Lost on the Road of Life
"Talking"
'Thinking'/Flashback
Okay, here's the new one. This story is a slightly Alternate Universe, and will be for quite a while. Not a crossover this time, sorry to those that like em'. On that note, I would like to make clear I don't know all that happened in this episode- I missed most of it when it aired.
WARNING: Horrible Google translations used in this chapter. It gives me different ones depending on if I capitalize the words or not and some just don't look right. If I can find the correct translation at leafninja (.com) I'll use Google.
(Horrible Translation): Every translation possible is in here.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. -sadness-
Chapter 1: Distance
In a place known as the Shuumatsu no tani (Valley of the End), two boys were currently dishing out all the pain they had on each other. This fight, not unlike many they had, had started for not so good reasons. One determined to desert his village, the other to smack some sense into him.
In the left corner: Uchiha Sasuke- genius, sole survivor of his clan, Konoha's pride and joy-the deserter.
In the right corner: Uzumaki Naruto- dead last, hyperactive knucklehead, Konoha's resident jinchuuriki (Power of a human sacrifice)- the janitor. Its only fitting, considering he picks up after everyone's messes. The most current being Sasuke's decision to run off to Orochimaru the traitor Hebi Sannin (Snake, Legendary Three Ninjas).
Anyway, both clearly did not look themselves at this point, having gone through freaky power ups like those in the manga (Comics) Naruto liked reading. Sasuke's cursed seal has reverted to its second stage giving him a makeover in the likeness of his ancestor's statue he was under. Minus the wings of course. Naruto's silhouette has been covered by Kyuubi's (Nine- tailed fox) red chakra giving him a fox-shaped cloak of energy. Unfortunately for both of them, power-ups are always pretty taxing; it was time to wrap this up.
Each began charging power for their last attack. Even with a waterfall in the background, the silence was deafening. All of their focus poured into one final strike. They sprang.
"CHIDORI!" (Chirping of 1000 birds)
"RASENGAN!" (Spiraling Sphere)
The two jutsu (Technique(s)) crashed together, both equal and trying to overpower the other. Energy given off by them swirled around creating a black dome of chakra. It leaked foul energy into the atmosphere.
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Hatake Kakashi, the two dueling boys' sensei (Teacher) had forgone the orders given by the Hokage (Fire Shadow) and left the village to search for his pupils.
"Kakashi, look!" cried his summon dog, Pakkun.
He looked to see a dark aura in the sky, coming from near the border of Hi no Kuni (Land of Fire)and Ta no Kuni (Land of Rice Fields). Tanbo is where Otogakure no Sato (Villiage Hidden in the Sound) was located.
'I have a bad feeling about this...' Kakashi thought as he and Pakkun raced toward source hoping to get there before it was too late. 'Among many times in the past.'
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All around Konohagakure no Sato (Village Hidden in the Leaves) news was buzzing left and right. The mission to retrieve Sasuke has now been heard by everybody in the village, thanks to it's number one gossip queen, Yamanaka Ino. Except all was not well with Ino, as she saw one of her teammates that had been on the mission- Akimichi Chouji- rushed to the emergency room in critical condition. There in the hospital with her other teammate, Nara Shikamaru, and a Sunagakure (Village Hidden in the Sand) kunoichi, (female ninja) Temari, they watched one-by-one how the others filed in.
Hyuuga Neji, also in danger of dying, Inuzuka Kiba showed up slung over Kankuro's shoulders exhausted and wounded. Akamaru was already taken to Kiba's sister for treatment. Gaara passed Rock Lee off to the medical staff at the door. Both were exhausted but Gaara refused treatment.
Temari and Kankuro walked up to him. He looked around the hospital lobby and asked his siblings "...Where is Uzumaki Naruto?"
Shikamaru gave a start. He said "Naruto and Sasuke are the only ones who haven't shown up yet. He's still out there..."
Maybe...just maybe, there was some hope for this mission after all.
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Meanwhile inside the sphere of chakra, Naruto and Sasuke were still in a deadlock. That soon ended though, as Sasuke soon changed his target and, for the second time, shoved the remainder of the Chidori into Naruto's chest.
"Nngh!" It wasn't enough to pierce his skin but it was a hard enough punch to break a rib or two. The rasengan fizzled away. Naruto used the last of his strength to scratch Sasuke's hitai-ite. It went through the Konoha symbol- the mark of a rouge ninja.
The two boys just kind of stared at each other for a moment, flashbacks to when they were younger running through their heads. Naruto felt his strength fading fast. 'Where did it all go wrong? Why Sasuke?'
On the outside
The black sphere began to crack in the middle, a white light breaking it apart from the center. Then, the energy imploded and produced a backlash that sent the two flying. Sasuke landed on the ground, curse seal transformation over, and unable to move. Naruto was not so lucky, sent flying into the statue of the Shodaime Hokage (First Hokage) before a chunk fell out, falling into the river and taking him with it. As water filled his vision and lungs Naruto struggled to get back to the surface. It was no use however, and he was swept away.
Looking from the top of a cliff was a plant with eyes! 'Pein-sama is not going to be happy about this...'
With Sasuke
A heavy rain had begun to fall on Sasuke as he laid unmoving on the rocks.
'Chikuso, move! I need to-' Sasuke's thoughts were halted as Kakashi stepped into his view from the ground.
"Boy, you are in deep trouble." commentator: Pakkun.
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Shikamaru was not a happy camper. This mission was an epic FAIL. All members were injured, 2 close to dying, 1 not even assigned to the mission was hurt, 1 was still missing in action, and they had to call in back-up to just be in this state. Having only broken a pinkie himself, well, needless to say he was pretty- well I don't like cursing, but I'm sure you can imagine.
The sensei's, and teammates of the respective patients had come in already. Anxiety could be felt throughout the lobby and quite frankly, it was getting on everyone's last nerve. Finally when it seemed someone was about to snap, they got a break. The light in the emergency room went off and Tsunade walked out. Everyone looked up.
"Hokage-sama how are they?"
"They should all be fine now. Kiba is resting, Neji will have to be monitored for his health for a while but is resting fine out of surgery on his shoulder. Chouji had extreme chakra exhaustion thanks to those curry pills. If we hadn't gotten the new antidote when we did..."
Shikamaru and Ino were crying in relief. "He has lost a lot of body mass though," she continued "he should be hungry in a few days when he wakes up."
Nara Shikaku, who was there to give the antidote to Tsunade, was also relieved-he could tell his best friend his son had survived. However he knew that the time to celebrate had not come yet. "Hokage-sama..."
"...I know." Tsunade had a hard time trying to keep the worry off her face. As far as she was concerned there was only one person still missing(Sasuke could rot for all she cared).
Just then Kakashi came in...
Carrying Sasuke on his back...
"...I sorry Hokage-sama... I was too late."
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To anyone walking along the Sotogawa no hodō (Outer Trail) the wheels of a cart could be slightly heard over the thunder in the sky. This cart belonged to but a simple farmer, Daichi, and his wife Chika, just ordinary people on their way home from selling produce. They had gotten quite far away from the nearest post town when a freak heavy rainstorm appeared. Hastening their steps, they went quickly to either find shelter in the town across the Sawa no Kuni border (Land of Swamps).
To get there, they had to cross the river that stemmed from Shuumatsu no Tani into Ta. Coming across the bridge they saw it had been destroyed. The rainstorm had caused the river to overflow and the heavy water broke the bridge when it flooded.
"What should we do? The rain is getting worse and now-" The wind cut Chika off from saying anymore.
"Just hang on maybe there will be shelter somewhere near..."
Noticing her husband had stopped talking, she tried to see what was wrong, but couldn't see through the rain. "What is it?"
Daichi said nothing, slowly easing away from the cart towards the riverbank. "What are you doing?" his wife half-asked, half-screamed. Thunder sounded loudly in the sky startling their horse something awful.
"There is something on the bridge! Stay by the horse!" He shouted getting closer. True enough, there was something caught in the wreckage- something orange. Getting closer he saw hand holding on to a board. Now realizing someone was in danger he hurried over, still being careful mind you. He lifted one wooden board and another and was shocked. It was a young boy, bleeding and broken as bad as that bridge.
Never had he seen such a sad sight. Obviously he assumed the boy was dead and began walking away. However still close enough to hear "..el..p. he..lp."
Rushing back over he was startled to see bright blue eyes trying desperately to stay open.
"Hold on, I've got you!" As he lifted the boy in his arms he noticed that there were more bloodstains than holes in his body. Daichi wasn't too sure if that was a good thing but he couldn't just leave him there. So he brought the boy back to his wife at the cart- the rainstorm mysteriously letting up.
"...A boy?" Chika gasped when she saw the condition he was in. "How could this have happened?"
"There's no time to figure that out, he's still alive but barely. We need to get back to Zenshō-machi (Outpost town) and find this boy a doctor!" With the rain calm enough to turn back, they did so and headed back into Ta no Kuni...where a certain someone was very pissed off for not getting his new vessel.
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In Otogakure no Sato there was turmoil as their leader Orochimaru laid waste to his own ninja.
"INCOMPETENT!" he ranted.
"Orochimaru-sam-urk!" dead.
"WORTHLESS!" he raved.
"Please, be reaso-ack!" dead.
"FOOLS!" you see a pattern here right?
"Why punish us, we weren't on the mission!" ...You don't even want to know what happened to this guy.
"...Orochimaru-sama if I may,-!" Another shinobi (male ninja) was sent flying right past Kabuto's head and crashed into the wall behind him.
"NO YOU MAY NOT! Five jonin (Elite Ninja), five DEAD jonin couldn't bring to me one genin (Beginner ninja). ONE!"
'Granted, Kimimaro was about to die anyway...' Kabuto thought.
"No GENIN should be able to beat FIVE JONIN!"
"The survey done on the area suggests they all split away from each other and Sasuke at some point."
"..."
"Orochimaru-sama?"
"All the years of planning...WASTED! Konoha isn't that foolish, I doubt that boy will be ever allowed back on the streets, even as a civilian."
"Why don't we just go get him if it's that much trouble?" asked the brother of the guy from earlier. He died much quicker.
"No one is any condition to be fighting Konoha, if we were I would have gone myself and we wouldn't be having this discussion. Any-MORE STUPID QUESTIONS!" yelling the last part for emphasis.
"None. Evidence shows Sasuke leaving to Shuumatsu no tani and was followed... by Uzumaki Naruto."
"So... you're telling me, that this is all that GAKI"S FAULT!" (brat)
Kabuto nodded, knowing when Orochimaru was in one of his moods no one better say anything lest they-
"Then we'll just go kill the kid bo-!" end up like him.
"Kabuto, I want the heads of ALL those boys on a silver platter."
"Hai." (Yes)
"...And send a profile to the bingo book publisher, on Uzumaki Naruto, with ALL the information." dun dun DUN!
To be continu- KIDDING! Just kidding.
"Um... isn't that a little extreme, just for a genin?"
"...I am THIS close to killing you too. Need I remind who beat you? If that boy had more sense and experience you would be dead now. No, it is time to get rid of this menace before he ends up like..." Orochimaru trailed off in flashback but no one wants to see what's going on in his flashbacks.
"What are you still doing here? Submit that file NOW! Then you'll see why everyone on the continent is going to want a piece of him. Of course I get the head."
"Right away sir." Kabuto leaves.
'Soon no one will be able to stand in my way!' "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
As Orochimaru continues with his maniacal laughter the only two guards left alive in the room look on at the strange sight.
"...Why do we serve him?"
"Two reasons. One, he'll kill us if we don't."
"True."
"And two...he's the only one for miles that pays for dental- you need that if you're going to be a shinobi. I can't begin to count how many times I've had my teeth knocked out."
To be Continued...
Next time: Chapter 2 Blue Bird
AN: Seriously, you think these people haven't gotten their teeth knocked out in this business? It is highly recommended that you listen to the songs that is the chapter's name. They might come from Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, or any other anime if I feel the song fits. It will fit.
As far as countries go, there is no real complete map of the Naruto world. I am just taking country names I've heard and am sticking them on the map where I want. Swamp seemed likely to be there considering I put it next to Rice and Waterfall. Whole lot of water.
I won't be updating for about 1-2 weeks now. I' m surprised I already have as much up as I do. Wasn't planning on my second story for another month. This first chapter is a gift in hopes that you'll continue reading my stories even with this little break.
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