Heya! I know this chapter is really late and I'm sorry...I was lazy :D and I got the new Pokemon game recently so I'm hooked :D That and it's May/ June with all these finals coming up I'm can't fit in as much time to write as I like to have but don't worry, once past June, we're are in SUMMER! Which means I can update more frequently :D *Applause* This chapter is a bit of a filler chapter until I get the plot going again...not very exciting I'm afraid...but I promise you a nice laugh at the end of the story...if you find it funny...
A boy with long dark brown hair walked down a path leading in from the caves at the base of the mountains, he walked bare footed among the rocks with no signs of any visible pain at all. A pair of ninja sandals slung over his shoulders, it had been a long time since he had been above ground, so long that he had an earthy smell about him. The scents were familiar yet so alien to him, at least there were rocks around him. Neji could feel the soft thrum of the rocks as he walked on them, almost as if they were singing joyously to him, it made him feel more at ease, being surrounded by rocks, but that was the problem, sometimes he maybe in places where he could not be surrounded by rocks...then what? The answer came to him in the form...of a rock.
But this was no ordinary rock of course, despite it laying among the rest of the pebbles lining the path like a regular old stone. The stone was made of amethyst, quartz and obsidian. It had looked as if some great force had fused the three stones together to make a shurikan shaped stone. Neji smiled as he picked it up, rolling it around in his hand, just the feel of it made him feel that much better, clearly relaxed, Neji continued on his way to the Uzumaki Compound, where he was sure something nice awaited him.
Meanwhile, a certain whiskered blonde was snowboarding down the side of a mountain on a board made entirely out of ice. He feet were glued on to the ice board with chakra, no ice straps, he liked to be able to jump off and on his board with no resistance at all. As the blonde carved his way down the mountain, a suddenly gust of warm air blew a wave of powder into his face, making him stop and wipe the melting snow out of his eyes. "Warm wind?" Naruto said out loud, pondering on this curious wind. The winds up at this altitude were usually pretty cold, so a warm wind...
The next wind that blew into his face brought him images of a smoking hot person emerge from the magma caverns, literally, you could see the smoke and steam rise off of them, and there was probably only one person who could do that at this point that Naruto knew of. "Tobi! Wait up!" He yelled out down the mountain, the wind carrying his voice as he sped twice as fast down the slopes, intent on catching his brother.
"Huh? Did you hear what Tobi just heard?" Tobi looked up, he swore he heard his name just now...Turning he looked at Renji on his shoulder who simply shrugged and repeated the 'huh?' as the rest of the words were far too complex for the little creature to comprehend, mind you repeat. The lava worm had cooled slightly upon reaching the surface and little facial features were now slowly developing. You could see ashy coloured eyes, a nose, a set of lips with oddly pearly white teeth and ears. At this point Renji was simply repeating everything that Tobi said back to him, slowly learning to speak.
With a shrug, Tobi continued walking down the street, while desperately attempting not to melt the path beneath him, after spending all that time in that lava, his body temperature had risen so he was now almost hot to touch. Now above ground, he had to control the heat he gave off so he didn't burn anyone...although in battle it would come in handy for close combat.
Suddenly, instinct told him to duck, so he did and something large flew over his head, yelling with exhilaration as it passed by. Reflexively, he let loose a stream fire at the object and with a hiss a large amount of steam was created. When the steam cleared out, he found himself staring at a large, curved wall made of ice. A puddle of boiling water lay all around the wall, indicating what the fire had hit and melted. A short pause after, the rest of the wall joined the water on the ground, revealing a waving Naruto.
"Yo bro!" Naruto paused, staring at Renji, "What is that?"
"You mean who is that," Tobi corrected him. "This is Renji! Tobi's new friend from the underground magma cavern! Renji is a lava worm! And Tobi did not know lava worms could change shape! So Tobi is surprised too!" Tobi exclaimed happily, glad to see his brother again.
"Right..." Naruto said slowly...taking all that in...well it was Tobi...and they did tend to find weird things wherever they went...so Renji shouldn't be too odd..."Neji is only a little bit ahead of us! Let's go surprise him!" Naruto shouted, forming a disk of swirling wind to lift him into the air and gesturing for Tobi to hop on.
Tobi frowned under his mask and scrutinized the disk with his one eye that peeked out from the orange swirls, as safe as it looked with Naruto looked on the disk of wind, he still didn't like sitting on...well nothing. With a shake of his head, he let a blast of fire flare from his feet, propelling him into the air, hovering there with a sustained blast of flames. Grinning a shit eating grin, the two of them zoomed down the road, Neji was in for a hell of a surprise.
To say Neji was pissed was an understatement. The two of them had basically blocked the path with a wall of ice and then unleashed and inferno of wind and fire at him, which he barely stopped with a wall of earth. Of course, the fire just had to melt the ice and form a nice puddle of boiling water under his feet, and since he wasn't wearing any shoes...yeah...you get the point.
Now both Naruto and Tobi were nursing rather large bruises and bumps where he made rock golems beat the shit out of them. Every so often, he would turn from looking down the road to glare at one or the other on either side of him. If looks could kill, well the two of them would have been dead millions of times over already and nothing would have been able to save them.
The unspoken agreement between the three of them was, that something incredibly stupid and immature as this was never to happen again to each other. Should it happen...well the punishment would make this time's punishment look painless. But they never said that they couldn't pull something stupid and maybe on a grander scale to other people did they? Loopholes, a prankster's best friend in an argument.
"More food please kaa-san!" Naruto exclaimed joyfully, still chewing on a rice ball while holding his plate out for another helping...or two. Tobi and Neji seemingly just watched on with mild interest and amusement, it was just physically impossible for someone to eat that much without...er...nasty consequences. How was it possible that Naruto hadn't exploded from all that food? Never mind physically impossible, it was mentally, emotionally and psychologically scarring and disturbing. Highly disturbing.
Tobi had simply deemed it as Kyuubi working some magic here, maybe burning some of that food off with his insane nine-tailed fox chakra...or maybe Kyuubi was actually eating and Naruto wasn't getting anything out of the food...that could be possible as well, although rather disgusting at the amount of food Naruto would have to eat every day in order to feed the giant fox lord.
"Last plate and then no more, any more and you'll have to roll down the street," Kushina warned her son, something in her voice made Naruto decided not to argue and push the matter further. So he greedily ate all six rice balls on his plate in record time, practically throwing it down his throat and then letting out an earth-shattering belch to top it off.
Neji winced, his hearing was still sensitive from spending all that time down in the caves where every whisper or movement was amplified to ten times or more of its originally sound. "Blech Naruto...where do you put all that food?"
Naruto grinned happily and patted his stomach as he pushed back away from the table getting off of his chair with little difficulty despite the normal person would've had to roll off the chair, "That's for me to know and for you to find out... that is...if you want to." Laughing to himself quietly he walked out the back door intending to climb up the side of the wall to get to his room on the second floor. He never ever took the stairs, saying he was a ninja, not some civilian, and he should be courteous and take the ninja way, the walls and not block the stairs.
Kushina face-palmed at that, she had not meant for him to do that was being courteous, damn him and his loop holes. But alas, there was nothing she could do about and he now walked up the walls for everything, getting to his classroom at the Academy or getting to the Kage offices at the top of the Kage Towers. At least he didn't leave any dirty foot prints as he walked up and down the walls, especially on the white walls where a little dirt on the bottom of his shoe would be instantly noticeable in the distance.
Although of course that was nothing compared to the one time he painted the entire Seikon compound blinding neon pink and wrote, "All Seikon men wield large swords in order to make up for their lack of size in their genitals." Where he had learned that nobody would ever know or find out, but it did render the entire population of SoraUzugkaure unable to look at any Seikon male for months with chuckling and laughing at them, making all of the Seikon's turn red. This went on to a point where it got so bad that no Seikon left the compound often or otherwise face the embarrassment. Which needless to say was heaven for the other kids as they got to run around on the streets without beaten to a pulp for running into a Seikon or something stupid along those lines. Of course the Kage's got the whole matter sorted out and calmed down as they needed the Seikon's back on missions to keep bringing in income for the village, if the Seikon didn't have such an influence, the embarrassment never would've ended.
Little did the Seikon's know though, that a whole new generation of pranks was coming and would completely put to shame that last prank and bring embarrassment to a whole new level.
And that's the chapter! Sorry it's a little short, but I rushed to get it out to my editor friend, who wants to remained unnamed and that's pretty much it, I'll try squeezing in time between Band and school to write the next chapter of X-Factors and get it out in a couple of weeks but don't really count on it. Until next time!
~AnimeClouds~