KSW: I got this chapter up! Dattebayo!
Naruto: Whoohoo! *shoots a Rasengan into the air*
Sasuke: *shoots the Rasengan with a ball of Chidori* Hn. Once a dobe, always a dobe.
*Rasengan and Chidori collide, causing it to turn into a black spiraling ball. The ball starts to move around at lighting speed, casing craters on the walls, floor, and ceiling*
KSW: *face palms* Kuso… *A keyboard appears out of thin air. KSW types rapidly. Suddenly, Itachi appears out of thin air*
Itachi: What do you want, Author-chan?
KSW: Can you send that *points to the black spiraling ball* into another dimension please? Into a dimension that is not inhabited?
Sasuke: *mutters dark thoughts*
Shizuka: *shakes head* Honestly, Sasuke! Your mother does not like what you're thinking about right now…
Sasuke: Hn. Tell her that it's my life. I want nothing more but my family back and him dead.
Shizuka: It won't work out…Trust me Sasuke…*tears spring from Shizuka's eyes*
Itachi: *sends the ball into another dimension with the Mangekyou. Then, smacks Sasuke upside the head* Foolish otouto. That girl is a lot smarter than you.
Sasuke: *growls* If it weren't for the author, I would have killed you.
Itachi: Oh? Then I must thank Author-chan for saving my life.
KSW: No problem!
Itachi: Now, I must be going. Leader-sama wants to speak with me.
Shizuka: Ja ne, Itachi-san.
Itachi: Ja ne. *disappears in a flurry of raven feathers*
KSW: Well! That went just fine. The spiraling ball of black death is gone now!
Elyki: *throws a water balloon at KSW's back*
Naruto: *throws a water balloon at Shizuka's back*
KSW: Elyki… *takes out a shining blue bow and a silver quiver of arrows*
Shizuka: Naruto… *unsheathes a shining white ninja blade*
Naruto and Elyki: Uh-oh. *runs away*
Shizuka and KSW: *chases after Eylki and Naruto*
Sasuke: Hn. I might as well say it. Sakura and Kakashi are off doing their own thing back in our world. It'll raise my popularity too. Arigato for all of the reviews that came to this story and the DN Angel story that Author has typed up in her spare time. Author does not own Naruto or DN Angel. Keep on reviewing, and enjoy the chapter. *jumps into the story*
Words in italics- Naruto or Shizuka's thoughts
Suna and a Jinchuriki
After the third day, we finally made it to Suna in the early afternoon. It was pretty nice, even though I kept on getting sand in my shoes. After every, like, 10 minutes, Elyki and I had to stop and shake the troublesome grains out of our walking gear.
Itachi seemed to have no problem with it, and he kept on going into stores and coming out with a storage scroll in his hand. He probably sealed away the supplies in there, I thought.
"Righto, Shizu-chan!" a voice echoed in my mind that made me jump. I turned around and caught a sight of a white and blood red kimono and black, flowing hair.
Miko-chan? The girl smiled at me," Yep!" I hadn't seen Mikoto since last night. After we exchanged stories, she thanked me and vanished, a motherly look on her face. It looked out of place, since she looked like a nine year old and all.
After she vanished, my head started to hurt a lot, and I think I blacked out. When I woke up, it was morning and I was in a blue sleeping pack. Maybe Itachi put me there.
So…why are you here? I thought that you had left. Mikoto shrugged," I guess that I just wanted to visit," she glanced at Itachi," and watch over Itachi-kun\n for a while, you know?" Mikoto poked Itachi with her finger, and then the male Sharingan user looked back at me.
"Yes Shizuka?" He asked, his obsidian eyes staring at me. I felt blood rush up to my face. I think I heard Mikoto giggle a bit. Meanie. I put my fingers together in a Hinata-like way, "A-ano…What will we do when you leave?"
He did the smallest sigh, and then he kneeled down to my level. Itachi's Akatsuki robe was nowhere to be seen, and he was only in his Anbu garb, without the mask.
"You and Elyki-" Elyki's head snapped up at the mention of his name, and he started listening,"- will go find a caravan that is headed to Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, and will go with them to Konoha and settle there until your parents come, understood?"
At Elyki and I's nod, he stood up and did a few hand signs and muttered something I couldn't hear. In a second, he put his hands on Eylki's forehead and my forehead. Suddenly, I saw the path we had taken when we were going from the Akatsuki base to here. Then, as fast as it came, it was gone, blank, just a black screen in my mind.
Itachi took his hands off of us and try as I might, I couldn't remember the path we took here at all. All I saw was a blank screen when I tried. Elyki looked puzzled.
"What did you just do?" Elyki asked, staring at the raven haired Uchiha.
No, not Mikoto! Only I can see her you bakas!
Mikoto had a calculating expression on her face. "Partial Memory Erase no Justu," She muttered to herself," He probably learned it while he was in the Anbu. My clever little son."
Of course only I could hear her because I had a bittersweet gift given to me when I got here in this world in the first place.
Itachi replied to Elyki," Gomen, Elyki, Shizuka, but Leader-sama told me to erase your memories of the path that we took. I don't know why, but I have to follow orders." Figures. Pein and his cautiousness.
Itachi started to walk off. He turned his head toward us. "I must be getting back to the base now. I hope that you find your parents. Ja ne." Elyki, Mikoto, and I waved goodbye, but Itachi couldn't see Mikoto. He disappeared in a flurry of raven feathers, no trace that the raven head was ever there.
Miko-chan? Why aren't you following Itachi? Mikoto looked at me with a big smile, her obsidian eyes shining.
"I wanted to visit someone in Konoha," she started," and maybe I can come with you. Is that okay?" Sure. I wouldn't mind at all.
"Arigato Shizu-chan!" Mikoto hugged me, and I felt this nice warmth envelop me. This feels so familiar. I think the last time I felt like this was when Kaa-san was around… A tear accidentally escaped my eye. I wiped it away quickly so no one would see it.
Unfortunately, Mikoto heard my thought and eyed me worriedly. I never really did tell her what happened to my mom. It hurts too much…
"Shizu-chan?" the female Uchiha questioned," What's wrong? What do you mean 'when Kaa-san was around'?" I looked away to not show her my paling face. I get scared when people mention my mom, scared that all those memories of her death would come back.
Her coming down the road, waving at me…the truck appearing out of nowhere and that sickening sound of something being crushed…her last words to me when I ran to her broken car…'I love you…Don't worry…we'll meet again…my little bird Shizuka…' The light fading from her silverly-blue eyes…the sound of the ambulance…and the blood…all the blood! I can't take it anymore!
I ran from Mikoto. I ran from Elyki. I ran from the truth, and, most of all, I ran from all of those painful memories….memories of my mom. My living, breathing, quiet, loving mom. I didn't care where I went then; I just wanted to get away…away from all of the sorrowful memories. I think I ran to another oasis outside of the village and hid in a small cave.
I curled up onto a little ball and just cried and cried. After a while I think that I fainted from exhaustion.
…
I woke up to something grain like pulling me up and into the air rather rudely. What the hell? What's happening? I was hanging upside down, sand holding my lower body.
Sand? No…only one person I know can do that… I GOT TO get OUT of this goddamned sand! I started to struggle, trying to get out of the sand, but to no avail.
Then, someone walked up to me, and the first feature I saw of the person was the kanji on his forehead. Love. Then I saw his turquoise eyes and the black surrounding it, making it look kinda panda like. It was a boy with short, red hair. He was wearing a plain white shirt and black shorts. He was also wearing blue sandals and he looked at me with emotionless eyes.
Gaara. The jinchuriki of Shukaku, the One Tailed Raccoon.
"Who are you and why are you here?" Gaara asked in monotone, staring at my red, puffy eyes, and a few more tears escaped it.
"I-I came out here to think," I started, fearful that Panda Boy would kill me. "Gomen, did I intrude in your area? I'll leave if you want me to." Panda Boy finally showed some emotion by eyeing my curiously.
"You don't want to kill me?" He asked, loosening me a tiny bit from my sandy prison, but I still couldn't get out. Grr…This is frustrating.
"Why would I want to kill you? I don't even know who you are!" Yeah. Complete and utter lie, I know. Ah...I feel weird…way too much blood in my head right now… Gaara seemed to be in deep thought, and then he nodded and put me right side up, lowering me gently back down on my feet to the ground.
"Gomen," He said, swirling the still levitating sand into small sand tornadoes. Hey, even Gaara gets bored at times!
"I thought that you wanted to kill me, my father seems to be doing that more often these days. I thought that you were an assassin." Gaara apologized, making the sand fall rather abruptly. The grains bounced back from the force, and some of it got in my eyes. A burning sensation came across them, and I tried to rub it out with my hands.
"Ite!" I exclaimed, trying my very best to rub the burning grains out, but they stayed in my eyes. "Stop that," Gaara said," Open your eyes." After a while, I stopped and opened my eyes. It hurt. A lot.
I could see Panda Boy, but he was still a little blurry. He put his arm up, and I felt the grain come out one by one. Soon, they were all out and in a small spinning ball in Gaara's hand.
"Sugoi…," I stared at the spiraling sand. This was my first time seeing Gaara's sand power in action. "How do you do that?" Gaara then manipulated the sand into a miniature dog before letting it drop slowly into the ground.
"I don't know," Panda Boy started," It just happens. I see in my mind where the sand will go, and then it does."
"So," I said, sitting down," What's your name? I'm Shizuka." Gaara reluctantly sat down," Gaara."
"Why do people want to kill you Gaara?" I asked, trying to look like I didn't know. Panda looked down in shame," I have a monster inside me."
"A monster, Gaara?" I asked, and he nodded his head sadly. You know, I never did watch the episodes about Gaara's monster. This will be interesting.
…
Naruto was in the forest, picking some blackberries that he found in a bush that day.
"These taste good!" Naruto exclaimed, eating one. The blondie had found a broken orange basket on one of the streets in Konoha. The crack wasn't big, but it was big enough to throw it away. Naruto washed it in a nearby river and had used it to gather resources, like the berries right now.
He was picking and especially big one when something fell and landed on his head. Naruto fell on the ground in pain and surprise. "Ite!" The blondie said, looking at what had hit him. To his surprise, it was a large tan bag. He cautiously walked toward it, picked up a particularly long stick, and poked the bag.
It didn't move, so the blondie let his defenses down a bit. He walked toward it and opened it. The sight amazed him.
In there, was a sapphire gold staff. There was an extremely detailed serpent dragon that curled around the staff. Only where the tail was supposed to end, was another dragon head, both of their mouths agape.
The gold eyes of the dragon stared into the junchuriki's eyes, amazing him even further about the design. He noticed that it was rather small and that there was this weird extension crack in it, so he tried swirling it around.
It kept on getting longer and longer, until it stopped extending at about five and a half feet, easily towering over Naruto's height. The two dragon heads had their own separate bodies now, the blue tails touching.
Naruto marveled at it. "It's so pretty!" The blondie exclaimed, swirling back into its one foot form. He put it back in the back, and then felt a wind pushing him toward the blackberries that he had picked earlier. The bush was empty of ripe berries and now the basket was filled to the brim with various fruits other than blackberries: apples, grapes, clementines, and pears were also in there.
Who did this? Well, more for me! Naruto ran over to the food and began eating all of the delicious fruit. When he was about to eat this large pear, he heard some rustling in the bushes. Naruto jumped up, unwinding his staff a bit.
The thing that was rustling slowly came out. It was a small red fox, and it looked starved. The stomach was barely there. The fox could barely move, and it crawled over to Naruto's feet, collapsing in a heap.
Naruto picked the fox up, not knowing what to do. What should I do? What should I do? Then, an idea came to his head, and he held a huge grape to the kitsune's mouth. The little fox gulped it down, whining for more. Naruto smiled a bit, picked up his basket, and started for his tiny apartment home.
Minato smiled. "You better take care of those Naruto," He stated, following his son back into the village. "Your mother would send me into the Shiginami's stomach again if you lose her staff, and I think that you'll make good friends with that kitsune."
Minato chuckled, and then took a serious face," I wonder what the Kiyuubi will do when he finds out about the fox. Maybe try to possess it and use the poor thing to kill Naruto so he can be freed?" He sighed, shaking his blonde, headband-less head," Well, that's why I'm here…"
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KSW: No! Stay back writers block! STAY BACK! Go back to the trash where you belong! *shoots the writers block with an arrow*
Kakashi: *anime sweat drops* O…k…
Shizuka: Writers block to Kiyumi-chan is like Madara to you guys.
Sakura: That's bad. Really, really bad.
Sasuke: Hn. *Uses Chidori on the writers block*
Writers block: I will not die! I need another host, and, right now, it's you!
KSW: *cries* NOOO! Let me finish my stories in peace! Peace I tell you!
Writers block: NEVER!
Kakashi: * sends the writers block to anther dimension* Better?
KSW: It will come back! It will…
Naruto: Weirdo…
KSW: How would you like it if you couldn't learn any ninja skills no matter how hard you tried!
Naruto: Ok! I get it! Gomen!
Elyki: Maa…Shizuka-chan. Why'd you have to run away?
Shizuka: I-it's nothing. Don't worry about me…Be quiet Mikoto! I'm fine…
KSW: Well, l'll see you next chapter! Let's hope that it comes sooner next time! -_-"
Shizuka: Ja ne…
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KSW: Well, you're wondering why there's an extra section, are you? I finally decided to make a character description for my OCs. People that read to the end of the chapter get a bonus today! ^_^ Shizuka's first!
Name: Shizuka Kirishin. (Shizuka means 'quiet' in Japanese. I just made Kirishin up...)
Age: 12
Birthday: 12-18-99
Hair: Mid-back length. Silver, like starlight.
Eyes: Silvery-shapphire. More sapphire than silver.
Height: 4ft. 10in.
Personality: Shizuka ikes to stay on the sidelines when something is happening. She never likes to be the center of attention, and is very quiet. The only people that can get her to talk much at all is her best friends and her family. When she was in 1st grade, she skipped a year of school and went to 3rd grade. Shizuka is the spiltting image of her mother, Haruka.('distance' in Japanese) She misses her mother terribly and tries not to think about it most of the time, but sometimes it shows up and comes out to haunt her. Shizuka has tried to find out about her mother's last words to her: 'We'll meet again soon...' What did soon mean? 10 days? 10 years? Shizuka has been trying to figure this out for 6 years, but always tries to keep it hidden. She's now in the Naruto world with her best friend Eylki.
KSW: Whew! You like? Well, time for Elyki! :P
Name: Elyki Akirama. (My friend gave me this name to use, so I went with it! XD)
Birthday: 6-28-99
Hair: Short and spiky. It is a dark chestnut color.
Eyes: Blackish-brown. More Brown than black.
Height: 5ft. 3in.
Personality: Eylki is very outgoing, sometimes getting him in trouble. He met Shizuka when he was in 2nd grade. They were out at recess and then Eylki saw Shizuka (still in 1st grade) being bulliedby some girls, so he went to help her. After that, they became best friends. When Eylki was thrown though the lining in dimensions, the demon Kironii (You'll find out about him later. ;P) was sealed inside of him, so he became a junchuriki. Eylki never noticed it until later in his journey in Naruto world, when he flew into a rage when He thought he could never return home. Eylki is in Naruto world traveling with his best friend Shizuka.
KSW: All done! More OCs might come up later in the story, so keep reading! Ja ne!