The Kappa
Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine.
"Have fun but remember to stay away from the pond."
"What'll happen if I go near the pond?"
"The kappa will eat you!" Sasuke shrieked and dodged as Itachi started trying to eat his arm.
"There's no such thing as a kappa!" His brother may have been older but there was no way he was getting anything over on him that easily.
"How do you know?"
"I'm nine! I'm not a baby!"
"Ok so there's no kappa... but it's still dangerous for you to be near the pond so stay away ok?"
"Yeah, yeah." When his brother finally left to get on with whatever it was that useless older brothers like him did, Sasuke was finally free to run rampant in the garden.
Their parents Mikoto and Fugaku had gone out for a few hours sadly leaving his older brother in charge. Although the house itself wasn't large, they lived in a fairly rural part of their town so the garden was pretty huge. It had a few trees, a massive lawn and a large duck pond filled with his fathers' koi. In short it was perfect for a bored overly imaginative young boy. With a grin Sasuke jumped onto the home made swing up the rope into the tree. From there he had a good view of his brothers room and he could see Itachi sitting at his desk, head buried in a book.
Sasuke scowled at the back of his head, still annoyed about the kappa story. Who did Itachi think he was? It wasn't as if he was stupid! He knew it was dangerous to swim in the pond!
Looking up at the aforementioned pond he could see flashes of white and gold as the fish swam lazily round. The water was mostly still, and though dark was clearly not that deep.
Just as he was about to jump down he saw something. A flash of white out the corner of his eyes. It could've been just a fish but looking again Sasuke could clearly see a large white blob bigger than any of his parent's fish. Whatever it was it broke the surface slightly leaving ripples before disappearing by the reed beds.
...What was that? His heart pounded and his mind began to fill with crazy ideas such as mutated fish or the Loch Ness monster. Feeling more exhilarated, he hopped out of the tree and dashed towards the pond, not wanting to miss whatever it was.
When he got to within a metre of the pond he stopped and leant forward peering into the murky water. The water was so dark all he could see was his own puzzled face staring back at him. He squinted trying to see past that into the water.
There it is! The white mass moved slowly through the water, moving gradually towards the surface, a hand reached out towards him. Wait. A hand?!
Sasuke jumped back in horror and somehow managed to slip on a patch of mud, causing him to go face first into the water and straight towards the thing. Sadly swimming had never been his strong point and even in a small pool like this he would probably be screwed. His body began to grow cold and his vision blurred. The last thing he remembered seeing was a pair of large purple eyes staring directly into his before everything went black.
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"Sasuke! Sasuke!" It was his brother's face that he saw when he woke up laying on the grass next to the pool and soaked to the bone.
"'Tachi?"
"Oh thank god!" Itachi pulled him close and hugged him for a minute before giving him a well deserved slap on the head. "You stupid boy, why were you playing so near the pond? I told you not to! Mum and dad are not going to be pleased."
"But I saw something!"
"You should've just come and told me rather than going over by yourself."
"I think it was a kappa!"
"You do realise that was just a story right?"
"But I really did see something! It was white with purple eyes!"
"Of course you did."
"Don't patronise me!"
"I think we need to get you checked. I'm just glad you managed to pull yourself out before you drowned."
"Huh?" But the boy could not remember pulling himself out. All he remembered was black. "I pulled myself out?"
"You must've done. I found you on the side of the pool by the time I ran down."
"..." If Itachi hadn't saved him then there was only one logical explanation. "The kappa did it."
"That's nice Sasuke, now come on. I think mum and dad are home."
As his brother pulled him back into the house he kept staring behind him at that deep dark pool and watching for the large white blob and the staring purple eyes.
-7 Years later-
"What are you doing with my bag idiot?"
"Nothing asshole!" Sasuke raised his eyebrow at the foolish blonde creature currently digging around in his things and trying to look innocent.
"Drop it before I drop you."
"Try it." The words were scarcely out of his mouth when Naruto felt himself being lifted up and dropped onto his ass. "Hey! That hurt Sas-Gay!"
"You get what you deserve for touching my stuff. What is your problem anyway?"
"I just wanted to borrow some money!"
"...You could've just asked."
"Oh... I never thought of that..."
"Idiot."
"Stop calling me that! God, you're so up yourself."
"You say that and yet you're the one dating me."
"...Damn. But you're dating me when you think I'm an idiot!"
"You're more like a pet than a boyfriend."
"I'm not your pet!"
"Whatever. Shift your ass, you know how Itachi gets when we keep him waiting." Both boys shuddered at the evil of Itachi Uchiha.
"So... are we sharing your bed Sasuke?"
"You snore and kick, you're sleeping on the floor."
"Hey! I don't snore!"
"Yes you do, and you drool."
"...Fine, I'll sleep on the floor. But we better eat as much ramen as is humanly possible."
"...I can feel the sickness seeping in already."
"Suck it!"
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As always when going past the kitchen window, Sasuke stopped to stare out at the garden. More specifically, towards that duck pond. He'd never seen the weird blob creature again and as he'd gotten older he'd accepted it was probably some kind of panicky hallucination.
He still couldn't stop looking though. No matter what anyone else said, there was no way he'd managed to pull himself out of the water that day.
"Whatcha doing Sas-Gay?" Stupid Naruto and his ninja like skills.
"Trying to pick a good spot to bury you in, should you ever piss me off."
"I am definitely telling your mum you said that."
"..." Trust Naruto to bring up his only weakness. The collective weakness of every Uchiha male in fact. No one ever fucked with Mikoto Uchiha.
"So what are we doing tonight? Is it movie night again?"
"Well that's what we do every Friday night."
"We better not watch any of that horror crap. You know I can't handle any of that stuff."
"Well you'll love this film." He threw the DVD box over to Naruto who groaned when he saw the title.
"28 days later? You know I hate zombies!"
"It's that or attack the block."
"They both suck!"
"Choose or I'll get the birds film again." Both of them knew the only reason he picked horror films was because Naruto would cling to him in terror every time they watched one, giving extra groping opportunities.
"Ok! Attack the block then." If it had comedy as part of its description it couldn't be that bad, right?
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"GAH!"Naruto dived over the bed and onto the inflatable mattress that Sasuke was in the middle of blowing up.
"What the hell are you doing? You can put this thing up yourself if you wanna do that."
"The eyes!"
"What?"
"I saw the glowing alien eyes in the window!"Sasuke looked over and wasn't impressed with what he saw.
"Those are solar lights."
"What?"
"Solar powered lights. Mum's obsessed with the damn things. They've been there for years idiot, you should know from the way our garden is practically floodlit at night."
"Oh... Yeah looking at them, they do look butterfly shaped."
"Only you could be that stupid."
"Hey! You can be such a dick sometimes."
"Hn."
"Don't use that crap with me!"
"Hn." It was hard not to laugh when Naruto threw a pillow at the back of his head, but he kept on pretending to ignore the boy and went to stare out the garden window. The sea of lights meant the garden was dimly lit and the full moon gave it a silvery sheen. Just as he went to help Naruto with the mattress, something caught his eye.
Movement. In the pond. It wasn't very clear but he watched entranced as a strange figure rose from the water. It seemed almost human and looked like it was forming from the water itself. The figure got more defined the further it went out of the pond and it seemed as if there was a person standing in the shallow pool. It was hard to tell if the thing was male or female and just as it went to turn around-.
"Sasuke?" Naruto had come up behind him quite fast and he spun around. "What are you looking at?"
"Err..." He looked again but the figure had gone, leaving not even a ripple on the water's surface. "Nothing."
"Ok... Anyway, let's share the bed. I don't want to sleep alone tonight."
"You're useless."
"Come on Sasuke! I'll do anything!"
"I'll hold you to that later." It was probably nothing. Just my mind playing tricks on me.
This is just a random fanfic idea I thought I'd try out so any feedback would be much appreciated :3 Thank you for reading.
