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Wakfu: Chronicles of the Lost Ninja

-Chapter 6-

-Last Time-

"Sure… you just 'accidentally' kissed him right on the lips while laying on top of him." Amalia said sarcastically, "If that's true, then perhaps you might be able to explain that jacket, hmm?" She asked making Eva stiffen up.

'CRAP!' The Cra thought as she looked down at herself and saw that she was indeed still wearing Naruto's old jacket. "I, uh… You seeEOUCH!" Her words were cut off by a yelp as Amalia surprisingly grabbed her by the ear and dragged her off.

"We are going to have a long, LONG chat Evangeline!"

Meanwhile, Ruel's eyes widened as he put two and two together and a chuckle escaped his throat. 'Looks like my little trick wasn't just a bit a fiction after all.'

-And Now-

"Could you please stop staring at us? It's starting to get unnerving" Naruto asked as he and the others walked through a dense forest. His question was directed to Amalia, who had kept her eyes locked firmly on both him and Evangeline ever since the… 'incident' yesterday.

"Why? So you two can sneak off for some alone time? I think not!" The plant princess exclaimed.

"For the last time, it was an accident." Eva said with a sigh, her and Naruto's faces getting a light blush as they remembered the accidental kiss they shared.

"Yeah right, I'd sooner believe that Ruel was a charitable saint then that." Amalia said while rolling her eyes, before pausing as she looked around. "Speaking of the old coot, where is he?"

"He went off that way, said something about following his Enutrof instincts." Dally said while pointing off to his left just as several yells of anger could be heard followed by a single high-pitched scream.

"...Five Kamas says we're about to be in a lot of trouble real soon." Eva muttered, her bow drawn and ready to fire.

"Knowing Ruel, that's a sucker's bet." Yugo said while readying his hands to make portals.

"Then let's get out of the way." Naruto said, surprising the others when he made three clones and having them grab Amalia, Dally, and Eva before hopping into the canopy while he did the same with Yugo. And not a moment too soon as Ruel came running in a second later with a horde of angry Bworks chasing after him with bows and spears. 'Hmm, looks like it's time to pull the old switch-a-roo.'

When the old man passed under where they were hiding, Naruto tossed down several smoke bombs, completely covering the area in a cloud of… well smoke. He then created another clone that jumped down, tossed Ruel up to them, and then used the henge to make itself look like him as it ran off in a random direction.

Naturally, the somewhat dim and stubborn ogre creatures fell for the trick and began chasing after the disguised clone with renewed fury. Just in case though, Naruto waited a few minutes after they left before sending another clone down to check the area. Once he got the all clear, he and the rest of the clones dropped back down and set down their passengers.

"Phew, thanks for the sa-OW!" Ruel was cut off when Evangeline and Amalia whacked him over the head. "What was that for?!"

"Whatever you did to get a bunch of Bworks chasing after you." They said at the same time, before looking at each-other in surprise. Amalia then huffed angrily at her friend and turned away with her nose in the air while Eva sighed in defeat.

"All I did was find a pile of junk laying around and figured if people were just going to leave it there then I might as well help myself." Ruel said with a shrug, pulling out a small golden statue of a chubby man in a meditative pose as he spoke.

"So you stole from Bworks? Are you nuts?! Those guys are as defensive about their treasure as an Enutrof!" Amalia yelled, getting right back in the old man's face.

"Oh please, those brutes don't even come close, I have better security for my garbage than what they had set up."

"That is not the point and you know it!"

Tired of the bickering, Naruto walked between the two and pushed them apart. "Enough, let's just get out of here before those guys figure out that they're chasing a decoy and decide to come back for the real deal." He said in a calm but stern way while giving them both a look that screamed not to push it. Luckily, both of them got the message and backed further away from each-other and started walking again.

Unfortunately, not everyone was satisfied with the plan.

"Bah, running away from a fight is the coward's way! I say we wait for those beasts to come back and give them a good thrashing!" Dally exclaimed while willing Rubilax into his secondary form and taking a ready stance, only to yelp in pain when an exasperated Eva grabbed him by the ear and started dragging him along.

Continuing along the path a casual but alert pace, it only took the group another fifteen minutes until they arrived at the other side of the forest. The number of trees around them thinned out almost immediately, leaving behind a massive grassland with a large chasm with a massive log acting as a bridge and covered in patches of wild roses of varying colors.

"STOP!" Amalia suddenly screamed just as they reached the edge of the clearing, her eyes turning wide and fearful.

"Huh? What's wrong Happa-chan?" Naruto asked, looking around for any sign of danger before turning towards her with a confused tilt of his head when he found none.

"Those are demonic roses." The greenette muttered fearfully while jabbing a finger towards one of the groups of flowers. "Their one of the deadliest plants in the world of twelve, a single bite from one will either drive you mad or kill you."

'Bite?' Naruto thought with a raised eyebrow, swiveling his head back towards the flowers. Looking more closely at the nearest bunch, his eyes widened slightly in surprise as he noticed the plants' mostly hidden eyes staring back at him and the rest of the group while wicked jaws salivated with a sinister purplish fluid. 'Okay, yikes. Not even Ino would like those things.'

"We'll have to go around then." Eva said while puling out the map and unrolling it. "Oh most wonderful, magnificent, and knowledgeable of maps, where is the closest place to cross this gorge other than here?" She asked in a monotone as the maps face appeared.

"Ah, how sweet of you," The map said with an annoying laugh that made Eva roll her eyes before it's face vanished and was replaced with a map of the surrounding area. "The next crossing area is eighty-three miles east of here. And I wouldn't recommend trying to cross elsewhere, that gorge is stuffed with active geysers that are known for randomly blasting scalding water." As if to cement this statement, the ground shook lightly, and a torrent of steaming water shot in the air. "And even then, those flowery pests of yours run along the entire length of the chasm itself."

"Most likely because they like all the nutrient rich water the geysers are spraying." Amalia said with a grimace. "Dear Sadida, we'll have to go past those things no matter what we do."

"Unfortunately." Eva groaned, looking over the map thoroughly before rolling it back up with a sigh and pulling out her bow.

"Then we might as well go through here, and I might have just the trick to clear the way." Naruto said while going through a short chain of hand-seals. "Get ready, Fuuton: Diatoppa!" (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough) He exclaimed while inhaling, his chest rapidly expanding to a ridiculous size before he exhaled an extremely powerful blast of air that rapidly expanded.

In less than a second, nearly all the monstrous roses nearby, along with a few boulders and smaller trees were swept up by the jutsu and sent flying into the depths of the chasm. "Okay, that was impressive." Ruel said with a low whistle.

"Thanks, now let's go before the rest regain their wits." Naruto didn't wait for a response as he took off running, with the others quickly doing the same… well, most of them.

"No way! I ain't running from yet another fight! Charge!" Dally yelled at the top of his lungs as he sprinted towards the remaining monsters with Rubilax ready. Smirking widely, he sliced through the evil flowers like a hot knife through butter, massacring dozens with ease.

However, thanks to his battle lust giving him tunnel vision, and his general lack of common sense, the orange-haired warrior didn't notice until to late that for every dozen demonic roses he slashed apart, thirty more would take their place. By the time he did, the poor teen found himself completely surrounded by the poisonous enemies.

Glancing around at the numerous enemies, the normally confident knight gulped nervously. "…oh crap."

"Ugh, that Iop-brained moron!" Eva growled out as she and the others reached the bridge. The Cra fired her bow rapidly, launching dozens of energy arrows at both the plants surrounding Dally and the ones starting to swarm towards them. "We need to get him out of there!"

"On it!" Yugo said, his hands glowing blue before he thrust one in Dally's direction, causing a portal to open directly beneath him that he fell into. The boy then created another portal beside himself and the shushu guardian fell out face first. Yugo was right behind him as he fell to his hands and knees, his breathing ragged.

"Uhh, that never gets any easi-bleugh!" Dally mumbled while slowly lifting his head off the ground, only to cut himself off as his face turned green and he vomited in a conveniently placed bush.

"Serves you right, would it kill you to think before acting for once?" Amalia demanded while grabbing one of the Iop's arms and started dragging him across the bridge.

"Oi! Bitch later, run now!" Naruto yelled after incinerating a large swath of flowers with an overcharged Katon: Danro raita (Fire release: Fireplace Lighter). He took a moment to admire his handiwork before crossing.

"I can get behind that." Ruel said, smashing one last rose under his shovel while he scooped Yugo up into his arms and sprinted across the bridge. A trio of roses tried to follow after him, but were swiftly stopped by a familiar light arrow that managed to pierce through all three at once before exploding.

Unfortunately for Eva, that small distraction kept her focus just long enough for a pair of red roses to climb up on an old root that stuck out to her side and pounce. By the time she turned back, it was to be greeted by the vicious flowers barely an inch away with their venom covered jaws bared. Startled and terrified, the young Cra instinctually snapped her eyes shut and raised his arms up to protect herself.

However, instead of feeling the expected pain of deadly poison being forcefully injected into her body via bite, Eva instead felt a sudden tugging sensation from her navel followed by an overwhelming feeling of vertigo. Falling to the ground, her eyes snapped open and she was shocked to find herself across the bridge with Ruel and Yugo who looked equally shocked.

Confused at what happened, she turned back towards the bridge to where she was standing, only to freeze up at what she saw.

In the exact place she had been just a moment ago, Naruto now stood with a kunai in one hand that was impaled through one flower while the other was set into a partial snake seal…

…and the other rose currently sinking its jaws into it.

"Itai! Itai! Itai!" Naruto yelped, dropping his kunai in favor of ripping the vicious plant off and crushing it with his uninjured hand. "Holy Kami, that hurts like a Meinu! (Bitch)" He hissed while trying to head for the others, only to stumble and fall as the poison now coursing through him messed with both his sense of balance and vision.

"Naruto!" Amalia screamed, letting a mostly recovered Dally go as she turned around and rushed back to help the injured blonde.

"Ugh, don't… don't worry about me, I'm alright." Naruto said as he slowly got back up to his feet, stomping on a rose when it got too close. "Just go, I'll… I'll be right behind you."

Despite his words Amalia didn't stop, she instead continued to run across the log and upon reaching the other side used her brambles to swat aside several dozen roses. She then moved to Naruto's side, grabbed one of his arms and draped it over her own shoulders, and more or less dragged him back towards the bridge where one of Yugo's portals suddenly sprang open.

"Why do girls never listen to what I say?" Naruto asked aloud, earning a soft giggle from the greenette holding him.

"Maybe because you keep telling them to do stupid things like leaving you behind." She quipped as they reached the portal. "Now hold on, we're almost the-AGH!" Her words were cut short as a scream escaped her throat just before she suddenly lurched forward, through the portal and into the hard earth on the other side.

Shaking off the nausea he felt from the teleportation, Naruto weakly raised his head to see Amalia lying next to him clutching her side. The cause, a wilted looking purple rose with blood-stained jaws.

-End Chapter-

AN: Uh-oh, looks like both Naruto and Amalia got poisoned, and if any of you have ever watched the show, then you know which of them is in the most trouble right now. For those of you saying that Naruto should be able to just shrug off the poisoning, I would like to point out that the fact he is still conscious testifies just how much he is resisting its affect. Now, for the current poll results.

Double:35

Single:3

Eva:31

Amalia:29

Cleophe:14

Other:2

Man, you guys really want the double pairing with Amalia and Eva. Those who don't however, better vote fast as I'll be ending the vote next chapter. Thank you for reading and please review.