Children's Crusade: Taken
The morning had started slowly enough, with you and Tsunade throwing insults at each other, nothing new there. Hell, it was so routine that you looked at what the rest of your class was doing.
Asahi gathering all of her bugs back into her body after eavesdropping on everyone, that was something that you were jealous of, but considering how poisonous they were, eavesdropping was hardly their most dangerous use.
Orochimaru came in late again, his hand and clothes green from flower picking, and setting them onto his parent's graves again. Even though it had been only a month, he still visited them every day, putting fresh flowers
Jiraiya was writing in his scroll, probably one of his short stories that he always tried to sell to the teachers or civilians that came by the academy. They weren't the worst pieces of literature you have ever read, but his characters could use some work, his plot lines could be less predictable, and perhaps he could give the female characters some agency… and character besides being pretty faced damsels. But early days.
Eien and his puppy Yuri were in a staring contest with each other, each of them, trying to get the other to blink. Neither was successful and only succeeded in making themselves look like idiots.
Ren was wearing a pair of prank glasses, or wacky glasses as he likes to call them, a pair of glasses that were without the glass lens. He was trying to look like some socialite at the daimyo's court that wanted exotic goods and spent a pretty Ryu for them. Unfortunately for him, he was bored.
And Yoshi was only making him angry. The green haired boy, 'Brocholi-kun' you sometimes called him, was poking Ren, trying to get his attention to show him a manga character he was drawing for a story. Each poke made Ren angrier and angrier, but Youshi knew Ren could not hurt him without getting in trouble.
It was the game they played. If Ren got angry and shouted, Yoshi would win because the cool, collected Uchiha couldn't keep himself from being annoyed by 'the lowly civilian.'
It was hilarious how much Ren could take before he would absolutely lose it.
The rest of the civilians in the class, however… were about as interesting as a bag of apple. Sure they were good, and they had personality, but they were all so young and boring that none of them were interesting.
You wished the day would be more interesting.
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(Sakumo POV)
You sighed. "Why are we going to the academy again?" You asked your Sensei as you tried to relax.
Mako-Sensei gave a laugh. "Because, I need to tell Mito that another Kurama is on the way, and I want her to be the godmother."
Your teammate Minako was not amused by being dragged out of bed to find out her pregnant sensei was going on what was basically a milk run. "But did you really have to drag us here with you?"
"Yes," Mako-Sensei replied before looking around. "Wheres Kei?"
"He has the flu, so he's at the hospital until it passes." you replied.
Mako-sensei sighed. "Oh well, his loss." She gave you a look. "You can visit a few of your friends at the academy, I'm going to be a little while."
Great. The academy, while certainly a fun place, was not someplace you really wanted to spend time in any more than you had to. Your father only made you stay for four years because he wanted you to have a childhood.
You were grateful for it, but... you still were happy to finally get your headband. You liked being able to help out your home in the way you set out on it.
The White Chakra Saber weighed heavily on your back like that little blade was the weight of the world.
At least it will be a good day. Maybe you would say hi to Ayako. You may not have seen her in a while, but she must have had her reasons for not being able to stop by and say hi.
"Because you looked like you need a friend." She was so nice to a total stranger and offered her friendship without a second thought.
You wished more people were like that. Maybe the world would be a nicer place.
You would say hi to her today.
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(No POV)
Zetsu looked at the missing-nin he hired. "Remember, when the bomb goes off, you will have a three-minute window to grab the targets and bring them to the rendezvous. Getting spotted is not an option."
"Great… a daylight bag and grab in the center of the village… anyone else heard of the phrase 'Suicide mission'?" One of the nin joked.
"The escape tunnel has already been prepared for you. Just make sure you get the targets master wants, and any extra are bonuses." Zetsu stated. He then looked up to the morning sun. "It's almost time. Get to your position."
The ninja vanished in the breeze.
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(Ayako POV)
Sakumo coming into the classroom was a big surprise, his mere presence silencing the room of children with the sight of his headband.
"Ah, Sakumo… a pleasure." You heard your teacher say with a growl.
"Hello." Sakumo bowed respectfully, before reaching out the door and grabbing what you could only assume was his teammate. "We just wished to say hello to some of our friends before going to the admin desk for our next mission."
The teacher sighed. "Fine."
It was then you heard an explosion and saw gas seep into the classroom.
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(Mako POV)
You and Mito ran to the window to see the fires near the wall. "We're under attack." Mito whispered.
"No shit Mito, would you like a promotion for that observation?" You replied.
"Now is not the time to be a smartass, we need to lock down the academy before there is a panic," Mito ordered as she walked back over to her desk. Mito than fumbled around at the desk, grabbing a hold of the microphone. "I hope this damn thing works." She then pressed the button. "All personnel, we are under attack, lock down the classrooms and get too defensive positions. Make sure the students stay calm."
Mito than set down the microphone speaker. "You mind if you help out since your here?"
You smiled. "With pleasure."
You both exited Mito's office and started to see that some of the children in the halls were starting to panic. "Stay calm and get into your classrooms, now!" Moto ordered.
"I didn't know you were so good with kids?" You joked.
"Are you sure your other isn't taking over?" Mito asked.
"How rude," Hotaru stated. "She knows I can hear her."
"Not the time Hotaru." you whispered.
You both started checking the rooms. All of them were accounted for and the chunnin were at their defensive position.
Until you reached the final classroom and heard voices.
You kicked the door open to see most of the students unconscious.
And your little girl missing, along with many other students and your two students.
"Hotaru… Take over." You said. "Release restraint level one. Find my daughter."
"Mako that doesn't seem like a good idea." Hotaru replied.
"Now!" You shouted.
Hotaru did as you asked, and everything went dark.
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(Ayako POV)
You awoke with your hands bound, your mouth gagged, and the bouncing of a wagon on an uneven road shaking you around. It was dark and it was very hard to see.
Besides, you were a few of your classmates, Sakumo and his teammate, but they were not awake.
Then your mind started to process what had happened. You've just been kidnapped.
Well crap. Your bindings were made out of rope, and tough ones at that. You aren't- "I can't believe this shit." A voice said. "My bounty's only 100,000 Ryu."
"Oh quit complaining. Having a small bounty is not the worst thing." The other voice.
"At least I'm not going to need this stupid thing after this job." The first voice said, throwing it in the back.
It landed right on top of you.
And it was a true, honest to the sage Bingo Book.
Those things were so rare, it wasn't even worth carrying around unless you were a hunter-nin. And this guy was just going to throw it away?
Idiots.
Well… You need to come up with a plan. And try to get out of this.
What do you do?:
[]Try to wake up one of your classmates: You can't see that well, so you're going to try to wake someone up.
[]Roll out of the wagon: You need to get out of here and try to find out where the hell you were.
[]Read the Bingo Book: you have the book, might as well make use of it and try to find out who kidnapped you.
[]Talk to Aka and the Beast: Your going to need all hands on deck to get out of this.
[]Wait: You can't panic right now, you need to learn about your surroundings, gather intel and make a plan with your fellow prisoners.
[]Make your presence known: Your awake and hungry, maybe you'll get some food and water from your captors.
AN: Let the Childrens crusade begin.
