Hyourinmaru Interesting, but I think that if you are willing to be that easily controlled for the price of power, it's probably a bad thing. Ehh… okay, sorry for the wait, here's the chapter!
DK-Joy: Yay! I wanted to have a little bit more of Iruka's dream, but It got cut out wile I was looking over it.
Ohh... This is a little bit dark. If you don't like combining fire, small children and collapsed houses, skip to the next scene break.
Thank you.
And yes, that's Lee talking to himself. I wanted to imagine how those weird 'Challenges' he randomly comes up with are formed in that coconut-shaped head of his.
And I want a list of all the Naruto characters in relation to what they call eachother. I hate opting for –san when I don't know what in the heck they call each other.
"I'd like to hold her... Head under water." -Sublime, doin' time.
The girl looked about eight, but everyone in her village looked older then they where. They say tragedy ages you, and whoever they are, they where right.
Right now the little girl was pinned under a collapsed table. She had given up yelling for help an hour ago. She thought she might be the only one left alive in her quiet little village.
A bit of light spilled through the dark room she was trapped in. an ambiguous silhouette walked in, and jiggled the light switch. Now, with this light, the girl could see the shambles her house was in. The roof had caved in, toppling a support beam onto it's side and crushing the table she had been hiding under.
What had she been hiding from?
Could she still remember?
Oh, yes, it had been those mysterious ninja in the black coats. But that was all behind her now. She was saved! She looked at her savior.
Him!
His eyes, red. Long, dark hair and a dark cloak covered his face. Him. Her father's killer. Him! The dangerous one her mother warned her about. Him! The one she was hiding from. HIM!
He looked at her like she was trash, and for the first time the girl could remember, she felt worthless. He looked out the doorway.
"Kisame," He said in complete monotone, "You said they where all dead."
"What, do we have a live one?" A shark-like monstrosity poked his head through a cracked window, "Well, then, just kill it."
The red-eyed one raised an eyebrow as to ask, 'are you serious?'.
"Whatever, then!" said the shark named Kisame, "Just set the place on fire like you said you where gonna!"
The red-eyed one turned to leave.
"Wait!" the girl cried, "At least," she choked back sobbing, "At least let me know the name of my killer!"
"Uchiha Itachi."
The girl gasped as flames licked around her.
A sent of jasmine flooded the calm, tranquil field.
A narrow river bubbled through the field, making it look very beautiful. The inhabitants of that field had once called the river 'Yukiharu', because it often stayed very cold even in the summer and spring.
(AN: Yuki means snow. Haru means springtime. Thus, snow-spring, cold like snow even in the spring.)
A foot non-caringly (an: Not a word.) stepped into the lake. The body that the lone foot was connected to plopped down on the riverbank and started taking off it's shoes. Suprisingly the feet where blue and pointy. Blue and pointy...
"Kisame. What are you doing?" Uchiha Itachi raised an eyebrow.
"...Un? I'm restin'." Kisame nodded.
"Idiot."
"Heyyy...!"
The field smelled of jasmine because a jasmine farm had just been burnt down.
Rock Lee was hungry.
Why not eat ramen?
Because Ramen will make me fat.
If you throw a cup full of pebbles into the air and catch all the pebbles before they reach the ground, you will have worked off all that fat.
Lee started heating up his ramen.
There was a knocking at the door.
Lee wondered who would be outside in this rain. He opened the door, cooking spoon still in hand, and in stepped a very wet, very cold Neji.
(AN: Conversation topics, anyone?)
"N-neji-san?" Lee used the spoon to direct his friend to a chair.
"Lee-san, c-can I stay here intill it stops raining?" Neji, a few seconds later when he had sat down and changed into something dry, and, because it was Lee's, green, said.
"Locked out again, huh?" Lee emptied the last of the ramen from the serving pot into Neji's bowl.
"...Yeah."
"Well, you're always welcome at The Beautiful Green Beast of Konohagakure's home!" Lee shined with unnatural pride as he initiated the good-guy pose.
"…Great."
His name was Uchiha Sasuke. He haunted Itachi's dreams. His face at that one moment, asking 'why?'. His fear of finding his parents dead.
He had grown up into a strong and beautiful young boy. The last part of Itachi's brotherly pride had swelled when he had seen his twelve-year-old brother at last, for the first time. That brotherly essence was then finally put to death when Sasuke viciously attacked his older brother, but who could blame him? It was what Itachi had wanted, anyway.
Sasuke had once asked a surprising question, on that night, so many years ago, when it had all fallen apart.
He had asked, "Why didn't you kill me?".
Itachi never answered that question.
"Yo, Itachi!" Kisame waved to his partner, "You're spacin' out again!"
The pregnant silences that where Itachi's had many meanings. This one meant, 'Patronize me again and I will smite you.'
Kisame continued to walk.
I didn't kill you because...
Itachi made no effort to catch up with him.
...I wanted you to do something for me.
Kisame pointed to the east, their next destination.
I wanted...
The shark looked back at Itachi.
...so badly for you to grow strong,
Itachi nodded sharply.
...And kill me...
Kisame disappeared.
...for my sins.
And then Itachi was gone, leaving a tranquil field with a burning village in the middle of it.
Neji had long since fallen asleep, like he always did when he was locked out, in his chair. Lee was getting ready to go to bed when he heard a rapping at his door.
Lee really didn't know who it could be, but he opened the door anyway, being the hospitable Green Beast that he was.
The Hyuuga heir stood in his doorway, sopping wet, with a pink umbrella at her side.
"H-hello." Hinata said.
Whoooo…
Cliffies.
Yessir, the plot starts here. Tell me what you think.
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