Barbarian Invasion

Barbarian Invasion

Ch. 6 Camp Life and The Romans

I OWN NOTHING

A/N: Sorry for the delay but the muse was smothered by life but she should be coming back at least for a little while. P.S why didn't anybody laugh at the badger joke?

A week after her capture Sakura woke to the sound of iron pounding on the anvil. She threw the pile of furs off of herself that she had used as blankets, and entered the smith part of the tent she still shared with Alpin. She watched the man and had a look of moderate dislike. That first night Sakura she had slapped him in the face with a Tsunade style strike and had been all ready to fight like a wild cat but when she saw him recover faster then Naruto had from her old punches she thought about the situation she was in and had decided to give in for now and not fight anymore. She had expected him to go at her like a wild animal and was shocked to discover that the young man was unbelievable gentle with her.

Despite the gentleness it was still not pleasant and she had not said another word to the young man. A week later she was only on short sentences and she had made it as obvious as possible that she did not like him all that much, however, they were getting along with each other. "Axe?" She asked.

Alpin looked up and smiled at Sakura; despite the cold treatment he was still enamored with Sakura. "Ah good mornin' Sakura! By Goibenu ye are as loovly as ivver. Ye best be careful or t'fey will think that ye're one oov their own and snatch ye away. As t'yer question yes, A clansmen Ohotolarix asked me t make this fer him."

Sakura internally blushed at the complement but did not show it, after a week of his complements he had now started to grow on her.

Ino threw off her blankets shrieking as water was splashed on her face and the sound of Maeve and Aoife (Actual Celtic names) laughing were heard in the tent. Culan was outside and rushed in to see what was going on and started to laugh at the young woman's predicament. Ino was tearing after the two redheaded twins and was ready to throttle the laughing girls. The little girls however were their brother's sisters and were able to keep ahead of the irate woman at speeds that only shinobi could have matched in the elemental lands. The two girls led Ino around the Arverni part of the camp often splitting up and converging to distract the woman. Soon she was exhausted and dragged herself back to Culan's family tent wet, sweaty, and covered in dust. As she plopped down beside the fire, Bridget handed a bowl of boiled meat and vegetables to her, which she mechanically ate.

Culan sat next to Ino and put his hand on her shoulder and said in still amused but honest pity, "Och, by Danu those lasses are a troo pain in t'bachside. Doan worry they'll come around they do this t'everyone they meet."

Ino feebly glared death at the young man and then went back to eating using a small knife to spear the food out of the bowl. She still remembered asking where the chopstick were and the look the others had given her when she had described what chopsticks were. She had blanched at the idea of only eating with her hands and had been mildly mocked when she had started using a small knife for everything they would normally grab.

At that moment the two girls walked back into the tent laughing their heads off and completely ignoring the basilisk stare Ino was giving them. Bridget smacked both girls in the back off the head and scolded them, "Maeve, Aoife, I swear t'both of ye are some of t'worst pranksters in this entire camp!"

Ino shook her head to herself, she could think of one who could beat them six ways to Christmas. But that person is now the deadly warlord of this huge caravan of men and women and she was on his shit list to put it mildly.

Lee shouted in pain as the cart holding him and the others in their cage as they were heading west through the mountains, jolted and he smacked his jaw on the floor of the cart. The Carnute cousin of Sasuke laughed at his pain. Dana, they had found out, was her name. When they found out that its meaning was crude in personality Neji had mumbled that it suited her he was then left with a knot the size of a duck egg along with a string of curses so scathing that the guards around them started to back off and one big fella with one eye and scars that made him look like a topographical map blushed bright red and looked away from the cage.

Having not much to talk about Dana had decided to tell them about herself, apparently she was the daughter of Gutruatus, the late king of the Carnutes himself. Naruto had already figured out the connection between the Carnutes and the Uchihas. He had brought along the girl and tossed her in with Sasuke to add insult to injury for both sides.

As they left the mountains they entered the land of Gaul. The land was highly similar to the land of fire but the towns were extremely different, all of them were walled with at least palisades and the folk harvested grain only or odd vegetables. The fields had herds of cattle, shaggy and massive creatures that were bigger then the cattle back home. Sheep also dotted the land their wooly selves shaved at the moment.

They continued to travel south through the lands of Gaul, each village slightly different, but each had the flag of Naruto and the Orange Nine Tailed Fox of a blue background.

After crossing a river they reached a town unlike any other they had seen. The road was perfectly straight and all of it was stone cobbled. The walls were tall and of stone as were the buildings. The armed men of this town wore armor that looked as if it was horizontal sheets of metal that were set next to each other. They wore chain mail under it and had tight fitting helmets on their heads. They had huge body shields and short swords at their sides.

After passing the guards their captors talked with a well off looking man in odd white robe like clothing and a small bag was given from the rich man to the Gaels. The Gaels left and the robe man turned to the Shinobi and said, "Welcome Sheenobee, I am Magnus and I am your new master come tomorrow you will all be trained as my gladiators for the arena. Now you may complain now but if you fight hard and win often you may have your freedom in ten years. Welcome to the outpost of Tarentum, which is but a shadow of the glory that is Rome. Gladiators, I salute you."

The same thought went through all of the shinobis' minds at the same time.

"WHAT THE F…