Naruto:Making Of A Hokage

Beginning Of Battle

Ino hummed happily as she sat behind the desk of her family's flower shop.

"What's gotten you so happy?" Sakura asked upon entering the shop. Her eyes held happiness at seeing the change of mood of her friend. Despite whatever she said, Sakura knew that Ino hadn't been as happy as she let on lately.

"Hi Sakura!" Ino beamed before giggling to herself, "I saw Naruto yesterday. You should've seen him! He was so romantic."

The medic had to quirk an eyebrow at that. Her teammate, Naruto, being romantic... The thought was odd to her as she had never seen her teammate as the kind of person to focus on anything more than training or eating.

"I'm sure he was..." Sakura trailed off, deciding to keep from doing anything that might break Ino out of her good mood. "So, where is he? I haven't properly talked to him in a while."

Ino shook her head, "He's away on a mission right now but I'm sure he'll be back soon."

"I see," Sakura nodded in response, "I wanted to tell him about the new addition to Team 7"

"New addition?"

"Yeah, it's this weird guy named Sai," she responded before chuckling, "But I'm pretty sure the two of them won't get along. They'll probably end up fighting when they meet."

Ino cocked her head to the side in confusion, "Why's that?"

Sakura looked away with a bitter smile, "That's...what happened with me. Sai said something stupid and I punched him through a tree."

"Right," Ino replied a bit sheepishly, making a mental note not to get on Sakura's bad side in the future.

Neji frowned as his byakugan picked up a few more Sound ninja coming their way. The first few were easy enough but the sheer number was beginning to weigh down on him, he was also sure that Lee was in the same condition despite his denial of the fact.

"Lee, there's another group of ninja coming this way. Let's keep a low profile for now and think of a plan, I'm sure we won't be able to keep up with them soon," Neji spoke, receiving a hesitant nod from Lee.

"I don't like to run away but looks like there's no other choice," Lee agreed much to Neji's relief.

Tayuya knew for a fact that they were in trouble. The Kiba guy and his dog were still taking down Sound ninja left and right but she knew from personal experience that he was playing their game, a game she played many times back when she was in charge of her own base. It was quite simple actually, one had to simply throw many ninja at the intruder and wear them down enough to be easy picking for the stronger Sound ninja.

While it was true that Sound's numbers had most likely gone down since she had last been part of them, it was pretty clear that they still had a considerable number of ninja at their disposal. The only way for the Konoha ninja to find a way out of the base alive was to have the shackle on her arm taken off and the fools to listen to her. That wouldn't happen though, the ninja in charge would never trust her enough to take off the shackle, much less listen to her.

Her eyes narrowed as she spotted the next wave of Sound ninja coming their way. There were only five coming this time which meant that the stronger ninja were about to come finish the job. The Kiba guy was already showing signs of weariness, there was no doubt in her mind that he'd get killed easily but the same would not happen to her, she'd make sure of that.