Chapter 3!

Ok so Chapter 3 YAY! So wolf 08 gave me lots of options for the next chapter, and I donno what I wanna put!? So I'm kind of making it up as I go.

Now don't get me wrong, I get as much HW and projects as Wolf08, I have all my hard classes this term! But I'm just able to make more time in my schedule. Unlike Wolf08, I'm always on the computer, playing video games, or just sleeping. But I'm smarter then people give me credit. You could say I'm a Shikamaru type of person. Ok, ok enough about me (I hate talking about myself) time to start the story! (Still no idea what I'm going to write about!)

All eight of them walked down the dirt road. Naruto and Sakura were in the lead. Mayumi and Tasuba had been friends for along time so they were walking together, on both sides of them stood there other teammates; Koga and Yoru. Kenji and Daisuke walked in the back, they knew each other from the academy, but they didn't talk.

Just then Aoi, the small dog on Yoru's head, sniffed the air and growled. "I thought I felt someone following us…" Naruto said coming to a halt and looking around. Sakura nodded then looked at the students, "Prepare yourself, and don't get in the way." "No way!" Yoru called, "I'm not going to let you sensei's steal all the glory!" Naruto looked at him, "It's not about the glory, Yoru. Right now we have to focus on the mission."

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"What is this about lady Tsunade?" Naruto asked his team close behind him. Tsunade sighed, "Late last night something important was stolen from the village. I'm not going to get into to much detail…" she looked at the young student and then back at Naruto and Sakura, "but who ever it was is very powerful." Sakura looked at her students, "Then why do you want us to go? Shouldn't it be the ANBU?" Tsunade sighed again, "I can't send them due to certain circumstances…" Naruto nodded. Sakura looked around with a puzzled face, "Umm… lady Tsunade? Where's Shizune?" Tsunade turned away and looked out the window, "I sent her out to stop the enemy last night, but when she came back she was hurt really badly. She still hasn't awakened." Tsunade looked up at them, "That's why I know you won't let me down."

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"Here they come…" Sakura warned and stepped in front of her students, Naruto did the same. Then suddenly a huge gust of wind hit them. As it stopped a team of four ninja appeared. Two of them had rock village headbands and the other two had rain headbands. Naruto smiled, "Team 3 for the rock…" He looked at Sakura and she continued his sentence, "…and team 4 on the rain."

"Do you really think that you Konaha chums can bet us?" The short, red haired girl from the rock village laughed. "Don't under estimate them Nini." The tall black haired man from the same village said calmly. She looked up at him then smiled. The brown haired boy from the rain village just stood there with a bored look on his face. The last ninja was a woman with short blond hair from the rain village, her mouth open and she said, "Scatter!" The four spilt up in to the pairs of there village and headed in different directions.

Naruto and his team followed the rock ninja and Sakura and her team followed the rain ninja.

Because my team is Naruto's I'm only going to write about them from this point on in the chapter and wolf08 can write about Sakura and her team's battle in the next chapter.

The two rock ninja lead them to an opening in the forest. There was a fast moving stream, and lots of rocks and boulders there. "Oh, oh! Ne can I start!?" asked Nini to the other ninja. "Of course." He smiled and patted her on the head, "But leave the blonde one to me." He gave Naruto a grim glare. "OK!" Nini said charging at the three students. Naruto quickly went to attack her but then was cut off by Ne and had to dodge. "It's not fair to fight someone half your age!" He said throwing another attack. Naruto dodged and threw his own attack.

Nini charged at the three students. "Prepare to DIE!" she yelled doing a hand jutsu. Her finger tips became long and sharp. One hand went toward Mayumi and the other at Yoru. Yoru blocked one of the fingers with his kunai but the other four went on and hit him. He went flying backward. The blades had only cut him, none had hit anywhere vital. Mayumi closed her eyes and covered her head with her hands. Then all she heard was buzzing. She looked up to see Kenji and a shield of bugs. "Be more careful." He warned in a voice that sounded like he was annoyed with having to save her.

Yoru slowly stood up. "Hey!" he yelled, "What the hell are you doing!? Why are you attacking us!?" Nini retracted her fingers and smiled, "Because we have to protect our lord. He has saved us, now we will save him!" Just then her smile disappeared; she bolted around and blocked Kenji's attack with one of her finger blades. He pushed on the kunai in his hand. Then Nini's smile returned, "You're fast, and strong. You'll be fun to fight!" the two pushed off each other and slid to a stop. Nini giggled and shot her fingers at him. He dodged each of them and jumped on one and started running toward her. He was about to punch her but stopped and jumped away. "What's wrong?" Nini asked. Kenji looked at her and said, "I don't hit girls." Nini moaned, "Aww come on! The one here that's the most interesting to fight doesn't want to!" Kenji replied, "It's not that I don't want to, I would love a good fight, but I just can't fight a girl."

Yoru grinned his teeth together, 'Kenji's right we can't fight a girl!' he looked over at Mayumi, 'She's our only chance' he thought. Mayumi already knew what she had to do. She stood up straight; -Sharingan- her blue eyes filled with red and two black marks appeared in them. She had just learned how to use the sharingan and was still getting used to it. She had been training with Kakashi but wasn't sure if she was ready to take on such an enemy as her. Mayumi knew she had to though.

"So I get to kill you first!?" Nini giggled and licked her lips. "You can do it Mayumi!" Yoru called waving his hands around. Mayumi gulped and Nini charged toward her. The fight was long and farce. Both the two girls were badly wounded and running low on chakra. Mayumi flinched; her eyes began to hurt and she felt the sharingan fading. "He-he, now what are you going to do? You can't read my moves anymore!" Nini laughed and reached out her hand. Her fingers turned into long blades and they shot out. Mayumi couldn't dodge in time; two of the fingers pierced her flesh and dug deep into her shoulder. Nini pulled them out, closed her fist and punched Mayumi in the stomach. Mayumi fell backwards. "Time to finish this!" Nini cried making her whole hand a large blade.

"No!" Yoru cried running toward her. Nini's blade came down and was now stuck in the hard earth. "Huh?" Her head bolted over to her left. Naruto stood holding Mayumi in his arms. He had given Ne a hard punch in the face and then bolted over to Mayumi's aid. "Sensei!" Yoru cried in relief and stopped running. Nini's blade turned back into her hand, she turned to face Naruto. "You bastard!" She charged toward him but then Ne appeared in front of her. "We're leaving." He said. Nini looked up at him, "But I need to kill them!" She pleaded. "No! You're almost out of chakra and I don't think you being a girl will help you anymore. Besides, you can look forward to fighting them again later in front of the leader." He said facing team three. A smile spread across Nini's face and they disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto looked down at Mayumi. She flinched but her eyes remained closed. Her left arm dangled toward the ground. Blood from her shoulder streamed down it and dripped off her fingers. "Mayumi!" Yoru called running over. "Don't worry Yoru; she'll be fine once we find Sakura and her team." Naruto said heading back in the direction from which they came.

Ok done my chapter (imagine how long it would have been if I had also done Sakura's and her team's battle!) Wolf08 is up next with her team! Ples R&R (Wolf08 will love you if you do! She loves reviews!) Hope you liked it and ples keep reading! --