*Disclaimer. I do not own Naruto. If I did, Hinata would be the main female character instead of Sakura*

Since this is my second chapter, I'll change the layout a bit:

Regular speech.

Emphasis (or oomph)

Thoughts.


Himo looked at the white rose, then put it in her pocket. She wondered if Setsuna was okay…..

Flashback- a few minutes earlier.

"YOU'RE GOING ON AN A-RANK MISSION?"Setsuna looked shocked, "IS MORIDOMO INSANE?"

"Ummm.." Himo scratched her head sheepishly, "We're going today so I came to say goodbye. I already said bye to baa-chan (AN: As in Chiyo. Himo and Sasori are really close and Chiyo taught them both to use puppets so Himo sees her as a grandmother.). So I came to say bye to you!"

Setsuna paused, then she shot up with an idea. "Wait here! I have to get you a goodbye gift I prepared!"

Then, her sister came back with a white rose.

"A…white rose?" Himo brightened up. In the desert, flowers were rare, especially roses!

"Not just any white rose, I performed a jutsu that makes sure it'll never wilt…it's a matching pair, I have one too" Setsuna smiled warmly at her sister.

But then her voice got serious.

"But when one of us dies, the rose the other owns turns black and falls apart, when it starts doing that, I'll come and save you." Then she held put her pinky. "Pinky promise!"

Their pinkies linked as they both grinned cheerily.

"Promise!" Himo yelled as she walked away towards the villiage gates.

Back to present

Himo was waiting in front of the Kazekage's office. Subata was rolling her eyes and Sasori was stifling a laugh.

Who's ever seen a Kage arguing with his top ninja where he made sure everyone was gone, but didn't notice three Genin listening to the whole thing!

"DAMMIT TAKAESHI! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PUTTING GENIN ON AN A-RANK MISSION!" the Kazekage roared.

Takaeshi attempted to reply, but the Kazekage's curses interrupted him.

Then, he sighed.

He went over to the Kazekage, and whispered something in his ear, the Genin couldn't hear.

The Kazekage whispered back and they both nodded in agreement.

Takaeshi walked out smoothly, and said, "Okay, we're doing the mission."

Himo and Sasori looked surprised. Subata rolled her eyes.

"The is a search-and-retrieve mission. Our goal is to find a Yumiko Gaiko, who was kidnapped by rouge ninja for no apparent reason. She has brown hair and purple eyes, looks just like Himo so it may be hard to tell who is who…so we're gonna use that to our advantage…" Takaeshi smirked.

"You mean we're gonna replace Gaiko-san with Yamibato-san, and then while Yamibato-san is fighting, we'll come and kill the rouge ninja…sounds like fun!" Subata smiled cheerily.

"Well that's the basic idea, but we're not sure the ninja are rouge or just regular chunin or jonin, we have zero info on fighting style. We'll return the ninja to their villiage, they'll classify them as rouge or just ninja, if the villiage wanted them to do this, we will start war." Takaeshi looked at them seriously.

The genins looked at him as if he were insane. They were only seven and this mission seemed way above their current level!

"Let's get going now that we're all prepared. Their base is near Konoha." Takaeshi kept his cool.

The genin followed him and sighed, wondering what would happen and if all of them would survive.

Flashforward-A few hours later- Konohagakure

"There it is! There it is! There it is!" Himo whispered excitedly.

Sasori shushed her. "Please, don't give us away!"

Subata sighed heavily…this had been going on for about three hours, ever since they were told to scout until the ninja left.

The Genin had gathered that the ninja were after some supposed kekkei genkai the girl had and were going to use the girl as "breeding stock" the seven year olds were confused…they were going to make her cook stock? (AN: The joy of a seven-year old innocence) They looked like they're from Kumogakure even though they had Konohagakure headbands, their appearance and speech was obviously Kumo. Plus, they don't look like rouges at all. They were still waiting and were getting rather irritated and Takaeshi had yet to come back with more supplies for them (like food).

Then, someone took their notebook with all their information!

"Hey, good job gathering info, way damned better than one would think." Takaeshi appeared out of the blue.

They looked at him, this didn't sound like Takaeshi!

"Okay Moridomo-sensei…but can you hand that to Subata? We needed to write down one more thing." Sasori calmly asked, "And where are the supplies?"

"Takaeshi" looked confused.

"ummm…who's Subata again?"

Then, Subata disappeared and reappeared, holding a kunai to "Takaeshi's" throat. Sasori restrained the now known as enemy nin and Himo walked over and smiled at her teammates.

"It was a darned good idea we came up with if this happened!" the girl smiled as she twirled a kunai.

Flashback-About an hour or two earlier

"You know…" Sasori started writing down something in the notebook.

"Yeah?" Himo and Subata wrote back at the same time.

"We should make up dialogue just in case a fake Takaeshi comes over to us and tries to steal the notebook, the Kumo ninja probably know we're here and are after Himo because she looks like the person we're supposed to rescue." Sasori finished, clearly impressing his teammates and let himself smile.

"How should we do that?" Himo wrote.

"Maybe we should ask the ninja when he gets here something only Takaeshi or someone from home would know..like who is Himo and who I am" Subata scribbled.

Subata continued writing, "Takaeshi is like a father to me and I live with him, so I know a lot about him..what do you think?"

"Maybe we should ask the Kumo nin to hand the notebook to Subata, he won't know who is who and will hesitate, that'll be our opportunity to strike." Sasori wrote neatly.

"Ah! Ah! Hamuku-san can put a kunai to hs throat and Saso-chan can bind him with his puppets! Then, I'll use a genjutsu I wanted to test out some more!"

Then everyone nodded in agreement and their strategy meeting turned into just plain getting to know eachother.

Back to present

Himo took out her puppets and started to make some quick handseals nobody could recognize.

Then, her smile turned sinister. "Takaeshi" writhed in fear..he could tell this was gonna be dangerous.

"You should be happy! You're gonna be a test subject for my BRAND NEW puppet genjutsu!" Himo laughed.

"Eternal Nightmare!" Himo yelled as she finished her seals, eyes full of bloodlust.

As the nin howled in pain, Himo looked over at her teammates and smiled her normal Himo smile.

"I'm so sorry you had to see that, can you get to the girl and get her out of there before something bad happens? I'll catch up to you so don't worry!"

As Subata and Sasori went to the girl, Subata asked a question.

"Why did Yamibato-san act like that?"

Sasori's stoic look changed into worry and sadness.

"She always acts like that when she fights…it's just creepy…and I don't understand it….she's been acting more like that ever since that day….the day she was supposed to be executed…"

Subata looked at him in sheer horror.

"What? Why was she…!"

Sasori smiled sadly and interrupted her.

"Please..let's get this mission done, you can ask Himo about it when you get to know each other better!"

They both grew silent as they rushed over to the girl who was depending on them….


AN: I'm so sorry! I got really busy and tired…I never knew homework can drain all that energy until now! I hope you enjoyed my chapter and will read more in the future!