The Elemental Eour
"Once upon a time in a castle lied four untouched princesses. Each lied there like still works of art that were covered in sweat and tears. Their days as princesses were hard ones that, sadly, only they could bear. The things they had to do were so gruesome that they didn't wish it on anyone else. Saints. These four amazing young women were saints, and that word wasn't even strong enough to describe them. And they were so stunning that everything that seemed beautiful looked…pathetic in comparison. These sisters, although not blood related, also were the lucky enough to be The Elemental Four. Within every century four people are born with the ability of an element. They are chosen for a special reason, and not always were they royal since some started out as farmers or beggars. To the reason anyone was picked for the job was still very uncertain, but it was clear that people were always chosen to help the entire world. Yes, that is what fables and songs foretold but the girls didn't believe this to be true. They all discussed it and decided that they were all chosen because they were….FABULOUS!" yelled Tenten as she threw her arms in the air.
Four girls were lying around side a large Olympic sized pool trying to tan. Each of them lied there flat as a board as the hot sun beat down upon them causing them to perspire a great deal on their faces, along their backs, and in between their chest. Most uncomfortable. To their misfortune they were bored and so one of the girls, Tenten, took it upon herself to tell them a story to pass the time. It would have worked too, hadn't she made them all cheer when she mentioned how fabulous they all were.
"And we are. Fabulous." Ino told her friends as she sat up straight and pulled her head back to look up at the sun. She smiled at it and it made her purple metallic bikini sparkle. Her other friend Sakura, who was wearing the exact bikini as Ino but pink, sat up too and took a sip of her bottled water.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." She laughed. She shook her head so her long pink hair shook over her shoulders. Her attention then went over to her other friend, Hinata, who was not laying on her back but her stomach. She was currently supporting her head with her two hands and had her elbows were placed on the paved ground. Her long hair was pulled over to the right side of her shoulder. She seemed to be staring out into the distance, but all that was out there was a fence around the pool area and miles of land with the occasional tree. Sakura smirked at her innocent looking friend when she felt shade come upon her. "Ino!"
"Yeah?" she asked as she twisted her body to look at Sakura.
"Could you please blow away that cloud? It's blocking the sunlight."
"Sure. I suppose so." She said as she stood up ready to use her element when Tenten interrupted.
"While you're up could you make a small-ish breeze come through here? It's hot as blazes!" she exasperated as put the back of her right hand to her forehead.
"What do I look like to you? The MAID?! Let me tell you something!" She said yelling at all of her friends. "She looks like a fat excuse for a cow with a mole on her right cheek…and I ain't talking face here."
"Hurry along now, Hilda." Sakura teased by calling Ino the name of the maid to whom she was referring.
Ino stared daggers at Sakura, and as she did a breeze began to pick up causing the hair she had put in a pigtail to raise upward.
"Doooooown girl." Tenten warned. "You don't want to start anything you can't finish do you?"
"Hmp. She's right Ino." Sakura smirked as she began to talk to Ino like she was her rival. "You can't beat me so just give up now."
Her eyes grew angrier. "OH! You think with a little FIRE you can beat me? PUH-lease."
"Hate to break it to you pig but Fire EATS air." Sakura told her. All the anger in Ino's eyes went away as she realized the stupidity in what she was about to do. It soon all came rushing back to her like a wild boar when Sakura muttered the word, "Duh."
"YOU'RE DEAD FOREHEAD!" Ino yelled as she stood up with twisters growing around her body. Sakura jumped up too.
"I'm going to raise HELL for you!" Sakura told her.
Before another thing could be said or done they were both extinguished with a huge splash of water that had come pouring down from the sky in a big RUSH!
"Both of you need to cool down." Came the voice of Hinata as she walked over in the middle of them. "You're both in the heat and don't even realize that you're about to fight each other because Sakura called you Hilda."
"OOOH, they just realized this." Tenten said as if she were a spectator of a match.
"Okay I'm sorry." Ino tried to say down low.
"Me too." Sakura sighed.
"Tenten get back to that fabulous story of yours would ya?" Ino asked as she sent a gust of wind up into the air to get rid of cloud blocking their sun.
"I would like to, but I'm starting to get a little too tired." she said as she yawned.
"No breeze for you then." Ino said as she shifted the air to aim at her. Her long blonde locks, while still wet, blew up into the air so nicely and her friends stared in awe.
'What a great element to have.' Thought Sakura. 'Each of them has a nice one, and I only have fire. The scariest element of them all. Everyone automatically assumes I'm a hot head...AND I'M NOT CHA!
"Hey Ino. Have you given any more thought about going out with my brother on a date?" Asked Tenten.
"That again?" Ino practically laughed causing Tenten to throw her an angry glare. Ino became serious. "He's very nice Tenten, and anyone would be lucky to have him but...he's so much like a brother to me. We all pretty much grew up together. I think it would be weird if I dated him, don't you?"
"Okay, just asking. I'm going to have to let him down easy again."
"Ino, send the boy a lovely fruit basket or something." Hinata giggled.
"Hinata!" they all yelled.
"Well I think he should stop pursuing her and move onto someone else...someone AFFORDABLE!"
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean Hinata?" Tenten asked insulted. "You're saying the country i'm from is too poor or something?"
"Tenten I didn't mean anything like that." Hinata said sounding hurt that her friend would think that she would say such a thing. "I'm just saying if they went out now...well, by the time he became Kind Ino would have him down to his last dime!"
Both Sakura and Ino laughed.
"It's true...but I'm worth it!" she smiled.
Tenten began to laugh too. "Yeah you're right. I really do hope that my brother can move on and find someone else to help him rule our country.
"That is why you are sooooo lucky you have an older brother." Sakura commented. "You're the second oldest and don't have to worry about ruling over a country while having all the perks of being royal."
"I know! It's good to be me!" she laughed.
There were a few minutes of silence before Hinata began to talk.
"I wish I could change my face for one day and just be a normal regular person." They all gave her blank stares; she didn't mind them and sat up on her knees in excitement while her hair fell over her shoulders. "Like just walk on out of this place and be normal and not have any cares or worries at ALL! I wish I knew what that would feel like."
"Me too!" Sakura said understanding Hinata. "I used to wish that all the time. That I could go to some place where no one would know me and I could just live a normal life for once."
"HUH! That sounds like a great idea." Ino agreed. "To be normal for a day, and to not go to boring lectures or be forced to wear tight corsets in ugly frilly dresses."
"How to speak or how to walk and how to look at certain people." Tenten finished.
A huge sigh of happiness was let out of all four of them.
"But...we're all far from being normal." Hinata said sadly as she looked out into the distance. "Not only are we princesses BUT we're," her voice became more hushed. "The Elemental Four."
"One day we should tell people about it." Sakura said. "I mean they're still searching for them and HELLO here we are."
"Well we all promised to keep it a secret...remember?" Ino reminded her.
"That day brings back memories." Tenten sighed.
"We were all so little too." Hinata mentioned out loud. "We were all by this pool too right? It was-"
"It was the first time we all met." Sakura smiled. They all looked at each other with a warm teary smile.
"All because of this alliance castle too." said Tenten. "I also recall not getting along right away either. "
"Hold up!" Ino yelled. "That was a small dispute we had." she argued.
"It's true but...best friends fight." Sakura said. Hinata smiled.
"Yeah best friends fight."
"Ino and Sakura are a perfect example of just that!" smiled Tenten.
"Not true!" disputed Sakura.
"Proove it!" demanded Ino.
Both Hinata and Tenten gave them a "are you kidding me stare?" as Tenten said, "Uuum, like three minutes ago."
Sakura and Ino both sweat dropped. "Oh yeah!" Ino said rubbing the back of her head nervously. Sakura made the exact same motion as Ino.
"Well...like we SAID! Best friends fight!"
"Oh lord." Hinata sighed.
"Gimme a break." Tenten mumbled as she laid back down to tan.
"Sooooo...looks like we only have three more days together." said Sakura.
"Oh come on Sakura!" Ino moaned. "I don't want to think about that. You're bringing my mood down."
"And it's contagious." Hinata moaned.
"Sorry guys!"
"It's going to be a while before we all get to see each other again." said Tenten.
"Well. Not SOO long." Hinata said on a more cheerful note. "A few weeks aren't going to kill us, it didn't the last times and it won't this time."
All of them laughed.
"Hinata you ALWAYS say that." laughed Ino.
"It's nice to have a reminder now and then." she told them.
Six hundred yards away from the pool there was a rustle in the bushes. A figure then appeared out of them. A tall male with blonde hair pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked to as far as he could see with them.
"I see...not that much." he said out loud. "But the ground is vacated. No guards to speak of. Targets sort of targeted. Weapons on...OUCH! HEY SASUKE WHAT'S THE BIG I-"
Another male with midnight blue hair covered the blonde's mouth. Two other males stood behind him.
"Naruto you idiot." he sighed. "I asked you for surveillance...you didn't have to go the whole ten yards with that one."
Naruto rubbed the back of his head embarrassed. "Sorry, just got carried away there."
"Aw man what an idiot." Said a dark hair male with a pineapple hair style. "We're all going to die and it's going to be his fault. I can't believe I got talked into coming on this suicide mission...and I'M the smart one."
"Exactly why you're here." Sasuke smiled.
"What I don't get is why I had to use stupid binoculars when Neji could have used his wicked eyes to see even further then I ever could with these plastic ones." whined Naruto.
"We can't have him wasting his ability on something so trivial." Sasuke told him.
"Naruto is sort of right." commented Neji, a long dark haired male who stood at the same height as his comrades. "I don't think it would have made much of a problem if I did a more thorough look then Naruto."
"Just do as I say." Sasuke said sounding annoyed.
"Yeah do as HIS MAJESTY tells you or...spt...Off with your head." Naruto said as he acted like his throat was being cut off.
"Na-ru-to!" Sasuke growled.
"I'm just kidding Sasuke, relax." Naruto said looking back into his binoculars as if nothing had been said. "So stealing these girls will help even the score?"
"Yes." Sasuke said with his face growing intense. "By capturing them we'll have settled the score of their kingdoms getting together to kill most of mine."
"But...it'll be like taking candy from a baby." Naruto commented as he put down his binoculars to reveal a confused expression. "A handicapped baby."
"We won't have to kill them as per the original plan stated." said Neji.
"Yeah, I don't really enjoy the thought of killing a woman. It's all in bad taste if you ask me." commented Shikamaru as he took on a slouching posture.
"This mission should be a piece of cake." said Sasuke as he walked a head of them. "Grab them and present them to my brother."
"Pffft, yeah sure. Long live King Itachi." Naruto said sounding absolutely bored.
"This is his wish...as it is mine." Sasuke said as he stared with an emotionless face in the direction of the pool area. "This is revenge for the deaths of my parents. So then," he turned and looked at his comrades. "Shall we go?" The three looked at each other.
"Lead us and we shall follow you." Neji told him.
"And even if we fail...I get paid either way. So let's go." said Shikamaru.
"Right behind you!" Naruto smirked as he gave Sasuke the thumbs up. Sasuke smirked at them all. He faced forward in the direction they were to head.
"Then come on, we'll make this quick."
All at once they all vanished up into the trees. This task however turned out to be harder then expected since each tree was placed many yards away from the other.
"This is probably going to take a while." said Shikamaru.
All four girls were all lounging in a small room used only by the four of them as they always did when they would come in after lounging around the pool.
"Man….boring life." Said Tenten.
"Yeah, it won't get interesting until dinner when we can hear some gossip." Said Ino.
"No doubt." Sakura said as she twirled her long pink hair. "Ouch!"
"Twist your hair too tight?" asked Hinata as she rolled her head over to look at Sakura.
"No my ouch!"
All of the girls then sat up a little more alert. Sakura held up her right hand.
"Ew! Is that a rash?" asked Tenten.
"Nah, look it's a symbol." Said Ino.
"Fire." Whispered Hinata as the symbol for fire etched itself into her hand causing Sakura to yelp in pain.
"Is this because she can manipulate fire?" asked Tenten.
"Well what else could it be?" Asked Ino as she continued to stare at Sakura's hand.
"HUH!" gasped Hinata as she grasped her neck.
"Not you too!" cried Tenten.
"It's burning my neck!" Hinata cried out.
"Just wait a second Hinata, the pain will soon subside." Sakura told her as gave her her hand. Hinata grasped it and squeezed it tight, and as Sakura had said the pain soon disappeared.
"Let's take a look-see." Ino said as Hinata removed her hand from where the pain was. On her neck was the symbol for water in the same styling as Sakura's.
"It actually looks cool." Ino smiled. They all gave her wry looks. "What?! OKAY, I'm not saying that the fact that she now has a scar on her body is cool but the way it looks it pretty cool. I mean, it doesn't look bad!"
"Just stop Ino." Sakura sighed as Ino sweat dropped.
"Hey…I feel it too." Began Tenten as she looked down at the ground. She kicked off her slipper and on the top of her right foot was the burning symbol of earth. "Ack!" she cringed as she grabbed her head with both of her hands. "This stings!"
"Why is this happening?" Hinata questioned as she held her neck again.
Before anyone could even think of a response Ino gasped in pain too when her symbol for wind began to inscribe its self on her left palm. Her head twitched as she watched it scrawl on her hand.
"Why is it doing this?" she asked through another gasp of pain.
"At least they look cool." Sakura said making fun of Ino.
"This is bizarre" Ino said staring at her symbol.
"Because our lives weren't complicated enough." Commented Tenten as she stared at her symbol in an exhausted way.
"If people see these they'll know we're the elemental four!" Sakura realized.
"I can't even see mine." Hinata said scratching where it was supposed to be.
"Come ere'." Ino said as she pulled her over to a small mirror on the wall. Hinata's eyes opened wider.
"They do look cool." She said causing them all to fall over anime style.
Knock Knock Knock
"Your Highnesses?" came a voice from the other side of the door. "Is everything alright in there? May I come in?"
"Uhh….NO!" Ino yelled.
"BY THAT she means YES we're fine and NO don't come in." Sakura yelled.
"Are you sure everything is alright in there?"
"Nothing but an itsy bitsy spider!" cried Hinata. "Several actually!"
"I got em' all though." Laughed Tenten.
"Well if everything's alright then. By the way I came to inform you all that the dinner has been pushed up an hour early so if you would all be so kind to go to your respective rooms I can have your ladies in waiting up to help you change."
"Very well. Thank you Hilda!" yelled Sakura. They didn't speak a word until they could no longer hear her outside their door.
"So what do we do about these scars?" Ino asked worriedly.
"Well hiding them won't be so difficult." Said Hinata as she first looked at Tenten. "For example Tenten, you'll just need to wear shoes. Sakura, wear a dress where the sleeves end on a point and wrap around your middle finger. That should cover that up."
"Well what about mine?" asked an eager Ino.
"Wear gloves!" Tenten suggested.
"And Hinata?" asked Sakura.
"I'll just have to keep my hair down to cover it up. Hopefully this will work."
"See you guys at dinner then." Ino said with an unconvincing face on.
"Alright, good luck guys." Sakura said as they all parted ways in the hall.
The Kitchen was full of chefs, bakers, and servers all waiting for their orders. Also among them was Naruto dressed up as a server. He checked his ear piece to make sure it was connected to the others who were all dressed up as a castle attendant.
"Sasuke, you hear me?"
"Perfect. When you serve food make sure you've got a lock on your target. Describe each of them to us so we know what we're looking for."
"How come we never even got pictures of them?" asked Shikamaru.
"How come Neji can't use his crazy eyes?" whined Naruto.
"Not that again." Sasuke moaned. "You know my precautions."
"FINE FINE…whatever." Naruto straightened his tie and headed over with the other servers.
'This better work.' He thought to himself.
So I got bored and wrote this to let my creativeness flow in some different directions. If you like it TELL me and i'll make another chapter. It's not very long and first chapters are always going to be a drag, but i hope you enjoyed it.