Shadow and Naruto: Two Souls, One Path Volume Four

The Final Battle

Chapter 1- The Mission

Naruto's POV

"ARRGG!!!" sweet bagezas! So much for a quiet morning. Shadow has been having nervous breakdowns a lot lately for some reason. All he does is wander aimlissly and stare off into space, as though he is thinking about something important. Anyway, after he screeched like that, I was off the couch in my small living room, my tail fluffed up, and on the other side of the room in a single bound he scared me so damn bad. Walking into his small bedroom, I found him under his bed. Well partialy anyway. He was shaking in a way that made me think he was looking for something.

"You ok? Shadow?" I asked.

"I'm fine! Just fine! Nothing wrong here!" he said in a cracked voice, pulling himself out from the bed with a small box. "Ah, here it is."

"What is it?"

"An ancient Kitsune Clan treasure that I keep with me at all times. The Kitsune Blood Drop. Its a red crystal orb with mystical powers. You know that empty spot at the end of the hilt of my sword?" I nodded. "Well, if you put it there, than it will increase the power of your attacks, and you will be able to defeat almost any enemy. Of course, you need extreme mental concentration to be able to use it. Something that you do not posses." I glared and stuck my tounge out at him.

"So why did you scream?" I swear that under his dark fur, that dumb old fox was blushing.

"I wasn't screaming." I didn't believe him. "Fine... fine. My nights have been plagued by nightmares, with each one getting worse. If they don't stop soon, I'll go insane! Or even more insane than I already am from hanging around you."

"Oh very funny! Now come on or we are going to be late." he quickly put the box down, changed into his human form and strapped on some wepons. Namely, his red daggers on his thighs, a shuriken pouch on his hip, a kuni pouch on his leg, and his sword on his back. I didn't know why he went so heavy duty with wepons, but to be honest, I didn't care. Anyway, he took out the crystal orb and attached it to the hilt of Black Kitsune Thunder. We set out, and met Sasuke-teme, who was now a neko hanyou with fuzzy ears and a fluffy tail, and Sakura waiting at the bridge for our ever late sensei.

-----------------Two Hours Later------------------

Still waiting.

-----------------Two More Hours Later---------------

"ARRRG!!! WHERE IN KAMI'S NAME IS HE?!!!" screamed Sakura. There was a distinct poof, and there was our perverted, perpetualy late sensei, Kakashi.

"YOU'RE LATE!!!" we all screamed, causing his hair to bend back.

"Maa, sorry everyone. A black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way around."

"LIAR!!!"

"Geez Kakashi. How lame can you get?" said Shadow, voicing all of our thoughts. He stepped over the fallen pervert and headed to the training grounds. When we got there, Gaara was there, for some reason.

"Hey! Gaara! What are doing here?" I asked. He looked twards us, and to our suprise, grinned a small grin.

"Kakashi-no-hentai here asked me to train with you guys to get used to training in the forest. I am going to be living here from now on anyway." that's when we noticed the Konoha head band on his belt. I gave a small cheer and shook his hand happily, congratulating him. We separated into our sparing groups, Sasuke facing off against Kakashi-sensei, and me and Gaara against Shadow.

Gaara and I taking the opening move, we charged at the kitsune, and tried to land a couple of punches. He dodged easily, and drew one of the red daggers on his thigh, taking a slash at both of us. I leaped back to dodge, and Gaara's sand sprung up automaticly, even though he didn't have his gourd. Shadow spun around with another slash, but with a cry of "Kueagaujingu! (arc air gouging)" and managed to land a blow with the now glowing blade. The air seemed thinner after the attack, I guessed that it was because of the tequnique he used. Using the thin air to his advantage, Shadow sped through some hand signs that I didn't recognise and exclaimed "Doton: Sudoriru! (earth syle: earth drill)" and started to spin rapidly like Kiba does in his Sounga (sp?), but plowing into the ground and appearing again under me, sending me flying. Before I could recover, he appeared infront of me and threw a left hook at my jaw. (think what Naruto did to Neji) I smashed into the ground, creating a large crater. Strugling to get to my feet, i created several Shadow Clones, and they charged him, with a Rasengan (spiral sphere) powering up in my hand. Gaara meanwhile was attacking Shadow with some tequniques that he had learned, and his sand, but all attackes were being dodged. I snuck up behind Shadow and rammed the Rasengan into his side, only to have him disappear in a cloud of smoke. He reappeared behind me and kicked me hard in the back. I heard an exclamation of "Zuiihenkei: Tsubasa! (optional transformation: wing)" and was lifted into the air, and dropped on Gaara from a hight of fifty feet in the air. Shadow held a kuni to each of our throughts and said "Dead."

He let us up, and looked around to find Sasuke and Sakura tied up to a couple of trees and Kakashi-sensei reading his dirty books. "Good fight you two, but it was too easy to bring you down." said the kitsune. I noticed that he had dragon like wings sticking out of his back, and guessed that it was from the Zuiihenkei. They disappeared in a puff of smoke and we went over to the others. Sasuke-teme had his ears folded back in annoyance, and Sakura was trying to get free of the binds that held her to the tree. When we reached them, Kakashi-sensei untied them, and continued to read his book. Shadow sighed, and with a minor Katon (fire) jutsu, burned the book. The pervert fell to the ground sobbing. "Pathetic." we all said.

"Well, there's a good way to take him out in battles." Sasuke-teme said. We started to head home when Kakashi-sensei said:

"Hold you lot. We have a mission from Hokage-sama. It's A rank." I stopped with that. In about point nothing seconds, I had the scroll with the mission details in my hand, reading it rapidly.

"Finally! Something to show my stuff in!"

"What's the mission?" asked Sakura.

"An assasination. There is a demon fox roming around, killing off whole villages at one time." I noticed that Shadow had stiffened.

"Does it have a description of it?" he asked hesitently

"Yes. He's a gold-green color, with a black scar across one eye, from what this says. That sounds like..."

"Walkingdeath! Shit, not good! If he's in the area, than Runningtear is probaly near by too. We have to take them out before they can take out any more innocent people and give us kitsunes a bad name." I felt a familiar tug in my gut, and Kyuubi appeared in a puff of smoke in a jumbled heap like he normaly does when Shadow summons him.

"Why do you insist on doing that?" he asked in an eirily calm voice.

"Did you listen in on the conversation?" Kyuubi nodded. "That saves me an explination, lets go. We have to take that asshole out before it's too late." there was a troubled look on Shadow's face, as though he was anticipating something bad. I shrugged it off, and we made our way swiftly to the village gates.

Ohhh a cliffhanger. Sorry it was short, but it was meant to be so. I'll update soon.

Naruto: Spirit does not own me or any other Naruto characters.

Shadow: But she does own me, Walkingdeath-teme, Runningtear-teme and all other Ocs.

Ja!