{Author's Note} hello and here is chapter 3 please enjoy!
DISCLAIMOR: I do not own naruto or any of its characters that I use, all are property of Masashi Kishmoto since 1999 .
Chapter 3
Naruto
{Still flashback}
It was four in the morning and everyone was asleep but Tamari and Sakura. They sat curled around the dinning room table with only two candles to light the room. Placed atop a doily was a large wooden board with the alphabet, numbers, and a 'yes' and 'no' carved into them. Sakura had one hand on a large wooden selector with a large glass window in the middle, Tamari also had her hand on the other side of it. They had been up the last six hours with an ouija board (weeji board I think that's how it is spelled).
The box it came in was clearly labled 'for all ages, the young and the old'. It came with no instructions, just a box and a board and a selector.
"This doesn't work" Tamari said in an angered whisper.
"Nothing said it would" Sakura replied smugly.
They removed their hands from the selector and stared vacantly at the board.
"And I was so excited too" Tamari sighed.
"It would have been nice if we met someone, anyone…" Sakura sighed.
Slowly the selector grinded against the wood and stopped at one letter then another and another still.
"Tamari!" Sakura yelled "Write this down!" and off Tamari ran to the pad and pen in the living room.
"Go ahead I'm ready" she yelled back once she grabbed it.
"H….E…L…L…O" Sakura called back to her. Tamari came walking back in the room and sat down again.
"It said 'hi'!" Sakura whispered a bit scared and amazed.
"Hello there" Temari answered back. "Sakura what should we ask?"
"Whats your name?" Sakura said alound.
"N…A…R…U…T…O" it spelled back "W…H…A…T…I…S…Y…O…U…R…S"
"Tamari"
"And Sakura"
The two looked at each other in amazement and smiled.
"How old are you?" Temari asked aloud.
"2…5"
"oooh!" Tamari whispered "That's great your still young."
"Is that how old you were when you died or how many years you have been dead?" Sakura asked.
"D…I…E…D"
"When did you die?" Tamari asked.
"Tamari that's rude!"
"I…T…S…O…K…"
"A…B…O…U…T…2…0…Y…E…A…R…S…"
"Wow" the two said.
"Are you a boy or girl?"
"B…O…Y…"
"Favorite color?"
"O…R…A…N…G…E…"
"That's a nice color"
"I…T…H…I…N…K…S…O…"
"You seem very nice" Sakura said aloud.
"A…N…D…Y…O…U…S…E…E…M…V…E…R…Y…P…R…E…T…T…Y…" it spelled back.
She blushed a bit.
"Can you talk?" Tamari asked "With a voice I mean."
A low breeze blew through the room and blew out the candles. It carried the smoke from them and formed a small cloud above the ouija board. A low utterance was heard, and slowly it grew more audible.
"hhhhhhhwwwwssssss"
"We can't understand you" they whispered back in unison.
"Hhhhhwwwwsssssttttttsssssss"
"Still can't" they whispered again.
"hows~ this?" they heard.
"Perfect!" Tamari said.
"that~ boy~" a faint whisper said "he~ almost died~" Naruto said.
The two looked back into the other room and heard Kankuro weezing.
"Yeah but he's fine now" Tamari smiled "Sakura saved him"
"yes~ I saw~" he whispered.
"How did you die?" Sakura asked "if you don't mind my asking"
"don't~ mind~ at all~" the small cloud whispered. "I was~ a~ solder~ for Konaha~"
"Really?"
"Yes~" and a small puff of smoke mixed with the air and dissipated. "suna~ and konaha~ were at war~ and I~ was shot~ while saving~ a small~ girl" he whispered very raspy this time.
"That's so sad, but really good too." She spoke to him "Did she live?"
"I think so~" he replied "I~ never~ saw her get~ shot. So~ I think~ so"
"Oh." Tamari said "Well we just ended our war now." She smiled.
"were~ you drafted~ Tamari?" he asked.
"No, luckily, but my brothers were." she said a little dissapionted.
"there~ too~ young." He whispered back. "you~ too~ Sakura"
"I'll be fine, thanks though" she felt her heart pounding and herself blush.
It was quite for a few minutes before he said anything, and it made the girls fearful.
"Bomb~" a low raspy voice spoke.
"What?" the two asked.
"There~ is~ a bomb~ coming~"
It went silent for a bit.
"Now?" Sakura asked.
"30~ minutes~" he said rather worried "go~ now~ but~ take~ no lights~" and the small cloud lit up. It was glowing a light glassy blue and pulled the two scared girls to Kankuro. Sakura went running back to the table and grabbed the board, she placed it back in the box and carried it under her arm.
"I got Kankuro, go get Gaara and Sasuke and meet me downstairs in five" Tamari called.
Sakura went running into Gaara's room, her bare feet smacking against the hardwood floor. She loomed over the cotton sheets and gentle hook his shoulders.
"Gaara we need to go now! Get up and put on your shoes" she called.
His eyes opened and he bent over the bed. Putting on his shoes he looked up and saw Sakura's moonlight painted face, and watched her eyes turned from scared to determined.
"What is it?" he asked "What's happening?"
"There is a bomb coming soon and we need to go now! Tamari has Kankuro and we all need to be downstairs and leaving in 3!" she said as she turned the corner and walked to Sasuke's room.
"Sasuke" she called from the doorway "Put your shoes on we're going now!" she almost screamed.
He sat up immeadeutly and looked at her, her expression said it all. He pulled on his boots and grabbed his bag (that he never unpacked) and followed her. When they got to the stairwell she noticed that Gaara was holding a flashlight.
"Gaara" Sakura called out "turn it off and leave it"
"Why?"
"You just, you can't have it trust me" he didn't ask any questions but instead discarded it like he was told and they ran down the stairs.
The streets were empty and everyone seemed to still be asleep. Far off in the distance a small flair could be seen, probably the enemy. They kept running and running farther out of the area, after about twenty minutes they found themselves near the gate for Suna surrounded by bomb shelters. They slowly placed in Kankuro and the rest of them slid in. once they were safely inside the air raid alarm went off.
Families began to run out of houses and frantically through the streets looking for bunkers or shelters to hide in. Because it was too dark many of them had either flashlights or candles to light their way, the streams of people with small lights flickering looked much like small strands of white Christmas lights. Sakura and the others watched as the lights weaved and danced through the streets and listened as the shouts of riffles off in the distance went off. With each pop another light fell to the ground and people screamed, as others around them were being shot down.
Soon people had left their lights and ran for cover anywhere, some people were trampled and others were left behind. One little boy in particular caught Sakura's eye, the same little thief who had tried to get dog-tags, was out running through houses collecting things. The Air raid alarm was getting louder and louder but he kept running through the houses. She looked back at the group she was with and smile then ran out and sprinted towards the little boy. She picked him up and ran back towards the shelter. The entire time the little boy was figiting with something in his hands, then there was a click and sudden burst of light. The little fool had picked up a flashlight and now, they were a running target. All Sakura could do was run faster, as fast as she could run, as fast as the fear could make her run towards the safety of the bomb shelter. Her heart was racing, her mind was blank and her legs were shaking from under her. Tamari watched in horror as Sakura had tripped over herself in the midst of running and dropped the little boy. She rushed to her feet and pulled him back into her embrace. He was crying and she hadn't noticed the bullets that she had just narrowly escaped. They went wizzing paste her knees, right where her head was moments ago. There was no time for worry or thought, just action. The light was still flickering in the little boys hands.
"Turn it off now!" she screamed in terror, but he was in too much shock to understand her, his moth just gaped open as he stared at her.
Minutes seemed like hours to her. Just how long has is taken them to get a quarter of the distance back to the shelter? She couldn't remember it taking this long to get to the little boy in the first place so why so long to get back? She kept pushing and pushing, feeling her knees slowly start to give in.
'No! Not now, just a little farther, please not now' she thought to herself.
Searing heat, that's what was bothering her, a small pain in her ankle was beginning to burn and sting uncontrollably. She felt a hot, moist, liquid crawling down from the sting. It burned so much, it just kept getting hotter and hotter until she felt the sensation throughout her left leg. Her strides turned to paces, and paces to jumbled scurries as she desperetly tried to get back to the others. The pain was too great and she had pushed herself too far. She had stumbled to the ground the last time, unable to stand from pain she shook and yelled at the boy.
"Just keep running straight! There is a shelter up ahead, you'll be safe just keep running straight!" she watched as the boy slowly nodded and through the flashlight off into the distance.
He ran straight ahead just like she said and felt himself get pulled into a shelter by others. A larger boy turned to him.
"Where's Sakura?" they demanded, but he didn't know who she was. "The girl, the one who helped you just know where is she?" they frantically questioned unable to see her form any longer. But the boy just pointed out ahead of them, out to the shooting and yelling of the early morning ambush.
{Authors' Note} okay so that was chapter 3… I think I am getting better at these war scenes. Maybe. So yeah hope your all enjoying this! Please keep reading and maybe oh I dunno reward me by possibly leaving a REVIEW?