Crow's feathers - Naruto fanfiction

Chapter 29 Unforgiven

“We should be in the land of Storms in a few days,” Sakura told the others. She folded the map and put it back in her pocket. The four of them were gathered around a campfire. They would camp her for the night.

Her eyes landed on Sai, the newest addition to their team. She still wasn’t sure what to think of him. There was something odd about the boy. He had no social skills whatsoever and he didn’t seem to understand the concept of emotions. He and Naruto ended up arguing every day, though she wasn’t completely sure whose fault it was. Naruto had always had a temper and Sai was so passive. And he was always drawing in that notebook of his.

Sakura sighed. He had taken Sasuke’s spot in their tam. And that was hard to accept. Especially Naruto seemed to see this as betrayal. And he kept reminding Sai about it every opportunity he got. But all in all Sai wasn’t such a bad person. A bit strange maybe, but he tried to be human. Everything he knew about human interaction seemed to come from books. Very often there was miscommunication when Sai said something that would fall wrong. Sakura just hoped they would get through this mission without the boys killing each other off.

She glanced at Kakashi. He was reading his stupid book again and ignored his team.

She sighed and threw a handful of twigs on the fire. This was gong to be a long night.

Kakashi turned the page. It had been a long day. Naruto and Sai couldn’t get along. Though, since that last mission they seemed to have accepted one another.

Kakashi sighed. He wasn’t sure what to think. Sai came from Roots, a special ‘youth’ organization of ANBU and they were under direct control of Danzou.

Suddenly, the book was pulled from his hands. He jumped when he heard a voice behind him. “You still read that junk?”

Behind him stood Taryn, flipping through his book, her nose wrinkled in disapproval. She jumped down from the log she had been standing on and tossed the book aside.

Kakashi stood up annoyed and grabbed her around the waist. Immediately he was taken off balance when a genjutsu surrounded him. He gasped and dropped Taryn.

“Ow,” she said when she hit the ground.

Kakashi shook off the illusion. By now, his students had jumped up as well.

As soon as Kakashi had broken the genjutsu, he found two kunai daggers pointed at him. They were attached to two brats that were no older than fourteen.

“Down boys,” he heard Taryn say.

“Take your hands off our sensei,” the brown haired said threatening.

“Sensei?” Kakashi said confused.

“Daro, Hiro, drop the knife,” Taryn said from the ground, “Kuro, get your ass over here.”

A third boy made his way over from the bushes and came to stand next to his teammates. The two other boys lowered their weapons, but glared at Kakashi suspiciously.

“Kakashi, this is my team. Daro Kamori, Hiroshi Tomoda and Kuro Shiraki. Boys, meet Kakashi Hatake from Konoha.” She gave a warning glare. “Our allies,” she reminded them.

The boys muttered under their breath, but didn’t move. Hiro didn’t seem impressed. “You should apologize to our sensei,” he said, “for dropping her.”

Kakashi blinked at him and then glared at Taryn who gave him an amused grin from the ground. Kakashi sighed and shook his head. He stuck out his had and then lifted her to her feet.

Taryn turned to her team. “Hiro,” she said with a stern look, “you know you shouldn’t talk to you superiors like that.”

The boy flinched and hung his head.