The Twelve Kunai of Konoha
The Competition Begins
Tsunade was in her office, working on her latest pile of paper work that night. She stopped when she felt another presents come near the room. "Yes, what is?"
A shinobi landed in front of her desk kneeled down with his head down as well. "Lady Tsunade, I've came to make a request."
"Is it about tomorrow?"
The shinobi nodded.
Tsunade sat back in her chair. "Alright, what is it?"
"I like to prepare some traps in the forest," he said. "Considering what I'll be up against tomorrow I liked the chance to prepare. It won't be anything fetal of course."
"I know that. Very well, you have tonight to prepare anything you need for tomorrow," the Hokage said.
"Thank you." The shinobi disappeared from the office.
Tsunade sighed. She spun around in her chair to look outside her window. "So tomorrow is the big day. I hope everyone is ready."
-N-
The next day at sunrise, all the shinobi of the hidden leaf village shot out of bed, heading straight for the Hokage's mansion after hearing the signal. Everyone gathered in the front of the building, standing on the grounds, walls, or inside the trees all to get a look at the Hokage, who was standing on top of the building. Her assistant Shizune stood next to her.
Tsunade looked around the ground to see all the shinobi that were gathered from rookie genin all the way up to veteran ANBU Black Ops. She placed her hand on her hip. "It looks like everyone is here. OK, listen up because I only want to explain this once. These are direct orders from the Fire Lord himself."
Low mumbles came from the crowd.
The Fire Lord? Kakashi thought. What could he want?
The shinobi from yesterday appeared on the roof just a few steps behind Tsunade. He was now decked out in ANBU gear with a large green scroll on his back. On the forehead of his mask was the character for 'target'. He walked up next to the Hokage, looking down at the crowd.
"A discovery was made about a month ago," Tsunade began. "This has been something the Lords Land of Fire has been waiting for, for generations. Because what's inside it is a special ninjutsu that increase one's abilities simply by looking inside it. New jutsus gained from a single glance."
Gasps and mumbles came from out of the crowd.
Tsunade gestured toward the ANBU looking shinobi on her left. "The person you see here before looking at the scroll wasn't in the league of being ANBU; however after finding and looking inside this scroll he maybe well beyond ANBU Black Ops level. The thing is he's been hiding it up to today as he was ordered to."
"Can such a jutsu exist?" Asuma questioned out loud.
"I guess we're about to find out," Kurenai said.
Tsunade pointed to the young man. "Now then even though this jutsu is powerful it has a limit. The jutsu can only be performed a total of twelve times."
This got everyone in the crowd uneasy.
"Therefore the fairest way to decide who will get the new power is to hold a completion. It will also be a mission for all of you as well. So those who can capture him and retrieve the scroll from him will have succeeded and those who don't will get a failure on their record. And as a shinobi he can disgust himself and hide himself anyway he pleases as it is his mission to keep it away from you all."
Konohamaru looked determine.
"But I at least want to give a sporty chance so," Tsunade turned toward the shinobi. "Give them a glance of your face then you can go." The shinobi complied, taking off his mask for them to see it. The whole crowd gasped when they saw who it was.
"But isn't that-" Kakashi said in awe.
"I can't believe it," Kurenai said.
The shinobi then putted his mask back on. He placed his hand over his forehead then quickly removed it to see that the 'target' character was gone. He took a few steps back then disappeared without a trace.
Tsunade then focused back on the crowd with the most serious expression. "Alright, I'm going to explain the rules of the mission to you and after that you can go on after him." Tsunade quickly went through all of the rules for this mission she then finished up by saying, "Show the reason you are called shinobi of the Hidden Leaf. Dismiss!"
With that everyone knew she was serious and they all shattered after the fake ANBU.
-N-
Naruto sat up in his bed with his alarm going off. He had just woken up and wasn't feeling like his normal energetic self today. "Oh boy, what a night last night." He reached over and turned off the alarm. He then went on to get up and get dress for the day.
-N-
Naruto left the house and walked down the streets of Konoha to meet up with his friends. He finally arrived at a tree beside a road where Shino, Hinata, Neji, Rock Lee, Tenten, Ino, Choji, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Sasuke were waiting for him. Naruto yawned. "Hey, you guys."
Sasuke shifted his eyes toward the blond hair shinobi. "You sure took your sweet time."
"Don't give me that I just woke up," Naruto complained. Naruto looked up toward a roof to see some shinobi leap by. "Hey, have you guys noticed all the running around going on?"
"Of course we did," Shino said. "We wouldn't be very good shinobi if we didn't now would we?"
"So what's it all about?"
"We're not sure?" Neji spoke.
"No, one will stand still long enough to answer the question and normal civilians don't seem to know anything about it either," Rock Lee stepped in.
Naruto turned to face the tree they were all standing under. He scratched his head. "That's kind of weird."
Sasuke's eyes shifted. "Get Down!" Sasuke tackled Naruto to the side as everyone else got down. Shuriken flew at the group hitting the fence behind them instead. Sasuke looked back. "There are more coming."
Out of the tree, kunai knives flew down at the group. They all quickly leaped out of the way just being out of range of the tree. Sasuke stood up with his eyes focus. "Come out here." A shinobi appeared on the fence behind the tree. He had on an ANBU mask with two blue circles around the eye holes.
"Anbu?" they group questioned.
"What do you think you're doing?" Sasuke questioned.
The ANBU raised his fist to his head that held three kunai in between his fingers.
Sasuke appeared in front of said ANBU. He drew his sword from his back to swing it at their enemy when the man disappeared.
"Byakugan," Neji announced. His eyes activated to see where their opponent had gone. "Behind us." Everyone turned around to see the man behind them. Each of them got in a defensive position ready to strike.
"I suppose I can't fool those eyes, huh Neji," the masked shinobi said.
"Wait a minute, that voice," Hinata said.
The man chuckled. He reached for his mask, taking it off to reveal himself as…
"Kiba!" they all yelled.
Naruto pointed at the dog shinobi with his eyes going white with rage. "Kiba, you jerk why did you attack us like that?"
"A shinobi should never let their guard down," he responded. "Is that what you're going to say to an enemy when they attack you battle."
"Why you!?"
Sasuke leaped off the fence and walked up to the others. "Kiba, its fine if you want to test us, but using shuriken is taking it too far."
"Yeah, you could have killed us. jerk."
Kiba looked at all his friends strangely. That's weird. None of them are trying to capture me.
"And why are you dressed up as ANBU?" Naruto yelled.
"That's a good question," Neji said.
Kiba had his left eye halfway close. Don't tell me none of them showed up for this morning's meeting. I thought I just might have missed them in the large crowd. Well, maybe I can have some fun while on this mission after all. Kiba got a wicked smile on his face.
"Hey what's with that smile, Kiba?"
"Let me guess all of you forgot Lady Tsunade's orders didn't you," Kiba suddenly said.
All of them were caught off guard. "What orders? What are you talking about?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, I don't remember any orders," Sakura responded.
"She told ever shinobi two weeks ago that they were supposed to meet today in front of her mansion," he reminded the group.
Sakura's eyes went bug white with fright. Sweat poured down her face. That was today?
"What we're all of you doing?" Kiba questioned. "She gave a signal and everything. Man, once Lady Tsunade finds out she's going to beat you all like a drum." Kiba laughed. His friends on the other hand turned white as ghost with sweat flowing down their bodies.
Kiba folded his arms across his chest. "So what are you going to tell her?" he continued to mock.
Ino balled up her fist and glared at Naruto. "This is all your fault! I knew we shouldn't have listened to you and went out partying all night."
Naruto held his hands up defensively. "I didn't know the important meeting granny schedule was the next morning."
"You're all Chunnin and Jonin you should know better. At least most of you." Kiba lowered his shoulders and pointed at his friends, realizing something. "Hey, wait a minute! I don't remember being invited to any party."
"Naruto didn't invite you," Sasuke said simply.
"Oh, is that how it is, Naruto?"
Naruto balled up his fist in front of his chest. "You're the one who keeps making fun of me because I'm still a Genin."
"Yeah, well I can't wait to see Lady Tsunade put you in the hospital."
"Couldn't you just simply tell us what the Hokage wanted," Shino said.
"Yes, that's right," Hinata spoke up.
"And why would I do that." Kiba turned his head away from his friends. His shifted his eyes back toward them. "It'll be a lot funnier to see her beat you all up. Especially since you all left me out of all the fun."
"Come on, don't be like that," Tenten replied.
"Yeah, be mature about this," Ino chimed in.
Kiba turned back to face them. He placed the ANBU mask back on his face with the character 'target' now on the forehead. "Nah, it's better to embarrass you."
"Why are you putting that mask back on you, jerk?" Naruto yelled.
Kiba practically lifted up the mask to release a brownish-golden gas. It quickly surrounded the shinobi not giving them a chance to escape. "What is this?" Naruto questioned.
Kiba leaped out of the fog onto the wooden fence behind him. He made the snake hand seal. "Time to get started."
-N-
"Why in the world would you have all of our shinobi running around the village like fools?" Homura questioned. "What will visitors think seeing all this?"
"No one will want to hire us," Koharu continued.
Tsunade was staring at the two old bags that were on the roof. "All missions have been suspended. On top of that the Fire Lord has informed anyone who wants ninja to go to the other lands for the time being."
The ancient two shinobi stood there shock.
Tsunade seemed a bit amuse at their dismay. "I told you. The Lords of Fire have been waiting for this for generations."
"But to do something like this?" Homura said.
Tsunade turned around to see Kiba sudden appeared on the roof on one knee with four ropes in his hands. "Kiba, what are you doing here?"
Kiba stood up. "I thought I have a little fun."
"Is now really the time for that?" Homura questioned.
"I'll be out of here in a moment. I just wanted to show everyone who they shouldn't be like."
All three of them looked at him confuse. Kiba moved over to the railing and began to tie the rope to them. After he finished everything he sent up a flare to get everyone in the village's attention. He then looked back at Tsunade. "I'll be on my way now." He vanished from the sight.
Everyone from shinobi to civilians came to the mansion to see what was going. Asuma, Kakashi, Guy, and Kurenai all stood in front to see the sight. "I know she said no fatal force, but this," Asuma said.
"We are still dealing with a teenager after all," Kurenai said. "Besides I wouldn't past put Kiba to do this."
"More than likely genjutsu has a hand in this as well," Kakashi said.
While the four jonin were having their conversation all the other people in the area were laughing at the sight.
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