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Chapter 2

To say Suigetsu wasn't amused when he woke up the coming morning would be an understatement. The first thing Sasuke's eyes met when he had awakened was a hard scowl with extra sharp teeth. Oh, the boy snarked at him for what had felt like hours. He was overdramatically, in Sasuke's opinion, pissed at his disappearance after school. He said he had waited around for several hours but he was nowhere to be found. Suigetsu went on and on about how dangerous it was walking around here solo and what if he got jumped by a gang? "Plus", he exasperated, explaining how he then later discovers Sasuke sleeping on a bench halfway from home at 3am. Gosh, you'd think he's my mo- Suigetsu vainly tried to get him to spill where he had been but all Sasuke said was to assurance he wasn't jumped or kidnapped.

It actually took Sasuke a few minuets himself to re-gather his memory as to what happened the previous night... He recalled the little girl and how he was barely able to evade her attack. But not much else he could remember. He supposed he found the exit to the strange zone and attempted to go back out. Yeah…that might have been it?

Which brought him back to where he was now. Here he lay on a couch, in what he assumed was the Suigetsu's apartment. He looked around curiously. He had toned light blue walls and a small aquarium full of marimo. What are those things supposed to do anyways? Do you eat them? He could almost feel how his amusement was disheveling his companion so he sighed, " Look, it's not like it matter's anymore. I'm here now so chill".

Suigetsu growled in irritation but decided to let it go. "Come on, let's go already. It was late to begin with, now we're definitely going to come a few minuets in for class."
He went around the back of the couch, rummaged around in his dark closet then threw out a plain dark grey sweatshirt to a questioning Sasuke. He raised his eyebrow, asking him if he really wanted to walk around with the exact same clothes he had on the day prior, so Sasuke shuffled it on sheepishly with thanks.

They scurried out his apartment and waited for the next bus to hop on. When Suigetsu continued to grumble under his breath about him, this time Sasuke couldn't help but to chuckle in amusement at his friend. His friend. Ahh, yeah, he supposed this odd purple-eyed boy was a friend now. He pondered it when the old bus pulled up with a screech and dusty cough. They paid their fee then trudged around for a place to sit in the back.

Carefully studying Suigetsu's movements with his dark eyes as he shuffled irritated through the bus as it bumped and swayed around on the uneven road, he could really feel him one hundred percent. It was as if everything he did was genuine, at least fully to his own beliefs. Sasuke could only rarely recall a small handful of times someone had actually worried over him. Or waiting faithfully, hours behind, just to walk back home with. Also, if he was in Suigetsu's house, it obviously meant the other boy carried him…(blush) Nono. He quickly shook his head to disburse that image.

But no one was ever so close with him where he could feel same comfortness. Hell, even his blood born brother was distant in the end. Comparable to strangers from far-away lands. Perhaps as an acquaintance, or someone who would be willing to practice in the act of philanthropy with, was the closest he got. He didn't have anyone he would ever connect with in his future nor had he had the desire to. But he did sort of like this purple-eyed boy. His dark-eye brooding stare caught his attention and the boy smirked over to him, motioning for him with his bottle to hurry along.

Sasuke plopped down on one of the worn leather and leaned his head back. The heavy seat made a whoosh of air as he sat; dust flying about quickly in small eddies caught in the lines of light. They twirled in circles like fat dancers. Spinning along above his head and to his now lazy growing mind where he couldn't help but begin to recall.

The weariness he once felt was completely gone, but it left a feeling of abandoned fatigue that almost made him sag with dull energy. He was still in the same abnormal part in the school. There had to be an exist somewhere.

He made himself keep going, honestly unsure as to where his feet were leading him. The constant headache that inhabited him when he came to his school suddenly spiked. He could have blacked out right then, it was just too much pressure for his body. He blindly followed up some stairs in a warmed hall where he stopped at a door. It just seemed like the most reasonable place to step go in to.

When he touched it, it was very hot, almost enough to scorch his fingers. With a tired push, it heavily moved open to a candle lit room. And so with the first thing Sasuke saw in the dimmed room were nine pairs luminous eyes watching him.

…Other's POV

It was very unexpected when the nine demon occupants were joined with by a boy from the unused demon classrooms. It was almost comical. All of them were very relaxed, lazing around comfortably in the number of chairs and couching in their meeting room that when the lone door open up, they all jumped, horribly startled.

It was so odd. Where had he come from? How'd this human get here? It watched them dazedly as if it were drunk of its own emotions, as humans normally are. It could obviously see them. It wasn't as if they had to keep their glamour on when alone. Their animal like feature, or at least to the ones who had them as visibly, stood out as proud and obvious as ever. Neji, being the collected person he was, was the first of them to react. His dead pale eyes narrowed in suspicion as he and stood up to regard the dark-haired youth in their presence. "May we help you?"

It only blinked at them and glanced around. His coal eyes trained on each and everyone of them somehow making them all alert with attention. He had a disheveled appearance, as if he rolled around with a bear back there somewhere. In the candlelight and the slight sun from some of the covered windows, they reflected off some shiny metal pole in his arms. His breath a bit shallow which made the pink haired demon perk up. The large and busty blond demon suddenly widened her eyes in realization and she stood. "Oh, I know you. You are one of the newly selected freshmen for the University. Sasuke correct?" The boy nodded. "Well, you've certainly found an interesting place to stumble into." She walked over by him and placed her arms on his shoulders, leading him back to the human realm entrance. "It is still pretty early in the morning, why don't you go home and get some rest. Today is Wednesday after all. You don't want to be too tired before classes right?" The boy nodded tiredly, entranced with her voice. He was led to another door which he hesitated at before opening, where a more comfortable aurora and light welcomed him. And that was all as he was ushered out. But strictly not before his coal eyes locked onto a stormy blue that clashed internally with promise and awakening that would last for centuries to come, just in a brief half second.

The door clicked shut.

"Well, that was random eh, Naruto." Sakura bumped her friend with her elbow. Naruto didn't even notice. His eyes were still trained at the exact spot him and the dark-haired beauty met optically. He had shivers in his skin and his breath hovered in his mouth. She jabbed him once more and he stumbled out back to them blinking his eyes in focus and innocently looked at her. "Eh, what Sakura-chan?"

"How did a human get back there?" Neji asked, addressing Tsunade. She shrugged, ignoring her ace student beating her other blond one over the head. "He must have snuck through from this entrance sometime earlier in the day. I suppose the last one here forgot to set up the glamour on. The. Door." She glared at the only other blond person in the room who which chuckled nervously with pretension. "Umm, I'm pretty sure I put glamour back on granny. Maybe someone let him in here?"

"No on let him in here. That's ridiculous."

"Well, I'm glad you could recognize the boy. I was a few seconds away from snapping his neck" Neji said darkly. The few of them glanced his way. "The only other kind of person who could have gotten in here would have been trained to. He could have been one of Anthro's spies."

"That scrawny little thing? Now way!" Kiba chuckled, settling back on the arm of the couch.

"Wha-what if he remembers about us?" Hinata asked, the grey snow-wolf ears on her head flattening slightly.

"You hadn't worried dear, the human was most obviously entranced with my beauty." Tsunade flaunted, making some of the guys in the room pretend to gag.

"Yeah, well whatever." Shikamaru drawled. "Can we please just continue to do what we came here to do? We don't have much longer now."

That settled the waves of excitement in the room. They all suddenly became more solemn and bitterly focused, straitening up and turning their attention to their leader. Naruto was the most so reluctant. His mind was still drifting by thoughts of the human. It confused him by how much he was interested but his mind was reeling with the boy's mysterious appearance. Who was he? Where had he been, what's he doing? His name was fresh on his lips. Sasuke. He most definitely had a feeling they would meet again in the future.

"Neji, Lee, your reports. Did you get any other information on your friend?"

"Unfortunately not Lady Tsunade" Lee started. "We were unable to get in touch with Anthro's special police agency. We were only allowed in the city for several hours before they made us leave. We asked around but everyone claimed to have no idea of her past whereabouts. Most of them had no idea she had passed."

"Neji" she directed. "Do you have anything else?"

"No" he murmured grimly. "But I know Anthro was up to something. Tenten was killed by a demon, I could smell it all over her." His fists clenched. "And then they don't want to meet with us or say anything. Tenten was one of their residents, their own, and a human no less! She hardly ever left the city, there is no way some other demon would have entered and had the time to slaughter her without their notice. And the lack of interest to her case…they knew this was going to happen. And they didn't do a thing." He looked utterly disgusted. The hate was only kept so visibly in his person to cover the sorrow he was forcefully feeling. The many of them sympathized. They knew the usually stoic demon was very fond of the human girl with the twin buns on her head. Her death was very tragic. The police discovered her mangled body. Slashed in various places and beaten brutally. A series of injection marks to assume medical experimentation. A pure, agonizing death.

Naruto himself, who wasn't terribly close with Neji, had the chance to meet Tenten at least a couple times. She was very calm and warmhearted. Very good with her hands. She knew that they weren't human in the least but still welcomed him warmly as if he was only a long distant cousin and not something horrible. The fox boy had really liked her and was saddened from the news about three days ago. Everyone could tell Neji was the most effected though. If he had a shell before after all those years, now he was completely shut away. His dark brown hair framed his face now covering his eyes with torment. He was sinking, and Naruto wasn't so sure if he would be able to resurface again. "I swear when I find who was responsible for this, I will-"

"You will do nothing," Tsunade said coolly. "There is nothing we can do. A full seventy-two hours have now long since passed and whatever issues we find with this will have to be dealt with formally." The blond haired woman crossed her arms firmly across her busty chest and nodded pointedly which was returned.

Naruto sighed and turned his attention the covered windows. He stood up, hoping to disburse the grim energy by pulling open the blinds, letting in the now steadily rising sun. Pink light bounced off the glazed table to the pale walls. It brightened many of their faces. Sakura looking the most replenished when it touched her skin. He cracked the window slightly and allowed the room to take a breath. "We good?"

"Not quiet. I want all of you to meet with your squad leaders and to train with the other's like a normal class day this week. Go over the basics and try to touch up on any of the skills you may find lacking now. I actually believe I will need to meet you all next week as well. I may have some new missions to go over with you then."

Sakura sighed. "That's not fair. You know Kakashi will show up at least three hours late. Look! He's not even paying attention now, are you Kakashi-sensei?"

"Hmm," The white haired mongoose looked up from a hidden book under his arm. "Did you say something Sakura?"

"No," she deadpanned. "Nothing but my point."

Shikamaru drawled his eyes over to that man and raised an eyebrow. "And your assignment from a few weeks ago, did you find out anything new about Amecity? And their little Akatsuki group, what are they up to?"

Kakashi exhaled quietly and slipped his book in his jacket, addressing the younger demon with hidden annoyance. "No, I haven't heard any new word of them. And if I had, that would be of private discussion with Tsunade exclusively." Shikamaru only stared at him. Tsunade raised a brow at the two but ignored it.

"I'm actually very unsure as to their current motives myself. Everything in the Amecity as of now remains dormant. They are very quiet and I'm not sure what that means but for now, we'll just deal with our own territories. Alright everyone, dismissed." Tsunade rose from the head of the table with a ruby smirk and left out, hands in the pockets. The others followed, a little sleepy from the early calling. Naruto went over and bumped Kakashi playfully with his shoulder, telling him he'd better not be late or else. He got a small chuckle and a ruffle to his bushy golden hair in return. He grumbled as he stopped at the door, saying he wasn't a little kid anymore.

"Oh yes you are," Kakashi called over his solder. "If I still have to get my old bones up just to watch the both of you run around like untrained digits, you're still kids."

"I resent that!" Sakura called somewhere afar.

When everyone was clear, Naruto ginned happily. Yup, it was his job for after every meeting he glamoured everything up so no random human would notice and discover this place. Which obviously failed today… but he swears, he glamoured the door last time! He had absolutely no idea how this one got past. Sasuke~. "Oh, stop letting your mind wander like some lovesick girl!" He rubbed at his head. He quickly reset up all the pillows on the couches and threw out the bags of chips someone managed to sneak in here. The light breeze stopped when he pushed down the window. The soft morning light now made the room in soft morning hues of gold just for him. It felt exhilarating as he just stood there. He felt like one of those mermaids sunbathing on a rock he noted, stretching back his muscles in content.

Why he really enjoyed his job after meetings was that it gave him some time to really stretch his muscles in the back unused rooms. They were enormous so Naruto could go into his natural fox form and not have to worry of breaking anything or anybody seeing him. If was very relaxing and needed. You can only stand so much in a human-like shell.

He turned chipperly and headed for the curtained door, the sun winking yellow at him in farewell as he exited.

Sasuke felt like his head was going to explode from the pressure. From the average spiritual pressure of the school you ask? Oh no, not that. It was just that he was being fiercely bugged beyond his substantial beliefs. Since Suigetsu and him had arrived late for Calculus, Suigetsu magically had absolutely no prior clue as to what they were doing, and Sasuke, who was basically a young genius, was now being hoarded with his bothering questions he need to answered. And not only that, to Sasuke enormous surprise, at the front of the class room, atop the teachers desk, stood the little blue girl he had made a run-in with last night. No one else could obviously see her, but it was nerve racking as she stood there, staring him down. He just might have been able to deal with it being like this but the next thing he knew, the little girl started wailing shrilly, just like last night. Her high-pitched cries racked his nerves and Suigetsu constant pestering kept putting him on the edge. He slowly placed his head on his desk, arms rapped around, to try and ignore everything happening around him. "Eh, Sasuke. You alright?" he slowly nodded in his arms.

"Sasuke Uchiha! There is no sleeping in my class. Since you feel so obliged, come solve this calculus problem in front of the class; f(x)=2x^3+3x in the sequence…. Oh kami-sama

And so that's how the rest of his day went, with a white haired bug on his back with a little extra shriek on the side. And out the window, the stupid sun was smiling.