And now the next chapter to The Darkened Spirit.
Thanks for those reviews I got and I hope you all have enjoyed the fic and to continue enjoying it.
Riddick looked at his little group. It was the next day and Riddick had decided to let them rest a bit more before they leave.
Gaara had been fairly quiet while packing. Riddick knew he was probably in deep thought over what he had agreed to.
Naruto and Haku had left him alone probably sensing this.
Riddick realy didn't care 'He chose now lets see if he can live up to it.'
Riddick walked to Gaara who hadn't heard him. Riddick climbed silently on a rock and crouched into a comfortable position.
"You do know what will happen if you leave with us?" Riddick asked.
Gaara turned real fast toward him making Riddick smirk "Since you are leaving they will start to get worried."
Gaara looked unconvinced "I am considered the town demon how will leaving make them worried?"
Riddick jumped off the rock standing in front of Gaara his sand moving to protect him if Riddick attacks.
Riddick chuckled "They will be afraid the demon of their village has left to plan for they're demise, or that you betrayed them for another village."
Gaara didn't even flinch "I don't care I am with people who at least don't think less of me than themselves." Gaara said going back to packing.
Riddick shrugged and walked back to his spot and watched them.
A few hours later everyone was ready and he put on a large cloak and used the hood to hide his face, everyone else did so with theirs.
Riddick walked leisurely toward the gate everyone else trying to do so as well.
Riddick arrived at the gate and two gate guards stopped him.
"Wait who are you and why are you leaving?" He asked in a tone that showed how bored he was.
"I'm a traveling merchant and these are my children." Riddick said his hood still covering his face.
The guard raised an eyebrow then looked at the other and did a nod toward them.
The other guard walked up to them "Show me some kind of identifications please."
Riddick growled and reached into his back pocket.
Both Naruto and Haku closed their eye's knowing what was coming next.
Riddick lightning quick used his own knife to slit the guards throat and pushed aside the corpse aside and jumped at the other guard who fumbled with a kunai.
Riddick landed on his chest and kicked him down.
The guard fell and dropped the kunai he had.
Riddick rolled up and twirled his knife at him cutting his head off.
Gaara looked at him confused.
Riddick picked up his knife and put it back in his bag "The choice between a dead body and a witness shouldn't be a choice at all." he said simply.
Gaara nodded.
"I still don't like this." Naruto mumbled.
Riddick was dragging the bodies and he looked at Naruto over his shoulder with a raised eyebrow "What killing?" he asked after he successfully his the body he started to to drag the other.
Naruto nodded.
Once Riddick hid the other body he came back and glanced at Naruto "You chose to follow me, either you can stay here in this desert village or you can come with us. However if you intend to get in the way of any kill I have to make you will leave understand."
Naruto's eyes watered a bit and he nodded.
Riddick smiled at him "Now come on we have to leave before we get found out.
The four left the sand village and Gaara never looked back.
A few days later they were in the jungle's of The Land of Rice.
Naruto's stomach growled and everyone looked back to him.
He grinned and chuckled nervously "We haven't eaten since yesterday." he said/complained.
Riddick took out his knife and twirled it in a one-eighty and caught it by the blade then threw it straight at Naruto.
Naruto looked at it frozen and it swished by him and he heard a slight squeal behind him.
He turned and saw a giant red and green lizard with the knife through its back.
Riddick walked up to it and snapped its neck silencing it.
He picked it up and skinned the scales off and handed it to Naruto who looked at it disgusted.
"Its either that or nothing." Riddick said.
Naruto grudgingly took it.
Haku and Gaara were getting used to it but they were still surprised at Riddick and his brutality.
Riddick stopped them with a raised fist he looked back at Naruto and smirked "Hey kid you wanna get some hot food?"
Naruto beamed "You'll have to either steal it from that camp over their or kill the people camping." Naruto stopped smiling.
Riddick pointed in front of him and Naruto walked quietly to him.
Gaara and Haku walked silently to them and looked towards where he was pointing.
They saw a medium sized camp of about ten tents with what looked like ninja's walking around it doing menial chores. They were at the bottom of the fairly tall hills Riddick and his gang were in.
Naruto licked his lips as he saw them making a stew of what looked like wild meat and vegetables.
Naruto looked around and saw a very small trail leading into the camp.
He was about to go to it but Riddick stopped him and held up a kunai without looking up from looking over the camp.
Naruto looked at it with a sad expression.
Riddick faced him "You never know." Naruto nodded and took the kunai and started his trek to the bottom of the hill.
Haku looked wide eyed at Riddick "What if he gets caught?!" she whispered harshly.
"They'll probably torture him in a very brutal fashion for intelligence to which he has none so it could continue for a fairly long while." Riddick answered matter-of-factly.
Haku paled and was about to say something but Gaara beat her to it.
"Do you have any heart at all?" Gaara asked coldly.
Riddick looked at him with a raised eyebrow "Have some faith in him, and, if you have no faith in his skill have faith in his hunger."
Meanwhile Naruto was nearing the camp. He gripped the kunai tightly and crawled on his stomach slowly until he got to the back of a tent and slowly stood up into a crouched position.
He sneaked carefully to the side and peaked out and saw a ninja sleeping in a chair with a cold bowl of soup near him.
Naruto sneaked up to him and picked up the bowl of soup and started to drink it all in one gulp.
"What is that little loser doing?" Haku asked watching Naruto who was near the outskirts of the camp.
"It looks like he is getting a small snake." Riddick said smirking slightly.
Naruto finished the soup and placed the bowl down and started to sneak a bit to the next tent.
"Hello who's there?" a harsh voice asked out and Naruto froze.
A kunoichi walked to the spot where the sleeping man sat.
The kunoichi kicked the other ninja awake.
"Oi what was that for bitch!?" he nearly yelled.
She kicked him down and put a kunai to his throat "Call me a bitch again and I promise Orochimaru will never have to put up with your incompetence again." she said.
Naruto was slowly slinking back when he accidental made a louder rustle than he intended and froze.
The kunoichi threw the kunai towards him and it hit a few feet away.
His breath caught in his throat.
"Mr. Riddick, come on we need to help him now." Haku said worry definitely in her voice.
Riddick simply observed the scene with hard eyes.
Gaara clenched his jaw and simply sat still.
The kunoichi stayed silent the ninja behind her was very pale.
She walked to where she threw the kunai and picked it up.
She stayed listening for a few seconds then continued scolding the other ninja.
Naruto drew back more quieter and more slower.
'Man I can't continue this I have to go back.' he turned and started to walk back up to his friends.
Suddenly a shuriken tore a bit of his shirt and his eyes widened.
"Oi you!!" a voice called.
Naruto turned and threw the kunai Riddick had given him into the ninja's throat and the ninja dropped.
Unfortunately he had made enough noise that he attracted the other ninja's.
"Riddick we have to help him now!" Haku said desperately.
Riddick nodded "Fine lets step in."
Gaara jumped up and ran to Naruto his sand blasting out.
Riddick jumped to help with Haku and her ice senbon.
Naruto tried to dodge the kunai and shurikenn that were thrown at him but unfortunately he was stuck several times.
Gaara used his sand and crushed several ninja's.
One did a series of hand signs and sent a giant fireball into the sky that blew up into a giant explosions of lights.
Haku threw several senbon cleaving heads off while Riddick cut through the ninjas with his spinning knives.
Haku ran to Naruto and checked him while Gaara defended them with his sand and Riddick still fought the ninjas but more were coming.
"How is he!!" Riddick yelled as he was cut in the shoulder with a sword but slit the shinobi that did it.
Haku looked Naruto over who was bleeding from the multiple cuts.
"He...he's losing alot of blood." Haku said.
Gaara growled "Don't let him die Haku!" he yelled as he sent sand to kill a few ninjas.
"I don't know how long I can-" she was cut off by a senbon to her neck.
Gaara looked at her desperatly "Haku!!" he turned but a genjutsu was placed on him making him paralyzed.
Riddick held both his knives close to his side. He looked and saw he was surrounded.
"Give up or die." a ninja said.
"Ya, ya the whole resistance is futile thing I get it the answer is no!" Riddick growled.
The ninjas all grinned "Fine with us." They were about to kill him when a voice cut through.
"No, Lord Orochimaru may have needs for him knock him out, don't let the container of the Shukaku fall to sleep." the voice called out.
The voice origionated from a glasses-wearing white-haired man.
His grin was the last thing Riddick saw until darkness fell and he felt no more.
Sorry it realy isn't all that interesting but I have a reason for their capture which will be known next chapter and its part of the story.
The genjutsu placed on Gaara put him in a paralyzed state but didn't make him go to sleep.
Last but not least please review.
