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Naruto tried his hardest not to think about how hungry he was and how weak he felt.
Shikamaru, as soon as he heard from the scout that the people were there, he told Naruto and Sakura to get into their designated positions and wait for his signal while he hastened the others. With that, he sprinted toward where the others were seen headed off towards.
Sakura led the way while Naruto trailed behind. He actually had no idea what to do, so he opted to follow Sakura. Plus he was too hungry to think or run excitedly to the scene of battle.
By the time they got to the large gate leading out, they saw two people talking to one of the guards outside.
"I wonder who they are," Sakura said.
"They don't look like any specific village's ninjas." Naruto offered. "Maybe they live nomadically."
"They're not even ninjas! Do you see any headbands anywhere on their body?" Sakura pointed out.
Sakura stopped next to the guard asking the two people's questions. She looked the two outsiders from up to down. There was one girl and one boy. The boy had an intelligent aura about him, and was fingering his bracelet. The girl was standing a little bit behind the boy, but was giving glances at two empty spaces. What unnerved her was how big her chest was. It made Sakura want to unconsciously compare hers to her own.
Naruto just squinted his eyes at the two. They seemed like normal humans, but their attire was just wrong. The girl was wearing simple clothes, a light blue sweater and two hairpins. The guy was wearing all white, and fancy clothes. He had a I-am-better-than-you look on him, and reminded Naruto of Sasuke.
"Who are these people?" Sakura asked the nearest guard.
"They say they're nomads, Ms. Sakura. But they seem suspicious."
"Make sure they aren't enemies because we detected an unknown presences in the woods surrounding the village," Sakura told them. "We don't want any unnecessary infiltration when we're during a crisis."
And with that, Sakura started running again.
Naruto shrugged and gave them a friendly wave before running after Sakura.
"I saw four people there. Two were wearing black baggy yukatas," Sakura said after a while.
Eh? Naruto thought. I only saw two! Maybe I didn't see right because I was so hungry?
"The girl looked like a healer," Sakura continued on. "The guy with seemed to be a person who would do long distance. The two weird men, pineapple head and baldy, looked like swordsmen."
Naruto was impressed. He beamed at Sakura.
"How could you tell?" He asked.
"The girl didn't look strong enough to fight a battle, yet she was still present in the group. That means she was vital to the group. In other words, she's the healer. The guy, on the other hand, is lean, not strong enough to be on the front lines. He also looks calm and in control. Usually that's what long-distance fighters do. He's probably also a tactician too. The other guys had swords."
"How did you tell? I mean, they just looked like two normal people to me," Naruto said.
Sakura sighed.
"You mean four normal people. Anyways, after you heal a number of people and you learn to fight as a medical nin, you learn to look, observe, and predict," Sakura explained. "It's all in the experience."
Sakura and Naruto took a right and hopped through the trees to where Shikamaru pointed out generally where the two might find Kakashi's group.
When they neared the spot, Naruto and Sakura saw a cloud of smoke surrounding the tress. Instantly, the two leaped towards the smoke to get a closer look.
Sakura tapped Naruto's shoulder and nodded toward the direction of their teacher, Kakashi. Calmly assessing the situation, he was standing in one of the trees closest to where the dust was coming from. They jumped onto the branch that their teacher was squatting on.
"Where are the others?" Sakura asked in a low voice.
"More like, what the heck happened?!" Naruto whispered.
Kakashi leaned his hand on the trunk.
"Someone threw an explosive kunai at the feet of a person that fell from the sky," Kakashi explained. "I trailed him through the dust over here."
The dust cloud partially cleared, and Naruto saw a tall, tan-skinned man with curly brown hair standing in the midst of the smoke.
Sakura frowned.
Naruto was about to comment on the weird apparel he was wearing when he noticed a large, shield-like armoring on his right arm.
"Brazo Derecha de Gigante," the guy said.
After the guy went at ease, he turned towards an empty space and nodded slightly and scratched his head.
At the least opportune moment, Naruto's stomach groaned long and loud. He doubled over and clutched it, trying to muffle the sound to prevent the large man from hearing him.
Too late, Naruto thought as the tall guy looked in his direction.
"I'm going to jump down," Naruto warned Sakura and Kakashi.
"Don't!" Sakura said.
But before he could jump, the large tree fell to its side by an unknown force. The trio jumped.
Kakashi glanced back.
"It's as though some huge sword sliced through the tree clean," Kakashi remarked.
"But that guy couldn't have done it," Naruto protested. "He just looked at us!"
Sakura furrowed her eyebrows. "That's because there's thr—"
The tree thudded to the ground, muffling the wound of Sakura's explanation. The three landed a good distance away from the weird man.
"Stop. We don't want to fight," the tall man said.
"You were the one who started it, ya know!" Naruto scowled.
He drew out a kunai knife from his pouch and leapt at the man.
Sakura tried to stop him. "Naruto wait! He's probably—"
Before Sakura could even finished, Naruto already reached the guy and started to attack. The guy merely deflected each slice of lethal metal with his right hand, and occasionally used the large part of his arm as his shield.
The tan man deflected the knife out of Naruto's hand. In the moment Naruto's hand spread away from protecting his torso, the guy took his chance and punched Naruto square in the stomach.
Naruto doubled over from the force and then flew towards the side, deeper into the forest. The punch was so hard that the air rushed in the direction that he punched.
"Hey!" Sakura protested.
She tightened her glove and rushed to battle the guy. Before her punch could reach to where she was aiming, the man looked at her and an invisible force redirected her punch from the man to the ground.
"What the…" Sakura said in surprise. She hurtled toward the ground, unable to change her position.
The ground shattered to pieces at the touch of her fist. Everything collapsed at the point where she touched.
Kakashi looked at Sakura with a slightly unsettled look. A small droplet of sweat trickled down his head.
She's still as deadly as ever, Kakashi thought.
The guy didn't have a chance to leap to safety and he fell into the collapsing ground. His eyes were widened at the destructive power of Sakura's punch.
Sakura landed and regained her footing on a falling piece of rubble.
"Son of a GUN!" She yelled as she pushed off towards the tall man.
Before she could even land a punch on him, he disappeared.
"Again?! Don't interfere!" Sakura cried out in outrage.
He 'teleported' a few paces back with something grappling on to the back of his shirt.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes.
"It seems like we're going against someone who's seriously a good fighter," Kakashi remarked.
Sakura backflipped to Kakashi's side.
"Weird technique he uses," Sakura noted. "Plus they always seem to rescue him at impossible moments."
"They?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah. They."
Before Kakashi could question any further someone said, "You!"
Those standing there turned toward where they heard the sound.
Naruto emerged from the trees, smudged blood near his mouth. With one hand, he was holding his abdomen, and the other leaning on a tree.
I'm so glad I didn't eat now, Naruto thought as he walked into the dusty clearing.
"I want to get this over quick," Naruto said.
His eyes turned frog-like and orange markings appeared around his eyes.
"Sage mode!" Sakura said.
Kakashi smiled. (Or at least Naruto and Sakura thought he smiled. You couldn't really tell exactly with his mask on.) "I probably should get serious too."
He removed his headband blocking his left and eye and adjusted it onto his forehead. His headband revealed a scarred, red-colored eye. The eye's markings seem to rotate.
"Sharingan!"
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"This is the most boring job EVER!" Kiba complained.
Akamaru whimpered in agreement.
"But this is what we all agreed to do. Shikamaru-san told us so, Kiba-san," Hinata replied, remind the impatient boy. Her eyes were trained ahead deeper into the forest.
Kiba ruffled his hair. "Argh! I can't believe we're assigned to tracking people. I mean I want to fight somebody!"
"Quiet," Shino said calmly. "The enemy might hear us."
Shino lowered his binoculars and turned towards Kiba.
"Good! Maybe that will make them some and attack us." Kiba said defiantly in return.
"Byakugan." Hinata whispered.
Kiba groaned.
"Kiba, focus." Shino admonished him.
"Will you stop telling me what—"
A slight rustling cam from a nearby bush, causing the three to stop silently.
"There!" Hinata whispered softly. "Three perpetrators and…and a cat heading our way."
Kiba and Shino looked to where Hinata was pointing to silently.
Akamaru growled.
Shino looked confused. (If that's even possible for him….)
"Where? I only see a small black cat!" Kiba whispered back. His sharp eyes were trained on the cat.
"Me too. I only see the cat. Where are the people?" Shino whispered as well.
"They're behind the cat. They're following the cat. They are wearing black dress-like clothing with swords either on their back or on their waist," Hinata replied.
Shino looked more intensely at the cat now.
"I'm pretty sure I would notice something as weird as that," Kiba scoffed.
Akamaru whimpered at Kiba. From his eyes Kiba could tell that Akamaru sensed those people too.
"What? Not you too! How come I don't see the three people behind the cat?" Kiba complained. "What do they look like anyways?"
"One's a black-haired guy with short hair and…decorations coming from his face. He looks a little like a girl. One is a small boy with snow-white hair. He has an unusual badge on his arm. The last is a woman with orange hair and…a rather large chest," Hinata described.
"I'm definitely sure I would have noticed that by now," Kiba said.
"My bugs can sense something," Shino told his companions.
Hinata squinted her eyes a little at the approaching group.
Seems as though I'm the only one who can clearly see them, Hinata thought to herself.
The cat turned its head slightly and seemed to meow in their direction.
"Can the cat talk like Kakashi-sensei's dog?" Hinata wondered aloud.
"What?" Kiba asked.
The small boy with white, spiky hair seemed to be listening to the cat. Suddenly he turned to meet Hinata eye-to-eye.
"They've spotted us!" Hinata gasped.
Kiba and his dog growled.
"Finally!" Kiba exclaimed. "Some action!"
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