Lets make some headway and post another chapter :) I mean, whos weird enough to actually search "King Kong Crossover/fusion" in the search box... >.> (Raises hand)
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King Kyuubi
Chapter 2
By Mirazhe1
Ships lined up at the docks like giant bellowing monsters as little men slowly packed and loaded cargo onto the humongous things. Night had seemed to fallen early with the thick fog round the short river that would lead Sasuke's crew to the ocean and beyond. People scurried everywhere like ants in the dimming light as a taxi pulled up and stopped. Hinata hopped out, carefully carrying a small suitcase and she gazed upward at a large passenger ship, no doubt large enough to carry more than half of Konoha.
"I-is this t-the ship?" She asked Sasuke, feeling small under the imposing might of the large thing. Sasuke, who had begun to hurriedly walk off, turned around blinking, before guiding Hinata toward a smaller ship.
"Not exactly, this one." She was lead to a, thankfully, smaller ship. Though it was merely a steamer, it was well sized and could easily fit a cast and crew for a movie. Hinata smiled softly, clasping at her luggage handle nervously. Sasuke turned, talking to a rather large (or maybe fat?) man standing next to a large pile of equipment. While there were many cameras and lights, Hinata vaguely wondered why the boxes sounded as though they were filled with kunai and weapons when they were picked up and loaded. She was interrupted from her thoughts at the sound of someone calling out.
"Sasuke-kun? Sasuke-kun!" A pink haired kunoichi jumped from the boat to the dock, an easy feat for a ninja. She looked about carefully, spotting Hinata and discreetly lead Sasuke away a bit. "They're on their way." She glared at Sasuke's questioning gaze. "Hunter-nin!" She squealed. "The studio hired hunter-nin to track us down." Sasuke cursed softly.
"Oi! Captain Kakashi!" A man, not far down the dock, looked up from his work with one eye. The rest of his face was covered with his headband and facemask. Strangely enough, with all of his discreetness about his face, he didn't seem bothered that his vibrant silver, gravity defying hair was left unchecked. "We need to get going, cast off, swab the poop deck or whatever the hell you do!"
"I can't do that, Sasuke-kun," the captain replied, single eye curving upward. One could just visualize the little heart that floated up from him. Sasuke, on the bridge to board the ship suddenly stopped.
"We are waiting for the paperwork." Said Uchiha prowled off the boarding bridge and stood close to Kakashi, speaking lowly.
"I'll give you another thousand if we leave now..."
"I still haven't received the first thousand, Sasuke-kun," Kakashi said less kindly now, his single eye becoming hard and menacing. A creak was heard behind him as Hinata shifted her weight on the docks.
"Can't we talk about this later. We're in the presences of a beautiful lady." Hinata blinked, blushing like a tomato and resisted the urge to fiddle with her fingers. Kakashi looked on, his eye now smiling pervertishly. He advanced, offering his hand.
"Miss."
"H... H-hyuga Hin-nata," she sputtered nervously.
"So are you ready for this voyage, Hinata-chan."
"I..I guess..."
"Are you nervous," Kakashi continued, pulling out an orange book to read as he talk. Hinata clutched her luggage tighter as she read the title. Pervert.
"Y-yes, very... Sh...Should I be?"
"Not every kunoichi would take such a risk." Sasuke, listening in, blinked, his eyes widening and he gave a look to Sakura. She jumped and rushed forward to stand next to Hinata and take her luggage.
"Why... don't I show Hina-chan her cabin?" Sakura offered.
"Hn," Sasuke praised. Kakashi looked a little sad that Hinata was leaving. They watched as Hinata left with Sakura, Haruno introducing herself as Sasuke's assistant.
"Two thousand," Sasuke offered now. "A check?"
"Do I have a choice?" Kakashi silently cursed his weakness to pretty women.
He watched as Hinata paused at the beginning of the bridge nervously, hands clasped together at her chest. Wait.. Weren't they only going to Fire Lake? She was pretty sure you didn't use a boat to get to a lake; walking would work just fine. Doubt flooded into her, making her knees want to buckle under the sheer force of it.
But...
No! She would not back down! She had promised Uncle Hizashi. She was going to try and strive for her dreams... If she had enough confidence to do so was another point.
Her wide, pale eyes looked about at the ship, hesitating at the foreboding feeling that clenched her heart. Finally, she stepped forward, boarding the ship.
Engines in the little steamer were slowly warming as coal was added to the flames. Steam began to rise from a few of the ships stacks.
Sasuke jumped as he spotted Kiba lounging in the navigation room, too paniced and overwhelmed at the moment to sense him. He quickly closed the blinds on the windows and pulled out a bottle of sake from his coat. "Sake?" He offered. Not many people knew that Sasuke was a devoted alcoholic.
"No thanks," Kiba replied hotly, glancing at his watch. It was an odd thing for people who knew Kiba to believe that his work was writing plays. This impatient, loud Inuzuka, no less, be patient enough to write a play or script? Ha! He whipped out the script to Sasuke.
"What's this?" Sasuke asked, oblivious as he glared at the small stack of papers.
"A script. Take it, Im late," The writer replied curtly. He really didn't like Uchiha Sasuke; he smelled to much of snake. "Gotta go, bye."
Sasuke panicked inwardly for a moment, as Kiba headed for the door. Damn it! Kiba was one of the stronger members of his crew, he needed him! Glancing out the window, Sasuke watched as workers on the dock began to untie ropes and remove the bridge. He needed to stall.
"Hn. Might as well settle though," Sasuke said, discarding the script to the table and slowly pulling out his 'checkbook.'
"You're gonna pay me?" Kiba asked slowly, greedily looking at the checkbook. He was in desperate need of money and with such poverty in Konoha, he didn't even have enough money to feed both himself and his partner, Akamaru. The poor thing was starved and weak; even now Akamaru was scrounging the streets for something to eat for them both tonight (not that Kiba whole heartedly approved of this). A new paycheck and a few loaves of bread could fix that...
"Hn," Sasuke grunted.
"You've never been one to give out cash..."
"How does two grand sound." Apparently from the sound of Kiba's roaring stomach, that sounded fine. Sasuke glanced out the window as workers scurried along. He wrote slowly and surely. He finally finished and ripped out the check, handing it to Kiba. The writer took it, walking away, but stopped.
"Uchiha... You've written '2 grand' here..." Sasuke looked at it curiously before chuckling in his own dark way and ripping it up.
"Sorry. Two thousand dollarssss..." He drawled out as he wrote. The sake bottle began to shake on the table as the ship began to move. Sasuke ripped out the second check, furrowed his brow and asked: "Its the twenty-ninth isn't it?"
"Grahh! Come on, Uchiha, its the third!" Growling fiercely, Kiba got fed up. "Never mind, just pay me later." And he rushed out into the narrow halls of the ship...
That is until he ran into Hyuuga Neji blocking the way with all his luggage.
"Help us here, Inuzuka," he commanded. Kiba ignored him, snarling as he tried to dodge around. It was futile. He finally did a 180 and went back the way he came.
"Slow ahead full, Gai."
"Yosh, Captain!" Kiba's sharp Inuzuka ears picked out the distant commands. Shit. He finally burst onto the deck and looked over the edge of the boat. He cursed loudly when he realized he was too far from the docks to jump and the water was definitely to rough to water walk across. It was a river afterall. He could have just swam... but then dogs never really did like water...
Kiba failed to notice or just ignored, Sasuke as he sat down on the deck and slipped back the hood of his coat wearily.
Stupid mutt, Sasuke couldn't help but think.
And thus the ship was on it's way. The trip down the river was quick and soon they were out to the rocking sea.
"It's real comfortable down here, and you'll get plenty of sleep." Kiba sighed as he followed his guide, her name was... Ten Ten, he believed.
"Wha'do you keep down here?" He asked with disgust, curling up his sensitive nose.
"Lions, tigers, bears -oh my! look at that mess- you name it, it's prolly been here. We sell 'em to zoos and circuses- AH! Careful!" Squelch. Kiba didn't like the sound of that.
"Camel had a bad accident on the floor..." Ten ten explained sheepishly. Kiba scowled and quickly rubbed the bottom of his sandal clean on a corner. "We've got a really good price on white rhinos-"
"Ten Ten," came the lazy tone of the captain. Kiba looked down the rows of cages to Kakashi. "Have you found an enclosure of your tastes?" A pause as Kiba looked about disgusted. "What are you, Kiba-kun?" Kakashi cut in. "A lion, or a chimpanzee?"
"A very irritated dog," Kiba replied curtly as he opened one of the cages. Bottles promptly rolled out and down the row of cages, one of which Kakashi stopped with his sandal. He looked down at it, his eye stotic as he read the label. Chloroform.
Another bottle came to a clattering stop at the end of the hallway. Chakra absorbent.
"I told you to lock it up."
"Sorry, captain," Ten Ten said, eyes wide and worried. "But Shino-"
"Shino doesn't give the orders!" Kakashi turned to Ten Ten and whispered furiously. "What are you trying to do? Put the whole ship asleep! Get them out of here."
Hyuuga Neji stared stoticly toward the star guide on his cabin wall. Ahh... apparently the fates told him he would have good fortune today. His blank Hyuuga eyes snapped away, however, at the quick rap on his door. He strode over carefully as the ship rocked roughly for a moment, long hair wiping superfluously, and ripped the door open irritably.
Neji cringed at the sight before him. A tall, lanky, yet well toned boy stood before him, dressed in a, of all things, green jumpsuit, orange leg warmers, and bandage wrappings round his hands. Said hands balanced a tray of food, carefully swaying with the ever rocking ship. Appalled, Neji was forced to look away from his face as huge round eyes and large eyebrows looked back... and not to mention that bowl cut..
What an unfortunate fate...
"AHH! ACTOR HYUUGA NEJI! I have brought food and nourishment for your flame of youth to burn even brighter with," Neji merely glared. "I have to admit, Shino makes a mean batch of baked beans! They give you enough fuel to run a motor car!" The Hyuuga cringed once again.
"YOSH! Your a Hyuuga, right? I AM ROCK LEE! You must be a really good ninja then! I heard you are a genius! YOSH! Might we spar sometime to see who's flame of passion burns brightest! An inherit genius against one of hard work and determine-" He was cut off however, when the door came crashing closed. Neji's ears could hear a yelp, a disgusting splat, and a clatter. Apparently this Lee... thing... had dropped the food.
"YOSH!" Came the cheery reply. "YOU ARE INDEED WORTHY TO BE MY RIVAL!"
Oh no..
Kiba growled irritably as he typed slowly letter for letter. He ran a shaking hand through his messy mop of hair and hardly noticed when Lee came running in with a new tray of food. He did notice, however, the strong stench of food coming from the boy, as if he had just bathed in the stuff. Even looking relatively clean and un food covered, the mere smell of it made the poor dog-nin's stomach squelch in disapproval. Tired, sick, eyes looked over to the boy and the tray, and his stomach did a full backflip not only at the sight of food, but the horrid view of the green spandex wearing boy.
"Ugghhh," He moaned, curling his nosed in a disgusted way and looking away.
"Ahhh my apologies for your sickliness, Inuzuka-kun, but not to worry! Shino's famous baked beans can cure everything!" Kiba groaned once again. Deciding to take his leave from the poor writer, Lee retreated out of the cage and strutted away with an odd gleam in his round eyes.
"LEEEEEE!" Kiba was appalled to see another, older, green clad sailor come below deck into the corridor of cages.
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"I understand your flame of determination to help Shino-kun deliver food, but you shall not waste your passion of youth on such things you need not do! Use it more wisely on training! NOW! MOP THE DECK UNTIL WE CAN SEE YOUR PASSION OF YOUTH REFLECTING OFF THE FLOOR!"
"YES GAI-SENSEI!" Lee replied cheerily, not at all fazed he would be moping all day. He began to jog off, before Gai snatched at the back of his jumpsuit and pulled him back. Throwing him to the floor, he shoved a knee into Lee's back and twisted one arm into a rather uncomfortable looking position.
"But first, Lee, why don't you return Inuzuka-san's soldier pills, ne?" Rock Lee blinked for a moment before his bright shining teeth made an appearance in a great smile.
"Hai, Gai-sensei." With that, his clenched hand popped open and let three small soldier pills patter and roll to the floor. Gai took this time to release his student and watched as he darted out to go mop the deck with vidgor. Kiba looked on, blinking as Gai snatched up the pills and wiped them clean on his green jumpsuit.
"He means no harm; his passion of youth merely burns too brightly at times," Gai explained, his teeth pinging. Kiba winced at the bright light, but he was grateful nonetheless.
"Thanks," He said, voice raspy from sickness. Gai seemed to grow solemn, looking about at the cages.
"I'll keep him from doing such a thing again: WITH MORE TRAINING," before Kiba could reply, Gai continued, "Its just he likes it down here - God knows why -were no flame of youth could possibly stay lit ... This is were I found him, four years ago, stowed away in one of the cages..."
Both men looked out at the rocking and groaning cages soberly. "His legs were broken and he couldn't mould any chakra, yet his fire of youth burned brighter than I've ever seen, even if he was as feral as any animal... but he still won't tell me were he originated.. So he's stayed here ever since and stoked his will of fire ever since!"
Even as Hinata angsted and had a nervous breakdown, the ship plowed on. Him! Inuzuka Kiba! He was on the SAME ship as HER! Her! A no name nervous actress!
"Oh oh oh..." Said Hyuuga paced about her cabin nervously, poking her fingers together and despairing. OH! What if she met Inuzuka-san today, what would she say? What would she wear! What if... what if she couldn't say anything at all? How horrible, with her stutter, it was no guarantee she could even break out a sentence. What if... What if Inuzuka-san was totally appalled by her! Her! So unlady like that she was cast as a boy in a play! Her cheeks flared a rosy red, standing out against her pale skin.
"Oh w-what w-w-... will I d-do?"
It was true Inuzuka Hana was related to Inuzuka Kiba... though contrary to poplular belief, it was distantly. Apparently, since they looked so much alike, even though they were distant cousins in the huge clan, people seemed to mistake her for Kiba. It didn't help they both wore the same baggy grey coat and when she pulled up the hood, they were nearly identical.
Hana sighed in despair. This really did prove her theory, not that she would let anyone know. She really needed to get on her feminine side if she looked so much like her brash and dirty cousin.
"We could have seagulls in the background..." She suggested.
"Fine, whatever," Sasuke answered irritably. He really just wanted to go train or something, geeze. All these people cared about was making a film; how dumb! They just needed to get to Demon Island and get this overwith, but NOOOO! They were dead set on making a film, jeeze..
This was about when Hinata made her entrance, dressed in a pretty little sundress that showed off that she was indeed not a boy herself. It didn't make her any the less nervous though, and she hunched into it, as if trying to sink into the fabric and disappear.
Nevertheless, Hana sighed, slightly jealous of the actresses curves and pulled her hood up over her head. Habit really.
"Ahhh Hyuuga-san," Sasuke greeted with relief in a tone rather unlike his normal ones. Time to introduce her to the team. "This is Akimichi Chouji, the... Cameraman.." Sasuke winced, gone unnoticed by all. Chouji looked up through thin eyes (about the only 'thin' thing about him) and, pulling his hand from his potato chip bag, provided a small wave. It would be awfully rude to ask for a handshake when his hand was covered in potato chip grease after all...
"Pretty dress," He commented boredly. It was always good to get on a woman's good side and compliment something about them. Never ever get on the bad side... He had found this out in a studio with a rather irritable reviewer... Pig lady, geeze...
"Th-this!" Hinata squeaked, blinking. "I.. uhn... Just threw it on," She kicked in her acting skills quickly, "Its pretty o-old after all.."
Sakura blinked... "Isn't that one of the costumes though?" She asked curiously. Hinata panicked for a moment, pale eye wide.
"Uhhh, whhhere d-do we get some breakf-fast, ne?" She asked, looking about. Sasuke took the change of subject quickly. Even he knew not to get on a girl's bad side in the morning... even if it was Hinata, you might never know. The quiet ones could be the most vicious.
"Shino," Sasuke directed stoticly. Hinata looked over to the rather mysterious looking cook, and for all she knew he gazed back behind his dark shades.
"Porridge," He stated, picking up a ladle and letting the stuff slop back down into the pot. Hinata smiled softly, but it became a bit forced as she saw a few bugs craw from the cook's sleeve into the soup.
"And this is Han-" Sasuke continued, rather oblivious. Hinata turned and set eyes on Hana, who's eyes blinked over the trademark Inuzuka markings.
"That's o-ok Uchiha-san, I know w-who this is." Hana blinked once again. Even if she was known as Kiba's double, she wasn't THAT well known.. "Th-thrilled to meet y-you," Hinata said as she took Hana's hand to shake. The Kiba double stood, looking slightly confused.
"Um... Thanks?" Hana glanced away for a moment, to watch her counterpart, Kiba, walk in, gingerly sipping at a cup of joe as he read at book. So tired and sea sick he was, he didn't even bother with his own large hooded coat that morning. She looked back down at Hinata.
"Im r-r-really f-familiar with your w-work," The Hyuuga stuttered, mentally despairing over her speech difficulties.
"Really?" Hana slowly calmed and smiled a fanged smile. "Cool."
"I-I'm sure you've h-heard this b-before, Kiba-san," Hana's face dropped, "If y-you don't mind m-me saying, that is, but you l-look a lot more f-feminine in you're photog-graph.." Well, Hana had to give it to her there, at least she complimented she was feminine.. for a boy. Damn..
Meanwhile, in the corner, Kiba silently sputtered on his coffee, trying not to let the dark drops fall on his book while attemping not to choke. Even doing this, he was silently grinning that large, fanged grin of his.
"Excuse me," Hana dismissed, sitting back down in front of her sound equipment.
"Hyuuga-san.." Sasuke began but Hinata cut him off.
"H-hes a lot y-younger in p-person.."
"Hyuuga-san stop-"
"Hinata-chan, Im sorry, but Im not-" Old habits came back to Hinata (ones she really wish she hadn't inherited from the Hyuuga family) from living in such a well off family, so much higher on the social chain than everyone else.
"I-I w-was just afraid h-he might be another of th-those brash, self ab-bsorbed Inuzukas, you know, th-the kind with their n-nose stuck up their d-dog's-"
A book snapped closed and Hinata slowly turned.
"It's good to meet ya too, Hyuuga-san," Kiba said with a cocky Inuzuka grin, his red marks stretching widely. Hinata went positively red and nearly fainted.
Neji carefully made his way down the slim corridors of the rocking ship, staggering ever so often into the walls after a violent jolt. He came across that Lee kid soon, and he silently prepared himself for the verbal onslaught that would undoubtedly come.
But it didn't, as Rock Lee merely descended his glinting eyes and walked on, silently hefting at the fishnet he was carrying.
Neji merely passed it off as the fates favouring him... greatly.. today.
Yes. Favoured him A LOT.
He of coarse didn't think as much when he made it into his room, star charts drawn all over with cartoons of a bowl cutted boy standing over a knocked out long haired man. The stars were drawn on, making a constellation saying "The passion of hard work will beat a genius any day."
Damn.
"So she turns, and the team captain is staggering toward her, a kunai plunged into his throat." Kiba even graced with the description with hand movements excitedly, making the horror scene even more vivid. He quickly went back to typing again.
"Hn," came Sasuke's uncaring reply.
"...That is... Assuming she knows who the team captain is..."
"Come on... She's near sighted and you know how much Hana looks like you sometimes."
"She's a Hyuuga."
Sasuke didn't dignify that with an answer.
"Anyway, she looks away... and sees it... The shore of Fire Lake..."
"The island..." Sasuke corrected softly. There was a pregnent pause, Kiba staring at Sasuke's turned back.
"We're shooting... on an island now!" Kiba snarled. "Since when?" The Uchiha made a silencing noise.
"Shh... Kiba... Stay quiet, I don't want to spook the team.."
"Why would they be spooked? Where is this place?" The writer growled lowly. Neither noticed Lee, with his minimal amount of chakra, slip past their senses.
"They shouldn't be.. Because it doesn't exist... Its ..." Sasuke continued more quietly, Lee unable to hear. Kiba blinked a few times, gaining his bearings.
"So we arrive at D... E," He typed it out slowly, a bad feeling blossoming in his stomach... and it definitely wasn't sea sickness. Lee's eyes widened. He may be considered an overexcentric idiot by some, but he could still spell.
"M...O...N... Island..." Sasuke turned arrogantly happy until his acute eyes landed on something bright green. He watched in horror as Lee's wide eyes watched, and as the boy ran off, disappearing from sight with his incredible speed.
Uh oh... The crew's gonna find out! Ahh! Lol, I threw in a little joke with Ten Ten, ("Lions, tigers, bears -OH MY! Look at that mess-...") just because she's so fun to mess with. The real Ten Ten (No offense to her fans!) has very little, if any, character development, so its fun to give her these random quirks.
Ah... And Ten Ten's romantically involved (I guess you could just say its a pairing. Wow, Mirazhe's pathetic attempts at romance!) with someone on the ship (who is male, just to narrow down the choices). Just guess who it is. I dare you. You'll never figure it out :)
Cast:
Captain Eaglehorn - Kakashi / Animal guy - Ten Ten / Mr. Hayes - Gai
Bruce Baxtor - Hyuuga Neji / Jimmy - Lee / Sound Director - Inuzuka Hana
Lumpy the Cook - Shino (XD That makes me laugh every time. Just visualize it)
