The Kunoichis That Didn't Belong Ch. 13

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Recap: A voice and its speaker stopped them cold, and they stared wordlessly at the shinobi before them, blocking off their path.

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"I hate that guy." She muttered, and was about to run on, but the shinobi ahead of her stopped her in her tracks. Her eyes widened. She couldn't believe it. How dare that Shikamaru!!!

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TenTen halted and two shinobi walked toward them.


Date: Day of the Festival's Parade

Time: Morning—11: 30 am

Place: Outskirts of the Festival (Near buildings)

Temari glared, glared at the red-headed man and the one covered in purple paints.

"You." She spat, unable to keep silent.

"Temari." Gaara stepped forward, and she stepped back.

"What do you want?" she asked, eyes narrowing, not bothering to keep up her 'disguise' anymore. It didn't matter, since they would know, they probably had always known.

Kankuro spoke. "We want to know what's going on."

"There's nothing going on."

"You helped assassinate the Feudal Lord." Gaara stated.

"And if I did?" Temari retorted, not denying her part.

"We'll have to take you in." Kankuro said, and she snorted.

"You? Take me in? You couldn't do it back then, and can't do it now." She scoffed.

She slipped into a stance, and her brothers followed her lead, copying her, and for a moment, it seemed like the old days when they trained, before they started to say their opinions aloud, of her being weak and pathetic.

'Which is weird...' she thought, upon the sudden recollection. Quickly, she shook her head. No. She would not be distracted by the past. They were her enemies now, and would be treated as thus.

She lunged, making the first move, swinging kunai this way and that. Her brothers dodged, and split up away from her.

She lobbed shuriken at them, and Gaara blocked them with his sand—Kankuro with his puppets.

"Why are you doing this?" Gaara asked as their kunai clashed.

"None of your business." She spat and they leapt back from each other.

Behind her, where she was going to land, was Kankuro, and he attacked her with Karasu.

She twisted to the side, barely dodging the attack, and a kunai embedded itself into her arm. She winced slightly with the sudden pain, but landed safely before charging at Kankuro and throwing shuriken at Gaara at the same time.

"Come back with us." Gaara told her from the side.

She ignored him and replied with a question. "What else is your group planning?"

"Just give up!" Kankuro shouted.

"Never!"

They attacked once more, two-against-one.

"Who else are you working with?" Kankuro asked. "Let me guess—the other missing kunoichis from Konoha!"

"No, I'm solo. What's it to you?"

"What's your goal then?!" He demanded.

"Ha! Like I would tell you!" Temari's eyes glanced around. This fight was going to too long, it seemed. 'I should get to the others…' she thought, then made a move.

Temari jabbed at them to the right, but actually feinted left. Then, she leapt backwards, and grabbed something behind her.

Kankuro and Gaara instantly got ready for an attack they expected to come. One from her fan.

Yes, it was her beloved fan that she drew out in front of her. And she fanned it out before her, shielding her body from view, leaving only the hand holding it and her legs and feet exposed. They braced themselves. Ready for any one blow that could send them flying through the air if not ready. The hand moved, and they felt a rush of air.

But it never happened; they were never hit.

Gaara and Kankuro stared at their sister as she waved a powerful wind, and jumped onto her fan.

"Tell him not to send you after me." She informed them, the only message she said as she stared down at her brothers, the wind blowing around them. 'Send someone else after me, because it would be far easier to attack them and not think twice.' And then, before they could react, she twisted a part of her fan, and changed the wind's direction. Soon, she was sailing out of sight, far, far away.


Date: Day of the Festival's Parade

Time: Morning—11: 30 am

Place: Building Rooftops (Somewhat near Festival Grounds)

TenTen stared wordlessly at the shinobi before her. It was Lee and Naruto. Her eyes glanced toward Hinata to see how the Hyuuga would respond. But Hinata's face had scarcely changed, so TenTen turned her eyes back to her former teammate and friend.

"Lily, you're one of the assassinators?" Naruto asked, and TenTen couldn't believe how stupid he was.

However, Lee was different. "TenTen?" He questioned.

She shook her head. "Nope. My name is Wisteria." She thought that since Naruto didn't know it was Hinata, it would be best to keep her identity under wraps as well—Lee might believe it, and if he didn't Naruto probably would.

"Why are you doing this?" Lee asked.

"Because we are." Hinata responded, and shifted into a fighting stance, but not the Hyuuga-styled one, for she knew that Lee was her cousin's teammate.

Beside her, TenTen did the same, and Lee and Naruto did as well.

No one moved, and they watched their opponents, waiting for the first strike.

Hinata ran towards them suddenly, throwing kunai and shuriken at them. Naruto ducked, and Lee threw a kunai back to block it. TenTen ran to the side and attacked them with a barrage of shuriken, all aimed at their bodies but not their vital points.

Naruto attacked Hinata as she charged at him, and the metallic ring of kunai against kunai could be heard. Lee and TenTen, on the other hand, where engaged in a steady fist-to-fist combat, where TenTen was keeping up easy with Lee even though she knew that hand-and-foot combat was his greatest strength.

Fifteen minutes passed, and none of them were breaking a sweat. The panicked voices below had become a hum in the background, and their focus was only on their ally and opponent.

TenTen's eyes shifted toward Hinata's direction as she fought Lee. Hinata seemed fine, and Naruto seemed to be doing OK, but TenTen knew that he would probably tire soon.

As Lee fought 'Wisteria' he found himself feeling a slight sense of de ja vu, as if had fought this woman before. And if this 'Wisteria' lady was TenTen, (he couldn't shake off the feeling that they seemed the same), then that would explain why, as they had often sparred together in the past, but not as often as she sparred with Neji, maybe.

TenTen felt herself fighting Lee in the way that she used to move. A gasp toward her left distracted her, and she felt Lee's fist graze her cheek. TenTen flipped back and landed next to Hinata; Lee running and stopping next to Naruto.

"What happened?" TenTen whispered, wary of their opponents.

Hinata looked at TenTen, and replied. "The gates."

"…" TenTen risked a glance at the gates, and that was when Lee struck. Except Hinata saw him and automatically used Jyuken, hitting some pressure points on his arm. Naruto leaped at them, and TenTen threw a kunai at him out of reflex, her accuracy deadly. He managed to shift his head to the side just in time, as the kunai flew past him and embedded itself into the next building's wall. The thin cut that grazed his cheek started to bleed, and the four stared at each other, two-versus-two.

Hinata thought that if this went on any longer, their cover might be revealed, and however dumb Naruto might be, he was more stubborn than anyone Hinata ever knew.

A glance at TenTen told her that the brunette thought the same, and it was probably time to go.

Suddenly, the four of them felt wind, and they glanced upward for the shadow on the ground.

Temari flew straight past them, not even acknowledging their presences, and they watched her fly away on her giant fan.

Approximately two minutes later, they spotted two figures running on the rooftops following the former Sand kunoichi. One had red-hair and the other was clothed in black. It was obviously Gaara and Kankuro.

TenTen's eyes shifted toward Hinata, then slightly nodded. Hinata tensed, then flipped backward, TenTen beside her doing the same. They landed lightly on the next rooftop, and started to run, following Temari.

Lee and Naruto were distracted by the sudden appearance of the Sand shinobi to really do anything, and they did not react instantly as both girls left the scene.

"What now?" TenTen asked as she ran beside the Hyuuga.

"We find Ino and Sakura." Hinata replied, and the two raced toward the gates with the Leaf shinobi behind them.


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