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Sasuke scribbled into his notebook which felt like a never ending task. Every time he woke, there was something new he needed to add, though at this point, it seemed he was just gathering piles of information and no pinpointed answer. He held back his frustrated thoughts and continued with his information gathering.
His stomach growled while he hunched over his book but he paid it no mind. His own supplies ran out days ago but the dragon still brought him piles of fish. He rather enjoyed fish, before this adventure, but he wondered how he would ever be able to stomach any type of fish again when he returned home.
His thoughts were interrupted when the dragon wailed loudly from somewhere within the cavern. The wail sounded like no other time, and Sasuke found himself holding down a panic feeling. Thoughts of disaster flooded his mind, from everything of the cave collapsing to him becoming dinner for the beast, before he slapped his cheek and mentally scolded himself.
The wailing roar continued, and Sasuke quickly shoved all his items in his sack before standing up and throwing it over his shoulder. The cavern vibrated with the sounds bouncing off the wall, with pebbles and dust falling all around.
"What the fuck is going on?" Sasuke hummed to himself, taking steps into the darkness. Flashes of light were beginning to light his way and he realized that the dragon was setting off its flames between ear splitting roars.
Coming around the bend, squinting his eyes to keep the dust out, he saw the dragon clawing anxiously at the ground, thumping its tail hard upon the cave walls and it would whip its head up high and release a spray of flames. The sight would have been magnificent if it wasn't for the impending danger of the whole cave collapsing around him. 'What the hell?' Sasuke thought, watching the new behaviour of the dragon.
The dragon continued to claw about the ground and Sasuke gasped when the dragon slammed its head against the ground. Sasuke held his arms out to balance himself as the ground shook from the impact, and the dragon's eyes looked upon him for a brief moment.
Sasuke's eyes opened wide at the stare, noticing the different colour to the dragon's eyes. No longer were they the beautiful soft shades of different coloured red around the pupil, but now the pupil was slit like a cat's eye and the colour filling the remainder of the dragon's eyes was blood red and glowing. Those glowing blood red eyes blinked suddenly, as if noticing he was there, before the dragon released another ear splitting howl, lifting its head up, up, up…inhaling and spewing out a streaming cyclone of fire towards Sasuke.
"Holy shit!" Sasuke barely screamed out before taking off to the side to avoid the swirling fireball. He threw himself to the ground after a few steps, trying to continue scrambling forward and he could feel the heat through his clothing. Even after the fire was past, Sasuke continued to crawl forward but looked over his shoulder. The dragon was apparently no longer interested in him, but continued to wave its head about, letting loose the same screeching noises it did earlier. Sasuke stopped, turned and studied the situation. The dragon's eyes were still blood red, that appeared to be the only change. 'Has it gone insane? There must be something…'
As if something caught the dragon's attention, it immediately stopped and looked up at the huge fissure in the ceiling. Curious, Sasuke looked up as well, and saw nothing but dark.
'It's the new moon…' he thought to himself. Normally there would be moonlight cascading through that opening most of the night. Sunlight during the day of course, but now, there was nothing.
The dragon quickly turned, its eyes still fixated on the fissure, as it reached out and started climbing the walls.
'The ring, it won't let it leave,' Sasuke thought to himself, knowing the cursed band on the dragon would suddenly wield a bright light, its power keeping the dragon hostage. But while the dragon continued to scale up the wall, the brightness never came.
'Is it possible it's free to leave?' Wasting no time, Sasuke quickly shuffled up behind the dragon the best he could, hoping it wouldn't see him in its peripheral vision. As luck would have it, the dragon's blood shot glowing eyes were focused still on the opening. While Sasuke got closer, he glanced at the gold band, and still it did nothing. He took a deep breath, giving himself courage for what he was about to do, 'i've done crazier things i'm sure' and bolted into a full run towards the dragon.
Before the tail left the ground, Sasuke grabbed a hold of one of the large spikes and pulled himself above them, wrapping his legs around the end of the tail the best he could. The dragon didn't notice and continued to still climb the wall, its large leather wings flapping to give it a push. Sasuke managed to get his body as close to the tail with the spikes behind his ass as best he could, linking his fingers together around the base, holding on and praying that he was right.
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The sounds of wailing cries and screeches echoed through the night. The Uchiha guards all stood statue still, looking up into the clear night sky, their breaths creating puffs of smoke into the chill of the air.
"What is that?" One man said, his eyes scanning the starlit sky, his hand clasped the blunt of his sword.
"Where's that coming from?" another man said, his eyes looking across the darkened land.
Yamato stood beside Izumo, their eyes looking about, their lips pinched tight into frowns. The sounds were not from any animal that they knew of, and in the darkness of night with no light other than their small fires to go by, certainly made the hair on their necks stand.
"Sir, it is almost impossible to tell in this bowl, but I would bet my left nut that the noises are coming from that crack in the mountain," Izumo whispered out, nodding towards the mountain that he had mentioned the other day to Yamato.
"You're gonna not have any nuts left if you keep betting them like you do Izumo," Yamato whispered in response but looked to where Izumo pointed out. Izumo snorted in response. "But, your nuts have never let you down before," Yamato chuckled in return, "let's get the men prepared for a possible attack."
Yamato nodded quickly and headed towards the camps where all their men were standing and gawking into the night.
The men gathered in a semicircle, their heads turning about as the echoing of the wailing unknown noise continued to echo through the bowl of land. The fires had died down to a small flickers of flames so the men could see more clearly into the night sky and land.
The creepy sounds suddenly were heard no more and the men held their breath.
"Do you hear that?" one of the men whispered.
Sounds of rock crumbling were now heard, that was coming from one of the mountains, the echoes washing through the men.
"Do you think it's an earthquake?" another man whispered.
A stream of flames shot straight up into the night sky from the side of the mountain and men grabbed their weapons, all staring where the beam of flames erupted.
"Hold your ground men, we don't know what it is yet, but be ready! Stay in formation," Yamato barked out the orders.
"Think we found the dragon captain," Izumo snorted out, his hand grasping his sword tight.
"We don't know that yet, it's only a beam of flames," Yamato hissed out.
A boom of noise roared into the night sky when the flames died out.
"Hmph, there's the answer," Izumo snorted out.
The men began whispering amongst each other, holding their weapons tight and kept their eyes to where the flames were last seen.
"It's the dragon!" one man whispered.
"Holy fuck its gotta be massive!" another one called out.
The sound of something beating in the wind was the next noise until silence. The men rocked on their heels, the anxiety rushing over them like waves.
"Watch out!" Yamato hollered.
Only a huff of noise was heard before a beam of fire came straight towards the Uchiha men. Surprised screams and scuffling feet was all that was heard when the dragon swooped close, leaving a trail of fire from its muzzle.
"Fire when you have a shot!" Izumo called out while rolling through the grass, out of the fire path that scorched its way through where the men were only standing moments before.
The men were scrambling to get into a safe position, yelling out orders and warnings to each other, while the dragon flew higher into the air, releasing a howl.
"Get ready! It's circling around again!" Yamato hollered out, getting his arrows ready.
The large beast circled high in the sky and began its descent back into the bowl where the men were holding their weapons at the ready. The dragon released a long and loud shriek while its eyes looked upon the enemies that were near its home. Its leathery wings flapped hard, causing swirls of dirt to rise and fall, the only sign that could be seen of where it was.
"For something so fucking massive, it sure is fucking quiet when it flies!" Izumo shrieked out, his head looking around the night sky, trying to catch a glimpse of where the beast was.
Another shot of flames hurled at the group of men, and small flames of arrows flew through the air, that bounced off the body of the dragon.
"FUCK!" Yamato shouted out. "The armor may be too thick," he grumbled to himself. "Keep firing! There has to be a weak spot somewhere!" He yelled out quickly.
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Kabuto watched the fight from the opening in the cliffs that led to the bowl. "Interesting," Kabuto smirked. He clutched his bag and began to move through the shadows that led closer to where the Uchiha men had camped and now are currently trying to fight the dragon. "What idiots," Kabuto muttered to himself when he heard the order to start firing. "You two stay here," Kabuto ordered the two men who were with him. The two men only nodded and took cover by some trees that were against the cliff walls.
Kabuto quickly made his way to a higher level of ground, climbing the rock in the shadows as quickly as possible. When he reached the highest point, he watched the battle carefully. He crouched low when the dragon flew over his head and watched it take a wide circle in the night sky, only to release more flames at the Uchiha men in the bowl.
Smirking to himself, Kabuto pulled out a long hollowed out tube, about the length of his arm, and quickly inspected it. Satisfied, he glanced again at the dragon flying about and quickly took another item out of the bag, a long needled dart. Putting it down beside the wooden tube, he reached in his bag again, pulling out a vial. The purple liquid was deep in colour and almost looked black in the night, but Kabuto knew what it was. He emptied the vile contents into the hollowed out needle then carefully slid the dart into the hollowed out tube. He then stood, watching the Uchiha men carefully before watching the dragon's movement.
"Now," he whispered as the dragon began a path right over his head once again. Taking a long drawn in breath, Kabuto then put the wooden tube up to his lips and watched the beast get closer. 'This is it!' he thought to himself. The dragon flew over his path once again and Kabuto blew his breath, hard, through the tube, the dart flying quickly from the other end that was pointed up and at the dragon flying over.
His ears listened carefully and quickly, hearing the slight whistling noise from the dart and the unmistakable noise of it finding its target with a thump. 'Yesssssss!' Kabuto silently congratulated himself for a job well done. He quickly gathered up his items, throwing them back in his bag and headed back down to where the two men hid.
"Let's go. We got a couple hours before it starts working," he ordered the men when he walked by them, not stopping. The two men quickly caught up to him, falling into step as the three went back out the way they came.
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To say Sasuke was terrified was an understatement. He held on for dear life, his arms and leg muscles screaming at him from the strain he was putting them under. The dragon flipped and flew through the air, and Sasuke found himself praying that his body wouldn't give out. When the dragon got out of the cavern, releasing a stream of fire and a deafening roar, Sasuke tried to look around the area to see where they were. He recognized the mountains, but not which mountains. Without knowing exactly where he was, he wasn't about to let go of the dragon's tail. He could fall to his death or be at his death if the dragon was on a mountain peak for kami sake! But the dragon was suddenly taking to the air and Sasuke only hoped that the dragon would land somewhere he could get off safely.
When he heard the dragon releasing more fire and cries, he saw the small flickering camp fires far on the grounds below. Thankfully he wasn't scared of heights, or seeing how high he was would have had him most likely releasing his grip! The wind whipped at him fiercely at the speed the dragon was flying, causing his eyes to water but there was no mistaking that there were humans down below.
He heard the cries of people, but they weren't cries of fear, only orders. 'Knights? Guards? Who are they?' he thought to himself when the dragon whipped through the air, releasing a stream of flames directly at the human camp below. The dragon was traveling so fast, and the wind making his eyes water, he couldn't focus long enough to see if he could recognize the people below.
He could hear the whizzing sounds of arrows though and did see flaming ones bounce off the heavily armored dragon, or be burnt to ashes in the dragon's flames.
Sasuke didn't know how many times the dragon circled around the camp of people shooting out flames and roaring out before it decided to fly away. A part of him breathed out in relief, hoping that there weren't any casualties in that camp and that the dragon didn't seem interested in setting down on the ground and going on a rampage. But where and when was it going to land? Sasuke's hands were frozen from the cool winds of the air whipping around him, his body he knew was shivering uncontrollably, but somehow he managed to hang on.
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"Sir! The dragon is retreating!" An Uchiha guard called out.
Yamato watched as the beast wasn't circling anymore and seemed to be flying a direct path now, away from them. The fires it had started in the bowl had lit up the night sky enough that the men could follow its flight path.
"Saddle up! It may be heading to the Uzumaki kingdom!" Yamato shouted out the order as he ran to get his horse. "Izumo!"
Izumo ran over to Yamato, "yes sir?"
"Take a few of the men and clean up camp here. When it's daylight, see if you can't get closer to where the dragon's cave is. We need to know what's in that cave! If Prince Sasuke is up there or not, dead or alive, we need to find out!" Yamato hissed out the order.
"Hn, got it," Izumo responded quickly with a quick bow then took off in the opposite direction, yelling at various guards.
Yamato saddled his horse, quickly getting up and calling out orders to the remainder of the knights that saddled up. He led the group towards the opening to the area, hoping that they would manage to catch up and track the dragon before it caused any more damage.
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'Somethings wrong,' Sasuke shivered to himself. The dragon's flight was no longer smooth. Every so often the dragon would twitch and stumble in the air, jerking Sasuke along with it.
The dragon was gliding through the air, every so often it would pump its giant leather wings to keep steady, but just recently, it began to shift. He could hear the beast snorting out like it was out of breath.
The beast began to get lower to the ground and Sasuke felt himself free falling with the tail and suddenly saw the ground getting closer. The wings flapped quickly, causing the great beast's body to slow down before its back legs fell to the ground below, its front end falling hard with a booming noise echoing. The trees bent and swayed around it from the heavy gusts it had created circled around them.
The dragon managed to keep up its tail when its feet hit the ground and Sasuke was suddenly very thankful. The beast lowered its tail slowly to the frozen ground when the dragon finally was on all four legs. Sasuke's body continued to hold onto the tail, his body was trembling so fast that Sasuke had a hard time catching his breath. Waiting for a few minutes to see what the dragon was going to do next, Sasuke knew that if he suddenly jumped off, his legs would most likely not hold him up at first.
The dragon shook its head repeatedly, snorted out, stomped its front feet and flickered its giant leather wings high above its body.
'What's it doing?' Sasuke clenched his teeth tight to stop them from chattering as he continued to observe. The dragon's eyes were still glowing a blood red colour, but it's behaviour…
Carefully Sasuke released his grip and forced his legs to move between the spikes of the tail to fall to the ground. Thankfully the tail wasn't moving as much as the dragon's head and neck, and he clamped his mouth shut as pain ripped through his cramped and frozen leg muscles. Somehow he managed to pull himself away on the ground away from the strange behaviour of the dragon.
Taking in several deep breaths when he managed to rest his back against a tree, he quickly rubbed his legs, arms and hands, trying to get the frozen pin pickle feelings out of them. The dragon was now stumbling about, still shaking its head and making strange grunting noises, but it appeared to have trouble keeping its magnificent head upright.
Hugging his body briefly and dipping his chin to his chest to try and get warm, Sasuke shook when the air vibrated with a hard crash. Lifting his head, he saw that the dragon had fallen to its side, its legs twitching, wings barely fluttered and it let out a long howling moan. Curious, Sasuke quickly stood, and took steps towards the now fallen dragon.
Though there was no moon, no morning light, somehow Sasuke could see where the large shadowed beast lay. He figured it was the stars above that provided enough light to reflect off the hundreds of scales that adorned that massive body. He slowed his steps and walked carefully around the massive body, listening to its sickening moans and could see the chest heaving heavily up and down.
"What's happened?" Sasuke whispered mainly to himself. The dragon's head tried to move, but it more or less shifted across the frosted ground, dragging and ripping up the frozen foliage. His eyes shifted to the one leg, where the golden band was situated, but it didn't shine or sparkle. It was just a plain gold band, still situated on the dragon's left toe. Looking up again at the dragon's head, blood glowing red eyes focused on him but the lids were droopy. The dragon then opened its mouth and Sasuke was suddenly frozen thinking the dragon was about to try and burn him to a crisp. But all it did was open, releasing a long hollow moaning sound while it tried to lift its head once more, but failed and it fell to the side. The dragon no longer made a sound.
Startled, Sasuke decided to go up to the dragon's massive head, staying back a few feet but crouched to the ground and tried to see its muzzle up close. He could hear the dragon breathing still, but its eyes were closed, its row of teeth slightly visual, its tongue laying motionless between the teeth. Feeling positive that he could go closer, Sasuke did just that. His hand reaching out, his fingers trembling either from the cold or fear, he wasn't sure, but his fingers reached and touched the muzzle of the beast.
It didn't move and Sasuke moved closer to drag his fingertips down the muzzle, nostrils and lips of the dragon. As he had seen before, the dragon's muzzle had thick tough skin and no scales. He continued to step around the dragon's head, running his hand up between the dragon's eyes, where the scales began. It was fascinating to see the scales here so small and they grew bigger the further up the head they went.
"I wonder how far they go up underneath?" Sasuke hummed to himself and stepped around the dragon's head. He crouched down and looked beneath the head of the dragon and laid his palm upon the skin. His fingers found the same rough skin that was on the dragon's muzzle and he ran his fingertips across it. He gasped when his fingers brushed upon a foriegn feelings and he quickly wrapped his hand around it.
"Something is sticking out of here…feels like wood?" Sasuke tried to see further under the fallen dragon's head, but with the night, it was impossible. "Doesn't feel like it should be here," he grunted and grasped the object, finding that his palm fit around it easily. He jerked on it hard, and whatever came out and was now gripped tightly into his hand.
Pulling back his hand closer to his face and opening his palm, he looked closely at the tubular object. "A needle? Or should I say a blow dart." Sasuke held the weapon between his fingers and up higher to see if he could get any more light on it. He then stood and looked at the dragon again. "Is it possible that this little thing brought you down?" Sasuke was shocked at the possibility of it. And also, who knew there were no scales on the dragon's chin? Looking again at the blow dart in his hand, he quickly shoved it into his bag before moving closer to the head of the dragon.
"Was there a concoction in it that knocked you out?" he hummed to himself. "Or worse, are you poisoned?" He felt a sharp pain of guilt at the thought of the dragon being poisoned, though he wasn't sure why. Shaking his head, he stepped up closer to where the dragon ears and horns were. He placed his palm on one of the long ears and cupped it in his palm, dragging his palm gently along the ear. The ears were surprisingly covered with soft silk hairs, like a horse, he thought. They were tucked right beside the massive horns that curved up and Sasuke's other hand came up to touch the rough surface. As he expected, the horns were coarse and had ridges, as if they grew to a certain width, then another layer grew. A grunting noise from the nostrils made Sasuke jump back.
The dragon didn't open its eyes, only shifted its head slightly before letting out a long breath. Sasuke pinched his lips into a frown and looked around him. "Best to get a fire going I guess, unless I wanna freeze to death," he muttered out. He set out to hopefully find some dryer pieces of wood in the dark.
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"Hurry up, it should have taken effect by now," Kabuto hissed into the darkness at his lakeys that were behind him. The three had been going a steady run for just over an hour now. Kabuto had somehow managed to be able to keep track of the dragon's flight path, zigzagging around the trees and rocks.
"Boss, what will we do when we find it?" one of the burly men puffed out.
"Hmph, you have such little faith in my abilities you imbecile," Kabuto barked out, his voice full of annoyance.
"Sorry boss, but you know, you don't have magic abilities do ya?" the other man whispered, nervousness in his voice, but as well as curiosity.
Kabuto just grunted out an annoyed response. It was true, though Kabuto had vast knowledge of magical creatures and objects, he possessed no magical abilities himself. Leaving him to conjure up what he could just from spells, positions and objects. But King Orochimaru treasured his knowledge and abilities, he knew that he was priceless that way to the king.
"Oh you two trying to show off some smarts instead of brawn?" Kabuto chuckled as he ran. "But I'm feeling good right now, so yes, it's true I am no magical being, but with my know-how, of course I have something that will work against the dragon once we find it." He patted his bag that was latched to his hip. "You really think that I'm foolish enough not to have a plan after I brought down that beast? Really?" Kabuto chuckled out. "But I am not surprised, since you two are really here just for your muscle and not your brains." With that snipe he said no more and continued rushing through the darkness, the two men keeping their mouths shut.
A few more minutes passed and Kabuto lifted his hand, signaling the others to slow down. Kabuto paused behind a large tree, looking around and seeing that the ground and trees had been disturbed, as if something large went crashing through it. "This way. By my calculations, it should be down, hopefully out cold but be cautious, don't want to end up as dragon chow do ya?" Kabuto hissed out in a whisper.
He listened carefully, not hearing any noise other than the regular night noises of animals, the stars were creating a haze of brightness to light the way.
"There it is," Kabuto whispered, coming around a small inclimb. "It's fucking magnificiant."
The two burly men gasped out in surprise when they saw the massive shadow of the dragon, slumped on its side, the nestle of trees around it. Kabuto began to walk closer to the beast, taking careful steps, checking to ensure the beast was asleep. Not paying attention to the two men behind him, he could hear them gawking and mumbling about the size of the beast, Kabuto walked around the body, following the long thick neck till he reached the dragon head.
Checking again at the dragon's head, seeing the eyes closed, the heavy long breaths, Kabuto reached into his bag and grabbed a long piece of cloth. He crouched to the ground and laid out the piece of cloth that revealed three painted symbols upon the face. He then grabbed a small vial from his bag, opening it up, and it misted up a puff of smoke and made a hissing noise that made Kabuto grin. Holding the vial over the cloth, he poured a drop of the mixture on each symbol, and he licked his lips as each symbol glowed a bright purple for a moment, before fading back to black. Quickly sealing up the vial and placing it back in his bag, he gathered up the small cloth and reached out to touch the dragon's one horn. Touching it slightly with his fingertips, he tested to ensure the dragon didn't wake.
When the dragon didn't move, its breaths still deep with sleep and the eyelids still shut, Kabuto slipped the piece of cloth at the base of one of the horns. Quickly he twisted and tightened the cloth into a knot, and ensured it was at the tucked low enough that one, the dragon shouldn't be able to claw at it, and two, it should be hidden enough by the dragon's ear and head. He stood back, and watched as the tied cloth began to glow and bleed a purple substance into the dragon's head.
Satisfied he was done, he quickly turned and pushed his two henchmen behind a couple large trees. The two men looked at Kabuto confused. Kabuto just rolled his eyes and leaned against one of the large trucks.
"I have placed a cursed seal on the beast," he spoke. The two men looked at each other then back at Kabuto, still with confused looks. Kabuto let out a long sigh. Though he didn't think he should explain, but part of him wanted to gloat at his abilities. "Idiots. This cursed seal is specially made for control. With this spell, the dragon will listen to me, as its master, and I'll be in full control. When it wakes, just you watch." Kabuto had a feral grin on now and the two other men just nodded in agreement. "Now we just have to wait…" he whispered and settled down to sit against the one tree.
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Sasuke jolted his head up, realizing that he had fallen asleep sitting up at the small fire that he had created. At first he didn't realize where he was but within a few seconds, the memories of the night had come flooding back.
"Yeah, right…" he muttered to himself. He had managed to find enough wood to keep a small fire going to keep him warm until he could figure out where he was and what to do next. But fatigue had gotten the better of him, when his body began to warm up he didn't even remember falling asleep. He was thankful that he had some dried fish in his bag, remembering that he had decided to do that while in the cavern, thinking that having a stock pile of dried fish may come in handy. He dug around in his bag and pulled out a stick of the dried fish to chew on.
The snapping of twigs in the forest had him turn his head so fast his neck clicked. His eyes were wide, taking in the darkness between the trees and trying to focus on what could have made that noise. A small animal of some sort? A bird? Deer? It was hard to imagine anything was left here after the dragon crashed so heavily into this forest. He felt around the ground with his fingers, trying to find anything that could surpass as a weapon, just in case.
The noise continued, and Sasuke was certain it was a human walking. He quickly scrambled to his feet, a large rock in his hand and moved away from the light of the fire into the shadows, his eyes not leaving where the noises were coming from.
An average sized man stepped out of the shadows and into the light of the fire. He was wearing a hooded short cloak, covering his head and face, and Sasuke could only see the outline of the man. He was Sasuke's build and size, but he wondered where this man came from? A hermit? Wanderer? Sorcerer perhaps? Sasuke crouched into the shadows again and just watched the man who stopped near the flames, doing nothing more but apparently watching the small flickers of fire.
"There is nothing of your business here," Sasuke firmly spoke up from the shadows. He didn't see any weapons on the man, and Sasuke was confident in his hand to hand combat but he wouldn't go initiating the fight if this man was just wandering. The man's hooded head jerked upwards at Sasuke's voice but didn't turn to look at him.
"I have nothing for you here, and I suggest you continue on your way," Sasuke spoke again, with a bit more hostile tone than before. The man still stood in the fire light, not turning to look at Sasuke, but continued to stare straight forward. Sasuke found himself getting annoyed.
"Last time. I have nothing for you, continue on your way!" Sasuke stepped closer to the figure that stood before the fire, his fists clenched around the rock he held, his irritation getting stronger. He knew nothing of this stranger and didn't want to chance that this man was a danger to him. If he was lucky, the stranger would see the dragon several meters away and run off fearing for his life.
The man turned his head and all Sasuke could see was shadow in the hood. Sasuke clenched his teeth, his adrenaline rising, getting ready to fight if need be.
The stranger's arms lifted suddenly, his hands clenching his hood and pulling it back quickly. Then the man spoke–
"S-Sasuke?"
Sasuke tripped back slightly, his eyes widening, his heart thumping widely in his chest. The firelight had casted a warm glow on the familiar hair–the familiar structure of his face–those eyes….
Sasuke's voice was stuck in a giant lump in his throat before he could finally breath out a sound – "Naruto?"
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I will say that I hope this chapter wasn't too confusing for some. It all happens on the same night, with all these different characters in the same area. Comments and reviews are always appreciated. :)