I am so sorry (again!) for not being around! Real life stuff and writer's block got to me and held me back... Anyway, to make up for it, I'm posting up a new story! XD It's a crossover series (and my first crossover series at that). I know you fellow readers are expecting some of my other fic ideas, but I'm currently busy writing them. Whether or not I'll post them up... I dunno. Well, until then, enjoy this fic! ^^
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!
It was a peaceful Monday in Konoha; yet it was quiet. A young Uchiha by the name of Sasuke along with his teammates Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzukmaki were just taking a simple stroll in the forest near their village…
"Face it Naruto, we're lost!!" hollered Sakura in an annoyed tone to the blonde haired boy.
"S-Sakura-chan, don't blame me! I thought this was the right way, so I followed my instincts! Nothing wrong with that, right?" asked Naruto, his tone sounding a little pouty. Sakura smacked him across the head for his stupidity.
"Wrong! Trusting and following your instincts is one thing, but getting us LOST is another!" She pressed her index finger on Naruto's forehead with a good amount of pressure as she got to the point. "You got us lost!! Get it now?!"
Naruto nodded and whimpered at the same time, causing Sakura to move her finger off of the said blonde; her inner self did a victory pose while saying, "Cha! Take that Naruto!"
Sasuke exasperatedly sighed. 'Someone remind me why I was teamed up with these two.' he thought in agony. "Enough, both of you. Don't forget, we're on a mission." said Sasuke. Sakura just happily agreed while Naruto crossed his arms and moaned.
Their mission was to find a group of bandits in a cave near Konoha's forest; if they found them, they had to let Kakashi, their sensei, know so he would take care of them. The client was willing to offer a good amount of dough if the mission went well (not like Naruto and his teammates cared anyway.). They had been walking around Konoha's forest for thirty minutes now and had absolute bad luck on their side.
They had no leads, no evidence… no nothing for them to track down the bandits. They had to rely on their own intuition.
To put it simply, Naruto found a 'shortcut' in the forest when they were actually going the right way, now leading them to getting lost.
"I still say we should've stayed on the path. I could see-" started Sakura. Sasuke shushed her and ducked under a bush, pulling Naruto down by the collar of his orange jumpsuit as he did so. Sakura immediately ducked down beside Sasuke and waited to see what the sudden alert was.
Sasuke parted some bush branches away so he could see what made him stop and smirked.
"This is it." he quietly said to his teammates as they did the same thing he did (well, Sakura did anyway. Naruto just stood back up to look over the bushes, but was quickly jerked back down to the ground by Sasuke.). What Sasuke saw was a giant waterfall with a cave behind it; thick, black smoke was coming out from behind the waterfall, which meant that that was where the bandits were hiding. A couple of the bandits were standing guard outside the waterfall.
While Sasuke and Naruto started silently bickering about whether or not to alert Kakashi, a twig snapped nearby causing Sakura to spin around in alarm. Sakura became both nervous and curious, then looked back at the guys. 'They seem to be busy… but, maybe I should-' Her train of thought ended as she turned back to warn the two bickering boys, felt something extremely hard hit the back of her head, and blacked out unconscious.
Naruto and Sasuke were so caught up in their argument that they didn't notice their pink haired kunoichi get dragged off into the forest.
As soon as the argument stopped, they had forgotten about Sakura completely. That normally didn't happen a lot.
"Look Teme," said Naruto in a harsh whisper. "These guys look like pushovers. We can take them on first then we contact Kakashi-sensei! Alright?"
Sasuke would've objected, but in one way, Naruto had a good point. That didn't mean they shouldn't be cautious. He sighed heavily. "Fine. Just don't get in my way, dobe." he said before taking off towards the cave.
After reaching the cave (an hour later)…
Naruto and Sasuke stood in the middle of the cave, breathing heavily with sweat matted to their faces. Four unconscious bodies lay in different parts of the cave. Sure it took a while, but both genin had successfully defeated the bandits without any jutsu use. They had already contacted Kakashi- though they would be expecting a lecture from him later-, who was now headed their way.
Naruto sat down on the hard ground in exhaustion, laughing because of their success. "See Sasuke? I… told you… that… they were… pushovers!" he said in between breaths. The said raven haired ninja wasn't really paying any attention to Naruto as he started looking around the cave for other bandits.
'That's strange. Why were there only four bandits? Didn't the client say that there were five of them?' he thought.
"Oi! Teme!" exclaimed Naruto, snapping him out of his thoughts. "I just remembered something."
Sasuke crossed his arms and scoffed. "This is a first."
Naruto just glared at him. "Ha ha. Very funny." he replied sarcastically. "No seriously Sasuke, I really did remember something." He then stood up and looked around. "Wasn't Sakura-chan right behind us when we went after those bandits?"
Upon hearing this question, Sasuke started looking around too. When they didn't see the pink haired kunoichi they (well, mostly Naruto.) started panicking. Naruto ran out of the cave and started searching for Sakura there, calling out her name every so often. Sasuke just searched almost the whole cave looking for her. He then stopped at the edge of a huge hole that- when he looked down in it- seemed bottomless.
The loud blonde ninja ran back in the cave. "She's not outside the cave! Did you-" He was cut off when he reached Sasuke, for he noticed the hole too. "…. Whoa. Looks pretty deep."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed at it. "Hmm." he pondered. Suddenly, they both heard slight laughter echo throughout the entire cave, causing them to look up to see who it was. Both of their eyes widened at what they saw.
Standing of the other side of the hole was the fifth bandit; struggling in his grip was none other than their missing teammate.
Naruto panicked. "Sakura-chan!!" he exclaimed in horror. Sasuke just glared hard at the bandit.
"How clever.. using a genjutsu to hide yourself until this very moment. Let our teammate go!" he said. The bandit smirked behind the yellow mask he wore, looking over at Sakura then the other two genin. He then looked down at the hole, chuckling to himself. "If you say so." said the bandit, who then threw Sakura towards them and disappeared in a puff of pink smoke.
Either the bandit was super strong or just had a good arm, whatever it was, he had managed to throw Sakura far enough for the guys to reach for her, but also so that she would hit the edge of the other side.
She immediately grabbed hold of the edge with one hand while with the other, she grabbed Naruto's left leg. Naruto had to grab Sasuke's shirt just to support his legs when he planted them on the ground. The said raven head genin had to grab a nearby stalagmite just to prevent himself from getting dragged towards the hole.
However, gravity got the best of them. Naruto was now feeling his feet getting dragged towards the hole, for Sakura had lost her grip on the edge and now desperately clinging onto the blonde's leg, trying to pull herself up.
"Let go Sakura-chan! We'll all end up falling in!"
"Hell no, Naruto!! Either you use your leg to pull me up or we really will!!!"
"I'm not that strong!! Sasuke-teme, a little help would be nice!!!!"
"SHUT UP DOBE!! What does it look like I'm doing?!"
"You're doing nothing, that's what! You're just hanging on a freakin' rock!"
"I'm trying not to get us killed!"
"And holding a rock is helping?!"
"YES IT IS!! Now LET GO OF MY SHIRT!!"
"WOULD YOU BOTH SHUT UP!?!?!"
As the argument continued, Sasuke's grip on the stalagmite was loosening bit by bit. Somewhere in the middle of the argument, Naruto finally let go of Sasuke's shirt and ended up grabbing both of his legs. Sasuke had to hang on tightly to the stalagmite at this. Sakura screamed as she felt herself get further down the hole while still hanging on to Naruto.
The said blonde was panting rapidly because he was panicking too much. He looked back to where Sakura was, then shouted, "Hang on Sakura-chan!"
Sakura glared at him. "Shut up Naruto!"
Naruto sighed heavily. 'Why did she get angry?' he thought miserably. It seemed as if they would hang like that forever…… until Sasuke finally let go of the stalagmite. Before all three of them fell down the hole completely, the raven haired ninja grabbed the edge, straining to bear with the extra weight that had been added.
Naruto looked down and saw nothing but pitch blackness. Sweat dripped down his body in a nervous manner as he looked back up again, a freaked out look was fixed on his face. Sasuke slowly looked down at his teammates, who were still hanging on, and panted because they were both so heavy. "Hang on!" he hollered.
"Don't worry about that teme! We've already got that covered!" Naruto hollered back. Sakura just nodded, as scared as she was giving the current situation.
Sasuke took in a few rapid breaths as he looked back up again. As he did so, his breathing stopped for a few seconds. Standing in front of the hole right where his fingers were, was the bandit. The raven head gritted his teeth, thinking, 'I thought he had fled!'
The bandit chuckled to himself, then stepped hard on one of Sasuke's hands, causing him to yell in pain and let go. Naruto yelled in fear and Sakura screamed slightly. Sasuke's hold on the edge was now unbalanced.
"You have two choices genin! Either you all surrender and live or don't surrender and fall to your deaths." said the bandit as he placed his foot on Sasuke's other hand. He added pressure to it. Sasuke clenched his teeth tightly together, enduring the pain in his hand, though he could feel his grip on the edge slipping.
Naruto glared up at Sasuke. "Teme, you better not let go!!" he shouted angrily. The bandit then smirked as the raven-haired boy was making his decision. He lifted his foot again and slammed it on the genin's hand.
Sasuke clenched his teeth, holding on tightly to the edge, trying to get his other hand up on it. The bandit kept slamming his foot on his hand, but though it hurt like hell, Sasuke never let go. Finally, the bandit raised his foot again; before he slammed it down, he said, "Time's up!"
Sasuke felt the impact on his now weak-gripped hand, causing him to loosen it… and let go.
"YOU BASTARD UCHIHA!!!!!" Naruto screamed as they fell. Sakura just screamed at the top of her lungs as all three of them fell down the hole to their deaths.
Or so they thought it was…
Don't think I'm killing them off right now. This is only the beginning! Look forward to the next chapter! ^^