Me: Saluete! I'mmmm baaaaaaaack! This is the next chapter of 'The White Wolf'. Here's the recap
Team seven takes the ANBU exam, but only Sasuke and Sakura pass. Sasuke is the snake ANBU and Sakura is the crane ANBU.
The white wolf appears, and speaks for the first time EVER.
Sasuke and Sakura are apprenticed to the white wolf, and are about to go on a mission.
Me: I'm also going to start doing chapter covers, I hope you like it!
Chapter 1 cover: Three ANBU masks; a snake, a crane, and a wolf, in a triangle, the wolf on top, snake on left, the crane on the right.
Chapter 2 cover: Kakashi in ANBU regalia, holding his mask, showing his ANBU tattoo with the symbol for the fire country tattooed underneath it.
The white wolf
Chapter 2: tattoos, missions and… a new Hokage?
After Sasuke and Sakura had changed into there ANBU uniforms, they came back to the little room off to the side of the main hall of the base, not yet wearing there masks. They were unsure what to do with there headbands. Sasuke felt a slight breeze across the back of his neck, and he turned expectantly to another shadowy door to his right. 'They probably have those for his special use.' Sasuke thought.
"Ether you always have that breeze when you appear, or you're just trying to scare us out of our skins." He said to the shadows.
The shadows said nothing as the white wolf appeared. Sasuke smirked at the ANBU before them, but noticed a small kit in his hand. He frowned, what was going on?
His unvoiced question was answered as the wolf opened the kit. Inside was a scalpel, a dropper filled with clear liquid, and a brush with black ink. Once again, the wolf didn't say anything, but Sakura understood. (She's a medic-nin, duh)
"You're going to give us our ANBU tattoos, aren't you?" she said, the wolf merely nodded. "Cool, I can test out my new healing salve." She pulled out a small jar of white paste. The wolf looked at her for a moment before nodding again. He motioned for Sasuke to give him his right arm; the wolf then took the scalpel and cut the ANBU symbol into his bicep. Sasuke bit his lip to keep himself from crying out, but the pain was soon gone as the wolf took the dropper and put a few drops of the liquid on his arm. The pain and the bleeding stopped almost instantly. The wolf then cleaned the wound of blood and took the brush and filled the cuts with black ink. The ink dried extremely quickly, and soon the wolf motioned for the healing salve. Sakura quickly gave it to him, and the wolf applied it to the wound. The salve dried the instant the wolf's hand left it, and then cracked away, leaving unmarred skin and the ANBU tattoo on his bicep. The wolf nodded in approval and repeated the process on Sakura. With that finished, he left the kit on a nearby table and gave the salve back to Sakura.
"Why aren't you wearing your masks?" the wolf asked in his smoky voice.
Slightly surprised, Sasuke answered, "We don't know what to do with our headbands."
"…give them to me; you will only need to wear them when you are off-duty. Now put on your masks, we must receive a mission from Tsunade-sama. But first, we need to think up your codenames. We can't go around calling you by your real names; it would defy the whole point of the masks. Because of your past, Sasuke, I believe you should be called 'shadowsnake.'" He said. Sasuke nodded, it did fit. "Sakura, because of your so-called 'double-soul', and healing power, you will be called 'blackmoon'." Sakura nodded, that name fit all too well. Both of them were thinking 'how dose he know us well enough to give us those kinds of names? Is he, like, psychic? The wolf sneezed. "Lets go."
The two nins switched there headbands for there masks. The cold porcelain felt odd on there faces, and it took a few seconds to get used to the small eye-slits. They were very confused when the wolf held his hand out to them. Seeing what he meant, Sasuke grabbed Sakura's hand and tentatively took the wolf's hand. The wolf led them to the shadowed door and led them through. Sasuke felt an odd tingling. He closed his eyes, expecting to see the other side of the door when he opened them. Imagine his surprise when he opened them to see Tsunade asleep at her desk, in the Hokage's office. 'kage terepo-to no jutsu,(1) interesting.'
A small bottle of sake(2) was next to her on the desk, and she was snoring contentedly. A small chuckle escaped the wolf's lips as he told the other two not to speak. He fazed out and reappeared by Tsunade's side. Leaning close in next to her ear…
"baa-chan, time to WAKE UP!" he quickly fazed back to the silent (and now completely confused) pair. Did he just call the Hokage 'baa-chan'? Only Naruto had enough gall to do that, and the wolf had shouted, what was up?
"NARUTO! DON'T ITTERRUPT PEOPLE… oh, it's you. I swear, you're just as bad as Naruto. It's about the mission, isn't it?" she said. Behind they're masks, Sasuke and Sakura were clearly 'WTF'ing. "Are these the new recruits? Let's see then, off with the masks." She told them. Looking uncertainly at the wolf, they nodded and removed there masks. After getting a good look, she told them to put them back on. "Sasuke and Sakura, I should have known. What are there codenames?" the wolf told her, and she nodded. "By the way, are you ever going to show me who you are?" she asked the wolf. The wolf was a little surprised and said…
"Now's as good of time as any." He slowly reached up to his mask and slowly lowered it. Just as his forehead came into view, a puff of smoke appeared behind them.
The wolf quickly replaced his mask as the smoke cleared, and who should appear in but Hatake Kakashi, standing on the ceiling, as usual. "Yo. You called?" he asked, completely oblivious to what he just interrupted. Seeing the peeved look on the Hokage's face, he slowly backed up to the window, his hands up in defense, "if this is a bad time, I could…" but he was interrupted.
"No, stay, this is vital. Kakashi, these are the new recruits, Shadowsnake (Sasuke bowed, he kind of liked that name) and Blackmoon. (Sakura bowed, she didn't exactly like that name, but it fit way too well.) of course you know Nightblade. I am sending them on a mission to Sirikure (3), and I need you to fill them in on its odd culture, seeing as you're the only ANBU to ever make it there and back on friendly terms. Now, Nightblade, I believe you were about to show us what's under that mask. So, if you will…"
"No."
"What?" Tsunada asked.
"I said no. I realized it's for the best if you don't know. That information is deadly in the wrong hands, isn't that right, Tsunade. Or should I say Kisame?" He suddenly unsheathed his kantana and charged at Tsunade, cutting her across her chest.
"Nightblade, what the hell are you doing!" Sakura shouted as he sheathed his sword.
"Just watch, you'll see." As he finished speaking, smoke enveloped Tsunade's body, only to reveal Kisame of the Akatsuki, dead.
"How did you know?" Kakashi asked.
"Kisame has a very distinct smell. When your eyes and ears fail, you can always follow your nose, ne Kakashi?" he replied.
"Very clever, using my lines like that. So, where's the real Tsunade?" Kakashi asked.
"I'm right here." A voice came out of nowhere. Tsunade materialized next to Sakura. "Damn bastard put me under a genjutsu, you couldn't hear, feel, or see me. When he died, I was released. Anyway, he was right about the mission, and about Kakashi, but he didn't call him, and I didn't, so who…"
"I did. As soon as I was certain it was Kisame, I sent an urgent message to Kakashi, knowing that's the only way I could get him to arrive on time." The others in the room sweatdropped at this, and Kakashi sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "And we needed Kakashi for this anyways, so why not him. It was the only way to stop Kisame from seeing what was behind this mask without resorting to violence. If I had refused, he would have attacked. The Akatsuki really wants to know who I am."
"And you call killing him non-violent?" the wolf rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "Anyways, now that that's cleared up, to the mission. Sirikure is a very odd hidden village, Kakashi will fill you in. here's the scroll." Tsunade said. "And Kakashi, stay for a bit, I need to talk to you. You might want to get off the ceiling for this." The last thing they heard as they left was a very loud "what the hell!" and the sound of something, or someone, falling to the floor.
When they arrived at the ANBU headquarters, Nightblade opened the scroll. "We're going to Sirikure, the village hidden in the eclipse. It's an A-class, possibly S-class, mission, because of the possibility of running in to missing-nins. The Sirikage wanted our best ANBU for this." a puff of smoke interrupted him. "Ah, Kakashi, good time…" he noticed the shocked look on Kakashi's face as the smoke cleared. "She told you, didn't she?" Kakashi only nodded.
"What did she tell him Nightblade?" Sasuke asked. He hated to be left out of the loop.
"That she is retiring, and that he's the next Hokage." He answered.
"WHAT?" Sasuke and Sakura shouted.
"Yes…" Kakashi said weakly. This was one thing he was not expecting. Snapping himself out of his shock he began to explain Sirikure and it's odd proceedings, and its hati-ite, two circles, one black and slightly smaller than the other, overlapping the larger circle. The one thing he stressed most of all was not to annoy the protector. Doing so could mean death, a very painful death at that.
After several hours of this, they finally packed up and left for Sirikure, the village hidden in the eclipse.
Me: well, another chapter done. Here are the notes for this chapter.
kage terepo-to no jutsu: shadow teleportation jutsu. This is Nightblade's signature technique, as he invented it.
Sake: Japanese rice-wine. I am sick and tiered of people pronouncing 'Sake' as 'sake'. It's Sake for Christ's sake! (I'm guessing that was a bit confusing, let me clear it up now that I'm finished my rant.) The wine is pronounced 'sa-key'. It dose not rhyme with 'rake'. Geez.
Sirikure, the village hidden in the eclipse: My own invention. It came to me in a dream. (No, really, it did. This entire story is this weird dream I had after eating too many nachos.)
Me: well that's it. Can someone tell me what the 6th Hokage's title is? I know it starts with an 'r', but that's all I know. Valete! Review!