Hey everyone, how are you all? Ok so here is my new story. I hope you all like it.
"talking"
"thinking"
"Kyuubi"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, as much as i wish i did, i don't.
Warnings: Yaoi (SASUNARU) and some bad language (Not a lot), Rated T to be safe.
Team seven was walking back to Konoha after completing their mission, when Naruto saw something (or should I say someone?) laying on a large rock in the middle of the river.
"Hey what is that?" Naruto asked stopping and pointing to the person.
"What?" Sakura asked
"It looks like a girl." Sasuke said looking down at the unconscious girl in the middle of the river. The girl had long black hair that looked like it fell down to her waist.
"What?" Kakashi asked looking up from his book and down at the girl. The team made their way to the girl. Kakashi picked her up and carried her to the shore.
"What should we do with her?" Sakura asked looking at the girl. The girl was wearing a black shirt and black pants, strapped to her back were two swords.
"We should take her back to the village and get her to the hospital." Naruto suggested.
"We can't do that. Outsiders aren't allowed inside the village." Sakura said, as always she acted as though she knew everything and Naruto knew nothing. Sasuke however was looking the girl over in fascination.
"What if she isn't an outsider?" Sasuke asked pointing to the leaf headband that the girl held tightly in her hand.
"THEN WE SHOULD GET HER TO THE HOSPITAL!" Naruto yelled.
"No need to yell, dobe." Sasuke said annoyed. "He looks so cute when he is all worked up like that. Damn what am I saying. I think Naruto is cute, do I?"
--Several Hours Later--
"Wh-where am I?" The girl asked waking up and looking around her.
"You're in the hospital in Konoha." Kakashi said from where he sat next to the bed. The girl's eyes went wide when she heard his answer.
"K-Konoha? How?" She asked more to herself that to the group of people beside her.
"We found you unconscious in the river, we saw your headband and brought you here." Sakura explained.
"My headband?" She looked confused but then her eye's widened again as realization hit her, "Oh! You mean the headband I was holding?" She asked.
"Yes, it was a leaf headband; we couldn't leave a comrade to die." Sakura continued
"It wasn't my headband. It was my brother's; he used to be a Konoha ninja, many years ago. He gave me his headband the first time we met."
"The first time you met? Don't you mean the day you were born?" Sasuke asked, talking for the first time.
"No. When I was born, my parents wanted another son, they didn't want a daughter, what use would a girl be to them? So when I was born my father took me out of the village and left me in a small town on the border of the fire country. He assumed that I would never be found there. Several years ago though, my older brother found me, he cared for me, he loved me; almost as if he had known me from the day I was born. I Loved that, I had never been treated like that before. The people that raised me treated me as little more than a slave, I could never consider them family. My brother though, he was the only family I had. He would come and visit me whenever he could, and eventually he brought me back here with him, but father got mad, and brother and I were forced to leave, about a year ago we were separated, I've been looking for him since then."
"What is your name?" Kakashi asked.
"The people that raised me just called me kid, but my brother gave me the name Mai, because my fighting style is just a dance." She smiled at the memory. "But who are you all?"
"I'M UZUMAKI NARUTO!" Naruto yelled jumping out of his seat excited about finally getting an opportunity to speak.
"You're also annoying." Mai muttered under her breath.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. Sorry about Naruto, he's an idiot." She smiled
"Insensitive bitch," Mai muttered.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke didn't even look at her.
"Emo." Mai muttered looking at him closely.
"Look at Sasuke acting all cool. He does look kinda hot though, I guess. Woah, hey, I'm not gay! Am I?" Naruto thought.
"Looks like someone has a thing for the Uchiha brat."
"Don't call him a brat kyuu, and i don't have a thing for him!"
"And I'm Hatake Kakashi." Kakashi said.
"As in the Hatake Kakashi, as in the copy ninja." Mai asked in amazement.
"I'm the only Hatake Kakashi I know of." Kakashi answered.
"According to some of the criminals that pass through the town where I used to live, you have quite the bounty on your head. You should be cautious, there are many who want you dead."
"How did you end up in the river?" Kakashi asked changing the subject.
"I was training near the riverbank, my style of fighting requires very precise footing, as a result I tend experiment with my footing, I lost my balance and fell into the river, I'm guessing that I must have hit my head on a rock and then the current must have pushed me to where ever you found me."
"Your story doesn't add up." Sasuke said, surprising everyone.
"Why is that?" Mai asked
"We found you on top of a rock in the middle of the river, the current wasn't strong enough to have pushed you onto the rock. And you were holding your brother's headband."
"Then I suppose something else happened while I was unconscious. And I always hold my brother's headband when I am practicing my footing; it's like a good luck charm." Mai looked at the table next to her and noticed her swords and her brother's headband laying on it. She picked up her swords and strapped them onto her back before grabbing her brother's headband and standing up.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked.
"Leaving. I appreciate your help, but I must be going. I have to look for my brother." The cheerful tone she had been using was gone and had been replaced with one that was very serious.
"Why don't you stay here? If your brother is looking for you then it would be easier for him to find you if you stayed in one place." Kakashi said. Mai paused as if thinking.
"Fine, I will stay here for one month, if my brother doesn't find me by then, I will leave."
"Very well, then Sakura, would you mind letting her stay with you?" Kakashi asked.
"No." Mai said sternly, "If I stay with anyone it will be Mr. Emo there," Mai nodded towards Sasuke a smirk on her face.
"Did she just make fun of Sasuke? Nobody can make fun of MY Sasuke but me!" Naruto screamed in his head.
"Your Sasuke? I thought you didn't have a thing for him." Kyuubi teased
"I-I don't"
"No." Sasuke answered. He did not want some brat staying in his house
"I'll make a deal then," Mai said still smirking, "I'll fight you, if I win, I stay with you, if I lose, I'll go stay with pinky there."
"Fine." Sasuke said his voice was confident but still cool.
"You shouldn't sound so confident." Mai said, but her voice revealed no emotion behind that simple comment, no confidence, nothing that suggested that she thought she would win or lose. It was just a statement, nothing more.
"And you shouldn't be fighting, you just woke up." Kakashi said.
"Perhaps, but tell me, if this was a real fight against a real enemy, would they care that I had just woken up after being unconscious for who knows how long?" Mai asked
"No" Kakashi answered.
"Exactly. Besides I feel fine. So if you will lead the way to a training field, Duck Butt and I can begin our fight."
"What did you just call me?" Sasuke asked his eye twitching
"Duck Butt, you hair looks like a duck's ass." Mai said calmly as she followed a laughing Naruto out of the room. However Sakura wasn't about to let the girl get away with insulting Sasuke.
"Don't you dare insult Sasuke again." Sakura threatened.
"And what are you going to do if I do insult him again? Hm?" Mai asked.
"Why you!" Sakura attempted to attack Mai, but her attack was easily dodged.
"You can't even touch me," Mai commented after dodging a few more attacks. It took a few minutes for Kakashi to calm Sakura down, after Sakura was calm the headed toward the training field.
Alright, I hope you liked it. Please review. I already have the next chapter done, but i want at least three reviews before i post it. That isn't too much to ask is it? And for those of you who have read my other story, don't worry, I'm still going to write the sequel, i'm just waiting for some insperation (is that how you spell it?).