InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Not So Damned Anymore ❯ Pierced Rose and a Firey Welcome ( Chapter 3 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: FuyuAi
Naruto heads out to a non-ninja village on a surprise mission. But he has no idea what his arrival will cause in the village.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Romance | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 06.15.2007 | Updated On: 02.25.2008 | Pages: 8 | Words: 5.6K | Visits: 1.5K | Status: Work In Progress

Hello again! I would like to thank everyone that has been reviewing so far, and for all my readers. I might also change a few things. Like, from now on, Kagome's perspective will be FIRST PERSION.
 
I would like to say though, that I will update faster the more reviews I get!! I will make the chapters nice, and long!!
I'd also like to apologize for the long update. A lot has happened in my family and life in general. But it is summer, so let's see how far I make it!!! Also, can you please `advertise' my story? I'd like to get more readers. Thanks!!!
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Chapter 3:
 
 
 
 
Sakura was anxious.
 
She couldn't stop finger combing her pink, shoulder length hair. A force of habit, really!
 
Sad, yet fearless green eyes looked over her village from atop of the Hokage Mountains.
 
“Why me?”
 
Those thoughts repeated over and over in her mind.
 
A breeze flew by, making her once soft hair, become now a ruffled mess.
 
Sighing, she jumps over the Fourths' statue head. Her black combat boots making a loud `thump' with every step she took, roof-top, to roof-top.
 
Finally reaching her destination, and with one last loud `thump', she looked up to the sign above the entrance. Last time she didn't, she ended up in a love hotel. An experience Sakura would like to forget.
 
“KONOHA LIBRARY
LEGENDS, MYTHS, HISTORY, AND MORE”
 
Nodding her head, she made her way in, pusing the wooden door open, making a small ring announcing the door, has in fact, been opened.
“Why, hello, dear! Nice to see you again! The final volume came in today, if you are interested.”
 
Looking to her right, Sakura's eyes landed on an old, short, woman. Her long, gray hair was pulled into a bow tie at the base of her neck. She was situated behind the check-out counter.
 
Smiling softly, Sakura replied with a defiant, low-toned voice that she had acquired over the years.
 
“Yes, thank you. I came just for that. And how much would this one be?”
 
Walking over to the counter, careful not to step on or spill over stacks and towers of books, Sakura was slightly agitated by the news she had received just the other day.
 
But, that, Sakura would leave for later. When she was in the comfort of her apartment, with no one to worry about her.
 
Now, she would talk to Rin-obaa-san, and act that everything was well, and act as if she didn't just learn of what her life was meant for, and why she was, in fact, assigned to Team Seven.
 
Acting. A word that Sakura has gone used to. Maybe she should quit being a full time medic-nin, and become an actress.
 
“Sakura-chan?”
 
Sakura was stripped of her thoughts when she heard her name being called.
 
“Ah, yes? Oh, sorry. I was, thinking, of my upcoming mission. Forgive me.”
 
“Ha-ha, it's quite alright, deary. Now, about that cost…”
 
Giggling, something that Sakura missed, She asked for the price.
 
“Hm..Ah-ha! If you bake me a months worth of that lovely cinnamon bread, it's yours!”
 
“Throw in a bookmark, you got yourself a deal!”
 
“Oh-ho! Quite the bargainer, are we? Well, then, what bookmark would you like?”
 
Giggling again(wow, she was on a role today!), Sakura reached over the to basket of bookmarks.
 
Shuffling and moving, she tried to look for something that caught her eye.
 
Finally, she saw a blood-red color.
 
Taking it out of the basket for better inspection, Sakura did just that. Inspected it.
 
It was a blood-red color, just as she had thought. It was a rectangular shape, just like most bookmarks. In the middle, there was a rose. It was the same color, so it blended in with the background, but was outlined in black. Sakura could see every petal, and, what seemed like, water dripping off of the rose.
 
But, what confused her was that there was an arrow, pierced right through the rose.
 
It seemed to shine, as if it had glitter on it.
 
Turning it over, the backside had the same design. Well, except that the arrow was broken in half, and the rose had thicker black lines.
 
“I'll take this one. It seems, different, some how.”
 
“Ah, yes! Nice one there. If I'm not mistaken, that goes with the second, or was it third?, books!” Rin smiled at her long time costumer.
 
“Well, I'm not yet finished, but seeing as I'm only at the training arc, and the meeting of the “mysterious Shippo-look-alike, it looks like I have quite a lot of catching up to do!”
 
Sakura raised her right hand to the back of her head, ruffling her hair, grinning slightly.
 
A habit she picked up from Naruto.
 
“That's alright, dear. As long as you finish them. I except to receive my loaf of bread tomorrow morning, okay?”
 
“Mh-hm! I'll have them here a couple hours after sunrise! Buy I have to go now. Thank you again, Rin-obaa-san!”
 
With a few thumps of her boots and a ringing of a bell, Sakura made her way from the store to her apartment.
 
Smiling softly, Rin gazed sadly at the door.
 
She would need to speak with Isshin soon.
 
The boy is about a few days of maturing, and will soon become one with the Kyuubi.
 
Not to mention Sakura-chan is about ready, too.
 
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The Sun was rising.
 
I woke up from the light shining into my old, run-down apartment. Ever since my alarm clock broke, I used the Sun as one.
 
And plus, I need the money for a new futon.
 
Quickly, I got dressed, not wanting to upset Sakura anymore then she is.
 
Something's strange with that girl. Maybe she's tired from working at the hospital?
 
I didn't know why, but every time I thought about it, I got an evil feeling in my gut. And I know to always trust my gut. Accounting for it saved my life multiple times.
 
Thinking over my mission again, I made sure he was well equipped, and made my way out the door. Grabbing a beaded bracelet that Sakura said he'd have to wear, at all times, at all costs.
 
Or the `monks' and `priestesses' will `purify' me because of the demon inside me.
 
Really, what's the deal? I can control my “dark” side pretty well, damn it!
 
But , nooo. Sakura insisted that he wore this piece of junk.
 
Gah! Sometimes I wonder what's going on in that girl's head.
 
Wait? What was the mission again?
 
Oh, yeah. Were supposed to g to this non-ninja village, and for what reason? No clue. But it is S-ranked, and Naruto bet's it's worth a lot of cash.
 
“Naruto-kun!!! You are on time for once!”
 
Oh, I was at the gates already?
 
Seems like it, “Naruto-kun”
 
Great, just what I needed. A who-knows-how-old demon teasing me about how my friends call me.
 
Hey, Kyuubi, could you please stop with the “Naruto-kun”, jeez!
 
Of coarse, “Naruto-kun”, hee-hee!
 
Okay, now that's just plain weird.
 
Come on! If a mighty demon that wiped out thousands of people with just one swish of one of his nine tails, was teasing you in a girly, yet really deep toned voice, you'd think it was weird, too.
 
“Naruto-kun? Are, you know, um, thinking again?”
 
Snapping out of my trance, I noticed Sakura-chan looking at me weirdly.
 
Oh, yeah. Sakura is the only person that knows of my “conversations” with Kyuubi.
 
“Uh, yeah. Sorry. Ready to go?”
 
“You have the beads I gave you?”
 
He pulled up his black sleeve showing her the beads around his wrist.
 
“Okay. Then we are set.”
 
We started walking out of the gates, when I remembered something.
 
“Wait, Kakashi-sensei isn't coming?”
 
“Oh, right. My bad! I have been used to just you and me. It must have slipped my mind!”
 
“Ha-ha, don't worry about it, Sakura-chan. I bet he's on his way.”
 
On his way was WAY off the mark.
 
It was until ten o-clock `till Kakashi-sensei showed up.
 
Which, by the way, was THREE FRICKEN HOURS from the designated time!!!
 
Ugh, sometimes I wonder what's in his head, too.
 
“Sorry, guys! My alarm clock-“
 
“Didn't go off at the right time and you slept it. And on your way here you ran onto an old lady, who you had to buy her groceries because she dropped hers when you ran into her. Yes, we know.” Me and Sakura finished his sentence.
 
He's been late so many times; he's running out of excuses!! Jeez.
 
“Ah, seems you two know me too well! Now, let's get going so we can make up for lost time!”
 
 
That damn old man! He's almost, what now?, forty?, and he still is late for missions!!
 
He wasn't late
 
What the hell is that supposed to mean?! He was three hours late!!
 
He was ordered by the Hokage to be late by three-hours, twenty-seven minutes, and 38-seconds late.
 
This little piece of information was quite shocker, and caused a tree to suddenly appear in my path.
 
I swear! It just appeared!
 
“O-ouch!”
 
Rubbing my head, I could already feel a bump forming.
 
“Naruto-kun! Are you alright?”
 
Looking up, I see Sakura-chan looking at me with a worried expression, and Kakashi laughing his head off, but trying to hide it. And failing. Bad.
 
“I'm fine. Just a bump, nothing big!”
 
It may be just a bump, but it hurt. Like hell.
 
“Okay, kids! Lets hurry up! We're late as it is.” Kakashi-sensei announced.
 
HA-HA! The almighty “Kyuubi-jinchuruuki” just ran right into a tree!! A tree!! Ha-ha!!
 
Yeah, well, your trapped in a twenty-three year-old who runs into trees!
 
That seemed to have shut him up.
 
“If we keep up this pace, we will reach the village in an hour.”
 
Okay, that's good. Now I can talk to Kyuubi.
 
Hey, Kyuubi, I have a question.
 
What is it, boy?
 
Well, do you know why we have to go to this village? I mean, we don't even know why, and it was so sudden..
 
I have a good idea, but I'm not sure. Let me see those beads again.
 
Silently, he pulled up his sleeve, making it look as if he had an itch.
 
Can you see it?
 
Hm….It looks just like that stupid dogs'…
 
Stupid dogs?
 
He was a…friend of mine. Way before the Konoha incident.
 
Friend? You had friends? Wow.
 
Watch your mouth boy! I have you know I even had a mate!
 
Mate? You mean like a , uh, ahem..what do you mean?
 
 
Mate as in wife, boy.
 
You have a wife?! Then why-
 
Had.
 
What?
 
Had. I had a wife. She died. At least, that was what I was told.
 
 
Whoa. I'm sorry. I didn't know-
 
It's fine boy. I'm going to see her soon. You, too. Obviously.
 
 
Eh? When-GAH! What is that AWFULL stink!!
 
I had to cover up my nose. The stench was horrible!
 
“Naruto? Are you alright?”
 
It was Kakashi who spoke.
 
“You guys can't smell that?!”
 
Well, I guess not. Seeing as they looked at me as if I had three heads.
 
“What are you talking about, Naruto-kun?” Sakura looked over at me, looking totally and utterly confused.
 
“I smell it, too. But at as bad as he does.”
 
“How can you smell that, and not be disgusted!! I feel like I'm going to vomit!”
 
“It's because of the Kyuubi, Naruto.”
 
Now, I have excepted the Kyuubi as a part as me. And I know I wouldn't be the person I am without him. But I still hate it when they talk about it. Especially when they talk about the Kyuubi being inside me.
 
“Because of the Kyuubi, your senses are much better then any dogs. Your nose is like the best, pure-breed dog, times twenty.”
 
Okay, I didn't know that. But now all my years of smelling weird smells, and by finding enemy ninja by smelling, has been answered to the question of “why?”
 
“So imagine what it would be like compared to a humans.”
 
This, this was shocking.
 
“Oh, and if you want to know, the scent is coming from the many incense sticks plotted around the village we are going to reach iiin…..now.”
 
We arrived at the village just then.
 
If only, my future self would come to me, and warn me, or even tell me why the hell am I about to pass out, and why do I suddenly feel like I'm on fire?
 
Naruto. You make sure you cooperate with Kagome, got it? She'll make your life a living hell if you don't.
 
Kagome?
 
If this so-called Kagome is going to make my life a living hell, I wonder how her hell compares with the one I'm feeling now.