Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. But the original character and ideas are mine.
AN: finally I got done with this blasted chapter. Sorry for the wait guys, now on with the story!
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Chap. 2
Gai and company were leaping and bounding from tree to tree, making their way up north. Silence was among the quartet, while the sound of birds and rustling leaves was deafening. Gai was already beginning to think of a plan to capture the missing nin. While the other three were wondering who Ryuji was. Lee being the curious one had to break the silence. "Gai-Sensei, who is this Ryuji person?" Lee asked. Gai paused for a moment, reluctant to reveal what he's heard about the infamous ninja. He took in a deep breath before the plunge of what his old subordinates were about to hear.
"Ryuji, as you know is a missing nin from the hidden cloud village." Gai began, "He was the genius of genjutsus. Some of his illusion techniques were so powerful and effective that they became forbidden techniques. But something happened that caused the horrendous crimes that made him a missing nin."
He breathed a moment and looked at his subordinates, who were taking in every word whilst moving from branch to branch with haste. "What did he do?" Tenten chirped, ducking her head from a low branch.
"Ryuji massacred an entire boarding school that was for young orphans and killed many top jounins along with other missing nin that tried to follow him but were caught. Only he escaped and never was heard from again."
"He slaughtered children? That's terrible." Lee commented, horrified.
"So what kind of genjutsus would he use?" Neji asked.
"I heard that he would usually use the kind that would paralyze the opponent. So then he can have his way. And another one of his favorites is Kokuangyo no jutsu. But he was desperate then he would use one of his forbidden genjutsus and kill them off."
"Have you heard of any of the genjutsus before?" Tenten asked interestedly.
"Unfortunatly no."
"Then let's begin to form a strategy to capture this Ryuji." Neji said finally. Lee and Tenten agreed while Gai only nodded. The quartet leaped down from canopy top and began to devise a plan.
All was silent in the northern part of Fire country. Four dark blurry figures were moving at high speed through the forest green. Each blurry blob was scanning the area. After a few minutes all of them skidded to a halt. The four blurry figures were actually people, and all were male. Three were fairly young and one was in late thirties. The three were wearing the Sound uniform, while the one was clad in a creamy brown tunic, forest camouflage pants with a black sash tied around the waste, and last but not least the ninja shoes. He had shoulder length black hair and dark cold eyes.
"So this is the area where our sound nins keep disappearing to." Said one sound nin, called Akio. Another sound nin named Botan answered. "I guess so." He replied.
"Hm, this place doesn't look dangerous." The third nin boasted, going by the name of Goro.
"Don't be fooled, we've lost many ninja in this forest," The leading ninja said gruffly and the three fell mute. "This is called Moriko forest. There were once stories that a mysterious being protected the forest from looters and those who hunted game. And whoever entered the forest never returned."
"Yeah, but were at the edge, were not going any further into the forest are we boss?" Botan asked.
"Don't tell me that you believe in that fairytale." Goro jeered.
"I'll just kill whatever's in there if we go in." Akio simply stated.
"I don't believe in fairytales either, but whatever's in there that is killing off the sound ninja we're going to capture it and use it to wipe out Konoha." The boss said finally.
"Those were Orochimaru's orders, and you're the best for it," Akio replied.
"After all, you are the infamous Ryuji."
Ryuji smirked, at being called infamous. But his expression quickly changed and became alert. "I sense someone coming." He began. Soon the other three were alert as well.
"Start making traps."
The trio nodded and scattered in all directions to setup traps for the incoming victim or victims.
Kaida was meditating in the waterfall to empty her mind of all thoughts and distractions. Like the ninjas that kept entering her territory more frequently than usual and of course killing them all. Most were bearing a symbol of a sound note on their forehead protectors.
Sometimes she would catch some of their conversations. Many times she would hear about a man called Orochimaru, and what he was trying to do. Other times she would hear about a "Chosen one" and how special he is.
She began to think. "Pathetic humans, such a nuisance you are. You should have learned by now not to venture in Moriko forest. You get in the way of my training and you scare away the animals. How much longer until you stupid humans realize that you will die as soon as you step foot in my territory."
After about a half hour of meditating and venting, she dried herself off, putting on her training garb(white bandages holding down her breast, cream colored shirt, brown draw string pants and weighted ninja shoes) and grabbing some training gear. She went off to her personal training ground to stretch, train and to learn a new jutsu from the many scrolls that her sensei kept.
Team Gai were getting much closer to the northern part of Fire country. They had already devised a plan to capture Ryuji and also thought of the many obstacles that could get in their way and ways of getting over them.
Neji was scanning through the area with his three hundred and sixty degree vision when he suddenly came to an abrupthalt. "Neji what is it?" Tenten asked earnestly.
"What do you see?" Lee pressed. Neji paused a moment to clarify what he has seen. "I see four people. Sixty meters north east, they're resting."
Neji then noticed and exploding tag twenty meters ahead. "There are traps already setup." Neji finished.
"So they noticed our presence already eh?" Gai mused, deep in thought for a millisecond then flashed the 'good guy' pose. "Yosh! We avoid the traps and give them the surprise attack of youth!" He exclaimed, revealing a row of sparkly teeth. Lee chimed in. "They won't know what hit them Gai-Sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-Sensei!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"If you do that then there won't be a surprise attack of youth!" Tenten said harshly, not wanting to be given away. Gai and Lee quickly went mute. Lee's eyes turned to a sad puppy look while facing Tenten. "Tenten you're so smart!" Lee silently cried as he was about to embrace the kunoichi for her intelligence. A couple of punches to the head later, Lee went to normal.
Gai drew out his strategy in the dirt, beginning to give orders. "Yosh, we split into teams of two." He began, drawing four stick people and writing their names under each one. "Neji, Tenten you two go in this direction, while Lee and I go in this direction."
"So you want us to circle them and attack from different directions." Neji finished.
"Hai."
"Okay then, but what're we gonna do with the rest of them?" Tenten asked.
"Take one, and leave the rest unconscious."
"Hai."
The sound nin and Ryuji were forming a strategy of how to capture on whatever lies within the heart of the ancient forest while they were waiting for the traps to go off. "So how are we going to know if we caught the mysterious killer?" Boton asked, clueless on what exactly what they were looking for.
"Yeah we don't even know what it even looks like." Akio agreed.
"It takes many different forms of a person. But it always wears a hunter nin's mask. Or so I heard." Ryuji explained.
"So we look for something with a mask. That seems easy enough." Goro stated.
"Well then let's rest up until the traps go off since it's guaranteed that someone or something will make it go off."
Neji and Tenten were quietly moving through the forest avoiding traps. They exchanged a few words with each other and keeping in contact with Gai and Lee on the radios. "Gai when we reach our designated spot, what kind of sign do we wait for?" Neji asked, quietly speaking into the coms. He waited a second for him to respond.
"If you get there before we do, wait for us to get to our destination. And when we do, I'll call you upon the coms to let you know when to commence the surprise attack of youth."
"Hai."
Gai and Lee were moving through the forest as well quickly, quietly, and also avoiding traps. "Gai-sensei, what exactly are we going to do for the surprise attack of youth?" Lee mumbled, loud enough so only his favorite teacher would hear.
"I'm tossing some miniature bombs at their feet. Then we commence the surprise attack with a silent 'Dynamic Entry'." He answered, flashing his sparkling teeth that went 'ping'. Lee smiled back revealing his set of sparkly teeth that went 'ping'.
Suddenly they heard something crunch, then everything happened in a blink of an eye. Lee accidentally stepped on a dead crispy leaf that was connected to many explosives. "Kuso!" Lee swore, realizing his mistake.
"RUN!" Gai cried. They flew from tree to tree as they were enveloped in the massive eruption.
end of chapter two
Hehe, I love cliffys. Sorry I meant this to be a longer chapter but it felt so right just to leave it at that and make you wonder what happened to Gai and Lee. Dont worry the next chapter should be much more interesting.
R and R and stay tuned until the next chappy!