Storm's POV

"Storm, come on." 

I look down to see Kakashi trying to wake up Naruto.

"Hey, yellow head, get your ass up or I'm gonna hit you with a tree." I say and Naruto scrambles up and salutes me.

"Yes Ma'am." Naruto says to me.

I nod and Naruto calms down and grabs his stuff.

I untie my hair and smooth it down before I fix it back up in its pony tail.

We set off again only to be stopped by Itachi.

"Storm, do you want to handle this?" Kakashi asks me.

I think on it for a second before I jump up and throw my kunai surrounding Itachi. "Fine." I say after I land.

Itachi nods to me in greeting but only slightly and since I pick up on things better, I noticed it.

"Alright, we'll cover you if you need it." Kakashi says to me.

"Its time to play, whack the weasel." I say cracking my knuckles with a smirk.

"Storm, your so weird." Sakura says to me with a sweat drop.

I face palm. "Oh come on, you are stupid, even dumber than Naruto, Granny Chiyo, please explain to her about the Whack-A-Mole strategy your supposed to use against an Uchiha." I say to her.

"Alright." Granny Chiyo says and turns to the two.

I close my eyes and just focus on around me and around my opponent.

"Storm your not supposed to fight with your eyes closed." Kakashi says to me.

"Against weasel face, you have to otherwise it torture time." I say to him with a frown. "Besides, I've been training to kick any Uchiha's ass, I can see with out having to see." I say to Kakashi calmly.

"Alright, you have the field then." Kakashi says to me.

I nod and do some hand signs, I feel air movement in front of me and I catch a fist and block a foot.

"Impressive." Itachi says to me. "Especially with your eyes closed." 

"Thanks for the compliment weasel." I say and hit him square in the stomach, he only stumbles back since I didn't put in a lot of force.

"Storm, are you taking this seriously?" Sakura asks.

I mentally roll my eyes. "Normally I'd actually have my sight, but now since I can't use it, I have to rely on my other sense's." I say to her, slightly annoyed already.

"Well you don't have to get mad about it." Sakura mutters.

I duck an arm and kick Itachi straight through a tree and into a boulder.

"I know why you guys obey her now." Granny Chiyo says to the others.

I do some hand signs and slam my hands on the ground. "Shadow Style: Carpet." I say and shadows from the tree hold Itachi and bind around him. I let out a breath and I block Itachi foot with my hand.

"How does she do that?" Sakura asks.

I kick Itachi in a place so hard, that he has no hope of becoming a father.

Itachi doubles over in pain.

I jump back and I stand up straight. "Well, you have no hope of ever becoming a father." I say as I keep my eyes closed.

"She's as scary as ever." Kakashi says and I can feel his fake closed eyed smile hiding his fear.

I open my eyes to see Kakashi and Naruto ghostly pale. I look at Itachi to see him groaning in pain, I look at Granny Chiyo to see Sakura hiding behind her and Granny Chiyo looking at me shocked.

I look at Itachi as he stays in his hunched over position.

"Why isn't she attacking him? Storm, why aren't you finishing him off?" Sakura asks me.

"You don't attack someone who's down. I fight fair, not dirty. I have dignity ya know." I say to her with a roll of my eyes.

Kakashi and the others look at me shocked.

I wait for Itachi to recover patiently, which takes a while.

"She really does fight fair." Sakura says shocked.

I see Granny Chiyo's eyes cloud like she's reliving a memory.

Itachi gets up slowly and looks at me calmly.

"Why didn't you attack me while I was down?" Itachi asks me calmly.

"I fight fair, not dirty, if my opponent is down, I'll wait until they can fight again." I say to him.

"She's not the least bit ticked off or annoyed." Sakura says even more shocked.

I block Itachi's fist and I uppercut him and he flies back and crashes into the ground.

I go into a serious mode and Kakashi nods.

"Right." Kakashi runs around Itachi to his back and me and Kakashi make Chidori.

We run at Itachi who has no means of escape and we 'kill' him.

"Did Storm just?" Sakura asks.

I look at the impersonator of Itachi. "I know what happened to that Sand guy everyone was looking for." I say and Kakashi nods.

"Lets keep moving." Kakashi says and we make it to the hideout.

I see Guy and Lee and I inwardly groan.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Lee attempts to hug me but I dodge, over and over and over AND over again. I hide behind Neji who just looks at me amused.

"Why are you hiding from Lee?" Sakura asks me. "And why behind Neji?" 

"Reasons and because Neji wouldn't let Lee get anywhere near him." I say to her.

Neji nods meaning its true.

Kakashi and Guy watch amused.

Neji looks at me for the first time. "Wait, are you actually Storm?" Neji asks.

"Did I change that much?" I ask and everyone nods.

Neji's POV

I look at Storm as she hides behind me.

She's grown up, but hasn't changed much. She's more graceful, but still has a fowl tongue.

I watch Storm amused.

She's kind of cute I guess, but she's not my type. I think we're best as friends.

Storm's POV

Neji is safe, I like Neji, he wouldn't let Lee near me. 

I look at Neji to see him watching amused.

I roll my eyes playfully and I stay behind Neji as Lee tries getting to me but Neji keeps him away.

"Does Storm finally like someone?" Sakura asks next to me.

"Holy mother of everything holy, where did you come from?" I ask her surprised/startled.

"Its not hard to walk up to you with out you noticing, so long as your occupied with someone else." Sakura says to me with a smirk.

I scowl at her. "How rude." I say crossing my arms over my chest already annoyed.

Ten-Ten laughs. "Yeah, Storm hasn't changed personality wise." Ten-Ten says and everyone nods.

I look at the cave. "Hmm." I walk over and everyone looks at me. I touch the cave but something rejects my hand and burns my fingers. "A barrier? I can punch through this crap, I think." I say and everyone shakes their heads.

"She does the impossible, lets watch her do this and if she fails, we take over." Kakashi says to the others.

"YOU CAN DO THIS STORM!" Lee and Naruto yell.

I gather chakra into my fists and I punch at the barriers, making dents but it regenerates. "What the." I do some hand signs. "Shadow Style: Shadow Dogs." I use the shadows around here to make 4 shadow dogs. "Investigate this barrier." I say to them.

They melt into the floor and follow the barrier walls. I close my eyes and they mentally show me the other tags.

"Uh guys" I say as they fight.

"Not now Storm." Everyone but Neji says to me.

My eye twitches in annoyance and an annoyed aura surrounds me, then I see the water moving around because of it and I decide to let it fall on them. "Listen to me or I'm gonna pound you guys to dust, that includes all of you." I say to them annoyed.

"Yes Ma'am." Everyone mutters as they move the wet hair out of their faces.

"There are four other tags that make a 5 sealing barrier." I say to them as I call back my shadows.

Kakashi, Guy and Neji nod. 

"That would have been nice to know before you soaked us." Sakura says to me annoyed and probably ready to strangle me.

I scowl at her before I punch the ground so hard that an earthquake happens and most of them topple over like bowling pins, the only one to stay upright was Neji.

"What the hell was that for? And why didn't Neji fall over?" Sakura asks me.

I smirk. "He's the only one that didn't tell me 'Not now Storm.'."

"That's fair." Kakashi says to me.

I roll my eyes. "Line up." I order and they all scramble into two lines, with Sakura and Ten-Ten up front with their fists on their hips and the guys behind them with their arms stretched out in front of them almost touching the person in front of them.

"Why does this always happen when she tells us to line up?" Ten-Ten asks.

"Because she's as scary as Lady Hokage." Neji says to her and everyone nods. "Wait, Storm are you related to Lady Hokage?" Neji asks.

"Probably not." I say to him and I look at everyone. "Alright, Neji, Lee, Ten-Ten, Guy, you guys are gonna take the tags. We have to take them off simultaneously. I'll take the tag off here. Naruto, Sakura, Sensei, Granny Chiyo, you guys are to get Gaara back and I'll help if I can. Sakura, when we take off the tags, your to punch down the boulder that acts as a door. Naruto, don't yell once you get in there." I say to them

"I'm to afraid to defy." Naruto says to me.

"Good." I nod to Neji who uses his Byakugan to tell the others the location of the tags. "Alright, your relieved." I say and everyone drops their arms. 

Guy pulls our 6 communication devices and hands one to me, one to Kakashi, one to Neji, one to Ten-Ten, one to Lee and uses the last one for himself.

I put mine on around my neck and I adjust the microphone and ear bud.

"Testing" Lee says and I fall backward because his sound is up to high and the others wearing communication devices, lose most of their hearing. "Testing." Lee says again and we lose our hearing.

"Turn that down." I say to him annoyed.

Lee turns down his mic and we all sigh in relief as he talks normally into the mic.

I get up and heal my hearing. "Alright, everyone to your stations." I order them and they nod and get into their positions. I jump up on the rock door and I use chakra to keep myself from falling.

"I'm in position." Neji, Lee, Ten-Ten and Guy say through the communication device.

"Right, on three." I say to them.

"3." Neji says to us.

"2." Ten-Ten says to us.

"1." Lee says to us.

"Now." Guy says and the five of us take off the tags.

I jump out of the way. "Now Sakura." I say and she runs at the boulder and punches it down with one blow.

Sakura, Kakashi, Naruto and Granny Chiyo run into the cave. I follow them to see two guys. One blonde and one puppet.

I hear the two bicker about art and my eye twitches.

"WHO CARES?" I yell at them annoyed.

"Well someone has no appreciation of art." The blonde mutters and glares at me.

"I think you made the wrong decision saying that." Sakura says as Naruto, Kakashi, Granny Chiyo and herself back up.

"Your saying that to me?" I ask them.

"What are you gonna do girly?" The blonde says to me with a smirk.

I look at him.

"Hey Storm, I think you forgot to turn off your mic." Neji says to me through the communication device.

"I did? Sorry." I say and turn my mic off.

I look at the two Akatsuki members. "Was your group to afraid to show or were you guys to afraid to object to your leader?" I ask them with a smirk.

"Wha? Ok listen here little hot girl. Our leader chose us because we're the strongest." The blondie says to me.

"Your right, I am hot, but you guys, not." I say to them with a smirk.

"What did you say?" The blonde asks me.

I shrug. "Well its just, in my opinion, I don't really like blondes, or puppets, some other girl might like you guys, like your girlfriends, oh wait, you don't have any."

"I'll have you know, my girlfriend lives in America." The blonde says to me.

"Oh yeah? Then what's her name?" I ask him with a smirk.

"Uh, um." The blonde looks around. "Ro-Rocky, yeah Rocky." The blonde says to me nervously.

"Uh huh, does this 'Rocky' know that your gay?" I ask with a smirk.

"I'M NOT GAY!" The blonde yells at me.

"Well technically, you are, the entire Akatsuki is made up of guys, and your apart of it, you happen to like guys, and your partner is a guy, oh and don't think I see the mouths on your hands. What do you use them for, extra making out with other members of the Akatsuki?" I ask him with a smirk.

"She's just one little, Kisame was right, but he said she was a lot more hot tempered than this." The blonde says to the puppet.

"Storm are you just trash talking or are you getting under their skin? I can't tell." Sakura asks me.

"I'm just following what I'm thinking, and you know, my train of thought, really should just go off the rails and not be nice today." I say and punch the ground, the place rumbles and I finally notice Gaara being sat on by the blonde. "Hey, when did that happen?" I ask pointing.

"She's a hopeless case." Sakura says to the others.

I shrug and a piece of the roof falls above the blonde but the puppet hits it to me, I catch it and hold it with one hand even though its a good sized boulder. "Alright, mind telling me why your trying to stone me?" I ask.
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