The Vixen Chapter 9, Sisters War, a naruto fanfic

C9, Sisters War

"Talking."

'Thoughts.'

The air was deathly silent within the arena only to be cut by the sounds of footsteps walking up in between the two competitors of this coming match. Their eyes focused and fixed upon each other with such intensity, too many in the audience attention was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Karin took the time to notice the subtle changes in her sister's attire that she could see at the moment. The two strange sticklike weapons on her back were now gone and replaced with what looked like some kind of new armor on both her back and upper shoulders. Besides the new armor the only other weapon she possessed at this time was the rather large sword in her hands, she was truly impressed that her sister could even pick something like that up.

It made little difference to her what changes her sister had made for this fight as she knew she would undoubtedly emerged the victor in the coming match, there was very little her sister could do to stop it from coming. 'If all goes as planned I won't have to reveal my new abilities. After all what are the chances that my sister would have found the Uzumaki clan's legendary lost sword. All I need to beat her here is in this scroll.'

Naruko Gave her sister a once over only to see that she seemed more arrogant and conceded now but at the same time for more confident in her abilities. She knew this would not be an easy fight at all. All she could do was pray that everything would turn out all right. She had a feeling of what was inside her sister scroll but no way to confirm it as of yet.

On the top of a nearby building not too far away from the Hidden Leaf Villages coliseum and at the same time not too far away from the villages protective outer wall student a group of men waiting. Many of them wore the insignia of the Hidden Leaf while the others wore the insignia of the Hidden Mist Village upon their heads except for one.

That man wore a long red battle jacket with one of his arms inside the inner part of the jacket as if he was using it as a sling with the sleeve blowing in the wind, his inner shirt looked to be made of a flexible armor in came up to part of his face as a form of protection. His good arm was holding a jogger of some kind with a battle glove holding it. His face showed that he was at least in his late 40s and had a scar that appeared to have closed one of his eyes and wore a pair of sunglasses as well. Upon his back was a very long and broadsword that looked as if it had seen a great deal of action in battle or times of war.

At this time his attention was focused on the arena sensing what was to come as one of his older students walked up to him, "Master Auron what is troubling you?"

Auron turned to Zabuza and then said, "Our young student is about to engage in one of the biggest battles of her story. She knew that one day this battle, this part of her story would be told to the world. Today Zabuza is that day."

The Proctor stared both of the young women down knowing full well this would probably be the most dangerous fight in the exam so far. He was unnerved to say the least as he watched them stare down each other like how two Kages would stare down each other before their epic battles would begin.

He really did not want to be anywhere nearly these two sisters as they had a true all for nothing battle in his arena. Luckily he had been allocated certain resources in case this fight got out of hand. The ANBU moved into positions to prepare for the worst that would possibly come from their engagement in the arena below.

As soon as he saw that they were in positions he shouted for the match to begin and jumped back as far away as he could to avoid being caught in the crossfire. The two sisters were like lightning is a blurred out of existence and reappeared with their swords clashing creating sparks as the two grind their weapons together trying to get a better position for the next attack. In the end it was no avail and the two broke apart to gain some distance and plan out their next move.

It did not take long for Karin to reveal what was inside she held so dear clutched with a death grip. She proceeded to make her own small army of shadow clones to keep her sister busy as to the clones helped throw her into midair where she spun wildly releasing the contents of her scroll up on the arena floor below and spreading out quite a bit some even hitting parts of the arena wall forcing the proctor upward vertically different from being hit or interfering in the match.

Naruko had to give her sister some respect in our tactics as clone after clone engaged her in heavy combat, most of them that she fought and killed were little more than canon fodder meant to keep her busy as her sister executed her plan. As she managed to kill one of the last clones she noticed the arena seem to be covered in three-pronged kunai that littered almost the entire arena floor. She instantly recognized the type of kunai she was using and what Jutsu was to come.

'Not good! I may have planned ahead for this kind of engagement. But there's no telling just how far she's going to take this was.' Naruko thought to herself as she looked for a safe area to prepare her counter attack.

Unfortunately for her there was no safe area at the moment as her sister disappeared in the yellow blur and reappeared and reappeared directly to her sisters back and through hard haymaker directly into the back of her head that sent her flying into an even more densely pocketed area of the kunai then she had been before. Before she even landed her sister reappeared with the powerful uppercut to her jaw to send her right back into the air. The next time she appeared she brought a hard roundhouse kick into her sister stomach that sent her flying into the ground and dirt so hard that many thought they heard her bones breaking from the pressure of the impact.

Karin had thought that the small beating she had given out would be enough to keep her sister down for the rest of the match. She now saw her getting up from a position trying to get back to more open area where the kunai were less dense and she had a chance of defending herself. Karin wasted no time in going on the offensive once more.

The next set of blows had resulted in even more damage being done to her sister than before and decided to finish the match off once and for all with one very special attack. After a another haymaker to Naruko's face, Karin used the Flying Thunder God once more with the help of one of her clones to appear directly above her sisters back and come flying back towards her back was a blue swirling sphere in her hand intent upon ending the match as she screamed out the attacks name. "RASENGAN!"

As soon as the attack collided with her a huge plume of smoke and debris clogged the air and made seeing anything almost impossible. Karin at a huge smile upon her face and awaited the Proctor to declare her the winner of the match. As the smoke finally cleared she came face-to-face with her sister still standing upright and looking truly pissed off.

Karin then noticed that one of her kunai were still in place directly behind her sister and activated the Jutsu once more. But as she appeared in her destination apparently too fast for anyone to see she found the tip of her sister sword now resting up against her throat. Everything her mother had told her about this Jutsu was suddenly in doubt as no one was supposed to be able to have in affective counter to this Jutsu who were in the village at this time.

But for some reason there it was, at this point she turned her head and got a good look at her sister from head to toe and noticed it had not been a cakewalk for her as she sported many bruises and cuts some that were bleeding. However it was her next words that sent a chill up her spine and made her realize that she might have to use those new abilities after all if she wanted to win. "You're not father. Don't get me wrong you're very good at this Jutsu and its execution, but for fighting someone like me and the Kage of the Hidden Cloud Village… Your just to slow sister. Maybe you've already forgotten what happened on the Wave mission, if you'll recall correctly I deactivated my gravity seals and became much faster than you all. Add onto that that I learned a special speed technique that I can match your current level of the Flying Thunder God Jutsu and I would say nine out of every 10 times you use it. Which means part of this fight has become a stalemate for us both."

Karin had of course heard the stories of her father's fights against the Hidden Clouds leader who of course was one of the few people who could engage her father and walk out alive. Her mother had warned her that one month might not be enough time to master the Jutsu. But it had been enough time to grow confident enough to use it effectively enough in combat. She activated the Jutsu one more time trying to move even faster than before to catch her sister off guard but was shocked when she saw her sister appear right where we she was supposed to be with a flying roundhouse kick that was centered right at her chest. She had no time to counter the attack was sent flying right into the ground disturbing many of the seals in the process making them useless to be used properly in the fight. She looked at what had been done and realized there were now holes in her attack strategy that the same tactics that had made her start to win the battle at the beginning of the match were now useless to her.

For the first time in the match Karin sped out her own blood from her mouth as she leveled her gaze upon her sister and prepared for a new approach to the battle.

The Stadium stands were now alive with activity and excitement about the matches so far, the current fight became the primary talk of everyone who was present watching from the richest man to the daimyo's of the lands themselves even to the most common citizen were energized and enthrall what it happened so far. The judges knew no matter what these two would be promoted to the next level.

Kiba set right beside his teammate Hinata as he cheered on Karin to win the match against her sister. His partner Akamaru set right on top of his head watching the battle as well and wondering what was to come next? He cheered as every single blow was struck upon Narukos body with her seemingly unable to defend yourself properly against these kinds of attacks. Eventually Hinata just had to let him know how she felt about this, "Kiba you're not being very nice to her. What problem do you have with her anyways?"

"What problem? Will first of all she kicked my ass Hinata and humiliated me in front of everyone including you. As well as the fact that she's supposed to be a part of this village and she's not. She's basically a traitor to her own home village that's my problem with her. Besides there's no way shall win this fight Hinata."

It was only at this point that he noticed his teammates eyes had never left the arena floor, he turned back to see the sudden reversal and that the battle had taken on a new kind of level of intensity.

Hinata decided to rub it in a bit. "This fight is so not over Kiba."

Karin Now realized that her sister was absolutely right about the battle possibly becoming a stalemate if things did not change and soon. She decided she'd been putting it off for far too long as it was and it was time to use her new abilities. Her mother had warned her the effects afterwards of using this technique could be very draining depending upon how intense and how much power she used in the coming fight. Hopefully stage one would be all she would need. But she crossed her fingers not knowing what little tricks her sister might have up her sleeve at this time. The snakes curse seal had been totally rewritten by her mother and the soul fragment sent the next world. But it also meant that the seal would become somewhat unstable at the time without something to restructure it, luckily for her mother was prepared for this outcome and had one of the Uzumaki clan's two legendary swords. The swords were held by two of their most powerful ancestors who were said to been touched by the two forms of death itself, one side called the Soul Reapers and the other side called the Hollows. Only the hollows sword remained at this time. The other had been lost over time, both its power and its curse were lost to the clan. The sword of hollows as it had become known had willingly accepted Karin as its new wielder and therefore had given her its powers of her ancestor to wield in battle. But it had warned her there would be prices to be paid afterwards and she had willingly accept them knowing that it would not kill her but she wouldn't exactly be joining any fights anytime soon after this as well.

A strong blue and black type energy engulfed Karin and created a kind of pressure all over the arena even all way up in the stands that everyone could feel. Only those who had experience with killer instinct or KI as it was called were used to this kind of feeling at all. As the energy disappeared her appearance did not seem to change all that much, except for the fact that she now had what looked like a jaw made out of white bone on the side of her face she also had a more feral look to her now.

She was also much faster now as she appeared to disappear from her spot and reappear right in front of her sister who was still in shock over what she had just seen. Karin shot her fist forward so fast and hard that people could hear throughout the arena and the stands as it made contact with Narukos face. She was then sent flying through the air twirling and then came down heating to ground so hard that she skipped across it like a pebble does across the lake finally resting a few feet and manage to right herself after a bit.

Karin then delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to the back of her sisters head that flipped her right into a tree which she followed through with another haymaker. This time Naruko was able to counter up to a point by activating the plates of her armor that activated the Chakra shields just in the nick of time.

The spectators were shocked at the level of destruction in the arena floor below from the two sisters fight so far. Karin stepped back to admire her handiwork so far and was actually impressed once more by her sister to see her still standing there the plates on her armor were now all but gone thanks to the below, she now realized that those things had saved her from her Rasengan attack earlier.

Karin once again believed that the match was hers and decided to try to make her sister forfeit the match. "You can barely stand up sister, I think it would be wise if you forfeited this match right now as I haven't even used all of my power yet."

Instead of for fitting the match as Karin had wanted her to she decided to take it up a notch as well. After all she had been prepared for this kind of eventuality more than her sister would ever know.

The sword that Naruko was holding was brought up vertical then dropped forward until it was pointing directly at Karin. The Hill wrap then begin to wrap around her arm as she held the sword with one hand and had her arm on the other and screamed out the word. "BANKAI!"

Without warning there was an explosion of energy and smoke which engulfed much of the arena floor, when much of the smoke seemed clear it was pushed aside by the movement of the jet black blade with red in its hilt the small chain her outfit have totally changed as well and she now supported a determined look in and said. "Tense Zangetsu."

In one of the many private observation booths scattered throughout Konohas coliseum set a group of ANBU who were waiting for the beginning of the invasion to commence so they can do their jobs. Sitting with them was none other than Kushina Uzumaki who had been ordered here to help fight the invasion when it started but she was also getting a front row seat to the exams. At first she thought that her daughter Karin would be unopposed and prepared when she fought her sister. She now realize she was totally wrong and how naïve it was to think that simply would not happen. She now realized for the first time in almost 100 years the two swords of death and their wielders the Uzumaki clan would fight once more. And if Naruko had found the lost sword had she also mastered its so-called curse as well.

The arena had become almost deathly silent once more as the power that was released by the move called "Bankai" Was truly amazing.

Karin was to say the least not impressed not realizing just how much harder her fight had become as well as the level of danger was that now exist between the two of them. And she just had to make it worse, "So you have a move that makes a lot of smoke I'm really scared no-"

Before she could even finish her sentence Naruko was right on top of her swinging her sword forward trying to cut her in two pieces. Her reflexes allowed her to catch the sword with her bare hands but she could feel it cutting her palm open.

Her eyes widened at this realizing that this move was no smoke and mirrors kind of trick. 'That's impossible! My skin should be as strong as steel right now. So how the hell did her sword cut me like that? Could it be?'

Without warning to Karin her sister disappeared once more and reappeared directly behind her hitting across the back all she didn't go down blood was sent flying up into the air. She quickly turned on her heels only to come face-to-face with both her sister and her sword being swung downwards with the red and black mass of Chakra being sent right into her face and chest as she had barely enough time to put her hands in front of her face as the wave hit her dead on.

The force of the impact sent Karin flying right through a tree and into the wall of the arena from its sheer force of the attack. As she got out of the rubble from the wall she noticed that her chest had been cut up pretty good It now had blood flowing from it.

Only now did she realize how far she would have to go to win this fight. 'I've gone this far, I might as well go all the way. It's going to hurt later but I'll live through it."

Karin then unsheathed the sword on her side and placed her hand on the center of the blade as it glowed blue with energy as the ground began to shake and certain people in the audience began to have problems breathing from the pressure that was everywhere now.

Naruko realized exactly what she was doing and tried to stop it, "No! Karin you don't know what you are doing." But her pleas fell on deaf ears as she finished what she was doing and screamed out for all to hear.

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"GRIND PANTERA!"

As the release of energy dissipated and revealed that she had undergone a massive change. She now had a more feline type appearance her feet actually look like paws and her hands were clawed and her hair flowed back and she even sported a tale. As soon as the smoke cleared she let our war and then screamed, "I AM COMPLETE!"

The two bodyguards who were directly behind Mei brought their hands up in and started pointing at the arena floor below and suddenly became deathly pale as they had remembered when Naruko had learned to control her swords abilities and what that entailed. Now to see if there was someone exactly like her and possibly even more powerful scared the living hell out of them both. So much so that they let it be known audibly to the whole arena.

"FUCK!"

At the same time down in the arena Naruko said the same thing and had to admit this is just on a hell of a lot harder for her.

Karin then said out loud to her sister. "Yes you are Fucked, Shit out of luck. Now I am complete and I'm going to kick your ASS. You're coming home you little bitch. You can't stop me anymore, here I come."

Karin then suddenly disappeared and reappeared right in front of her sister in mid-punch leaving the impression of an after image to everyone in the arena even up in the Kages booth. The resulting punch sent Naruko flying right up into the air in front of the competitors box as Karin fired off a strange ball of red energy from her hand directly at her sister that she called a Cero. Naruko then realized that her current power level the people in the box would not survive and while she could dodge it yes but would not be the best option at this time. She stuck it up and unleashed her last trump card when using Zangetsu's power, it's what some called the curse of the sword. For anyone who wielded it would have to face it once in a lifetime. You would either defeated it and controlled it or it would destroyed you and consume your soul.

As the Cero hit Naruko dead on Karin instantly thought that the match was over and that she had won it. Instead she saw her attack split into and fly directly into the adjacent walls of the arena. As soon as the smoke from the attack cleared Karin got the first good look at her sister's face and noticed it had changed. Her face now had a mask on it in the shape of the skull with red lines running along the sides in a unique pattern. But it was her eyes they taught not only hers but also the rest of the spectators attention as they were jet black in your iris was blood red with a slit in them.

Karin didn't know what to make of this until she suddenly realized that her sister was standing in midair in front of the box that held the rest of the combat runs for the exam. Her sister brought the sword up in a defensive manner and then her eyes narrowed dangerously at her. She had only one thought at this time.

'Oh Shit!'

Now it was Narukos turn to blur out of existence and when she reappeared directly in front of her sister just barely blocked the sword strike with the blades on her arms. She then brought her other arm and lady gently across the back of the black blade and uttered the words, "Getsuga Tenshou!"

At this point the two sisters appeared to been engulfed by an energy wave that looked black and red that ripped apart the floor of the arena like nothing else had. When it finally subsided Karin sported many more cuts and burns all over her body was breathing hard realizing the battle indeed was harder Then the two had thought that it would be and went right back at it punching slicing at each other.

Many in the audience had to say that this seemed more like a Kage fight rather than a fight for a Chunin position. Both of them appeared to be bleeding profusely by this point and were clearly showing signs of growing tired what happened next evening scared the village leaders would come to see this match.

One of the attacks sent by Karin had damaged part of Narukos masked somewhat trivial part of her face and said her flying near one of the one of the more well built parts of the arena walls. Luckily this part of the arena had no seating in it so no one would be hurt by the coming blow. As Karin came flying down it hit her sister clearly in the chest as at the same time Narukos blade hit her as well cutting just under her rib cage on her side they hit the wall.

The entire section of the arena wall exploded outwards in a shower of debris and smoke that engulfed parts of the arena and many could be heard screaming in fear for their own lives now.

Up in the Kage Booth everyone was wide-eyed at what they had just seen so much so that it looked like they had pupils at all with sweat drops coming down the sides of their heads. Orohimaru Who was still in disguise as the Kazekage was absolutely speechless at what he had just seen. He now knew that it was Naruko who had been his old partner Sasori's hidden apprentice and that it had been her that had let out that painful and mournful cry of anguish. He is also known that The Vixen had been a major thorn in many of his best plans to try to take down the Hidden Leaf Village.

It was only after Kakashi Hatake had returned from a mission that he learned that the girl and the Vixen were one in the same. All he could hope for was is that she would be killed in the coming invasion, hopefully.

As these thoughts went through his mind he and the other two Kages then noticed that the exam proctor was currently in their booth.

Mei gave him a once over and then asked, "What the hell are you doing up here? Share newbie trying to stop them as this has gotten out of hand."

When he turned to look at them they could see that he was pale white and scared out of his mind he then said. "Are you out of your Fucking mind! I'm nowhere near your level, and you expect me to stop them. You guys aren't paying me enough for that and I want to live past today thank you very much."

The Third Hokage was one of the first to truly regain his senses and snapped his fingers to get a hold of one of his ANBU and said. "Get as many structural seals as you can and shield seals to protect the people in the stands right now."

"Do you really think they're both going to be that much of a threat Lord Hokage?"

"Not Naruko, but her sister Karin is another story altogether. She fired that attack right at Naruko not carrying that she would hit the other fighters at all the level of destruction and the arena has been contained to her opponent like her sister's attacks are. Get them in place right NOW! While we still can."

As the ANBU moved into position they caught the glimpse of Karin forcing her claws down upon Narukos sword in a clear power match to see who was the strongest who could resist the most. Naruko then said to them. "Get the seals in place right now and get the hell out of here!"

Karin then managed to overpower her sister just enough to then give her a strong spin kick that center flying into another tree and right through it into the wall. The wall proceeded to fall right on top of Naruko who had to push the rest of the wall off of her body only a small section of the mask was still upon her face as she got up and stared down her sister. Karin was starting to feel the effects of prolonged use of her ability and knew soon it would shut down completely until she was healed.

The worst part was she was still learning to control this new power and all of its abilities and urges. Her vision it also started to blur her mother had warned her that this was one of the signs she had maybe a minute left before it would shut down on her.

The more practice you had with this power the better off you would be in the long run. But there was always still such a short time with it as you use it the first couple of times. Something told her that her sister could last much longer than she could in these kinds of battles and had more experience in them then she did.

The matter what happened this fight was coming to an end. She tried to remember most of her attacks in this form that they were not coming to her all she still had was her strength and speed she hoped it would be enough to win the match. She took off in a fast running Sprint to take her sister out once and for all yelling and she did it. All her sister did was look up at the Kage booth reach her hand up and caught Karin's hand like it was nothing squeezing it and clearly breaking bones as she did so.

She turned her head as the mask began to reform upon her face with those eyes staring back at her. Her sister then said. "Sorry Karin but I can't take any more damage from you. Maybe someday you can beat me but not right now."

While holding her sister's hand she brought the sword straight down across two sisters chest sending another Tenshou attacking into her sister at point-blank range sending blood flowing straight up into the air of the arena.

Just then all of Karin's power had hit its limits and its safety switch which kept her alive and safe returned back to the blade until she was healthy enough to call upon it again. Some of the more serious wounds that she had sustained in the battle were now gone or more like bruises while others retained their dangerous nature and continue to bleed upon her. She still held the sword in her hands and took one look at her sister it was clear she had no intention of giving up despite what just happened.

"Thanks Zangetsu I can take it from here." As she said this both the mask and the battle cloak receded away back into her body and her sword as it once again became the large weapon with the hilt wrap that Karin had seen at the opening of their battle. She then resealed the sword in its special seal upon her body and got into fighting stance.

Despite being in tremendous pain Karin recklessly charged her sister swinging her sort of like it was nothing more than a twig. Naruko was able to dodge every single one of the attacks that was sent against her and finally managed to grab her sisters arm that held the sword and said to her, "That's enough Karin. You have to stop this."

"I won't stop, I can't stop. You just abandoned us one day and never came back. We went looking for you all over Fire Country. You have no idea what you did to us Naruko. Even if it kills me you're coming back to us."

Naruko then without warning through her sister over her back into part of the rubble as her sister screamed out in pain but showed no signs of stopping the match anytime soon. Naruko shot out her Chakra strings and attach them to her sister which she then proceeded to use them to send her flying into the wall so hard that she was out cold.

It took almost a minute for the Proctor to come back down to the arena floor. He picked up a stick and slowly approached Karin and poked her a few times just make sure that she was A, still alive and B, unconscious. As soon as he confirmed that she was indeed still alive and think God unconscious he declared Naruko the winner of the match. They both watched as Karin was carried off the field by the medical ninja as she needed immediate medical attention.

Naruko then pulled out a small medical kit and pulled out a single seal that she then placed directly on her neck which begin to heal some of her wounds much faster than before and replenished some of her Chakra at the same time.

Right at this point a large amount of wind and leaves began to blow in what look like a tornado. When it finally disappeared from the arena floor only to reveal Jounin Sensei Kakashi Hatake and his Genin student Sasuke Uchiha had finally arrived to compete in the exams.

End of C9

Here's the fight that people have been waiting for. Some of the flights from BLEACH were a heavy influence on how this chapter progressed. I also did my best in earlier chapters to set up certain events it would take place in this chapter. At the same time I also had to think about how the fight would and and how it would begin. That's where the flying thunder God Jutsu or as I might call it the FTG came in handy for this chapter and the unique battle it presented at the beginning. I also decided elements of the various public battles that appeared in the manga like Chiyo's Chakra shield that she built into that prosthetic puppet arm that she had. I simply made them into pieces of armor that Naruko could wear on her body to help protect her from attacks. Karin is easily going to make Chunin in this story but I didn't want to make the battle for her to easy. At the same time she doesn't have the necessary experience to use FTG at its full power yet. This is one of the reasons I gave Naruko Zangetsu in the story so she could counter the flying thunder god when it was used against her in the story. Karin knows the FTG and the Rasengan in this story thanks to her father's scroll library. This will be also a plot device used later in story. Now I have a question for you the readers, first off should the third Hokage even with the help of Mei still sacrifice himself to stop Orohimaru or not. In other should be what should happen to Naruko after the invasion, no matter what I'll be sending her and Jiraiya to retrieve Tsunade and bring her back to the village to be the next Hokage. My question is this, should the Council and her mother tries something to keep her in the village after they come back and should Jiraiya and Naruko have a companion to goes with them as well on the retrieval mission. And should I kill off Kabuto in the retrieval's big battle, at least some of this up to you and your suggestions may help me progress parts of the story so placed him and what you think and enjoy.