Chapter Two-Troubled Start
Disclaimer: -evil eye- -points to the prologue and Chapter One-
Warning: Angst, a healer, needles... -big eyes- -runs away-
-Yoru-plushie chases after the writer and drags her screaming back.-
Ahem. Where was I? Oh yes, and an apple incident.
Rating: P.G.ish still for cursing and violence...and even more amusement...but maybe the rating should be higher... Will this rating ever go up? I say yes.
Pairing: SasuYoru for the entire fic. So if you don't support this couple, then that's your opinion.
Author's Notes: For all those who were wondering... Yes. Ryu-ko is Yoru. But shush. Don't tell Sasuke that...
-Sasuke pops up- Tell me what?
Nothing, nothing. Go back to whatever you do for fun... -sweatdrop-
I still need original characters more than anything else, but not really until chapter four. You'll get more details at the end of chapter Three...
I'm glad to finally be at Chapter Two. Muwah. o 0 I have no life. Actually...I do...I've just been having a lot of free time lately. My poor leg... Sniff...sniff...
Chapter Dedication: And this chapter goes to both Kya-chan and Kenji-mun. My little sister (not really, we're just good friends) and one of my best guy friends...also the one who has been dubbed as my stalker. Heh. Don't blame me, bud, blame good ol' Shiinji.
-glomps then cuddles Sasuke, who never left and was now giving the readers a pitiful look- H...he...hel...p...m...me...
Chapter Two-Troubled Start
A dark and blurred figure was running ahead of her.
"Wait up!! Slow down; don't leave me! Ooph!"
She tripped, falling hard on the ground and skinning up her knees. The person turned his head in her direction. She looked up at the outstretched hand, and then up higher to the person.
-cutscene-
Light.
Blinding and painful light.
Ryu-ko moaned and tried to turn her head, trying to escape from the light.
"Miss...Miss...you must open your eyes."
A voice ordered her.
"Go away."
"Miss..."
This time a hand shook her, trying to snap her out of her injury-induced slumber.
"Go fuck yourself."
"Da-mn. She is Little Ms. Attitude, ain't she?"
Voices. A different one from the kind, motherly voice which belonged to the person who first spoke.
"It's remarkable that this girl can even speak. She's been through a lot in these past three weeks."
!!!THREE WEEKS!!!
Gray eyes snapped opened, giving the elderly healer a start. The old woman clenched a fist to her chest.
"Oh, dear! Youngling, you just gave me quite a scare."
"Excuse me, Mother Mikomi."
Kakashi slipped by theKyuui Shrine priestess and stood next to the bed, looking down at the young genin. Her uniform's style and sigma told that both she and the three bodies that had been recovered had been from Ishi-otherwise and well known for their stone ninja.
"Who are you? Where is this? If you plan to kill me, then at least have the decency to get it over quickly."
The girl eyed him sharply, and Kakashi could tell that the lot that life had thrown her hadn't been good to her thus far. Her attitude was a form of self-defense; her using it in order to protect herself and make herself look tougher.
She was tough; no person could take that away. She had fought with both fangs and claws in the struggle of survival.
"But then again...if I've really been here for as long as you say-three weeks-than I doubt that you were planning on killing me to begin with. If you were, than I would have already been dead, and not waking up in a rather comfy bed."
Kakashi's visible eye widen at the sheer cheek that this girl possessed.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi, and I am a jounin here in Konoha. This woman is Mother Mikomi, and she is the lead priestess here at the Kyuui Shrine. You should thank her, as she is the one who nursed and healed you back to health..."
The gray eyes turned to Mikomi, who had busied herself in the changing of Ryu-ko's bandages.
"Um...thanks, I guess."
Those words were unfamiliar on her lips. The old woman smiled brightly to the girl on the bed.
"Kakashi is going to take you on a short walk so you can speak with the Hokage."
Seeing the worried look in the girl's eyes, Kakashi said comfortingly.
"Don't have any worry. The Hokage doesn't bite."
And almost smug smile fluttered across her lips.
"Yah. Is that so? Well, I do."
"First things first, though. Before you go, I must administer an injection. It will help your body fight off any infection or bacteria that you may pick up while outside."
Ryu-ko jumped, staring hard at Mikomi, who was holding a needle ffffaaaarrrr too large for her taste and was filling it with a reddish liquid of some sort.
"You won't feel a thing."
"You got that right."
The girl brushed past Kakashi and scrambled off the bed faster than bacon could leave a frying pan, and she dived under the bed. Curling herself up into a small ball, she was sufficiently out of their arms' lengths.
"Come out from under there right now."
"Drop the needle, or the perverted manga gets it."
Perverted manga? That could only mean one thing...
Kakashi reached to where his manga should have been, but didn't feel its normal, squareish shape.
'Come-Come Paradise' was being held tightly in Ryu-ko's hands, a stolen kunai from Kakashi being lightly pressed against the front cover. Kakashi nearly panicked, giving Mikomi a frantic look.
"Alright, alright youngling. But as soon as you return, you must take this shot with no argument."
"Deal."
Ryu-ko crawled out from under the bed, handing the stolen manga and kunai to Kakashi...who once again hid them. He saw that when the girl had answered Mikomi, her fingers were crossed. Mentally, the jounin sighed. Great, just great. It was all the village needed...another troublemaker.
Another troublemaking genin, to be precise.
-cutscene-
"Hear anything on that girl we found?"
Sakura interrogated Naruto, as he had been the one to ask their jounin that question more than her or Sasuke.
"Nope. All I know is that the priestess-lady has threatened to skin us if we took it upon ourselves to see. And the scary part is, I believe her!"
Sasuke stayed silent through this entire interchange, boredly cutting up an apple into slices with a kunai so he could eat it. His mind seemed elsewhere...even more so than usual...
He then looked up, and saw his jounin with the girl that Naruto and Sakura were talking about limping beside him. That same sting of familiarity pricked his skin lightly...yet as before the only thing he knew to do was shake it off as nothing like the time before.
"Why don't you two ask her for yourselves..? She's right there."
"WHAT??"
Yelled Naruto, and he instantly raced off to Kakashi and the girl. Sakura followed hesitantly behind, giving Sasuke a side-long glance.
Sasuke, too, followed, still cutting up his apple.
Ryu-ko stared at the two genin her age which were battling on who would talk to her first. Kakashi had to grin and chuckle at their antics.
'Okkkkaaaayyyyy...now...'
She thought, and turned her head to get a look at the last genin walking slowly up to them. Her eyes searched his face; it was familiar, but she couldn't place why and how. Shrugging it off as nothing just as he did, she lowered her gray eyes...and saw the apple Sasuke was cutting. The kunai glinted once in the afternoon sunlight...
And Ryu-ko screamed...
-cutscene-
Author's Notes: Tired...need...sleep... -cuddles up to her pillow aptly named Sasuke...who is tied up and unable to escape- Sleepy time now...
Plans for Chapter Three:
(1) A discussion with the Hokage brings up some startling revelations.
(2) -hinthint- A jealous Sakura. (This idea's credit goes to jazzie309...thanks for reviewing and sending in the suggestion!)
(3) The return of the missing-nin that slaughtered her teammates and jounin sparks a rage within Ryu-ko. If she loses control of that fury, will Konoha be placed in danger? And will she remember any more of her cryptic past?
End. --; Geez.
