Okay, This is is another update. I'm really trying, I am. Just so you guys know. This fic will continue for a little longer than I originally planned. Well, we planned, but anyway. Her's your next chapter.
Discalimer: I don't think if I owned Naruto, I would be sitting where I am, having diffficulties trying to write something.
Naruto and Sakura ran into the clearing, seeing the Uchiha disapear. They had decided to check up on the girl when she didn't return immediatly. Sakura ran to her body. She tried healing it, but nothing worked.
"He had the sword coated in poison. She's not going to make it." the pink haired girl cursed under her breath, frustrated.
Chapter 7 Of Flares and Finallies
Ravy felt numb, her limbs like foriegn objects to her. She opened her eyes to black. Just black. She reached up with her hand to her face. She could see it, so nothing was over her eyes. It was just dark. The girl sat up, looking around. As far as she could see, black, black, and more black. She struggled to stand.
"Why does it feel like I've been stabbed?" she muttered to herself. She held a hand to her stomach. She felt a hole in her shirt, just where a sword wound she have been. She felt freash scar tissue winding her skin.
"I can't have you dead on me." a gentle voice spoke from behind her. Turning, Ravy found herself staring into piercing green eyes.
"Haya." the girl smiled softly.
"You should be more careful around mean boys with sharp knifes." Haya told her, the dragon's scales glowing for a moment before shrinking and revealing a girl not much older, if not the same age, of Ravy. "I find it easier to talk to you like this." the girl explained.
"I should be dead, I mean I felt the poison." Ravy told the girl. She felt uneasy, just trying to think of the girl as normal, and not a dragon.
"Well, like I said, I can't have you dead on me." green eyes smiled. "Besides, if your cousins can have limbs almost blown off and extreme cuts, then I think a stab should be your dragon mark." The girl put a hand her shoulder. "On another topic, you need to pay more attention, especially in the dark. I'll be more attatched to you now, but that's no excuse." Ravy was being led toward a slightly growing light.
"What now?" Ravy asked quickly, before she had to leave.
"Easy." green eyes smirked. "I'll be coaching you, so go get 'em." the girl disappeared. After small observations, Ravy decided to just go for it, walking one step into the warm light.
"I'm telling you. We stay put. She'll be fine." a authoritive voice spoke firmly.
"But, there is no way. The poison was put into her system almost immediatly. There was no way to extract it." another voice, this one was more mournful.
"Ravy'll make it. We all did." another, more calm voice said.
"Ugh." Ravy muttered, to alert them all of her awakening.
"What?!" a boy's voice joined the group.
"Impossible." the worried voice added.
"Told you." the calm voice again. Ravy opened her eyes. She was lying down on a mat. She turned her head slightly to see she was back where the camp was set. She looked up again to see everyone just sitting nearby. Sitting up steadily she nodded. Her left hand was clenched tightly, her shirt had been moved to look at the cut. There now was a winding scar in the shape of a dragon, almost identical to her cousins'.
"That was freaky." the girl shook her head.
"You took quite a cut and poison into your system." Kaira informed her. "We weren't able to locate him after he, you know, stabbed you." the girl added.
"That proves it. You guys are almost useless without me." Ravy grinned. Taara shook her head at her.
"All the times you tell me not to get myself get killed, and you go get yourself stabbed." she continued shaking her head. Ravy raised her head to scratch her head, but realized it was the hand she had been clenching since she woke up.
"We tried to pry your hand to find out why it was closed. We left it alone." Kaira told her, noticing where her attention had gone. The green eyed girl just continued to lok at it curiously, opening it.
There was a crumpled piece of paper. Gently taking it in both hands she undid the scrunch of the paper. She smiled to herself.
"Sakura, Naruto, this involves you." she told the two of them. They shared a look before coming over to the girl.
"What is it?" Sakura asked, curious. Ravy handed her the paper. It was a picture of three. Sakura and Naruto were in the picture. It was from a few years ago. It seemed that Sakura had punched or hit Naruto. The blonde was rubbing his head and the pink haired girl was fuming, her fists clenched. The third person in the picture was just looking at them boredly, hands in his pockets and eyes half closed.
"Sasuke?" Naruto took the photo from her.
"I must have pick-pocketed it off of him." Ravy rubbed her chin. "I guess he was holding onto it for some reason."
"Well, that must mean-" Naruto was almost jumping up and down from pent up energy.
"I guess he's still himself, after all of this." Sakura finished for him.
"Well, we just have to break that shell he's hiding in." Kaira grinned. "When you feel better, Ravy, we'llget going."
"Well, then, let's go." Ravy beamed. "Nothing better than going after the guy that killed me."
"So how does it feel to actually die?" Naruto asked Ravy when they had reached their camping destination for the night, a clearing near a river bank. Everyone was doing their part to set up camp.
"Well, really, I didn't feel dead. I just felt tired." the girl shrugged. She sensed the familar chakra around them. She just looked at Naruto and winked. He nodded and went over to the rest of the group and started to tell them to set things up in certain spaces. Ravy made sure she didn't make any strange movements to alert him of their knowing.
"Well, just when you think you kill someone." a voice called out from the edge of the clearing, sword in hand.
"Don't assume, it makes an ass out of you and me, Uchiha." Ravy spat. "You because you stabbed me and everyone knows, and me, because I let you think it killed me." she crossed her arms. No one seem to be surprised at his appearance.
"You know, it makes it even more annoying that you guys just don't seem to give up." Sasuke added. "And I'm not planning on leaving until every single one of you can't stand up on your own." He held the sword up.
"Ravy!" Kaira shouted. The girl nodded quickly before grabbing her fan and disappearing. "Uchiha. You're out numbered, we're all healed, and you have no advantages." the brunette spoke to the raven haired boy. "And Ravy is right behind you." The boy turned around the find the girl right behind him. She kicked him before grabbing his sword's hilt and not letting go until he was unable to hold onto it anymore. She threw it aside and took out her fan.
"Do you give up?" she asked him not letting her guard down. He looked up at her, his face still stoic as ever.
"Never." he spat. Ravy clicked her teeth.
"Taara." she shouted. The boy was moving, charging an attack, blue lightening that gathered in his palm. Naurto, Sakura, Kakashi and Kaira all moved into action, preventing his concentration. Taara ran to the edge of the clearing, taking the small package out of her pcoket, opening it. Holding a red flare, she struck it against her knee before pointing it into the sky to shoot off several red blasts of fire. When it burnt out. she dropped it before joining in to distract the Uchiha. She used her kakagentai to grab on of his ankles with and held him from moving him anywhere while he dodged attacks from Kaira and Kakashi. Kaira was throwing punches so quickly it was a blur. Kakashi was using the sharingon(sp?) eye to copy any attack he might be trying to use.
"Stop trying to fight back." Kaira told him in segments, still attacking.
"I won't give up." he replied to her, his eyes blazing.
"Now you should." Ravy told him as three familiar shadows fell on the clearing. Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari landed gracefully, not bothering to ask questions. Kankuro sent his puppet to held distract the Uchiha and Temari sent a gust to knock him off balance. Gaara stayed put using sand to snake it's way to the raven haired boy. It found it's way to his arms and hled him firmly in place. He still fought break free, Taara's molecules gripping his ankles and Gaara's sand on his wrist.
"You still refuse to give in?" Naruto sighed, almost angry.
"I will never give in to such weaklings." he told them, a strong chakra glowing around him. A black mark stretched across his neck. Ravy hissed before moving up to him. She wiped off her hand, gathering chakra.
"You give us no choice then." she hissed, latching her chakra onto his. She would usually use it to sedate a person in much pain, but now she pulled on Sasuke's twisting it in her palms. He winced before the mark withdrew. He struggled to stand at this point. Ravy dropped her grip on his chakra.
"What was that." he breathed heavily. His eyes turned a dark color, away from the red. Everyone but Taara and Gaara dropped their guard. Ravy crossed her arms.
"You should never kill a Dragonia, we get stronger in death." she todl him. she looked at him closer. He seemed worn out and abused from days of constant travel. Looknig at his face, he had telltale scars of when Ravy had hit him in the clearing, not that many days ago. He seemed to let anyone heal him.
"Well, like you said, I guess I shouldn't assume." The Uchiha shook his head, finally defeated.
"Get the ropes. We finally got him." she told the others.
Finally everyone had a chance to relax. They were unwinding, eating fish that Ravy had caught.
"Well, we should be going." Kankuro stood up brushing off his pants. Kaira stood as well.
"Thank you all for your help. We were unsure what the whole flare thing was about, but we are thankful that you were willing to help us." she bowed in respect. Temari waved it off.
"Hey, you guys sure had it handed pretty good when we got here. If we wouldn't have come, I'm sure you would have managed." she told them.
"Not true. We were having a apot of trouble keeping him restrained. But I think we're good until Konoha." Ravy bowed. "I hope we see each other again in the future." the black haired girl told them with a smile.
"Yes, agreed." Gaara spoke, a calm face and voice. They took one last look around before heading off.
"I'm glad everyone wanted me dead." Sasuke spat from his place, tied up away from the group.
"Not dead. Restrained." Ravy smirked. "Besides the point, did you get healed by Kabuto, or were you too pigheaded to do that as well?" she crossed her arms.
"I don't need anyone's help." he growled. Green eyes glared back at him.
"Get me some water." the healer spoke authoritively, not to anyone in particular. She was handed a cantine by Kaira, who was grinning from ear to ear. "Naruto, can have some help?" Ravy looked to the blonde, who just shrugged.
What happened next was a lot of kicking and glaring on Sasuke's part, a lot of patience from Naruto, and Ravy smacking the Uchiha occasionally on the back of the head.
"Why do you care?" the Uchiha finally spat, as if giving her the glaring 'go ahead I'm tired and you better not fuck up my health' look.
"Well, I'm pretty sure I'm the one who broke your face, and why does it matter? You need healing. I can heal, everyone is happy in the end, Except you." she replied monotone. He didn't have a remark to that. Ravy finally wiped her hands off and stepped back. "Okay, well, we're leaving for Konoha bright early." she told the others, ignoring their groans of exhaustion. "I'll watch the bastard tonight." she added. Sasuke glared at her.
"What did you just call me?" he shouted at her. She grinned at him.
"You heard me." Ravy laughed. "Now it's time for bed, little mister." she told him, still sportin a grin. He growled at her.
Yes! It's over. Not the fic, the constant nagging of 'How many times do you think they should catch up to him' over. (Confetti)
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