Well! Hello again! Here is the fourth chapter to the Naruto Fanfiction, Timeless! I hope you enjoy this chapter, though it may raise some questions!
I do not own Naruto or any of its characters, except for the girl and the wolf!
Dawn held on for dear life. Right when everything just disappeared, she felt the solid ground fall away. She pitched forward with a shriek, instinctively thinking for a moment that she would just hit more ground, but there was nothing to stop her fall. Hidan and Kakuza fell too, but they didn't scream, even as she clawed at both of their arms. There was a horrible rushing sound, and somewhere in there, she heard a howl. Or it could have been another scream. It was probably her.
It seemed to last forever, spiraling through nothing. It was just darkness and suddenly flashes of color, and then abruptly, they were spit out. She hit a solid surface hard, the breath whooshing out of her lungs, her hand painfully yanked from Kakuza's. Rolling almost head-over-heels down a steep slope, the world spinning nauseously, she saw glimpses of green, brown, and a muddled blue and white sky. That and Hidan. She tried clinging to him, attempting to protect her face with his chest, him with a hand around her waist. She hoped that he was impaled with a tree branch before they stopped.
Crashing though bramble bushes and thicket, racing crazily down the steep incline like runaway logs, they went tumbling over the edge of a bank and fell in the freezing creek below with a splash. She gasped for breath, but the much larger man had rolled on top of her when they had stopped. The water was absolutely freezing. She was about to tell him to get the hell off of her when he started laughing. Just outright, I won a billion dollars at the lottery, straight-jacketed, laughing.
"You crazy idiot!" She sputtered, trying to push him off of her before she drowned. He was straddling her, and the water was freezing her ears. "Get off!'
He had scrapes and scratches all over, a vine with wicked-looking thorns stuck to his shoulder, and she probably looked the same. She reached up and tore the vine out, trying to pull the psycho back into reality. His purple eyes focused on her suddenly, and as seemed to digest their situation, he smirked. They were really close, and she gulped, deciding she liked him laughing and oblivious. He picked a stick out of her hair, and she froze, suddenly petrified and thinking that she should have just wished that she should have been the one impaled with a tree branch.
The moment, thankfully, was suddenly over as Kakuza appeared almost out of nowhere and yanked the pervert up by his silver hair. "OW! What the hell?" Hidan protested, tearing himself free and glaring.
"This mission isn't completed yet."
"So?"
"Have some self control!" They both glared at each other in silence before Kakuza helped her up and Hidan huffed indignantly and slicked his hair back, looking around for his reaper weapon. Dawn wheezed as she rung the edges of the cloak out and pulled the open chest securely around her again and closed it. "Are you alright?" She looked up, golden eyes wide, at Kakuza. His arms were crossed and he watched with an annoyed expression as Hidan thrashed around the dense green foliage on the hillside, swearing loudly as he looked for the scythe.
"Is that a trick question or something?" There was an aching pressure in her left ankle, her feet stung, and her whole body in general felt like she had rolled down a hill in the middle of the woods. Oh wait, she DID roll down a hill in the middle of the woods, didn't she! Kakuza's green eyes stared emotionlessly at her glaring gold ones and with her own little huff, she limped out of the creek and onto solid ground. A wave of fatigue swept through her again and she swayed, suddenly battling to stay awake. It hadn't mattered in the end if she had willingly went with them or not. She was being freakin' kidnapped. It didn't matter if her two captors were playing some twisted version of Good Cop, Bad Cop. They were both equally dangerous, and the last thought she had before she went limp and fell to the ground was, I'm screwed.
She was surprisingly warm. She had been so cold here lately. Her fingers, her toes. All so cold. She had no need to shiver now. In a few moments, she would get up and go to school, and prove to Mr. Vander that she… That she… What was it that she was going to prove to him again? She couldn't seem to remember. She pulled the sheets closer to her and snuggled down in her bed some more. Maybe if she slept a little longer, she would remember what it was she had to do.
It was really quiet. No faint sound of cars passing by on the street below, no heater slowly humming through the house. It was just deep, empty silence. Her bedroom never seemed to feel so open and big. Dreams of forests with glowing leaves and golden streams and big, purple moons that seemed bright, but didn't really cast any real light floated around in her mind. There had been that wolf in her dream too, but he wasn't all predator, KILL KILL KILL freak wolf. He was just That Wolf - glowing, light blue eyes, dark, cool fur, a mischievous smile bordering on sadistic. Hers.
She shifted slightly as another sadistic smile came to mind, and then a face was forming around it. Purple eyes, silver hair… And then there was this great big three-bladed scythe in her face. The girl's light golden hues suddenly snapped open and she jumped, finally remembering.
Hidan.
Kakuza.
Being abducted.
This was not her room. This was not her bed. She was in a medium-sized, windowless room. In the gloom, she couldn't make out any furniture, only the bed she was laying on and a single door at the opposite wall. Impossible. It was suppose to have been a nightmare! A nightmare! She was suppose to wake up and get dressed and go to school and prove to Mr. Vander that she could… That she… What was it that she was going to prove to him again? She still couldn't remember that, but the last crazy events that had happened to her she recalled just fine. Not knowing what she was suppose to prove to Mr. Vander disturbed her above anything else at this point for some reason. Why couldn't she remember something so simple? She let out a noise that was caught in between a frustrated sigh and a wail - not the most pleasant nor elegant of sounds - and rolled off the bed. As her feet hit the floor, her left ankle screamed and protest and she winced, as just about every other part of her body. Her jaw was stiff, and she had a feeling there was a blossoming bruise on the side where Hidan backhanded her. Hell, for all she knew, she was completely black and blue. It felt like it.
For a moment, she just assessed her surroundings, as little as there was to take in. The room was very dark, but not dark enough to where she was completely blind. The small flickering crack from under the door was the source of illumination. No windows. She knocked on the walls, and they sounded pretty solid. The air was also quite musty, and the whole place just had a sense of… Emptiness. Her raspy, barely controlled breathing echoed harshly back at her and she gulped, turning back to the bed. Suddenly though, she saw her shadow, a faint outline on the opposite wall made by the light from under the door. There was her humanoid shape, and then there was the silhouette of a wolf.
Startled, she looked down to her side, and her golden hues were met with blue ones. Light blue blazing like fire, like a thousand distant stars set in a night sky. She froze, breath caught in her throat. The creature had been so quiet that she hadn't even known he was standing next to her. His large canine head shook and his slender muzzle parted in a yawn, flashing teeth like obsidian daggers. Seeing her shocked expression, he wolf sank fluidly to its flickering haunches and its coal lips curled upwards in a bemused grin.
She let out the breath, her earlier dreams flickering through her mind, and with that wolf here, with her here, she suddenly understood the meaning of them.
"Damn it! You little bastard!" She cursed, and the creature just widened its smile. "You could have tried to warn me a little better!" Its ears flickered in a meaning that translated like a shrug: I tried.
She looked up at her mother, light golden eyes shining and impossibly wide, "Hey, Mommy…" She drawled mischievously, tugging insistently on her mother's robe as she got ready for work. Her mother was so pretty! And she was kind too! She'd understand! She'd keep Dawn's secret! "What is it, Dawn? Mommy has to get ready for work." A wide smile appeared non-the-less and after finishing putting eyeliner on her dark green eyes, she picked up the four-year-old girl and sat her on her lap, tickling her softly on the tummy, "Now! What could possibly be so important now, hmm? Have you been getting into trouble hon?"
Dawn giggled, "Me? Naaaahhhh! I just made a friend! Come see! Come see!" She hopped down from her mother's lap and grabbed onto her hand, tugging her out of the perfumey smelling bathroom, into the hallway, and to her room littered with stuffed animals and dolls, smiling excitedly and giggling. Mommy is going to love my new friend!
"Look, look! Doesn't he have pretty blue eyes?" She pointed onto her messy bed. Her mother smiled and walked over, picking up a Beanie Baby cat that was on its back, staring vacantly off into space with fake blue eyes, "Oh, yes, he does! These eyes are almost as pretty as yours hon!"
"Silly, Mommy, I mean the doggie!"
Dawn's mother looked on the bed for the doggie, but saw nothing other than a rumpled blue quilt and scattered pillows. "I don't see any doggie…" She turned back to her daughter with a rueful shrug, and then the obvious answer occurred to her, "OH! I see! You met another imaginary friend!" Her daughter always made up amusing characters to talk to. She was so creative!
Dawn giggled at her mother's silliness, "Noooo! Look behind you, Mommy! He's sitting on the bed and smiling at you!"
Her mother turned once again, slightly puzzled now at her daughter's insistency. She didn't see any doggie still. Walking over to the bed, she sat down, and Dawn followed her, jumping onto the mattress with a spring in her step and a bright look in her eyes, "See him yet?"
"Doggie, doggie!" The women whistled, patting her lap like she was calling for a dog.
"You don't need to call him, Mommy, he's right besides you!"
"Oh, is he now?"
"Yep! He's in your face, with big blue eyes like the sky and long black fur! He's smiling and his teeth are showing!"
"What does his teeth look like then?"
"They are black too!"
"How big is this doggie?" Dawn's mother smiled nervously, starting to feel uneasy.
"Oh, well, I guess he isn't a doggie, not really! He's more like a wolfie!" She held up her hand to her mother's face, "He's so tall that he can look you in the eye. Oh, oh! He talks to me when I sleep too!"
Dawn's mother frowned, a rather unsettled visual image forming in her mind, "What does he say?"
"He says that you aren't my real mommy, and that he will always be watching over me first! Silly, right?" Her liquid golden eyes watched her mother's face go pale and she just jumped onto her lap, "He also says that I have a wolf inside of me! And that it was a whole lot of tails and a paw so big that it could crush a town if it wanted to! He tells a lot of cool stories!"
"Dawn, I want you to tell your new friend to go away now." She hadn't yet explained to her daughter that she had been adopted. How could her daughter possibly know that she wasn't her real mother? This was too farfetched.
"Mommy!" Dawn whined, "He's my friend, he can't just leave!"
"He can leave. He will leave. He isn't real, sweetheart. I need to finish getting ready." Gruffly, she rose and sat her daughter down on the bed and without another word, walked out of the room. Dawn watched her mother go, and turned to the big wolf, "Mommy says you need to leave…." She sniffed and sank her little fingers into the wolf's shadowy fur that felt like feathers while the canine just smiled. He was always smiling.
My, my - She talks to him like she might actually know this grinning beast of the shadows… Review/criticize, and just tell me all what you are thinking so far! Please and thanks!