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Yeah, so, It's been a while...
But I just wanted to mention, I forgot to say thanks ti Mu149 for inspiring me to update ^_^
Oh! And in my fic. Konan is gonna be a medic. I dont remember if she is in the manga or not (Im thinking not) but I just wanna let you know. Cause' the Akatsuki needs a medic there...
I kinda was just sitting on my couch, and felt the need to write. Sooo, I decided I needed to work on this story. I know its not gonna turn out good unless I really give it my all, so I am determin to make this story better! Thanks for all the support!
WARNING: Im really bad at spelling! 3
White.
Thats all Sasuke saw as he slowly cracked his eyes open. The color was so over-powering and nauseating. The dark-haired man groaned as he attempted to sit up. His felt a burning sensation in his ribs that protested his movements, and he quickly layed back down with a grunt.
"Your awake." A calm, deep voice spoke out from Sasuke's side. He looked to his left and saw Itachi sitting, arms crossed, in a wooden chair. He took a moment to take-in his surroundings. It was a plain white doctor's room. No windows.
Memories of yesterday came flooding through Sasuke's mind, and he instantly tensed up. "Where the hell am I?"
"Your home." Itachi replied monotonously. Sasuke sat there blankly, waiting for Itachi to elaborate. The older man let out a gruff sigh before he continued. "We found you. You were nearly dead. And before you can interupt me, yes, we do know everything you did during your mission."
Sasuke paled. "Whos we?"
"We as in Itachi and I" Konan replied, walking into the room. She had a clip-board in-hand, and she looked ready for buisness.
"Is... What about Naruto?" Sasuke asked, returning his attention to his older brother. Itachi nodded his head to Sasuke's right. The younger boy looked in the suggested direction, and saw the familiar blonde resting on a medical bed, much like his own.
Naruto was bandaged around his head and upper chest, but the color had returned to his face. Sasuke could tell he was sleeping by the slight rise and fall of is chest, but he still looked worn-out.
"Is he okay?"
"He is now." Konan said, pulling up a wheeling stool. "Now, your probably curious as to what happend, but before we tell you, I want you to explain everything your remember." Sasuke examined the woman skeptically.
"Sasuke, you can trust Konan." Itachi said, slightly irritated. "No one else knows what happend. As far as everyone else is concerned, you two are still on your mission. Now, I could go on about how much of a screw-up your being right now, but what your remember is far more important."
Sasuke flinched. He knew he was going to get an ear-full of scolding about this later. "I found Naruto drowning." Sasuke began, squinting his eyes, willing himself to remember. "I went after him... And he was stuck. So I did the first thing that popped into my head... I..."
"Kissed him." Konan pitched in, writting notes on her clip-board. Sasuke could feel his face heating up as he nodded.
"Well, if your wondering what caused such a huge reaction when you kissed, the answer is simple." Konan said, turning to the younger Uchiha. "Your natural element is fire, and Naruto's is air. When you kissed, something seemed to spark in your circuit, so to speak, and it pretty much overloaded." The blue-haired vampire explained.
"Now, I'm not sure why you kissed him, and Im certainly not going to judge, but I will tell you that, that kiss saved his life. Just stop being so reckless. Im going to take my leave now, I have an assistant to train. Itachi, please call me back once Naruto has recovered." Konan said politely, before exiting the room.
There was silence.
Sasuke could hear his heart beating in his chest, and he glanced at Itachi, who seemed to be avoiding his gaze.
"She doesn't know." Itachi stated, off-handedly. "No one else knows about your imprint but the three of us in this room."
"Why?" Sasuke couldnt help but ask. He tried to prop himself up on his elbow, even though his body pulsed with pain. "Why did I..." He trailed off. Itachi turned to his brother.
"You may not like Naruto. But, because you are imprinted with him, you will be attracted to him nontheless. Not necessarily mentally, but strictly emotionally and physically. I dont know much about imprints." Itachi admitted. "Frankly, no one really does, but I feel that we would all benefit if we simply keep it to ourselves for now."
Sasuke nodded. "Now, I say we focus on our main problem." Itachi drawled, walking over to Naruto's bed. He stopped at the head-board and looked down. "We can seem to get rid of this." The older Uchiha said, pointing to a pile of orange next to Naruto's shoulder.
Sasuke quickly realized that the "pile of orange" was actually the fox that helped him locate Naruto.
"It wont ever leave Naruto's side. It seems attached to him." Itachi chuckled.
"Hes fine. It wont hurt anyone. It helped me save Naruto." Sasuke mused, staring at the blonde boy. Itachi nodded, before deciding to leave.
"I'll go. Im sure Naruto will be asleep for a good while. Try to get some rest as well." That being said, Itachi left.
Sasuke sat there in silence, listening to the calming sound of Naruto's breathing. His mind wandered back to earlier, before he and Naruto left for their mission.
"A Konaki-jiji is an infant spirit." Itachi explained. "It cries, and waits for you to pick it up. It then increases its weight until it crushes its victims. Also, beware of kawa-akago, kawa-suso, etc."
"What, what, what?" Naruto said, confused. He'd never heard of these sort of things.
Itachi smirked. "I'll leave the explaining to Sasuke. You better be on your way now!"
Sasuke groaned. He was such an idiot. He never did explain what any of the monsters were. It's no wonder Naruto fell for the "hurt girl". He glanced back at the blonde. He looked different sleeping. He looked less angry and less animated. He looked... Peaceful.
Sasuke smiled to himself for his stupid thoughts. He turned over in the uncomfortable hospital bed and closed his eyes. He needed to rest anyway.
"Yeah, okay." Suigetsu nodded. He was playing video-games with Omoi, Fuu, Utakata, and Karui in his room. The fishy teen had his phone squished between his shoulder and head as he tried to beat Omoi in a combat game.
"Really now, are you paying attention idiot?" Tayuya said angrily through the phone. She was down at the infirmary. Her and Yugito were put in-charge of watching a few of the younger vampires' conditions, and she was trying to tell Suigetsu about Naruto's condition.
"Yeah, I am, actually! You guys dont give me enough credit fo- Dammit Omoi! Screw you!" Suigetsu flipped-off said boy, as Omoi killed Suigetsu's character.
"Suigetsu! This is serious!" Tayuya yelled. She slammed her fist down on the table she was sitting at. The red-head was rewarded with a glare from Yugito, who was currently helping an injured boy move to his new assigned room. Tayuya paled, and turned around, facing the darkly-painted wall behind her. The last thing anyone of them needed was an angry Yugito on their trail.
"Look," She hissed into her phone, "Yugito is giving me 'the stare' so I suggest you listen up!"
Suigetsu instantly tensed. "Okay. Im listening. " He got up and plopped down on his fluffy bed. Fuu instantly dove for the now open controller.
"Okay. Heres whats gonna happen," Tayuya began, sighing. "Naruto is going to be released soon. Once hes released, I want you to watch over him, and make sure he gets plenty of rest."
Suigetsu groaned. "What am I, a baby-sitter? Naruto can take care of himself, I mean he-"
"Suigetsu." Tayuya warned.
"Alright, alright, fine." Suigetsu gave in, hanging up the phone.
"This is your room, right blondie?" Tayuya asked, jabbing her finger towards room two-seventy-two.
"Yup." Naruto nodded and absent-mindedly rubbed his neck. He was still sore from all that thrashing-around yesterday. Tayuya frowned slightly at the gesture, and clicked open the door.
"Everyone OUT!" She yelled at the gang around the t.v. They all looked up in fear, and began to scramble out in an orderly-fashion. Once they were all gone, Tayuya helped Naruto walk over to his bed.
"Hey guys!" Suigetsu grinned, sitting up. "Anything I can do for yo-" Tayuya threw Naruto's akatsuki robe at the fishy boy's face, effectively shuting him up.
"Now, remember Naruto, get lots of rest. The sooner your body adjusts to the vampire sleeping schedule, the easier it'll be for everyone." The red-head ordered. Suigetsu glared at the girl as she slammed to door shut.
Naruto layed there facing the opposite wall, away from Suigetsu. In all honesty, he didn't feel like talking. "Hey man, what happend?" Suigetsu asked, tossing Naruto's cloak on the floor. "I just heard not too long ago that you were injured, and you-"
"I don't wanna talk about it..." Naruto mummbled.
"Can't anyone let me finish one damn sentence around here?" Suigetsu growled.
"Seriously Suigetsu." Naruto said more clearly. "I dont. Want to. Talk. About it." The blonde groaned.
'He really does sound tired' Suigetsu thought. "Alright man, Im sorry. If you need anything, lemme know, kay?" Suigetsu offered. He got up to grab a manga book off of the book-shelf, and sauntered over to the door. "I'll be in the game-room if ya need me. Its right across the kitchen." The door clicked close.
Naruto sighed. "Peace and quite at last~." He mused out-loud. He rolled over, and felt the furry lump under his shirt. Waking up to this thing freaked the shit outta him, until Itachi explained everything. After a few rude remarks from Sasuke, and an irritated Itachi scolding, Naruto had pretty much adopted the fox.
Still, Naruto had to hide it under his shirt as Tayuya escorted him to his room. The less people that knew about the fox, the better. Naruto sighed. It was gonna be a bitch hiding this thing. He grabbed ahold of the orange fur, and pulled it out of his shirt.
'Well, it is pretty cute' He thought as he stared at the little orange monster. Naruto pulled the sheets up further, covering most of him and the fox. He closed his eyes.
And he thought.
Thought about yesterday.
But the strange thing is...
He couldn't remember.
Naruto couldn't really remember much after he was dragged into the water. He mainly remembered hot, white pain as his lungs were deprived of oxygen. He was scratched and attacked in many different areas. He vaguely remembered Sasuke's almost concerned face, and then there was white.
Thats it.
'Im forgeting something...' He thought. He searched his mind, willing himself to remember, but he just couldnt. 'Whatever. Just get some sleep Uzumaki' Naruto told himself. 'You deserve a good rest'
Scream.
Thats the first thing Naruto did as he woke up.
Naruto opend his eyes slowly, expecting to see the knewly familiar suroundings; A t.v., some bean-bags, mangas, a messy bed to his left, multiple, colorful posters, and such. But what he didn't count on seeing was a... a...
"Who the fuck are you?" Naruto yelled, shoving the person out of his bed. Yes, person. A naked person.
"Ow, what the hell, man?" She mumbled, sitting up on the floor. Yes, she.
"Is everything okay?" Suigetsu asked, barging into their room. "I heard you scream, and I thought that-!" The white-haired teen, for once, actually shut-up by himself. "Naruto... were you..? Wow man, I didn't think you had it in you, but I have to say, im quite suprised. I guess I'll just be leaving..." Suigetsu trailed off, as he slowly backed out of the room.
"Suigetsu!" Naruto growled. "This seriously isn't what it looks like!" The blonde yelled, scrambling to his feet. He picked up his akatsuki robe and tossed it to the girl on the floor, and ran over to Suigetsu. He pulled the other boy inside, closed the door, and leaned against it.
"Seriously, who are you?" Naruto yelled.
The girl tugged at the akatsuki robe that hung loosely on her lean body. The girl looked as if she was only fourteen years old. She had bright, messy orange hair pulled back into a long pony tail. She also had slim, mischievous red eyes and dashing whisker-marks on her face, much like Naruto's. Her teeth, Naruto noted, were very, very sharp. Sharper than Suigetsu's. And thats saying something.
Naruto shivered.
"What, you don't remember me?" She asked, incredulously. Her voice was surprisingly deep and seductive, yet childish at the same time.
Naruto was dumbfounded.
"I don't know about you Naruto, but I think I would remember someone who looked like that." Suigetsu whistled in approval.
The ginger-haired girl sighed, and placed her hand on her hip. "Im Kyuubi, the fox you had with you earlier?"
It took a few moments before realization dawned on Naruto.
"Your a fucking fox? How the hell is that even possible?" Naruto yelled in disbelief.
Kyuubi squeeled. "So you do rememner me!"
"Uhm, Naruto? Is there something you want to explain to me?" Suigetsu asked awkwardly.
"I don't really remember much, but..." Naruto began, thinking. "I was on a mission in the Village of Rain... And I found a fox there... And then..."
"And then he fell for a trap, and almost died!" Kyuubi pitched in, smiling. Naruto shot her a disapproving look.
"I really don't rememer much." Naruto admitted.
"Oh shit, should I take you to the nurse?" Suigetsu said, worried. He didn't want to loose another room-mate. Besides, Naruto was turning out to be an interesting one. "Cause if you can't remember anything, then-"
"I'd be happy to fill you in!" Kyuubi piped in, grinning widely. She sat down cross-legged on the floor, and waited for Naruto and Suigetsu to sit. Suigetsu sat on his bed, and the two looked at Naruto expectantly.
Naruto sighed. "Fiiiiinnnee..." He gave in, sitting on his own bed. "What happened?"
"Well, after you were pulled into the water," Kyuubi began, tapping her chin with her sharp finger. "Your friend came looking for you. I tried to tell him you were in the water, and thank goodness he got the message! So, anyways, he dove in after you!"
"Wait, theres no way that bastard would come to rescue me." Naruto said, appalled.
"Well, if he isnt the kind of person to save you, its a wonder he kissed you too!" Kyuubi giggled.
Suigetsu choked on his spit, and Naruto stared wide-eyed at the girl. "He what?"
"First of all, there are so many things wrong with that sentence!" Suigetsu said. "Second of all, Naruto, you kissed Sasuke?" He asked.
"No!" Naruto yelled back. "W-Well, I mean, I don't remember doing that..." Naruto mumbled feebly.
Suigetsu nodded. "Hmm. Yeah, Im sure if you did kiss Sasuke, you would remember it. Well, maybe you should ask him then? Becau-"
"No!" Naruto shouted franticly, his face turning a deep red color. "I-I mean what if he forgot too? Or it never happend? Then I'll just look like a delusional idiot! I'll just have to act like it never happend."
"That is, if it never happend." Suigetsu leaned in.
"Oh, believe me, it did." Kyuubi said, slightly annoyed.
"Well, I have more important things to worry about." Naruto said, getting up. The blonde boy walked over to their book-case.
"Oh?" Suigetsu said, intrigued. "Like what?" Naruto examined the books before deciding to pull out a large, hard-covered book.
"My mom," Naruto mumbled, plopping the heavy book on the ground, "Is in the school textbook."
"Really? And since when did we have a text-book in the book-case?" Suigestu mused, hopping off his bed, onto the floor next to his roomate.
"Im just finding out myself, really" Naruto grinned. "But look," The blonde boy ordered, flipping through the book until he came across the familiar page of three-twenty-eight. There was a picture of an elegant looking woman with red hair in two traditional japanese buns. She had a young, fierce face, and a deep, ornamental purple kimono.
"Her last name is Uzumaki!" Naruto stated. "She looks a lot like my mom... I was going through the text-book during Vamp. class with Kakashi."
"Oh, I know her!" Kyuubi chided, crawling over to the two boys. She leaned over the text book, as if trying to get a closer look. "Thats Mito Uzumaki-hime!"
"Mito... Uzumaki?" Naruto said, as if testing out the name.
Kyuubi nodded. "Mito-Hime is the ruler of all demons! You can say shes pretty much a queen." The orange girl shrugged. Naruto gapped at her.
"A queen? Than... Do you know who Kushina Uzumaki is?" Naruto asked, almost begged.
Kyuubi searched Naruto's face for a moment before she smiled. "This Kushina person means a lot to you, don't they?" Naruto nodded. "Well, Kushina was Mito's daughter. Sooo, that makes her a princess."
Naruto froze. "My mom was a... demon princess?" Suigetsu looked between Naruto and Kyuubi, feeling lost. "What the hell is this? I mean, aren't demons bad? Why couldn't we be on the good side?"
"Your Kushina's son?" Kyuubi gasped. "That makes us royalty!" She smiled.
"Us?"
"Yeah! You did adopt me, after all." The ginger smiled slyly.
"Wha-!"
"Naruto, your related to the ruler of all demons?" Suigetsu asked, finally putting two and two together. "We have to tell Itachi! You need to meet her! I mean, this is huge!" The white-haired boy rambled on, bouncing to his feet.
"No!" Naruto yelled, jumping up as well. Suigetsu gave him a questioning look. "Well, I mean, not yet, at least. I'll tell him when I get the chance, kay?" Naruto pleaded. For some reason, he just didn't feel like addressing that big of a problem yet.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever" Suigetsu dismissed the topic, stretching his arms. "Im gonna grab some breakfast before classes start."
"What? What time is it?" Naruto asked, glancing around.
"Its seven-thirty." Suigetsu replied, staring at their digital clock.
"Seven-thirty? We start classes in half an hour!" Naruto yelled. He turned around and stared at Kyuubi. She looked up at him innocently, and Naruto growled. He stomped over to his closet and dug out a spare pair of black jeans, tank-top, and those fish-net under-shirts they wore, and threw them at her.
"Look, I need my cloak, so change into those, okay?" Naruto said. He left the room for a few minutes, waiting for her to get changed. When she was done, Naruto grabbed his akatsuki robe back, and shoved his arms through the opening.
"So, what am I gonna do?" Kyuubi asked, bouncing on her feet.
"You are gonna stay in this room." Naruto explained. "I am going to go to class."
The younger girl pouted. "Aw, thats no fun."
"You think I care?"
There was a knock at the door, and Naruto shoved her behind the bean-bags as the door was nearly knocked down. The door opend to reaveal Omoi, Suigetsu, and an angry-looking Sora.
"Uhh, Hey guys!" Naruto laughed awkwardly. "What are you doing here?"
"Classes are starting in ten minutes." Sora grumbled. "We have to go. Now." He said, walking down the hall. Omoi glanced towards Naruto, before runing after the other.
"Oh shit, we gotta go!" Naruto yelled. He ran out the door, locking it behind himself. Suigetsu stood there, waiting for Naruto to catch his breath. "Whats in the paper bag?" The blonde asked.
"Breakfast burritos. We gotta get going." Suigetsu said, turning down the hall.
"Oh my God, Suigetsu, you are an angel sent from Heaven!" Naruto grined, jogging up to his roomate.
Suigestu smirked. "Yeah, I get that a lot. Now lets hurry up!" He yelled, breaking into a sprint, the blonde boy following after.
Kakashi really was a cool teacher. He let Naruto eat his burrito as he taught class. Well, Kakashi never said he could, but then again, he never said he couldn't. Naruto just assumed that the teacher didn't care, as he wasn't saying anything.
Naruto was sitting in the back of the classroom in the seat he sat in yesturday. 'It was only a day ago' He pondered. 'Seems like so much longer...' His thoughts were interupted as the classroom door was opened. Now, Naruto did what everyone does when the door is opend during class. He stopped what he was doing, and looks up to see who entered.
Naruto was expecting to see one of the mentors, or some student who went to use the restroom. Who Naruto didn't expect to see was Sasuke.
"Excuse me Mr. Hatake, but I was sent to pick up Naruto? We are needed by his mentor." Sasuke explained, scaning the room. Of course, its not that hard to spot the blonde kid in the back of the room eating a burrito.
Kakashi nodded, dismissing Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto groaned, and walked out the door with Sasuke. He followed the raven down the sorta familiar halls, until he reached a room he did remember: the portal room.
"Why are we here?" Naruto asked, taking a large bite out of his burrito.
"The answer is simple" Itachi answered from over by the cork-board. The two boys walked over to the older Uchiha. "You two failed your last mission, and it was your first, may I add." Itachi said, pointedly staring at Naruto. "Anyways, you'll simply have to make it up right now."
"But, I nearly died yesterday! You can't seriously expect me to go on another mission today!" Naruto said, shocked.
"Your fine." Sasuke said rather disinterestedly. "We all heal faster than regular humans. We're pretty much recovered after a good sleep. Your fine right now, aren't you?"
Naruto was going to yell at Sasuke for being such a heartless bastard, but he suddenly realized he was right. He felt completely refreshed!
"Ahem. Now..." Itachi trailed off, scanning the board. "Ah! Perfect." He plucked one of the pale sheets of paper off the board. "Defeat a Gashadokuro who has been haunting the Rock Village. The people have reported multiple deaths, and this is a serious mission. Don't screw it up."
The two boys nodded, and Itachi, seemingly satisfied, left them to be. Sasuke led Naruto over to the large onyx door, and the they entered the portal room. Naruto still couldn't get over how beautiful the whole place really was. Naruto quickend his pace until we was walking next to Sasuke.
"Before we go, you should know what a Gashadokuro is." Sasuke said, glancing around for the Rock Village portal. 'Dont wanna make the same mistake I did last mission...'
"Yeah." Naruto scoffed, crossing his arms. "That would be helpful. It especially would have been helpful yesterday, too."
Sasuke cast the blonde an anoyyed look, before turning to his right. "Listen idiot, a Gashadokuro is giant skeleton. Its basically the spirit of the unburied dead. All we have to do is kill it, and we're done. Okay?"
"Spirit of the dead?" Naruto said, slightly scared. They stopped in front of a pasty-brown portal that Naruto assumed was for the Rock Village. "Didn't the slip say that there had been multiple kills reported? What if we're killed?"
Sasuke turned towards the rambling blonde by his side. "Naruto." He said. The mentioned boy glanced at Sasuke, worry etched on his features. "Quit worrying idiot. Nothing is going to happen. I won't let anything happen to you. So don't worry, okay?"
Though Naruto could tell Sasuke was slightly pissed-off, he found comfort in Sasuke's words. Naruto cracked a smile, and shoved the rest of his burrito in his mouth. He wiped his hands off on his cloak, and, without a second though, jumped through the portal.
Besides, whats the worst that could be on the other-side?
~sigh~ I just kept typing until I got bored. You ever feel like that? I just feel like all my creative juices are gone -_-
Well, don't worry, they'll be back soon enough!
They'll be back even faster if you review :D
Yeah, so, I know I said I'd try to put more SasuNaru-ness in this chapter, but I couldn't really work that in without it being to OOC. So, there will definatly be some hints of it next chapter, but Im planing to really start it the chapter after that. So just be patient, kay?
Well, I'll let ya know, I have a lot planed for this story, its just a matter of writing it all down.
So, I hope to hear your lovely thoughts/suggestions!