Chapter 2

Tadashi

Tadashi woke early, so early that no one in his house was awake; outside the moon still gleamed over head. He got quietly out of his double bunk trying desperately not to wake his brother. He succeeded and crept out to the living room and grabbed his clothes he left out earlier that night and walked down the hall to the bath room, the tiles icily cold on his feet.

He made it to the bathroom and closed the door and turned on the light. It took him a couple of minutes for his eyes to adjust to the light. After he was able to see properly he placed his clothes on the cabinet next to the sink and stripped off his worn pajamas and jumped into the shower.

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Steam clung in the air after he emerged from the shower. He dried him self off with a fuzzy towel and changed into his clothes; he wore no shirt but a black cloak with a red interior over black three quarter pants. He wrapped white non-stick tape in and X over his tanned shoulders and up his back. After finishing with the tape he concentrated on his hair, wiping the condensation off of the mirror he took a comb from the drawer and combed his now partially dry blond hair. His hair but was very thin and wavy and fell in ripples down to his shoulders with bangs in his eyes.

Finally happy with how he looked he made his way down the hall too the living room and glanced at the clock on the wall, 3:15 he was going to be late, tadashi grabbed his bow and hand fetched arrows from the corner and slung the arrows across his back and put his unstrung bow in a protective tube and also slung that over his cloak and left the house quietly closing the door.

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He was the first to the bridge surprisingly but was closely followed by one of his team mates, Sachiko Tahara. Sachiko was the only female on the squad; she had long straight black hair that fell to her bottom and pinned up at the fringe. Sachiko's clothes were a simple black fighting kimono with a pink dragon design on the outside. Just above her kimono on the back of her neck a black and red dragon head slightly showed, Sachiko had bright and happy nature unless in a battle where her cool composure was lost and she would do anything to protect the ones she loved. Sachiko grew up with only her dad after her mum was brutally murdered by assassins for her blood trait. No one in the village knew the Tahara blood line but all knew it was very powerful.

"Hey Tadashi, how ya doing?" Sachiko asked cheerfully leaning against the bridge beside him.

"Pretty good, ya self?" Tadashi replied

"Tired!" exclaimed the black haired ninja stifling a yawn "why did Shino-sensei want us this early?"

"I don't know, must be a bit more exciting then the usual chunin mission," Tadashi replied just as the third person from their squad arrived from the trees surrounding the bridge.

Hisako Oyama, an idiot as most would put it, Hisako remained him of his mother naruto. Hisako was the worst graduate of the academy so he had been put with the best of the graduates: Tadashi and Sachiko. Hisakos brown hair was cut into a flat, short style with the fringe covering one eye and a fabric mask covering his mouth. He wore a navy blue shirt under a black coat that was unzipped and long black pants that were wrapped at the ankles with tight tape. His forehead protector was tied around his upper left arm bent to fit properly. He had no weapon but relied on is blood line trait which allowed him to communicate with any animal from a tiger to a bug.

"Hey guys where's shino sensei?" he asked when he reached the two shinobi.

"Right here," shino said calmly appearing beside them in a cloud of smoke. Shino looked them over with his round sun glasses. Tadashi realized that he had never seen his eyes but then again he had never seen Hisakos mouth either.

"What's our mission?" Sachiko asked their sensei

"It's not a very hard mission but needed to be done early which is why we came at this hour." Shino said pausing

"Well…" Hisako prompted

"We are to protect a certain person from the temple," shino continued. Every one knew of the temple just on the outskirts of the leaf village it was about a three hour walk from where they were and was forbidden for anyone to enter.

"Who is this person?" Tadashi asked curiously

"I'm sorry I'm not allowed to give out that information," shino said as they made their way off of the bridge in the direction of the forbidden temple, it was about 4:00 now.

"Why?" Hisako asked looking at the older shinobi

"Sorry I can't say, I didn't want to hold information back from you but with this mission I have to," shino said adding "direct orders from the hokage,"

And they left it at that.

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They reached the walls of the temple by 7:00. Tadashi gazed around at the huge walls that surrounded the temple, they ran forever either way he looked he could not find an end. Shino walked up to the two guards who were protecting the gates. A small exchanging of words and a small note that the guards read and the gates grinded open. Shino mentioned for the others to come inside.

Almost immediately when they were inside a young woman, of about the same age as Tadashi, came towards them. She was dressed simply in a white dress that hugged her thin form; her long brown hair looked as if it had never been cut and fell from two high buns in her hair.

"Greetings great ninjas" she greeted in a smooth heavenly voice "you are here for the princess?"

All three chunin coughed and spluttered. PRINCESS! Shino had been right to not tell them about this; it was a mission far too hard for them.

"Yes, I think we should introduce our selves first," shino explained "I am shino, squad leader, and this is Tadashi Uchiha, Hisako Oyama and finally Sachiko Tahara" shino pointed to each as he said their names.

"My name is Aya Kimura, loyal servant and friend of the princess," Aya in turn said, just then a slightly older woman emerged from the temple in front of them.

This woman had curly black hair that fell to her shoulders. Her skin was very pale and she wore a dress kimono of white, pink and purple. Around her head sat a gold ring symbolizing royalty. On her feet she wore simple sandals for traveling

"Hello, I am Princess Naoya Fujii," the tall woman in front of them said. Shino went down onto one knee and bowed his head in respect. The other ninja saw this and followed suit. After a couple of minutes they stood back up.

"Come princess, the sooner we leave the less chance you have of getting attacked," shino said leading the group out of the great temple. Aya took her place next to the princess and started talking to her. Tadashi and his other team mates were approached by shino

"You have to understand you three," he started "we must do everything in our power to protect the princess or the hokage will have our heads,"

"Why have we never heard of the princess before," Tadashi asked

"It has been kept a secret till now because she is finally old enough to rule our land," shino said then seeing the puzzled looks on their faces continued "the princesses father died a year before you were born so many of your parents will know of him, soon after his death it was discovered that the queen was pregnant and nine month later princess Naoya was born but during the birth the queen died, so in a desperate attempt to keep the baby princess alive they moved her to the temple until she turned 15 and was able to rule our land again, with the help of the hokage,"

"So why were we sent to protect her? Wouldn't you want a jounin squad?" Hisako asked

"The less protection she has the more conspicuous she is," shino said before walking off to be closer to the princess. The squad walked and talked for a while before Tadashi was startled by Aya appearing beside them.

"Oh… sorry to startle you, I just wanted to thank you again for protecting the princess," her silky voice spoke.

"It's ok…" Sachiko stated interrupted when a piercing scream could be heard from behind. They all flung around, Tadashi whipping out his bow and arrows and as quickly as he could stringing the bow. Three shinobi stood in front of shino. One had the princess captive and looked at the two other ninja beside him.

"You take care of these 5 I'll take the princess to the boss," he said in an oily voice before jumping into the trees and taking the princess with him. Immediately one of the remaining ninja jumped on shino who was the strongest and fought him.

"GET THE PRINCESS!" he yelled though blocking fist after fist.

The other ninja ran towards the group of four attacking Aya who obviously the weakest was slashing her in the stomach, she fell to the ground and he then turned to Hisako and began fighting him. Sachiko jumped off after the princess and Tadashi began fighting the assassin that was attacking Hisako.

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Shino could feel the chakra strength of the person he was fighting and hoped that the one that his squad was fighting was not as tough. Shino made three hand signs and whispered a justu under his breath and a blue wall formed between him and the shinobi he was fighting.

Then sure that the wall would hold for a while he raised his arms in the air whispering under his breath. At first nothing seemed to happen but then swarms of bugs began pouring out of the woods and circled around his legs and up to his waist and engulfing him entirely in bugs then he let the shield go and the shinobi ran towards him with a kunai in his hands. Shino flung his still raised arms at the approaching shinobi and bugs flew from his arms and body onto the unsuspecting shinobi. Some bugs sucked chakra and others ate flesh. The startled shinobi stood there and watched the approaching bugs. In a matter of minutes he was dead. Shino ran towards the others and found a great surprise

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Tadashi and Hisako fought hard against the assassin but he was a jounin and they had no chance unless… Tadashi was the strongest chunin ever recorded in the village; being the kyuubis successor he had great chakra strength. His strongest fighting form was that of the kyuubi but was forbidden to use it unless in dire need. This was bad enough he thought and tore off his clock and crouched down on four legs and focused his kitsune chakra.

Red energy clung to his body like flames licking the air, first his legs formed into paws and fox legs and the rest of him followed until he was towering above the trees. He looked down at the fight between Hisako and the assassin they had both stopped and stared at him, Tadashi swung his head to shino he was covered in bugs and had not noticed Tadashi. Then he swung his head back towards the assassin who now had started running off the road to the forest but Tadashi stopped him with a giant paw. The assassin fell back wards and watched in horror as a huge claw cut his head off. Tadashi then heard a roar from behind him and swung his huge fox head around to see what Shino and Hisako were gaping at.

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Sachiko jumped from branch to branch after the dark shinobi who was weighed down slightly by the princess. Sachiko gained the last few meters between her and the princess's captor and smashed him in the back of the head making him let go of the princess who fell to the ground. Sachiko jumped beneath the princess just in time to catch her and lower her to the ground.

The leader assassin turned to Sachiko in a flurry of hair and limbs. Sachiko could not fight to her best in the heavy marital of her kimono so in one swift movement she stripped off the top layer of the kimono leaving her in white boob tube and tiny black fighting pants. The shinobi hesitated when he saw the girl remove her clothing reveling a most terrible sight; all over her body a black dragon curved, the head resting on the back of her neck, the body curving around her back to her stomach, the arms and legs curving around her own and the tail taking up the spare space on her back. The outline of the scales was done in red and the head had four whiskers on the side of its head and two large one on top.

"What scared of a girl?" Sachiko taunted at the hesitant shinobi

This was a mistake the assassin was much stronger than her and he knew it. As quick as lighting the assassin ran towards Sachiko who jumped out of the way just in time changing her composure entirely. And whipping out her kunai and tried to stab he but he easily evaded it laughing

"You are too weak little girl, I will kill you," the elite shinobi snarled

Sachiko knew this was true if she did nothing, but she had a secret weapon up her sleeve. A smile curved on her lips as she hung he head and started laughing.

"You really think you can kill me?" she said smoothly and snapped her head up and looked at the assassin in the eyes and he recoiled in shock. What the assassin looked back at was not a girl but a monster. Sachiko's eyes had become red and her skin started to bubble slightly.

"What is this?" he screamed and stumbled back wards onto his butt.

The tattoo that clung to Sachiko grew and stretched till it covered her body in black and red scales. Her head grew longer and long fleshy whiskers formed on the side and top of her head as well as her teeth became pointed and lethal. Her clothes disappeared and she grew to abnormal sizes, her hands became clawed and more foot like. A tail grew out of her backside were a tail bone was. When the transformation was complete Sachiko had transformed entirely into a black and red scaled Chinese dragon. The assassin screamed as she flew forward and ripped apart his body.

After she had killed the assassin she returned to the princess who had been watching with utter surprise at the not-so-normal fight in front of her. Sachiko leaned down in front of the princess letting her climb up onto her back. The princess hardly knew what she was doing but she trusted this strange girl after saving her from the assassin. Immediately after the princess had mounted the Sachiko, she took off flying high over the trees with invisible wings and tail flicking behind her silently.

Sachiko made her way back to the road where things seemed to be going just as differently. A giant nine tailed fox was standing over a headless body which she presumed to be on of the assassin's shinobi. Shino stood part-way covered in bugs and many more bugs covered a dead, withering body. Hisako stood over aya who looked as if she had been severely hurt. All looked at Sachiko as she landed and let the princess off her back who ran straight over to her fallen subject. Shino approached Sachiko as she transformed back into her human form slightly embarrassed.

"You will tell no one of my power," Sachiko pleaded to shino, who nodded in response.

"If you're finished gaping at Sachiko maybe you can look at Aya!" Hisako yelled at the other two.

Tadashi had not transformed into his human form yet but bowed his head over Aya who was withering in pain and grasping her cut stomach.

"You must help her!" Princess Naoya desperately pleaded, as in response Tadashi kneeled down on his front legs low enough to let a person climb up.

"Tadashi can take us to the village, she can get medical help there," shino said taking off his coat and tearing up his own shirt and tying it around Aya to help stop the bleeding. Then he picked her up and jumped up to Tadashi's back and laid down an uncomfortable Aya as Sachiko helped the weary princess onto Tadashi behind shino and Hisako followed them up. After making sure that everyone was on Tadashi leapt off towards the village.

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A 2 hour walk took the group about half an hour to make it to the village on Tadashi's back. The guards got a terrible surprise as a giant fox leapt over the wall towards the academy. That's were they were now, out side the one of the academes medical ward rooms waiting to see the doctor about Aya. Tadashi paced up and down the hallway while Naoya and Shino sat on the couch; Sachiko leaned against the wall with her eyes closed deep in thought and Hisako sat next to her on the ground playing with a cat that had wandered into the ward.

"About what happened today" Sachiko spoke up "don't tell anyone! If people knew they might hunt me and my father out of the village, or worse…"

"Don't worry your secret is safe with us," Tadashi said stopping his pacing and looking at Sachiko "though I don't think the village will hunt you, they accept my family,"

"What is wrong with your family?" the princess said startling all of them

"Umm… well… all but my father are demons, have you ever heard about the Kyuubi?" Tadashi asked before he began his story

"Yes the one that terrorized the village," the princess said prompting Tadashi to continue his story,

"It didn't terrorize the village that's just a fairy tale but any way, the kyuubi was sealed inside of my mother and after 20 years…" Tadashi interpreted by the doctor emerging from the room.

"How is Aya?" Naoya asked immediately

"She's stable but lost a lot of blood and needed many stitches, she is able to leave the ward we don't need to keep her over night" the doctor explained.

"Can we see her?" Tadashi asked

"yes," the doctor lead them into the room where Aya sat up in bed with only bandages covering her breasts and the rest of her was covered by a sheet,

"How do you feel?" asked Naoya coming over and holding her subjects hand in hers and squeezing it slightly

"Good considering I lost half of my blood," Aya joked

"Where are we staying tonight?" Naoya asked shino "we should get her home right away,"

"you are staying with the hokage but Aya has to stay with either hisako, Sachiko, Tadashi or me," shino answered "the hokage only has just enough room for one sorry,"

"you can't stay with me I only have a tiny apartment, sorry" Sachiko said apologetically

"Same here," hisako said disappointed,

"either me or Tadashi?" shino said

"You can stay with my family," Tadashi answered for her, "it's probably the second safest house in the village, sparing the hokages own house,"

"Thank you," Aya said looking happily at Tadashi then to the princess

"I think we should let you get dressed then we'll take the princess to the hokage and Tadashi will escort Aya home," shino said hustling all but the princess out of the room. Once outside hisako turned to Tadashi and patted him on the back.

"Good going you got the hot one!" he said stupidly

"Shut up, I only did it too be nice," he said blushing and knocking Hisakos hand away

"Oh… sure!" Hisako said jokingly

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After Aya got dressed Tadashi took her to his home helping her walk carefully to she would not open any stitches. Naruto was quite surprised when Tadashi came home with a stranger.

"Tadashi who is this…?" naruto trailed off looking worryingly at the injured stranger sitting on his couch

"Her name is Aya, she had no were to stay so I told shino I would take her," Tadashi explained.

"Oh ok, is Aya from your mission today?" he asked walking closer to Aya

"Yes, but she was hurt," Tadashi asked fixing pillows around Aya to make her more comfortable.

"Well it's very nice to meet you Aya," naruto said coming up to greet her.

"It's nice to meet you," Aya greeted "you must be Tadashi's father,"

"No I'm his mother"

7 PAGES!! Wow that was long!! For me anyway. If I made any mistake please don't blame me! I got the names off of my brain game (yes that is lame) so if there not guy or chick names sorry.

Luv ya

Jazzy!