Welcome, Naruto! Chapter 9
A/N: I'm really hyper, and I really wanna write this chapter so I'm not gonna wait for revews!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... but I'll pretend to own Gaara, Shikamaru, and Hiden... :D!
Chapter Nine:
Surprise Visitors:
School had been out for a couple of weeks now, and I had successfully mastered the Water Prison Jutsu (and by mastered, I mean I could do the hand signs really fast hand hold the prison for a very long time), and I had half mastered the Gian Vortex Jutsu and the Water Dragon Jutsu, which Kakashi had taught me recently. By half mastered, I mean it took me a while to preform the hand signs but the jutsu worked pretty well.
I was out by the lake, but I wasn't training. Well, I was walking on water, but that was just for a bit. Really, I came out here to get inspiration for my writing. I took out my phone and saw it was noon.
"That explains why I'm so hungry," I muttered to myself. I stood up and turned to leave. When I reached the edge of the clearing, I crashed into someone. and looked up to see who it was.
"Oh, hi, Hidan," I said, and started to move around him. But I stopped when I realized who it was. "Wait, Hidan? Holly shit!" And I stumbled back to the center of the clearing, which was probably a BIG mistake. I saw Hidan and Kakuzu were blocking my path in front of me, Pein and Konan were to my right, Zetsu and Tobi to my left, Itachi and Kisame were standing on the water behind me, and, well, I think you know who was in the air (for the record, it was just Deidara, Sasori is dead). "Well, this certainly isn't good."
"I wouldn't think so," Konan said.
"Just tell us where Naruto Uzumaki is and we won't hurt you," Pein said calmly.
"Now, why the hell would I sell out a comrade like that?" I asked being a smart ass. Which probably wasn't too smart. Ironic, huh?
"Don't play with us," Pein said, still calmly, but I could tell I was pushing it. Something told me to keep pushing it, for whatever stupid reason.
"I'm not, you're the one who's trying to kill my friend," I said smartly (stupidly).
"That's it," he said. "Konan, teach this girl a lesson."
"Alright," she said. (Let the record show that I'm not too familiar with Konan's abilities, I do know it involves paper, so tell me how far off the mark I am). Suddenly, Konan was gone. Instead of staring at Konan, I was now staring at paper flying towards me.
"Well, this is going to be fun," I muttered to myself. The paper was flying towards me faster than paper should move. Oh the wonderful power of chakra. I didn't have time to concentrate my chakra to my feet to move faster, so instead I just flung my arms in front of my face. I felt the paper practically slice -yes, slice, not dice and not cut, but slice- my arms. The paper reformed into Konan behind me.
And the grand prize of being an idiot and not running or dodging is - drum roll please- a kunai to the neck. Congratulations, Darcy! I thought sarcastically to myself.
"Tell us where the Kyuubi brat is and I won't kill you," she said.
"Go ahead, kill me, that just means you're not going to find Naruto," I said, somehow stating the facts calmly. How I said them calmly is beyond me, you'd think I'd be in hysterics whit a kunai knife to my throat.
"She makes a valid point, Konan," Pein said calmly. "Come back here." Konan obeyed. "Hidan, can you do whatever it is you do without killing her?"
"If I have to, but it really does go against Jashin," Hidan said, swinging the dreaded three-blade scythe into a fight position.
"Well," I said as Hidan ran towards me. "F***." He swung the scythe at my head. I ducked, and did a back flip (yay for chakra! I could never do a back flip before, well, I'm going to assume it was the chakra that allowed me to do that). I turned I dived for the water. I heard voices above me, but I couldn't really understand them. I put two and two together when I saw a giant shark swimming for me.
"Shit!" I screamed, also losing all my air. I quickly kicked to the surface, by lungs burning. I saw the light, but was it just my imagination or was it getting further away? Suddenly, but head burst through the water and I took gulps of air (can you gulp air?). Okay, so the surface wasn't getting further away. Focus, Darcy, you're in the middle of a battle with S-ranked criminals. Oh, and isn't funny how I'm correcting you this time? We're the same f***ing person! Geez, you don't need to get mad. So, do you have a plan? *mental face palm* sure, I do: Run. Like. Hell. Oh, and don't get eaten by that giant shark or get hit by Hidan's scythe. Oh, great advice. But I took it anyways. I focused chakra into my hands, and then my arms, and my knees, and finally my feet when I reached a standing position. I realized I was face to face - actually, face to chest - with Kisame, which probably wasn't too good. Somehow, I managed to react before him (ha, like that would happen, but it has to cause if it doesn't, I'll die and that would be the end of the story), and I dashed around him and across the lake. I ran in the trees and took a sharp right. I ran the way for a while before taking another sharp right, and then I headed straight for my house. When I finally got there I was about to open the door when someone grabbed my arm and twisted it into a very painful position.
"And now, I can get your blood and then you'll be sorry, bitch," Hidan said.
"Oh, no you don't," I said, kicking him in the nuts. He screamed in pain (A/N: OMG, if I did that to pein and then said he screamed in pain, OMFG that would be so funny! Wouldn't it?).
"OW! Screw the Kyuubi brat, I'm going to f***ing kill this bitch!" He screamed.
"No, you most certainlly are not going to kill this bitch. This bitch likes living, thank you very much," I said, and with that I darted into my house, locked the door, and ran to the basement, all the while taking out my cell phone and calling Sakura. She picked up after two rings.
"Hey, Darcy," she said cheerfully.
"Is Naruto in earshot of you?" I asked, not even saying hi.
"No, he's playing COD (Call of Duty) with Kankuro. Why?" She asked concerned.
"Well, you aren't going to believe me, but the Akatsuki are outside my house." Suddenly there was a loud sound upstairs that sounded like breaking glass. "Scratch that, they're in my house."
"Okay, stay calm, we'll be right over," she said. "Where are you?"
"In the basement. Just let yourself in the back door, the left it open for you," I said. Although that joke didn't mean anything to her, for she probably didn't hear them breaking the glass door.
"Just stay were you are," she said.
"Okay, just-" but I stopped, for the Akatsuki opened the basement door.
"Hurry!" I whispered urgently into the phone and then I snapped it shut and hid it in my pocket.
"There you are, bitch," Hidan said, who was leading the parade of Akatsuki member down my basement stairs.
"Breaking and entering is illegal here," I said dumbly, and with nothing else to say.
"Like I care," Hidan spat. I saw the glint of his scythe as it swung towards me.
"I'd stop right now if I were you!" A familiar voice shouted from the top of the stairs. Everyone looked up to see Sakura standing there, her trade mark glare plastered on her face.
"And why the hell would I do that?" Hidan asked, rather annoyed.
"Because if you don't, I'm going to have to beat the shit out of you, and then kill you," Sakura said.
"Ha, I'd like to see that happen!" Hidan scoffed.
Apparently, that was all the invitation Sakura needed. She marched down the stairs, right past eight very confused looking Akatsuki members, and right up to Hidan, punching him in the face and sending him flying right into the wall.
"Sakura, seriously, my parents might be gone the whole summer, bu if they come back to a destroyed house, they'll never let me out of their sights again," I told her.
"Then we'll help you fix the house when we're done here," she said with a smile. An instant later, she was glaring at all the Akatsuki members on the stairs. "Who's next."
"You think that's enough to beat me?" Hidan asked. He lunged for Sakura, who dodged and sent a counter kick at him, but he also dodged. After that, things started to happen really fast. My attention was drawn to the stairs to see Temari and kakashi each taking on four Akatsuki member, and then I felt arms grab my waist, I thought for a brief, horrifying second, that Hidan had defeated Sakura and he was now going after me. Then I noticed that the grip was more of a loving grip than a death grip, and then I saw the sand.
"Gaara?" I asked.
"It's okay, we're here for you," he said. I turned around in his arms and hugged him back.
"Thank you," my voice was muffled, for I had my head in his chest. I felt him lightly press his lips to my head, but other than that, he didn't do or say anything. Gaara was like that, I guess.
"What's going on out there?" I finally asked after a few minutes. I could hear shouting, but that was it, I couldn't distinguish voices or words.
"I'm not sure," Gaara said. "But they're still here, I can feel their chakra." After a few minutes everything with silent with one yell, a yell that I could distinguish.
"Enough!" I think it was Pein. "I see this battle is going no where. You three are lucky to be inside, or else you would be dead. Akatsuki, retreat!" There was silence and than Temari spoke.
"Okay, they're gone." With that reassurance, the sand slowly disappeared, but Gaara kept his arms around me, adjusting them so we could stand next to each other and face the others.
"Why do you think they retreated?" Gaara asked.
"It's probably because of their abilities," I said. "They don't want to draw a lot of attention to themselves."
"What do you know of their abilities?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, I think you already know Deidara uses explosives, right?" I asked, and Kakashi nodded. "Okay, let's see. Really, the could only use taijutsu. So, Pein is their leader, he was the one with the peircings, and Konan is his partner, she's the only female member in the organization. Kakuzu was the one with the mask covering half his face and the grey hair, and his partner is Hidan, he was the one with purple eyes. You already know Itachi and Kisame, and since Sasori's death, Tobi, the one with the swirly mask, has been paired with Deidara, but he used to work with Zetsu. Zetsu was the one with the Venus Fly trap around his head. It's kind of a lot to explain. I think it's time I introduce you to Google."
"To what?" Sakura asked.
"Google, basically, it's a search tool on the Internet and you can find virtually anything with it," I explained.
"That's useful," Sakura said. "I wish I had known about it for that English research paper."
"Same," Temari said.
"Okay, come on," I said. "This is like a D-ranked mission, and I'm leading it!" I said excitedly, and then I saw that everyone was staring at me. "Um... well, let's just go upstairs." I lead the way, Gaara not leaving my side.
"They are so cute together!" I heard Temari whisper to Sakura, but I ignored it. When we got upstairs, I turned on my laptop and the desktop.
"Okay, Sakura, Kakashi Sensei, you two will research Pein, Konan and Zetsu, got it?" I asked.
"Yes!" Sakura replied.
"Understood!" Kakashi said. They both sat down by the desktop and I explained to them how Google worked.
"Temari, Gaara, you'll be on my laptop, and you will research Hidan, Kakuzu and Tobi," I told them. Once I explained the them how to use Google, I told everyone I would go back and forth between the two teams to see how they were doing.
"One question," Temari said.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"If you know all of this, then why don't you just tell us?"
"Well, I think it's easier this way," I replied. "One, I won't leave out any details, and two, you guys have that feeling of success when you learn everything about them."
"Fine." Temari turned back to the laptop, an angry look plastered on her face. But it quickly went away and was replaced with confusion. "Is Hidan really immortal?"
"Yeah," I replied.
"That's going to make things complicated," Kakashi said.
After a few hours, they had learned what they needed to know, and went back to their house. Well, everyone except for Gaara. He finally spoke when it was just the two of us in the house.
"Are you hurt? Did they hurt you at all?" He asked, grasping each of my arms. God forbid that Gaara actually likes something - no, someone. He, Gaara, actually likes someone. And that someone is me!
"I'm fine," I said. "I got cut up a bit by Konan's paper attacks, and there was one time that Hidan grabbed my arm and twisted it behind me, but otherwise, I'm fine."
"Good," he said. He started to lean forward, but stopped. Then he started again, and stopped just inches away from me. "I got to go, bye." With that, he turned on his heals and left. My heart fell, but I tried not to let it get to me. I watched some Naruto Abridged to try and cheer me up. It worked. Sort of.
A/N: Well, that's it for now. Okay, I'm not going to update until I get... how about five reviews? That's not too hard. So, five reviews, if you're afraid I won't get that, then spread the word! Until next time, my fanfiction friends!
