The Avengers
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The Avengers Chapter 3
Origins: The Legacy of Iron
LOCATION: KONOHA/ VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES
An alarm went off. Immediately following the alarm a light feminine hand shot out from under the covers of the blanket and knocked off its perch...hard.
The resulting crash caused the figure to shoot straight up in bed. The figure cursed, the tone of the voice clearly indicating that the owner is female.
The girl got out of bed. She had toned skin, no fat. She possesed eyes the colour of chocolate and hair that matched. Her hair was loose and hund all the way to the small of her back. She was of medium height and also had no scars on her body, as is generally the case with weapon specialists. Tenten's morning began again.
She yawned, her perfect teeth almost seeming to glow in the morning light. Moving on she got dressed in her usual clothes.
Her usual clothes consisted of a short pink, sleeveless Chineese tank top and dark blue ninja pants and sandals. She also redid her hair into its usual style as well, which was in the form of two buns.
She was silent throughout the whole morning, she was both nervous, excited and upset about today, which made eating breakfast as dramatic as a soapie as you can well imagine.
Today was her birthday, she was nervous because she knew that Might Gai, her sensei, a jounin clad in green spandex and one of the deadliest close combat fighters in the world...would be extra "youthful" today. Not to mention that Rock Lee, her teammate and carbon copy of Gai would be just as crazy. She groaned knowing that her muscles would be in agony by the end of the day.
She was also excited because today she made her move. Today she would get Neji Hyuuga, her other teammate to go to dinner with her, she would ask him herself. It was just like her father said "take control of your life". Thinking about this, she set down her spoon and looked across the dining room table in her house to a picture lying on the tabletop.
The picture showed a man in his early thirties who had jet black hair that was messy and all over the place, with a thick bushy moustache and thin eyebrows. The man was holding a little baby girl in his arms, dressed in a simple blue dress.
Thinking of this Tenten sighed.
'Dad, I hope that wherever you are, I haven't disappointed you.' She thought to herself. Sighing again she got her ninja gear and left the house and went to the store.
She didn't have that far to go exactly. Just out the front door actually and she was in the second storeroom of the family store.
For generations Tenten's family had been masters with weapons... this ranged from making them,selling them and most importantly, using them.
She wasn't due to meet her team for another hour so she had an hour to do business with the various ninja that would come for supplies in the morning.
She locked up her shop after the morning rush and headed on over to training ground number nine.
Training ground 9 was Team 9's official meeting place since the teams' creation.
Passing through the street she waved a good morning to all the villagers who smiled and waved in return.
"Why you little piece of OOOOF!" Tenten whipped around to see where the noise had come from.
She found herself looking down a dirty alley at three figures.
The first was the only one standing and in perfect condition. He was tall, and wearing only a white shirt and a pair of light brown shorts. Oh, and he had spiky blonde hair that reached his shoulders (exactly like the fourth's hokage). He seemed to breathing lightly, considering the fact that he had just beaten the living daylights out of two genin by the looks of it.
Tenten met his cold blue eyes as she walked over to his location, and suppressed a sudden chill from running down her spine.
She knew who this was now, despite how different he looked. This was Naruto Uzumaki, the boy the villagers all feared and hated.
"Hey, are you alright, why did you beat those two, were they harrassing you in some way?"
Naruto stared at her, his eyes like chips of ice. After a few moments he snorted and walked past her with his hands in his pockets.
Tenten adopted a look of shock before narrowing her eyes. She reached for his arm, intending to stop him and recieve a GOOD explanation as to what had happened in the alleyway before she showed up.
As soon as her hand neared his arm, he seemed to distort slightly before completely disappearing, right in front of her...that chill just turned into frost because she didn't even blink.
A very cold voice sounded from behind her.
"Try to touch me again and I will hurt you woman."
'Oh, he did not just talk down to me. That deserves at least a halfheartedly thrown kunai!' She thought to herself.
Flipping a kunai out of the weapons pouch attached to her hip, she spun around like lightning and flung the kunai, which travelled though the air at a speed nearing terminal velocity...only to have it hit the wall opposite of her.
She was alone...and confused...and a little bit freaked out. If somebody could move that fast then maybe they're like Gai-sensei.
This time a whole bucket of ice went down her spine of that...that JERK looking like her sensei.
Shaking her head in an attempt to clear it of disturbing and unwanted images she put the blonde out of her mind for the moment and continued on her way.
It took Tenten ten minutes for her to reach the training ground...and as expected Lee and Gai-sensei were having another "Power-of-Youth" frenzy, or sugar rush... one of the two definitely she decided to herself.
Rock Lee and Maito Gai were the most eccentric master and student duos in the entire history of the leaf village. What was even more scary was the fact that they were carbon copies of each other...and they weren't even related.
They both had a jet-black bowl haircut that always seemed to gleam, bright orange legwarmers, thick bushy eyebrows and of course the skin tight full body green jumpsuit and their headbands tied around their waists.
In fact the only thing that was different about the two was the fact that Lee had bandages on his arms and Gai had a Chunin jacket on his body.
Off to the side stood her crush...I mean teammate, Neji Hyuuga. The boy was leaning against a wooden log with his eyes closed. Neji wore his headband on his forehead. He had bandages covering his arms and wore a light tanned top, short dark blue pants and matching shinobi sandals. He had long dark brown hair and pale white eyes, the signature mark of his clan's famous bloodline, the Byakugan, which allowed the user to see in perfect 360 degree vision as well as the chakra network in all living things.
Tenten began to swoon just thinking about him. Snapping back to reality she waved to her team whilst walking over, making sure to keep as much distance between herself and the Dynamic duo.
Like an extremely excited pair of puppies, Lee and Gai ran over to her.
"Hi, Tenten, Happy Birthday! May there be many more!" Lee said giving her a thumbs-up. Gai looked at his student, then back at her.
"What! Its your day of birth... the day of ultimate YOUTH! YOSH! WE MUST TRAIN ALL DAY IN CELEBRATION!"
Tenten backed up in horror at the thought. She then narrowed her eyes.
"Oh no we are not! Today is my birthday and we will spend it how we want it, that was the deal we made when we first became a team, remember?"
Gai looked shocked that someone would pass up the chance to train and Lee looked as though someone had kicked his puppy.
"Now, today is my day and we are going to do things my way as per the agreement we made regarding our birthdays when we first became a team, is that understood?"
The Dynamic duo nodded and looked at their feet in shame.
Tenten shook her head in disbelief. She still questioned what went through Lord Hokage's mind when he made Gai a sensei. It was crime in her mind and the fact she was placed on the team under him only made her irritated when she thought about it.
She often wondered how Neji handled it. Maybe the constant brooding and indifference to the world around him was some sort of coping mechanism. Shaking her head, she mved forwards, the rest of the team moving forward to follow her.
Tenten, after an hour of walking all over the food district within Konoha, settled for celebrating her birthday at a local tea shop, with her team at her side.
The breakfast was an unusually quiet affair and Tenten couldn't be happier because of that. It was a well known fact that you should only make a weapons user angry if you were desperate to lose some body parts. Luckily, the Dynamic duo weren't that brave.
The tea shop was a small, quaint place. It consisted of a bar where the tea and assorted foods were prepared. The waitress was one of those people who you see everyday but can never quite remember. Tenten got the strangest feeling just by looking at her. The waitress wore a black shirt and skirt with a crisp white apron on the front. She had long, curly brown hair and jaded green eyes.
It wasn't just her appearance that unsettled Tenten. It was her expression. The waitress was smiling kindly but to Tenten it seemed to hold a menacing undertone. She seemed to be staring intently at Tenten. Unfortunately no one else seemed to notice. Tenten also seemed to get a headache just thinking about it, like a long forgotten memory.
"Miss? May I take your order?" Blinking away the thoughts and suspicions and placing them at the back of her mind, she smiled and gave the waiter her order.
The rest of the day was spent training, much to the relief of Tenten's team, and not for the first time, they thanked the powers that be that the weapons mistress was not a huge shopping person.
The team trained until the sun began to set. Eventually Tenten began to grow tired from the rigorous regime that was the daily training plan of Team 9. With the setting of the sun, Tenten waved goodbye to the dynamic duo as the training grounds became ablaze with golden orange, a clear indicator as to the time of the day. Lee and Gai waved goodbye to her before proceeding to continue training.
Neji had long since left as he had duties to attend to within the Hyuga household. The curse of being born a member of the Hyuga's branch family was, in her opinion, little better than being a slave.
She left the training grounds and entered the rich district of Konoha known as the Trowa District, where her shop and home was located. Entering via the district gate that seperated the Trowa District from the rest of the city, she noticed that it had grown dark and that no- one was walking the streets, despite the fact that it was a Friday and every Friday night the bar on this street gave every customer a 50% discount on all drinks.
'The streets should be loaded with people, so where are they? Why is it as quiet as the grave?' She thought to herself.
"Hey Tenten." A familiar voice said from behind her.
Tenten immediately whipped around in order to face a possible threat, hand by her kunai pouch, at the ready.
Her mind went into overload when she saw her crush, Neji leaning against one of the wooden posts making up the district gate, with his hands in his pockets. He seemed to be gazing at her intently.
All of a sudden Tenten began to feel hot, and she began wishing she had brought a fan with her. Especially considering that he was gazing at her with those smouldering diamond like eyes.
"I saw you on your way here and thought I would walk you home, that is if you don't mind, of course?" He said his voice seemed almost silky, as though there was an actual texture to it.
Tenten seemed to hesitate for a second, seeming uncertain, before smiling sweetly and nodding her head. Neji simply smirked in response and began walking beside her.
They made no conversation during the course of their journey. Eventually they reached her shop and Neji seemed content to just stand there and stare at her.
"So... may I come in?" He asked.
Tenten looked at him with an odd expression before smiling sweetly once more.
"Of course Neji, after you." She said as she unlocked the door and opened it allowing Neji to enter the shop/home.
Neji stepped into the shop and allowed his eyes to wander. He heard Tenten close the door and turned around to speak to her, when all of a sudden he was thrown back against a wall and pinned to it with two kunai through his shoulderblades.
Neji grunted from the pain. He looked at Tenten who was twirling a kunai in her left hand, an angry expression on her face. Neji hissed at her, demanding an explanation.
Tenten scowled.
"Do you think I'm a fool? I know that you're not Neji. The real Neji wouldn't go out with me in a million years let alone walk me home and ask to come inside!" She spat.
"Now, I suggest you drop that disguise or genjutsu or whatever it is you are using to conceal yourself, or else you are definitely going to be losing some body parts."
The imposter smirked before Neji's face seemed to warp. What was revealed was a man, a very strange looking man. He wore a massive black cloak with a red cloud pattern on it. His physical appearance was that he had bright green hair, two round yellow eyes, what appeared to be a venus flytrap emanating from his shoulders, and his body seemed to be one half black and one half white.
Tenten's eyes widened in shock.
"It can't be! You... you're Zetsu. The legendary S-rank exile of the Village Hidden in the Grass. Zetsu the Cannibal, the Spy, Two-face." She spoke.
Zetsu looked at her with a maniacal grin plastered on his face.
"Oh so someone recognises me, that's good, makes this easier." He cackled.
Tenten narrowed her eyes and tightened her grip on her kunai. After a moment of tense silence she spoke.
"I know what you are here for. However you will leave sorely disappointed, I'm afraid. You will never get your hands on my Suit, do you hear me?" She questioned him.
He merely grinned in response.
"But of course, only one problem with that, we will already have it in a matter of moments, nice and quiet tonight isn't it?" He replied.
Tenten's eyes widened before turning to the front door just as it burst open, dozens of Zetsu clones poured through the opening, all of them rushing forward toward her.
Tenten leapt back and snarled.
"You jackass! Do you have any idea what you've done now? Now I have to relocate! Again! YOU ARE SO DEAD!" She roared.
A small blue light began to glow emanating from the center of her chest. It started as a small triangle but as it grew brighter and brighter until it encompassed the whole room. The army of Zetsu clones came to a halt a few steps from Tenten.
The glow finally died down and the army looked on in shock. Tenten seemed to have dissappeared and in her place stood an armored figure. Interlocking plates of an unknown metallic alloy forming a sleek figure made completely of iron. A cold mask faced the army of Zetsu clones who hesitated before charging at the figure, small blue light appeared all over the body.
Tenten ignored all of the displays that appeared via the screen inside the mask. She smirked at the oncoming force, and raised one of her hands.
"Activating weapon systems, hand-transistors 10% power, fire." She said, and the whole front of the shop exploded in a blast of light.
From the midst of the flame the iron figure walked out, shaking its head. Tenten sighed in frustration.
She sighed in frustration, when all of a sudden a Zetsu clone jumped out of the flaming wreckage that was the shop and roared at her she whirled around trying to bring her hand around for another blast when something flashed through the air, embedding itself in the clone's chest before exploding, taking the clone with it.
"Nice shot." A voice said, followed by a grunt of acknowledgement. Tenten whipped around, her palms facing outwards towards the source of the voices. The transistors glowing with power.
She lowered her hands in shock. There in front of her stood two costumed figures. The first and most colourful one wore what looked to be a battle uniform coloured in red, white and blue. He carried a large round metallic shield with a huge whit star on it. His head was a blue mask with a capital 'A' on the forehead. The only part of his features visible were his mouth and his eyes, which were a shocking cerulean blue. Tenten's eyes widened as she recognised him as that boy, Naruto from the alley earlier that day.
The other figure was a bit more intimidating. He was wearing what appeared to be a highly advanced combat suit spraypainted black. On the chestpiece there was a symbol of a bat with its wings spread-out. A long black cape trailed along behind him. He wore some type of cowl. Inside the suit Tenten's scanners indicated that he had some serious high-level tech not just built into the cowl alone, but also into the suit as a whole.
Tenten was shocked though when she looked into his eyes. Two blood-red orbs surrounded with a total of three tomoe, stared right back at her.
"Who are you guys?" She asked in order to confirm her suspicions. The one in black looked annoyed and growled.
"Cut the crap Tenten, you know who we are. I am Naruto Uzumaki we met today in the alley." He smiled and waved to her with his free hand. She huffed in annoyance.
"And you're Sasuke Uchiha, aren't you?" She asked, turning her attention to the one in black. He merely nodded in response.
Silence reigned for a few moments, before Sasuke spoke.
"Shinobi will be here soon. We have to leave now. I assume that all of us here are leaving the village, right?" He questioned. Tenten remained silent whilst Naruto bobbed his head enthusiastically. After another lenghty minute of silence she nodded her head.
"Follow me then." He said, turning away from the two and walking away in the direction of the Uchiha compound.
"What is this place?" Tenten asked as they walked through what appeared to be a cave. Shortly after arriving in the Uchiha district, They followed Sasuke down a wellplaced in the main courtyard.
The constant pinging of water hitting her armored form was strangely comforting. Sasuke turned his head slightly but kept walking.
"The whole of Konoha is layered with these underground tunnels which lead in and out of the village. They've been around since the creation of the village from what I can tell. Nobody really knows about them anymore . They were originally supposed to be a smugglers route into the village, but it fell into disuse. That and the fact that many of them cave in made sure that there were little to no visitors here. It took me four years to clear a route from the Uchiha District to outside the walls." He explained.
"You did a good job, I'm impressed." Naruto said. Sasuke merely grunted once more in reply, as a result Tenten chuckled quietly to herself. Eventually they made it outside of the village and emerged into the middle of the lush green forest surrounding the village.
"They're going to hunt us, you know? We'll have to stick together for a while at least if we're going to have any chance." Naruto said.
They all nodded in agreement.
Immediately something came to Tenten.
"So, what are your names?" She asked.
Naruto looked at her, confusion showing in his eyes.
"What do you mean,we told you our names?" He questioned back. Tenten rolled her eyes behind the Iron mask.
"I meant what are your real names? you can call me Iron Woman" She said. Sasuke answered first.
"You can call me Batman." He said.
Naruto followed straight after.
"You can call me Captain America." He announced.
Tenten raised an eyebrow behind her mask, and smiled. Things were going to get a whole lot more interesting from now on.
Finally finished that chapter, WHEW!
Sorry it took so long had tons of stuff on like exams, Skyrim, lack of reviews, that sort of thing.
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