Dragon: He-llo peoples! –ducks tomato- Now I know I haven't been here for a while…or updated…or mentioned I was still alive but I have a new chapter! -sidesteps kunai- -points finger- now there's no need to get violent…-sees giant fireball aimed for my head- AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! DUCK AND COVER DIVE DIVE DIVE! –dives- Now I have a very good excu…I mean explanation for being so lazy…
Random Angry Reviewers/People: We don't care!
Dragon: -.-' I didn't think so…
I lay me down tonight
Much further down
Watch stars go out tonight
On sinking ground…
"Has anyone seen Agrona?" Surprised heads turned to face slightly worried, bright blue eyes. Naomie shrugged, letting the moment pass.
"I just haven't seen her since just before you guys came back" she explained, glancing over at the dark-haired boy and his sensei. Kakashi regarded her silently with one eye.
"Do you think she's ok?" Even Sakura was showing concern, though Naomie was pretty sure she still thought Agrona was a freak of nature. Which she was in a way…but that wasn't the point. Naomie shook her head, as if to will away the thought.
"I'm sure she's fine, but she hasn't really grasped the concept of time yet…" she sighed. "Whatever, I'm going to look for her" She looked around, "Any volunteers?" Naruto immediately raised his hand from his spot by the tent. She smiled.
"Alrighty then, we'll be back in a few!" She jumped up to settle on a branch of a tree surrounding the clearing, only to kick off into the forest a moment later. Naruto scrambled after her, shouting complaints.
"Naomie! No fair, wait up!" Sakura shook her head and packed the last of the things into her travel bag while Sasuke just gave a 'hn'. Kakashi looked in the direction they ran off in before taking out a brightly colored orange book and poofing to a nearby tree.
'They're up to something…'
"I think Kakashi suspects that we're up to something" Naruto looked at Naomie with questioning blue eyes.
"What makes you say that?" Naomie shrugged before reaching up, grabbing hold of a branch and swinging until she crouched cat-like on it. Naruto turned around and skid to a stop before jogging over to stand underneath Naomie.
"And we stopped, why?" Instead of answering, Naomie slipped a hand into larger leg pouch and pulled a small wooden whistle carved into the shape of a wolf head. She brought it to her lips to produce a sound similar to someone trying to whistle but not quite succeeding. She blew until she ran out of breath and then returned it to her leg pouch. Naruto opened his mouth with a question but she held up a hand and answered "Wait" He pouted and consented to do just that…for a little while anyway. Naomie trained her eyes unblinkingly in front of her until a sound was heard in the bushes. Naruto's head flickered to the sound and he immediately reached for his kunai pouch. Naomie only smirked and jumped down in front of Naruto.
"About time you got here. You have the stuff?" A resounding bark came from the bushes and Agrona stepped out from the brush with a pouch clamped in her mouth. Naruto looked between the girl and wolf for a minute before asking:
"What stuff?" Naomie looked over at Naruto with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"What, you thought we were only going to stick with one kind of ammo?" Naruto's face slowly went from confusion to realization and sarcastic evilness. Naomie took the pouch from Agrona and opened it, a look of puzzlement on her face. She reached in and pulled out a feather.
"You got these too?" she asked, directing it to Agrona. Agrona nodded and barked, pleased with herself. Naomie's eyes widened in understanding and she patted Agrona on the head with a cheerful expression on her face.
"That's my girl, I taught you well" Naruto just looked at them with an exasperated look and a sweatdrop rolled down the back of his head.
"You guys are sarcastic, evil people…" Naomie looked up and grinned insanely.
"We know!"
"Where are they?" The Uchiha was starting to get annoyed. At this rate they were never going to make it to Kohana before the afternoon. He wanted to get some training in before dusk. Naruto was bad enough, but now there was this mystery girl that Kakashi wouldn't do anything about and she was just as bad as Naruto. He sighed inwardly. 'How did I get stuck with these people?'
"Ona, you better not be doing what I think your doing!" He looked behind him to the source of the voice, but instead found the she-wolf crouched behind him ready to pounce. His hand unconsciously whipped to his kunai pouch as he prepared to defend himself when a shurikan sliced through the air an inch from his hand. He looked up to the blonde and brunette standing near the edge of the clearing. He quickly identified the look on the girl's face as extremely ticked off.
"Now I know she doesn't have the best manners but that does not mean you can take a kunai out on her" She patted her thigh, a signal he supposed, and Agrona gave him one last glare before she trotted over to her mistress's side. Sasuke just looked away and 'humphed' before turning around and slinging a travel pack over his shoulder.
"Come on. You're late and we need to move" He started walking towards his sensei and his teammate. Naomie blew up in aggravation, causing a piece of hair to fly up with it.
"Talk about anti-social…"
"Are we there yet?"
"Yea really, we've been walking for a while now. And I really want to see what Kohana looks like"
"No we are not there yet. And it's only been a little over an hour. Why, can you not handle it?"
"Are you implying something Uchiha?"
"If you can't see that then you're as much of a loser as Naruto"
"What? She insults you and it suddenly turns to me! Bastard!"
"Dead last"
"Don't call me that!"
"Will you all just shut up? It's really getting annoying…" Three looks of indifference, frustration and anger ((A/N you can guess which is which)) focused themselves on a look of annoyance directed from the pink haired girl before averting their gazes and pouting in silence. Well, two of them anyway. Naomie fumed silently. 'She must be really pissed if she told off Sasuke…' A small smirk started to form on her face. 'Wonder what she'll think of him after his little incident…now THAT will be good' She yawned loudly and scratched the back of her head. Naruto picked up the movement and gave the slightest of nods before a loud 'poof' was heard from both of them and they disappeared in smoke. Onyx and emerald eyes whipped around until they were staring at the place where their two companions were. Panicked, Sakura turned to her sensei.
"Kakashi-sensei, they! They're gone!" The said person turned his head to the right then back to where Sakura was sending shocked glances. A faint call was then heard, but the only one who made it out was Kakashi:
"Vine Entanglement Jutsu!" Vines shot out of the ground and wrapped themselves around Sasuke's ankles before clamping on tightly, trapping him to the ground. Kakashi's visible eye widened.
'What do they think they are doing?' Well, he was going to find out…
Two flashes appeared over Sasuke's head and two splashes of purple and orange crashed down on him, drenching him in color. Another shout was heard, and this time everyone heard it.
"Wind Release: Gust Hand jutsu!" As the jutsu had suggested, a gust of wind blew around the sensei and his students. With it surprisingly, were feathers from all kinds of birds found around the forest and…the seeds of dandelions? Despite the situation, a sweatdrop rolled down the back of Kakashi's head.
'Are they even thinking?' The lightweight objects swirled around the shocked and hugely confused Uchiha, sticking to him as if he were made of krazy glue. When the wind slowed down and finally ceased, Sakura lowered her arms from their defensive position to receive the biggest shock of her life.
Sasuke, her crush, teammate and obsession in life, was now a multicolored chicken.
And she knew exactly who to maim… ((A/N notice that's maim not blame…))
"NARUTO! NAOMIE!" A smear of orange came from the left, and a blur of blue came from the right to stand on either side of her. They both wore identical pairs of mischievous and extremely amused grins and twin pairs of delighted cerulean blue eyes focused on her slowly reddening face.
"You called?" They chorused, much to Sakura's surprise. She didn't answer; actually she had expected to hunt them down all over the Fire country in order to teach them a proper lesson, not have them willingly come and knock on the hell's door. Before she could reorganize her scrambled thoughts, Naomie snapped her fingers.
"I almost forgot the finale!" She held up a hand a nanosecond before a water bottle came flying over her head into her outstretched palm. She smiled at her partner in crime before walking over to Sasuke and stopping a couple feet away in front and to the side. Her eyes swept back and forth along the ground in front of him before settling on a spot. She walked over and uncapped the bottle and unceremoniously poured it on the ground, making a small man-made mud puddle. She then strolled over to Naruto's side with a grin that, if possible, was even bigger than before. With a dramatic sigh she brought her hands up and glanced over at the sensei and his female pupil.
"It was an interesting story how we thought this up, but since Ona really wanted to help out…" She brought her hands together in a canceling hand sign and the vines securing Sasuke to the ground loosened and slipped back to their earthy confines. Before the dark-haired boy could even think about reacting, furry paws slammed onto his back, forcing him down to the ground and the exact spot where the mud was…
SPLAT
And that was when he executed the most perfect face plant ever performed with Agrona on his back, panting happily. At this point the two terrors had totally lost it and were laughing hysterically. Through her giggles, Naomie managed to call Agrona over, who happily obliged and sat her rump down next to her mistress, her tail the world's fastest dust broom. Slowly, as if it pained him, Sasuke lifted himself out of the mud to a standing position and it was then that the label for the genius prank had to be changed.
Sasuke Uchiha wasn't just a multicolored chicken; he was a multicolored chicken, plus a mud mask.
And his face was as close to the title 'murderous' as Naomie had ever seen it. Which was very close…
She leaned over to her blonde companion and whispered one thing:
"I'm gunna go out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that now would be a really good time to run…" And so the two ninjas and the she wolf did, with the royally pissed off Sasuke right behind them and the concerned and still utterly shocked Sakura after him. Only Kakashi stood there, with more sweatdrops popping up on the back of his head then when Gai had challenged him to a drinking contest.
'I just hope they can run really, really fast…'
Dragon: -sigh- well seeing that I sorta owe you guys something for my taking off and skimping on my stories, I've decided to give you guys a little something extra. If two of you readers can guess which song and by whom that the four lines in the beginning of the chapter came from, I'll give you guys an extra chapter explaining how the troublesome twosome formulated the genius plan, designed it so that it worked on the road, and add in a couple of extra hints for chapters to come. There won't be a lot though, and you guys will have to figure out what they are hinting to, but a hint's a hint. You guys happy now?
Reviewers/Random People: No
Taeka (My snow leopard deamen): Would you really expect them to be?
Dragon: -.-' not really
Reviewers/Random People: WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! –dog pile Dragon-
Dragon: T.T ah my spleen…
Taeka: -.-' While we take her to the ER, read & review and don't forget to guess the song for the extra chapter! –looks over to dog pile where only Dragon's hand is poking out trying to grasp empty air-
Dragon: -choking- can't breath…need oxygen...oxygen good…right about now…
Taeka: -sweatdrop- you also need a brain but we haven't succeeded with obtaining that now have we?
Dragon: you…suck...
Taeka: yea love ya too…alright everyone off!
Reviewers/Random People: -become very big and scary- NO! WE'RE NOT DONE TORTURING HER!
Taeka: -small chibi form- O.O ok then…