Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
A/N: Sorry it took forever to update!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I do own the o.c's and the plot of the story
Kei took in a deep breath, filling her lungs with deep gulps of smooth even portions. She really did love to meditate.
"Hey Kei-chan!" the voice broke into her perfect bubble of concentration.
Kei winced slightly, but other than that, revealed no other signs of emotion.
"Back from playing pranks?" Kei asked, resuming her breathing exercises.
"Of course not!" Haku's voice dripped sarcasm, "I am deeply hurt that you would think that of me Kei-chan!"
Kei mentally rolled her eyes.
"Your like my sister Kei-chan, she's always meditating too, I don't see why," Haku brought out a few kunai to start training. "What's sitting still gonna do for you?"
Kei took another deep and even breath, "It helps to calm the mind and makes for clear thinking,"
"You know, you should really try it, it would greatly improve your mental capacity,"
Haku ignored Kei's snub, she did it often.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," Haku produced his shadow clone and proceeded to spar with it.
There were a few minutes of peaceful silence, shattered only by the few grunts produced by Haku and his clone.
"How do you guys get here before me?" Sasuke asked, proceeding to start sparring with Haku.
"I get here early to train," Kei pointed out, her eyes still closed.
"And Haku comes, early to see you," Sasuke deduced.
"Hey," Haku yelled indignantly, jumping up into the air and aiming to punch Sasuke on hi s shoulder, "That's not true; I come here to train hard!"
"And to see Kei-chan," Sasuke went into the position to use a fire jutsu.
Hours passed by. Haku and Sasuke started playing tic tac toe, tracing the symbols into the sandy shore by the river.
"Haku," Sasuke asked putting down an x, "What did you prank her with?"
"I'm serious, I didn't prank her today," Haku said, his tone of voice worried.
Sasuke looked at Haku for a minute, "You're serious?"
Haku nodded fervently, "Maybe we should go look for her," the blond suggested anxiously.
"Just wait for a few more minutes," Kei instructed in her quiet, yet commanding tone of voice.
As if to prove that Kei was always right, Tenten appeared next to the training pole, her brow furrowed in concentration.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late," Tenten smiled slightly, but her eyes showed a twinge of annoyance.
"What happened?" Haku asked hopping up and down.
"Well first of all I would like to thank you Haku, for not pranking me today,"
Haku shrugged, "I didn't have the proper equipment,"
Tenten sweat-dropped.
"Why I am late, well you shouldn't concern yourselves with that,"
Tenten smiled suddenly, "We've got a mission guys," she grinned.
"We're going to find another cat aren't we?" Kei asked her eyes still closed.
"Not just any cat!" Tenten explained hurriedly, as Haku and Sasuke looked ready to kill, "It's the daimyo's cat, so it's classified as a C-rank mission!"
"So?" Sasuke demanded, his voice forcedly calm, "Saki and her team got a A-rank mission!"
Tenten was silent, "That was a special case," she said slowly, "And anyway it's good training in thinking like the enemy, I hear that this is one smart cat."
"I don't care if it's smart," Kei growled her eyes finally open, "Anyone can catch a cat, we're ninja, we should be protecting the village, not finding cats!"
"Yeah!" Haku agreed, "I'm sick of doing all these stupid chores for lazy people!"
Tenten rolled her eyes, "You guys can cry about it all you want, it's still our mission and we're going to finish it agreed?"
There was a murmur of reluctant assent from each of her pupils.
"Very well then," Tenten straightened up, "The daimyo's not sure where his cat has gotten to so we're just going to split up and search in a circle around Konoha, contact one of us if you think you've found anything, in one hour we'll meet in front of the gate, and then we'll move farther out, closer to the capital of the fire country. Any questions? No good,"
Tenten handed each of them communicators, "We start now,"
"Hai!" All three nodded and moved into position, Tenten west, Sasuke north, Haku east, and Kei south.
"A cat," Haku grumbled under his breath. Who couldn't catch a cat, it was completely ridiculous.
The lush green foliage and the sunlight streamed in through the trees, making his hair shine. The dirt path was devoid of life, minus the rabbits that scurried in and out of the bushes.
When he had decided that he had been traveling enough he veered into the thick forest.
An hour later, the three genin trooped, back to the gates of Konoha, completely exhausted, and in Kei's case seriously annoyed.
Tenten leaned against the gate post, twirling a kunai on her pinky. "Any luck?" she asked off-handedly,
"No," Haku glared.
"So we have to go farther?" Sasuke questioned.
"Seems so," Tenten shrugged.
Kei growled, turned on her heal and started marching down the dirt path.
So they marched on, it seemed that the cat had just disappeared.
"Can we just buy a new cat and give it to the daimyo?" Haku groaned, stepping over a rather large boulder.
"Nope," Tenten said simply.
They turned unto a large, and craggy gray cliff. An orange striped cat, sat upon one of the trees in forest beside the cliff.
The three genin sprinted toward the tree, with newfound energy.
"I don't think that's a good idea!" Tenten called to their receding backs, but her advice was ignored as Kei, followed by Sasuke and Haku, hopped onto the branch, only to find that the cat was gone.
Kei was shaking in fury. Haku and Sasuke stepped back as anger rays emanated from her petite figure.
"Kei-chan?" Haku asked taking a tentative step toward her.
"I told you so," Tenten trilled under her breath.
"Is that cat wanted alive?" Kei asked, her eyes gleaming.
"Alive," Tenten affirmed.
Haku activated his Byakugan, and squinted into the forest, "The cat is 40 meters ahead."
"Alright," Kei commanded, suddenly taking charge of the situation, "We go very slowly, I want you to mask your chakras, we'll ambush the cat, there's no way, it can escape from three shinobi,"
Kei's confidence was scaring her teammates, but they obediently got into position.
"Ready," she whispered, eyeing her prey, "Go!"
And so it began, Tenten was right, this was one smart cat. The chase went on, the cat getting the better of the three genin, resulting in some rather funny incidents but we'll save that for another day.
Kei had acquired a maniacal gleam to her eyes; the cat was at the bottom of the cliff, licking his cursed fur.
She gulped and started over the edge, she wasn't very fond of heights. She firmly placed one foot after another that is until the rock crumbled beneath her feet.
She dangled on to the rocks, and tried to regain her footing, but the rock was slippery.
CURSE THAT CAT! CURSE HIM INTO OBLIVION!
She was losing her grip on the rock, she couldn't die here, she wasn't going to lose to a cat!
She tentatively lifted up one arm to better her grasp and then she slipped.
This was the end, not even a Chunin yet, she wasn't going to die on some perilous mission. She was going to die rescuing a cat.
Suddenly she wasn't falling anymore, she lifted her green eyes to be met by Haku's blank ones.
He was suspended on a thin string, and he had a firm grasp on her arm. "We're here for you Kei-chan," he grinned.
"Hurry up!" she lifted her head, to see Sasuke holding the string, and Tenten-sensei smiling leaning against the tree.
Haku climbed up, and they both clambered unto the tree limb.
"AUNT TENTEN!" Haku yelled, "You didn't help!" he accused.
Tenten shrugged "You guys were doing fine, I know what I'm doing if I had sensed you were in trouble, I would have got you all out there in a heartbeat,"
All three students glared at her, their eyes skeptical.
Tenten peered over the edge of the cliff, "I guess now would be a good time to teach you the tree climbing technique,"
The genin groaned and dropped to the groaned, exhausted and bruised, This was going to be a long day.
A/N: And that's the next chapter!
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I anyone wants to find out why Tenten was ticked off read Chapter two of Missing Chapters from children of the ninja. I'll post a link when I get it up. I'll give you a tiny hint, Tenten was ticked off at Neji.