to whoever reads this: congrats for making it past chapter one! you'd be surprised how many people don't...well, since i didn't get any reviews for the last chapter (the first two were for the first version of this, so yeah...) well...enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and company, their world, the organizations in that world, or anything else you read in the manga. I do own the characters I bothered to give personalities to and the organizations I put them in and I shall flame you to hell if you use them.
Start Here
Sometime between the customary month between the technical second and third rounds, Naruto started training with Hinata, Kiba, and Lee. Soon after, they started to go to tea (and ramen) shops after training and soon after that, skipped training and just went places because they felt like it. On their way to one such outing (after a hard day's training), they were discussing the competition for Naruto and Hinata in the third round of the Chunin exam.
"It's kinda funny how half of the competitors are from the weird Bat place." Naruto commented.
"Apparently, they're from the supposedly extinct Shadow Village." Lee said, looking slightly wide-eyed into the distance in the general direction of their destination.
"But they're all really strong." Hinata mumbled.
"How do you know thick-brows?" Kiba demanded.
"I heard Gai-sensei and Anko-sensei talking about it when went to collect my pay-check." Lee replied, not taking his eyes off the imaginary outdoor theater they were heading towards.
"I don't understand how ninjas that strong could've stayed hidden." Hinata commented louder this time, glancing at the sky, or at least, she would be if her eyes had pupils.
"Well, weird things happen at these Chunin exams, remember our first?" Naruto asked, inducing shuddered from those who remembered cleaning up the aftermath and hearing the stories of the epic battles.
"Well, we can just hope this year won't be so crazy." Kiba said solemnly. They walked in silence for a bit until the residence loud mouth broke it.
"Last one to the theater is sharpening all my kunai!" Naruto yelled, running ahead.
"I can't lose to a loser like you!" Kiba yelled, running after the blond, Akamaru in tow.
"If I do not make it to the theater first, I will run around the village on my hands 20 times." Lee yelled, frantically racing after the pair. Hinata just smiled and started jogging, watching the boys move to rooftops when they found that the streets were too crowded.
When the small girl finally made it to the hastily erected stage with natural seating, she found her friends had already found great seats high in a tree.
"Haha! Hinata has to clean all my kunai!" Naruto laughed, goofy grin on his face, not noticing the light blush that spread across her nose.
"I hear that they're playing something called Midsummer Night's Dream." Kiba said, staring intently at the stage.
It turns out that Hinata made it just in time. At that moment, a person wearing plain white clothing and a no-face mask appeared around the backdrop of the inside of an impressive house. He placed a large sign that said "Act1 Scene 1, London-city" on a shelf built into the stage, bowed and left. As the audience started to fidget, a horrible scream wrenched the air and a girl with beautiful umber locks in a wonderfully embroidered long dress came running on stage right.
"Farther, why must I marry Demetrius, I love Lysander." she screeched to a portly man who walked on after her.
"I've chosen Demetrius to be your groom Hermia, and I won't change my mind."
"But Demetrius and Lysander are of equal rank and wealth!" the poor love-struck girl wailed.
"What is this disturbance?" demanded a clean-shaven man who walked in with a haughty looking woman on his arm.
"My Lord, I simply have an unruly daughter who won't accept my decision." the short, portly man said, bowing low at the waist.
"An unruly daughter? Egeus, you know what this means." 'My Lord' said, "She can either marry the man you have chosen for her, join a nunnery and live out her days in a cloistered convent a virgin, or be put to death, for disobey your farther is a crime." he then paused while the audience and Hermia gasped, "I expect your answer at my wedding in two weeks' time. And I don't expect to be reminded of this matter by yelling in my halls." then he left with he's bride.
"Well, you heard the Lord; I hope you will choose the choice that will be most beneficial my daughter." Egeus said, walking off in the opposite side from the couple. Hermia sank to the floor and started to sob. Someone started calling her name from off stage and a boy with flaming red hair that was spiked up and was generally attractive arrived. He raced to the girl on the floor.
"Hermia, Hermia, what is wrong?" he asked.
"O Lysander, my father will not agree to let us wed. What is more, if I do not marry Demetrius, then I must join a convent or be put to death." Hermia sniffed.
"Then we shall run away! My aunt, who treats me as she would her son, has a property 20 leagues from this place. Let us set out tonight, under the cover of darkness, from this place of dashed hopes!" Lysander roared to the audience. "But first," he continued, voice now soothing, "we must part, and not see each other 'till nightfall. We cannot tell a soul of our scheme, darling."
"May I tell Helena, who is dearer than a sister to me?" Hermia asked attentively, tears still in her eyes,
"No sweet, not a soul can know of our fight. We'll meet at the edge of the woods, at dusk sweet Hermia, we shall reunite at dusk." He kissed her hand and dashed off the stage. Hermia then started a monolog about how she and Lysander would be happy and safe until the end of time before exiting too. After the applause had died down, a door in the backdrop opened and a pale dark-haired girl slipped out who looked strangely familiar.
"Oh my, what ever shall I do?" she asked the audience, "I, Helena, have heard this plot to rid my beloved of his bride. Shall I tell her betrothed what my dearest friend plans? Or shall I keep quiet and let her leave with our trust intact?" she paced worriedly across the stage.
"I know!" she suddenly cried, "I shall tell my beloved Demetrius, telling him I know when and where his bride intends to elope. And then, even though my friendship with Hermia will be broken, I will be able to spend at least a few hours with the one closest to my heart." she finished with some dramatic actions before running off, calling Demetrius. Naruto finally remembered where he had seen the dark haired girl. She had beaten TenTen in the Chunin exam, what was she doing, acting in a traveling troop?
While he was off in thought, a new backdrop slid into place, this one of dense forest clearing. The white-clad person came back on and replaced the sign with "Act 1 Scene 2-Enchanted Forest". What caused Naruto to join the world of the living again was a gasp from Hinata.
"What?" he asked her, she pointed to the stage, where Helena had entered with a composed looking boy, presumably Demetrius, it was to the boy that the frightened girl was pointing,
"That's Kaiko, the one with the weird fire-pipe," she said in a stage whisper. Looking at the boy, who was currently grilling poor Helena, who was obviously smitten with him, about the legitimacy of her claim about the eloped lovers, he wondered how such a boy, who couldn't be much older than him, was able to devise a weapon that would end a battle within three seconds. After the two exited the stage, a boy with neon-coloured hair slid down on of the support beams. He was in a torn, brightly coloured outfit, feathers, strings of beads, and other cheap knick-knacks dangling from his person and was instantly recognizable as the kid who beat Temari, Naturu.
"What an egoistic pig!" he started "He's got a perfectly gorgeous girl hanging off his arm and he's stuck on one crush!"
"Oberon, you aren't planning on interfering again." said a girl, dressed in a similar manner to Oberon, but her 6 feet of hair way dotted with long, thin braids and flowers, draping herself over his shoulders. Once again, she, and her incredibly long off-white hair would be noticeably anywhere; it was another of the Bat nins from the Chunin exam.
"Of course not, Tatiana." Oberon/Naturu said, fiddling with an end of a braid.
"Good," she said, yanking it out of his grasp, "because the last time you messed with mortals' love lives I ended up falling in love with an ass." she finished, sweeping across the stage.
"Puck," Oberon said after the last antiqued white hair left the stage, "Puuck, I know you're there, do me a favor and meddle for me." he held up a flower, "I want you to sprinkle the Cupid flower's pollen, which will make anyone fall in love with the first thing you see, into the face of a male mortal with a beautiful girl with him, can you do that?" Naruto leaned forward, eager for the entrance of a fellow trickster. 'Puck' jumped down from over the top of the backdrop and the blond reeled. For dressed in fairy garb and looking a tad more coloured then when he left was Uchiha Sasuke.
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I said stop! didn't you realize that from the last chapter? Well, if you enjoyed, clicky the pretty button at the bottom, it sounds really shallow, but i bask in your kinds words, and i wish there were the think that keep me writing. however, if that were the case, i'd be rather starved right now, but a guy can dream, can't she?