I'm back! I know you all were waiting for chapter 4 to come out and I apologize that it took me long!! I was grounded from the computer and couldn't type this up for a couple of days!! FORGIVE ME!! -sweatdrops- I really need counciling now...N/E ways, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I really don't see the point in these...
Sauke:Hn. It's because you're not talented to even think us up. The people want to let everyone know that your a complete loser.
Me: YOUR SO MEAN!!! -takes out a large mallot- I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER!! COME HERE SO I CAN KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO YOUR CHICKEN HEAD!!!!!
Kiba: While fanofonepiece goes and chases Sasuke, I'll say the disclaimer. fanofonepiece does not own Naruto.
Akamaru: Woof!
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Recap:Kiba, Shino, and Hinata looked on at their sensai with wide eyes, the Jounin practically being slapped in the face by a much younger kid then them. It was a sight no one was going to forget in a very long time. Sierra on the otherhand was going to get in some much trouble from the Jounin later, she could already feel her muscles starting to burn. Hikaru yipped and nuzzled his muzzle into her knee cap for support, but Sierra was in to much pain to notice it.
Kurenai-sensai's eyes narrowed dangerously, directing them toward Sierra and...
...she cleared her throat. Sierra fainted, her knees giving out on her from all the knee shaking it was doing under the dangerous stare.
"Forgive me, Princess. I have not known you would be arriving to watch my team train." Kurenai stated, bowing at the princess. Liking the new change in the older women, the princess gave a slight nod, before turning on Sierra.
"Genin Sierra, why have you not notified this team that you were going to introduce me to this team today." Her jaw hit the ground. She didn't even know that they were! Choking sounds only came out of her lungs. She was to shocked to think of anything intelligent.
Hikaru looked up at her and whined some, before sneezing. He didn't like this lady one teeny tiny bit.
"S-sorry..princess..." Sierra mumbled, bringing her index finger up shakily. The princess sniffed and she walked a little bit away, snapping to one of the chuunin's. Team eight and Sierra watched as a chuunin appeared before her, unrolling a blanket on the grass. Once the chuunin placed the blanket down, he disappeared and the princess turned towards them. "Are you coming." It was more like an order and Kurenai gritted her teeth as the rest sighed.
"S-sorry Kurenai-sensai..." Sierra whispered, defeat evident in her voice. An apology may not help her, but at least it was something. Kurenai only gave her a lingering look as she walked past her. The look said everything. She was in serious trouble...
"Genin Sierra!" She urked to attention at the call and quickly walked towards the princess, stopping in front of her. "Y-yes princess?" "You were dawdling. I don't like dawdling." Sierra bowed her head, "Yes princess." "Good. Now that I know you understan what I'm telling you, sit down." Sierra grit her teeth and did as she was told. Hikaru sneezed again, this time slamming his nose into the grass, attracting Akamaru, Kiba's small white dog.Kiba noticed this and a frown appeared on his face. He didn't want the dog to become distracted while they trained.
Hikaru trotted over to Sierra's lap and crawled around until he laid down. Akamaru let out a yip and Sierra looked over at the dog duo. She looked up at Kiba and her eyes narrowed. The dog-boy was glaring at her. She could understand that he'd be mad, but the level of anger that was in his eyes were way to mean. Returning the glare, the boy sniffed looking away from her.
"What was his problem..." Sierra mumbled and Hikaru looked up at her,whining. She placed her hand on the pup's head to calm him. She didn't know why she got the glare, but whatever it was for, she knew that this boy was going to be a real pain in the neck.
Kurenai instructed her team what to do and the princess watched on silently with Sierra. Both of them knew that they had to remain quiet or team eight would get really really angry. More then the surprise they got when the two girls showed up.
Hinata was sparring with Kiba and when Sierra looked over at the princess, her eyes widened. The princess actually had some emotions in her after all. Her face held excitement and wonder. Sierra couldn't help, but smirk. Even though the princess acted like a total snob and basically a pain in the...er-neck, Sierra knew that she liked to watch fighting. A trait that even she enjoyed. Maybe there more to this snobby princess then meets the eye.
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"Come along Genin Sierra." The princess instructed, and Sierra nodded, scooping up Hikaru. The pup yipped and licked her cheek at the movement, causing Sierra to smile some. "Good boy." She whispered, ruffling the fur ontop of his head playfully.
The princess started to walk further away from her and Sierra was just about to run to catch up to her, when her arm was yanked back."Don't think that today's little surprise will be forgotten." Sierra gulped. "When your mission is over, I'll have a talk with Kakashi-sensai about your punishment." Sierra's eyes widened into Kurenai's red ones. The Jounin was pissed and she was right in the middle of it. There was no where to run. "Y-yes, Kurenai-sensai..." She stared at the young Genin for a couple of minutes, before releasing her. Within seconds, Sierra ran towards the princess, fearing for her life if she stayed there any longer.
Sierra found her spot of few feet behind the princess and heaved a long silent sigh. Why was it that when she wanted to prove herself worthy in front of the other nin's in the village, she ended up getting them angry. Was her life really that worthless? No one seemed to need her.
The princess watched Sierra out of the corner of her eyes and she just watched her.
Hikaru whined softly, feeling the sad vibes coming off of his owner and lightly ran his light pink tongue over her cheek.
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Sierra yawned for the fiftieth time that morning, as she made her way down the semi-crowded street. She was supposed to be meeting the princess at the entrance of the village, wanting to explore the outside woods. Personally, Sierra didn't see anything interesting in the forest. You seen one forest, you seen the rest. The last time she went into a forest, she ended up having poison ivy, since Naruto decided it would be fun to try and trap Sasuke in a vine net. Instead, Sierra walked into it, trying to beat the living crap out a squirrel that thought it would be fun to steal her kunai from her bag. Who knew squirrels were that smart. But she did get Naruto back by putting the hugest raccoon in the whole forest, into Naruto's bed. She angered the creature before she left. Her all nighter paid off well when she saw Naruto in the morning at the bridge.
She yawned again at the thought of an all nighter. She was somewhat proud of herself since she only had at least three hours of sleep last night, since a certain nextdoor neighbor's dog wouldn't shut up. It took her slamming the nearest thing, which was a alarm clock, to slam and break against teh opposite side of the wall, waking up it's owner. But how someone could sleep with that mongrel barking was beyond Sierra. Hikaru remained quiet that night though and let her have some of the bed since he saw her stressened state. He usually stole the bed from her in the middle of the night, but last night he was gracious. Sierra knew that tonight again, she would have to wrestle for it, just to get even a quarter of the bed.
Hikaru let out a yip, avoiding having someone step on him and seeing her pup nearly stepped on, Sierra yelled, "Watch where your going tubby!" The man that she called tubby without looking at him, stopped short and snapped around, grabbing the back of her arm roughly. "What was that you little brat!?" Hikaru whirled around growling and Sierra didn't move. "You heard me," She slowly turned around. The man let out a choked gasp, seeing his death in the young girl's eyes, if he didn't let her go. "You nearly stepped on my dog. Apologize. Now." The man let go of her wrist and quickly bowed, yelling, "Sorry, I didn't mean to!" And with that said, the man ran off as fast as he could.
Sierra watched the man go, almost chuckling when he plowed through several people. Everyone she knew, knew that she wasn't a morning person. Kakashi-sensai even told her that she has great skills more in the morning than in the afternoon.
She looked down at Hikaru and bent down to inspect him. There seemed to be nothing wrong with him and seeing that he was fine, she stood up saying, "People should look where they're going damn it! Hikaru, up." She held her arms out and the puppy obeyed, jumping into her arms. They started walking again and Sierra found herself wondering how her team was doing. It's been three days since she seen them and she had to admit that she missed them. Even Sasuke for a change. Anything would be better then babysitting some egotistical princess for a week. She'd even train with her pervert for a sensai, Kakashi.
It only took her a couple of minutes to reach to gates of the village, where the princess was waiting. By the way that the princess snapped her eyes on her when she arrived, Sierra knew it wasn't going to be a good day.
"You are late."The princess snapped upon Sierra walking up to her. She gritted her teeth and bowed some. "Sorry..princess." The princess sniffed and motioned towards the two men on top of the gates and they nodded. A second later, the gates opened and the princess' chuunin appeared and disappeared right away. Sierra's eyebrows furrowed when she saw the two chuunin. From the last two days, the chuunin were the same one's that came to get her in her home. They were two different people. "Princess, did your father assign different body guards today?" The princess looked at her and gave her snobby look. "Why should you care." She urked with anger. See if she worried again!
"Let's get going. I want to see the whole village before I leave tommorrow night." An epiphany rang in Sierra's ears hearing the news. She couldn't wait until this day was over then she'll be relieved of escorting the snob around, free to go back and train with the team.
Hikaru snapped Sierra out of her thoughts and her eyes widened by how far the princess was ahead of her. She jogged towards the princess and heard the sound of the wooden gates closing behind her. Hikaru bound out of her arms and Sierra started the conversation, "Where would you like to see first, princess." Her answer was a sniff. "You're the one supposed to be escorting me. If you can't do your job right then you should've declined this mission." Sierra urked in anger again and again had to control the urge to throw something at the back of the snobby witch's head.
Silence filled around them as the continued on the road that lead towards the forest. Sierra sure wasn't going to start the conversation unless the princess wanted a kunai lodged into her head. Instead, Sierra looked down at her little companion and feeling a pair of eyes on him, Hikaru snapped his chocolate eyes up. Finding it was Sierra, his tail wagged a mile a minute behind him. She smiled and looked back over towards the princess. Some of her wondered if what happened yesturday as they were watching team eight train, was only a trick of the sun. The princess never showed so much emotion towards anything. It was sad really. Sierra never had so much trouble making friends with anyone, not that she wanted to make friends with the princess anyway now. The princess ruined her chance.
"You're lagging behind Genin Sierra." Sierra urked to attention and her eyes narrowed. Sierra pointed out, "You're only a couple of inches away from me." The princess's eyes narrowed and so did Sierra's as the princess whirled around. She was sick of being bossed around so much! Not even the Jounin's gave her lip about everything! The princess has worn her down until she was on her last nerve, and that last nerve just snapped. It was to early and only having four hours of sleep didn't help with the fact that she was doing nothing to do with the princess, but yet she was still getting lip about something stupid.
"You slack off far to much to have any responsibility towards anyone. Only slackers, slack off from their duties Genin Sierra. Slacking off must be a weakness that you can't defeat isn't it. That is why your always below me in rank."
"THAT IS IT!!" Sierra exploded,Hikaru jumping behind her legs. He sensed danger and wasn't going to stick next to her when she was mad.The princess reeled back from the outburst, but Sierra was just getting started speaking her mind. She was far to angry to just remain quiet anymore. "I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW EVERY DAMN THING ABOUT ME! HERE'S A NEWS FLASH MISS SNOB! YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD! THERE ARE A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE AROUND YOU! OPEN YOU ROYAL EYES! NO ONE ISN'T BELOW YOU!THERE ALL ABOVE YOU BECAUSE YOUR A HORRIBLE PERSON!I'M A GENIN AND I COULD BE IN TROUBLE FOR NOT HAVING YOU ENJOY YOUR TIME HERE, BUT I'VE HAD WITH YOU! YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE A PRINCESS!?! THEN I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYMORE OF THEM!!!"
The princess let out a gasp as Sierra finished, breathing hard. If the princess said one more thing, she wasn't going to be responsible for what she would do. Calming down a little by the look on the princess' face. "And another thing. I'm not a slacker."
The Princess didn't move or even blink, just stared at Sierra with wide eyes. Sierra took it as no one has ever yelled at her before. Maybe she'll get a reality check from her yelling at her. Someone had to do it sooner or later.
Sierra didn't relieve her narrowed eyes and watched the princess closely, daring her to say something. But the princess never said anything and never moved, not even when Sierra's breathing returned to normal. "I'm going back home. Your not even worth any of my time." Sierra spat, calling to Hikaru, before turning around.
"Is that what you think?" Sierra stopped in her tracks, but didn't turn around to acknowledge the princess. "That's what you think isn't it!? That I think everyone is below me? I-I never thought that!" Hikaru whinied some, smelling tears falling out of the princess' eyes and it didn't take Sierra long to hear the tears in the princess's voice.
"Then why do you do it." Sierra said, not moving.
"Because! That's the only way that someone will listen to me! All they listen to it the royal title I carry! Not me!"
Sierra scoffed. She had to fight for people to even get to notice her. The princess was noticed the moment she was born. It made it seem like the princess had a rougher life then she did. "Try being someone who didn't have the chance to be noticed." The princess snapped her mouth closed, but the tears ran down her face. "You think that by making everyone seem below you is a way to have people listen to you. Then you need to meet someone that is important to me. He tried everything to have people notice him and like him, but no one did. Your life was nothing compared to his. It's just a bug on my windshield."
"Your wrong!" The princess yelled and I heard her running towards me, before I took a quick step to the side. The princess flew forward, slamming into the dirt with a yell. "To slow." Sierra only said, staring at the princess with no emotion at all.
The princess shakily got to her hands and knees and screamed, "NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A PRINCESS! NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHAT WE ARE LIKE, OR NEITHER DOES ANYONE JUST COME TO SEE US BECAUSE THEY MISSED US! WE HAVE TO BE TREATED ONLY WITH RESPECT AND NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW HOW WE ARE LIKE!! BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF US! THEY ARE SCARED THAT WE COULD RUIN THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT WE WERE BORN INTO!!!"
The princess started to sob loudly and Sierra stared down at the princess' trembling form. It was no longer the same princess that she had escorted around and had to put up with. Now, it was a young girl who only wanted to be noticed. It all came clear to Sierra now. The princess only wanted to have friends and to have them actually not be afraid of her father's power. She was alone all her life and grew to become bitter and jealous of anyone that had friends or someone who cared about them. No wonder she snapped at her when Naruto and Sakura came to see her that day. She was jealous of the fact that they were her friends.
Hikaru looked up at Sierra as she looked down at him and then looked back at the princess in pity. Instead of annoyance, it was replaced with pity towards the girl.
"This is your first time that you actually showed who you really are."
The princess sobbed harder and a strong breeze flew from behind the two girls, throwing their hair forward.
The sounds of her sobs were carried forward and Sierra tucked some of her hair behind her ear, turning around some to look behind her.
"Princess," She called, taking a couple of steps towards her, and crouched down next to her. The princess heard the sound and looked up at Sierra to see a hand held out to her. Her eyes widened. "Come on, you wanted to see the forests right?" The princess stared at Sierra's hand and then looked back up at her face. "Why are you still taking me--" "Because you wanted to see it right?"Sierra interupted and smiled to show her that she was serious.
"But you s-said that--" "Look, I won't say it again, you can either stay on the ground or you can take my hand to look around the forest." Sierra made it seem like she was mad, but she did it in a way that the princess would know she wasn't. She held her hand out farther and the princess slowly took it, before Sierra hauled her to her feet. The princess didn't get her footing right away and stumbled forward, but Hikaru grabbed the back of her kimono and Sierra grabbed her shoulder. They stopped her from falling and the princess looked up at Sierra surprised. No one has ever helped her before like this. "You okay?" Sierra asked, helping her to stand up straigter and the princess could merely nod. "Good. Now let's get going, shall we, Hikaru?" The puppy barked and Sierra smiled more before looking at the princess, "You too?"
The princess blinked a couple of minutes before nodding slowly.
Suddenly, a loud voice yelled, "Your not going anywhere."
Hikaru whirled around and fell low to the ground growling at the intruding voice. "Princess! Stay behind me! Where are they Hikaru!" Sierra yelled, throwing the princess behind her. The princess held onto Sierra's back and Hikaru growled, shifting his head side to side, trying to locate the new smell.
"We masked our chakra, your little dog won't be able to find us!" The same voice yelled and Sierra narrowed her eyes, taking out a kunai from her bag."The hell! " She cursed, looking around for anything suspicious. Why would someone attack them right in the open? Attacking out in the open wasn't the ninja way, so why were they doing it!?
"What's happening!?" The princess yelled and Sierra glanced back at her. "We're being attacked!" She gasped before yelling, "I can go get help! The gate is a little ways way from here!" "No! Princess!" Sierra yelled, launching at the running princess. Just as Sierra's hand grabbed her arm, a kunai flew down right in front of them, colliding into the ground near the princess' foot. She gasped loudly and Sierra yanked her back, growling, "They could be anywhere! You don't run away like that!"
Hikaru barked, attracting Sierra's attention and just like that, four kunai's came directly at the two girls. "Hold on!" Sierra yelled, throwing the princess onto her back and disappearing with the girl on her back instantly. The kunai's darted into the ground where they just stood. Sierra appeared next to Hikaru in an instant and let the princess back on the ground yelling, "Show yourself!"
Men voices began to laugh all around them and Hikaru growled loudly at the side of Sierra. "They could be all around us!" Hikaru barked and shifted his head side to side again. For all Sierra knew, they could be severely outnumbered and considering that it was only her and Hikaru, they could be in a lot of trouble. They couldn't fight and protect the princess if there were so many of them. "Damn!" Sierra cursed again, looking around for somewhere to go. Out in the open they were sitting ducks, but if she could get into the forest, she might be able to have an advantage."Hikaru! Into the woods!" She ordered, pulling the princess back on her back, before dashing off towards the foliage, Hikaru bounding in front of her.
"What are you doing!? They could be in there!" The princess yelled, and Sierra nodded. " That's what I'm hoping!" The princess' eyes widened and just as she was about to close her eyes, she felt herself being twirled around as Hikaru barked. The sounds of Kunai hitting flesh and metal sounded off the barks of trees and the princess noticed that they stopped their pace. "Huh?What--" A horror filled gasp escaped the princess' mouth as she looked down at the reason why they stopped. Three kunai had peirced into the front of Sierra. Those kunai were meant for her and she knew it. "Sierra!"
Sierra spit out the blood that was in her mouth and she said, "I know who are..attacking us."
"Stop! You can die!! Put me down now!!"
"Can't do that princess." Was all Sierra said, before she pulled out the closest kunai that was lodged into her right shoulder. Hikaru, who had caught a kunai in his mouth, dropped the kunai he had and let out a deep dark threatening growl.
"Bastards.." Sierra growled darkly, her ligt brown eyes flashing gold. She was mad, no homosuidal, forget angry. She knew had tried to attack them. The very same people who were supposed to protect the princess!
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Ooh!!! A cliffie!!Oh I love doing these things! You all just have to wait until I get the next chappy out.. --dodges a kunai that Sasuke threw at her-- which will hopefully be soon if I don't get killed before that...--dodges another-- darnit! I shouldn't have hit him with the hammer!!! KIBA-KUUUUUUUN!!!!
