Hi everyone! Yes I've noticed the mistake with the ANBU thing. I'll fix it soon :)
Meanwhile I would like to know if you can recommend some fics that involve good birthing writing. I'm thinking in a whole new fic with that but would like to read some stories with good birthing scenes to know what could work.
This is me trying to write a fighting scene, hope you like it!.
DOUBTS
Since Naruto, Hanabi and Sakura left Konoha that morning, the later hadn't taken her eyes off of Naruto. Someway he seemed taller, confident, more like a man than a boy, his wide shoulders and his strong arms… Sakura could not take her eyes off of him while they jumped through the trees. He was leading the group while the two kunoichis flanked two steps behind him. Hanabi could not avoid noticing about Sakura's glances and stares.
It was late at night when this shinobi group arrived where the feudal was staying. They decided to rest, camping in the castle grounds near the river. There was no moon that night thus darkness flooded the land.
"Naruto, I'll take the first watch"
"Ok, Hanabi"
"We'll take turns every couple hours, I'll take the last" Sakura said
"Hai"
Hanabi walked away from the couple, but not enough to stop watching what would happen next. Naruto lit the fire and went fishing in the river so they could have something to eat. Meanwhile Sakura was staring at him through the crackling flames. He really had become a catch. She stood up and got near where he was.
"Do you need help?"
"No, Sakura-chan I've got plenty. Just a couple more and we'll be set up" Naruto said carelessly watching at the river.
"Come on Naruto, I think I can fish them quicker than you"
"Hahahah I don´t think so…, I'm the best at fishing… plus there is no moon so is harder you know?" Naruto said it while watching Sakura take out her fishing pole.
"Well we'll see about that" Sakura whispered whilst winking mischievously at Naruto whom found that attitude strange coming from Sakura but didn't give it a second though.
Sakura got dangerously near Naruto and hooking up some bait she started fishing throwing it to the river. From where Hanabi was standing it wasn't possible to observe nothing more than two silhouettes -that could be distinguished from the dark night only by the cracking and dancing flames of the fire-, very close to each other, laughing while they fished.
"…hahaha still remember how Sasuke couldn't climb the threes" Naruto mocked.
"Hahahah yes I know! But you couldn't either" responded Sakura
"Pfff" Naruto snort "at first…" both shinobis looked at each other and continued with the smiles and laughs. Suddenly Sakura's pole started pulling her to the river as a sign that a fish had bite the bait.
"Sakura, a fish bite, don't let it go!" An excited Naruto shouted.
"Wahhh is very strong I can't pull it out!" Sakura struggled with the fishing pole.
Although Sakura was one of the strongest kunoichis in the world, she wasn't going to let this opportunity pass and feigned helplessness, something that a very distracted and excited Naruto failed to notice.
"Don't pull that hard, you can break the pole, look you have to pull this way…" Naruto surrounded Sakuras hands with his, holding the pole by hugging her from behind.
"Look, you have to do it this way, with a specific strength so the fish remain hooked. If you pull very hard, the pole can break or the fish scape" Sakura released one of her hands from his grasp, switching places with his hand so he could have a better hold of the pole. At the same time with her now free hand started caressing his arm softly. At this Naruto stopped paying attention to the fish and looked down, his eyes clashing with Sakura's gaze who was tilting her head slightly upwards. It was very clear that she was flirting with him. What the hell was happening lately?, Now all of the sudden Sakura was paying attention to him, precisely when he was dating another girl?
For a minute Naruto was haunted by her gaze. Her green eyes shone for him in a way that he had not seen before and suddenly feeling that all the things that he had felt for her all of those years, that he thought were buried, were resurfacing again.
"Cof, cof" Hanabi interrupted "I think is your turn Naruto" while she said the last sentence she dedicated a very accusatory glance at him.
"Emmm… h..ai" Naruto left Sakura's side a little embarrassed and left to take the second watch.
Sakura and Hanabi finished with the fishing and cooked dinner.
"Well this is Naruto's dinner"
"Don't worry I'll take that to him"
"But… wait!" Hanabi couldn't stop Sakura from taking the dish and dart towards Naruto who was keeping watch.
"Look Naruto here's your dinner. Hope it's good" Sakura said with the sweetest voice she could master.
Naruto in confusion took the plate "Tha..nk you Sakura-chan"
She returned to Hanabi and rested for the remaining of the night before it was her turn to keep watch. Before dawn the three shinobi went to meet with the Feudal heading for the eastern castle.
Kiba, Sai and Karin had already arrived to the eastern castle. Up until that moment nothing weird had happened nor had they found renegade shinobis. The three shinobi were hiding in the bushes near the castle, watching for any weirdness or suspicious behavior from the feudal's loyal men who surrounded it and who made up his private guard.
"Karin, how many people are inside the castle?"
Karin using his sensorial abilities detected that there were some hidden ninjas in the top floor of the building.
"There are three hidden ninjas at the top floor. I don't know if they're friends of foes. I think is time to use henge"
Karin and Kiba transformed using henge into ninjas with the Feudal Lord private guard uniform. That way they could know with certainty if the hidden ninjas were part of them or against them.
"Good luck, guys" Sai wished for them.
Meanwhile, Sai drew a giant eagle, mounted on top of it and flew over the perimeter. Karin and Kiba started moving towards the castle entrance.
"Stop!" The guard that was post at the right side of the entrance door shouted. "Where do you think you are going?"
"We're going to inspect the north tower. Guard shift"
"This was not notified by the boss" the guard responded with suspicion in his voice
"It is a last minute order!" Kiba shouted with conviction.
"If you don't let us in to inspect the tower and something happens, you will be personally blamed for whatever could happen to the Feudal Lord that will be arriving at any minute now!" Karin pressed.
"O..k…, Hanya go with them, watch them" a reluctant and suspicious guard forfeited.
"Hai"
"Well, we're in" Karin and Kiba thought. The three ninjas got in followed by Akamaru and swiftly started to run towards the top floor.
"Hey! That's not the way to north tower! STOPP!
The castle walls were very tick and it seemed that nobody heard him scream. Karin and Kiba quickly shut Hanya's mouth and restricted his movements with some ropes. They left him on the mezzanine and kept on climbing the stairs. As soon as they arrived to the room where Karin had felt the presence of the three hidden ninjas, Akamaru barked.
"There are more than three people in there"
"I can only feel three chakra signatures" Karin whispered.
"let's get in"
Karin and Kiba entered the room holding their kunais, all guns blazing. In the room there were two men with swords.
"Who are you?" Kiba growled
"We are Lord Feudal's advisers" A shocked young man responded "But… How come you don't recognize us?, aren't you guards? Yo…u… are IMPOSTORS! GUARDS, GUARDS, INTRUDERSSS!"
"SHUT UP! Just tell us who are you hiding here?" Kiba shouted.
"What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about!" the oldest man intervened somewhat nervously.
"We know they are here. Or they go out…, or we get them out!"
"GATZUGA!"
Kiba's technique got the infiltrated ninjas out of their hiding. They could hear in the distance as the guards were rushing through the stairs to get to that room. The advisers taking advantage by the dust that Kiba's technique unsettle onto a cloud, escaped through a hall hidden in the wall, were some moments ago the infiltrated ninjas where hiding.
The three shinobis revealed themselves. They had a clear numerical advantage. They were 3 vs. 2 and Karin was no taijutsu specialist.
"What are you doing here?"
The shinobi didn't answer. They had no noticeable village affiliation. They were hired ninjas, mercenaries, renegades. It wasn't long before Karin asked when they were being attacked. Kiba and Karin responded defending themselves with their kunai and explosive seals.
"Damn you! Die!" Kiba transformed into a giant two-headed dog using the Human Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf. He charged against the renegades who crashed against the bottom wall.
"Good Kiba!"
"Those three will not stop us"
"The Lord Feudal arrived!" the guards surrounding the castle shouted from the outside. At hearing this, the renegades got up and jumped through the window.
"Fuck!" Karin and Kiba followed them kunais and ninja stars blazing
The renegades multiplied with a shadow clone jutsu, making the attack even harder, increasing the energy loss.
"But what do we have here, three scumbags that will meet their creator today"
"Naruto!" Karin shouted joyfully
From the sky rained animals and explosive seals. Sai was there to reinforce the defense. The renegades attacked with kunais, fists and kicks but were met and countered attacked immediately by the konoha's shinobis. The explosions created a huge smoke and dust cloud, limiting the vision of all the warriors endangering everyone.
"Byakugan!" Hanabi observed where the real ninjas were but when she was going to tell Naruto about it, something hit her from behind leaving her unconscious.
"Watch out, some of them don't have chackra signatures!" Karin shouted
Sai and Kiba were busy dispelling the renegade's clones, while Hanabi was unconscious and Sakura was protecting the Feudal Lord from the flying Kunais and explosive tags that fell nearby. Naruto on the other hand was kicking the shit out of the real ninjas. Everything was a confusion of dust and kunais when suddenly…
"AHHH NARUTO!" It was Karin. One of the advisers that didn't hold a chakra signature had ambushed her and had her by the neck pointing a kunai to her carotid. At the same time a strange seal of chackra was extending from the hands of the advisor to Karin's body restricting her movements. She could not breathe.
At the same time that this was happening Sakura was also attacked by the other adviser. This time Naruto had to pick who to help.
"NARUTO HELP…. THE FEUDAL IS UNPROTECTED!" Sakura shouted whilst she was been held by the other adviser, likewise sealing her chakra so she could not use her super strength. The grip cut her breathing. Suffocated and stressed she begged with her eyes for help to Naruto.
Naruto doubted for a second who should he help first. Will he help Sakura, her friend since childhood and her eternal platonic, love interest or Karin her current girlfriend?
"Kage bunshin no jutsu" Naruto made three clones of himself, sending one where Karin was and the other two where the feudal was left unprotected.
"Die you bastard!" Naruto the original shouted. With his lighting speed, passed on to him by his father, he almost teleported to where Sakura was dishing it out with full force at the adviser's forehead leaving him immediately unconscious.
The clone that Naruto sent to where Karin was, arrived a little too late, as Karin was already released from the grip of the renegade jutsu by Sai who liberated an ink lion defeating the other adviser that had her almost sealed all together.
"Tha..nk you Sai" Karin could barely say to Sai, gasping for air. She was seriously tired and was in all fours on the floor. Sai help her stand up.
"No problem" Sai responded smiling at her kindly. When this was happening, Naruto shadow clone appeared.
"Naruto! The Feudal!" Sai noted
"He is ok. Wait a moment"
"?"
"The code"
"Tomorrow will rain" the three of them said it at the same time
"Ok, let's go now to meet him"
"amm Karin how are you?" Naruto's clone asked distractedly
"I'm ok" Karin responded with a tired smile.
Sakura was on the floor. Naruto the original, was by her side on his knees, asking her in a very interested and worried way if she was ok. To which she responded gasping for air that she was ok with an intimate stare. This scene was met by Karin with a little surprise. Was Naruto worrying a little too much about Sakura? 'No' she thought 'this is the way that they roll' she answered herself convincing that that's how best friends deal with each other. It couldn't be true that Naruto had lied to her and still felt things for Sakura.
The fight finished with the renegades and fake advisers flying in Sai's ink eagles with Konoha as their destination. They would be interrogated by the Ibiki and Yamanaka's teams.
Karin and Sakura were feeling better and Hanabi came back to herself. Soon the Feudal Lord's Guard of the eastern castle took over the security and with an "ok and thank you" for the service they had provided, they parted back to Konoha.
Naruto headed the group been followed close by Sakura and Kiba whilst Hanabi and Karin were at the back. Karin was pensive. Why did Naruto decided to help Sakura himself using his super speed to get to her, but with her he had sent a simple clone with average speed, that didn't even get to help her? And why he had spoken to Sakura in such an… intimate way when she was free from that ninja's grip? All those thoughts and many others started to spite her while she was looking at the two of them from her position at the back of the group. Hanabi on the other hand perceived Karin's expression and she understood her doubts… it was really necessary to share what she thought she saw the night before? No, it was better not to. She could have misunderstood those stares and didn't want to make unnecessary drama for something that it may never existed. The best was not to feed those doubts or thoughts that Karin may have.
Due to the fact that Karin and Hanabi were on the back, Naruto, Sakura and Kiba couldn't see when a few messenger ninjas from Konoha intercepted Karin in a three branch.
"Karin stop"
"Ah? What's up?"
"Hokage-sama had decided that you must go on to another mission. You have to carry this scroll to the border between the land of fire and the hidden rain village"
"But is not fair!" Hanabi protested "We've just finished a very dangerous mission, Karin lost too much chakra, and she was even attacked!"
"Those are the Hokage's orders Hanabi-sama, you don't argue them"
"It's ok Hanabi, it's no biggie" Karin stoically grab the scroll from the messenger's hands and headed towards the border.
"Karin…" Hanabi watched how her friend disappeared between the threes. She really never had seen her complain for the constant missions that were assigned to her, one after the other without a break. She clenched her fists at the realization that the same thing happened with Sasuke. She couldn't let that keep happening otherwise she would never see Sasuke.
Hanabi and the messengers from Konoha continued their way back to the village. Soon they would catch up Naruto, Sakura and Kiba that had advance quite a trail. Naruto hadn't noticed Karin's absence as he was quite focused on Sakura's conversation, which in turn upset Hanabi.
Those who were on the front naturally arrived first to the village's door. They waited a few minutes for those on the back.
"ah? Where is Karin?" Naruto asked noticing her absence.
"Pfff, you've just notice until now that she didn't come with us? But what a boyfriend you are…" Hanabi responded in a hurtful and sarcastic tone.
Sakura didn't know that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. Hanabi's rant left her with her mouth and eyes wide open.
"how come? Where is Karin?" Naruto started to get mad.
Hanabi stared into his eyes without saying a word.
"Hokage-sama ordered for her to make another mission Naruto" one of the messengers intervene.
"But we just had a very dangerous mission!"
"Hokage's orders, you're no one to discuss them Naruto"
"What was the mission?"
"You don't have to know…"
"She had to take a scroll to the border with the hidden rain village, Naruto" Hanabi said with a tone between pissed and cold. "What are you gonna do now? Stay and eat dangos with Sakura?" She said in a sarcastic way.
The darts had landed on the right place. The two of them, Sakura and Naruto felt alluded and lowered their eyes. They felt kinda guilty. Hanabi meanwhile pierce them with her needled eyes, accusing them.
"I'll go find her"
"You're going nowhere Naruto"
"Sasuke!"
"We have an ANBU mission"
"But…"
"But nothing. Karin can do that simple mission in a couple of hours. She will be back by dinner time. The mission assigned to us is important" Sasuke looked at Naruto imposing, he was not kidding about the mission that he was talking about.
"Come on, Naruto"
"H..ai" Naruto followed Sasuke reluctantly. As soon as they'll finish with whatever mission ANBU had assigned to them he would go and meet Karin, wherever she were. He would detect her position turning into senin mode or whatever. He hadn't evaluated how he had treated his girlfriend that day. He felt a little confused by the way Sakura had talked to him. He had to see Karin no matter what.
Meanwhile this was happening, Karin was heading for the border. Who would be receiving this message? Why Tsunade, again, assigned her mission on top of mission? And why did Naruto hadn't paid attention to her the whole day? She wasn't feeling quite energetic but even so she kept a stable pace. She had had a rough day.
"Well, well, but how do we have here…. Hahahah but, Karin, now they have you as their messenger? Who would have known."
"Suigetsu!"
"Long time no see. But look at how much you've grown…, Karin"
