A/N: Hey, celebration time! I now have over 100 reviews! Oh and sorry again for the long wait, I had a horrible case of writer's block between this and the previous chapter. But anyways, 100 reviews! Cookies for all my loyal readers for helping me reach this milestone!
"Speak"
'Thought'
Kyuubi
Jutsus
Gansaku smiled as he looked over Konoha on this moonless night. One of the imp-creatures crawled up his back and whispered something into his ear, as another jumped on to his arm. "Yes, you two shall stay with me, we'll make the preparations for our guests. The three of you shall go capture the Jinchuuriki's gennin students, get one each. Decide among yourselves who gets who, and once you've accomplished this task, you know where to meet us."
The three imps nodded and crawled off towards the Konoha hospital, eager to capture their prey. Gansaku simply continued to smile and hopped off the Hokage monument, walking into a nearby forest, still with the two imps on his body.
Taka was wide awake, thinking of the mission, when he heard something claw at his window. He quickly jumped off the bed and went to look, but nothing was there. "Heh, must've been the wind, nothing to worry about."
Taka sighed, shaking his head at his paranoia when suddenly his window shattered and something landed on his back. Taka yelled in surprise, trying to throw the thing off his back, but the imp wouldn't get off, digging it's claws into Taka's back. Taka frantically reached for his kunai, he then tried to stab the imp with it, but the creature moved out of the way, and Taka ended up stabbing himself, deep. He screamed louder and focused all of his attention on the kunai jammed into his back, giving the imp the chance to sink its fangs into Taka's neck, that were able to produce temporary paralysis venom.
Taka hit the floor with a hard thump and as the floor nurse finally ran into the room after hearing all the screaming, all she saw was something crawling out the broken window, it being too dark for her to make out what it was.
The small grey imp dragged the paralyzed Taka through the backstreets of Konoha, leaving Taka with scratches and cuts from various things on the floor.
In Hanabi's room, she slept peacefully, never hearing the window being slowly opened and the imp crawling through her window. This imp, being more stealthy then the last, had an easier time subduing its victim. It quietly crawled on to the bed and sunk its fangs into Hanabi's shoulder. Feeling the pain from being bitten into, Hanabi opened her eyes, but quickly found that that was all she could do, the fast acting venom stopping her from moving even in the slightest.
She looked around the room and would have screamed if she could when she noticed the hideous creature leaning over her, it's eyes were like black marbles, its skin was pale and pasty, it was missing teeth and what teeth it had were small and dagger-like, it had no clothes and looked to be anorexic, its ribs clearly shown. Frankly, she felt the thing looked nearly as disgusting and horrifying as Yajuu.
She closed her eyes tight, hoping this was another nightmare, as the thing picked her up, over its shoulders and crawled out the window.
Ken still lied unconscious, as the imp jumped through the already open window. And he still lied unconscious as the thing crawled towards him. And still as it leaned over him, ready to sink its fangs into his neck. This, however was the last second that Ken lied unconscious.
Quickly and in one swift movement, Ken used the wrapping around his right arm, to grab a katana and slashed down on the imp's neck. The imp, so shocked that Ken, sleeping less then a second ago, was now on the attack, barely moved enough out of the way, that the blade didn't cut its head off, but still left a huge gash in its shoulder.
The imp then looked at Ken with malice in its eyes and somehow quickly summoned a giant blast of fire, engulfing Ken and nearly entire the room. The imp smiled, pleased with itself for killing the gennin, until a wrapping flew out of the fire and wrapped around its neck, completely cutting off its flow of oxygen.
Ken walked out of the fire, unhurt smiling sadistically himself. "Gotta love the clan's special body wrapping, stronger then steal and protects me from fire. And as for you," Ken clenched his fist, the cloth wrapping itself even tighter around the imp, who was gasping for air, "I think I'll enjoy killing you."
Ken licked his lips, clearly enjoying watching the imp slowly die of suffocation. Not caring in the slightest what it was, or why it was after him, only caring that it was dying by his hands.
The sprinklers soon went off, dousing the flames, as Ken picked up a nearby katana off the floor and put it at the neck of the imp. "Nighty night, you piece of shit." Ken pulled the cloth off the imp's neck and then, without any hesitation, he slashed it's head off, it's blood spewing over the entire room. Some of the blood splattered on to the cloth covering Ken's cheek, he wiped it off, and put his hand in his mouth, tasting the blood on his fingers. "I must say, for such an ugly fuck, your blood tastes wonderful."
Ken turned around right when a nurse frantically ran into the room with a fire extinguisher. She screamed, "What the hell happened here?!"
Ken started putting his blades in their sheaths, as he looked over the blood covered room, hesitating for a moment, then put his final blade in its sheath. "Just having some fun, you might want to talk to my Sensei, Uzumaki Naruto about this, and check in on both Puss-I mean….fuck I don't know his last name, well his first name is….fuck, don't know that either, whatever. Where was I? Oh, well just fucking check Uzumaki Naruto's gennin's rooms, ok?" He walked past the nurse out the door, "If you need me, I'll be somewhere else." He then completely left the hospital, not telling anybody a word of where he was going.
Naruto, being in an entirely different wing then Taka and Ken, didn't hear all of that commotion, but instead woke up to the sound of several nurses running into his room, all talking at the same time, and loudly. Naruto, tired, grumpy, and hungry, wasn't his normal cheerful self, and he barked at the nurses, "Shuddap all of you! I can't hear a fucking word any of you are saying!"
The three nurses calmed down and one of them spoke up, "Its your gennin students Uchideshi Taka and Hyuuga Hanabi, they've both been kidnapped."
Naruto sat up and opened his eyes wide. "What?! What about Tsurugi Ken? Did anything happen to him?" He got out of bed and walked towards the nurses.
One of them spoke, "He's fine, but his room was completely destroyed by fire and there's a dead creature in his room, with its head cut off."
"Is he still there?"
"No, as soon as we entered, he told us to find you and left."
'Shit, where the fuck is that kid going now? And what am I going to do? How am I going to find fan boy and Hanabi? What the hell am I going to-' Naruto's thoughts were interrupted, when a doctor entered the room.
"Excuse me nurses, but there's something peculiar in room 14b." the nurses walked out of the room and as the doctor was about to walk out, he looked at Naruto, "Excuse me Uzumaki-san, you're Tsurugi-san's Jounin-sensei, are you not?"
"Yes, I am."
"Then you should have a look at this too."
Naruto, followed the doctor and they entered a burnt, blood-splattered room. 'I wonder whose room this is.' Naruto thought, sarcastically. He then noticed something peculiar about the only wall that wasn't burnt. It looked as if the flames didn't even come close to it, the only thing that kept it from being a perfect, clean white, was some blood. Some unique blood, and upon closer examination, Naruto opened his eyes wide, realizing that it was a message. It wrote:
Well, hello Jinchuuriki. If you're reading this, then you already know that I have your three gennin. Now, I promise that they're safe, for how long, I cannot say. If you want them back, you can find me in the Hateshinai Caves in the Torimono Forest, it'll be the first one you see if you exit from the West Gate. Quickly now, the longer it takes you to get here, the less chance that they'll still be alive when you get here.
Signed, Jaki Gansaku
Naruto looked at the note on the wall and scowled, 'That bastard…..how dare he! I'll kill the fucking bastard!' Naruto stormed off in a hurry, leaving the hospital in his wake, too focused on getting back his gennin to let anything get in his way.
Gansaku scowled, quickly growing impatient for the third imp to return with the final gennin. Gansaku stood inside a very dark cave with four imps on his body, and two unconscious, tied up bodies on the ground.
He then sighed, "That fucking little shit must have failed. Whatever, in the long run, it's a good thing. I still have two hostages and I can use that shit's blood to form the message." He closed his eyes and did a hand sign, "There, all done, now for the waiting game."
He scowled again, "What are you things still doing on my body?! Go out and find our guest! I made it clear to hurry hear, but if still somehow tries to bring people with him, make sure that you stop them, and even if he does or doesn't bring back up, I want you to fight him, if he can't even beat you four, he doesn't deserve to be in my presence, let alone fight me, got that?" The scared imps quickly nodded and jumped off of Gansaku and ran outside of the dark cave. Gansaku smiled, "I just can't wait to spill the fucking Jinchuuriki's blood." He quickly did some hand signs, "I'll keep it nice and warm for him when he comes." Gansaku laughed as steam formed out of his body as he picked up Hanabi over his shoulder and dragged Taka across the ground, even deeper into the cave.
Naruto quickly ran through the Torimono Forest, trying to find where this cave was. He quickly stopped as he heard a noise behind him.
Thump.
Something landed behind him, and before he could do anything, something was choking his neck. Naruto gasped and pulled out his kunai, ready to fight, but whatever was choking his neck, just stopped. He then heard laughing. A very familiar, sadistic laughter. He turned around and saw Ken.
"Took you long enough to get here Sensei, I've been waiting for a while now. Hurry up, I've already found this HateshinaiCave where pussy and Hyuuga are. Fuck, you sure are slow." Ken started to walk, and Naruto blinked in confusion.
"Wait, how'd you even know where to go?"
"Uh, the message in blood on the wall in the hospital room. It was pretty big, kind of hard to miss. Now lets go!" Ken licked his lips, "I just hope that there're more of those things there, they sure had delicious blood." After that response, Naruto decided not to ask anymore questions.
They walked for a while, then they heard rustling in the trees. "You here that?" asked Ken. Ken's question was answered as the four imps landed around them.
"Yeah, it seems that some of those bastards are here. Lets take care of them quickly."
"No, you go on ahead, just keep going straight, and you'll reach the cave, I'll take care of these things, they're fun to kill."
"Right, just don't fucking die." Naruto continued to walk forward, but two of the imps got in his way. He quickly did a hand sign, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!(Shadow Clone Jutsu)" Naruto created ten clones of himself and all jumped into different directions and before the imps could do anything, Ken quickly appeared in front of the two and slashed at them, both barely able to dodge the deadly attack.
The imps scowled and all four slowly circled around Ken. Ken just looked at them and smiled. "This should be fun!" Ken slowly pulled another sword out of its sheathe, wielding two, as he looked from imp to imp. Quickly, one of the imps dug underground with the most of ease and another took to the air, just as easily, the other two, just stood close to each other.
"Tsch, no use just waiting for them to attack!" Ken dashed towards the two imps, but a huge chunk of earth suddenly rose in front of him, with the imp that just went underground riding it. He jumped back, but the imp that took to the air appeared behind him and blew, creating a giant gust of wind, which completely pushed him through the chunk of earth and into a combination blast of lightning and water. "Ah!" Ken fell to the ground in pain, the attack easily penetrating his protective cloth, burning his skin pretty badly. "Little fuckers, how the fuck did they do that?! But you know, now that I think about it, the other one used fire, they must have the ability to control the elements. Shit."
Ken got up and cracked his neck. "Well, first off, I better kill either the water or lightning one, 'cause that combination attack hurt like a bitch." He loosened the wrappings around his arms, unsheathed two swords, and pointed one blade at the lightning imp. "You. I'll kill you first." He then looked at the water imp. "Or maybe you, I can't really decide." The imps just scowled and prepared for another attack, as Ken smiled a toothy grin.
He allowed the wrappings to fall to the ground, until nearly all the wrappings around his arms were loose, revealing his abnormally pale skin. He then dashed towards the two imps again, the wrapping trailing across the ground behind him. The earth imp once again launched a huge chunk of earth, but Ken simply jumped over it this time. And as he was in the air, he threw one blade down at the exposed earth imp and pinned it's leg to the chunk of earth. It squealed in pain as it's blood poured out of it.
The wind imp then dived towards the airborne Ken, but he slashed at the thing, nearly slicing it in half, only leaving it with a gash across its left arm. He put the blade away just as he landed, and he continued to run towards the other two imps, who had finished charging up for another attack. As he neared them, Ken quickly pointed both arms at the two, the cloth flying towards them. But not before they launched another attack, hitting Ken directly in the chest, the blast causing Ken to fly back and scream in pain.
He hit the ground with a thud and panted, the attack doing extreme damage, causing dust and debris to fly into the air. As it faded away, the fallen Ken started to laugh uncontrollably. "Ka-boom." Suddenly the area where the lightning and water imps stood, was a giant explosion, engulfing both a good chunk of the forest in it.
"Ok, what the fuck was that?" wondered Naruto as he just heard and felt a giant explosion occur behind him. "What has that little sadist done now? He better not have gotten himself killed, or else it'll be my head." Naruto then looked up at the huge cave with steam pouring out of it for some reason. "Well, this must be the place, I'm going to kill the fucker that dared to kidnap my gennin!" Naruto ran into the cave, with the intent to kill in his eyes.
Ken continued to laugh as the explosion died down and the smoke started to clear away. He stood with much of his wrapping undone, in fact, so much was undone that a good portion of his chest and neck showed, revealing some of the serious third degree burns on his body. "Maybe I used a bit too many explosive tags. Meh, I couldn't help it, I wanted to see a good firework show." Ken laughed, proud of his own ingenious idea. He had secretly attached many, possibly too many, explosive tags to his wrapping as he undid them and as the two imps were busy focusing on landing their attack, they didn't see the cloth appear through the attack, wrapping around their bodies as the powerful, enhanced lightning lit the tags, blasting both back to the stone age.
"Heh, looks like the sky's raining blood, guts, and limbs." laughed Ken as he noticed the explosion left the imps in many pieces, that were splattered all over the place. The cloth that laid on ground zero of the explosion, though worse for wear and tear, wasn't completely destroyed and it quickly retracted and wrapped itself around Ken. He then turned around and started walking. "Man, that was too easy! Sometimes its hard being so perfect, it makes battles so boring-" Ken was cut off as a huge slab of earth slammed into his entire torso, knocking the wind out of him, breaking two ribs, and leaving him with severe internal bleeding.
The slab of earth returned to the ground and Ken collapsed to his knees, coughing up blood. He put a hand around his abdomen and weakly looked up to see a flying imp missing half its body, but not bleeding for some odd reason, and a relatively uninjured imp on the ground, save for a limp in its leg as it walked towards Ken. 'Shit, those two survived?? This isn't good, taking two direct hits by those other two and the smash right now really took a lot out of me, besides, I'm still not fully healed from my last fight with what's his name? That experiment thing. If this keeps going on, I'll die!'
Ken then looked around and smiled as he saw one of his blades lying near him, unfortunately, so did the imps. As he reached for it, a giant fissure appeared in the ground and the sword fell down it. "No!" But Ken had other things to worry about then losing a blade, as a huge gust of wind blew him back into a nearby tree, with enough force to nearly slam him completely through the thing. "God fucking damn it! My back!!" Ken panted as he lied helpless under the now dead tree, weaponless, in extreme pain, and unable to even move, as the two imps slowly made their ways towards him, ready and eager to kill him.
As Naruto entered the dark and steamy cave he started to sweat. A lot. 'Why the fuck is there so much steam in here anyways!? Seriously! Isn't this a fucking cave? Is there a hot spring nearby or something?' Naruto tried to ignore all the steam as he continued walking into the deep cave. As he walked he suddenly stopped as he heard something in front of him. He found a big boulder and hid behind it as he spied to see what it was. What he saw was a man simply standing there with two what looked like bags? Near his feet, it was hard to see in the darkness and the steam didn't help much. Naruto whispered to himself, "Well, its not like I'm going to meet the whole fucking village in here, so that's obviously him, but what are those things near his feet? Why would he have bags?"
"Oh come now, don't tell me you can't even recognize your own gennin, I mean you came all this way to save them, after all." Naruto's eyes opened wide as the man who was standing nearly 100 yards away a second ago, was now leaning over him whispering into his ear. True, weirder things have happened, but its not every day that Naruto allowed someone to sneak up behind him.
"So, you must be Gansaku." said Naruto, after quickly gaining back his composer.
"Oh, you already remembered my name? I'm impressed that a Jinchuuriki would take the time to remember someone's name."
"Of course I remembered your name, I've always made it a habit of remembering the names of those I kill." Naruto pulled out a kunai and quickly turned around and slashed Gansaku across the mid-section, but it just went right through him. "Just a Bunshin(Clone), huh?" The clone standing behind Naruto faded into the steam.
Gansaku walked up towards Naruto, leaving the gennin on the ground. "Close, a Jouki Bunshin(Steam Clone) actually. Kind of my own inven-" Gansaku stopped talking as a kunai flew threw him, "-tion. Now that was pretty rude, don't you think?" Gansaku shrugged, "But what could I expect from a fucking Jinchuuriki like you? You're just a fucking animal."
Naruto ignored him as he frantically looked around for the real Gansaku. He was so focused on finding the real one, that he completely ignored the clone as it walked up towards him. "Psst, always keep your eyes on all of your opponent's weapons."
"What-" Naruto coughed up blood as the clone turned it's arm into an icicle and stabbed a hole in his lower abdomen. The clone then simply pulled the icicle out, turned it's arm back into steam and faded into the surrounding steam.
Simultaneously, another clone formed out of the steam sitting on the boulder that Naruto originally hid behind. "See what I mean? You always keep your eyes on your opponent's weapons, no matter how low the threat may seem. Fuck, I thought the 'Great Naruto' that Master spoke of would be at least some challenge, no wonder he doesn't see you as a threat, but like I said, you shouldn't ignore any threat, no matter how small, you never know."
Naruto coughed up blood as he opened his eyes wide. "What?….Master?…..Who?….." Naruto coughed up some more blood. 'Keep it together, Naruto. The fox is already healing your wounds, nothing serious there, forget about this Master guy until after you win the fight. Otherwise, it'll just distract you. What you should be focusing on is how this Jouki Bunshin of his was able to stab you, when your attacks simply went through it.'
As if reading Naruto's mind, Gansaku spoke, "If you're wondering why I was able to do you bodily harm, its because my Jouki Bunshins are at their basics simply Mizu Bunshins(Water Clones), and I use my ability to raise their temperature much higher then the boiling point of 100 degrees Celsius, turning them into steam. Thus, knowing that, it's a simple process of reversing it and making their temperature lower than 0 degrees Celsius, turning them into ice. I can even turn parts of their body colder, while keeping other parts incredibly hot. So, as you can see in this cave full of steam, you have no chance of winning! Know your place you fucking Jinchuuriki! I can't wait to spill your inferior blood and finally rid the world of your presence!" Gansaku then created many Jouki Bunshins, completely surrounding Naruto with the seemingly invincibly clones.
As both Naruto and Ken faced opponents that outnumbered them, with weaknesses that they didn't know, while both being injured, only one word ran through both their heads. "FUCK."
And finished. Hope that was enjoyable, we finally get some fights, sorry that its kind of short, not even 4000 words, I think. I could've made it longer, but I didn't for a couple reasons, I've already kept you guys waiting too long, I want to give you something to look forward to next chapter, and I think it ends pretty good right here, cliffhangers are always fun to write! While I can't promise that I won't make you guys wait so long again, for I know myself, and I'm fucking lazy, I can promise that I'm going to try really hard not to make the wait so long. So know that the next chapter's going to come eventually, for I promise that even if it takes a year to write one chapter(which God forbid it never does), I'll continue this story. Well, Adios Muchachos.
