CHAPTER 2 – Dream
Weapons surrounded the shinobi. It didn't take long to figure out that it was impossible to dodge all of them. In the distance, another black-clothed ninja stared with a huge grin on his face. He threw something like a crystal ball towards the trapped shinobi, inside was an explosive tag. The black-clothed ninja formed a seal with his hands. The explosive tag exploded inside the crystal ball, causing bits and pieces of the crystal flying in all directions. The area was engulfed in flames and black smoke as the weapons flew towards its destination.
Ninja (thoughts): That Konoha shinobi should be dead by now.
He grinned and waited for the smoke to clear off. He focused his eyes on where the Konoha shinobi was standing. Nothing was there. The ninja grunted and jumped off the tree branch he was standing on. A few trees behind him stood the female kunoichi. She stood on guard. In front of her, was the male shinobi who she had just saved from the attack. She waited until the enemy had left the scene. The kunoichi's attention focused back on the panting shinobi in front of her. "What was that?"
"I don't know." The shinobi panted.
"I thought you were better than that, Kakashi." The kunoichi eyed him.
The male shinobi looked up at the blue-haired kunoichi. "I guess I was taken by surprise. Thanks Yuuri."
She frowned. "Aren't you supposed to be an ANBU?" She helped Kakashi up, and started treating his wounds. Kakashi smiled. Yuuri returned it with her usual stare. "Well, all I can say that is, now the enemy knows of our presence, it is going to make our mission a hell lot harder."
Kakashi looked at the female kunoichi. "I thought you liked challenges."
"Not challenges like this, you idiot." Yuuri frowned as she bandaged Kakashi's arm. "It's only a matter of time before they find us with the help of reinforcements."
"So… you're saying that we should just give them a surprise attack?"
Yuuri tied the last knot to Kakashi's bandage. "Well… that was what I intended to do… but…" Yuuri stared at Kakashi.
Kakashi was a little taken back. "I'm fine."
"You sure? We've been traveling for two days without stopping, plus that shinobi just gave us an ambush. Kakashi, our senses aren't as sharp as before. In other words, we're tired." She stressed the word "tired" enough for Kakashi to get her point.
"But… if we miss this chance we might be in an even worse situation."
Yuuri gave what Kakashi said a little thought. "Fine. Let's go." The two Konoha shinobis headed out once again into the enemy's territory.
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Kakashi opened his eyes. "These dreams again… I've been having them for quite awhile now…" He groaned as he sat up.
"What's up Kakashi? It's not your turn to watch yet." Kakashi looked up to find Asuma sitting on a tree branch right above his head.
"Asuma… Nothing, just one of those dreams that got me out of my sleep again." Kakashi shoved his blankets out of the way.
"Dreams? Want to talk to me about it?" Asuma gave a smile.
Kakashi stared at Asuma. "Last time I talked to you about something, everyone found out in a matter of days."
Asuma's eyes widened. "So… that's a no?"
"I'm fine. I guess I'll just take over now. Go get some sleep Asuma."
"Well… if you say so." Asuma hopped off the branch and got his things out ready to take a rest. Kakashi packed his own and went onto the branch to take the watch.
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Naruto stretched and yawned as he shuffled out of his blankets. His eyes were half-opened when some ice-cold water was splashed onto his face. "AAAAAAAA!!!! COLD COLD COLD!!!!" Everyone stared at the screaming Naruto.
"This is what you get for waking up late!" Sakura had her hands on her hips, annoyed. In her right hand, held a green cup.
"Sakura-chan!! You didn't have to do that…" Naruto's eyes went from Sakura's face towards to cup she was holding. The thought immediately came to his head; "If Sakura-chan splashed me with her cup, which she drank from… that's mean…" Naruto blushed at the thought that Sakura had given him an indirect kiss. He scooped the remaining water from his face and drank it all.
"Thanks Chouji for the cup!!" Sakura hopped towards Chouji as she returned his cup.
"Chou-Chouji?!" Naruto quickly spat out the water in his mouth. Sakura giggled behind him.
"Baka!! Why would I even splash you with my own cup?" She stuck her tongue out at the choking Naruto.
"This is so troublesome…" Shikamaru said his usual words as he packed his stuff back into his bag.
There was a loud clap. Everyone looked at where the sound came from. "Everyone awake?" Kakashi walked through the crowd of genins.
"Yes, sensei." Beside Sakura, now stood a fully awake Naruto after all that spitting.
"Okay then." Kakashi nodded at Asuma.
Asuma cleared his throat. "Kakashi and I checked the route the priestess said she was going to travel in and we noticed that she has already arrived within the borders of the fire country. We are to escort her to our village safely, understood?"
"Yes!" The group of genins answered.
"Let's get going." Kakashi hopped onto a branch while the other genins got ready and followed him.
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The sun shined brightly on the dry land in front of the group traveling. A person was sitting inside a wooden carriage, the shape resembled an old fashioned Chinese one. The carriage was surrounded by 12 ninjas, each with a Mist ANBU mask except one. The one without the mask was a female kunoichi, who wore a light blue robe with a hood covering most of her face. The ninja leading the group waved a hand for the others to stop.
"What is it?" A voice came from inside the carriage.
The other Mist ANBUs already had their hands on the weapons, ready to draw them if necessary. Suddenly, a white-haired Konoha shinobi landed in front of the group. "Who are you?" The Mist ANBU questioned.
Several more ninjas landed behind the white-haired shinobi. "We're the shinobis that you have requested to escort you to Konoha." The shinobi took out some documents and showed it to the Mist ANBU. The ANBU took it suspiciously and read through it.
"Kaori! What is happening?" A voice came out from inside the carriage again.
The hooded female kunoichi, named Kaori answered. "Yes Rena-sama, a group of Konoha shinobi claimed that they are the ones we requested for your escort to Konoha."
"What are their names?"
Kaori eyed the leading ANBU. "Yes, their names are Hatake Kakashi, Sarutobi Asuma, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji and Yamanaka Ino. Are these names correct, Miko-sama?" The ANBU read out the list of names written on the documents Kakashi had handed him.
The priestess lifted the cloth separating her face with the rest of the shinobis. She slowly stepped out of her carriage and walked towards the group of Konoha shinobis. "Rena-sama, you mustn't-" The female kunoichi named Kaori followed the priestess.
"The names are correct." The priestess took the documents from the lead ANBU and read them. A certain Naruto was peeking behind Kakashi, trying to take a better look at the priestess. She had long straight black hair, snow-white skin. She wore a light pink kimono with small white flower patterns on it. The priestess noticed Naruto and stared at him. "What do you want?"
"Hmm…" Naruto stepped out from behind Kakashi and rubbed his chin. He looked from top to bottom at the priestess.
"How dare you look at Rena-sama like that?" Kaori went forwards drawing her weapon. "I'll teach you-"
"Hmm… Kakashi-sensei, I don't get it." Naruto finally spoke after staring at the priestess for so long.
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Don't get what?"
"Well you see, Ero-sennin said that priestesses were suppose to have great sexy bodies, like… big things…?" Naruto made a little hand sign of what he was trying to say. Obviously, about that "part" where Jiraiya always stares at when he's out looking for women.
The group of Konoha shinobis gasped when they got what Naruto was trying to say. Sakura quickly grabbed Naruto and smacked his head. She held him and forced a smile out of her face. "Ahaha… Miko-sama, please don't take this seriously, this guy's a jerk! Ahaha…"
Sakura's smile faded when she noticed Kaori giving her a death-glare. She swallowed hard. Just when Kaori was about to grab her weapon and kill Naruto for making such a statement of the priestess, a hand was waved in front of her. "Stop it, Kaori." It was the priestess herself. "Let him be, he probably never have seen a real one anyways. It's not unusual that some people make that assumption."
"But… Rena-sama-" The priestess waved her hand for her to stop.
"Let's get going, I want to reach Konoha as soon as possible." The priestess walked back into her carriage.
"Yes!" Kaori followed the priestess.
Sakura was still grabbing Naruto with her arm around his neck. "Sakura-chan… can you let go of me now?"
Sakura faced him with a furious face. "SHANAROOOOUUU!!!! HE ALMOST GOT US ALL KILLED!!" The inner Sakura was about to explode into pieces due to the anger.
"Well, calm down you guys." Kakashi walked over to Sakura and Naruto, only ended up having Sakura shooting him a furious glare. Kakashi sweat-dropped.
Ino stared at Naruto and Sakura, "Naruto is such a pain, he's always causing trouble."
"Thanks to him, the priestess probably hates us now." Shikamaru added.
"Really? She seems quite nice, didn't she let Naruto go just now? He would've been dead meat by now if she didn't." Chouji munched on his chips.
"She probably just did it to look good." Shikamaru yawned.
Asuma frowned. "Well come on guys, we don't have all day, let's go."
The group of Konoha genins followed Asuma's lead and walked, with Sakura dragging Naruto by his collar. Kakashi was last to follow. His mind wandered off back to his dream he had earlier on.
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Why is Kakashi having these weird dreams one after another? Just what are they telling him? Tune in for the next chapter.
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A/N: Second chapter so far :). I've changed my style, taken all the script-like dialogue out of it so still getting used to this style. Again, thanks for reading it and please gimme reviews :D!!