Chapter 25: The Ghoul Awakens
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Early in the morning, the group of Genin -minus Sakura-- along with their sensei has taken it upon themselves to wake up the dangerous predator who is sleeping soundlessly in the corner of the room on her futon.
"Seven!" Naruto whined childishly at the lack of response the female ghoul had given them, everybody there is fully aware that the girl is a deep sleeper, but they've never figured out to wake her up. Last time they didn't even bother, and just let her wake according to her own time. Kakashi pulled apart the curtains as the sun immediately smacks the girl in the face. She merely grumbled out some unintelligible curses as she turns her body to her opposite side, in an attempt to shield her face. Which worked by the way. Sasuke grumbled, rolling his eyes at the unmoving girl, the drool rolling down her chin which made him twitch in disgust and Naruto gushed at how 'cute' she supposedly looked as he poked consistently at her face. Kakashi leaned on the wall, sighing in annoyance.
"Perhaps we should just give up," Kakashi suggested, to which Sasuke nods in agreement.
"No!" Naruto laughed giddily when the girl mumbled cutely under her breath, "She looks like a bunny!" Naruto gushed quietly.
"Tch, pretty sure a bunny isn't a dangerous monster with tentacles."
".... a cute monster."
"Damn it, Naruto! Shaddup, you dork!"
"Hey, now, sun, that's too bright..." she grumbled before sitting up unwillingly, her forehand used to shield her face from the sun shining brightly in her eyes, nearly blinding the girl. "You picking a fight with me, ya bastard?"
"Is she threatening the sun?"
"I think so..."
"Ugh! I'm going back to sleep..." She exclaimed loudly, flopping back on her bed and wrapping herself tightly in her futon by rolling onto it until she looked like a wrapped up Ghoul favored burrito. Sasuke narrowed his eyes on the gently snoring 'predator'until his gaze slowly begin to trail and draw toward Naruto's mop of blonde hair, his eyebrows were raised at the thought of Naruto getting far too comfortable with the girl. He's calling her cute, and even insisting they bring her along, what's going on here? What's going through his mind that he thinks it's right to call a monster... cute? I suppose a defenseless, and vulnerable Seven is somewhat cute since she looked human... and her mouth isn't flapping around snapping at everyone. Sasuke sighed and begin to aggressively shake and shout at the sleeping beauty with Naruto on the sideline shouting protests and so on so forth. Don't be silly, Kakashi definitely did not miss Naruto's strange behavior. He did not miss Naruto's grumble of how creepy she is, scary, frightening, vulgar, rude. All the things he has said about her in the span of the last few months did not go unnoticed by any of them. The question is:
Why was he acting like this towards her?
Did he come to realize that she isn't dangerous?... or did he.... did he come to realize that he can relate to her? That he was also misunderstood? Kakashi opened his mouth to voice his concern. Until Sakura ruined the moment, causing him to just stare at Naruto, like a gaping fish. Thank God for the mask.
"NARUTOOO! DID YOU EAT ALL THE GRAPES?! DAMN IT, NARUTO, YOU KNEW I WANTED SOME!"
Seven shot up with a yelp before scrambling off her futon and onto her feet. She gasped heavily at the sight of everybody surrounding her before she inhaled deeply, and slowly exhaled. Straightening her posture her glare switched to Sakura to glare harshly at her, pinning an imaginary laser at her forehead.
"Hmph." she huffed after gaping at her a few times, obviously inquiring to herself if arguing with pink locks was worth it so early in the morning, "Morning..."
"What's your problem?" Sakura inquired innocently, tilting her head to the side.
"You," she grumbled, eyeing the males in the room and even Naruto chuckling to himself. "What?"
"You drool in your sleep." The buoyant boy pointed out, giggling softly to himself.
"It's disgusting."
Seven's POV
Are you serious? I sleep for a few seconds and here I am getting criticized for drooling in my sleep? Look, I can't help it, okay?! My mom just likes to fly open and gap like a fish for the night, it is not something I can control, so f**k off!
"f**k off." The hiss was enough for Sasuke and Kakashi to deadpan at me, and Naruto to smirk at my failed attempt at intimidating the group.
"Five minutes, Seven."
"HOW THE f**k DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BE UP AND JOLLY IN FIVE MINUTES?!"
"Sounds like a personal problem," Sasuke added onto Kakashi's cruel demands, as Naruto agreed and they all walked out before slamming the door shut. I screeched in displeasure, the sound coming out as an angered Chihuahua- and it's understandable as to why I sound like that. It was first thing in the f*****g morning, I'm not gonna be like Cinderella. My hair was sticking out in all sorts of direction, my throat was scratchy and my breath smelled like rotten flesh. Quite literally.
"Naruto!"
"Hah?"
Naruto turned to face the older woman in a perplexed state, his eyes slightly narrowed before it softened on her, but quickly stiffened and sweatdrop at her stern expression, not to mention, her arms crossed over her chest while her feet tapped rapidly on the ground. "And where do you think you're going?"
"Uh-uh... Umm... training?"
"Oh, no you don't! You can barely even walk! Look at you! Your eyes are all red and you have dark circles. Naruto you are not going to be doing anything but resting!" she demanded in such a motherly tone, I would've easily mistaken for Naruto's mother, grinning at the sulking boy, he seemed stumped and completely unwillingly do what she said. The more he said 'but' the more irritated she got, and that basically led her to drag Naruto back inside by his ears. His cries for help only made the laughter I held stuck in my throat that I actually begin to choke and heaved slightly at the sudden attack for laughing. I suppose Karma really is a b***h. I slapped at my chest twice, dislodging the sudden attack spell from my throat as I coughed to scold Sasuke for insulting me while I was in some insane pain. Sakura whispered something under her breath- which I heard, but I'm gonna ignore her before I get pissed off and try to strangle the thing.
"Come on, let's go." The old men begin to lead the way, as I grumbled some sort of protest and accused him of being bossy, nevertheless, I complied to his words and followed along, just a few steps behind Kakashi with Sakura and Sasuke on either side of me. Sakura kept glancing at Sasuke over me with such longing eyes that I felt uncomfortable to be between them, and when I tried to switch with Sakura- not that I care about what she wanted, but being stared at... even if it's not actually you are.. kinda f*****g uncomfortable-- but when Sasuke noticed me even attempting to switch with her or move slightly back so she could take my place, he quickly pulled on the sleeve my shirt and held me in place, I could easily pull away but that would result in me ripping my shirt off.
"Sasuke let go," I demanded, pulling on my sleeve, I could feel Sakura's glare on the back of my head like she was ready to chop my hand off any moment. I know I shouldn't be nervous because I'm a f*****g ghoul and I could easily snap this b***h's neck, HOWEVER, a piss off the teenage girl is scary no matter what. Imagine a headache I'm going to feel when she 'confronts' me.
"Tch, just stay."
"Is that a confession?" I purred, getting slightly too close for confronting and that's when he actually loosened his grip on my sleeve and shoved me away, gently...ish.
"More like a demand, do you know how annoying that girl is?"
"Duh, I'm teammates with her."
"HEY! Sasuke..." she screeched dejectedly, moping and sulking, mumbling incoherent sadness and rejection while I merely shrugged off and told her "truth hurts", Sasuke seems like he couldn't care less but now he knows I wouldn't move. However, I don't think he realizes that I can be far more annoying.
"Hey, Sasuke, where do animals go when their tails fall off?"
"...."
"The retail store!" I brought my hand down on my knee and once it connected the loud smack echoed throughout the empty forest, everybody turned to glare at me. Even the once sulking Sakura looked like she was done with my s**t, I glanced around the deadpanning faces while saying "eh", though when I got no reply I laughed even more.
"I changed my mind, get away from me."
"WH...WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Geez, my jokes weren't THAT bad, old man-- Oh hey, dead people."
- Writer
