Chapter three: Hi to omoi
"Hey! Slow down!"
Virgo smiled and blinked her visible eye. "Why? Too fast for you, little man?"
Edward glared at her and began to throw a signature tantrum. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT? I'M NOT SHORT! WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!"
"I never said any of that."
Virgo was quiet most of the time, not really caring that Alphonse and Edward were there. She hopped through the trees like a squirrel, making Alphonse and Edward run as fast as they could to keep up. However, she took great care to keep her headband over one eye, adjusting it whenever it threatened to slip. She needed to tie it tighter.
"What's with your eye?" Edward asked one time. "You keep trying to hide it."
"It's none of your business!" Virgo replied angrily. "This is why I hate you."
"You HATE me?"
"I've just decided that."
"You're SO amazingly shallow!"
"I'm SO amazingly taking you to the village!"
Their squabbles continued for a while, until they finally reached the village. All of the Hidden Leaf was out at the front gate, standing around it and staring as if they had never seen anything like it.
"Well, Scar's been here."
There was a huge hole in the door, nearly breaking it in half and cracking the nearby wall. Virgo looked at it in shock. She pushed through the crowd and ran her hand along the jagged edges of the hole, drawing in breath sharply when something cut her finger. "What could have done this?"
"A full-grown Ishvarite with a hate for alchemy and a cursed hand." Edward explained, pointing to his own.
A "What's alchemy?" rippled through the crowd, but soon subsided. No one really cared, as long as the culprit of this terrible deed was put to justice.
The team sent on the mission returned shortly after Edward finished explaining alchemy. It wasn't long before…
"WHAT HAPPENED?"
It was Scorpio, and her famous temperamental screech. "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOORS? We leave for three years and you COMPLETELY destroy the place? What is the MATTER with you ninjas?"
Kakashi appeared behind Virgo, with Jounin-level sneakiness.
Poink. So he poked her.
"HI VIRGO!"
"GYAHHGH!" Virgo fell over backwards, twitching and turning white. Kakashi picked her up and slung her over one shoulder.
"WHY THE HELL'D YOU DO THAT?" Scorpio shrieked.
"Virgo is the only one who wouldn't come in with us. Scorpio, where's Pisces?"
"Right here!" Pisces popped out of the bushes, Sundance following cheerfully. Kiba staggered out afterwards, grinning happily.
Shikamaru stared at him and said, "What did you do to Kiba?"
Pisces winked. "Find out."
"Listen, your siblings are inside. I suggest you go in to Tsunade's office before they all get bored." Kakashi ordered.
"Whatever…" Scorpio sighed.
"Virgo! Kakashi, you dolt, what did you do to Virgo?"
Taurus grabbed his sister and set her down in a chair, just as she came around.
"I poked a pressure point. No big deal, Taurus."
Two giant horns grew out of Taurus's forehead. "Kakashi…"
"Hey, hey, hey!" Gemini stepped between them. "Don't kill him, Taurus."
"Let him, Gem!" Aries sniffed. She turned the page of a random jutsu book she found on Tsunade's bookcase.
"Shut up, chidori-girl!"
"You, rasengan freak!"
Aries and Gemini generated chakra and created chidori and rasengan in their hands. "YOU ASKED FOR IT!" Gemini screamed.
They dove at each other. At that moment, Virgo sprang up and slapped her palms into the chidori and rasengan, suppressing it back into the creator's hand. "You wanna kill each other or what? Sit down, both of you!"
"Yes, Virgo…"
Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other.
"Did you just see…" Sasuke began, pointing.
"How do you…" Naruto stopped mid-sentence. Some weird girl was staring at him, with black eyes. Her ENTIRE eye was black, like byakugen.
"Can I help you?" He asked.
"Step to the side."
"What?"
"MOVE!"
Naruto stumbled to the side. The girl reached out and snatched the needle out of the air. "Sagittarius, what's your problem? Aiming for a vulnerable spot like that!"
"Oh, so it was vulnerable. I was just guessing, I don't have freaky-ass eyes like you."
Libra glared. Then she turned her eyes to Naruto. "Sorry. Sagittarius is just a smartass."
Naruto blushed. He never had a cute girl talk to him nicely before.
Libra stood up from her chair and walked over to Sagittarius. With a shing, she dug the needle into her sister's eye.
Naruto and Sasuke gasped. But Sagittarius disappeared and reappeared in the doorway, fine. "WHAT THE HECK! You killed my shadow clone KABETCHAMETARRGH grr…"
"Nice new word, Sagit. I'll add it to your dictionary."
Naruto's eyes bugged out. She's cute, nice AND smartassed. She's perfect. He thought. And she's prettier than Sakura! With a smaller forehead! And she's NOT a boy! (A/N: If you saw the Naruto episode or read the manga chapter with Haku in it, you'll know what I'm talking about.)
Libra turned to Naruto, realizing he was staring at her. "What?" Inner Libra: OHMYGOD he is so hot… Even his WHISKERY THINGS are adorable! Eek!
Libra glared. "Fine, whatever. BE silent."
A second Sagittarius darted into the room. "TSUNADE'S COMING EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN!"
Everybody sat down except Virgo and Scorpio and Pisces, because they were too good for Tsunade, and they were too indignant to 'bow down to any damn leader' as Scorpio put it.
"Hello, everyone. Thank you, Kakashi, for bringing them here." Tsunade nodded at Kakashi and glared at Capricorn, who was unluckily sitting at her desk. He smiled nervously and moved to sit somewhere else. Everyone bowed and said, "Hello, Hokage Tsunade." Well, everyone bowed except for Pisces, Scorpio and Virgo who, if you were paying attention earlier, don't 'bow down to any damn leader.'
Capricorn, unable to find another seat, looked pleadingly at Pisces. Pisces smiled and stood up, moving to sit on Kiba's lap. Kiba blushed but said nothing. Naruto just snickered then looked back at Libra, whose eyes were still black.
"It's called burusugan," Scorpio whispered in his ear. "I'll tell you about it later."
"Thank you all for coming. I've assembled all of you to go on a VERY important mission. Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, Neji, Chouji, Virgo, Pisces, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Capricorn and Cancer, you have all been chosen to go on this. You shall leave the village with Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric…" Here she looked at Edward and Alphonse and muttered, "Yes, I knew you were coming." Then resumed. "and find the runaway fugitive, Scar. By what Edward says he is very dangerous and shall not be dealt with lightly. You will all probably kill him with ease. But he—"
Suddenly, Cancer whipped something out of his pocket—A green and yellow gourd— and said, "I HEART MY GOURD!"
Tsunade and everyone just stared at him.
"O…Kay… well, he could have teamed up with Orochimaru, promised something like the death of all state alchemists, or whatever. Be careful. You are dismissed."
As everyone left, Tsunade grabbed Virgo's arm and said harshly, "Virgo. Do NOT use the hi to omoi jutsu. I don't want you dead."