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"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" The voice of an extremely pissed off Tsunade came thundering through the air. Everyone turned and looked at her.
"L-Lady Tsunade." Ino stuttered in surprise. Akamaru hid behind Kiba and wined. Suzanna and Kiba both walked over to Colby as he popped his shoulder back in and the sickening pop turned everyone's attention to him.
"Can I help you Lady Tsunade?" Colby asked with a nervous grin.
"What the hell happened here?" Tsunade demanded as she looked at Sasuke as he tried to speak but his words were too garbled to be understood. "You two at it again? Damn it all! I want to see you four in my office at once. As for you Sasuke get your ass to the hospital and stay out of my sight." With that Tsunade walked up to Colby and had her face right up in his. Colby was about ready to crap his pants not knowing what Tsunade was going to do next. "Next time take it to the training grounds and keep your fights outside of village area. This is your first warning. I have to do this again you are good as dead." Tsunade said glaring at him.
Colby was dumb founded at her words. "Y-Yes Ma-am." He managed to get out.
"You are dead." Ino said to him as she gave him her death glare. "I told you not to get into any fights today but looked what happened!"
"Ino now is not the time to start up with that. We have to go see Tsunade." Suzanna said as she helped Colby to his feet. Ino pouted then turned around on her heel and stared to follow Tsunade to her office. Colby sighed as a thought crossed his mind.
"Shinkasen I need to get out on the rails." Colby thought as Suzanna, Kiba and himself followed Ino.
"I know you do, but I got a feeling we may be heading home." Shinkasen said.
"Quit messing with me." Colby thought.
"Hey you alright? What's going on inside that thick head of yours?" Suzanna asked. Colby looked up at her then looked towards Ino.
"Did I win?" He asked. Suzanna and Kiba laughed, Ino looked back and caught Colby looking at her, the expression on his face showed her that he knew he had let her down. Ino still glared at him before turning around.
The group walked into Lady Tsunade's office and stood before her. Suzanna had made a sling for Colby's arm and had put a temporary splint on it.
"I'm sending you four out on a mission starting tomorrow. You are heading to the Village of the Rails to tie up loose ends from Lady Whittum. There are still mercenary ninja in the village and the leaders have asked us to help them and specifically requested that you two (pointing to Colby and Suzanna) be a part of the mission. I'm also sending Naruto and Sakura with you on this mission."
"Wait what! The Village of the Rails! Really! SWEET!" Colby said excitedly. Suzanna smiled at his excitement to be heading back home and she was too though just not as enthusiastic as Colby. Ino and Kiba just nodded and laughed at Colby's excitement.
"Well I know that if any missions to the Rail village come up I know who to send." Tsunade chuckled. "Meet at the station at 0900 tomorrow morning, and Colby until then you are to stay home. Got it?"
"Yes." Colby said.
"Lady Tsunade, why are you sending Naruto and Sakura on this mission as well?" Kiba asked "Us four can handle a mission like this very easily."
"They are going because this mission is expected to take a while and from what reports I have received this mission will actually be quite difficult. That is why they are going." Tsunade said. "Any more questions?" The group shook their heads and Tsunade nodded for them to leave. After bowing the group left her office.
Out in the hallway Suzanna, Kiba, Ino and Colby meet up with Naruto and Sakura. Neither Naruto nor Colby were paying attention to where they were going as both of them were talking. Naruto and Colby then turned at the same time and collided head on. Pain went screaming through Colby's arm and Naruto shot back holding his nose as blood started to drip from it.
"Hey watch where you are going tra…." Naruto stopped short of saying train boy as he saw Ino glaring at him from behind Colby. Suzanna and Sakura both got between the two boys.
"Watch out next time." Colby said coldly as he walked past Naruto and down the stairs.
"I have to go on a mission with him? What the hell?" Naruto complained.
"Shut up Naruto or I will make you shut up." Sakura said. "Hey Ino, tell Colby that Naruto is sorry for bumping into him."
"Sure thing Sakura. I can't wait to be on a mission with you again." Ino said with a smile.
"Cya Naruto" Kiba said.
"Cya Kiba." Naruto said.
Ino, Suzanna, Kiba and Colby walked back to Suzanna's place. Tallus and Mike were in the kitchen having coffee when the group came walking in.
"Hey Uncle Tallie, guess where we are going tomorrow for a mission." Suzanna said excitedly as Colby and Ino sat on the couch and Kiba sat down next to Mike.
"Where are you kids off to tomorrow?" Tallus asked a bit confused.
"Home." Colby said with a grin. Tallus and Mike looked at him surprised.
"Home? You mean the Rail Village?" Tallus asked. Colby and Suzanna nodded. Ino started to use her medical ninjutsu on Colby's arm. As her hand glowed green Mike looked over and raised an eye brow at him.
"The hell happened to you? Ino break your arm or something?" Mike joked. Everyone chuckled as Ino finished up. The blaring of a diesel engine rolling through town echoed through the air.
"Yes that is exactly what happened. Cute girl walked by and she broke my arm for looking at her." Colby joked back with a laugh.
"I would have done more than broken your arm." Ino said with an evil grin.
"50 lashes with the wip? I hear Colby likes that kind of stuff." Mike said then burst out laughing. Colby and Ino's jaws dropped open Suzanna and Kiba started laughing as did Tallus.
"Wow, that was a good one Mike I must say." Colby said "But no. Sasuke started crap with me again and we had a pretty decent fight."
"It looks it. So about your mission if you guys are going to the Rail Village I got something for you, Suzanna, Kiba and Ino." Tallus said as he got up and went down the hallway then shortly came back holding three grey hooded sweatshirts and gave one to each of them. On the back was an emblem of a set of railroad tracks running vertically with a yellow circle around them. "The emblem is our family crest. I hope you guys wear them on your mission seeing as how you are going into Miles territory." Colby and Suzanna put their sweatshirts on right away and smiled as they looked each other over.
"Thanks Dad!" Colby said as he gave his father a one arm hug being careful of his injured arm.
"Thanks Uncle Tallie!" Suzanna said hugging Tallus.
"Thank you" Kiba and Ino said as Kiba put his on but Ino hesitantly looked at Tallus then back to the sweatshirt.
"What's wrong? It doesn't fit?" Tallus asked.
"No. It fits it's just that I'm not really a part of your family." Ino said, Colby chuckled and Tallus smiled.
"Of course you are! You have already met the entire family and they all love you Ino. Granted you are not 'offically' a Miles but right now you are close enough which is good enough for us." Colby said as he sat down next to Ino. Ino smiled as she put the sweatshirt on. "Maybe this will keep all of the boys away from you now." Colby chuckled.
"I hope so. You constantly fighting Sasuke and Chouji is getting old."
"Yeah it is."
"Hey just as an FYI your arm is fixed but it will take the night to get back to 100%. Also I am digging the sweat shirt. Badass it is" Shinkasen said.
"Thanks bud." Colby said as he started to undo the bandages on his arm.
"What are you doing!" Ino asked in protest as Colby finished taking the sling off of him.
"Shinkasen says my arm is fixed and Dad, he thinks the sweatshirts are badass." Colby grinned.
"That's nice of him." Tallus said as he looked at the clock. "Well if you guys have a mission tomorrow better start getting ready for it now and bed early for all of you." The four of them nodded. Kiba and Suzanna went to their room to start packing Colby and Ino went out to the back yard to sort through their gear and enjoy the last few hours of daylight.
Kiba and Suzanna were going through their gear. Checking everything they had. Suzanna took out an old uniform from the back of her closet. It was an old camo uniform with the family emblem on it.
"You going to wear that?" Kiba asked.
"The pants if they still fit me but I'll wear the sweatshirt with it." Suzanna said. "You going to wear your sweatshirt?"
"Yes I am going to wear my sweatshirt." Kiba said "Though it looks really good on you Angel." Kiba said sweetly. Suzanna just smiled and finished packing.
"I'm all set. Are you?" Colby asked as Ino was counting her kuni. She looked up slightly annoyed.
"I was till you made me lose track." Ino scowled. Colby chuckled as he watched the headlights of locomotives in the yard gleam in the setting sunlight. He was already in his mission clothes for tomorrow. Wearing camo pants with black combat boots and had his ovil green t-shirt on under his new sweatshirt. Ino was going to wear the same only she was going to have an olive green version of her usual purple top.
"Are you going to sleep in your mission clothes?" Ino asked as Colby walked over to her and sat down on the grass next to her.
"Yeah, less you want to see the crack of dawn again, hahaha." Colby chuckled at the memory.
"I'll pass on the crack of dawn and the baseball bat and the two balls. Although everything else I'd like to see." Ino said seductively. Colby laughed as he hugged Ino and kissed her.
"Alright in that case time to call it a day." Colby said as he got up then offered his hand to Ino which she took and he pulled her to her feet and stole a kiss as they walked inside. Tallus had the radio and as Ino and Colby walked in, Colby smiled as If You Ever Stop Loving Me by Montgomery Gentry started playing.
"Good song. Good Band and the love of my life with me. Things could not get much better than this." Colby said as the lyrics started to play.
My old man's backhand used to land,
Hard on the side of my head.
I just learned to stay out of his way.
There's been street fights, blue lights,
Long nights with the world sittin' on my chest:
It just showed me how much I could take.
Hard times, bad luck.
Sometimes, life sucks.
That's all right, I'm OK.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.
The bank man, the boss man, the lawman,
All tryin' to get their hands on me.
And I ain't even done a danged thing wrong.
I've been waylaid, freight-trained, short-changed,
By bigger an' badder men.
An' all I got to say is: "Bring it on."
Hard rain, rough road,
So my life goes.
That's all right, I'm OK.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.
I need you,
Gotta have you,
In my life, on my side,
Every day I'm alive,
Every night when I'm greedy an' needing,
You!
That's all right, I'm OK.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.
It ain't nothin' but another day.
But only God knows where I'd be,
If you ever stopped lovin' me.
Baby, never stop lovin' me.
Ah, just see, what your lovin' does to me.
As the song ended Ino and Colby were asleep on the couch together. Colby had his arm wrapped around Ino's waist. The whine of locomotive echoed through the air as the fiery sunset gave way to the black night.