Dedication to Konoha_11_are_cool

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Chapter 43

Well this isn’t good, Naruto was glaring at Sasuke and Sakura at me. Kakashi was standing there, chuckling his head off.

Sasuke was glaring at Naruto. “I did nothing to her,” he snapped at him. Naruto’s eyes narrowed.

“You had to have! Emi would never like you like that, let alone kiss you!” Naruto shouted, his hands curling into fists, and I gulped.

This is getting out of hand and quickly. I stepped forward and said. “I do… I like him Naruto… a lot. And we’re.. umm,” I felt the killing intent coming off of Sakura and it stopped my words. “Umm, Sakura, don’t kill me. please.”

Sakura cracked her knuckles and glared hard at me, I could see my impending doom in her eyes. “Your dead!” she went to attack her, but Sasuke stepped forward, I knew Sasuke would be glaring at her.

“We’re dating, there is nothing you two can do about it,” Sasuke said in a tone that left no room for an argument.

It was silent again. All emotions were running high that you could almost see it. I sighed. “well, this is awkward, un,” I muttered and then I hit Sasuke over the head. “Your fault, by the way. We should have told when you got out of the hospital and then had this over and down with.”

Sasuke rolled his eyes and smirked at me. I crossed my arms and stepped around him. Naruto was gapping at us and it made me laugh a little. I walked over to him and closed his mouth.

“Why Emi?” He whined. “Why this idiot?”

“Don’t ask me, it surprised me as well. It took this one telling me he liked me and like my art, my own feelings for him exploded and made themselves known, ka-boom,” I said, making jazz hands when I said ka-boom. “You have no idea how weird it was,” I informed him, shrugging my shoulders.

Naruto frowned and then glared at Sasuke over my shoulder. “You don’t deserve her!” Naruto stressed to my… boyfriend. Jashin, that is still weird!

Kakashi chuckled again. “Maybe I should pull the new couple and give them the talk?” He spoke out loud, I tensed and I knew Sasuke was the same.

I glared up at sensei. “You even try and I will end you!” I yelled and he laughed and waved me off. I groaned and I rubbed my face. “Alright, it’s my birthday so that means we all have to get alone! Naruto, no attacking Sasuke or glaring at him and vice versa, Sakura the same goes for you but with me, and Kakashi… no reading those books and no suggesting things about Sasuke’s and I’s… new relationship, or I will be forced to end your Shinobi carrier,” I said it all seriously, so I think that they got idea that I will do it.

“How, pray tell, could you do that?” Kakashi questioned me and I smirked a little.

“Now, now. I can’t say anything. It’s something I’ve trained after training with Tenzo-sensei,” I informed him, and then I turned around and started to walk off. “I can’t say because there are two people here that are also in the third exam and I can’t tell that my last resort move.”

I felt eyes on me as I walked, before Naruto ran up to me. “Last resort?” He asked and I smiled at him.

“Yeah. I can destroy someone’s ninja carrier. It’s mainly for Rin though...” I informed him thinking of the E4, and then I sighed, looking up at sky. “I won’t kill her because she’s RIkku’s sister but… I will end her ninja carrier if it means that I’ll live, un.”

Naruto looked at me in shock, before he got serious. “Don’t let that idiot kill you… promise me.”

My eyes widened. Naruto’s really serious and when Naruto gets serious… you know to listen to him. I elbowed him. “Naruto, as if she could kill me. I’ve trained like hell and I bet that she hasn’t trained because she thinks she has it in the bag,” that is true, Rikku told me that Rin was practicing her Genjutsu a bit. But nothing else, it shall be her down fall. Mwhaha!!

Naruto grinned and then Sasuke came up on my other side. I could feel Sakura’s glares on the back of my neck which I ignored. Naruto smirked a little and then threw his arm around my shoulders, I sighed as Sasuke glared at Naruto.

At the same time, I smacked both of them around the head. “Not get all male-egoish when it comes to me, got it?!” both of them looked at me, before glaring at each other. I groaned and hung my head. “Naruto, Sasuke is my boyfriend but that doesn’t change a thing for us, okay? You’re my best friend, my brother in all ways but blood, and Sasuke, Naruto is my best friend and brother, we’re not going to change how we are around each other because you’re getting all jealous. Got that? Un!” I asked and both boys tensed and nodded their heads.

I smiled and I took a few steps forward, moving from Naruto’s arm and then I turned on my heal, arms going around both of them tightly. They both froze before I felt Naruto hug me back and Sasuke doing the same, neither of their arms were near the other. I sighed.

“the only person that would make this group hug better is if Dei-dei was here… then I’d be surrounded by my favourite boys,” I muttered, my heart clenched a little at the thought of my brother.

It’s my fourth birthday without him… and it hurt. It made me miss him more than anything. Naruto’s arm around me tightened. He knew how hard it was for me on my birthday without Deidara here. It also reminds me that my brother hasn’t replied to my letter which makes me worry.  

I then felt a strand of my hair being pulled, making me yelp. Naruto snicker and I let go of both Sasuke and Naruto. Glaring at the fellow blonde, even though I was glad for the distraction.

“You better run my fellow blonde prankster!” I shouted and Naruto’s eyes widened, and then he took off. I gave in to the case pretty quickly.

I knew Naruto was doing this for me… to keep my mind off of Deidara. Out of Sasuke and Naruto… Naruto will always have a place in my heart bigger then Sasuke, because Naruto knew me, my habits, worries, and pain. It will take a while yet for Sasuke to have that kind of knowledge about me.

“Emi! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to pull your hair, your hair got caught!!” He shouted as I started to catch up to him.

I smirked. “Caught in what?! Your hand?!” I called out and he yelped as I reached out and almost got him.

“Yes!” I laughed at the lie from the blonde.

My eyes widened as I saw an orange blur move in front of me, protecting Naruto from my ‘anger’. It was Rikku. “Hey! What are you doing?! I get your team together for your birthday and now you’re trying to kill one of them!”

Naruto had stopped running, he looked between me and Rikku, and I caught his eyes. Then at the same time, we both started to laugh loudly.

“You thought she was going kill me?!” Naruto exclaimed at he laughed.

“We always do something like this!!” I added and slowly we both calmed down our laughter. We both smiled at her as Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi came up behind us.

Sakura sighed. “They are right, but they’re getting worse lately…” Sakura muttered, I could hear her anger still at me but I ignored it. “They usually tag team together and go up against Sasuke…”

Rikku’s eyes widened and then she chuckled. “And now Emi’s with Sasuke. They can’t really tag team against him as much, gotcha,” Naruto huffed and Sakura growled (Yep, she growled), which made both me and Rikku laugh a little. “That reminds me how we were when we were little (AN Look at all the w’s!! Alliteration attack!!).”

“I know right? We used to tag team against anyone who dare deify us!” I shouted. My arm right up into the air, pointing at the sky. “No one was safe!”

“No one could stop us!” Rikku joined in, pointing up into the sky as well.

“We are the Little Bomber!” I shouted.

“and the Fun Obitmaru Triplet!” She added and then grinned at each other, before snickering. “I can’t believe we used to do that!”

I could feel the odd looks and then something clicked in my head, making my eyes widened. I shot over to Naruto, my hands on his shoulders and I started to shake him.

“Oh my jashin! Naruto, me, you and Rikku, together, pranking… we could be the Pranking Dream team!!” I called out as Naruto started to get really dizzy.

Kakashi chuckled at my words. “Wasn’t that what I said at the Hospital?” Kakashi asked, and I waved him off.

Naruto slowing came back down to earth and he through a weary look towards Rikku. Oh… that’s right. He doesn’t know that Rikku and I are friends again… whoops. “Rikku did find us, and got us all together for your birthday but… wasn’t she trying to kill you?”

My eyes widened and I nervously rubbed the back of my neck. “Yeah… but there is this whole story to it… and we’re friends again,” Naruto’s eyes were wide and I smiled at him. “Come on, we should go and get some Ramen at Ichiraku’s. Rikku and I will tell you guys everything,” I looked over at Sasuke and Sakura with a smile.

They nodded and together we headed off to eat some Ramen.

Thrid Pov.

He couldn’t believe it, Emiko was dating the Uchiha. Doesn’t she know that Deidara would probably kill him because of it? Doesn’t she know that the Uchiha wants to kill Itachi… that he was obsessed with Revenge? Even he could see it.

“Damn it!” the boy turned on his heal and kicked a tree. His job was to watch over her training, see how far she was and how she is progressing. To see what Orochimaru the traitorous bastard was planning in this village. Then she had to go and get herself involved with one of the targets of Orochimaru!

Hisashi groaned and shook his head. she was getting on his nerves but he considered her a friend in a way… they could be best friends one day if she change her mind on true art, but he knew is she was anything like Deidara… then they were going to clash a lot. Great, they might just end up like his mentor and Deidara. He could already see it… he smirked a little to himself. Well at least she made his visit to this village that has given him nothing but pain interesting and distracted him. Dare he think it, even fun.

This girl… Emi. He could see it, she was improving quickly, and her E arts are something not to be messed with. Her speed was fast, faster than his own, her Taijutsu is improving and he could already see that she understands that to be a ninja, you need more than just your aces, in this case, her bombs. He has already noticed her deduction skills and would be surprised if she didn’t get a promotion in the Chuunin Exams, he also noticed the healing factor of her Kekkei Genkai, born Kinjutsu, how her chakra reserves return to her quickly. But there was more to it, she hasn’t noticed. Emi’s natural strength was something not to be laughed at, particularly from a Kunochi her age. Girl’s her age don’t usually have a lot of natural strength compared to a boy. Sure, she’s using weights on her arms now but that doesn’t mean that she was weak in the first place, she only just starting wearing them.

Hisashi smiled a little. His evaluation of Emiko was high, if she finally joined up with her brother and got the training from him and some of the others… the ninja world better look out.

Suddenly, a kunai flew towards his head, making him move out of the kunai’s way. With a thud, the kunai embedding itself into the tree.

Hisashi’s head snapped over towards where the kunai was thrown from. He saw a girl with her hair in two buns and a boy with long hair and… oh how funny. A Hyuuga. They were both up in a tree.

“State your name and purpose in these woods,” the girl called out, spinning a kunai on her finger.

He smirked. “Hisashi Hyuuga,” both the genin froze, not noticing that he didn’t answer the other question. Neji knew right away who he was…

“Hyuuga… Neji, who is he?” Tenten asked, looking between the two in thought. Her eyes darted to the boy’s forehead and she noticed that he didn’t have the Curse Mark of the Hyuuga clan. But he can’t be a main branch member…

“My cousin… his mother was my father’s little sister,” Neji said, his eyes narrowed. “He doesn’t have the Byakugan, he is the shame to the Hyuuga clan, more so then Hinata. He is fated to be a loser,” Hisashi’s eyes narrowed.

“Feeling the love here cousin. What’s wrong with Hinata? From what I hear, she’s a nice person, just shy because she was pushed with too much pressure and treated horribly because of her kindness. How I see it, in this world, we need more nice people and less people like you,” Hisashi called out with a smirk.

Neji’s eyes turned deadly, his Byakugan turning on without a hand seal from the anger he was feeling towards this boy. “Your fate was chosen to be a loser, a deadbeat and a disgrace.”

Hisashi rolled his eyes. “My fate? I don’t believe in that, I believe in art, true art in the form of Eternal beauty, your eyes are not like that, caged bird!”

Tenten’s eyes widened. He sounded like Emiko and her art but instead of it being fleeting… it is eternal…

Neji growled and then shot towards Hisashi, his eyes on the boys Chakra points. Hisashi laughed a little as he moves quickly out of Neji ‘s sight and moved into his blind spot, a Senbon in Hisashi’s hand.

“Where are you?!” Neji shouted, looking left and right, Hisashi followed his movements, but kept in the blind spot.

With a casual flick of his wrist, the Senbon flew through the air and embedded itself in the boy, right in the nerve and chakra point that affected the eyes. Neji’s Byakugan was switched off as he gasped in pain.

“You’re an idiot if you didn’t think that I wouldn’t know the ins and outs of the Byakugan. I know the blind spot, and from my training I can turn it off through the nervous system and main chakra points. Do you really think I would step back into this village where the clan that wanted to kill me resided without knowledge of how to protect myself from those eyes? To you, I may seem like a loser, but to me? You’re the one that has fallen into the clan’s fate while I escaped mine, cousin,” then Hisashi turned on his heal, leaving the Hyuuga prodigy on the ground. “Oh and be careful pulling out that Senbon, you pull it out wrong and you could destroy those eyes of yours.”

Then he was gone from them. He headed to his apartment he was staying in for his duration in the village; he grabbed a few things and then left. He had a few things to do, one of them to do with a certain E3.

Suddenly, he heard a shout that was heard throughout the village. “EMIKO! NARUTO! IWA-NIN! GET BACK HERE!!”

Hehehe, those three pranking target just happened to be… yep, Iruka-sensei.

Emiko’s pov.

I yawned as I headed into my apartment. It was a fun day, I ate with my team, Sakura ignored me for the most part which was fine. She was hurt. I’ll find a way to figure out to get her over it, and even if she doesn’t, it wouldn’t affect me too much. Even with the progress we made.

The prank was fun, Rikku, Naruto and I snuck into Iruka-sensei’s apartment, got all of his clothes and strung them up around the village but before that, we got all of his furniture upside-down and then used some of my clay. We put paint into the clay and set it on his door… When he walked into his apartment, the explosive went off, turning his door and himself bright pink. Then he chased after us. We escaped though.

Rikku and Naruto got along swimmingly and after our prank, Sasuke pulled me aside and we had a dinner date… which was odd but fun. We were our normal selves which was great.

I walked into my room and there I saw it. My E3 with a letter and a package.

I grinned and ran over to them. I yanked letter and smiled as brightly as I could as I opened it. This was turning into the best birthday ever!

The letter was blank, as per normal and I made the correct art and set it off on the letter. BOOM! When the smoke cleared, my eyes started to dart back and forth over the letter taking in all of the words.

‘Dear Little Bomber,

Hearing about your E arts makes me really proud of you. You’re exploring the possibilities of our art! I can’t wait to see them in person, un. Dark duck… you call your teammate Dark Duck? Hahaha! I wonder what name you’d come up with for the Uchiha here? Un.

I find it so funny that you just causally call out of the other members around here, as if you’ve known them for years. Sasori no danna wants me to tell you that he will be the judge of who is a brat and who isn’t. Hidan’s partner, Kakazu says that he doesn’t tolerate being lectured by a kid. Kisame said that he wants to see that pout of yours if you two see each other again. Itachi twitched again at your letter. Hidan… no, I’m not going to write what Hidan said, my little sister isn’t having her ears attacked by his curses, un!

Tell me when you want to come to my side and I’ll fly right to you, got it my little bomber? Yes, we do know about Orochimaru being in Konoha. And don’t worry, I think if leader gives it the okay to hunt down and kill Orochimaru, me, you and Sasori no danna would tag team and destroy the snake, un!! I already hate the snake-bastard. Did you know that I’m his replacement? Sasori no Danna was his partner and now I’m Sasori no Danna’s partner. In the domino effect, it’s because of Orochimaru that we’re separated, un!’

My hands clenched. So Orochimaru was telling the truth… damn that snake!

‘Don’t let those three kill you Emiko, if they try, destroy them. Kill them, turn them into ART! UN! Or I will turn the whole of Iwa into dust! Yah! If you do kill them, I’ll get out you of Konoha if you did cause an international incident, I’m sure Kisame will help to, un.

I wish you luck in your training, my little bomber. You better train hard, and train fast! Show everyone the true art!!’

Suddenly, the writing changed a bit. It wasn’t Deidara’s writing.

‘Emiko, it is Sasori. I wish you to know that I have sent one of my spies and student of mine into Konoha to see if leader is correct about enlisting you and also to see what Orochimaru is planning on doing in Konoha. He is the one that sent this letter in your apartment. By orders of me, the brat and the leader, he is to send this letter to you on your birthday if he thinks that you are right for the organisation. You would have only got the package if you are not. It also means that you can join your brother. If you can figure out who my spy is, then it shows even more of your appropriateness and ability. Also, Art is Eternal.

My eyes widened at that part… there is a spy… who? I shook my head and focused more on the rest of the letter then worry about that.

‘Sorry about that, I hope you do get this letter. You are an amazing ninja; I can feel it, un! Now the package with this letter is from me, use it well and don’t lose it!

Happy birthday my little bomber, I love you as you well! un!’

I felt tears in my eyes and I smiled a little. I looked at the package and I pulled it to me. I opened up the package after I put the letter on my bed side table.

I ripped open the package and my eyes widened at the sight of my present. It was another clay pouch, but two of them. With clay in them made from my brother, there is also a little clay creature… an owl just like the ones he flies on.

The tears fell and I hugged the present to me. I missed him so much, now knowing that I could go to his side at any time… it’s like dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit… I want to see him, I need to see him but… how can I? When I’ve got people here I care about so much…

I set down my things and grabbed a pillow before screaming into it. There is also the fact that there is that spy to worry about… a spy and student… Sasori no Danna’s student. I snorted at the thought of Sasori last thing he said to me. “Art is Eternal, un. No way, I think he and Hisashi would get… along…” I trailed off before face palming. “Jashin Damn it, how stupid can I get? Hisashi said he had a mentor today and the only person I know that believes in Eternal art is Hisashi…”

It’s obvious now… Hisashi Hyuuga is the spy and student of Sasori no Danna!

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Dah, dah, dah!!

Well, that obvious huh? What did you guys think of that? Now Emiko can go to her brother at any time and she’s conflicted about it. How will Emiko react to Hisashi the next time she sees him?

What do you guys think of Hisashi and Neji’s little confrontation? Was Hisashi correct in his assessment of Pre-Naruto-Beating Neji? I think so.

Question time!!

Who is your favourite Sharingan user? Kakashi? Itachi? Sasuke? Obito? Tobi? (I know they are one and the same but to me, they are two different people as they act differently!!) Danzo? (Ew, I know but he is a Sharingan user) Madara? Madara’s brother? (whose name I can never remember!!) Shisui? (sp?) or any other Sharingan user.

Personally, my favourite is down to Kakashi and Itachi, Kakashi because he was the first one I ever saw the Sharingan on and Itachi because he is so dedicated and kind (pre-Uchiha massacre and even after that massacre he was still kind in a way).

And that’s it for now folks! I’m going away for five days. Not sure if I’ll get a chance to write at all, but we will see!

Sorry for the slow update as well, I had writer’s block but now I am over it!! Whoop, whoop!

You all know the drill, vote for the art, follow for the art and comment for the monkeys… wait, no comment for the questions and ART!! Un.

Art is Fleeting, un, Katsu!