I'm back, sorry for the delay in updating but the last month had been pretty hectic for me. So, as an apology I'll let you in the coulisse of this story, the disturbing other side of the mirror, what you should have never see... (I have nothing against Masashi Kishimoto, Hinata on the other hand...)
Naruto : Gaaah, I can't take it anymore ! When will we start the next chapter ?!
Roxas : Yeah, what the hell is French NaruHina doing ?
Naminé, arriving : Well, I think he had to consult a psychotherapist to sort out some issues...
Me, laying on a red couch : You see, each time I watched something on the TV or played a video game, my favorite pairring never occured so I guess this is why IO'm writting fanfictions...
Sigmund Freud, scribbling on a notepad : It seems to me that you suffer from Oedipius complex : you desire to kill your father in order to sleep with your mother...
Me : You're a sick man !
Sigmund Freud : That or I am the represenation you ave of me, the me in your mind so to said.
Me : WTF ?!
Naruto : Did anyone know where is Hina-chan ?
Naminé : Not since last evening...
Naruto, opening Hinata lodge's door : Are you here Hin... What's this ?!?!?!?!?!
Hinata, looking as she hadn't sleep that night, the latest chapter of Naruto on her computer's screen : Hey, N-Naruto-k-kun, how are y-you ?
Naruto : You can't take the author in hostage !
Masashi Kishimoto (MK), tied up on a chair and gagged : HMMMPPHH ! (Help me !)
Hinata : But he still didn't put us together, I was just trying to persuade him. At the rate things are going Sasuke will get an unmirited redemption before I can event talk to you alone...
Naruto, noticing several cuts on MK : AAAAHH ! What did you thought ?! What if he kill you off with his god-like powers ?! Please forgive her Mk-sama, and don't pair me up with Sakura on revenge please, she's just a poor girl in love whose feelings you unfairly don't make me notice the depht, preventing me to return them as she rightfully deserves it...
MK, thinking : This is madness.
Hinata : Now at each chapter from my confession 'till he make you tell me you love me I'll 128 palm him, then heal him, then cut each of his limb off, then reatach them, then...
Naruto : Guys ! Hinata-chan is gone crazy !
Roxas, entering the lodge : Crap, it's like Nami-chan at the end of KH2
Naruto : How can we stop her ?
Naminé : There's no stoping this MWAHAHAHAHA...
Hinata : ...then put him into boilling oil, thenmake him listen Barney's song for four hour, then...
Me, running into the lodge : Hey, I have a great news : Freud said that I hate myself !
Everybody : Huh, great for you....
Me : That meanswe can now begin playing the next chapter !
Everybody, leaving : Yeah !
MK : HMMPH HMMMPHHH ! (Don't let me here alone)
Chapter 10 : Uneventful day
"Madara ? So that's what he looks like..."
"Yes, it seems that Zabuza character and the other three didn't like him moere than I do... Ask the coughing man about this picture."
"Hai Kyuubi-sama." "Hayate-sensei ! Do you know what this drawing represent by any chance ?"
Hayate too the skecthpad Naruto handed him and looked closely at the picture "I may *cough* know something but it'll not be free, I'll *cough* ony tell you if you *cough* tell me what was that jutsu you used during *cough* my fight." Naruto nodded his agreement so he explained "well the four *cough* guys with the swords must be the four renegade *cough* swordsmen of the mist, a group among the seven swordsmen that *cough* atempted a coup d'état against the Mizukage about *cough* ten years ago..." he pointed to one of the traitors, who upon closer inspection apeared to beabout to be stabed in the gut by a kunai from the central character "this guy wield the *cough* Nagareboshi no Tsurugi (shooting star sword, I think) so he must be Sawahara Nanashi *cough* who is said to have been killed by the Mizukage *cough* himself so I guess this skecth represent *cough* the four on one battle between the renegade swordsmen *cough* and the Mizukage... now I think you have some *cough* explaination to do."
"So he is or was the Mizukage that's a problem... well, at least we know where he may be, right Kyuubi-sama ?" The fox didn't respond so Naruto turned to the jonin "The fake Hiraishin, right ?Well since I am carrying sleeping beauty I guess Naminé-chan will have to do the demonstration..."
"No problem..." the kunoichi took a tri-kunai and two tags from her weapon pouch "...it's quite simple in fact : those tags generate a yellow ligth for about one second, all we have to do is to put one around the handle of the kunai and hide one on us then activate both at the same time..." she threw her kunai and activated the tags "... getting a perfect reproduction of the hiraishin."
"But why did that super-crazy assasin went even more crazy when he saw this ?" Tazuna's question earned him dumbstruck looks from the awake konoha-nins.
"You mean you don't know about Namikaze Minato, Yondaime Hokage, Konoha's Yellow Flash ?" at each denomination Tazuna shook his head no "well, he was my father and Konoha's greatest hero, during the third great shinobi war he defeated by himself nearly all Iwa's army using a single jutsu, that technique Naminé-chan explained is nearly identical visualy to my father's jutsu. It worked exactly as we planned : first our enemy thinks we're bluffing then, as he saw the yellow flashes, he totally panicked and focused on the kunais letting a huge opening... as they say "deception is a shinobi's greatest tool""
"So that's *cough* why you always use tri-pronged *cough* kunai..."
"Yes and no, they are aslo more effective in close range combat..." stated Naminé.
Team seven and Tazuna finnaly reached Tazuna's house by two pm. As the entred his large house the bridge builder shouted "Tsunami, Inari ! I'm back !"
"GRAMPA !!!" a little boy, no older than eight, with black eyes and black hair covered by a fisherman's hat ran at them and huged the old man's legs. Then a black haired/eyed woman in her late twenties arrived.
"I'm glad to see you back safe otusan..." she gasped as she saw the Konoha-nins "Did something happened, your companions seem hurt..." indeed while the young girl was obviously fine her male companions didn't looked as healthy, the brown haired adult was bruised and visibly in great pain, as for the two boys, one was unconcious and caried by the other, who wore a void look in his eyes. Little did she know the yougest of the squad was in fact having an internal conversation with a demon.
As Inari and Tsunami greeted them the Kyuubi finally ended his silence "Listen brat, I have been thinking and... AAAHHH !! I don't look after you for five seconds and I find you in an UCHIHA LAIR of all places !"
Narto mentally sweatdropped "They're Tazuna-san family... you don't think anyone with black hair and eyes is an Uchiha, do you ?"
"Wait a second, that boy, Saï, is one right ?"
"Not at all."
"The owner of the weapon shop in the south district ?"
"No."
"The waitress at the Dango shop ?"
"Try again..."
"Sasuke ?"
"Nope... I mean yes, Sasuke-teme is an Uchiha !"
"And the mighty Kyuubi once again reveal the truth to the world !"
"Yeah, yeah... What do you want to tell me anyway ?"
"Oh, yes... Well I think it would be best if you tell your Hokage about this whole Mizukage/Madara thing."
"That's all ? I could have thought so myself..."
"Well, you can be pretty dumb at time..."
"Spoke the one who mistook half the village for Uchiha's..."
"Naruto-kun, is there someone in here ??" Naruto was pulled out of his internal dialogue by Naminé's hand waving in front of his eyes, he blinked twice "Phew, you spaced out fo nearly five minutes. Well, at least you didn't drop Roxas-kun, Tsunami-san said we can take him in one of the room, I'll show you around..." She led him up the stairs to an empty room "That's yours and sensei's room guys, just drop him in one of those." She gestured to one of the bed standing there.
After he did so the young man decided to question his teamate "So, what did I missed those last five minutes ?"
"Not much, Inari can be very rude if you want to ow, plus Hayate-sensei said he have something important to tell us when Roxie-chan is awake..."
After an unenventful trip, Team 6 arrived to the village, whose was so long and unpronunceable even its inhabitants didn't use it. Kurenai told her team to go in search for any information about the bandits and to report two hours later : as it was an easy mission she decided to let them on their own so she could evaluate their skills on a real the designated time they all met at one of the village's entrance.
"So, what did you find ?" inquired the red eyed kunoichi.
"The villagers told usall the attacks happned on the road to the east of here, near the edge of a forest... those guys are quite violent from what I've heard, surprise attacks and beatings." exposed Kiba.
"Your conclusions ?"
"They would logicaly have set up camp in this forest, their behavior indicate a lack of profesionalism so enemy ninja presence is unlekely..." developed Shino.
"Good, I'll let you some time to find a decent strategy..."
"I already thought about that..." said the Hyuga heiress "I would be best for us if we act soon, in order to keep the element of surprise, tonight would be ideal : I heard a merchant caravan had been atacked yesterday so Kiba and Akamaru could follow the trail to their hideout while it's still fresh. Then I guess we should act upon thei forces..."
"Sounds good enough to me, any objection ?" seeing no reaction from her team Kurenai continued "So that is settled, we leave at nightfall, try to get some rest untill then."
It was five in the afternoon when Roxas finally woke up, he tried to sit up be found himself unable to do so he resigned to star at the ceilling. "I see you're awake..." he turned his head to see a woman holding a bucket of water at the doorframe.
"Yeah, where am I, Miss ?"
« Tsunami... you're actually at my home, I want to thank you for protecting my father."
"You're Tazuna-san's daughter ? Well, no problem : I just did my job..."
Tsunami put a wet towel on his forehead "Anyway, your friends should come here soon to discuss with you, try to rest." She left the room, some minutes later the other menbers of team 7 entered.
"Glad to see you up Roxas, Hayate-sensei wouldn't tell us something 'till now..."
"Thanks for worrying over me, It's good to feel loved..." Roxas replied sarcastically, causing his teammate to grin at him.
Hayate coughed, louder than usual, to get their attention "You'll have *cough* time for that later, we have a more important *cough* problem right now, I think Zabuza is still alive."
"What ? But we saw that hunter-nin kill him..." objected Naruto.
"No, it makes sense : hunter-nins are supposed to disopse of the body on the spot, they only keep the head as a proof; that guy must be Zabuza's accomplice..."
"Roxas is right, fortunately *cough* Zabuza suffered serious injuries so he *cough* won't be problem right now, we'll better *cough* use the next days to train for *cough*when he regan his full strenght."
A few hours later the team found itself sitting by the dinner table and dicussing the course of the next few days with Tazuna. All agreed to rest the nxt day and wait for their reinforcement's arrival, then they would begin trainning, hopefully Zabuza shouldn't be able to fight for at least a week after the wounds he sustained during their battle. As dinner time approached Tsunami came to ask Naminé's help at the kitchen.
The blue eyed girl smiled and responded "Of course, I wou..." but couldn't finish her sentence as Naruto put his hand ovar her mouth, desperantly trying to silence her.
"Can you tell what this is all about ?" asked a starttled Tsunami. Roxas proceeded to explain her the situation.
"Nami-chan can't cook even if her life depended on it..." said girl shot him her more convincing death glare "Don't look at me like that : you know it's true. If you really need help then I'll do it Tsunami-san : I'm the only decent cook of this team..."
"Are you sure ? You shouldn't push yourself too hard, you can barely walk..."
"Believe me, eating something cooked by one of those two would be far more dangerous for my health." Roxas half-joked.
"AAAYYII ! She bit me !" cried Naruto clutching his hurt hand.
"Serve you right, no one silence me !" Naminé stucked her tongue at him.
The dinner went by smoothly and every one soon found itself heading to their room to rest from the exhausting event of th morning.
It was near midnight, the forest was engulfed into darkness. Kiba and Akamaru were leading their team toward the bandit's camp when he stopped, raising a hand in the air. "Their scent has become much stronger, we're close...Hinata..." his teammate nodded and activated her Dojutsu.
"There are fifteen of them, five sentries, two are sitting by a fire and the others seem to be sleeping..."
"What about their chakra levels ? » asked Shino.
"Very low. I would say about half as much as Akamaru's each..." (AN : Woohoo, I resisted the "over 9000" temptation, wait... noooooo, it got me.)
"I see. I think it would be better if we let my kikkai bugs take care of them." this proposition earned him a few groans from his teammates but they agreed nontheless. Behind them, Kurenai couldn't help but smile seeing the once shy and unsure Hinata complaining as much as Kiba did about "spoiled fun" and "useless bandits".
Shino's bugs made a quick work of their targets, leaving them unconscious on the ground. Team 6 immediatly tied them up. "Man, those guys really were pushovers... Geez, C-ranks aren't so different from D-ranks : both are so boring !"
"It is normal procedure for a ninja to avois confromtation as often as possible Kiba-san. But I do believe we should limit our use of this specific tatic as I don't want my colony to get spoiled..." Three eyebrows twitched at the idea of spoiled bugs.
"Anyway," said Kurenai as she managed to throw the disturbing image out of her mind "you did we must determine who get guard duty first...." she held out her fist wich contained three wooden stick "you know the rules, and no cheating Hinata."
The remaining height hours of the night were uneventful, like the rest of this mission : the concept of C-rank mission was hightly overatted... As dawn came, Kurenai, who took the last two hours shift, woke her charges up, she told them to continue to guard the prisonner while she went to inform the local authority of their catch. She diseppeared in a swirl of leaves and reappeared in the same fashion ten miutes later instructing them to put some green wood into a fire in order to signal their position. By nine all had been taken care of and the small party made its way back toward Konoha each genin getting diferent thoughts as they jump from tree to tree.
"Man, that was actually worse than a D-rank..."
"Shino-sama, give us more suculent chakra pleaasseee !!!!!" "No, you had enough... why did I get the immature colony ? I spend nearly all my days trying to get them to calm down"
"I hope Naruto-kun is okay, and not too bored..."
In wave a bolnd shinobi awoke in a sneeze.
AN : Well, that was a long chapter to write, Team 6's mission was a pain to write : I mean try to write something where nothing really happens... I guess I should go to the point of this AN, I read Lord of the Phoenix's review and it's true this fanfic name isn't so great, however it was the best I could came up with, so took my lil' bro' for a brainstorming session and we only found Nobodies and Ninjas, so I ask you, my loyal readers, to tell me what you think of this potential new name; if you feel you have a better idea please tell me (Tittles are really not my thing...) Next chapter I will open a polls with all your propositions, the one who had proposed the winning name will choose a pairring in this fic (If I a part of the couple is already paired up in my plot then we'll have a harem; NaruHina and Namixas are, of course, of limits, as are the kids )