Disclaimer: Hullo again. It's time for chapter two of my happy little story.
I don't own the Naruto characters.
In this chapter you get to meet one of the characters I made up, so read on story lovers!!!
and reveiw.
CHAPTER TWO: The Forest Dweller.
Sasuke grunted with effort as he once again punched the tree stump. A few hundred more kicks and he should be done practice for the day. Next to him, Naruto practiced his aim against a tree a few meters away from them, tossing kunia after kunia at it. It was one of Sasuke's pass times, practicing, because he did it so much. But really, fighting was all Sasuke had, it was what he was good at.
So he made sure he was the best, though Naruto made that hard for him, always rivaling him in everything, trying to be better then Sasuke himself.
But Sasuke couldn't blame Naruto, for he himself was always measuring himself against Naruto. Challenging himself to be better then the blonde.
Sasuke stood still for a second, staring at the chopped up tree trunk in front of him. It had lost most of it's bark and was close to falling over from the constant abuse. But it still held firm. Sasuke glanced back to Naruto, who was now standing there staring at the strange pattern his kunai made on the tree. Latley, Sasuke had taken to falling away into his thoughts, something he wasn't accustomed to. But the suddn change of coming back from the sound and NOT plotting someones death was strange.
It wasn't like he planned on murdering somone, in fact he had no desire to kill at all. He felt strange, sort of peacful. Like he was ready to just wait and protect this small village. This was what Kakashi must hadve felt like. He had so much power, but all he really cared about was protecting those close to him and his village. Up until that point Sasuke hadn't really thought about Konoha. He hadn't been protecting the village when he and Gaara had battled it out, that was for himself. And when he and Naruto fought, that was to become stronger so Sasuke could kill his brother, not to keep Konoha safe. Even though all ninja's were supposed to be there for was to protect the village and the peace inside.
Suddenly, Naruto cried out in surprise.
"Sasuke!" He hissed, pointing vigorously into the forest. "There's something in the woods. It looks like someone sleeping."
"Shikimaru?" Sasuke sudgested, walking over to where Naruto stood. But from that vantige point, it was clear the it wasn't Shikimaru. This body was crumpled on the ground in a position that clearly showed it was hurt.
Sasuke ignored Naruto's mutterings and walked over to the body. His eyes widened considerably when he took exactly who and what the body was.
"Whoa." Naruto breathed, suddenly next to Sasuke. He was wide eyed as well.
Lying at their feet was a small, young girl possibly a year younger then they were. She had blood dripping down her face from a huge gash on her forehead. But what made her so strange, was the total lack of clothing she had.
She was curled in a ball on the forest floor, clearing knocked out.
"She's, not wearing anything." Naruto croaked, blushing madly. Sasuke arched an eyebrow towards Naruto in interest.
"Nude women bother you?" Sasuke was clearly teasing him. "I thought you prided yourself on that joke, Sexy no jutsu."
"I don't actually look at myself when i'm like that." Naruto cried, waving his arms around widley. "I'm not a pervert you know!"
"Right." Sasuke sighed, rolling his eyes and turning back to the young girl. "We should take her to the hospital."
"What if she's some terrorist?" Naruto asked, glancing around as if expecting an attack. Sasuke scruntched up his nose and gave Naruto a withering look.
"Honestly Naruto, she's naked." Sasuke said. "She's even uncontiouse."
"You sound so sure." Naruto muttered. "How do we know she isn't faking?"
"Because dobe." Sasuke sighed. "If she was awake then her breath would be much faster, when clearly it's coming out slowly and in short bursts."
Naruto stared at Sasuke for a minuted in complete silence.
"Your tottaly checking her out." Naruto said, a little too loudly. His face spread into a grin when Sasuke glared darkly at him. "You are you pervert!"
"Shut up and give me your jacket." Sasuke snapped, trying not to glance back at the girl for fear that what Naruto was saying was true. Hey, they were seventeen year old boys. Ninja's or not, they were still human.
"Why?" Naruto asked, suddenly protective as he wrapped his arms around himself.
"So she wont be naked." Sasuke sighed. It took a little convincing, and threatining, before Naruto finally relinquished his large jacket. He no longer wore that hideous large orange jacket like he did when he was younger. Now it was decent and very dark black. However Naruto still clung to the color orange and some of his clothign was very brightly orange, but he dressed sensibly now. Now that he was older.
Sasuke wrapped the jacket around the girl so she was at least decet and hoisted her onto his shoulder. The two sprinted through the trees at a fast but easy pace until they finally came to the gates of Konoha. Once inisde the city they ran to the hospital, stopping for no one.
The clerk at the desk in the hospital lobby blinked when they two boys walked inside.
"Naruto, Sasuke." She said, nodding to each of them. She'd seen them in the hospital numerous times and was well aquainted with them. But the girl in Sasuke's arms was new. "Who's that?"
"We don't know." Naruto explained. He felt the need to speak when Sasuke felt the need to keep quiet. They worked well together that way. "We found her lying in the forest unconstiouse when we were training."
The nurse frowned and left her desk anyways and made them follow her to a room, where Sasuke laid the girl on a hospital bed and the nurse made them leave the room so she could change the girl into a hospital gown.
When the nurse appeared through the door, she had Naruto's jacket in her hands and tossed it to him. The boys were waiting for instruction.
"She seems to have a mild cuncusion, though i'm not sure." The nurse explained. Her name was Rose. "She'll be fine, but can you get me the doctor please? He should be in his office just down that hallway."
The whole ordeal took a lot more time then either of the boys hd expected, and just when they were getting ready to leave the hospital, someone unexpected showed up.
"What's going on?" Kakashi Hitake asked when he successfully popped up out of nowhere, scaring the life out of Naruto and peeving off Sasuke. "Why are you two here?"
"Could ask you the same thing." Naruto muttered.
"We found some girl in the forest." Sasuke sighed, ramming his hands into his pockets to keep from smacking Naruto upside his head. "She was hurt or something."
"Or something?" Kakashi teased. "You tired Sasuke?"
Sasuke gave Kakashi one of his famous glares and set about staring at the floor.
"I'm here because someone spotted Sasuke and Naruto running like madmen to the hospital, and me being me, I was concerned."
"Sure." Naruto said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Sasuke looked up at Kakashi, stared at his masked face. He knew why Kakashi wore the mask, to hide his own sharingan, but was he ashamed of it? Possibly he was ashamed that it had been surgically placed in his eye, but that was only a small fact. Sasuke sure was proud of his sharingan.
There were so many things Sasuke didn't know about the people around him. Like Naruto's constant grin, even though Sasuke knew whath horror's thrived inside the blonde. Kakashi's mysterious mask and how he wore it constantly. Even Sakura and her strange attraction to Sasuke, her rivalry with Ino. What had caused those things? Why didn't Sasuke know more about them?
Of course, to find out more about his friends, it would require asking, which wasn't something Sasuke did often.
"Listen, i'll tell you two when this girl wakes up, but you two go have some fun, don't go back to practice." Kakashi instructed. He knew the two spent much too much time practicing rather then living out their childhoods. "Go on."
"What are you going to do?" Naruto asked skeptically.
"I wanted to check something out." Kakashi explained, his face shadowed by some dark secret. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and stared directly at Kakashi, who in turn stared back. A sort of twisted understanding passed between them. "Go on, i'll come get you when she wakes up."
"Allright." Naruto said reluctantly. "Come on Sasuke."
Then two jumped away from the hospital quickly, running off to 'have some fun' which would consist of a movie and then sneaking off to practice some more before it got dark.
Kakashi shook his head at the retreating boys, waited for them to dissapear from his sight before he finally entered the room that loomed around the corner. Inside lay a young girl on a hospital bed with long brown hair.
Her chest rose and fell with her deep breathes, a bandage had been wrapped around her head. She didn't look hurt, just asleep.
Kakashi didn't care about how peacful she seemed. Instead he lifted the mask from his face and placed two fingers on the girls eye. Slowly, he pried it open only to reveil red and blue mixing together to form something extraordinary.
"Just like I thought." Kakashi murmrued to himself, removing his hand from the girls face and pulling up his mask. He stepped towards the door. Suddenly, he was gone in a puff with the use of a transportation jutsu. Time to visit the hokage.
Hullo! I'm finished! Finally. Sigh I did the entire first chapter at my mom's work, so forgive me if it sucks.
I just want to thank the two people that complimented me on this story. I don't know how to get their screen names though, but they know who they are. Thank you so much, and this chapter is just for you!
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