Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Fox and The Phoenix ❯ Subordinate ( Chapter 8 )

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The Fox and The Phoenix
(Sono Kitsune Oyobi Sono Fenikusu)

Key

S.S = Sick Shit (is more than likely NC-17 and etc.)

*thinking*

"talking"

*thoughts progressing into speech"

'substitute for italics' (Kyuubi or Soriyu at times)

//telepathy//

::scene change:: (more for my reference than anything else)

~POV~
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Summary: Naruto's 6 years old, his caretaker, Iruka, was killed by bandits, and he was left orphaned. Well, until a mysterious wanderer appeared...


A/n: For the record, Sakura isn't going to die right now, later maybe, but not for a while.


Chapter Eight: Subordinate


::Their house::


~Sanziya~


'Aw shit.' Soriyu growls from behind me, cursing some random kami.


"Ooooh, Soriyu, what'd you do?" I ask him, also hearing Kyuubi's death threat as I rummage around in the kitchen for ramen.


'Fuck if I know, maybe she's PMSing.' he replies from the chair he currently sits in, leaning back against it sleepily, eyes shut.


'PMSing my ass you red and yellow chicken shit! This is all your fault!' she yells, fuming as she storms into the kitchen and plops down...in Naruto's body.


I sigh, turning around to get my food, and then sitting down at the table with a cup of my lovely noodles to look up at Kyuubi.


"Where's Naruto, ne? Why aren't you in your own form?" I ask, slurping up a few noodles.


Kyuubi rolls her-I mean Naruto's eyes, slumping further into the chair as she tells me what transpired today.


"Oh." I reply thoughfully, now draining the remaining juice from my cup before getting up.


'Where ya goin' Sanziya?' Soriyu asks, opening an eye as Kyuubi turns Argument Number Five of 'this is your fault' on him.


"Oh...to kill a certain pink haired bitch and her idiotic daughter." I reply, my aura spiking in barely controlled anger as I head for the door. Alas, before I know it I'm on the ground, face meshed into the tatami and my arms captured by another's behind my back.


'No you aren't.'


~Author~


"Goddamnit Soriyu, you bastard! Lemme go right now so I can rip off your arms and stuff them down your fucking throat!" Sanziya rants, struggling wildly, Soriyu doesn't bat an eyelash.


'No, because if you go off in anger, you'll end up being executed. The council doesn't approve of killing people just because they messed with your 'precious' son.'


The red haired woman ceases her struggles, realizing his truth, and he releases her. She stands, trying to get the feeling back into her arms.


He sighs as Kyuubi gets up and comes over, dropping to her level.


'Either way...he'll be alright now Sanzi-chan, I've pushed his memories back into the recesses of his mind and behind the strongest mental barrier I could manage, so even that Haruno girl shouldn't be able to bring them back.' she tells me, smiling lightly. 'Now Naruto can come back, he's waking up anyway.'


*Only seeing some remnant of what happened should trigger it, and there's nothing around for that.*


Oh, how little she knows...


Sanziya and Soriyu watch as the presence of the red chakra fades and Naruto's features return to normal, he immediately hugs Sanziya.


"Hey Naruto, how're you feeling?"


He nods his head, indicating his well being, but pats his stomach.


"Haha, you're hungry then?"


He nods eagerly.


"It's Ramen time then!" she replies, and they race out of the house to Ichiraku's.


Soriyu sighs, rolling his eyes and fading away.


'Yay! Naptime.'


Kyuubi, hearing him, snorts.


'Stupid L.N.B'


Soriyu quirks a mental eyebrow at her.


'Meaning?'


'Lazy narcissistic bastard.'


'Ah...right-o foxy...' Soriyu says, yawning. *Bitch.*


::Ichiraku Ramen::


"Ten bowls of ramen apiece please, Ichiraku-san!" Sanziya asks, pushing back the curtain as she sits down, Naruto seating himself beside her.


"Ah, back again eh Sanziya? Though you were abandoning me for the instant stuff, how've you been lately?"


Sanziya has the grace to look sheepish, but soon launches into a tirade of what she's been doing and how her missions have been going.


Naruto, being served by Ashui, smiles at her, nodding.


"How have you been Naruto-kun? Any good missions lately?"


Naruto sighs, shaking his head and scribbling his reply on the chalkboard.


'No, it's so boring, All we do is weed lawns, walk dogs, and chase cats, I think that we can do alot better. Well, Sasuke and I can, all that Haruno girl does is fawn over him.'


Ashui nods, snickering and handing it back to him.


"Haruno-san and her daughter left here not too long ago, ne? You'll probably see them on your way back home." the purple haired girl states, nodding slightly as she goes back to the kitchen.


Sanziya, who was on her seventh bowl, perks up slightly at this knowledge. Naruto senses what she's planning and hurries to catch up so that they might have a 'chat' with the two pink haired annoyances.


After finishing thier ten bowls, they decide that ramen is a much more important than the annoyances, and they order ten more bowls as a result. Ichiraku smiles, he didn't make the ramen special for his two best customers for nothing.


::Streets::


"Well Naruto, off to the Haruno's, shall we?" the eccentric Phoenix carrier asks, her charge nodding affirmitively as they approach the Haruno residence and knock on the door.


A shuffling of locks is heard and a cry of 'wait a minute' rings through the plain wood. After a few moments the door is pulled open by a pink-haired dumpy woman.


"Yes?" she asks, her tone turning a bit frosty as she notices 'who' it is. "What do 'you' want?"


"Ne, don't be like that Mrs. Haruno, we can't just have a nice talk over tea?"


The woman shakes her head violently.


"No, now please get off my porch." she replies, trying to close the door. Sanziya stops her.


"Then at least allow us to escort your daughter to the bridge tommorrow." she tells the woman earnestly.


Mrs. Haruno thinks for a bit, realizing that they can't possibly do anything to Sakura while in the open and nods. After a brief 'thank you', Sanziya and Naruto depart, making their way back home.


*Ah, repentance, such a sweet thing, ne?"


Naruto, hearing the last bit and guessing what she's talking about smiles, silently agreeing.


::6:30am, S & N's House::


Naruto, already dressed, goes into the master bedroom, where Sanziya lays sprawled across the bed. Covers are strewn everywhere around the bottom of the bed, a pillow has been flung at an innocent alarm clock, both of which now lay on the ground, pillow unharmed and laying atop the clock to muffle it's shrill endless cry of 'beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!'.


Naruto, sneaking over to the side of the bed, tickles her nose with a feather he plucked from the pillow. She moans, turning over and burying her face under the covers.


"Mmm...five more minutes Sori-kun, gotta catch the toaster..." she mumbles, pulling the covers tighter around her body.


Naruto rolls his eyes, wondering what he should use today to wake her up, there were so many options...The classic water ball, the snow ball, dumping ice down her shirt, dragging her into the bathroom and turning on the shower, or...


Naruto chuckles deviously to himself.


*Ooooh, I know....*


'Is this gonna result in our deaths Naru-chan?'


*Ah.....maybe?*


Kyuubi sighs.


Naruto goes through the handseals in his mind, ending with 'tora'.


//Fire Element: Palm Fireball Jutsu.//


A marginally small orb of flame forms in Naruto's hand, he lights the tip of Sanziya's nightclothes aflame, and swiftly exits. Smoke fills the room as flames crawls along the edges of her shirt. Sanziya rolls over, sniffs, and her eyes fly open as she begins to bat at her clothes frantically.


"Shimatta! Naruto!! You're so DEAD!!!" she screeches, quickly performing a water jutsu to put out the flames. Naruto, meanwhile, has escaped to the front porch, snickering to himself.


'Ah Naru-chan, such a trickster.'


::6:45am, Streets::


"You could've done a less destructive method of getting me up y'know..." Sanziya states, groaning at her misfortune as she plucks at her hair. "Look what you did to my hair, you better be glad Soriyu can regrow it for me! Not to mention those were my favorite nightclothes! You don't get shirts in those shades of magenta and shorts in that shade of seaweed green anymore!"


Naruto smiles to himself as Kyuubi silently thinks that the boy has done the Phoenix carrier a favor in the clothing department. Her hair was fucked up though, the edges looked like she'd dipped them in black hair dye, but once you got used to it, it looked okay.


'Maybe we can burn that hideous jumpsuit of yours next...and do something about your unruly hair?'


*Okay, Hair? Maybe. Jumpsuit? No way in hell.*


Kyuubi grins a foxy grin, curling her tails around herself as the two arrive at the Haruno residence.


'Alright kit, we'll see.'


Naruto knocks at the door, and Sakura answers.


"Naruto..." she hisses out, catching sight of Sanziya. "Well, let's go then..."


Naruto's face goes stoic, much like Sasuke's, as he walks beside the pink haired kunoichi.


Sanziya, meanwhile, is behind them, going through quick handseals as Naruto performs 'Kage Bunshin' in his head.


"Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings." Sanziya whispers, stepping out of the picture as one of Naruto's clones morphs into her, unbeknownst to Sakura.


Sanziya laughs to herself, walking Naruto off to the bridge.


"That'll keep her busy for about 3 hours, just enough time to make it back for your new C-rank mission, ne?"


Naruto sighs, growling to himself as he grins at Sanziya.


'What's the matter Naru-chan?'


*Nothing, it's just, this is so boring, all we get to do is protect some old man who's ungrateful.*


'Haha, you may have more fun than expected...'


Naruto mentally sighs as they arrive at the bridge, Sanziya bidding him goodbye as he sits down beside Sasuke, who gives her an odd look as she hurries off to the Hokage's tower.


"Have fun on your mission Naruto!"


Naruto waves at her until she's out of sight as Sasuke looks over to him, crouching down to stare the fox boy in the face.


"What happened to your kaa-san's hair?"


Naruto scribbles his reply on the chalkboard.


'Heh, mishap with her 'alarm clock'.'


Sasuke raises an eyebrow, but doesn't reply.


::Two hours later::


"Ne, have you seen Sakura, Naruto?"


'No.' Naruto replies, via chalkboard.


*I wonder where she is now?*


::Meanwhile with Sakura::


Sakura climbs out of the river, sputtering and wet.


"NARUTO!!!!!!!!"


::With Naruto and Sasuke::


Naruto shivers, sneezing as a feeling of impending doom sweeps over him.


Sasuke looks over to him from staring out into the forest.


"Someone's talking about you, ne dobe?"


Naruto rolls his eyes at Sasuke.


//I told you not to call me that, teme.//


"Long as you call me teme, you're a dobe." Sasuke replies, shrugging uninterestedly as Sakura is comes walking up the path to the bridge, dripping wet.


"Naruto, this is all your fault, you and that bitch kaa-san of yours!"


*Oh...here we go...*


Sakura comes to stand over him, but before she can start her rant, he gets up and claps a hand over her mouth.


//Listen girl, there are about 50 reasons why my kaa-san and I did that, but the top three are: You annoy me, Sasuke, and my kaa-san, you can't take a hint to 'back off' to save your life, and you have no common sense whatsoever. That was a prank compared to what we can and want to do. If you mess with me, badmouth my mother, or even have the nerve to even 'attempt' fucking with my mind anymore to bring up my past...I will kill you. No mercy, you pink haired little shit, now get out of my way.// he tells her, sending a wave of his and Kyuubi's killing intent to push at her from the depths of his soul.


Sakura gasps, stepping back in shock as her body quakes, and she drops to the ground, retching. Sasuke's eyes mirror his disgust, but otherwise he sits stoically.


*Sakura's such a fool, she does nothing but hold us back, such a weakling. Naruto...what do you mean when you said 'fucking with your mind'? Was that what happened at the Academy and on the first day? Is that why you have such lifeless eyes? Because of your past?*


Naruto goes back over to stand on the railing of the bridge, going through katas, Kyuubi's chakra surrounding him slightly in his anger. Sasuke sees this, about to take the oppurtunity to ask the boy if he wishes to spar, but two things dispel that option. Sanziya appears, Tazuna stumbling behind her drunkenly, and Sakura (after cleaning herself up) gets up, fuming as to Kakashi-sensei's whereabouts and how stupid he is for being late.


*Can't say anything about that bitch, Naruto would gut me, can't play around like that anymore.*


Sanziya sees Naruto, his back turned to her, and a smirk crosses her face. She also sees the Haruno girl, soaking wet.


*Haha, she landed in a river, but she'll be no good on the mission if she has a cold, so...*


"Here." Sanziya calls to Sakura, tossing her a towel and a small package.


Sakura catches them, getting the message and starting to towel off her hair, heading behind a tree to change. Naruto turns around at hearing his kaa-san's voice, wondering why she's here, but he looses his balance and slips off the railing.


*Ah, dammit.* he thinks, but notices he isn't going anywhere, just hanging in mid-air by a leg, and he looks up. A string of orange chakra lies coiled around his leg, tied to the railing.


*What in the seven layers of-?*


He doesn't get to finish his thought as Sasuke appears over the railing.


"Dobe, your mother says 'get up here before she clocks you one, we're late as it is'." he tells the pouting boy, noting that he looked good with his legs hanging open like that.


*What the fuck? I am NOT gay...but he looks like an uke, definitely....agh! Stupid perverted brain!*


While Sasuke is going through this mental debate with himself, Sakura comes out from behind the tree and Naruto hops back onto land. Sanziya nods her head in satisfaction.


Sakura frowns, sweatdropping.


"Is this another joke?" she asks, looking down at the red shirt and baggy yellow ninja pants.


"Nope, now come on, we've gotta go." the red and gold haired kunoichi replies, starting to walk down the road, Tazuna does a double take.


"Wait, you mean these munchkins are gonna be protecting me?! They don't look like they could fight their way out of a paper bag!"


Sanziya sighs, growling as she rounds on the drunken old man.


"Now listen here Tazuna-san! It's a three day trip to the Wave Country and I want to get there as soon as we can, if you don't want our genin watching over you then fine, go complain to Hokage-sama, but otherwise, simmer down and march!" she screams at him, numerous veins in her forehead throbbing.


Tazuna just stands there, gaping like a fish for a few minutes before 'hmphing' and following behind them.


"Good, now let's go shall we guys?"


Two of the genin have shocked looks adorning their faces as they follow the woman, Naruto snickering because he already knew the extent of her temper, and Sakura was stretching it to the limit with her next question.


"Ano...where is Kakashi-sensei?"


Sanziya twitches, but calms down, still walking as she replies.


"He's on a spy mission that'll last for a while, so I'm your temporary sensei for a while, I'm more or less on the same level as your sensei."


'Ha, more or less my ass woman, you're more powerful than your Hokage.'


*Shh, they don't need to know that.*


Naruto smiles to himself, thinking along the same lines as Soriyu.


*This will be a fun trip.*
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