Hi readers!! AAAAARGGGG! Homework is driving me crazy these days!! I guess that my school just doesn't want me to write or something. Next week I'll get an exchange student from Italy so I'm not sure if that will slow down my writing but I guess it will :( Until then, here's a new chapter I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!! (Sakura would have died very painfully in the first episode if I did)
Lots of love, Tearsbehindthemask
"Are you all ready to leave?"
Kakashi looked at the three members of his team standing in front of him.
Naruto nodded, looking at Kakashi.
Sasuke nodded, staring at the sky.
Sakura nodded, staring at Sasuke.
"Well... Then I guess that we should go now."
Kakashi leaded the group of course. Sakura was running behind Kakashi and Naruto and Sasuke followed somewhat behind them.
"So we're finally going on a mission."
"Yes."
Naruto smiled.
"All thanks to you."
Sasuke grinned.
"Not all thanks to me. You should thank Sakura too."
"Sakura?"
"Yeah, if she didn't agreed to come with us we wouldn't have gone on a mission at all. I'm glad that I could convince her to come..."
Naruto was silent for a while.
"You convinced her to come?" he then asked with a completely different emotion in his voice, "How did you convinced her."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows and then realised what Naruto was thinking.
"Naruto! Wait a minute! I really didn't..."
"Sasuke! Naruto! You're falling behind!"
Kakashi looked backwards and he didn't look very happy.
Sasuke and Naruto immediately ran faster, there was no way that they could talk like this. Sasuke should wait and explain Naruto what happened when they arrived at the place of their mission.
"Kakashi-sensei! Are we there yet?"
Naruto got tired of running and was getting hungry.
"Yeah, we're almost there Naruto. Just a few more miles."
Naruto sighed.
"I'm hungry! Can't we stop and eat something?"
"Not until we arrived!" Sakura said impatient, "Jeez, Naruto! Why are you always whining about food?"
Sasuke smiled.
"It won't take long before we arrive, you can eat soon enough." he said to Naruto.
Naruto smiled and then remembered that he was still suspicious about the Sakura case.
Sasuke felt sad when Naruto turned away. He didn't do anything wrong!
"Naruto..."
Naruto looked at Sasuke and then shook his head.
"We'll talk later." he said.
Sasuke nodded and in silence they kept running.
"There it is!"
Sasuke and Naruto looked up and stopped running.
In front of them was a huge building, some kind of fortress... It was a magnificent building but you could immediately see that something was wrong. A great part of the surrounding wall was destroyed and a few buildings that were once protected by the wall were now crushed by fragments of it.
"Wha... What is this? What happened here?"
Naruto stared at the destroyed wall and then exchanged a look with Sasuke.
"This is the great city of Shi Bushi. In this city the best soldiers of the fire country are trained."
"Soldiers?" Naruto asked, not-understanding. "We've got elite ninjas! Why do we need an army?"
Sakura sighed.
"If a total war would break out, our numbers of ninjas wouldn't be enough to withstand attacks from all the surrounding country's. That's why even a country as ours with the best ninjas needs an army."
"So why is the city called Shi Bushi?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi interrupted Sakura who wanted to explain it.
"A long time ago, four soldiers went to war. They were part of a great army and their job was to protect the country from a neighbouring country that wanted to expand their power. In one bloody battle, their whole army was wiped out... Except for those four warriors. There they were... Four lonely warriors against at least a hundred soldiers that were left from the enemy. Nobody knows how, but those four soldiers managed to stop and slay the opposing army so that the fire country was safe again...
When the four soldiers returned to the hidden village of leaf were they were trained, the hokage was so happy with their return and their victory that he gave them this ground where the four warriors built this city and started training new soldiers.
The wall has four towers, at each corner there's one, and these towers are the symbol of the four great soldiers that protected the fire country's borders that time..."
Naruto nodded, still thinking about what Kakashi just said. History wasn't his best point.
Sasuke sighed.
"So what are we doing here? A whole city filled with soldiers can protect itself can't it?"
"No." Kakashi said with a gloomy face. "They're up against an enemy that they don't know and that attacks when they aren't expecting it. Army's can defeat other army's, but they're nothing against a small group of ninjas."
"So there are ninja's behind this attack?" Sakura asked surprised, "It looks more like a huge army attacked this place."
"Well I can tell you that it were ninja that attacked this place. What they were after and how they could destroy the wall so easily is are questions that we need to answer."
"That's it?" Naruto asked disappointed.
"You will notice that those things are enough. Now we have to talk to the leader here."
Kakashi walked towards a huge gate in the wall in front of them. The gate was made out of metal and had some words on it. 'Power, courage, perseverance, faith.'
Kakashi knocked on the gates, a resounding noise filled the air.
"Who's there?"
Naruto and the others looked up and saw a soldier looking down from his watchtower.
"We're ninjas from the hidden leaf village, we're here to investigate the attack."
The soldier looked at them for a while and nodded.
"Wait there." he called.
"Yeah, like we would go anywhere." Naruto said irritated.
After a few minutes the gate creaked with a loud sound and opened.
A tall man in a red armour opened stood in front of a group of other soldiers.
"Welcome, friends from Konoha." he said bowing. "Welcome in the city of Shi Bushi, we're really thankful for your help."
Kakashi bowed and said: "It's our work."
The man in the armour smiled and stepped forwards.
"I'm general Ichi. Here we don't use names for our soldiers. I'm the first general and that's all you should know for now. I would like to speak with you in private now, your... students can eat in the dining room."
"Finally!" Naruto said enthusiastic.
General Ichi raised his eyebrow and then gestured Kakashi to follow him and Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura to follow a young soldier.
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura just followed the guy who said nothing and entered a big room with only long wooden tables and chairs.
"I'll make sure you get some food." the soldier said, and he disappeared in a room behind this one.
Naruto sighed and sat down on a chair. Sasuke sat down next to him and Sakura sat down next to Sasuke (of course).
After a while, the young soldier and an other soldier entered the room with bowls of rice, cups of tea and a bit of meat.
"Thank you." Sakura said smiling, though she'd expected a better meal.
The young soldier blushed and bowed. After that, he and the other soldier disappeared again.
Naruto looked at the food.
"That's all? Where's the ramen??"
Sasuke sighed.
"Just eat it."
The three ate their food in silence.
When they almost finished eating, Kakashi and the general entered the room.
"Well, tomorrow we're going to investigate this. First you'll have to sleep." Kakashi said while he yawned.
"I'll show you your room." general Ichi said with a bow.
The general took the four to a few guest rooms at the end of a long hallway.
Sakura got the best room with a big bed (since she was a girl), Kakashi got a room with a desk and writing stuff and Naruto and Sasuke got a usual two person room with bunk beds.
"Good night and see you tomorrow." the sergant said and he walked away.
The four wished each other good night and went to their own rooms.
Sasuke closed the door behind him and looked at Naruto who was sitting on the bottom bed.
"Naruto..." he started.
"No, wait." Naruto sighed. "I know that you didn't do anything with Sakura... I know that you wouldn't do that... I'm... I'm sorry for not trusting you."
Sasuke smiled.
"It's okay."
Sasuke walked towards Naruto and kissed him.
"I didn't say it really well either."
"Well, I guess we should go to sleep now." Naruto sighed. "We have to work hard tomorrow and I'm tired..."
"But..." Sasuke looked disappointed.
"No." Naruto said resolute.
Naruto took of his clothes and threw them in a corner of the room.
"Good night."
Naruto kissed Sasuke quickly and crawled in his bed.
Sasuke looked at Naruto for a while and then took of his own clothes. Well, at least he was sleeping on the best bed.
Sasuke climbed up the bed and lay down.
Naruto heard Sasuke climbing in the bed above him and closed his eyes. He was really tired, running the whole day and then not even ramen as dinner...
After a while Naruto heard some creaking and suddenly he felt lips on his ear.
Shocked, Naruto pushed Sasuke away.
"No, you pervert! I said that I'm tired! Not tonight!"
Sasuke raised his eyebrow and crawled on Naruto's bed.
"I know that you can't resist me." Sasuke said smiling.
"No, Sasuke!"
Sasuke had Naruto cornered on the bed, he took Naruto's wrists in one hand and pinned them against the wall.
"So you're tired, right?"
Sasuke bit Naruto's ear and he felt that Naruto's body thought different about it.
"No! Sasukeeeeh..."
Yes, of course, Sasuke won.
The next morning, Naruto woke up and felt tired, his body hurted and he saw the marks of kisses on his body.
"Damn Sasuke..."
Shi Bushi is supposed to mean four warriors (I hope that I got that right, otherwise just ignore the name...)