Hey guys, it's , Master XIII. Look, I'm osorry this is so late, I have just had a pretty hard time getting around to my stories lately. One of the large, main reasons is because I have been trying to find an artist for a manga I am working on. Anywee, here is the next chapter of karasu of jump.
Naruto opened his eyes to look around. He was in a desert, and he was completely alone. The flapping of wings caught his attention as he sat up and looked towards the starry night sky. Shelly was circling above him, telling him to use her eyes. He closed his own eyes with a smirk and concentrated, finding himself able to see from his partners vantage point.
"Okay, Shells, let's see where we are." He says, receiving a squawk from above as the bird starts to fly west, soon coming across a massive city about a days full run away. The buildings alone were daunting. They were talled than anything he had ever seen, made of stone, metal and glass. O lower, see if we can figue out what kind of language they speak." He says, watching as shelly does just that. He immediately sees many people. Some are riding inside of strange metal contraptions and others are talking into smaller, plastic ones, but, he did know the language.
"Come on back, we need to find a cave or someplace to rest so I can speak to kisuke." Naruto says, opening his eyes to take another look around. 'Nothing but an endless wasteland of dry, hot, sunbeaten weather in the morning. This should be fun.' He tells himself sarcastically as he stands and begins to walk slowly towards the west, swinging his duffel bag back over his shoulder and drawing his trenchcaot closer against the cold night air.
-With sasuke's group-
Sasuke groaned as he sat up, running a hand across his scarred face before opening both of his eyes as much as he could. Staring right back at him was the ceiling of dark cave. He sat up after a few seconds, seeing Lee sitting in front of a small fire, poking at it with a stick. Neji and Ten-Ten were still unconscious against a wall. Neji had an arm wrapped around the sleeping Kunoichi's waist. Tenten was lying across his chest, one of her buns tickling his chin.
The lazy pervert and the pink-haired whore, as he had come to call his former teammate and sensei, were not there. No doubt they were out trying to find and kill Naruto before he woke up.
'Kami, I hate them…' He thinks to himself, standing up and walking over to sit in front of the fire by Lee. As he slides his sheathed Chokatou back across his waist, he hears someone's footstep behind him. Turning around quickly, bringing the sword halfway out of it's sheathe, he sees the new guy, Sai, standing there behind him, expressionless as the day before. Said artist had a sketchpad in his hand, and a piece of charcoal in the other.
"Uchiha-san, your awake. Hatake-san and Haruno-san left about ten minutes ago. Their excuse that they provided me was Recon." The pale skinned boy said with a fake smile. "I placed an ink bug on Hatake-san's vest. I thought you and the others would like to know what they are discussing. My bug will return to me soon enough and then expand into a detailed description of what they were saying in my sketchpad if you would like to know…" Sai offered and Sasuke merely gave a nod to the other pale boy as he eases his blade back into it's sheathe and sits down next to the Taijutsu specialist. After a few more minutes staring at the fire, Lee looks at Sasuke for a second before speaking.
"Sasuke-san." Lee says, getting the raven-haired teens attention. Sasuke for one is surprised at the serious tone he is using. "Does Sakura-Chan really intend to kill Naruto-kun?" he asks, voice quivering sadly a bit at the use of the rosette girl's name, which Sasuke can understand considering how he likes Sakura so much but it Naruto's friend.
"Yes, Her and Kakashi both intend to kill him as far as I can tell. I mean to stop them before that happens." Sasuke replies, activating the Sharingan for a moment as his unscarred eye narrows to match the size of his scarred eye. The killing intent leaking off of him is enough to wake up both Neji and Tenten.
The both of them open their eyes together, just as Sasuke cuts the flow of intent. Tenten looks straight up at Neji, and raises her right hand and letting loose an ear splitting scream of "Hentai" as she did so because unfortunately for Neji he seemed to have placed a hand on a part of her besides her waist when getting up…
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(Jump city, Titans Tower…)
Two of the male titans jolt awake in a cold sweat at the exact same moment, speaking in time with on another even though they are nowhere near each other. "A fellow pervert has temporarily fallen." They chant as one before shuddering and trying to get back to sleep.
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(Konoha…)
Jiraiya looks up from his notes outside of the hot springs before chanting in a glazed over voice. "A fellow Pervert has temporarily fallen." He chants, unconsciously covering himself before getting back to his research.
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(Sasuke's group…)
Both Lee and Sasuke wince and cover their 'Mini-me' as Neji groans from inside a Neji shaped hole in the stonewall of the cave. Unconsciously, the two of them say an odd mantra under their breath as Tenten sits down next to them, warming her hands to the heat of the flames. She casts a small glance at Sasuke before deciding to speak.
"Do you want to kill Naruto, Sasuke?" She asks, the fingers on her left hand twitching towards the edge of her weapons case as his own twitches towards the Chokatou slung into his belt. Before Sasuke can respond, however, she starts speaking again. "I'll kill you if you if you try. He was the first real friend I had back at the orphanage." Sasuke looks at her before shaking his head under her heated gaze. She looks him over carefully before speaking again, her tone seemingly sad.
"I met him when I was eight. I was in the park, trying to make friends. But, nobody liked me because of my "Thing" for weapons. Ami and Kuroi, a few girls from my year at the academy had me against a tree with a group of other kids. They were making fun of me and saying I shouldn't act like a boy and stuff. That was when he came over to stop them, at first, they just laughed at him. Then, he made a threat. 'If you don't leave her alone, your head is going INTO that tree.' He had told them, pointing from Kuroi to Ami and then to the tree behind me. When they didn't stop, he kicked Kuroi in the gut, spun her around when she leaned over, and then grabbed both her and Ami and slammed them into the tree knocking them both out. A red-haired woman, his mother I guess, came over and disappeared with him before I could ever thank him." As Tenten stops speaking, Sasuke sighs, only for Neji, who had just joined them, to start speaking as he to warmed his hands while nursing a large bump on his head.
"I met Naruto-san when I was six. The Kumo ambassador had captured hinata-sama, on one of the nights he was staying in the village. He was walking by, just enjoying the night he had said, when he saw the man with Hinata stuffed into a bag. From what I was told, he leapt to help her. When she was free, they took him out together, with Anko-san's help. She had been eating a stick of Dango in a nearby tree. When my father and Hinata's father came upon the scene he killed the man after finding him half dead on the ground. While he then found that Naruto was sitting on the ground with his eyes closed, Hinata was staring at Anko, and Anko herself was covered in blood from head to toe.. After that, Hinata asked about Anko pretty often. I didn't see Naruto until my second year at the academy, wearing orange and shouting from a swing, I assumed it was a different boy to the one I met." Once again, before Sasuke can speak, someone interrupted, only this time it was Lee who opened his mouth for a confession.
"He was my first inspiration for training. I watched him and Kiba-san racing one day. It got to the point where the two of them were nothing but blurs; But Naruto was always a little faster. I saw him sparing with Ino, avoiding what I had thought of as Jyuuken at first with the way she would move. He would keep disappearing and then reappearing, like in a black blur. He would fight two, sometimes three of them at a time. And normally he would win. After awhile, I stopped seeing them train. I didn't know why until I saw him at the academy." As soon as Lee finishes, Sai starts to speak, causing a vein to appear on the Uchiha's forehead.
"This Naruto person we're chasing sounds like he is a truly inspiring person. I can only hope to meet him someday." He says, looking up from his sketchbook, smiling a real smile for once, and his hand is somehow still working on the picture of them before the fire. Sasuke smiles slightly at the comment before closing his eyes.
"Yeah, he is. He's like a brother to me." Sasuke says, surprising everyone there, even Kakashi and Sakura as they walk through the Genjutsu woven around the entrance. Both of them receive a sharp glare from all of the caves occupants, even Sai. As the silver-haired pervert passes the silent artist, a small, black bug flies from Kakashi's Jounin vest and lands on Sai's notebook, sinking into the pages and forming into several pages of neat script… With a smirk, he stands and walks to the fire, ignoring the two conspiring Nin in the corner. Sitting down, he hands the book to the Uchiha.
-Several hours later, Naruto's mind-
"Kisuke, Why did my friends disappear?" Naruto shouts into the darkened room of what looked a small store, only to get a loud, harsh snore in response from another room. "Oh, please tell me he's not asleep again." SNORE!!!
"Dammit!" He shouts, closing his eyes and opening them again to find himself in the real world again. He had managed to find a cave a few hours ago, it was cold, but he had managed to get a fire going with a small katon jutsu. Shelly stood next to him, preening the feathers of her left wing for a moment before she looks up at him and cocks her head to the side, staring at him expectantly. Naruto makes eye contact with her for a few seconds before speaking.
"What, I'm heading there tomorrow. The gate wore me out." He tells her, only for his partner to jump onto his leg and squawk lightly, flapping her wing in front of his face once. He gives her a look of confusion. Sighing, Naruto reaches into his pocket and withdraws an old, beaten up headband with a metal plate inscribed with a leaf symbol. The cloth was long, black, and mostly torn to threads. The plate was in slightly better shape. It was scuffed and scraped in so many places that one could hardly see the insignia stamped on it. The sharpest thing about this hitai-ate was the fact that the symbol was scratched out with two, long, jagged marks in the shape of a curving x.
"Why would I wear this thing, we are'nt even in a place where people would know what it means." He tells er, only for Shelly to jump up quickly and peck his forehead hard enough for it to bleed, before it heals right up. "OW, okay okay. that hurt." He says, wiping the plate off as best he can with the sleeve of his trenchcoat before holding it up to his face to peer into it. His reflection stares back at him. However, he could hardly recognize himself as he moved it closer to better inspect his new features. To start, his hair, still pulled back into it's normal, long ponytail, had changed from it's original sun-kissed blonde to a dark, blood-red. His eyes were now the same color as his hair, the pupils now a pair of barely visible ebony slits. His skin was slightly paler and the tps of a pair of ivory fangs could be seen poking out over his lower lip. The most surprising thing about his new appearance, however, was the fact that the horrible, whisker-mimicing scars that had once adorned his cheeks, were now fully healed and were completely gone. He runs his free hand across the now smooth skin of his left cheek, a single unnoticed tear slides down his cheek as he remembers the night he got those scars. The very night his mother died.
-Flashback-
The doorbell rang, Kushina, pushing her red hair away from her face, rose from the stairs and walked down to the front door. Little Naruto stayed sting there reading intently from an old, large, leather brown book adorned with his families symbol sat in his lap. He watched as his mother easily opened the large front door, only to be pushed to the tiled floor by a group of adults., led by a pink-haired manand a green-eyed woman as they, and several others, stalk in.
"Hello, miss Uzuaki, we are here with a few complaints about your son. " says the pink-haired amn, bending over to look into her dark brown eyes. "Allow me to present our solution." He says eviliy, reaching down and ripping her shirt and pants away before dropping his own pants and laying donw on top of her. Several of the other men, including a teenaged Kakashi, cheer him on as Naruto watches his mother scream. The green-eyed woman, accompanied by several others, walk slowly up to Naruto. One of them, a middle-aged woman with purple hair(Ami's mom. Not Anko.), bends over to ake a very close look at him before straightening up and slapping him across the face.
"You hurt my daughter, you will regret it." She says, smacking him again and again until both sides of his face are bleeding freely. As soon as she stops, the wounds on his face close up as the woman with the green eyes steps forward and charges a high amount of chakra to her index finger, creating a chakra scalpel which she drags slowly across his left cheek once,eliciting a high-pitched scream from his mouth. She does this five more times, leaving three long bleeding marks across each cheek, the little boy screamiong the entire time as the woman herself laughs hysterically.
-Flashback end.-
The tears fall freely now, hitting the stone floor of the cave with small, wet thuds. After several minutes, Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki, the last descendat of Eric Draven, The Sorrow of konoha, the Jinchuuriki of the kyubi no kitsune, the slayer of the akatsuki, lays donw on the cold stone floor and cries himself to sleep. Never once realizing that his tears are mixed with a small amount of ruby red blood.
-with Ino and Hinata-
"Where are we?" asks the sadistic Hyuga, striking one flint to another over a pile of dry leaves. Ino looks over at her and shakes her head, continuing to skin a dead rabbit with one her serrated kunai.
"I don't know, but, it's a lot like home." She says. They had awoken several hours ago in a large, hot, stinking swampy forest. The anials theyhad found were almost completely identical to the ones from their world, but there was this stench, that they could not identify. They knew that they were no longe in their world because the aura of the place felt completely different.
"Well, we gotta find out tomorrow. I'll take first watch tonight after we eat." Hinata says, giving a happy squeal as the fires blazes into life. Ino looks at her with a serious expression before cracking a compleletly hilarious smile and speaking.
"Alright, just, don't try and rape me like you did last time. Ask, and I'll think about it." Ino replies, handing the skinned rabbits to her partner and laughing at Hinata's beet-red, blushing face.
-with Shikamaru, Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino-
SNORE! SNORE! SNORE! Shino's brow twitched beneath his hood everytime they breahthed, trying to keep himself from illing his frinds. He was trying to focus on the rolling of the waves before him instead of the three chainsaws cutting laying around the fire behind him. But, he was rapidly losing focus as a multitude f sweatdrops and tickmarks were pushing tjeir way to the surface of his hood. The sun was just starting to rise and he couldn't wait to wake them up in the most annoyingly painful way he could think of. Insects straight up the nose! He began to chuckle lightly at the notion, very anxious fr the sun to finish rising.
-Titans tower with Raven-
Raven sat up in bed quickly with a sharp gasp. She had had another dream about him. This time, instead of dreaming about him with a group of others, she was dreaming about him and her personally. There were many images in these dreams. One was of him drilling straight through the chest of a silver-haired man in a face mask with a spiraling ball of black energy similar to her own. Another was of himstadning over the titans on a bulding with a pair of other teenagers. One wore a black trenchcoat and a broad-brimmed aht. The other wore a black hoody with the hood up and a brown flak jacket. The one image that stuck out the most in her mind, however, was the most unbelievable on of all.
-Flashback-
Raven was on the ground. The sky was red, like blood. Jer father, Trigon, stood above her, taller than most skyscrapers. Raven herself seemed to be hurt. The red gem on her fore –head, which usually glowed slightly, was in pieces on the ground in front of normally purple cloak had turned a shade of non-descript grey. Narut stood between them, a mask painted on his face with the mark of the fallen on his forehead. His trenchcoat flared out behind him as a pair of black crows wings stretched out from his shoulder blades. His eyes were as gold as those of the blackbird that circled above them. He had a pitch balck sword in one outstretched hand, and a three barrled gun in the other hand, which seemed to be covered in a metal, clawed gauntlet.
"You Will Not Harm Raven Any Furhter!" he shouts, dashing forward as a black blur as Raven shouts his name out after him at the top of her lungs. She watches as he dodges several of is attacks and flys into the sky with severl hard flaps of his wings, head towards the demon lord at an even faster speed.
-Flashback end-
Raven didn't understand why she was having these dreams about him, but, everytime she did, her emotions would be so out of control that she would have to organize them through her mirror. She stood up and, not noticning the small smile on her own face, icked up the small gothic hand mirror and dissapeared into her own mind.
-Chapter end-
