Authors note:
Authors note:
Ok, so Saki and Kikuko found Sasuke, Emo boy, Sas-Gay, that wrist cutting black haired Emo loving traitor, or w/e u guys prefer… (Would've said something nice, but I don't like him… well I don't mind him, as a villain. As a hero, I hated him, but as a villain, W00t I get to watch Naruto kick his ass eventually.) Ok they found him but where exactly is he and what has he been up to? That is the question.
Ok I changed the summary because I tried finding my story before and you have to be very specific to find it. So hopefully this will get more reviews. Ill need some more reviews; I wanna know if I'm doing good or not. So far I only have like 5 people that commented. 3 are MIA and I miss them QQ DarkRavie is doing a good job (wants a hello in the next comment XD) and the last one… egh.
Disclaimer:
I do not own Naruto or any other character from the original Naruto cast.
I DO own Masuke.
Sorrowflame owns Akuma.
Sapphire owns Saki. (Finally added, YAY!)
Other characters belong to other peoples.
Naruto opened the door and noticed Masuke, Sakura, Akuma, Kikuko, and Saki sitting at a table waiting patiently…Masuke wasn't even talking…Naruto knew something was horribly wrong. Taking a seat, Naruto waited for someone to talk.
"Naruto…as you probably figured out, we have found Sasuke." Saki stated. "But what you don't know is where."
"Well where is he?" Naruto asked with growing anxiety and impatience.
"Well… we don't know exactly WHERE he is… but there is a slight chance that he has joined Akatsuki." She said staring calmly.
"How do you know?" He said after a few seconds of shock, during his shocked state he had noticed Sakura looking down at the floor, all the years of pain and suffering the Uchiha had caused her, visible on her face.
"Well we have eyewitnesses that all report that they have seen him in Akatsuki attire. Also, the eyewitnesses all report that he interrogated a man about the eighttailed demon. And now the container of the eighttailed demon is missing. So we are fairly sure he has joined up with them…"
"Well I'm not completely convinced or sure how were going to be able to find him, he has been know to disappear with out a trace…So…any suggestions?
"We should start at the closest city, try to get a lead. It's better than searching blind." Sakura suggested "Where is the closest city?"
"The closest city would be the Village Hidden in the Snow." replied Kikuko.
Masuke instinctively tensed upon hearing the name, but quickly recovered, however; Naruto still noticed his reaction.
"Well that's good; I have associates in that village. They will gladly help us." Akuma said.
Ok, let's get going. We don't have the time to waste." Naruto said getting up and heading towards the door.
"Wait!" Kikuko shouted jumping out of his seat. "Saki and I are going with you; it gets boring as hell around here. And I
wouldn't mind some adventure."
"Are you guys sure? I mean there is a high chance that we are all going todie…." Naruto replied trying to persuade them against going.
"Of course I'm sure!" Kikuko yelled while Saki smiled and nodded.
Sighing, Naruto agreed to their company as they began their journey.
FAST FORWARD
Sighting the village, Naruto knew they had finally reached their destination. After two days of walking nonstop, they finally reached the Village Hidden in the Snow. The trip had been surprisingly quiet, except for Kikuko and Sakura having a short conversation every once in a while. Masuke had been uncharacteristically solemn, but Naruto understood why. They were going back to the place where all his pain had started Naruto's thoughts were cut short when Sakura pointed out the village.
"Hey! We're here" She exclaimed excitedly.
"She's right! " Kikuko remarked.
Masuke looked at the approaching village gates with dread as long buried memories came flying back to his head.
Shortly after entering the village, they stopped to study their surroundings, while Akuma spoke up.
"Saki, Kikuko, I need you two to come with me." She stated. "I'll need your help to find my associates, they like to keep hidden."
"Right," Kikuko replied.
"Ok." Replied Saki quietly.
The three of them disappeared, leaving the remaining group to try and figure out what to do with their free time.
"Hey Masuke, you wanna get a bite to eat?" Naruto asked turning towards Masuke, but he was gone. Naruto was ditched and left with Sakura. 'Damn it!' he thought to himself as he turned towards Sakura. "It looks like we've been ditched…want to go grab a bite to eat?"
"Sure." She replied with a smile. "Where you want to go?"
"Ramen?" he asked.
"…Of course." She sighed and started walking.
Masuke walked down the street stating at the ground. He was too afraid to look at anything, because he knew memories would come flooding back to him. Ever since the attack, he had never returned to the village. He had avoided hunter nins, done everything in his power to keep Naruto from coming anywhere close to here, and now…Well there was no point in avoiding it any longer.
As he walked he noticed he was entering a familiar part of town. He suddenly stopped and slowly looked up. In front of his was the Sakumaa Estate… The house had gone to hell. The grass was overgrown and the trees were all dead. A couple of the windows were broken and the once elegant wood was rotting, the roof had a few holes in it. He slowly raised his hand towards the gate's rusty handle, twisting it, as the gates creaked forward to allowed him access to the decaying courtyard.
He walked down the hallway of Sakumaa manor. He approached a partially open door to the right and he gently pushed it open. Inside was a child's room. The walls were covered in moldy wallpaper that slightly resembled snowflakes. In the corner of the room was a small unmade bed, his bed. He had promised his mom that he would make it when he got home from the carriage ride. There were a few toys on a cabinet, nothing special, but next to the toys was a portrait of him and his family. He gently picked it up and looked at it. His mother and father were hugging him, smiling, while also holding each
other. He quietly let a single tear fall from his eye, before throwing the portrait at a wall, shattering it, and the wall before quickly exiting the room.
He continued down the hallway until he was met with a swinging door. He pushed it open to see the kitchen. This is where he and his only childhood friend, Nana, had made cookies whenever he was sad; before she had suddenly disappeared. As he remembered he could've sworn he heard her voice and could taste the cookies. He slowly stepped back and let the doors swing closed behind him.
After walking down the hall farther, he finally came to his parent's chamber. He opened the door and looked in. This was the first time he had actually gotten a good look at the room. He used to come in it only to sit on one of his parents' laps, as they would rock him gently to sleep, but that was it. Nothing was really out of the ordinary, it had beds, dressers, fireplace, chairs, closet… but then he noticed that that closet door was slightly ajar and it was moving back and forth slowly. Being a very superstitious person, and being in a deserted, rundown house, he was completely freaked out. He walked over to it and slowly grabbed onto the handle expecting to be jumped at any moment. He quickly opened the door and found out it was empty, minus a secret entrance to a basement.
He slowly walked down the steps. He used his chakra to create a fire that rested on his right hand so he could see. When he reached the bottom of the stairs he was greeted by a giant door. The looked as if it was locked but it easily opened with a good kick. The second the door opened a gust of air poured out almost putting out his fire and then he was greeted with a horrible smell. Covering his nose he shone the fire into the room and peered in. His eyes gaped open with shock as he looked upon dozens of torture devises. The floor and walls were covered in dried blood. And in the far end of the room, there were rusty, metal horizontal bars, signifying cells. He slowly walked over to the cells and shone the fire into one. The cage was occupied by a few skeletons. Most were in butler outfits, the same with the other cages, there were maids, gardeners, cooks. he saw a skeleton in the outfit Nana, his Nana, had always worn. His legs couldn't support himself and he slumped to the floor. This is what happened to them all… He couldn't hold it in anymore and he threw up and then tried to escape this nightmare.
Once he got out of the house he tried to recompose himself. Once he had somewhat calmed down, he turned around and looked at the hell, he had once called home.. His parents were horrible, evil people. They had killed so many innocent
people. This house, the house that had kept their hideous secrets safe for so long was also evil. He had to destroy it. His raised his hand and aimed it at the house. He forced chakra into that hand and shot out a burst of fire at the house. The house caught on fire quickly; the evil in the house seemed to fuel the fire. He watched as the fire destroyed his home, his family's horrible secret, nana's tomb.
Naruto and Sakura sat at a small ramen shop they found. Naruto was eating his eighth bowl while Sakura had finished her second and final bowl. The whole meal was eaten in silence. Well it was silent until Sakura had decided to talk."Naruto?" she asked.
"Yeah?" He replied after swallowing a mouth full of ramen.
"Why did you leave all those years ago?"
Not expecting this question, Naruto almost choked on the mouthful of ramen, he had just stuffed into his mouth.
After coughing for a bit, Naruto looked at her and tried to think of a way to answer her unexpected question. "I left because I failed the village."
"How did you fail the village?"
"I was too weak to bring Sasuke back. If I'm not strong enough to rescue my friend, then how will I ever be able to protect the whole village? Besides, I broke my promise."
"What promise?"
"My promise to you, I couldn't to get Sasuke back."
"So you left the village because we couldn't get Sasuke that one time! Are you an idiot? That's not worth leaving your village over, we could have tried again!"
"We would have kept failing; I couldn't stand it, knowing I failed you."
"So abandoning me and the village was better??"
"Well when you put it that way…"
"Idiot…" she sighed before walking off.
"Left with the bill again" He said to himself.
Akuma knocked on a door of a run down shop. "Are you two sure the guy is here?"
"Saki and Kikuko stood behind her. "Positive."
The three stood there and waited, finally someone opened the door. It was a middle aged man around 40, but he was incredibly short for his age… not to mention bald. "Hello? What can I do for you?" he asked.
The three pushed there way in and shut the door behind them, which made the man nervous. "Hello Toshiro, remember me?" Akuma asked.
Toshiro looked carefully at the woman and finally a hint of recognition sparked in his eyes. If you looked carefully, you could see a hint of displeasure. "Why hello Akuma, and to what do I owe this pleasure?"
"What can you tell us about Sasuke Uchiha?" Akuma asked.
"I'm terribly sorry, but I can't tell you anything, now I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." Toshiro stated gesturing towards the door.
Saki got up to leave but Akuma sat her back down "I think your lying to me, do you remember what happens when you lie to me." She asked him emotionlessly.
"Yes, I remember. That's why I hired these people" He said as ten men dropped from the ceiling. "Now I will ask you again, please leave."
Saki made another move to leave but once again Akuma intervened.
"Ooh, poor choice. Get them!" Toshiro ordered.
One man charged at Akuma, thinking it an easy kill. Akuma stood up and withdrew her katana. The man approached and swung his sword at her choppily. His eyes widened as his sword missed her and she was instantly behind him and thrust the katana through his back causing it to erupt out of his chest. She pulled her katana out of the man allowing him to slump to the ground and turned to face the others.
The other nine men looked at each other and charged at the group of people. Four of them went after Akuma while the five others attacked Kikuko and Saki.
Kikuko ducked under a sword slash, then dived to the left, right as two other swords smashed into the floor behind him. He forced chakra into his armed which caused a bone-like structure to protrude out and he swung his arm at one of the men causing the shard to shoot out lodging itself into the mans skull. He then created a spike on each arm and charged another.
Saki jumped backwards dodging a sword swing and did a few hand signs summoning a bunch of Klinks. She sent the Klinks forward and they all started latching onto the poor man. The man tried to smack the Klinks off but more kept latching on and eventually he fell over soon covered in them being chocked to death. The other man slashed at her so she withdrew a kunai and quickly blocked it. She kept blocking his attacks and when he made a mistake she dove forward and slammed the dagger into his foot lodging it into the wood. She then focused chakra into her pointer finger and then shoved a highly electrified finger against the man's head destroying his nervous system. He fell over and she quickly grabbed her kunai.
Akuma waited as another man charged at her. He swung his sword at her and she easily parried it knocking it aside. She quickly raised her katana over her head and slashing it down over his shoulder pulling it towards her as she cut, so it didn't get stuck in the dead man. The next man was a little more cautious and waited fore her to make her move. Akuma smiled and dropped her katana. The man sensing an attack point swung at her. Seeing the man take her bait, she quickly pulled out a dagger and ducked under his sword slash and shoved it into his chest. Walking back she picked up her katana and charged at the remaining two men. She charged at the left one and knocked his futile defense away and slashed her katana across his chest and then after that was finished she thrust her katana into the man's skull from his chin.
Kikuko jumped onto one of the man's outstretched swords and ran up it and slashed his neck with one of the spikes on his arm. He then jumped over the falling man and flipped over his partner stabbing both his spikes through his back.
Akuma walked towards Toshiro who had slumped to the ground next to the wall. She roughly grabbed him and picked him up to her level. "Now are you going to tell me what I want to know?" She asked Toshiro, who dumbly nodded.
Masuke walked down the street away from the nightmare that was his past. The sun was setting so he had to have been gone for at least 4 hours. It had been about 30 minutes since he got somewhere he remembered and that's when he saw it. The hole to the place he and his two childhood friends used to call home. He walked over to it and decided it was time to make peace with his friends. He climbed into the hole and walked through the maze he memorized years ago. He eventually found their old home, the place all their adventures began. He walked over to the table they ate at and sat in one of the chairs. He bent his head and started to pray for his friends. After he prayed he heard something… footsteps. He looked into the darkness and heard something that almost killed him.
"Do you still think no one can kill you…Masuke"…
Author's note:
Yay, I'm done. You got three cliffhangers. Where is Sasuke! Who does Masuke see! Will Naruto apologize or w/e!
Tune in next time, leave reviews and stuff. L8a…
Chapter 5: The Journey Begins
