Hey everyone. Sorry this update took so long. I've been swamped by school and that's no fun. But I amgetting this chapter up. This really starts to develop my characters a bit. You learn some of their past in this chapter, and some of the people that they met.
Disclaimer: Okay, seriously, if I owned Naruto, it would have gotten no where. No where I tell you.
Chapter 4 Slipping the Pasts
"So what exactly can you all do?" Kakashi asked the three girls. The six of them, adding Sakura and Naruto to the bunch, were walking on a dirt path in a direction towards the village hidden in the sand. Ravy was intently focused on the path in front of her. She had her right hand on her pack, holding the strang onto her shoulder. In her left hand was the green fan.
"Well, as Ravy's demonstrating, she can use chimes or noise to find chakra in the waves of momentum. She inherited it from her great grandfather. She can pick out certain chakra with the color, shape, scent." Kaira told the gray-haired man. "She also is a healer, something she learned from Kabuto." she added, saying his name almost as a curse.
"Creeper, that one was." Ravy told them, her voice almost monotone. Taara snickered. "Admit, it creeped you out." the raven haired girl turned her head to the redhead.
"I never said he didn't." she replied solemnly. "Kaira is a taijutsu, genjutsu, and weapons specilist."She told them, refering to her brunette cousin. "Not to mention she is our undying leader." she added dramatically.
"Heh. Taara, with her acting skills, has a kakagentai(SP?) that controls the atoms and molecules in the air and she can bind them to her will. She is also a well trained swordsperson."
"And you laugh when it's mentioned that I was tudored by Kabuto. God, Orochimaru isn't much better than a freaking pedophile." Ravy remarked from her position in front of everyone. She turned her head before stopping. She rang the chimes before turnning. "He went this way." she told them. Everyone trusted her.
"So you were all taught by Orochimaru and Kabuto?" Sakura asked them. They nodded.
"We trusted them, but looking back,I guess we should have been more cautious." Kaira told the pink-haired girl.
"We we vunlerable. Of course they took advantage, seeing our chakra levels." Taara mumbled.
"It's in the nature of creeps." Ravy spat. Then cursed. "God, why do they all have to blubber around like drunks?" she complained with a hiss. Shs closed the fan. "Anyone have something of the bastard's?" she asked the group. When no one answered her, she looked for herself.
"Naruto, give it to me." she told him with almost hesitantly. When he just looked at her, she dropped her back and rushed him. He found himself tangled in his pack's straps and her holding the slashed leaf headband. "I'm sorry, but I'll give back." she examined it before pocketing it and picking up her pack and continuing on. Kaira took the time to quickly help Naruto free himself.
"I apologize, she get's frustrated when chakra gets all tangled up." she apologized for her cousin.
"I guess it's okay. I should have really thought it out before refusing. Holding on to it just prolonged actually getting him back." the blonde told her solemnly. He thanked her and they continued on their way.
When dusk came they set up their camp. Ravy had argued that since day was coming to an end that the strand was getting thin and that if he had stopped, then it would take longer for the chakra to stick into the path. They just shrugged and set up camp.
"Where'd Ravy go?" Taara asked the group as Kakashi and Naruto started to set a fire.
"I haven't seen her since she set up her stuff." Sakura told her.
"Should we be worried?" Naruto asked her.
"Worried about what?" Ravy walked into the clearing. Her damp hair dripped in her eyes and her skin shone with a slight glimmer of water.
"Where were you?" Kaira asked curiously.
"Fishing." she held up a line full of fish.
"Woah." Sakura looked the fish over before helping the girl take it over to the fire.
"I figured I'd fish since i was a little rash earlier." the raven-haired girl told them. She took the headband out of her pocket. She handed it back to Naruto. "Here, you can have it back now."
"Thanks." the blonde regarded her politely. "So, while the fish is being prepared and cooked, let's talk!" Naruto announced.
"Okay. What about?" Kaira asked him, sitting to help Ravy and Sakura to take the rough skin and dirt off the fish.
"Um... how long have youguys worked for Snamke-man?" he asked them.
"Four to five years." Taara responded.
"Were you guys a part of the sound attack on the leaf?" Naruto asked. He never recalled seeing them in the attack.
"Yeah, but we had other priorities." Kaira told him. She looked over Taara, who was thinking deeply.
-FlashBack-
Taara walked calmly through the dense forest surround Kohona. She dropped her pack and stretched her legs to rest them a little. She had been splitted from her cousins on this mission to make her goal easier.
"Okay, all I have to do is wait for the signal." she told herself aloud. She hated not being around her cousins because they always talked for her. The redhead's attention snapped up as three teens appeared on the path.
"Gaara?" one of them, a boy wearing a hat and carried a large wodden puppet said to a weary looking red head.
'I don't Ravy to tell me that kid has immense chakra.' Taara though to herself. She watched as two of the three, the boy with the hat and a girl with blonde, quad-divided hair and a fan shuffled to carry the redhead boy who was breathing heavy. The boy lifted him head and looked over in Taara's direction. She gasped at the pale aquamarine eyes connected with hers and held her still. He said nothing, only disappearing with his companions.
The six of them were silent through their meal. Until Ravy spoke up.
"He will most likely move early, to avoid people like us. We need to beat him to it." She told the others. "As soon as I wash my dishes and my face, I'm off to bed." the girl stood, her dish clean. She walked to the stream.
"I agree. Even with our help. You'll need to be strategic to catch up to him, let alone beat him. Tomorrow we will plan our attack." Kaira announced, leaving to clean her dishes as well. Taara stood silently and followed.
Okay, so that's all sorted out. Not the next chapter, but the chapter after that, Sasuke will be caught up to, and if your lucky, that'll happen at the end of next chapter so that there is one long chapter devoted to just fighting. But that's only if you review. Just click the lavender button. The story depends on it.