A/N: Hiya. For those who don't know, I'll be gone for about a week, so I'm updating one last time.
A new character is introduced. She's based off of one of my best friends, Rebekah.
And only five more chapters left. -sighs- It took me long enough.
Enjoy!
Yuuka
They left Suna after they bought some supplies that they needed for their journey that was ahead of them.
Joi and Mizuki had been asking around, and they were told by many people to look around Hoshi, which wasn't that far away from where they currently were.
They were walking down a well-used road, Joi in the middle, and nothing was happening.
"It's too quiet..." Joi said softly.
Mizuki nodded. "Won't last for long.."
They kept walking and walking and walking. They talked along the way, a little here and there, but when they got to a hill that over-looked Hoshi, what they had been anticipating happened. They were ambushed.
Naruto jumped into a nearby tree, out of sight, and watched closely. Joi had told him to do so. He was their trump card if her and Mizuki couldn't handle what ever was thrown their way.
As it turned out, only one nin appeared before the two sisters. She seemed pretty scrawny. Joi and Mizuki could easily take her. Or so they thought.
"Can we help you?" Mizuki asked innocently.
The other kunoichi laughed and replied,"You could tell me your business in Hoshi."
"We're looking for someone.." Joi replied casually. "Why do you need to know? We're not even at the gates to the entrance yet."
The unknown kunoichi stepped out into the light. She had blonde hair with the ends of it a dark red. The left side of her face was hidden behind a huge part of her bang. The eye that was showing glistened a icey blue. Around her right arm was a Hoshi headband.
Her shirt covered half if her torso, the rest covered in fishnet, which revealed a red flower tattoo on the right part of her stomach.
"My name's Yuuka Akane, and I have every right to know."
"Oh really?" Joi said.
"Yes. I'm like a border patrol, if you will. I need to keep enemies of Hoshi out. And seeing how both of you are from Kumo, I'd like to take you in for questioning."
Joi threw her head back and laughed.
"And if you give up now, it won't have the possibility to get messy."
Joi raised and eyebrow as Mizuki began to draw a kunai from her kunai pouch.
"Fine, have it your way." Yuuka said, shrugging.
In a blink of an eye, Yuuka was gone, and the next thing they knew, the two Kaguyas were pinned face down on the ground, each hand cuffed.
Naruto began to jump out the tree, but stopped. Neither kunoichi had given him the signal. And when Joi meant wait for the signal, she meant it.
"Damn, she's fast!" Mizuki whispered, turning her head to face her sister.
"Aww, shut up, Lindsey." Joi grumbled.
Mizuki looked at Joi and nodded slightly. She then looked down at the ground and began to slowly move the bones in her hands and wrists so that she could get out.
After a few minutes, she painfully slipped her hands out and began letting them go back to their original form.
She paused and looked up at Yuuka, who was staring at Joi.
"Umm... Any problems?" Joi asked, distracting Yuuka from seeing Mizuki's hands not hand cuffed.
"Did you.. Did you just call her Lindsey?"
"Yeah, and your point is?"
"Well, that's a very unusual name. For this world."
"What do you mean 'This world'?" Joi asked.
Suddenly, Mizuki jumped up and landed far enough away to give Naruto the signal, yet close enough to attack Yuuka.
Yuuka looked at her. "Lindsey..."
Mizuki looked at her funny, but drew several kunai.
Yuuka turned and faced Joi and smiled,"Why, Jo, it's been a while."
"What did you just call me?"
"Come on, Josephine! Don't ya recognize me?"
"How do you know my old name?"
Yuuka sighed. "It's me! Rebekah."
"'Bekah?" Joi asked. Suddenly, she remembered. "Rebekah!"
Yuuka smiled as she unlocked Joi's hand cuffs and helped her up. "Been a very long while, huh?"
"Yeah. So how long have you been here?"
"Well, after you diassapeared, Lindsey and I were sucked into this world. But we lost each other..."
Mizuki growled as she threw a kunai at Yuuka. Yuuka deflected it with one of her own. "What are you two doing!?" Mizuki yelled.
Joi sighed. She began walking towards Mizuki, Yuuka following.
"Do you remember me?" Yuuka asked Mizuki.
Mizuki shook her head slowly.
"She doesn't really remember me, either."
"Oh,"Yuuka said.
"Wanna join us on a mission?"
Mizuki looked at Joi in question.
"The more help, the better."
"Sure. I'll come and help. It's better than being here."
"Okay. I'll explain in a minute.." Joi said. She began walking towards the tree Naruto was in.
"Naruto, come on out. It's fine."
Naruto jumped out from the tree and began walking towards Mizuki and Yuuka, Joi by his side.
"I'm suprised at you, Naruto." Joi joked. "I cannot believe that you didn't jump in."
Naruto smiled and laughed. "I'm just as suprised as you."
"Naruto, this is Yuuka."
"Hi, Naruto. Nice to meet ya." Yuuka said holding out her hand.
"You, too."
"I grew up with Jo."
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah." she smiled.
"Hey, Jo. We should get moving. You can explain the misson later.
Joi nodded and they followed Yuuka deeper into the woods. She lived here after all.
"Itachi Uchiha, huh?"
"Yeah," Joi said.
"I've came across some bounty hunters like me a while back. I think they were traveling with the Uchiha's little brother." Yuuka said, fingering the sharp point of a kunai.
"Sasuke. Really?"
Yuuka nodded. "I forgot their names... But I remember hearing them talk a bit about Itachi. But it wasn't much."
"Oh well." Joi said.
"Ya know, I've been after him myself a couple times."
"And?"
"He always gets away."
"So where did your last search end?"
"A little cottage 20 miles east of Konoha."
"Then we should look there first," Joi sighed. "I have to get back to Suna, only for a couple days, then I'll meet you half-way there."
"I may have to stay behind in Konoha." Naruto said. "I do have duties to my own village."
Joi sighed again but nodded. She got up and said."I better get started. It will give you three enough time to get to Konoha and me enough time to get to Suna."
All of them nodded as Joi began leaving. "Bye!"
"Bye!" they all called in unison.
Yuuka got up as well. "We better get started, too."
"Right," Mizuki said as her and Naruto stood up.
They began walking the opposite way of Joi- Towards Konoha.
Yeah. Thanks for reading! Review if you don't mind!