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A Death of a Star:
Uzumaki Naru stared at the piece of paper in her hand; a serious expression adorned her usually happy face. The note was a mission from Lady Tsunade ordering her to go to Amegakure.
Getting a new mission would have excited her under normal circumstances; however, something felt off about this assignment; for one, she wasn't going with anyone familiar to her, and two, the mission scroll had been dropped off by an Anbu at her home.
Granny Tsunade usually summoned her to her office to explain the mission to her so, why did she have an Anbu drop it off?
The kunoichi sighed; perhaps she was overthinking this; shinobi go on missions with different teams all the time. As for why Tsunade didn't summon her, that could be explained by a time constraint; the note said she was to meet her team at the front gates in an hour; which meant the mission probably had arrived last minute.
Naru calmed down, convincing herself that that was probably it, and went to prepare for her mission. It never once occurred to her to confirm the mission with Tsunade; if she had, it might have saved her life.
Naru arrived at the gates right on time and found three men dressed in the standard Chunin garb waiting for her; she assumed these were her teammates.
A tall man with two scars going down the left side of his face approached her, "Uzumaki Naru, I assume," he said.
Naru gave him a cautious smile, "That's me and who might you be," she said.
The man grunted, "I'm Kenshin, he pointed to the men behind him, and these two are Ray and Shinji," he said.
A man with orange hair and blue eyes raised his hand when Kenshin announced Ray, and a man with blue hair with green eyes raised his hand when he said Shinji.
Kenshin turned serious then, "Ok, now that introductions are out of the way, let's go. I'll explain the mission on the way," he said.
HAI," the group said, and with that, they were off.
The only witnesses to their departure were the faithful guards Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane, who didn't suspect anything out of the ordinary.
In an underground compound, a one-eyed man wrapped in bandages sat waiting, what he was waiting for nobody knew.
A minute after Naru and her team left, a man wearing a bear mask dropped down and whispered something in his ear.
The man opened his one eye and whispered, "And so it begins," he said.
An ominous feeling swept over Konoha as if foreshadowing what was to come.
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