Rendezvous on the Roof

After Iruka explains what our assignment will be about, looking for a short-haired brown cat with a red bow around it's right ear he explained to both Kakashi-sensei and the guys what I am allowed to do and not during out assignments.

No heavy lifting, flying on planes, long distance running, or sharing my medication. If I start to feel pain in my chest I must immediately inform Kakashi-sensei.

The only cool rule is that we all must have cell phones on us at all times in case I need an ambulance and am separated from Kakashi-sensei apparently before only the teacher was allowed to keep his phone while on these assignments. Also Naruto, Sasuke and I have all been given phones paid for by the school. The down side is that they are flip phones so we can't put a lot of music or go on the internet with them. They're made by some company called HOSHI, it's a well-known joke that these are the most indestructible phones ever made cause they are make of stars.

I look down at my little grey and silver phone than snap it shut. I flip it over to see the leaf symbol indented into its back, showing that it's the schools property.

"Oh and one last thing!" exclaims Iruka-sensei as he turns to open a small thin white box, the kind used for wrapping clothes when it comes to Christmas or birthdays.

"As students it is required you have a form of identification proving that you are participating in this program. Now Naruto and Sasuke already have theirs Sakura but this is yours. Remember you are only allowed to wear it while you are on an assignment especially if you are on an assignment out of Fire Country." With that said he hands me the light box, indicating for me to open it.

I lift the top off to see silver and blue.

With a rectangular metal plate imbedded into the dark blue cloth a leaf symbol, much more noticeable than the one on my phone, proudly gleams at me.

It's a head band.

"Blue is the universal color for this program though many students happen to change the cloth to fit their school colors or their favorite color. You can do that as this is yours but just don't lose the plate if you lose that or the phone before you graduate you'll have to buy yourself a new one." Warns the scar faced man.

"I won't lose it! I promise!" I shout with a joyful smile making Iruka-sensei give one in return.

"Good now I've held you up long enough," he hands each of us a small note. "Give this to your teachers so you won't be marked late. Naruto, come with me so I can take you to your class and make sure you won't skip again."

The blond mumbles something I can't catch but does as he's told.

"Hey Naruto," I call out just before he closes the door. The blue-eyed boy turns and looks my way. "Lunch in the same place okay. Oh and don't forget what I said earlier!"

Realization clears his eyes with an enthusiastic yell of agreement he chases after the secretary.

I hope he can control himself if anything comes around, I muse, because if he can't…I don't think a strait jacket would be a good look for him. It wasn't for me the few times I wore one.

With a heavy heart place my boxed headband in my back pack then take my meds out. After swallowing my pills I drink some water, place my medication pack back in my pack and grab my bag then head into the hall with Sasuke slowly shuffling behind me. Every glace I take towards him shows him still pale and clammy but not as bad as before. Is he sick because he left his body?

"Hey Sasuke are you not feeling well because of last night?" I softly ask.

He glares at me, and then ignores my question.

"Well? Are you sick because you came to visit me last night? If so I'm sorry, but you didn't have to come over to ask me about him you know? You could have waited until school to start inter-"

Hands grip my shoulders and yank me into the lockers. I cough trying to get some new air into my damaged lungs, looking up I see Sasuke's snarling face inches from mine. "For the love of Susanoo will you shut up!" he hisses. He steps closer, caging me in with his larger body and preventing from escaping.

Bringing his lips close to my ear he whispers so softly I know I'm the only one who can hear his fierce some voice. It doesn't help that his lips are actually brushing against my ears, all that does it seems is make me shiver.

"Voices carry in these halls, if you don't want to end up being bullied or have people find out about your illness you better watch what you say." With that said he pushes off of me and continues to class. No longer shuffling but walking normally.

I take a deep breath, biting my lip as the ghost of his lips still tingle my ear and a blush dances across my face.

That's twice now that Sasuke has sexually molested me. If he does it again I swear I'm going to beat the crap out of him if Inner doesn't first.

"Oi hurry up we're running late," calls Sasuke.

I chuckle at the thought of me and Inner punching his arrogant ass through the roof before racing after him. Our class only a few more doors down the hall.

"Hey wait," I pull him to a stop before we reach the class room.

With an irritated glare he waits for me to continue.

"I don't know much about all that other stuff," I softly say with a wave of my hand. " So I won't ask you about it anymore, at least not in public. But I do know you consider Naruto a friend and right now really he needs us. So will you help me help him?"

The Uchiha stares at me for a long moment before he jerks his arm free.

"Che." He tsks before continuing to Trig. "I'll meet you and the Idiot at lunch.

I smile.

Naruto's wrong, I think, you're not a Bastard.

You are such a Bastard! I shout in my head towards Sasuke.

After being late to class, Mitzuki-sensei gave us a pop quiz. That was easy enough, a piece of cake really.

Except for that last question.

After turning in our papers at nearly the same time, Mizuki-sensei decides that to grade our papers first and in front of the whole class. Me and Sasuke are both right on questions 1-9 but the tenth question on my paper is wrong. So I don't think it's that big a deal, until that damn Uchiha gloats.

"Are you stupid or something? That question was a dead giveaway even that Idiot would have gotten it right"

He says this to me, IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE FREAKING CLASS! Even Mizuki-sensei was chuckling at my humiliation.

Bastard! I think again.

I stay in a sour mood until my Lit. class with Ino and Kakashi-sensei. The reason why is because surprisingly enough, Kakashi-sensei is actually a good teacher.

It shocks me when he places down his perverted book then opens a huge text book filled with short stories. I mean, come on this is the Pervert, as Inner has nicknamed him. Shouldn't willingly placing down the Bible of Porn: Icha Icha against his very being? But nope, he puts that book on his desk and flips through the pages of the heavy text until he came to a specific poem titled Touched By An Angel by Maya Angelou. He explains about rhyme schemes and sonnets before telling us to write in our journals our own poem. It has to be at least ten lines and presentable enough for us to read aloud. We have twenty minutes until he will choose who has to read.

I wish Inner came with me today; I can really use her help. I understand facts easier than she can. Creativity is her specialty, not mine. Sometimes when I'm feeling down she even manifests a guitar and we sing together. Even though I'm a decent singer it's hard for me to write lyrics or come up with the music score. That's all Inner's job in our duo.

Wait, I feel a smirk blooming on my lips as an idea flashes in my mind.

When class is reaching its final quarter Kakashi-sensei asks who would like to read their poem as he returns to his desks and sits next to his porn.

When no one raises their hands he gleefully takes the liberty to choose three people to read their poems.

Hinata whom Ino traded seats with yesterday, a boy with short brown hair and red fangs on his cheeks-hey, that's Kiba!- and finally me.

Damn Pervert! I was just starting to like you!

"Mah, Hinata-chan! Why don't you go first?" Kakashi-sensei eye smiles towards the ebony haired girl in the seat closest to the door.

With her head down I can't see her face as she stands because her long black hair is hiding her, but when she turns around I can't help feel sorry for her. From the size of her chest I can tell she's going to have back problems in the future. Even her black hoodie can't hide those two.

After stuttering for a few moments Hinata takes a deep breath and speaks out in a steady soft voice.

"M-my poem doesn't have a name yet but here is what I've w-written down." She takes another breath before she lifts her spiral bound notebook and reads her poem aloud.

"Hidden in the dark

Of the pale moonlight

I see a lonely ch-child walk home

With their head held to the sky

And their face forlorn

As they walk through the park

I-I hope that they will be alright

Trenching through the darkness all alone

With their head h-held high

And their face happy and warm"

She finishes with an abrupt bow before rushing to her seat, her face blushing as pink as my hair.

"Good job Hinata…"mutters Ino .

I turn towards her in confusion. She cringes before leaning in and whispering.

"Hinata used to be a lot worse, especially in middle school. She was heavily bullied because of her family; oh rumor has it she humiliated her father because she lost in some kind of duel with her older cousin and because of that she lived alone for a while. After that her stuttering only became worse when she started to develop early. For the longest time she couldn't say a full sentence without stuttering nearly all the words. But now I hear she has been getting help from someone and look she's able to speak a full poem with only a few stutters."

I smile at the news before returning my gaze to the shy girl, she may have some troubles but she is doing her best to overcome them. I truly admire those traits in others; maybe I should introduce myself after class? Make another new friend, I think with a fluttering in my chest.

"Sakura-chan" calls a voice snapping me out of my day dream of me, Inner, Hinata, Ino, Sasuke and Naruto hanging out in my living room. Snapping my gaze to Kakashi-sensei I see he's giving me that annoying eye-smile again.

"It's your turn, come on up to the front of the class and read us your poem."

"Oh..uh okay!" Grabbing my journal I nearly trip as I make my way to the front. If it wasn't for Ino's whisper of encouragement I probably would have snapped from embarrassment.

When I turn towards the class I give them a small smile, "I'm not very good at poems but um here it is. I call it Why."

"Can you see me?

Hear me?

Why is standing beside you painful?

Do you sense me?

Feel me?

If you don't need me anymore why do you seek me out?

Can you recognize me?

Know me?

Why don't you recognize that I'm you?

Why don't you understand?"

I look up, seeing the mixed expressions on my classmate's faces. They probably didn't think I could write something so emotional. Well, I think, they're right. Those are a few of the lyrics to Inner's latest song, I may have improvised because I can't remember it clearly but it was obviously enough for this little poetry assignment.

The bell rings signaling that its Lunch time.

Kakashi-sensei dismisses the class, and I escape from Ino telling her I have to meet with my team and promise to join her for lunch tomorrow.

As I sit on the ground I turn my face up to the clear blue sky then close my eyes, basking in the sunlight as I wait for my two companions to arrive. My lunch box that lies upon my lap is open, revealing rice, sushi and soy beans. A cool breeze caresses my skin, gently swaying my hair and making it tickle my neck. I smile.

I feel much better now.

A click makes me turn around to see both Naruto and Sasuke arrive, each holding a tray of food.

"Took you guys long enough" I tease with a cheeky grin.

"Believe me it wasn't my fault! Blame his freaking fan-girls Sakura-chan!"

"Hmph," grunts the Uchiha.

I chuckle then pat the spaces beside me, indicating for them to sit. After Naruto practically drops to the ground in front of me, he leans against the chain-linked fence then takes a huge bite out of his dry chicken sandwich. Sasuke sits to my left in between the blond and me, making us once again a triangle.

"Okay Sasuke, remember when I said I need your help? Well," I nod towards Naruto, who is currently cringing at the gross food. "This morning he woke up and now he can see...what I see."

The news surprises the Uchiha, how do I know? Because his velvety black eyes widened slightly right after I told him. That is until he narrows his gaze, intensely staring at the blue eyed boy.

"You can see demons?" Snaps Sasuke to the blond while I glare at the Uchiha, why didn't he pick up on the fact that I wanted to keep that little detail secret for now?

"D-de-demons?!" Naruto cries out while jumping up, searching the area. Turning towards the right he points his finger. "Tho-those buggy things are demons?" he points towards the end of the roof, I look to see a swarm of small round bug-like creatures flying. Their burning red and blue coloring showing them to be the small annoying pests that Inner swats when she's extremely bored.

I reach up, gently grabbing Naruto's arm then pulling him down, murmuring calming words and preventing him from having a panic attack while he's still spaced out and watching the swarm with unfocused eyes.

Filled with worry I look towards Sasuke, hoping that he would know how to relax our calm friend, only to find that while he is looking in the general direction the demons are he isn't looking directly at them.

"Sasuke you can see them right?" I ask. I mean last night he saw Inner, but then again he was also in his…

Moving his glare to me Sasuke confirms my thoughts. "No Sakura. Unless I'm in my spiritual form I cannot see spirits. In order for that to happen I would have to awaken what Itachi did shortly before he died, the Mangekyo Sharingan." Right…he said something like that last night.

"Money-co cha-ring-gun?" faintly mutters the blond, he slowly turns his face back towards us. My hand slides down his arm and right before I pull it back Naruto grabs it, holding on tight as if I'm his life-line of a raging storm.

Maybe if I help distract him he can accept it easier. "I've also been meaning to ask Sasuke", I say in a soft voice. "Was your behavior this morning an after effect to last light? I mean you did leave your body for a while."

"Yes and no," he answers with a disgusted cringe. He opens his mouth to explain more when suddenly Naruto bursts.

"Oi! I don't know what's going on! Demons, money-co and leaving bodies? What the hell are you two talking about!?" I see his eyes, wide and frantic and he pants from his sudden shouting. My aching hand is starting to turn purple.

Sasuke's hand flings out and grips Naruto's wrist. "You're hurting her dumbass!" Looking down at my poor hand clarity clears the fogginess of his blue eyes clear, releasing it as if it burned him Naruto stumbles over his words. Vigorously apologizing to me.

"It's okay," I smile reassuringly as I slowly open and close my fist to get the blood back in my stinging fingers.

"Idiot, shut up so I can explain what you're seeing," the black haired boy intertwines his fingers and rests his elbows on his bent knees. Getting confortable for a long explanation.

"That is a variety of spiritual creatures in this world. The things you and Sakura see surrounding us are from a race known as 'demons', though the ones you guys are seeing right now are probably 'fiends'."

I tilt my head, this is new information to me.

"So far there are five levels of demons who roam this world. Fiends are the weakest, manifesting as disturbing looking bugs. They can't do anything because of their low chakra levels, mainly they just feed off of the negative energy surrounding everybody until they are strung enough to actually do something. Good thing is it takes decades for them to feed enough to go on to the next level, the 'familiars'." He reaches down to his tray and lifts a tomato then takes a huge bite out of it. I scrunch my nose at him. Really? He just ate that tomato raw! After he swallows he wipes his mouth and continues.

"Familiars are the kind of demons who basically sway people to do bad things. They are the ones who sly enough to manipulate others, can get into people's dreams and drain small quantities of energy from others instead of feeding on excess energy that people willingly leak. They come in the forms of smallish animals either cold or warm blooded but are mainly predators." Another bite, more tomato juice leaks down from his chin.

So based on Sasuke's explanation the kind I've mainly come in contact will my whole life are familiars. I shiver at the thought. He said that there are five levels of demons running around. So far I've only encountered the first two.

"The third level are the 'arch-fiends' these kind are humanlike in shape and mannerisms. They can even manifest to people who don't normally see spirits, mainly in the forms of shadows, and are strong enough to affect the natural world- like move objects, they can be seen on cameras. If they are strong enough they can even possess people. These kind of demons are usually the kind who my family dealt with in the past."

"Wait are those the ones that I hear the most about? You know like the ones in horror movies?" Muses the blond. At Sasuke's nod Naruto asks what exactly Sasuke's family did.

"My clan is blessed with abilities in order to police demons. To make sure they don't overstep their boundaries and create total catastrophe." Lifting his gaze the Uchiha explains to the sky. "The Ninth Night destroyed my clan. That day was the yearly clan meeting, where everybody shared tactics, bragged about kills and we would worshiped our gods together. However something happened, I wasn't told what but a majority of my clan had to use their abilities, but unlike usual it cost them their lives…The few who survived died one by one over the years." He closes his eyes then whispers, "I still remember how much it hurt my brother after he had learned our older cousin Shisui was killed while fighting…"

He looks back towards the blond then me, gauging our reactions to shocking revelation.

"The fourth and fifth kind are the 'cacodemons' and the 'eudemons'." Sasuke continues as if he didn't just tell us probably some well-guarded secrets of his clan. "Those kind are the ones who don't have to possess anything, they actually have their own physical forms here. They had even breed with humans in the past. These kinds are the tough ones, they are far and few in between. You can't really tell the two apart except for their mannerism's and scent. The cacodemons are vicious, they thrive on the chaos they cause and reek of bloodlust. The eudemons don't really give a shit about anything and give off a sickly sweet smell. Their indifferent towards almost everything but if they get angry then they are worse than the cacodemons. They won't stop until you are destroyed from the inside out."

I bite my lip. "You said they breed with humans. What do you mean by that?"

He rolls his eyes as he eats the last of his tomato. Wiping his mouth clean Sasuke answers my question.

"Have you ever heard of Vampires, Fairies and shape shifter's?" I slowly nod.

"Those are the most common descendants of cacodemons and the eudemons. The Kegareta. Their vicious needs are from their demonic blood." He curls his lip in disgust. "They eventually formed clans of their own, integrating with humans as if it's their right!"

I lean back; obviously Sasuke doesn't like the Kegareta.

"What about others like you? Those blessed by gods, what do you call them?"

"Kamitsuki," he states.

Looking down at my near empty lunch box I think back to everything I've learned so far. From his explanation Inner must be considered an arch-fiend, she can do some of the stuff he mentioned but I've never seen her in a photo or possess a person. I blink as I remember Inner complaining about being called a 'shadow' by the Nine-Tailed Fox. Is it because Sasuke mentioned that arch-fiends can come across as shadows to others?

Remembering the Fox reminds me of my poor blond friend. With a bite of my lip I look towards Naruto who looks so confused and lost. His world has just been turned upside down in a matter of hours. Should I mention the Fox to Sasuke? I shake my head, clearing it of those thoughts. I'll bring it up later, after Naruto understands everything we've just learned about demons. Based on his earlier response I don't think he would be able to handle learning that he has a monster somehow sealed inside him.

What would the Nine-Tails be considered? A cacodemon or an eudemon? I wonder.

"Thanks for explaining the different variations of demons there are Sasuke," I tell him with a smile. "I really learned a lot, I mean I've seen some of what you've described but I didn't know that much about them I've spent most of my life trying to avoid them and keep them away from me. But why did you explain?"

The Uchiha sighs in annoyance. "Because you two can see them you are going to attract the more powerful ones more often than not." He nods in my direction. "Your demon is pretty pathetic against me, but I'm pretty sure that as an arch-fiend it can hold its own against quite a few familiars. However as we get older our chakra will grow and that will make you more alluring to the stronger kinds such as other arch-fiends and cacodemons. Especially since your chakra is neutral. Your demon won't stand a chance against the cacodemons or the eudemons unless it learns how to fight them."

He turns towards our worried and confused blond with an annoyed expression. "I don't know about your chakra but you have a lot of it, much more then I originally thought. Usually the mornings after I leave my body I'm more sensitive to other's chakra. For some reason, your chakra is very dense today. That's most likely why the fiends are so far away from you, if they come any closer they won't survive."

So whatever screwed up Naruto's chakra caused him to start seeing demons and even sickened Sasuke for a while.

Naruto scrunches his face then crosses his arms. "So what you mean is the big ones will bug me the most right? The caco-roaches and the dude-mons?"

"Cacodemons and eudemons," I correct him.

"Whatever, so basically I have to learn to protect myself from them like Sakura-chan and her green-haired twin right? Well why didn't you say so!" He jumps up, flinging his empty tray onto the concrete, "common Bastard! Start training us! I wanna fight those things! Nobody messes with Naruto Uzumaki! Believe it!" Shouts the blond.

I giggle just as the bell signaling the end of lunch rings.

A/N

Wow this is the longest chapter I've written in months! Because I didn't update last week I decided to make this one extra-long. And we learned a lot in this chapter.

Sakura got her head band-yes I had to bring them in. We learned a bit about Hinata and Sasuke ditches his Caveman nickname and picks up being a Bastard then becomes a teacher in all things demonic. I did say things were going to start picking up speed right? Well besides the obvious SasuSaku moments we had some watered down NaruSaku moments too. And the action is right around the corner…sorry it's taken me so long to get to it but this story is going to be extremely long so it's a given that the beginning was slow.

*HOSHI is basically going to be this worlds version of NOKIA. Those phones are going to survive a lot of shit. So other than Inner's nicknames this is going to be a running gag in upcoming chapters till I'm bored with it.

*Instead of 'God' Sasuke will be swearing by 'Susanoo'. I've read many fanfictions where random characters (usually Sakura's mom) pray to Janshin but other than Hidan that's not really going to happen. Another upcoming gag I guess.

*Sakura's poem and Inner's song is loosly based off of the german song .5 Marz by Megaherz. I had to rewrite the English lyrics to fit coming from Inner's point of view. This song may show up later or it may not. Shout out to Maymist for giving me the idea to listen to music for inspiration!

*Hinata's poem I made up myself.

*Kegareta means tainted in Japanese. So Sasuke is insulting anyone who has demon blood by thinking lowly of them.

*Kamitsuki is a term from Valvrave the Liborator (an anime I highly recommend to be watched) that I will be using in this. It's said to mean either 'touched by god' or 'possession of god' though I'm not exactly sure which. I thought that was a nice touch to add for the Uchiha because it adds to their pride in thinking that the Uchiha is above others.

What do you think so far?