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Blue Baby Blanket's Drabbles R'Us
Author's Note: While awaiting inspiration to strike me for my other stories, I figured I'd write up some short stories. They're mainly snippets that have come to my mind, but aren't long enough to make into plunnies. Rather, they'd be good scenes for a story, but I don't have a vehicle for them yet. So until then, enjoy!
Drabble 1: Kankuro, You Idiot!
"Hey, you in the black pig suit!" Naruto shouted out as Sakura looked upon him in annoyance. "Release him now and I'll go easy on him you goon!"
Naruto's taunt was directed at a foreign ninja wearing what appeared to be a catsuit. He was holding Konohamaru by his neck after the boy ran into him.
"You're the goon, do you want that guy to beat you up?" Sakura said to her energetic team-mate while attempting to restrain him, possibly out of a sense of concern for his well-being.
"You're starting to annoy me!" The catsuit clothed ninja called out in annoyance. "First off, I'm allergic to shrimp." He said, calling out Naruto, and perhaps Konohamaru's lack of stature. "Bad enough that you're a short little kid, you're disrespecting you're elders! You make me want to kill him!" He finished, referring to Konohamaru.
Naruto and Sakura appeared shocked, while Udon and Moegi started to cry.
"I… will not be held responsible for this…" The blonde kunoichi accompanying Konohamaru's captor stated.
"You!" Naruto yelled in anger, unable to come up with a decent taunt while Sakura was wary of the foreign ninja's skill.
"So I'll finish with this tiny shrimp, and move onto the jumbo shrimp over there!" Catsuit-boy declared, pulling back a fist to strike Konohamaru.
Naruto, seeing Konohamaru was now in serious danger, charged forward to save him as catsuit-boy threw a punch. Before Naruto could reach them, a crunching noise was heard, and Konohamaru fell from his captor's grasp.
"Huh? What happened?" Naruto asked as he pulled himself up off the ground.
Just before he could reach Konohamaru to save him, he collided with something that appeared out of thin air. Looking up, Naruto realized it was one of the Hidden Leaf Village's ANBU.
"Kankuro and Temari of the Hidden Sand Village." The ANBU standing before Naruto declared, identifying Konohamaru's former captor with a now broken wrist, who was now restrained by another ANBU along with his companion. "You are under arrest for attempted assault of not only a citizen of the Hidden Leaf Village, but the Third Hokage's grandson. You, and your other companion observing from the tree will come with us."
His location been made, Kankuro and Temari's companion, and possible team-mate revealed himself at last, shocking Sasuke as well. The self proclaimed avenger was also observing from the tree, and was unaware of anyone else's presence.
"Kankuro," he began, his voice showing no emotion but Kankuro still felt intense dread at hearing it, "you are a disgrace to our entire village. When we get out of this, I'm going to kill you."
Kankuro gulp was barely heard as the ANBU disappeared with their prisoners. Sasuke, having lost his chance to look cool, decided that he needed a long walk to put the memory of that strange encounter out of his mind. His presence still not revealed, Sasuke stealthily leapt out of the tree, and out of sight.
Among the other witnesses, they were still shocked silent by the turn of events. Naturally, Naruto was the one to speak up first.
"Good old ANBU, it if wasn't for them, I would have gotten into much worse then that. If they hadn't shown up just now, I bet everyone would think I was beaten on a regular basis by everyone who didn't like me. I mean, if they wouldn't come to Konohamaru's aid, they definitely wouldn't come to mine."
Dusting himself off, he signalled the Konohamaru corps to fall in line.
"Come on guys, you wanted to play ninja right? I just remembered a great hiding place, with a tunnel that runs all around the village. Come on, let's go!"
Naruto then ran off, with Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon following after him. Sakura, having been ditched by both her team-mates, merely walked away, presumably heading home.
Nearby, a group of genin whose forehead protectors bore the a musical note symbol discussed the event they just witnessed.
"What do you think?" The dark haired male of the trio asked the other male, who was apparently the leader.
"The spook from sand is definitely someone to watch out for, but this new development changes things. For now though, our orders still stand. We will follow them until told otherwise."
The three of them then disappeared from the scene, not knowing what they just witnessed would change much more then anything they could have imagined.
Author's Notes: I had the idea for this scene some time ago, while reading the scene in a fanfic. Really, someone should be keeping an eye on foreign ninja to keep them from doing this, and on Konohamaru to keep him safe.
I suggested it to Garm88 so he could do a drabble of it, but I haven't heard if he has any plans for it.
I may include a similar scene in one of my fics someday. If anyone wants to use it in their stories, or as the basis for a point of divergence fic, go ahead.
Finally, sorry for transcribing so much of the canon scene. I hate doing that, but it was necessary to set it up properly.