AAARGH! i'm so so so so SO sorry, but I honestly don't know where to go with this anymore. for that reason, i must dub it "on hiatus". I'M SORRYYY

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i'm sort of making this up as i go along, so i hope it's not too bad. xD please enjoy!

Disclaimer: -sigh- if i owned Naruto, would i be sitting here writing stuff on fan fiction . net? i think not.

Fractured Fate

Prologue

“Gai, I’m sending your squad on a C-rank mission.” Gai stared at the Hokage for a second or two, then began to cheer. “YES! Oh, they’re so ready for this! My beautiful students will take on this mission and complete it with total ease and perfection!” Tsunade heaved a sigh. “Yeah, sure. Anyway, I’m assigning them to deliver a package to Mr. Saitou Shinji in the Tea Country. It should be pretty easy, but there are a few people after him who will probably want to get their hands on the package. They’ll be leaving tomorrow at noon.”

The next day at exactly twelve o’ clock p.m., Neji Hyuuga, Rock Lee, and Tenten gathered together by the Konoha village gate. Each of them was wearing a long-distance radio connected to an attachment worn around their necks. Gai’s voice was coming out of them.

“Alright, team! Go out and show the world what you can do! I’m counting on you three!” As their sensei’s voice crackled out, the team set off.

Neji, who had been appointed team leader, had the package put away safely inside his bag. “So,” he said as the three genin jumped through a grove of trees, “we’ll take turns holding the package. After an hour I’ll give it to Lee and then an hour later he’ll give it to Tenten.” The other two nodded in agreement.

After a few hours they came to a pathway lined by trees on either side, heading over a hill towards their destination. By this time Lee had the package for the second time. They were all exhausted and decided to rest in a small, open area a little ways off the path. They sat down and Neji got out their lunches. Lee was handing him the package and Tenten was trying to contact Gai through her radio.

“Gai-sensei? Gai-sensei? ...Jeez, he’s not responding.” Neji put the package away in his bag and then tried his radio, also with no luck. “There must be something wrong with our radios,” Neji said, standing up. He activated his Byakugan and looked around the area. Suddenly his eyes narrowed. “We’re being watched.” Almost before the words left his mouth, a kunai with a paper bomb attached to it flew towards them. They all quickly moved as it landed in Lee’s curry and exploded. As the three drew their weapons, a group of about ten ninja appeared in front of them. Their forehead protectors indicated that they were from the Hidden Rock Village.

“Hello, kiddies,” one of them said in a shrill, raspy voice. “We’re chuunin from the Village Hidden in the Rocks, and we’ve been sent to take you down.” He lunged at Lee and the others followed suit, going for Neji and Tenten. Soon each genin had three or four chuunin surrounding them, attacking from all sides.

Eventually, after four of the Rock ninja had been knocked out, the one who seemed to be the leader motioned to the rest of them and they all jumped back. “Well, well, this group is pretty good, wouldn’t you say?” he said with a smirk. “Why yes, they are,” another cackled. “I think it might be time to pull out the big guns.” They all began to laugh. Neji, Lee, and Tenten looked at each other worriedly. They were already extremely worn out; the chuunin were highly skilled, and the genin could barely hold their own against them as it was. But now their attackers were talking about stepping up their game?

Tenten reached in her pack for a scroll, but Neji put up his hand to stop her. “Don’t bring that out just yet,” he whispered. Tenten began to protest but was interrupted by a loud click. She, Neji, and Lee turned to see, to their horror, that their enemies had taken off what had appeared to be gloves to reveal that their forearms were full of holes.

“What…what are you…?!” Lee asked, shocked. The chuunin just laughed. “You’ll find out soon enough.” Again they started to attack, but their movements were different. They were faster, sharper, harder to follow… “Augh!” Neji was hit hard by one of them and fell to the ground. Lee and Tenten, who had both looked over to see what had happened, now turned back around too slow and were hit as well. None of the injuries were serious, though, and all three got quickly back to their feet, ready to fight again.

The battle raged on for what seemed like an eternity. Six of the ten chuunin were down now, but the four remaining were fighting with all they had. Neji, Tenten, and Lee were barely able to stand, let alone defend themselves. Tenten, who had the least amount of chakra left, was struggling to even move, and she had two ninja attacking her simultaneously which wasn’t helping matters. As one continued to assail from the front, the second disappeared.

‘Oh no,’, Tenten said to herself, ‘the other one…where did he--?!’ Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her back. The missing ninja had slipped to behind her and used some sort of ninjutsu, directed toward her back. She let out a scream and collapsed.

“TENTEN!”

When she woke up, Tenten was lying in the same spot where she had passed out. She was in intense pain. Slowly sitting up, she looked around. The area was strewn with kunai knives and shuriken, and blood was spattered all over the ground and surrounding trees. Her teammates were nowhere to be seen.

“The sun is setting…I need to get back to the village…” She stood up with much difficulty, using a nearby tree for support. The last thing she remembered was seeing Lee and Neji fighting…and losing… She cringed. What had happened to them? Her head spinning, she headed back toward the path to the village.

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