A/N: HoNdeR All Mighty here! I had shortly read a ACxNaruto crossover, and it was like... crap? SO I decided that I would give it a try and make something similar, though not at all like that story. However, I took the idea of sucha crossover from a NaruHIna story with the words... 'Keeper of the Creed' in it's title, if memory serves. I hope this Xover will work out. If you don't know much about the Assasin's Creed game, don't worry, I don't make many references to it. About Altair's weapons though...
For those that don't know: He has a sword, a silver dagger at his back, and knife holsters at his chest and back. The knifes are mostly thrown weapons. He also has a dagger hidden in his left glove. If you wanna see how he really looks, check 'Assasin's Creed' on google for pictures, I'm sure you'll find plenty.
Now on with the tale!
Assassin's Creed
Chapter1: To Stand With Honor
The light… the light of the sun. He didn't recall where he was last time… fighting Al Mualim… yes, that's where he was. Fighting him at the Assassin's keep, but where was he now? It looked like… a forest?
His eyes under the white hood darted left and right, searching for a possible way to determine his location. He sighed as one thing was for sure…
This was not Al Mualim's keep, nor was it his home country, that was for sure. For firstly, his land had never seen so many trees together in one place, and secondly, there weren't forests around last time he checked. So how did he come here? What happened when he defeated Al Mualim and hid away the artifact?
He looked once more around him, endless colors of green and brown for his sight to behold. The grass under him seemed so soft…
He stood up from his sitting position, careful not to make any noise, as he had no idea whether this land was friendly or not. Now what does one do when he finds himself in the middle of nowhere?
Recon. And the best way to do it, is to find a high place… with a few swift movements that one could easily compare to the elusiveness of a cat, or a panther, he found himself climbing one of the huge trees, quickly reaching the top in a matter of seconds.
He pushed away a few branches and leafs so that he could see what lied beyond. He nearly fell with what he saw…
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'Damn Tsunade-obaa-chan, having me do such a foolish mission. Why does she have genins for, anyway?' irritated he was, as he jumped from tree branch to tree branch, hasty to reach home. This mission was the most boring thing he had done since he became jounin. And that was…
The cat he held inside the box struggled to get away, as if she already knew what was to be of her. He found a small part of himself to be able to feel sorry for her, knowing that the old wife of the Fire Lord would most likely crush her cat's bones again when she got her back. He was glad she wasn't his grandma… sometimes he feared her hugs could be stronger that Tsunade's.
Why did she have to put a jounin for such a task? Weren't any genins available? God damn it, he thought such trivial mission were over by the time he even became Chunin! He sighed… there was nothing he could do now. At least he would get a regular B ranked payment… since the Lord's wife had run amok and had even dared grab and shake Tsunade to get the mission done as soon as possible. Maybe the B ranking was Tsunade's payback… somehow…
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Perfect… no matter how far he looked, he could only see trees everywhere, with a few hills popping around and mountains at the edge of his eyesight. He sighed once more as he prepared to fall back to the ground. There weren't any haystacks around, so he would have to do it the old way…
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Jump, jump, jump. Traveling back would always be the most boring thing ever, especially when you had no companions. What can happen when you just jump from tree to tree? A white-dressed man with a sword falling on you? No, such things only happened in the movies or something. Wait…
White-dressed man?
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A loud thud, that's what he heard before his world went in a rampart of colors before he regained vision. Next thing he knew, he was on the ground, a blond man dressed in black and orange having fell beside him. Who the hell would jump trees like that? Was he an assassin? He thought he had killed them all… damn it!
He jumped to a ready stance as he prepared his assassination blade, ready to strike his 'enemy' before he could regain his footing. The teen was sitting up, rubbing his head at the moment. He had to strike…
Now!
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Oh look… a star! Wait, it was noon, from where did the star come from? He shook his head, trying to make the blurry images clearer. And it worked… next thing he knew, the white-dressed man from before was jumping on him, a blade in his left hand, aiming for his… neck?
God damn it!
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Damn… he clenched his teeth as his opponent managed to stop his blade in the last moment. Split second too late, now he had little chances of a quick kill. The teen pushed him away and he quickly regained his footing, preparing one of his thrown blades…
"Who the hell are you?" the teen said in a language he didn't understand. It sounded really strange… a language fluid in motion yet nothing like what he had heard before. "No matter, here is where you die" he repelled and it hit the spot. The teen looked confused, probably he too not understanding what he had just said. In a matter of seconds, two knifes flied towards the unsuspecting ninja…
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What the hell was that? Had the guy speaking problems? It sounded as if he said "I kill pigs with wings" or something like that. He was probably nuts… no wonder he wore white clothes. Out of reflex, he grabbed a kunai to repel the incoming blades. That was close… he shouldn't lose focus, this guy meant what he was doing. He guessed he cursed, for his teeth where clenched and his face strained with anger. Now that he thought about it… why did he wear a white hood?
Said man unsheathed his sword, taking a swordsman stance before him. What was he doing? He never was one for sword fights, but if that's what he wanted… then who was he to say no?
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The blonde was fast, he would give him that much. He repelled every strike the teen threw at him with his dagger, his hand practically moving on its own. He had fought far better swordsmen that this one. He dodged one of the attacks, and using the momentum, he pushed the teen away, slashing him with his sword at the stomach along the way, the wound probably a fatal one.
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What… what happened? Next thing he knew, he had his hand on his stomach… covered in blood…
He looked down at his abdomen, seeing the blood spilling from an horizontal wound. He was bleeding…badly…
He could feel the wound struggling to close as his healing power started kicking in. But nevertheless, it was a very deep wound. He knew that he would already be dead, was it not for Kyuubi.
He turned to look at his opponent, his face painted with shock…
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How did he survive this? He had killed many men with this move, and most of them never even flinched after the strike was over. Yet this one kept standing, his face covered in pain and anger as he looked back at him. What was up with this boy… this man…?
No matter, he would end it, now. His hand reached for another blade, and in a matter of seconds, it was flying towards the teen, it's deadly accuracy aiming for his neck…
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It was over… he was just returning from a cat rescue mission, and he found himself against a man he could hardly touch. Ironic… the cat had escaped when he had crushed on him and the box flew open, letting her run away. Perfect, now he had to chase her again…
He saw the blade coming… he could do nothing to stop it, no, not without killing himself from the strain and blood loss…
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Oh perfect. Where he had one idiot to kill, now where three more. A teen with glasses and a trench coat that covered all his body, along with his hair stood beside the man he fought, his hands hidden in small clouds of… bugs?
To the other side, the other teen looked more… feral, as he had straight spiky brown hair, red fang tattoos under his eyes and real fangs at his teeth, along with an enormous fur ball that people came to call dogs beside him.
And in the middle, between him and his previous opponent, was a girl with long dark blue hair, lavender eyes that like them he had seen none before, and a lavender white jacket. One thing he found similar to all of them, where the sandals and that thing that looked like a headband, that had a symbol that somehow resembled a leaf.
"Naruto, how did you manage to compromise in such a situation?" the bug-boy asked in the same language the blonde had used before. He hated himself for not understanding them, yet he let it not show. He couldn't allow fear to strain his thoughts. His face was emotionless and his blade was ready…
"Dunno… it's probably my lucky day…" the blonde said weakly as he tried to crouch, the blood having stopped pouring, yet he could feel the weakness the loss gave him.
"You bet it is. You where lucky we where also returning from a mission using the same route, and I smelled the blood" now the wild looking one said. He prepared himself for any action they would take… he had no idea who they where, and they looked nothing like normal soldiers.
"Hinata" the bug man said once more and the lavender eyed girl turned to look at him. He guessed it was her name… what strange names, he had never heard ones like this before, not even from the Englishmen.
"Yes, Shino?" she responded, her voice hesitant. Now that he noticed, her face seemed a little flushed, while the rest of what he could see of her body was pale. Was she blushing, and if it was blushing, then for whom? Well, he would kill her anyway, associating with her romance interests was something far less than trivial for him. He also guessed that the bug boy was Shino, as the word 'Hai' couldn't possibly be a name. Yet you can never know…
"Take care of Naruto, you are the only one capable of healing jutsus. We will restrain this man from interrupting you. Go, now" he momentarily looked at the girl, taking his gaze away from the white-dressed man "He is dying" and that seemed to make the girl go even paler that she normally was. She rushed back to the blonde, getting her hands over his wound. What could she possibly do? Magic?
His eyes under the hood went wide as he saw green lighting covering her hands. As she placed them over the wound, he could clearly see it healing, slowly.
The blonde mouthed something… 'Arigato, Hinata'. The thankfulness on his face made him guess that 'Arigato' meant 'thank you'. It wasn't easy to learn such a language, but if he even had pieces of knowledge about it, then it could come in handy, someday probably.
"Shino, have you drained any of his chakra? The guy seems strong…" the wild looking boy said to his companion. Shino responded with an 'Iie' and that made the feral one look incredulously at him. He guessed once more that 'Iie' simply meant 'no'…
"What? Why not?!" he asked, his tone incredulous. "For he has no chakra" the tone in which he said that phrase seemed curious. He wondered what the chakra thing they kept repeating meant…
"What?! How can he have no chakra?" the wild boy asked frantically once more. He guessed the 'Nani' word meant 'what' as he had seen many people taking that incredulous look and tone when they said 'what' in any language.
"His body… he has never used chakra, thus his coils are inactive." Shino seemed to explain, and the wild teen looked at him once more, his dog growling… a lot.
"This guy must be dangerous… for having done that" he pointed at the bloodied blond "to Naruto" he said. "But if he has no chakra…" now he smiled, showing off his long canines "then he must be a piece of cake"
"No, Kiba!" he heard the blonde yelling from behind the two teens. The wild teen that was about to attack, turned to look back at the blond. Since 'Iie' seemed to mean 'no', he made the guess once more, that 'Kiba' was the teen's name. What strange names people around here tended to have…
"Don't underestimate him" the blonde said seriously, yet he clutched his stomach in pain as he sat back down, the blue haired girl starting healing him once more "Calm down Naruto-kun, don't strain yourself, this wound is serious" she whispered and he only nodded, calmly now sitting in his place.
"Kiba, you will be his opponent. He has no chakra for me to drain, thus my bugs are useless. I will however, try to give any cover I can" Shino said as he jumped away on a tree branch, his bugs residing away… inside him? That seemed… awkward. The Kiba guy though, grinned at him once more, before launching his attack, dog accompanying swiftly behind…
Kiba shouted something, and his features became even more feral, as his nails turned to claws and started running at all four. His dog however, turned in an exact copy of him…
What the hell was that? Illusions? He rolled away from their combined slashing attacks, and seeing the chunks of the tree that was behind him being clawed away, this was not an illusion. Not even close.
He took out his sword, seeing as to assassinating with his hand blade was out of question for such close range fighters. If he used his knifes now, then they would go to waste, as this clawed hands looked capable of repelling. He had to think fast… how could he defeat a melee fighter, no two, when they seemed to be able to simply overpower him?
His eyes once more went wide, as one of them yelled 'Gatsuuga', and they both started swirling against him in a whirlwind of claws. He was sure that getting caught in that, was not what he wanted…
He rolled once more away, behind a tree and took in hand one of his thrown blades. The moment the swirl stopped, both 'teens' had their backs exposed to him, even for a second. That was all he needed…
Kiba growled in pain as a dagger found itself in his kidney. He pulled it out and threw it back at the man, much more clumsily though, since it was much lighter than a kunai and his hand wasn't used to such weights. The man caught the blade from the hilt and grinned back at him, throwing it once more, but this time…
He heard a poof as Akamaru fell back to the ground, yelping in pain. That bastard… both he and Akamaru expected the dagger to go for him again and he caught them unprepared, if only for a moment. He checked the area the dagger hit… it was a vital nerve at the neck, but not deadly. Though if Akamaru tried to move his head now, he would die…
Tears started finding themselves on his eyes as he saw his long-time companion yelping in pain. He angrily looked back at the white-dressed man, who just happened to not be there…
"Right here…" he heard a whisper, though it was not in his language. He hastily looked up, only to see the man jumping on him from above, throwing him to the ground and his hand-blade going for his neck, ready to kill…
A swarm of bugs hit the white dressed man hard. It felt like a brick wall… and it hurt. Especially if you combine it with a crush on a tree. Damn it, he was careless. He thought that he had Kiba in hand, and he would, was it not for Shino and his damn bugs…
He was outnumbered, that was for sure. At least he had incapacitated the dog. Now he had one less problem to worry about. A smirk found itself on his face as he thought something else…
He hastily stood up and threw another dagger at Shino, who's bugs swarmed in front of him to protect him.
Perfect…
Another dagger found itself in his hand, and in a matter of a second, it was flying against the lavender eyed girl, who was still tending to the blonde's wounds...
Surprised he was, as the dagger found itself embed in the blonde's back, instead of the girl's neck. No matter, this time it was a far more fatal wound. He smirked as he saw the blond falling…
"Naruto!" he heard her yell. 'Naruto' the name then, eh?
"Why…" her eyes where starting to fill up with tears
"Dunno… it looked like a good idea… at that moment…" and he let the grasp of darkness take over him…
"How touching. Now die" and another knife could be seen flying towards her. Though this time, Shino's bugs where there to stop it. Damn it… he checked his holsters… he only had three knifes left…
He ducked, avoiding a clawed attack that could easily severe his head. He reached at his back while ducking, and before the teen knew it, he had a silver dagger embed in his chest…
He kicked him away, freeing his weapon from Kiba's body and letting him fall back to the ground. Blood dripped from his blade as he looked back at the others.
"One down, two to go" he whispered as he turned and jumped into the surrounding bushes…
"Hinata" Shino whispered and she looked up at him while trying to heal the wound at Naruto's back. It was fatal, and one mistake here in the field would lead to his death…
"Keep an eye out for him, if you please. He is far more dangerous that he looks…" Shino's bugs swarmed silently around his hands and Hinata only nodded as she tried to also keep some of her Byakugan's focus off Naruto. It wasn't easy… there where many nerves she had to keep an eye on. His spinal column should not be touched either…
When she decided that he would stay alive for now, she rushed towards Kiba, who had a straight cut in the chest from the man's weapon. Her hands shone with green light as she hasted to heal him too.
Perfect…
His dagger found itself embed in Shino's back, right at his heart. There was no way this one would survive, at least. His smirk disappeared though, as said teen dissipated in bugs…
"What the hell?" he whispered to himself. Was he made of bugs or something? Was he dead?
'I was careless… I couldn't sense him, since he has no chakra. I was lucky my instinct didn't fail me this time…' Shino thought as he kept himself hidden between the bushes. He had managed in the last moment to replace himself with a bug clone…
'He is dangerous… far more than I had estimated to begin with…' he thought once more yet the man didn't seem to stop there…
A knife flew once more, this time aiming for Hinata. He extended his hand, sending his bugs as swiftly as possible to intercept it. Damn him, damn his foolishness! How could he let himself fall into deep thinking, when Hinata was out there in the open?
Split second too late… if he was only for an idea of the second faster, the knife would have been stopped…
The girl didn't even yell in pain, as the knife hit her back. She only limply fell to the ground, unconscious…
This was getting nowhere. This man was too strong, even for him to defeat alone. They had to flee, before it was too late.
He enclosed himself in a shield of bugs, while the tiny insects took hold of each of his friend's bodies, holding them carefully, especially Akamaru, so that the dog would not die from the nerve wrecking hit it had suffered. He sent another small swarm of his bugs against the white dressed man so he would back off. He did, as he jumped away in the bushes once more. Taking his friends close to him, Shino started leaping away, towards home, with all the speed he could muster while carefully controlling his bugs. Time was of the essence, their lives where at stake…
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He sighed as he looked out of the bushes once more. That Shino guy had left, taking his friend's with him. The only remainder of this battle, the bloodied grass. He searched around the area for his knifes, since he doubted he would find anymore of them in the forest. After a few minutes, he had managed to retrieve them all. Lucky him, the bug user had taken them off the bodies of his friend's before leaving. He had to thank him for it some other time… 'Arigato' was it?
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Konoha… he could see Konoha… good…
Genma jumped off his seat as he saw a swarm of bugs approaching. Probably an Aburame. And he seemed to hold… corpses?
The Aburame came to a halt before him, panting heavily as he touched the bodies down carefully…
"Hospital… quickly" he whispered, before falling to the ground himself…
Genma had little time to think as his wide eyes estimated the situation. Four teens wounded in vital spots, with a chakra depleted Aburame. His hands flied through seals… "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" a poof of smoke filled the air as he slammed his palm to the ground. When it cleared, a hawk appeared through the dissipating smoke.
"Go call for medics, now!" he shouted and the bird was off towards the hospital in amazing speed. He smiled to himself, knowing all too well how much faster the summoning hawks could be than the normal ones. He kneeled besides each wounded ninja, estimating the damage.
The blonde, recognized as Naruto, the demon child, as the villager's called him, had a deep wound in the stomach, most likely done from a sword and a wound on his back at a vital spot. This was strange… the wound wasn't big enough to belong to a kunai, neither small to be made by a senbon, yet it was extremely accurate. Whoever it was that had done that, surely knew how to handle a knife.
The blue haired girl had only one wound at the back. Thankfully it wasn't that critical, but she would have a problem walking for a few days. She would live…
The dog boy, who from the tattoos must have been an Inuzuka, sported a trivial wound similar to the others at his stomach, and a deep cut in his chest, probably from a dagger. The cut though didn't seem even similar to that of a kunai…
The Aburame sported no wounds at all. All that he must have had was chakra depletion…
Overall estimation: Whoever that guy was, he was strong, fast, and deadly. And to add to it…
He was not a ninja
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He looked up at the sky… it was noon as it seemed, the sun being right above him in the blue wide yonder. He checked his equipment once more…
Sword: Check
Dagger: Check
Knifes: Full
Perfect. He clenched his right hand, letting the mechanism in his glove make the assassination blade come out. He stroke it gently… this blade had taken many lives… and if his estimation was correct, it would take even more. These five that he faced back there where tough. He had met none so strong before. He just hoped that there weren't others like them…
His eyes opened wide when he noticed the trees being more spread, more open, allowing better vision for what lied ahead. In a minute, he found himself on a road…
To the left, the road seemed to spread towards nowhere…
To the right, a caravan was slowly approaching from the distance…
He decided that the best course of action at the moment, would be to wait for the caravan to approach. He had little to no idea as to where he was, so letting someone else lead him sounded good for now. He just hoped that they could at least be able to communicate…
A few minutes passed before the caravan reached them. To his surprise, instead of animals pushing the cars, there where… kids?
The old man at the front car raised his hand in motion for the caravan to stop when they saw him. His narrowed eyes looked for anything suspicious. Seeing his equipment, he turned to their protectors.
He said something he couldn't really make out. Then the kids… no wait, they were too tall to be kids. Probably teenagers. One of them was male, his eyes a pale lavender like the girl he had met before. The girl of the company had her hair made in two tidy buns, a hair style he had never seen before. Her and his outfit reminded him something he had seen in a book…
The third… man… was entirely dressed in green, along with a green jacket. His eyebrows where so thick, that he was sure they would swallow one of his knifes. Maybe he was overreacting here… but the bowl haircut and the large round eyes only reinforced that thought. He seemed to completely lack fashion sense… along with brains, as he seemed to yell something with his fists clenched.
All of them once more sported these headbands he had seen before, with the leaf like symbol. He didn't reach for his weapons though, no, not yet. It seemed far more profitable for him if he befriended them. For now.
The man with the lavender eyes, and long brown hair, approached slowly, his eyes flaring up as veins bulged around them. A pupil also appeared in each respective eye. It was… another awkward thing of this land, he guessed.
"Who are you?" he said yet he didn't understand a word. He searched his mind for what it could mean… the blonde had said the same words when he had first seen him… this would be a wild guess now…
He rose his head, his dark brown eyes looking straight in the man's before him.
"Altair" he said simply. If he was right, then the man's reaction right now would prove it. He didn't even flinch though as his two other companions approached, both in ready stances.
"And what's your business here?" the teen asked once more. It was a real headache, not being able to properly communicate…
"Look, I just need a few information, where I am, who you are. I'm lost…" he said in Arabic. The lavender eyed man quickly recognized the language. He had seen it in a few books in the library of his village. The sound of it had very little similarities to his own. That's why what he had heard right now sounder like "Witches, fly the ground away, kill pop, hair gum. Dad…" of course, anyone in their right mind, would only make out this words with a lot of imagination. He tried to remember what little Arabic he knew…
"What, you, want, here?" he never believed that the few Arabic he had learned from books would someday be helpful. The expression the man's face bore seemed one of recognition.
Altair was no fool. The way this man spoke Arabic alone told him that he knew very little. He had to use his words carefully… maybe he had to speak English?
"I only seek passage to somewhere safe." Altair said, yet the man before him only had his eyes wide. He just hoped that he hadn't said an insult or something…
He spoke… English. Yet not the modern ones. This English were old, since the time of the Crusade. He had read about it in the library. He would spent hours there, reading every book that would fall in his hands. In one of them, he had read about the history of Christendom, a religion very famous around the world. He had read about a Crusade made by the European powers of that time… one of them was England, and the way he spoke English right now made him think, no, know, that he spoke old English.
"Very well. You may come with us" he spoke in English and Altair's expression seemed one of understanding once more. The hooded man smiled "Arigato" he said as he brought his fist to his heart. He turned off his Byakugan as he smiled to himself. It seemed that somehow, he knew some basic Japanese after all…
Yet what intrigued him the most, was that he had no chakra. He had never used it before and that made him a civilian. Or bandit… yet his clothes and gear didn't really look like what bandits tended to use. He had to keep an eye on him, as it seemed…
Altair moved and stood beside one of the wagons, waiting for them to take their positions. He nodded to his teammates and they went back to what they where doing… and that was, pushing the wagons.
He made his own way next to Tenten… "Name?" he heard Altair whispering in English as he passed by. He turned to look at the white clad man, who just seemed to stare off in the space before him
He grinned
"Neji"
A nod was Altair's only response. Neji then took his place beside Tenten, and with a loud "Yosh!" from his green clad companion, they began pushing once more, he and Tenten pushing the first one, and Lee pushing the other. They had to stay in front, for last time they let Lee take the lead, he had gotten so far beyond them, that they suffered chakra depletion when they reached him…
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That smell… that sound… he knew them… he knew them… but from where? He had to open his eyes, he had to see…
That all so familiar smell assaulted his nose, the smell of a hospital it was. That sound, the sound of his heartbeat on a monitor. That steady pound of beep after beep. And the white walls and ceiling… no mistake, he really was in a hospital. God damn it…
As the memories of what had happened, what had brought him here started rolling back in his mind, only one thing incredulously managed to pop out.
"The damn cat escaped…" he whispered to himself. Too bad that, neither did it go unheard, nor was he alone.
"Naruto? You're awake!" yelled a voice that he sure hoped that wouldn't be heard at the moment.
'Sakura…' he really wasn't in the mood for one of her endless scolding monologues… he really wasn't…
"You baka! How could you get beaten up so bad!" his injuries weren't that much facial, as much as critical. Was it not for team 8 to intervene, he would long now be dead…
And now that he thought about them, he titled his head to the left, tuning off Sakura as she kept on scolding him. The world seem to narrow as he saw Hinata, in a bed sleeping peacefully not more than a meter away. He had the impression that if he extended his hand, he could even touch her…
Her face was pale… so that was her normal color… he had never really noticed, as she would always flash various shades of red and usually keep her face away from looking at him. And right now, she seemed so peaceful… such a rare occasion…
He had never really thought that she was… cute…
No, bad Naruto. You like Sakura-chan. Now go look at her and leave Hinata alone!
He titled his face to look at Sakura once more. Her lips kept moving and all he could hear was a constant buzzing… that's what her words and insults where now… a buzzing. She had taken that 'I-know-everything' posture again. Legs slightly spread, straight spine, one hand at her middle while the other lifted to the air, a finger pointing to the ceiling. Eyes closed and expression frowned, lips moving endlessly.
He really hoped she could shut up… wait, what? No, no, no. Look at the bright sight Naruto! Sakura-chan is here, caring for you. Admire her slender figure, which looks like she's ready to drive a punch at you. Her delicate hands, that keep accusingly point at you and your mistakes. That beautiful face, that wears a frown nearly always when you are around. And these 'perfect' lips, that keep insulting you every time they get the chance to open themselves.
Okay, okay, calm down. She's not that bad… to tell the truth, she was becoming more fond of him as time passed. She wouldn't drive a punch in his face as good-morning anymore. She would either wait for him to say something stupid and then do it. She had become more gentle with him. Her punches would now aim for less vital spots, except when she was pissed.
Come on, she could make the perfect wife for you one day. He could even imagine it: He, returning home after a tiring mission. She, cooking in the kitchen his favorite ramen. No wait, she didn't know how to cook ramen, so let's say she… boiled potatoes! He imagined himself holding a box, with ramen to accompany the potatoes. She could see him, tired and worn off. She would run up to him, scold him with that posture and then sit him down to eat. He would eat his ramen along with the potatoes, take a shower while she prepared herself for bed, and in the night, when no one else would bother them, in their bed…
He would fall asleep and she would hold herself from punching him. What? How can you make love to your wife when you are so tired after a mission? She would understand, wouldn't she?
Her lips kept moving and moving, now somehow trying to explain how the spinal column of a human worked, and how he had managed to damage it. He titled his head once more to the left…
She was still lying there, so peacefully…
He imagined once more, he returning home after a tiring mission. Opening the door, she would wait at the kitchen, making that amazing Onigiri. He would once more have a box with ramen with him. She would approach him and help him sit down, that smile that sometimes graced her face there, welcoming him home. He would eat the ramen along with that amazing Onigiri. She was a great cook, he knew that all too well having tasted it in a few missions. But back at the fantasy now.
He would take a shower and she would get ready for bed. He would lie down, a warm hug waiting for him right there. She would rest her head on his chest and they would sleep peacefully, the tiring day a thing of the past…
Okay, this was weird. Maybe he should have a medic-nin check up on him. Oh wait, Sakura was a medic-nin…
"Baka, can't you listen for once?" he managed to make out these words, for she was now shaking him violently.
"Sakura…-chan…" he managed to whisper. Now that he noticed, his voice was so sore…
She sighed, the 'I-know-all' posture leaving her body. "Naruto… why are you doing this? You go out for a cat retrieval mission and you're back nearly dead!" she said incredulously, fear evident in her voice. Wait… why fear?
"Naruto… I can't lose you" his world started brightening once more "If you die… then who…" he could see a smile forming on her face. "Who will help me get Sasuke-kun back?" she finished and that light suddenly went dark, like a black-out. He sighed… why did he expect more, anyway?
He was glad his eyes where half closed already. He closed them entirely. Sasuke again… even when he was away to who knows where with that homosexual pedophile Orochimaru, he would still mess with his life. But no, he would not give up! Sakura would one day fall, that was for sure…
"Naruto you baka!" he heard someone yell. Wait… it wasn't Sakura… it was something worse… and because he had his eyes closed, he hoped it was just a nightmare. Opening them a little, he saw Tsunade…
He closed them again. Counting slowly to five, he opened them. She was still there, this time closer. Oh crap, and he couldn't run! He hoped that there where pain killers at the table beside him, at least.
"Wake up!" she shouted and he had to obey. Opening his eyes slowly, he looked at Tsunade's open brown eyes, that where filled with anger… and worry.
"How the hell…" he was sitting up now, letting his back touch the railings of his bed, and the wall. It would be easier to confront her without being laid down…
"Did you manage to be defeated by a bandit! A simple bandit!!" he was sure that she barely restrained herself from ripping her hair out. "Who? You and four other Jounin! There's a reason you are Jounin you know! A damn good reason!" she kept moving her hands around and he hoped that her hands at least wouldn't accidentally hit him.
"A bandit?" he heard Sakura's incredulous voice asking the Hokage. Tsunade only nodded at her student. "Yes, Shino told me that he used no chakra at all. His coils were inactive" Naruto looked down, ashamed at himself. He had let such a man defeat him? He had beaten so many strong enemies… only to be defeated and nearly killed by a… bandit.
"You are lucky you have that regenerative power you know. You should be already dead from that cut in the abdomen alone" the Hokage explained, her voice now calmer and a little shaky. She dreaded the idea of a life without Naruto, after all. Well, his powers weren't enough, he would have died from that wound, was it not for Hinata…
He unconsciously looked at the girl once more, and this time, she had turned side towards them in her sleep, eyes closed, bangs falling free and a hand near her mouth. A smile… a fond, happy smile had found its way on her lips. He had rarely seen her smile… and somewhere in the back of his mind… he never wanted to see it fade away… to think that he had that crazy idea that he wanted to always make her smile. What a fool.
"Don't worry Naruto, she was in the least critical situation than all of you" Tsunade reassured him, assuming that he was worried for said girl's health. Yet as her words left her mouth, Naruto looked as if he had just returned from a trance. She sighed. That boys mind was more complicated that all of the nerve system of the human body.
He only nodded back at her, before he looked back at the sheets of his bed, his mind returning to that trance. She leaned over to Sakura "We should leave him alone…" she whispered softly. He really seemed as if he needed time to think. No wonder, you don't get beat up by a bandit every day.
They both left the room, leaving the teen to his self. Not that he noticed, his mind being drawn in its own little world. A world torn between lavender… and pink…
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"He must be a traveling warrior or something, nothing we should worry about" he tried to reassure her, yet she stayed restless. She just couldn't really trust him…
"I don't know. Why would he ask for us to take him along then? If he is a 'traveling warrior', then he should know the way on his own!" she was quite sure that it wasn't tiredness that made him go with them, since he walked beside the first car instead of sitting on it. She was sure that he was listening… and she was glad he didn't understand. He was far too perceptive, and far too equipped to be a simple bandit or a traveling warrior. People like this would usually carry a weapon or two and a backpack. Yet he seemed like he had her father's store on him. With the exception that his weapons where nothing like what she had seen… except in a few books.
He could be a ninja, was it not for his lack of chakra that is. And they had little to no idea what his abilities in battle where. Oh well, it wasn't her problem, was it? She doubted she would ever meet the guy again after he left anyway.
"Where are we heading?" he asked in English. Well, not exactly English, it sounded like them. Luckily, Neji had a lot of knowledge around foreign languages. Someone had to know how to speak in other ways, right?
"Konoha" he simply answered. The man titled his head towards them a little, only the right side of his lower face along with his nose visible. Such a posture was far but familiar to Neji, being a body language reader, that is.
"Village" he simple answered to the unspoken question. Altair only nodded before turning to look forward again.
They only had half an hour before they would reach Konoha. He should probably report to the Hokage… she would know what to do with Altair.
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"Naruto-kun…" he heard his name being whispered from the left. His trance was cut short as he turned to look at her. Yet she was still asleep…
Why did she mouth his name her sleep… and why was she smiling like that? He was sure that it was the first time he saw Hinata being that happy… and part of him liked her like that. A lot…
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Enormous walls towered before him, a gate in the middle with the symbol of a leaf at the front. And two guards at the gate...
"Yosh!!" We're home!" Lee yelled so loudly that Neji was sure that everyone in the distance of at least a mile had heard it. That guy could be so loud at times…
He and his companions approached the gate, nearing Genma, who just so happened to be on guard duty.
"Hey there guys…" he greeted, twisting the senbon in his mouth while reading a newspaper "You know the drill, just sign the forms there and you're good to go" he said giving them a glance. They all nodded before going to sign the papers.
It wasn't strange for Genma to let people in that easily… he was one of the best in discovering Genjutsus, so a glance was enough for him to know it was them. When they finished with the papers, they turned to lead the small convoy in the city.
And what surprised them the most… Altair wasn't there…
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This was too easy… sneaking past a guard that read a newspaper. He had passed through worse, this was a piece of cake.
But blending with the crowd didn't seem like that… as far as he saw, there was none other dressed like him, like a monk. This disguise seemed futile here. He had to find a clothing store… quickly.
He noticed people running around… most of them wore blue pants, a long sleeved shirt and a green jacket, while all of them bore that bandana with the symbol of the leaf. Seeing that they where the only ones carrying weapons out here, he should make sure to get one of these sometime soon…
He entered the first store he found, seeking to blend with the crowd as soon as possible. The shopkeeper quickly rose from his chair when he entered, welcoming him with words he could not understand and a grin that could brake a normal man's face. The questioning tone his last sentence bore let him know that he probably asked something like 'What would you like?' He was sure that not everyone around here could speak English, so he just started making hand gestures.
Pointing at his attire, he showed the shopkeeper the white color. The man seemed to understand. With a few more motions and pointing out a black cloth, the man before him seemed to understand as he kept nodding.
"Choto matte" the man said and went to the back of the store. He sighed as he started looking around the shop…
The walls where wooden, a dull brown color they had. Many clothes hang here and there around the walls in various colors. Some where silken, others woolen, various types of cloth whatsoever. There was a strange thing, some kind of machine at the other end of the store residing on a table. He wondered what was it for…
Then the merchant came back in, scrolls and brushes in his hands along with a meter. He quickly took measures of him and then started writing symbols on one of the scrolls. Wait… he knew this symbols.
He smiled to himself. So he was somewhere in Japan, eh? He had seen such symbols in the book of a traveler he had once assassinated. What an irony…
When the man finished drawing on the scroll, his hands started making strange gestures that he could recognize not. When he finished, he slammed his palm on the scroll
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" and a poof of smoke surrounded the scroll. He jumped back, his hand itching for one of his knifes. What could possible appear when the smoke cleared…?
He eased his posture, when he saw the merchant holding an attire exactly the same like his, only in black, instead of white. He removed the leather holsters for his blades from his current clothing and the red sash on his middle. The merchant though, halted him before he could finish untying the sash. Before he could retort in any kind of way, the merchant did the same gestures and slammed his hand once more, saying the same words. A brand new sash appeared, this one a far cleaner and brighter red color, with golden outlining and golden dragons spread on it. He had to admit… it looked better than his current one.
The merchant pushed him inside a cabin with a mirror. He guessed that he had to change here… no wonder, he couldn't change in the middle of the store now, could he?
Dressing up in his new attire, he put the holsters back into place. His eyes went wide under his black hood this time. The cloths where exactly like his old ones, if only newer and with different colors. Now that he looked more closely though, the black clothing of his attire also had dragons spread throughout it. The color was only slightly brighter than black, making the cloth look forlorn and the dragon's hardly visible from a distance
A grin found itself on his face
He liked it.
But… how would he pay? He couldn't kill the merchant, that would compromise him too much. Plus, if the ones that jumped around with these green attires where anything like the ones he had fought at the forest, then it would be quite a pain to fight them all back. And get away alive, that is. Yet again, how would he pay…?
He opened the curtain, only to see the merchant cowering in fear before a man holding a dagger threatening to puncture his neck, the other hand holding his mouth, preventing him from screaming. The man wore a mask…
His hand instinctively found itself reaching for a knife, and before he knew it, the knife was embed in the thief's head. He slowly fell back, the dagger dropping from his hand. The merchant looked wide eyed at the thief that dropped dead before him, and slowly looked back at his savior.
He was surprised that, the merchant was so fast in falling to his feet and repeating 'Arigato' so fast he could barely make it out. When the merchant looked up, the questioning tone his voice had made him translate it as 'How can I repay you?' He hoped that's what he meant anyway.
He pointed to his new attire. The merchant seemed to understand as he nodded and kept bowing. He slowly approached the corpse of the thief and took his knife back. Setting it back in place, he started to leave the store as he waved with one hand
"Ya-ne" he said, remembering the few 'lessons' he had with these kids back there. Lee and Tenten had volunteered to teach him a few basic Japanese… and it wasn't easy. He left the store, entering the crowd once more…
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"Is that all?" the Hokage asked as she tidied a few papers. Neji and his team bowed "Hokage-sama, I've heard that Hinata-sama, along with team 8 and Naruto are at the hospital?" he asked curiously, yet his face betrayed no unnecessary emotions. Only concern.
She looked up at them "Yes, I had been informed by Shino that they where attacked by someone, or rather…" she took a sip from the sake mug she had settled on her desk.
"Team 8 found Naruto fighting with someone. They intervened yet they where all defeated. Shino had to escape with them. He made it back with his chakra depleted from having to carry all these bodies. If he had stayed and fought, then most of them wouldn't have made it back, that's for sure." She took another sip, recalling what information Shino had told her a few hours prior.
"Who could have defeated four Jounin together?" Lee asked incredulously. The Hokage shrugged "That's what I wonder about too. And to think he had no chakra…" she whispered to herself, though Neji caught it. "What, Hokage-sama? He had no chakra?" Tsunade looked up at him "According to Shino, his chakra coils where never used." She took another sip "Oh! Like the man we took along and brought here!" Lee said, somehow finding the situation intriguing to the point he had to yell.
The Hokage managed to swallow, not wanting to dirty the papers she held… they where formal letters after all.
"What?! What is he talking about, Neji?!" She asked angrily as she looked at the Hyuuga. Neji greeted his teeth… he didn't want this to come out…
He then explained the situation. How they found him and what happened next. Which was around nothing, since he only walked along with them… and was taught a few Japanese.
"He didn't cause any trouble and he didn't seem to know anything about these lands." He continued "He also doesn't come from here. He must be coming from the west…" now his eyes narrowed, trying to remember from where he had said he came from…
"Jerusalem" he whispered and the Hokage nearly spat her sake out again. "Jerusalem? Have you got any idea where that is?" she said calmly, her voice low and incredulous. Jerusalem, firstly, was far away from here and there where no airplanes as far as she knew in the elemental countries, even ships didn't come here from that far. Secondly, what the hell could an Arab want here?
"Do you know where he is?" she asked, and the negative shake of their heads was not what she wanted. "He vanished when we reached the gates." Neji said, hanging his head in shame. Even when he activated his Byakugan, the man was already away from his line of vision.
"And what was his name?" she asked once more.
Neji rose his head.
"Altair"
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"Hey there!" He felt a tap at his leg. He turned, only to see a small girl tugging on his cloth.
"Hey…" he said in Arabic… it shouldn't sound that strange, to a child, right? "Sweety! Haven't I told you not to talk to strangers?" he heard a feminine voice calling out. It must have been his mother…
Looking up, he saw a woman. And what a woman… long, straight brown hair, a mature, pale face and green eyes that matched the beauty of an emerald. He had seen very little women around that looked near like her…
The curious look in her eyes though, made him wonder…
"Kon… konbanha" she managed to say. He tried to remember what that meant… oh right, it must have been 'good-evening'.
"Konbanha" he replied simply. The less he said, the easier it would be. He patted the girl at his feet on the head and she smiled under his gloved touch. He looked up at the sky… it was getting dark. He would have to find somewhere to sleep as it seemed. Too bad… he didn't know what the kanji for 'inn' looked like… if they had inns that is.
This place was stranger that he thought… it was nothing like Jerusalem and the cities he was used too.
She of course, noticed the fact that he estimated time. "Ano…" he turned to look at her, his eyes and expression as soft as possible. He didn't want to scare her, knowing that the weaponry he carried could easily scare most people away. She seemed stunned for a moment…
He waved a gloved hand before her face… and that seemed enough to take her out of her trance.
"Ano… gomen…" 'Gomen' should mean 'sorry', if he remembered correct. He had to thank these kids some time. "You are a stranger, right?" she said as she checked out his attire. From the way he was dressed and the way he stood, he surely was not from Konoha. Plus, she had never seen him before… and not all men around where that handsome…
Guessing from the way she looked at him and his clothing, he answered with a simple 'Hai', 'yes' if he was correct. He was relieved that she smiled, whatever that meant.
"Well, if you don't have anywhere to stay, I could let you in for a little… while…" from the way she flushed and the tone she used, she was asking something between 'Would you like to have sex' or 'Would you like to stay with me?'. He supposed it was the second, recalling her previous actions and seeing that the time was getting late.
"Arigato" he replied simply, a smile forming on his lips. When was the last time he had smiled… he couldn't remember. And what was the strangest among all… was that he liked it…
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She could hear someone shouting in joy inside the room… and she knew only one person that could be loud… in a hospital. Opening the door, she held back a laugh that threatened to come out. On the floor of the room, which happened to be quite big, sat Naruto, Hinata and Kiba, playing with cards…
"May I guess who is winning?" all three stopped their game to look back at her, Naruto throwing one of the biggest smiles he could. "That lucky bastard" Kiba said with a grin of his own as he pointed a thumb at Naruto, who only kept grinning. Hinata only smiled, a blush covering her face, like every time she was close to Naruto anyway. Tsunade grinned at them…
"Alright, so I have a few questions for you guys" she sat down on the floor next to them after having closed the door. All three looked at her and her serious expression was more than enough to leave them the right message. "Okay, so Naruto, how the hell did you manage to go take back a cat, and come back nearly dead?" she asked calmly. Naruto scratched the back of his head, grinning once more
"Well, I was on my way back when that guy fell from above me" he was a little embarrassed to say this… "on me" Kiba laughed, laughed so hard that Tsunade barely held herself from punching him to shut up. Hinata only giggled at it, which somehow made Naruto more embarrassed, as his cheeks turned even redder…
"So, you mean that while you where coming back, that guy fell on you and then…?" she tried to continue, yet Kiba seemed to laugh harder, imagining the scene…
She really tried to keep herself from hitting him, she really did.
Now how her hand managed to punch him in the face, neither did she know.
Too bad the window at the other end of the room was open…
Too bad there was a trash can right under the window…
Too bad the trash can was open…
And too bad that Kiba missed it, only to fall in a small pond of water, accompanied with mud.
"So… where were we?" she asked with a sweet smile. Both teens exchanged a look, and then gulped as they looked back at the Hokage.
"Well, he then attacked me, and we started fighting." Naruto said with a shrug. "Then Hinata and her team came, right on time. I really owe you one, Hinata" he said, a grateful and enormous smile pointing right at said girl, who couldn't help but blush… a lot.
Tsunade grinned herself. She too owed her one, for she had saved her favorite gaki from death, after all. And how to repay it…? Ah, yes, she had the perfect idea.
She knew what had happened next, so further questioning would be in vain.
"Very well. I'll be leaving now, I've got to take care of a certain dog… and its master" she said as she fisted her hands, throwing them both a sweet smile before leaving.
From the moment Akamaru could move again, he had filled the whole hospital with hair… she smiled to herself. More reasons to punch Kiba then.
He could hear her footsteps fading as she walked away… "Creepy baa-chan…" Naruto said, his face faltering. He then looked outside the window "It's getting late…" he said, his voice and expression…
Tranquil? When was the last time she saw him like that?
"We should get to bed" he turned and smiled at her, an enormous toothy smile "Hinata" he stood up and extended his hand. She accepted it and he helped her up. Too bad, or too good though, that her bare feet slipped on one of the cards and she lost balance, falling right on him.
She let out a yelp of surprise before he caught her. Yet the surprise faded, letting her know what had really… happened…
She was so soft… god where all girls that soft? And she seemed so light, like a feather… she smelled like lavender… he wondered if there was any shampoo store open at this time…
Wait… bad Naruto! Don't think like that! You, mister, like Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan forever!
Even if his mind though, yelled at him to think of Sakura, his heart told him otherwise… and for the first time, he was torn in between which one to trust…
Nevertheless, he just happened to notice that Hinata had… fainted?! He quickly used one hand to check her pulse while the other holding her more tightly. This of course, made him feel even more of her…
God damn it, she was so soft that the idea of snuggling on her passed in his mind. Sakura's punches where never soft… not even close.
Bad Naruto! Sakura punches you and kicks your ass because she loves you! And you like it because you're a masochist! Oh crap, now even he insulted himself.
He was glad at least, that Hinata's pulse was normal. Even her smile… that peaceful, happy smile was there… on that pale face…
'Kawai' wasn't enough to explain what he thought right now… not even close… how the hell didn't he manage to see such things before? Maybe it was his endless pursue to bring back Sasuke… maybe it was the endless hours that the only thing he did was eat and train… maybe it was because the only girl he ever thought fit and perfect for him was Sakura…
But it was Sakura! Stupid Naruto, Sakura is the one for you! Come on, it is written in your hands that you will be together. And to her specifically, in her punches. Hmm now that he really thought about it, one time her punches had hit him in such a way, that the bruises left afterwards where resembling a heart! Yep, Sakura was most likely trying to say I love you! Silly Naruto, how could you miss that? Well, maybe it was the pain of broken ribs in the way, but he was thinking clearly now.
Wasn't he?
Putting his thoughts away for the moment, he settled Hinata back in her bed, covering her with the sheets. Now that he really could take a look, she seemed far more slender than normal… god that jacket really hid a lot. Now she wore a teal buttoned hospital shirt, along with matching pants. Heh, even they where buggy, making her look so small…
Alright, back to bed. And for god's sake Naruto…
Stop thinking! It hurts Sakura-chan's image in your mind.
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He had little to no idea where she was taking him. He wasn't really used to women… pretty women showing him around. If he remembered correct, the women at his home where never near as… beautiful? As she was. He kept his hands in place and his eyes open for anything that would look hostile… he never let himself forget that he was in unknown and possibly hostile territory. His blade was ready to strike at any moment…
He barely restrained himself from taking it out. It was just the little girl…
She was tugging at his pants once more "Ya… ne" she said with a smile. He only smiled back, politeness the only expression the situation required. If he was correct, 'Ya-ne' was a verbal gesture of goodbye, was it not? He looked up, just noticing that the girl run up to two people, a little older than him. They must have been her parents, seeing as she called them Otou-san and Okaa-san. Another thing he had learned, was a few family terms. Now that he noticed… it was nightfall already, the lights on the streets illuminating the area. Wait… lights? Lights in the night? This was all wrong… there weren't any little suns around last time he checked. And this… lighting 'things' surely where not torches. He knew how torches looked…
He would have to learn more about this mysterious place later as it seemed. Turning once more to the family of the girl, he saw the emerald-eyed woman bowing, saying words of farewell that he couldn't really make out. He had yet to learn all of the 'goodbye' terms of this language… he sighed, seeing that Japanese was harder to learn than he thought. 'Gonbanya' or something like that… was goodnight, right?
He felt a tug at his sleeve, and shot out of his little trance he was as she smiled widely at him. She wore a pink-red kimono as it seemed, various colors and delicately made flowers spread everywhere on it. She already knew that he could not speak Japanese… if he was correct, and he was sure he was since she had pointed at the dress and said the word 'Kimono', then this type of dress was a kimono, quite unlike the ones the women in his land wore.
This was weird… he was keeping an eye out for every little movement that dared to happen around him, yet this was the first time he noticed what she wore…
He remembered her name… 'Sahana', was it not?
"Altair" she said, her smile still wide as he took his eyes off the kimono.
"Ikuzo" she said with a motion of her hand, encouraging him to follow. 'Ikuzo' should mean 'Let's go' or 'follow' he thought…
After a few more minutes of walking, they had made it out of the village through the east gate and into the forest. And that's when he started getting suspicious…
He knew some people lived outside in the forest, but very few they where. He had only seen one house on his way here and again he would not have seen it was it not for… that Neji guy and the Tenten girl pointing it out between themselves.
So what was going on here? He hoped he could trust her… yet again, Al Mualim had taught him one thing…
Never. Trust. Anyone.
He prepared the blade at his gloved hand, for better or for worse…
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After another minute passed, they found themselves outside a small house. Or mansion. Things where going alright at the moment… yet he still had to be careful.
She happily pointed at the wooden mansion. The house looked so… Japanese. A small river run at the left side of it, hiding behind the trees and the darkness in the forest. Rocks found themselves pillared at the right side, forming a wall somehow between the building and nature.
She took one step forward…
One of his knifes flied…
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She stood in shock, eyes wide open. What was going on…? Why…
A loud thud, a body hitting the dust. Or the grassy floor of the forest, for that matter.
Altair though didn't waste a moment. This was only one of the thieves, and surely, he was not alone. He shoved Sahana behind him, slowly reaching for his sword…
He was hiding well, he would give him that much. But he could easily see a tiny wine stain on a red carpet. An aged wine stain. His vision was one of his best attributes, having worked to make it perfect throughout the years. He unsheathed his sword, and prepared it to strike. If there where more of them here, they would strike soon…
Another one jumped seemingly out of nowhere, katana in hand. His upper-cut strike from above was easily intercepted by Altair's blade who slipped to the side, letting the man fall. His left hand flied swiftly, the mechanism in his glove letting the hidden knife come out and stab the man right to the neck, killing him instantly.
He settled once more in a ready stance as his hand-blade sheathed itself once more…
They where like shadows… hard to spot, popping out of nowhere. He looked at the ground… there where three rocks before… now they where four?
No longer that he did that thought, that the rock seemingly poofed into a black-clad man, his katana going straight for Altair's heart. He avoided the strike once more, slashing the enemy in the stomach as he moved aside, killing him instantly as he drove the blade out, letting his blood spill on the forest floor.
So they, had the ability to use some kind of illusions. Damn it, this was like when he had fought Al Mualim… though easier. Much easier.
His left hand reached for a knife from one of his chest holsters, and no longer than he did that, did the man that dared attack from behind find himself with a knife in his heart. He slowly fell back, his katana leaving his hand as his life faded away.
They could be anywhere…
"Katon: Gokakyou no Jutsu!" he heard someone yelling in the night from behind them, and he was sure that it was not for good. Looking back, a giant fireball was quickly finding its way towards them, scorching the forest floor and burning anything in it's way. He sheathed his sword, grabbed Sahana and jumped away in the last moment, letting the fireball move along and burn the corpses of the men he had killed… along with the mansion.
Said girl watched in fear as the fires began to take their hold on her house, burning it slowly, painfully. She heard Altair unsheathing something, another one of his knifes. She saw it flying in a straight line, hitting the ninja that had used the jutsu straight in the neck.
She had met him today… she had just met him today… he was a stranger, someone who couldn't even speak Japanese… yet he had saved her life…
She hugged him. Hugged him tight. He looked at her in confusion and then glanced the area. There were two more of them… but they were retreating. He sighed…
"Arigato" he heard her whisper between her sobs. She was crying? He didn't really know how to comfort people… he had grown up to be an assassin, not a psychologist… whatever that was.
What little he knew of comforting people… was a hug.
His arms found their way around her, keeping her close as he rested his chin on her head. She seemed to fit on him perfectly…
She backed away a little, a smile on her teary face. "Well, we should probably go speak to Hokage-sama, right?" he didn't understand a word, but her smile made it all look alright. He only smiled back
"Ikuzo" he whispered
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A/N: Thus ends the first chapter with a little cliffhanger. What will happen when Altair meets Tsunade? How will see react? Such questions shall be answered in the next chapter of 'Assasin's Creed' my friends. Oh, and Sahana is my own personally created OC, her name means Flower of the Desser (Sabaku no Hana). I hope you liked it. Please let me know what you thought about the Humor parts of this story. Till we meet again...
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