Black Shadow Chapter 10: A Night to Remember Part 2: The Curtains Rise.
"Sasuke-kun, what are you going to do?" Karin asked as the red head snuggled next to her duck-butt head boyfriend on the sofa in the main Uchiha house. The house was predominantly empty seeing that Sasuke and Karin were the only ones to live in the house.
"I… I… I don't know anymore Karin," Sasuke said coldly.
"Sasuke-kun, fight it for tonight, ok?" Karin said hugging her troubled boyfriend, who sighed. "Karin, we'd better start looking for our kimonos for the festival tonight," Sasuke said getting up from the sofa, leaving Karin on the sofa. I hope he'll beable to fight the urges. I remember those images vividly before his fight with Danzo, what Madara did Karin though as she got up and followed her boyfriend out the door.
---Meanwhile---
"Neh Nana-chan, are all these nessacary?"
"Of course Shun, we'll need all of them!" Nana said excitedly.
"BUT THERE'S SOOOOO MANY!!!!!" Shun said as the store clerk piled Kimono, after Kimono, after kimono on Shun's rather delicate arms. Shun was already on the verge of snapping in half since the clerk had been piling kimonos on him for about 20 minutes. Eventually, Shun collapsed under towering stack of kimonos that he was wearing. There was a big thud of clothes hitting the floor and a scream as the clothes fell on the screamer.
"Shun are you alright?" Nana said looking back at Shun who was under the pile of clothes. Suddenly a thumbs up rose from the pile of kimonos, and Nana smiled.
"Ok well, I guess I'll take this one then!" Nana said as she pulled out a blue one with many different kinds of flowers. Shun heard this and suddenly the piles of clothes exploded as Shun stood there, somewhat mad. He slowly made his way to a very scared store clerk, who was hiding behind the counter, and Nana, who was amazingly unparsed by the whole thing.
"YOU MADE ME CARRY ALL OF THOSE KIMONOS FOR NO REASON?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"Actually Shun, I was planning on trying on all of those, but we don't have the time for that since you still to pick yours out or else we'll be late,"
"THEN HOW-"
"I had a shadow clone pick one out for me, just in case we needed to get one," Nana said smiling. Shun loved to see Nana smile, since it was just so, relaxing to him. So he calmed down and got a brown Kimono with an eagle on the front and a falcon black falcon on the back of it. Nana liked it and they paid for both kimonos and then left the store to get to the gate in time.
It was 5:55, Sasuke and Karin were already waiting for everyone else to arrive. Sasuke wore a black and white Kimono with a hawk flying across the back of it in mermorial of his old team. Karin on the other hand wore a bright red kimono that matched her hair. There were also many roses on the fabric, since her favorite flower was a rose. After a few minutes few, they saw Nana and Shun already dressed in their kimonos coming towards the gate.
"So is Naruto-sensei here yet?" Nana asked as Karin and Sasuke shook their heads. Shun noticed that they haven't even changed their looks yet and asked, " so when you guys gonna change the facial features? When Naruto gets here?"
"Hmmm? Whaddya mean by that?" Karin asked fixing her hair.
"Well, I'm Naruto already shifted into his alter ego form, and we don't need to since Kumo doesn't know that were officially Konoha shinobi now, but you two and Sakura, need to change your faces so you can hide the fact that your still Konoha shinobi," Shun said.
" Huh?"
"Like Nana said, Shun can't explain stuff for his life," a man with black hair, in a plain black kimono said. The man was standing with a gorgeously beautiful long black haired and cerulean blue eyed woman with a pink kimono with cherry blossoms on it. The man opened his eyes and the four shinobi saw red and green eyes.
"Sensei, are the eye color changes really nessacary?" Nana asked, resisting the urge to drool over him.
"Sensei?"
"Ok then Naruto-sensei, maybe I can explain this to them," Shun said triumphantly. "This Sasuke and Karin, is Naruto's alter ego, Sho."
"You mean, his cover up?"
"Yea, he only shows his TRUE face around friends and the people in konoha. Otherwise, this is the face of the true Kuroikage."
"So are you guys ready?" the woman asked.
"Who are you?" Shun asked.
"Haruno Sakura," Sho said-remember Sho=Naruto-
"Sakura?!?!?!?! MY KAMI YOU LOOK AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Karin said hugging her friend and staring at her.
"Ano…. Karin, please call me Miku, that's my name when in this form, alter ego, w/e you call it," Miku said.
"EH??????? You got a name change too? That's nice, and it fits your look as well," Karin said, studying the embarrassed Miku.
"Karin where are your manners," Sasuke said taking Karin's hand pulling it closer to him and away from Miku.
"Thanks Sasuke. So you guys gonna change or what?" Miku asked.
"Might as well," Sasuke shrugged, before turning to Naruto. "Surprise me,"
"EH??????????" Naruto said, somewhat baffled.
"Well, work it man." Sasuke said.
"What?!?!?!?!?!?!" Naruto said, Nana Shun Miku and Karin showed slight moments of giggles.
"Work your illusionary technique that changes my look dammit!" Sasuke said, starting to get pissed off.
"O ok, sorry. For a second there I though-"
"DON'T EVEN GO THERE!" Sasuke shouted as Karin Miku and Nana started laughing. Shun shrugged and threw his arms around Nana.
"Ok Sorry geez," Naruto said putting his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. He channeled some chakara into Sasuke, and then white smoke shot up from under Sasuke. As the Smoke cleared, they saw a man with dark moss green hair, styled like that of Itachi. As the man opened his eyes, they were a bright crimson red. The man spoke, "So how do I look?"
"Take a look for yourself, Uchiha," Naruto said as he directed him to the water of a pond nearby. Sasuke was amazed, for once he never thought that Itachi's hair would actually look good on him. He turned around and said, "I'm thoroughly impressed," Sasuke said.
"After doing this for about three years you would think someone would get really good at this. "
"Indeed," Karin nodded, "Ok my turn!" Naruto nodded, and repeating the same transformation process with Karin. The white smoke cleared and there they saw still red. She didn't have the two long bangs, but he had short cut hair, with the bangs-in the back- that barely made it past the shoulders. The glasses were gone, and her eyes were a shade of brown. She walked over to the pond, bent down, and she liked the look.
"You look beautiful," Sasuke said wrapping his arms around her before whispering in her ear, "Akane." He figured that he would make a name for Karin and allow her to do the same.
"Domo, Sasuke-, err… Raiden-kun," Karin-now Akane- said as she broke the hug after a few moments. She came up with the name on the spot just as Sasuke-now Raiden- to ask, "So we ready to leave? It's about 6."
"Yea, but, we're going travel, by my new technique," Sho said.
"What kind of technique is this?" Miku asked.
"You mean the Hirashin?" Nana asked.
"Well, I've improved it to the point where no seal is necessary, but yea in general, it's the Hirashin," Sho said.
"Hirashin?" Miku Raiden and Akane asked in unison.
"Uh… the fourth's famous technique, the teleportation one." Shun said, as the three got it, almost immediately.
"Ok the festival won't start until 7, but if we travel via Hirashin," Sho paused," The five of you will most likely be coughing and throwing up from the actual movement," Sho finished.
"Whaddya mean throwing up?" Akane asked giving the -what-the-hell?- look.
"Ok I bet it's better to show it rather than describe it." Sho concluded before asking, "Ok, so if you'll all hold on to my upper body, we can go." Everyone else looked at each other before grabing on to Sho. Miku obviously hugged Sho, while everyone else grabbed some part of Sho's arm. Sho sighed, and then began the jutsu.
"Hiraijin no ma jutsu!" –Flying Thunder God's True Art-
And with that they vanished in a flash.
---A few seconds later, outside Kumogakure,---
-Quick A/N I'm gonna be switching between the fake names and the real ones. So sorry if you get lost-
It was already dark in Kumo, the only light source outside the village was the rising moon on the left of the village. Sho and his friends land safely on the ground. Naruto, the one that used this jutsu for many years to get it right, stood up right, while the Shun Nana Akane and Raiden, all began kneeling on the floor and began barfing out what they ate for lunch. Sho smiled, before noticing that Miku was still holding on to him, as if it was for dear life.
"Miku-chan, you can let go now," Sho teased. Miku opened her eyes and continued to hug Sho. 'Yanno, I could get used to this,' Sho thought as he sat down, leaning on a nearby tree. He then wrapped his arms around Miku and waited patiently for the other four to stop barfing up lunch.
---10 minutes later---
"O KAMI, THAT WAS *Puke* DISCUSSING!!!!" Akane yelled.
"Sho how the *holds in the barf* do you *barf* do this without barfing?" Raiden asked.
"You just get used to it," Shun said as he got up. Shun was extremely used to the technique, but he traveled much slower than Naruto's Hirashin, but he was used to it. Shun then walked over to Nana, who was almost done barfing, and sat next to her, patting her back hoping that it would help, and it did. She stopped barfing and sat up right and smiled at Shun, who returned the smile.
--5 minutes later---
Raiden and Akane just stopped barfing. They both sat up against a tree nearby and sighed. "Hey how come Saku, errr Miku wasn't barfing?" Akane asked
"Probably because she took the best spot for traveling with the jutsu if you're the passenger," Sho said and paused before continuing. "The closer you are to the user, the less likely you'll throw up after wards."
"That's not fair!"
"O it's totally fair, Akane. Sho is my boyfriend after all!" Miku, now sitting and leaning up against Sho, his legs were open, replied with a smile.
"Ok so we have 45 minutes before the festival actually starts. What do we do?" Raiden asked.
"Well I myself have some business with A that I need to discuss. I'll come back to get you guys once the festival starts," Sho said before looking at Miku. "You fine with that Miku-chan?" Miku nodded and Sho got up and headed off into the dark. The group managed to catch him putting on his trademark hooded cloak before he disappeared.
"Hey where's Sora and Kira?" Akane asked.
"I think they went to go see Onoki. Kira wanted to check up on Onoki and Sora would accompany her. So they left to go and visit him," Shun said.
"Explains why they didn't bother showing up to the bridge."
"That the spot?"
"Yea, Naruto-sensei said that the area reminded him of the good times,"
"What good times?" Miku asked. Curious as to what Naruto said about the 'good times'
"Well, there was always YOU there to smack him almost every time you met at the bridge," Shun spat the you with some venom in it. It kinda lowered Miku's spirits, Raidon smirked while Akane was lost, but she didn't care.
"Well, they weren't all that bad, at least he said that by smacking him you acknowledged him," Nana said somewhat sympathetic while at the same time glaring at Shun. Miku got up and said," I'm gonna go for a little walk. I'll be back in like 10 minutes." She started walking away from the group. Akane slowly got up and followed Miku with Nana following. Leaving the two boys alone for the moment.
---In A's Office---
"A-sama, I'm here," someone said from the window of the Raikage's window.
"Ahh Naruto, good to see you my boy. So how are you fairing for the time?" The dark skin toned man sitting on the chair asked. There were 4 other figures in the room, they appeared as silhouettes to Naruto since they were too far into the shadow for him to recognize.
"I'm fairing quite well A-sama, and again I appericate the festival honor. Oh and also I brought a few friends with me, so if you-"
"Not at all Naruto, after all you are the one that helped save the village. A few friends is a small favor for the big one we owe you," A Joked.
"So Kid, I heard from my sources that you hooked up with that pink haired chick you were talking about during the war." Another dark skin toned man stepped into the light. He was none other than the Raikage's brother and jinchuriki of the Eight tailed Ox, Killer Bee.
"When did you learn of this?" Naruto asked.
"Heh, you gotta be more careful about here you land your Hirashin. I was near the area, but I masked my presence," Killer Bee joked with along with his brother.
"That's not important for the moment. Anyway shall we begin the meeting of the five Kages? "
"Tsunade is not here yet," someone with a big gourd on his back said as the light revealed who he was.
"I'm the one that Tsunade sent in her place, Gaara. Baa-chan said I'd better get some experience with the other kages and meetings and such," Naruto said getting of the window and into the office.
"Well Well, our Naruto is growing up," the one with the female figure said.
"Yes, it was only a few years ago when he was begging us to spare the Uchiha's life. Now we ask him for assistance," the shorter figure said.
"Mei-chan and Onoki-sama, I don't fancy well with such comments," Naruto joked. "O by the way, how is Kiri Mei-chan?"
"Well it's getting better. We've rebuilt much of the destroyed and damaged property. We just need to rebuild the population and I believe we're good."
"That's good to hear," Naruto nodded.
"Naruto, Sora and Kira are helping to train the rest of the Iwa army. Many thanks, it seems that even the gennins that made it out alive are now Chuunin and some possibly Jounin."
"In such a short amount of time?"
"They used some form of mental training for an hour, at least that's what Kira told me."
"O the Shadow Dome, it just slows down time for the ones in the dome. Every second in the real world is like an hour in the shadow dome. The only drawback is that it takes extreme amounts of chakara to keep it together."
"I guess that explains why Kira and Sora collapsed after the training."
"They both held it together? I'm impressed. Sora must be a good teacher." Naruto said while rubbing his chin.
"Yes, at this rate we'll be able to take back Iwa in a month."
"Actually Onoki-sama, that's the reason as to why I called the meet," A said. This got everyone's attention.
"Gaara would you like to brief them on the situation at hand?" A asked as Gaara nodded.
"Well you see, our scouts have reported seeing some sound nin and missing nin heading almost due west from Iwa. This prompts me to think that Iwa is planning on attack Kumo again, that or go back for Kiri. I highly doubt that they'd attack Konoha or Suna simply because we can literally reach each other in hours."
"Hmm so how do we approach the situation is the question of the day then?" Mei said.
"It would seem so, I guess we can't really wait a month then," Onoki said.
"Kiri can't send anything, and I'm sure that neither Suna or Kumo or Konoha would like to do anything since neither are prepared for the task at hand." Mei added
"Then I guess we'll have to send in two waves of attack then" Killer Bee said.
"That would be a very good strategy, but time is not on our side," Naruto said.
"No what I mean is, we can send you*points at Naruto* to lead a small strike force against to shake up the Iwa defenses, then after you've pretty much sent them into a panic, forces from each country will pour in and thus, crack the enemy defense. Once we've broken through the defense, everything else should be easy pickings." Killer Bee said, trying to look all cool like.
"Not a bad plan, but how long will it take to get everything ready?" Onoki asked.
"I can get a force of our best ninjas ready within a day, seeing that we're not that far from Otogakure." A said.
"It'll take Suna a week to get ready," Gaara said.
"My men are ready to move out whenever," Onoki said.
"We can't afford to lose any men. Rebuilding our village is top priority for us for the time," Mei said regretfully.
"If you need help Mei, why not ask Naruto for some clones?" Gaara asked
"Wouldn't it be too much chakara comsumption for him?" Mei question.
"Then how's about a True Shadow?" Naruto asked.
"True Shadow?" Everyone question what the young mercenary meant.
"It's a much more advanced form of a Kagebushin. Although they lose the ability to relay information once on is dispelled, they're pretty much me but with a set amount of chakara before it expires," Naruto explained.
"Interesting, so could possibly make a True Shadow and allow me to take it home and help Kiri rebuild?" Mei asked.
"For you Mei-chan, anything," Naruto said trying to impress the older woman.
"Cute, but you're too young Naruto," Mei giggled along with everyone else.
"So then meeting concluded?" Gaara asked.
"Yes, I extend an Invitation for everyone to the festival that will be happening oh shortly," A asked.
"Well, one of the reasons as to why I brought my friends here was to attend, so I'm staying."
"I'll say as well," Gaara replied. "I do not want to go back and fall asleep on my desk tonight." Gaara finished sighing.
"I must kindly decline A, I have my men to return to, so I will see everyone again soon hopefully," Onoki said before vanishing to dust.
"A, me you and bee here gonna hit the bar?"
"If you want to,"
"I'm staying!" Mei said grabbing Killer Bee and running out the door.
"Well I guess me and Gaara will be leaving then," Naruto said.
"Well enjoy yourselves tonight boys, I have a feeling it'll be a long one," A said. And with that, the office was empty.
END OF CH 10.
-A/N: Hope you liked it. Please R&R! Thanks for everyone that's actually been reviewing and reading this for the whole time! I'm thinking of putting in some fan service within the next few chapters. So if you put something on the review, I might just use it! ok well take care everyone!-
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