Hey this is third chapter… but you already know that! Hopefully the endings have got enough suspense for you! Let me know if any loop holes need fixing or if anything is getting too OOC.
….The first thought I had was, Crap! Sasuke had found out about my purple sharingan eyes and now he was taking me back to the rest of the team at the clearing. I spoke to him, "You tell them about me and I swear I'll kill you," I glared into his eyes, mine were back to their normal blue colour. He sighed and shook his head, a slight Uchiha smirk on his face, "Whatever." Okay that was not the response I was hoping for.
We leapt off the last branch and cautiously down into the clearing behind some bushes. A thorn scratched my arm and I gave a small wince. Then I noticed my clothes next to the trees. Why, Jashin, Why? I laughed using a phrase I had heard while traveling. A weird blue, fish-like ninja popped into my head and I wondered why. My white clothes stood out so I focused my violet sharingan, sharpening my eyes and blankly staring, finding the water atoms within the bushes. I extracted the green fibred water from the leaves and froze them to myself, much to Sasuke's surprise. I had done a few fake hand signs so as not to draw too much attention to my sign-lacking jutsu. "How did you learn that jutsu, nomad?" he said with an arrogant look on his chiseled face. I kept my sharingan steeled on his for a second longer with a deathly glare. "Oh never mind," he shrugged looking out at the clearing, hand on his kunai, resigning his curiosity to a later date. A sound thumping into the grass made my almost retreated sharingan harden into a defined line again. The 3 dark blue blade-like swirls of my eyes became more vivid and the deep violet thickened. Naruto entered the clearing arrogantly, and cocky as he was, he boldly landed in the center of the grass with no second thoughts as to the enemy teams nearby. Sakura was close behind, being just a bit more subtle whilst yelling at Naruto shrilly for his carelessness. I retracted my sharingan quickly before looking back at Sasuke and rolling my eyes.
Sasuke stepped out from our hiding place and into the clearing, dragging me after him by the wrist, to my extreme annoyance. I evaporated off my camouflage before the others saw and using my mind shaped it into a knife and proceeded to whip it through the air to stab his hand with ice. What? He was hurting my wrist, the bastard! He winced and let go, glaring at me with a gaze as sharp as needles. "What was that?" I shrugged as the green tinged puddle below his hand sunk into the ground. So I smiled a slight apology to him nevertheless. Only for it to be returned by an amused glare… I mean an amused. Glare. Really? Naruto beamed at me, "Hey! New team member! I'm Naruto Uzumaki and I'm going to be the next Hoka-!" I proceeded to punch him in the face in annoyance. "I already know who you are!" His shrill high-pitched voice just pushed me over an already crumbling edge… but I guess that's just the kind of person I am. "Hey that huuuurt!" he complained, holding his face. "Sorry … the whole happy go lucky confident guy routine was getting on my nerves," I chuckled. Sasuke choked back a laugh… well at least his sense of humor is intact, I thought. "Well she's bloody mean," Naruto whispered a little too loudly to Sakura who proceeded to glare at him, her inner self threatening to rip his head off. I must say I was beginning to like this cherry headed girl. "So... we found a place to settle down for the night… if we want to get there before dark we better hurry. There is a time limit to this mission," Sasuke added in humorlessly.
After an hour of leaping through the trees in a fast ninja style we came across the rocky outcrop I had seen earlier. "What is this! We can't hide is this place, it's not closed in enough! We would be spotted by any enemy that came by!" Naruto complained loudly and may I add obnoxiously. My fist crystalised with chakra while I controlled the urge to hit him again. So I settled for sending him a 'shut-up-or-you'll-die' look and he took the hint and calmed down ever so slightly, his vibrant blue eyes twitching a bit. Sasuke looked at me for a second before he spoke, "I think Sasha has a tactic that can help make this place an advantage… well from what I've seen at least." Naruto and Sakura looked at me with a tinge of doubt in their eyes. "No smart ninja would come. That's obvious because of the rough terrain and the openness but places like these have caves and good area that if …tampered with … can come in handy. I can help disguise the area and conceal our team with a… jutsu… I have. Then we can get back to rescuing the girl from the sand village (That was our mission objective) tomorrow," I said cautiously. They now looked at me expectantly, "Where's the cave then," stupid Sakura commented. I had noticed her sneaking awed looks at Sasuke and snickered when I saw her do it a 4th time. "Sasuke knows," I pointed out, blatantly intending fully to take his attitude down a notch.
He glared at me, of course he didn't know where the heck a cave was but that didn't stop me getting revenge on him for spilling my information earlier. Even if it wasn't much it could still lead the two genin to suspect further. I didn't mind if these idiots knew, it was just that the last thing I wanted was for the Hokage to suspect me of being an enemy and if she knew that I'd kept it from her then I would be. In fact I was surprised that Old Bat had put me straight into a c rank mission without even knowing my training. Maybe she saw something in me? Huh, either way from what I had seen, the Konoha area academy was pretty lacking. I smirked.
Sasuke flicked his sharingan on in a blink of an eye (Hehe) and with that famous Uchiha smirk began scouring the cliff face for a cave. He broke into a shattering smile as soon as he spotted the dark slit in that would end up being our room for the night. He leapt up to it in one bound and disappeared inside. A few minutes later he returned holding up a curved thumb. The cave was clear. I followed Sakura and Naruto up the cliff. I kinda felt sorry for the Uzumaki kid, after being on the road most of my life I had heard many rumors of the child containing the kyuubi, 9 tailed fox spirit. It must have been hard growing up with no friends. I felt like we shared that one attribute in common. But at least I had chosen solitude for the most of my life and after finding my first village. While looking out over the land I had seen the villages but chosen to stay in the woods and mountains. As we got inside Sasuke sent the other two away to get firewood while I disguised the area.
I went outside and breathed in the cool air. It was just cold enough that once I froze everything white that it would stay like that and wouldn't melt. The downside was that I would need to disguise the other members as well. I took a deep breath. Concentrated on the cold blue chakra that ran through me, dragging it into my fingertips. My eyes changed and sharpened into their unusual sharingan, the 3 dark blue blades within began to lighten and glow a crisp vivid colour. The violet darkened and faded away behind the light slightly. As I looked up and focused on the trees they began to sweat out the water and collect dew drops from the water in the air that began falling like snow infused with my blue chakra. The ground shimmered and adorned a coating of silver frost. My fingers began to twitch as I lost excessive amounts of energy through them and my silvery-blue hair fell out in watery waves over my back and pooled down into my hood. I closed my eyes and breathed in the sharp cold air around me.
When I opened my eyes everything was white. A beautiful crystalline piece of art that expanded across a quarter the land, a few flakes still falling in the distance. I heard an intake of breath behind me and turned to see none other than Sasuke Uchiha, mouth agape and staring in apparent awe at my work. "I'm not even going to ask where you learnt that," he breathed.
It was night now and we were going over thoughts for tomorrow's rescue and retrieve for when we arrived at the sand village around midday. We sat in front of the fire Sasuke had made with his fireball jutsu. I would have glared at him in jealousy if I hadn't already mastered the cold fire jutsu. It still burned but would never stay lit. I could have beaten him in any fair fight though, that I was sure of. When Naruto and Sakura had returned they had looked at me and then at the snow and ice that I had coated their clothes with and shaken their heads in disbelief, "This is your idea of tampering?" Naruto gaped. Then as dark fell we talked about our attack plans.
Naruto's idea of a plan was direct force, heading in to the midst of the sand ninja kidnappers and blasting them all with his shadow clones. Sasuke suggested an attack from the bushes or a surprise trap on individual members, picking them off one at a time. I liked that more than the lunatics plan. Sakura just agreed awestruck with whatever Sasuke wanted much to his annoyance. They all turned to me and for a split second I lost my cool at Sasuke's cool gaze. Hardening myself I shook away the lump of fear in my throat, he looked just like him. I thought on my feet and I quickly came up with a plan which I began explaining. Eventually their eyes lit up and they nodded at each part that I came up with and I began to feel more excited about the exam.
I tossed and turned that night. Not so much because I was excited or nervous, which I was, but mainly because of fear. Fear that I would be caught, that I would have to escape because I was always afraid of losing control of my chakra. That I would kill someone on my team accidentally during my misson. If I was going to kill someone I wanted to do it because they pissed me off or for a damn good reason! Not by accident. And I was afraid that Sasuke would be like him. My mind flashed back to that night again. I rolled and faced the cave entrance. I thought I better cover it just in case any animals came venturing for a midnight snack. I was sleepy but my eyes began to elongate anyway and I weakened myself further creating a spiraling tendril of ice that crept around the cave entrance slowly centering itself as a giant detailed white snowflake-like cover that sealed us away from sight. It even hid our fire and was thick enough not to melt or penetrate and that hid our scent. I grinned, happy with my new piece of artwork.
As I rolled over to try and finally get to sleep my fading violet sharingan eyes locked with Sasuke's red ones and I froze. He lay across the room in a sleeping bag staring in shock at me and what I had just done. He glanced at my hands that lay still outside of my sleeping bag. Sasuke had seen me control my chakra without hand signs. OH SHIT.