Season 1 - Chapter 0 - Introductions
There was once an enormous battle between the land of fire and the land of water on the ocean waves. This war was known as the War of Crimson Waves. Konohagakure had been betrayed by Kirigakure before Konohamaru had stepped into the reign as hokage. With the death of Naruto and the retirement of many of his friends, shinobi began to change. They became stronger, and so did their enemies. Kirigakure were the culprits for Naruto's death. During the War of Crimson Waves Naruto gained the trust of his enemies, and started growing peace with them. But the Mizukage, Suisaiga Mugan, was stubborn, and being the strongest enemy Naruto has ever fought he fell to the hands of the mizukage. With Suisaiga's last life he formed a highly forbidden jutsu known as Sekai-Teki Na Shi: Global Death. The ocean wrapped around Naruto and with giving his life, Suisaiga compressed Naruto and all of his shinobi in the water. All that was left was small beads of blood, which is as hard as a crystal: These beads are known as Ketsueki Ishi: Blood Stones. The world cried when this happened, and all of the nations bombarded Kirigakure. Nothing was left of this hidden village after vengeance was forced upon them.
Five years after the war, the world became darker. Their light of hope had been destroyed. Many shinobi walked away from their duties, afraid that another Suisaiga would rise to reign. The islands of the water country became a ghost town. It was dishonorable to live on the islands. This is also why many of the ruthless missing-nin made this their home. The islands massed around two hidden villages of missing-nin. One of the hidden villages: Namidagakure is known over the world as the Hidden Village of Tears. This village is where our story begins.
A small kunoichi with short messy black hair, intelligent white eyes, and black painted lips stands on top of the enormous monument raised to praise all the shinobi who died in the ocean waves of that horrible day. This monument resembles Naruto riding on Kyuubi. It stands over eight hundred meters tall and can be seen from the Hokage's mountain in Konoha. The small female shinobi who stands on the Kyuubi's fourth tail, which is the highest point on the monument, caresses her silky black shirt and pants in amazement of how much of the world she can view from the position. She has a short black silky t-shirt, which reveals a lot of her stomach. Covering her legs is a short skirt, which when she bends over a person could see her tight black spandex underneath. On her right leg the spandex reaches down to her toes. On her feet are platform sandals, an inch high. She wears the symbol of Takigakure on her two leather black gloves, which are scratched across: thumbs are cut from gloves.
The small girl from the village hidden in a waterfall looks down to a tall boy who stands on the head of Naruto. The boy is dressed in a charcoal trench coat. The coat has visual designs of a graveyard with swords as the gravestones around the bottom rim. He wears similar gloves that the girl wears, but he also wears a headband backwards on his head with the Kumogakure symbol scratched across. On his legs is a pair of cargo pants, black denim. He stands with his arms crossed imagining him staring over the country as a Kage, ruling over a hidden village. He grows a smile as his day dreaming gives him embrace to pride and honor.
"Are you day dreaming again, Kurosaki-kun? You know it won't happen unless we find our group and form our own village." The girl says with a malevolent expression on her lips.
Tsubasa Kurosaki ignores his partner and returns to his dream world. He imagines leading shinobi over the water, and into the land of fire. He watches as he jumps from wave to wave, and then to tree to tree. Next a scene of chaos appears in Konoha, and Tsubasa stands in front of the great Konohamaru. Their eyes meet and then both of them begin creating seals on their hands. But, as Tsubasa finishes first, his daydream halts. The girl jumps down and wraps her legs around Tsubasa's head as she sits on his shoulders playfully.
"What are you doing, Nagaku?" He asks with an annoyed twitch in his right eye brow.
Nagaku flips backwards and lands on her feet and pokes him in the back with one finger.
"I'm waking you up from a fantasy world of unimportance. You have to wake up and help me find the people on our list." Nagaku says while imagining her finger going through Tsubasa's spinal cord.
"Yes, the list. Who is next on our list?" Tsubasa asks while walking away from Nagaku's plotting finger.
Nagaku flips out a small piece of paper from a small supply pack on her left leg. She looks at the code which is written on the sheet, and begins speaking in her head while translating it.
"We have three missing-nins to find; all of them are well worth the trips. First we must find Uchiha Makoto. She should be on this island, or the next from what this list says." Nagaku says while watching Tsubasa sit down and stare into space with no emotion on his face.
Nagaku is annoyed when Tsubasa does this. She hates the mystery, since she's always trying to figure out new mysteries. She just can't get him to say anything important about himself.
"Why do we find her first? I'm sure one of the others would be a much better third person to the group." Tsubasa says just as Nagaku is about to snap on Tsubasa for having a 'too mysterious' cliché.
"We find her because you are boring to talk to! But seriously, she is an Uchiha, and her abilities can enhance ours two folds. Plus, there is an Uchiha clan still alive in the leaf and sand. She can help us find Raaza Sette. He's an earth user, and can help us kill the team who has control over Yakushi Hinamori." Nagaku says while feeling amazed she thought of these plans.
"…" Tsubasa remains quiet as he ponders why.
Nagaku grows annoyed and walks over to Tsubasa and kicks him off the side of Naruto's head. Tsubasa yawns as he sticks his foot to Naruto's nose.
"You kick like a girl, but why are you so angry?" he says to anger her even more.
"I'm pissed off at how you cannot even ask a question! I spent five months stealing the bingo book pages from the snow. It was damn cold too! I have my pride and shit, and I want you to throw me a damn bone once in a while to increase that!" Nagaku says like an immature adult.
Tsubasa looks her up and down and shrugs before turning his back on her and walking down the face of Naruto.
"When you grow some tits, I'll listen to you better, until then you'll have to tell me your plan without depending on my questions." Tsubasa says.
Nagaku would have steam coming from her ears if it was at all possible. She runs after Tsubasa, and is stopped as he whips out his blade and points it at her nose.
"I'm only tolerating you, Nagaku, because of your brains. I could kill you easily." Tsubasa says with a grim expression in his eyes.
Nagaku grows the same grim expression as many ways of killing Tsubasa comes into her mind.
"You are also aware I can do the same with you. You know how I fight." Nagaku says in retaliation.
Both of them stare each other down the sleek silver blade Tsubasa holds up with enormous power in his hand holding it. Tsubasa remembers when Nagaku actually did fight. Her techniques defeated a jounin of the sand. Her techniques are also known as forbidden by the entire world.
"Yes, I do know. But, I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself with your own jutsu, like you always do. They are forbidden for a purpose. But, anyway, what about Yakushi? If he's in a team already why would he join this one?" Tsubasa asks as he sheaths his sword and returns his gaze to Nagaku's figure…still sick of how immature it is. He would prefer someone with some eye candy.
"Yakushi's group sucks, from what this bingo listing says. He's the only one noted as a B-class threat that would join us. He's also a medical shinobi, which should explain all." Nagaku says.
Tsubasa nods his head and looks to the tip top of the Kyuubi's ninth tail. Nagaku also looks in the direction as Tsubasa does so. Both of them look at a man dressed in a black and white cover all uniform of the snow. He is making seals as they look over, and his eyes behind his mask reveal great hate for the two. Tsubasa grabs Nagaku and jumps off of Naruto's head and falls into the ocean below.
"Who is this bastard?!" Tsubasa asks as if knowing it involves Nagaku.
"It's a hunter-nin. I already told you I stole these pages from the bingo book in the snow country. He must have tracked us down." Nagaku says before both of them hit the ocean water.
Tsubasa uses his chakra to jump from the water, and Nagaku swims underneath the water with great ease, obviously chakra controlled swimming. As Tsubasa jumps from the water he whips out his sword to meet with the snow hunter's attack. Tsubasa looks up to a large spike of ice, around four meters in length and half that in width, ending at a point. He releases some chakra into his sword and spins around and meets the point of the ice with his blade.
"Hariken Katana!" Tsubasa yells out as his sword cuts into the ice spike.
The ice stops in mid air, and Tsubasa stops as well, as if by some phenomenal ability he causes himself to float. The spike begins cracking from the inside out and explodes in various directions in front of him like a cone of ice shards! The snow hunter vanishes from sight as the shards slice toward him on Naruto's head. The snow hunter is then seen running down the monument, ready to intercept Tsubasa as he falls.
The hunter nin laughs to himself as he can imagine finishing this mission and returning home with his leader smiling at the returning of his bingo book pages. He was told before the mission that both of the shinobi he is hunting are genin, but they are in the bingo book with no rank, so they are not to be underestimated.
As the hunter jumps from the monument he forms a curved ice blade in his hand. He clashes with Tsubasa in mid air! Tsubasa is pushed back and falls into the water. But, with quick reflexes Tsubasa flips to his feet and it's as if a meteor has hit the water. A wall of water rises so high that it blocks out the sunlight for a moment for the hunter and Tsubasa. The hunter lands carefully on the water. He then stares into Tsubasa's eyes as the water calms. The hunter glances around, searching for the female. But he is not lucky enough to find her. He is impressed though, at Tsubasa's save of not falling into the water.
Tsubasa slashes his sword quickly as the water gets whipped from it. The hunter gets into an attack position and begins to make a set of seals. The hunter finishes his seals, and finds it weird Tsubasa didn't attack. But right when he does his last seal, Tsubasa slashes again in the air. The hunter doesn't move since he thinks this man is still whipping water from his blade. But, the hunter's jutsu is negated, and the hunter cannot understand why, until he feels a hot sensation running down his hands.
Tsubasa just stands there with his sword still drawn, no emotion on his face. The hunter looks down and finds his two pointer fingers and half his middle fingers cut off! The hunter looks up as Tsubasa sprints with great speed toward the hunter. The hunter parries a lot of the sword flurries Tsubasa attacks him with and realizes the man is slow. The hunter unable to use his seals begins bombarding Tsubasa with a flurry of kicks which seems to flow with cold chakra.
Tsubasa assumes if he is hit with the kick, his body part will freeze. He's seen this before on this island with some missing-nin. He can only dodge right now; the hunter's movements are too fast for him to attempt a counter attack. He's getting impatient waiting for Nagaku to reinforce him.
As Tsubasa begins thinking of reinforcements, the snow hunter is pulled under the water by one of his feet. Nagaku stands on the bottom of the ocean, in a forty feet deep area. She makes a few seals as the seaweed around the area wrap around the snow hunter. The snow hunter doesn't know of this jutsu, but he has to act quickly. He makes a seal using his pinky finger and the water begins to grow freezing cold. Nagaku swims away in haste, as she doesn't want to get caught in such a jutsu.
Tsubasa stands on top of the water, looking at the droplets of liquid fall from his clothing. He watches through the top of the water at the snow hunter trying to break the bindings of the seaweed. Tsubasa feels his feet begin to stick to the water as the top layer forms into ice. He nods, impressed.
"I wonder what type of jutsu she'll use in this situation." Tsubasa ask himself, still not knowing what Nagaku's full potential is.
Nagaku with chakra in her swim speeds at the snow hunter before he can finish his jutsu. The water is freezing but Nagaku endures it instead of runs like she wanted to do. She makes a bunch of seals and grabs onto the snow hunter's throat. The snow hunter gurgles as Nagaku raises her hand up as the air inside of the snow hunter's body begins coming from his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes by force. The snow hunter has underestimated the two as a team, and has died because of it.
Nagaku rises to the top of the water as the snow hunter falls to the bottom of the ocean for the ocean life to do what they will with him.
"What was that jutsu?" Tsubasa asks with interest.
"That was Kuki Tsuiho Suru (Air Expel). I stole it from a Takigakure Forbidden jutsu scroll, all wrapped up in the shibuki's office. It's a nice little technique I use for water battles. You like?" Nagaku asks, while also bragging.
"No, it sucks." He says before walking toward Namidagakure in search of the Uchiha Kunoichi.
Nagaku growls in anger and races after Tsubasa at his awful pun of her assassination jutsu.