Naruko began her packing, they had just been assigned her first C-Rank mission, she was ready. she sealed everything away in a scroll. she then went and met her teammates at the gates she smiled, gleefully, she had put her red streaked hair out of her face in pins, her blue eyes glittered determinedly. She would prove to itachi that she was good enough to take with him.
She waited at the gates, munching on some pocky, and taking inventory.
"You shouldn't be eating something so fattening and sugary, Naruko." came Sakura's slightly toned down scold. she looked over at the pinkette and ,crunched the rest of the pocky before replying-
"Pocky is a healthier and tastier alternative to soldier pills. while they won't spike my chakra levels, which can be bad for someone with my levels, they will spike my glucose levels giving me a burst of energy similar to coffee, but as there is the stick of bread, it doesn't crash hard as caffeine." she explained simply, before pulling out another pocky from the box in her pocket and crunching it. Sakura was silent. Sasuke showed up soon after, and Sakura opened her mouth, her eyes shining, then seemed to think better of it, and began to take inventory of her equipment.
Sasuke looked at his two female teammates and frowned. Sakura wasn't fawning over him..? he was unused to this. 'well good riddance…" he told himself. but a twinge of annoyance went through him, he was used to Naruko ignoring him, and Sakura calling her a baka and defending him. not- not that he needed to be defended or anything. he sat down and meditated as he waited for their sensei to get there with their client.
Half an hour passed when Kakashi came, leading Tanzua. he hid behind the old man at the look on Naruko's face,
"Eh, rh, not my fault, his!" he squeaked. she just shrugged and stood sealing her bag into a scroll and strapping said scroll to her leg under her Neko mask. Sasuke frowned, there was something oddly familiar in the way the red triangle stretched down over the forehead of the face. he shook his head and shrugged it off, thinking he may have seen it in the store somewhere.
they set off out of the village, Naruko at point, Kakashi and Sasuke at either side, and Sakura at the tail. they created a protective diamond around their client. Naruko summoned a small crow, and sent it to scout ahead. again, Sasuke felt this sickening feeling of deja-vu. there was a look of alarm on Naruko's face and she raised a hand. she pulled the Neko mask from her hip and put it over her face, and made handsigns to the others. Sasuke read them as "Quiet, ambush ahead."
"What-" tanzua started but Sasuke leaped on him and covered his mouth,'
"Quiet you fool, there's an ambush ahead," he hissed in the rank old man's ear. Tanzua nodded and Sasuke released him. naruko turned, and made a hand sign, henging herself to look like a real anbu member, her normal ninja attire changing to the white and grey anbu armor. she made a signal for the others to follow suit. Sakura had trouble at first, and had to try a couple times before getting the henge correct, and they went in a closer knit circle around Tanzua. they came to… a puddle.
Sasuke looked mighty confused, and stopped, Naruko turned, he couldn't see her scowl, but could feel her asking him what the hell he was doing. she looked around and yelled,
"Duck!" And tackled Tanzua to the ground as chains came from the trees and wrapped around kakashi, ripping him to shreds.
'You morons! what did i tell you, huh? I said there was a bleeding ambush, and you don't fucking listen!" naruko yelled as their Henges dropped from shock. she turned, and shoved Tanzua back, as one man stepped from the tree, and one melted out of the puddle. it was the Demon Brothers. She made handsigns and two karasu clones fluttered to existence, and then she made more handsigns, and summoned a large crow the size of a large wolf.
'You two, take the one on the left! Krai occupy the other!" she growled. the crow and clones obliged as she stepped back and glanced at her teammates, both standing by Tanzua, sakura's face was streaked with tears but she looked determined. naruko nodded and pulled a scroll out of her bag and unsealed it, out came a long delicate Katana. She looked back at the fight, her crow was holding well, ripping bits of the man's armor off as he fought, but her clones were not faring well, one had dispelled into a puff of black feathers, the other near to. she dispelled it and ran at the demon brother.
"Little Kunochi, you are foolish to try and take me on." he chuckled.
"Like hell I am." she blocked his chain with her katana and as it wrapped around the blade she pulled on it and stuck a kunai through a link and into the ground, he growled and shot the other one at her with the same outcome.
"You're not very smart…" she made a string of handsigns and cried out: "Fuuton! Sword of wind!" she swept her hand to the side and with a sound like bending metal, blades of wind flew from her hands and demolished the first brother.
As this happened, Krai shoved his beak through the skull of his opponent in a spray of blood, the second demon brother died.
"N-naruko.." Sakura had turned quite green. the blood spattered crow strutted over to Narumi, and and she leaned on him, exhausted from the A-rank jutsu she had just performed.
Much to Sakura and sasuke's surprise, kakashi walked out of the woods, and eye-smiled.
"Good job Naruko!" he promptly dodged a well aimed throw of her katana that embedded in the tree behind him.
'Wait, you're alive? how? and why didnt you come out to help naruko! She has exhausted her self now!she wouldn't have had to use that jutsu if you had been here!" Sakura exclaimed.
'The question is, why didnt you help her?" Kakashi asked darkly.
'Well- uh- i" Sakura stammered,
"She would have gotten in the way. i stayed back, because i don't quite know naruko's fighting style, and we would in each other's way." Sasuke deadpanned, saving Sakura from answering.
"Good answer. I would have stepped in if it got out of hand, i was testing you to see how you handled losing your authority figure on a mission. what would you have done had i been truly dead?' kakashi asked.
"sent a message to konoha asking for back up then continued the mission." Naruko immediately answered, puffing slightly, still leaning on the massive bloodstained crow.
"Theres a good shinobi." kakashi said, smiling, "We will make camp here, i will seal the corpses in a sealing scroll so we can collect naruko's bounty next we pass a collection. Naruko, you just sit down and rest." Kakashi ordered, noticing naruko begin to try and gather firewood.
'I'll get firewood." Sasuke dead-panned.
'I'll set up tents!" Sakura trilled.
'I'll go vomit in the bushes…" Tanzua groaned, face still slightly green.
Sorry i havn't posted in so long.. i have been trying i swear! I hope you like it?
-Ari the Fox