Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hatred Turned Love ❯ The River's Current ( Chapter 10 )

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By: xDu083x

Hatred Turned Love

Chapter 10: The River's Current

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GETTING READY…

After finally waking myself up and Whitey, I had to face the fact that I was going to die today. Geez… why the freakin' river?

I sighed again, cooking myself breakfast and preparing Whitey's meal.

Will Kakashi save me again this time? But then again… he didn't care when I complained about the river… only a bit…

Maybe a little…

Okay… kind of, so what?

I took a shower and picked out my clothing. Some shorts and a sleeveless shirt. Whitey was in the room with me… I was… um… uncovered…

I didn't know why, but I had a strange feeling dressing up in front of Whitey.

It just… kept staring at me… Why should I be bothered by it? I mean… it's just a dog… it's not like it's going to tell anyone…

I ignored it and continued on clothing myself.

Next, we headed off. Going to the river will at least take me fifteen minutes, considering on the distance of the river.

The name is so lame, but I have to deal with it.

I ran along with White Fang… bad idea…

Whitey was a million miles away from me and I was already tired.

“C'mon Whitey…” I panted. “You don't want to be left behind… chop, chop… put your back into it…”

Maybe it's because I'm getting TOO old… sniff…

Anyways… I finally arrived at the Death River (Happy Konoha whatever…)

The river was beautiful… but just because it's because it's beautiful, doesn't mean it's deadly.

I met up with Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto.

Sasuke was speaking to me actually, did I tell you that? Not because of the spar treatment we did earlier (well… maybe a little) but… maybe because he was like me…

Somebody… betraying the family… you'd want revenge...

You know who I'm talking about… and if you don't… then… okay… (A/N: Read first chapter... if you don't know...)

I didn't see Kakashi anywhere… the late scarecrow… where'd he go?

I drank a gallon of water before I laid on the grass. Sakura helped me up when I was fully rested.

Our third task was to go through some current using a kayak and grabbing a scroll on the other side of the river with our dogs.

I was dead stiff…

WHAT WAS THE F-ING DEAL WITH KAKASHI?

No way am I going inside that suicidal dump of killer liquid for a stupid piece of junk (the scroll).

I huffed and puffed… but there was no house next to me, only trees, so I tried blowing on some rocks that were next to me in anger.

Unfortunately… they didn't move… so I kicked them.

Whitey gave me a bark of encouragement…

I sighed again.

Why am I the only one suffering…?

“We each pick a marble and the color will decide which course each one of us will take…” said Sakura.

Each person, me too, picked a marble from a small black bag.

We read the color descriptions for the courses.

The pink color belonged to the slow… easy… peaceful current. It had no rocks, no caves, and nothing was really pushing against the water. It was the beginner's stage.

The next stage was a bit harder. It had some rocks, but only some. It had no caves and the current of the water was a bit faster… this was for the orange color…

The other stage was even harder. It had one cave and some jagged rocks. The current flow of the water was a little more extreme then the first and second… but it doesn't look like you can die from it. This belonged to the black marble…

Now… the last one… ohohohoho… it was HELL, literally. It had two caves, filled with dangerous animals like bats. The current was extremely strong, so you can get knocked out from your feet from the bumps of the water. All of the rocks were jagged… it was really dangerous.

This was for the silver marble…

Now… I think you guys can already guess which person got which marble, eh?

I gulped as I chose my marble.

I opened my palm to see…

Oh… no…

Sakura got the pink one… Naruto got the orange one (he was a little disappointed), and Sasuke got the black one…

I was left with…

… The silver one…

I gasped in horror. Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura stared at me.

“I can trade with you…” said Naruto.

One of the dog owners (shoot, where did he come from?) came over and shook his head.

“I'm sorry… but you will have to play fair… the marbles are to be choosed randomly... no trading...” said the owner. “Those are the rules…”

“Who made this rule up?” I asked. I expected the Hokage, but…

“Kakashi-san…” said the owner.

My eyes glinted angrily.

He is SO going to have infinite number of book attacks smashed on his face when I come back alive.

But then again… I might not come back alive… aw man… maybe I'll haunt him...

“If you're in trouble, we'll rescue you as soon as possible…” said Sakura warmly. “Don't worry, Akemi-chan…”

“Easy for you to say…” I sniffed.

“The clock will start in a minute: one hour of the task… students… resume in your positions…" said the owner.

OH MY GAWD! THERE'S A TIME LIMIT TOO?

ARGH! Kakashi's head book attack build-up: infinity plus ONE!

I sighed.

I strapped myself to the kayak with a life jacket. I don't even know how to kayak… only a little since the owner taught me a little. White Fang was panting, looking at it's reflection on the water.

I breathed steadily. My kayak was strapped into this metal thing… it let's my kayak go into the water when the time starts…

I breathed heavily this time, seeing the deadly water rushing in front of me.

Why did it have to come to this?

I wheezed.

What did I do wrong?

Why do I ask so many questions?

It was... because I...

Hanged out with Kakashi too much, that's what…

Hmm... I wonder what would happen to me if I never met Kakashi...

“Begin!” said the owner.

WHA-? NOW?

I quickly grabbed my paddle thing. My kayak was released.

The water was forcing me to go to different directions… even if I tried my hardest to paddle… the current wouldn't let me go to where I wanted to go.

Stupid… this is stupid…

“Calm down…” said Sai. “You're almost there…”

“Almost there!” I said, literally shrieking in my brain. “The goal is miles away!”

“Geez… I was trying to make you feel better…”

I was panting… REALLY HEAVILY. This water was getting to me. My tears were erupting…

“I don't want to do this…” I said. “Let me out… please…”

I was gonna loose it when…

Whitey licked my face.

I stared at it. It was giving me that grin.

Why should I be panicking? Whitey isn't even wearing a seatbelt and it's doing just fine… you're such a wimp Akemi… Whitey can sure ease my tensions...

I actually used my paddle. My hands were shaking… the tension of the water was making me more nervous… but I'll just have to get used to it.

Alright, Akemi, focus…

I paddled my way toward a cave… oh no… I hate caves…

“Since when?” asked Sai.

“Since now…” I said, gulping.

"You hate everything..." said Sai.

"I hate you..." I said.

"Tch..."

The cave was completely dark. I turned on my flashlight…

Oh yeah… I remembered…

I took out a wakie-talkie from my backpack.

“S…Sakura…?” I said.

The radio thing made sounds… then a reply came.

“Yah, Akemi-chan?” asked Sakura. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah…” I said. “How are you…?”

“Oh… I'm okay…” said Sakura.

“Alright… peace out…” I said, turning off the radio. I didn't want to waste batteries.

Damn… now for the beasts…

But they didn't come…

“Huh?” I said.

The beasts were somewhere else… they were feeding on some scraps on the other side of the cave, ignoring me…

I was relieved.

Okay… jagged rocks, tough currents… and one more cave.

I started rafting slowly… the current was strong, but now I had no problem with changing my direction.

“I'm doing it…” I said happily. “Maybe I won't die too soon after all…”

I spoke too fast.

I saw the cave in front of me… it looked creepier… and much more dangerous… it looked much more in length too.

I sweated my last sweat… and continued forth…

This isn't a war story…

What happened to the comedy?

It'll come soon, don't worry…

I continued going in the cave… the current was still strong.

My flashlight was on again when I went inside the cave.

I shivered… it was cold… Whitey stayed really close to me.

I heard a growl.

“Erk…” I said. “Please tell me that wasn't a monster just now…”

“I will kill you… I will eat you…” whispered the voice.

ERK!

I stared paddling faster and faster.

“You can't get away…” said the deadly voice.

I'm going to pee in my pants any time soon.

I started reaching for my walkie-talkie.

“Maybe Sakura can cheer me up…”

The voices kept going… but wait…

It was comingfrom the walkie-talkie.

What the…?

I pressed my ears on the walkie-talkie…

The voice sounded oddly familiar…

“Die… you shall die here...” said the voice. “MUAHAHA-!”

“Naruto-kun!” I said angrily. “Is that you?”

The voice was faint, but I still heard it from my walkie-talkie.

“N… no…” said a muffled sound.

“What the hell Naruto, you gave me the creeps!” I said.

Whitey was nudging on me.

“Hold up Whitey…”

“I gave you a big scare didn't I, Akemi-chan?” said Naruto. “Heheh… I couldn't help it…”

“Geez…” I said.

“When are you coming back?” asked Naruto.

“What do you mean?”

Whitey nudged me harder with its nose.

“Whitey, stop…” I said.

“Well…” said Naruto. “Sakura-chan, Sasuke, and I came back already…”

“WHAT?” I said loudly. “YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY DONE?”

“Well… yeah…” said Naruto. “You still have fifteen minutes left…”

“For sure…?”

“Yeah…”

Whitey bit on my foot softly.

“Whitey what is it?” I said; a little irritated.

I felt something… odd…

There was a whooshing noise… like something was behind me…

I felt a chill…

“Akemi-chan?” said Naruto. His voice was ringing around the cave.

“Shush for a moment, Naruto-kun…” I said softly. The cave… was silent almost… the current was still strong, however.

“I'll talk to you later…” I said to the walkie-talkie, turning it off.

The sensation didn't vanish.

I heard… a noise…

It was strange… it sounded like… bats?

All of the winged mammals were facing me. Their eyes glinted, blood red, at me. But I thought it was a… human…

White Fang tackled my back, causing me to bend down.

“What are you…?”

I felt something… like something was going to… grab for me or something… that feeling was definitely human.

I looked back, but no one was there. My flashlight was flickering… the batteries must be running out… cheap batteries…

I rowed faster… but silently… careful not to awaken the bats… I was almost near the exit…

And then…

A kunai, out of nowhere… was stuck at the bat's territory, causing all of the bats to panic and create chaos.

I wasn't scared of bats… but I was scared that I was going to fall in the water.

The herd of bats were too great… they were moving my kayak uncontrollably. Whitey snapped at some of the bats to go away… but there was too much.

Who threw that kunai?

So many bats hit our kayak… and in my fear…

I splashed into the lake.

I was drowning… the stupid life jacket was punctured by the bats…

I tried screaming for help… but the water was entering my mouth, nose, and eyes… blinding me.

I saw my glasses come out…

Just great…

I saw White Fang coming towards me. Against this current, he's a strong swimmer. He was beside me… I think he wanted me to hold on to his fur.

I did… grabbing it tight, but not too tight…

The dog started swimming toward the shore… but it was too far away…

Then a great current broke us apart…

“Whitey!” I spurted. “WHITEY!”

I heard the dog whine…

I felt myself sink…

Is this the end for me?

“Hold on!” said Sai.

I thought about my accident… I thought that was the end… but it wasn't… and then I met Kakashi… and it was funny in our first meeting…

I couldn't forget that day…

Just thinking about it makes me smile sometimes…

I said sometimes… not all the time…

I'll miss Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto…

Maybe it'll be okay… I might meet my dad and my brother… again…

Will Kakashi save me again?

I felt someone hold my hand… it looked like…

“Dad?” I gurgled.

I passed out.

I woke up to be surrounded by some people… I couldn't see because I didn't have my glasses…

Someone placed my glasses on. It was wiped clean and dried off.

“What happened…?”

“I thought you died!” said Sakura. She gave me a hug… I felt her tears on my shoulder.

I saw Naruto, even Sasuke looking worriedly at me. And next to him was…

“Kakashi-chan?” I said.

He smiled at me. He was soaking wet, wearing his jounin clothes…

“The one and only…” he said.

“Did you…?”

Kakashi grinned.

I smiled.

“Thanks…” I said. "But the mission... the scroll..."

"Don't worry about it..." said Kakashi.

So… Kakashi saved me again…

I stood up, accompanied by Sakura.

“Are you okay?” asked Sakura.

“Yeah…” I said. “It was a good thing I wasn't ripped to pieces by the rocks… if Whitey…”

I stopped. My heart stopped.

I looked around myself.

He… he wasn't here.

“Whitey?” I asked.

“What?” said Kakashi.

I tried running toward the river.

Kakashi stopped me.

“Where are you going?”

“White Fang!” I said. “He… he's still out there…!”

“Wait!” said Kakashi.

I ran toward the river again, but again, Kakashi stopped me.

“What are you doing?”

“I'm gonna save him!” I said. “He's probably being busted up by some rock or something…!”

“Don't worry… he's…”

“Don't worry?” I said angrily. “Of course I'm worried… he's out there dying!”

“No you don't understand…”

“I understand perfectly, c'mon let's save him!”

“No wait…”

“What are you talking about, we can't just…”

“I'M WHITE FANG!” said Kakashi loudly.

“I… what…?”

“I'm the puppy… the baby Labrador…” said Kakashi. “Whitey… well now since my nickname's Whitey-chan now…”

“You… you were Whiteyall along?”

Kakashi nodded. He looked really tired…

I...

Now I understood… Whitey was one smart dog… almost had a brain of a human… though he fought like one too… and Kakashi probably used shadow replication and made his clone fight the two ninja… Wow… he must've used a lot of chakra…

…and this morning… he was sleeping next to me… that's why I felt skin…

I blushed…

And also… this morning...

My temple tensed.

“Akemi-chan?”

“You were White Fang…?” I asked. “All the way…?”

Kakashi gave me a strange look.

“Yeah… why?”

My voice was at its boiling point. It wasn't about Whitey sleeping next to me... it was... after that...

“Even this morning…?”

“Of course..." said Kakashi. "What... about… this… morning…?”

Kakashi said that last part very slowly.

This morning… I was… he…

I grabbed his book.

I think he knew what I was talking about.

“Pervert… you didn't even look away (BIG HINT)…” I snarled. “Time to pay the consequences…”

"Breathe..." said Kakashi. "Breathe Akemi-chan..."

Sakura gasped, putting her hands on her mouth. She knew what I was talking about. Sasuke shook his head on shame.

“Kakashi-san…” said the owner. He knew too.

Naruto was looking at us… confused.

“What are you guys talking about…?”

“Please have mercy…” said Kakashi weakly. “I'm really sorry… I didn't mean to...”

“LIKE I GIVE A DAMN!” I yelled.

I puffed up my breath…

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“I said I was sorry..."

To be continued…

How's that guys? Sorry I didn't have time to update sooner… but school's really stressing me out… I hoped you enjoyed this chapter! Many more to come! Please review… I really need some… Did you guys get what Akemi meant in the morning... if you didn't... e-mail me... And who was trying to get her in the cave? Hmm... think about that guys...

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