The Land of Honey, one of the non-shinobi countries, has been invaded by The Land of the Claw. Thus, the Daimyo of the Land of Honey sent one of his daughters on a quest to save their land. The said quest has two missions. One, is to seek help from the shinobi of Konohagakure, and two, is to search for the most important treasure in the Land of Honey.

Beloved Author Maiya-sama

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NARUTO:

Big Mission Once Again! Treasure in the Land of Honey

DISCLAIMER: Naruto, its story and its characters do not belong to me. They are the property of the great Kishimoto Masashi-sensei. Only the plot of this fanfiction, and the original characters are mine.

WARNING: Some parts of this story may contain violence and bad language. If you don't like this, then feel free to press the back button.


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CRASH! ENTER TAKAHASHI FUYUKI!

Lightning flashed, and thunder crashed. Trees and houses were set aflame, spears and arrows soared through the air, and people's terrified screams echoed throughout the darkness.

The palace which lay at the back of the land was not spared either. By the wooden gates, a bunch of heavily armed men started to break all barriers--be it a gate or a wall--down. Hundreds of guards started to gather around the gates, ready for a fight to the death with these invaders.

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"...Fuyuki-sama? Fuyuki-sama!"

A young girl of about fifteen years blinked. Takahashi Fuyuki turned her head to the side, her shoulder-length, midnight black hair swishing slightly against the movement. A black headband ran across her forehead towards the back of her head. Upon her back, was a backpack, along with a set of an exotic-looking bow and arrows. She and four others have just entered a small town within the Country of Fire. Her amethyst eyes glanced questioningly at the one who called her.

"Ookami?"

The one named "Ookami" is a girl who is also the same age as Fuyuki. She can however, be deemed as "more blessed" than Fuyuki in terms of fullness in figure. Dressed in a white shirt covered by a light blue vest as well as red 3/4 cut pants, her curves can be easily seen, as compared to Fuyuki who only wore a white top and a navy blue hakama. Her luxurious, straight, black hair was tied up in a high ponytail, and her wide, jade-colored eyes sparkled with playfulness and mirth. Interestingly, Ookami is one who seemed to be true to her name, because believe it or not, white wolf ears protruded out from the sides of her head, and a white fluffy tail stuck out from her bottom. Of course a lot of people tended to stare at her, but that didn't bother her, unless someone made trouble out of it. She brought her hand to her hips and frowned slightly at the other girl. "Fuyuki-sama, you're daydreaming again, aren't you?"

Fuyuki blushed slightly in embarrassment at having being caught, but being herself, she quickly glanced away from the wolf-girl. "I am not."

Ookami's right ear twitched, and at the same time, she raised her eyebrow skeptically. "Oh really...?"

"Yes, really." The amethyst-eyed girl nodded, then turned towards the two other members of their small group. "Ne Uzuki? Ne Squi-chan?"

Masumi Uzuki, the third member of the group, is a girl who is always mistakenly thought of a small child, even though she was only a year younger than the other two. Her hooded eyes were the color of fine silver, and her thick, wavy green hair is waist-length and is decorated with a silver headband. She wore a green kimono which reached down to her hips, and a matching green shorts, and blue leggings. "Um..y-yes..." She said.

"Squi, squi!" Squeaked the last member of their group. It was actually a squirrel which was perched upon Fuyuki's right shoulder. Interestingly, this squirrel is unlike all others of its kind--it was dressed in a green vest, a blue scarf around its neck and black pants. It had a forehead protector running diagonally from the back of its left ear towards under its right ear, covering its right eye. In all, it looked like a cute mini-ninja.

Fuyuki smiled and reached up to pat the squirrel's stomach with her forefinger, when suddenly a shrill scream pierced through the air.

Ookami's ears twitched, her head immediately turning towards the direction of its source. "What was that?"

Fuyuki was also staring towards the direction of the scream. "Sounds like someone's in trouble!" Without another thought, she started running in that direction, her navy blue hakama whooshing against the wind.

"Wait! No, Fuyuki-sama!" Ookami protested. But it was to no avail, for the other girl neither stopped nor turned her head back at her. "Dammit," The wolf girl cursed. "And SHE'S the one who told us not to get into trouble!" She said, shaking her head. "Oh well, that's Fuyuki-sama for you." Then she motioned towards the green-haired girl. "Come on, Uzuki!"

"Uh..o-okay!" Uzuki said, breaking into a run after the wolf-girl.

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The shrill scream actually came from a young girl of about fourteen years, who was being grabbed violently from her father by a group of menacing-looking men. The father, a middle-aged tired-looking man, wrapped his arms around the leg of one of the men, pleading desperately. "PLEASE! Not my daughter! I'll give you anything! Just don't take my daughter!"

He was answered by a step on the face by the man. The others laughed at this, and one of them said, "That's some nerve you've got, old man! We're merely taking back what's ours, or have you forgotten your debt?"

"Daddy!" The young girl cried out. She tried to wiggle herself out of the man's grasp, but it was to no avail, for the more she tried to struggle the more did the hold on her tighten.

"Time..." Her father said in a soft voice, tears now flowing freely down his dirtied face. "Please, just give me time..."

Finally, the man (who seemed to be the leader of the group) spoke in a menacing voice. "Time, eh?" He pushed his foot downwards harder, burying the other man's face deeper onto the ground. "I've given you so much of that already." He then, lifted his foot away, and smirked. Maybe it's about time to give me yours, old man." With that, he pulled out a kunai and threw it, aiming at the man's neck.

"DADDY!" Screamed the young girl, who also had tears flowing out of her eyes.

Just then, soft "clang" sounded, as steel crashed against steal. The gang leader blinked, and was surprised to see that an arrow had deflected his kunai. He turned his head towards the direction the arrow came from, and saw a young boy dressed in a hakama holding out his bow. "What?"

The boy with midnight-black hair clucked his tongue and shook his head as he walked towards them, and stood in front of the girl's father. "Three able-bodied men against a girl and her father? That's a little bit too one-sided, don't you think?" He smirked.

Seeing that smirk annoyed the gang leader, an anger vein quickly becoming visible at the side of his head. "Brat! Get out of the way!"

The boy's smirk only widened. "What if I don't want to?"

"Then you will die." The gang leader said, raising a hand.

As if on cue, one of the men rushed towards him, throwing three knives towards the boy. The boy immediately parried the knives with the riser of his bow. A punch was suddenly making its way towards his face, but the boy ducked and swung his foot towards the man's feet, catching him off-balance. Just as the man landed on the ground with a dull 'thud', another man was already charging towards him, this time throwing six needles--three from each hand. Swiftly, the boy ducked, barely avoiding the needles. He wrapped one arm around the father, and jumped away from the scene. By this time, people had begun gather to watch the battle. Gently, the boy placed the man on the ground, just in front of the gathering crowd. "Just stay there, Mister." He said.

The teary-eyed father grabbed ahold of his sleeve, and pleaded, "Please...get her back..."

The boy smiled. "Of course, Mister." With that, he rushed back into the battle scene again. He parried the punch thrown at him by the second man with his bow, and consequently landed a roundhouse kick against him. That pushed the man back onto the first man, who was just about to stand up, and together the two toppled gracelessly onto the ground.

The gang leader stared at his two fallen men, the expression of his face a mixture of fear, anger, and awe. Almost immediately, he released the girl, who immediately rushed over to hide behind the boy. He turned and started to run away, but before he did, he gave the boy his "fiercest" glare. "I'll have my revenge, brat! Just you wait!" The two other men, realizing that their boss was running away, got up and followed suit.

The boy chuckled. "Sure I will." He waited for the three to disappear from his vision before turning back towards the girl. "Oy, you alright?"

She tilted her head up, and was immediately greeted by the most beautiful amethyst eyes she had ever seen. His wavy, shoulder-length midnight black hair accented his eyes, and the black headband he wore gave her an impression that he looked like... "...a prince..." She whispered to herself.

The "prince" tilted his head, blinking slightly in confusion. "Pardon?"

"Uh...um..I..." The girl found herself stammering and blushing even more. "I...I..."

"FUJI-CHAAANN!" The father cried, tears of joy now freely flowing down his cheeks, and he threw his arms around his daughter. "I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE OKAY!"

He turned towards the young boy. "You don't know how grateful I am to you for saving us, Mister umm..."

"Fuyuki."

The father nodded, his smile widening. "Thank you, Fuyuki-san. But you've got quite the talent for fighting, even for a boy as young as you."

The young man, who was actually a young girl, sweatdropped. Seems like she had been mistaken for a boy...AGAIN. "U--um..." She began. "Thank you, but---"

"I LOVE YOU FUYUKI-SAMA!"

That sudden (loud) statement surprised everyone within a 2-mile radius, of course including Fuyuki herself. She looked back at the girl she had just saved, question marks suddenly popping over her head. "Eh?"

The father looked down at his daughter, aghast. "Fuji-chan...what are you saying?"

"You're...you're handsome...and kind...and thoughtful...and a skilled warrior..." The girl said, twiddling her fingers nervously. "You're all a girl could ever want...a prince...MY prince...and I...I..."

At this point, Ookami and Uzuki had just arrived at the scene, hidden from behind a tree. Ookami smirked, "Well, looks like Fuyuki-sama has already taken care of things here..."

The girl finally stopped twiddling her fingers, and she looked up with a look of determination on her face. "I...I love you Fuyuki-sama!" Suddenly, she threw her arms around Fuyuki, who cried out in surprise. "Will...will you be the father of my babies?"

Once again, the crowd was struck! Both Ookami and Uzuki were trying their best not to laugh.

"WHA---WHAT?" A bright red blush suddenly came upon Fuyuki's cheeks, and her eyes became as wide as saucers. "You must be mistaken! I'm---!"

The father, having seen the determination on his daughter's face and the blush upon the 'boy's' face (to which he interpreted that the boy must have fallen for his daughter), grinned at patted Fuyuki's shoulder. "Son."

The crowd, happy with such a fairy-tale ending, started to clap. "Yaaaayyyyy!"

"N-NO!" Fuyuki stammered. She tried to push away the girl who was clinging tightly to her waist, but it was to no avail. "You're mistaken!"

By now, Ookami had burst into uncontrollable laughter, she was literally rolling on the ground. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, this is too much!" Uzuki tried to calm the wolf-girl down, but she also found herself giggling. Their squirrel companion was also on the ground, "squi-ing" in laughter. "Ookami-san...you shouldn't laugh...heeeheee...you too, Squi-chan...heeeeheee...They'll hear us...heeeheee..."

In the midst of the struggle, Fuyuki turned her head and caught sight of her companions. "Oy Ookami! Uzuki! Do something!"

But her companions were just too busy laughing to notice her. Dammit, She cursed to herself. I've got to do something! She thought desperately, feeling extreme discomfort at the feel of some girl snuggling against her chest. Lifting a finger and pointing upwards, she cried, "Hey look everyone! A flying monkey having sex with a giant cow!"

Wonder of wonders, all eyes (including father and daughter) turned upwards, curious to see such a strange feat. Fuji's hold on her waist loosened, and that was all Fuyuki needed to get away.

CHANCE! She thought triumphantly to herself. She placed her arms upon the girl's shoulders and pushed her away roughly towards her father. She then turned on her heels and proceeded to run away.

"But wait my love, there isn't a---" Fuji looked down at her hands, only to find her beloved missing. There were even dotted lines blinking from where her beloved once stood. Her eyes widened, and she screamed in horror. "MY PRINCE! MY PRINCE IS MISSING!"

"There he is!" Cried some random person from the crowd, pointing towards a cloud of dust in the distance. "He's running away!"

"Everyone, don't let my son-in-law get away!" The father said determinedly. "We shouldn't let our children be deprived of their happy ending!"

"YES!" The crowd yelled enthusiastically. Without another thought, they all started to chase after the cloud of dust.

The said cloud of dust was still running as fast as her legs could go. "Dammit, I shouldn't have saved her! I should have left them…I could have been eating delicious food right now…but NOOOO…I just had to poke my stupid nose into their stupid businesses!" It did not help matters much that she was pissed at her companions. "Some companions they are!" She said, gritting her teeth angrily. "I swear, I'm gonna beat them up then kick them, then roast---"

Fuyuki suddenly halted, as an enticing smell reached her nose. She felt the familiar numbing of her body, her eyelids closing half-way down, her head tilting lazily and a small drool coming from the side of her mouth. "Raaaaaammmmmeeeeeeeennnnnnn..." Like a zombie possessed, she slowly turned and floated (yes, floated!) her way inside a nearby restaurant, following the delicious whiff. It was actually a good move, that decision of hers, for soon the Happy-Ending-Obsessed crowd ran past the restaurant without realizing that the very person they were chasing after, was just inside.

Some fifteen minutes later, Ookami and Uzuki came up on the street, looking left and right for the missing Fuyuki.

"Damn!" Ookami cursed, clenching her fists. "We've lost her!"

The squirrel glared at Ookami, shaking a fist at the wolf-girl. "Squi! Squi, squi, squi, squi, squi, squi, SQUI! (It's all your fault, fang-girl! You were supposed to keep an eye on her!")

An anger vein suddenly popped from Ookami's temple. Being cursed as a half-wolf, she had the advantage (or disadvantage?) of having the ability to talk and understand animals. "Whaddaya mean 'it's all my fault'! You were supposed to watch over her too, you little SQUIRT!!"

"Squi! (Fang-girl!)"

"Squirt!"

"Squi!" (Your tail can be used as a feather duster!)

"Oh yeah? So what? Your tail is a rag!"

"Squi!" (You're gonna bear nothing but ugly wolf cubs!)

"And you're gonna bear nothing but an ugly egg that's going to be fried and fed to the sharks!"

"SQUI!!" (STUPID! Squirrels don't lay eggs and I'M A MALE!)

"GRRR!"

"SQUII!"

One can almost see the sparks of electricity flying through the wolf girl and the squirrel's eyes. It was broken however, when Uzuki reached up and covered Squi-chan's eyes.

"Ookami-san, I think I know where Fuyuki-sama is..."

Ookami straightened up, her ears twitching in curiousity. "Oh really? Where?"

With her other hand, she pointed towards a restaurant to their right. Overhead, it bore the sign 'OH! MY RAMEN!' in bold characters.

Ookami's wolf ears drooped and she shook her head. "I shouldn't have asked."


Author's Notes:

Good day everyone! (shrieks and dodges all the fruits and vegetables being thrown at her) I know, I know...another Naruto fanfic without even finishing my two others! I'm sorry, but I just can't help it...new ideas keep on coming everyday, and this is my latest one. I know the Naruto characters aren't here yet, but they will be in the next chapter. I promise! All I ask is for you to enjoy reading this story, and of course...review! I would really love to hear from you readers, so PLEASE, take time to review this (even one line will do), so that I will know the things I need to improve on...especially the fight scenes (and most probably my weird and sick sense of humor, haha..). Ack...I really suck at writing fight scenes...I hope the one I did was okay...Anyways, again, I hope that you would enjoy this story and that you would take the time to review.

Oh, and by the way...this story takes place two years after the first season of the Naruto anime (since I haven't read the manga yet). It assumes that Sasuke has been retrieved, and that most of the Rookie 9 are officially chuunins. If you have any more questions, please feel free to email me or leave your questions in your reviews. Thank you very much!

Well, that's all for today.

Till the next part!