Tunnel of Destined Love
CHAPTER 7 - OROCHIMARU'S PLAN
"Hey Anko" Naruto said as he and Hinata walked up to Anko and a gourd-less Gaara. Anko turned to face the two and smile as the Gaara just turned his head with his arms still folded.
"Oh, Hey!" Anko said with a smile. "You guys ready to have some fun?" she asked. Gaara remained silent as he finally turned fully toward them still with his arms folded as usual.
"Yeah its going to be great." replied Naruto excitedly while Hinata stood with a smile. "I really can't wait for the tunnel ride to open. I wonder who I am going to end up with." Naruto said with a fist in the air from his excitment.
Hinata blushed and smiled at her date and imagined what the ride would be like herself. "Y-yeah. Me too..." Hinata continued to smile then looked at Anko then to Gaara. "Hey Gaara, are y-you going on the tunnel too?" she asked the kazekage.
Gaara looked at Hinata then replied, "No. Its pointless. I am only here to win the bet. Nothing more."
Anko placed her hand on her hip and gave a smirk hearing Gaara's remark, "hmph, your way in over your head, Gaara. Ive been to this place when I was a little girl. Believe me, this place will definitely crack a smile on that face of yours." she said looking at him with her confident smirk.
Gaara simply shrugged, "Hmph... we'll see about that."
Naruto and Hinata simply smiled on at the two as the long line into the park began to move.
"Finally!" shouted Naruto as they got closer to the entrance gates. "I thought the line would never move"
"Yeah, It was always like this when I use to come here" replied Anko. "I even helped Orochimaru make his haunted house. Of course, Im not sure if they will be opening that, though."
"Why not?" asked Hinata
Anko turned her face toward Hinata, "Because Orochimaru is a very dangerous villian to Konoha and he could have done anything to it that may be dangerous to anyone who goes in. We can't trust him. Matter of fact, Im suprised they haven't ordered for demolition on it." she said turning her head to look forward at the entrance gates.
"I bet that haunted house isnt scary at all" said Gaara still looking forward; his face still deprived of a smile.
"Tsk...Your going down Gaara. Prepare to be my slave for a week" Anko said with a sly smirk.
"Hm.. Lets get this over with" he said moving on with the line as they finally reached the entrance and went inside.
Naruto's eye filled with excitment as the loud roars of the rollar coasters, the melodies and music of the gaming booths, the smell of french fries and funnel cakes, and the screams of Konoha's children having fun on thrill rides.
"Well you guys, me and Gaara are going this way" Anko said to them while pointing to the rollercoaster. "We'll see ya later." she said walking in that direction afterwards. Gaara nodded to Naruto in farewell then turned around and walked along side Anko with his hands never unfolding and face never showing a sign of enjoyment.
Naruto smiled then turned his attention to Hinata. "Okay Hinata, which ride should we go on first?" he asked her.
"H-how about the bumper cars?" she asked him with her hands against her mouth from her shyness.
"Okay, Lets go!" shouted Naruto in an explosion of excitment as he grabbed Hinata's hand and dragged her over to the short line of the bumper cars. Hinata blushed deeply from Naruto grabbing her hand and dragging her to the bumper car attraction.
The wait for the bumper cars wasnt long as Naruto and Hinata entered into the bumping area and got into their own bumper car. Naruto looked around and smiled at Hinata who was just getting into a blue car. Suddenly, a voice sounded into the air.
"ALRIGHT, MAKE SURE YOUR SEATS ARE FASCINED! ITS TIME TO FOR SOME BUMPER CARS XTREME!" shouted the announcer of the ride from the microphone's intercom.
"Uh oh... This is Tsunade's ride.." he said starting to freak out after quickly remembering what Kakashi said about it.
"ALRIGHT PEOPLE! ARE YOU READY?... GO!"
And the bumper cars began. Everyone began to bump into one another as a melody played softly. Naruto started as well as he bumped into Konohamaru's car. "Hmph, this isnt so bad. I dont know why I was so scared." he said with a smirk until suddenly, the announcer came back on the p.a
"THATS ENOUGH OF THE KID STUFF...TIME TO TURN IT UP TO THE XTREME!" said the announcer who then reached over and flipped up a lever that made a light flash red saying "XTREME! TIME"
Just then, all the bumper cars began to transform, having jet boosters appear on the back of the cars.
Naruto pressed on the gas lightly and was sent flying 10x faster than he was going. Barely being able to breathe from the extreme speed, Naruto's car continued on straight as another car began to drive along side his. Naruto turned and saw Kakashi driving easily at that incredible speed.
"K-Kakashi-sensei...what the?...w-what are you doing h-here" asked Naruto trying to breathe and talk at the same time.
"Just having some fun...oh..and you might want to turn, your heading straight for the wall" Kakashi said as he turned off to the side and bumped Asuma.
Naruto placed his hands on the steering wheel and tried to turn but to no avail. His steering wheel had jammed and wouldnt turn. "Oh no... This stupid wheel wont turn" he said to himself as he got closer to the wall. Naruto started to scream out loud as he was about to crash, until...
"THANK YOU FOR RIDING BUMPER CARS...TO THE XTREME."
Naruto's car had just stopped in enough time to just harmlessly tap the wall. "Whew... That was a close one." He said as he wiped off some sweat and jumped out his his bumper car and headed toward the exit. Once out, he met back up with Hinata who was already out sitting on a bench waiting for him.
"Naruto-kun, Are y-you alright? I saw you were about to hit t-the wall" she said looking at him.
Naruto smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Yeah, I had it all under control." he lied as he grinned to her. "So whats next?"
Hinata gave a shy smile and looked around. "W-well.. lets do something..you want to do now" she replied.
"Hmm, okay. How about a calm ride this time. Like the...uh..." Naruto looked around for a calmer ride and finally spotted one. "The ferris wheel! lets go on the ferris wheel" suggested Naruto.
Hinata gave a smile and nodded to Naruto in agreement.
The ferris wheel began to fill up fast with people as Naruto and Hinata got into one of the ferris wheel carts. After being filled with people, the ride started to move slowly, sending Naruto and Hinata's cart upward slowly then downward. The ride continued on at a normal slow pace...
Hinata sat looking on at the high view of Konoha as Naruto sat on the other side of the cart looking in the other direction then looked at Hinata. "Wow... Hinata looks really beautiful today.." Naruto thought to himself. "Hey...Hinata.." said Naruto to get her attention.
Hinata turned her gaze from the high view of the land to Naruto. "Y-yeah...Naruto-kun."
Naruto looking into her eyes, suddenly starting to remember times when they were together and the time when Sakura told Naruto that Hinata always watches him in secretcy. "Well...I..umm...Can I sit on that side with you?" he asked her with a sincere smile as he was still looking into her eyes.
Hinata blushed a deep red and turned her face quickly to the side and looked downward. "Uh..y-yeah." She replied nervously.
Naruto smiled and got up from his side and sat down next to Hinata. Hinata blush was now uncontrollably deep as she felt him sit down next to her. She slowly turned her head back over facing Naruto who was looking out at the ground from the other way. She smiled and slowly began to turn the other way before suddenly...
"Hinata..." said Naruto who was again looking at her and sitting close to her.
Hinata looked at Naruto with wide open eyes from the shock and moved her hand up to her chin and lips from her extreme shyness. "Y-yess?..N-naruto-kun..."
Meanwhile In the shadow of a big tree, Sasuke and Orochimaru watched on as everyone in Konoha was having fun.
"Its time..." said Orochimaru with a smirk.
"Hmph, I'll get it with no problem. There is no need to send them in" said Sasuke emotionless.
"Patience Sasuke, you will get your chance." Orochimaru ensured him as five shadowy figures appeared behind them. "Besides, Ive resurrected these guys just for this. But, I guess it can't be helped. You may go in with them if you please."
"Understood." said Sasuke as he disappeared along with the shadowy figures leaving an evil smirking Orochimaru.
Naruto smiled not saying a word. Seeing this, Hinata's blush began to flare badly now. She wanted to turn away but at the same time she didnt. "I just wanted to say that... Im glad we came together..."
Hinata managed a smile, "Me t-too" she said noticing that Naruto's face was drawing close to hers as if he was about to kiss her. Hinata smiled finally giving in to it and leaned over to Naruto. Just as they were about to kiss, the ferris wheel began to shake mysteriously.
Naruto jumped back to in shock. "What was that!" he shouted as he looked around then suddenly it began to shake again, this time sounding as if something broke.
Hinata looked downward and saw what was causing the quakes. "Naruto-kun! Look!" she said to him. Naruto went to where she was and looked down.
"What the?" yelled a suprised Naruto as he saw Jirobo of the sound four punching the leg beam of the ferris wheel. "Its that guy from the sound four... I thought Chouji said he killed him" he said to Hinata.
Jirobo continued to punch the beams holding up the ferris wheel when suddenly Tayuya walked up behind him.
"You fat ass! We are not here to break things. We are here for the destiny scroll." Tayuya said to him.
"Hmph. Your mouth is as foul as ever, Tayuya. I always wanted to terrorize these many people at one time but I guess you are right this time. Let me just get in one..last..punch." he said to her as he pulled back for a haymaker and punched hard onto the ferris wheel breaking the leg of it then left with Tayuya to find the scroll.
"That bastard is going to kill everyone on this ride." yelled Naruto as the ferris wheel began to sway deep to the side.
"We're going to crash into the ground." said Hinata.
"Hinata, how many are on this wheel?" asked Naruto
"I'll check" said Hinata "Byakugan!" she said activating her Byakugan eyes. "This is bad. Theres alot of younger kids on here. There are also a couple of older kids like us."
"Okay, You save everyone on this side and I'll save everyone on the other side." he said to her. Hinata agreed and jumped over to the next car as did Naruto to the others. Both of them, using the wall walking ability, got the inexperience others and ran them down to the ground as fast as they could with the help of a couple other experienced chuunins.
Naruto came running down the ferris wheel with two young genins under his arm and one holding on to him from his neck. Once on the ground, Naruto placed them down and turned to Hinata. "Thats all of 'em" said Naruto. Suddenly, the other leg of the ferris wheel snapped from the pressure of no support of the other leg and began to fall in the direction of everyone panicing below.
Everyone started to scream seeing the giant attraction about to fall on them. Thinking fast, Naruto began to pound his open right hand palm with his left hand, gathering up chakra into a small sphere. Once he was ready, he quickly jumped up toward the falling ferris wheel and thrusted his chakra sphere on it. "Rasengan!" he shouted out. The force from the Rasengan shot the ferris wheel the other way falling onto the water on the other side. Naruto landed back on the ground and looked back at everyone running and panicing. "Orochimaru is behind this...he's after the destiny scroll." Naruto said to Hinata as he looked at her when suddenly, another suprise came walking up to them. "If it isnt Naruto..." came the voice. Naruto's suprised heightened as he turned and saw Sasuke standing infront of him. HInata looked over at the merry-go-round and saw Jirobo about to smash it up. She quickly jumped over and landed infront of him and positioned herself into the gentle fist stance prepared to fight him.
"Sasuke! What are you doing here?" Naruto shouted at him.
Sasuke gave a smirk, "Hmph, the others are going around looking for it but I know you know where it is. Tell me" he said to Naruto in a cocky manner.
"Even if I did know where it was, I wouldnt tell you" Naruto shouted at him getting ready to fight him.
Sasuke stood silent looking on at Naruto. "Then I will kill you like I should have done before. This time i wont show you mercy" Sasuke said with a smirk as he suddenly disappeared.
Naruto gave a smirk and put his hand out and suddenly caught Sasuke's fist. "That speed of yours wont work on me this time, Sasuke." said Naruto with a smile. "Kakashi has been giving me special training just for this moment" he said managing to keep Sasuke's fist in his hand.
Sasuke's smirk never faded, "Hmm I see you have gotten stronger. This will be interesting." he said then saw Naruto pull back his other hand into a fist then thrusted it forward at Sasuke. Sasuke easily caught the fist with his open hand and looked at Naruto; Both of them began to struggle against each other.
Meanwhile, Sakura joined Hinata in fighting against Jirobo. Sakura's punch met with a transformed curse seal level 2 Jirobo. After the clash, Sakura and Jirobi threw both hands out and placed their fingers between one another and began to push at each other in a struggle of strength. "Now Hinata!" shouted Sakura holding his hands in restraint in the struggle tug-of-war of strength.
"Right!" replied Hinata as she slid between the two and began to strike Jirobo's tenketsus then pulled back both palms and struck hard in Jirobo's heart area with the gentle fist. Jirobo, now without chakra and damaged organs near the heart, fell backwards onto the ground dead again. "Yes!" shouted Sakura as her and Hinata gave a high five to one another for the teamwork then ran over to help Kiba and Ino fight a transformed Sakon and Ukon. In the fight, Ino turned to see Naruto fighting Sasuke.
"Sasuke?... This is my chance to bring him back to Konoha" she thought as she ran toward the two ex-friends' tug-of-war struggle. She then put out her hands as she was about to perform the Mind transfer jutsu. "If I do the Mind Disturbance technique, there is a good chance that his dramatic increased strength will make it uneffective. Its better if I just take over his body until the anbu restrains him. Then I'll just undo the jutsu and he'll be caught. I just hope Naruto can hold him still.." Ino thought.
On the other side of the park, Gaara and Anko faced off against Kimimaru, Neji, Tenten, and Gai faced off against Kidomaru, and finally Shikamaru, Temari, and Asuma faced off against Tayuya.
"Alright... Now. Shintenshin no Jutsu!" said Ino as she shot out her soul toward Sasuke. Sensing something coming, Sasuke quickly dodged off to the right and pushed Naruto into the path of the Mind Transfer jutsu. Ino gave out a gasp before her body fell to the floor lifeless. Sakura, seeing Ino fall to the ground after using her jutsu, ran over to her body and kneeled down to left up Ino's head. Once the soul hit Naruto, he stammered some before standing back up with Ino in control of his body. Sakura looked on at Sasuke to see if the jutsu worked but to her horror, she saw that the person who was hit with her jutsu was not Sasuke, but Naruto instead.
"Oh no! Ino... If she is in Naruto's mind..." Sakura gasped as she realized that Ino was in danger.
IN THE CORRIDORS OF NARUTO'S MIND
Ino wakes up sitting on the ground next to an unconscious Naruto.
"Naruto?..." Ino said as she saw him laying there unconscious. "Where am I?... Is this...Naruto's mind?" she said to herself, getting up on her feet and looking around. Suddenly, she began to hear growls coming from down the closest hallway. "What is that?..." she thought as she began to walk down the biggest hallway. Upon reaching the end of the hall way, she came upon a giant cage with a piece of paper on it that reads "Seal" on it. "Seal? What is in there?" she asked as she walked closer to it.
"Ku Ku Ku...Who are you?" came a voice from the cage.
Ino gasped then looked closer into the cage but didnt see anything.
"Ku ku...walk closer to the cage..." said the voice to Ino. Ino, through curiousity began to walk closer then stopped after suddenly the growls got louder and more furocious. Then, huge sharp claws came between the spaces of the bars and reached for Ino. Ino began to scream at this sight as the tip of the Kyuubi's claws reached Ino and red chakra began to wrap around her foot dragging her closer to the cage.
Hearing the loud screams of Ino, Naruto awakened and looked around then heard the screams once more. "OH NO! INO!" Naruto yelled as he ran down to the cage and saw Ino being dragged into the cage of the Kyuubi. Naruto ran up to her before being sucked into the cage and grabbed her hand to pull her out.
"DAMN FOX! LET HER GO!" yelled Naruto as he pulled harder on her arm.
Sasuke stood there looking on at Naruto(Ino) as the body just stood there then suddenly started to grasp Naruto's head and yelling loudly in horror. Sakura looked on at the screaming Naruto body in horror and yelled for Ino to undo the jutsu.
NARUTO'S MIND
"Ino! Undo the mind jutsu! Hurry!" he yelled to her. Ino struggled and quickly undid the jutsu.
Back in her body, Ino was in shock and was shaking badly in Sakura's arms. "Ino! are you alright" Ino shook her head slightly and fainted.
Naruto stood alittle confused then regained his posture. Sasuke looked at Naruto then suddenly sensed that all the resurrected sound five have been killed and that he was surrounded by all the chuunins and jounins. Knowing that he had no chance to fight them all himself, he disappeared and fled the scene after looking back at Sakura.
Kakashi kneeled down next to Sakura. "Sorry I was too late. What happened to Ino?"
Sai walked up behind Kakashi and kneeled down by him.
"She was attacked mentally. She should be alright though.She just needs some rest" she said to them.
"Well all the sound five have been taken care of. Theres still Sasuke and Orochimaru out there so we have dispatched some Anbu units to track them down if they're nearby still."
Naruto jumped down from the platform he was on and walked over to Kakashi, Sakura and Sai.
Thats the end of this chapter. Sorry for making it so long. The next chapter is the last chapter, just if you wanted to know if the ending was coming near. Yes, the ending to this story is next chapter. I hope you guys like this chapter too. I had to have the fight go on and everything like this for a reason. Also, this isnt the last time youll see Sasuke either. . CHAPTER 8 PREVIEW: After repairs are done to the festival, there is only 2 hours left to have fun before the official opening of the Tunnel of destiny. Will Naruto end up with Hinata? Will he end up with Sakura? Will he end up with someone else? Will it even let him on the ride? Will Anko win her bet, or will Gaara have his own personal slave for a week? And someone makes a surprise last showing. See what destiny has in store for everyone on the last chapter. Please review too.CHAPTER 8 - DESTINY coming soon. Thanks to everyone who did review also.
