Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Long Gone: Strange Dreams ❯ Long Gone: Kyuubi, Red and Strange Encounters ( Chapter 2 )

Authors Note: Hope you enjoy and review

Disclaimer: Same as before

Warnings: Sasu/Naru, short chapters and some cursing that's about it.

 

 

 

Chapter One in Long Gone, A Strange Dream

Kyuubi , Red and Strange Encounters

 

 

It had been years since they had first entered the Underground. When the world got to tainted to live in from nuclear war, all the survivors moved to the only place left to them, in the Earth itself. The people, a million or so, formed one government with one permanent leader. Unlike all previous leaders however, this man could do anything he wanted, got whatever he wanted and the people had no choice but to accept because the government controlled who got to buy what including food. Most technology had been lost in the move but there was still some small vestiges remaining. For the most part humanity had to start over.

 

At first the people were uneasy, but soon grew not to care, because what the leader wanted for the most part didn't effect their day to day lives. They didn't resist, because the leader named all resistors, dangers to the populace and to be punished by death no matter how lightly it was, and while it was hard to ignore the cries of neighbours as they were taken in the night on some charge, the people for the most part did their best to make sure that would not happen to them. The people of this new place were suspicious and selfish, they wouldn't help if it had any chance of getting them in trouble.

 

To get the food the government required several things, first and foremost at the age of 16 you had to go to the Palace where they tested you for something. No one knew what, and the people who had positive results were never seen again. The second is that you had to have 1st class , or second class parents to be free, otherwise you were servants for life.

 

Above all the other classes existed a class equal to that of former day royalty. This of course included the Leader and his body guards, which were always numbered four even if the faces changed, and these ones hadn't in all the 10 years they had kept their jobs. The Leader had an heir, the people called Shadow Prince because whenever he was seen he was cloaked in shadows so no one could see his face. These were the highest of the high, who got everything for nothing.

 

Naturally in such a society revolutionaries would exist and they did. This group was called Genesis. All the people that didn't fit with the regulations either took to the streets or became slaves. Genesis picked these people off the streets and convinced them to join with offers of food, shelter, and protection. Many people joined. But still some remembered tales of the old NEXUS and didn't join, these people lived on the streets, stealing and evading authorities. This is the start of a story.

 

 

 

 

Kyuubi dashed down the streets his old tattered brown coat full to the brim with stolen goods. He heard the shop keeper shouting angrily and chasing him waving a shot gun over his head. Kyuubi laughed at the threat, the shop keeper wouldn't dare fire and bring attention on himself and there was no way the fat man would be able to keep up. Pushing through the people who didn't get out of his way, Kyuubi looked around the market place as he ran looking for Shinobi. Shinobi were an elite police force and he would be screwed if any of them managed to follow him back home to Red.

 

`Ahh Red,' Kyuubi thought his eyes going dreamy, `I hope she's made it back okay', his blue eyes flashed with worry for a moment before the smile came back to his face. Red beat him up whenever he pissed her off, there was no way she would be beaten by some old shopkeeper, or rich old woman, not that many came down here but some did occasionally. He dodged a few more people, snatching an apple as he passed the vender and hearing more angry shouts of “Demon!” being called from behind. Laughing he turned his head and called over his shoulder “That's right! You're not as stupid as I thought you were!” The man yelled angrily as he stuck out his tongue. “ Catch me if you can!” Of course during all of this Kyuubi was looking the other way, expecting people to move out of his way, and most did already used to his antics and his schedule. But one person didn't move because they were facing the other way, looking at a venders goods as the man prattled on and on, and couldn't hear the commotion over the din of the crowd. This of course could only lead to one thing. CRASH! Kyuubi yelped as he crashed into someone head on, spilling the stolen goods across the ground and sending both him and the person he had run into, sprawling to the ground.

 

Not ready for the impact Kyuubi lay there dazed for a moment, gradually regaining his senses which had been scattered in the fall. The first thing he noticed was that the ground was warm, `strange,' the fox boy thought, as it was never warm in the Underground. Then he noticed that the ground was breathing, and realized that it couldn't possibly be the ground because as far as he knew there was nowhere where the ground could breathe. That's when his brain decided to kick in. “Holy crap is that a person!” Then felt like an utter fool as the person below him stiffened and roughly pushed him off. As he fell tumbling yet again, he caught a glimpse of dark eyes from under the cover of pitch black cloak. The rest of the face was obscured with shadows.

 

 

As he lay stunned on the ground for the second time that day he saw the person get up silently, and give him this look. Kyuubi knew the person was glaring at him event though he couldn't see his face he could feel it the cold stare and he shivered. The stranger continued to look at him coldly as if to kill him with his look alone before muttering in a cold, dry voice, “watch where you're going next time idiot.“ The stranger readjusted their cloak, and then turned around and promptly stalked off in the opposite direction ignoring the shopkeepers calls of, “aren't you going to buy anything!” The stranger, whose voice Kyuubi had identified to be definitely male, was about to turn the corner before he stopped. He turned his head slightly and called over his shoulder, “Oh, and by the way stupid, the last time I checked I was definitely human.” He then turned the corner and passed out of sight. Kyuubi growled angrily his cheeks tinted slightly red with humiliated embarrassment, his previously good mood flying out the window. Ok he knew he had been stupid, but that bastard didn't have to rub it in by saying that! And what was more , now he had to pick everything he had stolen off the ground some of which had been delicate and had most likely shattered on the ground. This was including the beautiful glass Sakura flower he had gotten for Red's birthday, his anger only increased, that flower had special memories attached to it, and he had hoped it would get him a date with his beautiful pink haired, green eyed best friend. Once he had claimed how her hair was the unique shade of the flower he had only seen in pictures, and she had smiled at him for it. She had told him it was her dream to find a real one, which was practically impossible because the only place they could be found was in their home country of Japan, above ground and decimated. But now any chance of that was gone and it was too late to go get another, and too dangerous, that particular shop keeper would be out to get his head. Now he would have to give her one of the other things he stole and while none were bad, none had the flair or the meaning the Sakura flower had held. And it was all that Bastard's fault.

 

Growling angrily, Kyuubi picked the rest of his things off the ground, wiping off the dust. The shopkeeper, who was mad at losing a customer thanks to the Demon, shouted at him furiously to get away from his stall before he called the Shinobi. Even though Kyuubi knew it to be an empty threat he still stepped quicker, he and Red didn't need the Shinobi after them on top of all the other problems they had from day to day. Angry and frustrated Kyuubi noticed that he had already missed the meeting time he and Red had arranged and was late. He stomped off heading home.

 

 

When Kyuubi opened the door of the broken down, old ware house they called home, he was immediately tackled to the ground by a pink and red blur, and then proceeded to be punched in the face.

Kyuubi hissed in pain grabbing his cheek, but looking up at furious green eyes with his own puppy dog blue. “Whadido” he mumbled sounding more hurt then he actually was. He knew his Sakura was soft-hearted somewhere really deep inside. After a few minutes of angry glaring and blinking puppy dog eyes. The girl's face softened, but only slightly. She got up off of him smoothing her long red dress, which was not in the best condition but was the best they could find, AKA steal. And stalked towards the cold room muttering about ice and idiots and the unfairness of people who had puppy dog eyes that were to cute to resist. Kyuubi bit back a grin, knowing that if Red caught one on his face when she came back there would be nothing left to grin with. After a moment of rummaging in the ice room, the pink haired girl came back with an ice pack in hand. At seeing him on the floor still she glared.

 

“Get off the floor, I didn't hit you that hard.” Kyuubi hastily got to his feet. She nodded in satisfaction then led him to one of the ratty armchairs, this had once been a furniture warehouse. She then gave him the ice, and when he looked at her confused she glared again. “Hold it on your cheek it'll stop the swelling if there is going to be any.” Man his Red sure could be scary sometimes, he wouldn't mention that out loud however as it would wreck any hope of a date with her along with getting his broken corpse thrown off a bridge. The girl came back dragging an armchair that looked as if it belonged in the dumpster, but she sat in it without question. “Tell me everything,” she ordered. Kyuubi gulped.

 

“Why would there be anything to tell I just got in late, because of an accident.” He didn't tell her any details, lest she think it was something to worry about. She just gave him an evil look and he muttered hastily under his breath, “it was all that bastards fault anyway.”

 

“What was that?” Red asked in a dangerous tone. Kyuubi gulped again getting up hastily and practically running over to his makeshift bed in one corner of the warehouse. In reality it was a long, musty orange couch he had grown fond of but Red had called hideous.

 

“It was nothing, I just bumped into someone on the road , that's all. He was just being a bastard about it.” He knew rather then saw the worried frown on Red's face and he anticipated her next question.

“No, I don't think he'll tell anyone, he seemed the type to deal with his own problems. That and I don't think he would have considered me important enough to cause trouble over anyway.” He heard her sigh, then she said:

 

“Just don't cause any more trouble Naruto. Goodnight.” He heard her go over to her bed and he heard the rustle of blankets. Her breathing evened out and within minutes he knew she was asleep. She had used his birth name, it meant she was really worried.

 

Naruto whispered, “goodnight,” and rolled over on the lumpy couch trying to find a comfortable position. It took him a long time to get to sleep and when he finally did it was to dream about strangers in dark cloaks and broken Sakura flowers.

 

 

 

 

Done another chapter and if you cared enough to guess the characters from last chapter they were in order of appearance: Kakashi-the main character, Iruka- the British Prime Minister, and finally Orochimaru - the Un Presidents advisor, not that that one was hard to guess. Any way another chapter done. I hope you enjoyed.

 

Lady Endymion, posted 10:33 AM Saturday July 1 2006