The Sakurazaki Chronicles—Tsubasa
By Emi
MC: Setsuna, Sasuke, mainly Konohagakure ninja
MS: Feudal Japan; the pre-Shippuuden period of Naruto
MT: Romance, Adventure, Angst, Friendship, Fantasy, Death
Rating: 13-18 year olds (Teen-Mature)
Disclaimer: The author does not own Naruto in any way, shape or form. However, she does own her OCs, including a small amount of their jutsus. The author also does not own the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, Mahou Sensei Negima! by Akamatsu Ken, Chobits by CLAMP, Tsubasa by CLAMP, xxxHolic by CLAMP, Love Hina by Akamatsu Ken, the manga edition of Romeo and Juliet by Yali Lin (her wonderful art instructor and the woman who autographed it for me.), the .hack// series by various authors, and other manga or literature references used in the making of this fanfiction. All rights belong to their respectful author(s) or company.
A/N: Look, I've taken my time to revise this thing. Or something like that. So please review!
Book One: Sora
Chapter 4
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"No problem," He shrugged. "It's true. Now!" He clapped his gloved fingers together. "Let's go to the--"
"Roof!' I shouted, completely oblivious I was doing it again, until Kakashi-sensei started staring at me. "Uh... ano..." I ran out of excuses for this one. "Let's just go! C'mon people!" I grabbed the two people closest to me at the moment-- which happened to be Sasuke-san and Naruto-kun-- and ran up the stairs to the roof (and guess what? the staircase had a plaque that said 'stairs.' Scary, huh?)
I seemed to be dragging Sasuke, whereas Naruto was running alongside me, grinning. Kakashi-sensei and Sakura were lagging behind, just walking. When I got there, I sat down on a step, Naruto sitting right next to me. Sasuke sat on the other side of me, however, as far away as he could get without falling down the stairs. When Sakura approached, she sat right next to Sasuke, me immediately feeling his emotion to be exasperated.
I shrugged. Chakra did a lot more for me in this world than it did for mine. People in Tokyo had less chakra than Rock Lee, but, when they came here, their chakra level increases 100 fold, to a ninja's chi level. However, since my chi level back in the normal world was greater than most, it was a little above average here. And I could control it.
Sasuke weighed his options-- Sakura or me? Fan girl or rival? Scary or strong? Either way it was a lose-lose situation for him, but he chose to scoot away from Sakura-chan and sit a little closer to me. I rolled my eyes. he vowed to kill someone when he was afraid of his own fan? I shook my head.
"Alright, let's introduce ourselves," Kakashi-sensei filled us in with his 'names, hobbies' speech. "The idiotic loudmouth in orange. You go first."
Naruto looked angered at the 'I' word, but shouted his big 'ramen-Hokage' speech nonetheless. "MY NAME IS UZUMAKI NARUTO! I LIKE RAMEN AND PRACTICAL JOKES! I DISLIKE THE THREE MINUTE WAIT WHEN RAMEN IS BOILING! MY HOBBIES ARE... PRACTICAL JOKES, I MY DREAM... MY DREAM IS TO BECOME HOKAGE!!" I chuckled, massaging my ears.
You'll make a great Hokage, Naruto-kun," I poked him in the nose. "If you train hard enough you'll surpass everyone in the village, even Namikaze Minato-sama, the Fourth Hokage-sama, and your fa--" I stopped when Kakashi-sensei got a hold of my neck.
"Gomen nasai, Sakurazaki-hime," He hissed, letting go of my neck. I rubbed it tenderly. "But Naruto-san is not to receive that information." Me, being the verbose person I am, attacked him back.
"And why not?" I shot. "It's his right to know that the Fourth Hokage-sama was his--" I gasped as a kunai flew past my ear.
"I do not know how you received this information, but this is FORBIDDEN for Naruto-san to know, according to the CURRENT Hokage-sama. Do you get it?" Sighing, I nodded, slowly sitting back down. Sakura and Naruto were staring wide-eyed at me, while Sasuke merely looked questioningly at me.
"Wait! What about me??" Naruto shouted loudly. "Setsuna-chan told you that I had a right to know!"
I smiled. I wanted to tell him, but I couldn't. I believed that Hokage-sama had a reason for doing so, and I believed him. "I'm sorry, Naruto-kun. If Hokage-sama said that I couldn't then I can't. I'm sure you'll find out, though. I believe that." Naruto-kun frowned. "let's just get back to introducing ourselves." 'Although I know every singled detail about you all.' I added in my head.
"Alright then." Kakashi-sensei had settled down on a railing at the edge of the roof. "You in the pink, then."
Sakura-chan did her fan girl speech. However, I decided, to mess with her. Maybe she could get over Sasuke-san before the Shippuuden time skips. "My name is Haruno Sakura. I like--" She cut off, blushing at Sasuke.
"Sasuke-san!" I answered for her. She turned to me, probably forgetting I was 'royalty.'
"I dislike Naruto-baka!" I was my turn to glare at her. I turned to Naruto and wrapped my arms around him. he turned red, but I took no notice of his rainbow transformation.
"Oh yeah? Well, he'll be Hokage-sama one day, and he'll throw you in the Konohagakure no sato dungeon! So back off!" I stuck my tongue out at her. She paled, realizing that my 'back off' was serious.
"O-okay, hai,. Setsuna-chan. Ummm... ano... my hobbies are--"
"Stalking Sasuke-san," She didn't make an attempt to stop me again. However, Sasuke's eye twitched a little. I laughed lightly.
"And, anou... my dream is to--"
"Live happily ever after with Sasuke-san and have two children, both totally strong and gorgeous that'll make Ino-pig jealous. We got your fantasies. Now onto Mr. Emo over here." I knew I was being mean, but Sakura-chan had to realize that chasing blindly after him wasn't going to work. She had to become stronger, catch his interest.
"Hn." He said, preparing for his totally weirded out 'I'll kill Itachi-sempai cuz he killed all that's dear to me' speech. Now that I thought about it, Sasuke-san's revenge seemed to make sense to me now. Itachi took away his precious people and happiness. However, he should have moved on and made due with other precious people. Good thing team 7 would be the precious people to him soon enough. maybe even me...
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like a lot of things, seeing how there are so little things I do like. I don't have any hobbies, and dreams either. 'Dreams is just a word.' It just means that it's something that you wish to achieve. However, I do have something I wish to do-- and it will happen, an ambition. there is someone I have sworn... to kill." He finished his show-offy speech with Naruto hoping that it wasn't him he wanted to kill, Sakura admiring his 'coolness' and Kakashi-sensei thinking about how 'interesting' the group was (note the sarcasm). I zoned out, thinking up a quick lie to feed the little chipmunks. Finally, I thought of one that would knock the socks off Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke.
"Can I go now?" I looked at Kakashi-sensei.
"Only if you're part of the team," He joked, releasing the tension around us.
"Alright, arigatou. My name is Sakurazaki Setsuna. I don't like to talk about my likes, and I have no hobbies or dreams. My ambition is to forget about my past." I added finally. My introduction didn't reveal anything at all, yet it was totally true. I definitely wanted to become a successful kunoichi. I also wanted to forget about the things my parents-- my whole family had done to me. I even had permanent scars on my back to prove it. However, since entering the Naruto world, I realized that all my things were gone-- even my katanas and my old combat clothes. So, the markings were no more.
Kakashi-sensei looked at me strangely, but shook it off. "Alright then. Since you know each other now, I'll tell you about your mission tomorrow."
"REALLY?" Naruto jumped around, excited. "MY FIRST NINJA MISSION! WHAT IS IT, HUH?"
"Survival exercises," I answered for him. Kakashi-sensei didn't even contradict me this time; he must have gotten used to it. I continued, "But it's unlike any that you've seen before. It has a 66 failure rate, and only three teams and a maximum of ten people will pass as genin," They paled at this, but I continued. "Come at 7:00 AM sharp and don't eat any breakfast unless you want to hurl." Kakashi-sensei nodded.
"Exactly," He confirmed, bowing before disappearing into the evening day. I sighed. Keeping such a secret was extremely hard!
"Alright, well, bye!" Naruto yelled before bravely hugging me. I wasn't used to hugs, or any display of affection, but I awkwardly patted him on the back before I let go. "I need to get to the ramen bar before my coupon expires!" I chuckled, waving to him as he dashed down the stairs.
'Hey, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura smiled flirtatiously at the Uchiha. 'you want to walk me home?"
"Iie." Sasuke walked past both of us. He walked to the bottom of the staircase, then said without turning back around, "Are you coming, Setsuna-san?" I blinked, remembered that he was housing me, and ran down to him.
'Yeah, hai," Sasuke-san opened the door for me, and I stepped out into the hallways, leaving Sakura behind, wondering why Sasuke was walking me instead of her.
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I made fried egg rice for dinner, reminding myself to go to the market the next day. Scooping the second bowl of rice out of the pan, I handed the first to Sasuke, who was just standing there stupidly the whole time, watching me cook. Apparently, he wasn't used to people doing things for him.
"Arigatou," He muttered before sitting at the small kitchen table. I grabbed a pillow from the living room couch before kneeling down as well.
"Itadekimasu," We murmured to each other, before eating in silence. We continued to eat in silence, before Sasuke decided to break it. "How do you know so much about the way of a ninja? You got almost no training."
"It's part of my secret," I winked at him before bringing my empty bowl to the sink to wash. "But I'll tell you, I promised, remember?"
"Hm," I finished drying my bowl and stacked it before I grabbed it. After I had dried that too, I decided to tell him the real rules about tomorrow. After all, I didn't want Sasuke waking me up at 5AM, did I?
"About the exercise tomorrow," He looked at me.
"What about it?" He asked emotionlessly, but I could tell that he was curious.
"Well, I know a lot about Kakashi-sensei's training. First off, he's always late by about three or four hours, so wake me up at 10, okay? Also, you can eat, he just wants someone to be hungry enough to steal the lunch and fail immediately." I stopped, so Sasuke-san could tell me if he had gotten it down. He nodded, still no signs of emotion on his face.
"The whole point of the exercise is teamwork. The bells he uses are less than there are students to cause dissension between the ranks. If a teammate is in trouble, we help them, because a person who breaks rules is trash. However, one who ignores a comrade is lower than that." Sasuke shook his head defiantly.
"I'm a solo person," He said. "I can take them on."
"But that's what Kakashi-sensei WANTS you to think! Working as a team proves that you can work with your team on missions! On a mission, you have to take care of and defend your comrades, not just yourself! Kakashi-sensei has NEVER passes any teams he had, because nobody thought of that!" Sasuke sighed, but gave in.
"Fine. let's think of a plan."
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