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****** Chapter Three - New Territory, Three Ninjas of the Moon ******

As the mysterious ninja leaped towards the team of Genins the ninja soon trips over his scarf. The identity of this mysterious ninja turns out to be Konohamaru, the grandson of Hokage the third (Hokage the Third is now deceased from the battle with Orochimaru). After falling flat on his face, Konohamaru stands up and says, "There must be traps set up by the one man I respect". Naruto then replies and shouts, "There are no traps here you idiot"! Naruto asks, " Hey Konohamaru, what are you doing out here by yourself?" Konohamaru replies and says that he is training to become the next Hokage after Tsunade-sama." Konohamaru with a puzzled face then asks," Naruto where are you going?" Naruto answers, " We're on a mission". Konohamaru looking around for their teacher and asks, " Where is your teacher?" Naruto answers again, " Kakashi sensei won't be joining us because he has a lot of work to do since the village was attacked by Sand and Sound ninjas before." Sasuke interrupts and says, " We should hurry up if we want to get into the Shadow Country by nightfall." The three Genins say goodbye to Konohamaru and depart.

Eight hours have passed since they met Konohamaru. Sakura complains that she is tired and asks it they could take a ten-minute break. They soon all decide to take a little break. Five-minutes later, Sasuke with a keen eye notices that something is approaching with great speed. Naruto and Sakura unaware of this new presence are soon alerted as a Sasuke yells," Watch out!" A red colored kunai struck the ground where the three of them were sitting and suddenly a figure appears wearing a mask similar to a Hunter- Nin's mask (Looks like Haku's Mask) with three red diagonal slash marks and the figure is wearing red looking beads (similar to Miroku from Inuyasha) on both of his forearms and a forehead protector that was around the ninja's head that had the symbol of a tilted crescent moon that had three slashes running across through the moon symbol. Naruto yells out " Hahahahahaha! You missed you loser ". The mysterious ninja replies with a casual voice, " It's not good to call people names, or else bad consequences occur". Naruto puzzled says "What?" Sasuke looking at the red kunai sees that a paper is wrapped around the handle and yells " Sakura, Naruto run!" Without questions the three Genins run from the kunai. Soon after the kunai explodes. Sasuke then realizes that an exploding note was wrapped around the handle to make it explodes a two minutes later after it landed. The mysterious ninja looking at Naruto then says, " See, bad consequences happen". Naruto furious runs towards the ninja with red colored accessories and tries to attack him with a basic punch, but the ninja retaliates by using a taijutsu technique known as Zankoku Tekken into Naruto's face, which causes Naruto to soaring three feet away from where the ninja stood. The ninja then says, " The weak always strikes head on without thinking." Naruto with an anger look on his face couldn't get up from the last attack that he took. Sasuke then knows that mysterious ninja was powerful. Sasuke was about to begin his attack until he sensed a presence behind him. Sasuke then does a spinning kick that almost made contact with the unknown presence. Sasuke then turns around and sees another ninja with a hunter-nin mask but instead of red slash marks, the ninja had blue slash marks and wearing a Moon Village forehead protector on his right arm. The newly appeared ninja was wearing a glove on his left hand similar to Kakashi's and a black bracer on his right hand. Sasuke then asks," Who are you?" The ninja replies, "....." Sasuke begins to initiate his first attack by using his tremendous speed to try to attack the ninja off guard. Sasuke tries to land the first blow at the ninja's head, which was blocked by a simple guard with his forearm. He then immediately tries to execute consecutive attacks while using the Sharingan, and finds out that his attacks were blocked again and again, one after the other. Sasuke thinks that this new foe can see his attacks like how Sasuke can read other ninja's techniques using the Sharingan Eye of the Uchiha Clan. The ninja then makes two hand seals of ino (Pig) and tori (bird). Sasuke now activates his Sharingan and tries copy this jutsu that was used. Sasuke notices that he couldn't copy it and realizes that this ninja with the blue mask was from an advanced bloodline.

The ninja then says, "Ninpou Kageshogeki no Jutsu!" Sasuke is then sees a shadow growing from the ninja's shadow, engulfing his own and releasing a powerful shock that begins to drain his stamina. Sakura was very concerned with Sasuke's welfare; she begins to run towards him, until she couldn't move for some strange reason. Sakura then hears a soft voice that said," Ninpou Kaze-shibaru no Justu." Sakura notices that her body was paralyzed. She also sees another ninja that had a figure of a girl about her age, but this ninja was wearing green and had a hunter-nin mask, but with green slash marks and she had clothes like Sakura, but in the color green and had a green ribbon holding her hair into a ponytail. She also had the Moon Village forehead protector around here waist. The ninja girl then says," I won't let you interfere with my comrade's fight." Sasuke beginning to lose strength from the continuous shock from the Kageshogeki no Jutsu, he starts to lose his use of the Sharingan. Sasuke was now on the verge of being killed until a ninja yells out," Konoha Senpuu!" which almost made contact with the ninja with the blue mask, but the attack was simply evaded by a quick dodge. Sasuke's life was now saved by the appearance of another ninja.

Stunned by the appearance of the ninja, the three Genins from the Leaf Village recognize the attack and see that the fighter that saved Sasuke was Rock Lee. Rock Lee then asks Sasuke,"Are you okay?" Sasuke Replies, " yeah." Lee was then about to attack the ninja with the blue mask until the ninja with the red mask approaches Lee. The red masked ninja, noticing that Lee was an expert in Taijutsu begins to challenge him to a fight. The red masked ninja says, " We shall have a honorable fight, right here, right now." Lee accepts. They begin with a sprint towards each other and begin to send a barrage of fists towards each other but each fist was being blocked one by one, until the masked ninja uses the Zankoku Tekken on Lee. Lee blocks but the force from the technique sends Lee flying, but Lee immediately recovers from his last attack. The battle between Lee and the masked ninja with the red beads on his forearms begins to heat up and is watched by the other two ninjas from the moon and the other three ninjas from the leaf. The battle was going to continue until the ninja with the blue mask tells the red masked ninja to stop wasting time with the bowl- headed loser, since the Moon Ninjas already completed their mission. The red ninja then jumps to the side of his comrades and tells Lee that they will fight again in the future. The moon ninjas then begin to vanish one by one.

The red ninja says," we'll meet again."

The blue ninja just stands there and says, "...."

The green ninja in a cheerful voice says, " Bye, bye."

The three moon ninjas then vanish into thin air and are nowhere to be found. The three leaf Genins were now exhausted from their battle, now have an injured Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke then begins to ask why Lee was doing here. Lee replies by saying, " My team was assigned to look for the Moon Village." Naruto interrupts and says that his team had the same mission. Lee then tells them that the other two rookie teams are also on this mission. Lee was about to tell them more until he realizes that he was late to meet his fellow teammates Neji and Tenten. Lee waves good-bye and says; " I'll see you later." Lee runs off down the road faster and faster until he was out of sight.

The three Genins were now alone and decide to head in the direction that Lee went, but at a slower pace since now Naruto and Sasuke were now injured. As they travel they begin to wonder who were the three mysterious masked ones from the Hidden Moon and were curious about what was the mission of the moon ninjas. To find out what lies ahead of Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto, get ready for the next chapter of "Secrets of the Moon Village".

Jutsu Meanings

Zankoku Tekken- Brutal Iron Fist

Ninpou Kageshogeki no Jutsu- Ninja Art: Shadow Shock Technique

Ninpou Kaze-shibaru no Justu- Ninja Art: Wind Bind Techinque

Konoha Senpuu- Leaf Spinning Wind