LivingLie: Hello Readers, It's me LivingLie here! Coming live from in front of a live studio audience!
*Audience cheers*
LivingLie: Thank you, thank you. I am here to do as I promised in the last chapter and interview the protagonists of "The Masked Beast" Naruto the Kimosu, Karui, and Shino!
*Audience cheers louder*
LivingLie: So without further ado...
Female Audience member: Oh my god he said it, he said it! *faints*
LivingLie: Ooook...With that moment out of the way, heres our protagonists!
*Outcome Naruto, Karui, and Shino looking taken back by the spirit of the crowd as they took their seats.*
LivingLie: I would like to start out by thanking you for coming today.
Karui: Who are you?
Naruto: His name is LivingLie, we're characters in his story.
Karui: Characters in his story? What does that even mean! And how do you know about this Naruto?
Naruto: I-um, met him before.
Shino: Now thats an interesting development.
LivingLie: *ahem* I would like to start out by asking a few questions...
Shino: There wouldn't be any need to ask questions if you already all about us.
LivingLie: Indeed I do know, but the fans don't. So my first question is for Naruto; Which of your friends would you least like to face in a fight?
Naruto: Well that would be Karui-chan, although Shino is a close friend; Karui is the first person to look at me without malice and hate.
Karui: Thanks Naruto-kun *blushes*.
Audience: Aww.
Karui: SHUT UP! *Still blushing*
LivingLie: It seems you care deeply for Karui.
Naruto: As I said, she is my first friend why wouldn't I.
LivingLie: Have you ever thought of her as more than a friend?
Naruto: What do you mean?
Karui: Don't answer that Naruto-kun.
LivingLie: Have you ever thought of the day when Karui might become Karui the Kimosu.
Naruto: I'm lost
Karui: GOOD! Stop asking those kind of questions already, move on!
LivingLie: Fine, but still on the topic of Naruto, it seems you're quite protective of your friends. What would happen if someone tried to hurt them.
Naruto: I would murder them slowly and painfully. (He said slowly, deliberately, and evilly)
Audience: . . .
Karui: . . .
Shino: . . . I expected nothing less.
LivingLie: Well then, next question is for Shino. How would you respond to people saying you act too rashly in the story, to emotional?
Shino: How so?
LivingLie: Well they say that you joining Naruto and turning your back on the Aburame's was rash and illogical.
Shino: I merely took the job my clan was assigned to do, and I made the decision to do so quickly, but it was still thought out. As for my 'family', just because I share their blood doesn't mean I'm obligated to them, that much is obvious.
LivingLie: But isn't that still an emotional reaction, the kind you so desperately want to avoid?
Shino: I won't lie and say that I haven't changed. With the introduction of my new friends I've slowly grown out of my Aburame shell. True I still value logic and reason, but emotion does have it's place.
LivingLie: Fantastic answer. Last, but far from least, Karui. I want to start out by asking how you feel about starting a new ninja career.
Karui: Not really fucking happy about it.
LivingLie: Why?
Karui: Oh I don't know how about the fact that the people I grew up with stabbed me in the back, and fed me to the sharks?
LivingLie: Are you afraid that it's going to happen again?
Karui: Well of course I... *She stops to see the shocked expressions on her friends face* (despite the fact Shino's face was covered).
Naruto: Karui-chan...
Shino: Karui, we are not like them; we're in this together.
Karui: I know Shino but it's difficult because that's exactly what I thought before.
Naruto: Karui-chan, please if you ever think I'm going to betray you like that, or hurt you I want you to kill me.
Audience/Karui/Shino: WHAT?
Naruto: I don't want any doubt in either of your minds that my loyalty to you is absolute. The moment anyone else tries to hurt either of you I will kill them, without hesitation, that includes myself.
Audience: *gasp*
Shino: The same goes for me, I will aid you in endeavors from here to the eleventh circle.
Karui: You guys...T-thank you s-so much.
LivingLie: Well I thank you for your time, but I think it's time to continue the story...
Mask of the Malevolent
Chapter 11: Snapped
Previously:
"Looks like you're truly no longer afraid of others anymore." Karui whispered in his ear.
"I...guess I'm not." Naruto looked around and met the crowd eye to eye with no fear in his heart.
During this fairly touching scene as new spell was being cast over the other half of the Uzumaki-Namikaze heritage. Her face was vacant as a single thought, that was born by the rant of her brother, finally sunk in.
'He's right, I need to get over myself. I need to get over him.'
With that Anci dashed at the small group with the intent to kill.
The small group was put off by the abrupt killing intent coming from the female blond that was moving at high speeds towards them. While Karui and Shino were petrified with fear Naruto quickly tried to defend his friends with everything he had, that being his body, as he rushed in front of them. Anci's fist dove into the Kimsou's gut and would of sent him into the nearby orbit if he wasn't caught by his newly thawed out friends.
"What the hell, did you lose it you fucking bitch!" Karui shrieked cradling her injured comrade.
"That was cheap and eve. You will not go unpunished."
"I'm only doing what's right. I gave him a chance to become apart of my family be he refused, his death is purely on him." Anci said like a robot albeit with a disgruntled face.
"His fault! The only reason he's like this is because you *motions to everyone in the crowd and Anci* treated him like shit! You know what I'm sick of you, if you don't leave I'll erase you from my sight." Karui said with the mask of rage plastered on her face.
With that threat Karui stood up and took out the short short that Naruto gave her as a gift. With a quick motion to the side, and a quiet chant, Karui's sword started on fire.
"It's sad that someone with so much passion, is so desperate to die." Anci said with a straight face.
Shino looked on at the potential holocaust that was slowly unfolding in front of him in frustration. One of his friends was knocked out in his hands, the other was going to fight one of the most important people in the village to the death. The decision he had to make was obvious but it wasn't one he was happy with. While the two double 'X' chromosome wielders stared each other down Shino quickly got his unconscious friend out of dodge by covering his Naruto with bugs and the bugs carried him away, back to their base (no one dare touch the bugs because...Well their bugs...and they look icky).
"Huh, it looks like my brothers little minions have one and hid their master how touching." Anci said in a bored yet smarmy tone.
"What crawled up your ass bitch, are you sad that your brother who you think is so much lower than you actually has people who genuinely care about him." Karui retorted smugly.
"You're kidding right? Look at everyone here, they're here for me and to celebrate my existence. And what about my brother, the only one that likes him is the Aburame outcast and his little whore!" Anci added to the conversation with a new air of condescension that she recently gained due to her new personality.
Karui gritted her teeth and she decided to rush her foe head on. Flaming sword in hand and a protesting Shino behind her, the redhead descended her rage upon her opponent.
TUD
Anci caught the flaming sword in between two hands and just smiled at her opponent. Training with Jiraiya she learned how to control the Kyuubi's chakra, one perk of this is resistance to fire.
"Is that really all you can do?" Anci spoke slightly surprising Karui who quickly regained herself.
"Not in the slightest." The redhead said to the surprise of Anci.
The flame on the short sword started to increase in size and intensity. No longer able to take the heat the blonde jumped back to get out of the uncomfortable situation. However in her flight she took a deep cut to her shoulder from the short sword. But this injury was promptly healed by the Kyuubi's chakra.
"How fucking cowardly. You have to get help from your demon just to keep you alive after the first attack. But is it really a surprise that the Kyuubi would want to keep his little bitch intact." The redhead sneared.
In a fury, Anci took out a kunai, and moved at a pace that Karui couldn't keep track with her eyes. In the time span of three seconds the mohawked blond appeared behind her adversary posed to strike, before she could unleash her lethal rage her arm was prohibited from making forward progress by a forgotten party.
"If I may interject, but you will not harm Karui-chan today." The former-Aburame said in a cold tone.
"You fucking insect, get off me!" The prodigy child shouted as she shook her hand free and once again jumped away from confrontation.
"T-Thanks Shino-...Kun." Karui said hesitantly, caught off guard by Anci's speed and Shino's sudden addition of Chan onto her name.
"We're friends Karui-Chan, and I think we're close enough by now to address each other as such." Shino stated.
"I guess your right." The female member of the three man group said sheepishly putting her hand behind her head.
"Hello, weren't we in the middle of something?" Anci asked getting annoyed from being ignored.
"Oh I'm sorry, I get easily distracted when dealing with something as insignificant as a fight with you." Karui said digging deeper into Anci's ego.
"ENOUGH! I'm sick of your shit, you'll regret the day you were born!" Anci shouted as she once again rushed Shino and Karui.
Before Anci could make an offense this time however, Shino made the first move by creating a small bug barrier around the redhead and himself. Still in the rage Anci used brute force to get to her desired target, but in this interest that only turned out to be a detriment to her cause. Once her fist hit the barrier she was immediately rushed but the bugs and in less than seven seconds half her body was covered in bugs. Doubling that time, the legacy of the fourth was covered completely and her chakra was being sapped like a milkshake being drank by a fat kid. The redhead relaxing her stance turned to her friend.
"Have I ever told you how cheap your bugs are?" She said with a huff.
"Are you complaining, seems like an indecent time to do so." Shino retorted cooly.
"Touche'... (she scans to surrounding audience to see their aghast faces) Oh you can't be too surprised we beat her, she was in over her head challenging us." Karui said with...Well, the best way to put it is; with "swag". The crowd just looked on appalled by the teen.
"I think your getting a little arrogant." the male teen said dropping her back down to earth.
"Buzzkill." The redhead said in defeat.
"Nevertheless, I think we should return to Naruto to see if he's ok."
"Your right Shino-kun, lets go."
As the teens started to walk away a sudden rush of malice ran up their spine, quickly turning around they noticed the horde on top of Anci were slowly falling off into a red mist. Eventually, through the ashes that were once loyal minions of Shino's army, Anci emerged with a red cloak surrounding her body.
"I WILL NOT BE MADE A FOOL OF!" The blonde girl roared
Gasping the team of two were takin back, sure they heard the stories about a bijuu's rage but in person it was a completely different experience. The sheer killing intent tolling of the blonde was enough to strangle a high jounin. But things only went downhill from there.
"Anci-chan we're here to help!" A certain pinkett yelled.
Emerging from the crowd the newly released from the hospital Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha.
"Hm, typical you would eventually need our help." The Uchiha said smugly, but in a friendly manner.
Anci, taken back by her friends arrival couldn't help but smile a bit. And the smile got even more savage when she realized what this meant for the fight.
"Hmph, Three against two this should be quite fun."
Four blocks from the fight
A certain unconscious Kimosu was being carried away by a swarm of kikachu, until he regained his his eyesight and conscious mind. At first he started to panic but he realized who's bugs covered him, and he calmed down albeit slightly. Once the thought of why he was being carried away the bugs started to separate from each other and they let out a shriek. The heartbeat of the boy sped up again as the bugs started to spread leaving him on a random sidewalk.
"What the hell was that about?" Naruto inquired to himself, until he heard a sound.
"Ahh!" A shout of pain rang out in the village.
'That sounded like...SHINO!' The Kimsou thought to himself.
"Ugh, you son of a bitch!" Another voice was heard from a distance
'That was Karui-chan.' Naruto thought getting increasingly angry to his boiling point, but he eventually boiled over that point leaving an even more dangerous Naruto to inhabit the land.
Luckily there was no one to see the masked boy at the time because if they did a pang of fear would of shot through their heart like sniper. Naruto started to cackle like someone in an insane asylum. Around his small group of allies his sanity was fairly intact, but alone and knowing that their being harmed returns him to the true Kimsou we all know (and I know you love).
"Onee-san, soon it will be your screams that drench konoha."
Suddenly around the boy a devilish cloak formed. It rotated around his body like clouds over land. It started to feed his desire to inflict pain on those he hated. And the more he gave into it the wider it expanded and deeper shade of purple/black was created. The cloak itself expanded around three feet from it's center (Naruto's chest). As Naruto proceeded to make his way back to the fight the cloak would mold itself around the surroundings leaving no trace of it's activity behind.
Back in the fight
"You were just boasting a second ago, where is your loudmouth now?" Anci's demonic voice came off more or less like a smug teenage girl, as she furiously slashed at Karui who was blocking (just barely) with her short sword.
'Shit, this isn't good. My leg is burning. That damn claw got me, SHIT!' Karui seethed in her mind.
"Tsk, I didn't expect anything less from an Aburame reject." Sasuke said attacking with his kunai at great speed, Sharingan activated.
"Yeah what Sasuke-kun said." The pink haired banshee said as she swung her chakra powered fists that could do a lot of damage if it hit (with the exception of a certain someone's mask).
'Damn, I can't feel my arm. Sakura must be able to disable chakra points at a touch just like the hyuugas. Fuck.' Shino thought, for once losing his cool mind for a moment or two.
The duo were backed into a stiff corner, this fight was more than they thought. Taking nothing away from them, Shino and Karui are good fighters. In this case however, whether it comes to taking on the most powerful jinchuuriki head on. Or fighting the apprentice of the slug sannin plus an Uchiha with his sharingan activated, a bad ending is inevitable. Breaking off from their fights the red head and Aburame defector regrouped.
"Do you having any ideas?" The red head whispered.
"Not of the top of my head, I can't think of a way out." Shino whispered in a monotone voice.
"Oh look looks like some ingrates are having a bit of difficulty trying to figure out how to beat us, how amusing ." Sakura smugly stated.
"Would you please shut your trap you..."
"I'm sick of conversation, Sasuke you and I will end this NOW!" Anci declared interrupting her red head female counterpart.
"Wind Terror!" The blonde girl shouted
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke immediately followed combing the two techniques which combined together made an intimidating dragon that made it's way to the duo that were petrified.
'Oh shit!'
Both Shino and Karui braced for impact and certain doom until an immense aura of evil washed over the crowd (who ran hiding into nearby alley's at the beginning of the fight) and the combatants themselves. In what seemed to be an instant a mass of purple and black sat in front of the Kimosu followers, as it seemingly blocked the fire dragon, with an extended limb.
As the dragon dissipated into smoke, everyone stood in awe of the malevolent power before them. However before they could ask what exactly happen, the mass shot forward and hit Anci in the gut with was presumed to be a fist. Turning, it roundhouse kicked Sasuke into the same area as his teammate, and finally grabbing by the collar of her shirt, threw Sakura into the body pile. As soon as this entity decimated team 7, it shot back to the injured Shino and Karui, it's 'face' looking at them. While the aura did distort the image within, it didn't however stop friends from recognizing each other.
"Naruto-kun!" The ex-Kumo shinobi shouted hugging through the shroud.
As the crowd looked on in complete shock and confusion Shino summed up what everyone thought in the deep recesses of their minds.
"That was impressive."
Authors Corner:
Whew, it was really awkward trying to write a chapter while putting the interview first. I have to say that, I do think that I need to make Naruto do something more sadistic. I'll admit the introduction to Naruto's kekkei genkai was sporadic but what the hell, this story starting to fall into a parting, why not throw in a wrench. In the next chapter, introduction to a sensei, evil TRULY sprouts, and the chunin exams. Prepare to give Karui and Shino a lot more credit because badassery out of them is coming soon. If you want me to change something please review and tell me (specific things if you will) what you want me to do to change it. And if you still didn't catch it, yes, the characters are OOC. Deal with it. Anyhow, I will leave you with the reminder that there's a poll, you should vote.
-LivingLie
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