Sleepless D: Okay people, the sequel to Dark World is out, and there's going to be more of the stuff you like, if you haven't read Dark World then you won't understand this, enjoy. Peace out.
(I'll start with the worldly stuff before the characters)
It has been three years since the Genin were taken by Kurosu and his band of possessed humans; many things have changed in the world apart from the survivors. Part of the Fire country and Wind have stopped communications, harvest, nothing, the new Hokage known as Tsunade that took over when the Third retired and gave the position to her had sent ninja there, everything was silent, meaning that no one came back to tell them.
They'd stopped sending anyone near there in fear that they would be lost and didn't bother to send anyone to investigate in fear of losing another ninja. But they didn't know that the silent area was growing, consuming all life that got near it and soon consumed small villages and Inn's of the like that no one would notice, until they lost the large marketing village that Tsunade was born in.
They now knew that it was some sort of invasion and had to prepare for it and sent word to the other hidden villages to warn them of the intended danger.
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A man with black hair, brown eyes and ripped clothes that are covered in mud was running in fear through the woods, knowing that if he stopped then it will be the end of his life, he was in absolute fear and needed to get out of the darkness in order to survive. A small group of people dropped down onto the road when they saw the man running for his life and thought they could help. "Are you alright sir?" The leader asked as the man ran towards them.
"Get out of my way! I want to live!" He yells and tries to push past but a small brown hair and long scarf Genin grabbed him.
"Calm down Mister, we're just here to help." He says, not noticing the world around them go darker.
"Get the fuck off me!" He yells and tries to punch the kid but froze in fear as he looked behind the Genin; the others looked to see a man standing there in a black cloak and a hood covering his head.
"Who are you?" The leader asked, but received no answer.
"...Umm...Ebisu Sensei...I don't feel right..." The Genin with glasses says, going white.
"...Blood..." The man in the cloak says, making everyone look at him.
"What?" Ebisu asks.
"I wish for blood...but I'll kill you later..." He says and raises his head and black smoke shot from his face and consumed Ebisu and disappeared, leaving the three Genin and man in shock.
"What the hell did you do to Ebisu!" The one with the scarf yells.
"And who are you?" The cloaked man asks.
"I'm Konohamaru Sarutobi! And I'm going to be the Seventh Hokage!" He yells and gets ready to attack.
"...Well...you remind me of a person called Naruto..." The cloaked man says making him stop.
"You know big bro?" Konohamaru asks.
"Yeah...he's one of the people that escaped and destroyed my home...but...I think I can bring him to me with you..." The cloaked man chuckles and black smoke appeared behind Konohamaru; a person jumped up and pulled him down into the smoke gaining a swearing Konohamaru.
The others were now afraid and was about to run but saw several people with gray skin around them with evil smirks. "W-What d-do we d-do now?" The girl with orange hair asked in fear.
"You'll be for my fun while I wait for Naruto...that bastard..." The cloaked man said.
"Who are you!" The Genin with glasses yells.
"Me? You can simply call me the new Yami master Kei." He says and drops his hood to show a person in his late teens and blue hair, his skin now grey and seemed to rot while his eyes looked as though they weren't there. He waved his hand and the two Genin sunk into darkness screaming in fear and Kei walked towards the muddy man who was on his knees sobbing like a baby. "Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you...but you are going to do a mission for me..." He said.
Kei grabbed the man's face, opened his mouth along with his and black smoke escaped Kei's mouth and entered the other mans mouth, he started to struggle in fear and pain but slumped after a few second. Kei dropped him and he fell flat faced on the floor, after a minute he rose and looked at Kei with a smirk. "How may I serve Master?" The man grinned and showed black eyes that showed evil.
Xxxxx
In the slightly peaceful village of Konohagakure, the survivors of the Chunin exam massacre as the people called it tried to live normal lives, although it was easier said than done. But they now did benefit from the experience, Gaara and Mieko had grown very close and hardly left each other as they lived in Sunagakure, even Shikamaru was in good contact with Temari. Naruto and Hinata had also became close...very close...as in they were quite literally inside one another right now disturbing the neighbors with the loud noises, who'd have thought Hinata would be that loud? Sakura and Lee had also become close...but not that close, they were happy being with one another. Sasuke on the other hand wasn't doing as good to ignore this and had been training hard the usual.
Everything was going well for them, they all reached Chunin and some even reached Jounin while Gaara was a candidate for being the next Kazekage. (It's pretty much the same but with Naruto and Sasuke as a Chunin)Little did they know that the darkness that they escaped from and tried to forget was heading their way.
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The two Chunin were waiting very bored at the western main gate. "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with..." One began.
"A tree." The second one said.
"You're really good at this game." The first one said sarcastically.
The other one was about to reply but noticed someone walking slowly towards them. "We've got company." The second one told him.
After a few minutes they see that the person is muddy, bloody and exhausted, he collapsed and the two gate guards rushed to the person and shocked by his condition. "Go get a medic here now!" The first one yells and the second one vanishes.
Xxxxx
After an hour Tsunade wondered into the injured mans room and saw that he was awake now, she also saw three ANBU and a nurse in the room while she walked up to him. "Who are you and what happened to you?" She asked, hoping to get some answers.
The man looked at her with a confused look on his face. "Where's Sarutobi?" He asked.
"He's retired...why?" She asked.
"Because I have news about the recant blight that has taken over the west of the Fire country...and it concerns him...I won't speak until he's here." The man said, this made Tsunade angry but she needed to know what he was talking about and sent one of the ANBU to retrieve him.
After several minutes, the Third Hokage wondered in with his large walking stick, looking tired as he looked at the man in bandages. "What does this have to do with me?" Sarutobi asked, yawning from being woken up from his afternoon nap.
"Your grandson Konohamaru has been taken..." The man says while looking down, making the old man look shocked and angry. "...Oh...by the way...Kei sends his regards..." The man smirked and shows his face, revealing black eyes and his skin was now more grey, Sarutobi reacted and slammed his walking stick into the man and pinned him there before the others reacted.
"W-What is this Sarutobi?" Tsunade asked, feeling dark chakra coming from the man.
"Naruto and the others that survived the Chunin exam massacre said that they were taken by men with black eyes and grey skin!" He tells them, nearly chocking the man.
"You! Go get Naruto and bring him here!" Tsunade ordered the remaining ANBU who nodded and vanished as she made her way to her former Sensei to help him keep the man down.
After a few minutes Naruto and the ANBU appeared, but the ANBU looked beaten to hell and back and Naruto was half naked. "What the hell's going on!" Naruto yells in annoyance, he soon sees the grey man and pales by his features.
"Naruto! Is this one of the people that took you!" Tsunade asks, easily holding down the man.
"N-No...but it is one of them." Naruto says in disbelief.
"Where's my grandson!" Sarutobi yells, wanting to kill the man right now.
"H-He's been t-taken by K-Kei! My master w-wants t-those that e-escaped his world t-to c-come to h-him!" The man yells, finding it hard to breathe.
The others stopped using so much force on the man to let him breathe, but Naruto appeared and started slamming his fist into the man's skull. "YOU FUCKING BASTARDS KILLED MY FRIENDS! YOU TRIED TO KILL ME AND MY REMAINING FRIENDS! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Naruto yells in anger, Tsunade managed to push him back.
The man coughed up blood and found it hard to talk. "If you...don't come...then we'll...kill all...our prisoners...and invade...this country...after we...kill all...the other...villages..." The man said in pain.
"Yeah! You and what army!" Naruto yells.
"The army...of the...undead and...possessed..." The man chuckles. "Master's been...busy after...you escaped..."
"Yeah? Well I'm the one man army! I only need to summon an army of shadow clones and you'll all be dead!" Naruto yells at him.
"But if...you don't...come to...him, he'll...kill everyone...even Konohamaru..." He chuckled.
"I say kill the bastard!" Naruto yells.
"As much as I would love to Naruto...I can't, we have to get all the information from this man." Sarutobi says, still wanting to kill the man.
"You have...to bring...everyone that...escaped, or else...we'll attack...your village..." He says, but Naruto vanished and punched the man one more time, knocking him out.
"I'll go alone, I'll kill these bastards." Naruto says and tries to leave but Tsunade grabbed Naruto before he left.
"Naruto, as much power as you've got...you can't go alone, we've had more experienced ninja go there and vanish, and I don't want to lose you to." She says.
"She's right, I'll go to." Sarutobi says, making everyone look at him in shock. "We'll take any volunteers and head out to eradicate the enemy." He says.
"B-But S-Sensei..." Tsunade said, not believing what she heard.
Sarutobi chucked since Tsunade hasn't called him Sensei in years. "We'll be fine, I need to save my grandson and we've got to protect the Fire country." He says, she was about to protest but he spoke again. "What if Nawaki was alive and it was Nawaki instead of Konohamaru...do you think it would be any different to how you'd feel?" He asked.
Tsunade just looked sad, knowing she would do the same as he would but knew Sarutobi would help her to save him. "Very well Sensei...I'll call for an ordinance with all the Leaf ninja right away." She says, making Sarutobi smile.
Xxxxx
Tsunade stood in front of the large room full of ninja with her Sensei and Naruto standing next to her. "You're all probably wondering why I've called you here!" She yelled. "We've just received information about the loss of communication from what was called the Dark Zone." She says, making all the ninja look in disbelief and started asking questions about whether or not their family was safe or what was going on. "This information came from a man that was a supposed survivor...but it turned out that he was working with the enemy whether or not he was aware of it or not." She says, making them look confused and some wanting to know if it was one of their family.
"Why are we talking about it when we should be going to wipe the enemy out to save as many people as we can?" One of the ninja yells, gaining several cheers of support of that question.
"That's another issue we need to tell you...the enemy are apparently survivors of the people that were involved with the Chunin Exam Massacre and some of the apparent deaths listed by the surviving Shinobi known as Nobu Kawachi!" She says while making everyone that knew the people yell in anger, thinking that they were all killed. "And they may have gained greater numbers than last time! Some of them may even be family members or people that you knew!" She yells, making everyone go silent of a second until they were outraged by what she was accusing some of the people they may know to be working for the enemy now.
Naruto walked up and raised his hand to silents the people, after a minute they quieted down. "I know that you don't want to think about it...but the enemy have the power to possess people! And they give them power that can make a Genin into a powerful Jounin!" He yells while making them all looked surprised by this. "We are in need for volunteers to go in and wipe out the enemy...but you should be warned that you may run into a loved one or someone that you knew and may try to kill you!" He says, making them all look nervous now by the thought.
"Is there any way to save their youthful spirits?" A curtain man in green yells right next to another green guy that looked scared by the thought of facing them again.
"Not as far as we're aware...I'm the only one that got possessed and escaped it! But that's only because of the Nine Tailed Beast inside me!" He yells, not wanting to give them false hope. (In this, everyone in the village know and many of them accepted it since he was personal friend with the surviving Hokage's)
The Third Hokage steps forward and calls. "We need volunteers to go out and wipe out the enemy! But you should know that this is a suicidal mission and that we need many people here to defend the village should we fail!" He yells, making everyone look nervous by this. "If you wish to volunteer! Then step forward and make a line in front of those that don't wish to go!" He tells them.
After a minute, people start walking forward and Naruto recognised them as the people that he knew very well, after a few minutes no one else stepped forward, the three were surprised by how little want to go, even though most of them wanted blood a minute ago. "We'll be going through the volunteers to decide if they are allowed to come or not!" The Hokage yells, seeing a stupid Genin or two that stepped forward as well.
The three went to one end and started going through them to see if they'd be acceptable, Guy and Lee stood there ready and waiting, but Lee seemed to be questioning whether he should go or not. "You're three are allowed." Tsunade said while gaining a thrust of victory from Guy while Lee was confused about three.
Lee looked next to him and was surprised to see Sakura with him. "Sakura-Chan? What are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm going to fight them bastards that tried to kill me." Sakura said with venom in her voice.
"Please Sakura-Chan, I don't want you to get hurt, otherwise I won't forgive myself." Lee pleaded.
"How do you think I feel if you go alone without me?" Sakura asked, not wanting to have Lee go without her.
"I'll be fine Sakura-Chan..." Lee said, wanting to believe those words, but would probably feel better knowing Sakura would be safe. "I'll work harder than I ever have before to survive to see you again, that's a promise." He said, giving her the thumbs up.
She smiled and could understand his feelings. "Alright Lee..." She said and kissed him on the cheek. "Tsunade, I decided that I won't go." She said.
"Alright Sakura." Tsunade nodded, she looked at the next person and glared at a Genin. "No." She said and moved to the next one, she looked at Anko and smiled. "I should have known." She laughs.
"Would you expect me to stand and wait while fighting's going on?" She asked.
"Okay, you're allowed." She said and moved to the next one and shook her head to another Genin. "Shikamaru? I'm surprised that you're volunteering to do something." She chuckled.
"I'm being forced to by Nobu here...what a drag." He says as Tsunade looked next to him and saw Nobu, he still had messy brown hair but was wearing a full Shinobi uniform and his blade was now on his back.
"I'm letting you both go on the mission." Gaining a nod from the two, she continued moving to the next and was surprised to see Asuma and Kurenai arguing with each other. "What's going on?" She asked.
"I'm going on the mission." Kurenai tells Tsunade.
"No you're not, you're pregnant." Asuma tells her.
"But these bastards killed most of my Genin!" She yells.
"They killed most of mine as well!" Asuma yelled.
"So I deserve the right to kill them as much as you do!" She yelled back.
"But if something happens..." He says sadly.
"I want to..." She says.
"Kurenai...you can't go because of the child." Tsunade said sadly, making Kurenai look annoyed and sad.
"Don't worry...I'll make them suffer more for you." Asuma says, trying to make her feel better.
"Thanks..." She smiles and kisses him before leaving.
Tsunade nodded at Asuma to show he's going and moves on.
Naruto was surprised to see Kotetsu and Izumo standing there. "Why are you guys volunteering?" Naruto asked in confusion.
"We enjoy working with Asuma, plus we saw so little come up and we want to help out." Izumo says.
"Alright..." Naruto says as Tsunade accepts them and moves on, he then couldn't help but grin as he sees Kakashi and Sasuke standing there, Tsunade didn't even react and just marked them down and went to the guy that Kakashi introduced as Yamato, but he first called him Tenzo for some reason but moved on.
Tsunade said no to three more Genin's before seeing the next one, they walked to two Inuzuka's arguing. "He was my brother!" The younger one says in annoyance.
"And my child! You're the only one to keep the rest of the clan in check if I die!" The older one says in annoyance, trying to end it there, the younger one sighs and walked away in annoyance.
"...You're allowed Tsume." Tsunade says, Naruto then recognised her as Kiba's mother and had a sad face when he passed her.
Naruto was shocked to see the last one to be Hinata. "Hinata! You're not coming." Naruto said before Tsunade responded.
"I-I want to help." She said, trying to look determined.
"But I nearly killed you last time." He whispered so only he and the three near him could hear.
"I'm s-stronger then last t-time." Hinata said.
"I know...but you can't come." Naruto said, sounding sad.
"B-But I-I want t-to." She replied, tears in her eyes now.
"...Please don't come." He pleaded to her. "I don't want you hurt or in danger." He whispered, tears also in his eyes, everyone that could see was shocked by Naruto having tears in his eyes, Hinata looked down and stepped forward and kissed Naruto passionately before leaving the room and a shocked/sad Naruto.
"...Alright, we've got our volunteers, you are all dismissed and every one of the volunteers will meet up at the west gate!" She yells. "Don't forget your equipment!" She yells
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In an underground base, a man covered in bandages stood in front of a small army he controlled, he looked down on one of the youngest with pale skin and straight black hair. "You'll be known as Sai, your mission will be to go along with the group and report what you find, and if possible...try to negotiate with the supposed enemy." The old man said. "The ones here will be sent to the border of the Dark Zone and wait for further actions, if they don't wish to negotiate and or kill Sai...you'll are to advance and kill all enemy you see." He said, gaining agreeing voices from the small army which made the old man smile.
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The group of Shinobi stood ready for action after they were told the whole situation and didn't care whether or not they came back...with a few exceptions. "I wish you well and may the-" Tsunade began but was interrupted by a voice behind her; she turned and then had an angry face when she saw her worst enemy. "Danzo..." She said with venom.
"Hello to you to princess Tsunade, I've come here to give you help." He said, making her glare at him but noticed the teenage boy next to him.
"The only way you can help is if you had that brat kill you." She said.
"...humorous...I'm letting one of my best ninja join your mission to eliminate the enemy." He said.
"And that would help?" She asked.
Before Danzo could reply, Sarutobi spoke up. "Your help would be appreciated." Sarutobi said, hoping that he was finally going to help by his means, but wasn't going to let his guard down to be safe.
"But..." Tsunade began but saw her teacher's look and just nodded. "Very well, I'll have to go over the mission with him." She said.
"No need, I've already done so." Danzo smiled, this made Tsunade look suspicious as the guy in black walked towards the group.
"Hello, my name's Sai." He smiled in his fake smile.
"This guy's creepier then Kakashi smiling while reading his book." Naruto said, making a few people chuckle at the comment.
"Alright team, you know your mission, be careful and may the will of fire go with you." She said and they all nodded before leaving through the gate, no one noticed when a few beetles flew near them and flew into the forest.
Xxxxx
About half an hour away and the said beetles landed on a person who was sitting patiently as the bugs entered through the opening on his face. "They appear to have left with more people then were asked...but they are missing a couple of people. Why you ask? Because my insects didn't sense Hinata and Sakura, so we'll have to take them by force." He said as he stood up.
The person was wearing a large jacket that covered more of his face, he had a hood covering the top of his head, he also had brown trousers and black goggles that made it harder to see his face, or what little you could see. He turned to see the person next to him who was wearing oversized gray dirty clothes, very dirty ripped bandages that covered most of his body the hid what skin could be seen other than an eye. "We should move at night then...shouldn't take too long." He said as he saw the sun setting now.
"Yes...I believe that Kei and Aya are waiting till it's nightfall as well." The other one replied as he leaned against a tree.
Xxxxx
It was close to late in the night, Hinata as eating dinner with Sakura, not wanting to be alone until Naruto was in her arms again. "How are you enjoying your meal?" Sakura asked.
"I-It's lovely...but it's very filling." She said.
"Yeah...Lee has to train constantly and he needs something filling very fast." Sakura chuckled, making Hinata smile.
Hinata was about to talk more but started hearing zapping noises and sees the bug zapper going zap every few seconds. "A lot of b-bugs t-tonight." Hinata comments.
Sakura looks and nods. "Yeah...but then again it is mating season for insects this time of year." Sakura says.
"Yeah..." She says, there was a knock on the door and it being Sakura's house went to go answer it, she opened the door to see someone in a large coat that seemed dirty, she recognised him as an Aburame. '...Or that explains the bugs...' She thought. "Can I help you?"
"Long time no see Sakura." He said, Sakura recognised him as a male but didn't recognise him.
"I'm sorry...who are you?" She asked while trying to see through the gap in his clothing.
He lifted his hand and opened the gap so half of his face could be seen, Sakura slowly recognised him and slowly paled, and she soon slowly closed the door and walked back to Hinata. She was again shocked when she saw Hinata struggling with a man covered in bandages, she then came back to reality and charged at the man, and he saw her coming and dodged when she swung at him. "S-Sakura! W-What's g-going on!" She yelled, knowing she seen this man before.
The man raised his right arm and smashed it against the wall, making a metal clank that soon made the two grab hold of their ears in pain and collapse. "I'm surprised how weak you girls are." The man said and the door was smashed down as the other man walked in.
Hinata looked in horror when she recognised the person in the large jacket. "S-Shino..." She whispered before throwing up.
"Aww...the girls recognised you, but they didn't recognise me." The bandaged man laughed.
"They wouldn't recognise you, why you ask? Because I have been in their lives for years while you were only known for a few weeks at most." Shino said.
"Quit nit picking." The man replied as black smoke escaped his body. "Let's leave before we're found out." He says as Shino knocked out the two girls.
Xxxxx
Two people in cloaks were standing on a very large stone wall, overlooking a well constructed village made of sand. "Beautiful...shame we're going to have to destroy it soon." The shorter one said, revealing that it was a girl, she then sighed.
"Yes...but we've got to find our targets before we cause a commotion." The other one said and looked behind him to see a dozen other people, waiting for the command. "We're moving out now." He says and steps off the ledge.
Sleepless D: Hoped you enjoyed it, please review. Peace out.