Chapter Seven: The revelation
Jonaza POV
I was pissed as hell. First the fangirls chased me across the damn village, then I come back to where we are supposed to meet, and find Naruto with his robe on and hood up, as well as the kunoichis I had talked to. That and they wouldn't let me forget it on the way to the gates. However, I would have revenge. Once we got to the gates. And, ooh boy will they hate me. And then we arrived.
Normal POV
"Off we go."
The words were uttered with no emotion at all. The four were walking slowly past a village when a mad grin spread across Jonaza's face.
"Wait for me at the exit of the village." With that he disappeared.
Sakura sighed. "Not another Jiraiya."
Naruto chuckled. "Far from it. Jonaza is nothing like Jiraiya, aside from the fact they are both strong."
Sakura placed her probing eye on him.
"And who are you, keeping your hood up to hide your identity?" (Remember, all the time that the girls (Tenten and Sakura) were around, Naruto had his hood up)
"Little old me? I'm nobody, just here for the ride."
They continued walking until they reached the exit. There they stopped, and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Until finally, near sunset, Jonaza came walking up the path as though he had not a care in the world. The girls leaped up, Tenten with her scrolls and Sakura with her gloves, all aiming towards Jonaza, who was carrying something. When he saw the girls, he waved. They attacked.
A volley of weapons hurled through the air and Jonaza had to duck to avoid them. However, a foot met his face as Sakura kicked him. He flew back a few feet, and then turned into mud, proving to be a doton bunshin. The real Jonaza came up, rubbing his nose.
"Jeez, do you have to kick so hard? I barely had time to change into a bunshin."
He held out his hands. In them were weights. "Here. You and the other girl put these on. They are about half your weight, so therefore you will progress quickly."
The girls took them and tried to hold them without falling.
"Oh, and no chakra to hold them."
They looked at each other. The same words were going through their minds.
'He's a sadist!'
A few hours later they were asleep like logs. Jonaza chuckled.
"Think I went too hard on them?"
Naruto shook his head.
"If they aren't going to be a hindrance then they need all the training they can get. I think ninjutsu tomorrow?"
Jonaza laughed. "No, tomorrow is speech day. The, after the speech, it will be taijutsu. This'll be fun with the weights."
In their sleep, the girls unknowingly shuddered.
The next day
The 'recruits' as Jonaza called them, were lined up in front of him. (As lined up as you can be with only two people). Jonaza turned to them and started to speak.
"Now then, on this mission I am leader, therefore you will do what I say. If I tell you to jump off a cliff, I fully expect you to do it. If I tell you to jump, then you will not only ask how high, you will ask how far, at what angle, what direction, and if I want you to do a flip or spin. Do you understand?"
They both nodded. Jonaza grinned.
"Alright then, you and I will have a little spar. No ninjutsu, though your twin dragons is acceptable, Tenten. You may use any weapons. Begin."
Both girls fell into a fighting stance. Sakura examined him.
He was tall, with black hair in a style that mirrored Sasuke's on the wave country mission. He looked muscular, and he had an inner sadness to his clear blue eyes (I know that this might contradict what I said earlier, but ignore that.) that Sakura had only seen on two other people: Naruto and Gaara. He had the same eye marks as Itachi, though not as pronounced, about the same as the first Hokage's. (If you play close attention to the anime, the first hok. has the little eye marks.)
'And very cute,' thought Sakura, before she could stop herself. She blushed. Jonaza seemed to notice this, though he didn't show it. Tenten, however, was examining other parts of his body for hidden weapons. She didn't seem to find any, so she unsealed a pole and charged. Jonaza grinned even wider. "Now that's more like it!"
He reached to grab his sword then stopped. He sighed. "You really are annoying, aren't you? I already have him, now you start talking to me in the middle of a slaughter? When did pigs start flying?" He waited a moment, then said
"Damn Tsunade. She rubbed her luck on me."
He looked up to notice Tenten about to hit him with her pole. He raised his hand. A loud clang resounded. Tenten gasped. In Jonaza's hand was a small wakizashi (1). It was two pronged, catching the pole in the space between the two blades. He grinned.
"Sealing weapons has nothing on me."
He leaped away and discarded the wakizashi… right onto a trap Sakura had set up. Several kunai buried themselves in his body. Which promptly turned to mud. He appeared behind tenten, giving her a chop to the neck to knock her out. All that was left was Sakura. He looked around, with no sign of her. All of a sudden a kind of tripcord with three rocks on the end zoomed out of nowhere and wrapped around his throat. It seemed to choke him, as him turning blue and then falling down can indicate. Sakura jumped out of a tree, satisfied. But when he didn't jump up a minute later, that was when she started to worry.
He didn't seem to be breathing.
Sakura walked over, pale in the face. She leaned down…
And was sent flying as Jonaza kicked her. He leaped up.
"Always expect the enemy to do the unexpected. Otherwise, you will die."
Sakura stood up, shaky.
Naruto laughed. "That was mean, even for you. What are they going to do up against, say, Theris?"
Jonaza laughed. "Well, we'll soon find out won't we? We are passing the Village Hidden in Thorns. So this will be fun."
Meanwhile, Village Hidden in Thorns
A man walked into the darkness of the room.
"Sir! We have reports that Mesike Jonaza and Uzamaki Naruto will be passing by the village! What shall we do?"
A gravelly voice replied to the question.
"Send Theris and his team. They should be able to kill them. If not, send a backup team just in case. Take yourself with them. If I feel the need, I will send him."
The first man saluted. "Sir!" He vanished.
A laugh rang out. "You must really be desperate to get them. Don't forget, my master wants him alive."
The gravelly voice replied "We know. Theris will be able to capture him; he knows not to kill him. Besides, he will have others who will slow him down."
The other laughed. "You overestimate my brother. He will not care about them; however, the Uzamaki he will protect with his life."
His red eyes glinted in the darkness. Syrnon laughed.
"So you should target him…"
----------------------------------
People, I checked the stats. This story has more than 2200 hits. And 11 reviews. Now, not trying to sound pushy, but that is not a good record. And, therefore, I will not update after this until I get five more reviews that are not anonymous. Sorry people that do not have accounts, but then you could go in on different names every time. I will accept one anonymous review. If you read this, I want to know. I'm a beginning writer and I want constructive criticism. So yeah, leave me love and I'll getta hit my sister cause she said no one would like this story. If you have time to read, you have time to review. Come on, people, one word is all it takes to make someone happy. Most of my reviews are one word, good, update. It doesn't take more than that.
