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Kiba pov:
There were some yelps and shouts when the sound of tumbling came closer and closer until finally the three Lore sisters crash down on the floor in front of us the kitchen. Then they immediately go into an arguement.
Tsukii screams, "Why are such a troublesome klutz, Aly Chan?!"
Alyson defends angrily, "I wasn't the klutz this time, I swear. It was Matsuri!"
"What?! I am NOT a klutz!" Matsuri barks, and the screaming becomes blurred. Why do they have to argue so freakin' much? Finally, Gaara snaps at them, "Enough!"
Just like that, the girls shut it and glare at him a little. Matsuri glares the most. "You are so freakin' lucky that it's Sunday, Panda Chan."
And she storms out the back door with Tsukii following. Alyson waves us to follow her as she elborates, "While you see anger mostly from Matsuri, we all hold it back in some. And then we release it on Sunday afternoons, fight times. We have this special training field underground."
"Why is it underground?" Naruto asks. Alyson explains, "We don't want our parents to know we fight. They'll think we have more problems than we do now. Anyways, there's only one way to get down there, and that's the elevator with a secret code, as shown here. Now, if wish to know the code, pay close attention. Matsuri."
Matsuri nods while flipping up a case on the side of the house to reveal a keypad; then her lightining fast fingers just start pressing numbers in blindingly. She turns to us after it beeps. "Got it?"
"How were supposed to get that?" exclaims Naruto, and Matsuri smirks. "You weren't."
We all step into the elevator, crowding together. I get squished with Alyson in a corner next to the exit. My arm somehow got around her waist, and we both try to seperate more than the couple inches we are from each other. I don't if it's heat or embarassment that has us both blushing a bright cherry red. But then our eyes meet...I can't help but smile, as does she...
But the moment's lost when the door wish open and everyone rushes out, glad to escape the crowdiness. Alyson and I stumble out last, still red while throwing a quick grin at each other. Matsuri shoves a bag into Alyson's hands. "Everyone, change into your fighting gear. Guys, yours is this labeled bag."
Five minutes later the girls emerge from behind a small dressing room in the corner of the room. Tsukii looks, well, green. Many shades of green, and brown now that I look closer. She turns around and the entire back of her looks sand coloured. With pictures of leaves covering her. "It's a cover so that she can sleep without being noticed," Alyson whispers to me. That totally figures. Alyson looks...kinda hot. I look around and thank Kami that I didn't speak out loud. She's wearing a teal blue shirt that stopped mid-waist with PIRATE written on it in silver. She has on tight mocha brown coloured capris, that look like the ones from her pirate posters, with a bright red, tattered, cloth wrapped around the hip. Matsuri looks...mean. She also wore a shirt that only went down to mid-waist, but it was pitch black with NINJA written on it in white. She wore loose camo pants that went all the way down to her shoes. While Tsukii looks dead and Alyson looks (internal scream "AMAZING" -cough cough- excuse that sudden outburst,) happy as can be, Matsuri looks like she's going to kick the asses of everyone in here. Meanwhile us guys are wearing...ninja outfits. Did they think that was funny!?! Those outfits are stereotypical! (That was a word I learned from Matsuri btw.) We all step through the stone arch and enter a rectangular room with a space that's lower than the first part we're on now; it's like a sudden drop, though it's only like four feet, and that space doesn't have anything. Sasuke mutters, "This is your training field?"
"Just wait for it," Tsukii mutters back impatiently. Matsuri goes up to this computer (which Tsukii showed us how to use) kind of thing and punches a red button. Than a monotone voice drones out, "Welcome Matsuri. Level 7 today."
"Why not higher? I'm angered enough," mumbles Matsuri as she checks her weapons then jumps down nimbly into the empty space. Alyson starts explaining to us, "Okay. In a minute, what looks like actual ninja people are actually NOT real; they're holograms that you can still touch, therfore fight, but they won't actually die, just disppear. So just remember: we can touch, they can touch us, and we can fight to death without actually killing."
-2 hours later-
Alyson POV:
“DIE YOU EFFING BUG!” Matsuri yells ferociously, her eyes blazing with anger, as her fist connects with the ten-foot-tall rhinoceros beetle’s under belly, cracking the protective layer and mutilating the heart.
“Level Nine Complete,”
A filtered voice interrupts the tense silence and we turn to stare at each other idiotically.
“OMG we killed it!”
“The thing finally died!”
“I hurt my effin hand!”
“Really Naruto, ‘omg’ really?”
“… so you killed a bug, who gives a damn?”
The words all mix together, some victorious, some…fight provoking.
“Guys, guys, don’t fight now,” I begin, “’CAUSE OMIFREAKING KAMI WE KILLED IT!”
“That was clearly established when Matsuri’s troublesome fist punched it into the underworld,” Tsukii mutters; and indeed, the holographic, yet physical, beetle slowly sinks off of the terrain and into the underworld, while white mist settles around us as the computer changes to level ten’s default setting.
“I still don’t get this game,” Kiba complains, and I smack him over the head, “Idiot! What is there not to get? All we did was hook ourselves up to the computer; well not the normal one, the one that we stole from NASA a couple years back; and insert the game! You guys are lucky we knew how to beat those levels, but we have no idea how to beat level ten. We never could get past Nagini…” Yes, we named the snake after Voldemort’s snake. Don’t judge us for our awesomeness.
“I could have easily crushed it with my sand,” Gaara speaks up, and I smirk while Tsukii explains to him, “Troublesome idiot, your powers and stuff were not considered ‘a normal human trait’ so they weren’t programmed into the game,”
“Tsu Chan!!!” I squeal, catching her in a bear hug, “You used more than five words in a sentence! And sounded smart, too!”
We left Kakashi and Gai behind to watch the house while we were hooked up and potentially vulnerable. Well… we left Gai for that reason. Kakashi was to busy staring at the ceiling trying not to think.
I look up as the white mist settles and we are left alone, well except for the bugs and Nagini of course (who was hiding somewhere), in the humid, leafy, rain forest environment.
“I’ll keep watch in this tree,” Tsukii offers and settles down to sleep, ahem keep watch in the greenery.
“Uh, Tsukii,” Naruto stares down at her, “I know I’m considered stupid in all, but even I can tell that you’re in a bush.” Silence ensues and we know that she either doesn’t care, or has fallen asleep. Deidara says that he’ll stay with her and we all sigh as we push forward through the leafy terrain. Well, I skip, but most of us just push. Oh, and Matsuri who waves her machete around like a madman.
Twenty minutes of walking, cutting. And quiet swearing later, we stop dead.
A black coiled snake sat sleeping in the small ring of light around her.
“Nagini’s asleep!” I whisper excitedly, and Naruto brightens considerably before taking on the look of mischievous determination.
“Well if she’s asleep, she’s an easy target!” Naruto calls out quietly, before snatching Matsuri’s machete and running at Nagini.
“Naruto!” Sasuke calls, and Naruto stops to turn around look at Sasuke, confusion in his eyes.
Nagini springs from her coiled position and dives towards him-
“BROTHER!” Matsuri shouts as she jumps in front of him, causing Nagini to recoil temporarily.
I jump in front of Matsuri as she yells at him, “If the bait is obvious, don’t take it!”
Naruto POV:
I point upwards at Nagini as she swoops down at Matsuri and Alyson.
Comprehension dawns on their faces as Nagini’s fang-filled mouth encloses them, but doesn’t quite muffle their screams. I turn to the others, and run for help. But this was just a video game right? Just to prove me wrong, Nagini hisses loudly, her breath blowing us even father forward.