Ok, read this chapter, it's the 10th one, and uh, yeah, I have no clue what to say here right now. ……. I'm hungry.
Hey, alittle birdie just told me I don't own naruto. Damn.
Fallen Leaves
Chapter 10
"Maybe I shouldn't have left my spot?" naruto thought as he walked through the blinding sand. "GAARA, SHIKAMARU, KANKURO! Er, AKAMARU? Anybody?" he screamed but even if there was a reply, he could only hear the sand in his ears. "I feel so alone." He thought sadly and kept walking. "hey kid, your never alone because I'm always here. Unfortunately." Kyuubi grumbled. "your not company, you're a bother." Naruto shot back, just as he did so he tripped over a heap in the ground and fell headfirst into the sand. He swore and got up, spitting out gritty sand and rubbing it from his eyes. "what the heck was that?" he grumbled and looked at what he tripped over. "hopefully it's a dead body." Kyuubi suggested happily as naruto focused on it and looked a bit closer, he could see it was black. "Kankuro?" he asked and nudged it with his foot. "is that you?" he asked a bit louder this time. He then took kyuubi's advice to look at the face, and when he did, it brought a silent yelp to his voice. Kankuro's face was all cut up and was full of sand, his eyes were, well, he had no eyes left.
"haha. You look pretty shocked." Somebody said from behind him, the voice sounded familiar. Naruto whipped around and saw himself facing, Shikamaru. He was covered in blood, and the blood wasn't his, he wore an insane grin on his face, holding a blood red kunai. "Shi-Shikamaru?" naruto stuttered. "what did, did you do this?" he asked and pointed at the dead sandy heap that used to be Kankuro. "of course I did. He's been so annoying lately. Its best if he doesn't drag us down. Hehe, I got him by surprise, it was awesome naruto." He said and grinned wider. "Yo-your not Shikamaru!" naruto screamed and stepped backwards, just about tripping on Kankuro. "what are you talking about? Of course I'm Shikamaru." He said and walked a bit closer to naruto. Just then there was a loud bark, naruto turned around and saw Akamaru charging at him. The dog jumped, his fangs directed at naruto's neck. Naruto ducked just in time and Akamaru landed softly on the sand next to Shikamaru. "Good boy Akamaru." Shikamaru said and patted the dog on the head. "it seems he doesn't want you around either naruto, so, as troublesome as it is, I'm going to have to kill you too." And he ran at naruto full force, kunai at the ready. "naruto dodged it and started running into the flying sand. "TRAITOR!" naruto yelled back and disappeared into the sand.
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"I thought I heard him. NARUTO! IS THAT YOU!" Gaara screamed and started walking towards the area, he didn't care anymore about waiting, he had to find them, somebody else was here and he didn't like it. After walking for a little while he saw somebody up ahead. "hey, naruto is that you!" he yelled and the figure stopped walking and turned around. It was Shikamaru. "oh good, Shikamaru I'm so relieved that you-" Gaara stopped and stood still as Shikamaru walked closer, anger and sadness in his eyes.
"YOU BASTARD!" he screamed and threw a punch at him, he was still very teetery with his legs and nearly tripped when he did, Gaara ducked and grabbed him with his sand holding him in place. "what the heck's gotten into you?" Gaara screamed back at him, Shikamaru was crying and shaking with anger. "why have you come back? Do you want to torment me more?" he roared and started bawling. "what the hell are you talking about? What is it that you thought Ive done!" Gaara asked totally confused by now, he let Shikamaru go with his sand because he seemed to have calmed down a bit. "have you already forgotten! You ass hole! YOU'RE THE ONE THAT KILLED TEMARI!" he screamed and threw a shuriken at Gaara. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" he roared back and punched Shikamaru with a hard fist, making him stumble backwards. "you killed Temari, you were just laughing about it! You did it to make me angry! AND YOU'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT! YEAH RIGHT! Shikamaru roared then got out a kunai and they both started to fight.
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"damn it, that totally was not naruto, Gaara wouldn't have done that to Shikamaru either. What's going on." Kankuro thought and continued walking blindly into the sand. "I want to find the REAL Gaara and the others." He said out loud. When the hand grabbed him on the shoulder by Gaara and Naruto, he had known instantly that it wasn't them. He had also found Shikamaru in bits by Gaara and that told him again it definitely wasn't him, it could have been 3 years ago, but not today.
"It seems you've figured everything out then." A raven-haired boy said standing in front of Kankuro. "Darn right I have, Orochimaru. What the hell are you planning, all that stuff was illusions, you can't trick me!" he yelled and the Sasuke figure smirked. "You may not have been tricked, but everyone else has." He said and puffed away. Before Kankuro could react, he was Chidori'ed through the back (hey that rhymes).
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Naruto found a tree next to a little lake to sit next to, the sand was starting to die down, which was odd, because Kankuro had said that the storms lasted at least a week. Maybe somebody had used an illusion technique. But who? Could Shikamaru really have done that? "Well, if it was an illusion, it was a good one, one that had solid bodies, is there such a jutsu?" Naruto said to himself and felt anger well up within him at the sight of Kankuro's dead body, done by Shikamaru. "Oi, what do you think Bi?" he asked inside his head. "hey, I thought I was a bother to you, so why should I answer? … and don't call me Bi!" Kyuubi replied nastily. "Hmph, thanks for the help damn fox." Naruto huffed. "your welcome." Kyuubi said sarcastically and fell silent. Naruto sighed and closed his eyes, starting to think he should just take a nap when he heard somebody drop something in front of him. He snapped open his eyes to see, on the ground before him, Shikamaru, Kankuro, Akamaru and Gaara. All lying in a heap on the ground. And standing next to them was Sasuke, in other words, Orochimaru. Naruto sat there shocked and just staring at his friends, blood all over them.
"want to know the details?" Orochimaru asked as he stood there watching naruto, mouth open, and staring at them. "Gaara and Shikamaru fought each other to the death, I killed Kankuro because he caught on, and I'm not sure what happened to the dog…anyway, how do you like my handiwork?" he asked and smiled an evil smile. Naruto looked up, his expression still unchanged. "heh, all of that was an illusion, but the attacks were very real. When I heard you say you cant live with out your friends I thought this was a great way to get rid of them. Now, after long last, please die." He cackled and hit naruto over the head with a chakura-powered fist (not Chidori), sending him crashing hard into the ground headfirst. "come on you didn't even try to dodge that." Orochimaru said happily and punched naruto down again when he tried to get up. When naruto didn't make any attempt to get himself off the ground anymore, Orochimaru picked him up by his jacket collar and flung him into the lake.
As naruto fell to the bottom, still in shocked at seeing the last of his friends dead before him, he thought of the times he had in Konoha, with even more of his friends. Even the times with Sasuke when they first became genin. How Sakura had always tried to go on a date with him. He was always angry that she asked Sasuke out but never himself, come to think of it now though, it was pretty funny when she was rejected all the time. He kind of missed how Kakashi always bothered him with eating his vegetables and the way Iruka would hassle him about the dangerous missions he went on all the time. He was then snapped out of his daze when he heard Kyuubi yelling at him. "HELLO! YOU'RE DROWNING HERE! STEP OUT OF MEMORY LANE AND GET YOUR ASS TO THE SURFACE!" he barked and naruto gladly did so. Only to meet Orochimaru standing over him as he broke the top, an evil grin on his 16-year-old face.
Chapter EndI know Gaara wouldn't have lost to Shikamaru in a real fight on the show, but hey, Shikamaru was furious man, you would get powerful enough to kill the Kazekage if you were that mad, so live with it! I plan to finish this story in the next chapter or so. Please stay tuned and review!