(Naruto) Ghost II
A/N: For those who need it, a glossary is at the end of the chapter.
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The snow was blowing, a harsh sound to her ears, and she looked up from where she was sitting. The window was open and she hastened to close it. For some reason, it wouldn’t shut.
“Hey, help me!” she called to-who? She couldn’t remember. She just knew there was someone in her room with her. She turned around, noticing the dark red walls, black cloth covering the furniture, and candles.
This was her room? She didn’t feel like it was but who’s else could it be?
“Help me!” she called again to the shadowy figure behind her. He-she knew instinctively it was a ‘he’-started to approach her. Slowly, ever so slowly, he walked across the room. The clock ticked, minutes flying as he attempted to get past her table.
Suddenly, the cold fingers grabbed her arms, pulling her out of the window.
“HELP!” she choked out, a hand covering her mouth.
The figure just stood by the window, staring down. Nobody helped her.
Sakura jolts awake, her eyes wide as the sound of an alarm clock filters in. She is bathed in a pale yellow light, warming her hands and face, and her heart is racing.
“It was just a dream,” she whispers to herself. “Just a dream.”
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Mission 1:
November-Alpha-Mike-Echo
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Sakura arrives early, about an hour so, her hair still wet from her shower. Her cheeks are flushed because it’s cool out and she shivers slightly, pulling her coat around her closer. Walking in the front doors of the building, she looks around to see where she should wait when she spots him.
No matter what time I arrive, he’s always earlier, she thinks with a wry grin. “Hello, Sasuke-kun,” she calls out, causing him to look up at her. She gives a small wave, and as she nears him, she reaches out to touch him-
He is already walking away.
“Hey!” She childishly frowns at him. “What was that for? Naruto and Ino let me hug them! At least we can shake hands or somet-”
“We’re getting late,” Sasuke interrupts and he walks down the hallway. He doesn’t slow down for her or wait, expecting her to follow.
She always did.
“Hmph.” She scurries to catch up with him because he has longer legs and is already turning the corner. As she follows behind him, she notices he’s grown tall. He’s now at least a foot taller-making her the shortest person out of her three friends.
(This is seriously unfair and if she ever died on a mission, the first thing she would tell God is to stop being sexist and make tall girls.)
Time had been kind on Sasuke’s face, making it a little longer and with more refined features. He looks…aristocratic, a good feature for when they infiltrated those high-class societies. His back is as straight as ever, something she notices when he stops suddenly and she hits it.
“Hey!”
“We’re going in this room,” he murmurs to her as he takes out a key and unlocks the door.
“Oh, mission clothes!” she says, excited. They enter a large room, bigger than several warehouses, with racks on the walls and poles everywhere. Boxes are piled on the floor, opened, and clothes are just scattered everywhere. They entered from the seventh door, where two boxes of clothes are sitting, neatly packed, and name scribbled on each.
“We are going somewhere cold, further north than Yukiguni. Grab a coat, hat, and gloves, from the west.”
“Oh, so it’s a takoku,” Sakura muses as she grabs a dark green coat. She then searches for a black hat and gloves, preferably woolen.
Sasuke stands at the door, motioning for her to grab her box while he picked a few books from a shelf nearby and placed it on his box.
Quickly, she grabs her box, pre-packed thanks to Kurenai.
“Books?” she questions as she turns to go out the door.
“Our ‘tools’,” he replies as he placed half on her box and kept the rest.
“Thanks,” she groans, the box getting heavier. Her fingers could barely touch as her arms hugged the box to her chest, and she couldn’t see over the box.
Sasuke effortlessly closes the door and slips beside her, the box in one arm as he pulls a sheet out from his pocket with the other. Scanning it again, though she knows he already has the information memorized, he informs her of the mission in a monotonous voice.
“The town Grêle, who’s code name is koori. We will refer to it as that, when we are talking to each other about the mission.” They are walking down the hall.
“Oh? A French town, then?”
“It had been conquered by the French centuries ago. The name stuck.”
“The radar is three kilometers from the town, near a popular hiking spot. Many tourists arrive, just to see the sunset from a large cliff, and we can fit in with them. Going there won’t be a problem.”
“What are our daggers?”
“We will be a brother/sister pair, teachers who wander around teaching those in rural areas. While there are tourists, they don’t usually give koori a large revenue, making it still a small town.”
“Ahh…so wandering teachers are common among the towns, then.”
“Yes. For our cryptonym, our first names won’t be changed, as we are just relief teachers, trying to get practice before going to a war-zone. However, our last name will be Segreto.”
“What-oh, I see.” Sakura laughs. “Ironic. Won’t it be obvious, though?”
“Unlike other European countries, they don’t have three languages as a mandatory learning requirement. Italian and Spanish, as well as the other languages aren’t taught.”
He stops talking and she peers around her box to see if he is still walking.
Sasuke looks back at her, a small smirk on his face. “Brush up on your English and French.” He picks up her box and continues to walk, leaving her there standing. Sakura pats her cheeks, her palms cooling the blush from his smirk.
He definitely is still handsome.
“Especially after last time,” he adds, referring back to her old language tests.
Sakura frowns.
He also still is a jerk.
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A/N: Ehh…this took a while to write. I had it written out in paper, and didn’t get around to typing it up. And I am currently annoyed with present tense. The next chapter should be up soon because I decided to be smart and actually write up the next chapter before posting this.
I’ll post it in a week or two, while I work on the chapter after that.
Glossary:
I probably brutally murdered the foreign languages I mixed in here, but…we’ll just ignore that.
Yukiguni-basically, it means snow country. What better way to name the setting but by the weather?
Takoku-original as ever, this one means foreign country. You can see I fully thought out these names.
Grêle-Hmm…a French town near the snow, what is this place called? Hail of course!
Koori-This one is fun. Considering what other names I’ve used, I’m sure this is pretty hard.
No? It means ice. Or, if you wanted to be funny, shaved ice.
Dagger-spy term meaning ‘a sophisticated disguise’. I’m only putting italics in the story around the foreign languages.
Cryptonym-this means code names. Maybe I should have changed Sasuke’s and Sakura’s name, but I think it would have made the whole thing more complicated.
Segreto-actually, I think this one would be my favourite name of all the ones I made. It means secret or mystery. It’s Italian.
A lame pun, that Sasuke says their last name is a ‘secret/mystery’, but it’s foreign. That makes it cool on its own.
Other Facts:
1) The past tense will be dreams or the past. The beginning of this chapter was a dream. I was going to put it in italics, but that makes it so obvious…and I didn’t really want that.
2) My French teacher used to go to school in Europe, in a country called Albania, I think. Anyways, it is true that they have to learn at least two (or three?) other languages besides their first language.
3) I’m going to try and mix in other foreign names, spy terms, and military terms, just to make the story more…spy-like. If you have any suggestions, go ahead and tell me. For example, this chapter’s title (and the next one) are in military code. I learned it in history.
If you want me to explain the titles as I go, tell me and I’ll post the answer in the next chapter.
As well, if using this makes the chapters more confusing, I’ll cut down on the amount I use.
4) There are traveling teachers, though I have no idea if they are in other countries than China and if they actually go by foot instead of vans and such.
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CHAPTER THREE