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Chuunin of the Leaf
"Women do not get exhausted, they only exhaust others."- Robert JordanHanabi couldn't help but grin at the stupid quote, something she had found carved into a tree, right below what would have appeared to be a heart that had two names in it, both crossed out though the beginning of the names could be seen still, roughly scratched off: Dan- and Ko-. "Well I hope this it true, cuz we got one hell of a trip on our hands!" and she couldn't be happier, she would be on a true mission outside the village and away from the eyes of her family, many of whom looked at her expectantly.
She took her gaze away from the tree and returned it to the women who would lead this mission, Anko. The older women, in her early twenties, was bent over the map that the Hokage had given them, making notes on it with a evil grin on her face. Hanabi had heard that the women was borderline psychotic, yet that only made her more curious about the women.
Her other teammates where experienced Chuunin she knew, Ino Yamanaka, Sakura Haruno, and Tenten… well she didn't know Tenten's last name, yet they where all good none the less. They had all trained together at one time or another so she knew what they could do, unlike Jakon and Choji.
Sakura was good with planning, Genjutsu, medical jutsu, near perfect chakra control, and was stronger then hell. Hanabi thought the girl could have been promoted to Jounin, she had experience as well from what Hanabi had been told, having helped kill a member of the Akatsuki, along with many other missions for the Hokage.
Ino was learned in medical jutsu as well, if not to Sakura's level, and was a master of the mind. She was good at torture too apparently, having been taken under the sadistic wing of Ibiki Morino, who she had been ordered to help during one interrogation session, which turned into two, which turned into a dozen. By using her families mind jutsu, brute force of interrogation from Ibiki, and her healing jutsu, she was a natural.
Lastly was Tenten, a creative and very spirited girl when she was away from her two teammates, Guy and Lee. She was an expert marksman, aiming better than most Hyuga could with their Byakugan activated. Though she might not be able to advance beyond Chuunin, Special Jounin at best. She simply did not have the well roundedness of others, though she did make up for that with her creativity. She had invented things like her new 'frags' and her prized piece that she had shown Hanabi earlier, a three pronged kunai that had hundreds of little seals engraved in it, though what it would do was beyond Hanabi.
Anko was up now and led her team out of Konoha, a, not nearly as evil, smile on her face. Hanabi and the other girls talked, Anko joining in from time to time. At lunch Anko went over with them the whole of the mission, "We are heading to the Wave Country. We will head for the Great Naruto bridge and should arrive there in a week or so. Now we-"
"Wait a second," interrupted Sakura, "it shouldn't take more than a few days to WALK to the Wave Country, why such the wait?"
"Well!" snapped Anko , "There are few places I believe we must visit! Now then, we will present ourselves to the head of the village and ask them to consider the treaty, meanwhile we will look for anything we can get our hands on, anything good or, with luck, explosive!" Hanabi was starting to like this women more and more, as were the others as they all let out evil little grins.
They went on then, walking until three or four, finding the first of the villages that Anko wanted to visit. She went with them to find a room but disappeared soon after, telling them to spar outside of town. The foursome did just that, knowing that whatever Anko needed from this town was important. Hanabi and Tenten watched Ino and Sakura spar first, entertained by the vigorous fight that was going on between the two rivals.
Sakura had the advantage off the back, she was faster, smarter, stronger, and knew her opponent too well. Ino on the other hand was determined. She finally managed to get one of her jutsu to work, a little something that let Ino take control of some of Sakura's actions, making her miss on punches, make her trip over her own feet, and stop when dodging attacks. The fight ended quickly once the jutsu wore off, a single angry blow to the gut had Ino out cold and left Sakura with bruises and scratches here and there, clearly having been the outclassing the blonde totally when it came to a fight.
"Should have ended it when you had the chance Ino-pig!" and the pink haired kunoichi started to heal her friend.
Tenten and Hanabi where in no rush to spar after seeing that fight, afraid that Sakura would push them too far. The girl was a little too energetic after a sparring match like that.
Instead Tenten took them all aside and showed them her special kunai, or rather three of them, "There all I've been able to make since getting all of the kinks out of it. While my frags are good they aren't a shinobi's weapon and they cant be thrown nearly as far as a good kunai. Took me forever to make them, they have two-hundred-ninety-eight seals engraved on them and when you feed chakra into it through a wire it sets them all off at once and then… BANG! The enemy is gone, along with everything else too close to them. The best part is that the flames and shockwave are ten times stronger than a blast note but the size isn't ten times bigger, its compressed so you can get the best bang for your buck and still use it in normal combat. It opens so many possibilities I…" Hanabi was interested, but not that interested.
That night, before Anko ever got back, Hanabi went back out to the area they had trained at that afternoon, taking three scrolls with her. She opened the first and started to form the seals and jut her right hand out, letting the chakra move outward. A bright white stream of light appeared, about the size of a sword when it was looked at head on, but it was no longer than a butter knife. Concentrating she pushed the chakra out wards, closing her eyes to help her concentrate.
When she opened them the blade was as long as kantana, perfectly straight. Now she focused on the blade and it slowly moved, bending at whatever point she wanted it to. Then she let it go and did it again, trying to work it faster. The entire time she was unaware of a person in the distance, watching her work on the jutsu. By the end of the night she had noticeably improved, though only because she had got the basics down nearly a week ago, after three months of training whenever she could spare the time, only the day before did she realize she would have to work on it still if she was going to use it to its full extent. Oh but the look on the others faces when they saw this jutsu, it would leave their jaws hanging.
Back in the room she saw Anko was back and she crawled into bed herself. Not noticing a distinct smell in the air.
The next day was a near perfect mirror of the day before, as soon as Sakura healed a headache of Anko's, only this time they went a little off course, until they found a village at around six, and Anko once again went away to do her business. Hanabi silently slipped off as well, to work on her jutsu.
She worked until six, having the feeling that she was being watched. When she activated the Byakugan the feeling disappeared though, nothing within her field of view. This time when she got back Anko had not come back, the other three girls were still waiting, wondering where she and Anko had gotten to. Hanabi stayed up with them all night, until one at a time they nodded off to sleep, only to be awaken by Anko early in the morning, who, after having Sakura healing another headache that seemed quite serious to the medical nin, told them, "Come on, we have to travel double time today to get to my next place."
Sakura was finally interested enough to ask where she was going when they got into towns, only to receive an answer that only Naruto had heard so often, "I'm gathering information, seeing what people know about this new village, so far not much but we may learn something new."
A third day… gone after what seemed like a forever of running. They where now, or Hanabi's case finally, a days travel from the Fire Countries borders. The village in question was a major trading center, with many shops, appealing to Ino in an instant and Tenten after seeing a several promising weapons shops and smithies. Hanabi said she was going to train instead, honestly having all the material objects she could ever wish for because of her family. Sakura gave a interested glance at the girl, deciding to train with the younger girl.
Hanabi was a little disappointed at first when she heard Sakura say this, she had wanted to train her new jutsu, her secret weapon. They had found a area outside of the town where they could train, Hanabi deciding she wouldn't spar with the girl, having seen her knock Ino out in one hit. But Sakura managed to be a surprise.
"So now that we're away from the others lets get down to business." She said, looking at the younger girl with a knowing smile on hr face, "You have been working on a jutsu every night and I wanna see what it can do."
Hanabi juts looked at the girl for a second, nothing coming across her face, she just opened her mouth and asked, "How… How did you know I've been working on a jutsu?"
"I followed you." She said, giving a big smile, "Your not that hard to follow and I had been waiting up to talk to Anko anyway. When you got up I was a little interested to find out what you were doing. I wasn't sure the first night so I followed you yesterday too. That's when I realized what kind of training it was. When did you learn to-"
"I got it down a few days ago," interrupted the Hyuga, "before we ever left Konoha, but when I was sparring with Naruto and I tried to use it and it was impossible to make it do what I wanted, it just destroyed the clone. I had only learned how to use it, not how to use it effectively. The past few nights and afternoons have been to improve my control over it, though I still feel like I'm only half way there."
Sakura looked at the girl, 'The next generation, their so strong already, so ambitious.' A little laugh came to her voice, "Well you are only half way done." When she saw the other girls questioning look she answered it, "I am the apprentice to the Hokage, I have access to libraries of jutsu and I'm required to know a great number of them, what they do, and, even if I can't use them, how they work and how to make them work. This one is one of those jutsu. Anyone can learn how to do the basics, but it takes very precise control and lots of practice to use it to its full potential. I knew it for what it was after the second night and I knew I would offer to help you with it the second I saw how fast you have been taking too it."
The other girl blushed at the compliment, "Sakura-Chan, I really am not that good, truly." It took no effort to be so humble before the girl, it seemed like the right thing.
"HA, now there's a good one! Not good, I can tell you, you have taken to this faster than any normal shinobi I know could take to it. Naruto would have the time of his life with this, chakra control is not his strong suit, and that is exactly what this is all about."
Only one thing bothered her, "Sakura-Chan, you said you already knew all about this technique, so you wouldn't need me to teach you if you wanted to learn, and you said I had taken to this quickly, so I really wouldn't need you to help me. So why help at all?"
Sakura just looked around, taking a big breath as she readied to tell the girl, "Can you keep a secret, because this one has been bothering me for a while and I need to tell someone. Tsunade-sama ordered me not to mention it to anyone, in case it got back to a certain blond baka." This was true enough, most of the former Rookie Nine couldn't keep a secret worth shit, even other Leaf shinobi couldn't be told because of shinobi like Anko or Guy, "The night before we left, a little while after the group dinner ended me and a few others were summoned by the Hokage and promoted to Jounin and Special Jounin." Sakura had small, sad smile on her face now, but she didn't tell her the other thing they had been told, the fact that Naruto would not be allowed to become a Jounin because of the Elders, "He'll be so mad that he didn't get promoted that he'll freak on her, she didn't want his feeling hurt or him bothering her so she swore us to secrecy I guess." This being only half the real reason why.
"So you wanted someone to tell that to?" she asked, happy for the girl, though a little skeptical about what was not being told, "Well… if that's it then when tell me?"
Sakura's genuine smile came back, an evil little glint in her eye's, "Well there are plenty of reasons: that fact that your from a clan that keeps secrets to themselves, that if you tell anyone then I'll broadcast your new jutsu to the world starting with Naruto, and the fact that I saw mutual benefit here for the both of us. The Leaf needs strong kunoichi and its my duty as a Jounin to help others and I am quite good at chakra control as it is, so I thought you might like some help."
She was taken aback, fearing that Naruto would know about her jutsu even before she mastered it. Well on the other hand a new Jounin helping her would make the process a lot faster… what more could she do than except, promising herself to look into this hidden promotion when they got back, 'Something just isn't right.' But she was soon training and forgot all her worries.
On the walk back to the apartment Hanabi had another thought, "Sakura-Chan, if you're a jounin now, then why did you tell me something you were sworn to secrecy on? Won't you get in trouble, I mean secrecy is one of the biggest things for a Jounin"
Sakura blushed as she told her, "Yeah… Well I've… I've never been that good with keeping secrets. When I was on his team I told Naruto a secret about someone else and… well I guess its all because of the 'pretty girl' I was in the academy, you just never kept a secret and gossiped on EVERYTHING. But we all have our little flaws, even the Sannin do."
Hanabi just laughed, realizing the girl was right, everyone had that one little flaw: Alcoholism, gambling, being a pervert. She wondered what her flaws where… she stopped laughing and took this part seriously.
The pair arrived back at the apartment a little later that night, Anko fast asleep, with Ino and Tenten still out on the town. As soon as Sakura looked at her team leader she knew that it wasn't quite right, a step closer gave her the smell that she needed to know, having been around Tsunade long enough to know it anywhere. She prayed to herself under her breath, "Please let this have been a one time thing, don't tell me…" But she said nothing out loud, bidding her time.
The next day, after Sakura was done healing the women while giving a questioning stare, was not nearly as much of a scurry, though they did reach their next town while finally leaving the Fire Country, a place just inside the borders of the traders country, a land with no name, since it was run by merchants an a few large companies. It directly connected to the Wave and was the only reason the bridge would have cut off Ghato's power over the country so long ago. By nighttime they had reached the village that Anko had been looking for, she set them up in a hotel as usual, only this time Sakura dragged her teammates after the sadistic kunoichi.
Ino complained at missing all the shops they passed, Tenten gawked at every half decent weapons dealer they saw, Sakura dragged both of them along with her great strength, while Hanabi just watched the two Chuunin and the, what she knew to be, Jounin struggle against one another.
Despite all of this they never lost sight of Anko, who eventually slipped inside a building, no markings on it to show that it was something other than a worn out building. Sakura saw this and was immediately wondering if her first assumption had been wrong. She didn't care, she would find out where Anko went every night when they reached a new village. She quickly made a hand seal and all four girls had seemed to age. After seeing the other girls change Ino couldn't help but pull out a mirror and see what she looked like, the others gathering around too.
Sakura seemed to be in her twenties, fuller breast and hips, along with a few well placed scars that made her seem more dangerous than she already did. Tenten was bigger, much more dangerous looking, like she could take on Choji Akimichi and win. Hanabi looked like she was in her prime, a true beauty that was tall, fair in skin, which look flawless since the genjutsu covered the scar that went down her face, and much fuller in all aspects, causing the young girl to blush something fierce. Lastly was Ino, who turned around and started to scream at Sakura to turn her into something else. Apparently a forty something year old, overweight, and hunchbacked women look wasn't working for the blond. Sakura gave a quick chuckle then and turned her into something much more fitting for Ino, something that sent Hanabi back into a blushing fit that was not like her.
Walking up to the building, the foursome of girls, now moving together willingly, pushed on the door and entered a whole new world. Sakura couldn't help but get a smile on her face, while at the same time tightening her fist so the gloves se always seemed to wear cracked from the strain. Anko's idea of information gathering was sitting at a bar, slamming down drink after drink.
Sakura was ready to confront the women, but was stopped by two hands on her arms, Tenten and Ino. The two girls gave evil grins and Ino started, "You know Sakura, we do look old enough to drink now…"
Tenten picked up from there, "And at home we wouldn't be able to get away with Genjutsu disguises…"
"And I know I'm not waiting five more years to do it legally…"
"So why don't we, you know…"
"Have a good time"
"Relax"
"and let the good times roll!"
Sakura could believe the two girls, but she knew she wouldn't be able to win without tipping Anko off to her, "Fine, but only-"
"Great!"
"You're the best!"
"Waiter, get us a round of drinks here!" and soon the four of them were at a table, four drinks given to them. Ino and Tenten took their drinks and took it down slowly, Sakura, due to her sensei being Tsunade, chugged it down like a pro. The their was Hanabi, who had tried Saké before, but had never had a full glass before. She saw what Sakura did and decided to take it like the older women, chugging it down with a little more difficulty.
As soon as it was gone the girl winced her eyes and shook her head, 'Clearly not the best thing to do!' yet she felt good, real good. Ino and Tenten looked at the pair wonderingly, causing Hanabi to blush as she had so many times that day. Sakura just shook her head and told them to hurry up. Sakura stood up and walked over to the bar, hopefully not to be noticed by the older women. Ino and Tenten soon got up too, leaving their near full drinks behind, both of which were fully empty before Hanabi left to join them, feeling quite good right about then.
As soon as all four of them were together, Hanabi being a little loose on her feet, Sakura went up to the bar and stood right next to their leader, "So, what you doing here?" she asked, waiting for someone to take her order.
The older women did not look up but took a big swig of her drink before answering, "I just HAD to stop here, its been one of my dreams to visit all the greatest bars in the world, and I happened to be coming this way with some girls and decided they could look after themselves for a while, so I took off to have some fun. They think I'm gathering information… hehehmmmm. Well then, what are you doing here, looking to have a good time like us gals ought too?"
"Well," said a disguised Sakura, who's genjutsu passed the test as Anko looked at the girl head on without noticing a thing, "I was looking for a person, a women actually."
Anko gave a little smile before turning back to her drink, "Sorry, can't help you there. I may be considered strange to some but I have my own standard, women not being in there!"
Fuming and a vein ready burst in her head, Sakura bent down in front of the women while dropping the genjutsu around her face only, "Well, you seem to be my type perfectly!" Anko nearly spit her drink in Sakura's face, but Hanabi hitting a man head on seemed a little more important.
The man in question wanted to talk to the older LOOKING Hanabi and had been tapping her shoulder for a few seconds before grabbing the drunk eleven year old Hyuga's shoulder and turning her around. This was a mistake, as the trained shinobi planted a strong punch into his nose, possibly breaking it. She turned to see the others looking at her strangely. This all ended soon, as Sakura was pushing her down and letting out a punch at a man who's drink had been spilt because of the girl and had pulled out a sword. This man went flying due to the girls 'freaky strength,' and landed on another table, drenching a rather robust women with saké and breaking the table she was using.
The women flung the man aside like he was nothing, starting another fight because of the people he hit. The woman charged at Sakura, fully intending to try an hurt the girl, if not for Anko, who was between them and flipping the women over in and instant.
But to their surprise she went down and then came back up, this time a forehead protector clearly seen around her neck, a single rose on it. The women ran forward, this time when Anko moved in though, giving the drunken Jounin a kick to the chest, sending her into a new fight that broke out. Once more the women went for Sakura, But soon found her legs couldn't move.
Looking down she saw a bright, nearly white, blue rope around her legs, Hanabi at the other end as she manipulated the chakra from her hands. She then gave a flick of the wrist and sent the women airborne, where she had intended to finish the women with a giant grin on her face because she finally got the movement down, if it weren't for the alcohol making itself more known in her body and caused her to lose consciousness.
Ino and Tenten quickly moved, Ino to get Anko before she got killed by the steadily growing mob, and Tenten to get Hanabi, who's small eleven year old body had fallen to the saké. Sakura guarded their backs as they left, leaving the others their to fight among themselves for however long they wanted. She would later find out that the place was destroyed by a angry kunoichi after he refused to pay for the insult to her.
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That night the small group camped outside of the village, well hidden by Sakura's genjutsu. Four of the members of the party did not get a decent sleep until much later, after Sakura and Anko were done having a yelling match, Hanabi on the other was out cold.
"WHAT, might I ask, where you guys doing there?!?!" said Anko, more than a little upset and a headache already starting to form.
"I could ask the same thing to you ANKO!" giving the women a glare that could have sent Tsunade running, "We are supposed to be on a diplomatic mission and I find out you've been taking so long and having us zig zag across the continent so you can get a good drink!"
"Hey, I TOLD you in there, its always been one of my dreams, to go to all the best bars in the world!" she seemed to stare off as she spoke now, daydreaming, "To travel the world and become an master of the fine art of drinking. Becoming a legend in my own right!"
The women's rant was soon ended with a punch to the head, "You're a legend all right, 'The Legendary Lush!'" This only led to all out yelling for nearly an hour, until a still sleeping Hanabi yelled out at the two using such language that the others could only stare until they broke out in laughter at the small girls, now perpetually, blushing form, their quarrel lost in the moment.
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Morning, a time of true serenity for the young Hanabi Hyuga on most days, a time when she could escape the world and all its noises to be her. This day would have been no different from the rest, she would have been glad to escape all sound of the world… except her head was the loudest thing she had ever heard. She painfully thought to herself, 'I could put Naruto to shame with this, I'm surprised the others can even stay asleep with all this noise I'm hearing!' She waited what felt like a lifetime before the others woke up, the sun not even above the horizon.
Ino was the first one up and saw Hanabi sitting on her sleeping mat, her arms wrapped around her legs which were pushed against her chest, while starring off into nothingness, which looked quite painful by the wincing that came every now and then.
Getting up Ino walked over to the girl and let the soothing green chakra of her medical jutsu cover her hand, 'I might not be Sakura, but I'm good enough to heal a hang over,' thought the blond, then remembered her most frequent practice of her gift, Asuma Sarutobi 'Yeah, so many times since I learned to heal… Though that was before he-'
Her trip down memory lane was cut short before it had a chance to start, as the blond went down face first into the ground, Sakura standing behind her with a fist where her head had been, "BAKA!! NO HEALING THEM INO PIG! ITS THEIR PUNNISHMENT!" then quieter to herself, "Next time I'm using my chakra strength."
Anko, who was awake now with her head hurting from the loud abrasive yelling, quietly asked the pink haired demon that stood before her, "So, since when do you get to punish people? I don't remember you being given the lead."
Sakura's answer to this was a quick knock to the head for the women, possibly giving a concussion, "I'm in charge until we get to the Hidden Rose, you lost that when you decided to get drunk every night. Now hurry up and pack up." This day was going to be long, though Sakura couldn't help but smile at Hanabi, 'She was able to use her jutsu in an actual fight quite effectively… I hope it wasn't just the saké though.'
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At Sakura's new anger driven pace they group reached the Great Naruto bridge in four or five hours, Hanabi couldn't really tell since her head was still hurting her if she thought to hard. Crossing into the Village they stopped for lunch, Sakura making them all stick together. In the now flourishing market place Sakura met a young boy who was around Hanabi's age, wearing a blank forehead protector and carrying a weapon pouch on his leg and hip, and, to Sakura's great disappointment, an orange jumpsuit.
"Sakura-Chan!" said the boy excitedly, having recognized Sakura before he had even been seen, "What are you doing here?"
Though it took a second to recognize the boy she soon drew the connection, and with a smile on her face gave Inari a little hug before talking, "Inari, I haven't seen you since me and Tsunade-sama came to visit two years ago, but…" she was looking over his choice of clothing, "why are you dressed like that?"
"Hehehe, I'm a ninja now, so I can help protect the island now, just like those women on the other side of the island." Which was a rather large island to the southeast of the Hidden Leaf and the Fire Country, "When those women came through here they offered to let any women who wanted to become shinobi go to the village. Some of us boys were lucky enough to have kunoichi mentors, though they need to come here to teach us. When that happened I decided to get a new look and took a page from Naruto's when he came to visit me almost a year ago"
"They just offered to let any women into the village?" asked Anko, who was now behind Sakura, "that's awfully nice of them, even the Leaf doesn't let anyone in to train unless they have actual potential to become shinobi or are from rich and important families."
Inari took a long look at the woman, who was scantly clad as usual with the jacket, black short shorts and tang top, and fishnets she wore for the past three and a half, nearly four, years. When his eyes stayed a little too long the women hit him upside the head, "OW! You know that hurts?!"
"Yeah, that's the point you little punk!"
"Hmp, you must be the crazy one Naruto was talking about when he visited, the one from the Chuunin exams. No one could b so random, mean, or dressed so little!" The smack was heard all through out the square they had been in and soon Anko was dragging the group away to eat somewhere private.
Inari however was eager to get away to nurse his wound, he hadn't been serious when he had said that, he hadn't even known that it WAS the same women. He was just referring her to some crazy chick Naruto had known.
While sitting in the shade of his home, placing ice over the swelling cheek, he saw two legs in front of him, dressed in fishnets. Jumping up the boy made to run, only to have arms wrap tightly around his neck. He couldn't breath and barely heard what the other was saying, his terror growing with each second as he was lifted in the air.
"HOW IS MY STUDENT ON THIS B-E-A-UTIFUL DAY! I KNOW YOU CAN'T WAIT TO START TODAYS LESSONS! But first I'll let you get your breath back from seeing my beautiful fa-. Hmm?" the women looked down at the young boy she had taken to teaching, seeing the potential in him and loving his bright outfit and demeanor, but she was looking at the giant bruise on his face that was starting to swell like a melon, one that she did not cause, "Inari-san, what happened to your face, were you peaking on Rina-chan again?"
Looking up at the women with a blush that only made his already red face go as dark as an apple, "N-no! I was talking to friend of mine and I, well I kinda insulted one of her friends. I should have known that a kunoichi would hit that hard!"
The woman's thoughts went from her young ward to the kunoichi he was talking about, "Inari what does your friend look like, and her traveling companion?"
"Hmmm? Well there was a group of them, Sakura-Chan is a pretty girl with pink hair and she wears a red shirt, pink skirt, and black shorts under that. Her friend is wearing a tan trench coat with fishnets under that."
"Thank you Inari!" said the women as she started to turn away, only to have Inari yell out to her.
"Wait! Aren't we going to train today? And I haven't even told about the other girls that where with her!"
"Others?" asked the women curiously.
"Yeah, I didn't get a good look at them but there were three others with her, one with their hair in buns, one blond girl who was really Slu… strangely dressed and a younger girl with there really weird eyes."
The women smiled and turned her head to the boy as she walked away, "Thank you Inari, but you should let the swelling go down a bit before we do anything. I'll see you in a day or two!"
Inari just picked up the ice pack he had dropped and started to ice his face again, "I'll never understand those chicks from the Rose Village."
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An hour after the group's little encounter with Inari, and Sakura yelling at Anko again, they team left the town for the hidden village, which the ironically were able to get directions to. As they left however they soon found their path blocked, eight other women standing in their way, one women standing in the front of them.
"Would you happen to be Sakura?" the women asked, pointing at the women in the tan trench coat, then she went on pointing at a certain pink haired kunoichi "and that would make you the women who was beating up on Inari-san!"
One of the other girls behind her whispered to the older women, "Sensei, I think you have them mixed up, you told me Sakura was the pink haired one."
"Wait, she told me Sakura was the freaky eyed girl!" said another girl, earning an evil glare from Hanabi.
"Um… I, Uh…"
"You're the worse sensei ever you know that?" said another girl, "You can't even get the descriptions right!"
"Hey there, now now, we aren't going to blame this all on me! Besides we can just ask these ladies which one is Sakura!"
"Um," started Sakura, worried about what these girls would do, "I am." Said Sakura, giving a questioning look at the fumbling group of girls in front of her, "Why you want to know?"
"Hmm? Well Inari has half his face swelling like a watermelon, I wanna know who did it! Besides he told me there was a bunch of foreign kunoichi here so its my duty to look into this."
"Yeah you tell her, YOU THE GREATEST MICHI-SENSEI!"
'These girls are crazy… well at least four of them are…' thought Sakura, and she was right, the other four were looking over at their fellow shinobi from the Rose Village with hints of horror, disgust, fright, shame, and a look that just shouted WTF! "Well if there is anything we can do to help you then just ask, but Inari brought that hit upon himself when he insulted one of the strangest women from the Leaf."
"Well then, isn't that nice. First tell me why you are here, second who are you?"
"Well we are actually heading to the Hidden Rose Village, we have a treaty for the leader there, if she's interested. And since you asked I am Sakura Haruno, a friend of Inari's from one of my first missions, and these are my companions Hanabi, Ino, Tenten, and the Legendary Lush Anko."
"HEY! I DON'T DESERV THIS! I am supposed to be leading this mission not you!"
"There's A LOT you don't deserve, like the ability to reproduce. GOD THAT WOULD BE HELL!"
"YEAH Well FUCK YOU, YOU LITTLE CU-"
"ANKO-SENSEI, SAKURA-CHAN! Stop YELLING! I still have a huge headache."
One small group of four female shinobi just looked back between the three fighting girls and their fellow teammates, trying to decide who was crazier: it was too close to call, though now that Anko had tackled Sakura it was almost the Leaf women who won that one.
Finally though Ino and Tenten managed to separate the girls, letting them calm down before talking again, "So, who might you be?"
The energetic woman who had accused Sakura of beating up Inari stood up tall and straight, her chest puffed out, "IIIIIII am the AMAZING MICHI MEZUKI!!"
Sakura and the group looked at the strange women, then began to sweat as her students cheered for her. Sakura couldn't help but think to herself, 'And we WANT to form a treaty with the Rose Village?'
Soon the other four girls were walking away, muttering to themselves, "last straw," "oh god, she's the weirdest person I've ever seen," "They made HER a Jounin?"
"HEY! Don't leave, we have to take these girls into custody! I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO HELP ME!" but the small group didn't even acknowledge her shouts, "Well this is just great, how am I going to get you to the Rose Village now?"
Hanabi had it up to here with this women and her yelling so, despite her killing headache, she let her have it, "You MORON! Weren't you listening too us? We're on our way to your village! YOU DON'T NEED TO TAKE US INTO CUSTEDY! And If you keep YELLING, then I'm going to break your jaw!"
This had only half the effect she wanted, it stopped the women from yelling and caused her to blush in embarrassment, but her students took her place, yelling just as fiercely, "HEY, YOU CAN'T YELL AT SENSEI LIKE THAT!"
"SHE"LL KICK YOUR ASS!"
"SHE"S A SUPER CLASS JOUNIN WITH THE BEST GENIN TEAM ON HER SIDE!"
"SHUN THE DISENTERS! SSSSHHHUUUUNNN!" this last drew the looks of all the other girls, as a small girl in the group blushed something wild, "Tee hee, I was watching Charlie The-" she was cut off by a new chant.
"SHUN THE DISENTERS! SHUN THEM!"
Sakura was tired of idiots for today, she walked up to the small team, her eyes radiating death, and she gave a well placed punch to their sensei's gut, then turned and looked at the group of girls, catching them in a Genjutsu. This had the effect of them screaming at the top of their lungs while knocking them out. The sensei in question had managed to stay awake through the punch and was now looking up at Sakura, "My Genin-"
"Are Idiots, as are you. Now we are heading to the Rose village and if its no big trouble I really don't want you to cause any trouble for us, we're supposed to be diplomats, not enemies."
The woman gave out a smile, and muttered out something before Sakura pushed her away, knocking her out, "he, I think I like you."
"Well that was weird." Said Ino in the background, not having said a word while the girls were awake.
"Yeah, Lee and Guy would love it here."
"That would be just too weird then. Lee, Guy, those chicks, Anko, AND Sakura-"
"Shut it Ino, we're leaving!"
And with a little laugh the small group was on its way to the Rose village, which wouldn't be too hard too since they had gotten directions from a women who had thought about becoming a shinobi. There was one thing that got to Sakura, 'How could a village with such lax security and awful shinobi have caught three of Konoha's best kunoichi?'
The village was interesting in at least one way when they got first look at it, it was partially built on the sea. A massive part of the village consisted of platforms held up by great beams and pillars and connected by dozens of bridges that went from platform to platform. It was a true wok of art at that, a place of beauty and full of kunoichi like themselves, strong women who would fight just as hard as any man.
Though at the moment they were standing in front of a large gate, waiting for some one to come open it or something. And very unfortunate for Hanabi, who's headache had started to go away during to time they took to cross the island, Anko started yelling at the top of her lungs, screaming obscenities and threats, telling them to open the door or else they would feel the full wrath of the Hidden Leaf… Ino, Hanabi, and Tenten just wondered how much political damage Anko and Sakura could cause in a single afternoon.
Soon they were greeted by a young girl, no more than ten, who looked over the edge of the wall, "Um, could you try not to yell so much, I was trying to sleep."
"HEY! Open the gate"
The girl looked perplexed, open the… 'SHOOT! I fell asleep on duty again! Sensei's gunna kill me!' 'Oh, yeah, right way!" and the little girl was off to open the door, Sakura thinking once more how these girls could have stopped them from entering the village without them knowing.
The door soon swung out, the small girl looking timidly at them, a clipboard in her hands, "I'm sorry about that, but I do have to ask you some questions: Where are you from?
"Hidden Leaf Village."
"What are your names?"
"Anko, Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hanabi."
"What are your intentions in the village?"
"We're on a diplomatic mission, we have a treaty for your leader."
"Do you have any foreign foods, plants, or animals?"
Anko sighed, 'This is going to take a while isn't it?' "No"
She was right, they didn't know what to make of the village as it was, Hanabi though was interested now that her headache was almost gone, 'Wonder what this'll be like?'
well I asked for six reveiws for the first chapter and got 17... I really am an underacheizer aren't I? Well I guess then I can expect 34 reveiws for these chapters RIGHT! wink wink, nudg nudg. I don't really expect that many but it would be nice: ewither way RRR Read, Reveiw, Repeat
