A/N: Heyyyyyy everyone! So sorry that I haven't kept you updated; it's been busy at school….
Welllll, who's excited for the Hunger Games MOVIE? I know I am! I'm going to see it tomorrow, and let me tell you, the wait is killing me *dramatic sigh*
Anyway, I need to give a HUGE thanks to the reviews I've gotten for the past year. I want to give a special thanks to: Night Kaida (really, your AWESOME, thx for the tips) Hope y'all have a good night, and a good reading because here's (finally) the next chapter to the NARUTO WARRIORS SERIES!
Disclaimer: I don't own ANYTHING (if I did, I would make Pein pay dearly for what he did to Jiayara) or Of the Warriors series (if I owned THIS, Bluestar would not have died in vain T_T)
It was dark, and the wind whistled a soft song. The stars shined bright, as did the moon, lighting up the forest floor with the light of the sun in the day. Many different forms moved through the ground with such speed, it was in rival with Lee (A/N: Lame way to put it, but MAN is he FAST). There were a good number, and they all were going to the same place with a plan, they needed to retrieve something. Something that was taken out of their grasp YEARS ago…..
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"HA! I GOT YA!" a bright orange kit screamed jumping on his "enemy". The figure was then transformed into bark of a white oak.
"WHAT?" Naruto screamed. He jumped up, and looked all around. Where did he go?
SNAP!
"HEY!" the kit yowled, "No fair!"
This kit was now dangling ungracefully in a tree by a piece of twine.
"GET ME DOWN FROM HERE AND FACE ME LIKE A CAT, NOT A MOUSE!" he yowled, trying to claw the twine connected to his left back paw, but failing miserably. His paw was just a wee bit too short to reach his hind leg. He finally gave up and just hung there, slowly spinning counterclockwise.
A MRROWW of laughter rang in the forest. Tenten, Neji, and Lee were watching the kit dangling helplessly in the tree. Neji was just shaking his head in disappointment, I mean, who fell for THAT old trick? Lee nearly jumped up, to tell him never to let his YOUTH BE WASTED BY HANGING IN A TREE, but was stopped by Tenten, who trying hard now to laugh to hard.
Tenten was in between Neji and Lee under a cherry blossom that was in full bloom, a thousand petals seemed to fall in the wind, under their paws. It had been a year, but they still haven't gotten to go the Warrior exams because sensei wants them to wait a bit longer. Let me tell you, they HATED to wait.
"Well", Tenten said getting up and stretching, "I'm going for Noon Patrol, anyone want to come with me?" the tan cat asked while licking her paw and cleaning her face.
"YOSH!" (A/N: oh how I LOVE that word XD) Lee shouted, instantly jumping up from his quiet phase, "I would enjoy going hunting with you, Tenten!" he barreled his way through the clearing with such speed, he looked like a shadow on this clear, sunny day.
"Sure you wouldn't like to come with us, Neji?" Tenten asked shyly, but confidently.
"Hn"
"Aww, come on, it's finally spring! Let's go catch a mouse or two! Maybe even a vole!" Tenten said excitedly.
Yes, but you look better in the fall, Neji thought dully. He mentally slapped himself. Did HE just think that? He blushed crimson, showing through his white pelt.
"Neji, you okay?" Tenten asked worriedly. She could read him like a favorite tree.
"YES!" Neji said a bit too loudly; jumping up," I mean, yes, I would like to go hunting with you" he finished hurriedly. He began to trot toward Lee down below hill, at the great opening of the forest.
Tenten shook her head, mrrowwing with a chuckle, how can he be so smart, yet so clueless?
She didn't know she was being stared at from twenty pairs of eyes that hid in the trees as she ran after her teammates.
"There she is, the one we need to get and return to Hidala" (A/N: I will explain who this is later) the leader with a huge scar running down his right eye to his chin. His unusual red and blue eyes lit up with creepy excitement.
"But what if she doesn't come with us peacefully?" a smaller blue cat asked the leader, a glance of question in her forest green eyes.
"Then we'll have to use a little force, won't we?" the leader said smiling viciously as he unsheathed his claws. (A/N: Thank you Night Kaidia XD) The blue she-cat just nodded uncertainly.\
Tenten was now with Lee and Neji talking and laughing as they all left together, side-by side -by side.
"And the others?" another cat with matted fur snarled.
"If they try to get in our way, they die", the leader disappeared in the shadows once more. The others followed without question.
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Somewhere in the dark, non-sunned part of the woods, Tenten sensed something was following her as she made her grounds. It wasn't a normal presence either, like a fox or badger, this one felt….
Different.
She felt she was being studied for capturing, not stalked for prey. And it felt like so many eyes were just burning into her spiritual self. She carefully, not looking suspicious, looked around her. She was right; there were eyes, cat eyes, EVERYWHERE.
She slowly started stalking toward a fern, which just looked like she was stalking for prey, toward the strange red and blue eyes. She pounced into the strange eyed fern, but the eyes and all of the strange presences all disappeared. Strange, Tenten thought to herself, I could have sworn….
She shook it off, and continued to hunt. What she didn't know is that the strange eyes were still there.
"Why didn't we attack like we were planning?" a pale grey cat with lavender eyes hissed at the leader.
"We have to do this carefully, remember? Hidala wants her ALIVE", the leader retorted back at the snappy tom-cat. He began mumbling and went to the back of the crowd.
"Let's try this again, and don't let her see you, understand?" the leader snarled and hissed, his eyes fired up with the power of fire and ice.
"HAI!" all the cats shouted as they disappeared. The leader shook his head, "Amateurs," he muttered.
Neji jumped onto a plump vole gracefully, and bit into its neck, killing it instantly.
"YOSH! FANTASTIC CATCH NEJI!" Lee shouted as he joined his friend with two squirrels in front of him.
"Er…Same to you, Lee," Neji replied. Lee smiled a bright smile that was a sharp contrast to his black fur.
After catching his kill, he heard something that wasn't familiar in the forest. He stopped and listened carefully, looking slowly around him. Lee felt something different in the air also.
"Lee," Neji whispered, "Do you feel something out of place here?" Lee quietly and slowly nodded his head. They both realized the same thing, that if they were together, then…..
"TENTEN!" they shouted together and ran toward the way their friend went.