Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto......SISTER?!?!?!? ❯ All that is Blonde does not glitter ( Chapter 9 )

The Village Hidden in the Mist Noon

 

“Oi, I'm Hungry!” A young boy, dressed in gray short pants and a large faded sweater of questionable durability, squealed at the man beside him. His companion rolled brown eyes at the boy and continued walking ignoring the outburst.

“Can't we stop and get something to eat. I don't care were or what if we don't stop soon..” Reaching over the older man grabbed the boy's ear and tugged effectively silencing the complainer.

A heavy brogue and slurred speech answered the boy as he struggled to distance him self for the man and the alcohol smell permeating the mans clothes and breathe.

“ When we get to where we are going,baka.” Releasing the boy he shoved him for good measure so he landed on his butt in the middle of the road, several people walking by tsked shaking there heads at the mans brutality toward his young companion but did little more then whisper `What a shame.”, before moving on forgetting the boy and drunk.

Sulking whiling sitting in the road the boy made up his mind and very quietly picked him self up and followed after the drunk as he stumbled and wobbled down the road in the direction of another bar. The boys eyes remained down cast as he and the older man entered another bar, sliding into the nearest empty stool the man ordered two bottles of sake the bar keeper glared.

“We don't allow children in here, he has to leave!” the man behind the bar pointed an accusing finger at the rumpled boy.
”E's 18, Don woory `bout it!” the drunk growled at him slapping a large number of bills on the table.

“ BUT Goza!” the boy shouted and was backhanded roughly by the drunk knocking him into several chairs and the customers sitting in the nearby table. The drunk stood over the boy shaking his fist at him.

“Don't EVER touch me! I will KILL you if you do that EVER AGAIN!” he aimed a kick at the boy but before he could follow though one of the patrons grabbed his leg and using his momentum against the drunk threw him across the room and into the wall. He slide down the wall in slow motion while the man who had thrown him dusted his hands together and reaching down pulled the boy up by the front on his shirt.

“Follow me.” He ordered the boy after setting him on his feet, turning the boy wearing an expression close to relief nodded following the other out of the bar. No one noticed the drunk disappear in a puff of smoke in the already smoking room, they were all to stunned that one of the Hidden Mists most frighten ninja, appeared to have an interest in the strangers that had been wondering their village for the last month and half. Albeit the man was drunk and visited the bars morning noon and night but the bar keeps didn't complain because he always paid his tab. The general consensus was that the two had some how garnered his interest and being that the ninja's of the village held the law and the two where probably in trouble and now the boy was about to pay the price many heads shook but again no one moved to help and the drunk and his foolish companion where soon forget relegated to a hazy memory that sake soon wiped clean.

Outside the Hidden Mist Joninnin slammed the hapless boy up against the stone structure of the bar down a dark alley pressing a very sharp kunai to the boy's throat and hissed in the boy's ear.

“What has a boy and drunk wondering my village and robbing her blind doing here?” Venom dripped from his voice and the edge of the kunai nicked the boy's neck a few drops of blood dribbled out and down crusting the collar of the sweater and causing the boy to swallow convulsively. The Joninnin smirked pale green eyes hardening as the boy he was holding stared back at him from blue eyes that tried desperately not to cry.

“I don't know.” The boy answered his voice cracking under the strain. “ I..” the Joninnin pushed his full weight on the boy then drew back in surprise it wasn't a boy he was holding but a girl his breath hissed out of his month and his glare turned even icier.

“A GIRL?!?” His lips where drawn back in a snare reveling straight white teeth and his hooked nose wrinkled.

“He doesn't know I'm a girl please if I don't get back he'll kill me.” She whimpered at him. The Joninnin's face went suddenly blank and he glanced down the front of the girl trying to see though the layers of clothing to the body underneath. She could be of use to him and Akatsuki, she was clever and had promise if he was any judge of skills, while begging for her life and freedom she divested him of his wallet and some other valuables hiding them quickly in the bulky sweater she wore to disguise her figure. His lips turned up, yes this could work out nicely.

“Girl,” he growled, “I will let you live…But,” he paused stepping back he pulled the kunai down the front of her sweater ripping it in two and sending a cascade of wallets and purses tinkling to the ground, “You work for me and if you Ever steal from Me I can promise you, you will die a pain filled and slow agonizing death.” The last was hissed in her face and watery blue eyes blinked rapidly at the steely promise, she nodded her head so fast her vision blurred.

“Good, then follow me. I will feed you and get you better garments for the time being but you will earn your keep Nothing is free.” Turning to leave the alley he walked away the girl close on his heals.

 

 

Hilltop Over looking Hidden Mist village Two days later

 

Naruto paced back and forth, worrying his bottom lip he was dressed like a merchant and his normally blonde spiky hair was black with gray streaks and pulled up into a ponytail on the top of his head. Sai was sitting cross-legged on the ground his eyes closed meditating, the formal Kimono he wore flared out around him, his black hair was slicked back beside him sat a folder with notes written and drawn in it various tabs sticking out marking information a merchant would find important, he opened his coal eyes to watch Naruto as the teen continued to stress.

“They will be here shortly, do not worry your self over much.” His simply statement was meet with a growl and a huff but the other teen did stop pacing long enough to lean his frame against the railing that circled the outcrop they where sitting on. He closed his eyes and concentrated, a month before he and the others had split up to gather information on Akatsuki's movements and the best that he and Sai had found were rumors that invariably led to dead ends or more rumors as of yet they had nothing concrete. The agreement was to meet here where they sat now waiting, after two months of recon. During the investigation they were to have no physical contact with each other their radios would be on and they could hear each other but nothing else. What was making him so agitated was Arashia's sudden silence, he had not heard from her in two days, Nothing not a whisper on his radio nor in his head and that was what had him worried the most. He was on the verge of charging into the village and demanding her safe return when yesterday Kakashi ordered them all to meet him here at sundown earlier then planned. His stomached knotted and he shoved himself off of his perch to resume his pacing when a set of familiar chakra brushed his awareness.

“I told you.” Said Sai.

“ Yeah,yeah. Oi Kakashi-sensi what's up?”

“Geez Naruto don't you ever learn?” came Sakura's exasperated tone, she emerged from the groove of tree's wearing a silk kimono of red and blue, on her right finger she wore a simple gold band. Her pink hair was black as were her eyebrows, Sasuke standing beside her wore a similar kimono but cut for a man, were the red dominated Sakura the Uchiha allowed the blue to rein, Naruto grimaced.

“You should talk all you two did was dye your hair and..” he paused as he noticed the rings they both wore and he felt bile rise in his throat but before he could say anything Kakashi spoke.

“Arashia is with a member of Akatsuki the rumors are true but we now have a development that was unforeseen.” He waited as Sakura punched Naruto on the top of his head for shouting before continuing. “ Anyway… We need to send a message back to Konoha immediately informing them of this new development so Naruto,” the man began but was cut off by Sai.

“I am faster then him and his penis envy has annoyed me these last few days.” Naruto sputtered and Sakura turned away trying unsuccessfully not to laugh at the blonde's expense. Sasuke's eye twitched but he said nothing.

“Oi you teme. I have not! I mean...SHUT UP!!” Kakashi's eyes widened at the insult and his lips turned up at the corners as he grinned only to have Naruto's finger thrust under his nose and a very irate growl directed at him.

“Now I can see your face, I knew it. You think his shit's funny!! Damn it, its not!” Kakashi's face split in a huge smile and he nodded his head at the blonde he couldn't wait to be able to have his half mask back even though his team could see his face Arashia had given him some cover by gluing facial hair in a long shaggy bread to his chin and cheeks every morning before dosing him in alcohol. His sensitive nose could still detect the last drenching she had given him before being taken by the Mist ninja, he still remembered the stress he felt as he watched the man press her to the wall a kunai at the throat and growl at her then jump back in surprise when she was found out to be a girl.

“Then be quick Sai, time is short and we need more ninja but more then that we need the Mists Kage's silent assistance.” Standing the teen discarded his kimono reveling his normal attire forming seals he disappeared in a swirl of smoke. Turning back to the others he gave then further orders.

“ Continue as you have Sakura find an excuse to visit Naruto's shop with Sasuke in three days time.”

“What about you sensi?” she asked him.

“I am going to follow the Mist Ninja.” `First I am washing this crap out of my hair and getting back into my normal cloths! Ugh!' He smiled one more time before disappearing, Naruto was still grumbling about Sai's sick sense of humor when he noticed Sakura and Sasuke looking at him.

“What?” he asked rubbing the back of his head.

“Dobe.”

“Baka.”

Both of his best friends proclaimed before turning to leave, leaving him standing alone staring after them, since they were on a mission he didn't chase after them shouting and carrying on as he normally would, he did know when to act like a fool and when to be professional and with his chakra dispersed so he could sense anyone one coming and his heightened since of smell he knew himself to be alone before they had arrived. Feeling a tightness in his chest from seeing the rings both Sakura and Sasuke wore he had to remind him self they where playing a role, but why he wondered would they chose to pretend to be married. He swallowed hard on the knot forming in his throat and the pain in his chest and composing his features. `Yes,' he thought to himself ` It's just pretend, they wouldn't leave me behind like that.. Would they? First nee-chan now them? Great I should have stayed home in bed.' He stomped back to the Village just before entering he composed himself and buried the resentment that was building inside down deep presenting the cool calm merchant to the people how passed him on the way back to the shop he and Sai had rented as a front.

“ `At least you don't have to put up with that assholes penis jokes for the time being.'” The fox demon told him.

“ `Yeah, there is that at least.'”

 

 

 

A Cave 20 miles southeast of the Hidden Mist Village

 

“Where you followed?” a voice shrouded in shadows asked.

“No.” came the reply

“Good is the Kyuubi vessel sufficiently distracted?”

“Yes.”

“And the other.” A pause as the cloaked figures at the entrance to the cave moved further into the cave and closer to the speaker.

“Kakashi believes me to be with Asumere the mist nin. He will chase after him and try to find where he hide me.” The shorter of the two reached up removing its hood to revel blonde locks and piercing blue eyes.

“Good girl.” The shadow voice spoke again. “ You will meet with Uchiha Itachi tomorrow he has followed you from Konoha I wished for you to allow him closer to the other Uchiha to draw him away from the other boy but your report on the Kyuubi vessels influence persuaded me otherwise.” The shadow looked the girl over a evil smile graced his lips and Arashia shuddered on the inside it looked more like skin being stretched to tight over the skeletal features. Bowing her head she turned to leave hearing her master's words follow her out of the cave dripping with sarcasm.

“Go Konoha's `Yellow Flash' and retrieve what Itachia could not!”

Leaving the cave Arashia glanced at her companion, “ Head back to the village and allow Hatake Kakashi to follow but don't be obvious, he is a smart man and if he suspects you then this will fail.” The man nodded as Arashia appeared to phase out, he shivered their master was truly terrifying but this girl was even scarier using her fathers Shunshin No Jutsu (Body Flicker) it was entirely possible that if she chose to she could even eliminate their leader. He shivered again before performing the seals and transporting himself back to the village to have the White Fang of Konoha's son follow him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't worry Kakashi is not as oblivious as you think, Kakashi Gaiden Spoiler. Arashia is 26 to answer any questions about age since she was 7 when Naruto was conceived and had just turned 8 when the Kyuubi attacked. The story is coming to a head rapidly and will have a nice neat bow at the end but I just haven't finished and don't really know what is going to happen until I sit down and start typing. I don't even know what the characters will do in the next chapter but even as I say that little glimpses are running around in my head trying to form into solid ideas so let me know what you think. Thanks