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Chapter 20
Kakashi had just finished explaining the mission to the gennin as they ran out of the hole created by Alasia and Joe from when protected Naruto from the sound ninja. Both girls had told their clones to go and fight with the others, leaving them alone with Gai and Kakashi.
Joe looked over to where the hokage was fighting. She regretted the fact that she couldn't help the old man. Tears threatened to fall but she was stubborn and held them back. That didn't keep Kakashi from noticing.
"He's not going to make it isn't he?" Kakashi gave an expectant look and sighed. The girls felt a wave of guilt wash over them.
"Yes. I'm sorry but it has to happen. He knows and is willing to do it for the village." Alasia answered. She had a poker face on but you could see she was hurting. Joe clenched her fists and looked down. She couldn't look them in the face knowing that she is letting their precious leader die.
"I'm sorry." Joe whispered.
"All we can do now is trust your judgments and go with your plans since you know what will happen." Kakashi walked up and placed a hand on each of their shoulders trying to let them know it's okay. Gai gave them a smile. "Kakashi's right."
"Besides, it must hurt more knowing someone won't make it but still form a bond with them." Kakashi let go of their shoulders and ruffled their hair. "Now let's go protect our village." Both girls began to relax and gave a small smile.
"Right. Let's go!" Joe's energy kicked back into gear. "Glad to see you back to normal." The copy nin chuckled.
The group split up, Kakshi was with Gai and Joe was with Alasia. The girls threw themselves into the middle of the fighting in the village, both giving it their all to protect the place that has become a second home.
~With the Hokage~
"3rd!" Mini Joe clone hopped onto his shoulder and gabbed his ear to get his attention. Alasia was on his other shoulder doing the same.
"What are you doing here? Why did you send clones?" Orochimaru stopped what he was doing, curiosity flashing across his face.
"Listen, this guy is going to summon the 1st and 2nd hokages as well as the 4th. You can't stop all of them from coming so just stop him from bringing Minato." Mini Joe informed.
"Right and the way to defeat them is to seal them away. You're going to have to use the same seal the 4th used." Alasia's voice held a heavy tone when she told him about the sealing. Sarutobi's mood darkened even more as reality sunk in.
"I understand." – he sighed- "Keep an eye on the village for me and help the next hokage. This is my . . . last mission I'm giving you. Got it?" Both girls teary eyed nod.
"Good. Now go on. Let the real you know what I said." Both hugged the man with their tiny arms. Before they poofed away however. . .
"HEY YOU!" Joe pointed at the snake like man in front of them. "HERE'S A PROFFESY FOR YA. IN THREE YEARS YOUR GUNNA DIE SUCKER!" Alasia usually would try to stop her but this time anger got hold of her better judgment and let it happen.
He was taken by surprise. Orochimaru didn't expect some random kunoichi to go spouting out the future. . . unless it was a bluff. "Oh and what makes you so sure about that?" The creeper gave them a cocky grin.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Alasia crossed her arms. Before any more questions were asked, they gave the hokage one last hug and poofed.
~With Real Joe and Alasia~
"Don't worry old man. We got this."
"You know he is going to keep an eye on us now right?" Alasia gave Joe a halfhearted glare.
"I don't care what that pedo is going to do because he ain't going to live for long."
"True." With that, the girls continued fighting. Alasia and Joe were currently outnumbered but that didn't bother them. They stood back to back in the middle of sand shinobi. Instead of worrying, they looked over their shoulder and each other and smirked.
Before anyone could react, the two disappeared in a blur. Suddenly, sand nin were thrown around and being slammed into the ground. One sand nin looked around to see a blue paw print and the ground next to his foot. A second later, Alasia appeared in his line of vision, stabbing him in the gut then did a spinning kick and sent him flying.
"It's a good thing we set those up around the village before we left the past." Joe called to her friend as she took out another enemy.
"I guess you can have some good ideas." Alasia smirked.
While fighting, a flash of gold was seen out of the corner of Alasia's eye. Creating some clones and deciding that the clones could handle the enemy now, she signaled Joe to do the same and to fallow her then went in the direction she saw the gold.
"What's up?"
"I saw something out of the corner of my eye and I thought we should go fallow it."
Joe furrowed her brows. "What was it?"
"It was a flash of gold." Joe's eyes widened.
"You don't mean"
"I don't know what it was, that's why we are going to fallow it and find out." They continued to see the flash of gold periodically. It was almost teasing them. They ran after the mysterious gold flicker all the way to the Hokage monument. They landed on top where the saw someone in a cloak of pure white with gold around the edges. The golden material reflected the light of the sun making it seem as though it glowed. He held a tall staff that had a ring on top with six rings hanging of it. The could not tell who the person was because the hood was up so they couldn't see a face.
"I don't remember anyone like this in the manga. What the hell is going on?" Joe whispered to her friend. Before Alasia could answer the figure spoke.
"Don't worry about who I am just yet. I will tell you in due time. Just know that I am on your side." From the voice, they could decipher that the figure was a man. The voice was deep, calming but held authority that should never be questioned.
The man chuckled at the confusion so obviously shown on the girls' faces. "Here"- he reached into his cloak and pulled out two large scrolls. "You will need these on your journey. One is a scroll that will help you travel to the future. You can only use it at a certain point when I tell you to. The second is a summoning scroll. The summons should prove to be out of the world. I think you will enjoy them." He started to chuckle at the end.
He tossed the scrolls over to them. Alasia took the scroll that was for the time travel and Joe took the one for the summonings. Both of them were speechless. They didn't know if they should believe it or not.
I don't believe this guy. Something seems fishy. Joe thought.
"If you don't believe me then sign the summoning scroll and summon something. I assure you nothing is fishy." Joe whipped her head to face him. What the hell! Can he read minds!
"Only when reading them proves to be interesting. Your mind is quite funny to read." Alasia looked at Joe in confusion as her friend gawked at the mystery man.
"STOP READING MY MIND YOU CREEPER!" The man roared with laughter. He was bending over while gripping his sides.
"You are so funny to mess with!" Joe started to crack her knuckles and walk forward. Alasia grabbed her arm to stop her.
"Why should we trust you?" Alasia glared at the man.
The man stopped laughing and stood up straight. "Because I'm the one who can get you home as long as you help me here." Just then, he raised his staff and slashed through the air creating a gateway. On the other side was Alasia's room exactly how they left it. Both stood still, shocked into silence.
"I need you two to do something for me. Your job is to alter the 'story' and help balance things again. Basically you're giving the good guys a boost."
"So are you the reason why we are here, the reason why we can 'scadoo'?" Alasia asked
"Precisely. I cannot tell you any more information now but I will when the time comes. Now, sign the summoning scroll. I want you two to use the summons to take out all of Konoha's enemies out while keeping Konoha nin safe. Any wounded, I want you to take to the hospital. Got it. We won't make any big changes yet." His tone was serious, not leaving any room for questions.
They nodded and opened the scroll. They both signed the contract then closed it. "Good. I have to go now but I will be back to tell you what you have to do next soon. Good luck." Then he vanished.
"What. . . the hell just happened."
"I have no Idea."
Yay plot development! Who is the mystery guy? Let's see if you can guess! hahahahaha Please review! I always enjoy reading them!