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
Keitorin gasped, and she felt her Sharingan flicker. "Come on, chikushou, if you're going to be here, then work!" Keitorin thought out loud. Miraculously, it listened! For once, it came and stayed on easily! She was shocked.
"Sound 3: Yumiko- Kekki Genkai Bu-mu!"
Keitorin gasped. One minute, she was there, and the next minute, nothing! Wait- there was a blur. And then- BOOM!
There was a sonic boom. The three of them got blown back, and Keitorin could have sworn that the trees bent. The noise was just so loud that she could have gone deaf.
Well, if there's any good thing about this, it's that I can't hear that stupid buzzing anymore… But I swear, Naruto better be alright, or I'll go and kill this Yumiko kid!
Keitorin concentrated. Kakashi and even Sasuke tried to teach her to actually use her Sharingan, and Kakashi said it would come in good time. Well, heck, now better be that time!
She concentrated hard, nearly banged into a tree, stuck her feet out to land on another tree, missed, and gracefully fell flat on her butt.
Screw it, I don't need it! Keitorin thought. She took her hitai-ate out of her hair, and grasped it tightly. Her hair flew over her shoulders. She had no idea why she did this, but it calmed her down.
(Shut up, I'll convince Torayin to help me get you chakra; your Sharingan is still immature!)
(Okay, you do that!)
Keitorin got up and brushed herself off. She heard TenTen. She started to scream, but then it got cut off. Keitorin gasped.
She felt a strange rush of exhilaration and the power of chakra made her hair fly up and then it went back down again, thankfully.
She heard something rustle the leaves behind her, and she turned (everything is really going in slow motion, except the two girls… well actually it's the opposite, they are so sped up that everything seems like it's going in slow motion. understand?) and saw miss Fumiko.
She had dozens of senbon needles and chucked them at her. Keitorin reached up and blocked every one of them with her kunai.
Fumiko looked up, and had a look of surprise on her face. Chikushou, this girl… can see me? No matter… I'll just go for that blond loudmouth
Keitorin was tense, she wanted to fight. She followed her, never gaining an inch. Chikushou, go faster, go FASTER!
Naruto was facing Yumiko, but he couldn't see her, he could only see a blur. S he kept running around him in circles and when she was in a lethal position, she took her eight senbon needles, and said, "I hit that girl in the back, only knocking her out. But you… shall DIE!"
Yumiko threw the senbon needles, and Keitorin screamed, "NARUTO!" She jumped in front of him and felt a stinging, lasting pain on her stomach and her upper body. She fell on the ground, pressing the needles in deeper. Naruto knew he couldn't do anything until Yumiko was over and done with.
Good thing for them she was exhausted and good thing for Naruto that TenTen came crawling weakly behind her. He did Shadow Clone Jutsu, only to distract her, while TenTen silently but a bit slowly stood up, took the blunt side of her kunai, and Yumiko over the head.
"That's what you get for hurting my friend, you ikeike!" TenTen said weakly.
Naruto ran over to Keitorin and dropped onto his hands and knees. "Keitorin! Get up!"
"Naruto…" Keitorin said weakly.
He lifted her up, keeping her off the ground. She was cold.
"Keitorin, come on! You-you're fine!" Naruto said.
"I'm tired…"
"No, no, Keitorin come on, you can't go to sleep!" Naruto said. Tears stung at his eyes.
"Naruto… There are times… where you have to say… good bye… Where is… TenTen?"
"TenTen!" Naruto cried softly. She also had tears streaming down her face.
"Naruto, TenTen, I…"
"No, Keitorin, don't say it!" TenTen begged.
"Please… listen… don't talk. I want you… to tell S… Sensei-san… that I'll miss him. Tell Sakura… that I don't think she was so annoying… Tell Temari… That she can… keep the outfit I bought for her… she was going to give it back… TenTen, you… and Temari… share my… iPod, will ya? And tell… tell Sasuke… tell Sasuke that… that I'm… that I'm s… sorry. TenTen… I know that… you will become a… truly great… weapons master…. Naruto, you've got my… my vote in… in the polls for… for… for Hoka… for…" Keitorin slumped in Naruto's arms, and TenTen sniffed. The only sound was Keitorin's hitai-ate, which she never let go, slip out of her hand onto the ground.
"Keitorin! Keitorin, please, come back!" Naruto cried desperately.
TenTen let tears flow freely from her face, in a silent sob. "C-come on, N-N-Naruto!" She couldn't keep her voice under control.
"I… I should have protected her… She was protecting me! Keitorin! Why? You and Sasuke, you're the same!" Naruto was filled with rage. Not necessarily at Keitorin, but he needed to yell. "Why, Sasuke almost died, the teme, when we were fighting against Haku! I never asked for help!" Naruto sobbed.
"Come on, Naruto. Gai-Sensei is p-probably wondering where we a-are," TenTen tried, still sobbing. "K-Ka-Ka-kashi-sama would w-want to s-see her."
Naruto handed Keitorin's hitai-ate to TenTen. He silently lifted Keitorin up, and he and TenTen readied themselves for coming back to the others, happy because they had by now hopefully won, with dead Keitorin. Yeah, that would work out well.
It took them a while to find out which direction to go, so within half an hour they came upon the clearing. The whole entire time, Naruto felt himself filling up with total utter rage. It just mounted, and mounted, until he was seeing red. They saw the girl with the flute on the ground obviously knocked out, and the other girl in the middle of being tied up, because she was a prisoner.
Naruto and TenTen stepped out.
"Hey guys!" Ino said wearily.
"How did it go?" Kakashi asked.
"Oh, Kakashi, your student is knocked out. That was a great job you did TenTen, protecting those two," Gai gloated.
Naruto and TenTen gaped at them. They thought… She was knocked out?
"Ah, she really took a couple of hits!" Temari said. There were a lot of senbon sticking out of her stomach and sides.
TenTen began sobbing irrepressibly.
Temari gaped at them, Kakashi stared, and there was a long silence.
"You mean… She didn't take the hits?" Sasuke asked slowly.
Naruto let a few tears slide down his cheeks.
Temari's hand flew to her mouth. "Oh my god…"
Naruto was so very angry, he felt strangely tired. Exhausted even. That puzzled him, because although he had been carrying Keitorin for about forty minutes, she was very light.
"Sensei, I would like to rest now," Naruto said.
Kakashi took Keitorin from him. Naruto went like he was about to leave, but he stared at the palm of his hands. They were red. He didn't want to attract attention for once, so he shrugged it off and disappeared behind a few trees.
"We'll set up tents, now," Kakashi murmured dryly.
Keitorin was laid by a tree. (AN: This felt weird for them, by the way, lifting dead Keitorin up, putting dead Keitorin by a tree, heck, just seeing dead Keitorin! I've made this seem very easy for all of them, but it's not, just so you know.)
With most of the girls crying, even Sakura, the tents were set up and everybody felt… hollow.
TenTen told everybody how Keitorin told her and Naruto her last wishes. Everyone was silent, and fresh tears came slowly spilling out of nearly everyone's eyes, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Sasuke included, although Kiba and Sasuke didn't let anyone see.
Naruto was no where to be found, and late into the night, Kakashi went to Naruto. He was astonished when he saw Naruto training. And by the looks of it, training pretty hard. He was fighting against his shadow clones, a tip he got from Keitorin.
As soon as Naruto saw Kakashi, he quickly undid the jutsu, and for some reason covered up the palm of his hands.
"Naruto, is there something wrong?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto looked like he was going to yell at his Sensei, but he looked around as if checking to make sure nobody was there, and nodded his head. "Yes."
Kakashi sat down and motioned for Naruto to do the same.
"Kakashi-Sensei, I have this really weird problem. When I put… Keitorin down, from carrying her? I noticed that my hands were red. I was real angry, and I felt this new source of… power, I got scared and have been trying to burn it off!"
Kakashi's eyes widened. "N-Naruto, come on to bed, you've had a long day," Kakashi said.
Okay, that's chap! Review, review, review! Don't ask me what they do with Keitorin's body, by the way, I don't know…