Naruto threw a punch at Sasuke who ducked and uppercut back. Naruto back flipped out of the way and got his footing.
"Teme! Get serious!"
"The day you're ready for the beating of your life is the day I'll be serious," he said, grabbing a kunai from his pouch.
"That's it teme! You're going down!"
"Oh, I haven't heard that one before," said Sasuke sarcastically.
Naruto growled and threw another punch. Sasuke caught his hand and twisted it behind Naruto's back while Sasuke's other arm wrapped tightly around Naruto's throat.
"Ngh," choked Naruto as he grasped Sasuke's arm that was around his neck, "Teme..."
"If you don't start getting it together and really fight me," started Sasuke, "I'm gonna embarass the hell out of you in front of your girlfriend."
"W-what!?" yelled Naruto as Sasuke's grip tightened.
"Not only that but I'm gonna take her, and maybe have some fun."
If earlier comments didn't anger Naruto, this blew his top.
"YOU BASTARD!" He yelled as he high kicked Sasuke in the forehead, knocking Sasuke away from him.
"I'm lucky he wears his head band on his arm," thought Naruto, "I'll never forgive him for saying that.
"Good, you're mad," said Sasuke getting into his fighting stance, "Ready?"
"Ready as I'll ever be," he growled as they both ran swiftly towards each other.
--
Cathy ran along the waters of the lake near the training grounds. She looked at her surroundings as she ran. She then felt a light vibration in the water and jumped as high as her super strengthened legs would let her. A huge explosion erupted from the lake. It rose higher than the trees and was about to reach Cathy in the air. Luckily for her the water barely reached her only leaving a few drops of water on her. Gravity pulled her back onto the lake as she turned to her opponent.
"Nice, Jenna," she smirked, "you've gotten better at manipulating the water. Latin technique?" (A/N: If you don't know what the Latin technique is I suggest you read the first story. )
"Aqua Acus," she said waving her hand over the water. Water drops rose from the lake.
"Uh...?" Cathy said giving her friend a look.
Suddenly the drops of water thinned and turned sharp and shot forward toward Cathy.
"Whoa!" she yelled as she sank into the water. Looking up through the glassy water the needles dove under, still aiming at her.
"You're gonna have to do better than that," she said smirking as her hand moved with Cathy as she desperatly swam as fast as she could away from the needles.
"Crap!" she gasped, large oxygen bubbles leaving her mouth, as the little needles glided through the water like heat sensitive torpedoes. No matter what she did she couldn't lose them. Then an idea popped into her head.
"If there's ever a time to try it, it'd be now," she thought as she focused all her will power and chakra to the water near her feet.
"GO!"
The water around Cathy's feet spun, like small whirlpools, near her feet. She shot through the water, twisting and turning, as she turned into a torpedo in the water. She glided into quick turns by rocks as the needles hit their surroundings because Cathy shot into tight places filled with rocks and plants. Finally the last needle hit a rock.
"Yes! Now that those annoying needles are gone Jenna's got nothing. I'll just attack form down here now that I..."
Cathy grasped her throat, "NO NO NO NO NO! I thought I had the technique down!" thought Cathy as she couldn't stand it any longer. She shot up and broke through to the surface of the lake once more. She gasped for breath as she fell to her knees.
"Give me five seconds," she breathed as she looked wearily at Jenna.
"The enemy won't give you that liesure, Cathy," said Jenna running toward her, "And niether will I!"
"Shoot," breathed Cathy as she back flipped away from Jenna's punch.
--
Gaara sat watching the two fights that were happening in front of him. Sasuke had a hold of Naruto and apparently said something that he couldn't hear, but to his perception it got Naruto furious. He probably said he'd all his ramen or something. He then spotted the girls. He saw Jenna make the water needles and saw Cathy sink below the surface of the clear water.
"She's gotten a lot better with the Latin technique," he thought as he looked at the rat laying next to him, "How could she have trained a rat? Especially in just one day?"
The rat looked up at Gaara, apparently sensing that he was staring. Gaara's eye's squinted.
"Well, it's like they say 'Feed a dog dinner one night and it's loyal for three years."
Gaara and Vortex locked eyes.
...
"BUT IT'S A RAT!" yelled Gaara in his head.
"Okay! That's good enough for today," said Kakashi while he poofed into existence in front of the teenage ninjas.
Everyone stopped their fighting to look at him. They all shrugged, agreeing it was a good work out, and headed over to their sensei. Naruto noticed the object in his hands.
"AH! ERO SENNIN'S NEW BOOK!" he yelled, pointing at the book frantically.
"Oh! The new one's out? Finally!" said Jenna smiling. She then sensed something. She looked to her side and saw all of them looking at her wide eyed and shocked.
"J-Jenna...you don't..." started Gaara.
"I don't what?" asked Jenna.
"Jenna, I know you love to read but please tell me that you don't read Jiraiya-sama's books," said Cathy moving in front of the hazel eyed girl.
"BUT OF COURSE SHE DOES!"
The teenagers all looked up to see Jiraiya on a tree branch, in his epic pose.
"Oh crap," thought Naruto, Sasuke, and Gaara as they sweat dropped.
"After all! Jenna-chan's the one who critiques my work!" proclaimed Jiraiya.
"WHAT!?" the teenager's yelled as their disbelieving and shocked faces all turned to look at Jenna.
"It's true," she said smiling, "I don't read the bad parts, I skip them, but yes I do help him with the other parts, like the description of the environment and the relationships of the lovers and friends in the book series."
"And because of that my books have been sold more than ever! Ever since she started to help me I've gotten more buyers!" said Jiraiya while glomping Jenna.
"Oh," said Naruto.
"My," said Sasuke.
"God," said Gaara, who then noticed what Jiraiya was doing, "HEY! HANDS OFF!"
Cathy pulled Jenna out of Jiraiya's grip only to be glomped by him too.
Naruto pulled Cathy out of the glomp and led the two girls over by the boys. He shot Jiraiya a look of death.
"I've already read all the books that Konoha's books stores have, and I've never read his so I did, only the decent parts and the plot's pretty good. I spoke to Jiraiya-sama about some ideas for the characters and he liked them a lot," said Jenna innocently.
"More like he like you spending time with him," said Gaara.
"You read..." started Sasuke.
"All the books in Konoha?" finished Naruto.
"Just what I'd expect from Jenna," said Cathy. In their world Jenna read every book she could get her hands on. Everyday she had a new one, whether it be long or short, any book was good for Jenna. Apparently, Konoha couldn't ahve enough books to satisfy the young woman.
"Okay, let's discuss the reason I came here," he said turning to his team and the Sand shinobi.
"The stationed Anbu have noticed strance occurences and abnormalities within the village."
"Like what?" asked Sasuke, leaning against a tree, in the shade.
"Like elemental disturbances."
This peeked the interest of all the teens.
"There has been rain on one part of the village, and a small earth quake in the other."
"You don't think..." started Cathy.
"We believe that the enemies that stole the Amulet of Water and the Amulet of Earth are in the village."
Stern looks over came the ninjas. Cathy looked at Jenna with a stern look.
"Are you sure?" asked Gaara.
"We're positive. It's only a matter of tiume before they strike you and Cathy," said Kakashi pointing to Gaara and Cathy.
"How do they know we have them?" asked Naruto.
"That we're not sure of," said Kakashi, "There is a stone that could sense where the stones are but that was destroyed long ago."
"Or not," said Jenna.
"Before we can be absolutely sure we can't take action. The people who did this is blending very well with the citizens of Konoha. Anbu are on the look out, even now," said Kakashi, "Now that that's out of the way Jiraiya-sama and I have to talk with Tsunade-sama."
And with that the two disaappeared, but not before he winked at the two girls. They both shuddered. God, Sakura was lucky she didn't have to endure the flirtations of Jiraiya.
"Great. They're in Konoha," said Gaara, sounding displeased, "Maybe we should go back to Sand," he suggested while looking at Jenna.
"I don't think that's necessary," said Jenna, turning to Cathy, "We'll be fine."
Cathy smiled, "Yeah! We'll just beat them so hard, they'll wish they never was given the mission to retrieve the stones."
Naruto glomped Cathy, "Cappy, you're so cute!"
"It's only 'cause she's optimistic. Other than that she looks like and acts like an old Kappa," said Sasuke.
"Urk," said Cathy, still in Naruto's arms. She's taken being called a kappa before but old!? That was it.
"You know what, I really didn't want to embarrass you but you've left me no choice, Sas-uke!" said Cathy emphasizing the 'uke.'
--
uke- basically the more feminine man in a male homosexual relationship.
--
...
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!" bellowed Naruto, still holding Cathy.
Gaara and Jenna laughed as well. Sasuke was taken back for a few seconds and then joined in on the laughter. Naruto let go of Cathy to hold his stomach from all the laughing that he was doing.
After they finished getting all their laughter out Sasuke high fived Cathy.
"Not bad Cathy," he said chuckling.
"Thanks," she said as they all left the training grounds.
--
In her apartment Cathy went into her room and layed on her bed. She was exhausted from the training and all the hugging from Naruto. She changed from her wet clothes into a loose, light blue shirt with tan and baggy kaki shorts that fit perfectly around her waist line. She took in a deep breath and sighed. When she opened her eyes she found black orbs staring into her sky blue eyes.
"WAH!" she yelled throwing a punch that Sasuke moved away from in the nick of time. Cathy realized who it was, "Oh, Sasuke, it's only you."
"Who else would it be, old Kappa?"
"I wasn't expecting someone to stare at me through a window with my eyes closed Sas-uke. Not many people do." she said giving him a look.
"Can I talk to you?" he asked suddenly serious.
Cathy sensed this and shrugged, "Yeah sure, come in the kitchen and I'll heat up some chicken noodle soup."
They walked into the small kitchen. Sasuke took a seat in one of the stools by the counter. Cathy heated up some soup and gave it to him while indulging into her own.
"So, the Amulet of Fire," began Sasuke, looking at his soup.
"What about it?" asked Cathy.
He looked at her, "You're in a lot of danger with it in your possession."
She turned her head and gave him a look that said "your point?"
"You don't know who is gonna be out there waiting to get their hands on it."
Cathy sighed and picked up her bowl, after finishing her soup, and brought it to the sink.
"I think I'll be fine," she said with her back turned to him.
"What makes you so sure?" asked Sasuke.
"Because if ninja, who are as bad as you, are after it, I'll be fine," said Cathy looking over her shoulder. She then threw her bowl, like a disk thrower in the Olympics, at Sasuke's head. He ducked and looked at the girl.
"Are you out of your mind!?"
"No, but you must be, thinking you can take me on with such a pitiful disguise as that one," said Cathy in a fighting stance.
Sasuke stood and grinned. Suddenly his appearance melted, as if washed off with water, and revealed a man, about five years older than herself, dressed in all black with ninja gear and weapons strapped onto himself. His mask concealed his face but left his dark brown hair uncovered.
"You're good," said the ninja, "No average ninja can see through the Amulet of Water's Water Mirror technique."
"Obviously," she said whipping a kunai from her pocket, "I'm not your average ninja."
"You have the Amulet of Fire," he said shifting his weight to one leg and holding out his hand, "If you give it to me now I'll let you go unharmed."
"Yeah, sure, like that's gonna happen," she said standing straight, "If I give it to you, you're probably still gonna try to kill me, or I'll get killed by Tsunade-sama. Either way sucks so I'll just hang on to this and kick your ass."
"Fiesty," he said grinning under the mask, "I like that."
"Oh great," she thought, "Another freak after me. God, I'm not even that pretty."
"Shut up," she said taking her fighting stance once more, "Let's go."
The black ninja's body turned to mist and vanished into the air.
"What!?" gasped Cathy as she looked all around her, "Where did he-"
Cathy was interupted by a fist coming out of nowhere and punching her hard in the stomach, sending her flying and crashing into the wall, cracking it.
"Ow," said Cathy as she looked at her wall and sighed, "That's gonna be expensive."
The black ninja was astonished, "I-Impossible," he said, "Any ordinary person would be out cold with broken ribs."
"Like I said before," she said cracking her neck and knuckles, "I'm no ordinary ninja, and besides, I've taken harder blows than that."
"Well how about this?" asked the black ninja as he repeatedly punched and licked the female ninja as hard as he could. Over and over again she was knocked around by the man. Finally after a few minutes of abuse he moved back to observe his work, waiting for the dust and debree from the environment to subside. It soon revealed Cathy, with a bloody nose, who seemed like nothing happened.
"What!? H-How!?"
"When you've got super strength, nothing seems to hurt anymore," said Cathy glaring at him. She was right though. After they returned from the Earth Country it took time to adjust to her surroundings with her strength. It seemed like when she did something lightly it was the total opposite, like trying to hold a glass cup without shattering it the next second, or when hugging someone, trying not to break their bones in the process, which she accidentally did once...
"It's takes time to get used to," said Cathy wiping her nose and dusting herself off.
"Y-You monster," he said wide eyed.
"If that's what you call it," said Cathy round housing him square in the face, sending him flying only to crash face first into the wall. The man couldn't take it anymore. He had to get out of there or he'd be beaten for sure.
"We'll meet again," he said as he disappeared into the air by mist.
"Hey! Get back here!" yelled Cathy, but it was too late.
He was gone.
--
"Gaara! Would you help me already!?"
Jenna and Gaara came back to his apartment only to find a large man standing there, waiting for them. He attacked them and punched Gaara in the face, giving him a black eye.
"I am! I'm holding him back with my sand!" he yelled back at Jenna.
"Well he's still crushing me with his bare hands!" yelled Jenna who indeed was being crushed in between the huge hands of the intruder.
Gaara then struggled to grab the man's wrist with his sand and pulled the man's hands apart, causing Jenna to fall to the ground in pain. Unfortunately for her the man's legs were free and he started to stomp on Jenna.
"Augh!" she choked as he stomped on her chest.
"JENNA!" yelled Gaara, "Sand Coffin!"
The sand around the man's hands crushed his wrists and paralyzed his hands. The man did not yell in pain or show any sign he was suffering from it. He simply jumped out the window and disapeared into the ground.
Gaara ran over to Jenna and held her gently.
"Jenna, Jenna speak to me!" said Gaara who was panicking.
"Calm down," said Jenna weakly, "Take me to Tsunade-sama."
"Alright," said Gaara carefully lifting her into his arms. He jumped out the window and ran swiftly along the roof tops of Konoha. Gaara looked down and saw blood trickle from her mouth. His eyes widened.
"Shoot! Jenna, don't die on me!" said Gaara, "So help me if you die I'll kill you!"
"If I die you wouldn't be able to," she weakly said, "And I won't die. I will not die from this..."
Jenna then fell unconscious in Gaara's arms. Gaara cursed under his breath and barged throught the doors of the Hokage Tower, reaching Tsunade's office, menatlly pleading Jenna not to die.