Okay! Here's the rewrite for chapter four... there may be some big changes but yea... nothing that BIG... - how do I explain this? Hahaha oh wellz
Hey all! Hmm... for
this chapter... its gonna take a while to finish... I don't even
know if I can finish it in this week since I have so much hwmk... but
it'll be a gradual process... so I hope you guys enjoy this when im
done
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sasuke relationship w/ naruto as either one of two. 1. "I'm so
envious of narutos new power that I a) turn completely evil b) work
harder and still suck in the end and wind up somewhat hatin Naruto.
2. I secretly love naruto. Heheeh... sorry to all the sasunaru lovers
tho... I mean no offense to ya'll. But u gotta admit, it was a
funny scene on the anime... I just hope mine can somewhat compete and
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discouraged ez... that is unless someone flames me xX as for the
comment about Sandaime telling naruto bout his past, I was attempting
(apparently not very well) to kill two birds with one stone. The
reasoning behind this was that, okay, Naruto has two very distinct
things that happen to him in the beginning. 1. he learns kage
bunshin. 2. he finds out about kyuubi. Kage bunshin is like
"forbidden" so I didn't think it'd be good if jiraiya taught
him it but to have kyuubi revealed to naruto from the third was my
original plan. As for the repeat on mizuki, my bad! xX hehehe.... I
didn't realize it was so soon... =b I hope this chapter suits ur
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Chapter 4: Naruto's
Tattoo
"Damn demon-child, get away from me!"
"No!
Stay away from my children!!"
"Psh. You don't deserve to
live in Konoha."
"Go away! You're not wanted
here!"
"Monster!!!"
"Monster..."
"Mons-"
Naruto
jolted up from his bed in a cold sweat. He was breathing heavily at a
fast and unsteady rate. The sweat ran down in face and his hair was
tousled from tossing and turning. The blonde, with the dismay showing
in his eyes, clutched his blanket tightly. He could still hear the
echoes of the names and the insults ringing in his head.
His
head was pounding and his whole body felt like it was on fire,
burning him with pain and torture for a moment. He winced in
pain.
"Must be getting the chills," he muttered in
annoyance.
Turning to the alarm clock, he saw it was three in
the morning. Knowing he wouldn't be able to sleep for a while after
that, he got up and walked to where he stored his medicine and first
aid kit. He took out a white box with a red cross on it and opened it
wide, revealing an array of capsules, each marked with the contents
and what they were to do. Clutching his shoulder with his left hand,
he picked up a sleeping pill capsule, opened it, and downed a couple
pills on the spot.
'I hope it kicks in soon.'
The
young boy closed and put away the kit, then turned and walked to the
balcony. He stepped out into the cool night and looked up to the sky.
It was still dark and a crescent moon was perched in the sky. Its
light shone on Konoha, peaceful and quiet. He could see a few ANBU
jumping around, surveying the area as they went to their locations,
but no one was really outside other than that. It was just ...
peaceful. Something he wasn't used to yet. He was used to camping
out in forests, listening to nature lulling him to sleep, but it was
just... silent. He took in a deep breath of the fresh air and sighed
before he turned and walked back into the apartment, closing the door
behind him.
Naruto began to feel a little lightheaded and
yawned from the drowsiness.
'Ah. They're already kicking in.'
He jumped into his bed and dozed off, this time, into a dreamless sleep.
Naruto walked into the classroom, which was already filled with chatter. The students all had their forehead protectors on, telling the world that they were official ninja of Hidden Leaf, though they were only genin.'Gosh, they're so... loud...' the blonde thought, looking at some of the girls squealing like they were completely insane.
Naruto walked through the small gatherings and went straight to an empty seat, where he leaned back into the chair and watched his peers chatter incessantly. Apparently, that Uchiha kid, who happened to be sitting in the seat next to him, was quite popular and was the top student in the class. Naruto smirked at this. It wasn't like competition was a bad thing. How hard could it be to show up a kid who's never had experience like himself? While pondering on these things, the classroom door opened and in walked Iruka-sensei. The students ran to their seats and hushed, waiting for their teacher to start the class.
Two of the loudest girls that were arguing, took a seat down behind Naruto and Sasuke. One was a blonde blue-eyed girl; the other was the pink haired girl that Naruto had spoken with the other day. They were arguing over some frivolous things that Naruto wasn't bothering to listen to. Instead, he sat there with a new stack of pages to Jiraiya's book, editing again. The old man would send him new chapters every once and so often and he had just gotten the new update yesterday. But he put them away as their Chuunin teacher began to talk.
"Alright, class has started. Keep quiet while I arrange the last of the teams," Iruka-sensei called out to the class.
The two girls "HMPH!"-ed [A/N hahh dumb I know] and ignored each other. Sakura looked down at the person seated in front of her, who happened to be that new blonde student, Uzumaki Naruto.
'Hmm... I wonder who this new student is... He seems a bit more mysterious than everyone else here... Of course he isn't as hot as my Sasuke-kun,' Sakura thought to herself.
She glanced over him and noted his dark clothing. The blonde wasn't one for flashy clothing that was for sure. She noticed the bandages all over his arm and leg and wondered if they were just for fashionable purposes or if he had injured himself in some way. But then again, the blonde was just a genin... and most genin didn't do anything dangerous, but maybe he got himself in a situation from where he came from. Then, she saw him shiver a bit.
'That's odd. It's rather warm, isn't it?' she asked herself. She blinked and then ignored it.
'Hahaha, maybe he has a cold or something, but if I were sick, I wouldn't come to school.'
As Iruka-sensei started speaking, she looked up to hear him talk about being new genins, the jounin teachers and the genin groups. Most of the students at this point were trying to think of whom they wanted in their teams while Iruka was assigning the teams.
"Next is the seventh group. Uzumaki Naruto... Haruno Sakura... And Uchiha Sasuke."
The pink-haired girl jumped up at this and yelled out, "YEA!" Her two new teammates, however, kept their expressions differed from hers. Sasuke was looking as if it didn't make much of a difference, and of course, to him, it didn't really. Naruto raised his eyebrow at the shout and began to wonder if the three would be able to work out. After the teams were listed, their teacher explained the reasoning behind the arrangements of the groups and other things they needed to know.
"I'm going to introduce the Jounin teachers in the afternoon. Meeting adjourned until then!" Iruka-sensei stated.
"Ino-pig, love prevailed and decided I was the one meant to be on Sasuke's team, ultimately to become his girlfriend!" cried out Sakura to the blonde girl next to her.
"Shut up forehead girl. Sasuke-kun's gonna be on MINE in the end!!" refuted Ino.
"Ino-pig!" "Forehead girl!"
The two girls growled and glared at each other, electricity sparking in their glare.
Naruto had gotten up as soon his teacher had finished talking. He turned and caught her and Ino in the middle of their argument. His eyebrows furrowed and he gave an expression of confusion. He sweatdropped and dismissed the argument, which had stopped when he turned.
"Uhmmmm, you're Sakura-san, right?" he asked.
She nodded and saw him turn to the blue-haired boy sitting next to him and ask,
"And you're Sasuke-san, no?"
"Yep! That's Sasuke-kun!" Sakura answered for Sasuke, whom was getting up.
Naruto smiled and said, "This is fantastic! I've got two of the top students in my group! Looks like I won't have to do anything!"
Naruto chuckled at this and turned to walk out of the classroom. He had a date with a bowl of ramen at Ichiraku waiting for him. His new teammates, however, were not so pleased with his comment, both sweatdropping.
'That lazy bum,' the two thought.
A few hours later, Team Seven found themselves waiting for their jounin teacher. By a few hours, it was more like a few hours after every other jounin teacher had picked up his or her students. In fact, at this point, even Iruka had gone home, leaving the three to wait for their new sensei.
The three were sitting in the classroom, each doing their own thing. But of course, they were all annoyed by the fact that they were the last ones in school, still waiting. Sasuke was sitting on his seat, isolating himself from his teammates. Sakura was pacing around, looking at the clock every half minute before sighing and pacing more. Naruto was sitting on the desks, shining some kunai and shurinken. He put down the cloth he was using and put away the sharp weapons. He then put his head down and started to drift to sleep.
::Dream Sequence::
"Huh, where am I?" Naruto asked.
He was standing in a pitch-black area. He turned in circles but saw nothing else but the complete darkness, covering him, with not an inch of light shining through from anywhere. The blonde began to wander endlessly, leading him to nowhere, just more dark places. Then, the floor, if there ever was one, dissipated and he started freefalling. While falling he could hear the taunts and jeers again; they haunted him endlessly, not giving the twelve-year-old boy any sympathy.
He tried to cry for help, but he couldn't hear anything come out of his throat. He was just falling deeper and deeper... and deeper into the dark... Suddenly, he heard a growl. He looked to his left and saw a pair of red eyes. They eyes, or more likely, the owner of the eyes growed at him.
In a growl, it said, or sounded like it laughed, mockingly at Naruto.
"Hehehe. Looks like you're going to need me sooner than you think..."
Naruto began to be pulled in the direction of the voice.
"What?!"
Meanwhile....
Sasuke
was sitting quietly to himself, trying to ignore Sakura's annoying
flirting.
'Sigh. She will just weigh me down and hold me
back,' he thought to himself.
Suddenly, the boy next to him,
Naruto, began thrashing in his sleep. The two looked at him,
wondering what was going on in the mind of his.
"Oh my god!
I think there's something wrong with him!" cried Sakura. She
rushed over to where Naruto was hunched over in his sleep. Sasuke,
also curious, had also jumped down to where his teammate was
trembling.
"Why's he shaking?" she asked, scared of what
might happen.
Sasuke shrugged. Sakura frowned and started to
pull his shirt down from the opening. The two peered into the shirt
and saw a black tattoo of something. It was outlined a fiery red and
looked as if it were on fire. It was right there on his stomach, but
then, it faded quickly.
Suddenly, Naruto's eyes fluttered
open, and he gasped for air, scaring away his two other teammates. He
was bewildered.
"What!?" he yelled, not knowing what was going on. He pulled down his shirt and blushed heavily. "Sakura, as teammates, I don't think it'd be a good ide—"
The blonde then bolted
up, reached into his shurinken holster and threw three of his
shurinken to the doorway. And just walking in that moment was Hatake
Kakashi. The newcomer's eyes widened before he caught the shurinken
flying straight at him. Naruto looked at Kakashi, almost recognizing
him from somewhere before he collapsed onto the desk.
"Hmmm...
this isn't good," Kakashi stated.
"What time is it? What happened?" he questioned, continuing with, "And do I know you?" directed to Kakashi.
Sasuke turned around and looked at Naruto casually, then turned back to look out the window. Kakashi got up and put his book in his pocket. He walked over to where Sakura was sleeping and lightly shook her.
"Oh Sasuke... You want mee...?" she muttered in her sleep and smiled, in a dazed manner as drool dripped from her mouth.
Sighing, Kakashi shook her a little harder, awakening the sleeping pink-haired girl.
"What? What's going on?" she mumbled, confused. She swore she was just about to kiss Sasuke.
Inner Sakura cried,
"How could you wake me from such a good dream!?"
"That's
what I'm asking!" cried Naruto, frustrated. His head ached for a
moment so he began to rub his temples.
Kakashi responded,
"It's a little after seven. I'm your new jounin sensei. Ask
them for what happened."
Sakura nodded and began telling the
story.
"... and then Sasuke and I tried to see if we could
cool you down so that's why we opened your shirt up. It turns out
there was something like a tattoo there. It looked like it was on
fire. Naruto, you got a tattoo? That's sooo cool! I heard it hurts,
but I still want--"
"And then you bolted up and threw a
couple shurinken at Kakashi-sensei," finished Sasuke, tired of
hearing Sakura rant.
"You fainted after that," added
Kakashi. "You've been unconscious 'til now."
"..."
"Where
did you get that ... tattoo... from Naruto?" asked Sakura. "I
mean you're underage right?"
Naruto looked to Sakura and
stuck his tongue out after he said, in a light-hearted manner,
"That's none of your bee's wax."
'... But since when did I start blacking out like this? My chakra feels like its getting drained...'Sakura made a face at this and glared at Naruto.
"Hmph!"
"Hahahah... So anways, who are you again?"'He's obviously not telling them something,' he thought. Looking at the other student's, it seemed as if they believed the blonde.
'Guess it can't be helped if he doesn't want to say. It's his decision after all.'
"Sigh, we might as well do our team introductions. My name is Hatake Kakashi. I don't plan on telling you my likes and dislikes. My dream is... I have a few hobbies..." he said vaguely.
The three facefaulted at this.
"Why don't you go?" he asked talking to Naruto.
"Uhmmmm... okay. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like... I like... I like... ramen! Oh and I like to travel. I dislike.. hmmm... I dislike ... mean people and losing. My dream is... my dream was or is... I'm not sure anymore, but it was to become Hokage. My hobbies are training and eating more ramen!"
"Okay, how about you?" he asked Sakura.
"Uhmm... My name is Haruno Sakura. The person I like is..." she glanced at Sasuke, giggled and blushed. "My hobby is... hehehehehe" she glanced at Sasuke "My goal is..." she blushed again and looked back at Sasuke. "I dislike things that get in the way of me and my love."
"Hm... And you?"
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I dislike a lot of things and like a few things. I don't have many hobbies. My ambition, which I don't plan on leaving just a dream, is to revive my clan... and to kill a certain man."
'SUGOII!! SASUKE IS SOO COOL!' thought Sakura.
'As expected,' thought Kakashi.
'Kill a certain man, eh? Hmm... Wonder who it would be...' Naruto thought to himself. 'Hahaha, I'd hate to be the person he wants to kill.'
"Well, it's good to hear all of you are so unique. I like that. Tomorrow, we will start. We will meet at 5 A.M. in the morning. Don't bother to eat breakfast. You'll throw up if you do."
Sakura's eyes widened but Sasuke kept his cool. Naruto just nodded and got up.
"Well then, if you don't excuse me, I've got places to go and ramen to eat!"
He did a hand seal and "POOF!"
Naruto was gone.
'So this is what has happened to Jiraiya's student... He ought to be an interesting student for me as well...' Kakashi thought. 'He's really something else...'
Naruto stood in front of his bathroom mirror. He was staring at it, but his back was turned to the mirror. There, on his right shoulder blade, was a red "tattoo." Just like from his nightmare, it was a crescent moon with a circle next to it.
'What am I going to do?'
TBC...
A/N: omg... I hate this chapter... =/ sorry idk why but it was sooo tiring to write... T-T hahah it just feels like it doesn't belong.....
=] but nonetheless, I hope you guys review... it really helps as an energy booster kinda... hahah...
btw! I need a way to figure out how jiraiya comes back... any suggestions??/ =b
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