Chapter Five: Ninjas on Board

Cameo: Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura, with mentions of Kakashi and Naruto. You do know them, right?

Nakamura Sakura had been a student of Namimori Gakuen for three years according to everyone's memories. However, Haruno Sakura had only been in Namimori for less than a month. With the help of the gracious boyfriend, Uchiha Sasuke a.k.a. Michiko Kai, they had tampered with the whole school's memories and made it look like they'd always been there as per the mission's requirement.

{Infiltrate Namimori Gakuen and gather information on the Vongola's tenth boss. Do not engage unless absolutely necessary and make sure to protect the civilians.}

Sasuke and Sakura hadn't been known for subtlety—super strength and giant, purple armored avatars does that—but they were the best at genjutsu, and no one else would have been qualified enough to deceive a whole town. Besides, they were ninjas and what the fuck is a ninja who can't spy? ("What about Naruto?" Sasuke had argued, pertaining to his blond loudmouth best friend who couldn't spy to his life, but was quickly shot down by the white-haired, perverted Hokage, their leader, by saying, "That damn fox is an anomaly. He doesn't count.")

The mission was simple enough. They only needed to gather enough info to satisfy their client—schedule, friends, hobbies, what he usually did in his spare time, mannerisms and any weaknesses—and then they'd be free to go make out wherever they wanted. Sasuke hadn't wanted to accept the mission (because he's the fucking strongest ninja in the world, on par with the fucking fox—and no, not second. On par! Why would he be wasting his time spying on a child? They were the same age, apparently, but that hardly mattered.) But when Sakura, out of sheer boredom, decided to take it, he was left with no choice but to come with her.

Sakura had complained and drugged him so he couldn't follow her, but damn if he was going to let his girlfriend out to unfamiliar territory all on her own. Strongest medic nin or not, she was his girlfriend. Really, he could swear the damn woman had more pride than him, and he was basically the most prideful man there ever was! (Uchiha, duh.) When he found her, she was only able to deceive half of the student population, and was having a hard time keeping up with the genjutsu for a long time, so he had to intervene, which caused Sakura to punch the living daylights out of him as a form of thank you.

If he wasn't so fucking in lo—

Ugh.

Anyway, as stubborn as the pink-haired lady was, Sasuke wasn't about to leave. So, while Sakura was spying on the target—which to him looked more like a plush rabbit than a mafia boss in training—Sasuke spied on her, which pissed him big time. (What kind of boyfriend had to spy on his own girl? Damn, feminist.) He observed the target from time to time, along with his abnormal group of friends that reminded him so much of their own group of friends back at home. They were loud and stupid on the surface, but they no doubt had strength and a bond as thick as his bond to Naruto.

It was pretty admirable.

When the school trip to Italy was announced, Sasuke was instantly suspicious. He suggested to Sakura that they leave, as they had more than enough Intel—the brunette and his friends weren't exactly subtle, either. (Sasuke had to wonder no one else had noticed how peculiar they were. Come on, they fight with rainbow flames sometimes and destroy parts of the school on a regular basis. He had to hand it to the reconstruction group to putting up with that kind of destruction all the time.)

Sakura, however, impulsive girl that she was, thought it would be fun to join the trip despite the obvious danger flags littered all around. It was the mafia capital of the world! In anything happened, he wouldn't be able to come out unscathed, much less protect her and the civilians. Not that Sakura needed protecting, but he's the boyfriend! He could at least try, couldn't he?

He wasn't able to stop her though, as the woman drugged him (again!) and boarded the ridiculous clam-shaped plane in giddy excitement. He had to fly around for hours before he caught up to them, and teleport inside the plane, sneaking in from the luggage room. When he found his girlfriend, she was sleeping peacefully in an absurdly huge bed—mafia people are so ridiculous—and then she got angry!

"What are you doing here, Sasuke?" she hissed in a voice he almost missed, but it was easy to read lips.

He smirked, "What? Did you really think you could run from me? I'll always find you, Sakura."

"Tch, what do you want?"

"The mission is done, Sakura. You have to stop this. Once this shit lands, we're taking the first plane back to Japan. We have enough intel anyway. We don't need to get any more involved than we are."

Sakura pouted at him, Sasuke had to stop himself from kissing her then. He had to be firm or else the woman would get away with her ridiculous plans again. "That's so boring, Sasuke-kun. We hardly have any fun missions like this anymore, we should—"

"No," he said with finality. "We both have responsibilities, Sakura, and this is not one of them. We're ninjas. We shouldn't get involved with the mafia. If anything happened, it wouldn't just affect you or me, but every one of our kind and possibly civilians. I've let you have your fun back at home, but this is enough, Sakura. We should go home."

His girlfriend, seeing that she wouldn't be able to get her way this time around, decided to just glare at him before sighing and lying back down.

It didn't matter though. He was taking them back to Konoha the moment this ridiculous contraption landed.

But maybe he could make her agree to a date first. Yes, that's a good idea. It was Italy, after all.

Before any of the herbivores could wake up, Hibari was already up and about, settling into his familiar routine of patrolling, checking every nook and cranny of the plane for signs of danger. His Hibirds chirped cheerfully by his ears, a couple nestling snuggly on his soft, black hair. He had a smirk laid on his handsome face, thinking of the many ways he would torture the damn ninjas who dared infiltrate his town. The damn omnivore had better let him, of Hibari would bite him to death first.

After an hour, a couple of students came out to get some food from the many storages littered all over the entertainment room. Seeing them, Hibari's mile broadened and, no longer in the mood to wait for his 'boss' to wake up, he decided to bite them now.

The two of them looked no different from the usual students, except maybe the girl's pink hair, however, he could feel their strength as if it was a physical being. These two weren't push-overs.

Good, he thought. At least it wouldn't be as boring.

Taking out his tonfas, he waited for the two troublemakers to notice his presence after he let out his killing intent. He wasn't disappointed, as the couple of them immediately tensed and turned to him, stances in fighting mode.

The guy, Hibari noticed, looked a bit like someone he knew. Raven hair and black eyes, pale skin and the aura of a demon. If his hair wasn't shaped ridiculously like a chicken-butt, Hibari would have acknowledged him as someone similar to himself.

However, he wouldn't accept that any of his relatives would be low enough to have the same styling sense as a certain pineapple herbivore he knew.

Now more pissed than ever, he gritted his teeth and prepared to rampage. "For daring to infiltrate Namimori"—and for having horrible tastes—"I'll bite you to death."

Sakura couldn't decide whether to blush in anger or admiration. This man, dangerous tonfas with purple flame coating notwithstanding, was hot. He kind of reminded her of her equally hot boyfriend—who was seething beside her when he noticed her red cheeks—except he had mildly normal hair and, damn, gray eyes. She couldn't figure out why he had a lot of yellow birds around him, though. And why he was looking about ready to butcher them to death. What was it he said, 'bite' them to death?

And then the man attacked them with astonishing speed. Sakura barely had time to recognize what was happening before she was swept off her feet and crashed into one of the chairs nearby. Sasuke, who didn't quite like the tonfa guy as much as he did, was the one who took her off the steel tonfas path—which, she realized, horrified, destroyed nearly half of the amenities inside the vast room. In. just. One. Strike.

Who was this guy?

"What do you want?" Sasuke, crouching protectively over his still-in-shock girlfriend who couldn't understand how a 'normal' person could do so much damage in a single attack, growled at the boy who stood in the middle of the chaos, looking at them murderously.

Sasuke had seen enough chaos in his twenty years as a shinobi, caused quite a lot of them himself along with his destructive girlfriend, but he had never seen…well, anyone, aside from Naruto, himself, Sakura and a few select people make this much damage with barely any effort. There wasn't even a trace of chakra used.

Sakura could make more damage than this with just her finger, but that was only when she utilized her chakra and focused them in a single point. She was deadly precise in controlling chakra, and with her medical knowledge on par with Tsunade's, that made her quite a force to reckon with. This man, however, did all that with brute force.

The pair of ninjas, considered the strongest in their age—or ever—made twin smirks as they prepared their respective weapons, their blood curdling in anticipation.

"I knew I was right to come here," Sakura muttered, to which Sasuke couldn't help but agree.

They had found something interesting.

The whole plane was shock-proof because Shoichi and Spanner knew just how intense some of Tsuna's Guardians could be at times. They had to make sure that even should a fight breakout between Hibari and Mukuro, the plane wouldn't crash or malfunction. This is why, despite the clash between the Cloud Guardian and the Ninja spies in the training room breaking out in full force, none of the knocked out students in the sleeping room were torn out of their rest.

That is, except Tsuna who was woken up by a vicious strike from Reborn's one-ton hammer straight to the face.

"Hmmf! What the hell, Reborn?" He whisper-yelled, a flood of tears involuntarily flowing out of his doe-like brown eyes.

"Hibari's destroying the entertainment room. As the boss, you should learn to control your subordinates Tsuna," the hit man said simply before blowing snot out of his nose, falling asleep standing up.

Tsuna's tears stopped abruptly. "HIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE! Nani?!"

Running out of the room screaming, tripping exactly thrice and igniting the wrath of about a couple hundred zombie teenagers, Tsuna found himself at the door to the entertainment room—which had gone from heaven to calamity zone overnight.

"HIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!" He shrieked once again, eyes landing on a bloody Hibari facing off against a couple of students Tsuna didn't realize, one, a girl with pink hair that had turned red with blood wielding a—was that a kunai?—and another, a guy with funny hair controlling a giant purple thing with bleeding eyes of red and violet.

What the hell happened while he was asleep?

Notes: The genjutsu only involved those at school, and yes that included Tsuna and his gang since ninja genjutsu is fundamentally different from mist illusions. Hibari, however, since he wasn't at school anymore, wasn't affected. This is more of a filler than anything, although it is part of the story and had some relevant information, so I didn't have much time to figure the technical stuff.

Next chapter is when they'll land in Italy. I have a plan laid out for it, but somehow all my plans were deemed useless once I start typing so even I don't know what to expect.