Disclaimer-After four chapters of saying I don't own Naruto I doubt anyone would believe me if I suddenly said in this one that I do anyway. If anyone did, I'd be one shocked person.
You know, this is my first fan fiction ever and I've gotten 13 reviews for only four chapters. I feel loved.
So for all my lovely reviewers who have been waiting ever so patiently for chapter 5, here is the recap!
-Recap-
It had been about an hour before team seven got back to work on their mission. Everyone was refreshed and ready to get back on target.
Sasuke paced around a bit before tripping over something hard. Fortunately for him, he was able to pull himself back up before hitting the ground. He turned around to see what he tripped over.
Sasuke's eyes widened. What is that? He bent over to get a closer look at it. Then without further thinking, he went to go find his teammates.
-End Of Recap-
To the story!
Chapter 5: Do You Ever Get The Feeling We're Being Watched?
"Ok, this is not working. Not to mention boring." Naruto complained as he paced around in a circle. I need some kind of new and faster method so that I can beat Sasuke to the point. Hmm... Naruto sat down and continued to ponder about how to go about his assignment when suddenly...
"Hey, slacker, get off your butt and come over here."
Wait, that sounds like... darn it! He probably beat me to it! This stinks! Grr, wait till I...
"Naruto, get up!" Out of nowhere came a small rock which landed not-so-softly on Naruto's head.
"Ow, what the-- What was that for you retard? I heard you the first time!" Naruto yelled, furiously while picking the rock pieces out off his hair (yes, Sasuke hit him hard enough that there were a few shattered pieces).
"Whatever..." Sasuke said as he turned around and started to walk away.
And just where is he going? I swear one of these days I'm gonna--
"If you heard me the first time then why are you still sitting there?" Sasuke said still walking away.
Naruto didn't take too kindly to Sasuke smart remarks (I'm rhyming again XD) and to prove it, Naruto abruptly fired three shuriken through the air and toward Sasuke.
Hearing the sound of it soaring through the air, Sasuke turned around to block, but was beat to the punch. All three shuriken's trajectory was changed when one kunai slammed through the center of each and stuck them perfectly into the trunk of a tree.
"I think someone's losing themselves out here, don't you think?" came a voice from the sidelines.
Naruto and Sasuke turned to see Kadame leaning against a tree, smiling with amusement.
"I knew something was gonna happen sooner or later. You guys just couldn't keep cool for a couple of days, huh?" Kadame laughed as she took a couple of steps toward Naruto. "So what do I do to people who can't keep their cool? Would you like to answer...Sasuke?" During the mid-sentence pause, Kadame disappeared and reappeared next to Sasuke.
Sasuke didn't answer, nor did he really move when Kadame appeared next to him.
"Tell you what. I give you guys another chance and you don't make me regret it. How's that sound?"
Sasuke's eyes widened. He was surprised to hear he was getting a second chance. It seemed almost too easy a thing to fall into. Finally, after another moment of deep thought, Sasuke walked off into the forest and left Kadame and Naruto there. Listening carefully, Sasuke heard the sound of Kadame giggling to herself in the background. With that he tuned everyone out in the world.
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"Sasuke?" came a voice that sounded so distant, yet so close at the same time. It was a soft voice kind of like--
"Sakura?" Sasuke said as he jumped up from his spot on the ground. Wait a minute...wasn't I just--
"You kinda dosed off after you ate. You ok?" Sakura seemed concerned. But the question was: Why?
"What time is it?" Sasuke said all of a sudden.
"What?" Sakura seemed confused by the question.
"What time is it?" Sasuke said again.
"Almost one 'o' clock. Why?"
"Nothing. I'm gonna go start my assignment." With that Sasuke left back into the depths of the jungle.
"What's got him so uptight?" Naruto asked as he watched Sasuke slowly disappear.
Sakura just shrugged her shoulders and got up as if to signify that they should start off on their end of the mission as well. Naruto apparently understood and got up too.
"Hey everyone I'm back. Where'd the mini Scrooge go?" came Kadame's voice just as Naruto and Sakura were walking off.
"You mean Sasuke? He left." Naruto said turning back around.
"Hmm, did he say anything?" Kadame said looking a bit too serious.
"No, why? Did he say something to you?" Naruto wondered if maybe Kadame could explain Sasuke strange actions a couple minutes ago.
"No. You now what, forget I brought him up. You guys headed back to work?"
"Yep."
"Good. Ok then, you guys can go then. See you later."
"Ok, later." Naruto said with a wave as he and Sakura walked back toward their mission areas.
"You seem bothered. What's wrong?" Kade said when he was certain everyone was gone. He seemed to know that Kadame asked about Sasuke for a reason.
"More than you can imagine."
"I have time."
"You always seem to do that, don't you?"
"It runs in the family. You should know, as you do it all the time."
"True..."
"Well? You mentioned Sasuke before. I'm waiting."
Kadame sighed heavily and looked over at Kade with a smile. "Let's just say the kid's got more skill now than he had before..."
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Sasuke walked inattentively with his mind completely on his so called "dream" the whole time. He was sure it felt too real to have been a dream but knew it couldn't have been anything else.
Then, as Sasuke was just about eight feet away from his mission spot, he froze with one foot in mid-air. He turned around and looked up into the trees. Something's here...I sense a strong energy up there... Sasuke squinted to try and see better but didn't see anything still. Sasuke's last resort was to activate his sharingan and get an even better look. But just as he was going to, Sasuke sensed the energy almost instantly slip away. It's gone...for now.
Since there was no way to track whatever it was now that it ran away, Sasuke shrugged it off for the moment and continued to walk toward where he needed to complete his assignment. Just as Sasuke reached his destination, something strangely familiar happened.
Sasuke quickly pulled himself up before hitting the ground after tripping over something fairly hard. He turned around to see what he'd tripped over. His eyes widened as he picked it up. What is that? Wait a minute. The scroll from the dream! Without further thought, (just as before) Sasuke ran off to go find his teammates.
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To his amazement, everything that happened in his dream, happened again. Only difference this time was that Sasuke was sure that this time it was happening for real. He and Naruto got in trouble for fighting (although Sasuke tried to avoid it and failed miserably), Kadame came just in time and spared them in exchange for not making her regret it, and Sasuke walked off, needing some cool-down, thinking time.
Sasuke played back the previous events in his head one by one. Ok, this is getting too weird. First there was that life-like dream, then that strange energy that seemed to be following close behind, and now this re-enactment of my dream. What is going on?
"Sasuke?"a voice said from behind.
Sasuke turned around to see Kadame staring back with her dark red orbs. Sasuke didn't say anything. He just waited for her next sentence.
"You saw all that coming, right?"
Sasuke just stared with a questioning look on his face.
"Your dream was altered. It seemed kinda like it was already happening but it didn't happen until just now."
Sasuke's eyes widened. Maybe she knew what was going on. Or better yet, maybe she was responsible for it.
"Yeah I figured that was what happened. Don't seem too surprised the next time it happens, though."
Ok, this was becoming all too confusing for our young Uchiha prodigy.
'Don't seem surprised the next time it happens'? What was that supposed to mean? That this was gonna happen like a million more times just for kicks? That some powerful being has taken control of his brain and now alters his dreams to try to warn him of something? That a bunch of aliens are fixing his dreams to scare the living daylights out of him until he passes out and they can bring him aboard their ship and make him their master? (Ok, that one spun a little off the deep end so we'll just stop with the guessing.)
"What did you do?" was all Sasuke could come up with saying in the midst of all the confusion.
"Nothing we can discuss right now. In the meantime, just stay on alert with your dreams. By the way, it's not me changing your dreams anymore." With that, Kadame walked off, leaving Sasuke with nothing but a huge and incurable headache.
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"Sasuke! Gosh, you sure pick the hardest places to find. I've been looking everywhere for you."
Sasuke looked up. Just as he thought, it was Naruto standing on the opposite side of him, breathing heavily as he dropped to the ground.
"I was trying to find you so I could ask you what you wanted me for earlier. You seemed like you found something important and--Hey, are you listening!"
Sasuke ignored Naruto for a couple of minutes and than gave up because Naruto was getting louder and louder every second. "Ok fine. I'm listening! Just stop getting louder you're making my head spin! Geez..."
Naruto seemed to get the point and stood silent for a minute. He could see that Sasuke wasn't in the mood for a fight let alone for completing anymore of the mission. Naruto looked over at Sasuke and noticed he was holding something in his hand. "Is that it?" he asked after a while of just looking at it.
"Is what it?" Sasuke asked almost too quietly to hear.
"What you have in your hand. Is that what you found?" Naruto said pointing at Sasuke's hand.
"Yeah..." Sasuke didn't bother looking at the scroll in his hand. He just let it roll out of his hand and onto the floor only centimeters away.
"Judging from the looks of your hand, you must've had a hard time getting it."
It was only after Naruto said this that Sasuke looked at his hand. To his surprise, it was covered in small cuts.
"Where'd you find it?"
"On the floor..."
"Just laying there?"
"Yep..."
"Then why is your hand all cut up? I doubt it was already like that. It doesn't even look like you clean the cuts or anything."
"I have no idea..."
"Can I see it?"
Without answering, Sasuke kicked the scroll over to Naruto.
Naruto picked it up, but didn't have enough time to examine it before he dropped to the ground and looking at his hand. Suddenly, a small cut appeared on Naruto's skin and a drop of blood rolled down out of it. "It shocked me." Naruto was going to yell but then remembered he'd probably get socked in the face if he did and then decided to say it lower.
"Must be some kind of electrical barrier around it. Leave it there."
As much as Naruto hated being told what to do, he obeyed.
Sasuke thought about the scroll and how it could've slipped his mind that he was being shocked that whole time. Soon, he realized he was probably too overwhelmed with his current situation to notice.
"Should we go tell Kadame or Kade?"
Sasuke's eyes widened at the sound of her name. "No...at least not yet"
Naruto didn't understand why Sasuke didn't want to tell their sensei about what they found, but just shrugged it off to avoid problems.
"Can we at least tell Sakura? Or are you just not in the mood to get up?" Naruto said, half taunting and half being serious.
"Fine, let's go." Sasuke said as he shot a quick, unnoticeable glare at Naruto and then got up.
"What do we do about that? We can't just leave it there." Naruto questioned, pointing at the scroll laying on the ground.
Without a response, Sasuke picked it up and began walking, ignoring the pain of being shocked as he walked.
Naruto got up and followed Sasuke through the trees. They set of to find Sakura and to inform her of Sasuke's discovery.
—End Of Chapter—
Ok that's a wrap for Chapter 5. Hope you enjoyed it! I also hope everyone had a good holiday. Since I didn't update during any of them, I'm saying it now. Happy Holidays everyone and don't forget:
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