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Chapter 11
Deeper
Kiseichu was up before the sun rose. Therefore, he was also up before everyone else. He glanced around at his friends. Menrui and Roba were cuddled up next to each other, Shingetsu had her head on Hari's shoulder, heck even Hiun and Kakushin were holding hands! Why the hell was he the only one who didn't have someone?
Sure, he and Hari had warred over Shingetsu once upon a time, but it was obvious who had won that battle. Kiseichu wasn't the one who was being used as the Uchiha's pillow. He glared at his brother before lying back down in the sand and trying to sleep. But it was too late, for the sun was rising and woke up everyone else.
After everyone had brushed the sand off his/her clothes and hair, Shingetsu turned to Roba. "Hey genius, where's that reversing stuff?" Roba tossed her a vial filled with the purple potion. "Thank you. Now, I am going to take a bath. Hiun, Menrui, you are welcome to join me. Those of you who aren't female: I even think that you're spying on me, you shall have your eyeballs ripped out and shoved down your throat."
Hiun and Menrui laughed and grabbed a vial of the liquid from Roba before running off.
After a moment, Kakushin muttered, "You know, it would almost be worth it."
He was promptly hit with three rocks.
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"Was that a new one?"
"Nope. Okaa-san used it on Jiraiya-sama once."
Menrui giggled. "Seriously? Oji-chan doesn't seem like someone who'd listen to that…"
Hiun smirked. "He would if he was being held off a very high roof by the Godaime's apprentice."
"Good point. Do you really think they'd spy on us?"
Shingetsu giggled. "No. Three of them are related to at least one of us, and Roba respects you far too much to even try to spy on you." Menrui blushed dark red. "Ha, I get points."
"For what!"
"… ano… making you blush darker than humanly possible?"
"Hey, Shingetsu, if it isn't humanly possible, how is Menrui blushing that dark?"
"…
"…
"… Shut up Hiun."
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After everyone was done and looked normal again (well, Naruto world normal), the process of actually planning what the hell they were doing began. Again.
Kiseichu groaned. "Someone remind me why we even bothered to come here again?"
"Um… the very slim hope that there would be an antidote to save our parents?" Menrui supplied.
"Oh. Are we really that stupid?" He paused. "Don't answer that."
Shingetsu sighed. "Look, we can argue about how stupid we are or aren't later." She pulled a map out of her pack. "Okay, if this thing is right, then we're right here, on the south side of the island." She pointed to the edge of the map.
"And the SOS came from here." Hari pointed to a spot marked toward the middle of the map. "Which means…"
"We have to tromp through a lot of jungle." Roba sighed. "Joy."
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"Urgh, how long have we been walking?" Kakushin groaned.
"Approximately ten minutes from the LAST time you asked." Roba responded.
Hiun rolled her eyes. "No need to get snip-eee!" The Hyuuga cut off with a shriek as she tripped.
"You okay?" Hari asked.
"Yeah, Hari, I'm just freaking peachy." She muttered, grabbing whatever had tripped her. "Damn rock." She said pulling her arm back to throw it. Her eyes widened and she dropped it, screaming. "It's a head! It a fucking head!"
"What?" Kakushin asked incredulously, picking up the rock. He stared at it, wide eyed, before showing it to the rest of the group.
Menrui let out a shriek. "Oh god…" Roba said.
The 'rock' was indeed a head. The face was frozen in an expression of pain and fear, and the eyes were staring down at where its body should have been.
"Get rid of it." Shingetsu ordered. "Get rid of the damn thing!" Kakushin did so gladly, tossing it into the bushes.
Kiseichu gulped. "Well, I guess we know that whoever's here doesn't like trespassers."
"This isn't the time to try and be funny, Kiseichu." Hari snapped, walking over to the still shuddering Hiun and helping her up.
"I wasn't trying to be funny! I was being serious!" The youngest Hyuuga yelled. "This is suicide, we should just turn around and head back to Konoha right now and face whatever punishment it is Tsunade's gonna give us!"
"May I remind you that we have gone against DIRECT ORDERS from the Hokage? An offense that is punishable by death?" Roba asked.
"Shove it, genius!" Kiseichu snapped. "This was all Shingetsu's idea anyway! If we get in trouble it's her fault!"
Hari glared at his brother. "You never had to go along with it."
"Oh look at Mr. High-and-mighty first born. You're only defending her 'cause you think she's hot!"
"Why you-!" Hari leapt at his brother, wrapping his hands around Kiseichu's throat.
"Hari, don't!"
"Shimatta, he's gonna frickin kill him!"
"Quick, get them off each other!"
Seconds later, Kakushin was holding Hari off the ground in a bear hug while Roba and Hiun were holding back Kiseichu.
"Kami-sama, what the hell is wrong with you two?" Menrui asked. "I mean, you're trying to kill each other over ONE TINY LITTLE FUCKING COMMENT! Now stop fighting and get along, dammit!" Everyone stared at the Uzumaki in shock. Menrui hardly ever cursed, much less at any of them.
"Menrui…" Hiun started.
Menrui cut her off. "Look, we're all tired, and sore, and frustrated. But getting angry at each other and trying to blame each other for this isn't going to help. So what if it was Shingetsu's idea? None of us had to come. We came because we wanted to and ALL of our parents are in danger. So can we please try to remember that and just go?"
Hari and Kiseichu looked at each other. "Gomen ne, Hari. I shouldn't have said that. It was immature."
Hari nodded. "And I'm sorry for losing my temper and attacking you." Kakushin set Hari down and Hiun and Roba released their grips on Kiseichu.
Kiseichu offered his hand. "So we're good?"
Hari smirked and shook it. "Yeah. For now."
Shingetsu sighed. "Well, now that you two are done trying to murder each other, can we go?" They nodded and started forward again.
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Kakashi glanced at Naruto as they stepped off the boat and onto the docks of Hidden Mist Island. Chouji glanced around and caught sight of the wanted posters. He grimaced and nudged Iruka, pointing. Iruka followed the Akimichi's finger and grimaced as well. Naruto, unfortunately, saw as well.
Chouji put a hand on the blonde's shoulder. "Don't worry Naruto. Knowing them, they're probably already at that Kage Ryu island." This had been an attempt at cheering the Kyuubi vessel up; instead, it had the opposite effect. Chouji sighed. "Sorry man. That came out wrong."
"It's okay Chouji." Naruto told him, his voice hoarse from lack of use instead of overuse for once.
Iruka ruffled Naruto's spiky blonde hair. "We'll find them and bring them back, Naruto. They'll be alright."
The blonde managed a weak smile. "Yeah."
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Ja ne
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