AUTHOR'S
HEARTFELT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: I would just like to give my million
thanks to Blitz Magnus and Aikuchi Shikaku, who, helped me make this
fanfiction possible. Thank you so much! I wish I could repay you for
your kindness someday.
Please pause for a moment as I address a message to an anonymous reviewer:
DEAR LONE WOLF (ANONYMOUS REVIEWER/READER),
I really would like to thank you for correcting me with my grammar in the most rude, most arrogant, most intriguing, most hilariously irritating way. I also would like to thank you for reading Homebound. I've read your previous other reviews before your most recent one and I was a bit wondering… if you're so irritated with my grammar, then why read on? And why have you been submitting me these anonymous reviews? With your fine grammar, I'm guessing you have an account in this website. Why hide?
Is it because you don't want me to flame right back at you?
Well, congratulations, Lone Wolf. I guess you got me at a wrong time and in the wrong mood.
Why can't you just correct me in a more polite way? I was really ticked off when I read your review. For such a mistake at grammar, why do you have to get angry with me? It's not like you're my English teacher or anything! Even if you are, I would've slept on your classes. Really now, for grammar purposes, you're already angry? You must be a boring person. How lame of you.
I read A LOT of fics containing A LOT of grammatical errors, yet I tell the authors of those stories that they had errors and I tell them that they can be ignored easily anyway. Why can't you just do the same thing?
Before you, there was also a reviewer who said I have grammatical errors. She corrected me politely, and I accepted that. Why can't you do THAT?
Evident on the MAJORITY of the readers' reactions in Homebound, MY ERRORS CAN BE IGNORED AS WELL. So why can't you ignore the errors? Is it because you're such a keen observer that you have to make sure everything's in place? I don't care if my grammar is imperfect, so what? I'm still just a kid, and I can learn further later. What's the rush?
I was irritated and I was humored when I read your review, Lone Wolf. Funny how you reviewed again, when you think the story sucked! Why do you want to correct me THAT badly? Do you want to become my beta reader? Even so, I could have thrown you out of the window because of some attitude problem.
You must be the most irritating anonymous reviewer I ever encountered in this website. I mean, your first reviews were all flames, and I didn't mind. But knowing that you continued reading AND YOU FLAMED AGAIN, I was thinking you were kinda stupid. IF YOU HATED THIS FIC SO MUCH, THEN WHY DID YOU CONTINUE READING IT? YOU'RE SO SMART YET SO STUPID.
Sorry for such foul (and blunt) words of mine, I really can't help it. You just plucked a wrong nerve at a wrong time.
So
if you're still reading this, then I really appreciate it. And if
you read my own personal online counter-flame for you, that's
really nice of you. Now, stop right here and discontinue Homebound.
Now, my other dear readers and reviewers, don't be hesitant to correct me with my grammar or with my spelling… but always keep in mind that you just have to be a bit polite. No need to tick off your composure.
Be
noted: FLAMERS BEWARE; I FLAME BACK – especially if I'm in a bad
mood.
(From the last chapter…)
"Fuck you Yamato. You're a selfish son of a bitch. You're thinking nothing but maintaining your position in the headquarters? Damn, you're some intelligent and manipulating piece of shit. I wish I've never known you. Hell yeah I'm still doing this mission." Sai, with his two fists, held his mask and broke it apart, the broken porcelain Anbu mask falling on the floor.
(Chapter 55 – Ruthless Intelligence)
"Hey you, calm down." Jiraiya eyed at the angered Sai, "It's been wrong that we have him here. We have to go-"
"How impolite of all of you." Yamato smirked, "You didn't let me finish. How rude!"
The 4 were disturbed because of what Yamato had said.
"And since I hold such a high position, it wouldn't hurt a bit to go over the rules. I mean, I can completely cover up for you. To tell you the truth, the elite Anbus who are guarding the gates are mostly from my platoon. And all elite Anbus have been informed of the 3 ninjas whose licenses are being held and being the topic of the tug-of-war between the Judicial Council and Hokage-sama." Yamato continued, "The elite Anbus will not allow you to leave the gates of Konoha… unless I do something about it."
There was some glint of hope for those 4.
"I will not be punished that much if anyone knew. I'll still be an Anbu, but not an elite Anbu if ever they knew I let you out, however, if they knew I was with your team and talked of a plan, they will strip me off the Anbu rights and privileges, and I'll just be an ordinary jounin. Now, if you succeed in this mission, I can suggest to Hokage-sama to give back your licenses and Sai will be promoted to become an elite Anbu." Yamato expounded, "You see, I'm really into this mission of yours – I'm really going to allow you to leave the village… in one condition."
"What?" Sai asked.
"Don't mention my name when they ask who were with you. Just the 4 of you – don't ever say that I was involved. If you did, there will only be the slightest hope you would still get your licenses back and Sai, you will be ousted from the Headquarters. Now like I said, if I'm still Anbu and your mission succeeds, I can still be a threat to all other suggestions of having those three's archives burnt in public. I can always interfere with words strikingly true." Yamato looked over his shoulder at them, "Let's go team."
All of them sighed in relief. Yamato almost scared the souls out of them.
"Damn it Yamato, you scared the hell out of me." Sai rubbed his temples.
"I sent a messenger to the Mist. I'm asking the Mizukage's student to come with us to tell Wasudo about the cure for the cursed seal." Neji implied.
"Kashime? You're asking Kashime to come with us?" Tenten looked at her husband.
"She's probably very busy this time and else, she wouldn't be much of help to us. And besides, she's being trained to become a Mizukage." Neji smirked, "I'm asking her teammate, Mayonima Shio."
"Oh right! He was the one who was cured from Orochimaru's cursed seal. He was also the one who gave the vial of the extract to the Mizukage." Tenten smiled.
In Kirigakure…
Kashime was reading a law book in her room, in her house. It was almost midnight. She yawned and turned the page, "Damn, the road to being a Mizukage is harsh. I still have 3 books to read!"
She stared at the 3 books piled on top of each other across the room. And they were really, really thick.
Then she heard a sound. She turned to her left and saw a kunai was hurled onto her wall with a note on it. The window was opened mysteriously. She felt uneasy.
She stood up and got hold of the kunai and took the letter. She read it and it says, "I am a messenger from Konoha. I have something very important to tell Mayonima Shio. I have been told to ask you for directions. I have no bad intentions, so don't worry. I just want to know where he is right now. Write your answer at the back of this paper and tie it onto the kunai, then hurl it out of the window."
She tore a blank page from her notebook and wrote a note that reads, "What makes you say that? Who sent you?"
Then, she tied the note and hurled it out of the window.
A few minutes later it was hurled onto the wall again, on the same spot, with deadly accuracy.
Kashime did take note of that and presumed that if she messes up with this messenger too much, she might end up fighting him or her.
"I am a messenger from the Hyuga Clan of Konoha." She read.
"Hyuga? Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Tenten?" She wondered, "They must be the ones who sent this messenger. They were the only Hyugas I know of who knows my address."
Then, she wrote something and tied it once more onto the kunai and threw it out of the window.
She sat down and continued reading the book when a loud and sharp 'thump' sound was heard. She looked on the wall again. The same spot, landing there 3 times, it awed her.
"What now?" she thought as she stood up and read the letter.
"Keep this kunai. It's a rare type of black platinum kunai, forged to have killer accuracy. It's a reward for telling me where is Mayonima Shio. This kunai is expensive and valuable enough to buy you 2 mountains. Keep it in case of emergency or better yet, treasure it."
She looked at the kunai. No wonder why it was so heavy.
A blurred bullet of speed swept through the forests, in search of Mayonima Shio, the Mizukage's other student.
"Alright team, let's call it a day. You got all routines perfectly. Let's go home." Shio dismissed his platoon. When they left, Shio stood still for a black hooded figure stood somewhere near.
"Mayonima Shio." The figure called and got out from its hiding place.
That voice sent shivers down Shio's spine. Underneath his Anbu mask, he seemed like he was going to die – for the hooded figure looked like it was the grim reaper. Tall, clothed only in black and had an elliptical mask that smiled.
"Who are you?" Shio asked, trying to prepare himself if this 'thing' was a threat or not.
The hooded figure stopped walking and genuflected, and bowed his head down, "Would you come with me to Konoha? We are in need of your help."
Shio was confused, "Who is this creepy guy! Is he the crypt keeper or the grim reaper or a hell spawn or something? And what did this guy just say? My help is needed in Konoha? My help? Hell must be freezing over."
Then, the hooded figure removed its hood and revealed a long locks multi-braided hair and the figure removed its mask. It was a man with hazy crystal eyes and he had tattoos on his face and his lips were… err, black. He had multiple silver band earrings on his ears. To Shio, he looked like a real hell spawn, those clear eyes looked like they were going to devour him, like they can see through him.
"I am a messenger from the Hyuga Clan of Konoha. My name is Hyuga Takari and I'm from the Branch House. I'm here to tell a message… Mr. Hyuga Neji sent me to ask you to come with me to Konoha for a mission… they need to find out the ingredient that should be mixed with an extract from the great tree of Takigakure no Sato. I need your answer NOW."
"Does this mission have anything to do with the Hokage's concern?" Shio asked.
"We'll answer your questions when you get there. Mr. Hyuga Neji will be the one to answer you. But right now please, I need your answer. Would you come with me or not?" Takari said in the most patient and polite way with his eerie tone of voice.
TBC…
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Shio agrees to go with Takari to Konoha. Jiraiya, Sai, Neji and Tenten proceed to their mission as they are backed up by Yamato, allowing them to escape Konoha. However, they are blocked off by a brigade of Anbu Special Guards and they would not let them through. And why didn't Shio show up?
Find out on: Headstrong
"Report
to the Headquarters. There are reported foreign missing nins to be
just around this area."
-Yamato
A/N: Ooh… what does that line from Yamato mean? Did he really betray Sai and the others? Hehehe, cliffy galore! WEEE!
Anyway, the next chapter will feature a song entitled Headstrong by Trapt. So if you want a copy of the song, just tell me!
Reviews please! Oh yeah, speaking of reviews, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE GREAT AMOUNTS OF SUPPORT! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT… I GOT A LOT OF REVIEWS… THIS IS THE GREATEST! YOU GUYS ARE MY INSPIRATION… REALLY… -cries- Thank you all and keep on reviewing! To the signed reviewers, I'll try my best to reply as much as possible, even if the reviews are countless!
The song Headstrong by Trapt is still AVAILABLE! The song will be used on the next chapter...
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