So here's the deal. This story takes place in the Naruto Main Arc after the war. However, there will be some changes to the plot possibly major in the effect that the headcannon relationships may or may not be changed. I'm not propelling it so far in the future that Naruto is already the Hokage and that there are children involved. We are after the war, but before those things happen. So, I may later mess with the relationships or minor details.
I do not own any of the Naruto characters in any way shape or form. Thank you for reading! Tell me what you think!
Intonai felt the breath in her lungs rush out. Her lips tightened in a thin line as she fought the urge to suck in another breath. Her arm came up defensively but the blow wasn't a complete block. The nin hovering over her lorded her back into a wall raining another painful hit to her shoulder. There was a crunch. Itonai knew that she had to get out. She was blocked in. There had to be an opening. A scream bubbled up from behind the nin blocking her from her group and fear overrode her thinking. That scream was from a chunnin she was charged with training. It was a young boy that she'd grown rather attached to recently since they'd begun working with one another. Most would say that this was her weakness. As the ice flooded her veins her pupils became larger in reaction and her entire purpose became to redirect attention away from the kid. She rammed her body forward catching the man off guard before tearing a semnbon needle from her hip pouch. She slammed it into his neck and shoved him backwards. He fell to her side. Her eyes scanned the battle desperately searching for the members of her team. One by one she noticed that they were laying on the ground or fighting but being taken over. There were too many. The tightly secured black mask over her face felt like it was pressing in with a heat that would suffocate her. This couldn't happen. She couldn't lose them.
"Intonai!" the chunnin, Hannin, screamed to her left. "Run! They're looking for you!" he shouted cupping his hands over his mouth. Her attention snapped to his face. She saw the kid was beaten and bloody. There was a long slash over his side but it looked superficial with minimal blood. Relief flooded her.
"There you are." A voice appeared behind her. As she turned to intercept the blow that would come, she saw a flash of a man grab Hannin. He wrapped an arm around the boy's middle and put a kunai to his neck. It was a show for her to see. She went rigid as the blow slammed her sideways, across the jaw, and knocked her to the ground. She rolled trying to upright herself but it was too late. The man in front of her was already weaving the hand signs that would cast her sealing jutsu. Dark scrolling lines of seals began forming across her skin and spreading outward. She crunched in on herself and ground her teeth against one another trying not to scream. The signs burnt her skin searing it on contact. They had her. Their mission was a success. Her vision became blurred…she lost sight…but not before she heard Hannin scream one last time.
The Mizukage paced the floor to her office before taking a long hard glance across the table. She had been able to gather a small group from Konoha as aide to this emergency mission but it was tense. In the meeting she'd had to admit that even though they'd all had relations of peace after the way, that the Land Hidden in the Mist was still a liar. She balled her fists at her sides before sitting at the head of the table. It was hard to look the man known as Hatake, Kakashi in the eyes at this particular moment. Their entire treaty could be blown wide open. But the alternative…the alternative to not finding Intonai was simply unimaginable.
"So, you're telling me that your village had an unknown Jinchuriki?" Kakashi clarified raising his voice. Sasuke had only head him use this much deadly vibrato a handful of times. He glanced sideways at the old man noting his tense posture. This wasn't going well. Naruto stood up putting a hand on the table gripping it.
"No way. I would have known. There were no others. The beasts were all present inside of me." He spoke clearly. The Mizukage sighed shaking her head.
"Itonai's beast, Kumori, was created not born. You wouldn't have been able to summon it nor would he have been willing or able to assist in the battle." Kakashi raised one visible eyebrow.
"Come again?" his tone had become even icier. "Explain how you create a Jinchuriki…" Naruto's eyes trained on the woman harder, narrowing.
"It was a complicated process but done a long time ago. We bartered with Orochimaru to create a tailed beast. She was to be our weapon against Naruto if our villages ever came to what we feared at the time would be a Great War…"
"You made a monster…and stuffed it inside an innocent child?" Kakashi waited for the response after Sasuke spoke for the first time.
"Yes. Itonai was young, around eight, when we constructed the effort."
"And you hid this weapon during the war?" he snapped.
"We couldn't afford Madara getting ahold of this kind of power. We sealed Itonai underground and created strengthened barriers to hold and hide her."
"What is the power of this tailed beast?" Naruto asked leaning over the edge of the table. His eyes met hers.
"Kumori actually has no tails. He is a tailless beast that was created from pure spiritual energy extracted from a partial sample of another tailed beast." She sighed before continuing. "Although in your case the tails signify a presence of power, Kumori finds strength from inside of his host. He feeds from her anger, fear, and pain. He is made of shadows." She looked down at her hands.
"Do we have any clue who has captured Itonai now?" Kakashi huffed out rubbing the back of his neck.
"The report stated a newly forming organization known only as The Slate." She spread the filed across the table for the others to see.
"What is their purpose? Will they extract the beast from her?" Kakashi had begun to stand up causing Sasuke to follow suit.
"We don't know what their purpose is with her if not to use her strength." Her finger tapped a picture of a nin on a file on front of her. "This man, is believed to be the head of the Slate Organization."
"And who is he?"
"Itonai's former teammate." Sasuke felt Naruto stiffen from beside him. "His name was Batu. But I fear that that boy is long dead. The man he has become would willingly slaughter his friends and villagers."