Okay! Alright! Here we go xD The second chapter, remember to R&R! Looking back on the first chapter we know this 'Mafia' is going to try and take down Konoha, the ANBU have let the ninjas of the leaf village know, even though they're not meant to! Sayuri and Iruka have taken charge of the Chuunin and Genin that are in Konoha and are at the outskirts standing by for the ANBU! When suddenly they here and scream and everyone is like OMG LET'S GO PEEK! And uuh… you get the picture… ENJOY OO
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto, but if I did, I would do the cha-cha nakie O.O
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Chapter Two:
Attack! Sand and Leaf.
"Don't forget where you from…"
"I'm not exactly proud am I."
"No, but… They're still family… Still your friends."
"They aren't my family anymore."
"You… Why are you…"
"I'm here in case you forget me too."
"Your not here… Only in my head. My head?"
"Wait…"
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"Sayuri!!" Naruto shouted, he stood directly in front of her as she held her palm to her forehead. She suddenly looked pale and a little shaky, looking up she saw everybody fighting a man in a black coat with a hood that covered his face.
"Naruto… What's going on!?" She turned to him looking concerned snapping out of her faint consciousness.
"What!?" Naruto yelled falling back a little in shock, "What just happened to you is more like it! While everyone kept fighting for a you were out of it for a moment."
"What? We were chasing that ANBU…" She shook her head looking to the ground then slowly at her hands, "I fought too?"
"This guy is insanely tough, you alright?" Naruto leant down to the level of her head looking a little worried. Sayuri took in a small breath remember the last thought of the person talking to her in her mind.
"I'm fine… I think." All up her arm were mud scrapes, cuts and gash's of blood were coming from one knee.
"As for the ANBU he fled from the scene when this guy turned up," Naruto looked over at Neji who seemed to be finishing the guy off, "I think Neji's finishing him…"
Sayuri looked over at Neji battling the man, he looked completely out of breath, but as he gave one set of final punches to the face, the man gradually thumped to the ground. Leaves around his body scattered in different directions because of the impacted and the sound of the thump echoed through the air of the woods. A few crows nearby fled making cries, Naruto stared up at them for a moment then to the night sky where every star could be seen.
"You did it!" Hinata said, lifting herself from the ground, "Are you ok?"
"Hah! That was too quick, bring them on!" Lee posed with the thumbs up and kicked one leg in the air.
Kiba went over to the mans body and stood by his face, "He hurt Arkamaru quite badly… Let's reveal his Identity I say!"
"Oh dear…" Hinata said looking around the group they were suddenly surrounded by more men in black coats.
"Shit!" Kiba tightened his fist and counted them one by one with his eyes, "Twelve…"
"Twelve? Look what only one did to one of us!" Naruto shouted, "These guys aren't push overs…"
"What now!?"
"Maybe… we should-"
"I say we run!"
"They think they're all going to die…"
"You sure there's twelve Kiba!? Sayuri said there might be more!"
"How am I suppose to know!?"
"Don't yell at her!"
"Do you think that too?"
"We're in a mess…"
"Neji…you alright?"
"We need to get out of here…"
"I was never able to read your mind, your too distant…"
"Sayuri!?"
"There's thirteen, not twelve…"
"Sayuri!?!" Naruto yelled louder, the others suddenly quiet down and stared at Naruto and Sayuri.
She blinked, "Thirteen?" Looking above the ninjas she soon came to Neji and saw something move as if it was almost completely transparent, "Neji! Watch out!"
All the men started to throw Kunai at the leaf ninjas and Neji was suddenly pushed over aggressively from behind to the floor. He immediately picked himself up dodging the Kunai in the process and gave Hinata a protective glare. Hinata looked back in comfort, as if she was sending him a message in thought for him not to worry so much about her but everyone else. Sayuri suddenly through a few Kunai knives at the semi-transparent man behind Neji and it flew crashing into a tree from the impact. Sayuri's arms looked a little tense throwing a few more Kunai at the hooded man that now became nailed to the tree as Lee blocked a few Kunai and needles that were aimed at Sayuri.
"We can't leave Naruto! Konoha!" Sayuri started blocking the Kunai with her very own, standing back to back against Naruto and kept one eye on Hinata, "Hinata! Find the ANBU with Neji, you two have great eyesight, you'll find them quicker that way!"
Naruto looked at Hinata in a struggling hope as the Kunai kept coming and coming. He smiled at her but suddenly lost it and started gritting his teeth in anger against the hooded men, "Hinata!"
"Alright…" Neji said and took off with Hinata.
Kiba, lee and Arkamaru stood by Sayuri and Naruto. Kiba glared at Arkamaru for a moment as he whimpered, "You guys… I have barely any Chakra left from the other fight…"
"They're just toying with us for now, so hang in until Hinata and Neji bring back cover."
Sayuri didn't even sound so sure of her own words, an unconvincing expression spawned over her face, staring at the ground with the hopes of coming up with a last-minuet plan at the edge of a knife! Sayuri was lazily dodging the throwing Kunais and needles as if she had done it a thousand times.
"Hold on a moment there Sayuri!" Naruto stopped to block the Kunai's for a moment and put his hands in a hand seal, "Shadow Clone-Jutsu!" All of a sudden about 40 clones circled around the circle of Mafia men. Naruto grinned as the men stopped throwing Kunai and glared at the clones mysteriously, "Something isn't right…"
The mafia men started to acted strange as if they were waiting for something, they stared at the clones and turned their attention away from Naruto, Lee, Kiba, Arkamaru and Sayuri. Everything has suddenly gone quiet as all of them could only hear the sound of their own heavy breathing and a few Kunais rustling out of place on the ground.
"I know…" Sayuri agreed, her voice sounding a little more croaky than husky, "I don't even think their human… We could be wasting our time."
"It's like they're waiting for orders or something…." Naruto said hesitating, his clones waiting for a reaction from the men but nothing was happening. The men just looked to the floor as if they were staring into space, Sayuri tugged lee and pointed to the man they had all just defeated, "I want you to unveil his face, I have a theory…"
Lee gulped loudly and tugged his colour before taking a few steps closer to the body, "Here goes nothing!" Lee looked back at Kiba and Naruto before touching the cloak, he started to pull of the hood.
"It is…" Sayuri drifted her words and watched lee, tilting her head for a better look.
"A wooden face!?!?" Lee shouted, "That's the scariest thing I've ever seen!" His legs scurried back to where everyone stood, the face was wooden and looked similar to a particular persons use of weapon. Sayuri looked away with a smirk on her face, Naruto made a pondering noise as if he was thinking aloud and looked to Kida who too was deep in thought.
"…a Puppet." Sayuri looked down and turned to Naruto, "These are all puppets, every single one, they don't even have real amounts of Chakra, for all we know that puppet Neji destroyed isn't really even defeated… I'm not sure."
"These freaks creep the hell out of me." Naruto growled and started to stare them all down one by one.
"What are you talking about! Atleast you did not have to reveal it's true identity!" Lee shouted.
"Stop being a baby, Lee!" Kiba kneeled down to Arkamaru who was barely able to pant as much as he could, "So they sent pieces of scrap, instead of the real thing."
"……………" Sayuri turned to look at Naruto, but a rustle on a branch above made her look up to see someone familiar.
"You're right Temari, they sure look pretty pitiful down there," The voice of Shikamaru was above them, "More of those puppets again, how troublesome… Hey Kankurou, isn't that your specialty?"
Sayuri put her hands on her hips suddenly and appeared all bad-girl like, Naruto just raised an eyebrow at her then shook a fist at Shikamaru.
"What the hell you guys! Stop standing there and give us a hand!"
Temari looked at Sayuri from above, "Well your more powerful than this Sayuri! What's gotten into you!"
Sayuri laughed a little with a smirk across her face, "Hm. Well you know… It's hard to keep myself attractive in these conditions."
Kankurou pulled his hand aside from him and tossed the puppets aside as if they were rag dolls from his fingertips, he did this so easily and maybe too easy making out that all their hard work and effort to defeat only the one mafia guy was a waste of time.
"They're remotely controlled… Well that's just stupid, any puppeteer can just take control of them."
"…………" Sayuri turned to look at Kankurou above her, "If I had known that then we wouldn't be in this situation perhaps."
"Ah Sayuri, how's it going?" Kankurou gave a wink to her.
Naruto laughed a little with a huge grin across his face, "Shikamaru! I thought you were in the wind country."
Kankurou, Temari and Shikamaru leaped from their tree and to the ground one by one. Kiba stepped forward a little as the three dusted themselves down and Temari rushed to fix her hair. Sayuri walked to Temari then smiled shyly at her, "After so many years you still know when to come save me."
Temari grinned, "Like you haven't done the same for me…"
"Well excuse me for being the one who actually pushed all those puppets aside," Kankurou folded his arms and looked away from Sayuri, "Even today you deny me, when really you should be thanking me…"
"………………" Sayuri shrugged, "Sorry…what?"
Sayuri laughed a little as Kankurou started to look a little heated up, he growled at her angrily and his eyebrows frowning. As Sayuri stopped laughing Lee stepped up to Kankurou and held out his hand, "Thank you Kankurou of the sand for your aid!"
"…………." Kankurou looked at Sayuri with a sarcastic grin as if Lee was a good example to her, "Your very welcome Lee of the Leaf!"
"How…sweet?" Temari pondered.
"I hate sappy moments…" Sayuri thought with her arms crossed.
Naruto's stomach rumbled, "Is there ramen near here? I wonder if that lady has any more…"
"This is so troublesome…"
"Tamari's kinda cute…"
Naruto turned to Temari, "So Temari, what's going on?"
"You fought a bunch of Mafia puppets and you still haven't figured it out?" Temari sighed, "You truly are clueless… The Mafia you are fighting is based at The Hidden Waterfall Village… They act independently from Ninjas but yet half the people who actually work for them are Waterfall ninjas and very few sand ninja. The leader of the Mafia is called Shinn, who has recently challenged to take on the Kage there, if he wants the Waterfall village then maybe he wants Konoha too, explains why he's sending flunkies here." Temari paused for a moment looking at Sayuri who looked back with nothing but full concentration as if she was new to the entire situation.
"Are there any more left then?" Naruto said scratching his nose.
Shikamaru took in a deep breath and crossed his arms, "There might be… But really the ANBU have taken care of most of them like the Hokage predicted. ANBU have slaughtered forty-six, we have diminished about twenty…"
"Iruka and the others have a little trouble aswell, it seems that none of you was prepared for what was about to happen," Temari said then turned to look at Sayuri, "Or maybe even some of you was prepared, but didn't give it your all."
"…………………" Sayuri looked away and leaned down to Arkamaru's level, "What happens now?"
"We will regroup in Konoha at the Academy." Shikamaru continued.
Arkamaru bark a little at Sayuri, she started to scratch behind his ear, "And the ANBU?"
"It's none of our business for now." Shikamaru said with a stale tone in his voice.
"How are you feeling?" An angelic older female voice started to echo in Sayuri's mind once again…
"The ANBU have always acted different from us, they're usually independent and will keep their private business secret to an extent. Today was just an exception…" Shikamaru continued…
"You should have been a part of the ANBU…"
"I don't know about yous guys but I feel a little used, It's so troublesome… Getting involved with the ANBU, if your not one of them then you're with them at all unless they call and you follow."
"Why don't you spend a little time with Kankurou? You missed him..didn't you?"
"Iruka has been given a scroll of instructions, Hokage doesn't plan on returning until the vacation is over, it seems she wants the people to think nothing is wrong and wants this kinda business kept between the Ninjas and the ANBU."
"You always resent him and shrug him off, take a good look at him for once…"
"So in the meantime, let's just follow the orders and go back to Konoha…Alright? Before things become a drag…" Shikamaru finished and relaxed his arms by his sides. He started to walk with the group but Sayuri stood still for a moment and looked to the floor, every time the voices spoke to her strangely enough she would feel a little dizzy. The voice reminded her of someone but can't remember who, before Kankurou became out of her reach she tugged the arm of his jacket.
"Hmm?" Kankurou turned around to look at Sayuri, an understanding silence of unspoken words stirred between them, her eyes looking a little tired and needing as they denyingly became lost in each others gaze. As the group became meters apart Kankurou turned around and signaled his hand to them, "You guys go ahead, me and Sayuri will catch up in a while…"
"Don't be too long…" Shikamaru replied.
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Kankurou waited a few moments for the group to be out of sight as he watched them walk on, he then turned round to Sayuri, "What is it?"
"Thank you…" She looked to the floor at Kankurou's feet hiding her face in her hair, "I didn't say that back there, so I'm saying it now…"
"……...It's nothing." Kankurou stared at her longingly, that silence between them again speaking unspoken promise and tension. He took a step closer to her and moved a few hairs away from her eye. Sayuri looked up at him blankly lost in his eyes, why did she always feel like this around him? Did he feel the same way? Why was he always like that with her…
"What you looking at?" He said teasingly and poked her forehead playfully.
Sayuri huffed angrily, "Nothing worth mentioning…"
"Ouch." Kankurou laughed a little sarcastically, "I save you… four times now? And all I get is sassy..sarcastic..deliberate comments like that?"
"I'm nothing worth saving."
"You're wrong."
"……………………" Sayuri turned her back on him, "I… Don't want to be protected."
"And what makes you think it's like that?" Kankurou tilted his head and folded his arms taking a few steps closer to her.
"Because…" Sayuri turned her head a little, enough to see Kankurou in the corner of her eye.
"Go on." He took a few steps further till he was inches away, "Sayuri…"
His voice suddenly turning soft and comforting, Sayuri could feel the warmth of his breath against his hair when his lips touched a few strands. Her heart suddenly started pounding, her legs turning to jelly and Goosebumps ran all down her back. Sayuri's breath became a tad heavier as Kankurou sighed waiting for her reply. He took his hand to her waist and his chest breathing in and out on the back of Sayuri, she suddenly sighed deeply trying to hide the depth of her breath.
"Because it…"
Kankurou took his other hand and held onto her, wrapping his arms around her and rested his lips at the top of her head. Sayuri closed her eyes.
"Kankurou…" Sayuri spoke in her light husky tone and tilted her head to where their cheeks met.
"Yeah…" He replied faintly but sounded just as lost as she did.
"I missed you." Sayuri laughed a little realizing the situation she was in. It was night with every star so clear in the sky, a full moon above them and here she was with the guy that thought the world of her.
Sayuri felt his cheeks tense as Kankurou smiled, he didn't reply and suddenly found herself frowning a little feeling that she had made a fool of herself. As Kankurou was about to tighten his grip on her Sayuri released his hands from her waist, "We've taken too long."
"……………………" Kankurou wiped his cheek firmly, "And everything goes back to the way it was…"
"……" This time Sayuri didn't answer him, he always wanted to know where he stood but for some reason Sayuri always had to deny him always that little bit. Was she scared of commitment? Scared to fall for him? Did she even feel that deep about him? Or was it something else…
Sayuri walked ahead of him in a quick pace, "You'll get behind…"
"Behind my ar-"
"Aaah!!" Sayuri screamed as an extremely tall man wearing an ANBU-like mask swiftly took off with her swung on his shoulder.
"What the-" Kankurou ran to the spot Sayuri was taken, "Shit! Why does she get in so much trouble when I'm around!? Is it the effect I have on girls!?" All he could do was watch the small figure in the distance speed off with Sayuri, no cry could be heard so maybe she was knocked out from the shock, or maybe it was just because Sayuri was always too classy to scream out for help like an unarmed damsel. He started to run for the group ahead in a hurry and suddenly leaped from tree to tree, his teeth gritting and eyes burning.
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. meep. Okay…. I DID say there's a romance in here xx and there's only going to be the one between Kankurou and Sayuri!! So it doesn't turn out to be all mushy-like… Just because there's one romantic scene – does NOT make her a mary-sue oO;; I think… I dunno xD You find out later who the voice is …. Ofcourse I'm not gunna' tell you right now xD R&R o.o laters!!
NEXT CHAPTER…
Chapter Three: Ahead on our way