A/N: Hello, mortals! I know that this chapter is a little shorter than my last two and I am sorry for this but I was thinking of making this chapter longer but it would've been way too long. You understand, right?
Itachi: If they did, they would have left reviews.
Sasuke: You're going to be in trouble if you don't do something soon, UchihaNightwish.
UchihaNightwish: Oh hush up! Do you want me to turn you back into a girl? I spend a lot of time changing the last two chapters so you don't have to wear a skirt in the present or past but I can easily change you back, Sasuke-CHAN.
Sasuke: You wouldn't dare!
Itachi: UchihaNightwish does not own the Naruto characters or the Inuyasha story. She simply casts the characters and writes what she wishes. We belong to Takahashi and Kishimoto, and she hopes you are enjoying this story just as much as she when she writes them. If you do, please leave a review. She has many ideas for you so she begs you for your words; kind or unkind.
Sasuke: Putting some class there, huh aniki?
Itachi: I do what I can.
UchihaNightwish: Enjoy, my friends!
Ch. 3: The Centipede Attacks
It's evening now and in Sarutobi's hut, there is a fire burning with a pot of stew cooking over it. Sasuke and Naruto are there with the old man and besides them is a basket of fruits if they would like. As all three of them are sitting by the fire, Sarutobi tells them his tale with his eyes focus on the fire and his hat beside him on the floor.
"Naruto onii-sama and Sasuke onii-sama were highly respected priests in this village and its protectors. Together they died a tragic yet honorable death protecting this village and fulfilling their duties. Long before, I was an orphan with no memory of my family. Naruto onii-sama found me near death during his travels and he saved me before taking me to this village where the two of them have raised me. I was but still a young boy when they died."
Out of the two of them, Sasuke is the only one truly listening to him and hearing his tale, he looks to the side in his own remembrance to when his parents died. He was young too when it happened so in a way, he can sympathies with Sarutobi's loss. Those two priests must have been his one and only family since he could not remember his real family. As for Naruto, he's fidgeting in his seat and looking quite irritated about something.
Noticing, Sarutobi asks, "Why do you fidgeting?"
"Why did you only untie him but not me?"
Peaceful sympathetic moment over, but can't blame him really. Sasuke's hands are untied as well as his feet while Naruto only has his feet freed while his hands are still bound behind his back. He's been trying for the last hour to see if he can wiggle him way out but these villagers tie their ropes tight!
Sarutobi simple replies to him, "You appear to be the most ruthless one."
Well he has a point there and Sasuke can't disagree with him on that. At least how he's the one who can be calm and rational in this very strange and abnormal situation while his friend will behave the complete opposite.
But still…"With your permission, I would like to untie him. He'll be more of a handful this way than he would be untied."
"Very childish."
"My friend has his moments."
With fire burning behind him and veins pulsing on him forehead, Naruto growls like an angry caged animal, "Teme…I'm gonna make your life a living hell once we get home."
Ignoring him, Sasuke politely asks again, "Please?"
"Very well, then."
With that said, Sasuke leans over to him friend's air and starts undoing the bounds. Sarutobi watches very carefully just in case this blonde boy decides to try and make a move of any kind once he's freed. Though once his hands are untied, he rubs his wrists and exclaims, "Finally!"
Pow
And then he gets hit in the back of the head by Sasuke's own fist – a love tap of all the anger and irritation his obnoxious dumb blonde of a friend has given him today.
"The hell was that for, teme?"
Sasuke barks right back, destroying his mature, in-business façade, "You're an idiot! A moron! When I say shut it, I mean SHUT IT!"
Maybe Sarutobi should have kept them both tied up…
Really not wanting to argue with his friend right now, Naruto turns back to Sarutobi and says, "Look, old man! I know my grandfather has something to do with all of this so-" But before he could finish, Sasuke pops an apple in his mouth to shut him up and instantly re-starts talking instead.
"We would like to know exactly where we are and how to get home to Tokyo. We're lost."
Naruto pulls the apple out of him mouth and turns to him friend to say, "You know where we are, idiot! We're at my house with some highly enhanced technology that's hiding it away!"
"Don't talk to me with your mouth full, dope." He plucks another fruit into him mouth and this time, a persimmon. "Your answer?"
Finally getting the chance to speak with these weird children before him, the old man replies, "I do not know where this 'Tokyo' place is but this is my home village. You are in Konoha."
While Naruto raise a brow to such a weird and yet somewhat familiar name, Sasuke's narrow in suspicion. He knows where he heard such a name. It was mentioned in the history books not too long ago. Where Tokyo is built is where a small village known as Konoha used to resign. But after war and other changes that happened due to trading and the invasion of the Europeans, the village was no more and Tokyo was built over it. Same as every other district in Japan. But that village existed 500 years ago. Then the two of them truly have…
Taking the fruit out again, Naruto asks his friend in a thankfully whisper-kind of voice, "You don't actually believe what he's saying, do you? He's lying! That's some fricken line he was hired to say!"
"Just eat your fricken fruits and let me do the talking," the Uchiha replies in the same way. Trying to maintain his façade, he asks again, "What year is this?"
"The sixteenth century."
Okay, now Naruto really has had enough. This joke is going way too far!
Getting up due to his anger, Naruto gets into one of his ready-to-knock-you-out poses and threatens, "Stop lying and maybe I'll go easy on you!"
"Sit your ass down." Sasuke grabs the blonde's jacket sleeve and pulls him back to the floor. "I would make you wait outside but knowing you, you'll go off and get lost looking for some fricken camera crew that doesn't exist in this era."
Naruto can't believe what he's hearing from him right now! "I cannot believe you're actually eating this shit! There is no way we've traveled back five hundred years into the past!"
"You got a better idea, usuratonkachi?"
As they continue to bickering and with no other questions for him to answer, Sarutobi is left to just stare at these two teenagers again. Even though they're short-tempered and a little improper, one more than the other, he can't help but see the resemblance between them and the two people he used to know long ago. Looking back at the fire, his mind goes someplace else; remembering the last time he saw them.
"You've done well…Naruto…"
"…You must take this jewel…The Rinnegan AND the Sharingan…and you must burn them with our bodies…"
'It's been fifty years since that day, hasn't it? Since they both died.'
Ding, dong, ding, dong
Both Sasuke and Naruto stopped fighting when they heard that alarm as Sarutobi's entire body tenses up before quickly grabbing his hat and sprinting out his hut. He tells the two still sitting teenage boys, "Stay inside, both of you!"
And the next thing they hear is one of the villagers yelling, "Lord Sarutobi! There's a demon here!"
A demon?
First, Sasuke and Naruto could only watch as they heard that bell ringing noise and now that they hear that there is a demon, Naruto is wondering how far Jiraiya is willing to take this little prank as Sasuke startled. At the same time, they look at each other, sharing the same confused look, before getting up themselves and completely disobeying what Sarutobi told them to do. But when they reached the door and push past the mat with Naruto first, a horse corpse drops right in front of him. Naruto freaks out and backs off while Sasuke is showing his version of startlement.
"Eyya! The hell?"
He even hides behind Sasuke; the coward.
Screech
Looking up to where they heard that, they miss seeing Sarutobi only a few feet in front of the horse corpse and they see what looks like a giant centipede's body and at one end is a the top half of a naked woman with long black hair and six arms. Seeing her again, Sasuke recognizes her instantly while Naruto, his eyes widen when he sees those black eyes looking around the village with a piece of flesh hanging out of the corner of her mouth. He knows that woman! Slowly but surely, images start returning to his mind. He remembers seeing her blank, soulless eyes and he remembers her pulling him into the dried-up well.
"Naruto!"
Sasuke fell down too when he tried to catch them. They both went falling into the well and Sasuke didn't let go of his foot whatsoever. That freaky woman…she didn't even have a body! Her lower-half was nothing but skeleton bones!
"I'm so happy. I can feel it! The power of the Rinnegan is flowing through me! Already it's restoring my body."
Those were her words as she holding Naruto so close to her chest. He would have blushed by the softness of her skin against his cheek if he wasn't watching flesh being restored to those bones. It was like watching a fast-rewind version of decaying bodies.
"You have it, don't you? Give it to me!"
And then… And then…
"You crazy bitch…LET GO!"
Naruto screamed and when he pushed her arms off of him, one hand was in front of her face and then this bright blue light shined out of his palm and really forced her back. It forced him back too and he crashed right into Sasuke's chest as they continued falling in. And then…Naruto's vision went blank and both him and Sasuke ended up at the bottom of the well in this creepy village.
"That's the centipede that pulled me down the well!"
'Oh now he remembers?' Sasuke thinks when he heard Naruto cry that.
Though when Sarutobi hears that, he's more surprised than when he saw them coming out when he told them to stay inside where it's safe. "The well? The Bone-Eater's Well?"
Before they could answer him, the centipede lady sees them. "There you are! The one with the Rinnegan!" And then she dives in at them. Both Sarutobi and Sasuke duck for it and Sasuke had to pull Naruto down with him just as they were about to be hit. The centipede flies right past them. Once it was safe to lift their heads up, both boys look up towards centipede lady's direction and thanks to her body being so long, they have some time before she can fully turn around and go for round two.
"The Rinnegan?"
Distracting them from her, both boys turn to the still startled Sarutobi and he asks them quickly, "Can the sacred jewel really be here?"
First these two boys looking like the priest he knew but now there is the possibility that one of the two sacred jewels is here as well?
"Okay, now you creepers are really creeping me out!" Naruto replies. "I don't know anything about the Rinnegan actually being here! I thought it was just a fairy tale!" At least this goes to show that he still somewhat remembers what Jiraiya was saying to him.
Then the centipede lady comes back. Sasuke was able to spot her and he made Naruto duck again to miss her. Sarutobi was able to do the same on his own and before that demon could made her third turn, some of the other villagers start shooting arrows and spears at it. She then decides to go at them instead and she cries, "YOU'RE IN THE WAY!" She runs over the humans, destroys some of the homes, and their attacks on her completely do nothing to her. Naruto and Sasuke watch this and all they could do is sit there. This isn't like a gang ambush in the streets. This is beyond anything they can physically do!
"Leave, you two!" Sarutobi yells, gaining back their attention. He tells them, "The demon wants you so you must get away! The only option we have is to seal that demon back into the well."
Sasuke's mind clicks when he heard that. 'The well we climbed out of!' Maybe that could be the way to get back.
"Naruto, move!" He grabs Naruto's wrist and pulls him back on his feet to run away out of the village and away from that centipede demon.
After a couple of steps, Sasuke let's go and Naruto continues to run right behind him but he asks, "Where are we going?"
"Back to the forest, dimwit! The well is there!"
"You mean where that light is shining?"
"What the hell do you think I was talking about?"
Sarutobi heard that part.
"Hold it!" Staring at those two teenagers as they run and the centipede lady starts following them as well, he questions out loud, "How can those two see what can't be seen?" Are those two really just ordinary boys with the same looks and names as the village's priests?
As they keep running, now in the middle of the harvest fields with the demon still pursuing them, Sasuke asks, "Still thinking this is another prank pulled by your grandfather?"
God, if he says 'yes' there will be some true hell to pay!
"At this moment, no!"
Looking over his shoulder, sure enough that demon is still following them. Her body moving like a centipede would if it was simply crawling on the ground with its thousand legs, her eyes are glued only on them, and her mouth is wide open to reveal an enormous size fangs baring at them, hungry for the chance to bite into their flesh and possibly eat them!
This is not a prank! This is really happening! They are in Feudal Japan that's five hundred years into the past, they're in a world where people actually wear kimonos and still use arrows and swords, and they're being pursued by a demon that wants a jewel they don't have! But do any of them want to stop and explain it to her?
Naruto and Sasuke have always gotten out alive from a fight, even if they do have to suffer a few bruises here and there. But this…there is no way they can get out of this one! Naruto realizes that and with this demon lady pursuing them, then there might be the chance that both him and his friend can die here on the day they were both born.
'Please if there is someone out there.' "Someone help us!"
Deep in the forest where the demon sleeps, his hand moves for the first time in fifty years. By the sound of Naruto's call, his hand flexes, revealing his claws into the light and he raises it towards his face; breaking the root that bonded him as if it has always been delicate enough to break. And in the first time in fifty years, his eyes open; revealing crimson red eyes staring up at the full moon that shines over head through the leaves and cracks of the Sacred Tree he's sealed to.
In the first time in fifty years, he speaks. "I can smell him…he's here…Naruto…"
After fifty years, Kyuubi has awaken from his eternal slumber.
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Sasuke, Naruto, and Kyuubi: Delicate flower my ass!
-Itachi sits on the side, drinking tea and eating dango-
