Yo, chapter three! I think I did much better speed wise, its only been a few days since I last updated this time!
Disclaimer: Blah blah blah…I don't own Naruto or any Naruto characters…blah blah blah…All rights and credit goes to Masashi Kishimoto. I only own this story.
Now enjoy! Enjoy I say!
Katie slipped into state of deep thinking as details of the assassination she, Anna, James, and Zac would be completing. Her uncle had snuck away, leaving the four of them alone. She didn't want to think about who she would have to kill. In all honesty, she didn't need to either, she had enough talent to skip the details and go straight to the cold blooded killing.
In the back of her mind she felt a slight twitch, curious, she delved deeper, poking at it mentally. With a gasp, her eyes widened and she felt darkness tugging at her vision. Somewhere seemingly far away, someone called her name, but Katie was too far gone already. Everything disappeared.
With a groan, Katie opened her eyes, and shifted on the hard ground.
"Katie, you awake?" a voice asked softly. As the black and yellow spots cleared away from her vision, Katie saw James leaning of her, his eye brows brought together in a worried expression.
"Ugh, yeah, I think so." She flexed her muscles and rolled her joints, "Yup, nothing seems to be broken." She sat up and glanced around sharply, her experienced eyes taking in the surroundings. Anna and Zac were laying on the ground unconscious a few feet away from her. With a shiver, Katie realized where they were.
'I'm back, Naruto-kun.'
"James, we need to get moving, and if I am right, which I usually am, I know where we can find shelter." James nodded and picked Zac up, resting the slightly smaller boy on his well muscled back. Katie picked Anna up in the same manner, Anna's arms being held steady around Katie's neck by Katie's own hands.
The two teenagers walked next to each other in a grim silence, growing more and more worried about the fact their companions still hadn't woken up. After about two hours of walking, just when Katie was being to fret that she had been taking them in the totally wrong direction, the walls surrounding Konoha rose up in the distance, about a mile away. With a victorious shout, Katie picked up her speed to a swift, smooth run, careful to not jostle Anna. James followed behind her. One hundred yards from the gate, they were stopped, a group of four people in cloaks and animal masks surrounded them.
Katie stood straight and look the leader with a hard gaze (at least she assumed he/she/it was the leader since the cloak was a different color than the rest)
"Who are you and what business do you have with Konoha?" asked the deep, cold, and definitely male voice of the person Katie was nearly glaring at.
"Don't mean to be rude, but if you hadn't noticed, there are kinda sorta two unconscious people with us who need medical care. If you need to arrest James and I or whatever the hell you need to do with us, then fine, but please admit these two to a hospital before they get even worse."
Silence settled over the group after Katie's snappish remark and James sighed dramatically, "Way to go Katie, I won't be surprised if they try to kill us now. Isn't it you who is always calling me on being polite, especially to the ones with the guns. Or swords in this case."
Katie took a deep breath, "Yes but-" before she could finish Anna's body seized up and started trembling violently on her back.
"Shit!" Katie swore and swung Anna down gently to the ground and shot James a look, who rushed over and set Zac down next to Anna.
"Hold her down, I think she'll be okay if she just rides it out, but it would be bad if she injured herself." James nodded and pressed one arm across her knees and another arm across her waist. Katie held down Anna's torso and rested her ear against the girl's chest, listening to her heartbeat. Very quickly, the slim girl's frame settled down and with a pained groan she opened her eyes.
"Shhh. Don't talk yet, just rest. I've got it covered." Katie murmured to the girl. Anna nodded and closed her eyes, resting her head on Katie's arm.
Katie glared up at the four cloaked figures who hadn't so much as lifted a finger during the whole episode. "Thanks so much for the help." she spit out dryly as she stood up, pulling Anna back onto her back.
"Hn." the leader replied.
The two teenagers waited, looking expectantly at the cloaked man before them.
"Follow me." he turned and walked in the direction of the main gate. Shrugging, James and Katie followed after.
The cloaked team led them through the city, ignoring to whispering and pointing. They stopped at the Hokage Tower. "You may go." the order was quick and brisk. The rest of the team left, leaving only the masked leader, Katie, James, Zac, and a half asleep Anna. The man nodded to them and walked up the steps and into the building. James and Katie, of course, followed.
"Hokage-Sama. I believe there are some guests you should meet, foreigners by the looks of their clothing. Two of them are injured." the man said, tapping on a door.
"Come in." came a female voice. opened the door and led the group in, before bowing to the blonde, busty woman behind the desk and vanishing in a poof of smoke. The woman took one look at the four teens and stood up. "You may set your friends on the rug over there." Katie and James did as they were told and stood back as the woman walked forward. She stooped and examined Zac, her hand glowed green. With a feral snarl, Katie jumped between her friends and the strange woman. Crouching low she glared up at the blonde menacingly.
The woman stood back and rocked on her heels, before breaking out in laughter, "You are a vicious little thing aren't you? Protecting those you love with such spite, an honorable trait indeed. I meant the boy no harm, I am only going to heal them."
Katie stood frozen for a moment, before she straightened up, "My apologies. You never know who you can or can't trust." she bowed and stepped back towards James.
"Fair enough." She knelt down and ran her hand over Zac's body. Pausing every now and then and frowning, before moving on. When she finished with Zac, she leaned over and did the same for Anna.
"They will be fine, their bodies are merely in shock, they just need some rest. What exactly happened to put them in such a state?" The woman questioned, with slightly narrowed, amber eyes.
Katie took a deep breath, "This is going to take a while to explain."
the woman sat back down behind her desk and rested her chin on her hands as the listened to Katie's story without interruption as she told of first coming to Konoha, then of meeting Naruto and the Hokage, then of leaving. She left out most of her time in her own world, including what she did for a living. She explained how she felt as though she was slipping into darkness right before she woke up, back in the world Konoha existed in.
"I believe your tale, no matter how insane it may sound. The third Hokage left me a scroll explaining that day, and I regret to inform you, Sarutobi Hiruzen is dead. I am the fifth Hokage, Tsunade."
Katie lowered her eyes, "I see..." She hadn't known the man that well but he had been kind and she liked him very much.
There was a tap at the door. "Come in, Genma."
A man with with a senbon between is lips walked in.
"Katie, James, this is one of Konoha's top shinobi, Shiranui Genma. Genma, Katie is an old aqquantince of the third. She and her companions will be staying in Konoha for the time being."
Genma raised and eyebrow at the two unconscious teens on the floor and the attire all four wore, as well as their unusual sounding names, but stayed silent, knowing his place.
Tsunade gave him a hard look, which he nodded slightly at and tilted his head towards Katie subtly. The senbon in his mouth shot towards the girl at lightning speed.
Before the metal struck Katie's flesh, it disappeared from the quick eyed sight of the Hokage.
Katie flipped the thin weapon across the backs of her fingers and narrowed her eyes at Tsunade who was watching Katie, her mouth a thin line.
"Mind telling me what the hell that was about?" Katie asked politely
"Why don't you tell me. You four aren't normal civilians are you? A normal civilian wouldn't have been able to catch that senbon, they wouldn't have been even able to see it. Now, how about we hear that story of yours again, except this time, the whole thing."
Katie scowled and gave of a frustrated 'tch' "Caught me. Fine then, i'll tell ya. James, Zac, Anna and I are all assassins. Best there are in our world too. Happy now?"
Tsunade narrowed her eyes, "Not quite..."
Katie and James stiffened, "How we came to be assassins isn't relevant at the moment." Katie spit out.
"Our stories belong to no one but ourselves." James added quietly
Genma nodded to himself, "Hokage-Sama, I think it would be wise, to not pry any further." Genma said to Tsunade, speaking from his own personal experiences as a special jonin, an assassin.
Tsunade shrugged and stretched, as though she were thoroughly bored with the whole deal, "Very well, now I thin-"
"BAA-CHAN!" a loud obnoxious voice yelled. In a flurry of yellow, black, and orange, another person was added to throng of mismatched people in the round office.
Naruto skidded to a stop when he noticed he wasn't the only stranger in the room. His eyes scanned around him out of habit, the froze on one particular figure.
"K-K-Katie?" he stuttered in a shocked voice.
"Yo, been a while Naruto-kun." Katie said calmly, raising a hand in salute.
Yay! They finally meet again! Please please please PLEASE review and tell me what you think!!!!!!
~Naomii-chan