Silver Rain

Part One

Naruto ran through the forest just outside of the Leaf Village. Currently wrapped up in a training game with Kiba and Akamaru, he jumped from branch to branch. He thought it was a pretty pointless game. It was a mixed game of hide and seek and tag, ninja style. The tag part of the game he didn't mind. It was the hide and seek part he didn't care much for since Kiba and Akamaru could easily smell out for his scent. But he still decided to play, train, with them. He had no mission for the moment and no leads on where Sasuke was and Sakura was helping out at the hospital again. Training with his friends would help keep him from going insane with boredom. Or he thought it would. For a while now, for most of the day, he felt like something was off. That something bad was going to happen.

He jumped across a few more branches before coming to a stop. Panting he looked up at the sky. It was mix of gold, orange, and red colors, a clear sign that the sun was going to set. Soon the moon would rise and the day would have been spent. His body was already spent as it was since he had been running through this forest for over five hours now. They would definitely be wrapping up their game soon.

His then stomach rumbled in aggravation at the training. He placed his hands on it and bent his knees slightly. Groaning, he said, "Yeah. I'm hungry too. I want some ramen. A really big bowl of it. Maybe two or three bowls."

Suddenly a loud rumble of thunder made his eyes shoot back up to the colorful sky. There in the distance was a large dark thunderhead. He tiled his head in confusion at the sudden appearance of a storm. "What the heck? That wasn't there before."

Staring at it, the bad feeling he had from before settled back into his growling stomach. He wondered why. No storm has ever been able to put him on edge like this one did. Yet this one some how managed to do just that. He knew something was definitely wrong when the hairs on his neck and arms stood up on end.

"Hey! Naruto! What are you doing?! We're not finished with our game yet!" Kiba said as he and Akamaru jumped out of the trees and landed on a near by branch. Both his and Akamaru's senses screamed at them. Their eyes shot up to the storm in the distance. "What the heck?!"

"You feel it too, huh?" Naruto asked, his eyes still locked onto the storm coming their way. "There's something really weird about that storm."

"It's strange. This feeling…I've been having it all day. And it is coming from that storm," Kiba then informed Naruto.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked. Pulling his eyes from the thunderhead, he looked at the young man standing beside him.

"Akamaru and I have been on edge all day long," Kiba replied. He looked down at the large white dog beside him when he whimpered. He placed his hand on top of his best friend's head. "I don't know why though. We just couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen. I thought that maybe it was just because of this weird dream I had last night. I'm sure you've had dreams like that. They're just weird, make no sense, but leave you shaken all day or at least for several hours?"

"I suppose so," Naruto said with a nod. "What was the dream about?"

"I don't really remember all of it. I can only remember bits and pieces of it. Mostly I remember a young woman with long blue hair," Kiba said.

"What was she doing?" Naruto asked when his friend paused.

"I'm not really sure," Kiba said. He tilted his head back, looking up more at the colorful sky above them. "She was doing something with nature. It was like nature was bending to her will. She could do whatever she pleased with it and it would listen to her."

"She was a ninja then?" Naruto asked. "Preforming a jutsu?"

"No." Kiba shook his head. Before answering farther a loud boom of thunder released from the incoming dark clouds. "She wasn't a ninja. I don't even think she was human. I'm not sure what she was. The only thing I know was she could control nature and she smelled like nature herself and she also smelled very sweet just like sugar."

"She smelled sweet like sugar?" Naruto blinked. "You've got to be kidding me."

"I'm not kidding!" Kiba snapped. "She really did smell like sugar! Anyway, she was doing something. I don't know what so don't ask. Next thing I know Akamaru is waking me up. He was telling me I was talking in my sleep."

"What did you say?" Naruto asked.

"I was saying something about a Silver Moon and an Elemental blood bring destruction upon the world," Kiba replied.

"That makes no sense at all," Naruto said.

"You're not telling me anything that I don't already know," Kiba said with a laugh. "Ever since then I just felt really weird. And now it's a lot worse. That storm is causing me to feel this way."

"Yeah, we already established that," Naruto said. He turned his eyes back to the storm. Blinking rapidly in confusion when he noticed the storm had gotten closer within just a few minutes. What was about two miles away was now less than a mile away from them. "Is it just my imagination or did that storm just get insanely closer in just a few minutes?"

"It's not your imagination. That storm did get closer," Kiba said.

Just then, Akamaru growled. His white fur stood up all along his back to the tip of his tail. The two ninjas looked at him. He growled again, his eyes sharp and tense as he stared off into the storm clouds.

"What is it? What does Akamaru smell?" Naruto asked.

"Trouble," Kiba said just before a strong gust of wind blew over them. It was so strong that it knocked them off the branches they were standing on. They cried out in surprises while falling down to the ground. But being the skilled ninjas they were, they landed perfectly on their feet.

Thunder boomed, lightening flashed. The storm was now right over their heads.

"What the heck?! How is this storm moving so fast?!" Naruto demanded over the howling winds.

"Look out!" Kiba shouted. He dashed for his friend. Shoving Naruto out of the way just before rain splashed down on the ground.

"What the heck, Kiba?! Its just rain! A little rain never hurt-WHAT?!" Naruto shrieked when his eyes landed on the spot he was just standing at. The rain, or what he thought was rain, was actually some form of crystal, silver in color. It shimmered and flashed with a silver glow before seeping into the ground. The ground then shook violently, throwing the ninjas off balance. The teens groaned when they hit the rolling ground beneath them. "What's going on?! It's like an earthquake without the earth actually quaking! The ground is rolling?! How is that possible?!"

Suddenly, vines snapped up out of the ground. Naruto shrieked when a vine snapped right at his most sensitive of areas. He covered himself with his hand and jumped away from the vines. "What the heck?! How are vines attacking like that?!"

"I don't know! But it's not the only plant that's gone nuts!" Kiba cried.

"Huh?!" Naruto looked up just in time to see several, hundreds of leaves spinning towards them. His skin turned blue when some leaves whizzed right past his head and right through the thick trunk of the tree he was near. The tree creaked and snapped before breaking apart in several places that the leaves hit. "What the heck?!"

"More trouble coming in!" Kiba screamed as flowers grew far beyond their normal sizes and started chomping their petals at the ninjas like they were teeth.

Akamaru barked and jumped away from a yellow flower just before it could clamp its petal like teeth down on him. He landed on the vine of another plant and ran along it before sinking his teeth into the plant, ripping it from its body. The plant then went limp, but quickly regrew and struck back out at the white dog, wrapping itself around his white body.

"Akamaru!" Kiba shouted. He dash towards his friend with his claws and kunai ready to rip the plant to shreds. Sinking his kunai into the plant, he freed his best friend.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. Twenty clones popped into existence. They ran towards the plants with their kunai knifes out and ready as little weed whackers. But the more the slice up the plants the more plants took their place.

"Geez! This is going to take forever!" Naruto said after slicing up a plant just to have it regrow.

Kiba looked over at his friend. He shouldn't have. He knew better. He gave the enemy, whoever that was, the opportunity to attack. He tried to dodge a whirlwind of leaves flying towards him. He dodged all but one. That one sliced his skin, trickling out the smell of iron that was quickly blown away by the still howling winds. His eyes landed in the direction of the village. His eyebrow narrowed at the sight that he saw. The vines, plus the storm, was moving in that direction. He felt, no, he knew it was a planned attack. "Never mind that! We need to get back to the village! This crazy storm is heading right towards the village! The plants are already attacking!"

"Huh?!" Naruto looked up at the dark clouds then over to their home. The storm, somehow, did appear to be heading right to the village. The lightening in the dark clouds was striking right at their village as well as the plants. "Am I really seeing this?! Are you seeing this?! Tell me I'm dreaming! Please tell me I'm dreaming!"

"Sorry, Naruto, but this isn't a dream. I really wish it was." Kiba reach up and wiped the blood from his cheek. The stinging pain in his skin from the leaf cutting him was a sharp reminder that they were in fact awake. He dropped his eyes to Akamaru. "Are you all right, boy?"

Akamaru barked a "Yes" in response.

Kiba looked around. The plants around them were following after the storm, heading towards their home and all the unsuspecting people who thought this was just a normal everyday storm. A terrible feeling settled in his gut. He really wished he were wrong about his storm. There was no possible way it could be acting like this. It was like this storm was alive, like a human alive.

"This is just crazy! How can a storm attack on it's own?!" Naruto demanded. "This must be some kind of storm crazy jutsu! There's no possible way this is just a normal storm from nature!"

Kiba jumped to his feet and ran towards the village. "We'll have to figure that out later! Right now, we have to get back to the village! This could be a serious attack on the Leaf!"

"Right!" Naruto nodded. He jumped to his own feet and followed after his two friends.

They ran all the way to the gates of the Leaf village and skidded to a stop. Their jaws dropped open at the sight before them. No longer was it just plants attacking, but so were all the elements. Water was moving around like snakes, trapping people, attempting to drown them. Wind was picking up anything, including people, tossing them around like they weight absolutely nothing. Fire was flaring up all over the place, catch everything flammable on fire. The ground was quaking in places, rising and falling, moving in ways that shouldn't have been possible on its own or with a jutsu.

All of the ninjas of the Leaf Village were running around like crazy, preforming their own jutsu in desperate attempts to save the people who couldn't defend themselves. They could see their friends in the mist of everything. They too were doing their best to help out where they could, but nothing seemed to be working. Nature had completely gone wild. Shaking off the surprise, the three bolted right into the heart of all of the chaos, helping wherever they could.

…

"Hm." Tsunade narrowed her eyes as she stared down at paper she was currently writing on. She turned her chair and looked out at the horizon. Her eyes locked on the storm blowing right towards her office. The lightening from the clouds flashed in her eyes. "What's going on? Why do I feel like that's not an ordinary storm?"

Then she saw it. Just outside of the village, the forest started going wild. Vines and flowers grew up larger than they should be, snapping wildly at anything that moved.

Tsunade jumped from her chair. She bolted for her window and looked down. The rain falling from the sky was silver. She watched as it fell to the ground, absorbing into the dirt, the walls, the roofs, everything and anything it seem to land on. She noticed that all of nature reacted to the strange rain. "It's not possible. What the heck is going on? Is this some kind of an attack? Are we at war? No way this is just one person's doing."

"Lady Tsunade! Lady Tsunade!" Shizune called from outside of her office. A few seconds later, the dark haired woman busted into the room. "We have a problem!"

"Yes. I can see that," Tsunade said as she watched the chaos from her window, her mind rapidly going over solutions that could put this to an end. She came up with nothing. She had no idea who was causing this. And she had no idea how to stop it. Still she had to try. She turned and rushed out of her office.

"Lady Tsunade! Where are you going?!" Shizune called as she followed her mistress out of the office. She continued to follow the older woman through the building until they got outside, on the roof. Holding her hair back from her face, she asked, "What now?"

Tsunade didn't answer. She just stared out into the destruction going on in her village, in her home. She took a deep breath before shouting, "Stop it! Stop attacking my people! If you have an issue, then come out and tell me what it is! Just stop attacking us! We haven't done anything wrong! Stop hiding you coward!"

Shizune gasped when the storm suddenly stilled at her mistress's command. The dark clouds rolled around in the sky with movements that she had never seen a storm do before. "Did it really stop? Or is it going to attack still?"

"I don't know. Be prepared for anything," Tsunade said. Then she waited. Her eyes locked onto the storm. She dared not look down to her people despite wanting to make sure they were all right. She knew her ninjas could take care of the village. She waited. Carefully eying the storm or any signs of another attack while trying to figure out how to deal with this.

Then the storm made its move. Releasing a downpour of silver, glowing rain on the Leaf Village.

"Is that rain glowing?!" Shizune gasped.

"No!" Tsunade dropped her eyes to the people below, desperate for them to hear her and get under shelter. "Move! Get inside! Quick!"

But it was too late. She watched as some of the villagers dodged away from the strange rain, but four villagers got hit with it. Her eyes widened in shock as the silver rain coated the four villages. Their piercing, pain filled cries floated all the way up to the top of the building she and Shizune were standing on. The air vanished from her lungs, her heart took a sharp jolt as she watched their skin, somehow from this high up, absorb the strange color rain.

…

Everyone stopped. Their eyes locked onto the four people who the rain had landed on. The storm had died down but was replaced with painful cries of the four people. The rain absorbed into their skin. It changed their skin. What was once soft breakable flesh had become a silver crystal like substance. It covered their entire bodies and clothes to the point they looking like human shaped crystals. Their hair, their clothes, the color of their eyes was replaced with smooth crystal like flesh now. The crystal covering their mouths, cutting off their pain filled cries.

Everything was silent. An eerie calmness fell over the village as everyone stared at the four crystal people before them.

One of them stepped forward. Their foot pressed into the ground, fire flared up from underneath their foot.

The second one stepped forward. Their foot pressed into the ground, water splashed up from underneath their foot.

The third one stepped forward. Their foot pressed into the ground, vines shot up and snapped out wildly.

The fourth one stepped forward. Their foot pressed into the ground, a strong gust of wind released, knocking people down.

…

"Neji," Hinata asked. Both her and Neji had their Byakugan activated. She had her hands on the shoulders of an elderly woman from the village. She helped the old woman get inside of her home before stepping beside her cousin. "What is this? What's going on? Their chakra is completely out of control. It looks like that strange glow is trying to consume their chakra."

"Indeed. I don't know what's going on," Neji replied. He narrowed his eyebrows at the sight before him before lifting his eyes up to the clouds still hovering above them. "But I don't think it's over yet."

"What do you mean?" Hinata followed his gaze. She gasped when she saw what he did. Inside of the clouds was a person. Their chakra was changing different colors, from red to green to dark blue to light blue then back through all those colors. "What…who is that?"

"Prepare yourself, Hinata," Neji said as the figure started to descend down from the clouds. "Here they come."

"Right!" Hinata nodded.

…

"I know I keep asking this, but…WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" Naruto demanded when they saw the four people change.

"I'd save that question," Kiba said. Akamaru growled. Both him and Kiba turned their attention to the clouds just before a figure started to descend down from it. "Here comes another surprise."

"Who is that?" Naruto asked once the figure was low enough for them to see.

It was a girl, a girl with long blue hair. Her skin was darkened by the clouds above her. She was wearing a sleeveless white dress that hugged her chest and flowed hover her hips and down to her ankles. Her eyes were a lifeless grey. She stared out into the world before her, unmoving and unresponsive to the sounds and demands coming from the villagers who wanted to know what was going on.

Kiba gasped as he stared at the girl. It…it can't be! It's her! She's the girl from my dream! But how?

Akamaru looked up at his friend. A soft whimper came from his muzzle, but he got no response from Kiba.

The wind shifted. Bring the send of nature from the four changed villagers, but nothing from the blue haired girl.

Kiba kneaded his eyebrows. "What the heck? The girl has no scent what so ever. Does that mean that she's dead?"