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Crimson Rain.

Main Characters:

Team 7 Uzumaki Naruto Haruno Sakura Uchiha Sasuke - Hatake Kakashi

Team 8 Hyuuga Hinata Inuzuka Kiba Aburame Shino - Yuuhi Kurenai

Team 10 Yamanaka Ino Nara Shikamaru Akimichi Chouji - Sarutobi Asuma

Guest Characters:

Nara Shikato

Prologue

Scene: Hidden Village of Konoha. Jounin Meeting Room. Night.

Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma are seated around a table. "Kurenai, feeling ready for tomorrow? You'll have a big responsibility." Asuma asked. Kurenai replied, "Tomorrow will be a big event. I have got to prepare. I'll be going off first. Ja-ne!" Kurenai left. "Remember to meet tomorrow at 0500." Kakashi reminded Asuma boredly and teleported away.

Chapter 1

Scene: Hidden Village of Konoha. Naruto's bedroom. At 3 a.m.

Screams and shouts can be heard. Suddenly, a shuriken flew through Naruto's window and landed next to Naruto's head. This caused Naruto to awake.

"Waaaah! Nahn desuka?! What is going on?" Naruto shouted. Just as he peered out of the window, a kunai flew towards Naruto's head. Before Naruto could react, a shuriken hit the kunai and pinned it on the wall. Then, a voice could be heard, "Naruto! Get back in!". The owner of the voice pushes Naruto back into his room.

"Sasuke! What are you doing here?" inquired Naruto. "Baka. Can't you see that we are in a war?" Sasuke replied, feeling irritated with Naruto. "Nani?!" was all that came out of Naruto's mouth.

"I found Kakashi-sensei and he told me to get you and Sakura. Let's go!" Sasuke jumped out of the window as he said that. "Chotto matte! I've not change out of my pyjamas!"

Scene: Hidden Village of Konoha. Nara Household.

Shikato and Shikamaru were protecting their wife/mother respectively. "Shikamaru! Be prepared for any danger!" Shikato reminded his son. "Yeah, sure pops. This is so troublesome." Just then, a kunai flew in through the window straight towards Shikamaru. Shikamaru was about to dodge when Shikato jumped in front and caught it between his fingers. "See what I mean by being alert? Stay with me and protect your mother." Suddenly, a group of ninjas jumped into the Nara Household.

"Shikamaru! Protect your mother! Leave these ninjas to me! Kageshibari No Jutsu!" Shikato shouted to his son as he performed the shadow bind technique to restrict the enemies' silhouettes.

But due to the previous attacks, Shikato has lost a huge amount of chakra and is running low on it. The shadow bind technique is beginning to lose its effect and soon, then ninjas were able to move freely again.

"Prepare to die! Troops! Attack!" Unknown ninja #1 commanded his troops.

The group of unknown ninjas started attacking Shikato with their kunais. He was able to hold on for a while. But due to his weariness, Shikato couldn't hold on and was stabbed to death.

Shikamaru screamed in shock, "Otou-saan!"

Shikamaru then threw shurikens towards the unknown ninjas but they were easily blocked off. The unknown ninjas got angry and started attacking Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru! Run! Gather with your other teammates outside!" A voice suddenly called out.

It was his sensei's.

Shikamaru ignored his sensei's instructions and kneeled down beside his father's body. He stared at it. Tears started to drop from his eyes.

"Shikamaru! What is the rule?! Show no emotions at all times! A ninja has to complete he's mission right until the end! Mourn all you want after this ends! Konoha is in grave danger right now! Your father died a honorable death!" Asuma chided Shikamaru in a pitiful tone.

Shikamaru did not reply his teacher and just went out to gather with his teammates.

"Shikamaru, prove that you're not just made of IQ." Asuma thought worriedly.

Scene: Training area, forest

"I must finish this 500 kicks! This is my way of ninja!" Hinata shouted to herself as she trained. As she said this, she was thinking of Naruto. "Naruto-kun, I wonder how you are."

Suddenly Hinata heard footsteps. She readied herself with the Hyuuga Clan stance as she thought there was danger.

"Hinata! Stay where you are! It's Kiba and Shino!" a voice rang out.

"Kiba? Shino? Why were both of you running?" Hinata asked puzzled as her two teammates stopped in front of her.

"Away from the insane! There are lots of unknown ninjas attacking Konoha!" Shino said as he stopped.

"Yeah, we received instructions from Kurenai-sensei to gather here. But we had to find you first. We searched your house but no one was in there. So we figured you might be here." Kiba told Hinata. As they were talking, more footsteps could be heard.

"Sakura-chan! Hurry up! If not the ninjas will catch up!" A voice shouted. "That sounds like..." Hinata thought.

"Wakata Naruto!" Sakura shouted back to the voice. "What the heck does he take me for?!"

When Team 7 saw Hinata, Kiba, Shino, they were surprised. "Nani?! Why are you all gathered here too?" Naruto asked them.

More footsteps were heard. The faces of the footsteps slowly appeared

"Why were you all running away from us? We were shouting your names!" Chouji asked heatedly.

"Hee-hee. Gomen-nasai. I thought you all were the unknown ninjas chasing us." Naruto replied apologetically.

"Sasuke-kun! Why didn't you respond to my call?" Ino asked her crush. But Sasuke glared at Ino and did not answer her question.

"Ahhh! Sasuke-kun is looking at me!" Ino thought excitedly to herself. Sasuke ignores Ino and asked the other genins, "Are all of you gathered here by the orders of your senseis? Did they ask you to wait for them here?"

"Hai." All the genins except for Naruto and Sakura replied.

Scene: Jounin Meeting Point

Kurenai told the other two Jounins, "Well, it's all done here, lets go check on our teams." The 3 Jounins teleported to the training grounds.

Scene: Training area. Forest

The 9 Genins were sitted in their own personal space in the forest. Ino and Sakura are obviously trying to get close to the pacing Sasuke. The 3 Jounins finally arrived. "Yo Genins." Kakashi said in a hip tone.

"Kakashi-sensei! Anything so serious that you're not reading 'icha icha paradise'?" Naruto asked his sensei jokingly.

"Cut the crap. All Genins, please gather around us." Asuma said seriously. All the Genins gathered around Asuma. "Okay. I know that you all are wondering why we gathered you here. The reason is, we have a mission for you."

"Nani! A mission in the middle of chaos?!" Naruto asked. "Shut up Naruto! You're interrupting Asuma-sensei!" Sakura scolded Naruto. He immediately kept quiet.

"As i was saying, we have a mission for you. An A rank mission." Asuma continued.

"We are only Genins! What can we do? I mean, yeah, we've been through the Chunnin exam, but we didn't exactly pass it did we?" Naruto interrupted again. "Naruto! Stop interrupting! Anyway, yeah, you didn't pass it. But this is a great opportunity to train and to save Konoha!" Kakashi scolded Naruto.

Naruto made a face at Kakashi's back. "Giggles. Naruto-kun is so cute!" Hinata thought to herself.

"So, the mission goes like this. You all will try in your own ways to save Konoha. Fight with the Hokage, kill the enemies, whatever. And one more thing. You all must be separated in groups and you cannot be of the same team. Get it? That's all for now, disperse!"

The 9 Genins were discussing which group they should be in when the 3 Jounins teleported away.

"Heehee. Sakura! I get to be with Sasuke-kun!" Ino teased Sakura.

Ino runs towards Sasuke to stand beside him. When Ino reaches, Sasuke walks away "Sasuke-kun! Why are you so shy? Kawaii!" Ino thought.

"Shino?" Sasuke called.

"Okay. We need to get a girl. The only one left is..." Shino was telling Sasuke when he saw Ino walk towards Sasuke and him. "Speak of the devil."

(Team A: Sasuke, Shino, Ino)

"If that's Team A, then our teams would be more or less decided." Sakura announced to the others.

(Team B: Kiba, Chouji, Sakura. Team C: Shikamaru, Naruto, Hinata.)

"I get to be in the same team as Naruto-kun!" Hinata told herself happily.

"Let's go!" Sasuke said. The 3 teams disappeared to their own spaces.

Scene: Entrance of Konoha

"Let's go excavate the women and children shall we?" Sakura asked her new team. "I would have prefered a more action-packed activity. But, i've got two lousy members with me. Well, what can i do?" Kiba thought.

This is another fic of mine . i actually wrote this before the 'Naruto Takes Over' but posted it later than it. Read and review! Arigatou!