Plan of the Light

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Epilogue

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Disclaimer: It's the epilogue! I need not give you anything!

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"This is talking," she said.

'This is thinking,' he thought.

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The rookie nine and team Gai were hanging out together one day. The sand siblings had left weeks ago, with Gaara mumbling about them owing him big time and some light, or something like that… That one week was all just a blur to everyone in Konoha so no one knew what he was talking about. The Kazekage though, did make sure that Naruto had enough ramen to last a LONG time, even for the blond.

So, the twelve were sitting around in the forest together; the normal. Naruto was trying to tell some lame joke with a timid Hinata watching from afar, Ino and Sakura trying to get emo Sasuke's attention, Lee was trying to win Sakura's love, Neji meditating, Tenten was tossing weapons, Kiba was cracking obscenities with Shino ignoring him quietly… Choji was eating his endless stash of chips, and Shikamaru was watching the clouds, claiming that anything else was too troublesome.

"-And then it said potato!" Naruto exclaimed.

Hinata threw him a pity laugh, or as close to one as she could. She may have a crush on him, but it was a pretty bad joke. Sasuke snapped out of his emo-dom.

"Hey dobe, could you at least try to tell a GOOD joke for once?"

"Look at that!" the blond exclaimed, "The teme speaks!"

Sakura and Ino then began to yell at him for calling their precious 'Sasuke-kun' and bastard, no matter how true it was.

"Hey!" Naruto defended, "At least I don't wallow in self pity all the time. You've got to learn to lighten up a bit teme!"

Ino began to yell at him again; Lee was once again trying to win Sakura's heart.

"Hey dobe, try being more serious once and a while, will you?"

"Sure, when you pull that stick out of your-"

"Would the married couple try to keep it down?" Kiba mused.

"Hypocrite; you're not any better," Shino said.

All conversation stopped.

"Did you say almost ten syllables?"

"…"

The bug user remained silent.

"He's right though," Neji said, "You all are annoying."

"Pft. I'm not as annoying as the dobe…" Sasuke stated.

"Hardly," the Hyuuga genius replied.

Sasuke's eye twitched at that statement.

"Oh please, you BOTH are annoying," Naruto added, "-you hard-asses."

Everyone backed away from Naruto.

As much as he wanted to chidori the blond, Sasuke instead said, "You should watch your mouth, especially when you're talking to someone who is stronger than you and always will be."

"In your dreams teme."

Sasuke shook his head before once again retreating to emo-dom.

"Hey! I was talking to you!" Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke ignored him.

"And you all wonder why I act stupid sometimes… None of you pay attention!"

Still being ignored…

"Fine! I'll go read a book or something, happy now?"

The blond got up and stormed off.

'Oh Naruto…' Hinata thought.

After a few moments of silence, Kiba said, "Naruto, read a book? Strange…"

The others nodded in agreement.

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Naruto went into the village, annoyed that his friends wouldn't listen to him. People were glaring at him, including a man with a spinal cast. Who in their right mind would send death thoughts while wearing a spinal cast?

'Will these people ever consider me honorable, even as Hokage?' Naruto wondered.

While thinking, the blond ran into a giant neon sign.

"What the Hell?"

The sign was advertising a new book released by a newly discovered author… It looked interesting; maybe he would check it out…

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"Excuse me," Naruto said to the man working at the bookstore, "What is this neon sign for?"

The blond pointed to the giant sign he had run into right outside the shop even though he knew exactly what it was for.

"Oh, this is the newest bestseller on the market, even more so than the Icha Icha series. Yes, Plan of the Light is a fantastic novel by a man named Akushik Abutoy."

To the blond, the author's name sounded a little familiar… Eh, it was probably just him.

"I'll take a copy."

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Naruto appeared in the clearing where his friends were talking about something. He was reading the white book, totally into the book.

Everyone looked up, shocked that he actually DID get a book after all.

"Dobe, I didn't know you could read," Sasuke said.

After a few seconds of silence, Naruto looked up from the book.

"Huh? Did you say something teme?"

Sasuke glared.

'Did he just pull a Kakashi?' he thought.

"What's with the book?"

"I told you before," the blond replied before bursting out in laughter.

"What's so funny?" Sakura asked.

As soon as he stopped laughing, Naruto replied.

"Well, this is only the first chapter, but I'll tell you what happened. This supposed hyperactive loser, Zumakiu Aruton, is acting all emo and showing up the hard ass, Chihau Asukes, and his jackass fangirl Arunoh Akuras. And Akuras thinks that she can solve this problem and offers to buy him udon but he refuses. And they're like; 'WTF?' and Aruton just made Asukes look like a pathetic loser.

"Then this weirdo, Ockr Eel, by Aruton and goes into depression for something really stupid. This thing is awesome; cool, ne?"

"Hey Naruto…" Sakura began, "Where did you get this book again?"

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In only hours, all twelve teens were reading the white book, even Sasuke and Neji who were laughing along with the rest of them. It was about ninja, just like themselves, in a fictional village called Onohak who were acting unlike themselves due to something called 'The Light'. This included a quiet teen, Buramea Hinos, to become a loud stupid 'hero, a pervert, Iraiyaj, to become a moral citizen, a loud-mouth, Amanakay Noi, to become quiet, along with many more oddities in the village.

Later on, The Light was led by Aruton himself along with a once-shy girl named Yuugah Inatah while the rebels were led by Asukes, Akushiy Abutok, and Rochimaruo. What Naruto focused most on of all was the loser, Aruton, defeat Asukes several times with his power. It reminded him of himself and Sasuke.

'I would never skewer Sasuke three times though,' Naruto assure himself, 'And I doubt that he would try to kill me, if we put the Valley of the End aside…'

All of a sudden, Sakura burst out laughing.

"N-Naruto, S-Sasuke, come here."

The two teens walked over to the kunoichi.

"Read," she ordered, "This Atakeh Akashik guy reminds me of Kakashi-sensei."

Both of them read and began to crack up with laughter. Akashik was telling Abakus Aarag about how he was depressed and distraught that his favorite book series, Chai Chai, was cancelled by Iraiyaj.

"That IS just like Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed, "How strange…"

To tell the truth, this book's characters were almost identical to people they actually knew in personality.

"Hey guys," the blond began, "Wouldn't this be awesome if this actually happened to us?!"

All the teens looked up from their books.

"Oh please," Ino began, "Like how would that work?"

Naruto began to think.

"Well… Like, Sasuke would be like this Asukes guy and Hinata like Inatah. I mean, they have the same personalities and the switch could be close to the same.

"N-Naruto-kun," Hinata began, "That would m-m-mean I would crush s-s-some man's spine f-for talking t-t-to me wrongly. I-I wouldn't do th-that…"

"Yeah dobe," Sasuke said, "Like I could ever get beaten by some loser or act so… you…"

"Yeah Naruto, keep dreaming!" Kiba exclaimed.

"…" Shino agreed.

The blond sighed before going back to reading.

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Back in Otogatkure, Kabuto was having the time of his life. Ever since he took up the pseudonym Akushik Abutoy, he had been making tons of money off his book. After copying all of Gaara's interrogation notes, he was able to write a bestseller and no one would know, especially with his way with altering names.

"Hahaha… They'll NEVER get it!" he exclaimed, "Except for…"

There was only ONE person who would know that he was actually there when The Light came…

"NO! The shipment to Sunagatkure was yesterday! I'm DOOMED!"

"Kabuto-kun?" Orochimaru called, "Are you alright in there?"

"I'm fine…"

"Ok, good. Now I can read this book, I hear it's a bestseller- hey wait a minute!"

Kabuto rushed to the door to grab the book, but the snake sannin had moved to the other side of the room.

"I can't believe it Kabuto-kun!" he exclaimed, "It was all this Akushiy guy's fault! And he betrayed Rochimaruo to keep Asukes away! I'm glad we don't have that relation problem Kabuto-kun…"

'Thank Kami he has no medium-term attention span…' he thought.

In his relief, Kabuto forgot about Gaara in Sunagatkure.

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Meanwhile in Suna, Gaara, like many of the people, were reading the new book.

"This seems so familiar…" Gaara said, "Maybe it's this Aarag guy. Poor guy's going insane because of these idiots. Wait a minute…"

The red-head squinted at the page.

"It wasn't salt?!"

"Damn it Otoutu!" Temari yelled from the other room, "You just gave that away!"

Gaara mumbled something about how she was lucky he promised not to kill people anymore…

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By the end of the day, the rookie nine and team Gai had finished the book.

"That has got to be the best thing I've ever read," Sakura stated.

"That's a lot considering," Ino remarked.

"Considering what Ino-pig?"

Ignoring the catfight, the remaining twelve decided to regroup.

"How troublesome," Shikamaru began, "I can't believe we just read this book the entire day."

"Yosh! How could someone ever say youth was untrue?" Lee exclaimed, "And how could this Ockr Eel think so?!"

"…" Shino said.

"Yeah," Kiba agreed, "How could something like that ever happen? It was unrealistic if you ask me."

"…" Shino added.

"Yeah, especially that Amazing Spider Hinos part…"

"And we all know that a prodigy wouldn't act so… messed up," Sasuke added.

"I don't know guys," Naruto began, "It all seems vaguely familiar… Especially that part about begin duct taped to a wall; ouch."

The nine of them looked at the blond as if he were crazy.

"I know you don't believe in fate but this wasn't destined to happen to US," Neji stated, "It's just a book."

"Just a book?!"

They turned to find Kakashi who had just poofed in front of them had replaced his orange book with the white one.

"This is close to being as good as the Icha Icha series."

Their jaws dropped. Even Ino and Sakura stopped fighting upon hearing this.

"But not better," Kakashi added.

All twelve sighed in relief.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei," Naruto began, "Doesn't this seem familiar to you?"

There was a long silence…

"Nope!"

Naruto sweatdropped.

"Didn't you notice that Akashik is just like you?"

"Well, of course," Kakashi began.

The blond smiled in triumph.

"Who wouldn't cry if their favorite source of perverted material was cancelled?"

The rest of the group fell anime style.

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Naruto was looking out from atop a tree in the forest. Everything seemed so strangely familiar, yet no one would listen to him. There was a slight rustle from behind him. The blond turned to find Hinata behind him.

"Hi Hinata-chan," he greeted.

"Naruto-kun, I believe you," she said.

"You don't have to if you don't want-"

"No. This seems familiar to me too."

The two looked out over the moonlit forest.

"The light is beautiful," the Hyuuga girl commented.

"Yeah," he replied, "It kind of makes you wish the others could see it too…"

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THE END

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A/N: And so, I finish a fanfiction for the first time in my life. Sorry if this was a bit long for the epilogue, but I just couldn't stop typing this, and it WAS the end so… yeah… Well, hope you all like this fic because I'm probably not ever going to write another one like it. Well, this is the final goodbye readers!

-Amei