Author's Worthless Commentary: Okay... I know this chapter will probably upset quite a few people. I hope no rabid fangirls maul me ;; Before you attack, please read it to the ending. Before you all come after me with pitchfork and knives. o.o;; So... before you already get too beserk, I'll start writing. (Warning: Sasuke OOCness)
Kai: REIKO LYNOMI!
Rei: o.o;; Nothing happens!
Kai: Sasuke is MINE! -grows large, intimidating fangs-
Rei: o.o oh my... nuuuu! -runs away for her pathetic life-
Chapter 10: Uchiha! Shiitama! The Deal is OFF
"UCHIHA?" Foxlyn screamed. Sasuke's eyes went wide with terror and he screamed right back. "SHIITAMA!" Foxlyn ran up to him as though ready to punch him but instead grabbed his shirt. "There you are! You stupid brat! I've been looking for you!" Sasuke frowned and shouted into her face, "You have, have you? Well I don't care! And stop calling me brat! You stupid kid!" Sakura watched with wide eyes as the two yelled at each other, obviously knowing each other from somewhere.
"Kisuna, do they know each other?" asked Naruto. Kisuna shrugged. "Dunno." Foxlyn pushed Sasuke to the ground and towered over him. "Sasuke Uchiha!" Sasuke jumped up and yelled, "Foxlyn Shiitama!" Then they both yelled, "The deal is OFF!" Foxlyn whirled around and whacked Sasuke in the face with one of her ponytails. Sakura walked up to Sasuke and asked softly, "What deal?"
"I'll tell you what deal! Uchiha's parents, who were so stupid, they didn't even know me! But they still had the guts to pair me with that snot-nosed, spiked head, ninja-wanna-be brat! As his wife!" Sakura's heart felt like a mirror that was shattering. "The only reason they were stupid was for pairing me with you! A self-absorbed, hard core, stuck up, demon-wanna-be-witch!" Foxlyn ran up to Sasuke and socked him good. "Don't call me a witch!"
"You're supposed... to marry?" Sakura asked. (Inner Sakura: NOO! HOW WILL I EVER GET A KISS FROM SASUKE NOW?) Foxlyn laughed. "Supposed to? Yes. Will? No." Kisuna gulped. "Sister Foxlyn? Having a husband? That's too scary for words..." Naruto nodded and added, "Sasuke being a husband just sounds too funny for words." They envisioned a picture of Foxlyn in a wedding gown and Sasuke in a tuxedo. They fell to the ground laughing. Sasuke's eyebrow twitched. Foxlyn walked over and thumped them both. "Never in all the flames of hell would I marry Uchiha." Foxlyn growled in a dangerous tone. Sasuke nodded. "Same here."
Kisuna smiled with her black eye shining. "Foxlyn, meet Naruto, Sakura, you already know Sasuke, and Master Kakashi. They're all ninja from this village. They brought me here." She smiled. "Oh?" Foxlyn shook hands with Kakashi. "Nice to meet you." Kakashi nodded with a smile. "You don't have anything against ninjas do you?" he asked. Foxlyn shook her head with a chuckle. "No, the wimpy ones that try to be ninjas are the ones that annoy me. Sasuke may have some potential, but I severly doubt it." An anime sweat drop slid down Kakashi's head. "What are you talking about? Sasuke is probably the best ninja in his category!" Sakura yelled. Foxlyn eyed her and smiled.
"Riiiiiight. Sasuke may be the best here, but this is only one village. There's a lot more out there." She smirked. "You can't say you're the best until you've beat the best. Correct, Sasuke?" Sasuke glared at her. She smiled. "Your own personal business is of no concern to me, I know what you want to do. I won't reveal it, use it as blackmail, nor help you with it. From this point on, we're merely just rivals. Understand?" Sasuke nodded.
"So, Kisuna, why did you come to this village?" Foxlyn asked. "We brought her to stay with us. The Irrelevant Village of Smoke was planning to have assassins go after her and kill her." Kakashi explained. Foxlyn smiled at him. "Thank you for helping her."
"Hey you!" They all looked to see Iruka running towards them. Foxlyn sighed, remembering her invasion of the village. "What do you want here?" demanded Iruka. "Iruka! It's okay, she's Kisuna's sister." Iruka looked at Kisuna then back to Foxlyn. "I... ru... ka?" Foxlyn said slowly. Iruka nodded. "My business here is complete. I merely wanted to find my sister." Foxlyn said. Kisuna nodded happily. "Meet Foxlyn, my sister, Sasuke's ex-fiance, and a new member to the Konoha Village! Hopefully." Iruka glanced at Kakashi who nodded. Iruka sighed and turned to Naruto.
"You still have some graffitit to clean off." Iruka said. Naruto's eyes widened as he remembered the day before they left to go on the mission. He had completly forgotten! "Opps." Naruto whispered. Kisuna and Foxlyn looked from the hill to the mountainside where Naruto's offensive drawings were still there. Kisuna giggled. Foxlyn eyed the one of Sasuke. She smirked. "Come on, Naruto." Iruka said while dragging the culprit away. Naruto laughed. "See you later, Master Kakashi!" he yelled over his shoulder.
"Well, I guess today's training is over..." Kakashi said. He turned on his heel and walked away. Sasuke smirked and left. "Don't worry, Sasuke can be all yours." Foxlyn said. Sakura's eyes widened and she blushed. Foxlyn laughed. "Where are you planning on staying?" asked the shorter one. Foxlyn thought a moment. "Maybe I'll crash at Sasuke's just to annoy him, but maybe wherever it is that Kisuna is staying." Foxlyn said. "I'm staying with Naruto." Kisuna told her. "I'll see you later. I know you'll be able to find me." Kisuna added before running off. "You better go along, it's more than likely that you'll see me again." Foxlyn told Sakura. The pink-haired ninja nodded and left. Foxlyn turned and walked away into the forest.
A wave of water rushed over Naruto. He looked up dangerously to see Kisuna holding an upside-down bucket. She smiled sweetly. "What the hell was that for?" demanded Naruto. Kisuna grabbed a rope, tied it around her waist, and edged herself down to where he was. "Hi." she said. He blinked at her. "I was bored, and I thought you could use some help." Kisuna explained. She grabbed a scrub brush and began scrubbing at Naruto's art.
"So you came to help me? Why? You know you could get in trouble if you got caught." Naruto told her. Kisuna laughed. She then shrugged. "What can they do? Punish me for helping out?" Naruto laughed and she smiled. "Now you got it." She said. The two worked in silence until Kisuna asked, "What does Iruka have a grudge on you for?" Naruto answered, "He doesn't have a grudge on me. In fact, he's the only person here who respects me; besides Master Kakashi. He just doesn't like my pranks." Kisuna smiled. "That's nice." she said.
"This village is weird." Kisuna said. "Yeah..." laughed Naruto, "but yours is too, they wanted to kick you out of there." He smiled at her goofily. "So do they, they want you out." His eyes widened as he stared at her. "It's not hard to see. The way everyone gives you dirty looks... It sickens me the way they think they have the right to treat a person like that." Kisuna said. Naruto fell silent. She patted him on the back. "It's amazing the way you take it like that. If it were my sister, she would have burned the whole village down. Then she would laugh as it went up in flames." Her eyes widened as she remembered that that was what she had done. "I would have too..."
Naruto smiled at her. "When I get to be Hokage, everyone will have to respect me. I'll be the best Hokage there ever was!" He boasted his chest ou.t "Hokage? Do you mean that old man back in the village?" Kisuna asked. Naruto nodded. She giggled. "What?" asked Naruto. "Well, I just can't imagine you looking at him." She laughed. Naruto tried to imagine it... "I won't look like him!" he hollared with narrowed eyes. She smiled.
"You know, Naruto, we're two of a kind." Naruto looked at her. "We are?" he asked. Kisuna nodded. "Of course! We're destined for greater than what everyone else wants for us. We'll have to go through a bunch of bullshit, of course. But in the end, everything will be worth it." Naruto smiled. "Yeah!"
Above on top of the mountain, sat Iruka. The two below couldn't see him, but he was smiling. 'Naruto finally has someone to respect him, without taunting him. But she'll eventually learn of the demon fox in him... then what will happen?' Iruka wondered.
"HEY!" Iruka looked down to see Naruto laughing. Kisuna was dripping with water. She grabbed her sponge and wrung it out over Naruto's head. She laughed. She then wiped her two first fingers on some of the wet pain and wiped it on Naruto's face. She made this three whisker-like scars into two big red stripes. Naruto smeared some onto his hand and gently pressed his knuckles to her face. Blue knuckles were painted on Kisuna's cheek. She laughed.
"Hey you two! Quite clowning around!" Iruka ordered. Kisuna looked up at him. "Hello!" she yelled. Iruka nearly toppled over. 'Does she think this is a joke?' He wondered. Before he could fall over, someone firmly grabbed his shirt and pulled him back. "Kisuna! If you're going to help, help and don't play!" Kisuna's eyes widened when she saw her sister staring down at her.
Foxlyn smirked and sat down by Iruka. "You're the elder, I presume." Iruka said. Foxlyn nodded. "Are you're Naruto's teacher." Iruka nodded. Foxlyn scooted back so Kisuna and Naruto wouldn't see her. She lay back on the grass. "For a few days, maybe longer, I have no idea. I'll be staying here with my sister. I won't be in your way. I just need to keep an eye on her." Foxlyn explained. Iruka nodded. "Hokage already knows of you."
Foxlyn stared at Iruka for a bit. "If it's alright, I'll need some space to build a house. When I leave I'll burn it down. Or leave it for you to do whatever you like with it." Iruka only nodded. Foxlyn stood up and inched close to Iruka. "Listen, later tonight I'll be dropping by your place. So be expecting me." She stood and looked over the cliff. "Kisuna! When you get back to your house, you'll find my bag there. Touch it and you die." She turned and left.
Kisuna blinked. "Thankfully that was an empty threat." She sighed. "Foxlyn's ultra serious. By tomorrow if she has her way, I'll be training non-stop. Then when that's over, she'll be trying to drag me off for another hunt." Naruto blinked and asked, "Hunt?" Kisuna nodded and replied, "My sister, she thinks I'm a joke. All the assassinations I did, which wasn't as much as you've been made to believe, she calls it 'Child's Play'. I'll never be as good as her. Sasuke was right, calling her hard-core."
Naruto gulped. "Why is she like that?" he asked. "Because the way she was brought up. It's always been that way. All work no play, all train no game, and all fight no peace." Kisuna said with a heaving sigh. Iruka had been eavesdropping on thier conversation. 'Why is she planning on coming to find me tonight? What could she possibly want?' These thoughts raced through his mind. "All right, Naruto, good job. You too, Kisuna." Iruka said and pulled them up from the cliffside. "Let's go get some ramen." Naruto pumped his fist into the air. "Yeah!" Kisuna giggled.
"You really mean I could become a ninja?" Iruka nodded. "All you have to do is go to the ninja academy." Naruto objected, "But Master Iruka! Kisuna's way better than all them. And it'll take her forever to get through there. Can't there be another, faster way?" The three were at Ichiraku Noodle Stand. Iruka had suggested that, since Kisuna would be staying with them for a while, she would life to become an official ninja. "We could ask Hokage about a faster way." Iruka mused. "Yes!" Naruto yelled.
"And Foxlyn can too?" asked Kisuna. "If she wants too." replied Iruka. "I need to know what this Academy is, so that I can bribe her." Kisuna told them. Naruto laughed. "The Ninja Academy is for all students who wish to become ninjas. There they will undergo training, learning to manipulate chakra, learn special abilities and attacks, and" Naruto interrupted him. "And a whole bunch of other boring stuff!" Kisuna smiled. "Perfect!" she exclaimed. Iruka smiled at her excitement. "That's good, someone who would actually like the work." He said. Naruto didn't say anything and instead stuffed more ramen into his mouth.
After they ate, Naruto and Kisuna went to talk to Hokage about Kisuna becoming a ninja and Iruka went home. When he walked in, he noticed how dark it was. "I could have sworn I left a light on." he murmered to himself. He lit a candle. He shrugged it off and went to his room. He took off his vest and shoes then layed down on his bed. He stared at the ceiling and remembered Foxlyn telling him that she would be dropping by. He sat up abruptly when he felt a gentle weight pressing down on the bed.
He was shoved back down as someone sat on him. His eyes widened when he saw Foxlyn straddling him. She had put her knee on one of his arms, one hand on his other arm, and her remaining hand over his mouth. She lowered down to his face, her ponytails brushing his arms. "Quiet." She whispered before removing her hand from his mouth. He tried to sit up, but she had him pinned down. "Listen, all I want is answers and I know you have them. As soon as I get them, I'll be out of here and it'll be like I was never here. Now keep it down and answer me." Foxlyn ordered precisly. Iruka's eyes widened. He couldn't move. "What is it you want?" Iruka asked, suspecting some foul play. "My sister," Foxlyn started, "what happened to her? I know your ninjas were sent after her. What for?"
Iruka noticed that Foxlyn had eased up, so he sat up. She nearly fell off the bed. He reached out for her and grabbed her. Foxlyn quickly grabbed onto his arms and pulled herself to him, but instead they both fell downward; Iruka on top of Foxlyn. She stared up at him and tried to push him off, but couldn't. Iruka noticed her face was starting to redden. He pushed himself up and resumed his place on the bed. 'Why is she blushing? She's just a kid and I nearly squashed her! But it was half her fault. So why is she embarrassed, she's not like Sakura, crushing on guys. Or like Ino, crushing on teachers,' Iruka silently gulped. 'is she?'
Foxlyn sat up and stared at the floor. 'What the... my face is red... how come? I've never been like this except one, long ago. But he was special... and we were little, I thought he might have died, but... who knows? I don't even know... then.. Gah! It's impossible! I'm loosing it!' She yelled in her mind. 'I don't even know his name..'
"Are... you okay?" Iruka asked and offered a hand to help her up. He pulled her up and noticed that she had changed from her clothing from earlier. She now wore skin-tight black leggings, black mini-shorts, a skin-tight black sweater, and a slightly heavier black shirt. She also had a backpack, two leg holsters, and an arm holster. She looked to kill. "I'm fine." she said.
"We were asked to remove an assassian from the Irrelevant Village of Smoke that had been bothering them. They said that she was a pest to thier name. Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were sent on it. Kakashi returned saying that while they were there, they found that the village had sent another assassian to kill Kisuna. Naruto rescued her and they brought her back here." Iruka said. Foxlyn took it all in silently, nodding occasionaly as she pondered the situation. Then she asked, "But how could she give the village a bad name if no one knew about it?" Iruka shrugged and scooted over to let her sit down.
"Damn them..." whispered Foxlyn. "Kisuna wants you to join our Ninja Academy. I believe that she wants you to, too." He said. She looked at him, "Ninja Academy?" He nodded and told her what he had told Naruto and Kisuna. Foxlyn thought for a moment when he had finished. "I'll think about it later. I have business to attend to." She stood and walked to the door of Iruka's room. She stopped and looked back at him. "Sorry about the intrusion." she said. "And... thanks." She walked out. Iruka jumped up and followed, but she was already gone. "You're... welcome?"