Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, though the Rock of Doom is sort of my and Dragonscall's creation.
Chapter 4 - Geniuses are people too.
The mission was going smoothly. The target had swallowed the bait and I had secured an escape route. And if everything went off without a hitch I'll be back to brag about it to Minato in a day. Wonderful. A dream come true. I was however quickly brought back to reality as the cool metal of the kunai nudged my jugular a bit as he heaved a long theatrical sigh:
"So what you mean is that you don't know?"
I closed my eyes tightly trying in vain to produce some extra sweat drops to make my image of scared, poor, helpless farmer more authentic. Twisting a bit in his hold I tried to get a look at his scarred face to see whether he was buying it.
"N-n-no…"
A cheer frizzled in my chest as I completed the stammer. Brilliant. Then all I have to do now is…
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As I reach the clearing by the ravine where the humans that Kakashi's summons informed me were located I can't help but feel relief as all of them are alive and well. There is however one more person than reported. But it does not matter. She's been discovered. Despite the henge no jutsu they have her cornered. And I'll be dammed before I let her get hurt because of some slob's negligence. As I leave the trees to touch ground there's some distant part of my brain which waves a sign with the words "DO YOU HAVE A PLAN?" around. And for the first time in my life I don't care about it. My goal is to pull her out of this and then run like hell. We'll get this information some other way if we pull out now without anyone getting hurt. The graying, scared man that holds her down turns to stare at me as I make my entrance. She however just tilts her head back to look at me, making the farmers hat slid down over temporarily brown-colored left eye. The lanky farmer henge she has chosen is not good enough to hide that she is used to behaving like a woman. She really DOES suck at undercover assignments. Her eyes are first curious, then furious. Screaming at me to let her do this on her own. Like I'd let her.
"You! You're the Yellow Flash!"
"Let him go!" I bark out sternly, hoping that he will do just that, before he realizes just who he is holding down.
"Like I'll just-"
He gets cut of as she makes a wild attempt to break free from him, only to end up pushed over the ravine. And falling. Falling. The act and the word seem so far from each other. She's falling. Falling. It's not until I see her disappear from the edge that I get everything to work and make a wild lunge after her. Only to have my face meet a sharp elbow, crushing my nose and making me fall to the ground. The world seem to tilt as I make a lunge towards the man who has up till now stood in the shadow but suddenly stepped out to hinder me from saving her. I try for his jugular. Try to take him down fast. Must get to her fast. As I feel a rock beneath my foot give away my heart shots up into my throat as I fall towards the ground again. The only thing I hit is his left calf. I try to twist it for good measure. To get some form of petty revenge for what he has done. For what he has done. Done. I am done. I close my eyes as my face crash into the ground again. This time more painful as my nose takes the hurt of the fall. But it's unimportant now. Oddly enough I sense no senbon in the back of my neck. Killing me. Instead I look up to see the man who held her capture fall dead to the ground. And a limping Kushina beside his body. And I can't help but to laugh. As I realize there was two of her. The rock of doom that tripped me staring incredulously at my exhausted body.
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"…and I break your precious nose, and you fly at me like a bat from hell, aiming for my throat, but then you slip and crawl your way up to me just to stab me in the knee? YOU VAIN BASTARD! YOU GIRLY Ma-Ma-BOY! COULD YOU NOT HAVE MADE SOME MORE EFFORT TO RUIN MY PLAN?"
"No, but I… I was trying to…."
He gazes at her silently before slumping together and exclaims defeated in a distorted, nasal tone due to the broken nose:
"I THOUGHT YOU DIED!"
"Tch. Like I would die from something like that."
They shared a moment in tense silence before she murmurs quietly:
"Sorry…"
"Nah, don't worry. It looks much worse than it is…"
He can't help but to smile hugely despite the pain as he bathes in his beloved's concern for him. The moment is however shattered as her face turns away again and she exclaims haughtily:
"Dude, I was talking about the brain damage you've obviously got! Me, dead? No. You, brain dead? Probably. Konoha will mourn you Yellow Flash."
"WHAT?!"
What just happened?
