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Sakura laid there, dazed in her uniform as this blob of golden joy just kept on zipping around her room. "Ah! Sakura-chan! Look at this!" The fox boy screamed in delight as he held you the figurine he snatched from her shelf.
How had she awakened to this? Her crush was a snake and her best friend was a bastard!? Naruto then with all of his three tails kept on leaping into her bed. "Beds are actually real, Sasuke!" He screeched happily.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was staring at a ripped 'Kill all Yokai' poster on the wall with a bunch of kunai and senbon piercing into it, stuck to the wall.
Naruto was holding on to the little carved seven tailed fox, and at the bottom were incantations on how to seal it. "Ya’ know, I'm gonna put these back'n not touch ‘em." Naruto sweat dropped as he pointed at the toy giving a nervously laugh. “Those ain't friendly..”
Sakura looked up to the Kami's to save her from everything. Her school life was ruined. "I don't hate you, Naruto." Sakura tried to placate the yokai.
Sasuke scoffed. "Unbelievable." He mumbled as he ripped off the poster to reveal incantations. "To purge evil from the hands of the kami's and reveal the bleak angst of the yokai by the amalgamation of both suffering and atrocities they smear upon the blossom lands." Sasuke turned to Sakura with that disgusted look.
Sakura flinched. "It's.. It's what my parents wrote on my wall." Sakura mumbled. "Before they passed."
Sasuke stayed silent as he kept on staring at the blood inked words, then Naruto pranched around the room. "You have a bunch of weapons and artificials in the box behind this wall, Sakura-chan." Naruto pointed out slowly, Sakura almost felt a sinister chill down her spine. She just hoped he didn't use the word '-chan' with her name anymore when it's so obvious she lost their respect.
"They're my parents' keepsakes." Sakura mumbled. "I'm trying to live a normal life."
"After your parents killed our kind?'
"What happened to ‘the past of your ancestors is not getting in the way of our friendship?’" Sakura snapped, then huffed as she looked away, tired. "Look, I understand why you wouldn't want to be friends with me anymore." Sakura tried not to curl in herself as she turned around, not staring at them.
"It's whatever! I don't need you anyway-"
"Don't lie, Sakura." Sasuke huffed then all of a sudden, Naruto placed his hands on the wall.
"There's no seal." Naruto pointed out in surprise.
"No, there's not." Sakura huffed. "They're just keepsakes, all the other important stuff was taken by my clan." Sakura told them.
Naruto frowned. "Speak'n about 'em, where even are they? The hell! You're all alone, Sakura-chan!”
Sakura felt a vein pop in her neck. "What's with that question! I-.. They're busy!"
"Too busy to help you pack and leave the place where your parents were killed?" Sasuke didn't believe that one bit. Sakura pursed hed lips, this duck faced mother fucker-
"And why didn't they take the weapon on your neck?" Naruto asked as his eyes zeroed in on the white ax on her neck. Sakura didn't quite like all the questions hurdles at her.
Sakura crossed her arms. "It's just an ax."
"What ax?" It seemed like Sasuke wasn't listening earlier and now walked towards them.
"The ax on her neck!"
"Quit it Naruto!"
Sasuke frowned at the squabbling of the two and looked at the necklace ax, then frowned. There was no writing or wrapping on it. So obviously it shrunk all by itself..
"Kami Bugu." Sasuke supplied for Naruto. Sakura furrowed her brows, how did someone like Sasuke know about something like that? Weren't these top secret?
"Kami Bugyu!?" Naruto bursted in surprise. "Aren't those super hard to get? Like those mountain-splitting-with-a-toothpick kind of genius!?" Naruto gaped as he turned to Sasuke, then Sakura, then to Sasuke again, then-
Sakura then smacked his head with her fist. "Give it up, Naruto." Sakura huffed. "It's the keepsake of my mother."
Sasuke shrugged. "Those Kami Bugu are very picky, they won't get close to anybody who isn't worthy of them." Sasuke kept on adding ramen to the fire.
Naruto's amazement grows. "Other than the fact that those things can kill us without blinking, that's so cool! I heard they're alive!"
Sakura shook her head. "They're catatonic." Sakura explained.
"Cata-what?" Naruto stepped closer, looking closer at the necklace.
"Semi-concious" Sasuke piped in. Naruto frowned even harder. Sakura then just gave up and thought of the simplest answer;
"Sleepy."
"Ah!" Naruto felt a light bulb just go up at the side of his head, then clenched his hand in confusion. "But I heard they can protect the person using 'em!"
Sakura shrugged, as Naruto turned around, one of his tails smacked Sakura in the face. "Agh" Sakura grunted, then out of nowhere, Naruto punched the wall where the artifacts stayed stored in the box.
"It's them' artificial's." Naruto said seriously.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, and Sakura exhaled.
"It's artifacts, baka Naruto." Sasuke huffed.
Naruto trudged on and opened the box to see the contents.. Branches with seals? An ofunda large enough to cover ones whole face, a large sleeved white and pink kimono, a pink belt, pants, and boots. "Huh? What's this?" Naruto asked. He was expecting cool ass weapons and stuff! Like a large sword or something!
Sakura frowned. "Those are for the Dance to please the Hour of Spring." Sakuda crossed her arms, Sasuke frowned.
"A what?" Sasuke asked. "Like.. Those are ritual clothes."
Sakura nodded. "Hmh, you know the barrier that keeps the yokai away from humans?"
Sasuke nodded, Naruto smirked.
"Didn't work on us though!" Naruto gleamed.
Sakura frowned.. That's true, but some yokai slipped sometimes. "Yeah, that." Sakura grumbled. "That barrier needs to be fed spiritual essence four or five times every season from different people. So there were these people called 'Dancers who have pleased the season's.' And they will dance as the barrier blesses them." Sakura explained.
Sasuke hummed, then crossed her arms, then Naruto sat down, confused.
"They're just picked?" Sasuke asked, but he didn't believe it. "So there could be two dancers in one family then."
Sakura shook her head. "One child per family." Sakura corrected.
"Sakura-chan.. Your clan is complicated as funk." Naruto grumbled as he rubbed his head. His hands on his head, "like, how crazy do y'all have to be!?"
"Crazy enough, Naruto. Crazy enough." Sakura turned around and bonked her head on the wall.
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Can she get amnesia and let this all be water under the bridge?
"Woah! Sakura! Who's this ugly looking dude!?"
"That's her grandmother Naruto!"
"Woah. She looks like a he."