yeah this is now the begginning of the Snow country / Haku arc.
First of all I want to thank ALL of you for your great review.
and sorry for the late and short chapter, i just felt a bit low on motivation latly
plus I couldn't update story in for a week. Some problem with the website.
Just a little information in case some of you wondered:
This fanfiction is actually the script basis of what I really planned for this Story:
A comic book (in the form of a webcomix). I just earned Photoshop CS2 finally. And I'll
use the free time I have in this week to, hopefully, finally start with the first chapter(or prologue).
but if I start working on this comic book, it will obviously delay my fiction posting so don't blame me for it .
The style won't be exactly the one from naruto so don't be surprise if the character don't look alike
exactly as original plus remember that the main character start when they are as old as they are in Shipuunden(or Next gen hehe).
well, here goes nothing hue.
"Hokage-sama, I think we have a problem" Said the ANBU the hokage had send to retrieve
the client that Team seven was suppose to handle. However, comming out of the room seemed to be two man worried, in distress.
One of them was tall and skinny and the other however was short and fat. They seemed to be wealthy judging by there cloths.
"What is going on now?" sighed the hokage.
'If this thing fail, Naruto's gonna kill me for sure' He thought.
"She's gone" Said the smaller man.
"Ho dear" sighed the hokage rubbing his forehead, while sasuke and Sakura looked at each other, even kakashi had the dicentcy to look confused. Naruto however didn't care much, he just found funy the way those two man were acting. The small and fat one, who also seemed to be the strongest of the two, was the most emotionnnal, his eyes were red from the tears he had wiped off with his sleeve before entering the office. The other one, who probably was one of those modern, metro sexual, a streight man, acting and dressing like a bitchy little girl, seemed to be stoic and a money worry type.
"If she don't come back before tonight , we're gonna have a humongous budget cut."
Said the stick-like man.
"You always mater about money you imbecile!" Said the cry-baby "It's not a matter about your dumb movie anymore it's about snow-counry's sake!"
"MY MOVIE IS DUMB?! you're gonna have it you little scum-bag" said the man taking a stupid fight stance.
"ENOUGH!" SAid loudly Naruto to the now fighting men. The killing entent wave he was spreading stopped the two men, and the people in the romm that didn't understood why the hokage was obeying to a pompous little boy, now knew the reason why.
He was a scarry young man sometimes.
"Now explain the situation please" said the blond young man with a much calmer voice now that the dark wave returned to it's owner.
"We are running a movie on the situation in Snow country right now. The Princess of Snow country Yuki Omeda, is making an important deal with a very famous bridge builder called Tazuna. "
"Our country of Snow is..."
"Sorry I'm late, did I miss something?" Said a large and muscular man, holding a bottle of booze.
The two sighed. "Yes Tazuna, our main actress is missing you drunk slug!"
"Ho, how sad" Said the drunk man. "She always run away, what else is new?"
"What is exa ctly going on?" Asked Kakashi, annoyed by the fight those three men have all the time."
The fat and small man regain his compsure "The situation is grave in snow country, our economy is going further and further down because we are cut of from the other country and a devil man is taking advantage of this situation to take full control of our land, overrulling the Princess who should be in charge."
"A man...Who?" asked Kakashi
"He is named, Gatou"
"Hum, gatou of the Gatou organisation, one of the ten ealthiest man on earth?"
The three nodded. "He hired some thieves while we were returning with Tazuna whom was working in a secluded place, a few milles away. Several men were killed and our princess was almost harmed. we managed to fight them back but we certainly aren't prepared for such situation. That's why we came here, to hired Ninja"
"But is it really a C-rank mission?" Asked Sakura "I mean, D-rank are only one rank lower and it is much easier."
"Sakura, rank mission englobe several different level within it, there is some higher level of D-rank mission than those we had had to do, and this is indeed considered a C-rank even though it is probably on a high level in it." Explained Kakashi
"But I thought Rank was given by difficulty, in this one we can be killed"
"You asked for it. It is why we wait usually for genin to handle such mission. Or even sometimes, we wait for them to be Chuunin. plus a mission isn't always ranked because of the difficulty, there is other detail to consider. the number of person accompagning you and their rank, the time the distance the ennemy etc. Since I am a Jounin, it help you out, the snow country isn't far away, and our cliet hired us for one month which is, acording to administration, enter in the average length. "
"I see"But she was still worried, it was obvious, after all if the man was so rich, he could hire much more than thief it's obvious.
"Don't worry" Softly said Naruto. "If anything goes wrong... I'll protect you"
"But right Now we must hurry!" said the Tall man. "Princess Yuki ran away, she already tried during our journey toward Konoha, she blame herself for what happened to her country and to those who died during the trip."
"She probably isn't far, she's on foot and she isn't a Ninja, let us three split and find her."
Said Kakashi, giving his team the usual microphone they used when they have to split during a stealth mission, but still keep contact with each other.
"Wait here buddy" Said Tazuna "I mean, we lost loads of men during the trip because they got killed, that's why they hired ninja, I think you would do the trick but those are kids.. Wht do they know?" He asked showing the group of teenager with his bottle of sake.
"In case of emergency, I am a jounin, I can take acare of a ig threat, but please don't underestimate my team, even recent genin are perfectly able to take care of thief"
"You sure? I mean one of them is a pink haired girl, the other is a skinny kid who seem to be one of those emo teenager and this one he's just sh..."
Four hand shut his mouth on the spot before he finished his sentance. And eight panicked eyes looked at Naruto. The blond knew already what was about to come out of the man's mouth, a breathtaking killing aura spread in the room once again but, insead of the warning shot the first was, this one stayed and made everybody unconfortable.
Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura and Sarutobi released their grips on the old bridge builder and tried to
calm Naruto down, even if the man was about to tell him the S word the one word nobody tell him, not even the Hokage or his master Hiashi, even his father, as powerful as he is, would never risk himself with insulting Naruto of short-boy, the only word that make Naruto slightly incontrolable.
"Yeeees?" Said Naruto waiting for the man to finish his sentance.
"Hum nothing nothing, my bad" Sad the trembling man.
"Humph" The dark light in the room disappeared and they all regain composure of themselve.
"Alright, like Kakashi said, let us find the princess, you'll give us a full brief afterword" The blond said he transform himself in a swam of birds that flew out the open window.
"Holy shit dude" Said Sasuke shaking his head and glaring a bit at Tazuna. It was about to be a remake of the previous week experience, and it wasn't pretty to see.
The beautiful young woman with jetblack hair let her back slid against a tree to catch back her breath, not caring tha her fancy and beautiful blue kimono would get dirty on the grass and dirt.
She was sweating and panting and seemed to have ran for hours. She was a princess, Princess yuki, and was runniing from her fate. don't we all...
"Please stop!" Said a female voice coming from a fifteen year old girl.
Yuki looked left and right, wondering were the voice was coming from but with her dizziness, she
was unable to adjust her hearing ability and determine it. She wondere even, how she managed to
hear what the young girl shoot at her from distance.
The sweating princess however forgot that she could be confronting Ninja, and therefor she should have thought Tri-dimensionnal. A young Pink haired girl appeared from above and smoothly landed on the ground, close ot her.
"Who...Who are you?" the tired woman asked, half annoyed half scared. The girl was a ninja and she knew they weren't all friendly, depending on their mood or their client.
"Don't worry, my name is Haruno Sakura, I'm a ninja of Konoha, me and my team have been hired to protect you."
"Ha...ha...is that so?..."
"Yes, you don't have to run anymore, no problem will come to anybody as long as we're with you"
"Yeah?...but wha will happen..." She suddenly snapped and Sakura didn't have time to react, surprised by the strange reaction the princess had. "WHEN YOU'LL DIE?!"
The woman throw a sort of bomb toward Sakura and she bearly dodged enough to be unharmed,
yuki then pulled on a string, attached to her pinky and it unnrolled scrolls she had attached in the tree above them to trap any person that could come near her while she took abrake.
The object that appeared were hundreds of steel weapon, that looked like Kitchen knife for the most or some medieval sword sometimes. With the shock and the small burn sakura had already, she was unable to doge them and pittied herself for a small second as she saw her life run through her eyes.
She was too hung up on her fairytale fantasy that she didn't acknowledge the danger in a Ninja life. Just like most teenage girl she imagined a life of glory, of merry trip, romantic encounter, just like those lofve story she often imagined with a prince or a powerful clan, like sasuke was. The kind who was mysterious and strong, able to protect her. But he realised that being a ninja was accepting to defend yourself,
and now it was too late.
When she opened her eyes, the blurry light she saw for a small second, felt to her like the light people often talk about when they die, when their soul leave their body, and they enter a dark tunnel where angel askthem to come toward the light.
But she didn't picture paradise as a forest with hundreds of knife planted in either ground or trees, or flame still burning in the grass. At least their was the light and the hot guy. Wait Hot guy? YES
she was saved, Naruto had somehow transported her was now carrying her protactively.
"Ouf"She sighed.
"Are you armed? or can you walk?"
She blushed furiously, she was close to his face now since he slightly bend down in order for her to hear him clearly in case she was indeed in pain.
"I..I'm alright...How did you find me?"
"I promised I'll protect you didn't I?"
She nodded witha happy smile.
"Princess Yuki, My name is Uzumaki Naruto, you'll come back with us to konoha." Said Naruto advancing. toward the princess.
"I won't! It's useless don't you understand?!" She yelled and started to run toward Naruto with one of the long knife she had picked up from the ground.
Naruto avoid her blade but didn't herm her, walking backward back to sakura. Yuki made a flip to a safe position, took a second knife to help her in her battle and ran toward the two again.
"What are you doing?!" Asked Sakura
"She's a girl...I don't hit girl"
'CRAP!" Sakura thought, t was really good time to be a gentleman, with a crazy woman running toward them with swords and the dispitful desire to have all of the metallic object in the aera go through their skin at the moment. It was up to her to do something, she didn't listen to her innerself right now that yelled at Naruto "FOR CHRIST SAKE IT'S HITTING A GIRL OR DYING FOR F SAKE Go d getting it extracted by a surgeon!"
'Right...' Was the pink haired girl only comment on her innerself behavior.
But before she could think of something, Naruto act.
He grabbed sakura's wrist. And quickly directed her fist toward Yuki's face, punshing her in the nose.
When princess yuki was on her knee, massaging her sore nose, Naruto took sakura's foot and used it to knock out the princess witha good kick between her head and neck.
"PRINCESS" Yelled the skinny man and fat one. One had dollar in his eyes the other tears of joy.
Naruto calmly put the body of the princess down, she had woken up during the trip so Naruto had to
shut her mouth and tied up her hands and feets with ropes.
Even thought she could barely move, she tried to jump out the window but naruto, witha swift move of his hand, made her fall backward again.
"Does she have to have both legs when going back to snow country or I can chope them off right now?"
He calmly asked as if it was just a part of an object they need to get reed of to have less weight on a sinking boat.
"NO!" Yelled both man at the same time but not in frustraction. It was in fear that he would actually do it. ------
After and argument, they agreed to let the princess attached until she agreed to behave and not runaway again. The now small crew made of less than ten man plus Tazuna, the skinny and fat man, were under the close guarding of team seven and their teacher.
The fat man named Han was explaining the situation in snow country.
"Since gatou came to us, with his thief, our economy went down to nothing. He took away all the jobs takinga 100 of everybodies business. Thei only hope was to gather in their town of Zeibon where even gatou was scared to go, even though he is a crazy billionaire he is still superstisious.
At firstit was fine, we were able to make hands meet but, hardly to know why, Snow country lost his name"
"What do yo mean? asked Sakura curious by the strange way of the man to end his story.
"Snow country is called that way because centuries ago, there was nothing but snow in the country,
said snow was the power of the gods and every plantation vegetable animal etc, were mostly florious when in the snow and cold weather.
Exept that suddenly, the climat became dry, the snow left and it was the beginning of our fall.
As I said our food our drinks, everything that was vitale to us, started to disappear. Nothing could be sold nor could be bought, crime started to rise, people were fighting for the last bit of reserve their was.
Since our town is on the edge of the largest lake in snow country, and the we couldn't go outside our walls because of Gatou, we had to find a way to cross the lake. And without our ship, the only solution was to build a large bridge that would connect us with land far away and balance back our fate..."
While listening to the story, Kakashi sasuke and even sakura took a suspiscious look at the puddle on the ground on their way. It didn't rain for several day now, it was strange to see such a vivid pool of water here. Yet they continued their road, giving little feeling about it.
Two ninja emerged from the puddle and encircled Kakashi with their blade chain, cutting him in a million of pieces before everyone's eyes.
"The strongest is gone, now to the other. " the said in perfect unison, like two clones or two twin, yes, the Twin assination unit was their name and the two of them made only one.
Sasuke boldly attacked them and seemed to be going well at first using his kunai to trap their chain, but they were fast and their team work was really good, he could easely beat one but was having trouble to see his shadow everytime.
He however was fast enough to block the kick that was about to blow him right in the face
and made a flip to get in a safer position.
"he mean nothing" said one
"...the princess is our goal" said the second.
They both looked at sakura who put herself in front of the princess and Tazuna.
A maniac smirk obviously appeared on the brothers face. Even though their mouths was blocked by their masks, the grin was obviously shown on their eyes.
"But trouble will be deal with" they both said, approaching at fast speed the pink and unexperienced Pink haired girl, but she didn't move an inch, maybe becaus eshe was terrified, but nonethe less kept her kunai defencivelly in front of her.
SHING, the sound of a blade reached Sakura's ears. she opened her mouth a little at the shock and her eyes widen. a small amount of blood tainted her face.
Naruto opened his eyes slowly and took slowly his blad off the first brothers guts.
"Only one is needed for interrogation" he softly said.
Even the princess didn't try to run, fascinate and scared at the same time by the young blond man. The first brother fell on his knee, blood, intestine and other vital organ start to fall in his hands while he die slowly and painfully with a final grunt his head smashing brutally the dirt.
Naruto gave a strong kick in the second brothers knee, cracking the bone out of his skin,
and making him fell on the other knee.
He screamed in pain. Kakashi wanted to make a cool come back but he let it go and came back toward them slowly.
"Who hired you?" slowly asked NAruto in a deadly whisper.
He didn't answer. Naruto twisted the blade of his tanto stuck in his shoulder. He grunt to suppress a scream but it was too much pain and he quickly cried again.
"Tell me now" Said naruto not losing his temper "And I'll make the suffer go away and give you a quick death" The man seemed to give it a thought but Naruto knew he wounded him too much and if he wanted information, it was now or never, for the man was about to lose his mind or consciousness quickly. So he gave another small twist to wake him up.
"ALRIGHT, I'll tell you...it was gatou...he hired us along...Grrrng...along with a ninja and his partener, someone from the hidden mist GRRRAAA!"
"Thank you" whispered Naruto. He took the blade off and like he promised, quickly killed the man, chopping half of the man's off, just above the jaw.
The upper part of his skull rolled on the ground and stopped at the princess feets who looked at the man eyes blinking one last time, a nerve reaction that can happen sometimes, like the shaking leg. She promptly fainted at the horrible sight.
Naruto sighed. "So now we also have ninja on our hands, I asked a better mission but didn't expect that much" teased Naruto to kakashi. Said grey haired man wasn't so cheerful about it, it could endanger the rest of the team who wasn't as experianced as Naruto or himself.
He grabbed the two man, han and Murai, the small and the large, by the collar and
Pinned them to a tree.
"You said nbought from us a C-rank mission, that don't inclued Ninja! my genin team got endanger by your lack of responsibility and could have died."
"We didn't know" mumbled Murai, his voice dying in his strangeled throat.
"You KNEW Gatou was your ennemy, don't you think a billion dollar man could afford any ninja?"
"Well..."
"That's Enough Kakashi" Said softly Naruto, using one of the Twin ninja's cape to clean his sword.
Kakashi was about to yell at Naruto, he knew surely that he was, with his background, able to handle such a mission but it was irresponsible of them to let genin just out of the academy to handle an A-rank mission depending on Gatou's motivation in the case. However the look in Naruto's eyes made him shut up and he let the man Down. He wasn't annoyed or anything he was worried and planning.
"Their economy is too little for them to afford anymore than C-rank, that's why they made
embelished the situation. Judging by the map they showed us, on their way back they were closest to the Hidden village of star but they are known to be pricy, that's why they came all the way to Konoha because we do have practical protocal for certain situation."
"You...you...how do you know?" Asked the princess that had woken up but was wiping the remaining vomit off her mouth that she produced after she looked, this time, at the brain inside the half head.
"I figured out since they gave us the mission. I shared my thought on the situation with the Hokage, he acctually had thought of it when he gave us the mission. "
Kakashi sighed. He knew the other wouldn't know why their team but it was bobviously because of Naruto, even though none of his teammate knew of his past, they could understand that much just by knowing Naruto's strenght.
"I see." He sighed again. "Well If you don't mind, I would like to let the two remaining memeber of my team to decide, now that we know everything, if we do continue our mission, judging by the danger it represent."
"Of course we continue" Said Sasuke with a smirk. An occasion to see stro,ng Ninja in action and test his skills against them, what's an arrogant Uchiha could ask more for christmas?
Sakura seemed hesitant. After all it was much more of a danger already without counting ninja as their opponent but now it was pratically suicide in her mind. But Naruto did said he would protect her and if she didn't ry to ba a real ninja, facing danger no matter what to complete their mission, she will never be one and never progress.
'ARE YOU CRAZY GIRL?!' Yelled her innerself but for once she didn't listen to it. She just looked at the reassuring face Naruto had and took her decision.
"We would understand if you don't follow us, I mean, it's not like our poor and dying orphan are any matter to you" said an over dramatic Tazuna" nor that we all have children waiting for us at hoem to give her back food and a smile. Or that my grandson and my daughter (that's their pictures here in my wallet) that will curse the name of Konoha forever, is anymatter to you, we would understand, after all we just saw that it was a dangerous situation that you couldn't handle"
Naruto prayed for the man not to fake a cry because it was already the most ridiculous act he ever saw. Kakashi and Sasuke sweatdrop ('is he for real' they thought).
Sakura sighed and smiled, a determined smile. "Alright...let's keep going"
Sasuke smirked, Naruto and Kakashi smiled warmly at her for finally facing her fear, and Han and Murai had tears of Joy in their eyes as they jumped around like stupid bugs bunny lookalike.
The princess however was anylizing the Blond kid who seemed to be more matured and experienced than his two teammate, but it was a pity she thought because they will all die just like... She bite her lower lips to suppress the awful memory of her past and kept walking along with the other that continued their road.
Here you go, the beginning of Snow country's Arc. Next time, Zabuza's attack.
I'm wondering if I should ad the decoding lady in the harem (from the episode 8 of shippunden) she's pretty hot. Just kidding.
Hope you enjoyed and keep on reviewing dear readers .