Anyway hope ya like this after such a "long" time.
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The purple, double bladed lightsaber flared to life in time to deflect a thrown Kunai from the red headed girl as Naruto settled himself in a defensive stance. "This is wave country, just what the hell is Sound doing here?" He snarled as she took out two kunai, placing herself in a defensive stance as they began circling each other.
"Your not getting out of here alive leaf nin, so it doesn't matter anyway!" She exclaimed before throwing a kunai above him, cutting a ninja wire which held the stones of the roof in place. Naruto's head snapped up in time to watch the stones of the roof collapse. Karin smirked, but it died quickly as the young blond haired leaf nin held up his hand and the boulders that had been falling were held up by an unseen force. He looked back at her, the smirk on his lips growing before he directed the hand towards her. The next thing she knew the stones that had been hovering above his head were heading straight for her. Falling onto her back, she let the stones fly over her before springing back to her feet.
Now on guard her eyes narrowed as she watched the smirking leaf nin. There were traps all over this base, and she knew the location of each and every one of them, hence why this base required very little guards to speak of, besides herself and a few 'others' who were also trained on how to activate and avoid the traps. Still if he could stop any incoming object like those stones then about 40 of the traps were useless and if that purple laser blade at his side could cut anything as easily as it did her kunai, and he was fast enough with it that was another 30 to 40 still they could be used as distractions. Tossing another kunai so the but of the Kunai hit the tile at the boys feet. Naruto heard the sound of shifting stones behind him, turning in time to catch sight of a spiked log as it swung down from the ceiling heading straight for him.
Somersaulting above the trap he used the lightsaber to cut the ropes which held it, letting it fall to the floor with a crash.
Landing on his feet he turned around to face Karin again only to find the girl already in a lunge, a chakra scalpel in one hand and a curved kunai hook blade in the other.
He moved to swing his lightsaber but the hook like kunai clashed with the hilt, gripping it safely as Karin held it in a reverse grip as she moved to stab her chakra scalpel into his eye.
Grabbing her wrist he fell back and placed his legs on her stomach, throwing her over and off him before he jumped to his feet.
Spinning around he found Karin again charging him. He extended his hand, causing the girl to stop dead as a firm grip on her neck began lifting her up above the ground. She coughed and gasped as she struggled for breath, clawing at her throat in an attempt to remove the invisible appendage which was now cutting off her air supply.
Naruto sighed as he relented his grip only slightly, allowing her enough room to breathe. "Now, I'll ask again, what the hell is Sound village doing in a place like wave?"
"Fuck you!" She gasped out before she threw another kunai, hitting a tile on the roof before Naruto could stop her.
Before the blond Jinchuriki could react the floor beneath him suddenly fell open, letting out a scream of shock and anger he fell down into the dark abyss beneath as Karin held onto the edge of the trap hole, gasping and coughing for air before she pulled herself up. Getting to her knees as she rubbed her throat she growled in anger. "Damn bastard." She growled before she got to her feet and stumbled over to a nearby pillar. Opening a secret compartment with her chakra she found a small but none the less intricate seal within. Cutting her finger so the blood poured freely she wiped it on the seal, watching it pulse a few times she formed some hand seals before she slammed her hand on the seal "KAI!" She yelled watching the purple lines extend from the seal, up and down the pillar and disappearing into the ceiling and floor bellow.
"Lets see how smug you are with those little tricks now bastard." She smirked as she ajusted her glasses and looked down into the hole he had fallen through
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Naruto's eyes slowly opened to take in his surroundings. It was dark, it was smelly and there were no stairs of which to speak of. "Goddamn it, I am seriously getting tired of falling into places like this." He groaned as he stood up cracking his neck as he looked up to the opening above. He had probably fallen a good twenty to thirty feet. A fatal fall for civilians. Thank god he wasn't a civilian then.
He moved to leap up when a strange sound, like that of some huge bug came from behind him. His lightsaber was currently turned off. Now he had two options one he could simply jump for the opening which was now closing back up or...he could turn the saber on and take a quick look...and then he could jump and run.
Every single fiber of his being was screaming at the top of its proverbial lungs to simply run. That looking back would bring absolutely nothing but pain and grief and a good deal of misfortune and annoyance to his being.
But he was Uzumaki Naruto. So ignoring all of his gut instincts and basic workings of human logic, his lightsaber flared to life before he turned his head to look back.
What he found was a humanoid bug like creature, with the face of a human apart from the lower jaw which was split down the middle, like an insects as well as some crab like appendages for each of his arms and knee's bent in the oposite direction but were still perfectly functional as the creature demonstrated by stepping closer to him. Its skin was black, its mandibles letting drool fall to the floor freely as it hissed at him.
Naruto backed up and held the lightsaber in a ready stance as the creature approached, hissing and growling at him in agitation.
Naruto was about to swing when another sound came from behind him. Now he knew he shouldn't turn around. So he didn't, instead he leaped up to the nearest wall, using a combination of Ninja training and force manipulation to cover about half the distance before he latched onto the wall with chakra, the closing opening above further strengthening his sense of urgency. Still, not being able to help himself he glanced to the bottom of the pit again only to find hundreds of glowing eyes staring back at him. He could also see several of them beginning to climb the walls too. And from the small sliver of light he could see some of their mutated forms. They ranged from insects, to reptiles, amphibians and even fish.
Letting out a small sound of pity and a vow of making the vile snake pay for this when next he found him the blond leapt through the opening before it closed with a resounding clang.
Standing on the now solid floor he found Karin's smirking form. Growling in anger at the girl, seeing as how she undoubtedly knew about just what was down there and what had happened to those people to make them that way, but still seemed so uncaring towards it made his blood boil. "Next time bitch have a door that closes quicker."
Karin nodded, the smirk still firmly on her lips. "Oh maybe I'll get that fixed for next time. But personally, I didn't want to miss this, so I'm glad you escaped."
"What the hell are you talking about? Miss wha-ARGH!" Naruto suddenly yelled before he turned and looked behind him and down to his calf where there was a blade like appendage right through it. Looking at the owner of said appendage was one of the creatures he had left down in that pit. Half of his torso sticking out from the floor and slowly more of it was being revealed as he pulled himself up. Naruto's eyes went wide in horror as more creatures began rising from the floor.
"That's right leaf bastard, these walls, and these creatures have a special ability, Orochimaru made it so their chakra and that within the seals within the walls would always move at the same "frequency" if you will, which allows these little sentries to move through almost any wall in this base like they were ghosts." She said smirking through her glasses. "These guys were made by some combination of Genetic engineering, mass sealing techniques, and curse seal transformation. These are the base guards made by Orochimaru himself to protect places like this."
Naruto growled in anger before he cut off the creatures arm with the lightsaber watching as it screeched in pain. He moved to then pull it out but the black, knife like appendage soon melted and reformed on the creatures arm before it tried to swipe at him again.
Barely reacting in time due to his shock, the blond stepped back with a small startled cry.
Karin smirked, that instant regeneration like feature was very useful on several occasions. What the boy didn't know was that these sentries were in an inactive state the entire time they were down there, and once they were activated they would live for about 30 minutes before their bodies broke down and all vital functions ceased due to the inhuman rate their metabolism had to go to keep up. She doubted he could last that long and if he did she could probably pick him off in his weakened state.
She frowned however as she caught sight of the wound on his leg sealing up in just a few short seconds, now that could be a problem. The only real way to kill these sentries was to destroy or damage the brain. Now with that laser blade of his he could accomplish that feat quite easily since none of the creatures could block it. Now that on its own wouldn't be such a big deal, since they could just swarm over him and injure him with sheer numbers, but if you throw in this guy's own healing factor this could definitely be a problem if he discovered the way of killing them fast enough.
Naruto cursed as he looked from one end of the hallway to the other, all around him he could see these mutant things crawling out of the floor like some freaky garden weeds. Letting out a quick curse before he gave one last sidelong glance to Karin and ran down the hall, dodging and weaving through stray strikes from the still rising creatures as well as slicing off a few limbs from whatever strikes he couldn't dodge.
"What the hell are you idiots waiting for!? Go after him!" Karin barked out. The mutated creatures hissed and growled before they did as ordered.
Naruto's form blurred ahead of the freaky mutants through a quick combination of chakra and force enhanced speed. Pivoting back around as he reached an intersection in the hallway he placed the lightsaber back on his belt before he raised his hands towards the roof. A look of concentration crossed his features as his hands slowly lowered like they were pulling something down. Loud resounding cracks and snaps were heard as the stones on the roof began to crumble as the entire base shook from the force bearing down on it. Karin snapped her head up as cracks began to form on the roof above her. She looked back to the blond haired kid at the end of the hall and caught his smirk before the whole roof collapsed, blocking him from sight. Acting fast she ran to the other end of the hall, barely making it in time to avoid the crumbling roof as it collapsed.
Naruto panted from the exertion, but the smirk still remained firmly on his lips. That is until the creatures simply crawled out of the rubble, most completely unharmed.
"Oh yeah...I forgot about that little skill of theirs..." He stated somewhat nervously as the creatures began skulking towards him, like some predators that had just found their favorite prey.
Forming a quick hand seal "Kage-bunshin no Jutsu!" He yelled forming 11 clones and as one, four Naruto's bolted down each hallway available to them.
Momentarily confused the creatures paused before each of them chased after a set of Naruto's
Naruto smirked so they weren't too bright. It was at times like this he wished he knew Genjutsu that way he could make a genjutsu on them which would make it so that they would be attacking each other by making some of them look like him. But he didn't know Genjutsu so he was up shit's creak in that department.
Vowing to take some Genjutsu lessons from Kurenai when he got back the blond continued running.
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"Would you just admit we're lost already you stubborn overgrown tin can?" Jolee said angrily as he punched more buttons on the ships bridge controls and glared at the younger male who was also working the ships controls.
"We're not lost you senile old jackass and even if we were what the hell should I do besides what I'm doing right now? Which is reconfiguring the coordinates in the ships computer?"
"Ask for directions!"
"WE'RE SEVEN TRILLION MILES FROM THE NEAREST PLANNET!"
Beside them, the Mandalorian recruits and officers watched their fearless and cool headed leader argue with a seventy year old man...and was currently loosing the argument seeing as how he was quickly loosing his patience.
"How in the world do you get lost with the directions she gave you. She was very specific and told you the coordinates and precise turns and angles and all these wonderful numbers to help guide you! YOU SIR ARE BY FAR THE WORST PILOT THIS SIDE OF THE GALAXY!!! CARTH, despite all his crashes, IS A MUCH BETTER PILOT THAN YOU!" The older man accused angrily as he pointed dramatically.
"Incase you didn't notice old man, we're not in a galaxy anymore and unless you want me to kick your wrinkly old carcass out the airlock you'll shut your mouth and let me reconfigure these coordinates in peace! That is of course unless you think you can do better."
"You know what you little bastard move!" Jolee said standing up and walking over to the coordinate panel as he shoved him out of the way. Hearing a faint echoing laughter to his right he shifted his eyes to Revan's ghost like form. Looking to Canderous as the man stood behind him, he could immediately tell he was the only one who could sense her.
"I've missed all this...you two never change." She said with a small smile.
'Revan, quick tell me what were the coordinates?' He communicated mentally to the younger woman.
She smiled. "Always trying to put the young people in their place eh Jolee?" She questioned as she laughed.
He shot a mental glare her way before she spoke. "Oh alright then" She said before standing and walking over to the panel he followed her fingers and pressed the buttons she pressed or motioned to press. He heard her calming laughter one more time before she finally vanished, a sound that brought a delighted smile to his own lips. It had been so long since he had heard her laugh. He missed it.
Still as the engine hummed back to life and the feminine voice of the computer reached his ears "Coordinates accepted restarting hyper drive now." He couldn't help but put that smug smirk back on his lips as Canderous crossed his arms with a huff. "Whatever old man, get the hell off my bridge."
Jolee's smile widened as he bowed mockingly. "As you wish your terrible mandalorian-ness." He said before he began making his way out of the bridge. Before he got to the exit however he stopped. Startled as a harsh, cold cruel presence made itself known to his senses. His eyes, though physically blind could still see much farther than most, maybe even farther than Revan herself. And as he turned to face the main window of the ships bridge, which stared straight out into the black abyss of space what he saw terrified him.
Clothes black as the Void of space, eyes hollow and dead, a mask which resembled a skull covering his features. The man slowly turned to face him and as he did Jolee felt a pit form in his stomach, his palms felt sweaty. The feeling of fear was nauseating, and as the man spoke , his voice, was screeching yet whispering all the same "Narkraaaashhhtakoulokitamourkaaaaa!"
And at once the vision faded as a wave of darkside energy hit Jolee head on. The older man let out a strangled gasp as he fell to his knees, his form shaking as sweat dripped from his forehead.
"Old man! Jolee!"" Several of the mandalorian crew yelled in mild alarm as they rushed to the older mans side. His antics were always a mild reprieve from the dull routine of space travel so he had become something of a treasured crew mate despite his history as a Jedi knight.
Jolee struggled to catch his breath as the younger Mandalorian recruits helped him to his feet. Canderous stood in front of him and griped his shoulder in order to hold him steady. "What's wrong old man? Need the medic?" He questioned gruffly, hiding the tone of worry in his voice.
"Che-check the sensors?" Jolee gasped out. Canderous looked to the technician and nodded his acent.
The man turned and after several seconds he spoke. "Nothing on sonar or long range radar sir."
Jolee finally caught his breath as he straightened. "What range do those sensors have?"
"20 clicks in all directions sir!"
Jolee shivered, twenty clicks? This being could deliver such a powerful wave of fear from more that twenty clicks away? Just what monstrosity was that creature? It couldn't be human.
"You alright old man? Wha'd ya sense?"
"Nothing." Jolee shook his head "Ahh, I'm sorry, years must be catching up to me I guess." He mumbled as he grabbed onto one of the nearby mandalorian recruits. "Can ya help me to my cabin kiddo? Incase I get another of these little attacks again?"
"Yes sir." The youngster replied as he helped him out the door.
Canderous watched Jolee leave, eyes narrowed behind his visor. The old man had felt something, and judging from his reaction a big something. He'd have to question him on it later.
The feminine voice of the computer again broke through the minor silence. "Activating Hyper drive!" The ship shuddered once before stars whizzed by their vision.
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Naruto hid as more of the mutant creatures passed by his side their hissing and screeching voices reaching his ears as they hunted for him. Looking around the hall he found a lone door. With as much speed and stealth as he could manage he ran down the hall and slipped into the room. Sighing in relief the blond took a look at the room and blanched as he caught sight of several...things...along the walls. Damn Jiraiya could have a field day with some of this stuff.
He was brought out of his musings as the voice of that girl he had met before reached his ears through the wall.
"What the hell do you mean you cant find him?" He heard her voice to one of the mutant things as it replied.
"Missstresssss intruder...dissapeaaared. We...not fiiiind."
A short pause. "Whatever, just keep looking. If he escaped the base and reports this to Konoha we'll have to leave to the next base over."
Naruto cursed, apparently there was another base nearby. Looking up he found another ventilation shaft. In an underground base like this all ventilation shafts needed to lead up to the surface, in order to keep cycling the clean air with the stale air from down here. The reason he hadn't done it before was because of all the creepy crawlies around.
As he went under the vent in preparation to jump up into it his blood ran cold at the sound of a door opening. Snapping his head around he caught sight of Karin, as their eyes met he watched her eyes fill with righteous fury.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM!?" She roared, taking out a kunai and twirling it in her finger.
"You're room?" He questioned incredulously before he looked around to the items lining the wall. "Cant say that's entirely unexpected." He remarked offhandedly.
Karin growled before she lunged at him, her anger at the invasion of her room evident in her eyes.
Naruto caught her wrists with his hand and slammed her against the wall, pinning her wrists above her head with one hand and using the other hand to place his forearm in her mouth, muffling her shouts of anger lest the mutant things hear her.
Using the force he activated the lightsaber and held it so it was tantalizingly close to her throat. Immediately her frantic struggles ceased as the purple blade hummed much to close to her flesh for comfort.
"Now then." Naruto spoke slowly catching his breath and composing himself. "What is sound doing here and how many other bases do you have?"
Karin looked momentarily torn before she pushed herself against the wall, surprising the blond as the whole wall fell back with a crash, it was a fake.
Karin placed her feet on Naruto's stomach and heaved him off her, then rolled back so that now she was straddling him. Having lost his concentration the lightsaber clattered on the floor harmlessly as it deactivated.
Karin raised her kunai but again had her wrists caught by the blond ninja before he flipped them over, this time with him straddling her. He grabbed the knife out of her hand and held it onto her neck. Looking over the new room to make sure none of the freaky mutant things had come through the walls again brought his eyes to several more Items along the walls. These in far more numbers and far far more interesting. Just how would you use something like that???
"You are a freak." He muttered to himself.
The distraction however worked seeing as how Karin delivered a brutal punch to his face followed by a kick which sent him crashing into the wall at the end of the room, several of the 'items' falling around him as the wall rattled.
Before he could react Karin's knee had connected with his stomach and she grabbed the collar of his shirt.
"Bastard" she hissed, and before he knew what was happening he felt a pair of lips crash down onto his own and a tongue slip into his mouth, meeting with his own with an almost fevered hunger.
Momentarily confused by this turn of events Naruto nearly missed the opportunity it presented. Grabbing a kunai from his pouch as the tongue scraped along the roof of his mouth causing him to shudder, the blond slamed the but of the weapon in the back of her head, knocking her unconscious.
As she slumped forward Naruto held her up confused by her actions but enjoying the taste of cinnamon still on his lips and in his mouth. He had to admit it was a good kiss, and he could partially understand, after all just how long had she been here with nothing but the company of these...he glanced around the room...Items...Also it could be she was a...he forgot the medical term for it but essentially it was a woman attracted to power or strength. Still it didn't matter, whatever her reasons were, they were her own.
Still, he should kill her, it was what any ninja would do. Still he was also a Jedi, or was trained as one and killing someone in their sleep wasn't the Jedi way. Naruto sighed, he wouldn't be able to just kill someone like this, especially if that someone was as good a kisser as this one. So carrying her back to her bed he set her down. Looking to the lightsaber, discarded on the floor he called it back to his hands.
Looking back to the sleeping girl he shook his head. "Crazy bitch." He muttered before he leaped up into the ventilation shaft making his escape from the sound base.
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Two hours later:
Tenten, Neji and Lee all sat around the table in Tazuna's house. On the table was a map of the sewers. "Okay look, we cant just sit here for a whole day Neji. If he's in trouble he may not even last a day." Tenten said to the Hyuuga boy.
"The area's still hot Tenten, if we go back there less that twelve hours since we escaped the place is still on high alert and it would place us all in danger." He argued back.
Before they could continue the door opened revealing the blond haired teammate they were currently discussing.
Stepping into the house he made his way passed his teammates. "I have made my way through a river of literal crap, been chased by freaky mutant things, an even freakier girl and had to walk across an entire ocean. I just want a shower and a good bed to sleep in. Good day to you all!"
With that said the blond walked passed them and into the bathroom where he would take his aforementioned shower.
Leaving three somewhat stunned teammates behind. Tomorrow they'd be back on their way to Konoha.
As the blond finally sat down his mind came to a screeching halt as he remembered...
"FUCK I FORGOT TO GET THE INFO ON THE SOUND BASE!"
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Well here ya go, a pretty long update by my normal standards. Anyway hope you all enjoy it, read and review please.