Yuki and Is

Yuki and Is

Glasslike

Cold . Again -.- and a strange kind of déjà vu too. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi were once again walking through the high snow carrying their respective backpacks. 5 km. Outside of the village, he had said; Yeah more like 50 km! Naruto scoffed. They had at least been walking 7 hours by now, and there were still no signs of any kind of hut or anyt res resembling shelter at all for that matter, anywhere in sight.

"Kakashi-Sensei are we there yet?" he wailed loud enough for Kakashi, who was waking about 20 meters up ahead to hear him, this resulting in his voice being thrown between the cliffs and other mountains surrounding them, making a noise beyond comparison. Naruto only just got to say the last word too, before a hand clamoverover his mouth, effectively shutting him up.

"Are you trying to start an avalanche?" Sasuke's annoyed sounding voice hissed into his ear. A rather uncomfortable chill went up and down Naruto's spine ending with the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end as he felt the taller boy’s warm breath. Face reddening slightly but having no clue why, Naruto ripped himself loose of Sasuke ready to yell at him, before it sank in what exactly it was that Sasuke had said.

Not really knowing how to reply to that, seeing as how he was the one who had made an error, Naruto just hissed out the first thing that came to his mind. "Just keour our hands off of me!" he growled, before he turned his back to the other and started jogging through the snow using Kakashi's tracks to make it easier; and leaving a rather bewildered Sasuke behind.

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Stop the clocks

Stop the cars

Tell your dad, at the plant to come home

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It took them about two hours more before they were at their destination, the hut.

The place was an absolutss. ss. It didn't look like there had been anything but plants attracted to the heat living in the hut for the past ten years! Grass was sticking up from unaccountable cracks in the wooden floor, and leaves that Naruto had no idea how they had gotten in there in the first place, were scattered about the place. No idea, that is, until he saw the large pile of snow in the corner of the room they were standing in.

"Well," Kakashi said cheerfully. "Looks like this place needs to be cleaned up. You three do that, and I'll just go and get some wood for the fire and to repair the roof." Before any of his three students could say anything, Kakashi grabbed an axe from behind the door, indicating that he had most definitely been there before, and was gone in a gush of wind that for a moment lifted all of the leaves up off the floor.

Sighing, Sasuke stepped further into the room and looked about the place. "We better getit tit then." he muttered at the other two. "I'll see to it that the snow gets removed, Sakura you can take the dust and Naruto, start plucking the grass."

"Hey, hey, who made you Elvis?" Naruto yelled accusingly.

"Well if you have any better suggestions… " Sasuke trailed off, as he tu to to look at the shorter boy behind him.

"Thought so." Sasuke shrugged after a while, making Naruto glare holes in his head, had he been able to. With a snort Naruto turned and walked to the opposite corner of where Sasuke would be working to get rid of the snow, and bent down to pick at the grass.

It didn't take long before the blond was bored again. And kind of annoyed too. The straws he was supposed to pull up were covered with frost and gripping at them made his glove-less hahurthurt. Why hadn't he brought gloves anyway -.- Sighing, Naruto decided to put his work on hold for a moment, sat back down on the floor with a thud. He began to try to get his hands warm by rubbing them against each other.

Suddenly out of nowhere, something hard and cold hit him in the back of the head, where some of it stuck to his hair, while the rest slowly started to slide down his back. A snow ball.

Naruto jumped to his feet with a wail of another world, and started hoping and dancing around the room desperate to shake the snow out of his jacket. Finally he managed to pull his jacket off and the remains of the snow that hadn't been shaken out by the step dance fell to the floor. Naruto instantly started glaring around the room, desperate to find the source of the snow and kill it! Sakura was standing in the other end of the room, staring at him open mouthed, and having dropped the broom. Across from Naruto in the opposite corner Sasuke stood, hol a s a shovel he had gotten from god knows where in one hand and a snowball in the other. He looked a mixture of bemused and annoyed.

"You should be working, not taking breaks,” he retorted, before he dropped the snowball and turned his back to Naruto as he proceeded to hack into the part frozen snow with the shovel. Naruto saw red. In a flash he had sprung over the table that was placed in the middle of the room, and between Naruto and his 'target', and had pounced on Sasuke, knocking him head first into the snow thus starting a snow wrestling battle between the two.

Naruto vaguely rteretered Sakura coming up behind them. "We are supposed to be working! Pull yourselves together!" She yelled trying to get through to the two boys who were nearly buried in snow by then. As it turned out the only thing she accomplished by this was getting pulled head first into the snow as well.

"Okay, that is it! WAR!!" ("Hell yeah!!") She yelled as she started digging into the snow, purposthrothrowing as much snow onto the two boys beside her as possible in the process.

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Do not smile

Do not sing

Close your eyes and go to bed

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When Kakashi came back to the hut about half an hour later, the place looked worse then it had when they had first arrived at the house. Snow was covering nearly everything and mixed with the snow was small pulled up grass straws that only added to the now pretty dirty look the hut’s inside had gotten.

Kakashi stayed put in the doorway, watching his three pupils as they finally seemed to have pulled themselves together and were trying to clean up fast, obviously hoping they could be at least partly done once Kakashi returned. Obviously they were not that lucky.

"Uh, may I ask you what you three have been doing?" he's voice was barely above a whisper, but the effects were as the aftermath of someone dropping a bomb. Complete dead silence.

Kakashi just looked at the three and blinked. "And I thought I was late again" he mumbled before he stepped a little further into main room of the house to take a closer look at the mess his three students had made while he had been gone, instead of cleaning up.

"Naruto, you go outside with me to fix the roof. Sasuke and Sakura, I give you half an hour to get this place spotless." and with that said, Kakashi turned and proceeded to walk back out again, closely followed by Naruto, who nearly got the door in his face when Kakashi dove back inside.

"Forgot the firewood." he chirped as he emptied his fawn of the wood, into the small hallway. "I trust Sasuke is capable of lighting the fireplace." he said humorously before he dove back out, soon followed by Naruto once the blond had made sure that he wasn't going to get the door in his face again the moment he reached for the handle.

It would be another two hours before the house was clean, the roof had been repaired and they had all found a place to sleep. This was all mainly doe to the fact that settling in seemed to be a real problem.

The hut had three rooms and two bathrooms in all. Aside from this it also had a small kitchen, and a hallway half full of wood for the fireplace because it was the only place in the house that had enough space for it. How they were ever going to get out of the house again was a whole different story.

So anyway, Sakura had flatly refused to share a room with either of them. Kakashi because he was loud enough when he woke up as it was without her having to share a room with him. Naruto because he was annoying and a boy her own age, and for Sasuke she just blushed deeply and flatly refused as well. Aside from this, her claiming that 'a girl needed her privacy' also made sleeping on the couch/bench in the main room out of the question as well.

In the eakasakashi thought it best if he slept in the main room since he didn't need his sleep as much as his three students. And it was obvious that whoever ended up sleeping in the main room on the aforementioned couch/bench wasn't going to get much sleeping done at all.

The last room in the house then automatically went to Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto had immediately started to complain, about sharing room with people in general, least of all Sasuke, and Sasuke's mood had in turn visibly darkened. Kakashi couldn't really blame them. As much as the two teammates really did care for each other, putting them into the same room might be going a little bit overboard. None of them lived with anyone else, so sharing a room with someone for that long was obviously not going to go down very well. Unfortunately, none of them really had much of a choice, so in the end, Sakura being the only girl, got her own room. Naruto and Sasuke were crammed into their small room, and Kakashi set up shop in the main room.

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I forgive I pretend not to smile

Cause I am stronger than you,

You're transparent and glasslike

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"You promised to tell us . " Sakura said quietly, looking at their teacher. They were all nearly settled in and were now seated around the table in the main room, drinking coco which was the onlynkabnkable thing they brought along with them. Or rather, Naruto brought along O.o

Kakashi sighed, then nodded. Now was as good a time as any and they had to know what they were facing anyway, anything else would be unfair.

So Kakashi started. " A couple of years back, this country was at war with an organisation called 'Sne' who claimed that the king of this country owed them money. Whether he really did or not is still an unsolved mystery. Anyway, the 'Is' village was at the time the country's only defence and therefor the only thing standing between ' a' and victory, so soon, out right battles and sneak attacks against each other became daily.

Despite the size of 'Is' village they were soon driven into a corner and at that point the 'Sne's leader stood forth and promised the village's destruction unless they co operated." Kakashi paused to check if his student's were listening, and sd sld slightly when he discovered that it had been a while since they had all had paid this close attention.

"The leader of 'Is' village, whom you have already met, declined, claiming that he would rather die then work with them. The Sne's leader wasn't pleased, but he decided to give them one last chance though. He would let the village off the hook, and even let them live peacefully in what was now 'Sne Country', IF, they willingly gave him something he wanted." Kakashi paused again, this time for no apparent reason and sighed silently before he continued.

"You see, right before the war started some of the villagers found two young kids, a boy and a girl, out in the snow. No one knew where they came from, but as the war drew on it was discovered that the two possessed an immense amount of power or at least the potential for it. It was thought that the two were descendants of advanced bloodlines, though no one could identify which or tell what they were fully capable of. The Sne leader wanted the two in exchange for the villagers’ freedom and life. It didn't take Is villages leader long to agree to this."

"He sold them?" Sakura asked disbelieving, looking bewildered. Naruto could understand why. The polite, cheerful but solemn man they had met earlier didn't seem like a person capable of doing something like that.

"But he had no choice right, I mean it was either the kids or the entire village . " Sakura asked, sounding uncertain.

"No he had a choice. He could have surrendered, and then that would have been that. The children could have stayed and he could have worked from the inside or picked up the battle again later, maybe with the help of the kids he could have won. Instead he chose to sell two five year old children to a man that with absolute certainty would train, and later use them, as weapons. " Kakashi said with bitter contempt in his voice.

"So how are all of this connected to what is happening now?" Sasuke asked quietly, keeping his face void of any emotions as always, though his voice sounded a slight bit more hollow then usual.

Kakashi looked at him. "It seems they are back." he stated. "And as predicted they have been trained as human hunters."

"So the woman . The guard she . " Naruto trailed off, feeling bail rising in the back of his throat.

Kakashi nodded. "There have been nine murders now, such as the one you saw more or less, over the last three months."

"But why?" Sakura asked. It didn't make any sense.

"There are two possibilities." Kakashi said. "One: They have been sent back here by Sne to take out the rest of the village, despite the peace agreement. Or two: They escaped the organisation and they are here on their own initiative, probably seeking revenge."

"If it was the first option, then their supposed strength taken into consideration, by now there wouldn't be any villagers left if they have been hanging around here for three months." Sasuke mused out loud what they were all thinking.

A long, nearly strained, silence followed this statement, but was finally brought to an end by the unmistakably loud growling from Naruto's stomach, thus reminding the four Leafs that none of them had had any breakfast and they had now reached noon.

"Well." Kakashi spoke up. "I think some of us needs to go back to Is and buy some food supplies, because I didn't bring any, and if there is any food left here, I can guarantee yt ist isn't edible." he told them cheerfully. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura sweatdropped.

"You idiot! You didn't bring food either???" Sakura yelled at him standing up from her seat along with Naruto to glare at him.

"I was in too much of a hurry to get out of the village. I forgot." he defended himself.

"Which brings me to another issue; what does all of this have to do with you, and why did we have to rush out of the village so fast all of a sudden?" Sakura raged on. "I w"I will tell you the rest over 'breakfast'." Kakashi dismissed, to his students' great annoyance. "Now, who is getting the food?"

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Stop your minds

Stop your hearts

Tell your girl

Not to come home

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It ended up being Naruto and Sasuke that went.

Sakura had stated that she still needed to do some unpacking while it was still light enough for her to see anything. Otherwise her clothes would get wrinkled. Plus she flatly refused to go outside any more that day. (-.-)

Kakashi claimed that he still had some stuff to do before the hut was completely ready for them to actually live there. He had a point too. The rooms needed the drawers fixed, and shelves and closets, and the doors were loose and without workable locks. The bottoms of the drawers were practically falling out, and so on and so forth, this went for the kitchen as well.

Sasuke had shrugged, claiming that he didn't care either way, and Kakashi had refused to let any of them go outside alone at any time while they were there, so naturally a rather fuming Naruto would be accompanying Sasuke on the trip to buy groceries.

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I forgive I pretend to to smile

Cause I am stronger than you,

You're transparent and glasslike

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"Argh! There has to be a better way of moving through this snow!" Naruto complained, as the two boys were standing in a deep hole in the earth that the snow had been covering up until they had literally stumbled across it, for the second time since they had left the hut only an hour prior. Animal traps -.-

Sasuke merely grunted at that, before he used Naruto's shoulders as a springboard to get himself up and out of the hole, whereas he proceeded to help the blond boy out as well. The first time Sasuke had done it, Naruto had yelled out undignified, but this time he just settled for glaring at the other boy when he had been helped up and was standing in snow to his knees instead of his neck.

Sasuke just snorted and was about to turn around again when something suddenly made him freeze in his tracks.

"Do you feel that?" he asked quietly.

Naruto reached out with his senses, and suddenly felt a cold chill go through him. Or rather through his mind, if that was even possible.

"I assume there is no need for us to introduce ourselves." a feminine voice sounded, as if it was coming from inside their heads. Suddenly in a gush of snow, a boy and a girl were standing in front of them. Well above them really, because somehow they were walking on top of the snow instead of through it, this making them about 1 m. taller then Sasuke and Naruto.

The girl cocked her head as she looked down at them and smiled. Naruto shuddered. For some season he suddenly felt like a snack of some kind, and he very quickly agreed with himself that that was not a feeling he appreciated.

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Uni: Well, next chapter comes the first changes!! This has, as is the case with the others, been edited and are now slowly being uded ded here^^ Do tell me what you thought…