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Chapter 4 : To find resolve.
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B ( Bī), kumogakure's Kuroikazuchi no kami (black lightening god) moved briskly through the dense foilage of trees that surrounded konohagakure no sato.
The name Kuroikazuchi no kami always served as a reminder of the times he and A (Ay), the third Raikage of kumogakure were known as the strongest tag team since the formation of the village.
How they always fought against insurmountable odds, and always came out on top at the ending.
How when they always came back from each life staking battles, the villagers both civlians and shinobi alike always showered them with heaps of gifts and praises.
How songs of praises were made in their names and mother's whispered their heroic deeds to their children at nights as bedtime stories.
How they always proclaimed he would be the fourth Raikage after the retirement third.
"But that all chaged" B bitterly whispered to him self. His left and only good black muscular arm clenched tightly around the opening of the heavy grey sack that was slung across his shoulder as he hopped stealthily from tree to tree. "and it was all because I decided to play the hero"
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Five Years Earlier
B hurriedly moved through the narrow mountain edges which led to the main gates of kumogakure, his long white hair which was tied in a ponytail was suspended in the air due to the speed at which he was moving.
Ever since he had left for his mission four days earlier, he had been filled with a foreboding feeling, then he had immediately concluded that it was just a minor case of homesickness. Afterall this was the first time he had gone on a mission outside the village after A had had ascended to become third Raikage.
Half way up the tall mountain in which kumogakure was built untop, B's nose was bombarded with the stench of burning flesh, but the feel of malicious chakra in the air was much more intense and left the hairs at the back of his neck standing.
'kumogakure is under attack' B frantically thought
'His Village, the people he'd sworn to protect till his death were currently fighting for their lives or worse, dead' black lightening agitatedly coursed through his skin and his speed immensely increased as he activated his famed black lightening release.
"I wouldn't stand for that" B said in a determined voice and his green irides shone with unholy fury.
But who would dare attack them. It couldn't be Konoha, those tree huggers couldn't even challenge them when they plotted to kidnap the last remaining Uzumaki for fear of enraging them. Even so their spies in konoha were recently able to confirm the rumors circulating about the sondaime dying to seal the rampaging Kyūbi were true. Konoha had lost lots of promising shinobi then and even more during the third shinobi world war.
It couldn't have been Konoha. Trying to attack now with the low military power at their command even if Konoha's no Kiiroi Senkō (Konoha's Yellow Flash) lead the charge, it would still be suicidal.
Sunagakure were decurtate on funds, ever since the wind daimyō started outsourcing missions formally given to them to Konoha, So it was pretty obvious Kumogakure wasn't number one on their hit list.
Iwagakure was probably still building forces after the humiliating massacre they went through in the hands of Minato Namikaze during the Third Shinobi World War, If any one hated Konoha more than Kumo, it was probably Iwagakure.
A bestial roar filled with malice and hate almost stopped B in his tracks.
"It can't be" be fearfully whispered as he sent chakra to the soles of his sandal ran to the top of Kumogakure's gate tower .
He finally knew why he was anxious before he left the village on his mission.
As he got to the top of gate tower, he spared a cursory glance to the wanton destruction that was caused by the invaders. Only there weren't invaders.
For standing as taller than the tallest tower in the village was a beast, four sharp long dangerous looking horns stood on its head, though the lower part of its horns were sliced off. It's upper body was adorned with muscles, the beast's back was hunched and the lower back of the beast was composed of eight tails, which resembled the cephalopod arms of and octopus.
The beast had probably been slowly breaking out of its former jinchūriki, gradually emitting its evil chakra as it broke out. That had caused his feeling of anxiety.
'I could have stopped this' B sorrowfully thought as he gazed at the bodies of parents and children that lay on the ground, which the first Raikage had promised would be a haven to them.
"But now isn't the time for mourning or feelings of regret" B said, as he jumped seventy feet down from the top of the gate tower, a crater forming as the dropped to the ground.
He shook the feeling of fatigue that plagued him and sprinted in the direction in which he was sure A was battling the beast.
He got there almost half the time it usually took him. The kanji lightening on his left shoulder was glowing (雷, kaminari ) and black lightening was circling energetically round his legs.
"A-sama" B respectfully greeted. His eyes trained to the eight tailed beast that was currently forming a black orb of chakra close to its mouth.
"where is Furui and the rest of the Hachibi subduing team" B angrily asked, the cowards had probably run when the beast was freed. B always knew that four eyed coward, Furui won't have been able to stand the pressure and he had told A. But A still chose Furui over him to be a member of the team.
"Dead, all of them" A replied and B briefly glanced at A. Not because of how regretful he sounded, but how weak.
When B saw him he couldn't stop the surprised gasp that left him mouth. A looked hagard. His left hand was currently applying pressure on the right side of his chest which was profusely bleeding. He was currently in a crouching position, with his left knee touching the ground and his right arm trying and failing to push his body to a standing position.
"All of them sacrificed their lives to try to stop Hachibi and the reduce the amount of destruction it was causing on the village and died two days ago".
B gazed at the village which was ample with destruction. Craters more than twenty feet deep filled the once smooth floor. Buildings that once stood proudly on the summit of the mountain which they were built upon were now stone and dust. Even the Raikage's office was destroyed.
"such a good job they did" B thought sarcastically, before the last part of the sentence dawned him "wait how long have you been battling the beast?"
"Three days" the third Raikage answered with his eyes still on the Hachibi and the black ball of chakra it was still forming.
"B, it's about to release it's bijudama and I have exactly enough chakra to use the Kohaku no Jōhei (Amber purification pot) to seal it before I run out. Do you have enough chakra to subdue it long enough for me to finish the seals?"
B gauged the amount of chakra left in his reserve. He had sprinted back to the village immediately after his mission. He hadn't waited to recover before so he was currently low on chakra.
"Just enough to subdue it, until you finish" replied B as he gathered most of the remaining chakra and went through a sequence of hand seals so fast that if you blinked once you would miss it all entirely.
The twenty two seals he was making ended and his hands interlocked to form a Bird seal.
The amount of black lightening that was circling round his body became so voluminous and shot up to the sky resembling a very long cylinder that covered B.
B's hands interlocked again he formed a Horse Seal
The chakra cylinder that covered B wavered slightly, moved away from his body to the sky and formed a pitch black swirling mass on the sky which split into three parts. The three parts of the equally voluminous shapeless mass came crashing down to the ground in a way reminiscent of comets. Forming craters and dust to rise in the air covering them and B.
"Raiton: Toripuru Kuropansa" B proclaimed and the dust cleared to reveal three pure black identical looking panthers made entirely of black lightening.
The three panthers who stood at ten feet, each had a ball of black chakra almost half their height in their mouth.
B pointed at the black orb the Hachibi was forming and with a ferocious roar the panthers unleashed the three orbs with pinpoint accuracy to the bijudama the eight tails was forming.
The explosion that ensued when the four orb of destruction met was leviathan. Giant rocks flew around and B and A had to move a little to avoid being hit.
Wind blew them back and whipped their hair and clothes backwards, but they managed to stay in their positions through sheer strength, with their legs glued to the ground with chakra.
When the dust cleared the Hachibi was revealed with it's eight tails covering it's smoking body even it's head. The three panthers who had caused the explosion now surrounded the beast in a triangular formation waiting for the right time to instill more damage on it.
The Hachibi slowly removed the tails covering it. The three panthers immediately pounced, biting and clawing at any part of the Hachibi that wasn't covered with its tails.
With a roar of anger the eight tailed beast wrapped it's tails around the three panthers and crushed them out of existence with one of it's tails also shooting to B with blinding speed intent on making a hole in his body.
B focused lightening chakra into his hand, increasing the frequency of vibration and jumped up to avoid the Hachibi's missile from impaling him. The missile burrowed into the position in which he formally stood and burrowed out some feet away from the position and headed his way again.
B escaped the persistent tail of the Bijū by twisting out of the way and landing in the position he stood when the bijū's tail first attacked, his right hand which he had focused lightening chakra into cut easily through the part of the bijū's tail which it had earlier burrowed into the ground.
The bijū let out a roar of pain and then redrew the cut half of it's tail, while the other half fell listlessly to the ground.
B immediately went through Ram seal and the black lightening that was used to form the three panthers surrounded the Hachibi.
The black lightening that surrounded the Hachibi swirled slowly around it, gaining velocity and shape as B fed more chakra to the justu.
"Raiton: Kokuja" B roared beads of sweat slowly moved down his face as he strained himself to complete the jutsu.
The black lightening finally took the shape of an enormous anoconda with evil looking red eyes and length twice that of the titanic Hachibi.
With lightening fast speed the serpent wrapped its body around the Hachibi's tails, head and arms restricting it's movement completely.
"A, I can't hold it down for long" B said with urgency in his voice.
"Understood brother" A replied as he uncorked Kohaku no Jōhei and went through the last seals.
"Fuin" with that said A focused his remaining chakra on sealing the beast. Slowly but surely the red malicious chakra of the Hachibi headed into the pot.
The eight tailed beast trashed around in an attempt to break free from the binding but it only managed to position it's head which was touching the ground to face the third Raikage.
By the time B noticed the slight bulge in the bijū stomach it had already unleashed a red beam of chakra in the direction of the third Raikage.
'The eight tails had probably swallowed the bijūdama it was earlier forming, using the explosion caused by the orbs as cover', B thought as he ran to intercept the red beam that was heading towards A. 'Since this wasn't the first time we've used the Kohaku no Jōhei to seal it, it had probably also noticed that A couldn't move after the jutsu was activated'
B was already closer to the beam than A was now 'then it had waited for me to exhaust my chakra before it unleashed the jutsu at A' . B slowly focused huge amount of black lightening into his arms and his core emptied completely, 'But it had forgotten to take into account the resilience of Kumo ninja'
With a roar, B jumped in the way of the chakra beam. His right arm glowing and cackling with black lightening facing forward in preparation for the incoming beam, his left hand behind him and his two legs deeply dug into the ground.
If chakra exhaustion didn't kill him, then the red beam of chakra currently headed his way surely would.
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Present Time
But he hadn't died though. The red beam of bijū chakra had disentergrated his right arm up to his elbow joint, his right leg had also been mildy affected and never truly healed and his right eye had been blinded by the heat of the beam, but he had survived.
A had also survived that day thanks to him and the ungrateful mongrel had repaid him by stealing his dream of becoming Raikage from him by making his son his successor.
Even the villagers he had risked his life to protect were against him becoming Raikage. They didn't want a handicapped ninja as Raikage, because it would after all make Kumogakure look weak.
But he hadn't given up though, after five years of underground manipulation and countless blackmails, he finally was able to get the whole kumogakure council wrapped around his fingers without the notice of the third Raikage.
But B knew that the power of the Kumogakure council alone wouldn't be enough for him to impeach the third and instate himself as the fourth Raikage. For his plans to work he also needed the support of the lightening damiyō, and that was why he was here in konoha.
The lightening damiyō, like his predecessors had always worked to build up the military power of Kumogakure. That was why even with Third Raikage refusing, he had solely funded the mission for the kidnapping of Uzumaki Kushina. Adding a new bloodline to kumogakure's already formidable ninja forces was a dream every lightening damiyō strove to accomplish.
That was why B was in konoha wearing black from head to toe, and why the body of the Hyuga heiress was kept in a grey sack slung across his shoulder.
Him presenting the lightening damiyō one of the three great dōjutsu's in existence, would ensure the damiyō's total support for his cause. All that was left now was his escape plan.
He had two years ago used Kumogakure's spies in Konoha to ensure one of Konoha's gate guards would be unavailable when he passed the gate on his way out of the village. They had slowly bribed the chunin slowly increasing the difficulty of what he was to do and the amount of money given to him.
After two years of bribery and not getting caught, they had finally told the Chunin that they planned on carrying a package out of Konoha. The Chunin had at first demanded to know what it was they were planning on taking out, but when a price that would ensure him and his family lived comfortably for the rest of their lives, all questions were forgotten.
But B wasn't the trusting type. So he had the kidnapped the chunin's wife and child for the duration of the mission, just in case he began to have second thoughts.
Everything was in perfect place now. Even if he was caught, Konoha would let him go with only a tap on the wrist. With the condition the once strongest shinobi village was in now they couldn't afford to go to war with Kumogakure. He was the brother of the third Raikage after all and family meant everything to the old bastard.
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Naruto Namikaze stopped the push-ups he was doing as he sensed someone enter his sensory range. Nobody ever came this close to his secret hideout, it was one of the few places that had been abandoned after the attack of the Kyūbi six years ago.
Naruto without thinking suppressed his chakra completely, an ability he had earlier discovered was only common among a few powerful sensor ninja. He packed his training materials and covered all training dummies he had made himself with tree branches and leaves and ran into the hole he had carved in the bayan tree in case of situations like this.
His heart pounded frantically has he waited for the person currently headed his way. He must have carelessly left something that led them right to him. The ANBU that had always followed him had stopped two days earlier and he finally thought his Dad had finally given up on campaign of stopping him from going close to anything ninja related.
'They had probably wanted me to think they had stopped' Naruto thought as he moved closer into the opening of the tree.
Naruto immediately stopped breathing as he sensed the ninja stand opposite to the tree he was currently hiding in.
Now the ninja was this close to him, Naruto could now sense two distinctive chakra signatures coming from the ninja. The smaller chakra signature was masked by the larger one that was why he couldn't sense it earlier.
The larger chakra signature wasn't something he had never sensed in village before, the ninja's lightening charged chakra was an abnormality in a ninja village were most of the shinobi were fire natured.
But the smaller chakra signature was something he was very familiar with. He infact had been in contact with it two days ago when he had gone to the Nara household to meet up with some friends of his siblings.
Hyuga Hinata was one of Mito friends that didn't make fun of him just to impress Menma. His curiosity piqued Naruto slowly moved his head close to the opening in the tree, wondering what the Hyuga Heiress was doing in a deserted training ground without her usual bodyguard following her at this time of the night.
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B stood at one of the abandoned training grounds his associates had told him about. Konoha ninja were even more sentimental than he thought, even their ninja had abandoned a still perfectly functioning training ground because it was said to bring bad luck to any one who stood there and the reason was because it was the same place the Kyubi stood when it attacked their village six years earlier.
Fear makes people do some really irrational things sometimes', B thought as he jumped down from the tree he stood and into the clearing he was to wait for the gate guard that would take the package out of the village.
He then opened the gray sack in which the Hyuga heiress lay unconscious.
'she would probably wake up soon'
Bringing the Hyuga heiress out of the sack, B made sure her bindings were still tightly fastened before he rested her back on the tree opposite the bayan.
'After all the years and planning I've put into this, it would be hilarious if it ended by the Hyuga heiress dying of heat in a sack'
B smiled as he also rested his back on the tree, in two hours he would make a huge step in his quest on revenge and in two hours his dream would finally be secure.
B brandished a kunai from his pouch with his left arm as he waited for the gate guard. Although it isn't as good as his right arm was, he could still throw adequately with it.
He was after all a ninja, they always expected the unexpected and at this stage in his plan it was compulsory he was ready for anything.
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Naruto almost died of fear when the ninja in black shinobi sandal dropped down on the clearing close to his hiding stop, but the fear soon turned to horror when the unknown ninja with white hair and kumogakure head band secured round his hair dropped the unconscious body of Hinata Hyuga, bound and gagged on the floor.
He knew what the ninja's plans were. His mum had repeatedly told them tales of how she was almost kidnapped when she was little by kumogakure, and the only reason she escaped was because of their father's intervention.
The dark skinned ninja just had to bend a little to notice the hole in the tree and then he would find him anr once he did, he would surely kill him.
Naruto's heart rate increased as he squeezed him arm as he frantically tried to reach for his Kunai.
He really regretted not burrowing a way out of the tree now.
'I don't want to die' Naruto fearfully thought as he doubled the speed at which he was looking for the kunai.
Naruto almost let out a yelp as his fingers brushed with the sharp edge of his kunai. Having found the kunai's location, Naruto carefully angled his finger into the ring in the kunai and pulled it out of the bag.
Slowly bringing the kunai behind him he silently tried to make an escape for himself.
'what am I doing' Narutothoughtas he gazed at Hinata's prone and helpless form.
The reason he had trained obsessively over the years, was so he could be strong enough to always protect the people closest to him, an obsession that had grown stronger when his younger brother had saved him from some bullies some years back.
Now that he had the opportunity to do that he was running away.
'No, Namikaze Naruto isn't a coward'
Naruto held the strap of his bag with his left hand and with his right, he grasped firmly the edge of the tree.
'Naruto Namikaze never abandoned his friends'
With his right arm Naruto pulled himself out of his hiding place.
'If anyone wanted to take his friends, they would have to go through him'
Naruto removed his ninja pouch from his bag and firmly strapped it on his right leg.
'I'm not running away' Naruto thought and his eyes sparkled with determination stronger than diamond.
"Give me back my friend" Naruto shouted and his chakra flared at his ire and his eyes shone red with a tomoe hypnotically swirling in each eye.
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In an abyss of darkness, a crimson eye with three tomoes suddenly snapped open.
"Finally"
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AN: I have actually been dropping clues about the bloodline Naruto is going to have for a while now. So I'm sure some people saw that coming. So do you guys prefer the normal flashback or do you want me to keep doing it the way I did in this chapter?. And do you guys prefer writings in pov?
And thanks pein-sama for proof reading this chapter.
Till next time
Nefarious.
