Alright! Here you go with another chapter! I kinda have a lot of injuries due to my cats playing WWE. When they run through the house, I wish there were some traffic lights to stop them, but they'd jump the signal anyways. The pain I've suffered...
I don't own Naruto
SHARINGANS AND A LEGENDARY SUCKER
THIRD PERSON
Ame and Sasuke soon reached the village Jiraiya and Naruto were supposed to be in. All the while, they had run in tense silence and he spoke for the first time in a while as he cursed "Damn, there are too many buildings. Can you feel them?"
Ame frowned before hesitating for a millisecond and answering "Not really, something's scrambling the signature." Sasuke nodded and jumped off to investigate. She watched Sasuke hop off and clenched her fist. 'I know exactly where they are – walking up to Naruto's room at the present.' She had thought of something on the way. It was extremely dangerous, stupid even, but she had made up her mind that she'd do it.
Sprinting at top speed, she hurried to the hotel where Naruto and Jiraiya were and asked at the reception "Say, you wouldn't happen to have a parchment and a pen, would you?" Taking the items, she unfastened the explosive tag paper from one of the kunais she had and replaced it with the one she wrote on.
'Alright! Time to move!'
"We don't need him running around. I should chop off a leg." Kisame smirked widely, showing off his shark teeth to the frozen Naruto. His partner stared impassively and his red eyes swiveled to the end of the corridor when he heard swift footsteps. Ame turned around the corner and came to a stop, panting slightly and warily looking at the two criminals.
"Ame-chan…?" Naruto whispered uncertainly. She gave him a nod and a faint smile before looking at the men again. Itachi glanced briefly at Naruto, registering the girl's name.
"Why it's the little Konoha mouse!" Kisame mocked, grinning ferally.
Ame bit her lip. She wasn't feeling very brave to go with her plan now; she was actually petrified by the amount of chakra Kisame had which she hadn't noticed before. Even by standing at the other end of the passage she could feel the killer intent. 'I have to do this now or else Sasuke might figure it out, or worse, Jiraiya might.'
Taking a deep breath, she began running straight at the two men and mentally crossed her fingers. She leapt right at Kisame who raised his sword towards her face. When Samehada was about a few inches away from her face, she teleported behind him, right in front of Itachi and threw her kunai at his eyes. As soon as the kunai flew from her hand, she teleported back to her initial position.
FIRST PERSON AME
I could feel a huge chunk of my chakra missing as Samehada had come into close contact and I kneeled on the ground, watching Itachi. He had caught the kunai as predicted but his eyes were immediately drawn to the words on the tag that weren't like an explosive one's. A very faint, fleeting look of shock passed his face so quickly that I might have missed it if I blinked.
When I looked at the kunai again, the paper was gone. "What did that achieve, little mouse?" Kisame asked in an amused voice.
"Let's just take the boy and go." Itachi spoke and his eyes met mine. Scared about the consequence of my action, I broke the Sharingan gaze at once, not wanting a Genjutsu to overcome me. The next moment, there was another pair of footsteps, harsher and urgent.
Sasuke turned to the corridor and stood beside me, but it was as if no one else existed besides the man with the same eyes. "It's been a while, Sasuke." Itachi greeted silently.
"Yare yare, indeed today is a special day, don't you think? This is the second time I've seen another Sharingan." Kisame commented offhandedly.
I almost froze when Sasuke spoke in a guttural voice "I'll…KILL YOU!"
The air felt thick and tense as Kisame asked Itachi who Sasuke was and I saw Naruto as he connected the dots behind Sasuke's goal. Suddenly, there was a rush of chakra and I pressed myself against the wall in sheer shock as a bright crackling of chakra flared out from Sasuke's hand. "I HAVE LIVED FOR THIS!" Sasuke bellowed and charged towards Itachi, the Chidori chirping wildly and destroying the walls with thunderous sounds. I had sunk to the floor, wide-eyed as my hair flew around me with the force.
'Pull yourself together!' I yelled at myself at the moment Itachi caught Sasuke and pinned him to the wall. Naruto then began gathering chakra for summoning and stared in surprise. His chakra felt overwhelming like a thick blanket about to suffocate everyone in the room. And just like that, it was gone with one wave of Kisame's sword.
Naruto's eyes snapped open and stared in horror as he could feel no chakra anymore. "My Samehada eats up chakra." Kisame showcased his sword menacingly. Narrowing my eyes, I stood beside Naruto and put a hand to his shoulder. I could feel a chakra approaching fast and just closed my eyes as Kisame raised the sword.
There was a poof of smoke and a big toad appeared to block the sword and behind us, the Toad sannin. My face took on an exasperated look as he began to spout how no woman's charm worked on him and just blah blah his speech, there was an awkward silence that not even Itachi would be willing to fill. I put my hand over my eyes and muttered "I don't want to know this guy anymore…"
Anyways, back to the seriousness, Jiraiya said he knew about the Genjutus binding the woman who seduced him away (bullshit, in my opinion. He must have realized it after getting in a few pick-up lines) and the fact that they were after Naruto. "You won't get Naruto." Jiraiya said seriously.
"And why not?" Itachi challenged.
"Because right here, right now…you two will die by my hand." The conviction with which Jiraiya said it, almost had me believing it for a second.
"Don't do it…" A weak voice spoke out. "This guy…IS MINE!" Sasuke slowly stood up and glared at Itachi's back.
"…I have absolutely no interest in you right now." Itachi spoke coldly and turned around swiftly to give Sasuke a kick that drove him into the wall. Naruto and I gave a gasp as we heard a crack; whether it belonged to Sasuke or the wall, neither of us knew."Sasuke!" Naruto yelled out, preparing to go help him but Sasuke yelled "NO NARUTO! This guy is mine!"
I looked at the ground, my eyes wide and thought about what I was prepared to do. 'Change it, alter it and let no harm befall.'
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Ame raised her face, her eyes determined and she took a step forward and disappeared. Naruto blinked in surprise as she was gone from beside him. "Ame…!" He yelled out in shock as she appeared right in between Itachi and Sasuke.
"Ame, get out of here." Sasuke spat harshly at the sight of his team mate standing unwaveringly between the two remaining Uchihas.
"Shut up, you're not in your right mind." She shot back, keeping her eyes trained on the elder. Her eyes narrowed as his lips moved faintly and she tried to read them."You know…" She gave an almost unperceivable nod and turned to Sasuke swiftly, putting her arms around him and was about to teleport when Itachi caught her arm and she came face to face with him.
She gave a minute gasp and felt her limbs go limp as she knew the Sharingan was scanning her very being. 'Do something, do something, do something…' Her mind rattled on and suddenly she wrenched her arm away and screamed "GET AWAY!" A small wave of electricity flew out of her body which made Itachi back up unexpectedly and she teleported with Sasuke.
Just as she landed with Sasuke, she turned to make sure he was okay only to feel a blinding pain in her jaw as she flew to the ground. "What…?" She muttered, feeling her jaw beginning to swell up already and restrict her talking."WHY?! I TOLD YOU TO STAY OUT OF IT!" Sasuke bellowed at her, shaking her by the front of her shirt.
Ame looked at him, too shocked to say anything but merely gave a cry of pain as he shoved her aside roughly towards the broken wall. She winced as wood splinters dug into her skin and she cursed Sasuke inside her head. "Kid…" Jiraiya cast a glance at me to make sure I was okay only to look at Naruto as he began yelling at Sasuke for punching her.
"Ninpou! Toad mouth bind!"
Suddenly, the walls of the hotel had turned fleshy, pink and the Akatsuki members looked in surprise at their surroundings. Shaking his head, Sasuke charged at Itachi again and tried to kick him when Itachi merely sidestepped and held Sasuke in a chokehold again. Ame's eyes widened as she saw the Mangekyou Sharingan spin and Sasuke's eyes take on a blank look. Sasuke's scream rang out through the walls and she grimaced 'No use…no use at all…why am I even doing this…?' she thought and went limp as the alive walls surrounded her, cushioning her.
The walls didn't feel slimy but merely warm and slightly rubbery to touch. The conversation outside began to get muffled as she closed her eyes.
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"Kid? Hey kid, you okay?" I opened my eyes to see Jiraiya looking at me worriedly. I nodded and sat up as I couldn't say much due to my now swollen jaw. Sighing slightly, I got to my feet and gave a thumbs up, touching my jaw lightly. When Jiraiya went to respond, he got a faceful of foot and a cry of "DYNAMIC ENTRY!"
I guffawed with my mouth closed as Jiraiya tumbled down with a disgruntled look, shooting a glare at Gai. Gai apologized in his usual, sparkly manner and took Sasuke's limp form over his shoulder, telling Jiraiya that he'll take him to the hospital. Jiraiya turned to me "You want to go with Gai, kid? That jaw looks pretty bad."
True, it did throb from time to time but mostly it was numb so I shook my head and tried to speak "Tsunade can heal it for me." Jiraiya scrunched up his face, trying to understand what I said but nodded finally. "If you're okay with that kid, but get some ice on it till then."
I snickered when Gai offered a one piece tracksuit to Naruto, impressed by his enthusiasm. Jiraiya had this deadpan expression like he'd rather go without women his whole life than be caught wearing or even standing anywhere near that costume.
Soon, we were on the road with Naruto listening to the description of the 'beautiful ninja' we were hunting for and me holding an ice pack to my face. I was too absorbed with listening to Jiraiya and didn't realize how long I held the ice pack for, so I gave a muffled yelp when the ice began to hurt. That scared Naruto who haphazardly threw a kunai in a random direction. Jiraiya cried out when the kunai whistled past dangerously next to his hair. "Watch it brat!" He bonked Naruto on the head. I began to guffaw again and groaned when it hurt me.
"So Ero-sannin, why are those guys after me?" Naruto spoke in a serious tone after a bit of silence.
"They're not after you as much as what's inside you."Jiraiya said curtly, glancing at Naruto, who had put a hand to his abdomen at his words. As if realizing something, he shot me a frightened look and dropped his hand quickly.
Rolling my eyes, I mumbled "I know about the fox, Naruto baka." He stared wide-eyed at me and I raised an eyebrow at his deer-in-the-headlights expression before he calmed down. The conversation then turned to the matter of finding Tsunade, who could look like anything right now. Frowning, I couldn't come up with an image when I thought of her name 'I know how she looks like, so why can't I remember her face? Do I really know what she looks like…?' The last thought had me thinking for a while before I was pulled from my internal discussion at Jiraiya's words.
"Since we might take time to find her, I'm going to train you, kid." He spoke to Naruto. But he turned to me and said "You too."
I was surprised "What will you teach me? I don't have the same elements as Naruto."
"We'll figure something out." He replied airily and waved his hand. Unfortunately, Naruto chose that moment to take out his generously stuffed wallet which he practically waved under Jiraiya's nose. Of course, he took it faster than I could say "hentai". Rolling my eyes at that, I patted my securely hidden, modest pouch of money hidden under my jacket.
Jiraiya must have noticed my actions because he immediately swooped "You have money too? Out with it now, kid."
I stared at him long and hard before giving a blunt "No."
He harrumphed "Now kid, what did I say about the three vices -"
"All being practiced diligently by yourself. I'd rather give Ino my money." I said flatly and walked off with Naruto in tow.
My jaw was starting hurt less, only being a dull throb now which allowed me to enjoy eating some nice stuff. I was rather frugal with my resources but being with Naruto made me want to spend more – I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Anyways, the village we were enjoying in was really lively and colourful. Even though Naruto practically dragged me everywhere, I still had fun.
THIRD PERSON
Ame slapped her forehead when she saw Jiraiya amidst a couple of women while Naruto began yelling at him for spending all his money. Suddenly, she was bumped to the side as some men jostled past her. She was about to growl at them but stopped when Naruto got squid on one of the men's so-called designer suits. They almost started a brawl but Jiraiya suddenly attacked them with a technique that spun furiously in his hand. Her eyes widened at the sheer amount of chakra concentrated in his palm, spinning powerfully in a controlled manner.
Later as carried on, she listened as Jiraiya explained to Naruto that this would be technique he'd be teaching him. Ame pouted a little as Naruto got to learn such a cool technique but Jiraiya noticed and ruffled her hair and grinned. After explaining how much ever he could to Naruto, he turned to the brown haired girl tapping her foot impatiently.'Even though she's quite mature for her age, she's still a kid after all.' Jiraiya thought with a smile.
"Alright now." Jiraiya put on a serious face and watched Ame pay attention as he began to dig in his bag.
"What." She said flatly as he put a book in her hands. "I sincerely hope it's not an Icha Icha book…"
He snorted before turning the book to its cover. "'The arts of Fuinjutsu'? Why am I going to learn sealing techniques?" She asked with a confused expression. Jiraiya gestured for them to sit down before explaining.
"Let's take your team mates, kid. Naruto here, he's going to do pretty well in ninjutsu. Your next team mate is an Uchiha, so genjutsu is pretty much his forte. Your other team mate, the pink haired girl, will probably take up genjutsu as Kakashi thought she was a genjutsu type, or more predictably, she'll go for taijutsu. That leaves you, where would you stand among them?" He finished speaking and watched her frown thoughtfully. "You don't have any area of expertise besides your teleportation jutsu. Think of all the other Genin – they all have some signature techniques or clan based ones."
"True, the Hyuugas, Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Aburame and Inuzuka have clan techniques. Tenten is already a kinjutsu specialist, Lee is awesome at taijutsu. Sasuke has his Uchiha techniques, Naruto has his crazy stamina and the fox's chakra and Sakura's pretty knowledgeable." Ame muttered to herself, counting on her fingers one by one.
"So, since the genin know nothing besides academy basics and clan techniques, why not do something that'll set you apart from others?" Jiraiya suggested with a grin. Ame mirrored his grin as she considered it and nodded enthusiastically.
As she flipped the book's pages, she looked up in surprise "It's not printed...who the hell took so much time to handwrite it?"
"See for yourself."
She looked for the author's name at the back of the book and dropped the book in shock, her hands flying to her mouth. Ame looked at Jiraiya with reverence in her eyes "Jiraiya – ojii-san, I'm…I'm honored that you're giving me this." Her voice choked a little at the end
Jiraiya's eyes softened and he gently patted her head "You remind me a lot of him when he was my student. Your grasp of space-time techniques has already impressed me, kid. I believe you're worthy." Ame looked down and let her tears fall onto her lap, holding the book with shaking hands. "Don't be silly, ojii-san." She gave a watery chuckle. "I can never be as good as Minato Namikaze."
Smiling indulgently, he merely said "Want to know the story behind this book?"
"Sure."
"He wrote this when she was 5 months pregnant. You can only imagine how temperamental her mood swings must have been." Jiraiya chuckled as he recalled the red hot habanero raging around the house with a swollen belly. "Since I didn't have the guts to ask Kushina to write it, I asked Minato, who knew almost as much as Kushina."
Ame chuckled, her voice still a little raspy. After a long period of silence, she spoke "I might have write a book too." When Jiraiya looked at her questioningly, she continued "I'm beginning to forget all that's happened in this world." He looked at her in shock as he realized that Konoha could lose their biggest trump card if that happened.
"I really do suggest you start writing it down then." He concluded in a grave voice. "But for now, start reading up. When you get to the third chapter, you can start practicing." He instructed, but continued to say firmly "Only in my presence though. Fuinjutsu is not to be fooled around with."
She nodded and began reading immediately.
Aaaand thank you! So how did you guys like the idea of Fuinjutsu? Lemme know your thoughts!
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