Author's note: I can't believe I found time to write all of this. I have so much to do at the Medical University and everyone at home being sick, me included, but I'm well enough to take care of the rest. It's a miracle I wrote anything at all!
So, here it goes. A very twisted little chapter, with a LOT of twists. Let's see what you will come up with in your reviews. Also, the Story is rated M for a reason that is NOT Lemons. There are sexual references and innuendo and such but nothing GRAPHIC at all. The Story is rated M due to the tons of fictional blood and guts that will be spilled and a few other horrors that will transpire. Being a medical student also helps since I actually have a good visual of what I will be writing.
Also, there are several references in the story that include games and other media. There are some inside jokes some of you won't get but you don't need to. These are things related with the fact that the characters have known each other for years.
I'll continue this rant after the chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter 28
A Gentleman does not Kiss and Tell
Sasuke frowned at Hannah as she performed her katas perfectly. While he also did his katas just as diligently, hers were, to say the least, much more complex than his own, and he was not the type to let himself be second best. Not by a long shot. There was something odd about Hannah that both sent chills down his spine and made him all warm and cozy in his tummy.
'A-ano, Hannah-chan.' Hinata started quietly. ' Those aren't t-the Hyuuga katas.'
The raven head raised an eyebrow. He had thought as much.
'I know.' Hannah started." I don't need to practice them when not aiming to use it.'
' Hannah-chan, why n-not?'
'While Byakugan is useful as a shinobi tool, I do not find myself walking on a well travelled road. I aim to make innovations. Inovations like expelling chakra in various ways. And in order to be able to do that I need to practice my Kung Fu.'
'Kung Fu?' Naruto asked loudly. He had never heard anything as ridiculous sounding.
Hannah nodded and stood again in her default position.
'Snake. Crane. Mantis. Monkey. Tiger.' She said the name for each Kung Fu style after performing it, fluidly and swiftly. The girl then relaxed and turned to them. ' I am still truggling with the Tiger style.' she redid the moves.
'T-that w-was beautifully p-performed, Hannah-chan.' Hinata praised with a small, shy smile.
'Thank you, Hinata-chan. I try my best.' Hannah bowed respectfully, causing the shy girl to turn tomato red and to poke her index fingers nervously.
' You're stearing away from Hyuuga traditions?' Sasuke finally spoke after brooding for a few minutes. That much he knew about Hyuuga- they were tradition freaks. ' Aren't you afraid of incuring the wrath of Hinata's Father, the Clan Head?'
Hinata was also wondering the same thing.
' No. My training aso includes Juuken, even though I rarely use it.' If it wasn't for Naruto and Hinata, Hannah would've told him that even the Hokage was terrified of her amazing skills. It wasn't her fault that whatever crazy gods were out there had decided to use the matrix of her cosplay instead of Hanabi herself.
'Oi, Sasuke!' Naruto suddenly called out. He had that mischievous foxy grin on his face that just screamed trouble. ' I bet Hannah-chan can wipe your ass!' He laughed.
'Naruto-kun.' Hannah spoke softly. It was all she said.
Naruto stopped laughing and gupled. Hannah was staring at him. Naruto couldn't help but stare right back. When one stares into the abyss, the abyss stares right back at you. Naruto shuddered.
'Actually, the Hokage forbade me from sparring with any Genin, Chuunin, Special Jounin, Full Jounin, ANBU, ANBU Captains, Sannin or Kages. However, he forgot to mentionmissing nin... or for that matter civilians and Academy Students. My psychiatrist says that that must mean that Hokage-sama thinks very highly of you...or not at all.' By now all three were shrunken in fear. ' My psychiatrist also says that violence does not solve anything, being a problem on its own , and by that logic I will currently spare you from sparring. That, and I feel lazy tonight.' Hanna deadpanned.
Silence.
LNELINELINE
Hatorri was in a very tight position. With the kids outside he hadn't a chance to squirm his way out of Anko's possessive grasp. The young man, while gifted with the natural Johnson charms, was still a rather green sprout in terms of love, courtesy of his mother's genes. To make a long story short, Hatorri was feeling extremely uncomfortable, especially because he was being quished into Anko's cleavage by her two strong arms that were wrapped around his head in a death grip. His face was rather flushed and despite being a gentleman, he could not deny that Anko was one very gifted woman. Furthermore, his Johnson genes kicked in and now he understood why Fia found men's bottoms to be so delicious- all Johnsons, while mostly monogamous, were whores. Period. And Anko's tight ass had accidentally found its way into Hatorri's hands. No, really. It was an honest accident! As she had pulled him into her chest all of a sudden and he had lost his balance,his hands had instinctively shot forward in search for some kind of support to keep him from falling. Because of the way Anko had taken up most of the space infront of him, his hands had stopped around her waist then, due to the material of her dress, they had slided down to halt at her buttocks.
She flashed him a grin and growled playfully.
'So, you like it kinky? What a coincidence! So do I!' She pulled his head up and nimbled on his lower lip. Hatorri froze at the lip contact. That action proved to be very exciting. All he could do was stare wide eyed as the snake woman continued her merciles ministrations on his lips.' Come on. Don't be shy!'
One of her hands snaked their way to his firm bottom and squeezed hard, earning her efforts a startled jump and a yelp that sounded more like a distressed moan, due to her mouth on his.
'Come on, Hatorrrrri-kun.' she deliberately purred the 'r' in his name, sending shudders down his spine.'Don't you like to play war?' she pouted childishly.
'Uh...I ....uh.' the young man was trying to catch his breath and find his grammar in the same time. Tough luck, grasshopper.
'Let me show you how real ninja play war.' There was so much lust in that single sentence that his knees nearly gave way. Not that her was new to sex. Oh, no. Hatorri was the high school King for his prom, and also the High School Football star. He had his fare share of romances, not that he would kiss and tell. Hatorri was too much of a gentleman. Never in his life had he seen a sight more gloriously tempting and eroting than the heated lustful, promising look Anko was giving him. The glint in her light brown eyes. The luster of her dark purple hair. Hatorri could feel the heat rolling off the both of them.
LINELINELINE
Those were some weird times that seemed to transpire, in Naruto's opininon. The first thing that happened was Sasuke suddenly wanting to be buddies with yours truly. As any self-respecting top knotch prank king, he was sure that there was a trap or a catch somewhere along the lines. Even though his instincts screamed no, he accepted the Uchiha's invitation to sit next to him in class. And then he waited. A suspicious frown made itself known every now and then on the blonde boy's face. Sasuke, of course, saw them bbut chose to ignore them. Since that faithful day even blunt lil'o Naruto could not help but notice the slow but gradual change that seemed to transpire within the dark haired boy. He seemed more light hearted and his episodes of brooding were less frequent even though still marginally present. There was a well-defined calm that had swept over Sasuke.
It wasn't the, blond finally decided, some elaborate trap. Something was happening with Sasuke. Naruto had heard from Ayame that some newcomer now lived with the Uchiha Scion. Maybe that man was the cause for such change? A about this point of his curren train of thought Naruto ditched the topic in favor of Ramen.
Then, a month ago, Naruto realised, Sasuke and him were having some sort of weird friendship. He was cool with that, he guessed.
LINELINELINE
It was a week since Anko had claimed Hatorri as hers (and christened Uchiha Madara's Armor in the process) and pretty much nothing happened except for Anko enrolling Hatorri in the ninja rehabilitation program, which, by her own words, was going to keep him occupied while she wasn't training him.
Another interesting occurence was Anko's mildly generous idea to teach the soon-to-be ninja some of her own jutsu. Nothing too fancy. Just a few tips here and there, nothing unusual in the quest of completely winning over one of the hottest hunks of the Hidden Leaf Village, par Hyuuga Hiashi and Maito Gai ( if you counted his physique and stamina alone, and that being said through Anko's skewered idea of hunkiness).
At first the little brats, er, children,heh, were reluctant to work with her, but with little help from Hannah's void stare made them accept the snake mistress' lessons.
With Anko being Anko...well, let's say she pinched Hinata and Naruto's cheeks playfully a few times too many. She was trying hard to make herself look child-friendly, but it was like calling an electric fence on a rainy day child-friendly. But that was Mitarashi Anko for you in all of her sadistic, exhuberant glory.
That also meant that her training wasn't exactly training, either. She simpl popped up randomly and handed tips to whoever needed them, mostly Naruto, for being himself, and Hinata, for being to shy to make herself go full out.
And all in all, it turned out that the week was actually kind of crazy. Especially when it ended with the discovery that Naruto could grow teeth over night in infinite quantities, which led to many lame "exploit the Tooth Fairy" puns from Hatorri and Hannah.
When confronted about her rare display of emotion, Hannah merely stated:
' My psychiatrist says that it is good to have something supernatural to believe in.' Her deadpan voice echoed for many minutes.
Then Anko decided to declare Hannah as the next possible Torture and Interrogations Leader. She proceeded by hugging her. And read hugging as breast suffocation. Hannah hadn't reacted. Anko had pouted. Naruto had sneezed.
The end of the Week was also marked by a meeting of exceptional importance. While Hatorri had played nannie for the kiddies, Hiashi had run multiple tests on Romero, Helen and Simon. The results were moderately the same in terms f patternisation- their chakra systems were vaguely several months old and rapidly expanding, trying to reach some kind of standart. While the phenomenon was extremely interesting, Hiashi had found that vague indications that their chakra systems were slightly different, alien if you will. The difference was only visible for a Hyuuga of most acute Byakugan vision. It was a subtle difference, but it was there.
You see, chakra is a mixture of the physical energy present in every cell of the body and the spiritual energy gained from excersize and experience. By using different ratios of the two energies, one could mold new types of chakras.
That was where the obscurity lied. The chakra coils were where they were supposed to be but the chakra producing organs... It was as if the production of chakra was only on superficial leve. Another thing that peaked interest was how the chakra flow seemed so...detached, much more neater if one wanted to go with a more subtle word. The body did not have chakra integrated within it. It was not used to using chakra on a daily basis. It was as if the chakra circulatory system was there, but the body could live without it. The body seemed not to need it.
To prove his point, Hiashi went as far as shutting down Helen's 361 tenketsu points, only to leave her, if a bit numb, just fine and dandy. The Hyuuga Clan Head was no mad scientist but even he could see the implications of such discovery- things like being unseen by chakra dectectors and chakra traps simply because your chakra system has been temporarily shut down. Inner Hiashi was having a mad scientist moments, with an evil cackle, dramatic cheesy music and all that Jazz. And don't forget the lightning.
If such an ability could be reproduced... the Hyuuga could easily become THE strongest clan in the elemental countries. Now, if only those three pseudo-Hyuuga weren't so....deviantly un-Hyuuga-ish. One could dream.
Back to the meeting.
Having the Hokage, and Hyuuga, and an UCHIHA in a single room going through a genuinely polite and calm conversations were one of the things Hiruzen thought he would never see in his life, afterlife, and, if possible, any other life after that.
Seeing Sasuke less anti-social than usual made Hiruzen somewhat happy. Seeing him and Hatorri going on about mundane things while waiting for the Hyuugas was a whole new level of relieved, all things having been taken into consideration.
From what he could understand, Hatorri had told him that the best revenge he could ever execute on his brother was by living his life to the fullest. And with Hatorri being, well, Sasuke from another universe, it was kind of obvious how the Uchiha Scion was now acting almost like a normal child . As normal as Uchiha children went.
When Hyuuga Hiashi, Helen, Simon and Hannah entered the Hokage office, the boys stopped chatting and stood straighter in their seats. It was obviously time to be serious and quiet, if it was to judge by the amount of scrolls that the Hyuuga group was carrying.
' I see you've brought detailed information on your latest discoveries, Hiashi-san.' Hiruzen indicated the pile of scrolls on on his desk with a wave of his had.
'Hai, Hokage-sama. The discoveries are most astounding. I looked them over last night again, with Hannah's help.'
'Due to the fact we do not possess chakra where we come from, obviously something covered us with a layer of chakra in the form of an additional circulatory system that is actually unused unless the body reaches its moderate physical limits.'
'You are trying to say you can live without chakra!? But that is impossible!' The Hokage exclaimed, standing up and putting his hands on his desk in the process.
'My tenketsu points are all closed at the moment.' Helen stated off-handedly, examining the quality of her nail work.
At a loss of words, the Third sat back down in his chair, his legs giving in to the impact of the sheer assumtion of something so outlandishly outrageous.
'Imagine ninja without chakra! It's just...unimaginable!' The third put a hand on his forehead, looking almost as if trying to stop his eyebrows from going any further from astonishment.
'That would make ninja like those in our world.' Hannah deadpanned.
Sasuke and Hatorri were watching the Exchange like a tennis match.
' You have ninja?' Hiashi asked, intrigued.
'Nothing fancy like you, magical unicorn folk.' Helen rolled her eyes as she was scrutinizing the nail of her left pinky.
' Still, you are versed in Taijutsu-'Hiashi pressed on.
' Common knowledge. While we do have wars and such, other methods are used.'
' Such as ranged weapon, far deadlier and faster than any ninja. Except for the Yellow Flash.' Hannah added to Helen's explanation. And Uchiha Madara- that part was left hanging silent for all but the Hokage and Hiashi to understand.
'What I still don't understand is how you are able to use chakra so naturally, when it isn't part of your nature.' Hiruzen finally spoke again.
'Chakra is like a glove for us. It fits us. We can wear it and use it. We don't need it to live. Chakra is like a glove. Something or somebody made it, gave it to us. The impossible becomes possible simply because we are adjusted to the natural laws of this universe. I have come to the conclusion that the abilities we possess are awakened when we go through a life threatening situation. It is as if our bodies have the cell memory of chakra, but not the knowledge of its presence. Distress brings that knowledge.'
There was silence.
'If your theroy is correct, Hannah-san, then we mus find your friends as soon as possible. They might be in grave danger as we speak.' The Hokage sighed.' The sheer fact you can live without chakra is enough to start the next Great Ninja War.'
'Not to mention the Akatsuki.'
All their heads turned towards Simon. He had been silent, deep in thought till now.
' We are practically like chakra Batteries. No amount of chakra would affect us. Imagine the possibilities...' said possibilities were sprouting before the young man's eyes.
'Back to the topic. Fiona-sempai is a raiding-junkie. You would know what I mean the moment you see her. A genuine super genius and inventor. Leader-sama is passionate yet calm. Like the calm before the storm. You cannot argue with her. Her strenghts are politics, diplomacy and hand-to-hand combat. Jessica-sempai is a true Taijutsu genius. She is one of the best, if not the best, in our world. She is calm, collected and extremely cunning. Fiona-sempai is almost as good a survivalist as Tifa-sama,despite not being physically fit like her or Jessica-sempai. Her encyclopedic knowledge is even greater than my own. The three of them are natural leaders and mistresses of the subtlest of forms of manipulation. They are somewhat safe in my opinion. As to their location, I had an interesting epiphany.'
Everyone was listening intently to Hannah's dull but soft monologue.
'Fiona-sempai is a Naruto Cosplayer. She should've ended up here with Hatorri sempai. But then again...'
Confused looks.
'Think Naruto's Oiroke no Jutsu.' Hatorri coughed uncomfortably.
'But way better looking than the dobe.'
' Sasuke, I'll pretend you didn't say anything to spare myself the mental scars.'
'Fine by me.'
'As I was saying, Hatorri-sempai, Sasuke-kun, Fiona-sempai is a Naruto Cosplayer. She should have ended up here. But look at my siblings and I. We ended up in Snow Country. And Tifa-sama is with Charlie in Suna. I realised that our locations do not depend on our Cosplay. They depend on our associations.'
'Associations? What do you mean?' The Hokage was very intrigued by the girl's train of thought. Rarely had he seen anyone show such logic at such a young age and not a Nara.
'Fiona-sempai occasionally cosplayed as a geisha sort of version of a humanified Kyuubi. That was one of the reasons that led me to believe she may actually be stuck in Naruto's Seal. Then I realized that would not have been possible since we, as cosplayers, are associated with certain things.
The three of us, for example, are often associated with snow. We have light complexion, pale eyes, the such. We also often go on vacation to snowy places. Like the Alps in our world. It is a very popular mountain for winter sports and relaxation. By our association, we ended up in Snow Country.
Tifa-sama is a soldier. She is very powerful and an extremely accurate sharp shooter. She's been a soldier all her life. A lot of the things she did were located in deserts. By this logic it is natural to understand why she ended up with Charlie in Suna.
Now, Fia-sempai's association is " Jinchuuriki".'
Hatorri tried to say something but a look from Hannah shut him up. She liked her well thought out monologues. I guess you could say it was a Hyuuga thing. CoughNejiCough.
'Fiona-sempai's association is "Jinchuuriki" She likes to be chased by the Akatsuki and then use her... foxy traits to outsmart them and run away.'
'SHE'S WITH THE AKATSUKI!?' Hatorri's outburst startled even the Hokage. They usually gentle and calm man was seemingly enraged. Killer intent was rolling off of him in waves and it was frightening. As suddenly as it had come, however, the outburst had gone, leaving Hatorri groaning in pain, clutching his left shoulder and slumping down his chair.
'Hatorri!' Sasuke's voice was that of worry.
' Byakugan!' Hiashi inspected his chakra circulatory system to see black chakra fluidly receding back into the Curse Seal.
Indeed, the Hokage could see the black slivers of flames swiftly disappearing into the Curse Seal.
'Thankfully you come with the restrained version.' the Hokage commented dryly.' Does it hurt much?'
'Almost as much as Fia's vengeful iron thumbs!' Hatorri gasped out with difficulty. The pain was slowly going away as well, soon letting him relax.
' You are a pansy, Hatorri.' Helen stated as a matter of factly.
'I insist to continue.' Hannah interjected the possible bickering. Every shut up.
Gulp.
' Fiona-sempai, Jessica-sempai and Leader-sama are safe. I imagine missing nin have a thing for delicious home made cooking.'
'She's actually being serious.' Sasuke deadpanned.
'You haven't tried my cousin's cooking, that's why you're saying that.' Hatorri half heartedly glared at Sasuke, but the young man lacked an Uchiha's training on the matter, leaving Sasuke completely ignorant of his attempts to make him cower.
'And I also doubt Fiona-sempai would go as far as screaming for the world to hear that she is from another universe. I rather fancy her just scream. She is neat like that.'
Silence. That was a weird attempt at a joke, right?
'Jessica-sempai and Leader-sama are obviously there, being Akatsuki cosplayers.' Hannah continued. She did not tell them that there was a very high chance of them being in extreme danger due to their own Akatsuki cloaks. As far as Hannah was concerned they were probably dead. That was what her logic told her. She, however, clung to the small amount of chance they miraculously being able to convince Pein not to kill them.
'How do we plan on busting them out?' Hatorri finally broke the heavy silence.'I remember Ame being close by.'
'We can't. We don't know anything of their situation and rushing things may not be in their favor. It might cause some major political problems.' Simon stated darkly. Trust him to think about politics.
'Hmm... actually, there is a way.' The Hokage said, all heads swiftly turning in his direction.
Author's Note: Aaaaaaaaand that was chapter 28 for you. Dun Dun DUN! What does the Third have in mind? Do you think there will be rescue attempts? And the AnkoxHatorri issue? Remember to read and review. I like comments on my story :D. Who doesnt .
Anyway, another thing I would like to say is that some of the characters haven't had much highlight but things will change as soon as their time comes.
Also, which kids should be paired with who? What do you think about pairings in the story? I would like to hear your opinion. Most pairings are set but you never know. I might as well explain my reasons on the pairings afterwards :D
Here's a little visual of chapter 29- We're going back to Suna, Baby!
Tata till next time ^.^
