Writer's note: Argh, I couldn't help it. I should be re-writing the fanfics and original fics from my notebooks, but here I am, writing a crossover-fic! Lately, I've started to like Inuyasha-crossover fics and have been plagued with ideas for a crossover-fic of my own. I had to try it out myself at the same time while re-writing my other fics. Just in case, a note to those who have read my Inu x Kag-fics: I STILL LOVE INU X KAG-COUPLING! (Please, don't kill me for writing this fic…)
All you Sasuke x Sakura-fans, sorry; if you're planning to leave requests for SasuSaku-fics, no can do. I don't like them as together. I'm sorry, but they just don't "click" me, you know?
Pairing: Sasuke x Kagome
Rating: PG-13
Category: Crossover, AU, multi-part, drama, WaFF at the end
Fiction note: This is an AU-fic and my first Inuyasha x Naruto-crossover fic, so please gentle with it. When the centipede pulled Kagome into the well, she was actually from Naruto-universe.
"Lilies Instead of Sakuras
Part I
Written by M.K. a.k.a. Fall Angel © 2005
He couldn't understand it. Couldn't understand it at all; how on earth did he come to this kind of situation? But here he was, lying on a bed with her breathing softly against his neck. His skin shivered in delight from every breathe she made. His pale fingers kept on touching her fine and soft hair, loving the texture of it, the smell of it; the smell of lilies.
The scent, which he will remember for his entire life; the scent he learned to love from the moment he met her.
It had been less than three years when he decided to return to Konohagakure, away from Orochimaru's greedy eyes and his need take over his body for his own usage. He didn't want to lose himself for eternity. To loose his body, it only meant to loose his chance to avenge for his clan's death. No, he didn't want that to happen.
So he ran away from Orochimaru, after learning enough from the snake sennin.
At the gates of Konohagakure, he didn't expect for a welcoming party for him. The moment when they saw him approaching to the gates, the three ANBUs came to stop him from entering in. One of the three ANBUs returned to the Hokage's tower to report to Tsunade about the traitor's return.
It didn't take much time for the ANBU to return back, bringing an order to take the traitor to Hokage's tower.
The traitor, the missing-nin known as, Uchiha Sasuke.
IN
Meeting at the Hokage's tower was as he thought it would be. In the end, he has been banned from the ninja-duties and the ANBUs have been ordered to be his guards for all time, unless ordered otherwise. The elders will have a council and discuss of his crimes and what their sentence for him will be. Until then, he was under the watchful eyes of the ANBU outside of his family mansion.
But as for being his every day's guards, Naruto and Kakashi have been signed for the duty. (Sakura couldn't be signed for the duty because of her feelings for him, which still dwelled deep inside her heart.)
Sasuke wished for someone else to be his close guards, but when the Hokage's have made a decision, it will stay like that. He couldn't bear to look at them, the both of them. Kakashi's disappointed look in his eye and Naruto's betrayed look in his bright blue eyes. The look of the one, who's friend had betrayed him, by trying to kill him for more power.
Those looks, those looks in their eyes made his heart feel for something he hasn't felt for very long time: regret.
IN
The elders were whether too kind on him – or plain selfish and greedy for having their "last" Uchiha back under their control. They pardoned him; but not without giving him some orders of becoming, once again, the resident of Konohagakure.
After hearing out the council's final decision for Sasuke's punishment, little by little, the villagers have come to accept his presence in the streets of Konohagakure and as an active ninja once more. (With Naruto remaining as his "guard", a request or more like an order given by Tsunade.) Of course, Naruto was against it, but after being hit by Tsunade – also for calling her 'babaa' – he had no choice but to accept the order.
Both of them had a bumpy road ahead to re-build their partnership and friendship. In the end, after many missions and battles against Orochimaru and Akatsuki, they managed to re-build their friendship; with their blood, once again, spilled from their bodies, were the sign of friendship and trust gained once again.
IN
Two and a half years have passed by from Sasuke's return, and two Chuunins, Naruto and Sasuke were at the Ichiraku's having a break together.
"Oi, teme!" Naruto called out to the dark haired young man, after finishing his second ramen.
Sasuke took a sip of his green tea, before looking at his blonde partner from the corner of his eyes. "What is it, dobe?"
"Quit calling me with that, teme!" The blonde Chuunin spat out.
Sasuke smirked at Naruto's predicted reaction. "You quit calling me that!"
"Keh! Bastard… Anyway, how're things going on with yah? Now that your name's been cleared out," Naruto gave his usual kitsune-grin at him, "Still got some of your fans after yah?"
"Hm. What is it to you? Still going after Sakura?" If Naruto wants to play this kind of game, then fine with him. He can play the same game as well.
Naruto grunted in annoyance. "What yah think? Of course I like her… a lot! Even though she's still after you…" he mumbled the last part more to himself than to Sasuke. But Sasuke heard him, and groaned. How typical of Sakura. She always had such fate on him, wishing and hoping for Sasuke's return to Konohagakure from Orochimaru's clutch; one way or another. Even though he almost killed Naruto in their battle, she still forgave him, and loved him.
Ah, if only she would finally realize, that her love for him, is a one-way love.
"Saa, let's get going then… we need to get back to Hokage's place to sign in for the ANBU." Sasuke raised up from his place, took few steps forward before stopping again, looking over his shoulder at Naruto who still sat on his place. "Hm? Or don't you want to be a Hokage, dope?"
Hearing those words from Sasuke, made Naruto fume and he jumped up quickly from his place. "Temee! Of course I want to be a Hokage! Do yah have any doubts on that!"
"To tell you the truth, yes, I do." Sasuke smirked at him and started walking his way to Hokage's tower.
"Eehh? Nan da yo! Oi! Get back here and say that again, you bastard!" The angered blonde ran after the dark haired man, ranting and fuming at him; but Sasuke paid no heed to him.
"Ne, Sasuke-kun! Naruto!" Someone with a familiar voice called out for them. Both of them look a head and saw Sakura running at them.
"Ah, Sakura-chan! What are yah doing all the way here? Weren't yah at Tsunade-babaa's place?"
"Mou! Naruto! Don't call Hokage-sama with that!"
"Yeah, yeah. What ever… Don't you know her real age by now, Sakura-chan? She is old, you know."
"Of course I know! But still, a fine lady such as Tsunade-sama does not tell her real age to anyone!"
"Fine lady, my ass…" Naruto grumbled quietly. "Anyway, where are you heading at?"
Sakura gasped, "Oh! That's right, I need to go to the Higurashi shrine!"
"Higurashi… shrine? There's a shrine in Konohagakure?" Naruto looked clueless hearing the name, which didn't ring a bell in his mind.
"Mou, Naruto… don't you remember anything from Iruka-sensei's lessons from the Academy? He have mentioned about the Higurashi shrine many times. Higurashi clan owns the shrine and they are well known from many generations of priestess and priests, who have been trained the same way as we were."
"You mean as genins? Are any of them Jounins or Chuunins?" Naruto asked with amazement.
"Well, some of them have become Chuunins. But none of them have been trained as ANBU or a Jounin. They say that it's against their family teachings."
"Oh?" Naruto became more interested of the subject. "How come?"
"I'm not sure… I think it's their family traditions; once they have learned enough about the ways of a shinobi, they will start their own trainings and lessons."
"Hm, that's stupid." Sasuke finally said out loud. "Stopping at Chuunin-rank and not even bother to try to reach to the higher rank."
"E-he-heh. But it's their family tradition… they can't help it." Sakura tried to explain again.
"What a ridiculous tradition. There's no sense to it. Why do they even bother to enter to the Academy if they don't plan to go any further than a Chuunin?"
"Ah, well…"
"I see that you've something against my family traditions, Uchiha-san." A gentle and yet firm voice said behind the three Chuunins. Sakura and Naruto were startled from the voice, while Sasuke didn't show any emotions of being as startled as two of his partners.
Whom they saw, was a young woman of same age as they were; with long, wavy bluish-black hair and grey-blue eyes. She was about the same height as Sakura – an inch or so shorter than Naruto – wearing interesting choice of clothing. A tradition red hakama, black sandals (the same as the ninjas were wearing), a white gi of which's right sleeve was ripped off on purpose and the left sleeve was still there. Her right arm was bandaged from her knuckles to her elbow and her forehead piece was tied on her right arm. In Naruto's eyes, she looked beautiful – not as beautiful as Sakura, but still beautiful.
"Konnichiwa," she bowed slightly in polite. "I'm Higurashi Kagome. Nice meeting you."
"A-ah! Konnichiwa!" Naruto greeted back at her, but a bit too loudly. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, the future Rokudaime Hokage!"
"Mou, Naruto, you baka!" Sakura hit him on the head, earning a tiny 'ouch' from the blonde. "Gomen nasai about that, Kagome-chan! I-I mean that…!"
Kagome giggled, "It's alright, Sakura-chan. I don't mind it all. It's wonderful to know someone's dreams and their determination to pull it through no matter what."
Something about her made Sasuke be cautious; he don't know what it was, but he had to be careful around her. Besides, he didn't know if she was one of his fans. Oh, the horrors if she was anything like Sakura.
"Sakura-chan, I know that you were meant to come to our place to get the herbs, but I decided to bring them myself to Hokage," Kagome handed out the basket filled with medical herbs. "Here you go."
"Arigatou, Kagome-chan!"
"You're welcome." Kagome smiled gently back at Sakura. But she couldn't help but to take a quick look at the dark Chuunin next to the blonde one. His aura – or more like his chakra – feels strange to her. As if he has two of them: one that is his own, the original one and the other, is dark and evil. Perhaps she should have a talk with the Hokage about him; hopefully Tsunade wouldn't mind talking about him.
"I better get back to Hokage's place then, now that I got herbs she wanted to have."
"Mind if I join you, Sakura-chan?" Kagome cut in. "You see, now that I thought about it, I do need to talk with Tsunade-sama about something."
"Eh? Not at all, sure, you can come to visit Tsunade-sama."
"That's good to hear! Saa, let's go then, ne?"
"Unh!"
With that, all four of them left to visit the Hokage; Naruto chattering happily with Kagome, asking her questions of her family and about herself. Fortunately, Kagome had a lot of patience to deal with a young man like Naruto – unlike Sakura, who lost her patience and hit him once and while. Sasuke, well, he just followed after them quietly, hoping to understand what he was feeling about the dark haired young woman before him.
IN
"Tsunade-sama, Sakura-chan came back and she brought some visitors with her." Shizune told her, carrying in more papers for Tsunade to sign them. The female Hokage sighed in annoyance and tiredly. Stupid Sandaime, leaving her with this much paper works. Oh, she can hear her old sensei chuckling at her now; the old goat.
"Maa, let them enter. I bet the visitors are that brat and the traitor…" 'Why on earth would the elders forgive him? It must be because they are afraid to lose their one and only Uchiha. Not to mention that the secret of the Sharingan is too close of disappearing from the face of earth and they need to continue it to generation to generation.' The slug-summoner sighs deeply, 'Come to think about it, I'm starting to pity Uchiha and his fate in this village…'
"Yeah, Naruto and Uchiha-san are here, but so is Higurashi-san."
"Hm? Higurashi? The old man? (I can't stand that man, so full of nonsense…)"
"Ah, no! Higurashi Kagome's here!" Shizune corrected.
"Oh? I wonder why she's here. I thought Sakura was supposed to get the herbs…"
"You can ask from her yourself, Tsunade-sama." Shizune called out for their visitors to enter into the room. The first to come in was Sakura, Naruto, Kagome, and then last but not least, Sasuke. Sakura stepped in and placed the basket full of herbs on the table before Tsunade.
"Here you go, Tsunade-sama, the herbs from Kagome-chan!"
"Arigatou, Sakura. And thank you for you too Kagome for bringing the herbs as well."
"You're welcome, Tsunade-sama."
"If I may ask for you reason here, Kagome?"
"Um, there's no hurry with that, I can wait. Besides, Naruto-kun and Uchiha-san were before me, so I will let them have a word before me."
Tsunade smiled at the dark haired girl; what a gentle spirit she has. No wonder that she is the head of the Higurashi shrine nowadays; at her age no less. "So be it then. Now then, what do you two want now? Especially you, brat." She scowled at Naruto with a look: "don't you dare call her 'babaa'" at the moment.
"We want to sign in for ANBU test, Tsunade-babaa!"
He did dare to say it! That just ticked her off and she hit the blonde boy on his head, hard.
"Itee! What was THAT for!"
"Gee, I wonder why, you lil' brat…" Tsunade cleared her throat and went back to business. "As for signing for ANBU: no."
"What! Why not!"
"You still have a lot to learn, Naruto. And you," she gives a pointed look to Sasuke, "are still under heavy observations. The elders may have forgiven you for your foolishness, but I haven't. You must show me that you're worth of trusting again."
Sasuke can feel a vein pop throbbing on his temple. Figures; she still doesn't trust him. She saw him as a second Orochimaru. He couldn't stand it! How much longer must he work to gain Hokage's trust? The vein pop was throbbing strongly now, and he needs to get out of here, now. With the simple teleportation jutsu, Sasuke left from the place, leaving the others at Hokage's office.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried out after him, but it was useless; he was already gone. "Tsunade-sama, excuse me for saying this, but that was unfair for him! You know that he has been working for to gain your trust for over a year now! How can you not see him work hard for this village? Saving and protecting others as much as Naruto-kun does!"
"Yeah," Naruto mumbled, finally stepping in and have his word as well, "Sasuke-teme has been working hard. Even from the missions, he comes back half-dead. Or could it be…" Naruto opened one of his eyes to look at the older woman before him knowingly, "that you see him… as him?"
Tsunade flinches, startled, Sakura gasped softly at his statement and Kagome became curious of the whole situation. She had heard of Sasuke's betrayal for the village, but she didn't know the reason why Sasuke had done it.
Tsunade was quiet for a minute, thinking how Naruto have gotten smarted year after year. Even though he still played the fool most of the time; but she knew better than that. He was no fool; he was, after all, the son of Yondaime. (!)
"You're dismissed, the two of you," Tsunade ordered Naruto and Sakura, ending their discussion. Naruto was about to argue back, but was interrupted by Shizune's tapping over his shoulder, who was also shaking her head negatively. Naruto frowned, and then looked at Sakura quizzically, before both of them were leaded away from the office by Shizune.
When they were finally gone, Tsunade turned her look at the dark haired girl who was left behind. "Now then, Higurashi-san, you had something say, so let's talk."
"Hmm, yes. I do have something to say, more like something to ask… about Uchiha-san."
"Hm? What about him?"
"There's something… that I have sensed from him. You may think of it as his chakra but I think about it as his aura."
"His aura?"
"Yes. I've sensed two different auras within him; one is red and the other is dark… evil, which is trying to taking the hold of him. But there's a spot right at his neck, which is preventing the dark aura from taking over his body. Do you know what I'm talking about? Do you know what is wrong with him?"
She can't believe it; she (Kagome) have seen Uchiha's curse, which was given to him by Orochimaru, with her bare eyes. She truly is amazing young woman with unknown talents. "Yes, I do know what you're talking about. And yes, I do know what is wrong with Uchiha. You see, the dark aura you've seen, is a curse, given to him by Orochimaru."
"Orochimaru? I've heard of him, wasn't he… also one of the three sennins?"
"I hate to admit it, but yes, he was. He used to be my teammate before… he got lost to the greed and hunger for immortality and power." And so Tsunade decided to tell Kagome the whole story, how Sasuke was cursed and what were the curse's side-effects and results, once it had been actived. The Hokage also mentioned of the seal, which had been re-done by Kakashi and its purpose.
After listening to every word the Hokage said, Kagome began to ponder of the curse itself and how it worked. It reminds her of Naraku's spider-mark; how he had left a mark to every offspring he had created to defeat her and her friends. But Sasuke is no offspring of Orochimaru; he is just a young man, who have been blinded by his avenge and need for power. The poor soul.
"Tsunade-sama, I've to tell you the truth that I've come across with a familiar "curse" such as Uchiha's. Well, not exactly a same kind, but close to it. And I might be able to give Uchiha-san a chance to control it completely. But first, I need to meet the one put the seal on his curse."
IN
Interesting, that was all Kagome could come up with when she met Kakashi. Actually, two things; interesting and pervert. Hokage should have warned her about him and his… books. The Chuunin-miko shuddered. Oh the horrors…
But still, she got what she needed to know about Sasuke's seal and at this moment, she was heading to her home, to study more about curses and seals from her father's scrolls. After done that, she would go to the Uchiha clan's mansion.
IN
Two days after his visit at the Hokage's, Sasuke spent that time at his backyard, training himself. It was hard to train by himself, but he just couldn't ask for Naruto to spar with him. He needed to be alone, to burn out some of frustration and anger. Not to mention to take control of his curse, before it will take over him.
A rustle of leaves was heard behind him, and he throws out a kunai at invader. But the invader parried it with a katana and swung it aside.
"You live with your reputation, Uchiha-san," a female voice spoke out, making Sasuke to look at the owner of the voice.
"What are you doing in my home?" Sasuke glared at Kagome, disliking an idea that she entered into his home without permission. At least she wasn't one of his fans.
"I need to talk with you… about your curse."
To be continued…
Next: "Lilies over Sakuras – Part II"
Translations:
1. (o)babaa is a rude way of saying 'obaasan' (or 'obaa-chan'), i.e. 'old woman' or 'grandmother' - more like "old bat" or "hag".
2. oi hey.
3. teme rude way of saying 'you'; "you bastard".
4. dobe "dead-last", or something like that. I don't know for sure. Correct me, please.
5. kitsune a fox or fox-demon.
6. saa well now.
7. nan da yo what was that!
8. ne a very common supporting word; eh, right?
9. –kun a suffix used for people of equal / younger age and equal (social) standing.
10. –chan a suffix meaning cute or little, a common endearment; used to address children, (close) younger friends and relatives, mainly females.
11. mou a mild curse, or an expression of frustration or anger; drat, rats, geez, gawd.
12. –sama a more respectful (even reverent) version of -san; means, "ma'am", "mistress", "lady", "lord" or "sir".
13. sensei a teacher / a master.
14. –san a polite suffix for "Mr.", "Mrs." and "Miss".
15. hakama a wide-legged pants worn by men (or priestess).
16. gi man's tunic-like garment, worn with a 'hakama' with tails tucked in.
17. konnchiwa hello / good day.
18. baka (a real) idiot / jerk / stupid.
19. gomen nasai I'm sorry.
20. arigatou (gozaimasu) thank you (very much).
21. unh (intonation going up) yeah, yes; younger people uses this a lot, both women and men.
22. maa well now.
23. itee! ow!
24. jutsu arts / techniques; this means for the way of ninja, martial arts or swordsmanship, not art-arts.
25. miko a priestess.
26. kunai a kind of basic dagger that all ninjas use. It is all-purpose and can be used as a throwing knife or to stab at your opponents. It is extremely vital for all Shinobi to have.
27. katana a Japanese sword.
(!) Ah yes, I've come to a conclusion that Naruto is Yondaime's son. I mean, who else Yondaime would've trust to keep Kyuubi in control? His own flesh and blood, Naruto.
First draft: May 30, 2005 – June 07, 2005