A/N: It's been too long hasn't it guys? Sorry it took me over a year to get this going. Lost the muse a ways back and focused on more personal things. Getting married this May so working hard was a priority to build up the funds for it. But my muses are back and so is my spark for typing. Got a new laptop to boot so no more constant shutting down to hinder writing. Woot! Thank you everyone for being patient and loving my stories but we're back in business! I posted three stories I binged over the last couple of nights to apologize. Enjoy the stories.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. This is just for entertainment purposes only.


The forest on the outskirts of Taki were thinned out by a vast amount to put it lightly. Chunks of trunk remained as the large trees either slanted on one another or indented the ground covered in slash marks. Branches broken off the main trunk with mere splinters remaining, the sliced limbs piled off in the corners of the destruction. Bark that remained on the toppled lumber that hadn't been hacked off, were drenched around the markings with steam visible rising off the wood. The trees that stood had similar markings but not as deep to cause the tree to fall over but regardless the damage was still done.

The dirt that wasn't covered by lumber, darkened by fire, grass singed in controlled patterns and moist with water, mud puddles spotted the battle ground full of splinters and stone. Strong winds left craters, created new dunes and mounds to provide either homes for wildlife or one day fill with water that would form ponds. The wildlife that did call this place home though would have their guard up the remainder of their lives trying to rebuild dens and nests. Despite the catastrophic damages done to the surrounding area, nature would make due with the sudden changes and recover.

These changes however, were far from natural. While the local wildlife dug dunes and scratched the trees to mark territory, there were no recorded creatures that could do such damage in such short notice without raising some kind of alert. A summoning companion could have done the damage to Taki's forest but summoning techniques were scarce within the ranks of Taki shinobi. Only one person in the whole Waterfall Country had access to proper summoning techniques and could have possibly done so much in so little time without raising an alarm. The number one trickster in all Takigakure.

"Fū!"

The Jinchūriki opened her eyes to a clear, cloudless, blue sky and a sharp pain in her right arm that nearly felt numb almost like a needle delivering a shot. Her head pounding from behind her right eye and ear and her crown felt like it was about to split, her temples tense forcing her to rub them forcibly to remove some tension and vision blurred from dried out eyes. Blinking her eyes a few time to return some moisture to them, Fū groaned as she positioned herself to sit up right while nursing her right arm.

It was a revolting sight of her forearm alone but her hand was in far worse shape. Her arm had a deep redness color that made a splotchy pattern up to her elbow from her wrist. The pain pulsing through it was unbearable to even move it without discomfort so she let her arm swing back down to ease the pain from bending the damaged skin.

The skin appeared to be just wet and almost a glossy shine to it but if that had been the case, the pain would not exist. Her hand got the most punishment however. Swollen like a balloon, she couldn't even get one finger to twitch without agonizing pain, her palm and top of her hand whiter than usual and discolored in certain spots. The blisters were also a repulsive sight on her wrist and fingers but sensitive as the young Jinchūriki discovered as she poked one out of curiosity. The discomfort that her nerves signaled noted to never do that again as her face cringed, body shook and neck bent to the side to bring attention to the popping of her neck rather than the pain in her fingers.

Fū mustered whatever strength she had to get up to her feet to distract herself from the torture that was her arm. Another day spent training on the Boiling Water Blade that resulted in horrible results but this time yielding both better results in control but nastier injuries. While she got the idea of heating the water with fire and controlling the hot steam with wind, she discovered that long before the aftermath of her training and now she would have to be explaining how it happened to the hospital as they tended to her horrific injuries.

"Great now they will have inform Shibuki of my injuries. Hope this doesn't affect my mission tomorrow."

"Your arm is cooked like a boiled hog roll, not to mention I won't hear the end of your sleeve getting destroyed, and your worried about your mission tomorrow? I think your more insane that Shukaku and his renown comes from his insanity."

"Eh it's all good. I mean we do have excellent burn healing techniques so this isn't anything special. We treat third degree all the time so a second degree should be easy."

"Those were also small scale like a finger or shin. You lost half of your non- dominant arm."

Chōmei did raise a valid point. Most of the shinobi only got treated for training accidents that result in minimal injury of the third degree but she couldn't recall anyone receiving such vast injury in such short time, not to mention waiting so long to report the incident. The only thing she was worried about the most was if they would inform Shibuki of her freak accident. If they asked how she got her burns, she could say combo techniques with various techniques. It had gotten her out of trouble before with jutsu of this caliber so it shouldn't cause her any problems.

Training to push herself so hard on this resulted in her neglecting on sealing jutsu which was the biggest thing she wanted to focus on to impress the Uzumaki. She planned on working with sealing techniques for the three days over the Boil Blade but she became more obsessed with mastery over three elements at once rather than a rare jutsu style very few had. That was the whole point of breaking into the library and obtaining sealing secrets. She had barely finished reading the scroll of the basics but never even practiced, let alone used it properly.

"Yeah that is true. Good thing I'm ambidextrous. I'll let my arm rest and focus on sealing techniques the rest of today. Tomorrow is the big day and I want to be able to seal 'something' by the end of it. Even if it is just a worm heck even weapons would be cool. An entire arsenal wagon in a tiny piece of paper would be cool."

"Well you better get started because even prodigies take years to master the basics. If you could put a kunai in a scroll by the end of the day, then you have surpassed any and all before you."

"Is that a challenge Chōmei?"

"No. I'm just stating a fact. If you want a challenge, I'd happily make a wager with you. I know our friendly bets push that already crazy drive of yours to higher levels."

"I'm listening go on."

The silence lasted what seemed like an eternity. Fū even managed to leave her training grounds of destruction and find the entrance to the Village long before Chōmei even coughed to get her attention. Though the idea of a bet tickled her stomach in excitement it had been ages since he offered her a challenge.

The challenges the two would come up with would always have a friendly bet wager at the end. Most of the time it was a certain percentage of the others chakra which was always rewarding if Fū came out the victor. In one case where she bested Chōmei in a game of chest, she won five percent of his maximum chakra. Years later and she still has yet to burn through half which she only uses in dire need to savior her winnings.

"Last night was not the best night was it?"

"Depends on who you ask. Terrifying for you and a pain in the ass for me. I had to exert chakra to have you whisked away from where you were but atleast you regained consciousness quickly and put your adrenaline to use with that jutsu of yours."

"Think Shibuki will be okay?"

"More so than you, if he finds out you skipped your check up today. And yesterday. And the day before."

Her body froze in place. She had forgotten to go to her checkups. The one the day before was forgotten due to her preparations of the theft of the water blade technique not to mention she blew it off yesterday's appointment to eat and read. There was no telling how much trouble she would be into if she missed a third checkup. They would have to contact Shibuki about her absences and he made it very clear to her not to miss another.

"Oh crap you're right! I totally forgot about them."

"I know I'm right. Start flying and you'll make it. You'll be late but late is better than missing it entirely in my honest opinion."

With wings sprouting from her back, she darted to the skies above. It felt so much better than walking to be free flying through the open breezes, the wind passing through her hair, gliding through the clouds drifting in the air. The one place she was free and no one could take from her was the open, limitless sky.

With everything clear as day to her visible eye, she mapped out what would be the village to locate the hospital. The giant tree that marked the center point was obvious to anyone who was a native so she was more than capable to determine where things were. Shibuki's off slightly north of the center marker, her home at the far west of the village away from the general population, even her favorite lo mein shop was capable of being drawn out in her mind. The outline of every building tracing itself through the trees with her insectiod eyesight including the hospital northeast of the village.

"Target acquired."

"Bet I can get there without hitting a branch."

"Deal."

Her wings ceased fluttering downward to halt hovering and angled properly for swift movement and maneuvering. Swooping down, she focused her body angle to keep the wind from stinging her arm any further but it was easier said than done. As the Jinchūriki, for some reason, didn't seem as in control as she usually would be.

"I know I don't usually question your flying style and I'm not being the backseat driver here. But why are we losing altitude and flying in a GOD DAMN CIRCLE?!"

"Well as embarrassing as this sounds, I may have lost some motor function to the left half of body and losing vision to boot."

"Of all times for your condition to interfere, this is hands down the second worst time for it to do so. Hold on I can pull gnats from the nearby area to give us some cushion to keep us airborne."

"Gnats? Really of all things, gnats? Just find actually flies. I'd be less insulted."

"They're the only thing nearby that can fly without assistance. Besides it was that or I can pull wasps and we both know your incredible hatred for those things."

"Fine just summon the creepy wannabe flies and le-"

Fū, without notice, ceased talking, completely stopped using her wings and spiraled down toward the trees the covered the village. Gaining more and more momentum as she hurtled out of Chōmei's safety net of insects. If the Seven-Tails did not act as quick as her sudden disconnection did, then severe injury would fall upon the girl.

"You're not dying that easy while I'm occupying your body."

His red chakra spewed from her body coating her in bubbling cocoon that shot our streams of chakra signaling any, and all, insects willing to shield her fall. The crimson spread through every tree, bush, hive and hollow crevice it could flow through with ease to alert nearby bugs. The area erupting in a black cloud of buzzing coated in red bubbles dashing to reach the source. Gnats, ballooning spiders catching the kinetic energy from the passing insects and, of course, wasps came to the rescue to catch the falling Jinchuriki.

The winged pests spread out with enough distance for spiders to jump for one to another with no wind to blow them away. Spiders using their silk to spin webs along the legs of gathering insects to pull a silk net strong enough to either reduce her fall speed to be caught in the trees or to stop her fall entirely with enough resistance to let her stretch the net and spring back up. Atleast that was Chōmei's plan.

Closing in to the net, Chōmei watched through the eyes of both his host and the other insects pulling, weaving and putting his plan into fruition. Net after net being layered on top of one another with insects working together to create a cone shaped safety net for Fū. If it would be enough though, time could only tell if her spiraling momentum would be halted by the thread.

"Get ready,"All the insects deployed the net stretching it to the max ready for impact. "Deploy! I REPEAT DEPLOY!"

The net expanded its small opening to a much wider tunnel that rushed at a slanted angle and swallowed its target. She hit the first web net held together with juvenile spiders and tore through it like wet paper, dragging any of the eight legged catchers that managed to stick to her. The second net, pulled by the wasps, wrapped her up in a cocoon using the momentum of spinning the opposite direction to stop the spiraling. While it did stop her rotation, the wasps suffered the same fate as the tunnels constructers. The third net being laced by gnats, willingly trapping themselves in the sticky thread to act as a thick barricade to serve their master's will. She hit the black wall head first in her tangled cocoon of insects and webs, pulling it forward with her. It appeared that Chomei's plan was going to work.

"And you said gnats were useless."

Before the celebration could begin, the blockade of gnats delayed the opposing force, known as Fu, just as well as the spiders and wasps. Plummeting to her destination now looking like a black cloud, the Seven-Tails had run out of ideas to save his host as her lost speed from the net picked back up. A last-ditch effort but some was better than none in the eyes of the luckiest Tailed Beast. Had the spiders not been on the inside of the web ball, he could have created a parachute to whisk her away but that was not the case.

"Dad damn it. Okay so, status report. Good news. On one hand, the thickness of your webby cocoon might absorb some of the impact allowing us to take minimal damage. On the other hand, bad news by the way, you're gonna lose your half of the bet cause I'm pretty sure we 'are' going to hit just about every branch on the way down. Chance of survival, really bad at math by the way, not sure. Good luck!"

The canopy of Taki wasn't as forgiving to the Jinchuriki as its leader normally was. An unfortunate, but well justified, twist of irony that the forest she loved so much, explored every inch and found sanctuary in when she would venture out would possibly be her end. Mother Nature's revenge for carving out a portion in the name of using the elements in a harmful way not naturally created.

The insect made cocoon collided with the tree line breaking branches it darted passed. The plus side were the sticks and leaves sticking to her soft-shell layer providing even more layers to shield her from anything proving to be an actual threat. Not that it really mattered due to the girth of trunks she smashed into on her way down. It was more of a hopeful plea that it served some purpose at that point.

As the trees dwindled in number, the path became clear to the hidden city of Takigakure. The web skipped several times on the earthy path sliding into view of the hospital, their desired destination. The Seven-Tails, despite all the mayhem, was relieved to know they were just a stone's throw away from the facility. Also from a quick review of Fu's conditions, she was nearly unharmed save her arm burns and the minor bruises from the trees. The insects that made her cocoon, separated and scattered from their mess. Other than the spiders that dragged away some of the ensnared gnats.

"Sweetness," Chomei cheered. "Good news, landed just a few yards from the hospital. No doubt they saw you fall and they'll run out here. Not too bad of collision bumps either. Your arm might be banged up a bit more but either way I think we're good."

Fu seemed to had been fine just a moment ago, but then her body began shaking. Her muscles contracting on her left side only brought concern to the Biju. Her body had done this before but her muscles would usually relax after each contraction. Her heart rate spiked higher than when she would get free lo mien or a new book, her brow wetting the soil with sweat and his Jinchuriki gagging from attempted vomiting. Humans were fragile, delicate creature to the Seven-Tails so for those sudden issues arising with no knowledge what was happening, worried the beetle.

As luck would have it, their crash landing brought attention to the crew inside. A small hospital group of three rushed out to his host's aid with a stretcher to carry her in with. A new but familiar face to Fu, Ichuru, led the medical trio to the distressed Jinchuriki. Ichuru directed her team with professional confidence, placing the shaken girl on her left side on the stretcher. Examining the dermis layer, or what was left of it, of her arm, Ichuru traced the burn pattern stopping to notice the signs of coagulation on remaining skin layers.

"Get her on the stretcher on her left side," Ichuru ordered. "We don't want the sensitive tissue on her arm to be further damaged. Make sure her airways are free from spit or vomit before placing the mask."

On the stretcher, Fu spit up a minor amount of saliva she had been choking on earlier. A small mask placed over her mouth to aid in her breathing but had to be removed after stomach acid spewed from her mouth after a few gags. The mask had to be cleaned before replacement but with no sterile outside, they had to bring her inside to get the attention she so desperately needed.

"I want her rushed into my department for immediate care on these burns, Moshi keep the time on her seizure and if it lasts longer than 180 seconds, we'll take action. Tyra observe for any changes to her tonic-clonic movements. If any of these are brought to attention, we'll take her to our ICU," Ichuru said. "Don't worry Fu, you're in good hands."