First Kiss-Chapter 37

"Feelings of happiness aren't true unless they are shown by pain."

AN: Woot woot updateness. Sorry for the shortness, but it was hard to make this chapter, hoepfully a longer one next week. Hope you enjoy.

"What?" said Sasuke as he sat at his desk, Shingen shook his head yes. "That. . .can't be true."

"It's not as farfetched as you may have thought, I was there, in Keito, when Kakashi's men ran through," said Shingen.

"Keito. . .Keito. . .Keito. . ."

"Your weapon supply is out. . ." said Shingen as he flipped a chair around, then sat in it. A bright, white, smile came from the shading that the eboshi created. "What are you going to do?"

"I don't see what's so funny about this Shingen."

"The funny thing is. . .Kakashi, the Hokage of the Leaf, one of the strongest ninjas in the world . . ." he laughed as he made his finger go around in circles, "is coming here, to kill us. Hell, we're not even on the map yet. The only reason people know about us is cause we declared like two towns ours, putting a small thorn in the side of the Sand, that's it. And I think that if the Sand wanted to kill us, they wouldn't send the Leaf, cause that'd just be. . .stupid." Another laugh came from him, as he sighed.

"You're right. . .why is he. . .hm. . .get Naruto, Mr. Tao, the rest of them, everyone, all the high ranking ninja, here. Now."

- - -

The people of Sachi, overwhelmed by joy, were now thrown into a fury once again. Running around, chores and chores were given to them. After finding that their greatest enemy, the Einizigartig, was found lost, and their new enemy, the ever-present Leaf.

As Naruto walked into the giant building, rain pushing down his hair. As he opened the door, heat greeted him, and it made him flinch from the sudden change. Hinata, Mr. Tao, Shino, and Aya were behind him, and as two other ninja followed them, they entered a dark room.

Inside, at the end of a long, black conference table, was Sasuke. Shingen sat, leaning against a wall, smoking on half a cigarette. "Sit. . ." said Sasuke, as the lights turned on. Naruto took a chair, the rest of the ninja following him.

"Alright, people," said Shingen, his eboshi sitting in the middle of the table. "Most of you have been noticing that the city has been preparing for war, and yeah, it is gonna be some pretty big stuff. But, the one thing you have to know is, the country we are gonna face is the one that most of you are from, the Leaf."

"What?!" said Naruto. "What the hell are they gonna do to us!? What did we do to them!?"

"What do we ever do?" said Shingen, putting his cigarette out. "I have no idea, all I know is that we have about. . .a day, two day tops before they are here. We have already found, captured, even killed some of their scouts, so yeah. And yeah, they've already found and taken Keito."

"What about Sen?" said Mr. Tao.

"From what knowledge we have, no, they haven't taken Sen."

"Alright. . .so, what are we here for? Battle plans?"

"Exactly! Mr. Tao, always the sharp one. Now, Sachi doesn't have any city walls, cause we never saw the use of them, of course, so no defending through our walls. Also, we can't do a one on one battle with these guys, they would tear us apart."

"What do you mean?" said Mr. Tao.

"Out of the ten greatest ninja in the world, apart from criminals, six are in the Leaf, three, the Legendary Three, are retired or dead, so that is nine that have at least come from the Leaf. So yeah. You should get it by now."

"What if. . .we. . .catch them by surprise?" said Hinata.

"Hm?"

"Well. . .when we got to the Einizigartig, the gates to the city, were, they were wide open, and no one was inside, moving at all. I thought of that, and I walked in aimlessly, I could have just been ambushed, but my instincts told me to move inside. Maybe it'll work on them."

"What are you saying, evacuate the whole city?"

"Not the whole thing, just our citizens, keeping the ninja to fight, and we can probably keep up a good fight if we knock down a lot of them off of surprise."

"Hm. . .maybe. . .maybe. From what I saw, there was at least three hundred of them. We have about one hundred ninja, five hundred other citizens, at last count. . .so. . .if we do take down a lot in the beginning, we can at least go down with a fight."

Naruto sat in his chair, staring at the desk, then looked up at Shingen. "No. . ." he shook his head back and forth. "No. . .we aren't gonna go down fighting. There's no chance to."

"What?"

"We aren't gonna go down fighting, we're gonna win."

- - -

"Hello?" said Kakashi as he knocked on a door, a cottage, in the middle of no where, nothing but green fields surrounded him and the house. The ninja weren't there, just him.

It opened, and a warm scene greeted him, a woman, in her robes, with black hair, and black eyes, and of most resemblance, that the lines under her eyes spoke of no sleep. She sighed, almost irrate at the task of having to speak. "Yes?" she said. Her voice was weak, and it did nothing to match her age.

"Are you. . .Rui?" she looked into his eye, giving him the same exact look that was staring deep into her soul.

"Yes."