AN: I'm going to post this right after the sixth chapter so I don't have to worry about it and am going to try writing the next chapter during the holidays. This chapter has a bit of angst and fluff so yeah. It may seem a bit weird because I wrote this in the middle of the night and I spell checked it.
Disclaimer: I don't own… for now. -''- (smirk)
Chapter 7
"Okay Naruto, put that over there- Kuro drop that knife! Naruto! Not over there! Arghh!"
Ten Ten practically sank in despair when the whole chaos unfolded in front of her. She was trying to teach them how to hold the weapons properly without killing themselves when Naruto tripped randomly and dropped his sword. Said sword flew and nearly hit Kuro in the head. He had many visions of brains splattering and dissection. Ten Ten then tried to calm them both down, but it was like trying to stop a tsunami with a bucket. Let's have a moment of silence for her.
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Now, currently, Naruto is trying to get Kuro to snap out of it. … it would have worked if not for the fact that Naruto was still waving around the sword that had nearly impaled his head. It took all of Kuro's reflexes and skills to keep all of his limbs, unfortunally, that won't prevent his nightmares of this day. Thankfully, Ten Ten managed to get Naruto and Kuro to calm down, how? Well this is how she did it.
While the one of the two were screaming (Naruto) and the other was running and ducking for dear life (Kuro), Ten Ten finally had enough.
"ALRIGHT! IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS INSTANT OR ELSE I'LL CUT YOUR (BEEP) WITH THIS AND I'LL-
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"-AND HACK IT WITH THIS, OKAY!"
A terrified chibi Naruto and chibi Kuro were currently hugging each other in fear when Kuro suddenly passed out in fright while Naurto starting hugging his knees and muttering, "It's going to be alright, nothing bad will happen..." A chibi-chibi Kyuubi (since Kyuubi is like over a couple of thousands of feet tall unless in human mode) was wide eyed and was adding all the words that Ten Ten said into his DICTIONARY OF DOOM!(Add cackle of EVIL!)
"Now."
A smile.
"Let's start now, shall we?"
Sparkles and flowers overflowed the air around Ten Ten as if nothing of the sort of the last half hour and it was all well...
For now.
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Naruto and Kuro were practically doing perfect moves of a novice's level. As the swords clashed, Ten Ten made some observations.
"Naruto, you're doing well, but you need to control the power of your strikes or else it'll-"
Naurto jumped forward and slashed downwards with a strong downward thrust...
Only to get it embedded into a random rock and stuck.
While this scene was happening, Kuro took out a chair from... somewhere, and was busy taking a random photo shot now and then when no one was looking... Blackmail.
When they finally got Naruto's sword out of the random rock and start all over with this time being more careful except...
"OUCH!"
Yelped an if somewhat wounded Kuro. Apparently, he dropped his swords again; he had gotten a hand of using his swords a little, but not very much on the techniques. The blade had made a long gash on his arm and was bleeding into the ground. Naruto was alarmed by the injury and almost mother hened him since Kuro never really got any ninja training.
Though... Naurto probably worried enough for all three of them when Ten Ten heard about what happened, Kuro was impassive through it all since he causally took a medic kit from nowhere and begin banageing his wounds, he didn't really mind it since he was also covered with other bruises on his arms and legs.. Dodging Naruto's accidental swings were harder than it looks.
"It's okay Naruto. I'm fine, I been through worse."
Naruto look a little more worried when Kuro said that, but Kuro stuffed pocky into Naruto's mouth. He had to admit, it tasted sweet and nice... but not as good as his beloved RAMEN!
After Kuro handed out a pocky to Ten Ten as well, he ate another pocky and said sage like,
"Sweet stuff makes everything better... unless you're an misguided person who is being led to his doom."
Naruto and Ten Ten nodded even though they didn't know why and some people far away sneezed.
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After that whole ordeal which they thanked Ten Ten even though they were slightly paranoid from what happened before and went on their merry little way... after trading insults to each other and either blocking or continuing them just for fun faster than Tsunade punches Jiariya when he flirts with her.
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After bringing a particular insult about how short Naruto is, Kuro paused for a moment.
"Hey Naruto, what do you regularly eat?"
"What, ramen of course! Why do you need to know?"
A stern look fell into place on Kuro's face; Naruto was a little surprised when Kuro's normally laid back face took a sudden change.
"You do know that's not health or good for you right? I'm going to make you something good then!"
With a determined stance, he grabbed Naurto, and dragged him back to their apartment.
"WAHHHH!"
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"Okay! It's ready!"
Gasp! o.o
"I noticed that you didn't have any ramen with vegetables so I made you some rice, corn, bread, and-"
"EVIL!" o
"Huh? It's only vegetable soup, Naruto. It's not as if it's going to kill you. Now, eat up" n.n
"But-but- Kuro!" .
sigh
"It's not poisonous Naruto, just try it."
(Sad face)
"Well-uh... okay."
(Can't resist)
Sip, much, bite, gulp.
"Well?"
"It's Great! It's not horrible as they said they were!"
"What do you mean?"
Kuro started to get a little bit concerned about Naruto, noting that just eating that made him happy and that wasn't very much, but Naruto was now eating it as if the gods presented him with it.
"Well... the kids at school always said that vegtables are terrible and I kinda um, believed them so I avoided it a lot and I wasn't really allowed to eat in other places a lot si-since I pranked their shops so I stuck to ramen."
Naruto almost winced, knowing that it was a partial lie since it wasn't the whole truth on why the people hate him. Kuro caught the slip, but let it slip. Kuro started walking away and Naruto stopped eating for a moment when he noticed a serious look on his face.
"Huh? Kuro, whe-where are you going?"
He put on a smile, but inwardly he was hoping that Kuro wouldn't leave. Kuro pause for a moment, looked at Naruto with an blank look before dissolving into an extremely small smirk/smile and said,
"Well... I'm a cook and you never really ate anything before... so, I'm going to see how much you can eat before you can pass out. Considering how much ramen you ate, it's probably going to take days."
He quickly rushed into the kitchen before the cushion that Naruto threw could hit him.
"That-that- JERK!" # . # (blush)
He sat down, still blushing and eating his food that Kuro made. Even though he tried hard to stay mad at Kuro, he could help, but let a small, soft smile grace his face as his eyes lingered on where Kuro exited.
'Baka'
Was also the current thought that Kuro had when he heard no more noise of complaint. He couldn't help, but feel as if this was familar and done many times as if it was natural. It was almost as if they were like family.
------Night(after dinner)-----
"Wahh! I'm full!"
A stuffed Naruto currently patting his stomach and almost nodding off. Kuro sighed when he came out of the shower and was dressed in long clothes for warmth. He noticed that Naruto was already falling asleep so he carried Naruto to his futon while wondering about Naruto's weight.
'He's pretty light for a guy who stuffed himself today... I should probably ask the hokage about this.'
He thought as he covered Naruto with the covers, seeing Naruto's face relax into a peaceful expression almost made him want to hug him.
'Damn my softness with kids.'
He slightly thought when he pulled away. For as long as he could remember, he couldn't resist a kid's pleading look or if they look sad. He tried to stop this, but little kids seem to be attracted to him like honey to bees. Thankfully, they never got injured when those people came...
He shook himself out of those depressing thoughts and started to leave Naruto to wash the dishes when something just pounded on Kuro's heart and nearly knocked him out. All of the sudden, he saw blurred images that he couldn't quite make out, but he could feel the emotions in the air and he could hear... people screaming. The emotions were that of despair, confusion, loathing, and complete hate without understanding. It was all directed at something very small, he couldn't quite see it, but it looked like a small bright bundle.
Just as quickly it appeared, it disappeared so fast it left him wondering if that really happened at at, he took a careful look at Naruto. When he saw that he was still peacefully sleeping, he gave a sigh of relief, and noted nothing was wrong. He started the slow walk back to the kitchen while having a sinking feeling in his chest.
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Naruto was peacefully having a nice dream, a happy one where there was lots of food and about today's events when it turned bad. Worse than when you have a girlfriend that you thought was content and happy with you suddenly ditches you and you find out she was just going out with you for fun and is actually going out with your best friend.
Everything turned dark and bloody red. It usually started this way, he started having these nightmares ever since he was 5 to the age of 9 when he met Kyu-chan who helped blocked them out, but then, around his 2 years after, they started again. When the third Hokage found out about it, he gave Naruto extremely strong sleeping pills that worked with the help of Kyuubi, but they were lately starting to get stronger after Sasuke left and he forgot to eat some after having dinner with Kuro.
It was almost like watching a movie clip except he could feel everyone's emotions and feeling pain didn't help. He wouldn't mind if it shown him getting beaten by the villagers, but no, it had to show him something he wasn't prepared for.
"You demon! Get away from us you monster!"
"Honestly, I almost thought he was one of us."
"You're nothing. Pathetic."
All of those words stabbed his soul and made him cry out in fear. Why-why would his friends said that- no, it wasn't his friends, it was just an illusion.
But...
It felt so real and the emotions in the air of pure loathing...
Then, it started to get worse.
Screams filled the air.
Something moist spattered against his face.
He slow wiped his face to see...
BLOOD.
He screamed when he realized he was surrounded by dead bodies and he saw that there was someone holding someone else by the throat.
He ran, hoping to stop that person, but he was too late.
The blood was beautiful, the way it neatly colored the ground, and slides down the sword.
Naruto shook his head.
"NO! Stop putting these thoughts into my HEAD!"
Then, he realized that the owner of the blood was still alive, but being tortured by the one holding him. When he saw that the person who was torturing the other 'He looks familiar.' licked the blood from the other in delight Naruto ran forward to try to stop him, but then he forced down by a strong arm and when he opened his eyes. He saw
HIMSELF.
He screamed and everything shattered.
"Naruto! Wake up!"
Huh?
"You baka!"
...Kuro?
Thin, but strong arms wrapped around him and held him tightly while rubbing his back.
Hmm? I could breathe easier...
He turned his head to the person that was comforting him, he notice a bandage slipping of the person. The gash on the person was practically healed, but it looked so familiar...
"You were just having a nightmare, go back to sleep okay."
He made a small wince in protest. Hands brushed through his hair like a mother would to their child.
It felt foreign, but... nice.
"I'll stay with you okay?"
Slight fear was still showing through.
"Promise."
He snuggled deeper into the person's chest and fell into a dreamless sleep.
"Promise."
To be continued.
AN: A little hint on what's to come. If you're worried about it becoming a pairing, you don't really have to be because Kuro is acting more or less like a Mother/Father/ (older) brother/ sister. It's like that because they both didn't have any family members and It's because of something in the past… (Spoiler)
It could, however, turn to a pairing depending on events, but the fic doesn't really focus on that so (shrugs) either way I suppose. Until next time. Oh and if you want to know about Naruto's nightmares, its part of the plot and the reason why Kuro's is there.