Chapter 9 is up… Sorry if I kept you waiting. (^_^'
Enjoy.
{=Konoha's Fire=}
*Morning: after sunrise*3 days after planning to attack Konoha*
Sigma stood on the side of Mount Hokage, watching the citizens of Konoha go on with their businesses. They were like tiny insects to him, in both appearance and value.
'Soon, you will all kneel before the Akutsuki…'
The only question that he needed answering now was: 'Where is the nine tails?'
The original mission was to kill Sauske's assassin, but he's not going anywhere in his current state.
Sauske was like a god to Sigma, mostly because of his unique abilities and his Sharingan. Sauske's death was meaningless to everyone but six people, and Sigma was one of them.
He had liked Sauske so much, in fact, that he had nearly cried in his funeral. He had never cried before, and he never will; a simple fact.
Sigma chanted something in a whisper and his staff beamed to light. It pointed towards a direction that was South-Southeast.
'There…'
Sigma descended the cliff by sliding down with his boots. He began to walk slowly towards the same direction, a hood covering his aged face.
*Tenten's house*
Tenten woke up to glorious sunrays and cheerful bird chirps. She rubbed her eyes and looked around. Then, she remembered everything that happened the night before. 'Neji…'
She was on Neji's lap the last time she checked…Had it all been just a dream?
Impossible, she felt every touch of his and felt his kisses. Then, he must've got up and taken her to her house to place her in her own bed…
'Tenten…You have got to stop doing this… You're only getting in the way…Neji needs to rest, he needs to recover from that near death experience…'Tenten kept reminding herself.
"Alright, no more kissing or hugging … just visit him for an hour or so and LEAVE".
That was like asking a fish to sprout little legs and walk on land. The weapon's mistress got dressed into her training gear and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. Along the way, she took a quick breather from her open window. Glancing outside she looked at all the different people coming and going.
What she didn't notice, probably because she had just awaken from her deep slumber, that there was a mysterious man with a hood on his head and a lightning shaped stick in his right hand walking to kidnap her friend and kill her lover.
At the Konoha hospital, Neji was still asleep when Lee stopped by to greet him after being away for three days on a mission.
'Funny, Neji would always be awake by seven… He must be really tired'.
Yes, Neji was really tired because he had been a bad patient by letting Tenten sleep with him when he was supposed to be recovering…
But how could he resist that beautiful kunoichi? There wasn't anything he would pick over Tenten, not even the world…
Lee placed a bunch of flowers in a vase and put the vase on the table next to Neji. He left and hurried to the Hokage's office to report to Tsunade-sama.
He passed by Tenten and they greeted each other, exchanging hugs and stories of crazy incidents that happened when the other was not present.
Tenten arrived at the hospital and checked up on Neji.
'Still asleep… Damn it, this is my fault. He's been having too many visitors at daytime, and at night he's been too focused on me to recover properly… What's the matter with me? Couldn't I see that I was hurting him…?'
Tenten decided that she shouldn't see Neji anymore until he fully recovers, for his own good.
'It's ok… only nine more days…No biggie'.
She looked at his seemingly lifeless body. He looked so peaceful and gorgeous. His face was to die for; A reminder of the smiles that Neji made at Tenten and her alone.
'Enough, seriously! Leave the room, Tenten!'
Tenten left Neji's room with a guilty feeling and a worried mind.
*Ichiraku's Ramen*
Naruto was having his usual Ramen-before-training meal, when a mysterious stranger walked in and sat next to him.
Naruto looked up, a string of noodle hanging from his mouth.
"Hi", the stranger said. Naruto realized it was an old man of around fifty-five when he removed his hood.
"You must be Naruto Uzumaki. I've heard a lot about you…"
Naruto smiled. "Yep, that's probably because I saved this village from Pain, the Rannegan user".
"I see… I've heard of that… I'm a pioneer looking for people to teach me techniques… Say; could you teach me the shadow clone jutsu?"
"Shadow clone? That's like the lowest level technique I know…"
"Well, you see, I'm not very skilled and I have to start with something beginner since I don't know any jutsu… So would you care to teach me?"
"I'd be happy to, old man", Naruto replied with a smile and thumbs up.
"That's very kind of you…" Sigma said.
'Call me old man again, weak one, and it will be the end of you and you're precious Konoha…'
"Alright! Let's head to the training grounds", Naruto exclaimed enthusiastically.
"Oh… could you pull me up?"
"Sure", while trying to grab the old man's hand, Naruto was stabbed in the chest with the pointy lightning like staff. On contact, the staff produced such a big shock that even Naruto was unconscious.
All around Sigma, people began pointing and gasping at what he had just done.
Sigma carried Naruto's body up to the roof of a nearby building and called upon his servant.
"Seth, I have the nine tails… meet me at the building in front of that ramen stand… Hurry. He's going to wake up soon, over".
Ok… kinda short…
Please review, that is all…
