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Rant rant rant. Rant rant rant? RANT! Rant rant rant rant rant!
…Can't understand rant?
Well, in translation, it's: "Well, here's another update. But, hey, what's up all? HONTO! Well, don't need to say that, so bring it on!"
RAAAAAANT!
Translation: "I'm soooooo bored!"
"Talking"
'Thinking'
SOMETHING NEEDED BOLDING, probably demon talk or some kinda noise.
Jutsus ex: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!
Emphasis
—Scene/Time change—
Pairings: That's for me to know and you guys to go crazy thinking about it!
Chapter 4: Two Brothers and a Demon.
--South of Konoha. Road to Wave Country. 10:00 am--
Naruto sighed while walking on the road. He was tired due to lack of sleep, being bored because nothing exciting had happened, and disappointed because he had thought that outside of Konoha would be a great and wondrous place. Not the boring road he was walking on. At least Hinote, who was perched on his shoulder, seemed to have a good time looking through his hair for bugs.
Sakura was glaring at Naruto intensely. She still had not forgotten the moment when Naruto had ruined her 'present' for her beloved 'Sasuke-kun'. At the times when she had doubted herself and believed she had faulted, Inner Sakura was there to tell her the pain she was feeling in her hand was all Naruto's fault. So she continued to glare at Naruto, not noticing her surroundings.
Sasuke was relived. He had learned to treasure these moments when Sakura, or some other fangirl of his wasn't clinging to his arm or literally chasing him through Konoha, alleyway and sewers included. He was always creeped out at what his fangirls could do. He shuddered slightly at the memory of getting out of bed, just to find a fangirl clinging to his ankles from under the bed.
Other than that, Sasuke busied himself thinking bishonenly about Naruto, trying to shut up the annoying voice inside his head, which in this case, was giving him many thoughts and arguments of his feelings for Naruto.
Kakashi was just busying himself with his latest issue of Icha Icha Paridise, volume 10, giggling like a school girl with a perverted blush on his cheeks. You'd be seeing a perverted smile too, but it was covered by his mask, which he has had since he was born. It had scared many doctors to find a newborn baby with a mask on, right after coming out of the womb.
Tazuna the bridge builder was busy drinking his sake. Well, until he ran out and threw the empty bottle over his shoulder, where Naruto had been unlucky enough to guard the rear.
Time slowed down somewhat as some stared at what would be the inevitable event that was going to occur.
Naruto, noticing this ahead of time, surprised everyone by dodging the incoming liquor bottle. And to add to the surprise, he actually caught it with one hand, and flipped over to Tazuna.
"I believe this is yours Old Man." He said confidently before handing it to him.
"Uh, yeah sure kid…" He carelessly replied before holding onto it once more.
Everyone else would have said something, but they were quite surprised with Naruto's sudden display of skill. But they quickly got over it and shrugged. Leaving it completely to dumb luck.
'D-did they notice? I hope they did! Especially Sasu-- NUH UH! Calm down…' Naruto thought using a style of what he called, 'Noriko Style', which he wasn't supposed to show until the birthday.
Soon enough, they were trekking down the road again, just passing a small bridge with two puddles on both sides. Kakashi and his keen eye immediately took note of the puddles. As well as did Naruto.
Soon after, they heard a strange tinkle of metal, which was quickly dismissed as a chain weight suddenly flew through the trees and wrapped up Kakashi.
The genin's gasps were barely heard as they saw their own Sensei being torn to shreds, and two darkly dressed nins fly out of the trees.
One nin was slightly taller the other and holding the chain Sickle. While the shorter one had a pair of double ended kunai's dripping in what seems to be poison. They both dressed the same though. The standard Chunin mist shinobi gear with dark brown, ratty and torn capes draped over them.
"Heh, looks like the Jounin is gone." "Yes brother, the bridge builder is an easy target now…"
Sakura was fear stricken of the two shinobi's and the death of their Sensei. But even though, she was the first to speak.
"Who the hell are you two! And what did you do to Kakashi-sensei!"
The taller of the two chuckled slightly and began the introductions.
"I am Suchi and this" Pointing towards his brother "is Sai."
The shorter of the two started to continue.
"And we are the deadly Demon brothers," He stated as they both began to rush towards the group "as well as your executioners!"
They were all scared of what would happen. Sakura was still and frozen, completely fearful of her life, though Naruto and Sasuke had other plans. Naruto first put Hinote onto a small stump before getting ready though.
They both began to charge at the two, Sasuke going for the one with the chain sickle, and Naruto for the one with the kunai's.
Sasuke's fight began as Sasuke unleashed a barrage of shurikan at the Nin, who quickly dodged out of the way and set the weight of the sickle flying towards Sasuke. Sasuke rolled out of the way and ingeniously stuck a kunai in between some of the chain links of the sickle. Doing so made the sickle unstable and much slower. Sasuke quickly used all the power he had and swung the chains and flung it back towards the Nin. The Nin was trapped on the spot due to lack of and disruption of his momentum. Needless to say, the heavy weight promptly slammed into his face and sent him flying out cold to one of the trees. Sasuke however started to gain his bearings. Almost completely unaware of the poison dipped kunai heading straight for his arm.
Meanwhile, Naruto was fighting against the shorter Nin. The fight started out with Naruto running forward and was readying an attack which seemed to be meant to be a punch to the others gut, but completely surprising him with a knee to the face. The Mist Nin quickly recovered from the blow and sent a water jutsu after Naruto. Naruto however, put his hands to his favorite sign and yelled out…
"KAGE-BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!"
A clone or two took the hit while the many Naruto's started to surround the Chunin. The Nin was promptly surrounded by clones and needless to say, he had a zero of a chance. A few seconds later he was down, but had thrown one of his kunai's in a last ditch effort to attack. The kunai was quickly heading towards a familiar Onyx eyed bishonen.
It was kind of late as the kunai scrapped Sasuke's left arm, dripping with poison the whole way.
Sakura, who did literally nothing to contribute to the fight against the brothers, screamed her head out at the sight of her precious 'Sasuke-kun' fight against one of them, and eventually being hurt with the poisonous liquid.
Sasuke held onto his arm in seething pain and Naruto was quickly rushing towards him. During this, Kakashi walked into the scene with the same lazy air about him.
"Hmm, it seems I wasn't needed for this fight." He looked over to each and every single person in the immediate area.
He looked over to Naruto and Sasuke. "Good job you two. Taking on Chunins like that, separately even, is worth quite the applause. You both used brain power to solve a way to defeat your opponents. Sasuke with the kunai to slow down the chain and use its own power against him, and Naruto with an unpredictable attack that would be hard to see, and the use of Kage Bunshins in the method of both attack and defense. Great job you two."
"But…"
He looked over towards Sakura. "Sakura, you froze at the worse possible time for a kunoichi, let alone any ninja, to have. You did not lift a single finger to help either of them and doing so, led to the damage of one of your teammates. If you had helped either of them, you could have warned him of the incoming kunai. In anyways, if they had not been fighting to protect you and Tazuna, you would have died while doing nothing."
"B-but!" Sakura started.
"No buts. Now, let's get Sasuke patched up now, shall we?"
He looked over again to the two to see that Naruto was slowly draining out the poison already by puncturing Sasuke with a kunai and letting the poisoned blood drain out slowly which he caught with one of Tazuna's many discarded sake bottles.
Sakura was starting to freak out right about now.
"Naruto-baka! What the hell do you think you're doing! You're going to hurt Sasuke-kun you stupid idiot!" She yelled as she was about to intervene.
"No" Kakashi's arm stopped her immediately. "Don't you realize that this is the only way for the poison to be drained out? Would you rather see him die?"
"B-but… Sasuke-kun, doesn't it hurt?"
He glared at her intensely while Naruto was starting to wrap up his arm in bandages. "Sakura. I am a ninja. I am an avenger. I cannot allow a little pain to stop me now. If I die, I would wish to be of a greater cause, not just to die from your stupidity and lack of common sense to allow others to help."
By now, Naruto was finished wrapping the bandages around his arm and tied it securely.
Sasuke was just suddenly aware about how close he was sitting with Naruto and lightly blushed, not enough for anyone to see it, but he did blush. But the only visible change was a slight smile.
"Thanks. Good job d-dobe. Looks like you can actually be useful sometimes."
The inner Noriko was already screaming inside her head, yelling incoherent things. Though most seemed to be a mixture of yelling and words such as 'He is so hot when he smiles!' and 'Boo-ya!'
Though outside he did the one thing he would have. He yelled at Sasuke.
"I told you to shut up and to stop calling me a dobe!"
Sasuke plugged up his ears and replied. "Well, that's the thanks I get for giving a complement.
Sakura was watching all this with a glare, completely fixated on Naruto.
"Now… On to more pressing matters." He turned to Tazuna. "Why were those two intently fixated upon getting you?"
"I - I have no idea of what you mean..." He stammered slightly.
"No. Tell us now. Tell us everything we need to know."
Tazuna sighed and told his story.
"It's like this. The wave country is very poor and lives under the rule of a business tycoon known as Gatou. He is a rich man who controls all of our imports and exports and is intent of having complete control over the Wave country. With it being a port town, it would be ideal for a business man to control this, being able to know all trades going on and having control on them. No one of the Wave country has much money. Even the Daimyo is poor. So we of the village pooled most of our money together, but we weren't even able to scrap by with the decent amount of money one would need for a B or an A rank mission. The least we could afford would be a C rank."
"I see, with trained Nins after you, of course this would be ranked a B rank. And this Gatou of yours probably wants you dead."
"Yes, that is how it is. I wish we could have finished this mission. My cute little grandson will be so disappointed, s well as my daughter. Oh woe is me."
He was literally pulling on the guilt strings of everyone here.
But even with everyone so guilty, Naruto was the first one to speak up.
"Okay okay! Geese! Fine, we'll keep going! Let's go!" He yelled as he started marching forward.
"Yeah. Let's go, we still have a long way till we reach the village." Kakashi said as he finished up on tying the two Nins together with a note saying, 'Bad nins of the mist, courtesy of Team Kakashi.'
--Northern area of Wave country. Road to the Village. 12:30 pm--
Naruto and friends, except Sakura, are walking down towards the Village of the Land of Waves. They are as normal as ever, well, as normal as this certain group could be, until Naruto suddenly heard something and threw a Kunai into the bushes.
"Naruto-baka, what the hell are you doing! Stop trying to be all cool like Sasuke!"
'Damn Sakura is loud, and damn what a huge ass forehead she has.' Naruto and Sasuke thought at the same time.
She ran quickly to wherever he threw the kunai towards.
When she saw what he hit in the bushes, she yelled at him to get over there.
What she saw was a snow rabbit nearly scared to death.
Naruto immediately began to apologize and coddle the little bunny, while Hinote was watching it and looking it over from Naruto's shoulder.
"Aw! Mister bunny! I'm so sorry! Whahahahaa!" But he really didn't need to start crying.
Kakashi noticed a few things about the bunny that he shouldn't have needed to if it was a normal rabbit. 'The coat is white… It doesn't make sense in any way. A rabbit, especially a snow rabbit would have the coat turn to a hazel brown due to the sun. This was definitely locked up and held in captive to be solely used for a Kawarimi.'
He had to stop examining it though, because he quickly forced everyone down with the command of "Everyone get down now!" He quickly yelled as a gigantic spinning object whizzed right about their heads and embedded itself into a nearby upper tree.
Just then, a Nin wearing a pair of black slacks with bandages wrapping up to his shin, a white, sleeveless shirt, bandages wrapping the bottom half of his face much like Kakashi, and a Mist Nin headband with a slash across it symbolizing that he is a missing Nin, arrived onto the scene landing on the branch nearby his sword.
Kakahi narrowed his eyes at said Nin.
With a grim tone, he talked slowly, seemingly to himself.
"Zabuza, missing Nin, and demon of the Hidden Mist."
Everyone stared forward into the eyes of the Nin overlooking them. Killing intent just leaking from those two dark, shimmering orbs.
: Translation Notes :
Dobe: Loosely translated to 'Dead Last', an insult most common to those that nearly failed all academics or has the lowest grades of the class.
Daimyo: A lord of a country, area or province.
Kawarimi: A replacement jutsu used for one person to be able to quickly replace themselves with another object, item or person nearby.
Nope, no announcements nyah, other than me being bored out of my skull! .:Sigh:. I'm so bored nyah… But hey, if I wasn't bored, you guys wouldn't be reading this, well? Is my boredom a gift or a curse? What about my obsession with learning? IT'S DEFINITELY NOT HEALTHY. I go through… phases of learning. If I want to learn something, I spend weeks and months learning it, and when I learned enough, at least until high-school to collage/university level, I stop and go on to something else completely. I'm thinking I'm insane for a 13 turning 14 year old, hmmm?
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