A Shadow's Touch
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D/C: I own nothing. Ryou Yuuki owns Akira Kurotsuki.
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"I think my team is planning something big to use against me."
Itachi looked up from his paperwork to see his good (but annoying) friend, sitting across of him with a serious expression. His eyes momentarily focused on Shisui's closed eye, the one that was taken from years ago. Shisui was not using anything to cover his missing eye, but maintained his eyelids shut so no one could see empty eye socket. Itachi only shook his head at the memory of seeing Shisui without said eye for the first time and the reason why said man is there. Memories of the night at Ichiraku came into mind. "What makes you say that?"
"It has been one month since they became my team, one month they had not played a prank against me and one month they have been perfect angels…" Shisui said with a continuous strained voice. "The devils are planning something…I just don't know what."
'Should I tell him?' Itachi thought, wondering if he should tell Shisui about the actual plan. 'Nah…Serves him right.'
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"Another day…another job well done." Naruto sighed in complete relief, he stretched his arms over his head.
"Four D-rank missions…We need to get a C-rank mission soon." Choji stated, munching away on BBQ flavored chips. He glared at his friends when they managed to sneak a few away from him. "Guys…"
"You know the rules, if it doesn't have your name then it's part of the community." Sasuke tutted Choji, swiping a couple of potato chips. Choji snorted at the statement, he extended out the bag of chips towards his friends in a grudging defeat. Sasuke only smirked in response and Naruto took a couple of chips. "Thought so…"
"One of these days…. One of these days." Choji muttered under his breath, munching away on chips.
"What do you guys want to do now?" Naruto asked, shoved his hands in his pockets. He glanced around the road they were walking on; it was one of the least busy of main roads in the village. There were shops, stalls and the occasional tea shop or restaurant. It was mostly a residential area… mostly filled with older people. Said older people shot looks of hate, fear and some actually just appeared to not care. "There are no clouds out today, it's too late for lunch, too early for dinner and training is set for tomorrow."
"It's never too early or too late to eat." Choji stated in a sage like voice.
"True." Sasuke nodded, agreeing with Choji's words.
"Ramen?"
"BBQ."
"Seafood."
Naruto, Choji, and Sasuke stopped walking, they stared at each other challengingly. All of them wanting to go to a certain restaurant. One wants something and another wants something else. In one instant, all three of them brought out a hand and played a game of rock-paper-scissors.
"Rock-"
"Paper-"
"Scissors!"
"Ramen…" Naruto mumbled out in disappointment seeing that he lost against his friends.
"Shut up." Sasuke said to Naruto, he and Choji shifted just a bit to now be facing each other. They stared in each other eyes and Naruto swore that he could see lightning, fire and even rocks soaring around them. It only got worse as he got ready for the next game of rock-paper-scissors.
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"What a drag..." Shikamaru grumbled under his breath, taking a scroll and a single file from the Hokage's desk. He did not even bother to "How come I ended up with this mission?"
"You are the one that brought this up and did all the work already." Hiruzen responded, he took a short whiff of his wooden pipe. He made it a point to glance at the items that Shikamaru now has in his hands. "The Daimyo sent this to me to have it sort out, personally asking for you to set it straight."
"Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered under his breath, he briefly scanned through the file. Which ended up being a file he had created previously about the current welfare of the Land of Waves during his time under working under the Daimyo. Of course it would make sense in many ways to do this mission. A simple mission, just taking down a money hungry businessman. Simple right? No, nothing is that simple. Nothing is ever that simple. The businessman is a secret drug dealer that owns a smuggling business. A business that is taking control of the Land of Waves, that is control purely but blackmail, threats and murder. "What brought this mission up?"
"A Master Bridge Builder came to the village asking for assistance."
"Let me guess…His name is Tazuna the Master Bridge Builder?"
"…Typical know it all Nara…"
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Shisui hid in the shadows, watching his genin team eating BBQ and his position he could hear them speaking. So far the only thing they spoke about is recent D-Rank missions, family life and what they wanted to eat. Not once did they ever spoke about him. To be more precise, recent pranks. Not once did they talk about recent pranks. This only cause Shisui to be more on edge. He swore they were talking in code, talking about a prank that involved him being the victim. The Uchiha personally knows his genin, and they will always try to play a prank against him. Albeit it would backfire, but still!
In a complete frenzy, Shisui flickered and appeared right next to Team Six table. He slammed his hands onto the table and gave them a crazed look. "I know you three are planning something against me! Tell me! Just do it! I can't' take it anymore…."
Toward the end of the rant, Shisui had fallen to his knees, repeatedly hitting his head against the table and slapping his hands on the table. He had enough and just wanted to get rid of that feeling of constant paranoia. "Please?"
"Paranoid, are you now?"
"Look at him? He looks desperate."
"And pathetic."
Team Six looked at their Jonin instructor with looks of complete lack of sympathy.
"What prank is he talking about again?" Choji asked, looking over at his friends in confusion.
"Dunno, we have been busy with D-Rank missions and training, that we had no time to play childish pranks." Sasuke snorted, giving his distant cousin/instructor a blank look.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Naruto grumbled out, glaring at Sasuke with a glint in his eye. "You have been playing childish pranks against us all the time."
"Guys…" Shisui attempted to get his team attention. "Prank?"
"There wasn't a prank per say set against you." Choji said poking Shisui with his eating utensils.
"Eh?"
"Yeah, our prank…Is nothing." Naruto said with a shrug, Shisui swore that the blonde is smirking behind his sluggish behavior. "Absolutely nothing."
"That's our prank against you. Doing absolutely nothing, it's just us watching you grow increasingly paranoid." Sasuke stated, not even bothering to hide his own smirk. "We just sit back and watch as you began to lose your mind over completely nothing."
"Who else knew about this?" Shisui asked, his entire demeanor turned into a complete 180.
"Team Raido." Team Six answered in unison.
Without another word, Shisui stood up and headed out the door. Several minutes had passed when everyone in the establishment heard a scream. A very familiar scream for Team Six.
"How much do you want to bet Shisui-sensei wants us to pull a prank for him?" Naruto asked his friends with an eyebrow raised.
"We'll only help him if we can get a higher rank mission." Choji responded with a shrug. "I'm getting tired of painting fences and chasing Tora."
"Here, here." Sasuke agreed with a curt nod.
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"I don't like this…"
"I know that Zabuza-sama."
"I really don't like this."
"You have been repeating that for the last hour…"
"I'm going to kill him."
"We need the money… Zabuza-sama."
"Still…"
"We will kill him once we have the okay."
"Can I chop off his leg at least?"
"Do you want me to freeze yours off?"
"No…"
To be continued…
R/R.
Omake:
"I think they like each other." Gaara whispered to his older brother.
"Gee…what makes you think that?" Kankuro snorted, rolling his eyes at his younger brother.
Both brothers were hiding behind several crates, watching their older sister walking along side of their oldest friend. They have been following them for the past hour, under the pretense of protecting their sister. If anyone were to ask them of course, if they get caught. Even if Shikamaru is their best friend, Temari is still their sister first.
"You do know I could still bury you under the sand…"
"We both know you won't do that."
Fin~