Hey everybody! I have a funny story to tell you about my friend Luke. There
is this one episode of Spongebob Squarepants where Plankton is trying to
teach Spongebob to be assertive. So this guy sits on Spongebob, and
Plankton says, "Spongebob, are just going to let that guy sit on you? Be
assertive!" So Spongebob sticks his finger into the guy's pocket and says
"Beep beep." Then Plankton yells "Not IN-sertive!" Luke thought that was
the funniest thing in the world, so now he walks around poking his fingers
into his friend's pockets saying, "Beep beep." Anyway, at the end I have
another funny story to tell you about my friend Luke. Also, I am watching
Fruits Basket while I type this, so if I make mistakes on this chapter, it
is because I'm partly not paying attention to what I'm doing. (yeah, that's
my excuse) Anyway, Kakashi is pretty, and I am going to get on with this
chapter!
On with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I have stolen some scene's from the original Naruto story, but that does not count as plagiarism, because I only wanted to follow the original Naruto storyline, thinking that it will make it a little more interesting.
The group watched in horror as Kakashi was torn to pieces. Sakura screamed, while Naruto could only stammer. "M...MASTER KAKASHI!" Natsu, Tazuna, and Sasuke just watched, as their bodies stiffened into a defensive stance. Then the two ninja circled around and got behind Naruto. They both swung their arms back, ready to attack, while all Naruto could do was stand there. Luckily, Sasuke came to the rescue and flung a shuriken at the chain that was about to hit Naruto, pinning it to a tree.
The ninja had these strange, claw-like devices on their arms, and one end of the chain was connected to the arm of one ninja, while the other end was connected to the other ninja. The middle of the chain was caught on the tree. Sasuke jumped up and landed with one foot on each of the ninja's arms, then grabbed their hands, swung his feet back and kicked both of the ninja at the same time. The ninja used their claws to break free from the chain, then circled around Sasuke and began to run in the direction of the others.
One managed to stab Naruto in the hand as he ran by, while the other one focused his attention on going after Tazuna.
The whole time this was going on, Tazuna and Sakura had been witnessing something very peculiar. There was a change happening in Natsu. As Natsu had watched the ninja, her eyes became angry. The more she saw, the angrier she seemed to become. Then, when she saw Naruto frozen in fear as one of the ninja stabbed his hand, she seemed to snap. She yelled out in anger as she violently whipped a kunai knife out of the holster strapped around her right leg. She was about to lunge forward, when the black in her eyes suddenly began to glow white. Sakura stared at her in wonder and shock, as the glow became whiter and whiter, until it suddenly seemed to be sucked into her eyes. That's when she saw that her eyes were not entirely black anymore. Now there where strange glowing, white, symbols circled around her pupil.
Natsu lunged at the ninja that had just attacked Naruto, stabbing the kunai into his shoulder while grabbing him around the neck and forcefully pinning him against the nearest tree.
As she did this, Kakashi had suddenly and miraculously appeared and took down the other ninja in a matter of seconds. He apparently had used the Art of Substitution, making it seem as though he had been struck, when he really hadn't. (author's note: for more information on the Art of Substitution, see page 153 of Naruto Volume 1.) Kakashi held the limp ninja under his arm and turned around to watch Natsu.
Natsu had pinned the ninja against the tree, and punched him so hard on the side of the face that he was knocked to the ground. Natsu then grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, lifting him up as she screamed. "YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST TAKE PEOPLE'S LIVES LIKE THAT!? YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL THEM FROM THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT THEM!? She pulled the kunai out of his shoulder and pulled her arm back, ready to sink it into the ninja's stomach. "OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH WITHOUT YOU MEDDLING IN THEIR LIVES." She swung forward. "I CAN'T TEACH YOU THE MEANING OF THE WORST KIND OF PAIN, SO I WILL SHOW YOU ANOTHER KIND..." The kunai stuck into his flesh, he choked and sputtered and began to fall to the ground. Natsu paused, staring down at him. "I don't want to be like them, so I will spare your life. But like I said, you need to know the meaning of pain." She closed her eyes, and suddenly it appeared that her whole body was glowing. "Obviously, nobody has taught you what people go through when you do things like this, I can't be the one to teach you that. But I still will not take pity on men of your kind."
She then started to make signs with her hand. Signs that the others had never seen before. That was when Kakashi dropped the ninja that he was still holding around the neck, lunged forward and grabbed her hands to stop her from finishing the signs. It was easy to tell that it was causing Kakashi severe pain to touch her, as her body was still emanating that strange glow. Kakashi muttered words to her that the others could not hear. He paused for a second. Then suddenly, her body stopped glowing. Her face was becoming sad again, as the symbols in her eyes slowly faded away.
Kakashi picked up the two fallen ninja and tied them to a tree. They were still unconscious. Everybody except Kakashi was staring at Natsu with confused faces.
"What was that? What was happening to your eyes?" Sakura asked.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you had to see that..........but please just try to forget it. It's nothing of importance to you anyway." Was Natsu's only reply.
"But-" Sakura began. But Kakashi had interrupted her. "Sakura, please make sure these ropes are secure." Sakura sighed, knowing that the only reason Kakashi had done that was to stop her from questioning Natsu any further. Sasuke was pondering what Natsu had just yelled out. "I wonder what she meant when she said, "I don't want to be like them".....what did she mean by "them. And her eyes, they weren't sharingan, but what were they? I know it's no use to ask her, Sakura already tried..." He thought to himself.
Kakashi then turned to Naruto. "I'm sorry Naruto. I should have moved to help you sooner, before you were injured. It never occurred to me that you would freeze up." He then turned to Sasuke. "Good job Sasuke."
Naruto was getting up off of the ground. He was still in a state of shock, but that couldn't stop him from thinking that Sasuke had just shown him up. "I....I couldn't do a single thing! But Sasuke, who's never been in a real battle before, acted like it was no big deal. He didn't even break a sweat. But he still managed to save my life." Naruto stared at Sasuke, who turned around to face Naruto.
"Hey...are you okay...." Sasuke smirked. "You big chicken?" Naruto glared at Sasuke, he was trembling in anger.
Kakashi stepped in front of him. "Naruto! There's no time now for fighting. Their claws are poisoned. We have to clean that wound as soon as possible." Naruto looked down at his bleeding hand, remembering the way the ninja had scraped his claws across it while Naruto had froze up. Kakashi continued talking. "If we cut it open more deeply, the blood flow will wash the poison away." Kakashi then turned around again, this time to face Tazuna. "Mr. Tazuna."
"Wha...What is it!?" Tazuna asked, a little startled by the tone of Kakashi's voice.
Kakashi looked at him out of the corner of his eye. "I need to speak with you. Our attackers appear to be Journeymen level ninja of the Kirigakure clan-mist ninjas. They are shinobi renowned for their willingness to fight on until their goal is achieved, even at the risk of their own lives. Obviously the were watching and waiting for us. The sun is out and it hasn't rained in several days. So there shouldn't have been any puddles on the ground."
"If you knew all that, why did you even let those creeps attack you?" Tazuna asked.
Kakashi turned his back to Tazuna to look at the ninja now tied to a tree. "I could have killed them at any time...but..." He turned his head a little and looked at Tazuna out of the corner of his eye again. "...I wanted to find out...who their real target was."
Tazuna was a little shocked. "What do you mean by that?"
Kakashi went on to explain how this mission obviously was not a simple mission to protect Tazuna from thieves. And that the only reason Tazuna had lied to Hokage was probably because Tazuna couldn't afford more elite ninja to protect him.
Sakura looked worried. "We're not good enough yet to handle something like this. Can we quit? We'll need an anesthetic for Naruto's wound before we can re-open it and drain to poison. Can't we return to the village and have a doctor look at it?"
Kakashi stared off. "This is complicated. Do we go back now so we can make certain Naruto receives medical attention?"
Naruto glared at him, holding back all of the anger and frustration he was feeling. Suddenly, he whipped out his kunai knife and dug it into his hand. "Why am I always so different!? I HATE not fitting in!!!!!"
Sakura leaned forward. "Naruto! What are you doing!? No! Stop that!"
Naruto just kept digging in the kunai. "By now, I should be really strong! But I blew it......even though I've been doing tons of extra training everyday on my own, trying to build my skills......I swear, no one's ever going to have to save my life again...I'm not going to be the one who hangs back or freezes up...and I am NOT going to be outdone by Sasuke! I swear it by the pain in my left hand...With this kunai knife I promise you I..." He turned around to face the group, pulling the kunai out of his hand while his eyebrows furrowed in pain, but he was grinning. "...Will protect the old man. Reporting fit for duty master!"
There was a long pause before Kakashi stepped forward. "Naruto, we needed a free flow of blood to clean the poison from your wound. But you've exceeded the need." Kakashi leaned down so that he was Naruto's height. He laughed at Naruto and said, "You could bleed to death, I'm serious!"
Naruto wigged out. "NOOO! NUH-UH! NO WAY! ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN! I'M NOT GONNA DIE LIKE THIS!"
Kakashi took Naruto's hand. "Show me your hand...What are you Naruto? Some kind of masochist? Do you get off on pain?" Suddenly, Kakashi's face seemed shocked, his head started buzzing. "His hand...the wound...it's...almost healed! I should have guessed, it's the power of the nine-tailed demon fox." He looked up at Naruto and let go of his hand after he finished wrapping it in a bandage. "It looks like you'll be fine."
Tazuna stepped forward. "Master...Mr. Sensei, sir. I...have something I need to say....
Okay, that's it for chapter four! The funny thing that I wanted to tell you about Luke was that, him and me where going to Britt's house the other day, and we passed this little boy playing with one of those toy lawn mowers. Luke said that someday they were going to create one of those toys that actually mows the lawn. So I was like "Oh, really?" and Luke went "Yeah, they already came out with those toy vacuum cleaners that actually work. The next thing you know, there gonna come out with Mr. Bubbles' toys (he meant the Mr Bubbles bathroom cleaner) and the little kids are gonna blow bubbles and then the parents are gonna be all like, good, NOW WIPE IT UP!" I started laughing, but Luke wasn't done yet. He said that soon there was going to be a whole bunch of toys like that and the parents were all going to be slave drivers, and then he started imitating a parent with a whip, yelling "Play with your toy! NOW!" Yeah it was really funny, Luke is crazy. Anyway, I haven't been getting very many reviews lately and I would appreciate it if you would tell me whether or not this story is even worth writing. Oh yeah, there is something else that I thought was funny. After me and Luke got to Britt's house, it turned out that her parents weren't home, and it was just her brother in the house. So her brother sat on the computer and me, Luke, and Britt went outside because we were getting ready to go with Britt so that she could drop off a job application at a restaurant, and me and Luke were going to pick up some applications. We were about to get on our bikes, but Luke was holding Britt's application, and he started pointing out all of the mistakes she made on it. Now, me and Luke have been friends longer than me and Britt have, so Britt is still trying to get used to the fact that Luke jokes around about everything, and even though it seems like he's making fun of people, he's not. So she got all mad and left on her bike. Me and Luke where going to follow her, but she was already at the other end of the road, and we weren't even on our bikes yet. So we decided just to let her go, and went back into her house to pester her brother. So we sat and joked around with her brother until she came back with two job applications for me and Luke to fill out. So we sat in her kitchen and started filling them out, but I had forgotten my S.S. number, and called my dad to ask him what it was. While I was calling him, Luke was doing a bunch of Bill Clinton imitations, and as soon as my dad picked up the phone and said "Hello," Luke was saying (really loudly) "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." I started laughing, and it was really funny. After that we went back to the restaurant to hand in our applications and, and then went back to Britt's house. We hung out in the basement with her brother for a while, and then Britt started saying that we should go home soon because her dad would be home in a while, and he wouldn't want a bunch of teenagers in his house. But Luke and me had been playing a game with her brother, and Luke turned around and went, "Too bad, were his guests now!" It was really funny because it really did turn out that her brother kind of adopted us as his guests at their house instead of Britt's because Britt was still kind of crabby. Yeah, I just lost the entire point of telling you that story. Oh well, just make sure you read the next chapter!
On with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I have stolen some scene's from the original Naruto story, but that does not count as plagiarism, because I only wanted to follow the original Naruto storyline, thinking that it will make it a little more interesting.
The group watched in horror as Kakashi was torn to pieces. Sakura screamed, while Naruto could only stammer. "M...MASTER KAKASHI!" Natsu, Tazuna, and Sasuke just watched, as their bodies stiffened into a defensive stance. Then the two ninja circled around and got behind Naruto. They both swung their arms back, ready to attack, while all Naruto could do was stand there. Luckily, Sasuke came to the rescue and flung a shuriken at the chain that was about to hit Naruto, pinning it to a tree.
The ninja had these strange, claw-like devices on their arms, and one end of the chain was connected to the arm of one ninja, while the other end was connected to the other ninja. The middle of the chain was caught on the tree. Sasuke jumped up and landed with one foot on each of the ninja's arms, then grabbed their hands, swung his feet back and kicked both of the ninja at the same time. The ninja used their claws to break free from the chain, then circled around Sasuke and began to run in the direction of the others.
One managed to stab Naruto in the hand as he ran by, while the other one focused his attention on going after Tazuna.
The whole time this was going on, Tazuna and Sakura had been witnessing something very peculiar. There was a change happening in Natsu. As Natsu had watched the ninja, her eyes became angry. The more she saw, the angrier she seemed to become. Then, when she saw Naruto frozen in fear as one of the ninja stabbed his hand, she seemed to snap. She yelled out in anger as she violently whipped a kunai knife out of the holster strapped around her right leg. She was about to lunge forward, when the black in her eyes suddenly began to glow white. Sakura stared at her in wonder and shock, as the glow became whiter and whiter, until it suddenly seemed to be sucked into her eyes. That's when she saw that her eyes were not entirely black anymore. Now there where strange glowing, white, symbols circled around her pupil.
Natsu lunged at the ninja that had just attacked Naruto, stabbing the kunai into his shoulder while grabbing him around the neck and forcefully pinning him against the nearest tree.
As she did this, Kakashi had suddenly and miraculously appeared and took down the other ninja in a matter of seconds. He apparently had used the Art of Substitution, making it seem as though he had been struck, when he really hadn't. (author's note: for more information on the Art of Substitution, see page 153 of Naruto Volume 1.) Kakashi held the limp ninja under his arm and turned around to watch Natsu.
Natsu had pinned the ninja against the tree, and punched him so hard on the side of the face that he was knocked to the ground. Natsu then grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, lifting him up as she screamed. "YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST TAKE PEOPLE'S LIVES LIKE THAT!? YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL THEM FROM THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT THEM!? She pulled the kunai out of his shoulder and pulled her arm back, ready to sink it into the ninja's stomach. "OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH WITHOUT YOU MEDDLING IN THEIR LIVES." She swung forward. "I CAN'T TEACH YOU THE MEANING OF THE WORST KIND OF PAIN, SO I WILL SHOW YOU ANOTHER KIND..." The kunai stuck into his flesh, he choked and sputtered and began to fall to the ground. Natsu paused, staring down at him. "I don't want to be like them, so I will spare your life. But like I said, you need to know the meaning of pain." She closed her eyes, and suddenly it appeared that her whole body was glowing. "Obviously, nobody has taught you what people go through when you do things like this, I can't be the one to teach you that. But I still will not take pity on men of your kind."
She then started to make signs with her hand. Signs that the others had never seen before. That was when Kakashi dropped the ninja that he was still holding around the neck, lunged forward and grabbed her hands to stop her from finishing the signs. It was easy to tell that it was causing Kakashi severe pain to touch her, as her body was still emanating that strange glow. Kakashi muttered words to her that the others could not hear. He paused for a second. Then suddenly, her body stopped glowing. Her face was becoming sad again, as the symbols in her eyes slowly faded away.
Kakashi picked up the two fallen ninja and tied them to a tree. They were still unconscious. Everybody except Kakashi was staring at Natsu with confused faces.
"What was that? What was happening to your eyes?" Sakura asked.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you had to see that..........but please just try to forget it. It's nothing of importance to you anyway." Was Natsu's only reply.
"But-" Sakura began. But Kakashi had interrupted her. "Sakura, please make sure these ropes are secure." Sakura sighed, knowing that the only reason Kakashi had done that was to stop her from questioning Natsu any further. Sasuke was pondering what Natsu had just yelled out. "I wonder what she meant when she said, "I don't want to be like them".....what did she mean by "them. And her eyes, they weren't sharingan, but what were they? I know it's no use to ask her, Sakura already tried..." He thought to himself.
Kakashi then turned to Naruto. "I'm sorry Naruto. I should have moved to help you sooner, before you were injured. It never occurred to me that you would freeze up." He then turned to Sasuke. "Good job Sasuke."
Naruto was getting up off of the ground. He was still in a state of shock, but that couldn't stop him from thinking that Sasuke had just shown him up. "I....I couldn't do a single thing! But Sasuke, who's never been in a real battle before, acted like it was no big deal. He didn't even break a sweat. But he still managed to save my life." Naruto stared at Sasuke, who turned around to face Naruto.
"Hey...are you okay...." Sasuke smirked. "You big chicken?" Naruto glared at Sasuke, he was trembling in anger.
Kakashi stepped in front of him. "Naruto! There's no time now for fighting. Their claws are poisoned. We have to clean that wound as soon as possible." Naruto looked down at his bleeding hand, remembering the way the ninja had scraped his claws across it while Naruto had froze up. Kakashi continued talking. "If we cut it open more deeply, the blood flow will wash the poison away." Kakashi then turned around again, this time to face Tazuna. "Mr. Tazuna."
"Wha...What is it!?" Tazuna asked, a little startled by the tone of Kakashi's voice.
Kakashi looked at him out of the corner of his eye. "I need to speak with you. Our attackers appear to be Journeymen level ninja of the Kirigakure clan-mist ninjas. They are shinobi renowned for their willingness to fight on until their goal is achieved, even at the risk of their own lives. Obviously the were watching and waiting for us. The sun is out and it hasn't rained in several days. So there shouldn't have been any puddles on the ground."
"If you knew all that, why did you even let those creeps attack you?" Tazuna asked.
Kakashi turned his back to Tazuna to look at the ninja now tied to a tree. "I could have killed them at any time...but..." He turned his head a little and looked at Tazuna out of the corner of his eye again. "...I wanted to find out...who their real target was."
Tazuna was a little shocked. "What do you mean by that?"
Kakashi went on to explain how this mission obviously was not a simple mission to protect Tazuna from thieves. And that the only reason Tazuna had lied to Hokage was probably because Tazuna couldn't afford more elite ninja to protect him.
Sakura looked worried. "We're not good enough yet to handle something like this. Can we quit? We'll need an anesthetic for Naruto's wound before we can re-open it and drain to poison. Can't we return to the village and have a doctor look at it?"
Kakashi stared off. "This is complicated. Do we go back now so we can make certain Naruto receives medical attention?"
Naruto glared at him, holding back all of the anger and frustration he was feeling. Suddenly, he whipped out his kunai knife and dug it into his hand. "Why am I always so different!? I HATE not fitting in!!!!!"
Sakura leaned forward. "Naruto! What are you doing!? No! Stop that!"
Naruto just kept digging in the kunai. "By now, I should be really strong! But I blew it......even though I've been doing tons of extra training everyday on my own, trying to build my skills......I swear, no one's ever going to have to save my life again...I'm not going to be the one who hangs back or freezes up...and I am NOT going to be outdone by Sasuke! I swear it by the pain in my left hand...With this kunai knife I promise you I..." He turned around to face the group, pulling the kunai out of his hand while his eyebrows furrowed in pain, but he was grinning. "...Will protect the old man. Reporting fit for duty master!"
There was a long pause before Kakashi stepped forward. "Naruto, we needed a free flow of blood to clean the poison from your wound. But you've exceeded the need." Kakashi leaned down so that he was Naruto's height. He laughed at Naruto and said, "You could bleed to death, I'm serious!"
Naruto wigged out. "NOOO! NUH-UH! NO WAY! ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN! I'M NOT GONNA DIE LIKE THIS!"
Kakashi took Naruto's hand. "Show me your hand...What are you Naruto? Some kind of masochist? Do you get off on pain?" Suddenly, Kakashi's face seemed shocked, his head started buzzing. "His hand...the wound...it's...almost healed! I should have guessed, it's the power of the nine-tailed demon fox." He looked up at Naruto and let go of his hand after he finished wrapping it in a bandage. "It looks like you'll be fine."
Tazuna stepped forward. "Master...Mr. Sensei, sir. I...have something I need to say....
Okay, that's it for chapter four! The funny thing that I wanted to tell you about Luke was that, him and me where going to Britt's house the other day, and we passed this little boy playing with one of those toy lawn mowers. Luke said that someday they were going to create one of those toys that actually mows the lawn. So I was like "Oh, really?" and Luke went "Yeah, they already came out with those toy vacuum cleaners that actually work. The next thing you know, there gonna come out with Mr. Bubbles' toys (he meant the Mr Bubbles bathroom cleaner) and the little kids are gonna blow bubbles and then the parents are gonna be all like, good, NOW WIPE IT UP!" I started laughing, but Luke wasn't done yet. He said that soon there was going to be a whole bunch of toys like that and the parents were all going to be slave drivers, and then he started imitating a parent with a whip, yelling "Play with your toy! NOW!" Yeah it was really funny, Luke is crazy. Anyway, I haven't been getting very many reviews lately and I would appreciate it if you would tell me whether or not this story is even worth writing. Oh yeah, there is something else that I thought was funny. After me and Luke got to Britt's house, it turned out that her parents weren't home, and it was just her brother in the house. So her brother sat on the computer and me, Luke, and Britt went outside because we were getting ready to go with Britt so that she could drop off a job application at a restaurant, and me and Luke were going to pick up some applications. We were about to get on our bikes, but Luke was holding Britt's application, and he started pointing out all of the mistakes she made on it. Now, me and Luke have been friends longer than me and Britt have, so Britt is still trying to get used to the fact that Luke jokes around about everything, and even though it seems like he's making fun of people, he's not. So she got all mad and left on her bike. Me and Luke where going to follow her, but she was already at the other end of the road, and we weren't even on our bikes yet. So we decided just to let her go, and went back into her house to pester her brother. So we sat and joked around with her brother until she came back with two job applications for me and Luke to fill out. So we sat in her kitchen and started filling them out, but I had forgotten my S.S. number, and called my dad to ask him what it was. While I was calling him, Luke was doing a bunch of Bill Clinton imitations, and as soon as my dad picked up the phone and said "Hello," Luke was saying (really loudly) "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." I started laughing, and it was really funny. After that we went back to the restaurant to hand in our applications and, and then went back to Britt's house. We hung out in the basement with her brother for a while, and then Britt started saying that we should go home soon because her dad would be home in a while, and he wouldn't want a bunch of teenagers in his house. But Luke and me had been playing a game with her brother, and Luke turned around and went, "Too bad, were his guests now!" It was really funny because it really did turn out that her brother kind of adopted us as his guests at their house instead of Britt's because Britt was still kind of crabby. Yeah, I just lost the entire point of telling you that story. Oh well, just make sure you read the next chapter!