Narichi
The air was warm and the sun began to set from its place of high noon. The children were weary from a long morning of training, but their spirits still full of life. It was the day after Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto had passed their first test from their new sensei Kakashi, and they had already started out on their next adventure.
Sakura was flirting like always with Sasuke whom she can never win, and Naruto still trying to get her affection. A gentle breeze went by, Kakashi stopped to enjoy it briefly, as his students pressed on towards the village. He looked around almost as if it reminded him of something, then he continued on. Sakura skipped a little ahead of the group, trying to avoid Naruto.
She found herself in a small clearing among the vast forest with cover their land. The air around her grew cold and the wind brushed past her sending small chills up her spine. The bushes in front of her shook, she screamed, "Sasuke!" Sasuke and Naruto ran ahead yelling, "What is it!" "Some, some things in the bushes," she said moving closer towards Sasuke. "It's probably nothing," he said pushing her off, "you are really hopeless, you know."
The bushes shook again, and then the bushes that surrounded them began shacking. "What is it?" asked Naruto taking out a kunai knife. ""Don't know, but were about to find out," said Sasuke as he and Sakura got prepared for a fight. The bushes stopped shacking and they saw quick movement among the trees, a figure began to move in circles around them, the figure moved so fast it looked like there were two or three of them. The wind blew and began to pick leaves spiraling around them and clouding their vision.
The figures stopped and everything just slowed down and became quiet. Some thing jumped out into the clearing from the bushes. Naruto and Sasuke threw their kunai knifes towards it. A weak cry yelled out, and the sound of metal hitting metal was heard. The boy's kunai knifes hit each others and flung towards the trees. Naruto and Sasuke looked irritated because they did the same thing at the same time.
Sakura said, "Oh my god," and ran towards the figure that lay in front of the bushes. Sasuke and Naruto looked over towards where Sakura was. There was a small white cat that was in shock from the almost deadly experience it just over came. Sakura was comforting it and Naruto rushed over and apologized to Sakura.
"Naruto you baka, look what you've done to this poor cat. You could have killed it," Sakura said hitting Naruto over the head. "I'm sorry, but if I didn't throw my knife then Sasuke would have killed it," he said trying to pin the blame on Sasuke. "Shut up! Sasuke wouldn't ever do something as stupid as that," Sakura said angrily. "Well looks like he did!" Naruto said looking as if he'd won some contest.
'Wham!' "Ouch! Why'd you hit me?" Naruto asked sorely. "Because you deserved it!" Sakura said. Sasuke at this point was filled with mixed emotions, irritation, suspicion, and more irritation. Sasuke mumbled, "Ok first, I threw my knife because there's no way that cat made all of that commotion just now, and second, which really irritates me was how Naruto's knife was able to match mine!"
Naruto looked up towards Sasuke rubbing his head, "Huh? You say something Sasuke?" Sasuke turned away quickly, "No," he then turned towards Sakura and glared at the cat fiercely. The cat saw this and cried, then curled up in Sakura's arms. "Oh there's nothing to be afraid of," Sakura comforted it with passion.
Sasuke watched it carefully, the cat looked at him, and Sasuke was surprised to see a smile appear on the cat's face. "There's definitely something weird about that cat. I can only wait till it makes a move," thought Sasuke watching it closely.
Naruto walked up to Sakura and the little kitten, he reached over to pet it, when the cat hissed at him. "Look I'm really sorry about earlier little fel'la!" Naruto said talking to the cat. Sakura turned away saying, "It probably knows a baka when it sees one. Don't you Whiskers." She cuddled it more, Naruto almost felt jealous of it. He reached over and stroked the cat. 'Chomp!' Naruto screamed "I'll kill the damn thing," as he pulled his hand away. Sakura hit him to make that thought disappear from his mind if he had one.
"Naruto cool it down, you block head. It's your fault anyways, you always are supposed to back down from animals if they show their warning signs, you know like when a rattle snake rattles its tail." "Oh I see, the snakes just like your bad side and Sasuke in general," remarked Naruto with little idea of the rage that could bring to his destruction.
A dark aura rose from Sakura the kitten jumped from her arms, and then it ran across the clearing, and was Naruto still unaware of the forces about to destroy him. Moment's later the kitten returned to Sakura and received large amounts of attention. Sakura then walked away from the pummeled Naruto, which no one could tell if it was the real thing or some really sorry dummy. Of course Sasuke and Sakura could care less about what Naruto looks like.
Just then Kakashi entered the clearing, he was a little curious to why Naruto looked like a bloody pulp. Sasuke paid no attention and Sakura gave in saying, "He totally deserved it, he almost killed this poor cat." Sakura then cuddled her new friend up in a hug. Kakashi glanced to see it when he caught Sasuke's suspicious glare towards the cat. "What are you jealous?" Kakashi said joking because Sasuke could get that from almost any girl. "No!" Sasuke said trying to ignore him.
Kakashi went back and was surprised when he looked at Sakura. He then asked, "Let me see it for a moment?" "Sure!" said Sakura handing it over to Kakashi. He took it by its neck and Sakura said, "Don't pick it up like that you could…" 'Snap" "Hurt it…" slowly finished Sakura as she saw Kakashi had snapped the kitten's neck back.
Blood gushed out and trickled down the lifeless cat's tail. Its fur once snow white was now stained in blood red. The three children were shocked, Sakura turned away as Kakashi dropped its remains on the ground, and then Naruto yelled, "What the hells your problem!"
Sasuke was surprised and appalled, by his sensei's actions, and only wondered about his reasons. Kakashi stood there exchanging stares until he finally gave up and said, "If you none of you saw thought that illusion then you all should go back to the academy for more training."
"What, are you talking about?" they said confused. Sakura turned back towards Kakashi and examined the remains. She saw no blood, no cat, no nothing. All that was there was a twig snapped in half.
Sakura started to build up with rage and disgust. "Is this your idea of some sick test, or do you just enjoy torturing people?" Sakura saw Kakashi almost smile then finished, "Don't answer that! Now I don't care what you say, but you have no right to ever do such an inhuman, mentally gruesome, stomach disturbing, evil trick again."
Kakashi almost laughed but then said, "Ok calm down, first of all you were cuddling a stick. What was I supposed to do, let you take it home and let you take it home and let people see you treating a stick like a pet. Oh, and on a more important topic I didn't do this evil, inhuman, and hurling trick on you." "Umm…you forgot mentally gruesome," said Sakura trying to make everything perfect.
"What ever, it doesn't really matter cause all of you seem mentally disturbed," remarked Kakashi knowing perfectly well she couldn't do anything to him unlike Naruto. Sakura was filled with rage, and Naruto and Sasuke look quite pissed too of course Naruto was still recovering from his experience. "Well, if you didn't do it then who did?" asked Sasuke while Sakura calmed her self down by taking it out on Naruto again.
Kakashi stopped fooling around and said, "Oh, well it was her." Kakashi looked past them and up. Sasuke turned and saw quick movement. It was to fast to trace, and then scanned the trees for any other movement. Sakura stopped pounding Naruto and joined Sasuke.
They heard laughing and turned towards to see a woman sitting high up in a tree. She looked about in her twenties; she had medium length brown hair, which was tied back into a high ponytail, and she had a leaf Hitai-ate headband covering her forehead. She wore a knee length green dress, which resembled an ukata without sleeves and a cross over lacing up the sides of her dress. It had her clan symbol in black, stitched into the bottom right corner of her dress, with kind of a breeze design. She also had on a black mask separate from her dress (similar to that of Kakashi's).
She was trying as hard as possible to prevent herself from laughing hysterically which could cause her to lose her balance. Calming down she said, "I sorry, I couldn't help myself. You guys were just asking to be played with, so I did it. Though it would have been more interesting if Kakashi-kun here didn't end things so quickly."
Kakashi was surprised, and Sakura and Sasuke were quite suspicious. Naruto waking up from his painful experience stood up and said, "Hey, what's going on, what are you all staring at?" He turned and saw the woman sitting high in the tree, "Huh? Hey Kakashi-sensei who's this?" Kakashi was surprised, he looked like he was battling about a million questions, one of which was, "I recognize that voice, but who is she?"
The woman saw this and was quite surprised, and then hoped down 100ft from her seat till she landed safely on the ground. "I am very sorry, I thought you might remember me after all theses years Kakashi-kun, but then allow me to introduce myself properly," she said bowing.
Very cheerful she said, "My name is Kazekami, Narichi. I'm 22 years old, and I was born and raised in Konohagakure village until I passed the Chunin exams, and I have been living in another village for the last 9 years. Oh, and as of last week I became a Jounin shinobi. Now I'm currently on vacation so I decided to come back home to see some old friends. But it seems they don't remember me." She slowly pulled her mask down, and Kakashi looked quite surprised when he saw who she was.
"Narichi!" Kakashi looked really shocked. Naruto looked around and said, "So is she's an old friend of yours Kakashi-sensei?" Sasuke and Sakura hit Naruto over the head and said "quite!" Sasuke was very suspicious to Kakashi's reaction, and Sakura was curious to see what kind of past they had, one girl to another.
"Well long time no see. So now your teaching Genin twerps, that's a big jump down from being an Anbu don't you think?" Narichi said. Kakashi was still a little surprised when he said, "No. But, look at you. You've grown a lot over the years, and now you're a Jonin. But I have to wonder, do you think now you could match me?" He smiled.
Narichi flinched slightly at his remark and said, "I don't know, that kind of depends how much you've learned over are years apart. But I think it would also be best if we didn't get into a big match at the start of my vacation." "So you're afraid," Sasuke remarked looking her strait in the eyes were he saw some insecurity.
"Maybe, but then again you could also consider me being wise. I did just become a Jonin, and Kakashi-kun here been one for years. Not to mention how strong I knew he once was and now he almost a mystery to me. But enough about me, how about you three kids you've all been insulted more than once now." Narichi smiled when she saw him twitch.
"I saw it in your eyes how much you dunces wanted to try me on, and besides it would be fun to see students of Kakashi-kun in battle. I've heard quite a lot you over the years Kakashi-kun," she remarked trying to bring sparks in them.
The three of them were quite pissed. Sakura and Sasuke thought, "How dare you put me on the same level as Naruto!" and Naruto thought, "Dunce, Dunce, Dunce, Dunce! Why does everyone call me that! I'm not a dunce!" Except his thoughts were much lauder then that of Sasuke and Sakura's. (He yelled this)
"Well, if I were you I would defend my honor and prove it to me boy!" she said egging them on. They glanced at Kakashi, he nodded. Turning towards her Naruto yelled, "Your on!"