This is my first fanflic that i saved from Fanlib (RIP fanlib)

Rumours of a lightning demon had already started to spread throughout the village, the idea of one rolled through Kakashi's mind as he oversaw team 7's training "Just something some kid started" he concluded to himself as he turned his attention back to the book in his hands, but his mind lingered on one question.

"What if?"

"Morning Sakura, Sasuke." Naruto yawned as he approached the bridge that Team 7 normally meet at.

"Morning" Sakura replayed, seeming as sleepy as Naruto was.

"Did that storm keep you up too?."

She nodded "it's strange there was no rain, only thunder and lightning."

"Good morning you three." Kakashi appeared with his normal smile on his masked face.

"YOU'RE LATE!!." Naruto yelled pointing as his sensei

"The storm last night kept me awake, so I ended up over sleeping."

"THAT'S A LIE!!."

"Quite idiot" Sasuke said in his normal cold manner "you only just got here as well."

Naruto dropped his arm to his side and sighed.

"Well let's get going, today we will be training in the woods just outside of the village."

With a grumble from Naruto they set off, Before long they reached the area that Kakashi had picked out the day before, The trees were dense in this area, perfect for seeing how their tree top fighting skills were, Kakashi gave them their task: to try and get a hit on his shadow replication, but they had to keep to the trees at all times.

The day wore on but no-one was able to hit the target. Naruto had managed to fall out of the trees twice. Something caught Kakashi's eye, his replication stopped moving and followed the gaze of the real one. Sakura and Sasuke took note of this change and stopped turning to their sensei, Naruto took this as his chance and buried his kunai deep into the copy.

"Yahhh! I did it woooo I… Sensei?."

"Kakashi-sensei what's wrong?." Sakura asked

Without a word he dropped down to the forest floor. There was a scorch mark near the bottom of one of the trees, "This was not here yesterday". He touched the blackened bark it slowly flaking away under his fingertips, "A lighting strike from last nights storm?" He looked up. Nothing was marked in the slightest " a fire element jutsu then?" but that answer did not sit right with him, something was very odd about it.

"What's wrong sensei?" Naruto asked with a hint of concern in his voice.

He glanced over his shoulder at his students, then turned back to the tree. He scratched some more of the charred wood off "what the hell did this?" He sniffed at the air, his eyes opened wide when he caught a whiff of the smell, not of burnt wood, but of burnt flesh and hair. He stood up abruptly.

"Stay on your guard and follow me."

They slowly and quietly made there way to a clearing, Kakashi was the first to set eyes on it, blackened and twisted horribly out of form. He went to move to use his body to block the sight of it from his students, but it was too late. They looked sick with the sight of the thing and the smell was almost unbearable.

"Stay here." Kakashi kept his voice came

Keeping his guard up he slowly approached the charred mass, noting more scorch marks around the area. Kneeling by it he tried to find something that would identify the body in some way, he could find nothing he recognised. He could not event tell gender it was so bad, save for a thin chain around its neck with a small metal tag. Something imprinted in it, it looked like a word but Kakashi could not make it out.

"S- Sensei!" Naruto's voice stuttered

He got up and slowly backed away from the corpse, his eye darting around the clearing.

"Naruto?"

"What is that!" he pointed to the other side of the clearing

Kakashi followed Naruto's line of sight and cursed himself that he did not see it himself, A black form nestled in a hollow of a tree stirred a rattle like someone shaking a chain link fence. it echoed across the clearing followed by a low growl like thunder, slowly like a waking nightmare it unfolding its limbs it was human in shape, dragging itself from the shadows they got a clear look at it.

It was human in shape yes, but that was the only human thing about it. Tattered and mud encrusted clothes clung to its body its skin covered thick with scars and large metal spines proctoring out of its arms back and legs. The metallic rattle sounded again as its spines shuddered followed by a bright flash and a pop as two touched the air started to hum and buzz around it, eyes narrowing on the group of ninjas, an evil grin slid across its lips.

"What the hell is that?" panic started to seep into Naruto's voice

"A demon" Kakashi said coolly kunai now in hand "get back all of you, I don't know how strong it is"

The monster shouted something, he could not make out the words but he did not need to, the voice was so filled with hate its intent was clear. With another rattle and a pop it went to make its move but only mange two steps before stopping, something alerted it to its right. It turned and headed away from the group as fast as it could.

When it was out of sight Kakashi took a small sigh of relief, to bad it was cut short, charging into the clearing was a group of fighters, they had entered where the demon was alerted to, there was six in all five male and one female, there all dressed the same black and dark green with there hair cut short, it was clear cut to see that they where a team, but from where? Kakashi did not see any headbands displaying what village they where from.

The group looked ready for a fight, but it seems that they where looking for something, some words where said but he did not understand any of it.

"Sensei who are they?." Sakura whispered

"We are no one, and should be forgotten." the female of the group said

Team 7 now had the bigger groups full attention they had sheathed any weapons and looked at them indifferently.

"Forget about us and about this day." the female said, her voice void of any emotion.

"Tell us! What was that demon!?." Naruto yelled out of place

The group went all-sharp at the mention of a demon.

"You are just seeing things boy, there's no such things as demons," the female said

"No" Kakashi said he had lowed his kunai but it still remained firmly in his grasp " I saw it too."

"Three kids and their babysitter I think we can take them." a burly man whispered to the female, she shot him a glare.

"OK, if you did see a demon where did it go to?" the big man grinned at them he spoke with an ancient similar to the females " I don't see one around here."

"Why should we tell you?." Naruto said crossing his arms over his chest.

The big man growled and went to advance but was stopped by the female, "she must be there leader", Kakashi thought.

"Okami!" one of the men yelled and the female responded

"Finally a name" one of the men was kneeling by the charred corpse. The others wandered over to him again. Words that Kakashi could not understand were said, but as he watched them he understood, a small wave of distress passed over the group briefly along with the word "Sprinter". He understood clearly now, the charred husk was there former team mate Sprinter and the metal tag had his name on it written in there home language.

"These are western people from over the vast sea." he wispered to his students

"Western people?." Sakura blinked at him

Kakashi nodded

"Very good," the female, Okami said to them " we are indeed from western lands, but now please, where did the demon go?"

"What demon?" Sasuke said with a sly grin on his lips "There's no such thing as demons."

The big man growled again but a look from Okami stopped him from doing anything more, she said something to a blindfolded team-mate with a nod he slowly started to feel the air about him.

"The demon is OUR responsibility, our only reason for existing is to bring it down," Okami said; a new weight in her voice now.

The blind man stopped and pointed to where the demon had ran too, she gave them the order to move out.

"HAY! HAY! Don't you run away from us!." Naruto yelled, bursting past his sensei running after the other group

Kakashi sighed and ran after him.

"Idiot!." Sasuke spat as he and Sakura followed

"Hay, Okami, the kids and their babysitter are following us," the big man yelled to the leader

"You know the orders!, no innocent live should be caught up with our mission!, smoke them."

With a bemused grin the man pulled a metal can out of his pouch he pulled a pin with his teeth and threw the cylinder over his shoulder clearing the group. It bounced and rolled before coming to rest in Naruto's path.

He was mid step when it went off. Grey smoke engulfed him stopping him dead in his tracks he covered his nose and mouth to not breathe anything in but his eyes stung like they where on fire.

he could not keep them open. He felt a tug on the back of his jacket as Kakashi pulled him out, he coughed and his eyes where watering from the smoke.

"What is that?, poison?."

"No, just a deterrent, they don't want us following them." Kakashi said as he pat Naruto on the back "its unpleasant but harmless."

The big group was moving with speed now, hoping to catch up to the lightning demon, Okami was on point, just behind her was the blind man and the big guy that was itching for combat.

"Okami! The trees!." one man yelled from the back.

She looked up to see figures moving from branch to branch " damn these guys are persistent", she gave them the order to hold. Kakashi jumped out in front of them whilst Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura stood behind the group. Okami approached the Jounin, Kakashi put his hand behind his head casually and smiled at her.

"Go back to your home, Ninja, this is not your fight." her eyes focused on the man in front of her "I see now that order #2 got broken the moment they crossed paths with him"

"Anything that threatens are village is are fight!." Sasuke said

"I see that" Okami closed her eyes "Fine, follow if you want answers" she looked back over her group "MOVE OUT!."

"ROGER!." the team barked in unison

They set off again Kakashi kept by Okami's side his students were in the middle of the group now, within hearing range of the two leaders.

"Our questions are simple" Kakashi explained, "Who are you and what are you doing here?."

"We are Team DH-A44, put simply we are a Demon Hunter team, that lightning demon was being kept by my people, but it escaped somehow and made its way to your lands." she stopped for a moment to check with the blindfolded man that they where still heading in the right way.

"And your mission is to kill it?." Kakashi asked

Okami nodded "We have been trained to take him down it is our only reason for being, its him or us!."

Kakashi glanced over her team then asked, "Is it normal for your teams to be of such large numbers?" he was curious about this demon hunter team.

"We were 15 strong when we first set out, the demon, who we have nicknamed 'Dry storm' has already killed off 8 of my comrades including our leader."

"8!?" Naruto yelled " And you're still willing to go up against him?."

"Yes!." her reply was sharp and sure

The conversion in the group of westerners was overwhelming. They were openly willing to lay down there lives to stop this monster.

"Now" Okami said eyeing up Kakashi " it's your turn, who are you?."

"I am Kakashi, the sensei of this team, the golden haired boy is Naruto, the dark haired boy is Sasuke and the girl is Sakura."

Okami nodded and gave him a small smile " pleasure to meet you Kakashi, I am Okami the big man is Brawler, the one with the blindfold is Radar, the others are Dagger, Hunter and Guard"

"And I'm sorry about gassing your team, we have orders to keep any innocent lives out of this if possible, we have been luring him away from your village for days now"

Kakashi looked surprised " you found our village?"

"Yes, but unfortunately, so has he" Okami kept her voice low "but you need not worry my friend, we will kill him before any harm can come to you, and he will kill us before we can breathe a word about your home."

Something in her words made him shiver, where they expecting to get killed? Yet here they were rushing headlong into battle and death, she put up a arm and Team DH-A44 stopped dead, so did Team 7, they could feel it, the way the air was heavy and seemed to hum with excitement the smell that could only be described as burnt ozone field there senses, he was here!

"Kakashi protect your team, do not join in the battle, only my team and I can handle his attacks" Okami meet his eye "I will not have you or your fellows injured whilst I still have blood in my veins!"

That familiar rattle sounded along with a small pop as the demon charged out its form hunched over, the group scatted only to reform behind it they shouted something as it in there home language, taunting it away so it would pay no interest to the ninjas, Kakashi took this as his cue and moved his group away.

"Sensei! We are not going to run away are we!?" Sakura asked

"No" Kakashi pushed them into some underbrush "we are going to watch, if they fail it will be up to us to kill that thing, but we first gather information about it if we have a hope of winning" he looked back to the demon hunter's leader "don't die Okami"

"Ok now! Attack! Aim for his left collar bone!" Okami ordered

They circled the demon, weapons in hand. Radar and Guard had long whips ready. Brawler, Dagger and Hunter had daggers. Okami was going to use her fists. With a nod from their leader they attacked. Radar and Guard got there whips around the monsters arms, it could not move. Brawler, Dagger and Hunter charged in leaping over the demon as they attacked, Kakashi reviled his Sharngen to get a better look at there movements, they where all attacking the exact same spot "such pin point accuracy such team work!" The flesh around the collar bone now weaken by her team mates attacks, Okami rushed in and landed and sturdy blow.

A menacing cackle filled the air " IS THAT IT? IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE? ARE YOU THE ONLY DOGS LEFT?" the demon roared.

Energy bolted from spine to spine before lighting jolted from the demon to strike the ground where Okami was standing only moments before. Trashing about and sending bots of energy around wildly it managed to repel its attackers. Kakashi's eye allowed him to see the energy like chakra the monster was all most bursting with it, like its temper this energy was wild and out of control.

The monster lashed out, it was like being in a storm, the lightning was blinding and the thunder was relentless and shook the ground with each boom. They peered throw the blinding light as the fight struggled on both parties relentless in there attacks. It was unreal in there attacks they where totally deferent people but they way they landed there attacks, it was like a Jounin using shadow replication, suddenly all of Kakashi's talks about team work hit home.

Suddenly a roar mixed with a boom of thunder, filled there ears followed by a blinding flash left them unable to see or hear for a few moments. When there senses returned, Team DH-A44 where down, the demon gone, Kakashi covered his eye and rushed out to them.

"Stay back!, don't touch us!" Okami gasped out, She was on her hands and knees body trembling

"We got hit, by it's lighting, if you touch us now, you will get hit with enough energy to kill you 10 times over!" Okami looked over her group "no dead at least that's something"

"How are you still alive then?" Sasuke scowled

"Our training," she growled "the energy is draining from us now and dispersing into the ground. We will be fine in a bit"

After about 20 minutes they where able to move there bodies again. Okami ordered Radar to get back to tracking Dry storm. The team would not rest.

"This is how he got away from us last time, his power has grown sinse he escaped" Okami explained using the time well that it was taking Radar to pick up the demon's trail.

"Let me ask you, if me and my men fail, if we die before we have slain the demon Dry Storm", she locked eyes with Kakashi "can I count on your people to do what we could not?"

Kakashi's only replay was a slow nod

"Thank you" her voice was soft "the demon's power is simple electricity he can absorb it, any thing from small generators to lightning itself and stores it under his skin, his body is a battery, the only outlet is the metal spines"

"His skin" she continues "is thick you will have a hard time cutting through, it is weaker around his neck and collar bones, the area we were aiming for, but weaker still is his eyes… and one more thing, kill him with range your people will not be able to take his attacks like we can."

"Is there anyway that we can drain him?." Kakashi asked

Okami nodded "Yes but its risky, embedding all of his spines into something that is grounded will cause his power to flow out of him and disperse into the earth, like the way we recovered from his attack, but that will take time there would be no way to keep him there long enough to deplete him".

Radar called to Okami, he had gotten the trail, Dry storm, the lightning demon was heading straight to Konoha the village hidden in the leaves.

The demon had already smashed through the outer wall on the village, but was going to further due to the ninjas. He had not killed any yet, they where keeping there distance, but where making no headway in driving the monster out.

Kakashi got to the village before any of the others. He told the other ninjas to stay back, and that he had no time to explain. Okami and her group rushed past the village ninjas and took their positions around the demon.

"Noble people of Konoha" Okami shouted to all present "please forgive us and this demand I make on you, this demon is OUR responsibility we are charged with the mission of taking its life, as long as one of my team is left standing, do not interfere"

"SCROUNGING DOGS!, PATHETIC MONGRELS!" the demon cursed the team

"Your fight is with us!, not these people they have done nothing to incur your wrath!" Okami said to the demon her voice unnaturally bland.

"I… WILL…. KILL…. EVERYONE…. UNTIL…. THE…. PAIN…STOPS!!" he roared

There was a crackle as lightning arced from one of his arm spines towards Okami she managed to jump out of the way in time Radar had managed to get his whip around the demon's left arm, Guard went to get the right but then.

"DO YOU TAKE ME FOR A MINDLESS FOOL!?"

A bolt went out towards Guard, he could not move as fast as the others, he hunkered down and took the hit full on he let out a small cry of pain, but did not falter he swung his whip around for another go.

"DIE DIE DIE DIE!!"

Things where getting mad fast, every spine was arcing its deadly intent into the ground, there was no way they could not get in close without getting shocked, Guard has done his job and restrained the demons other arm.

"Left eye!" Okami's words were clear

They rushed in, set on taking his eye, ignoring the piercing embrace of the lightning. As they got near him pain meant nothing, this was going to be there last fight with Dry Storm. With the bladed attacks done, Okami readied herself to brake his eye. She ignored the pain shooting through her body as her fist hit its mark.

Everyone was thrown back as the lightning and thunder became more intense. They had wounded him, but not stopped him, Guard and Radar throw down there weapons as the leather court on fire. The others cursed when they realised that there blades where warped by the heat of the lightning strike, Okami had the wind nocked out of her as she struggled to regain her breath.

"Shit, the full force of are attacks was not able to get through"

But then a small glimmer of hope came to them, the demon was clutching its face and blood was seeping throw its fingers. Blood!, but that small spark died as quickly as it appeared, they had no way of restraining him for a clear attack, if he could get his arms up, they would not be able to brake through the shield of lightinng he can make.

They all looked at each other what they had to do next was clear cut as day. They where no longer completing a mission forced upon them. They where demon slayers, they where doing to save Konoha from this threat even throw it was not there place too they now, in there last moments of life, had something to defend.

Okami backed up to Kakashi " I need your blade." with out a word he handed her his kunai

Everyone watched wide eyed as they throw themselves at the demon impaling themselves on his spines. Brawler on its back holding its head still, Guard and Radar on his arms with Hunter and Dagger on his legs. Almost unbearable amounts of energy was being passed through there bodies. Kunai in hand Okami charged in aiming for the eye. She barred it deep, feeling the tip scratch the back of the skull. It was done, the team braced themselves for there oncoming fate.

In that moment everything slowed down for them. The minutes seemed like hours. Okami looked at her men, she was not appointed leader from there officials nor after there true leader passed away, was she next in line, yet they followed her anyway, Why? As her vision faded to white, she felt something pushing her away, then it came, with the demons death all of its energy was released in a blast.

The team was sent flying. Kakashi managed to catch Okami, but the others where tossed like rag dolls, spines still imbedded in there bodies. Okami saw it all, there bodies and that of the demon's before her vision slowly left her.

Kakashi was pretending to read his book as he sat in the hospital room; he had asked for this mission himself, Team 7 was to watch over Okami.

" How long has it been now?" Sakura asked her chin resting on her palms

"3 days now" Kakashi said, turning a page "She should wake up soon, her breathing is steady the fight just took it out of her"

Naruto was arguing with Sasuke again, well it was a one sided argument Sasuke was just ignoring him.

"Naruto quite down, this is a hospital"

"And here I was thinking that ninjas where silent" Okami's voice was horse.

Kakashi told Sakura to go and inform the Hokage, Okami slowly sat up finding her body stiff, Kakashi handed her a glass of water she took it and sipped at it knowing not to drink to fast.

"Your at Konoha hospital" Kakashi told her be fore she even said anything

"What of the others?"

"Im sorry, they are all dead"

Okami flinched with the news Kakashi slid a hand onto her shoulder to comfort her

"And the demon?"

"He is dead too"

She save a small sigh and relaxed a bit "So its finally over"

It was not long before Sakura returned with two masked ninjas and the Hokage. The old man smiled at Okami. She met his eyes and smiled in return though her heart was heavy with the death of her friends.

"Greetings Okami, I am the Hokage, the leader of this village"

Okami bowed as well as her body allowed her too " I am honoured, im guessing you have come to find out about me and all that has happened"

The old man nodded.

"Then sit, my tail is long and chilling but I are more then willing to tell it"

Kakashi gave the Hokage his char, as everyone started to settle she wondered where to begin

"The people I.. use to work fore… where a secretive lot. I was an orphan, so was all of my team mates. When we where still only children they adopted us, they gave us a home, and something to call a family" she closed her eyes as drifting off back into a memory.

"But it was all a lie.. From the start it was gruelling and unyielding training they only wanted us for bodyguards, you see the people that had taken us in, where not good men, are job was to protect and serve, without question"

"Where they the ones to summon the demon?" Naruto asked

"Summon?" she could not help but smile "You could say that, you see that demon was a man"

"A- a man?!" Naruto stutter

Okami nodded "yes, he was experimented on, they where trying to find way to improve the human body, to tern a man into a pure weapon of unbelievable power, the pain of it all was to much for a human to bare, he went insane and soon be came the monster you know"

"Wh… why would anyone want to do something like that?!"

"I often asked myself that" she sighed "But I never asked anyone who could answer me. I ignored it as best as i could, and tried to shut it away, it was none of my concern. That was till he escaped, that's when I truly felt the evil of the men I was protecting"

She lifted up her right arm and with her left hand she dug her fingernails into the skin a flicker of anger flashed into her eyes.

"No one was safe from their evil, not even people like me," she said as she tore into the flesh

Everyone was shocked by this act of self injury, she pulled at the skin but it dawned on them that it was not real skin the rubber like materiel starched before ripping with a tug. She pulled the fake skin off of her forearm and hand like a glove, she did the same to her left arm, hiding under that rubbery skin was metal. She lifted up her arms so they could get a good look from fingertip to just above her elbow was covered with metal.

"THEY TOOK YOUR ARMS!?" Naruto yelled

"Yes and no, there is still flesh, bone and blood under them, but the metal has been fused to my flesh, I can no longer feel anything, but it does not stop there, they put armor inside my body to protect my internal organs from attacks, like the demon's lightning" she balled her hands into fists "everyone was altered someway, we all got the armor, but only me and two others got the arms, as the only way to kill the monster was with a combo of cutting and crushing attacks".

"How did you feel after that?" the Hokage asked

"Betrayed, I gave them everything I had, and in return they gave me pain and mutilated my body"

"Was this your 'training' that you talked about?" Kakashi asked keeping his voice low

She nodded

"Now with the demon dead, your mission is over, how do you plan on returning?" the Hokage asked

She smiled " I don't, the mission here was a code black, meaning anyone who was sent on it was as good as dead, if I returned I would just be killed.. But" her mood seemed to sadden more as a memory of an old friend came to light.

"The mission I was first tasked with and the one I have just finished are different, our group leader who was called Nightshade, was gravely injured, he loved us all, and hand picked us for this task."

"The man that loved you picked you out to die?" Sakura said with a hint of confusion

"No it's not that" Okami added, "he wanted us to have a better life then what was forced upon us. He took the mission and us, with plans of killing the monster himself and to let us live a life free from there evil"

She pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them her image changed, all the torment she had gone throw over the past years became apparent.

"But he underestimated how strong he was, a lot happened along the way but we made the mission our own, for our own reasons we could of backed out at any time, but we did not"

"What was your new mission?"

The look in Okami's eyes, was the same look Kakashi saw out in the wood just a few days ago. "To protect the people of this land from him. We where not allowed to embrace the concept of love, or friendship back where we use to call home, but soon after coming here we did. Our friendship gave us a new strength, it made us stronger then we could ever become back working for the man."

She looked up at the Hokage "can I ask you something?."

He nodded.

"Where are the bodes of my friends?."

A warming smile appeared on his lips. "They are barred here, they gave there lives defending are village."

"Then I have a request."

"Hmm?."

"We made a pact with each other, out home would be where the others where. If most of my friends are buried here, I would like to make Konoha my home," she bowed her head, "if you will allow it."

He stood up the warm smile still on his face "Team 7 will look after you, and teach you all you need to know about us" Okami lifted her head her heart lifted too when she met the old man's eyes, "Welcome to Konoha".

It was a few days before Okami had healed enough to be let out of the hospital. Kakashi took her to the graves of her friends. She kneeled by them, talked to them, and thanked them for pushing her away before the demon exploded, that saved her life. She stood up when she was done Kakashi put his arm around her to comfit her. He knew the pain she was feeling all to well, she hold onto the back of his jacket, too tightly its was like she would fall into oblivion if she let go.

"Lets go home, Okami".