SAND PART 1
After team Kakashi departed from the Ichiraku's Kakashi and Naruto walked together towards their apartment. Apparently, Tsunade has bought the flat next to Kakashi. So they are now neighbours. Naruto has subconscious feeling for Kakashi even before the chunin exams. And after she got her memories of her previous life, she started to even like Kakashi more. But she never got a chance before going to training trip. So she was determined to confess to him today. She doesn't care if she got rejected. But she was well prepared.
"It's wierd you know..." Naruto started.
"Hmmm..." Kakashi rose an eyebrow.
"You are the dog masked Anbu... I don't remember very clearly. I was very young back then."
Kakashi turned to Naruto."You remember ?"
"Well... you felt kinda familiar and that silver hair..." Naruto shook her head. "My dad was your jonin sensei...right ?"
"Yeah." Kakashi nodded in daze.
"Hey, Kakashi... The night is still young. How about you come to my flat today. I-I want to listen about my dad and mom ya know... I will buy you drinks. Or... or...I just wanna know about them more."
"Fine ... I want to read the book...but just an hour of stories."
"*sigh* And one more thing." Naruto spoke nervously.
"Hmmm ?" Kakashi rose an eyebrow.
"I will say it to you once we reach our apartment."Naruto flashed a grin
"Well I guess I can wait."
After talking for a hour Kakashi, Naruto finally proposed him. With cups of sake, and in a lightened mood, Kakashi accepted her proposal. Naruto can feel the guilt Kakashi felt. But she assured him that it is okay. After another hour of some romantic and some emotional chat, they separated with a passionate kiss.
After Kakashi left, Naruto changed her attire with a loose night gown. She hasn't met with the rookie nine yet. Honestly because of her being mostly alone and reserved, she hadn't has any friendship between any of them. Sure Hinata was close. But because of her nervousness, their relationship couldn't go ahead. Naruto's only relationship with the others were from the c rank missions with them. As she thought about it, She sat cross legged on her bed and went to meditate.
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"It will start tomorrow morning. Tell me about your plans."
"I want to stop all of this. But then tailed beasts won't be free. So I will let it happen like cannon. But there are some things that must change. We must kill Kabuto and Orochimaru. Sealing black Zetsu is a top order priority as well. I will soon complete box of infinite imprisonment after my order of special crystal from iron country arrives. Then there is me achieving rinnegan. But I want your opinion in them. Kurama."
"For your second plan the best time would be the time when the Uchiha brothers confront each other. And as per rinnegan, you are already a sage so all you need is Uchiha's blood and chakra."
"It will be hard if I try it infront of others. So a secret mission then."
"Yes, and don't forget about that rat. Danzo must die."
"Yes. And stopping Pain too. I don't want Jiraya or Kakashi to die."
"Your lust for the hatake brat is obvious. Now go and rest when you can."
"Hey !... Fine."
...
In the forest three figures were moving very fast.
"Garra is unconscious. So I can't track him with Kurama's sensing ability of sensing other bijus. Our only option will be your summons or my sage mode."
"That's why we are going to sand village first. Because we have to report first before we continue our pursue."
"I know ! But what I don't understand is why we are going in this pace ?"
"We are already going very fast. If you have any other method of going faster then be my guest." Kakashi told Naruto in a smooth voice.
"Fine !" Naruto created a shadow clone. Then the clone manifested countless thin golden chakra chains. The chains tangled up to make two large golden wings on her back with the wing span of 9 ft. Soon the clone took of to the general direction of hidden sand.
"Once it reaches the sand village, we can teleport there quickly."Naruto informed.
Both Kakashi and Sakura watched in awa. But soon Naruto broke the silence again."Someone's up ahead, 3 kms."
Soon they reached near Temari And informed her about the situation. Not long after Naruto informed them that she was ready for the teleportation. With Kakashi's approval, Naruto flashed through a few handsigns and a sealing circle appeared on the ground. Next thing they knew was the seen changed from lush green forest to sand dunes. Behind them a large clay wall. As soon as they regained their composer, they rushed toward the main entrance. It was only 10 at morning. So as soon as they reached the main tower, many shinobi were still panicking and in a disarray.
It turned out that Kankuro has been poisoned but barely concious. Just as he gave team Kakashi a piece of cloack from Sasori, he passed away.
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"Sakura is preparing the antidote, it will take her half a day to complete the antidote. But that's not our main problem." Kakashi spoke solemnly.
"I know. We are facing atleast two S-rank missing nin. Probably even more. Grandma said that team Guy will be our backup. But it will take at least a day more before I can teleport them to us. So I am saying that you and me should leave a shadow clone here while we track them down. We will gather information and track down Garra. And once we meet team Guy, we can go there easily and rescue Garra. We are not tierd yet." Naruto suggested.
After thinking for a while, Kakashi agreed.
We won't go ourselves, but our shadow clone will do. So he went to inform Sakura and Baki. After half an hour, Kakashi and Naruto's shadow clones set out to track down Garra with Pakkun. And Pakkun having a strict order to dispel himself if anything dangerous occurred.
It took Sakura almost 10 hours to prepare the antidote. By the time, she finished her treatment, it was already midnight. So after finishing her food she went to sleep.
Next morning after breakfast, Team Kakashi went to discuss the rescue mission of Garra. Apparently Kankuro has woken up at early morning.
After some debriefing, Kakashi spoke. "Our clones were dispelled near the border of land of rivers."
"Then what are we waiting for ? let's go and rescue them." Temari spoke up.
"That's the point. We can't blindly charge in. Not to mention my clone was using sage mode and still couldn't sense the attacker. It might be a trap. So we should proceed cautiously." Naruto informed.
"Agreed. Not to mention Suna is in a vulnerable state after the kidnapping of Kazekage. So we cannot spare you." Baki said to Temari.
"But Garra !"When Temari was about to argue, an elderly woman cut her off.
"I will go. It has been a while since I have seen my Grandson."
"Are you sure ?" Kakashi asked skeptically.
For which Chiyo gave him a hard look.
"I have prepared some extra antidotes just in case." Sakura informed.
"So we should leave. We can get team Guy on our way." Naruto suggested.
"Fine let's get ready, we will leave in an hour." Kakashi ordered.
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Naruto was wearing her one piece battle suit. It looked like a skin tight spandex which hug her body tightly emphasizing her curves and assets, but the black and orange dress has far more functionality than just that. It has many pre-made storage seals, not to mention kinetic energy absorption and reflection seals. But fortunately she wore a cloack to cover her suit.
As soon as they went outside the village, Naruto teleported them to the place where her clone was dispelled. After scounting the surrounding for a while, Kakashi summond Pakkun again. And then they followed their lead. But unfortunately not long after, they had to face an obstacle. It was a man in an orange spiral mask and Akatsuki cloack.
After team Guy received the new mission from Hokage, Neji never thought that this was the day he will realise that their was no meaning in his title 'Prodigy'.
First after receiving the mission, Gai sensei told them to stand close to each other. Then he threw a kunai knife at the ground near their feet. But Neji noticed something. There was a symbol on the handle of the kunai. It was a pattern where four circles are entangled with eachother in a straight line (an:like the symbol of Audi). Soon the symbol unravelled and spread on the ground. After covering the team, suddenly Neji saw the chakra disturbance in the marking. And the next thing was they are in front of team Kakashi and an old lady. The little dizziness soon went away. But he had to agree that Naruto has surely matured. But that thing aside, the next thing they faced, was surprising. The area around them was devastated. Wooden spikes and Charred ground and trees. Grounds around them were full of deep carters. From what Kakashi sensei said, they faced a man with an orange spiral mask who can use wood style and an ability to phase through phisical objects. He even came back to life after they killed him once and then ran away using some kind of teleportation or spatial wrapping. But that was only the starting.