Uni: New chappy it seems^^
Matt: She still own nothing so no news there -.-
Uni: Yay I got 30 reviews!! Thanks guys^^ And thanks Cheryl-chan for betaing :)
Uni: I have a warning for this chapter, it contains descriptive gore!!! If you don't like, I am sorry I don't really know what you should do about this chapter because it is kind of important to the story -.-
So anyway on with chappy^^
Yuki and Is
Fly Away --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven's love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again
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The next morning Naruto woke up to the sun shining in through his window and for a moment he thought he was home in Leaf village. Then everything came back to him; the events of the previous couple of days and especially the day before came crashing down. He slumped back on the pillow burying his face with a groan. How long had they been there? Barely a day and he was already missing home, where there was no snow! Unless it was winter and it was supposed to be there! Where he understood everything people said or wrote, where he didn't have to learn how to use his Chakra in new ways (though he hadn't minded it as much. It was more the fact that it was Sasuke who had 'taught' him) and where people ate with chopsticks rather than those stupid weird instruments!
"Naruto! You moron, you are going to sleep through breakfast!" Sakura's loud voice rang through out the house, and Naruto was sure some people outside had heard it as well. Though since she had yelled out in Japanese they probably hadn't understood a word anyway.
Sighing, he got up and went over to the small door to the left of his bed, which led to his bathroom. He was glad that he and Sasuke at least didn't have to share that, like Sakura and Kakashi-Sensei did, because on the first floor there was only one bathroom. Sharing the second floor with the black haired wonder was more than enough, according to Naruto.
Just as Naruto had put on the last of his clothes someone banged loudly on his door. "Are you done yet?!" Sasuke's voice sounded muffled through the door. Annoyed, Naruto walked out of his bathroom and opened the door to his bedroom.
"What?" he snapped at the boy on the other side. Then his mouth fell open, as he looked Sasuke up and down. His Rival was wearing blue pyjamas, and great big white ice-bear slippers. Naruto had to concentrate hard not to burst out laughing.
"Kakashi wouldn't let me sleep in just boxers insisting that it was too cold, and 'luckily' he had a spare with him. Plus the floor in the hallway is cold." Sasuke explained sourly, his face colouring slightly.
A long silence followed this, until Naruto finally seemed to have gotten his composure back, and coughing a little, he got back to the question at hand. "What do you want?"
"I can't use my bathroom so I'll have to use yours," the rather red-faced Sasuke mumbled.
This was just not happening! Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion and glared "Why?"
"It's broken," Sasuke said shortly.
"Well can't you get it fixed?" Naruto managed to squeak out, nearing desperation.
"I probably could, but I think it's going to be a while and I can't wait that long," Sasuke hissed, seemingly getting even more embarrassed.
"Well what's wrong with it?" Naruto pushed. Like hell he was going to lend Sasuke his bathroom if it wasn't absolutely necessary.
Sasuke sight "Could I at least just borrow it quickly and then tell you afterwards?" he asked, almost sounding pleading.
Letting out a breath of air he hadn't realised he had been holding in, Naruto closed his eyes. This was going to be one hell of a bad day! He could just feel it. So giving up and stepping aside Naruto opened the door and gestured for Sasuke to come in. Muttering a small 'thanks', Sasuke sprinted past Naruto and seconds later the door to his bathroom slammed shut.
Cursing in a way that would have made a sailor blush, Naruto sat down on his bed and waited for Sasuke to come out and explain. He didn't have to wait long because moments later Sasuke retreated from the 'little house' and made his way over to stand in front of Naruto, arms crossed.
"A stone broke my window last night, and now the bathroom is full of snow and the water in the bowl is one big lump of ice." Sasuke drawled. Naruto looked up at Sasuke, crestfallen. A stone?? This could not be true. This was just not true! Naruto thought as he dramatically slumped back onto the bed.
"Don't think I like this any better then you do, dead-last." Sasuke said, sounding annoyed, from somewhere out of Naruto's current line vision. Naruto just grunted at that, deciding that he didn't want to bother. Sasuke had to be really pissed with this arrangement too; dead-last had become something Sasuke only called him if he was really annoyed with him.
"Are you two coming today!!!???" Sakura's shrill voice sounded from the first floor, ruining the 'moment'.
"You go. I need to get out of. This." Sasuke said, gesturing disgustedly at the pyjamas. Naruto only nodded his head, feeling too tired to care as he got up and waded out the door.
When he got downstairs, Sakura was sitting at the table, a sour look on her face. "Ohayo," he muttered and sat down across from Sakura. He opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong, but found that he didn't have to. Sakura seemed more then eager to get whatever it was off of her chest.
"Do you know how LOUD Kakashi-Sensei is when he wakes up?? First he stumbles out of bed. You should think he had more grace or something, being a ninja and all. Afterwards he drags his feet all the way to the door, which he opens up ALL THE BLOODY WAY! Not bothering to close it, he just gives it a shove so it SLAMS shut! Paint fell off of the walls for crying out loud! And if all of this wasn't enough, he spent a million and one years in the bathroom. I half suspected him of falling asleep in there. The man is not a morning person!!!"
Sakura took a deep breath on top of the long rant, and she was just about to start again, when Sasuke came downstairs, dressed and otherwise looking his usual self. "Sasuke-kun!" She yelled instantly standing by his side. "Can I use your bathroom?" She asked, smiling at him.
Sasuke just gave her a look. "Why?" he asked, face void of any emotions.
"Well." She started looking down at the floor. "I was just telling Naruto how Kakashi-Sensei used an endless amount of time in the bathroom this morning. And. Well, as a matter of fact he is actually still in there and the reason I called you two out of bed wasn't because of breakfast but because, I wanted you to get down here so I could borrow your bathroom." She trailed off. Sasuke just shrugged. "Mine is broken. Ask Naruto," he said curtly as he walked past her and sat down where Sakura had just been sitting across from Naruto.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked, looking slightly disgusted.
"Go ahead Sakura-chan," Naruto mumbled, looking tired. This 'Vacation' wasn't looking very bright. Not that it ever had. It wasn't because he didn't want to help Sasuke and Sakura by letting them borrow his bathroom, it was just that he had always felt like his bathroom was kind of sacred and he had never been used to sharing a bathroom with anyone before they had started on all of these missions and 'vacations'. That was probably the only thing about being a Ninja that he didn't like, and maybe it did sound kind of silly but everyone had something, and well, the bathroom thing was his. He had therefore been thrilled when he had discovered that he was going to have his own bathroom here, but now he was just feeling as if his privacy had been invaded.
"So you are up." Kakashi's cheerful voice sounded behind Naruto "Where is Sakura?" That was it. Something snapped and before anyone could do anything Naruto was sitting on Kakashi looking like he wanted to strangle the man. "What was the damn point of bringing us all the way up/out/wherever we are, here??!!" he yelled shaking his rather bewildered looking sensei.
"Naruto, get off of him," Sasuke said, rising from his seat to try and pry Naruto off of Kakashi who actually looked more amused then anything else.
It was at that instant that the door to the house slammed open and a large old looking guy stumbled in. Time seemed to freeze as he, the old man, took in the rather odd sight before him. "Uhm. D." He stuttered looking like he had wished he had knocked. "Ah, uh. Ja, øhh, Hans højhed ønsker at tale med dem." [1] The man finally got out before he turned on the doorstep and stormed out, not even bothering to check if anyone had understood what he had just said.
The three male Leaf ninjas didn't even make it to move an inch before Sakura came down the stares across form the door, apparently done using Naruto's bathroom. She stopped dead at the bottom and as the old guy from before had, took in the rather odd looking sight that was Kakashi on his back on the floor looking like he thought the whole thing was very amusing with Naruto on top of him, a leg on each side straddling his waist, a stunned look on his face and the icing on the cake; Sasuke standing behind Naruto, his arms encircling his rival's waist pressing them rather tightly together and sweatdropping.
It didn't take long before Sakura had to lean on the wall for support, giggling madly. "If you wanted to- you know- be alone. I could probably have asked around town to borrow someone else's bathroom and I. would have been out of the house for a while." She hiccuped when the worst waves of giggles had passed, this though, sending her into a new one.
Meanwhile her three male companions had gotten off of the floor and each other and sat down at the table.
"What did he want?" Naruto asked, looking at his teacher.
Kakashi grew silent for a bit before he got up from his seat "Come." He said, "His highness wants to speak to us. Besides we have to go buy breakfast, there is nothing in the house." And without turning to look if his students were following him, he walked to the door, opened it and left without closing it behind him.
Frowning Naruto looked at the other two who both looked after Kakashi with concern. "We should follow him," Sasuke stated, got up and walked to the door. "Are you coming?"
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Fly, fly precious one
Your endless journey has begun
Take your gentle happiness
Far too beautiful for this
Cross over to the other shore
There is peace forevermore
But hold this memory bittersweet
Until we meet
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After they had caught up with Kakashi, they all continued walking together in a rather slow tempo. Naruto could feel the villagers' eyes boring into the back of his neck. He didn't like it. He was used to being ignored whenever he didn't do anything to piss people off. Now everyone was looking at him with curiosity, and even fear in some cases he noted, and it was making him more and more uncomfortable with each step.
Luckily this was around the time where they were at the temple thingy and Naruto wasted no time jumping up at all the stares, throwing the doors open and practically burst through them. That was it! That was the last time he walked through this town in broad daylight if he had anything to say about it.
They walked through the same room they had first been in yesterday, but today they didn't go through the little door to the right. As a matter of fact the door seemed to have disappeared all together -.- Instead Kakashi just stopped and stood still in the middle of everything, looking like he was waiting for something. That something turned out to be the middle of the circular floor sliding down and revealing a staircase leading downwards to what was presumably the temples lower regions, and suddenly it didn't seem so strange that the door to the right was gone.
Naruto, who was in turn followed by Sasuke and Sakura, followed Kakashi as he started down the stairs. If Naruto had to use one word to describe the place at the bottom of the staircase it would be 'dark', as a matter of fact it was pitch black down there making it impossible for anyone to see anything. This was also the reason Naruto nearly jumped Kakashi when someone suddenly tapped his shoulder.
"I'm sorry." A man's voice sounded behind him speaking in bad Japanese and not sounding sorry at all. Naruto turned around to glare at the man, but instead his eyes nearly popped out. Never had he seen a human that big! He was at least twice as tall as Kakashi and three and a half times as broad. Well at least the man was holding a torch so they could see something now.
Gathering his composure Naruto tried to look around him to see what Sakura and Sasuke thought of him. There was only one problem, the man was too large to look around unless Naruto moved, and Kakashi had a firm grasp on his shoulders.
"Hello Kakashi." The man rumbled cheerfully. Kakashi squinted cheerfully back (probably smiled too but who could tell -.-)
"What is this all about?" Kakashi asked and the words had only just left his lips before the large man sighed deeply a saddened expression taking over his features.
"This way," the man muttered solemnly and turned to walk away indicating with his hand that they should follow.
They walked, and walked and then, surprise, they walked some more. It wasn't because Naruto was in bad shape or anything. Hell he was an active Ninja for crying out loud. It was just that it was so boring. And Kakashi refused to tell them where they were going, claiming that he didn't know himself. Yeah right.
Finally the huge man, with the even larger steps, (Naruto felt like they had been running for hours) stopped walking, and turned to pass the torch to Kakashi.
"This is it", the man said. "Are you sure you should take the kids with you in there?" Naruto was just about ready to start yelling at the man, but Kakashi silenced him by laying his hand down on his shoulder. Man he had known him for too long -.-
"As much as I would like to spare them this, I need them to know what this is about, and I need them to take it seriously," Kakashi said as he reached out to take the torch. What did he mean with 'spare them'? Naruto wasn't sure he liked the sound of that, and it was with a strange lump in his throat that he, along with Sakura and Sasuke, followed Kakashi into the room.
The room they now stepped into looked more like a tomb then anything else. It was small and decorated with metal plates formed in strange symbols, which looked to be made out of either silver or gold. It would probably have been pretty, if it hadn't been so dark.
As Naruto let his eyes wander the room, he discovered something that made his blood run cold. It wasn't that he had never seen a dead body before, but he had never really taken the time to study one up close. It wasn't just that though. There seemed to be something wrong with this body, but they were too far away for him to see anything clearly in the darkness.
"We are not going over there, are we?" Sakura asked, looking uncomfortable.
"Yes," was Kakashi's reply, as he started forward towards the body.
Whatever Naruto had expected, this wasn't it. At first sight, in the darkness, the body looked completely normal. Like the woman was asleep. But when you looked closer you could see that her hair was red, and it wasn't her natural hair colour, but whatever that colour might have been, it wasn't visible anywhere. It rather looked like someone had purposely coloured her hair with her own blood. Now the only thing they needed to find out was where on her the blood had come from. Kakashi seemed to have an idea though, and he carefully, like it was something that could break, took a hold of the body and turned it over.
What was on the other site made Sakura turn around and run to the door, which she tore open, and stormed out of the moment she reached it. Or at least that was what it sounded like she did to Naruto. He didn't look. He couldn't have looked away from the body, even if he wanted too. All he could do was stare at the horrors on front of him, unable to turn away. The back of the woman's head was one massive wound. And it was deep. Way too deep actually, and two bent tentacle-like things were sticking out from it all.
But that wasn't all. Her back had a fist-sized hole through it and hard edges of fractured bone were visible underneath the skin, indicating that someone or something had gone in, right at the edge of her shoulder blade, smashing it into two and then gone further through the back of her ribcage to whatever the destination. Probably her heart. So far so good. Naruto had seen wounds from spears and even hands, which had looked like that afterwards. If only the wound would have bled. But it hadn't. If only some of the fractured bones had come out through the hole, pulled out when whatever it had been that had done this had pulled out again. But they didn't. As it was now, she only had a hole in her back. Just a hole. Why hadn't it bled? Damn it why wouldn't it bleed! Naruto managed to tear his eyes off of the body to look at Kakashi for an explanation, and discovered that they were no longer alone.
"How, Kakashi-san?" the man who had been in the circle the day before and was now standing beside Kakashi asked in Japanese, looking both tired and sad.
Kakashi didn't reply at first. He just turned the body over again not even looking at the other man. "Sasuke get Sakura," he said. At first it seemed like Sasuke would argue that she couldn't handle coming back in, but instead he lowered his head and turned towards the door.
A little while later Sasuke came back in holding onto Sakura's hand. She looked like she had been sick, and Naruto felt a pang of sympathy mixed with something else, as he watched Sakura holding onto Sasuke, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. He had felt like that before, he was sure of it, but never directed at her. Or maybe he had, but he had never really paid attention to it before?
Shaking his head and frowning, Naruto decided to just push it to the back of his head for the moment and concentrate on the thing at hand. So when Sakura and Sasuke were standing beside him again, Sakura leaning up against Sasuke, he turned to Kakashi.
Their sensei sighed and looked at the body "The hole in the back of her head has been made from the inside." He began, suddenly sounding very tired "It is caused by a special form of Jutsu that enables the user to rip at the victims thoughts literally turning them into shards that have cut through half of her brain and in the end burst out through the back of her skull."
Kakashi looked at the man beside him, before he reached out his hand to open the woman's eyelids, revealing that the eyes were gone and the sockets were cracked. " The part of her brain that was pulled out through the back, was the lower part, this resulting in the eyes being pulled back through what was left of it. The Jutsu was stopped before the eyes came out on the other side though." The man beside Kakashi seemed to get smaller with each word Kakashi spoke. Naruto felt too sick to pay this much attention though, as he suddenly realised what the tentacle-things must have been.
"And. And the hole in the back?" The man seemed almost afraid to ask, and Naruto could partly understand why. Kakashi seemed eerily calm and was staring at the man like it was his fault. "The whole was made by a fist." He stated, like this confirmed something. "The heart isn't there anymore, but it wasn't pulled out, it was disintegrated when the fist reached it."
"Kakashi-san, I." the man began but Kakashi cut him off.
"Det her er din skyld. Det håber jeg du er klar over!" [2] He hissed, still not looking at the man. Apparently he didn't want his students to know what he was saying. When the other didn't answer Kakashi sighed again, and turned his attention to his aforementioned students. "Come," he said as he turned from the body and walked towards the door.
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Fly, fly do not fear
Don't waste a breath, don't shed a tear
Your heart is pure, your soul is free
Be on your way, don't wait for me
Above the universe you'll climb
On beyond the hands of time
The moon will rise, the sun will set
I won't forget
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When they were outside again, Naruto took a deep breath of air. It felt like he hadn't breathed for hours. Looking up at the sun Naruto felt the sickness come back. Why was the sun shining anyway? On the way out they had passed a man and two kids, one was around his own and Sasuke and Sakura's age, and the other was about six and had been crying as if whipped. Naruto presumed that it had been the poor woman's family, and as they passed, the boy had looked up at him with large blood shot eyes. It had been a painful reminder of four other little boys who had lost the ones closest to them at that age.
"We have to leave the city," Kakashi suddenly announced, ripping Naruto from his thoughts.
"NANI??!!" he yelled, looking at his teacher with wide eyes.
"We can't stay here," Kakashi stated as he started walking at a quick pace so that Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura had to run to keep up. "We have to go get our things. There is a cabin about 5 kilometres outside of the village gates. We are going to stay there," he continued in a voice that left no room for arguments.
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Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven's love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again
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About half an hour later they were all packed again and ready to leave. "All settled?" Kakashi looked around at the three of them nodded at seeing their stuffed bags. "Okay, let's go," he said and turned towards the door, not really paying any attention to the fact that his students weren't following.
Naruto personally had had enough. The last day or so, and especially the last hour, had passed by him as if he hadn't really lived it, but rather had been standing somewhere and looked at it passing him by, and it had left his head hurting with millions of unanswered questions and now he felt like he had had enough, and he was happy to see that his two team mates appeared to feel the same way.
Two minutes later Kakashi walked back in. "What do you three think you are doing. Lets go!" he said sounding impatient.
That seemed to be it for Sakura. "What the hell do you think you are doing?! You can't just expect us to follow you through all of this without any form of explanation! Now you are going to tell us what the hell is going on or until you do, none of us is going anywhere!" Naruto blinked at Sakura. He wasn't used to Sakura losing it like that. That sounded like something he could have said.
Feeling a little uneasy with how Kakashi might take this, Naruto turned to look at Kakashi who sure enough looked like a storm cloud about to throw lightning at them, and the most scary thing was that he was actually able to do so. But then something suddenly seemed to cross his face and he went back to looking tired.
"You are right," he said. "But not here. I will tell you when we make it to the cabin. Okay?"
The three looked at each other and seemed to silently agree. "Okay," Sakura said.
And so it was settled, and the four Leaf ninjas left the house and walked back through the village, the same way they had come the day before.
As they passed the gates again, Naruto looked up at the sky. The sun was still there, shining down at them with full force. He had known that this day was going to be crappy.
What gave the sun the right to shine so happily anyway?
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Fly, fly little wing
Fly where only angels sing
Fly away, the time is right
Go now, find the light
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[1] " Ah, uhm.. yeah uhh, his highness wishes to have a word with you." (you, being polite and to only one person)
[2] " This is your fault. I hope you are aware of that!" (your and you spoken impolitely)
MIGHT AS WELL READ THIS TOO NOW YOU ARE AT IT!!!!!!
Uni: This chap is dedicated to the ones that reviewed the last chapter and the ones who reviewed 'Midnight' convincing me that I should continue this story. Thanks^^ I am convinced, for now (but that doesn't mean I woulden't love you to death if you review this chapter and tell me what you thought of the gore scene *hint hint* ;). I am sorry if I scared some people, it was just. I posted chapter 3 and then the next morning there was nothing. I have NEVER tried that before and I was beginning to think that I might have lost my touch and was just about ready to go bury myself! Especially because I just came across a Naruto/Hinata story that had more reviews then any of the NaruSasu ones I ever came across. OUTRAGEOUS!! At least in my book. Not that I mind Hinata or anything (heck I love her she is the sweetest^^) But DAMN!! Are we really that few NaruSasu shippers left in the ff.net domain?? Just a thought.
Matt: She still own nothing so no news there -.-
Uni: Yay I got 30 reviews!! Thanks guys^^ And thanks Cheryl-chan for betaing :)
Uni: I have a warning for this chapter, it contains descriptive gore!!! If you don't like, I am sorry I don't really know what you should do about this chapter because it is kind of important to the story -.-
So anyway on with chappy^^
Yuki and Is
Fly Away --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven's love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again
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The next morning Naruto woke up to the sun shining in through his window and for a moment he thought he was home in Leaf village. Then everything came back to him; the events of the previous couple of days and especially the day before came crashing down. He slumped back on the pillow burying his face with a groan. How long had they been there? Barely a day and he was already missing home, where there was no snow! Unless it was winter and it was supposed to be there! Where he understood everything people said or wrote, where he didn't have to learn how to use his Chakra in new ways (though he hadn't minded it as much. It was more the fact that it was Sasuke who had 'taught' him) and where people ate with chopsticks rather than those stupid weird instruments!
"Naruto! You moron, you are going to sleep through breakfast!" Sakura's loud voice rang through out the house, and Naruto was sure some people outside had heard it as well. Though since she had yelled out in Japanese they probably hadn't understood a word anyway.
Sighing, he got up and went over to the small door to the left of his bed, which led to his bathroom. He was glad that he and Sasuke at least didn't have to share that, like Sakura and Kakashi-Sensei did, because on the first floor there was only one bathroom. Sharing the second floor with the black haired wonder was more than enough, according to Naruto.
Just as Naruto had put on the last of his clothes someone banged loudly on his door. "Are you done yet?!" Sasuke's voice sounded muffled through the door. Annoyed, Naruto walked out of his bathroom and opened the door to his bedroom.
"What?" he snapped at the boy on the other side. Then his mouth fell open, as he looked Sasuke up and down. His Rival was wearing blue pyjamas, and great big white ice-bear slippers. Naruto had to concentrate hard not to burst out laughing.
"Kakashi wouldn't let me sleep in just boxers insisting that it was too cold, and 'luckily' he had a spare with him. Plus the floor in the hallway is cold." Sasuke explained sourly, his face colouring slightly.
A long silence followed this, until Naruto finally seemed to have gotten his composure back, and coughing a little, he got back to the question at hand. "What do you want?"
"I can't use my bathroom so I'll have to use yours," the rather red-faced Sasuke mumbled.
This was just not happening! Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion and glared "Why?"
"It's broken," Sasuke said shortly.
"Well can't you get it fixed?" Naruto managed to squeak out, nearing desperation.
"I probably could, but I think it's going to be a while and I can't wait that long," Sasuke hissed, seemingly getting even more embarrassed.
"Well what's wrong with it?" Naruto pushed. Like hell he was going to lend Sasuke his bathroom if it wasn't absolutely necessary.
Sasuke sight "Could I at least just borrow it quickly and then tell you afterwards?" he asked, almost sounding pleading.
Letting out a breath of air he hadn't realised he had been holding in, Naruto closed his eyes. This was going to be one hell of a bad day! He could just feel it. So giving up and stepping aside Naruto opened the door and gestured for Sasuke to come in. Muttering a small 'thanks', Sasuke sprinted past Naruto and seconds later the door to his bathroom slammed shut.
Cursing in a way that would have made a sailor blush, Naruto sat down on his bed and waited for Sasuke to come out and explain. He didn't have to wait long because moments later Sasuke retreated from the 'little house' and made his way over to stand in front of Naruto, arms crossed.
"A stone broke my window last night, and now the bathroom is full of snow and the water in the bowl is one big lump of ice." Sasuke drawled. Naruto looked up at Sasuke, crestfallen. A stone?? This could not be true. This was just not true! Naruto thought as he dramatically slumped back onto the bed.
"Don't think I like this any better then you do, dead-last." Sasuke said, sounding annoyed, from somewhere out of Naruto's current line vision. Naruto just grunted at that, deciding that he didn't want to bother. Sasuke had to be really pissed with this arrangement too; dead-last had become something Sasuke only called him if he was really annoyed with him.
"Are you two coming today!!!???" Sakura's shrill voice sounded from the first floor, ruining the 'moment'.
"You go. I need to get out of. This." Sasuke said, gesturing disgustedly at the pyjamas. Naruto only nodded his head, feeling too tired to care as he got up and waded out the door.
When he got downstairs, Sakura was sitting at the table, a sour look on her face. "Ohayo," he muttered and sat down across from Sakura. He opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong, but found that he didn't have to. Sakura seemed more then eager to get whatever it was off of her chest.
"Do you know how LOUD Kakashi-Sensei is when he wakes up?? First he stumbles out of bed. You should think he had more grace or something, being a ninja and all. Afterwards he drags his feet all the way to the door, which he opens up ALL THE BLOODY WAY! Not bothering to close it, he just gives it a shove so it SLAMS shut! Paint fell off of the walls for crying out loud! And if all of this wasn't enough, he spent a million and one years in the bathroom. I half suspected him of falling asleep in there. The man is not a morning person!!!"
Sakura took a deep breath on top of the long rant, and she was just about to start again, when Sasuke came downstairs, dressed and otherwise looking his usual self. "Sasuke-kun!" She yelled instantly standing by his side. "Can I use your bathroom?" She asked, smiling at him.
Sasuke just gave her a look. "Why?" he asked, face void of any emotions.
"Well." She started looking down at the floor. "I was just telling Naruto how Kakashi-Sensei used an endless amount of time in the bathroom this morning. And. Well, as a matter of fact he is actually still in there and the reason I called you two out of bed wasn't because of breakfast but because, I wanted you to get down here so I could borrow your bathroom." She trailed off. Sasuke just shrugged. "Mine is broken. Ask Naruto," he said curtly as he walked past her and sat down where Sakura had just been sitting across from Naruto.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked, looking slightly disgusted.
"Go ahead Sakura-chan," Naruto mumbled, looking tired. This 'Vacation' wasn't looking very bright. Not that it ever had. It wasn't because he didn't want to help Sasuke and Sakura by letting them borrow his bathroom, it was just that he had always felt like his bathroom was kind of sacred and he had never been used to sharing a bathroom with anyone before they had started on all of these missions and 'vacations'. That was probably the only thing about being a Ninja that he didn't like, and maybe it did sound kind of silly but everyone had something, and well, the bathroom thing was his. He had therefore been thrilled when he had discovered that he was going to have his own bathroom here, but now he was just feeling as if his privacy had been invaded.
"So you are up." Kakashi's cheerful voice sounded behind Naruto "Where is Sakura?" That was it. Something snapped and before anyone could do anything Naruto was sitting on Kakashi looking like he wanted to strangle the man. "What was the damn point of bringing us all the way up/out/wherever we are, here??!!" he yelled shaking his rather bewildered looking sensei.
"Naruto, get off of him," Sasuke said, rising from his seat to try and pry Naruto off of Kakashi who actually looked more amused then anything else.
It was at that instant that the door to the house slammed open and a large old looking guy stumbled in. Time seemed to freeze as he, the old man, took in the rather odd sight before him. "Uhm. D." He stuttered looking like he had wished he had knocked. "Ah, uh. Ja, øhh, Hans højhed ønsker at tale med dem." [1] The man finally got out before he turned on the doorstep and stormed out, not even bothering to check if anyone had understood what he had just said.
The three male Leaf ninjas didn't even make it to move an inch before Sakura came down the stares across form the door, apparently done using Naruto's bathroom. She stopped dead at the bottom and as the old guy from before had, took in the rather odd looking sight that was Kakashi on his back on the floor looking like he thought the whole thing was very amusing with Naruto on top of him, a leg on each side straddling his waist, a stunned look on his face and the icing on the cake; Sasuke standing behind Naruto, his arms encircling his rival's waist pressing them rather tightly together and sweatdropping.
It didn't take long before Sakura had to lean on the wall for support, giggling madly. "If you wanted to- you know- be alone. I could probably have asked around town to borrow someone else's bathroom and I. would have been out of the house for a while." She hiccuped when the worst waves of giggles had passed, this though, sending her into a new one.
Meanwhile her three male companions had gotten off of the floor and each other and sat down at the table.
"What did he want?" Naruto asked, looking at his teacher.
Kakashi grew silent for a bit before he got up from his seat "Come." He said, "His highness wants to speak to us. Besides we have to go buy breakfast, there is nothing in the house." And without turning to look if his students were following him, he walked to the door, opened it and left without closing it behind him.
Frowning Naruto looked at the other two who both looked after Kakashi with concern. "We should follow him," Sasuke stated, got up and walked to the door. "Are you coming?"
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Fly, fly precious one
Your endless journey has begun
Take your gentle happiness
Far too beautiful for this
Cross over to the other shore
There is peace forevermore
But hold this memory bittersweet
Until we meet
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After they had caught up with Kakashi, they all continued walking together in a rather slow tempo. Naruto could feel the villagers' eyes boring into the back of his neck. He didn't like it. He was used to being ignored whenever he didn't do anything to piss people off. Now everyone was looking at him with curiosity, and even fear in some cases he noted, and it was making him more and more uncomfortable with each step.
Luckily this was around the time where they were at the temple thingy and Naruto wasted no time jumping up at all the stares, throwing the doors open and practically burst through them. That was it! That was the last time he walked through this town in broad daylight if he had anything to say about it.
They walked through the same room they had first been in yesterday, but today they didn't go through the little door to the right. As a matter of fact the door seemed to have disappeared all together -.- Instead Kakashi just stopped and stood still in the middle of everything, looking like he was waiting for something. That something turned out to be the middle of the circular floor sliding down and revealing a staircase leading downwards to what was presumably the temples lower regions, and suddenly it didn't seem so strange that the door to the right was gone.
Naruto, who was in turn followed by Sasuke and Sakura, followed Kakashi as he started down the stairs. If Naruto had to use one word to describe the place at the bottom of the staircase it would be 'dark', as a matter of fact it was pitch black down there making it impossible for anyone to see anything. This was also the reason Naruto nearly jumped Kakashi when someone suddenly tapped his shoulder.
"I'm sorry." A man's voice sounded behind him speaking in bad Japanese and not sounding sorry at all. Naruto turned around to glare at the man, but instead his eyes nearly popped out. Never had he seen a human that big! He was at least twice as tall as Kakashi and three and a half times as broad. Well at least the man was holding a torch so they could see something now.
Gathering his composure Naruto tried to look around him to see what Sakura and Sasuke thought of him. There was only one problem, the man was too large to look around unless Naruto moved, and Kakashi had a firm grasp on his shoulders.
"Hello Kakashi." The man rumbled cheerfully. Kakashi squinted cheerfully back (probably smiled too but who could tell -.-)
"What is this all about?" Kakashi asked and the words had only just left his lips before the large man sighed deeply a saddened expression taking over his features.
"This way," the man muttered solemnly and turned to walk away indicating with his hand that they should follow.
They walked, and walked and then, surprise, they walked some more. It wasn't because Naruto was in bad shape or anything. Hell he was an active Ninja for crying out loud. It was just that it was so boring. And Kakashi refused to tell them where they were going, claiming that he didn't know himself. Yeah right.
Finally the huge man, with the even larger steps, (Naruto felt like they had been running for hours) stopped walking, and turned to pass the torch to Kakashi.
"This is it", the man said. "Are you sure you should take the kids with you in there?" Naruto was just about ready to start yelling at the man, but Kakashi silenced him by laying his hand down on his shoulder. Man he had known him for too long -.-
"As much as I would like to spare them this, I need them to know what this is about, and I need them to take it seriously," Kakashi said as he reached out to take the torch. What did he mean with 'spare them'? Naruto wasn't sure he liked the sound of that, and it was with a strange lump in his throat that he, along with Sakura and Sasuke, followed Kakashi into the room.
The room they now stepped into looked more like a tomb then anything else. It was small and decorated with metal plates formed in strange symbols, which looked to be made out of either silver or gold. It would probably have been pretty, if it hadn't been so dark.
As Naruto let his eyes wander the room, he discovered something that made his blood run cold. It wasn't that he had never seen a dead body before, but he had never really taken the time to study one up close. It wasn't just that though. There seemed to be something wrong with this body, but they were too far away for him to see anything clearly in the darkness.
"We are not going over there, are we?" Sakura asked, looking uncomfortable.
"Yes," was Kakashi's reply, as he started forward towards the body.
Whatever Naruto had expected, this wasn't it. At first sight, in the darkness, the body looked completely normal. Like the woman was asleep. But when you looked closer you could see that her hair was red, and it wasn't her natural hair colour, but whatever that colour might have been, it wasn't visible anywhere. It rather looked like someone had purposely coloured her hair with her own blood. Now the only thing they needed to find out was where on her the blood had come from. Kakashi seemed to have an idea though, and he carefully, like it was something that could break, took a hold of the body and turned it over.
What was on the other site made Sakura turn around and run to the door, which she tore open, and stormed out of the moment she reached it. Or at least that was what it sounded like she did to Naruto. He didn't look. He couldn't have looked away from the body, even if he wanted too. All he could do was stare at the horrors on front of him, unable to turn away. The back of the woman's head was one massive wound. And it was deep. Way too deep actually, and two bent tentacle-like things were sticking out from it all.
But that wasn't all. Her back had a fist-sized hole through it and hard edges of fractured bone were visible underneath the skin, indicating that someone or something had gone in, right at the edge of her shoulder blade, smashing it into two and then gone further through the back of her ribcage to whatever the destination. Probably her heart. So far so good. Naruto had seen wounds from spears and even hands, which had looked like that afterwards. If only the wound would have bled. But it hadn't. If only some of the fractured bones had come out through the hole, pulled out when whatever it had been that had done this had pulled out again. But they didn't. As it was now, she only had a hole in her back. Just a hole. Why hadn't it bled? Damn it why wouldn't it bleed! Naruto managed to tear his eyes off of the body to look at Kakashi for an explanation, and discovered that they were no longer alone.
"How, Kakashi-san?" the man who had been in the circle the day before and was now standing beside Kakashi asked in Japanese, looking both tired and sad.
Kakashi didn't reply at first. He just turned the body over again not even looking at the other man. "Sasuke get Sakura," he said. At first it seemed like Sasuke would argue that she couldn't handle coming back in, but instead he lowered his head and turned towards the door.
A little while later Sasuke came back in holding onto Sakura's hand. She looked like she had been sick, and Naruto felt a pang of sympathy mixed with something else, as he watched Sakura holding onto Sasuke, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. He had felt like that before, he was sure of it, but never directed at her. Or maybe he had, but he had never really paid attention to it before?
Shaking his head and frowning, Naruto decided to just push it to the back of his head for the moment and concentrate on the thing at hand. So when Sakura and Sasuke were standing beside him again, Sakura leaning up against Sasuke, he turned to Kakashi.
Their sensei sighed and looked at the body "The hole in the back of her head has been made from the inside." He began, suddenly sounding very tired "It is caused by a special form of Jutsu that enables the user to rip at the victims thoughts literally turning them into shards that have cut through half of her brain and in the end burst out through the back of her skull."
Kakashi looked at the man beside him, before he reached out his hand to open the woman's eyelids, revealing that the eyes were gone and the sockets were cracked. " The part of her brain that was pulled out through the back, was the lower part, this resulting in the eyes being pulled back through what was left of it. The Jutsu was stopped before the eyes came out on the other side though." The man beside Kakashi seemed to get smaller with each word Kakashi spoke. Naruto felt too sick to pay this much attention though, as he suddenly realised what the tentacle-things must have been.
"And. And the hole in the back?" The man seemed almost afraid to ask, and Naruto could partly understand why. Kakashi seemed eerily calm and was staring at the man like it was his fault. "The whole was made by a fist." He stated, like this confirmed something. "The heart isn't there anymore, but it wasn't pulled out, it was disintegrated when the fist reached it."
"Kakashi-san, I." the man began but Kakashi cut him off.
"Det her er din skyld. Det håber jeg du er klar over!" [2] He hissed, still not looking at the man. Apparently he didn't want his students to know what he was saying. When the other didn't answer Kakashi sighed again, and turned his attention to his aforementioned students. "Come," he said as he turned from the body and walked towards the door.
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Fly, fly do not fear
Don't waste a breath, don't shed a tear
Your heart is pure, your soul is free
Be on your way, don't wait for me
Above the universe you'll climb
On beyond the hands of time
The moon will rise, the sun will set
I won't forget
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When they were outside again, Naruto took a deep breath of air. It felt like he hadn't breathed for hours. Looking up at the sun Naruto felt the sickness come back. Why was the sun shining anyway? On the way out they had passed a man and two kids, one was around his own and Sasuke and Sakura's age, and the other was about six and had been crying as if whipped. Naruto presumed that it had been the poor woman's family, and as they passed, the boy had looked up at him with large blood shot eyes. It had been a painful reminder of four other little boys who had lost the ones closest to them at that age.
"We have to leave the city," Kakashi suddenly announced, ripping Naruto from his thoughts.
"NANI??!!" he yelled, looking at his teacher with wide eyes.
"We can't stay here," Kakashi stated as he started walking at a quick pace so that Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura had to run to keep up. "We have to go get our things. There is a cabin about 5 kilometres outside of the village gates. We are going to stay there," he continued in a voice that left no room for arguments.
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Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven's love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again
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About half an hour later they were all packed again and ready to leave. "All settled?" Kakashi looked around at the three of them nodded at seeing their stuffed bags. "Okay, let's go," he said and turned towards the door, not really paying any attention to the fact that his students weren't following.
Naruto personally had had enough. The last day or so, and especially the last hour, had passed by him as if he hadn't really lived it, but rather had been standing somewhere and looked at it passing him by, and it had left his head hurting with millions of unanswered questions and now he felt like he had had enough, and he was happy to see that his two team mates appeared to feel the same way.
Two minutes later Kakashi walked back in. "What do you three think you are doing. Lets go!" he said sounding impatient.
That seemed to be it for Sakura. "What the hell do you think you are doing?! You can't just expect us to follow you through all of this without any form of explanation! Now you are going to tell us what the hell is going on or until you do, none of us is going anywhere!" Naruto blinked at Sakura. He wasn't used to Sakura losing it like that. That sounded like something he could have said.
Feeling a little uneasy with how Kakashi might take this, Naruto turned to look at Kakashi who sure enough looked like a storm cloud about to throw lightning at them, and the most scary thing was that he was actually able to do so. But then something suddenly seemed to cross his face and he went back to looking tired.
"You are right," he said. "But not here. I will tell you when we make it to the cabin. Okay?"
The three looked at each other and seemed to silently agree. "Okay," Sakura said.
And so it was settled, and the four Leaf ninjas left the house and walked back through the village, the same way they had come the day before.
As they passed the gates again, Naruto looked up at the sky. The sun was still there, shining down at them with full force. He had known that this day was going to be crappy.
What gave the sun the right to shine so happily anyway?
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Fly, fly little wing
Fly where only angels sing
Fly away, the time is right
Go now, find the light
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[1] " Ah, uhm.. yeah uhh, his highness wishes to have a word with you." (you, being polite and to only one person)
[2] " This is your fault. I hope you are aware of that!" (your and you spoken impolitely)
MIGHT AS WELL READ THIS TOO NOW YOU ARE AT IT!!!!!!
Uni: This chap is dedicated to the ones that reviewed the last chapter and the ones who reviewed 'Midnight' convincing me that I should continue this story. Thanks^^ I am convinced, for now (but that doesn't mean I woulden't love you to death if you review this chapter and tell me what you thought of the gore scene *hint hint* ;). I am sorry if I scared some people, it was just. I posted chapter 3 and then the next morning there was nothing. I have NEVER tried that before and I was beginning to think that I might have lost my touch and was just about ready to go bury myself! Especially because I just came across a Naruto/Hinata story that had more reviews then any of the NaruSasu ones I ever came across. OUTRAGEOUS!! At least in my book. Not that I mind Hinata or anything (heck I love her she is the sweetest^^) But DAMN!! Are we really that few NaruSasu shippers left in the ff.net domain?? Just a thought.