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Inner person/Kyuubi: 'blah'
I know it's a lot to ask but can people please review? (Especially if you have any suggestions or questions) sigh it's depressing when only 3 people review for a chapter… I don't like begging but is it too much to ask for just 5 reviews per chapter…
Thanks to all who encouraged me to keep writing, I really appreciated it. I am sorry to say that this fic will soon be over, perhaps 4 chapters more. (I'm cutting some characters out, I'm sorry.)
Eyes watched her progress as she sped toward the hills. The form that belonged to the eyes rose silently and sped after her.
With a sigh TenTen to the tree covered hills. Her mind wandered, 'Shikamaru is right, this running is so troublesome.' She realized what she said and smacked herself on her forehead. 'I so did not say troublesome!' 'But you know it is.' Said her inner self smugly. 'Is is not in your, uh our, nature to fight? Why are you, uh we, running. We flee, but yet they still catch us! This should not be endured! You, that is to say we, are shinobi! This fleeing is cowardice!'
TenTen sighed, true it was unacceptable and she still didn't know why in kami-sama's name everyone seemed to want to chase her. Collecting her thoughts she said aloud, 'Very well, we shall get to the truth of the matter. I'm sure someone else is going to catch up eventually.' She shuddered, 'I just pray it isn't Gai-sensei…'
The figure smirked ever so slightly and continued to tail her. 'So I am to be the lucky one…'
TenTen reached the border of the trees and leaped gracefully up in their shaded branches. She hopped swiftly across and sat down to wait. She began to doze off when she heard a snuffling. Turning to face the noise she saw a very familiar white puppy face. "Awww! Akamaru, what are you doing here? Where's Kiba?"
Her brown eyes widened almost imperceptibly. 'If Akamaru is here than that means…' Frantically she scanned the surrounding foliage. 'I thought we weren't going to be running this time!' came her inner voice. 'Well change of plans!' thought TenTen as she continued her by now desperate search of the trees around her. 'You, and unfortunately, me are unworthy to be shinobi! Going back on you're word!' 'But, but it's Kiba' retorted TenTen to her inner self.
The figure watched the proceedings with a grin. 'I should put her out of her pain,' he thought. Kiba brushed the branches away and sprang with remarkable agility to the branch that TenTen occupied. "Looking for me?" he asked with a slightly perverted grin.
TenTen just knew she was blushing furiously. "No! What gave you that idea?" She picked up Akamaru and stroked his fur absently as she tried in vain to find a good reason for what she had done.
"Did you know your heartbeat sky-rocketed?" he asked almost innocently. In her distracted state she almost missed the perverted look on his face. "Your temperature also just hit sky high" he commented. TenTen could feel her cheeks turn crimson with her blush. She bit her lip wondering what to do. 'Stupid inner self! This is ALL your fault!' "It is not! It's not my body that's heating up is it now?" Thought her inner self smugly. It was TenTen's turn to be smug. "Well actually, baka inner self, it is your body."
Kiba moved closer, he was enjoying this. It appeared as if TenTen was arguing with herself. Now Kiba was not above taking opportunities when presented with one. He came close and rested his head on her shoulder and nuzzled her neck. She gave a startled yelp, dropped Akamaru, and instinctively jumped away. She blushed a deeper red, if that was even possible. "Gomen," she said to Akamaru.
Kiba was about to try again when he caught a strange scent. 'It was earthy, yes very much so,' he mused surreptitiously glancing around. 'No, not just one scent!' he worried. 'Several… there was the earthy one and a fishy one and a wooden one and one that smelled eerily like blood, and strangest of all, one that smelled like candy. That means there's at least five potential enemies.'
TenTen cocked her head, Kiba was acting very strange, for starts his nose was twitching slightly. She had just opened her mouth when he moved close and covered it with one rough, callused hand. "There are at least five beings around us." Just as he said so, a bomb burst directly below them. Kiba held her tight as they flew towards a tree. He swung himself behind her as they crashed into the giant tree. There was a sickening crunch as his body absorbed the shock and cushioned TenTen.
TenTen was dazed. She wriggled out of Kiba's arms, and checked for a pulse. With a surge of relief she felt one. She turned to find their attackers and gazed into a pair of red and black eyes. They swirled and she felt herself slipping into unconsciousness. She slumped against Kiba's still form.
"Can we keep her, Itachi-san?" said a figure from the tree line. The figure in front of TenTen hoisted her up and said, "Discipline him however you wish Deidara." He and the other three figures disappeared with a poof of dust. Two figures remained. One of them began strangling the one who had asked it they could keep TenTen. He cried, "Gomen! Don't hurt Tobi! Tobi's a good boy!" The one strangling just sighed and yelled, "Shut up, un! If you don't shut up right now you'll be a BAD boy, un!" The first immediately stopped crying and began whimpering, "Tobi's a good boy, Tobi's a good boy." The one who had previously been strangling sighed again and disappeared after the first few. "Matte!" screamed the one now known as Tobi and he quickly followed.
From high in the trees yet another figure watched. A single eye observed. The figure then proceeded to follow the first three and was gone without a trace.
From a vantage point on a branch a pair of Byakugan white eyes watched and narrowed. Neji, for it was he, turned and followed the ones who had left unaware of the single-eyed one who was now following the first five.
How'd you like it? Thanks to lehcar-light this was written. Thanks a lot:D
I hope everyone enjoyed it! I did try to make it longer!
Ja till next update!