Naruto Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Memoirs of a D-Day Veteran ❯ Chapter 5

Chapitre 5: omg! Mistress 9 returns?!

 

Upon entering the small village, Hotaru received some strange looks from other people. She wondered why they were staring at her, and tried her best not to stand out. But it seemed that no matter what she did, people were always staring at her. She decided that she was hungry. It was rare that she was caught hungry, but with all this attention, she was so nervous that she was practically freaking out. Of course, that was all in her mind. On the outside, Hotaru showed about as much emotion as a brick wall.

 

Still, she thought as she reared into a local ramen restaurant called Ichiraku (A/N: in this fanfic, Ichiraku is a regular restaurant, not a stall. it's like that so things would make more sense, so don't flame me!), they have no right to be staring at me. Is it the way I'm dressed? She briefly thought of her purple long-sleeved mesh turtleneck, burgundy sleeveless jacket, purple mesh Capri tights, and burgundy skirt. She wore her hitai-ate around her neck like Ami (think Temari or Hinata). The hitai-ate for Gaikazegakure consisted of a feather that went across the hitai-ate, much like Higashikaze, and two bird symbols (the spread out curved `V' that little kids use on beach drawings). On her back was a burgundy knapsack that had the purple symbol for Saturn on it. The knapsack held a bunch of clay dolls. Each doll represented a person (or animal) who had been destroyed in her past lives. (you know, all the six times that she died?) She was able to manipulate these dolls, much like Makoto-sensei with her lightning shaped woodcarvings. The dolls were extremely tiny, each as tall as her pinky finger. She currently had over ten thousand dolls in there, waiting to be used for her killings— er, missions. ^. ^;

 

Sure, she admitted her style was different, but was it so strange that they all had to stare at her? Hotaru was shot out of her thoughts as a blonde haired boy in an orange jumpsuit bumped into her.

 

“Gomen!” the boy said as he rushed to a table and said to a woman with brown hair, “Hey, Ayame! I'll have Miso Pork ramen, onegai.” Pretty soon, 6 bowls of ramen were brought to his table. He dug in. After his first six, he ordered six more.

 

Hotaru stared at him. `He eats as much as Usagi-sempai,' she thought. The thought was sad, and a tear threatened to roll down her cheek. She held it in. Ayame came to her.

 

“What'll you have?” she asked.

 

“Nihon soba, onegai,” replied Hotaru. Two minutes later, Hotaru was gratefully eating her favorite food. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the spiky haired boy leave enough money to pay for his dinner on the table and walk away. (A/N: Quite a rare sight, ne?)

 

`Y'know,' she thought to herself, `anyone could just walk by and steal his money.'

 

As if hearing her unspoken thought, a boy clad head to toe in a dark cat suit/cloak walked by the table. Strange patterns were painted all over his face in purple. He looked to be about 14 years old. He didn't waver, not even a little, when he slightly brushed a cloaked hand over the side of the table, taking the money that was left. As soon as his hand was by his side again, he kept walking as nonchalantly as before. All the while, the blonde haired boy was still on his way out.

 

Hotaru stood up so fast from her seat that the chair from underneath her clamored to the ground. This caught the sight of the two other people in Ichiruka's besides the cloaked boy and the blonde. The first was a girl, about 15 or 16, who had straw colored hair in four ponytails. She carried a giant fan on her back. The second was a boy, about 12, who had stunningly red hair, no eyebrows, and sheer green eyes. He was wearing thick black eyeliner around his eyes. On his back was a large gourd full of sand. This boy had a red Kanji on the left side of his forehead that symbolized the word `love.'

 

The two boys turned to look at who made the noise as well. Hotaru looked at the hooded boy and said quietly, “Give him back his money.”

 

The girl looked at the boy and smirked. “You stealing again Kankuro? You baka.”

 

Kankuro ignored her and smiled sheepishly, “Looks like I'm caught. So soon, too.”

 

Naruto looked at Kankuro. “Hey! You're that guy who's in Konoha with that sand freak!” He looked at the redhead. “You are the sand freak!”

 

Gaara growled at Naruto. His sand hissed and moved on its own accord. It wanted to kill.

 

`What a loud mouth. How troublesome,' Hotaru said to herself. `He's as loud as Usagi-sempai and Rei-chan put together!'

 

“Give me back my money!” Naruto yelled.

 

“No way! You're way too loud to get this back,” Kankuro said, gesturing towards the money he held in his hand. “I think I'll just have to keep it.”

 

Naruto smirked. “Then I think I'll just have fight you for it!”

 

“Why fight?” Hotaru said softly. “You'd be wasting precious time and energy on someone who took a few notes. You might as well just kill him and get it over with.” A little bit of Mistress 9 was showing up again. Luckily, only Gaara caught that remark. He smirked to himself.

 

“What's you're name?” the girl asked her. She smacked Kankuro upside the head for mumbling something along the lines of `stupid blondes.'

 

“Kazuki. What is your name?”

 

“I'm Temari and this is my younger brother Gaara. You already know Kankuro, my other brother.” Gaara glared at his sister. `Oooh, touchy,' was Hotaru's first thought.

 

“And I'm Uzamaki Naruto! I'm gonna be the next Hokage!” Naruto looked at her carefully. “Hey, you look kinda familiar. You know these girls? One has long blonde hair, and the other has long black hair, kinda like yours.”

 

This caught her attention. “What are their names, and what colors were they wearing?”

 

Naruto scratched his head. “The blonde's name was Ganryuu Shinta. She was wearing orange and navy blue, and a blue ribbon in her hair. The raven-haired girl's name was Kamitsune Momo. She was wearing red and purple.” (A/N: Did you ever notice the fact that Minako and Naruto are wearing the same colors? Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not…)

 

“Hai I know them,” she replied. A plan formed in her head. “Kamitsune Momo is my older sister, actually. What do you think about them?”

 

“I think your sister's hot!” Naruto exclaimed.

 

“What about Shinta?”

 

“She looks pretty good. Good to know my half-sister looks almost as good as me.”

 

“NE?!”

 

“Ya mean you didn't know?”

 

“Forgive me, Naruto-san. I haven't seen Momo-neesan and her team for years. It's only natural that I'd forget details like that. So, you think Momo-neesan is hot?”

 

Kankuro snorted. “I bet she isn't as hot as me!” He received a slap from Temari and a glare from Gaara.

 

`Perfect,' Hotaru thought. `This is just what I needed to start the list of reasons of why you should never cross Mistr— I mean Kamitsune Kazuki's path. Rule #1: Don't make fun of my friends. And to think, that Naruto kid actually believes I'm related to Rei-chan!'

 

She made a face that looked to be as cold and menacing as Gaara's. “You dare to speak against those dear to me? Foolish human.”

 

That was what aroused Gaara's curiosity. `So, Kazuki-san isn't human.' He had sensed another's presence in her when she first stood.

 

// Let's take her. // Shukaku stirred within him.

 

//No.// Gaara said to that damned other self of his.

 

//You know you want her, // he hissed.

 

//No, I don't// he replied harshly. //I love only myself and fight only for myself. // But even as he said it, Gaara knew it wasn't true. Shukaku knew it as well. He had felt something strange and foreign for this girl. It was probably lust, that physical yearning that Shukaku bestowed upon him during his heat periods. Damned Shukaku. Poor Gaara was in denial, while Shukaku was in heat. Not a safe combination if you ask me. Oh ho, not at all.

 

//Yes, you do. Admit you do. You want to tie her to your bed and fuck her senseless. I know your thoughts Gaara, for they are mine as well. I want her as much as you do. //

 

//Don't you dare touch /my/ Kazuki-san// Gaara warned. A light growl formed in his throat, causing Hotaru to look at him. They stared at each other for a while, neither blinking nor showing that they cared what the other thought. Then Hotaru was snapped out her reverie when Naruto suggested that they leave.

 

The five exited Ichiruka's (after paying for their meals, of course) and walked towards the apartments/ hotel area. Then they stopped when Naruto decided to start some random conversation about the Chuunin exams coming up and how he was going to kick Gaara's ass. Hotaru's mind, however interested it may have been on what Chuunin exams were, was far from there. `Mistress 9 is coming fast. If I don't get back to Sensei a.s.a.p. then there's a chance of her coming out— and that won't be pretty.' She had to find a way to get away from them without arousing any suspicions. Either that, or she could attempt at getting another scout's attention so that they could try and whisk her away.

 

“Hey, Kazuki-chan?”

 

“Yeah, Naruto-kun?”

 

“I was just thinking. You're from Gaikazegakure, right?

 

“Uh-huh, why do you ask?” `I mean, isn't it obvious from my hitai-ate?'

 

“Well, I just remembered that Momo-chan and Shinta-neesan are from Higashikazegakure. How come you and Momo-chan are from different villages?”

 

`Shit. Think fast, dammit!' “That's because, uh… our parents got divorced when we were very little— yeah, that's it! Now thinking about it, I haven't seen her since the death of our father.”

 

“How did he die?” Temari asked. The sandsibs were only walking with them because Gaara had started walking enigmatically close to Hotaru, if you could call six inches close.

 

“I killed him.” She said simply. She was referring to Dr. Tomoe, although she didn't really kill him. Not entirely, anyway. `Now, back to my problem.'

 

`Got it.' Hotaru focused her energy and used her left hand to perform a seal behind her back. `Ishindenshin no Jutsu!' she thought as the technique followed through. The best part of that jutsu was that no one, not even Gaara, would be able to sense her using her chakra. Hotaru searched the dimension to locate the nearest scout within telepathic reach. That lucky person just so happened to be Ami.

 

//Ami-chan.//

 

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Elsewhere, an exhausted Ami was talking with a not so tired Sasuke. The two had been sparring for while, until Ami's arm started going limp, so they stopped. It had gone like this: Sasuke charged at Ami. Ami dodged him with her swiftness, just as he threw several kunai at her. She caught the kunai a little late, and had to perform the Kinobori no Jutsu extremely fast as to get away. She had bounced off the tree trunk almost as quickly as it took for her chakra to cover the soles of her feet. She then threw a couple of her own kunai at him. She missed, but at least her aim wasn't so horrible…

 

Dodge, bounce, counter. Dodge, bounce, counter. This was how it was until Sasuke ended the match with a substitution jutsu and placed a kunai at her throat. “This match is over,” said Sasuke. He looked Ami over. Her cheeks were flushed and she was panting. Her dark blue tresses had long since come out of the confinement of the ribbon, which now hung loosely at the tips of her hair strands. Sweat glistened on her fair skin, enabling her loosened strands to stick in any which way. In his opinion, she looked incredibly sexy. He shook his head. `I just met her! I shouldn't be having these feelings of… whatever they are!'

 

Ami was exhausted and her legs were starting to give way. When she decided that it was okay, she let herself go and plopped herself on the ground at Sasuke's feet. Before she could hit the ground, however, Sasuke had her in his arms bridal style and carried her to a log beside the river. Now, as they were resting on said log, Sasuke had requested of her something that no one would even think of asking a bookworm like her, or care for that matter. The conversation was going in a strange direction. At least, it was strange for Ami. It started like this.

 

“Tell me about yourself, Aoi-chan.”

 

“Well, there's nothing really to say, Sasuke-san. My mother is a doctor, and my father is an artist.” Pause. “I'm a wind ninja from Higashikazegakure.” Pause. “Um, what else?” `I doubt he'd want to hear that I'm a protector of an alternate earth.'

 

“What about your love life? Who do you hold dear?”

 

Ami blushed furiously. At first she thought he was kidding, but his serious face told her otherwise. `Wow, the moon sure is pretty,' was all she could think.

 

“Aoi-chan, what is your answer?” Sasuke was rather amused by the way she was fidgeting under his gaze. To further tease the girl, he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, pulling her closer to his chest. He gently stroked her stomach, making small, lazy circles.

 

Ami shivered. She had never been touched like that by someone, especially by someone she had just met. And to her ultimate horror, she liked it! `Oh. My. GOD! He's touching me! What should I do? It feels kind of nice. Maybe I should let him keep going. Yeah… Wait. No! I love Urawa-kun, don't I? He is the Mercury Knight, after all. I wonder how he's doing…'

 

“T- t - the o- only one's I keep dear to me are my friends— er, teammates.” She became extremely nervous when he rubbed the bones on either side of her spine.

 

“Why so tense?” he whispered huskily into her ear. Sasuke began to move his left hand up and down her thigh. He kissed her neck. Why did he tease her to such an extent? He didn't know. All he knew was that what he was doing felt right, and he didn't want to stop. “Didn't you ever want to get serious with someone?”

 

“Sasuke-san, urasai, onegai.” Ami's face was beet red.

 

The Uchiha prodigy shook his head. “Not till you tell me,” he murmured into the crook of her neck.

 

Ami sighed. The only answer she knew he would like was… “…H -hai.”

 

Sasuke didn't stop, however, and took her approval as further excuse to kiss away at her body. He started to tug at the hem of her shirt to gain more access to her underexposed flesh. This earned him a protest from the young Mizuno/Nori.

 

“S -sasuke-kun,” she pleaded again. Suddenly, she received a reading of chakra headed her way. Sasuke was too busy inhaling her scent to notice it though. `Rain and blueberries… strange combination' was all he could think.

 

//Ami-chan.//

 

Ami silently did the movements of the seal. //Hai? Who is there? //

 

There was a slight pause. // This is Hotaru-chan. Ami-chan, I need you to come to the village at the end of the forest. It's very important. //

 

//What's wrong, Hotaru-chan? Is something going to happen? //

 

//Hai. I don't know what it is, but something about this dimension is wrong. But whatever it is, it has awakened Mistress 9 once again. //

 

Ami mentally gasped. //You don't mean—//

 

//Hai, Ami-chan. That witch is resurfacing, and she wants to kill. Onegai, you must help me. She's coming at an unbelievable rate. It won't be long until she has complete control over my body. Ami-chan, I want you to contact Makoto-sensei. Tell her that I need her help, too. //

 

//Alright, Hotaru-chan.//

 

//Oh, and Ami-chan, my name here is Kazuki, // she said in an amused tone. //I'm the younger sister of Rei-chan, whose name is currently Momo. //

 

Ami laughed inwardly. //How did that come about? // She squirmed a little as Sasuke planted a few wet kisses over a certain spot below her neck that sent a chill down her spine. She was evidently ticklish. Unfortunately for her, this didn't go unnoticed by Sasuke. He took this as an opportunity to torture her a little.

 

//This guy knows her and Minako-chan as Momo and Shinta. He told me that I looked familiar, so I said I was `Momo's' sister. He completely believed me! // Hotaru snickered, which caused a certain redhead to stare blankly at her. //Anyway, what's your name in this dimension? //

 

Ami wasn't able to answer right away, as Sasuke was still only halfway through his `torture', and she was having a giggle fit. // Aoi. // was all Ami could muster through her giggles.

 

//Ami-chan, are you okay? //

 

//H -hai. I'll be there as soon as I can, okay Hotaru-chan? //

 

//Segio. Oh yeah, the boy I mentioned earlier's name is Naruto. He's supposed to be Minako's brother. You'll see him when you get here. Later. //

 

Back to Ami's current situation. Sasuke turned her around so he could kiss the parts of her neck he couldn't reach. He laced his fingers skillfully through her hair as he licked one earlobe, then the other. He closed his eyes a little and looked down at the silvery reflection of the moon. `Shit!' Suddenly, he shot up off of the log. Then he took Ami by the hand and began to drag her away.

 

“Ano, Sasuke-san, where are we going?” Ami was almost afraid to ask.

 

“We're going to my house,” he said calmly.

 

“Y -your house? Doushite?” Ami wasn't too thrilled that she going home with him.

 

“I didn't notice before how late it was. Once we get there, Aoi-chan, we can continue.” Sasuke didn't know what it was about Aoi-chan. Something in him wanted to protect her for some reason. He wanted to hold her. To be there for her in times of need. To love her, and be loved in return. Heh, being loved. That's what scared him the most.

 

Ami sweat dropped. She had to get out of this somehow. Then it hit her. Duh! He most likely lives in that village. Once they got there, she would make `Kazuki's' existence known to Sasuke, and things would go on from there. Now, to contact Sensei….

 

 

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TBC

- 7 - December 6, 2006