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Hidden Spirits
A Naruto Fan Fiction
By: Climax
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IMPORTANT NOTES (read plz) :
YAY!! I'VE GOT MORE THAN THREE REVIEWS IN ONE DAY!! REVIEWERS, I LOVE YOU ALL!! . Ahh… I'm feeling I'm noticed and precious. But… one thing I still need to improve, GRAMMAR!! God damn grammars, I hate you. Why do you exist in this peaceful world?? But without you, there is no English in this world… And why there are so many many many and many languages in this world?? Okay, calm down Climax. You know, I always mixed up the usage of present and past perfect or past continuous with them. But I'll try my best to cover them! read a grammar book before continue, to make sure that the previous sentences are in right tenses
Oh, yeah. One last thing, I haven't decided the pairings (because there are more characters I want to publish) or IF I NEED TO WRITE ACTION/ADNVENTURE/ROMANCE STORY. It's up to you all readers. You want or not. Shonen ai (boy x boy) or normal one. But no yuri (girl x girl), please. Because I never know what yuri pairings looked like (I have a feeling that I better don't know it because know shonen ai things is more than enough to disturbed my totally normal sex sense). I know there are more than enough shonen ai out there. And if you need my version? It's up to you readers. Maybe I never wrote a romance, but sometimes my romance sense is the best when it appeared to my sense. Okay, enough of my useless outburst. Happy reading!!
Scroll 1: Urgent and Mysterious
"Who… are you?" asked a very curious Naruto. He never ever saw an archer before. Hell, he even didn't know that archers are exist; not until today. Of course, he was dumbfounded by the green haired girl's out of ordinary attire and tools."I'm just a wondering archer. But you can call me Rhaera," said the Rhaera girl plainly with a light, tenor voice --a little bit boyish if you asked Naruto's comment-- as she started to walked toward the wounded wolf. The wolf growled in caution and Naruto just about to stop the girl from nearing the wolf when he saw the girl kneeled and calmly offered her right hand to the wolf as she offered it to bite her hand. But instead of bite her hand, the wolf cautious eyes went soft, and it sniffed the archer's hand playfully. Naruto's jaw dropped. How could be the fierce wolf he knew just a minute ago turned to be a tame-puppy like creature in front of this girl? Girl's charm is out of question.
"Well, uh, thank you for helped me," said Naruto, carefully picked his words in surprisingly quick act despite the fact that he has a slow brain.
"You didn't need to thank to me. I know actually you don't want to hurt it. Me too…" said Rhaera with the same plain tone as she scratched the back of the wolf's ear. It looks like it was her trademark to speak with a plain tone. But it didn't sound cold. Just calm and no emotion. Her face was no different.
"Huh? But your arrow…" Naruto trailed off and gasped a silent gasp as he looked at the wolf carefully. The arrow that used to be stuck at the wolf leg disappeared. The wolf's leg didn't even has any scratch.
"It's just an illusion," answered Rhaera as she stood up and let the wolf ran to his home. She turned to face Naruto. "I thought you would know it since you are a shinobi. Unless you are a moron…" Rhaera lowered her voice to saw Naruto's reaction. As usual, the blond boy pouted and started to yelling like Iruka-sensei scolding his students.
"Hell no!! I'm not a moron!! I am going to be a Hokage!! You just wait and see!!" yelled Naruto. Rhaera lifted her eyebrows and placed her hand on her chin.
Judging from his looks, he already looked like an orange toad with wig… (Imagine Gamakichi[1] with hair like Naruto's) thought Rharea. "How long I must wait? One century? One thousand years? I still have many times to spent, before I meet a shinigami (god of death) and face the last judgment. So I won't mind to watch you…"
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "What's that mean?"
"Never mind…" replied Rhaera coldly.
Naruto was preparing a retort when he painfully recognized that further insults would give nothing but wasting energy. So he decided to change the topic. "So? Why are you still here? I thought that a smart person like you doesn't like to waste time with an idiot like me," said Naruto with pressures in his words here and there.
Rhaera knew that it was a tease. And she decided to play along than shot back. "Sorry, I almost forgot. Actually, I came here to meet you," said Rhaera in a matter-of-fact tone. Naruto suddenly grew cautious. Almost EVERY outsider people that wanted to meet him actually had their ambition to the Kyubi. Itachi and his partner are good example. But what if she is one of Orochimaru's lackeys that were ordered to kill him? No doubt that the snake sennin has surprising secrets.
"Relax, I don't mean anything. I just want you to help me to find a person…" assured Rhaera. Naruto titled his head rather idiotically.
"Huh? Why me, out of all…" Naruto paused to thought the right word, "…shinobi. You can rent their service at the first floor of Hokage's Tower if you don't know where or how-" he stopped when Rhaera shot an expected-to-be a murderous glare (remember that her eyes were covered) to Naruto.
"Well, IDIOT. Do you think WHY I spent two hours roaming over this big village only to find your sorry-ass when the request for other shinobi's service won't even take half an hour?? NOW I started to believe those 'rumors'," said Rhaera rather impatiencely.
Naruto lifted his eyebrows, half angry, half curious. "What 'rumors'?"
"It said that you're the most full of surprise ninja…"
This was a praise or not, Naruto didn't know.
"…loud-mouthed, idiot…"
Those were D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y not a praise.
"…and troublemaker blonde…"
Naruto tried not to yell at the girl because he knew that she was innocent in this thing. "Who… said that… to you?" asked Naruto while his mind was trying as hard as it could to kept calm.
"I don't know his name, but…" she paused to remember. "He is a boy around your age, his hair is dark brown and tied into a high ponytail," Naruto had a feeling who was this… "lazy-looking and…"
Well, he could KILL Shikamaru later…
Meanwhile, Shikamaru…
Shikamaru shuddered as he stopped from his tracks.
What's this cold, scary feeling? he asked to no one but himself.
"Shikamaru, what's the matter?" asked Chouji as he munched potato crips.
Shikamaru just lifted his shoulder. Maybe someone had the plan for killing him. But he could take care of that later. And he continued to walk. However, unknown by him, his prediction was close to the truth…
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"So, what is your report?" asked a very curious Tsunade behind her desk. There, in front of her, stood a seal-specialist shinobi, ready to report what he got. The man saluted before speaking.
"As you know, Hokage-sama. The scrolls' titles are no doubt the First's writing style. But about what are inside, we don't know yet," reported the man as he paused to let Tsunade sent him a question.
"How about the triple seals on each scrolls?"
The man seems to be a little disturbed about this subject. " Hokage-sama, actually those seals are the main problem. No matter what methods we tried, it seems to be useless. Then we grew frustrated and tried to --I say sorry first-- tear, slash, and burn the scrolls but it seems as they remain untouched. Simply, we have no clue how to break the seals and no doubt our first Hokage," he paused to pick the right words, "doesn't like his life secret to be revealed," finished the man.
Tsunade went into a deep thought for a minute. Then she lifted her head to face the man. "Even you all don't know how to break the seals, you must have a clue of what type the seals are, aren't you?"
The man nodded. "Yes. Despite the fact that the seals are old and near ancient ones, we know that the seals are the type that will break with someone's blood. But we have no clue whose blood that can be used. And there is possibility that each seals has different blood key."
Tsunade sighed. "As expected from our genius Hokage… All right, keep this found as a secret and give the full report to me when you are finished. You may leave now…"
The man saluted and exited the room. Tsunade faced to Shizune. "Well Shizune, I guess we must back into the 'dust-land' again…" said Tsunade with a strangely excited tone.
Knowing that she couldn't resist, she only mumbled, "Library… again…"
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Somewhere in forest, a figure ran as fast as it could. It didn't have a long enough time to walk. It must search someone it knows now, before the someone do something foolish or reckless. It knows that its 'someone' would do ANYTHING to bring back his/her precious person or rather… people. And the 'someone' wouldn't care about the consequences.
Suddenly, it stopped. It listened to the area around it before it spoke. "I know you are there, Tsubaki."
There was a rustle sound, and a shadow fell from (almost) right above the figure. The shadow stood graciously in front of the figure. It was clear that the said Tsubaki was a middle-sized (as big as a regular dog) a cat. But it was no mere cat. Its fur was green as leaves colored. And its eyes were pure silver. Tsubaki smirked with a playful but a bit scary smirk.
"You didn't come here to bother me for nothing, right?" asked the figure. Tsubaki changed its smirk into a grin.
"Yes, master. Apparently, your reckless little brother is going to Konoha now. Just a matter of short time he will achieve his goal…" said Tsubaki with a playful tone. The figure remained undisturbed by the cat's unserious attitude.
"Any other information?" asked the figure. Tsubaki nodded in cat's style.
"You know, the youngest of two remaining Uchiha is at the of a said-to-be blasted snake sage, Orochimaru. Meanwhile his older brother is in an organization called 'Akatsuki'. Neither of them are in a good side," explained Tsubaki.
The figure glared coldly at the green creature. "Why did you tell me that? I don't have any interest in any of the Uchihas," said the figure coldly. Tsubaki pouted in its style.
"I thought you asked for any other information??" protested the cat.
"I don't need rumors," shot the figure back.
"It's not a rumor, master…" corrected the cat tiredly.
The figure ignored Tsubaki. "And I don't like gossiping…"
The cat's patience string snapped.
"Cat is!!" yelled it as it vanished with smoke before the figure could give it a piece of his/her mind.
Actually, the figure did that on purpose. Because once Tsubaki talked, it would never stop in a short time. And the figure was running out time.
"Curiosity kills cats, Tsubaki…" and the figure started to run again.
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End Scroll 1
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[1] Gamakichi is Gamabunta's son. Gamabunta is the ENORMOUS frog Naruto that summoned while he battled with Shukaku/Gaara
1641 words!! YAY!! If I still made grammar mistakes in this chapter (even I checked it with my grammar book) point and explain it, so I maybe won't repeat it again. Hope you like it…PS: no reviews, no story :P