The day after the convoy landed, they started back on the trip. Robert and Yuuki, on the front cart, Shikamaru, two carts back, Tenten, two carts from the center, and Kiba and Akamaru on the last cart. This day just so happened to be a very rainy one, and the carts were sticking in the mud.
Damn! It just had to rain today. I hope that it stops soon, I really do not want to get sick on this mission. Robert's thoughts were centered around the sunny day he got to spend on the ship. If only every day that I am on a long mission was like then. *sigh* Beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
Yuuki leaned over to look in Robert's face to try and see what he is thinking. She just recently started this habit and it really annoyed Robert at times.
"I know what you're thinking!" She just suddenly shouted. This was the part that really drove him over the edge. "You're thinking about the day before yesterday on the ship and how sexy it was to see me in a swimsuit!"
Close, but no. "Yeah, that was what I was thinking about. You're getting so good at this."
Robert said with a fake smile
"I knew it! I'm psychic!"
More like psychotic. "Yep, you're psychic." Robert lied. "You are just so…" his sentence dragged off, causing Yuuki to worry.
"Robert, what's wrong?" Yuuki asked. "What's…"
Robert whistled and called for the convoy to stop. When the rest of the team came up, Robert said that there is large group of actual ninja waiting for them up the road.
"Looks like they are from the Waterfall Village. I guess we kinda pissed them off the other day."
"Naw, ya think?" Kiba said sarcastically, which Robert returned with his "Death Look" causing Kiba to be quiet in an instant.
"Now that the one not going with me has shut his big mouth, Shikamaru, what do you think we do?" Robert asked pulling out a plastic coated map. "They are in this area." He said pointing on the map about 10 km away from where they were.
If they are lower level nins, Which I doubt they are, it would be best to go in through the front. I think that the best way to clear our path is to send you and Yuuki in first down the road and have Tenten and I strike their officers."
"Sounds like a very fun plan." Tenten stated.
"Sounds like I get to fill my kill quota for this mission" Robert said with the most evil grin that they had ever seen. "Guys, relax. I'm just kidding."
"Yeah, I'll just let you deal with that." Kiba said in a slower drawn–out voice.
"Anyway, they will probably have the advantage in the rain and the Rock is also allied with them so Lightning and Fire jutsu should be good." Robert observed.
Farther down the road, Robert and Yuuki were deliberately running into a trap with Tenten and Shikamaru off in the trees on either side of them. Robert's eye caught a tripwire and he sprung the trap on purpose. The trap was nothing else than bomb tags set up to open-up a pitfall trap, but with Robert's skill and speed, he moved himself and Yuuki out of the way well before the trigger could take effect.
"Wow, a simple trap built by simple people. What could be easier?" Robert taunted.
Just after he said that, 285 ninja appeared around him and Yuuki, all with either a Waterfall or a Rock headband on them on various points of their bodies. After a minute, the organizer of this attack stepped out and introduced himself
"Hello, my lord. My name is Raito, I am a jounin from the Village Hidden in the Waterfalls. I advise you to put down all weapons and surrender yourselves to our might,"
"Now, then, Raito, where's the fun in just surrendering? I enjoy fighting even more than I like sex." Yuuki looked up at him and wondered why he said that. Robert was grinning this huge grin and Raito realized that trying to get him to surrender by peaceful means was impossible.
"Very well, Kill him and the girl."
The two just stood there, waiting, waiting for the right moment to take out a large handful of them. No one could see Yuuki reach for her sword and Robert turning the ground around them into a fluid-like crystal. At the last possible moment, Yuuki drew her sword and took down ten of the ninja around her in one slash, then drew a sword off of her right side to show off her southpaw skills to Robert, who then brought up large spears out of the ground and then sent them on a one-way path through a large group of ninja. Yuuki, showing her grace in her dual-wielding abilities, and Robert, showing off his blinding speed with hand seals, performed a jutsu of his own creation: "Fire Style: Dragon's Rage and Rising Hell Jutsu" Which sent tongues of flames which seemed like they acted on their own. Robert then summoned his Jackal Army in the mass of confusion. Robert then saw Shikamaru trying to save Tenten from other ninja and Robert shouted : "Slight deviation from plan, Shikamaru!" and ran up to the leader , and caught his throat with his hand and shouted over the commotion of battle: "I have your leader! Stand down now!" Most of the ninja did just that, others had to be prompted into the circle.
"Give me one good reason why I can't kill you now." Robert hissed at the leader.
"One good reason, he. Take a good look at my right shoulder blade."
Robert motioned for Tenten to cut his shirt open at the right shoulder, what they say blow there minds: it was the mark of the Oni Tribe.
"Go to hell and take your friends with you." he said as he threw Raito into the circle. "Now, for the fun part." Robert then started to form hand seals at blinding speed, then shouted: "Yuuki! Get back, now." She did as she was told and moved away just as he finished then said: "Fire Style: Blazing Hell-Fire Jutsu." Five pillars appeared in a greater radius than Blazing Inferno Jutsu and a flame hotter than it also erupted from the ground, a flame that would scar the ground permanently. After all was said and done, and the jutsu vanished, Robert fell to his knees in exhaustion.
"Damn, I'm just gonna sit hear until the caravan comes close. Shikamaru and Tenten, go tell them to start over this way, alright?" Robert said while breathing hard and sweating because of exhaustion.
Tenten and Shikamaru left and Yuuki drug Robert out of the road. "Yuuki, you got some blood on your face, did you get cut?"
"Yeah, but it's nothing. You're…" Robert lifted his hand and healed the scratch on her face. "Robert, please stop."
"I promised your father that I wouldn't let you get even one scrape. What kind of person would I be if I couldn't keep a simple promise like that?"
Yuuki started cry and Robert lifted up her face and kissed her on the lips.
"That's a promise that I will not leave you alone." He said with a grin. "I'm gonna take a nap now, okay?"
Yuuki just smiled as a response and curled up in his arms, felling his heart made her feel better, knowing that he was alive. And I promise that I will stay with you forever and ever.
Several hours later, the caravan came over to where Robert and Yuuki lay under a tree.
"Robert!" That woke him up in a second. He tried to get up, then he realized that Yuuki was asleep on him, so he gently picked her up and climbed into the cart and laid her on her bed.
"Gotta get out of these wet clothes" Robert said to himself
Just as he was dying himself off, Yuuki woke up and turned to where Robert was getting clean, dry clothes on
"How long have I been asleep? Ack, my clothes are soaked!"
"I put some dry clothes for you next to you."
"Oh, thanks." She started to take her shirt off. "By the way, how far are we from the ambush site?"
"We're about an hour from it. We've stopped for the night."
"What happened after I fell asleep?"
"The caravan arrived, I carried you in her, I got clean clothes out for you, then got clean clothes on myself."
"That's it, they haven't called dinner yet?" Yuuki questioned.
"Nope. And I don't know when they are going to call it either."
"…"
"Ya know. Days like this remind me of that day seven years ago."
"The day that you…"
"Yeah. And for some reason, it doesn't bother me."
"You're wrong. I can see it on your face. It does bother you. It hurts you more than you know it. You face tends to betray you when you want to hid your emotions. That's why I always look at your face when I get bored, I'm training myself in a way. Training myself to read your expression. I…"
"Do you realize how annoying you are?"
"What?!?"
"And how sexy you are when you are annoying?"
"I…" She began to blush wildly. "I… I…"
Robert then kissed her. "Don't even bother putting on clean clothes." He said grinning.
"Alright, then. I won't."
A/N: I want to keep this remotely teen rated so we are not going any farther this chapter. Sorry.
