The Alliance of Fire and Wind, Naruto, (7/?)
THE ALLIANCE OF FIRE AND WIND
AUTHOR: fantasylover12001
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. No money is being made off of this, please don’t sue.
RATING: R/M, NC-17 in some parts
WARNINGS: will have mentions of MPreg, but will not be detailed. Please don’t read or flame me if you don’t like this.
PAIRINGS: SasuNaru, KakaIru, NejiGaara, LeeSaku, ShikaIno, KibaHina, and others mentioned.
AUTHOR NOTES: Look! I updated! For those who keep complaining about the length of the chapters, I’m sorry, but the length is what it is. I stop the chapters at a point that I feel is good, sometimes this makes them long, sometimes short. Really, it could be a lot worse; I’m averaging about seven pages per chapter so they could be a lot shorter. Also, I would like to once again point out that this is NOT a smut fic. Yes, there will be a lemon or two but it will take a while to come. If you want to read lemons, there are always PWPs. Thank you to all those who reviewed and thank you for your patience!
CHAPTER 7:
Wind Country, Edge of Cradle Mountains,
Naruto decided he was happy he’d been given the last watch the next morning. Having last watch meant that he was not only the first one up, but it meant that he got to see the sunrise. The sunrise was beautiful, in his opinion. ‘Definitely one of the best I’ve seen’ he thought in satisfaction, watching the sun wash out the night in a bright orange.
He impatiently waited for the others to get up that morning, busying himself with making breakfast. ‘How can they sleep so late?’ he thought, looking at the tents in confusion. ‘There’s so much to see!’
Finally, about a half hour after the sun rose, Iruka groggily emerged from his tent. Familiar with his teachers’ morning habits, Naruto didn’t bother with pleasantries; he just set some food in front of Iruka. The man smiled sleepily at him and started to eat. Kakashi, groggily emerged from his tent a few minutes later, looking more and more like a scarecrow with his bed hair and happily accepted the food he was given.
As Kakashi took a few sips of his drink, he glanced at Naruto and asked, “Why don’t you go and get Sasuke up?”
Naruto scowled at him. “Why me?”
“Because I’ve had to get him up for the past five years; I’ve grown rather tired of it,” Kakashi answered.
The blond rolled his eyes, but go up and headed towards Sasuke’s tent. “He’s over eighteen years old,” Naruto muttered. “You’d think he’d be able to get up on his own by now.”
When he got to the tent, Naruto threw open the flap that served as a door and said loudly, “Come on, Uchiha! Up and at em!”
He started to go when he realized there was no response from the figure on the ground. Naruto sighed and went further into the tent and glared at the man. “Sasuke, get up you Bastard!”
Sasuke’s only response was rolling over to face Naruto. The blond put his hands on his hips and scowled. “Ignoring me, are you? We’ll see about that!” With that declaration he walked out of the tent and looked around the campsite, spying what he was looking for on the ground, he grabbed it and marched back in.
He smirked as he knelt down next to Sasuke, and took the feather that he had found and reached forward using the end of it to tickle Sasuke’s nose. Naruto couldn’t help the grin that formed on his face when Sasuke sneezed in sleep, then suddenly a hand clamped on his wrist and a kunai was pressed against his throat. His eyes widened when he saw red spinning wheels in Sasuke’s eyes.
“Naruto?” Sasuke said in surprise, when he realized who he was holding. The blond breathed a sigh of relief when the kunai was lowered and he was let go. Sasuke’s eyes, he noticed, had also returned to normal.
“What the hell were you doing?” Sasuke demanded. “You should not startle me like that!”
“What was I doing?” Naruto asked angrily. “What about you? All I was doing was waking you up, you ass! I didn’t know I was going to get attacked for it! Next time, Kakashi gets to do it!” Before Sasuke could respond, he left.
The rest of the morning, he busied himself with chores. This wasn’t hard to do since they had a campsite to take down. He pointedly ignored Sasuke when he emerged from his tent and did things such as taking down and packing up his tent; getting the packing horse ready with all of their belongings, and even offering to wash dishes and fill canteens by the river.
Then as they were getting ready to leave, he reached for his horse’s bridle and found it being handed to him. “How’s your wrist?” Sasuke asked, as he gave Naruto the bridle.
“Fine,” Naruto answered shortly. Truthfully, there was a small bruise from the man’s grip and he swore the skin still tingled, but he wasn’t about to tell Sasuke about THAT. “You always wake up like that?”
“Only when I’m startled,” Sasuke answered. Then he raised an eyebrow, “Usually Kakashi is the one that gets me up, and he knows to get out of the way. Why were you there?”
The blond shrugged. “He told me to get you up. Idiot should have warned me you’d go psycho on me.”
“Sorry,” Sasuke said softly, glancing away.
“It’s all right,” Naruto glanced at him. “What was with your eyes?”
“My eyes?”
“They were red,” he said.
“Oh, that,” Sasuke muttered. “It was nothing.”
“They had spinning wheels in them!” Naruto persisted.
Sasuke sighed. “It was my Sharingan. It tends to activate automatically when I think I’m being attacked.”
Naruto stared at him. “Sharingan? You never told me your family had that ability!”
Sasuke looked at him in slight surprise. “You know what Sharingan is?”
The blond nodded. “Sure. It’s one of those special abilities that Shinobi use right? It’s only passed down through blood though, you can’t really learn it.”
“Not many people know about that,” Sasuke said slowly. “How do you?”
Naruto shrugged sheepishly. “I kind of read about it in the palace library; they have a few books on Shinobi and their techniques, you know.”
Sasuke frowned and looked at him sternly. “Naruto, you haven’t been trying out any Jutsus on your own have you? Those are dangerous to try out without supervision.”
Luckily for Naruto, Kakashi chose that moment to call Sasuke over to help with something. The blond breathed a sigh of relief as the man left. He had never been very good at lying; especially when it was Sasuke he had to lie too.
SasuNaruSasuNaru
Over the next few days, the group of travelers settled into a routine. In the morning, they got up, had a breakfast that Naruto made, and then took down their camp with each person responsible for his own tent and belongings. Then over the next few hours they traveled on up the Cradle Mountains getting closer to the top. Around lunchtime they stopped and ate something, usually a rabbit or some other similar creature that Sasuke or Kakashi found and Iruka cooked. Then in the afternoon they traveled again, only stopping when it became dark and then they set up camp. The next day it began all over again.
Sasuke had to admit, he was fairly impressed with how Iruka and Naruto handled the traveling. For two people who weren’t used to traveling they were doing rather well. Neither of them complained and both helped whenever possible. Occasionally Naruto did complain loudly about the lack of conversation from Kakashi and Sasuke and his luck about getting stuck with two of the most anti-social men around, but other then that he found ways to keep himself amused.
Unfortunately for Sasuke some of the ways Naruto kept himself amused included bugging him or “getting him to loosen up” as the blond put it. He was very thankful Iruka had come along and knew when to distract Naruto enough for Sasuke to keep his temper. If the teacher hadn’t been there, he was fairly certain he would’ve clobbered Naruto by now, and knowing Naruto he would’ve clobbered Sasuke right back.
This was why he had gone on ahead of the group a little. Today, Naruto had decided to ask him a seemingly endless stream of questions. He didn’t mind answering the first few, but after about the next twenty or so he was starting to lose his patience so he made the excuse that he was going to find a place to camp for the night and went on ahead before he threatened Naruto with a gag.
Now he was guiding Chidori through a path that had an opening of some sort. Figuring it was a clearing that would be a good place to camp for the night he headed towards it. Upon reaching the opening he stilled Chidori and stared at the view. As he had thought, it was a clearing, but it was a clearing that was almost at the top of the mountain range. In the distance he could see the rolling plains and lands that Wind country was famous for, and down below on the other side of the mountains was a small village. Roads going in every which direction led away from the village and he bet if they went and asked one of the villagers, they’d be told which one led to Wind Countries capital.
“Wow…” a voice came from behind him and he turned to see Naruto getting off his horse and gazing with wide eyes at the scenery around them.
“Ah, Sand Village,” Kakashi said on arrival, looking down at the village below them.
“You’ve been there, Kakashi-sensei?” Naruto asked him.
“Once or twice; perhaps we’ll run into Gaara down there,” he said, looking at Sasuke.
“I doubt it,” Sasuke answered, ignoring Naruto’s curious look. “He and Neji have been on missions’ non-stop since he got out of the hospital. This will be a good place to stop for the night.”
Kakashi nodded and they all went to set up camp.
SasuNaru
Later that night, Sasuke once again found himself listening to Naruto’s babble. Kakashi and Iruka had gone to bed until their watch, so it was just him and the blond. He tuned out the babble until he was asked a question that startled him.
“Hey, who are Gaara and Neji?”
“What?” Sasuke looked at Naruto in surprise.
“Gaara and Neji; you and Kakashi mentioned them earlier, remember?”
“Oh, right,” Sasuke said and then paused, trying to figure out how to explain who exactly they were. “Gaara and Neji are fellow Shinobi, we went through basic training together and have occasionally had missions together.”
“Oh, so they’re friends?” Naruto said in surprise.
“I wouldn’t go that far,” Sasuke said, thinking of all the times he’d wanted smack the two men and vice versa. “We’re more like comrades who get on each other’s nerves constantly.”
Naruto tilted his head in confusion. “You’re comrades, but you’re not friends? I thought that was the same thing?”
“Only you would think that, Dobe,” Sasuke said.
“Well, do you hate them?”
“What?”
“Do you hate them?” Naruto repeated.
“No,” Sasuke said slowly, wondering why he was asking this all of a sudden.
“Do you respect them?”
“Yes,” Sasuke said slowly. It was hard not to respect Neji and Gaara, whatever personal issues the three had, he had to admit they were good fighters and hard-working.
“Then it sounds to me like you're friends,” Naruto said with a grin. “You’re comrades, you must talk occasionally in order to work together, you don’t hate them, and you respect them. Plus you argue a lot! Sounds like friendship to me.”
Sasuke stared at him and said, “Naruto…”
“Yes?”
“Go to bed.”
The blond scowled at him. “Who died and made you my mother, Uchiha?” Then he yawned and Sasuke smirked at him.
Naruto sighed and muttered. “Fine; but I’m not going to bed just because you told me too!”
“Of course not,” Sasuke said, still smirking as the blond got up and headed towards his tent. “Good night, Dobe.”
Naruto turned and glared at him. “Good. Night,” he gritted out and went into his tent.
Having Naruto glare at him like that really shouldn’t have made him smile like he was doing now; but then, their relationship was never really normal to begin with.
AUTHOR NOTES: Finally! Now we’re starting to get to the plot part. Other characters will be showing up soon, I promise. Maybe even in the next chapter…
AUTHOR: fantasylover12001
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. No money is being made off of this, please don’t sue.
RATING: R/M, NC-17 in some parts
WARNINGS: will have mentions of MPreg, but will not be detailed. Please don’t read or flame me if you don’t like this.
PAIRINGS: SasuNaru, KakaIru, NejiGaara, LeeSaku, ShikaIno, KibaHina, and others mentioned.
AUTHOR NOTES: Look! I updated! For those who keep complaining about the length of the chapters, I’m sorry, but the length is what it is. I stop the chapters at a point that I feel is good, sometimes this makes them long, sometimes short. Really, it could be a lot worse; I’m averaging about seven pages per chapter so they could be a lot shorter. Also, I would like to once again point out that this is NOT a smut fic. Yes, there will be a lemon or two but it will take a while to come. If you want to read lemons, there are always PWPs. Thank you to all those who reviewed and thank you for your patience!
CHAPTER 7:
Wind Country, Edge of Cradle Mountains,
Naruto decided he was happy he’d been given the last watch the next morning. Having last watch meant that he was not only the first one up, but it meant that he got to see the sunrise. The sunrise was beautiful, in his opinion. ‘Definitely one of the best I’ve seen’ he thought in satisfaction, watching the sun wash out the night in a bright orange.
He impatiently waited for the others to get up that morning, busying himself with making breakfast. ‘How can they sleep so late?’ he thought, looking at the tents in confusion. ‘There’s so much to see!’
Finally, about a half hour after the sun rose, Iruka groggily emerged from his tent. Familiar with his teachers’ morning habits, Naruto didn’t bother with pleasantries; he just set some food in front of Iruka. The man smiled sleepily at him and started to eat. Kakashi, groggily emerged from his tent a few minutes later, looking more and more like a scarecrow with his bed hair and happily accepted the food he was given.
As Kakashi took a few sips of his drink, he glanced at Naruto and asked, “Why don’t you go and get Sasuke up?”
Naruto scowled at him. “Why me?”
“Because I’ve had to get him up for the past five years; I’ve grown rather tired of it,” Kakashi answered.
The blond rolled his eyes, but go up and headed towards Sasuke’s tent. “He’s over eighteen years old,” Naruto muttered. “You’d think he’d be able to get up on his own by now.”
When he got to the tent, Naruto threw open the flap that served as a door and said loudly, “Come on, Uchiha! Up and at em!”
He started to go when he realized there was no response from the figure on the ground. Naruto sighed and went further into the tent and glared at the man. “Sasuke, get up you Bastard!”
Sasuke’s only response was rolling over to face Naruto. The blond put his hands on his hips and scowled. “Ignoring me, are you? We’ll see about that!” With that declaration he walked out of the tent and looked around the campsite, spying what he was looking for on the ground, he grabbed it and marched back in.
He smirked as he knelt down next to Sasuke, and took the feather that he had found and reached forward using the end of it to tickle Sasuke’s nose. Naruto couldn’t help the grin that formed on his face when Sasuke sneezed in sleep, then suddenly a hand clamped on his wrist and a kunai was pressed against his throat. His eyes widened when he saw red spinning wheels in Sasuke’s eyes.
“Naruto?” Sasuke said in surprise, when he realized who he was holding. The blond breathed a sigh of relief when the kunai was lowered and he was let go. Sasuke’s eyes, he noticed, had also returned to normal.
“What the hell were you doing?” Sasuke demanded. “You should not startle me like that!”
“What was I doing?” Naruto asked angrily. “What about you? All I was doing was waking you up, you ass! I didn’t know I was going to get attacked for it! Next time, Kakashi gets to do it!” Before Sasuke could respond, he left.
The rest of the morning, he busied himself with chores. This wasn’t hard to do since they had a campsite to take down. He pointedly ignored Sasuke when he emerged from his tent and did things such as taking down and packing up his tent; getting the packing horse ready with all of their belongings, and even offering to wash dishes and fill canteens by the river.
Then as they were getting ready to leave, he reached for his horse’s bridle and found it being handed to him. “How’s your wrist?” Sasuke asked, as he gave Naruto the bridle.
“Fine,” Naruto answered shortly. Truthfully, there was a small bruise from the man’s grip and he swore the skin still tingled, but he wasn’t about to tell Sasuke about THAT. “You always wake up like that?”
“Only when I’m startled,” Sasuke answered. Then he raised an eyebrow, “Usually Kakashi is the one that gets me up, and he knows to get out of the way. Why were you there?”
The blond shrugged. “He told me to get you up. Idiot should have warned me you’d go psycho on me.”
“Sorry,” Sasuke said softly, glancing away.
“It’s all right,” Naruto glanced at him. “What was with your eyes?”
“My eyes?”
“They were red,” he said.
“Oh, that,” Sasuke muttered. “It was nothing.”
“They had spinning wheels in them!” Naruto persisted.
Sasuke sighed. “It was my Sharingan. It tends to activate automatically when I think I’m being attacked.”
Naruto stared at him. “Sharingan? You never told me your family had that ability!”
Sasuke looked at him in slight surprise. “You know what Sharingan is?”
The blond nodded. “Sure. It’s one of those special abilities that Shinobi use right? It’s only passed down through blood though, you can’t really learn it.”
“Not many people know about that,” Sasuke said slowly. “How do you?”
Naruto shrugged sheepishly. “I kind of read about it in the palace library; they have a few books on Shinobi and their techniques, you know.”
Sasuke frowned and looked at him sternly. “Naruto, you haven’t been trying out any Jutsus on your own have you? Those are dangerous to try out without supervision.”
Luckily for Naruto, Kakashi chose that moment to call Sasuke over to help with something. The blond breathed a sigh of relief as the man left. He had never been very good at lying; especially when it was Sasuke he had to lie too.
SasuNaruSasuNaru
Over the next few days, the group of travelers settled into a routine. In the morning, they got up, had a breakfast that Naruto made, and then took down their camp with each person responsible for his own tent and belongings. Then over the next few hours they traveled on up the Cradle Mountains getting closer to the top. Around lunchtime they stopped and ate something, usually a rabbit or some other similar creature that Sasuke or Kakashi found and Iruka cooked. Then in the afternoon they traveled again, only stopping when it became dark and then they set up camp. The next day it began all over again.
Sasuke had to admit, he was fairly impressed with how Iruka and Naruto handled the traveling. For two people who weren’t used to traveling they were doing rather well. Neither of them complained and both helped whenever possible. Occasionally Naruto did complain loudly about the lack of conversation from Kakashi and Sasuke and his luck about getting stuck with two of the most anti-social men around, but other then that he found ways to keep himself amused.
Unfortunately for Sasuke some of the ways Naruto kept himself amused included bugging him or “getting him to loosen up” as the blond put it. He was very thankful Iruka had come along and knew when to distract Naruto enough for Sasuke to keep his temper. If the teacher hadn’t been there, he was fairly certain he would’ve clobbered Naruto by now, and knowing Naruto he would’ve clobbered Sasuke right back.
This was why he had gone on ahead of the group a little. Today, Naruto had decided to ask him a seemingly endless stream of questions. He didn’t mind answering the first few, but after about the next twenty or so he was starting to lose his patience so he made the excuse that he was going to find a place to camp for the night and went on ahead before he threatened Naruto with a gag.
Now he was guiding Chidori through a path that had an opening of some sort. Figuring it was a clearing that would be a good place to camp for the night he headed towards it. Upon reaching the opening he stilled Chidori and stared at the view. As he had thought, it was a clearing, but it was a clearing that was almost at the top of the mountain range. In the distance he could see the rolling plains and lands that Wind country was famous for, and down below on the other side of the mountains was a small village. Roads going in every which direction led away from the village and he bet if they went and asked one of the villagers, they’d be told which one led to Wind Countries capital.
“Wow…” a voice came from behind him and he turned to see Naruto getting off his horse and gazing with wide eyes at the scenery around them.
“Ah, Sand Village,” Kakashi said on arrival, looking down at the village below them.
“You’ve been there, Kakashi-sensei?” Naruto asked him.
“Once or twice; perhaps we’ll run into Gaara down there,” he said, looking at Sasuke.
“I doubt it,” Sasuke answered, ignoring Naruto’s curious look. “He and Neji have been on missions’ non-stop since he got out of the hospital. This will be a good place to stop for the night.”
Kakashi nodded and they all went to set up camp.
SasuNaru
Later that night, Sasuke once again found himself listening to Naruto’s babble. Kakashi and Iruka had gone to bed until their watch, so it was just him and the blond. He tuned out the babble until he was asked a question that startled him.
“Hey, who are Gaara and Neji?”
“What?” Sasuke looked at Naruto in surprise.
“Gaara and Neji; you and Kakashi mentioned them earlier, remember?”
“Oh, right,” Sasuke said and then paused, trying to figure out how to explain who exactly they were. “Gaara and Neji are fellow Shinobi, we went through basic training together and have occasionally had missions together.”
“Oh, so they’re friends?” Naruto said in surprise.
“I wouldn’t go that far,” Sasuke said, thinking of all the times he’d wanted smack the two men and vice versa. “We’re more like comrades who get on each other’s nerves constantly.”
Naruto tilted his head in confusion. “You’re comrades, but you’re not friends? I thought that was the same thing?”
“Only you would think that, Dobe,” Sasuke said.
“Well, do you hate them?”
“What?”
“Do you hate them?” Naruto repeated.
“No,” Sasuke said slowly, wondering why he was asking this all of a sudden.
“Do you respect them?”
“Yes,” Sasuke said slowly. It was hard not to respect Neji and Gaara, whatever personal issues the three had, he had to admit they were good fighters and hard-working.
“Then it sounds to me like you're friends,” Naruto said with a grin. “You’re comrades, you must talk occasionally in order to work together, you don’t hate them, and you respect them. Plus you argue a lot! Sounds like friendship to me.”
Sasuke stared at him and said, “Naruto…”
“Yes?”
“Go to bed.”
The blond scowled at him. “Who died and made you my mother, Uchiha?” Then he yawned and Sasuke smirked at him.
Naruto sighed and muttered. “Fine; but I’m not going to bed just because you told me too!”
“Of course not,” Sasuke said, still smirking as the blond got up and headed towards his tent. “Good night, Dobe.”
Naruto turned and glared at him. “Good. Night,” he gritted out and went into his tent.
Having Naruto glare at him like that really shouldn’t have made him smile like he was doing now; but then, their relationship was never really normal to begin with.
AUTHOR NOTES: Finally! Now we’re starting to get to the plot part. Other characters will be showing up soon, I promise. Maybe even in the next chapter…