This is a gift fic for a friend -You know who you are. Myself and her have always like to read those fics where it shows how strong Naruto's will is even though he's treated the worst.
Warnings: Sakura bashing, AU, ooc-ness, things in character's past that didn't happen and random hints as to kakashi's state of sanity.
BrOkEn NoStAlGiA by HakuoBlake
"Okay guys, get in a circle."
Sakura seemed skeptical, "Kakashi-sensei, what is this jutsu suppose to do again?" She got the eye-smile...and a peace sign. She backed away from the jounin, 'They do say the geniuses go crazy first...' she reasoned with herself.
Naruto was looking on the horizon, his eyes half opened a strange weariness surounding him, settling around his shoulders like a heavy blanket. His mouth was a slight frown, his eyebrows furrowed. To Sasuke he seemed more like an old man than the Saindaime did, and that made him strangly angry. So he slapped him upside the head.
"Arrgh, BASTARD. The fuck is your problem?" the blond asked, half the decibel of his usual shout of outrage, Sasuke was sure something important was bugging him to be this quiet. He scoffed.
"You're my problem" The way you act is not helping my nerves...
The far away look came over his eyes again and he softly sighed, "I see..." He was then knocked to the floor, "NARUTO-NO-BAKA!!! What are you doing yelling at Sasuke-kun? Can't you see today in stressful for him?" She took a simpering look towards Sasuke, "Right Sasuke-kun?"
The last Uchiha looked away, today was the anniversay of his clans slaughter and he freakin' needed Naruto's annoying but overly positive attitude to brighten his day.
That's the only reason he came back after all. He didn't come back for Sakura even though she daydreamed about that, not even for Kakashi's belief that he wanted to continue his studies under another Sharingan user.
No.
What he came back for was those stupid idiotic comments and actions from Naruto, who treated him with rivalry for who he was: a normal gennin who trained hard to achieve his status NOT just because he was the only survivor of the famed Uchiha clan.
Sakura rounded on Naruto as Sasuke continued to ignore her, "Don't you have some FEELINGS?! Stop with your stupid rivalry with Sasuke-kun for once 'cause you'll never beat him anyway! You probably don't understand what he's going through anyway, you don't know the extent of his pain..." she huffed, making Sasuke look like a depressed person who needed love from his female teamate, she got angry as naruto did nothing but look at a dandelion that was right in front of his nose, Kakashi was dutifully ignoring and waiting for Sakura to stop shouting otherwise they would never move on to the super cool jutsu that he had planned for all three of them.
"It's because he's an Uchiha and you're a NOBODY don't you get it?!" Sakura continued, until a hard hand clamped down on her shoulder, almost hurting because of the force. Sasuke's eyes were cold, the Sharingan spinning wildly, the red a sharp reminder of blood. "Sakura, shut up. Now" She had gone too far, with him in hearing range.
He directed her towards Kakashi, almost pushing her out of the way as Kakashi began telling her about the handseals involved.Sasuke knelt down and scooped up the blonde, frowning at the limpness of the usual ball of energy.
"C'mon." was all he said and he dusted his teamate and accompanied him to where their sensei was repeating the handseals involved.
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Naruto was down.
That made Sasuke irritated, it was like not having a dose of something sweet everyday.
"-and remember, your emotions have to be veeerryyy calm to work." Kakashi finished explaining. " Ready, steady GO!" All of team 7 did the handseals and melded their chakra together, Naruto's vehemntly refusing to go near Sakura's chakra, that's why his went in between Sasuke's slightly darker chakra and Kakashi's calm soothing one.
But instead of the melding chakra's that it was suppose to show, It turned black and caused them all to fall from the meditating positions they took. All of them pitched forward at the same time, their heads colliding with each other in the middle.
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They awoke in someplace dark, somehow still being able to see each other clearly. Sakura was last to get up, holding her head in pain. "What happened..." she rasped out. Kakashi looked around and saw the corner where naruto sat calmly, looking away from them and peering into the darkness.
"Well...I guess the jutsu failed," It was suppose to be a linking jutsu, where each of them meditated and got in sync with the others, a beggining tactic in the ANBU to promote flawless teamwork until it became like second nature to them, " I suppose your emotions weren't in check..."
Sakura stood up when they all felt a slight dissapointment surround them the most concentrated source coming from her corner. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, " Sensei, what is this?"
"The other part of the jutsu, where we all feel the predominant feelings of your teammates..but as to why we seem to be in corners of a black room...I have no idea." Kakashi answered smiling at the Uchiha, who sweatdropped 'He's crossed the line between genius and insanity alright..'
Kakashi's green confusion swept past them all, and Sasuke's irritated mood seemed to be as unforgiving as sandpaper on their skin.
Sakura then spotted something she could put the blame on.
Naruto.
Defenseless, and not looking her way.
She stormed over and was about to reach him when a flash of pink and then violent dark red chakra stopped her. she rubbed her forehead, "arg, what was that?"
"You can't move away from your spot too far.."Naruto said finally standing up and dusting himself off; as if to demonstrate that they were in his area of expertese and therefore at his mercy the room reacted to his words and around them they all saw a flash surrounding them like a box. Sasuke's was blue the same as his shirt, Kakashi's was forest green and hers was a deep pink. Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"And yours Naruto?"
At this Naruto's feeling of light amusement, as if he was merely humoring them filled them. "Mine...is right here.." A dark red chakra outlined his space on the corner where he stood, going to far as to trace the line with red flames that kept Sakura away from the blond.
"We are where no one wants people to be.." Naruto continued secretively; feeling around his walls connecting them to each other as if to determine how far he could step before he was flung back.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, the soothing color of bright blue eyes calming his nervousness. "Their mind." he completed for the blond.
Naruto looked at him, and nodded his eyes warming so that Sasuke could see a glimpse of the Naruto that no one save Iruka and the Saindaime had seen.
"Psh, don't try to act so cool, baka."
And then a terrible feeling welled up from their own chests, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors (1) acting on their hearts. Causing the organ to skip a beat, then two in its fright to move for fear that, it provoke this gross and violent loathing.
"I suggest Haruno, that you keep your bitchy mouth shut in this space. You might be the so-called 'brightest' one to graduate but in this mental realm, Naruto reigns supreme." A voice like blood-dripped velvet spoke to them, around them, and through them simultaniously.
Naruto's head turned.
"Kyuubi-sama." he said, his eyes roaming over to a tall tanned man, with hair that reached his waist, his bangs spread haphazardly over his forehead obscuring some parts of his piercing eyes.
Kakashi gawked, "K-Kyuubi?!"
The blonde and the red head rolled their eyes, switched their weight to one foot and crossed their arms at the same time that it was terrifyingly natural looking for each of them. A sneer widened Naruto's lips that it looked so wrong, yet everyone found that his muscles didn't stretch awkwardly, as if he sneered everyday as much as Sasuke.
"No, its a bright pink bunny." Naruto said in a flat tone, one could almost hear the unsaid 'stupid dumbass.' that was on the tip of the blond's tongue. The man grinned sadistically.
"Yes and no." Everyone's dumbfounded looks made him bark out a laugh, "I'm only part of the Kyuubi, I'm the powerful kick-ass Demon Lord instictual predator side. The other is the refined and genteelly side that a demon of our caliber should have from birth. At least she acts like it most of the time." he muttered the last part, to which Naruto coughed to hide his laughter.
Team 7 was shocked. Speechless. And very severly traumatized.
Sure they knew that their teamate housed Kyuubi. But to house two Kyuubi's?! That was freakin' insane! Naruto turned to the man next to him, "Where's Kyuu-chan?"
"She wouldn't wake up, I suggest you call her, she'll listen to you, after all..." he said pouting slightly. Naruto ignored him and looked into one of his "walls" that faced away from Team 7. Taking a deep breath he shouted, "KYUU-CHAN!!!"
They heard a boom! and the earth shook beneath them. Those with sensitive hearing heard the tell-tale high pitched whistle of an object coming towards you at 90-something miles per hour.
Slam!
Naruto was almost thrown off balance as 120 pounds of full grown kitsune woman slammed into him shouting, "Naru-chaaan!!"
Her hair, which went down to her ankles, was in total dissarray; a jumble of knots and tangles. It was the same shade as Kyuubi-sama's and so were her eyes, only hers were slanted slightly higher and her eyelashes thicker than her male counterpart. And instead of the harsh contours and slants of Kyuubi-sama's face, hers was curved gently and had an aristocratic air about her.
Even in ramen pyjama pants with only an undershirt on.
"What are you doing here Naru-chan?"
"I don't know exactly." naruto replied, his voice muffled by the breasts that his face was being pushed into. Kakashi glared slightly, 'lucky kid..'
While Kyuu-chan basically interrogated Naruto on why he hadn't shown up earlier, Sasuke felt a sudden urge to laugh insanely at the scene that they were making. Especially when Naruto pouted and said petulantly, "Are those my pyjamas?"
The male demon that stood by the blonde went to the middle of the room, done bantering with his host and cotenant (for the moment anyway). He sneered at Sakura making her recoil violently, he had to hold back another onlslaught of maniacal laughter.
"What are you doing?" Kyuu-chan asked the male, arching a delicate eyebrow.
"I was summoned, and I think I know what's happening." Kyuubi said, putting a hand to his chest and taking out
a ribbon that was a pure black that shone a vicious red. With one clawed hand he beckoned at the others and from Sakura's chest immediatly sprang forth a white ribbon, slightly gray near the end. The next to submit to the call of the kitsune was Sasuke, his ribbon only partly white, the rest being of a grey or dark grey color. Kakashi's was last, the ribbon a deep black with gray at the beggining.
Kyuubi spinned them around an around until it seemed like a Rasengan composed of ribbons ranging from white deep black, the tails of these ribbons coming from Team 7's chests still. the color changing as it kept coming out.
Finally the wind stopped whipping at their faces, Kyuu-chan's kimono sleeves (for she had changed) had Naruto's face protected. In the middle floated a ball that kept changing in accordance to the black and white spectrum, the ribbons still attatched to the gennin and their jounin instructor, the colors swirling like upset water.
The walls on the outside room changed, like screens, and it showed a blank surface.
Kyuubi-sama rumbled, a throaty chuckle and snapped his fingers so the screens showed a park full of flowers where little girls ran and laughed, their laughter like crystal bubbles; so pure yet delicate.
"Let's begin, shall we?"
-owari-
(1)-quote from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edger Allan Poe
Who can guess what the ribbons represent, and their colors as well?
I've been wanting to do this type of fic for Naruto for a while now, i just got inspired. I had to conciously put more descriptive words and sentences in this fic though, or the abrupt change from half assed descriptions in chapter one to super colorful in the rest of the chapters might seem weird.
Ruby: you are such a bad person...leaving us at a cliffhanger...
-Smile- JAA NE, review please!