Wow...and guess what this is!! A review thank you section!! For everybody, including those who stopped reading the fic at chapter one!!
Annachan- I love your dedicatedness!! It makes me feel so loved...3. Don't worry, you don't need to know the codenames. What do the Colored want? Uhh...I'll get back to you on that one. Sorry about the long wait, I've had some...uh problems. ^^;;
purple hotagi- I plan on putting in the story of the Colored later, and you'll find out why they know them in this chapter ;). Ehh...oops, did I put Sasuke in Misao's rank? Ahahaha...let's just say that they underestimated him. Think about it, they didn't even mention Naruto...I guess it makes sense. And, uh, I'll be disregarding Sanosuke's sister and brother for now...I'll just say he remarried.
Hitokiri X- I love your praise!! But...I made you wait long didn't I? *ducks* EEIIIII HELP ME SOMEBODY!
Ret- Thank you thank you! I'm getting in as much as I can...it's probably one of my only active fics *sweatdrop*
Ilay- Unfortunately, no, I won't be putting Saitou in. I wanted to...but it was too hard. I'll be putting references in, though ^^;;
saiha- I'm not sure if you're still reading my fic, but I'll dedicate something to you anyway cuz you're one of my first reviewers. Thanks for the support, and Kenshin will oro around a lot. A lot.
Hitokiri's woman- Yayyayyayyayyay!! Romance? Well, nobody's suggested anything, so I'll be putting in hints that nobody needs to catch. Yes, Kaoru IS Narutoish, no?? 3 Wait!! Don't die!! NO~~!!
Lillia- Yeah...I've also been thinking about how a fight between the practically godlike characters would go. I've been wanting to continue it, but I don't think I will.
Eeva Leena- Yes, I'm continueing!! Slowly...but half-surely!!
pluuuu- Everybody loves Sasuke-kun! Rejoice! *does happy dance* Yay!! Someone who DOESN'T think I'm OOC!! I'm not sure it's humorous during the, uh, assault period, but it will be! Hopefully! Later!! Eeiiieee
And that's it!! It practically makes up a quarter of this chapter, but that's okay. I don't like this chapter anyway. I tried to fit in humor at the end...but then it fused with the drama and now everything's kinda dull...
Hina groaned. Again. What was WRONG with her partner?!
"Makimachi Misao! I CHALLENGE YOU!" The seven year old boy pointed at her. CM looked at him with blank stare. And walked over.
"Wai...you're such a cute kid!" Misao ruffled his hair. "What are you doing here?"
Sato scowled and flapped his sleeves on top of his head.
"GRRRRR...I'M AN ASSASSIN!! NOT SOME LITTLE KID!!" He yelled with frustration, flailing his arms towards the girl, who now picked him up and looked him over. Hina was torn between laughing and being scared. The plans were going horribly wrong. Nowhere did it say that his sleeves were supposed to look like a paddlewheel and Sato was supposed to act like a dog. It was a good thing CM was sleeping pretty far away from the rest of the targets...except...
"Do not move, Colored." A liquid voice whispered behind them. Hina turned around, and the apricot color of her face drained away to ivory white.
"Aoshi-sama!" Misao hastily dropped Sato onto the floor. Hina used Kawarimi and reappeared right next to the boy.
"Sato! We have to retreat!" She shook him vigorously. Aoshi was A. Their capabilities could not match up to the man---at all!
"NO! NONONONONO!! Hina, how could you SAY THAT?!" Sato lunged, and tripped. Hina buried her face in her hands. She felt like dieing.
"Oh NO...."
~*~
It wasn't a coincidence. Sakura really did wake up on the tearing of a leaf.
'Dammit...the pressure is building up! I'm being watched...but...this time it's a lot stronger!' She gulped, and curled her fingers around the kunai. Under such extreme...creepiness, her senses had heightened to their peak, completely unnerving the genin. Her hands started to feel damp, clamping tightly onto the weapon that she knew would definitely not be enough, in the back part of her mind.
Mizu and Akayo were fraternal twins, and could always read each other's thoughts.
'Hyuto was correct. But now what shall we do?' Akayo thought.
'We must strike. Fast.' Mizu's eyes darted. They darted straight through the door, so fast the paper didn't make any sound. Sakura was taken aback, but wasted no time in throwing a few shurikens. They put their arms up, the metal of their arm guards clinking softly as the shurikens bounced off. They took their rapier like katanas, and moved forward in a swaying, rolling motion, fluid like water.
"The waves of the ocean..." Began Mizu.
"Crash like thunder beneath the sky..." Continued Akayo.
A lightbulb in Sakura's mind clicked audibly. This was a famous verse in the book The History of Konoha's Alliances. She remembered reading it, for school...
~*~
"Sakura." Iruka-sensei had called. She stood up, and began reading.
"The alliance with Battousai's regiment helped us to defeat the country of Sasrana, but it was rumored that the ruler of Sasrana then stood up on a mound of his own countrymen's bodies, stuck a flag on top, and started citing a poem right before he toppled over and died. This poem is still a very well known poem, renamed Sasrana's Poem.
The waves of the ocean crash like thunder beneath the sky
On top is our soul, cascading, our hearts that fly
But in scarlet blood our bodies lie
Failure of kingdom does not know revive
Sinking so low, but we will survive
The Country of Sasrana will yet again rise
Like the ocean, its waves that will carry our plight
We will not die."
"Good, Sakura. You may sit down, and remember, you'll have a quiz on this next week!" Iruka-sensei had shouted over the ringing bell.
~*~
"You...are...Sasrana's survivor's, aren't you?" Sakura asked, sweat dripping down her face from her new spot on the ceiling. She needed a lot more than Kawarimi to take care of these two. It took all the Hokage and Leaf villagers to take down Sasrana's people! The duo didn't answer, but ran to her.
"On top is our soul, cascading..." Said the boy.
"Our hearts that fly." Echoed the other as Sakura used Kawarimi again. Dart towards the door, screamed her mind. Find Sasuke, Kakashi, and the others!
"We are the Colored." They said in unison, and this shot through Sakura. She had to run. Now. There was a rumor that went around for a while...that the Colored were the only survivors of Sasrana. That might have been false, but they were possibly the best known assassin group. They were lethal and deadly, all of them trained to the peak of perfection. Apparently, the rumor was true, but this wasn't the worst. They were always known to kill their target the moment they finished their poem. Of course, they could kill her right now!
"But in scarlet blood..."
"Our bodies lie..."
"Failure of kingdom..."
"Does not know revive." They whispered forcefully, hushed, and too fast for Sakura. Pain was screaming through her body... their thrown kunai dug into her thigh.
"Sinking so low..."
"But we will survive."
"The Country of Sarana..."
"Will yet again rise..."
"Like the ocean..."
"It's waves that will carry our plight..."
Dammit...they were on the last verse! Sakura's feet pointed to the door. She was going to find help. NOW!
But then, a second Inner Sakura killed that one with a mallet.
"YOU RUN, YOU DIE, YOU ****ING ****!! YOU WANT THE OTHERS TO DIE TOO?!!" It YELLED at her with as much frustration as three Kaorus.
And it was right. She wasn't going to run. How many times had she been protected? What if Sasuke, Kakashi...and Naruto had ran? She remembered Sasuke's voice so many times...
"Especially Naruto." "I didn't save you. Naruto did..."
This time, she would help them in the only way she could. Haruno Sakura was NOT going to fail!
"We will not die!" The Colored hissed in unison, coming at her with two katanas. Red blurred her vision as she shouted,
"RUUUNNN~~~!!!"
~*~
"That was...Sakura's voice, wasn't it?!" Misao exclaimed. Aoshi took out his kodachis.
"Misao! Go, now!" Aoshi shouted, his calm demeanor breaking for the first time. There was something in Aoshi's voice that made Misao obligue as quickly as possible.
"Iyai...Class A Aoshi, Okashira of the Oniwabanshuu...you really think you can take four of the Colored at the same time?" A taunting voice came from behind him. Aoshi slowly unsheathed his kodachis.
"The winds blow ill."
~*~
Naruto began to feel uneasy. Something important was going to happen, said a little tiny, and rather annoying, voice inside his head. And he knew exactly how empathetic he was. About as much as a rock. The Ninetails carrier slowly removed his blanket, and rose. His feet paddled quietly in the hallways. He didn't know why...but he felt like he needed to enter Sasuke's and Kenshin's room. The ripping of a paper door was heard, quietly but so audibly. Naruto's feet began to break into a run. He slid back the door.
~*~
Iruka was getting really worried. He still couldn't believe that Kakashi would take the kids somewhere for a weeks that had nothing to do with any mission. Iruka fretted, and for the not-first-time he lowered his guard. The teacher paced. And paced. And paced.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!" A voice shouted behind him. He went,
"AHHHHHHHH-oh, it's you!" Iruka whapped the boy gently on the head, regaining his composure. And then he lost his composure all over again. "What are you doing here? Where were you?! We sent you on the lowest spy mission possible and you don't return for weeks?!!" The boy growled up at him.
"Hey, I resented that you sent me on such a low mission as to see what that stupid former Team 7 was doing, and now I resent that you say it's a low mission! It could have been A, if it wasn't for my great, super, talented abilities!!" The boy struck a pose. Iruka sighed. This guy...he was more prideful than Naruto! Well...at least he had backing. The boy was from the Hyuga clan, branch though his line was. You could tell he was a cousin of Neji...but it was hard to see the relation with Hinata. Then the rest of the sentence sunk in. "Wait...what do you mean, A?"
~*~
The paper door groaned. Its paper had been replaced again and again and again these days. Why? Why must it be so? What had the paper door done to deserve this? He watched as the main ruiner of his paper flooshed and bammed his brother abruptly. How dare they treat his brother that way! Paper doors seriously don't get any respect these days...
"You...what are you doing here?!" He pointed, furious. Well, that guy shouldn't be furious. HE, the PAPER DOOR WHO KEEPS GETTING RIPPED, should be furious!! The intruders who ruined his body stared at the newcomer. Fine then, not even so much as sorry.
"Do NOT interfere, little brat!" The girl hissed. The paper door watched as the veins on the dissed off boy rearranged themselves till they were about to burst. Pity they didn't.
"DON'T CALL ME A LITTLE BRAT, YOU BASTARD!!!" The sad, wallowing paperless paper door watched as the fight began.
Sorry everybody...I was in such a hurry to update, that I didn't edit... Please don't kill me!!
Annachan- I love your dedicatedness!! It makes me feel so loved...3. Don't worry, you don't need to know the codenames. What do the Colored want? Uhh...I'll get back to you on that one. Sorry about the long wait, I've had some...uh problems. ^^;;
purple hotagi- I plan on putting in the story of the Colored later, and you'll find out why they know them in this chapter ;). Ehh...oops, did I put Sasuke in Misao's rank? Ahahaha...let's just say that they underestimated him. Think about it, they didn't even mention Naruto...I guess it makes sense. And, uh, I'll be disregarding Sanosuke's sister and brother for now...I'll just say he remarried.
Hitokiri X- I love your praise!! But...I made you wait long didn't I? *ducks* EEIIIII HELP ME SOMEBODY!
Ret- Thank you thank you! I'm getting in as much as I can...it's probably one of my only active fics *sweatdrop*
Ilay- Unfortunately, no, I won't be putting Saitou in. I wanted to...but it was too hard. I'll be putting references in, though ^^;;
saiha- I'm not sure if you're still reading my fic, but I'll dedicate something to you anyway cuz you're one of my first reviewers. Thanks for the support, and Kenshin will oro around a lot. A lot.
Hitokiri's woman- Yayyayyayyayyay!! Romance? Well, nobody's suggested anything, so I'll be putting in hints that nobody needs to catch. Yes, Kaoru IS Narutoish, no?? 3 Wait!! Don't die!! NO~~!!
Lillia- Yeah...I've also been thinking about how a fight between the practically godlike characters would go. I've been wanting to continue it, but I don't think I will.
Eeva Leena- Yes, I'm continueing!! Slowly...but half-surely!!
pluuuu- Everybody loves Sasuke-kun! Rejoice! *does happy dance* Yay!! Someone who DOESN'T think I'm OOC!! I'm not sure it's humorous during the, uh, assault period, but it will be! Hopefully! Later!! Eeiiieee
And that's it!! It practically makes up a quarter of this chapter, but that's okay. I don't like this chapter anyway. I tried to fit in humor at the end...but then it fused with the drama and now everything's kinda dull...
Hina groaned. Again. What was WRONG with her partner?!
"Makimachi Misao! I CHALLENGE YOU!" The seven year old boy pointed at her. CM looked at him with blank stare. And walked over.
"Wai...you're such a cute kid!" Misao ruffled his hair. "What are you doing here?"
Sato scowled and flapped his sleeves on top of his head.
"GRRRRR...I'M AN ASSASSIN!! NOT SOME LITTLE KID!!" He yelled with frustration, flailing his arms towards the girl, who now picked him up and looked him over. Hina was torn between laughing and being scared. The plans were going horribly wrong. Nowhere did it say that his sleeves were supposed to look like a paddlewheel and Sato was supposed to act like a dog. It was a good thing CM was sleeping pretty far away from the rest of the targets...except...
"Do not move, Colored." A liquid voice whispered behind them. Hina turned around, and the apricot color of her face drained away to ivory white.
"Aoshi-sama!" Misao hastily dropped Sato onto the floor. Hina used Kawarimi and reappeared right next to the boy.
"Sato! We have to retreat!" She shook him vigorously. Aoshi was A. Their capabilities could not match up to the man---at all!
"NO! NONONONONO!! Hina, how could you SAY THAT?!" Sato lunged, and tripped. Hina buried her face in her hands. She felt like dieing.
"Oh NO...."
~*~
It wasn't a coincidence. Sakura really did wake up on the tearing of a leaf.
'Dammit...the pressure is building up! I'm being watched...but...this time it's a lot stronger!' She gulped, and curled her fingers around the kunai. Under such extreme...creepiness, her senses had heightened to their peak, completely unnerving the genin. Her hands started to feel damp, clamping tightly onto the weapon that she knew would definitely not be enough, in the back part of her mind.
Mizu and Akayo were fraternal twins, and could always read each other's thoughts.
'Hyuto was correct. But now what shall we do?' Akayo thought.
'We must strike. Fast.' Mizu's eyes darted. They darted straight through the door, so fast the paper didn't make any sound. Sakura was taken aback, but wasted no time in throwing a few shurikens. They put their arms up, the metal of their arm guards clinking softly as the shurikens bounced off. They took their rapier like katanas, and moved forward in a swaying, rolling motion, fluid like water.
"The waves of the ocean..." Began Mizu.
"Crash like thunder beneath the sky..." Continued Akayo.
A lightbulb in Sakura's mind clicked audibly. This was a famous verse in the book The History of Konoha's Alliances. She remembered reading it, for school...
~*~
"Sakura." Iruka-sensei had called. She stood up, and began reading.
"The alliance with Battousai's regiment helped us to defeat the country of Sasrana, but it was rumored that the ruler of Sasrana then stood up on a mound of his own countrymen's bodies, stuck a flag on top, and started citing a poem right before he toppled over and died. This poem is still a very well known poem, renamed Sasrana's Poem.
The waves of the ocean crash like thunder beneath the sky
On top is our soul, cascading, our hearts that fly
But in scarlet blood our bodies lie
Failure of kingdom does not know revive
Sinking so low, but we will survive
The Country of Sasrana will yet again rise
Like the ocean, its waves that will carry our plight
We will not die."
"Good, Sakura. You may sit down, and remember, you'll have a quiz on this next week!" Iruka-sensei had shouted over the ringing bell.
~*~
"You...are...Sasrana's survivor's, aren't you?" Sakura asked, sweat dripping down her face from her new spot on the ceiling. She needed a lot more than Kawarimi to take care of these two. It took all the Hokage and Leaf villagers to take down Sasrana's people! The duo didn't answer, but ran to her.
"On top is our soul, cascading..." Said the boy.
"Our hearts that fly." Echoed the other as Sakura used Kawarimi again. Dart towards the door, screamed her mind. Find Sasuke, Kakashi, and the others!
"We are the Colored." They said in unison, and this shot through Sakura. She had to run. Now. There was a rumor that went around for a while...that the Colored were the only survivors of Sasrana. That might have been false, but they were possibly the best known assassin group. They were lethal and deadly, all of them trained to the peak of perfection. Apparently, the rumor was true, but this wasn't the worst. They were always known to kill their target the moment they finished their poem. Of course, they could kill her right now!
"But in scarlet blood..."
"Our bodies lie..."
"Failure of kingdom..."
"Does not know revive." They whispered forcefully, hushed, and too fast for Sakura. Pain was screaming through her body... their thrown kunai dug into her thigh.
"Sinking so low..."
"But we will survive."
"The Country of Sarana..."
"Will yet again rise..."
"Like the ocean..."
"It's waves that will carry our plight..."
Dammit...they were on the last verse! Sakura's feet pointed to the door. She was going to find help. NOW!
But then, a second Inner Sakura killed that one with a mallet.
"YOU RUN, YOU DIE, YOU ****ING ****!! YOU WANT THE OTHERS TO DIE TOO?!!" It YELLED at her with as much frustration as three Kaorus.
And it was right. She wasn't going to run. How many times had she been protected? What if Sasuke, Kakashi...and Naruto had ran? She remembered Sasuke's voice so many times...
"Especially Naruto." "I didn't save you. Naruto did..."
This time, she would help them in the only way she could. Haruno Sakura was NOT going to fail!
"We will not die!" The Colored hissed in unison, coming at her with two katanas. Red blurred her vision as she shouted,
"RUUUNNN~~~!!!"
~*~
"That was...Sakura's voice, wasn't it?!" Misao exclaimed. Aoshi took out his kodachis.
"Misao! Go, now!" Aoshi shouted, his calm demeanor breaking for the first time. There was something in Aoshi's voice that made Misao obligue as quickly as possible.
"Iyai...Class A Aoshi, Okashira of the Oniwabanshuu...you really think you can take four of the Colored at the same time?" A taunting voice came from behind him. Aoshi slowly unsheathed his kodachis.
"The winds blow ill."
~*~
Naruto began to feel uneasy. Something important was going to happen, said a little tiny, and rather annoying, voice inside his head. And he knew exactly how empathetic he was. About as much as a rock. The Ninetails carrier slowly removed his blanket, and rose. His feet paddled quietly in the hallways. He didn't know why...but he felt like he needed to enter Sasuke's and Kenshin's room. The ripping of a paper door was heard, quietly but so audibly. Naruto's feet began to break into a run. He slid back the door.
~*~
Iruka was getting really worried. He still couldn't believe that Kakashi would take the kids somewhere for a weeks that had nothing to do with any mission. Iruka fretted, and for the not-first-time he lowered his guard. The teacher paced. And paced. And paced.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!" A voice shouted behind him. He went,
"AHHHHHHHH-oh, it's you!" Iruka whapped the boy gently on the head, regaining his composure. And then he lost his composure all over again. "What are you doing here? Where were you?! We sent you on the lowest spy mission possible and you don't return for weeks?!!" The boy growled up at him.
"Hey, I resented that you sent me on such a low mission as to see what that stupid former Team 7 was doing, and now I resent that you say it's a low mission! It could have been A, if it wasn't for my great, super, talented abilities!!" The boy struck a pose. Iruka sighed. This guy...he was more prideful than Naruto! Well...at least he had backing. The boy was from the Hyuga clan, branch though his line was. You could tell he was a cousin of Neji...but it was hard to see the relation with Hinata. Then the rest of the sentence sunk in. "Wait...what do you mean, A?"
~*~
The paper door groaned. Its paper had been replaced again and again and again these days. Why? Why must it be so? What had the paper door done to deserve this? He watched as the main ruiner of his paper flooshed and bammed his brother abruptly. How dare they treat his brother that way! Paper doors seriously don't get any respect these days...
"You...what are you doing here?!" He pointed, furious. Well, that guy shouldn't be furious. HE, the PAPER DOOR WHO KEEPS GETTING RIPPED, should be furious!! The intruders who ruined his body stared at the newcomer. Fine then, not even so much as sorry.
"Do NOT interfere, little brat!" The girl hissed. The paper door watched as the veins on the dissed off boy rearranged themselves till they were about to burst. Pity they didn't.
"DON'T CALL ME A LITTLE BRAT, YOU BASTARD!!!" The sad, wallowing paperless paper door watched as the fight began.
Sorry everybody...I was in such a hurry to update, that I didn't edit... Please don't kill me!!