I do not own Naruto or any of it's charachters, however i do own Yasashii, Kairu and the Dokuchi
Three shinobi ran through the forest darting in and out of thee beams of dancing light radiating from the full moon above them returning to their village after a long tiring mission. The only girl of the group looked up to the sky in awe of how beautiful the sky was.
"It's late, and we're still a fair way from the village, we should set up camp" the girl announced brushing her pink hair out of her face.
"What do you mean Sakura? We can make it" exclaimed one of her teammates in a playful attitude as if it really didn't matter
"Naruto, you're obviously tired just stop and rest" said the third ninja a smile creeping along his face. Naruto sat down arms crossed accepting his defeat,
"Thankyou Sai" Sakura giggled.
Suddenly she jerked her head upward, and looked as if she was in a daze
"Do you smell that?" Sakura whispered
Boys the both nodded. The scent of roses wafted through the air carried on a breeze rustling the trees and the shinobi's hair, the scent was quickly followed by a scream of pain.
"Quick we have to see what's happening" blurted out Naruto carelessly bounding in the direction of the scream.
Naruto!" the girl moaned running after him "it was a man's voice, be careful" The trio arrived in a small town. Everything was closed and it seemed abandoned but the ninjas managed to discover the location of the commotion and run inside what seemed to be a large apartment building. It was pitch black as the moon, their only source of light was hidden behind a cloud at the present time so each took care where they stepped praying to not make any noise, suddenly the cloud drifted off exposing the moon and a lifeless still body. Sakura ran over to the body examining it closely.
"He's dead "she announced "but he was only killed just recently"
Sai remained silent as Naruto began to panic
"Naruto why are you being so childish you've seen a lot worse" the Sakura snapped
Naruto didn't answer he just pointed to the victims neck, all of them jumped back in horror, the man's neck looked like it had been whipped and burned at the same time, despite only just recently dying the flesh around the wounds was dissolved, the wounds progress down the man's chest and left arm, even after the attack the slashes still throbbed and moved to enclose the whole body.
"Poison" Sakura whispered
"Exactly" a voice echoed from the ceiling all three ninja's jumped back and in a battle ready stance. The voice was sweet defiantly a girl's, a woman's, and a bit cheeky but you would never tire of hearing it.
"Show yourself" yelled naruto knowing if she was smart she'd just either leave or hurry up attack. To everyone's surprise a figure came from nowhere and stood next to her victim. Only her silhouette was visible but you could tell she was beautiful or at least had a lovely physic, Sakura plainly showed envy in her eyes of it.
"Don't worry I won't hurt you" she said calmly her words were ignored as the trio stayed on guard, the girl stepped into the light and all three of them were stunned.
She was stunning; her hair was an inch below her shoulders and a lovely shimmering brown, with a side fringe which covered half of her right eye and her whole forehead and with layer strands which framed beautiful face, her skin was flawless with large olive coloured eyes, she was taller than naruto but obviously older but not by much a red ribbon choker was around her neck. She wore a yellow tinted top which only had one sleeve like Kurenei sensei's leaving her right arm bare, half the top ended at the waist but the rest was pulled down to cover more of the right side. A large charcoal black waste band gave the outfit shape and a matching short skirt was worn.
The girl noticed their headbands reached for her leg which made the others jump, she seemed to be untying something nobody was sure in this light. She then raised her hand,
"I'm an ally" she said slowly holding up a Konaha headband They three were once again in shock, but before another word could be said she disappeared, leaving only a rose behind, it was very distinct, it was white and each petal was outlined with red and in the centre was a black dot.
"It's beautiful" Sakura said with desperation in her voice
Sai remained silent.
"You still with us Sai?" question Naruto waving and jumping about in front of his face Sai simply ignored the childish act and stared at the face of the recently deceased man
"Is everything ok Sai" asked Sakura, now her voice was a little more worried
"It's nothing , it's just the face of that man seems familiar" he stated reaching for his bag and pulling out his bingo book.
He flipped through the pages examining each carefully.
"Just as I thought" Sai nodded showing his comrades the book,
"This is the man you see before you, we need to report this to the Hokage" Sakura and Naruto nodded.
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The sun was rising bathing everything in a warm yellow light, everything quiet and peaceful with the exception of Naruto, Sakura and Sai rushing back to the village hidden in the leaves to report the incident.
"Grandma Tsunade, wake up" Naruto yelled, his voice echoing through the entire village
Sakura flinched "Would you shut up people are still asleep don't just think of yourself all the time"
"Oh yeah I forgot, oops" he laughed
Sai just silently drew on a small sketch pad looking pretty pleased with his work. Suddenly the door creaked open to reveal Shizune bright and awake, she obviously was up late doing paperwork, she didn't say a word but gestured them to follow her to the Hokage's office. Unlike Shizune Lady Tsunade lay asleep at her desk on top of stacks of documents she was suppose to be reading.
"Lady Tsunade" Shizune said gently "Lady fifth!"
The Hokage jumped up with shock looking around.
"What is it Shizune" she announced in a harsh tone rubbing her eyes like a small child,
"Apparently team 7 has something..." Shizune stopped mid sentence to look at Sai who held up the rose they had found earlier.
"Does this seem familiar to you Lady Hokage?" he questioned
Both Tsunade and Shizune mouths were open in shock, everything was silent.
"So grandma, you gonna give us an answer" said Naruto
Sakura responded by hitting him on the head causing him to shut up "idiot" she murmured.
Sai then began to explain the rest of the story.
Lady Tsunade smiled looking at the rose, "it's been so long" she sighed
"I Take it you know who we're dealing with" Smirked Sakura
"Bara Yasashii, that's her name, it couldn't be anyone else"
"And how do you know her?" Interrogated Naruto
"Tsunade was the Jonin I use to study under" everyone's eyes darted to the window there stood Yasashii
"Hi, I'm sorry but I thought I should follow these guys home" she said smiling "Kairu finally let me come back"
"Where is Kairu?" Asked Tsunade
"Well that's how I was allowed to come, I didn't tell her, she will be here soon" she said laughing nervously. "And when she gets here she will be mad"
Tsunade just smirked.