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Author: .Rose
Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Reviews: 1 - Published: 09-16-10 - Updated: 11-02-10
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Chapter 1: First Encounter.
This is the revised version of previous chapters. I hope you like this better. Tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: Naruto is a property of Kishimoto Masashi.
She was watching with great anxiety. The pink-haired kunoichi held her hands together. She tightened her grip as Sasuke hardly dodged a sand blow from Gaara. Yes, it was a very stressful event for the rookies; Ino almost made the man in front of her deaf; screaming "Look out, Sasuke-kun!" every split second, a concerned look on Shikimaru's face, Naruto was confidant yet worried and Choji uncontrollably already ate a dozen bags of potato chips.
Even though Sasuke showed himself as a matching opponent to Gaara of the desert, yet Sakura was extremely worried. No one would blame her, everyone was talking about Lee's fight with Gaara and his future as a ninja was considered as already crushed, just like his leg. Her heart beat increased considerably and blood pounded in her ears that she couldn't hear the cheering of the audience. She sucked air in her lungs forcefully that she worried that someone would hear her. She startled a bit when a hand was gently placed on her shoulder, she lifted her face up and looked at her sensei with wide-opened eyes. The crease beside his eye deepened as his eye arched gesturing an assuring smile and said: "Don't worry, Sakura-chan. I trained with him till the last minute. I'm sure he'll win this match." She paused a little then smiled back to her sensei, "Uhn, I'm sure of it." She turned her head back to watch the fight smiling, then circled her palms around her mouth and shouted really loud: "Go for it, Sasuke-kun!" Ino looked at her angrily: "Hey wide-forehead, don't cheer for my Sasuke-kun! And what's with that loud voice? Be considerate to other people, will you? Tche."
"Why you little Ino pi-"
"What is that?" said Naruto.
They were looking at sand sphere on the ground. "Where's Gaara?"
"Inside the sphere thing" answered Shikimaru.
Sasuke tried his fire techniques to throwing kunais but failed to penetrate it.
"What is he gonna do? It seems he can't make a crack in it." Said Lee who joined a while ago. Sasuke dashed to the edge of the stadium and made a couple of hand signs. A loud thunder sound was vibrating as lightning emerged from his palm. He ran towards the sand sphere in a blast. He was successful this time and made a hole into that sphere. "What. was. that?" asked Sakura.
"It-It can't be… you taught him the chidori, didn't you Kakashi?" Guy asked Kakashi unbelievably, who to the silver-haired Jounin dismay lingered at the first syllable of his name, but Kakashi just ignored him.
"Chidori?"
"Yes. It's Ka-kashi's first genuine technique. It means 'flapping thousand birds', that's the reason for its loud thunder-like sound." Guy's voice was almost audible through the outrageous cheering of the audience.
"Amazing! It really passed through the sphere."
"Look! Sasuke's gonna do it again."
He backed away a few feet and made the same hand signs again. He dashed with his full speed.
Suddenly, a black-haired woman tying it up in a loose bun, stood right between Sasuke and Gaara's ultimate defense. She was holding his wrest and in one move she cracked it, disabling his chidori. The audience went silent hoping to hear anything if either of them spoke. As Sasuke was grumbling on his knees, she deactivated the ultimate defense surrounding Gaara, and grabbed the semi-unconscious Gaara to her side.
"What is she doing?" questioned Naruto.
"I don't have any idea. But I hope she doesn't use that katana on her back," said Guy.
The honey color-haired referee approached her, "What are you doing? This is an official match."
"My apologies, but this match is over. It is over now by me stepping on this ground," Kakashi was there next to her in a flash. She turned her face to address the Hokage "Hokage-sama, my apologies again. I'm Kimiko, a special Jounin of the Suna Village and I'm the Suna's team sensei," She showed a Sand head-protector on her upper arm, "I was on a long mission so they assigned a temporary sensei to accompany the team. So I'm here now and I have to end this match and turn back to Suna immediately."
"How can this be possible?" Sasuke argued.
"Sasuke, be quite," ordered Kakashi, "I'm sorry, Miss, but I think this is illegal and if you really want to quit this match and flee to your village, I think you need to vindicate more." She gave a quick smirk as she kept her face straight ahead.
"What's this rampage?" said the Kazekage furiously, "Do you intend to ruin our chance of winning? And what the kid would think after you ruin his opportunity in an easy victory?"
"Stay out of this," she adjusted Gaara on her shoulder to be more comfortable to carry, "and please, leave Gaara out of this. I'm taking my leave." Kakashi raised his eye brows in surprise. Interesting. A rebellion? Or is she in that hurry to get out of here? Even so, I don't like the way she is speaking.
The audience raged and pleaded, and a rain of protests poured,
"Don't let her go!"
"Arrest her!"
"We paid to watch this match and you're ending it this way? Return our money back, you thieves!'
"Yeah."
"Baki! Take the kids and retreat. Now!" The woman literally barked at her comrade.
The teacher in beige hesitated for a moment, but he ignored threaten glares of the Kazekage and obeyed her.
"My deepest apologies, Hokage-sama," She bowed very elegantly as black threads of her hair slid over her shoulder, she raised her head and looked the old man in the eye and said, "I'm taking my leave."
In a blink of an eye she left. Everyone was just watching, dazed. Sasuke was about to follow her when Kakashi stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"After her, obviously."
"That's not your job to do so."
Sasuke clicked his tongue and dashed after her. Unexpectedly, fights began among the audience. Kakashi squinted at the crowd, "What the hell? Suna is attacking?"
Sasuke was already chasing the mysterious woman and now the Leaf is under attack. "What a pain!" and he dashed after him.
Kakashi had finally caught up to Sasuke. They were already outside of the village in a very short time. Apparently Sasuke's determination to finish the fight and to boost his ego motivated him that he was almost keeping up to her. Kakashi noticed the woman elasticity and flexibility, she moved at great speed with about 40 kilos or so- unconscious- on her back. Her legs didn't waver underneath her. She's not a joke; she's really a special Jounin, highly skillful in a matter of fact.
Kakashi sensed several chakara's approaching from inside the forest surrounding the village. Soon, Some ANBUs and Suna Jounins joined the hunt. And have I glanced some Sounds too?! The situation is getting more and more complicated. Kakashi was drawn from his thoughts as the woman named Komiko said in an even voice: "Hey, Uchiha brat! Why are you on my tail? You're not moving in to Suna, are you? And you brought handsome ANBUs with you, too."
He was visibly irritated by now. "Don't play dumb, you know what I want!" he yelled at her.
She snickered, "Nah, I'm not interested in young, dumb bratty kids."
"Don't you eve-"
He was cut by her, "You really want to fight Gaara?" her cold even voice send shivers along their spines, yes all of them, "then learn how to breath first. He's stronger and skilled more than you in at least 10 years. And you still want to fight him in your pity state? Go back to you village, it's better for you."
They all moved like a flash hopping from a tree to another, of course silence accompanying them. She was right; Sasuke can't keep his breath even and lost some deal of chakra for chidori. In addition, he was training 'till the last minute. Baki and the other siblings who obeyed her order were coming into view, Konoha was catching up quickly to Suna's group.
Suddenly, there was a loud crash roaring through the distance. Kakashi glanced backwards at the village's direction, and saw a black heavy smoke in the sky. This doesn't seem good. I have to figure her out.
"What do you think is happening there, senpai?" Some of the ANBUs asked Kakashi. He continued to watch the black-haired woman jumping swiftly, his brows furrowed.
"Are you breaking the truce? Are you involved in what's happening in Konoha?" Kakashi asked with comparable even tone.
She remained silent for a while. Does that mean they're really attacking?
"Baki, do a long teleportation jutsu to Suna with Temari and Kankuro. I'll be joining you in a minute."
He kept looking at her in disbelief, "Are you sure?"
They seem not on good terms with each other but he's quite the obedient. His observing thoughts were cut by her stern and commanding tone: "This is an order. Am. I. understood?"
"Roger that" he quickly answered.
After their disappearance, she stopped dead in her tracks. Everyone copied her, taking their fighting stances. The three ANBU members circled her like predators waiting for an opening; the other 3 were covering Konoha's ninjas backs from the Sunas and Sounds. The atmosphere was getting thicker with anticipation, everyone was waiting the other to make a move. She readjusted Gaara on her back and turned to face the masked Jounin.
"My team and I are not involved in this situation. You can see that by us leaving your village. And believe me, if I want to fight, you wouldn't stand a chance to me… maybe you Hatake would last a couple of minutes." He raised an eye brow, what sheer confidence. But minutes? That's way underestimating me or is she someone who wants to do suicide by a ninja.
Another explosion was heard. The silver-haired Jounin didn't feel comfortable; he had this uneasy gut feeling. "I told you to go back earlier but you wouldn't listen." Her face was emotionless like a rock. He looked at the ANBUs over his shoulder; apparently they had the same eerie feeling.
"Now, put Gaara down and let us finish the fig-" Hastly, Sasuke demanded but was cut off by Kakashi.
"Enough, Sasuke. This is not the time to fight. You should've known that before," sternly he said, "But I also followed to have some answers."
"I'm gonna tell you your words 'this is not the time for answers, you should've known before,' now excuse me, I'm in a hurry." She was about to turn her back to carry on with her journey but she saw the keenness in masked man's eyes to know. "In other words for you to understand, Uchiha, Gaara isn't fighting you because there're important things to do better than fighting a weakling like you, and Hatake-san, don't you think spending every second defending your village when it's the most time it needs you worth than I giving you answers which I might give?"
A deep frown was carved in his forehead. He absolutely didn't like the way she talked. "Do you have any more orders?" he talked back cynically, "Aren't you fleeing with your comrades too? Or are they the comrades of Sound? I don't see them on guard from Sound ninjas." The woman frowned in response, "Or are you fleeing from them? They seem to me they want Gaara. Is he with them too? Having said that, you carrying him and escaping doesn't change the fact that you are envolved in a conspiracy against Konoha."
The petite woman eyed him with extreme irritation shown on her face. But what was shown in her was something that confused the accusing man. "There are things you don't understand and I don't have the time explaining them to you." She spoke.
"You can go now; we'll deal with this situation. Just remember to justify your actions as soon as possible to Hokage-sama." Kakashi spoke sternly. Sasuke looked as if to object to Kakashi's permission as Kakashi processed quickly his priorities. He spoke calmly addressing Sasuke, "We were already heading back. Our village is under attack from two villages," he looked at Sasuke, "You saw the Sound, right? We need to keep going and get you to a safe place. Whenever the Sounds appear, Orochimaru must be close by."
Sasuke hesitated to leave. Yes, he was a hell of a stubborn guy. Deadly stubborn.
Both Konoha ninjas gaped and were mesmerized. Kakashi tried fixing the situation as he was faster to recover; "We're leaving" he hastily commanded his comrades. "Good. Good luck." She smiled and bowed lightly and vanished after performing a couple of one-hand signs.
The silver-haired Jounin inhaled deeply while the younger ninja gulped.
"Sensei," Sasuke caught his sensei's attention, "Did you…?" still staring at the spot she was standing a moment ago. "Yes" answered his sensei, "now, we better get going."
Sasuke slowly nodded and followed his sensei, all ninjas running faster than the wind to reach the village. Kakashi and Sasuke were behind the group as they were the closest to the mysterious woman. Sasuke softly spoke, or rather dejectedly, "I guess you are the best to know about those matters," he came near the confused masked Jounin, "Were .. were there any survivors of the Uchiha clan reported?"
Kakashi looked at him from the corner of his eyes. The boy acted tough, but he'd crack any minute.
"No, there wasn't," he answered.
There was a silence for a moment. "I thought there are 3 persons in this world who has it." Sasuke pushed.
"I know what you're saying. I don't know what was that… but I'm pretty sure it was the sharingan," the boy seemed kind of satisfied with his sensei's answer, "Now stay focused. Konoha needs you."
Sasuke glanced at his sensei, the latter showed a crease around his eye and both dashed off faster towards the dear village.