"Hurry, get her to the couch!" ordered Tsukila. Kakashi picked up the unconscious Kisuna and gently laid her onto the couch. "What is it?" asked Sakura. She picked up the bottle. "There's no label." she commented. "Let me see," Naruto said and grabbed the bottle. He sniffed it. Suddenly Naruto's body dropped to the floor with a loud thud. "Ahh! Naruto!" screeched Sakura. Kakashi studied his face.
Kakashi held up the bottle and held it to his face. "No! Master Kakashi! Don't! It might be poison!" shrieked Sakura. Kakashi sniffed it.
Nothing happened.
"It's... ink."
Tsukila sighed. "Oh, thank goodness! I was so scared!" she exclaimed with great emphasis. Sakura blinked and asked, "What do you mean?" Kakashi put the bottle down. "Mistress has a very sensitive nose and is allergic to ink." Sakura nodded, now understanding. "Then why would that affect Naruto?" Sasuke pondered. Tsukila shrugged. "I do not know. Maybe he is also allergic? Mistress uses a very raw brand, with hardly any artificial stuff. She hates artificial things."
"How come?" asked Sakura. Once again the little girl shrugged. "She just can't stand them." Sasuke stared at the bottle. 'Strange...'
"Tsukila-Chan, can you get our guest some tea?" Kisuna asked, now reawoken. "Quick recovery." Kakashi said. Tsukila nodded and ran off to fix some tea. A soft moan escaped Naruto's throat. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Where am I?" he asked. "You're at my house, just outside the Irrelevant Village of Smoke. Remember?" Kisuna told him.
"Yeah, you're that assassin girl we've come to get rid of on our mission." Naruto said groggily. Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke's eyes widened and thier jaw dropped in a silent scream. Kakashi suddenly had the urge to choke Naruto. Sakura stared at Naruto like he had just set off a bomb in the house. (Inner Sakura: Naruto! You dumbass! How could you! You just told Kisuna exactly what we're here for! You idiot!)
Kisuna arched an eyebrow at them. "Oh, really?" she asked. Naruto's eyes widened once he realized what he had said. "Oops..." Kisuna smirked but her eyes widened when she looked to the doorway. "Tsukila-Chan...." she whispered. The little girl stood in the doorway. Her face was ghostly pale.
"You... want to take... Mistress away?" she asked. Her eyes started to tear up. "No, no! They were just talking about a job offer!" Kisuna said and leapt from the couch to a kneeling place in front of Tsukila. An instant smile replaced the tears on Tsukila's face. "I see. Here is your tea." She quickly served the three then Kisuna. "Thank you." Sakura said. Kakashi thanked her. Naruto stared into Tsukila's eyes before accepting his cup. "Thanks," he mumbled.
"Do not worry. I did not put poison into the tea. I not know how, even if I did, I wouldn't have done it. Never, it's disrespectful to Mistress's name." Tsukila affirmed this to Naruto. He smiled at her. "Tsukila-Chan, I think there's a few dust bunnies under your bed. I bet they're hiding something." Kisuna said. "They are!?" squealed Tsukila. "I gotta go find what it is!" The girl ran off to her room.
"What business do you have with me?" asked Kisuna in a much more serious tone of voice. Naruto was shocked at how easilyu her personality changed. "We come from the Konohagakure village. And..." Kakshi began but he didn't finish. Kisuna interuppted him. "And you've been paid to come here and get rid of me because I'm an assassin and it's giving the village a bad name. Correct?"
"That's why they want you out of here?! We came all the way here just because they're afraid to get a bad name on thier village when nobody knows it even exsists!?" Naruto yelled. Kisuna nodded.
"They need you to get rid of Mistress because they couldn't find an assassin that was good enough to kill her."
'Hm?' Naruto turned to see Kohaki leaning onto the doorframe. His body was drenched in sweat. A large, purple ring surrounded his eye.
"Kohaki!" exclaimed Kisuna. She soared from her seated posistion to him. "What happened to you?" she asked. "Kohaki?" asked Naruto. "Oh, I sent him to go get some herbs when we thought something major bad happened to Kisuna..." Sakura mused.
"I... it's okay, Mistress. But what happened to you?" Kohaki asked softly. Kisuna gasped. "It was just ink! Nothing for you to be beaten for!" she said. Sakura and Naruto gasped. "Beaten?" Kakashi asked. Kohaki hung his head low. "Kohaki! Who did it!?" demanded Kisuna.
"I... I..." Kohaki stuttered. "Kohaki!" commanded Kisuna. "Sakeda." whispered Kohaki. "The merchant?" Kohaki nodded. Kisuna stood and walked outside. "Mistress don't!" Kohaki called after her.
"Kakashi! You've got to stop her. If you don't there's no telling what she may do!" Sakura wailed. Kohaki nodded. "you have to bring her back here or she'll get herself killed." Kohaki said softly. "Sakura, you tend to Kohaki's wounds." Kakashi ordered. "Sasuke, you stay here and watch over Sakura and the two kids. And, Naruto..." Naruto looked up at Kakashi. "Yeah?" he asked. "You go after her." Naruto's eyes widened. "You're trusting Naruto to retrieve Kisuna?" asked Sasuke. Kakashi nodded. "I'm going to deal with this 'Sakeda' person." With that Kakashi ran off.