Chapter: Meeting new friends is always a bit ... crazy !!

They all disembarked. Yu in the lead, everyone else followed.
"Hey, there you are!" Yu suddenly shouted happily.
"Who's where?" Asked Lee.
"Oh, I completely forgot ... My brother and a friend of his were waiting for us!", She said still happily.
Two boys came up to her. They were probably a little older than her, Sasuke thought.
One had brown hair, brown eyes and a loose coat. That was probably Yu's brother. A huge sword hung over his shoulder.
The other had blue and white hair, blue eyes and also a sword over his back. He knew it from somewhere.
Sasuke stepped forward.
"Hi," he said.
"Hello!" Said Yu's brother.
"What's your name?" Asked Kiba from behind.
"Not now and not here, we should talk somewhere where it is safe," said the other next to Yu's brother.
This remark only confused Sasuke even more. For sure? Of whom?
He answered his question himself in the next few moments. Wherever it went in this small port city, one eyed it with critical, if not hostile glances.What was going on here?
Finally they stopped in front of a small house that must be on the edge of the village.
"Who is there?" Asked a voice that came out of a hatch on the door.
"Shikuyo Hana!" Said Yu's brother.
"Password?" The voice asked further.
"Koyukio to tomodachi ni narete, hontou ni ureshii desu.", Shikuyo said a little more quietly. (Translation for this follows below ^^)
The man Shikuyo called Koyukio opened the door and let it in.
"Thanks, Koyukio!" Shikuyo said as they passed the man.
They went down a semi-dark corridor, at the end of which a door could be seen. Something was creepy here. But what made him so afraid? The sound of their footsteps echoing through the darkness? The otherwise complete silence?
It squeaked when Shikuyo turned the doorknob. Then he jerked the door open.
Bright light fell into the tired eyes of the young shinobi. They stepped through the door and had to rub their eyes and blink terribly at the first moment before they saw where they were.It was a huge house, with windows just as huge, through which brilliant sunlight fell. Everywhere there were shinobi from various villages in various realms. They sat, talked, or drank together.
Sasuke, like the rest of the group, hadn't expected that.
"What the hell is this?", Kiba asked with wide eyes.
"That", Shikuyo said solemnly, "is the ninja headquarters in the realm of lightning!"
"Wow!" Said Lee.
"Hui!", Sasuke said and let out an admiring whistle.
Gaara and Hinata didn't say anything. Gaara looked rather amused and Hinata was probably too surprised at what she saw.
They sat down at one of the tables.
"So and now, I would like to know what exactly this means and who you actually are!", Sasuke said and took over the role of leader again.
"So ... I'm Shikuyo, Yu's brother!" Said the brown-haired man and pointed to himself and his sister.
"My name is Toshi Kurogane and I come from Kirigakure!", he said.
"Wow, what are you doing here then?" Asked Kiba.
"Well, look around, there are a lot of ninja from other villages!", Toshi explained.
"He's also my team partner! And don't even ask how a ninja from the ground can form a team with a ninja from the water kingdom ... that takes too long to explain," said Shikuyo.
"Okey, brother," said Yu, "what do you have for us?"
"Well, we know where your Akatsuki organization is hiding," Toshi said casually.
"That means the others are there too?" Asked Hinata hopefully.
"Yep ... I think so anyway," said Toshi.
"And how do we get in there?" Asked Gaara.
"Knock on the door and wait for someone to open it, you fool!" Lee said and laughed.
"No ... seriously! How do we get in there?" Asked Gaara again.
"Well ... we would have thought about something ...", Shikuyo said slowly.
"Great, we'll leave right away, or Shikuyo!" Asked Hinata."For you, just call me Shiku and ... I think we should rest first ... but tomorrow, we can start!" Said the brown-haired man and got up.
The others rose too.
"Great ... eight of us storm the Akatsuki headquarters! Four Konoha-Nins, two Erdfutzies, a Sandheini and the Kir-Nin!", Lee laughed.
"It's going to be fun!" Kiba agreed.
Then they all went to one of the comfortable beds that Shikuyo had arranged for them.
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"Koyukio, I'm happy that we became friends." ^^ that's the translation of the japanese sentence above. hope it's about right. my knowledge of japanese is rather modest ^^
so that was the new chap by the way, I hope you enjoyed it and I say:
See you next time ^^!