Disclaimer: Nope don't own Naruto, and I never will. I'm only saying this because I'm at gunpoint. I do own Naruto…I mean I don't!
Story: Fem!Naru Minato tells Kushina to flee to Suna, if something were to go wrong in Konoha after his death. Because of this, somehow Naruto is raised in the Sand.
Set as an AU.
Spoilers: …Probably?
Warnings: The usual stuff? I mean, most people who read my stuff are repeated readers, so they should know…otherwise…eh…
Pairings: Yondy!Kazekage/Fem!Naru
Suna no Hoshi
Chapter Ten: Maligned Bridges II
Rasa had made sure to be at the Gate first, creating a clone and dressing him up in his kage robes. He kept his clone there, and traveled back to retrieve Tazuna (introducing himself as Tenoh). And then he was bringing him over to Suna's outer walls, where his Kazekage clone awaited with the newly christened Team BAMF. Besides Naruto, the rest of the team watched him suspiciously. He inwardly sighed at their suspicious glares, but ignored it for the time being.
He signaled to his clone, and it took charge and they were soon setting off from the village and starting their journey to Wave.
"Nami is going to be a long way, huh?" Kankuro asked curiously.
"Yes," Tazuna answered him. "Actually, it really is much closer to Konoha. Due to circumstances, though, I found my way to Sunagakure."
And while they discussed that, Rasa caught Naruto's eye and waved her over. She looked at him in question, but she did change her course and made her way to him.
"What's up, Tenoh?"
"Are you hungry?" he smiled gently at her. "I saved your takoyaki. I didn't get a chance to eat it, or even taste it, before I was called in to come on this mission with you all."
"Un! Try it with me too, Tenoh," Naruto grinned at him.
Rasa unsealed the bento box she'd given to him, and they began quietly eating together.
"This is really good, Naruto," he complimented her, not commenting and embarrassing her further about the red cheeks she sported. "Thank you for sharing with me."
"Naruto-kun," his clone called out, interrupting them. Both of them turned to the Kazekage clone in surprise, though Rasa for a different reason than her. "Why don't you come up here and travel by my side, hm?"
Taken aback and cheeks heating up even more, Naruto gave a small smile to Rasa before she jogged up and settled by the Kazekage clone.
What in the world?
Rasa was completely baffled, though he was sure the others were as well. Well, his team at least. Tazuna wasn't aware of the situation, so wouldn't understand…
In any case, he hadn't expected for his clone to call out Naruto like that, and for it to basically order her away from Rasa's side. The fact was, he'd created the clone for this mission (just like the last mission) in order for him to be able to spend some time with Naruto, and his clone would be able to do all the commanding and leading his position dictated he do. This was a surprising development, and he didn't know how to take his clone going outside of its "programming."
Still confused, he watched as his clone led the way and had Naruto by his side.
After that, they were probably at the border of the desert when they came across something…very odd.
Rasa didn't know if they were just stupid, or the heat had given them brain damage, because there must be something very wrong for them to use a simple genjutsu of where they hid in a puddle…in the middle of a fucking desert, with hot sand around, and the blazing Kami-damned sun beating down on everyone. And no way in hell of rain ever touching that area.
The Demon Brothers severely tanked in Nagi's estimation of them.
Although Tazuna was oblivious, the rest wasn't and they were all staring at the stupidity in front of them. Rasa felt a headache coming on, and he was quite sure that the others weren't sure of how to take this new obstacle in their path.
That was nothing to when his clone stepped forward and created a wave of Gold Dust, violently diving it into the puddle, dragging the brothers out, and whirled them around in dizzying acrobatics and in flashy movements that showcased the usage of his Gold Dust (with emphasis on the glinting of the gold by certain movements).
"What the hell is Dad doing?" he heard Kankuro murmur to his youngest.
"I…don't know," Gaara said, sounding uncharacteristically lost. "I think…he's showing off?"
"For who?! No wait, don't answer –I know –"
No, Rasa actually would like that answered. Because he wasn't sure what was going on and why his clone was acting like this and who the hell was he trying to show off to and –
"Naruto-kun, aren't they such silly idiots? To think they actually thought they could best the Kazekage! Hah!"
And then Rasa's mind shut down and he just became even more confused and out of sorts, and the others weren't helping any.
"Why is everyone confused?" Tazuna muttered, confused why everyone else was confused. "She's a pretty girl. Why wouldn't a virile man like him not want to show off?"
Rasa choked on his breath and twitched violently.
"It's not like that," he choked out, though he felt very faint and wasn't sure if he'd be able to stay conscious.
"Sure, whatever," Tazuna rolled his eyes.
"We…we need to keep going, Kazekage-sama," Rasa forced out, forcing himself not to twitch or clutch at his head.
"Of course, Tenoh-san. We should hurry on." Why was it Rasa heard a big, fat smirk in his clone's voice? "Naruto-kun, keep by my side, hai?"
"Un! Of course, Kazekage-sama!"
Truly, Rasa was at a loss.
After the Kazekage clone had knocked out the brothers and two of the hidden Anbu came to take them and head back to Suna with their new baggage, they took a quick break and then headed back out again.
They were heading closer and closer to Wave, but their travel was still a long journey. Several times they'd had to camp out, and there were many breaks they had to take. Like right now, though they were getting close to Wave, they decided to take one final break in a neighboring village just out-skirting the country of Wave.
Naruto had found a ramen stand and had gleefully bought three huge bowls to go, and had been wandering around for a space to eat her ramen peacefully, when she'd been caught off guard by the approach of the Kazekage.
"Naruto-kun, I see you've found a place to feed your ramen addiction," he teased, causing her to turn red.
Shoot, she hadn't even known he knew about her love for ramen. And that's nothing to say about how he'd actually teased her…
"Do you mind if I walk with you?" he asked, and she embarrassingly stuttered out her agreement.
They started walking, and though she was rather tense about walking with the Kazekage, she strangely felt comfortable and at ease.
"I was just going to find a place where I could sit and eat my ramen," she told him suddenly, bringing up her original plans.
"There's this lovely garden I passed by earlier. Would it suffice?"
Her face seemed to be permanently on high heat. "Y-yes. It sounds like a great place."
He led the way and she followed at a sedate place, still feeling like this whole thing was rather surreal. Once at the garden, she zeroed in at a perfect spot, where she sat down and went straight to digging into her food. The Kazekage sat down next to her, a little more calmer and much more dignified, but she couldn't help notice how close he was to her.
She couldn't believe how flustered she was getting, over such a simple thing.
"So Naruto-kun, I've heard such great things about you," the Kazekage was suddenly speaking.
She shyly smiled at him. "I-it's all nothing really."
"So modest! But I believe that they're right. You're really special, aren't you, Naruto-kun?"
Naruto was sure her face was going to stay red forever at this point.
The Kazekage leaned closer to her, so close that Naruto could see his dark brown eyes from underneath his kage hat and the only thing that wasn't concealed by his veil. She knew she was blushing horribly, more so when he tuck a stray strand of her hair behind her ear.
"But you are special. You are very special, Naruto-kun. In fact, you are so very special to me."
Naruto seized up and stared at him with wide eyes. He gently tapped her nose, before running his hand through her short hair affectionately.
"Enjoy your food, Naruto-kun. I will see you later," he said before leaving her behind.
The others couldn't understand why she seemed so dazed and out of it later, when she came back and was in their presence again. Although, when she glanced at the Kazekage, she turned a bright red that baffled everyone.
Rasa frowned and glanced suspiciously between his clone and Naruto.
They made great time and was in Wave, and Tazuna had no problems leading them to his house quickly. There, they got started on planning.
"We should scout and evaluate the area, see what the situation is," Rasa suggested. He glanced at his clone with a frown.
"I believe Naruto-kun is brilliant with her clones? Perhaps she should make an army of them, and have them henged as villagers. That way, we can have a better understanding through undercover and stealth. Gaara can scout from the sky, using his sand," his clone added smoothly.
"Kankuro-kun," Rasa added the odd attachment to his son's name, "and Baki-sensei should stay here and set up traps, protect Tazuna and his family, while the rest of us are gone. It wouldn't do for us to all be gone, and leave them unprotected."
"Okay, but no explosive traps?" Kankuro made sure.
"No explosions," Rasa gave him a stern look.
The group as a whole, even Baki, looked disappointed. He raised an eyebrow at Baki, who pointedly looked away. The team was rubbing off on the man…
"Naruto and I should go see if we can find Gato's main holdout," Rasa suggested next.
The Kazekage clone didn't answer, and he looked in surprise at it. "…Yes…That is…a sound idea," it finally said reluctantly. No one else seemed to notice, but it was still odd to Rasa.
With one last glance at his clone, he herded Naruto out and missed the darkening eyes of his clone watching them leave closely.
It actually didn't take too long to find Gato's main place of residence, if simply because the man was ostentatious and his place showed it as well. Even in the middle of a forest, the man had no sense of decorum or secrecy.
Rasa scoffed. "The man obviously has an inflated sense of ego."
"Can I make it go boom, Tenoh?" Naruto asked cheerfully.
Rasa sighed and flicked her forehead. "No. No boom. At least not yet," he added reluctantly.
She beamed at him.
When they finally got back, the whole group began to make their plan of attack. They decided on continuing to plan on a decisive move at the end, at the same time as they began to weasel out the more minor bases and make it look at first like accidents that demolished their buildings.
It was to their amusement and good luck, that the demolition was being blamed on one of Gato's minions who seemed to have become too coincidental in surviving each attack and being near when the explosions were supposed to occur.
Likewise, there were a few more weak-minded of the thugs serving Gato, whom they intimidated into silence, helping them, and giving them information. It was the main base that was looking like it would be much harder to infiltrate, due to the presence of missing-nin and since Gato was actually there, making the security even tighter. It was one of their intimidated enemies who had given the suggestion of an undercover infiltration.
"I can do it," Naruto volunteered.
Just as Rasa got ready to refute, his clone beat him to it.
"Absolutely not," it said firmly.
Though she hesitated in the face of who she thought was her Kazekage, she put on a determined face and went forward.
"I'm the better actor among the group. You can't go, especially since you'll be leaving soon for your meeting with the Hokage. Tenoh's gotta make sure we all follow the plan and keep us all in line and ready. Baki-sensei's gotta make sure to provide the right support for everyone, and can't go in to focus singularly on a job like this. All of you have distinctive features that will make you stand out, while I look ordinary enough and can explain away my whisker marks as scars or something. None of you can use henge because there will be actually ninja there this time, and if it was an option, I would still be better because my henges are solid and lifelike, and couldn't be easily detected or dispelled.
"Plus, I'm a girl," she said frankly. "A poor, helpless beggar girl –" and 'pretty' everyone else added in their heads, "will be more likely to get accepted in, with no questions."
"I don't like it," Rasa's clone stubbornly said, but Naruto didn't back down.
"I can do it," she pushed for it.
Well, at least Rasa knew that despite her strong devotion and loyalty towards him, she wasn't going to be afraid to back down for something she was willing to fight for. Which made him worry about future situations in which he wasn't going to be willing to put her in, or send her out to do or deal with –and yet know she was going to stubbornly argue that she was capable of it.
"Alright. But you must be extremely careful, and not put any risk to yourself. Abort when it becomes too risky," the Kazekage clone reluctantly agreed, and Rasa whipped his head to look at it, glaring full force.
Though it was barely agreed upon and not a true consensus, that was the plan for the moment and everyone had to agree with it. At least Naruto decided to take a full day to concoct and perfect the persona she was going to act on once she'd infiltrated Gato's main base. That plus she wanted to see the Kazekage off, since he was finally leaving them.
Nearing the time for his departure, with his Anbu patiently waiting outside, Nagi and the clone were in the midst of swapping clothes when Tazuna (of all people) barged in. The old man blinked and had to rub his eyes furiously, before realizing that there was indeed two of Rasa. That in fact, Rasa and the Kazekage looked extremely alike.
"What the –"
Rasa rushed forward and grabbed Tazuna, pulling him roughly into the room, before doing a quick check outside for any other interlopers. He shut the fusuma rather roughly, but luckily didn't damage the paper door.
"There's…two of you," Tazuna noted, rather faintly.
Rasa glared. "Yes, he's my clone."
"But…why are you posing as two different people?"
"Well, um," Rasa turned awkward, but forced out a brief (albeit uncomfortable) explanation. Kami, why was he even bothering to explain himself?! It was this stupid situation, he just knew it.
"…So Naruto-chan doesn't know, and you don't want her to know? But why? I don't understand why you're pretending to be this Tenoh to her, or why you're keeping the truth from her," Tazuna blinked in confusion.
"It's complicated!" Rasa refrained from throwing his hands in the air. He snatched his kage robes from his clone, and irritably shoved them on. "You," he directed towards his clone. "Remember you're Tenoh now. Don't let her know we're the Kazekage." And then he turned to Tazuna with a glare. "And you don't let her know either!"
He led the way out, his clone nonchalantly following and Tazuna trudging behind and still feeling confused. Outside, he was greeted by the others. He exchanged quiet goodbyes, taking one last look over the group (lingering a little on Naruto), before he led the departure, his Anbu loyally following after him.
He left behind an odd group, who made it through the day on a rather stilted atmosphere. It was like that, even during the evening.
Naruto was quietly eating her dinner, still pondering about the strange exchange she'd had with the Kazekage. All around, the dinner was sober and no one was talkative, although Tenoh had been acting rather odd and kept glancing at her with unreadable looks. She didn't know what his problem was.
She mentally shrugged. Whatever. She'd just have to tease him about his behavior after the mission, or when she saw a good opportunity to sneak it in.
Other than that, Naruto really hadn't expected for anything to happen, until the little one at the table burst out angrily.
"Why are you all even trying? It's obvious Gato's going to win and you are all going to die!" the kid, Inari if she remembered correctly, screamed at them.
Gaara merely glanced at him, before ignoring him and focusing on eating. Kankuro bristled, but before he had a chance to blow up, Naruto was already moving.
No one had seen her move clearly, but she was at her seat and then suddenly she was in front of Inari, who had braced for a hit and yet only to find he was being embraced warmly by Naruto, who had kneeled down and comfortingly rubbed her face against his.
"Inari-kun…" she murmured, eyes closed. "If we only lie down in defeat, then what is life worth? Have the sacrifices made become in vain? Do we not honor those sacrifices then? Fighting comes with a price, but so does dishonoring the dead. We must not linger and feel despair forever, for we will just be as dead as those who have died.
"Inari, live so the dead can be proud. So your father would not have died for nothing, for you had been everything to him."
She moved back and smiled softly at him, taking his head into his hands and tilting it back. She brushed back his bangs, and gently kissed his forehead. Without another word, she gracefully stood and gave him one last tender smile, before leaving him.
Inari stayed frozen, unheeding to Gaara looking at him and then watching the exit that Naruto had left through, while Kankuro gaped in awe and wonder at where his teammate had left. Baki merely shook his head, idly thinking that this wasn't actually a real "princely" moment from their resident "Desert Prince," but something rather genuine from the actual article.
Nagi's clone had watched closely the entire time and when she'd left, it had stared at the exit intensely before it decidedly stood up and then followed after.
Naruto hadn't thought anyone would follow her, but she was taken aback (only oddly that it was just slightly) to see that Tenoh had followed her out. He was solemnly watching the sky as he stopped next to her, and she tilted her head as she shifted a little on the dock she'd taken to sitting on.
"You're a strange little thing, aren't you?" he surprisingly came out with.
Naruto raised her eyebrows and smirked a bit. "I guess I am."
His lips twitched up. She was about to say something else, when he ducked down, his hand gently taking hold of the side of her face, and the next thing she knew he was kissing her. His lips lingered on hers for a moment, before he pulled away and his dark brown eyes looked mischievously at her, while a smile played on his lips.
"You fascinate me," he confessed, looking and acting much more seriously.
His hand fell away from her face and then he was walking away and back towards Tazuna's home.
Naruto stared after him, feeling utterly lost.
It was time for Naruto to leave and try to infiltrate Gato's main base, hopefully "enlisting" with no trouble. She ate breakfast with everyone else, cheerfully helped Tsunami out, and then she was saying quick goodbyes and exchanging good luck's with everyone before she was leaving.
She'd made it at least a mile away before Tenoh caught up with her.
She stumbled on a jump, before balancing herself and then leaping to the group and awkwardly looking at him.
"You didn't say bye to me," one side of his mouth lifted slightly.
She gave an embarrassed laugh. "I, uh, was in a hurry and couldn't find you."
"I was within your range the entire time," he said wryly.
"Er, I didn't notice you?"
He trekked a bit closer, stopping right just in front of her. He leaned forward and draped himself loosely over one of her shoulders, and she froze up.
"The sun goes up and the sun goes down, I drag myself into the town. All I do I wanna do with you~" he breathed into her ear the odd tune, unhurriedly nuzzling her neck.
He languidly leaned back, face still close to hers as he grinned lazily at her.
"Mikan-hime, come back safely, ha? I'll be waiting for you."
He finally moved away from her and took a step back. She watched him rather dazedly, before she numbly began her journey to Gato's base once more.
Naruto stopped just before Gato's base, making sure her chakra was still suppressed. And then she changed into ratty clothing, dirtied her face, and stumbled into the clearing around the base, looking confused and out of it.
"Hey, little girl. What the hell are you doing here?"
She turned and saw a couple thugs guarding the entrance and looking at her warily. Naruto gave a beatific smile at them, feigning shyness and happiness. They immediately looked dazed.
"Oh! I've finally found this place. Please! Let me work here! I'll do anything!" she watered her eyes for good effect, and pouted her lips a bit. She even subtly shifted her shoulders a bit, letting her shirt fall and expose a shoulder.
They straightened up and grinned widely, though they leered a bit at her.
"Don't worry, pretty little girl. We can get you a job easily," one of them bragged.
In no time at all, she was brought before Gato. Keeping composure, she kept smiling ignorantly, ignoring the leers and stares from many of the others they'd passed and currently was surrounded with. Even Gato had a greasy smile as he looked her up and down.
"You want to work here, you say? How'd you even find this place?" Gato was still a bit leery.
No matter. Naruto upped her bright smile, playing up the naivety and sweetness. "My family is really in trouble. We need money and work is really hard on us. I heard you were hiring and I tried really, really hard to find you! I searched the town, but I didn't get nothin'. And then someone said you lived in the forest, so I spent days and days looking for you! I was really lucky! I promise I'll work hard, Gato-sama!"
Gato grinned rather lasciviously. "Gato-sama, eh? Yes, of course there's work for you here!"
"Really? Yatta! I can do anything! I can even be a bodyguard. I'll protect you with my life, Gato-sama!" Naruto pumped a fist into the air.
Gato laughed raucously, and smiled patronizingly at her. "Bodyguard, eh? Of course, of course. Zabuza! Why don't you show her to the kitchens? She can start there for now. After all, there's plenty of things she can do for us."
Naruto kept smiling, giggling a little too.
Really, it was all too easy.
A tall man with bandages around his mouth came forward, glaring at Gato before turning towards her with a smirk barely visible under those wraps.
"Come on then, girl. Follow me," he said gruffly.
She happily skipped after him.
At the kitchens, they were joined by a rather pretty boy, who was dressed in traditional clothing.
"Haku! This is…uh, who the hell are you, kid?"
"Naru~" Naruto sing-songed, grinning widely.
Haku gave her a small wave, to which she beamed happily at him.
"So, Naru, what's for dinner? I'm hungry!" Zabuza whined.
Naruto sweatdropped. For a missing-nin, he was kinda whiny…
"Zabuza-sama…" Haku sighed.
Well, at least she was part of the group now.
"Ho! That's an awesome sword!" Naruto exclaimed, finally noticing the big ass banryuu on Zabuza's back (now that she wasn't busy focusing on getting into that place).
Zabuza preened. "This? Of course it is!" he whipped out his banryuu and postured with it. "My dear, this Kubikiribouchou. Isn't she a beauty? I named her Hana-chan! 'Cause she's as pretty as a flower. Aren't you, my pretty?" he cooed at his sword.
Haku sighed again, though he watched his master fondly. Naruto was actually agreeing enthusiastically.
"Hana-chan~ You are a very pretty sword~"
And so Naruto and Zabuza formed a bond over his sword.
"No, no! The kidney is much more painful."
"So? The heart is always the best! It's always gory, and gives the best explosive presentation. It's a classic! A fan fave!"
"Baka! Don't cater to fans! You must make the most of your kill or incision!"
Haku shook his head at the conversation he was being subject to. However…
"I would say aiming at the aorta, preferably at the neck, is much more bloody and just as painful," Haku said dryly.
Zabuza snorted. "It's not an organ, Haku. Don't be silly."
Haku rolled his eyes.
Naruto just hummed cheerfully, patting the pillow she was sitting on and of which very useful documents were under and where she'd hidden them after Zabuza and Haku had sought her out. She had an official layout of the other bases that they still hadn't finished off, how many people were employed where, what Gato was planning and had in the works, and a layout she'd made of that base. And of how she'd obtained that?
Apparently no one was going to question the silly girl, dancing and singing around the corridors, even if it was at odd hours at night, and even if she was most probably memorizing and noting everything.
When Zabuza and Haku finally left her (which was after he'd needled her into making him miso soup of which he was strangely craving for), Naruto created a clone, henged it into a dog, and grabbed the documents, henged those into a bloody and juicy steak, and tossed it towards her dog clone.
"To the others, my Dog of War!" she quietly cackled, although she was pouting inwardly at her inability to madly cackle aloud and of the fact, technically it was "Dogs of War."
However, it would be most suspicious to have multiple rabid dogs rushing about.
Her henged dog clone viciously growled with the bloody document steak in its mouth, before it set off violently running.
"What the fuck?! Who let the dog in?!" she heard.
She giggled to herself.
Next, she was back to rifling and pilfering through her usual places, when her eyes lit up upon finding some very exciting things she was eager to ransack. All the rummaging she did come to fruition!
"Interesting," she purred.
Who wouldn't want to obtain all of Gato's assets?
Within 24 hours, Naruto received word and she nodded to herself, grinning manically at the game plan. She was currently working on a chocolate cake, in memento of Gato, when Zabuza and Haku came in and spotted her.
"Are you guys stalking me?" Naruto teased.
"We stalk the kitchen, of which you run," Zabuza declared.
Haku clapped his hands. "Oh! Chocolate cake. I love it!"
The effeminate boy rushed over, inhaling blissfully. "First cut is mine," Haku actually demanded.
"Sure, sure," Naruto grinned. "I have one thing I need to say though."
Zabuza, who was sniffing around the cake but being glared away by Haku, looked up and away from the cake reluctantly.
"What, gaki?"
"Here," and Naruto tossed them a scroll, of which Zabuza unsealed and both he and Haku's eyes widened at the amount of cash delivered to them. "It's Gato's, but he won't need it anymore."
"Wha –"
"We're going to kill him," Naruto said matter of fact. "You needed this job for the money, right? There. He wasn't going to pay you anyway, so I made sure to get your share and double it for the double cross."
"You…" Haku started disbelievingly.
Naruto dramatically whipped out her Suna hitai-ate from out of nowhere, and tied it around her neck.
"Why are you telling us? You could have killed us and gotten our bounties, or taken us out for whatever reason," Zabuza demanded, narrowing his eyes at her.
Naruto blinked. "Why ever would I do that? I like you two."
Flustered, Zabuza lifted his chin and awkwardly tried to shift his body threateningly.
"Yeah, well…we're not leaving without eating this cake then!"
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Okay. Fine. It's in honor of 'Gato,' so enjoy."
Zabuza grinned viciously, while Haku looked smug. "In that case, it'll be my pleasure."
He grabbed a knife and began to happily cut up the chocolate cake earnestly.
When they were long gone, Naruto was happily still in the kitchen and finishing up the Satsuma orange cake she was baking, while ignoring the sounds of mayhem going on around her from outside her little sanctuary. When it was all over, the door to the kitchen opened and Tenoh walked in, whistling.
"You're just in time," Naruto hummed cheerfully. "I just finished! I made you a Satsuma orange cake."
His lips slowly dragged into a half-grin. "Eh, my mikan-hime made me a mikan orange dessert~"
She pouted at him and held away the dessert, to which he stole from her easily while gently tapping her nose with his other hand (it was kinda déjà vu…).
"Come on, Naruto. I've come to bring my mikan-hime home."
Started 7/30/13 – Completed 8/1/13
A/n: Ohhh, rebel clone! Wave is finished, and then we'll have some more original stuff. I hope a really long chapter makes up for a rather long wait (still proud that this hasn't gone on too long a wait yet –you should see how I can go for three years XD). So next chapter we have Nagi tell Naruto the truth! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and please review!
To Anonymous: Ohh! I love Riza. Right now, Naruto has short, short hair, so it's not shoulder length like Riza's to be able have her hairstyle. As for attitude, if anything, the only way she could be like Riza, is once she's fine-tuned her skills and a little more time in maturing about things. Right now, she's more like Vash from Trigun, a mixture of seriousness and childish goofiness, while also having a bit of Tenoh Haruka from Sailor Moon tossed in. Later, Riza's personality could also get mixed in there also. There's some action in here, although I'd say any actual combat action will probably be later on. I'm trying to keep the characters in character as much as I can, at the same time as goes along with the situations and also the new changes introduced :)
To Happy Camper27: Crazy humor is the best XD Thank you!
Omake! (The Genjutsu Tales: Part V)
Killer Bee stared in horror at the man. No music at all? Not even his precious rap. There's something wrong with him. There has to be.
"Yo! How can you hate my rap, you piece of crap? Imma battle you out, and lay the smackdown on your snout!"
Of course, just as he was about to start rapping about the cruel, disgusting people in the world, the takiyoki crime lord sneered and gestured to his hired jounin mercenary. But he knew about Killer Bee, jinchuuriki to the Eight-tails. He had no chance. Quivering on the spot, he cast a genutsu, the only thing he was really good at, and hoped it was enough for him to get a head start at running away.
Seconds later, Killer Bee was frothing at the mouth and whipping about.
"MUSIC! MUUUUSIIIC!"
Next thing they knew, a several stories high and wide octopus was wildly thrashing about and roaring crazily on the crime lord's front yard. They both gaped.
"I'll take the rapping! I'll take the rapping instead!" the crime lord screamed.
Started 8/7/13 – Completed 8/7/13
A/n: I don't know who's next?
Omake! (Naruto the Bandit)
"Ohoho! One more round!" Naruko sung raucously.
"And whosa meerily singing! And who ah dun –" the drunkards started from the start.
Haku shook his head. He hadn't actually thought she would fit in so well with this bunch, and yet somehow she'd managed to weasel her way in and become popular with everyone on base.
"Again! Again!"
"And whosa meeeeerrrilly siiiiiinging!"
Haku cringed.
Started 8/7/13 – Completed 8/7/13
Citations:
1. Er, not sure if this is verbatim or not, and it's really common, but...Inari's line about everyone trying and dying -original source ("Naruto) by Masashi Kishimoto.
2. "The sun goes up [...] All I do, I wanna do with you" line from "Cells" by The Servant.
3. "Dog(s) of war" is from a lot of stuff, but looking it up my subconscious most probably picked it up from "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare.
4. "Who let the dogs in?" line is referencing the "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men.