Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Pieces of Our Past ❯ Chapter 7: Amaya ( Chapter 7 )

(A/N) Paralleltodarkness here - Crystalazer and I both wrote this chapter.

 

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Chapter 7: Amaya

 

“SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP LIZO!” the frantic female screamed, running over to the side of the boat. “SOMEBODY GET HAIZAKI!”

 

“What?” Lizo muttered darkly. “I didn't say anything.” He was silenced by a death glare from his teammate.

 

“See? You jump overboard and get Haizaki. I can't swim,” she said, pointing deftly at the water.

 

“Damn you,” Lizo muttered. “You're scarier than that damn Genjutsu. Fine, I'll go get Haizaki. Just don't you fall off the edge too while I'm gone.”

 

Amaya glared at him, but handed him a rope. “Take this, and tie it around your waist. That way, in case you get lost and are drowning, tug three times on this rope and I'll be sure to let go of it.”

 

“Don't you think you're a bit harsh, Amaya?” Hirana asked gently.

 

“NOT WHEN HAIZAKI IS OUT THERE-“ Amaya stopped talking, staring at the far edge of the small boat, where a hand had appeared, holding tightly onto the wood.

 

A small figure pulled himself up onto the boat, splattering water over the bottom. He was panting heavily.

 

“You know,” he whispered, lifting his face to the rest of the crew. “Maybe next time I wouldn't have to pull myself up if Lizo and Amaya didn't fight so much.”

 

Haizaki was immediately glomped by his dark haired teammate. She was crying softly.

“Next time,” she whispered, holding him tightly. “Don't fall overboard.”

 

“Awwww,” a voice rang behind them. The two turned to see Lizo pointing and laughing at them. “Amaya and Haizaki, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N- HEY!!!”

 

Lizo sputtered indignantly as Amaya deftly shoved him into the water. “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!”

 

“Serves you right for being an incompetent, perverted baka,” Amaya replied, shaking her head. “Girls will never like you in your entire life if you continue to act this way.”

 

“Well guys will never like you if you keep shoving them overboard!” Lizo yelled, grabbing the side of the boat. “It certainly doesn't help, you know?”

 

“SHUT UP!” Amaya shouted, glaring at Lizo.

 

The two were captivated in a heated death glaring match, when they were interrupted by a peaceful sigh.

 

“So this is youth,” Suoh said, smiling slightly. “Degraded slightly… I didn't fight half as much with my teammates when I was your age.”

 

He too was silenced when both Lizo and Amaya glared at him.

 

--

 

“Did you get the flowers?” Amaya whispered, kneeling next to a gray stone.

 

“Yeah,” the nineteen year old Jounin replied. “I just went out and bought them, they should still be fresh.”

 

“I think he's happy… that we don't argue as much anymore,” she whispered, running her hands over the cold stone. “If he were here today…”

 

Lizo gently placed his hand on her shoulder. “Don't dwell in the past, Amaya. We have a mission to complete, and we'll never finish it if we don't leave soon.”

 

The female sighed. “Damn you Lizo, you always ruin everything.”

 

Lizo glared at her. “Damn you, you're acting just like when we were twelve again. Yeesh, and I thought that seven years would have changed you for the better.”

 

Amaya glared back at him. “Let's go, we have a mission to accomplish. And we're not going to do it if you don't stop calling me a baby.”

 

“Well OBVIOUSLY NOT if you keep calling me an idiot!”

 

“Bastard.”

 

“SAME THING!”

 

“BASTARD AND IDIOT ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS!”

 

“ARE NOT!”

 

“ARE TOO!”

 

“ARE NOT!”

 

“ARE TOO!”

 

“ARE NOT!”

 

“ARE TOO!”

 

“We're arguing again,” Amaya thought. “Just like old times… when he was still here.”

--

“Hello!” an abnormally loud voice called, piercing the clear night air. “Ero-sennin, look! People, dattebayo!”

The three Genin winced at the sound.

 

“Gosh,” muttered Zaki, holding his head as the vibrations of the voice died away. “He's louder than you, Lizo, and that's saying something.”

 

“Hey!” Lizo was looking for something to chuck at his grinning companion when a dim, flickering light came into view.

 

“Hold on, I need to finish my research. Just a minute, you go on ahead.” replied a second voice, this one more deep and gravelly. An exasperated groan followed.

 

“Aw, ero-sennin, it's always research this, research that, with you!” the first voice whined.

 

Amaya felt a rumble and a jolt. Their vessel had been beached. “Sorry to break the moment,” she called out towards the light, “but could you tell us where we are…exactly?” The five passengers heard the scuffling of footsteps on the beach as a blond-haired boy in an absurdly colored orange jacket and pants ran across the sand. Behind him followed a middle-aged, white-haired man who in one hand, carried a suspicious-looking book and in the other a lantern.

 

The boy came up to their boat, stared at the people aboard it, then suddenly stuck his nose right up to Amaya and shrieked, “KONOHA!!”

 

The black-haired kunoichi didn't appreciate the loudness of his voice, or expect the unusual vivid blue of his eyes, and was quite taken aback, flinging herself backwards so that Lizo and Zaki had to use their combined efforts to pull her back up from where her bottom landed on the deck of the boat.

 

“Anou sa, anou sa,” the boy said, tilting his head, quite confused. “What's going on? Why did she just jump backwards all of a sudden?”

 

“IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE SUCH A HYPERACTIVE… LOUDMOUTH GUY!” Amaya shrieked back, glaring at the blonde boy that was standing there, looking both confused and rather stupid.

 

“WHO'RE YOU CALLING A HYPERACTIVE LOUDMOUTH GUY?!” the boy yelled back. “IT'S HYPERACTIVE, LOUDMOUTH NINJA! IT'S NINJA! IS THAT SO HARD TO REMEMBER?!”

 

“I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU SO HOW WOULD I KNOW IF YOU'RE A NINJA OR NOT?!” Amaya yelled, her face close to the boy's in anger.

 

“Holy crap, it's a miracle,” Lizo whispered sideways to Zaki as they both stared in wonder, “Amaya is fighting with someone other than me.” Immediately following this statement, Amaya whipped around and pointed a threatening finger at Lizo.

 

“WHAT…DID…YOU…SAY?!” she screamed, and Lizo shrugged nonchalantly,

 

“Oh, nothing, great scare-er-off-er-of-birds,” he mock-bowed to her and pointed at a flock of birds flying off towards the mainland. Moments ago, they had been roosting peacefully in a nearby tree, though Amaya's and the blonde haired boy's yelling had sent them off in an indignant screech.

 

“WHAT?!” Amaya yelled, advancing angrily toward her teammate, but was stopped by the blonde boy who tugged on her arm.

 

“EXCUSE ME, I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE ARGUING! AND I WAS ABOUT TO WIN OUR ARGUMENT TOO!” he yelled.

 

Amaya wheeled around to face the boy. “OH SHUT UP! YOU COULDN'T WIN AN ARGUMENT AGAINST ME EVEN IF YOU TRIED! I'VE GOT MORE ARGUING TALENT THAN YOU IN MY LEFT PINKY THAN YOU HAVE IN YOUR ENTIRE BODY!”

 

The boy smirked. “THEN WHAT ABOUT THIS! KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!”

 

About ten copies of the blonde boy appeared, surrounding the vessel. “HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, HUH?! THERE ARE TEN OF ME NOW! SEE! I HAVE MORE TALENT THAN YOU!”

 

“YOU IDIOT! TEN PINKYS DOESN'T EVEN COVER MY ENTIRE HAND!”

 

Just as they were about to start rocketing off again, the man accompanying the boy spoke for the first time, trying to suppress laughter in every word. “I bet you have more talent in your left nostril than Naruto has in ten of him! He's…whoo, hah hah…got…hah hah…no…” he stopped, overwhelmed with the apparent hilarity of the scene.

 

“NARUTO?! WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT HAS THE NAME `NARUTO'?!” Amaya laughed, pointing at the blonde boy. “THE LAST TIME I HEARD A NAME THAT STUPID IS WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE NAME `LIZO!”

 

“WHOSE NAME ARE YOU CALLING STUPID?!” Lizo screamed, storming up to Amaya. “IF YOU ASK ME, AMAYA IS A MUCH STUPIDER NAME!”

 

“NOBODY'S ASKING YOU, YOU ASS! IS IT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT I'M TALKING TO NARUTO?!”

 

“HEY! THAT'S NOT FAIR! AND YOU AREN'T TALKING, YOU'RE YELLING!” yelled Naruto as both heads turned on him.

 

“Do you think we should stop them before they faint? Amaya's face is turning quite the lovely shade of purple.” Said Suoh mildly, and Hirana nodded, if not slightly reluctantly.

 

Naruto stuck his tongue out at Amaya, who promptly stuck her tongue back out at him.

 

“I CAN STICK MY TONGUE OUT FARTHER THAN YOU CAN!” Amaya yelled triumphantly. “SEE?! WHAT CAN AN UNTALENTED HYPERACTIVE LOUDMOUTH GUY DO COMPARED TO A SUPER-TALENTED KUNOICHI LIKE ME FROM RAIN?!”

 

“IT'S NINJA!” Naruto screamed. “AND BESIDES—“

 

“You are from Rain?” the man, who had retreated back to his little corner, wherever that was, had now stood up.

 

“Ero-sennin, you're interrupting our conversation—“said Naruto, but was silenced by the man.

 

“NARUTO, SHUT YOUR BIG FAT MOUTH AND LISTEN TO YOUR SENSEI FOR ONCE, WILL YOU!?” he thundered, drowning out Amaya's and Lizo's voices as well.

 

“Wow,” Naruto breathed, sticking his pinky in his right ear, “I didn't know an old windbag like you could yell so loud!”

 

The man rolled his eyes in Naruto's direction and continued, “So you Shinobi are from Rain?”

 

“Ero-sennin, is it?” Amaya asked. “No duh.” She jabbed her finger at her forehead, where her forehead protector was tied securely. “We Rain-nins don't let our forehead protectors fall off as easily as those from Konoha.” She snickered at Naruto, whose Hitai-ate was falling off, hanging over one eye. Apparently, this had temporarily occupied him.

 

“Look ero-sennin! I'm Kakashi-sensei!” he pointed to his forehead-protector.

 

“Ignore that baka, he has no talent,” the man waved him off and suddenly, his chest seemed to swell, “DON'T CALL ME ERO-SENNIN!! It's Jiraya, you tadpoles!!” he yelled, arms waving wildly in the air.

 

“Well, ero-sennin,” Amaya said loftily, putting emphasis on the last two words. “If you aren't a perverted hermit, then what are you?”

 

“Amaya,” Hirana warned. “You're going too far.”

 

Amaya pouted, and retreated backwards, muttering curses at her teacher.

 

“Terribly sorry,” Suoh said, apologizing. “Could you please point us in the direction of Sand?”

 

“HEY!” Naruto yelled. “ME AND THAT LOUD-MOUTHED GIRL HAVEN'T FINISHED OUR ARGUMENT YET!”

 

“THE NAME'S MAEMI AMAYA!” the kunoichi shrieked. “AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!”

 

“WHY WOULDN'T I?! THAT NAME'S SO RETARDED, JUST LIKE YOUR FACE!” Naruto laughed, but fell silent as he felt a dangerous pair of eyes upon him.

 

“What did you say?” Amaya asked, her voice low and threatening, her eyes blazing.

 

Not quite noticing her anger, Naruto continued. “I SAID THAT YOU'RE RETARDED, AND YOUR FACE IS TOO!”

 

Immediately he was impaled by a sharp jab, and his face started stinging, where Amaya had slapped him. He crashed backwards onto the sand, and sat there holding his swollen cheek.

 

Jiraya laughed openly. “You got him there, missee! But that's not the right place to hit him, don't you know! Now let's see if I can't find that special spot…” sticking his tongue between his teeth, he surveyed the back of Naruto's head. “There's the spot!” he pointed to a spot of hair that was lighter blond than the rest. “Got hit there so many times by his pink-haired girlfriend, it's awfully hard to miss!”

 

Immediately, Naruto sat up and looked at the man, stuttering and blinking repeatedly, “But…but… ero-sennin, Sakura-chan isn't my…my…my…girlfriend. She's just a girl that's…that's a friend!”

 

Amaya laughed, “Ooh Naruto, now you have a girlfriend? How come you didn't tell me before? Her name's Sakura? Well, she must be pretty desperate to date a guy like you!”

 

“Yeah,” Lizo smirked. “You should have told her. Then she wouldn't have spent so much time flirting with you!”

 

“What the HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!” Amaya's eye twitched. “I'M NOT THE ONE WHO DOESN'T—“she stopped suddenly.

 

“What's the matter, can't think of a good reply?” teased Lizo, and Amaya threw him a dark look.

 

“No,” she replied, “I'm starving, haven't eaten in ages.”

 

“Lame excuse,” he scoffed at her before an audible rumbling was heard by everyone who was within the diameter of twenty feet.

 

“And you aren't hungry?” retorted Amaya as Lizo threw daggers from his narrowed eyes.

 

“I think it's time for breakfast.” Said Suoh, and Naruto yelled,

 

“YEAH! BREAKFAST, DATTEBAYO! I VOTE ICHIRAKU RAMEN!”

 

The white-haired man whacked Naruto on the back of the head. “Idiot, that's all the way back in Konohagure Village!” The blonde haired boy fell to the sand and didn't move.

 

“Whoops,” Jiraya grinned sheepishly and shrugged, “I think I knocked him out.”

 

“Good riddance,” muttered Amaya, “Just leave him there.”

 

“Nope, as tempting as that sounds, we can't leave him. C'mon,” Jiraya heaved the unconscious Naruto over his shoulder and the six people walked away from the boat and towards the forest, into the heart of the mainland.

 

(End Chapter 7)

 

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