Another Naruto fic to add to my collection, this one isn't depressing like my last one. (Stupid fic, now when I hear that song I want to cry, I almost did once too, I was on the bus).
The summary doesn't tell you much I know, but it's kind of hard to sum up the plot of the story.
What I can tell you is that it's supernatural, romance, and yaoi all the way. And it's AU, can't forget that. It's all about a small village (Konoha) and the trouble it gets when 2 people move there.
The title will/might/maybe get changed (when I find a better one). 'Shrine in the fog', almost reminds of that book 'Thunderwith' I had to read in year 7 or 8.
The story's set in Japan, around about our time and the gang are 17/18 (depending on who's who). Now, I'm no good and Geography, failed all my capital cites tests in year 9, I have just placed the village on a mountain on Shikoku island, that's 2nd lowest island of Japan.
Confused? See a map, much better then reading my bad descriptions.
Now, on with the story.
Our village was always a little on the sleepily side. My sister Ino, is constantly complaining to our Grandparents about what a crappy town this is. There's never anything for the youth to do. No bands ever have a gig this far into the mountains, and it takes to long to get to a big city to go pointlessly window-shopping. We have no amusement park (I'd like to see you balance a Ferris Wheel on a slope) and it takes about a week for the mail to arrive. Plus there's only one computer in the whole village. The only exciting thing that happens is the yearly fox festival. Which sucks anyway, cause I'm forever singing, chanting, playing music, and even dancing, for it to be any fun.
The festival is the only thing that brings the tourists in. The legend of our village is that, once there was a great war between two villages, about what would happen to the forest that separated them. The West village wanted it all for themselves, while the East village wanted to keep it as was. The Fox demon that lived in there, heard about what the villages were doing. It burned them both down and only a few people survived. Just as the fox was going to kill them, the people got down on their knees and begged for forgiveness. The fox, although terrifying, let them live as long as they never left its territory.
That is why, each year we have a festival, to show our thanks to the demon, and to let it know that no one has ever left the village.
My Grandma is a well respected elder, and when she and my Grandad took us twins in, we were placed under the divine protection of the Demon. Meaning that while Sakura, Ino's friend/rival may leave, we cannot.
Grandmother says that once we finish school we will start leaning how to take over her and Granddad's places. Which means doing all that ritual shit, like getting up at 1am, running around shrines all day in traditional outfits and even… sitting on your knees. Not my idea of a choice career.
My best friend, Iruka wants to be a primary teacher, and another friend of mine, Kiba, he wants to be a dog breeder. When I was 5, I wanted to be the Emperor, but soon after, my parents died and we were sent here.
As I was saying, nothing ever happens in our village and no one ever moves here, so it was a shock to see a new face sitting at MY desk on Monday morning.
I should have known that today was going to be a bad day. I had fallen out of bed and hit my knee on my desk, there was no milk left for breakfast (Ino had used it all up, saying something about growing), my shoelace broke, and I was missing a button off my shirt. Normally I don't have that much bad luck and I quickly checked a calendar to see if it was Friday 13th of something. No, it was still Monday.
I slowly walked down the road to school making a flop, clunk, flop, clunk sound. Ino had once again left without me. Sakura, who lived next door (about a five minute walk) and come and gotten her, but had forgotten all about me. I was already running late and I couldn't run or else I would trip on my lose shoe. I managed to just arrive before the first bell.
Our class is small(for a Japanese school), and when I say small, I mean 15 people with only on class year. We might be small, but we the loudest class there was and I had found it strange, when I first entered our home room that 1) No one seemed to be talking, yelling, making noise at all and 2) there were definitely more then 14 people in the class. Hell, there was almost double that. They all seemed to be girls too, ranging from 1st years to 3rd years and they were all piled around my desk. Curiosity getting the better of me, I pushed my way through the flock of girls, not bothering to apologise, to see what was so good about my desk.
Getting past the last line of defence, I mean girls, I turned to see a splodge of ink, suspended in the air. When it finally clicked in my head that this was no splodge of ink but a person, it also came to me that he was in my spot. My spot.
I've never had much stuff that I could call my own, and that table was special to me. For starters, I could see the back of Sakura's head when Shikamaru slept, and now I was on the other side of the room, how was I meant to gaze at her beautifully perfect hair (overlook the regrowth) if I was no where near her.
"Your in my seat." Now normally, when someone says that the conversation is supposed to go something like this:
"Sorry about that, here, I'll move." Says the person in seat, as they get up at move to another seat.
"Naw, don't worry about, seeing as you're new and all." Says person who is waiting to have their seat back.
Now just keep that little dialogue in mind as I repeat what really happened.
"Your in my seat." I waited for a few seconds for the guy to at least acknowledge I was there.
"Hey buddy, I'm talking to you. Your in my seat, so can ya move." Still no reply. Was this guy deaf or something. Getting quite fed up with him I gave one of the chair legs a bit of a nudge, just to shake him awake or something.
"This seat mine now, go get another one." The low reply was not something I was expecting. I never knew some at the age of 17 could have the voice of a 30 year old. Forgetting all about his voice I noticed that he had still to look up at me yet. I had to do something to cure this.
"Why is this seat your eh? Who died and made you boss?" I struck my most intimidating pose that I could think of, which consisted of me puffing out my chest with hands on my hips.
"Uzumaki will you go and find another seat to sit in, I want to start my class on time for once. That seat over there, on the left of Ino is where you will now be sitting, quickly class get out your books." Just like Ibisu to come at the worst time and treat me like shit.
I glared at the back of the new kids head before trudging my way to my new desk.
Hanging up my bag on the desk hook I dropped my head onto the wood and wished that my life was over.
TBC
If anyone is interested this is the seating arrangement
Shino Aburame Chouji Akimichi Gaara Haruno Sakura
Hinata HyuugaUmino IrukaInuzuka Kiba Shikamaru Nara
Rock leeTen-Ten Neji HyuugaSasuke Uchiha
Naruto UzumakiIno Uzumaki SpareSpare
(note: Iruka used to sit where Neji does now, because of bad family issues, Hinata and Neji can't sit next to each other, so Irukaas student rep. offered to swap places.)
That was the prologue, it's small I know (a little over 2 pages) but it will get longer (I hope). First things first: yes, Kakashi will show up (most likely next chapter and he will be a year or two older then the others), yes, they all the same age (even Iruka), and yes, this is an AU, but you already know that.
The Kyuubi will show up soon, plus a special gift that Naruto has will be added soon. (See if you can guess it, although most of you are very perceptive towards plot twists If only I had that ability, I wouldn't be so naïve, then I would know when a certain guy was trying to flirt with me or when… sorry rambling and will probably guess it right away.
If you do wanna have a guess just send a review and tell me what you think it could be, and also what you think of the story so far.
Flames towards yaoi or about how crap my story line is, will be taken and added to my oven, cause our gas is on the fritz. I had warned you at the start and even in the summery that this was yaoi or shounen ai or whatever (should just call it boys love of even BL for short I wonder if that will catch on?).
So if I get one flame like that I gonna start to wonder if those people can get any lamer, I mean com'on, why would you waste your time flaming a story that you haven't read, or read and didn't like one of the main elements, when there's so many good writers out there just waiting to be found, and boy have I found a great list (I really should add them to my favourites but I never remember).
Go on now, either click the 'Go' or 'back' button, whichever one makes you happy. (I guess I'm talking to my self now cause how many people read the notes at the bottom? I know I do. Do you?)