Ch.2 "Survival Troubles"
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Hello! Here's chapter number two! Though, this is one of the shortest chapters I have done, but it works. I'll try to make the next chapter longer. But, this is a chapter I enjoying writing and a fair warning for those who laugh easily to not be eating or drinking anything while reading this chapter. Also, Itachi is major OOC in this chapter, but anybody would be on an isolated wild island.
Itachi groaned, waking up from what he could call the worst night of sleep he had ever had. He got up and picked up his stuff and went through it. He picked up the stuff he needed and began to walk through the woods, wondering what to do first.
"...I first better get some water and food before starting a fire." Itachi let out a sigh. He had to secure food and fresh water before even attempting to get off this island. He wouldn't survive on the sea without either. 'But... I wonder what that blond eats?' Itachi shook his head. He really needed to focus! 'I'll try looking around the grassland.' Itachi frowned as he walked through the wood line to see a large amount of animals.
'O-kay... Maybe I should try fishing... Simple, but it should be enough till I can think of a way to hunt the larger animals.' Itachi sweated, seeing very large four legged beasts he believes to be rhinos that he read about as he walked to a river. He blinked as he saw the blond from yesterday leaning over the river. 'What is she doing? Fishing?'
Itachi flinched as the blond looked up, but only ignored him as she looked at the water and got into a position similar to a cat about to pounce. Itachi then noticed the river was pretty low with water and fish were easy to be seen. Then the blond Amazon pounce, getting quite some air before slamming onto a fish and snapping her teeth on a large trout and running off.
Itachi pondered why the blond did that as he saw she had knives and such on her as he pulled out a kunai and slammed it into a trout and pulled it out and cleaned it so that he didn't have to worry about it later. However, he did not notice why the blond took the bloodless fishing method till he went after the next fish. The instant he stabbed it, a fury of fish came at the trout.
"AGH!" Itachi pulled his hand back, bite marks on it and then he paled as the fish, he knew from seeing as piranha, left the trout which was now just a skeleton.
"....O-kay... One fish should be okay for today... I'll keep to fishing in the ocean." Itachi shivered, getting out his first aid kit to clean and bandaged his hand. He made a mental note to always check rivers before trying to fish as there could-
"....." Itachi slowly moved away as he saw several crocodiles slowly swimming towards were he was and left the scene. He already had enough rivers for today.
"..." Naruto perched herself in a tree, eating some fruit she gotten earlier. She was watching the human Itachi at what she had to guess was his camp. She was trying to figure out why he was on her island and if he posed a trap. However, she raised an eyebrow as she hear him mumbling while rubbing two sticks together.
"This is harder than it looks." Itachi growled, having been trying to start a fire for two hours. Now, he was spinning a stick in his hand while holding down another with his foot. "Agh..." Itachi stopped, dropping the stick when he stabbed himself. He quicky bandaged his other hand up.
"...I will get fire..." Itachi began to spin the stick in his hands really fast while Naruto kept herself from laughing. Was it really that hard for a civilized human to make fire? Doesn't he realize that the rock wall next to him could spark by hitting them together or doesn't he have those flaming sticks that light when moved against a rough surface?... Not even that metal wool and the magic block (guess what this is)? That one always fun to do, but she saved that for the white days as fire was needed fast on those cold days. But, Naruto's favorite method was her fire tube. She found a flammable wood fiber that all she had to do was use a wood tube she made to snuggly fit a stick to make an airtight seal and then slam the stick down with timber on the end of the stick and it would instantly make an ember, but she had to take out of the tube quickly. But, she had a lot of methods of making fire including one she invented from making out of some of the stuff at the trapper camp after "coming home." It was her favorite fire lighter... Okay, she had a lot of favorite fire lighters.
'Though, this is entertaining and all, but why isn't he making fire with his breath? That headband made him a...Er, ninja? Yeah, a ninja, so he should be able to shoot fire out of his mouth.
Itachi's eyes widen as he saw smoke coming from the wood. "Yes... Yes..." Itachi move the stick to find an ember and quickly put in some dried leaves he gathered and blew on the ember. After a few blows, the leaves lit and Itachi excitingly put sticks on it and finally had fire.
"Yes! I have fire!!" Itachi cheered, expressing the most emotions he had done in years.
"Heh heh. Never thought I see an Uchiha being so happy to do such a simple thing." Kyuubi chuckled in Naruto's head.
'I agree. I completely agree.' Naruto just sigh while watching Itachi get the fire really going and prepared the fish he caught earlier to be cook. She just wondered why Itachi was so happy to make fire and not using his...er, chakra.
"Note to self... Have the academy do survival classes." Itachi sighed, climbing a tree to try and get some bananas to eat as he was starving. He discovered living in the wild was a lot harder even when you were a ninja. He already found several plants not good for eating as he stomach can agree with him on that. He also found hunting is not as easy as one would think. The antelope was easy, but once you did kill them, the hard part came with getting most of the meat you needed before other predator animals came and attack. He was, though, not lucky so much and even fail to kill an antelope for several days. Also, for some reason, the fish at sea, his main food source, had went into deeper water through he managed to now find all sort of crab and lobster still around in the deeper depth area of the beach waters he did not see before when diving to fish. Though, they didn't fill him up much and hard to spear as that was his method of shipping after getting piranha bit. He found that wild bananas were just as good as normal ones, but had a lot of big seeds that took up most of the fruit. But a large bundle would be enough for dinner which Itachi was after at this moment.
"Almost.... There...." Itachi stretched, trying to get the bananas.
-CRACK!-
"...Uh-oh..." Itachi squeaked just before the branch he was on broke and he fell to the ground. "Ow... I'm okay."
"Heh heh..." Itachi blinked as he heard giggling and looked up to see the Amazon giggling at him. He decided to call the blond Amazon as he did not know the blond's name... If she had a name at that manner.
"What are you laughing at!?" Itachi roared in anger. Usually, Itachi would mentally berate himself for showing emotion as it was weakness, being in the wild for a few days and being hungry can change a person.
"....You..." Itachi did a double take when he heard the blond spoke but only saw the blond gone and heard a thud to find the bananas on the ground.
"...." Itachi just picked up the bananas before fury build up in his body. He did not know why, but he was angry at himself for letting that Amazon out show him up and laughs at him. "I am not a laughing stock." Itachi growled, wanting to show he could survive on his own to the blond. A male had to provide for his Amazon... "Where did that come from?" Itachi blinked, remembering what he had just thought. That girl wasn't his.... Also, she could have not spoken and he thought he heard her as the blond's voice he thought he heard was kind of low for a woman. "I really need to stock pile food and get off this island before I go insane..." Itachi sighed, not paying attention to where he was going.
"ACK!" Itachi fell down a small cliff and rolled till landing on something oddly shaped and hard with something hitting is chest. "Huh?" Itachi blinked as he saw it was a human skull. "AIIE!" Itachi shambled away from the skeleton before seeing he had fallen onto an old human camp.
"What the heck happened here?" Itachi wondered out loud as he looked around the camp to find the skeletons had been attacked by some creature. "...I really need to get off this island and fast..." Itachi sweated, deciding though to bury the skeletons before taken what he could use as the tents' clothe was still good and other junk items.
'Wait... How did Amazon live here when a beast is here?' Itachi thought, but decided to not figure that out. He needed to focus getting home. 'I wonder how Sasuke is doing without me?...' Itachi sighed, wondering what was going on in his home village.
"Sasuke-kun! Go out with me!"
"No! Me!"
Uchiha Sasuke ignored his fangirls, brooding about over his brother who has been missing for almost a month. Everyone in his family and such has been wondering if Itachi was alive, but Sasuke knew his brother was alive. His brother would not die simply falling off a ship. He could possibly survive anything. 'My aniki is the greatest ninja in the world!'
"Alright, today, we are going over-" Sasuke blocked out his teacher Mizuki as he went over the same thing over and over again. Sasuke wondered why they were forced to stay in school till older if they didn't teach anything new.
'Aniki... Come back home soon... I miss you and I want you to train me before I die from repeated information boredom syndrome!' Sasuke groaned, bored to the point of possibly being the living dead.
Meanwhile, Fugaku sighed, wondering what he was going to do. Itachi had been MIA for a good while and even he was wondering if Itachi was alive. Konoha couldn't just waste their resources to look for one ninja... That was what Konoha's council said and that really angered Fugaku, but he did understand.
However, since Itachi had gone missing, Sasuke has become cold and distant and Fugaku has been trying to be more of a father to the boy to help him with the lost... And it wasn't working so much. 'Itachi.... Please turn up soon....' Fugaku pinched the bridge of his nose. He was hoping they would not need to have a funeral for Itachi. He did not want his oldest son to die so soon in life.
"Man... That was tough..." Itachi sighed, carrying a dead wild boar. He was actually just trying to steal the edible mushrooms from the boar by making it mad and run into a tree to get its horns stuck long enough for him to grab the mushrooms it found and jet. However, this boar was very persistent and chased the human thief around till Itachi cut had stopped at a short cliff and jumped to grab a branch and the boar to fall off and get speared by a tree branch in the leafless trees below. Itachi wasn't complaining of this lovely luck.
"I am going to have stew tonight." Itachi hummed, following the rock mountain bottom edge as he discovered it was a great way to escape predator animals by getting up on the steep rocks and the mountains completely encircled the island. He saw some goats with large spiral horns and other animals living on the mountain, but he didn't try to hunt any of them... He found the goats were skilled at climbing the mountain... As well as seen they were not afraid to attack from watching some fighting over female goats.
But, Itachi was happy with what he got. He has a new respect for animals and the way they lived. It took him just a month to figure how to survive and his body showed it. Now he was glad he pigged out on some sweets before and after his mission and had some fat on him as that fat prevented his muscles from being eaten by his body with how many of those days of the month he had starved. But, now, he figured it out, though he hasn't seen the blond much. Only once or twice and that was when she was with her pride which was how the blond took down bigger prey and protect from other predators.
But, he did notice changes in the animals' behavior. They were eating a lot more or storing the kills for predators which Itachi knew could not be normal.
'Maybe I should try to dry some of this pork?' Itachi thought, looking up to spot something that made him believe he saw a great treasure. A whole wild orchid of fruit trees that was full of fruit of different colors that Itachi usually didn't see for fruit. But, Itachi didn't care as he climbed up the small rock wall that the orchid was on and blinked to find a sign there.
"'Warning! Danger!'.....Nani?" Itachi sighed, reading the horrible handwriting that was in hiragana. He wondered who put up the sign, but then remember that there was a group of humans-now six feet under in the ground-that has been here and he guessed one of them found this place and marked it as his or her own. He wasn't sure which gender were the skeletons. "But, their lost, my gain." Itachi sighed, picking a yellowish fruit with black spots. He took a bit and shivered.
"Agh... Bitter... Maybe it will be better cooked." Itachi sighed before quickly eating the fruit he has picked and began picking some more fruit as he could tell it was not poisonous to any extend as he became able to tell it by taste. Many would after just eating what they find and finding out the results. He headed back for his camp, marking the trees to make a trail to go back to the orchid later.
He had fixed up the tent cloths he took from the old trapper camp, finding out the trappers were probably killed for hunting furs, so that he could collect fresh water from rain as well as provide warmth for his shelter while keeping the smoke out with his fire which he figured out how to keep the embers going without the fire really going and how to get the fire started again. Itachi was also managed to get some cookware and small stuff like canteens and food rations out of his storage scrolls, though he could only do three seals, and that is with small stuff seals, to work a week with how much chakra he was able to summon up to use and even that made him exhausted and the seal made it hurt like he was Shisui and walked right into the woman's bath shouting "I'm a pervert!"... Itachi knew that because he tricked Shisui into the woman's bath with a genjutsu while saying that and it was not pretty. Shisui made a truce with Itachi to never put red or any other color hair dye in Itachi's shampoo ever again as long as Itachi did not prank him again after that.
Itachi got his fire going and a pot over the flames to begin cooking as it was filled with water. However, he looked at the boar and began to hear the roar of his stomach. Without thinking, he bit into the boar and began to eat it raw. It was only when he finished that he realized what he did.
"..." Itachi let out a sigh. "O-kay. I much have been hungrier than I thought..." Itachi got up and walked a good ways to tie the remains of the boar into a tree a good ways from his camp to keep animals away from it. But, just then, he saw a bird in the corner of his eye and went after it, trying to pounce on it. However, the bird escaped and Itachi shook his head.
"...Agh... I must have been watching animals a little too much." Itachi sighed, heading back to the camp. He needed to rest a little... Yeah. That might get him back to normal.
Now, this makes me happy as my internet is still being a pain in the butt. Oh, so now I have to do all of my APA style research paper possibly at school! Goody!... Not. Luckily, it got bump to Friday this week instead of Wednesday. Luckily, it's a short paper and it's an argument paper which is one of my strong points on, ironically, the internet. Well, hope you enjoy this chapter and review as I don't know if I will be able to update any of my stories for at least this week!