Hey guys! ^_^ So this is chapter 11 of Titanic... wow 11 already! And once again you will all see the lemon soon! Trust me... and on another note the other two stories I have will be updated... soon. So Gaara could you please do the disclamer?
*looks around and see's Gaara running looking for Naruto and Sasuke*
"Like really? I know i told you guys to really get into character...but come on this is too much!" _
*goes and chases after Gaara*
*Poof*
"Hey, there readers it's me Sakura! Anyways as you can see almost everyone here is busy... so YuriRuelz does not own Naruto and/or Titanic! Enjoy this chapter of Titanic!"
"HEY THAT'S MY LINE SAKURA!"
Gaara clenches his jaw and squeezes Naruto's arm viciously, pulling him back toward the lifeboat. Naruto pulls out a hairpin and jabs Gaara with it. Gaara lets go with a curse and Naruto runs into the crowd.
"Lower away!"
"Naruto! NARUTO!"
"Stuff a sock in it, would ya, Minato. He'll be along."
The boat lurches downward as the falls are paid out.
As Naruto runs through the clusters of people. He looks back and a furious Gaara is coming after him. He runs breathlessly up to two proper looking men.
"That man tried to take advantage of me in the crowd!"
Appalled, they turn to see Gaara running toward them. Naruto runs on as the two men grab Gaara, restraining him. Naruto runs through the First Class entrance.
Gaara breaks free and runs after him. He reaches the entrance, but runs into a knot of people coming out. He pushes rudely through them...
INT. BOAT DECK FOYER / STAIRCASE / A-DECK FOYER
Gaara runs in, and down to the landing, pushing past the gentlemen and ladies who are filling up the stairs. He scans the A-deck foyer. Naruto is gone.
EXT. OCEAN / TITANIC / BOAT 6
The hull of Titanic looms over Boat 6 like a cliff. Its enormous mass is suddenly threatening to those in the tiny boat. Quartermaster, at the tiller, wants nothing but to get away from the ship. Unfortunately his two seamen can't row. They flail like a duck with a broken wing.
"Keep pulling... away from the ship. Pull."
"Ain't you boys ever rowed before? Here, gimme those oars. I'll show ya how it's done."
She climbs over Minato to get at the oars.
Around them the evacuation is in full swing, with boats in the water, others being lowered.
INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE / CORRIDOR
Sasuke pulls on the pipe with all his strength. It's not budging. He hears gurgling sound. Water pours under the door, spreading rapidly across the floor.
"Shit!"
He tries to pull one hand out of the cuffs, working until the skin is raw... no good.
"Help! Somebody! Can anybody hear me?" than whisper's to himself, "This could be bad..."
The corridor outside is deserted. Flooded a couple of inches deep. Sasuke's voice comes faintly through the door, but there is no one to hear it.
INT. FIRST CLASS CORRIDOR
Shikamaru Nara is opening stateroom doors, checking that people are out.
"Anyone in here?"
Naruto runs up to him, breathless.
"Mr. Nara, thank God! Where would the Master at Arms take someone under arrest?"
"What? You have to get to a boat right away!"
"No! I'll do this with or without your help, sir. But without will take longer,"
"Take the elevator to the very bottom, go left, down the crewman's passage, then make a right."
"Bottom, left, right. I have it,"
"Hurry, Naruto,"
INT. FOYER / ELEVATORS
Naruto runs up as the last Elevator Operator is closing up his lift to leave.
"Sorry, Mr, lifts are closed-"
Without thinking Naruto grabs him and shoves him back into the lift.
"I'm through with being polite, goddamnit! I may never be polite the rest of my life! Now take me down!"
The operator fumbles to close the gate and start the lift.
EXT. OCEAN / BOAT 6
Kon and the two seamen are rowing, and they've made it a hundred feet or so. Enough to see that the ship is angled down into the water, with the bow rail less than ten feet above the surface.
"Come on girls, join in, it'll keep ya warm. Let's go Minato. Grab an oar!"
Minato just stares at the spectacle of the great liner, its rows of lights blazing, slanting down into the sullen black mirror of the Atlantic.
INT. FIRST CLASS ELEVATOR / CORRIDORS
Through the wrought iron door of the elevator car Naruto can see the decks going past. The lift slows. Suddenly ice water is swirling around his legs. Naruto screams in surprise. So does the operator.
The car has landed in a foot of freezing water, shocking the hell out of him. Naruto claws the door open and splashes out. The lift goes back up, behind him, as Naruto looks around.
"Left, crew passage."
He spots it and slogs down the flooded corridor. The place is understandably deserted. Naruto is on his own.
"Right, right... right."
He turns into a cross-corridor, splashing down the hall. A row of doors on each side.
"Sasuke? Saaassuukkeeeee?
INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE / CORRIDOR
Sasuke is hopelessly pulling on the pipe again, straining until he turns red. He collapses back on the bench realizing he's screwed. Then he hears Naruto through the door.
"NARUTO! In here!"
In the hall Naruto hears Sasuke's voice behind him. He spins and runs back, locating the right door, then pushes it open, creating a small wave.
He splashes over to Sasuke and puts his arms around Sasuke.
"Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke... I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,"
They are so happy to see each other it's embarrassing.
"That guy Kiba put it in my pocket,"
"I know, I know,"
"See if you can find a key for these. Try those drawers. It's a little brass one,"
Naruto kisses Sasuke's face and hugs him again, then starts to go through the desk.
"So... how did you find out I didn't do it?"
"I didn't...I just realized I already knew,"
They share a look, then Naruto goes back to ransacking the room, searching drawers and cupboards. Sasuke sees movement out the porthole and looks out.
A lifeboat hits the surface of the water, seen from below.
EXT. TITANIC / BOAT ONE
While the seamen detach the falls, Boat One rocks next to the hull. Lucile and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon sit with ten others in a boat made for four times that many.
INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE
Naruto stops trashing the room, and stands there, breathing hard.
"There's no key in here,"
They look around at the water, now almost two feet deep. Sasuke has pulled his feet up onto the bench.
"You have to go look for help Naruto,"
"I'll be right back, Sasuke,"
"I'll wait here,"
Naruto runs out, looking back at Sasuke once from the doorway, then splashes away. Sasuke looks down at the swirling water.
INT. STAIRWELL AND CORRIDORS
Naruto splashes down the hall to a stairwell going up to the next deck. He climbs the stairs, his long coat leaving a trail like a giant snail. The weight of it is really slowing him down. He rips at the tail. Naruto bounds up the stairs in his stockings and knee-length slip, to find himself in a long corridor... part of the labyrinth of steerage hallways forward. Naruto is alone here. A long groan of stressing metal echoes along the hall as the ship continues to settle. He runs down the hall, unimpeded now.
"Hello? Somebody?"
Naruto turns a corner and runs along another corridor in a daze. The hall slopes down into water which, shimmers, reflecting the light. The margin of the water creeps toward her. A young man appears, running through the water, sending up geysers of spray. He pelts past Naruto without slowing, his
eyes crazed...
"Help me! We need help!"
He doesn't look back. It is like a bad dream. The hull gongs with terrifying sounds.
The lights flicker and go out, leaving utter darkness. A beat. Then they
come back on. Naruto finds himself hyperventilating. That one moment of blackness was the most terrifying moment of his life.
A steward runs around the nearest corner, his arms full of lifebelts. He is upset to see someone still in his section. He grabs Naruto forcefully by the arm, pulling him with him like a wayward child.
"Come on, then, let's get you topside, Mr, that's right,"
"Wait. Wait! I need your help! There's-"
"No need for panic, miss. Come along!"
"No, let me go! You're going the wrong way!"
He's not listening. And he won't let Naruto go.
Naruto shouts in his ear, and when he turns, he punches the steward squarely in the
nose. Shocked, he lets him go and staggers back.
"To Hell with you!"
"See you there, buster!"
The steward runs off, holding his bloody nose. Naruto spits after him. Just the way Sasuke taught him. He turns around, and sees a glass case with a fire-axe in it. Naruto breaks the glass with a battered suitcase which is lying discarded nearby, and seizes
the axe, running back the way he came.
At the stairwell he looks down and gasps. The water has flooded the bottom five steps. He goes down and has to crouch to look along the corridor to the room where Sasuke is trapped. Naruto plunges into the water, which is up to his waist... and powers
forward, holding the axe above his head in two hands. He grimaces at the pain from the literally freezing water.
INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE
Sasuke has climbed up on the bench, and is hugging the waterpipe. Naruto wades in, holding the axe above his spiky haired head. "Will this work?" Naruto asked.
"Guess we'll find out," answered SasukeThey are both terrified, but trying to keep panic at bay. Sasuke positions the chain connecting the two cuffs, stretching it taut across the steel pipe. The chain is of course very short, and his exposed wrists are on either side of it. "Try a couple practice swings," Naruto hefts the axe and thunks it into a wooden cabinet. "Now try to hit the same mark again," He swings hard and the blade thunks in four inches from the mark. "Okay, that's enough practice," He winces, bracing himself as he raises the axe. Naruto has to hit a target about an inch wide with all the foce he can muster, with his hands on either side. "You can do it, Naruto. Hit it as hard as you can, I trust you," said Sasuke as calm as he could. Sasuke closes his eyes. So does Naruto. The axe comes down.
K-WHANG!
Naruto gingerly opens his eyes looks... Sasuke is grinning with two separate cuffs. Naruto drops the axe, all the strength going out of him.
"Nice work, there, Paul Bunyan," Sasuke climbs down into the water next to Naruto. He can't breathe for a second. "Shit! Excuse my French. Ow ow ow, that is cold! Come on, let's go," They wade out into the hall. Naruto starts toward the stiars going up, but
Sasuke stops him. There is only about a foot of the stairwell opening visible. "Too deep. We gotta find another way out!"
EXT. BOAT 6 AND TITANIC
The letters TITANIC painted two feet high on the bow of the doomed steamer. Once 50 feet above the waterline, they now quietly slip below the surface. We see them, gold on black, rippling and dimming to a pale green as they go deeper.
IN BOAT SIX
Minato looks back at the Titanic, transfixed by the sight of the dying liner. The bowsprit is now barely above the waterline. Another of Boxhall's rockets EXPLODES overhead. K-BOOM!
It lights up the whole area, and we see half a dozen boats in the water, spreading out from the ship. "Now there's somethin' you don't see every day," said Kon
INT. SCOTLAND ROAD / E-DECK
The widest passageway in the ship, it is used by crew and steerage alike, and runs almost the length of the ship. Right now steerage passengers move along it like refugees, heading aft.
CRASH!
A wooden doorframe splinters and the door bursts open under the force of Sasuke's shoulder. Sasuke and Naruto stumble through, into the corridor. A steward, who was nearby herding people along, marches over. "Here you! You'll have to pay for that, you know. That's White Star Line property-"
Both Sasuke and Naruto turn and scream "Shutup!"
Sasuke leads him past the dumbfounded steward. They join the steerage stragglers going aft. In places the corridor is almost completely blocked by large families carrying all their luggage. An Irish woman gives Naruto a blanket, more for modesty than because he is
blue-lipped and shivering. "Here, lass, cover yerself," Sasuke rubs his arms and tries to warm him up as they walk along. The woman's husband offers them a flask of whiskey. "This'll take the chill off," Naruto takes a mighty drink and hands it to Sasuke. He grins and follows suit. Sasuke tries a number of doors and iron gates along the way, finding them all locked.
EXT. BOAT DECK
Gaara pushes through the crowd, scanning for Naruto. Around him is chaos and confusion. A woman is calling for a child who has become seperated from the crowd. A man is shouting over people's heads. A woman takes hold of Second Officer arm as he is about to launch Boat 10. "Will you hold the boat a moment? I have to run back to my room for something-" Second Officer grabs her and shoves her bodily into the boat. Shikamaru Nara rushes up to him just then.
"Why are the boats being launched half full?" shouted Shikamaru.
Second Officer steps past him, helping a seaman clear a snarled fall. "Not now, Mr. Nara,"
Shikamaru point's at the water's below them "There, look... twenty or so in a boat built for sixty five. And I saw one boat with only twelve. Twelve!"
"Well... we were not sure of the weight-"
"Rubbish! They were tested in Belfast with the weight of 70 men. Now fill these boats, Mr. Lightoller. For God's sake, man!" shouted Shikamaru.
Gaara, who sees Kiba hurrying toward him through the aisle connecting the port and starboard sides of the boat deck. "He's not on the starboard side either,"
"We're running out of time. And this strutting martinet..." Gaara points to Second Officer "...isn't letting any men in at all."
"The one on the other side is letting men in," stated Kiba
"Then that's our play. But we're still going to need some insurance Kiba," He starts to walk, "Come on," Gaara charges off, heading forward, followed by Kiba.
A finely dressed elderly couple, Ida and Isador Strauss. "Please, Ida, get into the boat,"
"No. We've been together for forty years, and whereyou go, I go. Don't argue with me, Isador, you know it does no good," He looks at her with sadness and great love. They embrace gently.
"Lower away!"
EXT. BRIDGE / FORWARD WELL DECK / FOC'SLE
At the bow ... the place where Sasuke and Naruto first kissed... the bow railing
goes under water water. Water swirls around the captsans and windlasses on
the foc'sle deck.
Chouji strides to the bridge rail and looks down at the well deck. Water is shipped over the sides and the well deck is awash. Two men run across the deck, their feet sending up spray. Behind Choji, Boxhall fires another rocket.
WHOOSH!
INT. E-DECK CORRIDORS AND STAIRWELL
Kakashi hears Sasuke's voice.
"Kakashi!"
Kakashi turns and sees Sasuke and Naruto pushing through the crowd. He and
Sasuke hug like brothers.
"The boats are all going!"
"We gotta get up there or we're gonna be gargling saltwater. Where's Sai?"
Kakashi points over the heads of the solidly packed crowd to the stairwell. Sai has his hands on the bars of the steel gate which blocks the head of the stairwell. The crew open the gate a foot or so and a few women are squeezing through.
"Women only. No men. No men!"
But some terrified men, not understanding English, try to rush through the gap, forcing the gate open. The crewmen and stewards push them back, shoving and punching them.
"Get back! Get back you lot!" He turn's to the other stewads, "Lock it!"
They struggle to get the gate closed again, while a steward brandishes a small revolver. Another holds a fire axe. They lock the gate, and a cry goes up among the crowd, who surge forward, pounding against the steel and shouting in several languages.
"For the love of God, man, there are children down here! Let us up, so we can have a chance!" shouted Sai.
But the crewmen are scared now. They have let the situation get out of hand, and now they have a mob. Sai gives up and pushes his way back through the crowd, going down the stairs. He rejoins Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi.
"It's hopeless that way," said Sai
"Well, whatever we're goin' to do, we better do it fast," stated Sasuke
INT. GAARA AND NARUTO'S SUITE
CLUNK!
Gaara opens his safe and reaches inside. As Kiba watches, he pulls out two stacks of bills, still banded by bank wrappers. Then he takes out "Heart of the Ocean", putting it in the pocket of his overcoat, and locks the safe.Holding up stacks of bills, "I make my own luck,"
Putting the .45 in his waistband, "So do I,"
Gaara grins, putting the money in his pocket as they go out.
INT. STEERAGE, AFT
Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi and Sai are lost, searching for a way out. They push past confused passengers... past a mother changing her baby's diaper on top of an upturned steamer trunk... past a woman arguing heatedly with a man in Serbo-Croatian, a wailing child next to them... past a man kneeling to console a woman who is just sitting on the floor, sobbing... and past another man with an English/Arabic dictionary, trying to figure out what the signs mean, while his wife and children wait patiently.
They come upon a narrow stairwell and they go up two decks before they are stopped by a small group pressed up against a steel gate. The steerage men are yelling at a scared steward. "Go to the main stairwell, with everyone else. It'll all get sorted out there,"
Sasuke takes one look at this scene and finally just loses it. "God damn it to Hell son of a bitch!" He grabs one end of a bench bolted to the floor on the landing. He starts pulling on it. Sai and Kakashi pitch in until the bolts shear and it breaks free. Naruto figures out what they are doing and clears a path up the stairs between the waiting people.
"Move aside! Quickly, move aside!"
Sasuke and Sai run up the steps with the bench and ram it into the gate with all their strength. It rips loose from its track and falls outward, narrowly mssing the steward. Led by Sasuke, the crowd surges though. Naruto steps up to the cowering steward and says in his most imperious tone: "If you have any intention of keeping your pathetic job with the White Star Line, I suggest you escort these good people to the boat deck... now,"Class wins out. He nods dumbly motions form them to follow.
EXT. BOAT 6 / TITANIC - NIGHT
Minato rows with Kon, two other men and the incompetent sailors. He rests on his oars, exhausted, and looks back at the ship. It slants down into the water, still ablaze with light. Nothing is above water forward of the bridge except for the foremast. Another rocket goes off, lighting up the entire area... there are a dozen boats moving outward from the ship.
AT THE BOAT DECK RAIL
Captain Choji is shouting to Boat 6 through a large metal megaphone. "Come back! Come back to the ship!" Chief officer Wilde joins him, blowing his silver whistle.
FROM BOAT 6
The whistle comes shrilly across the water. Quartermaster grips the rudder in fear. "The suction will pull us right down if we don't keep going,"
"We got room for lots more. I say we go back," said Kon
"No! It's our lives now, not theirs. And I'm in charge of this boat! Now row!"
Captain Choji, at the rail of the boat deck, lowers his megaphone slowly. "The fools,"
INT. A-DECK FOYER
As Gaara and Kiba cross the foyer encounter Benjamin and his valet, both dressed in white tie, tail-coats and top hats. "Ben, what's the occasion?"
"We have dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen,"
"That's admirable, Ben," Gaarawalks on, "I'll sure and tell your wife... when I get to New York,"
INT. FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM
There are still two cardgames in progress. The room is quiet and civilized. A silver serving cart, holding a large humidor, begins to roll slowly across the room. One of the cardplayers takes a cigar from it as it rolls by. "It seems we've been dealt a bad hand this time,"
EXT. BOAT DECK AND A-DECK, AFT
Panic is setting in around the remaining boats aft. The crowd here is now a mix of all three classes. Officers repeatedly warn men back from the boats. The crowd presses in closer.
Seamen brandishes the tiller of boat 14 to discourage a close press of men who look ready to rush the boat. Several men break ranks and rush forward. Lightoller pulls out his Webley revolver and aims it at them. "Get back! Keep order!"The men back down.
Fifth Officer Lowe standing in the boat, yells to the crew. "Lower away left and right!"
Lightoller turns away from the crowd and, out of their sight, breaks his pistol open. Letting out a long breath, he starts to load it.
EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD SIDE, AFT
Garra and Kiba arrive in time to see Asuma lowering his last boat. "We're too late,"
"There are still some boats forward. Stay with this one... Asuma. He seems to be quite... practical,"
In the water below there is another panic. Boat 13, already in the water but still attached to its falls, is pushed aft by the discharge water being pumped out of the ship. It winds up directly under boat 15, which is coming down right on top of it. The passengers shout in panic to the crew above to stop lowering. They are ignored. Some men put their hands up, trying futilely to keep the 5 tons of boat 15 from crushing them. The stoker, gets out his knife and leaps to the after falls, climbing rudely over people. He cuts the aft falls while another crewman cuts the forward lines. 13 drifts out from beneath 15 just seconds before it touches the water with a slap. Gaara, looking down from the rail hears gunshots-
EXT. BOAT DECK / A-DECK, PORT, AFT
Fifth Officer Neji, in Boat 14 is firing his gun as a warning to a bunch of men threatening to jump into the boat as it passes the open promenade on A-Deck. "Stay back you lot!"
BLAM! BLAM!
EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD, AFT
The shots echo away. "It's starting to fall apart, Kiba. We don't have much time," Gaara sees three dogs run by, including the black French bulldog. Someone has released the pets from the kennels. Gaara sees Asuma turn from the davits of boat 15 and start walking toward the bow. He catches up and falls in beside him. "Mr. Asuma, I'm a businessman, as you know, and I have a business proposition for you,"
EXT. BOAT DECK, PORT
Sasuke, Naruto and company burst out onto the boat deck from the crew stairs just aft of the third funnel. They look at the empty davits. "The boats are gone!" Naruto sees Colonel Gracie chugging forward along the deck, escorting two first class ladies. "Colonel! Are there any boats left?"
"Yes, miss... there are still a couple of boats all the way forward. This way, I'll lead you!"
Sasuke grabs his hand and they sprint past Gracie, with Sai and Kakashi close behind. The band... incredibly they are still playing. Sasuke, Naruto and the others run by. "Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in First Class!"
EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD, FORWARD
Water pours like a spillway over the forward railing on B-Deck. The crowd is sparse, with most people still aft. Gaara slips his hand out of the pocket of his overcoat and into the waist pocket of Asuma's greatcoat, leaving the stacks of bills there. "So we have an understanding then?"
"As you've said,"
Gaara, satisfied, steps back. He finds himself waiting next to Sarutobi. Sarutobi does not meet his eyes, nor anyone's. Kiba comes up to Gaara at that moment.
"I've found him. He's just over on the port side. With him,"
"Women and children? Any more women and children?" Asuma said while glancing at Gaara, "Any one else, then?" Gaara looks longingly at his boat... his moment has arrived.
"God damn it to hell! Come on," He and Kiba head for the port side, taking a short-cut through the bridge.
Sarutobi, seeing his oppurtunity, steps quickly into Collapsible C. He stares straight ahead, not meeting Asuma's eyes. Asuma is staring at Sarutobi, "Take them down,"
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