THE WILL OF FIRE: 1. The Serpent (A Naruto Fanfic)

The Serpent, Chapter 13

Chapter Thirteen

When we got back to my place, I decided to cook one of the rare things I knew how- spaghetti with meatballs. It was my Grandpa’s favorite meal and we used to eat it all the time when I came to visit them.

“What is that?” Naruto asked when I put the plates on the table.

“Spaghetti with meatballs. I used to eat it all the time when I visited Grandpa in New York.”

“New York? Where is that?”

“America. Another continent.”

“Oh. So tell me more about our family,” he said and pierced a meatball with his chopstick.

“Where to start? Ok, Mother’s side. Our Mom has two sisters. And a brother who was adopted. The eldest sister’s name is Suzami, and she moved to New York with Grandpa, so she calls herself Susan. They have two kids, Jake and Hayley. Jake’s our age and Hayley is eight. Aunt Susan never went to the Academy so she never got any special Ninjutsu training and neither did Jake and Hayley, or Grandpa even. But they’ve all got some magical properties and are very good at conducting spells and stuff like that. And they have a talking dog. When Aunt Susan got married, she took on Uncle’s name and was no longer an Uzumaki but Long.”

“And they live all the way in New York?”

“Yeah. I really hope you’ll get to meet them.”

“Do they…do they even know about me?”

“If Aunt Susan does, she never talked about you.”

“Oh.”

“Not like there’s anything wrong with you. I mean, when my Uncle told me about my past, he also forgot to mention you. I guess they were just afraid what our powers can do together.”

“Yeah, I guess. Ok, keep going.”

“Next is the second oldest, Marianne. I don’t know her real name but when she got married to Charles VI Britannia, he forced her to change it. She’s sadly dead now. She was assassinated and the culprits were never found. But she had two kids- Lelouch and Nunnally. When I was a kid I couldn’t pronounce the name Lelouch so I simply called him Lulu. He’s sixteen and is currently living in Britain along with Nunnally and Uncle Charles. But I never got to actually meet Uncle Charles because he was always away. Nunnally is sadly handicapped and blind. I’ve been trying to find a cure for her ever since I grasped the basics of Medical Ninjutsu. She’s our age and is really very sweet. Oh, and neither of them are trained in Ninjutsu because Aunt Marianne died shortly after giving birth to Nannally. And I doubt she would’ve taught them anything, being that they are the children of a British emperor.”

“Wow, this sounds complicated enough,” he said and gulped down the last of his spaghetti and meatballs. I was finished too so I cleaned up the plates and made some tea.

“They were pretty broken from the start, with Uncle Charles being too busy to give a damn about his kids. I’m not even sure he knows about me.”

“He does seem like the type.”

“Ok, last we have the eldest brother. His name is Orochimaru and he was taken in by Grandpa, right after his parents died. He is much older than any of the sisters and Grandpa was also just starting his life when he took him in. And here comes the first tricky part of our family-he actually went rouge and is one of the most dangerous men out there.”

Naruto stopped, mid sip, and put his cup down. He looked puzzled.

“Well, our family did originate from the Shinobi world so you have to expect some of them to be bad.”