A/N: the author's note will usually be at the end unless I have something I must mention before you read the story. This is the last part of this chapter and sorry that this took so long but I've been pretty swamped w/ lot's and lot's of projects and homework (I mean It's barely the first week of school, I got to catch a break and enjoy doing my hobby instead of doing something like studying or finishing my homework and projects. So, I escaped for quite a few hours and I'm really distressed since I lost my geometry book and all that and I have so much math to do not to mention…..nvm! Anyway, I don't want to put anything in parenthesis anymore and I don't want to make this author's note any longer so I'll end it.).
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Weapon part 2
" It's fine really, I petrified him. It should take his henchmen weeks to cure him and that's if Konoha doesn't find them first. Wow, my mission is pretty easy, however, I've already located the demon vessel, he shouldn't be much of a problem with someone like me." Naruto reassured the Akutsuki members at the base who he liked to call "family".
However, the Akutsuki members were not reassured. " That is unacceptable Naruto, we must dispose of that filthy piece of waste immediately. However, why did he attack you in the middle of the chunnin exams? Orochimaru is smarter than that, he knew how we would react, yet he kept on…" Itachi said concerned.
Naruto grinned, saying, " Oh, Itachi-san, I had no idea you loved me so much!"
The other Akutsuki members sniggered as Itachi shot them down with an evil glare.
" Ok, ok, ok. Look, me and Fishy-san will go and get rid of him, how's that?" Naruto asked Itachi placing his left hand on his blue friend's right shoulder.
Kisame growled and quickly pulled away from Naruto's hand. " STOP CALLING ME THAT, I SWEAR I'LL KILL YOU!"
Naruto jumped back and shouted running off in the distance, " fishy, fishy, fishy!"
Before Kisame could take a single step towards his blonde prey, Itachi then said, " Kisame, you know what to do, get rid of him, and don't get caught. Also, Naruto will accompany you, it'll be better for him to feel some fresh blood."
" I don't think he'll want to," Kisame said questionably.
" He doesn't have a choice, he must kill eventually, better start now, it's his side mission tell him." Itachi said harshly then walking off into the darkness of the cave along with the other seven Akutsuki members.
Naruto hopped from tree to tree playfully knocking the fifty feet tall trunks to the ground as he went.
Kisame was soon right behind him grabbing Naruto by his cloak. " Let me go blueby!"
" Don't call me that! Naruto, how many times do I have to tell you, you are like a kid! Grow up, your part of the Akutsuki now, learn to be one." Kisame ruthlessly.
Naruto dropped his head in shame and apologized. Then the blonde shinobi and the fish-like man dashed off reaching deeper and deeper within the forest.
" Kisame-san? Um…do you know how I was found?" Naruto asked questioning his blurry past. " I can't really remember anything, all I remember, is waking up and I was three and I started my training the next day."
" Itachi found you, then he brought you back. THAT'S ALL, NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED!" Kisame shouted obviously hiding something.
" Gosh, whenever I try to go there, everybody says the same thing. I want to know what happened, wouldn't you want to know about your past?" Naruto said sadly.
" Look Naruto, don't get all mushy on me, it really won't work, we're all S-rank criminals, we don't have time for chitchat, we must think up a plan, and carry it out. We have to consider the limitless possibilities of what will go down today. Stay low, we can't get caught by Konoha, or else we're dead rats." Kisame said changing the subject so Naruto would forget about it.
But Naruto persisted, " But Fishy-san, I just want to know why everyone is like that? Why do we need the demon vessels anyway?"
The two shinobi came to an abrupt halt standing an a large branch sixty feet up. " Just get over it kid! Clear your mind, because if you don't, then your going to have trouble fighting today. Also, you've got to make the kill, it's your assignment for this particular side-mission."
" But.."
" No buts, I'm sick and tired of you not wanting to kill anyone. We all put our time and effort into training your sorry butt for ten years, and all you can do to repay us is say you don't want to kill? Be reasonable Naruto, think of others, your not going to let your whole life have gone to waste are you?"
" So that's what I am? Some kind of tool, some kind of weapon? So you can use me whenever you like? I'm sick and tired of you all ordering me to things for you! If you want to kill him, why can't you kill him yourself?" Naruto said angrily waving his arms in the air to demonstrate his frustration.
" This is the life you chose, you will follow by-"
" I DIDN'T CHOOSE ANYTHING!" Naruto shouted in his friend's face. " I never asked to be trained, all of a sudden, I wake up and you train me to kill? I never asked for any of this."
Kisame still had something to say, " Oh yeah? Well who was the one begging for their first real mission because all the others were no challenge? Let me see, oh yeah, IT WAS YOU NARUTO, YOU! NOW IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH, DEAL WITH IT! WE'VE GOT A JOB TO DO AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT! NOW LET'S GO!"
Naruto rubbed his eyes before continuing, being careful not to show how hurt he was to Fishy-san. Who was he? Why was he trained all of a sudden? He needed to know his past. He had to find out. There was only one thing to do for now, complete the mission, carry it out, and that was exactly what Naruto was going to do. He was going to KILL Orochimaru.
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" So this is it huh?" Kisame said softly crouching slightly observing his surroundings.
" Yup, and this is the dragon i summoned, which he was trapped in." Naruto said standing tall with both hands on his hips. " I got him alright."
" Don't get too proud, he escaped Mr. Expert." Kisame said concerned.
" What?" Naruto screeched, his loud obnoxious voice echoing throughout the forest. Realizing what he had done, Naruto cupped his hands over his mouth and received Kisame's scolding.
After the small incident, Kisame pointed at the dragon's jaw, " look at this, Orochimaru is smart Naruto. He wouldn't fall for such an easy trick. He escaped right under your fingers and you didn't even notice. The jaw, the jaw was closed shut when you tried to petrify the dragon. However, you took no notice whether if it was open or closed. That's why he was able to get away. He dislocated the jaw and switched himself with this." Kisame then placed his right index finger on the petrified tree trunk inside the mouth of the dragon. " That's why, this was a trap. You were careless Naruto, and now, Orochimaru has us right in his grasps."
Naruto could hear the demented laugh above him and his ally. They both looked up, to see exactly who they were expecting, Orochimaru.
" A very smart observation Kisame-san." Orochimaru said with a devious smile. " Unfortunately for you, I knew they would send only two of you. Which is why I came prepared."
At that last sentence, shinobi appeared all around the two Akutsuki members and surrounded them, outnumbering them two-hundred to two.
" What are you smiling about Naruto?" Kisame asked angrily and nervously at the same time.
" Because, I know…for a fact, that we can take them. You sound pretty nervous Fishy-san, that's a first!" Naruto said with a grin as he whirled out a kunai twirling it with his middle finger. He stopped it grasping the bandaged handle leaving the blade facing down.
" Ha, ha, ha, ha! You amuse me Naruto-kun. This will be fun. One last chance," Orochimaru said leaving small room for a hopeful answer.
" I told you Oro, you can't grant me what I want. Do you know what that is?" Naruto asked still keeping his wide grin from ear to ear showing his white, gleaming teeth.
" And what is that?"
" I'll tell you what it is, power. Power Oro-sama. Now, shall we get that started?" Naruto said raising his kunai towards his snake-like enemy.
" Very well, if that is your choice, I suppose I will give you the inevitable much more earlier than I had hoped, Death." Orochimaru said with the same scheming smile.
" Naruto." Kisame said as he clutched his hands together forming the first seal of the combination.
That was all Naruto needed to understand. " Got it!" He shouted as he rushed off to fight the five sound shinobi rushing toward them.
After Kisame had finished completing the series of hand seals, he shouted, " Doshaburi No Jutsu!"
Within five seconds, the sky grew dark, the wind grew harsh, and the whistling sound of death filled the air as pouring rain fell from the darkness above. The water rushed down the tree branches and poured all over the ground getting everybody soaked beyond measure. It only got worse, severe winds carried not the small raindrops but the gallons of water and spreading it all over the forest like a plague throughout the land.
It was almost impossible to breathe for there was downpour everywhere. Shinobi were now fighting blindly, all the shinobi, except Kisame and Naruto. They were built for this, trained especially for the weather.
" NOW!" Kisame shouted to Naruto as both of them quickly formed a few hand seals shouting in unison.
" Mizu Bunshin No Jutsu!" Suddenly, hundreds of water clones appeared forming out of the deep puddles that were created during the storm. Now the odds were even!
The battle was catastrophic beyond measure. Every sound nin were being slaughtered at each point they stood. Occasionally a water clone would be defeated only to be recreated once more out of the flood that had now brewed. The water surrounded the forest and was even 4 feet deep in some parts on the ground. However, Orochimaru was helping his side by a lot. He was taking on Naruto and Kisame both at the same time. The battle wasn't looking very good for either of the sides. If the rain kept pouring and the wind kept blowing, then Konoha ANBU would soon arrive.
" You have improved Naruto!" Orochimaru said under his evil grin. He quickly stooped down low and cut Kisame's left ankle tendon as the blue shinobi rushed toward him. Kisame fell to the ground at Orochimaru's feet.
" FISHY-SAN!" Naruto shouted as he formed a chain of hand seals and then said holding out his right arm, " Daija futoiude!"
From under his Akutsuki sleeve formed a large snake from Naruto's arm. It extended not toward Orochimaru but Kisame. It hastily curled around his flat body and retracted back to Naruto bringing Fishy-San along. The extended snake uncurled from Kisame's body and transformed back into naruto human arm.
Kisame lay on the ground clutching his ankle trying to stop the blood from pouring out.
Orochimaru smiled then licked his purple lips saying, " Looks like your in need of a little help."
" So are you!" Kisame said as he appeared from behind Orochimaru and tore out his throat with a kunai. The Kisame lying at Naruto's feet turned into water to join the flood.
Orochimaru fell to the ground with such a large gap in his neck. Kisame kicked the limp body and threw down Orochimaru's esophagus.
" Let's go Naruto, our work is finished here." Kisame said as the sky cleared up to reveal a bright sun already doing it's job of drying the land and shedding light throughout the nation. " The ANBU will be here shortly!"
The two Akutsuki members left the forest and went back to the Akutsuki base. However, there was one drop of water that the sun did not dry up, and it lie, on Naruto's right arm…
Chunnin Exam Day
Naruto entered the stadium floor and took his place next to the other gennin. He did not wear his cloak this time but normal Shinobi uniform, much like the one Kakashi always wore.
Naruto looked to his right straight into his opponents eyes who gave him a murderous glare. The deathly stares were broken when Neji came to sit in between them.
After the Chunnin exam stadium filled up, the final test began starting with the match of Lee and Neji.
" I bring you sadness Lee, for you cannot beat me. Your loss was determined the moment you were picked to be my opponent." Neji said as he shifted into his stance bring on arm down low and the other up high into the air.
Lee altered his position into his fighting stance as well. " Neji-san, I bring you, a genius of hard work."
The match had started, and Lee was off into the air behind Neji even before Neji could make a move. Lee twisted his body a full 360 degrees and gave a good sidekick to Neji's head sending him flying into a nearby bush. Neji got up as Lee shouted, " Tekken No Jutsu!"
Blue chakra surrounded Lee as he rushed at Neji at an even faster speed charging the Hyugga with his shoulder. Again, Neji had no time to react therefore, causing him to fly into the stadium wall causing bits of rubble to fall.
Neji once more stood up this time grasping his stomach in pain and then spewing out blood from his mouth and nose.
Lee slowly walked towards Neji until he was in rage of Neji's new attack, the Hakke Rokujuyon Sho technique. Neji shouted his new found technique rushing at Lee hitting him with two fingers blocking his chakra holes. The surrounding chakra around Lee faded as Lee lye on the ground in pain.
" You've made a mistake Neji-san. You must've forgot, I don't use Chakra!" Lee shouted as he rushed at Neji at a normal speed.
" Hakkesho Kaiten!" Lee tried to stop himself at that point from rushing forward, but it was too late. Neji spun around creating a chakra barrier that was used in an offense and defense way. Lee soared through the air like a dashing bullet skidding across the grass causing dirt to rise.
-Wow, they're weak!- Naruto thought. As he slumped down lazily and closed his eyes for a brief moment.
The earsplitting sound of Naruto's fake name awoke him. Naruto looked around and saw that most of the battles had gone by. There were winners on one side, and some losers still stood, but some of them were in the emergency room. Naruto looked down into the field and saw that his opponent was waiting for him stand straight with his arms crossed.
" Whoa, how long was I out?" Naruto asked himself. Unfortunately, he got no answer so he jumped down to the battlefield to face his opponent.
When the battle began Naruto spoke in a voice so that only his opponent could hear him, " Listen up demon! I don't care what your reasons are for this, but you will not win. The chunnin exam ends here. I'm taking you. You can either cooperate, or-"
However Naruto was cut off as a bunch of sand from the gourd on Gaara's back charge at him quickly. Naruto barely managed to dodge however his hand was caught and wrapped around in the process. The sand then managed to crawl up Naruto's left arm from where it had caught his hand.
Naruto whipped out a kunai and managed to slash at the incoming sand. His opponent stuck his hand out and clenched it creating the sand to squeeze Naruto's hand and forearm, breaking all those bones. Naruto screamed in pain as the sand left his arm and regrouped with the other sand inside the gourd. Naruto could see that with one arm broken, this was not going to be an easy task. " Your lucky we need you!" He shouted for all to hear.
However, Naruto didn't care, he rushed at Gaara dodging the incoming sand. However his fierce punch was blocked by a sand shield right before Naruto could hit him. He dashed away trying to figure out a way to defeat his opponent.
-I can't really use any Genjutsu or Ninjutsu because I have one useless hand. I'm going to have use only Taijutsu with three limbs. But he does have a shield, how could I do this?- Meanwhile sand was unnoticeably building up in size behind Naruto.
Naruto finally noticed once he was in the shade of the sand. But it was too late. The stadium watched in horror as the sand built over Naruto and crushed him beneath the waves. A cloud of dirt rose and filled the air and blinded the stadium from even the simplest glimpse.
Finally, when the dirt rose and cleared, the air was clean again and free to breath. The audience looked back down into the stadium, what they found was a blonde kid. That blonde kid was standing over Gaara who was now unconscious. Gaara had cracks in his skin and had an unconscious face of pain. He lay at Naruto's feet who was looking down full of sand all over his clothes and face.
The audience was now confused at the sight they now witnessed. They needed an explanation. That was exactly what they got.
" He broke my arm, giving me a very big disadvantage not being able to use any ninjutsu or Genjutsu. So, I had to act fast. It wasn't until later that I realized that the sand was above me. However, I noticed just in time because if I hadn't moved, not only would my arms be broken, but my whole body would be too. Yes, he crushed my other arm which left me at an even bigger disadvantage."
The Hokage stood up, finally figuring out the occurring events. He pointed at Naruto and shouted, " Seize him!"
Shinobi from all places in the stadium jumped down and rushed at Naruto. Naruto slipped his right foot under Gaara, kicked him up approximately 50 feet into the air, and jumped up after him then carrying the unconscious demon on his shoulders.
He then leaped to a seat in the stadium continuing his explanation on how he beat his opponent without any arms while dodging Konoha shinobi left and right.
Constantly moving from place to place, Naruto said, " So then I finally was out and undetected within the rising dirt. So nobody could see, and neither could Gaara, which gave me the opportunity. I jumped over him and gave a hard kick to the top, crushing the sand shield beneath my foot. My foot followed through and kicked his head knocking him out. And that's my brilliant victory. Now, I'll have to get back to base and take Gaara with me. I'll see you all!"
But before naruto could jump, Kakashi, the Hokage, Asuma, Kankurou, and Temari jumped and surrounded him.
" Oh shoot." Naruto sighed. " This is going to be a LOT of trouble especially since I have to carry this red-head freak on my shoulders and I have no arms to use. No, I can't fail my first mission!"
" Who are you working for?" Kakashi asked demanding an answer.
" I won't tell you anything! Let's get this started!" Naruto shouted as he jumped up carrying his opponent. The five shinobi jumped up after him each forming hand seals quickly.
Naruto swiftly moved backwards and gave a powerful kick to Temari's head which then clashed with her sibling's head, Kankurou. That kick both took them down and Naruto continued his run out of the stadium with two Jounin and one Hokage after him.
Poof! There was an unexpected person standing ready to meet Naruto as he ran, Orochimaru.
" I killed you!" Naruto shouted as Orochimaru's punch connected with Naruto's face sending him flying back a few meters.
" Orochimaru!" The Hokage shouted as he prepared to fight the snake like Sannin.
" Relax old man! I've got a debt to pay…" But still, nobody bought it considering all the past times that Orochimaru had betrayed Konoha. But Orochimaru paid no attention to that fact and continued to rush at Naruto.
Naruto was able to dodge every single one of everybody's hits, however, he didn't have any time to look around to see where Gaara was nor try to hit anybody back. He was at a HUGE disadvantage and in a few more minutes, he would be history. He had to do something, and fast! Time was running out and so was his energy. Every minute a new shinobi would jump in to help the battle, which would then only make Naruto work harder and faster, each second exhausted Naruto more and more.
Soon enough, just like he predicted, his movements had started to slow down and he was now getting hit here and there. The battle would soon be over.
BAM! Kakashi gave an overwhelming blow to Naruto's chest which made Naruto fly into the stadium wall, crushing the metal behind him. He lay on the floor too exhausted and hurt to stand up and defend himself. He couldn't breathe and had a devastating pain inside his chest.
He lay there looking at the small white clouds with his azure melancholy eyes for a split second. Then a sudden thought crossed his mind which would have an impact so great, it would change history. Naruto could see that this wasn't the life he wanted, he wanted to be your average day normal shinobi and to be able to have free time. He wanted a peaceful life not a dangerous one. He never got to make his own decisions before, his first mission, his arms were broken, he couldn't breathe well, and he was probably going to die. He didn't want this to happen. He wanted to know about his past, where he went wrong, what he did, why he had the life he has now. He wanted so many answers to so many questions.
Answers needed time, and that was exactly the thing Naruto didn't have. TIME.
Then, the world around him seemed to drown with silence, slowly, before he went completely deaf, he could hear screaming and shouting. Yelling and blood splattering against the floor. But all he could see was the small white clouds, so peaceful…..
OMGosh I'm so sorry this took so long but I can only work on Fridays cuz I got TUNS of homework everyday. But I finally finished it and I will definatly try to make the next one cum out sooner than it took for this one. The first author's note in the beginning of the story was three weeks ago! Also, please tell me how I could improve my story and what u think would be cool if it happened. Thank you and until next time.
