Brown-Eyed Angel1234: Good question. Yes, Sasuke was hurt in the begining. I can see how that can come up considering that he just carried Kaikia to the house. Well you see his arm is still hurt but he's an S-ranked crimional so he's been threw far worse pain then that. Plus he has it wrapped up. I will make the shoulder injury more appearent later on though.
sn1ck3rD00dl3: lol yes I was.
deviltwit: Yes I thought that would be fitting for a couple of reasons. 1. Sasuke when cluless is truly adorable! no denying it. 2. He's lived with crazed power hungry males his whole life and kills for a living. I'm pretty sure him and Itachi never had, 'the talk', or got together and talked about what girls were the cutest in the village they inflitrated. That would be just weird and way to Ooc for this story.
Brown-Eyed Angel1234: I'll be trying to update every few days. I'm on a cleaning and moving frenzy on Quizilla so thats why I haven't updated this one so much. I'm about to get back in to writing some of my other stories so it may take me two or three days to update depending on how my other stories are and what I'm doing that day in real life.
Kaoleth: No I didn't get a spellchecker. I send them to whichever of my friends are on at the time to do it for me! Thanks for understanding!
And as usuall thank you to everyone else who reviewed and supported this story! I'm glad you all like it so much!
Chapter 9:
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Five almost simoultanious impacts. Splinters and chips of wood sprayed from the towering tree as the weapons drilled in to it. From where the shadows of the tree leaves and the sun's rays met revealed the shimmer of small, clear, almost invisible strings tied to the hendles of all the kunai. A sharp tug and they released from the tree and in to the hand of the owner, whom at this moment was lying in the grass.
He shifted his hand back towards the tree and flicked his wrist five times. In less then a second five more impacts were made one after the other drilling farther in to the tree. A couple seconds later and they were back in the boys hand. This time the boy didn't throw them again. Instead he caught them and then spabbed all five kunai in to the grass next to him. His hand lingered on the handle momentarialy before releasing and laying on the ground next to the kunais.
'This mission is a dud...' Sasuke thought bitterly. 'There's no action. Everyone thats attacked us so far was kind of pitiful.' Sasuke staired up at the clouds watching them slowly blow by shadowing out the sun momentarly, allowing a brick moment of shade. Sasuke squinted his eyes. 'Why am I even here? What the h--l was the leader thinking. Assigning me to protect someone?' Sasuke glared at the sky in thought. He wrapped his fingers around the string and gave a sharp tug causing the stirngs to snap.
Sasuke stood up, swiping the kunai as he came up. "Time to check up on the troublesome trio..." Sasuke mubbled.
Sasuke slowly walked back in to the clearing where Naruto, Neji, and Kaikia were practicing their tree climbing. Neji was sitting on the ground meditating, having already finished this training. Naruto and Kaikia were still working on it. Naruto ran up the tree and made it half way before loosing his footing. Kaikia tried it after and got a bit farther before she too fell. Naruto growled.
"Why is this so hard?" he exclaimed glareing at the tree. Sasuke walked out and made his presence known.
"Watch it." He said to Naruto. Naruto spun around and faced him. He pointed a finger at him accusingly.
"Why can't I do this? Why am I not getting anywhere?" Naruto yelled. Sasuke, allong with everyone else, covered their ears trying to block out Naruto's yelling.
"Clam down. There's a reason why you aren't getting this." Everything was silent for a few moments. Naruto made an 'Are you going to continue with that?' gesture. Sasuke blinked. "Oh, you thought I was going to go on?" Everyone waited to hear his answer. "Nope, sorry. Your on your own now." Sasuke turned on his heel and began walking back the way he came. Naruto staired at him wide eyed.
"T-thats it?!" He yelled bewildered. "That's all you came here to say? Why bother comming at all then?"
"I just came to see how you all were doing. You know, make sure you weren't dead or anything. I see your not dead and I got my answer so now I'm leaving." Naruto's jaw droped. Neji growled.
"What gives you the right to judge us?" Neji barked. Sasuke ignored him as he continued further in to the forest. Neji stood up and followed the path Sasuke took.
"Neji, where are you going?" Kaikia asked seeing Neji walk away. Naruto watched too. Neji answered them without turning around.
"Don't worry about it. I'm just going for a walk." Naruto looked at Kaikia questioningly. Kaikia met his gaze and shrugged. Whatever was going on between Neji and Sasuke was way beyond her. They brushed it off and went back to training.
Sasuke switched his gaze to the young Hyuga trying to stealthly follow him. Sasuke sighed inwardly. This was pathetic. If the stupid brat had a problem with him why not just come out and say it? If he wanted his butt kicked that bad Sasuke would gladly do it.
Neji hopped on to another tree branch. He was pretty good, Sasuke would admit, but not that good. Anyone over chunin could probibally pick him out. Sasuke rolled his eyes. They were far enough away from the others now that they wouldn't be noticed by anyone. Sasuke stopped walking and stood still. Neji followed suit in the trees above.
"Is there a reason your following me Hyuga?" Sasuke asked sounding a bit annoied. No one answered. "I know that you are there. Come out now and spare us both the trouble." Sasuke's voice held absoult command. Probibally anyone that herd it would want to obblige. So you really couldn't blame Neji for slowly revealing him self. Sasuke turned to face Neji. A stoic look on his face. "So, why are you following me?" Sasuke asked. Neji glowered at him.
"What's your game Sasuke?" Neji barked. Sasuke shrugged showing he wasn't quite sure what Neji meant. If he wanted to know why Sasuke was helping them he sure as heck wasn't going to go out and say, 'Hi Huiga! I'm part of the Eliet Ninja Orginization, Akatsuki. Were just a bunch of missing-nin and I'm here because my brother and I were assigned, by our weird leader, to protect a bridge builder for no apparent reason.' Yeah that would help alot.
"I'm not quite sure what you mean..." Sasuke said carefully. Sasuke lowered his hand towards his consealed kunai poutch. He could sence Neji's anger and it was apparent that he wanted to fight him. Sasuke narrowed his eyes.
"I can see your hostility. It appears you are hiding something." Neji said smugly. Sasuke smirked.
"Hey, are you sure you aren't confusing that with your own? But if you must, go ahead and tell me what you suspect." Sasuke said. Neji watched Sasuke carefully. He noticed his hand unusually close to a pocket in his kahaki pants.
"If thats the case... Why do you want me to tell you? Infact what makes you think I would? So you can kill me if I'm right?" Neji inquired.
"Heh. Don't flatter your self. I can kill you if you don't tell me to." Neji scoffed at that line. With a flick of his wrist Sasuke picked up and threw a kunai at Neji. The blood dripped from Neji's cheek before he even realized Sasuke had picked up a kunai. Sasuke smirked at Neji's bewildered expression. "Because If you don't tell me what you know, I'll kill you for being a possible threat." Neji stepped back ready to run if the situation called for it.
"So I was right. You are hiding something."
"I never said that. I was mearly stating what could be done if you don't tell me what you think you know." Sasuke put an epmhasis on the word 'think'.
"Well... For starters, where's you headband?" Neji asked. Sasuke cursed himself mentally. He had forgotten that all ninjas have headbands! Even the missing nins had headbands. But Sasuke never graduated from the accademy; thus leaving him headbandless.
"I forgot it." Sasuke said. Really. 'I forgot it.' That was the best an s-ranked crimional could come up with? He'd have to beat himself for that. Neji looked at Sasuke sceptically.
"You forgot... your headband. What the hell." Neji seemed to only be angered by Sasuke's response. "The headband is a ninjas treasure. It's increadibly important and you expect me to believe you just forgot it?" Neji ran towards Sasuke at lightening speed. Sasuke would have missed it if it haddent been for the fact that he was Uchiha Sasuke and didn't fall for such usless things. "NOW TELL ME THE TRUTH!" Neji yelled, as soon as he made it to striking distance he started to use his clans techniques. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and moved back slightly making Neji miss by six inches.
Neji threw another blow but Sasuke doged it again by six inches. Neji kept pushing Sasuke back until he was backed up against a tree. Neji smirked, throwing a powerful blow. Sasuke moved at lightening speed poking a presure point in Neji's attacking arm. Neji's attack went unbalanced and he stumbled a bit. Sasuke kicked Neji's knee cap in causing him to fall. As Neji fell Sasuke jumped over Neji, making sure to jump on his head instead of over it, and push him in to the tree Sasuke was arecently cournered against.
"Ah..." Neji hissed. He pushed himself up. "What... How did you doge that?" Neji asked bewildered. Sasuke shrugged.
"Next time, don't make threats to those above you." Sasuke smirked appearing behind Neji. He placed an over sharp kunai to Neji's throat. Blood dripped down a bit just from the contact. "One day that person might kill you." Sasuke wispered in a haunting way. Secretly Sasuke glanced up at a tree close to the one they were under. He removed the kunai from Neji's throat and walked back to Tazuna's house.
Neji stood up and gripped his throat where the kunai had been previously. He was slightly shaking in fear and shock.
'If... If he wanted to... he could have killed me...' Neji thought. 'I think, I think he could kill us all if he felt the need.' "Even my Byaukagun couldn't trace him..." Neji wispered. Slowly Neji regained his composiure and walked back to the house.
The silver haired jounin jumped out of the tree he was hidden in as soon as both boys were gone. He looked at the area where the small fight took place. Some of Neji's blood was on the ground. If anyone tried to trace who faught here Neji would be the only one you could know was here. Sasuke left no trace behind.
Kakashi walked in the direction of Tazuna's house. Mabye... Just mabye there was more to the kid then he first thought...
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I'm so sorry it took me so long! I hope the fight was what you wanted! I couldn't make it to big though because Sasuke is mega strong and Neji is a twig compaired to him. Plus Sasuke has an Ideantity to keep here! But tell me what you thought. I had to give a little incite on the suspicions of Neji and Kakashi though. Make them aware of what Sasuke could be capable of.
But don't worry! I tend to make this a long story! I'm going to get to the next part soon! thanks for still reading! FIVE reviews!
-Kaikia-