The Kunoichis That Didn't Belong Ch. 11
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN NARUTO!
Date: Day of the Festival's Parade
Time: Early Morning—6 o' clock am
Place: Hotel Drucellean, room #1505
Sitting on the floor, Ino glared at Sakura who glared back at Ino.
TenTen and Hinata chose at that moment to enter through the door of their room, and Temari appearing inside from the window.
". . ." TenTen looked at the blonde and the pinkette. "What are you two doing?"
Hinata set down her tray of food and closed the door with her foot as Temari shut her own entrance inside.
Ino and Sakura immediately looked at the three who had entered, and turned their wrath from each other to the three kunoichis before them. "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU WAKE US UP?"
"Well, we tried, but you two kept snoring." Temari said annoyed, and gave them a glance.
They opened their mouths to protest, but then Hinata spoke. "Can you guys be quieter? People are going to wake up, complain, then get us kicked out or place the spotlight on us, which we don't want."
The two looked at Hinata and was silent for about three seconds, before responding.
"Ok, you're right." Sakura said, and Ino nodded.
"By the way, Hinata. You're not stuttering anymore." Ino commented, with Sakura nodding now.
"Well- . . . I . . ." Hinata began to say, but then straightened out with more confidence.
"I'm not who I was before we left, and yesterday was only because of I was quite startled. It will not happen again." She declared fiercely to them, and the other girls nodded.
"Hinata is right." TenTen spoke now, and glanced around at all the girls.
"We all were merely startled because we had not encountered our birth-country-men before now. But that is just a fleeting moment and we are stronger, no?" They nodded when she paused, and she carried on.
"We are stronger, and if they ever find out our identities, then they will know that. We are not weak like before."
The four girls facing her nodded, and after a passing of two seconds, TenTen's face broke into a smile.
"OK, so who wants breakfast?"
Time: 6:25 am
Place: Hotel Drucellean, room #1505
"Alright. Now tell us where you three were." Ino and Sakura demanded.
The three looked at each other, then turned back to the two, Hinata opening her mouth to speak.
"Well, TenTen, Temari, and I woke up at 5 o'clock, the time we agreed on. We went to wake up you two as well so that we could go over the plan, but you two would not wake and also began to flail around the strength of the Fifth Hokage's fist and making loud noise. So we three agreed to leave you alone so no one would come to investigate the strange sounds."
She paused as Ino and Sakura made a face, but they gestured for her to go on, and so she did.
"Well, we sat on the floor and reviewed the plan. Then we left the room to scout."
Hinata turned to Temari who now spoke. "I went to the main gates, keeping myself hidden."
Temari turned to TenTen who said, "I went down the alleyways and checked out the perimeter of the castle."
TenTen turned to Hinata who said, "I went to festival marketplaces to see their products." and resumed her narration of the hour before.
"After thirty minutes, we gathered at the fountain in the main square of this country. Temari found the gates closing, but couldn't exactly decipher the reasons why. TenTen sensed different presences at the castle, but could not determine who they were. I was merely strolling through, but keeping an eye out for the unnatural anyway.
We met back together at the Flower Fountain when it was 5: 45. Then we headed back to the hotel. TenTen-san and I grabbed some food to bring back here, and Temari-san reentered through the window."
" . . . " Sakura and Ino looked at each other, then back at the three before them.
"That's it?" They frowned when the three kunoichi nodded.
"Ok, then tell us about the situation in which you found the gates were closing, who was in the castle, and what you spotted at the market."
The three related their tales to the two, and the two sat in silence after hearing it.
". . . "
Then Sakura suddenly spoke. "Is it possible . . . that it was the . . ." she paused, searching for a word, then continued after apparently settling on one. "That it was the Konoha shinobi sent to protect the Feudal Lord?"
The three thought about it, then nodded.
"Yes, it is quite possible . . ." TenTen commented, thinking.
Temari nodded. "Yea, that would make sense. You know—close the gates the day of the Feudal Lord's appearance to the public so that new assassinators don't come."
"That and the fact that if the assassinators are already here, they cannot escape from the country." Hinata added.
Ino nodded her head. "Exactly. But . . . They don't suspect us . . . right?"
". . ."
"That question cannot be answered now, for we are unsure." Temari stated when no one else spoke.
The girls nodded, and then looked at each other.
"So what's the plan now?"
Time: 7:30 am
Place: Outside in the country's main square, near the Flower Fountain
"Ok, everyone knows what to do, right?"
They nodded, then split away from each other, all in different directions.
TenTen went to a nearby tea stall—a place where the Lord would surely pass on the parade.
Sakura and Ino went to the main gates to see if they could seduce the guards subtly to open the gates.
Temari was on the outskirts of the crowd, near the buildings of the country.
Hinata was mingled into the crowd, ready to activate her bloodline and give TenTen a hand when her job was finished.
Time: 9:58 am
"Ok, two minutes till the parade starts." Temari said through her earpiece. "Everyone ready?"
"Yup!" was the hushed unison reply from all four girls.
"Alright then. Good luck." Temari said and smirked when trumpets announced the start of the parade and the Official and Public Viewing of the Feudal Lord of the Honey Country.
He arrived in a wide platform carried by his servants. There were four pillars at the corners supporting the roof. The Feudal Lord sat in the very middle on a chair with two people dressed in black beside him. Their faces were covered so you couldn't tell who it was, but TenTen had a feeling it would be two Konoha shinobi. After all, that would be a basic strategy—not one below the Nara genius Shikamaru.
Alright, I will put up chapter twelve but it will take some time. In the meanwhile, please review.
I originally planned the pairings to be: NejiTen, ShikaTema, NaruHina, SasuSaku, and SaiIno. However, if you want something different, then please review what pairing you want. Starting on from this chapter, I will count the votes for each pairing, and the pairing with the most votes will be the official pairing for this story. If no one votes, or there is a tie, then I will go with the pairings listed before.
Ex. ShikaTema=9 ShikaIno=9 Winner: ShikaTema
SaiIno=18 ShikaIno=10 Winner: SaiIno
I think the deadline will be at the end of Chapter 13, before the start of Chapter 14. If you want me to extend the deadline, you'd best review before I put up the chapters, huh?
See you next time!
