Chapter Three

Tenten felt the dagger go straight past her cheek, drawing blood, and nearly shot out of her skin as she spun around to face the direction in which it had come from but saw nothing.

A rustling sound behind her made her spin around to face… nothing. It was only 10 seconds later did she realise the dagger that had gone past her and had thunked into the tree behind her was now gone.

"Erm guys… I don't think we're alone anymore," Kankuro stated the obvious as he saw Neji put a hand to Tenten's cheek and wiped off the blood. It was a shallow wound and had obviously been made as a warning. A warning for, and from, what he didn't know, and he didn't think the rest of them knew either.

"Get on the ground," Naruto muttered as he got to his knees and put his hands above his head as if to say no harm. That was a joke considering Tenten had weapons all over her body, she had saved them from the sinking boat, visible and non-visible, Naruto had knives in sheaths all over his body, Sasuke had the same as well as a spear and a bow and arrows bag slung over shoulder. Hinata just had her brown bag slung over her shoulder which had some healing plants and a botanist book in it, and Temari had a mineralogist kit in her hand. Ino had her first aid basics in a box which Kankuro was now carrying along with his waterproof camera hanging from his shoulder. Neji was carrying nothing for his speciality of science as it didn't require anything but knowledge, so he just carried their binoculars and two water canisters. Sai just had a backpack full of paper and pens which had somehow survived not getting wet. Lee had nothing but weights attached to his legs for his martial arts training, and last but not least, as he was probably the most dangerous, there was Gaara who had guns attached to his hips, legs and two shotguns on his back. Not to mention the mechanic's toolbox he carried in his hand which contained spanners and all sorts of tools which could easily be used as weapons.

The mystery person in the tree's obviously knew that they were dangerous because the next thing they knew they heard a feminine voice from above them yell,

"Luma ha ito! Kaj!"

They looked at each other clueless before looking up to see a shadow on a branch in the tree in front of them. Sasuke scoffed before standing and saying,

"It's just a chick, come on," the next thing he knew an arrow was shot straight at him, just lightly skimming his neck, only creating a small cut. Sasuke's hand went straight to his neck as he fell backwards onto his backside.

"Guta ya: Luma ha ito!" The voice repeated as it got angrier and louder.

"We don't understand you!" Naruto replied as he cradled Hinata to him, expecting an arrow to shoot at him as well. When one didn't he looked up to see the shadow in the tree shift slightly as if disturbed by his answer.

The next thing he knew a girl about his age had jumped down from the tree and landed gracefully, like a cat, on the ground in front of him. His eyes widened as he took in her short pink hair… PINK!!??!?!? and her sparkling emerald eyes as they looked at him with a strange expression that he couldn't identify.

Tenten quietly unsheathed one of her Katana's at a look from Kankuro and stood up behind the girl before bringing the Katana around to her neck in one quick fluid movement and kept it there as a threat.

"Let us go and we won't harm you," what she didn't expect was for the girl to laugh at her. Gaara's eyes widened as he felt something tug at his memory when he heard the beautiful husky, chiming laugh erupt from the girl in front of Naruto.

"You won't kill me girl," Tenten froze as she heard the girl speak Japanese with a slight unrecognizable accent, slightly American maybe?, twisting the words slightly, but they could all understand that she knew Japanese, and she knew it well. Even though the pink haired girl was shorter than Tenten she gave off a dangerous aura, and as soon as Tenten got over the shock of her speaking Japanese she realised that she was staring straight at Tenten with those dangerous emerald eyes without turning her head. It made Tenten gulp before saying shakily,

"What makes you say that I won't?" The girl just let out another short husky laugh before continuing in her medium-pitched husky voice that sent shivers up Lee's, Gaara's, Sai's and Sasuke's backs,

"I can tell by your hands," Sakura shifted her eyes to Tenten's small, but sturdy looking hands. "You have never killed before and you don't intend to now. I call your bluff." Tenten swallowed again as she pressed the blade deeper to the girl's throat.

"Try me," and that was obviously the wrong thing to say cause the next thing she knew her wrist was being twisted and she was throw down to the ground with her own Katana pressed against her throat.

"Don't move or I will press deeper," she warned to Neji just as he reached out, but Sasuke paid no heed as he grasped his spear and lunged for the girl. She just spun and kicked his spear away before following it with a roundhouse kick to his head making him fly through the air and eat dirt. "You just don't learn, do you?" She mocked as she spun the Katana with her wrist a few times before spinning around and throwing it straight at a tree. She didn't even bother to look as the sword buried itself deep into the tree's trunk. The tree was already dead so it felt no pain as the sword went through it. It was the same tree that the dagger had hit as well. The girl's eyes swept through the group noting the shown, and concealed, weapons on each of their bodies. As her eyes passed over Gaara she stumbled a bit as something in her heart hurt. She just shook her head and told herself she would forget about it before saying,

"Take off your weapons and place them at your feet," Naruto, Gaara and Tenten complied well enough, but Sasuke only put down his spear and bow and arrows and stepped away. "Did you not hear me boy? Take off you weapons!" Sasuke just smirked and said,

"I did. That's it." She glared at him and said,

"Do you think I am stupid? I know you have knives under your pants, at your hips and two at your neck." Sasuke's smirk wavered as his eyes widened. How could she have known that?

"Do it Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as the baby started to cry again. Temari looked on in horror as the strange girl in front of them looked at her baby. Only when she looked away did Temari breathe a sigh of relief.

"…Fine," the only reason he gave in was because the girl had begun spinning a dagger around in her hand. When Tenten look closer she could see it had a black handle with a gold swirl design engraved into it. Being the weapons expert she was, she knew that whoever made that had put a lot of love and effort into it and she also knew that it had a twin, with probably the same design, because at the girls' thighs she had two simple brown sheaths strapped there.

As Gaara looked at the girl he noticed she was wearing skins from wild animals. At her wrists she wore two dark brown skinned bracelets tied together with what looked like string. On her feet she wore a simple piece of dark brown skin the same colour as her bracelets at the sole of the foot and that was held in place with a piece of black skin that made it look like a thong, but then all the way up to her knee she had a criss-crossing of what looked like light brown ribbon to hold the 'shoe' in place. Her skirt was a piece of ragged looked light brown skin, maybe from a wolf, that was wrapped around her hips and held in place with a criss-crossing of stiches down the hip and finished with a belt of black skin, from a bear perhaps Gaara thought. She had obviously been wearing it for a long time because it had been ripped at the bottom multiple times and obviously restitched as she grew taller. It now only just covered her bottoms. Covering her chest was what looked to Gaara like a lot of skins stitched together and then tied at the front to form a bikini sort of top that made her chest look… very nice.

At that last thought of his, Gaara felt his face heat up and he knew he was blushing so he quickly looked down.

Gaara hadn't been the only one checking her out. Sasuke and Sai had both been ogling her as well. She was a natural island beauty as Sai liked to call the women from Islands he went to who he thought were hot enough to screw.

As the boys all looked at her, she had been circling them and examining them. She noticed that the girl with four blonde ponytails had a broken shoulder, a bad one at that, and the boy with three claw mark scars on each cheek and blonde scruffy hair he had spoken first had a deep gash along his arm which was bleeding through the tightly wound bandage covering it. She also noticed that there was a blonde haired girl lying on the ground unconscious and by the looks of it she was in a coma.

She also noticed a whole lot of many more things about them, such as the one with a tattoo saying 'Love' in kanji and a black ring tattoo around each eye who had longish messy red hair was staring at her in a strange, but not disturbing way. As well as the one with black eyes and hair that had defied her before as well as the one with the artists hands were staring at her in a lustful way. She scoffed, as if they could have her. She noticed a whole lot of other things while they all just sat there staring at her as she finished her circle stalk.

The girl sighed as she looked at them all, not considering any one of them a threat. She looked over their heads and brought two fingers to her mouth and let loose a sharp ear splitting whistle. A loud pounding from behind them made them all spin around quickly as a large fast moving object leaped over them and landed at the girl's side. Hinata nearly fainted as she looked into the sharp teeth of unusually large tiger right in front of her, not two feet away.

The girl ran her fingers through the tigers' fur as she muttered to it in a language they didn't understand. What was equally disturbing was that fact the tiger seemed to reply in the same language.

"Hmmm, Kara seems to think you're harmless, so I am going to let you go. Be gone of our woods! Go back to where you came from!" And with that the girl turned and walked away with the tiger, named Kara of all things, at her side.

"But we can't! We're stranded here! Our boat went down!" Tenten called after her pleadingly.

"Not my problem," the girl threw her hand over her shoulder as if dismissing it.

Temari, who had stayed quiet until this point, stood and shouted after her, "Have you ever met, or heard of, a Nara Shikamaru?" Now that stopped the girl right in her tracks. Temari held her breath as the girl turned around slowly with an unreadable expression on her face.

"What did you just say?"

With the American accent thing, remember where the Bermuda Triangle is located. XD I UPDATED!!! I just keep going. XD Aren't you all happy? But remember I would love reviews. They keep me going. XD