Path To A Legendary Kunoichi
By: TwinkleUzuki CodeName NekoKit
Beta'd By: EzzBomb2010
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Twinkle: Meh. I know I haven't updated but I am in the eighth grade and I need to prepare for highschool. So shut up!
Edit: (12-20-10) Hey guys. I changed the title and summary around.
New Title: What Forces Us Away Brings Us Togother
New Summary: What had torn us away from society brought us together.
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As Natsumi was jumping through the trees, her ponytail whipping behind her in the wind, she started thinking about the other Jinchuuriki. He had red hair like blood she liked to spill, cold teal eyes, and pale skin. She felt her cheeks warm up at the thought of the red-head. She shook her head to get rid of her thoughts and the pink on her cheeks as she neared the siblings. He's nothing special. I'm a Kunoichi! I don't have time to think about boys.
She felt the chakra signatures getting closer and stopped on the branch she was on. A few seconds later, the red-head and his two older siblings landed on the branch in front of her. "No time for introductions. Two of the Akatsuki are going to strike after all the mercenaries are defeated. I need you guys help defeating them."
"What about your teammates?" Kankuro asked.
"They're weak and won't be of any help. Now let's go. If they're killed, I'll be blamed." She turned around and jumped off, the others taking off after her. As they jumped through the trees, Temari jumped up next to her youngest brother.
"So, you going to tell her?" she whispered. Kankuro jumped up next to them.
"No." was the also whispered reply.
"Why?" the brunette puppet user asked. "I mean, she's pretty hot." Gaara glared at him and was about to retort when they were interrupted.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't talk about me behind my back." the blond said, not even turning to look at them. The three of them quieted down but Gaara whispered one more thing.
"I don't even know her that well. And she most likely doesn't even like me back. No need getting my hopes up for something that may not happen." he whispered. Unknown to the rest of them, the blond in front of them was blushing madly.
Damnit! We're about to fight! I don't need to be this flustered! she mentally yelled at herself. After a few minutes of silence, Natsumi stopped and they stopped behind her. "Alright, here's the place." she said. There were bodies and blood everywhere. Sai, Sasuke, and Kakashi had started fighting alongside with Zabuza, ignoring her orders. "Geez, I leave them alone for five minutes and they can't even follow simple directions." she huffed. She jumped up in the air while completing a quick succession of handseals. "Katon: Black Flames!" she yelled. The fire consumed a good portion of the thugs, leaving the burnt corpses and the smell of burning flesh in the air. She landed softly back on the branch. "Okay, you two," she pointed to Temari and Kankuro, "are going to help Pinky and Haku."
"Why can't we fight? You asked for our help!" Kankuro yelled. Natsumi smirked.
"By all means, go out there and fight. But I'm looking out for your safety. You wouldn't want to be caught victim in his attacks would you?" They turned to see Gaara grinning madly. "Besides, the rest will be over soon." The four of them jumped down from their position in the trees, landing next to the pinkette. "Oi, Pinky." The pink haired girl turned to her with a look of anger.
"What are you doing here?" she snarled.
"This is our mission. I just went to go get back up." She pointed to the three Suna nins. She calmly walked over to the crowd of bandits and her four comrades and made herself known. "Hey! Guess whose back?" She looked over at Zabuza who looked eager to attack. "You four, go back to the others." Kakashi and Sasuke gave cries of outrage while Sasuke stayed quiet. "I brought a friend with me. He's going to finish the job." They all looked at the red-head standing a few feet away while Zabuza cut through the bandits. His sand was swirling around him haphazardly. Sasuke and Sai paled while Kakashi's eyes widened. Zabuza raised an eyebrow as he stopped for a breath.
"What's so scary about him?" he asked in disbelief of three men being scared of a little boy.
"You know how you call yourself a demon, Zabuza?" Natsumi asked. The brown haired man nodded. "Compared to him, you're nothing. He and I are the same; real demons." Zabuza looked upset at the jab but when Kakashi whispered something in his ear, he, too, paled. The four of them quickly hurried towards the others. Natsumi glanced back at Gaara and nodded. His sand started to swirl around him more quickly, unsettling the mercs. One of the braver, or stupider, mercs spoke up.
"You little pussies scared?" he taunted, the others nodding in agreement. Natsumi shrugged.
"I don't know about them, but I'm not." She let her scythe where it was when she left before walking up to the one merc who had the balls to speak up, the other mercs parting as she walked by. She ran her clawed finger up his chest, under his chin. The guy looked to be about 26. He had shaggy brown hair that covered his left eye and a lithe build. Nothing special. "You know, you're kind a cute." He glared at her but he was shivering.
"G-get away from me you freak!" he yelled and swung at her. She caught his arm in her other hand.
"That's not nice. Geez, all I did was give you a comment but fine, if you want to be that way." She grinned wickedly and used her hand on his neck to rip his head right off his shoulders. His limp body fell to the ground with a thump. She jumped back. "Alright, Shukaku! Do your stuff!" she yelled. The red head summoned up gallons of sand before sending it off towards the crowd of fifty.
"Subaku Kyuu!" The sand wrapped around the last thirty mercs like snakes. A large lump of sand formed in front of Gaara as once they were all cover neck down with the sand. He put his foot on it and stomped down. "Subaku Sousou!" All the mercs were buried in the sand. Natsumi landed on the sand and grinned.
"Good job! But…" She ran through a couple handseals and ended in the Tora (tiger) seal. "Katon: Black Flames!" The sand turned to glass upon touching the intense flames before exploding into shards of black glass. "Don't worry. It'll turn back to sand if you activate your chakra that is infused with the sand." She turned away and started walking towards Tazuna's house. She noticed that Itachi and his fishy partner weren't there anymore. "Oh yeah, and the Akatsuki are gone." she added. Temari glared at her.
"So you mean we gone all worked up and they weren't even there!" she yelled, grabbing her fan to bonk the younger girl on the head.
"No, they were there. I guess they just left after they saw that there were two of us. Plus Hatake and Zabuza so not only were they outnumbered, they were outskilled too because we all together are at least SS-rank." Natsumi explained as she continued towards Tazuna's house. The old man sighed.
"Well at least Gatou's gone." he said. They all got up and followed the blond blood covered girl.
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Upon arriving, Natsumi kicked off her shoes and started to walk up the stairs. "Oi, baka?" Sakura called. "I'm taking a show first. I need to look good." Both Temari and Natsumi raised an eyebrow at that.
"It depends on why you need to use the shower." Natsumi said. "If you were going to use it for a good reason, like to cover our tracks and scent then be my guest, but we all know that you only want to use it so you'll smell good for your Sasuke-kun." Natsumi said, bitterly at the last part.
"Hey! Sasuke is a good ninja and will better than you'll ever be with training. So stop belittling him!" Sakura yelled. This time, Temari snapped.
"Will you do something other than complain about that Uchiha? Geez, that's all you ever do! One look at you and I can tell that you don't know how to do anything. Your fight with that other girl at the Chunin Exams was pathetic. At least she had some original moves." Sakura looked at the solo Suna Kunoichi with a look of disgust.
"I don't know what you're talking about, sand whore. I am a real Kunoichi. I have a hatai-ite thank you very much." Sakura said snobbishly. She was about to walk up the stairs, she jerked back harshly by something connected to her shirt. She looked back and saw sand slowly dragging her back to its master. She started to flail.
"Shut your trap, Haruno." Natsumi said coldly. Kakashi decided to intervene.
"Natsumi, I think that's enough."
"You shut up too. I'm tired of hearing what you think. Leaf's graduating standards are pathetic, just like her. Some civilians can do the Kimiwari if they try hard enough." Natsumi said as she descended down the stairs and stood in front of the captive pink haired girl. Her eyes swiveled over to Kankuro. "Tell me, what are Suna's graduating standards?"
"You must have at least mid-Chunin chakra, some medical knowledge, the Suna bushin, and five jutsu that are above D-rank. And each team must have at least one medical-nin." he said.
"So who's the medic-nin on your team?"
"I am due to my almost perfect chakra control with my puppets." Kankuro answered with pride. Natsumi looked at Kakashi.
"You see how pathetic you ningen of Konoha are? There's not one medic on this team is there? And since there isn't, it's putting pressure on my shoulders." Natsumi answered. Sasuke finally decided to say something.
"How is that putting pressure on you, dobe? We can take care of ourselves." Natsumi sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"It seems that since you people are so slow, I'll have to break it down for you." She looked at all of them. "The two Akatsuki were Hoshigaki Kisame of Kiri and the ever famous Uchiha Itachi." Sasuke gridded his teeth in anger while others gasped. "Konoha already hates me. Now image that we had to fight them, the two S-rank missing-nin, without the help of Suna. We wouldn't stand a chance. Hatake would be practically useless because Itachi-sensei is not only a full blooded Uchiha, but that he also has both his eyes and more experience. Even if we injured them, one of us would be injured also because of how pathetic you guys are. Sakura's illusions wouldn't do anything and the kimiwari would be the only helpful jutsu. And if you guys are injured and die of blood loss because nobody knew medical jutsu, then the council will blame me, even though it was their fault from the beginning." she explained.
"How do you know my brother?" Sasuke asked.
"He taught me things when I was younger. He used to be my body guard. After he left, I left." Natsumi said.
"Why?" This time is was Gaara who asked. She looked him straight in the eye.
"… You of all people should know why." she said before turning and hopping up the stairs. After a while of just staring at the stairs, they all looked at Gaara who took his gourd off his back and set it by the door with the shoes, Kankuro's puppet scrolls and Temari's fan. He looked back at them.
"What?" he asked glaring, making the Genin and Chunin shudder. Sai shook his head and smile fakely.
"It's nothing." he said as they heard the shower turn on upstairs.