I don't own Naruto – I wish I did, but I don't…. and I don't foresee anything that says I will ever own it...
Looking into the Future is really an appropriate title - both for the direction of the story and for my life... as you will see...
White Fang, Lightning's Howl: The Secret of the Hatake
Looking into the Future
That night, lying back on his bed, Kakashi smiled into the dark, thinking on his night of celebrations. Looking at the moon, floating outside his window above the trees and the cliff face, he knew that for once, this night, any nightmares would be laid to rest.
Mistakes had been made but the wrongs had been righted and no ghost of his past could be able to reproach him.
Somewhere, deep inside him, a feeling so old it felt new, stirred within in him.
He could not name it.
But this he knew: that whatever mission Tsunade gave him, whatever the future threw at him, he was going to be able to fight for those important to him.
What made a ninja?
What makes a shinobi is not his jutsu but love, loyalty, courage and hard work.
True power lies inside you, Kakashi.
What happens when you are bored and stuck on a bus in BAD traffic and have nowhere to go and nothing to do except listen to your MP3 cd and write in your Hilroy notepad?
You get crap! Still... this is a result of heat stroke, mental insanity due to extreme boredom and stress from work...
The author is not responsible for any brain damage that may result to readers. SEQUEL OR NOT?
Nanny-chan: Yay! Whoooppeeee!
Naruto: Wha-? What's Nanny-kun so happy about?
Sakura: Baka! She's celebrating her acceptance into university again! Don't you ever listen?
Naruto: Well… uh… hum….
Iruka: NARUTOOOO! (smiles at Nanny-chan) Good work, Nanny-chan! I hope you do well this fall! But! No more writing fanfics! You must study hard!
Nanny-chan: (sweat drop) Well…. Ah…. Well…. Heh heh.
Sakura and Naruto: NO! No! Nanny-chan! Please don't stop! You have to save us from all those Mary Sue fans.
Nanny-chan: Actually, I'll be studying for a degree in English so….. I could pretend these are all just writing exercises for all those creative writing classes I plan to take.
Naruto and Sakura: Yayyyy!
Iruka: WHAT! You're wasting your time writing about what is not your own business! No doubt you'll end up writing false stories about me and Kakashi. Your long term goals will suffer! Don't go down that road , Nanny-chan! Remember the last time you went? You failed two electives!
Nanny-chan: I was depressed.
Naruto: Eh? What?
Sakura: Baka! Remember her only grandfather's passing?
Iruka: Oh! And what about all those Buffy, Angel, X-files and Cardcaptor Sakura episodes you saw when you should have been studying for geography and philosophy?
Angel, Buffy, Mulder, Scully, Sakura and Yue sneeze.
Kakashi: Iruka! Please calm down! You're scaring Nanny-chan! Seriously!
Nanny-chan: Kakashi-sensei! (hearts in eyes) I love you so much I will make you the hero in every Naruto fanfic I write!
Kakashi: (thinks) Finally! The respect I deserve!
Sakura: Kakashi-sensei?
Naruto: Write about him? Baka! He's boooorrrrrinnngggg!
Nanny-chan: (demon-eyed) No he's not! He's my favorite anime guy for all time! I'm sick and tired of you, Naruto! It's always all about you!
Naruto: Eeeep!
Sakura: But what about Yue and Julian? Didn't I see them in your scrapbook?
Nanny-chan: Ahahahaha!
Sakura: And Vash and Wolfwood?
Nanny-chan: Hehehehe!
Sakura: And Hakkai and Sanzo?
Yue, Julian, Vash, Wolfwood, Hakkai and Sanzo sneeze.
Nanny-chan: (Blushes and shuffles feet)…….
Sakura: and aren't you falling for Genma as well?
Iruka and Kakashi: (blankly) Genma?
Nanny-chan: Well, how can a girl resist those lips which look so sexy attached to a senbon?
Iruka and Kakashi: (blankly) Genma's senbon?
Naruto: She's like the Ero-sannin!
Iruka: (snaps out of it) No more! Leave us alone and start getting yourself ready! Remember how much you loved reading Dickens and Chesterton!
Nanny-chan: (putting down Shonen Jump) I did?
Iruka: (sighs) Here, start dusting up your English skills by reading this exciting Russian novel, Anna Karenina!
Nanny-chan: Is there a grey-haired, masked hero with an implanted Sharingan eye in it?
Iruka: (sighs) Hopeless…..
Nanny-chan: (pulling out eternal notepad) The sequel….. Lightning's Howl Adventures….. naw! Sounds like an Enid Blyton…. The Return of the Hatake Wolf …. Eeek! A crossover between Tolkien and Jack London! Mmmmmm…. Must think on this….
Iruka: What ARE you doing?
Nanny-chan: Writing a sequel?
Iruka: Weren't you listening to me?
Nanny-chan: Ummmm…. What did you say?
Sakura: Yay! A sequel!
Naruto: Will we be in it?
Nanny-chan: Hmmmm…. I think so!
Iruka: Grrrr! Nanny-chan! Don't you have anything better to do? Like cleaning your room or doing digital art or something?
Kakashi: Will I be in it?
Nanny-chan: Of course you will! (in a cloud of stars) You're the hero!
Genma: Will I be in it?
Nanny-chan: (on Cloud 9) Oh, yes!
Naruto: (whispers to Sakura) She's just like that Ero-Sannin!
Nanny-chan: What did you say?
Naruto: Er…. Ummm… nothing!
Nanny-chan: Better not be.
Sasuke: What about me?
Everyone:……….
Everyone: LOSER!
Nanny-chan writes him off the page.
Sasuke FanGirls: EVIL NANNY-CHAN!
Nanny-chan: He deserves it! For being so ungrateful to Kakashi, mean to Sakura and evil to Naruto. I hope he learns his lesson before he comes back. (pauses) Or course, Kabuto is always welcome.
Everyone else: Faints.
Kabuto: About time I get adulation for being the sexy/great guy that I am.
Naruto: Just like Ero-Sannin
Kakashi, Kabuto and Genma Fans: Bring it on!
Keep eye open for the upcoming sequel to White Fang, Lightning's Howl: The Secret of the Hatake Clan
called
Revelation of the Wolf: The Glory of the Hatake Clan