Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 11 The pathway ( Chapter 11 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.6K | Visits: 252 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.6K | Visits: 252 | Status: Completed
Chapter 11: The pathway
The sound of strong wind and rain could be heard ahead of them in the dark passage, it was even louder then the rushing water behind them. The path started to slope up hill apposed to it leading down hill like before, the transition was sudden and caught them off guard because of how steep the up was , it was almost like running in to a wall.
To make matters worse, at the top of the climb the passage was open to the storm. They had ran under the forest had came to the place where Sasuke used the super charged Chidori against Itachi on ground already weakened by explosive tags and a lighting strike. So the thick waters streamed down the hill from the outside because of the massive amounts of rain, making the path extremely hard to climb.
They didn’t have time for extremely hard, a wall of water was coming at them. Everyone had to find their on way up and hope their teammates did the same, considering that they couldn’t see or hear anyone other then themselves.
Naruto ran into the hill, landing face first into a stream of water. He felt around, trying to find something to grab on to and lift himself up… Nothing, the water had eroded the surface until it was completely smooth, he’d have to find another way, now.
He felt the wet from behind washing at his ankles, time was up, the wall of water was only a few feet away from him. Naruto jumped in to the air, quickly doing a few hand seals “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” Changing himself from one to 3.
The two clones appeared on the ground, grabbing him by his jacket collar, tossing him in to the air where he crashed at the top.
Kakashi pulled two Kunai’s from his holder, with one in each hand he planting them into the wall and lifted himself and Iruka upward. He felt the water crash in to the wall with strong force, almost making him losing his grip and he would have if Iruka wouldn’t have reached forward and pulled him forward and back in to balance.
Lee and Shikamaru took the same approach only in a different way. The two expended their whole supply of shrunken, tossing them up the wall and creating a ladder that they easily climbed. And Gaara of course used the sand to lift him.
Visibility was at 0, they could hardly breath without almost drowning from the rain, and the only thing that kept them from being ripped off the ground by the winds was the tree roots offering some small relief above them. They could have gone any number of places but instinct told them to go strait forward, until they fell in to a hole, which was the second part of the path separated by Chidori’s blast.
Kakashi was the first down, sliding gracefully down the slope streaming with water just as the one before it. Naruto fell through next, rolling painfully down the few feet until reached even unsloped ground and crashing in to a wall. Shikamaru and Lee slid down not so gracefully but managed to stay on their feet until they got to the bottom.
Gaara jumped down landing right next to Naruto, but lost his balance and fell on the boy.
“AHHWhhhh...” Naruto yelped at the sudden weight smashing him down.
Gaara quickly lifted himself off of Naruto, wiping the water from his face with his forearm. “Sorry.”
Naruto pressed his hand against the wall and lifted himself up. “No problem.” He looked around, able to see everyone through a flash of lighting but his question was blocked out by the sound of thunder that shook through the cave. Shaking his head and holding his ears, he asked again “We’re missing some people, What happened to Sasuke and everyone that was with him?”
Either he didn’t hear an answer or more likely no one could give one.
After a few idle seconds Lee was able to piece together his thoughts and give one. “I saw them… barely though, He, Konohamaru, Neji and Kiba went the other way. There was another cave like this one outside, they must have gone into it.”
“You could see anything out there?” Naruto said with a hint of surprise in his voice.
Lee nodded, “Not much though.”
The entrance of the cave suddenly began clasping, the rain made the exposed ground weak so it couldn’t support the trees and all of it fell through. Everything down to where Kakashi was standing at the bottom of the hill caved in, blocking the path with dirt, mud, trees and rocks. Any source of light from lightning or otherwise was cut off, along with the steady stream of water coming from the surface.
“Looks like the only way to go is forward, do you know where this tunnel leads?” Gaara asked, clearly directing his question towards Iruka.
“I’m not sure, I’ve never been this deep inside of it.” Iruka said, climbing off Kakashi’s back now that the immediate danger was over.
“Then let’s go find out.” Kakashi said, reaching over to the barricade blocking the path behind him and breaking off a branch. He began to do some unknown processes in the dark and a few seconds later it sparked and ignited in flames. “Are we waiting for something in particular?” Kakashi asked, seeing that everyone was looking at him.
! - ! - !
With a source of light they proceeded forward, finding the tunnel was completely strait forward. No twist or turns just a strait line that they could have followed in the dark. “It looks like we maybe be down here for a while.” Iruka sighed, seeing that this tunnel wouldn’t end any time soon.
“Isn’t that a good thing, it seems relatively safe down here.” Shikamaru said, he couldn’t even hear the storm from this place.
“Looks like there was something good that came from all of that running.” Lee sounded genuinely thankful. “I just hope Sasuke’s group is doing this well.”
“I’m sure their fine, there seems to be quite a few tunnels under Konoha and the surrounding forests.” Gaara told him, knowing there would have to be more then 2 of them.
“You know…you seem different.” Lee commented, Gaara just smirked to himself.
“Epiphany.” Kakashi said from behind the two.
Naruto looked back, “What dose that mean?”
“It’s like an enlightenment.” Gaara told him.
“Oh, so how did that happen?”
“You.”
“Me?”
& #8220;It happen some time between when you were beating some sense in to him and when he showed up the next day.” Kakashi interrupted, getting an elbow in the side from Iruka.
“Everything you said to me, it stayed with me, I couldn’t get it out of my head.” Gaara said. “It’s probably the only reason I’m still alive, and sane.”
“You were sane before?” Lee asked jokingly. Gaara looked back at him and rolled his eyes getting a small suppressed laugh in return.
“So now that your not…” Shikamaru paused, trying to choose his words. “Well, what are you planning on doing next?”
Gaara thought about it for a moment, “What do you mean?”
“You clearly want to stay with Naruto, but I doubt the Sand will like that. They may have been looking for you if you returned to the village and left again.” Shikamaru shook some of the water out of his hair and rested his hands behind his head.
“I never went back.” Gaara said plainly.
“You know they’ll send out Hunter-nins to bring you back.”
“Maybe I’ll just leave the Sand village altogether…if there’s still one to leave. And I doubt they’ll be able to take me back by force.” Gaara almost laughed at the thought. “I doubt they even want me back that much.”
“So Gaara…” Iruka started. “What do you plan on doing after all of this is over? Assuming that we do fix all of this and everything returns to normal.”
“…”
“Well, do you have any goals, interest, something you could consider perusing?”
“Well…” Sure he had thought about one thing that could fill one of those, he wasn’t sure he wanted to talk about that through. “Not really.” No one had trouble believing that.
“Well anyway, dose anyone have a clue of where we’re going?” Lee asked, “This place might be running out of air.”
“Last time I checked we were heading towards the Sand Village.” Shikamaru said.
Lee looked towards Shikamaru. “Wasn’t the Sand also wiped out by the storm?”
“I hope not, that’s that only way I’ll be able to get an hourglass.” Gaara said.
“He’s right, and we’re not exactly sure the Sand was hit it’s just a possibility because the storm came from the east.” Iruka told them.
“If this tunnel is long enough we might just make it there with out any problems.”
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The sound of strong wind and rain could be heard ahead of them in the dark passage, it was even louder then the rushing water behind them. The path started to slope up hill apposed to it leading down hill like before, the transition was sudden and caught them off guard because of how steep the up was , it was almost like running in to a wall.
To make matters worse, at the top of the climb the passage was open to the storm. They had ran under the forest had came to the place where Sasuke used the super charged Chidori against Itachi on ground already weakened by explosive tags and a lighting strike. So the thick waters streamed down the hill from the outside because of the massive amounts of rain, making the path extremely hard to climb.
They didn’t have time for extremely hard, a wall of water was coming at them. Everyone had to find their on way up and hope their teammates did the same, considering that they couldn’t see or hear anyone other then themselves.
Naruto ran into the hill, landing face first into a stream of water. He felt around, trying to find something to grab on to and lift himself up… Nothing, the water had eroded the surface until it was completely smooth, he’d have to find another way, now.
He felt the wet from behind washing at his ankles, time was up, the wall of water was only a few feet away from him. Naruto jumped in to the air, quickly doing a few hand seals “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” Changing himself from one to 3.
The two clones appeared on the ground, grabbing him by his jacket collar, tossing him in to the air where he crashed at the top.
Kakashi pulled two Kunai’s from his holder, with one in each hand he planting them into the wall and lifted himself and Iruka upward. He felt the water crash in to the wall with strong force, almost making him losing his grip and he would have if Iruka wouldn’t have reached forward and pulled him forward and back in to balance.
Lee and Shikamaru took the same approach only in a different way. The two expended their whole supply of shrunken, tossing them up the wall and creating a ladder that they easily climbed. And Gaara of course used the sand to lift him.
Visibility was at 0, they could hardly breath without almost drowning from the rain, and the only thing that kept them from being ripped off the ground by the winds was the tree roots offering some small relief above them. They could have gone any number of places but instinct told them to go strait forward, until they fell in to a hole, which was the second part of the path separated by Chidori’s blast.
Kakashi was the first down, sliding gracefully down the slope streaming with water just as the one before it. Naruto fell through next, rolling painfully down the few feet until reached even unsloped ground and crashing in to a wall. Shikamaru and Lee slid down not so gracefully but managed to stay on their feet until they got to the bottom.
Gaara jumped down landing right next to Naruto, but lost his balance and fell on the boy.
“AHHWhhhh...” Naruto yelped at the sudden weight smashing him down.
Gaara quickly lifted himself off of Naruto, wiping the water from his face with his forearm. “Sorry.”
Naruto pressed his hand against the wall and lifted himself up. “No problem.” He looked around, able to see everyone through a flash of lighting but his question was blocked out by the sound of thunder that shook through the cave. Shaking his head and holding his ears, he asked again “We’re missing some people, What happened to Sasuke and everyone that was with him?”
Either he didn’t hear an answer or more likely no one could give one.
After a few idle seconds Lee was able to piece together his thoughts and give one. “I saw them… barely though, He, Konohamaru, Neji and Kiba went the other way. There was another cave like this one outside, they must have gone into it.”
“You could see anything out there?” Naruto said with a hint of surprise in his voice.
Lee nodded, “Not much though.”
The entrance of the cave suddenly began clasping, the rain made the exposed ground weak so it couldn’t support the trees and all of it fell through. Everything down to where Kakashi was standing at the bottom of the hill caved in, blocking the path with dirt, mud, trees and rocks. Any source of light from lightning or otherwise was cut off, along with the steady stream of water coming from the surface.
“Looks like the only way to go is forward, do you know where this tunnel leads?” Gaara asked, clearly directing his question towards Iruka.
“I’m not sure, I’ve never been this deep inside of it.” Iruka said, climbing off Kakashi’s back now that the immediate danger was over.
“Then let’s go find out.” Kakashi said, reaching over to the barricade blocking the path behind him and breaking off a branch. He began to do some unknown processes in the dark and a few seconds later it sparked and ignited in flames. “Are we waiting for something in particular?” Kakashi asked, seeing that everyone was looking at him.
! - ! - !
With a source of light they proceeded forward, finding the tunnel was completely strait forward. No twist or turns just a strait line that they could have followed in the dark. “It looks like we maybe be down here for a while.” Iruka sighed, seeing that this tunnel wouldn’t end any time soon.
“Isn’t that a good thing, it seems relatively safe down here.” Shikamaru said, he couldn’t even hear the storm from this place.
“Looks like there was something good that came from all of that running.” Lee sounded genuinely thankful. “I just hope Sasuke’s group is doing this well.”
“I’m sure their fine, there seems to be quite a few tunnels under Konoha and the surrounding forests.” Gaara told him, knowing there would have to be more then 2 of them.
“You know…you seem different.” Lee commented, Gaara just smirked to himself.
“Epiphany.” Kakashi said from behind the two.
Naruto looked back, “What dose that mean?”
“It’s like an enlightenment.” Gaara told him.
“Oh, so how did that happen?”
“You.”
“Me?”
& #8220;It happen some time between when you were beating some sense in to him and when he showed up the next day.” Kakashi interrupted, getting an elbow in the side from Iruka.
“Everything you said to me, it stayed with me, I couldn’t get it out of my head.” Gaara said. “It’s probably the only reason I’m still alive, and sane.”
“You were sane before?” Lee asked jokingly. Gaara looked back at him and rolled his eyes getting a small suppressed laugh in return.
“So now that your not…” Shikamaru paused, trying to choose his words. “Well, what are you planning on doing next?”
Gaara thought about it for a moment, “What do you mean?”
“You clearly want to stay with Naruto, but I doubt the Sand will like that. They may have been looking for you if you returned to the village and left again.” Shikamaru shook some of the water out of his hair and rested his hands behind his head.
“I never went back.” Gaara said plainly.
“You know they’ll send out Hunter-nins to bring you back.”
“Maybe I’ll just leave the Sand village altogether…if there’s still one to leave. And I doubt they’ll be able to take me back by force.” Gaara almost laughed at the thought. “I doubt they even want me back that much.”
“So Gaara…” Iruka started. “What do you plan on doing after all of this is over? Assuming that we do fix all of this and everything returns to normal.”
“…”
“Well, do you have any goals, interest, something you could consider perusing?”
“Well…” Sure he had thought about one thing that could fill one of those, he wasn’t sure he wanted to talk about that through. “Not really.” No one had trouble believing that.
“Well anyway, dose anyone have a clue of where we’re going?” Lee asked, “This place might be running out of air.”
“Last time I checked we were heading towards the Sand Village.” Shikamaru said.
Lee looked towards Shikamaru. “Wasn’t the Sand also wiped out by the storm?”
“I hope not, that’s that only way I’ll be able to get an hourglass.” Gaara said.
“He’s right, and we’re not exactly sure the Sand was hit it’s just a possibility because the storm came from the east.” Iruka told them.
“If this tunnel is long enough we might just make it there with out any problems.”
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