Yin and Yang
chapter 4
( i do not own Naruto)
"YOUR FREAKING KIDDING!!!!!"
The whole room flinched as Naruto yelled, slamming his hands into the desk.
"Naruto, will you PLEASE let me finish?" tsunande asked, she was developing a headache rather quickly. Naruto glared at her but allowed her to go on, indicating this by crossing hs arms. "As I just said, you four will be escorting a small caravann, there have been reports of a large bear in the vincity, and as they do not have the means to guard against one so large, they want a guard until they are clear of the bears territory.
"But, as i was going to state befor enaruto's outburst, tehre is an undercover mission i wish for you to preform." Here, Naruto perked up, Sakura cocked her head, and Sai's eyes glinted. Kakashi didn't even seem surprised. "There have also been reports of Kabuto. When asked, the leader of teh caravan said they had glimpsed him several times. This is serious, as your pervious report of following Sasuke told me that he has gained more power by transplating his arm with Orochmaru's. There is not telling wether or not if he had gained control of it, or if it is controlling him."
"Kabuto?" Naruto asked. "After I become able to compleatly contol Orochimaru's power... I'll return to fight you, Naruto-kun. " The Missing Nin's words echoed in his head, and Naruto found himself wondering in a moments panic, if Kabuto had indeed killed Sauske, and had now returned to take out Naruto.
"Yes, Kabuto. And When alerted to this man's potential, the caravvan imeadietly paid the price for a full guard." Tsunade said. "You will leave imeadietly, they have already been put behind scheduale, and wish to move on."
"Hokage!" THe four came to attention and saluted. Then they turned and ran out the door, springing to their various homes to pick up on last minute items. They were at the gates in less than five minutes, and had introduced themselves to the Caravann Master.
"I thank you for the trouble." Miijii, The Caravann Master said. " This Kabuto has us greatly worried."
"I assure you that no harm will come to your Caravann." Naruto said. "Believe me."
"Naru-" Sakura began, but a hand went infront of her. She looked insurprise at Sai, who was watching Naruto closely. The other Geninn had lowered his head, and didn't look behind him for the rest of the trip to the Caravann. There, the Ninja were greeted aprehensivly, and many large, wondering eyes were directed at them, as Children peered at them from behind their mothers busy skirts.
For the Next week, team 7 was on their guard the whole way. They had Kabuto AND the Akatsuki to look out for, not to mention a bear. The bear proved to be no problem, even though they found fresh tracks of it's passing, it never came close to the caravann. And it was unusual to Naruto, that the Akatsuki hadn't shown up. He had thought they'd had a tab on him. Despite his apparant distracted appearance, Naruto was more alert than he'd ever been, the current event's were putting him on edge, and making him nervous.
Suprisingly, the week went without any disturbances. The caravann made it safely to the town they were headed for, and there had been no sign of any enemy activity.
It was different two days later, when Kakashi halted his team, looking at a charred area on the ground from his pearch in the trees.
"A fight?" Sakura asked.
"Looks like a bomb, and a small one." Naruto muttered. "Small but powerful."
"I'll go look." Sai said, getting ready to jump.
"NO!" Kakashi snapped. "There was a poison gass immbeded in that bomb. "Like Naruto said, small, but powerful."
"We must be right above the cloud reach." Sakura said.
"It's a pretty heavy, must've been a lot packed in." Kakashi said, peering below them with the Sharingan. Sai looked to his left sudenly, his sharp eyes straining. Kakashi looke dup and at his new team member.
"Sai?" Naruto asked. "What is it?"
"An explosion."
Then they all heard it. Several bangs in succsesion. They were off like rockets, following Sai. In a few minutes, they were within sight of the constantly growing explosions. Soon enough, they almost ran past the fight. Kabuto was imeadietly recognizable, but his quary was not. It was a girl about Sakura's age, in an outfit much like hers also. Her wild black hair was pulled back in to a simple ponytail. As they watched, She drew another handful of bombs out of the gray pouch that matched her blue-gray dress. She tossed them at Kabuto aftetr expertly removing pins. Sakura zoned in quickly on several bloody patches on the girls clothing, and it was obvious to her eyes that she was also poisoned.
"Sai! Naruto! Back Up Kakashi sensei! hse's injured!"
"Roger!" Naruto called back, and imeadietly produced several shadow clones. Kakashi had left his Sharingan out, so he went in to semi-close combat with Kabuto, While NAruto produced a Rasengan, and Sai his false beasts. Sakura Landed in front of the girl who had taken advatage of Kabuto's distractions, to hide behind a tree, and had been busy rippin out poison darts. She had very little chakra reserve, like normal humans, so the only reason she'd gotten so far alive was her bombs.
"My name is Sakura, don't worry about a thing, I'ma a medical Ninja, so i know what i'm doing." The girl nodded and disn't resist as sakura went about her way, finishing the removal of the darts, and drawing out the poison. sh edidn't say a word, only wimpered when Sakura hurt her.
It took a few minutes, but Sakura soon had her patched up and laying in the tree's roots. She came out from behind the tree to watch teh fight, and jump in if needed, but she knew it would give kabuto a chance to retreat and double back for his quary. She was releaved to know that she would not be needed, as teh teamworm between the men was flawless, even with their limeted time together.
In the end, Kabuto was chased down and away by Naruto who came back flustered and angered by his get away. by then, Kakashi had reached Sakura and was examining the victem with care, asking her questions, but she seemed unable or unwilling to answer.
"Is she a mute?" Sai asked.
"Perhaps. Maybe not previously, but Kabuto injected many poisons that don't work well together, and become more lethal when they are mixed." Sakura said. "A minor side affect could be loss of speech." Here the girl closed her eyes, a pained expresion on her face. "It may be temprary though. my master has more experience with this than I."
"Lets hurry back to Tsunande Sama then." Kakashi said. "She needs proper medical attention. Naruto, Sakura, go ahead and alert the hospital. Sai, stay here with me in case Kabuto comes back."
"I daresay you are correct about the side affects." Tsunande said. The girl was now resting, her old clothes thrown away and new ones laying folded beside her bed as she was in hospital pajamas.
"You can't sence anything remarkable?" Sakura asked hopefully. If she had been hiding her ninja powers from the team, it would make sence as to why Kabuto had been following her; but Tsunande shook her head.
"No. Nothing." She said.
"It's insane that Kabuto would be chasing her then? What could she possibly have?" Naruto exploded. The girl winced and wimpered. Naruto got his share by hits from the two medical ninja.
"She could be the daughter of a wealthy land owner or lord. And he does need money to start up his own organization, unless Orochmaru is working through him." Tsunade said. "He's getting to be as bad as the Akatsuki." The group of ninja looked over at the girl, then sighed and lef tthe room, everyone muttering about food. Sai, however stayed. He stood studying the girl trying to make sence of her. Kakashi showed up in the doorway, and smiled.
"She's in stable condition, Sai. Come on."
"Alright, Sensei." Sai said quietly. He walked past the jounin and down the hall with one last look at the sleeping girl. Kakashi himself paused, and looked at her himself, feeling a little dejavu.
"We're gone now, you can rest in peace." He said, and her eyes shot open in surprise. Kakashi smiled at her before closing the door. She looked down, then rolled over, looking out the window at the tree tops, and mouthed "Hurry..."
