AN: Thank you for the reviews, follows and favorites! It warmed my heart to see that people were enjoying my story.
Warnings: Male trying to seduce Sasuke Uchiha, some AU, Ninja violence, Self-Inserts.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
"No matter what happens, I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me, I'll keep on walking."-Alan Walker ( -man)
Whatever the feline just did, I felt like I had just been sunburned then electrocuted. The light had been comforting at first, but within seconds it had felt like electricity was racing through my veins, Shun had the pleasure of instantly fainting once the pain started while I endured it for what seemed like hours.
Looks like father's training was useful after all, not that I would tell the old goat that. No, our little training sessions had consisted of me being pulverized by my father's fists, the Yazuka had said that it was one of the many things that would prepare me for when I came of age. Too bad I died before that happened. Not.
My head throbbed and I groaned bringing my hands up to rub my temples. I will never, ever do that again. No matter what.
Finally my curiosity overcame the pain and I opened my eyes, blinking when I met a nearly ragged looking ceiling. What a wonderful first impression. With a little difficulty I propped myself up on my elbows to survey my surroundings, the house we were in was barely standing. Half of the roof was fallen in while the other half, where we were currently laying, had holes in it just above our bed. Besides the rather sad looking house, I couldn't help but notice the mist that I could see outside.
I've seen mist before, but not that much.
Shun shifted beside me catching my attention and I turned to glance at her, my eyes widening as I saw her new body. Her hair was still in the same hairstyle, the front reaching her shoulders while the back rested just below her nape, but instead of brown it was a burgundy color. The biggest change that I noticed was that she looked significantly younger, probably around the age of seven if I had to guess, but otherwise she still looked like the same person.
I wonder what I look like...
I glanced around the small house once again, this time looking for a mirror, it wasn't a huge shock that I couldn't find one. The house looked like it had been looted a few times and was rather empty besides the kitchen just ahead and the rather pathetic bed we were lying on. I couldn't help but wonder what sort of situation we thrown into, the cat did say that our souls were going to be transferred to new bodies but she hadn't explained where we were.
Not that I would understand what they were talking about, I only knew that I was going to survive in this dangerous world no matter what.
Running my hands through my hair I paused when instead of stopping at my ears it kept going, and going until it stopped at my waist. My eyes widened and I frantically brought a handful of hair to my face, just like Shun's my hair was a burgundy brown and looked like it hadn't been properly brushed in a few days.
"The hell?!" I exclaimed jumping off the bed and started to feel my body. There were things that were definitely not supposed to be there. "What did that flea bag do to me?!" I noted that I too was a child again, but really the rather big realization was taking priority.
Shun grunted sleepily most likely awoken from my loud yelling. "You're too loud in the morning Hinata..." She complained.
I snarled. "Open your eyes and you'll see why I'm so loud!"
She slowly complied, her eyelids cracking open to give me a drowsy eyed stare. "You don't look much different."
I twitched knowing she was talking about how I had already looked like a girl. "I'm a girl!"
"What?" She fully opened her eyes and shot up, her earlier sleepiness completely gone. "Whoa, you really are one..." Her eyes fixated on my form, looking at it with curiosity. "Huh."
Taking a deep breath to calm myself I crossed my arms. "Well what about you? Are you still a girl?" Inwardly I was hoping she too would have changed genders so she could understand how I felt.
Without even hesitating she lifted the top of the pants she was wearing and looked inside. I quickly looked away to give the girl some privacy. I bet she did turn into a boy seeing that I most likely turned into a female since I looked like one-
"Ah, nope I'm still female through and through."
Wiping around to face her I gave her a dark glare.
A nervous smile formed on her features and she scratched her cheek, averting her eyes from mine.
A moment of silence lay between us, and I took the time to fully observe what we were wearing. She and I both had on rather a rather dirty shirt with matching pants, there were some holes here and there that made me assume that the children before us had them for a while. The broken almost completely empty house plus old clothes really meant only one thing in my mind, we were orphans.
"I guess we should give you a new name." Shun hesitantly started breaking me from my train of thought. I gave her a narrowed eyed look before nodding my head in agreement. I remembered that her assignment had the same name as mine so I would comply with changing my own.
She looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking up. "How about Haruka? That's not a bad name."
I stiffly nodded my head again but otherwise didn't say anything.
{Shun Fujimoto}
Hinata's-well it was Haruka now- assignment was going to become a lot easier. Sasuke didn't even show any interest in girls much less guys, but the Uchiha did want to make babies so maybe if Haruka offered herself...? I inwardly snorted at that, even if she had turned a girl, Haruka was still a hot tempered boy in the inside and would most likely tear me apart and eat me if I said that out loud.
Surprisingly he didn't look much different. As a boy he was rather girly, with long eyelashes, fair skin and a more rounded head, I was sure he would have undoubtedly won any cross dressing competition. Now though, she actually just looked like a slightly attractive but otherwise normal girl. Out of the two of us Haruka had changed the most, which was obvious.
"So do you know where we are?" Haruka asked, her arms crossed and fingers tapping.
I faltered for a second, scanning the house and paused when I saw the rather heavy mist outside. I didn't want to be hasty, but I could only come up with one conclusion. "I hope not." I truthfully hoped that we weren't in the Land of Water, a dark country with a bloody history wasn't the best place to start out, not if we wanted to survive.
Haruka shifted and her dark eyes scanned our surroundings nervously. "So... What are we going to do?" I could tell she was taking her pride down a notch for asking the question.
"I guess I should probably explain some things to you first." I replied with a good natured smile. The poor girl had absolutely no clue about anything, and put the responsibility of informing her of the Naruto-verse to me.
I shuffled a little bit to make myself as comfortable as possible, I knew this was going to take a long time, and I couldn't miss a thing. "There was this man named Harashima Senju who was part of a very important clan with special powers..."
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It took a few hours for me to explain everything. Once in a while Haruka would pipe in or laugh, she thought Tsunade was the funniest woman on earth, but otherwise she listened diligently and with slight excitement. The dangers of the ninja world didn't seem to faze her like it did me, maybe it was because I was mentally older than her, or I had actually read Nartuo, but it made me slightly nervous. If she really acted like a Uzumaki that would mean I had to deal with an unpredictable person.
Suddenly I felt bad for Kakashi, Naruto must have been a big handful.
Finally I finished up with the story, and promptly fell on my back. Once in a while I would try to explain Naruto to someone, but never to this extent.
"So you think we are currently in the, what did you call it...Land of Waves?" She asked walking up to the bed.
I grunted.
"I'm guessing we should leave and head toward Coconut-"
"Konoha."
"-otherwise we won't be able to complete our assignments." Haruka said, swinging her legs idly.
Now that was going to be a problem. I had no clue where in The Land of Waves we were, or even if the Konoha Eleven were born yet. Minato could still be alive for all I knew! Not to mention the fact that I had no map to show me which direction Konha was. The logical thing to do was head toward the nearest civilization, seeing that this house seemed to be in the middle of a forest we were going to have a lot of fun trying to figure that out, and ask for directions. But I didn't really want to enter Kirigakure unless it was Mei Terumi who was the Mizukage, she was the one who wanted to release the country from its bloody history, otherwise the other Mizukage didn't seem to really care.
"You know I've never had a sibling before." Haruka's voice broke me from my thoughts and I gave her a sideways glance. "And I'm guessing from our hair color that we're siblings, so..."
Huh, I never noticed that actually. "That's kind of cool." I replied a big smile on my face. "I've always wanted a younger sister."
She snapped her head up. "How do you know you're the older one? I could be the older one."
I laughed. "I don't, but since I was older then you when I died I just assumed. Plus it's probably only by a few years."
Haruka turned away. "Tch."
I only smiled, somehow having a younger sister wasn't going to be so bad.
{Haruka}
As a few days passed I was sure I had never cursed more in my life. Since we didn't have any way to feed ourselves Shun decided that we would have to hunt for our food. Not that either of us had any idea what we were doing, our attempts were based on T.V. shows we had watched and our own intuition, unsurprisingly almost everything failed but Shun's unique style of fishing.
Since we didn't have any poles or fishing line she decided that our best bet was to try and catch the fish by hand, which took a few tries and soaking clothes to finally catch a fish. We had caught a good amount of fish when our first problem lumbered in.
The mist was lighter but still around and I was starting to miss seeing the sky, I never was one who liked sun or heat, but the constant mist felt like a big blanket was atop of me. It was currently my turn to stay on watch while Shun tried to catch the fish from a stream we had found, the rock I was sitting on was rather wet but I wasn't really bothered since my clothes were already dirty.
Movement caught my eye and I instantly looked toward the moving bushes, my heartbeat accelerating. Was a person coming toward us? Or possibly a ninja? No, Shun said that Ninja were stealthy and almost impossible to spot, especially with an inexperienced eye.
Slowly a form took shape and I stilled my body, preparing myself to call out to Shun who had her back turned toward me.
I didn't expect a black bear to come out, and was momentarily confused before realizing that the mammal was heading toward the pile of fish Shun had accumulated.
With an angry growl I jumped off the rock and ran in front of the bear, making it stop. "Don't you even think about it!"
Shun made a startled noise behind me and I heard the water splashing. "Haruka wha-What are you doing!"
I didn't move from my spot and stared at the bear directly in the eyes. "I'm starving. There's no way I'm going to allow the bear to take our food!" I proclaimed giving the bear a dark glare.
It gave a startled roar and stood up on its hind legs, making it two times larger than me in an attempt to intimate and scare me off. I instantly saw it as a challenge and wasn't about to decline. "You want to go buddy?! I'll send you crying back to your cave!"
"Idiot!" Shun yelled frantically. "Don't you dare!"
With a battle cry I lunged toward the bear.
That obviously didn't end well, the bear gave me three good scratches and made me look like someone with a bad haircut, but eventually lumbered away when it realized that I wasn't about to give up. Shun was mortified and gave a big lecture about 'survival instincts' while she wrapped my wound with some rags she found around the house. As if I was going to give up my precious food, but at least my annoying hair was shorter and didn't get in my way so much.
A couple of times Shun tried to unlock her Chakra, something about looking for the energy like the people in FanFictions did, but ended up unsuccessful. She was disgruntled for a little bit but eventually guessed that she was still too young. I wasn't too worried about doing the same, what happened, happened, and I was content with just allowing it to unlock itself. When I told Shun this she face palmed and explained that we had tounlock it to use it.
Well wasn't that just dandy.
A few times we attempted to find a way out of the forest, but each time ended up lost and eventually turning back toward the direction of home. Shun didn't seemed very worried, but I could see that she too wanted to find some sort of civilization, even if that meant going to the Mist Village.
"Okay now let's try this again." Shun said, her stance determined.
I watched from a little ways away, idly picking at the grass. "Didn't you say you were too young?"
She ignored me and shut her eyes, scrunching them in concentration. I sighed and watched as an ant scurried on the ground. She was once again trying to unlock her Chakra, even though she said that it didn't matter when she achieved it I could see that she wanted to do it as soon as possible. She had such a connection with this world it was astounding; I didn't really feel any different since this whole Naruto-verse was new to me. To Shun the characters were the precious people she had watched grow and evolve while I was indifferent.
Perhaps it would have been different if I had read the manga, but I simply saw the characters as normal people. They weren't really special to me at all.
I was torn from my thoughts when the hair on my neck stood on end and a smooth voice spoke up from behind us. "Hello there."
I flinched and stood up quickly, Shun made a startled sound from further away as I turned to face the speaker. A man with grey hair pulled into a ponytail and round glasses gave me a friendly smile.
Before I could speak up Shun was suddenly pushing me behind her back and stepping in the man's line of sight, I was slightly irritated at her pushiness but didn't speak against her-there was probably a reason why she acted this way.
"Can we help you sir?" Her voice was slightly shaky but she didn't break the man's gaze.
"I was just looking for medical herbs when I spotted you two." He replied and good natured smile on his face. "My name is Kabuto Yakushi."
The name rung a bell and I recalled Shun telling me the man was a trouble maker in the Naruto-verse and caused a lot of people pain, he worked with some snake sandwich- I mean Sannin and was very loyal to him. I didn't blame her for acting the way she did, the man gave me the creeps.
"Nice to meet you." Shun's voice turned sharp. "But I don't think there are any useful herbs around here." I knew she had no clue if there were any or not, but she wanted the man gone as soon as I did.
"Is that so?" Kabuto mused. "Are your parents around by chance? I'm sure they would know of any nearby."
He was testing the waters, seeing if we were vulnerable. "They went hunting." Shun caught onto his intentions as well and instantly came up with a solution. "I'm sure they'll be back in a few hours."
He seemed thoughtful for a moment, as if mulling over our answer. His eyes glanced toward our clothes and our ragged house before coming back to rest on us. "I see."
The air was tense for a moment and his lenses flashed as he pushed them. "Well I'll be on my way then." He walked away and we watched him until he was completely out of our sight, only relaxing when he vanished.
"That was too close." Shun said, her face pale. "But we're lucky that he didn't decide to take us in as testing subjects."
I huffed a sigh, secretly as relieved as she was.
"But this just shows that we need to start training." She continued. "We would have been helpless if he had decided to kidnap us."
For once I agreed, seeing Kabuto made everything more real. "So does that mean we try to find civilization?"
Shun paused for a moment, her eyes thoughtful. "Yes..." She started. "And I guess we should go in the direction that Kabuto was heading, there's the possibility that it may lead us to a village."
It was risky; we weren't ninja and had no clue how to track someone so that meant we'd have to go in the general direction he went. "I guess that's the only option."
She nodded. "Unfortunately."
{Shun}
From the Fanfictions I had read, I assumed that unlocking my Chakra would be easy. But it was like trying to grab water, I could feel the energy inside of me but I couldn't use it. It was frustrating because I assumed that I would be able to access it easily, Haruka had recently joined me in my endeavors and wasn't having much luck either. Besides our Chakra though, getting our bodies into shape was a big priority, being orphans meant we lacked the necessary nutrition's that helped our body make up the energy to exercise. The few fish I caught was very important, but I really had no clue about what sort of plants we could eat so we usually ended up using some berries that we recognized as a substitute for vegetables.
As for following Kabuto... well that wasn't going well. We hadn't seen the medic since the last time when we talked, which I was thankful for, but it would have been nice to at least know if we were going the right direction.
"How about these foot prints? Do you think it's carrots?" Haruka asked, her eyes staring at the ground in front of her.
I sighed. "Firstly it's Kabuto, and I highly doubt that he has paws for feet." Sadly Haruka lacked in anything to do with survival, she could brawl with animals but she thought that leaves with three leaves were okay to touch. She said it had something to do the way the 'old goat', which I assumed was her father, was too paranoid and wouldn't allow her to venture to far from home. I guessed she was a significant figure if her father was afraid that someone would attack her.
"Do we even know how to get back home?" Haruka turned toward me, her eyes slightly nervous as she gazed at the trees surrounding us. She too had been slightly attached to our broken down house since we had stayed there for what I could assume was around a month.
I gave her a reassuring smile and pointed behind us. "Just back that way, I made sure to just keep going straight since we didn't know if going this direction would lead us to a village." I didn't have anything to mark our path since any cloth we had, we needed to use it, but I was fairly certain that I could lead us back home. "No need to worry Haru-chan."
She glared at the nickname but otherwise stayed silent. Over the time we had spent with each other I could see that a small bond was forming between us, Haruka was still wary and hot tempered but her glare acidity had reduce significantly when aimed toward me. Truthfully I was overjoyed when she reluctantly allowed me to call her 'Haru-chan', that meant that she too was starting to accept the bond.
Rubbing the bridge of my nose I tried to figure out our next move, wandering through the forest wasn't the safest or smartest action. But we couldn't do anything else, and certainly couldn't stay at our house forever.
"I'm going to see if I can spot anything." Haruka suddenly stated and before I could interject she was suddenly scrambling up a nearby tree with surprising speed. I gaped and slowly watched as she finally made it up to the top, the tree was rather large and I could barely see her form through the mist, but I could spot a black blob.
I moved to the base of the tree. "Do you see anything?" I called up.
She made an excited noise. "Yeah! It looks like a large village!"
I hesitated; the only large village I could think of in the Land of Water was Kirigakure, which was hopefully under the rule of Mei Terumi by now. But we were both hungry, needed some where safe to stay and desperately needed to start training to be ninja. At the rate we were going the Konoha Eleven were going to be leagues ahead of us.
Well Haruka might have a chance seeing that she's about the age that children start going to the Academy... But I'm probably around seven so I definitely need to start training.
"I guess that's our destination."
AN: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I would love any feedback. :)
