"Room for two."
The manager looked up and wished he didn't. In front of him were one of the creepiest fellows he had ever seen, and running this inn for twenty years that's saying something.
The man (giant? It really didn't help with him sitting looking up) before him was tall and heavily tan but he did have to say it fit him well, a little lighter than his dark chocolate messy brown hair that went past his shoulders. His body seemed to be barely holding on, literally. The manager to the inn's blue eyes looked all around the man in horror turned fascination, seeing him in nothing but stitches, and by the patter on the hands it was probably self-done.
He noticed from all the torn holes and scorch marks on his body and cloths he and his companion just got back from one hell of a fight. He just hoped he didn't have those inhuman green pupils looking at him the wrong way.
Looking away from the hard eyes that would probably plague him in his sleep, the older gentleman looked a bit down, and at the person in his hold. It was a one eighty flip, like looking at a beauty. Her pale skin really shined next to his rough tan one, and he had never seen hair that white before, like it was a different kind of white, one artist have been searching for years, and her big carmine eyes really shined.
Safe to say he could easily give the petite woman an easy ten, and seeing that weapon, knowing she could protect herself maybe just a eleven.
"And what would it be, one night stan-stay or would you be staying longer?" The older dressed up man jumped when the money slammed down on the counter, a dirty look was sent his way from the stitched up voodoo doll of a man. Crap.
"One night stay…" His voice was rough and raw on his ears, but he was sure his voice always sounded like that. Taking the money and leaning back in his chair, reaching for a set of keys he handed them to the girl in the man's arms. "Well you're in luck! All the rooms have been taken, but the priciest room is all that's left, but I can't leave a customer down, so it's all yours for the price of a normal room."
"OOOOH, Kakuzu did you hear that! We get to sleep so comfy together! Thank you sir, may Jashin be ever in your favor!" She pounded on the colossal man with her small fist, her cheeks puffing. "Kakuzu, damn it say thank you to the kind man!"
He looked at the fresh cut man and grunted. Hidan rolled her eyes and leaned into the manager. "It's okay, he's just a little ruffled from the fight we had." He chuckled and whispered back. "It's quite okay ma'am, I wasn't expecting one anyways, and he looks to 'macho' to show emotion." 'pffft, you have no fucking idea, it's like cuddling a rock."
"I'm right here…."
Hidan giggled and leaned in, pecking a kiss on his cheek. "Was just teasing you, now come on, I want to take a shower!"
Anko was a lot of things, but happy was not one of them.
Looking down she saw this chirpy little girl, young and glowing asking for her husband, usually she would send her foot right up her ass but she had to get to the bottom of this. Why was she looking for her lover, let alone that smile she had, she didn't like it. She didn't like it because she gave off that same smile when she was in love, the high of wanting not something, but someone!
Leaning on the door way the snake mistress looked at the mind walker. "Yes, Naruto lives here, what of it?" The pale haired blonde seemed to chirp up even more "OH! Is he in? I'd like to talk to him and get a bite to eat; I'd like to…also confess some things." She never saw the horrified look on the older woman as ino looked down; she wanted to tell him sorry for bombarding into his mind scape and talk to him one on one about the demon inside of his mind scape.
"NO!"
Whipping her head up she gave Anko a stern face. "What…do you mean no?" "NO…NO means NO! You can't see him." Anko knew she was being silly, of course her Naruto could see anyone he wanted but she didn't have to know that.
"And why not?! I need to speak to him, besides what are you his babysitter!?"
Caramel eyes became sharp and murderous; sickening black ooze of ki seeped out of Anko from all the tension she was sending the blonde hussy. She did the only thing she knew how to do at the moment. Raising her hand she nearly slammed it in the younger mind walker's face, the beautiful rock that sat snug on her finger.
"Try his wife!"
It didn't take long for Ino to understand the object that was in her face combined with the choice of words. Her mercury eyes were wide as orbs, the reflection off the diamond gleaming off of her eyes. In that short span of puppy love it was easily smashed to tiny pieces, the images of herself rubbing Naruto's shoulders off of a hard days of work was smashed, or how the two would pick flowers together and training poofed out of existence.
But something inside of her was breaking; the clogs in her mind were reeling faster and faster. Looking into the boysenberry haired woman's eyes she felt it.
Anger
Naruto didn't need an older woman in his life, he needs a younger woman, needs someone his OWN age to show him the small and big things in life, he didn't need someone who could be his mother. Though her eyes were blank her hands where sweaty, the fingers twitchy. The images of Naruto and herself cuddling and having a good time in the sun were coming back piece by piece. Soon the images of what could be were flooding in.
Anko didn't like the blank look she was given, like the girl before her shut down. But she raised an eye brow as the girl before her mumbled, her teeth biting her trembling lip. "Excuse me, I didn't quite catch what you said, you're going to have to speak u-" "I SAID NO!"
Anko leaned back from the girl's roar that boomed through the whole house, sharp eyes not fit for one's age glared back at her, they looked seasoned and sharp enough to cut.
"He's too young to be chained down, especially to a woman of your age! He NEEDS someone his own age to care for him, he doesn't NEED a mom!" "Hay now you little SHIT who are you to barge onto my lawn trying to snatch up my plushy!" "OH!? So he's nothing but an object to you!" "N-No you got it wrong!" "The HELL I do! He's a human being! Not some prize you won from probably seducing him, I won't let you take away his purity!" "TO BAD! Me and him already hit the sheets! "
Anko wouldn't admit it, but she was always insecure of losing her lover to a more attractive younger woman, now she was literally in a battle over a hussy who could take her man. But she watched once more as the Yamanaka before her shut down, the blood from her face fading away, uh oh, she shouldn't have said that.
"You…you took it from him…sweet kami, you…" Anko backed away from the blank stare that looked right past her. "Hay, what me and Naruto do is none of your business, now beat it!"
Anko slammed the door in the stunned girl's face, the force making her messy hair and cloths ruffle. Anko sighed, the tension evaporating from her body, she didn't need this, and she didn't even know where her lover is let alone what he's doing. The thought of him fooling around with woman almost made her vomit on the spot from the evil plot bunnies overloading her mind.
But coffee colored eyes widened to in shock as fist blasted through the door, the splinters hit her face. A now scrapped and bloody hand latching onto her face like a claw, the nails digging in deep. Before she even knew it, it pulled her in, smashing her face into the door. Falling to the ground the wounded woman fell hard on her rear, her petite nose now cherry red.
Hearing a bang the door was kicked open revealing pissed off mercury eyes that shined with something so many have shown her, death. The instinct to kill! 'Awe shit!' In seconds the girl was on her and the two soon entered what could only be described as a cat fight. It wasn't a combat of kicks and jutsu's, it was a legitimate brawl of scratches and name calls, the two tangling each other up as they scratched each other to death.
"How could YOU! He's SEVENTEEN! You're like, what FIFTY!" Ino slapped Anko on the face leaving a deep hand mark while the snake mistress sunk her teeth into her arm. "Hay bitch I'm only twenty seven!" Anko scratched a good portion of the mind walker's face, while Ino got fist full of purple locks, yanking them trying to rip out her hair! "Actually he was fourteen when we made love!" "WHAT! EW YOU MAKE ME SICK! YOU PEDOPHILE!" "TAKE THAT BACK you scrawny HUSSY!" Soon bruises and bite marks were forming all over, there cry's and screams of hate echoing all through the trashed house. Furniture flipped as the two stormed around destroying each other.
Anko gasped in pain as Ino threw a hay maker right in her tit, the jolts of pain bringing her to her knees, but not before stabbing a fist into her gut. Ino's eyes became hazy as she exhaled all the air that was left in her. The two were breathing hard and gasping for air. Ino leaned over and burped, holding her hand over her mouth. "I think I'm going to puke!" "Then get your scrawny ass out (gasp) of my house, Naruto just cleaned the house." "Kami, you take his virginity and make him clean, next thing you know you'll be beating him up." "He didn't talk to me in two years!" "ARE FOR REAL BITCH, what does he SEE in you!"
"I don't know!" This got Ino's attention. "What do you mean you don't know!?" Anko held her breast as she sat against the wall. True she was madly in love, but it's not like she knows how she got so lucky. She was almost thirty; no one in her time had shown actual love to her, nothing but sneers. So when a young (if not cute) boy comes up to you, shows you kindness that you didn't get all your life, and shows you a passion no one was willing to give you tend to not ask questions. She never did ask him why he gave her dango on that day, or for a mater got hot cocoa, just brutal love.
"This may come as a shock to you, but HE was the one who took the first move, Kami, he was the only one to ever make a move on me. When he went to go on the two and a half your journey he gave ME the ring! And why do YOU want him so bad!"
Ino held her stomach that was forming a purple bruise; she too got comfy on the wall, breathing hard. "Being in a clan of walking through minds I did what I shouldn't have done, I tried to evade Naruto's mindscape." "Awe starting to show your true colors eh? Not so innocent now are you." "Zip it cradle robber! As I went through his mind I saw a bunch of things I didn't want to see, but I did. It's a wonder how he survived so long, so I came here trying to confess, tell him sorry for walking in his mind and other things." Her face became red as she once more frolicked through dream land, but shattered when she heard a snort.
"Fat chance skank, he's already taken." "That may be true, but the FIRST time you break his heart he's MINE! Well the knuckle heads not here I now know that, that or he sleep like a rock."
"Actually he's not even in Konaha."
Both the girls whipped there head to the living room where the voice spoke, their eyes wide in shock. Sitting on the flipped couch was a woman dressed in grey and dark blue, her hair was smooth and silky dark shade of poison purple, her skin as pale as the moon itself. Her face was easily covered by a white mask shaped like a cat. This was an ANBU before the two girls, a person who doesn't exist, a stone cold killer that was willing to give her life for a mission without batting an eyelash.
Anko was more shocked over the news then there being a ANBU in her house. "Wait, what do you mean he's not here! He just left this house this morning with Kurenai! "
"You're his wife are you not, it's only right I tell you this now. Your husband Uzumaki Naruto has impersonated a jounin and has stolen an S-rank mission, in doing so he may be facing dire penalties, possible being forced to resign as a ninja for the rest of his life in Konaha."
Naruto was ready.
He had been training for two years strait for this, he knew the killer before him had years more experience, and being a rouge ninja meant every day you had to keep on guard, so hoping he was rusty was slim next to none. But it wouldn't hurt to rile the fish face up. Naruto ear twitched when the shark man's voice reached all through the hallowed out cave.
"Momochi, that man knew how to shed blood, shame he died, though we never got along very well." "Seeing you and knowing him I can see why, but enough chit chatter, were just two monsters hated for what we are locked in a cage, but there's not enough room for two." "yeeees, lets chisel the numbers a bit."
Naruto's eyes sprung open when he was shocked at the huge mans speed, ramming towards Naruto like a freight train. Raising the kunai up high he grit his teeth as he was pushed back from the force of Kisame's blade, it was intense but he pushed on. "Not bad kid, not many can block, but your still wide open." Crouching a bit, Naruto gasped as he was kicked in the stomach, the force sending him back rolling on the ground. But Kisame's senses told him a different story, leaping high he just barley dodged the hands that sprung from the ground.
Naruto got out of the hole and spit a bit of dirt out. 'Damn, he's good, but not good enough not to know I was underground. He's not taking me seriously.' Looking up he saw Kisame on the ceiling, his psychotic smile ever present. "Hay shark shit, you coming down or am I going to have to come get you!"
"Actually it's a little dry in here, how about we change that." Flying through hand signs he inhaled, only to spew out a water fall of water, Naruto was ankle deep in water in seconds, and showed no signs of stopping. Dashing his way on top of the rising water, he stormed his way to the missing nin, popping clones into existence they leaped high to the killer, bombarding him and forcing him to stop before he was drowned. Kisame smacked the clones out of existence with ease.
"Pathetic, is that all the holder of the nine tails have to offer!" Kisame fell down, landing on the water surface with trained ease. The cave was half full, and Naruto didn't like it, he was now on a pure disadvantage, but wasn't given to time to think. The two raged on, there blades colliding, the Samehada wasn't meant to cut in half, it was meant to slowly shred you away, meant to feast on human skin. So Naruto's kunai was slowly losing its edge.
Water kicked and splashed as the two fought on, Naruto was getting shredded, his cloths fading away from the meat grinder of a blade, but not without landing a few jabs and cuts to the brute's way.
Naruto backed off to get some distance, but regretted it when he saw the older man once more fly through hand sighs. "My darling haven had a good snack in ages, how about we give them a feast!"
Naruto's wide ocean blue eyes watched as sharks blasted into the water by the dozens. They were lean and more deadly than the last, there skin a slimy blue and more teeth than any creature should have. Naruto leaned back, gritting his teeth as he barley dodged but the fin shredding his chest, the blood that splattered into the water making them crazed, the giant shark jolting like a bullet right over him.
He needed a new plan; he was just being teased if that damn smirk was anything to go by. 'These damn sharks won't let up, I have only one option but I was hoping I didn't have to go this route…' Constraining hard he channeled chakra from all over into his body, feeling the nature itself.
He was almost there almost at it, just five more seconds.
There.
A shark flew out of water and sailed towards the boy in shredded orange, his jaws wide and wanting, but Naruto leaned to the side, only to ram his first inside the beast, shredding its inside and poofing out of existence.
Kisame watched in fascination as the sharks one by one were easily brutally taken down.
Naruto gripped the tail of a shark and swung it around, smacking every shark that mindlessly came for the boy sky high and splattering against the walls, it was soon a blood bath that soon turned the water beneath there feet red. Kisame growled as he saw the only thing left of his babies was in the boys hand. It was mangled and floppy, shredded too unrepaired and dead, soon it too poofed out of his fingers.
"Sorry about your pets, never was good at handling animals." Kisame eyebrow rose as he saw the boys eyes, they were no longer blue, but a shining shade of yellow, his pupils rounds and sideways, around his eyes was a tense shade of orange. 'What in the world just happened, he was flailing around like a mad man, and then the next he's smacking my children around like nothing.'
"Hay shark shit, it's not good to doze off." Kisame eyes went unfocused as he was kicked in the side, skidding and rolling on the water till he collided with the wall, cratering it.
Naruto didn't want to enter sage mode so early on, but he was constantly put on edge. He could now sense all the tricks and fast ones, but that still wouldn't help for what might come, he needed to end this fast.
"Not bad gaki, got a good hit out of me, but were just getting started!" Kisame dragged himself out of the rubble, the smile never leaving his face. The shark man dashed towards the boy, but soon blitzed into the water, Naruto looked all around, he could sense where he was but he was so fast! Naruto screamed in pain as he was slashed on the side from the huge blade, splattering blood into the air, sage mode or not he was still working with a legendary sword that put its name to the test.
Naruto was being shredded down and could feel his chakra evaporating, no longer did he have a shirt, showing the nasty cuts and the blood that caked his skin, he needed to think fast! Leaping high into the air he popped two clones into existence, each going through the set of hand signs. The original spewed oil from his lips while the other two blew a jet stream of fire and air. The fire was weak and puny, but mixed with wind to fan it and the flammable oil it was a massive combo! The three collided and exploded the water into a boiling pot, the flames scorching on top and the water itself was life threatening. Landing on the water he gasped as he was pulled down into the overly hot water, submerging only to see Kisame pulling him down under deep, his cloths scorched and burned from the fire that got him.
Naruto was drowning and fast, his air low. He struggled but was pulled to the bottom of the bloody waters. Naruto's lights were fading, his vision going dark. Naruto gave his last shot to free himself but Kisame had a bone shattering grip.
Naruto went limp, Kisame knew he would probably get kicked out of the group if he killed the brat but it was worth it to see him struggle so hard to live. But why did he feel something was wrong.
Naruto was falling, he could feel himself escaping his own body and sailing down what seemed like the abyss, there was no light, no hope anywhere, just falling. The deeper he plunged the colder he got, like sinking to the bottom of the ocean, but he sighed when he was caught in gentle hands. Fluttering his eyes open he was met with a motherly smile, the warm look of the crimson eyes that shined like red moons were gazing high above. He could not move, limp in her fingers. He could not understand what she spoke; it was too thick of an accent that it sounded like gibberish.
His lips felt warm, her cozy lips colliding with his, it was plump, it was tender and sweet like a pleasure not meant for words or thoughts. Placing a single black finger on the boy's chest, she pierced his flesh, the finger stabbing strait through his skin and pricked his heart.
"My dear sweet love, let us be one."
Kisame couldn't believe what was going on! He saw his once untamed blonde hair turn snow white, and his chest was oozing out pure black, the substance spreading all around the boy, what was going on! But the missing nin gasped as his face was latched on to by razor sharp claws, he was looking into the most red eyes he ever saw, all six of them.
This was no more the nine tailed holder, this was truly a demon before him. It opened its mouth wide, the slits going all the way up to the ear, needle like teeth set in a messy row, leaning in Kisame yelled in pain as it chomped on his shoulder, the teeth sinking in deep. Giving a powerful fist to the gut it flew strait out of the water and smashed into the wall, the rubble falling.
Rising to the surface Kisame watched it lurk and crawl out of the crater, its fingers were long and sharp like talons. He was truly dealing with a monster; he needed to kill it fast. He watched it raise its hand only to ram it into the rocks, and like some sick plague the walls were thick in darkness, the cave was soon eclipsed in nothing, and the only thing he could truly see was the crimson eyes.
But he was trained for no sight combat, battling itachi had taught him much more than he could ever achieve on his own. Closing his eyes he tried to hear the whispers and the vibration of the ripples in the water.
There
Swinging his blade he reflected the claws at high speed, the slashed leaving sparks flying, lighting up just in time to show its ghastly inhuman figure. Kisame was sweating from the never ending blows from all sides; it was like he was fighting an army. But Kisame held back the blood that seeped through his teeth when the claw knifed off a chunk of his side, his cloths being torn to shreds, Kisame was losing, and he couldn't have that.
Doing what was necessary he stood still, waiting, waiting for the right moment. Holding back the flinch he felt the knifes shred away his chest, but quickly holding onto the hand, with a earth shattering grip he flared his chakra, putting everything into his fist. The demons scream was screeching all through the cave, Kisame was bleeding from the ears but with what was left he gripped his fist, ramming it strait in the face of the repulsive creature, sailing right through the cave and into the outside.
The water quickly escaped; no more could he hold the barrier to keep in the water from the exit.
Kisame fell on his ass when all the water drained, holly shit; he couldn't believe what he just punched. "Itachi, I should've listened, damn." Looking at himself he sighed, he was bleeding bad, but he would live. No point in carrying the kid back, and if the one tail woke up he wouldn't be able do much. He still had loads of chakra, but his body was too torn to do anything.
Calling it quits he got up on weak knees, hoisting the meat grinder of a blade over his shoulder as he made his way out of the cave. Squinting he shielded his eyes, the sun was still high but it was falling fast, looking down he saw Naruto back to normal and in no better shape, a purple bruise on his cheek bone from his hay maker.
"You put up one hell of a fight kid…not many can bring me this low." He turned, making his way to their next base where itachi and the rest were.
Naruto got up, his head feeling like a million Resangan smashing into his skull. He watched the tall blue skinned missing nin limp away. "SO THAT'S IT…YOUR GIVING UP SHARK SHIT?" Stopping Kisame stood there, but soon smiled and kept on walking, his ever chilling gin once more on his blood soaked face. 'You got guts kid.'
Naruto watched him disappear into the distance and soon he was gone like the wind. Naruto just shrugged, falling into the soft grass for a good nap, but smiled when he landed on sand; it was hot and warm, but stung like a bitch on his wounds.
"You look like shit."
Chuckling at the hallow tone he got comfy in the sandy bed.
"Feel like it too haha!"