Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 11 The Eye of the storm ( 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: 1.9K | Visits: 186 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.9K | Visits: 186 | Status: Completed
Chapter 11: The Eye of the storm
Sasuke looked back, holding his arm above his eyes to block the rain being blown his way by the winds. He couldn’t see anything now that they were out side, everything was pitch black. He couldn’t see his hand in front of his face let alone someone behind him.
A flash of lightning gave him a split second snapshot of everyone else. The first thing his eyes were drawn to was Kiba, Konohamaru was on his back with his arms wrapped tightly around his neck. He was hanging off of Kiba, being pulled away by the winds, his mouth was open most likely yelling loudly.
He almost was about to turn back to help him when he another flash of lightning revealed something just in front of him. He cringed as the resulting thunder crashed in the sky over them, he slammed his hands over his ears feeling as if his eardrums would burst.
Just ahead he saw an opening, another cave or underground passage. Right now anything was better then being outside, but Sasuke wasn’t sure if anyone else had saw it. He was surprised to see that they were still behind him and not separated.
Another bolt of lightning struck someplace nearby, giving Sasuke another, this time longer image. On closer look Neji was using his Byakugan, which was the cause of all of the lighting strikes. Tree roots sticking out of the ground above them offered some cover from it, considering that they were in a ditch between the path way in Iruka’s basement and what looked like the second part of it.
Neji was reaching back, he had Kiba by the arm and was leading him along. So Sasuke didn’t have to worry about them not seeing the second part of the passage, only getting there. He pushed forward, counting off the steps in his mind as a marker. He guessed about 14 steps from where he was the passage lay.
He stopped about where he thought it was, taking cautious steps until he felt the ground sloping downward and knew he was there.
The next lightning strike wasn’t obstructed by anything, though Neji was still using Byakugan and it had just managed to hit him by strong odds. Neji screamed in pain, quickly letting go of Kiba before he electrocuted him.
The force of the strike knocked Sasuke in to the passage and Kiba with Konohamaru back on to the ground. All of them were able to see what happened through the light produced, and it seemed there was nothing anyone could do about it.
“NEJI!” Kiba shouted, loud enough to be heard over the lightning, watching the light fade and everything return to darkness. They all felt an immediate difference, the ground dipped some what, sending Neji’s body sliding face first down in to the path way. Kiba jumped down after him, landing right next to the boy.
That lightning strike did more then create an imprint in the ground, it loosened enough of the ground above them in the forest to make what was above them unstable. In a domino like effect the passage caved in, starting from the entrance and moving down. But the process was slow, giving Konohamaru enough time to get off of Kiba’s back and Kiba enough time to lift Neji on to his shoulder.
In a blind panic they charged forward, hearing the cave in halt a few seconds later when they were out of range.
“Neji?! Are you alright?!” Kiba asked frantically, laying Neji down against a wall and checking for a pulse. Which took some doing because he couldn’t find the right spot.
“Something…smells good.” Neji said weakly, a sense of humor in his usually strait forward voice.
Kiba smiled gratefully, after seeing Kisame being destroyed by a lightning strike not nearly as powerful as that one, he didn’t think Neji would survive. In fact now that his anxiousness was over, he could feel his body was burning from where he had touched Neji. “You do.”
Neji repressed a his urge to cry out in pain, he felt like he was on fire and wouldn’t be surprised if he was. Even worse it felt like everything internal was melting, besides being disoriented from the shock to his brain. A lot of things seem to be happening in his mind, like how no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t stop using Byakugan even though all of his Chakra was gone.
He figured it would stop on his own, he didn’t want to worry about it right now. “I…don’t think I can walk.” Neji said, trying to push himself to his feet but finding his legs disagreed immensely.
Kiba lifted him up, wrapping Neji’s arm around his shoulder. Now that the heat had dulled on Neji‘s body, he felt actually quite good especially since Kiba was freezing. “Don’t worry about it.”
“Sasuke…are you down here?” Konohamaru said hopefully, almost pleadingly, standing just beyond where he heard Kiba and Neji. Konohamaru jumped with a small yelp when he heard a sound in the darkness. “Aaaaa!” Konohamaru yelled when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
“Konohamaru calm down it’s me.” Sasuke said, hearing the boy panting from fear.
“Oh. I knew that.” Konohamaru felt around in the direction Sasuke’s hand was coming from until he felt Sasuke’s body. He clinched on to his shirt, making sure he knew where Sasuke was.
“Scared?” Sasuke said almost amusedly.
“No!” Konohamaru shot back, realizing that he had Sasuke’s shirt and promptly let go of it. He instantly regretted, getting a sense of fear and helplessness being lost in complete darkness and silence. The sound of thunder from above made it’s way down in to the blocked passage. “Yes.”
“We need some light, I don’t want to walk in to walls the whole time I’m down here.” Kiba said.
“You wont, this path goes in a strait line.” Neji said.
Konohamaru finally noticed something, “ We’re is Naruto and everyone else?”
Sasuke snorted, “That dobe probably got lost.”
“But Iruka-sensei wouldn’t.” Konohamaru said.
“None of them got lost.” Neji told them. “All 6 of them went in the another direction, there was another connection to the passage back that way.” Neji would have told them, but there was no way he could say anything out side and expect to be heard. Plus he nearly forgotten it when the lightning hit him.
He felt like he was forgetting a lot of things now, and probably was. Especially since his brain had literally been fried and he couldn’t stop his left eye from twitching slightly. And on top of that he could barely move his legs, and his left arm was paralyzed by pain. More importantly, he felt like he had just been cooked.
“ From the way we moved off course, this cave must lead north. Is there anything north of us?” Kiba asked
“Nothing if this storm really did what they said it did.” Sasuke said.
“So if there’s nothing north, why are we going that way?” Konohamaru asked.
“Because there’s no other way to go, we’re trapped down here by the storm.” Sasuke told him.
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They walked through the darkness for what seemed like and might just have been hours. Until Sasuke stopped, “Quite.” he called back, straining his ears to hear.
He heard the sound of water…a stream of it maybe. And rain….wind. “Is that…outside?” Neji said questioningly, the Byakugan had stopped working by itself a while ago and the twitching also stopped. He could even walk on his own, and he barely felt the pain in his arm.
“The exit to the cave must be close.” Sasuke proceeded with some haste even though he couldn’t see anything.
That changed quickly, just ahead the darkness cleared away like a cloud moving out of the way of the sun. In fact it looked like sun light and the rain and wind couldn’t be heard anymore either.
They could see that the passage surfaced in the form of a storm cellar, but the doors were completely gone. Most likely from the wind having not been closed.
“Sasuke!”
Sasuke looked back to see Kisame with his arm around Konohamaru’s neck, holding him up in the air. Kisame charged through the passage, catching Sasuke off guard and ramming through him. “I’d stay and fight but…” Kisame called out in a strained and weakened voice, jumping out of the passage.
Sasuke grunted in anger, climbing to his feet and going after him.
He stopped when he got out side, looking around half for Konohamaru and half in awe. He was surrounded by walls of gray that swirled around in a slow motion. The wind was black and the Chakra was white which made it gray. They weren’t out of the storm yet, in fact they we’re dead center in the eye of it.
The land was completely destroyed, this used to be a forest but not one trace of a tree could be seen. In fact the ground was just brown and barren, picked clean by the storm, and it was only half way done. Truly terrifying when thinking how the same thing was happening to Konoha right now.
The eye of the storm was about a mile in radius, giving plenty of time and room to peruse Kisame. “I thought he was dead?!” Kiba said, reaching back and pulling Neji up to the surface.
They could just barely see Kisame retreating just ahead, obviously injured and the sword on his back was starting to slow him down even more. Even worse, Itachi was right next to him also hurrying. He apparently didn’t want to chance this storm but both of them seemed to be headed right in to it.
Close but not quite, at the very edge of the eye was another storm cellar leading to another passage. They slipped inside just before the wall covered it, making them impossible to chase after.
“Damnit!” Sasuke yelled. Who knew how long the storm would take to finally pass, by then Itachi and Kisame would be gone completely…and Konohamaru too.
“We can’t do anything about it….” Neji said, unable to believe that his Byakugan failed before he could see Kisame coming.
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Sasuke looked back, holding his arm above his eyes to block the rain being blown his way by the winds. He couldn’t see anything now that they were out side, everything was pitch black. He couldn’t see his hand in front of his face let alone someone behind him.
A flash of lightning gave him a split second snapshot of everyone else. The first thing his eyes were drawn to was Kiba, Konohamaru was on his back with his arms wrapped tightly around his neck. He was hanging off of Kiba, being pulled away by the winds, his mouth was open most likely yelling loudly.
He almost was about to turn back to help him when he another flash of lightning revealed something just in front of him. He cringed as the resulting thunder crashed in the sky over them, he slammed his hands over his ears feeling as if his eardrums would burst.
Just ahead he saw an opening, another cave or underground passage. Right now anything was better then being outside, but Sasuke wasn’t sure if anyone else had saw it. He was surprised to see that they were still behind him and not separated.
Another bolt of lightning struck someplace nearby, giving Sasuke another, this time longer image. On closer look Neji was using his Byakugan, which was the cause of all of the lighting strikes. Tree roots sticking out of the ground above them offered some cover from it, considering that they were in a ditch between the path way in Iruka’s basement and what looked like the second part of it.
Neji was reaching back, he had Kiba by the arm and was leading him along. So Sasuke didn’t have to worry about them not seeing the second part of the passage, only getting there. He pushed forward, counting off the steps in his mind as a marker. He guessed about 14 steps from where he was the passage lay.
He stopped about where he thought it was, taking cautious steps until he felt the ground sloping downward and knew he was there.
The next lightning strike wasn’t obstructed by anything, though Neji was still using Byakugan and it had just managed to hit him by strong odds. Neji screamed in pain, quickly letting go of Kiba before he electrocuted him.
The force of the strike knocked Sasuke in to the passage and Kiba with Konohamaru back on to the ground. All of them were able to see what happened through the light produced, and it seemed there was nothing anyone could do about it.
“NEJI!” Kiba shouted, loud enough to be heard over the lightning, watching the light fade and everything return to darkness. They all felt an immediate difference, the ground dipped some what, sending Neji’s body sliding face first down in to the path way. Kiba jumped down after him, landing right next to the boy.
That lightning strike did more then create an imprint in the ground, it loosened enough of the ground above them in the forest to make what was above them unstable. In a domino like effect the passage caved in, starting from the entrance and moving down. But the process was slow, giving Konohamaru enough time to get off of Kiba’s back and Kiba enough time to lift Neji on to his shoulder.
In a blind panic they charged forward, hearing the cave in halt a few seconds later when they were out of range.
“Neji?! Are you alright?!” Kiba asked frantically, laying Neji down against a wall and checking for a pulse. Which took some doing because he couldn’t find the right spot.
“Something…smells good.” Neji said weakly, a sense of humor in his usually strait forward voice.
Kiba smiled gratefully, after seeing Kisame being destroyed by a lightning strike not nearly as powerful as that one, he didn’t think Neji would survive. In fact now that his anxiousness was over, he could feel his body was burning from where he had touched Neji. “You do.”
Neji repressed a his urge to cry out in pain, he felt like he was on fire and wouldn’t be surprised if he was. Even worse it felt like everything internal was melting, besides being disoriented from the shock to his brain. A lot of things seem to be happening in his mind, like how no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t stop using Byakugan even though all of his Chakra was gone.
He figured it would stop on his own, he didn’t want to worry about it right now. “I…don’t think I can walk.” Neji said, trying to push himself to his feet but finding his legs disagreed immensely.
Kiba lifted him up, wrapping Neji’s arm around his shoulder. Now that the heat had dulled on Neji‘s body, he felt actually quite good especially since Kiba was freezing. “Don’t worry about it.”
“Sasuke…are you down here?” Konohamaru said hopefully, almost pleadingly, standing just beyond where he heard Kiba and Neji. Konohamaru jumped with a small yelp when he heard a sound in the darkness. “Aaaaa!” Konohamaru yelled when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
“Konohamaru calm down it’s me.” Sasuke said, hearing the boy panting from fear.
“Oh. I knew that.” Konohamaru felt around in the direction Sasuke’s hand was coming from until he felt Sasuke’s body. He clinched on to his shirt, making sure he knew where Sasuke was.
“Scared?” Sasuke said almost amusedly.
“No!” Konohamaru shot back, realizing that he had Sasuke’s shirt and promptly let go of it. He instantly regretted, getting a sense of fear and helplessness being lost in complete darkness and silence. The sound of thunder from above made it’s way down in to the blocked passage. “Yes.”
“We need some light, I don’t want to walk in to walls the whole time I’m down here.” Kiba said.
“You wont, this path goes in a strait line.” Neji said.
Konohamaru finally noticed something, “ We’re is Naruto and everyone else?”
Sasuke snorted, “That dobe probably got lost.”
“But Iruka-sensei wouldn’t.” Konohamaru said.
“None of them got lost.” Neji told them. “All 6 of them went in the another direction, there was another connection to the passage back that way.” Neji would have told them, but there was no way he could say anything out side and expect to be heard. Plus he nearly forgotten it when the lightning hit him.
He felt like he was forgetting a lot of things now, and probably was. Especially since his brain had literally been fried and he couldn’t stop his left eye from twitching slightly. And on top of that he could barely move his legs, and his left arm was paralyzed by pain. More importantly, he felt like he had just been cooked.
“ From the way we moved off course, this cave must lead north. Is there anything north of us?” Kiba asked
“Nothing if this storm really did what they said it did.” Sasuke said.
“So if there’s nothing north, why are we going that way?” Konohamaru asked.
“Because there’s no other way to go, we’re trapped down here by the storm.” Sasuke told him.
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
They walked through the darkness for what seemed like and might just have been hours. Until Sasuke stopped, “Quite.” he called back, straining his ears to hear.
He heard the sound of water…a stream of it maybe. And rain….wind. “Is that…outside?” Neji said questioningly, the Byakugan had stopped working by itself a while ago and the twitching also stopped. He could even walk on his own, and he barely felt the pain in his arm.
“The exit to the cave must be close.” Sasuke proceeded with some haste even though he couldn’t see anything.
That changed quickly, just ahead the darkness cleared away like a cloud moving out of the way of the sun. In fact it looked like sun light and the rain and wind couldn’t be heard anymore either.
They could see that the passage surfaced in the form of a storm cellar, but the doors were completely gone. Most likely from the wind having not been closed.
“Sasuke!”
Sasuke looked back to see Kisame with his arm around Konohamaru’s neck, holding him up in the air. Kisame charged through the passage, catching Sasuke off guard and ramming through him. “I’d stay and fight but…” Kisame called out in a strained and weakened voice, jumping out of the passage.
Sasuke grunted in anger, climbing to his feet and going after him.
He stopped when he got out side, looking around half for Konohamaru and half in awe. He was surrounded by walls of gray that swirled around in a slow motion. The wind was black and the Chakra was white which made it gray. They weren’t out of the storm yet, in fact they we’re dead center in the eye of it.
The land was completely destroyed, this used to be a forest but not one trace of a tree could be seen. In fact the ground was just brown and barren, picked clean by the storm, and it was only half way done. Truly terrifying when thinking how the same thing was happening to Konoha right now.
The eye of the storm was about a mile in radius, giving plenty of time and room to peruse Kisame. “I thought he was dead?!” Kiba said, reaching back and pulling Neji up to the surface.
They could just barely see Kisame retreating just ahead, obviously injured and the sword on his back was starting to slow him down even more. Even worse, Itachi was right next to him also hurrying. He apparently didn’t want to chance this storm but both of them seemed to be headed right in to it.
Close but not quite, at the very edge of the eye was another storm cellar leading to another passage. They slipped inside just before the wall covered it, making them impossible to chase after.
“Damnit!” Sasuke yelled. Who knew how long the storm would take to finally pass, by then Itachi and Kisame would be gone completely…and Konohamaru too.
“We can’t do anything about it….” Neji said, unable to believe that his Byakugan failed before he could see Kisame coming.
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