Hey Dudes! this is chapter one if The Great Ningyo, which was FIRST thought up by me and one of my friends, (shyninja135). We got bored, and one day, we went to do an art trade, and I was drawing her Naruto OC, who will be guest staring in my story (EVEN THE SEQUEL SPOILERSPOILER!), and she asked me if I had a Naruto OC. I do have many, but I don't really like them much, so her and I created Akemi together. Akemi is our little baby haha.

I'm making everyone older than they really are. Instead of them being 15 like in actual Naruto Shippuden, I'm making them 16 and 17. Akemi is 17. Kiba is 16, so on so forth.

Welp, I'll stop talking now so you can get on reading this story.

I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ITS CHARACTERS. JUST AKEMI AND PIIRUI AND OTHER CHARACTERS TO BE INTRODUCED.


I felt a slick, wet surface grace my skin on my face over and over, making me wake up from a deep, dreamless slumber. I opened my eyes to see my bear cub, Piirui, licking my face. I sat up and pat his head. I stretched and reached for my plain black headband and tied it around my forehead, covering my Ningyo markings. I got up and took care of my bathroom businesses outside and came back to get my hunting equipment, which just consisted of a spear and a small sac.

"Okay Piirui, let's go get us some breakfast." Piirui made an agreeing squeak and we walked down the trail, headed towards the village of Yukigakure, the land of snow. We were headed to the forest that was right before the village. It was a fifteen minute walk from my cave, so it wasn't that bad of a walk. It was bringing the game back that was difficult. I watched at Piirui sniffed for animals. I felt bad for the little gut. The current Kage in the village had send hunters to gather meat for the festival and they tool his mother. I tied to saver her, I even killed two of their hunters, but they used their jutsu to drown the poor thing. I found him in a bush nearby crying, or at least that's what it sounded like. I took him with me back to the cave, feeling bad that I couldn't save its mother, and nursed him back to a good heath. When I told him he could leave, he just say at my feet and gave a happy growl, so I named him Piirui and kept him as my own.

I had pulled out of my memory trance when I heard him growl a low growl. I've never heard him growl like that before, so I grabbed him and hid behind a tree. That's when I heard footsteps.

~Kiba's POV, The day before~

"Miss Tsunade? The shinobi you called for are here." I could hear her assistant say. You know, I always forget her name. She was pretty nice though.

"Well, what are you waiting for, send them in!" I sigh. She should learn to be nicer to people or she'll be alone forever. The assistant came back out with a smile on her face.

"Lady Tsunade will see you now." She bow's as Shikamaru, Shino, and I walk by. I have her a smile and a wink and she blushes with a small laugh as she closes the door behind us. All three of us stand in front of her desk, my hands behind my head.

"So Lady Tsunade, what's our mission this time?" She narrows her eyes at me before clicking her tongue and throwing a file at me, which I almost failed to catch. Almost.

"You are going to go to Yukigakure, the land of snow. Naruto had recently gone on a mission there and hasn't returned. We also found out that Hinata had gone after him and had also disappeared. We have reason to suspect that they have been captured, most likely by the same person. You three are going to go there and figure out why they haven't returned, and bring them back. Am I clear?" Shino and I grunted agreeingly.

"Why do I always serve as a replacement for someone missing in a team? So troublesome.." Shikamaru mumbled. Tsunade turned her chair and threw one of her shoes at him, hitting him in the forehead.

"Hey! What was that for!" He yelled in annoyance. Tsunade stood up and went to retrieve her shoe.

"Because, dimwit, you're one of the best shinobi we've got. Plus, everyone else said they wouldn't go there." Tsunade sat back down at her chair while I raised my eyebrow.

"And why is that?" I asked. Tsunade just rolled her eyes and shoo'd us out of her office and out of the building. I walked next to my teammates and we headed back to our houses to get packed. Shikamaru turned to Shino and I.

"Meet up at the gate in ten. I want to leave as soon as possible. You got me Kiba?" Shikamaru questioned. I looked up at him and snorted. I whistled and waited for Akamaru to come and bring me home.

"I gotcha Shika, no need to get your panties in a bunch." He was going to say something back at me when Akamaru showed up and I hopped on his back.

"Well, see ya later guys! Let's go home Akamaru!" Akamaru barked and started off running to our house. On the way there, and while packing, I was thinking about the mission.

'Why would Hinata go off by herself to go find that dumbass Naruto? She could have asked me to go with her. I would have protected her and she would have never gone missing. Damnit Hinata, why do you have to be such an idiot?' I finished my packing and hopped back onto Akamaru again. We headed to the gate to find Shino and Shikamaru already there. I raised my eyebrow as we came up to them.

"Hey why are you guys here so early?" I questioned. Shikamaru rolled his eyes and Shino shook his head.

"We got here on time. You're five minutes late." Shikamaru said. I blinked and looked at the watch on my wrist.

"That can't be right. I swear I left early so I would be here on time..Ugh it must be this damned watch!" Shikamaru rolled his eyes again before walking in the direction of the village we were going to. He had taken the files from me when Tsunade was kicking us out of her tower thing. It was nightfall by the time we reached the village. No one was outside, which was odd considering normally towns still have men out drinking and woman out swooning and so forth. But there was no one. Everything was closed. It was strange. So we set camp, just outside the village gates. We wanted to ask the people a few things before searching around.

By sunrise, people were up and about. Laughing, singing, dancing in the streets. I was looking around at the people while Shikamaru asked people if they've seen Naruto and Hina.

"What strange people." I said to Akamaru, who has gotten a few treats and is quite happy. Shino elbowed me and pointed to Shikamaru who was glaring at me.

"Anyway, so you have seen them?" He says while turning back to the old man. He licked his dry lips before speaking again.

"Yeah. Oh, but not at the same time. I saw the, the boy come in first, went up to the mountain. Nice lad, really. Then, a few days later, that girl came looking for him. She was a sweetie too, although I warned her about the mountains. An evil monster lives deep in them. Anyone that goes up there, never comes back down. We've had men up there one time, to get some food for the, the festival, sent four men we did, and only two came back! Yup, yup!" The old man nodded and Shikamaru bowed.

"Thank you sir." We started to head in the direction of the only mountains that are visible, only to be stopped by the old man again.

"Wait, wait. You're not going up there are you?" I turned to the old man and smiled.

"Indeed we are!" And we headed down the streets of the village, having to ask someone how to get to the entrance to the forest that leads to the path up the mountains. We made to the forest and my stomach rumbled.

"Can we go back into the village and get something to eat? I'm starved!" Shikamaru groaned.

"Kiba, you're so troublesome. You should have gotten some while we were in town already. Idiot." I frowned.

"Then help me find something in this forest because I can't be all manly like with my stomach growling like..wait..That's not my stomach. Akamaru." Akamaru barked and sniffed around.

"Kiba what are you doing?" Shino asked in his cool-like voice.

"Well, I heard a growling noise that wasn't my stomach so there has to be some sort of animal out here that I can catch and cook to eat. And it has to be close, look at Akamaru, he's growling behind a tre-" I was cut off by a girlish scream and Akamaru being bashed on the head. He came over and hid behind me, whimpering. A girl came out from behind the tree holding what looked to be a small black bear. She was wearing a thick coat, which was more like a dress that had fluff at the bottom of it, on the wrists, on the shoulders, and on the hood. There was a bow tied across her good looking breasts. She had green shorts on, like Sakura's and black, thigh high black boots that also had fluff on the top of them. Her eyes were the blackest black and her hair, orange and as long as her thighs. A headband had also went across her forehead. There were also, these light blue dots, six each, going down her cheeks like freckles. She was cute, very cute.

I walked over to her with a big sly grin on my face. I was about to say something to her when she pulled a knife, that had obviously had to have been hiding under her sleeve, on me. She pinned me against the tree and glared, hard, all the while pointing the sharp knife at my throat.

"What are you doing here, mutt." My eyebrow twitched at the word mutt. I still seemed to pull that smile back on my face.

"Oh baby wouldn't you like to know." She pushed the knife farther to my neck. I saw a kunai put up against hers and her eyes shifted to Shikamaru, who was the one who had it in his hand.

"Boy, I would remove that unless you would want to loose and arm." She said but Shikamaru didn't budge.

"I will only remove it once you've removed your knife from my teammate." She snarled and threw me at my friends before clicking her tongue and her black bear was beside her.

"Looks like we're not having breakfast today Piirui. These idiots and mutt scared everything." My eye twitched again, knowing she was talking about me. I jogged to catch up to her and put my arm around her shoulders. I could hear her growl under her breath but I didn't pay any mind to it and just winked at her.

"So babe, what's your name?" I asked her. I really was curious as to what her name was. Really! I was! She looked over at me with those piercing black eyes and glared.

"Kyofu, Akemi. And you are you, mutt?" She asked with a bit of venom in her words.

"I'll tell you if you stop calling me mutt." I really was starting to get aggravated with her calling me that. I'm not a mutt.

"But why? Mutt fits you perfectly, don't you think Piirui?" She looked down at her bear cub and it gave an agreeing yip of sort. I just smiled at her while my eye twitched.

"Inuzuka, Kiba. That's my name. Not mutt." Akemi pushed me off of her and stopped a little ahead of us. Shino, Shikamaru, and I all stopped in front of her while she looked at my friends.

"Who are you two?" She asked. Shikamaru raised his hand a little, indicating he was going to speak first.

"Nara, Shikamaru." He said lazily.

"Aburame, Shino." Shino whispered. Akemi just raised one of her perfect eyebrows and put her hands on her nicely rounded hips.

"And why exactly are you guys up here in my mountains?" We all looked at each other before Shino and I looked at Shikamaru to explain.

~Akemi's POV~

The boy named Shikamaru sighed lazily and pinched the bridge of his nose. I was seriously starting to get annoyed by these people. They were too lazy and weird and…yeah I just didn't like them.

"So troublesome. We're here in the mountains because two of our teammates, or friends in some cases, went missing here. One was dumb and came here on a mission by himself and most likely got kidnapped, and the second, she went after him when he was deemed missing in our village of Konoha. Then she went missing as well and they were both last seen here in this village. We talked to the villagers and the ones who said they've seen them also said that they've seen them go up here." I nodded at his explanation.

"Does the girl you're talking about have long purple hair?" The mutt Kiba takes a step forward.

"Hinata? Yeah actually. You've seen her?" I nodded.

"She's very nice. I liked her, which is rare for me. I usually hate people. I sent her on the northwest side of the mountain where I believe I saw your blond haired friend go." They all seemed to sigh in relief that I've seen them. The one named Shikamaru, who I've deemed alright in my book, lazy, but alright, spoke up.

"Do you think you could bring us to where you lead Hinata?" He asked quite nicely, and in no way lazy, which was weird since that's the only way I've heard him speak since I met the guy.

"Yeah I guess so. As long as mutt here keeps his hands off of me and doesn't talk." Kiba twitched when I said 'mutt', but still smiled.

"I won't make any promises." He winked at me and I rolled my own eyes at him.

"Just follow me. And keep up ya?" I started walking up the hill to my cave again. Poor Piirui, won't get breakfast today. That's okay though, it won't be the first time. We haven't had breakfast for a couple days. We probably wouldn't have found anything this morning either so it didn't matter that these, ninja's interrupted our hunt. Piirui kept running ahead and turning to watch us get closer, then run ahead again. I smiled at him. He was trying to be playful, but I wasn't really in the mood to play, I just wanted to get these men out of my hair and back to my quiet life on the mountain side.