A/N: Thank you for reading. ^^
And yes, Naruto is the horse. lol I dunno, it just came to me. xD
I hope you continue to read and continue to enjoy. ^^ 3
Disclaimer: I don't own ANYTHING! Storyline or characters, I don't own any of them, and I am NOT making any money off this.
Warning: OOCness
(btw, if you see some mistake, please let me know! thank you.^^)
"See ya, Kakashi. Good luck!" Sasuke called out, waving to his father as the man rode off on the back of the Clydesdale that he had named, Naruto, with the axe machine loaded up on a wagon behind him."Goodbye, Sasuke. And take care while I'm gone!" Kakashi called back, waving to his son before putting the hand on his head to fix the bandage that was wrapped around his head, as it was coming loose already.
Kakashi continued to ride along through the beautiful country side through the day, but soon it was getting darker as they came into a wooded area. Naruto had his head lowered as his eyes darted back and forth, nickering softly, nervously. Kakashi was looking over a map with one hand while the other was holding a lantern. "We should have been there by now...maybe we missed a turn." The white haired man said as he looked at the map. "I guess I should have taken the uh...wait a minute." He said as they came up to a sign post, but most of the signs were old and couldn't read anything.
Naruto looked up at the signs before looking to the left and started to take that fork before getting stopped by Kakashi. "No, let's go this way." He said turning Naruto's head towards the right.
Naruto looked up at his rider before shaking his head and looked at the dark, sinister looking path before looking down the left, more bright and cheery looking path. After looking at paths for a second, he once again began to go towards the one on the left, having a bad feeling about the right path, but once again, Kakashi pulled on his reigns. "Come on, Naruto, it's a shortcut. We'll be there in no time." The man said as Naruto neighed his complaint before slowly, hesitantly walked down the path his rider led him down.
As they slowly moved down the path, it seemed to get spookier and spookier when suddenly, to the side a shadow dashed by, startling Naruto. The poor horse was never so scared in his life! He started nickering in alarm, perking his ears up and looking around for what it was.
Meanwhile, Kakashi was looking at the map again. "This can't be right. Where have you taken us, Naruto?" He asked, blaming the frightened horse as wolf howls were heard echoing through the woods. "We better turn around..." He said as Naruto started to back up, not knowing where he was going, just wanting to go somewhere!
The howls were getting closer, making Naruto start to spook, nickering and neighing in alarm and fright. Kakashi tried to calm the frightened horse down, but they then backed into a hallowed out tree with the wagon, the impact awoke the bats inside, who flew out and started swarming them, freaking Naruto out even more!
"Oh...! Oh, look out!" Kakashi yelled, trying to swat away the bats before Naruto reared up and started to run somewhere, anywhere. He had no clue where he was going when they suddenly appeared out on a cliff ledge, looking down the steep cliffside. "Back up, back up, back up!" Kakashi ordered the horse who was having a problem keeping his footing, but managed to get away from the edge. "Good boy, good boy, that's it...back up! Steady boy, steady. Now steady. No, Naruto no!" He cried, as the giant horse kept stomping his hooves, hearing the barking of the wolves coming closer, Naruto finally reared up one more time, this time knocking Kakashi off his back and ran off, a few wolves chasing after him as he left Kakashi in the dark, his lantern breaking from his fall.
Kakashi looked up from where he had fallen off and looked out to where Naruto had ran off to. "...Naruto." He whisper-called out, before standing up and grabbing his hat that had fallen. As he put it back on, he heard a few menacing growls in the woods. Turning to see what was there, he saw it was a pack of wolves. He gasped and started running away, feeling as frightened as Naruto had been. He knew he couldn't out run the wolves as they started to run after him, but he had to try!
He continued to run before falling down, tripping over a root and when he looked up, there was a huge gate and wall in front of him. Staring up at it for a second, he turned to see the wolves almost on top of him. He ran to the gate. "Help! Is someone there?! Help!" He called out, banging on the gate. It suddenly swung in, making him fall inside. Right when the wolves were about to jump on him, he slammed the gate shut with his foot. He sighed softly in relief before yelling out when his feet were grabbed, the wolves sticking their heads in and grabbing at him. He stumbled back, loosing his hat, but not noticing as he turned to look up at the huge castle, ignoring the wolves still snarling at the gate. He gasped at the sight, never seeing this castle before...it was huge! Then thunder and lightning crashed in the sky, the lightning seemingly cutting the clouds open as the rain started to pour out, drenching everything.
Kakashi, wanting to get out of the rain, ran to the door and banged on it a couple of times when the door opened by itself. He peeked his head around the door. "What...? Oh..." He said in awe as he looked at the entrance hall of the castle. It was magnificent!
"Hello? Hello?" He called out, staying near the door, feeling strange of just walking into this castle without an invite or something.
"Poor fellow, must have lost his way in the woods." A male voice whispered out nearby.
"Keep quiet; maybe he'll go away." Another male whispered back, making Kakashi look around for said males.
"Is someone there?" The white haired man asked, looking around nervously.
"Not a word, Kisame; not one word." The second male said to the other, trying to keep quiet.
"I'm sorry to intrude, but I lost my horse, and I need a place to stay for the night." Kakashi explained, looking around, for someone, anyone who could help him.
"Oh, Pein, have a heart." The man, known as Kisame, said looking at his 'friend' who shushed him, covering his mouth. Kisame rolled his eyes, and put a flame up to the metal hand that was against his mouth, waiting for the pain to be too much for Pein, who cried out and started blowing on his hand to cool it down. "Why of course, Monsieur, you are welcome here." He said once his mouth was free.
Kakashi blinked before reaching over for the nearby candle stick. "Who said that?" He said, looking around with the guide of the flames.
"Over here." The voice said, behind him, making him turn around and lift the candle higher.
"Where?" He said, confused, when suddenly his head was tapped on, making him look at the candle stick.
"Allo." The candle said with a wide grin. If candles could have teeth, it would look like a shark's smile.
The old man gasped and dropped the talking candle in shock, the fall putting out the flames. "Ow..." Kisame complained as he slowly sat up.
"Incredible." The inventor said as he stepped closer to look down at the blue and gold candle stick. The stand was gold, but the candles were a light, fishy colored blue.
"Well now you've done it, Kisame. Splendid, just peachy. AH!" The clock, that had been sitting next to said candle jumped down from the table said to Kisame before being picked up by Kakashi.
"How is this accomplished?" Kakashi wondered aloud before looking the clock over in curiosity.
"Put me down at once! Stop that!" The clock, known as Pein, started giggling against his will as Kakashi was rubbing his fingers again the bottom of the legs, also known as Pein's feet. "Stop that I say!" He tried again, not noticing Kisame was chuckling down from his spot on the ground as he watched his 'friend' get tortured and shaken.
Kakachi started to turn the gear winding knob thing in the back, which made Pein cry out even more. No one has ever touched him like this, and it kind of hurt as the hands on his face were twisted around. Once Kakashi was done with that, he opened the small glass door and started to play with the pendulum.
Pein's eyes widened before slamming the door on Kakashi's finger. "Stop that at once!" He said wrapping his arms around himself as if Kakashi had touched him in an inappropriate spot.
"I-I beg your pardon." Kakashi said as he waved his hurt finger in the air a little. "It's just I've never seen a..." He started to snort, as if he was trying to hold back a huge sneeze. Pein blinked before trying to shush the man. He looked over his shoulder to see if anyone, other than Kisame, was around and when he turned back, he got sneeze on right in the face, fogging up the glass of the clock face.
The clock hands moved back and forth against the glass, acting as windshield wipers. Kakashi sniffled, wiping his nose with a handkerchief.
"Oh you're soaked to the bone, Monsieur! Come on. Lets go sit by the fire." Kisame offered before hopping off to another room that had a fire burning in it.
"Thank you..." Kakashi said as he followed the candle stick after putting Pein down.
"No, no, no." Pein said, chasing after the two.
None of them noticed a shadow up the stairs on the balcony, staring down at them before going back into the shadows as Pein continued to voice his complaint. "You know what the master will do if he finds him here. I demand you stop right there." He said, grabbing at Kakashi's jacket, but let go and fell down the steps, sending cogs and screws, nuts and bolts flying out of his body. He looked up from where he laid on the bottom of the steps. "No, no! Not the master's chair!" He said with a frown.
As he stood up, a barking footstool came dashing past him. "I'm not going to watch...I'm not going to watch." He said covering his eyes, almost expecting the master to come down any moment.
The footstool came up to the fancy chair Kakashi was sitting in. "Well, hello there, boy." He said with a chuckle as he rubbed the 'head' of the 'dog' before it jumped down and went under Kakashi's feet, resting them on his back.
Then a coat/hat tree rack thing wrapped a blanket around Kakashi's shoulders before bowing and tipping his hat as he walked away. "What service." He said with a smile as he wrapped up in the blanket. It felt good to have it around his cold body.
"Alright, this has gone far enough. I'm in charge here..." Pein was cut off as he was mowed down by a cart that was carrying a tea set.
"How about some tea, un? It'll warm you up in no time." The tea post said before pouring tea out of it's 'nose' into the teacup.
"No. No tea. No tea!" Pein said, getting up from the carpet. Why wasn't anyone listening to him?! He was just trying to protect the man from the rage of their master! But nooo...no one wanted to listen!
Kakashi picked up the chipped teacup and started to drink from it. As he did, the little cup, not used to being drank out of, started giggling. "This tickles, Deidara-sempai!" He said squirming in the man's grip.
"Oh! Hello." Kakashi said to the little cup with a small chuckle. He didn't know why he was surprised that it was alive, but he was.
Before anything else could be said, the door was thrown open, the force of it blew the fire out. The teapot, known as Deidara, started shaking, the lid clattering against the rest of his body. The teacup dashed behind Deidara. "Uh oooh...Tobi scared..." He whimpered, hiding himself even more behind Deidara's 'body'.
Kakashi started shaking a little as well as he sat in his chair. "Oh..." He whimpered a little as a huge shadow appeared in the room, looking like nothing he had ever seen before.
In the doorway, soon a huge, black, wolf like creature, only it had horns coming out of it's head and it's bottom teeth were protruding out of the mouth, having an over bite much like a bulldog. It growled deeply, sounding much more terrifying than the wolves outside, as it stalked down the stairs into the room. "There's a stranger here." He growled out with a deep voice, not very amused.
"Master, allow me to explain. The man was lost in the woods. He was cold and wet so..." Kisame tried to explain what was happening when he was cut off by an angry roar that had such force it blew his candle lights out.
Pein was in the corner of the room before stepping up. "Master, I'd like to take this moment to say...I was against this from the start! It was all Kisame's fault! I tried to stop them, but would they listen to me? No..." he was cut off by another roar, which made him step back into the corner, in slight fear that he was going to become a pile of parts if he didn't shut up.
In the chair, Kakashi finally had enough courage to look over one side of the chair to see nothing there before looking over the other side to become face to face with the monster who had blackish-red eyes, making him gasp and shake a little more. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" The beast asked, looming over the man, making the man stumble out of the chair.
"I-I-I was lost in the woods, and, and..." Kakashi stuttered in fear as he looked over his shoulder to see where he was walking before refocusing on the monster in front of him.
"You're not welcome here!" The beast growled angrily.
"I-I-I'm sorry..." Kakashi said as he continued to stare at the creature.
"What are you staring at?!" The beast asked, standing all the way up on his hind legs, getting much taller than the 5'9" man.
"No-nothing!" Kakashi replied shaking his head in fear.
"So, you've come to stare at the Beast, have you?!" The creature accused as he jumped in front of Kakashi as he tried to run away from him, teeth bared angrily.
"Please, I meant no harm! I only needed a place to stay." Kakashi tried to explain, scared half to death.
"I'll give you a place to stay." The beast said grabbing Kakashi by his jacket and picked him up.
"Oh, no! Please! No, no!" Kakashi pleaded as he was dragged out of the room and the Beast slammed the door, leaving the servants in the dark, feeling bad for the man they only wanted to help.
Back in the village, Guy pushed away some branches in order to see Sasuke's cottage better from where he was sitting in the bushes. "Oh, boy, Sasuke's going to get the surprise of his life, huh, Guy?" Lee asked as he appeared next to the older man.
"Yep. This is his lucky day." Guy said with a grin before letting go of the branch, which made it swing back and hit Lee in the head, leaving him with leaves stuck in his mouth.
Guy walked back where the village was setting up tables, a wedding arch and Choza, the baker, was even fixing up the wedding cake. Seemed like everyone ready for a wedding...well, everyone but Sasuke.
Guy cleared his throat before speaking. "I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first I'd better go in there and propose to the 'wife'." He said before laughing, all the other villagers laughing as well. Well, all except for the three girls who absolutely adored Guy, they were bawling, absolutely heart broken that one of them weren't his bride to be.
"And you, Lee-now, when Sasuke and I come out that door..." He said poking Lee in the nose to get his attention before pointing to the door.
Lee interrupted, smiling as he knew what to do. "Oh, I know, I know! I strike up the band!" He said before swinging his baton and the band started to play 'Here comes the bride' in a fast tempo.
Guy grabbed a tuba and placed it over Lee's head. "Not yet!"
"Sorry." Lee said, it echoing from inside the tuba.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was in his cottage, not knowing what was going on outside, sitting at his table reading a book. He looked up when the door was knocked on. He sighed and got up, making sure the book stayed open where it was before walking to the door and looking through the telescope/peephole thing his father had invented. He groaned aloud when he saw who it was.
Before he could even open or even lock the door, Guy opened it and let himself in. "Guy. What an (un)pleasant surprise." He said, saying the 'un' part under his breath so the man couldn't hear it.
"Isn't it, though? I'm just full of surprises." Guy said as he walked farther and farther into the house, making Sasuke back up the closer he got. "You know, Sasuke, there's not a girl, or boy, in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes." He said as he leaned against a desk that had a mirror on it. "This is the day...hmm." He looked at himself in the mirror, cleaning his teeth with his tongue before showing his teeth to make sure they were clean. "Ah...this is the day your dreams come true." He said standing straight once again once he deemed his teeth clean.
Sasuke frowned a little before placing a fake smile on his face as he moved behind his table, trying to get distance between this...man. "What do you know about my dreams, Guy?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Plenty. Here, picture this: " He started, as he sat down in the chair that Sasuke had been sitting in and plopped his muddy boots on Sasuke's open book! Sasuke glared at the man, tempted to punch him, but held back as Guy kicked said muddy boots off and had his stinky feet resting on the book and table instead. "A rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, and my little wife, massaging my feet." He said waving the feet in Sasuke face, making the boy almost gag. "While the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. We'll have 6 or 7." He said, quickly sitting up and putting his face in Sasuke's, grinning.
"Dogs?" He asked, thinking that's what he meant as he quickly grabbed the book and started to wipe it off with his handkerchief.
"No, Sasuke! Strapping boys, like me." Guy said beating his chest lightly, somehow forgetting the fact that they were both males and couldn't have kids.
"Imagine that..." Sasuke said with a fake smile as he walked off to his bookshelf.
Guy followed close behind. "And do you know who that little wife will be?"
"Let me think." Sasuke said as he set his book down on the shelf. He suddenly found himself with Guy leaning against the wall, almost trapping him in the corner as he said: "You, Sasuke."
Sasuke's eyes widened before slipping out from under Guy's arm. "Guy, I'm...I'm...speechless." He said, placing a rocking chair between him and Guy as he backed up against the door. "I really don't know what to say." He said as he watched Guy walk towards him, pushing the chair out of his way.
"Huh, say you'll marry me." He said, putting his hands on either side of Sasuke's head, seemingly pinning him there against the door as he leaned forward to try and kiss him.
"I'm very sorry, Guy, but...but..." Sasuke said, leaning his head away from Guy's face as he reached behind him and grabbed the door handle. "I just don't deserve you." He said as he ducked and opened the door, sending Guy, who had been leaning against the door, flying out and crashing into the mud pond.
When the door was opened, Lee started up the band as he was told. Sasuke grabbed and tossed Guy's boots out of the house before slamming and even locking the door.
Lee grinned as he looked over his shoulder before frowning when he didn't see anyone. He turned around completely and saw Guy as he pulled his head out from under the muddy water, a piglet coming up with him before being thrown over his head by an angry Guy. Lee chuckled a little and bent over a little to be closer to Guy. "So, how'd it go?" He asked with a grin before being grabbed by Guy.
"I'll have Sasuke for my wife, make no mistake about that!" He said before throwing Lee down into the mud.
"Hmm...touchy." Lee said, looking over at the pig, who snorted in agreement.
As Guy walked off angrily, wiping his face off, trying to get some of the extra mud off him, Sasuke slowly opened the door. "Is he gone?" He wondered aloud as he looked around. A chicken eating feed out of a bucket looked up at him in confusion before jumping off the bucket when he came out of the house. "Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him. Me, the 'wife' of that boorish, brainless..." He grabbed a handful of feed as he walked and threw it on the ground, feeding the chickens as he made his way to the small pen that kept the goats that he and his father raise.
Suddenly, he started doing something he never thought he would do...sing!
~'Madame' Guy, can you just see it?
'Madame' Guy, his little 'wife'~ He said before kicking the barrel that he had put the bird feed on, knocking everything over.
~No, sir, not me
I guarantee it
I want much more than this provincial life!~ He sang as he got out of the pen and ran out to the open field.
~I want adventure in the great, wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell~ He said as he looked around the field before sitting down among the seeding dandelions.
~For once it might be grand
to have someone, understand
I want so much more than they've got planned.~ He sang as he let one of the dandelion's seeds go. He was interrupted by Naruto jumping out of the woods, neighing out for Sasuke.
"Naruto! What are you doing here? Where's...?" Sasuke jumped up and grabbed his reigns. "Where's Kakashi? Where is he, Naruto? What happened?" He asked, pulling the horse's head closer to him "We have to find him! You have to take me to him!" He said moving to the side of the horse and undid the bindings for the wagon carrying the invention so he could ride the horse back into the woods without the extra load on his back.
