Itsumo
Disclaimer: Although I wish Naruto, Sakura, etc. were mine, they aren't... Otherwise, I would be writing REAL Naruto right now. Fanfiction = Fan writing fiction, not author writing canon.
Thanks to all the people who reviewed! seruiously, I'm fueled by your reviews... They're the things that keep me writing... I'm glad you liked the mysteryness. Now, it's time for the Action and Adventure part, the unseeable (because of Fanfic.nets unliking of...) tertiary (or third) genre that this story had marked on as the second for about two days...
Okay, since chapter nine (last count), I've had more reviews, so: New count of pairings!! 'kay, as far as I read... (Taken Nov. 1st)
Last one:
Sakura/Naruto: 4
Sakura/Sasuke: 1
Sakura/Kakashi: 2
Sakura/Lee: 1
New:
Sakura/Naruto: 6
Sakura/Sasuke: 3
Sakura/Kakashi: 2
Sakura/Lee: 1
Hinata/Naruto:1
Wow, Five votes more...Now, time to assert your positon if you want to convince me (although I have a good idea who I'll make win Sakura). And remember, you CAN change position between chapters (just, you can't change a past vote... but your new one can have a different pairing...) And DON'T use Lee's hair as a base for your decision (not saying anything...). Also, be realistic...
I hope you like my pitiful attempt at an action portion, and a POV switching chap. And so starteth part three of Itsumo, with:
~~~
Chapter 13: Where?
March 25th
~POV: Kakashi~
"Oh. My. God. What's wrong with you, Kakashi-sensei? Is this some kind of sick joke? Two of my best friends are gone, and we have no clue? Yet we know who did it? What's going ON!?" Sakura yelled. "You can't just write something like this down and send it to people. Wha- Where's the proof he's not lying?"
"Sakura, you're hysterical. We are going to search for them-"
"I don't care if I'm hysterical! I've just READ that my team member has an alternate personality that captured two of my friends and LOST them! Of COURSE I'm hysterical! Why the hell WOULDN'T I be!" Sakura said. For a brief moment, I felt a great urge to smack her over the head and tell her to shut up. Noting that this might not be the most tactful thing to do, I looked her in the eye, and said, in a strained, calm voice...
"Sakura, Sasuke will wake up if you kept yelling, and if I have to get him back to sleep, I will be very annoyed at the person who woke him up. It took me four hous to get him to sleep, before. If you insist on this hysteria, I will have to pick you up and bodily move you to somewhere else. Am I clear?"
Sakura suddenly looked ashamed of herself. "Is.. is he okay? It's not his fault, right? Just the psycho guy who screwed up his mind, right? Sasuke is going to be okay?" she asked in a quiet, hurried voice. I'd never seen such a change so quickly, from hysterical disbelief to worried acceptance within the short span of five seconds.
"Sasuke will be alright. since he knows about 'Inner Sasuke', he can at least control him, and they can... well, talk it out, in a way of speaking. Or rather, think it out..." Kakashi said, thoughtfully.
Sakura brightened. "Thanks, Kakashi-sensei!" she yelled as she ran off down the street.
~POV: Sakura~
He was going to be okay! I could almost scream in joy. I burst into the meeting-house of the genins that we'd bought the year we graduated. We didn't know exactly what it had been used for, b=but some said iyt used to be a warehouse.
It was big enought for us to have desks etc. that we smuggled in. The shelves at the sides bheld all sorts of stuff, toys, weapons, book.... It was almost a classroom.
In appearance.
What we used it for was not playing, or anything childish. It was the Genin Room we had made ourselves, using our own funds to buy everything. We used it to study, so that we wouldn't remember the acamdemy basics, or sometimes someone would teach us jutsu's. We sometimes moved all the dests to the sides and danced, or trained. Sometimes, though, we called a Genin Council meeting.
The Genin Council was a group we ourselves picked out, to deal with important situations. The adults didn't know about it. We were all equal, and together we got through any problem we got stuck at. We'd made few mistakes in the council's short life, and we were proud. Tonight, we were having a council meeting about the recent Lee/Ino disappearance. The circular council table would be used, like during all meetings.
I burst through the door, breathless. I was late, but it was my duty as a council member to see Sasuke, and find out about the strange letters Kakashi-sensei had sent us about him. To validate their truth.
Chouji looked at me, annoyed. Shikamaru was looking at the ceiling as if it were actually interesting. Naruto's face was smiling, at least. Tenten looked annoyed, ad Hinata was twiddling her thumbs. Kiba was lookin at me, annoyed. Three seats were empty: Sasuke's, Ino's and Lee's.
"You. Are. Late. Why?" Kiba asked, looking extremely annoyed.
"Well, I dropped by Kakashi-sensei's, and found out that the letters were true, and I-" I aid meekly, interrupted by Kiba's brush of the hand, meaning to return to my seat. Although we never actually had a council leader, Kiba had always been the 'unoffficial leader'. He always led thedebates, tsallied the votes, watched the funds. Kia was very resourceful, it seemed. Today though, he seemed irritated.
"They wouldn't let Kiba near where he found Sasuke, where the evidence crew is. He demanded that, because he found him, he should at least be able to see, and-" Chouji was cut off.
"'Run along, little genin. Don't worry, go back to your little games and we'll take care of the hard stuff.' Stupid arrogant ass... those Special Jounins are all arrogant... Like I'm some stupid little academy student who can't even do the basics right..." Kiba was mumbling. Akamaru barked from his side, seemingy showing agreement.
I couldn't believe it. Someone acted like THAT to Kiba? Why, that was completely rude and selfish... I remembered the Special Jounins I'd met, though...
"So their all the same, then..." I muttered. I'd met some of them, antagonising bastards they were... I now stopped thinking about myself and my experiances, and starting listening to what was being said.
"- aren't doing anything. Therefore, we must find them ourselves," finished Tenten heartily.
"But, we have to make a group that will go-" I interjected.
"Me!" Naruto yelled.
"I'll go!" called Chouji.
"Okay, Naruto, me and Chouji, anyone else?" I called out. The rest of them looked either uninterested or slightly ashamed.
"Well, we're just looking now. Will everyone help with that?" I asked. I received an affirmative from all sides. I seemed to be the official leader of the Disappearance case (as we called it).
"I want to help."
The voice came from the doorway. Sasuke stood there, looking disheveled, wearing a red t-shirt, sort of burgundy, and blue shorts, probably borrowed from Kakashi-sensei. He looked determined to not be overruled. He calmly walked ovewr to his chair, and sat down. Tenten immediately stood, and pointed her finger at Sasuke.
"We know this is all your fault Sasuke. If not for you, none of this would've happened. This 'Inner Sasuke' bit is the stupidest lie I've ever heard. You're disgusting, and I think you should leve before you do anymore damage!" she screamed. I tried in vain to pull her back down.
"Tenten, you're overreacting..."
"I'm not overreacting, you're UNDERREACTING! Probably 'cause you'r so blind to anything wrong with your beloved 'Sasuke-kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun'. If anything, you're in league with him!" Tenten was getting hysterical.
Chouji stood up, walked over to Tenten, whispered something in her ear, and whacked her over the head with his hand. She was knocked out almost instantly. He then retook his seat.
"Okay, back to business..." I started nervously...
"Me, Sasuke, Sakura and Chouji are going, I guess!" Naruto called out happily. His grin was wide.
~POV: Chouji~
"So, I guess the meetings done, for now?" I asked.
"You can go eat, Cho. We'll all start searching," Sakura said. I was slightly offended, but then I realised she was joking. I may eat almost constantly, but that didn't mean I was obsessed with it...
I walked out the door, pulling a chocolate bar from my pocket. Eating wasn't really my obsession, it was something that I did to occupy myself when I thought, because I wasn't exactly stupid. I'm pretty smart, and I'm always thinking, so I havve to eat to kep myself busy, or else I get a weird bored feeling.
I also gain weight on purpose, so that I do not need to use Nikudan Sensha and Baika no Jutsu to get as big as I do, or at least not use as many calories and chakra. Those attacks take a lot out of you, and it hurts...
I do love food, but I also have enogh self-control to keep myself from eating constantly. I just let people think I'm just another fat guy... I am serious about insulting people about their weight. Not me, because it's on purpose, but other people who get insulted that way. Insulting someones physical appearance is low, and it really makes me angry.
Anyways, back to what happened. I headed out to Ichiraku (the only place in the village that has an imported wonder called 'Ice Cream'...). I got there quickly enough, and sat down. Now, I started thinking.
Sasuke had been under tests. He kidnapped people, and took them somewhere that he had no reason to, when there were plenty of other spots. If they'd escaped, they would have returned to the village. If they took Sasuke, could they have planted the idea in his mind to put the people in that cave? Then, they could come and pick them up, and take them to wherever they want...
The only place that could hold a hidden place that big would be underground, but where? Then I remembered overhearing Naruto talking about something weird he'd seen when vandalizing the Hokage monument...
'I accidently pressed hard on the First's eye... and one of his nostrils opened... I pressed it back again, and it close. It scared the hell out of me, I'll tell you...'
The eye! But... I quickly whipped out my sketchbook and wrote quickly: Check - Hokage Monument - Fist - Eye and nose.
I ran out of the restaurant, after finishing my ice cream. I rushed to the meeting house, where Sakura sat. She was writing down all the stuff we found. I told her what I figured out, and she looked surprised.
"What the- In the MONUMENT? Chouji, are you crazy? THAT'S were they are?" Maybe a bit more than surprised. Maybe hysterical was a better word.
When I told her what might be happening to Lee and Ino, she screamed.
~POV: Sasuke~
I woke up from my nap sometime in the afternoon. I decided to check back with Sakura, to see what the others found. This was all my fault, and I should be doing sll I can to find Inop and Sasuke.
I still had a headache, from last night, and Tenten's screaming. I couldn't believe- yes, I could. I couldn't back anything up, no proof... until the tests got back. What I couldn't believe, though, was the fact that sll this was my fault. Ino and Lee were gone, Tenten hated me...'How many of the others feel the same? How many others... hate me?'
When I got there, Chouji was comforting Sakura, who was sobbing in her arms,.
"What's wrong?" I asked, preparing for bad news.
"Ino and Lee... might have the same thing that they did to you done to them, or worse..." Chouji said, looking sad. For the first time, I realised that Chouji might not be just another fat guy. He actually was useful.
Finally, Sakura's sobs subsided. "At least... I think we found where it is... In the First's nose... That's where they are..." Sakura said, looking up at me. "Sasuke-kun, we have to save them..."
I smirked slightly. "I kow. And those jerks wll get what's coming to them. I'll go round everyone up, and tell them that we're going at 8. 8:15 at the latest. Nobody can know where we're going.
Sakura, you're going out to see me. I finally asked you out on a date. Chouji's meeting Naruto at Ichiraku, like you guys do alot." Chouji and Sakura nodded. She looked a little sad, that our 'date' wasn't real. I slipped past her, whispering as I went, "Maybe, after this... We'll have that date for real, Sakura-chan," and disappeared into the foliage.
That was the most forward thing I'd said to her since we met. And I was glad I did it.
~POV: Sakura~
Since I knew we were leaving, and as far as we knew it, we'd been in the eye for a few days... I packed a backpack full of food and essentials. I hid it in a cubby hole in the meeting room, and headed home. I dropped onto my bed, falling into a deep sleep.
~~
She was back in that chilling darkness, the one that haunted her by day, and had twice visited her.
Then, as suddenly as the darkness had come, it left. She was ly6ing in a room, with orangewalls and purple carpet. Nothing hung or stood in this room,and the light didn't seem to be coming from anywhere, it was just... there...
She got up, and looked around. There was a door. A red one, on one of the walls. She walked up to it, and as she put her hand to the knob. She heard that voice again.
"Will you survive?"
Suddenly a pain in her chest made her fall to the ground. Her hand shot up to the doorknob.
A final queston: "Will they?"
~~
I woke screaming, my lungs already hurting. Her parents were there, askingwhat was wrong. "Nothing, mom, dad, just a dream. Oh no! I have that date with Sasuke-kun!" I realised out loud, looking sat the clock, and jumped out the door.
"What about-"my mother called.
"He'd rather see my punctual than dressed up!" I called back.
"It's only 7:30!" my dad called.
----
I made it to Ichiraku, and sat down at the table I'd reserved for us. I ordered something for a half-hour later, and pulled out my book. After a long wait, they came, and we discussed plans. A half-hour later we were at the Hokage monument, where none other than Kiba was waiting... with Akamaru!
"I came to help!" Kiba yelled to us.
"Kiba! You IDIOT! Someone could have heard you," Naruto yelled, but his voice softened as he continued.
"Don't worry. Now, let's go... I told my parents I'm training. In a way, it's true, right?" Kiba smiled. "Now hurry up, quickly, someone might spot us!"
We quickly got up,and pressed on the eye... Nothing happened.
"Wrong eye, baka!" Naruto muttered loudly, and pressed in the other eye. The First's nostril opened up, and we swung into it.
"I just hop we get out of this okay..." I whispered to myself, then I swung in.
~~~
Was that good? I hope it was... I tried to make Chouji into what I see him as, which is like me. That's why he has the same reason as me ('cept the jutsus) for eating so much. I like Chouji...
~Preview~
The group goes into the underground (or inside monument) passage, and find themselves against them first wave of enemy nin defenders!
See you next chapter!
Disclaimer: Although I wish Naruto, Sakura, etc. were mine, they aren't... Otherwise, I would be writing REAL Naruto right now. Fanfiction = Fan writing fiction, not author writing canon.
Thanks to all the people who reviewed! seruiously, I'm fueled by your reviews... They're the things that keep me writing... I'm glad you liked the mysteryness. Now, it's time for the Action and Adventure part, the unseeable (because of Fanfic.nets unliking of...) tertiary (or third) genre that this story had marked on as the second for about two days...
Okay, since chapter nine (last count), I've had more reviews, so: New count of pairings!! 'kay, as far as I read... (Taken Nov. 1st)
Last one:
Sakura/Naruto: 4
Sakura/Sasuke: 1
Sakura/Kakashi: 2
Sakura/Lee: 1
New:
Sakura/Naruto: 6
Sakura/Sasuke: 3
Sakura/Kakashi: 2
Sakura/Lee: 1
Hinata/Naruto:1
Wow, Five votes more...Now, time to assert your positon if you want to convince me (although I have a good idea who I'll make win Sakura). And remember, you CAN change position between chapters (just, you can't change a past vote... but your new one can have a different pairing...) And DON'T use Lee's hair as a base for your decision (not saying anything...). Also, be realistic...
I hope you like my pitiful attempt at an action portion, and a POV switching chap. And so starteth part three of Itsumo, with:
~~~
Chapter 13: Where?
March 25th
~POV: Kakashi~
"Oh. My. God. What's wrong with you, Kakashi-sensei? Is this some kind of sick joke? Two of my best friends are gone, and we have no clue? Yet we know who did it? What's going ON!?" Sakura yelled. "You can't just write something like this down and send it to people. Wha- Where's the proof he's not lying?"
"Sakura, you're hysterical. We are going to search for them-"
"I don't care if I'm hysterical! I've just READ that my team member has an alternate personality that captured two of my friends and LOST them! Of COURSE I'm hysterical! Why the hell WOULDN'T I be!" Sakura said. For a brief moment, I felt a great urge to smack her over the head and tell her to shut up. Noting that this might not be the most tactful thing to do, I looked her in the eye, and said, in a strained, calm voice...
"Sakura, Sasuke will wake up if you kept yelling, and if I have to get him back to sleep, I will be very annoyed at the person who woke him up. It took me four hous to get him to sleep, before. If you insist on this hysteria, I will have to pick you up and bodily move you to somewhere else. Am I clear?"
Sakura suddenly looked ashamed of herself. "Is.. is he okay? It's not his fault, right? Just the psycho guy who screwed up his mind, right? Sasuke is going to be okay?" she asked in a quiet, hurried voice. I'd never seen such a change so quickly, from hysterical disbelief to worried acceptance within the short span of five seconds.
"Sasuke will be alright. since he knows about 'Inner Sasuke', he can at least control him, and they can... well, talk it out, in a way of speaking. Or rather, think it out..." Kakashi said, thoughtfully.
Sakura brightened. "Thanks, Kakashi-sensei!" she yelled as she ran off down the street.
~POV: Sakura~
He was going to be okay! I could almost scream in joy. I burst into the meeting-house of the genins that we'd bought the year we graduated. We didn't know exactly what it had been used for, b=but some said iyt used to be a warehouse.
It was big enought for us to have desks etc. that we smuggled in. The shelves at the sides bheld all sorts of stuff, toys, weapons, book.... It was almost a classroom.
In appearance.
What we used it for was not playing, or anything childish. It was the Genin Room we had made ourselves, using our own funds to buy everything. We used it to study, so that we wouldn't remember the acamdemy basics, or sometimes someone would teach us jutsu's. We sometimes moved all the dests to the sides and danced, or trained. Sometimes, though, we called a Genin Council meeting.
The Genin Council was a group we ourselves picked out, to deal with important situations. The adults didn't know about it. We were all equal, and together we got through any problem we got stuck at. We'd made few mistakes in the council's short life, and we were proud. Tonight, we were having a council meeting about the recent Lee/Ino disappearance. The circular council table would be used, like during all meetings.
I burst through the door, breathless. I was late, but it was my duty as a council member to see Sasuke, and find out about the strange letters Kakashi-sensei had sent us about him. To validate their truth.
Chouji looked at me, annoyed. Shikamaru was looking at the ceiling as if it were actually interesting. Naruto's face was smiling, at least. Tenten looked annoyed, ad Hinata was twiddling her thumbs. Kiba was lookin at me, annoyed. Three seats were empty: Sasuke's, Ino's and Lee's.
"You. Are. Late. Why?" Kiba asked, looking extremely annoyed.
"Well, I dropped by Kakashi-sensei's, and found out that the letters were true, and I-" I aid meekly, interrupted by Kiba's brush of the hand, meaning to return to my seat. Although we never actually had a council leader, Kiba had always been the 'unoffficial leader'. He always led thedebates, tsallied the votes, watched the funds. Kia was very resourceful, it seemed. Today though, he seemed irritated.
"They wouldn't let Kiba near where he found Sasuke, where the evidence crew is. He demanded that, because he found him, he should at least be able to see, and-" Chouji was cut off.
"'Run along, little genin. Don't worry, go back to your little games and we'll take care of the hard stuff.' Stupid arrogant ass... those Special Jounins are all arrogant... Like I'm some stupid little academy student who can't even do the basics right..." Kiba was mumbling. Akamaru barked from his side, seemingy showing agreement.
I couldn't believe it. Someone acted like THAT to Kiba? Why, that was completely rude and selfish... I remembered the Special Jounins I'd met, though...
"So their all the same, then..." I muttered. I'd met some of them, antagonising bastards they were... I now stopped thinking about myself and my experiances, and starting listening to what was being said.
"- aren't doing anything. Therefore, we must find them ourselves," finished Tenten heartily.
"But, we have to make a group that will go-" I interjected.
"Me!" Naruto yelled.
"I'll go!" called Chouji.
"Okay, Naruto, me and Chouji, anyone else?" I called out. The rest of them looked either uninterested or slightly ashamed.
"Well, we're just looking now. Will everyone help with that?" I asked. I received an affirmative from all sides. I seemed to be the official leader of the Disappearance case (as we called it).
"I want to help."
The voice came from the doorway. Sasuke stood there, looking disheveled, wearing a red t-shirt, sort of burgundy, and blue shorts, probably borrowed from Kakashi-sensei. He looked determined to not be overruled. He calmly walked ovewr to his chair, and sat down. Tenten immediately stood, and pointed her finger at Sasuke.
"We know this is all your fault Sasuke. If not for you, none of this would've happened. This 'Inner Sasuke' bit is the stupidest lie I've ever heard. You're disgusting, and I think you should leve before you do anymore damage!" she screamed. I tried in vain to pull her back down.
"Tenten, you're overreacting..."
"I'm not overreacting, you're UNDERREACTING! Probably 'cause you'r so blind to anything wrong with your beloved 'Sasuke-kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun'. If anything, you're in league with him!" Tenten was getting hysterical.
Chouji stood up, walked over to Tenten, whispered something in her ear, and whacked her over the head with his hand. She was knocked out almost instantly. He then retook his seat.
"Okay, back to business..." I started nervously...
"Me, Sasuke, Sakura and Chouji are going, I guess!" Naruto called out happily. His grin was wide.
~POV: Chouji~
"So, I guess the meetings done, for now?" I asked.
"You can go eat, Cho. We'll all start searching," Sakura said. I was slightly offended, but then I realised she was joking. I may eat almost constantly, but that didn't mean I was obsessed with it...
I walked out the door, pulling a chocolate bar from my pocket. Eating wasn't really my obsession, it was something that I did to occupy myself when I thought, because I wasn't exactly stupid. I'm pretty smart, and I'm always thinking, so I havve to eat to kep myself busy, or else I get a weird bored feeling.
I also gain weight on purpose, so that I do not need to use Nikudan Sensha and Baika no Jutsu to get as big as I do, or at least not use as many calories and chakra. Those attacks take a lot out of you, and it hurts...
I do love food, but I also have enogh self-control to keep myself from eating constantly. I just let people think I'm just another fat guy... I am serious about insulting people about their weight. Not me, because it's on purpose, but other people who get insulted that way. Insulting someones physical appearance is low, and it really makes me angry.
Anyways, back to what happened. I headed out to Ichiraku (the only place in the village that has an imported wonder called 'Ice Cream'...). I got there quickly enough, and sat down. Now, I started thinking.
Sasuke had been under tests. He kidnapped people, and took them somewhere that he had no reason to, when there were plenty of other spots. If they'd escaped, they would have returned to the village. If they took Sasuke, could they have planted the idea in his mind to put the people in that cave? Then, they could come and pick them up, and take them to wherever they want...
The only place that could hold a hidden place that big would be underground, but where? Then I remembered overhearing Naruto talking about something weird he'd seen when vandalizing the Hokage monument...
'I accidently pressed hard on the First's eye... and one of his nostrils opened... I pressed it back again, and it close. It scared the hell out of me, I'll tell you...'
The eye! But... I quickly whipped out my sketchbook and wrote quickly: Check - Hokage Monument - Fist - Eye and nose.
I ran out of the restaurant, after finishing my ice cream. I rushed to the meeting house, where Sakura sat. She was writing down all the stuff we found. I told her what I figured out, and she looked surprised.
"What the- In the MONUMENT? Chouji, are you crazy? THAT'S were they are?" Maybe a bit more than surprised. Maybe hysterical was a better word.
When I told her what might be happening to Lee and Ino, she screamed.
~POV: Sasuke~
I woke up from my nap sometime in the afternoon. I decided to check back with Sakura, to see what the others found. This was all my fault, and I should be doing sll I can to find Inop and Sasuke.
I still had a headache, from last night, and Tenten's screaming. I couldn't believe- yes, I could. I couldn't back anything up, no proof... until the tests got back. What I couldn't believe, though, was the fact that sll this was my fault. Ino and Lee were gone, Tenten hated me...'How many of the others feel the same? How many others... hate me?'
When I got there, Chouji was comforting Sakura, who was sobbing in her arms,.
"What's wrong?" I asked, preparing for bad news.
"Ino and Lee... might have the same thing that they did to you done to them, or worse..." Chouji said, looking sad. For the first time, I realised that Chouji might not be just another fat guy. He actually was useful.
Finally, Sakura's sobs subsided. "At least... I think we found where it is... In the First's nose... That's where they are..." Sakura said, looking up at me. "Sasuke-kun, we have to save them..."
I smirked slightly. "I kow. And those jerks wll get what's coming to them. I'll go round everyone up, and tell them that we're going at 8. 8:15 at the latest. Nobody can know where we're going.
Sakura, you're going out to see me. I finally asked you out on a date. Chouji's meeting Naruto at Ichiraku, like you guys do alot." Chouji and Sakura nodded. She looked a little sad, that our 'date' wasn't real. I slipped past her, whispering as I went, "Maybe, after this... We'll have that date for real, Sakura-chan," and disappeared into the foliage.
That was the most forward thing I'd said to her since we met. And I was glad I did it.
~POV: Sakura~
Since I knew we were leaving, and as far as we knew it, we'd been in the eye for a few days... I packed a backpack full of food and essentials. I hid it in a cubby hole in the meeting room, and headed home. I dropped onto my bed, falling into a deep sleep.
~~
She was back in that chilling darkness, the one that haunted her by day, and had twice visited her.
Then, as suddenly as the darkness had come, it left. She was ly6ing in a room, with orangewalls and purple carpet. Nothing hung or stood in this room,and the light didn't seem to be coming from anywhere, it was just... there...
She got up, and looked around. There was a door. A red one, on one of the walls. She walked up to it, and as she put her hand to the knob. She heard that voice again.
"Will you survive?"
Suddenly a pain in her chest made her fall to the ground. Her hand shot up to the doorknob.
A final queston: "Will they?"
~~
I woke screaming, my lungs already hurting. Her parents were there, askingwhat was wrong. "Nothing, mom, dad, just a dream. Oh no! I have that date with Sasuke-kun!" I realised out loud, looking sat the clock, and jumped out the door.
"What about-"my mother called.
"He'd rather see my punctual than dressed up!" I called back.
"It's only 7:30!" my dad called.
----
I made it to Ichiraku, and sat down at the table I'd reserved for us. I ordered something for a half-hour later, and pulled out my book. After a long wait, they came, and we discussed plans. A half-hour later we were at the Hokage monument, where none other than Kiba was waiting... with Akamaru!
"I came to help!" Kiba yelled to us.
"Kiba! You IDIOT! Someone could have heard you," Naruto yelled, but his voice softened as he continued.
"Don't worry. Now, let's go... I told my parents I'm training. In a way, it's true, right?" Kiba smiled. "Now hurry up, quickly, someone might spot us!"
We quickly got up,and pressed on the eye... Nothing happened.
"Wrong eye, baka!" Naruto muttered loudly, and pressed in the other eye. The First's nostril opened up, and we swung into it.
"I just hop we get out of this okay..." I whispered to myself, then I swung in.
~~~
Was that good? I hope it was... I tried to make Chouji into what I see him as, which is like me. That's why he has the same reason as me ('cept the jutsus) for eating so much. I like Chouji...
~Preview~
The group goes into the underground (or inside monument) passage, and find themselves against them first wave of enemy nin defenders!
See you next chapter!