I refuse to put a disclaimer here cause everyone should be bright enough to know that I don't own Naruto. I'm pretty sure that's why this is called FANfiction.


- -Part Twelve- -


"So we just walk these people to that place?" I asked.

"Yep," Naruto answered for the hundredth time. Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi refused to answer my questions now.

"And then when they get there," I said, "We get back to Konoha and get paid?"

"That's how it works," Naruto said again.

"…But that's boring!" I complained. It was then that Naruto glanced at me. I had been only repeating my questions.

"Yeah that's the thing," Naruto said, his excitement for this had been dampened a bit, "We just escort this group to the place it says and we go home."

"Ok…are we even close?" I asked, not noticing how Sasuke's eye twitched.

"Sort of," Naruto said, "Halfway there I suppose."

"Are we going to stop if it gets dark?" I asked.

"Yes," he answered, "But we won't be stopping if anyone, besides the people in the group, is tired."

"That sucks," I said.

"And no, I will not carry you," Naruto said while taking a deep breath in.

Then there was silence and I could physically see Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi and even Naruto's shoulders relax a bit. The group in between us five was chatting away.

I sighed and scratched my leg where the weapons holster was wrapped around my leg. It took me a while to get that thing on, with Naruto as a teacher, but it was on at last. And now I wanted it off.

I didn't notice the other four tense up a bit and start fingering their holsters. I was just scratching my freaking leg.

Yeah then three people jumped out of the trees. They went for Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke while Kakashi stood and told me to protect the group.

Naruto made a bunch of clones of himself and started attacking the dude he was fighting. The guy dodged all his attacks.

Sakura was fighting a lady and they were pretty head on equals. But I sort of guessed that the lady was stronger, maybe not equals after all.

Sasuke was fighting another dude and looked as though he were winning. He had his Sharingan activated.

I just stood there with a kunai drawn, not really knowing what to do with it when someone was suddenly behind me, a kunai at my throat.

"Holy sht!" I yelled while accidentally elbowing him in the gut.

"I thought you were a part of the group," the guy said, "You wear no sign of being a ninja and yet you hold a kunai."

I had turned around to find myself being only centimeters away from this dude who was WAY taller than me. Yeah I sort of flipped out.

"Personal space dude!" I yelled while getting red in the face and kneeing him where…uh well he basically bent over in pain and I slapped him.

"You…don't fight…like a…ninja," the guy said in pain as he was holding himself…there.

"That's cause I ain't a ninja," I said kicking him in the stomach over and over again till he was on the ground, "You freaking perv," I said and shuddered as I continued to kick him.

That's why people don't get TOO close to me cause I start to uh…freak out.

He reached up and grabbed the foot I was kicking him with but I just slipped out my shoe.

"Give me back my shoe," I said as I hopped on one foot. He threw it…so I kicked him in the face with my shoeless foot and hopped over to my beloved shoe.

I turned around to see that Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke had already tied the people up and were sort of staring at me. Like they hadn't seen anyone fight in self defense…At least I hadn't used the thing of pepper spray on the guy.

That Gai didn't teach me much at all. He just basically made me run around all day.

"So um what are we going to do with these guys?" I asked while sitting on a rock, throwing a pebble the dude's way.

"I'll take care of them," Kakashi said and walked over to the guy I had been kicking, tied him up and took hold of the others, "You four carry on."

"Ok then," I said and we started walking with the group that was now dead silent.

"That was definitely different," Naruto said, "I mean your fighting style of course. I didn't expect you to be so…direct."

I just smiled nervously at him.

"Heh."


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