Sakura didn't know why Sasuke thought it was so important, but he obviously did and would therefore back him. If she knew his reasoning though, it'd be a lot easier to back his play. "Right."
"Sensory?" asked Naruto, confused.
"The Byakugan of the Hyuga clan allows someone to see all around themselves and see through objects," said Sakura, glancing at Sasuke to see if she was guessing right. He didn't indicate anything so she continued. "Kiba and the Inuzuka clan are able to identify smells and have exceptional hearing. I think the Aburame clan has something too. And there's Iruka-sensei. He could always tell when someone was doing something behind his back."
"Oh yeah," realized Naruto, having been personally subjected to that a few times.
"So - what, wish he had a Byakugan?" asked Sakura. "Don't they train for years to be able to use that?"
Sasuke considered that, and decided that was likely as well. "Maybe something like Kiba's sense of smell?"
"Kiba smells," snickered Naruto.
"Pity you can't just go for Cosmic Awareness."
"I thought you were taking a nap," snapped Naruto.
"Loud monkeys chattering nearby for some reason."
"There's the Rinnegan, even if that's a myth that would be useful - being able to use all chakra elements," mused Sakura before shaking her head. "No. We're looking for a way of detecting ambushes and finding things."
"What's 'Cosmic Awareness'?" asked Sasuke.
The large fox-being decided to ignore them.
"This thing is still open, you can just go back in there," said Naruto, lifting his shirt up to reveal a black swirling whirlpool.
Eyes blinked and the huge head came up to look. "It's open? Do you have any idea how much energy must be involved to shrink, stabilize, and keep active a sealing gate like that?"
"Lots?" guessed Naruto.
"Indeed."
"Yeah?" asked Sakura, noting a slight bit of nervousness. "You better cooperate with us then, or we'll just stuff you right back in-" SHUMPF!
Two ninjas and a huge fox stared.
"Did. Did she just SLAP an open portal with her hand?"
"Uh huh," indicated a completely stunned Naruto and Sasuke.
"In the process getting sucked within... so that she's now in the cage inside the seal, dealing with the sewer I was stuck with?"
"Uhm, yeah, that's my guess too," admitted Naruto.
"I see," said the Kyubi, moving back a little ways from the two ninja. It began to shake for a moment before the reaction forced its way out. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Your expressions! HER expression! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH SIX-PATH SAGE I HAVEN'T LAUGHED LIKE THIS IN - EVER! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Uhm, how do we get Sakura out?" asked Naruto.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"
"This was never covered in any sort of Academy class," noted Sasuke.
"TEE HEE HA HA HA!"
"So, put in that if the thingie doesn't do it - the second wish is get Sakura out?" asked Naruto.
"And if he does do it, maybe this 'Cosmic Awareness' thing?" asked Sasuke.
"Heee heee. Oh. Cosmic Awareness, children, is awareness of anything that directly affects you. That would be too much for Naruto here I think. Danger Intuition might work better for this idiot - that's more along the line of any immediate pressing danger and not likely to involve someone two countries away saying what an idiot you are setting it off."
"Cooperating?" asked Naruto.
"I've never seen anything so funny. Admittedly, I don't get out a lot. But still. Worth a certain degree of cooperation. For now."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Ker-SPLASH!
"Owie."
Unfortunately, the brown waters were only a couple of feet deep. This was good for purposes of someone wading through them. Not so good for someone to fall a great distance and slam into them and then bounce off the floor under them.
After a few moments of sitting dazed with what she was guessing was one broken arm and leg, or at least seriously banged up, she managed to haul herself up enough to look around.
"Oh hell. I am just NOT doing well today," said Sakura nervously.
Well, everyone has an off-day, consoled her Inner Sakura. We'll have a better chance of impressing Sasuke later.
"Oh no. What if we don't get switched back?" asked Sakura. "They'll have the Kyubi on Sasuke's team and leave me in here!"
Somehow I don't think anyone's going to buy a 60-story demon fox is the team kunoichi, said Inner Sakura.
Sakura sat down at contemplated the darkness around here. "I wonder. If this is a mindscape. Is it possible to make alterations in how it looks?"
Toltiir considered this development. Actually, yes, he COULD see it. Most of the Kyubi's power transferred to the caged Sakura, with Kurama being a stabilized human form as the team kunoichi. It could be quite different. Would it be funny though?
That was a little harder to judge. Of course, they'd have to keep the identity of Kurama secret or it wouldn't last very long.
Maybe a mental transfer instead? Sakura/kurama and Kurama/sakura?
Well, something to consider.
"So," said Sasuke, jotting down notes. "Wishing Sakura was back if that isn't provided, or wishing for a sensory ability if it is. So the ones that seem most interesting are: Combat Intuition, Cosmic Awareness, Chakra Sense, Sense Weak Point, Inuzuka Sense Of Smell, or Head Map."
"Head Map being that one where I just have this map I can picture that shows where everything is around me?" asked Naruto as Sasuke and Kurama had begun throwing concepts back and forth a bit faster than he'd been able to follow.
"Yeah. Ran across an assassin who used that and shunshin to good effect back a few centuries ago. Tricky bastard."
"On to the third wish," said Sasuke. "If we're NOT automatically sent home at the end of this, then that will be the wish. If we ARE automatically to be sent back home, what should Naruto wish for?"
"Oh! I know! I know!" said Naruto.
"Not free Ichiraku ramen for life."
"Damn," said Naruto, frowning.
"You have to consider this might be a monkey paw," grumbled Kurama. "If you wished for something like that - you might get it by ending up with your ninja career ended and you working at that stand for the rest of your days."
"That doesn't sound so bad," admitted Naruto.
"Whatever, idiot. You went to the Ninja Academy to be a ninja. If you wanted to be a ramen chef you should have chosen different schooling." Sasuke frowned at the boy. Not that he particularly cared what happened to Sakura OR Naruto - or even that he particularly believed this whole thing - but if there was a chance of using this weird setup to further his quest for revenge he'd take it.
"Yeah, I s'pose," admitted Naruto.
"How about if he had his mother's ability to form chains of chakra?"
"My mother?" asked Naruto.
"It'd help, brat, if you could do something impressive. If I'm stuck with a host, I'd definitely prefer someone who could inspire awe or terror or something. Yes, a host who could stride out onto the battlefield and have the ninja on the other side all piss themselves and run away! THAT would be a worthy host, someone whose mere presence inspired abject terror."
"In other words, wishing that Naruto was badass," said Sasuke, looking over Naruto for a moment. "Can't see it. Don't think it can be done."
"Bastard," grumbled Naruto.
Sasuke shrugged as he wrote down a section. "As for the senses, let's just go with-"
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