And...another review thank you. I think I'll just do this everytime from now on.
Annachan - Yay~~~ I'm glad you liked it ^^;;. Personally, I thought it was a little confusing...but FYI, the person killing its body the most is Naruto. Just to tell you :D . I liked the poem too! Even if it contradicts the humor part, but oh well. Maybe I should change that...Like Team Rocket eh...? AHH! I just had this horrible mental image of Naruto and co. having a pokemon battle with them..ah!! There goes my cool mental image of the silent duo. Keep reviewing! That's always what keeps me from turning this fic into a dead one.
Dan Inverse- shank you~ :DDD
Ilay - hmm...read more of it, eh? I think I'll have you waiting for a while...stupid eighth grade teachers, trying to 'prepare us for southview'. It's not like the seniors get MORE homework than we do...
aku - Glad glad glad ya liked it :D!! I'm continuing as fast as I can!
inuyasha girl - =DDDD I'm trying as hard as I can!! XD! Thanks for the praise!
purple hotagi - Yup...that's what it seems like, right? Well...let's just say you'll find out why they're said to have been elite assassins...very soon D
Uh...if you're talking about the person who just shouted in the last chapter...that's Naruto. It'd be amusing to see Sasuke say that but...no.
And...that's it! Yay! Anyway...on to the story...
This chapter is so freakin' long...Iruka talks so much, sorry minna-san...
~*~
Sanosuke was sprawled on the floor, which was normally semi-comfortable. Today, it was not comfortable at all. He tapped his fingers on the floor. He tapped again. Then he started a bigger tap, which we shall call trying-to-poke-a-hole-through-the-ground-with-a-finger. Megumi was fast asleep at his side. He could still remember their earlier argument...
~
"No...I should stay by Sasuke, right?!" He shouted at her.
"What's the point of staying by him," she shot back. "If you're not even going to help him any?!"
"And staying here crushing random crap is going to help him any more? Get real!" Sanosuke scoffed.
"They are HERBS, Sanosuke! Medicinal HERBS that will reduce recovery time by one half at least!" She started to mix a variety of them.
"But...but you have OVER TWENTY different herbs!" He looked down at the piles in disbelief.
"I'm only using seven for the fever medicine," Megumi replied matter-of-factly.
"What about the rest of the sixteen plants?" Sanosuke scowled.
"ThirTEEN, Sano, in case you forgot to count." She proceeded to mix some more. "Six for headaches, and seven as a sleeping drug." Sanosuke's face twisted.
"Why do you need that?!"
"If he's going to put up with YOU for the night, he NEEDS IT ALL." She set out the herbs to dry. "From a medical stand point, of course."
~
How he hated losing at arguments. Well, that was Megumi for you. The Zanza was getting more and more agitated with each minute. It was as if something was about to just burst-
"RUUUNNN~~~!!!" Sakura's desperate voice echoed through the dojo. He immediately got up to his feet. Megumi stirred.
"Huh...what was that?" She mumbled, hoisting herself up with her hands. Sanosuke immediately blocked her route up with a hand. The Zanza tensed.
"...Don't leave this room, Megumi." He whispered, and took off. She reached out her arm.
"Wait, Sano!" She was a second too late. The dark, now empty room seemed to leer at her, its silence seeming to penetrate. She took another look at the slammed shut door, and threw the covers over herself. It was particularly unnerving.
"Gr..." Naruto clutched his bleeding arm. Why didn't Sasuke wake up? HOW could that bastard not wake up?! The blonde girl's spikes of hair seemed as though they were stiff with anger. Heh. NOBODY messes with the future Hokage! Her partner was busy wrapping her wrist.
"UGH, Hyuto, get OFF NOW!" She hissed angrily.
Hyuto looked down on her pleadingly. "Please! You'll die of blood loss if not!" They started up a harsh argument.
'Hey hey, are they ignoring me?' Naruto grumbled.
Kumi growled, as she reluctantly let Hyuto bandage her wrist. The plans were going horribly wrong. They had barely managed to get that sleeping pill down Battousai's and the Uchiha's throats. Now...NOW this kid... this... BRAT... he was completely disrupting the plans, and CS began to stir. 'Don't awake up now!' She thought mentally. Kumi was nineteen, and thirteen of these years she had spent planning out revenge. Revenge for her country...revenge of the highest order. Yet...
'Listen! If we don't attack NOW, all my efforts will be wasted, and so have fourteen years! Do you want that?!' She whispered angrily. Hyuto's face visibly paled, but he replied,
"If you die, we will never be able to kill Hatake Kakashi," he looked back into her fiery eyes with his own green ones. She recoiled, and was silent for the first time. The blond idiot, unfortunately however, had picked up the conversation.
"WHAAT?! YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL KAKASHI-SENSEI?!!" He yelled in disbelief and anger.
'Sensei?' Kumi thought, and lowered her head. "Heh..." The voice came out low, but started to rise in volume. "Heh...hehehe..hahaHA..." She covered her face with a hand and started laughing all out. Hyuto looked at her with troubled eyes. Naruto thought she was very troubled.
"What...what the hell is that...?" Sanosuke wondered out loud, and stopped. Should he go to the direction he heard Sakura scream, or the really freaky laugh down at Sasuke's place? He felt like he was wasting his time, standing in the hallway doing nothing, so he paced around quickly and pointlessly. The Zanza heard a rustle from the other side of the door that lead outside. He stopped.
"This way, Iruka-sensei!" Came a boy's voice. A rather agitated voice groaned.
"Not Kamiya dojo?! The spy networks lately have been bringing..."
"Aw, you're not turning back now?" The boy whined, as two shadows flickered at the door. "I mean, you practically clawed my neck off while making me 'go faster'..."
"Sh-Shut up! I'm not turning back!" The taller shadow now posed at the door. "I AM a chuunin, after all..." Sanosuke ducked from what he knew was coming.
~*~
The paper sighed. And sighed again. The little, lonely, sad scrap laid on the floor, as someone ripped through itself and its friends. They were a close, happy, and strong group of friends. It was bad enough to separate from The Roll to repair a door. Now it was a little, lonely, sad scrap of what it once was, which was part of The Roll. Two newcomers to the humble abode made of wood and kinsmen stood at the old doorway. Sanosuke looked at them with a look that he usually reserved for when that crazy demon blond and odd-haired newcomers broke through on him. Sanosuke was a nice guy. For one, he moved it and its paper friends gently to the side, even if it was only because he was trying to steal something. The paper glared angrily at the taller newcomer with a rather long scar across his nose. How dare he...he separate it from its friends! The boy with...odd eyes and spikey black hair, not unlike ripper Naruto, stared at the man in surprise.
"Uh...Iruka-sensei, this kind of isn't your house, you know..." Neike looked at his teacher, sweatdrops clinging to him like suckerfish. Iruka heaved heavily, and looked at the recoiled guy who had taken several steps back. Neike sighed. That was Iruka for you, trying to parent all of his students and shoving everything else out of the way...
"W-Who are you?!" The roosterhead shouted, in a hushed but very shocked sort of way. Then he paused. Then he leered. Then he facevaulted. "AHHH!! IT'S YOU, IRUKA-SENSEI~~!!"
Iruka stared for a moment. It was Sanosuke. Sanosuke that...that...
"You idiot! I told you that running away made you look more suspicious, but NO! NO!! Why don't my students listen to me any more?! NOW look at what you got into! Of all groups, it was the Colored!!" Iruka lost his tiny amount of control and looked like he was about to cry. "I TOLD you not to get involved in the war! I TOLD you all this NOT RANDOM CRAP, BUT STUFF YOU SHOULD have listened to! But did you listen? NO! You DIDN'T listen! If only you realized that you would get killed eventually if you joined against Sasrana, then I wouldn't have to deal with you! They would have never cared about you! You're an outcast of Konoha! THEY WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN A DAMN!! But no!! You joined the stupid, stupid war with Sagara-san! OOHHH don't give me that look! I know you did! I saw you on the battlefield! You idiot, prancing around like it was a circus...I mean, Captain Sagara also told you not to get involved right?! Of course he did! Don't answer me, I know he would have!" Iruka shouted, and continued his lecturings.
Neike looked as Sanosuke began to cringe more and more from the noise. Neike coughed loudly.
"Um, in case you forgot sensei, we're kinda UNDERCOVER, because like, we DO need to, uh, get Team 7 out of this mess, so..." He didn't need to speak any more. Iruka stopped mid sentence. His mouth began to twitch. His eyes started to burn with a fire that even Neike was starting to be disturbed and afraid of. Iruka quickly grabbed "Sanosuke's" long jacket.
"Listen! You remember what I told you when you came back a year after the Namari incident?"
"Uh...ye...yeah...I do..-"
"NO YOU DON'T YOU LIAR!! YOU DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING I EVER-!!"
"Fine!! Agh! No, I don't!"
"HOW COULD YOU FORGET?! HOW COULD YOU FORGET, YOU STUPID, STUPID..." He began sobbing and crouched to the ground. Sanosuke sweatdropped. He looked at Neike. Neike looked towards the scrap of paper. The scrap of paper looked at the door. The door looked back to Neike. Neike shrugged.
"I think he's been overworked lately...you can't even see his desk underneath the paperwork," replied Neike to the unasked question. Iruka really did care too much. Especially Naruto.
"Um...as you were saying...?" Sanosuke inquired hesistantly. Iruka regained sane crazy composure and continued.
"It is extreme top secret ninja information that The Colored are Sasrana's survivors, and have been repeatedly trying to destroy Konoha," Iruka explained, as Sanosuke raised an eyebrow in shock. "Of course, the Hokage and the Anbu have been able to force them off, but..." He pulled out a scroll. "After news of Battousai and Oniwabanshuu and others popped up, INCLUDING you Sano, they were broken up," The chuunin looked at Sanosuke directly in the eye, his own burning with urgency. "Remember...The Colored only attack those directly related to them in some way, and Sagara, the Oniwabanshuu, our advanced clans, and Battousai..." He trailed.
"What, Iruka?" Sanosuke asked, kind of getting the picture.
"They were among the strongest! So of course they killed the strongest! Think, and think! Sasrana was a huge country composed of outcasts because of their advanced blood! It was a stronghold of them! If you guys killed the strongest..."
"...man, you're in deep shit aren't you?" Neike put crudely. Iruka shot him a look. "Just helping."
"Wait...when you said 'our advanced clans', does that include..." The answer Sanosuke got was exactly what he was afraid of.
"Yes! Sasuke is targeted also!"
Kumi drew out her weapon, a sickle shaped kodachi. With a quick flash of a hand, she flicked more sleeping drugs into the two patients. Kumi was not going to take any chances, no...no chances for today! It was a day that held fourteen years! After making sure they swallowed, Kumi sneered.
"You...you, a fool that does not even know me, think that you will stop me? Stop me...from my revenge of fourteen years?" She looked down to her callused hands. "I have sweated, I have toiled, I have set myself to devotion of the HIGHEST ORDER for this day...and an ordinary wannabe ninja boy is going to stop me?" She blasted him back with a sharp glare. "I will KILL the Uchiha clan! That is my vow! YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!!"
Annachan - Yay~~~ I'm glad you liked it ^^;;. Personally, I thought it was a little confusing...but FYI, the person killing its body the most is Naruto. Just to tell you :D . I liked the poem too! Even if it contradicts the humor part, but oh well. Maybe I should change that...Like Team Rocket eh...? AHH! I just had this horrible mental image of Naruto and co. having a pokemon battle with them..ah!! There goes my cool mental image of the silent duo. Keep reviewing! That's always what keeps me from turning this fic into a dead one.
Dan Inverse- shank you~ :DDD
Ilay - hmm...read more of it, eh? I think I'll have you waiting for a while...stupid eighth grade teachers, trying to 'prepare us for southview'. It's not like the seniors get MORE homework than we do...
aku - Glad glad glad ya liked it :D!! I'm continuing as fast as I can!
inuyasha girl - =DDDD I'm trying as hard as I can!! XD! Thanks for the praise!
purple hotagi - Yup...that's what it seems like, right? Well...let's just say you'll find out why they're said to have been elite assassins...very soon D
Uh...if you're talking about the person who just shouted in the last chapter...that's Naruto. It'd be amusing to see Sasuke say that but...no.
And...that's it! Yay! Anyway...on to the story...
This chapter is so freakin' long...Iruka talks so much, sorry minna-san...
~*~
Sanosuke was sprawled on the floor, which was normally semi-comfortable. Today, it was not comfortable at all. He tapped his fingers on the floor. He tapped again. Then he started a bigger tap, which we shall call trying-to-poke-a-hole-through-the-ground-with-a-finger. Megumi was fast asleep at his side. He could still remember their earlier argument...
~
"No...I should stay by Sasuke, right?!" He shouted at her.
"What's the point of staying by him," she shot back. "If you're not even going to help him any?!"
"And staying here crushing random crap is going to help him any more? Get real!" Sanosuke scoffed.
"They are HERBS, Sanosuke! Medicinal HERBS that will reduce recovery time by one half at least!" She started to mix a variety of them.
"But...but you have OVER TWENTY different herbs!" He looked down at the piles in disbelief.
"I'm only using seven for the fever medicine," Megumi replied matter-of-factly.
"What about the rest of the sixteen plants?" Sanosuke scowled.
"ThirTEEN, Sano, in case you forgot to count." She proceeded to mix some more. "Six for headaches, and seven as a sleeping drug." Sanosuke's face twisted.
"Why do you need that?!"
"If he's going to put up with YOU for the night, he NEEDS IT ALL." She set out the herbs to dry. "From a medical stand point, of course."
~
How he hated losing at arguments. Well, that was Megumi for you. The Zanza was getting more and more agitated with each minute. It was as if something was about to just burst-
"RUUUNNN~~~!!!" Sakura's desperate voice echoed through the dojo. He immediately got up to his feet. Megumi stirred.
"Huh...what was that?" She mumbled, hoisting herself up with her hands. Sanosuke immediately blocked her route up with a hand. The Zanza tensed.
"...Don't leave this room, Megumi." He whispered, and took off. She reached out her arm.
"Wait, Sano!" She was a second too late. The dark, now empty room seemed to leer at her, its silence seeming to penetrate. She took another look at the slammed shut door, and threw the covers over herself. It was particularly unnerving.
"Gr..." Naruto clutched his bleeding arm. Why didn't Sasuke wake up? HOW could that bastard not wake up?! The blonde girl's spikes of hair seemed as though they were stiff with anger. Heh. NOBODY messes with the future Hokage! Her partner was busy wrapping her wrist.
"UGH, Hyuto, get OFF NOW!" She hissed angrily.
Hyuto looked down on her pleadingly. "Please! You'll die of blood loss if not!" They started up a harsh argument.
'Hey hey, are they ignoring me?' Naruto grumbled.
Kumi growled, as she reluctantly let Hyuto bandage her wrist. The plans were going horribly wrong. They had barely managed to get that sleeping pill down Battousai's and the Uchiha's throats. Now...NOW this kid... this... BRAT... he was completely disrupting the plans, and CS began to stir. 'Don't awake up now!' She thought mentally. Kumi was nineteen, and thirteen of these years she had spent planning out revenge. Revenge for her country...revenge of the highest order. Yet...
'Listen! If we don't attack NOW, all my efforts will be wasted, and so have fourteen years! Do you want that?!' She whispered angrily. Hyuto's face visibly paled, but he replied,
"If you die, we will never be able to kill Hatake Kakashi," he looked back into her fiery eyes with his own green ones. She recoiled, and was silent for the first time. The blond idiot, unfortunately however, had picked up the conversation.
"WHAAT?! YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL KAKASHI-SENSEI?!!" He yelled in disbelief and anger.
'Sensei?' Kumi thought, and lowered her head. "Heh..." The voice came out low, but started to rise in volume. "Heh...hehehe..hahaHA..." She covered her face with a hand and started laughing all out. Hyuto looked at her with troubled eyes. Naruto thought she was very troubled.
"What...what the hell is that...?" Sanosuke wondered out loud, and stopped. Should he go to the direction he heard Sakura scream, or the really freaky laugh down at Sasuke's place? He felt like he was wasting his time, standing in the hallway doing nothing, so he paced around quickly and pointlessly. The Zanza heard a rustle from the other side of the door that lead outside. He stopped.
"This way, Iruka-sensei!" Came a boy's voice. A rather agitated voice groaned.
"Not Kamiya dojo?! The spy networks lately have been bringing..."
"Aw, you're not turning back now?" The boy whined, as two shadows flickered at the door. "I mean, you practically clawed my neck off while making me 'go faster'..."
"Sh-Shut up! I'm not turning back!" The taller shadow now posed at the door. "I AM a chuunin, after all..." Sanosuke ducked from what he knew was coming.
~*~
The paper sighed. And sighed again. The little, lonely, sad scrap laid on the floor, as someone ripped through itself and its friends. They were a close, happy, and strong group of friends. It was bad enough to separate from The Roll to repair a door. Now it was a little, lonely, sad scrap of what it once was, which was part of The Roll. Two newcomers to the humble abode made of wood and kinsmen stood at the old doorway. Sanosuke looked at them with a look that he usually reserved for when that crazy demon blond and odd-haired newcomers broke through on him. Sanosuke was a nice guy. For one, he moved it and its paper friends gently to the side, even if it was only because he was trying to steal something. The paper glared angrily at the taller newcomer with a rather long scar across his nose. How dare he...he separate it from its friends! The boy with...odd eyes and spikey black hair, not unlike ripper Naruto, stared at the man in surprise.
"Uh...Iruka-sensei, this kind of isn't your house, you know..." Neike looked at his teacher, sweatdrops clinging to him like suckerfish. Iruka heaved heavily, and looked at the recoiled guy who had taken several steps back. Neike sighed. That was Iruka for you, trying to parent all of his students and shoving everything else out of the way...
"W-Who are you?!" The roosterhead shouted, in a hushed but very shocked sort of way. Then he paused. Then he leered. Then he facevaulted. "AHHH!! IT'S YOU, IRUKA-SENSEI~~!!"
Iruka stared for a moment. It was Sanosuke. Sanosuke that...that...
"You idiot! I told you that running away made you look more suspicious, but NO! NO!! Why don't my students listen to me any more?! NOW look at what you got into! Of all groups, it was the Colored!!" Iruka lost his tiny amount of control and looked like he was about to cry. "I TOLD you not to get involved in the war! I TOLD you all this NOT RANDOM CRAP, BUT STUFF YOU SHOULD have listened to! But did you listen? NO! You DIDN'T listen! If only you realized that you would get killed eventually if you joined against Sasrana, then I wouldn't have to deal with you! They would have never cared about you! You're an outcast of Konoha! THEY WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN A DAMN!! But no!! You joined the stupid, stupid war with Sagara-san! OOHHH don't give me that look! I know you did! I saw you on the battlefield! You idiot, prancing around like it was a circus...I mean, Captain Sagara also told you not to get involved right?! Of course he did! Don't answer me, I know he would have!" Iruka shouted, and continued his lecturings.
Neike looked as Sanosuke began to cringe more and more from the noise. Neike coughed loudly.
"Um, in case you forgot sensei, we're kinda UNDERCOVER, because like, we DO need to, uh, get Team 7 out of this mess, so..." He didn't need to speak any more. Iruka stopped mid sentence. His mouth began to twitch. His eyes started to burn with a fire that even Neike was starting to be disturbed and afraid of. Iruka quickly grabbed "Sanosuke's" long jacket.
"Listen! You remember what I told you when you came back a year after the Namari incident?"
"Uh...ye...yeah...I do..-"
"NO YOU DON'T YOU LIAR!! YOU DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING I EVER-!!"
"Fine!! Agh! No, I don't!"
"HOW COULD YOU FORGET?! HOW COULD YOU FORGET, YOU STUPID, STUPID..." He began sobbing and crouched to the ground. Sanosuke sweatdropped. He looked at Neike. Neike looked towards the scrap of paper. The scrap of paper looked at the door. The door looked back to Neike. Neike shrugged.
"I think he's been overworked lately...you can't even see his desk underneath the paperwork," replied Neike to the unasked question. Iruka really did care too much. Especially Naruto.
"Um...as you were saying...?" Sanosuke inquired hesistantly. Iruka regained sane crazy composure and continued.
"It is extreme top secret ninja information that The Colored are Sasrana's survivors, and have been repeatedly trying to destroy Konoha," Iruka explained, as Sanosuke raised an eyebrow in shock. "Of course, the Hokage and the Anbu have been able to force them off, but..." He pulled out a scroll. "After news of Battousai and Oniwabanshuu and others popped up, INCLUDING you Sano, they were broken up," The chuunin looked at Sanosuke directly in the eye, his own burning with urgency. "Remember...The Colored only attack those directly related to them in some way, and Sagara, the Oniwabanshuu, our advanced clans, and Battousai..." He trailed.
"What, Iruka?" Sanosuke asked, kind of getting the picture.
"They were among the strongest! So of course they killed the strongest! Think, and think! Sasrana was a huge country composed of outcasts because of their advanced blood! It was a stronghold of them! If you guys killed the strongest..."
"...man, you're in deep shit aren't you?" Neike put crudely. Iruka shot him a look. "Just helping."
"Wait...when you said 'our advanced clans', does that include..." The answer Sanosuke got was exactly what he was afraid of.
"Yes! Sasuke is targeted also!"
Kumi drew out her weapon, a sickle shaped kodachi. With a quick flash of a hand, she flicked more sleeping drugs into the two patients. Kumi was not going to take any chances, no...no chances for today! It was a day that held fourteen years! After making sure they swallowed, Kumi sneered.
"You...you, a fool that does not even know me, think that you will stop me? Stop me...from my revenge of fourteen years?" She looked down to her callused hands. "I have sweated, I have toiled, I have set myself to devotion of the HIGHEST ORDER for this day...and an ordinary wannabe ninja boy is going to stop me?" She blasted him back with a sharp glare. "I will KILL the Uchiha clan! That is my vow! YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!!"