I want to say the same thing again as in the last chapter. DON'T PANIC!
If you note something 'loaned' from somewhere, that's good. I'm definitely not going to tell where I loaned what things from.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I don't really know if I want to own this fic either. Lets just keep it free to the world to read, no?
And yay, there were reviews for the previous chapter. *dances with reviews* Waii~!
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Naruto woke up in a dark, weird place. Actually it was completely pitch-black, and there wasn't much room to move in either. Everything kept oddly swinging back and forth as he shifted about in search of information about his weird surroundings. Luckily he popped his head out from an opening and took a good look on what was happening outside. It seems Naruto woke up inside a cloth bag, which had been tied to a branch high up an old brown tree.
A summer view of a hillside grass field greeted Naruto. He noted some trees and rocks scattered around the field, but no signs of roads, paths, or villages. Two squirrels stood on the branch Naruto hung from. He noted the female one was Reisheru, an old scientist squirrel friend of Naruto's. A small and pretty much emotionless squirrel, but she was also always very serious about her duties. The actual things that went on in her little head had always been a complete mystery to Naruto.
The second squirrel was Dekkaado, whom Naruto had met on the Nut Appreciation Committee Annual Summer Camp some years back. Dekkaado was a tall and muscular squirrel at bit over thirteen inches, who appreciated good nuts above most other things. The squirrel wore a long black leather jacket, black trousers, black sunglasses, and black leather boots. His line of work can be described as "destroyer of unwanted nut-born beings", or nuttificial creations, or Nutticants as they were also called. He was a squirrel living a dangerous and lonely life.
"Do you like our owl?" Reisheru turned her head slightly to query Dekkaado. Her voice was soft but emotionless, slowly and steadily flowing onwards. She held a dark brown inanimate owl in her hands, and turned her eyes back to examine its smoothly carved skin layers over and over again -- To try and spot any previously missed signs of imperfection.
"Is it nuttificial?" Dekkaado finally returned the question to Reisheru. His voice was a low coughing baritone, probably developed over the years with large amounts of cigarettes and whiskey.
"Of course it is", she replied, articulating every word clearly.
"Must be expensive", Dekkaado quickly added. He walked over to lean against the tree trunk.
Reisheru placed the nut owl down on the branch, and gave a glance at Dekkaado's settled figure.
"Very", she replied, and paused for an extra half a heartbeat before continuing, "I'm Reisheru."
"Dekkaado", he simply answered, and suddenly looked very 'cool' in the almost-men-in-black outfit. The 'coolness' faded away quite promptly though, and Naruto made a mental note of it. He'd have to remind Dekkaado later.
Reisheru lighted up a dark brown cigarette with her golden Zippo, and dragged a long puff out. She made a few smoke rings, and surprisingly also a smoke squirrel after some concentrating.
"It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the squirrel public", she then slowly said, and gestured ever so faintly towards Dekkaado with her right eyebrow.
"Nutticants are like any other machines. They're either a benefit or a hazard", he replied and crossed his arms. Dekkaado raised his eyes from the floor panels of the branch, and looked at Reisheru without any particular expression of emotion.
"If they're a benefit, it's not my problem", he decided to elaborate. Reisheru looked down for a brief moment.
Dekkaado wondered what she was getting at.
"May I ask you a personal question?" She asked after a few seconds of pause.
"Sure."
"Have you ever eaten a nut by mistake?" She worded slowly again, apparently working on something concerning Dekkaado on a larger scale.
"No."
"But in your position that is a risk", Reisheru pressed on, this time in a slightly accusing voice, which made Dekkaado just plain suspicious.
Another voice interrupted the two from a higher branch.
"Is this to be an empathy test?" A male squirrel in his forties of fifties jumped in sight few branches above Reisheru and Dekkaado. Naruto didn't recognize him.
"Nutty dilation of the so called blush response." He jumped down a second branch.
"...Fluctuation of the... Nuts," he said and hopped to the branch just above Dekkaado and Reisheru.
"Involuntary dilation of the iris", he continued and stood on the higher branch.
"We call it Voight-Nut-Kampf for short", Dekkaado replied.
"Mr. Dekkaado. Mr. Eruden Taireeru", Reisheru introduced the gentlemen to each other with her soft voice.
"Demonstrate it. I want to see it go nuts", Taireeru watched Dekkaado with a definite hungry look. Reisheru quietly took a small step back.
"Where's the subject?" Dekkaado asked in return, not sure of exactly what the two expected of him.
"I want to see it work on a squirrel", he answered. Taireeru took a few steps along the branch, and put his arms behind his back.
"I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive", he then said to Dekkaado.
"What's that gonna prove?" Dekkaado asked from Taireeru.
"Indulge me", Taireeru couldn't hide a small grin creeping up to his face.
"On you?" Dekkaado asked curiously.
"Try her." Taireeru answered, and nodded slightly at Reisheru.
Dekkaado took a few steps back, and glanced at Taireeru once more before turning towards Reisheru. She looked back at him totally void of any emotion. He took out a fishing pole, placed a nut worm on the hook, and threw the lure in front of Reisheru. She drooled at the bait hungrily.
"Well I had a dream..." she worded slowly. She took a step towards the worm.
"And in it I went to a little town..." She walked another step closer.
"And all the girls in town were named Betty..." Reisheru worded slowly, and inched her way closer.
"And they were singing... "
She stopped right in front of the lure, and turned her saddened face towards the skies.
"Doo doo doo doo doo..."
"What?" Naruto asked.
"Should have guessed..." Dekkaado muttered.
She jumped at the lure.
Dekkaado pulled the trigger. Naruto saw nothing but blinding white light.
Everyone flew through the air in a grand explosion.
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"Wake up, you idiot."
"Huh?" Naruto mumbled. He opened his eyes a little and let a tired glance float around the room. He yawned mightily.
Sasuke waved a feather in front of him, "Your the last one who can't even keep a feather still."
He smirked briefly at the blonde boy, "Dobe."
Naruto twitched an eyebrow, and pointed a finger at Sasuke.
"What did you say?" He shouted back with a pissed-off voice.
Sasuke grinned and pointed the feather straight at Naruto.
"Heh. Dobe."
Naruto charged at him.
Kakashi appeared between the two boys, still reading his orange book.
Naruto didn't stop.
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"What do you mean by that?" Kakashi asked the old man.
"Nooo… Noothing much…" Inmon replied.
"I see, I see."
"=D"
"Huh?"
"Whassat?"
"Nothing." Kakashi concluded, and looked around with the white eye.
"Naruto, call your Kage Bunshins back, and lets get going."
Naruto lay on the floor unconscious.
"Hmm..."
Sakura walked up to the window and peeked out. She formed a frown at the three Narutos there. They pointed fingers at each other and explained something quite furiously all at once.
Naruto snored on the floor, still unconscious. Right next to Sasuke, who was unconscious as well.
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"Damn you, bastard idiot!!"
"Like you're one to speak, dead last."
About an hour later Naruto and Sasuke sat on the tiny porch outside the box-shaped office with some plaster pressed over their hair.
Kakashi and Sakura walked out from the building. Sakura locked the door after them.
The summer sky was blue with a few clouds here and there -- The typical Fire Country weather. Naruto didn't think there had been any other kind of weather ever in the whole country.
"Oh yeah, except it did rain once when 3rd Hokage was buried..." Naruto pondered in his head.
"Cooled down? Lets get going... Now", Kakashi said to them.
"Lets get going... Where?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke stood up and dusted some extra dirt off his shoulders.
"Lets get going... To a job", Kakashi noted.
"Lets get going... Then", Naruto added sitting on the porch.
"Yeah!! Mission time!!" Naruto added from the doorway.
Kakashi kept his profile looking at the road with a serious face, but he actually his eye checked the sky. Nothing special happened at the mention of the word 'mission', though. Kakashi begun adding new paragraphs to his mental notes.
"Lets get going... Already!!" Naruto added from a nearby tree.
"Umm, Naruto..." Sakura said.
"What?" he asked from the porch and the doorway and the nearby tree. One Naruto hopped on the roof and didn't listen to what they were talking about on the street.
"Why have you cloned yourself, dobe." Sasuke pointed out. The three of them looked at him curiously. The clones looked at him curiously too.
"Well..." Naruto begun. He had crossed his arms and made one of those all-important faces.
"Heh!! It's official now!" The clone in the tree said.
"The KBLF treaty gives us some rights too!! I'm gonna go and eat a bunch of ramen!" The other clone added.
"The KBLF?" Kakashi suddenly queried.
"The Kage Bunshin Liberation Front", the clone from the doorway said with a proud voice.
Naruto just sat on the porch wearing the 'stupid face'. You know, the 'stupid face'. All right-o.
"Yeah! He signed a treaty, which gives some human rights to us shadow clones!"
"We are bored of only being used in sacrifice missions and never getting any ramen in return!"
"We demand ramen and freedom, and we got them!"
Naruto just bit his lip.
"We rock!"
Sasuke and Sakura made stupefied faces. Kakashi looked down and shook his head a little.
"They offered me RAMEN for it! How could I say no to ramen..." Naruto sniffed.
"Gimme money, niichan", one of the clones tugged Naruto's sleeve.
"Shut up!! Lets get going... To the mission!" Naruto tried to exclaim as he rose up fist in the air.
"Naruto..." Kakashi said.
"What?" The three Narutos asked.
"..."
Sakura and Sasuke picked up their rations and other equipment from the other end of the porch.
"You probably realize now why Kage Bunshin is a forbidden technique", Kakashi chuckled at him.
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Few hours later Team 7 walked on the highway road. Naruto gave his clones some food money and left them at the 'The Nice Old Lady', who was the number one source for delicious ramen in Taisha village. He also exploded once on the road, when he realized that the 'The Nice Old Lady' doesn't ask any money for her ramen.
"Oh well", Sakura said as they walked onward.
"Keep your clones in line next time, dobe", Sasuke taunted Naruto.
"You're being obnoxious!!!!!!" he replied, much to everyone's surprise. Kakashi aimed his raised eyebrow at Naruto.
"Anyways where the heck are we going?" Naruto asked and grabbed the back of his head with his hands. The group walked on.
"We had a little chat while you two snored on the floor", Kakashi answered. Sasuke turned his head immediately at the Jounin. He was worried about the snoring part, poor kid. Kakashi's face looked like he read Come Come Paradise very intently (which he did), but actually Kakashi kept an eye on everything. It was pretty much an impossible task to assault such a radar vision, which also tears Genjutsu apart just as easily as others see light and darkness.
The three Genin had learned to appreciate more and more of their sensei's skills as they themselves grew stronger. For now he just giggled at some dirty pictures, though.
"It seems Inmon-san has lost his glasses", Sakura continued as Kakashi seemed to quickly lose interest in the conversation.
"Huh? He had his glasses on when he came in", Sasuke pointed out.
"Yeah, yeah, can't we go and say we found them on his head? Is the reward worth lots of ramen again?" Naruto said and grinned.
"This is slightly more serious matter than that. Those glasses..." Sakura begun.
She turned her face to Naruto and Sasuke, who walked behind her and Kakashi.
"...Well, I dunno", she finished.
"I see, I see..." Naruto said.
"Huh?" Sasuke said.
"Yeah", Sakura nodded.
"Ok..." Sasuke shook his head slightly.
"Oh, hiya everyone", Kakashi said as he shut the book, and brushed his hair offhandedly. Anyone could see the blush he tried to hide behind the dark blue facemask.
The group walked onward.
"Did you know that Inmon means pubic hair?"
"..."
"Who said that?"
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Team 7 had stopped for dinner at the roadside forest.
"So when will you explain the mission to us, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked from Kakashi, and slurped up some ramen noodles.
"Well guess I have to tell you guys", he answered and turned a page from his Come Come Paradise. His eyes widened for a brief moment.
Everyone waited for the explanation.
After a few minutes of eating sounds (mainly from Naruto and his noodles), Kakashi turned the page again.
"So will you explain the mission to us now, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked from him again.
Kakashi tore his eyes from the orange book and said grimly, "Sorry, I got distracted for a moment."
Then he turned the page from the orange book.
Naruto finished his dinner and asked, "How about now?"
"Umm. Hello Naruto", Kakashi answered.
"The mission?"
"Sure."
Silence ensued. The three Genin looked pretty bored. Kakashi turned a page.
The sun begun to set already, and it would be soon time to camp for the night.
"Kakashi-sensei", Sakura tried.
"Yes, Sakura?"
"Will you tell us about the mission?"
Kakashi made a grim face.
"Yes, I guess it has to be done."
The three Genin suddenly looked very attentive.
Kakashi turned the page from his book after a few minutes.
This had gone on for the whole day and evening by now.
"Mwahaha hahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahaahahaa haaaaa!! Ha!!"
"Wow. What the heck was that?" Naruto asked.
An eerie breeze tingled the skin, and the air seemed to cool down.
Sasuke skipped up a nearby tree and tried to locate the source of the laughter.
"HAHahahAHAHHAHAHAAHAH!!!!" The sound laughed again.
"How dare this laugher interrupt my reading of Come Come Paradise?" Kakashi said and concentrated Chakra into his white eye.
"Follow me", Kakashi quickly said and jumped off towards a nearby tree. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura followed suit.
The four of them ran through the trees for a short sprint, until Kakashi waved towards the ground.
They stopped on a small forest opening.
A dark figure stood on the other end.
"Haa.. Hah!" The figure chuckled.
"Who the heck are you?" Naruto demanded from the figure.
"Haaaaaa... I am... Hmmm?" The figure said with a low, but most likely female voice.
"What?" Sasuke asked.
"You are... Copy Ninja Kakashi."
"And you are?" Kakashi replied.
"I am your death. You all shall be punished for killing my cousin!"
"I'd like to see you try..." Sakura snarled at the figure and held a kunai pointed ready for attack. She had learned at least something during the past years, I think.
"Formation one. Lets go", Kakashi said and jumped off. The three Genin popped out from sight as well.
The figure ran towards the spot where they stood a second ago, and generated a huge amount of seals very swiftly.
"Hah, one slow-poke down. Ahou Henge no Jutsu!" She aimed the Jutsu at Naruto, who was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.
"Dammit", Kakashi thought, and swooped in at the figure. The dark figure threw the cloak away, revealing a young girl little older than the three Genin. She had blue hair with green and red and yellow stripes, and golden blinking eyes in a godly beautiful perfect freaking face. She wore a pearl white ninja wedding gown, which had sparkling diamonds and rubies embedded all over into it.
Sasuke came in from the left and threw a right punch at her, which the girl blocked easily with her hands. Sasuke still twisted his body around in the air and connected a good kick to her ribs.
Her whole upper body blew away in a watery splash. The rest of the wedding gown melted away to the ground.
"Mizu Bunshin?" Kakashi pondered. A shadowy figure flashed on his far right.
"Sakura. Formation five", Kakashi said quickly before dashing from branch to branch after branch, in hot pursuit of the runaway assaulter.
Sakura jumped from the ground to well above treetops in a quick pink flash.
"Chie..." Sasuke muttered on the ground. She was most likely going to get all the good parts this time.
"What happened to that Naruto idiot though...?" He pondered and walked over to the remnants of a smoke cloud. Naruto's clothes were left there in a messy pile, but the dude himself was nowhere to be seen.
"Chu.. Chu..." a small voice interrupted Sasuke's examination of Naruto's clothing. It came from below the cloth pile.
"CHUU!" a small orange thing yelled when it got free from under Naruto's clothes.
"What the...?"
"Chu? It's me, you bastard-chu!!"
"It's you?"
"Yes-chu!!"
"Chu...?"
"CHUU!!"
Sasuke sighed quietly.
"Naruchu!!"
"Naruchu?"
"The lightning based house-working maid hamster-chu!!"
"Are you drunk or something?"
"What did you say-chu!!"
"Damn-chu!!"
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Sakura slid in the air over the treetops, and tried to locate where Kakashi was.
A flash of Chakra on the ground level caught her attention. She folded her wings slightly and dived in.
"Faiarii~!!" She yelled, and swung her magic wand down in a large arc. A decently sized fireball erupted from the wand and shot violently at the Chakra target mark placed by Kakashi.
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How will things develop on from here ?!?!?
Who is the mysterious blue-green-red-yellow-haired lady ?!?!?!
Did the Ahou Henge no Jutsu do irreversible damage to Naruto ?!?!?
Is Naruchu cuter than Naruto ?!?!?
What are the extents of Sakura's new powers !??!?!
Many interesting questions !! Many, many stupid answers !!! See you next time !!! Bye !!!
If you note something 'loaned' from somewhere, that's good. I'm definitely not going to tell where I loaned what things from.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I don't really know if I want to own this fic either. Lets just keep it free to the world to read, no?
And yay, there were reviews for the previous chapter. *dances with reviews* Waii~!
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Naruto woke up in a dark, weird place. Actually it was completely pitch-black, and there wasn't much room to move in either. Everything kept oddly swinging back and forth as he shifted about in search of information about his weird surroundings. Luckily he popped his head out from an opening and took a good look on what was happening outside. It seems Naruto woke up inside a cloth bag, which had been tied to a branch high up an old brown tree.
A summer view of a hillside grass field greeted Naruto. He noted some trees and rocks scattered around the field, but no signs of roads, paths, or villages. Two squirrels stood on the branch Naruto hung from. He noted the female one was Reisheru, an old scientist squirrel friend of Naruto's. A small and pretty much emotionless squirrel, but she was also always very serious about her duties. The actual things that went on in her little head had always been a complete mystery to Naruto.
The second squirrel was Dekkaado, whom Naruto had met on the Nut Appreciation Committee Annual Summer Camp some years back. Dekkaado was a tall and muscular squirrel at bit over thirteen inches, who appreciated good nuts above most other things. The squirrel wore a long black leather jacket, black trousers, black sunglasses, and black leather boots. His line of work can be described as "destroyer of unwanted nut-born beings", or nuttificial creations, or Nutticants as they were also called. He was a squirrel living a dangerous and lonely life.
"Do you like our owl?" Reisheru turned her head slightly to query Dekkaado. Her voice was soft but emotionless, slowly and steadily flowing onwards. She held a dark brown inanimate owl in her hands, and turned her eyes back to examine its smoothly carved skin layers over and over again -- To try and spot any previously missed signs of imperfection.
"Is it nuttificial?" Dekkaado finally returned the question to Reisheru. His voice was a low coughing baritone, probably developed over the years with large amounts of cigarettes and whiskey.
"Of course it is", she replied, articulating every word clearly.
"Must be expensive", Dekkaado quickly added. He walked over to lean against the tree trunk.
Reisheru placed the nut owl down on the branch, and gave a glance at Dekkaado's settled figure.
"Very", she replied, and paused for an extra half a heartbeat before continuing, "I'm Reisheru."
"Dekkaado", he simply answered, and suddenly looked very 'cool' in the almost-men-in-black outfit. The 'coolness' faded away quite promptly though, and Naruto made a mental note of it. He'd have to remind Dekkaado later.
Reisheru lighted up a dark brown cigarette with her golden Zippo, and dragged a long puff out. She made a few smoke rings, and surprisingly also a smoke squirrel after some concentrating.
"It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the squirrel public", she then slowly said, and gestured ever so faintly towards Dekkaado with her right eyebrow.
"Nutticants are like any other machines. They're either a benefit or a hazard", he replied and crossed his arms. Dekkaado raised his eyes from the floor panels of the branch, and looked at Reisheru without any particular expression of emotion.
"If they're a benefit, it's not my problem", he decided to elaborate. Reisheru looked down for a brief moment.
Dekkaado wondered what she was getting at.
"May I ask you a personal question?" She asked after a few seconds of pause.
"Sure."
"Have you ever eaten a nut by mistake?" She worded slowly again, apparently working on something concerning Dekkaado on a larger scale.
"No."
"But in your position that is a risk", Reisheru pressed on, this time in a slightly accusing voice, which made Dekkaado just plain suspicious.
Another voice interrupted the two from a higher branch.
"Is this to be an empathy test?" A male squirrel in his forties of fifties jumped in sight few branches above Reisheru and Dekkaado. Naruto didn't recognize him.
"Nutty dilation of the so called blush response." He jumped down a second branch.
"...Fluctuation of the... Nuts," he said and hopped to the branch just above Dekkaado and Reisheru.
"Involuntary dilation of the iris", he continued and stood on the higher branch.
"We call it Voight-Nut-Kampf for short", Dekkaado replied.
"Mr. Dekkaado. Mr. Eruden Taireeru", Reisheru introduced the gentlemen to each other with her soft voice.
"Demonstrate it. I want to see it go nuts", Taireeru watched Dekkaado with a definite hungry look. Reisheru quietly took a small step back.
"Where's the subject?" Dekkaado asked in return, not sure of exactly what the two expected of him.
"I want to see it work on a squirrel", he answered. Taireeru took a few steps along the branch, and put his arms behind his back.
"I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive", he then said to Dekkaado.
"What's that gonna prove?" Dekkaado asked from Taireeru.
"Indulge me", Taireeru couldn't hide a small grin creeping up to his face.
"On you?" Dekkaado asked curiously.
"Try her." Taireeru answered, and nodded slightly at Reisheru.
Dekkaado took a few steps back, and glanced at Taireeru once more before turning towards Reisheru. She looked back at him totally void of any emotion. He took out a fishing pole, placed a nut worm on the hook, and threw the lure in front of Reisheru. She drooled at the bait hungrily.
"Well I had a dream..." she worded slowly. She took a step towards the worm.
"And in it I went to a little town..." She walked another step closer.
"And all the girls in town were named Betty..." Reisheru worded slowly, and inched her way closer.
"And they were singing... "
She stopped right in front of the lure, and turned her saddened face towards the skies.
"Doo doo doo doo doo..."
"What?" Naruto asked.
"Should have guessed..." Dekkaado muttered.
She jumped at the lure.
Dekkaado pulled the trigger. Naruto saw nothing but blinding white light.
Everyone flew through the air in a grand explosion.
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"Wake up, you idiot."
"Huh?" Naruto mumbled. He opened his eyes a little and let a tired glance float around the room. He yawned mightily.
Sasuke waved a feather in front of him, "Your the last one who can't even keep a feather still."
He smirked briefly at the blonde boy, "Dobe."
Naruto twitched an eyebrow, and pointed a finger at Sasuke.
"What did you say?" He shouted back with a pissed-off voice.
Sasuke grinned and pointed the feather straight at Naruto.
"Heh. Dobe."
Naruto charged at him.
Kakashi appeared between the two boys, still reading his orange book.
Naruto didn't stop.
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"What do you mean by that?" Kakashi asked the old man.
"Nooo… Noothing much…" Inmon replied.
"I see, I see."
"=D"
"Huh?"
"Whassat?"
"Nothing." Kakashi concluded, and looked around with the white eye.
"Naruto, call your Kage Bunshins back, and lets get going."
Naruto lay on the floor unconscious.
"Hmm..."
Sakura walked up to the window and peeked out. She formed a frown at the three Narutos there. They pointed fingers at each other and explained something quite furiously all at once.
Naruto snored on the floor, still unconscious. Right next to Sasuke, who was unconscious as well.
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"Damn you, bastard idiot!!"
"Like you're one to speak, dead last."
About an hour later Naruto and Sasuke sat on the tiny porch outside the box-shaped office with some plaster pressed over their hair.
Kakashi and Sakura walked out from the building. Sakura locked the door after them.
The summer sky was blue with a few clouds here and there -- The typical Fire Country weather. Naruto didn't think there had been any other kind of weather ever in the whole country.
"Oh yeah, except it did rain once when 3rd Hokage was buried..." Naruto pondered in his head.
"Cooled down? Lets get going... Now", Kakashi said to them.
"Lets get going... Where?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke stood up and dusted some extra dirt off his shoulders.
"Lets get going... To a job", Kakashi noted.
"Lets get going... Then", Naruto added sitting on the porch.
"Yeah!! Mission time!!" Naruto added from the doorway.
Kakashi kept his profile looking at the road with a serious face, but he actually his eye checked the sky. Nothing special happened at the mention of the word 'mission', though. Kakashi begun adding new paragraphs to his mental notes.
"Lets get going... Already!!" Naruto added from a nearby tree.
"Umm, Naruto..." Sakura said.
"What?" he asked from the porch and the doorway and the nearby tree. One Naruto hopped on the roof and didn't listen to what they were talking about on the street.
"Why have you cloned yourself, dobe." Sasuke pointed out. The three of them looked at him curiously. The clones looked at him curiously too.
"Well..." Naruto begun. He had crossed his arms and made one of those all-important faces.
"Heh!! It's official now!" The clone in the tree said.
"The KBLF treaty gives us some rights too!! I'm gonna go and eat a bunch of ramen!" The other clone added.
"The KBLF?" Kakashi suddenly queried.
"The Kage Bunshin Liberation Front", the clone from the doorway said with a proud voice.
Naruto just sat on the porch wearing the 'stupid face'. You know, the 'stupid face'. All right-o.
"Yeah! He signed a treaty, which gives some human rights to us shadow clones!"
"We are bored of only being used in sacrifice missions and never getting any ramen in return!"
"We demand ramen and freedom, and we got them!"
Naruto just bit his lip.
"We rock!"
Sasuke and Sakura made stupefied faces. Kakashi looked down and shook his head a little.
"They offered me RAMEN for it! How could I say no to ramen..." Naruto sniffed.
"Gimme money, niichan", one of the clones tugged Naruto's sleeve.
"Shut up!! Lets get going... To the mission!" Naruto tried to exclaim as he rose up fist in the air.
"Naruto..." Kakashi said.
"What?" The three Narutos asked.
"..."
Sakura and Sasuke picked up their rations and other equipment from the other end of the porch.
"You probably realize now why Kage Bunshin is a forbidden technique", Kakashi chuckled at him.
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Few hours later Team 7 walked on the highway road. Naruto gave his clones some food money and left them at the 'The Nice Old Lady', who was the number one source for delicious ramen in Taisha village. He also exploded once on the road, when he realized that the 'The Nice Old Lady' doesn't ask any money for her ramen.
"Oh well", Sakura said as they walked onward.
"Keep your clones in line next time, dobe", Sasuke taunted Naruto.
"You're being obnoxious!!!!!!" he replied, much to everyone's surprise. Kakashi aimed his raised eyebrow at Naruto.
"Anyways where the heck are we going?" Naruto asked and grabbed the back of his head with his hands. The group walked on.
"We had a little chat while you two snored on the floor", Kakashi answered. Sasuke turned his head immediately at the Jounin. He was worried about the snoring part, poor kid. Kakashi's face looked like he read Come Come Paradise very intently (which he did), but actually Kakashi kept an eye on everything. It was pretty much an impossible task to assault such a radar vision, which also tears Genjutsu apart just as easily as others see light and darkness.
The three Genin had learned to appreciate more and more of their sensei's skills as they themselves grew stronger. For now he just giggled at some dirty pictures, though.
"It seems Inmon-san has lost his glasses", Sakura continued as Kakashi seemed to quickly lose interest in the conversation.
"Huh? He had his glasses on when he came in", Sasuke pointed out.
"Yeah, yeah, can't we go and say we found them on his head? Is the reward worth lots of ramen again?" Naruto said and grinned.
"This is slightly more serious matter than that. Those glasses..." Sakura begun.
She turned her face to Naruto and Sasuke, who walked behind her and Kakashi.
"...Well, I dunno", she finished.
"I see, I see..." Naruto said.
"Huh?" Sasuke said.
"Yeah", Sakura nodded.
"Ok..." Sasuke shook his head slightly.
"Oh, hiya everyone", Kakashi said as he shut the book, and brushed his hair offhandedly. Anyone could see the blush he tried to hide behind the dark blue facemask.
The group walked onward.
"Did you know that Inmon means pubic hair?"
"..."
"Who said that?"
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Team 7 had stopped for dinner at the roadside forest.
"So when will you explain the mission to us, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked from Kakashi, and slurped up some ramen noodles.
"Well guess I have to tell you guys", he answered and turned a page from his Come Come Paradise. His eyes widened for a brief moment.
Everyone waited for the explanation.
After a few minutes of eating sounds (mainly from Naruto and his noodles), Kakashi turned the page again.
"So will you explain the mission to us now, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked from him again.
Kakashi tore his eyes from the orange book and said grimly, "Sorry, I got distracted for a moment."
Then he turned the page from the orange book.
Naruto finished his dinner and asked, "How about now?"
"Umm. Hello Naruto", Kakashi answered.
"The mission?"
"Sure."
Silence ensued. The three Genin looked pretty bored. Kakashi turned a page.
The sun begun to set already, and it would be soon time to camp for the night.
"Kakashi-sensei", Sakura tried.
"Yes, Sakura?"
"Will you tell us about the mission?"
Kakashi made a grim face.
"Yes, I guess it has to be done."
The three Genin suddenly looked very attentive.
Kakashi turned the page from his book after a few minutes.
This had gone on for the whole day and evening by now.
"Mwahaha hahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahaahahaa haaaaa!! Ha!!"
"Wow. What the heck was that?" Naruto asked.
An eerie breeze tingled the skin, and the air seemed to cool down.
Sasuke skipped up a nearby tree and tried to locate the source of the laughter.
"HAHahahAHAHHAHAHAAHAH!!!!" The sound laughed again.
"How dare this laugher interrupt my reading of Come Come Paradise?" Kakashi said and concentrated Chakra into his white eye.
"Follow me", Kakashi quickly said and jumped off towards a nearby tree. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura followed suit.
The four of them ran through the trees for a short sprint, until Kakashi waved towards the ground.
They stopped on a small forest opening.
A dark figure stood on the other end.
"Haa.. Hah!" The figure chuckled.
"Who the heck are you?" Naruto demanded from the figure.
"Haaaaaa... I am... Hmmm?" The figure said with a low, but most likely female voice.
"What?" Sasuke asked.
"You are... Copy Ninja Kakashi."
"And you are?" Kakashi replied.
"I am your death. You all shall be punished for killing my cousin!"
"I'd like to see you try..." Sakura snarled at the figure and held a kunai pointed ready for attack. She had learned at least something during the past years, I think.
"Formation one. Lets go", Kakashi said and jumped off. The three Genin popped out from sight as well.
The figure ran towards the spot where they stood a second ago, and generated a huge amount of seals very swiftly.
"Hah, one slow-poke down. Ahou Henge no Jutsu!" She aimed the Jutsu at Naruto, who was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.
"Dammit", Kakashi thought, and swooped in at the figure. The dark figure threw the cloak away, revealing a young girl little older than the three Genin. She had blue hair with green and red and yellow stripes, and golden blinking eyes in a godly beautiful perfect freaking face. She wore a pearl white ninja wedding gown, which had sparkling diamonds and rubies embedded all over into it.
Sasuke came in from the left and threw a right punch at her, which the girl blocked easily with her hands. Sasuke still twisted his body around in the air and connected a good kick to her ribs.
Her whole upper body blew away in a watery splash. The rest of the wedding gown melted away to the ground.
"Mizu Bunshin?" Kakashi pondered. A shadowy figure flashed on his far right.
"Sakura. Formation five", Kakashi said quickly before dashing from branch to branch after branch, in hot pursuit of the runaway assaulter.
Sakura jumped from the ground to well above treetops in a quick pink flash.
"Chie..." Sasuke muttered on the ground. She was most likely going to get all the good parts this time.
"What happened to that Naruto idiot though...?" He pondered and walked over to the remnants of a smoke cloud. Naruto's clothes were left there in a messy pile, but the dude himself was nowhere to be seen.
"Chu.. Chu..." a small voice interrupted Sasuke's examination of Naruto's clothing. It came from below the cloth pile.
"CHUU!" a small orange thing yelled when it got free from under Naruto's clothes.
"What the...?"
"Chu? It's me, you bastard-chu!!"
"It's you?"
"Yes-chu!!"
"Chu...?"
"CHUU!!"
Sasuke sighed quietly.
"Naruchu!!"
"Naruchu?"
"The lightning based house-working maid hamster-chu!!"
"Are you drunk or something?"
"What did you say-chu!!"
"Damn-chu!!"
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Sakura slid in the air over the treetops, and tried to locate where Kakashi was.
A flash of Chakra on the ground level caught her attention. She folded her wings slightly and dived in.
"Faiarii~!!" She yelled, and swung her magic wand down in a large arc. A decently sized fireball erupted from the wand and shot violently at the Chakra target mark placed by Kakashi.
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How will things develop on from here ?!?!?
Who is the mysterious blue-green-red-yellow-haired lady ?!?!?!
Did the Ahou Henge no Jutsu do irreversible damage to Naruto ?!?!?
Is Naruchu cuter than Naruto ?!?!?
What are the extents of Sakura's new powers !??!?!
Many interesting questions !! Many, many stupid answers !!! See you next time !!! Bye !!!
