Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Subjects ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )
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By: CagedRaven 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2011 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 269 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2011 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 269 | Status: Work In Progress
Subjects
CagedRaven
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Chapter three
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We ran through forest trees I had thought only existed in my dreams. The soil, soft under my shoes compared to the hard tiles I grew up with. The smells of nature meeting my nose for the first time. The bright moon glowing in the sky shouting out to me; oh, how I wanted to return its greeting! Everything was so surreal.
"Hold on," I panted, pressing my hand against a trees hard bark for balance. Everyone stopped for me, Gaara halting last.
"What is it?" Hinata asked, taking deep breaths herself. If I wasn't in pain she would have been the slowest runner out of us all.
"I really have got to pee." I sighed, walking away from them into the thick bushes. I undid my pants and welcomed the relief, frowning when I saw blood.
After I was done and fixed my clothes, I walked back over to the three.
"Better?" Gaara asked as if he didn't really care.
"No, I think I was hit in an organ." I answered, gripping my side again. I looked over toward Hinata for advice but she was as red as a tomato.
"Want me to pull them out?" Shikamarua asked, walking closer to me.
"Have you done it before?"
"No, but I might learn faster then you." He added. "You'll have to wait though; I want to get a few more miles away from the building before sunrise."
I nodded. Fair enough, I couldn't argue when his brains were in question. We continued on the path he set out for us, only straying if Hinata saw a better route or if I had to rest again. This sucked, I felt like I was slowing the group down. My feeling didn't change no matter how many times Hinata tried to tell my otherwise. With each step my body felt heavier and soon I started to feel like I was fighting my burning eyes to stay open and alert.
"Shikamaru," I heard Hinata call out to him. Her voice sounded so distant even though I knew she was under my arm holding me up. "We have to help him now… if we don't… if we don't do it now, Naruto will die."
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I couldn't focus anymore, the voices were fading out and my sight was being consumed by something even darker than the color black. I wonder if it was death.
It was like déjà vu all over again. I opened my eyes, quickly shutting them away from the light and covered my lids with my hands. It was like being in Shikamaru's underground room again, only this time the light was more powerful and not as easy to block out. This must have been what was called the sun.
"He's waking up…"
I smiled; Hinata had started to get on my nerves, constantly talking barley above a whisper, but now I found it peaceful to wake up to.
"Morning," I said, peeking at her from under my hand and slowly sitting up.
"Ah," She smiled shyly, "Your eyes are blue again..."
I was about to ask what she meant when I heard Shikamaru tell me he got out three of the bullets. "There's one more in there that I couldn't get without killing you, though, so try not to push yourself."
"Did the bleeding stop at least?"
"Yeah," He sighed, sitting down on the dry dirt. "Just remember if you if you're not careful it'll start up again. You lost a lot of blood and you're pale as hell, anymore blood loss and you could die."
"Got it." I nodded, placing a hand just under my ribs. I knew that was the bullet he couldn't remove immediately. The damn thing had hit around my kidney somewhere, if my memory proved me right.
"Naruto?" I looked back at Hinata, her cheeks were tinted red. "Are you hungry?"
I didn't even have to think about it, my head just nodded. My stomach was always ready to be filled with food.
"You're going to have to wait." Shikamaru shot me an evil smirk, knowing full well that every Class 01 had a bottomless pit.
"Why?" I wanted to scream louder but my dry throat cracked my voice. I barely heard Hinata apologizing for forgetting.
"Because I just pulled three bullets out of you, that's why. One of those was in your gut." At my scowl he added, "Just give yourself sometime to heal."
I let out a loud, annoyed sigh as I laid down roughly on the soil, looking up into the sky and squinting at the sun's light. I looked away after a moment, moving my eyes to each member of our small group. Shikamaru looked as if he was about to take a nap, staring at the clouds. Hinata was leaned up against a tree's base while she picked the small flowers around her absently. Gaara was sitting quietly by himself, looking at nothing; I was surprised he didn't shut us up when we were talking.
"Gaara," I said, "Why were you in the dark room before?"
"Naruto," Shikamaru was looking at me sternly, shaking his head slowly and never breaking eye contact with me. It was a topic that was burned to ashes, never to be spoken of again. I threw up my hands in surrender, looking at a tree close to me instead of the red head and tried with all my might not to wonder about something I wouldn't get an answer to. But that was how the mind worked, once something was out of reach that's all the brain thought about.
Whatever the reason could be that Gaara was in the room, Shikamaru knew. Maybe he was there, or maybe it had something to do with him? I shook my head; there's no point in thinking about it. I sat up once more, getting to my feet carefully so not to open the wounds.
"I'm going to take a walk."
Hinata looked at me with her pale eyes, "Do you want me to go with you?"
I shook my head, "I'm not going to go that far; I'll be alright."
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I sighed softly. The main reason I wanted to take a walk was to clear my head of Gaara and the secret behind his stay in the dark room. This, however, wasn't meant to be because the very person I was trying to remove from my thoughts was taking a walk with me, all thanks to Shikamaru. Actually, I'm amazed that whenever the brunette says something we listen with little questions asked (sometimes none).
"We should head back." I could smell rain in the air. It would be bad if our scent trail was washed away since the two we left behind have no scent.
Gaara either didn't hear me or didn't care because he continued to walk ahead. I tried to tell him again with no response, coming to the conclusion that it was the latter. I care too much, perhaps. Throwing up my hands in annoyance, I followed him because I didn't want him to get lost.
We weaved our way through the maze of trees, kicking up dirt as I tried to keep up with his quickening footsteps. My side began to throb as I jogged; Shikamaru's voice telling me to take it easy echoing in my head.
"Gaara," I called out ahead of me. "Are you looking for something?"
He chose than to stop, looking ahead of himself at something through the trees. I came up beside the red head, slowing my breathing and took a peek at what he was watching. My eyes widened. What were they? The creatures were fairly large with four long legs, helping them stand tall. There small heads had lengthy ears pointing up to the sky, listening to every sound as they grazed. The smaller ones were spotted; the largest had antlers growing out of their skulls, while the middle sided ones didn't sport either, only wearing a tan coat.
"What are those?" I whispered.
Gaara's green eyes moved toward my face, "Deer."
I looked back at them, finding them amazing in their natural environment. I assumed the smaller, spotted ones were the offspring, the tan ones the females, and the large, horned ones the males.
"Did you want to see them?" I asked.
He waited so long to answer me I thought he wasn't at first, until he said, "No, I wanted to eat them."
My head snapped in his direction. "Are you serious? They're pretty big." Was it strange that I was just watching them with admiration and a second later, looking at them like they were prey?
"You can stay here and watch." He wasn't laughing or smiling but I had a feeling he was making fun of me.
"No, I'll help out." Shikamaru's works sounded off in the back of my head again. "Though, Shikamaru did tell me to take it easy and not to eat anything."
The red head's eyes landed back on me, "I know. You're the reason none of us ate anything."
I smiled, "You guys waited for me, how sweet."
"Unwillingly."
I kept my mouth shut, knowing a fight would start if I didn't. Besides, Gaara wasn't someone I'd want to try to mess around with when I couldn't even run at full speed yet. I got the feeling I wouldn't last long at all.
"Which one do you want to take down?" I asked instead.
His long finger pointed to the largest one in the group, his antlers were longer than my arms and his height was abnormal in the group that surrounded it.
"Of course, the biggest one."
"He'll be enough for all of us." Gaara muttered; flexing his fingers as he prepared himself. I began to do the same; I wasn't going to let him have all the fun.
We didn't have to count to a number or tell each other when to go, it came naturally. As we charged for the family of deer, aiming for one, they immediately began fleeing. My eyes began to burn again but I blamed it on the soil being kicked up. My heart raced as the deer moved as fast as they could away from us. The smell of fear entering my nostrils with its intoxicating aroma almost made me forget to go for the largest one instead of the female who was closer. Gaara had began to chase the deer we wanted, waiting for me to start chasing it as well so we could corner it. I was heading in his direction, just about there when a random deer ran past me. I don't really know how to explain it but as soon as that deer landed in my sights I had to have it.
I did a one-eighty, chasing after the female deer. My eyes burning more, it felt like they were on fire; blurring out everything else in my vision except for the deer in front of me. I didn't hear anything besides her hooves pounding into the earth as she tried to escape me. I didn't smell anything but her scent and, as I grabbed onto her hind leg, blood. My claws raked into the deer's flesh, stopping her from running away after a few moments. I held her down, moving closer to her neck and gave a bone crushing bite onto it, finishing the deer off. The way my brain was working at those moments felt so fluid… natural. Like I was supposed to be doing this. At the same time, however, I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach. I had just killed a creature and that was what made me feel alive… It wasn't like when I killed the humans. That was revenge, self defense even. But this… this was…
"Crying after a kill, that's pathetic."
I looked over to Gaara as he walked over to me, dragging the largest deer's body behind him. I couldn't look at it. It reminded me too much of the female's.
"I just killed something's mother, I should be crying."
"If you're going to whine after everything you've killed just to stay alive yourself then maybe you were a mistake. Class 01's are made to kill."
"Humans. We are only supposed to kill humans, not these." I pointed to the female's body in front of me.
"This is the only thing that'll keep us living, hunting other animals." Gaara stated, grabbing the antler of the male and dragging him as he walked.
I didn't know what to do with the female's body. Should I take it back as well to eat or leave it here? After thinking it over quickly, so I didn't lose the red head, I thought since I killed her for food I might as well continue with it. Besides, Gaara was right. I dried my eyes on the back of my hand and stood, wincing when a pain shot throw my side.
"Damn," I cursed, feeling the reopened wound. "Shikamaru and Hinata are going to kill me."
I fell back to my knees, my forehead leaning against the deer's side. I couldn't help but wonder if this was what humans called karma.
I tried to stand a couple more times, failing and causing my wound to bleed out more. Through the pain caused by the bullet I could feel my stomach still growl in hunger, surprisingly.
The rain had started to fall and Gaara had never come back through the bushes to see where I was since I didn't follow him. I didn't expect he would anyway, the cold bastard.
The earth underneath me became soft and moist, turning into mud and sticking to my rear end whenever I tried to move. It was uncomfortable but would have to do until someone came and found me. Gaara probably wouldn't be of much help. I could see Hinata looking for me. She was sweet and kind; a little too kind when it came to humans. My thoughts lead me to the dark room we had first met in, how her kindness had, most likely, gotten her into the situation to begin with.
My eyes looked toward the deer behind me; the female's dark eyes were lifeless and cold as they stared back at me. The blood I had drawn earlier had stopped flowing out, having mixed with the rain drops and mud. I couldn't take my eyes off her and could feel my mouth water at the thought of tasting a bit of the deer's meat. This feeling of intense hunger was so sudden I couldn't push it away like I had before. It made my pain seem like nothing in its wake.
My eyes burned again, my side burned in protest as I turned around to face the deer but I shoved the feeling away. I felt lost; confused. I wasn't too sure what I was supposed to do when it wasn't running away from me in fear. It took me a couple of minutes to realize I was trying to hunt it, however, didn't need to hunt the already dead animal. I leaned my head down until I was practically touching the deer's fur. Wetting my lips nervously, I sunk my claws into her skin and pulled the fur away. Blood dripped down her side as I continued to remove a small patch of the fur, exposing the flesh underneath. I would need to start a fire to cook the meat, I thought though I didn't start looking for sticks. My eyes were acting strange again, this time I couldn't blame it on dirt. My mind wasn't any better.
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TBC...
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A/N:
Naruto was confused about the dead deer and how to eat it because when the prey doesn't move to trigger the hunter's "chase" logic, it can sometimes be hard for first timers to get it right.
CagedRaven
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Chapter three
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We ran through forest trees I had thought only existed in my dreams. The soil, soft under my shoes compared to the hard tiles I grew up with. The smells of nature meeting my nose for the first time. The bright moon glowing in the sky shouting out to me; oh, how I wanted to return its greeting! Everything was so surreal.
"Hold on," I panted, pressing my hand against a trees hard bark for balance. Everyone stopped for me, Gaara halting last.
"What is it?" Hinata asked, taking deep breaths herself. If I wasn't in pain she would have been the slowest runner out of us all.
"I really have got to pee." I sighed, walking away from them into the thick bushes. I undid my pants and welcomed the relief, frowning when I saw blood.
After I was done and fixed my clothes, I walked back over to the three.
"Better?" Gaara asked as if he didn't really care.
"No, I think I was hit in an organ." I answered, gripping my side again. I looked over toward Hinata for advice but she was as red as a tomato.
"Want me to pull them out?" Shikamarua asked, walking closer to me.
"Have you done it before?"
"No, but I might learn faster then you." He added. "You'll have to wait though; I want to get a few more miles away from the building before sunrise."
I nodded. Fair enough, I couldn't argue when his brains were in question. We continued on the path he set out for us, only straying if Hinata saw a better route or if I had to rest again. This sucked, I felt like I was slowing the group down. My feeling didn't change no matter how many times Hinata tried to tell my otherwise. With each step my body felt heavier and soon I started to feel like I was fighting my burning eyes to stay open and alert.
"Shikamaru," I heard Hinata call out to him. Her voice sounded so distant even though I knew she was under my arm holding me up. "We have to help him now… if we don't… if we don't do it now, Naruto will die."
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I couldn't focus anymore, the voices were fading out and my sight was being consumed by something even darker than the color black. I wonder if it was death.
It was like déjà vu all over again. I opened my eyes, quickly shutting them away from the light and covered my lids with my hands. It was like being in Shikamaru's underground room again, only this time the light was more powerful and not as easy to block out. This must have been what was called the sun.
"He's waking up…"
I smiled; Hinata had started to get on my nerves, constantly talking barley above a whisper, but now I found it peaceful to wake up to.
"Morning," I said, peeking at her from under my hand and slowly sitting up.
"Ah," She smiled shyly, "Your eyes are blue again..."
I was about to ask what she meant when I heard Shikamaru tell me he got out three of the bullets. "There's one more in there that I couldn't get without killing you, though, so try not to push yourself."
"Did the bleeding stop at least?"
"Yeah," He sighed, sitting down on the dry dirt. "Just remember if you if you're not careful it'll start up again. You lost a lot of blood and you're pale as hell, anymore blood loss and you could die."
"Got it." I nodded, placing a hand just under my ribs. I knew that was the bullet he couldn't remove immediately. The damn thing had hit around my kidney somewhere, if my memory proved me right.
"Naruto?" I looked back at Hinata, her cheeks were tinted red. "Are you hungry?"
I didn't even have to think about it, my head just nodded. My stomach was always ready to be filled with food.
"You're going to have to wait." Shikamaru shot me an evil smirk, knowing full well that every Class 01 had a bottomless pit.
"Why?" I wanted to scream louder but my dry throat cracked my voice. I barely heard Hinata apologizing for forgetting.
"Because I just pulled three bullets out of you, that's why. One of those was in your gut." At my scowl he added, "Just give yourself sometime to heal."
I let out a loud, annoyed sigh as I laid down roughly on the soil, looking up into the sky and squinting at the sun's light. I looked away after a moment, moving my eyes to each member of our small group. Shikamaru looked as if he was about to take a nap, staring at the clouds. Hinata was leaned up against a tree's base while she picked the small flowers around her absently. Gaara was sitting quietly by himself, looking at nothing; I was surprised he didn't shut us up when we were talking.
"Gaara," I said, "Why were you in the dark room before?"
"Naruto," Shikamaru was looking at me sternly, shaking his head slowly and never breaking eye contact with me. It was a topic that was burned to ashes, never to be spoken of again. I threw up my hands in surrender, looking at a tree close to me instead of the red head and tried with all my might not to wonder about something I wouldn't get an answer to. But that was how the mind worked, once something was out of reach that's all the brain thought about.
Whatever the reason could be that Gaara was in the room, Shikamaru knew. Maybe he was there, or maybe it had something to do with him? I shook my head; there's no point in thinking about it. I sat up once more, getting to my feet carefully so not to open the wounds.
"I'm going to take a walk."
Hinata looked at me with her pale eyes, "Do you want me to go with you?"
I shook my head, "I'm not going to go that far; I'll be alright."
***
I sighed softly. The main reason I wanted to take a walk was to clear my head of Gaara and the secret behind his stay in the dark room. This, however, wasn't meant to be because the very person I was trying to remove from my thoughts was taking a walk with me, all thanks to Shikamaru. Actually, I'm amazed that whenever the brunette says something we listen with little questions asked (sometimes none).
"We should head back." I could smell rain in the air. It would be bad if our scent trail was washed away since the two we left behind have no scent.
Gaara either didn't hear me or didn't care because he continued to walk ahead. I tried to tell him again with no response, coming to the conclusion that it was the latter. I care too much, perhaps. Throwing up my hands in annoyance, I followed him because I didn't want him to get lost.
We weaved our way through the maze of trees, kicking up dirt as I tried to keep up with his quickening footsteps. My side began to throb as I jogged; Shikamaru's voice telling me to take it easy echoing in my head.
"Gaara," I called out ahead of me. "Are you looking for something?"
He chose than to stop, looking ahead of himself at something through the trees. I came up beside the red head, slowing my breathing and took a peek at what he was watching. My eyes widened. What were they? The creatures were fairly large with four long legs, helping them stand tall. There small heads had lengthy ears pointing up to the sky, listening to every sound as they grazed. The smaller ones were spotted; the largest had antlers growing out of their skulls, while the middle sided ones didn't sport either, only wearing a tan coat.
"What are those?" I whispered.
Gaara's green eyes moved toward my face, "Deer."
I looked back at them, finding them amazing in their natural environment. I assumed the smaller, spotted ones were the offspring, the tan ones the females, and the large, horned ones the males.
"Did you want to see them?" I asked.
He waited so long to answer me I thought he wasn't at first, until he said, "No, I wanted to eat them."
My head snapped in his direction. "Are you serious? They're pretty big." Was it strange that I was just watching them with admiration and a second later, looking at them like they were prey?
"You can stay here and watch." He wasn't laughing or smiling but I had a feeling he was making fun of me.
"No, I'll help out." Shikamaru's works sounded off in the back of my head again. "Though, Shikamaru did tell me to take it easy and not to eat anything."
The red head's eyes landed back on me, "I know. You're the reason none of us ate anything."
I smiled, "You guys waited for me, how sweet."
"Unwillingly."
I kept my mouth shut, knowing a fight would start if I didn't. Besides, Gaara wasn't someone I'd want to try to mess around with when I couldn't even run at full speed yet. I got the feeling I wouldn't last long at all.
"Which one do you want to take down?" I asked instead.
His long finger pointed to the largest one in the group, his antlers were longer than my arms and his height was abnormal in the group that surrounded it.
"Of course, the biggest one."
"He'll be enough for all of us." Gaara muttered; flexing his fingers as he prepared himself. I began to do the same; I wasn't going to let him have all the fun.
We didn't have to count to a number or tell each other when to go, it came naturally. As we charged for the family of deer, aiming for one, they immediately began fleeing. My eyes began to burn again but I blamed it on the soil being kicked up. My heart raced as the deer moved as fast as they could away from us. The smell of fear entering my nostrils with its intoxicating aroma almost made me forget to go for the largest one instead of the female who was closer. Gaara had began to chase the deer we wanted, waiting for me to start chasing it as well so we could corner it. I was heading in his direction, just about there when a random deer ran past me. I don't really know how to explain it but as soon as that deer landed in my sights I had to have it.
I did a one-eighty, chasing after the female deer. My eyes burning more, it felt like they were on fire; blurring out everything else in my vision except for the deer in front of me. I didn't hear anything besides her hooves pounding into the earth as she tried to escape me. I didn't smell anything but her scent and, as I grabbed onto her hind leg, blood. My claws raked into the deer's flesh, stopping her from running away after a few moments. I held her down, moving closer to her neck and gave a bone crushing bite onto it, finishing the deer off. The way my brain was working at those moments felt so fluid… natural. Like I was supposed to be doing this. At the same time, however, I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach. I had just killed a creature and that was what made me feel alive… It wasn't like when I killed the humans. That was revenge, self defense even. But this… this was…
"Crying after a kill, that's pathetic."
I looked over to Gaara as he walked over to me, dragging the largest deer's body behind him. I couldn't look at it. It reminded me too much of the female's.
"I just killed something's mother, I should be crying."
"If you're going to whine after everything you've killed just to stay alive yourself then maybe you were a mistake. Class 01's are made to kill."
"Humans. We are only supposed to kill humans, not these." I pointed to the female's body in front of me.
"This is the only thing that'll keep us living, hunting other animals." Gaara stated, grabbing the antler of the male and dragging him as he walked.
I didn't know what to do with the female's body. Should I take it back as well to eat or leave it here? After thinking it over quickly, so I didn't lose the red head, I thought since I killed her for food I might as well continue with it. Besides, Gaara was right. I dried my eyes on the back of my hand and stood, wincing when a pain shot throw my side.
"Damn," I cursed, feeling the reopened wound. "Shikamaru and Hinata are going to kill me."
I fell back to my knees, my forehead leaning against the deer's side. I couldn't help but wonder if this was what humans called karma.
I tried to stand a couple more times, failing and causing my wound to bleed out more. Through the pain caused by the bullet I could feel my stomach still growl in hunger, surprisingly.
The rain had started to fall and Gaara had never come back through the bushes to see where I was since I didn't follow him. I didn't expect he would anyway, the cold bastard.
The earth underneath me became soft and moist, turning into mud and sticking to my rear end whenever I tried to move. It was uncomfortable but would have to do until someone came and found me. Gaara probably wouldn't be of much help. I could see Hinata looking for me. She was sweet and kind; a little too kind when it came to humans. My thoughts lead me to the dark room we had first met in, how her kindness had, most likely, gotten her into the situation to begin with.
My eyes looked toward the deer behind me; the female's dark eyes were lifeless and cold as they stared back at me. The blood I had drawn earlier had stopped flowing out, having mixed with the rain drops and mud. I couldn't take my eyes off her and could feel my mouth water at the thought of tasting a bit of the deer's meat. This feeling of intense hunger was so sudden I couldn't push it away like I had before. It made my pain seem like nothing in its wake.
My eyes burned again, my side burned in protest as I turned around to face the deer but I shoved the feeling away. I felt lost; confused. I wasn't too sure what I was supposed to do when it wasn't running away from me in fear. It took me a couple of minutes to realize I was trying to hunt it, however, didn't need to hunt the already dead animal. I leaned my head down until I was practically touching the deer's fur. Wetting my lips nervously, I sunk my claws into her skin and pulled the fur away. Blood dripped down her side as I continued to remove a small patch of the fur, exposing the flesh underneath. I would need to start a fire to cook the meat, I thought though I didn't start looking for sticks. My eyes were acting strange again, this time I couldn't blame it on dirt. My mind wasn't any better.
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TBC...
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A/N:
Naruto was confused about the dead deer and how to eat it because when the prey doesn't move to trigger the hunter's "chase" logic, it can sometimes be hard for first timers to get it right.