A/N: Hi guys! This chapter turned out pretty well I think. Also, I had so much fun at the anime con! I met a person who had read my fanfiction, and a Kushina who said she would check it out *Squeeeee!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto bla bla bla. Toora was created with a friend from school, and Ai belongs to AutobotSeeker98.
Ai looked at her teammates sleeping faces, then back into the darkness. Next thing she knew she was confronted with enemy ninja. "Wanna hand over your scroll? Even if you wake the two idiots behind you we'll still win easily.
Ai grinned sadistically revealing her sharp teeth, "I won't need them to destroy you." She pulled her katana from her back and swung it leisurely in front of her. With speed comparable to a wildcat she was in front of the middle ninja her sword centimeters from his stomach, the only thing that protected him was his reflexes grabbing the sword. One of ninjas on the side of her moved to go after her twin teammates so she swung her foot and kicked him back at the same time as pulling her sword from the middle ninjas grasp. She then moved to the side where the third ninja stood. She easily could have dug her sword into the girl's side, letting her bleed to death, but she opted on dragging her sword down the girl's arm leaving her in intense pain while bleeding profusely.
While the girl was on the ground clutching her arm and crying in pain Ai moved over to who seemed to act like the leader of the group and smiled at him before thrusting her sword toward his shoulder. When he dodged she quickly maneuvered her arm to plant the sword in his thigh. He moved to escape that strike as well, but only managed to avoid the brunt of the attack, leaving him with a long cut. It obviously hindered his movements, which would have made it easy for Ai to finish him off if she had only been fighting one ninja. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the other male ninja dashing to over to defend his teammate. She cursed as she realized that the third ninja which she had been saving for last had bandaged up the female's arm, and was definitely healed at least slightly by medical ninjutsu. She couldn't be sure which ninja was the medical ninja, but it certainly made it more difficult to take all three ninjas, if they wouldn't stay hurt. She looked over to where her teammates had been sleeping earlier to see them sitting up and watching the fight. "Were you two planning to help?"
Akito shrugged, "You seemed to think you would be fine without us."
"Never stopped you before." She informed them.
"But we thought our little girl was growing up." Haruto teased.
"Shut up and help me," Ai finally ordered them. The twins grinned at each other and faster than Ai they had wrapped their arms around the enemy female's shoulders. They began to whisper quickly in her ear, and when one of the girl's teammates made a move to attack them they each put a kunai against the girl's throat. Ai remembered the first time she saw this she thought the boys were flirting. She saw the girl collapse into Haruto's arms and Akito leaned over and gave her a kiss on the lips.
Akito looked at the ninja who still seemed to present himself as the leader, "Will you give us your scroll?" He had a mischievous grin on his face as he spoke, "Or we could keep your girl here." The ninja looked from one teammate to the other, he pulled out his scroll and walked toward Akito. When he got close he handed it off to him and took the girl from Haruto's arms. "See ya!" The twins shouted toward the retreating ninjas.
"Idiots," Ai muttered.
"Aw, Ai. You know you're the one we really like." Haruto teased.
"Yes, because I was so jealous of that girl." Ai told them sarcastically.
"Then surely you also want my kiss?" Akito smiled slyly at her.
Ai rolled her eyes, "When pigs fly." Then her face took a more serious look "We should head toward the tower." The twins shrugged before following her toward the center of the forest.
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"Toora could you go look for something to eat?" Akira asked his quiet teammate with a smile on his face. Toora got up from the stump she sat on without a word, and walked toward where they had seen a river earlier.
Yoshi watched her retreating figure trying to control the scowl on his face. Something about Toora's ever-present silence bothered him. After she disappeared completely into the trees he went back to setting up various traps throughout the place. When he heard rustling in the trees he spun around, "Toora?"
Took rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "Yeah, sorry." She stuck her tongue out in an embarrassed. "I didn't mean to startle you." Yoshi looked toward Akira, and saw the almost imperceptible nod in his direction.
Yoshi smiled at her, "No it's fine. Did you get us the food."
Toora gave an apologetic laugh, "No, sorry. I wasn't sure which berries were poisonous so I came back to ask for help."
"No problem, Akira can help," He turned toward Akira, "Right?"
Akira grinned, "No problem." He walked over to Toora with the smile never leaving his face he punched her hard in the gut.
Toora doubled over, "What…" She sputtered, "What was that for?"
Akira smile turned into a glare, and he held her down with his foot, "What did you do to Toora?"
She gave them a nervous smile, "Wh-what are you talking about? I'm Toora."
Yoshi loomed over her, "You can't even lie very well." He crouched down next to her and gave a sadistic smile, "It might be fun to destroy you, though. Especially when you look like her."
Toora burst into tears, "Why don't you believe me!? I'm Toora!"
Yoshi's smile grew even crueler, "Then this will be even more satisfying." He brought his foot down on the girl's face… hard. Which finally dispelled the transformation jutsu on the girl.
"How did you know I wasn't her?" Asked the girl who replaced her.
Akira flashed his carefree smile, "You talked."
It was at that moment that Toora decided to emerge from the forest, with a stack of fish in her arms. Yoshi grabbed a large leaf and laid it down on the ground for her to stack the fish on, all cruelty from his face had seemed to disappear. Akira smiled at Toora with his foot still pressed on the mystery girl's chest, "Welcome back!" She looked at him and then at the girl under his foot. He followed her gaze, "Oh! Right! Do you have a scroll?"
"No."
Toora walked over and began to dig in her pouch and pulled out an earth scroll. Yoshi sighed, "Well that was pointless. It's not even the right scroll."
"Then do you mind letting me up?" the girl practically growled at Akira.
The boy looked at the girl underneath him and turned to Yoshi, "What do you think?"
Yoshi grinned evilly, "If Toora says yes then sure."
The nameless girl's eyes widened, "But I thought you said she doesn't talk!"
"Or you could tell us why your team isn't here to save you."
"They were supposed to be taking out her." Everyone turned to stare at Toora, in response she pulled out her flute.
Akira lifted his foot, "You can leave, but we're keeping your scroll in compensation." She glared at them, but left without a fight.
A/N: I hope my fight seen was good, and that my characters are believable. Is it too weird that Yoshi, Kankuro's son, is a bit sadistic? I don't know why he turned out that way, but I like it.
Also AutobotSeeker98: Did I capture Ai's personality? I've never done somebody else's character before and this is my first fanfic so I hope I did okay. Also, I apologize if she changes in the course of the fanfic. I just try to have characters in my story develop with time, and sometimes my fingers move on their own so...
