Welcome to another installment of From Love to Hate: Crossing Paths.
Dude! I love the way this story is going. To tell you the truth, when I first started the story, I wanted it to be a angst slash drama. As you could see by the beginning all the drama and the angst and the hate and the feelings. And I realized, how am I going to involve the action into the fic? I thought about this for months, and I found it, I always been a fan of sci-fi and just straight out weird things. don't get me wrong things won't go over the top with strange monsters, but creatures like 'fallen ones' and 'scavengers' are fun to play with. The drama and stuff might come up every now and then but it wont be as intense as it was at the beginning.
Anyways! Moving on. This is the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
So that's the village huh? Its not that bad.."
"Well when you have a village covered in pitch black clouds and no way to get in without getting caught. Yeah, I guess its not that bad Kakashi." Nanashi replied sarcastically.
"could you two stop the bickering and actually think about how we're going to get in?" Nami snapped. "Mitsu, what do you think?"
"I got no idea." Massive sweet drop. Nami moved on.
"How about you Sasuke?"
"..."
"You Naruto?"
"Well there is one way.."
Naruto was cut off as a massive shuriken was launched at them, which was easily deflected by a very pissed off Nanashi.
A couple of seconds later two formal dressed officers appeared. They were wearing all black suit with ranks and ribbons properly placed.
"State your names and business in Yamigakure."
"We're on a escort mission from konoha."
The officer inspected the group.
"And who are you escorting?" Nanashi pushed Mitsu forward with a little resistance coming from the vamp.
"And your name is?"
Mitsu looked straight ahead, he was looking passed the officers into something only he could see. A tap on the shoulder from Nami snapped him out.
"Oh my! Where's my manners! My name is Mitsu. Nice to meet you." Team seven was having a very hard time finding out if he was serious or not.
"Sounds familiar." With some suspicion the officer replied. Not skipping a beat.
"Its a common name." His voice reverted back to its usual dry monotone. "But I'm afraid its my turn to ask a question."
"We ask the questions around here. So listen-"
"Such a fool. Do you really think I was asking you? Now. I only got two questions. 1, why are officers outside. the villages walls? 2, why are they surrounding us?"
Team seven was on full alert. Right on cue about a dozen officers appeared around them.
"What kind of game are you playing! This could cause a war!" Nanashi yelled. Team seven stood there ground, their orders were to kill on sight and while Kakashi and Nanashi were on the defensive they obviously didn't want to start a fight.
"Its been a while Mitsu." Said one of the officers his voice coming out feminine and low, the man reached for the back of his neck pealing his face off to reveal it was a dark haired girl with ruby round eyes.
"Do I know you?" Mitsu replied completely confused. The girl face faulted but recovered quickly and smirked.
"You were always the forgetful one." At this Mitsu just raised a eyebrow.
"No, I'm pretty sure I don't know you." He deadpanned. The woman anger spiked as she gritted her teeth.
"Ugh! Your so annoying Vale, I swear." Team seven looked at Mitsu confused.
"Vale I thought your name was Mitsu? What's going on here?" Nanashi yelled at a still lost Mitsu.
"You know if I had a pocky for every time that happened, I'll be.. What am I saying anyways. Who exactly is this Vale you speak of?"
Now the girl was starting to get mad. "Vale stop playing games! We've been trying to get in contact with you for the last century! Don't tell me you forgot again!" A tick mark developed on her head.
"Okay now your just talking crazy." Mitsu said.
"Capture them." Surprisingly the other officer talked for the first time his voice was feminine too but it made no move towards removing its mask.
"You and what army?" Mitsu said. The clearing was surrounded by scavengers and fallen ones as soon as he said those words. "Pretty nice army." Mitsu said raising his hands in the air. Team seven pulled out their weapons.
"Stand down. There's no point we wont win." Mitsu replied and distastefully Nanashi nodded.
"Good boy. Tie them up, let's take them back to H.Q."
There was several thumps, and Team seven was layed out on the floor, all of them unconscious.
"We have much to talk about Vale. Drop the ridicules disguised." The woman in the still masked officer outfit said. Mitsu smirked as his face melted away by fire. The young man didn't change much only his jaw got more defined and his eyes grew a slit. His black hair turned white.
"You know sisters, I was hiding from you for a reason. Why must you always ruin my day?" The know named Vale said.
"Shut up." The masked officer cut it. " Is that him?" The masked woman said sending a small glance at Nanashi. Vale looked at the down jounin.
"When you say him-"
"Don't act stupid." The ruby eyes girl snapped. "Is that him."
Vale smirked. "Yeah, that's him. Now can you leave me alone?"
"After we kill the rest and make sure he co-operates with us-"
"Oh I'm sorry sis, I can't let you do that. You see, these kids have managed to catch my attention and seeing them die so soon just won't do. You could have him. But the kids are off limits." The scavengers started to move forward not to happy with the way their leader was being talked too.
"What makes you think I'll listen to you?" The masked face said rather coldly. Vale just smirked.
"You wouldn't want your little boyfriend to die now would you?" Vale said a blade appeared right over the head of Nanashi. From the cold expression on the mask face Vale knew he won.
"Well don't just stand there, I wanna go see this H.Q."
Minato sighed he was in another council meeting and while it wasn't to bad this time he was slowly gaining a head ache.
"No meko, I won't allow you to use the Hokage monument to plant your cabages." With a sigh, he continued. "Is there anything else?" 'Please let their be nothing else.'
This time Kushina spoke up. "It has come to my attention that you sent my son-"
"Our." Minato corrected, gaining a little glare but even so she moved on.
"On a mission, me being the clan head I feel you stepped over your boundaries as hokage when you took both my only shinobis on a mission and didn't send me a memo."
Minato nodded. "I see but remember I'm the Hokage while you do hold some sway over them, I am the one in control."
"You forget this is not a dictatorial government."
"Are you sure Kushina-san? Then please explain what does the title of Hokage signify. I control all military personals, I decide what laws could be placed, a monarch goverment we are not but if not dictatorial then what?"
Kushina grit her teeth. "A corrupt leader should not be on the seat if it thinks so low of its council and clan head."
"You miss understood what I said. I assure you, all of you got some kind of power but I am the one in control of anything big. I can't tell you what to do with your clan or what to teach but I could do many more things."
The council room was quiet this was the first time in months that Minato made any effort to limit the power of the Uzumaki. Ever since kushina took that seat she's been trampling trough the council. It was nice to have her placed in a predicament where the hokage wouldn't budge.
Kushina sighed and nodded. "Yes Hokage-sama." Minato smiled.
"If there nothing else, this meeting is called to a conclusion." With that he walked through the back door dropping his Hokage robes and slumping into his Hokage chair.
"I let you win that." A familiar voice ranged through Minato head.
"I know." Minato replied opening his eyes to a tomato head girl.
"Dinner at my house?" Minato asked. Kushina didn't seem to catch it as she moved on.
"Why must we still let the council think we still hate each other?" Kushina sighed.
"Its the only way they'll support either of us. As long as they think we hate each they'll be more willing to listen to us because they think were enemies. Council bunch of drama queens."
"Dinner for two?" Minato asked with a small smirk. Kushina smiled before turning around.
"Nice try." The sound of the door slamming behind her took Minato out of his depressed state.
"I wonder how SPEAK is doing..." With that he dug into his paper work.
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"Your H.Q sucks." Vale said. They were in the middle of a abandon factory that was innovated inside too look like a busy office and underground there was a jail where the other members of team 7 resided.
"Shut up Vale." Said the ruby eyed mistress still wearing the bottom portion of her disguised.
"So what have you too been up to anyways? You know besides trying to take over the world and yatta, yatta, yatta!"
The masked woman shoulder seemed to deflate a little but kept walking. Its been so many years, and this moron still managed to stay the same. Its like he doesn't even realize time passes. He's such a goof-ball and to think he has the power to kill us, the irony is sickening. She took a side glance at the white haired man, but once I complete my plan I will no longer need him... And then, well, I'll just let him go. Maybe he'll get killed and I won't have to get my hands dirty.. Unlikely but its a fun thought.
"You do know I just heard all of that right? But then again you were always the one with the weakest mental blocks." Vale said nonchalantly. The woman stopped for a minute before removing her mask, her light green eyes piercing his bloody ones.
"Do you think I care if you heard me?"
Vale smirked. "Yes. Yes, you do." the woman snarled.
"We're here." Yelled the ruby eyed girl who was looking at the two with a bit of amusement.
They entered the room. It was dark, really dark, before a candle came on.
"Oh, that's so much better. Ever heard of a fucking light bulb you sons of bitches, like a fucking candle could so any-" the whole room was illuminated in the blink of a eye as the small candle ignited ten folds. The room was full of night crawlers and scavengers... They were all over the wall and they were all staring at Vale.
"Mitsuuu."
"You know I was joking right? Hehe." Vale said backing up, his eye twitched when he felt nothing but stone behind him.
"I'm sure you are familiar with my babys Vale or should I call you Mitsu? You lead me on for many years with that name, to think you were really Vale.. How stupid did you think I felt when I found out? I sent millions of my babys after you over the pass 50 years and as you see they don't like you very much." A man in the middle of the room spoke he had his back turned to them.
"I see my reputation proceeds me." Vale said with a mock bow. The scavengers all took a step forward. Vale on his part just smiled. Placing the knocked out Nanashi on the floor.
"Well I'll take my leave now." Vale said turning around and coming into contact with a fallen one. He felt both his arms get grabbed from each side no doubt the girls from earlier. And to add salt to his wounds. He felt two fingers press against the back of his neck.
"Can't we all be friends?" Vale asked.
"Thank you for coming to me and bringing the sacrifice. It was a good thing you didn't let them kill those kids I heard one of them is the jinchuriki of the nine tail fox, such a good tool. Take him away." The man said. A small triangular tattoo appeared in the back of Vales neck.
"I was a fool." Vale said.
"For falling for such a simple trap?"
A flash of anger went across Vales face before it disappeared.
"No, for not killing you all those years ago." And with that he let himself get dragged out and let that linger in the air.
The man eyes were wide as he saw them exit the room. Before he turned around and walked into the center of the room and took a sit in a meditation position.
"You would never grow up Vale."
"I'm starting to hate my job." A tied up Nami said. They were all hanging from the ceiling elevated over a whole pit of spikes. The rope was wrapped around there legs making it impossible to swing and stick to the walls with their legs.
"Stop complaining. Where did they take Kakashi and Vale?" Naruto asked. Sasuke was looking over at the far side wall.
"Guys." Sasuke said in a hushed tone. "You might want to be quiet." They looked at him skeptically.
They all looked at where he was looking and gasp. Kakashi was pinned to the wall in a crucified manner but nothing to serious he was alive but the amount of crawlers around him was amazing. It was the perfect open trapped. Who ever did this knew they wouldn't leave without their partner and if you went near him the crawlers will attack and with the spikes in the bottom there was no win..
"I'm starting to hate my job." Nami repeated again. Naruto and Sasuke just sighed. They were screwed. So this was how it ended? They were stripped of their weapons, and left in a room with nothing to do but wait for the end. A light sob came from Nami and Naruto and Sasuke tried not to let it bother them but after awhile it was to much, surprisingly, Sasuke took the initiative.
"Its gonna be Okay Nami we'll get out of here."
"SHUT UP! NO WE'RE NOT! THEY TOOK NANASHI, KAKASHI'S CRAWLER FOOD, WERE STUCK HERE AND WE CAN'T GET OUT WITHOUT DYING! FACE IT WE'RE ONLY KIDS WE BIT OFF A LITTLE MORE THEN WE COULD CHEW! AND ITS ALL NARUTOS FAULT BEING ALL MANLY. I SWEAR I HATE YOU. NOW WE'RE GONNA DIE." The tears were coming down hard and Naruto and Sasuke stood silent till Naruto broke the silence with a chuckle.
"WHAT'S SO FUCKING FUNNY UZUMAKI?" Nami yelled fed up with the situation. This caused him to blow up into even more laughter.
"I think he finally lost it Uchiha." Nami said to Sasuke. Sasuke was looking at Naruto with a raised eyebrow. The laughter died down and the silence became sickening again.
"I didn't know you were such a baby Nami." This stuck Nami hart like lightning. Naruto voice was soft but cold, a voice he hasn't used since he arrived all those years ago in konoha. "Don't worry, I know this is my fault and I'm going to get us out of here even if I got to die trying! I would be brave enough for both of us, even if you are nothing more then a kid. This goes for you too Uchiha if you think this is my fault say it now."
Silence was his answer.
"So that's how you both feel? If we get back to Konoha, I'll be sure to tell Hokage-sama that I'll like to be removed from this team... And placed in a team were they actually have heart.. Ever since I was a kid my mother told me only the strong survive. My mom told me that's why I must protect the weak, that is why it is my solid oath to protect the both of you. My strength will cover your cowardices."
The speech left Nami speechless she couldn't believe she just blamed him for everything and he comes around and said he's willing to die for her to fix his mistake. That they don't have to be scared as long as he's around.. That was the determination her dad was talking about the stubbornness of the Uzumaki.. Their unwillingness to give up.. And when I asked him what do we have? The Namikaze? He just smiled and looked away.
"Nothing compared to them. Now get back to practice."
She frowned. Sasuke looked a little more careless but the small curve at the edge of his mouth said it all.
"Nice speech bro. To bad it only managed to place their hopes in a useless person."
"MITSU." Was the combine reply of the three kids.
"Shhh, don't call me that around here those things don't like that name." The dark haired man said pointing at the night crawlers on the wall.
Before Team seven noticed something.. Mitsu was floating in mid-air... Moving pass that, Nami spoked.
"Release us!" Mitsu brought a hand to his chin.
"No."
"What?!" She replied her temper rising her eyes flashed red. Mitsu raised a eyebrow 'so that's the one.'
"Well unless you all agree to something."
Naruto frowned, Nami was releasing a little too much killing intent if he didn't know any better he'll say she was about to bring 'it' out. Which wouldn't be good for no one.
"And that it?" Naruto asked trying to stall for time and give Nami time to calm down.
"I want too see it all. The very top of your powers, I want you all to not hold back put everything you have into this fight. I'll release yah but I won't help you get your sensei. And when pandemonium brakes out I want too see all of your power. And hey maybe you'll be lucky enough to catch my full attention."
"And if we die?" Sasuke asked.
"Then you don't deserve my full attention."
Naruto, Nami and Sasuke looked at one another.
"If you release Kakashi." Naruto said.
"Done." Mitsu said.
They all nodded. None of them knew just how much they could do, if they lost control of their powers here then... Well let's not think about that. Naruto was more worried about Nami and Sasuke then himself.
"Let's go." Naruto said. It was finally time.
That's all sorry for the delay school has kept me really busy. I'm actually in school right now! But the show must go on. Enjoy.
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