Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. But, I probably could if I um, bought it. All I need now is a couple hundred thousand dollars, maybe a couple million, and um… does anyone know what else I'll need? Or a couple hundred thousand dollars to start me off?
The New Annoyance
Time skip: One day
Temari noticed that Keitorin had been acting strangely, even moping.
She and Keitorin were leaving for practice. They were combining teams for another semi-big mission, it was Team seven, Kiba,Shikamaru, some girl TenTen, and Temari had been asked to fight. Maito Gai was also going to be aiding Kakashi.
Oh, lucky them, they were leaving at the same time as Sasuke. Temari cringed when Keitorin realized this.
Keitorin stiffened and walked a bit faster. Temari followed her, running at her heels like a scared puppy.
(Stop it!)
Nah, nah, nah, nah, I can't hear you! Nah, nah, nah, nah, I won't stop until you apologize! )
(Get out of my head!)
I wouldn't actually mind that, but that might be a slight impossibility. '--
(Hmph!)
Keitorin was not mad as Sasuke, not anymore. But she didn't think they should get back together, because he was probably still mad at her.
Sasuke was not mad at Keitorin, not anymore. He didn't think he should apologize just yet, because he didn't think she would be to enthusiastic on the idea. What he was mad at, was the chibi that lived inside his head.
No, that isn't the way things work, girls should apologize to the boys/
(Why? That's retarded!)
I don't know; that's just how things go! '--
So basically, they were both screwing themselves… …'--
Keitorin and Temari walked at a fairly quick pace, while Sasuke a fairly slow pace.
They got there and Kakashi obviously wasn't there, so Temari sat down and pulled out a letter she was in the middle of writing to her brothers. Keitorin pulled out her iPod, and earned a few stares from… everybody.
"What is that?" Shikamaru asked Temari.
"IPod," Temari said uninterestedly.
"A what?"
"It's like a radio, but more… Keitorin!"
"Oh, I get it," Shikamaru said.
Temari and Shikamaru talked for a bit, Sasuke arrived and sat by a tree, and all the other people showed up.
Except, of course, Kakashi. He didn't show up.
Keitorin found herself bored with the music she had and found herself writing various poems. One was called, 'Sensei-san, hurry up I'm getting bored.'
Kakashi finally came walking up, with his book in front of him. Keitorin sighed at her godfather, who briefly looked up and had a slight look of puzzlement at the fact that Keitorin and Sasuke weren't next to each other. He once again buried his nose in his book.
Keitorin sighed and picked up her iPod. Kakashi and Gai had a small fight, starting with, "Kakashi, you are twenty three minutes and forty-nine seconds late.
"Alright, we have been asked to… to… er… Keitorin?" Kakashi stared at Keitorin.
"Where'd you go? I miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone." Keitorin was in her own little world…
Temari took the headphones out of Keitorin's ears. "Keitorin! Stop."
"H'lo." Keitorin was a bit flushed.
"Kakashi-sama, I was told to meet you, I have a note from Sarutobi-Sensei," Ino held out a green piece of paper.
"Hm, okay, so Ino will be joining us," Kakashi said in his classic monotone.
Ino sat down next to Shikamaru, much to Temari's displeasure.
Temari continued her talk with Shikamaru and Ino joined in. Shikamaru was finding himself in a very uncomfortable position.
Kiba looked on in frustration. "Now why can't that be me? I'm a thousand times better looking than Shikamaru!"
Keitorin giggled. "Just keep telling yourself that, Kiba-kun!"
"Hmph!"
Shikamaru finally managed to squirm out of between the two girls.
"Shikamaru, are you okay?" Keitorin asked. As far the girls could have noticed, Shikamaru was still there; they left the same amount of space between them and were still talking. Okay, it was more like yelling, but they were doing that before.
"It's scary over there…"
"Yeah, I think there's something wrong…" Keitorin said.
"Well, Shika, you've got to decide, Ino or Temari?" Kiba teased.
"Uh, well I-" Shikamaru stuttered.
"What are we going to be doing on this mission, Kakashi-Sensei?" Naruto asked loudly.
"We are going on a tracker mission, and your parents were informed about the mission," Kakashi said, making a conspicuous attempt to not look at Sasuke, Naruto, or Keitorin.
Sakura said, "Wow, then this must be a really tough mission, I'm glad you're coming with us Kakashi-Sensei!"
While Inner Sakura was blaring: Feh, this can't be that hard, we go, we track, we fight, and we come back. Besides, Sasuke-kun'll protect me!
Kakashi was about to say something but he closed his mouth, raised an eyebrow and picked up Temari and Ino, both by the back of their shirts, who had previously been rolling around on the ground pulling each other's hair.
"Uh, right… Well, uh, don't do that…" Kakashi said vaguely putting them on the ground.
"Well, Kakashi, thanks to you we have wasted enough time, and much of my youthfulness. Let's go!" Gai shouted.
"We should tell them what they are looking for, Gai…" Kakashi sighed. "They are a bunch of girls seeking to come to Konoha for business, probably something simple like shopping for their parents, visiting their relative, but you must look them right in the eye."
The group set off on foot, looking for anything weird.
"Kakashi-Sensei, why do we need to stop them from reaching Konaha?" Naruto asked.
"They are a group of assassins from Hidden Sound," Kakashi replied.
"Huh? Who are they going to try and kill?"demanded
"Uh, Naruto, you see, we believe that- that they have been hired by the Akatsuki," Kakashi told him.
"Huh? What's the Akatsuki?" Naruto questioned.
Kakashi sighed. They tried to stop Naruto from coming, but he got really, really angry and made most of the people in the village afraid. They knew that when Naruto got very angry Kyuubi came out. They had no choice but to take him.
Time skip: four hours
"Hm, Kakashi-Sensei, I'm hungry, we've been searching for at least eleventeen hours!" Naruto said… AGAIN.
"Naruto, sh, if they hear us, the mission will be a complete and total failure!" Sakura hissed.
Gai turned around. "If you two don't keep quiet, then the mission will fail!"
Sakura looked shamed and Naruto annoyed.
Kakashi was walking casually ahead of Gai, one hand in his pocket and one hand holding his book. Sasuke was just behind him, hands in his pockets. Gai was behind Sasuke because he was scolding Sakura and Naruto, and right behind them was Keitorin, withone headphone in her ear. She let TenTen have one in her ear. So they were walking side by side, followed by Kiba, and behind him were Temari and Ino, with poor, poor Shika in the middle. Sakura came back next to Sasuke again, who gave up shooing her away about three hours ago.
Inner Sakura: This is lame, just walking next to him. Maybe by the end of this, we won't just be walking next to each other...
"How troublesome…" Shikamaru wailed, sandwiched between the two girls.
Kakashi stopped suddenly and lowered his book. "Gai!"
Gai nodded and turned to the students. "Get ready!" He said.
Keitorin put away her iPod. Temari and Ino, to Shikamaru's pleasure, shut up, Kiba stopped spacing out and Sasuke… did what he normally does, I guess. Naruto bumped into Sasuke, who stopped short.
Keitorin had a sharp, searing pain in her head. Her hand flew up to her head, and she almost hit Kiba because they were so scrunched together now.
"Hey, are you okay, Keitorin?" TenTen asked. Kiba came up to see what was wrong, and why he almost got hit.
"Nnnngg… Yeah, I'm- I'm fine," Keitorin lied. Her eyes were watering.
Sorry about that, but listen, stop before you attract too much attention! '--
(Ooh… Okay, I'll try…) Keitorin straightened herself and tried not to think about the searing pain in her head.
I got another vision. There's no time to explain, but Naruto dies! TT
(What? And there's nothing I can do?)
Nope, the future's set in stone, kid. Sorry, but just listen, I thought I'd tell you. TT
(That's not true!)
(What? Who's that?)
(Sh, Torayin can't hear me!)
Who are you talking to?
(N-no one.)
Hm. Well, later:-)
(What's going on?)
(I assume Torayin didn't introduce herself? Well, your 'chibi', as you call her, is Torayin. I am Kayna.)
(Oh. H'lo.)
(Listen, the future is not set in stone. You can save Naruto! On your wedding day, you can save yourself!)
(Well, Kayna, I don't even know what this mission is about! I-)
(Don't worry, I'll help you! I'm not sure how it'll fare for you, but it will save Naruto, and you've got to protect the Hokage!)
(What did you just say?)
(Naruto becomes the Hokage when he grows up! I know these things, what is going to happen, and don't worry, you won't die!)
(Oh, okay!)
(Now pay attention! It's only been a couple of seconds since you spaced out.)
(What no it's been like three min-)
Keitorin came back to reality, and Kayna was right. Keitorin opened her eyes and everything was frozen.
The annoyed expression on Naruto and Sasuke's face, concerned TenTen and Kiba, it was all so clear and… frozen. Keitorin looked around, afraid. Everything was frozen.
She noticed three figures in a tree aiming to throw kunai at Kakashi. He thought they were in a bush, but they were in a tree above him. They must have thrown something at the bush to get him off guard.
In fear, she wheeled around and accidentally knocked into Sasuke, and being such a klutz she fell on the ground. He didn't move, but everything went unfrozen. TenTen looked really confused, as did Kiba.
How is Keitorin over there when she should be over here? She was here a second ago…They thought.
Keitorin (still on the ground) looked up to where the figures where and shouted, "Sensei-san, behind you!"
Kakashi turned around just in time to catch an oncoming kunai. "What the- Keitorin, how did you-?"
Keitorin threw a kunai at three figures, narrowly missed their feet and hit the branch. Chikushou! Calm down, Keitorin… The branch came crashing down, so it wasn't lost energy. On the branch, two girls came tumbling down to the ground. Un! But where is the last one?
The last girl trimly flipped from the first branch of the tree (at least thirty feet up) and landed neatly on the branch. She had red hair, blood red like Gaara's, another one of the girls had dark purple hair, and the last one had platinum blonde hair, almost white.
"Please excuse my teammates," She smiled coldly.
Kakashi and Gai stepped back a bit, sort of saying, 'Try this on your own, if you need us we'll be right here'.
"We're working on a few things… The lovely blockhead- oops! I mean toe-head is Kumiko." The bigmouthed redhead smiled.
"Kumiko- Kekki Genkai- Sound- Hai Gochou!" Kumiko smiled, her pale green eyes sparkled maliciously.
"Wha?" Naruto asked.
"Naruto no baka! It means she has a Hidden Sound Blood Limit, and she controls immense amount of chakra with her voice!" Sakura cried.
"Very impressive, girl!" The blabbermouth said.
The next said shyly and with much less enthusiasm, "Fumiko, Sound, Kekki Genkai- Yokobue Gochou."
"Eh wha?" Keitorin asked this time.
"She controls chakra with her flute, Keitorin," Sasuke answered.
"So what do you do?" Kiba asked.
"Talk people to death?" Keitorin finished.
"I was going to say that!" Kiba muttered.
Keitorin flashed a smile at him.
"Like you should be one to talk!" Sakura yelled at her.
"Yumiko! Sound! Kekki Genkai- Bu-mu!"
"What does that mean?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know!" Sakura admitted.
(Can you help me out here? I wanna show Miss Ikeike up!)
(It means she travels at the speed of sound!)
"She travels at the speed of sound, Sakura-chan!"
Sakura made a face at her.
I was trying to be nice, but now I think I'll just call you Ikeike." Keitorin made a happy face, like this:
Yumiko narrowed her dark brown eyes. "Alright, girls. Fumi, you take billboard brow and blondie. Kumi, you take other blondie, that other boy, and- and…" Yumiko blushed when her eyes fell on Sasuke. He rolled his eyes. "Yeah him. I'll take the last three."
They jumped in the air, all heading toward their chunk of people. "Sound 3, attack!"
Kakashi and Gai jumped up in the trees, ready to help whoever needed it.
Okay, the real action starts next chapter! I'm not especially good at fight scenes, but I'll try my best. Actually, it depends on how many reviews I get for this chapter. So if you want a decent next chapter, I suggest you REVIEW! Later!