Okay here we are. Sorry it took so long but I got writers block for a few days and plus I've been really busy. To answer one question most of you might have. . . NO LEE AND KIBA ARE NOT A COUPLE/PAIRING. They are just really good friends that might seem like that. That will be in this chapter. Well I wont bore you to death anymore so BYE!!! Oh one more thing... this is no more than a filler chapter than anything else. It kinda helps explain some things and character. Well. . . Enjoy!!
---New Day, New Mission
It was early morning and the others were still asleep except me. How could I sleep? Yesterday Sasuke and Iruka were kidnaped and I didn't know how they were. The whole house seems empty. Everyone was quiet and depressed. Last night everyone in the house could hear Kakashi crying himself to sleep. I cried myself, and I bet you anything that everyone else in the house did too.
We were going to leave today and go after them. Kakashi and the other's who couldn't fly were going to take the van and drive. The actual flock, Kiba, Lee, Neji, Gaara, and I, were going to fly most of the way. To exercise. The only time we would stop would be to get some food or for the drivers to switch.
"I can't believe that they were taken. How could I let that happen?" I sighed and got up to head upstairs. Still, no one was up, or so I thought.
I walk into mine and Sasuke's room and look around sighing. "Sasuke, Iruka, stay safe, please." I mumbled to myself walking to my dresser to get some new clothes and take a shower. When I get out of the shower Gai and Lee is up and look a little better than they did last night.
"Morning Gai, Lee." I nod to both of them and then look into the fridge for something to eat.
"Morning Naruto, my youthful companion." Lee said, a little more out of it than usual. I sigh again and close the fridge, not really hunger. I look at Gai and Lee again and then sat down at the table with them.
"Have you checked on the others?" I ask looking out of the bay windows at the snow falling. It was of course winter and we were in the mountains. Best place to hide, wouldn't you agree?
"Yes and they look well rested but still beat up." Gai said taking another spoon full of cereal in his mouth. Apparently he was trying to act normal. Everyone was. We all needed to be strong. It was our nature.
"I can't believe that this happened. How could they have taken us by surprise?" I looked at the other two in front of me.
"Naruto don't take it out on yourself. It wasn't your fault." The three at the table look up to find Kakashi standing in the door way, his face stained with tears.
"But Kakashi it was my fault . . . "
"No, it wasn't! You were in the middle of a spar with Neji. You couldn't have been paying attention." I knew he was right but I didn't want to accept that. It had to be my fault. I just stood there and watched as they were taken away. I could have done something. Anything
"Naruto, don't beat yourself up about it. We all could have done something. It . . . it was just a surprise. No one was prepared for it." Neji walked in. The bruise on his face was darker than it was yesterday. I looked down at the table and then out of the window. Neji walked over and sat down besides me. I knew that if he was up then Gaara was up. It didn't surprise me.
"Do you know what we are going to do?" I asked looking at all of the faces of my friends. They all nodded and looked back at me. "We are going after them." They nodded in agreement. We talked about it some last night. We were ready for almost everything that the School threw at us.
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We were all packing by noon. Gaara and Neji were the first one's done. They sat at the kitchen table next to each other. I knew, everyone knew, that they were boyfriends' maybe even lovers. It didn't bother me, in fact I was happy for them. I figured that they would get together because they were so close to each other. It had always been that way.
"Hey lovebirds." The looked at me and then back out at the window. "Okay then, just be the emo kids you are." I said pouting. I didn't understand it. Why were they so moody? Why do they hide their emotions? Oh yeah, because we were raised by the sickest people on the planet, maybe even the whole universe.
"Naruto don't take it out on them. They have had it rough enough to act like that." Raidou said walking into the kitchen with two bags. He dropped them on the floor besides the others.
"I know. I was just joking around." I sat down at the island in the middle of the kitchen and started drinking a coke. Soon Kiba joined me, pouting slightly.
"So Naruto, do you think we have a chance at getting them back?" Kiba asked looking at the counter like it was the most interesting thing in this house.
"Kiba. Of course I do. Why wouldn't I? We are all strong and so are they. We will get them back." He looked up at me and smiled. I looked over at Neji and Gaara and they were looking at me with the smallest hint of smiles on their faces. I smiled at them and then looked back out of the window. In a few minutes we all would be on our way to rescue our friends and possibly, to our deaths.
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Sasuke woke up that morning and his eyes narrowed. He knew exactly where he was. The School.
"Shit!" He said under his breath. He looked around and saw that he wasn't the only one in this room with the crates. All of the crates were full of different 'experiments.' They were all kids too. The one right beside his crate, as in a small dog crate, was a little boy with big owl eyes and wings instead of arms. He wanted to show pity to the poor little kid but that just wasn't him.
The other 'experiments' were looking at him or sleeping. The all looked horrible. He bet that he looked just like that before the flock were rescued. He didn't need to be thinking about the flock right this second. He needed to be strong.
I should get some sleep. I don't even know what they are going to do to me. I should save my energy. Right before he got comfortable, the door opened to the room. He looked out of his crate but then backed up when he saw a whitecoat coming his way. The other experiments backed up as far as they could in their small crates. Who could ever make small kids like them that scared? He wanted to jump out of the door when it opened and just beat the crap out of the person but thought twice about it when the whitecoat bent down and looked into the crate.
It was Orochimaru. "Why hello Sasuke. It's good to see you again." The snake was the one who tortured the flock the most. Now he was in Hell, for sure.
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Naruto felt free. He was in the sky flying above the van that the ones who didn't have wings were in. They were about five-thousand feet into the air, the wind was in their hair and almost everything felt normal. Almost. The only two things that were missing were a friend and father-like figure that they were going after to save.
"Hey Naruto?" The dog-lover asked him while fling closer to the blonde, their wings barely touching.
"What Kiba?" Here we go on the million questions at one time talk.
"What are we going to do when we get there? Is Sasuke and Iruka going to still be our side," He paused for a moment, thinking about his next questions. "Are we going to survive this?" Everyone looked at him with wide eyes. They never expected him to ask that kind of question. He was always happy and positive thinking, not pessimistic like right now.
"Um . . . for the first question, I have a plan and so does Kakashi and the others. The second, I hope so. If not then we will just have to kill them." They looked at me and I received a glare from Neji and Gaara. None of us could kill the others. No matter what. "As for the third . . . most likely." Unless it goes like I think it's going to go and I have to die.
Kiba looked down at the ground and frowned. This was the quietest he's ever been in his whole life, except for when he was in the School but that's a different story.
To tell the truth, we all looked different. Gaara and Neji were much, MUCH closer. They were, well, like a couple. Lee and Kiba weren't as hyper active like usual and I was . . . well depressed and that was DEFIANTLY not normal for me.
Okay to explain our different personalities, Gaara is the youngest but not the dumbest. He is really smart and cunning. He is really good at picking locks, even though I grounded him from his lock-picking set, he still gets into locked rooms. Neji was quiet, unless you got him mad or in a fight with him. He was blind because the whitecoats were trying to make him like a hawk but that didn't stop him. He is the best seeing one out of all of us.
Kiba is usually the loud mouth of the group. He loves to talk and to ask the stupidest questions. He never shuts up, unless he's asleep or eating. That's the only time you get a relief from his motor mouth. Lee is much like Gai-sensai. Lee and Kiba are best friends. Some would say that they were much closer than that but it was nothing like that.
Kakashi is a real pervert. He reads these orange books that has nasty stuff in it. Don't ask. He is really cool and sweet but he could at least drop the perverted-ness every once in a while. JUST GIVE PEOPLE A BREAK WHY DON'T YA?!?!?! Okay, a little carried away but still. Him and Iruka are lovers but I think that they are cute together. Iruka is a peace-loving man. He doesn't like yelling or too much noise but he can put up with it. He is really like a mother to me and Kakashi is like a dad but, still, they're not my parents. They're none of our parents.
Gai is like a much larger version of Lee. He is very, very energetic and loud. He loves to exercise and work out. He is the strongest person I know. Genma is much like Kakashi but worse. He never stops talking about sex, how good Raidou is in bed, or how large his manhood is. He is cool at some points and is a good fighter but he needs to lie off of the perverted attitude. Last but not least, Raidou. He is very nice but perverted. Not at all like Genma or Kakashi but he still is perverted. He loves to cook and train. He is also a really good listener when you need to talk to someone. So if you need to talk, go to Raidou.
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We were at a hotel somewhere in Denver, Colorado, looking for a map. Kakashi and Gai remember where the school was located but they needed a map just incase.
"Hey Kakashi, can we go get some food? I'm starving!" I asked him, hoping he would let me get some of my precious ramen.
"Sorry Naruto but not right now. We need to get a map and make our plans clear to the others." I understood where he was coming from so I just sat down next to Gaara and closed my eyes.
"Naruto?" I opened my eyes to see Gaara staring into my eyes concerned.
"Yeah? What is it Gaara?" He looked at me with those eyes that held no emotions, only to Neji.
"Are you okay? You seem pale." I smiled at him and nodded.
"I'm just tired and hungry. It's been a stressful day, that's all." He looked at me for a few more moments but shrugged and turned back towards Neji. They snuggled up again and I closed my eyes. A few minutes later we were on the road again. Driving out of Denver and into another state and day. The van below us and the wind in our hair. We have a chance. I just know it. We are going to get them back!
It was about midnight when we stopped flying and rode in the van. It was big enough for all of us to be comfortable but we still couldn't stretch out our wings. This was going to be a long, long trip. We were going to need all of the rest we could get.
I closed my eyes and curled up in a ball nest to the window. Gaara and Neji were asleep next to me. Kakashi was driving with Genma in the passenger seat awake. Raidou, Gai, and Lee were also awake, and would be for a while. Kiba fell asleep right when he got into the car.
My two last thoughts before I went off into dream land were if we were going to live and if Sasuke and Iruka were going to be all right.
---End
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-SilverTiger14