Chapter 7: The Intro!
(Where we left off)
"TSUNADE-SAMA??" yelled the Konoha ninjas in shock (jounins included).
Tsunade grinned and lifted up a hand. "Konnichiwa, minna-san!" she said cheerfully.
"Tsunade-obaasan, what's the meaning of this? Those rogue jerks are right there behind you!" exclaimed Naruto jabbing a finger at the said people.
Tsunade smiled. "I know Naruto, I know. You are right about that, but these guys aren't really rogue nins."
Everybody gave the Lady Hokage looks of confusion. Tsunade placed a hand on her hip. "Remember when I told you we had to postpone the meeting of the new team?" Everyone nodded in reply. "Well, here's you're chance to meet them!" she said.
"NANIIIIIIII??"
With a snap of Tsunade's fingers, Kiba and Hinata opened their eyes and stood up with their binds falling off easily. Kiba helped Akamaru remove his muzzle and lifted him out off the bag. At the same time, those who wore the bright, technicolor cloaks flung them into the air while the ones in the less colorful cloaks, including the gold colored one puffed into smoke. Everybody's eyes immediately popped out of their skulls when they saw the true identities of the 'rogue ninjas'. "WHAT THE FREAKIN' HELL?? YOU GUYS ARE GIRLS??" yelled Naruto, Sakura, Team 10, Team 9 and the jounins.
The group of females that stood in front of them smiled. Standing on the far right stood a girl with dark brown eyes, shoulder length bright red hair and a black Konoha headband tied around her forehead. Her face had a tomboyish look to it. The girl gave a grin, revealing a pair of pearly white fangs. On her head was a little black female kitten the same size as Akamaru with eyes the same shade of red as her master's hair. The girl standing to the left of the red head had identical facial features except she had longer deep blue hair held up in a ponytail with a grey hair clip and the smile she gave was rather mysterious. Like the girl before she had a grey Konoha headband tied around her forehead. On her head was a grey kitten with blue eyes. The next girl however had again the same features but this time with short bright green hair held back with a black hair band. Unlike the first two, she wore a white Konoha headband around her neck. Her expression was somewhat unusually cheerful and sunny as if there was nothing wrong in the world. The green eyed white kitten on her head wore the same expression. The last one was an extremely stunning young woman in her early 20s with long slightly reddish purple hair and a very monotone smile on her face. She wore her black Konoha headband as a hair band. Standing next to her was a large cougar.
The red head girl placed a hand on here hip. "Correction, girls and felines."
"Everybody, I want you to meet Konoha's newest addition, Team 11," introduced Tsunade. Everybody's eyes popped open. "Girls, introduce yourselves."
"All right!" exclaimed the redhead. "Wassup? I'm Hikari Nekojiwa, first born of the Nekojiwa triplets and this is my best buddy, Katon no Akane. "
"Hiya!" exclaimed Akane lifting up a paw.
"My name is Kaori Nekojiwa, second born of the Nekojiwa triplets, and this my dear friend, Kage no Yue," said the blue haired girl.
"Greetings," said Yue in a misty voice, bowing her head.
The one in green beamed at them. "Hi, I'm Cori Nekojiwa, third born of the Nekojiwa triplets, and this little cutie here is Suiton no Jubei."
"KonnichiNya!"(A/N: Jubei's cute way of saying konnichiwa)
"And I'm Zakuro Nekojiwa, oldest sister and recently promoted jounin instructor of Team 11," said the young woman.
"And this is Doton no Tsuchi," she added, gesturing to the cougar.
"Yo…" the big cat said.
Suddenly, some romantic saxophone music began playing in Maito Gai's ears as the whole world became unknown to him. The air grew sparkly as Gai's eyes scanned Zakuro from bottom to top while his heart beat increased tenfold. 'S- so lovely…' so thought Gai as a faint blush crept on to his cheeks. (R.F.: Somehow, that is not a good sign……..)
Tsunade gave a small cough as she caught everyone's attention. "As you have all realized by now, this was actually an initiation test to see if they were worthy of becoming Konoha's kunoichi."
"You mean the whole kidnapping thing was a fake?" asked Tenten, folding her arms.
Tsunade, the sisters, cats, Shizune, Tonton, Kiba, Akamaru and Hinata who had just joined up with the group, all nodded.
"And the part where we all got ambushed was all planned?" asked Shikamaru. Again, answered with nods.
"They were supposed beat us as part of the test?" asked Chouji.
This time, nods turned into shaking of the heads. Question marks appeared above the Konoha ninjas' heads. 'Good, it looks like they all haven't noticed it yet,' thought Tsunade. "Are you guys missing anything?" she asked suddenly.
Instinctively, everyone except those who were involved in the test began searching every single one of their pockets and pouches or any other hidden place where they hid their stuff on them. Suddenly, Naruto yelled in despair. "Aarrgh, the necklace Tsunade –baachan gave to me is missing!!"
Sakura gave a cry too. "Hey, where's my compact mirror and comb?"
"My bottle of my clan's special bug repellant is missing too!"
"One of my weapon scrolls is gone!"
"And my wallet!"
"MY EXTRA ROLL OF YOUTHFUL BANDAGES!!"
"My fruity hair conditioning cream!"
"Aww… man, how troublesome, my lucky shogi tile…."
"ARRRRGH!! My extra bag of Korean Barbeque Flavored potato chips I've been saving are gone!!"
(R.F.: Don't think even the jounins are spared. -Grins evilly-)
"Hey, my new packet of cigarettes is gone!"
"My new tube of lipstick is gone too!"
"MY YOUTHFUL BOTTLE OF TEETH WHITENER!!" Everybody quirked their eyebrows at him.
And finally… "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! MY LATEST ISSUE OF ICHA ICHA PARADISE IS GOOOOOOOOOONNE!!" (Raven's Familiar: You could say I left the best for last.)
A series of cheeky giggles erupted from Hikari, Cori, Akane and Jubei while Zakuro and Kaori as well as their feline companions smirked in obvious amusement. "Excuse me are these what you guys are looking for?" asked Cori sweetly, reaching into her pouch and taking out Tenten's weapon scroll, Neji's wallet, Lee's bandages in one hand and a pair of glasses which she put back on with her other hand. Neji quickly felt his back pocket for the pair he swiped earlier, it was still there. The moment Cori wore her extra pair of glasses and smiled sweetly, Lee stopped breathing for a moment as his pulse quickened and a blush came to his cheeks. 'K-kawaii!!'
One by one, the girls began taking out the respective items they took. Hikari had Naruto's necklace hooked on her index finger and Sakura's compact mirror and comb set held in one hand and Shino's bug repellant in the other. Kaori held Ino's hair cream in her palm with Shikamaru's shogi tile and Choji's bag of chips between her fingers. Zakuro held Asuma's cigarettes, Kurenai's lipstick, and Gai's teeth whitener in one hand and held Kakashi's precious book in the other. Everybody's mouths excluding the sisters and Tsunade dropped open and hit the ground. 'That woman actually managed to swipe his/my book………….' everybody thought in disbelief. Tsunade applauded. "Excellent girls, especially you Zakuro!"
Zakuro smirked and nodded.
"The Nekojiwa clan is specialized in retrieving items and gathering information among other things. One of their many talents is skilled pick pocketing. You see, the main goal of this initiation test Tsunade-sama set was to see how skilled they are at being pickpockets by swiping a valuable possession of yours," explained Kiba, slipping his hands into his pockets. Akamaru who decided to ride on Kiba's shoulder yapped.
"Th-the kidnapping story was just something Ts-tsunade-sama came up with to get you t-to g-go t-to the respective places where the sisters were all waiting to ambush you and wait for the chance to a-and take y-your items," continued Hinata.
Neji nodded in understanding. "Okay, so what's with the disguises?"
"We wanted to spice things up a little, plus we knew you all wouldn't take us seriously if you knew we were girls," replied Hikari.
"And cats!" added Akane.
"We don't really need this stuff, so here," said Kaori tossing the stuff she swiped back to Team 10. The others did the same.
"And that's that! You guys can go ahead and introduce yourselves to each other now, I'm going! Later days!" said Tsunade, as she, Shizune and Tonton poofed into smoke. Instantly Gai appeared in front of Zakuro grasping her hands in his. "GREETINGS ZAKURO-CHAN! I, MAITO GAI, THE FEROCIOUS BEAST OF KONOHA, WELCOME YOU TO KONOHA AS ONE OF US!!"
Zakuro stared blankly at her grasped hands and slowly looked up at the guy grasping them. She smiled sweetly. "Thank you, you can let go of my hands now you perverted sempai."
'Perverted?! Wait, that means…, back then…' Suddenly Gai had a sudden flashback in his mind. His mind rewinded back to when he used the Front Lotus technique on Violet a.k.a. Zakuro. (R.F.: Remember when I wrote that he clutched at something big?)
Gai immediately hardened up into stone when he realized what he just grabbed back there. Slowly, he removed his hands. Dark aura and killing intent began radiating of Zakuro. Everybody instinctively backed off. Zakuro narrowed her eyes into slits. "So you remember…." growled Zakuro. "GO TO HELL YOU GAUDY, BUSHY BROWED, DISGUSTING SEMPAI!!" she yelled, kicking him into orbit, literally.
"Whoa that's high!" exclaimed all the genin.
The triplets all whipped out signboards that had the numbers 100 written on each of them. "And he is out!" they all said in unison.
"Far out!" added the kittens.
Asuma smirked. "Oh I like her, I like her," said Asuma as he lit a fresh cigarette.
Kurenai folded her arms and smirked. "I'm just upset it wasn't me…."
"My precious…" whispered Kakashi as he rubbed his face against his book. (R.F.: -sweat drops- Freak……)
Later that afternoon as all the teams began to head for home Neji suddenly remembered the glasses in his back pocket. He took them out and looked at them. 'I guess I better go back and return them to her,' thought Neji as he walked back in the direction of the forest. As he neared the spot where his team fought their opponents, he saw Jubei not far off sniffing the ground. Cori was just a few meters away on her hands and knees searching the grass for something. "Have you found anything yet Jubei?" Cori called out.
"Nuh-uh!" was the reply.
Neji suddenly stepped on a twig, causing it to snap. Cori turned to the direction of the sound. "Oh, Neji-senpai!" exclaimed Cori, standing up and brushing the dirt of her clothes while blushing in embarrassment. "Y-you startled me, what brings you here?"
Neji held out the glasses. "Here, these must be what you're looking for."
Cori smiled and took her glasses back. "Thank you sempai, you're a dear!" she said gratefully smiling at Neji.
Suddenly the atmosphere became all sparkly. Neji's breath got caught in his throat as he blushed and quickly turned around. "You're welcome, I'm sorry I didn't return them sooner," he said, quickly jumping into the trees.
Jubei jumped onto Cori's shoulder. "Well, he seems nice doesn't he Cori-sama?"
Cori smiled as she stroked Jubei's head. "Indeed, a cold character but nice."
"We're home!" called Hikari and Akane, followed by Kiba, Akamaru, and the rest of the Nekojiwa siblings and familiars.
Suddenly, Shouta came raining down from the ceiling. "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKAAARIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!! WELCOME H-" Shouta's greeting was cut as the others side stepped out of the way. "Straight up," said Hikari as she raised her fist high above her head, connecting it with her father's stomach. Her face was expressionless. "Don't you ever do that to me again dad," she said with a voice dripping with pure anger as she let her father drop to the floor. "Tekagi!" she called sharply. Her father's lion appeared instantly, Hikari turned to him. "Take my dad to mom would you?"
"Hai, Hikari-sama" said Tekagi, bowing before gripping Shouta's clothes between his teeth and dragged him down the hallway.
"If anybody wants me I'll be on the roof," she said with her eyes shadowed as she made her way upstairs. Akane quickly bounded after Hikari.
Everyone else stood at the entrance silently. "So she's sill bitter about the engagement, huh?" asked Zakuro, leaning against the doorframe.
"Most definitely…"answered Tsuchi.
"Dad has really done it now….." muttered Kaori placing a hand to her forehead. Yue nodded in agreement.
"Oh, father/Shouta-sama…" sighed Cori and Jubei.
Akamaru whined as he looked at his master. Kiba looked straight in the direction where Hikari went. 'Hikari…'
Hikari's long red hair flowed in the wind as she took of her black Konoha headband. She stared blankly at the symbol onthe metal plate. Akane sat on the roof next to her master looking up at Hikari. She placed a paw on Hikari's hand causing Hikari to look at her. Akane gave her a cat-like smile. Hikari smiled back and stroked Akane's head. "What are you doing Kiba?" she asked all of a sudden.
Kiba and Akamaru nearly fell of the roof in shock. He quickly regained his balance and wore a serious expression on his face.
"Go away..." muttered Hikari, not looking once at Kiba.
The boy coughed once. "Look, I hate this as much as you do but there's nothing we can do about it. The engagement is already made official by the clan heads," he said folding his arms.
Hikari propped her chin on her knees and sighed. "Tell me something, I don't know….."
"Okay," said Kiba sitting down next to Hikari, putting Akamaru next to Akane. "When I first got Akamaru, he decided to make friends by marking his territory on my face."
Akane looked at Akamaru disgustedly and shifted two steps away from the pup. Akamaru blushed a little while sweat dropping and rubbing a paw behind his furry little head. Hikari giggled, making Kiba smile. "Feeling better?"
Hikari nodded." Okay, I guess I'm being a little immature about this but it's hard getting use to all these changes…"
"Hey, I feel ya', this whole engagement thing gets to me too."
Hikari lifted up her head and looked at Kiba and smiled. "I've been thinking, we're gonna be living together for some time now and we kinda got off on the wrong foot so how about it, truce?" Hikari asked lifting up a pinky.
"Truce," said Kiba locking pinkies with her. " Provided we don't tell anyone about this."
Hikari pulled the zipper on her mouth. "Hey, my lips are sealed, but just because we're on friends now it doesn't mean I'll acknowledge the fact that you are my fiancé, got it?"
Kiba smirked and nodded. Hikari smiled back at him. Akane and Akamaru looked at the two preteens back and forth, turned to each other and hi-pawed each other silently
R.F.: Okay, Chp 7 is up!! By the way, if you want to take a look at how the triplets look like come and take a look at my profile. I'm afraid they're not very good but it's the best I could do. Ja Ne!
