Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Written In Ink ❯ Chapter 15
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By: Desiree Dee 
One mission comes to an end
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Martial Arts / Drama / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 02.28.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 423 | Status: Completed
One mission comes to an end
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Shounen / Martial Arts / Drama / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 02.28.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 423 | Status: Completed
Thanks to TudeDeluxe and Battosai25.
I wanted to get this chapter out. I’m moving tomorrow and will be without internet for a few days. Enjoy!
Chapter 15
Sumi looked around at her strange surroundings. The place seemed familiar, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it. She was lying on her back, which was to be expected since she had just fallen out of a tree.
She tried to move, but couldn’t seem to make her body work. A man’s face appeared above her own, and she felt herself being lifted.
“How’s my little girl?” She heard the man ask. There was no time for her to take the scene in as his face dissolved and was replaced by those of the three people she was traveling with.
Sumi sat up so suddenly that she knocked her forehead against Naruto’s.
“OW!” Naruto grunted.
“Where am I?” Sumi jerked her head back and forth while blinking her eyes uncontrollably.
Sakura placed her hands on Sumi’s shoulders in an attempt to calm her.
“What’s the last thing you remember?” She asked the frightened girl.
“I was in the tree, my head hurt really bad, then there was this man’s face..” She shook her head again. “..but he disappeared.”
“Your eyes were all funny, like they are when you use your tattoos.” Naruto stated.
“You gave us all a bit of a scare.” Jiraiya said. “Sakura tried to use some healing techniques, but she couldn’t find anything physically wrong.”
“I’m sorry for scaring you.” Sumi hung her head.
“It’s ok.” Sakura reassured her. “How about you and me go take a bath? I got passes from the innkeeper for the local bathhouse. I’m sure it’ll make you feel better.” She gave Sumi a smile that wouldn’t let her refuse.
“Sure, that might be just what I need.” She smiled, stood up and followed Sakura to the bath.
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“Good morning students.” Iruka said cheerily.
“Good morning, Teacher.” The class responded. Kakashi was propped up next to the blackboard with a bored look in his eyes.
“Class, Shikamaru is on a mission at the moment, and until he comes back, Kakashi is going to help me.” Iruka motioned to the very uninterested figure.
“He’s so awesome.” a small female voice came through the crowd. It was followed by a cacophony of giggles and comments.
“Class, that’s quite enough.” Iruka calmed them down. “We need to review our homework from last night.”
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“Ahh, you were right, Sakura.” Sumi mused as she sunk into the water.
“Yeah,” Sakura agreed. “And because of the peeper, we have the place all to ourselves.”
“Yeah.” Sumi closed her eyes and the two sat in a companionable silence.
Sakura decided that this was as good a time as any to ask her big question.
“Um, Sumi?”
“Hmm?” She never even opened her eyes.
“You know how we have different levels of ninja?”
“Yeah?” She sunk a little lower into the water.
“Well, you see…” Sakura was interrupted as Sumi suddenly shot up out of the water and kicked the wall leading to the outside.
“Come on,” she shouted. “I think that was the peeper!”
“How did you?” Sakura got up to follow, not caring that each were still in their bathing clothes.
88888888
“Seems like our bait worked out.” Jiraiya stated as the sound of breaking wood reached his ears.
“Takes a pervert to catch a pervert.” Naruto stated as he stood up from where he had been seated and ran out towards the bathhouse.
He came up just as Sakura was emerging. He fell into step next to her.
“Where’s Sumi?” He asked.
“She’s already up ahead, chasing him.” Sakura answered. “Funny thing is, she heard him, when I couldn’t sense him at all.”
“Weird.” Naruto commented. “We better get up there, I don’t know how much better her fighting skills have gotten, but I don’t want to risk it.”
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Sumi was running as fast as she could, but she was beginning to lose track of her target. All she was following now was a shadow dashing through the woods. She couldn’t let him get away. As she ran, she concentrated on the tiger. She needed to have him out before she hit the tree line or else she would run smack into a trunk.
As the creature emerged it fell in step behind Sumi just long enough to position its head and flip her on to its back. Then it picked up speed to catch up to the prey.
Sumi could feel the leaves whip past, but had no idea where they were going. She took a moment and concentrated as hard as she possibly could. She felt a mental barrier that was keeping her from her goal, and calling on all the power she could manage, used it to crumble the blockage.
In a flash, she could suddenly see, but it was through the tiger’s eyes. She watched as it came closer and closer to it’s target.
Finally, she could tell that they were close enough to use the vines. The problem was, she wouldn’t be able to see if she used them. She only had the ability to concentrate on one at a time if she were trying to see, and the tiger was the only one with eyes for her to use.
“I trust you.” She whispered to the tiger, and felt herself go blind again. Visualizing the distance she had seen in the tiger’s eyes, she sent out the vines to catch the person that had been peeping on her.
Sadly, it didn’t work, the left one missed completely and the right one had only managed to trip the offender. This closed some of the distance, but not enough for the tiger to pounce.
“Sumi, are you ok?” Jiraiya’s voice surprised her slightly, but she kept on the trail.
“Yes. Haven’t lost him yet.” She responded.
“The others are close behind.” His voice seemed to fade as the tiger sped up once again. There was no way they were losing this man, and then there were the girls to find.
88888888
“I can’t believe this was such a well kept secret.” Tsunade whispered to herself. She read the entries over once again. Not sure if what she was reading was true.
“Still, it makes a lot of sense.”
It was at this point Ton-ton decided it was time for a walk outside. After giving a squeal and nudging Tsunade’s hand, Ton-ton growled when the only response she gave was a gentle stroke on the head. Not one to be ignored the pig took action in the form that got the most attention the last time it was employed.
Spotting the cup and saucer on the table, Ton-ton got into position for the trick learned earlier that week.
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“I can’t believe she’s that fast!” Naruto exclaimed.
“And she’s barefoot.” Sakura added. The two were jumping through the trees in an attempt to cover more ground and catch up to Sumi.
“Hey! It’s the perverted hermit!” Naruto shouted.
“Hurry!” Jiraiya shouted back. He summoned a large frog just in time for the other two to hop on. “She’s riding a tiger, it’s the only way for us to catch up.”
The trees whipped by as the amphibian took huge leaps.
88888888
She was close now, the tiger’s eyes wouldn’t lie to her. The shadow was becoming more solid, more human.
She was close enough now that she could hear the short gasping breaths it took. It wouldn’t be long now. She could feel the moment of tension as the tiger readied to pounce.
She pulled from it’s consciousness just as she felt the weight of it under her tense from contacting with the ground. She jumped off of the tiger’s back and as she landed released the vines once more. This time, they made contact and constricted around their intended target.
Sumi yanked hard with the intention of slamming the culprit into a tree, instead, she ended up looping the vines around a branch. This caused the captive to hang from the branch.
It was at this point that the others had shown up.
“Wow! That was awesome, Sumi!” Naruto exclaimed as he jumped off of the frog.
“How did you pull it off?” Sakura asked. Sumi turned her unseeing eyes in their general direction.
“You mean he’s actually tied to a tree?” She wasn’t exactly sure what she had managed to do.
“More like you hung him from the tree, but that’s still impressive.” Jiraiya commented.
“Damn it!” Sumi muttered. “I guess all that matters is we got him, right?”
“Let’s just see who ‘he’ is.” Sakura walked up to the body hanging in the tree. “You caught a man in a pig costume.” She stated flatly.
“It’s a boar! Not a pig.” The person shouted.
“Excuse, me?” Sumi asked as she withdrew the vines. The person’s body made a loud thud as it fell.
Lying there on the ground was a person dressed like a large brown pig.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Naruto grumbled.
“How dare you!” The person shouted. “Now I won’t take you ladies to be my brides.” This earned him a pounding from all of the teenagers present.
“Where are the girls?” Sumi asked as she gripped the offender’s collar.
“You better start talking, and I mean quick, ya pervert.” Naruto followed up.
“You dare speak to the great Chou Hakkai in such a manner?” The creepy pig-man sneered.
“Oh great, he’s nuts.” Sakura sighed.
“I guess I’ll just have to feed him to the frog.” Jiraiya interrupted. The pig-man’s eyes grew wide with fear.
“Oh, screw this, they aren’t paying me enough.” He ripped off his costume’s head and pulled out a piece of paper. “The girls are all here. It was a gimmick. A stunt. To attract people to this new hot springs resort. I was suppose to stake out bathhouses. Scare women, then ‘spirit’ them away to the resort. Problem is none of them have wanted to leave yet, so no one knows about it.”
“Well, this was a bit of a let down.” Sumi grumbled.
“Yeah, that has to be the dumbest marketing scheme I’ve ever heard of.” Naruto commented.
“Coming from you, that means a lot.” Sakura agreed.
“Well, let’s go get the women and report back to Tsunade.” Jiraiya sighed.
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Hope this is enough to hold you over until I get set up again. I do have to put out a challenge though. I post this story on both media miner and fan fiction, and I have to say that both sites get pretty close on the number of hits for the story, but fan fiction is winning in the review department. Media miner has zero and at last check Fan fiction has 28 I don’t want to see who can give me the most reviews, but who can give me the best! I want to know what I can do to make this story better for you. I already have the basic story and most pairings set up, but the more enjoyable I can make this story for you out there the better!
So, lets see who’s the best at critiquing me!
I wanted to get this chapter out. I’m moving tomorrow and will be without internet for a few days. Enjoy!
Chapter 15
Sumi looked around at her strange surroundings. The place seemed familiar, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it. She was lying on her back, which was to be expected since she had just fallen out of a tree.
She tried to move, but couldn’t seem to make her body work. A man’s face appeared above her own, and she felt herself being lifted.
“How’s my little girl?” She heard the man ask. There was no time for her to take the scene in as his face dissolved and was replaced by those of the three people she was traveling with.
Sumi sat up so suddenly that she knocked her forehead against Naruto’s.
“OW!” Naruto grunted.
“Where am I?” Sumi jerked her head back and forth while blinking her eyes uncontrollably.
Sakura placed her hands on Sumi’s shoulders in an attempt to calm her.
“What’s the last thing you remember?” She asked the frightened girl.
“I was in the tree, my head hurt really bad, then there was this man’s face..” She shook her head again. “..but he disappeared.”
“Your eyes were all funny, like they are when you use your tattoos.” Naruto stated.
“You gave us all a bit of a scare.” Jiraiya said. “Sakura tried to use some healing techniques, but she couldn’t find anything physically wrong.”
“I’m sorry for scaring you.” Sumi hung her head.
“It’s ok.” Sakura reassured her. “How about you and me go take a bath? I got passes from the innkeeper for the local bathhouse. I’m sure it’ll make you feel better.” She gave Sumi a smile that wouldn’t let her refuse.
“Sure, that might be just what I need.” She smiled, stood up and followed Sakura to the bath.
88888888
“Good morning students.” Iruka said cheerily.
“Good morning, Teacher.” The class responded. Kakashi was propped up next to the blackboard with a bored look in his eyes.
“Class, Shikamaru is on a mission at the moment, and until he comes back, Kakashi is going to help me.” Iruka motioned to the very uninterested figure.
“He’s so awesome.” a small female voice came through the crowd. It was followed by a cacophony of giggles and comments.
“Class, that’s quite enough.” Iruka calmed them down. “We need to review our homework from last night.”
88888888
“Ahh, you were right, Sakura.” Sumi mused as she sunk into the water.
“Yeah,” Sakura agreed. “And because of the peeper, we have the place all to ourselves.”
“Yeah.” Sumi closed her eyes and the two sat in a companionable silence.
Sakura decided that this was as good a time as any to ask her big question.
“Um, Sumi?”
“Hmm?” She never even opened her eyes.
“You know how we have different levels of ninja?”
“Yeah?” She sunk a little lower into the water.
“Well, you see…” Sakura was interrupted as Sumi suddenly shot up out of the water and kicked the wall leading to the outside.
“Come on,” she shouted. “I think that was the peeper!”
“How did you?” Sakura got up to follow, not caring that each were still in their bathing clothes.
88888888
“Seems like our bait worked out.” Jiraiya stated as the sound of breaking wood reached his ears.
“Takes a pervert to catch a pervert.” Naruto stated as he stood up from where he had been seated and ran out towards the bathhouse.
He came up just as Sakura was emerging. He fell into step next to her.
“Where’s Sumi?” He asked.
“She’s already up ahead, chasing him.” Sakura answered. “Funny thing is, she heard him, when I couldn’t sense him at all.”
“Weird.” Naruto commented. “We better get up there, I don’t know how much better her fighting skills have gotten, but I don’t want to risk it.”
88888888
Sumi was running as fast as she could, but she was beginning to lose track of her target. All she was following now was a shadow dashing through the woods. She couldn’t let him get away. As she ran, she concentrated on the tiger. She needed to have him out before she hit the tree line or else she would run smack into a trunk.
As the creature emerged it fell in step behind Sumi just long enough to position its head and flip her on to its back. Then it picked up speed to catch up to the prey.
Sumi could feel the leaves whip past, but had no idea where they were going. She took a moment and concentrated as hard as she possibly could. She felt a mental barrier that was keeping her from her goal, and calling on all the power she could manage, used it to crumble the blockage.
In a flash, she could suddenly see, but it was through the tiger’s eyes. She watched as it came closer and closer to it’s target.
Finally, she could tell that they were close enough to use the vines. The problem was, she wouldn’t be able to see if she used them. She only had the ability to concentrate on one at a time if she were trying to see, and the tiger was the only one with eyes for her to use.
“I trust you.” She whispered to the tiger, and felt herself go blind again. Visualizing the distance she had seen in the tiger’s eyes, she sent out the vines to catch the person that had been peeping on her.
Sadly, it didn’t work, the left one missed completely and the right one had only managed to trip the offender. This closed some of the distance, but not enough for the tiger to pounce.
“Sumi, are you ok?” Jiraiya’s voice surprised her slightly, but she kept on the trail.
“Yes. Haven’t lost him yet.” She responded.
“The others are close behind.” His voice seemed to fade as the tiger sped up once again. There was no way they were losing this man, and then there were the girls to find.
88888888
“I can’t believe this was such a well kept secret.” Tsunade whispered to herself. She read the entries over once again. Not sure if what she was reading was true.
“Still, it makes a lot of sense.”
It was at this point Ton-ton decided it was time for a walk outside. After giving a squeal and nudging Tsunade’s hand, Ton-ton growled when the only response she gave was a gentle stroke on the head. Not one to be ignored the pig took action in the form that got the most attention the last time it was employed.
Spotting the cup and saucer on the table, Ton-ton got into position for the trick learned earlier that week.
88888888
“I can’t believe she’s that fast!” Naruto exclaimed.
“And she’s barefoot.” Sakura added. The two were jumping through the trees in an attempt to cover more ground and catch up to Sumi.
“Hey! It’s the perverted hermit!” Naruto shouted.
“Hurry!” Jiraiya shouted back. He summoned a large frog just in time for the other two to hop on. “She’s riding a tiger, it’s the only way for us to catch up.”
The trees whipped by as the amphibian took huge leaps.
88888888
She was close now, the tiger’s eyes wouldn’t lie to her. The shadow was becoming more solid, more human.
She was close enough now that she could hear the short gasping breaths it took. It wouldn’t be long now. She could feel the moment of tension as the tiger readied to pounce.
She pulled from it’s consciousness just as she felt the weight of it under her tense from contacting with the ground. She jumped off of the tiger’s back and as she landed released the vines once more. This time, they made contact and constricted around their intended target.
Sumi yanked hard with the intention of slamming the culprit into a tree, instead, she ended up looping the vines around a branch. This caused the captive to hang from the branch.
It was at this point that the others had shown up.
“Wow! That was awesome, Sumi!” Naruto exclaimed as he jumped off of the frog.
“How did you pull it off?” Sakura asked. Sumi turned her unseeing eyes in their general direction.
“You mean he’s actually tied to a tree?” She wasn’t exactly sure what she had managed to do.
“More like you hung him from the tree, but that’s still impressive.” Jiraiya commented.
“Damn it!” Sumi muttered. “I guess all that matters is we got him, right?”
“Let’s just see who ‘he’ is.” Sakura walked up to the body hanging in the tree. “You caught a man in a pig costume.” She stated flatly.
“It’s a boar! Not a pig.” The person shouted.
“Excuse, me?” Sumi asked as she withdrew the vines. The person’s body made a loud thud as it fell.
Lying there on the ground was a person dressed like a large brown pig.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Naruto grumbled.
“How dare you!” The person shouted. “Now I won’t take you ladies to be my brides.” This earned him a pounding from all of the teenagers present.
“Where are the girls?” Sumi asked as she gripped the offender’s collar.
“You better start talking, and I mean quick, ya pervert.” Naruto followed up.
“You dare speak to the great Chou Hakkai in such a manner?” The creepy pig-man sneered.
“Oh great, he’s nuts.” Sakura sighed.
“I guess I’ll just have to feed him to the frog.” Jiraiya interrupted. The pig-man’s eyes grew wide with fear.
“Oh, screw this, they aren’t paying me enough.” He ripped off his costume’s head and pulled out a piece of paper. “The girls are all here. It was a gimmick. A stunt. To attract people to this new hot springs resort. I was suppose to stake out bathhouses. Scare women, then ‘spirit’ them away to the resort. Problem is none of them have wanted to leave yet, so no one knows about it.”
“Well, this was a bit of a let down.” Sumi grumbled.
“Yeah, that has to be the dumbest marketing scheme I’ve ever heard of.” Naruto commented.
“Coming from you, that means a lot.” Sakura agreed.
“Well, let’s go get the women and report back to Tsunade.” Jiraiya sighed.
777777
Hope this is enough to hold you over until I get set up again. I do have to put out a challenge though. I post this story on both media miner and fan fiction, and I have to say that both sites get pretty close on the number of hits for the story, but fan fiction is winning in the review department. Media miner has zero and at last check Fan fiction has 28 I don’t want to see who can give me the most reviews, but who can give me the best! I want to know what I can do to make this story better for you. I already have the basic story and most pairings set up, but the more enjoyable I can make this story for you out there the better!
So, lets see who’s the best at critiquing me!