Smallville/Naruto

Redeemer

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 7

Tayuya opened her eyes as something disturbed her sleep, looking up from her perspective seeing as she was lying on her side, she saw Clark standing straight, his back to her as he regarded a part of the treetops in front of him intensely.

He must have heard something, Tayuya realized, remembering what he had said about being able to hear her heartbeat a heartbeat maybe? Or rustling leaves from someone moving in the canopy?

"What is it Clark?" Tayuya whispered quietly, knowing he would be able to hear it, but whoever was out in the trees wouldn't.

Clark turned back toward her, pointing toward the treetops; then holding up three fingers.

"Three heartbeats?" Tayuya asked in the same quiet whisper that only Clark would hear.

Clark nodded.

"Human?"

Clark nodded again.

Reaching over for her flute Tayuya put it to her lips and began playing a specific tune designed to cast a particular kind of genjutsu she made sure to direct the sound with her Chakra so that Clark wouldn't be affected by it.

The genjutsu in question was a paralysis jutsu created by combining her Chakra with a melody on her flute known as 'The Phantom Chains of Sound'.

She saw Clark look curiously in the direction of the treetops as he seemed to see the effect the genjutsu was having on the other side of the foliage that their observers were hiding behind even though he couldn't hear the sound because of Tayuya using her Chakra to direct it away from him.

Okay, Clark has ability similar to a byakugan, Tayuya noted, not that that was actually surprising where Clark was concerned.

Tayuya smiled to herself as she saw Clark fire three short and accurate bursts of heat vision, severing three very specific tree branches, a fraction of a second after this Tayuya stopped playing her flute and released the genjutsu, an instant later their unwanted observers ended up making a forced landing in plain sight.

"So," Clark asked the three, causing Tayuya to smirk as he did "mind telling me what you three were doing spying on us?"

Clark carefully regarded the three he had caught observing Tayuya and himself;

First was a petite girl about the same age as Tayuya, with short dark hair wearing black trousers, a fur lined jacket with a hood, which was currently down and the same open toed sandals that everybody here seemed to wear, the strangest thing about this girl was her eyes, they were pearl colored, and they didn't seem to have any pupils.

Next was a dark haired woman who appeared to be in her mid to late twenties, her hair was long and wavy, reaching down to her back, she was wearing an outfit that appeared to be made of several very wide strips of fabric sown together in such a way as to hug the curves of her figure, and-were the irises of her eyes actually red?

Last was a boy with curly dark hair, he looked the same age as the girl, Clark couldn't make out much of his face however as it was obscured by his dark glasses and the high collar of his coat.

All three were regarding him warily, all three wore headbands with a metal plate on the front that bore some kind of symbol that looked like a combination of a spiral and a leaf (although the young girl wore hers around her neck), and all three were currently white as a sheet, like they had stared into the depths of hell itself.

Whatever that power was that Tayuya used on them I don't want it used on me, Clark decided.

The elder of the three; the woman with red eyes was the one who spoke up first, swallowing nervously as she apparently tried to calm down after experiencing the effects of whatever power Tayuya had used on the three she answered Clark's earlier question as to what they were doing.

"Trying to determine if you are a threat to Konoha or not," the red eyed woman replied simply, eying Clark with suspicion.

"I'm not here to hurt anybody," Clark replied "but I don't like to be spied on."

"If you're not trying to hurt anybody," the boy with the shades asked "then what are you doing with a kunoichi from the Sound?"

"Well let's see," Clark replied calmly "I found her half buried under tons of fallen trees, badly injured and left to die. What was I supposed to do? Just leave her there?"

The boy seemed about to say something in reply, he shut up as he realized Clark was right but he boy still gave both Clark and Tayuya a dirty look as far as Clark could tell.

"Besides," Clark added with a sigh "she's more Orochimaru's victim than anything else."

At this point Tayuya made her opinion known.

"As much as it pisses me off to admit to being a victim Clark is right," she stated bitterly clenching her fists angrily in her lap as she did and trying hard not to grind her teeth "that snake bastard was using me this whole time and I was too damn stupid to realize it until he threw me away because he didn't have a use for me anymore, I'm such an idiot."

"Don't be too hard on yourself Tayuya," Clark told the girl gently "people who are alone and desperate can be very easy for a bastard like Orochimaru to manipulate."

"I guess," Tayuya conceded, her tone becoming melancholy and depressed "I still feel like a fucking idiot though, I served that bastard for years and never realized he was using me until it was too late, if you hadn't been there Clark-."

"But I was, and you have a second chance," Clark told the troubled girl.

Clark then turned to their three unexpected guests, the teenage girl and the woman were now regarding Tayuya with expressions of sympathy, albeit with some suspicion still, shades however was still looking at her and Clark scornfully, he really was a judgemental prig Clark decided.

Looking the woman who was obviously their leader in the eye he continued.

"In any case I was taking her to Konoha-as she asked me to-so that she could tell you leaf shinobi everything she knows about Orochimaru," he added "we stopped here to camp for the night because in her injured state Tayuya needs her rest even if I don't and I couldn't exactly super speed her to Konoha even if I knew the way because that would run the risk of aggravating her injuries."

"I guess we wait here until morning and escort you two to Konoha then," the red eyed woman decided reluctantly after much thought on the subject "I'm Kurenai by the way, the girl beside me is Hinata-."

"Um-h-hello," Hinata greeted Clark nervously.

"Hinata is rather shy," Kurenai informed Clark, though he had already figured as much himself "and the boy with the dark glasses is Shino."

"I'm Clark," Clark told Kurenai as he gestured to himself, then he indicated Tayuya "and she's Tayuya."

"Hi," Tayuya greeted the three casually, not really that interested; apparently she was still busy berating herself for trusting Orochimaru.

"We're going to have to send somebody back to Konoha as a messenger to let the Hokage know what the situation is," Kurenai decided "which one of us should go back? Let's see-."

"Send shades," Tayuya suggested with a smirk "he really pisses me off you know."

Clark chuckled slightly at that, struggling to keep from erupting into gales of laughter, the insulted look on Shino's face (or what little Clark could see of it) wasn't helping in that regard.

"I think that's a great idea," Clark agreed once he had managed to get his laughter under control.

"Well Shino does stand a better chance of survival if he's attacked on the way back than Hinata does," Kurenai noted "and since I need to stay here and ensure at least one Jounin level shinobi is present on the off chance that our guests turn hostile I guess that makes him the logical choice, wouldn't you agree Shino?"

Shino nodded.