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Chapter 2
It was a beautiful day. The sun stood out proudly on its sunlight, the aroma of the flowers scented everything, the grass sparkled beautifully from the rain, the clouds blissfully slept on the blue skies and the air fresh from all the filtering trees and the constant singing of the melodious birds.
Temari finally arose from her deep sleep. Exhausted, she entered the bathroom and freshened up. She took a long hot bath to refresh herself from the tiresome effect of waking up. After her bath, the recharging portion of her sleep finally kicked in and is now fully prepared of handling chuunin tasks. Getting her fan, she exited the room to grab a delicious meal. Finished with her breakfast she went out of the house and into her everyday training grounds. On her way there, she was stopped by an Anbu warrior.
"Temari-san, Hokage-sama requested of your presence immediately" The Anbu informed
At this, Temari nodded and went straight to the Hokage tower. She opened the door and quietly closed it. To her surprised, she saw Shikamaru conversing with the Hokage.
"Shikamaru, what are you doing here???" Temari asked
"Shikamaru is here for his mission with you" Tsunade answered for Shikamaru
"Oh, really? So what's the situation?" Temari asked
"This is a B-rank mission that may probably have Jounin-level opponents. You will be going to the hidden country of Snow were you help them fight of the invaders that are trying to conquer this country. Since you two have a great combination of long-range and mid-range ninjutsu, the two of you should carry on this mission. Alright, dismissed." Tsunade growled scarily sending the two ninjas out.
The two ninjas travelled quickly towards the icy hidden country of Snow. To pass the time, Shikamaru and Temari converse against each other.
"What do you think is the type of enemy we will face?" Temari interrogated
"Maybe ice-based ninjutsu for it is in the hidden country of Snow and that this isn't a whole nation conquering it's just a group of people so it's not just for them to travel far just to invade that land also , they probably thought the hidden Snow as a threat and wanted to expand their nation."
"Yeah, I guess. But do you think that we'll arrive there in time??" Temari inquired
"We'll it does take a few hours to arrive at the hidden Snow country from Konoha. To be honest, I don't know, we'll just have to depend on how long the country could hold out." Shikamaru responded.
A few hours later, they arrived at the hidden country of Snow. To their surprise, they saw a person who apparently is an Akatsuki. The Akatsuki's flowing red hair danced from his head by the breeze, his Akatsuki robe ran down to his knees flowing by the wind and his light complexion was shown slightly from lesser light that the country provided. The Akatsuki fought off all the shinobi that came in his way. Shikamaru quietly unleashed the Kagemane no Jutsu. The shadow crept silently towards the Akatsuki's feet. At this, the Akatsuki noticed the shadow and evasively jumped forward to avoid the shadow that silently crept on the ground. After this, the shadow picked up speed and shot towards the red headed Akatsuki. The Akatsuki shot back avoiding the shadow. To his reaction, the shadow split into a two headed shadow. The two shadows dashed towards the Akatsuki in different directions. Temari reacted with a "Nimpo, Kamaitachi" opening up her big fan and heavily swinging it sending out strong wind straight towards the Akatsuki. Required to think fast, the Akatsuki waved his fingers. Doing this, a puppet jump out and blocked the wind with a chakra shield. To a conclusion, the shadow sneakily approached the Akatsuki unnoticed and successfully caught him.
"Kagemane no jutsu finally succeeded." Shikamaru suddenly said
To the Akatsuki's astonishment, he wasn't able to move
"Kagemane no jutsu cancels out all movement and forces the captured to mimic everything that the user does" Shikamaru said demonstrating by doing an obscene gesture. With the jutsu's effect, The Akatsuki did the same
"Now, Who are you?!?!" Temari growled
" You wanna know who I am...my name is... The red scorpion's SASORI." was all the Akatsuki responded with. Then, Sasori disabled the Kagemane no Jutsu by using his own strength to literally rip the shadow from his feet. 'that wind girl's gonna be annoying' and with this he summoned hiruko from a scroll. It opened its mouth sending out a barrage of poisoned needles. Temari reacted with sending out another nimpo, kamataichi. Unfortunately, the poisoned needles pierced through the wind unharmed still heading straight for them. Astonished, Temari struck her opened fan to the ground thus deflecting all the needles, using it like some sort of shield.
"This guy, he's the one who beat Kankuro when they were in the desert, he must be strong and be careful because every weapon hidden in every puppet of his is drenched in poison so not even a single scratch is acceptable." Temari said.
"Really? This is gonna be troublesome." Shikamaru answered
"You mean for me, you're totally useless against this guy"
"He just had a little bit of too much chakra, that's all. Ok here's the plan..." Shikamaru whispered to Temari. she carefully listened
'What are they doing back there' Sasori thought. Suddenly, five shadows dashed towards him in different directions in the attempt of confusing him. The shadows went after Sasori one-by-one. He evasively jumped and leaped to avoid the shadows. While doing this, he waved his fingers to control hiruko but he didn't budge and it mysteriously stopped sending out waves of needles.
"Kagemane no jutsu succeeded again" Shikamaru said as Temari lifted up the fan dug up on the ground. His shadow was attached to hiruko.
"Nimpo, kamaitachi" Temari called upon taking advantage of the opening. Temari swung her fan to execute the jutsu. Sasori immediately positioned his hands before him to cover himself from the wind. The wind caused the snow to fly out wherever the wind took it forcing him to keep his eyes half closed. His clothes were randomly ripped and slashed from the vicious wind, however, he was unharmed. The wind subsided, enabling Sasori to open his eyes. Three kunai shot out towards him from the snow cloud the wind created. Sasori quickly called back the puppet he used for the chakra shield and blocked the kunais. Suddenly, the puppet turned around, revealed a hidden weapon from his arm and swung it towards him. He immediately leaped back, noticing the shadow attached to the puppet's feet. The snow cloud suddenly vanished as Temari's kamaitachi blew it away. Sasori retreated. Suddenly, ice encased him from his shoulder down to his feet, disabling him of movement. Sasori looked back to see a shinobi pressing his palm to the snow floor which executed this jutsu.
"Childs-play" Sasori whispered breaking the ice into hundreds of shards and leaping away "I will leave for now. Take note that you haven't beaten me and I haven't revealed my true power yet. However, this interference will not be tolerated." With this Sasori vanished into the forest and the two puppets disappeared into a cloud of smoke.
"So did we fail this mission or did we succeed??" Temari asked confusion embedded in the tone of her voice and at the same time feeling relief from the retreat of an Akatsuki
"I think we succeeded because our main objective here is to get the Country of Snow safe."Shikamaru answered.
"Our greatest gratitude for what you have done" One of the shinobis said
"No biggie. It's our job..." Shikamaru said "We'll we'd better get goin'" he continued waving good bye all the people. Temari mimicked the action and did the same
Later, they leaped across the forest rapidly taking big leaps every time. 'I can't believe Shikamaru came up with that plan in mere seconds. That would have seemed problematic considering that we were panicky, despite the fact that we're ninjas we were facing an Akatsuki, that would have been difficult to come up with unless he was completely calm.' Temari thought bringing up the interesting happenings that took place not to far back. She looked at Shikamaru completely dumping the fact that he was a Jounin. She continued to jump out and leap throughout the forest until they aarrive at their destination but she can't help but think why that Akatsuki retreated after the ice encased him, she knew pretty much that he could have defeated those shinobi. Flushed in wonder, she decided to ask Shikamaru.
"Hey, Shikamaru?" Temari called upon drawing attention from Shikamaru
"Yes" Shikamaru responded
"Why do you think that Sasori escaped when he knew he could have possibly defeated us?" Temari continued
"To be honest, I really don't know. There is no reason for that." Shikamaru inquired
'I've never seen Shikamaru like this before. I thought he was supposed to be a genius.' Temari wondered looking again at the ponytailed Jounin.
They continued to jump throughout the entire forest. The point of view coming from the back.Still jumping, a white stream of light heads toward Shikamaru and Temari The video turns static and not moving. They are then colored with vivid colors that looked like they were shaded carefully with colored pencils. The scene ends with the romantic setting of Shikamaru and Temari jumping side by side together as always.
(A/N: if you think that Shikamaru and Temari are being attacked by some sort of light based jutsu. Well, you're most certainly wrong. I always end my fanfic with these italic words that state how the "episode" ends then the credits starts to show but in this case, the Authors note is the credits. Well, hope you enjoyed my fic, I'm sorry if this chapter didn't have any romance in it or any love-dovey stuff please take note that this fic is also adventure so I will be putting in more fight scenes and also some lovey-dovet please RXR and don't forget to read the chapters that I will put in. I will update as soon as possible if I get another 3 reviews if not. I will update next week. Hop you put me on your favourites and alert. I would appreciate that so much)
