A/N: Happy New Year to all of you! And thank you for all the reviews, favs and follows. Did you complete any resolutions? (I know I didn't). We have a snowstorm going on where we live, and as long as the power didn't give out in me, I typed this out (and went on tumblr). To answer some questions, Naruto and Kakashi will be weakened a bit. You'll find out later on what's wrong. Also, ages are listed at the bottom of the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't wish to own it, I wish that three dimensional maneuver gear was real, and that I could use it.
Chapter 2- There Are No Words to Describe How Annoyed I Am With You
Isn't it odd how people kill flies just because they're annoying? If people killed people for being annoying I would've died like 15 years ago.
-Teenager Post #17450
Kakashi was in another place. He could tell from how soft it was under his body. He opened his eyes, only to close them again from the sudden light. He opened them slower this time, and observed the area he was in.
The room was plainly decorated, a window let in golden sunlight, dust filtering through it. There was a small table with a vase of flowers in it, casting a shadow on the floor. Kakashi turned his head to the left to see a lumpy bed, slowly rising and falling. Turning some more he felt himself go still when he saw someone at the end of the room with their back turned to a simple wooden desk. The person had light brown, orange hair that reached their shoulders, and wore a white shirt. His joints ached, and he let out a groan. Not what he wanted.
The person turned around, showing dark gold eyes. They looked surprised at first, and then smiled. "Good, you're awake. We were worried." She turned around completely, and he saw she held a wet washcloth. He tried to push himself up, only to have his arms give out on him. "You can't get up yet!" She fretted. "You're still healing." She put the cloth down, and came to pull his sheets up.
He got a glance of what he was wearing, and saw he had a white shirt on, little strings at the top untied. "Where...am I?" He mumbled. "You're at our base." She said. "We found you up in a tree bleeding."
"Where's..." "The boy that was with you is right here." She had gone back to get the washcloth, and now proceeded to pull the sheets down on the other bed. Showing the face that was hiding.
Naruto was quietly sleeping underneath, a light blush across his face and another washcloth on his forehead. "He has a fever and a huge cut across his stomach. But the fever's finally going away." After switching the towels, she put the old one in the pail, and went to the door. "I'll be right back; I need to go tell the Captain you're awake." After the click of the door, silence reigned. Kakashi attempted to sit up with success, and then turned to look at his student. Compared to him, Naruto looked like crap. The blonde had rings under his eyes,probably from the use of all that chakra. He could only imagine how bad his stomach was. Kakashi pulled his sleeves up to see bandages all the way up his arms. Those cuts from the explosion were nasty. 'I'm just glad that he's alive. I wonder if they got out the poison.'
Hearing some creaking, Kakashi looked up to see the door open, and reveal the girl who had just left, with two other men. One was blonde, and the other had dark brown hair. They were wearing the jackets that the person he saw being eaten was wearing. It still made him nauseous to even think about it. "How're you feeling?" The blonde walked towards the bed. "I am Commander Erwin, and this is Captain Levi. One of my men had smelled you out in the forest." 'Smelled? Didn't that guy think that was a little bit weird to hear?' Yet the stranger continued on. "Do you know how you got up in that tree? That was at least 30 meters high."
"I jumped."
The people looked dumbfounded. It was the kind of reaction that the villagers get when they aren't used to ninja. Even the short, stoic one behind him looked surprised. "Without any three dimensional maneuver gear?" This time the girl spoke up.
"What's that?" Kakashi was clearly lost.
"It helps us get through the trees. Do you know what Titans are at least?"
"Nope."
The stoic one then came forward. "You obviously aren't from around here; but all of humanity is behind the walls. So where are you from?"
"The Fire Country of the Elemental Nations."
The room reached silence. In all honesty, there were no words for their current problem. "We'll come back when your friend is awake. Then we can discuss everything." The blonde said, and then walked out, the brunette following. The girl stayed behind. "I'm sorry about them. I-it's not normal to find people outside the walls."
"Oh, it's okay." He gave her a closed eye smile. "We'll figure it all out later. I'm going to rest."
"Alright." She opened the door and walked out. But not before stealing a glance back at the strangers. Kakashi heaved a deep sigh, realizing that things just got twice as more complicated. 'I wonder how it's going in the village. But then our situation may be worse, being stuck in such a weird place. Naruto's not going to take this well.' He reached for his Icha Icha Paradise, only to find it not was not there. Neither was his headband. 'Sigh; guess all I can do is waiting for Naruto to wake up.' He then propped his pillows up, and took to observing the room.
It was several hours later, did Naruto start to stir. Kakashi had fallen asleep waiting for him, the covers pulled up to his face. It was dark out, the only light the stars shining through the window. When Naruto opened his eyes, he saw a seemingly empty room. 'Where is this? This isn't Konoha...' Naruto slipped out of the sheets and almost fell to the floor. His stomach area seemed to be a little sore, and he pulled up the shirt he was wearing to see clean bandages wrapped around his middle. His gear was nowhere to be found, and neither was Kakashi. (He didn't bother to look at the other bed.)
'I need to look around, this is nothing like the Elemental Nations.' He then heard voices outside the door on the other side of the room, hushed whispers a few feet away. Creeping to the door and opening it a crack, the blond saw shadows moving in the light in the hall to the left. The whole building seemed to be made of stone, and very old too. Opening the door wider to slip through, the joints creaked, the sound echoing everywhere. Cringeing in fear of being found, Naruto was surprised the people didn't hear it. Channeling chakra to his hands and feet, he stuck to the wall and crawled over to the light, and peeked around the corner.
"...the walls."
'Huh, what walls?' Looking down, he saw the people. They both wore plain white shirts and pants. One had dark blond hair, and the other had brown hair. 'Woah, that guy's short.' He was looking at the dark-haired one, but he had one scary Yamato's. Naruto continued to listen in on the conversation.
"What should we do about the government, Commander? We can't let them know we found people outside the walls." The short one addressed the tall blonde. "We won't. If we can, we'll enroll them in the army and let them blend in."
"We still need to tell them about Titans."
Naruto, deciding to come back later, went to look for his weapons. Crawling up to stick to the ceiling, he made his way across the hall, the speakers unobservant of the person passing overhead. After passing the hall they were talking in, he went until he saw the another junction in the hallway then dropped down. 'I should start looking for my weapons.' Being in an unknown place without them was a problem. He walked up to one of the doors, and opened it slowly, peeking inside.
The smell came first. It burned his nose and felt like it was in his throat. Pinching his nose close, he opened the door to see giant decapitated body parts around the room. The light from candles few and far in between gave everything an eerie lighting. Walking in further, he looked at the arms and legs placed on bloody tablecloths. He almost hurled when he saw an arm torn open, and medical tools stuck inside. Walking around a corner, he froze, feeling all logic had flown out the window.
A giant, human head was sitting on the largest table in the room, glassy eyes reflecting the light. It was at least three meters had dark brown hair. "Hmm, goodness the formula works for keeping the body parts intact." The voice came from behind the head, and when the person appeared from behind it, he almost had a heart attack. They had a mask and gloves on, all covered in blood. What made him lose all feeling was when the person looked at him.
"So you're awake! We thought you never would get up." Then they started to approach him, bloody tools in hand, that could've been in the gigantic head. Naruto put back a step, then another. He was afraid of ghosts, but this blew it out of the water. He sprinted away and started screaming, ignoring their cries.
Several Hours Ago- A Forest Outside of Wall Rose
Erwin could always be calm in serious situations. A gun could be put to his skull, and he'd find a way out of it. But when Levi came back with the two foreigners, he was at a loss. Their clothes were strange, that's for sure. "What do you think of this, Commander? We found them 30 meters up in a tree. They're both heavily injured." Levi asked. Erwin stared at the people in general. The boy was bleeding all over the horse and Levi, apparently unconscious. The man behind Eld had cuts on his arms, and possibly more on his body, the blood also dripping onto Eld's jacket.
"Put them in one of the carriages, they'll come back with us. Petra, can you try to slow the blood flow until we get back?" He had to keep calm in this situation. The soldiers looked confused with what to do with the strangers. "Y-yes sir." She dismounted her horse, along with Levi and Eld, and they helped her move the people to the carriage. Other men getting off their horses and opening the curtain.
They had gotten on their way through the rolling hills. They saw Titans stumbling across some hills, not paying any attention to them. It was unusual; they would've been spotted already. Then their few numbers would decrease even more, they may not even make it back. "These people couldn't come from Trost; or anywhere in the walls. Their kind of clothes are quite foreign."
"We found these pouches on them," Levi stuck his hand into a bag, and pulled one of the pouches and handed it to him.
"Knives?" They didn't look like your average knife. Nor the four bladed weapons either. "What's this paper?" They had a red border, and on the inside were strange writing. Erwin let it fly in the wind, then as a gust flew by, ripped it out of his hand. It flew in the wind, and soon went out of sight. He didn't know why or what they would use the papers for, but decided to ask it as one of the many questions they had for them.
They had made it back without any more fatalities, but the walk through the gate felt a bit worse this time. The people always lined up against the side of the street, as if to watch a parade of death. It was depressing, but he knew they only came there to see if their loved ones had been one of the soldiers to survive.
They had gotten back to the base, all weary and exhausted. The fort being in the middle of nowhere made it looks serene, despite what had happened several hours ago. After coming up to the stables, a man in a bandana came out.
"How was it this time?" Dita Ness asked. He took to caring and breeding the horses they used. "We found something interesting, but there were more deaths," Levi answered. "You can put the horses away, and we'll show you."
"Show me? What is it?"
"You'll see."
"W-what the!?"
"AMAZING!"
They had gotten Zoe to come see also, and from her reaction, she was ecstatic with the find. Dita was little shocked.
"Where did you find them?!" Zoe had started to poke the alien like people, earning a groan from the silver haired one. "Several meters up in a tree where we were scouting, passed out." She then turned on the blonde, and lightly touched his cheeks. "Are these really real?" After rubbing for a while, she got a snort like sneeze. "A-are you kidding?! What if the government finds out?" Dita honestly couldn't believe they just found people in the middle of Titan territory. "They won't. If they do, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Zoe had stopped poking to two people, who now had their brows furrowed, to listen. "But right now, we need to take care of them. Zoe, you can be present when we talk." "Really?! I'll be able to ask them so many questions! Ooh and the experiments!" Erwin just hoped she wouldn't scare them.
Current Time
(Erwin's POV)
While talking with Levi about their new problem, a scream came bouncing down the halls. Far cries of "wait!" And, "come back!" Were heard from the same direction. A flash of blond and white came rushing down the hall, then came a tired out Zoe. She put her hands on her knees to catch her breath. "Zoe, what's going on?" Erwin asked.
"It was… the boy… you brought back…" She huffed out. Levi's eyes widened, put his fingers to his mouth, and blew an ear-piercing whistle. People started waking up, and came out of their rooms. "Listen up! The blonde boy we brought in earlier is on the run! We need to get him back here, understood?"
(Kakashi's POV)
He heard the scream before the whistle. Looking at the other bed, he saw the sheets looked undisturbed, but the spiky yellow hair was not seen. 'Why do I have a feeling it has something to do with Naruto?' The cyclops opened and closed his fists, having his feeling return. He turned and put his feet on the hardwood floor, and made his way to the door. He looked out to see the soldiers all in their pajamas, running down the hall. The two men he saw earlier were talking at the end of the hallway.
There was also a girl with these goggle-like glasses. He made his way to them, the castle sounds were of feet going down the halls and shouting voices. "What's going on?" They turned to look at him, and the blond man spoke first.
"Your friend is running around the castle after seeing Zoe's research." He replied.
"I walked up to him, but…" The girl started. "I was still wearing my gear, and had my tools in hand. It may have scared him." She nervously laughed. Kakashi may not have known what she was working with, but he knew that Naruto jumped to conclusions sometimes. The ninja started channeling some chakra to his legs, and moved from one foot to the next. "Sorry, I'll get him and tell him what's going on." Curious about what he was going to do,their eyes went to his feet. They didn't expect him to sprint off.
Naruto was running for his life. But the people were everywhere, their voices coming from the halls in front and behind him. When they got too close, he would give them a chop to the neck, a fist to the stomach, or just throw their body at the other ones. Making them all crash to the ground. 'That's weird. They don't seem to want to hurt me.'
"Naruto!" 'Kakashi-sensei?' Naruto turned his head to see his teacher flying through the crowd up to him. "Naruto, they don't mean any harm! Calm down! I talked to them earlier." Naruto skidden to a stop, and let Kakashi catch up. But some of the soldiers didn't hear, and tackled him down as soon as possible. Grunting in pain, the teen wiggled, then hissed. "Get off him, he's okay now." Kakashi stopped at the dogpile. After getting up, Kakashi leaned down to pick up his student. Blood was on the floor, the source- Naruto's stomach.
Erwin, Levi and Zoe came down the hall. "Is he okay?" The girl asked worriedly. "His wound opened up again," Kakashi said as he put Naruto's arm around his shoulder. "We need to go back to the room."
"K-Kakashi, what're you doing?" Naruto mumbled. "We'll tell you everything once we take care of that wound."
"So you mean, that we aren't in the Elemental Nations anymore?" Naruto asked quietly. Erwin had told everyone they could go back to bed, and it was now quiet in the castle again. They had gotten back in the room, and after some persuasion, Naruto let his wounds get taken care of by the girl, Zoe, and was now propped up in bed. Kakashi was also back in his bed after Zoe checked over his wounds. Erwin then decided to tell them about the new world they were in.
"We were wondering if you wanted to enroll in our military and blend in. It may be somewhat difficult, but we can try. Is there anything in your world that is different?" The Commander asked.
"We have ninjas. That's what we are, they're the soldiers of our world." Kakashi explained. "We use chakra and jutsus."
"What is chakra? Some kind of fuel for something?" Zoe was intrigued. "It's our life energy, we use it for jutsus, or summoning techniques."
Naruto brightened up, a smile slapped across his face. "Kakashi that's it! I can summon Gamakichi." The blond slipped out of bed and stood on the floor. Biting his thumb, he wiped the blood across his palm and did the handsigns. Slamming his hand on the ground, he shouted the technique. "Kuchiyose no jutsu (Summoning Technique)!"
The soldiers jumped out of their chairs in surprise when the smoke appeared, and what followed startled them more. A giant, orange and blue frog appeared, and he was wearing a short blue vest. The frog turned to look at Naruto, then slapped him on the head. "Idiot! Where've you been? There's been search parties all over the Fire Country for you two!" The talking frog then turned on the Survey Corps soldiers. "I-it talked…"
"Oi, I'm a frog, not an it! Naruto, what is this place?" The frog snapped. "We… actually aren't in the Elemental Countries anymore." Naruto rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Explain, dammit!" Gamakichi was getting frustrated. "Well, Madara appeared after I went to pick up Naruto, and he tried to take Naruto using his transporting technique. I interfered using Kamui, and…" Kakashi left it at that, leaving out the part when Kyuubi's chakra started leaking out.
They let it sink in, then the frog sighed loudly. "I get it. But there's some bad stuff going on." Gamakichi explained. "Tsunade's in a coma, and we need a Hokage. Danzo had no problem volunteering." Naruto growled. 'Of course the slime would move now.'
"Tell them we're okay, and we're figuring out how to get back. It may take awhile." Kakashi could see Naruto boiling in anger. "Get back as soon as you can, okay?" The frog popped out of sight, the smoke still staring wide-eyed at the spot where the frog was, Erwin asked his question. "When we tell you about our world, will you tell us about yours? I'm still wondering how Naruto got past us in the hallway."
"I crawled on the ceiling. Chakra does that." Naruto answered casually. Zoe looked like her brain was going into overload. The very thought of people being able to do that amazed her. "After we heal… why don't you teach us about your world, and we tell you about ours?"
Several Days Later
They started the lessons today, and they'd be going on until he and Naruto could know everything about the world they were stuck in. After coming to the decision of joining the military, they were going to try to get into the Survey Corps. Levi was going to teach them all the basics, and then enter them in with the 104th Corps. Levi had just walked into the room they would be using, only to see Kakashi sitting at one of the tables, and Naruto nowhere to be found. "Where is he?" He straight out asked. "He left several minutes ago, said he got tired of waiting and wanted to explore." The ninja replied. Levi then turned around and left, looking quite annoyed. "The Commander wanted me to do this since you didn't want Zoe to. Now you just jump up and damn leave." Levi continued mumbling and closed the door. "Not with me you do."
Naruto was bored out of his mind. He couldn't help getting up and leaving. Just sitting there waiting for Levi looking at the wall made him want to go find some Titan to eat him. Well, not that much. He was now wandering the halls, soldiers passing by giving him questioning looks. He was just about to go through a doorway that looked like it led to the basement, when someone grabbed his collar. He was yanked through the air, and slammed on his back on the hard ground. He was then looking into the face of Levi. "H-hey Levi..." Naruto swallowed hard.
"Who told you you could just leave, when I have to do all of this bull. If you want to get around this world, you need to know it's rules." Levi raised his fist. "For example, NEVER ditch lessons."
Erwin was doing some paperwork in his office, when he heard a ear piercing scream echo around the castle.
"Levi's beating up someone again sir."
"That's nice," Erwin said, drinking from a mug of coffee.
After a trip to the infirmary, Naruto was back in the room. He now sported several new injuries thanks to Levi. But now, Naruto knew to stay in his seat. Levi had scored up there with Sakura on the pain scale. What made it worse is that he couldn't heal it like Sakura, but that meant he couldn't get beaten even more. But Levi was MERCILESS; he didn't stop until he was unconscious! When he opened the door to the infirmary to leave, he saw a trail of blood. HIS blood. Apparently Levi dragged his body down the hall.
"Now, let's get started. Humanity had started being eaten by Titans 109 years ago. There is no evidence of how they appeared. They came out of nowhere and started eating humans, the human population speedily decreasing."
" After a while, humanity became an endangered species, and built the three walls." Levi turned around and started drawing three big circles, and four half circles on each of them. "The outermost wall is Wall Maria. This is where most of the common people live. The middle wall is Wall Rose, and has most fairly wealthy people. The innermost wall is Wall Sina. The king, and the wealthiest humans live here..."
The lesson continued on for the rest of the afternoon. What made it better, is that Levi gave them homework. Naruto had stayed up all night finishing it due to the fear of what would happen if he didn't.
THREE WEEKS LATER
"Oh Kakashiiii! Narutooo!"
Kakashi and Naruto were sparring in the fields near the castle. After their first one inside had almost torn up everything and Levi had a rage fit over the mess, they moved outside.
It was Zoe, and she had a huge grin on her face. Which meant she had an experiment planned. The ninja stopped hitting each other,and turned to her. "Yes, Zoe?" Kakashi asked. He had a black cloth wrapped around his head over his left eye. Erwin said he could wear his Konoha headband, but it could be considered suspicious. Since no one in the walls has seen anything like it. He was offered an eyepatch, but as soon as Erwin gave it to him and he put it on, Naruto was walking by and said he looked like a pirate.
"I have something I need to test, can one of you come with me?" She asked. "Well I'm sure.." Kakashi dropped the end of his sentence when he saw that Naruto was no longer there. He slouched. "I guess I can."
She had been making them do all these experiments since they had fully healed. The last one she had wanted to see Naruto's stamina, and how long he could run around the whole castle. He was okay with doing it, but there was a catch. Levi was going to follow him on a horse with his gear on, swords and all. It kept him running for several hours at full speed. 10 minutes after starting, Levi came in and just sat next to Zoe, and watched Naruto run. After passing out due to exhaustion, Zoe examined his body. When he woke up half naked, he wasn't exactly trusting the scientist afterwards. Now he always hid or ran when she came near him.
"What is it you need me to do?" He asked politely.
"I want to see what's under the headband."
"...eh?" Did he hear right? Sure, he's never lifted it since he was here, but you would think she'd assume there's nothing but his eye underneath. "...i-is that all?" "Yep." 'Well isn't that great.'
He and Naruto had promised that some things shouldn't be shared. Naruto just said because he didn't need any more experiments on his being. "I can't do that." He quickly replied. "Why not?"
"Because….LOOK IT'S NARUTO!" "WHERE!"
When she turned herself around, Kakashi shunshin out of there. The only evidence of him leaving was the slowly dropping leaves. When she turned around to see him not there, she silently swore. "Fine Kakashi, but I will find out what you're hiding."
ONE WEEK LATER
"You guys all set?"
They were standing at the entrance to the castle grounds, carriage and horses ready. The sun was starting to rise, the sky a blend of colors and stars fading away. "Yeah. Will we seeing you guys again?" Naruto and Kakashi had been taught everything they could about the world. Some things had been left out due to it being taught at the training camp. Levi got on a dark brown horse and adjusted himself. "You need to stay in the carriage most of the trip. People would think it was weird if they saw silver hair and whisker birthmarks. I know someone there that can get you papers."
Naruto and Kakashi waved one last time, then pulled the curtain back and stepped inside the turned his horse around to face the men. "The trip will take at least a day there and back. Until then..." He put his right fist over his heart and his left fist behind his back. The soldiers copied the action. The cart started rolling across the cobbled ground, and the horses started walking. Soon, the travelers were on the horizon.
"Hey Kakashi-sensei, did Zoe ever see your Sharingan?"
"No, but thank you for abandoning me, my ever so loyal pupil."
"Ero-sennin did it to me all the time. Your welcome."
A/N: The ages of the characters:
All the graduates will be 16 (it was either 15,16, or 17)
The Survey Corps ages are:
Levi-19 Petra-18
Erwin-20 Oluo-19
Zoe-19 Gunther-19
Eld-19
(Tell me if I forgot anyone. My computer isn't working with me.)
Naruto will still be 16, and Kakashi will be 25 (cool? or older?).
The reason why I made this part shorter, is because they'll be coming back here later. I'm tallying up the pairings people gave me suggestions on too. I will try to answer questions anybody's got for me. Go ahead and review.
