[AN: I posted a fight scene for my cancelled work in 2023. The protag was pretty much Hotaru, except he's a chick. She's a chick. Look it up on my pixiv at down below. Yea I put it at the AN below coz the damn link keep making format error to this chapter's text]
Sasuke the Movie
Intermission 6: This Intermission is written just so that Corvid's Éclair can make his shameless self-promo for his shitty pixiv account
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(((Sasuke)))
Sasuke is tired, cold and hungry and he is just done with this stupid mission.
Mission completely fail.
He does not know if Kakashi's still alive. Getting Naruto out was already miracle enough for him. This is the part where he should really just bailed.
Now, if only Naruto isn't an idiot jackass. He woke up inside the cave they shelter in, ready to haul ass to the nearest port and get the fuck outta this frigid hellscape already but nooooooo
Abandoning the mission is scummy, Sasuke.
Abandoning your comrade make you worse than scum, Sasuke.
Sasuke starting to think that maybe Naruto is a master Genjutsu user coz he sure as hell has zero fucking idea why the hell he ended up going along with Naruto's stupid idea again. The only person immune to Naruto's Speech 100 is Hotaru, but then again Hotaru has over 9000 in his Bullshitto skill tree so he is an exception to the rule. That kiddo looks like a quite kid but we all know he's fucking insane.
So here's Sasuke, following Naruto along in their quest to save Kakashi.
However, orienteering proves to be their enemy, as they are lost in Bumfuck Nowhere. No that is not a joke. That is literally the name of the place they are now found themselves into as they stare at the signboard infront of them.
Welcome to Bumfuck Nowhere
Population: 0
"I don't get it! We have a compass! Why are we still lost?!", Naruto kneeled to the snow in frustration after hours of walking in Bumfuck Nowhere."
"Naruto. We are in the North Pole. The compass doesn't work here because, you know, we are literally in the North. Everywhere here is Northward!'
"Gaaahhhhh!!"
They have circled back to the same signboard three times now. There's nothing but vast snowing plain so they cant even tell if they are walking straight. So they ended up keep circling back to the same spot. The place is truly a bumfuck nowhere.
"Okay, okay, here me out.", Naruto tries to reason. "Now this time, I'm going to make clones and scatter them to all directions. While the clones try to figure out which way is out, we'll rest here."
Sasuke grunted in agreement. Naruto makes 36 clones and scatter them in all direction. Naruto then creates another set of clones and they quickly build and igloo for shelter. Once completed, he dismissed the clones and went inside it with Sasuke.
Naruto brought out sleeping bags out from his Pocket Watch and sit on his sleeping bags. Sasuke brought out some firewood from his own Pocket Watch and start a fire. They boil some water and use it to make some instant ramen.
"Sasuke, you think Hotaru has arrived here yet?"
Sasuke grunted. "its been more than a week, almost two by now. He should be here now."
"Hah.", Naruto sigh in relief. "I bet he had already saved Kakashi sensei."
Sasuke snorted. "He's probably sending Snow cities into chaos as we speak right now."
Naruto chuckles as he lay down after finishing his meal. He's still hungry but their supplies are scarce now. They have to ration every single bit now.
"I wonder what happened to Miss Yukie now."
"Probably dead."
That really sour Naruto's mood. Naruto was a fan of Fujikaze Yukie, or rather Kazahana Koyuki. Though her real personality is rather cynical and bitchy. As Hotaru said, don't meet your favorite artists. They tend to be assholes. Exhibit A, Hotaru himself.
Still, Yukie was his responsibility and he blew it. They all did. She got captured by the Snow-dicks and now here they are, freezing their butts off in Bumfuck Nowhere.
"How's your…. Bad side?", Sasuke asked.
"Oh. He's noisy."
Right now, the youkai side of Naruto which he aptly named as Menma which like Naruto is a ramen ingredient, is causing a ruckus within his Mindscape. Kojima Konami had trained him on how to contain the Youkai side of his soul, however containment is all he can do right now. With each seconds Menma is clawing out his way of his jailcell. It is still an incomplete malformed blob of blood with beastial intent, but it is awakened now.
"Seriously, what is wrong with our team, Sasuke? We keep getting into stupid crisis.", Naruto questions the odd tendency of Squad Kakashi to fall into misranked missions. It's starting to get his nerves.
"Well my running theory is the Council just want me dead. Just think about it. An overachiever clanless kunoichi. Kyuubi's grandson. Deadbeat Kakashi. And me. They pretty much just group us all into a team of society rejects and send us all to false missions to die."
"Erghhh… I know politics is your enemy but I don't think Konoha want us to die."
Sasuke scoffed. "After all this years and you still have faith in the village. I don't know how you do it, Naruto. Konoha doesn't care about any of us, Naruto. We are the outsiders and we are becoming a nuisance as we grow more powerful each day. I can't understand why you can't see it, Naruto."
Naruto swallow his saliva. "Well, gramps still around."
"Sure Naruto. Believe what you want."
"Sasuke…"
Naruto wasn't sure what he's supposed to say. Naruto only has few people he can call genuine friend and they're both just done with Konoha. The only reason they hadn't left was because no one ever leave Konoha ever. Besides, despite of its screw ups, Konoha is still better than the other villages.
A long time ago, Naruto claims to want to become the Hokage in order to impress people. He had long stopped from claiming to want to, as he had already got what he really wanted, which is companionship. Still even with it's flaws Konoha is still home. He just cant see why his friends can't see the village the same way he did.
At the very least, Sasuke has his clans to think about. Hotaru on the other hand had always been a flight risk. One day, he just know that Hotaru will leave, never to come back. The only way he will ever return will be as a corpse sealed in a scroll.
Naruto dread the future. Hotaru is lazy and doesn't train much. But Naruto knows that Hotaru is strong. Not in physical sense nor in chakra capacity. Not in intelligence nor battle skills.
Hotaru is strong in that no one can ever really control him. He move on his own terms no matter what in his way. The only reason Hotaru follow orders was only because he let them.
One day, Hotaru will decide to leave and there will be no one that can change his mind about it. With his growing amount of strength, eventually….
The one who will be sent to take him down will be him and Sasuke.
Naruto had wishes Sasuke didn't call for Hotaru. Naruto didn't want Hotaru to get outside and see the world for himself. Each mile he travel through will expand his horizon. With each step he took, Hotaru will drift farther away from Konoha. Hotaru's leave is an eventuality, and Sasuke may had speed it up unknowingly.
Bzzz
Naruto felt headache as he received a memory from one of his popped clones. Looks like the direction he took is a dud. They'll have to wait. Naruto can only pray one of his clones find the right direction.
They need to leave before Hotaru decides he had enough.
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(((AN)))
Yep, wrote this one in a jiffy so that I can do my pixiv shameless promo. Do check it out. That's pretty much the closest thing you got to Hotaru's action scene in manga format you may got in awhile.
Cancelled Content 05 Corvid's Eclair #pixiv (((pixiv))).
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I don't know if most people here read all my fics or just sticking with this one, but anyway, as you all may realize, all my fic MCs are pretty much the same character. There's only slight difference in their mannerism as I wrote their character based on the circumstances in their respective fics. Makoto Hotaru especially is written with me going completely unhinged. Coupled with the fact I had zero actual plan for this fic, I wrote Hotaru just reacting to the nonsense I wrote in improv.
Honestly, I think this fic is a total mess lmao. My original intention was to actually finish it at chapter 20 or so as I rush through the major plotlines with the stupidest reactions I can think off and end this fic with Hotaru finally leaving Konoha after Naruto become Hokage.
The ending would be that Sasuke begs Hotaru to stop but Hotaru just keeps on walking. In the original semblance of a plan, I sort of has the idea that Hotaru never once left Konoha. No going to Forest of Death doesn't count as it's still Konoha's territory. The OG ending was the moment Hotaru taken a step outside, Sasuke stabbed him in the back as ordered by Naruto the Hokage. This dark comedy ends exactly as Hotaru had said, he rather die a free man than live as a tool.
Instead, we get…. Whatever the hell this is. Totally ruined my plans. My original plan was releasing this Hotaru's Bizarre Adventures, end it as abruptly as its debut and I just disappear as I refuse to elaborate. Now I am stuck with this commitment lmao.
Anyway, the MNR arcs will probably end in 30 chaps, just rough estimate. Once I finish it, that will end the Season 1 of this fic. I am committed to finish this off at least that much. Whether or not I continue it to Hotaru Shippuden is something I will leave my future self to deal with. I started this fic on a whim and after like three months, this fanfic has become… whatever the hell this is. Seriously I have zero idea how the hell I even maintained a semblance of plot coherence with this fic. This went from a dark comedy parody to an AU with world building I conjured up just because I was bored.
Well, that is enough rambling for today. If you somehow read far enough to read this, I want to say that you are a weirdo. Why you guys read this fic is beyond me.
But Éclair, we read it because its funny~
And that's why I call you weirdoes. This fanfic is a total nonsense trash and you somehow read it this far. Appreciate it lol.
Still, you guys are weirdoes.
But eh, normie is overrated anyway.