Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. All I own are the Ocs and plot line for this story.
A/N: I'll admit I have other stories I need to work on but this one story just keeps coming to me out of nowhere, even my dreams are not immune. And so I hope you enjoy the first chapter. This is set after the major war between the Akatsuki and Five Shinobi villages, so the alliance between the villages still stand, and Sasuke has returned to the village under strict conditions. Madara and Kabuto are still alive and out there somewhere, and straggling members of the Akatsuki army wander around also.
Warnings: this chapter has mentions of gore
Summary: They were rumors nothing more; that an heir to the title of red sands existed. It's a well-known fact that the puppet master of the red sands had no children, biologically anyway, and these rumors seemed only to spread within the weak underlings of the akatsuki, lowly ninja with no hopes of gaining rank. But the 5 Kage catch the smallest whisper and so they send out teams of jonin and anbu to find proof that either confirms these rumors as truth or lies. Meanwhile a team of Konoha shinobi is dispatched to guard over a stubborn but very talented pianist, they'd do best to be careful after all a scorpion's venom is deadly.
Scorpion's Heir
Chapter 1
Jumping from tree branch to tree branch Naruto let out a grumble, he was not happy about the mission he was assigned to.
"Will you stop grumbling Naruto," Sakura scolded a branch or two behind the orange clad ninja.
"But Sakura-chan," Naruto whined narrowly missing the branch in front of his face. "Why did we have to have this kind of mission?"
"Because, Naruto, the village couldn't afford not to take the mission," Shikamaru replied jumping just ahead of the frustrated teenage shinobi.
"Hopefully this one doesn't turn out to be some lost princess again," Sasuke sighed, (yes I said Sasuke) he had returned to Konoha and was under strict supervision while participating on this mission; which explained why Neji, Sai, and Kiba were also on this mission. They were assigned to guard and protect a pianist who had started to grow exponentially in popularity after only just debuting a year ago. They were to escort her from concert to concert on her first tour of her career.
"We should be helping capture the rest of the akatsuki, Madara, and Kabuto," Naruto complained, "not babysitting some celebrity."
"Except the village doesn't have the funds to continue the search with taking on a few missions on the side," Neji added jumping over a weak tree branch before jumping off a stronger limb.
"So we can still look for them even while on this mission," Sakura explained jumping up from a lower branch.
"That's one of the reasons we have extra ninja on this mission," Shikamaru continued, "Some of us can stay close to protect our main objective, while the rest can keep an eye out for any remaining akatsuki or rumors about Madara and Kabuto."
"Alright, so where even is this pianist we have to protect?" Naruto asked no one in particular.
"We don't know Naruto-kun," Sai piped up from Naruto's right. "Only that she's a day ahead of us."
"Hopefully that doesn't mean she's too far ahead of us," Kiba said finally joining in on the conversation.
"Right," everyone sighed, none of them were very happy when they found out that their object of protection had left without them.
Up ahead they spot two mini explosions, like smoke flares, go off. Everyone stopped on a tree branch of their own watching as the smoke dispersed.
"Neji can you see what's going on over there," Shikamaru ordered. Neji had already activated his byakugan and was looking into the situation few kilometers ahead of their party. What he saw was a young boy, maybe twelve or thirteen, being surrounded rouge ninja, most likely surviving akatsuki members.
"A boy is in trouble," Neji announced launching himself ahead leading them to the battle field. They went as fast as they could trying to make it in time but when they got there they were too late, the battle had ended, standing in the middle of the bloody mess was a young woman, about their age (16-18). She was wielding two large shurikin, one in each hand, and her cloak and bored looking face was covered in enemy blood. If it weren't for some obvious bodily features she could easily be mistaken for a boy, were as the boy, standing on the outside of the main part of the battle field, could be mistaken for a girl.
The woman had short (about 4 cm all around) dark brown hair, deep sky blue eyes, and fare skin; she wore a kimono like shirt under a dark grey cloak with shorts and chain mail leggings that only went halfway down her shins, and the typical ninja sandals. The boy had short blonde hair that went just passed his chin, half his bangs were held back by a headband the rest hung on the left his face brushing against his cheekbone, he also had blue eyes just a shade darker, and lightly tan skin; he wore a dark blue t-shirt with dark grey shorts, and the ninja sandals, he also had on a cloak but it was zipped up so it hung off the back of his shoulders. The zipper on the woman's cloak was zipped to her upper waist.
"Who are you and what do you want?" the woman asked shifting into a defensive stance with her right hand wielding the shurikin above her left.
"We're shinobi from Konoha," Naruto answered rather loudly as always, the unknown woman's face shifted to a bored deadpan face.
"I can see that," she deadpanned, "I meant I wanted introductions."
"I'm Nara Shikamaru," he introduced himself. "We're looking for someone."
"Rather large search party for a missing person," the woman responded slightly tense.
"Something like that," Kiba put in, "I'm Inuzuka Kiba, and this is Akamaru." He petted the large canine on the head.
"Uh-huh," she signaled for the next person to introduce himself.
"Huga Neji," he left it at that. She nodded.
"I'm called Sai," Sai smiled his obviously fake smile, our mystery ninja's face deadpanned yet again.
"That's it?" she asked.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Sai continued, everyone mentally face palmed at the socially inept shinobi. The mystery woman started to lower her weapons to the relief of the Konoha ninja.
"And I'm Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto yelled in introduction grinning his trade mark grin. Everyone's, even our mystery girl's, eyebrows twitched at the orange wearing loud mouth. The shurikin lowered further but only by barely an inch.
"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke introduced, the woman's shurikin raised back that inch and her eyes barely narrowed a bit.
"There is not a shinobi in this world who has not heard of the Uchiha," she growled lightly meaning she was prepared to defend herself from him, Sasuke humphed at her words. Sakura cleared her throat.
"Hello, I'm Haruno Sakura," the medic introduced, the unknown female's eyes narrowed even more her grip on the shurikin tightening.
"I see," she strained out, "so who is it you're looking for?"
"Onee-sama," the boy finally spoke up whispering just loud enough.
"Quiet, Katsutoshi," the woman scolded the boy, now known as Katsutoshi.
"We're looking for a pianist," Shikamaru answered holding up his hands showing he was of no threat to her or her "brother".
"A pianist out here?" she asked completely lowering her weapons, but left the right one ready for attack.
"That's how we feel," Kiba told her.
"This was the most direct way the next town," Neji put in his two cents.
"We were hoping to run into her somewhere along the way," Shikamaru continued, "we're to escort her throughout the course of her music tour across the country." At that her eyebrow rose.
"So who exactly are you looking for," she asked relaxing her muscles.
"She goes by the name of Sara," Sai answered. The boy, Katsutoshi, walked up next to his "sister" and they looked each other in the eyes, and then looked back at the Konoha ninja. She did a flashy move, crossing her arms palms facing each other and in a puff of smoke the shurikin were gone.
"Well congratulations you found her," Sara smirked at the dumbfounded shinobi.