Say hello to a few new characters this chapter! More meeting and exposition. Also a shout out to shadowwriter329 for his character Bara! Shadowwriter also has some good Naruto
crossover stories, worth a read if you have the time. Now then, let's begin.
Fukuko walked down the main street of Tonoma eyeing every alley she passed, she was looking for a man by the name of Katamo. He was rather well known as a contractor for ninja.
Nobody knew who he worked for, but if you needed a well paying mission he was your man. Fukuko paused as she reached an intersection, looking down the alley she noticed a small
shop with no sign above the door. She headed down the alley to the door when she heard a light tap behind her. Spinning on her heel Fukuko turned to face a hooded boy. With several
kunai drawn she asked, "What do you want?" The boy, maybe sixteen years of age, smiled. It wasn't a happy smile, more of a "I-know-something-that-you-don't" smile. She glared at him
for a few more moments and repeated the question. He chuckled, "Oh nothing, just thought you might want to know Katamo is dead." Fukuko was shocked and it obviously registered on
her face because the boy said, "I know, I couldn't believe it at first either. Now they have the whole place set up to trap any ninja who come in. Hoping to collect some bounties I guess."
She suddenly became suspicious, "Well then, how would you know? Even if you did, why would you help me?" He finally looked up enough so that she could see his eyes, they were pitch
black. Fukuko immediately jumped back. He looked at her and innocently said, "I thought you wanted to see how I knew. As for why I would help you, well, I guess I didn't want the last
Ogino killed." She was shocked again by this boy, he knew so much, too much for comfort. She tightened her grip on the kunai, then, loosened her muscles. "Do you have parents?" She
asked. His eyes changed, the black shrank down to the size of pupils revealing light blue eyes, with these eyes he looked at Fukuko for a moment before angrily spitting out, "If I did,
would I be completing missions for someone like Katamo?" Fukuko put away her kunai and sighed. I don't know why I'm about to do this, but something about this kid…he reminds me of
myself. "Alright, look kid, if you want, you can come with me. You obviously know how to hold your own, and, I hate to say it, but I have a feeling we'll like each other. He smiled, genuinely
this time, but only said, "Sure…but I'll be watching you." And with that, they left. (1)
"Well, this is getting rather tiring." Said Bara, watching the high ranking ninja move about the party. I can't kill him now, hmm, I wonder if they have bathrooms in there. Maybe I could lure
him outside, and then, oh screw it, I'm killing him now. The ninja had just leaned up against a thin glass window with his back to it. He had already consumed much alcohol and was probably
trying to burn it off with his chakra now. Whatever, the sentries are on the other side of the building, I have an opening. Bara jumped across the yard and over the wall. Now I have to lower my
chakra levels so that nobody notices me. He walked slowly across the yard and scaled the wall to the window. Now he was directly behind the man. He placed his hand on the glass, and,
focusing all his chakra to that point incinerated the man. He heard people scream as the man's skeleton slid to the floor with bits of muscle and flesh still attached, he smiled and said, "You
just got burnt, bad." and jumped off the building. He laughed at his bad joke while landing into a roll, used to conserve his momentum. Bara ran at the chakra proofed wall and continued
straight up it. (2) He then fled the scene with only one or two people seeing him. Another job well done, haha, those idiots couldn't see an assassin even if he lit a fire. Oh wait, I did. He smiled,
quickly blending with the crowd using a transformation jutsu and headed to a nearby inn, the last place somebody would look for a ninja on the run.
Kaimei was meditating outside a small village when he felt a large chakra presence nearby. Curious, he went to investigate. What he saw was a group of ninja attacking a young woman.
He looked at each of the ninja in turn, they don't look too powerful…it must be a trap for whatever open-hearted ninja comes their way. Still, the girl seems to be genuinely frightened. "Ok," He
said, "it's time to do this." Having a clone of him jump out of the bushes, Kaimei ran through the handsigns, Snake-Ram-Monkey-Boar-Horse-Tiger (3), "Fire Style, Fireball Jutsu!" Three of
the four ninja dodged in time to avoid injury, but the fourth was burned severely. One down, three to go. Then the three ninja attacked the clone thinking him to be the real Kaimei. Snake-
Dragon-Hare-Tiger (3), "Fire Style, Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Shouted Kaimei as his clone disappeared into smoke, his attackers looked up in shock as their death approached them, one
managed to escape the flames, but the other two were incinerated immediately. Kaimei collapsed, God damn chakra leakage. Wait, the last one is fleeing? I guess they never knew where I
really was. He shrugged, Whatever, I saved the girl. He stood up absorbing the sun's energy and replenishing his chakra. As he turned to leave he heard a voice, "You, you are a powerful
ninja, you have passed my test. Now, join us for a mission, we are going to recover a 'special' item for a 'special' person. You'll make a great distraction while we break in and steal the
item." Kaimei turned around and looked at them. Hmmm. "How much will it pay?" The man looked surprised for a moment, "Uh, at least seven million ryō for each of us." He doesn't expect
me to live through it, that or plans to ditch me on the trip to the client. "No thank you." He said. Then he disappeared leaving the young ninja wondering why he hadn't accepted such a high
price.
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, it was a bit longer than the first one.
Author notes:
(1) Yes, Katsutoshi is my submitted character to New Generation Naruto by Ihavealife, so I would naturally use him in my book.
(2) This is a Parkour technique known as a wall-up or wallrun. Look it up on Youtube sometime.
(3) If you knew either one of those jutsu's purely from the symbols…I LOVE YOU.