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Ah, I finally found it...
A challenge.
Naruto Uzumaki was a ninja.
He was known as most obnoxious ninja in his generation, some even say that he is probably the most obnoxious ninja in history of Konoha, but he was a ninja. He was idiotic, unpredictable, and so much louder than average ninja, but he was a goddamn amazing ninja anyway. He had to be, in order to fulfill his lifelong dream to become a Hokage.
In his obnoxious, knuckleheaded, but very kind mind, it was unacceptable to let future Hokage do a mindless mission such as escorting a client to Suna or cleaning house for old geezers. Or walk around the perimeter of Konoha village for possible threats. It was useless in his mind. 'Possible threats' never appeared anyway, so why waste his time searching around perimeter for nothing when he could train in the meantime?
Needless to say, when Tsunade, the Hokage, wanted Naruto and his teammates to search around the perimeter for the said 'possible threat', the same kind of mission he thought was useless beyond mentioning, he reacted like obnoxious ninja that he is.
"Baa-chan!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Naruto, I told you not to call me that."
"I won't call you that if you give me some cool mission instead of lame-ass mission like this. Seriously, it's unacceptable to let future Hokage-to-be to go on a useless mission like searching around the perimeter."
Hatake Kakashi, the team leader, sighed beside Naruto. Uchiha Sasuke, his best friend and also his rival, just muttered something along the line of 'dobe' and his female teammate, Ami, just tried to keep her anger leashed. She didn't want to be unprofessional around her village Hokage, after all.
But, damn, his voice is getting louder…
"Naruto," Tsunade said, her vein throbbing from her forehead. 'Not a good sign,' Kakashi thought.
"You will either accept this mission or you won't go to any of the cool missions that you dreamed about any time soon. For 4 months."
Naruto exclaimed in horror. "You can't do that, baa-chan—"
"I can and I will. Watch me." Tsunade took a sip of her—beautiful, loyal, just plain amazing—sake, and looked at Naruto with menacing eyes.
"Now, what are you still doing in my office? Get out!"
Chorus of 'yes, ma'am' was heard and Team 7 disappeared, leaving Tsunade and her sake alone. Tsunade looked at her sake.
'Now, where were we?'
"I can't believe baa-chan is making us do such useless mission! I'm going to be Hokage, damn it!"
Ami sighed. The whole time they were making their way towards the village gate, he wouldn't stop talking about how he deserved a better mission because he was hokage and continued to grumble, which was really beginning to irritate her nerves. Seriously, why couldn't he be more like Sasuke-kun?
…But if he was like Sasuke-kun, than this team would probably drive her crazy with quietness, so maybe it was good that Naruto was Naruto. Still…
"Shut up, dobe," Naruto growled at the nickname.
"It's not like this is our first time getting a mission like this. Why are you being especially louder about it today?"
"Because—"
Whatever Naruto was trying to say was cut off when a presence of chakra was flickered nearby. The members of the Team 7 quickly turned their faces towards the direction that chakra flickered, and without saying a word, they quickly began to make their way to the said direction.
'Is there actually going to be a threat today? If it's Akatsuki…' Kakashi thought, his porn book already disappeared into his pocket.
'No. The chakra level is not too strong, probably about chuunin. Besides, if it was Akatsuki, they probably wouldn't make the mistake of not cloaking their chakra anyway.'
"Ne, Kakashi-sensei, do you think whoever it is could be a threat?" Naruto looked happy at idea of getting some action.
"We don't know, but let's not attack them first, okay? We don't know who this person is going to be."
"Their chakra signature is definitely not familiar," Sasuke ducked at the upcoming branch that would have otherwise knocked him on the face.
They soon came into a clearing and saw a figure wearing a hood, standing alone. The figure looked petite, slim, and gave no indication of the awareness of Team 7's arrival.
"Excuse me—"whatever Ami wanted to say was cut off when Naruto exclaimed beside her.
"Oi! Who are you and what are you doing in Konoha's territory?"
Ami smacked Naruto upside down. Sasuke looked at Naruto in annoyance and Kakashi just sighed at his team's stupid behavior. He tured towards the person but found that the mysterious person had already turned towards them. Kakashi asked, in neutral voice.
"Who are you and what is your business in Konoha?"
The figure just stood there for a second, not moving an inch. When Kakashi was ready to ask her the question again, this time slightly more annoyed, the figure suddenly took of its hood, revealing—
"What…"
…pink hair?
Sakura looked at her surrounding, her identity hidden by its environment from a hood that the old lady had given her before the ritual finished completely. The lady, whom she never got to know the name because she refused to tell her for some unknown reason, had told he that this era was not even recorded in our history book because it was a complete different universe. She told her that, because she herself had never been to the world, there was nothing more she could tell her except this universe was filled with ninjas.
'Ninjas.' Sakura scoffed. 'And here I thought that it was just fantasy figure that human made for some whatever reason. Do they all wear black clothes and a cloth over their face to hide their identity or something?' Sakura mused.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she turned her focus to the trees that seemed to surround her, swallow her whole. It was certainly taller than the trees she has seen in her universe, not to mention thicker. Also, the sheer number of them was amazing as well. 'I don't think I've seen this many trees in my entire life,' Sakura mused.
Suddenly, she could feel someone, no multiple of people, coming at her with incredible speed. Sakura smirked and felt that her hands were already trembling in anticipation at their skills. 'This was what I was waiting for, what I came for.' She clenched her fists to stop her trembling, which didn't help at all.
'Come on, come faster. Show me what you got. Amaze me.'
Not a minute later, she felt four people landing behind her, all of them very light on their feet despite jumping from a very high tree. She still had her back against them, so she couldn't see their faces.
"Excuse me—"
"Oi, who are you and what are you doing in Konoha's territory?"
A girl's voice was cut off by a loud shout from a male. The same girl hit the male, she assumed, because the male that cut her off before had muttered soft 'ow'. She turned around towards them, studying them beneath her hood.
'Well, it certainly feels like a different universe with the clothes they are wearing. Seriousy, orange jumpsuit?' She observed the male in the orange jumpsuits, who had blond hair and blue eyes. A figure standing next to him was a female, probably the one who hit him, who had a skirt that had silts in the middle and side.
'What the hell is the point of that skirt if it has slits all over? Fashion statement?'
Her strange outfit was paired with blue vest. The only thing that she could tolerate from the girl was that her hair color was just as weird as hers, with purple, even though she could tell that it was dyed, with its root showing.
A brooding male stood beside her with arms crossed. He had a very…unique hairstyle and his onyx eyes were staring at two figures beside him in obvious annoyed manner. He had a black shirt, black pants, and black sandals. 'I don't usually like to discriminate people and judge them by their book cover, but something about this kid just screams I hate the world. Is it wrong to think like that?'
A voice sighed beside them. He had a silver hair, which didn't look like it was dyed—'Maybe I won't be alone anymore in the naturally-weird-hair-color group!'—and he had a strange metal headband that concealed one of this eye. He also had a mask on, which prevented her from seeing what was beneath the mask. He was wearing an outfit similar to the brooding boy next to him, except with a vest. 'He looks like a stereotypical ninja,' she thought.
"Who are you and what is your business in Konoha?"
'Well, I have two options: ignore them completely, or tell them who I am. Right, like they are going to believe some bullshit about coming from another universe.' She looked at the silver-haired man, amused at slight irritated waves coming from him.
'Who the hell cares? Let them see me.'
Sakura took her hood off, ignoring the gasp of surprise from the people in front of her. She smirked and let these unknown, other-universe people assess her like she already did behind her hood. Her right hand slowly crept behind her and caressed her tessen lovingly, ready to move if she needed to. Kakashi's eyes narrowed slightly at her right hand, which hid something.
'Most likely a weapon', he thought.
"You have pink hair!" The blond boy exclaimed, his finger pointing at her accusingly, although his voice was anything but. She raised her eyebrow at his antics. That was quite rude.
"Naruto, it's obviously dyed," said the girl beside him. Sakura already could tell that this girl would not get along with her.
"Unlike you, mine is natural." She then turned her focus to two silent males standing beside them, ignoring the reactions of the two louder ones. She could feel her mouth raise slightly at the corner as their surrounding just got slightly more tense, and she had no doubt that her eyes probably had that glint that her sensei used to reprimand her about.
It looked like the silver-haired man and 'I hate the world' kid could sense the glint too, for they have taken a defensive stance, the latter one slightly looking annoyed. In fact, even the louder ones beside them had stopped talking and shifted their positions to slightly offensive mode, ready to spring into action.
Just how she wanted.
"I will ask again," Kakashi narrowed his eyes when the stranger had malicious intent in her green eyes that probably could easily be mistaken as killer intent. It was slightly different though; it was more malicious, but he felt that she wouldn't kill her opponents in a battle. Strange…
"What is your purpose in Konoha?"
She smirked.
"You tell me."
Sasuke growled. His patience had already been tested thoroughly since the start of the day with Ami and Naruto constantly arguing, and now this pink haired girl was making this ridiculously easy mission into a longer and slightly more troublesome one. He had better things to do, damn it.
"If that is your response, we have no choice but to make you answer."
The pink-haired girl took out a metal fan, tessen was the name if he remembered correctly from lesson from Academy all those years ago, and got into a strange position that he has never seen an enemy take before. Kakashi's eyes slighty narrowed at her foreign stance as well.
"Come on. Weren't you going to make me?"
"That's it," Sasuke leapt towards the girl, his onyx eyes lit in anger. This girl was keep ignoring Kakashi's request, delaying them. He had enough of this bullshit.
(Come, come come…)
Sakura dodged Sasuke's fist with fluidly and with minimal effort, like she has been taught, and pushed Sasuke with his own strength, making him fall with unexpected shift of gravity. Kakashi, seeing this, immediately narrowed his eyes at strange but fluid and graceful movement. Sasuke looked at her and quickly leapt towards her again, his onyx eyes slowly bleeding red.
Sasuke threw a kunai at Sakura, which was quickly deflected with simple opening movement of her tessen. He quickly threw a roundhouse kick at her, something that she dodged with a fluid arch of her back. She grabbed his ankle and in one movement, proceeded to throw him to the ground behind her.
Ami, seeing her crush getting thrown to the ground, rushed in to help her love. Sakura just smirked at the girl and waited for the right moment. When Ami was close enough, she shifted just slightly to the left and pushed her to the ground with two fingers. Ami fell on the ground with a 'thud.'
After seeing both of their teammates fall, Naruto and Kakashi looked at the girl with seriousness. They turned to each other, and without a word, leapt towards Sakura like predator hunting for prey. Sasuke, who recovered from his fall, quickly attacked the pink haired girl with malicious intent that was obvious to the onlooker. The four of them began a graceful, yet dangerous dance routine that left Ami at the sidelines.
Sakura didn't even care that a girl dropped out from this fight. Her mind went blank and she let the adrenaline and excitement of the battle consume her. She took hits and returned them back with full force, her fighting style changing into more offensive one rather than the peaceful, traditional method of tai chi chuan. Her sensei always scolded her for her fighting style, but she never could change what she truly felt like during fights. Excitement took over her body as she met their blow by blow, their step by step, her back arching and her attention sharp.
'Kami, I feel so alive. '
Sasuke fell slightly back, getting tired of the battle of taijutsu, and shouted a warning to his teammates before his hand fell to familiar sequence of seals.
"Grand fireball."
Sakura watched with wide eyes as he blew a huge fireball from his mouth. She quickly recovered and dodged to the side, and ran at him with her tessen ready. While Sasuke dodged her fist, he was distracted and couldn't react fast enough for her sharp tessen's edge. It managed to slash him across the arm, cutting it quite deeply.
Sakura turned around just in time to block the knives coming at her way. She caught one of them and threw it back at the direction where it came from. It wasn't like she never threw a knife before. Even though it wasn't her favorite weapon, her master degree in tai chi chuan required it so she was sufficient enough with them.
"Shadow clone jutsu!"
Sakura turned around, only to be faced with multiple versions of blond haired guy. Before she had time to be surprised and gape at him, they were all attacking her at once. She blocked and slashed them, one by one, quickly dispelling them. Although, what she didn't count on was the smoke from dispelling them blinding her sight, quickly leaving her in disadvantage.
'Where are they?'
She looked around furiously to locate the enemies, her sight still clouded. She sensed something at her back, but couldn't turn around fast enough to react to it. Kakashi put his fingers on her pressure point and she let out a small moan as his fingers made contact, before toppling over. He caught her before she fell to the ground, and sighed. This girl had given them quite a fight, whoever she was.
"Did you get her?" Naruto ran over to Kakashi, slightly huffing as his adrenaline still had not faded completely. Sasuke came over to Kakashi as well, followed by Ami who tried to look at Sasuke's slash on his arm.
"Yeah, I got her." Kakashi held her in his arms, looking quite relieved.
"I have no idea where she's from, but damn, she put up a pretty good fight, especially against all three of us at once." Kakashi said, looking at the girl he had in his arms. He was slightly amused to see that she still didn't let go of her tessen when she fell unconscious.
'It must be important to her,' he thought.
"Her stance was something that I've never seen before," Sasuke murmured, looking at the pink haired girl in frustration. She dodged and reacted to all of his attacks like it was nothing!
"Well, we should bring her to the Hokage, right? She's definitely a threat enough," Ami said, crossing her arms to her chest.
"Yes, we should." Kakashi jumped to the tree and started to make his way back to the village. Naruto, Sasuke and Ami soon followed, matching Kakashi's leisure pace with ease.
Kakashi sighed.
It was supposed to be an easy mission too.
