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Kurama: Where's Nana-chan?
Ali: So... the love potion's still in him because of Orochimaru.
Kurama: Nana-chan!
Ali: Well, enjoy the story.
Kurama: *snaps out of haze* Say the disclaimer or I will go full size and sit on you.
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Kurama: *back in daze* NANA-CHAAAAN!
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Chapter 4:
Meeting Teammates
Akane jumped on the couch that Jiraiya was sitting on and he looked up and glared at her. "Don't you have something to do?"
"No, Nanami's not done with arranging her room yet so we can't play out game."
He sighed. "Fine, how long should it take her?"
Naruto looked at Akane. "Yeah, she said she'd help Sasuke."
"Yeah, but we have to play one game first... sorry boys, you can't play," Akane said before jumping down to the floor when Nanami walked in. "Ready?"
"Let's go," Nanami said.
They walked out, leaving the boys curious. THey giggled as they knew that they followed them. They stood back to back in a clearing and then walked about ten to fifteen paces away from each other before turning and throwing their poisoned shuriken, kunai, and senbon at each other. The boys panicked until they heard the girls giggling, and they wondered how this was FUN. Akane got a scrap on her cheek while Nanami got a scrap on her arm. They continued to throw them at each other until they ran out. They healed themselves and then gathered the poisonous weapons and put them away.
"That's the last of them, let's go," Nanami said before grinning. "I think the boys liked watching the came."
"That or panicked," Akane put in.
"Huh?!" the boys shouted in surprise. "How'd you know?"
"We're trained kunoichi that's gone out in the world and fought many people, we've got skills," Nanami said with a roll of her eyes.
"So, where's this Sasuke guy?" Akane asked.
"Yeah, I did promise my baby cousin to fix up his friend," Nanami said.
"Ours Nana," Akane elbowed her sister lightly.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Nanami waved off her sister's correction.
"Oh yeah! He should be at our training grounds," Naruto said, turning and walking.
The girls followed and Jiraiya was curious about how this girl was going to get rid of a curse mark that he, a seal master, couldn't do. Even years of research hadn't led him to a way to get rid of the cursed seal tat Orochimaru created.
Sasuke was snacking on chips, something that was new to Naruto and Sasuke sighed. "What do you want?"
"I was going to let my cousins help you, but I guess I won't," Naruto growled.
"You don't have any family," Sasuke said suddenly before noticing the two girls. "Huh?"
"We're Nanami and Tsukiko-Uzumaki," Nanami sighed, most likely annoyed for having to go through this again.
"Our mother's an Uzumaki, he's our cousin," Akane confirmed.
Sasuke looked away. "Hn."
"What's your problem?" Naruto demanded.
"Naruto," Jiraiya scolded, much like a father would.
Naruto quieted and Nanami walked forward. "Anyway, I'm here to help with the thing that Orochimaru put on you, seeing as it's a seal."
Sasuke looked intrigued then shook his head. "No."
"Just let me take a look at it," Nanami snapped.
Akane grabbed her sister's wrist on instinct and kept her from ripping the arrogant boy to pieces. "Nanami."
"Right Nene," Nanami sighed.
Akane's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, but she didn't address the annoying nickname. "Just get to work."
Nanami rolled her eyes and then crouched behind Sasuke, observing the seal with both her eyes and chakra. "Looks like there's two types of chakra... Akane what's the weird chakra the pack talked about?"
"Nature chakra," her sister sighed.
The violet girl's eyes lit up as she remembered. "Yeah! The Nature chakra's being manipulated by, I'm guessing, Orochimaru's chakra. His chakra's making it all dark, so if I remove his chakra you only end up with the positives instead of the negative side effects like dark moods, twisted thoughts, and power hungriness."
"Is that even a word?" Naruto questioned.
"If it isn't it is now," Nanami said.
Jiraiya looked at the girl with admiration. At so young she was able to decipher what he had long ago with Anko. "Alright, how do you propose you fix it?"
"I'll need some help. Since you're a seal master you could help me out," Nanami ordered.
"I wasn't even asked if I wanted to go through with this," Sasuke grumbled.
"The guy bit him on the neck to get it on there," Naruto grumbled. "And he's Pervy Sage's age."
"So if you had the choice of being powerful and staying here and powerful and with a pedophile, you'd choose to go to the pedophile?" Akane asked.
"I'll go though with it," Sasuke said immediately.
"Thought so," Akane said.
Nanami waved Jiraiya over impatiently and he knelt beside her. "Alright, what now?"
"We're going to insert our chakra into it, we'll work together to get the snake's chakra out."
"Let's do it," Jiraiya nodded before turning to Sasuke. "This may hurt, but in order to ease our process think of something you love."
Sasuke nodded, and then suddenly an annoying voice hovered to them. "Sasuke!"
"Hey Sakura," Naruto said with a grin to the pink haired girl.
"Please tell me she's not your third teammate," Nanami begged.
"She is," Naruto confirmed.
"Who are they?" Sakura asked. "And why is the purple haired girl near MY Sasuke?"
Akane's eye twitched and before her sister could snap she did, grabbing Sakura's shirt in her fist. Nanami had a short temper to begin with, Akane had no tolerance for girls like this. For weaklings that managed to become kunoichi and didn't even bother to get better.
"You call yourself a kunoichi? What kind of ninja are you? You prance around with that headband of yours claiming to be something you don't even care about because you're only here for 'your Sasuke' and it's gonna get you and your teammates killed. I bet you don't even train, you only know useless academy things and you can't even fight to defend someone, you just stand there with a kunai in your hand scared and then you go about screaming like a damn banshee claiming to be better than people you're not. Get some damn spine you fucking weakling."
Akane shoved the girl away and turned, trying to keep herself from punching the fan-girl. Sakura shook where she stood, ready to scream and prove this stranger right. "Who are you two?"
"Girls in the bingo book," Kakashi said, landing on a branch above their heads. "Nanami and Akane Tsukiko-Uzumaki, Naruto's cousins."
Naruto smiled proudly. "Yep! My family!"
"Also the one with Sasuke is an S-Class criminal because of her temper, better be glad Akane got to you instead of Nanami," Kakashi added.
Sakura blushed, ashamed and Nanami smiled proudly at her sister. "Well, well, temper, temper. You sure told her Nene."
Akane rolled her eyes. "Akane."
"Whatever," Nanami said. "Alright, help me out Pervy Sage?"
Jiraiya cast a quick glare to Naruto before nodding. "Yes."
They half closed their eyes as they set to work, hands hovering of the seal and chakra at work. Nanami scrunched her face in irritation when it took longer than expected and the seal masters started sweating after a while until the snake's chakra was no longer coiled around the nature chakra. Sasuke groaned now and then, but showed no other signs of pain. Then the snakes chakra was finally gone Nanami fell onto her butt and panted.
"Done."
"Good work," Naruto praised.
"The seal's a different color," Jiraiya noted. "Royal blue."
"Maybe it's the shirt he's wearing or his favorite color," Nanami shrugged.
"Either way, I feel a whole lot better," Sasuke admitted.
"What was that about nature chakra?" Naruto wondered allowed.
"Well, everything around you has chakra, leaves, grass, animals, etc," Nanami explained. "If you're real skilled with a contract you can gather that chakra from all around, but there's a catch... um what was it again?"
"You have to be completely still otherwise you can't gather it," Akane reminded.
"That's right, you can hardly use it in battle, but there's one way: to have your contract, aka a toad for you, attach itself to you and they sit still on you while you battle and use the nature chakra," Jiriaya finished.
"Well, there's another way," Akane said, tilted her head to think. "But the wolves won't tell us, something about finding out ourselves."
"We've got sitting still down, all the fundamentals, but we can't use them in battle without having a wolf on us, and we don't particularly like the idea," Nanami finished her sister's thought process."
"I wanna learn!" Naruto declared. "And I'll come up with a way to do it another way, believe it!"
"Hn, good luck," Sasuke scoffed.
"Like someone like you could get it where a genius like Sasuke wouldn't," Sakura scoffed.
"The Uzumaki clan are geniuses, he'll get it in... less than a month after learning," Nanami bet.
"Hn."
"But he was dead last!"
"Yes, but he can handle himself in a fight, win a fight, can't he?" Akane asked, knowing the answer.
"We may not be book smart, but we're plenty smart in fighting," Nanami grinned.
Naruto grinned. "Definitely! So, nature chakra?"
Jiraiya smiled and tapped his chin. "We'll have to go to Mount Myoboku, but it's doable."
"Let's go!" Naruto said with a grin.
"We can't head out immediately, the village is short on ninja," Jiraiya reminded. "But in about a month or two."
"Alright," Naruto sulked.
"Until then we can teach you some stuff," Nanami noted. "Me with seals."
"And me with torture," Akane put in.
"Even sme medical ninjutsu and poison," Nanami added.
"Alright!" Naruto leapt in the air in excitement.
Ali: There's the chapter!
Kurama: *Rubs head* Ugh! What happened?
Ali: Nothing.
Kurama: *shakes head* Um... Review... I'mma gonna go home. *walks away*
Ali: Bye!
