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Kage no Oni

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Hissing angrily, Naruto held his bruised jaw, the huntress sporting a new set of claw marks across her lower back. When he had first lunged at her, she had hit him square in the jaw, knocking him off the branch. However, Naruto had used his tail to grip said branch and swing back up to slash the woman across her lower back before the branch gave out and they fell to the ground.

Naruto hissed again, this time to tell his Ghosts to stay back. He wanted to make the bitch pay for what she did to him. The only reason he had felt the punch at all was because he had accidentally released his Yami Ooi while focusing all of his concentration on staying hidden from the female. Now he was paying the price for it with an injured jaw.

The huntress looked at her left gauntlet and growled, said piece of equipment having been smashed by the branch when they fell. The left gauntlet was also the one that contained and triggered the bomb meant to keep their technology out of the hands of other races. Removing it and tossing it away, she activated her plasma cannon and unsheathed her wrist blades, her mask back on her face.

Noticing the plasma cannon swivel around and aim at him, Naruto quickly put his Yami Ooi back up and just in time before a sphere of blue energy smashed into his left shoulder, throwing him onto his back. Scambling onto his hands and feet, Naruto just barely managed to dodge the woman's claws as they stabbed into the earth.

Wrapping his tail around the woman's right arm and neck, Naruto held her in place while grabbing the plasma cannon and turning it upwards before it could fire again, his free hand gripping the huntress's left wrist. Naruto tightened his grip on the woman's neck and squeezed, slowly cutting off her air supply.

She tried to break free, but she slowly grew weaker and weaker until unconsciousness claimed her. When that happened, Naruto let the woman collapse bonelessly before he started removing her armor and weapons. Upon finishing, the woman was left in nothing more than her fishnet body suit, her thong, and her black gloves. Using a thin and strong rope he kept in a scroll, Naruto tied the woman up and slung her over his shoulder after sealing all the huntress's weapons and armor into a scroll.

Glancing at his Ghosts, Naruto took off across the savannah and scurried up the cliff wall, quickly making his way back to Tanzaku Town with his quarry. Making it back in half the time, Naruto stopped on top of a building in Tanzaku and set the woman down, his Ghosts taking up defensive positions along the roof's edge.

Taking the time to look at the woman closely, Naruto guessed the woman to be around eighteen or nineteen years of age. He also noticed that she was still bleeding, her blood being an unusually bright scarlet. Rolling her over onto her stomach, Naruto leaned down and licked the wounds he had inflicted on the woman.

Oddly enough, Naruto had discovered that his saliva had healing properties awhile back when he was hunting for a female to impregnate. He had put a rather deep gash in the woman's thigh, leaving her immobile. While crawling closer to her, Naruto had started drooling slightly not unlike other Xenomorphs, but when it landed on the wound, the damaged flesh started to slowly heal.

Ever since then, Naruto would lick any wounds he put on any females he captures to make sure they survive long enough before impregnating them. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to do with the woman in front of him, but he knew it would be best if the woman wasn't injured. Once he was finished, Naruto took the time to retract his Xenomorph characteristics and put his cloak back on before turning to his Ghosts.

"I want you all to take this female back to the Hive and restrain her in one of the purgatory cells. She is NOT to be touched by anyone, not even a Facehugger. Those who disobey will be punished severely. Dismissed." Naruto ordered, watching as one of the Ghosts picked the woman up and slung her over its shoulder much like Naruto had done before leaving with the rest of its kin.

Sighing softly, Naruto ran a hand through his hair before heading off to wander the city, oblivious to his watcher. Standing on top of the tallest building in Tanzaku was Jiraiya, watching Naruto through the use of his telescope. Lowering said telescope, Jiraiya narrowed his eyes suspiciously. Whatever those things were and whoever the woman was, Jiraiya had to inform the Sandaime as soon as they got back.

He didn't trust the Uzumaki. He and Tsunade may have been close friends of the boy's parents, but Jiraiya knew that the current Naruto wasn't the same boy that he had seen 14 years ago...

X+X+X One week Later X+X+X

Naruto scowled as he spotted Tsunade stumbling out of another bar here in Tanzaku Town. It had been a week since they first found her and Jiraiya had been kissing up to her all week, damn near begging her to become the Godaime Hokage. Naruto scoffed. Pathetic humans, always squabbling over petty things. Stepping into the shadows, Naruto left the area.

"What news do you bring?" Naruto asked as a Stalker approached him just outside of town. The horned beast hissed softly, its lips curled back into a snarl. Closing his eyes in thought, Naruto rubbed the back of his neck. "I see..."

Nodding to the Stalker and dismissing it with a wave of his hand, Naruto hissed, giving the signal for the ten Ghosts he had summoned last week to show themselves. Instantly, the Ghosts canceled out their chameleon-like camouflage and dropped down from the tree branches around him.

"Stalker patrols have just informed me that the Yaut'ja Half-blood we captured last week was not the one that had been reported in Konoha two months ago. In fact, they aren't the only ones either. The few scouting patrols I had sent deep into Earth, Wind, and Lightning Country have reported that evidence of a Yaut'ja presence was in each other the afore mentioned nations. All of them being seperate entities." Naruto explained, the Ghosts giving off hisses and brief shrieks of what could be viewed as shock or hesitance. "I do not like it any more than you do. The one we captured last week was still under going her training, which allowed us to take her prisoner easily. These other Yaut'ja, however, are all veteran hunters from what the patrols said. If you encounter one of them alone, do not engage it in combat. You will surely die. Instead, return to the hive by any means necessary, even if it requires that you show yourself to the human populace."

The hisses and shrieks he recieved were ones of dislike and uncertainty. Hissing right back at them, Naruto fired off a Yami Mori right over their heads, silencing them.

"I do not like it either, but if it means the survival of the Hive, then so be it!" Naruto snarled at the Ghosts, making them flinch and crouch down as low to the ground as possible, trying not to enrage their King any more than he already was. "In addition to the presence of Yaut'ja, ANBU from Iwa are on their way here to assassinate Tsunade to keep her from becoming the Godaime and, if at all possible, Jiraiya. While I would enjoy bathing in my Godparents' blood, I can not allow it to happen. When they arrive tomorrow, we will capture as many of the ANBU alive as possible and imprison them in the Hive. I want to see if it was just a fluke that you Ghosts came to be or if I can make more of you by mutating human shinobi in the cocoons."

Giving a dismissive wave, Naruto turned around and walked away, the Ghosts silently jumping back up into the tree branches and camouflaging themselves. Drawing his ninjato, he swung his blade to the left and unleashed a cresent blade of black chakra. Three trees fell along with a previously concealed shinobi that had just been relieved of his head.

"Tch. A scout." Naruto mumbled as he approached the corpse, noticing the hitai-ate. "Iwa, at that." Grabbing the dead man's head and hitai-ate, he dropped a paper ball the size of a golf ball on the body before walking away. When he was far enough, Naruto flared his chakra slightly. Instantly, a three meter wide sphere of black energy erupted from the paper ball. Five seconds later, the black sphere shrunk until it disappeared, leaving large void the exact same size and shape as the black sphere. The paper ball had contained a seal called Gakido Bakudan (Hungry Ghost Bomb), something Naruto had made based off of notes he found in Danzo's office.

Stepping into the shadows, Naruto disappeared. Sighing, Naruto ran a hand through his hair as he stepped out into the night and wandered around Tanzaku Town again, having nothing to do at the moment and not in need of rest. Just then, inspiration struck him.

"Kuchiyose." Naruto muttered as he performed the needed handseals and pressed his hand to the wall of the alley he was in. In a cloud of smoke, Skittles appeared. Pulling out a handful of pellets from his cloak, Naruto grinned darkly while Skittles looked like he was smiling deviously.

"Let's make some chaos..." Tossing some to his partner in crime, Naruto and Skittles took off into the shadows, not a single plan they thought up being legal.

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By morning, every single building in Tanzaku had at least one paint splat on its walls. Not to mention, Jiraiya having been strung up by his feet in the middle of Tanzaku's town square wearing nothing other than his boxers with paint splotches all over him from various paint pellets. After taking several hundred pictures, Naruto left the sleeping man in the square and dismissed Skittles.

However, now was no longer a time of fiendish acts of entertainment...

"Hssss..." Naruto hissed softly as he slowly climbed down the tree- face down- and moved closer to the sleeping Iwa shinobi that was leaning against the tree trunk. Wrapping his tail around a thick branch, Naruto reached down and pulled the man into a headlock with one hand over the man's mouth. His eyes snapped open, but before he could try to scream, Naruto squeezed hard enough to cut off his oxygen and constrict his vocal cords in order to keep the man from screaming.

Once the man passed out, Naruto dragged the man up into the tree and tied him up before placing a chakra suppression seal on his back. His ten Ghosts were doing the same with ten of the twenty five sleeping Iwa ANBU. Moving to another Iwa-nin, Naruto choked the man into unconsciousness, one hand over the man's mouth.

Tying up their quarry and moving onto another, his Ghosts followed his example and continued to incapacitate one Iwa shinobi after another and tie them up until they were all captured. Summoning a score of Warriors, Naruto had each of them take an Iwa shinobi before returning to the Hiva and putting the men in cocoons. Once they left, Naruto sent all but one of his Ghosts back to the Hive.

"Jiraiya is suspicious of me and will no doubt 'taddle' on me to the Sandaime, who already knows of the Hive's existence." Naruto quietly started to explain to the Ghost he had stay behind as he and the afore mentioned white beast started walking back to Tanzaku Town. "In order to keep the man off my back, I'm taking you with me to send the man a clear message not to mess with me. Plus, it is a good way to introduce you and the Hive to Tsunade in case she decides to become the Godaime."

Hissing softly in acknowledgement, the Ghost fell in step beside its King, trying to appear as non-threatening as possible so as not to cause a mass panic among Tanzaku Town's civilian populace. A few minutes later, Naruto entered the hotel room that Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune had been sharing. Why? He had no idea, but then again, Naruto didn't really care.

Taking off his cloak and tossing it over the back of the couch, Naruto let his Xeno traits show and laid down on his stomach on the couch, his Ghost having decided to climb up the wall and cling to the ceiling above him before camouflaging itself. Naruto sighed quietly at that. Like the saying goes, old habits die hard.

"Oi..." Naruto mumbled to the Ghost. "Don't hide yourself, it'll just make it worse when you finally show yourself."

Silently obeying, the Ghost disabled its chameleon-like camouflage. Not even a minute later, Shizune entered the room and sat down on the couch across from Naruto, her legs folded under her and a cup of fresh black coffe in her hands. Her eyes closed, she took a sip of coffee and slowly opened her eyes, not having noticed Naruto. Jumping slightly in surprise and placing a hand on her chest, Shizune took a moment to calm down before glaring at Naruto.

"D-Damn it, Naruto! Don't scare me like that!" The dark haired apprentice hissed at him, her voice low so as not to disturb her passed out Master, who was in the next room and would soon suffer from a hangover once she woke up. Naruto cocked an eyebrow, a bit curious as to how the young woman hadn't noticed his tail, dorsal tubes, or his pet that was being unusually still.

"Eep!"

Ok, never mind...

"Shizune, calm down..." Naruto calmly told her, not moving from his place. "The creature that is on the ceiling is just one of my summons and the black things on my back are things from my kekkai genkai."

"O-Oh..." Shizune stuttered, trying to make herself look as small as possible, her eyes glued to Naruto's Ghost. "O-Ok..."

"Kekkai Genkai? I don't remember you having one, Uzumaki Naruto." Jiraiya asked coldly as he entered the room via a window, the paint having disappeared from his body and having fully dressed. Naruto's eyebrow twitched at that. He had used the same marker pellets on Jiraiya that he had used on Skittles, yet the perverted bastard does the impossible and washes off the paint?

"Oh? And how would you know if I did or didn't have one?" Naruto asked back.

"Because I knew your parents and-" Jiraiya shut up right there, eyes wide in shock. Naruto just grinned viciously and lunged forward pinning Jiraiya to the wall.

"Got'cha!" Naruto hissed. "I already knew that you knew my parents and yes, I know who they were. I know you and Tsunade were chosen as my Godparents, yet you both shirked your duties and dishonored my parents by leaving me to rot in Konoha." Tossing the shell-shocked man to the floor, Naruto snarled and placed his foot on Jiraiya's throat.

"Now do you understand why I despite your very presence, Godfather?" The enraged Xenomorph King spat out venomously. Taking his foot off of the man's throat and returning to his place on the couch, Naruto glared at the man. Jiraiya got up and moved towards Naruto, but a hiss from the ceiling warned him before a white six clawed appendage lashed out at him. Ducking under the swipe, Jiraiya looked up to see one of the white eye-less creatures he had seen with Naruto a little more than a week ago.

"What the hell is going on here?" Tsunade growled as she entered the room, holding her head in pain as she glared at everyone. "And what the hell is that thing?"

"That thing, as you put it, is one my summons and a damn powerful one, at that." Naruto growled at the woman, not wanting to deal with this. The Ghost hissed softly and Naruto hissed back before speaking to the creature via the telepathic link he shared with it and all other Xenomorphs.

"No, I didn't expect them to piss me off so soon! If I did, I wouldn't have bothered with this in the first place!" Naruto snapped at the Xeno, causing it to flinch slightly and press itself as close to the ceiling as possible in submission. Jiraiya and Tsunade noticed the interaction between the two, but did not understand it.

"Now, as to my kekkai genkai..." Naruto growled, his rage nearly taking control. "It is something I earned. I gained it by performing a ritual known only by the leader of my summons. It is much like your Sage Mode, Jiraiya, but it doesn't require any special things such as nature chakra to activate. In fact, I'm currently in 'Sage Mode', if you will, and I can stay in this form for the rest of my life if I so choose to do so, which I just might."

"And why is that, Naruto-san?" Shizune asked curiously, a bit hesitant due to Naruto's obvious irritation. Naruto glanced at her.

"Because I have been put through Hell several times over by the people of Konoha. Up until I went into hiding and lived with my summons at the age of six, I had experienced at least one beating a day as far back as I can remember. To be honest, I am no longer human and I am damn proud of it. I have come to hate humans just as much as humans hate me." Naruto explained, telling a little more than he really wanted to, but could do nothing about it now that he had already said it. "Now leave me alone. I can not stand the presence of my unworthy and dishonest Godparents any longer and I do not think I can keep myself from killing either of them if I stay."

Upon saying that, Naruto stood up and grabbed his cloak before moving to the door, his Ghost dropping from the ceiling and following him. Not even bothering to hide his features anymore, Naruto sealed his cloak away and stopped at the door for a moment.

"I'm heading back to Konoha. Do not expect me to wait for you to catch up." Naruto growled without looking back before walking away, the door closing behind him. Jiraiya ran to the door and threw it open, only to find that Naruto and his Ghost were nowhere to be seen. He couldn't even sense them, but then again, he wasn't a sensor-type.

In all actuality, Naruto had jumped to the roof of the hotel and suppressed his chakra while using his Yami Ooi to turn invisible, his Ghost also camouflaging itself. Scoffing quietly at the man's idocy, Naruto turned away before running and leaping to the next rooftop and then the next one after that. The Ghost followed close behind him, choosing to remain silent so as not to draw his King'a wrath onto itself.

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