Black Rose
Chapter 2: Beginning a New Journey
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR AVATAR
Chapter 2
Who Are You?
Naruto woke up with the birds like he always does and decides that he must keep up with his daily routine of training especially in his current situation and so begins to train by doing some one handed pushups while he is upside down. While he was doing this the Blind Bandit began to stir and awake from the land of dreams as well as the most restful night sleep in weeks. "Naruto? Are you there?" asked the Blind Bandit. "Yeah you want something?" replied Naruto from not to far away also wondering why the Blind Bandit asked if he was there even though the Blind Bandit was looking right at him. "What are you doing?" asked the Blind Bandit. "I am training what does it look like?" asked Naruto sarcastically. "I don't really know what it looks like but do you have to do it this early?" asked the Blind Bandit. "It's not early it's been a few hours since the sun came up!" replied Naruto.
"You seriously get up that early to train?" questioned the
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Blind Bandit. "What I always get up this early to train like a lot of others I know!" explained Naruto. "Do you really?" responded the Blind Bandit. "Believe it!" shouted Naruto in response. "Alright, alright you don't have to be so loud…" mumbled the Blind Bandit. Then the Blind Bandit got up out of the makeshift tent and bed and decided it was almost time to eat then said "Naruto do we have any food?" to which Naruto replied "Some but only enough for breakfast it's right next to you in that bag hanging from the tree!" Then the Blind Bandit by sheer luck found the bag on the first try and then took it down from the rope to get some food from it. "Naruto are you eating too?" asked the Blind Bandit who got a stomach growl as a response. "I will take that as you have not eaten yet and are eating as well," said the Blind Bandit and then got out food for both of them. "I guess I am!" laughed Naruto like the idiot he is thinking for the first time in his life that he is not an outcast and different from everybody else with the Blind Bandit who still has not given Naruto another name besides that, even so he still feels like he fits in with the Blind Bandit.
They sit around a fire pit made the day before by Naruto and they started a fire to cook the food they planned to have for breakfast. "So are going to tell me your name or am I just going to be stuck with calling you Blind Bandit?" asked Naruto sarcastically, "I guess you will!" retorted the Blind Bandit. They sat there in silence for a while and by then their breakfast was ready. The Blind Bandit grabbed the food they were going to eat and left the rest for Naruto who took all of it gladly; eating it as though he had not eaten in years, while the Blind Bandit ate is a similar fashion. That is when Naruto thought he felt an earthquake' "I think there is an
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Earthquake!" he said to the Blind Bandit while starting to gather his things and clean up their campsite a bit, "It's not an Earthquake," the Blind Bandit then replied, "It's an army…" at this point Naruto was already packed up and was now putting out the fire they had made for cooking their breakfast. "From their movements it doesn't look like they know we are here, but they don't look like the friendly type that would want to find out who we are before attacking us and they are coming straight for us so we better get moving and get out of here!" explained the Blind Bandit getting up and starting to head away from the campsite with Naruto following close behind from in the trees. This when the both heard a sound but even the Blind Bandit could not detect the source of the sound, then somebody had just appeared with a sword to Naruto's neck "Tell me who you are or I will take off his head!" said the stranger it was at this statement that the Blind Bandit turned around, "Go ahead, I don't care about what happens to him…" said the Blind Bandit to which Naruto freaked out a bit, "May I ask why you wouldn't care about somebody you are traveling with?" asked the stranger as Naruto continued to freak-out, "What do you mean you don't care?! Just do as he says!" Naruto yelled not wanting to die just because the Blind Bandit would not say who they were. "You're afraid aren't you?" the Blind Bandit asked the stranger, "Those soldiers are after you are they not?" to this the stranger seemed to get even more nervous, "We are not with them if that is what you are wondering…" explained the Blind Bandit while agreeing Naruto said, "Yeah, that's right we aren't with those soldiers!" still a little nervous saying that last thing with emotion but not yelling it. "Okay, sorry…I hope you understand why I am so
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anxious…you can never be sure in times of war now can you?"
responded the stranger much more relaxed and no longer holding a sword to Naruto's neck he put his sword away and seemed to relax a bit more. "So, who are you?!" demanded Naruto of the stranger who had a sword to his throat in an angry tone. "Yeah, who are you exactly and why shouldn't we just hand you over to those soldiers? You aren't really the least suspicious guy around you know!" said the Blind Bandit both of them looking at the stranger with great intent, "I am known as Hank Wight, one of the knights of Loch Eve Lo…" explained Hank Wight in a low and soft tone so no eavesdroppers could hear. "Loch Eve Lo?" asked Naruto who had no clue what the stranger named Hank was talking about, "Never heard of it…" replied the Blind Bandit, it was then that it became clear to the knight named Hank that neither of them had a clue of what he was talking about or who he was for the matter, because they did not seem to be lying to him. "Well, we better get moving if we don't want to be caught by that army, because they are heading straight for us…" said the Blind Bandit, then sure enough they started to hear the earthquake like sound the army produced, get closer and closer, increasing in volume as the army grew ever closer to the three, "Then we let's go, follow me!" said Hank as he started moving in one direction by foot with the Blind Bandit following right behind him as Naruto jumped into to the trees and follow that way.
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