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whee! online!!
The connection is sort of behaving for now!! ... but where is everyone? ;_;
I really should work on my GW fics, but for now the Naruto one insists to be written. Except I keep getting sidetracked. I need someone to regularly poke me and demand to see what I've written in the last half-hour, or else I'll only manage to add maybe two lines to the thing. ~__~;;; BUT NONE OF MY USUAL POKE-PEOPLE ARE ONLINE.
For a few seconds, there was nothing in his world but Sakura-chan's frightened green eyes and the echo of her words.
They know now, he thought dully. They know and they're going to hate me. My teammates, my friends, my mates -- /MINE/, and they're going to hate me, fear me, just like everyone else...
From deep inside him, rising from his belly, came the tidal wave of an anger that made him shake. /These old bastards think I'd do WHAT to my cubs? / They think -- they don't know-- how could they even suggest -- he wanted to kill them-- no, he didn't, but he did want to beat them up bloody. Yes, imagining all the old, hateful, stupid Council members piled up bleeding and bruised helped.
Sasuke had his arm around Sakura's shoulder and they were both staring up at him. Sakura-chan's eyes were reddened and puffy and scared, and he wanted to ask her who had done that to her so he could beat them up, but there was a good possibility he was the one who put the fear there.
He couldn't read Sasuke's eyes at all.
"Is the window linked to an alarm?" Sasuke asked -- snapped.
"Uhh-- yeah," he managed to answer after a few seconds of confusion. "I don't know how to untangle that. There are wires and a spell, too..."
"Don't bother. Tear it out."
"We'll be surrounded by Jounin in under two minutes !!" Sakura protested, giving them an anguished look.
"That's gonna happen anyway," Naruto chirped back, forcing a friendly, amused smile on his face. "I kind of -- ah-- left a bit early from the discussion, you know."
Which was to say he'd slammed Anko through three walls and imbedded the two ANBU watching outside in the pavement before running off.
"Then hurry," Sasuke hissed, glancing back at the door behind him. "They're going to want her soon."
Naruto looked at Sakura in askance. What he wanted to do was to take them both and run, but he knew that he had a bad tendency to react to things without thinking ahead, and maybe disappearing would make it -- whatever it was -- worse.
But maybe staying nicely put would only make it easier for the Council to hurt the people he loved, lock him up and whatnot.
Take them and leave. Now. /and raze the town to the ground/
His smile froze on his lips and he shook his head. Sorry, old fox, there would be no town razing right now.
If the Jounin didn't find him and attack, forcing him to destroy everything to escape, but since he really didn't want to deal with that, he tore the whole window frame out of the roof, with the bars and the glass and everything, and reached down to help his teammates out.
Sakura was still unsure, he could see it, but Sasuke's hands closed on her hips and he lifted her, and then, by an old habit, she automatically reached up for Naruto's hand, her feet pushing against Sasuke's chest to help the boys lift her up.
It felt like a mission, now, act first and think later, and he barely watched as she smoothly rolled away from the window, her back to him to scan the surroundings warily as he reached through the skylight again to help Sasuke out.
The black-haired boy barely needed a hand, but he still grabbed Naruto's, and maybe it was wishful thinking that he'd held on a bit tighter and a bit longer than usual, but it was a relief anyway. He was not too disgusted to touch him. Everything that had gotten bumped and twisted in that affair-- they could mend it.
"Jounin incoming!" Sakura warned them, her voice tense, but cold and determined too.
The boys jumped on their feet and, together, grabbed a handful of her orange sweater and leaped away.
Naruto ended up carrying her, Sasuke covering their escape. They dashed through busy streets, jumped over roofs and darted down footbridges, but as fast and quiet as they were, the jounin were still hot on their tail...
"We'll never get rid of them!" Sakura shouted in his ear to make herself heard against the wind. "Kage Bunshin!! As many as you can!!"
Naruto nodded grimly and maneuvered her so she would be on his back, then quickly formed the seals, even as he let himself fall from a building and in the marketplace.
The vendors were going to hate him even more than before, he thought with a wide, sharp-toothed grin, and then there were about three hundreds of Narutos, some with Sakuras on their backs, some not. It was a deep pull on his chakra, but for once Kyuubi was gracious about lending him more. He transformed some of his clones into Sakuras and Sasukes with a Henge, flooding the busy marketplace with Team Seven members.
From the corner of his eye, he could see Sasuke imitating him. He suppressed a smirk when his teammate only managed about thirty of them. He would so tease him later.
Right now, though, it was more important to dodge the attacks coming from the jounin chasing them and, unsurprisingly, the furious vendors and customers.
A few housewives started to scream, scarred by the memory of his pranks and the knowledge of what he could do, and he had to dodge a harpy that came at him with a trout. On his back, Sakura choked on an incredulous laugh. Reminded that he hadn't eaten yet, Naruto felt like stealing it, but he had a feeling Sakura would object to having to hold a dead fish for him during their escape.
Sasuke was still shadowing them as Naruto ran out of the marketplace, imitated by a good two-third of the surviving clones. They had their orders to spread and leave the town from all possible directions, so the people chasing them would lose time trying to find them.
I actually have about a page more written, but I am hiding it away because I am evil and devious and that way, when I'll post next, it will look like I worked more than I really did. But shhh, don't tell anyone. :ninja:
I really should work on my GW fics, but for now the Naruto one insists to be written. Except I keep getting sidetracked. I need someone to regularly poke me and demand to see what I've written in the last half-hour, or else I'll only manage to add maybe two lines to the thing. ~__~;;; BUT NONE OF MY USUAL POKE-PEOPLE ARE ONLINE.
For a few seconds, there was nothing in his world but Sakura-chan's frightened green eyes and the echo of her words.
They know now, he thought dully. They know and they're going to hate me. My teammates, my friends, my mates -- /MINE/, and they're going to hate me, fear me, just like everyone else...
From deep inside him, rising from his belly, came the tidal wave of an anger that made him shake. /These old bastards think I'd do WHAT to my cubs? / They think -- they don't know-- how could they even suggest -- he wanted to kill them-- no, he didn't, but he did want to beat them up bloody. Yes, imagining all the old, hateful, stupid Council members piled up bleeding and bruised helped.
Sasuke had his arm around Sakura's shoulder and they were both staring up at him. Sakura-chan's eyes were reddened and puffy and scared, and he wanted to ask her who had done that to her so he could beat them up, but there was a good possibility he was the one who put the fear there.
He couldn't read Sasuke's eyes at all.
"Is the window linked to an alarm?" Sasuke asked -- snapped.
"Uhh-- yeah," he managed to answer after a few seconds of confusion. "I don't know how to untangle that. There are wires and a spell, too..."
"Don't bother. Tear it out."
"We'll be surrounded by Jounin in under two minutes !!" Sakura protested, giving them an anguished look.
"That's gonna happen anyway," Naruto chirped back, forcing a friendly, amused smile on his face. "I kind of -- ah-- left a bit early from the discussion, you know."
Which was to say he'd slammed Anko through three walls and imbedded the two ANBU watching outside in the pavement before running off.
"Then hurry," Sasuke hissed, glancing back at the door behind him. "They're going to want her soon."
Naruto looked at Sakura in askance. What he wanted to do was to take them both and run, but he knew that he had a bad tendency to react to things without thinking ahead, and maybe disappearing would make it -- whatever it was -- worse.
But maybe staying nicely put would only make it easier for the Council to hurt the people he loved, lock him up and whatnot.
Take them and leave. Now. /and raze the town to the ground/
His smile froze on his lips and he shook his head. Sorry, old fox, there would be no town razing right now.
If the Jounin didn't find him and attack, forcing him to destroy everything to escape, but since he really didn't want to deal with that, he tore the whole window frame out of the roof, with the bars and the glass and everything, and reached down to help his teammates out.
Sakura was still unsure, he could see it, but Sasuke's hands closed on her hips and he lifted her, and then, by an old habit, she automatically reached up for Naruto's hand, her feet pushing against Sasuke's chest to help the boys lift her up.
It felt like a mission, now, act first and think later, and he barely watched as she smoothly rolled away from the window, her back to him to scan the surroundings warily as he reached through the skylight again to help Sasuke out.
The black-haired boy barely needed a hand, but he still grabbed Naruto's, and maybe it was wishful thinking that he'd held on a bit tighter and a bit longer than usual, but it was a relief anyway. He was not too disgusted to touch him. Everything that had gotten bumped and twisted in that affair-- they could mend it.
"Jounin incoming!" Sakura warned them, her voice tense, but cold and determined too.
The boys jumped on their feet and, together, grabbed a handful of her orange sweater and leaped away.
Naruto ended up carrying her, Sasuke covering their escape. They dashed through busy streets, jumped over roofs and darted down footbridges, but as fast and quiet as they were, the jounin were still hot on their tail...
"We'll never get rid of them!" Sakura shouted in his ear to make herself heard against the wind. "Kage Bunshin!! As many as you can!!"
Naruto nodded grimly and maneuvered her so she would be on his back, then quickly formed the seals, even as he let himself fall from a building and in the marketplace.
The vendors were going to hate him even more than before, he thought with a wide, sharp-toothed grin, and then there were about three hundreds of Narutos, some with Sakuras on their backs, some not. It was a deep pull on his chakra, but for once Kyuubi was gracious about lending him more. He transformed some of his clones into Sakuras and Sasukes with a Henge, flooding the busy marketplace with Team Seven members.
From the corner of his eye, he could see Sasuke imitating him. He suppressed a smirk when his teammate only managed about thirty of them. He would so tease him later.
Right now, though, it was more important to dodge the attacks coming from the jounin chasing them and, unsurprisingly, the furious vendors and customers.
A few housewives started to scream, scarred by the memory of his pranks and the knowledge of what he could do, and he had to dodge a harpy that came at him with a trout. On his back, Sakura choked on an incredulous laugh. Reminded that he hadn't eaten yet, Naruto felt like stealing it, but he had a feeling Sakura would object to having to hold a dead fish for him during their escape.
Sasuke was still shadowing them as Naruto ran out of the marketplace, imitated by a good two-third of the surviving clones. They had their orders to spread and leave the town from all possible directions, so the people chasing them would lose time trying to find them.
I actually have about a page more written, but I am hiding it away because I am evil and devious and that way, when I'll post next, it will look like I worked more than I really did. But shhh, don't tell anyone. :ninja:
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I loved it. I loved the trout. The trout made me giggle.
I also loved the team interaction. I liked the "lingering touch" that Naruto shared with Sasuke and I loved how easily they all fell into mission mode.
...awe hell, I loved the whole thing.
I do think however that there's going to have to be a heart to heart once they're all hidden away. Especially since there's going to be a kid (or two? Three? FOUR?!?! o.O) in the mix.
Talk about futures and such.
LoL, yes anyway, luff luff, can't wait to read more. ^^
Oh... Imma thinking that I should perhaps give you my email. ^^;; It herpaps may be easier to communicate that way, no?
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XD;;;;; it would if i wasn't lazy as hell with mail and prone to forget them until they're so late they're not relevant any longer. But you can still gimme ^__^
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poke?
Re: poke?
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No problem, you can add me *purrs*