Haseo Aurion: Welcome to chapter 4 and now, this is where the exciting part comes in. Say goodbye to cannon and hello to the plot. Let's start the story!
Warning: Language as well as the same warning from chapter 1 and 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Darker than Black, or Devil May Cry series, or any of the songs that are used, they all belong to their representative owners.
Dante, Sakura, and Li were walking through a thick forest when she mumbled, "I'm really bored of this. I don't even know WHERE these tombs are."
Li gave her a reassuring smile, "It's OK Sakura, and we'll find the place that we're looking for. Besides, as we travel, we can start the actual intended training instead of the lack of training you had on your first mission."
Sakura gave a small nod and she continued working on her swords technique that Dante began to teach her. She gave off a small sweat as she panted tiredly because of the long training. She saw Dante pull his sword over his shoulder and gave her a raised eyebrow. She grumbled, "I want a nice hot and relaxing shower instead of working my butt off, but oh well. I should might as well continue anyways."
The training continued until it grew dark and then Li walked over to them. He asked, "Maybe we should head to one of the local villages?"
The duo looked at each other and then back at Li agreeing with each other. So, the trio continued their walk to a village when demons popped out and attacked them. Sakura groaned loudly her being not in the mood for doing this, and so, she took out her blade and charged forward. Dante took out Ebony and Ivory and he began firing away at the demons that charged forward towards him. Li also remained in the background while he used his lightning to electrocute the demons that went towards him.
As Sakura fought, the demons kept surrounding her and she kept on fighting. Her new sword swung in the right pattern and hit all of the demons that charged towards her. She began to grow tired after an hour later and Dante along with Li noticed this. Her eyes began to close, but she continued on fighting. Dante and Li also continued on with their battles until they destroyed off all of the demons there.
Sakura fainted and Li sighed as he ran up towards her, "I can't believe that she fainted. Oh well, let's just get to that village pronto."
Dante nodded as he watched Li pick Sakura up and placed her in a piggyback position. He then looked to see the sword that Sakura dropped on the ground. He went and picked it up following Li to their destination. Dante noticed the deep forest that they walked through and he also noticed that there were demons in the distance. He saw Li with a tired look on his face and he didn't mention anything at all except, "When can I have my pizza and strawberry sundae?"
"Are you kidding me?" Li joked back in a tired tone.
"No I'm not joking around. I want my pizza and strawberry sundae."
"Don't worry, we should reach a village soon enough."
The trio continued on their path as they then saw a small town ahead of them. Li ran towards the village happily with Sakura still unconscious on his back. Dante just gave off a small shook of his head and followed the happy Li to the village. When they got to the village, not many of the villagers were there, so they headed to a church where it looked like a ceremony was held. Of course, Sakura was still knocked out and Li sighed, "I think that we should get some rest now."
Dante just gave off a small nod and so, the trio waited by a statue in the middle of the small town. He watched the duo fall asleep and he saw people muttering as they went by all dressed up in fancy attire. He always hated getting dressed up, but he never really mentioned it. Anyways, he then heard a small moan and turned to see Sakura sort of waking up. Her eyes were cracked open a little bit and she mumbled, "Where are we?"
"We're in a random village." Dante answered. "A random village where there will be pizza."
Sakura just gave him a small look and she fell back asleep again. He sighed, "Why am I not surprised that the little brat would fall asleep?"
He noticed that she had her head laid on Li's shoulder and Li just laid back on the statue. He shook his head and he saw a person walk up towards him and asked, "Would you like a room in our hotel?"
"Five star?" Dante asked.
"Yes, it's a five star." the manager gave a small laugh.
"Do you have pizza and strawberry sundaes?"
"Why yes we do."
"Great! Now show us please to our room and hold on." Dante went over to Li and shook him while Li gave him one-eyed open look. Dante continued, "We got ourselves a five star hotel with pizza and strawberry sundaes. OH YES!"
Li looked over to Sakura who was still asleep, but he saw her wake up a little bit. She groaned, "What's going on here?"
"Dante just found us a hotel." Li told her.
"Oh okay…wait, a hotel as in a five star?" Sakura gasped.
"Yea, one of those."
Sakura's eyes filled up with tears and she hugged the closest person to her, and that was Li. She was so happy that she stood up, staggering a little bit, and she tried to walk towards their destination. She then pointed in many directions and sighed, "I don't know where to go crud."
Li looked towards Dante and asked, "Can you go find that guy again or something?"
"Yea sure." Dante nodded. "I just want my pizza…. and strawberry sundaes."
Li and Sakura both sighed together thinking, 'I think that's all poor Dante thinks about. Besides fighting the occasional demons and stuff.'
The duo looked over to Dante talking to a man who they wondered was the same man that he was talking to him before. They then saw Dante walk back saying, "Alright guys. Let's get going cause I want to eat some pizza and stuff."
"You know, I get this feeling that when I arrive back in Konoha, I might be too obsessed with pizza and strawberry sundaes." Sakura stated randomly out loud. "I also get this feeling that I might eat a lot of sundaes and pizza as well."
Dante and Li both smirked at each other as they probably wondered about the same thing. They then heard her continue as they walked on towards the hotel, "I might not get into the whole pizza thing and stuff. I mean, I could probably remain that I am, but have a better eating style then before."
"Of course you're getting a better health style." Li stated as he frowned, "I seriously don't want you starving yourself."
"Yea that's true." Sakura answered him back. "I mean, now I have to prepare myself for the battle between Yamanaka, Hyuuga, and myself of course."
"You really hate them?" Dante asked.
"Well kind of, and then I kind of don't. They both can be nice when they WANT to be, but they're not nice to me. If you put if that way they only care about what they want and not what anyone else needs. Same thing with Uzumaki and Uchiha, I mean, all they care about is well. Them as well I guess. Uzumaki only cares about being Hokage while Uchiha only cares about killing off the person he wants to kill."
"Nice Hokage speech back there." Li congratulated her with a little praise.
"Why thank you. But the problem that I see with it is that Uzumaki won't listen. I only said the obvious to him. I mean every Hokage so far did something for the village you know. If Uzumaki wants to be Hokage, then he needs to understand that the world does not revolve around him. No offense to him or anything, but he really doesn't understand."
The trio walked on in silence while following the guy up ahead of them. They noticed that people were looking at them and Sakura wondered if it was her hair that people were staring at. She just looked around the place in a very tourist way since she's never been here before. Of course, she saw that this looked like a big type of city thing.
They finally arrived at the hotel and Sakura gasped at how huge it was. She's never really been outside of Konoha and also because she's never seen a hotel at all. In Konoha, they really didn't have hotels, they had inns and the inns weren't as fancy as this hotel. She turned to see that Li and Dante didn't feel as surprised as she was. Of course, she just had to ask, "You guys don't really seem that all excited. So, have you been to a hotel before?"
Li and Dante both looked at each other and shrugged, "Yea. Not much to look at though."
Sakura felt a little upset, but then she knew that they were grownups and she wasn't. So, she wandered around a little bit to see what there was. However, she was stopped by Li who said, "We need to stick together until we actually get our room ok?"
She just nodded and wondered how Sasuke and Naruto were doing with Kakashi. Yes, she was worried about them even though she hated them. She would never even mention that she cared about them because well…they treated her like dirt anyways. She however, was more worried for Haku's sake cause he was a nice boy.
Naruto and Sasuke:
They were out in the middle of the forest with Haku taking turns at shifts. Of course, Kakashi was reading his book and Naruto asked Haku, "So. What do you think of this so far? I mean, we can get you to become a ninja of Konoha."
"Thank you Naruto." Haku smiled at him. "That's very nice of you and I may might want to take that offer."
"That's great, we can be on the same team still. But I was wondering if you had to do the chunnin exams with us still. Say, Kakashi-sensei, when do we take the chunnin exams?"
"In three months." Kakashi answered while reading his book.
"Oh. Does um Sakura know about this?"
"She should or she probably doesn't know."
"Is there anyway that we can contact her?"
"Nope."
Back with Sakura:
She smiled to herself as she sat in her Jacuzzi staring at the wall. She was so happy to not be sleeping in the middle of the horrible blistering woods. Of course, she's laughing mentally, 'Sucks to be them, but I still feel bad for Haku. Oh well.'
Sakura continued to remain in the tub until Dante walked in saying, "Oi, we're going to get pizza. Get dressed will ya."
"Yea, yea. I'm coming," she answered. She got up and saw that Dante was out the door. So, she went to her pack and picked out her the same old dress that she wore everyday of the week.
When she got down to the table where they were eating, Dante looked over at her sighing while taking a slice of pizza and sticking in his mouth, "You need better clothes then that."
Sakura raised an eyebrow, "Oh really? There has to be some mall here."
"Actually there is." Li pointed out as he gobbled down on his meal of steak. "But Dante's right, you can't expect to fight in a dress now can you?"
"You can, but I guess a make over would be fine."
"How about after we eat?" Li suggested. "That way, we won't have to do this tomorrow and it gives Sakura at least a small break from training?"
"I love that idea." Sakura smiled while mentally she had tears of joy running down her eyes.
The trio continued their meal and then it was time for desert. Dante had the usual strawberry sundae, Li had a milkshake, and Sakura had a piece of chocolate cake. They happily ate together and Sakura realized how much fun she was having. She kept thinking about what would have happened if she were still stuck in the woods. Would she have a wonderful dinner and desert? Probably not and she wondered what Sasuke and Naruto were doing with poor Haku.
Sasuke and Naruto:
They sat together and had a small meal of ramen for dinner with Haku and Kakashi. Of course, they had to ration their meal so that they could continue on for their journey. So, Naruto then asked, "Hey, when do we get to an inn?"
"Maybe tomorrow or more then likely three days." Kakashi answered while reading his book. "Besides, we should get there before we're attacked out in the woods. Also, when we get there, we start actual training. I don't think that Haku needs it, but he can practice what he knows already."
"I wonder how Sakura is doing?" Naruto asked out loud. "I mean, she's probably in the same boat as us."
"You're right Naruto. She probably is in the same situation as us." Sasuke smirked as his answer. "Besides, it's not like she's in a five star hotel eating pizza, chocolate cake, and what not."
Back to Sakura:
Sakura gave off a small sneeze and she muttered to Dante and Li, "Someone's talking about me. Probably Naruto and Sasuke more then likely."
Li stood up, "OK. Let's go shopping now so that we can get you clothes that are better suited then that dress."
"Right. Let's HIT the stores!" Sakura exclaimed as she got up and got ready to go.
Li gave off a small sigh with a smile while Dante muttered, "Great. Another shopper. There goes my pay. At least I get strawberry sundaes and pizza."
Sakura saw the first store, which had girly items like dresses, skirts, and other things. She was so excited to go in, but Dante and Li dragged her away from the store. She had a pout on her face because she really wanted to go and try some of those things on. However, they reached a regular department store and they went in. Sakura saw the girl section, but she was dragged away to the custom made section. They heard, "Excuse me, are you here for custom made clothes?"
The trio turned to see a lady walk up to them with some materials and a needle. Li nodded, "Yes. We are actually here to get some custom made clothes for our student."
"I see. Now, boys, I'll be taking her and you wait here."
The lady dragged Sakura to the other side of the store and took her measurements. She nodded her head admiring the young girls stature and frowned seeing that she had a small chest. But, she knew that there were some perfect things that she could make. The lady look up at Sakura and asked, "What's your favorite color?"
"I guess green." Sakura answered. "People assume that I like pink, but I really don't like pink."
"Alright then. First, you'll need a kimono for fancy occasions. Would green with pink blossoms and a pink bow be good for you? Or would you like a green kimono with a blue dragon and blue bow?"
"Um…I like the dragon idea."
The lady nodded her head and replied, "That's a good choice, but no matter what color fits you. Green brings out your eyes and the blue dragon would look nice on you. Now, let's find something else for you."
Sakura noticed that the time was flying by and she went with a few things. She wanted the same type of trench coat that Dante and Li had. One like Dante's style and the other as Li's style, and of course, one of them was red while the other was black. She also had a third trench coat that was green. She also got a pair of black combat boot type sandals for comfort and because they looked cool. She went with a green shirt and black pants while she also got a green kimono top with a blue bow and red skirt. She also got some bandages so that she could tie around her legs when she wore the skirt.
She had to wait a little bit so that the clothes could be finished and she showed them off to Dante and Li a few hours later. Dante of course, was completely bored out of his mind, but he thought about the usual, beating up demons and stuff, pizza, and strawberry sundaes. But, he noticed the change and he admitted mentally that he liked it while Li agreed except telling her that it was a good choice.
They then went to get Sakura's haircut and she sighed, "Can I NOT get it cut until I do something really great?"
"OK then. But how about if we put it up in a high ponytail or get it in a bun or something." Li replied.
Sakura went up to the hairstylist and she explained what she wanted. So, she ended up having her hair in a messed up ponytail/braid. She removed all her makeup and walked out happily with Dante and Li following her from behind. That's right, they were the ones carrying all the bags and Dante didn't even like carrying other peoples bags. He then saw some girls walk by and he smirked at them. The girls giggled and Sakura asked Li, "Is he always like this?"
"I don't really know." Li answered with a curious look. "Hey Dante, are you always like this?"
Dante really wasn't paying attention because he was talking to a girl who walked by. Li and Sakura just shook their heads. They then dragged Dante over to a bar where he happily sat down, and took his beer and pizza happily eating the food. Sakura and Li followed suit as they both sat down and ordered the same as Dante, except Sakura had a glass of orange soda.
After the dinner, everyone ordered ice cream. Dante got his usual ice cream, Li got vanilla ice cream, while Sakura decided to order the same thing as Dante. Li sighed, "Sakura, I think that soon, you might be picking up our habits."
She just swallowed her food then stated, "Maybe, maybe not. Besides, I needed to get off of that diet and what you guys eat is good enough. Ten times better then ramen. I get stuck eating that stuff everyday of the week. Thanks to Naruto."
Naruto's team:
Naruto sneezed, "Someone's talking bout me."
"It's ok Naruto," Haku tried to calm him down. "We're almost at the Inn and soon, we'll be heading back to Konoha right?"
"Yea I guess," he sighed. "I wonder how Sakura's doing? You know, I kind of feel bad for hating her for some unknown reason."
"Maybe it's because you were probably alone for all of your life and you meet someone who wants to help you out, but that someone hates another person. You understand what I mean?" Haku tried to explain.
"Yea, I guess that I kind of do," Naruto once again sighed. "Hey Sasuke, what do think would happen when we get back?"
"As if I care," Sasuke glared at Naruto.
Haseo Aurion: Sorry for the late update…long delayed update actually.
