Black Dove White Crow
A/N: Meeeow! Once again, I thank CJ-Popo for leaving me a chicken, and I also thank Kunoi-chan for giving me yet a most encouraging review! You know what, thank you all! I give you cookies and uhm, a clone! Of any bishie that you want, just take a piece of their hair and put it into this goopy thing and watch it grow!
TA-DAHHH! xDD I have my very own Naruto, Sasuke, and even Sora! The other bishies, well, I'm going to keep them a secret so that their lovely booties won't be taken away from me! I've already lost Kurama! D: -sits in her corner sobbing- Oh well, I still have—Er, no. Just lost Naruto and Sasuke. X3
Well anyways, CJ-Popo... I like Heaven's Lane! Well, okay at first I though at first I thought it was a bowling alley, THAT DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING! –steps forth with a ocean crashing behind her- Right-o. Onto the next story.
This is dedicated to...CJ-POPO! Don't worry, I'll get everyone.
Disclaimer: When I wish upon the star for bishies... someone hits me over the head. D:
Chapter Three: Time to Play!
Dark gas guzzled into the air. Everyone that passed by was cursed with an ailment, or fell down with a terrible cough. For anyone that passed by this factory, whom ultimately fell ill, their skin paled and dark circles curled under their eyes. After this, they were never the same again.
Two little kids were running along a streetwalk, pushing past the sickened zombies in their way, laughing and just having a good time with each other. Their parents had ferverently warned them to not go near the factory, and up to now, they had solemnly obeyed them.
But now was time to adventure away from their parents' nest. Even if they were still only young.
"Betcha can't catch me to the front door!"
"I bet you can't even make it to the gate!"
They called out to each other, careless and giddy, not really caring what would happen if they drew near to the ebony smoke billowing out the rusted furnaces. The younger crashed into the elder as he remained planted in place. Curious eyes the shade of pure water gazed over at the back of his companion's head. Neither of them had noticed that the smog was just curling around their ankles.
All of a sudden, the dark haired male turned to his friend, a frantic glaze in his charcoal eyes. The blonde gasped as he could see the paleness, the dark circles under the other's delicate hues. His best friend, the raven, was falling under the spell of ailment, so many others before him had faced.
"Run! Leave!" The elder cried, pushing his friend back out of the haze. The smoke seemed to hiss at losing another fragile body to sicken, but directed it's rage solely upon the one whom had saved him. As Naruto scrambled away, the shadows of the air snaked their way around the remaining teen's neck, pulling tighter and tighter before ultimately...
Killing him.
As the smoke began to return polluting the air, a lifeless body lay on the ground. However, nobody noticed this body since they were bound to be that way as well. Soon footsteps and small splatters of saliva covered the dark haired teen's face, clothes, and hair. Nobody bothered to step around him, for after all, he was going to decay into the earth.
But sinister beings clothed in white with blinding specs upon their eyes came forth at night, when their ailed zombies were sleeping. Finding slight disgust at the dead teen's condition, they slapped on a pair of rubber gloves, two if needed, to drag his soul-impaired corpse into the lab. Strapping him down to a thick, cold iron slab, a venomous smirk played all their lips as they got down to work.
It had been quite sometime since the scientists had taken this seemingly dead child off of the street. Right now, in that laboratory where he lay still, there was a heavy silence hanging in the air. Even in limbo, or wherever he had been condemned to, he had grown and matured.
His face was devoid of any blemishes, his figure was slender and flawless, it seemed like he had been created anew. And yet at the same time, that may have been the unfortunate case here. After all, he had died. What purpose would there be for him since he was unusable now?
"Uhn..."
A groan was heard, his nose scrunching up as he let it out. Dark lashed eyelids fluttered, before revealing dulcet spheres of a midnight sky without stars. Sasuke lay there, breathing quietly as he stared up at the bland, grey ceiling. His eyes narrowed as he focused in on the wall above him, making out grids of little rectangles. Such shapes amused him for a small amount of time, before Sasuke had soon found himself cold and irritated.
"Damn, what's going on?" He murmured, a hand reaching up to his head. Or rather, that's what he wanted to happen. Glancing down, he noticed that there was something different about his arm. Was it his imagination, or was all he saw just metal plates and miscallaneous wires? Blinking about several times, his jaw dropped in harsh realization.
His left arm from the elbow down, was nothing but machinery as his right arm was the same, but only from the wrist down. The good thing was that his torso, abdomen, and most of his legs were all looking like regular flesh and bones. Except for a few strange patches that Sasuke prefered not to look at. But still, what the hell was going on?
The raven sat up with much effort, finding a discomfort from his back that he deemed to be from laying on the hard cement. Once again, as he observed, Sasuke tried to move his arm again. There was no reaction whatsoever, and so he frowned in disappointment. The dying lamp handing from a badly tethered string flickered with a sickly buzz, before it went out completely.
"Time to get out of here and find Naruto."
Nodding to himself, Sasuke crept off the slab of metal to land on his feet. A sudden weakness in his unfinished knees however, caused him to meet the floor in a huddled-up crouch position. The only thing he could hear so far, was the heavy drags of air he withdrew, and the pounding of his frantic heart.
That and the voices of a group of people talking outside his door.
'He's an unfinished experiment.'
'All we could do was replace his organs, skeletal frame, and skin with prosthetics!'
Then Sasuke could hear no more as he clamped his hands over his ears and ran for the window. Jumping out of the cage and into the smoke, the teen was surprised to realize that he couldn't even feel the smog on his face, or even in his eyes! At the same time, it was hard to even remember that he was standing on a grassy hill!
"What's...What's going on!" Sasuke panicked, eyes widening as he started sprinting at a breakneck speed. He had never ran this fast before either, and it was scaring him. In fact, ever since he had woken up on that frozen platform of metallic ice, things were just all too weird.
The screams filled his ears as people gaped, gasped, and ran in fear from him. Their eyes had seen his arms, his wires, his monstrous mechanics. Was he really still human after all? He still felt like Sasuke Uchiha, but there was nothing that could prove that now.
Soon he had bumped into someone, as he had been running blindly through the crowd, and cracked his eyes open to find his target. A much taller, much more beautiful Naruto winced before him, a hand rubbing the back of his head. "Oww..."
"Sorry, are you okay Naruto?"
"What are you?"
Sasuke's eyes widened as his former friend stared back at him with a slight glare in his azure orbs. They simply voiced his words of 'Goodbye', as the blonde rose to his feet and poised a knife at the center of the raven's forehead. "I'll show you what you really are. This is what you mean to me."
Cutting a heart on the dark haired face, the skin gave way to reveal a face of nothing but metal and copper cords. As the silicon material that was shaped to give this robot a mask fell off, an evil expression tugged at the blonde's lips. "A cyborg. A fake."
Just as the knife pierced his mechanics, and the rain began to fall, Sasuke stared up at his beloved blonde. The last thing he could ever see before he shut off permanently, was a mane of red and eyes of green.
Years passed on, the rain rusted him to indiscernable parts. People moved past him, not caring that there was the handle of a knife sticking out of his forehead. What they couldn't see was the trapped soul of someone stuck inside the prison of a cold, metal cage.
A kid came up, curious as to why there was such a mound of rusted items shaped like a human, sitting in the middle of the sidewalk. His hand clutched the worn knife handle, his form shaking a bit, before he pulled it out and saw a bright light.
'Thank you kid.' A voice whispered into the wind, and finally, the items turned into dust wafting in the current. No response was found until a smile played this youngster's lips. Cerulean eyes lit up as he stared up into the sky.
"No problem, Sasuke."
It was just about two or so hours before they were to go to Shino's for the great welcoming party. The only other Genins were two girls, and needless to say, while Naruto was excited at getting a chance at a woman, Sasuke was positively dreading it. Even when he and his blonde were still together, there were women that persisted after the both of them, even though Sasuke had a grand majority of the females after him.
He predicted that each time he went to class, he should wear some kind of disguise. Sasuke was already planning to go as Neji one day, if the ponytailed teen would allow it. Or rather, if Gaara allowed it. He seemed to have the hots for him anyways.
Naruto had laid out his options for walking to their dorm room with his strange enemy, and apparently had chosen the 'Cold Shoulder' as his first move. Sasuke had to choose his counter-attack as well, but only chose to simply dwindle in his crestfallen world.
Their room was 2A34, three doors down from Gaara and Neji's, while a floor or so above Lee and Kiba's. Shino and Shikamaru's was about just right above them. Maybe a few doors down, but just about above their room. But anyways, back to where things were just as silent as they were in Gaara's face.
At first they were just walking at a distance up the staircase, Sasuke being ahead of Naruto with a indifferent glaze in his eyes while Naruto appeared to be distracting himself. All that changed however, when Naruto tripped on a step and fell over. The raven glanced at him and snickered, before hurrying up the steps.
It was then that this solemn procession turned into a fierce race.
Both men ran up the stairs, each one trying to either push past or push down the other competitor. Sasuke was in the lead, using his arms to prevent Naruto passing him by extending them to the wall. The blonde would growl here and there, trying various methods to try and sneak past the dark haired teen. Most of the time, they would be fruitless but here and there, Naruto would slip past him.
Then the situation got a little sticky. The whisker-faced one tried ducking under Sasuke's arm to get ahead, but unfortunately once he tried pulling himself through the tiny gap, he had gotten the two of them stuck at the same step. They were shooting daggers at each other, both apparently not pleased with being squished in such a place as a staircase. People could catch them, and if Neji, or Lee, or Kiba had even found them in this predictament, both men made a silent agreement in their heads to take them out.
Literally.
"Move your big ass, teme!"
"You're the one with the big ass, dobe! May I also remind you that you're the one that got us stuck in the first place?"
Naruto seemed to be a bit lost for words, so he scrambled with a response that all but good. "Well uh, if you had let me pass you instead of blocking my way—
The raven snorted. "You'd trip and send both of us back down the stairs into the pits of embarassment." That fueled Naruto's anger even more. He growled and well, Sasuke growled back.
"I hate you so much…"
"Glad we see things the same way, for one thing. Though I'm disappointed that I stooped all the way down to your level."
"SHUT UP!"
The Uchiha and the Uzumaki continued to bicker before they heard remnants of familiar voices nearby. Both of them pushed forward, frantic to get out but yet as expected, neither budged. They hissed at each other, shooting daggers as they continued to desperately break free from this strange bind.
Like a miracle that got stuck on God's busy highway, just as the faces popped into the doorway, both teens fell forward. Flat on their faces, hurting a bit there, though they were only grateful that they had been able to get free before anybody could come and take pictures for dirty blackmail.
"What're you guys doing in the staircase like that, yo?"
"Aye, they're so troublesome."
"…Nn."
Sasuke pulled his face up from the enticing plaster step, his eyes meeting the faces of Kiba, Shikamaru, and the great, emotionless Gaara! Soon Naruto groaned and rolled over, before they decided to help pick him up. Apparently, the fall had knocked him out for some reason.
"What a baka." The raven sighed, shaking his head in disapproval at his whiskered friend's unconcious state. Gaara had been the only one that noticed, but a faint smile had played Sasuke's lips, if only for a slight moment. Even if they fought on the outside like rivals, Sasuke would always have that one soft spot in his heart reserved for his beloved blonde.
"Shall we tote him back to your room? I take it that you guys still have to unpack and everything." The red-marked brunet asked, receiving a nod from the one whom had fallen along with him. Both of them wrapped an arm around Naruto's waist, while at the same time sling one of his own around their shoulders. Lugging him like pure deadweight, they dragged Naruto out of the staircase with Gaara and Shikamaru close behind.
…Or at least they had tried to carry him to their room. Shikamaru had spontaneously fallen asleep while walking and tumbled into Naruto, whom brought both Sasuke and Kiba down, and well…Gaara had tried to save them but failed miserably as he ended up under them all. Must've hurt.
"Oww, what the hell happened, aye?"
"You fell on us you retard!" Kiba snapped, the lazy Shikamaru not even making much of the yell in his ears. He simply slipped a finger into the small cavities, cleaning it out. "So loud, aye." Kiba growled low in his throat, when even louder growling came from below him. It seemed that Naruto had woken up, and wasn't pleased at all with being sandwiched between mounds of guys, though they weren't heavy to begin with.
"Mmrf roffa hrmee!"
"Hmrasftards!"
Kiba found himself chuckling at that. "Why Gaara, what a pottymouth!"
There were a few more growls from the bottom of the dogpile before with a loud grunt, Gaara pushed them all off of him. They all fell over elsewhere, Naruto hitting a wall, Shikamaru landing beneath the fire extinguisher, Kiba falling back down the staircase, and Sasuke catching his balance so that he didn't go far. He was close to meeting the demise poor Inuzuka had.
A burst of profanities and yelling could be heard all the way down on the first floor. "Subaku, I'm going to push you down all the way from the fifth floor, you buttwipe!" The redhead simply ignored him and pulled off the ear-cleaning technique. "You do that and I'll tell your father about you kissing Shino."
The steps of someone pounding up the stairs had ceased suddenly. Kiba's silence said it all. Neither of them were willing to move, talk, or even breath loudly. Shikamaru woke up, stretching yet again. "What's going on, aye?" He moved to stand up but a clang was heard.
His head had just collided with the deadly metal bottom of the fire extinguisher above him. Shikamaru looked like he was going howl out in pain, like any normal human would, but then he just came out again and stood on his feet while rubbing his head.
"Aye, was it me or did I just hear a gong?"
Naruto found himself dying inside at this guy's indifference. "For Ramen's Sake, you have blood running down your forehead from hitting that metal thing!" The other only shrugged and everyone let out a sigh. It took Kiba about ten minutes for him to climb up the stairs, and when he got up, he was obviously out of breath.
"We'd…be-better get that party going." He mumbled. Everyone seemed to nod before all rising to their feet. It was time to get this Welcoming Party started!
It was sunset. About more than seven teenagers sat in a circle, all staring each other down. There was a bottle within, the glass seeming to have been staring them all in the face. A lone candy wrapper rolled amongst them. Shikamaru pulled a lollipop out of his mouth, choosing to stick it behind his ear.
"Let's just get this started, aye."
The rest of them nodded, just as two girls came running into the silent haven of Shino's room. A blondie and a strawberry, that they were. Falling over onto their knees, regardless if they had disrupted such a calm sanctuary, they panted heavily.
"We're sorry we're late Kiba!"
"Yeah! It was all her fault!"
They picked their heads up and growled at each other as everyone around them sighed. Apparently a lot of the guys except for Naruto and Shikamaru, of course, looked pretty upset with the arrival of the two girls. Kiba extended a hand out to them as to show who he was introducing.
"Guys, this is the other Genins, Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka." He ended it with yet another hopeless sigh.
They both took one look at Naruto, about five looks at Sasuke, and squealed. Apparently this was only more havoc of the Fangirls to the raven. He was going to have to deal with these two bubbly, easily irritated, bimbos that just had to be on permanent PMs.
"You're so cute!" Ino giggled, poking Sasuke's cheek.
"Not just cute, but dead sexy…" Sakura whispered, trying to top Ino evidently. A quick glare was shared before they went back to admiring their newfound love. The dark haired teen in the middle of them, pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to convince himself that they were only new and deserved about another chance. Or fifty.
"Let's just get this going."
"AGREED!"
A/N: I am SOOO sorry that I'm later than usual with my update. My boyfriend's birthday is coming up and I've been hurrying around to get him a good present. It's really hard when there's an age difference! Kyaa!
Uhm…Next chapter. . . Will be hectic. I also uploaded this chapter without it being beta'd. D:
I WANT TO MAKE UP FOR BEING SO LATE! D: Forgive me and review please! My 'rents are cruel for being hard on me! See you! XDDD