Sleepless D: Hope you all like the story so far, and again, I'm busy with work and I've had several basic or detailed ideas that I know I won't be able to get into or create, so if anyone's interested, send me a message and I can give you an idea if you're good at writing, but at a writer's block. Peace out.
It's been over three days and Naruto remains within the forest where he woke up for three reasons. One, he didn't know which way home was, two, he didn't know how to get out, and three, the White eyed Forest People prevented him from leaving. Naruto has several small scars across his body, having tried to flee, but one of them reappear and attacks him, even if Naruto is fast, they were shockingly faster than him.
Right now, Naruto is sitting in a tree, looking at ruined remains of a village; he does see some skeletal remains within the ruined buildings and around the overgrowth, hard to see if you're not looking for them. He just sits there, thinking of everything that happened, getting a killing intent about Sasuke with every thought of him, heartache with Hinata for thinking of her kissing him and now why these Forest People won't let him go.
So far, he's seen over a dozen different people, men, women and a couple of children, he knows there's more out there. He occasionally gets distracted from his thoughts by a curious child, looking about a few years or so younger than him. From what Naruto can tell, the child is a girl, with long, lilac coloured hair, mixed with patches of green from grass and leafs, her eyes are brown, not white like most of the adults around, and she has purple arrow mark on her forehead. Her figure was rather skinny, covered in mud and other nature stains on her skin and lacks any clothes. Naruto didn't mind, he was almost as naked as her when he was her age, but wore trousers since his former master Norio dressed him.
Naruto looks, seeing a few of the Forest People dragging a dead deer, soon having several of the Forest People come out and start ripping into deep. This lasted for a few seconds before a roar is heard, making everyone move away and the man that Naruto fought with a few days ago appears. Naruto glares at him, knowing that he's the alpha male, having fought him a couple of times since then to escape, but he won't allow Naruto to leave.
Naruto feels his stomach growl, having eaten nothing but shockingly large bugs for the past few days, getting a nasty taste in his mouth and wondering if he'll get out. Naruto closes his eyes, getting tired and wanting some rest while he thinks of a plan to sneak away.
After a minute, he feels something nudge his knee; he opens his eyes and sees the curious girl, seeing that she has a few raw ribs in her mouth, she rips one of the ribs off and holds it to Naruto. He chuckles and takes it, thanking her and sees her tilt her head, chuckling and wonders if she's able to speak or not. "Naruto." Naruto says, pointing to himself, making her tilt her head. "Na-ru-to." He repeats.
The girl just tilts her head again. "Arudo..." She says in confusion, wondering what she's saying by repeating Naruto's name as best as she could.
Naruto chuckles again. "Na-ru-to." Naruto repeats, seeing if she can say his name, chuckling at her attempts to say his name.
"...Na...ru...to..." She says, making Naruto smile and clap.
"Well done, do you have a name?" Naruto asks her, looking at the little girl and she tilts her head in confusion.
"Na...ru...to..." She says in reply, making Naruto chuckle even more.
"No...Naruto..." Naruto points to himself and then gestures to her, wondering if she has a name.
She tilts her head again, a pained look on her face as she rubs her grass stained hair. "...Na...ru...to?" She says again, making Naruto sigh and think for a few seconds before eating the raw rib.
"...I'll call you...Ili." Naruto says, not sure why, but remembers the name from Icha Icha book of Kakashi's.
Ili tilts her head while nibbling on the meat of the ribs in her mouth, Naruto smirks and scratches behind her ear, making her smirk and enjoy the physical contact. "Na...ru...to." She says, leaning into his hand.
Xxxxxxxxxx
A week passes and Naruto still has to escape from the forest, he nearly escaped, but he took a wrong turn and got dog piled by five of the Forest People. Naruto is close to giving up on getting back, not sure if he wants to since the girl he wants makes him hurt, his rival and friend betrayed him and it's getting difficult there. He remembers the good things about it, but the loss of his role model, his team, the complications of people and their lives.
Naruto holds onto his head, a tear running down his cheek and hating the feelings his chest is giving, every time he thinks of Hinata. He bites his lip, drawing blood and opens his eyes, hearing lightning and knew it is going to rain soon. Naruto sighs and thinks for a few minutes, how life was before Kakashi and Gai found him, remembering how simple it was, a little lonely, but his life is no different than before since he stayed with Onbaa several times before.
He looks, seeing some of the Forest People playing with the children, seeing them having fun and smirks. Naruto hears a twig snap, quickly rolling away and hears someone land where he was, Naruto looks and smirks, seeing Ili looking annoyed while Naruto stands up. "You doing alright Ili?" Naruto asks her.
She smirks and nods. "Naruto...play..." She says, using the few words Naruto taught her, having said her name and Naruto's and other things that she enjoys.
Naruto sighs. "No, not right now." He tells her, feeling the rain drops hit him, looking up at the dark sky as more rain drops fell. Naruto sighs and smiles, enjoying the rain as it gets rid of the bits of mud and dried sweat from his body, this is the first time he's basically washed.
He looks as the Forest People, some looking at the rain while the others ignore it, he smiles, remembering how much he loved to play in the rain. He sits on the branch, letting the rain fall on him and closes his eyes, being one with nature and smiles when he hears Ili sit next to him, waiting in the rain as well. 'I miss the wild...I should've stayed...' He says, wondering how he'd be if he stayed in the forest, remembering it's gone now, along with Norio.
Xxxxx
At the Hidden Leaf village, the search has stopped, since the Council and high ranking Shinobi ordered it, since a few days was normal, but a week is pushing it. Tsunade sits at her desk, drinking a lot of the time, worrying about Naruto constantly; Shizune is worried about her teacher. The younger Shinobi also worry about Naruto, taking missions outside and completing them quickly so they can search while making their way back.
Sasuke is now within the Konoha Strict Correctional Facility, still recovering since his bones are nearly repaired, but the Curse Mark is acting like a poison now. However, the base seems to be getting invaded by a tiger stripped cat somehow, being spotted several times, but the Shinobi fail to capture it every time.
Team 8 volunteered to capture a Bikochu beetle to hunt for Naruto, but they failed the mission since members of the Kamizuru clan attacked and took the beetle and haven't been seen afterwards. Team 8 are disappointed since they lost their shot at capturing the beetle and the Iwagakure seem to become aggressive and attacked a few nearby countries, even Leaf squads spotted a few Stone ninja attacking.
Jiraiya searches continuously for his student, also trying to gain info on the Akatsuki, hearing that they went into hiding, hearing information that could be relevant to them. Several rouge or people of most countries are either missing or killed and collecting their bounties, some describing the collectors with the Akatsuki cloaks. The Fourth Mizukage death by a rebellion from nearly his entire villager and force since they believed he's become corrupt by someone, selling them out, shortly after his pronounced death, the Akatsuki went dark.
Xxx
Within the Hidden Leaf village, at the Hokage's tower, Tsunade sits at her desk, a little dazed as she reads though several documents, one involving Konoha Strict Correctional Facility and another involving the prisoners in it. She sighs, a little confused and feels like she's missing something, she fails to notice a tiger striped cat sitting at the window sill. She goes to drink another bottle of sake, but it is empty and she goes to get another one, leaving the room.
The cat walks and enters the room through the open window, it looks in pain as it grows and body starts shifting, cracking and soon became a naked human. He cracks his neck and opens his cat like eyes, showing himself as Neko, he moves to the desk and looks through the files, taking a spare sheet of paper and writing down what he sees. Once he comes to see the prison and the prisoners, he smirks at his luck, reading through it quickly and finding Mizuki's file, finding a note and becomes surprised. "Huh...I can't believe he has the early model of my Animal Cursed Seal...this shit won't work, might be interesting to find the guy." Neko says aloud.
He quickly writes down the details and thinks quickly, planning for the future and quickly folds the piece of paper and puts it in his mouth before changing back to a cat and jumps out of the window.
Xxxxx
Its night time at the Hidden Leaf, most people were asleep or working night shifts, unaware that someone is going to cause havoc in only a few moments. Neko stands at the raised bridge of the prison on the mainland, knowing that the opposite end is the Konoha Strict Correctional Facility. He takes a breathe, his markings glowing and growing bigger, smirking as he shoots forward, nearly a blur as he rushes up the raised bridge and jumps over. He flies across the lave lake and flies over the other raised bridge and lands on the wall above the gates, stabbing his nails into the wall and looks down, seeing a few guards, unaware of him.
He waits and sees an opening, he drops and lands behind one of them, quickly grabbing his jaw and head from behind and snaps his neck. Neko catches their attention by the snapping sound and look to the source, the second one gets his throat punched, crushing his windpipe while Neko takes out the blade behind the dying Shinobi and launches it at the last one. The Shinobi nearly dodged the blade, but it plunged into his stomach and falls to his knees, about to scream in pain, but Neko slices through the man's throat, preventing the man from screaming.
Neko coughs and spits before walking away from the dead and dying people, walking into the prison with a smirk, his hand glows blue and slices at the door frame as he walks. After a few seconds, a Shinobi falls and hits the floor, blood gushing from his throat and dies, nearly instantly.
Xxxxx
It's only been half an hour and the guards were panicking, several guards were killed and the intruder is believed to be near the control quarters. However, Neko already went there and is unlocking every cell door he passes, causing havoc while searching for the right one. He stops by a cell with its bars bent, looking inside and seeing two giant, fat people and a masculine, grey haired man standing there. "...Mizuki?" Neko calls, gaining his attention.
"Yeah, so you're searching for little old me?" Mizuki asks in a bemused voice, looking at the younger man.
"Yeah, saw a little note in your file; you have my Animal Cursed Seal...the old model." Neko tells him, looking at a sheet of paper with everything on it. "I am curious to how you obtained it..."
Mizuki looks in confusion. "'Your' Animal Cursed Seal? This is Orochimaru's!" Mizuki chuckles while standing up and walking to the cat looking person.
"Ah! So, he's the one to give you that, it's outdated...I'll give you the updated version after we find Sasuke, that bastard made me lose an arm nearly two weeks ago. Orochimaru may want you, if you're lucky, I won't kill you." Neko says while looking at his left arm, slightly more tanned than before.
Mizuki tilts his head in confusion, but delivers a powerful blow into Neko's face, causing him to stumble backwards, his lip bleeding. "Any reason for that?" Neko asks him, seeing Mizuki's dark look and the two giant brothers standing behind him.
"You think you can kill me? You're just a brat-" Mizuki began, but Neko shoots his palm forward, slicing through Mizuki's gut and making him cough up blood, looking in shock and pain going through his body.
"Big Brother! Are you alright!?" The largest brother says in shock.
"Big Brother!" The other one yells, clenching his fists and is about to punch Neko.
Neko releases a large amount of killing intent and glares at him. "Don't you dare! I am Neko! Servant to Lord Orochimaru! Mizuki is another follower and I have use of this man! So shut the fuck up and Mizuki will survive!" Neko yells at him.
The two brothers start looking fearful. "Its...it's not nice using bad language!" Fujin says in a sad voice.
Neko slowly pulls his hand out; leaving Mizuki yelling in pain before the hand is removed and Mizuki's gut is already healed, making him confused. "The best way to torture someone, hurt and healing them at the same time." Neko informs him with a smirk. "Now, will you listen and follow my orders? Or will I have to do that again?"
Mizuki looks at him fearfully, nodding to Neko. "I'll...follow." He tells him.
"Good, now help me find Sasuke Uchiha." Neko orders them, gaining a nod and following him.
Xxxxx
After a few minutes and more havoc, the group stop outside a cell, looking inside and seeing a very pale teenager with an IV drip. "...You sure you want this kid? He was good, but right now, he'll fall to a bad comment." Mizuki informs him.
Neko chuckles, unlocking the door and walks in, searching through his pouch. "Relax, he's just suffering from the Curse Mark, it's like a poison." Neko informs him, seeing Sasuke's skinny figure and black eyes. "Did too much too fast, such a rookie mistake." Neko laughs and sees Sasuke look at him weakly.
"Fuck...you..." Sasuke tells him, trying to get up, but his body refused.
"Come on Sasuke, I'm your friend here, I'm not sure if Mizuki cares for you." Neko says aloud and points at Mizuki, making Sasuke look and becomes confused by the masculine Mizuki.
"When...did he...look...like that..." Sasuke wonders weakly, not noticing Neko taking out a syringe and stabs it in Sasuke.
He weakly yells in pain, soon passing out as Neko injects its contents into him before removing it and throwing it away. "Alright, which lucky guy wants to carry him?" Neko asks the group, but they said nothing. "The one to carry him gets a sweetie." Neko offers, gaining an excited look from the Legendary Stupid Brothers.
"Me! I want sweetie!" Fujin yells, rushing forward.
"No! I want sweetie!" Raijin yell, rushing towards him as well, the two butting into each other while picking up the unconscious Sasuke.
The two grab the limbs of Sasuke and starts rushing out of the cell, leaving Neko and Mizuki alone in the cell. "They are strange..." Neko says before chasing after them.
"So where are we going?" Mizuki asks, following him.
"Well, we're taking a little detour before we go to Orochimaru." Neko informs him, smirking since he believes he's now in the clear.
Xxxxx
It's been hours now and Naruto is unaware that the Leaf village is fighting against escaped prisoners, especially that Neko, Mizuki, Sasuke and the Legendary Stupid Brothers are miles away with no pursuers.
The blond boy looks at his hands, covered in mud and blood from fighting against the Pack Leader, losing every time and laving fractured bones with each fight. Naruto did get the upper hand a few times, but the Pack Leader didn't give up and this made Naruto more determined, feeling energised by fighting the Pack Leader. He smirks, not sure why, but he's feeling the 'Animal' within him wanting to come out, but he was unsure why since he notices that it comes and goes every month, yet it's only been over a week.
Ili sits near him, looking sad as Naruto snaps his nose back into place. "Naruto...hurt..." Ili whispers sadly.
Naruto looks at her, smiling as he pats her head. "I'm alright." He tells her, interested by the fact that she's getting better with her words in a short time.
Ili smiles again before jumping away and landing on a nearby tree, having a playful look on her face. Naruto chuckles at this and gets up, feeling his bones click and a strange sensation going through his body, making him confused and sniffing the air. '...Master...no...It can't be...' Naruto thought to himself, recognising the smell, but it is too weak to be it.
He looks towards Ili, but becomes confused since she has a fearful look on her face, soon hearing the other Forest People move, he looks to see the younger ones run and hide in the trees like Ili. Naruto looks around more, seeing the adults of the group both look nervous and excited as they move towards the largest building that remained standing.
Naruto looks at it carefully, seeing it about, but he never knew why it looks like a church of some kind. Naruto never managed to get close to it, because the Pack Leader stopped him, making him curious, but he remained as far as he was allowed.
The dirty, moss covered wooden doors swing open, having a young man stumble out and waving his cobweb covered arm in fear before waving his nose. "Fuck me, not even a month and this place is worse than before." He says in annoyance. "You fucking people know how to turn the temple into a fucking breeding ground." He says, wearing a black cloak which hid his face.
Naruto just stands there in confusion, wondering where or how this person got this close and here without him noticing. The Pack Leader wonders forward, standing as normal as he could before the man acknowledged his presence. 'What the fuck...' Naruto thought to himself.
"Fucking hell Hashi! You really do need to fix this place up again, I remember a time when this place was wonderful...or was that your brother that made this place...I forget." The man says as he taps his chin, gaining a grunt from the Pack Leader named Hashi, soon foaming in the mouth while a large amount of killing intent came from him, going from glad to vicious in a few seconds. "Oh, I forgot...Temporary Release." He says and pats Hashi's forehead.
Hashi roars in pain before hitting the ground, breathing heavily. "...I...I'm free..." Hashi whispers, his voice gruff and weak.
"Shut up, you know it'll only last a few minutes before you go insane." The man tells him, gaining his attention.
"...W...where's Master..." Hashi asks, making Naruto confused as he stands behind a few Forest People, wanting to attack the man.
"Turned to rocks and ashes, I'm looking for someone, a brat, blond hair, seen anyone in your hazy vision?" The man asks the Pack Leader.
Hashi looks distraught, but looks at Naruto and points. "He...he's new..." Hashi informs him,
The man looks and sees Naruto. "Well, he sure does know where people are, you, kid, follow me before I leave you here forever." The man orders before walking in, leaving Hashi holding his head, a pained look on his face as his brown eyes turned white again.
Naruto is now highly confused, but he's suddenly tackled by Hashi, getting punched in the face while roaring in rage. Naruto feels his knuckles crash into his face, trying to break free, but Hashi keeps the punches coming, feeling his nose break once again.
Naruto feels a sudden impulse, his nails growing sharper and longer before he swings his clawed hand at Hashi's face; ripping through his face and making him fall backwards, roaring in pain. Naruto rips up, his head giving off white noise and his vision is blurry, unaware that his eyes are a lighter blue than before.
Naruto doesn't know why, but his feet are moving by themselves, hearing growls and Hashi now fighting off the other Forest People, trying to take advantage of his weakened state. Naruto soon feels a cold floor made of stone, becoming confused as he walks down stairs, unaware that he's within the church now.
A few minutes pass with nothing but blackness, hearing a voice as he keeps moving. "So how long's it been? Two, three months? I forget, doesn't matter." The man's voice is heard.
Naruto still can't control his body, still blind to everything, but now his mouth is working. "Months of...what?" Naruto asks.
"Since we first met." The man states as their voices echoed.
"Wait...I know you?" Naruto asks in confusion.
"Yeah...well, not officially, but I remember getting savagely beaten by 'The Last', he was fun...oh, and inside that wet room, that was sad and interesting." The man says in a bemused voice, but for some reason, it became serious, even though it is silent, he can feel it. "I've been discovered, we'll need to move fast!" He yells.
"Wait! What the hell are you talking about?!" Naruto yells, gaining control of his body and stopping, smelling the dust and aura of the place he's in, giving his insides more power and Wild Naruto getting excited.
The man sighs, grabbing Naruto's arm and walks a few feet before smashing down a wooden door and caused a bright light to come from the door. Naruto screams in pain and closes his eyes as he's pulled forward. "I'm a 'friend' of our late Master, I know all about 'The Last'." The man informs Naruto, hearing his cloak get removed.
Naruto got use to the light and looks at the man, seeing that he's actually a late teenage boy, just a couple of years older than Naruto, he has spiky brown hair, he has lightly tanned skin and would be considered attractive. What Naruto found strange is his eyes, his left eye was light blue and his right was dark brown. Naruto's eyes widen as he remembers seeing him somewhere before, but couldn't place it. "How do you know about 'The Last'?" Naruto asks, trying to remember where he and the last time 'The Last' was mentioned.
"I met him, like I said, and Master told me about him." The guy tells him.
Naruto gets a sudden flashback of his near death experience with Kabuto, when they were receiving Tsunade and his eyes widen.
Flashback
Flames explode, showing a large, open stone room and the cell of the Kyuubi. The flames grew and Naruto looks around, seeing the people, even though it was blinding, spotting Wild Naruto looking around, on the other side of Naruto, a man in a black cloak was standing there. Naruto saw his face and his heart stopped, seeing a deathly pale and skinny man, almost like he starved to death in a windowless cell, seeing dark eyes with yellow in the middle."N-Norio..." Naruto whispered, failing to notice anything else around him.
A late teenage boy looked around, having dark brown hair and odd coloured eyes, one brown and the other blue, Wild Naruto looked at him in confusion as he recognised him from somewhere. Around the flames, several people stood there, wearing cloaks, normal clothes and some were naked as a newborn baby. "Now then Norio! You know the rules!" One of them yelled. "None of us can help the dead, now drop the flames...or we will seal you from ever entering a world, to spend your life within the land of dead...and you know what that's like." He says, about to walk through the flames, but a kunai was thrown at him and stabbed him in the shoulder, making him stumble back and look at the brown haired teen.
"I don't care if I piss you guys off, no one threatens my master!" He yelled, pulling out another kunai.
"Now it gets interesting, a mortal fighting against a portion of Reapers...even I would think about that, but then again, I would fight first, ask questions later." The Kyuubi laughed, looking at the sight before him.
The group called Reapers ignored the Fox like it was just like any other fox and looked at the teenager. "You seem familiar...last survivor of a nation long forgotten, one of the most original clan...Time Manipulation...although I'm surprised you managed to get here." One of the people says, making the teenager surprised that they knew about him.
"Boy, you're done, leave now and regroup with the others, my time here is nearly finished." Norio says, about to gain an argument from the teenager, but a sudden look from Norio stopped him.
"Shit!" He yells and starts doing hand signs and the area around him explodes, him vanishing and the Reapers staring in slight surprise.
Norio quickly did a few hand signs himself. "Naruto! Don't let this happen again! I'm giving you my life to live your destiny!" He yells, soon the Reapers running and floating through the flames to stop him.
End flashback
"You...you were with Norio...inside the wet room..." Naruto says, gaining a nod from the teenager.
"Good eye." He says with a smile and raises his hands, causing Naruto's mind to fly a thousand miles a minute.
Sleepless D: Well I hope you enjoyed this, I'd have continued, but that would be a larger amount of words and in this story, I don't want it to seem continuous. But it'll be interesting since we now have a man that knows 'The Last', Norio and has the ability to make a savage man turn normal for a minute. ATTENTION! I sometimes forget to answer a few NEED TO KNOW questions during the story, so, in the next story, I can answer some of the big questions in the story if it's the right time, ask them in a review and I'll see if it's the right time, so do ask in the review, sorry if you don't like the thought, just a suggestion. Peace out.
