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. I'm sorry for not updating earlier, work and school kept me busy.
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.
Previously:
"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.
Scorpion's Heir
Chapter 2
"As you can see, I can take care of myself," Sara told the still dumbfounded Konoha ninja, "but I'm not about to deny you, your due. So you can continue to escort Katsutoshi and myself."
"Wait! You're the pianist?!" Naruto yelled pointing at Sara.
"Yes," Sara answered the bored look returning to her still blood caked face. "Is that so hard to understand?"
"We just weren't expecting…" Sakura trailed off looking for the right words to say.
"We weren't expecting you to be a ninja yourself," Neji explained.
"That's understandable," Sara nodded a small smile appearing, that just as quickly disappeared, on her face. "We should get moving; I need to wash this annoying blood off my face." With that she took off into the trees, the others not far behind. They all hopped from tree branch to tree branch, Sara always leading the way.
"Why are you wearing a cloak, when it's not even that cold yet?" Naruto asked his face scrunched up in an awkward scowl. Sara was about to answer when Katsutoshi jumped in between them.
"Onee-sama is sensitive to the cold!" he quickly told Naruto, Sara just as quickly karate chopped Katsutoshi on the head.
"I do not need you to answer for me, brat," Sara scolded, "but he is correct I do not do well in colder weather." 'It reminds me to much of that snake den,' she added in thought. The weather had started to take a colder turn seeing as it was mid fall, and the tour was to go on until deep into the winter almost spring. Neji jumped up next to the trio, his byakugan was activated.
"There is a river up ahead," Neji told them, after all Sara had yet to clean her face of blood. They all arrived at the river bank, Sara walked up to water and gathered a bit of water in her hands and splashed it on her face, washing it clean of blood. Katsutoshi was off to the side gasping every once in a while, Sakura noticed this and walked up to the young teen.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked a bit worried for the boy. Everyone turned to see the two; Sara had finished washing her face.
"I'll…be…okay," Katsutoshi gasped out leaning on a tree for support clutching to his shirt above his chest. Sara noticed the tell-tale signs; she looked up to the sky.
"It's just about past mid-day," she said aloud, "It's about time we took a break to eat lunch anyway."
Shikamaru nodded, "Yeah, we haven't eaten yet either, a break sounds good."
Sara dropped the bag she had been carrying the whole time; it was average sized, a bit overstuffed, and a plain tan color. She walked up next to her "brother" and placed a hand on his shoulder, "Do you need me to get out your inhaler?" Katsutoshi shook his head in answer.
"Inhaler…" Sakura asked.
"Katsutoshi has asthma," Sara answered; Katsutoshi's breathing had relaxed to wheezing.
"What's asthma?" Naruto asked, with a very unintelligent look on his face.
"A respiratory disorder that causes the airways in ones lings to tighten and narrow making it difficult to breathe," Sai answered pulling a medical text he was keeping on him, for some unknown reason.
"Why do you have that?" Sasuke asked pointing to the book. Sara sat Katsutoshi down so that he could relax and breathe better.
"I thought it best to be prepared for anything," Sai answered putting the book away. Sara went back to her bag and pulled out a pair of small bentos, she walked up to Katsutoshi and handed him one of the lunches.
"So I guess this is why we were able to catch up to you two even though you had a day's head start," Shikamaru leaned down next to Sara where she sat next to Katsutoshi, who was slowly eating his food.
"Yes," Sara sighed closing her eyes, "We're doing all we can to ease it out of his system. That's why we did stay to wait for you at the studio; we have to take it slower than I would like to admit but it's the only way to get to the concert hall on time. By leaving earlier we get there earlier, and the producers, publicists, and all them want as much publicity as I can get during the tour."
"And you get more publicity before a concert than you get after it," Shikamaru observed, Sara nodded putting a bit of her lunch in her mouth.
"So we really won't get any breaks during this whole mission will we?" Kiba spoke up from around the tree.
"No," Sara answered, "You will always have to be vigilant; and you never know when they'll throw some fake chaos or drama stunt, just for publicity."
"So they would put you in fake danger just for a headline and a rise in popularity?" Sasuke asked standing in front of the group.
"It wouldn't be the first time," Katsutoshi spoke up with a bit of a blush on his face, remembering a little incident they had at Sara's first live concert. Sara smirked at the blush, ruffling his hair in a form of comfort.
The rest of their break went by uneventfully, except when Sai something that set Naruto off and caused the hot head to spill the instant ramen, he was eating, onto Sakura's lap. She quickly ended it with a swift punch to each.
"We should get going," Sara said standing up and grabbing her bag.
"You're not going to travel with your cloak like that, are you?" Kiba asked pointing to the still blood stained cloak Sara was wearing.
"It'll fine for now," Sara told him, "I'll just have it washed when we get to town."
"Why not take it off? It's not even really that cold—" Naruto was cut off by a kunai that had just barely missed his head.
"No," Sara growled, glaring at the blonde; finger still pointing toward the kunai.
"Alright, alright," Shikamaru got between the pair, "There's no need to be starting a fight this early in the game. Naruto if she doesn't want to take off her cloak she doesn't have to, besides it's not that uncommon for ninja to be seen walking around with blood stain; and Sara, *sigh*, I understand that you're not too happy having such a large escort, but you're just gonna have to deal with us."
Sara took a deep breath and lowered her hand, "Let's get going." She leaped ahead of the group with Katsutoshi right behind her. The rest of the group went after them, except for Neji who glared in the direction of the pianist, he looked back at the kunai. He finally started to catch up to the group.
During the scat between Naruto and Sara, Neji had activated his Byakugan, 'She used chakra strings on that kunai.'
A/N: I know I should have updated sooner but I had school and all this other stuff that gets in the way, but I will get better with this!
And please review, I really want your honest opinions and constructive criticism, it'll help me make the story easier for you the readers to understand and follow.