Thank you guys so much for the story, favorite story and review alerts! You guys are by far the best! Enough of my nonsense and let's get this party started! Oh and the answer to the riddle was 'SWING'!
Also I needed two other people to play Atsuiko's games, and one of the winners is Neji Hyuuga. And I couldn't come to this unanimous decision, thank you PRINCESS SIN!
Now on with the surprisingly good work here!
Warning: running, language, Original Character(s), pregnancy and lemony goodness.
Parings: Sasu-Naru, Hina-Kiba, Gaa-Oc, Sai-Saku, Cho-Ino, Neji-Lee, Kaka-Iru, Shika-Tem, Shi-Ten
"Shit!" Sasuke cursed out loud as he rested his head on a tree and punched it. Sighing loudly he took his head off the tree and replaced it with his back, he brought a hand to his face and covered his eye's.
How the hell can this be so damn difficult! He's a genius for crying out loud and yet here he was under a tree out of the rain trying to figure out a riddle a kid gave him! He couldn't even get a grasp of an idea of what she meant. Growling in frustration, Sasuke once more hit the tree and dropped his hand from his face to stare up at the branches that were shielding him from the pondering rain, he closed his eye's and let a sigh pass his lips as he let a few droplet's hit his face.
'I sway alone in the wind with a tree as my friend, watching everyone pass us by, but for a little boy we're the only comfort he has, when he watch's everyone with lonely eye's'
Sasuke recited Atsuiko's riddle once again in his head, groaning he ran a frustrated hand through his damp hair, down casting his eye's he glared at the water. Even though he was high up in a tree he could tell that the water levels must be up to his ankles by now.
"I sway in the wind with a tree as my friend, watching everyone pass us by, but for a little boy we're the only comfort he has, when he watch's everyone with sad lonely eye's."
' sway, sway, sway...wait a minute!'
Sasuke's eye's snapped back up when his lead hit him. Jumping down from his shelter, he covered his face when the water splashed from the impact of the jump, he than sped off towards the on direction where everything began...
The ninja academy of Konoha.
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Panting, the ex-avenger squinted up at the gates that would lead him to his answer to his riddle from Atsuiko. He slowly walked up to the gates to find out that they were locked. And since he can't just leap over the walls, since he knows for a face that there were various traps within the school, he just threw his head back and cried out to the sky.
"Don't give me a damn riddle that leads me to someplace to only be locked out!"
"Jeez, for a person who's suppose to be a cold hearted and silent bastard. You sure are loud."
Bringing his head back forward in a flash, Sasuke met the annoyed teal eye's of Atsuiko, who was giving him a dry look as she held a green umbrella over her head. Snorting the fiery head child unlocked the school's gates and walked further in, leaving a very wet and pissed Uchiha behind. Not saying another word Sasuke followed the dried child into the school grounds.
After making some turns to reach their destination, Sasuke stopped a few feet away from the tree that held the swing within the branches. He watched Atsuiko walk up to the only swing there and sat on it, giggle she slowly started to kick her feet back and forth.
"For a genius you sure are slow. But you got the answer!" she chirped at him as she started to swing a little bit faster. "now since your here, I can give you your next riddle!"
Sasuke's body went ridged when he heard the child say that she was going go gave him another riddle. He gritted his teeth and sneered at her.
"You said a riddle not riddles."
"I did, didn't I? Oh well it's my game and my information your trying to win, so in other words whatever I say goes! Fate, destiny, that's all that seems to matter to people, but to me I think it's just an obstacle in which you can change on your own. I gave you my word to free you from your cage and I always keep my promises."
Sasuke bowed his head down in anger as he slowly and calmly made his way to the happy child. Putting his hand's on the ropes, Sasuke toward over Atsuiko, making her look up and into pissed and tired black eye's. But as fast as the fatigue shown in his eye's, it was gone and replaced with an annoyed emotion instead. Shrugging her shoulder's, Atsuiko just smiled as she slid off the swing and walked back out into the pouring rain with her green umbrella still above her head. Sasuke dropped his hands and his eye's followed the little child.
"Now you get to pick your partner that's going to help you with your next riddle."
Poking two places in the sky with her finger's. Sasuke raised a delicate eyebrow in confusion as to why she would poke at the sky for no apparent reason, but confusion turned into shock as small flames appeared out of no where and started to create two symbols in kanji.
One was the symbol for Bird and the other was the symbol for Scythe.
"Like I said earlier, there are two others that are going to help you. But which one will it be?"
Atsuiko was off to the side waiting for the Uchiha to make his decision so that she could get out of the rain, man did she hate the rain!
"Hn. I chose the symbol of bird." Sasuke finally said after a few minutes on deciding.
"Hm...good choice your going to need a second head if it took you this long to figure out the answer to the first riddle." she stated as she moved behind the symbol for Bird. She lightly blew on it making it go towards Sasuke, who stood his ground.
"I give you your first partner!" she beamed as she snapped her finger's, making the symbol shoot to the ground, flames burst to life from the sudden contact and command, startled Sasuke jumped back and begin to doing a series of hand signs to extinguish the flame, in midst of doing so he stopped in the middle of his hand series as the fire began to slowly die down. In the middle of it was none other than, Neji Hyuuga. Feeling a sudden rush of coldness and wetness hit him, groaning in discomfort, the said Hyuuga male snapped his lavender eye's open and glared at the first person he saw.
"Uchiha."
"Hyuuga."
"Yamamoto!"
Both males paid no mind to the child, who was pissed at being ignored at all since the were in a glaring contest. Neji didn't like Sasuke and Sasuke didn't like Neji, why? Because both of them had a thing for a certain younger blonde male. Both continued to glare out them, but both men yelped when ice cold water meet their warm flesh and both turned their heated glares at their aslant, who was currently looking in another direction acting innocent. Hand behind her back, rocking back and forth and humming a little tune.
"Don't even act."
Sasuke growled at Atsuiko who stuck her tongue out at him, pulling down her left bottom eyelid with her left index finger, which caused an annoyed twitch come to Sasuke's left eyebrow as he glared at the mocking child. Neji had to look long and hard at her to remember where he'd seen her from. Eye's widen slightly as he remembered and pointed an accusing finger at her.
"You, Your the kid from earlier! Where's Hinata you told me you know where she is!"
"What do you mean Hinata? She told me she knew where Naruto is!"
Sasuke said whipped his head towards Neji and raised an eyebrow at him. Neji did they same thing, and realization hit them both.
"You lied to us!"
They both yelled at the same time, shaking her head Atsuiko held out her hand towards the remaining symbol. Like a loyal dog the flame rushed towards the child and danced around her like a dog receiving a treat, before disappearing within her body in a matter of moment's.
"I did not lie to you. I simply told you the truth." looking back up at confused black and lavender eye's sighing she muttered something along the lines of 'geniuses for nothing' "I know where both Naruto and Hinata are, and in order for you to get me to tell you where they are you need to win my game."
Turing her back towards the two older men she started to walk off again, but not before throwing a few words to them before once again leaving them in a swirl of flames.
" Fate, destiny, that's all that seems to matter to people, but to me I think it's just an obstacle in which you can change on your own. Here I gave you my word to free you from your cage and I always keep my promises. Now use those brains of yours and figure this riddle out quickly. It's 3:30 and I gave you guy's until 5:00 so you two better get a move on."
Both males looked at each other, with new found determination they both nodded their heads. Making their stances strong they looked out towards the distance where Atsuiko was last seen with eye's full of hope and will.
'They will end this madness and find them!'
Alright! Another one out and what's this Neji's thrown into all the mess! Hehe if anyone can figure out the answer to the next one, then you guys must've been really paying close attention to Naruto!
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