Chapter Four
The Plan is set in Motion
Tenten
I groaned as Sakura patched up my hand in bandages. This was the second time in two days that she had to wrap me up like this.
She'd checked my back and assured me that there were only bruises but they were all the size of football fields.
I sighed as I flipped to another channel on the small TV in the bite-sized living room. The house that we lived in was fairly small but not so small that we all squished into the living room to sleep.
It had two bedrooms, one bigger than the other, a bathroom, a living room with a kitchen separated only by a chestnut counter.
I looked around the living room and smiled. Ino had designed it herself. Teal walls, shining mahogany floors, black leather couches and a TV perched on a black, random desk at the front of the room, were all a part of her plan to catch the eye of visitors whenever they came.
My eyes still roamed the room as I came across a small table in the far corner with a sleek, silver laptop on top. I quickly walked over and picked it up, walking back to the couch and sitting down. I flipped up the top half and turned it on, watching the TV as I waited for it to load.
As soon as I heard the small 'beep' come from it I looked back down and clicked on the internet. Nothing loaded and I groaned.
I moved the curser over to the 'my computer' shit and click twice and scanned the list of computers with Wi-Fi in the region. I sighed; they all had them on private. Here was something I thought I'd never have to do.
I clicked on one of the names on the list and began typing around, trying to find a loophole to their private internet. I got through to the documents stored on their computer and searched through all of them in an attempt to try and find something that might prove to be useful and help me hack into their system.
I sighed not finding anything in the current file and went to the next one. I opened it and sighed as I went through it. There was nothing important there either. I groaned as I exited out of the document and something in the file caught my eyes. The first letter of each document was capitalized and everything else was minimized.
I frowned and tried typing in the letters as they appeared.
AADMR
I clicked on the enter button and nothing happened, it didn't load so I tried again.
AARMD
Still nothing.
MARAD
Nothing…
DAARM
And again there was nothing. I sighed. Think, Tenten, think! You can do this! Think…what can you spell with AADMR? I snapped my eyes open as it hit me and quickly typed the word across the keyboard before I could forget.
DRAMA
I pressed enter and gave a silent cheer as the internet opened up and loaded. I navigated away from the yahoo homepage and to gamepost instead. I got bored so I played any random games in an attempt to get rid of my boredom.
I heard someone enter the room but didn't look up at them until they plopped down next to me. I could see Ino from the corner of my eye but I didn't turn to look at her. I felt her shift her weight to lean on my shoulder and watch me while I played. I rolled my eyes and she giggled a bit before leaning back to watch TV.
It was silent for a bit as she searched the channels. I was silently playing Rollercoaster Creator on the computer to really listen to the TV. A loud growl rippled through the room. I turned my head in surprise at Ino. She was glaring daggers at the TV.
I blinked as I stared at her. "What's wrong Ino?" She pointed to the TV. I blinked in confusion and looked at it, understanding almost immediately what she was growling about. On the TV a house was shown burning and tons of people screaming and jumping out of the windows in an attempt to escape the fire. The choice few that wanted to wait had no chance of survival now.
The building collapsed on them all, their piercing screams being the last thing that I heard before the camera flashed to the news reporter. I gulped and then let out my own loud growl. So it had already begun? They'd already recruited their leader?
Sakura, Hinata, and Temari all entered the room with confused looks. "Ten-chan, Ino-chan, ano…what's wrong?" I heard Hinata's nearly inaudible question and I didn't hesitate to answer her. "They've already started…It's begun." I turned to see their expressions.
Hinata looked close to tears, her eyes getting wetter by the minute and her hands pulled up to her chin.
Sakura was growling lowly, muttering to her self as she clenched her fists. The static from her body was making her hair spike up a bit.
Temari was pulling her fan from her back and opening it. I closed the laptop and threw it off to the side, not caring about it all together. This was way more important. Ino was looking murderous.
I pulled her by her bangs to the other girls. I calmed myself a bit. Temari was opening and closing her fan in anticipation. "Well Tenten, what the hell do we do? I say we attack!" I shook my head slowly. She glared at me. I shrugged it off. "Temari, we can't do anything right now. Akuri Kaze has no idea yet about the plan. If we jump into battle without them properly prepared or without them at all, they'll die and so shall we."
She gripped her fan tightly with both hands and glared at me, sharper than before. She was roaring out her words now. "Tenten, people are already dying! By the time we get Akuri Kaze into top shape, it'll be too late! Tenten, we have to-!" I cut her off. "Better safe then sorry." She growled. "Then let's go save those people and be sorry about what happens later. How about that?"
I shook my head and Hinata joined me. "Ten-chan is right. We must train them first. It'll give us the benefit of the doubt and less of a risk for loss of life." Kami-sama thank the Heavens for me for having Hinata here.
Temari opened her mouth to retort but I held up a hand to silence her. She quieted without retort although somewhat grudgingly. The good thing about Temari: she knows when to give up and when to keep going.
Sakura let out a long sigh. "Well, what do we do?" I put a finger to my chin. "Well…we tell Akuri Kaze tomorrow and then start to train them."
She nodded slowly. Ino pushed my hand away from her bangs and walked to join the girls in front of me. She looked slightly worried. "Ino…what's wrong?"
She closed her eyes as she sighed. I blinked in confusion. "Tenten…girls…there's something I've been hiding because…you know…it's just…really personal." I nodded and Sakura 'mm, hmed' for her to go on. She did. "It's just that…I know I sound crazy but sometimes when you learn the ways of an exorcist or priestess, you gain the ability to see the future…I just so happened to see it and…the outcome is not too good."
I was shocked at both the fact that she was psychic and at the fact that she said it would not end well. "Ino, how accurate are your predictions." She looked up at me sadly. "As accurate as your aim, Tenten." I gulped. Then this would be serious. Temari, Hinata, and Sakura were all still in shock.
Sakura broke out of her reverie and spoke out in a hoarse whisper. "Ino, what exactly did you see?" Ino scratched the back of her neck. "Well, I saw…Tenten was stabbed everywhere but she was still fighting and Hinata…" She gulped and bit her lip. "Hinata was…between earth and heaven. Temari was in a bloody heap on top of her fan, struggling to breathe. Sakura…you were trying to heal us but you had a huge slash going down your abdomen, another on your back and a huge cut on your arm. And me…I was watching you all through a clouded, half-dead mind and bloody eyes.
"The chance that we'll get out of that predicament…is close to nothing."
The girls and I gulped loudly but pressed her forward. "Is there anything else Ino?" She nodded slowly. "Well…" She bit her lip.
"I'd rather not say." I frowned. "Ino…tell us…we need to know." She sighed. "Alright, fine I'll tell! I saw Sasuke…leaving his gang…to go to Orochimaru and…Sakura tried to stop him and…" She bit her lip again. I pressed her on. "And what happened?"
She smiled sadly a bit. "Sakura said she loved him and he went rigid and stuff…and then she closed her eyes for a minute and he just walked behind her and knocked her out…he put her on a bench and just left her there."
My eye twitched a bit and Sakura was looking at the floor. I then laughed a bit and Temari joined in. Ino growled. "So you find all this funny?" I shook my head and talked between laughs. "No, it's not that. It's just, Sakura confessing her love to someone or Sakura being nice enough to love is a fucking crazy ass idea!"
Everything went white for a bit as a huge pain swelled in my head. I yelled out in pain and fell to my knees clutching my head. Everything turned red, and then green and then back to normal. I looked up and saw Sakura standing in front of me with a hand clenched into a fist by her side.
I groaned. "Gee Saki; you have no sense of humor now do you?" She smirked evilly. "Well gee I thought that was pretty funny the way you just fell onto the floor like that looking all crippled and stuff."
I rolled my eyes. "You know you're the one that supposed to heal the people in this gang and the other not be the reason for their injuries in the first place." She glared down at me and I put my hands up in mock surrender.
"Alright, alright, I give up. Just don't kill me woman."
She smiled mockingly and pretended to dust off her hands. I rolled my eyes again and stood up, feeling a bit woozy from her blow. Hinata helped me regain balance when I threatened to fall again.
I sighed. "So…are we all clear on the goal for tomorrow? Tell Akuri Kaze about the plan and commence training them." They all nodded. I smirked a bit in spite of everything. Sakura raised a pink eyebrow. "Tenten, why are you smirking?" I turned to her and said, with a smirk, "I'm thinking that we can defy Ino's prediction. We can and will beat Sai, Zaku, Karin and them and come out badly injured and battered, but alive."
Ino sighed and crossed her arms. "It's an impossibility." I shook my head. "Not if we don't want it to be." I grinned toothily at her. She sighed, obviously thinking of something to say. I held up a hand to her. "Ino, calm down, you say your visions are accurate but that's before you told us. We can prevent them from happening if we know what's gonna happen." She groaned in response, pursing her lips.
She then turned around and walked out of the living room and into her bedroom. I sighed and turned to the rest of the girls. "We're gonna need a lot of sleep tonight if we're gonna be training those guys so by nine, be in bed and try to sleep because not only do we have to deal with school and all those other gangs but we also need to be prepared since we've seen their limits." They nodded and walked back to do their own thing, although not exactly the same, they seemed shaken.
I sighed and went back to the computer. I smirked a bit. Konoha just got a lot more interesting…
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I groaned as I walked into the school. Temari had gone OD on her driving again. I dragged my feet to homeroom tiredly and half asleep. Why half asleep, you ask? Well I had a terrible dream last night that Ino's prediction had been right and that I was killed in battle with Sai and his comrades laughing over me and the others like the sick twisted maniacs that they were.
I groaned and sat in my seat, setting my books on the desk and letting my head go down with them too, closing my eyes and letting them rest from the strain of keeping them open. Someone tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and saw Lee. He seemed worried. "Tenten-chan, what's wrong?" I blinked and looked up at him slowly.
"I'm tired…" Was all I said before I banged my head against the desk, face first and let out a muffled 'ow' before closing my eyes and trying to sleep. Someone tapped me on the shoulder again. I groaned and looked up to see Lee again. "What is it Lee?"
He gulped nervously and I immediately jumped into suspicion mode. "Well…Tenten-chan…it's just that…come with me!" He grabbed me by the hand and pulled me behind him, leaving our books on our desks and dragging me out of the room in a pace that I didn't even know was possible.
He pulled me out the back of the school and into the parking lot, pointing to the wall where someone had written something in bold, black paint.
I growled lowly as I read this and I heard other growls behind me. I turned and saw the other girls there. So Uzumaki, Uchiha, Nara, and Inuzuka had dragged them all here too? I turned to them. "You do realize what this means, right?" They all stood in a straight line, looking back at me with determined faces, nodding. "Yup."
I punched my injured palm absentmindedly and then clamped my lips shut when I felt the aftershock of pain. I felt the tears in my eyes and I heard Lee snicker behind me, with another deep, velvety voice. Neji? I didn't care. I just let out my scream like a good little girl.
"HOLY SHIT THAT'S ONE FUCKED UP TWIST OF INJURED FATE! WHY THE HELL DID I DO THAT?! DAMN IT THAT SHIT HURT LIKE FUCKING HELL I HATE THIS SHIT! OH MY FUCKING SON OF A BITCH SAKURA YOU PINK-HAIRED ASSHOLE, YOU DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER REMINDING ME AND NOW YOU'RE LAUGHING AND NOW YOU'RE GLARING AT ME. DAMN IT INO YOU BLOND-HAIRED AIR-HEAD WITH THE FRIGGIN BLIND-ASS PUPILESS BLUE EYES YOU DIDN'T REMIND ME EITHER! TEMARI YOU FUCKING PUFFY-HAIRED, TEA-EYED BITCH! YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY SHIT TO ME?"
I felt someone grab me by the collar and I heard Temari yell back. "I DIDN'T HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY ANYTHING CUZ I'M A FUCKING GIRL IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE?" I stopped my angry ranting and thought of a comeback, while my hand pulsated painfully.
And then…
"WELL DAMN IT THEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BOOBS!" She dropped my collar and when back to her place in line, smirking a bit. I continued on my angry, pained rant. "AND YOU, HINATA! YOU FREAKING PRETTY, INDIGO-HAIRED, PALE-LAVENDER-EYED GENIUS! I…" I froze and put my non-injured hand to my chin.
"I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO INNOCENT…so uh…CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY!" She giggled cutely and saluted me like a soldier jokingly saying, "Yes ma'am!" I laughed as she giggled along with the other girls.
I felt the guys staring at us. I continued, using my injured hand to punch my uninjured hand. "Anyway, like I was saying, this means, it's begun. The only way to stop it is to fight back. This is what we came back to this crime-infested, dump of a town. So be prepared aight?" They all nodded in understanding. I put both hands by my sides and nodded to them. "Go back to class before the teacher gives your sorry asses detention. You know what begins today." They all nodded and walked back.
I turned to Akuri Kaze, who was gathered completely now, all of them there. "As for you, sit with us at lunch, we have something to discuss and it is of great importance. My gang and I came back to this city for a reason, we're here to help. Get your asses to lunch early and don't stay in the caf after you get your lunch, come to room 1604G in hallway seven." They all looked at each other uneasily.
I sighed and put a hand on my hip, sticking it out. "Just do it if you want Konoha to live." That got to them and they all nodded. I grinned big and grabbed Neji and Lee's hands, pulling them both to homeroom behind me and looking back at what was painted on the brick again.
You put this upon yourself, back out or be killed. You have been warned…
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I was tapping my fingers on the teacher's desk in one of the many abandoned rooms in this fucked up school, waiting for the boys.
Sakura was eating her lunch absentmindedly while scribbling down some notes as she read from her medical skills book. Hinata was eating her lunch while just staring straight at nothing but managing to look like an adorable Barbie doll all the while. Ino was measuring the proportions of her food (which made me roll my eyes I mean seriously, she's not overweight or underweight for that matter). Temari was taking bites of her food every now and then while she polished the outer part of her fan with a rag that she always brought along.
I sighed as I tapped my fingers on the desk impatiently. You'd think that a Hyuga, an Uchiha, and a Rock (hee hee, rock!) would make it on time but noooooo! They just had to take forever. My patience was running low.
I grumbled moodily as I increased the pressure I put into tapping my fingers against the desk. Damn that Hyuga! He was gonna pay for making me wait.
When I start training today, I'm gonna pick him as a sparring partner and fucking beat him SENSELESS! That's right, SENSELESSwith all capitals, bold, underlined, and fucking italicized!
I closed my eyes and heaved a sigh, ceasing my tapping and laying my head on the desk. I got out of the chair behind the desk and sat on the desk itself instead. I picked up the apple I had on the tray behind me, the only thing I'd brought from lunch other than a water bottle, and took a loud bite.
Sakura told me that unless I wanted nausea (and I absolutely hated nausea) then I had to eat small meals due to the amount of blood loss that I had in the past two days. I had tried to retort to that ("But then I'm gonna be hungry!") but she had snapped back at me ("And you're gonna be even hungrier if you throw it all up later!") so I just settled for little meals.
I sighed softly again, closing my eyes as I chewed the apple. I was trying to find my happy place and trying to get away from my anger. That and trying to get some sleep in. I pushed the tray out of my way and curled up on the desk, looking at the blackboard behind it, trying to sleep.
I groaned somewhat loudly when I heard someone enter the room and call my name in a deep, emotionless, insensitive voice. "Uh…Tenten, we're here." I turned to my other side and sat up, rubbing my eyes, which were clouding due to the blood coming down from my head and flowing freely again. "Oh now you guys choose to show up! You're late for the designated meeting of great importance to the survival of Konoha and all people in it but you aren't late to disrupt my few minutes of sleep seeing as I only got two hours last night!"
Sasuke and Neji snickered in amusement and Naruto just laughed along with Kiba. Lee was sending me an apologetic look. I smiled at him and got up from my seat on the desk.
I slammed my palm down, ignore the small shock of pain it sent through my arm, and put my other hand on my hip. "So, first thing's first. The plan's already begun and you guys need to know about it…"
They all gave me a weird look. I sighed and crossed my arms over my chest. "Four years ago, Sai and his team, along with the team of Karin and Ami, and not to mention Zaku," I said his name with some serious venom, "formed a huge alliance and made a plan. They think that with this plan they'll be able to take over Konoha or at least be feared by all of the other gangs. You guys with me so far?" They all nodded. I nodded back and continued. "They figured that in order to do that, they would need someone far more powerful to help them."
They all nodded again and I pressed forward.
"So those traitors of their own homeland went and can you guess who they got?" They all shook their heads. I clenched my teeth a bit and spit out the word. "Orochimaru…" For a minute, all of their faces went blank and they went into a state of shock and horror. I sighed.
Neji spoke first. "So…what you're saying is that they're bringing Orochimaru into this to try and fuck up Konoha, right?" He said it calmly, like he'd never been shocked to begin with.
I nodded. "Yes, exactly. The only problem now is, and they don't know this, the girls and I infiltrated one of his hide-outs and Hinata and I cracked a code and looked into his computer files. Heh, heh…not bad for sixth and seventh graders, huh, seeing as we shot down every guard that got in our way and managed to escape with some cuts and bruises…any way. What we found in those files was fucking crazy. Not only does Orochimaru plan to threaten all human life forms in Konoha, he's planning on tyranny."
I paused for a minute, and when they didn't comment I continued.
"So he's not only planning on making everyone in Konoha cower under him, he's planning up making everyone in Japan cower under him and Sai, Karin, and Zaku fail to realize the mess that they've gotten us into. They think that with this, they'll be respected."
Sasuke snorted. "And they actually expect us to respect like everyone else will?" I shook my head.
"No, of course not. That was one of their goals, to destroy Akuri Kaze. Karin was completely against it so they decided that injuring you to a point where you'd be scarred for life was good enough." Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "And what would that bring them."
I unfolded my arms and put a hand on the desk, tapping my fingers against them. I raised my own brow. "Karin obviously thought that her way of intimidating people would get you to like her." He choked as he breathed deeply and I chuckled a bit. I turned to Neji and Naruto. "As for you two…Ami thought she would catch your attention," I said, pointing to Neji. "Sai thought that his power would make you stand down. And as for you Naruto…well we all know that you're a jubilant little guy who wouldn't hesitate to fight for something you believed in. They thought that by doing this, you'd get scared and back down."
He stepped forward with a wide smirk on his face that could easily rival that of Uchiha and Hyuga. He pointed at himself. "Well guess what? I never give up and I never go back on my word because that's my way of life!" I smiled at him a bit and from the corner of my eye saw Hinata blush and look away.
I would need to use that later…
Ahem but for now…
I continued. "Anyway…we don't want to force you…so I'm asking you, all of you. Would you help us fight against Orochimaru?" I waited anxiously. Anxiously because if they said no…there'd be a smaller chance of winning.
They all stared at me and then Naruto stepped forward. "Fine, I'll do it, even if they won't!" I smiled at him. He was brave, for sure.
I looked back at them hopefully for a few minutes. They all looked lost in thought, deep thought by the looks of it. I sighed and stood up straight. "Alright then, if you don't want to, we're not forcing you. Naruto…thanks." Shikamaru held up a hand. "We haven't answered yet." He said simply. I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.
"Well, I just assumed that since you were quiet for so long that you didn't want to help so…I just…you know…" He sighed and let out a 'troublesome'. I tapped my finger against my arm impatiently. "Well then answer dammit! You know it's not good to keep a girl waiting." Neji snickered a bit.
I sent him a look as he said, "Well with the way that you act it's like we're talking to a man anyway." I narrowed my eyes at him. "Hyuga now's not the time for games. Orochimaru is threatening to take over Japan and you're sitting here cracking jokes. Nice Hyuga, nice. It's just what you'd expect from someone as cold-hearted and bastard-ish as you are."
He rolled his eyes and I rolled mine as well. "So are you gonna answer or not?" He nodded. "We'll do it…although I don't think we stand a chance." I smiled a bit. "Ever heard of training? Our gang is gonna train you guys." He nodded slightly. "Aa." I smiled wider.
"So we fight, all of us." He smirked a bit. "Yeah…" I walked over to them until I was face to chest with Neji. I looked up at him. He looked down at me with an eyebrow raised. I punched him lightly in the stomach, smirking a bit, and keeping my fist there. He kept his eyebrow raised. "Prepare your abdominals cuz this is not even an eighth of how bad it gets." I fisted him a little harder and I saw his smirk widen. "Just because I'm not hurting you now don't mean I won't hurt you during training. Same goes to all of you." I said, looking around Neji at all of them.
They all nodded and I backed up a bit. I crossed my arms across my chest again. "We won't go easy on you guys." They nodded slowly. I uncrossed my arms and walked over to the girls, slamming my hands down on Temari's desk, earning on myself a "What the fuck Tenten?" I smirked a bit. "Alrighty then, Sakura, you train Sasuke and when needed, Naruto. Hinata, you're the one that trains the blond most of the time, got it?" They both nodded. I continued.
"Temari, you train Shikamaru and Ino, you train Kiba. I'll train Neji and Lee…" They all nodded. I turned to the guys. "Your training begins today, after school. From three to five, we'll train you, everyday unless we cancel. You got that?" They all nodded slightly and I grinned. "Okay, so now that that's settled, let's get on with it!"
They all blinked and stared at me. I rolled my eyes. "You know, for being a pretty good team, you're not too smart, are you?" Shikamaru grunted and I laughed a bit. "What, you're not gonna tell us anything about yourself?" Neji raised an eyebrow. I smiled. "Fine." He said suddenly. "Lee and I are fifteen, the rest are fourteen and we are Akuri Kaze, happy?" I frowned. He smirked.
"No, I mean like…do any of you have something you want to tell us?" Lee nodded and stepped forward. I rolled my eyes and smiled. "Still the energetic one, huh Lee?" He nodded vigorously. I rolled my eyes again. He began to talk. "I'm fifteen years old! I go to a dojo during the weekends and train with Gai-sensei!" I smiled slightly at him. He was the same old weirdo.
Naruto stepped forward too. "Alrighty then, I'm not gonna let bushy brows beat me. I'm fourteen and I…um…uh…? Oh yeah! I like ramen, pork, beef, chicken, you name it! It's just so good! Oh…and…and…and…on weekends, I go to Ichiraku's to eat more ramen. He's got the best ramen in all of Japan!"
I swear, I sweat-dropped at this guy's personal information. If I didn't think he was an idiot before, I did now.
Shikamaru stepped forward and yawned. "I have an IQ of over two hundred and I don't like going anywhere without my laptop…and I like to sleep so if you'll excuse me…" He sauntered over to a desk not too far from where Temari was sitting and laid his head on the hardwood.
Kiba jumped forward, Kiba poking out from his jacket. "I'm fourteen, hot, single, like dogs and girls…" He winked a bit. I rolled my eyes, as did the other girls as he laughed loudly. Naruto laughed with him. "Kiba, my man, you are funny!" Two idiots, one dumber than the other. That's nice…not…
Sasuke stepped forward slowly. "Fine then. I'm fourteen; I hate sweets, like tomatoes and I think Naruto's a dobe…" I laughed at his short and blunt introduction.
Neji took a turn, sighed and stepped forward. "I'm fifteen, a gang leader, and I don't like talking or self introductions so just be happy I even bothered." I blinked a few times and then laughed. He blinked back and stared at me. I smiled widely, standing straight as a board and floppy as paper. "And yet you still talked more than Sasuke!"
The girls laughed a little too. He rolled his eyes. "Because, unlike him, I'm actually polite." Sasuke retorted back. "Oh really? Then how come you scarred Tenten so bad that she went unconscious?" He smirked a bit. "I said I was polite, I never said I was a gentleman." I frowned and joined in. "How the hell are you polite if you left me with scars everywhere?"
He smirked back at me now. "If I wasn't polite, I would've killed you." I narrowed my eyes. "You nearly did! I was cut up so badly and I lost so much blood that I passed out a quarter of the way home and I woke up to the pink bitch pouring lead on my arm!" He snorted with laughter as Sakura pounded her fist onto my head (which I sent her a death glare for).
I fell to my knees, clutching my head as I had dejavú of last night. I looked up at her, my eyes watering from the pain. She was smirking down at me with one hand on her hip and the other curled into a fist by her face. I glared at her. "Saki! You fucking dumb bitch I should stab your ass with a kunai!" She smiled at me innocently. "But what did I do?"
I groaned and removed my hands from my head, letting them flop to my sides. "You abused my head. I think I just lost five IQ points and about another thousand brain cells." She giggled a bit. "Awe, panda-chan, you're so funny." I ground my teeth together. I removed my knife from the strap on my thigh and got up in a heartbeat. I was behind her in an instant, with the knife pressed to her neck.
"What did you call me?" She laughed a bit, already used to me. "I called you panda-chan." She said as she elbowed me in the stomach. I doubled over in pain. "Damn it Sakura!"
I threw the knife behind me, which nearly stabbed Temari in the eye, and punched Sakura on her head. She doubled over herself, clutching her own head in pain. "SEE HOW MUCH YOU LIKE IT YOU DUMB BILLBOARD BROW!" I roared.
And just like that all hell broke loose. She rose her head slowly and sent me a look that made her eyes glint evilly. I squared myself, getting ready. She took a quick step forward before Sasuke pulled her back as Neji did to me.
Sakura was thrashing against him and he was having a hard time keeping her under control. "DAMN IT SASUKE! LET ME GO! I WANNA KILL TENTEN!" I screamed back at her.
"SASUKE LET HER GO! I WANT HER TO TRY. WE'LL SEE WHO WINS; BILLBOARD BROW WITH THE INHUMAN STRENGTH OR THE WEAPONS MISTRESS WITH THE DEADLY ACCURACY!" I felt Neji snicker from behind me.
I elbowed him lightly in the stomach. He ran out of air for a minute and I smirked a bit to myself. He knocked me on the head calmly. I screamed out in frustration. "DAMMIT DOES EVERYONE LIKE TO MAKE ME GO DUMB, DUMB?!" I put a hand over my mouth as Sakura laughed and shouted, "GO NEJI!" I groaned and slipped out of Neji arms, which had moved to my waist to restrain me more, and walked back to the teacher's desk.
I threw my body on the desk and just lay flat, with my shoulders, arms, and everything above hanging off the side that was facing them. "So, anyway. Now that the beast is under control, who wants to talk about Ino's vision?"
They all went stiff and stared at me. I raised…uh…lowered…uh…raised an eyebrow while my head was up-side-down…OH WELL I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN THAT ONE! Ahem…anyway.
"What? I mean, she was an exorcist, what do you expect?" They all turned back to look at Ino and she blinked as she stared at them all.
Ino
I laughed nervously and scratched the back of my neck. I gulped and they all just kept staring at me.
I breathed in deeply and let it all out slowly. I closed my eyes for a minute and opened them again to look at them all dead on to explain it.
"Like I said to the girls last night, sometimes when you are trained in the exorcist ways of the Yamanaka clan, you have the ability to see into the future. Although most of the times, it's bad. On very rare occasions do you see something good. Shikamaru should know about that, right?"
He nodded and I smiled at him before continuing.
"Anyway, I had a vision a few days ago of…all of us…fighting. I know this'll bring you down but…it'll help us all become more motivated to train. You see, I saw all of us either down and hurt badly, or dead. Tenten and Neji were taking on Orochimaru and from what I saw from my half-lidded eyes was that…they were losing."
They all narrowed their eyes. I sighed and closed mine again. "And that's not it. I had a vision…of Sasuke betraying us and going to join Orochimaru for power and Sakura tried to stop him and…Sakura said she loved him and he just knocked her out and left her on a bench in the middle of the park."
Sakura set her eyes downcast, and Sasuke gave me a hard glare that I ignored. I, my self, looked down.
An image flashed across my mind. I hid my face in my hands and groaned loudly. I felt their eyes on me and didn't care. I was trying to decipher the vision.
I was running through the forest with Sakura and Temari. Naruto was running next to us with a few scratches and maybe a broken wrist. Sakura was carrying a pudgy boy with swirl tattoos on his cheeks and his eyes were closed tightly. I recognized him almost immediately as Chouji, a kid in my class back in middle school and I gulped. I could tell he was clinging to life. It was obvious.
I felt something hot and warm running down my back. I dared to look. Blood. Neji, on my back. His hair down and framing both of our faces, his eyes closed. He had a large scratch on his cheek and what seemed to be a hole in his shoulder. A hole in his shoulder?
I looked over at Naruto, who I now noticed, was running alongside Lee, Shikamaru, and Temari's two older brothers, Gaara, and Kankurou. Shikamaru's finger was twisted oddly. I noticed someone on Kankurou's back and saw Kiba, his torso covered in blood and only in a fishnet shirt.
I bit my lip and blinked back tears and kept running with them. We got to a clearing with immense light. I winced at how bright it was, and kept running until I was running right through it with the rest.
I sucked in a sharp breath of air and looked up at everyone else. They all gave me concerned gazes. "Ino, what's wrong?" Sakura was the first one to ask. Ah, Sakura…always the one to jump into things when someone seemed hurt.
I shook my head. "Nothing! I'm fine." I straightened up and smiled. "I was just trying to see how long I could hold my breath." She didn't seemed too convinced. "Really, cuz I heard labored breathing?" I sighed and replied. "Look, that's because the first time went wrong so I had to breathe and my second try was terrible so I had to breathe, and my third time went so ballistic that I just had to breathe like I just did."
I breathed deeply. "Look, I'm fine, alright? Just drop it!" She sent me a hard glare. I gulped and laughed falsely, pretending to be amused. She just turned her head away, as did all the rest, and began talking to Tenten.
I sighed in relief. That was close.
Sakura
I wasn't convinced. Not at all. She expects me to believe that she was holding her breath for that little time when she's been able to go under water for about three minutes without air?
She was lying. She saw something and she just didn't want to tell.
I was barely paying attention to Tenten. I was just thinking. Why would Ino see something and not tell us? If it was something really bad, wouldn't she have told us?
Ugh, damn this chick is aggravating as hell.
I groaned audibly and felt a pain surge through my gut and throughout my body. I clutched my stomach and stared at Tenten, who smirked, with her fist in front of her face. Now where did I see that before?
She had punched me and was now frowning instead of smirking. "Look, I know training the stubborn, cold-hearted bastard wannabe is gonna be hard, but Sasuke's got a lot of work to do and plus, we need him alive for the fight so I repeat myself; don't use all your strength on him." I smirked up at her and punched her across the face with a little more power than necessary. What? She asked for it.
She turned her head back slowly and looked down at me.
"What? You said to not use it on him, you never told me to restrain myself from using my strength on you?" She groaned and went behind Temari to pick up her knife.
I smirked at her and picked up some black wraps from my book-bag. I quickly wrapped them around my hands, like I'd been taught in my classes and smirked at her. She held her knife firm in her hands, probably calculating something.
She then threw it at me. I smirked and side-flipped to my left to avoid it. Half-way through, while I was still on my hands, she threw a second one from her other thigh. "Shit!" I had no choice but to open my legs to dodge it. Luck just wasn't with me right now.
My skirt went down and my panties showed. I eeped and landed quickly. I pulled my skirt back down and straightened it again, my face beet red.
I heard the girls laughing and I looked up to see Naruto with a nosebleed and Sasuke with a smirk on his face.
I growled lowly and sauntered over to Naruto. I punched him on the head…HARD. He collapsed to the floor and I glared down at him. "Pervert!" I yelled down at him. He looked up at me. "S-Sakura-chan! That hurt!" I crossed my arms. "Well then stop being so dumb! I hate it when people are pervs…" I closed my eyes and looked away, sticking my nose up into the air.
I heard Tenten conceal her laughter for a little to yell out, "Yeah, and yet you continue to stare at Uchiha's ass!"
I blushed again. "What? NO! That mother-fucker? A ha-ha no!" She smirked at me. "Sakura, you're blushing." I cursed loudly.
I could hear Ino's laughter and I turned to her.
Hinata
Sakura turned to Ino, with her fist clenched. "Wanna start something, ya pig?! I gulped. Oh no. Uh oh.
Ino yelled back at her. "No but it looks like you already did, billboard brow!" Double uh oh. This was not good.
Sakura lifted the sleeve of her uniform until her entire arm was exposed, from the shoulder, down. She flexed her muscles a bit, which bulged dangerously outward. She stomped forward to Ino, who was getting into her Mind Transfer position. Triple uh oh.
"Sakura! Get ready cuz I'm gonna give Inner Sakura something to scream about." I sighed as Sakura raised her fists. "Ino! You better get ready cuz my fists are gonna give your ass something to scream about!"
Sakura continued to stomp toward Ino, who was concentrating. She carefully set her hands out in front of her, pushing her arms forward and she opened her mouth to scream the words that I knew would send Sakura into a frenzy of yelling her most embarrassing secrets while she pounded on Ino's body.
"Mind Transfer Jut-!" Ino was cut off when the bell rang. I sighed in relief. Saved by the bell.
Ino groaned and stood up straight again, complaining. "Dang it! Just when I was on the last syllable!"
I giggled a bit and walked out the door with the rest of the girls.
Chapter four! Enjoy!
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