AN: Hey guy's it's been a while but here is the story that I promised on my profile :D This story will be written in first person mostly from Naruto's and Hinata's points of view. I hope you like it!
SPOILERS: Takes placed after; episode 172, chapter 445 of Naruto and after; episode 25 ,chapter 22 of Soul Eater.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or Soul Eater.
UPLOADED: 03/13/15
Naruto P.O.V.
I approach Kakashi sensei with a somber face. "Hey Kakashi sensei."
Kakashi looked up as I came closer. "What's the matter Naruto? You're up early."
I sat down on the grass next to him and gazed into the rising sun. The memorial graves that surrounded us began to glow in the sun.
"I just thought I would come here and visit Ero-sannin before I reported for another mission." I sigh. My face in my palms, I feel a strong hand on my shoulder. I tear escapes my eye and I feel it drip on my hand racing down my arm toward the ground. I feel Kakashi's grip tighten on my shoulder, I look up to see he is also crying.
Our eyes meet then he looks in to the distant horizon. "Naruto, life is full of sorrow and I know you understand that well; but don't forget all the good things."
Kakashi returns my gaze and smiles. "You are a lot like him. Come on Naruto, didn't you say something about a mission. I remember when you first became a Genin all you wanted to do was go on missions."
I cracked a small smile. "That was a long time ago Kakashi Sensei."
"Hmm, indeed it was back then you were the number one super hyper active knuckle head of the village." Both of us laugh and I remember our first real mission. Team seven escorted a hunted bridge builder back to the land of waves. But that was a long time ago and things have changed, team seven is scattered. Back before Sasuke abandoned the hidden leaf village, leaving everything he had once cared for behind in his search for power.
"I'm going to get Sasuke back; no matter what. I made Sakara a promise." I ball my hands into fists.
"There's the Naruto I know." Kakashi sensei stands up. "Now why don't we go see about that mission?"
I nod my head. "Let's go, I can take on any enemy, believe it!"
Hinata P.O.V.
"Ready Hinata?" Neji asked, preparing his fighting stance.
I stand prepared to fight with my feet apart and my fists out. "I'm ready."
I focus my chakra into my hands and activate my byakugan, instantly I can see all around me. I see Neji's chakra veins locate his key chakra points and prepare to strike with my gentle fist.
We circle each other both waiting for the right moment to strike. Neji makes the first move; he slides his hands between mine then quickly pushes them apart and forces his chakra into my chest and propelling me backward. I wobble but land on my feet and I charge at Neji. I fake a punch with my right fist then duck and swing my left leg to take his feet out. Neji is able to jump over my left leg and quickly recovers but not quickly enough.
"Eight palms!" I scream my fists rapidly jabbing his chest. But before I can move on to sixteen palms he hits the chakra points in my left arm matching my attack. We both fly backward and reevaluate our situations. I blocked some of Neji's chakra points, rerouting the flow, causing a slight disturbance. I quickly look at my left arm and see only a few chakra points have been block but unfortunately they were all vital to the flow of chakra to my left hand.
Suddenly I feel as though I am being watched, I forget about Neji and turn around. I see Naruto standing there with Lee, I am sure I turn bright red. How long has he been watching?
"Hinata, behind you." I hear Naruto yell.
I turn around to be met with Neji's face centimeters away from mine. I scream and jump backward, landing right in front of Naruto, my back against his legs. I stare up at him for a second, my face in now extremely warm. Naruto looks at me then looks up at Neji.
"Neji did you have to hit her so hard." Naruto yelled pointing Neji. Then his finger moves to point to my red face. "She's all red."
"I didn't even hit her." Neji complained. "She gets like this sometimes I have no idea why. So," Neji continues. "Why are you guys here?"
"A village not too far from here was attack and Grandma Tsunade wants us to check it out." Naruto looks down at me. "Hinata; Lee and I are here to bring you with us on the mission. Our job is to find out what attacked the village and neutralize it; sounds simple enough right?" Naruto finishes with a smile; he walks around to face me and then extends his hand out to me. I take it and grip tightly as he pulls me up.
Suddenly Rock Lee is dragging Naruto and me away from Neji yelling. "Here we go!"
The rain pours down without any sign of letting up; lightning illuminates the sky while thunder shakes the ground. I sit idly just on the edge of the cave we had decided to sleep in for the night. If I stuck my hand out I would be able to feel the icy water droplets on my hand. It has become cold and damp. The rain clouds subside as the sun begins to peek over the horizon; and the temperature begins to rise with the sun.
I think about the night before, I couldn't see into the cave using my byakugan but simply disregarded the thought because we were all tired. As I sat here now in the calm after the storm I still couldn't see inside or outside the cave. In fact that wasn't the only weird thing. The scene outside had changed drastically; the once lush green forest was now a desert waste land. The sun was the strangest sight of all; it appeared to have a laughing face on it. "Is this real?" I wondered aloud to myself.
I try focusing on my byakugan harder but am interrupted by the sound of moaning and yawning. I quickly turn around to see Lee and Naruto sitting up rubbing their eyes.
I stand up and walk toward them. "There's something really st-strange going on outside." I motion outside the cave.
"Hey Hinata what's up?" Naruto says in a sleepy voice. He removes his night cap revealing his messing blonde hair. Naruto stands up and walks to the mouth of the cave, standing beside me he surveys the area. "What the hell?" Naruto says confused. "Bushy Brows you should come and have a look at this."
Lee is the last one to join us; he stands up and walks over to stand beside Naruto.
"Hinata you are right." Lee gasps. "There is definitely something weird going on."
Naruto reaches his hand up to scratch his head. "It rained last night, so why did all the trees and plants die? We aren't that far away from Konoha. You guys are right there is something strange about this place. It looks like Suna. Well," Naruto continues clapping his hands together. "There's only one thing to do and that is to explore the area and figure out where the hell we are." He finishes with a smile.
Lee squints into the distance, peering out of the cave and shields his eyes from the blistering sun. "There is a black pyramid farther out can you guys see it. It could be a village?"
"Good call Bushy Brows." Naruto says. "We can pack up and be on our way." He makes his way back inside the cave and begins to pack up.
The three of us quickly pack up, change and strap on our supplies. We step out of the cave into the great desert before us.
The journey to the black pyramid takes us about an hour walking. There is nothing but flat desert as we travel. Naruto and Lee try to make the journey more entertaining by doing training exercises. They take turns giving each other piggy back rides; laughing about something Neji said when Lee offered him a piggy back ride after rescuing the Kazekage.
As the black pyramid gets closer I realize it was not a pyramid but a village shaped like a pyramid. The gate was huge and over hanging it was a giant skull with two tall and slender red cones coming out just above the eye sockets of the skull. There was also a sign that read 'Death City.'
We decided to stick together as we searched the village. The people here seemed normal enough, no cause for immediate alarm but I kept my guard up and warned Naruto and Lee to do the same. The streets were bustling with people before I knew it I couldn't find Naruto or Lee.
Calm down and use your byakugan to find them. I looked around; however I found that I wasn't able to see through anything or anybody. I focused on the people walking by and what I saw shocked me.
Everyone seemed to have a little ball of... of something floating inside them and each ball had a tail on the top. I would say it was where chakra was stored, but each was a different colour and human chakra is blue. I watched a man as the ball expanded inside him, for a moment I feared it may explore. The ball did not explode but continued to grow around the man like a protective bubble. I wondered if it were some strange jutsu know only to these people.
Scanning the area I realized that everyone I could see was now surrounded by a bubble. The bubbles were all different shapes, sizes and colours; it was almost as if they had personalities that were emitted like waves. I noticed someone with an extremely strong bubble, it was blue and spiky. The person it belonged to had spiky sky blue hair, and was a little short but obviously very strong. He walked with a certain pride like he was trying to prove something, he kind of reminded of Naruto.
A little too late I realized that I was staring at him, he began walking toward me fallowed by a tall women with long black hair. I didn't have enough time to turn and walk away; I suppose he too realized I was staring at him. I felt me face get hot, nervously I fiddled my fingers. I noticed he had a star tattoo on his left shoulder. The woman grabbed hold of his arm and was clearly trying to hold him back.
"Do you know who you're looking at?" The boy seethed "I am Black Star! And I will surpass God!" He screams.
"I'm, I'm sorry, I didn't mean…" I began nervously. "I-I mean, I'm no-not from around here, I-I didn't know…"
"That's okay." Black Star was now smiling. "I'll forgive you this time, since you're new here."
"Black Star!" The tall women yelled looking at him. Then she turned to me and in a soft voice said, "I'm so sorry, Black Star is just a little… uh, up front about things." She had turned red as well, looking quite embarrassed. "He isn't dangerous… just a little hyper is all." She finished smiling. She looked at Black Star again. "Black Star, apologize right now!" She said sternly.
"Sorry." He muttered, his head dropped a little but then it came right back up again. "What's your name?" He inquired.
"Hin-Hinata." I stuttered in reply.
"Well Hinata, since you're new around here, I suppose I could show you around. Then you can witness the mighty Black Star." He yelled laughing.
The tall woman shakes her head. "Did you forget already Black Star? We're supposed to meet the others for basketball."
"Hmm." Black Star looks puzzled rubbing his chin with his hand. "We can bring Hinata with us, then you can have an exclusive tour from Death City's very our Black Star, Yahoo!" Black Star says excitedly running off.
I wasn't sure whether to be afraid or grateful. While Black Star led the way his friend hung back a little and talked to me.
"I'm sorry if Black Star frightened you." She said. "He gets a little carried away sometimes. I'm Tsubaki." Tsubaki smiles sweetly.
"That's okay and it's ni-nice to meet you, Tsubaki." I say sheepishly. "He sort of reminded me of my friend Nar-Naruto. I suppose that's why I was st-staring at him, I didn't mean to be r-rude or anything. I got separated from my friends and I was trying to find them." I left out the part where everyone had bubbles around them. I not even sure if that was real or not and I don't want Tsubaki thinking I'm crazy. I'll talk to Naruto and Lee about it when I find them.
"Well," Tsubaki continues, "I suppose we could help your friends." She smiles and laughs. "There's no point in you walking in circles all day is there."
"Hey everybody look at who I found." Black Star announces presenting me to a small group.
I look in front of me to see four faces peering at me curiously. There are six people including Tsubaki and Black Star. All of them look to be around my age.
"Guys, this is Hinata, she's not from around here and she's lost." Black Star announces bluntly.
"Hi Hinata, I'm Maka." She said smiling. The girl had green eyes and dirty blonde hair up in pigtails.
"Name's Soul, what's up?" A boy said jerking his head up then back down. He had white spikey hair and red eyes like Kurenai Sensei.
"I'm Kid and this is Patty." He said pointing at a girl with short blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Kid had black hair with three horizontal stripes on his left side. His eyes were similar to a target board but yellow.
"He-Hello." I reply nervously; all eyes are on me. "I-I got lost, Black Star and Tsubaki said they could help me find my-" I find myself being cut off as Black Star puts his arm around me; almost bringing me into a head lock.
"That's right." Black Star confirms my story.
"Hinata! Run!" I hear a voice scream my name.
Black Star releases me from the head lock and turns to face the person yelling. I turn to see Naruto charging straight toward me followed closely by Lee.
"Wait…" I try to say but it's too late, Black Star has jumped in front of me and begins to charge Naruto. Oh no what do I do?
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto yells as he races forward.
Nothing happens and Naruto looks very confused but continues to charge.
Just as Naruto and Black Star are about to collide something unexplainable happens, Naruto disappears. I run over quickly and find Lee simply staring and a scythe on the ground.
"Where's Na-Naruto?' I ask urgently.
Lee doesn't answer me but simply points at the scythe on the ground.
"I'm right here Hinata." On the blade of the scythe I see Naruto. "Uh Hinata, why are you so tall.
I gasp. "N-Naruto umm, you're kind of… uh I-I think you turned into a scythe." I whisper.
"What?" Naruto exclaims. "How the hell did I become a scythe? Aright what did you do to me?" He screams glaring at Black Star. "Is this some kind of transformation Jutsu? What-ever it is undo it right now!" Naruto demands.
Black Star begins howling with laughter "I didn't do anything to you; you're a Weapon. A scythe by the looks of it, just like Soul.
"Hinata you look like you've seen a ghost, have you never seen a Weapon transform before?" Tsubaki asks.
"Hinata?" Lee inquires. "Who are these guys?"
"Us," Black Star replies. "That's easy we're students at the academy. The real question is who are you?"
Naruto immediately goes off on Black Star again. "We're not telling you guys anything until you turn me back to normal."
I see scythe Naruto cross his arms, I realize then that I can only see the top half of Naruto. I begin to blush when Naruto turns his attention to me, he unfolds his arms and to my surprise he is topless.
"Um, Nar-Naruto," I begin nervously. "Are you uh, I mean, do you know if you're, uh, you know…" I'm not quite sure how to ask him if he's aware that he has no clothes. I look up at Lee, who is peering down at scythe Naruto and watch his eyes suddenly widen. He looks at Black Star then me then Naruto again.
Suddenly he yells, causing me to jump. "Naruto! What happened to your clothes? Did you lose them when you transformed?" Lee and Naruto start to search around frantically for Naruto's clothes. I can hear Black Star laughing; he is bent over and clutching his stomach. Both Kid and Soul look bored, patty seems to be drawing something on the ground. Maka and Tsubaki are standing there looking just as confused as I feel.
"You guys are idiots." Black Star proclaims.
"You will not call Hinata, Naruto and I idiots." Lee yells as he charges Black Star.
It all happens in a moment, Black Star yells something at Tsubaki and instantly she is gone and Black Star is holding a chain scythe in his hands. Lee tries to stop but it is too late, Black Star brings the chain scythe down to Lee's head. I gasp and hear not the cracking of bone but the hollow clang of metal. Maka is now holding a scythe with black and red triangle along the blade; the scythe has stopped Black Star's attack. Lee moves his hands away from his eyes, seeing how close the blade is to his head collapses, falling flat on his back.
The air is thick with tension, Maka stares Black Star down, eventually he lifts his blade up and to my amazement the blade becomes Tsubaki. She looks quite embarrassed, her face is bright red and she is staring at the ground. Maka and Black Star glare at each other for a moment.
"Black Star," A voice calls. "You can't go around attacking people."
"What are you talking about that guy came at me first, I was only defending myself!" Black Star yells furiously.
"Still, they're obviously not from around here give them a break." I realize the voice is coming from the scythe.
"Oh I'll give them a break alright, in the head." He spits back.
"Black Star, shut up!" Maka yells. Then she walks over to Lee, "Are you alright?" She asks, extending her free hand out to Lee. "I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot. I'm scythe Meister Maka Albern, and you are?"
"I am Rock Lee, a Chunin of the Village Hidden in the Leaves." He says with confidents and a classic Lee smile. Lee takes Maka's hand and she pulls him up.
"Hey aren't you guys forgetting about me? What the hell just happened I couldn't see anything, did someone have a fight? What's going on?" Naruto yells.
I had completely forgotten about Naruto, I run over to him or the scythe. I look down at him and bend over, tenderly picking up scythe Naruto. I carefully examine the scythe's blade; the blade appears to be a dark grey colour with an orange horizontal strip running along the top of the scythe's blade. The handle is red and winds upward, making the top and bottom look similar to the crest on the uniforms similar to ninja in our village wear.
"Naruto, you're amazing." I whisper breathlessly.
"Uh, thanks." Naruto answers my complement awkwardly.
There is a flash of light and Naruto stands before me no longer a scythe.
"That was really weird." Naruto comments; looking at his arms as he moves them around. "But kind of awesome." He looks at Lee and me smiling.
The others are staring at Naruto, Lee and I. They don't approach us but I know they have questions they want to ask us, but we have a few questions of our own.
AN: Well... What did you guys think? Let me know in the reviews :) Criticism is welcome as long as it is constructive.
I'm not sure when I'll update. Chapter two should be done within a week and from then I'll try to update every two weeks.
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