Hiyas! Sorry it took me so long to post the last chapter. I was on twitter with the "real" characters from Naruto. It's very interesting once you hang out long enough. Well for the record, Sakura is the best twitter-er on twitter. Kabuto drinks and does stupid stuff. Sasuke is friends with Sakura. And, yes, Naruto barely goes on twitter. -_-

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Chapter 10: Caressing Dragon, Seducing Snake

Kantu dashed though series of trees. Nikita became worried that she would never make it out of the forest. The tiger stopped of a minute to sniff the air. He ran to his left and searched for the fire border. "Don't tell me we're lost," she said. Kantu stopped and stared blankly to the ground. "Grr! We're lost are we?!" Nikita exclaimed. The tiger slowly nodded his head. "Kantu, what happened?! You were supposed to lead us to the border!" she yelled. "The sacred dragon dance wore the scent off so I'm afraid that we're stranded here. Partially, it's your fault that we're lost." "Okay, I didn't know it was going to happen. Just try to find a way out, all right?" Kantu sprinted through the trees to find the border. Orochimaru had a feeling that they were trapped in a genjutsu. The scent was completely off and the trees looked the same. Nikita couldn't detect the difference because she not a ninja like himself.

Five hours has passed and there was no luck of finding the border. Kantu became exhausted of running. Then he collapsed knocking Nikita and the former leaf shinobi off his back. Nikita got up and went over to the panting tiger and looked at him. "Kantu can't continue on until he gets his energy back. I guess we'll have to camp here." She heard the tiger growl in a low noise. The half angel petted him. "We have to stay here for now. You don't have the energy to keep running." She clamber up a tree closest to her and rested on a branch. Well, there are three of us: a ninja, a princess that is a half angel, and a tiger. I better keep an eye around here if Kintara plans to ambush us while we're asleep. Nikita spotted a full moon in the dark sky. She loved looking at the moon so much. Wow! It's so pretty from here. No matter what world I'm in, the moon always stays the same. The dragon princess realized that someone was behind here. She knew who it was. "If you planning to talk me out of coming down this tree then you're wrong," she sighed. Orochimaru came around and sat next to her. "I didn't know that you were intuitive also." Nikita glanced towards him. "There are a lot of thing you don't know about me. And besides, I come from a royal dragon heritage." He became amused that Nikita was a princess. "So you're a princess, then?" he asked. The half angel smiled at him. "That's right. I'm the dragon princess of the Forest Realm. I wasn't aware at first, but then Kamma told me and trained me." Then Orochimaru detected what she said earlier. "You're not from around here, are you?" Nikita didn't respond. "I knew it! She's from somewhere else other than here." The half angel glumly looked at him. "You should be aware that I'm from a different world, Orochimaru. My companions we sent here by accident, no thanks to Nasake. To top it off, I can't leave this world because of the portal sickness." She looked up to the sky. "The sickness won't wear off until six months has passed. If I try to go into the portal, my body will become too fragile and I'll stay here forever." The Sannin spotted the choker necklace she wore. The yin-yang symbol with a white three-toed dragon foot and black pads on the inside. A girl who wears an unusual necklace? What its purpose? Nikita pulled her hair from the back and ran it through her fingers. "What's that necklace you're wearing?" the Sannin asked. She never knew that someone like him could ask her about her necklace. "Um, it's my yin-yang mood necklace. It helps me from transforming into a tiger so easily. It's an animal trait from my ancestors. This necklace of mine is very accurate so it'll detect how I'm feeling. It's very annoying when you have to wear it at ALL times." Nikita felt him hand touching hers. She turned around and saw his face close to hers. "Aw, Orochimaru. Kantu's here, you know. What if here sees us here?" Darn, this angelic beauty has gone too far! Probably if I turn back into my normal self, he won't be all over me. Just when he was going to kiss her, he heard Kantu roar. Kantu can't talk to any humans except anyone who has a tiger trait. The tiger roared several times. "Come on down here, you two!" Kantu said in his mind. "It looks like Kantu wants us to come down," the dragon princess suggested. She hoped off the branch and landed on the ground. "He hasn't tried to do anything to you, has he?" Nikita sighed. No, Kantu. He hasn't tried to do anything to me other than trying to make out. He laughed nervously in a form of a growl. "Seriously, Nikita? He's trying to make out with you? Orochimaru is thirty years older than you." Shut up, Kantu.

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(Konoha)

Nasake nervously passed back and forth thinking about the battle that might be going on. "Stop your worrying would ya? I'm sure Kantu made it there to the land of rice," Kokoto said sweeping his tail back and forth. "This Nikita you mentioned? She is a marvelous girl, am I correct? It's been four years since we've seen her." Blaze couldn't take the talking from Kokoto knowing he's the only tiger that can talk. "She's a real beauty. You should go out with her instead of that Sannin fellow." Blaze stood up madly and shouted at the talkative tiger. "WOULD YA SHUT UP ALREADY???!!!!!" The oversized tiger climbed down of the chair and walked up to the young tiger dragon. "You got a bone to pick with me, young lady?" Blaze scoffed at him. "The reason Nikita has to be together with Orochimaru…" Then Kokoto interrupted her sentence. "That's the name of that Sannin? Orochimaru? I think I've heard of him before, but where?" She growled in anger. "Would you let me finish my sentence, Kokoto??" Blaze calmed down enough to continue. "The reason she's together with Orochimaru is because she was forced to. It worked out perfectly. But when Anko told us about what was going on, that was the only choice Nikita got." Anko arrived home shortly after Blaze explained the whole situation to the large tiger. "Ah, you must be Anko Mitarashi the elite kunoichi Blaze told me about." The tiger went up to the elite ninja and bowed. "Blaze, I thought all tigers can't talk to people except to you guys," Anko's voice trembled. "All tigers except Kokoto who I don't get along with," Blaze mumbled. Naruto and Sakura came in along with two more people. One with a giant fan almost the size of Blaze's kunai fan carried on her back with a red sash around her waist and another with markings on his face, black clothing and beast-like eyes. "Hey, everybody! We brought some visitors!" Sakura shouted in a happy way. Blaze recognized those people. "Yo, Temari! Kiba! You're here!" Temari smiled. "Long time, no see, little Jonin. How are you?" "Nothing much exactly. You still gonna teach me how to do the wind scythe jutsu and ride on my kunai fan?" Blaze showed the sand kunoichi her typhoon kunai fans. "Maybe…if you promise to help me patrol the border at the sand village," Temari compromised. "The same old Temari as always. Trying to set me up with a quid pro quo," the tiger princess laughed. Then she hugged Kiba. "What's up Kiba?" Kiba laughed. "I'm training Akamaru. You're gonna love him!" The young tiger dragon's face lit up. "Can you bring him here? I want to see that adorable little puppy again. It's been a long time since I've seen him." Kiba whistled for Akamaru. The little puppy wasn't so little anymore now. The oversized puppy jumped on Blaze and licked her face. "Hey, Akamaru! I missed you!" Akamaru barked happily. "Blaze, I heard that you became Jonin at thirteen. Nearly younger than Temari when she became Jonin," Kiba said. Temari was shocked about the news that was spread two and a half years ago. "Probably I'll aim for Sannin so I'll be the youngest one," Blaze said. Naruto stepped in. "Too late. Anko became a Sannin at sixteen." She glanced at Naruto. "I'm still fifteen, Naruto. I got till May 18th to become a Sannin." Sakura petted the oversized tiger. "How cute! Is this one of your tigers, Blaze?" The tiger princess humiliatingly gazed at Sakura. "That's not my tiger. He's the independent leader of the tigers." "So you're saying that he's the real leader?"

"Nikita's the real leader of the tigers."

"Who's Nikita?"

"Nikita is a tiger queen and a dragon princess. So that makes her a queen of tigers but a princess of dragons."

"Wow! Do you think I'll have a chance to meet her?"

"If she gets here."

Naruto joined the conversation. "Is she a friend of yours?"

"Yes. And a sister to me."

"That's awesome! I wish I was like her!"

A white haired Jonin poked his head through the window. "There you are! I've been looking all over for you guys," he said. Naruto and Sakura jumped when they heard his voice. "Kakashi-sensei! What are you doing here??" Sakura asked. "Well, you didn't show up on time for your training." The pink haired kunoichi laughed awkwardly. "Well you did say you want to get back at him for being late all the time," Blaze recalled. Then Kakashi glanced at the young tiger dragon. "Blaze Taylor. It's been a while." Nasake became irritated every time people noticed his younger sister and her achievements. "Ha, ha, ha! Thanks for teaching me the fireball jutsu! I appreciate that very much!" she said. Naruto came up to his former sensei. "So what are you doing here?" he asked. The white haired shinobi sighed. "Just so you know I've spotted two dragons coming this way. One of them has a scroll on its collar." Blaze gasped in excitement. "That must be Nikita's dragons! They're arriving from the sound village!" She quickly ran through the door. Naruto, Sakura, and Temari soon followed. "I wonder what all the fuss is about." Kiba said to himself.

Outside the gates of Konoha are two enormous dragons flying towards the entrance. All the ninjas waited at the entrance for the dragons to land. Naruto, Sakura, Kiba, Temari, Kakashi, and the dragons saw unusual but yet familiar ninjas on the huge dragons' backs. When they departed, all the ninjas dismounted and landed on the ground. They were sound ninjas. "I can't believe the nerve of those sound ninjas coming back here!" Temari said in frustration. She took out her giant fan from her back. Blaze took out one of her kunai fan and opened it. Naruto and Sakura both took out their kunais. Kakashi had four shuriken stars between his fingers. Nasake realized that the scroll is on the silver dragon. "Hold on, you guys!" the tiger dragon said. He strolled up to the dragon that had the scroll and yanked it out of its collar. "I never knew I would end up back here." The blonde shinobi recognized that familiar voice. Sakura noticed it, too. The Uchiha jumped off the dark dragon. "………Sasuke," Naruto said in a low voice. "I can't believe it! It can't be….!" Temari gasped. Blaze charged at him and tried to hit him. Sasuke snatched her fan and hit her on the head with it. "Blaze acts just like me. And I thought I was the impatient one," Naruto said with a blank expression on his face. Sasuke held the kunai fan below his head and fanned himself. "Blaze…….which side of the fan you used?" Nasake asked. The tiger princess landed on the ground when she got hit. "Um, the right-handed one. Why?" When she glanced at the Uchiha again, he became drowsy. Temari didn't know what was happening to Sasuke. "Oh boy, this is not good." Blaze stood up and dusted the dirt off her clothes. "What's happening to him?" Sakura asked. "Blaze's kunai fans have an affect to whomever other than her touches or uses it," the tiger dragon explained. "The left-handed fan is covered in powdered poison and it doesn't come off very easily. The right-handed fan—the one Sasuke's holding right now—causes them to fall into a deep sleep. And if you guessed, the right-handed one is covered in sleeping powder." In a few seconds, Sasuke collapsed and fell asleep as Nasake predicted. "I guess Sasuke didn't see that coming," Temari laughed. Kabuto leaped off the silver dragon. "Hey! What the hell is going on?! Why are we here at Konoha?!" he shouted. Nasake forgot he still had the scroll in his hand. "Maybe this will explain everything." He opened it and read the note:

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The Dragon of Dark has infiltrated the sound village. I've sent Hakuune and Takuyo to send what's left on the sound ninja. Kintara said that she needed six people to resurrect Spellfire. As I feared, they already found the spark of life which means they're one step closer to resurrecting him. However, this can be stopped IF we find the two remaining orbs and destroy them. Orochimaru and I are riding on Kantu to cross the fire border. Hopefully, we'll find our way to Konoha. We'll arrive there in two or three days. –Nikita Starr

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Naruto snatched the scroll from Nasake's hand. "I wonder what it says." Nasake had a shock expression on his face and tried to take the scroll back from him. "Give it back! We need that!" he yelled. Naruto shifted in another direction. "WHAT??!! They are sending the sound ninja here after what they did?!" Nasake continued to take the scroll back. "Give it here!" The blonde moved out the way and continued reading the scroll. "Who is the Dragon of Dark?"

"You little—don't read that!"

"What's a spark of life?"

"Darn it! Gimme back the scroll!"

"Who are they going to resurrect? They need six people to resurrect this Spellfire? I wonder who that is."

"That's none of your concern!"

"Orochimaru's coming here???!!! And with Nikita??!!! That's just sick!"

"There're some things left unsaid, you stupid…!"

Naruto tossed it into the air and Nasake caught the scroll before it landed on the ground. "Thanks, Nasake. I got all the information I needed to know."

Sakura gasped in fear. "Orochimaru's coming here? To Konoha?" She balled up her fist. "After what he did here?!" She punched through a wall leaving a big gap. "He made us suffer enough! Isn't that enough for him?! When I see that bastard, he'll have me to deal with!" Then she stormed off. Naruto, Denn, and Nasake were scarred still. "Damn, what a scary girl. Sakura reminds me of Nikita when she gets pissed off," Denn said. "That's not the worst of it," Naruto said in a scared way. Temari went up to the sleeping Uchiha. "Anyone wants to bring him to the Hokage?" she asked. Kiba stood next to the sand kunoichi. Then Blaze stood next to her. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on! What do you think you're doing?" Kabuto protested. Nasake went up to him and stared straight at him in a serious way. "Listen up, four eyes. Both of our villages are in great danger. Kintara and her army will be searching for us. If we don't work together, neither of us will live long. Got that?" The tiger dragon backed away from the medical ninja. "Now, after we talk to the Hokage, we'll have things rearrange from here on out."

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(In the Forest)

Kantu started up a fire with a simple fire spell Kokoto taught him. He glanced over to his side and saw Nikita and Orochimaru sitting closely together. He couldn't trust him entirely because he saw his own master nearly killed. The tiger noticed that there was a low stock of fire wood. "Nikita, I'm going to get more firewood. I'll be back in a few minutes." Then he dashed into the dark forest. The Sannin looked behind him to make sure the tiger was long gone and kissed her. His kisses were hard to resist because she was gullible when it came to love or lust. This has gone too far. That's it! I'm changing back to a human! The half angel got up and excused herself to hide behind one of the trees. Nikita put her hands together as if she was praying. Then all of her angelic powers vanished along with the tiger sword. Her hair turned back to normal and her clothes were the same when she transformed. She had a shirt that had a long sleeve on her left and a thin shoulder strap. The pants went up to her knee and had a symbol on it. I hoped this works. She slowly walked away from the tree feeling nervous. Orochimaru turned around and gawked at her. Her appearance was more attractive than ever. Nikita was not impressed by the results. Darn it. This is not what I had in mind. The Sannin appeared behind her. She didn't detect him like last time. Nikita realized that without her powers, she won't detect anyone. She was helpless. The Sannin picked her up and jumped on a higher branch. "What are you doing?" she asked. He placed her on her back then kneeled beside her. He stroked her cheek with his finger. "I'm finishing were we left off at the sound village," he soon answered. The dragon princess didn't like the answer but she went along with it. She sat up and sighed. "I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I'm not in the…" her sentence ended when he planted a kiss. Afterwards, his arms snaked around her waist. She avoided going into beast mode because she'll lose control of herself. She lay down and started to moan. Orochimaru hovered over to her neck and kissed it. Nikita felt like the luckiest princess ever.

Kantu arrive short after with firewood in his mouth. He placed it on the ground and looked for the two people. "Dammit! That snake is at it again! I better find them." He dashed off through the forest again. In the trees, Nikita caressed while her mate did the seducing. Then the dragon princess felt her shirt being pulled upward. "Okay, this is getting out of hand." She got up dusted herself off. "Aww, but the fun barely started," the Sannin said. Nikita glanced at him and sighed. "I know. But there's certain rules I must follow. Clearly, we don't know each other that much." She tried to jump down the branch but she forgot she doesn't have her powers. "I'm going to need some assistance," she said. He got up and scooped her up in his arms. He leaped off the branch and landed on the ground. They both hear Kantu's roar coming from somewhere. "That sounded like Kantu," Nikita pointed out. They followed the roar of the tiger until they found Kantu. "Looks like we found the fire border, your majesty." Alright then. Let's go. She mounted his back then waited for Orochimaru to get on. When he mounted on his back, the tiger dashed out of the forest. I hope you're waiting for me at Konoha. I'm coming, you guys!

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Next Time!!!!!!

Blaze convinces the fifth Hokage, Lady Tsunade to let the sound ninja stay at Konoha in order to defeat the evil Dragon of Dark. Blaze suggested a temporary truce but what will happen if it doesn't help? Meanwhile, Nikita finally arrives at Konoha and meets the leaf shinobis there. To get to know everyone, Blaze suggested a non-gambling card game called ninja poker. When Nikita sleeps in the same room as the snake Sannin, Orochimaru, the lively romance starts. What would go wrong on one night of passion???? Find out on Chapter 11: Mischievous Mishaps and Ninja Poker-The Naughty Side of Nikita Starr!