Author's Note: First of all, my dear readers, let me point out ONE little thing before I start this story...
This chapter's gonna be the death of me TT^TT I swear, the reason I've took so long to update is because I couldn't come up with a freaking idea for the "Here's your mission" part...
Until I found my notebook with the original ideas for all the chapters *sweatdrop*
DISCLAIMER!: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! IT BELONGS TO MASASHI KISHIMOTO! :)
Warnings: Bashing of some people. Language :3
Anyways, here's the new chapter...
::: The Mission :::
"Get back here, you demonic rodent!" Naruto snarled, lunging at his target. It was a cat with a bow on its left ear.
Sai sighed, restraining his friend before he would be scratched to shreds. "Calm down, Naruto-kun," the artist said soothingly. Kabuto came up behind the blond teen and black-haired teen, putting a calming hand on the blond's shoulder.
"It's just a cat." Wrong thing to say.
"JUST a cat! KABUTO! WE'VE HAD TO CAPTURE THAT. . . .THAT THING ABOUT A THIRD OF OUR MISSIONS ALREADY! AND WE'VE HAD ABOUT SIXTY MISSIONS!" the whiskered teen shouted. Hayate coughed and shrugged at his answer.
"True, but that -cough- doesn't mean that it's -cough- a 'demonic rodent', as you say," he replied.
Naruto growled at the cat that he swore was smirking at him, choosing to not answer and just let Sai bring the bound (by the artist's snakes) to the Hokage Tower.
-In the tower-
"Okay, Team Eleven, I think it's time for your first C-Rank mission," Sarutobi started.
YESSS! FINALLY! NO MORE DEMON CATS! Naruto cackled mentally. Kyuubi sweat-dropped.
Uh... kit? Naruto just kept cackling. Kyuubi sighed. Yep... definitely like that midget.
-Kaze no Kuni-
A short, blond male with golden eyes twitched. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MINISCULE FLEA!" he roared. A black-haired male with black eyes put a hand on the short one's head.
"Calm down, Fullmetal." The man then had a confused look in his eyes. "And no one even said the 's' word."
A suit of armor sighed. Nii-san... He sweat-dropped at Edward's next sentence.
"Un, I know. But my 'short-senses' were tingling," the blond alchemist replied moodily. His company sweat-dropped.
-Back at the tower-
A poof of smoke erupted in the office, making Hayate cough more and the three Genin just cough. "Yo," a silver-haired man said, eye-smiling. Three Genin burst through the door at that moment, glaring at the silver-haired man.
"Kaka-sensei..." the two girls growled while the boy just Hn'ed.
"Maa maa, calm down, Sakura, Haruka," he said lazily, waving a hand that wasn't holding his precious orange book.
Haruka sighed while Sakura huffed. The boy, Sasuke, just Hn'ed... again. Sakura groaned inwardly. I swear, if there's anyone more emo than him, I'll kill myself. In Nami no Kuni, a little boy named Inari sneezed.
"Sasuke-kuuuuuuuuun!" a high-pitched, female voice squealed before Sasuke was tackle-glomped to the ground. Naruto snickered.
A dark-haired boy sighed. "Tch. Troublesome," he muttered. A boy next to him munched on chips.
"I couldn't agree more," Haruka grumbled, leaning against the wall and muttering to herself: stuff like "Troublesome" and "I could be sleeping".
Kabuto sweat-dropped. "Is she a relative to the Nara's?" he mumbled to his teammates. Sai's eyebrows rose slightly.
"You would think," he commented quietly.
"Well, since you are all here, I guess I should just make this a joint mission," Sarutobi said, mainly to himself. "Teams Kakashi, Hayate, and Asuma; your mission is to guard the bridge builder, Tazuna, to Nami no Kuni. Send him in!" he said to his Anbu guards.
A few moments later, an old, scruffy-looking man walked through the door. Naruto's nose wrinkled as he smelt the alcohol coming off of the man. "These are my guards?" the old man asked incredulously. "Nine shorties and three adults?"
Naruto stared blankly. Shorty. . . .shorty. . . .shorty. . . .shorty. . . .SHORTY, it echoed through his mind. Sai slapped a hand over the blond's mouth while Kabuto restrained him. Naruto, seeing he couldn't rant aloud, settled for ranting to Kyuubi. Who's he calling so short that they would be crushed by an insect! he snarled mentally. Kyuubi face-palmed... err, face-pawed.
He didn't say that, the who-knows-how-old demon pointed out. Naruto ignored his sensei, for the moment, and continued ranting. Kyuubi once again sighed. I swear... Alphonse, how did you ever put up with that shrimp? Kyuubi then shuddered slightly as a foreboding feeling came over him.
-Near Sunagakure no Sato, in the desert-
Edward Elric twitched. Roy Mustang glanced at him. "Something wrong, Fullmetal?" he asked.
Edward glared at the sun that was glaring down on them. "Nothing... just my 'short-senses' tingling again," he replied. Roy sweat-dropped. "By the way, where's Al?" The blond was glancing behind them, trying to find his younger brother. But the suit of armor was nowhere to be seen.
"I'm right here, nii-san," a voice said from underneath the sand. Edward jumped about ten feet in the air when a metal hand grabbed ahold of his leg.
"Alphonse!" Roy said, helping him out of the sand.
"You got buried again?" Ed asked in disbelief to himself.
-Back with Teams Kakashi, Hayate, and Asuma-
"It would be best to not insult those who are going to be guarding you, Tazuna-san," Haruka said in a sweet tone, giving the old man an innocent look. Her teammates cringed; well, Sakura and Kakashi did. Sasuke did so mentally.
That tone and look is not good on her, was their general thoughts.
"Okay team! Meet up at the gates in two hours!" Kakashi announced to his students before Shunshin'ing out of the Hokage Tower.
Asuma just blinked and said, "Same with what Kakashi said." He, too, Shunshin'ed out of the Tower.
Hayate looked at his team, coughed, then said, "Meet at the gates in two hours. You'll probably have some extra time, so you don't have to rush. You know how Kakashi is." He then Shunshin'ed out of the Tower.
Naruto, Sai, and Kabuto stared blankly at the spot where their sensei left before Shunshin'ing out as well. Teams 7 and 10 stared/gaped/glared at the spots the three were standing in at the time.
-One hour later, with Team Hayate-
Naruto blocked an attack from Sai with a wall of hellfire that melted the ink. "You'll have to do better, Sai," he smirked.
Sai smirked back, surprising Naruto. "You forgot someone," he pointed out. Naruto cursed and spun away from Kabuto's punch.
Shit, shit, shit, shit- ITAI!
Kyuubi smacked him upside the head mentally, in human form. A chibi, kitsune!Naruto whimpered with chibi-eyes. Language! the fox demon scolded.
The chibi-Naruto stared incredulously. You cuss more, and worse, than I do! he retorted. SMACK! Itai! I'll just be quiet now...
"Shit," Naruto mumbled, flipping back to avoid the chakra scalpel that Kabuto formed. The blond quickly pulled on his white gloves and put his fingers in a snapping position. He grinned, watching Kabuto and Sai gulp slightly as they saw the fire forming on his fingertips. "Surrender," he said to them. Their expressions hardened before they started running forward. Naruto sighed dramatically before he snapped his fingers.
BOOOOOM!
-With Team Kakashi-
BOOOOOM! Sakura bolted upright from her sitting position on the ground. Sasuke's eyes widened slightly. Haruka lazily opened her eyes.
"Eh? What happened this time?" she queried in a lazy, sleepy tone.
"Hn, dobe," Sasuke muttered. Haruka glared sleepily.
"An explosion," Sakura told the redhead, who blinked. She sighed when she felt Naruto's spiritual energy behind the explosion.
I swear, that boy... Haruka grumbled internally.
-With Team Asuma-
BOOOOOM! Ino shrieked, causing Chouji to wince and cover his ears while Shikamaru was rudely woken from his dreamless, peaceful sleep. (A/N: I envy him at the moment. Lol) "What in Kami's name was that!" the blond girl screeched. Shikamaru's and Chouji's ears rang after that.
-With Team Hayate-
Naruto blinked as the smoke cleared, before laughing so hard he fell to the ground. It was like a cartoon, the way the silver-haired and black-haired boys looked. Their clothes were burnt from the fire, with some parts still smoldering. Their hair was covered in ash, with their hair standing up comically.
But it was their expressions that had made Naruto start laughing. The two Genin looked like they had just seen Sasuke running around town, screaming/singing, "I'm so pretty! Oh so pretty! And GAAAAAAAAAAY!" Naruto laughed even harder at that thought.
-Another hour later: with Team Hayate-
"Ah, that was fun. Wasn't it, Kabuto, Sai?" Naruto teased, hands behind his head as he rested said head on them. The still-burnt Genin glared at him as he smirked at them. "What? I told you to surrender."
"You didn't have to blow us up, though!" Kabuto growled. "I mean, honestly! I can understand a tiny fire! But AN EXPLOSION! BAKA!" He whacked Naruto over the head.
"Itai!" the blond whined, rubbing his now sore head. "Maa, what was that for? We were just sparring-"
"-Exactly!" Sai cut in. "'Just sparring' means no extreme methods. That would be 'all out sparring'." Naruto pouted and turned away from them childishly.
They're no fun, Naruto whined. Kyuubi, still in human form, raised his left eyebrow.
Well, kit... you did blow them up practically.
Kyuu-sensei! Naruto whined.
"Besides that... we need to get to the gates," Kabuto interrupted the still, surprisingly, ranting artist. Naruto's and Sai's eyes widened.
"Shit."
-At the gates, with Tazuna, Team Hayate, Team Asuma, and Team Kakashi-
"Troublesome," Shikamaru and Haruka both muttered.
Kyuubi sweat-dropped, as did Naruto. Lazy asses, the two thought simultaneously.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura screeched at Kakashi, inwardly wincing at having to do so for her act. Ino had also joined her in the screeching.
"Maa, maa, I was asked by a cute girl to dance with her so I accepted and-" Kakashi was cut off by Tazuna's arrival.
He's later than Kakashi was, Naruto sweat-dropped. Kyuubi was mildly shocked as well.
Hell has frozen over, he declared, making Naruto's sweat-drop grow.
Kyuu-sensei? he asked mentally as the three teams plus client starting walking towards Nami.
Ah? Kyuubi responded absentmindedly. Naruto didn't even bother to guess at what was distracting the demon.
Naruto instead focused his sight on a water puddle. Does that seem suspicious to you? he asked pointedly.
Ah, the kitsune replied. Naruto deadpanned before he jumped into action, Sasuke joining him a second later. The reason? Two men just came out of the puddle and 'shredded' Kakashi, Asuma, and Hayate. Sakura and Ino screamed, the latter nearly passing out while the former had been whining mentally about having to keep up this act.
"Three down, nine to go," the two, (the Demon Brothers, Kyuubi inputted), chorused. Note that this had happened before Sasuke and Naruto had jumped into action. Shikamaru was standing behind them, seemingly doing nothing. The same was with Haruka, except if you looked closely you would see her left fingers in a half-Tora seal. Sai and Kabuto flanked Naruto. The positions were (from left to right):
(back) Tazuna
Sakura - Ino - Chouji
Shikamaru - Haruka
'Remains' of Kakashi - 'remains' of Hayate - 'remains' of Asuma
Sasuke - Kabuto - Naruto - Sai
Demon Brothers
[Let's get back to the story, now shall we?] "Sai!" Naruto said in a commanding tone. The artist nodded, understanding the silent instructions.
He took out some black ink and sent it into the ground, appearing to be whispering something under his breath. A few seconds later, five ink snakes shot up and wrapped around Meizu, restraining him to the spot. He struggled and broke free of one of the snakes, making it disperse in a splash of ink. Just as he was about to break the rest, the snake that he destroyed reformed and kept a hold on him.
Meanwhile, a black mass had been coming towards Gozu, who hadn't noticed until he heard, "Kage Mane no Jutsu (Shadow Possession Technique): Success," and saw a slightly smirking Shikamaru. He also noticed that the redheaded female who was with him before was now nowhere in sight.
That was, until he heard strange music and voices wash over him. Through it all, Gozu strained his ears and heard the redhead yell, "NOW, SASUKE!" And what do ya know? A fireball came hurtling towards him, combined with a wind attack from the blond boy.
All Gozu heard before his world was filled with pain was:
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)!"
"Fuuton: Atsugai (Wind Release: Pressure Damage)!"
Back with Meizu, well... Let's just say he got hit with part of the blast, and Kabuto had practically killed him by severing most of his chakra points, a technique he had learned by watching some of the Hyuuga family fight.
"That was great, you six," Kakashi praised, eye-smiling. "I must say, you six have pretty great teamwork."
"I agree," Asuma said lazily before he turned to the three that were protecting the client, who looked eagerly at him for his opinion. "You three didn't really do much but scream." The three face-faulted. "But Chouji, Sakura, I saw you two overcome your fears, and I am proud of you two for that. Ino, you, with your chakra sensing, should have known that we were still alive." Ino had the grace to look ashamed.
"Yo, Sai, what was that technique?" Naruto questioned curiously as they started walking again. The three senseis were interrogating their frightened client at the moment.
The artist gave a fake friendly smile. "Oh, it's titled Sumi Nagashi (Ink Flush)," he replied.
Naruto turned to Haruka, who had a slightly troubled look on her face. "What kind of Release was that?" he questioned her. "I haven't ever heard of anything like it."
The redhead looked at him through tired blood-red eyes and sighed. "It's a Hijutsu (Hidden Jutsu) of my clan. The Rimasaya all have different variations of our hijutsu. So far, I am the only one who has had Neton (Sound Release) in the Rimasaya clan in over one hundred years." By now, she had the attention of all the others. She sighed again before continuing. "My mother had had Shouton (Crystal Release), and my uncle had had Kamiton (Paper Release). So, you see, I have no idea how I got the Neton ability, seeing as my father wasn't even from the Rimasaya clan.
"Before I say anything else, I might as well explain to you the history of the Rimasaya clan. Our enemy clan is a clan that had been long ago wiped out, named the Genshuku clan. They specialized in gravity. They had a kekkei genkai, one that was even more powerful than the Sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye) and Byakugan (All Seeing White Eye). It was called the Rin'negan (Samsara Eye)." The Jounins' eyes widened. "They were able to blast away all of our techniques by using their jutsu, Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push). And when someone like me, who specializes in genjutsu try to use their techniques against the Rin'negan user, they would be able to see through the illusions better and faster than a Sharingan or Byakugan could." She paused for a moment to let the information set in before Haruka continued.
"Now, in the Third Shinobi War, the Genshuku clan was wiped out in a surprise attack by the Uchiha, Hyuuga, and Rimasaya. Apparently, the three great clans had banded together to wipe out their greatest threat- and it worked, apparently. But I can't help but wonder if our elders forgot some people." She frowned. "Anyways, now that you know the enemies of the Rimasaya, you should know the allies of my clan." She briefly glanced at Sasuke, who looked as curious (by now) as the rest, before continuing with slight hesitation, seeing as she didn't want to deal with a reaction from the duck-haired 'last' Uchiha.
"The two allies of the Rimasaya clan were the Hyuuga and Uchiha. But the Hyuuga rebelled against the Rimasaya, and the Uchiha aided the Rimasaya when they were nearly extinct, thus the reason that there are so few..." Haruka paused before continuing. "Anyways. . . .as payment for the help, we (the Rimasaya and the Uchiha) agreed to an alliance. However, the Rimasaya women would be branded at birth with a mark that would only awaken during great moments of stress involving their mate. Much like an Uchiha's Sharingan would. Except this wasn't a doujutsu (eye technique). This was a mark to show who we (the women) were to mate with." Haruka seemed a decade older as she continued on.
"It's process of showing (the mark) was like an Uchiha's Sharingan, also. First, a circle would appear. Next, a dot in the middle (the pupil of a Sharingan, actually). And finally, our mate's Mangekyou Sharingan would show up there. Even if our mate didn't have a Mangekyou, we would immediately know who it was. Normally, as I seen with my mother that is, the mark appears either on our necks or on our lower backs." Haruka looked up at the sky.
"My father, as you all are probably wondering, is- no, was, Uchiha Shisui," she commented before she stiffened. Naruto, getting out of his shock at her clan history, tensed also and simultaneously, the blonde and redhead threw a kunai towards the bushes to their right. Naruto's eyes widened as he noticed a white rabbit there.
"EVERYBODY DUCK!" he roared, diving to the ground, pulling down a dumbstruck Kabuto. Sai had grabbed Ino while Sakura had let her mask drop momentarily and she developed an angry, stony face. She punched the sword flying through the air towards Haruka who grabbed it and sent it spinning towards the trees. Sasuke's eyes narrowed and sent an attack towards the offender.
"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique)!" Small fireballs where sent in that direction, the flames twisting wildly and randomly lashing out at the trees in their path. A figure jumped out of the way, but the fireballs followed them... before they suddenly ended. Surprisingly, it was Haruka's head who snapped towards the user of the jutsu, Sasuke. He was panting on the ground, senbon needles in his arm and neck, dangerously close to his vitals for the neck injuries. She ran towards him, yanking out the senbon. The Uchiha hissed and glared.
The redhead glared back slightly before turning towards the sheepish Sakura, who was ignoring the looks sent her way. "Sakura, stop worrying about the fact that you let your mask drop and get over here to help Sasuke!" the redhead practically barked at the pinkette. Said pinkette scowled but ran towards the Rimasaya female and Uchiha male. "I know you know basic medical jutsu. Just... heal it," Haruka said, her eyes shadowed before she stood up to stand by Naruto.
Speaking of Naruto, he was glaring at a laughing man who had bandages on his face much like Kakashi's mask. Beside the man was a bishounen boy. "Haku, I thought you were going to stay in the trees?" the man said in a deep voice.
The bishounen bowed his head. "Gomen-nasai (I'm very sorry), Zabuza-sama," Haku said to Zabuza.
Shit, Naruto thought as he felt two other chakra signatures. One was feminine and like his sensei's, a sick feeling to it (probably had the same sort-of disease as Hayate did) while the other felt dead with a slight bloodthirsty feeling to it. The latter also felt as if it was envious at everything. Interesting...
Kit! That's not an ordinary chakra. It's the chakra of a Homunculus, Kyuubi said in a tone that sounded close to anxious.
Double shit, Naruto thought before leaving a Kage Bunshin with full chakra in it in his place and Kawarimi'ing (Kawarimi = Body Replacement) with it. Better find out what the Homunculus wants.
-End of chapter three-
Author's Notes: Well, holy shit. This might just be one of the longest chapters I've written in a long fuckin' time. *Sigh* Sorry, I needed to rant. (Sorta)
The reason this has taken so long is because of all the shit in my life right now, plus the stress and my sudden lack of motivation in things.
The pairings in this fanfic will be (currently):
Naruto x (female)Kimimaro
Sasuke x Haruka
Sai x Tayuya (Don't ask me how this one is going to work out, okay? I'll figure it out someday.)
Roy x Edward
Alphonse x Hinata (Mind you, this'll be AFTER Al gets his body back. THAT would be a wee bit awkward, ne?)
Kabuto x Sakura x Gaara (I think I'm going to keep Kabuto in Konoha, as a good ninja. I have NO idea... My mind is spouting out this shit randomly, including this chapter. And about the Gaara addition. Well... I just love GaaSaku so I had to add it in :3 Teehee I honestly wanted it to be HidaSaku, but no. This is a fanfic where the Akatsuki are bad guys TT_TT At least... I think they are. Gah! I dunno!)
Shikamaru x Temari x Ino (Yay, all three. That'll be a JOY to write.)