"I was about to ask that myself," said Tenten, moving aside so Fate and Hinata could enter.
"You know, that actually looks like one of Princess Kodako's soldier golems," pointed out Fate.
"Oh hell," said Naruto, backing away.
"Uhm, it's faint, but it has a chakra network," observed Hinata, her Byakugan going.
"Ugh," said Naruto. "I suppose I have to. Dang."
"Have to what?" asked Hinata, still examining the doll.
"Wind her up," said Naruto. "The golems that Princess Kodako makes are wind-up. Except Miss Notch who has a steam generator. You charge them with chakra and they store that and the energy from winding, and that keeps them alive. I just don't know why she'd build a Sakura version."
"Is... this possible that it IS Sakura-san?" asked Hinata, getting a really bad feeling.
"No way," said Naruto. "Why?"
"Because it has a rivet where Sakura-san has a mole, and the chakra patterns match," said Hinata.
"Oh, heck," said Naruto, hurrying to the back of the golem and winding it up.
"To turn a person INTO a golem," mused Fate. "The only one I can think of who could possibly do something like that would be Yzma. Her metamorphosis potions were capable of some impressive things."
"Except she's dead," said Naruto.
"Maybe she had an understudy or apprentice or something," said Fate, "IF that's your friend."
"Someone out to avenge Yzma's death?" asked Naruto, continuing to wind up the naked clockwork doll. "I don't see it. Let's not mention it to Sakura though. That'd make it MY fault and I don't really see how-"
(CLANG!)
Sakura withdrew her fist from Naruto's face, having backhanded him through a wall. "This is all YOUR fault, Naruto!"
(CLIK!)
Hinata watched as the gears wound down and Sakura slumped to unconsciousness. THEN she removed her finger from the release switch.
"Well, I guess we're going to have to go back to Mid-Childa," said Fate into the silence that followed that.
"Okay," said Kakashi-sensei. "Sakura has run into some difficulties, so we have a substitute for Sakura for the team for the next few days."
Sasuke looked on curiously towards their "substitute Sakura" team member, who seemed to be familiar with Naruto to some extent.
"Miyuki Takamichi," said the young woman, inclining her head.
"You know each other?" asked Kakashi.
"This is the first time we've met," said Miyuki, putting her glasses away and snapping the case closed. "I've heard about him."
"She's a ninja from her own world, Nanoha's sister," provided Naruto.
"Nanoha was that girl who beat you to the point you were floating around in a tube, right?" asked Kakashi.
"Yeah," admitted Naruto, looking a lot less happy at that reminder.
"I'm not a mage though," said Miyuki. "I'm told I don't have enough, you call it 'chakra' here I think, to use one of those devices like she does."
Sasuke frowned as he added more questions to his 'to ask later' list.
"Not much chakra?" asked Kakashi.
"All my techniques use chi," said Miyuki. "I specialize in a twin kodachi style form of swordsmanship, but I'm also proficient with katana and archery. I'm hoping that some of your 'chakra building' exercises will benefit me though I'm afraid I'll never reach Nanoha's level."
Kakashi scratched his head. "In any case we have a mission... Naruto, where'd you get that cat from?"
"Oh, I rescued it from some bullies," said Naruto, scratching the cat behind one ear. "For some reason it doesn't seem to dislike me like most of them."
"Nyow wow," said the cat.
"Is it a ninja cat?" asked Miyuki. "I saw some ninja dogs around earlier."
"Hey, that's an idea," said Naruto. "I can train him-"
"NYOW!" said the cat, glaring up at him.
"uhm. HER. I can train HER to go on ninja missions," said Naruto.
Kakashi looked at the cat and frowned at the unusual eyes, but decided to let it go for now. "Today's mission is-"
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