Disclaimer: I do not own the anime/manga "Naruto" or the video game "Until Dawn", and the only thing I own is this alternate/parallel story that I wrote for fun.
Mysterious Cold (V2)
Part 1: Attentive
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Rasengan!" Attacks / Skills / Jutsu / Ki / Techniques
Reading / News / Intercoms
The flapping of a small butterfly's wings today can cause a devastating hurricane in a few weeks.
The smallest decision can radically change the future.
Your actions will determine, the unfolding, the story.
Your story is one of many possibilities.
Choose your actions carefully.
A bus was driving slowly but surely through a snowy forest on its way to the last bus stop. In said vehicle curiously there were only two passengers, a boy and a girl.
"Change that serious face, Naruto."
The young male (18) known as 'Naruto' has a semi-tan complexion and is 6'5" tall; his build is large and muscular. He has spiky black hair and dark charcoal eyes. Another interesting thing about his face is the three pairs of black marks on his cheeks, which he painted himself with a permanent marker. His clothing consists of a blue coat with white lines, black leather and with the initials "SAB" in violet on the chest area, this coat extends to the chin at the top and to the knees at the bottom, wearing it together with black gloves, and finally, he wears a pair of gray winter slippers.
Our beloved protagonist took his eyes off the window and instead looked at his companion.
"This is my happy face, Samantha."
The young woman (19) known as 'Samantha/Sam' (Surname: 'Giddings') has a fair complexion and stands 5'7'' tall. She has blonde hair tied in a bun at the back of her head, with a few locks framing her face and hazel eyes. Her clothing consists of a purple long-sleeved shirt, a black leather jacket, a red scarf, a black lingerie shirt, a red plaid skirt, black stockings and gray boots with white trim. In addition, she also wears a fur hat.
The blonde smiled in amusement at the response from the young man in the strange, but curious coat.
"Thank you for coming, Naruto."
The spiky black-haired young man's expression softened a bit at those words from his traveling companion... He didn't deserve the friendship of someone with such a good heart.
"I owed you..." muttered Naruto with his eyes on the roof of the bus. "For not going to the prom," he said with a great sense of guilt.
The hazel-eyed girl shrugged her shoulders without giving that matter much importance.
"Relax, Naruto. Josh danced with me, so I wasn't alone," Sam assured sincerely, but still a small part of her would have wished a certain young man had gone to the dance.
Naruto took his eyes off the ceiling and again focused them on his schoolmate, but he didn't know what to say because if he told her the truth of his absence they would never be able to see each other again and that was something he would rather avoid.
"Anyway, let's put that topic aside," Sam commented with a sigh at the end of her words. "I'm happy that this year if we can all get together," she said with a slight smile.
The coal-dark-eyed young man understood what one of his few friends was referring to.
"Yes... Last year there was a big storm in this area that paralyzed all the roads, right?" asked Naruto with a thoughtful expression as he remembered that historic day where it snowed like never seen before.
The blonde nodded her head with a slightly annoyed expression because the damn storm had ruined their outing and with that her chance to propose to Naruto at that moment, but now she had another chance to achieve her goal.
"Yeah... Josh said-"
{Frenade}
Both Naruto and Samantha put the conversation aside because they had apparently reached their destination.
"Last stop. Blackwood Pines."
Both young men nodded in thanks to the driver and followed by getting off the bus with their respective luggage.
"It's so beautiful by day, but at night it feels menacing, like a sleeping giant," Sam opined with his gaze on the snowy forest and towering mountain. "What do you think, Naruto?" she asked as she arranged her scarf and listened as the bus drove off leaving them alone.
Our beloved protagonist stretched his body a bit and also settled his backpack on his shoulder.
"Well... It's quiet. I like it," Naruto replied with his gaze on the semi-dark forest, which was illuminated only by the little (it was a bit cloudy) moonlight and of course the road illuminated by the artificial light of the bulbs.
They both walked towards the entrance of "Blackwood Pines", where the hut of the watchman of the then was, but strangely he was not there and the light of the hut was on.
"Hmm?" thought Naruto with mild interest as he felt that something or someone was watching them, but he couldn't check if he wasn't closer (since the energy was so weird) and he couldn't leave Samantha alone to see who was stalking them either. "That's weird..." He couldn't help but mutter to himself.
The hazel-eyed young woman noticed her traveling companion looking towards a specific spot in the forest and out of imitation did the same, but she didn't see anything.
"Is something wrong, Naruto?" asked Sam with a worried expression at the possibility that a bear or wolf was about to attack them.
The spiky black-haired young man opened the wooden door and waved his friend through first.
"No..." Furensō shook his head, but he didn't let his guard down because he was accompanied with someone who couldn't defend himself against an unknown animal that has the mass similar to a bear. "What a strange energy." He thought with a frown.
After that, they both continued on their way to the cable car station, but suddenly had to stop because of the metal gate that was obstructing their path. One curious thing was the paper note taped to one of the metal bars. Sam tore off the note to see what it said and it read as follows:
The door is broken, jump over the top!
Chris
The blonde blinked a couple of times and when she turned the note over she saw that it was directions to Blackwood Pines.
"What the...?" exclaimed Sam in disbelief. "Shit," she cursed as she focused her gaze on the snow and ice-strewn stone wall they would have to climb to cross.
The young man with eyes as dark as coal watched from above the note and seeing his traveling companion's gaze on the wall made him act.
"… Leave it to me," Naruto said in a calm tone as he pushed the metal gate a bit and it made a creaking sound from the rust and ice accumulated from years.
The hazel-eyed young woman watched as her traveling companion smoothly opened the metal gate.
"Woah... How did you do that, Naruto?" asked Sam with a surprised tone accompanied by a curious expression.
Our beloved protagonist arranged both gates of the gate so that they were permanently open.
"I train a lot," Naruto replied with a small smile and with his fist clenched in front of his face as he turned around to look at his friend.
The blonde rolled her eyes at her friend's response, but couldn't help but smile back.
"Yeah, yeah, come on beefy," Sam said with an amused tone.
They were both walking for quite a while because Sam was distracted for a few minutes by a squirrel and in the process they had to climb a lot of stairs. But at last they reached the cable car station and found two people sitting on a bench next to it.
"Chris! Beth!" exclaimed Sam happily as he headed towards his two school friends.
The young man (19) known as 'Chris/Christofer' (Surname: 'Hartley') has a fair complexion and his height is 5'11''. He has dirty blond hair in the style of a faux hawk and blue eyes along with black rectangular-rimmed glasses. His attire consists of a light blue jacket layered over a green commando-style sweater, a blue collared shirt and white t-shirt with the text "Coach" and "Loop", and a pair of jeans along with brown hiking boots.
The young woman (19) known as 'Beth' (Surname: 'Washington') has a tan complexion and is 5'8'' tall. She has semi-short dark brown hair, which reaches her chin with bangs under her white cap and brown eyes. His attire consists of a gray half-sleeved sweater, dark gray yoga pants and a pair of cream-colored boots. She also wears a watch on her wrist and a fuchsia winter coat.
Naruto watched silently as the two young men got up from the bench and were now heading towards their friend with open arms to give each other a tight hug... Too much drama for his liking.
"Sam!"
The spiky black haired young man again had that feeling that something was watching them and prepared himself for the worst since he was the only one in the group who could defend himself, but the problem was that if there were more than one enemy he wouldn't be able to protect those present (Beth, Chris and Sam)... Not without revealing his powers, obviously.
"Hello, Naruto!"
Our beloved protagonist had to snap out of his thoughts when he heard the female voice calling him.
"Beth, hi." Naruto returned her greeting and also saw Chris greeting him with a thumbs up, so he respectfully nodded his head silently.
The chestnut had snuck up on Naruto (well, actually, not because he noticed her presence xd) and had done so to take a closer look at the young man in the peculiar coat as he has an imposing look that over comes out of the others.
"I'm glad you came," Beth said with sincerity that was accompanied by a smile.
The dark-eyed charcoal young man became somewhat nervous at the brown-eyed girl's stare because he was not used to this level of attention.
"Yeah... Sam said something similar to that to me," Naruto commented with his gaze on Samantha (who was less than a meter away talking to Christofer), though his words didn't go down too well with Beth because she let out an annoyed sigh. "Huh, did I say something wrong...?" he thought with a confused expression.
An awkward silence ensued where none of the four knew what to say, until this awkward moment was interrupted by a certain blonde with glasses.
"Well... I've found something amazing!" exclaimed Chris loud enough to get the attention of his friends and he also raised both arms to make it more dramatic.
Everyone present had a different reaction to the blue-eyed young man's words:
Sam averted her gaze from the interaction between her best friend's sister as she instead listened with a touch of curiosity to Christofer. Beth rolled her eyes as she knew it was "that amazing thing" her friend found. And Naruto... Well, he wasn't paying much attention because his gaze was in the forest keeping an eye on the stalker that stalked them from the bushes and snowy pines.
End of Part 1
Uploaded: 08/06/24
Updated (Corrected): ?/?/?
Omake 1
Naruto was about to taste his instant miso ramen that he had bought from a new store that had opened yesterday, really customs never change, even if he was reborn in new world like the one he was in now.
"Hey, big guy!"
Our beloved protagonist reluctantly stopped eating when he heard that familiar female voice... it wasn't the person, he just doesn't like to be interrupted when he eats his ramen, but, anyway, he had no choice but to see what his classmate wanted and said the following:
"Emily... What do you want?"
The young woman (18) known as 'Emily/Em' (Surname: 'Davis') has an olive complexion and is 5'7'' tall. She has black, shoulder-length hair and brown eyes and a birthmark above her left eyebrow. His clothing consists of a dark cerulean blue jogger style jacket with a low collar, covering a plain white t-shirt and a silver necklace and black jeans along with white hiking shoes.
She formed a smile at the way the most popular boy of the school treated her, he really was perfect and she was not the only one who said it: most of the girls thought the same, it was a miracle that he was not yet conquered by one of them... she slyly looked at the crotch of her prey and licked her lips. The reason? Simple, she would be the first to taste Naruto's big friend, that was a promise on her part and she also planned to tame him to her liking.
"Always so cold and mysterious... I like it."
Naruto didn't know what to say to that comment from the most popular girl in his class and instead he just stared at her silently, he was alert, and this he had learned from his past life from Sakura's beatings of him.
"It's okay, it's okay... Don't be mad." Emily waved her hands in a sign of peace and at the same time paused slightly. "So, when do you plan to ask me to the prom?" She asked with a wide smile because she was sure she was going to get her way this time.
The spiky black haired young man didn't even flinch at the brown eyed girl's question, it was too obvious and she wasn't the first one to ask.
"I'm sorry, but I already have a partner for the dance." Naruto replied calmly. "I think she got angry... her murderous intent is strong, though not as strong as Sakura." He thought with a touch of curiosity because it was the first person he knows with that temperament.
The young woman of Asian descent didn't like that answer at all, but she didn't show outwardly and with great skill restrained herself from exploding like a volcano.
"Don't worry, it doesn't matter." Emily said with a smile that was almost twisted by the fury she was trying to contain. "... Someday you'll crawl to me, Naruto." She thought through gritted teeth as she turned and stomped off, almost a childish attitude on her part.
Naruto watched the black haired young woman's departure and couldn't help but mutter the following:
"I feel sorry for Mike..."
Without further ado, the charcoal-dark-eyed young man turned his attention back to his bowl of ramen, which thanks to Kami-sama was still warm and waiting to be devoured.
"Enjoy, Dattebayo."
End of Omake 1