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Warning: Yaoi, crappy humour, violence, blood etc
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Chapter 19: Trap
Recap:
'7 meters.'
Naruto readied himself to attack that thing first, maybe he could take it down by surprise.
'3 meters.' Kyuubi continued.
'1.'
Naruto quickly turned around, flinging the shuriken behind him with force, he heard a laud wail, and then something green blinded his vision.
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"Ugh!"
Naruto fell back as something hard collided into him and flinging him off the tree. A screech filled the air, as Naruto grabbed onto the green thing and pried it off himself; throwing the creature away from him. Braches snapped and broke underneath him as he fell, he needed something to break his fall, or at least something to hold onto, but all he could grab was air.
'Twist a bit to the side.' Kyuubi shouted in his mind.
Naruto opened his eyes, his body twisted in mid-air and stretched out his hands, they transformed into more animalistic claws, digging into the rough bark; and breaking them up as he came down to a screeching halt.
'It's not over yet kit, that thing is above you.'
Naruto looked up, pupils turning into cat like slits as he looked up, and there it was, hanging upside down from the bark was the creature. Through the moon light and his own enhanced vision he could make it out, pale green skin, and long finger which were gripping to the tree as he was. Forest green hair cascade down its face, and emerald eyes that almost shone through the darkness; it looked more human then some sort of disfigured monster, with its long delicate limbs, it even wore clothes well at least some sort of rags to cover itself.
Now then here was the question: was this thing friendly? Or was is it going to gut him like a fish?
He may harbour a demon inside of him, but he had very little experience fighting one.
"Whaaaa you meany you cut me!" the creature suddenly cried out with a high pitched screech, startling Naruto out of his thought.
Naruto looked for where he had injured it, and sure enough there was a small wound on its shoulder, but instead of dark crimson blood flowing out of the wound, it was gold and syrupy. One of its long fingers of the creature, went over the wound, and with a light green glow it closed up.
The blonde's eye widened and a gasped escaped his lips drawing the creature attention to him again.
"What are you?" the creature asked in light voice.
'Shouldn't that be my question?' Naruto thought and Kyuubi mentally agreed with him.
The creature prowled cat like closer to him, a wide smile on its elegant face, its pointy nose scrunched up and sniffed the air around him, causing Naruto to frown in wonder.
"You look human but you don't smell it." The creature stated. Naruto glared at it.
"Oh, scary eyes." A giggle erupted from it, and it scrambled up to a high branch to sit on. The figure smiled at him mischievously and beckoned him to come up. "Come on up, we can talk here better!"
Naruto hesitated, but moved on up slowly his senses poised in case it came at him again.
"Oh don't look like that, I don't bite...much." at this the creature revealed a row of razor sharp teeth, and Naruto stopped moving again.
"I joke, I joke, I don't eat humans!" it giggled again. Naruto was really starting to get annoyed with it.
Soon Naruto was sitting on the branch with it, well at a good distance away from it, just in case it decided to attack him. The creature smiled at him, long fingers filtering through its green hair every few seconds.
"So then sorry for scaring you like that, I was just so curious. It's very rare to have someone from outside the forest come so deep in here, so I couldn't help but look." Its grin widened. "My name is Amaranth, and I'm a forest nymph!"
'Ah, so it was accident', Naruto thought.
"And it's a girl!' Kyuubi piped up.
Naruto mentally scolded him and then quickly gave her a small smile of his own. "My name is Naruto." She giggled again.
"So then, can I ask what you are doing out here so far from the school?"
"Well I'm looking for something..."
"Really?!" the creature asked its green eyes widening with excitement. "Maybe I can help? I know this whole forest like the back of my hand!" she stated with pride.
Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at her child like antics; she seemed so cute, over looking the sharp teeth of course. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the picture of the Moon-blossom and handed it to her. Her eyes grew wide, and she jumped to a standing position, making the branch wobble dangerously.
"I know this plant!" She said excitedly. "There is a place were lots of these grow, c'mon I'll show you!" with that, she jumped of the branch and landed with a fluid motion on another branch. Naruto stood up quickly and followed the nymph.
'I don't know why that teacher was so worried; these forest creatures seem so friendly!'
'Seeming, and being are two completely different things Kit, I don't think you should trust her.'
'Why not?' he asked the fox.
'There is something about Nymph's that make them bad.'
'I don't see what's so bad about her, she seems nice.'
'As I said before 'seeming' is different from actually being.'
Naruto looked up again and noticed that Nymph had come to a stand still; she smiled and waved him over. As soon as Naruto was beside did she point at the clearing beside him, and when Naruto turned around he gasped in amazement. It was a field of Moon-blossoms stretching out as far as he could see; all their petals wide open and the water in the middle glistening like a diamond in the moonlight.
'You still think she can't be trusted?' Naruto asked cockily towards the fox. Kyuubi growled at him warningly 'I'm telling baka that she can't be trusted, Nymph's have something bad about them...'
'And what's so bad about them?'
'...' in all honesty Kyuubi couldn't remember why Nymph's were so bad, but there had always been something about them, that made his stomach churn. But after 500 years of existence, things tend to be forgotten.
"This is amazing Amaranth, thank you!" Naruto said grinning widely at the Nymph. The blonde put his pack down and rummaged inside to retrieve the pots, and a small shovel, and then rested his bag against the tree. With one last grin at the Nymph did he jump of the tree and run towards clearing, all the time he didn't notice the hungry grin that the creature had.
Naruto looked for one that looked healthy enough, the ones near the edge of the forest had crinkled leaves, and bruised petals, but the ones near the middle were in pristine condition. He bent down placing the pots beside him and dug into the earth with his shovel. Soon he had one plant carefully dug out, he made sure that the roots remain intact, and then planted it inside one of the pots.
'Kit, there is something wrong.'
'Kyuubi nothing's gonna happen, maybe you are going senile in your old age.'
'As if you little brat! I'm telling you right now to get the hell outa here!"
'Just wait a sec' will ya'? I still need to fill one more pot.' He said setting the second one aside.
Suddenly the ground started shaking.
'Thump, Thump'
The water inside the Moon-blossom vibrated with each shake of the ground; Naruto quickly sprang up, his gloved hand reached for his sword but only grabbing this air; the he remembered that he had lost his weapon when he was attacked by the Nymph. Blue eyes watched the dark surroundings, squinting through the shadows to make out anything.
'Thump, Thump'
"Kuso!" muttered Naruto under his breath.
'Got that right baka, now I remember why I hated Nymphs, they are all fucking tricksters! This is damn trap!' the demon inside him growled in irritation.
Naruto didn't say anything back; he reached into one of his many pockets and retrieved his blade knuckles, one of the few things that Asuma had passed down. He concentrated chakra onto the blades and they started humming with energy, he held them upright and went into a defensive stance, blue eyes watching carefully around his surroundings.
'Thump, Thump'
The footsteps seemed to be getting closer and louder, the ground shook even more violently with each step. A growling sound spread through the air viciously vibrating through Naruto's body. His whole body froze up as fear spread through him, his breathing became ragged and sweat poured from his skin. Damn it all, it was to dark; he couldn't see a thing!
"Calm down Kit, remember to breath now. That thing is moving towards you, and it's pretty big; at least 4 meters tall."
'It's too dark, I can't see a thing.'
'Get one of your flash bombs out, it will give you at least some sight.'
Naruto nodded and reached carefully into the little pouch that hung around hips, he pulled the tag off and had about 3 seconds before it went off. Naruto threw it front of him in the general direction that Kyuubi had said, he heard a thud as it fell on to the grassy ground, and then a bright flash illuminated the place.
And what Naruto saw made him take a step back with fear.
Three heads. Three fucking dog like heads. All growling, slobbering, and bearing their large canine teeth out dangerously at him, in warning. A powerful body with large paws digging into the grassy ground and stirring the dirt up.
"Kuso!" Naruto whimpered out fearfully.
'Calm down you brat!'
'How the hell am I meant to do that? There is a freaking three headed dog standing in front of me!'
'Focus brat, focus, its starting to move again.'
And true to Kyuubi's words, the tree headed dog started getting its bearings back after the first initial shock of the flash bomb. Its three heads howled out, and then started braking at Naruto; he saw the body moving slightly back, readying a pounce; but before the heavy creature landed on him and crushed Naruto. The air got knocked out of him, as the large paw held him down, and powerful jaws started snapping a bit to close to his head.
Naruto quickly raised his arm and dug the chakra engulfed blades into the furry paw, and raise its leg in pain. This gave Naruto a chance to roll away, but the dog recovered quickly and snapped at him again, but this time Naruto managed to doge it; swiping the blades aimlessly into the air.
The dog howled out in pain again, as he managed to land a lucky blow, and gnashed its teeth in Naruto's direction before jumping away from him, and it started all over again. The creature would pounce at him ferociously and then Naruto would swipe the blade, cutting ever deeper into the dog's pelt and drawing blood, before it would scamper away in pain.
Naruto was breathing heavily now, his blue eyes gazed towards the three pots that still stood surprisingly enough undamaged, but the problem was that they were situated right under the dog's body. His gaze then fell towards the sky and its waning moon, the sun was going to rise soon, but that creature didn't look tired at all; and he was starting to waste time with this.
Naruto concentrated more chakra on the blade knuckles, the humming intensified so that the very air seemed to vibrate. The dog hung back, its back legs grinding into the upturned ground, the three heads growled out, barking furiously at him, and it pounced again.
'Aim at its nose!' Kyuubi barked in the back on his mind. So that's what Naruto did, he aimed high swinging the twin blades viscously upwards.
The creature yelped and sprung away from him, running back into the forest, Naruto stood there small droplets of blood splattered on his sweat plastered face, he breathing coming out more of a wheeze and heavy. Suddenly a sharp pain ran down his abdomen, he looked down and saw a small gash running down his front, but not deep enough to hit anything vital.
'It looks like you weren't quick enough Kit.'
'Shut it you lazy fox, and heal me already!' he growled out, he pocketed his Blade Knuckles and staggered towards the pots. He sighed in exasperation, two of the pots had lent to the side spilling the clear liquid over, but all the pots were cracked while the third one was completely destroyed.
'What the hell what that anyway? Why did that dog just jump away like that?'
'Their is usually a bundle of nerves right there just over the nose, very sensitive, one hit there and they will run away with their tail between there legs!" the demon fox barked out mischievously.
Naruto snorted, but gave a mental nod towards the fox; he wiped away the sweat of his brown, and frowned. Now that all of the pots where broken he needed to figure out another way to transport the damn plant. He went through his pockets and then found a tissue and some string that was used to make trip wires. Naruto leaned down and spread the tissue on the ground, he picked up the discarded shovel and started digging out another plant, and placed it with enough earth in the middle of the tissue; and wrapped the edges around it, and to finish it off he bound it with a piece of string.
'Tch, I guess one is better then none.' And so he ran back inside the forest.
Naruto started to frown again after a while; the feeling of being followed was back again. Suddenly an uncharacteristic sneer formed on his tanned face as he reached into his pouch again to retrieve a kunai. Naruto reached into another pocket and took a bomb-tag out, and started attaching it to it, and then threw the missile randomly behind him.
"Did you get that bitch?"
'BOMB!'
"AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!"
'Yup!' Naruto replied back mentally and grinned while skipping over the forest canopy.
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Snape had been waiting for Naruto outside the Hogwarts castle walls, the cauldron bubbling away on an enchanted flame. The moon was starting wane away dangerously, that blonde would have to hurry up. Picked up the wooden spoon, and started swirling the hued blue liquid impatiently. He still wanted to kill that boy, that book was a copy of only 25 in the world, he had painstakingly bargained for it. That kid was going to pay for it...if he ever managed to get out of the forest alive.
"Where is that bra-" suddenly a flash of blonde hair and figure leaping out of the forest, jumping down and lading down in front of the Potions Master.
"Snape? Whatchya' doing here?" the blonde asked, Snape looked the boy up and down, and that's when he noticed the large rip in the boy's clothing, dried blood clung to the fabric around the tare, but there seemed to be no wound on the boy.
"Coming prepared that's what, now give me the plant." Snape took the plant of Naruto, and then a small pair of hedge trimmers and used it to cut the stalk at the tip, letting it fall into the bubbling liquid. The cauldron fizzed, and the liquid turned darker blue in colour.
"Right, that's about done now all we'll have to do is wait for the other ingredients, they should be delivered in a few days and then your friend should be back to normal in no time." Snape said, and there was even a small smile on his usually scowling face.
A grin split on Naruto's face, he couldn't wait; just a bit longer and Sasuke would be back to his old self. With that he gave a wave at the Potions Master and 'poofed' away with a blast of smoke, before the man could scold him for ripping his book.
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