Chapter 14: The S-rank mission
Several weeks or else a month passed, and Konoha trusted Phire so much, that they treated her just like a Konoha ninja. Kakashi did heal, but she stayed with Team 7 for a long time 2 weeks that they grew attached to her, so she used to hang around with Kakashi and help them with training if Kakashi was busy with something usually reading Icha Icha Paradise. Phire was called to Tsunade's office, and Phire reported.
'Hai, hokage-sama?' Phire asked. Tsunade held a scroll her in hand, and gave it to Phire.
'Just go to the Land of Tea and you'll know what to do,' Tsunade smiled. Phire had gotten the hint, and before leaving, a voice called to Tsunade and Phire.
'Tsunade baa-chan! Phire-san! Hey, that rhymed!' Naruto yelled, running into the office. Tsunade sighed, and Phire stopped moving, and sighed.
'Naruto, Phire is going on a mission, would you leave now?' Tsunade asked Naruto, annoyed. Naruto kept asking what type of mission it was, andPhire told him that it was an S-rank mission.
'I want to come! I want to come!' Naruto kept exclaiming. Tsunade kept saying no, but Phire didn't care at all.
'Fine, but if you annoy Phire,' Tsunade glared death at Naruto, and he nodded.
'We're going to the Land of Tea, come on,' Phire was already outside, and Naruto had to sprint as fast as possible to catch up with her. As they were on their way, Sasuke followed them, and then of course, Sakura.
'Don't tell me that you all want to come,' Phire sighed. Kakashi wasn't there, and Phire didn't care whether they came or not, so they all left.
'What type of mission is this?' Sakura asked. Phire said that it was an S-rank mission, and they were confused; Phire knew why it was a S-rank mission, but she couldn't explain why.
'Now I'll get to meet my awaiting colleagues,' she thought as they finally reached after a few hours. The lands were horrible, and Phire threw kunais around the whole group, and they were surrounded, but no one was there.
'You guys stay here and guard this scroll with your life,' Phire told them as she gave the scroll to Sasuke. Phire disappeared, and they were confused. Phire went to a pretty far away area.
'Come out, Akatsuki,' she said, her sword in her hand. The Akatsuki members all but Itachi (as Itachi wasn't there) were pretty surprised, but the leader wasn't very surprised.
'Phire, it's been such a long time now, hasn't it?' the leader asked, going towards her. Everybody was confused.
'What do you want, bastard?' she growled. He chuckled.
'You know what I want,' he laughed. 'The Uchiha already told you!' Phire glared at him.
'I did ask to join years ago, but since you rejected me then, why do you ask me now?' Phire asked, narrowing her eyes at the leader. Everybody looked mystified; it was true that years ago, as a kid, she did ask to join Akatsuki; she was awakened by nature to stop and kill him, but she defied the future and allowed him to live, and went back to sleep, but she did ask to join, and was rejected as the result, and went back to sleep, and was reminded of this when Itachi awakened her; otherwise, she had forgotten that she did wake up before.
'Well, then I was better off, but now… I need you,' he told her. She 'pfft'ed, and held her hand in his face.
'Talk to the hand, then, baka, as I'm not joining you just yet,' she said as she disappeared. She didn't want to join, but she promised Itachi that she would join later.
'Hmph,' Aka-sama smiled. He then turned to the others. 'How did you like her? She will be the newest addition.' Everybody blinked, and they agreed; her chakra was amazing, and they all sensed it.
'Missed me?' Phire asked the surprised group of genin when she appeared out of nowhere. They were startled, and Sasuke handed her the scroll.
'Now, watch and learn,' she told them. She had to be 200 percentprecise, and that was the only reason it was an S-rank mission; otherwise, it would be an A-rank mission.
She opened the scroll, and threw it into the air. She then made a huge cut in her arm, covering nearly all of the sword in blood (only 2 percentof the sword wasn't covered in blood)exactly, and she splashed some of it exactly 46 percent on the scroll, and then she used her sword as a huge pencil and drew a strange symbol (it was the Kanji charm for 'energy') along with many designs that were intricate, and with27 percent of blood left on the sword she used 15 percentfor the design, she made a cut-like mark on the huge design, and then with the rest 10 percentof the blood, she made a very small kanji sign for 'energy', and then she grabbed her sword, and with the 2 percent of blood on it, struck the scroll which was over the design on the ground, only to go into the ground 6.7 feet, and when the 2 blood touched the scroll, light surrounded her and the scroll, and then it spread around the whole area, causing flowers and trees and many other different types of energy plants to arrive; they were mostly ones that you had to mix with tea. The 3 widened their eyes and looked around; there was a lot of flora around, and it was magnificent.
'Whoa,' Naruto was bedazzled, and looked around with his eyes still wide open.
'Hmph, I was lucky enough to be precise this time,' Phire muttered. The 3 looked at her strangely.
'What do you mean, precise?' Sakura asked. Sasuke understood.
'I think that there were exact amounts of blood, scroll page usage, and how deep she put her sword into the ground to make the country of tea stronger nature and potion-wise,' Sasuke explained. Sakura agreed with Sasuke, and Naruto grunted, closing his eyes.
'So, if you didn't have enough or too much of blood, or something else, it wouldn't work anyways?' Naruto asked. Phire nodded. She gently rubbed her cut, and it healed.
'If I failed,' Phire explained, 'I would have received a lot of damage and the whole thing would mess up and could even cause disaster.' Naruto widened his eyes.
'That's why it was an S-rank mission,' Sakura muttered. 'And so that's why hokage-sama asked you!' she exclaimed after that. She nodded.
'Mostly, Jounin are very precise, but this type of technique is far beyond a Jounin, and Tsunade trusted that I was above the regular Jounin level, and that I could do such,' Phire explained. 'Your actual sensei, Kakashi, would need absolute concentration, so if you distracted him with coughing, or even tapping your foot, like you did to me, he would screw up the whole thing just by probably 2 percentextra or less blood, which would be bad, and he could be seriously injured. I can take such distractions, and I'm one of the only Jounin who can, so that's the real reason I was asked.'
'In other words, you're better than the other Jounins,' Sasuke said. She nodded, and Sakura was shocked.
'Are you better than hokage-sama, Phire? I know that she has few troubles sometimes with precise jutsus and summoning things,' Sakura asked Phire. Phire didn't answer, so she shrugged.
'I'm better than Jiraiya, that's all we know; I don't know about the other 2 sannin,' Phire told them, lying. Sasuke had a feeling that she knew Orochimaru, but he kept quiet.
'So Phire, shouldn't we be getting back?' Sakura asked. She nodded.
'Come, then,' she told them, leading the way back to Konoha.
'The other reason that she didn't go herself was because of Akatsuki; we both knew that they were there, and she wanted me to meet them for some strange reason which I didn't get,' Phire thought to herself as they reached Konoha. Kakashi was outside waiting for them, and the mission was complete!