Found in Sand

“Speaking”
‘Thoughts’


Chapter 14
Consequences of not waking up



“Naruto is still asleep?!” Kagome asked outraged that his lazy bum was still asleep. Still mad from him not waking earlier she decides to make an example of him. “It seems that he will be the first to learn that I do not take lightly to lazy people.” Kagome murmured to herself out loud as she approached her pack.


“K-Kagome-sensei what are you g-going to do to N-Naruto?” stuttered Hinata as she saw the look in Kagome’s eyes that told her it was not good.


With a decidedly evil grin Kagome reached in her pack and pulled out some makeup she had purchased while at the market at the village. “If Naruto wants to sleep in like a pampered princess then he will be forced to look like one for the rest of the day” she snickered evilly causing all who heard her to shutter in slight fear.


Everyone watched as Kagome sat silently and spread out her female accessories beside the still slumbering Naruto. Kiba came closer to get the best possible view of her while she applied the make-up to the sleeping Naruto, while thinking ‘I hope I never piss her off enough for her to do that to me!’


Taking the white skin paint she covered his face then took the eye shadow and applied it thickly to Naruto’s eyes then took her blush and applied it just as thickly, all the while smiling maliciously. Next she took her red lipstick and smeared it on his lips before finally adding a few squirts of her perfume to finish the look. Now Naruto looked like a painted up Geisha.


Once she was done the muffled laughs of Kiba and Kankuro could be heard within the clearing as she stood with her female accessories and returned them to her bag. Once all her things were back in order she walked back up to Naruto and stood over him with her hands in prayer form. “a-no tenrai, sokubaku, hobaku” (heavenly shackles, capture) Kagome chanted softly as her hands took on a pink glow.


Hinata watched enraptured, she was so excited to see first hand some of the things that Kagome could do because she too would learn it. Everyone else watched just as curious wondering what else she would do to the sleeping Naruto.


Still chanting Kagome allowed her hands to move apart slowly until it was the size of a wrist band “Send!” she called a little bit louder then the soft chants she had done only a moment ago. The bands of pink split into 4 and raced towards the sleeping Naruto, and wrapped themselves around his wrists and ankles shackling him to the floor.


“Kinky!” Kankuro called with a lecherous grin as he saw what she did causing Kagome to look at him sharply.


“Do you want some too?” she asked with a sickly sweet tone that had the puppet master paling and shaking his head furiously. “Then be silent” to which he nodded and Kagome turned back to the sleeping Naruto who still had yet to awaken. “Now to wake princess” she said with a dark smirk as her fingers lit up with just a little bit of her miko ki.


“Will that not hurt him since he has the Kyuubi?” Kakashi asked worried for his student, but not wanting to incur her wrath.


“Oh it will hurt, but not bad enough to harm him…much” Kagome said absently as she bent over Naruto, fingers glowing with her ki.


“AHHHHH!” Naruto screamed as a sharp pain became noticeable in his chest. When he tried and failed to bring his hands to his chest to rub the ache, he panicked.


“Welcome to hell Naruto!” Kagome said as she jabbed him again in a different part of his chest.

“Ahhh! What?!” he yells still panicking he began looking around furiously seeing Kagome standing over him with her glowing pink fingers “Kagome! What are you doing?!” he yelled in anger only to become afraid as she gave him an evil smile.


“Trying to wake the pretty princess who thought he was better then everyone else. You had training this morning that you missed Naruto because you were lazy! Do you know what that means?” Kagome asked poking him again.


“Ahh! That hurts Kagome-chan!” he called back as her poke caused another sharp pain. “I’m sorry!” he said trying to placate her anger.


“Sorry will not cut it! You want to be a warrior! Then start acting like it! Your vacation is over Naruto ready yourself for months of hell! I will release you from your shackles and you will close camp by yourself! Any whining will gain you harsher punishment do you understand!” Kagome demanded leaning over Naruto to look him in the face. She hated to be this mean, but if he was to learn how to control his demon then he needed to work a lot harder and missing training because he will not wake will not cut it.


Naruto looked at Kagome his blue eyes watering trying to look as cute as possible so he could get out of whatever trouble he found himself in while nodding that he understood.


Releasing the spell with a wave of her hand Kagome stepped back and put her pack on “Oh and before I forget princess, if you remove your face before tonight you will be on poop duty for the rest of the training and that is only the start of the punishment you will have to endure. See that you wake up from now on for training because next time I will not be so lenient. Now close up camp.” Kagome finished as she walked over to the lean-to and took a seat.


“That was a little harsh do you not think?” Kakashi asked referring to the pain treatment Naruto was given.


“I have to be tough with him Kakashi. He wants to learn how to control a power that could rip his human skin apart. He needs to learn sever discipline if he intends to use the kitsune ki without almost killing himself and everyone around him. I am not training him to be a strong human; I am training him to be a strong demon. If I fix his seal he will be partly demon and he has to learn how to control himself and he will not learn that if I am soft with him. You see what those lower level demons are like Kakashi; can you imagine one of them with the power that Naruto has sealed within him?” Kagome asked looking out of the corner of her eyes as she looked into the fire.


“If it is that much of a danger leave the seal be.” Kakashi said his tone strong. He would rather no one touched the seal because it was too dangerous.


“No matter what I do the seal will break. If I leave it the seal will break and he will go crazy, but if I fix it…” Kagome ran off knowing he would catch her meaning. If she fixed the seal then Naruto would be more powerful, but at the same time more demonic. If he did not learn to control himself it could turn disastrous for everyone. “He can not afford to be lazy in his training. This is what all young demons go through when they come into power only Naruto will be older. He has had the youki sealed within him since birth, but he is still no where near as close as he should be to controlling that power. When the seal is altered his body will be as well, he has too much riding on the power within him to not be completely devoted to his cause.” Kagome shook her head. She knew that getting Kakashi to understand what she was trying to tell him was a hopeless cause. “I do not expect you to understand completely, the only person within this group that could probably grasp what I mean is Gaara-san and maybe Sasuke.”

“Sasuke? I understand why Gaara would understand, but why would Sasuke?” Kakashi questioned as he took his book out of his jacket pocket so he could read.

“Sasuke’s curse seal gives him the ability to understand the battle it takes to keep your self balanced. Mentally and physically I mean.” Kagome said as she turned her head to look at him only too see that he had once again pulled that hentai book out in her presence. ‘Unbelievable’ she thought with a mental shake of her head. She moved her hand to brush against an exposed part of his skin paralyzing him momentarily.

“Hey!” he shouted as Kagome snatched the book from his unmovable grasp and hurled it into the forest. “Pervert” Kagome said as she stood up from her seat with a disappointed air.


The others of the camp were just getting ready to head out as Kagome and Kakashi had their discussion. Many of the males present watched with varying degrees of interest. Some of them did not like the idea of Kagome and Kakashi getting to know one another. It was common knowledge in the village that Kakashi was sort of a ladies man.


Gaara stood at the edge of the camp site watching the scene in jealousy, he was never a people person and conversations were hard for him. He did not like the way Kakashi leaned towards her as he spoke, nor did he like the way she looked into his eyes when she answered him. Gaara was only slightly mollified when she turned her head and looked into the dying fire as she continued to speak.

He hated how people could interact with others with such ease when he himself could not. He held no experience when it came to relationships other then the sibling bond he had with his brother and sister. A bond that meant nothing to him until recently and only began to grow into something real when he had met Naruto.

He did not know where to start when it came to a girl. He had never held interest in a female in this manner before. When they spoke at the restaurant he had, for the first time in his life, felt flustered and shy. She was friendly and he was not use to people acting so casually with him. The only one who had even attempted a casual friendship with him was Naruto and he was still learning how to open up to people.

Gaara had no idea on how to go about getting to know her, he felt as if he had a connection with her the others did not. He knew it was because of the jewel she gave him. After all it housed a piece of her within it. A piece that he could feel warming against his skin and throbbing in beat with his heart.

He wanted her, he wanted her like he had never wanted anyone before, but he was clueless when it came to building an intimate relationship with a female. So all he could do was sit back and watch while seething in jealousy. Jealousy was not a new emotion to him he was well accustomed to feeling envy, there was a lot he had to be jealous of, but never before had it been because of a girl.

Neji watched the scene between the two in a similar fashion as Gaara only he was not allowing his jealousy to rule him. Neji was a strategist and as such he was analyzing the conversation between the two not one small gesture between the two went unnoticed by his sharp eyes.

He could clearly see that while Kakashi was showing signs of being interested in Kagome, she was not responding in the kind. He knew first hand how friendly and kind she was and when she spoke to someone she would look them in the eyes, but not once did he see her lean towards Kakashi as he was to her. This made his jealousy almost totally disappear, Kakashi as of right now was no competition. He could tell Kagome was attracted to him by the way she looked at him while they were alone, or the way she walked much closer then needed while they traveled.

Back at the village when he had approached her while she was meditating he began to feel the first effects of his attraction toward her. He, like Gaara, had never felt drawn to a female before and had never really learned how to approach one that was not already vying for his attention. He had no idea what to do to make a girl like him, but he figured the best way to start was to build some kind of foundation to grow off of.

The more time he spent in her presence the more he desired to always be. She was a fighter like him, she believed in the same things he did, but at the same time she was a nurturer. She housed the strength any man would die to have, while at the same time was as much a woman as any other girl. She reacted to him as a girl would. She blushed when he gazed intensely into her eyes or when their skin brushed each others in passing.

He felt drawn to her like he had never experienced before. He wanted to know her and her to know him. His desire for her was more then just mere desire of the flesh. She was as powerful as she was beautiful, but his interest in her was not merely skin deep. When he is with her he felt complete, like the one thing in his life that he did not even know he was missing was finally found.

She was different, kind, beautiful, smart, powerful and all together the perfect woman for him and he would stop at nothing to be worthy of her.


Hinata watched with keen eyes the way her cousin gazed at her mentor and knew without a doubt that he was struck by the love gene. She could see it in his eyes as he looked at Kagome. It was a look she would recognize anywhere, because she saw it in her own when she looked at Naruto. He was in love with Kagome and she wished him the best of luck on his endeavors to secure her heart because she could also see the same look in the eyes of the KazeKage, Gaara. She held hope for Neji; she knew he had the best chances of winning her heart. After all Gaara would be leaving their company soon to return to Suna and once he did Neji would have the chance she knew he was hoping for.