Ai_Amber: a bit of warning~ This chapter is some story line of the actually show and a tangent of my own, this tangent is going to be about 2 chapters long, won't follow the actually show at all and is alllll about Saphira, Sasuke and my favorite Genre in the world: horror^^
So get ready to (hopefully) get a little bit scared over the course of the next two chappys^^ Also i don't own Naruto (Darn)
You know, I think if you stare just a little harder I might really just burst in to flames." I joked.
"Just stop talking." Sasuke muttered.
"Well that sounds oddly familiar. But unlike with your situation I know when to let it go." I took a sip from my cup happy for the tea.
"What part of shut up didn't you get?" Sasuke hissed.
"The same part you didn't get when I told you I'd throw up on you." I fired back.
I began counting my lucky stars that I decided to sit next to Kakashi after the…incident. He caught Sasuke's arm when the jerk tried to take a swing at me from across the table. I blinked at him innocently and leaned back farther. I wisely kept my mouth shut and slowly Sasuke sat back down on the ground.
"Why is this picture ripped, If you don't mind me asking…. Inari was looking at it all through diner." Sakura asked she had moved from the table and was trying to break the tension.
The three members of Tazuna's family tensed up while Kakashi raised his eyebrows in slight interest.
"Obviously it's a bad memory Sakura." I rolled my eyes. "You have absolutely no tact for asking that."
"No tact?" she screeched. "And throwing up is so tactful."
"Only if it's all over Super homo."
Sasuke growled something into his tea.
"It's okay Sakura I don't mind…. He was my husband" Inari's mother said lightly from her spot doing dishes.
"He use to be known as a hero in this land…" Tazuna whispered.
Inari hopped down from his seat next to Sasuke without a word.
"Inari, where are you going?" His mother asked a bit worried.
She was only meet with the sound of the door slamming. She rushed after her son and then turned to the table.
"Father you know you shouldn't talk like that about him in front of Inari! You know that!" she shouted angrily before following after her son.
The door slammed and no body moved. Silence over took us, affecting us all in different ways, the clock ticked past a couple of seconds before anyone spoke.
"Inari's so… I mean what happened to him?" Sakura asked.
Everyone turned to the bridge builder hungry for the explanation of the recent drama.
"Is there a story behind this?" Kakashi asked.
I looked down at the wooden table and my cup of tea. I took another sip focusing on the hot liquid.
"That man wasn't Inari's real father, he came into our family later. He brought so much happiness with him, him and Inari were really close. Back then Inari laughed all the time but then…" the bridge builder trailed off clenching his fists in anger before letting the tears trailed down his face.
"All that ended. He doesn't laugh or smile anymore. Ever since the day everything changed. the word courage was stolen from every one here. We were left feeling hopeless, powerless and Inari was dealt the worst blow. Ever since THAT day ever since IT happened." the old man continued.
Sakura moved to sit down and I scooted over and offered her a place between Kakashi and I. She didn't take and instead sat on a little step behind Naruto. I shrugged and turned back to the bridge builder. I had already known the story he was about to tell but I figured it was polite to listen. I had never been a huge fan of human suffering.
"Tell us what happened." Kakashi pushed.
"First you need to know about his father, the man who taught us the word 'courage.'" Tazuna said slipping off his glasses to wipe at his eyes.
He then proceeded to tell us the story of Kaiza and he slowly changed Inari from a coward to some one with just a little glimmer of bravery and then how Gato changed all that. Tortured the man in front of his adopted child and how it made the boy abandon all hope. To doubt everything Kaiza had worked so hard to teach him. At the end of the depressing tale Naruto flung himself from the table abruptly causing himself to trip with the sudden movement.
"What are you doing Naruto?" Sakura said rolling her eyes.
"I think your going to call it a day Naruto, you've used to much chakra, push any harder and you'll kill yourself." Kakashi stated.
Naruto raised himself slowly throwing the table a determined look. "I'm going to prove it…"
"Prove what?" Sakura asked blankly.
Naruto rose to his feet on shaky legs a look of pure excitement crossing his face. "I'm going to prove it true that in this world, there are real heroes." He then spun around a took off out the door to the clearing once again.
I shook my head and stood up "Well while he's off being an idiot I'm going to sleep. Night everyone."
A few grumbled good nights reached my ears as I made a beeline for the living room where Sakura and I slept. I grabbed my night clothes that Inari's Mom had let me borrow and changed quickly in the bathroom, then headed back to my futon on the floor with a stretch. Don't even ask me how Naruto could keep going after everything, sheer determination was one hell of a force to reckon with since the second my head hit the pillow I was gone.
I stole a glance at Sasuke and bit my lip, he turned to me annoyed and I quickly glanced away. He grunted annoyed that he hadn't caught me staring and walked a little faster. The child prodi-gay (prodigy) had been in a horrible mood all morning and it probably had something to do with the fact if you sniffed a certain spot on his shirt you still smelled hints of throw up. So in his angered state I had come to believe (about 10 minutes ago) he'd taken a wrong turn on the forest paths, and I hadn't noticed since I was to wrapped in feeling like today was going to suck andddd we we're totally lost. So yet again I bit my lip wondering if I should say something or not, at the pace he was going we'd walk around the world before he'd even speak to me.
"I think we're lost" I blurted out.
"We're not lost, We just took a short cut." Sasuke growled out.
"Oh god, that's boy lingo for we're screwed." I groaned.
"If you we're paying attention to where we we're going this wouldn't have happened." Sasuke snapped.
"If I was paying attention? You were the one leading!" I fired back.
"Then maybe you should stop following me!" Sasuke nearly shouted.
"And get stuck in a forest on my own? Hellll no! That is a stupid idea."
"Whatever." Sasuke grunted.
We walked in silence for about 20 minutes, trying a variety of different paths with absolutely no result."
"I swear to god if I see that weird rock one more time I'll kill myself." I muttered as we passed a rock that oddly looked like a bunch of spikes ready to impale some poor unsuspecting victim.
"I think we should turn around and go by those rocks again." Sasuke stated.
"Haha cute." I frowned.
"I tried." He muttered continuing on.
"I'm sick of walking." I hissed throwing my self on to the ground.
For once Sasuke had no come back and just sat down next to me. I pushed myself up on to my arms and looked at him, he was slightly winded even though we had kept a rather normal pace through the walk. It then hit me that he must be tired after using so much chakra running up that bloody tree.
"Well at least we're getting somewhere now. I haven't seen those rocks in a bit." I cheerfully said.
"Yeah we're just even more lost now." Sasuke groaned.
"Ah your finally admitting it then eh? It only took you to freaking sunset."
"We need to do something and fast. Once the sun goes down we're not going to be able to see anything." Sasuke stated.
"Well your not but I am." I shrugged.
"You can see in the dark?" Sasuke asked actually curious.
"Yeah the whole cat thing isn't just for looks you know."
Sasuke frowned. "Do people really all look like that across the ocean?"
I bit my lip. "No. I think it's something to do with this place, the continent. I never used to look this way, though I guess my best friend was right. I look cute as a cat girl." (A bit of a hint on some future things~ like maybe she won't always look this way~) I mused.
"People don't just random change their appearance by coming to a new land, you must have used some justu." He rolled his eyes.
I shrugged. "Maybe those girls did, what were their names? Hikari and Miho?"
"Who ever they are." Sasuke snorted.
"Exactly." I pushed myself to my feet. "Well come on, better go look for something to help us figure a way out of here."
Sasuke suddenly groaned. "Why didn't I think of it earlier."
"What?" I asked.
"Tree climbing." He stated.
"I don't think training is the best idea right now."
"No you idiot. Climb up one of the taller trees and look for a way to get us out of here."
"No. You do it!" I protested.
"The closest branches are up to high, you have to walk up the tree. And well…you uh..your better at it then me." he looked away at the last part.
"Fine but if I fall you better catch me." I stated.
He just nodded to make me happy. I scanned around for the biggest tree in the area and decided on a rather tall oak a few yards down the path. I made the hand sign I'd grown so accustomed too and concentrated on the tree and on the power flowing through me. I made a mad dash up the tree and made my way to where I believed the highest branch that would hold me was. I stepped on to the branch lightly, testing to see if It would hold up my weight, satisfied I stepped on to the branch and looked around. I was met with the sight of a sea of trees swaying in the cool night breeze, I turned to look behind me and yelped, nearly falling from the tree.
"See anything?" Sasuke called up.
"There's a mansion…." I trailed off.
"Good, maybe they'll let us stay the night. Get down from there." He called back up.
"Hey, kid….there's no way and hell we're going in there." I stated when my feet planted firmly on the ground.
"And why is that?" Sasuke asked returning to being annoyed with me.
"That place DID NOT look right. It looks like it belongs on an episode of cribs for psychotic killers." I state
"…..I'm going to not even pretend to know what your talking about."
"Look, I'd rather brave the forest then that place. There's no way I'm becoming the star of a horror movie." I huffed.
Just then there was a particular loud howl from something that didn't sound to friendly not to far in the woods. I bit my lip.
"It's either the house or THAT." Sasuke stated pointedly.
"We're both strong ninjas, well kinda sorta in my case, and there's only one of them right? We can take him." I laughed nervously.
Suddenly a chorus of howls erupted out. I squeaked and jumped to clutch on to Sasuke's shirt. He wrenched the fabric away from me, a smirk playing across his face.
"What's so scary about a house?" I laughed. "Nothing every goes wrong in big, Japanese styled manors right?"
"Show the way." Sasuke urged.
The path we had taken before suddenly decided to lead us somewhere at that point, there was a sudden break in trees a bit to our left and the path branched off into a stone path that twisted and winded down to the manor.
"That wasn't here before…." Sasuke said lightly.
"Because it was day light before." I moaned. "I change my mind let's go after the monsters."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and started down the stone path that was lined with dead/dying trees. The path sunk at certain intervals to create gigantic steps you had to jump to get down from.
"If your not coming I'm leaving you." Sasuke stated.
"Y-you can't leave me! What about teamwork? Let's go back just look at those trees, they just scream horror movie! They're the only trees in the whole freaking area that are dead the other trees weren't dead!" I shouted to him/
He ignored me and hopped down from one of the large steps. I looked around at the trees and a howl resonated through out the area, I squeaked and began rushing after him. He heard my frantic scrambling after him and slowed down just slightly so I could catch up (I bet you if you asked him he would have denied waiting for me). The path continued on for a while and a light mist had begun to settle by our feet. The full moon shined down on us, casting the trees and the mist in an eerie light. The worst part was I KNEW this path was just a little bit to long for the manor to be as close as I'd seen it from the tree…. I moved close to Sasuke so that every time our arms swung they bumped into each other. He casted me annoyed looks at first but got over it when he realized I was actually scared. The path winded to the right and turned into a dirt road that lead right up to the manor.
"…Those trees have bloody faces…." I said in horror.
"They don't have faces." Sasuke hissed. "Your crazy over imaginative mind is just making it up."
I studied the tree closest to the start of the path, the gnarled back twist in an agonizing scream, hollowed eyes casted upward, asking the heavens why it has been dammed to eternal suffering.
"No that's a freaking face." I shrieked.
"Let's just go. I'll prove to you that this is a normal place with a really bad gardener." Sasuke coaxed.
"You do realize the second we step in that house some ghost that use to eat children for breakfast is going to be watching us. Then it's going to laugh manically like MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Then somehow we're going to get separate and the ghost is somehow going to look like you and I'm going to run into the ghost, throwing my self on him in my desperation and he's going to knock me out with some form of bottle and I'm going to come too when he is feasting upon my spleen. Then I die, come back from the dead like a zombie, hunt you down and munch on your brains." I screeched making weird zombie motions.
Sasuke just blinked at me for a moment." You can't handle stress can you?"
"If stress is getting my spleen eaten then no, no I can't."
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