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"Good evening Kawa Nami-san, and Shimizu Kyoko-san! Your master told me to tell you when you came in to met her and the others in the dinning room," the old woman smiled.
"Alright," Kyoko answered and followed Nami who already took off.
Kyoko and Nami entered in to see Marieke, Midori, and the brother and sister with Kenji talking to one of the servants.
"Whoa! It seems like they were expecting us or something like that," Kyoko whispered over to Nami.
"I know, a little too weird for me," Nami walked over to the table and sat down on the nice cushioned pillow.
"I take it you two finished your training, and just in time too," Marieke said looking at the clock watch. "Twenty minutes to spare." Marieke said.
Kyoko and Nami almost fainted.
"We'd thought you weren't going to finish and I would have to make you do it again," Marieke smiled.
"It was horrific," Nami fell on the table.
"I know. There were too many high kicks we had to do," Kyoko fell on her back.
"Well if you two would just get along maybe, none of this would've have happen." Midori sipped some tea out of a flower designed cup. She smiled, amused. "Maybe another one of those training sessions and you two would be able to take on Lee-kun."
"This is all your fault!" Nami pointed at Midori.
Midori's tea blurted out of her mouth. "My fault, what are you talking about?" Midori urged with a disbelieving laugh.
"Girls, shut up for a second, will you?" Marieke ordered.
"Yes, sensei," the girls together in fear said.
"Now, Sato-sama and Hanako-sama will you please tell these three girls about this mission they are on?" Kenji asked.
"Fine." Sato sighed.
Nami thought, Finally.
"Well, as you see we are very rich in the Land of the Tea, and have many people who adore us. Well there is also an evil being in this land and he is my uncle, Yamada Kunihiko." Sato finished.
"It's always the old guys," Kyoko muttered.
"And uncles," Midori added under her breath.
"My uncle was the eldest in the family, but he wasn't loved as much as my mother, his sister. The reason why was that my mother always hoped for a daughter and they were happy when they found an heir as the first born, but my mother was treasured more than him. She could do other thing's that he couldn't, and was prettier none the fact. He was a jealous child and envious when everything came my mother. When my grandparents were gone, my uncle was sure that he would be the ruler of these two islands, but he was wrong," Sato was almost out of breath so he drank some tea.
Wow, this sounds a lot like the Hyuuga family, Midori thought to herself.
"Go on!" Nami pushed.
"Alright, alright. Geez, girls are so weird and pushy. Anyways where was I again? Oh yeah, when he found out that he wasn't to be ruler of this land, he went mad. He never talked to my mother again and just disappeared from this land." Sato was interrupted by his little sister Hanako.
"Oh, oh let me finish the story!" Hanako pleaded.
"Go on ahead," Kenji encouraged.
"Than after mommy was leader for some time, she was lonely and needed someone and then she met my daddy who was working in a tea shop on the other island, and than they fell in love when they first saw each other, and than they got married, and than they had my brother and than me!" Hanako smiled with joy.
"If you don't mind me asking, why is your uncle after you two and not your mother or father?" Kyoko asked.
"Don't you remember what Kenji told us?" Nami asked in a whisper.
"Think before you ask something like that!" Midori hissed. She turned to the siblings and Kenji. "Forgive my teammate."
"It's fine...our parents were very ill and well…let's just say I'll have to rule the two islands for some time alone until Hanako comes of age. My coronation is soon and when I am leader I can do so much more for my people," Sato's face was filled with sorrow. He stared at his cup of tea emptily.
"Oh," Kyoko said.
"Hanako, how about we go put you to bed?" Kenji said.
"Aw," Hanako got up from her seat and followed Kenji out of the room.
"Come on you can talk with them tomorrow." Kenji smiled.
"So does your uncle have anything to do with this Setsuko girl?" Nami asked.
"Yeah, he has a gang. I guess you could say that was giving us trouble a little while back, and that's why we were in Konoha to be safe from everything," Sato answered.
"Why is she from the Land of the Birds?" Midori asked.
"She is from the Land of the Birds for many reasons. She is a slave for my uncle and she was found around the walls of this island. He took her in, and brainwashed her, well that's what I've heard anyways."
"Is there any other people that you know about, that you could tell us?" Marieke asked.
"Yes, there is a boy who's older that me and he is from the land of the birds as well, but his story is filled with so much horror that no one really knows anything about him. Only that his name is Kono Taro, and he's one heck of a ninja. There are also other people, but they are nothing compared to Taro and Setsuko."
"I see!" Kyoko said.
"So let me get this straight…all we have to do is protect Sato-san until his coronation and than we're done?" Midori asked.
"Basically, yeah," Marieke told her.
"I think this is gonna be fun!" Nami smiled.
"How can you talk like that? This isn't some game you play to see who will fall first!" Sato banged the table with a fist.
"Who said it was, and who asked you to tell me how to play my game! You can't even fight!" Nami shot back.
"Oh yeah, watch then!" Sato flipped backwards, picked his pillow up with his foot and threw it at Nami, who threw a kunai at it with feathers going everywhere.
"Nami! Stop it! Remember where you are!" Midori warned.
"Nami stop or I will take you off this mission!" Marieke ordered as well as Sato and Nami ran outside to continue their fight.
"You missed," Nami laughed.
"You think so." Sato was behind her with a knife like weapon to her neck just under her last hair on her head.
"Alright you got me, a ninja knows when she is defeated." Nami looked to Midori, Kyoko and Marieke who were in shame about what she did.
"I just have one last thing to say," Nami said.
"You're off this mission now, Nami! I wasn't joking when I said stop! You don't listen and you're too reckless!" Marieke held her with her arms.
"Sensei…maybe that's a little too harsh…" Midori said. "Nami may be reckless but—"
"She went too far."
"No, you can't... I...I was just playing around!" Nami looked like she was almost gonna cry.
"You can't do this to me! I've done so much and have come so far," Nami punched Marieke with light taps.
"I'm sorry Nami, but you didn't listen and I can't afford you to be like this if you thoughtlessly attack our client. How can I hope for you to act like a ninja when we're on a mission? You can stay till morning, then I want you back to Konoha!" Marieke let go of Nami.
"Fine." Nami said disappeared.
"Whoa! Do you think she's really sad about the whole thing?" Kyoko asked Midori.
"I dunno, but give her, her time so she can cool off," Midori said hesitantly. She glanced at Sato, but he had left.
"I feel a little bad for her, you know," Kyoko said.
"…Yeah."
The next day
Nami woke up that morning extra early and went outside to think about what she had done and if Marieke-sensei would ever take her back as her student.
What did I do last night, and why? Nami thought to herself. Her eyes were filled with tears that poured down her face and dropped onto the ground beneath her.
"Come along, Kyoko, Midori we have a lot to do today!" Marieke said as she jogged by Nami who quickly wiped away her tears so no one could see she was crying. Midori and Kyoko were following Marieke.
"Do we have to do ten miles?" Kyoko begged.
"Yes, and just for that comment twenty miles."
"Good going, Kyoko!" Midori ran past her.
Nami only waved to friends and then walked to her room and packed everything that she took. It wasn't much, but it took longer because she was still in shock that she couldn't be on the mission any more. Nami walked out of her room when she saw the fox scroll in Marieke's room.
Maybe I should take it, Nami thought.
"I'm off this mission anyways. She won't mind that I have this and teach myself how to do this," Nami tip-toed into Marieke's room, ran out with the scroll, and quickly put it in her bag. When she said her good-byes to the servants as she exited the house she saw Kyoko and Midori being worked to the bone, running up trees. High kicks, low kicks, punches, every kind of attack they've learned, and Nami couldn't help, but wish she was there with them. Marieke didn't look at her and she walked right pass her.
Wow! She must still be angry at me, but who cares, I'm on my own now, and can do whatever I want now. So what should I do? Nami thought as she took one good look back at her friends and walked away.
Training
"Do you think that Nami, will go evil like others have? You know?" Midori joked as they had a thirty-second water break.
"Who knows," Kyoko shrugged and continued. "Everything is up to her now... go back to Konoha or go on the other path and do something else with her life," Kyoko ran back to Marieke.
"How dramatic," Midori smiled half-sadly. Nami, whatever you do don't be stupid.
Nami
"This is so weird, I'm alone and have no one to talk to," Nami said out loud to herself.
"I'm starting to miss Midori and Short Tempered Girl, but still... why do I feel a little sad?" Nami said to herself as one tear went down her check.
"Aw, is the little girl crying because she's all alone?" a boy's voice asked.
"Who are you? Where are you? Show yourself!" Nami demanded.
"So many questions, and we don't even know each other's name," the boy jumped in front of her and was about three inches taller. He had white, wavy, short hair, and pale eyes. He also had black like sweat pant's on (N/N: Like Gaara's pants) and a red shirt with his forehead protector over his forehead with the symbol of a bird. "I'll introduce myself first. my name is Kono Taro, and yours?"
"You work for Yamada Kunihiko, don't you?" Nami questioned.
"So, I see you're the girl Setsuko was talking about. You are quite strong for a pretty girl like yourself," Taro tilted up Nami's chin, and wiped the tear that was on her face.
"Why are you crying?" Taro asked.
"Leave me alone! And I am not crying... well not now anyways," Nami pushed his hand off of her chin.
"Aw, I see that you are a bit angry."
"Of course I'm angry! You would be angry too if your sensei just kicked you off the biggest mission you've ever had and won't and probably never teach you again!" Nami yelled. "Sato, this is all his fault! He's the one who made all of this happen!" She looked away.
"So you hate Sato, as do I. How about we make a deal," Taro said.
Nami was surprised of what she heard. Was she going to the bad side?
"I see you're in shock. How about you think about it, and get back to me on it?" Taro walked away.
Nami thought for a second and turned around. "Hey!" Nami ran to Taro.
"Yeah?" Taro stopped, not turning around.
"What kind of a deal?" Nami asked hesitantly.
Taro smiled.
Marieke and her tired students
"Are we done yet, sensei?" Midori asked on her knees gasping for air.
"Yeah, Marieke-sensei! I mean come on. Are you going hard on us because of...of Nami?" Kyoko asked lying on the ground with her tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth.
"Stop your whining! I thought you wanted to be excellent kunoichi! So go do another two mile run," Marieke ordered in a harsh manner, Midori and Kyoko just looked at her.
"I said GO!" Marieke yelled.
Kyoko and Midori ran off without another word, not like they could say anything anyways because they were so tired.
"I wonder if I was too harsh on, Nami?" Marieke asked herself. "No, I am the sensei and she is the student. She should've listened to me, and she didn't, so she had to pay the price," she reassured herself.
"I just hope she'll be ok at night on the way home. It'll take so long to get there, especially when you forget the way home. Maybe I'll go look for her later tonight and just make sure she's not in a bad condition," Marieke said as she saw the sun hide behind a nearby hill and Kyoko and Midori barely a half mile away from her.
Nami
Nami had followed Taro to a secret hiding center that wasn't that far from the Cha no Kuni. It was really almost like the house that Sato and Hanako lived in, but a little more creeper. It was really big, and when they got through the first door, everything was dark and Nami couldn't see anything.
"Uh...Taro where am I? Taro?" Nami didn't hear a reply.
"I see we have a visitor? Who are you and why have you come to me?" a voice asked sitting in a chair.
"I have come to meet with a man named Kunihiko," Nami replied. She could only see the chair and the desk in front of it, but nothing else.
"Well you've come to the right place. I am Kunihiko," the man turned around in his chair, and lights appeared in front of him to reveal an old man with a light white shirt and blue tie, and brown dress suit and an EVIL chain and gold bob-cat like animal on the top of it. He was surrounded by two familiar people, Setsuko and Taro.
"Master, Nami has come here to ask for a job," Taro told him.
"Aw...I see you seek what we all seek in life, power." Kunihiko had an evil grin on his face.
"Not...really I just want...to show my sensei that I can do anything. Like...like," Nami stuttered.
"Like summon my animal the fox. See?" Nami took out the scroll and showed Kunihiko that she had signed the contract with the foxes.
"You are highly advanced for a girl your age, to be already summoning your animal," Kunihiko stopped and thought up a plan. "I can show you how to summon your animal. Of course in return you'll have to work for me. Do we have a deal?" Kunihiko asked.
"Uh?" Nami was surprised with fear and joy at the same time.
"Master are you serious? About letting this girl, join us?" Setsuko cried.
"Silence, Setsuko!" Kunihiko roared.
Setsuko backed off.
"I don't know…" Nami said tentatively.
"You don't have to. You'll just never learn to summon your animal for the rest of your life. Aw, well never mind, now I see why your sensei didn't want to teach you any more," Kunihiko went back to his seat.
"No, I am not a failure! I'll join you!" Nami said.
"Perfect. Oh and by the way just to make sure you don't think for yourself again, and become rebellious…" Kunihiko did some hand signs and his hands glowed yellow.
"Cursed Enslavement no Jutsu!" Kunihiko yelled as he knocked Nami out on the forehead.
"What? What's happening to me?" Nami saw her clothes change to a different color…a darker color.
"What did you do to me?" Nami yelled.
"You had a deal with me and now you work for me! Aw...but don't worry, you'll get use to it." Kunihiko laughed and walked away with Setsuko and Taro caring for Nami who fainted.
"This isn't good for letting her in here," Setsuko said to Taro.
"Well, you're not the one to argue with Kunihiko. Besides are you sure you're not jealous that she beat you in a fight, huh Setsuko?" Taro argued back.
Later…
"Uh? Where am I?" Nami awoke from her sleep. "Taro, Setsuko? What happened to me?" Nami got up and put her hand on her for head.
"I have an headache."
"You work for Kunihiko now and your name isn't Nami anymore it's Aku. And every time you hear an order from me, Setsuko, or your master Kunihiko you will do as exactly as we say. Do I make myself clear?" Taro said.
"I understand," Nami said in a robot kind of way with her eyes glowing yellow.
"Now, your first mission is to…destroy two girls...Midori and Kyoko. You can not come back until they are destroyed or wounded enough to cease protecting those two little brats. Also there us another mission that you will soon learn of from Kunihiko, of course," Setsuko said.
"Yes," Nami walked away.
"Wait, Kunihiko still has to train you to summon your animal does he not?" Taro stopped Nami in her tracks.
"He's waiting for you. Don't worry it won't take long to summon your animal he is quite the sensei," Setsuko assured.
"I forgot," Nami was lead to another room where Kunihiko was in a different outfit more like the battle kind of outfit.
"I wouldn't have done that," Taro said.
"What are you talking about? Kunihiko never said that we couldn't tell her a mission."
In another room
"Aku are you ready to release your animal?" Kunihiko asked.
"Yes." Nami (Aku) answered.
"Than let us begin." Kunihiko smiled.
Marieke and her students
"You two are done for today. I'll see you again tomorrow," Marieke told her tired students with no air left to breathe.
"Thank YOU!" Kyoko fell on the ground.
"Thank you so much," Midori agreed.
Marieke disappeared and left the two girls there.
"I wonder where she went," Kyoko asked.
"I dunno, but I hope that Nami is alright, it's really dark out here," Midori said.
Marieke
"I don't think I should have done that to her."
"I can't find her and she could be lost. I knew I should've just let her stay and not do anything…
Why didn't I do that?"
Two Hours later
"She must have found her way back to Konoha, I'll look one more time tomorrow just in case." Marieke walked away and turned around one more time.
"Who's there?" Marieke asked. There was no answer.
"I know you're out there. Show yourself," Marieke demanded.
"Maybe I'm overdoing everything and I'm starting to see things," Marieke laughed and turned back to the Sato's and Hanako's home.
Behind a tree
Who is that woman? A young girl thought as she lurked within the shadows. Do I know her? Why does she seem so...familiar? Shaking her head, she disappeared.
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