Ugh... I'm starting to get really sick. It's a godsend (not that I'm religious, cause I'm not) that my girlfriend is here to make up for my availability for my little sister. It's not easy having 2 jobs, a volunteer job, and taking care of an ill sister at the same time. The stress is starting to get to me, so if these updates become a little more infrequent, i'm sorry but that's just how life works. I'm up at like 12 midnight writing this because I wanted at least a little progress with it. I have to quit that volunteer job, but every time I picture the sad and disappointed faces of the kids there I lose my nerve to do it...
Headaches suck... Enjoy the story...
Naruto and Sora stood in front of the gates that Sora had brought them to. They were simple wood gates, but Sora would bet that they were damn near unbreakable. He was also sure that there was no way to get in aside from the gates themselves, as he had employed wind spirits to find weaknesses in the seal barrier around the place.
Let no one accuse an Uzumaki of being bad at seals. He could practically hear the spirits being deflected. 'How thorough Kushina, Minato, to think you were so young when you applied these.'
"So this is the place we're going to be living at? How'd you get it." Naruto asked, looking at the gates wearily. He had never expected to be living in such a place, and it was most suspicious that he would just be given one like this. even if he did have a god with him.
"Yes, you'll have plenty of answers tomorrow though, so let's get inside." Sora pulled the key he had been given by the Hokage and handed it to Naruto. "Bite your thumb, wipe it on the key, and stick it in the keyhole." Naruto looked at him like he was insande so he sighed and finished. "Think of your blood as a second key. The lock will take the sample of your blood and if it matches to the family that owns whatever the lock belongs to then it'll open, now shut up and do it."
Naruto did as he was told, albeit with some reluctance, and bit his thumb, wiped it on the key, and unlocked the gate with it.
The inside was fairly large. A one floor mansion with plenty of room to train, a fish pond, what looked like a hotsprings on the opposite end, plenty of rooms no doubt for the hopes of reviving the Uzumaki clan eventually, and a nice porch that Sora could see himself sitting at at night drinking sake while watching the moon. "Not bad. I'm taking the master bedroom though, you're a bit too young to have one at the moment."
Naruto didn't really care though, he was too focused on the place, looking everywhere in amazement. He couldn't believe he was going to be living in such a place. It was so unbelievable that he thought it was a dream until he pinched himself, getting an involuntary "ow" which only proved it was real. He looked over to ask Sora questions but only saw the tip of his tail as he rounded a corner, disappearing into the home.
Sora meanwhile had taken mere moments to find and claim the master bedroom, as was only proper when moving into a new place. Soon though, Naruto had found him. "Don't worry kit, you'll get answers tomorrow, for now, go find a room and put away your things. You can keep the scroll, I'm sure we'll find uses for it for you. Till then, get some rest, you'll begin training after our meeting tomorrow."
Sora didn't generally like being in the mortal world. Don't get him wrong, he loved mortals, it was just that he didn't like how most of them were when they were alive. Death tended to make people lose their hatred, jealousy, need for revenge, all that good stuff that made everyone assholes. Not that that happened to everyone though. Some people kept hold on all of that negative feeling, and those were the kinds of people that didn't get picked up by the gods. Those who didn't get picked up were eaten by the reaper, as was accordance to the God Law that was made when the reaper was first created by him and his siblings.
One thing his hatred of that surpassed even his hatred of the greed, envy, and hatred though was the sleep. Yes, he hated sleeping far above anything else. Unlike all the other gods, even his own twin, Sora was the only one with a tragic past that surpassed even Narutos himself. All the emperor gods were originally humans after all (they were siblings in name only aside from him and his twin and also the light and dark twins) and thus had histories be they bad or good. In Soras case, he didn't even like thinking about it. He had actually shielded his sister from the same torture that he endured in his lifetime, which to this day she knew absolutely nothing about, and thus he received torture that surpassed that which normal people could even think about surviving. At this point in time he had just hoped his sister never found out, even after these thousands of years.
So instead of having to go through the whole nightmare thing and being awake the rest of the night anyway, he skipped the sleeping and instead sat on the porch, watching the moon.
xXMorning TimeXx
"Alright Naruto, wake up already!" Naruto woke up instantly and fell out of bed when Sora kicked his door in. "We're leaving for the meeting in thirty minutes, get washed up, dressed, and eat the breakfast I prepared. If you fall asleep again it's punishment." With that he immediately left him to his own devices. Gods didn't need to wash up, so there wasn't any need for that. As for eating, while he couldn't get hungry, he could still enjoy its taste.
It was quite the noise that Naruto had kicked up while getting ready and eating before meeting Sora at the gate. Sora looked at him with an analyzing eye quickly before deciding it was fine for now. "Remind me to go clothes shopping for you when we're done with the meeting, all that orange is giving me a headache."
"There's nothing wrong with orange!" Which made Sora scoff loudly. The boy would learn in time, though he had to give the boy a very good amount of credit for the achievement of sneaking past ANBU and various jounins when he was stealing the scroll. In. Bright. Orange.
Either the boy was secretly really good, or Konoha is really trashy when it comes to paying attention.
"If you want my training you'll change your attire. I like you Naruto, I really do, you're a good kid, but the orange. MUST. GO." Sora didn't wait for an answer, pushing Naruto out of the gate which closed behind them and then laying his hand on Narutos shoulder, disappearing into a calm wind.
May not update for a little while. I'm going to get a check-up at the doctors. My girlfriend wants to be "safe than sorry" so wish me luck on good health people, I really don't need to be badly ill right now.
Ta Ta for now. CabbageMan out!
