Author's Note: I hope you like randomness. ^^' Um...we have another pretty random chapter. But, it is needed because of the fact that something actually kind of big will be happening soon. It's not a small event either, kind of important.
This chapter, hopefully it's good. I tried to make it good, luckily, I'm not as busy as I was before. But I'm still just a little stressed. -.- To be honest, writing this chapter actually relieved the stress a little. Because I suddenly find this fic fun to write. ;) Coming up with the dialogue, "interesting" OCs (*Glances at Inner G for emphasis*), adding in crazy events to happen, and slipping in a few references. All-in-all: this fic is strangely fun to write! And it's got over 70 reviews too! O.O; SEVENTY? Well...I shouldn't be too surprised, after all, one of my more popular(?) fics got over one-hundred. :| But still...*pales* it's surprising that so many like this fic! I mean, it's got a pretty weird plot, weird characters (*Laughs nervously and looks at Gaara and Naruto* I wasn't talking about you two! ^^'), and a sloppy writing style. Oh well, everyone has their own interests!
I'm SO SORRY for all this useless rambling! I'm done...I think. But let me know how this chapter is; because, by now, you MUST know I am very pessimistic when it comes to my writing! :(
Disclaimer: If it wasn't obvious by now, I DON'T own Naruto! I don't own Gaara, Temari, or Kankuro either...
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The Sand Siblings Go On A Road Trip
Chapter Thirty-Three
After all that they have been through over the time away from the Sand, Gaara should have known that something was going to go horribly wrong when Mr. Haruna declared a search party to find a missing Yumi.
Wait...let's back this all up a little: the trio had originally planned their road trip to get away from their lives as shinobi and escape to the modern world. Gaara and Kankuro were actually reluctant to go, but Temari was determined to drag them along. Things just way too out of hand the minute they left in their RV.
After a series of comical/stupid/weird events, they befriended a small ordinary family. When they got kicked out of East Ville's only hotel, they all decided to group together and head to North City. Because, well, the Haruna's were on a road trip for the exact same reason the siblings were. They had been through a lot during that time, especially having to deal with Kankuro's revenge-obsessed puppet.
After arriving at the big and cozy city, things just got more and more strange. Because of the fact that Gaara's friend, Naruto, had been shadowing them the entire time...and had no money left to go back to his home village...he kind of joined them. And that's when everyone got together and discovered they had run out of money; needing money, they failed epically with doing simple jobs for a few people. But that's when they met Hiroshi and Hisako Sato: two Japanese siblings they sort of befriended.
Oh, how it seemed like things were calming down after that, well they were all WRONG!
Not long after that, Gaara's Inner, Inner G as he prefers to be called, became too much for him to handle. The crazy voice inside his head was annoying him endlessly; pretty much never running out of things to say. He was apparently some freaky Moutain Dew-aholic who was obviously hopelessly in love with his sister. (Which Gaara still assumes might be incest; because of the fact that Inner G is HIS inner.)
The worst hasn't come yet.
Everything just got plain out of control when Naruto took a hesitant Gaara over to the shady streets of North City. The encountered a mysterious woman named Madame Star and her assistant, Denise. After an odd extraction process to remove Inner G from Gaara's mind forever, the results backfired. And it caused the odd inner to be removed from his mind; but not killed or destroyed. It caused him to be separated from his spirit form and become an actual being...in a nutshell: the red-haired freak is now outside Gaara's mind!
Currently, Gaara was inside the back of the RV with Inner G, and Kankuro. Temari was in the driver's seat driving the RV. As they were driving a little distance away from North City, Yumi's parents were out at Silver Tea. And Naruto mentioned that he didn't feel like coming with the siblings and the freaky Inner. So he stayed behind on the city; nobody knew was he was going to be up to while they were gone.
Now, why were the siblings in the RV driving away from the city? Let's start over from the beginning: the previous night, Gaara and Inner G had been trapped inside the hotel's elevator with three other freaks because it was crappy and Temari had them trapped together. Meanwhile, Naruto and Yumi had went looking all over for them and ended up having to take shelter inside the RV until midnight when the storm cleared away. Once everything had calmed down, the siblings and Naruto plus Inner G had went to bed. But Yumi didn't stay, she left in the middle of the morning hours without telling anyone; but thanks to Naruto's ninja skills, he had woken up briefly to see her quietly sneak out out through the glass doors leading to the balcony.
Gaara remembered the rude awakening he had received that morning. "WHERE THE HELL IS YUMI? SHE ISN'T ANYWHERE IN THE ROOM OR THE HOTEL!" He remembered Mr. Haruna thunder (because he forgot to turn on his hearing aid and couldn't hear himself). Everyone else was confused too; they didn't know where the teen could have disappeared to. Gaara was worried as well, he knew that Yumi wouldn't up and leave like that. She had told him the previous morning that she loved the city with every cell of her being. Why would she leave if she loved North City SO MUCH? He had seen a brief knowing look in Naruto's eyes, but he didn't get to question him because Mrs. Haruna started to panic and go to the worst case scenario; fearing the worst of her daughter.
While she witnessed the unfolding awkward drama, Temari's teal eyes absentmindedly looked over to the coffee table by the couch; that's when she saw a folded piece of notebook paper. After reading it and showing it everyone else, the Haruna's knew what they would do: force the teens and...older teens to find their daughter while they enjoyed a lovely breakfast at Silver Tea! Yes, that was SO logical, Gaara had thought at the time, sarcastic of course.
Apparently from the piece of paper, Yumi had written it. But Gaara was suspicious of that, it seemed as if she wanted them to come look for her or something. Things were a little weird, but the siblings and the weird Mountain Dew-aholic of an inner knew that they had no choice but to find Yumi.
"So where are we going anyway~? Kankuro complained as he stared up at the RV's ceiling. "I'm STARVING! And I wanted to go to that local music store and get a job there; I went in there and noticed that Many sexy girls step in there-"
"Kankuro, shut up already!" Temari snapped, briefly looking back at him. "Look, the Haruna's have helped us out countless times. Finding Yumi will be something we can do to repay them for their generosity! Ugh...you are SO out of it..."
"I stopped trying to be into it a long time ago, sis. You're just know noticing?" Kankuro pointed out, sighing as he reached over and grabbed his ipod. "Now...I guess I'll just have to pass the time with some Shakira music..."
"Desperate idiot..." Inner G thought, rolling his eyes as he glanced at Kankuro putting the iPod's earbuds in his ear.
"Well you're a strange Mountain Dew-addict. So it's...actually pretty even?" Gaara thought, his eyes widened slightly afterward when he realized he had heard the inner's thoughts. And even Inner G seemed to notice because he looked at him and smirked.
"This is awesome, man! You're finally noticing how our thoughts are connected together!"
"What the hell is it talking about..."
"DON'T THINK ABOUT ME LIKE I'M A RANDOM OBJECT!"
"Well you kind of are. And I would give you chance; if you could try and become more normal."
"I'm your inner, man! I'm SUPPOSED to be the opposite of you: therefore, I have the freedom to be a freak! In reality, you aren't that normal either..."
"Oh, someone just KILL me now..."
At long last there was silence in the RV. But it was a little uncomfortable for Temari, she wasn't used to complete silence. Her eye twitched a little and she turned her head to get a good look at everyone:
Kankuro was lying on the couch listening to his iPod. That wasn't surprising at all. But Gaara was sitting at the table looking freaked out and Inner G was looking proud of himself as he leaned against the back of the passenger seat. Temari didn't really want to know what had been said or did, so she looked back to the road.
Finally, a good twenty minutes passed. Everyone including Temari were bored out of their minds. But they knew they had to find Yumi. It wasn't like Yumi was important to the fic's plot or anything, Kankuro recapped. They had to find her because the Haruna's where very protective of their daughter when they needed (or NOT needed) to be. Before they had left the hotel, Mrs. Haruna had confided to the puppet 'master' that the reason behind why they were so protective of Yumi...was because she nearly died when she was still in the womb. Originally, she was to have a twin sister; but the sister didn't survive. Kankuro was shocked to hear that, and of course, he questioned why Mrs. Haruna had told him instead of someone like Gaara or Temari. But she didn't answer his question. She changed that subject after a tense silence overcame them and mentioned that they also feared her safety because of her asthma problems. But after realizing how Gaara felt about the odd anime fangirl, they were convinced he could watch her with those problems. Kankuro could only smirk after hearing that.
But then as he turned around to leave, Mrs. Haruna hesitantly made him keep all the information he was given a secret for the time being. Because, not even Yumi herself knew about the hell her parents had to go through. It seemed VERY melodramatic to Kankuro, but he promised to not tell anyone about that for the time being. However, it would be quite the challenge.
Temari continued to drive, anyway. Her eyes were locked on the road and it was so OBVIOUS she wanted to speed the RV up and get to where they were going faster. She hated going slow and steady, she was just like Kankuro; a speed demon!
But driving along the roads like a bat out of hell wouldn't do anything but kill them...or at least land them in the hospital on their deathbed.
Kankuro was still listening to music while he started reading Temari's diary again. Inner G was still sitting in the chair, but he was backwards in it; sitting on his knees looking through the window at all the traffic and various modern vehicles and scenery. Between all this, Gaara had himself locked in the bathroom to get his sanity back and get away from his freaky inner.
Finally, Temari gasped when she saw something. She quickly slammed down on the breaks and parked the RV in a very awkward fashion; it made another infamous rough vibration occur:
Kankuro was thrown forward onto the RV's floor, and Temari's diary flew out of his hands and totally pwned him by smacking him in the face, his iPod was also thrown and flew out the window into the street (it also got run over by some random dude on a motorcycle). Gaara was thrown forward, but he had actually caught himself before he smacked into the bathroom's wall. And Inner G? Well, he lost his balance and was thrown backwards into Temari (which, of course, he didn't seem to mind at all).
"Oh THAT'S what the infamous vibration feels like..." Inner G gasped out. "That was...that was so frickin' EPIC!"
Inner G was going to say more. But he didn't when he realized how he had landed on Temari; their foreheads were pretty much touching and their couldn't have been much distance between them. Temari's face seemed a little unusually pale while she knitted her eyebrows together. However: Inner G's expression was pretty priceless, he was stunned and had a tinge of red spreading across his face.
"What was that vibration?" Gaara opened the door and walked out of the bathroom. "Temari, did you park the-"
Gaara cut himself off before he could finish the question. He stared at Kankuro on the floor with a black eye and complaining about 'gravity' and 'iPod's being chucked out windows and into the street. And then he glanced over at Inner G and Temari's position. The first thought that came to his mind was: "What the hell did I miss?" Although he DIDN'T say that out loud in a stunned voice; because that would be way too much of an OOC reaction! So Gaara said nothing.
For what seemed like eternity (it was really only ten seconds), Temari and Inner G had kept awkward eye contact. But Temari eventually grabbed Inner G by his neck and threw him off her. He landed to the floor and mumbled a delayed "oww" before getting off his face.
"That was weird." Gaara commented, mostly to himself since nobody was paying attention to him at the moment. He shook his head and looked at Temari. "Where are we?"
Temari undid her seat belt and then turned off the RV (she still didn't know the right word to describe that action). "Oh, we're this shabby-looking wilderness area by North City. I heard from a valuable source I will not reveal, they were originally gonna turn this big area into part of the city when it was being constructed."
"So why did they leave it in this state?"
"Don't ask me. I think they were probably a bunch of lazy-ass workers who didn't give a damn about their jobs..." Temari nonchalantly replied. "Look, I'm not THRILLED about having to search through this place; it's all Yumi's fault for disappearing here, forcing us to come after her!"
This still seemed odd. Why would Yumi just disappear like that? Gaara had no idea why Yumi would disappear to the wilderness anyway; she obviously was one of those 'soft people' who couldn't handle life outside the modern world. Gaara inwardly sighed. He remembered what had happened to everyone the LAST TIME they had gotten lost in the wilderness, and he didn't want that to happen again.
Was Yumi really worth it? Ohhh...that was question for him.
"Come on. Let's get out and search for Yumi." Temari said, already getting out of the RV. Gaara and Inner G exchanged blank expressions, wondering how fast she did that. But they found no evidence at all.
"HURRY UP!"
"WE'RE COMING!" Kankuro angrily snapped, now finally regaining awareness of why they were there in the first place. He grabbed Gaara and Inner's arms and dragged them out of the RV.
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So Kankuro dragged Gaara and Inner G out of the RV hesitantly. Once out and having slammed the doors shut tightly, they eyed their surroundings closely.
They were definietely in the wilderness: really tall green trees loomed over, dirt covered the area, many thick bushes and unknown plants were covering almost every inch of the ground, ect. Look, let's just say that it looked life if one went inside, they would end up totally lost! Why Yumi would go in there, Gaara had NO possible scenarios in mind.
"Are we seriously goin' in there? What if your totally hot girlfriend isn't even there?" Inner G questioned Gaara, giving him a look a complaining little kid would have.
"Stop complaining; we're helping the Haruna's!" Temari snapped, having heard Inner G's complaining. That sudden outburst got Inner G off-guard and he flinched before looking back at her.
"But WHY would Yumi even go here?" Gaara pointed out, hoping to change the subject. "Besides, isn't a little too cliché of her to sneak away to a forest?"
Temari sighed. "It really is. But Yumi left behind a note: it clearly said that she was heading to this wilderness area..."
"BUT WHY WOULD SHE COME OUT AND SAY THAT? THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT IS TO NOT SAY WHERE YOU'RE GOING! THAT JUST KILLS THE DRAMA!"
Everyone sweatdropped at the exact same time and looked over at Kankuro. But then they realized that he was just being his weird self, they shook their heads and got back to the subject.
"Let's just find her and leave." Temari explained, oh how she didn't want to even be there at all...it was so obvious by her tone. "We will split up in two sets: that way, we'll be able to search the wilderness easier. Now let's decide who will be with who-"
"I'll take the radiant goddess!"
Temari glanced to the side and gasped a little, she stepped back as she noticed Inner G suddenly by her side. Ugh...so it looked like she was stuck with him. She didn't want to be, but fore some reason, she couldn't say no to the thrilled look in his eyes.
"Good. That will give me a break away from you." Gaara mentioned, inwardly glad to have Inner G away for a little while. ...But he then sighed when he realized that Inner G could still communicate through his thoughts.
Life SO wasn't fair...
"Okay, I guess I'll take Gaara! Now let's hurry into the CONVENIENT forest and get the hell OUT as soon as possible!" Kankuro declared.
And they all parted ways into the strangely-convenient forest. It was kind of hard, because there was so many different overgrown trees and bushes in the way. It was almost like a time paradox for Temari, because her and Inner kept tripping over old tree roots that just "happened" to be there.
However, things were actually going okay for Gaara and Kankuro, they hadn't once ran into any evil tree roots. But what was annoying Gaara was Kankuro's never-ending talking; he mentioned that it had been a little while since they had lost gotten to talk. So he decided to make up for lost time and talk...over...and over...and over...and over... and over again about pretty much the exact same thing.
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-With Gaara And Kankuro-
Things were actually going decent so far, Gaara admitted that. But it was almost like an annoying and unnecessary time paradox; they were once again in the wilderness. However, they did ACTUALLY have a good reason to be there.
Yumi disappeared to the forest (Gaara would never understand that one) and they were forced to find her. It sounded simple, but the wilderness/forest/whatever place was way too overgrown and had too many possible paths to take. Gaara assumed they were lost after about thirty minutes, but Kankuro was just too stubborn to admit he was lost.
"So then...I was confused. But after I heard Temari's ringtone, that stupid Blood+ opening song, I knew it had to be her phone. I heard some battles cries in the background. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..."
Okay, Gaara wasn't sure who was more annoying: Kankuro or Inner G. It was almost like a tie between them, they wouldn't shut the hell up already!
"Why do I always get stuck with the ones who talk too much?" Gaara thought, keeping his gaze ahead and using all his strength not to crack from Kankuro's annoying rambling.
If Kankuro was this bad, he actually wondered how Temari was doing with Inner G...
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-With Temari And Inner G-
"What are you doing?"
Temari didn't respond to Inner G's question. She just crouched down to the ground and examined something she had found. Inner G, being the curious person he was, got down too and touched the object innocently lying on a fallen green leaf.
"I found this. And...it really looks familiar." Temari mentioned. She picked the object up and a look of hope flashed through her eyes. "It looks like an old broken cellphone. This must mean...we are getting close to finding Yumi! She must be somewhere in THIS area!"
Inner G glanced at the broken cellphone he furrowed his eyebrows together and then remembered something...something that obviously meant the two were getting nowhere with their search. Now, having odd strong feelings for the Sand kunoichi, he didn't want to ruin her moment. Because he knew she would get ticked off about that, just like himself. He HATED it when someone interrupted his moments. But this did call for an interruption.
"Eh...Temari..." Temari stopped talking and looked at Inner G. "We've passed that broken cellphone...ten times."
"...TEN TIMES?" Inner G's eyes widened and he inched away a little. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER? I ACTUALLY THOUGHT WE WERE GETTING SOMEWHERE! UGH! I HATE THIS DAMN FOREST!"
For one rare time, Inner G was a little frightened back from her yelling. However, he recovered very quickly, and glanced away as she continued to rant loudly. A blush beginning to spread over his face as he realized that like him, Temari never stopped herself from taking out rage on something.
That just added to the long list of things he loved about her.
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-Back With Gaara And Kankuro-
"But of course: it is nice to be walking together even though these damn woods are really annoying to look at! I mean, we haven't gotten to spend much time together. Gaara and Kankuro: brothers, on a road trip together! Usually in those sappy movies the main characters would realize they were missing out on having fun with the other. They will make a campfire and then snuggle around it and reminisce about the good times they had together. But it's too bad it's not like that for us, huh? I really do wish that we COULD spend some time together: without chaos following of course, and us not ending up having to go 'downtown' like that whole jail incident from before! This is also a chance for us to be alone together without that pessimistic Yumi we're searching for, that freak Inner G, that strangely-awesome Naruto, those weird Haruna's whose names we do not know for some random reason the author doesn't want to spoil, or Temari! Blah blah blah blah..."
Kankuro did not seem to notice Gaara clasp his hands over his ears in a desperate attempt to block out his extremely irritating rambling. He was merely grinning and walking along at a remarkably fast pace with Gaara by his side.
"I mean, Yumi could be ANYWHERE in this wilderness! We might as well take the chance and talk a little bit. Let's talk about how it's odd that Temari seems interested in that Hiroshi guy. Don't get me wrong: the guy's pretty cool, but I can't get over the fact that it's kind of ironic that Shikamaru dumped her AFTER she met up with another potential boyfriend in a very distant place! But it's all good. I honestly can't stand that lazy-ass Shikamaru, I don't know about Hiroshi though. But his sister's pretty hot! Hey Gaara, I know you probably don't care, but isn't Hisako so freakin' HOT? I had a dream she and me met up by that dessert stand in the city; but she was wearing this sexy blank mini dress and her hair seemed to be perfectly fixed as opposed to when it looked messy the previous time I came in contact with her! Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..."
"Just SHUT THE HELL UP already..." Gaara thought, getting a really extreme headache from all the annoying rambling.
"Well WHO'S annoying now, man? See, I'm not that bad! Kankuro's a whole different story though..." Inner G commented through Gaara's thoughts.
"Can you just shut up too? And stop conversing with me through my thoughts. Thoughts are supposed to be personal."
"But we're technically the same person. How can your thoughts be personal from yourself, man?"
"...Oh, you're good."
"Damn right Inner G's good! THIS THE BEST MINUTE-AND-A-HALF OF MEH LIFE! Ya' realized how I awesome I am, and Temari accidentally tripped and fell into my arms!"
Gaara sighed and just tried to tune out to the two idiots' rambling. Oh, but it was very difficult! But since he was pretty awesome, it wasn't that much of a challenge after all!
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-With Naruto-
The blond-haired ninja coughed and wheezed, collapsing to the floor. Naruto had previously attempted to take the stairs back up the hotel to the Sato sibling's room. After all, the elevator was still stuck in the shaft and the woman at the check-in counter still hadn't found the time to contact 'repairmen'. So...everyone was forced to take the many endless stairs. But these stairs were almost ENDLESS.
It had literally taken him three-and-a-half hours to reach the top. And that was with the help of sending CHAKRA to his feet. That just said something right there.
Anyway, Naruto got up off the floor and composed himself. He acted as if his weird coughing/wheezing episode hadn't even happened. He walked up to the Sato siblings room door and knocked on it.
He waited for a few seconds...
Then knocked again...
Then waited another minute...
And finally, someone answered the door. However, it creaked open in an extremely creepy fashion; revealing a pitch black room and a single eye.
Naruto's eyes widened and he jumped back at the sight. It looked as if the mysterious eye was...staring into his very soul. The eye was a dark color and only blinked two times in the entire several seconds it stared at him.
"Hello." A smooth and mysterious male voice greeted. The eye shifted to the left slightly, sending shivers down Naruto's spine.
But he didn't give in to the creepy moment.
"Um...uh...h-hey..." Naruto stumbled over his words as he made direct eye contact with the eye. "I-i-is this...erm...ah...am I at the right hotel room?"
"Who are you looking for?"
"Th-the S-Sato family..."
The eye shifted back to the right, never keeping it's sharp gaze off of Naruto. Whoever this was, the person didn't seem to ever want to answer. Whirling around on the heels of his feet and running away seemed tempting to Naruto, but he took a deep breath and tried to keep his cool.
...Whatever cool that was.
"Ah...the Sato family?" Naruto shakily nodded yes. "...I never have heard of them. But I do know which room they are in."
"You...mean this isn't their hotel room?"
"I'm afraid it is not."
"So...you know where their room is?"
"I do. Yes."
"..."
"..."
"You're...you're kind of freaking me out! Can you tell me which room is theirs?"
The scene just got creepier and creepier. Naruto broke out into a cold sweat as the eye's sharp gaze pierced his very soul. The eye...it was so mysterious and hypnotizing. Looking directly into it, he felt a vibe of much emotion coming from it. He felt angst, loneliness, torture, ect.
This creepy person...must have been through quite a lot in life if his eyes(?) gave away that much strong emotion.
Anyway, the seconds ticked by. Naruto and the creepy guy's eye held the contact. More seconds passed by rather slowly; deadly slowly. Where the hotel room was warm and comforting, it suddenly felt bitter cold. Dramatically, the cold sweat dripped off Naruto's head and to the floor.
Suddenly, a pale-ish hand came out from the darkness and was outstretched. This person gestured up to the door's number and Naruto's eye could only shakily follow. "This is room 45. The Sato family's room number is 49."
"O-oh...okay! Um...ah...sorry to bother you, creepy guy!"
"It is alright." The slightly pale-ish hand slowly (and creepily) went back into the darkness. "I will remember this encounter for quite some time."
"Oh, you and me both. Your freaky emotion-filled EYE is going to haunt me in my nightmares..." Naruto thought, rolling his eyes.
Against his will, Naruto and the creepy guy's eye made contact again. Other people innocently walking by and witnessing it, would probably think it was a staring contest. But it was not a staring contest. It was almost like a silent battle. And Naruto somehow got the feeling that a part of him died inside.
But he wasn't sure if that literally did happen or not!
"Before I leave...I want to know why you're in a pitch black room and not revealing yourself." Naruto stated, taking a step back and getting into a defensive stance; whipping a kunai out. "It's REALLY shady and extremely over-used pathetically most of the time. ...Um...but you might be doing it RIGHT!"
The eye shifted a little bit, looking back and forth in an almost paranoid fashion. But then this person sighed and the eye finally blinked.
"You don't need to know right now. However...I will give you a piece of delicate information." Naruto blinked, but still brought the sharpened kunai closer to his face; worried that this was a trap. "Use this information wisely: there is a strong possibility that you can gain the advantage you will need. This is the information: stay on your toes and be careful with who you put trust into. This is only for the time being."
Naruto blinked, either he didn't get it, or he did get it but was just bewildered. "Why are you saying this?"
The mystery person didn't respond. He just grabbed the doorknob from the other side and inched away from it before he closed it semi-loudly. That just left Naruto stunned and creeped out. He dropped the kunai and then rubbed his head when he felt a massive headache coming on.
"Oh man, that was so creepy..."
Naruto started to walk away. He had to find the Sato siblings after all. The reason he wanted to find them was because he was going to try and get them to warm up to him. Once they had warmed up to him and maybe started thinking of him as a person to trust, he could get them to help him go off after Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro to find Yumi and end the unnecessary search! The fact that Yumi would suddenly, totally and 100% out of the blue; he might add to seem more intelligent about it, was OOC of her. He had to admit it was. Yumi wouldn't just up and desert her family and close friends, then point out just WHERE she was going, would she?
Naruto didn't really understand the details. But somehow, it was almost as if she had intended to leave and have them search for her... ugh. This was so confusing! And made it even more confusing was the fact that...the creepy guy (that Naruto previously encountered) had an extremely familiar-sounding voice. Naruto stopped walking in the middle of trying to locate room 49 when realization struck him.
"That eye/creepy guy's voice...it strangely sounded a LOT like Sasuke's older brother, Itachi's..."
What the hell was going on...?
Continued.
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No need to answer that. I'm sure we all know what's going on: random chaos! ^^
Anyway, there's the chapter. I would like to point out that I finally received 71 reviews; and when I first started the story a while back, I hoped for at least 70! So...I'm kind of glad that it's getting some attention. I'm also glad a lot like/liked it. Ah...because I didn't realize anyone would like this story at first! But AGAIN: I'm pessimistic! *Rubs the back of my neck* WHAT I'M ATTEMPTING TO SAY IS; thanks. :)
And the story isn't over yet! :P Still got some stuff planned...
I'm sorry if this chapter didn't make too much sense. You're probably wondering why Itachi is being mentioned a lot and having the most random brief appearances. :| I'd be a spoiler machine if I explained why. So... … ...let's just let time tell what'll happen!
Yumi's reason for running away will be explained...sort of. After all, she is important to the plot just as Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro are; believe it or not.
Well anyway, I was hoping to update soon. Uh...but considering the fact that it's getting close to the holidays, that might be put off a little. (Sorry. -.-) Still, merry Christmas; or whatever you celebrate!
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