Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: Water ❯ Chapter 20 Now things get complicated ( Chapter 20 )
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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: 2.4K | Visits: 205 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 205 | Status: Completed
Chapter 20: Now…things get complicated
“What happened to you two?”
Neji was awakened by the sound of a familiar voice that managed to stir him back into consciousness. He heard that concerned voice again egging up to wake up followed by another small shake. With retuning consciousness also came the awareness of pain, Neji groaned feeling like his body had just been on fire…Now that he started to remember what happened he realized his body had been on fire.
Before he could even think of how bad this pain was he thought of someone else “Kiba…” Neji slowly opened the pallid eyes to a blurry image of Iruka knelling over him.
“He’s alright.” Iruka said, tilting Neji’s head which he was apparently cradling towards Kiba laying barely conscious a few feet away. “What happened?”
Neji sat up, climbing shakily to his feet. His vision seemed to be doing Byakugan though he didn‘t start it, the blood line was working on it’s own and he couldn’t seem to stop it. The good thing was that it wasn’t using up any Chakra this time and still had the full effect. ‘It’s…just like before when I got struck by the lighting…Maybe it’s serous injury that starts this effect?’
Of course with the effect he could see Kakashi standing over Kiba, and that they were miles away from the bridge, he could see it off in the distance. Neji walked over to Kiba who even unconscious still held a tight grip on Akamaru. “Ka-Kakashi-Sensei? Where’s Neji?” He asked.
“Right here.” Neji said weakly, knelling beside him and almost falling as he did so. “You shielded me from the blast…”
“Heh heh, you saw that huh?” Kiba said with a small smirk, he was trying to get up but his body just didn’t seem to listen to him. He’d taken to much damage, it was just to much of a strain to move a lot right now.
Neji pointed to his unwillingly Byakugan enabled eyes, “Thank you.” He said gratefully, if it wasn’t for him Neji knew he wouldn’t be off the ground right now.
“Well, I couldn’t help you when you got struck by lighting, I wanted to make it up to you.” Kiba said, looking strait up at Kakashi who had been silent the whole time.
“What happened?” He asked, lifting Kiba on to his shoulders.
“I’ll tell you on the way, we have to find Sasuke and Konohamaru.”
! - ! - !
Konohamaru lay between the two Uchihas, Itachi still on his right and Sasuke still on his left. He felt that Itachi’s hold was still firm but Sasuke’s was lose, not existent. “Sa…Sasuke?” Konohamaru fought to stay conscious having taken a way too hard blow to the back of his head.
They lay at the very edge of the bridge, in fact Itachi being the tallest was hanging halfway of the broken concrete. Chucks of debris were braking off into the water making them slip farther and farther over the edge.
Konohamaru looked over to the younger Uchiha to find that he was out cold and his back on fire. “Sasuke!” The boy jumped out of Itachi’s grasp, looking over Sasuke franticly trying to figure out a way to put out the flames. Sasuke had taken more of the damage shielding Konohamaru then Itachi had.
Itachi pulled himself up, seeing that they’d landed just before the point where the bridge connected to land. Kisame had been thrown past them a few feet away on to actual land and despite the fact that he was still on the ground he was somewhat alright. He was even awake.
“Sasuke!” Konohamaru tried to shake him but of course the fire kept him at bay. A rush of water rushed up from the ground and extinguished the flames, Konohamaru immediately looked back at Itachi who was looking down at his brother uncaringly. “Thank you!” Konohamaru said gratefully, but the smile quickly faded from his face when he saw the look of disregard and almost determination when Itachi looked at his brother.
That expression had apparent undertones that Konohamaru could easily see. He looked deeper, finding that same darkness from before when Itachi first used the Sharingan on him. Having it being use on him so much and his bond with Sasuke he’d developed a sixth sense to distinguish on Uchiha from the just by Sharingan. “Itachi?”
Itachi just turned and began walking away, he was definitely thinking about something. “Konohamaru, don’t come too close.” His voice was deadly serous now.
Konohamaru was reminded of what Itachi did, Sasuke had told him one day. Itachi really was quite evil, despite how nice he was to Konohamaru. “Itachi…” Konohamaru said then thought better of it, despite what he did Konohamaru still liked him. “Really, thank you.”
Itachi extended a hand to Kisame and pulled him up while Konohamaru watched solemnly from where he was, not daring to take a step forward. Itachi glanced back at him with a small smirk “No matter what I say or do, wont hurt you.” Itachi said before leaping off with his usual speed.
Kisame looked in his direction and smirked “And he said I was attached to you. Well anyway I gotta go, See ya around kid.”
“Promise?” Konohamaru asked with a inquisitive expression, he wanted to find out of Kisame really liked him or just tolerated him until they found Itachi..
“Heh, why not kid.” Kisame said just before giving Reedamaru’s mock salute and going after Itachi.
“See ya Boss!” Konohamaru waved with a sheepish smile on his face. ‘What was that spouse to mean?‘ Then he turned back to Sasuke who seemed to be just waking up.
“Kono-Konohamaru.” He said, slowly opening his eyes and straining to sit up. Konohamaru helped him.
“Sasuke! I knew you’d come for me.” Konohamaru said happily, hugging him tightly and forcing him to wince in pain from the contact to his wounds.
“Your safe…did they--”
“They didn’t hurt me.” Konohamaru said. “They didn’t do anything to me, Kisame even gave me some training.”
Sasuke looked around for any sign of the two, finding none he focused all of himself on to Konohamaru. “I missed you.” Talking this way with anyone still felt strange for Sasuke, he’d probably never get use to it but he could endure the uncomfortable feeling for Konohamaru.
“Me too…When I heard Konoha was destroyed…” Konohamaru clinched him tighter.
“I’m alright, I just had to find you.” Sasuke said, wrapping his arms around the boyand pulling him into a kiss. He couldn’t describe how much he’d missed this, how it felt to think he’d never have this again.
“Aww, How cute.”
Sasuke pulled back, glaring past Konohamaru when he heard the familiar voice of Kakashi behind him. Then he remembered it was a good thing he was alive, just not at this particular moment. “Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here?” Sasuke didn’t bother to look back at him, Konohamaru only laughed.
“Watching you two.”
“How did you get here?”
Kakashi ran one hand through his hair, apparently smiling from his visible eye “That’s the confusing part…I not exactly sure. Ask Iruka.” Kakashi pointed behind him to Iruka who was helping Kiba walk with Neji.
“Wait.” Sasuke stood up “If you’re here, where is Gaara and Naruto and everyone else that was with you?”
Iruka sighed, “We were going back in time to prevent that storm…”
Sasuke looked at Konohamaru, both of them had already realized that storm was never supposed to happen. Iruka continued “Halfway through something went wrong and we ended up separated, Me and Kakashi landed in this time 2 minutes ago.”
“So if you were together when it happened, wouldn‘t you end up at the same time?” Kiba asked.
“No Kiba, Iruka means Naruto and Gaara as well as Lee and Shikamaru could be an any time. There’s no way of finding them.” Neji said.
“Well you guys ended up here, If Gaara’s with Naruto then they can find there way back.” Konohamaru said, remembering that Gaara control time with sand, he wasn’t in short supply of that.
“So what do we do now?” Kiba asked.
“I have a general idea.” Kakashi pointed upwards to where something orange was falling from the sky…screaming very loudly.
“Whaaaaaaaaaaa!” It was none other then Naruto, he had Gaara were still drifting through time and just like all the other times before when they entered this time period it started with them falling from the sky. Naruto, falling head first, flipped right side up and landed on his feet, Gaara landing behind him a few seconds latter.
“Naruto!” Iruka left Kiba with Neji and ran over to him.
“Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei? Your alright?” Naruto said, He and Gaara both seemed to be looking around paranoid in nature for something.
“Why are you sinking in to the ground?” Konohamaru asked, walking up to the nearest person which was Gaara and attempting to pull him up.
“No! Don’t!” Gaara tried to stop him but it was too late, Konohamaru had touched him and his body started to sinking into the ground just like they were. “We’re falling through time and we seemed to be moving forward.”
Sasuke seeing this, grabbed the ankle deep Konohamaru by the shoulders and attempted to pull him up. But he started sinking as well. “What’s going on?” He asked nervously.
“I think the same effect that happens when I move through time is happening here.” Gaara said.
“Let me guess, the one where we have to be touching you to go with you?” Iruka said, watching curiously as Konohamaru walked around even through his body was ankle deep in concrete. He was like a ghost.
“Yeah, and guess what thing touched us?” Naruto said, clearly not joking.
Kakashi’s eyes went wide and he looked toward when he realized what he was talking about. “The Kyubi?”
“Yeah, and I think it’s hungry.” Naruto said, moving behind Sasuke, Gaara and Konohamaru and pushing them off the remaining piece of the bridge. Just before something else fell from the sky in a blur of orange fur, crashing into the water about where the center of the bridge used to be.
“You can’t stop it?” Kakashi asked.
Gaara shook his head “No, I don’t have an hourglass so I can’t stop the effect.” He said, his gaze steadily on the water where the Nine-Tails had just fallen.
Konohamaru didn’t know exactly what was going on, the fact that he was sinking through the ground didn’t even seem real. It may have been because he was about to pass out but what was happening to him didn’t register completely. What did register was what Gaara said. “Why don’t you make one?”
“And how am I supposed to do that?” Gaara asked.
“Kisame taught me how to shape Chakra, why don’t you make one out of sand?”
Gaara looked at the boy thoughtfully, that idea never occurred because he‘d never tried to shape the sand into anything this complex. He usual just let it move naturally when he used it to attack, he wasn’t sure if he could do it “I don’t know if can do something like this.”
Sand started to rise out of his gourd, more then enough to serve his purpose.
“How much time do you think it will take?” Iruka asked, watching the water start to bubble up.
“I’m not sure.” Gaara started trying to shape the sand, it was hard getting into any other form then a mass. He started to concentrate, trying shape it down some, it was harder then he expected “ It may take a while.”
Iruka sighed and touched Gaara on his back “Then you’ll need a distraction.”
Kakashi shrugged and wrapped his arms around Iruka “He’s right, looks like we’re going to have to keep away from Gaara until he can do it.”
“I’m going too.” Kiba said, reaching out to touch Kakashi.
Neji pulled him back out of reach “You can’t go, your too injured. You wont stand a chance.”
“Doesn’t matter, I have to help.” Kiba pushed forward abruptly, breaking out of Neji’s hold and touching Kakashi’s back.
“Kiba…” Neji shook his head and laid his hand on Kiba’s back, “Looks like it’s my turn to protect you.” He sighed, using his still enabled Byakugan to look around them.
“What do you see?” Kakashi asked.
Neji walked over to the edge of the bridge and tilted his head downward, “It’s…swimming towards the surface, it doesn’t look like it’s a very good swimmer but it is defiantly coming back up for us…I wish this lake was deeper.”
Sasuke knelt down beside Konohamaru, “This is dangerous, make sure you listen carefully because when it gets here I wont have time to say things twice.” Konohamaru nodded, he didn’t even know what the Nine-Tails was but he figured it had to be pretty bad to have everyone on edge like this. “Alright, come on.”
Sasuke lift Konohamaru on his back and started running in the opposite direction, to get him as far away as possible.
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“What happened to you two?”
Neji was awakened by the sound of a familiar voice that managed to stir him back into consciousness. He heard that concerned voice again egging up to wake up followed by another small shake. With retuning consciousness also came the awareness of pain, Neji groaned feeling like his body had just been on fire…Now that he started to remember what happened he realized his body had been on fire.
Before he could even think of how bad this pain was he thought of someone else “Kiba…” Neji slowly opened the pallid eyes to a blurry image of Iruka knelling over him.
“He’s alright.” Iruka said, tilting Neji’s head which he was apparently cradling towards Kiba laying barely conscious a few feet away. “What happened?”
Neji sat up, climbing shakily to his feet. His vision seemed to be doing Byakugan though he didn‘t start it, the blood line was working on it’s own and he couldn’t seem to stop it. The good thing was that it wasn’t using up any Chakra this time and still had the full effect. ‘It’s…just like before when I got struck by the lighting…Maybe it’s serous injury that starts this effect?’
Of course with the effect he could see Kakashi standing over Kiba, and that they were miles away from the bridge, he could see it off in the distance. Neji walked over to Kiba who even unconscious still held a tight grip on Akamaru. “Ka-Kakashi-Sensei? Where’s Neji?” He asked.
“Right here.” Neji said weakly, knelling beside him and almost falling as he did so. “You shielded me from the blast…”
“Heh heh, you saw that huh?” Kiba said with a small smirk, he was trying to get up but his body just didn’t seem to listen to him. He’d taken to much damage, it was just to much of a strain to move a lot right now.
Neji pointed to his unwillingly Byakugan enabled eyes, “Thank you.” He said gratefully, if it wasn’t for him Neji knew he wouldn’t be off the ground right now.
“Well, I couldn’t help you when you got struck by lighting, I wanted to make it up to you.” Kiba said, looking strait up at Kakashi who had been silent the whole time.
“What happened?” He asked, lifting Kiba on to his shoulders.
“I’ll tell you on the way, we have to find Sasuke and Konohamaru.”
! - ! - !
Konohamaru lay between the two Uchihas, Itachi still on his right and Sasuke still on his left. He felt that Itachi’s hold was still firm but Sasuke’s was lose, not existent. “Sa…Sasuke?” Konohamaru fought to stay conscious having taken a way too hard blow to the back of his head.
They lay at the very edge of the bridge, in fact Itachi being the tallest was hanging halfway of the broken concrete. Chucks of debris were braking off into the water making them slip farther and farther over the edge.
Konohamaru looked over to the younger Uchiha to find that he was out cold and his back on fire. “Sasuke!” The boy jumped out of Itachi’s grasp, looking over Sasuke franticly trying to figure out a way to put out the flames. Sasuke had taken more of the damage shielding Konohamaru then Itachi had.
Itachi pulled himself up, seeing that they’d landed just before the point where the bridge connected to land. Kisame had been thrown past them a few feet away on to actual land and despite the fact that he was still on the ground he was somewhat alright. He was even awake.
“Sasuke!” Konohamaru tried to shake him but of course the fire kept him at bay. A rush of water rushed up from the ground and extinguished the flames, Konohamaru immediately looked back at Itachi who was looking down at his brother uncaringly. “Thank you!” Konohamaru said gratefully, but the smile quickly faded from his face when he saw the look of disregard and almost determination when Itachi looked at his brother.
That expression had apparent undertones that Konohamaru could easily see. He looked deeper, finding that same darkness from before when Itachi first used the Sharingan on him. Having it being use on him so much and his bond with Sasuke he’d developed a sixth sense to distinguish on Uchiha from the just by Sharingan. “Itachi?”
Itachi just turned and began walking away, he was definitely thinking about something. “Konohamaru, don’t come too close.” His voice was deadly serous now.
Konohamaru was reminded of what Itachi did, Sasuke had told him one day. Itachi really was quite evil, despite how nice he was to Konohamaru. “Itachi…” Konohamaru said then thought better of it, despite what he did Konohamaru still liked him. “Really, thank you.”
Itachi extended a hand to Kisame and pulled him up while Konohamaru watched solemnly from where he was, not daring to take a step forward. Itachi glanced back at him with a small smirk “No matter what I say or do, wont hurt you.” Itachi said before leaping off with his usual speed.
Kisame looked in his direction and smirked “And he said I was attached to you. Well anyway I gotta go, See ya around kid.”
“Promise?” Konohamaru asked with a inquisitive expression, he wanted to find out of Kisame really liked him or just tolerated him until they found Itachi..
“Heh, why not kid.” Kisame said just before giving Reedamaru’s mock salute and going after Itachi.
“See ya Boss!” Konohamaru waved with a sheepish smile on his face. ‘What was that spouse to mean?‘ Then he turned back to Sasuke who seemed to be just waking up.
“Kono-Konohamaru.” He said, slowly opening his eyes and straining to sit up. Konohamaru helped him.
“Sasuke! I knew you’d come for me.” Konohamaru said happily, hugging him tightly and forcing him to wince in pain from the contact to his wounds.
“Your safe…did they--”
“They didn’t hurt me.” Konohamaru said. “They didn’t do anything to me, Kisame even gave me some training.”
Sasuke looked around for any sign of the two, finding none he focused all of himself on to Konohamaru. “I missed you.” Talking this way with anyone still felt strange for Sasuke, he’d probably never get use to it but he could endure the uncomfortable feeling for Konohamaru.
“Me too…When I heard Konoha was destroyed…” Konohamaru clinched him tighter.
“I’m alright, I just had to find you.” Sasuke said, wrapping his arms around the boyand pulling him into a kiss. He couldn’t describe how much he’d missed this, how it felt to think he’d never have this again.
“Aww, How cute.”
Sasuke pulled back, glaring past Konohamaru when he heard the familiar voice of Kakashi behind him. Then he remembered it was a good thing he was alive, just not at this particular moment. “Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here?” Sasuke didn’t bother to look back at him, Konohamaru only laughed.
“Watching you two.”
“How did you get here?”
Kakashi ran one hand through his hair, apparently smiling from his visible eye “That’s the confusing part…I not exactly sure. Ask Iruka.” Kakashi pointed behind him to Iruka who was helping Kiba walk with Neji.
“Wait.” Sasuke stood up “If you’re here, where is Gaara and Naruto and everyone else that was with you?”
Iruka sighed, “We were going back in time to prevent that storm…”
Sasuke looked at Konohamaru, both of them had already realized that storm was never supposed to happen. Iruka continued “Halfway through something went wrong and we ended up separated, Me and Kakashi landed in this time 2 minutes ago.”
“So if you were together when it happened, wouldn‘t you end up at the same time?” Kiba asked.
“No Kiba, Iruka means Naruto and Gaara as well as Lee and Shikamaru could be an any time. There’s no way of finding them.” Neji said.
“Well you guys ended up here, If Gaara’s with Naruto then they can find there way back.” Konohamaru said, remembering that Gaara control time with sand, he wasn’t in short supply of that.
“So what do we do now?” Kiba asked.
“I have a general idea.” Kakashi pointed upwards to where something orange was falling from the sky…screaming very loudly.
“Whaaaaaaaaaaa!” It was none other then Naruto, he had Gaara were still drifting through time and just like all the other times before when they entered this time period it started with them falling from the sky. Naruto, falling head first, flipped right side up and landed on his feet, Gaara landing behind him a few seconds latter.
“Naruto!” Iruka left Kiba with Neji and ran over to him.
“Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei? Your alright?” Naruto said, He and Gaara both seemed to be looking around paranoid in nature for something.
“Why are you sinking in to the ground?” Konohamaru asked, walking up to the nearest person which was Gaara and attempting to pull him up.
“No! Don’t!” Gaara tried to stop him but it was too late, Konohamaru had touched him and his body started to sinking into the ground just like they were. “We’re falling through time and we seemed to be moving forward.”
Sasuke seeing this, grabbed the ankle deep Konohamaru by the shoulders and attempted to pull him up. But he started sinking as well. “What’s going on?” He asked nervously.
“I think the same effect that happens when I move through time is happening here.” Gaara said.
“Let me guess, the one where we have to be touching you to go with you?” Iruka said, watching curiously as Konohamaru walked around even through his body was ankle deep in concrete. He was like a ghost.
“Yeah, and guess what thing touched us?” Naruto said, clearly not joking.
Kakashi’s eyes went wide and he looked toward when he realized what he was talking about. “The Kyubi?”
“Yeah, and I think it’s hungry.” Naruto said, moving behind Sasuke, Gaara and Konohamaru and pushing them off the remaining piece of the bridge. Just before something else fell from the sky in a blur of orange fur, crashing into the water about where the center of the bridge used to be.
“You can’t stop it?” Kakashi asked.
Gaara shook his head “No, I don’t have an hourglass so I can’t stop the effect.” He said, his gaze steadily on the water where the Nine-Tails had just fallen.
Konohamaru didn’t know exactly what was going on, the fact that he was sinking through the ground didn’t even seem real. It may have been because he was about to pass out but what was happening to him didn’t register completely. What did register was what Gaara said. “Why don’t you make one?”
“And how am I supposed to do that?” Gaara asked.
“Kisame taught me how to shape Chakra, why don’t you make one out of sand?”
Gaara looked at the boy thoughtfully, that idea never occurred because he‘d never tried to shape the sand into anything this complex. He usual just let it move naturally when he used it to attack, he wasn’t sure if he could do it “I don’t know if can do something like this.”
Sand started to rise out of his gourd, more then enough to serve his purpose.
“How much time do you think it will take?” Iruka asked, watching the water start to bubble up.
“I’m not sure.” Gaara started trying to shape the sand, it was hard getting into any other form then a mass. He started to concentrate, trying shape it down some, it was harder then he expected “ It may take a while.”
Iruka sighed and touched Gaara on his back “Then you’ll need a distraction.”
Kakashi shrugged and wrapped his arms around Iruka “He’s right, looks like we’re going to have to keep away from Gaara until he can do it.”
“I’m going too.” Kiba said, reaching out to touch Kakashi.
Neji pulled him back out of reach “You can’t go, your too injured. You wont stand a chance.”
“Doesn’t matter, I have to help.” Kiba pushed forward abruptly, breaking out of Neji’s hold and touching Kakashi’s back.
“Kiba…” Neji shook his head and laid his hand on Kiba’s back, “Looks like it’s my turn to protect you.” He sighed, using his still enabled Byakugan to look around them.
“What do you see?” Kakashi asked.
Neji walked over to the edge of the bridge and tilted his head downward, “It’s…swimming towards the surface, it doesn’t look like it’s a very good swimmer but it is defiantly coming back up for us…I wish this lake was deeper.”
Sasuke knelt down beside Konohamaru, “This is dangerous, make sure you listen carefully because when it gets here I wont have time to say things twice.” Konohamaru nodded, he didn’t even know what the Nine-Tails was but he figured it had to be pretty bad to have everyone on edge like this. “Alright, come on.”
Sasuke lift Konohamaru on his back and started running in the opposite direction, to get him as far away as possible.
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