Whiteicewolf: Sorry I haven't updated in a while I was busy with my other story.
Okay when I counted the votes they were tied, literally. So I made the final decision and made them learn jutsus on their own. To those people who wanted them to have teachers they'll have teachers, just not right now.
Naruto, Hinata, Gaara, and Haku were walking down the snow covered street. Haku was wearing the brown jacket that Naruto gave to him and was wearing baggy black pants that Gaara gave to him,
"Ah- choo!" Naruto sneezed
"You feeling okay Naruto ," Haku asked
"I don't think my body likes the cold" Naruto said as he wiped his nose
"It's your fault, you wanted to go somewhere that snowed" Gaara said
"Hey I didn't hear any complaints from you when we saw snow" Naruto said
"S-So N-Naruto where should we go next" Hinata asked
"I don't know how about we just pick a random direction and walk that way" Naruto said
"You do know that we could get lost by doing that" Gaara said
"Come on it's going to be awesome, trust me" Naruto said
"Fine, but don't blame me when we're lost" Gaara said
"So which direction are we going" Haku asked
"I'll choose once we're out of the village" Naruto said. The others nodded and then they left the village. Once they were outside the village they all looked at Naruto.
"Let's go that way" Naruto pointed to his left
"Naruto, if you wanted warmer weather we should go this way" Haku said as he pointed to his right
"Warmer weather here we come" Naruto said as he walked to the right. The others just sighed then followed Naruto
Meanwhile in Suna
A sand ninja was standing in the Kazekage's office in front of the kazekage.
"What did you call me for Lord Kazekage" the ninja asked.
"I have a mission for you" the kazekage said
"A mission" the ninja said.
"I'm well aware that you know that Gaara is missing right" the kazekage said
"Yes sir" the ninja said
"Your mission is to find Gaara and kill him" the kazekage said
"Yes sir" the ninja said
"And make sure that nobody knows of this mission" the kazekage said.
"Understood" the ninja said
"Good now leave" the kazekage said
"Yes sir" the ninja said before he left
Meanwhile in konoha
A leaf ninja was in front of the hokage.
"You wanted to speak to me lord Hokage" the ninja said
"Yes, I want you to look for the missing Hyuga" the hokage said
"Oh, you mean Hinata Hyuga, the girl who disappeared a couple days ago" the ninja asked.
"Yes, it seems that all the ninja that were sent to go find her had no success. So you are our last hope of finding Hinata Hyuga" the hokage said.
"And if I wasn't able to find her" the ninja said.
"Then Hinata Hyuga would be proclaimed dead" the hokage said.
"I see" the ninja said.
"You may leave now" the hokage said.
"Understood," the ninja said before leaving the hokage's office.
Back with Naruto and the rest
"We should camp here" Naruto said as he looked around. They were in the middle of a forest.
"I'll go get some wood to make a fire" Gaara said as he walked off
"We'll just get some food ready then" Naruto said then he took out 4 bowls of instant ramen from his backpack.
"But don't we need water to eat those" Haku said
"We'll just get some water from the river over there" Naruto said as he pointed at the river in the distance.
"But don't we need a pot" Haku said
"I-I have a p-pot" hinata said as she took a small pot from her backpack.
"Isn't your backpack heavy from carrying the pot around in it" Haku asked
"I-It's not that h-heavy" Hinata said
"I'm going to go get some water from the river" Naruto said then he took the pot that hinata was holding and walked to the river. Leaving Haku with Hinata.
"What made you join Naruto" Haku asked
"Huh?" Hinata said startled
"Why did you run away with Naruto" haku asked
"Um, well N-Naruto was the first f-friend I ever had and I-I wanted to run away from our village just like he d-did" Hinata said.
"Really" Haku said. Hinata nodded her head
"Are you sure it isn't because it's because you like him" haku said. Hinata turned as red as a tomato once he said that.
"H-How d-did you know" Hinata said with her face all red.
"You have to be blind to not see that you like Naruto" haku said
"I-Is it really that o-obvious" Hinata said
"Well it seems that Naruto doesn't see that you like him" Haku said
"Y-Yeah" Hinata said
"I got the water" Naruto said as he walked over to them with the pot full of water.
"N-Naruto" Hinata said
"Gaara still not back yet" Naruto said as he put the pot full of water down.
"It seems he's still collecting firewood" Haku said as he looked around.
"I guess we'll have to wait then" Naruto said as he sat down. A couple minutes later Gaara came back with firewood.
"Sorry I took so long" Gaara said as he set the firewood down.
"It's okay" naruto said as he started to make sure the firewood was good. Then he took a lighter out of his backpack and set the firewood on fire.
"You carry a lighter" Haku said
"Hey I thought a lighter would come in handy" Naruto said as he put away the lighter.
"L-Let's just wait for the water to boil" hinata said as she put the pot over the flame. After a couple of minutes the water started to boil and everyone started to eat their cup noodles.
"Hey guys I just figured something out" Naruto said as he ate some of his instant ramen
"What did you figure out" Haku asked as he ate his ramen noodles
"I just figured out that we barely know anything about each other" Naruto said as he ate more of his ramen.
"You're right" Gaara said as he ate more of his ramen.
"How about we answer one question that we are asked" Naruto said
"Ok" the others said
"Ok, I'll go first. What do you guys want to ask" Naruto said as he finished his ramen
"Do you have any family members" Gaara asked.
"No, I don't remember ever seeing my parents faces" Naruto said as he looked down
"Ever since I could remember I was alone" Naruto said
"Naruto" Haku said
"So that's my answer so who's going to be the next person" Naruto lifted his head and smiled.
"I'll be next" Gaara said
"Ok, do you have any family members besides your father" Naruto asked
"I have an older brother and sister, but they fear me like everybody else does" Gaara said
"So what are their names" Naruto asked
"I thought we were supposed to answer one question" Gaara said
"You're so mean Gaara" Naruto wined
"I-I'll be n-next" Hinata said
"Do you have any family" Gaara asked
"I-I have a father, a little sister, and a cousin" Hinata said
"What about your mother" Gaara asked
"M-My mom died giving birth to my little sister, and my aunt died giving birth to my cousin and my uncle died when I was 3 years old.
"Oh" Gaara said
"So what's my question" Haku asked
"Hmm, How long have you been living on the streets" Naruto asked
"Hmm, I guess it was about a couple of months" Haku said
"You were living on the streets for a couple of months in those clothes. How did you stay warm!" Naruto said
"I only have to answer one question" Haku said
"You're just like Gaara" Naruto wined
"W-We should get some sleep." Hinata said
"Yeah we should" Haku said
"Naru-" Haku said then he looked at Naruto who was already snoring. Haku sighed and pulled a blanket out of Naruto's backpack and wrapped it around Naruto.
"I'll stay awake and keep the fire going" Gaara said.
"O-Ok" Hinata said then she took a blanket from her backpack and wrapped it around herself and then went to sleep.
"Um, Gaara do you have a blanket I can use" Haku asked. Gaara took out a blanket from his backpack and gave it to Haku. Haku thanked him before he went to sleep.
The next morning
"Haku, hinata wake up" Gaara said as he shook both of them awake
"I'm up" Hinata yawned
"What?" Haku yawned as he woke up
"I need your guys help to wake up Naruto" Gaara said as he pointed to Naruto who was still snoring
"Did you tell him that it was breakfast" Hinata said
"I did, but he didn't even move" Gaara said
"Here let me try" Haku said then he walked over to Naruto.
"Naruto. BREAKFAST!" Haku yelled. Naruto still didn't budge
"Hinata you try it" Haku said
"O-Ok" hinata walked over to Naruto
"N-Naruto. BREAKFAST!" hinata yelled and this time Naruto lazily got up and looked around
"Breakfast" Naruto said
"Yeah" Gaara said as he took out granola bars from his backpack and handed one to everybody. Once everybody was finished with their granola bar they started walking again.
Later that day
The four were taking a break from walking, but Naruto wanted to explore some more so he just walked in a random direction. After a couple of minutes Naruto came back to them.
"Hey guys come with me I want to show you something" Naruto said as he grabbed their hands and dragged them for a couple of minutes until they saw a huge waterfall and their were flowers growing along the river.
"Wow" Haku said
"You can say that again" Gaara said as he looked at it
"I-It's so pretty" Hinata said
"Yeah, how about we hang out here for today" Naruto said
"Sounds good to me" Haku said
"Ok" Gaara said
"O-Ok" Hinata said. The four walked over to the waterfall and put their stuff down and Naruto, Haku, and Hinata were playing in the shallow end in the river. Gaara just watched since he didn't want his sand to get wet until Naruto splashed water on him making Gaara splash Naruto back which resulted in all of them having a water fight.
Later that day
"I hate washing laundry" Naruto said as he washed his clothes in the river
"Dirty laundry isn't going to clean itself" Gaara said as he washed his clothes
"Come on guys it's not that bad" Haku said as he washed some clothes.
"H-Haku is right" Hinata said as she washed her clothes
"I just hate washing laundry" Naruto said as he finished washing his laundry then he hung them up to dry. Shortly after the rest finished and hung their laundry to dry.
"Hey, Gaara, Haku come help me" Naruto said as he motioned them towards the river.
"What do you want Naruto" Gaara asked as he walked over to him.
"Come help me get fish so we can eat it for lunch" Naruto said as he walked into the river
"But I don't want to get wet." Gaara said
"How about you just throw some rocks in the river and direct them towards Naruto and me" Haku said
"Ok" Gaara said as he picked up a couple of rocks and walked towards the river. Haku walked into the river with Naruto. After a couple of minutes Naruto finally got a fish
"I got it I got it I got it" Naruto said as he held the fish
"Good job Naruto" Haku said. After a couple of minutes they caught 3 more fish.
"W-Wow guys these look great" Hinata said as she looked at the fish
"They sure do. Come on let's hurry up and cook these. I'm hungry" Naruto said as he started to make a fire.
"Ok" They all said after a couple of minutes they were eating the fish.
"So what should we do after lunch" Naruto said as he took a bite of his fish
"We should gather some food just encase we run low on food when we're traveling" Haku said as he ate his fish
"That's a good idea" Gaara said as he ate his fish
"Y-Yeah" Hinata said as she ate her fish
"So it's decided we're going to gather food after we finish eating" Naruto said then he took another bite of his fish.
"Ok" the others said. After they finished eating they put out the fire and got their backpacks and started to look for food.
"Hey guys look I found an apple tree" Naruto said. The others quickly looked at the apple tree that Naruto found.
"Come on let's hurry and get as many apples as we can" Naruto said. The others nodded and started to pick the apples.
Meanwhile
A sand ninja was at a waterfall with flowers growing along the river. The sand ninja looked at the recently put out fire.
He's around here The ninja thought before he went to go look for Gaara. After the sand ninja was out of sight the leaf ninja emerged from his hiding place.
What is a sand ninja doing here the leaf ninja thought, then looked at the fire.
That fire was put out recently. The ninja thought before leaving in the same direction the sand ninja left.
Back with Naruto and the others
"Wow look at all the apples we collected" Haku said as he looked at the gigantic pile of apples on the ground
"Yeah and we wouldn't have been able to carry all of these if Hinata hadn't packed an extra bag. Thanks Hinata" Naruto said
"I-It was n-nothing" Hinata said as she turned red
"Come on let's hurry and put the apples into the bag" Gaara said as he picked up an apple. The others just nodded and started put the apples into the bag. Then Gaara's sand suddenly shot up and protected Gaara from the kunai that were thrown at him. All of them looked behind them and saw the masked sand ninja.
"I found you Gaara" the sand ninja said
"Who are you" Haku asked
"You're a ninja that my father ordered to kill me, right" Gaara said
"That is correct" the ninja said
"Um, what is going on here" Haku asked
"We'll tell you later" Naruto said
"You" the sand ninja pointed at Hinata
"You're a Hyuga aren't you" the sand ninja asked
"How did you know" Naruto asked
"Her eyes. Only a Hyuga has those eyes" the ninja said as he saw Hinata hide behind Naruto.
"My mission is to kill Gaara and to make sure that nobody knows of this mission. Unfortunately for you that means I cannot leave any survivors" the ninja said
"Um, Gaara what does he mean by that" Naruto asked
"Naruto, the ninja just said that he's going to kill us" Haku said
"What!" Naruto yelled in disbelief
"The girl's correct" The ninja said
"But I'm-" Haku said but the sand ninja threw some shuriken at Haku before he finished his sentence. Gaara quickly made his sand to protect Haku making the shuriken become embedded in the wall of sand.
"Thanks Gaara" Haku said
"Don't mention it" Gaara said then he made his sand go towards the sand ninja. Then they heard a scream come from Hinata. The boys quickly looked back to see Hinata being held by the leaf ninja.
"Hey! Let Hinata go!" Naruto yelled as he charged at the leaf ninja only to be kicked by him.
"I'm afraid I cannot do that" the leaf ninja said
"What is a leaf ninja like you doing here" the sand ninja said
"I'm on a mission that the hokage gave me. I'm supposed to bring back Hinata Hyuga alive" the ninja said
"I'm sorry but I cannot let you bring her back." The sand ninja said then he threw shurikens at the leaf ninja who deflected them with the kunai. Hinata struggled to get out of the leaf ninjas grip, but couldn't so she bit down on the leaf ninjas arm.
"Ouch!" the leaf ninja said as he let go of hinata who ran towards her friends.'
"N-Naruto a-are you okay" Hinata asked as she looked at Naruto
"Don't worry I'm fine" Naruto said. Then the sand ninja threw several kunai at the children but it was blocked by Gaara's sand.
"Thanks Gaara we'd probably be dead if it weren't for you" Haku said as he watched Gaara's sand surround them.
"You're my friends. We're suppose to look out for each other, right" Gaara said as he looked at them.
"Right" Naruto smiled then the sand ninja threw more weapons at the chikdren but Gaara's sand protected them.
"We can't stand here all day. What are we going to do" Haku asked
"Let me think. Let me think" Naruto panicked as the sand blocked a kunai that the leaf ninja threw.
"You might want to hurry I don't know how much longer I can keep this up" Gaara said as he made his sand block another kunai.
"I got it!" Naruto said
"Got what?" Gaara said
"Gaara can you transport us back to the waterfall" Naruto whispered to Gaara.
"Yeah I can do that" Gaara said
"Good so can you do it now" Naruto said . Gaara nodded and made his sand surround them.
"Naruto what is he doing" Haku asked
"We'll tell you later just stay close to us" Naruto said. Haku nodded and stayed closed to them as the sand surrounded them. Then after the sand stopped surrounding them they were back at the waterfall.
"How did Gaara do that" Haku said
"We'll explain later, but right now we have to run those ninjas are going to catch up to us soon" Naruto said as he put on his backpack, but then a kunai was thrown right in front of his feet.
"It's too late to run" the sand ninja said as he appeared before them.
"Uh oh, we're in trouble" the kids said. Then the sand ninja threw a kunai at hinata, but Naruto jumped in front of hinata and the kunai hit his hand.
"AAAAHHH!" Naruto yelled in pain as he took the kunai out of his hand, his blood still dripping down his hand.
"Naruto!" his friends yelled
"N-Naruto" hinata said as she looked at Naruto's bloody hand.
"Don't worry, I'm okay," Naruto said as he looked at his hand.
"Are you sure" Haku said. Naruto pushed Haku out of the way of the shuriken that the sand ninja threw.
"That was a close one" Naruto said as he looked at the shuriken
"Thanks Naruto" haku said
"You…You.." Gaara said as he looked at the sand ninja
"Gaara", Naruto said as he looked at Gaara
"You hurt my friends" Gaara said
"And now you're going to pay!" Gaara said as his sand quickly rushed to attack the sand ninja.
"Naruto what's going on" Haku asked
"I don't know" Naruto said as he saw Gaara's sand attack the sand ninja. The sand ninja then threw a kunai with a paper bomb attached to it at Gaara.
"Gaara it's a paper bomb" Naruto yelled
"What?" Gaara said as he looked at Naruto. The kunai with the paper bomb exploded right in front of Gaara sending him crashing into Hinata because of the force.
"Sorry Hinata" Gaara said as he got up
"I-It's o-okay" hinata said as she got up
"What was that" Gaara asked
"That was a paper bomb" Naruto said.
"And how do you know that" Haku asked
"I saw those in a book I had at home" Naruto said. The sand ninja took out another kunai and attached another paper bomb and threw it at Gaara, but Gaara's sand shot up and protected Gaara. The kunai exploded as it hit the wall of sand that protected Gaara.
"We have to find a way to deal with this guy" Haku said
"Hey Haku. Do you know how to throw a kunai" Naruto asked
"Yeah, I know" Haku said
"How about shurikens" Naruto asked
"Yeah. Why?" Haku asked
"Do you have good accuracy" Naruto said
"I guess. Naruto why are you asking me these questions" haku asked then looked at Naruto who had kunais and shurikens in his hand.
"Do you think you could hit the sand ninja" Naruto asked
"Um, I think so" Haku said as he took a kunai from Naruto
"Ok, Gaara and I will distract him while you throw the kunai at him" Naruto said
"Ok" Haku said as he gripped the kunai in his hand. Naruto picked up a rock with his left hand since his right hand was injured and he walked over to Gaara.
"I can't throw very well with my left hand since I'm right handed" naruto said
"It's okay all we have to do is get him distracted long enough for Haku to throw the kunai at him right" Gaara said
"Right" Naruto said then he threw the rock at the sand ninja as hard as he could, but it didn't make it. So Gaara took this opportunity to make his sand attack the ninja. While the ninja was avoiding the sand, Haku waited for the sand ninja to stop so he can throw the kunai. When the sand ninja stopped for a brief moment Haku took the opportunity to throw the kunai at the sand ninja. Luckily the ninja didn't see the kunai and it pierced his shoulder.
"AAHH" the sand ninja yelled in pain
"Yes, it hit" Haku said as he looked at the ninja
"Alright, great job Haku" Naruto said. Then they heard hinata scream. They all looked behind them to see the leaf ninja holding a struggling Hinata in his arms.
"Hey let go of Hinata" Naruto yelled
"Sorry, no can do" the ninja said. Hinata bit down on the ninja's arm like she did last time except this time the ninja didn't let her go.
"Ouch" the ninja said, but didn't let Hinata go. So Hinata started to kick her legs and accidently kicked the ninja in the last place he wanted to be kicked.
"AAAAAHHHH" the ninja cried out in pain letting Hinata go. Hinata quickly ran away from the leaf ninja.
"hinata are you okay" Naruto asked
"Don't worry I'm fine" Hinata said. The sand ninja threw a couple of more kunai with paper bombs attached to them towards the kids.
"Uh oh" Naruto said before the paper bombs went off. When the smoke cleared all of them were unharmed thanks to Gaara's sand.
"Wow Gaara you're a lifesaver" Naruto said
"Don't mention it" Gaara said. The sand ninja quickly threw another kunai with a paper bomb attached to it towards the kids. The four quickly ran away from the paper bomb once it hit the ground.
"That was a close one" Haku said.
"Too close if you ask me" Naruto said. The ninja threw more paper bombs at them, but the four couldn't run away since they were at the wall of the water fall.
"Guys get down" Haku yelled they all looked at him.
"What?" Naruto said confused
"He attached the paper bombs to the wall of the waterfall, once they explode the rocks will fall on us!" Haku yelled then the paper bombs exploded.
"Oh crap" Naruto said before everybody got down on the ground, the rocks started to fall on them. Once the smoke cleared, there was only a humongous pile of rocks where the 4 children used to be.
I don't sense any chakra coming from the rocks the ninja thought.
That means they're all dead the sand ninja thought then he looked at the leaf ninja who was now standing and looking at the pile of rocks.
"It looks like I failed my mission" the leaf ninja said. The sand ninja just walked away.
"I thought that you were going to kill me" the leaf ninja said making the sand ninja stop
"I was only ordered to kill anybody who knew about my mission. You did not know anything about my mission so I won't have to kill you" the sand ninja said before he took off.
I better go back to Konoha and report to the hokage the leaf ninja thought before leaving.
About a half an hour later (we're still at the waterfall)
The pile of rocks started to move. Then one of the rocks was pushed out of the way.
"cough- is- cough- everyone- cough- alright" Gaara asked as he got out from the pile of rocks.
"I'm alright" Haku said before he coughed from the dust, then he got out from the pile of rocks
"I'm fine. Hinata are you okay" Naruto asked as he got out
"I-I'm o-okay" Hinata said as Naruto helped her get out from the pile of rocks.
"Wow that was a close one" Naruto said
"We wouldn't have survived if it weren't for Gaara" Haku said
Flashback
As the rocks started to come down on them, Gaara quickly made his sand cover him and his friends from the falling rocks. Once the rocks stopped falling on them Gaara asked if they were okay.
"I'm okay" Haku said
"I'm fine" Naruto said
"I-I'm a-alright" Hinata said
"We should stay here for a little while until they leave" Gaara said
"Ok" they all said
After 5 minutes
"Can we go out now" Naruto asked
"No" the others said
"WHY NOT!," Naruto whined then Haku smacked Naruto
"Haku why did you do that" Naruto whined as he touched his cheek
"It's because you're being loud and we have to wait a bit longer" Haku said
"Why?" Naruto asked
"It's because we have to wait until they get a good distance away from us for us to get out without them knowing" Haku said
"Why?" Naruto asked
"So we can get away from them" Haku said
"Why?" Naruto said
"You're just saying why so you can piss me off aren't you" Haku said
"Why?" Naruto said, now Haku was really starting to get pissed off. After 15 minutes of arguing they finally got out from under the gigantic pile of rocks.
End flashback
"If it weren't for you Gaara we would have been dead" Naruto said
"If it weren't for me you guys wouldn't have been there in the first place" Gaara said
"That's true, but you saved us so that completely makes up for that sand ninja thing" Naruto said
"Come on we should get going" Haku said
"Right" everybody said and started to get ready to leave
In Suna with the sand ninja (I know it takes a whole lot longer to get to Suna then just half an hour, but let's just pretend that the sand ninja already go there okay)
The sand ninja stood in the kazekages office telling the kazekage that the mission was a complete success.
"Is there anybody else that knows of this mission I sent you on" the kazekage asked
"No sir" the sand ninja said
"You have done well, Baki, you may leave" the kazekage said
"Yes sir" Baki said as he left.
In Konoha
The leaf ninja was standing in the hokage's office telling him about his mission.
"I see so Hinata Hyuga is dead" the hokage said
"I'm sorry Hokage I failed" the leaf ninja said
"It's okay" the hokage said
"Yes it is, I was standing right there when the girl died" the leaf ninja said
"It is not your fault" the hokage said
"I'm sorry" the leaf ninja said
"You may leave now, Itachi Uchiha" the hokage said. Itachi nodded and left.
Whiteicewolf: it took me a long time to finish this so don't go complaining that you hate it. Okay for the decision for Ranmaru joining. When I counted the votes, Ranmaru will be joining them. Review