Sadly I don't own Naruto or the characters, just the storyline, I think…
This is my first fanfic, so no hate plz
I would gladly except reviews with suggestions on what the next chapter could possibly be about, so I have an idea, but idk yet
Btw this is all in Naru's POV, unless I say so
Sorry if it's out of character T-T
Let's just pretend they know what time it is, ok?
Chapter 4
I woke up, with the sun blinding me, with the sun half way on the horizon, but still managing getting through the window and into my face. What a way to wake up. I put the bed sheets over my head. Too bad I don't have wind magic [1] to close the damn shades (A/N they have shades too).
I laid in bed for a little while longer before hearing a knock on the door. I stare at the door for a second and groggily for up from bed and opened the door. It was the same old lady as yesterday, instead giving out breakfast instead of dinner.
"What's for breakfast?" I ask, giving her a smile. She was quiet, and we just stared at each other, then she asked, "Did you say something?" My smile dropped a bit. "Uh… I asked 'What's for breakfast'," I answer back, still in my morning voice. When she didn't answer, I yelled, "What's for breakfast?!" Her eyes widened a bit and said, "Oh, why didn't you say so?" I brought a forced smile to my face, then she continued, "Well, all you put on the list, that you gave us telling us about the foods you liked, was ramen."
She sighed, "So the cooks prepared you ramen." My forced smile turned into a real smile at the mention of ramen. The old lady turned around and grabbed one of the many trays on the food cart and handed it to me. I happily grabbed the tray and back away from the door. "Would you like ramen for lunch, too, or something else?" The old lady asks me, before I begin shutting the door, with my foot.
I looked at her and was about to say "Yes" when I remembered that I had to go down to the castle when the sun is fully above the horizon. "No thanks, I'll be eating somewhere else," I said. I wonder what kind of food they have at the Wolf Castle. The old lady nodded and started moving the food cart down the hallway. "Excuse me, but do you happen to know how late it is?" (A/N That's how they ask, because there are no clocks there) I asked, politely, and maybe a little too loud.
She stopped the cart, looked at me, and said, "The sun is almost fully above the horizon," and continued walking down the hallway, with the food cart. Almost above the horizon…. wAiT….. IM SUPPOSED TO BE THERE WHEN THE SUN IS HALFWAY ABOVE THE HORIZON! IM GONNA BE LATE! I quickly closed the door and set the tray on the table and eating at a non-human rate.
I got dressed in the same brown, ragged clothes and brown shoes as yesterday and put my hair in two ponytails. I ran to the door, opened it, locked it, and stuffed the keys in a patched pocket in my dress. I bolted down the hallway and into the bar area, where the door was to get outside, and almost ran into someone when I opened the door that lead outside. The streets weren't as crowded as yesterday, but it was still pretty busy.
Now, if I remember correctly, the castle should be 4 streets down, to the right. I started heading down the street to the right and began running to the castle. It took a lot of effort, but I somehow managed to get the in a short amount of time. I slowed down when I saw the front doors to the castle about 100 feet away and eventually stopped to look at the beautifully decorated doors.
The doors were big and was decorated in rubies that formed a fire. The fire was in the middle of the two doors, and surrounding it were a bunch of wolves facing the fire and bowing to it. That's not weird at all. I kept staring at the doors, until a surprising voice said, "What can I do for you, miss?" I jumped a little, a little startled, and turned to see a guard, looking around to be in his 40s, looking at me. He chuckled lightly and I awkwardly said, "Oh… Uh, I'm here for that maid job that was open."
The guard raised his eyebrows a bit and smirked, "You know, you'd make a fine maid." I tried so hard not to scrunch up my face in disgust and managed a forced smile. "Thanks," I barely say through my teeth. This guy is seriously disgusting for saying that! He's hitting on me and he's like, what, 30 years older than me! GROSS! Then awkward silence greeted us. "So, uh… Do you happen to know what I need to do?" I asked, trying hard not to make eye contact with this creep.
The guard shifted a bit and explained, "You need to head through those doors there," he points to the castle doors, "and through them is a long hallway that will eventually lead you to the throne room. You will see a guy with weird looking grey hair, and you need to talk to him," the guard stared at me for a moment, then continued, "If he's not there, then look for the lead maid with dark blue hair and pale purple eyes, and she will talk to you." "Thanks," I said, and quickly walked away before the creep could say anything more. I approached the front doors and opened them and started walking slowly in, taking caution.
The inside of the castle was absolutely stunning, it was decorated in colors of red, orange, brown, yellow, and white. I look up to see the ceiling fancied in more rubies, topaz, crystals, and gold. The castle, to say the least, was beautiful, although, mine's still better. If this wasn't an enemy's castle, I actually wouldn't mind living here, although I wouldn't admit it. I kept walking down the hallway and saw a bunch of beautiful artworks.
I looked at them as I kept walking and one caught my eye. I walked up to it and studied it. It was a painting of a wolf and a fox fighting and the fox horribly loosing and bleeding to death. I frowned at the sight of it and felt like breaking the painting and burning it off the wall.
"Do you like it? I painted it myself," a voice said from behind me. I looked behind me to see a weird looking guy with black hair. "I read a book that said people will like your artwork, if you put real meaning into it," he continued, giving me a fake smile. What a weird guy. I looked at him for a moment before turning back to the painting. "So what is the meaning in this painting?" I ask, quietly. "The wolf killing the fox, of course, disgusting creatures they are," he replies, looking at the painting. I give him a weird look. I don't think that's what the book meant.
"My name's Sai," Sai said, looking at me. "Naru," I say in return. "Ah crap, I gotta go and uh...," I pause, almost forgetting why I was there, "Oh yeah, and apply the job as a maid," I continue, giving Sai a fake smile, and slowly backing away from him. "I also read in a book that if someone smiles at you, they are being nice and want to be your friend. That means you consider me as your friend, right?" he asks, giving me another fake smile. I returned the smile and replied, "Sure."
I turned around and walked as fast as I could down the hallway, then walked slower when he was out of sight. That was weird. I saw an interesting looking door to the right of me. The door somehow glowed to me, it was, like, actually glowing! That's interesting, maybe I'll a peep inside. I walk slowly to the door and touched the handle with my hand. I hesitated for a second before opening the handle and peeping my head inside.
It was a pretty dark room, although, I could still see almost the whole room. I heard a noise and directed my head in the direction of the noise. I blushed at the site of a really good looking dude, about my age, with black, and a hint of blue, hair that was oddly shaped into a duck's butt and beautiful black eyes that was like a cold night with no stars.
But I'm not blushing at how amazingly hot he was, I blushed at the fact that he was half naked. I couldn't help but stare at his perfect chest. His chest was perfectly built, muscles and all, and had broad shoulders and muscular, but not too muscular, arms. He had pale skin and his bottom half was covered by the black pants he was wearing. Crap, I shouldn't have done that… The handsome guy looked at me, and I probably looked stupid as hell just standing there.
"Uh…," I said, awkwardly. "Sorry, this must be the wrong room," I say quickly and slammed the door shut. I better get to the throne room, I'm late enough already. I kept heading down the hallway and found myself running down it. I saw the throne room doors and quickly pushed it open walked inside, and slammed the doors behind me.
Surprisingly, there were only maids in the throne room, the king, queen, and two princes nowhere to be found. I searched the room for the gray haired dude, but I couldn't find him either. I slowly walked away from the door and started looking around for the dark blue haired girl instead. My eyes glided around the room until my eyes caught a dark haired girl, looking to be my age, with pale purple eyes.
I walked over to her and tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me." She turned around and stuttered, "D-do you ne-need s-something?" I smiled widely and said, "Yeah, I'm applying for a maid job here and a guard told me that if I can't find a guy with grey hair, that I should see you."
She looked kinda surprised by this and left me confused. "Y-you're a little l-late, but it d-doesn't matter that m-much," the maid said. "Oh, sorry about that, I woke up a little late," I say, giving her an apologetic smile. "I'll go g-get you y-your uniform a-and then af-after, I-I'll give you a t-tour," she stuttered, then she added, "M-my name's H-Hinata by the w-way." Hinata smiled kindly at me and I smiled back, replying, "My name's Naruko, but you can just call me Naru! I hope we can be friends!"
I could use her to get to the room I need to, maybe even have her tell me if they are planning an attack herself, if she knows. "M-me t-t-too! I-I'll g-go get y-you clothed n-now." Hinata walked away and I watched her go. This day hasn't gone the way I thought it would go, creepy old man, weird fake emotion kid, and topless hottie, oh boy, what's next?!
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Thanks for reading this chapter!
I decided to end this here, because if I didn't, I would be writing for hours, plus I just thought this would be a good place to end
Sometimes I switch from grey to gray without realizing, so excuse that
I forgot to upload this on Saturday, so sorry T-T
[1] The Kingdom with Wind Magic is the Bird Kingdom (A Kingdom full of different types of birds, rather than just one breed)