Ohio minna:D i'm back again! after the long wait... well, it's only cause i had to work on my other fanfic 'forbidden love' so NYA! xP
Naruto: ne, ne, don't you think you should, maybe, drop that fanfic, and only do this one:D
um... but.. why Naruto-kun?
Naruto: -flashes dazzling smile at me- hmm, because Sasuke-kun insists on harrassing me everynight now, after reading all that 'fluff'
Sasuke: i think -smiles a smeexxii smile- the fanfic is wonderful
-blush- a-arigato Sasuke! -little tears of joy fall-
Sasuke: mm, mm, -smiles ebilly at Naruto- kukuku...
Naruto: Nande?! Why is it always --
Sasuke: -glomp/harrass-
-embarrassed cough- hope everyone enoyyz this chappy! i was lazy, but i promise next chappy'll be longer:D
Chap 7
Kagome groaned. Her whole body ached with pain. Had she died already?
"... critical condition when she came, but most of her wounds healed though."
"How? Is she also a jinchuriku?"
"No, there were no other chakara signatures in her."
" -sigh- how troublesome.. But.. How did she..?"
"Our last visit, she said. She's a Higurashi."
"You're shitting me!"
"No, she may be the last of her clan."
Kagome cracked open an eye. She didn't die yet, apparently, but then.. Where was she?
"-sigh- But didn't the last man, Karasu Higurashi was it, go over to Akats–"
Kagome coughed loudly at that point, unable to control herself, she had wanted to hear the rest of their conversation. The two figures quickly shut up, and she heard their steps as they neared her bed.
"Kagome-san?" One voice murmured. She was the one that obviously knew more about the Higurashi heritage.
Kagome groaned as she lifted both her eyelids fully open, it felt as though someone had locked them shut. Two blurry figures came into view, one blonde woman with incredibly huge... -embarrassed cough- (she looked familiar, but Kagome couldn't quite recall who she was)... and a male person, brunette, spiky hair.
"Ano.. Ano-sa... who.. Who are you?" A small smile graced the lady's lips, apparently happy that her patient had woken up alright.
"I'm Tsunade, the guy beside me is Shikamaru."
"Yo." The brunette drawled out.
"Ne.. Ne... where am I?"
"You're at Konoha. You're safe." Kagome sat up abruptly, perhaps it was all just a dream! Maybe she just dreamt it all! Pain ached through her body, however, disagreeing with her hope.
Kagome's vision had cleared a bit, the women was just so familiar.. But Kagome couldn't quite put a finger – Tsunade! Of course! She was that women who was (and is) a drunkard! She seemed to know quite a bit about the Higurashi heritage, however... and that guy, wasn't he a teammate of the fat kid and the blonde girl?... who was he...oh right! That super genius guy Naruto was rambling on about.
"How did I get here?"
"Gai-sensei's team found you."
"What.. Where's Naruto?? Are they.. Are they.." Words left her as pain shot up her body, stabbing into her heart. She felt her eyes fill with tears... Gods.. She barely knew him for a month... and yet.. Already...
"He's fine, he seems to be recovering quickly from his injuries, if you'd like, you could visit him now, I'm sure he'll explain everything."
"Nani??! but I was sure.. I thought that he had.." Kagome felt her eyes fill with tears again, threatening to overflow. Tsunade sent a kind smile at her.
"You can visit him if you want, as I said, I'm sure he'll explain everything to you with the utter-most enthusiasm, since he had been worrying about your well-being for quite a while now. He's in room 2B, but don't overwork yourselves, you are both healing–"
"Hai! I'll go visit him right away! Arigato!" Kagome felt her heart lighten considerably, as she jumped out of bed, her body full of anticipation. But, what had happened? Perhaps this was.. No, she'd save her questions for Naruto-kun, he'd answer them.
"Arigato-gozaimas again!! Ja ne!" She shouted as she ran down the hall, eager to see her best friend again.
1C, 2A... 2B!! She thought excitedly as she ran up to the door (almost breaking the door in half) and stepped inside the room.
3...2...
"KAGOME-CHAAN!" The blonde ball squeaked out! And tackled Kagome to the ground. Kagome chuckled.
"Nice to see you too Naruto-kun! But first, you have to explain what happened to me!"
"Haiiiii!" Naruto quickly dragged Kagome-chan onto the bed, and jumped in beside Kagome.
"Everyone.. Well, almost everyone, is fine! The mission was.. Well, a failure, since we didn't actually captured the 'criminal' but we did find out who he was the hard way. Oh, and what happened was that Itachi had us all under his mangekyou sharingan!"
"How? Why did we.. I .. See all.. That?"
"The mangekyou sharingan projects whatever image the user wants into the other person's eyes, as soon as you've made eye contact with him, you're trapped."
"But when did he get us?"
"We had been too rash and ignorant, we were all distracted by.. Uh.. Ahaha... my.. Stomach -blush- so we didn't really realize when we had walked right into his genjutsu. Kagome, if I am correct, you saw our dead bodies on the ground?" Kagome felt her eyes fill up with tears again at the thought, she was never going to let that happen again, fake or real, she was going to protect them, forever.
"H-hai."
"Then I suppose you were most likely the first one to be captured in the genjutsu, since we heard you scream, and we rushed towards you, but it was too late, we had all been captured by the genjutsu then. And also, did you see a pair of red eyes coming from the bushes?"
Kagome nodded dumbly.
"Then that was when you've been captured. Itachi must've made kage-bunshins of himself and captured all five of us at once."
"Where is he now?"
"He had escaped, Gai brought us all back though."
"Damn..." Kagome remembered the resemblance between Itachi and Sasuke... could they be..?
"Itachi and Sasuke, they're not related are they?" Naruto suddenly stilled at this, squirming uncomfortably under Kagome's interrogative stare.
"Itachi... he was Sasuke's brother, he had killed their whole clan leaving only Sasuke alive." Kagome's eyes widened in shock, it made sense now. That's why Sasuke was so insistent on the mission! And that's why Itachi stilled like that when Kagome had mentioned Sasuke!
"But why?" Naruto shrugged.
"He just wanted to see how strong he was, I suppose, he never did like his clan much. Afterall, he murdered everyone in his clan." Kagome felt sick. The man was twisted in his way of thought.
"Disgusting..."
"Yea, I know... can't wait until the bastard (if I said teme, then that'd be an insult to sasuke-teme, cause teme is strictly sasuke's thing :D) comes back, then I'm gonna kick his sorry ass, yosh!" Kagome giggled softly. Naruto was so pure and it made him radiate off this kind of cuteness; honestly, his face (with those golden locks, azure eyes, and deliciously tanned sk– -Sasuke grows threateningly at me- aha Sasuke-sama, he's forever your's of course!) just screamed 'I'm an angel, worship me for my pureness!'. (It will NOT be Naru/Kago though, no worries, xD, Naruto is strictly Sasuke-teme's.)
"'Course Naru-chan, you're da best!" Kagome chanted along with him, boosting the blond's confidence.
"Of course I am, you bitc– aha.. Um... women!" Naruto flashed a seemingly innocent smile at her. Kagome shot him a warning look.
"That aside -another glare was shot at Naruto- why don't you visit Sasuke-kun? I heard he won't let anyone get near him, so the doctors had to drug him in order to just touch him. Why don't you go Naruto? Just to, 'test your luck'." Kagome sent the blushing blond a wink.
"I suppose... Sasuke-teme... eeehh... OH HECK! Sasuke-teme needs a best friend -Kagome sighed at the blond's 'naive-ness'- to confide in at the moment! And who better to do it then.. Well.. His only best friend?! Besides.." Naruto rambled on, creating small 'yosh' gestures now and then.
"Hai hai, only you Naruto, right right, the only one is you..." Kagome agreed, not really paying attention to Naruto's conversation, for the gears in her yaoi-loving-fangirl mind was starting to twist and turn their way, forming an idea.
"Hm, say, Naruuto-kun, shouldn't you actually go now?"
"Hm?" Naruto shot her a confused look that seemed to say, 'go where?'.
"-silence- you know, sasuke..."
"Oooh! RIIGHTT! Sasuke-teme! Maa maa! Well, see you Kagome-chan! I'm off to see Sasuke-teme! Me! Yep, the best..." Naruto's abnormally voice had finally travelled it's way down the hall, leaving an eery silence. A small evil chuckle was heard.
"Hohoho, Naruto-kun, I'm going to make sure you heal Sasuke in every way...kukuku.." The raven walked away, laughing to herself maniacally.
hm, well, it doesn't really matter how old shikamaru is i suppose, so i'll just leave him at that
well, Ja!
