My Guardian Ninja

Chapter One: Big Trouble

Chapter One: Big Trouble

She helped me help myself. I did it, yet she protected me. I murdered, and she covered for me. Man, I hate the world. Okay, okay. Here's what happened. We were in the second part of the Chuunin exam. My team, squad seven, consisted of Ana-ki, Sasuke, Sakura, and myself. Yes, I know, the squads should only contain three members. However, we had an exception. Anyway, my team and I were trying to survive in the Forest of Death.

I remember it like it was yesterday. We had to protect our Heaven scroll, grab an Earth scroll from another team, and go to the tower in the center of the forest so we pass the second part of the test. Nothing new there, right? Well, our team decided to create a password, just incase another team chose to turn into one of us. The question to be asked by one of the team members was, 'If the emotion of love causes so much pain, then why does it exist?', while the password to be answered was, 'Because one cannot live without another.'.

Everyone remembered it easily. Only Sakura and Sasuke understood it. Ana-ki and I kept pondering about what it meant. All of us decided to camp for a bit. While the others slept, I kept watch. Sasuke thought it was a bad idea for me to keep watch, when Ana-ki protested to allow me the privilege. I smiled at her, while Sasuke sulked yet again. So, the others were sleeping, and I was sitting in a rather large tree watching over them.

I felt a presence behind me, and I looked down to make sure it wasn't any of my teammates. It was. Ana-ki was missing. I turn to look, and see her face. I know I was supposed to ask her the question, but... somehow... I knew it was her. She smiled and looked at me. "Aren't you going to ask for the password?" I simply replied, "If you know we have a password, you have to be who you say you are. Only our team knows we have a password." She said, "Good. As long as I know you trust me." I chuckled a bit. "So... why are you up here all of a sudden?" I asked.

She answered, "Now that my friend, is a good question." There was a slight pause. "I had a vision." Another pause. "Really? What was it about then?" I questioned after a while. "You, actually. It was about you." "Me?" "Yeah. You were... well, maybe I shouldn't say..." She turned away from me. I put my hand on her shoulder. She tensed up at first, but after a couple of seconds, she was calm. "Ana-ki, you know you can tell me anything. I mean, I am the only one you told about your visions..." "You know, your right. Okay. Well, we were walking in the forest together... The team decided to split up; you and I go one way, Sakura and Sasuke another. You felt a presence, and took out your kunai. I stopped walking when I noticed you did."

"I walked over to you, seeing nothing. I said to you, 'What's wrong, Naruto?' and you replied, 'Someone's here.'. I looked around, and still saw nothing. You took your kunai and stabbed something behind you. Blood dripped down the figures neck, revealing them once again. It was Anko, checking up upon us. You released your kunai, and she fell to the floor. You didn't know what to do. You saw Anko was dying, and you couldn't do anything. You had murdered. But, this was not intentional."

I was shocked at her vision. While she was explaining it, I closed my eyes and imagined it all happening. I was stunned. For once, I, Naruto Uzumaki, was seriously scared. "I'm sorry, Naruto. I shouldn't have said anything." I snapped back to reality. "No, no. Ana-ki. Don't--" She ran back to camp. I caught up with her before she could run too far, because let me tell you, that girl could run.

"Ana-ki. Stop this. I'm happy you told me. Yeah, it's somewhat scary, but don't worry about it. This is something that I have to figure out. And you're the only one that can help me with it. We have to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Come on, Ana-ki. You know you need to help. Here. Since you told me your secrets, I guess I should tell you mine. Let's wait for the others to wake up first okay?" I pleaded to her. "Fine. but let's wake them up instead. I got an idea." She started to whisper in my ear.

I nodded my head a couple times, and said occasionally, 'Uh-huh...'. At the end, I said, "Alright. Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" as two shadow clones appeared. Then they said in unison, "Hengei!" One turned into Itachi, and one turned into Sasuke. "Now, here's the plan..." I said to them as they nodded. They went over to Sakura and the real Sasuke, and hovered over their bodies. The Sasuke clone went over to Sakura and kissed her. "Sasuke...? Oh my gosh! SASUKE! I LOVE YOU TOO!" She kissed the clone back as it disappeared. "What? URGH! NARUTO!" She screamed at me. I giggled. Thank God Sasuke didn't wake up.

"Shhhh! Now we got to get Sasuke!" I said just above a whisper. Sakura nodded. The Itachi clone moved over to Sasuke's side, and whispered in his ear, in Itachi's voice I might add, "Awww. Brother, how can you be sleeping? I thought you wanted to kill me... Well, little brother, let me ask you this, how can you kill me if you let your guard down this easily?" Sasuke's eyes snapped open, seeing the clone of his brother. He took out his kunai, and stabbed him. He disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"What the--? NARUTO!" How does everyone know it's my clones? Jeez. Talk about racists... I had thought. "Sasuke, Sakura, we should split up. You guys go that way, and we'll go this way." "But why?" Sakura asked. "So, if a team comes around looking for us, they won't know which one of us has the scroll... And they won't know where the other members of our team are at that moment incase the members that encountered the other team doesn't have the scroll." What Ana-ki said was confusing, but no one asked questions after that.

As Ana-ki and I were walking together, I started to spill my secrets, as I promised. "Ana-ki... um... This is kind of hard to say, it's kind of embarrassing too... I... I..." I stopped in my tracks. Someone was here. Ana-ki continued walking. Then she stopped as well. "Naruto...? What's wrong?" "Someone's here." She didn't see anyone, she had said to me.

I took out one of my kunai's from my pocket. I felt someone behind me. I stabbed my kunai behind my neck. The invisibility jutsu the person had cast wore out because of the blood. It was Anko. I had stabbed her in the neck, and she was dying. There was nothing I could do about it. I forgot about the vision! Crap... I'm in big trouble now... I thought.

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Japanese Terms:

Kunai - Throwing knife
Kage Bushin no Jutsu - Shadow Replication
Chuunin - Middle class ninja rank
Hengei - Transform