Sleepless d: Owie...why can't I see? (Feels around the eyes to feel zipper and unzips it) what the hell am I wearing?
S T D: A gimp mask.
Sleepless d: Can you stop putting stuff on me?
S T D: Depends.
Dan: Third chapter on its way now.
Sleepless d: Hey...screw it; I'm getting something to eat.
S T D: Bring back something for me!
Dan: Great hope that you like it, no flames, and this guy don't own Naruto.
Outside of Konohagakure gates, one day before the arrival of War, six figures were standing in the wood discussing a plan, there are three cloaked figures. The shortest one is known as Dan Grim, the leader of the group, the tallest one is known as S T D, the third ones name is yet to be revealed. Two of the others are known as Gin and Gon, two men in their fifties and a large object attached between them, and the last one is a chained up Kabuto. "Everyone got that?" Dan asked.
"Yeah, but what do we do with snake boy over here?" The third cloaked companion asked, pulling at Kabuto's chain.
"I'll take him." Dan answered, taking the chain. "Now, just don't kill anyone unless you have to!" Dan ordered them, mostly looking at his third companion, remembering the village they were in. "Ok? Everyone do what they want until it's time, except you two." Dan pointed at Gin and Gon. "Get in position and wait." Gon nodded.
"So...what are you going to do to me?" Kabuto smirked, at that Dan covered his mouth with his bare hand, Kabuto eyes widened and his body violently shook, then collapsing unconscious.
"That should keep him down long enough, but just in case." Dan took out a knife and severed one of his fingers and placed it in Kabuto's pocket, no one seemed fazed by this.
"Can we go now?" S T D asked.
"Yes" Dan answered getting up and heading for the nearest gate, everyone followed him to the gate till they reached the gate and its guard. "Hello Hai, I thought you were going to leave?"
"I was...but if you were involved then I couldn't let anyone else take my position." He stated. "By the way my lord, the village knows you're coming, they're preparing the village."
"How many are they expecting?" Dan asks.
"At a minimum of two and a maximum of the entire village."
"So they aren't underestimating me? Good." Dan smiles.
"Come on! I want to go in!" S T D yells, pushing Hai aside and continued walking.
"What's his problem?" Hai asked.
"This is the first free time he's ever had, plus I think he's fallen for someone in this village." Dan says.
"Ha! He must be getting desperate then. What does she look like?" The third cloaked figure laughs.
"Not bad looking...has an interesting shade of pink hair." Dan answers whilst walking into the village. "Remember, no killing!" Dan warns his companion once again.
"Alright, shut up before I kill you." The cloaked one says walking away.
"We will see you tomorrow then." Gon nod to Dan.
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Half an hour later in the shopping district was everyone's favourite knucklehead. "Why am I being dragged around the shops for? I've got enough gear for a month!" Naruto whines, being dragged through the shops by Sakura. "Besides, I think we lost Sai." He said looking around.
"No we haven't, he's just getting more paint equipment, besides, and it never hurts to make sure you've enough equipment." Sakura says.
"Depends whether you have to carry the stuff or not." Naruto says, carrying over a dozen bags in his hands. "And that last shop was for shoes! When are you going to wear high heels to battle?"
"That may have been for me." Sakura smirked. "And if you remain good, I'll let you eat at Ichiraku Ramen." She says turned her head to tell him.
"Alright then." Naruto sighed.
Sakura smiled and turned to see where to go next, but accidentally walked headfirst into someone. "Oww! Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going..." Sakura apologised, until she looked at the person, he was tall, holding his nose for that is where she hit him, he had a mysterious aura around him and was good looking to, yet he was strangely familiar. 'Tall...dark...and handsome.' She thought 'Jackpot baby!' inner Sakura yelled.
"No, no, the fault is mine." He said opening his eyes, revealing odd colure eyes his left eye was light blue and his right eye was dark brown.
"Hey mate, what's with your eyes?" Naruto asks, in which Sakura turned to punch Naruto for being what she thought was rude, Naruto realising what she was about to do yelled. "I'm holding breakable stuff!" lifting her bags to his face, stopping her.
"Excuse me miss?" the man asked Sakura.
"Um...Yes?" she asked, turning around.
"May I ask such a beautiful lady her name?" he asked, making her blush.
"Um...Sakura." She replied. "And what is yours...Handsome?" Blushing even more.
He paused for a second. "Stad." He replied.
"Had to think of your own name did you?" Sakura giggled.
"Sorry...I was just admiring you beauty." He smiled.
"I've never been treated this way, ever." She smiled.
"Then what the hell was I doing all those years ago?" Naruto asks.
Sakura turned to him and whispered. "Leave now, or you'll be searching for your balls until you're sixty." She threatened, making him very scared.
"Naruto, can I borrow you for a moment?" Kakashi asked, appearing from nowhere.
"Borrow me? You'll be saving me!" Naruto yells, quickly pushing Kakashi away.
"What was that about?" Kakashi asked when Naruto stopped pushing him.
"Oh...nothing, just Sakura showing her love I guess." Naruto replies.
"And who is she talking to?" Kakashi asked interested.
"She's just flirting with some guy named Stad, I've got to say, he's was using the cheesiest lines I've ever heard." Naruto laughs.
"Well...believe it or not, but girls eat that crap up." Kakashi says.
"You're joking?" Naruto laughs.
"Well...it's worked with every woman I've been with." Kakashi tells him.
"Huh...so what did you want to talk about Kakashi sensei?"
"Hm? Oh, I just wanted to say that I'm a little worried that everyone seems very relaxed about tomorrow's mission." Kakashi tells him.
"I think everyone believes that I'll save the day, since I am practically the one that stopped the war." Naruto says honestly.
"Good to see that you've grow since the first time I met you." Kakashi says, smiling in his own way. "It's good to know that the power hasn't gone to your head either."
"Don't worry, I know better than to get sloppy, I was training for the mission before Sakura found me and took me to find Sia, just to go shopping for 'equipment'." Naruto assures him. "everyone probably thinks I'll pull a trick out of my ass and win."
"Good, I'm going around seeing if everyone else is getting ready then." Kakashi says, puffing away in a cloud of smock.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled, jogging over to him.
"Yeah?"
"Take my shopping and drop it off at my parents!" She said in a hurry.
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"Cause I'm going out on a date!" Sakura squealed, acting like a fan girl being asked out by the boy of her dreams.
"What! You only just met the guy!" Naruto said dumbstruck.
"I know, but he's only in the village till tomorrow morning." She says. "See you later!"
"Bloody hell!" Naruto sighed.
"Why has Sakura acting like that?" Said a voice behind him, Naruto didn't turn for he already knew it was Sai.
"She just got asked out by a guy." He told him.
"Asked out?" Sai questioned.
"She's dating someone." He tells him.
"Ah, I read a book about this; it says that when people start dating, it can take months or a single day to move into a physical relationship." Sai says.
"And what do you know about 'physical relationship'?" Naruto asks.
"Only from what I read from the late Jiraiya-Sama's novels." Sai tells him.
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Some place else, near in the housing district, a small group of ANBU were tailing a mysterious cloaked figure. "I've never seen him before..." one of them says.
"Should we continue tailing?" another asks the leader.
"No, we've other duties to attend to, we'll stop and question him." The leader answers.
As the cloaked person went through and alleyway, the three ANBU appeared in front of him, the cloaked person continued walking until he was a few feet away. "Identify yourself." One of the ANBU ordered, receiving no answer told, the ANBU ordered it again more violently.
"I'll answer the question if you answer mine." The cloaked figure says.
"What? Alright, what is it?" One of the ANBU asked.
"Are you a fast or a slow bleeder?" The cloaked person asked, before they could react, the figure charged, having small blades slide out from below the wrists and stabbed and sliced the ANBU. By the time they could react, it was too late, the three collapsed almost immediately from shock and something more, the all groaned in pain. "Relax, the poison may act fast but it's not deadly...unless you want it to be?" The figure asked.
"I told you not to kill anyone." A voice came from the other end of the alley, the figure turned to see Dan with his hood down.
"So? I just fancied killing someone." The figure replied, this however didn't go well for Dan, just then, Dan's eyes darkened and his bald head seemed to turn more skeletal.
"Fine, count yourselves lucky I was told not to kill." Said to her victims, and the cloaked figure walked off.
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Many hours have passed and it was now late in the night and a curtain pink haired ninja was having the time of her life with a guy she'd just met today. "Come on! I know of a great ice cream shop for desert." Sakura yells, dragging him along.
"Ok." He replies, smiling.
As they were passing the main walkway in front of the Hokage's tower, they both started hearing music. "Do you hear that Stad?" Sakura asks, for this is the first time she's heard music in this part of the village.
"Yeah...I think it's...street musicians." He says. "Over there." He points further down the street.
"Huh...I didn't know there were street musicians here." Sakura stated.
"Maybe they're new." Stad replies. "Want to go closer for a listen?"
"Sure, it sounds kinda nice." As they walked closer, when they got there, they saw a skinny purple dressed elderly man playing an over-sized Guzheng, it almost looked like it was meant for two people.
"So that's what they were carrying." Stad wispered.
"What was that?" Sakura asked.
"I said it's kinda pretty." He told her.
"Yeah...I could listen to this all day." She said, whilst leaning against him, this made him smirk, and he wrapped his arms around her.
"Enjoying the music I take it?" Someone said behind them, making them jump, they turned and saw an elderly man in the same clothes as the musician wearing shades. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"I-It's alright." Sakura replied, smiling in embarrassment.
"So are you enjoying my brother's melody?" He asks.
"Yes, so do you play like your brother?" Sakura asks.
"Yes, I do as a matter of fact, we're some of the best musicians in the world." The old man replies.
"How did you become the 'best' in the world?" Stad asks, a little bit curious.
"Well...we got better after we lost our sights." He answers.
"Oh, so you're blind then?" Stad asked.
"My brother is, I however am mostly blind, but I can see well enough to know where I'm going." He replies he then looked at Sakura. "Tell me...why do you seem to remind me of Tsunade?" He asks.
"Wait, you know Lady Tsunade?" Sakura asked, almost surprised.
"In a way...how do you her?" he asks.
"She's my sensei." Sakura tells him.
"Ah, I see." He smiles. "Well, you seem more skillful then her in her youth."
"Really? Thank you." Sakura smiles. "So how do you know her then?"
"Let's just say there is some overdue payment involved." He replies.
Sakura was about to ask what he meant, till she remembered her outstanding debt. "Oh, I see...what time is it?" She wondered."
"8:37" Stad says almost immediately.
Sakura raises her eyebrow with surprise. "Wow, do you have a working clock in your head or something?"
"Sort of, yes." Stad laughs.
"Well come on, we've got to get to the ice cream place before it closes." Sakura says, pulling Stad with her, pausing for a minute to reach in her purse and put some money into the musicians hat on the floor before running of.
"They make a cute couple." The old man said, walking to his brother's side. "Shame it won't last long."
"It must've been hard to stay calm brother." The other one said.
"True...but at least I can make her suffer more than before." He replies.
Dan: I love this!
Sleepless d: I'm home!
Dan: What took you so long?
Sleepless d: Burger King's awhile away...where's S T D?
Dan: On a date.
Sleepless d: What! But I got him something!
Dan: Well...for all we know he could be getting something.
Sleepless d: It better not be another outfit for me.
Dan: Well you don't seem to mind, I mean you went out with the stuff on.
Sleepless d:...I THOUGH I FORGOT TO DO SOMETHING!
Dan: Hope you're enjoying the story so far, more to come.