Hello world this is TonicShadow back with an exciting next chapter of Naruto Uzumaki: Ninja of Jurai!
And don't worry about what happed to Naruto before he was took off by Ryoko, I can promise you that nothing has happened.
…except maybe some screams of terror and evil laugher, but I'm sure there fine…I hope.
Anyway, I also do not own Naruto, Tenchi Muyo and Tenchi Universe, they belong to there creators.
So here's chapter two coming at ya! End of line!
…I need a better end phrase.
Naruto Uzumaki: Ninja of Jurai.
Chapter 2:
Here Comes Ayeka.
Outside the planet atmosphere of the planet Naruto was on, was a spaceship of alien origin. It was kind of weird since the ship itself was made out of wood. Inside the ship, the main bridge, from what it looked like, opened up to show a woman in royal looking garments. The two pillars of logs beside the entrance turn and show that both of them had kanji on them, the left one being blue and the right being red.
["All systems activated, unlock the time freeze now. All systems synchronize to breach standard time."] Said one of the pillar logs.
Once that was said, the seemingly sleeping beauty opened her eyes to show them to be a reddish pink color. He long purple hair covered by the hood of her royal robes. From what one could tell, she was neither pale or tanned in color of skin, just fair.
She stepped out of her cryogenic sleep area and looked up to see they were close to a planet. "What planet is this?" She asked her guardian logs in her sophisticated sounding voice.
["Colonized planet #0135, Fifth Earth."] Answered the deeper baritone voice of the two logs.
"Then this must be where my Onii-sama, Yosho is." She surmised happily. Finally, after trying to find him for so long, she could finally have some peace.
["No…what we detected from this planet was Ryoko."]
"Huh?" Her beautiful visage now marred with a snarl on her face. "Not that woman! What does this all mean?"
["We have yet to detect Yosho's ship, but he was in pursuit of Ryoko."] The deeper voice logged gave an answer to the royal woman. ["Logically, it would follow that…"]
"I see." The purpled haired woman cut off. "That woman and Ryo-ohki must be caught to be trialed formally at planet Jurai as soon as possible." The royal woman said as she said it with the utmost certainty.
["Ayeka-sama."] One of the logs caught the princess's attention as several pop up screen appeared on the monitor, the last one showing Ryoko herself, seemingly flushed drunk as she gave the peace sign to the photo shooter. ["Unfortunately, all of Ryoko's crimes are to be erased by Galaxy Police by Stature of Limitations at galaxy time: 00432, or in other words, 5 seconds."]
"Eh?" Uttered Ayeka incredulously. She then looked up as she saw the countdown herself from 5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
0…
BEEP
A beep sounded as the files on Ryoko seemingly disappeared, deleted. ["As of this moment, the Stature of Limitations has taken affect, and Ryoko's galaxy wanted file has been destroyed."] Droned the deep baritone voice log.
"Destroyed?" She asked in angered confusion. "Tell me now, why is it?" She demanded. Oh no, that woman was not getting off that easy, not by a long shot if she had anything to say about it.
["The Stature of Limitations is based on decisions made by the Holy Council on Jurai."] Droned the same log again.
"That is not what I have asked for, I am asking why that woman is not being sought for, for all eternity." Ayeka demanded in frustration. God she loved the guardian logs like family, but sometimes they could just be so annoying.
["The Stature of Limitations is based on decisions made by the Holy Council on Jurai."] It repeated, AGAIN.
"Nevermind." She waved the annoying log off. "The only clue left to us is that woman. We must capture her at any cost." She said with conviction in her voice.
["But the Stature of Limitations..."] The log was about to continue.
Only to get cut by Ayeka's firm voice. "This is an order. We will think of a reason." She resolved.
["Yes ma'am."] The other log followed as it knew that princess wouldn't and couldn't be talked out of this.
"Good, prepare for decent." Princess Ayeka commanded.
["Anti-Air Guard, Storming Level 4."] The deep voice log recited the status of the ship.
"Be well Onii-sama, please be well." Ayeka said softly, hoping her half-brother was still alive and well.
~:Back With Naruto:~
Back on earth we find our young blond ninja slowly beginning to awake as he groggily blinked. "Man…that was one wired dream." He muttered as he rubs his eyes. "Never thought it would be with a beautiful women though…"
"Beautiful huh? You're not bad yourself handsome." A voice said above him. Hearing that made wide awake and he looks up to find the women that he thought was only a dream, Ryoko.
"Hello." She cheerfully smiles waving at him.
After realizing that she was real he noticed that his head was lying on her lap and that she was stroking his hair…
"AAAHHH!" He cried out suddenly appearing at the other side of the room.
Ryoko couldn't help but blink in surprise at how fast he went from her lap to the other side of the room. "Wow…and I thought you where fast before." She replied.
"W-W-WH-WHAT THE HELL? YOU'RE REAL?" He shouted pointing at her in disbelief.
Feeling insulted she said. "Of course I'm real, what do you think I was?" She then smirks at him. "But I'll be more then happy to prove it to you, Naruto-kun."
Blushing deep red at that comment before he quickly shook that thought off. "S-sorry Ryoko-chan, I didn't…" He replied before quickly realized who he was talking too. "Wait a minute! Why am I saying sorry? This is all your fault!" He said pointing at her.
"What do you mean my fault? What did I do?" She asked defending herself.
"You mean besides how you tried to kill me by throwing energy balls, trying to slice me with energy swords, flattening me with your super strength, oh and lets not forget about BLOWING UP A HOUSE?" He yelled making her flinched.
She then blinked realizing that he was right and that she may have gone a little too far. "Oh…well when you put it like that, I guess it might have been a little much." She replied rubbing her head while chuckling sheepishly.
"A little?" He deadpanned.
"Okay so it was a lot, so sue me." She fired back.
"Riiiight…" He sweat-dropped before shaking his head. "Anyways what are you doing here in my house? More importantly why my bed?"
"Simple really, I came here because I want something." She replied as she was getting off the ground and dusted herself off.
"Really? What is it?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
She held out her hand and said with a happy smile. "I want your balls, please."
That made Naruto eyes turn big and white with gaping jaw. "EEEHHH?" He asked and said the only next thing he could say. "PERVERT!" He said with an accusing finger with angry looking white eyes. She attacks him and now she wants to jump his stick, she sure moves fast.
That almost made Ryoko trip. "You numskull, I meant the three gems on your sword!" she exclaimed with an angry face.
Naruto blinked at that before saying. "Oh…I-I knew that." He blushed in embarrassment.
"Although…" She said as looked up and down his body before smirking at him sultry. "I wouldn't mind doing THAT either, Naruto-kun." Before winking at him making him blush red. 'He's so fun to tease, not to mention what he looks like without that shirt.' She thought to herself as she remembered taking a quick look under his shirt while he was unconscious and saw his six-pack.
"You do know I'm only twelve, right?" He deadpanned.
"So?" She said walking up to him. "I'm a demon that's hundreds of years old despite looking like I'm in my twenties. Age doesn't mean a thing to me." She said with a predator's grin making Naruto gulp while blushing. "But then again, I heard that you are into older women, so age doesn't mean a thing to you either, Naruto-kun."
He face turned bright red hearing that but was thinking. 'H-how the hell did she know that?' He then went back to the topic at hand. "S-so why do you need these gems?" He asked talking out the sword hilt.
"Because without them I can't summon Ryo-Ohki." She replied making him blink.
"What's Ryo-Ohki?"
"Oh, don't tell you don't know what that is?" She asked in exasperation. "It's the other demon in the legend, you dimwit." She answered his coming question.
Hearing that last comment made Naruto's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Okay first off I'm not that stupid Ryoko-chan. Second I'd like to point out that even thought that legend was hundreds of years old, I've only just heard of it last night and not the full version either. Thirdly, you mean tell me that if I give you these gems the other demon will come back to life?" He asked her.
"No ifs about it, give them to me." She said crossing her arms.
"Eeerrr…no." He said deadpanned. "If you think I'm gonna let another demon run about tearing up the village like you did or the Kyuubi years ago then no thanks, two's company, threes a crowd."
She grabs him by his collar and lifts him so he was face to face with her. "Are you sure? The one approaching us right now is even worse." She said to him her face very close to his.
"Huh, what do you mean?" He questioned the woman.
"Never mind, just give me the sword!" She said making a grab for it but soon found that she wasn't holding him anymore…but a pillow.
"Huh?" She blinked.
"You're not getting it, Ryoko-chan!" A voice said belonging to Naruto said behind her.
When she turns to look she finds him standing on the bed, now knowing that he used substitution with his bed pillow. "Not when I'm still holding it!" He told her before his eyes widen as he was tackled onto the bed. "WHAAA!"
When he looked up he found Ryoko straddling him. "Hmm, I like this position." She muttered as she smirked at him sultry while thinking. 'Nice firm muscles…me like.'
Naruto blushed at that before he struggled to get her off of him. But it was for naught as she reached over and took the sword. She chuckled a bit as she held it. But the next thing she knew, the sword started to electrocute her. "AAAHHH!" She cried out in pain. It then blasted her and made her hit the door Naruto came in. "Ow, dammit!" She cursed as she forgot it would do that her if he she picked it up.
Seeing this Naruto sat up and blinked wondering what just happened then looked at the sword just in time to see it stop glowing. He blinked again as he then remembered just what happened and a smirk formed on his face. He walked over to the sword hilt and picked it up with a big foxy smirk on his face. "I see, so you can't touch this thing, huh?" He asked as he looked down at her, gesturing with the sword for her to get his meaning.
Ryoko looked up at him and blinked, but then grimaced. She was kind of at his mercy now. That wasn't good. 'Now what am I going to do?' She thought as she looked down at the ground. Then a thought hit her as she remembered one of the things Naruto mentions he hated seeing. 'Jackpot.' She thought with an internal smile. She then started water up at the eyes and looked up at him with a pleading looking. "Please Naruto-kun, please give them back to me." She begged in sad tone.
That immediately set off Naruto's alarms. He hated to seeing a pretty girls cry. "H-hey-hey, come on, don't cry." He pleaded to the girl. "Please don't, you know I can't just give them back to ya?"
"Please I'm begging you, I'm on my knees." She said as she grabbed a hold of the bottom his black shirt top.
"Okay-okay just, please stop crying!" He replied blushing slight how close she was and how cute she looked right now. "But before I do can you tell me what exactly is coming here?"
Ryoko sighed as she turned her head away for a second. "She's the devil." She answered in resignation.
"Eh?" Naruto asked, not really getting what she meant by that.
"She's like a devil." She clarified as she started make circles on Naruto's chest. "She's so dangerous and mean. She'll fire at you without even giving a teeny-weeny little chance to explain." She said in a bit of a cute voice.
~:Back on the Spaceship:~
Ayeka sneezed hard. Knowing that she wasn't sick since she just woke up, she looked left and right to find who was talking about her behind her back. Seeing none, she went back to her business. "Begin the capture process as soon as we arrive and you must remain from firing." Ayeka ordered her guardian logs.
["Hai."] The two logs acknowledged.
["We will soon arrive at our destination."] The deeper voice log stated, as pop up screens zeroed in on Ryoko's location, aka: Naruto's house.
~:With Naruto:~
Naruto suddenly got a shiver down his spine as he felt something big was coming. 'Why do I feel like something big is gonna happen?' He thought before asking Ryoko. "Um, Ryoko-chan? Are you sure this person can't be talked to? Because I really don't want to start a big fight…again." He asked her hoping to avoid another dangerous confrontation in the village. Ryoko just shook her head at him. "Is she really that bad?" He asked in worry.
"Yeah, she is." She answered in that oh-so-sad-but-cute voice of hers. "Listen to me, we have to wake up Ryo-Ohki, now."
"Wait you mean you're gonna summon it to fight?" Naruto said in alarm realizing that the village is gonna have another demon and an unknown force attack each other.
"No, we'll run." She answered, making Naruto breathe a sigh of relief a bit.
Just then, he heard a high pitched sound coming from outside, making him blink. "What the…?" He said before he went to the window and opened it to look out. When he looked up however, what he saw made his jaw. "Wha-wha-what the hell?" He exclaimed as he looked up at a wooden like spaceship.
["Ryoko-san, come out."] Ordered a pretty, but sophisticated voice through a loud speaker of the ship.
Naruto's eyebrow twitches as he kept looking at the ship. 'For once in my life can I have a NORMAL DAY?' He mentally shouted.
Ryoko's body phased halfway through the wall to look outside and what she saw as not what she wanted now. "Oh great, I knew it. She's already here." She said getting a wide eyed look from Naruto.
"THAT'S WHO YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT?" He yelled out.
"Who else would it be? Kami-sama?" She asked getting a sweat-drop from him.
~:With Ayaka:~
"Ryoko-san, Ryoko-san, you must come out." Ayeka commanded. "I know that you are in there, you cannot get away from me now." seeing no reaction, she cast a sidelong glance to the red kanji guardian log. "Are you sure this is on?" She whispered to it.
["Hai."] It acknowledged to her.
"Well, then, what is she doing?" She asked to herself in frustration. "Oh never mind." She said as she had enough. "I want you to fire a shot nearby." She ordered.
["I thought we were to refrain from firing."] The blue kanji guardian contradicted the princess.
Being caught at that contradictory, she blushed. "That's an ordered." She said firmly nonetheless.
~:Outside of the Spaceship:~
Seemingly out of nowhere on the bottom of the ship, two cut looking bamboos and six long sticks between them appeared. The seemingly wooden weapon shot a energy shot nearby the clan home, making a big shockwave and explosion nearby.
Naruto shielded himself and Ryoko from the blasts holding her close only noticing his position once the shockwave had passed. "You see." She said smiling at him as he nodded and backed away slowly him muttering sorry.
"So what are we going to do?" He asked worriedly.
"Well for starters." She began. "Point the sword hilt toward me and pray to have the jewels returned to me." She explained to Naruto.
He blinked at that. "That's it? That's all I have to do?" He asked.
"You where expecting something else?" She asked with half-lidded eyes.
"Well, sort-of…never mind lets just do this." He exclaimed as he pointed the sword hilt toward Ryoko and concentrated on praying with his eyes closed.
Ryoko, seeing this as an agreement to begin, held out her hands towards the sword and closed her eyes. As this started, the red gem that was closest to the bottom glowed blue before appearing on Ryoko's left wrist. Once done, Naruto opened his eyes to see if what he did worked while Ryoko calmly opened hers to see if it did as well. What she saw didn't make her happy. "What is this? You only gave me one!" She exclaimed to him as she pointed at the one gem on her left wrist.
"That's right." Naruto deadpanned to her with half-lidded eyes.
Being caught for trying to get more, she turned away from him and laughed with her right hand behind her head. "Well, it'll do." She settled.
With no further waiting, she lifted the gem up to air and made it glow. She then brought it over her chest and clasped both hands in front of it. She then opened them to form as if she had a ball in front of her. "Come, Ryo-ohki." She muttered quietly. "Awaken." She continued as she envision where her ship was, deep within a lake faraway. "Awaken." She commanded louder as the ripples started to form in the middle of lake. She then heard a yowl from the link she had with the ship. "Come!" She exclaimed out loud as the ship blasts out of lake and headed toward Ryoko's location.
~:With Ayaka:~
Alarms sounded off as another ship was detected. ["It's Ryo-Ohki."] Confirmed the red kanji log.
"There you are, you heinous criminal battle ship." Ayeka said with the utmost hate. "Attack the ship! Fire now!" She ordered them.
~:Back outside o the Spaceship:~
More weapons then appeared on the ship and started to fire lasers at the ship, Ryo-Ohki.
As soon as the ship was above the clan home, it stared to glow red and cast a sort of electric field around the home. "What the hells is going on?" Naruto exclaimed at the dismay at what was going on.
"Let's go, Naruto." Ryoko said excitedly to him as they were both lift from the ground by some unknown force.
"What are you getting so happy about?" He asked angrily as both of them disappeared from the room. But he wasn't the only one, or thing, that disappeared, as the home glowed blue and was seemingly teleported up to the ship.
~:Inside Ryo-Ohki:~
Appearing within the main bridge of the ship, Ryoko took command. "Okay Ryo-Ohki! Let's make our getaway." She exclaimed with a battle smirk on her face. The ship did as it was told as it blasted away from the area, dodging the shots that were being fired from the wooden spaceship.
"Yes! This is the feeling!" She said happily as she sighed in the same manner. "It's good to be able to move freely again."
"Oh man." said Naruto in dismay. "My house." As he looked at the flattened home and yard. It was very reminiscent to that of a photo, really.
"Sorry, I didn't have time to worry about it, so I shrank it and brought it with us." Ryoko apologized, she knew how much the home meant to Naruto considering is was his only home he ever had, so she did so.
As a shot hit the side of the ship, Ryoko turned and gazed angrily at the wooden ship. "Dammit! You annoying little…" She trailed off as she mentally command Ryo-Ohki to fire back. The bottom spike of the ship charged up and fire back at the opposing ship.
~:With Ayaka:~
Getting hit by the crystalline ship, Ayeka staggered a bit from the hit. "Launch counterattack." She commanded.
~:Back on Ryo-Ohki:~
Ryoko had a big smile on her face as she felt she took down that haughty princess a peg or two. But then she held her head in pain as she felt something freeze both her and Ryo-Ohki, the sounds of staff jingles ringing out as green cylinder bamboos appeared around Ryo-Ohki. As they did, she bit back a scream as she was held in place and felt like she was being electrocuted.
~:With Ayaka:~
"She cannot escape us." Ayeka said with firm face on. "Azaka! Kamidake! Go and capture." She ordered the now known named logs.
["Yes ma'am!/Yes!"] Both logs said as they teleported over to the ship and do as they were told.
~:Back on Ryo-Ohki:~
"Ryoko-chan!" Naruto said in alarm as he rushed over to help her.
"Don't touch me." She warned, but it was too late as he was blasted back by the hold that was on her. A beat of drums was heard and she looked through her pain filled eyes to see a floating log in front, and even though she couldn't, she knew there was another behind her.
"Wh-what the hell?" Naruto said in surprise.
"Jurai guardians." She muttered in confirmation.
As she was being capture, Naruto got back up and saw she was being sucked into the log. "No, Ryoko-chan!" Naruto exclaimed in worry. He was about to go but then he turned to his left as he felt something coming towards him and saw a floating log with red kanji on it coming towards him.
Glaring at the log. "Oh yeah, you want a piece of me?" He challenged but then he felt his body lock up. 'The hell? Why can't I move?' He thought in surprise. But before he could do anything as the log closed in on him, everything turns black in his vision.
~:Moments Later:~
Inside the wooden ship that was now in orbit above Eath's atmosphere, hauling the now captured ship of Ryoko's, Ayeka sipped on some of her tea calmly. "It's been awhile, hasn't it, Ryoko-san?" She asked with a fake smile, she then opened her eyes and looked at her prisoner, who hanged upside down with her guardian logs holding her in place, though one has to wonder why her dress was still standing up due to the gravity of being upside down. "I've been looking for you for some time."
Oddly, enough, Ryoko stayed quiet with her eyes close, as if still knocked out. But Ayeka knew better. "May I ask one question?" She asked in a civil matter. She then held up the sword hilt that was the Tenchi-ken. "Why did that boy from Earth have this sword with him?" Seeing Ryoko still act knocked out, she demanded. "Answer me!" A moment later, Ryoko opened her eyes and scoffed as she stared right into Ayeka's eyes.
Ayeka huffed, but then turned to look at both Azaka and Kamidake in ordering glances. Taking the order, the two logs initiated blasts of electricity onto the cyan colored haired woman. Instead of screaming out in pain, she laughed. "Stop! Stop! I'm coming! I'm coming!" She said in a voice of arousal.
Blushing a bit at the blatant display, she commanded. "Enough!" And just like that, the two logs stopped their 'torture'. "This seems to have an opposite effect on you. You're behaving like…" She then got a thoughtful look with a small blush for trying to think such a thing," what's that called?" she asked as she couldn't remember the term.
["A masochist?"] The blue kanji log offered.
"Ah yes, that's what they're called." She took quickly as she didn't really want to stay on such an embarrassing topic.
"Actually, little princess." Ryoko began, finally speaking her mind to the royal purple haired woman. "I'm more of a sadist." she confirmed to them of her preferences.
"Oh, I'm sorry…" She then stopped at apologizing as Ryoko was not a person she want to apologize at all. "Oh never mind! That's completely irrelevant!" Ryoko chuckled a bit though; it always made her laugh to pull the little princess's leg. "I'll ask you again." Ayeka insisted, as she walked closer to Ryoko. "Why did that young man have this sword?"
"You bonehead," Ryoko insulted as she fully turned to Ayeka.
"Eh?" She asked as she didn't know what she meant by that remark.
"Don't you feel it in his blood?" Ryoko offered to her.
"You're not answering my question." Ayeka said in frustration.
"Because the sword is his." Ryoko answered finally.
That answered her, because if the sword was his, that meant her Onii-sama… 'No, I won't believe that!' She exclaimed in her thoughts. "Don't be ridiculous! You know this sword belongs to my brother. Now, where is he? Where is my Onii-sama, Yosho?" She demanded to Ryoko.
"Half-brother, you mean." Ryoko informed the princess needlessly. "You came all this way to look for him? Things must be dull on planet Jurai. You royal type must be bored." She taunted to the purple haired woman.
"Silence, criminal! How dare you!" Ayeka had it with trying to be civil with this…women.
"Well, well." Ryoko said, not really offended by her little outburst.
"My Onii-sama's disappearance all started because of you." Ayeka said as clutched onto the Tenchi-ken harder.
"So that's how it happened?" Asked a playing ignorant Ryoko. Having enough of her games though, Ayeka press the bottom of Tecnhi-ken's hilt into Ryoko's stomach. The affect was instantaneous as painful electricity actually started to hurt Ryoko, making her cry in pain. "Okay! Stop! Stop! Please, you can stop now!" All the while, Ayeka's face was blank, but inside she was enjoying the woman's cries of pain.
"Now, answer me." Ayeka demanded one more time.
"Naruto would probably know more about Yosho, than I do." Ryoko relented to her as he body's form had smoke rising from it. 'At least some parts of it.' She thought the last part.
"That Earth boy?" She asked interestingly.
"Yeah." Ryoko answered.
"Well, then…" Ayeka was about to order her guardians to get Naruto, but two floating shiny black balls appeared in front of her.
["Ayeka-sama, it is time for bed."] Informed the floating sphere to the princess.
"Later, I'm busy." Ayeka argued to it," now go away."
["I cannot allow that."] Insisted the black shiny sphere. ["The Queen has given me strict orders."]
Ayeka sighed; at least she would have the energy to talk to the man who had the Tenchi-ken later. "Oh very well." She relented. "And take her off to jail!" She ordered Azaka and Kamidake.
"Good night, little princess." Teased Ryoko, not really caring if she got electrocuted again by the Tenchi-ken, she'd risk it just to get under the Ojou-chan's skin.
Ayeka huffed and the thought of the using the Tenchi-ken again was appealing, but she didn't want to go against her mother's wishes, so she just turned and left. ["Come, princess, this way."] Said one of the two black shiny spheres, as they lead their princess to the sleeping quarters.
~:In another part of the ship:~
Speaking of the jails, Naruto started to stir. The last thing he remembered were big logs taking him and Ryoko prisoner. 'I got beat by a piece of firewood.' Naruto thought in dismay. 'If anyone else saw that, I'd killed myself.'
Getting up, he looked at his surroundings. It seemed that he was in a ring of trees that connected all around him, almost as if they were meant to imprison him. But that couldn't be, there were big gaps for anyone to fit through. "What is this place? Some sort of playground?" He asked himself.
Naruto just shook his head, there was only one thing to do, try and find some help. "Oi, Ryoko-chan?" He called out as he made his way to one of big gaps between the connected trees. "Where is she? I need her to get me back home to my village!" He asked himself. Just as he pushed one of the tree branches to get through, he heard a buzzard above him. Next thing he knew, the connecting trees closed in on him, pinning him in place. "Ow, what the…?" He said as he was being squeezed tightly. He pushed himself out just before the trees could pressure him further. Seeing as it was close, he turned to another gap and dashed for it. Just as he was about jump through, it closed in on him again, holding him place as it bounced back and forth.
"Hey, let me out of here, dammit! I didn't do anything wrong!" He called out to the area around him as he tried to push his way through the branches. Unknown to him, someone was in the area, watching him, who decided to help the poor man out.
Naruto was then pushed onto his butt. "Alright that's it! No more Mr. Nice Ninja!" He said in anger as he pulled out a single kunai from his strapped leg kunai pouch. 'Good thing I found this on my way home after fighting Ryoko-chan.' He thought. He then started to make deep cuts into the wood prison that kept him in.
"What are you doing, Onii-chan?" Asked a cute little voice.
"I'm trying to cut down this piece of…" Naruto then stopped. "Huh?" He blinked before he looked up to see a cute little girl in front of him. She was probably about his age, blue haired done up in long pig-tails that were tied in cute green ball elastic bands, big cute pink eyes, and fair toned skin with a two small green triangles on her forehead. Her dress was a green like kimono with a bright green bow on the back, but it was cut off at the sleeves, under that was a long sleeved pink shirt that closed in on her wrists, and pink pants with brown slipper like shoes that red bows on them. She looked to be the same age as him. "Um…who…who are you?" Naruto asked confusedly.
"My name is Sasami." The cute little girl introduced herself.
"Sa…Sasami?" He tried out in his mouth. "Wait, have you been kidnapped too?" Naruto asked. If they did, he'll teach them a lesson or two about kidnapping kids.
"No, you silly. This is our ship." She answered simply.
"Ship?" Naruto asked blinking in confusion. "You mean we're at sea?"
"No, silly, were in space." She answered with a giggle.
"Space?" Naruto said out loud in confusion before he then turned to the windows that were behind her and couldn't help but gained a wide eyed look. "H-holy…" He said gasped lightly when he saw what was out there.
In the midst of the star-filled heavens, a large, mostly black sphere blocked a circular patch of stars. But thin blue crescent crept up from the southwest of the obsidian circle; a faint, glowing smile that shone softly over the ship he was in.
In what seemed to be a few minutes, the bright crescent had grown to cover the entirety of the black sphere. Naruto now saw his home planet in its entirety. The connected waterways joined into a single mass, a crystal blue ocean that matched the color of a clear sky from the ground. The land that held all of civilization and the wilderness was a murky brown with patches of natural green and faint yellow, and the silky clouds and powdery snow were pure white. This sparking blue, brown and white ball glowed so brightly against the surrounding emptiness that it opaque all the stars in the heavens. Seemingly held still by nothing, this jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.
"Onii-chan…? Onii-chan?" Sasame said snapping him out of it.
"Huh? Oh, I-I'm sorry Sasame-chan, it's just that…I've never seen my home planet like that before…its…its beautiful…" He replied not noticing Sasame blushing when he called her with a 'chan'. "S-so are you from another planet?" He asked trying to get his thoughts off his planet.
"Yep, I come from the planet Jurai." Sasami answered as she held onto the weasel like alien pet in her arms.
"Jurai huh? Then what about those weird log things?" Naruto asked as he really felt like pounding those things into fine sawdust now.
Finding it silly for him to call them ordinary logs, she answered him again. "They're not really logs. They're our guardian, our servants."
"I see." Naruto said as he wondered who would command them to take him as well when he really had nothing to do with this. Well, aside from freeing Ryoko, but that was beside the point.
"Onii-chan, what's your name?" Sasami asked as she wondered who this silly man was.
"Huh? Oh, sorry for being rude to ya." Naruto said sheepishly chuckled, she was a nice girl, so he should reciprocate her manners. He coughed to get ready to introduce himself. "My name's Naruto Uzumaki, the next future Hokage of my home village, Konoha. Believe it!" Naruto answered proudly to her, as he nodded to himself, he like how that introduction sounded.
Wondering what Hokage meant, Sasami shook that off for later questioning. She then pulled what looked like a wooden toy gun. "Will you play with me?" She asked nicely. Without waiting for an answer, she held the wooden object in her hand up to the trees that held him prisoner. Not a moment sooner, the trees spread out wide enough for Naruto walk through.
"Huh?" Naruto blinked as he commented briefly to himself as he looked at what just happened. When he walked out of the prison he looked back. 'Oh sure you listen to a little girl but not me.' He thought. He then walked around Sasami to check her out further. "Hmm, you look just like we do." He commented to himself out loud about the alien girl. He then gazed down at the little alien weasel and noted one thing. "Cute." He commented, making Sasami blush as she thought he was talking about her. The little weasel shot out and licked him the face, making Naruto grunt in disgust the trail of saliva got on his lips.
When he looked past the weasel, he saw the wooden object. It was a pale wood and had purple objects on the end of it, just like... "Hey, that almost looks like my sword." He said out loud. He was about to pull it out to show her, but it wasn't where he left. He then started to search everywhere on his body, but just couldn't find it. "Oh crap, it's gone!"
"What's wrong?" Sasami asked politely.
"I had a sword earlier and it looked just like that thing you have. Where the hell is it?" Naruto answered as he continued to search frantically for it…until he stopped at a thought. "Hmm, maybe it was taken when I was unconscious…" He then looked at Sasami's cute face and wondered if she could help him. "Say, Sasami-chan, could do me a big favor?" Naruto asked the girl. "Could you help me find my sword and take me back home? I'm really not apart of this situation that's going on here and was brought into this by mistake. Can you help me?"
Thinking and blinking a bit, her face turned bright as she set her gazed back at him and looked at him with a cute smile. "Well…will you do me a favor too?" She asked back at him.
Naruto couldn't help but sweat-drop hearing that. 'Why do I feel that it's gonna get me in big trouble?' He thought.
~:With Ayaka:~
In her sleeping quarters, Ayeka brushed absently at her hair as she thought about the situation up to now. She sighed and turned on a holographic message machine she kept since her Onii-sama left. When it turned on, it showed a young man with long black hair, tanned skin, and purple eyes wearing royal Jurain clothing. "My darling Ayeka, I must leave here tomorrow morning. To do battle with a rampaging criminal, but not to worry. I will defeat this criminal and return…and when I come back…" She turned off the message.
"And when you come back, I was to become your bride, but you never returned." Ayeka finished what the message Yosho would have said as he eyes wavered in remembrance. She then looked at the Tenchi-ken she had on the table nearby and picked it up. "Onii-sama." She whispered sadly to herself as tears trailed down her face.
As Ayeka turned in for the night, Naruto and Sasami just arrived a ways from her sleeping quarters. The two of them watched as the lights turned off, signaling Ayeka going to sleep. "My sister's room is right over there. She's asleep now, so you know what to do." Sasami said in hushed but mischievous tone.
Seeing and hearing Sasami like this, he smiled. While he didn't have time for it, he really couldn't pass up an opportunity to prank someone. He then gazed at Sasami at the moment and smile mischievously. "I see where you're going with this, and I couldn't agree more." He then cracked his neck and stretched his arms and fingers. "So anything you want me to do specifically." He asked, whatever she'd ask for, he'll just spice it up his own way.
"Just get her head ornament." She answered.
"Okay." Naruto said cheerfully. "Watch Konoha's prank master in action." Naruto announce proudly in a quiet voice. Sasami just giggled at her Onii-chan's silly antics. Not waiting any further, Naruto leapt into action, running across the field barely making a sound as he went.
As he got close all Naruto could think was. 'I can't believe there no patrols here, not that I'm complaining but really if she was about to he kidnapped it would be easy pickings.' He thought climbing the building…or tree…whatever. Making his way into bed area of the quarters here, he saw Ayeka sleeping silently on her bed. 'She definitely going to get herself kidnapped if security is like this.' Naruto noted going over to the bed silently.
When he looked at her head ornament, he really wondered how he would get that off of her, the thing looked like it was apart of her head. 'Hmm, can't substitute without waking her, looks fixed onto her head and I doubt she's a heavy sleeper like me…' He thought before sighing in defeat. Suddenly an idea hit him and grins mischievously. 'However…' Naruto then dug into his back hip pouch and pulled out a black marker. He opened it with a silent pop and smiled like a cunning fox. 'That doesn't mean I'm not leaving here without leaving a little something.' So focused on that, he didn't see her clutching on the Tenchi-ken.
A moment later, Naruto capped the marker and put it back in his back hip pouch. He silently chuckled at the swirl mark on her left cheek, the black monocle marking around her left eye, the fake black booger markings coming down her nose, a small red clown honker on her nose, and, to show he was the one who did it, a little chibi face of him doing a victory sign on her right cheek. Getting himself under control, he got up and got ready to leave. Just as he was about to go, he saw something reflect of the light of the fake moon over head. He looked down and almost freaked out. 'My sword!' He exclaimed in his thoughts. He looked left and right for anyone. 'Sorry Sasami-chan, but this is more important.' He thought with determination.
When he reached onto the sword hilt, he pulled, only to find she had a good grip on it. He tried to use a little more strength to get it, but he didn't want to yank it out, lest he wake her up and get those Jurai guardians on his ass. He almost tripped and fell on her when he got into it too much, but breathed a sigh of relief when he caught himself short. "Yosho…" He heard her mutter in her sleep sadly.
Seeing this as a bad position, he went over to the other side, but then she turned back the other way. 'Aw the hell with it.' He thought in an irritated mood. He crawled over to her and almost straddled her, but made sure not to touch her. He then tried to pry off the Tenchi-ken from her.
But as he did so, he never notices her fluttering her eyes open slowly. "Huh?" Her vision was clouded from her sleeping but when it cleared, she saw Naruto's face close to hers. "What?"
Naruto then notices her wide awake he freezes. "Um…hi?" He said nervously.
"AAHHmmph." She about screamed when Naruto clamped her mouth shut.
"Please don't scream, this isn't what it looks like!" He hurriedly explained as he clutched his sword hilt in his free hand. But she didn't seem to hear nor care what he said as pushed him off roughly by her feet.
"Azaka! Kamidake!" She called out to them as Naruto got up and fled. Not a second later, the two guardians appeared.
Naruto couldn't help but blink at that. 'I see, so she can call them whenever she wanted to…but that still doesn't make up for security.' He thought as he moved.
"I want you to put that scoundrel to death!" She commanded as she pointed to at the already fleeing dot that was Naruto. She blinked at the speed he left. "Oh, my. How quickly he runs."
["Here we come, here we come, here we come."] The two logs kept repeating in unison as they tried to blast the fleeing Naruto into smithereens.
Sasami giggled loudly at the antics that she watched go on. "Time to run from the scene of the crime, Sasami-chan!" Naruto said as he picked up quickly and carried her bridal style. Sasami squealed in excitement as her Onii-chan picked up and dashed away from the Jurai guardians. "Can't you do something about those damn logs?" Naruto said as he kept dodging their lasers.
"They're my Onee-chan's, there's nothing I can do." She answered in a happy and excited voice.
'I should have known.' He sweat-dropped.
The two then made it at a fork. Naruto looked left and right while keeping his feet moving, looking for which way to go. "Onii-chan, hurry." Sasami point to right path. Naruto took it since this was her ship, so she'd know where to go. "In there, hurry." She said excitedly as she pointed to a tree with a hollow inside. He speed up towards it and jumped down the hole that was in there.
~:With Ryoko in her Prison Cell:~
Ryoko yawned again. She was definitely bored. Nothing to do but wait and be carried off into nowhere. She then heard someone crash onto the floor nearby and looked to see Naruto setting down Sasami onto the floor. "Well, look who's here." She said in a happy and quiet voice to herself.
"Now where are we? And what the hell did we just go though?" Naruto said as he had his back to the jails, and thus failed to see Ryoko in one of them.
"Yoohoo! Yoohoo! Yoohoo!" Ryoko hollered out happily and waved over to him as Naruto turned to her.
"Ryoko-chan!" Naruto said happily. At least she was relatively safe. Sure they fought, but that was under different circumstances and he could tell she was good at heart.
"Great timing!" Ryoko said in relief, she could finally get out of this boring dump.
"Are you okay, Ryoko-chan?" Naruto asked in worry as he looked her over.
"Eh, nothing that little princess could do can hold me down." She answered as pumped her arm and showed she was in tip top condition.
'Of course she wouldn't, if Ryoko-chan survived an explosion while she was inside it what can?' He thought while sweat-dropping before shaking it off. "Right then, so…how are we going to get you out of here?" Naruto asked as he started too pulled on the tree bars that made her jail.
"Well, if I had my gems I could get us out of her?" Ryoko offered to Naruto.
"I'm not giving you the rest, so stop asking." Naruto said with a deadpanned look on his face.
"Oh phooey, you're no fun." Ryoko replied playfully.
"Now how do you open this?" Naruto said as he pulled at the tree bars again. Without either of their notice, the Tenchi-kin glowed blue when it got near them. The tree bars then spread out for Ryoko to get out. "Huh?" Naruto blinked in confusion at what just happened. "How the…?"
Ryoko stepped out and looked at Naruto as he looked around in confusion. "What are you doing?" She asked in the same manner as him.
"Hey? Hey?" Ryoko heard as she felt something tug at her sleeve.
She looked down and saw a little blue hair girl with pink eyes looking at her. "What's this?"
Sasami, seeing as she got her attention, bowed politely to Ryoko. "Hello, it's nice to meet you, I'm Sasami." She greeted with her usual cute smile.
"Uh…yeah." Ryoko stuttered a bit. She was never greeted in such a manner, so she really didn't know how to react.
"Hey, Onii-chan, who's this old lady?" Sasami suddenly asked Naruto. Hearing that Ryoko felt like an arrow hit her head with the printing of 'Old Lady' on it. "Is she a friend of yours also?"
"Old lady?" Ryoko said as her face barely restrained the hard scowl that crept up on it. Ryoko face then turned happy as she laid her hand Sasami's head. "Hai, I'm his friend, but I'm not an old lady. You know what I mean, little girl?" She asked as she shook little Sasami's head hard and down.
All the while Sasami had a grimacing pained smile. "Ow, that kind of hurts." She said in her pained, but happy voice as Ryoko continued to shake her head. She could even hear her neck pop as Ryoko continued.
Meanwhile Naruto was looking over the tree bars scratching his head on confusion. "How the hell did I do that? I know I didn't say a secret password or have a key…so how'd that happen?" Naruto wondered.
"Hey, that's Yosho-onii-chan's sword." Sasami said as she pointed at the sword hilt that was sticking out of Naruto's back hip pouch. Naruto blinked as he pulled out the sword and looked at that sword he held.
"What? Yosho-onii-chan?" He asked before he blinked suddenly realizing who she just said. "Wait, Yosho? Did you just say that Yosho is your brother?" He asked looking at her dumbfounded. 'She can't mean Yosho from the legend…can she?' He thought. But that couldn't be possible since if he was Sasami's brother, that would mean she was way older than she looked, or her parent were old decrepit bags of flesh that still went at it at night. Naruto felt disgusted with himself for even thinking it, let alone imagine it.
"Uh-huh." Sasami answered as she put her finger on her bottom lip. "But why were you able to use it?" She asked with her head cocked on one side.
Raising an eyebrow at that Naruto asks. "Use it? What do you mean?"
She was about to answer him but Ryoko interrupted her as she clapped her hand as she laughed at forgetting such an important thing. "Oh Naruto-kun, show me that sword of yours." Ryoko demanded in a happy tone.
"Eh?" Naruto asked confusedly.
"Now don't move." Ryoko requested as she kneels to his level before putting her hands on his shoulders. She then put her arms around his neck.
"Woah! H-h-hey, w-what are you doing?" Naruto asked his face flushed. She was pressing her body up against his with his hand that held the Tenchi-ken in between her bosom.
"You can trust me, relax." Ryoko sensually said to him, which didn't really stop the squirming Naruto was doing.
"Hey, c-come on!" Naruto said as he tried to find an excuse out of this. He couldn't handle being so close to someone who was prettier than Sakura-chan.
"Be quiet." Ryoko softly said as she put her head up against his, her eyes closed with a small smile on her face. Naruto just stopped talking as he looked at her face so close to his. Sasame just blinked at what was going on.
As Naruto didn't notice the gems on Ryoko's left wrist and the gems on the Tenchi-ken glowing, he did notice one thing, Ryoko was really beautiful. That face she had on right now, it just made his heart beat faster. 'So…beautiful…' He thought in awe. Being so close now, he could smell the flower and sake scent coming off of her, a sort of nice combination in a way he noted. Licking his lips, he really didn't like how his head was moving closer to her jaw. He really couldn't control how his lips closed in on hers as they were about to...
"That's far enough!" He heard Ayeka commanded as she broke his movement and jumped away from Ryoko. He blushed beet red as he couldn't believe what he was about to do. He could see at the corner of his Sasami's shoulder shaking up and down, a sure sign of her silently giggling at him. He just sent a seething glare, but that made all the more harder for her to cover her giggle now.
Ryoko meanwhile scowled. 'Damn that woman I nearly got him to kiss me.' She thought as she knew what Naruto had been about to do.
She then turns to look at the princess. "Well, here comes the little princess-…huh?" She suddenly stops and blinked at what she was seeing. Ryoko was looking at the princess…but it was what the princess had on her face what she most surprising. Ayaka's face was covered with black art marking and a clown nose and the princess doesn't even know what she had on.
Ryoko seeing this had to stifle her laughing as she it. "T-trying for a new look l-little p-princess?" She barely got out as she tried to keep it in. She looked at Ayeka's right cheek and immediately knew it was Naruto, even if he didn't sign his signature art on it, he was the only person crazy enough to prank someone like this. 'Naruto-kun you are the MASTER of pranks!' She thought as she grinned at the said person.
"What are you talking about? And further more why are you laughing?" Ayeka demanded as she glared at the cyan haired.
"Onee-chan." Sasami giggled. "Your face, it looks funny." The blue haired girl said as she pointed at her face.
"Sasami, what are you doing here? And what's wrong with my face?" Ayeka demanded.
"I was bored." Sasami answered. "And you should see it for yourself Onee-chan." She said as she giggled more.
"Ooh alright! Azaka!" She commanded the mentioned log came up to her. "Give me a mirror. I want to know what's wrong with my face." She ordered.
["Hai."] The guardian log acknowledged as it opened up its compartments and showed her a mirror.
"…eh?" What Ayeka saw stunned her. The state of her face was something of what a prankster would do to her. Immediately she thought it was Ryoko, but as she looked at her right cheek, she sent a seething glare at the Earth boy who did it, since he was the only one who was near her after Ryoko was locked up and the chibi face on her right cheek was proof enough. She then used her sleeve to rub off the offended marks and ripped and threw the small clown honker, its small squeaks sounding as it bounced off the floor. She would later wash the remaining markings when she took a bath.
Naruto just whistled innocently when she set her glare at him. It was really obvious it was him, but that didn't mean he had to admit it. 'Ah, the joys of a good prank. It never gets old.' Naruto thought with a little chuckle.
"I believe your name was Naruto, correct?" Ayeka asked in a barely restrained voice of anger.
"Hai, hai." Naruto said with big foxy smirk on his face, making Ayeka almost lose control of her anger. This man was almost like a male version of Ryoko. Ryoko herself kept chuckling, silently applauding Naruto for a job well done.
"I have a question I'd like to ask you." Ayeka requested seriously. Naruto seeing this wiped the smirk of her face and nodded. He knew when to stop his antics when the times counted for it. "Where is the owner of the sword you hold?"
"Huh? Well, he died a long time ago." He answered with the utmost honesty in his voice.
"You're lying." Ayeka said with wide eyes. It just couldn't be true.
"Well, that's what I was told when I heard the legend." Naruto replied with a worried face. She looked like a knife stabbed her heart. He wondered if this was how doctor's felt when they had to tell their patient's family of when they would die.
"What was his name?" She demanded with barely restrained sorrow in her voice.
"His…his name was Yosho…" Naruto trailed as he saw her face go horror stricken, her skin turning a bit pale.
"Oh, no." Ayeka muttered in a state of shock.
"Um, does that help?" Naruto asked nervously as he scratched the back of his head, he really didn't know what was going on with her.
"Oh yeah, he died, didn't her?" Ryoko asked with no tact at all. "That's too bad." She said, not even really meaning it.
"It isn't true! You're trying to trick me!" She exclaimed to them, but Naruto could tell she was trying to convince herself more rather then them of the truth of it. "Azaka! Kamidake!"
["Hai."] the two logs acknowledged, as usual.
"Onee-chan!" Sasami called out to Ayeka, not believing how rash her sister was being. But she was cut off from saying anything else as Ryoko held her up and had a beam sword at her throat.
"Ryoko-chan, what're doing?" Naruto asked startled by this.
"Order your blockheads to pull back." Ryoko demanded as she held Sasami hostage.
"You play dirty to the end." Ayeka said as she mentally commanded her ship to restrain Ryoko. Ryoko didn't even see it coming as green vines come out from the ceiling and tied her up in a mess.
"Bye-bye, lady." Sasami waved at Ryoko, Ryoko herself not believing she let her guard down so easily.
"Sasami, come over her." Ayeka called out to her Imouto.
Sasami was about to do as told, but then looked to see Naruto staring at the guardian log called Azaka coming at him. Naruto himself got into a fighting stance. Seeing this Sasami quickly got between him and Naruto.
"Get back, Azaka! No!" Sasami ordered the log, but she knew it wouldn't do it unless Ayeka said so. "Get back!"
"Sasami-chan, look out!" Naruto was about to push her out of the way when he saw the sword glow blue. The next thing anyone knew was the Jurai guardians being restrained in the same manner as Ryoko and Ryoko herself being set free.
"What are you doing, Naruto?" Ryoko asked confusedly as she didn't know the Tenchi-ken could do that.
Blinking at the site Naruto replied. "Um…just going with the flow?" He answered in confusion before noticing the sword glowing. 'Did the sword do this?'
"What happening? I gave you an order to capture them!" Ayeka commanded as she watches the events unfold before her. She then looked at Naruto as his gaze was still on the glowing blue hilt of Tenchi-ken which she too notices. "The sword…the Master Key is in sync with him. It shouldn't react to anyone but those of royal blood. So why is it…" Realization started set in for her. "It can't be." She insisted to herself as she fell to her knees. "No, it can't be true."
Seeing a chance, Ryoko latched her arms around Naruto's neck, who squeaked a bit in surprised. "Naruto-kun, call Ryo-Ohki. You want to go home, don't you?" She asked him for the obvious.
"If home you mean my village then yes I would thanks!" He replied.
"I can't believe it." Ayeka insisted out loud. "I won't believe it, it is impossible." She said as her eyes threaten to burst with hot tears.
"Suit yourself." Ryoko said as the sounds of breaking around the ship started to sound through the ship. "But you should know where your standing, isn't quite safe." Ryoko offered as the sounds got louder.
Ayeka cried. "AAAHHH!" As she barely jumped out of the way as a black crystalline spike of Ryo-Ohki bursts through the wooden floor of the Jurian ship, the Jurai guardians flung forward with their restraints, with Azaka pinning down the princess on the floor.
"Told you so." She said with grin. "Let's go Naruto." Ryoko said out loud as she pulled Naruto to Ryo-Ohki "Thank you, little girl." Ryoko thanked Sasami as she phased both her and Naruto into Ryo-Ohki.
"Bye-Bye, Onii-chan." Sasami waved goodbye to Naruto.
"Do something, quickly!" Ayeka ordered sheepishly, this was too embarrassing for her.
["I'm sorry."] Azaka almost stuttered his apology to the princess.
"I will never forgive that women." Ayeka vowed to herself.
~:Inside Ryo-Ohki:~
As Ryoko and Naruto appeared on the main bridge of Ryo-Ohki, Ryoko started to mentally command on what her ship to do while she spoke her plan to Naruto. "I'll make her follow us to Earth. As long as she's up here, she'll only give us trouble."
"Alright, but try not to hurt them too badly." Naruto agreed reluctantly.
"You're agreeing?" Ryoko asked in surprise.
"I know types like her a bit; she'll keep on gunning for ya with anything she's got." Naruto said to her with shrug, he wasn't going to permanently judge her before he got to her know though. "But…" Naruto stated. "The reason for why I said 'not too badly' is because Sasami-chan is on that ship, she's a good girl, you know?"
Nodding, she didn't want to hurt the kid either. Even though she did say she was old. 'Which I'm not.' She insisted, the little girl was an angel. "Alright, let's do this." Ryoko said with smirk on her face as she got Ryo-Ohki to turn over and made Ayeka's ship face toward the planet of Edo.
As the two ships make their way through the atmosphere in a blaze of fire heading towards Konoha, Ayeka's Jurian guardians were giving their princess the situation. ["Ryo-Ohki's mass is growing abnormally."]
"Why aren't they under our control?" Ayeka asked in calm orderly fashion. In a situation like this, cool heads were needed, not mindless fear and panic.
["They have used the Master Key."] Informed her guardians.
That was not a good thing. Before she could ask about anything else, her ship rocked a bit, letting her know a piece of her ship had exploded due to the heat of their entry of the planet's atmosphere. "Attack! Attack! What are you doing?" She ordered them.
["It's too dangerous."] Said the guardian to her left.
["The decent velocity is increasing. If we fall to Earth, even Ryu-Oh will not escape serious damage."] The guardian to her right added.
"How unreasonable that women is." Hearing Ryoko laugh over the speaker, she called out to her. "Ryoko-san, stop this immediately!" She demanded at Ryoko's smiling and chuckling image on the screen. Not a second later, another explosion went off, taking another part of wooden ship off. "Even you won't be able to escape unharmed, say something!" Ayeka warned her, but Ryoko's face just turned happier as her smile grew bigger and got eye smiles. Another explosion and blasted pieces of the ship went off. "Stop this immediately, I know you can hear me!" Ayeka hurriedly demanded, but Ryoko's face just turned silly, as if her face became cartoon like because of the sheer funniness of the situation.
["20 seconds to Earth's surface!"] exclaimed one of her guardian logs.
Naruto from his position was really getting worried. "Um Ryoko-chan? Don't you think this is going a little too far?"
"Not at all Naruto-kun. Not at all." She happily replied.
He knew she had something that would bail them out, but why wasn't she using it now, unless… 'She doesn't have anything to get us out of this…' That made Naruto think one thing. 'I'M GOING TO DIE BY A CRAZY WOMEN, AAAHHH!' Naruto exclaimed as he berated himself for trusting Ryoko.
Ayeka gazed at Ryoko's cat like smile and eyes, willing them to listen to her. "Ryoko-san, please! Stop!" But Ryoko's face didn't change in the slightest. Seeing this, it left Ayeka no choice. "Jettison the ship's exterior!" Ayeka commanded her last ditch effort. Just as they were about to crash, the pale wood of the ship explode off, leaving the blue and red part of the ship that looked like a flat round seed attached onto the spike on Ryo-Ohki.
Naruto looked up and noted they were sliding on the water. He looked towards Ryoko and saw her looking at him with big smirk on her face giving him a victory sign. 'So that was her plan.' Naruto sighed in relief. She forced Ayeka to make her ship exterior to take the hit of the impact and let all them land safely on the planet's surface. 'Heh, just as crazy some of my plans.' Naruto noted wryly. But what they both didn't expect was for the sliding part of Ryu-Oh to tip too much and make them bounce on the waters, spinning them around sideways and making everyone too dizzy for themselves to stop from crashing into a plot of land next to the lake.
~:The Next Day:~
"Our top story this morning, around 4 A.M., an object believed to be a meteor fell near Konoha Lake. There was no sighs of any casualties but the Hokage has advised everyone that there is nothing to worry about but has asked everyone to keep away from the area until further notice. In other news the damage in the abandoned housing district…"
Naruto turned down the radio as he sighed and ate his breakfast. 'Well at least all that mess is over.' He thought.
"Eat this too. It's good." Naruto saw Ryoko offer to him some more food. "You're lucky. You don't have a scratch." She noted to him, only to hear him scoff at that, making her raise an eyebrow. If she knew what kind of injuries he had before she met him, she would have called the injuries he got scratches. "You really ought to be thanking me." Ryoko continued with half lidded eyes and an undertone message to what she said, making Naruto blush a bit. "After all, I took care of you and protected you at my own personal risk."
"But most of the crash was absorbed by our ship, that's why you're okay!" Sasami cut in as she ate the food she cooked with all her heart.
"So that why our landing point was off?" She asked in wonder. She then shivered at the next thought she voiced. "Ugh, I almost landed back in that cave." She didn't want to see or be in that cave again in her life.
Naruto then noticed there missing someone and looks around and wondered. "Hey, where's Ayaka-chan? I thought she'd be hungry?"
Ryoko pointed over to the newly formed lake where they crashed. "She's over there." She informed him.
Looking over in the direction she pointed, he saw the Jurian princess trying to pull the pieces of wood that were left of her former ship, Ryu-Oh. When she pulled one board of wood away, she looked up in dismay at the main part of the ship that was Ryu-oh. She rushed back to Naruto's home. "Sasami, what are you doing? Come and help me save Ryu-Oh, my ship!" She pleaded to her Imouto.
Sasami lowered her chopsticks from her mouth at the moment to speak. "But it's too big for us to handle…"
"I would help too but even if I made hundreds of Kage Bunshin, there's no way for them to get it out." Naruto butted in.
"He's right Onee-chan, we'll never get it out." Sasami finished as she appreciated Naruto for reinforcing the truth of the matter.
Standing there at not getting what she wanted, she fumed with anime tears streaking down her face as she left to try and get her ship out of the newly form lake. "I can't get stranded on a remote planet like this. I simply can't! Oh my ship, my Ryu-Oh!" She exclaimed sadly before she tripped and accidentally threw the planks of wood she got out in her arms. The thrown pieces of woods bounced off the main part of the ship of Ryu-Oh, setting it off to sink further into the newly form lake. Seeing this, Ayeka just cried out in dismay. "WHAAA! It's not fair!"
The ANBU that where watching from the trees nearby couldn't help but sweat-drop at the scene before looking to each other.
"Do you get the feeling that Uzumaki-san's life is going to get crazy?" The ANBU with the bear mask asked.
"Honestly? Compared to what his life was already?" The one with the bird mask replied. "…yes. Yes it will."
Back in the house Naruto noted one thing as he was seeing all this from where he was eating. 'At least there's one thing I know now. It's going to be an interesting life from now on.' He thought. The one thing about that was, he could feel it was going to be exciting, but troublesome as well.
~:To Be Continued:~
Indeed it will Naruto…that indeed…
Well I hope you like this one and I hope you look forward for the next chapter of NARUTO UZUMAKI: NINJA OF JURAI!
This is TonicShadow sighing bye!
