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Chapter 4 - Mission I

After Nanami saved Konohamaru and Naruto from certain death and explained that she thought the Oiroke no Jutsu was a perfectly useful technique to use Sakura laid down her chakra enhanced punches (she was distraught about that but accepted it, much to everyone's amazement). Konohamaru didn't want to try his luck and decided to leave quickly.
"See ya, Naruto nii-chan!"
"Yep, since you're on a losing streak, you have to treat me to ramen!"

"...HOLD ON! WHEN DID I AGREE TO THAT!"
"WE NEED TO GO!" Sakura hollered. "WE. ARE. OFF. TO. A. MISSION. GET IT!?"
"Er... okay. Anyway, Naruto nii-chan... I'm not treating you to ramen." He then quickly scampered.
"WAIT! YOU are NOT getting away without owing me a favor-dattebayo."
"Naruto! We need to GO!"
"Hold on, hold on! Konohamaru"
"Naruto..."
"Hold on..."
Sakura lost patience and hit him (normally: she didn't want to waste chakra) and started dragging him the opposite direction of Konohamaru and Konoha.
"Please spread the world that Nanami is my cousin. Not my girlfriend! People like Sakura-chan think I'm being a pervert and she's totally wrong, OW!"
"...Does that mean I don't need to treat you to ramen?"
"OUCH! Sakura-chan, stop punching me! Yes, fine, whatever."
"OKAY!"
Sakura still dragged him along while Konohamaru left, relieved at not having to spend all his allowance on Naruto's terrifying appetite.

"All of us are supposed to be on a mission too. And Tsunade requested that you come with us, Nanami." She let Nanami register that and turned to Naruto.

"Well, at the very least you're wearing the proper shinobi outfit, even if it's still the same orange," Sakura sighed. "Nanami chan, don't you have any kunoichi clothes?"
Shinobi wore casual clothes when they were not on duty: Sakura guessed that Nanami didn't expect they'd be on a mission so soon.)
"I remember you were wearing some yesterday."
"Shinobi attire?" Nanami asked, mildly surprised. "That's no problem."
"I mean, you're kind of running late... we really need to be going," Sakura trailed. Kakashi gave a shrug.
"It's all good," She replied patiently while she pulled out a scroll that was impossible to fit from her red bag. The scroll unravelled at an unnatural speed to the floor like a waterfall with countless tiny symbols.

It then wrapped her like a mummy.
"KYA!" Sakura shrieked when not one bit of Nanami was seen. Kakashi raised an eyebrow once more in an impressed form.
"NANAMI!" Naruto shrieked. "WHERE ARE YOU-DATTEBAYO!?"
Sai flinched slightly. Then he was proud of himself. Those books in teaching him emotions must be working.

And then the papers of the scroll unraveled quickly back to it's original state. And there Nanami was, in her kunoichi attire. The Hokage had delivered the She held the scroll up and let the sheet ravel back and slipped it fashionably back into her crimson bag.
"That was quite impressive," Kakashi commented calmly.
"It was," Sai admitted.
"Whoa," Naruto and Sakura's jaws dropped.
"Aren't we off on a mission?"

They were off on a quick pace North in the wild terrain filled with trees in the Land of Fire. Kakashi had briefed Naruto and Nanami of their B-Rank Mission. There had been some odd unrest among the border between The Land of Fire and the Sound. Orochimaru had been obviously defeated, but with all the disputes and movements by Akatsuki, the Hokage did not want any extra problems, namely any sign of Akatsuki (as Orochimaru had been an ex-member and the Land of Sound was obviously very shaky and close to the Land of Fire).
With their supernatural speeds (they were a group of powerful shinobi after all), they were faster than normal civilians and many shinobi. They were very experienced and their speeds made the long journey shortened, but it still required six hours to get there.

They never stopped or hesitated. Nanami thought they were too preoccupied with their memories and thoughts to wonder about the sudden existence of her or her possible connection to this war (besides Kakashi as he knew a lot more than the others).

After a long while, they met the Valley of the End. Naruto remembered the battle he had with Sasuke and flinched. Sakura tried to keep up a poker face and Kakashi's face stayed impassive. Sai did not say a single word.

Nanami wasn't an idiot. She had 'seen' the events that happened, and even though they didn't know it, she had known Naruto's pain and his life.
"Over this is the border between the Fire and the Sound," Kakashi murmured. "You all have to be extremely careful: any movement detected will alert the enemy. Scatter!"
All of them sped off and dotted around the edge of the borders speedily and carefully.
Kakashi was right, any obvious movement would make the enemy detect them as there was no visible cover. The terrain was rocky with few trees or any kind of cover.

Also, they had no way of knowing whether Akatsuki was dominating the area.

Nanami was crouching among the rare trees and the gap in the crevices of rock. All the rest of them had scattered quite evenly among the border and Kakashi had summoned Pakkun and the dogs to detect and scent of the enemy.
All was peaceful.

Then a white mud like creature erupted from the waterfall.
"HALLO!" White Zetsu yelled. "Dang, I should really change my opening speech, it's getting old."
He had appeared exactly on top of the waterfall and floating peacefully.

Clones rose like zombies and clawed around the earth, They were clearly monsters, and not just their appearance. They just radiated the vibe that they had to be defeated.
Kakashi quickly jumped back onto a higher rock before they could attack him.
"Well," Kakashi muttered. "That was faster than we thought."

"Who's there?" A clone emerged like a mud monster right at Nanami's feet. She threw a kunai at the clone's face and leapt back onto the tree throwing shuriken repeatedly at the head.
It screamed in pain and melted back.
"Well that wasn't too smart," Nanami muttered. "I should have captured it and interrogated it. On second thoughts they probably wouldn't tell me anything."
Kakashi had only said very brief details. This must have been part of a test from the Hokage. She knew very well that even though it was a very critical time for shinobi history (and the fate of the world for the matter), that the test Tsunade was giving her was just as vital in it's own way. She wondered if the Naruto and the others would ever notice anything about it.

Naruto and Sakura had been running in a similar direction.
And all of a sudden the Zetsu clones attacked.
Sakura swore. "SHANNDERA!"
All the Zetsus in a ten meter radius crumpled and were ultimately destroyed.
"Sakura never changes," Naruto shivered. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! Rasengan...!"
Likewise, many craters were made in a matter of time.
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled. "We need to regroup! If this is what the others are facing, they'll be in trouble!"
"I know! Don't hold back!" Sakura warned. "I'm sure the White Zetsu sent a large amount of clones from a long distance. We need to get rid of all this swarm and then find the original one."
"I understand-dattebayo!"
"Does Nanami know about Zetsu?"
"...Uh oh."

Sai had not been a ANBU ninja of ROOT for nothing. He had quickly drawn one of his ink birds and attacking safely from above. The border wasn't small, but they hadn't been scattered that far. He could spot Naruto and Sakura's explosions and Kakashi's speedy attacks.
But that new girl... where was she?

"Damn it," Kakashi muttered. "Who'd have thought they'd be on us so fast. But on second thoughts, these clones did appear the Kage Summit... Everyone! Get to Naruto and the others and make sure we can regroup!"
"Yes sir!" The dogs scattered.
"Alright, let's do this fast," Kakashi muttered and pulled up his forehead protecter. "Raikiri!"
In a matter of minutes, he demolished every single clone (and half the terrain) in sight.

Kakashi sighed, "And this was supposed to be an infiltration mission. At least we should capture the original clone. It should be hiding somewhere nearby..."
A large explosion shook the ground about several miles away.
"They're overdoing it again. Well, I must get to wherever the dogs bring them."

Pakkun and the dogs arrived just in time as Naruto and Sakura were running at high velocity towards them.
"Hurry!" Pakkun barked. "We must regroup! This amount of clones is insane! Kakashi wants us to regroup!"
"Okay!" Both of them yelled in unison.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled. Six clones were left behind to Rasengan again and again.

"That should hold them off and get rid of most of them! We need to hurry and find Nanami!"
Please be okay, he thought worriedly. The only family member he knew that was alive... she had to be safe. For some reason, he felt like they had known each other for years. It was just... a feeling. But no matter what, he wasn't going to lose anyone. After the wakened memories of the Valley of the End... he wasn't going to.

Sai spotted that new girl... Nanami. That was it. She was amazingly fending all those clones at a high speed with only a kunai and shuriken. That was certainly impressive. But that didn't mean she could hold on forever. He motioned the bird to dive down towards the ground to launch his ink jutsus until he saw the rising of the dragon.

Nanami was having no trouble killing the clones. She had a high stamina and speed and as for chakra... well...
However, there was no end to them, and it was still annoying with the endless tsunami of them. Moreover, she knew that everyone had a limit (so obviously she did too), and she also had an extra problem of not showing her true powers to the enemy... yet. This was indeed a problem.

"Underestimating us are we?" A clone sneered. "You'll be out very soon if you don't do something."
She thought so too. Naruto and the others were too far away and the amount of clones were completely ridiculous.

"Time to bring something bigger out," She muttered. The waterfall was too far away, and by the the time it reached here, she would have been swept by the disgusting white tsunami.

But doing a technique like this was all too simple for her.

Bird Seal.

Out of the ground, a water dragon erupted, snarling and screaming in fury.
All of the others reached there, and stopped in surprise. Kakashi had reached there first to witness a single seal being made and the eruption of the dragon.
He had already knew that this kunoichi was not ordinary, but to manage to perform this jutsu in a place with no water with a single seal... the only person that had been capable of that had been the Nidaime Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

(Flashback)

"And that's what I say that's happened," Nanami said quietly with her hood on back once more.
"It all depends on if you believe me or not."
On Tsunade's orders, all the ANBU had retreated, along with Shizune. Kakashi had stayed for the majority of the story, but had to accommodate and prevent the knocked out guards from coming in and demanding an explanation. If they saw the visitor, they would probably have knocked her out regardless of Tsunade's orders. They were prideful shinobi after all.
Regardlessly, he had gotten the full picture. This girl would have to be protected and supported fully.

Tsunade shook her head, "You've proven your loyalties quite clearly with the guards you trapped. However, your decision in becoming a ninja of Konoha... why?"
Nanami closed her eyes and sighed.
"It is the least I can do," She said simply.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Is that it?"
For the first time, Nanami laughed. "No. But it's the truth that I can't be stuck like a princess in a castle... or being a prisoner for that matter."
Her smile was empty and quite blank. There was no emotion whatsoever, Tsunade noticed.
"And I do want to be with my long-lost cousin."
"...Of course."

The very next day she had ordered Kakashi to keep an eye on the girl that was to be kunoichi of Konoha. He had taken it in stride (it wasn't as if this type of thing didn't happen before in Konoha: a shinobi or kunoichi from another village becoming one in another), but Tsunade was slightly surprised that he had taken it in stride... well his mask hid his true face all the time so it was harder to tell his facial expressions anyway...

(Flashback end)

Right now, Kakashi was more than stunned.
His sharingan had captured the movement of the technique, but it had been impossible for him to copy it.

Using all one seal to make the Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu with no water in reaching distance already made it an A-Rank Jutsu. But the sheer power of it and speed of it made it impossible to copy even with the best of his abilities. He would have to see at least a few times and train vigorously to be able to even try to simplify the technique he knew (with forty four hand seals) to a minimum.
But it still was impossible for him to imitate the technique.

Chakra was something he could not imitate. The lack of chakra he had compared to Naruto and many other more powerful shinobi wasn't something he could change. And judging by this powerful jutsu, Nanami clearly had a very large supply of chakra, at least as much as Naruto.

No matter what, he could not help feeling awed and terrified. It was an overwhelming emotion.
She just might reach her goal that quickly, he thought.
Naruto and Sakura once more had their jaws drop to the ground as she made clawing motions with her hands to destroy all the clones.
The dragon swooped and roared blasts of chakra to each monster.
As expected of Naruto's long lost relative I suppose, Sai thought.
Within minutes, the clones had all been ultimately destroyed.
"...That might have been too much."
The rocky terrain had been shredded.

"Ninken, separate and find that original one! It must be hiding somewhere close!"
"Hmm," The white clone hiding a mile under the cement and rock thought. "Even the one on the waterfall was exterminated. They sure don't leave one clean... as expected of the Copy Cat Ninja, I suppose, and the jinchuuriki I guess. Tobi's had experience with the pink one, so I guess they are forces to be reckoned with. That new one... hmm... better report it to Tobi huh?
He dove deeper, cackling at the interesting events.

The rocks were still smoldering and cut cleanly and sharply in piles of rubble.
"... That was quite impressive," Sai commented placidly.


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