HELLO EVERYONE! Vanessa here! I have to post this for Olivia because her crap computor has officially died. oh well! Oh! Just so you all know, I typed this up just how she wrote...so if there is anything wrong with it, blame her.

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"I'd love to help you, Naruto, but I can't have Vanessa focused on me," Olivia slurps up a forkful of ramen. "But why don't you just, you know, EAT it?"

"I've tried," Naruto whispers fearfully. "But she always busts me."

"Ouch. Tough luck." Slurp, slurp

Naruto's eyes begin to water, but he knows better than to try anything. The two can practically feel Vanessa's burning glare on them, though they have no idea where she is. Everyone is a bit isolated today, Olivia thinks. She repeats her thought aloud.

"Well…Nissi is with Sasuke-baka, and Vanessa is probably stalking me. I dunno where Meagan is."

"She disappeared pretty early, but she'll be okay."

-8 hours later-

"Stupid rain…"

Meagan shields her eyes from the pouring rain with one hand and whacks the endless foliage with the other. She's beaten and bruised from fighting through the insane amount of foliage Konoha is cursed with; it wasn't even that bad until it began to rain. So think it is - and having no sun to guide her makes it worse – that she is very, very lost.

"There's no point of me sitting in one place; I'll freeze to death!" she sputtered, taking another blind step forward. Her teeth chattered; a sudden light blinds her. What the…! Another step forward, Meagan finds herself tumbling down a sort of hill, which gives the trees more chances to scratch her up. By the tome she manages to stretch out her arms to catch something, she is a bloody mess. Her arms circle a small tree trunk and one takes the moment to breathe.

"I curse you, stupid trees!" she raises a fist in anger.

The clouds suddenly move out of the path of the moon, allowing its light to shine down for Meagan. Even with the light, though, she has no idea where she is. She doubts she's ever been so far in the woods before. And it doesn't look like there's a path anywhere…

"But I'd better keep going, while there's light."

She moves gingerly down the rest of the hill, stumbling when she reaches level ground. The very peak of a house becomes visible as she continues walking. A very large house, by the look of it. Meagan – as soon as her legs regain enough strength – runs for it. The rain has completely soaked through her clothes; it still shows no signs of stopping.

"I'm going to freeze to death!" she wails. "Where's that stupid – OOMPH!"

She is cut off mid-sentence as she runs into the side wall of the house. I'm saved! She feels along the wall until her fingers grasp the thin metal of a front gate. Pushing it open just enough, Meagan slips through and bolts for the front door; she pounds against the door frantically and is unprepared to see who opens it.

"N-Neji? What are you doing here?"

Blink, blink "I live here."

"No you don't."

"…yes, I do."

"No you don't."

"Yes I do – go check the front gate."

Neji turns and points. Groaning, Meagan turns and runs back out to the gate, reads it, and runs back.

"Okay, you were right. Can I come in?"

Neji sighs and steps away, allowing Meagan to come in. She stands in the doorway as Neji rummages through his closets for towels and warm clothes, then follows him to the bathroom and changes. Neji, meanwhile, is in the kitchen making soup for her.

"Ah, I feel much better," she enters the kitchen, toweling her hair dry. "Thanks for letting me in."

"Yeah, whatever."

"Where's Hinata?"

Neji gives Meagan a weird look. "Hinata lives in the main house."

"Oh, that's right! Sorry," She says. Neji gets up to leave.

"HEY! Don't leave me!"

"…I need to sleep."

"No, no! Stay and talk to me!"

Sighing, Neji plops down into a choir as Meagan slurps her soup. Soon they have a stable conversation going. It lasts long into the night until Meagan suddenly pauses mid-sentence and falls asleep. Neji was asleep seconds later.

-o-o-o-

"MEAGAN! MEG!"

It is morning and the destinies are out searching for their friends. They had spent a good two hours searching the forests and are now off searching the houses. They check everyone they don't know first, and then move onto everyone they do know. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi – no one knew where she was.

"Uh….please don't forget to check Neji-nee-san's house," Hinata offers after the second time round.

"Neji! Where does he live?"

Hinata gives them directions and off the Destinies shoot. When they get there, no one answers the door but that is no problem for the Destinies. They quickly break it down.

"MEG! Mea—"

Seeing Meagan all wrapped up in warm blankets when they've been searching for the better part of three hours sends the Destinies into spasms. They jump Meagan, tickling her awake and begin yelling random Destiny drabble.

"But at least you're okay…" they end.

After eating a delicious breakfast – prepared by Neji – Meagan tells about her night. Just as she finishes, who should run in but Naruto, yelling something about Tsunade wanting to see them. So the girls thank Neji for the food and leave, wondering what Tsunade could possible want.

"Girls, we're going to try you out on a mission," Tsunade smiles at the girls, placing down her sake cup.

"Cool," Vanessa plops herself into a chair. "Where do we start?"

Tsunade regards the girls for a moment, probably thinking of the right words to say. She glances at Naruto, then back at thee girls, and then at her sake cup.

"Well, I've met with the other jounin and we decided to start you off on a chuunin mission, just to see how you do."

"WHAT!" Naruto explodes. "I practically had to BEG on my KNEES for the third to give me harder missions! What makes them so special?"

A vein pops on Tsunade's temple. She clenches her fists and closes her eyes, probably trying to picture something calming. Olivia hurriedly moves forward and pours the fifth some more sake.

"Tsunade-sama…"

Tsunade cracks open an eye, accepting the cup with a smile, "Thank you."

She downs the sake and silences Naruto's further attempts to speak with a death glare. She goes on to explain the details of the mission.

"It's pretty simple, actually, and you will be tailed by Kakashi, just in case you run into….difficulties."

Kakashi poofs in suddenly, waving at the girls. Naruto is definitely fuming now, clenching his fists. The girls understand Naruto's anger – all the stupid missions he was forced through before receiving a decent one. They laugh as they remember one of their favorite ones.

"Remember the one with the cat?" they choke back as much of their laughter as they can

"Where he caught it and it…."

"Jumped on his head?"

The four howl, holding each other's shoulders for support. Naruto's face burns as even Kakashi breaks out grinning at the memory. Tsunade clears her throat and points to Naruto. He is suddenly glomped within an inch of death as they girls shout out their apologies. Naruto's face goes purple within the seconds.

"You're….crushing….me," he sputters.

"We're so sorry!" The destinies wail.

"Enough," Tsunade downs another sake cup. "Kakashi, finish filling them in outside."

Nodding, Kakashi grabs his charges and poofs out of the building, leaving Tsunade with her sake. He is still sporting a ridiculous grin as he explains the mission for a while.

"So….it's an escort mission?" Meagan asks.

"Sort-of. We don't really want you in plain view of the charge. Not all of you, at least," Kakashi explains. "We want to know who's stalking him."

"Got it!"

"Meet at the bridge and remember, I'm watching from the shadows."

And with another poof, he is gone.

-o-o-o-

"This is a beautiful reason not to practice," Vanessa crows.

"Though we could use the extra practice…" Nissi comments.

The girls wander through Konoha with Yakitori sticks in their hands, munching happily. Naruto had left them to blow off steam – probably to entice Sasuke into fighting him- and they hadn't ran into anyone interesting since then. Eventually they end up back at the house, where Gaara is eating lunch.

"We have a mission, Gaara!" Olivia and Meagan bound over to him, all smiles.

"Chuunin level!"

Gaara eyes the two, "Chuunin level?"

"Yeah!"

"Well that's…good." What are those fools thinking? he sighs and turns back to his lunch.

-o-o-o-

"Okay, where is this guy?" Nissi scowls after an hour of waiting. "He's pulling a Kakashi!"

The girls have been waiting on the bridge for their charge to show and for an hour he has eluded them. The destinies are slowly becoming angry at the fact that he's no showing, and they can't go look for him. They've resigned to sitting down and swinging their legs above the water. Another hour passes, then another, and then one more. Just as the girls are ready to blow off the mission, a young boy dressed in white runs up to them looking very flustered.

"Why doesn't he just hang a 'kill me' sign above his head?" Meagan whispers to Olivia.

"In neon," Olivia whispers back, nodding.

"I'm sorry I'm late!" the boy skids to a halt in front of them. "I overslept!"

Nissi plasters on a smile, "that's okay. Where are we taking you?"

"Out into the woods to meet some of my villagers."

"Lets' go then."

Pushing past the fact that their mission didn't start off nearly as smoothly as they would have liked, they lead their charge – "my name's Haku, by the way" – across the bridge and out the front gates.

It is a beautiful day; the girls would have sprinted off to wreak havoc immediately on better circumstances, but their duties leave them no time for play. Following Kakashi's words they split up: Meagan and Nissi are left to guard Haku while Olivia and Vanessa follow behind, hiding themselves in the tree leaves.

Haku seems to think nothing of the thought that his life is in danger; he strolls down the path, flanked by Meagan and Nissi, whistling one happy tune after another. Vanessa resists the urge to nail him with rocks; quite sure it would give away their position.

All day long, the four peel their eyes for enemy ninja. All day long, the four see nothing but birds and bees and lots of trees. By noon – when they stop for lunch – Olivia and Vanessa are sore from staying up in the trees and Meagan and Nissi are tired of the monotonous path. All four are tired of the silence, broken only by Haku's occasional whistling.

They move on after lunch, wondering where Kakashi is hiding. He can't be that far behind, Meagan muses, kicking a rock down the path. Suddenly a shower of Kunais fall upon the three, piercing them faster than they can react. Swiftly Meagan and Nissi arm themselves, ready for the next batch. But it never comes; instead, the enemy swoops down and snatches up Haku, quickly escaping.

"H-hey!"

Olivia and Vanessa are on the ground now, running as fast as they can after the mysterious enemy. They flash of Haku's white shirt keeps them on the right track as the mad dash through the trees continues. Occasionally, the girls glimpse the path; their only maker that they're still in Konoha-gakure territory. They must stay near the path.

"Kakashi! Where are you!" Vanessa shouts, speeding up a bit. "We've run into to some difficulties!"

Just as their legs are about to give out, Haku comes running back to them with a cut lip. He gives them a shaky smile.

"Punched him in the groin," he laughs.

"I'll go get him," Vanessa volunteers, running off. Nissi follows behind to help.

While they are gone, Olivia takes a cloth from her Kunai pouch and wipes Haku's lip, completely unprepared to have him poof into their mysterious enemy, twist her around, and hold a kunai at her throat.

"Olivia!"

"Ack! Now, now, Meg. We just have to remember to SING!" Olivia gasps. "Solarplexes, in-step, nose…GROIN!"

And as she sings, she whacks/ steps on each specific point. The last one results in her assailant doubling over in pain, giving her a chance to get away.

"Always wanted to do that."

It is at this particular moment that Vanessa and Nissi come running back into view with the Haku in tow.

"Guys! It's not Haku…oh." They see the enemy on the ground.

"Yeah, you're a bit late."

The four grin, happy to have won the battle. But just as they are prepared to finish the enemy when they suddenly feel very sleepy and as they slip into unconsciousness, their only thought is that someone up there must hat they very much indeed.

-o-o-o-

"Urgh…what….happened?"

The destinies stir and sit up as consciousness slowly reaches them again. They seem to be in the Konoha hospital – again – and all their friends seem to be crowded into their room.

"Feeling okay?" Tsunade questions.

"Uh, yeah."

"Good. We had to get you out of there or who knows what you would've done to poor Kiba."

"K-kiba…?"

Suddenly the others think it the perfect time to leave and soon only Kakashi and Tsunade left. The Destinies glare suspiciously at the two.

"Well…okay, I admit. The mission was a fake."

"WHAT!"

"We did it to test you –"

"I don't believe this!"

" – And you did pretty well."

"Tsunade-sama, how could you?"

"Haku is a boy from the academy, and Kiba played the enemy. Shino used his bugs to set you sleepy."

She gets up and pats each girl on the head, then stands near the door. By this time the girls are fit to burst. Kakashi congratulates them on doing so well before disappearing and Tsunade turns to exit also.

"Oh – you can't move, by the way.

And the girls find it true. Stuck in uncomfortable positions they can only shout at the top of their lungs that it will be an explosive moment indeed when they are set free, and that there will be hell to pay for their trick. And then they quiet down, leaving the entire city wondering what they are going to do for revenge.

Fin


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