And The Pain Ends

If anyone knows the name of the girl konhamaru hangs out with please tell me.
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That night in her dream she was once again standing in darkness but nobody appeared to her. She soon realized that the reason behind this was that they had decided she didn't need any distractions while on her mission. So she got set to work and used the time in her dream to train her mind before the dawn came. Taku was woken up the minute the sunlight spread over the horizon and for the first time ever She and Chouji awoke at the exact same moment. Taku walked out and joined Ino and Shikamaru who were on watch. She sat down by Ino. "So, did our little prisoner give you any trouble last night?"

Ino began to giggle. "Nope, after you scared him half to death last night he has been a good little boy haven't you?" He nodded his head very quickly. And the two girls burst out laughing which brought Naruto and Hinata out of their tents. "Well guys, it seems our little visitor deserves to be let loose so he can help us out this morning don't you think?" Everyone agreed and Taku walked up to the Anubu member with a Kunai and an evil gleam in her eyes. She put it up to his neck and began to talk to him. "Now, we are going to be a good boy aren't we? We are going to do everything asked of us and not complain and when your captors see fit to allow you to leave you will run as swiftly as you can back to Tsundae and give her your report correct?" He nodded quickly and she pulled back the Kunai and swung it down barely missing his neck to cut the ropes. Everyone standing around started to laugh.

Shikamaru walked up and started assigning duties. “Alright Hinata I want you to start on our breakfast while all of us guys go out to catch some fish. We can salt the meat and take it to Princess Naomi's village as a present for the royal family. Ino I want you to break down the tents and pack them up please. Taku as for you, since you're the best at controlling our guest you'll be in charge of watching his every move until we allow him to leave. All right guys, let's head to the river." Taku stayed up in the trees watching the anubu members every move. When they got to the river he hesitated before following the other out onto the water. A needle was instantly lodged right by his foot. He started to sweat as Taku laid across the branch on her stomach looking down at him.

She smiled. "Next time you hesitate like that my dear I will aim to hit. Now off onto the water with you. We need lots of fish." Taku giggled as she saw him briskly walking onto the water. More to get farther away from her than any eagerness to help. 'That'll teach him to mess with the Konaha kunoichi. If it doesn't though, I will be forced to teach him the hard way. Man, this is so much fun. I should have started torturing boys years ago. Then again back then I didn't have the confidence to.' Taku thought this as she slid her finger over the edge of her kunai and decided it wasn't sharp enough. She then took out a stone and began to sharpen it as she watched the anubu glance at her and squirm. She giggled yet again.

Back at the camp the other girls were doing great. Ino had the camp broken down The camp and had it packed up. She was now helping Hinata with the breakfast. "You know Hinata we all learned the dancing and acrobatics before we even went to the academy. I think though that yesterday we took the meaning of what they were for to a new level. I think maybe we should start using this as a new fighting style. I mean it's something new and unexpected and it will allow us to use the completely useless things they taught us before the academy. Plus a lot of fighting needs us to be very flexible to dodge attacks and of course there is always the balance issue. In fact I talked to Temari and she said that girls in her village were never given classes in dancing. It could definitely make the Konaha kunoichi really stand out." They talked about it a little more before the breakfast was done. Soon the other came back and they noticed the anubu member was in the front walking very quickly with a giggling Taku following him in the trees above his head.

Ino went over and grabbed Taku as soon as she showed up. This caused the anubu to relax a little so she threw another needle that scratched his cheek as a warning, letting him know she was still watching. Ino laughed along with her then she and Hinata relayed their plan to Taku. She loved it because her mother had put her in dancing classes when she was younger and incorporating music in a battle would allow her motions to move more fluidly. Then the three of them turned their sights on Shikamaru. He was the only obstacle here in their little plan. The three of them walked over to him turning on the charm big time. Taku leaned down and smiled. "Shikamaru, we thought maybe it would be a good idea for Konaha's kunoichi to really stand out. So we thought we might try out a different style that was made perfectly for our graceful bodies. Do you have any objections?" Another six needles went and pinned the anubu's arm to the tree behind him. He had been reaching for his weapons pouch again and every single one of them saw it. The anubu sweat dropped realizing there was absolutely no escape until these chunin allowed him to leave. "Anyway, Shikamaru do you mind if we try it out on this mission before we take the idea to Tsundae?" He sighed.

"How troublesome you girls are. I will allow you to try it out if you can clean and salt all of the fish in ten minutes." The girls smiled and began to work on the fish. Nine minutes and thirty seconds later they had all the salted fish packed up. "Done!" Hinata, Ino, and Taku yelled out. Shikamaru laughed.

"Alright girls. To be honest I didn't think you would make it but a deal is a deal you can try it out until lunch comes around okay. You will stick to the trees trying out your new style. Maybe if we are lucky it will lure out more criminals who will think we are simply off guard like it brought out our anubu friend here." Taku then went over and pulled the needles out of the tree. Shikamaru was standing beside her and spoke to the anubu. "You have served your purpose and we have a mission to continue. You may now go back to Tsundae and if we catch you following us again I will give you to Taku as her personal plaything for the rest of the trip." As soon as she let him loose he ran as fast as possible straight back to Konaha. "I think that last part scared him don't you think so Chouji?"

Chouji smiled and laughed. "Yea, but I have no idea why I'd be happy to be Taku's plaything any day. I guess that spar with Naruto yesterday gave her the extra confidence she needed." He smiled at Taku and gave her a light kiss before it was back to the mission. They all grabbed up their packs and headed for the path through the woods. After walking for about a mile Shikamaru gave the girls a signal that meant they could give the guys their packs and head up into the trees. Chouji who was walking next to princess Naomi glanced over at her, "You can take out that lute now and start playing if you wish. The girls up there in the tree's want to show off their idea.” Once she got up on the branch she decided to make her job easier and test the boy's reaction time. Taku gave the others a nod and took off their shoes and threw them at the chosen targets. The guys all caught the shoes without looking knowing that it would be easier for the three to dance tree to tree barefoot.

That way the shoes didn't cause them to lose footing. Naomi began to play and the three of them began to sing while using their gracefulness to dance on the trees in circles around the group on the ground. The boys knew they could relax because absolutely nothing would get by the three girls, (The power of multi tasking known only to girls lol) because even though they were singing and dancing in the trees they were also scanning a mile radius around the group. Between Hinata's byakugan and Ino and Taku’s eagle eyes nothing would get past them.

Naomi was looking up in the trees in wonder as she played. The tree of them were jumping branch to branch tree to tree in a ever changing circle around the group dodging branches that would have cut and bruised lesser shinobi by twisting and flipping their bodies in dance. What she saw completely amazed her and she decided right then to send a letter to the Hokage explaining what she saw and her recommendation for this to become mandatory in the training of kunoichi. They kept flipping and twisting but what Naomi didn't see was the traps that they had been avoiding. So far they had only been placed in the trees but then the three girls all noticed the trip wire that the others were about to come up on. They all jumped down in the same instance in a kneeling position in front of Shikamaru.

This surprised Naomi so much that she stopped playing. They all lifted their heads up. After the dancing in the trees they all seemed to be working in perfect harmony doing the same things at the same time. They all spoke and their voices melded together as if to make one. "Shikamaru, be careful there are traps ahead in the path. We have been avoiding the ones in the trees but there are beginning to appear on the path ahead watch closely." Then they all jumped straight back to their places in the trees and spoke once more. "Naomi please begin to play again."

Everyone back on the ground was completely shocked that this style had this kind of effect on the three girls. They were sure it was them but it seemed so odd to see the girls in perfect harmony with each other. Naomi now had more information to add to her letter of recommendation. If Tsundae listened to her opinions then the kunoichi of Konaha were about to become a force to be reckoned with. Naomi then began to play a series of quick paced songs that had no known words and the girls in the trees instantly began to get back to work dancing through them. They got by the traps mostly without incident. Naruto did spring one extremely well hidden one but he was able to avoid it and he was in the last position so no one else was in danger. After getting through the three miles of traps Shikamaru called off the music and the three of them came out. "Alright guys we will stop for lunch now Girls if you wouldn't mind making it me and the guys will all go out and try to catch something a little bit bigger for dinner. Can I borrow your salt Hinata?"

"Sure." She walked over to get it out of her pack that Naruto had been carrying and blushed. Shikamaru nodded. 'It seems they only have the confidence while using the style. Everything goes back to normal when they know they are no longer using it.' She threw the salt over to Shikamaru as the Ino and Taku put on their shoes and got to work making the lunch. With supplies being limited the girls settled on making some ramen that Taku had brought from home. The three put it all in the big cooking pot and had the boys carry some water in it from a nearby stream. The fire was built and the boiling began. While Taku and the others sat down to wait for it to boil for three minutes Naomi told the girls of the impressions the style they created left on her. She also told them about the letter of recommendation she planned to write to Tsundae. They all smiled at this then threw in the dehydrated beef flavoring.

The guys came back soon with a pile of meat that you knew came from a deer. They probably skinned it in the woods so it wouldn't upset Hinata and Ino, both were a bit squeamish and hated to see cute fuzzy animals mutilated. They packed up the salted meat and they all sat down to eat the ramen. Chouji spoke up first during the lunch. "I have to say I was really impressed with the way you three worked together today. You were all doing the exact same thing at the exact same time and I never saw a single signal go between you." Taku then explained to him that the music was the only signal they needed in this style and explained how it would work in battles.

"You see Chouji, if you have more than one kunoichi fighting in a battle where they are using this style. Well, it's kind of like your minds connect. You can honestly move anyway you want to the music but it's like an instant connection between all of us who are trying to use this style. With that connection we can anticipate each others moves confusing our opponents and working together to defeat them. I guess you could say using this style is our way of using mind reading. Plus the dancing makes us more flexible so we can dodge better and our movements are more fluid so we can move from position to position faster." Soon they had all finished their food and had started packing up. A boy about fifteen came crawling up the road toward them. He was hurt badly and you could tell that if they left him he would die. He collapsed about thirty feet away from their group and Taku sighed and pulled Hinata over to him.

She placed her hands on him and healed the wounds while Taku cleaned him up. Shikamaru spoke up, "Even though I don't blame you girls for helping this kid his appearance will set up back a bit. We were supposed to be at Princess Naomi's village by sunset today. How troublesome." They sat there until he woke up an hour later. The second he opened his eyes he got a fearful look on his face. "Don't hurt me please." Taku cocked her head at him giving him a questioning look the realization dawned on her and she turned around.

"It seems he thinks we are the ones who attacked him. Come on now, it's ok we aren't going to hurt you. We were the ones who healed you, can you tell us what happened?" He looked up at her worried he was only two years younger than Taku and he had a headband from the village hidden in the clouds. She didn't see anyone else around.

"Oh god please she needs help. We have to hurry." He stood up and ran back the way he came. The group all ran after him. About a mile away he pulled a young girl from the bush. He then looked up at Taku since she had been the first and only one to talk to him so far. "Can you please help her? Please, she is all I have left." The boy let a single tear roll down his cheek and Shikamaru nodded at Hinata. She walked over to the girl to see if there was anything she could do for the injured girl. She began to work and Taku and Ino walked over to help her out putting some of their chakra into her so she didn't expend too much of her own. The girl woke up after being healed. She instantly hugged the boy and tried to speak but couldn't.

Hinata looked up with a sad look in her eyes that everyone knew meant she felt like a failure because she didn‘t have the knowledge to completely heal the girl. Shikamaru spoke for her, "She wasn't able to fix your vocal cords here we will have to take you back to Tsundae to see if anything can be done for it. Now as for you," he looked over at the boy with a bored look still plastered on his face, that quickly changed into one of irritation, "will you please tell us what the heck happened?"
The boy looked up at the daunting figure before him. "I'm sorry I was just so worried about her that I forgot for a moment what was going on." He sat down with a sigh. "I'm sorry to trouble you so much. We came from the village hidden in the clouds.

My name is Kenshin (modest truth), and this is my girlfriend Shizuko (quiet child) we were part of two separate teams sent out to intercept three missing nins that are after the Princess Naomi, the rest of our team members and our leaders were killed in the battle we barely got away." Shikamaru looked up in the clouds deep in thought. He then asked the boy about the powers and styles of these three missing nins. "They are basically Chakra users. I didn't see a single one of them using taijustsu." Shikamaru looked back at the girls thinking of a plan to get them all out alive, he was a strategist for a reason and he could employ everything he had seen so far.

"Tell me Shizuko, do you know how to play the flute?" She nodded at Shikamaru. "I think I might have a plan. Hinata, Nenji has been training you with your byakugan hasn't he?" Yet again he was answered with a nod, she was starting to catch on to his plan. "Okay everybody has chakra points in the same places. Hinata can you now tell which ones block off chakra?" She nodded again. "Okay this is how we will handle it. Hinata the second we see those nins and I am sure we will, I want you to activate your byakugan then I need you Princess Naomi and Shizuko to play a very fast paced song. Girls you'll be using the style you invented along with using the chakra in your hands to blast the chakra networks in the same way Hinata is.

After they can't use their chakra they will pass out and we can bring them with us and on the way back make a stop at the village hidden in the clouds. To drop them off." They all then headed off. A few hours later they stopped for dinner. They all knew they were going to need their strength in the hours ahead, this was turning out to be a very dangerous mission. They cooked the deer meat the boys had brought back at lunch time and some vegetables to go with it. Sooner than everyone liked though they were back to their silent journey, headed straight into trouble, luckily this time they realized it. An hour later just as the sun was setting Taku saw Hinata activate her byakugan. The flute and lute began to play and the three ran forward not giving their attackers a chance to get at them or the people they were protecting.

Within fifteen minutes the three nins were tied up, passed out, and had no chakra left. 'The three girls who saved us had not a scratch on them. Konaha ninja must be extremely powerful. When we head back to the cloud village I think I will request for me and shizuko to move to Konaha for further training since now we are both orphans.' Kenshin looked down at his girlfriend sadly. Her mother and father had been the leaders of the two teams sent out. At about ten they reached the gates of Princess Naomi's village.

The village welcomed them all in with open arms especially when they saw the most notorious missing nins from the village hidden in the clouds being carried tied hands and feet on a long pole stretched between Naruto and Chouji, the girls did all the hard work the least the boys could do was carry the spoils of war. When they got to the palace they dropped off the fish and Naomi’s family invited them to stay in the palace that night. They also told the group about some accommodations that they could prepare for their prisoners in the dungeon. Shikamaru had accepted the invitation for them all to each shinobi’s delight.

Everyone went off in their couples to accept rooms and Shikamaru and Ino got their own rooms. In their room Kenshin was talking to Shizuko about going to the village hidden in the leafs. Naruto and Hinata were talking about her plans to teach the aspiring kunoichi the style the girls had discovered. Taku, however was taking a long, hot, and well deserved bath. Unlike all the other girls her body was not accustomed to the battling she had done that day. Every single muscle in her body was sore. After you relaxed she crawled into bed with the still awake Chouji. (She had let him take a shower first.) "You know Chouji. I have a felling that after seeing what we could do today a certain cloud village couple is going to ask their kage to move to our village for further training."

"I think you are right my love. I was also thinking since you moved into my room we have an extra room available at our house and those two teens seem like they need someone around that will care about them." Taku smiled he had practically read your mind.
"Exactly what I was thinking my love. Goodnight Chouji." She cuddled up to him completely exhausted and gave him a goodnight kiss before you fell into a well deserved sleep.

Back in Konaha the anubu member you had captured was making his report. "If you don't believe me Tsundae you may check my memories." She put one hand on his forehead and one on her crystal as the scenes played before her eyes. She knew then that he wasn't lying.

"I'm sorry for doubting you, but you must admit it is a little hard to believe that my best anubu member was taken by surprise and captured by these kids. I think they really are ready to become jonin." With that Tsundae dismissed the anubu member and became engulfed in her thoughts.