Twisted Tales: Rapunzel – 03

"Shitty witch," Kurama agreed as black lines upon the axe glowed and sucked in the magic lingering in the blood.

Since it did, Gothel was a witch.

"Coming mother!"

Another voice called out from the tower.

It was the voice of a young girl.

Mother huh? Time to bash another head in!

With that thought, Naruto hid behind the tower, dragging Gothel with him since her head was stuck to the axe.

Inside the shadow casted by the tower, he pulled Gothel body off his axe and readied to kill another witch.

But before he could scale the tower with his power, long, flowing blond hair streamed towards the ground, forming a rope.

"Is that hair?"

Naruto questioned and stared at the hair.

Even if he could use it as climbing rope without the owner noticing, there was no reason to.

He waited for the hair to retreat, but it did not.

"Mother?"

"She is calling for her mum… bring her mum to her?"

Kurama suggested sarcastically.

"I will let her see her mum in a minute," Naruto said and looked up at the tower.

There seemed to be one way in, which was through the large window or door.

He thought for a moment and holstered his axe.

He picked up the basket that Gothel was carrying and approached the side of the wall.

He stepped onto the walk and walked vertically up in.

Rapunzel gasped and fell backwards when Naruto stuck his head in.

"Who are you!?"

"I'm a friend," Naruto lied. "You were taking too long so your mother left, saying there was something important. She asked me to give you this."

"Mother did?"

Rapunzel asked.

There was a great disappointment in her green eyes.

She was going to ask her mother if she could go out and see the world for the first time.

"Uh huh, she did," Naruto assured as he climbed through the door.

His eyes went to her long blond hair which passed through a hook along the wall, so it could be used as climbing rope from the ground up.

He sensed magic flowing through them.

"Here you go."

Rapunzel accepted the basket without hesitation.

It was her mother's basket after all, and there was no reason to doubt him.

The items inside seem to shuffle around a bit, but since he was walking up against the wall, it must had been difficult to keep them upright.

"How are you able to do that?"

"Do what?"

Naruto questioned.

"Walking up walls," Rapunzel asked.

"Just think of it as solid ground," Naruto answered with a grin.

It was not that simple, but it was pretty much what he did now days.

"Oh, I should introduce myself. I'm Naruto, the greatest huntsman in the world!"

"In the world?" Rapunzel gasped. "Really!?"

"Yep," Naruto assured while he examined the interior.

It was fairly large inside, housing bedroom, living room and a modest kitchen.

Even so, it felt like a prison. "Why do you stay –

Rapunzel was in his face.

"Can you tell me about the world?"

Rapunzel asked as she leaned closer.

She wanted to know.

"What's out there? Please tell me!"

"Ummm… a lot of things," Naruto said weakly. Please get out of my face!

"Like what?"

"Like… water that stretch on forever and ever," Naruto said. "It's called an ocean."

"An ocean! I know," Rapunzel said and showed him a drawing she made upon the wall and ceiling.

It was graffiti to him, however.

"Mother told me about all it. She also tells me about the stars, the sun and the moon, and how they touched the ocean each day."

"I guess," Naruto said.

"And the floating lights," Rapunzel added. "The lights filled the night sky every year on my birthday, but I could only catch a glimpse of them here."

"Floating lights… some kind of wisps?" Kurama asked.

"Umm… why not go and see them yourself?" Naruto asked and jabbed his finger at the window.

"I can't. Mother won't allow," Rapunzel said sadly.

"Well, your mother isn't here right now," Naruto said.

And she would never be, anymore; unless she can resurrect herself with her magic.

Those bitches are super annoying to kill.

I should go and burn her body and piss on her ash just to make sure.

"Why do you need to piss on her ash?" Kurama questioned.

That wasn't necessary at all, and from what it had seen, Naruto only did it for fun.

"You can go, and she would never know," Naruto tempted.

"I can…?" Rapunzel said. "No… mother will know. She will."

"No, she won't, trust me on that," Naruto said.

He examined her for a bit, estimating her age.

She was young, about fifteen or so.

That was incorrect. Rapunzel was turning eighteen.

"And if she finds out, I will take the blame, so you have nothing to worry about."

Rapunzel still hesitated, causing him to flick her forehead.

"Ow! That was mean," Rapunzel rubbed her forehead.

Seeing that, Naruto believed her age was fourteen or less.

"Here, I will make it better," he said and gave her forehead a kiss. "A kiss will heal anything."

Rapunzel blinked and touched her forehead.

"Kissing will heal anything?"