Naruto's Weakening Seal and the Darkness Shinobi :

Part I of the Darkness Chronicles

Written by Entei Artist, Devdog47, and Senacku

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This story is written in three perspectives. Kyoka is written by Devdog47, Natari is written by Senacku, and Mikomi is written by Entei Artist. Because of this, chapters will have different writing styles because of the variation of authors.

Disclaimer: We do not own Naruto, nor its characters, places, etc., etc.

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Chapter 2

Told by Natari Roo, who has a wolf sealed inside of her

About 5 minutes after we started on the path, my stomach growled.

"I'm hungry," I complained.

"We've only been out here for 5 minutes! Didn't you eat breakfast?" Mikomi exclaimed.

"No! I was sleeping in all morning until a messenger from Hiromasu came. That stupid messenger woke me up and told me I had to get up and go to Hiromasu's tower!"

I retorted. I mean, what the crap, that idiot messenger had totally RUINED a perfectly good morning to sleep in!

"Well, suck it up. You don't look like you'll die if you skip a meal," Mikomi smirked.

"Hey! You wanna fight!" I yelled.

"No, you aren't worth it," Mikomi grinned. We're always joking around, but sometimes she annoys the crap out of me. I don't care if we ARE best friends.

"Calm down, Mikomi, Natari," Kyoka said to us.

"Make me! I'm hungry!" I answered. Then the stupid wolf sealed inside of me started talking.

"You know, when I'M in charge of your body later, I'll try to make sure neither of us are hungry…" it said.

"Shut up, you dumb animal!" I ordered it, and blocked out its words. It would probably tell me how it would eat whatever wild animals it could catch, like all the other times. Sometimes it really sucks having a demon sealed in you. Even IF it lent you its chakra sometimes. Just now Eureka spoke up.

"I'll just give you something to eat as we walk," he said.

"Amen! Thank you, Eureka!" I grinned. He got a rice cake from his backpack and gave it to me. I started eating it happily.

"So, what are we gonna do for the time we're walking?" I mumbled through the food in my mouth.

"YOU are gonna shut up," Mikomi smiled.

"You can't make me," I mumbled, then swallowed the last of the rice cake.

"Wanna bet?" Mikomi asked.

"No betting," Kyoka told us.

"Aww, come on, you always ruin our fun!" I joked.

"If you'll think, 'fun' between you two can turn into each of you trying to beat the other's brains out," Kyoka remarked.

"Come on, that was only once, and it was the wolf's fault!" I said, remembering the one time Mikomi and I had REALLY fought. The wolf tricked me into trying to beat up my friend…because it was bored. I am, of course, was not as strong as Mikomi, (her being a Jounin and me being only a Genin) so I lost. But I could kinda hold my own against her. Which was okay, I guess…but still, at times like those I hate that tricky wolf more than ever! I was always careful about listening to it after that, too. It had just sorta…brainwashed me. It was really weird, like beating up Mikomi was my own idea…stupid wolf…

"Yeah, do you want me to beat you up again?" Mikomi taunted me.

"Shut up! Y'know, I've been practicing my jutsus and I could- "

"-Never beat me up in 1,000 years," Mikomi interrupted me.

"Ugh! Just shut up!" I pouted. It sucks that, usually, I can never think up a comeback as fast as the others in our little squad!

"Would you two PLEASE just give us a moment or two of peace?" Kyoka asked irritably.

"Maybe…Maybe not," I grinned.

"Okay, you're starting to annoy me", Mikomi said. I grinned. It's always fun to annoy her. Really, it's fun to annoy everyone on my team.

"HEY, WHO WANTS TO HAVE A SCREAMING CONTEST!" I screamed at the top of my voice. Mikomi winced, and then frowned. She hates when I scream, I think, because loud noises hurt her head. But hey, that's why I screamed in the first place – its fun to give people headaches! I was guessing she had gotten one now and I was gonna have fun with it…

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!" I started singing.

"That's it! Silence jutsu!" Mikomi smirked. She makes the hand signs of dragon, ox, tiger, sheep, horse, then serpent, and I laughed. Or at least I think I did. I don't hear anything.

"That's right- I've created a new jutsu!" Mikomi laughed. "With this, I can MAKE you shut up until…aaaa…30 minutes from now!"

"You suck," I said. Well, really, I mouthed it. This jutsu had somehow paralyzed my vocal cords… I sneered at her and ran ahead of everyone and took in the cool scenery. It sure is pretty out here. And boring. Really, really boring.

"Don't worry, stupid human, I can keep you company…" the wolf grinned.

"What did I tell you about NOT EVER TALKING TO ME UNLESS I WANT YOUR CHAKRA!" I telepathically yelled at it.

"Aww, I'm just trying to keep you from being lonely…or should I just stop talking to you until I take over your body later?" the wolf asked. The seal that sealed it in me was good, but it had a major flaw. On every full moon, it forced the wolf and I to switch places, letting the wolf control me and reducing me to almost nothing but a mental echo in my own body. I can control it a bit, but not much. At least my friends don't pity me or anything, like some of the other Darkness village people. Well, only about a third pity me – about a third that lost family or friends to the wolf demon make fun of me. The last third just ignore me. I HATE that! I frowned. Man, not being able to talk to my friends sucks. But suddenly there was a hand on my shoulder.

"Cheer up, Natari; I made Mikomi release the jutsu!" Kyoka smiled. I smiled back and tested out my voice.

"Cool! Not being able to talk sucks!" I said.

"Yeah, well, you got lucky that time! Just stop screaming and I won't use it again",

Mikomi smirked. I knew that she probably would have released the jutsu on her own in 5 minutes, though. I mean, she's one of my best friends!

By now, Eureka has run to catch up with me and the others.

"Hey, I've been calculating the distance from the Darkness village to Konoha village-if we walk all night, it will only be 2 and a half days until we reach Konoha. However, because of Natari's…uh…problem, we will have to camp, making our arrival to Konoha approximately three days from now," Eureka informed us.

"You use too many big words, Eureka! Why can't you just say, 'We'll get to Konoha in about 3 days'?" I asked.

"Why can't you get a bigger vocabulary?" Mikomi asked.

"Why can't you trade that thing on top of your neck for a face?" I smiled politely, to which she responds by pushing me into a tree.

"Hey, hey, watch it!" Kyoka said.

"I will if she does," Mikomi growled before starting to walk. And this is how the trip goes for the remainder of the day, with Mikomi and I joking/fighting with each other, Kyoka breaking us up when necessary, and Eureka laughing and joining in some of our arguments. (He was more talkative because he wasn't trying to mentally calculate the time it would take to travel a long distance, like he was earlier. He's a pretty smart guy, if you haven't noticed.)

So, when the sun started going down, we came across a clearing and decided to camp there for the night. After everyone had eaten a rice cake or two, we checked the time by the low sun.

"We still have about an hour before the sun sets! Who wants to practice sparring with me!" I smiled.

"Well, I might as well," Mikomi smirked. "This'll just be a little workout for me."

"You wish! I've been practicing my jutsus and I could TOTALLY-"

"Didn't you say that earlier?" Mikomi interrupted me again.

"Do I have to remind the both of you that the full moon is tonight? Let's just start the fight!" Eureka grinned. He and Kyoka moved to opposite sides of the clearing we had found. When two of us spar, the other two referee. We just always did it like that.

"Okay…are both combatants ready?" Eureka said officially. He likes to do EVERYTHING "officially", which means "doing everything exactly right."

"Eureka, cut the crap! Just let us fight!" I yelled, eager to spar.

"Ha-ha, just start it, Eureka, we only have about 55 minutes 'till the sun sets. And you know that when these two spar, it can take an hour sometimes," Kyoka laughed.

So Eureka started the spar: "Okay… ready…set…FIGHT!"

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End Notes: It wasn't to bad, was it? Well, thank you to everyone who reviewed last time!