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?
ChApTeR SeVeN: Recovery
As the mist nins caught up to the now stationary parade, Sasuke noticed that they had stopped outside of a hospital.
And that Chouji had disappeared inside.
Kurenai was standing right outside the doors, talking to a severely hysterical Ino, and trying to calm her down. Her team was hiding behind her and the ANBU were repeatedly trying to take them away, only to be scared away, temporarily, by their Sensei. The poor woman was getting increasing irritated and was quite capable of frightening them.
The man clad in green was congratulating his team, very loudly, for having kept up with 'the high-speed chase of YOUTH'. Haku could restrain Gaara no longer and he lunged.
"GREEN!" he crowed, knocking both Lee and Gai to the ground in a tremendous hug. He more securely latched himself onto Lee as both started to struggle, nuzzling his face into the terrified boy's jumpsuit. Gai managed to detach himself and quickly scooted away, staring at the small red-head that had appeared out of no where.
"Lee! The strange red creature has consumed my Lee!" he cried in horror. Tenten and Neji blinked at the boy, clearly not seeing the same thing as their Sensei.
"Gai-sensei. He is hugging him." Neji deadpanned. Tenten giggled.
The mist team stared at Gaara, wondering what to do. If they didn't do anything, then they could just say he was part of another team and get away with their cover unblown. But they had to rescue that one kid before he was traumatized for life. And one of the people that was with Sasuke when they... uh... liberated him was there, and she could turn around any minute now. Not that Haku thought she could see through the tears.
Actually, that was the girl that Naruto had gotten attached to. The blond was looking at her with undisguised concern, but didn't do anything for fear of blowing their cover worse.
"Say that he's not on our team, but agree that he is from Kiri." Sasuke hissed as he made a quick, and slightly better than usual genjutsu of panda-Gaara, before he ran toward the doors of the hospital.
"Why -hic- is everyone following me?" Ino sobbed to Kurenai, having calmed down enough to talk.
Kurenai looked at the rest of the entourage, raising an eyebrow. "I couldn't tell you. Now, what I want to know is WHY WON"T YOU BACK OFF, ALREADY!" The jounin screeched at the ANBU yet again trying to make off with her students. "I am their instructor, I told them to gather information!"
"Ma'am, they may be enemies disguising themselves! They just stole a lot of information on the exams! What if there's an invasion! (M/N: Don't you love Dramatic Irony? Btw, an M/N is a Maria note...) We have to have a professional check them for genjutsu!"
Team 8 stiffened in indignation behind their Sensei and the black haired woman directed concentrated killing intent of the ANBU. They stepped back slightly, ready to fight. She might have been in on it.
No, they are not paranoid! Just terribly, terribly alert.
"Shut up!" Kiba poked his head out from behind his Sensei, startling her for a moment. "Kurenai-sensei is the best there is on genjutsu!"
"Agreed. If she does not believe that we have a genjutsu on ourselves, then we do not." Shino joined his teammate, also stepping out from the red eyed woman.
"Yes!" Hinata squeaked. She too revealed herself, though anyone could see that she was scared. "And- and if you do not leave us alone... I-I will have to s-speak to my f-father about you! I'm s-sure that he would n-n-not like this at all!" The group of ANBU looked at her, freezing when they saw that she was the daughter of the leader of the most prominent and important ninja family in Konoha at the moment.
"Er... I guess your right." Said their leader. "Of course, since your Sensei believes it was you... and we wouldn't want ... no not at all." he muttered and they retreated. No sense in making your wallet mad at you.
"My god, that was pathetic." Naruto murmured to Haku. Said boy just looked delighted that such an obviously shy girl stood up for herself and her teammates.
Konoha was a regular breeding ground for sweeties, he thought. That's Naruto-kun, Uke-kun, and her, too! (Yes, Haku did include Sasuke, and he did just call him that!)
"Hinata that was- was- awesome!!" Kiba crowed, hugging her. He practically lifting her off her feet, and swinging her around in circles, but didn't really get the chance.
But she got the picture that he was happy with her.
"GYAAAAH!" A terrified yell ripped through the air, attracting everyone's attention. Large blades made up of air sliced the ground, causing the shinobi to dive out of the way.
"Go, Temari-chan! Show him who's boss!" The Konoha ninja jumped as a familiar voice cheered on the creator of the wind blades. What was the village coming to?
The blonde girl grinned, swinging her fan again at her little brother, who was doing his best to dodge. "Ha, ha! Thanks, Sakura-chan! Are you getting this?"
The pink haired kunoichi grinned at her new friend, raising the video camera to follow Kankuro's latest escape route.
And brought it back again as he was foiled.
"C'mon, girls! I just wanted to see where they were going! Gyak! Now calm- eep! Alright, alright! I'm sorry already!" The kabuki painted genin howled as he tried to escape his pursuers.
The surrounding people watched with wide eyes as the Sand nin seemed to turn against each other and the, rather random, Konoha teammate taped it and cheered them on. They didn't think this is quite what the Sandaime had in mind when he promoted inter-village relationships.
"Um... Sensei? What are they doing?" Tenten asked Gai.
"I do not know. But the strange red creature has been distracted. We must strike!" Neji rubbed the bridge of his nose in annoyance and signaled to the Chinese-dressed girl to grab Lee. He went up to his teacher, before he could do something stupid - probably involving a pole - and pointed at a building far in the opposite direction.
"Look. There is that silver haired moron that you call your rival discussing ways to one-up you with a sand ninja." He said in a bored drawl. Gai spun around so fast that his students, well really just Tenten, as Lee was distracted, and Neji... just didn't, were worried that he may have gotten whiplash.
"Rival Kakashi!!!!! How could you!" He howled disappearing is a speedy trail of smoke and manly (1) tears. Neji followed as did Tenten, with Lee slung over her shoulder and Gaara left in the dust, wailing. The small red head leapt up and tackled Haku, who comforted him.
"Greeeeeen... -hic- my green..." he sniffed.
"There, there." The black haired boy soothed. "It will be okay. There will be other greens."
Naruto groaned at the thought. "This village is insane!" He turned his attention back to the team that seemed to have started all of this. They looked to be congratulating the timid looking girl.
"Hinata, that was a very clever bluff!" Their sensei was saying, patting her on the back. The dark haired dog-boy was bouncing up and down yelling about how the 'stupid ANBU-wanna-bes' had been scared off by 'super-Hinata'. He stopped periodically to glomp (2) her again, or act out a random part. The last genin just seemed to be a pillar. Naruto wondered if he knew how to react in these situations. The boy smelled slightly nervous, and unsure, but he was happy with his teammate.
They all were.
Suddenly, the blond genin grinned, and he walked up to the stoic boy. "Hey, that was a pretty cool thing that your friend did. You must be proud."
The boy turned to him, nodding. "Yes. Hinata-san is a powerful asset to this team. I am glad that she is here." Naruto almost laughed out loud when he saw the girl. Her face lit up as bright as a tomato! She was stuttering something that sounded like thanks.
Sort of.
If you looked at it side ways.
Well, it couldn't be anything else.
Naruto slapped Shino on the back, sending him stumbling forward, and went back to Haku and Gaara, who had calmed down, and sat on the ground. All the fun was over now, team 8 was leaving, the ANBU and the green team had already, and the pink girl, -Sakura?- with the camera and her friends had already moved away.
"Where is S-Shikaeshi? Should we be worried?" Naruto asked.
"No. He went into the hospital to find out what happened. I believe that we should wait here." Haku nodded to himself, reinforcing his words.
Gaara yawned transforming into a raccoon again and curling up on Naruto's lap. The blond petted him, patiently waiting for their last teammate to return.
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Sasuke easily snuck past the nurses and doctors. They were not trained to deal with his skill. Although they could work on a battlefield, Konoha had always been low on actually medically trained ninja. He tried to track down Chouji by his chakra to find the source of the problem, but the boy was just sitting in the waiting room. The nuke-nin walked over to him and easily asked him what was wrong. It was a pretty good excuse as the poor boy was having a mini break down.
The chubby boy looked at him oddly, attempting a half smile.
Just so you know, it didn't work
"Nothing too bad. Well, not really. I'm mean, it's not unusual for ninja to end up in a hospital, right?" he tried to laugh but it came out as a strangled sob. Sasuke tried not to let his worry show on his face,.
You are in disguise. Just a sympathetic ninja.
Someone from another village all together.
Ninja don't have emotions anyway!
"Who was it? Did you have a big mission?" he asked, trying to sound like he didn't know him.
And to sound like he didn't think it was his other friend that the orange haired boy was here for...
"No. He was attacked in here. That was the worst. We didn't know he was in danger. It's our own village damn it!" Chouji yelled, jumping up from his seat in a fit of rage. He slumped back down fairly quickly, energy gone again.
Sasuke pulled a bag of jerky from his pack and offered it to the frightened boy. He raised his eyebrow, like he always did when he had to comfort Chouji, and pushed the bag towards him. It wasn't chips, but it would do for now. The Akamichi stared at it for a second before grabbing and wolfing it down. "Thanks, Sasuke...- WHAT!" Chouji dropped the bag and spun to the next seat to find it empty again.
"What is happening to me...?" the chubby boy sighed, rubbing his head and reaching for the jerky again. He was going nuts.
Sasuke ran upstairs again, breathing fast. How did he find out?
On the way he had checked several mirrors, the jutsu was still in place, his hair still very blue and face darker, if only slightly. It was even a different shape. So, how did Chouji know? Damn it. He must have slipped and said something that sounded like himself.
Passing one of the rooms, Sasuke felt Asuma's chakra. It was flaring out and shrinking back with barely any control. The man was furious. Peeking the door open slightly, Sasuke could hear a slight groaning of someone waking up.
"What... happened to me?" Shikamaru asked. Was that his voice? It was so hoarse.
"You were attacked." Asuma whispered, hoping to keep the boy calm, though he himself was not. "The doctors say you will be fine. Do you remember anything?" He neglected to mention the chakra.
Shikamaru look up "No." He blinked. That was not what he had meant to say. He tried again, "No!"
Asuma looked at him, confused. "Shikamaru? What is it? Does anything hurt?"
"It's..." he trail off. The deer boy zoned out, the room fading around him as he tried to figure out what was happening to him. Asuma caught him as he fell back in a dead faint.
--Flashback; forest--
Shikamaru blearily opened his eyes, his whole body felt like it was on fire. There seemed to be a man standing over him, muttering. Why was that? It was on the tip of his brain, but still out of sight. It hurt to much to think.
"Strong nin... work for us... " The deer-boy couldn't quite make out what he said, and nothing was making any sense to him. Who was the man? He seemed oddly familiar.
"Weak... die..." the man started to laugh, his voice becoming clearer and louder. "Then, I'll have more corpses to play with!"
Shikamaru shuddered, his lethargic brain realizing that he was not in good hands. He tried to move away, but only caused spasms of pain to shoot through his body.
The man was the one who knocked him out, what was his name? He noticed his consciousness and laughed again, pressing on something that made Shikamaru want to scream, but he couldn't.
"You can't fight me, you know. There's a seal.
"I like this seal. Do you know what it means? It means you can't rat me out! That is, if you even live that long.
"Better yet, the smarter you are, the less you can do about it. The less you can say." He laughed again, sticking something into him, and he blacked out again. (3)
--End Flashback--
Shikamaru sat bolt upright on the bed, staring at his Sensei, who pressed him gently back again. The boy shook him off and stared at Asuma, scared.
"Did you remember anything? Do you know who did it?" the man asked.
"I... don't remember... I don't remember..." he shook his head. There had to be a way to get his attention. He did remember, damn it! The boy looked up at his sensei, willing him to realize what was happening, that he wasn't being allowed to speak. "Help."
Asuma shuddered invisibly at the panic in his students voice. He was trying to tell him something. It was important. "Can you... write it down?" He asked, jumping for a bit of scroll and a pencil. Shikamaru took them and started to write, very quickly and messily. Then his hand stopped and started to shiver. It hovered right over the page, but it was obvious he could write no more.
Asuma took the paper, looking it over. "Damn it..." he hissed and dropped it. Shika looked away ashamed. "No, not you. It's- just calm down. I'll find out how to fix this."
Sasuke, still listening through the door, watched as the scrap of paper floated to the ground, landing face up.
'Didn't want to keep an eye on time. Left to training ground early. Someone-two- were there. talking ,plotti-'
The last Uchiha-that-mattered pushed the door open fully, startling the occupants, and picked up the paper. "I apologize." he told them, looking up and bowing slightly. "I could not help but hear you. If you do not mind, I would like to ask what happened?" He smiled in a perfect imitation of Haku. The black haired boy had said he would need to be able to smile nicely one day and made him practice.
"What are you doing here?" Asuma got up and demanded, despite that Sasuke had just told him. "You have no right. Leave."
Sasuke turned to Shikamaru, completely ignoring the older man. "My name is Shikaeshi." His Haku smile transformed into a smirk as Shikamaru's eyes widened.
"You can call me Shika, if you wish." The deer-boy was doing a fish impression now, his mouth opening and shutting wordlessly. Asuma, however was on the edge of losing it.
"Get -" he reached out to grab him and shove him out of the room.
"Sasuke!" Shika grinned, sitting up again, and trying to stand. The smoking man froze, staring at the neon blue haired boy(was it a boy?) in front of him.
Sasuke was the one that Kabuto and the snake sannin were after! He could warn him, or tell him to remain in disguise and get out of here.
"..." Shikamaru tried to call his name again, only to find that it wouldn't come out. "No..." he collapsed to the ground, holding his head. He had just ruined his chance to save Sasuke because his brain worked to fast. This was a curse, damn it a curse! There was nothing good about his intelligence. It was his only blessing that so many believed that he was just a lazy imbecile. That way they wouldn't ask him something, and he would, suppose, give them potentially fatally lacking information. "Damn it, no."
Both Asuma and Sasuke crouched next the dark haired boy in worry. "Shika? What happened to you? Who did this?" the Sharingan wielder asked. He was border edge panicking at the sight of one of his friends swathed in bandages like a mummy. Asuma sighed, and briefed him on what they knew. He guessed that if his student thought it was Sasuke, it probably was. The Uchiha nodded, trying to figure out what they could do.
"You can't talk about what happened, but you can remember." Sasuke stated.
His friend nodded quickly, forcing himself to think about... food, monkeys (6), anything but what happened. That way he might be able to tell them something.
Suddenly, and idea hit the deer boy. He was able to nod, his correct response, when he wasn't thinking fast, or his thoughts were impaired. So... "Meltdown." he said.
His audience's eyes went wide, Asuma shaking his head vigorously and Sasuke was not even able to respond to such an absurd statement.
"No." both said finally. But the black haired boy didn't look like he was paying then any attention anymore.
"There are the chuunin exams coming up!" Sasuke said, getting desperate as Shikamaru closed his eyes.
"It won't help! We can figure this out!" Asuma agreed. The lazy genius was taking deep breaths, preparing himself.
"Nonononono! It- but, Stop!" The deer-boys eyes had scrunched up, his thoughts going a thousand times faster than they usually do. His brain getting to a point where it couldn't keep up with itself. The genin silently asked himself hard, or unanswerable questions, analyzing behavior and pushing himself to absurd conclusions. He confused himself, purposely messing his thoughts up in the middle and having to go over all of them again, to figure out why something didn't make sense. He tried to disturb himself, imagining frighteningly real worlds inside his own head, instantly creating an entire history of them, along with everything he never wanted to happen. All to aid in tiring and freaking himself out.
"Damn it!" Asuma sighed as his student slumped over. The boy's mind couldn't take the stress and denial any longer and shut down. The jounin picked him up and put him gently back on the bed. "Damn it." he said to himself again.
Shikamaru opened his eyes again fairly quickly. He sat bolt up right in the bed, then doubled over groaning as he strained his injuries.
"Shika! How do you feel?" Sasuke asked, leaning in. The boy's head shot up again and he stared at his friend and his teacher like a... deer caught in headlights. Fancy that.
"When did you get here?!" he exclaimed, he scooted backwards, almost tumbling right off the end of his bed.
"Um..." a bead of sweat dripped down Asuma's cheek, "We were here since before you woke up..."
Shikamaru gave them a sheepish half-grin. "Uh.. sorry. Who are you?" he asked Sasuke. "Because you seem really familiar, but I don't know anyone with zappy blue hair."
"Electric blue." the nuke-nin corrected him with a sigh. He hated when this happened, but this was the first time the ass had done it to himself.
"Yeah, yeah, Sasuke. Don't be so troublesome, and tell me who you are!" Asuma groaned and eyed the hard wall longingly. 3,2,1...he counted down to himself. It was so annoying dealing with him like this.
"Oh! You're Sasuke! Why are you in my room?" he realized finally.
And half incorrectly.
"We aren't." Sasuke said patiently.
"Yes we are."
"No."
"Then why was I sleeping here?" The slightly brain dead boy asked triumphantly.
"Because, Shika, you sleep everywhere. We are in the hospital. You got attacked. You gave yours-" The normally bird haired boy's eyes widened in realization and he pulled Asuma out of his friend's hearing range. "Asuma-sensei. He did that to lower his brain power. He can't think quickly anymore, and he was trying not to before. Think quickly, that is.
"He remembers, but he can't talk about it. He said my name, but then he couldn't after that."
Asuma nodded, thinking hard. "Hai. Perhaps you had something to do with what happened to him. He must not have connected it when he first realized that it was you."
"That must be why he gave himself a meltdown."
"But he still has all the information that he knew. He just can't connect it.
So he'll answer unconsciously if we ask him questions." Sasuke stood and made his was back to his friend with Asuma. "Why can't you tell us what happened to you after you went to the training grounds early." he asked quickly. He would probably only have one chance at this.
"Evil seal" the deer boy answered automatically.
"An evil seal?" Asuma asked. So that was it. It wasn't back mail or a hostage situation. Good.
"What?" Shikamaru asked, looking at his teacher oddly.
"You just said you have an evil seal on you." Sasuke clarified, looking slightly confused. He was actually very, very confused, but managed to hide most of it.
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did!"
"Did what?"
"Gyah!" Sasuke lunged for the other boy in pure frustration and was barely held back by the older man. To tell the truth, Asuma really wanted to let go right now. But he had to be nice, it was his student, and he was injured.
"Hold on. It's just not letting him talk about it again. I know someone who can fix this. Stay here with him?" Asuma asked. Sasuke smirked dangerously and nodded. Shikamaru backed away, frightened. "Without killing, maiming, or otherwise harming him?"
The smirk vanished to something that looked dangerously like a pout. But Uchiha don't pout. They look reproachful, but they don't pout.(4)
"Fine." Sasuke muttered. "I won't kill, maim, or whatever."
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Asuma walked out of the hospital to Hokage tower. He needed to ask his old man about one of his students. Normally, he wouldn't waste time like this, but he didn't even know what the man looked like. Pretty sad, considering it was his father's students, and they were famous at that.
Wow, that's pretty low, he thought as he passed the hot springs. There was an old man there, peeking through a knot hole in the wood. Normally, he supposed, he would try and stop him, but this was too important.
So he would just alert the ladies and let them take care of it. "EEEW! There's a pervert!" he squealed in a high pitched falsetto. The old man at the fence spun around in horror as shrieks began to emit from the hot spring, but the jounin had already disappeared into the crowd.
At the Hokage tower, the receptionist was dripping with honey as he lead Asuma to his father's office. Quite literally. It seems that one of the academy students had been particularly malevolent this morning and drenched an entire room, and most of its inhabitants, in honey. The man was boring the jounin stiff as he complained endlessly about the 'little whelp'. Probably his nephew, now that he thought about it.
"I should thank you, but you were talking awful lowly about my poor nephew..." Asuma muttered, rather nastily, as he entered the Hokage's office. The secretary looked abashed, but he didn't care. He was pissed right now, and wanted to take it out on everyone.
"Ah, Asuma. How are you?" The aging man asked his son pleasantly.
"One of my students is hospitalized." The younger man said bluntly.
The Hokage looked horrified and stood from his desk to be able to speak more confidentially. "What happened? You had no missions lately. Do you need any of my help?"
The jounin nodded, glad that his father was moving so quickly. "Hai, your help would be nice. Nara Shikamaru was attacked on the training grounds within the village, and was seriously injured. He will make a full recovery, except for some chakra problems. He has a seal placed on him-" The Hokage's eyes widened."- that prevents him from speaking about what happened. The frog hermit (5) should be able to reverse it except... ah-"
"You don't know where he is." The Sandaime finished for him, his face serious. Asuma nodded. "You are lucky, Jiraiya's in town right now. I should be able to find him quite easily."
The black haired man sighed, Shikamaru was going to be okay.
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"What?!" Asuma squawked, eyes bulging in horror. He pointed rather rudely at the white haired man standing in front of him "That's the frog hermit, Jiraiya-sama of the legendary sannin?! He's a pervert!"
The Sandaime sighed dejectedly as Jiraiya, clearly unimpressed by his titles, cleaned his nails with a kunai. "Yes. That is him. Jiraiya, could you do us a favor?" he asked.
"Depends. Does it have to do with a girl?" He asked looking up hopefully.
"No." Asuma said, trying not to just turn away. This man can help my student This man can help my student! he thought to himself.
"Then, I don't wanna."
"There is a life on the line. A genin was attacked with in the village-"
"What does this have to do with me?" the hermit interrupted.
"Let me finish. He had a seal placed on him so that he cannot tell anyone what happened to him." The Sandaime concluded.
Jiraiya looked thoughtful but not entirely convinced. "How did he tell you that he had a seal on him then? Those kinds are good, I mean, the seal was part of what happened to him, right? And if your good enough to detect it than you should be able to get rid of it." The Hokage looked at his son, absorbing this and looking for an explanation.
"We didn't sense it." Asuma clarified. "My student just happens to be incredibly intelligent and managed to find a way to tell us."
"Ah. That explains it. And I suppose it's the kind that you can't remove yourself? Damn. I'll have to help then." the sannin said, and marched off toward the hospital, the Sarutobi men following behind him.
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"Who's the freak with the white hair?" Sasuke asked as the three older men walked into the room. He was sitting in a chair, next the Shikamaru's bed, and looked quite proud of himself.
Shikamaru was bound and gagged to the bed with the sheets and various other miscellaneous item to be found around a hospital room. Complete pain free, by the way.
The Sandaime and Jiraiya looked shocked at this treatment, but Asuma seemed entirely unsurprised. "Take off the sheets so the man can undo the seal." he told the Uchiha. His student looked grateful. "But you can keep the gag until he's done." Sasuke, who looked supremely pissed, lit up and started undoing the mess with much more... cheer? Right.
"Asuma? Why are you doing this to your student?" The Hokage asked, slightly frightened.
"And what's with the Kiri-genin midget." Jiraiya followed up. Sure, Konoha was known for welcoming other villages,. but to have a nearly complete stranger taking care of your student, then not complaining when said student ends up bound and gagged.
"Just fix him now, Jiraiya-san." The lack of -sama as an honorific was noticed.
The older man shrugged and walked up to the boy on the bed. He laid him back gently and brought his hands to hover over the younger's torso. They started to glow, attracting the attention of everyone in the room. The old man's hands moved slowly over Shikamaru's entire body, searching for the seal. Finding it on his chest, Jiraiya pulled up his shirt to examine it more closely.
"It seems to be pretty powerful, although poor compared to anything the Fourth could have done." he muttered to himself. Shikamaru, being poked and prodded by an old man that was normally found peeping at the hot springs, looked very uncomfortable, but stayed still. Asuma and Sasuke were letting this happen, so he must be safe. Then again, Sasuke did tie him up.
The aging sannin pulled out a bamboo flask of ink and a tiny brush out of some hidden pocket in his clothing, setting them up on the table beside the bed. After, he pulled out a scroll and lay that over the place where he designated the seal to be. Working in tiny strokes, he coved the scroll, and a lot of the boy underneath, with characters of some forgotten language. Confident that those were complete, the man flexed his hands and began a long train of hand seals, flashing through them with and expert's ease. The occupants in the room were in awe just watching him work, with the exception of the Sandaime who was well aware of his own student's prowess.
And of the fact that now, only a minute and a half has passed since Jiraiya entered the room.
Finishing his counter-seal, the old man pressed his hand carefully to the area that Kabuto wrote his own seal. A small circle of characters appeared in the space that Jiraiya had left in his own markings, before all the seals vanished. Satisfied, the sannin removed his scroll and placed it, the ink and the brush back within the folds of his shirt.
"All done." he announced. Delighted but cautiously hopeful, Asuma walked up to his student. Sasuke ran back down stairs to tell Chouji.
"How do you feel?" The jounin asked his student. Shikamaru smiled a bit nervously, embarrassed that the older man had seen so much of him, as he pulled his shirt back down.
"I'm forgetting." he stated quickly. "But the man who did this was working with someone else and they were planning on stealing Sasuke for something. The man, one of them had long black hair and make-up on his eyes. He looked young but he felt really old and he was wrong. Very wrong." The genin had slowly drifted backward until he was lying down again. Asuma was worried, he looked about to fall asleep, and he said that he was forgetting.
"The other one... was a Konoha nin... Silver... hair? eye problem... black eyes... I think his name was Ka...?" he boy looked confused for a moment before falling completely asleep. All the men in the room were silent. The descriptions of the black haired one were worrying, but the attacker. There was only one person that they knew that fit that description.
And right now, he was discussing problematic students in a bar with a random sand ninja.
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A/N: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I know that was completely and totally evil of me, but... BWAHAHAHA! That was too good to not do. What do you think will happen next?
Firstly, THANKIES TO REVIEWERS! You are all so sweet for standing mine chappie! I actaully have MOST of the next chapter written out, so all you have to do is be patient for (probably,) a week! Now, lots of dancing Naruto-Haku-Gaara-Shika-and Sasuke's for you all! Now, explanations!:
(1) I DID NOT mean many!
(2) Glomp, in case you do not know, is a tackle-hug. It's very affectionate, but not a pairing thing
(3) I was almost sick writing that bit.
(4)Manly-Uchihaisms by Zeida. They are fun and will probably make more appearences
List so far:
Manly Uchihas do not pout. They look reproachful
Manly Uchihas don't like sweets. Only Ukes like sweets.
(5)Did any of you see that coming? I hope so. I had forshadowing and everything!
(6) I talk about monkeys too much XD Bonobos, if anyone here knows about their rather original culture, will make an appearance someday!
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Questions:
1) Do you want shorter chapters, more often, or longer ons, sporatically(the short wold be sporatic too, but I would update faster.)
2) is the whole announcing the flashbacks unprofesional? Should I continue to do that?
Reviews responses:
Sophophobic: Geez, your lucky that I caught that I had anouther(couple) reviews. I was just about to post this! Thank you for the bit about the chapter titles. I was getting annoyed with them too! Erm... Rock Lee and an excess of milk...? I'll try. But you gotta try your hand at Lee Naruto Sakura Sasuke Neji ( , being likes) and turn it into Lee Naruto, Neji Sasuke, and I'm not quite sure what happened to Sakura XD
Moonlight black rose: Good LORD woman! I'm really happy that you like my story,, but. WOW. Thanks, though.
BlackButterfly500: You vote is cicerly appreciated. I hope that this is okay?
messenger of darkness:Aww, you're so sweet. Thank you for the bunny! ((gives you a Shika-in-a-play-boy-bunny-suit-...-doll curtasy of Zeida, actaully. but I get to give it to you.)) ps. I'm told that it must be a doll(or action figure) or it will undermine the smexiness
Phantom666: Don't worry! I hate killing people. See all better and a couple laughs! ((gives you a cute-adorible-and-very-healthy-shika-who-just-happens-to-be-sitting-cutely-on-the-dismembered-corpse-of-kabuto's-dead-rotting-body-plushie)) XD yeah...
The High Demon Lord: Thankies for your votses!
FallenRaindrops: Thankies for the votes! I liked adding Sasu-chan in too! ((Gives you a Sasuke-being-very-over-protective-of-his-coveted-spot-in-mine-story-plushie)) Ja ne!
sage:((Salutes)) I hope this is up to your standards!
RobotPirateNinja: ... gruesome... Haku, Gaara and Naruto don't really know Shika all that well. And at least Haku wouldn't go around randomly tearing ppl apart. But as to your first reviiew, I didn't wanna! The chappie typed itself!
it's-not-amoose323: No, it's not. Sorry, I like your name! There, all better. And he even gets to forget being cut up! I will not let him get more lazy, no worries
Light of Shunshin: Thank you very muchlies! You have a very good point! I'm really confused on what to do, you see the special thing is based of his family jutsu, and I had something really funny planned for it. (I'm telling you this becausee I'm really not sure if I'm gonna use it.) As for Kabuto, beleive it or not, I really like the guy, but at this point he isn't likely to live long. Sorry! ((gives you a super-and-alive-Kabuto-stalking-his-usual,-and-very-unfortunate-victim-plushie)) You will never guess who 'his usual victim is'. Neverz! Virtual cookies and a dedication if you do! XD I should really offer that to everyone, shouldn't I? Maybe
Kikijulie678yuiKitten: ((is confused a second)) AhHA! Thankies for you voteses, have a good night, uh...sorry about taking so long and...glad you like the pushie!((gives you a party-naru-chan-plushie)) weee!
Musei: OMG...that was soooo creepy! I wanna try it!
Reveiw, please!
Queen of the MEEP