A/N: Well its finally here! The second part to My Mummy of Naruto series. No I do not own The Mummy Returns or Naruto. That pleasure belongs to their respective directors. The characters are as follows:
Sasuke: Rick
Sakura: Evy
Konohamaru: Alex
Naruto: Jonathon
Gaara: Imhotep
Karin: Anck-su-namun
Neji: Ardeth Bey
Orochimaru: Curator of the British Museum
Deidara: Izzy
Fugaku: Pharaoh Seti
Sasori: The Scorpion King
Zabuza: Lock-Nah
Ino: Sheila the showgirl
The Three Thieves:
Jacques Clemens: Kin
Jacob Spivey: Zaku"Red" Willits: Dosu
A/N: So in this story The Scorpion King is known as the Desert King since his name is Sasori of the red sand. The deal he made with Anubis involved him drinking a vial of deadly poison instead of eating a scorpion. The Bracelet of Anubis is the Desert Necklace. At the end The Desert King comes back in the form he has when he is fighting Sakura and Lady Chiyo in Shippuden. Sasuke has a tattoo like Rick does in the movie though its changed. Neji explains to him that he is the reincarnation of Prince Sasuke, Fugaku's son. Meanwhile, Sakura keeps having visions of being Sakura, The guardian of the Desert Necklace, and later she discovers that she is the reincarnation of Sakura who was Sasuke's wife.
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Anyway, Enjoy the story!
Thebes, 3067 B.C.
Five thousand years ago, a fierce warrior known as Sasori, The Desert King led a great army on a campaign to conquer the known world. He fought battle after battle, ruthlessly tearing down foe after foe, never once removing the legendary Desert Necklace he kept securely fastened to his throat.
After a vicious campaign which lasted seven long years, The Desert King and his army were defeated and driven deep into the sacred desert of Ahem-Shere. One by one they slowly perished under the scorching sun…until only the great warrior himself was left alive. Near death, Sasori made a pact with the dark God Anubis…that if Anubis would spare his life and let him conquer his enemies, he would give him his soul.
In answer to his proposition, a black vial rose from the sand…the Desert King was obliged to drink it. With this act done a life-giving oasis sprung up from the desert around him…and his life was saved.
Anubis gave the Desert King command of his army, and like an evil flood they washed away all that lay before them. When his task was done, Anubis forced the Desert King to serve him for all time…leaving behind only the Desert Necklace…in the world of the living. His army was returned to the sands from whence they came, where they wait silently, to be awakened once again.
Egypt, 1933
It was dark in the tomb…sand…broken stones…the faint squeaking of rats…these were the only things that Sasuke Uchiha, black-eyed, ebony haired adventurer, heard and saw as he pulled out his pistol and pushed away a wall of cobwebs. Still…something wasn't right. Holding a torch out in front of him, the soldier crept forward, keeping his back against the wall, growing closer and closer to the corner until…he leapt out gun at the ready…but the tunnel was clear.
Sasuke slowly holstered his gun and turned around…to meet a pair of large black eyes. He yelled and leapt backwards, causing the owner of the eyes to yelp and fall over. It was a little boy around seven or eight years old with the aforementioned black eyes and hair exactly like the soldiers.
Sasuke panted and muttered, "Konohamaru…?"
The child laughed, "What were you thinking, that a mummy had come back to life?"
"I'll tell you the story someday…" the adventurer helped his son to his feet. The boy looked so much like him and had his slight sence of recklessness…yet he had his mother's kind heart, intellect, and adventurous spirit.
Sasuke crossed his arms. "What are you doing down here? I told you to wait for us in the Temple."
"But Dad, I saw-"
"No buts," the father interrupted. "It's dangerous down here, Konohamaru."
Konohamaru looked as if he were about to burst with excitement, saying, "But I saw your tattoo!"
"…you saw what?"
"On a wall by the entrance," the boy explained, unclasping a bracelet from his father's wrist. "There's a symbol just like it…" the accessory fell away to reveal two kings standing on each side of a pyramid with the Uchiha symbol in the center on the man's arm.
The soldier cocked a questioning eyebrow. "Really…?"
"Yeah!"
"Okay, well, I'll be up to take a look at it in a minute. In the meantime, I want you to wait for us up there."
Konohomaru tried to protest as Sasuke turned him around and gave him a gentle push in the opposite direction, saying, "No. Pick up your stuff and I'll see you in the temple. Go."
Konohomaru picked up his bag and started back the way he came.
"And…" he started. 'And…what shall I do…?"
"I don't know, surprise me," Sasuke smirked. "Build a better mouse trap." He added to himself, "While your mother goes and desicrates another tomb."
Meanwhile, Sakura was in another chamber, dusting an ancient Egyptian carving with an archeologist's brush. She looked down as a coral snake slithered up to her. Any other person would have yelled and leapt away…Sakura however, glared at the thing and muttered, "GO AWAY," before kicking it.
The serpent went flying through the air, nearly hitting Sasuke who had just entered the room.
"Those things are poisonous you know!" his face turned more pale than it already was.
The woman teasingly replied, "Only if they bite you." She remembered his earlier meeting with Konohamaru. "What was that all about?"
Picking up the box of tools, the soldier shrugged, "Oh, nothing…Konohamaru wanted to show me something…I swear the kid gets more and more like you everyday," Sakura smirked and approached him brushing aside her pink hair which was now almost down to her waist. "You mean more attractive, sweet, and devilishly charming?"
"No, I mean he's driving me crazy," Sasuke grinned and pressed his lips against those of his wife.
"Now, where were we?"
Not wanting to damage the wall, Sakura held up two tools that looked as if they belonged to a doll. "Hammer and Chisel."
Sasuke took the objects, then stared at the green-eyed beauty with a look that screamed, 'Seriously, this is annoying.'
Sakura sighed and replied, "Fine…we'll do it your way…" she handed him a crow bar.
"Thank you."
The woman cringed as her husband drove the metal pole into the beautiful wall, easily knocking it over. They entered a room filled with many caskets and mummies with scorpions, tarantulas, and a few skulls littering the floor.
Stepping over the creepy crawlies, Sakura explained, "Ever since I had that dream, this place is all I can think about."
Sasuke smirked and stomped right ontop of the creatures. "Ever since you had that dream, I haven't had a decent night sleep."
"I…I feel like I've been here before…"
"Sakura, NOBODY'S been here before, not for at least three thousand years."
As if she were not in control of her own body, the pinkette's arm shot out and grabbed a cobweb cloaked lever on the wall, pulling it and causing a hidden doorway to open. She looked at Sasuke and murmured, "Then how do I seem to know exactly where I'm going?"
Back in the temple, Konohomaru eyed the rats gathered at a hole in the wall, then glanced proudly at his newest mousetrap. He very delicately placed a piece of cheese in it…and froze when unfamiliar voices began to echo throughout the chamber.
Catching sight of the shadows of two men and a woman on the wall, Konohomaru grabbed his bag and climbed up into the safety of his fort, large eyes peeking curiously over the edge of the platform.
The two men and woman, Zaku, Dosu, and Kin, stepped into the chamber, holding guns and torches.
"Knock, knock," Dosu grinned. "Anybody home?" he gestured to his cohorts and ordered, "You two check out that stuff, see if it's there. I'll go sort out the Uchiha's."
Konohomaru gasped.
Sasuke made his way slowly down the corridor, checking every dark corner for traps, seeing none, he stepped into the chamber at the end of the tunnel and began pulling at the strange door he found inside. Sakura stepped in behind him…and gasped as another vision took over her mind.
She was in a beautifully decorated Egyptian Chamber, standing before the same door…yet, it was made of shining gold. It slowly opened, revealing two men guarding a chest in a small room. A woman stepped out and closed the door, pulling out the sun-shaped doorknob. She turned it to the right, then the left…then the vision disintegrated.
Sakura blinked and began to spastically moving her torch back and forth as if she could make the scene reappear. Glimpsing his wife's antics, Sasuke teased, "You know, if you move that fast enough, you can almost write your name."
"I…I just had a vision…" she breathed, "It was-it was like my dream…only real. It was like I actually lived here in ancient times…"
"Well…," Sasuke grunted pushing the door," If you really were here, could you show me how to open this thing?"
The woman stepped forward and gave him the torch. She grasped the queerly shaped handle, turning it twice to the right, then once to the left before pushing it in. The door opened just as it had three thousand years ago.
"Okay…" the soldier's eyes widened. "Now you're starting to scare me."
"Now I'm starting to scare myself."
Digging through various trinkets and pottery shards, Zaku grumbled,
"Look at the state of this stuff…those Egyptians never had a clue, It's all junk! Look at that…cheap pottery…ancient rubbish!"
High on the platform, Konohomaru pulled back the strap of his slingshot, aimed, and fired.
The grey haired man yowled while the black haired one pulled her pistol.
"Kin!" Zaku whined. "Something hit me in the head!"
"Shut up for once Zaku!" Kin snapped. "This place is cursed. We do not want to wake the Gods…"
Sakura carefully brushed the cobwebs off a large gold plate, revealing a design of red sand.
"That's the emblem of the Desert King!" She gasped. "He's supposed to be pure myth. No trace of him has ever been found before…no artifacts, no archival evidence."
"Maybe they didn't want anybody to find him…" Sasuke murmured thoughtfully.
The pinkette ran her delicate fingers along a trunk in the room. "Let's open this."
"Sakura…" her husband sighed. "I don't have a real good feeling about this…"
"It's only a chest. No harm ever came from opening a chest."
The soldier rolled his eyes at this. "Yeah, right, and no harm ever came from reading a book. Remember how that turned out?"
Sakura laughed and replied, "We can't stop now."
"Just remember I was the voice of reason here."
"For once."
Konohomaru took aim, and fired another stone from his slingshot. This one hit it's target…right in the rear end.
"AAARG!" Zaku howled in agony. "GOD THAT HURT!"
Konohomaru lay on his back, placing his hand over his mouth to stifle his laughs.
Kin, on the other hand…was becoming suspicious.
Dosu peered around the corner of a wall, watching as Sakura struggled to open the chest with a crow bar.
Her husband noticed a small object on a chain near the trunk and smirked when he realized what it was.
"Hun," Sasuke grinned, holding out the key. "Why don't we do it your way?"
Sakura grimaced and took the key, placing it in the keyhole. She turned it once…and the chest popped open. Slowly, the woman raised the lid…and glimpsed a beautiful golden necklace with a red gem in the center that looked like sand was mixed in it.
"The Desert Necklace…" she breathed.
Konohomaru fired off another missile…only to have it caught by one of the men. He gasped in horror as the two stared at him with expressions of "Gotcha."
Dosu cocked his gun and was about to shoot the two Uchiha's…when the entire chamber shook violently.
"Oh my God!" Sakura yelped, placing the necklace back in the chest.
"It's a bit late for that!" Sasuke cried.
The pinkette handed it to him. "Put it in your rucksack."
"I got a better idea. Let's leave it here!"
"I think it's a bit late for that!"
"What's it say?"
Sakura read the hieroglyphics. "'He who disturbs this necklace shall drink from the Nile'…huh…that doesn't sound too bad…"
Suddenly, the entire back wall was torn down by a torrent of rushing water. Placing the chest in his bag, Sasuke grabbed Sakura's hand and they both took off.
Konohomaru scrambled around the platform as Kin climbed up, a deadly looking knife between her teeth.
"Kin's gonna make a nice fillet out of you, kid," Zaku grinned.
"Zaku! Kin!" Dosu came running into the temple. "We gotta get out of here!"
Kin slid down the ladder and kicked the stone supporting the entire fort before joining her comrades.
Sasuke and Sakura ran as fast as they could…only to find their way blocked by a wall. They turned back to look at the ever approaching flood and hugged each other just as it hit.
Konohomaru yelped as the wooden structure swayed back and forth, threatening to drop him to the ground. Finally, the entire thing fell into a pillar, which the boy also landed on. He screamed as the pillar slammed into the next and the next after that, creating a domino effect.
When all the pillars had toppled over, the child looked around with hair more spiked then usual and muttered, "Whoa…"
Meanwhile, his parents gagged and coughed, clinging to a metal grating above then to keep their head out of the water.
"This is bad, Sakura!" Sasuke choked.
She gulped water. "Ugh…we've had bad before!"
"This is worse!"
One of the pillars began to slowly slide over, threatening to crash into the wall in front of it. Panicked, Konohomaru ran over and pushed against it, hoping that the little strength he had would keep the object in place. Obviously, it did not, and the boy was forced to leap out of the way or be crushed as the pillar fell. It destroyed the wall, unleashing a flood of water…and Konohomaru's half-drowned parents.
Konohomaru stared at his coughing, sputtering mom and dad, then gazed at the desecrated temple around them before announcing, "Mom, Dad, I can explain EVERYTHING."
Unfortunately, In another part of the desert, a sinister group had discovered Hamunaptra, and had enlisted man unwilling workers to uncover it's secrets.
Holding a black book in his hands, a muscled black haired man who had half his face covered known as Zabuza murmured, "The Book of the Dead…gives life."
"And the Book f the Living…" completed a woman named Karin."…takes life away." She set the golden book of Amun-Ra down.
"I thought that was MY job," teased the muscle-bound man.
Karin, who looked remarkably like the ancient incarnation, smiled and announced, "we're getting close."
Watching over the diggers, a dark haired curator, Orochimaru, jumped in alarm when a car horn sounded. He turned to see three treasure hunters he'd hired leaping out of the vehicle and walking towards him.
"Did you find it?"
Before they could answer, the entire site shook and everyone's attention turned to the spit the diggers had just uncovered. A collective gasp sounded when the sand rose up into a mound…which was quickly replaced by screams when it exploded with scarabs.
Karin laughed cruelly, completely unfeeling to the agonized screams of men being eaten alive. "We're getting VERY close…"
It wasn't long before the joyous cry rang throughout the dig site.
"We found him! We found him!"
Orochimaru excitedly pushed through the throngs of people…and gasped as the oddly shaped mass was lowered to the ground.
"Gaara…It's him! It's Gaara!"
Karin ran her hand gently over their prize as Zabuza lifted a large urn, saying, "Now we must raise those who serve him."
Before they could do so, an irritated voice exclaimed, "Get out of my way…Get out-outta my way or I'm gonna shoot you in the face!"
Dosu emerged from the crowd, followed by his cohorts.
Orochimaru held out his hand. "Give it to me."
Shrugging, Dosu replied. "The opportunity passed us by."
The curator's jaw tensed in frustration. "We need that necklace!"
Zabuza pulled out his sword and the two men and woman responded by pointing their guns.
"Enough!" Karin hissed and the men obediently put their weapons away. "My dear Orochimaru, I told you I should have handled it."
The dark haired man shook his head. "I didn't want your past history to cloud the issue."
Dosu cut in, "Don't worry. We know where it is. We will take care of it."
"No. I have a different chore for you now."
"Where is the necklace?" Karin asked impatiently.
"It's on its way to London."
Orochimaru nodded. "Then London is where we must go."
Hidden among the other cloaked men, Neji, leader of the Majai, gasped…for he knew that the Uchiha family was in danger…again.
A/N: Well, that was Chapter 1. I hope you all enjoyed it! Please Review!