A/N: My challenge: To write a Naruto ff with the title 'falling leaves' without using names. Characters which should be taken: Neji, Sasuke, Hinata. It is my first Naruto ff so I hope it is not too bad. The first chapter is going to be a little short but the next will be longer. Review please!

Falling leaves

Chapter 1

The silver haired ninja sat under a tree becoming engrossed in his favourite book. It was a hot day and he didn't like to stay in his apartment on his free day. He was very thankful for this free day because of the hard mission he completed during the last week. He even had no time to read on his book.

Now he sat in the shadow of the tree with his book enjoying the day while everything seemed to be quieter than ever.

All of sudden two kids came running towards him shouting like children do when they play. But there was something strange and the copy ninja raised an eyebrow. Why were they both actually screaming and acting nervously? But he gained the experience that such little brats con be very strange so he turned his attention back to his book again.

In the next second many people came running the way, kids as well as adults calling after their children. The jounin raised his eyebrow even higher. -Ok- that definitely wasn't normal. So he got up quickly and ran the way the people came.

'What happened!' he asked a woman whom he grabbed out of the crowd.

'Ninja attack the village!' the woman said in fear.

He let her go and made his way through the crowd to the other side of Konoha. Now he heard loud noises from the wall and two ANBUs came his way.

'Who attacks us?' he asked stopping for a short time.

'Oto-nin.' One of them responded.

'These ones again." The masked Shinobi said gloomy recognizing the last time Oto-nin attacked Konoha.

'We thought after the death of the snake sannin Oto broke down. Now we realized that was foolish.'

With these words the two ANBU went on and the ninja with the mismatched eyes ran on but suddenly he stopped again. He came in the part of Konoha, which was already evacuated near the wall where the ninja of Konoha tried to protect the town against the opponent listening to the shouting of the fights.

'Sensei! Sensei!' wasn't that one of my Genin, he asked himself. The calling became even louder and the copy ninja realized that his presumption was right so he started to run the way the callings came from. Just three streets away he met with the pink haired girl.

'Sensei!' she shouted relieved that she finally had found her teacher.

'Oto-nin attack the other side of Konoha! They try to come in town while all ninja of Konoha were protecting the other side. So they thought they could sneak in town and attack you from behind.'

'Damm it- this is really bad. There are just some ninja in town. Godaime and nearly all other ninja are in Suna-Gakure for a festival they celebrate because of the peace between Suna and Konoha.' The masked ninja told his Genin while they were running to the other side of Konoha again where the Genin train when they weren't just about to fulfil a mission.

'How many ninja are there?'

'We were seven including me but the little baka of our team was training for three days. In the end he wanted to train with the white-eyed guy. He told him that he had not enough chakra to train any more but the idiot insisted on to train. So he knocked him by mistake. We wanted to take him to hospital but in this moment the oto-nin attacked us. So we are six ninja who are able to fight and one who is knocked out.' The girl of team seven told.

'He always exaggerate" the green beast's eternal rival thought. 'And how many ninjas attacked you?' he asked the girl.

'I don't exactly know. I was sent to search for help and to warn the other ninja before I could see one of them but both genin of the Byakugan-user said that there were many strange ninja coming our direction and the other cuter boy of our team said that I'm the fastest so I should run to inform someone.' She said but she was thinking that the argument that she is the fastest was just a lie but she also couldn't say something against him .She didn't want that this boy was angry with her so she went without saying something and her sensei knew about that.

'Stop!' this order tore her out of her thoughts.

The pink haired girl stopped and looked puzzled to her sensei. He gave her a sign and now she understood. There were two enemies in the way. They tried to conceal themselves with Genjutsu and attack them when they got close enough but the masked ninja had already uncovered his Sharingan so that he saw through this trap.

'Oh, what a pity. It's not that easy. Then we must kill you otherwise.' One of the oto-nin said and dissolved the Genjutsu.

'Stay behind me! These are mine.' The silver haired ninja ordered his student. She nodded and made a step backwards but ready to fight with a kunai in her hand.

'You are the copy ninja, aren't you?' the other oto-nin said and dissolved the Genjutsu, too.

'It would be a pleasure to kill you. We already finished with the small Konoha-cockroaches who thought that they could beat us, but soon they had to realize that this was foolish.' One oto-nin told them and smirked.

'We will see' the sensei said calmly and got in a fighting position but the cherry blossom couldn't stay so calmly. She was worried about whether he was hurt and she had been too slow. What if they were already too late! – She was shocked by the idea and couldn't move.

Now the opponent dashed forward. One jumped and threw six star shuriken while the other attacked with kunais. The weapons hit the Konoha ninja and in a poof of smoke a block of wood appeared drilled by the star shuriken and kunais. The oto-nin trimmed and looked where his enemy was.

'Behind you.' A voice whispered in his ear and his body was unable to move when he realized that his opponent was already about to kill him. He just had time to say 'shit' and that was the last thing he would say ever.

The other oto-nin saw his opponent killing his companion and suddenly the girl noticed that the oto-nin held his arm around her neck with a kunai in his hand pointing at her throat.

'In revenge I kill her in front of you and then I'll kill you.' the ninja said.

She was shocked even more but she tried to calm down when she heard the voice of her sensei.

'I don't think so.'

But the voice came from behind her.

'Kagebushin?' the men just asked and then his throat was cut. Blood spread out and the young kunoichi stepped quickly away from the dead enemy covered with the blood of the oto-nin.

She heard a puff and saw her teacher in front of her.

'Alright?' he asked her.

She nodded.

'Then let us go on. If he was really right the others are in trouble.'

She nodded again and ran on.

TBC

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