A/N: This actually started out for a different manga/anime, DN Angel. This is what happens when I get distracted with mysteries surrounding demons and vampires. -.-; I curse folklore for being so damn interesting. Anyway! :D Hope you enjoy, I also got the urge to read this because of so many authors with such aprochable stories. which means they're funny a bit OOC and entertaining with still carrying a plot. I envy you authors that fill these criteria. XD
Warning!Contains traces of a bored writer, a bit of sugar, some seriousness, bad cooking and flaky story line! Read with caution! This story contains yaoi, turn back now least ye eyes be burnt out of yer sockets! Hints NaruHina, NaruSaku, and finally the piece of resistonce: Sasunaru. Or Narusasu I haven't decided. Unbeta-ed. q.q -sniffles-
Enjoy my... few... erm... none readers?
I suck at being an authoress. T.T -sulks-
' Just no time...
For you, me.
Every second.
Of every day.
Ticks down...
...
Its wasted...
You sure this is so?
...
You could be wrong. Why live?
Because I can't die until I get something.
What is that?
...
Perhaps for another time.
Another time.
Time... '
End recording day 1
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The most intriguing thing on the whole green earth, is not what scientists study. Oh no, something much more than that. Whilst they drown and flounder about in calculations with their mind set on how things should be rather than the growth to improve it. The ponderous, so immensely huge thing that takes only a second to comprend. Is in fact. Life. Or rather the beings that interact with Life. It is a very important thing to them and Time punishes them for it.
Because eventually we all have to die. And it is when they see me. Death. Time sends them here for it has no use for the poor things anymore and I'm to lay them to rest. The eternal rest... The final sleep. Pushing daisies is my favourite of course. However there are these beings that are insanely interesting. The have quirked my mind so much to that of which I've shirked my responsibilities for, according to Time, only a few seconds. A few seconds would amount to a number so large I fear that you may not comprehend it. Nor would it fill the universe. So I prefer seconds, seeing as it fits the best and many people take the final nap each day.
Although the beings, humans, are so mind boggling interesting there are a select few that stand out from the crowd. Such as those defying Life, Time, and I. Death. How do they do it I've always wondered? This is the thing that has been bothering me... For now I'm defying my duty to examine them, just like the scientists I hate. I don't study them as much as I study their colors. Colors fascinate me to no end.
How do they do it?
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"Oi watch it!"
"Look where you're goin' nimrod!"
"AH! My apples!"
"THIEF!"
'Jeez, couldn't these people just relax? Like I'd steal a bunch of rotting apples!' An ungracious orphan grimaced with said apples, fresh mind you, in tow. "Hey bet cha can't catch me you slimy good for nothin' chaps!" He taunted running down an alley with police in hot pursuit only to effectively disappear.
"Eh? Bejeasus! That bumbling fool of a street rat managed to escape again?!" One of them exclaimed throwing his hat on the ground. "I wish you the best of the British on finding him and his gang."
"Give it up boys, he's long gone by now... I'm still wondern how he manages to get up that wall."
The alley was a perfect place to get cornered in admittedly in a dodgy end of town that was Konogakure. There was a tall wall blocking the way to the next alley on the opposite side, that no mere child could get up. The child in question could of used the fire escapes if it weren't for the housings washing hanging all over the place like a festival.
"I don't know how he'd done it, but he either get up that wall or he disappears like a genie!" One of the cops kicked a trash can knocking it over and a few good sized rats falling out of it. Both cops and rats scrambling to get out of each others way. "We checked the alley before ain't no windows or door he could've gone up."
"Better to leave it, let him be the mysterious seventh wonder of our 'blessed' city." Another said singnaling time for the to leave. The cops left, the rats left, and the sun was begining to leave. It paused for just a moment. The first color I noticed on my daily job... It lit up his hair, his dirty face, his eyes, and his smile. But that wasn't important, the red hue on humans was normal. No it was the blazing blue of regal pride. The king of fools, of chumps and of the alley rats. I later learned his name. A name that fit him as much as it would be to call a rat fluffy.
"Pfft! Those dip shits aren't a match for the great and wonderful Uzumaki Naruto!" The orphan exclaimed bursting out of his hiding place, a trash can near the one the policeman had kicked over. "Thank you thank you!" He bowed to no one, cuddling the apples to himself as if it were a child and not food.
"And now! I feast! Better just eat one and take the rest back for the guys." Naruto mumbled scrubbing an apple of his choice against his shirt eyeing it warily, since he'd taken it into the trash with him. But all that eyeing ended up into a satisfying crunch. "Mph! Good apple!" He mumbled chunks blowing out of his mouth as he walked out of the alley the sun finally fading on his back. But the royal blue still remained.
How did he make that color? So regal, true that even his essence eminated it. Normally colors of humans souls match their personalities, his did that an more.
How did he make that color?
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"Let me see Naruto! Did ja get the apples like you said you would?" Children clamored around him pawing at his shit and tugging on his pants.
"Of course I did. Ne ne guys where's Hinata?" The blonde chuckled as the rest of children stuck to him like burrs.
"Come on give us the apples please? Please!" They whined.
"Heh! Fine fine. Here spilt these evenly Konohamaru, Udon, Miogi!" Naruto put the oldest children of the boarding house in charge of the apple stock which was hidden under his bed.
"How long have you been storing these up chief?" Konohamaru asked pulling out the stash and handing them out to grateful hands and hungry eyes.
"Not very, taking a few maybe 5 at a time from each shop in the morning, noon, afternoon, and evening. Anyway you guys, where's Hinata? Sakura? Shikamaru?" Naruto sighed his eyes lifted up into slits as if annoyed.
"They're downstairs!"
"Helping Tsunade cook dinner!"
"I want to make a pie... Can we make a pie with these Naruto?"
The children swarmed him again little faces, dirty noses, but bright shining eyes. It pained his heart that he couldn't always give them what they wanted. He always feared that he couldn't steal enough or maybe they'd be upset with him for no good reason and call him a monster like everyone else. But these tiny street rats were his family, his subjects and he was their king, their savior.
"OF course! Duh! You think Tsunade would say no to making you a pie? Let me take about 15 of those apples, eh Udon? And Miogi, make sure these runts take their baths." Naruto eyed them like a hawk, "No baths means no pies." All of the children gasped (including Miogi) scrambling out of the dusty room and down the hallway to the bath. Each had taken their apples with them. "Oi Konohamaru, go help Tsunade I'll be down in a bit... I got some more money for their school fund. I should have enough for all of them by Christmas. Including you, Udon and Miogi." He whispered catching the apples clumsily thrown at him by Udon, using his shirt as a basket.
"But chief what about you?" Konohamaru looked up at him wide eyed, grateful, but he knew that Naruto's education was an important thing too. "You can't get a good job if you don't have money Naruto..." He rubbed his nose, "I object!" He grinned up at Naruto's face, wincing in pain as the blonde's fist came down on his skull.
"Idiot! You need to get into school! Its too late for me, I'm 18. Almost a grown up." He looked over at Udon, "Scram you rats, go get your baths! You smell!" He turned up his nose stalking out of the room nursing his pride as Konohamaru called out, "So do you king of dumpsters!"
Naruto grinned back and made his way down the stairs to the first floor wiping a a tear on his sleeve. "Idiots..." The horrid smell of whatever the owner of the bording house was cooking smashed into his nose. "Ugh! Grandma Tsunade! That smells like a dog turd roasting on our Harlem sidewalks. What is it!" The boy cried, waving one hand in front of his face.
"Shut up you little brat! Urusai!" A large buxom woman know as Tsunade the Great by some(for reasons that shall be left unsaid). But by others grandma because of her sweet and surly disposition. She waved a spoon at Naruto with each of her words cursing him in Japanese and English. "I heard you from upstairs, so the other rats want pie eh?" The blond nodded. Tsunade sighed, ah well I guess it would go well with the meat loaf..."
"Ah that's what it was, I was warming to the smell thinking it was a dead dog." Naruto chirped brightly grinning all the while only to have the said spoon collide with his forehead. It left a red mark and Naruto fell backwards onto the floor. It was a daily bickering that led to the physical outbursts, of which normally he could dodge, but apparently he'd gone too far. The apples nested in his dirty shirt spilled out onto the floor and the equally blonde woman picked them up. "Naruto no pie for you. Or treats." Tsunade said sternly.
Naruto groaned from the floor, her strength was one thing to fear, but her punishments were much much worse. "Why! Why dear kami-sama! What did I do to get my once a month treat of RAMEN taken away?! What!" He cursed as he shakily stood up, spoon mark still on his forehead. His eyes were half lidded as Naruto walked(a bit wobbly) into the kitchen.
"You complained about her cooking that's why." A brunette sighed sitting at the table, head resting in his hand. Meanwhile the three girls in the room burst into giggle fits. Naruto glared through his slitted eyes and poked his bottom lip out only causing further laughter. The boy cursed and sat down next to his best friend groaning as his head hit the table top. "Why me? Why me Shika?"
"Do I really have to repeat myself?" Shikamaru yawned eyeing the 'meat loaf'. If he wasn't smart he'd say that it could walk off his plate when everyone sat down to eat. "And that spoon mark is a dark red color. You aren't getting rid of it for awhile. And putting your forehead on the table won't help." He smirked amused with the pitiful whimpers coming from his friend.
"Cheer up Naruto! Come on cheer up for me and Sakura!" A purple haired girl smiled sitting down at the table as well, a bubble gum pink haired girl following.
"Ah Hinata!" Naruto head shot up, "I brought you something!" He motioned for her to scoot over towards him. His fingers went behind her ear, "I think you've got something growing here..." He mumbled pulling back his hand revealing a yellow apple. "Ta da! Got some for you guys too! Most expensive juicy apples that you can find!" The blonde chuckled pulling out two more.
"Don't tell me you stole these?" Sakura grimaced, but bit into the apple anyway. Shikamaru ate it with no questions asked, "He always steals, you'd think he was a klepto."
"I am not!"
"He's not!" Hinata and Naruto declared together both blushing the same shade. "Really how could Naruto nii-chan steal without purpose? He doesn't do it without thinking, he always takes it for the children!" She continued fiddling with the apple she had yet to eat.
"Ne ne, its okay Hinata-chan!" He pouted at Sakura across the table. "And I told you to stop calling me nii-chan! Call me the great Uzumaki sa-"
"Lord of the trash! Conqueor of the dumpster! King of the Rats!" The group of children finished upon entering the dinning area.
Everyone burst out into laughter, even the Royalty of the table. Blue eyes shimmered with happiness, with only flitting sadness as he touched his bandaged cheeks.
Would they still like him if they knew he was a monster? The scars he hid were his sins. Could a monster like him be friends with loving people like them?
For the time being.
For Time it was okay for now...
A/N: O.o; Well first chapter is done. I still think I suck... -still sulking- I may decide to count this as a one shot and leave it like that till I get bored with the other stories... Reviews gain my love and boost my spirits! So if you review for me to continue then I will. until then. It sits here. .. Poor story... Lol, I'm evil! I'm just filling up space now.
Anyway! Recap! Reviews are LOVE so please review! And if you want the general idea of the story feel free to ask that as well... Erm... So you reviewers... readers? Cya in the next chappie! If there is one... -gloom-
-Kitt