Warning! I don't own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden and this will NEVER change!
Okay, so I got bit with the writing bug especially after the latest Naruto chapter came out and freaking Naruto and Killer Bee have freakin entered the fight!
So, uh since I just said that, does anyone have any guesses of who will be entering this chapter?HMMMM?
Okay, so yeah, I'm hyper and tired at the same time… I'm LOSING MY MIND! Hopefully this is good update then since they seem to be best when I'm like this! :D
Alrighty, well I have rambled enough!
Enjoy!
I woke up screaming. I don't why, I just did. And this caused a hand to clamp over my mouth really fast.
"Anzu, you're going to wake everyone up!" Sakura's hushed voice was close which led me to believe her hand was the one currently over my mouth.
"Mmm fmne," I mumbled against her hand.
"What?" She asked and then looked at her hand before quickly removing it, "Sorry."
"I said I'm fine," I rubbed my temples, realizing that I was sitting up. I must have sat up when I woke up.
I looked around and noticed that we were no longer in the wooded area we had been in. In fact it looked more like cliffs around us. I also noticed that there lots of bedrolls around. I was in what the medics had deemed the infirmary.
"Where are we?" My head was resting in my palm since I was still feeling weak.
"I can't tell you our exact location," Sakura replied, mixing something form her spot beside me on the ground, "All I've been told is that the armies are being moved for some attack."
"Where is everyone?" I asked and tried to figure out what she was making.
"Either in here, resting a little father that way," She titled head towards some groupings of fires farther away, "Or on guard duty."
"Okay, I give. What the hell are you making?" I couldn't take the curiosity anymore.
"Your dinner. It's a liquefied form of a food pill," She smirked at me, "I've placed you on a temporary liquid diet due to your fainting spell.
"No," I said simply looking at her concoction she was trying to give me, "There's no way I will be drinking that. And I said I'm fine!"
"Listen," She said plainly, "Itachi told me what you did in that jutsu. So you will be drinking this to raise your strength."
"Whatever just give me your stupid drink," I took the thing grudgingly and began the first swallows of the awful brown stuff.
We sat for a bit while I tried to not retch what was going down my throat. I could hear some laughter from the fires and recognized it as Naruto's. I heard a loud voice yell some obscenities and wondered who it was since I had never heard the deep voice before. Or at least not that I could remember.
"So how much of your life force did you put into the jutsu?" Sakura finally broke the silence.
"Oh ya know, one or two years," I said as I tipped the drink back in an attempt to finish it quickly.
"Bull shit, how much really?" She crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"Ten or twenty year," I muttered hoping she wouldn't hear me. WRONG!
Next thing I know my head is pounding and a fuming Sakura is standing over me. No wonder Naruto stepped carefully around her.
"You what?" She yelled, loud enough to cause the laughter at the fires to stop and to stir some of the patients sleeping.
"I finished," I offered and held up the drink. She smacked it out of my hand, "That wasn't very nice."
Suddenly, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai ran up to us. I noticed the three form before follow behind them and then even farther behind them was a large man who I had never seen before, but he had sunglasses on.
"What happened?" Sai was the first to question.
"Pinkie here made me drink terrible stuff," I made a face and shivered. Sakura spun around to face them. She did not appreciate my nonchalant attitude.
"She just told she put twenty years of her life force into that jutsu!" She didn't yell, but she wasn't exactly quiet either.
"I said or ten!" I tried to be loud.
Next thing I know, Naruto is glaring, Sasuke is glaring, Sakura is glaring, and Sai is just staring down at me, but it feels like a glare. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, closing my eyes. I opened my eyes and again and pointed at the large kid with orange hair.
"Hey, buddy, wanna do me favor?" I called out at him.
"Sure," He said suspiciously and walked over to where I was sitting.
"What's your name?" I asked and put on a warm smile. He was so big, but he seemed fragile for some reason like he was barely holding on.
"Juugo."
"Okay, well Juugo," I lifted my hand towards him, "Can you help me up? I'm still a little weak and these guys' stares are scary. Especially her."
"What? Um, sure," He grabbed my hand and easily lighted me up off the ground.
"Thanks man," I smiled at him and he seemed a bit taken aback. I let it go.
"Hey Anzu," I was about to explain myself when Naruto lost his glare and sad, almost childish look replaced it, "I just noticed that you look a lot like my mom."
I chewed my lip. Naruto still hadn't figured it out and while I was ecstatic to be cousins, I didn't exactly want to be the one to tell him that he had lost yet another family member he never got to meet to Madara. Even if the man was my father.
Sasuke saved me.
Almost.
"She's your cousin, idiot," He said gruffly, not even bothering to try and be considerate, but then again it was Sasuke.
"What?" Naruto looked from Sasuke back to me, "Is that true?"
"Yeah and long story short," I scratched the back of my head nervously, a habit I had picked up hanging out with Naruto, "My mom was your mom's older sister that was kidnapped and then somehow ended up with my dad. Who just happens to be Madara Uchiha, who might also be a direct ancestor of Sasuke and Itachi."
I took a breath after saying all that.
"And I look like your mom cause our moms looked a lot alike I guess," I shrugged my shoulders and my voice kind of squeaked.
"Do you know what happened to your mother, Anzu?" Sai asked since Naruto was still staring at me silently.
"Kind of," I rubbed my temples again, "Seeing Itachi brought back a lot of memories. From all of the weird bits and pieces I can put together that Madara killed her. After she helped me escape to Konoha."
I swallowed around the lump on my throat and looked back at Naruto who kind of looked like someone had punched him in the gut. I might as well have.
"Naruto, I would have told you earlier, but I'm just beginning to-" I was cut off by a sudden hug I was pulled into by Naruto.
"Thanks Anzu," He said quietly.
"No problem, cous.," I said and hugged back.
I hate crying, but I started to anyway. It was nice to have a family member who cared again.
Since I knew Madara would kill me the first chance he caught. After all I was just a failed experiment.
AWWWW! I put in an "AWWWW!" moment. Ahh! I'm terrible at sentiment. I would love to know if it was actually sentimental or just stupid. Seriously, guys and gals I would greatly appreciate it.
Anyway, I wrote this up in an hour! An hour! And it's over a 1,000 words! That my friends is some good progress. Plus I didn't edit, um cough cough…
So that was Killer Bee in the sunglasses in case ya didn't catch that by the way.
Alright, till next time!
Thanks!
-seb :]
