Warning:
To any Naruto perfectionists...
- Yes, I know that I'm gonna have some facts/dates/characters/events mixed up, or "totally wrong", but don't you dare try and tell me it's wrong. It's a FAN FICTION, meaning that I made it this way on PURPOSE, no mistakes intended. And to any of said perfectionists I have just offended... deal with it!
To everyone else...
- Hope you like it and that it's of some standard, so please R & R if you can, much appreciated
Ember love xx
The blade of her katana slid easily through the fleshy neck of her target before pausing for, perhaps a fraction of a second, before continuing through the spinal cord like a hot knife through butter. The job was done.
Sunlight flashed along the crimson blade as she smoothly shook the weapon clean and sheathed it in an instant, the silence broken only by the dual thud as both head, and then corpse fell to the ground, blood spraying her black uniform as the body jerked spasmodically, the final death throes unnoticed as she concentrated on her surroundings, always cautious, all returned to blissful silence.
Sealing the head into a provided scroll she slipped it back into her black kunai pouch that adorned her right thigh.
Once done her hands began flashing through a series of seals at an impressive speed, Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, all performed in a blur before stopping suddenly with the Ram seal, the jutsu title whispered near silently and it was only now that the blood dripped down between her fingers, crossing her palms.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu"
Dual beasts, one silver, one crimson emerged from the smoke, halting to bow quickly with respect for the shadowed figure of their summoner before latching onto the headless corpse with white flashing teeth and disappearing back into the drifting smoke and back to the summons' realm, the still warm corpse would provide an adequate meal, indeed, dinner was served.
Sighing slightly the figure stood alone in the clearing, porcelain mask in place and surveying the surrounding area gave a slight
"hn", before bowing once to the bloodstained ground where the body had recently lain before leaving soundlessly, once there, then suddenly gone.
The shadows shifted near the base of one of the nearby trees until slitted yellow eyes emerged, the sudden sound of maniacal laughter jarring harshly with the previously silent clearing
"Kukukuku..."
The eyes glanced around and froze at the sight of the number of exploding tags that currently surrounded the clearing in which the villain now stood. It was as if with slow motion that he watched a thrown kunai slowly shredding one of the kekkai tags (barrier) that had been stopping the tags from going off.
'BOOM'
The masked ANBU gave a small smile as the clearing was engulfed within the fiery explosion before turning and making her way through the trees, back home to Konohagakure, another mission complete.
Her return home was uneventful and, as the gates loomed closer and closer a faint sigh could be heard passing her lips as the sun's last rays pressed warm against her back, pushing her home, the faces of both past and present Hokages illuminated, seeming to be both guiding and welcoming her home.
It was near the end of yet another boring shift at the gate before Genma and his companion noticed the bloodied kunoichi drawing closer along the open road, the blood a dark crimson, hard to notice against the black uniform this warrior wore, yet startlingly similar in colour to her black and red streaked hair.
As she reached the gate she halted before the standard waiting distance, showing she was not so far gone in pain to forget the teachings of her academy days, the rules that now many of the young genin paid no attention to.
Both of the on-guard jounin watched warily as her gloved hand descended towards her kunai pouch but then relaxed minutely when her hand stopped above it, instead slipping into a black pouch, near invisible when attached to the black pants of her uniform. Fumbling to unzip the smaller pouch one-handed, the other cradling her right side, suggesting cracked or even broken ribs, yet the kunoichi made not a sound and finally she retrieved her identification papers and she pulled them out, forcing herself to act normally, regardless that the raising of her arm to flash her papers to the guards that it painfully jolted her ribs.
Genma himself frowned in concern as he watched her exhausted muscles trembling under the skin-tight cloth, wondering why the Hokage would send a single ANBU, however talented, solo on a mission that would leave them in such a state as he saw before him.
On seeing the papers both jounin stepped hastily from the kunoichi's path, gasping in shock, nearly touching their heads to the floor in their haste to bow to the bloodied warrior before them, a celebrity to all who lived in and around Konoha.
Before them stood the one who had, single-handedly, got the Kyuubi-no-yoko, the nine-tailed demon fox to turn back from its destructive path against Konoha, left with only a scar across her right palm, as a sign of a mysterious agreement the young kunoichi had made with the biju.
The silvery scar was now permanently hidden by bandages and was at the moment covered by a single black fingerless glove, the kanji for 'promise' prominent on the palm in silver thread, and again was etched into the metal plate that protected the back of her hand, but this was changed when off duty instead a simple red fingerless glove, the kanji instead embroidered in a darker red, with a simpler design in the hopes of attracting less attention, yet still with a plain metal plate, in case she was needed whilst off-duty it held a cunningly concealed storage seal.
She sighed slightly in annoyance at their reaction before tucking her papers away. Sliding them back into her pouch she walked on, stumbling a little before steadying herself, and continued making her way to the Hokage tower to deliver her mission report.
Hopefully she would get some rest tonight, maybe the nightmares would not plague her dreams for once...
Yeah, so this is the first chapter, hope you guys liked it
And am part way through the next chapter, but as always I will most probably be delayed from updating as soon as I would like
Ja ne
Ember