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The Great War Nations: Book one War against the Wind

Chapter 1

'Just Another Day in Kohona'

Creeping within the shade and protection of the Fire Country leafy trees, four rather young chunnin's leaping through the trees, all quiet, just wanting for this mission to be over with. A young woman, with two traditional Chinese buns pinned atop her dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, was almost visibly fuming from the fact being torn away from a sparring match she was having with her former pale eyed teammate, for something so trivial. Something that a she'd though was a big deal seven years ago. Now it was annoying when she could be training and developing new techniques with one longhaired teammate. Said dark haired, pale-eyed partner was currently dashing beside the bun-haired girl, also unhappy about these turns of events though he hid his disappointment behind his cool façade that he had always worn since he was little. A little behind the seething pair was a brown pineapple-shaped haired guy with lazy dark brown eyes, who mumbled that his troublesome female leader, the fifth hokage, would pay for this troublesome mission that even a simple genin could handle with ease. Right now he could be lounging with Chouji staring at some fluffy white clouds. Or even trying to teach Ino Shougi was better than this? Patrolling the Hidden Leaf's borders and picking up some sake for the hokage was a simple enough mission. Why was he being asked to do such a troublesome thing?

Slightly ahead of the three ninja's was a pink haired kunoichi who actually hadn't minded the sudden distraction. Her jade green eyes flashed at the memory of what had conspired just hours earlier at the hospital where she trained. She didn't want to be there with the family of the sibling shinobi's that had just died. A sharp stab of pain coursed through her as she thought of those two deathly pale faces. Instead of facing it she closed her eyes to the memory and focused on the sounds of the deep forest surrounding her.

The pink haired girl, Sakura, eyes shot open when she felt a strong unfamiliar presence of chakra. She couldn't tell where it was. So she closed her eyes again and focused her mind. Searching through the deep forest she knew so well she found what she was looking for. The chakra was centered about ten yards to her left. Apparently Neji had felt it to because he stopped suddenly causing the non-attentive Shikamaru to crash into the Bakuygan user. Tenten just stopped quickly, quite used to her former partner's unpredictable movements of the Hyuuga.

Sakura glanced over her shoulder at the stoic Hyuuga, asking him the silent question, 'How many"?

Pushing the lazy genius off of him and straitening his shirt with a grimace and no emotion in his white eyes he replied, "About seventy maybe eighty."

Shikamaru's dark eyes rolled to the side as he muttered under his breath, 'troublesome.'

Tenten, who was now over her anger and now worrying over Neji, Sakura and even Shikamaru's safety said, "We should pull back, Sakura, they haven't detected us yet and besides, we need to report this to Tsuande."

Sakura shook her head, her stubbornness getting the better of her, even though she knew Tenten was right. "I'm going to go check it out. Shikamaru, Neji, Tenten please back me up?"

Shikamaru and Neji both just nodded but Tenten bit her bottom lip, unsure of the situation. Eighty to four? That was like having twenty to one! Those weren't the kind of odds she liked to fight against.

Sakura looked at Tenten with pleading eyes; she knew that Tenten couldn't resist those eyes.

Tenten let her head drop and sighed, "Fine."

Sakura smiled warmly, "Thanks Tenten!"

This time Tenten grumbled, "Welcome."

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Masking her chakra signature, Sakura leapt to the left of the tree branch she was on and began to sneak closely to the huge poorly masked group of people. Being in charge of this mission she had directed everyone to a certain sectors. Shikamaru was the farthest away nearly across from her. Neji was to her left and Tenten was to her right. She gave them directions to the group and gave them the signal to move out. She could almost hear everyone's thought's. Troublesome- Shikamaru, idiot- that would be Mr. Happiness himself, Neji and then why'd I agree to this? - Tenten

Hearing loud voices and smelling burnt food she slowed down, the others in her group following her actions simultaneously.

Peering down from her spot on the branch Sakura glanced down into a small-crowed clearing.

Below sat about seventy (just as Neji had predicted) ninja's talking among themselves. Some were split into small groups, others in throwing kunai's in mock spar's, and other's eating. Several small fire pits were lit around the larger of the groups, illuminating the tightly packed clearing. The gold red firelight covered the ninja's in a surreal deadly glow. But the reflection of the fire on the ninja's headbands caught Sakura's eye. She leaned in curiously and squinted her eyes trying to get a better look. In effort her foot slipped forward causing her to stumbled and dig her nails into the tree. Sakura let go of her breath and returned her focus to the headbands. Neji's Bakyugan would sure come in handy right about now. Finally she made out the symbols of a music note. Wait that meant the, sound was here? Her green eyes widen in shock as she frantically searched around the rest of the clearing, more Sounds, Wind's and the Sand? Wait didn't Naruto convince Gaara that they were all on the same side? And when Gaara had stepped up to power in the sand village everything had been semi smooth sailing. What is he doing with these rouges?

Her green eyes flashed to meet two sets of dark brown and white.

All had the same expression planted on there eyes, stunned.

Unconsciously Sakura grasped her kunai in her hand, chakra enveloping it. She didn't even realize it but the weapon soon bent it with her super strength and anger.

*Back in Konoha*

The fifth hokage sat staring with wide eyes and jaw slightly agape at the figure looming in front of her. He stood calmly; hand on his long sword, eyes blank, emotionless.

There was no way in hell that this was happening to her now. They hadn't heard anything about this rouge in six years. Now he shows up, saying virtually nothing and apologizing in his own odd way. Tsuande needed that sake from Sakura's mission and quickly. She needed her apprentice with her now for this. She lowered her head on top of her hands in deep thought. Her blonde pigtails fell in front of her face and brandy colored eyes covering it completely. A thought crossed her mind almost immediately.

Looking up she called out to her aide Shinze, "Bring me Uzumaki!"

The dark rouge ninja in front of her eyes flashed in shock. "No."

Tsuande smirked.

Oh yes.

*Forest*

Tenten was pissed. Actually that was an understatement. She was about ready to walk up to Gaara and use that little killer insomniac as moving target practice. She'd never been after a kakazge before. How could Gaara do this! After all that had happened. Tenten glanced at Sakura. The poor pink haired girl looked like she was about to murder that little red head too. She was shaking uncontrollably; her face was even blank she was so shocked. Tenten knew that Sakura was about to break, it had been several years since the whole Sasuke fiasco, and still Sakura wasn't over it. After he left Sakura had searched for a refuge. In the end she had turned to the kunochi of the Leaf as her way to cover her loneliness she felt, with Sasuke gone and Naruto working all the time. With Ino's fascination with gossip and Hinata's quiet demeanor Sakura had gone to Tenten who in turn had quickly become the older sister she never knew. And because of that Tenten knew Sakura wasn't strong enough for another betrayal. Maybe if she called out to Sakura she could wake her up from her trance? Neji had glanced over at Tenten as her body tensed and was just about to open her mouth to call to out. Instinctively his hand shot out to lightly grip Tenten's small shoulders. Her dark brown eyes shot over to his light ones. In his own way he comforted her and she understood. She slowly shifted her herself back on her heels and Neji relaxed beside her. They both glanced down at the clearing to see what was going on.

A loud yell filled the clearing as a tall bulky man dressed in gray and black oversized jacket covered in silver ties over his throat, upper and lower left arm, on his chest and his right leg, stepped forward. He wore a mask similar to Kakashi's that only allowed one eye to peek through. His one visible eye was a dead light gray orb. And unfortunately only one emotion flared in them: anticipation.

"Quiet!"

All the smaller groups stopped talking and turned to the man speaking, he was obviously the leader of this organization. Beside him two other ninja's stood poised. The one on his left was a Wind Nin while the one on his right bore the music note of the sound. Sakura searched for a head band on the leader but found none and only saw the cold glimmer in his eye that made her shiver. This man must be pure evil.

"Ninja! You are all here for a many different reasons; because of you're loyalty to me or because of some sum of money, or for the majority, the hatred of those cowards, the Leaf Village." He began. With each reason for their loyalty a few murmurs rose in agreement. His voice was sickly cold, a steel piece meant to strike anyone who dared to challenge his authority. It was a deep dark tenor effectively reflecting his outwards appearances. As his speech went on it was met with many yells of approvement. "But meeting here in this place, this is the only the first step to our revenge and to the power and recognition you all deserve. We must attack, as it is our time to strike now! Join with me ninja's who now disown your villages. Let us get revenge on those Leaf scums, who have made a mockery of 'saving us' when we are more than capable of defending ourselves. Let us show them what power they are dealing with." He paused and gave a devilish smirk. "And besides, who doesn't want to pay back our little traitorous friend? We don't need him to gain some allies, do we?" An even louder cry erupted from the crowd. Sakura frowned, she was curious as to who the traitor was and why these idiots were attacking Kohona. They had protected these lands and they had made peace with them at least with their leaders, so what was going on?

Interested in the unfolding drama below she leant over to better hear what he was saying.

"Everyone prepare, for at dawn we extract our revenge!" The cold voice bellowed dramatically.

Sakura felt her heart skip a beat as she glared at the gigantic ninja below her. There was no way in hell she was going to allow that to happen! Not while she was still Haruno Sakura. She began to conjure up a plan. First they had to notify the hokage, ASAP. Which meant they had to leave now. She motioned to the rest of her team she held up two fingers and pointed towards their home.

But when she turned to move she was frozen in her tracks. Her body involuntarily broke out into a cold sweat as she grasped at her throat, trying to breathe. The world was turning black and she was losing oxygen. Her head was pounding horribly as she squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the pain.

Nun-un! No way am I going down like this.

What's going on? Is this a gensitsu? Her mind was swirling dangerously; she knew she had to get out of here.

A loud murmur rose from the crowd below.

The cold tenor voice from earlier spoke up icily, "What is it Noritjusa Kiminio?"

A new slightly higher pitched voice irritably stated, "I don't know."

But in a darker growl he added, "But I intend to find out."

Oh no, got to get out of here, Sakura thought desperately.

But when she tried to move, she found out that she was paralyzed, from fear or the gensitsu she didn't know. This was just too much like in the Forest of Death with him.

Get a grip Sakura she berated herself, you are not some naïve little graduate anymore you're the hokage's apprentice, now move it.

But when she felt like her body would finally move a cold silver dagger slid in front of her neck and the Kiminio's voice spoke slyly. "And what do we have here?"

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A/N: Haha my first cliff hanger. I would of made the chapter longer, but I think the rest of the chapter is better where it is now. It was an okay bit, i guess.

So anyways, I suppose that was okay, but I like my other chapters a lot better. I have four others written and I'm just typing upchapter five now. I'm just going to post the first chap up until I get some feedback. And if you are reading Nicknames I am so sorry bout the slow updates, I'll try to speed it up a bit, no promises though.

Take it away Tenten!

Tenten- so stay tune for chapter 2 of the Great War Nations: Book 1

Neji- don't forget to review. (oh yeah forgot about that* oops*-Tenten.)