A Naruto Fan Fiction
By: Climax
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Scroll 3: Amnesia
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"But missy, if you WANT or DON'T know, I'll tell you. I have a THOUSAND of business that I must take care. And it will be a thousand and one if I accept your request!" explained Naruto. Rhaera stared him with an expected-to-be angry glare.
"WHO IS 'MISSY'?? I'm a BOY for God's sake!!" yelled Rhaera furiously.
"WHAT?!?!"
"So WHAT gender were you thought I am up till now?! A transsexual??" demanded Rhaera. Naruto shifted uncomfortably.
"Uh, I…" but he was cut by Rhaera's sigh.
"Never mind. Forget it. Just into our business…" Naruto sighed in relief. He didn't know why but he felt that this 'pretty boy' could do GREAT damage if he was angry. The sweet (or innocent) faced people were often scary when they were angry, right? For example; look at Sakura's face when Naruto (accidentally) kissed Sasuke. It was as scary as your mother when she was angry.
"!!!"
Rhaera felt something dangerous and turned. Seeing his serious expression, Naruto turned too. And he scowled (or cursed?) to the fate. Why he was so busy and unlucky this day? Here and now, his beloved enemies; Uchiha Itachi and his partner Hoshigaki Kisame (that's what the Ero Sannin said about the shark-faced man's name) stood confidently in front of them. It was no doubt that they were confident that they were going to have Naruto in their hands this time. Because there was no Jiraiya to stop them this time.
"EEHHH!!! YOU TWO AGAIN!!" yelled Naruto. Normally, people would look to him to see what the hell was happening but unfortunately, they are in a veeeerrrrryyyy silent and not crowded forest. That Itachi SURE knew the best time.
"Who are they, Naruto?" asked Rhaera with a dead serious tone in his (once again) usually plain voice.
"Two of the nine that after me," answered Naruto closely to the truth. That fact was told by Jiraiya too. And he didn't want to Rhaera know it completely.
The archer boy narrowed his eyes. "You maybe a troublemaker, but WHY two S-rank criminals are after you? I bet it not just a plain trouble," said Rhaera as he took his bow from his back, preparing for the worst case scenario. In his heart, Naruto wondered how could the archer knew that this two before them were S-rank criminals. Oh well, they were getting famous, weren't they?
"Naruto, I hope you come with us without causing trouble," said Itachi with his usual calm voice. Naruto spitted.
"Even if your fish eyed friend over there will promise to not to cut my legs and hands, I won't come with you," Naruto prepared a fighting stance as he said that. He know there was no way he could win because they are FAR beyond his level even he has the kyubi. They sure have fucking more experience than him. It seemed that Rhaera agreed with him because he putted his archer styled fighting stance.
"I agree with you, Naruto. Even if you come 'peacefully' at them, they sure won't leave me and Mayu alone," said Rhaera as he took one arrow from his arrow holder. At first, Naruto wondered who was Mayu but he soon realized that the little girl that has been with them up till now was who Rhaera referred.
"Please come with us, Naruto. We don't want to cause any trouble right now," said Itachi still coldly and calmly. Rhaera answered for them. He pointed his ready-to-shot arrow to the Akatsuki members. Rhaera signed Mayu to hide. "Over our dead body." After that, Rhaera shot his arrow.
The arrow flew towards the two and divided to two. A shadow arrow. Just like Sasuke's Kage Shuriken no jutsu (Shadow Shuriken). But Itachi and Kisame dodged it before the arrows hit them. The arrows hit dirt path and the path exploded to small lump of soils as it hit by tons of heavy rocks with fire spell paper on each rocks.
Naruto's jaw dropped as Kisame whistled while he still floating on the air. They were more than sure that if someone or something got hit by the destructive arrow, the said someone or thing would be a history. Naruto silently thanked to the God of The Patience that made Rhaera didn't get angry with him earlier time. He still wants to eat ramen after all.
Itachi himself narrowed his eyes. That boy was no mere archer at all. Thanks to his sharingan, he could saw the boy transferred a 'small' amount of his chakra to the arrow(s) before he shot it to them. If he doesn't have sharingan, he would be wondering off if the arrows have explosive spell paper on it. And it doesn't take a genius to predicting how it would be if the arrows were gave a BIG amount of chakra.
The attack didn't stop there. Rhaera prepared more arrows to Itachi and Kisame's bad luck. This time when the attack come, Kisame managed to shoved it aside with his Samehada. Luckily, the big blade absorbed big amounts of chakra from the arrow. So, the arrows didn't give a 'need-to-be-care' damage. In short; he lived.
Kisame smirked as he dashed forward to Rhaera. Itachi rushed to Naruto since he knew his Mangekyou sharingan wouldn't do much damage to the blindfolded boy. Kisame was more than enough anyway.
Kisame tried to reach Rhaera. He come to a conclusion that the boy was weak for a short range battle. But when he was near to the archer, Rhaera quickly jumped back to a tree's thick branch before he could swing his Samehada. And he stared to fire his arrows again. Kisame cursed as he dodged them and lunged to Rhaera again, ignored the huge explosion sound. But Rhaera jumped back… again.
Curses!! That archer surely knows how to prevent short range battle!! How can I hit her if she moves so fast?? Come on! Think!! thought Kisame furiously. Apparently, he was thinking the same thought as Naruto's first thought about Rhaera. He thought the archer was a she.
Meanwhile, Rhaera thought about how to give the shark faced man a great damage. His regular arrows were limited. Every archer knows that. Unless, he use 'those' arrows. No. It would be a waste of chakra. It looks like his big blade can drain chakra. And it's not slice, but shave. What a multifunction weapon for a bloodlust person like him… thought Rhaera as he furrowed his eyebrows. And I can't waste my time to him. Naruto is still a genin. And he definitely doesn't know how to deal with a Mangekyou sharingan. I'm luckier, tough. Because I'm blind and the illusion won't affect me. I guess I must use this special arrow. Rhaera took a yellow colored arrow and shot it towards Kisame.
Kisame noticed the difference from the previous arrows and managed to block it again. But this time, the arrow stuck at his samehada. And he noticed that Rhaera smirked triumphantly. And he took a look at his Samehada. His eyes widened. His samehada began to melt and there was a faint smoke on it.
"How is it? It's my favorite arrow. I call it; acid arrow. I made it from a giant slug's acid. Nothing can stand it," explained Rhaera with a daring tone that only a jounin or someone above them dared to say it to a very pissed off Kisame.
"You bitch!! How dare you break my samehada!!! You'll PAY!!!" angry veins could be seen on Kisame's forehead and temples.
Rhaera's eyebrows twitched.
"If you MEAN son of a bitch, I won't mind that," said Rhaera with a voice that clearly said 'I'm-judged-as-a-girl-AGAIN'. Kisame's expression was as horrible as if he was defeated by a beginner.
"You mean you are a MALE??" asked Kisame unbelievably. How could a male be THIS beautiful?? Even Itachi or his little brother, Sasuke were defeated.
"So you up till now thought that I'm a girl?? Man, all people are just the same…" sighed Rhaera tiredly. Both seemed to be forgot their fight. Neither of them nor Itachi noticed that Mayu had exited the scene to call for help.
"Maybe this one is not!!" yelled Naruto as he jumped past Rhaera while Itachi was tailing the blond boy. Rhaera bent down right before Itachi, who was holding a kunai and looked more than ready to slice anybody's neck, jumped past him. Kisame took this as a chance and jumped towards Rhaera to strike him. But then again, Rhaera dodged it.
"NARUTO, YOU DUMBASS!!! NO WONDER WHY THAT LAZY LOOKING CHUUNIN SAID THAT YOU'RE AN IDIOT!! NEXT TIME USE ANOTHER ROUTE IF YOU WANT TO ESCAPE FROM A MURDERER!!!" shouted Rhaera so furiously and loud that Naruto, Itachi, and Kisame sure that all the people in Konoha and the surrounding area was turning their head to this direction right now.
In the same time at Tsunade's office, all of the ninja and the advisors were waiting Tsunade to begin to open the Shodai's (First Hokage) diary seal. Tsunade looked to the advisors for sure and they nodded. Tsunade took a deep breath to relax her self. She held a thin knife in her right hand and on her desk there was the scrolls. She would try the blood method that she know from her dream. She was feeling ready but a bit of worried feeling came to her mind. What if it was not succeeded? What kinds of method she must use if she didn't succeed? What kind of writings in there if she succeeded to open it? But she knew that if she didn't try, she would never know. She prepared to slice her palm as the others silently gulped.
"This will be it!" she brought her knife down but the knife never reached her palm.
BANG-BANG-BANG!!
Because sounds of a glass hit by something three times startled and stopped her. She turned around to see who the hell was the 'someone' that has the nerve to interfere her. What she saw was a little girl with orange hair and purple eyes that was held by two ANBU guards. It was Mayu.
"Let me go!! I want to meet the Hokage!!" yelled the little girl furiously as she struggled from the two ANBU's strong grip in vain.
"No, you can't!! Hokage's on an important business!!" said the ANBU at her right.
"Then who is the old hag that watching us??" asked Mayu as she attempted to stomp one of the ANBU's foot with an indescribable power for a little girl like her and succeeded. While the said ANBU flinched in pain, she quickly took the other's arm and threw him to the foot-pained one. As the result, the ANBU fell to the bottom ground (remember that the Hokage's office is on second or more floor). But trained as they are, they landed on two feet and jumped back to the window to give the girl a piece of their mind. But before they could do that, Tsunade had stopped them.
"Go back to your posts. Let me handle this brat," said Tsunade (too) calmly. But the truth was, in her heart she was in fury. The two ANBU bowed and backed to their post while Mayu entered the office from the window.
"So? Why are you called me in such an urgent? You better have a good reason because I have a very important business right now," said Tsunade. The little girl was still upset but decided to not to start the fire. Then her expression changed from fury to panic.
"Hokage-san!! Please help my friend!! He is attacked by two myst.erious men! And the one that called Naruto is there too!! Please help them!!" hearing the girl's explanation, Tsunade narrowed her eyes.
"What are these mysterious men look alike?" asked Tsunade. Mayu tried to remember in her panic.
"Eee… chotto (wait)… there are one man with big body and a shark like face and one man with long hair that tied into low ponytail and red eyes. Both are wearing the same coat with red clouds pattern," explained Mayu. Those were more than enough to explain the Jounins, ANBU, and Hokage that the said men were Itachi and Kisame.
Tsunade grabbed the little girl's shoulder and shook her. "Where are they??"
As if on cue, someone's angry shout reached their ears. They turned their head to the window and caught something like 'Naruto', 'dumbass', and 'murderer'.
"There they are, somewhere in the forest, just look into the shout direction," if this was not an urgent, all people that in the office would sweat-dropped at Mayu's sentence.
"All right then!! Three Jounins and four ANBU, come with me!!"
"Hey, Naruto. Have any good idea?" asked Rhaera between his harsh breath. He was beginning to run out his arrows. And he could barely sent Kisame and Itachi away from them. Both of them were hiding beyond trees and bushes.
"How about run?"
"But HOOOWWW??!" screamed Rhaera. Itachi and Kisame had appeared behind and in front of them.
"Just move your legs as fast as you can!!" shouted Naruto as he began to run.
"I know that!! But the problem is, you are not as fast as them!!" shouted Rhaera as he dodged from both Samehada and Itachi's attack.
"What do you mean??!" shouted Naruto angrily.
"You're a SLUG compared to me and them!!" Rhaera added some or more pressure to the 'slug' word. And the problem is; I'm worried of you… Actually, Rhaera could run away easily. But like his thought, he worried for Naruto.
As if he is faster than me! But he is… thought Naruto. He didn't notice that Kisame swung his Samehada to Naruto's side to knock him out. Rhaera, who 'sensed' this, quickly pushed Naruto away with his body. As the result, Rhaera sent flying to the side and hit a tree with a sickening thud while Naruto just tripped to the ground. Itachi took the chance and lunged forward to attack Naruto.
Naruto was dead if the Hokage, Jounin(s), and ANBU weren't arrive at the right time.
No matter how great Itachi and how daring Kisame was, they still didn't stand the chance to win from three Jounins, four ANBU, and one Sannin (or Hokage) and maybe more. "Kisame, we retreat, now," commanded Itachi to his shark face partner. Kisame groaned but decided to follow Itachi and they vanished to the forest.
"Hokage-sama, must we chase them?" asked one ANBU. Tsunade shook her head.
"Don't. We don't know what they are planning, this can be a trap," explained her. She turned to Naruto.
"Naruto, are you okay?" asked the sannin. Naruto only groaned from some of his bruises. But otherwise, he was feeling okay.
"Ask that boy over there," Naruto pointed to Rhaera who was unconscious under a big tree, "His condition is more doubting than me," continued Naruto.
At first, Tsunade wondered WHICH boy. She has only seen a GIRL. Except; that 'girl' was the BOY.
A/N: Poor Rhaera, expected to be a girl for the third time in this story…
Tsunade went to Rhaera's place and checked the boy. After a few moments she frowned.
"His body is okay but his head was hit hard. I doubt he will be fully okay. He may be unconscious for one week. Honestly, Naruto," Tsunade turned her head to face Naruto.
"What has happened to him?" asked Tsunade. Naruto shifted uncomfortably.
"Eeehh… he protected me from Kisame by took the blow instead left me to take it," said Naruto with embarrassment. How could he be so stupid? He made someone risked his life for protect him again! Wasn't Iruka and Sasuke were enough??
Tsunade sighed. "What happened is happened. We cannot change it. Come on, we bring him to a hospital. And we need to take care of your wounds too," said her. And they silently made their way to Konoha.
Naruto has been waiting for Rhaera to wake up. The boy laid on the white hospital bed. And the room smelled medicines. His attire has changed into white hospital robe. Naruto felt guilty, though Rhaera's injury was not that bad to cause death. His right arms and head were full of medical plasters. Mayu was peeling some apples and oranges. Naruto didn't sure if Mayu do it consciously or not. Because she has been peeling for thirty minutes and there were 7 peeled apples and 4 peeled oranges on the hospital's table. Of course neither she nor Naruto has the interest on eat them.
They heard a soft groan and they quickly looked to Rhaera. The boy apparently woke up (don't know why, but it seems that his blindfold couldn't be stripped from his head) and was trying to sit. Naruto quickly helped him before Mayu could.
"What…? Where am I? And why is it so dark?" asked Rhaera as if he didn't know he was blind. Naruto frowned but Mayu didn't notice it.
"Rhaera nii-san!! We're in hospital. Are you okay?" asked Mayu enthusiastically but softly.
"I just have a bad headache. By the way, is Rhaera is my name?" asked Rhaera to them. Naruto fought the urge to smack his head to a wall.
Oh, gods…
Three cloaked and hooded figures were standing on a watery surface. Their surroundings were like the sea of cloud. They are watching the surface of water with seriousness. They saw Uchiha Sasuke, was walking to his room from Orochimaru's list of train.
sigh "What will our mother comment about this? The training is definitely SUCK! Isn't it better if we are the one who train him?" said a small as a thirteen years old. The figure's accent and voice was high pitched like a girl. And maybe she is a girl. Her cloak color was pink with red border.
"No, we can't," forbade a stern but young male voice. The first figure turned to who said that. The second figure has almost the same age appearance but he was higher. And he was wearing grey colored cloak with white border. "We are not supposed to do that. Because; we mustn't let ourselves to slip into someone's business without his or her permission," said the boy.
"We don't want to get any trouble aren't we? Our uncle's missing is more than enough anyway…" this time was the third figure that spoke. The figure has the same appearance and voice with the first one but her voice was lot calmer and wiser. And she was wearing red colored cloak with yellow border.
"Is it just me, or are you two REALLY beginning to sound like mother?" asked the first girl. The other two shot a dreadful glare to her and responded back together.
"And you are beginning to sound like that overgrown green pussy," shot them. The girl seemed to have an 'I'm-leveled-to-a-cat' look on her face.
"By the way," the second girl tried to change the very boring and useless subject. "that old-snake-tamer JUST doesn't know how to train an Uchiha PROPERLY," she added some pressure in 'just' and 'properly' words. The first girl stared at her.
"Why did you say 'that old-snake-tamer' to that 'child', when we are nearly two hundreds years old?" asked the girl confusedly.
"Well, let's just say; it is more comfortable that way…" explained the one in red. The three was too carried up by their own arguments so they didn't notice that something was watching them all the time and started to near them. It was until a lazy-lady like voice reached their ear.
"Hmm…hmm… never stop argument with each other, aren't you?"
The three looked up. A middle size cat with green fur and silver eyes was floating above them with a clear amusement on its face. The boy of the three's lips curved into a slight pout.
"You again… Tsubaki," hissed the boy. Tsubaki looked as she was hurt.
"Hey, don't speak to me with such a hate. I never done something wrong to you all, am I?" asked Tsubaki with an 'I'm-innocent' tone.
The girl in red fought the urge to spit. "Your PRESENCE is the one that is wrong," pointed her out. Tsubaki looked like she was fighting for her patience existence.
"Well, because you ALL so fking hate me, then I won't tell you the advice I want you to know just a second ago," said Tsubaki as she prepared to leave.
"What is that?" asked the girl in pink. Tsubaki turned with an angry face.
"I thought you hate me," asked Tsubaki. The girl pouted.
"They are, but I'm not." And that was true. It was only the girl that seemed to be nice to the green cat. While the others hate the cat with all of the heart they have. Tsubaki sighed in cat style.
"Alright, I tell you something. You maybe cannot teach him, but you can lead him to the right path, right?" asked Tsubaki. They agreed.
"But how? He is definitely not the type that listens to people's advice," asked the boy.
"Why don't you use 'that' forbidden technique to Sasuke and Naruto? And the 'second' one to that ice cube Itachi?" said Tsubaki. Their face darkened.
"You mean THAT jutsu??! NO WAY!!! We are going to be killed by mother!!" shouted the girl in red.
"Any other idea?" asked Tsubaki. They thought for a while and shook their head. Tsubaki smirked triumphantly.
"Then do it," she said that as she vanished from the sea-of-cloud like place. She didn't notice what the boy mumbled.
"Cats nowadays…"
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End Scroll 3
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Hello… is anyone read my story? This is the longest chapter I've ever write in this story for now. If not, I'll discontinued it. So review it (even the anonymous reviewers) and I continue. The next is going to be my favorite chapter. Khu-khu-khu… MWUA-HA-HA-HA!! You all will see how cruel the three figures and Tsubaki are. Or maybe, how cruel I am?