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Chapter 2
The Outlaws
"I can't believe that brat took on a whole anbu unit," said Jiraiya as both he and Tsunade exited the old man's building and started walking down the street.
"He's improved a lot, I suppose its to be expected," nodded Tsunade as they rounded a corner heading for a certain district. "It was only a matter of time before he caught up to us."
"If he'd stayed then you could have finally made the idiots dream come true."
A sad smile formed on Tsunade's face as a memory of the blonde flashed in her mind.
Flashback
"I'm definitely going to become Hokage one day because being the Hokage is my dream!"
End Flashback
"It's been too long since he left, without him the village seems to have dulled slightly," Tsunade sighed while coming to stop in front of a small bar, "It's as if his presence always brightened the path up for Konoha."
"Don't worry," said Jiraiya placing a hand on her shoulder as he lead her inside, "If I learned one thing about that kid, it's that he won't leave his precious people behind, that includes both you and me,"
"I hope your right, Jiraiya."
Two females were packing their things up quickly from a hotel room, as they heard a scream from outside. Looking out the window they saw a small girl being picked up and thrown across the dirt as a woman still screaming pleaded for a man to stop.
"I told you there would be consequences for not paying up lady," said the man as he advanced towards her drawing his sword.
"I said I would pay when I had the money, I don't have any money right now, can't you give me a few more days, please I'll pay up…"
"Shut it woman, you had your chance, you know what happens when you make the boss wait," interrupted the man as he now stood over the woman and raised his sword, aiming to cleave her in two, "Any last words…"
"Yeah, nighty night," replied a voice behind him as a vase full of water smashed into the back of his head, producing an instant TKO.
"Hi, nice day," stated the blonde haired girl, extending a hand for the young woman now flat on the floor, taken by surprise with someone smashing a vase over one of those guys.
"Are you insane!" screamed the woman, jumping to her feet and ignoring the outstretched hand, as she turned to apparently look for the little girl, whom she found was no where to be seen.
"Excuse me," called a voice behind her, causing her to turn and look straight at another dark haired girl holding the child in her arms. Running over, her first thought being to take the girl and scram, but realising that the child seemed to be sleeping, caused her to come to a halt.
"But, how?" was the question asked, as the little girl held next to no marks on her body or face, it was as if nothing even happened to her.
The dark haired girl walked over and handed the woman the now sleeping child, "I just healed her Oba-san, she's resting now, please try to be more careful, she could have lost her life if I didn't treat her immediately." The woman was at a loss for words as the blonde walked over,
"Who is this guy, I know he's no ninja, but why do you owe him money?" The woman just turned her gaze to her for a second and then lowered it to her feet sighing heavily.
"They're known as the Outlaws, and strive only for money. Until recently they barely entered this town, but as of recent have come in more frequently, terrorizing some of the citizens living here. Most of us are scared that our families may be hurt, and therefore we just do as they ask, so as not to cause trouble."
"Well, why not ask for help from a nearby ninja village, the closest would be Konoha if I'm not mistaken," supposed the blonde haired girl as she looked at a house behind the woman.
"Because, if we had tried they would have just intercepted us, they keep tabs on all the villagers and happenings within the village, they would have known if we had attempted to contact a ninja village. Their leader is supposedly a high class missing nin that was famed because he loved to kill people for the fun of it. Therefore the penalty would have been death, not only for us but for those that have been captured by them as well. Therefore our only hope was that a ninja might have come into the town undetected by the them, and in that way we could ask a nearby village for help."
"Hmmm… I must know, do you have any idea how to directly run into these Outlaws?" asked the blonde haired girl as she now stared at another house directly opposite herself.
The girl in the woman's arms mumbled something in a low voice, which went unheard, "If you head east from here you'll come to the coast, from there look for a large building with a clock on it, that's where you can find them," said the woman as she cradled the child more closely to herself.
"Thank you Oba-san, we appreciate you telling us this," said the dark haired girl as she bowed her head.
"It's all right, you saved my… Hey! Wait a second; you don't mean to tell me that you're going to that place all by yourselves, you can't it's too…"
A door opened as the woman was talking, and a young lady stepped out, "Nee-Chan who are you talking to," causing the elder woman to turn and regard her younger sister with a 'have you gone crazy!' look.
"I'm just talking to these two young ladies they…" she turned back again to the two girls in question but found herself staring at empty spaces.
"Like I said, whom were you talking to, yourself?" The older sister sighed heavily, "Never Mind," and turned to walk back inside.
"Why did we decide to come through here again," whispered a girl as she crawled through a ventilation system within a warehouse.
"It's the quickest way in without getting detected, so stop complaining."
"I'm not complaining," the girl pouted as she stopped, but her companion kept on going, "Hey wait."
"They have something we need, and since there's a lot of them, we need to eliminate some of them undetected first, before engaging the rest."
"Whatever, don't tell me to stop complaining when we get caught anyway, I still think the front door would have worked fine and besides I thought men always went for the biggest and fla…"
"Shhh," her companion motioned for her to stop, "Were here," he stated slowly as he turned to look through the hole in the ventilation opening. Men in white coats could be seen moving swiftly back and forth through the room. Men wearing forehead protectors stood along each wall in pairs, although they didn't have the same air around them like an experienced nin, they certainly seemed more than capable to guard the warehouse. Four ninja's paced back and forth with the people in white coats watching them like hawks while they worked. All in all, it didn't look that difficult to get in, get what was needed and get out.
"Twelve ninjas, reinforcements should be outside in the halls, looks to be traps on each of the exiting doors, not to mention the alarm that will bring all ninja in the building towards us," analysed the male member of the team.
"Well assuming you're correct, shouldn't we wait for some of the ninja's in the room to leave before going down there?"
"Yes and no. For one we need a distraction, and a big enough one to buy some time, but if we wait too long then we may miss our chance."
"I guess we wait then."
A clock could be seen situated high up as both girls stood outside a large red-bricked building in front of two large doors.
"I guess this is the place," said the blonde haired girl as the cloak she was wearing billowed in the wind. The waves continuingly crashed onto the shoreline, becoming larger every time, as they both circled the entire complex before coming stop in the same place where they started.
"Only two ways in, ones the front door, the other being the ventilation shaft," said the blonde looking to her companion, "Which one should we take?"
"I say we go in with a bang." It wasn't a question, as both girls began walking forwards.
"What was that?"
"It sounded like an explosion," said one of guards turning to the two ninja nearest to the door, "Go check it out and report back." Both saluted and quickly ran out of the room.
Meanwhile, the two intruders in the ventilation shaft sprung into action as the opening hole was ripped off and both scaled the large drop to the floor without making a sound. With their chakra signatures almost non-existent they split up and began knocking out the ninja's along the walls with surprising speed. With only four ninja's left both regrouped behind a large crate to come up with a plan.
"We have to hurry, they're going to notice the six along the walls are missing," whispered the girl.
"I know just give me a sec…"said her partner as he took on a thinking pose, "Considering we get rid of these ninja's, we still don't know what all the commotion is about. Nobody, besides an insane person would dare come into this complex, without getting them selves killed, unless… it's someone with a great deal of strength…"
"What's taking you long?" his partner, bringing him out of his thoughts, rushed forward, "Lets just take them out fast." Before he even moved from his spot, all the people in room were out cold courtesy of his now grinning companion.
"Remind me to never piss you off," muttered the male as he ran a hand through his messy hair, unconsciously making it messier. "Lets just get what we came for and scram," as he quickly walked forward to begin searching.
Eight men ran towards where the explosion was reported to be. As they continued running smoke could be seen along with dust directly in front of them.
"That's the main entrance, who would be dumb enough to enter this building?" chuckled one of the men, "It's basically the same as committing suicide." The guy to his right just shrugged as they came to a halt just before they entered the smoke covering the front entrance.
"Come out, we know you're here," called out one them as they all stood ready, with kunai drawn, as two figures could be seen walking towards them very slowly.
"Identify your selves and we may decide to let you live depending on the answer."
"Were really sorry, can't you forgive us Mr ninja," came a very feminine voice from within the smoke as both figures stood out in the open.
"Well well… now what would you fine young ladies be doing blowing up stuff, eh?"
"Oh we were just testing these things given to us by our new friends, they said if we placed these things," waving an explosive tag in front of herself, "On the doors, then they'd give us money for it," explained the blonde haired girl as she put on a cute face.
"I guess you should know not to trust strangers," said one of them, as more ninja's arrived behind them, "Cuff them, we'll take them to the boss, hn, he'll decide what to do with them."
The blonde haired quickly turned to her friend and without moving her lips whispered, "Let's go along with them for now, it could get interesting."
The other girl just shook her head and sighed, "I should have known you'd say that," as both her and her friend were handcuffed and dragged along to go and meet the leader.
"No talking, unless you want your heads to be cut off, the boss likes treats, especially those like your selves, he'll make sure you get the correct treatment for coming here uninvited." They reached a room at the far end of a narrow corridor, by now half of the ninja had disappeared as the door opened revealing a large room with a large table in the middle. On closer inspection the table was filled with all sorts of diagrams ranging from building layouts to different chemicals to equations and calculations.
"Ah, the so called intruders," came a voice from above them, as an elevator platform descended downwards, "Leave us," commanded the voice as all the ninja that had escorted them there turned and left.
Two shadows could be seen darting along the floor of the building as the people they belonged to, ran upside down on the ceiling.
"I knew I shouldn't have listened to you," came the male voice as an alarm began sounding.
"Like we had a choice, you moron, we would have got caught even if we had taken your route," came the retort as they rushed down a narrow corridor. As they neared the end, one door could be seen as voices erupted from around the corner behind them.
"We take this door, how bad could it be?" The male opened the door to come face to face with a kunai. Reacting on instinct he caught it with two fingers, just before it ripped through his right eye socket.
"Well I believe that answered your question," came the shocked voice of the female as they took in the room's condition. Ninja's were doing battle left right and centre. Four ninja stood out from the rest as they had cloaks on their backs with swords in their hands.
"Shadow clones? What in the worlds going on here?" asked the girl to no one as she saw her teammate rush forward, pulling out his katana that had no guard, cutting a man's head off. Growling to herself she ran into the battle muttering, "Men," before a battle cry ensued from her throat.
The man with his sword having just been unsheathed rushed towards two ninja's, one being the original and the other a clone. The man and his clone had hats placed on their heads as they cleaved through their enemies back to back. A deadly dance with swords, it was done with the grace of an experienced ninja. The two men with hats kept on eliminating enemies as one tried to sneak up on the single male rushing forward, only to end with an elbow to the face and a slice across the midsection, splitting him in two. But as the man neared them he saw something that made a stupid smirk cross his features. The two men with hats spun on the spot, cutting three ninja's in one move as their attention moved to the male with the 'no guard' sword, their eyes widening considerably upon seeing the man's smirking face.
"Well if it isn't the dobe."
Hears a quick update, for all those people who liked the first chapter.
Since I'm not gd with pairings, maybe a few ideas for some of the characters could help me? However, I'm still deciding if I should have a pairing.
And lastly the next update will be in just over a week, considering I have college work to finish.