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Kokonotsu

Chapter 1: Kokonotsu, The Mysterious Ninja Girl

It was the beginning of a warm and sunny day in Kohana and team seven was bored because the mission that they were supposed to go on had been cancelled at the last minute. Since no one had anything better to do they were all busy trying to think up a training exercise because Kakashi being, well Kakashi, hadn't planned for something like this. Suddenly an idea struck Naruto and before he could put any though into it, it was out in the open, "Hey, how about we play hide-and-seek. Except we change it up a little and have one person hide and the other three have to find him."

"Dobe that is-," Sasuke pauses to think for a moment then continues surprised, "actually not a bad idea."

"Yeah, we could use this as a tracking and hiding exercise," Sakura adds even more surprised.

A mischievous glint came into Kakashi's eye as he began to issue a wager, "How about we make this even more interesting then, whoever lasts the longest gets free food for an entire month and the other three have to pay for it."

The three of them agreed quickly to this, and since the whole thing was Naurto's idea, he was up first. "Heh, bet you guys can't find me," Naruto brags.

"Yeah right, I bet we can find you in an hour or less, double or nothing," Sasuke taunted.

"You're on! Free ramen here I come! Oh and by the way, your time started two minutes ago so I'd get to it if I were you," he informed them as he suddenly turned into a cloud of smoke.

They all stared wide-eyed as the clone poofed away; wondering when he had done it and immediately took off after him cursing him along the way. A half hour past before Sasuke spotted sun blonde hair in twin high pigtails that went to the hips in the crowded streets of Konoha. As he crept closer the person whom he had thought was Naruto turned around to reveal that they were instead a girl version of the blonde minus the whiskers and the orange jumpsuit. She instead wore a blue sundress that matched her eyes, it came down to just above her knees and it accentuated her gentle curves and incoming breasts.

"Hi, you must be Sasuke Uchiha, Naurto's friend," the girl greeted impassively when she saw him staring at her and she gave a smile she that never reached her eyes. The Uchiha just stared at the girl wondering why she wasn't all over him, when it dawned on him that this was Naruto using his infamous sexy jutsu. "I'm Kokonotsu, you-" but the girl never finished what she was going to ask as a fist made contact with her face and she went flying back into a fruit-stand.

Calmly the girl picked herself up and after dusting herself off, came running at him looking as if she was going to punch him back which he immediately got into a defensive position for, when suddenly she went into a leg sweep causing him to fall on his stomach. He felt a hand go into his ninja pouch and pull something out, next thing he knew his hands and feet were tied together behind his back, and his hands were tied in such a way that he couldn't make any hand signs. "Do you mind explaining what the hell that was all about?" she asked with the same indifferentness as she yanked his hair so that he could see her face.

Gritting his teeth he replied simply, "I thought that you were Naruto." That theory had quickly left his head when he realized how calmly she'd reacted and though he was reluctant to admit it, she'd tied him up pretty easily as well.

"Baka, I just told you my name is Kokonotsu and if you had let me finish I would have asked if you knew where Naruto was, but obviously you don't know," she stated calmly.

Suddenly laughter broke through the tension. "Hey teme! You better apologize to her before things become really unpleasant for you!" a voice called followed by a hysterical Naruto.

"Dobe tell her to let me go," Sasuke demanded.

"That won't do any good, she won't listen to me and besides-" Naruto was explaining before Kokonotsu interrupted him finishing the explanation off-handedly, "he's a clone he can't do anything anyway."

Bewildered Sasuke looked from Kokonotsu to Naruto who had a big grin plastered on his face and back to Kokonotsu who was, well a big blank really. "Are you guys related?" Sasuke asked, he had thought that Naruto didn't have any family.

At this they both looked at each other then started laughing, Naruto's light and joyful and Kokonotsu's was hollow. "You could say that," they both replied at the same time.

Suddenly jealous jabs could be felt all around. "I guess it's time we made a break for it, see you guys later," Naruto chuckled nervously and then the clone was gone.

"Well I guess that's my cue to leave as well," Kokonotsu stated calmly and got up to go.

"Wait are you just going to leave me like this," the Uchiha asked panic underlying in his voice.

"Sure why not you hit me, now I leave you to the mercy of your fan girls… that is unless you have something to say within the next five seconds that will persuade me to change my mind," she stated coolly with a cold smile on her face that sent shivers down his back.

Glaring at her Sasuke sighed and chose the lesser of two evils, "Kokonotsu-san I am very sorry to have hit you without knowing everything and it will never happen again."

"I guess it's a start," she sighed at his tone then smirked and gave a sharp tug on a piece of string that she had held onto and all at once all the ropes came undone, "You have to work on apologizing teme (pauses to smirk at his scowl) I'd run if I were you bye."

With that said she was gone using a teleportation jutsu and a crowd of raging girls came at him from all sides as he tried to get away. Up on the roof Kokonotsu was sitting back watching the entire spectacle when she felt a familiar chakra signature. "Do you think that they'll ever figure it out Hinata-chan?" she asked without turning around.

"Maybe, but I think you've definitely caught Sasuke's interest Kokonotsu-chan," Hinata replies to the girl's back.

"Perfect now he's going to start asking questions and as far as everyone knows, I'm just another citizen of Konoha that has no ninja training what-so-ever, and the only ninjas that know of my existence are Purvey-Sage, Grandma-Tsunade, and the Hyuga family," Kokonotsu stated.

"And the Hyuga have never even let you see their training exercises let alone train you and with our byakuugan checking whoever comes in and out we can vouch for you," Hinata reassured her.

"Thanks Hinata-chan you're a good friend, I just wish Purvey-Sage and Grandma-Tsunade would let me tell everyone straight out already. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be happy with the fact that Old-Man-Hokage let me tell you. Let's go train while those guys try to find Naruto," Kokonotsu suggested mischievously.

"Sure you want to race?" Hinata asked in the same tone with a smile to match.

"You read my mind ready, set, go!" And with that the two disappeared so completely it would put the ANBU to shame.