so I was able to get some reviews back and i thank everybody for doing so! i also got a comment saying that i should make my chapters longer so im going to aim for at least 2,500 for this chapter!(i believe the last was around 1,800) anyways i was wondering if anybody knows about this sasusaku story thats about sasuke being the leader of the mafia and sakura having amnesia or something? i used to read it a while back but now i have no idea what it's called! so if anybody has an ideaa plz let me know :D
The forest was thick, and hard to see through. as Naruto and sasuke neared thier destination the land around them became humid and thick with mist. Naruto kept wiping his face, feeling the need since the humid air made him feel like he just came out of the shower."well, i bet this will be great for the skin huh, sasuke!" naruto joked at sasuke, who seemed tenser than earlier.
"what's wrong? gotta use the bathroom?" sasuke looked over at naruto with a glint of worry in his eyes.
"Don't you think it's strange that there is so much fog around us?" sasuke kept looking back and forth as they kept walking deeper into the forest.
"Well duh sasuke! We are heading for Niji village, which is pretty damn close to the village of mist!" naruto shoke his head at the Uchiha.
"Naruto, it's the MIDDLE of the day, and Niji village isn't that close to the village of the mist, so it shouldn't be this bad." Naruto simply shrugged at sasuke. ever since they had left the leaf village, he felt as though the black-haired ninja had been on his toes about every little thing. He knew it was better to be safe than sorry, but they WERE on vacation after all!
"man you are one paranoid ninja, you know that? you act as if we are going to get attacked or something!" Sasuke suddenly spun around and pushed naruto to the ground which was answered with a string of unhappy words. naruto began to get up unitl he looked down the path and noticed the thin string close to the ground where he once stood. He had almost stepped on a booby trap.
"attacked you say?" naruto chuckled with embarassment until he felt the pressence of another person.
He got up in a flash and spun around to cover his team mate's back who in turn dropped into his fighting stance and threw a couple of shuriken in the direction of the stranger. he was met with silence, he didn't even hear the tiny weapons hit anything. Then, a man with with short, brown spiky hair came out of the mist spinning the shuriken with his fingers. As sasuke got a better look at him, he realized the man sported ninja clothes and the mist village headband on his shoulder. at this, he relaxed and straightened up, but naruto remained in his fighting stance, glaring at the man in the mist. naruto began to yell."who the hell are you!?" The stranger smiled in return and threw the weapons to the ground near sasuke's feet, "i think I should be the one asking that. what kind of people would attack a mist ninja on patrol? and with such dangerous toys?!" sasuke snorted,"what kind of man would attack tourists on vacation? I don't think booby traps help the situation either."
this inturn dastically changed the mans smile into a look of panic."Your tourists!? geez im so sorry! just ever since the ninja incident years back, we really stepped up the patrols you know? Just the other day i scared a farmer half to death!" sasuke looked at the rambling ninja, what kind of maniac attacks total strangers?! naruto laughed at the reddening ninja, "hahaha! what a total dork!" sasuke lifted his hand swiftly and slapped him upside the head. somethings are just bettter left unsaid.
the ninja in response got redder and began to speak camly, "Well im Kenji, a ninja of the mist village.I take it you guys are also ninjas?"
naruto grinned and began to stand up straight, "ch! the crème de la crème dude!" sasuke rolled his eyes and began to walk toward Kenji.
"I am sasuke uchiha, and the idiot over there is naruto uzumaki. Do you know where Niji village is?" Kenji took sasukes hand and gave it a firm shake. which sasuke found a little too forceful.
"sure man! it's just a little ways down this road, it's the cutest little village ever!" at this naruto also walked over to stand near sasuke and crossed his arms.
"so you've been there? do you know anybody by the name sakura haruno?" Kenji cocked his head and began to think a little.
"can't say i have, but it's small village, you'll probably be able to meet all the residents in a day!"
naruto's confidence cracked a little. he was hoping it was a larger village, and that he would be able to go on a few more days believing she was around, but if there aren't a lot of people to question, he may well he leaving the village the next day. sasuke looked at naruto without moving his head and began walking down the path once more.
"thanks for the directions." kenji smiled and waved at the ninjas.
"better not see you guys reaking havoc on that town! haha!"
naruto waved back and ran to keep up with the uchiha. sasuke didn't know why, but he felt uneasy near the strange mist ninja.
Kenji was right about one thing, the village looked like it came straight from a fairy tale. it was small, and there was a small river that flowed right down the middle. the surroundings were lush with lots of green trees around it, as if to hide the village from evil eyes. there were also many wild flowers growing in random patches were the care-free village kids played in harmony. naruto looked around, he noticed a lot of the men were caring around axes or hauling wood to their shops. by the looks of it the villlage did not have its own home-grown ninjas, rather just simple jobs like bakers, capenters, and so on. sasuke began to walk over the red bridge that connected both haves of the town, towards the busier side. from what sasuke had gathered all the homes and the one school were on one side whill on the other there were shops, markets, and pretty much all the social gatherings as well.
naruto began to fidget, maybe he shouldn't have come, there were probably what? 300 people in the village? he felt disheartened but then to shake it off. he knew she had to be here. he KNEW!
sasuke stopped and turned to naruto.
"so, do you have the picture? wanna slit up and begin asking around until it gets dark?" naruto shoke his head furiously.
" No way! If he find her, we find her together!" as they began to look around, they both had a disturbing realization. almost everybody in town had drastic hair color. orange, purple, green, even naruto spotted a few people sporting pink hair as they passed by.
"...do you think this place is creepy too?" naruto suddered at the odd view that layed before him.
"this isn't normal Naruto, a whole town can't just have hair like this. ask around and see what's up."
Sasuke watched as naruto ran up to a guy who looked like he was in his twenties who had bright red colored hair wrapped in a neon green bandana. they began to talk for a while as he could see there was an explanation due. he watched as the both began to laugh and chatter away about god knows what. When fifteen minutes passed naruto said good-bye and ran back to sasuke who had taken a seat on a near by bench. Sasuke raised his bored eyes at Naruto and glared at him.
"so, what did he say?"
"he said that it's the middle of the rainbow festival, so a lot of people dress colorful and even dye their hair. some wackos even keep it all year round! and that the village celebrates something about being surrounded by colorless woods but try to retrain color? sounds like a bunch of hippies to me."
sasuke began to think. so... the village celebrates color? if sakura did come here, it would be easy to blend in and not be able to draw attention with her natural hair color.
Sasuke sighed as he realized that the search would drag out longer than anticipated but then smiled at the genious of sakura if she truly was hidden in Niji village.
"come on, let's get going."
Although the village was small, it felt like the there was a never-ending string of people sasuke and naruto talked to. there where five people with the name of sakura, but none with pink hair, but they decided to check out each and every person that sounded like it could be her. there were also many woman and few guys who had dyed their hair pink who walked the streets of Niji village and made the search harder on the both of them. Not to mention that they nearly gave naruto a heart attack when one would look like sakura from a distance.
The sun began to creep toward the end of the sky, illuminating the town in an orange glow. sasuke frowned as he and naruto finally decided to bring their searching for the day to the end and sat down at a table outside a small restaurant. It felt like a sick, demented goose chase. a few people saw the picture of sakura and claimed they knew her but all leads came to dead ends when it turned out it was simply look a likes. Sasuke wanted to just believe that sakura was not here, but even the sight of a woman walking down the street or buying groceries with pink hair haunted him. he saw her everywhere, but at the same time he could not find a trace of her.
"make sure to eat a lot sasuke! Because tomorrow, we are walking up early!" sasuke cracked a smile at the optimism of his friend, he bet Naruto would knock on every door until he was satisfied. Before he would throw in the towel and gave up.
the two of them ate and talked as the day turned into night, both careful of not talking about the short comings of their earlier search. It began to get late so the two of them went back to their hotel rooms on the other side of the river. tired from their long day of traveling and searching neither stayed up for long and fell into a restless sleep, foreboding the day to come.
Naruto squeezed his eyes at the bright sun as he and Sasuke walked out of the hotel. both had over slept and it was nearly one in the afternoon. Naruto looked over at his companion and laughed when he realized that sasuke had bed head. Sasuke never cared much about his looks but got irritated when the ninja who wore an ORANGE jumpsuit on missions laughed him. Some lines are never meant to be crossed. He brought his hand up and punched the laughing idiot in his right check and proceeded to use the same hand to run his finger through his hair.
"Wooooow! The PERFECT Uchiha is worried about his hair!? I guess there is a first for everything!", naruto yelled as he pointed his finger and massaged his check with another.
"Like you can say anything, Morning Breath. tell me, do you have something against mouth wash?" Naruto gasped and brought a hand to his mouth, which earned a satisfied smirk from sasuke.
"Sh-shut up! I haven't eaten yet! EVERYBODY knows that your breath stinks if you don't eat breakfast!" naruto shoved sasuke towards the bridge towards the town.
"Come ooooon, I'm hungry! let's get something to eat!"
Naruto and Sasuke wandered aimlessly around the town until the ended up on the outskirts, with only small shops and a couple of carpentry stores.
"ok naruto, choose something!" sasuke was hungry, and just wanted to eat, but naruto insisted on seeing what was around first. and now they were only a few places to eat close to them. he wanted food. NOW.
Naruto looked around and saw a bakery at the end of the road.
"hey what about there?"
they walked over until they stood in front of the bakery. The sign read Sato's Bakery and had a pink cupcake for the logo.
sasuke tensed, he HATED sweets, he opened his to protest but his stomach growled. he was in no position to pass up on food.
naruto opened the door and the little bell attached to it rang as they both walked in.
they stopped, and stared.
memories of a younger, smaller pink haired ninja flashed in their minds. naruto felt like he was a student all over again. sasuke remembering the girl he left on the bench when he left Konoha all those years ago. They looked at the young woman handling the cash register.
they said she was dead. They had a Funeral. There is a tombstone.
There she was, Sakura Haruno.
I tried every hard to put detail into this chapter since this would be a major plot point, so I hope I didn't go too fast!
Please, I love to hear comments and reviews! please feel free to give me tough love, thanks! :D