Secret Evil
This takes place after volume 22 after Sasuke returns… He was convinced by Naruto to come back, and though they're still rivals, they've come to more of an understanding of each other… It is exactly three weeks after Sasuke returns and he's recovered, and a little brighter then before… just a little. Oh and if you haven't read at least up to like uh volume 22 or so of Naruto, then you might be lost. Especially if you haven't read up to volume 3 or 4. But that's okay I guess. By the way this is my first fic. Like a lot of people. It might even be my only fic. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, huh? Well, enjoy…
Chapter 1: The Mission
As Kakashi awoke he thought it was early in the morning so he could read his "Come Come Paradise" a little before he got up and got ready. Before he knew it, it was past an hour of when he should have already been with his students, so he finally got up, ate a slow breakfast and took his time getting ready. Finally he took off.
"Sorry, I met an old friend of mine on the way and decided to – "
"YOU LIER!" Sakura and Naruto said together, pointing a finger at Kakashi-sensei.
"Anyway… today we all have separate missions, since we ninjas have so many to do at this time of the era. Naruto… You're assigned to help rebuild the entertainment hall, which was completely destroyed by the sand nins. Sasuke, you're assigned to stand guard at the entertainment hall tonight before the concert begins…"
"CONCERT?" Sakura and Naruto exclaimed.
"Ahem… there will be a concert tonight in the entertainment hall from 7:00 to whenever it ends…"
"But if there's no building then how can there be a concert…?" Naruto questioned.
"That's what you're there for. You'll have help, don't worry. It's supposed to be finished by 7:00."
Naruto grumbled but decided not to argue since he knew that he wouldn't be able to get something better to do.
"What about me, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Oh yeah, Sakura…" Kakashi looks on his paper and pauses. "You are the hostess. But you must also be on you're guard, so you're kind of guarding but also helping out with the event. I'll be out on my own mission, which is leading a squad of ninjas to spy on the sound nins. I won't be alone so don't worry about me, just worry about your own missions."
"Kakashi-sensei! What about me, when I'm finished building the …thingy? And what will Sasuke and Sakura be doing before that?" Naruto asked loudly.
"Oh, you'll stand guard with Sasuke during the concert, and Sasuke and Sakura will help you build. Sorry bout that. Any more questions?" Kakashi asked as a final. Sakura spoke up before he went on.
"Why are we guarding this small entertainment hall? Is someone like Tazuna going to that concert or something?"
"Probably not. If there is then I don't know. This mission was simply an order of the entertainment manager of that hall. And it's not small… in fact, it's the biggest one in Konohagakure… now… if there aren't any more questions then I'll be going now and good luck… and remember… teamwork – if any trouble occurs! You three are the only ninja's guarding that building if anything happens!" Within 3 seconds Kakashi disappeared, leaving them surprised.
"What do you mean 'PROBABLY NOT!'?! I don't want to fight another Zabuza!" Sakura sighs as she goes mad.
"Ahh! Challenge! Challenge! Challenge!" Naruto gets excited. Sasuke just coolly walks off towards the entertainment hall with his hands in his pockets, completely ignoring Sakura and Naruto's replies.
"Oh! Sasuke-kun! Please wait for meeee!" Sakura chases after him dreamily.
"Sakura-chan! Wait for me!" Naruto follows.
As the three of them arrive at the ashen entertainment center, they are greeted by a woman with black hair inside a hat and appears to be around in her 20s of age. "Hello there! I'm Marya, it's nice to meet you." She said as she extended a warm hand. Since Sasuke was the closest to her, he shook it without a word. Instead, Naruto spoke for him, being the loud kid he is.
"HI THERE!! I'm Uzumaki Naruto and this is Sasuke and Sakura! Now what do we do first?! I wanna finish this as fast as possible!"
Marya giggled as she replied, "Okay then, one of you can help Lu over there with the windows and one of you can help Quino with the walls, and one of you can start on the roof… get to work fast! We have two more people coming in the noon today to help. They'll be ninja's like you."
"Huh? But Kakashi-sensei told us that we were the only ninjas…" Sakura said.
"Oh, he did? Well… I guess he was wrong… now get to work!" Marya replied. Sakura and Naruto made a mental note to yell at Kakashi-sensei next time they see him as they slapped their foreheads.
Naruto and Sasuke were already working, Naruto using 'Bushin' no Jutsu' became 7 clones to help work helping Quino, and Sasuke alone on the roof. Sakura went ahead and started on the windows. Marya was down on doors.
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By 12:30 noon the two ninja's showed themselves. Hinata and Shino. Hinata blushed when she saw Naruto there and ended up helping him with the building and Shino found his own business with his bugs helping him out, which made things go a lot faster. Pretty soon, Naruto's stomach started growling and he instantly demanded food, "HEY!!! I'M HUNGRY! LETS GO TO ICHIRAKU!" His sudden loudness surprised everyone and he was followed by a soft "Yeah!" from Sasuke, surprisingly (the first word he has said yet today). Everyone looked at the leader, Marya, and she was agreeable with the idea after peaking at her watch.
"Fine. Lunch break everyone! Be back here in approximately 30 minutes!"
Naruto was the first to be gone. Hinata shyly followed him, her index fingers tapping against each other nervously. "Oh hey, Hinata! I didn't see you there! I didn't know that you liked Ichiraku." Naruto said to her when he arrived at the restaurant.
"U-umm… I just thought that you might have wanted company, Naruto-kun."
Naruto stared with uncertainty, thinking how strange but nice Hinata was. "Okay then! Oy! Joe! Gimme a miso ramen please!" Naruto demanded right when the store manager came up. "Hey Hinata, I have a question? If you and Shino are here, there where is Kiba?"
"K-Kiba-kun had to work on a separate mission. He-he's on a search for a missing pet. K-Kurenai-sensei thought that since Kiba has Akamaru, then it would be better if he went instead of one of us."
Lunch turned out to be peaceful and nice. Everyone was back to work by 1:00. Quino and Lu turned out to be nice guys. Sakura became friends with them when she ate lunch with them. She learned that they were brothers and they both work together all the time building and repairing buildings as a living. She learned as well that they were in the concert tonight, Lu playing guitar and Quino singing. 'How exciting it would be to play an instrument!' inner Sakura stated. Sasuke actually ate lunch with Shino. Neither of them talked much, but at least they talked at all. Shino only talked about his bugs and Sasuke only asked small questions about his bugs even though he didn't care. Shino seemed like a pretty cool guy to Sasuke.
When they got back to work there was more conversation going on now that they all knew each other better. When Sakura asked Quino to sing, he did, which made all the attention on him for a while, while they worked. One of Naruto's clones clumsily dropped a log on Sasuke's head once by accident, which made Sasuke grumble a little and say, "Hey!" coldly throwing the log back at Naruto, which he caught and fell off the building catching it. Sakura laughed at them and went back to work. "Oops," A different Naruto clone said. "Sorry bout that Sasuke!" Sasuke just grumbled and went back to work. "What an idiot…" he whispered under his breath.
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Finally, by 6:00PM they were all finished. The entertainment hall was restored and even bigger then it was before. The 7 Naruto clones clapped and gave a loud "WOOT!"
Sakura turned to Marya and asked, "Since we finished an hour early, do we have an hour of free time?"
"Not until we get chairs, mic's, and the electricity going. But that shouldn't take too long." When she flipped the light switch, the light didn't turn on. "Well you guys are ninja's… anything you can do to…" Before she finished, Shino's bugs were already inside of the light switch, moving towards the light sources, producing light within seconds. "Wow!" Marya exclaimed. "Well that settles that… actually, you guys have you're job done. You can go ahead and take a break since you weren't told that you're supposed to get chairs and such."
"Oooooooh yeeaaah!" Naruto was already getting excited.
"But just remember to be back here by seven! All right? Okay! See you then!" Marya then walked off towards other buildings to do her own business.
"Hey hey!!! Why not everyone come to my house to hang out? We can eat ramen and train together! Huh?! Whaddya say guys!" Naruto asked them excitedly.
"…" Shino just walked off without a word, reminding Naruto that he wasn't his kinda guy.
Sakura agreed since it sounded nice (and that Sasuke might be there). "Sounds good to me!"
Hinata shyly responded, "Y-yeah, let's go!"
It turns out that all of them followed to Naruto's house, even Sasuke who didn't really have anything to do anyway. When they started walking, Naruto noticed a fly swinging around him as he walked. He tried to sway it off but it kept coming back. After a while he gave up. About halfway there, Naruto stopped walking, as if in study of something that caught his attention. "Wait…" Was all he said as everyone stared confusedly.
Suddenly, what appeared at first to be a creature, came out from the bushes and caught Quino by the neck, almost killing him instantly, but Sasuke was standing right next to him and almost instantly elbowed the human in the stomach, sending him off of Quino. He could tell that this person was a sand nin. It was a girl with very long black hair, wearing the sand nin uniform. She stopped when she noticed Sasuke, and for some reason, she even backed away.
"Y…you… you survived too?! S-Sasuke…" She said in a quivering voice. Her voice sounded strangely familiar to Sasuke. As did her face, when she removed her mask. His eyes widened when he saw her eyes. They were red and they had three black nut-shaped circles in them.
"Who are you? Don't tell me… you're…" He paused.
"Yes, it's me. It's Varlene… Listen, Sasuke! If you want to talk to me… Then you'll have to talk to me personally… I'm… I'm sorry!" The girl said to him seriously.
"Wait Sasuke-kun! Don't! She might hurt you!" Sakura stepped in.
"Sakura-sama… stay out of this…" Sasuke replied as he led 'Varlene' towards his Uchiha home. Sakura listened to him and stayed out of it, but still was slightly worried. Then she realized, 'Did Sasuke-kun… did he just call me… SAMA?!' She gasped softly, then got over it shortly.
"What was that?" Lu asked confusedly.
"It could have been Sasuke's cousin… or even sister!" Naruto said. "Anyhow, he'll show up eventually and tell us all the news. I wanna eat!" Naruto continued walking home, in which he was almost there.
While they walked, Hinata asked, "Do you think… I mean… Well… Do you think that Sasuke-kun might join the sand nins? I-I mean if that's his relative…"
She was cut-off by a loud Sakura. "Of course not! Sasuke-kun will never leave us! Even if he tries, we'll find a way to bring him back just as before!"
"R-right… I'm sorry…" Hinata trailed off, her fingers tapping nervously again.
When the five of them reached Naruto's home, a silent Shino surprisingly greeted them. He was standing there, staring at a certain bug on his on his nose, just waiting silently for them to arrive.
"Hmm…" Was all he said. Then, following Naruto, he walked on inside.
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