On the Wings of Revenge
By: Zeida and Maria (Maria)
Warnings: Insanity, crack, violence, blood, gore, plotholes, randomness, lack of plot to begin with, language etc... Etc...
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Summary: Zabuza finds Naruto after Haku, and takes him away. This is half crack nuttiness. Vengeful!Naruto. It's starting to look like a foursome to me but it's not? Just brother love? Gaara, Haku, Naruto and Sasuke...nuttiness. Shikamaru shows a lot too! Have I proved myself nuts yet? Inspired by my own nutty-ness.
Warning!: VERY CONFUSEING EVENTS PROCCEEDING! If you are confused AT THE END read the time line AT THE END. Bare with it until then, or you'll spoil the fun.
ChApTeR sIx: Gingerbread Man
Sakura waited in boredom on the bridge where Team 7 always met up. Small to begin with, the team was now reduced to Kakashi and herself. That meant that she couldn't really do much of anything. Only D-rank missions and no raising rank until the next generation of genin graduates, and only then if the team numbers were uneven. She might get lucky and join up with a makeshift team that didn't manage to pass the chuunin exams, but that was pretty bad anyway.
How did this happen, how did she end up all by her lonesome, and so pathetic that her only use was gardening for the elderly?
Maybe her parents were right; she wasn't cut out for this sort of thing. The pink haired girl wasn't from a ninja family after all. Her parents couldn't help her, as they had no idea what to do, unlike so many other families of ninja. Her only teammate her age had half-betrayed Konoha (Not that the village knew, and that was probably for the best.), and she didn't even try to stop him.
The only good point to this whole thing was that Kakashi was really concentrating on training her. It wasn't like before, either, when Sasuke was there too. Then, he gave them something to work on, and read his book nearby, stopping them only if they were about to kill themselves or someone else.
Now, he was showing her exactly what to do, different exercises to bring her weak points up to par. He was standing nearby, watching her, correcting her every time she messed up, and patiently explaining the right way to do it.
Needless to say the first day this had happened, she demanded proof that he was indeed her sensei. Sakura knew she saw him wince in guilt, as he uncovered the Sharingan eye to prove his identity. He showed it to her every time that they met now, before getting started right away.
He was almost on time sometimes. Obviously, he had taken his student defecting personally.
But what was the point, really. She was improving, but the higher missions required teams, and she just didn't have one. Sakura knew she would get in the way if she tried to latch onto another, and didn't want to bring her comrades down with her.
Maybe she should just-
The silver haired sensei appeared just then, deftly flicking up his hitai-ate and letting it slide back down again.
"Yo." he greeted, putting a hand on her shoulder and teleporting them to the latest training ground that he picked out.
"Sorry I was late; I had to talk to the Hokage about urgent matters and entering you in the Chuunin exam."
Sakura looked at the tall man oddly. "Sensei..." She said slowly, wary of something, "You have to enter in cells of three... You know that."
The jounin nodded happily, his one visible eye curving. "Yep."
"As in not one."
"Yep."
"As in, there must be more than one!" the pink haired kunoichi growled.
"Yep."
"Sensei! I can't enter with just me!"
"Maa... I know that Sakura. It isn't going to be just you. To improve inter-village relations, you are going to be working with a team from sand that is lacking as well! The chuunin exams are base mostly on individual skill, so it doesn't really matter what your team is made of. Besides, a good kunoichi can work with any team she is assigned to. They've already agreed. You'll do fine."
Sakura gaped at him. "You did WHAT?"
"Put you with another lacking team so that you might have a chance at becoming chuunin, which you are fully capable of. Is that a problem?"
The kunoichi stared at him for a moment, her mouth opening and closing noiselessly. She closed her eyes and took a couple deep calming breaths before beaming at her sensei, a wide smile crossing her face. The jounin thought she might just tackle him, but the girl kept her poise and just asked one simple question.
"When do I meet them?"
-:- -:- -:-
"All right now, stop strangling your team mates Ino." Asuma reprimanded as Ino throttled Chouji and Shikamaru for some reason or another.
"I have some very important news to give you later. I want you to meet up at our usual training ground in two hours." He smiled at them, a little sinisterly with the cigarette clenched between his teeth, and vanished.
Ino sighed, having let go of the boys. "I need to go get ready. We might be going on another big mission." She turned in a huff, still insulted about the comment to her clothing choices.
Chouji frowned, rubbing his neck. "Do you think it's really going to be another big mission?" he asked his best friend.
"Might be. I'm going to the training ground early. I don't want to keep an eye on the time." Chouji nodded, but excused himself saying that he should stock up in case of a long term mission. The lazy boy shrugged, heading leisurely down to the training ground. Chouji might head over here later, if he finished on time, and they could relax a bit before their mission, or what ever it was.
"What? Didn't his team return?" Shikamaru froze as a voice hissed out from behind a nearby tree on the training ground. He carefully checked his weapons and suppressed his chakra, sending a tiny bit off in a random direction to give illusion that he was gone.
"Yes, sir. I checked his house, too, like you ordered. He is not there." another voice answered. This one sounded slightly afraid, and younger than the first. The first... the deer boy couldn't really place it. It sounded young-ish and very old at the same time.
Their conversation however was very suspicious. Not that a trained ninja would think that any conversation wasn't. Thinking fast, Shikamaru analyzed what he had heard so far. They were talking about someone in a team, more likely than not a ninja team. From the sound of it, his team was out of the village, assuming that they were talking about someone from this village and not just deeming it safer to talk about someone from another village here, than there.
It seemed like his house was here, and that the person wasn't. Their voices were urgent, so it was important.
"What do you mean "He is not there"! I need him!" The first voiced hissed again. There was a small thump; the second voice had just been pressed against a tree.
Yup, important! The teams that had been on missions recently numbered six, to Shika's knowledge. The ones who returned so far were only three. The first two being his own and Kakashi's team and the third being an ANBU patrol unit. He and his team had all returned to their homes, as had Kakashi and Sakura. The dark haired boy was fairly certain that the ANBU had. He wasn't sure of the identities of three of the elite assassin group, but none of those were on the patrol team.
That left only one person that they could be talking about.
"Orochimaru-sama, I know you need him, but if you cannot find him, than you need to pick a different body to possess. You health must always come first, and if you do not appear healthy, than Suna will not support you in the invasion!"
Shikamaru couldn't help it, he gasped. A tiny, sharp intake of breath, but it was enough. Before he knew it, he was flying back ward through the air and crashed into a thick tree. The deer-boy coughed violently, winded.
"What do we have here?" The second voice spoke. Shikamaru looked up, identifying him as a tall silver haired boy in his late teens. His hair was in a pony tail and he leered evilly at the coughing boy through circular glasses.
What got him was that his captor seemed to be a Leaf nin!
"Hmmm... Did he hear everything, Kabuto?" The first voice appeared to be a grass nin with long black hair and...lipstick... Shikamaru looked at him oddly.
"Yes, sir." Kabuto... that was his name. He had called the man Orochimaru. Last he knew, that was the name of one of the legendary Sannin, who abandoned the village in search of immortality. That was bad. If he survived this, which the boy doubted more with every minute, then he needed to tell this to someone.
The 'grass nin' turned away, flapping his hand behind him in a bored fashion. "Take care of him."
The deer-boy's eyes widened as the traitor's hands began to shine with chakra. He dived to the side to avoid the blows, but they were too close, and Kabuto was a lot faster.
His last thoughts held only regret as the chakra scalpels ripped through him, and blackness consumed him.
-:- -:- -:- bwahahahaha!cliffhanger!I made myself sad -:- -:- -:-
"Now," Kurenai began, her students perched on kicking tree trunks or, in Shino's case, just standing next to it. "Something very important is about to begin. Do any of you know what it is? Any conversations that you might have over heard?"
Kiba waved his arm in the air enthusiastically, his teammates glancing at him with worry when he nearly toppled right off the trunk. "I know! I know! Pick me! It's the Chuunin exams coming up, right?"
Kurenai smiled at him, nodding. "Good job! Now did you two know as well?"
Hinata stuttered a vaguely positive answer with something to do with her father, and Shino nodded curtly.
"Excellent! Now, I am going to enter you three in, if you can pass my test. I want you to find out everything you can about these exams, work together, and bring your findings to me in ten minutes. Go!"
"Hai, Sensei!" The black haired woman smiled to herself as they took off immediately.
-:- -:- -:-
"I have decided to nominate you all for the chuunin exams this year!" crowed Maito Gai enthusiastically. Lee pumped his fist in to the air, echoing his teacher's energy, Even Neji looked ever-so-slightly excited, having a chance to be a show-off-y genius ass(A/N: Sorry, I DO NOT like early Neji.)
"You will need to train extra-hard, so that you may be prepared to show off your YOUTH!"
"How true!" his clone yelled. "You are indeed the Great blue Beast of Konoha! Gai-sensei!"
Tenten twitched, and Neji groaned, each recognizing the symptoms.
"Lee!"
"-Damn it..."
"Gai-sensei!"
"Not again!"
"Lee!"
"Um... sensei?"
"Gai-sensei!"
"You know you can't stop them, Tenten."
"Lee!"
"Yeah, but there's-"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Holy-" Neji stared, backing away from the oblivious couple in horror.
"See!?" Tenten squeaked, joining him.
"Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Gai cried with his final breath as he was trample by... Shino, Hinata, and Kiba, who was giggling madly, and soon followed by a herd of disturbed ANBU.
"Gai-sensei!!" Called out his students in varied degrees of alarm and confusion. As the strange group ran off, Lee hoisted his dazed sensei up and started hollering about them being 'unyouthful'. Tenten started giggling and raced after the ANBU, soon followed by Neji. Gai, 'rejuvenated' by the idea of a youthful chase, took off as well with Lee close behind.
-:- -:- -:-
Asuma steadily grew more worried as the minutes passed and his student still didn't arrive at the meeting place. Ino had come and left again to check the missing boy's house for him. Chouji appeared soon after to inform them that Shikamaru had actually come early so he wouldn't have to keep an eye on the time. Once Ino returned, they would scour the area for the boy incase he had fallen asleep against a tree just out of sight or something. Normally, thought the worried jounin, we would just look, but I have a very bad feeling about this.
His cigarette lay forgotten, and burning up between his fingers.
"He's not at home." Ino told them, hopping down from a nearby tree. Asuma nodded, leaning off the tree and dropping the cigarette to the ground.
"All right," he said, stepping on it to put it out. "We split up and search the training ground. If you see anything strange -Anything- you are to report to the other two immediately and stay out of sight. Is that clear?"
His student nod quickly and all three shot up into the trees.
-:- -:- -:-
"Sakura, this is Temari and Kankuro of Suna. Temari-san, Kankuro-san, this is Haruno Sakura of Konoha."
Both sides nodded stiffly, watching the other like a hawk. Kakashi and the sand team's sensei, Baki, exchanged an annoyed look, and sighed.
"Play nice." The sand jounin ordered, walking off. His students turned away from Sakura in a snap, staring after their sensei in some odd mix of horror and extreme annoyance.
The silver haired Konoha Jounin joins him, nodding good bye to an owl-eyed Sakura. "Maa... Why not get some drinks and complain about them, Baki-san?"
"Sensei!"
Kankuro snickered, "Nice Sensei you've got!"
"Hmm. A fine idea, Kakashi-san."
"SENSEI!!"
Sakura snickered at them. "Looks like we're in the same boat, then."
"Looks that way..." Temari grumbled.
"No." Kankuro said, unusually loudly, "It looks like Konoha and Suna should get along! And would do a nice job of it too!" He smiled with benignity, well as much benignity and Kankuro in full makeup can smile.
Obviously, Sakura was a wee bit scared.
Temari glare at him, an obvious 'shut up!' hidden in there. The puppet user just grinned even wider.
"What? You don't agree, Temari? Wow, Dad doesn't either!"
"You father doesn't like Konoha? Why not?" Sakura said, genuinely curious. She was distracted suddenly, as all three had to dive out of the way.
They looked on, odd looks on their faces, and disturbed looks of recognition from Sakura. Ino and Chouji shot passed, looking upset. They were followed be a perturbed Kurenai, who was obliviously trailed by her team. Hinata, Kiba, and Shino were looking somewhat scared and were dogged closely by a group of ANBU. The pink haired kunoichi made a very confused face at that, but had very little time to think about it as Gai's team shot passed. Unconsciously, the two sand nin and the Leaf Kunoichi backed up another step. 'YOUTH' was screamed throughout the village.
The three watched as the motley procession passed, wondering what was going on. Temari opened her mouth, but all that came out was a screech of frustration as Kankuro took off after them.
Sakura blinked, then turned to Temari, who was rightfully fuming. "He does that kind of thing a lot, doesn't he?"
"Yes. Makes you wanna hit him doesn't it?"
"Kinda. You know, I read somewhere that it's bad for women not to act on such urges."
"Really? Well we must stay in our best health now, shouldn't we?"
"Yes, we really should."
"Y'know I'm really starting to like you!" the bond girl shouted as she took off after her wayward brother.
"Same to you!" Sakura ran after her, slightly slower and concentrating more on the implications of what Kankuro had said.
-:- -:- -:-
The mist team started to slow as a huge wooden gate came into view. Naruto and Gaara oohed and ahed, collecting odd stares from those who knew the hated the place. Haku smiled, and Sasuke tried not to think about the people that he had left behind. The mizu-bushin of Zabuza pretty much just ran with them, looking and acting disturbingly like a quieter Ebisu. Not that any of them have ever heard of Ebisu, let alone seen him.
At the gates they turned to each other, a note of seriousness in the air.
"All right, from here on out code name only. No exception." They all nodded, and walked up to the gate.
Inside, the more immature of the group proceeded to act pretty much like they did at the gate, oh, ah, and complain that Kiri was way better. Sasuke, still feeling a sort of attachment to the place, tried not to make known that he liked it a helluva lot better.
He looked back at the mizu-bushin following them, and wondered again how the heck all of this happened.
-:- -:- -:-
--Flashback; Mizukage's mansion--
They watched as Haku left, then sat in silence, wondering what to do until he came back.
"Hn... When did Zabuza-san-"
"Zabuza-SAMA!" Gaara and Naruto hollered, at their last nerve on the subject.
"-become Mizukage?" Sasuke continued, ignoring them as usual.
For a moment, they looked startled by the question, then launched into an excited story.
"Well, at first we were all just missing nins-"
"High class one, remember!"
"And then, we went to visit Haku and Zabuza-sama's old home."
"We really wanted to-"
"and kept asking him."
"So he finally took us there."
"And it was really cool-"
"-but Zabuza-sama said it was a whole lot nicer when he was a kid."
"And not just the graduation test, so don't complain."
"The schools were better and-"
"-he said that a lot more people tried to become shinobi, "
"-and succeeded too! So don't complain."
"He said that the Mizukage was going to sea."
"I didn't now what that was..."
"I means he was getting fat and lazy and greedy!"
"And Old!" Gaara said it like it was the worst of obscenities.
"So Zabuza-sama killed him!"
"I was real easy."
"He had a better time of it than fighting that silver haired Konoha nin"
"Kakashi-sensei."
"KAKASHI-BAKA!" Naruto hollered.
"Anyway, then there wasn't anymore Mizukage, and no one knew."
"So he decided to pretend to be him for a bit, and fix a couple things"
"Just till people found out, you know"
"''Cept when they did."
"They wanted him to stay! "
"He was doing such a good job-"
"Of course!"
"Of course! Zabuza-sama isn't the battle crazy demon that everyone thinks he is."
"He's really nice!"
"He can take care of things if he wanted."
"He just likes to fight more..."
"So he told the village that they can't tell anyone that he was in charge-"
"And he goes off on missions a lot-"
"-'Cause he really does like a good fight."
Both boys grinned at Sasuke, having finished their... story. Sasuke blinked at them, attempting to absorb all he information.
Keyword: attempting.
"Alright... we should probably figure out the details for the genjutsu."
"Like...?" Gaara asked, drawing out the word.
"There are four of us, and teams of three."
"Oh."
"Someone could be the sensei."
"Zabuza-san-"
"-SAMA!"
"-sensei is the sensei. It'll probably a Mizu-bushin, though."
Naruto pouted at him, and Gaara growled, though none objected. They would make him say it yet...
"Maybe someone stays behind?"
"No!"
"Summon pet?" Sasuke suggested.
Blink. "Alright! I'll do it!" Gaara performed a couple signs, transforming into a raccoon with an abnormally long tail, and hopping onto Sasuke's lap.
Who promptly shoved him off again. Undeterred, Gaara just hopped back up, digging his claws into the boy's leg. Frowning, the Uchiha gave in, ignoring him instead.
"Okay, then, now that you've filled up on questions?" Naruto looked at Sasuke. He nodded. "Then we get down to business. Who wants ta be what?"
Hopping back to the floor, Gaara raised his hand in the air, waving it around. Naruto turned to him. "I vote Uke-chan be Shikaeshi!"
Naruto's mouth creased to a mock frown as he thought it over. He grinned in confirmation even as Sasuke muttered about not getting a say.
"And his nickname can be 'Shika'!" The Uchiha stared at them in vague horror.
"No."
"Yes."
"And you can be Arashi!" Gaara decided, sort of telling Naruto.
"No." Sasuke continued, ignoring to hyper redhead.
"Yes." Naruto responded, not sure who he was talking to.
"Arashi is a good Kiri name." Gaara said, quite sure who he was talking to: himself.
"No."
"Hmmm... but what about Haku?"
"Yes."
"I like the sound of Chibi, personally."
"No."
"But I think that he might skewer me, so we must think of something with grace and dignity."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"So, how about Tane!" (1)
"YES!"
"But I can't think of anything for me..."
Both boys stopped their argument for a moment, looking at Gaara. Somehow, almost at the same time, they said, "Suishuu-shu."
Gaara stared at them. "NO!"
--End Flashback--
-:- -:- -:-
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the memory, catching up with his new teammates, as he had fallen a foot or so behind.
"He's WHAT?!" shouted a strange voice.
The mist team fought every instinct to jump out of their skin at the sound of the loud voice exploding right next to them. They looked to the side discreetly to see themselves passing a dark alley.
Gaara hopped on Naruto's shoulder and turned to the alleyway to the right of them. There were two shadowy figures standing suspiciously in it, facing one another. The group swiftly and silently took themselves out of hearing range.
"Yes. Dead." said the other, much calmer voice. This one sounded young and smooth, where as the other had a strange, ambiguousness to it. It was impossible to say whether the man was in his thirties or his seventies. Which was really strange, that sort of thing should be easily distinguishable.
'Dead?' Naruto mouthed to Haku. Haku shrugged and signed him to be quiet.
"What. Happened." The old-young - almost serpentine, now that they heard it a second time- voice bit out. he seemed to be having trouble keeping his temper in check. The small group felt shivers run down their spines at the amount of killing intent coming off the man in waves.
The second,, younger one, sighed. "Just as I told you, he died. There was a mission, as I said, and it was mislabeled. C-rank became A-rank when rouge nin showed up and killed him." the man explained.
Sasuke felt as if a fist was clenching on his heart, yet at the same time he let out an inaudible sigh of relief. So... this man...men, obviously wanted him for something. But, they thought he was dead. This meant that the plan had been a success. He felt torn between running far away, and jumping for joy.
The others didn't feel as good about the situation. This was bad. What if the genjutsu flickered? What if someone canceled it? That man could take Sasuke away... Fear flooded tem at the very idea. Gaara himself thought he had a certain responsibility over Sasuke, as be had gotten him. He should protect him, right?
"Are you sure?" The first voice hissed "It wasn't false intelligence?" The second voice scoffed.
"Would I give you false intelligence?" it asked, sounding almost hurt.
It was the fist voices turn to scoff now. "Treachery works both ways, Kabuto, and I'm not one to take chances."
-:- -:- -:-
"Sensei!" Chouji's panicked voice came through the walkie-talkie. "Come here! Quickly!" There was a trace of a sob in his voice that made the jounin feel sick. What had happened?
Asuma made his way over the coordinates on the GPS and hopped down beside his student, who ran to him, instantly, and dragged him over to where they could see one single, white hand through the bushes. The smoker felt like he was about to be physically sick, but didn't let it show on his face as he moved toward the bush, wary of traps.
Finding none, he parted the branches to reveal the stark white body of his missing student surrounded in a pool of his own blood.
"Chouji, don't come any closer. Call Ino and head to the hospital. Alert the medics that we have an emergency. Go!"
The terrified boy nodded shakily and took off as fast as Asuma had ever seen him, pulling out his walkie talkie and setting the frequency as he was moving.
The jounin turned back to his student, pulling out bandages and assessing the damage. The boy as still alive-thank Kami-sama- but he was barely breathing. There were sharp deep gashes all over him, but, by the amount of blood, most were done after he had lost so much that he had been knocked out. Carefully and as gently as possible, Asuma bandaged him up, if only to keep him from falling apart at this point. Lifting Shikamaru tenderly in his arms the grim jounin teleported to the hospital.
-:- -:- -:-
Having dragged Sasuke as far away from the voices as they felt safe, Gaara, Naruto and Haku slowed to a stop, the brunet finally dropping his hold on the back of Sasuke' shirt.
"That was creepy!" Naruto complained. "We DEFINATLY don't have people like that in Kiri."
"WhatEVER." Sasuke growled, rubbing his sore throat. "Would you stop comparing them?"
Naruto hmphed (2) and Gaara quipped that he still liked Konoha, which was forcefully rebuked.
Haku was just abut to step in to prevent another fist fight breaking out when they all had to duck for cover from what looked like a shinobi parade. Sasuke recognized Chouji and Ino leaving, looking upset. He got up to try and follow them, but was pulled back out of the way from Kurenai and she nearly trampled him. She was followed by her own, very panicked looking team. Then ANBU...
And two men in green spandex -Gaara started screeching "GREEN!" and had to be restrain from chasing and being trampled as well.-
Followed by two genin, a very pretty girl, and a very pretty boy, who were shouting out names that probably belonged to the two green men or the demons and monster that they were damning them to.
Then Sasuke recognized his own former team mate, Sakura, working with a Suna girl to try and Catch the Suna boy that was just ahead of them, and... chasing the group in front.
Needless to say, the four boys followed. One, concerned for his friends, one with a creepy obsession with green, the others trying, and failing to catch them before they end up doing something incredibly stupid.
-:- -:- -:-
"KURENAI-SENSEI!" The red-eyed jounin turned in surprise to the sound of the panicked yells of her students. Was Shino yelling? That was the loudest she's ever heard him.
The two ninja and the kunoichi skidded to a halt and thrust a sheaf of papers at her before darting behind her for cover. Kiba was hiding?
"What's wrong? I- oh!" She looked back, seeing the actually slightly tired looking ANBU unit... followed by Gai's team... followed by two sand nin and a pink-haired Konoha kunoichi she knew to be Sakura... followed by three mist nin?!... And a... raccoon with one heck of a tail.
Kurenai blinked. And blinked again. "What the hell did you three do?"
"Well.. um.. you see...
--Flashback; Training field 12--
"Hai, sensei!"
As the three took off, they signaled to each other with basic hand signs, planning out their course of action on the move.
'Kurenai-sensei has only given us ten minutes. We need one or only a few sources with a large amount of data.' Shino signed to the other two.
'Where is a place where they would have people talking about the exam?' Hinata asked, silently.
'They probably finished that, we need their documents.' Kiba decided.
'Archives.' Shino pressed.
'They are in the Hokage tower.' Hinata said, a little worried, 'We cannot go to them, we would get in trouble.'
Kiba grinned to his teammates. "Trouble, here we come!" he said out loud, as he sped up along the roof tops.
Shino sighed, restraining the urge to sound like an old classmate. ''Those are last words, Kiba, you should not say them while heading into danger.''
'Oh, come on! All we have to do is steal a couple papers! They already finished planning, so no one will miss them.' Kiba signed, feral grin still in place.
'Kiba-kun! We cannot steal them! That is wrong!' Hinata signed back to him.
'Yeah, well, so was Shino being pissy and making us and Kurenai-sensei itch for a month when he got sick and couldn't go on a mission with us. It didn't stop him!'
Shino looked away, muttering something about being left out, and canceling a mission. Kiba snorted and Hinata giggled.
The stopped in front of the tower, Hinata setting up a genjutsu to hide them from prying eyes. Shino sent a couple of his kikai on every level to find the archives.
Kiba sat there twitching in anticipation until he could go to work.
"I've found it." Shino whispered, releasing an insect that looked a bit like a damselfly to lead Kiba there. It flew off, up the wall, with the Inuzuka and puppy following, sticking to the wall with chakra. They clambered up it on all fours.
Once in the window on the right floor, the boy and his dog followed the little bug down the hall, past ninja and clerks, and secretaries that didn't notice a thing. It got a bit iffy after passing the ANBU guard in front of the doors that he wanted, but the man just let out an odd snore and went back to sleep, standing up. Geez, those advanced ninja learned the strangest things.
"Whew." Kiba whispered, looking around the shelves for something of use. The little kikai flew around the books and scrolls and Akamaru sniffled around for one that had been made or modified recently.
The black haired boy jumped a foot in the air when he felt the kikai land in his ear and bite him, rather effectively gaining his attention.
"What?!" he hissed, rubbing his ear. The little insect fluttered around, aiming for a different row. "Aka! Guard the door. If someone's coming in, let me know. If they see you, don't make noise. Trip them up and come to get me." Kiba ordered. The puppy nodded with determination, walking purposely to the door and staring at it.
The kikai led Kiba to a row of books that were covered with dust, save for one right near the edge. The genin grabbed it, after checking for traps and looked it over. Finding what he wanted, he waved Aka over and they snuck back out, unfortunately, the guard had moved a bit and the door swung open into his nose.
"Uwarg! Who's there!?" He looked around, spotting the boy running down the hall with a thick book in hand.
"Attention! ANBU to stations! Small black haired brat has stolen a thick book from the archives!" he yelled into his walkie-talkie. There was a yell from down the hall.
"Hey! Who are you calling a brat?!" The man ignored him, rubbed his nose grumpily and took off after Kiba, who had just jumped out the window, yelling "RUN!!!"
--End Flashback--
"Okay," said Kurenai. "Lemme get this straight. Hinata helped steal something?!"
-:- -:- -:-
"His injuries are severe, but he will live. I can't say how well he will recover at this point... and I'm not sure he should use chakra anymore."
"I... see. Why can't he use chakra?" Asuma couldn't stop staring guiltily at the pallid boy in the hospital bed that looked too big for him.
"Well, the medics think that he shouldn't, you see. It's just that we aren't sure what would happen, but most think that he would be like a hemophiliac, except with chakra."
"What are his injuries. Can you tell what happened?"
"The first two blows knocked him out. You're either dealing with a mad man... or a very skilled medic nin. The attacked stabbed him in the area just below his stomach and here, above his heart. He sent out a wave of concentrated chakra. That what knocked him out. Unfortunately, it burned open all his chakra pathways right into his reserve. It must have been a massive wave. That's why he shouldn't use it. I would probably just keep coming, depleting, and therefore killing him, and likely taking out anyone else near him at the time as well.
"What I can't figure out is that the foreign chakra seemed to have pooled there, that or this boy had a part of his reserve blocked off or had two of them, which just... doesn't happen.
"After that... the attacker seemed to have... that is tried to..."
"What?"
"D-dissected him.. Alive. Unconscious and just cut him opened! Just had a peek at his insides or something!" The nurse shuddered violently, nearly hysterical, and ran out of the room. Asuma could feel the vein in his temple throbbing.
Oh, if he ever found out who did this...
"There is going to be nothing left of him when I'm done...!"
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Owari
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(1) Sorry, can't remember. Who anyone like to be wonderful and look it up? My dictionary died.
(2)This was auto-corrected to 'humped'... XD
A/N: first things first:
Timeline:
Kakashi meets with Sakura(ain't he weird?)
Asuma Team meets to tell students to meet later (heehee)
Kabuto attack Shika(I SOWY!!!!!!!!!!!!! TT.TT)
Kurenai give...mission to students(That was too much fun)
Kiba team steal stuff(XD)
Shika found(sniff)
Chou and Ino head to hospital(whimper)
Kurenai sees and follows(erm, she worried 'bout Asuma, doesn't know what happened yet)
Gai announces exam to students(That was fun.)
Gai trampled by Shino team and ANBU(That, even more so)
Gai team chase(THE CHASE OF YOUTH!)
Hinata team see Kurenai chasing someones and try to catch up(There getting a little scared now)
ANBU follow(see why?)
Gai team Follow(see?)
Sasuke team get to gate(Flashback)
Gingrbreadman proccesion Pass Sakura and Sand team
Kankuro chase(see?)
Temari and Sakura chase him(see!?)
Pass Sasuke Gaara Haku and Naruto
Confused, Sasuke see scared Chou and worried(sobWAHHHH!)
They follow(SEE?! yeah, reason to be scared.)
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I hope that helped. And yes, that s what my planning looks like most of the time, typos and all!.
Now: second of all: I ADORE SHIKA AND IT TORE ME UP WRITING WHAT HAPPENED!!!!! sniff sob
As the nurse said, he will be okay, the chakra prob was a spur of the moment thing, and it could be special, or not. Up to you, loyal readers! Vote on it. Now.
He will be fine to go to the exams and I have one more poll for y'all, and THIS ONE ISA VERY IMPORTANT. I cannot continue the story with out your opinion. Should Kabuto die sooner or later? IT DOES CHANGE THINGS DIRASTICALLY!(sp)
Reveiw Replies(If I forget yours TELL ME!)
RobotPirateNinja: Bwahahahahaha... do you like the... plot twist? ((laughs maniacally and gives you aSasuke-dressed-up-as-Cap'n-Jack-Sparrow-from-PotCII-with-his-loyalties-all-confoozled!-plushie)) wow... that was random... No... you must VOTE!
678yui-julie-and-kiki-kitten: XDDDD that was too much fun to write. Actually,me and Zeida acted that part out, trying to figure out how it went. ((give you a Zeida-and-Maria-acting-that-particular-scene-out-as-Haku-and-Zabuza-watch-in-amusement-as-they-suck-at-it!-plushie)) Yeah... hope you like! ((hipnotised you))VOTE!
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All righty, I'm good now. My chapters are getting freakish, and I apologize for that. As usual, any ideas you would like to submit, are most welcome. It adds color to the story. XD
Shikaeshi- Revenge
Arashi- Storm, also rumored to be the Yondaime's name)
Sayonara, for now.
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