Chapter XI: Kidnapped
Nightshroud: Well I have finals coming up next Thursday and Friday, so this will probably be the last post I get in before then. Totally random and all, but I love Luxord's voice! He just has the coolest accent! Anyway, more of the Naruto chapter.
"So where did you guys say you were from," Sasuke asked the group. They were seated at a table inside the ship, along with Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, the director, his assistant, and Kakashi, who had just entered the room. He slipped something purrple into his pocket before sitting down.
"Well, were actually from a place a long way away from here," Sota tried to explain.
"Oh? Why don't you tell us where? I'm sure I'd recognize it," Kakashi said, obviously skeptical.
"Well, err-"
"Hey, I think a more inportant question is why those snow ninja were attacking you guys," Mina interjected.
"They were after the princess," Kakashi said.
"Why are you calling her a princess? I mean, she's only a princess in the movies, right?" Jax said. Kakashi's eyes shifted away, and everyone suddenly blinked.
"Well, actually..." Kakashi began.
"Whaaaaat?!" they all said, jumping forward in their chairs.
"She's actually Koyuki Kazahana, princess and heir to throne of the Land of Snow," he finished.
"Wait, how do you know this?" Sakura asked.
"I was the one who saved her when the Land of Snow's ruler Sotsetzu Kazahana was overthrown by his younger brother. It would seem that returning to the Land of Snow wasn't the best idea," Kakashi said, directing his gaze over to the director.
"Under the circumstances, I would prefer to return to the Hidden Leaf Village for backup, but with Doto on our trail, that's not an option," Kakashi continued.
"We'll be fine," Sasuke said. "Besides, we have our new friends here to help out."
"That won't be enough," Yukie, or Koyuki, said as she stood in the doorway. "Nothing can be done to stop Doto. This is all foolishness."
"That's not true! You're the last hope that the people of the Land of Snow have!" Naruto said angrily.
"There's no way," Koyuki said, turning her face away.
"Well, here's an opportunity you don't get every day: the opportunity to work with a real princess. The movie will go on as planned!" the director announced.
"What?!" Koyuki said in disbelief.
"And you can be sure this one will have a happy ending!" his assistant said. Koyuki turned her face away again and sighed.
"Fine, but I'll only act for the camera," she said sulkily.
Sota's and Naruto's group landed in the Land of Snow and traveled by train to the spot where they would be filming. Mina gazed out the window, her eyes resting on the blanket of snow covering the countryside.
"It's beautiful," she whispered.
"Yeah, it is," she heard a voice say. She turned her head as Sakura entered the room with two glasses of cocoa. She offered Mina some, who gladly accepted.
"So, why are you guys tagging along with us?" Sakura asked Mina.
"We're just...looking for something."
"Oh? What's that?" Sakura asked curiously.
"It's not important. Anyway, you guys are ninja, right?" Mina asked her.
"Yeah, that's right. How'd you know?"
Mina pulled out her kunai and laughed. "How else? I'm a ninja too."
"Oh," Sakura said laughing. "Yeah, Kakashi-sensei is a famous jonin, or expert ninja, and Naruto, Sasuke, and I are genin, or rookie ninja."
"Rookie ninja? I don't know, that Sasuke guy seemed pretty good to me," Mina said.
"Yeah..." Sakura said dreamily.
"You like him, huh?" Mina said.
"Yeah, he's just so dreamy! How about you? I thought you and Sota seemed pretty cute together."
"Ugh, no. I would never do anything with him," Mina said hastily.
"That's not what Jax said," Sakura said with a smug grin. Mina grinded her teeth.
"That loud-mouthed bastard..." she mumbled. Koyuki suddenly ran by the door, then turned back and shouted.
"Get away from me, you stalker!"
She turned and ran when Jax stopped in front of the door.
"I know we're a few years apart, but we can make it work!" he said before running after her. They heard a spray, a yell, and Jax suddenly stumbled back inside the room, rubbing his eyes frantically.
"Pepper spray. Touche," Mina said.
The train suddenly stopped, and the groupp went outside to look around.
"So this is the Land of Snow, huh?" Sota asked. Kakashi nodded.
"Be on the alert. Who knows what could happen."
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled, running up to them. "Yukie's run away!"
"What?" he said. "Fan out and look for her."
"Mina, Naruto, and I can go look for Yukie," Sota offered.
"All right, but we'll send out backup if you're not back in half an hour," Kakashi said. Naruto, Mina, and Sota nodded and ran down the slope to look for Koyuki.
"Is this the world?" Iselia asked. They were in an alley way of a large, untidy town with a reddish sky.
"Yeah, this is Rogue Town," Vesper said. (If you remember, Rogue Town was the world that Reyna and Co. first arrived in after leaving the Destiny Islands in Angel of Heart)
"Where do we go? Hmmm??" Rolan asked, hanging upside-down from the ledge above them.
"Probably best to start with a local tavern," Vesper said. They cqame out of the alleyway and looked around. The town's inhabitants seemed to be mostly pirates, thieves, and low-lifes.
"Hey, do you know where we can get a drink around here?" Vesper asked a nearby man.
"Yeah, the Wyvern's Tail is the most popular joint around here," he said, hooking a thumb to a nearby building. His gaze suddenly drifted over to Iselia, and his eyes gleamed.
"Hey, you're pretty cute," he said, looking her up and down. "Why don't you come with me?"
"Ohh? And where are you going?" asked Rolan with a grin.
"None of yer business, clown!" he sneered. Rolan's grin became disturbingly wide, and he tilted his head slightly.
"Is that so? I'm hurt. Really."
His eyes widened and turned yellow. The man backed away before his screams echoed down the street. Rolan flung the man's body into the alleyway and laughed.
"Anyone else?" he asked. Those people in the street turned and ran for their lives. Rolan laughed maliciously and took a step forward before Vesper grabbed his shoulder.
"That's enough," he said calmly.
Rolan's eyes returned to normal size and his psychotic smile went away.
"Okay."
Vesper led them to the Wyvern's Tail, where a large number of wanted posters lined the walls.
"He'll probably end up around here," Vesper said.
"No sh-"
Rolan coughed.
"Sherlock," she finished.
"Maybe the dominatrix thinks she should be leading the mission," Vesper said, crossing his arms with a small smirk.
"Oh you're really funny," she said, gripping her hands into fists.
"I think we may be attracting too much attention," Rolan said nonchalantly. The other two looked over as a muscular man with unruly silver hair, a cigarette in his mouth, leather gloves, and a white jacket opened to show his bare chest walk over.
"I think you may be new here," he said, grabbing Vesper by the collar "and we don't take kindly to strangers."
He blew a puff of smoke from his mouth in Vesper's face. The people in the tavern laughed until Vesper suddenly knocked the man back without moving. Everyone's eyes moved from the man slumped against the wall to Vesper, who was floating in the air with a blanket of wind around him.
"Who's next?" he asked, his scythe appearing in his hand. The people closest to the exits all took off, while the others went back to their business. Vesper descended and landed in between the other two.
"How unfortunate," a voice said at the bar behind them. "You took out the bounty I've been following."
"My apologies," Vesper said with a grin. "I guess I just don't know my own strength. He's all yours for the collecting."
"I don't like taking bounties if I didn't do the work myself," the man said quietly as he set his cup down.
"Raven Celes?" Vesper asked without turning to look.
"So you've heard of me," Raven said. Vesper smirked.
"We have an offer for you."
Naruto, Sota, and Mina stole through the snowy forest quietly so as to avoid unwanted attention.
"Do you see her?" Sota whispered.
"No...Oh wait! There she is!" Naruto said. They saw Koyuki a little way in front of them. She suddenly stumbled and fell down. The three landed around her.
"She's a lot of trouble, isn't she?" Mina said. Naruto didn't reply but stooped down and helped her up.
"Why do you keep coming for me?" Koyuki said. "I'll only run away again."
"Then I'll keep coming back for you," he said as he helped her onto his shoulders. All around them Shadow and Ninja (they look like bandit heartless but have kunai for weapons) Heartless suddenly popped up.
"Wh-what are those?" Naruto asked.
"The Heartless," Mina said, summoning her kunai.
"Hurry, get Koyuki to the others. We'll hold them off," Sota said, summoning his keyblade. Naruto hesitated a moment, then nodded and jumped away.
"Ready?" Mina asked, looking over at him as if issuing a challenge.
"Any time," he said with a smirk. "Just try to keep up, okay?"
He ran forward and slashed a Ninja as it jumped at him. Mina rolled her eyes and threw one of her kunai through a Shadow, then teleported to where it was and stabbed a Ninja.
"No way I'll let him beat me."
"So...what do you guys do for fun?" Jax asked Sakura.
"We''re ninja. We don't have fun," Sasuke said.
"Gee, what a stiff," Jax mumbled.
"Well, we just hang around mostly. Being a ninja doesn't leave that much time for social life," Sakura explained.
"Well your sensei seems to get the time to read some...interesting literature," Jax said. Sakura sighed.
"Him and his perverted novels," she complained.
"I can hear you. Now do you mind. I'm at the most exciting part," Kakashi interjected. She huffed and turned away annoyed. Suddenly darkness sprouted up around them as Ninja and Shadow Heartless appeared.
"Heartless," Jax growled. Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi stood next to him.
"How do you kill them?" Sasuke asked.
"Follow my lead," Jax said, gripping his buster sword.
Sota blocked an attack from a Ninja, then sliced through it. Two more came in from the side and jumped at him.
"Fire Pulse!" (fire spells in this story are like the ones from the first KH, but Sota's Fire Pulse is like the fire spells from the KH2)
A ring of fire shot around him and destroyed the Ninja. He looked over to where Mina was fighting. She had her kunai locked with another Ninja. She brought her left arm up and slashed through it. Another came behind her, but she kicked backward, knocking it away. Then with a flick of her wrist, she threw it through the Ninja's head.
"That's how you do it," she said, looking over at Sota. He crossed his arms and smirked.
"I'm pretty sure I was done before you," he said.
"That's because my fighting style is an art, not just clubbing things to death," she shot back. Sota's hand gripped into fists.
"What's your problem? Do you have some kind of grudge against me?" he yelled at her. She crossed her arms and laughed.
"If you think you're better than, prove it!"
Before he could reply, she jumped into the air and threw her one kunai at him. He summoned Brave Soul and knocked it to the side.
"Fira!"
He launched a fire spell at her, but she swiftly twisted her body in midair to avoid it and threw her other kunai at him. He jumped to the side as it grazed across his arm. She landed a short distance away as he clutched his now bleeding arm.
"Come on! We don't have time for this!" he shouted. She laughed at him.
"C'mon, you're better than that, right?"
His eyes widened as he recognized the voice and the quote.
"C'mon, you're better than that, right?"
"Y-you...You're the other voice!" he said. She looked at him strangely.
"What are you talking about?"
Sota was about to explain when he got a strange flash. He suddenly dove at Mina and knocked her back. As they spun back through the air a kunai with a small blue crystal attached landed in the ground where they were once standing, sending huge ice spikes shattering upward. Mina pushed Sota off of her after they landed in the snow.
"What was that?" she asked.
"I don't know," Sota said, looking upward. He saw a zeppelin flying toward where the rest of the gang where.
"But I have a feeling it's not good," he finished.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
Sasuke shot a series of small fireballs from his mouth, which crashed into the nearby Shadows. Jax blocked a kunai thrown by a nearby Ninja, then sliced it in half. With a sigh he rested his sword on his shoulder.
"Nicely done," he said with a smile. He suddenly heard sounds from behind them. He turned and saw Naruto with Koyuki reach the ridge where they were standing.
"I found her!" Naruto said. He placed her down and walked over to the others. The zeppelin suddenly ascended above the ridge. Koyuki screamed as Mizorai's metal hand shot from the ship and clamped down on her, yanking her into the air.
"Look out!" Kakashi called. Fubuki flew above them and tossed down dozens of kunai with blue crystals attached, causing giant ice crystals to shoot up from the ground where they landed.
"Jax!" Sota called, running up the slope.
"Hey, you two!" he shouted, waving to them.
"Where's Naruto?" Sakura asked. They looked up to see him throw a kunai with a rope attached around a rail on the zeppelin.
"Naruto, wait!" Sota said. He grabbed onto the rope as the ship took off, carrying the two of them away.
"Damn it! Now what?" Jax said. Mina sighed.
"We lost her."
Nightshroud: Hope you liked the chapter! I liked doing the parts with the villains too. Hehe I just decided on Rolan's backstory. Pretty good too if I may say so myself. Anyway I decided to come up with voice actors for the OCs. Here they are. If you have any suggestions, let me know anyone you think would make a better voice and I'll consider it.
Sota- Matthew Erickson (Van Flyheight from Zoids Chaotic Century)
Jax- Tony Sampson (Tori Avalon from Card Captors)
Mina- Jillian Bowen (Fuu from Kingdom Hearts 2)
Vesper- Johnny Yong Bosch (Genma from Naruto and Ichigo from Bleach)
Iselia- Stephanie Sheh (Kin Tsuchi from Naruto)
Rolan- Brian Beacock (Sakon and Ukon from Naruto)
Marsilio- Keith Silverstein (Kimimaro from Naruto)
Karashi- Ogie Banks (Karashi from the Naruto filler Raiga Arc)
Next chapter: The Rainbow Glacier