Hi! Sorry for the EXTREMELY late update, had a bit of write's block. Sorrry.
Here ya go Chapter 21.
Sorry it's shorter but you guys have been asking for the next chapter and I couldn't just abandon ya'll.
(Also! This is a replacement chapter! This is me coming from the future!)
Ch21
Keiko walked out of one of the shops that supplied merchandise for pregnant woman. She was excited to have this baby. Although it would have been nice to have Mizuki there with her when she had the baby…but you can't have everything, and Orichimaru made sure of that.
"Quick that way!" she heard. Looking up the street she saw Hotaru riding on the shoulders of a dark skinned man. They were running her way and stopped in front of the green haired woman, at Hotaru's insistence.
"Hello Hotaru-chan" she greeted the girl "And who is your friend?"
"This is Bee-san" said the girl. They all heard people yelling at something, or someone "Keiko-sensei can you hide us, please" the girl gave her father's sensei the puppy dog eyes.
"How can I say no to that face" the woman giggled.
"Keiko!" the woman turned around to see Anko, who was still on Zabuza's shoulders "Quick question, have you seen Hotaru with a big dark skinned man with white hair"
"Bulky with shades and a tattoo under his eye in the shape of a bull's horn?" the woman asked tilting her head to the side.
"Yeah!" said Anko bouncing a bit on Zabuza's shoulders, making the mist demon grumble in annoyance.
"Haven't seen anybody like that" she answered giving them a dismissive smile. Her answer made the two face fault.
"Although I did see Hotaru running around the corner a few seconds ago" she pointed further down the road.
"Good enough" said Anko knocking Zabuza with her heels, making the man grunt in pain and annoyance "Mush, slave mush!" she pointed where Keiko directed their attention to.
"I'm not your damn slave!" yelled the man, who took off in the direction anyway.
When the two turned the corner the woman looked into the store window where a specifically big and bulky mannequin, that looked very similar to Killer Bee in a dress…No wait, that was Killer Bee in a dress.
"Alright they're gone" Keiko said as the 'mannequin' moved from its pose. Killer Bee gave her a thumbs up, just before the manager came and berated him for putting on the dress and destroying the original mannequin. Hotaru came out from an alleyway with Nao in her arms.
"Thanks Keiko-sensei" she said happily, as Keiko smiled down at her.
"That's quite alright" she waved off the thanks "Now run along it's getting late and a little girl like you shouldn't be out in the streets alone"
"I'm not alone. Bee-san is with me" both looked into the store to see Bee being chewed out by the manager, who looked pissed.
"Oh, well then you two have fun" Keiko grabbed the bags that were by her feet and after some repositioning, the woman was on her way again.
"Do you need some help sensei?" the little girl asked putting Nao on the top of her head. The woman looked at the little girl and smiled.
"That would be appreciated Hotaru-chan" she said. Hotaru grinned and tugged her top, changing it into her TChica clothes. Once the clothes were on the girl ran over and got majority of the bags from Keiko, surprising the woman (since she had never seen Hotaru, and by extension Naruto, use this clothes and abilities)
The little girl took off after Keiko with a spring in her step. Hopefully her daddy and mommy were having as much fun as she was.
"What are you guys doing?" asked Naruto with a sweat drop. In front of him were the three ghosts and Kyuubi all of them holding cards in their hands with Bonnie about to pick a card from Freddy's cards.
"Old maid/Old maid" they all answered at once just as Bonnie picked a card.
"Alright….well hate to ruin your fun…but we need to go" the blond boy said making the four look at him.
"How come you're alone?" Kyuubi asked as the cards vanished. He knew who had made Naruto vanish and was interested as to what was discussed between them.
"You don't need to worry about that" said Naruto standing in front of the cage "All you need to worry about is me kicking your furry ass in a week's time"
"…and why only then?" the Kyuubi laid his head on the floor "why wait, when you can step in right now and let me devour you?"
"It's a deal that my parents and I made. In a week's time both me and my parents will face you…and these guys of course" he motioned to Freddy and the gang "so you better prepare yourself fleabag, cause I'm gonna beat you"
"…" the Kyuubi just stared at Naruto, who stared back at him not budging an inch "…fine. In a week's time I'll happily devour all your souls"
"I wouldn't ask for anything less" said Naruto with a smirk.
"This is not how I wanted to spend my night" said Ren as he dodged a snap of teeth from the big crocodile.
"The same can be said for me" said Kamatari clinging to Ren's jacket "but how we want to spend our night is irrelevant now"
Ren pulled out his bat and swung at the side of the crocodile's face. This didn't get the effect that Ren was hoping for, all it did was make the reptile angrier. He had to jump back to avoid a tail swipe and risk getting himself in an even worse situation than he was in.
The hatchling watched the action going on with amused/interested eyes. It had been lazily swimming in the river to entertain itself but now it found something even more entertaining.
Ren gripped his bat tighter and ran straight at the crocodile that happily opened its mouth to devour the boy and the weasel. When he got close the reptile snapped its mouth close to catch the free meal running towards it. Ren instantly dropped onto the ground and slid underneath the reptile. When he passed the first leg did he strike out with his bat and nail the croc in the knee/joint.
The crocodile roared in pain and dropped down to squash the little annoyance but Ren dodged to the right narrowly missing being turned into a pancake. The croc swung its tail around to nail the boy and succeeded in making the boy fly towards a tree.
Ren coughed in pain as his back impacted the trunk of the tree and left a dent there. Kamatari had avoided being hurt by grabbing onto the boy's eyepatch strap and swinging off of him and landing on the floor.
When he landed the weasel felt something in his hand. Looking down Kamatari blinked in surprise seeing the eyepatch from the boy in his grasp.
"Thanks weasel" the rodent looked up and saw Ren was standing lazily with his hands in his pockets "It was getting kinda cramped in there" a big grin appeared on Ren's face "you could say it was a tight squeeze" the three animals sweat dropped at the bad pun.
Through this whole ordeal the boy's uncovered remained closed and his other eye was now just a white dot with black all around it. When he decided to open his eyes there wasn't any sort of normal iris. No, it was now glowing a light blue colour and, what made it really different was that the iris was now a heart shape.
The heart didn't have any form of love emanating from it; in fact it had a hidden ominous feeling.
"Huh…tough crowd" he shrugged before putting his hands in his pockets "Sooooo I hate to bark up the wrong tree but… is there any bars that have some ketchup nearby?" he asked looking around him "I gotta leaf soon"
Obviously he was making puns about the foliage around him.
"ARRGH!" Ren clutched his head and crouched over in pain. A darker shade of blue light flashed behind his closed eye lid.
After a moment he stood up with his chest puffed out and an annoyed look on his face. His right eye was now just a black void.
"Damnit SANS!" he had a very boisterous voice like a certain green beast of Konoha…both of them "How can you be thinking about stupid things like Ketchup at a time like this!" he made a motion with his arm at the huge crocodile that was staring at the boy that was kinda talking to himself.
"What can I say bro…" Ren went back to Sans and shrugged his shoulders "I'm bone…"
"Don't do it" the second person narrowed their eyes at the space next to Ren.
"dead…" The grin on Ren's face, when he was Sans, grew bigger.
"DON'T!" the brother shouted.
"…tired" the sound that happens after a comedian makes a joke was heard in the background.
"DAMN YOU SANS!" the brother yelled stomping their foot on the ground "Why must I, the great Papyrus, have to suffer through your incessant puns"
"Guess we're joined at the hip bone" Sans winked at the space next to him.
"GRR" a tick mark appeared on Ren's forehead "Fine I will deal with this foe!" Ren held his hands out well his left eye flashed brightly.
Bones materialized from thin air in front of Ren and shot at the large crocodile. Said crocodile rolled left and right to dodge the flying bones. A bone flew past its head and the crocodile started focusing on the other flying projectiles.
What the reptile didn't expect was the bone making a U-turn and impacting the crocodiles back. Oddly enough the bone was blue like the boy's eye.
The minute the bone hit the crocodile, the reptile became the same colour of the bone, which vanished into the crocodile's back. The reptile was now stuck to the ground.
"You're blue now!" Papyrus/Ren said with a confident smirk on his face "Moving is next to impossible" bones appeared around the grounded crocodile "let's GO!"
'I hate mornings' thought Hotaru with a groan. She had went to bed late that night, since she had stayed up late that night talking to Keiko about random stuff (mostly around the woman's baby).
'What should I have for breakfast?' the girl thought as she got up from her bed and slipped her slippers on. The girl walked towards her bathroom, once she was standing up straight.
Entering the spacious bathroom Hotaru walked towards her shower to freshen up for the day. Slipping off her clothes the girl stepped inside and turned the faucet on till it was at her desirable temperature.
"Maybe I should go grab something to eat" she said as her loofah and soap floated up and started cleaning her body.
"There is a whole restaurant downstairs you know" she heard as the loofah ran over her neck.
"Yeah…but you get bored of the same food every single day" the girl yawned again still in the stage of waking up "and why are you cleaning me TChica"
The blond ghost looked over the girl's shoulder and smiled at her before going back to what she was doing. Hotaru was too tired to do/say something to make the former animatronic stop.
"How about that sushi restaurant you like?" she heard from the other side of the glass door as Mangle leaned against it.
"That does sound nice" said Hotaru with a tired nod.
"Then it's settled. Sushi for breakfast…maybe for lunch as well" said Mangle as TChica washed the girl's hair, after swapping the loofah for the shampoo bottle.
"Hmm hmmm hm hmmm" Hotaru hummed a small tune as she exited her place of residence/ family business, the place was set to be opened at 10:30 by Haku.
The girl practically skipped down the street towards her second favourite restaurant. Sure her father was an awesome cook but he couldn't sate her hunger for good sushi (something he was bad at apparently).
Turning a corner the girl walked smack dab into someone and made them both fall back; well the other person didn't budge.
"Watch where you're going kid" the person said, obviously male. Hotaru looked up and saw a blue skinned man that had what appeared to be gills under his eyes.
"Sorry mister" the girl said with a grin. Behind her the three animatronics were put on edge by this man, he leaked an evil aura "I wasn't watching where I was going. I was to focoused on getting some Sushi" let it be said that Hotaru Uzumaki was a very trusting person.
"Sushi you say?" the man said in interest, not so much for the food than the girl's last name "mind if I join you?"
"I'm sorry mister but-" Hotaru was about to tell the man that she wasn't allowed to take offers from strangers.
"I'll pay" the man said.
"Come on then!" the girl did a 180 and grabbed the man's hand, shocking him considerably. This was the first time someone willingly wanted him to go somewhere with them. His partner didn't count.
The little girl skipped down the street with the bigger man's hand in her's. The other villagers looked at the two in surprise, who would trust their child with a person who hides their identity.
The fish man felt a bit awkward at the hold the girl had on him and the stares the people were giving him. The girl seemed so oblivious to the weird looks being sent her way as the only thing on her mind was free sushi.
The two turned a corner and stopped in front of a place that looked fairly average even if it was just a stand, save for the huge name with a picture of a sushi next to it. The name was apparently 'Raw from the Deep'. There were bar stools which were empty.
"The owner is awesome" said Hotaru dragging the fish man into the stand; he had to move the flaps so his hat wouldn't get knocked off "sometimes she lets me have free sushi!"
"Sounds like a swell person" said the man sitting next to the girl, who jumped onto her seat.
"Hotaru, is that you?" came a voice from the back. A woman stepped through the door way leading to the back, wiping her hands.
"Mikuru!" said happy Hotaru bouncing on her seat. The woman that stepped through looked like she was in her 20s. She had light silver hair that hung down to the mid of her back with light blue eyes. She wore a white robe that was slightly open in the chest region showing a part of her ample bosom.
She smiled at Hotaru and walked to the counter. She reached over the counter and patted the little girl's head.
"I haven't seen you around for a while" the woman turned to look at the man next to her favourite customer and the smile dropped as she studied what she could see of the man.
"Hello there" the woman said smiling after a minute "And what might your name be?"
"…I'd rather not disclose that" said the man tilting the hat down a bit to hide his face.
"Come now" the woman gave him a gentle smile "we're all friends here" when the man didn't budge the woman reached over and patted his hand, this made the man flinch but do nothing.
"Don't worry no one comes here early in the morning" Mikuru reassured him again.
The man stared at the woman from the shadow his hat casted. Never in his life had he trusted someone else, he was even still weary of his partner. But looking in this woman's eyes, the gentleness and trusting in them stirred something in the man's being.
He gripped the rim of his hat a bit tighter before lifting it off. The minute it came off Hotaru gasped well the woman kept the smile on her face and didn't look shocked in the slightest.
"So cool!" said an awestruck Hotaru reaching up to touch the man "you're a fish man"
Whack!
"Ouch!" the girl withdrew her hand where there was a red spot on the back of her hand. Mikuru had whacked her hand with wooden spoon.
"Hotaru" the woman with a frown "it is not nice to get in other people's personal space" she scolded the girl, who cradled her wrist.
"But-"
"No buts" the woman said placing her hand on her hip and waving her wooden spoon at the girl "now apologise to the nice man" Hotaru looked up at the fish man.
"I'm sorry" she said bowing her head in shame as the woman nodded her head.
"Good" she put the spoon down and smiled again "for listening you can have 4 free pieces of sushi" that made Hotaru's face do a 180 from downtrodden to happy.
"Sweetness!" the girl cheered.
Mikuru sighed with a smile on her face. It appeared to the fish man that this was a common occurrence between the two. The woman shook her head and turned to the man.
"She's always like this" she said "luckily I know how to keep her in line more often than not" Mikuru put the wooden spoon down "I never got your name"
"I..." Mikuru reached over and placed a hand on top of his.
"Like I said…" the woman patted his hand "we're all friends here. This stand has a policy: what is said in here stays here" the man still looked unsure but that smile, that warm comforting smile…
"…Kisame Hoshigaki" the fish man said with a sigh.
Of all the reactions he assumed the woman would display, reactions which ranged from fear, disgust, even down right terror, he didn't expect the woman to smile wider.
"What a nice name" she said shocking the man "Now. You two came for some sushi and that's what you're gonna get"
"Had enough?" Ren looked down at the crocodile that was stuck between enormous bones that prevented the animal from moving any more. Ren stood on one of the bones with his Sans grin on his face "cause Papyrus is still full of energy"
"I…concede…" the large reptile said with a sigh "you win" with that the crocodile vanished in a puff of smoke.
Ren crouched on the bone looking at the other reptile in the clearing. He had a lazy look in his eye, but his grin never faltered.
"You next?" he asked but the small reptile shook his head.
"I accept that you won" the crocodile climbed up the bone with his claws. When he was at the top the crocodile took his place on top of Ren's head "you're strong for a human"
"You think Pap is the strongest?" Sans/Ren gave a short laugh "if you keep thinking that…" both eyes became nothing but black "then you're gonna have a bad time"
With that Sans/Ren jumped off the bone and landed by Kamatari he picked up the eyepatch then put it on.
With that his eye became normal. Ren stepped back well holding his head as if he was recovering from a bad headache.
"Did anybody die?" was his first question, confusing the two animals. When he didn't get an answer Ren repeated his question "I asked…did anyone die?"
"No" Kamatari answered. That answer put Ren at ease.
"Good" he said rubbing his temples "I…need a rest…damn it all"
"Can you see anything?" called Samui as Naruto hovered over the tree tops looking for where they have to go.
"I see a tower" the boy called back as he descended back to the ground and landed between his temporary team-mates "It's an hour's walk but if we tree hop we'd be able to make it in 30 minutes"
"That's from here" said Kin "We still have to find some animals ya know"
After she said that Naruto glanced at her from the corner of his eyes. In his mind, unintentionally, he was making some similarities between his mother and Kin. The long hair, the slightly rounded face and the fact that she just said 'Ya Know' (even if she didn't mean to say it) heck even the assertive attitude.
"Naruto!" the boy shook his head to dispel these thoughts and give his attention to his other teammate.
"Huh?" he said blinking. Samui sighed and placed a hand on her hip, which she popped out.
"I said we'll move towards the tower and look for any of them on the way. If we can't find any we'll travel back this way" she explained.
"I have a better idea" said Naruto forming a cross hand seal.
Shadow Clone Justu
The two waved the smoke away from their faces and gasped at the sheer number of clones the blond had produced, which were stationed all around them, in tree tops and branches.
"Let's have these guys go out and find animals that are in our vicinity then we'll go and find them" the two girls nodded at the plan their teammate offered showing that they agreed.
"Get going" he ordered his clones to leave, which they did with a 'yes boss'.
"Now let's-"
"GET LOST!" they heard someone scream and heard the sounds of trees being knocked over. All of their instincts kicked in and made them dodge whatever just flew past them.
"What the hell is that?!" the three yelled out as a dust cloud kicked up where the thing fell. They watched as the dust slowly started to fade and showed something scaly lying in a heap with the head lodged in the trunk of a tree.
They stared in shock as the head slowly dislodged itself and fell to the ground kicking up dust.
"Stupid snake" they heard someone say. They all turned back to whoever spoke and saw someone with green hair standing on some knocked over trees "I'm covered in snake goo!" the girl complained childishly.
"Y-You…did you…" Kin couldn't find the right words to say, by saying that they drew the attention of the girl.
"Oh. Hey!" she said in happiness "How's it going?"
The three just stared at her.
Once again I'm sorry for the short chapter and I'm sorry for not including a Extra this chapter.
Please forgive me!
If ya'll have any comments or ideas for the story or an extra ya wanna see let me know in the reviews or send a PM.
Thanks a lot!
Oh Yes! I saw Sister Location. I loved it! I think I'll adding them in the story...maybe...(evil laughter inserted here).
(Sorry that you had reread this chapter but I had a knew idea to add adn I had to do it)