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Chapter 2: Welcome To Konoha
Kagome gulped as she heard Rin's words, and as she stood there she felt her heart beat faster. The bad part about this was that Rin was right, and Kagome didn't like that. She didn't know how long she stood there just thinking about what Rin had said, but what made her pay attention again was the huge gates opening. She looked over to find Sango and Rin just standing there like she had been doing.
They hadn't asked for the gate to open, so that meant that someone was coming out. She looked at the guards to find they were staring at them with curious expressions and Kagome felt her face heat up in embarrassment. She thought that maybe they had opened the gates for them anyways, but that was shattered as soon as she saw four people walk out of the gates.
One had short pink hair to her shoulders, green eyes and a strange headband worn like a hair band that had a metal plate on it with a swirling leaf on the middle of the surface, and it was holding her bangs back. She wore a pink, long shirt that reached her knees with short sleeves and a pair of green Capri pants with a strange pocket strapped onto her right thigh.
The one next to her had pale skin with dark blue eyes and blue-black hair that was spiked in the back but smooth in the front, and he wore the same headband but around his forehead. He wore a blue t-shirt that was slightly turtle necked and puffy at the neck with white arm cuffs, beige shorts with the same pocket strapped to his right thigh and bandages around his ankles.
The last one was slightly tanned with electric blue eyes and slightly long, spiky, slightly shaggy, sticking up blond hair with the same headband wrapped around his forehead and he wore an orange jumpsuit with a black T-shirt underneath and a pocket strapped to his right thigh as well, and he had three lines on either side of his face, and both Sango and Kagome sensed something from him that was slightly demonic.
Then there was a man behind all of them, he had long silver hair that was swept to the side that reminded Kagome painfully of InuYasha, and his hair stuck up. He wore a cloth mask which covered half his face, and he had one black eye and one eye covered by a tilted headband that was like the rest of them. He wore a pocket on his right thigh as well, and wore a pair of blue sweat pants and a green vest and a blue sweater.
"Hey! Who're those guys?" the blond one asked, and they all looked over to where the three girls stood, Kirara standing beside Sango. Naruto looked down at the fire cat and blinked. "That's different, I've never seen a cat with two tails, red eyes and was creamy colored with stripes on it's tail and a black diamond on it's forehead!"
"It's not a diamond you dweeb, it's the fur." The boy with black hair replied, and the blond huffed.
"Like you would know, Sasuke." The boy mumbled, and Kagome blinked. The man in the back looked at her carelessly and scanned the other girls, and then reached into his pocket and pulled out an orange book, opening the pages and reading it. "Kakashi-sensei! Why are you reading the hentai book again?"
"Naruto, shut up!" the girl snapped, her eyebrow twitching. The boy pouted and crossed his arms. Kagome blinked, that boy was just a little immature seeming as he looked her age. "Now, are you three travelers?" the girl asked sweetly, looking at Kagome. She looked at the girl and blinked.
"Uh, I guess you could say that…" Kagome said with a shrug.
"Do you have business with the Hokage?" the boy asked excitedly. Kagome raised an eyebrow.
"What's a Hokage?" Kagome asked.
"The leader of the village, duh!" the boy said. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and one day I'll be the greatest Hokage ever!"
"Nice to meet you, Naruto." Kagome said, bowing slightly. Sango and Rin did so as well. "I am Higurashi Kagome and these are my companions and friends Sango-chan and Rin-kun."
"Nice to meet you!" the girl said, beaming. "I'm Haruno Sakura, and the silent guy beside me is Uchiha Sasuke-kun!"
"And that guy's Kakashi-sensei…" Naruto mumbled, shoving his thumb behind him where the man was still reading the book. Kagome stared at the book, the flash back from the river coming back to her mind.
"Excuse me, Kakashi?" Kagome asked, "Where did you get that book?"
"At a book store," Kakashi replied lazily. "Where else?"
"I was just wondering…" Kagome said, "I just remember seeing a book like that back home, which isn't exactly…uh…here."
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked. "Are you from the Village Of The Sand?"
"Huh…?" Kagome asked, and Naruto blinked.
"Where are you from?" he asked curiously.
"We don't really come from anywhere." Sango said, finally speaking. Kagome looked over at Sango, and smiled in small thanks. She was about to say Tokyo in the Higurashi shrine.
"Interesting…" Sakura mumbled. But as Kagome looked at Kakashi again, he had looked away from the book to stare at the three girls from the saying that they didn't come from anywhere.
"What brought you here?" he asked.
"Uh…we kinda just stumbled upon it…" Kagome whispered, and Kakashi glared suspiciously.
"Then you had no idea where you were." He stated.
"Yeah, I suppose." Sango replied.
"Why are you wearing such strange clothing?" Sasuke asked, making Kagome almost jump from his calm voice. She looked at him, and shivered slightly. He was looking at Sango though, directing his question at her.
"I come from a different kind of village." Sango said. "We all do, but Kagome and Rin don't remember."
"You traveled alone?" Kakashi asked. He suddenly looked very worried and aware.
"Why do you care?" Rin asked curiously.
"I don't," he replied. "I just think that this might be important. We should bring matters up with Tsunade-sama."
"Oh! We get to see granny Tsunade?" Naruto asked, and Sakura rolled her eyes.
"Shut up Naruto, she's not your granny." Sakura mumbled. "You're sixteen now, you should know better…"
"Well she's old enough, and besides, I don't care how old I am, I like being a kid." Naruto said proudly.
"Well, you know, to be Hokage, you can't yell all the time and do what ever you want. It comes with a lot of responsibility." Sakura said knowingly. Naruto huffed.
"Will you two stop and pay attention to the matter at hand?" Sasuke said, cutting in. "Kakashi-sensei, should we hold on our mission and bring these girls to the Hokage?"
"Good idea," Kakashi said, and closed his book, putting it back in his pocket. "Let's go." They entered the gates, and Sakura walked beside Rin, who was staying as close to Kagome as she could. Sango walked beside Naruto, glancing at the humming boy every now and then, and Sasuke took up the rear, silent. Kakashi was in the front, walking lazily with his hands in his pockets.
"This is Konoha, the strongest ninja-village there is, and then there's the wind country, which is almost as powerful. We're part of the fire country." Sakura said, and Kagome blinked.
"Ninja…?" she asked, and Sakura nodded.
"Yeah, we're ninja. We're in the genin level still, but only cuz Sasuke had to run off for a couple of years," Naruto said, glaring at Sasuke after turning around for a second. Sasuke glared coolly back at Naruto, and Kagome raised an eyebrow. "We're already past the Chuunin level, but the Chuunin exams are coming up in about two months, so we'll have a shot at that, and then we'll become Shinobi at last."
"They're called Jounin you dweeb," Sasuke said, and Naruto stuck his tongue out. They continued walking in silence, walking through the village over to the tallest building in the place most likely, and they entered, going through halls and up stairs until they reached a shoji door and Kakashi pushed it open.
"Hokage-sama, we have three unexpected guests." Kakashi said, walking in with the teens trailing close behind.
"Kakashi, if I didn't know better, I'd of thought you'd been partying with younger people again." A woman said, sitting behind a ton of paper work. She had long blond hair in pig tails and blue eyes with a strange diamond shape on her forehead, wearing a sleeveless kimono top and a pair of blue sweat pants. Kakashi sweat dropped as he heard this.
"I'm not a younger person anymore, so what's the point?" he asked, and Tsunade rolled her eyes.
"Take a joke just once, Kakashi." She mumbled, and looked over at Kagome, Sango and Rin. "Who're these people?"
"Kagome, Sango and Rin." Kakashi replied. "They are travelers who don't have any idea what ninja are and have had no training if I am correct."
"Interesting." Tsunade said and yawned. "Shizune!" she called and a woman came out of no where, and she looked at Tsunade. "Can you take care of these people? I have some…(yawn) work to do."
"Of course," Shizune said and bowed to the Hokage, then turned and bowed to the teens and Kakashi. "Please, come with me." She said and walked away.
"Kakashi, you stay here." Tsunade said lazily, and Kakashi stayed put, leaning against a wall as he watched the six teens leave with the fire cat on Sango's shoulder. As soon as they were gone and the door was shut Tsunade spoke again. "That Sango one, she has a strange cat on her shoulder. Her outfit, it's like a ninja's, but not from here. That huge boomerang thing on her back looks like it weighs a ton."
"She must be a ninja from her village then," Kakashi replied and Tsunade nodded.
"She could have some good skills, so could the others. Kakashi, could you please keep an eye on those three girls, and maybe even train them?" Tsunade asked, and Kakashi blinked.
"You don't even know what level they are," Kakashi replied and Tsunade shrugged.
"I don't know why, but I get this strange feeling from that Kagome girl." Tsunade said. "It's like there's something different about her…something bigger than Naruto even, or the Uchiha blood and that stupid curse mark that was a pain in the ass to fix put together."
"I feel it too, and it's not Chakra." Kakashi said, and Tsunade nodded.
"Now, for a report!" Tsunade said, beaming, and Kakashi sighed.
End Chapter