Song of The Lotus Flute - A Naruto Fanfic

Song of the Lotus Flute (Chapter 4)

Chapter 4 – Who’s Naruto?

“You know… this was just a little two easy.” Kyo said bouncing the heaven scroll up and down in his hand, while Hikari held the earth in his own. 

“Speak for yourself oh great ‘Kyuubi!’”

“I swear you little-” Kyo was about to put Hikari in a headlock when anther ninja called out to them.  They readied themselves for attack.

“Hey-you there!”

The man was from Suna and he appeared to be alone.  He had his hands in the air to show he meant no threat.

‘Yeah, because this is just a tea party shinobi get together and chat at.’  Kyo thought still holding out his kunai.

“What do you want?”

“I got separated from my team and I’m completely lost... I was wondering if I could travel with you guys.”

“Oh sure, and what about the heaven and earth scrolls?  Your teammates got those too?”

He looked a bit uneasy at the question.  “I’ve no idea-but the thing is I don’t want to die so…”

Kyo hesitated and put his kunai away.

“What are you doing?” was Hikari first response.

“He’s injured.” Kyo pointed out the blood on the mans arm.  Hikari hesitated.

“I’m sorry to be a burden...” the Suna nin said holding his aching wound.  “I’ve lost a lot of blood.”

Kyo was the first to put his arm around the man and then by instinct he grappled him backward.

“What are you doing.”

“You know-it’s just not nice to send a substitution out on a shinobi’s job.  Release!” the genjusts was broken and so was the appearance of the puppet before him.  It wasn’t a highly well crafted one, and it didn’t have to be.  “Paper bomb huh...  guess the jokes on you.”  Kyo pulled a small mirror from his pocket and immediately made sure it had contact with the puppet.  A moment later there was the sound of an explosion in the trees.

The three Suna shinobi had no idea what had hit them when suddenly their explosion puppet was right next to them.  The last thing they saw was the glint of a mirror and the flash of light violet hair.

“Well that was fun.” Soriu dusted herself off.  “You know if you just touched it with your headband I could get their all right.” She pointed out to Kyo and he shrugged.  “Look, there is no way-puppet or not-that I’m getting that close to somebody.”

“You didn’t seem to have a problem with it, on that mission when we were watching that rich guy’s curvy daughter…”

Kyo’s face turned from pink to red in less then a second.  “Th-that’s not true!” he blushed deeply and began to stomp away.  “Ugh-I’m going to-to fight something!” he sounded like a child trying to get back at someone.  Hikari grinned from ear to ear and Soriu just shook her head. 

“Let’s just get to the check point with out dying.”

***

“Is this really all that’s left?” the Hokage asked Anko, who was just as surprise as she was.

“It seems that it’s thanks to the Tsubasa ninja.  I’ve never seen so many candidates wiped out-not to mention the creatures some say they killed.”

Tsunaded nodded her head as she looked over the four remaining teams.  Those who hadn’t taken on the Tsubasa nin were just as shaken up from the forest, and some could barely stand.  She glance moment at her predecessor’s grandson.  His team was dirty and bruised, but they each still seemed proud in their own right.  She had seen that look before so many times, and as she glanced to her right she could see it again.  The boy that both Shikamaru and Iruka had clamed to be Naruto had a foxy grin on his face.