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Takes place just after Kotaro shows up at Mahora and one week before the beginning of the Chunin Exams.
The Quest Begins
In an unused room in one of the science wings of the Mahora School District stood three girls. The first was a tall dark-skinned girl with long black hair, the second one had black hair in two buns on her head that each had a small ponytail coming from them, and the last one was a tanned girl with white short cut hair and two tattoos on her face, the first a green line running from her forehead to below her right eye and the second one a blue tear drop under her left eye.
"So Zazie, why did you want to meet Mana and me here?" the girl with the twin hair buns asked the girl with the face tattoos.
Zazie reached into one of the pockets of her shirt pulling out two pieces of paper and handed them to the girl with the twin hair buns saying "…"
After a minute or so the third girl, Mana, spoke up "Chao, what do the papers say?"
The girl with the twin hair buns, now identified as Chao, looked at her "Let me read them to you."
Dear family,
I'm going on vacation to the Elemental Nations. Be back as soon as I feel like it.
Raliena Rainyday.
Dear Zazie-sama,
I have finally found out why your grandmother has not returned after such along time. A few months after she arrived in the Elemental Nations she had an unfortunate encounter with a drunken exorcist. He was so wasted when he tried to send you grandmother back home that he accidentally split her into nine pieces, which he called the Bijuu. Each has a bit of your grandmothers' personality. I unfortunately was unable to locate where any of them are as of my sending this message.
Your most loyal servant,
Maugrim.
Mana raised her eyebrow "So how do you want us to help?"
"She's going to need your help incase we come across trouble and my help for tracking down the pieces of her grandmother. Right Zazie" Chao said smiling at Mana.
Zazie nodded before grabbing both of their hands in her "…"
"Zazie, just this once I think I'll refrain from asking for payment. Helping you get your missing grandmother back is more important than money," Mana said in a rare moment of sentimentality as the let go of each other's hands.
Chao smiled "I've been wanting to head back to the Elemental Nations for awhile."
Both Mana and Zazie stared at her before Zazie said "…"
"I visited there before coming to Mahora. In fact I think I know where to start the search for the pieces of you grandmother" Chao said grinning before continuing with a frown "I would like to know what you'll do if a piece of her is sealed away, possibly in a living being."
Zazie tilted her head "…"
"I agree with Zazie, why would anyone seal a demon into a living creature?" Mana said just as confused as Zazie.
Chao chewed her lip for a minute before sighing "In the Elemental Nations its tradition to seal the Bijuu away into a new born baby to either turn them into a living weapon for their village when their older or just to protect their village from destruction. I just want to make sure that if we have to extract a piece from someone that we won't kill them."
After Zazie got over her shock "…" said reassuringly to Chao.
"Well now that we've agreed to help you Zazie, how are we going to get to the Elemental Nations? I've never even heard of them before" Mana said with curiosity.
"I'm not surprised you've never heard of them, they exist in another dimension. I don't know how Zazie's grandmother got there, but I have a device that will allow us to get there" Chao explained while she pulled a small silver device with a lot of buttons on it from her pocket.
"…" Zazie said looking from the device to Chao.
Mana crossed her arms in front of her "Zazies right, why do you have something like that and how do you really know so much about the Elemental Nations?"
Chao gave them a sad smile "I found myself stuck there for a few years before I finally made it to Mahora. I used this device to get from there to here. Now I have a question for you two, when do you want to leave?"
"I don't know about Zazie, but I'm ready to go whenever you are" Mana said as she pulled out a pair of pistols and twirled them.
Zazie nodded in agreement.
"All right, then I suggest we leave now. That was we can begin gathering the piece's of Zazie's grandmother" Chao said looking at them.
They both nodded their consent before Chao pressed a few buttons on the device. The entire room was filled with a bright light engulfing everyone in the room, including three people the girls hadn't noticed. When the light faded everyone was gone.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage, was in his office dealing with his most dreaded enemy, paperwork. He was also thinking about the Chunin Exams, which were going to start in a week. He was concentrating so hard that he didn't notice the six new presences in the room until her heard a female voice "Hey Jiji, long time no see." Now the Hokage thinking it was the Genin he considered a grandson using his Oiroku no Jutsu on him to get a laugh. "Naruto, you know I don't like it when you use that jutsu" he warned without looking up.
"And why would you think I'm Naruto, Jiji?" the voice asked annoyed.
"Because he's the only one who calls me that," he said still not looking up due to the voice still being a girl.
"Not the last time I knew, besides he wasn't the one to start calling you that if I remember" the voice said cheerfully.
The Hokage took a few seconds to remember whom the voice was referring too. When it finally clicked his mouth dropped open and his eyes grew wide as he quickly looked up. He saw a girl of about fifteen with black hair put into two buns with a ponytail coming from each waving at him with a smile on her face. There were also four other girls and a boy that he saw, but he was more focused on the girl waving at him. "Chao Lingshen, is that you?" he asked with a bit of shock on his face.
"Who else would I be Jiji, Anko using a henge" Chao said with a frown.
He actually began to chuckle "It's definitely you, Chao. You're the only one I know who would make a joke about Anko without worrying about the repercussions. Now, could you tell me who your friends are?"
She nodded "This is Mana Tatsumiya" pointing to the tall dark-skinned girl with long black hair and a guitar case on her back on Chao's left "And this is Zazie Rainyday" pointing to the tanned girl with short white hair and tattoos on her face to her right.
The Hokage waited a few seconds for her to introduce the other three. "Chao, who are your other three friends?" he said pointing to her right.
She looked at him confused before looking to her right. There she saw three people: a girl in a yellow Chinese dress with short blonde hair in two small pigtails, another girl in a red Chinese dress with butterfly's and flowers with long green hair tied in a ponytail that went down to her ankles, and finally a boy about the height of her sensei with black pants, a white shirt, and an open black long sleeve jacket with spiky black hair. "Ku? Kaede? What are you two doing here and who's that boy?" Chao asked them.
The girl in the yellow Chinese dress answered first "I ask Satomi where were so can talk about spar tomorrow. She say you in unused lab for talk with Zazie and Mana."
Chao then looked at the red head "Kaede?"
"I was showing Kotaro around the campus when we ran into Ku. So we decided to go with her to introduce you to him" Kaede said with a smile.
Kotaro crossed his arms "I'd like to know where we are and why?"
"I agree with the boy. I would like to know why you're here and where you've been for the last two years?" the Hokage said to Chao as he took out his pipe and lit it.
Chao asked him to put up a privacy jutsu before she would say more. He nodded while quickly going through the handsigns making the room glow softly for a second. Chao then said how she had managed to go to Mahora, about Zazie being a demon, Zazie asking them to help her find the missing pieces of her grandmother, and that if any of the pieces are in someone they can be removed without them dieing.
The Hokage took a couple of puffs on his pipe "I see now I know why you've come back and to me first. Unfortunately we can't do much at the moment with the Chunin Exams starting in a week."
Chao grabbed her chin thinking then looked at Kotaro "How are you at combat?"
"I'm a member of the dog demon tribe," he said with a grin on his face.
Zazie walked over to him and started to scratch the top of his head like you would a dog.
Kotaro was startled at before growling and pushing her hand away "Don't do that, it's embarrassing."
Everyone in the room tried to hide their laughter when they saw this.
"Jiji I think I have an idea, but I have a couple of questions for you. Has Naruto made it to Genin and will he be entering the Exams?" Chao asked with a serious look on her face.
"The answer to both is yes. His Jonin-sensei believes he's ready" he said wondering what she was thinking.
"Good, then my plan will work. Have the six of us enter the Exams as two separate Genin teams from the village" Chao said smiling.
"I would love to, but the only one of you who is a registered Genin of the village is you Chao. Besides I don't want to put any of your friends in danger. You know what's expected of a ninja ad what they have to know" the Hokage told her with a frown.
Chao continued to smile "You don't have to worry about anything Jiji. I know that all of us are more than capable of protecting ourselves."
The Hokage sighed knowing he wouldn't be able to talk her out of it. He pulled out a few sheets of paper and a scroll setting them on his desk. "Chao I'm going to have to have you and your friends fill out the necessary paperwork to become ninja's of the village. After that you are to head to the academy and ask for Iruka Umino. I want you to give him this scroll," he said as he finished writing a message on a second scroll.
Chao nodded as she helped her friends fill out the paperwork. She stopped when she got to the line on the Genin team papers that asked for their Jonin-sensei's name "Umm…Jiji, who should I put down for our Jonin-sensei's names?"
As the Hokage thought about it there were only two people who would be able to keep this a secret and give them the proper training until it was time for the Exams. "I suggest Anko Mitarashi and Ibiki Morino. They are probably the best choices for this. They will be able to help you and your friends get ready as quickly as possible, though it might be intense. Then after the Exams they can help in your search for the Bijuu."
Chao nodded putting Ibiki's name down for her team and Anko's down for the others. She then handed the papers to the Hokage "When did Anko make Jonin, Jiji?"
The Hokage took the papers setting them aside with a smile "It was about a week or so after you graduated and became a Genin." He then opened the scroll he pulled out earlier, revealing a storage seal. He put his hand on it channeling chakra into it summoning six hatai-ite, each with a leaf etched into their metal. "Now Chao, I don't know where your hatai-ite is so I'm going to give you a new one along with one for each of your friends. Now I want you all to go to the academy and I'll send your Jonin-sensei's there after I inform them about what's going on."
Chao nodded picking up the hatai-ite's and handing one to each of her friends before tying hers to her forehead and leading them out of the Hokage's office.
A/N: My full set of comments will be at the end of the second chapter.