A/N: Gaara this chapter! Yay! Sorry to my little brother… I replaced you to make the storyline more interesting… …-.-
Arigato to reviewers.
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Chapter Five
Kitties, Pandas, Fans
Well, Not Literally
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"GOOD MORNING, SAKURA!" yelled Naruto.
"Quiet down!" yelled Mithos equally as loudly, kicking him in an undisclosed area.
When Naruto got up off the ground and saw Sasuke, he paused, frowned, and turned away (as did Sasuke).
"Idiots." mumbled Sakura.
Three hours later, Kakashi appeared.
"Good morning! I seem to have gotten lost on the way here-"
"YOU'RE LATE!"
"YOUR NOSE IS GROWING!"
"IN TERMS OF NINJA DECEPTIONS- THAT ONE SUCKS!"
In the mission, of course, Naruto gets beaten up and saved by his teammates, Sasuke and he annoy each other, Mithos and Sakura hit Naruto, Kakashi reads Icha Icha Paradise…
A normal day, until Sakura and Mithos walk in on Naruto playing ninja.
"What's a ninja doing playing ninja?" asked Sakura, coldy.
Konohamaru makes a pinky gesture, and Mithos starts laughing as Sakura chases the two boys, Naruto and Konohamaru.
Konohamaru ran into something.
"Hn, that's gotta smart," said a boy in black with Kabuki paint on his face, in front of a girl with a fan.
"That hurt, snotface." said the boy from sand as he picked Konohamaru up by the collar.
"Listen, Kabuki Boy, put the kid down, it's not his fault! You could just let him apologize!" yelled Mithos, taking out her seal of Death, which she had received during her fight with Abyss.
"Put him down!" yelled Naruto.
"I just wanna play with him a little while we're waiting for the nuisance to get here!" said Kankuro.
"You sonofa-" began Naruto, running at Kankuro. Mithos watched idly as the puppet nin flicked his fingers, making Naruto fall.
"Was that the best a Konoha's ninja can do!" asked Kankuro. Mithos was starting to like this guy!
"Hey, Kitty!" said Mithos, "Put the boy down."
"First off, I'm allergic to 'shrimp'. Bad enough that you're a short little girl… you're disrespecting your elders! You make me want to kill him!" Mithos grinned as he attempted the feat, disappearing.
As he was about to punch Konohamaru, three stones flew at him, one hitting him square in the nose, the other on the arm, and one coming late and hitting his other hand.
"What the-!" he looked up. Sasuke, Mithos and another girl, named Kage, were sitting in a tree.
Sasuke was smirking and the girls were laughing, Kage's silvery blue hair shiny, and her Japanese Samurai-like outfit clinking.
"That was worth the look on your face," said Mithos.
"Tell me…" began Sasuke, smug grin still on, tossing a rock up and down, "What are you doing in our village?"
"Oh, look, another little brat." growled Kankuro, clenching his hurt fists and flinching as he touched his face.
"Oh, how cool!" squealed Sakura. Kage rolled her eyes and took out a saw randomly, cutting off a bit of branch and chucking it at Mithos.
Kankuro growled, taking the sack-type-thing off his back.
"Kankuro. Don't." said a voice, cold.
A boy was hanging from a tree. Kage watched, stopping their little bark fight as Mithos looked taken aback. Kage had a grin as she looked sideways at her friend.
"You're a disgrace to our entire village." said the boy, his red hair spiking downward as he hung upside down underneath a tree branch. "It annoys me that you'd lose control in a quarrel with children! Have you forgotten why we are here?"
"B-but," Kankuro stuttered, the two girls in the tree chuckling at his suspense, "They started it, the little one slammed into me!"
"Shut up…" commanded Gaara, his lips barely moving, "Or I'll kill you." Both Kankuro and Temari stuttered apologies.
"Sorry about my friends." said Gaara, warping down, though he didn't really seem sorry at all.
Two OCs zone out as people explain why they're here. Eh.
At the end, Mithos jumped down.
"Get down here, Sasuke!" before the black haired ninja could jump, Kage gave a face that resembled Kakashi's happy one and pushed him down.
"Get your butt down there!" Sasuke flipped in mid air, landing smoothly as Kage teleported down.
"What's your name?" he asked Gaara.
"Gaara of the desert, at your service." said Gaara, after a moment of silence.
"And you are…?" he asked.
"Sasuke Uchiha." said Sasuke.
"And the two women?" asked Gaara, glaring at Mithos and Kage in turn.
"Um... M-mithos Irving, Gaara-san." said Mithos, a tinge of pink barely visible. Kage sweat dropped.
"My name's Kage Sage Bryant…" she said, waving slightly.
"Hey, hey, don't you wanna know my name!" asked Naruto, hyper as ever.
"No. Let us go." said Gaara, turning around. The three sand ninja disappeared.
Kage waved at Cell 7.
"Ahoy, maties!" she gave a peace sign, bowing.
"Um, do I know you?" asked Sakura incredulously. 'She's hitting on Sasuke-kun!'
"No, but sorry, Hon, I'm not hitting on Sasuke-kun, despite your rude thoughts about me." said the blue-haired girl.
"Why're you hanging out with Mithos…?" asked Naruto, for the girl had a mist headband.
"Hm? Oh, me an' Mithos-chan are old friends, I'm on Ino's team, transferred from Mizuho, and apparently Mitchan was here!" laughed Kage, waving and disappearing.
"C-can she read minds?" asked Sakura, shaking.
"Yeah! She's a psychic!" said Mithos, waving an arm dramatically.
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The next morning, as Mithos arrived, Sakura and Naruto were already fighting.
"…Idiots."
A few hours later…
"Morning, guys! Today, I wandered a bit from the path of life…"
"Liar!" yelled the two girls.
"Would it hurt you to at least pretend to be sorry!" yelled Naruto.
"Er, in any case… This may surprise you," began Kakashi, his finger on his lips (or so they assumed) "But I've recommended all you four for the Chunin selection exam."
"You almost had us, Master Kakashi!" said Naruto.
"You just have to fill out these applications," Kakashi said, fanning them out like a poker-player's cards.
Naruto glomped Kakashi. "I love you, Master Kakashi!"
"Get off, you're embarrassing me…" he said, pushing Naruto off.
Mithos looked at the contract.
"It-it says teams of three…" she stuttered.
"Ah!" said Kakashi, swooping down, "Are you familiar with Kage and Yuan Bryant, along with Presea Combatir?" he asked, hopefully.
Mithos froze.
"Y-yuan's in the city!" Kakashi nodded, as she continued, "And Presea! Where!" she asked, looking around frantically.
Three figures appeared next to Kakashi. One of them was tall with pink hair in two buns, blue eyes, an axe, and a denim outfit. She bore a headband with one circle.
The second was tall, and his face bore a large resemblance to Sasuke's- though he had silver hair, tied in one ponytail, and beautiful blue eyes. He bowed to Mithos with a swooping gesture, his cape flowing over the ground- on his back he bore a shuriken-like weapon.
The third was almost identical to the second, though obviously a girl, with black and red clothing in the samurai style- Cruxis Armor, with a staff tied to her back.
"Presea- Yuan- Kage!" the third, Kage, they had already met, but the other two, who bore the same headband, by the way, seemed happy to see Mithos.
Kakashi coughed, and attention was turned to him again.
"Ms. Presea will be your new sensei, and Yuan and Kage will be your teammates." At this, Sakura and Naruto froze, and Sasuke twitched.
"We gotta say g'bye to Mitchan!" asked the two in unison. Kakashi nodded.
"Hey, but I got one thing good."
"What?"
"They're going to be training with us!"
After Kakashi explained the slips, he disappeared, Presea remained.
"Hi… I'm Presea Combatir… I'm their aunt, for Yuan and Kage by blood, but for Mithos by affection/friends relations." Presea bowed.
"So Yuan and Kage are…"
"Brother and sister." said Yuan. Yuan walked over to Mithos.
"Hey, Mi-chan."
"Ohayo, Yuie-kun!" said Mithos, bowing. Kage sweat dropped.
"You two can get lovey dovey later." the two blushed a deep scarlet.
"We're not-" they said in unison, before being cut off by Presea.
"We know you're not. Man, Mithos, you take after your mom." she said, laughing.
(Presea had really warmed up in 4,000 years, eh?)
"Shouldn't we all be going home now?" asked Naruto.
His team nodded and they waved goodbye to the other team.
After they were gone, Mithos took off her headband.
Presea, in turn, gave her one with the same oval, the same kind she and the Bryant twins were wearing.
"Arigato, Presea-sensei."
"Pre-chan's fine, you know," she said, patting her friend's daughter on the head, using Sheena's nickname.
The twins laughed.
"First thing I think we should do is have the girls practice Mana Cannon."
"Hai." they chorused.
-Later-
After having blasted down several hundred trees, they decided to call it a day.
"Wait, Presea, Kage, Yuan…" began Mithos.
"Yes?"
"I have a couple of questions."
"Go on…" said Yuan.
"Well, first, where are you staying?"
"With you!" they chorused. Mithos sweat-dropped and continued.
"How's my mom and dad?"
"Fine, they're doing fine. They miss you a bunch and search day and night for a cure, though they're not like Dorr." she said, remembering the story of the Palmacosta Governor-General.
"How about Genis, Raine and Regal?" she asked, naming Presea's husband and the twin's parents.
"Good. Raine wanted to know if you still know how to use healing arts."
"Yes, but with you on my team," she said, gesturing to the twins, "I won't need to know how anymore. Do you guys still know angelic attacks?"
"Hai."
"Then I think we're good to go."
The group wandered into Mithos' apartment some insane hour of the night.
"Good night, my old teammates… and Anna."