Chapter 9
Only a Taste
Sakura was the first to enter large building. The ground was made out of steel and everything was gray and black. Sakura scrunched up her nose and made a disgusting face. 'This place needs some pink...'
Naruto stormed in the room, his orange aura shining bright off his chakra. "Hey! Where's the head of police!?!?" Naruto yelled, making the room shake.
All the people with gray suits looked at him for a split second, then they looked away and went on with their boring conversations.
"Naruto..." Sakura moaned, facepalming, "That's not the way you do things around here!"
Sasuke huffed and walked forward with his hands in his pockets. "Sakura, I think that guy over there might know something." Sasuke said, taking one hand out of his pocket and casually pointing to a man with black spiky hair and was wearing a black suit.
Sakura put on her 'winning smile' and strolled over to the man. He was around their age- maybe a little older. "Hello." Sakura said sweetly, looking up at the tall young man. The man grunted and turned his head to look at her with an annoyed face. But, the annoyed face suddenly dissapeared once he got a good look at Sakura.
"Hello. How may I help you, sweetie?" he asked, raising his eyebrows at the kunoichi.
Sakura smiled. "Uh- do you know who the head of police is? We're shinobi from the Village Hidden in The Leaves and we were assigned a mission here."
Sasuke walked over to Sakura and stood next to her. He raised an eyebrow at the man who was hitting on Sakura and huffed.
"Sure, sweetie. You're looking at him! I'm the head of police!" he said, poiting his thumb at himself and smiling. Naruto ran over and bumped Sakura out of the way. "Hey! Do you happen to have a daughter, mister!??!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke instantly punched him and Naruto rolled to the floor, a giant bump clearly visable on his head. "Ignore him." Sasuke muttered, shaking his head.
The man laughed nervously and smiled. "My name's Jinji Taro. Head of Police."
Sakura smiled. The man took her hand and kissed it. Sakura felt blush coming to her face and Sasuke just huffed in annoyance.
"Listen, we're just here to do our mission and get it over with." Sasuke said, an annoyed expression clear on his face. Taro nodded his head.
"Of course. Follow me, please."
Naruto jumped up from the ground and Sasuke told him to shut up. The three followed the man up a level into an office room, similar to Tsunade's. Taro sat down at the chair, and the desk in front of him had scattered papers around it.
"As you can tell, The Land of Bringing is going through some trouble. Some punks have been raiding the lands and causing havoc. They come only at night and raid the crop fields and sometimes go into the village and start killing off innocent people. You're job is to stand watch every night and elminate these idiots that keep causing us trouble."
Sakura nodded. "Understood."
"Okay, well that's all you need to know! Oh, and here are some files on the people who are in the gang that raids. There's only around 10 people that raid. We have info and 3 of them, the main leaders. The other 7 are just followers who can be taken out easily. Here are the files."
Sasuke walked up casually and took the folders from his hand.
"Thank you for doing this, ninja. I appreciate it. You're dismissed."
The three left the room in silence.
"He seems nice." Sakura sighed.
"Nice? He looks like a creeper to me..." Naruto mumbled.
"For once, I agree with the dobe. I think he's a real creep." Sasuke said.
Naruto's jaw dropped. "Awww, wow, Sasuke! You agree with me! That means a lot!"
"Hey, don't take it that way." Sasuke said quickly. Naruto embraced Sasuke in a bear hug and Sakura's musical laughter filled the air.
Sasuke stood completly still. His eyes were closed as he listened to every sound. The wind rustled the leaves. There was an occasional laugh now and then from Naruto and Sakura below him. He was on top of the roof, looking over the village. He opened his eyes when Sakura and Naruto exited the house below him.
"Hey, Sasuke!" Sakura called, waving up at him. Sasuke didn't know how to respond, so he just huffed. Sakura took this as a 'hey' and smiled. She ran over 5 houses away from Sasuke and sat on the roof. Naruto was around 16 houses away. They all just watched over the village in silence, everyone's guard on the edge.
Naruto continued to fidget. He couldn't stay still! He was still fuming about the whole thing with Aiko. Naruto sneakily ran over to the rooftop Sakura was on. Sakura was completly still and was staring straight ahead.
Naruto was squatting right behind her. "Hey, Sakura!" he whispered. Sakura squealed and smacked Naruto on the nose.
"Ow! That hurt, Sakura-chan!" Naruto complained, soothing his nose with his hand.
"I'm sorry, but you scared me you idiot! What are you doing over here, a raid could be happening!" Sakura said, a hint of apology in her voice.
"I'm so bored though! They aren't going to raid tonight. By the way, I'm still really upset about Aiko!"
"Who's Aiko anyway?" Sakura asked, remembering Naruto mention the girl before.
"She let me into the Land of Bringing. She looked all beat up 'n stuff. She has the same last name as that Head of Police guy. It just gets me angry if that guy can afford his suit, can't he afford his own kid some stuff to wear?"
Sakura nodded her head. "Yeah, I guess. But you never know, hey might just have the same last name!"
"No way, Sakura. People with the same last name in the same village? And they aren't related? That's not possible, Sakura."
Suddenly an thin invisable wire tightened around Sakura and Naruto. They were forced to clumsily smooshed together. Sakura was inbetween Naruto's legs and her arm was caught around his neck. Naruto's hands were stuck on Sakura's sides. It was the most awkward position ever, and they couldn't even move. Sakura's face was forced against Naruto's chest.
"Sasuke!" Sakura screamed.
Sasuke was instantly next to Sakura in a heartbeat. He had a kunai in his right hand and was ready to defend the two because they were unable to.
"Who's out there? Face me!" Sasuke demanded sternly.
"Over there!" Naruto exclaimed as a kunai shot through the air right toward Sasuke. Sasuke swiftly tilted his head to the right and dodged it.
"Nice one." Naruto huffed, trying to change his position. As Naruto tried to move it squished Sakura even more, causing the wire to tighten around Sakura. Sakura's right shoulder started bleeding.
"Stop moving, dobe! You're gonna kill the both of you! Stay still!" Sasuke hissed. Naruto swallowed and nodded slowly.
"Who's out there! You're being a coward!" Sasuke yelled, standing up and looking around the area. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and started looking around. 3 tomoe were apparent. Sasuke can't use his Mangekyo Sharingan yet because of the ordeal between him and Naruto.
Sasuke felt waves of chakra coming from one of the rooftops. The chakra was active. Sasuke knew he couldn't leave Sakura and Naruto by themselves, so he'd have to be quick. Sasuke ran 8 rooftops forward and 6 to the left. There was a man in all black. He gasped when Sasuke came at him with a kunai to the throat. With one quick movement blood spilled from the man's throat as he rolled off the rooftop.
"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke looked over at a kunai being held at his teamates' necks.
There was a tall man with red hair puting a kunai to Sakura's neck, and another man with blue hair puting a kunai at Naruto's.
"Don't move, or I'll kill them." the man with the red hair hissed. Sasuke instantly paniced. He didn't have enough time to to get over there and kill them both before they kill Sakura and Naruto.
Naruto growled under his breath. "Let us go, you bastards!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Stop moving, you brat!" the man holding the kunai to his neck hissed,trying to hold him still.
"Stop, or else your pink-haired girlfriend is gonna die." the man with red hair said as he slowly slid the kunai across Sakura's neck, exposing a small line of blood that poured down to her shirt and made a stain. Sakura just looked straight forward, no expression on her face. She looked like she just saw a ghost. She didn't even blink.
"Naruto! Stop it, damnit!" Sasuke exclaimed, trying to get through to Naruto.
"Keep your hands off her, you dirty scum!" Naruto exclaimed. His eyes suddenly turned red and his teeth became pointed as he growled.
"Woah, Gartos, this guy is a weird one."
"What do you mean he's weird? Just restrain him, Nao."
"Seriously, Gartos, he's like...a fricken fox!" Nao said as he looked down at the erupting Naruto.
"Naruto..." Sasuke said slowly as he watched his best friend lost control. Naruto's claw-like hands cut the string. He reached his hand up to Nao's neck and pushed him down on the rooftop, digging his fingernails into his neck and shoulder.
"Nao! Damnit!" Gartos exclaimed, looking over his shoulder at his accomplice. Sasuke took this chance to grab Sakura, since he was paying attention to Nao.
Sasuke quickly ran with lightning speed and kicked the man away from Sakura. The man launched over 6 houses and landed of a rooftop. Sakura exhaled and laid down on the rooftop, breathing in and out slowly. Sasuke comforted Sakura by putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Naruto! Hurry up and kill him!" Sasuke barked. Naruto growled and with a loud scream Naruto yanked off Nao's head with a quick movement.
"Sakura, you okay?" Sasuke asked, ignoring Naruto completly. Sakura stood up and put her hand to her forehead.
"Yeah. I'm okay. Wow, that was a strange genjutsu." Sakura sighed. Sasuke furrowed his brows. "Genjutsu? But, you chakra- it didn't seem disturbed."
"Really? That's weird. I wonder why didn't put a genjutsu on Naruto. I think the genjutsu was like a mind game. I think it somehow got around my chakra."
"That guy, Gartos, he seems to be pretty skilled in genjutsu." Sasuke said, recalling his name.
"Yeah, we only got a taste of their real power." Sakura said, sighing.
Suddenly, a calmed down Naruto joined in the conversation.
"Sakura-chan! Are you okay?" Naruto's up-beat voice asked.
"Yeah, i'm fine." Sakura said, smiling ear to ear. Naruto smiled back.
Sakura pointed to the horizon. "It's 6:00. They won't raid, and I'm fricken tired. Let's hit the sack!"
"Yeah! I'm beat, dattebayo!"
The three checked into a small inn. It was owned by an old woman who didn't have a very big business.
"My name's Granny Po! I had my grandson set up your room. Hope you get comfortable! You guys have one room. It has a great view of the river in the back, and has a balcony. Enjoy!" the old woman said, handing them the room key.
"Arigato, Granny!" Naruto said, taking the key and rushing up the stairs. Sasuke sighed and Sakura laughed.
They opened the room to see something totally unexpected. It wasn't the wallpaper, the floor, or the decorations. No, it was the horrible and noticable fact that there was only one double bed. Only one.
(A/N);; This is a really short chapter. Well, not REALLY short but not as long as I would've hoped. I'm sorry I haven't updated in like FOREVER but you know, new year and all that. Happy new years, by the way! Haha! Rememember to review! I like all your comments!
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