Imminent Change
By: Botan-kun
On with the story…
"Well, this is a nice small village." The sailor said as he looked around this peaceful village. There was a small bustling crowd, the stores were supplied with mediocre supplies, but it was a fair amount for the size of the village. He looked all around and then he saw something suspicious. He walked up the cliff to get a closer look. As he reached the top he was sure of what exactly it was.
An old man and his family had seen the stranger enter the village from the sea, and were suspicious of him since they saw, since he didn't come on a boat, he just walked out of the sea. And now they were heading up the hill that he had walked up, because this hill had a special monument for the village.
The sailor was just standing there looking at the monument that looked over the village when the old man and his family arrived.
"I don't wish to cause any trouble, I'm just here to pay my respects." The sailor said. The old man and his family looked at the man strangely.
"Did you know them?" The old man asked. The sailor looked behind him at the family which consisted of the old man, a young lady, and a child.
"I met them briefly in my travels. They were very strong, it would have taken some of the best fighters to beat them." The sailor said. At this time the sailor went through a bunch a seals and then touched the hilt of the sword. At this time a bunch of images jumped into his head and he played through them within a mere second. When he opened his eyes he kneeled down to the graves. "It looks like you two found the peace you were looking for, but you are not where you should be, Hell is no place for you." At those words the family was quite intrigued. The sailor again went threw a bunch of seals and touched his hands onto the graves of the two ninjas. The graves glowed a bright blue before the light turned into two orbs and flew up into the sky at remarkable speed. "Heaven is waiting for you two." He turned around to see the shocked faces of the family, he started walking passed them and stopped right next to them. He put his hand on the boys head. "Be good Inari, and Tazuna and Tsunami take good care of him." The sailor said.
"Who are you?" Tazuna asked shocked that this sailor knew exactly who they were.
"My name is Kaizoku ou, and I will be going to Konoha to meet up with my destiny." Kaizoku said as he just walked and practically disappeared with the wind. Of course what had really happened was he fell of the side of the cliff and landed on his head. "Damn, I'm not well liked this month." Kaizoku said before he heard a loud rumble. A very large group of field mice were approaching him with tremendous speed. "RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN YOU CAN'T CATCH ME I'M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!" He said as he dashed away from the ever diligent mice, all that could be heard around the village for the next few minutes was maniacal laughter before Kaizoku had run across The Great Naruto Bridge followed by a massive swarm of mice.
Konoha
Naruto and his foxes weren't doing as well as they had expected to be doing, Orochimaru had summoned a massive number of snakes to try and hold off the foxes, while he and his ninjas went on to fight Naruto, and Naruto was getting his ass kicked. He had killed at least twenty guys, but there was far too many skilled fighters that he was having one hell of a time just staying alive. The foxes were dealing with the snakes as well as taking care of various ninja that got close enough to kill. Sasuke and Kakashi were still locked inside the sound four prison. Kakashi knew that Orochimaru had one more trick up his sleeve otherwise he would have already finished Naruto off. All at once all the sound nins stopped their assault on Naruto. At this point a lone ninja traveled the ranks of sound nins at tremendous speeds and reached Naruto in a matter of seconds and gave a direct and swift punch to Naruto's abdomen. Naruto coughed up a bit of blood before he thoroughly passed out. As the foxes saw this they all went to attack Naruto's assailant, but they too were worn out from their fighting the snakes and ninjas that they no longer had their massive speed and were easily disposed of by Orochimaru, Kabuto and the new ninja that attacked Naruto. They were killed right then and there, when the male saw this he was infuriated and instantly went into a massive fury.
He was in a rage and killed a good portion of ninja just by running through them.
"Heh, looks like he's mad at us." Kabuto said as he got ready to defend himself against this overgrown fox. Orochimaru pulled out a sword from his mouth, and the unknown attacker pulled out one of his bones that had a very sharp edge. The three of them surrounded the fox so they could come up with a good strategy against this powerful beast. The fox went straight for the unknown ninja. The ninja stepped aside and slashed the fox's side. As the fox landed he staggered to hold himself up, the attack that hit him had severely damaged him he knew he could not fight at that moment, and he could not possibly run away, he was dead and he knew it. It was at this moment in the bushes he saw his future. One of his children had been knocked into the bushes from a previous assault, and now the male fox knew that there would be one of his kind able to finish what was started, and he knew that his clan would be avenged, but not now, in the future now he needed to get the kit out of this location so he would live to be able to avenge his clan in the future. So he sent a telepathic message to his child. "RUN! NOW!" The kit looked at his father and saw him attack Orochimaru only to be cut through the mouth all the way to his tail. The kit was in shock and extremely angry, but he abided by his fathers wishes and ran at tremendous speed back to the village.
It was at this time Orochimaru looked back at Sasuke and Kakashi. "Well now what do you plan to do now? With Kimimaro here with me you don't stand a chance." Orochimaru said and signaled for his sound four to drop the barrier. As soon as the barrier dropped Kimimaro and Kabuto went after Kakashi and Orochimaru went after Sasuke. It was all Kakashi could do just to hold them back, he had exhausted all of his chakra using his Sharingan and was starting to feel it big time. Kabuto and Kimimaro each got one good shot and knocked Kakashi out. Orochimaru had no resistance from Sasuke as he too was weak from his previous fights, Orochimaru had Sasuke by his shirt and held him up in the air.
"Now then no one will interfere this time around." Orochimaru's tongue lashed out and held Sasuke in place as he did the jutsu for his curse seal. After Sasuke had let out a very loud scream he passed out. "Let's go, grab Uzumaki. All of our objectives today have been completed." Orochimaru said as he started heading back to his village before anyone found out what had happened before Kakashi and Sasuke woke up.
It was an hour after the tragic event happened that Hiashi, Jiraiya, The Hokage, the fox kit, and some of Konoha's elite got to the battlefield. Before them were the bodies of a good portion of Orochimaru's army as well as the fox clan minus one, and then there were the motionless forms of Kakashi and Sasuke. The Hokage sent his elites to the perimeter to check for anyone that was left alive, while he, Hiashi, and Jiraiya tended to Kakashi and Sasuke. After checking their pulses he stood up.
"They're fine, they just depleted all the chakra." The Hokage said. He looked around at the mayhem that was caused.
"They're objective was not Sasuke." Jiraiya said. He kept looking around for some clue as to what had happened.
"They got what they came for." Hiashi said causing the other men to look at him. "The foxes are proof enough, they came for Naruto and they got him." The Hokage was alarmed by this, he knew it was true he just didn't want to believe it.
"We need to get back to the village." The Hokage said. The others there agreed there was nothing that could be done, and The Hokage knew that it was not that good of an idea to send a team to go recover Naruto, because there would be a lot more casualties on his side, and he knew that Naruto would not be killed because Orochimaru needed him alive. So everyone went back to the village with Sasuke and Kakashi.
It had been a very quiet trip back to Konoha, no one dared to say a word, and everyone was apprehensive about saying anything. When they reached the gates they saw someone waiting outside of them just leaning on the wall it looked as if he was meditating. The group of ninjas surrounded The Hokage and the injured Sasuke and Kakashi. The unknown man looked up as the men approach.
"Yo. Is one of you this villages Hokage?" Kaizoku asked. The ninjas were wary of this man.
"Yes I am. What do you want?" The Hokage asked ready for an attack, he knew that this man could very well be an enemy.
"Just to talk about one of your ninja. His name is Naruto." Kaizoku said.
"What do you know of him? Where is he?" Hiashi questioned.
"I don't know, that's one of the things I was here to ask about, I was also going to check to make sure that this was indeed his village, but I guess you already answered that for me." Kaizoku said.
"And who are you?" Jiraiya asked still ready for a fight.
"Well you see, I'm Naruto's brother." Kaizoku said.
"No your not." The Hokage said. Kaizoku looked deterred.
"Ok, ok I'm his uncle." Kaizoku said. Jiraiya sweat dropped.
"No your not." This time it was Hiashi. Kaizoku was thinking for a second.
"Ok, in truth I'm Naruto's mom's sister's son's half brother's uncle's second cousin's brother's son's step sister's cousin eight times removed best friend from way back." Kaizoku said.
"So what does that make you?" Jiraiya asked.
"Absolutely nothing." Kaizoku said with a smile.
"If you'll excuse us we need to get these people to the hospital we don't have time for games." The Hokage said as he signaled the gate guards to open the gate. "If you would like to talk seriously we'll talk after we get them to the hospital." Kaizoku nodded and they all went to the hospital. Kaizoku was trailing behind taking in the sights.
"It's changed a little since the last time I was here." Kaizoku said. "Ouch." Kaizoku said as he felt a sharp pain in his heel. He looked down to see a black fox biting his heel. "Why hello there, you don't look like a normal fox."
"He's half demon." Jiraiya said from right beside him. "And you said you've been here before, I knew you looked familiar I just couldn't place where I had seen you."
"It's been a long time since I had been here, I will tell you later when I talk to the Hokage, I know you'll be there, right?" Kaizoku said.
"Of course, just in case." Jiraiya said. They continued on to the hospital, and as every trip that has dealt with either Sasuke or Naruto the trip wasn't without consequence. Sakura had seen them coming and she wanted to ask again where her teammates were, she hadn't seen Sasuke being carried.
"Hokage-sama, can you please tell me where Sasuke-ku…" Sakura cut herself off when she saw Sasuke and Kakashi being carried by some of the ninjas. "What happened?" Sakura asked.
"There was an attack do not worry, everything will be fine." The Hokage reassured her. That's when she saw the sailor, and was she surprised, he was more built than anyone she had seen before. He wasn't overly muscular, but very well toned. The group continued on with Sakura trailing them. They reached the Hospital without any more conflict, they checked Kakashi and Sasuke in and left for the tower. Sakura stayed with Sasuke. The hospital was not far from the tower so it did not take long, once they got there the other ninja were dismissed while The Hokage, Jiraiya, Hiashi, Kaizoku, and the fox went to The Hokage's office. As they entered The Hokage went to his seat while Jiraiya and Hiashi each stood on either side of The Hokage.
"So let us begin, first your real name." The Hokage said.
"My real name is, Kaizoku no Dokuro no Kaizoku Ou." Kaizoku said.
"That is impossible. I have met the real Kaizoku no Dokuro no Kaizoku Ou, and that was nearly forty years ago. You couldn't be older than twenty." The Hokage said.
"Believe me or Don't I am truly who I say I am." Kaizoku said. The Hokage was contemplating it and decided that this man could not possibly be who he says he is.
"Fine, what proof do you have that you are who you say you are?" The Hokage asked.
"None." Kaizoku said.
"Fine, we'll just get to the next issue. What are you here for? We have been having many problems, we do not need anymore." The Hokage said.
"I am here to see Uzumaki Naruto, I have many questions for him and I must get the answer, otherwise something bad may happen." Kaizoku said. The Hokage was unwavering.
"What do you mean?" The Hokage asked.
"Akatsuki is on the move, they have tagged all the Jinchuuriki, and they are going to start making their move soon." Kaizoku said. This shocked the men in the room.
"How do you know all this?" Jiraiya asked.
"I have made sure to keep a close eye on their organization for a long time. I had figured they were going to be no trouble, but ever since Itachi joined it made it quite difficult for any ninja to oppose them." Kaizoku said. The Hokage looked to his desk, escaping the eyes of Kaizoku.
"Naruto is not in this village, he was captured by an enemy of ours." The Hokage said. Kaizoku looked at the roof contemplating on that information.
"Well then I have no business in this village at this time, I will go to the village that he is at." Kaizoku said and turned to leave. The Hokage looked up quickly.
"Wait!" The Hokage exclaimed, Kaizoku stalled, his hand already on the door knob. "He is very important to the enemy, the entire village will stop you before you will ever have a chance to get to Naruto." The Hokage said.
"They won't stop me. I will be in and out before they know what had happened." Kaizoku said. The Hokage looked torn.
"This is Konoha's business so at least take some of our people to assist you." The Hokage said. Kaizoku looked at The Hokage and saw the fox sitting down with his head down towards the ground.
"I will take him." Kaizoku said and pointed towards the fox. The Hokage was confused. "He is the only one that will accompany me." He said as he patted his leg, the fox looked up and walked over to Kaizoku who started to go out the door. As he left Jiraiya and Hiashi looked at The Hokage.
"Do you think he will succeed?" Hiashi said. The Hokage was thinking about it.
"He's the only chance we have, there is no one else we can send without getting killed." The Hokage said. As he said that Kaizoku fell out of a window that was directly In front of the Hokage's office.
"Now that's just poor building planning." Kaizoku said as he was falling out of the Hokage's building. Then he saw something coming towards him. "Oh look it's a little birdie." Kaizoku said with a smile until it got closer when he saw that it was an oversized eagle. "OH MY GOD! I see it's a game of chicken you want, well just ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well do ya." Kaizoku said as he stared the oversized bird down, until the eagle swooped in and grabbed him within it's talons and flew off. The fox took it upon himself to jump on the birds back and go with this somewhat crazy man.
The next couple of days were very tense for the Ninja, Sasuke and Kakashi were up and about, Sasuke had already received the counter seal. Now all the genins were not allowed to leave the village for any reason. Every high level ninja was preparing for an assault from sound, and probably sand. The Hokage no longer knew who to trust. Everyone was still training for the final exam, an they all knew it was not going to be a lot harder than the first two.
Naruto
Naruto would not bend to Orochimaru, he declined every offer Orochimaru had made for him to make the weapon, he also did not bend to any torture that Orochimaru used to get him to do it. Orochimaru kept Naruto locked up so that Naruto couldn't try any sort of escape attempt, but Naruto knew there was no escaping Orochimaru's village because if he tried there would thousands of Ninja after him immediately. The only chance he would have would be a rescue, but he knew that Konoha was being stressed by an imminent attack by Orochimaru and couldn't spare any ninja. Of course Naruto just heard a very loud yell increasing in volume as if someone was coming closer. That's when it happened something fell through the roof at tremendous speed and hit the ground making a crater. Naruto was stunned.
"Damn bird!" Kaizoku as he jumped and started shaking his fist in the air. "Just wait I'll be having chicken for dinner tonight." He said and then looked around to see Naruto. He appeared right in front of him. "Where am I?" He said. Naruto had a big sweat drop on his head.
"We are in sound village." Naruto said and couldn't help, but feel this guy was familiar somehow.
"Oh that's good, I'm looking for someone here, do you know where a ninja named Naruto is being held?" Kaizoku said as he looked around.
"I'm Naruto you idiot!" Naruto yelled. Kaizoku looked at him and then stood up and brushed off the dirt on his pants.
"Oh that's good step one is complete, now for step two through forty four." Kaizoku said.
"Steps for what?" Naruto asked.
"Your rescue of course." He said as he looked around the room.
"HOW THE HELL ARE GOING TO GET ME OUT OF HERE? YOU'RE AN IDIOT, AND WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE SO MANY DAMN STEPS IN A FUCKING RESCUE? YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE FUCK YOU WERE, I'M BETTER OFF WITH OROCHIMARU!" Naruto roared, Kaizoku just scratched his head.
"Well if you don't want my help then I will go by myself." Kaizoku said and started leaving until he tripped over some of the rubble on the ground and slammed into the ground.
"You have no manner of luck do you?" Naruto said, Kaizoku merely dropped his head in defeat. "Alright lets get out of here, what's the plan?" Naruto asked.
"Well we just walk out the front." Kaizoku said.
"WHAT KIND OF PLAN IS THAT! I WOULD HAVE DONE THAT IF THERE WEREN'T THOUSANDS OF NINJAS IN THIS VILLAGE!" Naruto yelled.
"Yeah you could of, all you need is the knowledge to do it, your guard should be here in thirty seconds, that's when step two happens." Kaizoku said as stood in front of the door waiting. They heard a paper tear and the door unlock. The door opened and Kaizoku took his dagger and slit the guards throat. "Come on we have to remain on schedule otherwise we'll have to go to plan B." Kaizoku said as he ran out the door followed by Naruto.
"What's plan B?" Naruto asked as the ran through the corridor.
"Kill every sound ninja in the village when they catch us." Kaizoku said as he threw his dagger at the wall as it ricocheted and went around the corner. "Step three done." He said and as they went around the corner Kaizoku grabbed his dagger out of the ninjas head. Naruto was getting impressed. Kaizoku pulled out four more daggers. They were just running through the endless corridors. Suddenly Kaizoku through all five of his dagger they ricocheted off the walls and three bounced around the right corner, while two bounced into the left hallway. "That would be four through eight done." Naruto was starting to wonder what the hell was going on, he didn't miss a single target and he somehow knew where these guards were and exactly how many there were at which position. "Steps nine through thirty six are coming up So just stay behind me." Naruto saw the exit and as they wet through it they saw twenty-eight ninja right in front of them just training. Naruto knew that it would not be good to interfere with this ninja err sailor, Naruto had no idea what the hell this guy was, but he still knew that it would be a good idea to stand back. Kaizoku jumped into the middle of all twenty-eight men. They became alert immediately and all started attacking him. Two daggers just materialized in Kaizoku's hands and he started attacking, the ninja couldn't get a single hit in as Kaizoku slashed them. Three ninja jumped away from Kaizoku and appeared to be the only ones alive. They all started doing hand seals.
"Omoi Onpa Inmetsu no Jutsu!" All three yelled and a massive sound wave came out of their mouths attacking Kaizoku from all sides. Kaizoku finished his seal.
"Bakuryuuha no jutsu!" Kaizoku yelled as he spin around and hit all three attacks, as they were hit they were sent right back at the attackers with more force than when they were started. All that was left of the three sound ninjas were their bones. Blood was dripping from Kaizoku's hands. "Let's go. Eight more steps." Kaizoku said and he started running again, Naruto followed. Kaizoku was getting tired. "Damn, I'm almost done, but I could release the seal if it doesn't go right, even though I swore never to do it." Kaizoku said in his head. Naruto saw that Kaizoku was getting sluggish.
"How much energy does that attack use?" Naruto asked as they ran through the nearly empty village.
"I have to use twice the amount of chakra the opponent uses otherwise it fails." Kaizoku said. Naruto saw that the three ninjas were tired after they did the attack, so that would mean that Kaizoku used six times as much chakra as any one of those three. "Wow he's really good." Naruto thought. Suddenly Kaizoku started doing hand seals and when he finished he called out.
"Kage Mahoutsukai no Jutsu!" After he said it a shadow of himself came rushing out of his body and turned the corner. As Naruto and Kaizoku ran past Naruto saw seven bodies laying on the ground mutilated. "Last step is the easy one, just travel back to Konoha." Kaizoku said as they hit the forest and started heading towards Konoha.
As they were running through the forest Naruto started to wonder about his unknown rescuer.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked. Kaizoku was tired, but looked at Naruto to answer his question.
"I am Kaizoku no Dokuro no Kaizoku Ou, I come from village outside of the elemental countries." Kaizoku said.
"Why have you helped me?" Naruto asked.
"Because of who you are, we have much to talk about, but that will be later." Kaizoku said.
"How'd you learn those Jutsus? They're extremely strong." Naruto asked.
"Years of practice, I know thousands of Jutsus and I have created just as many as I have learned." Kaizoku said. "We're close to our checkpoint, we'll rest there and then tomorrow head out to Konoha." Kaizoku said and He stopped in front of a cave.
"Are we far enough from sound? Won't they be able track us?" Naruto asked as they stepped into the cave.
"Not if everything's gone according to plan." Kaizoku said, and as they got further into the cave there was a light. "Good everything's set, we'll be good." As they got the light Naruto saw the black fox that was with him.
"I see, the foxes helped with my rescue, where's the rest of them?" Naruto asked.
"Dead, Orochimaru and his men killed them." Kaizoku said. Naruto was saddened and sat against a wall next to the fox. "I need to rest, I've exhausted the majority of my chakra, you should rest also, tomorrow we go to Konoha at full speed, the village was empty for a reason." Kaizoku said.
"An attack, they're raiding Konoha tomorrow, during the exam finals." Naruto said. All three of them fell asleep for the run tomorrow. As the sun was rising, the three sound escapees were preparing for normally two and a half day run, and Kaizoku wanted to do it within four hours.
"You guys have enough stamina to reach Konoha in a four hour run, but do you have the speed? Just try to keep up with me, don't try to exceed my speed as it will exhaust your stamina a lot faster and you might not make it." Kaizoku said. Naruto and the fox agreed, Naruto removed the seals on all the metal plates to make it so he doesn't get exhaust his stamina. "Let's go, We'll meet my comrades on the way."
"What comrades?" Naruto asked as he stretched.
"They are some strong ninjas that accompany me." Kaizoku said. Naruto didn't like the vague explanation, but withheld from asking more as they needed to get moving more than getting information. "Let's go!" Kaizoku said as he quickly took off. Naruto followed as well as the fox.
It took them three hours before they saw Konoha's glory, Naruto was extremely tired, but with Kyuubi directing Chakra into him he kept up his stamina. "Damn, no normal human can make this run! How the hell is he able to it!" Naruto thought as he looked at Kaizoku who didn't even look tired. They all abruptly stopped when a group of twenty sound nins jumped in front of them.
"It's Orochimaru's prisoner! How the hell did he get out!" One of the nins said.
"It doesn't matter it's just the two of them and one of those damn foxes, we can handle them." Another nin said. Before any of the sound nins could do anything a black blur shot through ten of them and stopped a few feet in front of Kaizoku and Naruto. The new ninja vaguely familiar to Naruto, just glared at the nins. The ten that he had went through fell to millions of pieces as their blood and guts were now everywhere in the area. The rest of the nins couldn't believe their eyes, They were terrified of the newcomer to the battle. He looked terrifying just by the look of him, he was wearing all black, his pants were baggy and he wore full boots instead of ninja boots, his Shirt was long sleeved, and he had on black fingerless gloves, he had on a belt with the buckle having very weird seal on it, it was three horns interlocking with each. His hair was Pure white, very contradicting to his outfit. But his eyes were as blue as the ocean.
"You'll have to go through us before we let you get near Kaizoku-sama." A female ninja said, she was clad in a traditional black ninja outfit, without a mask. Now Naruto knew he knew them. "It's the weirdoes from before the exam." Naruto thought. Don't underestimate them. They seem extremely powerful." Kyuubi mentioned. The third one came into view.
"Yo!" Said the last member. He was wearing all green, he was wearing green bandages covering his entire body, he was wearing green shorts and a green shirt, he also had on brown ninja boots and brown gloves, the bandages covered his face and he had wild orange hair. "We will defeat you for the sake of Kai-kun!" He said and unceremoniously fell form the tree for no reason at all, in mid air he started doing flips and landed on the ground as graceful as a cat, as he took a step forward he tripped over a pebble on the ground. The sound nins could care less of the female and goof they were worried about the ninja in front of them that took out ten ninjas in less than a second.
"Naruto stay back, they will handle this. You must conserve the rest of your energy for the fight in Konoha." Kaizoku said. Naruto understood thoroughly, he doubted the green clad ninja would be helpful, but the one in front of him was more than capable.
"OK THAT DOES IT!" The green clad ninja yelled as he pointed accusingly at the sound ninjas. Just then there was an earthquake came out of nowhere and the tree he was standing on uprooted and fell on two of the ninjas killing them immediately. The ninjas were stunned, the goof didn't even do any hand seals and he had killed two of their fighters.
"That's impossible!" One of the sound nins said. Just then the female jumped onto another tree and whistled.
"It's time for you to die." She said cutesy. As she said it a very large panther jumped towards the ninjas out of nowhere and mauled one of the ninja before it jumped out view disappearing.
"What the hell is going on!" One the ninjas said scared shitless, their ranks were falling so easily to ninjas that couldn't be older than fifteen and they hadn't even got an attack off. The Very intimidating ninja stepped forward which the sound nins step back. Then he vanished and appeared behind them killing six of them the same way the first ten died. The last of the ninjas looked around him to see that all is comrades were dead, he looked around to see the female, she smiled at him all cutesy before she raised her hand. A very large hawk came swooping down the last thoughts in the ninjas head were "Who are these people." Before he abruptly died in the mighty bird's beak.
The three ninja jumped up onto the branch in front of the three man party heading to Konoha.
"Kaizoku-sama, Their forces have already surrounded Konoha, and the finals have already started." The female said.
"Very well, we must hurry. Katsu, you head to the arena for the finals with Naruto." Kaizoku said, Naruto looked to see which one would be accompanying him, Hoping beyond hope that it was the girl since he didn't want the clumsy oaf and the darker one really scared him. When the one wearing all black nodded an affirmation he was distraught. "Holy fuck, I don't want to go anywhere with him he scares me!" Naruto thought. "He's probably the strongest out of all of them, maybe even stronger than the one that freed you." Kyuubi said. "Doesn't change the fact that he scares me." Naruto thought back.
"Kairi, you and the fox head to the least protected area of Konoha, engage any enemy that breaks in, don't make a move until the opponent goes first." Kaizoku said. The female ninja gave her confirmation along with the fox. "Ishi-san your with me, we'll take the area with the most concentration of enemy ninja." The oaf gave a thumbs up as his confirmation. "Konoha does not know we are allied with them, so do not fight them back if they attack you, this goes double for you Katsu." Katsu begrudgingly agreed with a nod. "You all know your tasks, we must stop the enemy! Conserve your energy only use what is needed, this could be a quick fight or a long one, it's hard to say how far our enemy is willing to take it. Be prepared if it will last a long time, Naruto and I are already at a lower than normal amount of energy, you three are nearly good, but don't overdo it I will not lose any of you! Do you understand!" Ishi and Kairi gave a loud 'Yes!' while Katsu said nothing. Naruto had no idea what connection any of them had together nor did he know how they were connected to Konoha, but welcomed the help that was being given to him.
"Alright let's go!" Kaizoku said and the three groups split up to their destinations ready for a really big fight.
The Finals
Everyone had already gathered in the arena awaiting the finals. Everyone had taken notice that Naruto had not yet arrived and they were already announcing the rules, Sakura and Ino were up in the stands watching and wondering.
"Where's your goof of a teammate?" Ino asked. Sakura looked on the field wondering what had happened to him.
"I don't know, I haven't seen him in a while." Sakura said. Sasuke was also looking at the field from his spot next to Kakashi. Kakashi had been briefed on what had happened to Naruto, no one else was privileged with that information. The first match was about to begin, Kankuro and Shino stood facing each other. Each in a very passive battle position. Shino had spent his time training on all the aspects that each person in the tournament would use. He had spent an extraordinary time looking through the ways of a puppeteer because he would better knowledge after seeing the others fight while he had to go against Kankuro with limited knowledge. Kankuro knew a good little amount on Shino, the only thing he knew was that he used bugs to secure his first victory. For Kankuro he assumed that Shino knew less about him since he hadn't disclosed the fact that he used a puppet at all in his match, however Shino had learned a lot about each opponent by using his bugs as spies.
"Alright you may begin." Genma said. Neither opponent made a move it seemed, however both of them were preparing. Kankuro had already attached his chakra strings, and Shino had already given his orders to his bugs. To the spectators it was already a boring fight, yet to the two combatants it was a very strenuous fight and it had yet to begin. Neither wanted to give his strategy away too early, they were both preparing to end the fight in one move, yet they made no move to finish it. Kankuro was the first to grow impatient, and he would be the only to grow impatient as Shino never got impatient. Kankuro lunged forward not knowing he had fallen into Shino's trap. As Kankuro got closer hundreds of bugs flew out of the ground covering Kankuro. Kankuro immediately threw the wrapped item on his back away for it to not get covered in bugs. Kankuro just stopped moving, the bugs seemingly disappeared.
"My bugs devour chakra, they have eaten all of your chakra you will not be able to move." Shino said. All that was left of proof that there were indeed bugs there was the hole in the ground where the bugs shot out of. The crowd was ecstatic, there was cheers from all around. There of course was a small amount of laughter coming from the item that Kankuro had thrown.
"You are all idiots, like I could be beaten by a few bugs." Kankuro said as he threw off the bandages around him coming off as if nothing had happened. The Kankuro that had been covered in bugs started to crumble into pieces revealing a puppet instead of Kankuro. "This is my work of art, Karasu." Kankuro said with a very big smile.
"It doesn't matter, this battle is over." Shino said. Not moving from his original position. Kankuro only grinned as he wrapped Karasu around with chakra strings only to find that as he attached the strings they disintegrated.
"What have you done!" Kankuro yelled at Shino.
"Unlike everyone else, I spent my month gathering information on all, but two of the contestants in the finals." Shino said. Kankuro was getting annoyed he pulled out a kunai and was about to throw it until he felt a low rumble below his feet, but before he could do anything, bugs flew out of the ground again covering the real Kankuro from head to toe. The bugs scattered off of Kankuro as he fell to the ground. They all returned back to Shino as Hayate moved over to check Kankuro.
"Winner, Aburame Shino." Hayate announced. The crowd was in an uproar, there were cheers everywhere except the contestant box.
"WHAT THE HELL KANKURO!" Temari yelled obviously mad at her brother. Gaara looked indifferent, still affected by Naruto's words. Hinata was very proud of her teammate, but didn't have the courage to say it at loud. Shino moved quietly back to the contestant box, while medics came and gathered Kankuro and his puppet. "This isn't good, our plans won't work with Kankuro out, and Gaara has been acting funny." Temari thought as she looked to her younger brother.
"We won't fight." Gaara said softly so only Temari could hear. Temari was shocked at Gaara simple statement. "Fight your battle to your fullest, but we will not participate in the attack." Gaara said.
"But our orders." Temari said equally quiet. Gaara shot his head towards Temari and gave her the deadliest glare ever. His features soften at the scared face of Temari.
"The attack will be futile, there is someone in this village that I can not beat, and if you were to oppose him you could very well be badly injured. It's a lost cause, what are the point of following orders when there is something else we can do about it?" Gaara said as he looked towards the field. Temari was touched, her younger and scariest brother seemed human at that point, the first time she had ever seen it. Hayate announced the next fight. "It's your turn, show them the true power of sand." Gaara said. Temari nearly nodded before she jumped to the field Gaara's words echoing in her head.
Kairi and fox
"Well aren't you cute?" Kairi said to the fox. They had already reached their position, and were just waiting for the opposition to make their move. The fox looked at Kairi's sweet face and turned away quickly, for if foxes could blush he would be redder than fire. They were just waiting Kairi was making designs in the ground while the fox was doing anything, but looking at Kairi.
Kaizoku and Ishi-san
"Kai-kun what are we doing?" Ishi-san asked. They too had reached their target the enemy was well concentrated near a portion of wall that was lightly guarded. They were just waiting, they had no idea when the fights would start.
"Waiting." Kaizoku said.
"Why?" Ishi-san said.
"It's our objective." Kaizoku said.
"Why?" Ishi-san said. Kaizoku was already getting annoyed.
"Why did I have you come with me?" Kaizoku asked. Ishi-san looked at Kaizoku. Kaizoku then saw a little rabbit hopping around. "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids."
"Why?" Ishi-san asked.
"…….. I hate you." Kaizoku said.
"Why?" Ishi-san asked. At this point Kaizoku started to pull out his hair at the constant whys.
Naruto and Katsu Satsu
"So how do you know that Kaizoku guy?" Naruto asked trying to get some conversation to relieve the tension he had. Katsu did not respond however as he kept moving towards the arena. "Are you going to say anything?" Naruto asked, Katsu turned slightly to Naruto, It was the first time Naruto had seen his eyes and Naruto was shocked, the were the most extravagant blue he had ever seen, yet they seemed so lifeless. "This guy is freaky." Naruto thought. "He takes 'silent as a grave' to a whole new level. He has no life force and no chakra output, it's like he doesn't even exist. There is no ability to do that, yet he moves. It's impossible." Kyuubi said. Naruto was confused, but let it pass as there was nothing he could do about it. They were no more then ten minutes from their destination at their current speed.
Finals
"I give up." Shikamaru said his and Temari's arms in the air. Everyone was shocked at this outcome. Throughout the fight Shikamaru had the upper hand, yet he was giving up so easily and when he had his enemy in his Kage Mane.
"Very well Temari wins by submission." Hayate announced and Shikamaru released his Jutsu. The two competitors left to the combatant box.
"Why'd you give up?" Temari asked.
"It would have been pointless to continue, I was almost out of chakra and there wasn't anything else I could've done, as soon as my Jutsu gave up, you would have been able to beat me to a bloody pulp, this made it easier." Shikamaru said as they reached their spots in the combatant box.
"The next match will be between Hyuuga Hinata and Hyuuga Neji." Genma said for everyone to hear. The crowd erupted into cheers for the next fight would be very extravagant, not many have been privileged to see a fight between two Hyuuga. Hiashi and Hanabi looked on with curiosity and fear. The competitors moved into the field Hinata a little slower than Neji. They found their respective places on the field.
"Give up Hinata-sama. You have no chance in this battle. Had it not been for your teammates and your luck at getting a weak opponent in this exam you would not be here. Your fate is to lose to me in this fight, so just forfeit." Neji said. Hinata looked down and remember back to the exam, she had been lucky that Naruto had given her his answers, if it hadn't been for her two teammates then she wouldn't have gotten the scroll, and if it was anyone else she had fought besides Sakura she probably would not have won. However she knew that Naruto's and Shikamaru's team had only one person pass the prelims, and she knew that those two were not thought to win their fights, but they had, and if they could do it, so could she.
"I will not forfeit." Hinata claimed shyly. Neji was not all too surprised, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to fight and win.
"It is your choice, but no this I will not stop until I see you defeated, if I even see one trace of defiance left in you afterwards I will still continue to fight." Neji claimed as he got in his fighting position. Hinata reluctantly nodded and got in her fighting position. Genma looked at the two competitors.
"Tch, fine begin." Genma stated, neither took any time too waste, they both activated their bloodline limit immediately, Neji was a little shocked that Hinata had gotten faster at activating it. "She's better, but still not enough." Neji thought as he rushed forward to claim a quick victory. To his surprise Hinata rushed forward as well Going to engage in close quarters combat. They reached each other palms forward, Hinata repositioned her arm so instead of aiming at a critical spot on Neji she would hit his palm. Neji noticed just a bit too late. Their palms connected, filled with chakra, they both were thrown back with chakra burns on their hands. "That was too good for her!" Neji thought. He looked down at his hand to see that Hinata had put just as much chakra in her attack as her. "I will not fail, Naruto." Hinata thought as she prepared for another attack. She pulled out five shuriken and five kunai. She threw them at Neji and ran after them at the same speed. Neji narrowed his eyes at such a naïve tactic. He positioned him self as the weapons got closer.
"Kaiten!" Neji said as he whirled around blocking all the weapons and forcing Hinata to change tactics. Up in the stands Hiashi and Hanabi were surprised to see Hiashi's greatest move. Neji after his whirl was done rushed Hinata, She put up a defensive position as he attacked. He thrust his hand Hinata blocked it and pushed it aside went for a strike as well, and Neji did the same as Hinata. They both jumped back for some thinking time.
"This is how it is supposed to be done Hinata-sama." Neji said as he pulled out his weapons threw them at Hinata and ran after him. Hinata too familiar with the tactic kept her spot and didn't move. To Neji's and everyone else in the stands went into a battle position that they had just seen moments before.
"Kaiten!" Hinata said as she started the whirl knocking back the weapons and surprising Neji. When she stopped she was overwhelmed with dizziness. "I need to practice that." Hinata thought as she was trying very hard to suppress her lunch from coming up. Neji recovered from his shock and got in a battle position as did Hinata. Neji grinned and went into an unrecognizable battle position.
"It's over Hinata-sama, you are in range of my divination. Hakkeshou: Rokujuu Yonshou!" Neji called and rushed Hinata. He hit Hinata twice. "Two hands." He hit her again this time more. "Four hands." And again. "Eight hands." Once more. "Sixteen hands." He felt something was off but couldn't tell what it was. "Thirty-two." The feeling was strong, but he couldn't grasp it. "Sixty-four!" He stated and Hinata flew back twenty feet easily. Neji still couldn't teel what that feeling was.
"Referee, I hit all her tenketsu, she won't be able to move, this is over." Just then Hinata started to get up, when she was fully standing she looked up, Neji saw blood coming from her mouth, but he was shocked that she was able to stand, then he realized what the feeling was. "You protected some of your tenketsu with your chakra?" Hinata nodded weakly. Neji was enraged. "It's over now!" Neji said as he rushed Hinata for the final time, his hand surging with far too much chakra. Genma cursed and ran at the genin, but it would be too late. Just then if the crowd were to look up they would see two people falling from the sky at tremendous speeds. One of the figures grabbed the other and threw him down The one being thrown was shocked, but could care less, he landed creating a crater in the ground in front of Hinata and Neji. Neji was already going to fast and could not stop so he hit the figure full force. As the chakra released Hinata started to fall only to be caught as the second figure landed gracefully catching her. Neji looked at the figure in front of him surprised he didn't fly back at the force of chakra when he realized the figure had glued himself to the ground with a massive amount of chakra. The crowd were all shocked at who it was that had landed and received the mighty blow.
"Ouch you cold ass bastard! That fucking hurt!" Naruto said blood dripping from the curves of his mouth. Katsu laid Hinata down softly as he peered over at Naruto and the shocked leaf genin. Neji took a step back as more blood started pouring out of Naruto's mouth. He felt so much pain when he realized. "This would have killed Hinata-chan, you bastard!" He was going to punch Neji if it didn't hurt so damn much to lift his arm. "Damn this fucking hurts!" Naruto thought. "It will take a little while to heal completely maybe a day." Kyuubi said. Naruto's eyes widened. "But the assault." Naruto thought. Kyuubi had no answer. Katsu moved forward, he stuck his hand into the back of Naruto. Naruto was shocked to feel a hand in his body, but after a second the pain ceased and the hand was gone. "That guy stopped any more damage and numbed the coil. But don't think you are cured, you're still pretty much useless." Naruto was saddened, but he had a mission.
"SOUND IS ATTACKING!" Naruto yelled and a sound of multiple explosions filled everyone's ears from the gates of Konoha.