Sakura-Chan: OK! Here's the first chapter of the new and improved version of 'Weak? As If!' I hope you like it!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
Weak? As If!
By Sakura-Chan555
Chapter 1
The Beginning of the Two Year Journey
16 year old Sakura Haruno was training with her three best friends, Ino Yamanaka, a 16 year old girl who tends to her family's flower shop that has long blonde hair that she ties into a ponytail and sapphire blue eyes, Hinata Hyuga, the Hyuga heiress that has pale lavender eyes and long midnight blue hair, and Tenten Kunai, the weapon mistress with brown hair she ties into two Chinese buns and brown eyes. These kunoichi (female ninjas) are known as the Kunoichi of Music and Elements all over the country, except Konoha. They all came from a small village not to far from Konoha called The Village Hidden in the Music. Here, they learned how to control sound waves, like the Sound Village, only it's more advanced. No one has ever heard of this village because of how small it is. One day, some road ninjas burned down the village and the girls had nowhere to go. So they went to another small village called The Village Hidden in the Elements. There, they learned how to control all elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and many more. They stayed here until more road ninjas came and burned the village to a crisp. All the shinobi that knew water techniques couldn't stop the fire because it was too strong. The girls were special after that. They knew how to control music and all elements. When they got to Konoha, they had to find new abilities, since they didn't want a lot of attention because of the ones that they already had. They couldn't tell anyone that they were special either.
"Let's take a break!" Sakura suggested. Her friends nodded in agreement.
"Why don't we spy on the boys?" Ino suggested excitedly.
"OK! I would LOVE to see the boys in action!" Tenten exclaimed. They went through a secret passage that only they knew of that led to where four shinobi were training.
17 year old Sasuke Uchiha was training with his friends, Shikamaru Nara, a shadow possessor who had murky brown hair tied in a pineapple shaped ponytail and black eyes, Naruto Uzumaki, the Kyubi container who had blonde spiky hair and beautiful blue eyes, and Neji Hyuga, a member of the branch family of the Hyuga clan who had long dark brown hair that he usually tied in a loose ponytail and lavender eyes, like Hinata. Right now, they were talking about the kunoichis in their squad and how they let them down most of the time.
"The kunoichi in our squad are useless. No matter how hard they train, they're still useless." Sasuke said.
"I know! They just bring us down!" Neji said.
"We would be better off without them." Shikamaru said.
"And we would probably get harder missions than the ones we have now." Naruto said. They all agreed with each other, but they had no idea that the kunoichi they were talking about were behind the bushes listening.
"Did you hear that?!" Sakura exclaimed. They just got back to where they were training with mixed emotions about how the guys felt about them. Sakura was steaming with anger and so were her friends.
"I know what we can do! We should leave the village for two years and go around the country to all of the villages, big and small, to get stronger!" Ino exclaimed.
"But will we tell Hogake-Sama?" Hinata asked worriedly.
"OF COURSE! Besides, she'll grant us permission. I'm her most trusted student and she usually says yes to my requests." Sakura said.
"Think about it this way, Hinata. This is for our own good. We want to show those guys that we aren't the Ninja Academy girls we once were." Tenten said.
"OK. I'm in." Hinata said.
"…So you see, Tsunade-Sensei, we have to leave the village in order to get stronger." Sakura had just got done explaining to Tsunade the reason why they needed to leave the village. Her friends started crossing their fingers.
"Alright, Sakura. Permission granted." Tsunade said. The girls looked at each other and then at Tsunade and then at each other. That's when they started squealing.
"Domo Arigatou, Tsunade-Sensei! (Translation: Thank you, Tsunade!) We'll keep in touch every month!" Sakura exclaimed. Tsunade smirked.
'I went through this too, Sakura.' Tsunade thought to herself, while getting back to some last minute paper work. That's when Sakura popped her head in the door.
"Uh, Tsunade-Sensei?"
"Yes?"
"Can you tell our teams tomorrow at 3:30 pm where we are?"
"Sure."
"Domo-Arigatou, Tsunade-Sensei! (Translation: Thank you, Tsunade!) And one more thing…"
"What?" Sakura entered Tsunade's office and gave her a cassette player.
"Play this when they arrive."
Sakura was in her room, packing the necessities she would need on her two year journey in her very spacious backpack. She packed extra clothing, a toothbrush, her Nmp3, which stands for Ninja Music Player 3, which was red and pink and had cherry blossoms on them, and a lot more. While she was packing, she came across the picture of Team 7 in their Genin days. She gave a sad smile and put it on her bed.
This is only to prove that I can be strong, Sasuke. That I'm not that little girl from the Genin days.' Sakura thought strongly to herself. She changed into a regular black shirt, black jeans, and black ninja sandals. She brought a black jacket just in case. What she didn't know was that her sister, Rei, put four velvet boxes in her backpack.
'Be strong, Sakura-Chan.' Rei thought, while Sakura was leaving the house to go to the Konoha gates, with a sad expression on her face.
Ino was having a hard time deciding on what to pack. She picked out her favorite pieces of clothing and her least favorite clothing. Why? Because if they had to go to something formal, she would have something nice to wear, and the not so formal clothing would be for training. Two things that she HAD to pack was her photo album that had a pig on top of a mountain and her camera. She wanted to take pictures of her and her friends outside of the village. It's kind of like the thing you would do on a vacation. While she was doing that, she saw the picture Team 10 in their Genin days. She looked at it for a brief moment, and then threw it on one of her shelves.
'Shikamaru's wrong about me. That's exactly why I have to prove him wrong!' Ino declared silently to herself. She dressed in all black, like Sakura. She walked down the stairs and quietly to the door.
Hinata was almost done packing her things. One very important thing that she had to pack was the jacket that she used to wear during her Genin days. While doing this, she came across two pictures on her bedside table: a picture of her team, Team 8, and a copy of Team 7's picture that Sakura gave her. She took the picture of Team 7 and put it inside the cabinet on her bedside table.
'Naruto would understand why I have to leave. He's gone through it a lot.' Hinata thought to herself. She dressed in all black and quietly exited her house.
Tenten was just about done packing when she saw the picture of Team Gai, her team. She looked at it and gave a sad smile.
'I hope they understand. I need to get stronger in order for Neji to think that I'm not a burden!' Tenten thought to herself. She put the picture under her bed and quickly made sure she had her lucky kunai knife, which was red and had a yellow dragon carved into it with red strings at the end. She sighed in relief when she saw that it was there. She dressed in all black and headed out the door.
(A/N: Remember these special things the girls have for future chapters!)
When they all arrived at the gates, they looked at each other, and then at the village.
"Do we HAVE to say goodbye?" Ino whined.
"No. Let's get moving. We don't want anyone knowing where we are or why we're here, right?" Sakura said. Her friends nodded in agreement, and when they left, they all had one thing in mind:
'See you in two years!' And then, they were gone within the night.
Sakura-Chan: Well? Was it good? Did it have some suspense in it? Tell me in the reviews! And no flames please! Ja ne!