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Blackhaven18: Whew! Sorry about disappearing off the face of the Earth like that, I actually have good reasons for not posting, but I'll just tell you the main one. My family and I are moving! Yay! It's actually going to be our first house and I am proud to announce I will be getting my own room. =D.
One other quick thing. Due to my computer's recent death- something about frying a piece of the motherboard (Yikes!)- and it taking with it chapter 3... I have had to rewrite it with my dad's laptop and while I believe it was better in the long run, seeing as how this chapter kicks the others' ass, I have had to rewrite it using... wordpad... Yes, I said it. Due to that I may not have picked up on certain mistakes that would have been fixed otherwise. If you spot any please don't hesitate to point them out. You have my thanks.
Winter Alais: I know! It's so close... Well here's a chappy on the first Naruto and Twilight character meeting. Sorry to say it's not Edward... Yet.
Utena-Puchiko-Nyu: You know, I was going over some previous chapter's and I can't believe I forgot to add that piece of information in. The twilight portion is mainly in the first book, with a few changes mind you. Like the whole werewolf thing with Jacob. He knows and the pack is already assembled, but James, Victoria and Laurent haven't made their appearance yet. Bella does not know about Jacob. Hope that answered your question.
moonbay72: I'm so glad you've said that about my portraying of Bella... I was so worried for awhile because I thought I might have taken to too much out of context with the 'giggling,' but I figured when a significant other is in the room, alone, she might tend to be a little more different. Thanks for your comment.
HumanSage: Thanks, that means a lot to know I haven't destroyed a character. As for Sasuke, he will make another appearance, but not in the first part of SOFT (Sea of Flames Trilogy) - I had no idea the acronym was gonna turn out like that.- There will be arguments and name calling, but he will be 'reformed' in a sense soon. Sakura is mainly going to get the brunt of it.
Akwon: -Craftily hands you a cookie then disappears into the night- Sorry, can't say *smiles*, but I can thank you for your review. I just loved the idea of a Naruto/Edward Fanfic!
Riddicks-gurl1988: Thanks so much for your commetn and I'm glad you're enjoying it so far. =D
Name: Sea of Flames: Trilogy, Part 1.
Summary: Naruto was banished from Konoha for over two years and while he was gone something huge happened. Naruto hasn't been the same since. Now though, he's had enough of being used as a tool and leaves Konoha to start what he hopes is a new life, where people won't judge him for the demon inside.
More information available in the (Fake) Theatrical trailer and MV's on my Blackhaven18 account in Youtube. Sorry it won't let me post the actual links...
Rating: Pg-13 to start out, it will move to M and possibly MA.
Pairings: EdwardXBella, EdwardXNaruto, JasperXAlice, EmmettXRosalie, CarlisleXEsme, JessicaXJacob.--- Betcha' you didn't see that one coming.
Warnings: Slash, BoyXBoy, Yaoi, angst, suicide attempts, possible mental breakdowns, mentions of blood and gore, Sakura Bashing, some Sasuke Bashing, Kakashi bashing, and Danzo bashing (though I think we hate him already, ne?)
This game is over
I'm mean and older
They're coming closer
Over and over
My dear Briana
I need an answer
What was the question?
I can't remember
Breaking Benjamin, No games.
Chapter 4: No Games
A man with a patch of semi-long, unruly and shockingly blond hair glanced between the thin ticket in his hand then up to the screen of airtime flights, confusion marring his handsome features. Eventually he let out a long sigh when he realized his next plane didn't take off for another two hours due to certain delays from a previous flight.
"Excuse sir? Are you to be lost?" A young attendant, or at least that was what he figured, asked in accented English and he glanced at the person who emitted the question.
Naruto was met with bright black orbs alit with a curiousness and that brightened when he noticed her, 'Mmm... my English is a tad rusty...' He thought, realizing he was going to have to relearn it. /Actually yes, I am trying to find gate 201, but I seem to be having no luck.../ He replied and her eyes widened a fraction before she composed herself.
/Gomenasai! I thought you were an Englishmen from your appearance and only spoke English./ She couldn't help but smile and continued, /I actually pass that gate on my next job, I can lead you there if you want?/
/Hai, that would be wonderful./ He answered and followed, periodically answering her questions without trying to reveal too much of himself to the stranger. If his life taught him anything it was never to trust someone at first glance...
/Are you a foreigner? Your Japanese is perfect but you don't look like you're from Japan.../ She said and Naruto frowned.
'I don't look Japanese...?' He thought with reluctance, 'I knew I looked different from the others', but to be considered a foreigner?' His appearance was just something he never questioned, but now that he thought about it... his eyes never did have that same tilt his friends seemed to have and his facial structure had been different, but he always blamed it on the fox...
/I was born and raised in Tokyo, and as far as I know I am at least part Japanese.../ There, that seemed a little reasonable.
/Ah, that explains it then. Though, I thought asian characteristics were dominant./
He forced a chuckle, /Well, I have always been considered to be an abnormality./
She giggled and then pointed to a nearby gate, /Look, there it is./
He smiled appreciatively and briefly thanked her as she waved, before he maneauvered into one of the nearby seats to wait for his flight. 'So, my appearance doesn't seem Japanese eh?'
He couldn't help but silently thank the attendant for giving him such a brilliant idea. 'Uzumaki Naruto, caucasian male...Sounds like a damn good switch to me. It even helps that I already look the part.'
Scanning the area and sensing no threats he allowed his head to droop forward to rest his chin on his chest and slightly drifting off in a mock-sleep...
Crimson eyes dotted with three swirling black spoltches looked down at him with what seemed to be remorse and he willed his wavering vision not to consume him yet. /P-Please...don't do this Sasuke./ He begged and was able to clasp a hand around said boy's boot. /Don't... betray us like this...don't betray me.../ Again he begged too exhausted to do much of anything else.
Sasuke was completely transfixed at the sight before him.
Naruto, his teammate, partner, and dare he say it? His best friend was lying on his back, looking up at him with dull blue eyes, his neck and left leg were both bent at an unnatural angle and various wounds from knifes and the like allowed his blood to stain the ground a beautiful crimson.
Though, what grabbed his attention was the large, circular wound on the blond's chest, directly above his heart. A wound that he placed there a mere moment before with his prized technique the Chidori, a technique taught to him to protect others', not to harm.
Yet here they were...
Naruto only vaguely registered the calculating look traveling though those dark eyes, being so heavily wounded clouded his senses...
Sasuke heard Naruto, the Naruto who never begged for anything, plead for him to stay in a village that was holding him back.
Keeping him from reaching his true potential.
Finally reaching his decision he knelt down so that he was centimeters away from the blonds's ear. /You're too weak Naruto./ He said and relished in the hurt look that crossed over his former friends features, /You always have been and you always will be. You are nothing compared to me, just an insignificant insect. Just. Give. Up./ He hissed and rose to his feet. /This is goodbye brother./ He spat the last word as if his sickened him to even be thought of in such a way and turned to limp farther into the forest.
The words Sasuke uttered stabbed deeply into Naruto's heart, 'I am nothing?' He thought, hearing it echo over and over again in his mind. It was the same thing he had heard from the villagers and now he had to hear it from him as well?
Watching 'The last Uchiha' limp from the beach-like area completely demolished from their battle he couldn't help but make a resoloution right then and there. He would Prove Sasuke wrong, he would prove them all wrong. That he was worth something.
'We'll see Sasuke, we'll see.'
He was going to get stronger and Naruto was going to show him just how powerful and cunning he was capable of being.
'No more games Uchiha...' Was his last thought before darkness comsumed him...
/Flight 201 to San Diego, California, Untited States now boarding. Please head to the west wing... Thank you./ A feminine voice rang out over the intercom, then proceded to say the message again, but in English.
The voice had woken from his past and grabbed his carry on before heading towards the loading gate...
Four months later... in Bend, Oregan.
Naruto pulled into a vacant spot off the side of a Burger King franchise and pulled out a road map from the glove compartment. Running his fingers along one of the routes absent mindly he narrowed his options of other highways he could possibly take to his next destination...
'Where to next...?' He stopped briefly on the marking with 'Hoover Dam' written next to it in bold black ink, 'Nah, they probably wouldn't appreciate me jumping into the canyon, now would they?'
A few mumbles and mumurs later he could be seen wrestling with the large offending parchment, as he tried to fold back along the exact same creases. Instead of ripping the material completly to shreds he threw it into the back and stepped out to stretch his legs.
"I still have no idea where to go from here..." He mumbled and lifted both arms high above his head in a stretch, "I guess I could always flip a coin...?" He pulled out his wallet and found a quarter jammed between a wad of reciepts and bills, before using his thumb to flip it high into the air, "Whoops, guess I used too much power in that one," He said as he saw a flash over silver a good forty feet up and finally losing its battle against gravity.
It landed in his palm with a good snapping sound and he glanced at it. "Heads it is! That means... South America here I come!"
Getting back into his vehicle he put the now running vehicle into drive and was about to pull out when a group of people exiting the fast food joint caught his attention.
The group consisted of about six or seven people, in either their late teens or early twenties, but what was really interesting was what they were wearing...
All had on clothes of what seemed to be made of deer skin from the looks of it, bathed in a swash of vibrant earth colors and beads sown on elegantly in a variety of patterns. Ornate feather's and beaded ropes clung to intricate head dresses that nearly swept along the floor. The entire vision was certainly eyecatching, one that spoke of elegance and spirituality...
At least, until a cellphone began to chime from the recesses of one of the men's pockets and Naruto's thoughts were shattered.
After replaying the obvious message and a few 'Yes, 'No,' and 'Uh-huh's' from the group he hung up and pulled out a map. Naruto couldn't help but feel slightly satisfied on his part as he noticed the man had the same amount, if not more, trouble refolding the map again, the man began to wave his arms frantically trying to gain the attention of the other's.
"What's a matter now? One of the other's yelled.
"I just got a call and the location of the Powwow has been changed since the real spot is completely flooded because of the rain." The other's looked at him with a 'so what' look on their faces, " and I have no idea where it is now, I've never even heard of the place!"
A few mumbles of 'idiot' and 'Hey!' were heard before the oldest shook his head and sighed.
"Why me?" He asked imploringly to any higher being that could be listening, "You people are going to drive me insane. Look over there," He pointed to a tall poster swaying in the wind, "this thing isn't a closed event, we've passed dozens of posters about it and you still had no idea where we were going. Just follow the damn arrows."
Everything seemed to stop as they all looked towards the poster, "Well would you look at that..." Naruto could vaguely hear someone sitting inside the van hit their head in annoyance. "Why are you all sitting around then? We've got an event to go to!" All piled into their van and took off and Naruto walked over to the poster debating with himself.
'A Powwow huh? Sounds interesting enough and it's not like I had anything planned for today... I suppose I could hang around for a little longer.' Naruto made his way back over to his car, a new goal in mind for today...
Rythmic beats sounded through the area as Naruto made his way from the dirt covered parking area and along the trail leading further into the forest.
Leaves that littered the ground crunched noisily as he walked on the preordained path.
The place was packed as people flittered in and out of stalls all selling a variety of works. Some sold beautiful paintings made made of sand on a thin wooden boards along with elaborate jewlery with bluish stones and sterling sliver. He couldn't help but purchase a few bundles of white leaves and stems that when burned produced a faint yet beautiful smelling smoke from a stall that sold herbs for different ailments.
Finally he reached where the rythmic beats were emanating from, ahead of where he stood were a cluster of people all dressed in colorful clothing and jewlery, but it was the people in the middle that had their attention.
Pushing his way to the front and kneeling so he wasn't in anyone's way he was surprised to see the group he had seen earlier, though they seemed completely different.
They were dancing in obviously practiced motions perfectly in sync with the group of men in a corner surrounding a drum and beating it with furred covered sticks. Because he was taught to always be aware of his surroundings, he vaguely registered when a middle aged man in a wheel chair rolled to the position beside him to also partake in the festivites.
When the dance was over others came to begin a new one anad give the others' a break...
"Wow..." Was the only eloquent word Naruto was capable of producing when he witnessed the dramatic ending and he heard the man beside him chuckle at the blond's awed expression..
"I take it this is your first time seeing a Powwow?" He asked and Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, it's amazing." He breathed and continued, "There's just a different feeling here... a spiritual difference that calms the soul..."
The man chuckled again and held out his hand this time, "Billy Black."
Naruto nodded and shook the man's hand before continuing, "A pleasure to meet you. I'm Nathaniel Riven, but please 'Nate' is fine."
"Just where could he have wheeled off to? Normal wheelchairs only have one speedsetting as far as I know, how he manages to disappear into thin air is beyond me." A large teenager muttered and he manuvered through a crowd.
It didn't help that he was at least a head taller than the crowd and the person he was currently searching for was sitting...
He stopped midway when his nose picked up on a rather unusual scent carried by the wind that was familiar yet unlike to the stale sweat emitted from the people in the crowd. It was a mixture of mostly natural scents, such as: damp soil, moss, an a slight floral scent. The freshness of it caught him offguard as it was nothing like the artificial perfume women sprayed themselves with these days that made his nose burn.
Underlying those scents was a undeniable muskiness, labeling the enigma as male. Though, what was bothersome was the fact that only his packmates smelled similar to this, though the reason for that was obvious enough, and while there was an umistakeable likeness between the two it was far too different to be them, or anyone like them for that matter...
A familiar, racaeous laughter from one of the food areas ahead caught his attention and he slowed his breathing and silenced his steps, planning to scare the old man for making him search for so long.
He positioned himself on the opposite side of the crowd and was able to spot his father speaking to a blond around his age if not older.
He smirked and took a step forward when the blond suddenly ceased all speaking and snapped a cold, calculating blue gaze directly at him from across the way. He watched as the blond's hand twitched and shifted slowly to reach for something hidden in the depths of the jacket he was wearing...
Never taking his eyes off of him.
He couldn't help but shiver slightly under that hardened gaze and abandoning his previous plans, strode over to his father, purposely making noise and keeping his hands visible at his sides.
Something told him it wouldn't be good to provoke this person...
"Hey, Pop's!"
Billy tensed at the sudden change in both the atmosphere and on the blond's face he quickly turned in his chair to see what could have caused such change in the young man in front of him.
Seeing nothing out of place he looked back towards Nate.
"Is something the matter?" He questioned, looking again back over his shoulder.
"It's probably nothing sir..." Nate murmured, finally taking his gaze off the spot behind him and looking back towards his drink.
He was about to question what made the nice young man in front of him change so quickly to this more hardened person when the voice of his son stopped him.
"Hey, Pop's!"
"Jacob! I was wondering how long it would take you to find me." Jacob flashed him a grin then looked back to his table mate with a look of curiousness, "That's right, Jacob I'd like to you to meet Nate Riven. Nate this is my son Jacob Black."
"Hello, your father had told me a great deal about you, it's nice to finally meet you." Nate held out a proffered hand.
Billy only smirked when his son narrowed his eyes at him, most likely thinking he told the embarassing stories... as he was prone to do, "Likewise."
Before their hands touched though both boys emitted a low resonating growl that had Billy looking at the two of them in confusion.
"So... You're the one I smelled earlier," his son stated and Billy glanced back at the seemingly normal blond.
"Ah, I knew there was something different about this place. A pleasure to finally meet you Jacob, I have a feeling we're going to be the best of friends." Nate said a offered a smile, finally shaking the hand of the teenager in front of him.
Blackhaven18: So, chapter 4 is finally done. Any reviews will be appreciated.
TBC