Okay! Well...here are some somewhat good news! I decided to get an editor! Actually, TWO editors. This is new for me, having editors...I usually just type whatever down and post it, without looking back on it! Well, I don't usually work really hard on my chapters. Anyway, I also decided to make a reviewers' response. - I will now proceed to answer some of your reviews.
Shinobi-chan: Thanks! I never really saw another Inuyasha/Naruto crossover before, and it really -is- rare! - Please keep reviewing!
Tsu-chan: Okay, I know who you are in real life so I don't have to say anything. But you are right, my writing improved. Only because I didn't really work on any of my fics except this one.
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Greg: Me Myself and I: Are you psychic or something!? Not about the format thing, but you're right that I want to get to a particular scene. It creeped me out that you figured it out! Jeez! Okay, I think you'd make a great psychologist! Thanks for your insight! I'd love to read more of your reviews!
Pasv: Um...I'm not sure if your Matt or not...You didn't tell me what name you used if you are Matt! Sorry if you're not. I put some flashbacks for the people who don't know that much about Inuyasha.
MalletWielderofDoom: Yep, hate those stupid villagers! Even though I made them say it...but that doesn't matter! Don't worry about Inuyasha getting to know Naruto, I'll make them pretty close! Read the other reviews if you want to know what kind of close.
Shinigami11: I appreciate your enthusiasm...but...I don't think I'll be a very good yaoi writer...cough...yeah. I don't have anything against yoai or anything! I kind of read yaoi every now and then. But I just don't see them in that kind of way...sexually...that's pretty...odd. I just can't visualize them doing those kind of things! Sorry, but if they do get pretty close, it'll be in a brotherly love like kind of way! Thanks for your review though.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Naruto.
I want this chapter dedicated to my two editors, Matt and Cyndi. Yes, that is spelled right. Thank you for tolerating my horrible writing style! And reading this chapter!
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Naruto groggily woke up. He sat up and ribbed his eyes with his hands. He blinked a coupled of times to get the sleep way. He looked to the clock. 6:15 A.M. He had 15 minutes to get ready for training.
He slowly got up and went to the shower, carrying fresh clothes under his left arm. Naruto turned on the water and waited for it to warm up before stepping in. "Ugh...why am I so tired? I'm usually so..."annoyingly energetic" as Sakura would say," Naruto was muttering, closing his eyes. "This is just not a good day for me...I should get some breakfast...after I shower." He took the bar of soap and proceeded to bathe.
"Ow! Stupid soap got in my eyes!" Naruto frantically splashed water in his eyes, trying to stop the soap from stinging his eyes anymore then they already did. After washing his hair and cleansing his body, he stepped out of the shower. He glanced at the mirror. His eyes were red from the soap.
Naruto shook his hair and droplets of water sprinkled the air. 'What am I? A dog?' Naruto walked to his clothes and put them on. Naruto walked out of the bathroom to make breakfast. He picked up his cereal and poured it into a bowl, then picked up the milk and poured that on top of the cereal. He spooned some in his mouth. Naruto took a glance at the expiration date. Eyes grew big and mouth spat out the cereal along with the milk. "Three months old!?" Naruto sputtered. "Gah!"
"This really isn't my day...wait...I've been drinking milk that was expired for months now!? Ew!" Naruto got up and brushed himself off, not bothering to clean up the breakfast.
He took his keys and went outside, locking his apartment door as he went out. He pocketed the keys and walked to the bridge where his team usually waited for his teacher to arrive, whistling with fingers laced behind his blond head.
Little did he know, as soon as he left the apartment, someone sneaked inside.
(Scene Change)
Naruto met Sakura and Sasuke at the bridge. Sasuke was leaning on one of the rails while Sakura was trying to flirt with him, clinging to his right arm. "Ohayou, Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled energetically with an enthusiastic wave while walking up to her.
Sakura turned to him with a cold glare and promptly ignored him. She was smiling sweetly at Sasuke, trying to get him to talk to her. Sasuke continued to ignore her and her attempts.
They had to wait at the bridge for half an hour before their teacher, Kakashi, arrived. "You're late!" Sakura and Naruto yelled together. Sakura stared at him a little.
"What?" Kakashi asked her. He touched his face to make sure his face mask was on. He looked down to see if he had proper clothes on. Nothing seemed wrong. He touched his hair. What was she staring for?
"Y...you're not three hours late!?" Sakura yelled. "Who are you!? What have you done to our teacher!?"
Naruto began to stare too. Kakashi's eye began to grow a little wide from comprehension. "Oh...I woke up early and...Yeah..."
"Why would you wake up so early?" Sakura asked, curious as to what her sensei would wake up so early for.
Kakashi's eye went back to looking lazy and he sighed. "You're too young to know. Maybe when you're older..." 'Well...they -are- too young to know it. Ehehehe,' Kakashi inwardly laughed at what he read in the morning from his favorite book.
Naruto, being Naruto and assuming whatever his sensei was doing was being a pervert, coughed out, "Pervert."
Kakashi hit him on the head. Naruto rubbed the bruise with a pout on his face. The teacher announced, "Let's start training."
"Uh-oh." Naruto became stiff. He looked apologetically at his teammates. "Ehehehe...hehe..."
The rest of Team seven stared at him, raising a questioning eyebrow. Naruto coughed a bit and said slowly, "Um...I think...I left my...stuff at....home..." There was a pause of silence after that.
"WHAT!?!?" came Sakura's shrill scream. Several birds flew out of the trees they were resting on. Inner Sakura was going, "That total moron! What kind of a ninja is he!?"
(Scene Change)
"And he calls himself a ninja," Inu-Yasha muttered while smirking. He went to the window and opened it. "Didn't even have the sense to lock the damn windows." He climbed inside. Once inside, he let his hood fall back. Inuyasha stared at the state Naruto's house was in. His right eye brow began to twitch.
"What a -dump-!" Inu-Yasha said. He walked to where he knew Naruto slept, the bedroom. Inu-Yasha walked carefully to the door, making sure not to step on the items decorating the floor: empty ramen styrofoam cups, his dirty clothes (some with blood on it), weapons (many with blood crusted over it), chopsticks, and other things Inu-Yasha couldn't recognize.
Inu-Yasha stepped lightly in the bedroom. "It's even messier in here then in the living room." Inu-Yasha sniffed the air a bit. "Guess he doesn't live with anyone else. No other human scents in the air." He took a glance around the room. He spotted a picture of the kid from yesterday. Naruto was with a girl with pink hair, a boy that had black hair, and someone with a mask and his hitai-ate headband covering his left eye. 'Heh, kid looks pretty mad at that other boy. Guess that they're rivals or enemies.' A black journal under some clothes on the top of a drawer caught Inuyasha's eye. Inu-Yasha grabbed it and turned to the first page.
"March 16,
The ninja exam is tomorrow! I know for sure that I'll pass this time! That'll show the other villagers. I just don't get it, why do they look at me with such cold eyes? I didn't do anything! Well...maybe it was that one time I painted the Hokages' monument...or that time when I nearly burned down the fish market with fireworks to scare away the customers...or that time that I dyed the boys' clothes in my class pink..."
Inu-Yasha paused. 'And he -thinks- they wouldn't get pissed at that?' Inu-Yasha mentally pictured himself in pink. He shuddered and skipped a few pages before reading at a random page. He had completely missed the page where Naruto wrote about finding out he had a demon inside him, a certain fox demon Inu-Yasha knew all too well. 'Hmm...what if I missed something? Better read -all- of it...what a waste of time...' Inu-Yasha was about to go back when he caught a whiff of something. 'Shit.' Inu-Yasha put the journal back on the drawer and jumped out the bedroom window. He jumped on top of the roof and sat arms and legs crossed.
There was the sound of the door being unlocked and opened. Inuyasha could hear four sets of feet enter the unsanitary apartment.
"Naruto! How could you leave your apartment in such a state!?" a girl's voice yelled. Who ever that girl was, Inu-Yasha agreed completely. The apartment reeked, to Inu-Yasha's opinion. Inu-Yasha thought, 'Naruto...that was what that brat called himself the other day.'
"But Sakura-chan! I was in a hurry!" Inu-Yasha recognized that as the brat's voice.
"It looks like you haven't cleaned in months, dobe." Inu-Yasha had no idea who that was. He didn't recognize it.
"Shut up, bastard!" Naruto's voice again.
"Just get your ninja gear." That one sounded more adult.
"Naruto, I can't believe you forgot your stuff!" The girl, Sakura as Naruto called her, screamed.
Inu-Yasha stared at the roof in disbelief. 'He forgot his gear!? He really is an idiot! What kind of a ninja leaves his equipment behind!? The unprepared kind! The stupid kind! The -dead- kind!'
There was the sound of someone scrambling to pick up something. It was probably the kunai and shuriken since there was that -cling- sound whenever they hit each other.
Inu-Yasha watched as the four of them left. Inu-Yasha only saw their backs though. He saw the tallest one pause and turn his head around. The man took a look around. Inuyasha quickly ducked out of view.
(Scene Change)
'I could have sworn I felt someone there...' Kakashi thought. 'I better be on my guard.'
Kakashi resumed walking along with his students, which consisted of a quiet Sasuke, a complaining Sakura, and a pouting Naruto. They walked back to the bridge but didn't stop there. They continued to walk until they got to the training area somewhere in the forest.
'Not bad...he felt my presence. Not bad at all...for a human. A demon would have felt me a long time ago, then I would have had to kill it. That was, if I didn't feel like hiding. Maybe I underestimated these humans...like how I did with Kagome...' Inu-Yasha had a sorrowful look on his face for a split second before covering it up with an expressionless one.
'No use dwindling in the past.' Inu-Yasha quickly jumped from roof to roof, following Team 7 and making sure no one saw him. If anyone had better eyes then a normal human, he would have only been a blur.
"All right, let's train!" Naruto declared.
"What are we doing today, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked, looking at her teacher.
Kakashi said, "Let's spar for today. Find weaknesses in your teammates and help them fix it. It will be a three way fight, no teaming up now. I'll be over there reading Make Out Paradise." Kakashi answered with out looking up from his book. Kakashi pointed to a tree and walked over there. He leaned on the tree and raised his arm, still reading his book. "Ready...set...go." Dropping his arm when he said go.
All three ninja got in a fighting stance. They carefully watched each other. Well...It was more like Naruto and Sasuke glaring hatefully at each other, completely ignoring Sakura, who was looking longingly at Sasuke.
(Scene Change)
"Pathetic," Inu-Yasha said. He was lying on a tree branch, out of view from the ninja but had a good view of them. The tree was a hundred meters away from the group. He was lying on his right side, elbow on the branch and his head was comfortably on his right fist. 'What kind of stance is that? The girl is completely open on all sides. It's practically saying to all enemies, "Hey! Look at me! Over here! Yeah, right there. Look, I'm tired so can you help me take a nap by knocking me out?" And why is she staring at the boy with black hair?' Inu-Yasha took a closer look at her. "Whoa, is it me or does she have a really big forehead?" He continued to stare. "Creepy." Inu-Yasha looks into her eyes. 'Oh. I get it. She's infatuated with that kid. That's gonna cause trouble.'
Inu-Yasha took a look at the black haired kid. 'Not bad. He's got a good defense for an amateur. Looks like he's holding his own. Guess the girl is no trouble since they're ignoring her. Hmm...That kid looks like his only decent obstacle is the runt. He smells like he has a lot of hatred around him.' Inu-Yasha wrinkled his nose in distaste. "From the took in his eyes...I'd say he's an avenger. Interesting...An avenger...like how I used to be..." Inu-Yasha closed his eyes for a moment, memories flashing through his head.
(Flashback)
"Why did you betray me, Inu-Yasha!? Inu-Yasha...DIE!" Kikyo yelled while shooting an arrow. The arrow flew swiftly to Inuyasha who was running with a pink round jewel in his hands.
The arrow pierced through his kimono made from the hair of the fire rat. It kept going and went through his heart. "K-Kikyo!" Inu-Yasha gasped. His eyes became glassy and he slumped. He fell into an enchanted sleep, fifty years would pass before he woke up. He didn't fall to the ground, revealing that the arrow had also hit the tree behind him. The sacred jewel, the Shikon no Tama, fell to the ground.
Kikyo staggered over and picked up the jewel. "Onee-san!" A little girl screamed while running to Kikyo. "Onee-san! You're bleeding!"
"Kaede...You must burn my body along with the sacred jewel. That way, it will travel with me to the realm of the dead. Kaede, you...must..." Kikyo fell to the ground, dead from the wound on her shoulder. It would be fifty more years before she returned to the realm of the living, but she would no longer be alive.
"Onee-san!" the little girl named Kaede screamed. Then the screams became frantic. "Onee-san! ONEE-SAN!!!"
(Different Flashback)
"Damn you, Naraku! DAMN YOU! Come back here and fight like a man! COME BACK HERE YOU BASTARD!!! I'll kill you for doing that! I'll kill you for killing Kikyo!" a 17 year old looking Inu-Yasha yelled. "Come BACK here!" Inu-Yasha continued to yell in a clearing that had been destroyed by a cloud of destruction. His surroundings were ashes and decay. In-Yyasha had a huge sword at his side. The fang, Tetsusaiga. "NARAKU!"
(End Flashbacks)
Inu-Yasha stared at the ground for a while. He sighed deeply and looked at the sky. His eyes showed regret, pain, longing, and sadness. Then he looked at the kid. "Humph. The hatred better not consume him...if it does...not many people will be able to bring him back." Inu-Yasha then looked at the last team member.
Inu-Yasha was now inspecting Naruto. Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes. "Oh goody. He has his left side open for a good kick in the ribs," Inu-Yasha muttered sarcastically. "He looks like an average fighter, unlike the black haired kid. The brat's gonna have his ass kicked. What's that he's doing?"
Naruto was now doing something with his hands. 'Hand seals? Well lookie here. Ninja have hand seals. Never seen them used before, not even in the Great War. Let's see how this turns out.' Inu-Yasha had a smirk on his face.
(Scene Change)
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! You'll get it now Sasuke!" Naruto began multiplying faster than rabbits.
'He is so predictable,' Sasuke thought. "Humph, we'll see." Sasuke got into a defensive stance.
(Scene Change)
Inu-Yasha just stared at Naruto. 'O...kay...last time I checked...humans were -not- able to replicate themselves. Wait...last time I checked was a hundred years ago. Ok...I'll admit this...Humans -have- advanced over the years.' Inu-Yasha smirked. "This should make life more interesting."
(Scene Change)
Sasuke made hand seals of his own. "Fire Style! Fireball Technique!" With a simple huff, a flame hurled at Naruto, or rather, Narutos.
Three of the replicas were hit and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The other seven charged at Sasuke. "I'm not going to lose to you! Bastard, take this!" They all punched at Sasuke, who turned to smoke. "Damn!"
(Scene Change)
Inu-Yasha blinked a few times and dusted the ashes from his silver hair with his left claw.
"The kid, Sasuke, just blew -fire- out of his mouth, got three of the runt's replicas, AND the branch above me, making the ashes fall on top of my hair. -How- did humans get this far again? Oh yeah, they only find these new fighting skills -after- the war. Sure. Yep. Perfect," said a -very- annoyed Inu-Yasha
Inu-Yasha shook his head to make the remaining ash fall off. He then pulled on his hood so this wouldn't happen again.
(Scene Change)
Kakashi was sitting and leaning against the tree now. 'Looks like someone is watching us now.' He sighed. 'And I -still- can't find him. All I know is that someone is out there. It feels like I'm being stalked. Hmm...I hope it's a cute lady.'
Kakashi glanced up from his books at his pupils. 'Looks like they're doing nicely. Except Sakura isn't doing anything. Her crush on Sasuke's becoming a problem for teamwork. Naruto's crush on her doesn't effect him much when there is a battle going on but Sakura has become a bit of a liability. Hmm...'
Kakashi looked at Sakura and yelled, "Sakura, this is a -three- way match. Get in the fight and show Sasuke what you're made of!" 'That should make her do something. She'll do anything to make Sasuke notice her.'
(Scene Change)
Sakura jumped a bit from being called by her teacher. 'G-get in the fight!? I know I should be training but...I can't match their skill. As much as I hate to admit it...-Naruto- is a batter fighter then me. Why do I have to be so weak? I wish...I wish I could fight too.'
Sakura had a determined look in her eyes now. 'I -can- fight! If I don't start now, I'll never be able to! Well...here goes...'
(Scene Change)
"That...was...-pathetic-," Inu-Yasha said out loud. 'One of the sadest things I've ever seen.' Sakura had tried to get in the fight. She was now lying unconscious under the trees next to Kakashi, who was still reading his perverted book. She tried to attack the brat, and then got in a cross fire with him and the black haired kid. Knocked out in one hit. "I bet she did it for that Sasuke guy. Too bad he -still- didn't notice her."
'Even -Kagome- wasn't -that- bad in her first real fight. And if this is a ninja, this should be one of her many fights. To put it bluntly, she...sucks.'
Inu-Yasha ignored the girl and the teacher. Inuyasha froze and looked at the book Kakashi was reading. Inu-Yasha squinted to look at the cover. "Make Out Paradise? What are they doing? Is that guy chasing that girl?" Inu-Yasha moved from the tree and went on top of the tree Kakashi was leaning on. He was too consumed in his book to notice.
No one noticed Inu-Yasha and he peeked at what was written on the pages. Inuyasha froze. 'What the f...who in the seven hells would be -that- perverted enough to write -that-?...Except Miroku...but he's dead so he doesn't count. If one of his descendents wrote this, lechery must run in the family.'
Kakashi sensed someone was near him and looked around. Inu-Yasha jumped back to his original position. No one saw him. Or at least that was what he thought.
(Scene Change)
Naruto jumped up to dodge another fire attack from Sasuke. He glance at his teacher and long time crush. "What th-" Naruto muttered. He saw a dark blur move away from them. 'Who the hell was that?' Naruto looked around to see if anyone else saw. Sasuke was concentrating on him and Kakashi was looking around but it looked like he didn't see anything. Sakura was still unconscious. Naruto felt a little guilty about accidentally doing that to her. 'Oh well, must have been my imagination.'
The next thing he knew, he was in a face plant on the ground. "Ugh!" He felt his back being stepped on and a cold blade pressed against to his neck.
"Don't take your eyes off your opponent, dobe." Sasuke took back his kunai and placed it back in his holster. "Humph." He walked back to Kakashi. "Looks like I win...again."
"What!? I want a rematch!" Naruto got up and pointed at him. "Come on! Let's go!"
"Why? It'd only be a waste of my time." Sasuke smirked when Naruto began a rant.
Sakura groaned and slowly opened her eyes. "Ugh...what...happened?" Sakura sat up and looked around.
Kakashi said without taking his eyes off his perverted book, "You got knocked out in one hit."
"WHAT!?" Sakura yelled. Naruto flinched at the high pitched sound. Inner Sakura was saying, "No way! Let's do this again! I'll show them!"
(Scene Change)
Inu-Yasha rubbed his delicate ears, muttering things like, "Stupid women and their stupid high pitched screams. Feh. Women."
Naruto was walking out of the training grounds now. He walked into the village and was walking in the direction of his favorite restaurant, Ichiraku. He casually strolled along the road, ignoring everyone who was glaring at him. 'They still glare at me! Humph. I -hate- that look.'
Naruto didn't notice the black blur following him at all. In fact, no one noticed. Inuyasha was going from shadow to shadow, using it as cover. 'They're the same looks I got when I was little. Feh, I got those kind of looks when I was young too. Grr...I -hate- that look. This isn't ordinary hate. Not the "Hey! That was -my- ramen." This is "I'm going to kill you...you killed someone precious to me...I'll kill you." That look just says that, that absolute -hate-. But what did that Naruto kid -do-? The runt seems too...innocent...he has too much innocence, that kind that never killed anyone before...so why do those people have -that- look? How can people have that look with someone who looks so innocent?'
Naruto got up and walked all the way back to his apartment alone. He changed into his pajamas and put on his gopher hat. 'A gopher hat!?' Inuyasha was laughing hysterically on the inside. 'That settles it, he is -way- too innocent for those glares.' Inuyasha did a rare thing right then, he smiled. It wasn't a smirk or a twisted grin, it was a -real- smile. It was something he rarely did, ever since Kagome passed away. 'Way too innocent. A rare trait indeed.'
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Ok, -that- was boring. But I suppose it will get more exciting later.