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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2007-11-20 01:02 am

Teamwork 3, naruto's 1st scene

fresh off the presses and umm well, unfinished. brain just stalled. m'so sleepy. also, goddamn kyuubitalics.



The ferry going to the Survival Test's island was full enough that Naruto kind of wondered how it didn't tip over. The first test had cut out a lot of the participants, but there were still more than enough teams on the boat to make it feel a little crowded. It was nice, though; the semi-permanent mist had lifted, and the combination of the spray from the waves and the sun made the trip really quite nice. Naruto's jacket was tied to his waist, leaving him in his fishnet top; he could see that he wasn't the only one who'd had the idea to shed a few layers of clothes -- that or Grass and Sand's sense of fashion really needed to spread to Leaf.

He would have felt guiltier if he hadn't caught Sakura sneaking glances at a loincloth-wearing pretty boy from Rock. As it was, though... Well, it was her own fault for trailing after Sasuke when the guy decided to go check out god knew what in the shadowy depths of the ship. Naruto was content to stay in the sun and do some sightseeing.

'... I'd hit that. Oh yeah, and that one too. This one... Hmm, maybe.'

/She'd only be good as a toothpick./


Ghhk. 'What the hell are you paying attention for?!'

Kyuubi gave a feeling like a lazy yawn. /Bored. Look again./

Mildly disturbed, Naruto complied anyway, aware that the fox was looking through his eyes. It wasn't like he could get out, though, even if he tried -- and he wasn't trying. Kyuubi didn't even feel particularly restless, which was kind of strange to Naruto because he was rarely present with no anger to vent and no potential sex or violence to watch unfold. But if he asked again, Kyuubi would only reply /bored/ a second time and that would be it. Like the fox ever bothered explaining himself. Naruto didn't especially feel it was worth the headache he'd get if he tried to force the answer out of him.

There weren't a lot of girls, comparatively speaking; it was kind of sad that most guys still left him cold, because they tended to be less shy about undressing a bit.

--oh man, hot.

'Wow. Niice,' he thought as a busty girl with a neckline so plunging it unveiled her bellybutton sauntered past. He'd definitely do her. Well, if he wasn't shacked up. And if she were available. And interested. And her teammates weren't lugging around clubs the size of two Narutos. Details, details.

/Looks fleshy./

'Hee, yeah, fleshy, that's a good word for it -- uh.'
Naruto's goofy daydreams faltered, darkened by a horrible suspicion. '...Kyuubi?'

/Could feed for a whole week on that much meat./


A heavyset guy tapped Naruto's shoulder. "You okay, man? You look a little green. Try to aim over the guardrail, 'kay?"

Naruto gave him an awkward smile and hurried off, getting the vague feeling that he'd gotten himself marked as a target by anyone close enough to notice his bout of seasickness. 'You asshole! You killed my hard-on. I was trying to get a nice fantasy going there, and you -- urgh.'

/Now this one I would fuck./


Naruto forgot to berate Kyuubi in his hurry to pinpoint who had caught the fox's attention.

A long mane of fawn-colored hair that made like a living pelt -- like a tail, almost, swishing with every quick, decisive movements; and an easy, practiced grasp on a strange handheld weapon that protruded from the knuckles in a set of serrated claws. Okay, he could see the appeal. If you were a psycho, violence-loving fox. '... That's a guy.'

/So what? Not trying to breed./

'He's got a beard! Urgh. You've got no tastes. How 'bout this one? She's kinda wild looking, too, isn't she -- and she's actually pretty. Great legs!'

/Diseased. She spread them too often. Dip your dick in that at your own risk./

'How the hell can you tell anyway -- wait, don't tell me, not sure I wanna know.'
Naruto redirected his attention on a slender girl with black hair in a tail down to her knees, a katana in hand; she gave him a dismissive look from underneath her wide-brimmed hat and then ignored him superbly. 'This one's kinda pretty... Face a bit narrow, but nice lips.' Kyuubi didn't even deign reply; vaguely peeved, Naruto insisted. 'Come on, she's got a nasty glare and pointy weapons, you should be all over that.'

/Bah. Good chase, but barely snack-sized./


Naruto seethed. 'Stop talking about eating people already, asshole.'

Kyuubi smirked in the dark. /I meant her packmate's cat./

'... That's it, I'm not talking to you anymore. Go back to your hole and be bored, I don't care.'
Naruto stomped ahead, like he could actually leave the fox behind. Argh! He needed to find someone to chat with, so he could stop futilely trying to do the guy bonding thing with the fox demon.

When he caught the little leaf symbol on a headband, he was over there in a flash -- he would have welcomed even that little brat Hanabi. It wasn't her; it was one of the two other teams they'd never gotten to meet during the first test.

"Oh, hey, I didn't know they made teams with three girls."

The trio of sixteen-year-old Konoha genin sitting on the guardrail gave Naruto a long glare he could only describe as annoyed and weary. What had he said now? He scratched his head, confused.

"Uh, sorry," he apologized, just in case, and tightened his grip on the guardrail when the ferry lurched in the waves. "Everyone says the same thing all the time, don't they?"

The one with the sleek, smoke-gray hair down to her ass glared at him, and the petite blonde rolled her heavily made-up eyes, a smirk on her pouty lips. "Juuust a bit. It was only hilarious the first twenty-seven times or thereabouts."

"Okay, my bad -- hilarious?"

The tall, Amazonesque redhead grunted, and shifted her spear from one solid shoulder to the next. "Mostly it's the fact that there's only two girls on this team."

"--Oh." Naruto stared at the trio, caught by surprise. They were all dressed kinda girly to him. Blondie had cleavage, and gray-hair's face was way too delicate, even with the heavy scowl. Naruto stared up at the redhead and gave her -- him! Him! -- a disarming smile. "Sorry?"

The blonde one snickered. "... I lied, it's still damn hilarious."

"Oh, fuck you," the grey-haired one snapped.

In Naruto's head, Kyuubi laughed. The rest of his response was graphic, hinting strongly that he had no problem taking up grey-hair on the offer; Naruto reddened.

"Wait -- you're a guy? And you're -- oh man, I should have known, you've got too much hips to be a guy and -- argh, wait, I'm not saying that you're fat, I -- and you --"

The guy with the gray hair was watching him with narrow eyes, that on Sasuke always heralded imminent, painful revenge. The strong girl with the spear was watching with no expression at all, which seemed almost worse in a way. Naruto grinned painfully wide and took a half-step back.

"...You're both very pretty either way?"

The redhead arched an eyebrow, and chuckled, more patiently amused than offended.. "Thanks. It's fine, I tell myself it's not that I look like a guy, it's that it's hard to look girlier than he does."

"Beni, one of these days I'm going to hurt you." Grey-hair turned to look at Naruto, looking like he'd found something stinky stuck to his shoe. "Just for the record. I'm not gay."

Naruto flailed his arms. "I'm straight too!"

Kyuubi was still laughing at him. /Does the ice-bitch know?/

"Uh -- wait, I'm -- I mean, I like hot girls and you only look like a hot girl and -- argh! That came out all wrong."

The blonde, who'd been watching the last bout, chuckled and waggled her eyebrows at him. "Yes, coming out in the middle of a chuunin exam has got to be pretty damn wrong, as far as appropriate places go."

"I didn't -- hnn."

Naruto whined; pitying him, she patted his head. "Aw, poor guy. Jin-kun, leave him alone already, it's not his fault he's got good taste." She turned to Naruto, and grinned. "My name's Kigane," she said; Naruto blurted out his name in answer. "Don't listen to Jin, he secretly likes to flaunt it."

"I damn well don't."

"He's just stressed because of the exams, is all." She patted Naruto's arm. "You don't look very stressed at all; are you that strong?"

"Eh. Eheh. Yeah, I guess. We went through the survival test just fine the last time we passed it. Just got unlucky and couldn't finish the tournament. It was the year Sound attacked, so..."

Kigane's eyes -- a very pretty blue-green, he noticed -- widened in shock, and her lips parted slightly. Naruto couldn't help but glance at them, somewhat guiltily.

"Wow. That's cool. Did you fight during the invasion? We would have, but we were still at the academy, and -- well. We didn't see any action." Kigane pouted, tugging on a golden curl peevishly.

A few steps away, even Beni the redhead and Jin seemed to be paying attention, and Kigane's enthusiastic curiosity and obvious admiration made Naruto straighten up a bit. "We did. Went personally after the team of infiltrated Sand nins who'd been in the exams, as a matter of fact."

"Ooh."

/What a ten colors bitch./

Naruto blinked, cut off just before throwing himself in a grand retelling of his exploits, cautiously edited of anything demon-related. Usually, Kyuubi's interruptions made more sense than that. 'What?'

/Blonde bitch has a litter of ten different colors./

'--Kigane? She's sixteen, she doesn't have any kids yet -- especially not ten of them!'


Naruto could feel Kyuubi rolling his eyes. /Kitsune saying. Kind of vixen whose litters turn out to be from ten different fathers, but canny enough to get them all hunting to feed her anyway./

"Naruto?" Kigane tilted her head and peered at him curiously, before waving her tiny hand in front of his eyes. "Helloo. Anyone home?"

"--Ahh, sorry." Naruto grinned, and secretly berated Kyuubi for being an asshole. So she was a bit of a flirt, so what? He didn't mind that. For once in his life a pretty girl wanted to flirt with him! It wasn't like he'd ever cheat on Sakura and Sasuke. The attention was nice, that was all. "Uh, What was I saying again?"

Kigane giggled, teasing him, but not cruelly. "You were going to tell us about the time you fought those Sand nins." She poked his shoulder. "So? I want to hear the story!"

"You'll hear it another day."

Naruto startled. He hadn't heard Sasuke coming; but there he was, standing at Naruto's shoulder and looking displeased. The way he scowled at Naruto, Naruto knew who he was most displeased at. Sakura was standing behind them, and smiled politely at the group, but it was the polished, "I am a civilized being" smile and not any kind of sincere one.

"Our apologies for disturbing you. We should go and say hello to the last Konoha team before the ferry lands, I guess..."

Jin shrugged. "Don't bother, they're assholes."

The redhead gave him a heavy-lidded mocking look. "You're just sore because they hit on you."

"You're sore because they didn't hit on you. No one does."

/Can say he's not female as much as he wants, he's as catty as any bitch. Too many females, got to his brain./

Sakura still smiled politely, though now it looked a bit like a wince. "We should still at least say hello. It can't hurt. Well, it was nice to meet you!"

She waved, and turned around to leave. Naruto was still hesitating when Sasuke's hand clamped down on his shoulder to push him along.

"Ow!" he protested, as soon as they were out of sight. "What's gotten into you?"

Sasuke gave him a quick, exasperated look. "I know what you would have gotten into."

Naruto blinked. "Well damn, I thought Jin was a catty bitch for a guy, but you're even worse."

Sasuke's eyelid twitched.

"Guys -- we're being watched, remember?" Sakura smiled. "The first one who throws a punch, I will throw overboard."

Naruto huffed, cheeks puffed up as he gave her a sulky look. "Why are you two so twitchy? I was just chatting." Now he was starting to feel mildly guilty. "It wasn't -- I mean it was really just chatting."

Sakura scowled a little. "I assumed it was just chatting. Are you telling us it really wasn't?"

"What? No! I'm saying the other way around! Why are you hearing wrong?"

"I'm hearing that you're protesting a little too much," she retorted, glaring a little.

Naruto stopped walking and stared at the deck guiltily. "Okay, so maybe she was flirting a little and I let her. It wasn't so bad, was it? It wasn't anything solid, she didn't say 'let's hook up' or anything."

Sasuke glared at him. "She wasn't going to, idiot."

"Hey, don't call me idiot! You didn't even talk with her, anyway."

"Naruto," Sasuke replied with fake patience, "I don't need to. They're a team comprised of a pretty boy from a strictly spying-oriented bloodline, a girl with no calluses and a lot of cleavage, and a weapons specialist flashing too much thigh. It should be obvious."

Naruto grumbled under his breath. "... Yeah, well, it isn't."

"They're an espionage and infiltration team. They're not ninja, they're goddamn kunoichi."

"Uh -- what? What's the difference?"

"The difference is their training isn't geared toward frontal assault, but toward backstabbing, poisoning, and leading people to their doom by the balls." Sasuke gave him an irritated glare. "Looks like she had a good hold on them, too."

[identity profile] sarolynne.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I know I already said this, but I absolutely adore Naruto and Kyuubi's interaction. For real, it's just hilarious to me. In particular, the ten colors line will never fail to make me go into <3<3 of squirming happy. Demon fox idioms!

Yes, geeky, but I love that about your Kyuubi.

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*cracks up* And the fact that Sasuke recognizes it while Naruto doesn't cracks me up far more than it should.

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[identity profile] mydarkseclusion.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
XD Win. Sasuke's quite the sharp one, isn't he?

The OC bit was still just as funny the second time I read it though that might just be my love for really bitchy guys talking...

Just one thing, though:

It was nice, though; the semi-permanent mist had lifted, and the combination of the spray from the waves and the sun made the trip really quite nice.

You said it was nice twice.

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(Anonymous) 2007-11-20 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, that's fantastic. I like all of your work on Teamwork, but this is definitely a cut above the rest, entertainment-wise. Girl-watching with Kyuubi in your head would be ROUGH.

And I'm glad you could fit in the cracktastic girly team bit: hilarious AND apropros.

-- Guile

[identity profile] windandwater.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I really like Kyuubi. ♥ Even if the eating people comments are sorta disturbing. XD!

[identity profile] mignonne422.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
*squee*!!!

love love love

Especially Sasuke's last sentece. And Kyuubi's ten colors line.

LOVE!!!!

It was fantabulous :) I love the Kyuubi-Naruto interaction. It's so fantastically patronizing. Lol.
*glomps you in glee*

[identity profile] book-people.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
*snickers* Ah, Sasuke, so suspicious of people. Not usually so open about it though. Feeling a little possessive, mayhap? O:D

I loved the fox idiom. And the girl-watching with Kyuubi. Poor thing, it's just so hard for him, what with a furry pervert in his head and ruining his hard-ons with talk to cannibalism... *grin*

Love it, as usual. Now I'm off to edit my essay. ;_;

Adi

[identity profile] rurounitriv.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Kyuubi is such a bastard. Love the interactions between him and Naruto, and the foxy phrases.

[identity profile] kanarenee.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
HEhehehe.

Good job with the OC. I know you weren't looking forward to it-- I love how you covered it up with her actually doing her job. Good job.

[identity profile] ktoth04.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
omg LOVE

(haha, draw them? i want to seeeeeeeeeeeeeee >.>)

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[identity profile] m-a-foxfire.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
*snerk* Male kunoichi. But yeah, nice teams!

Forgot the names of the summoners, though. *cough* But yeah.

[identity profile] chofi.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"The difference is their training isn't geared toward frontal assault, but toward backstabbing, poisoning, and leading people to their doom by the balls." Sasuke gave him an irritated glare. "Looks like she had a good hold on them, too."

Utter win.

[identity profile] sara-the-lazy.livejournal.com 2007-11-20 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, you didn't put the Nano pride bar at the top!

"He needed to find someone to chat with, so he could stop futilely trying to do the guy bonding thing with the fox demon."
But if he had done that from the first place you wouldn't have gotten to write the awesome and hilarious dialogue between them!

Yayyy Team Kunoichi made it in! I'm glad you decided to keep them. And the development is crafty indeed. I agree with chofi, the last line is utter win indeed! I like that Sasuke got the last smart line in the end of Sakura's scene and Naruto's!

Looking forward to more when you get to it!

~Sara

[identity profile] tricia1224.livejournal.com 2007-11-21 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I love Kyubi. Loved Sasuke's last comment. I am glad you worked the Team Kunoichi. Love them. Can't wait to see what you write next.

*glee*

(Anonymous) 2007-11-21 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
this is pretty darn wonderful . . . I love the way Naruto's feet seem to be magnetically drawn to his mouth XD

Team Kunoichi rocks, but Sasuke's last comment is what really wins (what a PERFECT summation of the situation)

[identity profile] runespoor7.livejournal.com 2007-11-22 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
^___^ I knew I was gonna love Kigane. Cleavagey sharp-tongued blond! :DDDD plz don't be killin' her. Or, well, do kill her if that's an excuse to bring Team Kunoichi back.

They're not ninja, they're goddamn kunoichi.

This sums up one of Sasuke's problems so beautifully it's amazing. He really has trouble admitting that strength doesn't have to come in meremy one shape to be legitimate.

This is so totally why he (probably I assume) reads asexual to them. Sasuke's strictly strong-sexual.

...Feeling kinda bad for them, too. Mostly for Beni. "a weapons specialist flashing too much thigh."

Doesn't Sakura show any emotion during the last part of that exchange? Given the subject, she should have something to say/act?...

(Anonymous) 2007-11-23 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
niiiiiice

... "do not feed the kunoichi" :p

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