Nat: OK! WE'RE BACK WITH CHAPTER 1! WOOHOO!
Chris: Forgive her, she's eaten too much choccy again.
Nat: I DID NOT! YOU JUST SCARFED THE WHOLE BOX!
Chris: … are we here to debate on who ate the chocolates or the disclaimer?
Nat: Oh, right! OK, we don't own Naruto or any of the characters…
Chris: But we do own the plot, the OCs, the wacky ideas and erm… uh… anything else?
Nat: I don't think so. We'll own Naruto when pigs fly.
Chris: Um… Ino actually means wild boar, and I think jumping through trees is equivalent to flying (even though I've never seen her do that so far)
Nat: Hey, maybe we could do that!
Chris: OK! Later peoples! We're going INO HUNTING! WEE!
Nat: Wait, before we go, we've added a made-up village (hehe). You can yell at us for that if you want.
Chris: OK! NOW CAN WE GO!
Nat: OKOK! Don't be so hyper… geez.
Chapter 1: New People Meeting Team 7… in a very unexpected way…
"How far are we exactly from Hidden Leaf Village again, Yuki?"
"I don't know! Ever since we lost that map…" In the hurl and whirl of the storm, two figures could be seen struggling against the violently howling winds – Yukiko Nakata, the quiet one, with her violently violet eyes and choppy jet-black hair tied in a messy ponytail; Katana Saroki, the imaginative girl, a pair of black shades shielding her indigo eyes and almost blending in with her dark-brown-to-the-point-of-almost-black hair. The two were heading from their village to the Leaf Village with only one mission that only heaven and themselves knew. They were determined to complete the mission – that is, if they could find the Leaf Village first.
"Is that a figure I see? Or has the storm wrecked my brain as well as my hair?" asked Katana, anxiously peering at the shadowy figure who was coming towards them.
"THIS IS NO TIME TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR STUPID HAIR! OK, now to infiltrate the village –"
"We don't need to. All we need to do is to get in and give the 5th Hokage that scroll and it's done!"
"NO! It's too suspicious! People might think we're assassins or something! Okay, erm… right, you pass out, and then I'll take you in." Katana twitched visibly.
"What kind of tactic is that? The 'Faintastic'? Gosh, Yuki, you're sometimes as dumb as that nerdy kid in our village."
"NO! It's the 'Coming-In-Under-Cover' tactic! I read it from-"
"GOD YUKI WHAT NAME IS THAT! What about we just go in together and do it nice and straight instead of using wacky tactics?"
"Oh well. Let's just do it your way, Miss Straight-and-True, ok? Katana? KATANA?" Yukiko saw the other girl passed out on the floor.
"DARN IT! Katana! We're using your tactic, so GET UP NOW! GETUPGETUPGETUP…" Yukiko shook the other girl roughly, but Katana didn't wake up. Shoot, what if… Yukiko started to panic, and did every possible thing in her knowledge to check if Katana was faking it. When it became evident that that she wasn't, Yukiko hauled the unconscious girl onto her back with her load – and bumped into someone – or something. She looked up and found a pair of eyes looking at her – or to be more correct, one eye, looking at her curiously.
"Need help there?" This was definitely a male in his late 20s, with spiky silver hair and his forehead protector pulled down to cover one eye and a mask covering his face. Yukiko nodded and the man slung Katana carefully onto his shoulder.
"What are you doing here in the storm, anyway?" he asked.
"Looking for Hidden Leaf Village." Yukiko felt the man's stare on her.
"And why?"
"…We were wanted to do a B-Rank Mission… something about a mask…" mumbled Yukiko.
"What village are you from?"
"Autumn Village (that's it we didn't want to be in the other ones… sorry 'bout that…)"
"I see. A mask doesn't necessarily be a B-Rank Mission, does it?"
"We thought so too… like, how can be removing a mask be that hard?"
"Removing a WHAT?"
"Never mind," said Yukiko quickly. The duo (trio if you count the unconscious Katana) walked in stiff silence before the man spoke again.
"We're here. Now, let's get that unconscious friend of yours into the hospital, then I'll take you to the Hokage for you to explain what on earth is going on."
"Um, thank you Mr…"
"There's no need for you to know my name. But anyway, it's Kakashi Hatake." Yukiko sweatdropped. He is a bit of an idiot, she thought to herself, annoyed.
"Now, what on earth were you doing, hunting for our village, as Kakashi put it?" Under regular circumstances, Katana, who was a born negotiator, would have been here, smoothly talking as if it were nothing but a casual chat and probably have finished by now, but now that she was in the hospital, it was all up to Yukiko. The first challenge, get past the Hokage…
"Erm… actually, we were supposed to give this to you…" Yukiko managed to fish out a scroll from somewhere in her pocket. The 5th Hokage, also known as Tsunade, raised and eyebrow and took the scroll, unrolled it, read it, and smiled. She looked up.
"You're Yukiko?" Yukiko nodded. "And the other girl is Katana… interesting… I can easily see why this was classed as a B-Rank, though absolutely no fighting is involved… Kakashi, Yukiko will join your team for the time being, and Katana will come over as well. Have fun and…" Tsunade paused, and smiled annoyingly.
"Give Kakashi hell for me, ok?" Yukiko gave the woman a thumbs up, and Kakashi looked a bit scared (heh). Then, the two departed.
They found Katana in the ward sitting up.
"Hey Yuki! Where are we? Where am I? And who's Pirate Guy?" she asked, grinning.
"We're in Hidden Leaf Village, and Pirate Guy's name is Kakashi Hatake. Um… Kakashi- sensei?" Yukiko sneaked behind the man, and read something she shouldn't have seen, and screamed.
"What?" asked Katana, bewildered.
"YUCK! PERVERT!" Katana's eyes opened, and made gagging sounds.
"So the other one's up? So you're Katana, named after a samurai sword… interesting…" He looked up for a brief second, surveying the girl critically, and then went back to reading his little perverted orange book. Just then, the door barged open, and in rushed a blonde-haired boy, a sullen raven-haired guy and a pink-haired female trailing after him, drooling. Both Yukiko and Katana had sweatdrops forming at the back of their heads.
"Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, what are you doing here?"
"YOU WERE LATE AGAIN SENSEI!" Yukiko twitched.
"So now you can't use the 'I got lost' excuse," said Naruto smugly.
"Nor can you use 'A black cat crossed my path' excuse," said Sakura.
"Neither can you use 'I was helping an old lady cross the road', 'I got lost on the path of life' excuse-"
"But I can use the 'I was hauling an unconscious person in here' excuse," said Kakashi, cutting across Naruto's sentence. Sasuke just looked and stayed quiet, obviously very annoyed.
"Is he ALWAYS late?" asked Yukiko.
"You bet! Every time!" Yukiko and Katana sighed. They could both see that other than plotting and carrying out their mission, this was going to be a very long stay in Hidden Leaf Village…
Nat: So that rounds up Chapter 1!
Chris: I lost Ino, boss. Sorry.
Nat: Oh well. So, um, what do we say now.
Chris: I KNOW! Erm… Please R & R, ok? We're begging you!
Nat: If you don't… I'll send my army of blue talking mushrooms to attack you!
Chris: … -sweatdrop- that's not the way to do it….
