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“Close the door.” Granny said in a stressed tone. “She’s made her decision, she’s committed to going with you.” Gaara looked at Granny Tsunade as she plopped down on the bed. What’s her problem?
“What’s wrong with that? It’s what she wants and she was getting so strong over there.” I said. Gaara looked at me with the same tired look granny had. “Seriously what’s up?” I guess it was their goal to ignore me…
“She will need protection, but at the same time she needs to be involved if her presence is to be of any significance.” Tsunade speaks to Gaara.
“Yes, I already have a team in mind for her to join, when she recovers that is.” Gaara replies
“That’s another thing, she will try to get out into the field as soon as possible, have Temari make her visit a doctor…”
“Would one of you tell me what you’re so worried about?!” I yell at them both.
Tsunade sighs deeply, “You see Naruto, Hannah agreeing to go live permanently in the Sand village has shown her alligance there. Therefore she is now serving both me and Gaara. And that being said, the Nations of Wind and Fire equally. This will do wonders for the trust between out nations. She will be the first shinobi in history to be an active ninja serving two hidden villages. Hannah will be as well know as any of us Kage.”
“So what’s wrong with that? That’s what we want, to be known for trusting one another, right?” I rebuke.
Gaara spoke this time, “Yes, but along with this great achievement comes a considerable risk. This most recent attack on us has proven that there are those who despise the great nations and our friendly terms. But they are not the first, and won’t be the last. Small bands of rouge ninja have always been able to flee and survive by entering other nations. Now, if a wanted ninja from the Leaf were to enter any other village, that village would apprehend and deliver them to justice. All of these people, who are facing challenges due to our peaceful time will know of Hannah as well. If they get the chance, they will destroy our newest symbol of peace. This also gives our enemies the perfect reason to work together. It will be dangerous for her.” He spoke to me in a muted tone, I suspect he is just as concered as I am for Hannah. So there is no reason for me to state the obvious.
“You said you have a team in mind for her to join in the Sand?” I ask Gaara.
“Yes.”
“And you trust them?” I promt.
“One of them is someone you have met on previous occasion. Matsuri, my student.” I recognize the name, she had helped me and Gaara out in the past. And was the one to convince the Sand ninja to abandon unnecessary posts to recover Gaara. I trusted her too.
“So what now?” I ask.
“First we must get them all to the Sand village, Hannah will be an easy target. But word will not have spread yet, so you will have the advantage. The enemy is known to be in the land of fire, so I have no doubt they will confront you if given the chance. I know you are perfectly capable Kazakage, but I won’t have a visiting Kage attacked under my watch.” Granny Tsunade thinks out loud.
As I think about the Hokage’s words it comes to me, “I have an idea.”
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“Sakura, thanks again, I’m sorry you have to do all this…” I say for the millionth time. She moves around my little room in the shinobi dorms and packs away my various belongings. There isn’t much, but I still feel bad she has to do it all for me.
“Hannah I don’t mind!” She says with a kind smile. “And besides we’re all done! That’s everything!” Looking around the empty room, everything seems real. I’m really leaving for good. Who knows when I’ll be back again, this has all happened so quickly. Am I really ready to take all of this on?
Before I have a change to voice my concerns Sakura tells me it is time to go. I talk her out of the wheel chair, we may as well pretend I am feeling well. I close the door to my small room and leave everything behind me and worry about the future.
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“All right, that should do it. I will go summon the rest of your team to meet you at the west gate. Good luck to you Kazakage.”
“Thank you Hokage.” The woman swept past me out of the room. Naruto and I followed walking silently down the stairs and into the busy streets. Everything was very normal, none of the people aware of what had been happening the past few days. Naruto was telling another story about him doing something ‘cool’ but my thoughts were far away. When we finally reached the village gate, my sister was waiting for us.
“What took so long?” She asked playfully. Naruto grumbled something about her always being so rude, but after she asked what he said he had to go get ready. Temari laughed as he retreated. “So, I assume you got everything worked out with the Hokage?” She said.
“Yes, Hannah is preparing for the trip back.” I answer.
“And the Hokage explained everything?” I answer with only a stiff nod. As I watch the streets for the sign for either her or Konkuro. “Well, she sure has grown in the past couple of days, she is ready. That’s thanks to you, you know.” I turn to face her, she is leaning back against the open gate looking at me in uncharacteristically soft expression. She senses my confusion and continues. “The strength it takes to face something like this isn’t something I could have taught her if I tried. But you, she has seen your strength and holds onto it. She knows what you have been through and sees everything you have accomplished. She knows that if you can do that, maybe she can undertake such things as well. She will need you more than any of us now.” My sister finishes just as Konkuro comes sulking up to us. I would have liked to talk to her more about what she meant. I knew that I had to be strong for my village, but what Temari was talking about seemed more complex somehow, deeper. I had felt it, back in the hospital room. When she had cried and clung to me, it had felt like she was trying to draw strength from me.
I don’t have long to linger on the thought because our group is assembling. And it was a large group; Naruto and a clone, Sai, Hinata, Ino, Captain Yamato, Kakashi, Neji Hyuuga, and Rock Lee all congregate at the gate.
“Gaara, please tell me all these losers aren’t traveling all the way back to the Sand with us, just please tell me this…” Konkuro pleads.
“No just Kakashi, Sakura and I will be going with you to the border. The rest of us…” Konkuro asks Temari if the Naruto speaking is the real one just as Captain Yamato gives the rest of the group an order. As he does Each person but the other Naruto make the same hand sign and disappear in a small cloud of smoke, when they emerge, each of them has transformed to make a replica of someone in our group. The other Naruto walks up with his hands behind his head, looking quite pleased with himself. “Our group is going to leave first on a direct route to the sand, and will hopefully draw off any enemies for you.” This had been the plan he had conjured up, making a decoy team. Konkuro walked up to the Naruto on our side of the line that would go with us and poked at him curiously, still trying to deduce which was real.
Sakura and Hannah walk down the street toward us, Sakura is supporting Hannah barely. I wonder how she talked Sakura out of the wheel chair… They both look surprised by the look-a-likes.
“Ok, who is that?” Sakura asks cautiously as she points to herself, or well her other self.
“It is I Sakura, my flower! Do not worry I will do your greatness justice!!” The tone and choice of words revile it to be Rock Lee. Sakura must realize this too, because her face drops and she suddenly looks ill. Konkuro is shaking his head trying not to laugh…
Hannah leaves the support of the shocked Sakura and moves, as normally as she can, to stand in between my sister and I. She looks nervous and looks up at me then at Temari. Temari gives her a small cocky smile and Hannah returns it with her usual kind smile.
“Well it’s about time.” Konkuro blurts out in our general direction. Hannah gives him a confused look. “That silly smile you always wear, we haven’t seen it in a while.” At this Hannah brings the smile back to her face. Just then the Hokage approaches.
“Alright, not get it together, we don’t have all day. Separate into your groups.” All of the fake group move over to the left and my group stays to the right. “Good, now you all should know the plan, Sai,” She spoke in the direction of the impersonation of me. That was a bit of an ironic choice… “You will lead this group strait to the Sand border. While the Kazakage,” She turned to address me now. “Will lead his team along a longer route. Hopefully this will allow the Kazakage and Temari to get Hannah to the Sand village without incident. All right, take off Sai.” At his Hokage’s command Sai leads the mimicking group away instantly. Now just our real group remains. “Good luck Hannah.” The Hokage says before turning and moving back down the street.
“I don’t know about you guys but I’m ready to get home.” Konkuro yawns.
“Before we leave,” Temari moves away from the wall she was leaning on and goes up to Hannah. “This is for you.” My sister pulls out a ninja headband with our villages symbol on it. She holds it out to Hannah, but she doesn’t move to retrieve it. She is hesitant.
Hey eyes wonder to look at each of the reassuring faces around her. Another moment passes before she reaches out and holds the metal plate in her hand. She looks it over for a minute before Temari retrieves it and ties it around Hannah’s right arm to mirror the leaf one on the left. Finally, after everything she has been through, Hannah steps outside the walls of the Leaf village to make history. To face greater fears and fight harder battles. But she wouldn’t face them alone.
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“Sir!” The small cloud of smoke that accompanied each of my creations alerted me as much as his greeting. “Sir, the Kazakage has left Konoha with an escort. They sent a decoy group ahead. What are your orders?” What a joke, thinking they could send mere imitations to draw off my clones. They had no idea there true powers, there had been no reason to revile them yet. The dark windowless room was lit only by a single lamp in the center of the space.
“Let them be, we will take the Kazakage when we see fit. We are not so desperate to attack in a time and place they anticipate.”
“Sir…” The clone addressed me with caution in his voice, sure to deliver bad news. “The girl,”
“Speak! What of her?”
“She has committed to the Sand village. And has declared herself a shinobi of both nations…” The hate fostering within me grew with this news. This girl, this insignificant child thought she could make such a decision without consequences. She would fall, publicly, so no one would question his power.
“Bad news brother?” The dark figure moved into the dim light. His expression was mocking. “It seems your plan to break the villages alliances has backfired… All it is you seem to have accomplished is bring them closer. That Kazakage, he will fight for the girl.” He laughed at his statement. If I didn’t know it would injure me equally, I would have taken out my anger on him. So instead my frustration takes form and I take out the clone that brought the news. “Oh so rash…”
“Shut up! If you had completed the jutsu to take out the Kazakage in time, we would have ended it on that island! Now our target has changed and all of your work is worthless to me!!”
“Patience my brother… You will still have need for my jutsu, as I said, the Kazakage has grown fond of the girl. He will keep her close, and if we wish to kill her it will surely mean a fight with him. My jutsu will make this simple. But ninjutsu of such a high caliber takes time, you chose to target Gaara knowing my jutsu was just in the first stages of development.”
“I attacked the island because it was the right time, we would have succeded if the Leaf ninja hadn’t accompanied them!”
“That may be, but now your target will surely have the protection of both nations you will have to plan for that.”
“Yes, your jutsu, we will wait to advance until it is complete. How long?”
My brother shrugged, seemingly unbothered. “Hard to tell, could be months… It is hard to test a jutsu aimed at one person if the person isn’t available to test on.”
“You have all the clones you want to test on.” I sneer.
“Ha! The clones may be Gaara, but I need Gaara of the Desert. The clones cannot use his sand. If I am to create a technique to bring him to his knees it will take time. And if I use it on him before it is perfected he will see his weakness and correct it.”
I thought a moment of his word;, the jutsu would rend Gaara useless for as long as we choose, it was worth the wait. It angered me that while I was waiting that girl would be running around spreading the image that the nations were at peace. Peace… I would not allow the nations to enjoy the illusion much longer.
Well that is it for now, I imagined this story in two halfs so this would be the first half. If you enjoyed it let me know. I won't post any of the second half until I get a ways into it so i can post stuff that is already written while continuing writeing. that way i can post regulary. Let me know what you though!! Thanks for reading!!
“What’s wrong with that? It’s what she wants and she was getting so strong over there.” I said. Gaara looked at me with the same tired look granny had. “Seriously what’s up?” I guess it was their goal to ignore me…
“She will need protection, but at the same time she needs to be involved if her presence is to be of any significance.” Tsunade speaks to Gaara.
“Yes, I already have a team in mind for her to join, when she recovers that is.” Gaara replies
“That’s another thing, she will try to get out into the field as soon as possible, have Temari make her visit a doctor…”
“Would one of you tell me what you’re so worried about?!” I yell at them both.
Tsunade sighs deeply, “You see Naruto, Hannah agreeing to go live permanently in the Sand village has shown her alligance there. Therefore she is now serving both me and Gaara. And that being said, the Nations of Wind and Fire equally. This will do wonders for the trust between out nations. She will be the first shinobi in history to be an active ninja serving two hidden villages. Hannah will be as well know as any of us Kage.”
“So what’s wrong with that? That’s what we want, to be known for trusting one another, right?” I rebuke.
Gaara spoke this time, “Yes, but along with this great achievement comes a considerable risk. This most recent attack on us has proven that there are those who despise the great nations and our friendly terms. But they are not the first, and won’t be the last. Small bands of rouge ninja have always been able to flee and survive by entering other nations. Now, if a wanted ninja from the Leaf were to enter any other village, that village would apprehend and deliver them to justice. All of these people, who are facing challenges due to our peaceful time will know of Hannah as well. If they get the chance, they will destroy our newest symbol of peace. This also gives our enemies the perfect reason to work together. It will be dangerous for her.” He spoke to me in a muted tone, I suspect he is just as concered as I am for Hannah. So there is no reason for me to state the obvious.
“You said you have a team in mind for her to join in the Sand?” I ask Gaara.
“Yes.”
“And you trust them?” I promt.
“One of them is someone you have met on previous occasion. Matsuri, my student.” I recognize the name, she had helped me and Gaara out in the past. And was the one to convince the Sand ninja to abandon unnecessary posts to recover Gaara. I trusted her too.
“So what now?” I ask.
“First we must get them all to the Sand village, Hannah will be an easy target. But word will not have spread yet, so you will have the advantage. The enemy is known to be in the land of fire, so I have no doubt they will confront you if given the chance. I know you are perfectly capable Kazakage, but I won’t have a visiting Kage attacked under my watch.” Granny Tsunade thinks out loud.
As I think about the Hokage’s words it comes to me, “I have an idea.”
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“Sakura, thanks again, I’m sorry you have to do all this…” I say for the millionth time. She moves around my little room in the shinobi dorms and packs away my various belongings. There isn’t much, but I still feel bad she has to do it all for me.
“Hannah I don’t mind!” She says with a kind smile. “And besides we’re all done! That’s everything!” Looking around the empty room, everything seems real. I’m really leaving for good. Who knows when I’ll be back again, this has all happened so quickly. Am I really ready to take all of this on?
Before I have a change to voice my concerns Sakura tells me it is time to go. I talk her out of the wheel chair, we may as well pretend I am feeling well. I close the door to my small room and leave everything behind me and worry about the future.
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“All right, that should do it. I will go summon the rest of your team to meet you at the west gate. Good luck to you Kazakage.”
“Thank you Hokage.” The woman swept past me out of the room. Naruto and I followed walking silently down the stairs and into the busy streets. Everything was very normal, none of the people aware of what had been happening the past few days. Naruto was telling another story about him doing something ‘cool’ but my thoughts were far away. When we finally reached the village gate, my sister was waiting for us.
“What took so long?” She asked playfully. Naruto grumbled something about her always being so rude, but after she asked what he said he had to go get ready. Temari laughed as he retreated. “So, I assume you got everything worked out with the Hokage?” She said.
“Yes, Hannah is preparing for the trip back.” I answer.
“And the Hokage explained everything?” I answer with only a stiff nod. As I watch the streets for the sign for either her or Konkuro. “Well, she sure has grown in the past couple of days, she is ready. That’s thanks to you, you know.” I turn to face her, she is leaning back against the open gate looking at me in uncharacteristically soft expression. She senses my confusion and continues. “The strength it takes to face something like this isn’t something I could have taught her if I tried. But you, she has seen your strength and holds onto it. She knows what you have been through and sees everything you have accomplished. She knows that if you can do that, maybe she can undertake such things as well. She will need you more than any of us now.” My sister finishes just as Konkuro comes sulking up to us. I would have liked to talk to her more about what she meant. I knew that I had to be strong for my village, but what Temari was talking about seemed more complex somehow, deeper. I had felt it, back in the hospital room. When she had cried and clung to me, it had felt like she was trying to draw strength from me.
I don’t have long to linger on the thought because our group is assembling. And it was a large group; Naruto and a clone, Sai, Hinata, Ino, Captain Yamato, Kakashi, Neji Hyuuga, and Rock Lee all congregate at the gate.
“Gaara, please tell me all these losers aren’t traveling all the way back to the Sand with us, just please tell me this…” Konkuro pleads.
“No just Kakashi, Sakura and I will be going with you to the border. The rest of us…” Konkuro asks Temari if the Naruto speaking is the real one just as Captain Yamato gives the rest of the group an order. As he does Each person but the other Naruto make the same hand sign and disappear in a small cloud of smoke, when they emerge, each of them has transformed to make a replica of someone in our group. The other Naruto walks up with his hands behind his head, looking quite pleased with himself. “Our group is going to leave first on a direct route to the sand, and will hopefully draw off any enemies for you.” This had been the plan he had conjured up, making a decoy team. Konkuro walked up to the Naruto on our side of the line that would go with us and poked at him curiously, still trying to deduce which was real.
Sakura and Hannah walk down the street toward us, Sakura is supporting Hannah barely. I wonder how she talked Sakura out of the wheel chair… They both look surprised by the look-a-likes.
“Ok, who is that?” Sakura asks cautiously as she points to herself, or well her other self.
“It is I Sakura, my flower! Do not worry I will do your greatness justice!!” The tone and choice of words revile it to be Rock Lee. Sakura must realize this too, because her face drops and she suddenly looks ill. Konkuro is shaking his head trying not to laugh…
Hannah leaves the support of the shocked Sakura and moves, as normally as she can, to stand in between my sister and I. She looks nervous and looks up at me then at Temari. Temari gives her a small cocky smile and Hannah returns it with her usual kind smile.
“Well it’s about time.” Konkuro blurts out in our general direction. Hannah gives him a confused look. “That silly smile you always wear, we haven’t seen it in a while.” At this Hannah brings the smile back to her face. Just then the Hokage approaches.
“Alright, not get it together, we don’t have all day. Separate into your groups.” All of the fake group move over to the left and my group stays to the right. “Good, now you all should know the plan, Sai,” She spoke in the direction of the impersonation of me. That was a bit of an ironic choice… “You will lead this group strait to the Sand border. While the Kazakage,” She turned to address me now. “Will lead his team along a longer route. Hopefully this will allow the Kazakage and Temari to get Hannah to the Sand village without incident. All right, take off Sai.” At his Hokage’s command Sai leads the mimicking group away instantly. Now just our real group remains. “Good luck Hannah.” The Hokage says before turning and moving back down the street.
“I don’t know about you guys but I’m ready to get home.” Konkuro yawns.
“Before we leave,” Temari moves away from the wall she was leaning on and goes up to Hannah. “This is for you.” My sister pulls out a ninja headband with our villages symbol on it. She holds it out to Hannah, but she doesn’t move to retrieve it. She is hesitant.
Hey eyes wonder to look at each of the reassuring faces around her. Another moment passes before she reaches out and holds the metal plate in her hand. She looks it over for a minute before Temari retrieves it and ties it around Hannah’s right arm to mirror the leaf one on the left. Finally, after everything she has been through, Hannah steps outside the walls of the Leaf village to make history. To face greater fears and fight harder battles. But she wouldn’t face them alone.
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“Sir!” The small cloud of smoke that accompanied each of my creations alerted me as much as his greeting. “Sir, the Kazakage has left Konoha with an escort. They sent a decoy group ahead. What are your orders?” What a joke, thinking they could send mere imitations to draw off my clones. They had no idea there true powers, there had been no reason to revile them yet. The dark windowless room was lit only by a single lamp in the center of the space.
“Let them be, we will take the Kazakage when we see fit. We are not so desperate to attack in a time and place they anticipate.”
“Sir…” The clone addressed me with caution in his voice, sure to deliver bad news. “The girl,”
“Speak! What of her?”
“She has committed to the Sand village. And has declared herself a shinobi of both nations…” The hate fostering within me grew with this news. This girl, this insignificant child thought she could make such a decision without consequences. She would fall, publicly, so no one would question his power.
“Bad news brother?” The dark figure moved into the dim light. His expression was mocking. “It seems your plan to break the villages alliances has backfired… All it is you seem to have accomplished is bring them closer. That Kazakage, he will fight for the girl.” He laughed at his statement. If I didn’t know it would injure me equally, I would have taken out my anger on him. So instead my frustration takes form and I take out the clone that brought the news. “Oh so rash…”
“Shut up! If you had completed the jutsu to take out the Kazakage in time, we would have ended it on that island! Now our target has changed and all of your work is worthless to me!!”
“Patience my brother… You will still have need for my jutsu, as I said, the Kazakage has grown fond of the girl. He will keep her close, and if we wish to kill her it will surely mean a fight with him. My jutsu will make this simple. But ninjutsu of such a high caliber takes time, you chose to target Gaara knowing my jutsu was just in the first stages of development.”
“I attacked the island because it was the right time, we would have succeded if the Leaf ninja hadn’t accompanied them!”
“That may be, but now your target will surely have the protection of both nations you will have to plan for that.”
“Yes, your jutsu, we will wait to advance until it is complete. How long?”
My brother shrugged, seemingly unbothered. “Hard to tell, could be months… It is hard to test a jutsu aimed at one person if the person isn’t available to test on.”
“You have all the clones you want to test on.” I sneer.
“Ha! The clones may be Gaara, but I need Gaara of the Desert. The clones cannot use his sand. If I am to create a technique to bring him to his knees it will take time. And if I use it on him before it is perfected he will see his weakness and correct it.”
I thought a moment of his word;, the jutsu would rend Gaara useless for as long as we choose, it was worth the wait. It angered me that while I was waiting that girl would be running around spreading the image that the nations were at peace. Peace… I would not allow the nations to enjoy the illusion much longer.
Well that is it for now, I imagined this story in two halfs so this would be the first half. If you enjoyed it let me know. I won't post any of the second half until I get a ways into it so i can post stuff that is already written while continuing writeing. that way i can post regulary. Let me know what you though!! Thanks for reading!!
