Me: Hiya peps ^_^
Sasuke: SHUT UP ITACHI! I DO NOT SLEEP WITH A BLANKIE!
Me: *cracks up* a blankie!
Itachi: And I got proof, see *holds up a pink blankie*
Sasuke: That is not mine!
Itachi: Then you wouldn't mind if I burn now would you? *smirks evilly*
Sasuke: *tackles Itachi own*
Me: Ok then, I do not own anything but my OC and everything that she owns, all rights go to Masashi Kishimoto
Sasuke: You're safe now blankie *snuggles it and falls asleep*
Itachi: *looks like he got attacked by a rabid cat*
Please enjoy ^_^
Recap: The went to bed (it can't get more simpler than that)
I woke up screaming from my horrible nightmare of my past. My breathing was jagged as the memory of that day replayed in my mind. "Serena is everything alright?" Sasuke asked, as he sat next to me. When he came in, I have no idea, yeah that's how frightened I am. "Do you want to talk about it?" he asked me, putting an arm around me, trying to comfort me. I snuggled up closer to his chest for comfort as I trembled slightly. "Shh shh shh it's ok, do you want to talk about it?" he cooed me, which took me a while to respond. "C-c-can we t-talk ab-bout it i-i-in the morning?" I asked him, burying me head into his chest. "Alright, we'll talk about it when you're ready." he told me, slowly stroking my hair, calming me down a bit. "Do you want me to stay with you?" he asked me, as I slowly nodded my head, not wanting his comfort to leave. Sasuke laid her down on the bed and laid down along with her and pulled the blanket over both of them. "Everything's ok." he cooed, stroking me hair, calming me down, making me sleepy. Soon I slowly drifted off into a dreamless sleep
-Sasuke-
I shot up from my bed as another nightmare of the past made it's way into my dreams once more. I was about to go back to sleep but I hear Serena scream which made me jump out of bed and run to her room which was across from mine. When I got in I saw her sitting there looking terrified. After she calmed down and drifted off to sleep I soon followed. 'Why do I feel like this is right?' I asked myself, as my arm wrapped around her waist, bringing her closer to me, as I drifted to sleep.
The next morning I woke up and saw Serena right next to me. 'So it wasn't a dream.' I thought, as I looked at the clock on her night stand which read 7:30. 'Time to get up.' I thought to myself, I looked at a the sleeping Serena in my arms and debated on if I should wake her or not, a little while later I decided I should. "Serena, wake up." I said sweetly, nudging her head lightly with my nose. "Um...ugh...Sasuke? So it wasn't a dream." she mumbled, making me chuckle a bit before pulling both of us out of bed. "Come on, we have to get ready." I told her, as I went and did my usual routine. Next I went to make breakfast since she wasn't done yet, I made us some rice balls for breakfast. After we ate we went to the training field, where we always meet with Kakashi. "Looks like we're the first ones here." she said, as I look around the field to find it empty. "Well since it looks like we have time, mind telling me what got you so frightened yesterday?" I asked, as she sighed and sat down, leaning against a rock.
-Serena-
I knew he was gonna ask me that question. I took a deep breathe as he sat next to me. "It was about my past."
(Ok, she's telling the story while having a flashback of it k?)
-Flashback-
I ran around chasing Stardust as we played a game of tag. I stop and looked at my sister who has been acting strange for the past couple of days. "Is everything alright?" Stardust asked me, as I looked at her with a smile while shaking my head. "Hey Serena! I'm gonna go home first ok!" my sister told me as she left me. 'There's something off.' I thought, as I looked at the sun. "Hey Stardust?" I asked her, as she gave me her attention. "Yes?" she replied. "Do you have a bad feeling that something bad is gonna happen?" I asked her, as I shuddered a bit at the feeling myself. Stardust was quiet for while before answering me. "Yes, as a matter of fact I do, and I think it has to do something with your sister." she answered, as I looked at the place my sister sat a few moments ago.
Night soon bestowed upon us as I ran home, knowing that I was late and mother and father would yell at me. Just as I reached the village my eyes widened in horror at the sight before me. Every where I looked there were invectids destroying houses, taking away innocent people's lives. I fought my to my house and almost fell down to the ground in shocked at what was in front of me. "Erica, what happened?" I asked, looking at her with a horror struck face. "Ain't it obvious, I killed them." she chuckled in an insane way. "Why?" I gasped, standing up slowly. "Because, the invectids needed help, so I did. I don't care what happens to the petty lives of these humans. They make me sick and same goes for you, but don't worry I'll put you out of your misery." she chuckled, as she walked towards me, with a killer look on her face. I whimpered as she swung her sword down at me, I waited for the impact but it never came, instead when I looked up I saw Stardust, blocking the attack with her two front legs. "Don't give up!" she shouted, straining a bit, and I knew she couldn't block the attack forever. 'Alright, calm down. What would grandpa do?' I asked myself, as I slowly stood up. 'He would calm down and shouted...' "ARACHNA POWER!" I shouted, hold the manacle into the air. "Yay grandpa! I did it! I'm a spider rider!" I cheered, jumping up and down on Stardust, who was just as amazed as me with the change. "So what, you're still you. You are still little weak, useless, Serena." she chuckled, swinging the sword at me once more. But this time I blocked it with my shield but lost my balance and well fell.
"Erica that's enough! We are done here, leave her alive so that she can can live her life in misery and grief! She couldn't even safe one petty life!" the leader of the invectid shouted. Just as he said that, I looked all around me, only to see what he said was right, no one was alive, everyone was laying on the ground, lifeless. "Serena, darling. It seems that you've lived. I'm so happy." I heard my grandpa say, as I turned around. When I did, I saw my sister plunge her sword into his chest. Tears stared to stream down my face as I saw the sight in front of me. I heard Erica chuckle as she pulled the sword out, letting grandpa fall to the ground. "Weak little Serena couldn't even save our weak, spineless, foolish grandpa." she chuckled, leaving with the invectids. I admittedly ran over to my grandpa and shook him, hoping that he is still alive. "I'm sorry I won't be there for you anymore Serena, but you've made me proud. So please, take care of yourself. I will always be watching you." were his last words to me as his eyes closed, and would remain closed for the rest of eternity.
"Do not worry my child, he's in a happy place." a calm, soothing voice assured me. I looked up to see the spirit Oracle. "The spirit Oracle." I gasped in surprise. "You must not worry about him child, he is in a happy place. As for you child, be careful, and you must not worry either, you will find happiness sooner than you think." she told me, as she faded away, til there was nothing that indicated she was ever here.
-End of Flashback-
-Sasuke-
'She's like me, except it was her family and her whole village. I mean I thought a clan was horrible, but village?' I thought, pulling her into a comforting hug. "I know how you feel. My whole clan is dead, my older brother killed everyone and left me alive. That compound that I live in, that place use to be crawling with happiness, but now it's lifeless." I told her, as she returned my hug. "Did that really happen to you Serena?" I heard Naruto ask, as him, Kakashi-sensei, and Sakura walked out of the bushes. "Yeah but I got my revenge on her and the invectids, or so I thought. The invectids survived somehow and attacked the castle, thus me ending up here 'cause of a ceiling collapsing on top of me, killing me. But Oracle gave me a second chance at life and well, here I am." I heard her answer, as both of us separated from the hug.
-Serena-
After some more talking about my past, we started training, figures that we had to run 20 laps around the field. "Serena, you will run ten by yourself and the rest with your partner." Kakashi told me, as I agreed to his terms. "Alright, you may start." he told us, as we took off running. When I looked back to see what he was doing, I saw him with a book, a really perverted book. "Man Serena, you're really fast." Naruto panted, as I looked back and saw the others about a few feet behind me. "Huh, oh I didn't notice. Things like this are normal for me, and 20 laps is nothing compared to what Igneous made me do at the castle." I giggled, remembering all the times he would make me get up in the middle of the night just to run laps around the castle. Before I knew it, I had already done ten laps, well it's about to be ten, I just needed to go past that tree and it will be ten laps. "Alright, Stardust spider out!" I shouted while jumping high in the air. Stardust came out of the manacle and appeared on the field, while I landed on her, and both of us continued the run. "I spy with my 8 little eyes some peepers." Stardust said in a singsong voice, shooting 4 threads towards the bushes, and yanked out 4 people. "Kakashi-sensei! We found 4 people that were watching us." I told him, as Stardust came to a stop in front of Kakashi-sensei, making sure the four people were in his line of sight.
Kakashi-sensei just simply looked at them and sighed. "Gai (That's how most people spell it k?) what are you doing?" he asked in a lazy tone. "We were curious about the voice of her, since there was only 3 genin on your squad, the forth one kinda got us curious." he chuckled sheepishly. "That's a big spider." the girl awed, looking at Stardust, while the guy with long brown hair tried to break free of the thread/web. "You can stop struggling, it won't break." I told him, as he just glared at me. Then the thing that creep me out was the veins that appeared on the side of his eyes. "What? How is that possible? You don't have any chakra." he nearly shouted, making me chuckle a bit. "Simple, I'm not from your world. I'm in your world 'cause Oracle gave me a second chance at life due to how I died at Arachna castle." I chuckled, as he looked at me a bit shocked, along with the others. "And now you're are gonna be shocked that I can talk, and blah blah blah." Stardust said in a bored tone, as the guy with the really fuzzy eyebrows shouted "It can talk!" making me cover my ears a bit from the loudness of his voice. "God, you remind me of Hunter. Both you and Naruto do." I mumbled, but loud enough for them to hear.
After I let them go free of the web/thread I had to explain the same things as yesterday all over again and got to know the team more. "Don't you miss your friends?" Lee asked, as I looked up at the sky and thought about what he ask. "Of course I do, even though they are annoying some times, I do miss them. Actually, I don't think of them as friends, I think of them as family." I answered him, looking back down at them with a warm smile. "What about your real family?" Neji asked, as my smile faded. "They're dead, along with my whole village." I told him, as I blinked away the tears. "Oh, who wiped out the village if you don't mind me asking." Tenten asked, as I took in a deep breathe and let it out. "My older sister, she was working with the invectids and wiped out the whole village. I did get my revenge on her and the invectids but some of the invectids that refused to work with us banded together and attacked the castle, thus me ending up here." I told her, as there was a long silence after I said what I said.
"Calling all spider riders! can anyone hear me! Corona! Aqune! Igneous! Anybody!" my manacle went off, making everyone's head snap towards me. I smiled and held the manacle up to my face. "Hunter! Come in Hunter! Is that you?" I replied, waiting for his answer. "Se-Se-Serena! Is that you!" I heard him, making my smile bigger. I was so happy right now that I stood up and looked around the area. "Hunter where are you!" I asked him. "In some kind of forest!" he replied as I thought of a plan. "Alright...um...head towards the direction of Stardust's flame threads!" I told him, as I nodded at Stardust, who shot two threads -one from each side of her mouth- in the air. Soon the threads had fire running through them. "Keep it up Stardust." I encouraged her, as I held up my manacle once more. "Do you see it Hunter?" I asked him, as he replied with a "Yep" and told me that he was head towards it. "Serena!" I heard a heart warming voice called out, as i looked to my right and saw Hunter. I admittedly jumped off of Stardust, ran up to him and hug tackled him, making him fall off of Shadow. "Stardust, oh you have no idea how worried I've been." I heard Shadow say, as those hugged each other as well.
Finally I let go and looked at him. "How did you get here?" I asked, my smile still plastered on my face. "Well, we were fighting off an invectid attack and I push Buguese out of the way from an attack from behind, and I thought I died til Oracle told me that I will have a second chance. And the next thing I knew, I woke up in a forest. Then you know where this goes." he chuckled, scratching the back of his head. "How are err were the others doing? Do you still have the Oracle keys? I'm asking to many questions aren't I?" I giggled, as I lead him over to the others. "They were doing good err fine the last time I saw them. Yes I have only three 'cause you have the 4th one. And you just need to slow down." he answered my questions one by one, chuckling at the end. "Alright." I giggled.
-Sasuke-
Man, her giggle is so cute. Wait! Why am I saying these things! But I can't help it, she's just so adorable. Why do I feel like I should take her away from Hunter, why am I feeling jealous. I'm an Uchiha, Uchihas don't get jealous, do they? Grr why why why why why!
-No one-
Serena took Hunter over to the rest of the gang and introduced him. "Hello there Hunter. I am Rock Lee but call me Lee" Lee saluted him, making Serena giggle, and Hunter chuckle. "That's Gai-sensei, my sensei Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Neji Hyuga, and TenTen." she introduced them, as Hunter waved and said "Hey." chuckling a bit also. "So this is another one of the spider riders?" Sakura asked, as Serena sighed. "No, this is a random person that I just happen to know and has a spider that's gonna eat us all." I said sarcastically, as she just looked at Serena with a horrified expression, making her laugh. "Well Hunter, welcome to your new life of a spider rider and a ninja." Serena told him, as he just chuckled while putting both of his hands behind his head, grinning his famous grin.
"You guys wait here while I get lord hokage." Kakashi told them, as he disappeared in a poof of smoke. "The hokage is going to decide if you are good enough to be a ninja, which I think you should be." Serena told him, before he could ask her what a hokage is. "How were things at the castle?" she finally asked, after a few moments of silence. "Things were slow, sad, and depressing. Every little thing that we did or see reminded us of you. Everyone was sad, especially Sparkle and Hotarla. Igneous was so sad that he didn't even say anything back when I told him he was a loser, he actually agreed, saying that he's a loser 'cause he couldn't even save one friend. Corona and Aqune are sad that Spirit Oracle lost a handmaiden and because you guys were like sisters. The whole castle was like mute once you left, no happiness, no laughter, nothing." Hunter explained in a sad voice, as tears fell down Serena's face. "It was so bad that Lumen actually did the paper work for once without sleeping or slacking off." he added, making her sigh. "That bad huh?" she chuckled, but in a sad way. "Wait, how is that bad?" Naruto asked, making Serena's attention turn to him. "You see, Lumen is not the working type, everyone in the castle has to constantly tell him to work in order for him to work, but for him to do it willingly, that's just...not prince Lumen..." I replied, as Lee tried to brighten up the mood. "Hey, how about we show them the hokage monuments well from the top." Lee suggested to the others, making sure that the two riders didn't hear. Everyone nodded their heads and agreed.
Me: Well that is all for this ch ^_^
Itachi: When do I pop in the story? *pout face*
Me: Soon -_-'
Sasuke: Unless you are dead 3:D
Itachi: O.o
Me: Review please ^_^
