Shadowclone076
Firstly, I would like to apologise for my absence, I am busy with a band and they are religious about practice! I promise that this fiasco will end eventually. Secondly, I have been practicing and refining my writing in my spare time so I can give you, the readers, quality work. On To The Story!
Beta: Animewatcher4685
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (but I do own the characters I created)
(If inclined, listen to one of these songs, you decide when.)
"Speech"
'Thought'
Reading
"Demon/Hideo Talking"
Theme song: Let These Words Last Forever by We Come as Romans (I don't own them either. Awesome Band)
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Ichi had to decide if he was going to get Mac in on his plans or not, and fast. He was only going to save the good parts of the plot if he understood the plan. The plan was good. Randomness was not! His character shouldn't even be alive! In the original series, his character would have died in the preliminaries. He of course didn't wish his friends demise, he just wish he wouldn't make such an icon of himself!
Ichi had decided to walk through the market district to buy more shuriken, and Mac had thought they would make good cutting knives, and proceeded to dull each shurikens blades on random things. How he found the time to do it to each individual shuriken in the short time he was gone was beyond him. He had asked him, but Mac explained that he was simply making a sandwich.
He found the weapons shop and started browsing, sighing when he found that all the skuriken were bought out. In fact, pretty much every weapon there was in low stock, and the cashier was grinning at a customer who carried a large scroll. The counter top was littered with weapons of all shapes and sizes, and Ichi doubted that this mystery figure could afford it all.
The figure paid in cash and the cashier thanked her. Ichi was flabbergasted, and immediately ran up to shadowy figure to mooch a few shuriken.
"Ichi? I never thought I would see you here, and begging me for shuriken no less." Said a familiar ninja.
Ichi looked up from his position on the floor, knees having been introduced to the ground. It was Tenten! So this is what she does in her 'no screen time' moments! She buys out all the shops in the land!
"Uh, Tenten, may I ask what you are doing so far from the village?" Said Ichi, smiling nervously. Was this a repercussion, or did she do this in the original series off screen?
"I am just buying equipment from villages in the area; I heard this village had great quality weapons in their last smithing! So I came over and got them all. What are you doing here?" Said Tenten, twirling a kunai to perhaps test its wind resistance. Ninja do toss those, right?
"I am on a mission. It's classified, you understand." Said Ichi, not wanting to say his mission is make sure Naruto doesn't mess up his Rasengan training, his most used finisher till shippuden.
"Ok, then I won't give you any shuriken." Said Tenten, crossing her arms. Was she always this manipulative?
"Ok, I have to ensure my client gets a message. Not too hard, so I wanted to go by myself."
"What do you mean wanted?"
"HEY ICHI! What's happening? Don't get mad, dude, but your sword is covered in beef sau-" Mac was cut off by the fact that he was apparently not the only one in the shop. Mac believed that nobody go's shopping for weapons in a 'not used in series' village.
"Well, I can see you have your hands full, so I will get going." Said Tenten, giving Ichi a scroll and smiling as she left.
"Wait..." Ichi was at a loss, Tenten was cool? He never really noticed her in the anime or manga for that. She had one good episode, with the giant iron weapon ball, but not much others.
And she wasn't a fangirl. He was brought out of his daze that he apparently fell into by Mac, who said:
"Ok dude, don't get mad, but here's what happened; I was busy making some burgers with Sakura's help, and she asked me to help cut the meat, but all the shuriken were blunt. So I kinda used your sword, and now it's really sticky..."
Ichi had fallen into his daze halfway into the conversation, and this gave Mac a chance to retreat before he would wake up and register what he had just said. RUN MAC!
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Short chapters are warranted as lazy authors, but I procrastinated long enough, and I am tired of making you wait. Please bear with me through this time period, as I will have to focus on the gig while it is being planned. I will upload a FULL chapter next time, as I intended to add another scene (toss your hate at me, I deserve it!) On To The Gig!
(Update times: +2 weeks)
Note: the song is Run/Light up by Linda Lewis. The name may be wrong, but I know its hard!
