Hehe, here once again to post another Chapter of the VoHL!
Disclaimer (again): We as in Kiachu Mamoji and I do not own Naruto though we wish, but the characters of Mitch, Heather, Kira and Selina belong to us.
Gaara seemed rather confused on what happened in the past few seconds. "Didn't...the Lady Hokage inform you?" he calmly said as Kankuro and Temari appeared at his side. "Why the hell did ya ditch us?" Temari scoffed, giving her "brother" a slit-eye glare. Kankuro showed his usual smile as he then noticed Kira.
"Eh? So these are the shinobi you were talking about Gaara?" he said as he approached Kira and examined her usually similar face paint. The Doujutsu user closed her eyes and gave a slight grin, scratching the edge of her cheek in embarassment. "So much alike..." Kankuro murmured as he gave his observation then noticing her forehead protector and a few minutes time... "Yep, it's them" he signaled to Gaara.
Selina looked at the three Sand nin and then at Cell 7. "Seems like they know each other...they are not enemies" she thought as she flicked her wrist. The needles turned into one again, as the girl adjusted it perfectly in her hair.
"So...you're looking for them...too? What is up with the Sand's Kazekage?" Naruto said pouting towards the sky. The three nin fell silent. Gaara was the first to break the silence. "The Kazekage...is dead. I'm taking up his place and re-signing the peace treaty between the Suna and Konoha Villages" he said calmly. Naruto seemed confused still. "But, how do THEY fit into the picture? They're not from the Villages of the Hidden Leaf OR Sand!" the blonde shinobi whined some more.
Heather cleared her voice. A small gentle "ahem" was all she needed to get the two jounnin, the new Kazekage, and the 7 other genins attention. Ready to make a long speech, she explained the situation to everybody. "Due to the death of the past Suna Kazekage, the peace treaty between the Suna and Konoha Villages is now no longer active. Thus, Kazekage Gaara I believe has come to re-sign this contract and keep the peace between these two villages. Your Hokage, Tsunade" Heather said, motioning her palm towards Cell 7. "Has chosen this particular time to also form a treaty with our village, Hikari, the Village of Hidden Light. We are representing our village leader, and signing in his place." Heather finished as she then looked at Naruto's face...that now held a face of: "Did she have to use all those complicated words?" but it was clear that he did understand the girl's explanation. Selina sighed. "Well, Ms. Know it all once again proved she really does...know it all..." she said as Sakura then spoke up.
"Village of Hidden Light? Hikari Village?" she inquired as Kakashi's eyes widened as he suddenly gained interest in this conversation. Everyone except the Light Shinobi raised in eyebrow in confusion, looking at the strange, mysterious shinobis.
"Was there such thing as another Hidden Village?" Naruto thought. Questions were building up in the young shinobi's minds. I've been wondering about that forehead protector of theirs..." Sasuke sulked as usual. "Amazing, another Hidden Village...HOW COULD I NOT KNOW THIS!" Inner Sakura ranted on about the topic.
Sakura put on a normal smile as she spoke to her counterpart, Heather. "So, your customs of your village must be different, seeing how your team consists of three females and, through previous encounters with Leaf Shinobi Cells, Gai, Asuma and Kurenai senseis, as well as Gaara's team, consists of two male and female shinobis...How is it that yours has an all girl team?" she spoke as Inner Sakura laughed maniacally.
Heather looked shocked as she turned to her teacher. "M-Mitch-sensei?...Would you like to a-answer this question p-please?" she stuttered she said looking quite embarassed.
"I was wondering when this question would arise..." Selina thought as she crossed her hands once more. "Um...well you see.." Mitch started as he uneasily took in the question. "I asked for an all-girl cell" he finished as Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura jumped backwards away from the jounnin in shock. "Pervert..." the word crossed through each gennins minds as they stared in horror at Mitch.
"And so it's been revealed.." Kira giggled silently as she watched the sky full of flying birds.
"Now that's out of the way, I only now realize having two out of the three people to sign this peace treaty...there is eventually someone out there who will try to stop it..." she thought as she then grabbed two of her spikes and flicked both wrists so both arms had eight spikes total. She was constantly looking at all sides of the forest, just in case. Deep in concentration...deep in concentration..."Hey Selina! Why are you all tense like that!". Concentration Lost. Mitch, Kira and Heather looked at the genin with smiling faces on as they blocked their path and made the whole smiling gig and "Where are you? Join in!" face. "Idiots...Idiots! Idiots! Idiots!" she snapped at them in her mind. She cooled herself down and continued her concentration.
"Well, she's acting awfully weird..." Kira observed, she could care less about her rival. Though, something made her fell uneasy. Why did her partner have EIGHT of her spikes out? Kira knew her long enough to know that Selina never took out eight of her needles unless something was really up. She soon found out.
Something grazed past Naruto's cheek. AGAIN. "WHAT IS UP WITH PEOPLE TRYING TO CUT ME ON THE FACE!" he yelled in fury as a kunai was inplanted in a tree. "Here we go again..." Kira thought. But her theory was wrong. More came...and even more, hundreds, thousands...only Kira could possibly tell her with her Doujustu. It was raining kunais. "I guess you're not the only one" Kira joked to Naruto as she watched as the sharp knives came closer...and closer...
Something blocked their path. It was...yet another wall of sand. Gaara managed to protect them all with his sand, leaving a clean circle in its place. Nearby bushes began to rustle again. "THE BUSHES! THEY'RE ALIVE I TELL YOU!" Heather whined again as she hid behind Mitch. But what came out...wasn't what ANY of them expected...
Thousands...of Shinobi surrounding the group. Examining it closer..."SHINOBI FROM THE SOUND!" Sakura yelled, noticing a musical note on each and every one of their forhead protectors. Before anyone could being to worry, Selina took action. "KIRA! Tell me how much people are there!" she commanded. This was no time to stall. Concentrating hard, Small bulging lines appeared along the sides of Kira's eyes, as the Doujutsu began to work its special magic. "They're as big as fifteen meters in diameter, each one spaced around 2 feet!" she declared.
For Selina's plan to work, she needed some more help from her partners. "HEATHER! Work as fast as you can to find the best hiding spot from it!" she said, as she gave the girl a suspicious look. Heather nodded as she understood, and closed her eyes to think. In an instant, she opened them and motioned everyone to follow her. "COME! THERE ISN'T MUCH TIME BEFORE SHE UNLEASHES IT!" she said as all of them began to evacuate to the nearest bush, away from the Sound nin, but in a safe place away from Selina.
"Time to work...Kira got to steal the spotlight the first time, but now it's my turn" she thought as she moved her fingers together in a certain pattern and yelled choice words that Naruto clearly understood. "KAGE NO BUSHIN JUTSU!" as five other clones appeared in their own individual puffs of smoke.
From the corner of her eye, Kira saw Heather...calculating. "Eight times Five...equals forty...Forty needles" she whispered to her friend as everyone still kept their eyes on Selina.
The Selina clones began to move their hands in certain patterns, yet the timing between each clone matched perfectly. When they were finished, each of the six Selina's pointed the needles at their master in their fingers, then released it the other way, spreading their hands out and releasing forty needles into the air. The Selina's then began to chant, their hands doing motions again.
From there, the needles began to "dance" going awkward ways that normal needles couldn't. They would slash an opponent, then while in midair, change course, and stick themselves in another opponent. "DANCE OF A THOUSAND NEEDLES!" the Selina's yelled out as her needles began to go beserk, going in awkward patterns and finally, eliminating the shinobi.
The group came out of their hiding place, to find dead Sound nin surrounding their position. The clones of Selina grew into one as the needles undid themselves from the corpses and return to her hand.
"Huh...How?" Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura said, looking at the girl, but Naruto seemed most confused that another could use his special "Shadow Clone" technique. Heather, once again, took the reigns. "Selina's needles are controlled by her chakra. She can command them to her own will. Though her limit of needles she can hold are 16, two rounds, eight needles. That's why she uses the Shadow Doppelganger technique to multiply her chances of controlling her weapons." Heather explained, smiling as usual like nothing was wrong.
Kakashi bent over a single shinobi and placed two fingers next to the neck. Dead. He stood up and gave Selina a serious look. "How did you kill them so quickly?" he said, looking down upon the young girl.
Heather was about to explain, but despite the seriousness of the conversation, she decided to butt out. "My family...is a line of skilled poisons masters" Selina started as she showed Kakashi a needle. A thick purple substance was dripping from the tip. "Injection is the best way for poison to get in..thus why my choice weapon is needles controlled by chakra. I learned how to channel both chakra and poison throughout the needles so it's a unpredictable, deadly weapon..." she said calmly.
"This girl is just like Sasuke...deadly...and full of seriousness..." Kakashi observed from afar as the girl shinobi asked her teacher if they could move on...before another ambush commenced while they were stalling.
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Ayame Kawahara