Sleepless D: Hey everyone, I'm just letting you know that the Deidara in this story is actually the Deidara in the Akatsuki, it's just before he went rouge, hope you're enjoying the story. Peace out.
Gari was confused by this feeling; it almost reminded him of when Han the Five Tailed Jinchuriki went berserk. 'Who is this child?' He wondered, the child seemed to vanish but he managed to see where he went and just blocked an attack from the child but staggered away in pain from the hit.
"Kid?" Iwao said in amazement. 'Where'd this kid get that strength?' He wondered, feeling the power radiate of the boy.
"I'll kill you!" Naruto yelled in anger, sending a violent variety of attacks that could only make Gari block and dodge Naruto's attacks.
Gari stomped the ground just to distract the boy but that didn't make Naruto stop, which just made it harder to block the child, Naruto managed to grab Gari's wrist and started having chakra pore out of his body. Gari wrinkled in pain by Naruto crushing his arm and chakra burning his skin by the violent exit of the boy's giant chakra. "Get off me you brat!" Gari yelled and went his free fist at Naruto and punched him in the face and explode on impact.
Naruto's chakra stopped pouring out, Gari grinned thinking that he's won but Naruto grip tightened his grip and Gari's arm snapped, he screamed in pain and Naruto's chakra reached an all time high. Gari opened his eyes and saw Naruto's eyes hand blood lust and he had no mark from the explosion Gari did, all he noticed was that he was grinning and clenching his fist. "YOU'RE DEAD!" Naruto screamed and pulled him down to deliver a powerful punch into Gari's face.
Gari was sent flying away, flying several feet away until he landed on the ground with a thump, Iwao, Hitoshi and Masanori stared in disbelief that Naruto managed to take out an elite Iwa ninja from the Explosion Corps. "Gari..." Masanori called but didn't get a response.
"Who's next?" Naruto grinned as he looked at Masanori.
"Kid! Behind you!" Iwao yelled making Naruto turned to see Gari standing there in complete fury with a shattered nose and only one eye open.
"You're dead!" He yelled and went to slam Naruto, but Iwao managed to get in the way and took the powerful hit from Gari and was sent flying into Naruto and skidded across the floor. "...At least you're down." Gari said in an annoyed tone.
Naruto looked and saw Iwao holding his left arm, or what's left of it in pain and blood pouring from the wound. "G-Get out of h-here kid..." Iwao said in pain.
"Brother!" Hitoshi yelled and rushed towards them.
Xxx
The people that were in the village were now moving upstream with everyone looking anxious and glad that they're leaving the danger zone now, but Kakashi was getting a bad feeling. "When will you summon them?" Kakashi asked Dai.
"When Boss sends signal." Dai said, staring at the river flow violently towards the waterfall down the stream where they could no longer see the village.
"And what's the signal?" Kakashi asked.
"Just a feeling." Dai smiled.
Kakashi was now getting annoyed and worried that he should have gone to get Naruto and the others. "Don't worry Kakashi." The old man of the clan known as Saburo smiled. "My eldest son may have lead down a bad path, but he's got a good heart, he looked after little Dai since he was born." He smiled and patted Dai on his giant back, making him chuckle.
"I hope you're right..." Kakashi said, seeing that Hinata was trying to see what was happening with her Byakugan. "Anything Hinata?"
"N-No...I can only m-make out the edge of t-the battle f-from here." Hinata said, sounding worried. "And the I-Iwa ninja you attacked...h-his chakra is d-decreasing r-rapidly."
"Damn it..." Kakashi whispered.
Xxx
As Hitoshi rushed towards them, Gari jumped at him and was about to punch him but was hit by the violent Naruto and started rolling away, one trying to punch each other. "You're going to die now!" Gari yelled, managing to pin Naruto to the ground and raised his left palm to punch him.
Naruto struggled as his palm went down towards him, Naruto then managed to move enough to get out of the direct punch and Gari slammed his fist into the ground. What they didn't expect was the ground to explode and then explode again, making them both fly away by the force of it, Naruto landed on the ground hard and started hearing several explosions happening around him. He looked to see parts of the bridge explode around him, making rubble fly everywhere. 'He must have hit a paper bomb.' Naruto thought, but then realised that was bad since they were still on the bridge.
Naruto rose in a panic but the explosions seized and the bridge was about ready to fall if another explosion or two happened. "What the hell was that?" Hitoshi yelled.
"Paper bombs on the bridge!" Naruto yelled, seemingly turning back to his normal form.
"My arm!" Someone yelled making everyone look to see Gari holding a severely bloody and burnt arm.
Hitoshi grinned. "An arm for an arm." He said, making Gari glare at him in pain.
"If that's true...then you killed Sho over there." He nodded towards what remained of the bloody body that got hit by an explosion. "A life for a life." He said and walked towards Iwao, making everyone realise how close he was to him.
"Shit." Hitoshi said and was about to rush to his brother but Masanori jumped in between them, making Hitoshi curse. "Will you just go away!" He yelled.
"I really wish I could..." Masanori said but the ground was beginning to shake violently, everyone turned towards the village that was not far away and saw what looked like a miniature atom bomb explosion with the dirt, rubble, fire and god knows what heading towards them. "What the fuck..."
Everyone was on the same lines but when Gari saw it, he was highly angered. 'That bastard, I told him not to use that!' He yelled to himself as the explosive power was heading towards them.
"Your...dead..." Iwao grinned, making Gari highly angry.
As the explosion was heading their way and the ninja on the bridge stared in shock, Masanori and Hitoshi slammed their fist onto the bridge which caused it to explode from Masanori and collapse by Hitoshi. They only narrowly escape the blast but were hit by the remains of what fell onto them, causing more rubble and remains to fall with them until they hit the violent lake.
They were sucked into the water without a second hesitation and were struggling to go to the surface. Hitoshi was the one closest to the surface and saw Sho's body being sucked to the bottom, into the darkest part and to never be seen again. He looked around the rubble and mud to see Naruto struggling to swim in the violent current, Hitoshi did his best to swim over the boy and activated his Iron Skin and sunk down rapidly and caught the boy who was surprised by the sudden grab. 'One down, where are you brother...' He wondered and started looking around more while deactivating his Iron Skin.
He looked around and saw Masanori holding onto a large part of the bridge for dear life, even though it wouldn't do any good, he chuckled inwardly and looked even harder. He then saw Iwao, sinking towards the bottom and strangely enough, heading straight towards Gari who was standing on a large part of the bridge with his feet, managing to hold on by chakra.
Hitoshi started trying to swim towards Iwao with Naruto struggling in his arms, seeing that Iwao was slowly heading above Gari; Hitoshi stared in shock as Iwao activated his Kekkei Genkai and was now plummeting towards Gari.
Flashback
Hitoshi was now talking to his father, talking about the good old times while Naruto smiled and listened to them talk. "So is this all that survived?" Hitoshi asked, surprised that there was hardly anyone left of the clan.
"I'm afraid so...we had a few more, but we were being pursued again...some of the braver ones volunteered to lead them away on a false trail to protect us." The old man sighed. "Only Iwao came out alive from that..." He said sadly.
"Really? He must be very lucky to make it out." Hitoshi grinned.
"Yes...lucky wouldn't be the right word." Ai said, making Naruto and Hitoshi look in interest.
"And why's that?" Hitoshi asked.
"My husband wanted to die in that fight." Hiro said sadly.
"...Why?" Naruto asked, surprised that someone wanted to die.
"Because a couple of days beforehand...our son, Katsuro was killed." Hiro said sadly, tears forming in her eyes.
"They killed Katsuro? Wasn't he like the prodigy of our side of the family?" Hitoshi said astonished and saddened at the same time.
"Yes...but now Iwao wants revenge, he wants to kill the man that killed his son." Ai said.
"Who killed him?" Naruto asked.
"You won't know him..." Hiro said.
"But I will." Hitoshi said. "Now tell me!"
"The man that killed Katsuro was Gari of the Explosion Corps." The old man said in a sad tone.
End flashback
'Don't do it! Don't do it you suicidal freak!' Hitoshi yelled in his head, trying to swim faster, not realising the Masanori was trying to swim towards them.
"You'll pay for my son you bastard!" Iwao yelled, but couldn't be heard by all the water.
Gari could tell what he said by the feeling he was getting, he readied himself and pulled his arm back and went to punch Iwao as he dropped quickly towards him.
Hitoshi, Naruto and Masanori watched as the two were heading straight towards each other, the two fighter swung for each other and everything exploded, the force of it caused the three to be pushed back by the force. Hitoshi grabbed Naruto again and knew they were nearly out of breath; he looked around but couldn't find any trace of the two. "Iwao!" Hitoshi yelled underwater, sending bubbles out of his mouth, Naruto looked and thought if there wasn't any water, he'd be crying.
Naruto looked around and was shocked to see Masanori heading for them; Naruto began tapping Hitoshi to get his attention but didn't react. Naruto was hitting harder as the smirking Masanori was close to them and was about to punch the two, but Naruto caught a glimpse of what was behind Masanori and had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to die. Naruto smirked and held his middle finger up at the Iwa ninja. Making him more angry and was about to punch them but the vanished, disappearing into thin air...or water in their case.
Masanori started looking around, trying to find out where they were up when he looked behind him, he was shocked, several giant stones and bridge parts were heading his way and he sure as hell wasn't going to get through or around them. He started punching them; it was difficult since they seemed to come one after another. 'I won't die like this!'
Xxx
Several minutes earlier, Kakashi and everyone was waiting nervously, waiting and hoping that Naruto and the others are safe. A flash of came suddenly, quickly followed by a loud explosion and the earth seemed to shake by the force, everyone looks in horror as the village they were in went up in flames as only a massive explosion could be seen. "N-Naruto!" Hinata screamed and was going to jump off the boat to go back.
Sasuke however grabbed Hinata, managing to hold her back, but they and everyone else on the boat fell over as the force of the explosion sent a shockwave through the river. The boat then started being pulled back violently; Kakashi looked and saw the boat's rope was being zipping through the holds. "The ropes broken! Grab the rope!" Kakashi yelled and went to grab the long giant rope that was violently sliding on the deck.
He and several others grabbed the rope but was either being dragged along the deck with the rope or getting rope burn holding onto it. Fumio grabbed onto the rope and his body quickly turned into Iron, managing to slow the rope down but was being dragged along, Dai then grabbed it and it stopped completely. "That it?" Dai asked, everyone looked at him and were letting go of the rope and realised that he could hold the entire thing himself.
Hinata was crying her hard into Sasuke's chest while he put his arms around her to comfort her, Kakashi looked furious and started to make his way to him. "You lied! I had just lost my student because you said you would summon them!" Kakashi yelled.
"They still alive." Dai said, not really showing any expression.
"That explosion wiped out the entire village and I have a strong feeling that it he was in the area of the explosion!" Kakashi yelled.
Dai just stood there for a minute, not reacting but his eyes then widened, he let go of the rope, sending the boat backwards again, and he then bit his thumb and quickly slammed his palm onto the ground. A puff of smoke later and water poured onto the deck and a thump was heard, everyone looked to see an orange boy and a man in very damaged armour, Dai quickly grabbed the rope once again and started pulling.
Kakashi's eyes widened. "Naruto!" He yelled and Naruto shot up and started coughing up water; the man in armour sat up and started yelling in anger, slamming his fist into the ground.
"Hitoshi? Where's father?" Fumio asked, seeing the angry/upset look in his eyes. "...I see..." Fumio said, feeling incredibly upset now.
"...Iwao..." Hiro sounding upset and started crying, being held by Ai and her daughter Kayo.
"He was a good man...he'll always be remembered." The old man said, holding onto the child Yuji.
"I...should...have...saved...him." Naruto said, breathing heavily.
"Naruto-Kun!" Hinata yelled and tackled him into a hug, making him wonder what the hell is going on now. "I thought you were gone!" She cried.
"N-No, I'm alive." Naruto said.
"What happened out there?" Kakashi asked the emotional Hitoshi, he began to tell them what happened and they didn't seem surprised that Iwao went to kill Gari with everything he had. "I see...but at least we've eliminated the pursuers." Kakashi smiled, trying to cheer everyone up.
Xxxxx
Several minutes ago, Deidara was carrying the barley conscious Chiyoko, an explosion happened sending everything from behind them to fly towards them. They both looked to see several objects heading straight towards them, Deidara was about to cover Chiyoko with his body but the exact opposite happened; Chiyoko pulled Deidara so that she covered him. The force hit them and they were both sent into darkness, pain and mud.
An hour passes and Deidara gains consciousness, feeling his body was badly hurt, he looked around and saw the area around him in ruins. "That was powerful..." He said in pain, actually admiring his now dead friends' work, he looks around trying to find out where Chiyoko was but couldn't find her. "Chiyoko? Chiyoko!" Deidara yelled.
"Dei-Deidara..." Someone called quietly.
"Chiyoko!" Deidara yelled and rushed over to where he heard her voice, he looked and saw Chiyoko laying on the ground with a large branch covering her lower body. "Chiyoko!" He yelled and jumped next to her.
"Deidara...I'm glad...to see you..." She smiled in pain.
"Hold on Chiyoko my gal; I'll have that off of you in a sec." Deidara said, smiling but was finding it hard to do so.
Deidara managed to lift the branch but was horrified to what he saw, her leg was bleeding badly, but there was a long giant branch sticking out of her gut that he failed to realise. "D-Deidara...I don't think I'll m-make it." She gritted her teeth.
"N-No, you will...you will..." Deidara says, failing to notice tears in his eyes.
"...Aww...I didn't think...that I would...make you cry." She chuckled, but then cringed in pain.
"D-Don't move...I'll...I'll..." He began but she silenced him by placing her hand on his cheek.
"I know I...won't make it...can you do...me the honours...of letting me...die in my Art?" She asked.
This made Deidara's eyes widen. "B-But-" Deidara began to protest but Chiyoko pulled him down and kissed him, making him shocked but she pushed him back to face her.
"...Please..." She asked with tears in her eyes.
Deidara looked shocked and upset at the same time. "A-Alright..." Deidara said, grabbing his pouch and placed it on her, he pumped his chakra into in and moved away from her. "...I'll miss you..." He said.
"I'll miss you..." She smiled, a few seconds later the pouch exploded, vaporising her body in an instant.
Deidara stood there for a few minutes. "Your Art...truly is beautiful...and your beauty shall be remembered forever..." Deidara said, walking away to get back to his rightful country. 'Art truly is an explosion.'
Xxxxx
A couple more hours pass and a body was laying on the shore of a river, the body shot up and started coughing up pints of water from his lungs, he rolled over coughing, trying to remove whatever water was in his lungs. He slowly stood up, still coughing hard; he looked around in confusion but remembered what happened, he cursed. 'I can't believe we lost to those people! I've lost all of my team! Sho, Gari, the kids...we fucked up big time.' He thought, rubbing the back of his neck in annoyance.
He started looking around the area for an hour but couldn't find any sign of them, he cursed loudly before heading back to his country.
Xxxxx
It had nearly been a day since Team 7 and the people of the caravans and carts were attacked by the Iwa ninja, they were all grateful, even if they'd lost some of their merchandise along the way. "Hey...Naruto..." Fumio calls Naruto as he jumps up on the caravan he was on, Naruto looks at him. "Hitoshi told me that you were the best fighter he'd seen for a long while, he wanted me to tell you that my clan is willing to teach you our family fighting Style as a thank you...And I don't think that's wise, but if Hitoshi admired you, then that's enough." Fumio said.
This made Naruto look interested. "Really? I didn't see any significant fighting style from how your father or Hitoshi fighting." Naruto said.
"Well...our Fighting Style would be bad against the Explosion Corps, the Style is mostly violent and random fighting really...it wouldn't go well to get hit all the time with explosions happening." Fumio said.
"Really? Well alright...when do we start?" Naruto asked.
"When we settle down in the village." Fumio says.
"So how are you taking your dad's death?" Naruto asked.
Fumio sighed, rubbing the back of his neck before answering. "Alright I suppose, but I really didn't want to become the clan head right now...I just wanted a few quiet years with Ai before I had to worry about the clan." Fumio chuckled.
"Oh yeah, you're the dad of Ai's kid right?" Naruto smiled.
Fumio chuckled. "Yeah...you're right..." He smiled.
"So what's Hitoshi and Dai going to do now? Since they're both rouge ninjas." Naruto says.
"Hitoshi said he'll stay with us, he was missing the family apparently...but I think he blames himself for fathers' death and want to make amends." Fumio says.
"Well...at least everyone else is fine...hey! There's the village!" Naruto yelled, standing up and pointing at the gates. "You can finally live here and find a place to put your brother's remains!" Naruto yelled. "You'll love it here!"
"Yeah...I think you're right..." Fumio smiled and looked to see Ai smiling at him and waved. 'I know you're right...'
Sleepless D: There we are people, I hope you liked that, please review. Peace out.
