Chapter 4
3 Weeks Later
For the past 3 weeks Ryu could only describe those days in one word…Hell.
Everyday Ryu and Anko would grab some Pokegirl and ninja missions before making clones do them while the original Anko 'trained' him. Though he couldn't complain with the results, with Anko's help his chakra control was Chunin level, his speed was high chunin if not low jounin and was growing exponentially, his stamina increased, and his girls could attest to it, his reflexes were chunin if not low jonin level.
When it came to Taijutsu Anko had learned that Ryu had had no fighting style and since his body type wouldn't work with her fighting style, she decided to go to the hokage to see if he had a fighting style that would work for Ryu.
In the end Hiruzen was able to find a scroll on an old fighting style called the 'Blind Fury,' the style consist of unleashing a fury of precision blows on the joints and pain receptors at such high speeds that ones hand seem to not be moving. To learn the style Anko gave Ryu off to Guy for speed training and at that moment Ryu learned that both Anko and Guy were sadist when it came to training, but the results were promising since Anko ranked him high chunin in Taijutsu.
While Ryu trained with Anko, his pokegirls would train with Anko's pokegirl, a Mistress called Akeno, and they almost always came back with dozens of bruises, but Ryu could see their improvement.
He learned that Akeno was helping Nova learn some magic and steel type moves, while teaching Aurora magic. Lastly his newest pokegirl, the Slicer he named Azura, Akeno was training her by fighting her to give her more battling experience against a stronger opponent.
Ryu could feel that Aurora and Azura were close to evolving and needed a good push and they would.
Right now Ryu and Anko could be found in the mission center talking to the hokage.
"I think the gaki is ready for a C-rank mission." Anko said clapping Ryu on the back as Ryu nodded in agreement.
Hiruzen nodded, "You completed the required amount a few days ago, which shows how far your ahead of the other teams, who only do one mission a day. There is a bandit camp at least 6 leagues out that have been attacking travelers on their way to Konoha, your mission is to exterminate them." He said giving them the mission scroll.
Ryu and Anko nodded as they left mission center before Anko turned around and looked at her genin. "You sure your ready for this gaki?" She asked concerned not knowing he had killed before.
Ryu grinned at Anko, "Is Anko-sensei worried about little ole me?" He asked cheekily causing Anko to sigh that seeing her cheeky personality rubbed off on him a little.
"Shut it gaki, Now go pack and meet me at the front gate and make sure your girls are with you in their pokeballs. "Ryu nodded as he left for his apartment.
Not wasting time Ryu started making sure he had everything he needed such as ninja wire, kunai, shuriken, exploding tags, a tent, and other things before sealing it up into a scroll, which he learned to do from Anko after seeing her do it once.
Before leaving Ryu left a note for Naruto for where he would be before closing the door to the apartment.
Meeting Anko at the gate he showed her the scroll and his pokeballs attached to his belt, neither said anything as they started moving at chunin speeds.
As they moved Ryu couldn't help but feel a little excited at being out of the village as he followed behind Anko.
After an hour of running they were able to find the bandit camp, deciding to hit them at night Anko had him set themselves far from the bandits as they started to devise a plan.
"Alright gaki, I want you to do reconnaissance and see how many bandits and pokegirl there are and make sure your not seen." Ryu nodded as he left for the bandit camp.
Looking over the camp Ryu counted at most 12 bandits, as he look at the camp his eyes caught sight of two pokegirls, they both had grey skin standing 7 ft in height with D-cup breasts wearing nothing as they were seen training. Using his pokedex he learned that they were Amachoke.
Moving tree to tree he was able to see that there were 4 BunnyGirl, and an Eva as well in the camp and was able to find that the leader's tent was in the center of the camp.
As he kept looking and got ready to head back to Anko his eyes caught sight of red hair causing him to focus on it and his eyes widened seeing her red skin and blue eyes. 'A Penance' He thought clenching his fist as he left.
Anko saw Ryu coming back and saw his clenched fist backing her wonder what he saw at the camp.
"Alright brat how many are there and what's eating at you?" Ryu sighed unclenching his fist.
"There were about 12 bandits in all with the leader located in the center of the camp. In terms of pokegirls there were two Amachoke, 4 Bunnygirls, an Eva, and finally they had a Penance." Ryu said and in an instant the temperature around them got 10 degrees colder as Anko looked at him serious.
"Are you sure you saw a Penance Ryu." Anko asked actually using Ryu's name showing how serious she was as Ryu nodded.
"Yes, she was locked up in a cage, so she couldn't run away." He said.
"Alright, we are going to wait at midnight to hit them, I want you to create 10 clones and have them kill the bandits at the same time. Now I want Aurora and Nova to go against one of the Amachoke and I'll have Akeno fight the other." Ryu nodded before opening his mouth to ask about Azura's job.
"Azura will be fighting the Bunnygirls and Eva since she has the type advantage. I will be fighting the leader, while all this is going on, I want you to release the Penance and should one of your girls need help go help them." Anko said.
Ryu nodded, "Gaki are you sure your ready to kill these people?"
"The moment they created that Penance they forfeited their lives." Ryu said with an emotionless look on his face causing a chill to go down Anko's spine.
"Good now release your girls so that they know the plan." Ryu nodded as he released them and told them the plan.
Nova and Aurora gasped when they heard their was a Penance locked up in the camp, while Azura gained a hard look in her eyes as they agreed to the plan.
As they waited for night to come Ryu could be seen staring into the sky before feeling a hand on his shoulder as he looked back and see it was Nova.
"You alright babe?" She asked.
"Yeah I'll be fine, but I hate that there are people out there causing Pokegirls to become dark evolutions and there is nothing I can do about it." Nova nodded sitting down beside him putting a hand on his.
"I know you must feel frustrated and angry, but you can help the ones you do find one at a time and maybe one day there will be peace." Nova said only for Ryu to shake his head.
"There is no such thing as peace babe, the idea of peace is a dream that will never come because humankinds nature and even if there was peace across the Elemental Nation, I know it would last long because there will always be greed in the hearts of man." Ryu said laying his head on Nova's lap as she started petting his hair.
"You might be right, but you could be wrong, maybe the world just needs someone to enforce the peace."
"Maybe, I can only hope that your right, but for now I will settle for doing the best I can." Ryu said causing Nova to smile and lean down and kiss him.
"Enough of that lover birds, its time." Anko said standing over them with Akeno beside her as they got up and looked up the sky, surprised to see the night sky out.
"Gaki make those clones and we will move out" Ryu nodded as he made 10 clones before they moved out.
Moving towards the camp they saw both Amachoke were the only ones standing guard while everyone slept.
"Alright Nova, you and Aurora only need to knock her unconscious, should they leave you no choice kill them." Ryu said as Aurora nodded hesitantly, while Nova nodded with a hard look in her eyes. "Azura the same for you, should you need help call for it." Azura nodded.
"Alright lets go" Anko said as they all jumped moved in different directions.
With Clones
Each clone moved silently between tents each moving inside a different one with a bandit sleeping innocently.
Raising their kunai in the air they each slit a bandit's throat only to hear a loud scream before hearing a gurgling, but the damage had been done as nine of the clones disappeared into smoke.
The tenth clone looked at his dead bandit with a 'oh shit' expression on his face. 'Damnit why did he have to be a light sleeper.' He thought as not just 10 seconds ago the bandit had woken up and saw him and decided to scream and alert the camp, and the clone can only hope his brethren were able to kill the others as he disappeared in smoke.
With Anko
"Shit." Anko said hearing the scream just before she could kill the leader and found herself fighting him.
"Well if it isn't the Snake Mistress Anko Mitarashi, I guess Konoha sent you to exterminate us, but how about you stay here and as my gener-ahhh!" The bandit leader screamed as he looked down and found a snake biting his baby maker.
"Nice offer, but I'm going to have to say no." She said holding a kunai in her hand.
"You bitch! Forget I was just planning on using you as a cum dumpster it was getting old with that Penance." His words caused Anko to glare at him as she flew towards him and stabbed her kunai into his kneecap.
"So you're the one that created that dark evolution, I'm going to make sure you beg for death." Anko said as she started torturing the man.
With Ryu
Moving to the back of the camp Ryu found the Penance and couldn't help but frown as she moved to the back of the cage once she saw him.
"It's alright I'm not going to hurt you. Me and my sensei are here to save you." Ryu said only to see the doubt in her eyes.
"I know you don't trust me and that is alright, I understand. I'm going to let you out and you can be free." Ryu said grabbing the keys that were near the cage but far enough that she couldn't reach them.
Putting the key in and unlocking the door Ryu opened it and looked at the girl, "You are free, now I need to go help my harem I hope you have a better life." Ryu said before running off towards where Azura was fighting.
The girl looked at Ryu's retreating form and had hope in her eyes as she moved out the cage and saw none of the Amachoke showing up to hold her down.
With Azura
Azura felt herself being pushed by the normal type pokegirl, not because they were strong, but because they had numbers and teamwork after she knocked the Eva unconscious.
As she fought Azura was having the hardest time since the Bunnygirls were moving out of her reach hitting her from different sides, though the attacks didn't hurt it frustrated Azura that she couldn't hit them before she started to glow white before there was a flash of white.
Blinking their eyes the Bunnygirls saw in Azura's place was a girl standing 5ft8 in height with C-cup breasts, pale skin, long silver hair, and green eyes. She wore a light blue breastplate close to a gem that appeared on her chest and a helm with wing motifs. In her hands she held a long sword, but what was most noticeable were the pure white wings on her back.
Azura looked at herself and couldn't help but smile knowing she finally evolved before looking at her opponents as she speed towards the Bunnygirls, who only saw a blur before falling unconscious as Azura hit them each with the butt of her sword.
The moment she knocked the last one out Ryu came running only to see the pokegirls knocked out before looking at Azura before a wide smile crossed his face. "You evolved! That's great! We can celebrate later lets go help the others."
"That won't be needed." Akeno said walking up to them covered in blood with Nova and Aurora, who looked shaken.
Ryu took a look at Aurora and noticed that she had grown taller by a at least 5 inches and sporting a pair of C-cups before his eyes widened. He decided he would celebrate their evolution later as Aurora slammed into his chest.
He looked at Akeno, "Our opponents were going for the kill and I did what had to be done." She said answering his unasked question.
Ryu started running his hand through her hair whispering to her sweet nothings into her ear.
"And it is a good thing you did." Anko said walking up to them covered in blood.
"Why is that?" Ryu asked before he was handed a journal, which he assumed was the bandit leader's.
"Those Amachoke didn't care that that girl became a Penance, in that journal it tells how they would hold her done so the leader would have his way and they made sure she never escaped. The other girls were scared of them treating them becoming a Penance, so they ignored her." Anko said in an angry tone, her words had the affect of lessening Aurora's crying now knowing that those girls deserved to die.
"The good thing is she escaped and is free from him." Ryu said as he made 5 clones.
"What? These bandits have been stealing from people on their way to Konoha, they may have something cool and if there is a motto I go by it's I keep what I kill." He said answering their unasked question as the clones went about looting the dead bodies.
Anko wrapped an arm around Ryu, "You and I make a great team gaki. Now let's go back home gaki and how about this, if you get back first then we'll find out your elemental affinity and start your ninjutsu training."
In a flash Nova, Azura, and Aurora were in there pokeball as a clone came and gave him a scroll that held anything they found of value in the tent.
"I'll see you tomorrow sensei!" Ryu yelled running off in the direction of Konoha causing Anko and Akeno to laugh as they followed him.
Next Day
When the two got home and gave their mission statement, the third gave them a B-rank mission pay grade because of the Penance.
It had taken a few hours, but Ryu was able to get Aurora to get over those girls death knowing what they did to that Penance and that if they had to kill it would be those that had done horrible things and deserved it.
Afterwards Ryu had looked through the scroll of stolen goods his clones off the dead bandits and had been surprised to find a dawn and angel stone as well as two T2s, one was a 'Coup De Grace' and the other was 'Rune Chain.' He had also got a few thousand SLC.
At the moment standing at the entrance to the Forest of Death was Ryu and Anko, who was holding a piece of paper in her hand, "This gaki is chakra paper, it is going to tell you what your elemental affinity is, if it burns a fire affinity, damp a water affinity, cuts in half wind, crumbles it's earth affinity, and if it crinkles then it is a lightning affinity. All you have to do is send a little of your chakra in it like this." Anko said before sending chakra into the paper before it crumbled.
"My affinity is to earth, now it is your turn." Anko said pulling a piece of chakra paper handing it to Ryu.
Sending the chakra into it they were both given surprise at the results as the paper split in half, one half crinkled into a ball so small it was almost invisible as red sparks came off of it, the other half was the most surprising as it turned black as night.
Anko could only look at the paper in shock before shaking her head, "I don't know about the last one, but it looks like you got a wind and lightning affinity kid. Neither is my forte, so we'll talk to the old man about helping us."
"You don't know anyone with a wind or lightning affinity sensei?" Anko shook her head.
"Kid I know two people with that affinity and the only one that would be able to help you has a team to train so your out of luck. Kakashi would rather read his smut than have to train another student." Anko said as they walked to the Hokage tower.
Walking into the tower they ignored the glare the hokage's secretary was sending them. "Hokage-sama is busy right now, he'll see you sometime later." The secretary said with a voice filled with hatred.
"I'm calling bullshit." Ryu said as he kept walking and before the secretary could say anything a snake wrapped around her mouth. She looked up and saw Anko grinning at her.
"Get in my way and you and I can have a one on one conversation and show you first-hand how I torture shinobi when I interrogate them." Anko said as a snake started to slowly move out of her sleeve finding delight at the terrified look on secretary's face.
Opening the door to the hokage's office Ryu wasn't surprised to see Hiruzen reading an orange book, while smoking on his pipe and a clone was doing paperwork. "So this is what you do with you do with your free time."
Ryu's voice surprised the kage and in a flash the orange book disappeared into a drawer before Hiruzen looked up and saw it was Ryu.
The kage sighed, "You surprised me Ryu-kun, is there any reason why you're here?"
At that moment Anko walked in, "We're here because something weird happened when I tested his affinities and need your insight and some jutsus since his affinities don't line up with mine."
The kage nodded since he had been given the title the 'professor' for his knowledge as he gave Ryu a chakra paper.
Hiruzen's pipe dropped out of his mouth as the results were the same for when Anko checked his affinities.
"Well my boy that is a strong lightning affinity you have that may be even on par with if not stronger than my sensei Tobirama Senju's water affinity." He said causing Ryu and Anko to look at him wide-eyed.
"Also my boy, I haven't seen a Dark release user in a while." Both Ryu and Anko couldn't help but look at him confused.
"A dark release user were the worst people to face if you were a ninjutsu specialist, this bloodline had the ability to absorb chakra and reflect it back at an opponent, also if they absorb the chakra, they could add it to their chakra pool. The best way to identify one was that they had on one or both hands two diamonds that would overlap with each other."
"So that's what was forming on my hand." Ryu said causing the two to snap their heads at him as he took off the fingerless gloves, he always wore so he didn't hurt his hands when he trained.
The two looked his palms and saw two diamonds overlapping each other on each palm.
"Ryu there is something else you must know about the bloodline." His voice took on a serious tone causing Ryu to really listen.
"I must advise not using your mouth in absorbing chakra unless against an enemy. The reason why is that by doing so you would be absorbing a person's entire chakra network and killing them in the process. I witnessed this happen and the man then had the chakra natures of the person he absorbed." He said causing Ryu 's and Anko's eyes to wide in shock.
"I promise I won't use my bloodline on allies old man." Ryu said in a serious tone causing Hiruzen to sigh in relief.
"Now that that is out of the way how about helping us with Ryu's elemental ninjutsu training." Anko said.
"Though I can't help you with your bloodline, I can help you by giving you some jutsu in both your affinities." Hiruzen said as he start writing onto a scroll.
"If you can master these jutsu then come back and I'll give you more ninjutsu to put into your arsenal, but when I say master, I want you to pull off these jutsu using only 4-7 hand seals if not less." He said handing Ryu a scroll with 4 jutsus two for lightning and two for wind.
"You got it old man; I'll be back in no time." Ryu said as he left the room leaving Anko and the hokage in the room as Anko looked at the kage seriously.
"You saw that red spark that showed when his lightning affinity was shown. Was that a blood line or his tenant's doing?" Hiruzen sighed.
"My guess is that was the fox's doing and it turned Ryu's lightning red, though this could be an affect of holding the fox." He said.
"I thought that was the reason for his many blood gifts." Anko stated.
The kage to shook his head. "No, all of that is Ryu not the fox, at best the fox only strengthened his blood gifts, though he does have an aura that makes vulpine pokegirls skittish around him. Naruto on the other hand has an opposite aura and if we were to check his affinity his has probably been strengthened by the fox as well." Hiruzen explained as Anko nodded at his explanation.
"Why is the fox helping them, I would think that it would hate their containers?"
"It does but my guess is that as the strongest bijuu that they need to have the strongest jinchurriki and it would hate to be seen weak." Hiruzen explained.
"Alright, I would hate to find that it is messing with my genin." Anko said before leaving the office to catch up with Ryu.
She didn't have to look for him finding him waiting for her right outside the tower. "Anko-sensei I've been thinking, and I would like a weapon to fight with." Ryu said turning towards her
"I don't mind, but I want to why the sudden interest in having a weapon?"
"I just think I should expand my repertoire and if I want to become the strongest shinobi, I need to get stronger and I think a weapon will help me should I face someone that is better at Taijutsu and need to keep them at a distance." Ryu answered.
Anko shrugged her shoulders, "Alright, no skin off my bones, I'm not paying, and it just means more torture for you." She said smiling at Ryu's paling face as they made their ways to Higurashi Weapon Shop.
After 10 minutes they reached their destination as they walked in to see a large muscular man and Amachamp standing behind a counter.
Before he could blink Ryu found himself in a bone crushing hug from the Amachamp. "It's good to see you too Saya-san." He said wincing as she put him down.
"It has been a while; Naruto came in last week looking for a weapon that would help him in a fight against someone that was better at Taijutsu than him." Higurashi said as he walked around the counter.
"And if you're looking for Tenten, then your out of luck, she is on a mission with her team. I can tell her you were here." Saya said only for Ryu to shake his head.
"No, I'm here for the same reason Naruto was." Ryu said.
"I can guess you're his sensei and came to see what he'll choose, but enough small talk take a look at our creations and see what you like." Higurashi said as he went to the counter with Saya and started to watch as Ryu browsed with Anko.
"Alright gaki what are you trying to get?" Anko asked watching as Ryu walked past the tanto, katanas, tonfa, Bo staff, and other weapons.
"I don't know, but I'll know when I see it." Ryu said before he eyes caught sight of a sleek black scythe with the blade being blood red.
"Hey, old man Higurashi, when did you make this?" Ryu asked holding up the scythe only for the man to frown as he looked at the scythe.
"You shouldn't get that kid, I made that in my prime once thinking that it would make a great shinobi weapon only to be mocked saying it was just a glorified gardening tool. I made it from chakra metal, which allows you to channel your elemental affinity into it and had a seal placed on it where it would never rust or break and would always stay sharp. I even had the Yondaime place a seal on it that would only allow the wielder and creator of the scythe to pick it up. The reason I keep it even though it is my worst creation is that it is still my creation, so I won't throw it away." Higurashi said as Saya started patting his back.
"So how much do you want for it?" Ryu asked causing the man to look at him.
"You sure you want that brat?" Anko asked before seeing Ryu nod his head at her.
"You don't have to buy it to make me feel better kid." He said only for Ryu to shake his head.
"No I'm serious, I want to buy this and show people just how great a scythe is." Ryu said.
The man smiled, "How about this, Tenten once told me your dream is to become the strongest shinobi, is that true?" Ryu nodded, "Then I will let you have the scythe for free if you promise to me, you'll show people that those people were wrong about my scythe by becoming the strongest using my creation."
Ryu grinned, "You got it old man, I'm going to show the world how great your scythe is." He said before he was given a seal from Saya.
"This seal was created for the scythe so that it would attach to your back of your clothes, so you wouldn't have to worry of having to sealing it into a scroll to carry it around." She said as Ryu smiled and bowed to them as he put the seal on his back before putting the scythe where the seal was and grinned when the scythe didn't fall.
"You don't have to bow to us kid, just don't forget your promise and before I forget that blade is sharp, it can cut through even a steel type pokegirl. Now here your going to need this." Higurashi said as he handed Ryu a scroll.
"That is a scroll for a scythe style, I won it off a man playing a game of poker after finding he had nothing else to bet." He said.
"Thanks old man, just you wait you are going to see me standing above all the greats." Ryu said as he and Anko left the weapon shop.
Anko put her hand on Ryu's shoulder." Get ready for your torture session and this time I'm not holding back." She said as they disappeared leaving a swirl of leaves.
Some of the people living closer to the Forest of Death that night started to become to scared to sleep as they heard the sound of someone screaming in pure agony.
Author's Note
New chapter finished, and I had fun writing this one, tell me what you thought in the reviews.
Yes, Ryu has the Dark release bloodline just like Hiruko from the movie. The next bloodline will be shown in the next chapter.
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