Not regular update, even more irregular than usual so have patience with this one, please.
I noticed that by giving Naruto all those Stand I basically made him "Broken/OP"...not that I care, it's just a surprise to me that I took all this time to notice, even when others pointed it out long ago...it's disconcerting how big it was my "Blind-side" about this story.
Whatever.
I may have made a choice here some of you won't like, sorry for the 'Delusion' but I personally kind of like what I did all the same.
Pairing: Naru/Shizuka (it will Later become Naru/Shizuka/Samui/Tenten) should I really add Samui after all?
Shizuka's Stand is named Peace Frog, the name comes from the Doors' song "Peace Frog" of the album "Morrison Hotel". All rights of the names belongs to the respective owners and not me, just saying.
" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/ thoughts
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Jojo's bizarre adventure or whatever I will use here in this fic and I don't get money either, I do this for free and the pleasure to write alone
Chapter 6: Akatsuki.
Konoha - Hospital – Room 203 -
A tense silence was in the small hospital room containing the young Jounin of Konoha by-now infamous for his Stand-style fighting style.
The silence was caused by the presence of two powerful Missing-nins sporting similar black coats with red clouds, one of which Itachi Uchiha, killer of his own whole Clan.
"...Why I am not surprised to see you here now that he is unable to defend himself, Itachi?" Kakashi said.
"WHAT?!" the three Genin of Team 7 yelled in surprise.
"I knew you would have sensed me, Kakashi," Itachi Uchiha said with a calm expression as he and a blue-skinned man exited from the shadows of the room.
"Itachi...no...not now..." Sasuke muttered with his fist clenching hard in anger.
"Hello, brother...I am glad to see you after all this time," the Slayer of the Uchiha Clan said with a nod.
"Why you are here?" the younger of the two Uchiha brothers asked as he, Sakura and Kiba moved in front of the bed.
"We are here for the blond brat, now step aside and I won't hurt you too badly." Kisame answered grinning.
"As if I will let you grab him! He won't go anywhere!" Shizune said adding herself between the two Missing-nin and Naruto.
"Tche! As if I will let a little girl stop me!" Kisame said grabbing the handle of the bandaged sword on his back.
"We have no time to waste, Kisame! Our Leader needs Naruto-san and we will take him." Itachi said.
"And you know that professionally speaking I can't let you do that and let you kidnap a fellow Shinobi of Konoha; and personally, it will be a cold day in Hell before I will let you two kidnap my little brother," Kakashi said seriously.
"Oh, really?" Kisame asked challengingly.
"Really." the other answered uncovering his implanted Sharingan.
"Peace Frog!" Shizuka called-out summoning the small frog on her shoulder.
"AKAMARU!" Kiba said feeding a red pill to his dog making its fur turn bright red and joining the small animal on an all-four attack position.
"I-I won't let you kidnap one of my sensei!" Sakura said scared and yet taking her own fighting stance.
"The room is small...will you really risk injuring him or the other patients by attacking us?" Itachi asked with a low voice.
"I don't actually care, I am here only for the brat so HAND HIM OVER!" Kisame screamed as he charged the kids of Team 7.
"No!" Kakashi yelled trying to intercept the blue-skinned man only to have his kunai cross with Itachi's.
"I am your enemy." the slayer of the Uchiha Clan said making two matured Mangekyou Sharingan glare in the implanted one of the silver-haired Jounin of Konoha.
With Kisame and Team 7 -
"Crescendo!" Shizuka yelled as Peace Frog's belly inflated like a balloon.
"What the?!"
"CROOOOOOOOOACK!" a cone of sound erupted like cannon-fire from the mouth of the small Stand slamming against the sword of Kisame that the Missing-nin had used as an improvised shield.
"As if some noise will stop me, brat!" the man growled as his back went slammed against the wall by the attack.
"SAKURA! Go alert Hokage-sama and everyone else, we'll try to buy you time!" Shizuka ordered as she barely dodged the scales-covered sword cleaving an hole on the floor.
"I-I am going!" the pink-haired girl answered hurrying outside the window.
"They won't reach us in time!" Kisame said as he jumped the girl.
"NOW!" Kiba yelled as he and Akamaru managed to get close to the Akatsuki member.
"GATSGUGA!" the Inuzuka heir yelled as the jutsu came to life at point-blank range.
"TOO CLOSE, DOGGIE BOY!" Kisame answered giving a wide horizontal slash, to the others surprise the blade managed to cut through the attack and slam on both Genin and dog's side throwing them against the wall strongly enough to leave an imprint.
"What the!" Sasuke growled as he jumped back and moved through the hand-seals for the Chidori jutsu.
With Itachi -
"How is that possible?" Kakashi asked as his and the Uchiha's kunai kept meeting in a blurry of hits and flashes of sparks.
"Kisame's sword is special, Samehada can eat and absorb the chakra behind a jutsu nullifying it, I personally saw him cut a fireball in half with it." the other answered.
"So Kiba had a good idea in initiating the technique that close to Kisame, but that paired with his inexperience meant that the power behind the technique was not enough to survive contact with the sword." Kakashi said with narrowed eyes.
"Precisely." Itachi answered pushing the man back.
"ITACHI! This is yours! Sorry if I broke his wrist, but the brat tried to pierce me with lightning!" Kisame said cheerfully as he bodily threw Sasuke at his partner's feet.
"It's still soon for us to fight, brother. You need to grow stronger for that." Itachi said.
"I will kill you for killing our Clan, brother. Have no illusions," the young Genin answered.
"Stay back, Sasuke. This is getting nasty." Kakashi ordered as he stepped in front of his student.
"We are almost done instead, Kakashi. Only the girl remains as an obstacle." Itachi said as he dashed forward pushing the masked Jounin back as the two once again grossed kunais.
Back with Shizuka VS Kisame -
"D-Damn it!" the girl cursed as she held her side where an heavy wound was losing blood at an alarming rate.
"Oh! I am sorry! I forgot to tell you, my dear sword Samehada doesn't cut, it shreds to ribbons! But I guess you have already discovered it, you and your little pet." Kisame said with a mocking chuckle.
"D-D-Don't you dare!" Kiba growled as he stumbled on his feet after securing the unconscious Akamaru under one of the beds.
"Or else? It doesn't matter. The Leader wants the Kyuubi brat, if I have to carve my way through you others so be it, I'll do it starting from his little girlfriend!" the blue-skinned man said laughing as he charged Shizuka once again.
"Nadeshiko-Ryū: Kōha Senkaigiri! (Nadeshiko-Style: Hardliner Revolving Cut)" the girl answered she moved into a flying-kick with her leg covered in wind chakra.
"BAD MOVE, GIRL! Say good-bye to that leg!" Kisame yelled in glee as he grabbed her ankle to slam her down before holding her leg up with his free hand while the other held Samehada ready to it cut-off.
"SHIZUKA-SAN!" Kiba yelled in horror as he tried to run and free her.
"MUDA!" a growl was heard as an hand grabbed Kisame's wrist stopping the blade.
"What the fuck?!" the Missing-Nin said in surprise.
"Naruto-kun!" Shizuka yelled shocked.
"Nnngh! You...d-die!" the blond muttered with a raspy, tired voice.
He was keeping a very trembling hand up pointed towards Kisame as if to try and grab him, only one eye open and with pin-sized pupil, the machines around him beeping out of control and his body shaking in clear fatigue/pain.
"Tche! This is not Enough-GUAH!" what Kisame was about to say stopped when the second fist of the Stand 'The World' slammed on his nose with loud, dull Crack! Sound.
"D-DIE!" the bed-ridden blond growled-out again as a second punch landed on the blue-skinned man's chest launching him back between Itachi and Kakashi and letting Samehada fall clattering on the floor.
"Kisame!" Itachi muttered with a grimace.
"Eh! Not even when sleeping...that boy is even too protective of her." Kakashi said pushing back the Uchiha.
"I can still grab him," the other answered.
"I suggest you to flee instead if you don't want to face arrest!" Hiruzen ordered as he and various ANBU along Tsunade and Jiraiya joined the scene.
"Only after I got my sword back!" Kisame growled as he got up with his face reduced to a mask of blood thanks to his broken nose.
"We don't have time for this." Itachi said with narrowed eyes.
"YES WE HAVE!" the Missing-Nin said as he dashed in the room with his arm stretched-out to grab Samehada.
"RASENGAN!" Jiraiya yelled holding a spiraling sphere of energy in his palm and hitting Kisame's side making him fly through the wall and outside the hospital.
"This is not over, we need him and we will take him." Itachi said as he jumped out from the hole in the wall to retrieve his companion before disappearing in a flock of crows.
"DAMN IT!" Jiraiya screamed as he watched from the broken wall the duo disappear.
"Okay, we need to sort-out if there have been casualties, ANBU?" Hiruzen asked.
"We'll check the other patients and doctors, Hokage-sama." one of the masked shinobi answered bowing as he and is squad left the room.
"Let me check your wounds instead, I'll take care of them." Tsunade said as she moved towards the Genin of Team 7.
"What about sensei? He has just woke-up!" Kiba answered concerned.
"He is unconscious. The strain was enough to knock him out," Hiruzen answered.
"I'll go call a medic while Tsunade-sama heals you, like that while we wait for her to be done someone will keep him under control." Kakashi added.
"And you?"
"I'll be okay, I am the last one that needs a check, my students and brother are the ones needing a Medic the most for now, I can wait." the masked man said covering his Sharingan and leaving.
"You should have been resting, I can protect myself." Shizuka said with a tired smile as she caressed the blond's hair as she sat back next to him.
"He is a knight, just like me. We can't leave a damsel in distress without help." Jiraiya said chuckling.
"Stop saying nonsense, you idiot. Focus on checking that no-one else is here to kidnap him or anyone else." Tsunade answered.
"I am going. Then we'll need to step-up his training, Akatsuki is finally on the move." the Toad Sage replied.
"We'll talk later, now help me comb the Village for other unwanted guests." Hiruzen ordered.
"Aye, Sensei!"
Later that day -
"Hey..." Shizuka muttered from the door of the new room of Naruto.
"Hoy!" he replied tiredly but with an happy smile.
"Finally awake, how are you?" she asked as she walked inside.
"Hungry, you? Are you okay?"
"You are always hungry. I am okay, just some bruises, the worse ones on my ego though."
"Why?" he asked making room for her to sit on his bed.
"I should have done a better job in protecting you." she answered snuggling close to him.
"Against an S-Class Missing-Nin? Baa-chan told me, you all have been lucky surviving until help arrived." the other answered hugging her closer to himself.
"Yes, but it took you snapping out of a coma by force to stop him from cutting away my leg."
"I had to do it, such beauty has to be preserved!" he answered.
"Very smooth, how long were you waiting to use that line?" she asked chuckling.
"Ever since before the Invasion...pathetic?"
"No. I liked it, with that happening, it sorts of work."
It was in that moment that a knocking was heard from the door.
"Can I come in?" Tenten asked peeking inside from the door.
"It's a free country." Naruto answered smirking.
"I was helping the reconstruction when I heard what happened, are you okay?" she asked nearing the bed.
"Flowers?" Shizuka asked amused.
"I heard that is good manners bringing some to people in the hospital..." the other girl answered shrugging and positioning the small vase on the nightstand near the blond.
"I am okay, tired but okay." Naruto answered.
"Listen..." the bun-haired girl muttered.
"Yes?"
"I-I am sorry if I wasn't here to help..."
"Why are you apologizing?" Shizuka asked taken aback.
"I am not good in this sort of things...trying to be 'one of the guys' ruins the chance to be girlish..." the girl said groaning.
"Ookay?" the blond muttered confused.
"I don't actually know how to "Romantically" put it." Tenten continued saying making quotation marks with her hands.
"Then try doing it as you feel like saying it." Shizuka answered uncertain.
"Okay..." she answered marching towards the blond boy, taking his hand in both of hers and looking into his eyes with a serious, iron-bending stare.
"I like you. I like how you fight and make things explode. I like how you act and talk with people and I think we would make a nice couple if we get to know each-other better. Can we please have a date or two once you are completely healed and out of here?" the bun-haired girl said.
"...Eh?" that was the only answer the usually kind-of-witty Jojo of Konoha could come up with in answer.
"I am romantically attracted by you and wish to see if we can become boyfriend and girlfriend." she repeated.
"But, Shizuka..."
"I am aware of the bet Jiraiya-san had with the Leader of Nadeshiko Village resulting in you two getting betrothed in an arranged marriage, thing that apparently no-one wish to speak against in order to keep relationship with the Women Village as pacific as possible and I am ready to ignore the issue and accept her presence by your side. But this won't stop me from pursuing a relationship with you based on our feelings, can you at least consider giving me a chance?" Tenten answered.
"Nothing I say will even just stop you from trying, right?" he asked weakly.
"I am not here to force you, but I would really like to see if we can work as a couple." she answered sighing.
"You are damn determined when it comes to your objective, right?" Shizuka asked defeated.
"I know he loves you, but I want to at least try and carve a little bit of space in his heart all for myself."
"And what if it doesn't work between us?" he asked.
"If it doesn't, it doesn't. I won't make a scene and keep to myself and try to find someone else, but at least I'll have clean conscience about trying." Tenten answered.
"What do you think?" Naruto asked.
"Are you asking me?" Shizuka replied.
"I don't know what to do...if I say Yes I hurt you, but if I say No I hurt her and that doesn't feel right since she had been honest, brutally so even, in her proposing instead of working from the shadows to sabotage us and then jump in..."
"Can I talk with her alone?" Shizuka asked.
"Are you asking me? I am bed-ridden, if I move Kakashi-niisan will break my legs just to be sure I won't try again to escape." the blond replied.
"Right...follow me," the girl answered taking Tenten's arm to drag her out.
"Shit...shit, shit, shit!" the young Jounin sighed.
"Language!" Kushina growled from the seal.
"Eh! It is not like the situation doesn't warrant that! It's an hard moment for him, Kushi-chan." Minato answered.
"It is all my fault...all that awesomeness I passed on him as his mother was bound to give him troubles. Of course women would flock him and fall to his feet! How could they not?" Kushina answered sighing.
"That and the badassery and good looks he took from me, our superior genes mixing was the recipe for a disaster. How can someone resist the result of our union after all." Minato added with an equal sigh.
"I swear, sometimes I wonder what's bigger between Kurama's body and you two's Ego..." Naruto muttered sweat-dropping.
"You okay in there?" Kakashi asked as he entered through the window.
"Yeah. Were you waiting for them to get out?" the blond answered.
"Yep! Didn't want to interfere. How do you feel?"
"Good, can I go home now? I am pretty sure you too are used by now to have a nice place instead of that mushy apartment,"
"Do not underestimate my ability to adapt, I can live well pretty much everywhere." Kakashi answered smirking under his mask while petting the other's hair.
"Really?" Naruto asked surprised.
"...No, please come home and take the Stand Strengthwith you to transform the apartment, I miss my sauna..." the masked shinobi answered dropping down his head in shame.
"And me?"
"Yeah, yeah. I miss you too and all that." he answered unconvinced.
"I love you too, Kaka-nii." the blond said smirking as he hugged the other.
"Whatever."
"I know by now that whenever you say 'Whatever' like that it means 'I love you'." Naruto said chuckling.
"Whatev-DAMN IT!" Kakashi answered groaning.
"Just admit you have a soft spot for him and be done with it, no-one will think you to be any less of a badass for that." Tsunade said as he joined the room to check on the blond's recovery.
"Never." Kakashi answered with an eye-smile.
"Tch! Men..." the buxom blond muttered rolling her eyes.
"Can I go home? Please? I'll be good!" Naruto pleaded.
"You just woke-up from a coma, even if artificially-induced, it means that you'll have to stay put until we will be sure that you are good enough to return on duty." Tsunade answered sighing.
"BUT I AM BORED!" the young Jounin said whining.
"Suck-it up and be a man then. I won't let you go until I'll be sure you won't have complications." she answered with a growl.
"I'll leave you two to discuss the intricacies of whoever is more stubborn between a Stand User and a Medic Nin, I'll be going losing myself on the Road of Life if you need me, Ta-ta!" Kakashi said before disappearing from the window in a Shunshin.
"Now that we are alone, let's check your body temperature," Tsunade said taking out a rather big thermometer.
"Fine! Aaah!" Naruto said opening his mouth with a sneer.
"Who talked about your mouth...turn around and relax your muscles, gaki!" Tsunade replied with a feral smirk.
"NOOOOOOO!" the blond boy yelled in horror as the medic-nin pounced on him.
T&I Department – in the meantime -
"IT'S COOOOOOOOLD!" on the notes of the anguished scream of the Stand User Kakashi appeared in front of the nondescript ANBU Headquarters marked with a faded "3" on the side of the Leaf symbol of Konoha and knocked on the door.
"Yes?" a female voice asked from the tiny slit that opened on the sturdy door.
"You look fabulous today, Eagle! New contact lenses?" Kakashi asked amused.
"I am wearing my mask, Kakashi. What do you want?" the ANBU asked with a suffered sigh.
"I felt nostalgic and wanted to have a look around the place for the sake of memories..." he answered shrugging.
"I'll open, step back." the masked woman said opening the door with a series of heavily clanging sounds.
As soon as Kakashi stepped inside the hidden trapdoor barely after the frame opened the instant the door closed behind him, making him fall down into pitch-black darkness until his feet touched ground with a barely-audible tapping.
"What do you want?" the heavily scarred Head of the TI Department asked with a growl flashing the masked Jounin with a blinding light.
"Do we have to go through this every time? You knew I was coming here, I have an appointment!" Kakashi answered showing a pink post-it in frustration.
"What kind of pants I am wearing?" Ibiki asked nonplussed.
"It's Wednesday, so the green ones." the other answered sighing.
"WRONG!"
"Sigh! Because the green ones are your lucky ones when you want to get some," Kakashi replied mechanically.
"And that's because I like to-"
"To have a green light in that sort of things! Can I come in now, PLEASE!?" Kakashi said growling.
"A last password and..."
"FUCK YOU, YOU DERANGED PSYCHOPATHIC BASTARD!" the masked Jounin screamed.
"...It's Kakashi, let him in." Ibiki said grinning as the dark room got illuminated by light showing an army of shinobi standing at barely a meter from the guest ready to jump him.
"You have the strangest passwords I have ever seen." the other said shaking his head.
"But I bet no-one will believe "FUCK YOU, YOU DERANGED PSYCHOPATHIC BASTARD" is actually the weekly password you others have to memorize to enter here." the Head Torturer answered shrugging.
"...That was the password? I thought that you just recognised me."
"Nope! What can I do for you today?" Ibiki asked, recognizing the jab at his manners but not giving a crap about it.
"I just need to talk to our newest guest," Kakashi answered.
"The girl from Kumo? I was about to have a crack at her, she should have recovered enough from the fights during the Invasion for me to play with her,"
"You DO know your wife will get mad if she hear about that, right?" Kakashi asked smirking.
"Hardy-har-har! We have a comedian here, people! I am a free man because I decided so, I won't have problems finding a woman to marry if I wish so. You'll be surprised to see how many kunoichi love to mix Pain with Pleasure." the scarred man answered leering.
"OH, GOD Stop it! I don't want images of you naked in my head!" the other said in disgust.
"Tche! Pansy." Ibiki said sneering.
"Say, Ibiki..."
"Yes?"
"What exactly are you others doing here?" Kakashi asked while pointing towards several cells.
"Testing new types of torture, we want to see if new methods can be found and how long those take to break the prisoners."
"Such as?"
"Take this: Prisoner 223/ab, forty years old from Iwa, Rank Jounin." Ibiki said showing a man bound to a chair shaking his head wildly while screaming himself hoarse in clear agony while watching two women talk between themselves from behind a reinforced glass.
"What is happening?" Kakashi asked.
"He should have knowledge about a kidnapping happened near Wave a week ago, we are forcing him to listen two women talk about the new sales in their favourite shop and about all the different kinds of shoes they will buy." Ibiki answered.
"UGH! That's horrible." Kakashi said horrified.
"Want to listen?" the scarred Torturer said pushing the button of the intercom near the glass panel acting like a wall for that cell.
"And so I said: 'Sandals? Red? With that dress I would so look like an hooker'!" one of the women said.
"No way! And how did he answer?" the other woman asked shocked.
"OH GOD NO! PLEASE STOP I BEG YOU! I'LL TALK! I'LL TAAAAAAALK!" the man of Iwa said in tears.
"We'll keep him in there few hours more, just to be sure he'll tell us everything." Ibiki said with a fanged smile.
"Yuck! And that one?" Kakashi asked pointing at another prisoner rocking back and forth while curled into a ball in a corner.
"We are making him listen non-stop the audio part of every episode of 'My Little Pony' ever made, spin-off and re-runs comprised. He defined himself the Manliest of the Manly Men...we thought it fitting."
"Why the audio only?"
"The prisoners kept clawing their eyes out when faced with the video, if we bound their hands we still can use both, but I prefer the audio, at least they can't simply look away." Ibiki answered shrugging.
"My Little Pony is not so bad after all..." Kakashi muttered.
"For you Bronies no, for we others? Eh! That's all another matter...just don't tell Maito Gai we used his personal stash of DVDs to create copies for the torture, he gets mad if someone touches it and his Fluttershy, Princess Celestia or any other plush-doll of the show characters." Ibiki asked.
"I am not a Brony...WAIT! Gai is one?! Ooooh! I am so going to hold it over his head!" Kakashi answered giddily.
"Whatever, just don't tell him I told you about it. I was forced to swear silence that time I caught him while still wearing his 'Friendship is Magic' pajama...Ops! Slip of the tongue..." Ibiki answered with a devious smile.
"Huhuhuhu!" the masked Jounin chuckled darkly.
"Here we are! Cell 123, the little room for our precious Genin of Kumo, but we already know her rank to be Chuunin, that much we managed to worm-out before the Medics interrupted us to patch her up." Ibiki said opening the metallic door in front of the duo.
"I'll wait outside and monitor how she acts, you are the closest one to her Target, I need to see if she would try to talk you into vouching for her to get out, just in case capture was part of an emergency plan." he then whispered before closing the door.
"Okay." Kakashi had the time to say before addressing the blond girl chained to the spartan wood table acting as bed.
"Comfortable?" he asked.
"Just like my old apartment, totally cool..." Samui answered sarcastically.
"I guess people still think that we keep our prisoners in a comfortable way. It's one of the many things Chuunin learn about the Shinobi World as soon as they get promoted and recognised as proper Ninja." Kakashi answered moving the chair resting in a corner to stand in front of the prisoner.
"This job is not for the faint of heart," she answered huffing.
"Exactly. So, why my Little Brother was targeted by your Team? Was all about the Stand Style?" he asked disinterested while flipping open his beloved copy of Icha-Icha.
"I won't talk."
"For me it's okay, is not my job to wrestle info out of you. I am more about direct action and fights more than torture," he answered bored.
"Then why you are here?" Samui asked challengingly.
"I was curious about the girl that was supposedly part of the Team tasked with seducing my otouto..."
"And?"
"...Meh!" Kakashi said with a tired shrug.
"Meh?...MEH?!" Samui replied affronted.
"You have big tits for one of your age...but that's all about it. Is not exactly the pinnacle of a woman's charm, even when dealing with a young man," the masked Jounin answered simply.
"I WAS NOT CHOOSEN JUST FOR MY CHEST!" the girl yelled in clear fury.
"Sure, sure dear...whatever you say." Kakashi answered with the gentle tone normally used with toddlers.
"IT'S TRUE! I AM MORE THAN A PAIR OF BIG TITS!" she insisted as tick marks appeared on her forehead by the dozen.
"Don't worry, I am sure a lot of boys normally find you cute to look at, I mean...you are a very nice blond..." Kakashi answered condescendingly.
"Blond? What is that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing. Your being a big-breasted blond has nothing to do with anything."
"...YOU!" she growled.
"What?" Hatake asked with an innocent expression so intense to have an halo appear above his head.
"You take that back! I am not a dumb blond! I AM NOT A BIG-BREASTED BIMBO! GOT IT!?" Samui yelled.
"There is nothing wrong in admitting that a nice body can help at the beginning, but you won't be always able to count on your looks to go on in life. My Otouto for example would have never fell for your "Charm" as he does have quite the high standards." Kakashi replied with a lecturing tone and mentally pleased to see the girl's eyes darken considerably at his air-quoting "Charm" with his fingers.
"H-HIGH STANDARDS!?" she bellowed with a shrieking voice.
"He likes them pretty, yes. But also smart, loyal and able to fight for themselves...a proper kunoichi so to speak." he replied honestly.
"AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" the growl he got in answer could have shamed Kyuubi any day.
"You mad?"
"I AM A PROPER KUNOICHI!" she yelled.
"Pffft..."
"Don't you dare laugh. I am serious."
"Sorry, it's just...you are still wearing a skin-tight suit under that blouse...that is not making a good impression for your whole denying everything about your looks." Kakashi said as his body got shocked by a new wave of repressed laughter.
"THAT'S IT! Bring the boy here and I will totally have him fall madly in love with me!" Samui answered.
"Oh, yes...because that will TOTALLY happen." Kakashi answered snorting.
"HE WILL!" she replied.
"Oh, please! You don't know him nor what he likes, you of Kumo just thought that by shaking those melons around he would have followed you like a puppy! You people were simply banking on 'the power of the boner'. It's a shame that Kunoichi everywhere have to be ashamed by girls like you acting like that." the masked Jounin answered annoyed as he got up.
"I had a Mission with a list of set parameters! They told me to dress like this and seduce him, what was I supposed to do, eh!?" Samui replied angrily.
"To not treat my brother like a piece of meat, for once. Luckily you and him have nothing in common so it would have never worked between you two." Kakashi answered waving her off before leaving the cell.
"COME BACK HERE!" the girl, never in her life feeling that much anger flooding her veins, roared in answer.
Outside -
"Eh! A nice start, she at least admitted that she and her Team were here for Naruto, now we just need to see if the Hyuuga Brats too were part of the targets and see if she knows something else, nice shot." Ibiki said smirking.
"Eeeh! I wanted to hear it from her why they tried to get near my brother, Sensei would kill me if something happens to him...this if Naruto's mother won't maul me before he gets to me." Kakashi answered sighing.
"Oh, yeah! Kushina-sama would be quite mad should that happen." the man answered shivering.
"Sama?"
"See these scars? It was not enemy torture to leave those...but I couldn't have people know that a seven-months-pregnant woman trashed me like this because her mood-swings got the better of her and her husband was not around to get the beating. Hokage-sama was gentle enough to cover everything." Ibiki answered while pointing at his face.
"Aaah! I see. I won't talk." Kakashi answered as he moved towards the exit.
"A last thing!" the Head of the T&I asked grinning.
"Yes?"
"What have you planned to tell to Shizuka-san when our girl here will try and add herself to the relationship? She is barely accepting the Higurashi girl as it is...another contender won't be so well received, especially if YOU are the one to spring the thing." Ibiki asked amused.
"W-What do you mean?" Kakashi asked gulping.
"You have officially challenged her into knowing Naruto-kun better and try to have a relationship with him while at the same time delivering an unilateral blow to her pride as a woman and kunoichi by declaring her a brig breasted blond air-head."
"I didn't do such a thing!" Kakashi said with an indignant tone.
"You sure?" Ibiki asked again with his smile growing larger.
"I just said...FUUUUUCK!" the masked man replied before cursing loudly after replaying the whole conversation in his head but analyzing it from Samui's point of view.
"That's why is always a Professional the one to conduct the interrogation," Ibiki said with crossed arms.
"And Anko then?"
"She is a crazy psycho bitch, but you can read it in her eyes as clear as the sun so she usually just needs to enter the room twirling a kunai and ask the prisoner to bend over the table to have them talk...she is very effective and professional when she wants to." he answered.
"I see..."
"Now go, the sooner you start thinking, the better your explanation to Shizuka-san for Samui-san's here trying everything in her power to have a date with her man will be...I'll send a Medic-nin to gather your pieces later. Good Luck!" Ibiki said laughing.
"Bastard..."
Meanwhile – Rain Village – Hidden Base under the Amekage Tower -
"I want the Village Jinchuuriki to be kept under close watch, now that Konoha and Suna are both been weakened the Village in the desert won't have allies to rely on should we decide to attack, but we still need to know how the other Vessels are being guarded and where they hide normally. The Mission must be closed in success." a man with spiky orange hair ordered to the assembled images of men dressed with a similar black cloak of his.
"What if someone sees us?" one of the images asked.
"...Feel free to gift them to your Jashin, Hidan. Every hindrance must be eliminated." the man answered coldly.
"Yeah! I like this job already! Yahahahaha!" the image replied with an ecstatic, mad laugh.
"I can easily infiltrate Suna without too much of a fuss. What about the others?" the image of an hunched-over man asked with a growling tone of voice.
"Kumo is fortified, but me and Kisame should still be able to blend-in." Itachi answered calmly.
"I want to go to Konoha instead! My sword is still there!" Kisame answered enraged.
"You will calm down instead and follow my ordersd, Kisame. If I have to 'sacrifice' your sword for the success of our plans then I'll do it a thousand time and never regret it! You two failing in kidnapping the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki not only affected our plans, but also finally drove home the fact that we have an hidden agenda regarding Jinchuuriki! Had you caught him at least we would have had the consolation of furthering our ambitions...but this...a failure. You failed to capture a boy." the Leader of Akatsuki answered bitterly.
"He was protected by Kakashi Hatake and managed to catch us by surprise with his own abilities" Itachi said bowing his head a little.
"Who cares about that! Let me go back to Konoha, it will take a minute! I'll just go there and slaughter the ones holding Samehada in storage and be back!" Kisame said growling.
"ENOUGH! You all have your set of orders. Map the Villages holding a Jinchuuriki, learn the route of their guards and every possible weakness we can use to enter, kidnap the Vessel and come back! We'll capture those Biju, Understood!?"
"Yes, Leader!" the other members of the Organization answered as one.
"Dismissed, carry on your orders and let me know as soon as you find an opening for the first and second Jinchuuriki." the orange-haired man said making the images disappear.
"If only we could have started sooner collecting information, this moment of weakness of Suna would have made the capture of the Ichibi so much easier..." the man said sighing.
"Pein...Remember that Luck not always shine on the Just, we need to use this time to grow strong and learn everything we can of the inner workings of the Villages, taking with us powerful Missing-Nins from each one of them and above will help us shortening the time needed, their sharing with us what they know together with every piece of data Sasori can gather with his spies will help us in the long run. We just have to be patient and play our cards right." a man wearing an orange mask said from the corner of the room said chuckling.
"We will start soon." Pein answered lost in thought.
"Yes, in barely few months we will start hunting down the Jinchuuriki and extract the Biju into the Gedo Mazou Statue...just few months and we'll have our Eternal Peace." the masked man answered nodding.
"...Will you ever tell me your name?" Pein asked after a short silence.
"I am wearing this mask and the name 'Madara' for the same reason you are using your friend's body as your Path and 'Face' during the meetings of Akatsuki. We are embodying the Dreams, Hopes and Ideals of great men that unfortunately died before achieving their own goals. We are mere vessels for the same dream: A Perfect World." Madara answered.
"A perfect world..." Pein muttered sighing.
"We are trying to achieve something great, Pein. We can't rush into this, but we need to plan everything accordingly and do not make mistakes." the masked man said moving closer.
"And we will succeed?"
"Absolutely...you will have back Yahiko and a world of Peace as I and everyone else will see our own dreams become reality, we will finally heal this world and remove every rotten individual trying to stop us. Are you with me?" Madara asked.
"..."
"Pein?"
"...I am with you."
"Good choice. Have no fear, we will re-shape this flawed world into one where there won't be sufferance, pain or war..." the masked man answered pleased before summoning a vortex-like distortion from the eye-hole in his mask and using it to disappear from the room.
As a long silence fell it the hidden base light steps could be heard draw closer to the orange-haired Leader of Akatsuki making him raise his head slightly towards the source of the sound.
"So we have come to this..." a female voice said in bitter sadness.
"Konan." Pein muttered looking at the blue-haired woman entering the room.
"Do you remember why Yahiko created Akatsuki? Do you really remember, Nagato?" Konan asked with narrowed eyes.
"That name..." Pein said with a growl.
"Yes, 'Nagato'...your name. Do you even remember your own name or has that man convinced you to throw that too away?" Konan asked.
"I have to do this, this world is drowning in wars! In senseless violence and useless death!" Pein, man once known as Nagato, answered yelling.
"And killing people by the dozen, hunting-down Jinchuuriki and taking over Villages is instead a good way to achieve Peace?!" Konan yelled back.
"There is a difference, Konan. We have to consolidate our power and make sacrifices in the name of Peace, there is no other way." he answered shaking his head.
"And the Biju Vessels? Will you give them back their lives once extracted their Biju? Your Rinnegan can do it, you yourself told me." Konan asked with narrowed eyes.
"I can't, Konan. What do you think will happen then? They will tell to their Kage where we are hiding and after that every other Village will be on us to stop any other attempt. Even if it pains me, they have to be sacrificed themselves."
"I see. And you two really believe that having the Statue cast that Jutsu on the planet will be that easy? That once the first two or three Biju are gone the others will still be an easy target? And what about those men you just talked with? We are amassing madmen, murderers and psychos to achieve what we had always wanted to get in a non-violent way! YOU ARE KILLING YAHIKO'S IDEALS!" she roared in fury.
"I AM PROTECTING THEM! I will do what those war-mongering fools never wanted us to achieve, and I am forced to use violence instead of good words because look what those ideals brought us! They forced me to do this because of their inability to listen!" Pein answered.
"And so we just kill them all! Hidan and Kakuzu, Sasori and Deidara and Kisame! All of them eager to kill whoever stands in their way for their sick pleasure! And you are doing this while wearing the face of the man I loved..." Konan said with cold, ruthless detachment.
"They are capable men. They will follow our plans to the letter and help us achieve Peace. Once done...once done they will just 'disappear' with the other Violent, foolish beasts gaining pleasure from other's sufferance, I am merely giving them a sort of Redemption by directing their Blood-lust to a more important, Higher Goal." Nagato answered looking away.
"...Then Nagato too died that day with Yahiko...I should have known the moment that 'Madara' too joined us and you started hanging from his mouth lapping-up every honey-covered word he told you..." Konan answered stepping back and removing her Akatsuki Cloak.
"What are you doing?" Pein asked with wide eyes.
"I tried to help you, Pein...I truly did. I served alongside you, I fought with you and tried to snap you out of this madness, but in the end the only thing I managed was drenching my hands in the same innocent blood of yours. But no more." she answered as pieces of paper detached from her body to form angelic wings behind her back.
"And so you betray me?" Pein asked in shocked anger, acting as if slapped by the venomous tone she used to say 'Pein'.
"One question… Pein. Do you even understand why I betrayed you? Because you and Madara are darkness, a world without light where flowers can only wither and die! To betray means that I used to follow your ideals before leaving...now I know that the day you started hunting down Biju was the day I truly understood where my loyalty lies." the woman answered.
"And to who are you loyal then?" Pein asked as his other Paths joined him.
"To Yahiko, to Jiraiya-sensei...to Nagato...I am loyal to those men and their ideals of Peace. I am loyal to an ideal of Peace where lives can be saved instead of sacrificed! I have a new goal, Pein! I will stop you, I will save the Jinchuuriki and if I have to, I will sacrifice my own life and drag Madara down with me...maybe in my death I will find the redemption I truly seek to amend to my sin." Konan answered proudly.
"And who will help you?" the man asked back snarling.
"See my wings, Pein? Have you seen my paper-related powers? Do you think this really is a mere Jutsu? A technique? No...this is more, more ancient...Paper Roses!" Konan answered smiling as an humanoid figure made of paper appeared near her.
"What is that?" the female Path of Pein asked with narrowed eyes.
"It's a Stand...the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki is not the only one able to use them. I honestly thought I was the last one able to harness this ability, but Fate must have moved to give me a new chance." she answered smirking.
"So you'll join a brat?" Pein said growling.
"Not him personally, but both you and Madara seem to despise Konoha more than any other Village, so giving my allegiance to them seems like a nice start to my plans. That and Jiraiya-sensei is from Konoha along Tsunade-sama, those two are the last remaining 'Family' I have after Nagato too 'died'...I will train the boy to better use his Stand and in the meantime prepare everyone for Akatsuki and YOUR plans." Konan said as she flew a little higher followed by her equally-winged Stand.
"And how do you plan to have everyone get ready in a few months, Konan? Not even someone as good as you can hope to cover everything in such a short time." the man said smirking.
"...Huhuhuhu!" a low, blood-freezing chuckle escaped the woman at that, action mirrored by the Stand that haughtily moved an hand in front of its face to cover its own chuckle.
"What have you done?" Pein hissed in fury.
"Huhuhu! I had prepared this particular technique to deal with Madara at the beginning...but I decided to use it in a different way, after all, why should I hurry-up when I can just slow-down my enemy?" Konan answered with a satisfied smile.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" Pein yelled.
"Nothing much, Pein...only six hundred billion explosive tags hidden here and there in key parts of this and few other bases along sending names of infiltrators and spies in various outposts and minor Villages." she answered.
"NOOOO!" the Rinnagan user yelled in fury.
"All things considered...I guess your plans will need to be delayed by what? One year? Two if all went as I planned." Konan said laughing again.
"KILL HER!" Pein bellowed as his Paths lunged forward.
"Tut-tut, Pein! Nagato was more in control of his reactions...should you came out alive once the Akatsuki is no more and you finally snap-out of this foolishness come looking for me, and maybe together we will be able to mend your tainted soul...PAPER ROSES: Paper Person of God!" the woman replied dodging a punch from the bulkier Path.
"AAH!" the Stand yelled clapping her hands making the far-away echo of thousands of explosions reach the room immediately after.
"Those are all the paper bombs and explosive tags my Stand was keeping inert with her power and now exploding as one. I suggest you to flee, Pein. Even your Paths won't last the tents of thousands explosive tags I have put around the base alone...farewell, take care of the bodies of Nagato and Yahiko as I will soon come to take them back." Konan said before disappearing in a Paper-Shunshin.
"NOOOOO!" Pein roared as he too was forced to flee before the immense sea of fire he saw tear down the door reached him.
Once outside he was forced to watch in complete horror as explosions rocked the whole Village of Rain, making buildings collapse, people run away screaming from the towers of fire coming from underground and then see, with an even more intense pang of sorrow, as the whole Amekage Tower itself crumbled to ashes in a matter of minutes.
"PEIN!" Madara yelled as he joined the Akatsuki Leader in escaping the exploding Village together with a plant-like creature half white and half black.
"What happened?" the black half of Zetsu asked.
"Konan betrayed us! She has left the Akatsuki and destroyed everything!" Pein answered enraged, the only consolation was that the other Paths had managed to secure his real body from harm.
"She planted bombs everywhere..." the masked man of the three muttered bitterly.
"Here and in our other bases, she has even alerted outposts and Villages about our spies and infiltrators. If those men are not dead yet they will soon be." the other replied.
"How far back will this put us?" Black Zetsu asked.
"Difficult to say...just rebuilding Rain to a barely-working condition and re-insert new spies where we need will take a long time, years even..." Madara answered with a shaken tone.
"We need to start immediately then, once done we will hunt down the traitorous bitch, but at the moment we'll have to focus on repairing the damages." White Zetsu said as he watched the Village slowly burn.
"We need to stop her immediately instead!" Pein said snarling.
"An enemy more or less by now won't make any difference, should she alert everyone about our targeting the Jinchuuriki we will be powerless to stop any preemptive attack to stop us." the masked man answered sighing.
"What do we do then?" White Zetsu asked.
"Go call the others, tell them to regroup here and help protecting the Village and the Hidden Base while we rebuild. As you said our priority is to repair the damages Konan managed to land on us...such a scary potential used against us it's just a pity, but crying on the spoiled milk won't help." Madara answered.
"Always said the bitch was scary, this just proves it." Black Zetsu said as the creature sank in the floor to leave.
"This is only a small delay, Pein. We will succeed." Madara said patting the other's shoulder.
"Yes, we will."
"Let's go tell those idiots to start working on rebuilding, if the have to be of any use then they can very well start working to rebuild." he then said as both men rapidly returned to the half-destroyed Village where the fires were already being put-out.
"Interesting...maybe it's time for me too to take distance and start working for a change of plans. I just hope it is not too late..." an hidden Itachi muttered before his body burst into smoke to show his being a clone.
Konoha - Hospital – Naruto's room – three days later -
A now perfectly fine Naruto was sitting on the bed with Tsunade running the last remaining tests behind him while he kept looking annoyed at the two girls sitting in front of him.
"I am still going to say that it was the stupidest thing you could have ever done." he said glaring at Tenten.
"But it worked!" she answered whining.
"You grabbed a living sword that had almost killed whoever touched it by over-absorbing their Chakra whenever the spikes it can grow on the handle were not enough to deter people from grabbing the hilt." he said with narrowed eyes.
"And it did that, but I literally told to Samehada-chan..."
"-Chan?" Shizuka asked chuckling.
"Can I continue?" the weapon mistress said annoyed.
"Sorry."
"Long story short, I demonstrated that I was ready to drop dead in order to gain her alliance, because I would then have used her to get stronger and protect the ones precious to me." Tenten said.
"...You are not telling the whole truth." Naruto said sighing.
"I...I may have also promised her a steady source of Biju Chakra...yours to be precise..." she added blushing.
"And why would have the sword accepted if it never 'tasted' my chakra?" the blond asked.
"...It already has..." she muttered looking down.
"When?"
"...yesterday while you were sleeping..."
"TENTEN!" Naruto yelled in anger.
"Oh, come on! It was just for a minute and Shizuka helped too by moving a finger of yours to touch the blade...it felt kind of spicy so I understand why she like it..." the bun-haired girl replied with an even redder face.
"You traitor!" he said pointing an accusing finger at the girl from Nadeshiko Village.
"I was curious to see what would have happened, I admit that. A Jinchuuriki is infamous for having nigh-infinite Chakra so I too wanted to see how Samehada would have reacted, but I would have personally stopped the whole thing had danger been there!" Shizuka answered immediately.
"Sigh!...so...I have spicy Chakra?" Naruto asked sighing in defeat.
"A little...with a faint ginger after-taste..." Tenten admitted weakly. "Are you angry?"
"No, I am not. Just a little put-out about being used for an experiment without having been asked beforehand." he answered shaking his head.
"Good! Because those two will accompany us in a little training trip I have planned with an old acquaintance of mine." a man with very long white hair said entering the room from the window.
"Jiraiya, still not using doors like normal people." Tsunade said sighing.
"What can I say, Hime. I like being as anti-conformist as I can!" Jiraiya answered smirking.
"And how long we will take to go on this training trip?" Naruto asked.
"Well...it will be more 'Training' than 'Trip' as we won't go farther than Suna in terms of distance since from what I gathered the less you show your face around the better, other Villages are still out for you and your Stand-style, so exception made for Suna to learn something from their Wind Masters (one of which is the sister of your friend Gaara) we will mostly train near Konoha and in the Forest of Death when the thing will get too 'Dangerous' to follow in a normal training ground." Jiraiya answered shrugging.
"And us?" Shizuka asked.
"You have a Stand like Naruto, so you and him will have a specialized training for that as my 'Acquaintance' apparently has a Stand herself and comes from a bloodline of Stand Users...thing that I wished she also told me when I was training her." the Toad Sage said grumbling.
"At the time I was of the idea that I was the last one remaining after the death of my family so decided to keep it a secret so to stop others from using me to 'breed' more Stand Users, if Stands are resurfacing then I guess I can only help as much as I can with them as part of my help against Akatsuki." Konan said as she too entered the Hospital room.
"Konan!? I thought you were dead!" Tsunade said with wide eyes.
"Hello, Tsunade-sama, it's nice to see you again." the blue-haired woman answered with a small smile.
"She has personally crippled Akatsuki in a way that will hopefully leave us enough time to alert the other Villages and train Naruto here to protect himself and Konoha when the Organization will come for the Kyuubi. Between her knowledge in the Stand-style and as a kunoichi, she will help me cut-down the time needed to do that while leaving me free to spread the word about Akatsuki and its goals." Jiraiya said.
"Then I will also help, me and Kakashi will join the training regimen whenever you get out to work as spy, like that with the exclusion of Suna all the training can be held here." Hiruzen said joining with Kakashi inside.
"C-Can I join?" Tenten asked meekly.
"Sigh! Ask Gai for permission since your Team would be a member short in that case." Tsunade answered shaking her head.
"And what about you, hime?" Jiraiya asked.
"Fine, fine...I'll give an hand, but not too much as I have an Hospital to help and the job of Hokage to also learn about." she answered defeated.
"Have you considered my request, Tsunade-sama?" Shizuka asked.
"Yes and no...I have literally no time for a new apprentice, let alone two. So you and Sakura will study under Shizune and I will intervene in my spare time for some fine-tuning, it's all I can do for you and Naruto's training here as my schedule is already full as it is." Tsunade answered.
"Thank you all the same, Tsunade-sama." Shizuka answered bowing.
"Yep, thanks a lot!" Naruto added giving the woman a thumbs-up.
"Then let's start right away, we have no time to waste." Jiraiya said nodding with a wide smirk on his face.
"What's your Stand name?" Konan asked.
"Broken Arrow." Naruto answered making the empty cloak float out of his body.
"Peace Frog." Shizuka added as the small frog hopped on the top of her head.
"Good. I am Kujoh Konan, and together with Shinobi Techniques me and Paper Roses will instruct you in how Stand really works." Konan answered as the pure-white-skinned female humanoid Stand appeared behind her with its wings opened fully to give a cheerful smile and a playful wink with its golden eyes.
"I am getting old, I am too used to see shinobi only use Jutsu." Hiruzen said groaning.
"Then I am getting old myself, I can barely follow Naruto and his own, a third one is just too much." Kakashi added sighing.
What will follow will be two years of intense training from various sources like Konan, Hiruzen and both Sannin of Konoha to prepare the Junior Jounin for the rapidly recovering Akatsuki Organization that was in the meantime moving to hastily regain its former strength while every other Village too was stepping-up in preparation for the Jinchuuriki hunt that will soon start; making spies of every kind and from every corner of the Elemental Nation move into a frenzy to collect, stole and protect every shred of information needed by their respective Leaders.
Something big was coming and no-one wanted to be found unprepared, no matter what.
I have the slight impression that my decision to turn Konan into a Stand User won't be popular, but I happen to like her a lot and needed a good 'excuse' to have her abandon Akatsuki and justify their starting so late to hunt-down Biju, having her betray and cripple the Organization to force them to wait years before starting sounded good enough.
After all, I am the Author and I decide, in the end the readers always telling me this are right.
Her Stand is called "Paper Roses" after the song 'Paper Roses' by Marie Osmond (all rights reserved to the rightful owner, I just used the song name to remain 'Canon' with the Stands having names from songs/bands/albums of existing authors.
I found it kind of fitting with her paper-related techniques and the paper-made flowers she gave Naruto after the battle with Pein.
I hope that someone will still like my story even after this, thank you so much for reading me and following my work, I hope you enjoy what I do just as much as I do.
I'll see you around the net.
Tr230.