Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ My ninja way ❯ Anything boys can do I can do it my way ( Chapter 4 )

 

 

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Last time: With her wish to go on a `C' ranked mission granted. Marie, Shino, Hinata and Neji Hyuuga, Naruto, and the old man set out to the land of waves. Hitting a few speed bumps along the way, a mysterious young man claims to be Marie's new fiancé.

Today on My Ninja Way: Anything boys can do I can do it my way!

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(Before Shoga went to find Marie he was called to the Takemina mansion.)

 

Shoga took a sip of sake that was offered to him. “Your daughter…hm…is she beautiful and strong?”

Mrs. Takemina held up a scroll containing Marie's information. “Such things you should confirm for yourself. All I can tell you is that she 15 years old and a chunin. She should be your type.”

Shoga nodded as he went through the scroll. Graduated top in her class. Took out three junin and a special junin on her own…specializes in her chakra pole and taijutsu weak in ninjutsu. All she lacks in is controlling her chakra. Overall she's very skilled, next in line as the heiress of the Takemina clan. Huh? She got expelled for sending over 13 boys to the infirmary at her 2nd year at the academy? Spunky girl. Yes. She'll be a perfect wife indeed.

Shoga tucked the scroll into his yukata. “Yes. I'll accept this Marie as my wife.”

Mr. and Mrs. Takemina bowed their heads to him in respect.

 

(Back with everyone else and the soon fight at hand)

 

Shoga pulled a girly high pitched squeal. “OH! You're so pretty! I love your shoulder length black hair the most! I want to cut off a lock of it and keep it forever.”

Naruto “Is this guy sick in the head or what?”

Marie turned her head to him. “At least he has good taste in my hair but no way is he touching it.”

Hinata looked at Shoga closely and then gasped earning everyone's attention.

“That man. I remember something! He's one of the ninja assassins!”

“Huh?”

Upon closer inspection Neji saw that Hinata was right. “She's right. He is one of them. I only heard rumors about them. They're very clever in hiding in the shadows and killing unsuspecting ninjas when they're alone or on missions at night. They usually stay together as a band of assassins or spread out to kill one by one. Not many anbu black ops can track them all down and kill them.”

Shoga “…”

Neji said in a demanding voice. “Answer me. Where's the rest of your assassins?!”

Shoga smiled at Neji. “Marie is simply lovely, but you're an awfully sexy young man! I want to make you scream and see your blood!”

Everyone went silent. `What's wrong with this guy?'

Shino stepped up. “Shall I get rid of him first?”

Neji's eyebrow twitched at Shoga. “Please do anything just to shut him up.”

Marie watched at both boys stood in front of her in a protective way to block of any attack that might be sent her way and although she was flattered she doesn't like to be shielded. She shoved her chakra pole in between them to make room for herself. Both boys gave her a questioning gaze when she stood in front of them and got into her fighting stance. “I don't like to be in the back it's so not the front where the fun is.”

Neji “Are you crazy? He could kill you. We don't know what his attacks are or what he's capable of. Just stand back with Hinata and Naruto and let me and shino handle this.”

Shino placed on hand on her shoulder. “I believe he's willing to do anything to make sure he gets his hands on you. Better play it safe and stay behind us.”

Marie shook his hand off. “He came for me! I'll fight him and if I can't do it myself than you two can step in and do whatever! Until then… I'm going in!”

She took off one end of her chakra pole to reveal a hidden blade.

Shoga swung his sword to the left aiming at nothing in particular. He swung with such force that it seemed like multiple blades came out of nowhere and slashed all the trees!

Everyone gasped at the damaged the sword has done and thought of the worse outcome when that sword will be aimed at them. “You have a wonderful chakra blade…I wonder if it's as interesting as mine!” He shouted as he thrust his blade at her not holding back.

Marie stood her ground waiting for the right moment to use her chakra pole to deflect his attack. To Neji and Shino it looked like she was too scared to move. Not wasting any time shino grabbed Marie while Neji took her spot and used his rotation to deflect the blades.

Shino drops Marie near Naruto and Hinata and turned his back to her. (The old man is knocked out from the excitement)

Marie threw her fist in the air. “Why'd you jump in when I was going to attack?”

Shino didn't look at her when he responded. “It looked like you didn't have a chance.”

Marie scoffed at him and watched Neji try to get close to Shoga. He was failing miserably.

Shoga thrusts his blade again with twice the power. Shino was going to step in, but Marie stood up and threw her chakra blade to cut off shoga's attack.

Shoga recoils his blade and smirked at her. “I love that expression on your face. It makes me shiver. I want to keep seeing that face.”

He attacked again aiming at her and without a weapon she's defenseless. Naruto and Hinata called her name. All she could do was close her eyes and wait for the impact.

`CLANK'

`I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I died I know it.'

She willed herself to open her eyes and saw shino standing in front of her. He doesn't seem to be damaged. No blood or scratches. What happened?

Shoga's blade fell to the ground. Apparently there was a kunai stuck in one section of the blades that holds them together.

Shoga sneered at shino. “You! Stay out of the way! How dare you interfere with my fun!!”

Seeing his chance Neji dashed over to Shoga and attacked with his gentle fists.

(Why do they call it that? I probably named the attack wrong.)

“Eight trigram sixty-four palms!”

Neji manage 16 palm attacks before smog rolled in on everybody. Shoga jumped away from Neji, knowing exactly what's going on. “Tsk. That muko. Always butting in.”

Neji covered his nose and mouth. `What is this?! A smoke bomb?' Not waiting to stick around he ran to the others to check on them using his byakugan to see through the smoke. On his way he grabbed Hinata. Shino helped Naruto with the old man. Marie followed them. When she got out of the smoke she realized she forgot her chakra pole. She took a deep breath and ran inside.

Shoga sat in a nearby tree and looked down at the smoke. “She should've waited for the poison to disappear. She could really suffocate in there. The poison could damage her lungs if she's not careful. Muko! Don't think you can hide from me!”

Shoga took off into the forest to go after a shadow that appeared behind the trees.

 

At a safe distance everyone confirmed that they were okay. Naruto noticed that Marie was missing. Hinata activated her byakugan and saw that she was still in the fog.

(Neji exhausted his byakugan)

Shino took off into the smoke and quickly grabbed Marie before the poison could effect him. He placed her in a sitting position. She was coughing uncontrollably. She must've stayed in there way too long.

Naruto patted her back. “Are you alright? What happened?”

Marie could only shake her head and cough more.

Neji conclude. “That probably wasn't a smoke bomb. It must've been poison vapor that someone used to help Shoga escape. Someone named muko.”

Hinata took out her water container hand handed it to Marie hoping it would cease the coughing a little bit. Accepting it she drunk half the container and her coughing stopped.

“Thank you Hinata. I think I'm okay now.”

“What were you thinking running back in there?” Naruto scolded.

“I went back to get my chakra pole. I can't fight without it.”

Shino handed it to her. “You could've waited for the smoke to disappear.”

She snatched it back. “Whatever. Shoga's gone now so we better get going. It's almost nightfall.”

Neji looked at the sky. “There's still some daylight left. Let's travel as far as we can and stop when night comes.”

 

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(Deep deep deep in the forest. How deep? I don't know, but somewhere dark and creepy.)

 

Shoga came into a small clearing that was melted away. In the center there was a small chubby man mixing ingredients. He stalker behind him and glared coldly.

“Where have you been, Shoga? Chasing skirts again I bet.”

Shoga puts his foot on his head. “Little snot. Really muko. Were you hoping I'd be poison along with them?”

“Don't be so mad. It was just a friendly hello. Why were you playing with them?”

Shoga “I wasn't. I was going to get that girl, but her little followers had different plans.”

Muko poured the mix into a bamboo bottle and shook it. “The big boss has plans for the Takemina clan and the Aburame clan.”

Shoga waved his hand in a non-caring motion. “You all do what you want. I'll leave them to you. All I want is the girl.”

Muko “You can do what you want with her, just don't kill her. She's very important incase everything backfires.” He said as he added the container to the rest that he made.

“That Neji fellow would've finished you off if I didn't step in, ya know. He seems strong, could cause a problem.”

Shoga cleaned out his ear with his pinky. “Cold-hearted is what I'd call him, But, beautiful, for all that. Although, I must say, I must prefer the rowdy type, like Miss. Takemina.”

Muko asked deadpanned. “Was I asking you about you taste in men and women?”

Shoga leaned against a tree. “There's 20 of us totaled and 6 already died of old age. That leaves only 13 from the band of assassins.”

Muko sighed. “Shoga, 20 minus 6 equals 14.”

Shoga looks at him. “Huh?” he counted on his finger. “One…five…twelve…”

“Never mind that. We should regroup with the others to discuss the invasion that orochimaru couldn't finish.”

Shoga whined “Aw. What's the big hurry? Your poison did slow them down and we're already strong enough to do anything so we should take a brake and raid some poor village and get some girls.”

*~Silence*~

“You really need to get a life.”

 

 

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(Back with our favorite ninjas and old man.)

 

Everyone stopped to make camp. Hinata and shino were making a fire while neji went to get more firewood. Naruto and Marie were putting up the tents. The old man? He was tied to the tree. He kept complaining that he wasn't going back to his wife and threatened to run away, so they had to tie him up.

Naruto was trying to get the boys tent to stay up but the top of the tent wouldn't stay up and it was driving him mad.

“ARGH! This stupid tent won't stay up!! Marie can you help me?”

She looked up from where she was sitting. “Did you stick the pole into the middle of the tent and tied down all sides?”

Naruto looked at the tent again and figured the problem was that he didn't stick the pole in the middle of the tent. Marie sighed and decided to help him. She jumped onto the tree branch that was over the tent and hung upside down. “Hand me the pole and you go inside to place it in all the way.” He did what he was instructed. Marie stuck the pole in the hole that was on top of the tent. The top of the tent was standing up just fine. After all the struggling and changing positions she had to go through to get the pole to stay in the perfect position, she didn't notice that her leg was snagged I the rope that was in the tree. When she tried to jump down the rope tightened her ankle and made her dangle in mid-air.

“Aw! Naruto! Grab the rope hand help me down!”

Naruto “How'd you get stuck like that?”

“Who cares how?! Get me down! The blood is going to my head!”

Naruto grabbed the other end and pulled it to get her body back on the branch. Neji came back with the firewood under his arm. “What are you two idiots doing?”

Naruto lets go of the rope and pointed his finger at him. “Who are you calling an idiot?”

Marie started falling again. “Naruto!”

Naruto grabbed the rope again to stop her fall.

“It's sad that you can't put up a tent without any problems.”

Naruto lets go again and started yelling. Marie screamed again.

“GUYS! I'M HANGING LIKE A BAT HERE! GET ME DOWN PLEASE!”

Neji snorted and walked past her. “Why? Can't you do it yourself, miss independent?”

Marie growled. She put her hand on her kunai pouch and took out a kunai to cut the rope. Once free she fell into the bushes. Hinata ran over to check on her. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah. That bush broke my fall.” She said as she brushed herself off. She froze when she felt something crawling on her head. “Is there anything on my head?”

Hinata looked at her head closely. And saw a spider crawling. “Yes. A spider.”

“SPIDER!? Gyahh!! Get it out!! It can't be in my hair!” she held her self shivering.

Shino casually walked over to her and placed on hand on her head to let the spider crawl on his finger. He turned around and put it back in the bush.

“There all gone. You can stop complaining now.”

He turned to go back to his original spot near the fire. Hinata and Naruto followed him and started cooking. Marie just stood in the same position when shino came to her. Deep down she really hoped he didn't see her blush. Naruto called her to join them. Marie looked at her water bottle. “Ah. My water bottle is almost empty. I'll just go to the river and refill it.”

Hinata looked at hers as well. “Um…could you refill mine too?” she handed it to her.

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Marie refilled the bottles and sat on the edge of the bank while soaking her feet.

“This kind of mission is not what I had in mind at all. I expected a fight to prove I'm not some girl who needs help all the time and I can do just fine on my own…I also want real friends who won't treat me different just because I'm an heiress who had to produce the next heir to the clan…”

“You sure do want a lot out of life…”

Marie turned her gaze over her shoulder. “Shino…”

He casually walked over and sat next to her. “You were taking a long time.”

“Sorry. Just thinking before I argue with Neji over nothing, he's such a brat sometimes.”

“Why do the two of you argue all the time? Do you hate Neji? Or does he hate you?”

Marie smiled stiffly and waved her hand at him. “Come on! Who could hate me? I'm too adorable to be hated. But an answer to your question: I only hate neji because when we were kids he stole something very precious of mine.”

“What?” he asked curiously. He wanted to know everything about her. Why? Because it's what shino does. He gathers information for future reference.

Marie gritted her teeth and shook her fist. “Because he stole my…my…Riceball!!!”

 

Crickets crickets…ribbit ribbit…

“He stole your rice…ball…that's why you're so mad at him?

Marie brought both hands to her chest. “You don't understand. I was just a little kid who liked to save the best things for last and that riceball was made especially for me to eat.”

(Cute little flashback. Marie at age 5 and neji at age 5. Imagine all the characters as chibi little babies. Like the little rugrats. They have only shirts and diapers. Example: Naruto has an orange shirt and a regular diaper. Sakura has a pink shirt with a heart on it. Ino can have a purple shirt. Neji and Hinata are like Phil and lil. Hinata has a dress and neji has a shirt.)

 

IT was free time out in our preschool academy. I was talking to Hinata while eating my lunch. She saw Naruto with sasuke and sakura and went to play with him. Sakura was fighting with ino again. I was going to watch them, but I wanted to finish my lunch first. I was down to my last riceball until neji came along and snatched it before I got the chance to put it in my mouth!

“This riceball looks good. Thanks for saving it for me.”

He put the whole riceball in his mouth and ran over to tenten and lee to watch the fight between sakura and ino.

I sat there crying. That was my favorite riceball and now it was in the stomach of that obnoxious Neji Hyuuga! I would never forgive him for eating something that was mine!

 

(About that fight with ino and sakura. It was mostly biting and pulling hair. Basically all rookie nine were there.)

 

(Cute flash back over)

 

Marie took her feet over of the water and sat crossed legged. “Basically I can hold a grudge for a long time. I won't forgive him until he returns the riceball that he owes me.”

Shino reached into his shurikin pouch and pulled out a riceball wrapped in plastic. He unwraps it and gives it to her. He didn't dare look at her in the face to see her reaction.

“Here, you can eat this one. I hope you like it plain.”

Marie stared at it in awe. He was offering one of his riceballs…to her. She smiled and happily took it. She blushed when his fingers touched hers for a brief moment.

“It's okay. I like it this way. Thank you very much, shino.”

He turns away even more to hide his blush. “Don't mention it. It's no problem. I only gave it to you so that things will be even quieter between you and neji. Come on let's go back.”

Marie quickly swallowed the riceball, grabbed the water bottles and ran after shino who was quickly retreating.

 

They returned to the camp site to find the old man putting on a show for everyone. It was amusing for a while until it was time to call it a night. When dousing the fire Marie took a quick glance at shino before he went inside his tent.

`At first I thought shino was just like neji. The macho type who looks down on everyone and thinks he's the better fighter and willing to get into a fight to prove it. I was dead wrong about that. He can be really sweet when he wants to be…'

“Good-night, Marie”

Marie nods. “G-good-night, shino.”

Hinata “Good-night everyone. See you in the morning.”

The boys nodded and went inside the tent. The old man pokes his head out and smiled at the girls. “Hey. Don't I get a good-night kiss? My wife always did before we went to bed.”

Marie poked him in the head with a long stick. “Was that before or after you ran away from her? Ask Naruto to kiss you good-night.”

“No way am I kissing the old prune!!” also sticking his head out of the tent.

Neji yelled from inside the tent. “All of you give it a rest already! I'm tired and we're leaving first thing in the morning!”

His hand reached out and pulled naruto's head back inside the tent. Shino did the same to the old man.

 

Marie went inside hinata's tent and settled in the sleeping bag. She was about to close her eyes when she heard rustling sounds coming from hinata's side of the tent. Marie peered over and saw Hinata cuddling a mini stuffed Naruto. All the details were just right.

“Ah. You do have a thing for Naruto, lady Hinata.”

Hinata blushed and quickly hid the doll. “I-it's not what you think it is.”

“Too late I saw it. It's really cute. I wish I could make one.”

“Who would you make it out of?”

“Mmmmm…can't say. I'll make one when I find the right guy that I trust. I'll make one and when I'm afraid for one moment in my life I'll take out the doll and squeeze it and think of him. That sounded completely cheesy, didn't it?”

Hinata giggled. “That's exactly why I made a mini Naruto. He gives me strength.”

Marie smiled warmly. “I think you're already strong. Oh, Hinata. Thank you for going on this mission with me.”

Hinata returned the smile. “Anything for you, it's what friends do.”

They both laid down and drifted into a blissful sleep with happy dreams.

They boys were dreaming about what all boys dream about.

Naruto's dreaming about becoming hokage and ramen.

Neji dreamt being the best ninja in the village.

Shino for a brief moment dreaming about Marie and started dreaming about different bugs.” (Hey. He needed a cover)

 

 

To be continued….

 

Next time on My Ninja Way…

 

Marie: Upon returning to the village in the land of waves I came down with a terrible fever because of the poison that I inhaled yesterday. Grateful that we returned her husband the old lady could make a remedy to cure the poison. Naruto, Hinata, and Neji left me and shino behind while they look for a rare flower that can cure me. What's worse is that I'm babbling nonsense to shino and he acts out of character, too! Guys! Hurry before I tell him something I'll regret!

Next time:

The rare flower of love and sanity.

 

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