A New Age
Here it is! The sequel to Never Surrender! Enjoy and remember to review! I have had to do a lot of typing today…
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"Now Mei, finish them off," ordered one of the warriors.
One looked very little, the other two older.
"With pleasure," one responded.
"No! Ahh!" the girl in the blue outfit yelled.
"Aang, help!"
Then he responded, "I can't bend!"
One of the warriors raised her sword and struck down vertically.
"Nooo!" Aang yelled, terrified.
The scream was cut short as there was a loud cling. She looked up to see Xorias blocking horizontally.
"What? Who are you?" she asked.
"What are you doing to these people?" he replied.
"They are the enemy! And they… you know what? Why do you care?" she responded more annoyed than curious.
"It doesn't matter, drop your weapons and leave," he ordered.
"You. Outsider," the older looking one said.
"I don't think you are in any position to demand anything," she continued.
"I don't want to fight, but I will if you make me."
"Azula, Tai Lee, should we get him?"
"Sure Mei, why not" the older one confirmed.
"You leave me no choice…" he sighed.
Xorias grabbed the other sword from his sheath and held them both firmly in his hands, taking a fighting stance. One threw a few shuriken type weapons at him, but he jumped aside. Azula appeared behind Xorias and started to shoot fire out of her hand. Xorias leapt in the air barely avoiding the sudden attack.
'What the…'
Xorias landed on both feet as Mei came at him again. He leapt aside and took a swipe, but Tai Lee threw a ninja type weapon at one of his swords and knocked it away. Tai Lee came in and started using punches and leg sweeps. Xorias avoided all of them. Azula then came in throwing more fire at him, each time getting closer than the last.
"You're not bad. You seem to be better than my brother, I'll give you that much."
'Yeah, but I am constantly on the defense. I can't use my Sharingan yet. And what the hell is that fire coming out her hands. She's not using any hand signs… Time to go on the offensive.'
Xorias put his swords away. The three girls stared strangely as Xorias made hand signs. Then they stared in awe as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Where did he go?"
She looked around, "Strange. Those were hand signs. I've never seen hand signs before except once. Oh well, then let's finish this," Azula turned to the captives, "You two didn't get so lucky. Your rescuer seems to have abandoned you. Now it ends."
As she raised her blade, she heard a scream form Mei, "What?!"
"What's wrong Mei?" Azula asked half concerned, rolling her eyes in the process, "What did you do n-"
"Earth Style; Headhunter Jutsu!" she heard someone shout as Mei was dragged under the ground.
Only her head and her neck were visible.
"Mei!" Tai Lee yelled.
She ran towards the Uchiha.
"What the hell?" Azula said, confused.
Tai Lee pointed her fingers toward Xorias as she ran at him. Xorias was distracted by Azula's, now blue fire. She hit Xorias with the tips of her fingers multiple times painlessly.
The girl dressed in blue gasped,"Oh no! Now he can't bend, or whatever he does!"
"Now, let's end this for real!" Tai Lee shouted.
Xorias put more hand signs together as she charged at him again. Xorias leapt in the air.
"What again?" Tai Lee asked, "Oh, well. It doesn't matter anyway, you can't do any bending-" she was interrupted.
"Fire Style; Fireball Jutsu!" He shouted as fire appeared and moved towards Tai Lee.
"What?! He can still bend?!"
She barely dodged the fire, landing on her two feet.
Xorias appeared right beside her and kicked, sending her flying backwards, kicking up dust as she flew back.
"Now it's you and me, masked warrior," Azula said calmly taking an aggressive stance at the same time.
Xorias circled Azula multiple times. She made the first move, shooting blue fire out her hands. Xorias nimbly jumped aside. She continued her attack for what seemed like minutes.
"Stop moving so I can kill you," she demanded impatiently.
"Come now, patience is a good thing," Xorias insisted calmly while dodging her constant attacks.
"You have time to examine your enemies' attacks and-," you continued. "Quiet!" she yelled infuriated as she lost her cool. "Wait for your chance your to strike," he finished as he appeared behind her.
Xorias took his sword and used the handle and hit her over the back of the neck. She was knocked to the ground. He walked over to the two captives, putting his hood back up and taking his mask off.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," the bald one replied.
"But my friend here was burned pretty badly by Azula," he added.
The girl was wincing.
"I'm sorry about that. I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I had to make them think that I was gone to get one of them to drop their guard. If I could lessen their numbers, I could gain the upper hand. Here let me heal that, it's the least I can do."
He put three hand signs together and placed them on top of each other and placed them on the girl's arm. His hands started glowing green as her burn went away.
"You can heal people?" the girl asked.
"This was nothing. I've seen a lot worse. This was just a simple burn."
All three stood up. As Xorias straightened out, he felt tremendous pain as you were hit by something. Something hot. Very hot. Xorias collapsed on the ground on all fours, smoking. The girl yelled.
The two former captives tried to help but they were still weak. Facially he told them to not do anything as Azula walked up behind him. Xorias moved your hand slightly to reveal a hidden kunai. Azula could not see it. She pointed two fingers at him to shoot something more at him.
Before she could unleash more lightning, he whipped around and jabbed the kunai through her side. She screamed in pain. Three soldiers dressed in red came up behind her. Tai Lee and Mei appeared also holding their sides or their arms in pain.
"This isn't over! I'll remember this!" Azula yelled, grimacing. They disappeared.
"Are you okay?" the girl asked.
"Yeah," he replied. Xorias staggered as you arose.
"I haven't properly introduced myself yet. My name is Xorias Odamori-Uchiha, captain of the ANBU ninja squad," he said.
"I'm Katara, and this is Aang, the Avatar," she replied as she pointed towards the bald kid.
"ANBU?" Aang asked.
"It's a squad of powerful ninjas, designed to take on powerful enemies. They are some of the strongest in the village," Xorias replied, "And I am their captain."
"What is an 'Avatar?'" he asked.
"Did you fall and hit your head?" Katara replied.
"The Avatar is the one who brings and keeps peace in the world. Master of all four elements. Aang here is an Airbender… the last," Katara said with sadness in her voice. "Airbender?"
Katara sighed, "There are four elements. Water. Earth. Fire. And Air. One hundred years ago, the Fire Nation attacked the other three Nations. We are still at war. Aang here is our only hope."
"I see." The group explained to each other their worlds. Maybe if he learned a little about this world, he might be able to find out how he got sent here. It was a long shot, but it was the only lead he had.
"So that's how you ended up here," Katara said.
As she finished, he sensed movement behind him.
"I wonder why you n-" Aang said as he was interrupted.
"Get away from the Avatar!" someone behind Xorias shouted. He ran at Xorias, two swords blazing in a circular motion. He took a swing, but the sword went right through nothing, as if he were cutting air. Xorias appeared behind him, the tip of a kunai touching his back.
"What the…" the aggressor stated in shock, "You're fast,"
"Xorias, he's a friend!" Katara shouted. Xorias merely nodded, placing the kunai back into his pouch. The man put away his swords. "I'm Zuko."
"Xorias."
Just then, Xorias was struck in the head by something hard. It Knocked him from his feet and onto the ground, rendering him unconscious.
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Flashback:
Tsunade had just completed the last of her paperwork and had it all neatly stacked and in alphabetical order. Just as she sighed, Sakura busted through the door, flushing the papers all over the room. She tried to keep her calm and gritted her teeth, "This better be good, or I swear, I am going to beat you so hard, your great grandchildren will feel it."
"He's back! Orochimaru's back!" Sakura explained catching her breath.
Tsunade immediately stood up.
"Scramble all available ninja, priority top! Recall all ninja on missions! This is an emergency!"
"May Kami have mercy on our souls…"
End Flashback.
"Shizune… get me Shikamaru and Kiba!"
"Right!"
Shizune disappeared.
"Sakura, where were they?"
"Forest of Death…"
"Could you be a little more specific?"
"Southern end…"
Tsunade clenched her fist. She thought she had everything set. She thought everything would have been ready for an attack by Orochimaru. He struck where they least expected.
"I suppose he is making up for lost time… he's good, I'll give him that much. And Xorias isn't here. He's fighting the two Sound warriors… so we won't have any brilliant plans from our tactician. We will just have to make up for it…"
For the next few precious minutes, Sakura and Tsunade started seeing more and more ninja appear in the office, showing basic battle plans made up by Xorias, beforehand.
Kakashi returned to the Hokage's office.
"Kakashi! What are you doing? I already briefed you! Fight them off, we need people like you out there!"
"That's the point, Hokage-sama… there isn't anyone there…"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean what I say…"
Tsunade was dumbfounded… why would Orochimaru attack with no soldiers?
She turned to Sakura, "Are you sure?"
Her jaw dropped, "You think I would lie?! Xorias is in danger! Why the hell would I lie?"
She shrugged her shoulders as the three ninja heard a voice, "Xorias is in danger? The captain of the ANBU team? Hah, he owes us big time…"
They all turned to see Kiba and Shikamaru standing at the door.
"Good, first things first… Xorias needs assistance, once you have reached Xorias return to me. Kakashi, keep patrolling for ninja. They could be farther out of the city to protect Orochimaru's escape route, go, now!"
Kakashi bowed his head and disappeared.
Tsunade turned to the three remaining ninja, "Orochimaru may have tried to kidnap Xorias. He knows that if he is gone, the village will have lost it's strategist. Konoha would suffer. Sakura, Shikamaru, Kiba, you will rescue Xorias. We cannot afford to lose our tactician. Shikamaru, your observational skills are beyond that of any shinobi I know. Kiba, your nose is better than any. And Sakura, you know where he was last seen. And you harbor feelings for him, do you not? That will drive you to succeed…"
Sakura blushed as Tsunade raised her hand to the side, signaling them to move out.
They all leapt away and started off to the Forest of Death.
When they arrived at the last place Sakura saw Xorias, they saw he wasn't there, much to no surprise to any of the three ninja.
"Kiba what do you smell?" Shikamaru asked trying to find a lead.
"There was a fight…"
"Gee.. You think? I'm pretty sure we established that already…" Sakura said impatiently.
"Be patient, Sakura. It's a virtue you know…"
"So is personal hygiene… tell me… do you take baths?"
"Cut the chitchat you two…"
"Xorias used Chidori. See these scorch marks? Now look where they stop?" Kiba said, squinting.
Shikamaru finished Kiba's thought, "Why would it stop so short? That's only a few feet… that only happens if he is close to the target. But these marks implied he was running, so something went wrong. On top of that, there's no blood at the end of the trail…"
"Need some insight?" a voice piped up.
They all turned around to see Fokuske, a member of the Council of Lorii standing on a tree branch. He leapt down as they relaxed.
"I was on my way here to give my weekly report on outside doings when I saw two men run by. Luckily they didn't see me. I think it was Orochimaru and Kabuto…"
Shikamaru cocked his head a little bit. He had heard him say something…
"Wait… you said you saw two men run by? Are you sure there wasn't someone with them. Did you see Xorias?"
"Look if I saw Xorias, I would've recognized him… There were only two… I'm sure of it. "
"Right…"
"So if he's not with Orochimaru, and he's not back at the village… then where the hell is he?" Sakura asked.
Kiba piped up this time, "He's got to be somewhere, it's not like he could disappear into thin air…"
Shikamaru replied as if something had hit him in the face, "No… maybe he really did…"
Just then, they heard a voice, "You'll never find him… tell me, how is my dear half-brother?"
Sakura froze. She knew that voice…
"Oh no, it's… Sasuke…"
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Xorias awoke to a splitting headache. He placed his hand behind his head and rubbed it.
"What the hell was that?" he asked.
A short one answered.
"Sorry, about that. I thought that you were here to hurt the Avatar. So I used my earth bending. My name is Toph, I'm an earth bender…"
She scratched the back of her head.
"Earth bending?" he asked.
Her eyes grew in size exponentially.
"Did you hit your head on something?" she asked half shocked, half angry.
"Yes, by you a little while ago," he replied still rubbing the back of his head.
"Oh, right, sorry."
"Earth bending, is a style of bending that you use. It is more defensive than that of fire bending." She showed Xorias a little bit. He chuckled.
"What is it Xorias?"
"Oh, it's that Sakura can do that. Well not really, but she can make the ground do stuff like that. She obliterates the ground. So in a sense, it's kind of like earth bending."
"Who is Sakura?"
"Oh, she is a really close friend of mine. We met a year and a half ago. She's a really nice girl. She's sweet and funny. I'm glad I met her," he explained.
"Are you dating?" Toph asked.
"No, should we be?" he replied.
"You two seem to be really close," she reasoned.
"But I'm not sure how she feels about me…"
"But I don't want to be a laughing stock for liking someone as beautiful as her. It's happened before," he said as he trailed off.
"Xorias, you haven't told us much about yourself. We don't know you that well," Katara said successfully changing the subject.
"Well, my full name is Xorias Odamori-Uchiha. I have two half-brothers. Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha. There are four of us left in my clan. Sasuke, Itachi, Madara, or Tobi if you will, and myself. Itachi and Tobi, are members of an evil organization known as Akatsuki. An organization, in which ANBU fights."
"Isn't it hard to fight your own brother, and another member of your family?" Katara asked intrigued to no end.
"Well, Tobi was actually the founder of my clan. How he is still alive still amazes me. But at any rate, my clan was destroyed by Tobi and Itachi, who betrayed us. He left Sasuke and myself alive to avenge the clan. We were separated after our clan's destruction. I was taken in by a group called, the Council of Lorii. They were my new family. I had a father figure, and a close friend. His name was Durei. I was assigned to investigate a city known as Konoha, which is the current village I belong to. I was to find an ex-member. Who ended up being my mentor, Kakashi. That was when I met Sakura. She was my first friend in the village. Then one night she was abducted."
"We traced the kidnappers, and found them to be the Council. We learned of their true intentions. They took Sakura as she was the apprentice of the village leader. But they didn't account for the fact that she was my friend. They revealed her in the room, after I showed myself. I realized it was then I knew I loved her. We ended up running after her outside. When we finally caught up to her, I went nuts. I closed my eyes, and when I re-opened them, I had activated my Sharingan for the first time. It was three wheels at the time-"
"The Sharingan?" Zuko asked.
"The Sharingan is one of three ninja eye techniques, being the strongest of the three, it is highly sought and highly valued. Here, I shall show you," Xorias said.
He closed his eyes, focused his chakra, and re-opened them, revealing his crimson red eyes, with four wheels, spinning wildly. Everyone gasped.
"That's really cool," Aang said.
"The Sharingan allows me to copy jutsu and this four-wheeled Sharingan grants me increased stamina and strength. It was believed that only three wheels could be achieved. Even I don't know how I achieved the fourth wheel. I wonder if my eyes can analyze your bending," he pondered.
"Well, I think that's enough for tonight. Let's get some rest," he said.
'Sakura…'
he thought as you climbed into a sleeping bag.Xorias woke the next morning restless, up before the others. He placed the hood over his head, and put his mask on. Xorias walked a few yards to the cliff side and sat down. The sun was barely over the horizon, making the sky a beautiful pink color.
"Sakura, I'll be back soon," he said quietly to yourself. Xorias closed his eyes, and began meditating.
Flashback:
"Ninja Art: Mind Shield Jutsu" Kabuto said……… "Forbidden Jutsu: Tele-dimension" Orochimaru yelled………
End Flashback.
'The mind shield jutsu… It must allow the user to block the mind of their opponent. My guess is that it was created and used to combat the Sharingan. If they could block the mind of the wielder of the Sharingan, they could gain the upper hand in any fight against anyone who possesses the power of the Uchiha clan eyes. But what is the Tele-dimension forbidden jutsu? I was able to analyze everything until the mind shield jutsu… Tele-dimension… this could be a jutsu that sends me to another dimension, but… How did he discover such a jutsu, and how would he be able to send me here?'
Xorias' thoughts would be interrupted as he heard the sound of yelling.
"Aang, get off my sister!" one yelled.
He was new to Xorias.
"Huh, wha…?" Aang said, obviously groggy.
Katara hearing this also woke up.
"What's going on Sokka?" Toph asked.
"Aang was sleeping with my sister!" Sokka claimed.
"What?"
"It was freezing last night! I had to get warm, so we slept closely, don't get any funny ideas in that head of yours," Katara explained.
"Yeah, well I th-" he said midway.
"Who is that?"
"That's Xorias, Sokka," Toph explained.
"We don't know where he came from yet, except that he isn't from around here,"
"Is he fire nation?"
"No, he's not."
"How do you know?" Sokka asked.
"Because he fought and defeated, those three fire nation women, Mei, Ty Lee, and Azula," Aang explained.
"Single-handedly," Katara added.
"By-by himself?"
"Yes," Toph confirmed.
"It's okay, Xorias, he's not hostile, he just gets uneasy around strangers," Katara explained.
He walked over to Sokka, pulled back his hood and took off his mask, and placed out his hand. He placed his hand on Xorias' and the two men shook hands.
"I'm Xorias, pleased to meet you."
"I'm Sokka. Sorry about that," he apologized.
"I should be more grateful after you saved my sister and the Avatar. If you need any information Xorias, I will be happy to provide it to you."
"Actually, I have one question for the moment," Xorias replied.
"Yes, anything."
"Is there anyone else I should know about? You know, am I going to be attacked by another warrior, get hit on the back of the head, or what have you, by someone else in your party?"
Katara laughed.
"No," Sokka said.
But much to Xorias' annoyance, he ended up introducing him to Appa and Momo.
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Chapter One is done! Hope you enjoyed. I need reviews! I need to know what I am doing well and what I could work on. Though this isn't my first FF, I still am new to this, so feedback would make me a very giddy Narutard.
