Notes: I would like to say that I use the English to Japanese Dictionary to get my Japanese words, so if I get anything wrong, don't criticize me.
Slight NaruTema in this chapter for those who want it. I'm considering putting her in the Harem. I've also changed my poll rules again. Whoever gets 10 votes by next chappie is put in the Harem. Anyways, here are the polls.
Hinata: 9
Yugito: 9
Anko: 4 (I'm really sorry NaruAnko fans, but the rest want Hina and Yugi.)
I've noticed. A lot of the girls in Naruto have six letters in their name. Like Sakura, Temari, Tenten, Hinata, Yugito, Tayuya, Hanabi, and Sasuke. (LOLOLOLOL!)
This chapter is short I know! But the next will be super-mega-awesome!
Chapter 6: Search Continues!
Naruto and the group walked down the road towards Konoha. Gaara was silently ignoring Ichibi's rants to kill everyone. Yugito and Temari were talking about fashion. Kankurou and Kakashi were reading Icha Icha Paradise. Satoshi was experimentally swinging his katana. And Naruto was…
"I'M BORED!!!" Sheesh, he could at least let me say it…
Kakashi looked up at the sky, noting the position of the sun. He sighed as he closed his book, much to the dismay of Kankurou. "Alright, let's rest set up camp for the night…"
The six teenagers nodded before heading into the forest to find a clearing to rest in. You can't exactly set up camp in the middle of the road. As soon as they found a clearing, they set up their respective tents, a campfire, and put their sleeping bags inside the tents. Naruto looked up at Gaara, who was currently meditating. The blonde sent a look at Satoshi. The raven caught it and went to tell Yugito.
Later that night, Gaara was sitting at the campfire. He meditated, for it was the closest he could get to sleeping without Ichibi taking over his body. He snapped out of his meditation when the other three Jichuuriki sat down next to him. He eyed them, seeking to know what they wanted.
After a minute or so, Naruto spoke up. "Gaara, do you need help controlling Ichibi?"
"No. I am fine." Came the reply.
Naruto sighed. "No you're not. Tonight, we're gonna set Ichibi straight."
Gaara raised an eyebrow. "How are you going to do that?"
Satoshi grinned as he started to flash through hand-seals along with Naruto. "Jichuuriki Kaiwa no Jutsu!"
Soon everything faded into nothingness. Gaara glanced around him. The others were standing around him, along with exact copies of themselves. Except for the fact that Naruto-2 had red hair and slitted red eyes, fox ears and tail, and defined whisker marks that poked above his mask. Yugito-2 had cat ears and tail, slitted yellow eyes, dark-purple hair and defined whisker marks as well. Satoshi-2 had blue hair and slitted green eyes, a lizard tail, and his z-shaped scale patterns that were now visible over his mask.
Gaara looked to his left and found a Gaara-2 staring back at him with a maniacal grin. Gaara-2 had star-shaped pupils and black irises, raccoon ears, and a spiky raccoon tail behind him. Gaara-2 lunged at the Kazekage, before being caught in the tails of Yugito-2 and Naruto-2. The copy struggled against the powerful hold of the other two copies. Luckily, the tails held.
"Naruto, who are the copies?" Gaara turned to the blonde. Naruto grinned.
"They, Gaara, are our biju." Gaara's eyes widened at that statement. He started to back away from his copy, who he now knew as his tenant, Ichibi no Shukaku.
"N-No, you set him free!?" Gaara panicked.
Satoshi shook his head. "No Gaara, we just let him have a temporary body so we could have a nice conversation."
"Mwuahahaha!! Now that I have a body, even a temporary one, I can kill you!!!" The raccoon demon roared. He began to trash about, trying to escape Kyuubi and Nibi's hold.
"Kit!" Kyuubi growled as struggled to keep the one-tailed down. "Let me put him in his place!"
Naruto nodded. The blonde did a couple of hand-seals. "Shodaime Bi, Kai!"
"YES!" Kyuubi's tail bristled with red chakra. Nibi made her tail let go as Kyuubi swung his tail over-head, carrying Ichibi with it. The fox-demon then slammed Ichibi into the ground. He began to smash the flat side of his tail into the raccoon's stomach several times. The red chakra disappeared a while after. Kyuubi smirked as he went back to stand near Naruto and Sichibi.
Nibi shook her head sadly at the crater Ichibi was residing in. "Not even Ichibi is this bloodlusting. I wonder what got him this way."
"Something is probably wrong with Brother Gaara's seal." Yugito suggested. Naruto nodded and walked towards the red-head.
"Gaara, we need to see your seal. I might be able to fix it. I'm a sealmaster in training." Naruto explained. The Kazekage nodded and lifted up his shirt. He began to channel chakra, which in turn made a seal appear of Gaara's stomach. It was different to Naruto and Satoshi's seals. It was a square with several kanji surrounding the navel, along with kanji around the perimeter of the square.
Naruto adopted a serious face. "Just as I thought. Gaara's seal is a Berserker Seal."
"What does a Berserker Seal do?" Yugito asked.
"A Beserker Seal is a seal that makes the tenant very hostile and bloodlusting. It also lets the tenant haunt the container, slowly driving the Jichuuriki into insanity. It has a number of other effects that depend on the tenant. Gaara is an insomniac, meaning he doesn't sleep. The reason is because Ichibi would harm and possess him if he does. It's different from my and Satoshi's Death Seals. Death Seals are made to slowly weaken and change our tenants. Kyuubi and Sichibi's chakra would be slowly absorbed into our own, eventually having us merging. They'd then be set free, but they wouldn't have any chakra and couldn't live in the outside world, so they have to stay with us. We could give them chakra and summon them, making them valuable allies. And if we die, our tenants die with us." Naruto explained.
Yugito nodded. "But wait, what kind of seal is mine then?"
Naruto shrugged. "I don't know. Pull your shirt up and then we could see."
"PERVERT!!!" Yugito smashed her fist into the blonde's face. Naruto flew back into Kyuubi, who collapsed because of the extra weight.
Sichibi chuckled. "No, no Yugito. He meant pull up your shirt so he could see the seal on your stomach."
"Oh." The purple eyed girl rubbed the back of her head and smiled sheepishly.
"Dammit Kit! You should lay off those 15 extra bowls of ramen you have each day!" The fox demon screamed as he struggled to push the dizzy Naruto off of him. Satoshi and Sichibi just laughed.
As soon as Naruto recovered, he took a look at Yugito's seal. The blonde stared intently at it. Then… "WOW!"
"What is it?" Everyone asked excitedly.
Naruto grinned goofily. "You have no extra body fat, how do you do it!?"
His response was a couple of smacks to the head. And Kyuubi and Nibi's claws didn't help. Naruto chuckled as he rubbed his cheek. "Sorry. That was something Ero-sennin did to me when he examined my seal."
Satoshi sighed. "Just get it over with so we can fix Gaara's seal?"
"Fine. Your seal is a Transferable Seal. It's a seal that has all the basics, which are entrapping the tenant and allowing the container to summon the tenant's chakra at dire situations. But it can be upgraded into the following seals. It could be a Berserker Seal like Gaara's, but I doubt you want that. It could be a Death Seal like ours. Or it could a Power Seal. A Power Seal shortens a container's life span greatly, but it allows the container to call up their tenant's power at will and even multiply it with their own chakra, making them great shock soldiers, but is not good for the long run. Death Seals are made for that purpose."
"Okay. So I can have my seal upgraded into one of those three seals?"
The blonde shinobi nodded. "Yup. When we get back, we could have Ero-sennin upgrade it for you."
The girl smiled and nodded too. Naruto turned to Gaara again. "I could quickly change your seal into a Transferable Seal without releasing Ichibi. Then when we get back to Konoha, we could get Ero-sennin to upgrade it, too."
Gaara grinned. He pulled up his shirt so the trainee sealmaster can get to work.
Temari yawned as she stepped out of her tent. She immediately blinked in confusion at the sight in front of her. Her little red-head brother was humming a tune and cooking a couple of eggs over the campfire. Wait…
Gaara was… was… HUMMING! And he was COOKING! And he had a large grin of his face, as if he just had returned from the best date of his life or something! Temari's jaw dropped in shock. She stood like that until Kankurou stepped out of the tent.
"Hey Temari, what's going on…" The puppeteer trailed off as he noticed was his little brother was doing. They stared for awhile, but a sound of a cracking twig brought their attention away from the Kazekage.
"I see you recognized Gaara." Naruto laughed as he stepped into the campsite, somewhat wet from the bath he took in the nearby stream.
And equally wet Satoshi chuckled as he stepped into the campsite as well. "Yeah, we thought you'd attack him, thinking he was an impostor or something."
Temari growled and stomped up to Naruto. "You did this to Gaara!?"
"Uh… Yeah…" Naruto squeaked. Damn! You'd think she'd be happy for this.
The kunoichi raised her arms and prepared to grab the blonde shinobi. Naruto shut his eyes and waited for his head to crash into a nearby tree. But it never came. Instead, he felt something warm surround his arms and torso and he couldn't breathe very well. He opened his eyes and found Temari hugging him tightly.
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" Temari chanted. Crap, I can't breathe!!! Naruto thought as he began to turn blue. Then the kunoichi set him down and kissed him on the cheek before going to talk to her little brother. The blue shades on his face died down and red began to replace it. The puppeteer whistled as he stood next to the still blushing blonde. He put his hand on the Jichuuriki's shoulder and opened his mouth to speak.
"Ya know, Temari never kisses anyone, anywhere. Not even our parents or her past boyfriends, who she dumps before even their first dates, but anyways." Kankurou winked at him, making him blush even more. "Consider yourself lucky, fellah."
Naruto shook his head to rid of the blood rushing to his face. Satoshi laughed and went to sit down next to the sand siblings. Naruto smiled. This is gonna be interesting…
The seven arrived at Konoha's gates a few days after Gaara's seal was fixed. He sleeped happily, often for 20 hours of the day. The Chuunin guards stopped them as they were about to walk under the gates.
"Stop! State your identities!" One barked.
"We are Jounins Hatake Kakashi, Uzumaki Naruto and Taijiri Satoshi, Chuunin Nii Yugito, Godaime Kazekage Gaara-sama, and Suna-shinobi Subaku no Temari and Subaku no Kankurou." Kakashi said lazily, not looking up from his perverted book.
The Chuunin guards' eyes widened. One sputtered. "O-Of course. H-Hokage-sama is waiting for you in her office."
Naruto nodded. He turned to the others. "Everyone link hands, we're gonna shunshin there."
They did as told. Satoshi put his free hand of Naruto's shoulder as he started to form rapid hand-seals.
"Nenshou Shunshin no Jutsu!" An inferno of orange flames surrounded the seven ninja. They all felt as if they were being pulled, but they weren't. Suddenly, the feeling stopped and the flames died down. They found themselves in…
Tsunade sighed as she read another piece of paperwork. She looked up at Sakura and Tenten who were staring at her intently. The Hokage sighed again. She opened her mouth to say something when suddenly, a giant inferno of flames exploded in the corner of the room. The two Chuunin kunoichi quickly got into a formation, kunais drawn. They watched the flames intently, waiting for something to happen. Then the flames disappeared, exposing none other than a grinning Naruto and Satoshi, and five other shocked people. Sakura recognized them as that Yugito girl, Kakashi-sensei, and the sand trio.
"Hey Baachan, we're back!" Naruto's loud boisterous shout broke the pink-haired girl out of her thoughts.
Tsunade growled, but then she smiled. "So I take it your mission was successful?"
The Tsuin Bunshin Tatsujins nodded. Naruto grinned so wide, his eyes were squints similar to that of a certain perverted Gym Leader. "Yup! We even fixed Gaara's seal! Now he can sleep and control his biju!"
The said former insomniac smiled and nodded. The Hokage smiled as well and turned to Yugito. "So did they do anything stupid?"
"Nope. Unless you count destroying an acre of forest in another 'sparring match' stupid." Yugito giggled.
Temari giggled as well. "Yeah. Gaara even joined the day after that, and they pretty much leveled a mountain."
Tsunade sat back down in her chair and coughed loudly. "Alright, now I called you all here for a reason."
"And what is that, Tsunade-sama?" Tenten asked.
The Hokage smiled. "It seems Jiraiya's secret spy network has benefits. We received info that the Akatsuki are on the move again. Members Deidara, Hidan, and Sasori are tracking down a couple of twins who both have biju residing inside them. The bijus are Gobi and Rokubi. They live in the Haru no Kuni."
"Land of Spring? Where's that?" Tenten blinked.
Sakura smiled. "It used to be called Yuki no Kuni, but after a mission we had there, we fixed a machine that made it eternal spring. After that, it was renamed as such."
Satoshi raised a hand. "Wait, don't Akatsuki members usually travel in pairs?"
Tsunade nodded. "Yes, but since there are two Jichuuriki, they brought three members just in case. They are two girls, each about 14 years old. They live in the Haru no Kuni capital city. Kankurou and Temari will be supplied a temporary apartment while they are here. The four Jichuuriki, Sakura, Tenten and Kakashi will go on this mission."
Everyone nodded and they left the office. Just then, Jiraiya stepped inside from the window, a big smile on his face. "Hey, Tsunade."
The busty blonde sighed exasperatedly. "What is it now, Jiraiya?"
The white-haired pervert's face turned serious. "I have more info on the Akatsuki."
The Hokage turned her chair towards him and narrowed her eyes. "What?"
"It seems Itachi and Kisame have proved to be great spies. He has told me that Pein has assigned them a mission to go to Iwagakure to find the Hachibi no Hebi's container."
Tsunade nodded. "Anything else?"
"They are planning to fake that the Jichuuriki escaped them, when they are really going to leave her at an excluded village a few miles north of here. We need to tell Naruto and his group to pick her up when they get back. The Seken no Kyuuten's numbers are growing fast."
"Wait a sec, 'pick her up'?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow.
"Hehehe…" The perverted sannin giggled lecherously. "It seems that the only Jichuuriki males are Naruto, Satoshi, and Gaara. Oh how much I'd give to be in an organization full of women!!"
Next thing you know, the author of the infamous Icha Icha Paradise book series was flying above Kumogakure's skies, a bump on his head the size of one of Gamabunta's warts.
Translations:
Shodaime Bi, Kai – First Tail, Release
Nenshou Shunshin no Jutsu – Burning Body Flicker Technique
Haru no Kuni – Land of Spring
Yuki no Kuni – Land of Snow
Next time:
Fangirl Maniacs, aka Yuki Tenshi and Yuki Mari, the Gobi and Rokubi twins!
Here's what they mean:
Yuki Tenshi – Snow Angel
Yuki Mari – Snow Ball (LOL!)
