Azure eyes opened and gazed upon the skies that were clear and blue as if a mirror image of the astral sea, along with the rustling and undulating grass fields which danced in graceful waves from the tender blowing soft breeze. Naruto then found himself laying blissfully on a soft meadow that was perfumed by the sweet smelling wild blooms that riddled the scenery.
He felt the flowing rays of the autumnal sun that bathed his skin with its gold and pleasant warmth, and could almost hear the saccharine melody of nature's mesmerizing song. Everything was profoundly resplendent and supernal, and his senses were gradually set adrift in to a state of heavenly splendor and soul pacifying equanimity.
Surreally, the sun abruptly subsided and like a clockwork celestial calendar in a planetarium the sky dimmed and the bright sunlight was interchanged by the opalesque luminescence of the ashen moon and iridescent glints of the innumerable stars that boldly declared themselves in to the heavens.
Suddenly out of the adjacent forest he saw a magnificent white wolf appear from its depths then gracefully glided towards him, slowly threading its paws in to the firefly lit trail that shimmered mesmerizingly like glittering crystals of sunlight touched snow. He then stretched his hand and felt the soft fur of the magnificent creature who tilted its face in to his palm as if in reciprocation of the affectionate gesture.
The wolf's eyes then widened and with a gush of wind it immediately shed its skin and transformed in to a pulchritudinous woman of unparalleled grace and elegance (and she's naked). Naruto was astounded as the beautiful dame raised her face and he saw someone familiar. It was Hinata Hyuga; staring soulfully at him with her distinctive white eyes and a gentle smile.
"….Hinata?" Naruto stutteringly muttered as he beheld the Hyuga, who's swaying long beautiful ebon hair served as the only cover to her voluptuous body.
Naruto then took of his jacket and used it to cover Hinata's bare physique then hugged her ardently.
"Naruto kun" Hinata replied in a voice that was sweet as the nectar of the mythical lotus tree. Her eyes became lively and her face was filled with imponderable amounts of joy. "Dude wake up!" she then said in a gruff and manly voice.
"Say what now?" Naruto queried in a shocked voice and with a dumbfounded and confused countenance in his face.
"I said make love to me my handsome shinobi!" Hinata said passionately with a gentle smile on her face as she closed her eyes and puckered her lips.
Without a second thought, Naruto took Hinata in his arms and kissed her torridly with the burning white intensity of a thousand suns. As their lips locked, Naruto smoothly slid his tongue in to her mouth and started exploring it and massaging her tongue with his. It was the epiphany of nirvana, Naruto thought.
"What the fuuuuu…." Naruto heard once again the same gruff and manly voice but he decided to ignore it until the said voice became muddled and muffled as if the person of which it belongs to was struggling in vehement protest. He then slickly moved his hand towards her ample bosom but strangely they fell hard to the touch, like the pectoral muscle of a body builder.
The shinobi then heard Rosalie screaming in aghast. Subsequently, Hinata along with the surreal landscape fogged up and disintegrated like a dream. It then turned out that all of it is indeed just a dream, conjured by his forlorn heart that yearned to see Hinata once more. As his senses and volition returned to the waking world however, an extremely awkward if not downright embarrassing scenario greeted him.
Naruto found himself frenching Emmett who was struggling to escape his tight clutch. The latter originally went to his room to wake him up but thinking it was Hinata from his dreams Naruto unwittingly hugged him in an inescapable embrace and unconsciously proceeded to an open mouth tongue kiss, much to the horror of Emmett who tearily and desperately struggled to escape the blondes adamantine grasp but to no avail since Naruto is much stronger than he is.
As Naruto fully realized the uncomfortable scenario he quickly and comically jumped away from Emmett and vice-versa, then both boys screamed in horror as they frantically wiped their tongues with their bare hands in a sad yet comedic manner. As if things weren't bad enough, he then turned to the door and saw the rest of the Cullens with a stunned and dumbfounded expression on their faces. Their jaws where completely slacked and their eyes widened like dinner plates out of shock and disbelief; with Rosalie being the worst affected of them all. The poor girl would've fainted from the traumatic experience if it isn't biologically impossible for a vampire to do so.
"Naruto what the hell!" Rosalie furiously exclaimed in protest as the haze from her mind dissipated.
"What! I'm sorry alright! You know damn well I didn't…I never wanted for that to happen!" Naruto frantically exclaimed back in his defense.
"Why do I feel so molested?" Emmett muttered in a deadpan voice.
"Yeah? Well that makes the both of us!" Naruto then continued.
"Tell that to your boner" Emmett said pointing at Naruto's bulge. He knew that it was indeed an accident but decided to squeeze some fun out of the awkward situation anyway to get even to his blonde sibling's constant wisecracking pranks.
"That's not for you ya'know!" Naruto hysterically yelled.
"Now I feel molested and then rejected." Emmett said glumly followed by a false sigh. At the back of his head however he was laughing out loud from Naruto who've just gone completely hysterical and quite nearly paranoid from the profound embarrassment. He then felt a bit of fear himself as he looked over his shoulder and saw Rosalie's penetrating angry glare directed towards both Naruto and him.
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(Forks High School)
"Well, I suppose I'm still lucky that this day proceeded surprisingly well despite that fiasco earlier." Naruto thought as he was answering a trigonometry problem on the board while the rest of the girls in the room were blushing red for they were so enamored by his good looks.
Then the bell rang and it was lunch. The same girls hovered around Naruto like flies as he walked towards the school cafeteria. He saw his siblings on their usual table along with Bella who sat with Edward.
"Hey guys what's up!" Naruto greeted them jovially and exuberantly. He would've teased Edward but given the situation that occurred earlier he opted not to.
As he turned his gaze in to the old table were Bella used to sit he saw Mike and Alex conversing about an unpleasant subject that probably involves Edward and his relationship with Bella. "Looks like Tweedleperve and Tweedledork has something in mind. I wonder what pathetic nonsense they're up to now." He then thought as he looked incredulously at the pair of boys with a deadpan expression on his face.
Based from his observation, Naruto concluded that Mike Newton is one of those jealous-pervert type and for some twisted reason he could relate to him in a degree, being once a pervert himself and competed for the affection of a girl against a guy that everyone think was much cooler. Then there is Alex Storm which he and the rest of the Cullen's were suspicious about. He never really forgotten nor forgave the young man's remark towards him being a 'solid belieber', though there was more to it than that. Unlike his other siblings, Naruto didn't think that Alex was a vampire. He however never really liked him for some reason he couldn't comprehend. The shinobi also speculates that the naïve and merry demeanor of the latter is just a façade that veiled his more calculating and dangerous nature.
Naruto then surreptitiously observed the two and read their lips as they conversed with each other.
"You know what's the first thing I did when I found out that Bella is dating that freak Cullen?" Mike said indignantly in a gruff voice.
"You charged weary and alone back to your room, then touched yourself all day in false hopes that everything will change for the better as you relieved yourself while you glumly fondled with that picture of Bella you stole, that doesn't even do her justice." Alex said in a dry tone and nearly monotonous voice.
"What? No! You creep!" Mike vehemently denied his friend's assessment but at the back of his head he was anxious and edgy for it was accurate down to the last detail.
"If you say so friend" Alex then replied tranquilly in the same perfunctory and desultory tone, and disinterested voice without looking back to Mike for his somewhat stoic and low-spirited stare was fixed on Bella and Edward.
"What…what even makes you come up with that kind of sick assumption?" Mike curiously queried Alex with regards to his earlier statement, retaining the outraged rouse in his voice.
"Just a hunch" Alex then said with a cheeky smile on his face as he turned his attention to Mike.
"Ok that was actually funny" Naruto thought, sniggering. "Though on the other hand, those two losers are so pathetic that even I can't help but feel a bit sorry for them." He then muttered inaudibly as he slowly shook his head.
"Scanning for cute boys?" Rosalie scoffed and at the same time teased Naruto.
"Oh come on Rosalie! We already talked about this ya' know!" Naruto exasperatedly exclaimed that made everyone on the table snigger in amusement, especially Alice and Jasper.
"Those two are actually really nice once you get to know them. If you want I can hook you up with either one of them." Bella quipped, trying to suppress a smirk but wasn't able to hold it for long.
"Ahh not you too Bella" Naruto sighed then gloomily sulked in a corner.
"He'll get along with Newton just fine since both of them are closet perverts. Come to think of it, same goes with that weirdo Storm….you affectionately referred to him as 'pretty boy and stud muffin' more than once. Right?" Edward bantered with a smile playing at the edge of his lip.
"Look who's talking….at least I don't break in to other people's house and watch them while they sleep. How twisted is that for your discriminating taste." Naruto retorted, crossing his arms and childishly muttered in a voice that was too faint for Bella to hear but was perfectly audible to the rest of the Cullens which made them snicker.
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(Later That Day)
At the luxuriant and lichen wreathed forests that surrounded the edge of Forks, in a dell where the golden rays of the autumnal sun penetrated the looming canopies of towering trees there stood a magnificent large white wolf. It was panting; catching its breath for not too long ago it just eluded its pursuers who were urgently trying to project their thoughts in to its mind, endeavoring to calm it down.
Suddenly, the wolf heard the thoughts of its persuers as they tried to locate it and so the beast ran, sprinting in speeds that would've left a sports car dead in the dust, only stopping when it was absolutely certain that the others are too far behind to catch up.
As this fateful chase took place, Naruto was deep in the forest doing his best to unwind from the dreary day, lying blissfully at the soft grass of a viridian glade where the sweet smelling flowers of autumn sporadically bloom in lush abundance.
Suddenly the shinobi felt a strange and oddly familiar presence as he took notice the rustling of bushes. Then from the myrtle shaded shrub sprang a white wolf similar to the one he saw in his dream the night before.
For a moment Naruto was stunned by its majesty for it was an amazing creature to behold; with fur akin to that of freshly fallen snow and regal magnificence possessed only by nature's noblest of creations.
"A Quileute shape shifter huh. I haven't seen one of them for quite some time now." Naruto deducted the nature of the creature as it cautiously walked amidst the coniferous yews and red cedar trees, heading towards his direction, sniffing his scent and discerning if he is either friend or foe.
Naruto then extended his hand to show that he meant it no harm but the wolf misinterpreted the gesture and fall back to a defensive stance, growling fiercely at him.
"Okay easy. I'm not going to hurt you" Naruto said gently in reassurance but it hasn't quelled the beast's rage so he decided to cast a genjutsu to calm it down.
"Nehan Shōja no Jutsu" Naruto exclaimed as he folded his hands in to a tiger seal.
Suddenly the wolf beheld a shower of white illusory feathers. Its eyes began to get heavy and drowsy as the soft falling plumes fluttered and began to pile up. The Quileute shape-shifter tried to resist the hypnotic spell but to no avail, the desire to sleep was instinctive and there was no fighting it. Eventually, it succumbed to the Eden like bliss of the jutsu and inexorably fell in to a tranquil slumber.
Naruto was then dumbfounded as the wolf started to collapse and revert in to its human form, transforming back in to a beautiful woman; and not just any woman, it was someone he knew.
"Leah?" Naruto gaspingly muttered as he quickly caught her in his arms and gazed upon her face. The shinobi then felt something he can't explain deep within every fiber of his being, like a bright and warm flame that has been reignited after centuries of long musty inertness. An element of vague but compelling disquietude has now mingled with his curiosity as he held in his arms the naked Quileute dame, of whom he felt a special significance, a concern that was incomprehensively personal and intimate.
Then in a moment of reeling and whirling confusion, it seemed to him that sometime or somewhere he knew and loved her, though it was beyond the capacity of his cognizance to remember when or where.
Then through his six-paths sage power Naruto opted to peer inside of Leah's mind. He knew well that aside from being in proximity with a vampire, extreme emotional distress was also an efficacious catalyst to initiate a shape-shifter's transformation in to his wolf form.
Naruto felt a bit of shame for desecrating the privacy of someone else's mind but as a shinobi of the hidden leaf he was tempered to extract intel any way necessary, also he was thrilled with a strange excitement from a feeling of some momentous revelation he couldn't fully comprehend.
Surreally, a peculiar hallucination seized Naruto as he examined the memories of Leah. He beheld how the latter's lingering suspicion from her sudden breakup with Sam culminated in to an extremely painful realization as one day she saw her trusted cousin in the arms of the man she loved, and still love. She felt betrayed, unloved and inadequate. This pain focused itself inwardly in to a maelstrom of unbearable emotional torment and projected itself outwardly, changing her physical form.
Suddenly, Leah's body started shaking as if afflicted by a violent convulsion. Her bones painfully broke then grew afresh, refitting itself over a new animalistic frame as she changed in to her wolf form. Her mind then ran amok from the sensory overload as her newly enhanced senses took her by surprise.
A terrible perturbation possessed her, her very sense of identity and humanity was troubled, she was adrift in a sea of stormy confusion, of disoriented thoughts and amplified painful memories. The feral rage grew as if a feeble flame that fed itself in secret from all the torment and pain was now a great conflagration that consumes everything in its path.
Then it would seem that all the agony, confusion and anger found a focal point as her piercing glare caught the image of Emily. With mindless rage she attacked her cousin implacably, clawing her face with feral wrath, nearly killing her too if it weren't for Sam who instantly phased in to his wolf form and grappled her while simultaneously using his alpha voice to calm her down.
The cloud of rage in Leah's mind abruptly subsided like an ebbing tide and she beheld her horrified cousin with half of her face badly wounded from the clawing she recieved. Leah was then filled with confounding lamentation and remorse. Shocked from what she had done she decided to ran away, running as fast as she could out of shame and regret.
(Carver Café)
Mike and Alex usually hangout at Carver Café every Wednesday after school, for they know that Bella and Charlie eat out their dinner on that restaurant, on that particular day, every week.
The two boys waited patiently but Bella nor Charlie didn't come that day and it frustrated them. Their woe was further exacerbated when they found out from Angela that Edward took Bella to meet his family. Evidently the anguish quickly converted itself in to a jealousy fueled wrath that especially afflicted Mike, making him wish all sorts of misfortune towards Edward and the rest of the Cullens.
"Argh I hope Cullen fall of a cliff or something!" Mike annoyingly exclaimed in rebuke of the romance between Bella and Edward.
"So you want him disposed now?" Alex queried with a somewhat evil look in his eyes.
"If only that's possible" Mike sighed, crossing his arms and looking away.
"You know, there is a way." Alex said in shady voice while grinning cunningly like a demon.
"What do you mean?" Mike asked with a perplexed expression on his face.
"My family has made its modern day fortune through the development and sale of advanced military technologies since the middle ages…and being the primary heir, I have access to the most cutting edge of such technologies." He said in an astute voice akin to that of a seasoned businessman as he took off his necklace from which hanged a small kite shaped pendant etched with the coat of arms of House d'Sanguinus. At the back of which was a biometric scanner where the young man placed his right thumb; activating a hidden mechanism that caused the dexter and sinister sides of the pendant to split, revealing itself to be a high-tech looking device of some sort with a red disc-like button in the middle.
"What's that?" Mike again inquired in both wonderment and a bit of trepidation.
"Well, you see….the uhm 'dinner' the Cullens had last week was laced with a complement of a powerful nanotech-explosive one of our scientists developed a few years back. The devices should've settled well in their intestinal tracks by now and upon detonation would turn Edward and his family inside out. This transmitter is the interface to initiate the said process with but a push of a button." Alex explained in the same shrewd manner while the crooked grin on his face noticeably widened. "So what will it be my friend…." He then continued but was cut-off when Mike suddenly grabbed the transmitter from his hand and unflinchingly pressed the button without any hesitation.
To Mike's surprise however, the device released a small yet powerful electrical shock that made him jump from his seat like a startled cat. "What the heck dude! That hurt like hell!" He then hissed, lividly.
"Well, serve you right. You're my friend and I will help you as much as I could but I will never help you in such a way; for even contemplating of such an underhanded approach to secure your objective is appalling and unacceptable. A man of honor should always consider scrupulousness and decency above all else and endeavor to do the right and proper, even if disadvantaged, even if the odds are stacked up against you; for even if subdued by a superior force you could still stand tall and proudly say that you did your best and although you may have lost today, you will gloriously rise from the ashes tomorrow and continue to fight; for your integrity and fortitude still remained uncorroded and uncompromised." Alex said in a sagacious voice as he sipped some soda. "You must always fight fair you know." He then continued.
"Dude…I couldn't even begin to say how outlandish that was. Who are you, Spartacus?" Mike smirked as he brushed off his friend's advice.
"I do realize that the statement was slightly out of touch with the contemporary milieu but you know as well as I do that it is the indisputable truth." Alex replied calmly though there is just enough tremble in his voice to hint that he's starting to get irritated.
"Slightly?" Mike said with a creased brow then chuckled. "Well I like the nano-bomb idea better…..if such a thing is even real. I think he just pulled it off from that cheap scifi show he loves watching." He then thought while looking incredulously at Alex.
"You're probably wondering if such a device does really exist or I just made it all up….Yes, they are real" Alex said coldly in a blasé voice.
"Oh great, now he's inside my head again. What is he telepathic or something?" Mike thought in annoyance. "So why don't we put some of it on a certain someone's drink? huh? Will you help me out here Alex?" he then playfully urged with a maniacal yet comedic grin on his face.
"Well that's an interesting notion in itself but still no."
"Why not?"
"You mean aside from the obvious fact that it's not a very nice thing to do." Alex replied in a pleasant voice as he tried to reason with his friend. "Plus, I'm not gon'na throw away ten million dollars for such a childish endeavor?" He then muttered surreptitiously to himself.
"You greedy hypocrite…I know you want him gone too, your just too cheap and don't want to spend a bit more on the process." Mike said frankly, pointing a finger of suspicion that made Alex froze in embarrassment and felt as if a thousand arrows had struck him in the rear end.
"Hey don't judge me!" Alex exasperatedly exclaimed in a comedic chibi like outburst.
"Yeah, it's kinda hard not to." Mike shrugged with a nonchalant voice and with a deadpan expression on his face.
Amidst their discussion Mike noticed Alex looking at the transparent glass wall of the diner, in to the deep forest with a faraway blank stare as if something has abruptly distracted him; this, along with the latter's immediate demeanor which was unsettlingly stern and taciturn has prompted his concern.
As Mike perused more closely, he noticed Alex's left hand that was currently holding a fork, his forefinger however was moving in wavering and flickering motions as if drawing some enigmatic symbol in to the air of which by reasons yet obscured has suddenly became frigid as polar ice and electrifying as if in close proximity to a colossal van de Graaff generator.
"Dude, is there something wrong?" Mike then inquired.
"Nothing, a few minor complications but on the whole everything's fine….just fine." Alex replied with a fox like smile emanating from his face and a cunning, sardonic gleam in his iridescent sapphire blue eyes, like that of a prankster who just victoriously pulled a mischievous prank. He then clenched his fist and abruptly raised it like a boxer doing an uppercut and chuckled in a somewhat sadistic tone. "That would teach him to keep his hands for himself." He then murmured inaudibly.
"You're really weird. You Know that?" Mike said while eyeing Alex suspiciously, thinking that the latter has just came up with some grand scheme to take Bella for himself.
"Yeah. That's why we're friends. It's our common denominator." Alex said in a monotonous voice with a deadpan expression on his face as he looked incredulously back to Mike.
"That and our mutual dislike for a certain ginger named Edward Cullen." Mike said as he raised his cup and made toast with Alex who concurred with every word he said.
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(Cullen's Residence)
"This is incredible. It's so light and open, you know?" Bella commented as she ingresses the Cullen's abode. She was expecting at a dark Transylvanian styled castle like those in the movies or at least some gothic ambiance but instead saw a fairly modern house with postmodern interior design, complete with transparent glass walls from which south side was a picturesque view of the Calawah River.
"What did you expect, coffins and dungeons and moats?" Edward replied, smiling.
"No, not the moats" Bella said, chuckling.
"Not the moats." Edward echoed, chuckling as well. "This is the one place we don't have to hide." He then continued as they climb up the stairs to the kitchen where Bella could hear opera music playing along with some sort of cooking show on TV.
In the kitchen which was located on the second floor of the house. Carlisle, Esme and Emmett decided to go the extra mile and prepare something for Bella, while Rosalie was standing near the counter, somewhat irritated.
"Is she even Italian?" Rosalie inquired with an air of annoyance in her voice.
"Her name is Bella." Emmett replied while chopping some radish for the salad.
"I'm sure she'll love it, no matter what." Carlisle supplemented.
"Get a whiff of that" Rosalie exasperatedly sighed "Here comes the human" She then continued with a sarcastic and singsong tone while everyone aside from her was excited to see their guest.
A few moments thereafter Edward and Bella walked inside the kitchen where Esme warmly greeted them. "Bella, we're making Italiano for you." She then said eagerly.
"Bella, this is Esme. My mother for all intents and purposes." Edward introduced Esme to Bella while behind her were three person, there was Emmett who looked very friendly and waved amicably at them with a knife in his hand; Rosalie who looked at her coldly; and Carlisle who was her attending physician during that truck incident a couple of months ago.
"Buongiorno" Bella nervously greeted them. Technically she said good morning in Italian though it was already late in the afternoon by that time. Also, she can't help but wonder where Alice, Jasper and Naruto were.
"Molte Bene."Esme replied, smiling kindly. "Well that answered Rosalie's earlier question. She's not Italian." She then thought.
"You've given us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time." Carlisle said, smiling gently. "Usually Naruto is the only one who uses this part of the house." He then chuckled.
"Yeah. What's up with him anyway? Its ramen this ramen that, it's so annoying he doesn't even need to eat." Rosalie scoffed.
A confounded expression emanated on Bella's face after hearing it as she has no idea what Rosalie's was talking about, nor could she relate on the subject.
"He absorbs energy from nature so he doesn't really need to eat anything. He just does it for reasons known only to him." Edward whisphered to Bella as Rosalie continued to whine.
"Now now Rosalie, you know it upsets Naruto whenever someone talks ill of ramen….speaking of him; does anyone knows where he is?" Carlisle reproached her gently but realized that indeed he hasn't seen Naruto since the blonde left for school earlier.
"Who cares where that idiot is!" Rosalie sneered as she reminisce the untoward incident earlier. Even slightly recollecting the minutest of its detail flared her temper. She then glared at Emmett who in turn just awkwardly looked away in hopes that she'd be much calmer when he looked back.
"I hope you're hungry." Esme then said to Bella in a hopeful voice, partly in effort to change the subject.
"Yeah. Absolutely." Bella lied as she didn't want their hard work to go to waste.
"She already ate." Edward said out of honesty but came out a bit callous and it earned him a glare from Bella.
Suddenly they heard the sound of breaking glass reverberate throughout the kitchen and as they perused its source they beheld in pieces the salad bowl Rosalie was holding earlier. Apparently she vented her earlier frustration and dislike of Bella on the unfortunate bowl and its contents. She then stepped over the shards of broken glass and looked at Bella and Edward fiercely.
"Perfect" Rosalie said sarcastically while Emmett went over to her and tried to calm her down.
"Yeah… it's just because I know that you guys don't eat." Bella stuttered as she tried to explain herself and defuse the situation before it gets even more volatile.
"Of course." Esme interrupted to prevent Bella from feeling more awkward than she already does. "It's very considerate of you." She then turned to Rosalie and gave her a look of disapproval.
"Just ignore Rosalie. I do." Edward said.
"Yeah. Let's just keep pretending like this isn't dangerous for all of us." Rosalie retorted with a voice of ever increasing intensity as she failed to control her anger.
"I would never tell anybody anything." Bella reassured them as earnestly as she could.
"She knows that." Carlisle said level headedly, easing her nerves.
"Yeah, well, the problem is, you two have gone public now, so..." Emmett said, trying to explain Rosalie's vexation to all though he was hesitant to even finish his sentence as Esme silently called his name in reprimand.
"No, she should know. The entire family will be implicated if this ends badly." Rosalie continued what Emmett has restrained himself to further utter.
"Badly, as in...I would become the meal." Bella said, gawking. She again began to feel a bit of fear and concern. The statement however made the Cullen's snicker and even Rosalie seemed to be suppressing a laugh.
"Hi Bella." A cheerful and sweet voice then said that made Bella turn to the balcony and saw Alice along with Jasper. "I'm Alice" She then introduced herself as she walked over and hugged Bella. "Oh. You do smell good." She commented that made Edward's eyebrows furrow.
"Alice, what are you..." Edward inquired with an awkward expression in his face along with a creased brow but was cutoff.
"It's okay. Bella and I are gon'na be great friends." Alice then assured him as she already saw it on her visions.
"Sorry, Jasper's our newest vegetarian. It's a little difficult for him." Carlisle said.
"Pleasure to meet you." Jasper said politely, inordinately restraining himself to give in to his vampiric instincts.
"It's okay, Jasper. " Alice said, smiling "You won't hurt her." She then tried to assure everyone but it came out quite different and once again the awkward expression on Edward's face was priceless.
"All right, I'm gon'na take you on a tour of the rest of the house." Edward then told Bella and walked away with her but turned one last time to his family and rolled his eyes at them, though he was thankful that Naruto wasn't there lest it would be far much awkward, not to mention embarrassing as he was absolutely certain that the blonde won't be able to resist teasing him.
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Finally, away from the presence of the prying coven members, Bella and Edward then felt their passion reignite. Under the music of Clair de Lune their eyes once again locked and their souls about to converge.
"Bella" Edward said ardently in a velvety voice as he held Bella's hands gently and kissed it.
It made Bella blush slightly, it mesmerized her and she was captivated and enthralled in to dreamlike equanimity, drawing her ever so closer to his lips like a powerful current to a helpless ship. Verily, it would seem that everything is perfect and that day was made for the tryst of lovers.
Out of sudden, a small stone the size of a golf ball seemingly shot itself out nowhere and hit Edward in the temple with such force that it nearly knocked him out. Wrath quickly became the predominant emotion as he recovered from the daze.
"Who's there!" Edward lividly demanded to know the identity of the one who pelted him maliciously. At first he thought that Naruto was responisble but realized that though the blonde can be annoying at times he would never do such a thing.
With his vampiric speed he then quickly moved a considerable distance from his room and in to the river banks that was abundant with clustering boulders as he deducted that such a place would be the likely origins of the projectile that callously struck him.
The azure sky then suddenly turned dun and ominous. In the midst of which, the sun was clearly visible and it was burning like a great crimson ember. Then something even stranger occurred, the rocks and boulders on the riverbanks levitated and was hurled to Edward which he was able to avoid flawlessly.
"Is that all you got?" Edward exclaimed. As if challenging the invisible entities that were flinging these boulders at him.
Then, as if response, the piano resting on the living room at the second floor of the Cullen's house was dragooned towards Edward with incredible speeds that he wasn't able to avoid it, crashing upon impact with a loud crunch as the vampire was sandwiched amidst it and a large rock.
Owing to the sturdiness of a vampire's physiology; the injuries Edward sustained wasn't fatal but it was indeed extremely agonizing that everyone saw how the former came out of the creaking wreck with an unmistakable expression of pain in his face.
"Edward what happened?" Esme maternally inquired with a mix of both perturbation and cautiousness in her voice.
"I don't know… someo….." Edward stutteringly muttered in a barely audible mumble but was cutoff when suddenly an awfully potent invisible kinetic punch slammed itself in to his nether regions like a sledge hammer with a force akin to that of an angry elephant's kick, nearly crushing the family jewels in its wake.
"Edward! Edward what happened? Are you ok?" Bella gaspingly and frantically inquired as she ran towards him as fast as she could.
Edward however couldn't utter any word in reply, only a droning groan as he held his crotch from the unfathomably immense pain that made Emmett and Jasper cringe.
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Meanwhile back in the forest, a few hours has passed. Leah finally awakens from her blissful sleep and beheld the saffron rays of the thickening twilight. Then as she looked around she noticed some folded clothes besides her to wear and the varsity leather jacket that covered her body from the elements.
"Naruto" She muttered, smiling gently as she caught his scent on the jacket with her newly amplified olfactory sense and remembered that he was the last thing she saw before strangely falling in to an Elysian torpor.
Leaning at the back of a large oak tree was Naruto. For reason he couldn't really understand he decided to conceal himself behind the great tree as he noticed that Leah was about to wake up. He was never really shy when it comes to girls but it was somewhat a different case this time. He was sweating, his heart was pounding and beating irrepressibly, and butterflies fluttered inside his stomach. He then put on his monster headphones and decided to play some tunes to ease his nerves but whether it is by anxiety induced clumsiness or by fates clever design, his phone fell from his hand and the headphone connector pulled out from its socket causing the former device to play the song in its full volume for Leah to hear.
"Here we go, come with me
There's a world out there that we should see
Take my hand, close your eyes
With you right here, I'm a rocketeer
Let's fly (fly,fly,fly,fly)
Up, up here we go, go"
The song was Rocketeer by Far East Movement, and as it played both of their hearts connected as if they were beating in sync with each other and Naruto felt a love for Leah that was the same he felt thousands of years ago for Hinata.
"Thank you Naruto." Leah said as she closed her eyes and tears raced to her face out of happiness for at that very moment, and though unintentional, Naruto made her forget the agony that burdened her so much and at the same time made her realize her self-worth.
"Go get her kid" Kurama said in encouragement. The fox was grinning, genuinely happy for his jinchuriki.
The gentle rays of the setting sun shined on to the maiden who was once again filled with hope as she sat on the autumn perfumed grass while the noble yet unseen hero watched vigilantly like a silent sentinel behind the shadows until the right time has come for him to reveal himself and profess his love. It was indeed a splendorous and heartwarming scene; and if ever a painter would skillfully render the image on canvas, it would be a masterpiece.
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AN: Hey there Folks!
You guys may have noticed that this chapter is a bit on the lighter side compared to the previous ones.
Romantic scenes isn't really my forte and I'm not really very good at writing them, though I tried my best and give it a shot.
I hope you awesome people enjoyed reading this chapter and as always, any suggestions and comments that will help improve that story is always welcomed.
See you next chapter.
Cheerio!