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I dont own Naruto
"Talking"
thinking
P2:C5
The Fates are fickle Mistresses, they speak and say bluntly that you have no say in life and your path is sealed to a specific destiny. I used to believe their lies, but no more will I fall victim to the slander. They can tell me whatever it is they see as my fate but I don’t care. The wheel will keep turning and as long as it does I can change the position of my spoke on it. I don’t know where I will be tomorrow and that excites me to no end. It is my belief no one is bound to the word of the Fates. For they have claimed my time was up countless occasions and yet here I sit, with this man, that as long as he breathes will spit in the eye of destiny. And as long as I am with him all their words will be void. I mean they never saw me here, riding for my life from these spectral dogs of death, and in doing so that I couldn’t be happier…could they?
His smile, sparkling eyes and overall way too happy mood was so contagious you could be puking happy from your mouth if he so much as breathed his joy near you. And unfortunately or fortunately, only time would tell, Sakura couldn’t control herself to not catch the fever.
It all came to a crashing halt when Cerberus stopped dead in his tracks.
Sakura looked about the area in hopes of finding the reason for stopping without having to ask, though no real evidence for a stop could be found.
“Naruto, why have we…” Her question stopped when the realization that the man it was directed to was no longer in from of her.
“Naruto?” Sakura asked a bit worried.
“FUCK!” Naruto’s voiced pierced the heavens. Something bad was happing to him and Sakura was not about to sit by and let it.
She jumped off the horse and ran as hard as she could toward the noise echoing from behind a nearby dead tree.
“Naruto I’m coming don’t worry!” Sakura was frantic as she neared the tree.
“No stop Sakura-chan, it is…OW…alright.” Naruto’s voice said as a hand out from behind the tree to wave to her to stop.
“Naruto no way do you sound…” A smell caught her nose, one foul and putrid and of course biological.
Sakura’s worried demeanor changed drastically.
“…I told you not to eat that rabbit meat.”
“SHIT…heh…I know you did, but I was hungry.”
“…It was green.”
“SoooOOOO!”
“I am going to wait with the horse.”
“Right…”
Sakura waited with her ride for thirty minutes in complete boredom, every now and again hearing the cries of the baby from the tree. She had tried to engaged the horse in conversation but although it did understand human’s it only had 3 responses to anything: a stamp of the hoof, Sakura believed to mean no, a death glare that freaked her out which she associated with don’t ask, and a general no response which she couldn’t figure if meant don’t ask or you are just stupid.
Sooner or later Naruto emerged back from his small predicament yielding the huge smile again.
“All better?”
“Yup.”
Naruto quickly and smoothly returned a role of paper back into a scroll he had and used another to extract some water and soap to wash his hands.
“Tsunade-shishou wouldn’t teach me seal magic, will you?”
“Maybe when we get back to town.”
“Alright, how much longer till we get there, that way we can get back to Konohagakure faster?”
Naruto sealed the water back up and took in the surrounding area trying to gain his footing. Raising his hand to point off in the distance, Naruto gestured to a plateau maybe 30 miles north.
“See that rise in the distance?”
Sakura turned and looked.
“Yes?”
“Those are the Cliffs of Insanity. We will have to go wide to get by them for they are basically shear rock walls straight up and the horse can’t take that. But that is the old kingdom border of the sixth and fifth kingdom borders. Once passed them we will be into the fifth kingdom and then we will just follow the coast line a good 100 miles or so then we will head back toward the center of the peninsula and be there... Technically not the real border but the visual border, the real border is distorted and the south eastern area ejects somewhat to incorporate the Uchiha compound”
“Ok Cliffs of Insanity, 100 mile coast, head toward center of…the fifth kingdom is a peninsula?”
“Yup, making it the most well guarded kingdom, water on three of four sides, and then the cliffs, but alas ever plus has a negative, for being the most well guarded it is also the smallest. Even the island chains of the third kingdom encompass more land when added together.”
“Alright so about how long time wise do you think to get there, and any chance of stopping by the Uchiha’s for a bath or some warm food?”
“Should be there by day break of tomorrow with the speed Cerberus here emits. And no… they don’t like outsiders.”
“Damn.” Sakura said sad, she realy wanted a nice hot bath.
“Naruto tell me a little bit about the cliffs!” Sakura had to shout at Naruto because of all the wind noise rushing by them.
“Like?”
“Is there any way up, or something wondrous on top?”
“There are 2 ways up, 3 if you want to get technical. The first is to climb the face of it, and that could only be done by a colossus of a person with insane upper body strength. Another way is on the opposite side there is a long pathway carved into it to get up to the summit. And the third way would be for me to fly up there. On the top there were guardian towers that would keep watch on the border; I don’t know if the towers remain. So besides a spectacular view and a whole lot of wind there might not be too much up there.”
“Can we go and check?”
“Why is it whenever we are on a time limit you want to go see something?”
Sakura laughed some, “I like being a pain.”
The two returned to a more or so comfortable silence, but still seemed no nearer the cliffs.
Sakura’s eyelids grew heavy; she was getting tired for no particular reason. It seemed that her eye lids were just being forced closed. But she wasn’t in the mood to argue with her body and let it take her.
She could still feel the horse gallop and the air moving by, but she was in a dream like state between awake and asleep, and couldn’t be sure what was true or not. One thing was certain however, that damn cliff wasn’t any closer.
“Stupid…wall…away…”
Naruto turned his head to look at what Sakura and see what she was mumbling about.
“Sakura-chan?”
“Heh?”
“What were you saying?”
She let out one very prolonged yawn, and then responded. “That stupid wall isn’t any closer, why is it always so far away?”
Wow she mumbled like a tenth of that actual sentence.
“Sakura-chan, perhaps you should shake yourself awake a little.”
Struggling to stop leaning on a person while riding a horse was not one of Sakura strong points, granted she had never done it before either so it have been she was a pro. But she was successful in rising into a more awake sitting stance, and was almost to amazed to speak. Cliff walls were on both sides of them, shear vertical cliffs rising into the clouds far above the world, both walls casting shadows into the gorge below making everything dark and sinister.
“How long have we been in this gorge?”
Naruto laughed a little.
“Don’t laugh at me!” accompanied with a swift knock to the noggin was Sakura’s retort to that.
“Sorry…But about 10 minutes in here.”
“Wow, so what happened to going around?”
“I never said we were going around, in fact on horseback there is no way around.”
“You did, you said we had to go wide to get around.”
“No I said go wide to get by.”
Sakura wasn’t going to argue, she had been wrong before, so no point.
“Was this path like a pathway between the kingdoms that had a great gate at one point?”
“No actually the gateway to the fifth kingdom was the waterway; the fifth was very isolated because of the wall. And its closest ally in relations was the third kingdom, due to them both being strong naval powers.”
“Then the gorge?”
“It may not be apparent but this was cut in the last 30 years or so.”
“By?”
“A demon’s aura.”
Sakura closed her mouth and took the realization upon her own mind. An aura of a demon cut this pathway. Not even their power in an attack, just the natural aura they give off from their being cut a pathway so smooth and large through a shear Cliffside to the other end. Nothing could be said of power like that.
“Not to burst the bubble Sakura-chan but heads up…”
A man covered in scars stood from the fire he and his men had gathered around to look at his brigade of horses. They were indeed spooked.
“Looks like we got us a woman, boys.”
The men began to hoot and holler at the anticipation of their first woman in a long time. No one dared question how the leader trained the horses for such a feet but they had never been wrong, the horses only got antsy around a woman.
Water fell upon the fire thus dousing the flames from revealing their location. And the men waited with baited breath upon their steeds for a sign of the new prey.
“Can you see anything?”
“No, We are riding blind so be weary. I want you to be ready to follow my command here.”
“Naruto I am not weak, I can help if this turns ugly you know.”
“I am very aware and I plan to use you, but I am in control so listen to my orders. Now draw your weapon and be silent.”
Sakura nodded her head, not knowing if Naruto even saw it. Her hand went to her back and unhooked the ring blade she had acquired. While Naruto made a motion to his back to draw his sword as well. They were both ready for whatever, if anything, jumped them.
Cerberus’s speed was consistent. It was barely noticeable to the rider, the slight change in the horse’s stride, compensating for the bound and quick readjustment over the discarded camp. The noise was off as well. There was an extra set of hoofs hitting the ground. Where was the 3rd pair coming from?
The tunnel was illuminating slowly as the day shown through at the end. Naruto was on guard to the front, leaving Sakura to check behind as light came allowing for a proper check. Sakura turned and found what answer she had been looking for. The extra hoof beat was from the horses following them. Three of them actually, all of them ridden by savage looking men who definitely meant her and Naruto harm.
“Behind!” and “Forward!” were yelled simultaneously by the two riders.
Naruto saw the exit’s approach and saw a group of 5 horseman waiting at the opening with not to friendly intentions present by their weapon sets.
Naruto quickly looked back, as Sakura looked forward to see what the other was talking about.
“Naruto?”
“Sakura, can you ride a horse by yourself?”
The entrance was coming fast and they were blocked in.
“Yes, but…”
“No where to go cutie, we will take you after your boy is gone.” One of the men behind her yelled.
“Ok ready?” Naruto asked.
“For what?”
“NOW!” Naruto yelled. Sakura had no idea what was going on but apparently the horse did. Cerberus jumped, and boy did he jump high. He was able to jump clear over the other horses, and on the fall back down to the ground Sakura felt a force, like a hand, push her forward on the saddle to find no Naruto in front of her.
Cerberus landed and just kept on running with no plan on stopping.
Sakura turned around in time to see Naruto land in the middle of the newly formed ring of mounted thugs.
She knew yelling was pointless, but she wanted to anyway, did he just ditch her to fight on his own?
But maybe not, she heard on the wind someone telling others to go after the girl.
Was that his plan to split the group up? Well I think I will just assume it was luck and scold him later for it anyway.
“Look at this here boys we got ourselves a little acrobat.” The man covered in scars said.
“Four of you go after her, don’t let her escape. The rest of us will handle this here hero.”
Naruto stood calmly in the center of the group and watched as 4 rode off to hopefully certain doom.
Be alright Sakura-chan, I am putting my faith in you. PLEASE DON”T DIE!
“Ok then guys, you getting down or should I start our fun together while you guys remain mounted?”
The enemy however had no problems; their horses were quite familiar with these woods.
“We are coming pretty!”
Sakura jerked a little making Cerberus jump, and inadvertently drop his rider. It thought about just continuing running and forgetting the stupid rider, but it didn’t know where to go in the new place, and getting lost and starve was worse than staying with this person.
Sakura shook off the fall quick and gripped her ring tight.
Get ready…
The noise was getting louder, and louder.
…almost…
It was just about upon them, the noise reverberated off the tree making the horse seem to approach from all directions.
…now!
Sakura let loose her blade towards a small opening between two trees. Whizzing through the air it returned in a timely manner, never have producing a killing sound. The proof to Sakura of hitting her mark was a returning blade covered in crimson red liquid.
Shortly their after calmly catching her ring, the wood exploded forth upon Sakura. Branches, dead leaves, rotting trees and other debris from the aging dead forest was called up to assist in the appearance of three of her former four pursuers. All three were soaked in fresh squeezed blood.
“You little bitch, you crazy little WHORE! You KILLED him!” The man to her front yelled to her. Up to that point in her training, and her whole life she had only ever taken 2 lives, even with the trying times and the struggle to just live yourself. And each time was terrible to hear, she would say she didn’t mean to kill him, but also that she didn’t not mean to kill him.
“You got a kill, now you are going to wish that you had been killed.” The front man said again, while spurring his horse forward to take the girl and ravage her.
Sakura clinched her blade tightly.
One good throw can take out a horse’s leg incapacitating it…but poor horse. I would aim for the creep but no guarantee.
The horse didn’t charge though, it accompanied by the other 3 horses in the premises started to stamp and shake.
“What the hell? I thought these dumb beasts only acted weird when they smell a woman.”
A man behind Sakura responded to his comrade. “That is twitchy; this is them down right scared.”
They need wait no longer, for the fear was rampant and gripped the horses’ whole. Dislocating their riders from the saddles and fleeing was their only option, and action taken. Even Cerberus left Sakura in the water surrounded by sharks all on her own.
“Dumb animals. It doesn’t matter, no one ever said we needed horses to go buck wild.”
The man snickered a little at his attempt at humor.
“Get it guys? Buck wild? I was talking of horses. Good isn’t it?”
Sakura looked at him with the “are you a little retarded” look, and the men had no response. If fact there was no noise when the man shut his mouth. It is far too quite all of a sudden.
“Guys?” He asked almost shouting, hoping for a response of any kind.
The breeze held the only noise, and it was an odd one that Sakura couldn’t place.
“Where did the guys go? What did you do to the bitch!?”
“Nothing, shush.”
“Don’t tell me to shush.”
“I will tell any dumb fuck to shush, that I want to. Now shush and listen.”
He did as the girl told him, but didn’t know why. He listened and tried hard to hear anything, misfortune came in the shape of him indeed hearing it, and identifying it.
“It’s…” He muttered under his breath in almost shock.
“What?” Sakura asked to his mumble.
“It’s the sound of flesh being torn from ligaments.” The man said with fear overrunning from his eyes.
“Girl, we might need to vacate…” Some men can never finish a sentence, granted he had an excuse. He was pulled back into the wood by some unseen force.
The noise was easy to hear now that it was happening just behind the nearest tree, the gruesome sound something eating flesh, muscle, and bone.
What the fuck is going on? Sakura screamed in her head.
The sounds vanished just as fast as they came, leaving a silence once against prominent in the area. The sudden change from terrifying noise to dead quite was by far more terrifying than the noise itself, for now you knew something was bound to happen you just had to wait in suspense for when.
Happening came sooner rather than later. A great beast brushed past the tree into the small clearing. It was closely followed by 7 creatures bearing the same exact description. The 8 spread out to surround her.
Why is it always surrounded? Can’t one person give me an escape route?
The creatures were horrifyingly peaceful looking. Giant hounds covered in thick greasy fur. Every strand of fur was not made of a hair substance but a strange blur light that permeated everything about this wolf thing. The light was see through, so the creature could very well have not been real and some trick of the eye, except it had clear depth, and if you just reached your hand out you could feel every particle of fur. The only feature that seemed tangible and real were the teeth, every single one of the beasts’ teeth used to be white, but now were covered in a thick red sauce with chunks of flesh stuck to a few. Not even the eyes were solid. In fact none of them seemed to have eyes at all, just hollow sockets where eyes whiter than light itself should be.
But apart from not having eyes and lacking site they sure homed in on her well.
“Ok I can play…Play with this!” Sakura shouted throwing her disk of a blade at the nearest of the 8 beasts. But nothing, the blade passed clean through without so much as a scratch, and returned just the same.
Well…shit…
Forcing her fear down deep and bring herself to as close to a calm state as possible she readied herself to run at the first sign of a opening.
The chance came but do to the nature of it her best choice was not up running’s alley. Instead she went with the option of raising her arm to the shy.
A crackling noise in the woods made the beast act sooner than later, fags and claws bored at the target, they leaped at her. And each passed through the other with no tangible being to intercept the blow of death.
Her arm was clasped firmly in the strong hands of her personal knight riding a silver steed. Cerberus’s jump cleared the spectral wolves by a good 5 feet, leaving plenty of space and air for Sakura to be hoisted up and set behind her rescuer.
“Timely”
“Well you know the hero always show up at the last moment.” Naruto said.
The wolves only took a second to readjust themselves to the new surrounding, that now severally lacked a kill target, and gave chase to the fleeing party. And even with Cerberus’s speed they kept pace.
Sakura was the slightest curious what happened in Naruto’s fight and how he reacquired Cerberus after the thing ran off, but that was for another time, currently they had other things to worry of.
“Where is the beach area you mentioned? Cerberus cannot handle this dead wooded type place long at his pace.”
“Clearly.” Naruto said noting the slight drops in speed.
“The shore is about a mile west.”
“Well hurry!”
“Hey, we aren’t the ones doing the running, we need to respect that he will try to get there as soon as he can.”
“Yeah but he isn’t the one that will be eaten if we get caught.”
“Good point” Naruto agreed, now trying to spur Cerberus as fast as horsely possible.
The shoreline came fast; there was no beach to it just 20 foot drop from land to sea.
As the tree line broke and the runners came forth Naruto forced the almost demon of a horse to a complete stop catching the wolves off guard a bit, because they kept running forward passing the couple on the mount.
Cerberus was off again following the coastal cliffs north with the hope that in a straight path he will have the edge.
“Bold move, just stopping like that.”
“It was either that or off the edge, he couldn’t have made the sharp turn at such a speed.”
“Well they apparently can.”
The spectral beasts had handled it just fine and again were taking chase.
“Think we can outrun these beasts till day break?” Naruto asked.
“I don’t think it will matter about day break, they will follow us even if we make it to dawn.”
Naruto had no plan, no prayer, and no hope in stopping them. He knew stories of these things, from when he lived in the Uchiha village, physical attacks didn’t work and neither did magic. You just had to survive until the inevitable.
“Think we are at our end?” Sakura asked worry in her words but also excitement.
“Do I think I am finally knocking on the door of fate? No, fuck fate!”
His blatant disregard for an inevitability made Sakura smile even in their predicament.
Yeah to hell with fate!
“Is it wrong for me to love every moment of this?” Sakura asked thinking she might be a tad odd.
“Nope.” The answer was simple and all she needed.
“So day break isn’t coming is it?”
“Well it is but we won’t last long enough to see it.”
Sakura swiftly hit Naruto’s head.
“No time for being a smart ass. Not that you were ever smart.”
“Sakura-chan…” Naruto said dejected, but recovering quickly enough to pick the conversation back up.
“Yeah Cerberus needs too much rest.”
“Then what? Does wind work if physical is a no go?”
“Unfortunately no, I’ve been trying.”
“There must be something!” Sakura said panicking; the wolves were coming in for the kill any time now.
Cerberus gave off a noise indicating his disdain for the situation and that they had better solve the problem quick.
“I think Sakura…” Naruto turned to face her.
“Yes?”
Naruto caught her lips while they were still open with his own. Sakura slightly shaken about it at first, but just let it melt the together for now. The lips were soft, she had only kissed this boy twice so far but she already knew she was addicted to it. His soft lips pressing just hard enough against hers, gave her a feeling of pre ecstasy. Her tongue touched his bottom lip asking for entrance to deepen the kiss, but Naruto pulled away.
Sakura didn’t want the experience to end and was almost offended when he pulled away, but the conviction in his eyes calmed her.
“Naruto?”
“I think sleep would be the best thing Sakura-chan, if something were to happen, it would be better for it to commence while you were sleeping.”
Sakura’s eyes grew wide and she was going to protest the mere thought of sleeping against him while he rode for his life. But she never got her chance, for Naruto’s hand had found the base of her neck rendering her unconscious.
“Sorry Sakura-chan…Ok Cerberus, what I am about to do will hopefully help.”
The horse nodded thinking he understood what the rider meant.
“Here we go.”
“Hmmm?” Was the first noise to escape her as her eyes opened to the bright sight sun overhead in the sky with a nice shade on the other side of the tree she was against, and the soothing sounds of waves careening against the sea wall. It took a moment for her to recall all of the prior day, and she was up to her feet the moment it sunk upon her.
“Naruto?!” She screamed. She had survived but Naruto and Cerberus where nowhere to be found, and neither were the demon spirit dog things.
“Naruto?! Answer me!” She screamed again.
A strange grunt type noise caught her full attention and she was headed towards it instantaneously leading her to the cliff.
Sakura’s heart almost stopped at the sight on the edge of the ledge. The Wind Seraphim and the gift Kiba had given them, were lying upon it blood permeating the ground around them.
“NARUTO!” Sakura screamed and ran toward the body, and didn’t like the sight at all. Naruto and Cerberus had so many gashes and cuts about them it was like going through a field of knives, most had stopped bleeding but some were too deep to stop so soon.
She wanted to just break down and cry, but she heard her master screaming in her head not to dare do that, and that this is what she wanted, a chance to be useful. Sakura dropped to her knees checking Naruto for a pulse, and letting go of her held breath upon finding one, and fortunately so did Cerberus.
With the good news they were alive she pulled forth all the medical things she had upon her, she might not have taken to healing magic’s spectacularly but she knew some and memorized first aid very well.
The two were stable and all the damage cleaned and wrapped.
Well I guess the main problem right now is total exhaustion, but what happened? I wish I knew.
Water was gathered and some ruff food was cooked, and Naruto had been moved to where he was slightly more comfy, Cerberus was too heavy to be moved.
“I can just wait.”
Sakura waited watching the sun go down, intensily bored.
Well I guess I woke up after noon, oh well hopefully they will be up tomorrow.
The sun had set and Sakura went to sleep, but with not knowing the full extent of what happened she set up a perimeter to alert her for any foreign intrusion in case one of those things appeared, not that she had a defined plan for handling it but she wouldn’t be taken in surprise.
The night passed and Sakura awoke in the knick of time to see Naruto rise.
“Morning sleeping beauty.” She said to him.
Naruto examined himself, and laughed. “Yeah I must look like a real hot thing right now with these bandages on.”
“Yeah you are pretty repulsive.” Sakura said holding back her laughter.
“Well thank you for the treatment.”
“Thank you for whatever happened, what did happen?”
“Nothing, the sun rose.”
“What?”
“I knocked you out and did the only thing I could think of, and that was to use my powers and lift us all into the air in a protective wind bubble, as soon as I did Cereberus passed out from exhaustion, the only thing having kept him going was the fact he still had feet to run with, survival instinct I guess. Well I had us up in the air and the dogs were jumping at us to get to us all night and slowly my power was waning making it lash out at me, sometime badly, well just as I lost power the sun rose and the dogs dissipated and we plummeted to the ground, I caught you and leaned you against the tree. Then I went to check Cerberus and collapsed myself before I could.” Naruto hurriedly said it all; he wanted to get it out in the open hoping that he wouldn’t be scolded.
“The sun rose and they evaporated?”
“Basically, it is the story I learned from the Uchiha, those who want to prove themselves in the fifth kingdom must survive its’ dogs till day break of the next day after you entered.”
“So you knew the whole time…YOU KNEW WE WEREN”T IN DANGER?!”
Sakura’s loud shout stirred Cerberus to an awake position.
“No I didn’t” Naruto said trying to defend himself from the girl’s wrath.
“I didn’t know if we would make it that long.”
“But you did know what we had to do to live!”
“Yes…”
“BAKA!” Sakura yelled slamming her fist into his head.
“Naruto I thought we were trying to get to Castle Invidia. Not some run down dinky little cottage.”
“It is Castle Invidia Sakura. I will prove it, let’s go inside.”
The main entrance room seemed eternal, millions of time bigger than the size of the whole cottage, and also far bigger than any castle’s hall. The hall just kept going with no sign of stopping, and the only light in the hall was a single candelabra in the distance, but not matter how far you went or how fast you ran it never got any closer.
“Naruto?”
“I know Sakura, we are just about far enough.”
Naruto came to an abrupt halt, making Sakura almost trip over herself. This spot looked no different than any other spot in the hall.
“Why did we stop here?”
“Because this is where he wants us.”
Sakura didn’t like the feeling she was getting. The air was getting thick, with what she couldn’t describe, and it was getting harder to breath. A strange warm air could be felt coming from the door they had entered. Sakura felt Naruto start to turn around so she followed his lead. And now she wished she hadn’t.
Staring at her were two giant eyes, both were made of swirling green colors. Every possible green that an artist could think up was sitting inside these eyes, and the colors kept mixing and producing more. They were intoxicating to look at, a prismatic storm of wonderment yet deafeningly destructive. Empty space below the eyes parted forming an elongated mouth, and it was smiling. The teeth were gagged, serrated knives made of the whitest ivory, and sharper than steel was what came to mind as the best possible description. A shattering roar erupted from the mysterious mouth. It was a torrent of heat, moisture, odor, and soul shattering fear. Sakura was hit with the full effect and could feel every one of those things lingering on her face, making her succumb to the need to hide behind Naruto. For some reason he didn’t seem the least bit scared.
The floating eyes directed their mesmerizing gaze to Naruto, and the mouth spoke.
“Kit, to what do I owe the pleasure?”
The voice ruff and deep, shaking the very foundations of the building in which they stood, and yet it was almost a friendly voice. The tip of his speech almost yearned for you to come hug whatever he was and befriend it. But he would then devour you the moment you let your guard down.
Naruto didn’t answer the thing yet, instead he wrapped one arm around Sakura, bringing her forward a little.
“It is all right Sakura. No harm will come to you.” He offered her a warm smile, hoping it would have the effect to calm the shivers of fear currently raking her body in, from being in this things presence.
“Kit, don’t be rude when you invade my home!”
“My apologies, Gobi no Houkou. I have come to you with a proposition.”
The Gobi! Sakura screamed in her head. No wonder she felt the way she did, the all terrifying aura in which she found herself belonged to a demon lord, one of the Bjuu. And now the hallway and cottage almost made since Tsunade had told her a little on each demon, the Gobi was a master illusionist.
“Kit, please Gobi is just fine.” It said, the whole time not losing its twisted smile.
Sakura whispered to Naruto, “Kit?”
“It is a term of endearment, meaning baby fox.”
“…ok.” Sakura didn’t quite understand it; by she wasn’t going to call a demon on the name.
“Do you wish to hear the proposal?” Naruto asked the beast.
“Why would I? You come marching in here, killing off a few dozen of my spirit dog guards, and you expect me to just sit and listen. What makes you think I would do that, and not simply kill you. It isn’t like you think you could take me at all.”
“First off I didn’t kill those dogs, I just passed your trial and the other is the reason The Council choose me for this. In case you decided that should be the outcome of the meeting.”
“They are exploiting you?” The Gobi asked almost shocked.
Sakura didn’t quite understand, she was under the impression no demon would dare kill Naruto, in fear of what might happen with the Kyubi.
“You wouldn’t kill him!” Sakura got the courage to finally say, but a bit louder than intended.
The Gobi instantly acknowledged another presence before him. His eyes squinted to get a good look at the verbal attacker, and a giant paw appeared from nothing and pointed at her.
Sakura thought he was about to take a swipe at her, yet in paralyzing fear didn’t even bother moving.
“The dead girlfriend?”
“No, I…yes…well…maybe, but I guess possibly…though it could be a negative…” Naruto had a bit of trouble here, he didn’t quite know their relationship definition yet, and he didn’t want anyone let alone a demon to have it wrong.
Sakura rolled her eyes at Naruto and the indecisiveness. So she spoke for him.
“Yes the girlfriend, no not dead.”
Naruto looked wide-eyed at Sakura.
Then I am her…?
The Gobi nodded, “Ok Bitch, well listen, know what you are talking about, and at the moment let the big people talk.”
Sakura was furious at her new nickname. Yet couldn’t bring herself to defend herself against it, for full knowledge the demon could trump her best without even blinking.
Naruto however had no objection to correcting him.
“Don’t call her that, and it isn’t her fault she didn’t know, so now will you listen or should I be on my way?”
The Gobi slowly started to reveal the rest of his body. He was a giant behemoth of a creature. It seemed almost illogical that he could fit within the room. His head and body were that of a white dog. The main difference between him and a regular dogs, forgetting the major size difference, were the 5 wagging white tails, each with a different elemental aura about them.
The dog, laid upon the floor of the castle to get as close to eye level with Naruto as he could.
“I am at the very least curious as to why this would be a reason you so easily would throw your life away, indulge me in the tale. But if I find it not worth my time I’ll kill you.”
Sakura was taken aback by how nonchalantly the beast said he would kill them, like it would be just a pointless task similar to cleaning its nails.
“Fair enough.”
Author Note
Huray and Huzzah late again!! My work ethic is awful but at least it is being put out. So there it is, hope you like this one, What could possibly happen next you ask? Well...i wont tell you, but feel free to ask any questions you want, i will answer any that dont give anything away, on my profile. Also thanks for the few reviews i got last chapter always always appreciated.
Didnt plan on doing it, but good job Templar132 on seeing the last chapter title thing, if you happen to catch something noone else does that i just happen to add in, i might mention you.
So review and what not, and i will see you next time