A/N: NEW CHAPTER! YAYY! Sorry my procrascination knows no bounds and sneaks up to me at the randomest times... SO! Hope you guys enjoy this though there isn't any Sasuke in this chapter (D':) but there's always next chapter!
Disclaimer: Sadly, oh so sadly, i do not own Naruto. If I did there would be SasuNaru and Sakura would be dead ^_^
Chapter Four
"I should have seen her coming for me,
But love was not the thing that took my life.
She took me to her laboratory,
filled me with her potion till I died.
It all started so right.
Then we put it in flight,
Now we're going the wrong way.
Attention all passengers, this a massacre,
but thank you for choosing this flight.
And all the howling noises reveal,
Just how damn charming this feels.
Just how damn charming this feels."
-"I'm Wasted" Ghost Town
Walking in as if they had no feelings about being late was a group of ten. Leading them in was Itachi, who had spoken. Following Itachi were nine people, two women and seven men, who were all wearing sunglasses even though they were inside a building. Though young looking, the group had a menacing aura, that told anyone 'don't fuck with me…or I'll kill you' very plainly. Iruka couldn't help thinking that maybe it was a good thing they were wearing sunglasses, since one glare from any of them could probably stop someone's heart.
"Itachi are these the people you were talking about as the bodyguards?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow at him in inquiry, regaining her composure quickly. Kakashi and Jiraiya still had their jaws to the floor, so only Iruka nodded to Tsunade's question.
Before Itachi could answer Iruka cut in. "Of course they are Tsunade! If they weren't you'd have to wonder who he would bring if this group wasn't them."
Itachi only gave a nod in confirmation, the only sign that he agreed with Iruka's statement. "Yes this is the group of bodyguards I told you about. Their group is called the Biji." Pointing to the long haired red-head at the front Itachi continued. "This is their leader Kyuubi."
The 'Kyuubi' that Itachi had pointed out, was a red head whose long hair was tied back in a high ponytail. He was as tall as Itachi, who was 6'feet and 8 inches, and just as slim with the slight muscle gracing his form that was covered by an all black suit, with a blood red tie. Behind him was a black man with white hair, braided close to his head, a tattoo of two blue horns was on his cheek; beside him was a girl with tanned skin and shoulder length mint green hair, with her bangs pulled back with a red burette. Next to her was a man that was almost as pale as Itachi, his own shoulder length black hair hanged around his face. Beside him was a man that was more then 7feet in height and the largest among them, his dirty blond hair cut close to his head, with his tan skin standing out. Guessing the man beside him was a close friend, due to their whispering to one another through the whole introduction, the friend had dark red hair, part of it pulled back in a ponytail. Iruka had to double take for a second, thinking the small form beside the dark red haired man was a girl, with the slightly delicate looking features, pale skin, and light brown hair, was actually a boy. The last two were complete opposites, one a women with pale skin and brown hair and the other a man a head taller with tanned skin that matched his dirty blond hair.
Kyuubi, noticing the looks directed behind him, introduced them. "This is Gyuki, Lucky Seven Chomei, Saiken, Kokuo, Son Goku, Isobu, Matatabi, and Shukaku." Iruka, Kakashi and Jiraiya nodded while Tsunade just placed her head on her hands.
"So are these your code names or your real names?" Tsunade asked, staring Kyuubi down.
"Ah," Kyuubi gave Tsunade a smirk that sent a shiver down Iruka, Kakashi and Jiraiya's backs. "Yes, those are our code names." Tsunade nodded.
"So who are we guarding exactly?" Kyuubi asked Tsunade. "Itachi told us next to nothing about the situation, and said to just wait to hear it from you guys."
Tsunade waved the group to the seats in front of them, indicating for them to sit down, once they were seated comfortably Tsunade began. "We would like yourself and your group to bodyguard a band of ours."
Kyuubi raised an eyebrow, "A band? Itachi made it sound like this was serious, not just a small guarding during a concert or something."
Tsunade just looked at him, "You didn't let me finish." Kyuubi backed down, raising his hands in semi defeat. "So this band is Ghost City, made up of four teens, they've been on the top rock/alternative group for about three years now, though they have been a group for five. Now what always comes with fame also comes fans, some fans not, how should I say this, sane sometimes happens as well."
The group all nodded, understanding what she was saying. "So they're being stalked?" Matatabi asked.
"Somewhat from what we could tell from the letters this specific person sends the group after each concert or gig they do."
"Somewhat?" Saiken drawled, looking up from the floor for the first time to look straight at her.
"At first we believed these to be nothing but a normal slightly crazed fan, but recently the letters have been threatening to the bands life and we cannot have that."
"Has the band seen the letters?"
"No. From the very beginning of their career the band wanted nothing to do with the letters since they were to piled down with their homeschooling. So we have a selected group of people who work just to look through the fan mail and put them in designated files of just 'love letter's', 'threats', 'correspondence', et. You get the idea. These letters though, they board on insanity, and the person always signs 'Your devoted number 1 fan.' These are the letters, the most recent ones to be exact." Sliding two documents across the table, Tsunade let the Biji read the letters, indicating which one was first, leaving them to it, she, Iruka, Kakashi, Itachi and Jiraiya all leaned back in their seats; all already having read them.
First letter
"Dear Ghost City,
I am so pleased to hear about you hitting the top ten in the rock/alternative charts again. I am so pleased to know that you have come so far since your debut five years ago as a band. I saw your concert last night and have never been happier, your music has just gotten better over the years and I cannot wait to hear more… I know that you have been having some trouble with your female fan base, those pesky whores. But I think it is a good time to call to your attentions that that you won't need to worry about them for long. Soon, very soon, I will take you away from them forever and you will never have to worry about them again. Until that time comes….
Your devoted number 1 fan."
Second letter
"Dear Ghost City,
How have you been? I hope you enjoyed my last letter, though I am not entirely sure my real feelings really came across in it. For instance, did you know that I am so obsessed with little Gaara's flaming red hair that I just want to scalp it off him so I can have it forever. Also, Kiba's adorable red triangle tattoos on his soft looking cheeks; they make me want to bite them off, and kill the person that touched and marked those cheeks that was not me. Not only that, but Shika's eyes… They see everything but give anything but that impression. All I want to do is extract those eyes and keep them in a jar so I can have them with me at every opportune moment. Then, there's the beautiful Naru, whose tanned skin and those lovely whiskers that just give off warm sunshine from within. There is nothing I want more than to devour it whole and bleed him dry so I can bathe in his glorious ruby red blood.
Hope that you get this,
Your devoted number 1 fan."
There was silence in the room after all the Biji had finished reading the letters. The second that Shukaku had finished reading the second letter and placed it on the table Kyuubi spoke. "So I can see why you wanted bodyguards."
"Yeah." Tsunade responded dryly. "So are you up for this challenge?"
"Cha. Of course we are." Kyuubi responded lightly. "So how do you want us to do this? Are we going undercover, following them at a discrete pace or…"
"No," Tsunade shook her head. "We're telling the group about you guys being their bodyguards, but not why. We've already taken precautions and put them in high school for their last year and are only letting them do small gigs at Itachi's establishments. They'll be fine with you guys as bodyguards for school and the gigs and stuff because they'll just see it as a precaution that they don't get mobbed while going to school."
"Okay so we're discrete in the reasons why we're there but we'll be with them 24/7?"
"Yes. We know that even if they're at home, stuff can still happen and we want to avoid that. Also, because if we had you follow them Naruto would know right away that something's up, then he would tell Shikamaru who would figure it out in less then 10minutes."
"How are you so sure this Naruto would know?" Isobu asked, gaze curious.
Iruka laughed outright at that, "Naruto seems dumb, but he's really smart about people."
Kakashi explained when all Iruka received from the Biji was questionable looks. "Since Naruto's parents were also in the business, Naruto had been surrounded by guards for most of his young life. When Naruto was 6 years old, he outmaneuvered a guard that had been in the American Secret Service and had made the man cry." At the Biji's shocked looks Kakashi kept going. "Another time was when Naruto was 7 years old and 10 minutes after the guards had been assigned to him, the guard lost sight of Naruto for 2 seconds and the child was gone. The guard, frantic, went the way the child had been going and not wanting to be fired tried to find him himself, never noticing that Naruto was behind him. 2 hours later, Naruto, growing tired of the 'game' tapped the guards shoulder and asked him if they could go home yet. The guard was so stumped he just nodded."
"So you can see why we don't even bother with trying to hide guards from Naruto." Jiraiya commented, looking at the shocked Biji's faces.
"Wait! He was following the guard the whole time?" Son Goku burst out. They just nodded at him.
"Later we had all watched the security tapes to try to find out where he had been and so when we located the guard in the video it took us next to no time to find Naruto." Tsunade shook her head, laughing softly, remembering the day. "The kid was 2 steps behind him the whole time, moving his body every time the guard did so as to not let him see him in his peripherals."
"I dib watching this kid," Kyuubi said, smirking. "All right, so we'll have a person for each kid at all times and then have the rest watch while at school and the such." At the Biji's nod, Kyuubi continued. "Okay so who wants the smart kid? Shukaku you'll get Gaara so that I can keep an eye on you. Then we just need one for the kid with the tattoos. Do the other parents know that we'll be with their kids 24/7?" Kyuubi inquired, looking at Tsunade.
"Hmm? Yeah, all of the parents agreed after seeing the letters and Iruka and Kakashi are Naruto and Gaara's guardians so there's no problem there." Tsunade responded, eating a cookie.
"All right then. When do we start?" Kyuubi rubbed his hands together in excitement.
Gaara's POV
"Naruto what are you doing?" Gaara looked up from his sketch book at Shikamaru's question. Turning to his brother to see what the fuss was about, the red head wasn't surprised to see Naruto digging through his bag at a fast pace, as though he had to find what he was looking for at that very instant.
"Hmm. Give me a second Shika, I just need to find my notebook." Naruto grumbled while digging through the bag. "Aha! Found it!" Pulling out his notebook Naruto immediately opened to a blank page and, grabbing the pen behind his ear, started to write.
Shika just looked at Naruto for a second, seeing he was now in deep concentration asked him again. "Naruto what are you doing?"
Naruto looked up, "Oh. Sorry Shika, I just had this great idea for a new song and had to start writing it down." Gaara gave his brother a small smile, when he turned to look at the red head. Gaara was used to this, though the others weren't, even though they had all known each other for years. Naruto, his beloved brother, was different with music; he was able to notice the smallest things and be inspired by them, creating beautiful music. When those times happened, Naruto would usually just be with Gaara and not the others.
"It's okay Naruto. You cannot help your musical impulses." The red head told him softly.
Shika looked a bit stumped. "But he's been listening to music for the last hour…"
Naruto looked at him curiously, while Gaara just glared at Shika. "So?"
Shika looked between them incredulously. "So can think of songs by listening to music?"
"Yeahhh…" Naruto still wasn't getting where Shika was going with this and turned back to his notebook.
Shika then looked to the red head for explanation. Gaara just looked at him, "It's normal for him." Leaving it at that, Gaara turned back to his sketch book, shading in the hair of the lavender eyed guy, Neji, from last night; ignoring how Shika dropped his head on the table in defeat.
The red head ran his hand through his hair, while using his other hand to go through the half a dozen pictures he had drawn of Neji. Irritated since he couldn't get the boy out of his head, Gaara quickly closed his notebook and looked at the people around the table with him. Naruto seemed to be taking a break from his writing since his book was in front of him while he sipped on a bubble tea. Kiba was waking up; he had been sleeping since they had gotten to the table. Shikamaru was resting his head on his arm while texting with his other hand, probably to Temari who had been his girlfriend for about two years.
"How do you guys feel about the school thing?" Gaara inquired softly, curious but had been waiting for a good time to ask.
"Seems like a drag." Shikamaru said as he looked at Gaara.
"I don't know… It could be fun." Naruto said, ever the optimistic one.
"I don't mind it… I just think the timing seems a little weird." Kiba leaned forward on his elbows, while everyone nodded. "I mean this is our last year, you would think that if they wanted us to 'experience' high school they could have just had us go from the beginning." All of them nodded, agreeing with him.
"Do you think this is why they decided to have us do those smaller gigs only at bars Itachi owns? Because they've been acting kind of strange since they decided we would have as many concerts and they have been upping the security for everything we do for the last two months. Also, since it seems kind of odd that they would spring this up so suddenly, ya know?" Naruto remarked, chewing on the end of his pen.
"The fact that they went so far as to disguise entrance exams as aptitude tests says that they have been putting a lot of thought into this. I wouldn't be surprised if after this we'll find ourselves with personal bodyguards again." Shikamaru looked at his hands while he said this, so he didn't notice the confused looks being sent his way from the last remark.
"What do you mean 'personal bodyguards'? No one said anything about any of those…" Naruto saying the question him, Gaara, and Kiba were all wondering.
"Hmm?" Shikamaru looked up at them. "Oh. You guys didn't notice Tsunade checking the clock throughout the meeting? From the way she was speaking, faster then normal, trying to get us out of there faster, was probably because they had a meeting planned that concerns us, but don't want us to know about it."
"Huh. Sometimes you're too smart Shika." Kiba snorted, while Naruto and Gaara just nodded.
Shika just shrugged, Naruto wrung his hands together. "Do you think they'll be fun to play with?" They all turned to look at Naruto, mimicking his smirk at the prospect of a new game.
In another room, floors above the rock/alternative group, the Biji all felt a cold shiver run down their spines.
A/N: Okay thats the next chapter guys! XD So sorry for the wait! I'll try to be update faster next time pinkie swear ^_^