Fanfic

TenTen's Hero

Senryu52809

Chapter 10: Ambushed.

Senryu: Thanks for being so patient! Here's another chapter. As a reward for waiting so long I'm going to see how many chapters I can get in before Thursday!

Shiirya: We do not own Naruto, Now here's the story! Please review!

"Shinji wakeup! Quickly!"

Shinji awoke to see Akamaru staring right at him.

"What happened?"

"Shhh… don't turn around, we're surrounded…"

Shinji froze.

"What…?!"

TonTon walked into the clearing.

"There are about two hundred of them surrounding the Tree oy! Bandits…"

Shinji whispered "Bandits? What happened to the humans?"

"They're on the other side oy! Seems like the real fight already started over there."

Shinji looked around.

"Where's Mikomi…?"

Akamaru bared his teeth at the approaching bandits.

"We don't know."

TonTon squinted, attempting to see in the darkness of the willow.

"There's no time for that oy! Mikomi's tough, she'll be okay."

Shinji froze, in the darkness he could see a man advancing on him.

"A-A-Akamaru…?!"

Akamaru was ready to pounce out.

"Shhh… stay calm…"

The man grabbed Shinji. The sparrow panicked, wiggled free of the man's hand, and pecked the bandit as hard as he could with his beak as a natural reaction, leaving a deep gash in the bandit's palm…The wounded bandit lashed out with his foot at the terrified sparrow.

TonTon and Akamaru were ready.

The dog jumped up and bit the man deep into his leg.

"TonTon go!"

TonTon rolled into a ball (like an armadillo) and rocketed into the air hitting the man right in his chest, knocking him out on contact.

Akamaru jumped toward the nearest tree.

"Shinji follow me!"

Shinji hesitated.

"What about TonTon?!"

TonTon hit another guy in the stomach.

"Don't worry about me Oy! I'll be fine!!"

Shinji was confused, but he listened and followed Akamaru into the deep unwelcoming forest.

"Don't look back; I have to get you out of these trees!"

Shinji barely saw what happened next. A white flash flew out of the darkness, tackling Akamaru out of the trees and onto a grassy river bank. Both dogs lashed out each other as they rolled down hill toward the river. The river suddenly froze just as the dogs were about to fall into the water, the attacker pinning Akamaru down on the ice.

Shinji flew over, realizing that the attacker was Mikomi.

The sparrow also noticed the river, and how it suddenly froze.

Akamaru looked up

"Mikomi…?"

Mikomi jumped off of Akamaru

"Akamaru…? I thought you were still at camp?

Akamaru stood.

"TonTon's still there…what happened to you…?"

She frowned.

"These two guys tried to stuff me in some bag. I was able to fight them off…but I injured my arm in the process, so I hid in the forest. When I heard someone approaching I thought it was more bandits…"

Shinji flew over.

"Are you okay Mikomi…?"

"Yea…"

The sparrow looked at the river.

"How did the river suddenly freeze like that…?"

Mikomi looked down.

"Oh…that's my jutsu…"

He looked at Mikomi.

"You're a nin-dog…?"

She laughed

"Yep, were all nin-dogs…"

"Oy! That's nin-pig missy…"

She turned to see TonTon walking toward her."

"TonTon…are you okay?"

"Just a few scratches oy! Nothing to worry about."

Mikomi looked him in the eyes and sighed.

"Somethings wrong isn't it, TonTon…? You're hiding something…"

"You're right as usual" The pig eyes fell in downcast… "the humans are gone…"

Mikomi sighed…

"They must have escaped threw the forest…"

Shinji flew onto the white dogs back.

"So what now…?"

Akamaru yawned.

"Our best bet it to cross the river…and wait till' morning…"

Akamaru sighed.

"Looks like it."