Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Game of Fox and Phoenix ❯ Beginnings of a Past ( Chapter 2 )

Naruto couldn't help but to stare at the other in the shocking outfit. `How do I look?'

“Great!” was Naruto's, a little too enthusiastic, reply. ` He's missing something…. I'll figure it out later.' “Tsunade wants me to take you out… to town…. She wants me to show you the town,” he nervously scratching the back of his head.”

The other's laugh resonated in his head, `umm… okay Naruto,” He smiled.

`Why am I acting like this, it's not like I like him, `cuz you know…that would be…weird.' Naruto's brow furrowed in thought.

`Hello? Naruto? Are you alright?' Tatsunosuke poked Naruto's shoulder. The blonde shook his head; he gazed into the red eyes of the other and smiled. He smiled back. All of a sudden they heard a loud grumbling noise, obviously originating from the ebony haired teen. Tatsunosuke's face turned bright red. Naruto absently took note that he liked it when the other blushed.

“Hungry?” Naruto asked, Tatsunosuke only nodded, “I know a great place for ramen, Iruka sensei used to take me there all the time!” He grabbed Tatsunosuke's hand and dragged him out of the hospital, and through the streets, completely ignoring all of the strange looks he was getting.

They finally got to the Ichiraku Ramen stand. “Mr. Uzumaki, the usual I presume,” Naruto nodded, “And for you sir?” He looked at Tatsunosuke, who, in turn, looked at Naruto as if to say ` what do I do?'

“He'll have the same thing,” The blonde gave him a reassuring smile.

`Thank you.' He said politely, `But don't think I need you to do everything for me.' He stated firmly.

Naruto laughed, “The way I see it you need me to take care of you. That is, unless you want to go around talking through hand gestures everywhere you go.” Naruto's smirk grew larger, as did the color in Tatsunosuke's cheeks as he playfully glared at Naruto.

“There you go boys,” Said the man who ran the stand. “Enjoy.”

“Be prepared for the greatest food ever invented!”

“Naruto!”

“Eh? Sasuke?” this was said with a mouth full of ramen, so as you can imagine it was muffled. The Raven-haired ninja came over and took a seat next to his blonde haired friend.

“I figured I'd find you hear, you're so easy to predict.” He stated matter o' factly.

“Shut up teme.” Was his halfhearted reply, he was too focused on his ramen to care what the other had to say.

“Who's your friend?” he motioned towards Tatsunosuke with his head.

“ Oh this is the guy I was telling you about yesterday. I found him.” He stated proudly.

“Oh hi, I'm Sasuke Uchiha.” He offered his hand, and the other took it, but there was no reply. Sasuke's proud introductory look changed to one of befuddlement.

It didn't take Naruto too long to figure out that Sasuke was waiting for some sort of explanation. “He can't talk,” still Sasuke looked confused, “Someone put a jutsu on his voice; he can't talk.” Naruto repeated.

“Oh! Sorry,” his brow furrowed

“ He said it's alright,” Naruto said, Tatsunosuke smiled at Sasuke, and Sasuke revealed a smirk.

“Wait… you can understand him?” Sasuke asked.

“Yeah why?”

“Does Tsunade know? How do you hear him?”

“No she doesn't, and I don't know, it's like his voice echoes in my head.” Naruto gave Sasuke a look as if to say `what?!'

“Strange. I wonder why you can hear him, there has to be some sort of link.” Sasuke pondered all he could just to think of some sort of excuse for the strange connection.

Sasuke opened his mouth to give some sort of deduction, but, there was some sort of commotion in the town, people were running and screaming, all three of the young men, jumped up and ran to find out the source of the discord in Konohagakure. They came to a cloud of dust, both from people running, and also because someone had destroyed a merchants stand, quite dramatically.

“ugh, what's going on?” Naruto asked.

“I don't know, but whatever is causing this is in for it!” Sasuke yelled; both assumed fighting stances. The smoke began to clear and soon, a man was visible. He was large and wore a headband showing he was from the sound village. He wore the jounin uniform and he had long, straight, dark hair, jagged teeth, and a wild look in his eyes.

“Where is he?!” the man demanded, “I know he's here!” He twisted his head back and forth, his menacing black eyes searching for something.

“Hey, you!” Naruto yelled, the shinobi's attention immediately honed in on Naruto. “I don't know who you're looking for, but..”

“Shut up you little worm!” He snarled, “This doesn't concern you.” His pupils dilated in anger when he laid eyes on the black haired ninja standing behind the other two. “There you are, Tatsunosuke! I've missed you, why did you run away?!” He said everything in a violent tone, even his concerned words sounded threatening.

Naruto looked at the red-eyed teen, his own cerulean eyes pleading for answers. “Naruto!” Sasuke yelled. Naruto quickly averted his attention back to the other man, who was now charging full speed at the other two. “Get ready.” The two, leaf village jounin, focused on the man, both preparing for a counter attack, but, he vanished right in front of them. Only to reappear behind them, his right hand quickly found Tatsunosuke's throat, he slammed and pinned him to a near by wall, hard. The sound of his choking was horrible the Naruto's ears.

“Tatsu!” Naruto charged in only to be viciously, thrown back landing and sliding on his stomach “Damn, he's strong,”

“Oh, little Tatsunosuke made a friend, well don't get used to it, we're going back, and we'll have all kinds of fun!” He smiled maliciously and licked his lips. Tatsunosuke let out a choked gasp, his eyes screamed `fear'.

Sasuke growled and rushed in to help, only to find himself in the same position as Naruto. The blonde looked up from his helpless position, he saw Tatsunosuke's eyes roll into the back of his head, and his hands dropped from gripping his attackers wrist, to his sides, lifelessly. A loud gasp came from his body, the black haired boy's eyes began glowing red. `What?!' Naruto felt the temperature climb, and a heated wind came from Tatsunosuke.

“What is this!” the man shouted, he let go of the other's throat, his hand had been burned. A vicious smirk played at Tatsunosuke's lips, He charged in and punched his attacker, so quickly he barely seemed to move. The man flew back, only stopping due to the friction between his body and the groud.

“W-what's going on?” Sasuke asked, looking at Naruto, who could do nothing but stare helplessly.

The red eyes of the ninja focused on the man. He raised his hands and made an uncountable number of hand signs. He crossed his forearms and his hands clenched into fists. A strange voice echoed in Naruto's head, `Demon feather shuriken,' soon orange and red feathers that appeared to be on fire, were now between each of Tatsunosuke's knuckles, six in all. He threw them at his attacker. He successfully dodged four, however, the remaining two hit their target, one in the shoulder, and the other in his gut. The shinobi screamed in agony, Tatsunosuke's body only smiled.

“Wh-what's happening to me?!” he screamed. The man began screaming and clutching his body, “You little demon! What have you done?!” He just kept screaming; his whole body began to smoke. Soon he collapsed, the feathers vanished and he remained still on the ground, just smoking. Tatsunosuke ran in to kill his assailant, but stopped in his tracks. A single note floated in the air that seemed to freeze him.

“What's going on?” Sasuke asked again.

“I don't know.” Naruto replied. More notes were heard, “Where is it coming from?”

“It's a flute.” Sasuke stated.

Tsunade appeared in between the crazed ninja and his target, his brow twitched, and he grit his bared teeth, as though he was struggling, and then Naruto heard the voice once more, only this time it seemed to be a little calmer this time. `I suppose I've had my revenge,' and then Tatsunosuke's eyes reverted back to their original crimson state.

Tatsunosuke looked down at the steaming body. `Oh no, not again I-` He started to panic and look around frantically, his eyes welled up, and he tried to run.

Tsunade put a hand on his shoulder, “It's alright, you're not in any danger, he attacked you, and you didn't hurt anyone.” A look of relief found it's way over his entire body, and he fell to his knees.

 

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Ty: okay so I know this chapter was a little on the actiony side but I'm getting to the humor now, I just needed you to understand my OC, I find that if they have no background, that the story utterly crumbles due to lack of character, Hooray for plot development ^_^!