fence, he's a math teacher, and she sells houses along with their socially awkward daughter, they don't like the idea of daycare, so Hinata straps her baby to her back, then that little baby grows up a moves away, so the two of them decide to retire with the money Hinata's old man gives them when he dies, and they go live somewhere up the mountains, where Naruto learns to ski, and Hinata writes raunchy love novels, and even when their old they still treat each other with the same tenderness they used when they realized they were in love on prom night, and then they die together because neither one can stand to live even a second without each other. And here Naruto is saying 'Hey Hinata' the same way Garaa was, the same uninterested bored tone.
"What can I do for you Hinata?" Then he gave her that smile. The one that calls into question if he's really as oblivious as he seems, the only that almost begs to be loved.
"Oh." She almost panted; she hated that about him the way he could take her breath away with just a smile. "My family is holding a banquet next Saturday, and I was wondering if, you might, want to, well maybe, you know if you're not busy, I mean keep in mind that you don't have to, but I just thought that you maybe, might not dislike going to it with me maybe?"
You could see Naruto slowly work his way through that maze of half sentences. "Oh! Yeah sure I'd love to go with you."
"Really?" She squeaked.
"Of course, your family always throws the best shindigs, and you've always got the best food." He laughed to himself. "You know you don't even have to ask me anymore, you just say 'yo Naruto, Party on Saturday!' and I'm there."
"Yes, well I think conversation still has its place among two people." The school bell rang signaling the end to whatever conversation Hinata had in mind. "I've got to go, but I'll see you later okay?"
Naruto gave her a low bow. "Of course my lady."
"You see, Hinata knows how to ask someone out." Garaa announced the second she was out of ear shot.
"Naw I've been going to those socials with Hinata since I was like, eight."
"God Naruto, Sakura has you so wrapped around her finger, you can't even see straight."
"And what's that suppose to mean?"
Xxx Uzamaki Residence xxX
Mr. and Ms. Uzamaki went ball room dancing every Friday, it was just something they did, there was something about the one, two, three, one, two, three, which left Naruto alone to his own devices on the most holy of teenager nights, which usually meant video games. But not tonight, tonight fate had something far grander in mind for Naruto.
Naruto's room was the first thing you'd see when you climbed up the stairs. His room was about what you'd expect from a teenage boy; cloths in every corner, an unmade bed, a random pizza box lying in his bed, a fox. A fox? "Woah! Holy Mother of God!" He fell on his butt and slowly started to scoot away from his room. The fox walked after him, almost sashaying with its nine tails flowing, nine tails? What was going on?
"I'll have you know I'm the mother to a good many things." It talked, the fox just talked, you know telepathically. Strangely enough the fox had a voice you usually had to pay five dollars a minute to hear.
"Oh my god." Naruto managed to wheeze.
"Thank you for acknowledging my status. Vulpes Demonicus at your service." Naruto only managed to mumble something indecipherable. "I am the Vulpine Lord of Chaos; I come to this plain to do battle with my fellow Chaos lords for rule over the higher plains."
"What?"
"Listen it's a lot of astrological politics you have to have read up on the Celestrial Bueracracy honestly it's a pain to explain, especially since your bound to this plain. Listen, I and a bunch of other gods are going to come to earth, posses humans, much like yourself and do battle until one is left alive."
Naruto nodded his head. "Well that sounds horrible, you can count me out."
The fox swayed its head back and forth. "I'm about to bestow unfathomable power upon you."
"What?"
"Unfathomable powers, power of which you are not able to fathom, try as you may."
"No." Naruto said managing to sound firm. "I don't know what's going on, but I'm not going to allow myself to be strong armed by a fox!"
"Let the demonic Possession begin!" And the last thing Naruto remembered was the fox flying at him.
Xxx Many hours later xxX
"Naruto, Naruto!" He could hear his mothers voice, it was far and away like he was hearing it from another room. "Naruto!"
Naruto sprung to life and took in a long breath of air. His parents were leaned over him with the most concerned looks on their faces. Their Vibrant faces, vibrant, vibrant faces. It was like Naruto's eyes had made the jump from black and white, to HD. Everything was so…clear. "What happened?" He mumbled rubbing the back of his head.
"Why are you at the bottom of the stairs?" His mother begged.
Naruto tilted his head up a bit and could see that he was indeed at the bottom of the staircase. "The fox!" Naruto leapt to his feet and bolted us the stairs. If that fox was still in the house they could be in danger.
"Maybe he hit his head harder than we thought?" His dad offered.
"You could at least wait till I was out of ear shot to say that!" Naruto shouted from his room. His parents just gave each other startled looks, because they were out of ear shot. No fox in his room good, maybe he was just being paranoid, maybe there was no fox at all.
'You're in a war with some of the most horrible beings to ever slither into creation, you're not allowed to think like that anymore.' It was the foxes voice, but he could hear it inside his head.
Naruto slammed his door shut. "Get out of my head." he commanded.
'Once your service to me is complete, then you may return to your dreadfully boring life.'
Naruto did not like the sound of that. "Listen I don't care how powerful you are, if you're going to be putting me, and my family in danger I deserve some straight answers." You could practically see the spirit roll her eyes.
'A few billion years ago we gods made this universe so we could wage war on each other without screwing up our own world. So each millions years so, a couple dozen gods come here to see who will rule our world for the next cycle. You ever see Zach Bell?'
"Yeah."
'Same idea but with less puppets.'
"So you just barge in to our world and screw everything up because you can't come up with a stable political system?"
'I don't know what you're complaining about in our last war Humans were created.' The fox spirit could sense Naruto's surprise. 'Yeah Prometheus, he's the current king, at least until you and I win!'
"There is no you and me!" Naruto shouted. He felt ridiculous running around talking to some unseen force, it could only image how crazy he must look.
'Listen kid.' The fox said, it sounded almost like a whine. 'I gave you some pretty hefty blessings, the least you could do is show some appreciation!'
"Are, are you upset?"
'No!' Was this thing crying. 'I can't even bend one human to my will, how am I ever going to win this battle?' It was very strange this powerful being was being so forceful up until now.
There was a knocking at his door. "Naruto." It was his mother. "Are you okay in there, who are you talking to?"
Naruto wished he could have answered. Who was he talking to?
Xxx Authors notes xxX
So you say to yourself. 'Captain Greek Mythology and Naruto, that's crazy!' Damn right it is and you're going to love it!
Thanks you very much for reading, and I look forward to reading what you guys have to say.
