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Wakfu: The Chronicles of the Lost Ninja

-Chapter 2-

-Last Time-

"Hey guys, we're back." Percedal called out as he and Ruel showed up with armloads of dried up vines and roots. However, upon seeing the sight of their friends nursing their injuries, the missing statue, and the unconscious blonde lying on the ground, he felt it prudent to ask the most important question he could think of. "You guys had a fight? Without inviting me?!"

"…Iop brain."

-And Now-

When Naruto awoke, it was to the feeling of being the sorest he had ever been in his life. Blinking the bleariness from his eyes, he found himself still inside that weird cave he had found himself in earlier, only now he was laying on what looked and felt like a pile of cotton and a slightly ragged blanket covered him from the chest down. Not seeing anyone from his current position but hearing undistinguishable chatter, Naruto to sit up only to wince as almost every single joint in his body popped at the exact same time with a series of loud cracks before falling back down with a grunt.

'Kuso! Not a smart idea, not a smart idea at all!' He thought with a grimace, his muscles seizing up erratically. Thankfully, before he could end up hurting himself, an elf-looking girl and an old man popped into view and held him in place until the spasming settled down. When it did, he took in a few gasping breaths before coughing like crazy as the air irritated his suddenly dry throat.

"Easy there lad, de-petrification sickness is quite the nasty experience from what I've been told. Amalia hurry up with that water! The boy's probably more parched than a desert right now." The old man called out behind himself.

"Calm down you old coot, I got it already." A green-haired girl said as she appeared at his side, a makeshift bandage covering her upper arm, a large cup-shaped leaf in her hands, and an annoyed expression on her face. Kneeling at Naruto's side, she lined the leaf up with his lips and slowly started to pour. "You better be grateful, it's not every day you get hand served by royalty you know." She said in joking haughty tone as Naruto happily consumed the refreshing liquid.

*Gulp, gulp* "Haa… haa… thank you," He said hoarsely with a weak smile, relief rushing through him as the water seemed to sooth the aches and soreness a bit. A smile that quickly vanished however as the greenette was shoved out of the way by the elf-girl who got right up in his face.

"Good, you can talk. Now how about you start answering some questions?" She demanded, her voice and expression completely serious as she looked him dead in the eye with suspicion. "Starting with who you are and why you were imprisoned within that statue."

Not seeing any reason to lie, Naruto slowly nodded his head before speaking. "My name is Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto… I'm a shinobi of… Konohagakure no Sato." He said slowly with the occasional cough cutting in. "I was fighting a man… a member of the Akatsuki who… who attacked my village. He… he sealed me in the statue… I don't know why." And it was the truth, last he had checked Nagato had wanted a certain giant fluffy ball of malice he contained, not to turn him into a lawn ornament.

Her gaze narrowing, the elf-girl opened her mouth to ask something else, but was cut off when the greenette dragged her away with a pointed looked, followed by the old man and a kid with a large blue hat. "Dally, keep an eye on him in case he tries anything." He heard one of them say out of sight.

"No problem Ruel, he won't get past me." An unknown male voice said before an orange hair guy holding a small dagger-like sword with an eye walked into view with a cocky smirk.

"Yeah, cause dealing with a sickly blonde brat will be sooooo hard." A deep sarcastic voice said from the sword as the eye flickered from Naruto. "I'm shaking in my prison just thinking about it."

"Oh shut it Rubilax, no one asked for your opinion!" The assumed to be Dally yelled at the sword before plopping down just at the edge of Naruto's vision where he proceeded to get in an argument with his sword when it insulted him again.

'Oh great, another freaky sword. And to make it better this one can even talk.' Naruto thought with a mental groan, thinking back to all the other unusual weapons he had to deal with such as Samehada and the Kusanagi before shaking his head.

'Ugh, not the time for reminiscing, I need to find out if Konoha is alright.' He berated himself. 'Now think, you're extremely exhausted for some reason and need to recover fast. Hm, can't get the Kyuubi's help as he's probably still pretty pissed earlier.' Naruto thought with a frown before mentally slapping himself. 'Duh, senjutsu! The natural energy should speed up my recover a lot.'

With his plan of action decided, Naruto took a long deep breath while closing his eyes. A second later, his entire body went deathly still, with even his breathing seeming to halt as he slipped into a meditative trance and began to draw a minute amount of natural energy into his body.

-With the others-

"What is wrong with you Eva?" Amalia demanded after dragging Eva to another part of the cavern, Ruel and Yugo standing behind her. "Can't you see he's exhausted? He needs to be resting not dealing with you interrogating him."

"I'm just being cautious Amalia. We have no idea who this guy really is or if he's actually telling the truth. For all we know, he's a homicidal maniac who was turned into a statue as a punishment." Eva retorted with a huff as Amalia cringed at the thought. "And so far everything he has told us sounds like a load of dragoturkey dung. I for one have never heard of a place called Konohagakure or of this Akatsuki before, have you?"

"If I may cut in," Ruel said as he got in between the two girls with his arms held up in a placating manner. "While I have never heard of them in such phrasing, I do recognize the words themselves. They're ancient tongue." He said, earning intrigued and confused looks from the trio.

"You mean like the writing where his statue was?" Yugo asked, getting a nod.

"The very same Yugo, which is odd since it has been a dead, almost extinct language for as long as anyone can remember. Some say it even predates the gods themselves." Ruel explained "So that fact this youngster not only knows it but speaks it so naturally is quite odd, especially since he doesn't seem like the… scholarly type to me. He could be a descendent of one of the old tribes, which would explain why his name is also in ancient tongue. Or maybe he's a treasure hunter, which must mean he has a lot of Kam-"

"So what DID he say?" Eva asked pointedly, cutting Ruel off as he was about to go into a rant about money.

"Eh-hem, well I'm a little rusty but I believe he said that his name is either Whirlpool Maelstrom or Whirlpool Fishcake, depends on the context really, and that he is a ninja of a Village hidden by Tree Leaves." The shovel-wielding man stated, earning himself a bunch of odd looks. "As for Akatsuki, it means either dawn or daybreak, again depending on the context."

"…That makes even less sense then when we didn't know what he was saying at all." Eva said bluntly.

"Probably cause the lad's still delirious from de-petrification sickness. An old friend of mine had it once after flirting with a Huppermage's girlfriend, poor fellow thought he was a gobball for three days before coming to his senses." Ruel said with a somber chuckle. 'I wonder how old Toot is doing these days. Probably still playing Gobbowl with the old gang I bet.' "I doubt anything you get out of him will be of any form of coherent until he recovers."

"See, I told you." Amalia said with a victorious smirk as she turned back to Eva. "Now let's just let him rest for a bit. Once he's all better you can interrogate him all you-" The leafy girl suddenly stopped midsentence, her head snapping back towards where their 'guest' and Dally was while a large shiver ran through her. "Do you feel that?"

"What? Is something wrong?" Eva asked worriedly while reaching for her bow, Ruel holding his shovel threateningly, while Yugo's palms gained a soft blue glow.

Instead of answering verbally, Amalia started walking back the way they had come from in an apparent daze. Stumbling past Dally, who was still arguing with Rubilax and hadn't noticed her at all, she soon stood above Naruto with a look of awe on her face. "He's so… so peaceful, so welcoming." She muttered while attempting to get closer only to get held back by Ruel and Yugo.

While they were busy doing that, Eva took a look at Naruto with narrowed eyes as she spotted an odd orange coloration forming around his eyes. Drawing her bow, she pulled back the string as a yellow energy arrow formed and she held the tip right up to his throat. "Stop whatever it is you are doing to the princess right now or else you're going to have a new hole to breathe through." She said coldly, pressing the tip against his neck only to stare in shock when it couldn't pierce his skin.

She was then greeted with the sight of yellow eyes with rectangular pupils as Naruto's eyes snapped open and locked with hers. Faster than the elf-girl could blink, Naruto had gotten within her guard and knocked her an inch the wall with a palm strike to her abdomen. It was only thanks to Naruto's weakened condition AND him holding back a lot that she wasn't a bloody smear.

Speaking of which, Naruto had slowly gotten up on his feet with his legs wobbling badly, his breathing heavy, and sweat already pouring from his brow when he was suddenly bowled over by Amalia after she managed to escape from her friends' grasp thanks to the distraction. Expecting an attack, the blonde prepared to strike her away as well only to be understandable baffled when the girl suddenly wrapped her arms around his chest and started nuzzling her head against his chest with a content sigh.

"Uhhhhh, what are you doing?" He asked in confusion while prying the girl off of himself with his senjutsu enhanced strength.

"So warm, so cozy, so amazing." Was Amalia's response as she struggled to get out of his grasp until he 'gently' tossed her across the room where she collided with Eva and Dally, who had just finished freeing the girl from the wall.

"Okay, I take back what I said earlier. This guy packs a wallop." Rubilax's muffled voice said out from the pile of bodies covering him.

Struggling back to his feet, Naruto turned to the two remaining standing people in the cave, the old man and the hat kid. Seeing their guarded stances but sensing no real hostility from them, he slowly raised his hands up in surrender while his eyes slowly turned back to normal. "Easy, I don't want to fight."

"You could have fooled me," Ruel said, glancing at his down companions while pointing his shovel at the whiskered teens throat.

"I was only defending myself against Surudoi and Happa over there." Naruto said, slowly sitting down as his legs started to give out under him. "They were the ones to jump me out of the blue like that."

"Only because you did something to Amalia." Yuga said while pointing his glowing hands at him.

"I have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't do anything to this Amalia person you keep talking about." As soon as Naruto finished speaking, an arrow made of ice struck his side and caused his body to rapidly freeze over until only his head was left exposed.

"Then you won't mind chilling for a bit and explaining that odd eye trick of yours then, would you?" Eva asked rhetorically while dusting herself off, a small trickle of blood oozing from her lip as she glared at the imprisoned blonde.

"Whatever you say Surudoi-san, not like I have much choice in the manner." Naruto said with a roll of his eyes. Despite how he was acting, he was still exhausted as hell and even if the ice wasn't encasing him he doubted he'd make it more than five feet before collapsing again.

"What did you just call me?" Eva asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Uh Surudoi-san duh. I have to call you something since you haven't given me your name yet."

"That's not what I… ugh Ruel what did he call me?" The elf-girl asked with a sigh as she rubbed her forehead.

"Ms. Sharp, it's actually quite fitting if I do say so myself." The old man said with a chuckle while Dally and Amalia finally got back on their feet.

Rolling her eyes, Eva stumbled over to where Naruto was imprisoned and crouched down till they were eye level, keeping another ice arrow trained on him the entire time. "Well then… whiskers," A grin spread across her lips when she saw Naruto's lip twitch slightly in annoyance. "Start talking."

"Hai Hai, calm down would you, no need to be so harsh Surudoi-san. The Gama eyes were just a side-effect of Sennin Modo, I was using it to boost my recovery some. I have no idea why it affected your friend like it did…uh we are talking about Happa-san over there right?" Naruto asked while tilting his head towards Amalia as she and Dally finally started to get up. Unfortunately, as the greenette was getting up she tried to use the wall Eva had crashed into for support only for it to end up falling apart into rubble that tumbled all over the orange-haired boy, much to his sword's amusement.

"Yeah, that would be Amalia," Eva said in dull tone as she watched the girl apologize before turning her attention back to the iced blonde. "So what exactly is this Sennin Modo?"

"It's a technique I learned from my summons, the Gama clan. I use it by connecting to nature and drawing in natural energy to create senjutsu chakra." Naruto explained, getting Eva's eyes to widen before she facepalmed.

"…That would definitely explain Amalia's reaction," Ruel said while Eva nodded.

"Yeah, Sadidans are very in tune with nature, so someone tampering with it would definitely make them act strangely. Especially in Amalia's case given she's a Sadida princess." She said while slowly lowering her weapon. "Speaking of which, how are you doing over there princess?"

"If any of you ever talk about what just happened again I'll have you thrown in the royal dungeons until you're Ruel's age!" Amalia yelled with a massive blush on her face as she refused to look at Naruto directly.

"I'll take that as 'I'm okay.'" Eva said with another sigh before sitting down and reluctantly allowing her ice spell to end. "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now, but know I'll be keeping an eye on you Whiskers."

"Whatever you say Surudoi-san," Naruto said while brushing some of the melting ice off his shoulder.

"Now that we've all calmed down, perhaps we can talk a bit more civilly," Ruel said while taking a seat himself, chuckling again when he heard two loud growling noises coming from the pair of blondes as they grabbed their stomachs at the same time. "And preferably over a good meal by the sounds of it."

"Yeah, something to eat would be absolutely delightful right now." Amalia said while plopping down next to Eva, her face still red as she stared at the cave floor.

"Uh, guys," Yugo said, getting everyone's attention. "Shouldn't we help Dally first?" He asked while pointing to the still buried orange-aired boy.

"Don.. worra abo.. meh, thish is no…ing, I'll …e out of he.. …o …ime." Dally's muffled voice called out as one of his free hands made a thumbs-up sign.

"You heard the Iop, he's fine, now let's get some grub going finally." Ruel said while making a simple firepit that he lit by making sparks with his shovel. Then reaching into the bag hanging from one side, he pulled out a variety of fruits, vegetables, and fish that he was about to start frying up when Naruto asked a simple but very powerful question.

"What's a Iop?"

-End Chapter-

AN: Dally's muffled Translation: "Don't worry about me. This is nothing, I'll be out in no time."

Surudoi-san: Ms. Sharp, reference to how Eva kept trying to stab or shoot Naruto with both words and weapons

Happa-san: Ms. Leafy, for Amalia's odd (to Naruto) plant-like attire.

Sorry if this chapter was kinda boring. Eva's reaction is quite self-explanatory, her job is to protect Amalia and as stated in the chapter, Naruto was a complete unknown, so she was naturally weary of him. Amalia's reaction to his sage mode is also pretty simple as if you've watched the show you would see just how connected to Nature she and her kind are. Speaking of, while I couldn't find anything to prove or disprove it, I am under the assumption that Naruto could use his sage mode to boost his healing and recovery rate when used outside of combat. As for his current condition, think of it as that tired achy feeling you get when you sleep in too much multiplied a thousand-fold, and before anyone complains about it, he'll be fully recovered in a chapter or two. Thank you for reading and please review.