Sleepless Demon: Sorry for being slow, but I've been very busy, hope you like it. Peace out.
At the Mining village, Hinata sits on a large stone, watching as Ili is doing some weight lifting, or what is basically weight lifting, she's got a large stone that is about her size on her back and walking round. Hinata is a little fascinated by this since she wasn't that physically strong when she was that age.
She looks round, seeing Shino looking at the exotic insects that are on this island, finding some interesting ones that haven't been named yet as far as he knows. Though she feels a little unnerved when she sees Darui, the Lighting team leader stands near her to examine Ili training. She has noticed that a large amount of the miners have disappeared, only just realising since no one's come from the mine for awhile.
"Sh-Shino!" Hinata calls, making him look towards her as a strange looking dragon fly lands on his hand. "H-How long has it b-been since a miner has c-come from the mine?" She asks him.
Shino looks at the sky. "About an hour and forty-four minutes." He replies, finding it odd, but the miners have been known to stay down there for six hours max.
"An hour and forty-eight to my account, and the number of miners are pretty much zilch." Darui says, making HInata jump a little and look at him. "Sorry, I tend to keep count of whose coming and going, teammate or otherwise...a rather dull trait..."
Shino looks to the sky again. "I believe my calculations are right, but that is if you include a guard coming from the mines." Shino says, gaining a small chuckle from Darui. "Though I am wondering what is going on, why you ask? The insects from below are very few, even though it's very good soil, it's almost like there's nothing down there that wants them there."
Hinata feels worry and looks round, seeing the guards just standing at their post, getting a sudden uneasy feeling. A cracking sound is heard and the area explodes into a large amount of wind before something causes a house near them to explode.
Xxxxx
A few minutes before that, a certain distance from the Mining village that contain the four Shinobi. A few guards are walking through the forest and soon stop at a rocky terrain. "Here we are, this is where Black Dog was last time we had word from our group...though the cave is missing..." The guard says, looking round and feels the rocks before stopping at the former entrance of a cave. "Here we are...trace amounts of chakra in these rocks, we've got our target, now let's dig and get the track ready should the first plan go to hell." He says, doing a few hand signs, but feels a sudden burst of wind, like something flew by them, they look round and hear a sudden explosion at the mining village.
"...I think Black Dog escaped..." One of the guards says, feeling slight worry.
"No, I can still sense his chakra, he's still in the cave, we've got to dig him out!" The third guard yells, looking back. "Just ignore that and get working!"
Xxx
A guard on the wall looks out to the forest, not really focusing on anything, but he feels a sudden rush of wind and his chest suddenly starts cracking and the world goes slow. He loses his breath, despite it being no less than a second, he looks down and sees Naruto with his right fist slammed into his chest and the world goes black before he is shot back and smashes into a house.
Naruto lands on the ground nearby, the whole village going into chaos and the guards rush out and ready their weapons at the sight of Naruto. Hinata, Darui and Shino appear, ready for war, but they are surprised when they see Naruto, wondering if he's the one that caused the explosion. Ili walks over, smiling and waving innocently at Naruto, despite the aura of anger round him.
"What the hell is the meaning of this!?" Mamoru roars, walking past his guards, the shorter guard to the right of him.
Naruto doesn't think, he looks at him with red eyes and he vanishes, suddenly reappearing with both the soles of his feet in the General's face, his knees bent before straightening them, strengthening the force. The General is forced back at blinding speeds, and by blinding, he was there for a second, but then he vanishes and a couple of houses and a large amount of rocks that surrounded the village explodes. The personal guard that was standing to the right of the General screams in pain, his left arm missing now and a long trail of blood of a string seems to blow in the distance of where the General went.
A guard with yellow eyes appears next to the man with an arm, surprisingly enough, the man's very arm, just torn up and bloody and places it on the missing part. The man's hands glow green rapidly and the guard tries not to pass out of lose focus. "Naruto! What...what are you doing!?" Hinata screams, wondering why he just attacked the General.
"They're all fakes!" Naruto roars, waving his hands. "We just found the real General's son and they've been playing us from the start! They're all fake guards! The General included!"
Darui, Shino and Hinata are confused by this, wondering what he's on about, looking round and seeing the guards not really react to his yelling. "Actually, the guy you just sent into next week was the real General." The yellow eyed guard states, having finished his reattaching of the missing limb of the guard. "My friend was just manipulating him." He tells him, removing his helmet and shows a young adult that Shino and Naruto recognise from the past.
"I believe you go by the name Neko, am I right?" Shino questions, seeing the tiger patterned hair, slitted eyes and the stripe marks on his cheeks.
"Good memory Shino, I remember nearly killing you, you and that Wave ninja owe me a third of a body." Neko says with a chuckle and looks at his left arm. "And my former owner Naruto, sure enjoyed the treats you gave me." Neko says with a chuckle.
"Didn't you lose an arm and vital body parts?" Shino asks him.
"I replaced then with my surviving team members, their blood and body is still pumping through me." Neko tells him and looks at the slightly woozy guard next to him. "Though it is thanks to you that I'm an expert of reattaching limbs, ain't that right Susumu?" Neko chuckles and pats him on the arm.
Naruto tilts his head slightly, remembering a cat and curses, wondering why he smelled like snakes and thought it was the snake trying to eat him. Naruto lifts his right hand and forms a Rasengan, making it glow a little red and grits his teeth. "Well this can't be good..." Darui whispers, seeing the guards turn their way, ready to fight at the first signal.
"We should be able to hold our-" Shino began, but the ground explodes, causing Darui, Ili and Hinata to cover his eyes from the sudden surprise. Shino had goggles that protected his eyes and Naruto just didn't care. The place goes silent and they look round, seeing wire surrounding the village, almost like a dome and inside it, well it was like a spider's web.
"That...did it." Susumu says with gasping breaths, feeling pain in his left arm since the nerves couldn't tell if the arm is attached or not. Though most of the pain was from the wires wrapped round his forearm, having tightened by the sudden surprise kick Naruto gave the General which had a wire on him, the wire has cut through his skin, some even going through muscles and grind against the bone. Neko starts sealing the arteries and heal him, but he knows he can't remove the wires, so just closes them up for another time.
No one moves but the guards, they just walk round the wires, making sure not to touch them. "They're avoiding the wires..." Shino notes, gaining a nod from the other two while Ili walks over to one to look.
Hinata activates her Byakugan, seeing chakra spreading through all the wires she can see, surprising her a little. "Chakra fuelled...but I don't know what its purpose i-Ili!" Hinata yells, seeing Ili touch a wire, but she seems not to react to her voice, making her confused, seeing Ili's chakra change slightly, but runs like normal.
Shino and Darui observe her, seeing that she is oblivious to the world now, she's breathing, sweating and looks normal enough, but she just seems vacant. Darui walks over to her, watching the guards carefully while Naruto seems to have calmed down, a little confused by the new scene. "Is she caught in a Genjutsu?" Darui asks Hinata.
"No...her chakra pattern doesn't suggest so..." Hinata whispers, slightly concerned now.
Darui gently touches Ili's shoulders, suddenly getting an invading feeling and the world seems to go blank for a moment before he quickly rips himself from Ili, or what he thought was Ili. Hinata is on the ground, having been holding onto her for a second. Shino's insects surrounding him and he sees Naruto is about to attack. "What just happened!?" Darui yells, making the two males stop, confusion printed on their face.
"You released the girl and started attacking Hinata." Shino informs him, still wary of the Lightning ninja's actions.
"I...but I just touched the girl..." Darui states, feeling a little sick and holds onto his head.
Shino looks, seeing Ili remain standing there, a blank look still in her eyes. "What is this?" Shino wonders, carefully looking and seeing everyone just waiting for a minute.
Naruto growls and launches at Neko, crashing through the wires and grabs Neko's throat within a blink of an eye, surprising him since he was focused on Susumu. Naruto was about to crush his throat, but he stops, his eyes going blank. "...Can...you...get...this...bastard...off...my...throat?" Neko asks, gasping deeply since Naruto's still crushing his throat.
Susumu breaths deeply, feeling the metal wires grinding against his bones, preventing him from moving any of his fingers. "You think I'm not trying? The guy's got a strong will..." Susumu claims, closing his eyes and Naruto releases Neko's throat.
Naruto's companions look in confusion, seeing Naruto acting strange, similar to Ili. Hinata slowly gets up, looking fearfully at the Lightning ninja, but she sees Naruto just standing there, wires pressed against his front and only a foot away from the enemy.
The guards quickly take out kunai and crossbows, soon launching a large number of projectiles at the Shinobi. Darui quickly starts dodging the projectiles effectively, Shino is finding it more difficult since he's usually in the distance and the enemy is too close for him. Hinata avoids all attacks and sees a couple of kunai hit Ili, making her release the wire and hit the ground. She starts panicking and rushes to Naruto, aiming to save him from whatever has happened to him. She jumps and ducks over all the chakra filled wires, avoiding all the attacks, even smashing her way through a few false guards. Neko watches as he rubs his throat, a little surprised that Hinata is doing so well, he sees her jump over the last wire that would put her in arms reach of Naruto. Neko vanishes, sliding under the wires that Naruto's against and the one Hinata jumped. Neko lashes out before Hinata could react and she lands on her feet, feeling pain in her butt cheeks, her Byakugan sees Neko's clawed fingers through her waistband and knickers, his nails cutting into her bottom skin. Neko smirks and pulls hard, pulling her back, nearly giving her whiplash by pulling her bottom half suddenly, causing her to be pulled against the wire and she hits the floor. The wire strains against her weight, now cutting into her skin round her back, but she doesn't react, her eyes blank like Naruto and Ili.
"Three down, two to go." Neko smirks, looking and seeing the two remaining Shinobi avoiding all the projectiles.
"Boss!" One of the false guards yells, making Neko look and see Susumu looking faint and blood seeping rapidly through the wires that has been ripped into him. "This guy isn't doing so well!"
Neko sighs, looking at the two remaining Shinobi, soon spotting Shino releasing a large amount of his insects and black lightning coming from Darui. The two soon launch different attacks, being good ranged attacks, hitting a few, less than they would since they are moving to avoid all the attacks the enemy are launching.
Neko scans round the area, looking for any wires near the two, but sighs, jumping over the wires and grabs Susumu. "Get working your bastard! I know your blood is mostly on the ground now, but we've still got two left, is there any wires in the ground?" Neko asks, seeing him look a little woozy now.
"No...but even though I...can't move my arm...I still got control over...him." Susumu tells Neko, chuckling weakly and looks at the two remaining Shinobi, soon hearing a small explosion. Darui launches black lightning towards Neko and Susumu. It stops when something lands in front of them, absorbing the attack and explodes, the attacks on both sides stop, watching carefully and the smoke clears. Everyone but Susumu is surprised that General Mamoru standing there, his nose shattered, lip popped and two shoe prints across his face.
"Oh year...I remember now why we kept him." Neko chuckles, looking at the two Shinobi remaining there and points at them. "You guys are fucked." Neko tells them.
Darui looks carefully, watching the General charge at them, pushing through the wires, stretching them and causing damage to different areas of the village. Shino widens his eyes under his goggles in surprise, quickly moving back to avoid close combat. Darui quickly pulls his blade out, covering it with black lightning and waits, as soon as the General gets in range and swings his blade into the shoulder of the General, cutting through the armour and a little through his flesh, muscle and bone. Darui's eyes go blank after a second while the General smirks as blood runs from the cut. "I use to be one of the best hunters in the Elemental Nations...I fought so many that my body became so resilient...you could only cut me a little." The General chuckles, seeing the black lightning cease to exist.
Shino sweats a little, unsure what to do now since it seemed to be a bad idea to touch either the wire or people touching the wire. "What is the meaning of this? Why do people stop when they touch the wire or the people touching them?" Shino asks, hoping to get an answer from the General since his eyes aren't blank like the others.
"...The brat's ability is control...whatever he touches is under his control." The General tells Shino, gritting his teeth. "Anything he touches...his chakra controls the mind...you get use to it...after constant contact." The General tells Shino, making him confused.
Something lands behind Shino, making him turn round and sees a hulking man with tiger stripes across his body, wearing a sleeveless green vest and torn black trousers. "I remember you...Shino, right?" He asks, smirking with large fangs and smashes his fist on top of Shino's head, like he was a giant button.
Shino hits the ground, blood running from inside his hood from an open fracture caused by the hit. "I thought I told you to stay below Mizuki!" Neko yells, seeing Mizuki ignore him and walks round, avoiding the wires and sees the General stand there, eyes now blank along with the Lightning ninja. "I'm only seeing three brats that I know...Shino, Hinata...who has become quite a lady...and Naruto." Mizuki says, smirking largely and stops next to him, seeing Naruto stare blankly. He smashes his fist into Naruto's skull, planning on caving it in, but he pulls his fist back, yelling in pain and shock.
"Don't go for the head...there's a metal plate that is indestructible so far." Neko tells him, remembering the evidence since he got a small scene from the past with Naruto's metal plate.
"When the fuck was this?!" Mizuki yells, feeling his knuckles and feels the broken fist.
"...His entire life I think...tried to find the metal used...but only example I could find was from ancient times. Takes years to forge since it doesn't move by force, probably why he's got a normal shaped skill, the slow growing causes the metal to expand and keeps it shape." Neko tells him, tapping his knuckles against Naruto's skull which had a metal noise, knowing Susumu won't take control of him.
Mizuki looks at Naruto, cursing slightly before walking away. "You take them away then, should be good cannon fodder." Mizuki states, walking towards the mines.
Neko chuckles a little. "That's the plan...now let's get that arm of yours checked Mr Susumu, we can't have you dying on us before we get our target." Neko says, walking towards Susumu who nods before sitting down, his legs shaking a little.
Xxx
Outside the village, Kakashi looks on, making sure the other members don't advance since the entire village is in a dome of wires and several wires are blowing in the air. His Sharingan is telling him the wires are filled with chakra, he doesn't know what kind, but he suspects that it isn't good.
"What's going on?" Atsui asks, seeing the wires float in the breeze.
"I don't know...but I smell something burnt...human flesh." Kiba says, holding his nose.
"We'll have to find out what's going on...we would've been better off if Hinata was with us..." Kakashi says, moving back and looks round carefully, wondering what the wire's purpose is. Kakashi puts his hand in his weapons pouch and cuts his thumb before doing a few hand signs and slams his palm on the ground, summoning a ninja hound. "Pakkun, go to the port and bring everyone here, tell them...we lost control of the village." Kakashi tells him, gaining a nod from Pakkun who looks at the village, tilting his head before rushing off.
"So we're just waiting till the main army gets here?" Kiba asks, finding that a little stupid since they should go in and help their friends.
"We don't know what we're dealing with...we'll need all we can, we may have to cut through the wires-" Kakashi began, but he hears a yelling.
"Don't! You don't touch!" Someone yells, they look, seeing the guard they found earlier, Noboru. "The wires aren't right! Wires bad! No touch!" He yells, trying to move away from the village, but Sakura keeps him on the ground.
"Okay..." Kakashi says, rubbing his hands together nervously. "Why's that?" Kakashi asks him as he walks over to the guard.
"I don't know...you touch them and...you're not the same...you lose focus and stand there..." Noboru says, sweating a large amount before Sakura placed a wet cloth on his head when he stopped moving.
"I see..." Kakashi says, looking at the wire covered village and the chakra running through it.
"Blow the place up! Blow it up!" Noboru yells, but Kiba punches him, knocking him out since he kept on yelling throughout their journey back.
"Naruto's definitely in there...can't tell what's going on, but there's blood." Kiba tells their leader.
Atsui chuckles a little. "Well, if you need to hot things up, we could try smoking them out." Atsui says, making everyone look his way and back to the village.
"It's the best plan so far...but we can't risk hurting any innocent people and our teammates." Kiba states, gaining an agreeing bark from Akamaru and a nod from Sakura who seems appalled by Atsui's plan.
"For all we know, everyone in there was the enemy." Atsui tells them, looking round, but seeing no possible way through the wired dome without touching the wires.
"We could try going underneath." Kiba says, looking at the village carefully. "Might get lucky and get into the mining tunnels."
"That's not a bad idea." Kakashi agrees. "But we have to assume the worse...there might be wires in the ground." Kakashi says, looking carefully. "But that is the best stealth so far and the fire assault is the best way to flush them out...but we'll wait for our numbers to improve before we act." Kakashi tells them, doing a few more hand signs and summons the rest of his ninja hounds. "Move round the dome to find any sort of way that we can enter without touching the wires. If there are none, stay round them and watch for any movement." Kakashi orders them, making them look at the dome, nod and vanish.
Xxxxx
Within the Earth Nation, the Tetsu mine, Kurotsuchi is sweating hard as she falls to her knees, leaning against a wooden support. She coughs up a little soot and feels sick, only been there for a short time and her lungs are filled with crap. A man near her coughs and sits down next to her, passing her a rusty mug of impure water. "Are you alright?" He asks, sweating a large amount.
"Yeah...how do...you get use...to this c-crap Osamu?" Kurotsuchi asks, hating the smell of toxins, soot and sweat.
"You don't...you just learn to accept it." Osamu tells her, coughing a little and looks down at the other prisoners digging.
"...You know what I noticed?" Kurotsuchi asks, looking round and seeing mine carts being pushed by Earth Golems. "There doesn't seem to be a leader...you know, a warden of some kind in this place. Who keeps things calm?" She asks, coughing a little more.
"The ones controlling the Golems isn't down here, he just waits up above. Down here...we've got a few different leaders, one who is the oldest guy here, called himself the King of Thugs. Then there's those that try to suck up to the guards...we're not sure who leads them, but they're killed more often than not. And now we've got some guy from the Rebellion that's trying to recruit those in prision...it's been hell, killings here and there on both sides." He tells her, suddenly hearing a yelling and someone falls from the scaffolds above. "Like that." He says, seeing Kurotsuchi's surprised eyes.
Kurotsuchi shoots up and looks down, seeing the man prisoner hit the floor, some at the bottom check on the body, but they knew he was dead and start taking what they could use. She looks up and sees a familiar face from above, the man she fought with during the investigation, one that she found in the slums. He spots her, tilting his head slightly, finding her familiar, but once he put the pieces together, his eyes widen and runs.
Kurotsuchi coughs a little before grabbing an outside support and jumps, leaving Osamu who yells, wondering where she went. She lands on the level the guy was on and sees him run, she quickly pushes past a few prisoners and chases him.
Xxxxx
Kurotsuchi closes on the man, getting annoyed by his dodging and hiding before running again. She wants to grab the man and beat his arse since he's partly the reason she's down here, having sent her to the Elder's home. She sees him running to the bottom of the mines, ignoring the smell and coughs before tackling him. He yells in pain and shock before she starts beating on him. "You're an arsehole! I've been sent here all because of you and your fucking rebellion!" She yells, smashing his face and feeling his nose break.
She suddenly feels someone grab her arms and pulls her off, she yells in anger and tries to pull away, but the man's stronger than her. She starts hearing someone walk towards them, she looks, seeing a woman that seems familiar, but she can't place it. "I'm surprised that the Tsuchikage's granddaughter turned out so strong." She claims, wearing rags, under the dirt, she is attractive, but she looks sickly and weak.
"And you are?" Kurotsuchi asks, kicking at the guy she was chasing.
"I am Ai Tetsu...only by name though, my uncle in law threw me down here after I gave birth and took the others for training...I joined the Rebellion down here and now I'm the leader down here." Ai informs Kurotsuchi, going towards the injured man and picks him up. "Are you alright Daisuke?" She asks him, gaining a nod before he gets up and stumbles away. "You can let her go Beast." Ai tells the man that held Kurotsuchi.
"What the hell...I thought all Tetsu were forgiven and given power again?" Kurotsuchi asks, but she hears a few chuckles, looking and seeing a few other prisoners there, having not noticed them before. She looks at the person that grabber her and sees a large, ugly man built like a brick shithouse.
"No...only those that betrayed the family were brought back...my child and other young ones were also taken back to hopefully be brainwashed..." Ai informs the younger woman, sounding a little upset.
"Who's the damn leader of this rebellion? It's pretty much fucked me and my grandfather! Not to mention, they killed a friend of mine!" Kurotsuchi yells, making the others chuckle a little.
"It is Kitsuchi, your father." One of the prisoners tells her, making her cough in surprise, looking at them.
"What?" She asks, wanting to make sure she heard right.
"Your father is the one that started the Rebellion and quite a lot of your comrades are actually supporting us...last time I checked." Another prisoner laughs, making Kurotsuchi covers her mouth, wondering if they're telling the truth, but why would her father go against her grandfather. She suddenly feels a blunt force hit the back of her head, causing her world to go black.
Xxxxx
At the island that Kakashi is stationed at, at the underground ruins, Naruto opens his eyes and coughs painfully, feeling a headache and unsure what happened. He remembers that Neko was round his hands. He clenches his fist and wonders what happened before he starts hearing grunts and coughs. He looks, seeing Hinata lying nearby, he tries to get up, but he finds himself bound by rope and curses. He looks round rapidly, seeing nothing but a blue glow and a dirty old ruin, soon spotting another member of his group, Shino.
Shino just lays there, his jacket gone and dried blood is covering half his hair, part of his face and stains the grey t-shirt he is wearing. His goggles were gone, but his eyes were closed and Naruto starts wondering what's going on. Naruto looks at himself, seeing dried specks of blood from cuts he received from something, his hoodie is gone and his feet and wrist that had a weight on feels a little 'too' light. Naruto realises that they removed his weights and we starts panicking, looking round and the hoodie wasn't anywhere, knowing there's a few weak seals attached to the hoodie.
He hears movement, looking up and spots Darui and Ili laying nearby, both tied up as well and Ili yawning before sitting up since she was in a position to do so. Darui seems confused and looks in Naruto's direction, examining something that doesn't seem normal. Naruto tilts his head, seeing a blue, almost see through wall, something that seems to keep something out. A sound of something colliding with something, it was loud enough to make everyone cringe in pain from the loudness.
"What's going on?" Darui asks, looking round and spots wires blocking any exits and some on the wall.
Hinata starts to stir and moans in pain. "Hinata! Are you alright?" Naruto yells, rolling over to her as best as he can.
"I...I'm feeling s-some pain..." Hinata whispers, trying to move her legs.
"What's the matter?" Naruto asks with worry.
"I...I g-got a h-horrible wedgie..." Hinata whispers, thinking that her knickers just turned into a thong.
"What's a wedgie?" Naruto asks loudly, unsure what pain she's in now.
"Don't bother...answering." A gasping voice says, making everyone but Shino who is still unconscious turn to look and see a very wet, fish looking man with a metal and glass tire round his neck. "You're all about...to be killed...in a moment..." He tells them and walks towards the blue wall/barrier.
Hinata activates her Byakugan to be sure of what's going on, trying to ignore the pain in her bottom. Her heart stops in fear, seeing a human like creature in a sphere of some kind, the creature is a female, dark skin and literally looking on the verge of starvation. Her eyes are whiter than snow, hair seems to cover its body and it seems to vanish and reappear in different areas.
"What are you doing?" Darui asks, seeing the fish man walk to the blue wall and starts making markings around the wall.
"I'm simply...opening the door...to immortality..." The fish man tells them, gasping rapidly and seems to finish. He does several hand signs and the people feel their restraints vanish.
Naruto gets up and checks over Hinata while Ili jumps on Naruto's back. "This place bad..." Ili whispers, grinding her teeth and it feels like the ruin she once explored when she was with her pack before Naruto came.
Darui gets up and walks over to Shino since he doesn't seem that good, seeing a minor fracture on his skull, but thinks he'll be alright. "What's with all this? And that door to immortality?" Darui asks with confusion.
"The being in...there is 'The...Daughter of...the Moon'...and has been...here since the...Sage of Six...Paths came about..." The fish man tells them. "And once this...opens, we'll capture...it." He tells them before taking out a flask with blood and smashes it against the barrier. "And the...Daughter of...the Moon and...Sage shall walk...the world again." He says before the markings on the barrier glows brightly, blinding everyone there and a small explosion is heard.
Sleepless D: I am sorry if it seems rushed, I was trying to finish this in a hurry and hope you all enjoy it, next one shall be interesting I hope. And for those that don't get the ability of Susumu (Spoiler if you didn't get it). He is able to control whoever he is in physical contact, chakra wires are also effective and anything that has or absorbs chakra, so whoever touches a controlled person shall be controlled. They follow orders for a few minutes if they release contact of the controlling means. Though, constant contact will sooner or later make the holder build a resilience, they're under control, but their mind is their own again. Peace out.