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Like Human Like Demon

By: Lies To U

Chapter 9:

The squad was now moving at a faster pace now, this made San AND Naruto more overjoyed. Naruto was hoping for some action to come across his squad and he wanted to see if this village San was talking about was THAT bad, San was just ready to cry tears of joy to finally see his forest and family again. The squad was jumping on tree branches which helped them to go faster to their destination, "Kakashi Sensai, are we going to be there soon?" Naruto asked actually getting a little impatient. "Soon, Naruto. We should be there at least at dark" Kakashi replied but wasn't looking at Naruto while speaking. Naruto slightly smiled and looked at San who had a relieved look on her face that seemed more softer than the first facial expression she gave him when they first met.

It was reasonable for the squad to make it there at dark, they have been going non-stop this whole day and the day before that (But they stopped to rest of course). San was actually starting to recognize some of the scenery they were passing at rapid speed, she felt happiness arise in her body.

At sundown...

The sun was just shining its rays over the horizon not seen to any of the strangers eyes, the team stopped their fast traveling to catch a breath and get a view from the town that could actually be seen but they were still far from it, it seemed as a miniature town from their point of views. "Let us take a break..." Kakashi said, wiping the sweat underneath his head protector. "Awww, but sensai the town is just over there! You said we would be over there at least at dark!" Naruto whined while pointing at the seemed-to-be small town. "Yes but Naruto if you haven't noticed everyone here is tired from the long traveling and we should at least take a rest. We should be at the town by early morning, one day of being late shouldn't be that much of trouble" Kakashi said with his eye closed.

Naruto looking at his team mates and San to see them panting and wheezing. Sakura was on the ground sitting on her butt, Sasuke had some sweat traveling down his face as he rested on hand on his knee for support and San was hunched over with both of her hands on either knee. Naruto groaned but was slightly relieved since he himself was a little tired to start. "-sigh- Fine..." was Naruto's reply with a frown clear on his face.

Camp was set and everyone rested or relaxed in the dark night, Kakashi was dozing off as he slept against a tree again weakly holding his Icha Icha Paradise book. Sakura was fast asleep in her sleeping bag as Sasuke and Naruto was. Naruto was lying on his back with a hand next to his sleeping head, two feet came near his head and knees were then crouched near him, a hand was placed on his forehead. "Naruto...Thank you" San said in a soft whisper, she raised herself and got any of her original belongings and dashed away from the camp disappearing in the woods but one of the ninjas eyes opened to the sound of her run.

Sasuke's POV...

Sasuke heard that wolf girl thank Naruto before dashing off into the woods, he sat up. 'What is she thinking? Wasn't she a villager in that town? Was she getting a head start to it?...No. The direction she ran off to wasn't the direction to the town unless she was stupid enough to run in the direction she thought was right' thought Sasuke. These questions made his head hurt, he slipped out of his sleeping bag and followed after her. 'It's not like I care about her or anything, I just want to point out she was going the wrong way so she wasn't killed by anything that was lurking through these woods. If she was to be killed, Naruto would of course bawl out in tears, in my opinion, it seemed pretty obvious he liked her. The chicken was just too scared enough to tell it to her in her face' Sasuke said all in his mind again.

'Or maybe he was just holding it off when she would depart from the group, but not like this'. He shook his head to get these stupid thoughts out of his head and just followed San into the depths of the forest. Hopefully...he wouldn't get lost.

The next day...

Cattle and men could be seen on a trail going upon the side of a steep cliff. It was raining causing the mud to be slick and sinkable for the heavy hooves of the cattle and men. "The sooner we get this rice home, the sooner we eat it now let's move!" A familiar young man said with a straw rain hat over his head and a dark brown cloak covering his body. One of the men wearing a straw coat and hat ran towards the young lord with a rifle at hand "Coming this way! Wolves!". The young lord turned his head to two white dots coming down the mountain slope not far from them. There, two light blue wolves dashed down the slippery mountain ledge with something riding on one of the wolves back. 'So she's back...' "Don't let the oxen panic, stay calm. Take up your positions." the young lord instructed while his bodyguard opened up an umbrella he was carying and struck its end into the wet ground.

Men started to gather around them opening their umbrella's as well, some getting their rifles at hand "Keep your powder dry, make sure you wait for them to come within rage" the body guard instructed as the men ripped part of the red wrapping at the middle of the rifle off. Despite seeing the men aiming their rifles at them, the wolves and person on one of the wolves back continued to dash forward. "Ready...and fire!" the young lord commanded, his body guard and one of the other men put their match into the hole with the gun powder inside it on their rifle's releasing a firey shot to the wolves.

The wolves quickly dodged and made a quick turn and slightly ran away from the men after more shots were fired at them. The animals made a quick turn and chraged at the men again, "Second round! Fire!" "Fire!" the lord and one of the men instructed once again. The men sent off more shots at the wolves causing them to depart in different turns and dashed away from the men going up the mountasin slide.

"That was it? They weren't so big..." the body guard said with a smirk upon his face. "Their just pups, wait till you see their mother..." the lord said while looking around the mountain slope. Most of the men and oxen were froze in place, frightened if any unexpected attack would hit them, thus that unexpected attack CAME. A large white wolf came charging towards the men with a fearsome look upon it's face. "It's Moro!" the young lord hollered while ripping a part of the wrapper on his rifle off and aiming it to the large wolf with the match just over the gunpowder.

The men started screaming as the wolf pounced on them killing and pushing men and oxen down the cliff, some men tried to fire a shot at it but with it's quick speed, the bullet missed miserably. "Come on..." the lord muttered while awaiting open blow, the wolf hurled its head up as it had an oxen in the way making it fly off the side of the cliff along with some of the men, thus charging at the young lord. This was it, the lord struck the match in the gunpowder making the rifle blast it's shot into the wolf's chest but it still kept charging.

His body guard by his side struck his match into a flame thrower causing the wolf to be engulfed in flames once it took a step closer to the lord and the guard. A man screamed as he fell off the cliff as if voicing the wolf's scream unheard to the human's. The wolf fell off the cliff, crashing through a tree stuck on it's slope and disappearing into the mist of the bottom. "Ha ha ha ha! We killed her!" the body guard said in triumph as he stood up, "You forget she's a God, it'll take more than that" the young lord replied. Not seen to their view, the light blue wolves dashed down the slope on another part of the mountain hoping to find their injured mother.

The body guard took a good look to what happened to their men and oxen, their were bodies on the floor, both men and oxen, and the living oxen were being stubborn and wouldn't go forward due to their fear. So the remaining men had to push and hit the oxen with all their might to make them get going again, "She certainly did some damage.." the body guard said in distgust. "We'll move out now..." the young lord said, starting to walk past his body guard "But what about the men she pushed off the cliff?" the body guard asked. "Their dead now, let's get the living home".

With Sasuke...

'Well the odds hit me...I'm lost'Sasuke thought in disgust and anger as he exited a forest he scrambled through and was by a rapid flowing river with boulders as its border. Something caught his eye, he saw a dead body flow down the river followed by an oxen and a storage box, he slightly gasped. Sasuke jolted up and ran to a man lying against some stones on the bank of the water, he knelt down beside him and hovered his hand over the man's mouth. "He's still breathing..." Sasuke said to himself, he grabbed the man under his arms and pulled him onto solid ground. After laying him down, he dashed over to the bank and jumped on some rocks looking for anyone else that might been injured and still alive.

His luck struck him as he found another man behind a large boulder, he picked him up and returned him to where he set the other man on the ground. "Huh?" Sasuke whispered as he turned his head to the presence of a strong chakra, the man he recently set down groaned but Sasuke jogged to the place where he sensed the chakra. Two big boulders came in his path (he didn't go that far), he looked around he ran to his left having a fallen down tree on its side come in his view now. He peeked through the roots of the tree to see if the source of the chakra was somewhere near.

He slightly gasped (again) when he saw a large ball of white fur on the bank of the river not far from him, just then, two light-blue wolves came walking up to it. The big ball of fur suddenly appeared to be a large white wolf, curled up into a ball before but was not standing up weakly to the smaller wolves. Sasuke then saw someone familiar jump off one of the light-blue wolf's back and run to the white wolf. What caught Sasuke's attention was a bad injury in the white wolf's chest. The girl who had been riding the wolf stared sadly at the injury but she pressed her mouth against the wound and started sucking out the blood of the wound and spitting it out.

Sasuke was wondering if she was trying to get any poison out of the wolf's body or trying to suck whatever hit the wolf's chest that was now inside the animal's body. The white wolf bared it's teeth and started to growl as it turned it's head towards Sasuke. This caught the girl's attention and looked straight at Sasuke through the roots making Sasuke slightly flinch. She stood up instead of slightly bending down from the wound spot and spitted out the blood then wiped her mouth after that, glaring at Sasuke.

Sasuke wondered what he should do next, run away or confront them?...His body acted on it's own as he grabbed a hold of one of the thick roots from the tree and stood on top of it's side. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I have gotten lost and was departed from my comrades. Is this place anywhere near a town that me and my comrades have been assigned to protect?" Sasuke said with a voice loud enough for them to hear. The wind blew making Sasuke's hair and clothes slightly be blown from the wind as it did for San's clothes and white fur coat.

San stared at Sasuke with an emotion he could not name, Sasuke didn't notice the look in her that seemed to be never there when he first confronted her. It had a more relieved look, a relaxed expression. But the connection to their eyes was broken when the large white wolf with the injury started to walk into the forest next to the bank as one of the white wolves followed, San got on this wolf.

"Go away" she said to Sasuke before disappearing in the woods with the second light-blue wolf following, after it got a hold of a dead oxen's throat and bringing it along with it.