Running Up That Hill. Naruto Story. Book 1

Snakes

Sasuke and The guy start to fight again. As Sasuke and him jump on branches Sasuke looks back at me.

"Alexis, Naruto's over here!" He yells.

"Got it!" I shout back. I grab Sakura's wrist. "Come on."

"But I want to help Sasuke!" Sakura says. I stop and grab her shoulders. I look her straight in the eyes.

"Sakura, you are not a fighter. We both know that. If you want to help Sasuke, then help me get Naruto." I say softly. She nods and we both run over to Naruto. We find Naruto wiggling around, tide up.

"Get me outa here!" He shouts.

"Shut up Naruto!" I say as I pull out a kunai and me and Sakura begin to cut the ropes. A paper bomb explodes and Sasuke falls to the ground. The ninja comes behind him and holds a kunai to the back of his neck.

"Sorry, this is one test you failed." He says. "Now hand over the scroll or you die."

"Sasuke!" Sakura yells. The guy looks up at her and I jump between Sasuke and him. He jumps back.

"We'll give you the scroll when Naruto stops saying believe it." I growl. The guy laughs.

"So you're the one with the scroll." He says.

"How'd you know?" I ask surprised. Behind me, Sasuke gets up. A kunai flies by my head and towards the ninja. He jumps up in the air and dodges it and watches it go by, Sasuke jumps up and stabs him in the stomach with a kunai. Sasuke pulls away as blood falls from the ninja's wound. He jumps away.

Later

After that, we all decided to make a password.

Something hits Naruto.

"What was that?" Naruto asks just as a huge wind comes from between the trees.

"What is it now?" Sasuke yells. The wind separates the four of us.

I walk through the forest.

"What was that?! You coulda killed me!" I hear someone shout

Naruto!

I run and see Naruto laying on the ground, faced away from me. Sakura and Sasuke standing, faced towards me. Sasuke has a kunai in his hand.

"Guys?" I ask. They look at me. I take a step towards Naruto. "Why are you on the ground?" I ask.

"Don't take a step closer!" Sasuke shouts at me. "Answer this: When does a ninja strike?"

"A ninja waits until the time is right. When the enemy sleeps, and drops his guard. When his weapons lay forgotten in the stillness of the night. That is the moment for a ninja to strike." I say. Sasuke looks at me for a second.

"Don't go any closer to Naruto." Sasuke tells me. "He isn't Naruto."

I pull out a kunai and look down at 'Naruto'.

"Ok come on out whoever you are." Sasuke says loudly. "Parties over."

I can't believe Sasuke just said that...

'Naruto' smiles and laughs, but it's a girl laugh. He licks his bottom lip, his tongue definitely not Naruto's.

"Aren’t we the clever one." She... he... it says. she turns

"It's you!" I say. POOF. 'Naruto changes into the same girl who was behind Anko.

"You certainly haven't dropped your guard now have you?" She says to Sasuke. "This promises to be very entertaining." She says like a snake. She pulls out her scroll. "You'd love to get your hands on our earth scroll, wouldn't you? It would go so well with your heaven scroll." She says. And to my disgust, sticks it in her mouth, and swallows it.

"Well when this is all over, one of us will have both scrolls."

Sakura and Sasuke look at me nervously. She touches her eye.

"And the other will be dead." She says. Sakura gasps. The girl looks at Sakura and Sasuke and their eyes go wide. Their mouths open and their heads fly back.

"Stop!" I yell. They sink to the ground. Sasuke leans forward and coughs.

The snake lady looks at me, her face serious and scary.

"Who are you?" I ask. She smiles.

"You should know that, Alexis." She says. Sasuke tries to stand, but falls on his butt.

"What do you mean?" I say.

"S-Sakura?" Sasuke says.

"How I appear, is not who I am." She slithers. I look over at Sasuke and Sakura.

"What did you do to them?" I ask.

"Their paralyzed with fear." She says. While she's looking at them, I motion for Sasuke to stab himself with a kunai. His hand slowly moves to the kunai. She looks back at me, then down to my injured leg, and smiles.

"Why are you smiling?" I say meanly.

"You're the same as you were as a child." She says.

"Wh-what?" I ask shakily. Sasuke slowly stands up, kunai in hand. The girl turns to him.

"I thought you were going to be more of a challenge. Oh well." She says, pulling out two kunai's. She throws them.

"No!" I yell weakly.

Sasuke sits me and Sakura down on the huge branch hundreds of feet from the ground. Sasuke pulls his kunai from his leg.

"Oh Sasuke." Sakura says.

"Thanks Alexis." Sasuke says looking at me. But I'm not paying attention. I sit on my legs, my eyes wide as realization hits me like a ton of bricks. "Alexis?"

Sasuke limps over to me.

"Alexis! What’s wrong?" Sakura says.

"She's him." I whisper.

"You're not making any since." Sasuke says. I shakily look up at him.

"Alexis?!" Sakura says loudly. I launch forward and push Sakura out of the way.

"Alexis!!" Sakura calls as she lands on another branch. "Watch out!"

The problem is, when I pushed Sakura out of the way, I didn't have enough momentum to push us both out of the way. So in other words, I'm now where Sakura just was.

I look up to see a giant snake head coming towards me, and I don't have enough time to move. The snake head hits me, crushing me between him and the branch. I scream from the pain and black out.

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I'm sooo sorry that Alexis gets knocked out. I don't want to have to go through that HUGE fight. So I'm gonna have her wake up when it gets important. Sorry I'm so lazy