Chapter 1: Things of Light and Dark
Saruwatari was strolling along a leaf cover path. Her feet making no noise as the padded along, her hand never leaving her side, resting on the hilt of a long bladed katana.
On her right was Shimizu, her height not varying much from Saruwatari's. But enough to show that there was a difference. Shimizu seemed restless and was continuously spinning shuriken in between her fingers.
Suddenly without a warning she turned and threw them towards Saruwatari who ducked them easily and drew her katana, turning on the spot she cut down into the bushes. There was the sound of metal connecting with metal and Saruwatari was thrown back a little. As she gained her feet again and ready for another attack, a man climbed out of the bushes. He was holding his kunai at a ready position, but not in a hostile way. The man was pulling a shuriken out of his left shoulder; he winced and threw it onto the floor.
"May I ask what you are doing in these lands?" The man questioned.
Saruwatari lowered her katana; "We were following an agent of the sound when we lost him. He appears to have strolled into your lands now."
Shimizu looked at her partner, "Lets be gone. These Fire ninja are more than enough to handle that sound scum!" Shimizu had said Fire ninja while pointing towards the mans headband. The man was wearing it, in what appeared to be lazily over one eye. He also adorned a mask. He stared back at them with his one eye; he reached up and brushed something out of his long white coloured hair.
"I am Kakashi Hatake of Konoha. My mistress the fifth Hokage Tsunade-sama told me to bring any foreigners to her immediately!"
"And if we say no?" Shimizu asked, pulling a kunai out of her belt pouch and spinning it in her fingers.
"I am ordered to kill you!" Kakashi said. His hand rose to his face and he pulled back his headband to reveal a glowing red eye.
Saruwatari gasped, she slid her sword back into its sheath. Shimizu looked at her, clearly questioning her motions.
"We are sorry Kakashi-sama." She said bowing slightly. She turned to Shimizu "Put up your weapons, this is a fight we could not win. He is a Sharingan master."
Shimizu looking taken aback hid her kunai in its pouch again.
"We are sorry. Please lead the way." Shimizu said.
Kakashi covered his eye and turned round. He made a single gesturing motion and the all leapt into the trees.
As they leapt into the trees a dark shadow rushed by behind them. He came to a halt and picked up Shimizu's discarded shuriken, he licked the blood from the edge, accidentally cutting his tongue.
He revelled in the pain and the taste of blood.
The shadow jumped into the trees to pursue his quarry.