Haha did you like the last chapter??? ^.^ I did. (not really, but well…whatever.)
Anyways, here's another one, I apologize for how long it takes. But I'm doing Nanowrimo this year, and I'm focusing on that. :D
If it's not November, then I have no excuse .
Anyways here you go,
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
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Purgatory!
Chapter FOUR!!
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"Kashi-kun, wake up."
Kakashi groaned, not willing to confront the beautiful voice next his ear. He was warm, he was comfortable, and he was so incredibly happy. The body next to his was light, and just felt so perfect in his arms. The smell of sunshine and rain fogged his nose, especially with his face nestled in soft locks.
The gorgeous voice laughed, warm and rich, and Kakashi felt himself smile, the expression easier without the damnable mask in the way. Opening his eyes, Kakashi smiled wider at the blonde blue eyed boy next to him, and felt a happy heat flare up in his heart. He was so happy to just lye here in bed with his lover, nobody could disturb his happiness, no one could stop this love he was feeling for the gorgeous small blonde boy beside him.
No one.
Except for Sakura's voice crying out, "Sensei! Are you awake?!"
He found that he was smiling foolishly, although nobody could tell, thank god for his mask. Groggily, Kakashi groaned, holding a hand to his aching head, trying to ignore the pink haired banshees incessant yelling. Blinking his eyes open, he saw Sakura hovering over his pillow, Sasuke leaning against the far wall, and Naruto sitting cross-legged at the end of his bed, head cocked to the side in curiosity. Kakashi felt himself still at the remembrance of the dream, and inwardly shoved it into the farthest corner of his mind.
'If I don't acknowledge its there it will go away. IT WILL!' As was his new favorite thought, he damn well thought it often enough.
"Zabuza's alive." He said, not even bothering to say hi. Sakura's gasp and Sasuke's inhalation of breathe were the only things he could tell that they had heard. Not hearing Naruto, Kakashi glanced up and met the boy's eyes. For a moment, the jounin forgot what he was supposed to say. BUT thanks to his super intelligent mind, he used this to his advantage.
His silence forced the genin to ask questions and use their own minds to tell what to do. Sasuke surprisingly took the initiative. He pushed off the wall and came to lean on his hands at the foot of the bed, to the left of Naruto, "The needles, hit him in the neck….there's pressure points there that can make people appear dead."
The jounin nodded once, "He'll be out for a day and will recover fully within a week. We need to be ready when he comes for us then." The genin nodded, Sakura and Sasuke picking up the small hint to leave. They walked out, leaving the blonde boy at the edge of the bed and the jounin alone.
It was silent, Naruto seemed to be staring into the distance again and Kakashi didn't really feel like striking up a conversation. Naruto tilted his head, no smile, no strange haze in his eyes, just staring at Kakashi, he may have been a little confused as well.
"Why do you wear a mask?" Naruto slowly smiled, softening his features, "You have a very pretty face." Kakashi started.
"Did you.." Naruto nodded, "yes I did, but not with Sasu-chan or Kura-kun around. I was curious." Naruto sounded…normal, just like any other child. Kakashi stared wide-eyed, how had he not noticed the boy slip his mask down? Even when knocked out, he was known for bolting awake whenever somebody came within two feet of him. "Just," Kakashi felt at a loss, lying in bed staring at the small boy, "Don't do it again."
Naruto tilted his head again, and Kakashi imagined the fox ears and swaying tail again. Sighing, Kakashi let hi head fall back, exhausted.
Feeling movement on the bad, he opened his eyes and stared into Naruto's blue ones, hovering a few inches away from his face. Glaring, Kakashi grunted wordlessly. Naruto just smiled and winked saucily. Swooping, he had kissed the jounin's nose and disappeared out the door, Kakashi's shout, "GODDAMIT NARUTO!" after him.
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Kakashi was still a little sour about the incident when he was outside on crutches facing his three students. "Today, we're learning how to climb trees," Sakura opened her mouth, "WITHOUT, hands." The jounin raised his voice over her, glaring evilly into her eyes. Sakura seemed to shrink and closed her mouth, blushing.
"Use your chakra to stick to the tree trunk," he hobbled over to one of the trees," and using his crutches as levers, stuck his feet onto the truck and walked up a bit, not going to far, feeling the strain on his system. Dropping down, he glared again, trying to ignore Naruto's wide eyed smile, "Now, get to it. I'm in a bad mod, so I'll be sitting over there with my book. Don't bother me." with a final glare he hobbled over and nearly fell onto the ground, opening his book and looking for the entire world like a sulking child.
Blinking, the team exchanged glances before going to their task.
Sasuke got maybe a couple steps before falling back. Sakura got a bit farther, dropping down, panting on her first try. Naruto however leaned over and touched the tree, looked at his feet, looked at the other two and then proceeded to put on foot on the trunk. Staring intently, he waited for a second before leaving the ground, adhering his other foot ahead of the other. Taking slow, deliberate steps, he paused to set the chakra level before moving onto the next one. Getting to the first branch he sat down and smiled down to his teammates.
Sakura was biting her lip and examining him and his ascent. Sasuke was just scowling, and set again to his task, running at the tree. And so the team went for a few hours Sakura got farther and farther up, taking breaks to get her breath back. Sasuke didn't stop and improved little, although he did concede and ask for help from Naruto.
"Don't force it, take it slow, with time the tree will get used to it and then you can go full tilt." Sasuke's eyebrow twitched at the loaded sentence, and Sakura blushed in the background, giggling.
Naruto soon mastered it (although I must say, he is quite the performer. He was taught this with Jiraiya), with his massive reserves; he managed to be able to hold on for indefinite amounts of time. When he got bored, the blonde sneaked over to where Kakashi looked like he was reading his book, but had in fact dozed off a while ago. He gently reached out and carefully tried to pry the man's book from his slack fingers. He nearly succeeded until Kakashi woke up and snatched his book to his chest, using both arms to hug it to himself. Kakashi glared through narrowed eyes at the giggling blonde, "Mine."
Naruto broke out laughing, causing Sakura, who had been watched to laugh also. Sasuke gave a few chuckles and smirked widely, close to a grin. Kakashi grumbled and climbed to his feet, hobbling out of the clearing saying something about, "Young brats of a team."
Back with the team, they had finished laughing and now were wondering what to do. Sakura finally broke the slightly uncomfortable silence, "How about we head back? It's getting close to dinner time." Sasuke nodded and started doff, Sakura a few paces next to him. Naruto ran and caught up, coming up between the two, half a head shorter than the both of them. Smiling, Naruto took both their hands, ignoring Sasuke's surprised look and Sakura's small blush.
'Ahh, Naruto-kun, when will you learn?' Father Kitsune said, amusedly.
'?'
'They will end up betraying you, and then you will have to apologize to your father won't you?'
'Mayyybe. They're not so bad.'
'Right' Kyuubi scoffed, 'and I suppose you call them your…friends' the fox sneered the word, tapping his claws on the watery floor of his sewer.
'Hee…hehehe.' Was his only answer.
Kyuubi sighed within his confinement, 'Jeez, I'd be lying if I said that boy was normal. Though, I guess, like demon like container.' Then the fox chuckled, and retreated into his darkness, planning on having a nice long sleep about chasing rabbits and having hot steamy bestial sex with vixens.
Naruto ignored the images running around his mind, knowing that his father Kitsune was just entertaining himself. Although that one was quite provocative, involving a rabbit, two sunflowers and a hot tub full of blood.
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"Dinners ready." Tsunami cheered, setting the platefuls of salmon and potatoes on the table. It was meager, but it was well-cooked considering the budget. Everybody ate silently for a while, the young boy, Inari glaring hatefully at the ninja as he ate. Eventually, the boy could take it now more and he stood up slamming his small fists on the table.
"How can you be like that? Act as if everything's ok that you're going to win? Everybody who's fought against Gatou has turned up dead! What makes you so special!?" the boy had tears in his eyes, the ninja all stopped eating, looking at him with sadness and pity (Sakura), disinterest (Sasuke and Kakashi), and curiosity (Naruto). Inari seemed to notice the looks, and turned on Naruto, yelling into the blonde face.
"You know nothing of what Gatou does to us! You're always so happy and I bet you get to go back to you stupid village, say hello to your parents and get paid just for watching my grandpa! You don't know how hard life can be!" he started to pant; tears still welled in his yes. Sakura seemed downcast, Sasuke was a bit annoyed, glaring a the kid, Kakashi was also disinterred, choosing to stare at the table top and wish it would go away (he's been doing that a lot lately) and Naruto. Naruto was looking at the boy with a kind but sad smile on his face, his eyes for once not dazed or odd-looking.
"You are like me." Naruto said, startling everyone, "so hopeless, so sad, and not able to do anything. But you have them," he indicated Tazuna and tsunami, "why do you wish for more? You had something once, and you lost it. Nothing you can do about it, Gatou doesn't care. Your grandpa is trying to save you, but you're discouraging him by saying what you say." Naruto giggled suddenly. Girlishly, he flipped a hand and said in a high-pitched, typically valley girl way, "Like, why do you like, cry so much? It's so like, stooopid." He giggled again, and in the silence cleared his plate and left out the door, closing it softly behind him.
Everybody was quite, Inari sobbed and spun, rushing up the stairs. Tsunami didn't make a move to go after the boy, staring instead a tte door the blonde had just exited, a confused and slightly interested look on her face. Sakura was curious as well, "Sensei? Why did Naruto say he was like Inari?"
Kakashi stared at the pink haired girl with sad eyes, full well knowing Sasuke and the rest of the family was listening, "Before he left with Jiraiya, seven maybe eight years ago, he was beaten daily, spit on, cursed upon, hated by every adult and child who lived in the leaf village."
"Why was he so hated?" Sakura asked, tears in her eyes. Kakashi heaved a sigh and stood, answering her even as he limped out the door.
"Only Naruto can tell you that Sakura."
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Naruto was dancing around a clearing in the forest, silently, like a ghost going through his taijutsu's katas and stances. It was like water, fast, silent, flowing from one to the other. His face was serene, relaxed, and happy. Kakashi watched him from the shadows, silent, taking in the blonde features, and trying oh so very hard to ignore what his heart was telling him. When Naruto was finished, he sat down and took out his pills, going through his routine, swallowing them as he looked up at the moon.
"Why do you need to have those?" Kakashi asked, walking into the silver light, highlighting his hair.
Naruto answered distractedly, still looking up in reverence to the moon, "Mostly they settle Kyuu-chan's demonic chakra, and they partially help to calm his bloodlust."
"Mostly? Partially?"
Then Naruto looked to him, sadness etched into his deep blue eyes, "Kyuubi's not the only insane one in this body Kakashi-sensei-kun."
Kakashi was silent for a time, before walking over and sitting next to the blonde fox, "What happens, when you don't take them?"
Naruto looked down, "Once, when I was with Ero-sensei," Kakashi smiled at the nickname, "I forgot one morning. Later that day, a band of rogue Nins attacked us, just looking for money." My bloodlust erupted, I couldn't do anything, and not even Kyuubi was controlling me. I didn't know myself, even as I tore out esophagus and hearts with my bare hands. My body was just in a lusting rage, I wanted to hear screams, and I wanted to taste blood. It was ecstasy as well as disgusting. Sensei could barely get me out of hit, although I managed to give him a rather large scar across his chest for the effort."
Kakashi swallowed at the mental image of this blonde angel tearing out throats with his fingers, "I see."
Naruto turned to face him, large blue eyes wide, "You don't hate me now, do you? I'm sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry!" he sounded panicked and frightened, like an animal caged.
Kakashi reached over rand gently touched the boy's arm, he kept forgetting the boy was mentally unstable, with the way he talks so normally, "Hey, hey, it's ok, I don't hate you, and I never will." Naruto calmed and gave him a smile that made the jounin's heart cringe. Climbing into the man's lap, ignoring his protest, Naruto snuggled into the warm jounin vest. Tilting his head he kissed the underside of the jounin's jaw.
"I wish you wouldn't do that." grumbled Kakashi, "What if somebody saw. You're my student; they'd think I was taking advantage of you." Never the less, his arms came up around the smaller body, ignoring his heads cries for control.
"Whose taking advantage of who?" Naruto mumbled drowsily, already nearly asleep in the jounin's arms. Kakashi sighed as he heard the boy snore softly. He couldn't let this continue, the boy was twelve, or was he thirteen? No, matter, he was his young student and Kakashi was the boy's jounin sensei! It was improper! Stupid, foolish, disrespectful, inappropriate, sickening, pedophiliac-
And then Naruto snuggled deeper, pressing his face against the jounin's neck, tightening his small arms around the larger body, and Kakashi felt his reasons slip away in a clench of his heart.
"Who IS taking advantage of who, eh?"
That morning, a girl walked though the forest, holding a basket full of herbs on her arm. When she stumbled on the clearing, she nearly gasped out loud. There lay that jounin sensei and his blonde student. The silver-haired man's head cradled in the blonde boy's lap, sleeping deeply. The blonde boy, Naruto, looked up and locked gazes with her, and the girl suddenly felt as though the boy saw everything in her eyes.
Bowing, she used the action as an excuse to break eye contact, "Excuse me, I'm sorry for intruding. I was just looking for some herbs." She turned to leave when a light voice called her back, "Don't go, there's some over here." Turning, the boy was pointing at a small patch of the herb she was looking for, not eve three meters away form where the jounin slept in the boys lap.
She smiled in thanks and debated in her mind to refuse and leave, or to try and learn what she can form the boy. When she was kneeling and bent over the herbs, the blonde boy dropped a bomb, "Is Zabu-kun gonna be okay?"
Looking in shock into the boys smiling face, she nearly whipped out her senbon right there, but managed a "What are you talking about?!" cursing herself for the slightly panicked tone.
"Well, you're definitely not a girl, and you smell like that oinin you saved Zabu-kun. Tell me; are you his pretty boy toy?" Naruto smiled again, devilishly.
Haku nearly stumbled over his own tongue, "What….What do you want?" he brought out a senbon, holding it across his pink kimono covered chest. Naruto shook his head, "Oh nothing….nothing. Just want to get across that if you fight me, I will kill you." He said it so simply, it caused shivers to go down Haku's spine, and he remembered how the boy fought Zabuza before, on the water.
"And if he ignores that advice?" Haku tested.
Naruto smirked, a large difference from his playful smile before, "he calls himself a demon…I wonder if he's ever actually met one." The full toothed grin followed Haku even as the beautiful boy ran away, as did the haunting laughter.
Kakashi raised his head, "You are one evil little bastard, do you know that?" the silver haired man raised an eyebrow at the blonde.
Naruto shrugged happily, "What can I say, I have the world's evilest demon in my head, anybody would have picked a few tricks up."
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Days passed swiftly, the predicted day of Zabuza's return was tomorrow, and the genin were feeling a bit nervous. As result, even Naruto trained a bit harder than before, passing out in the clearing and giving his teammates the task of dragging him back to the inn. That morning, when waking the blonde boy was unsuccessful, Kakashi ruled that the boy could just sleep in, as Zabuza may not even show up.
So, the two genin, jounin and elder bridge builder went off, leaving the unsuspecting Tsunami and Inari somewhat alone in a big empty Inn.
You all know what happens.
Naruto woke to a scream, 'Kyuuu shut-up with the dreams already.'
'not me my kit, that was not me.'
Naruto's mouth made an 'o' and he quickly donned his white robe, noticing fleetingly that it was an hour before noon.
Downstairs, Tsunami was trying to get her son to stay hidden and away form the two samurai holding her arms. Kicking and screaming, "INARI RUN! GET AWAY!" she even tried to bite her captors, gaining Naruto's respect. Punching the woman in the gut, one of the men sneered, "Shut-up woman, go kill the brat and get this over with" he growled to his companion, who shrugged and stepped towards the young boy.
Inari was near wetting his pants, had a sudden flashback to what the blonde ninja had said. Steeling himself, he sniffed back his tears and yelled, "LEAVE MOM ALONE!" and charged towards the bigger, stronger, older men who held deadly pointy things. The man advancing toward the boy smirked and raising his sword, prepared to chop down onto the boys head. Well, when he tried, he found that he couldn't, seeing as though he didn't have that arm. Turning around, he stared in absolute fear as the blonde crouched predatorily, claws red with blood, and red eyes glaring up at him through his bangs.
He tried to scream, but also found that he couldn't, as he was already dead. Bummer for him.
The other samurai let go of Tsunami and tried to flee, but was also cut down by super sharp claws tearing into his neck. Patting Inari's head with his bloodied up hands, Naruto didn't seem to notice both tsunami and Inari cringe, "Well done lady. Excuse me, I must go to my team." Naruto smiled wickedly, eyes still red and flickered off, disappearing form view. Tsunami swallowed and looked to her son, noticing the slick streaks of blood running down his pale face.
"Let's get you cleaned up."
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The bridge was covered in mist, the Konoha ninjas were in a standoff with Zabuza and his apprentice. The dead bodies of Tazuna's old Labour team strewn about the ground, torn or ripped in half by what seemed to be massive sword cuts.
There stood Zabuza, smirking evilly, "So where's that pretty little blonde boy Hatake? Did you hide him away in a far off cupboard? Form what my Haku here says, you've gotten quite close to the kid…I wonder how that will fare with you when I kill him." Sakura and Sasuke looked curiously at their teacher, and Kakashi cursed inwardly.
"Are we gonna fight or what?" Kakashi growled, having had enough teasing. Telling Sakura to stay back and protect Tazuna, and Sasuke to go ahead and take on the mysterious fake oinin, the jounin leaped into battle with the demon of the mist.
Thinking to himself as he blocked a sword stroke, Kakashi nearly cried out, 'come on Naruto, please wake up.'
Little did he know that Naruto was already at the bridge, looking on, his red eyes eerily glowing, and the bloodlust of his demon taking hold. Claws scratched at the cement, Naruto tried to decide who to go after, Haku, or Zabuza. Licking his lips, Naruto nearly whined at the decision to be made. But when Haku constructed those ice mirrors, the blonde just HAD to test them out, to see if they were really as indestructible as he had been told.
The jounin's could feel the demonic chakra leaking out of the boy, as she darted across the bridge, eyes, nose, ears and claws set on the young boy Haku. Fully intending on mutilating him until not even his own dead mother could recognize him.
There's some fluff, as well as a bit of a cliffy for you! I was proud of myself.
How did you like it? Review please!!! :D although this chapter was a bit broken up, with all the sections being there and then there and then there you know? Oh well, I like it
Love you all for being with me this far! I'm actually enjoying this story a lot more than my other ones. :/ *looks around guiltily*
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Really.
Sooo many things can fit into this story, just because Naruto's so weird. ^.^
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Its too late to go on. Thank god tomorrows…well…today's Sunday hahahaha!!
