AN: Yo what up?
Heh heh here's chapter ten.
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Chapter ten
Time to get stronger
Shadow had brought them to a large cavern after a week of running. The children were exhausted and nearly fell off of the giant fox on several occasions. The demon could tell the children had been lost in thought at times about what had happened. He could only surmise that their young minds were still trying to grasp the whole situation. He sighs as he gathers a few large logs and ignites them with his black fire breath. The children were all huddled against each other sleeping soundly. The red/grey haired girl intrigued him. He didn't know abilities such as hers existed. He'd ask her about it in the future. For now he just lies down next to the children and closes his eyes. His tails curling in a circle around them.
(Scene change)
Sasuke and Hinata once again found themselves standing in front of the Raikage. The dark-skinned woman was looking at the two children with a look of worry and concern. Sasuke was looking back at the woman with confusion showing in his eye. The same could be said for Hinata as well.
"You want us to postpone our search for Naruto?" asks Sasuke after a minute. The Raikage sighs and looks the boy in the eye.
"You don't have to if you don't want to but I would feel a lot better if you stayed here in Kumo for a while to train. Whatever destroyed Iwa is bound to be roaming the country side unchecked."
It was then that a look of understanding crossed both children's faces.
"You're worried about us," says Sasuke once again speaking for him and Hinata. The woman nods slowly and gets to her feet. She walks around her desk and pats both children on the head.
"That's right gaki. Whatever destroyed Iwa might catch you two during your search. I would like for you two to stay here until it calms down a little. Perhaps for a few years."
At this Sasuke and Hinata exchange questioning glances, as if debating on weather or not they should post pone their search for a few years in order to get strong enough to face whatever was out there destroying villages. They nod to each other after a few minutes and look back up at the Raikage. "Okay fine. We'll stay."
The Raikage smiles happily and gestures toward the door. "You two can come in now," she says cheerfully. A second later a sheepish looking Hedeki and Yugito shuffle into the room.
"Well since you two like to listen in on private conversations, (Hedeki and Yugito blush) I'm assuming you know what these two have planned for the future?"
The two nod and Yugito walks up to the two former citizens of Konoha. "I don't wanna see you two go but if there's anything I can help you with I'd be happy to lend it to you." She gives both children a hug and Hedeki smiles down at the three. Happy to see the Nibi Jinchuuriki finally get some friends. The Raikage smiles and says, "Now. Since Sasuke and Hinata are staying for a while we can begin to really train them. Hedeki-San and I will teach you three everything we know. Sasuke, Hinata and Yugito gain wide eyes.
"You three are quite possibly the greatest asset Kumo has. It's only natural that you receive personal training. Along with the Hyuchia clan of course." Hinata, Sasuke and Yugito smile and look up at the Kumo leader.
"So when does the training begin sensei?"
Hedeki smiles and says, "Right after we Give Hinata and Sasuke their rightful Doujutsu."
(Scene change)
Kin and Kimimaro arrived in Konoha a week before the Iwa incident and were now currently standing in front of Sarutobi looking quite nervous. The reason was because of the tall man wielding a huge zanbatou whose mouth was covered in bandages. A little boy who looks like a girl was standing next to him and also had a large sword only his was a pale blue. They had just been told of the Iwa incident and that they were to train under the huge sword using man. They didn't quite know how to take all of this in. Sarutobi smiles down upon the two children and says,
"Kimimaro Kaguya, Kin Tsuchi I'd like you to meet Zabuza Mamochi, former member of the seven mist swordsmen." At this Kin and Kimimaro widen their eyes. "I figured this is the best arrangement seeing as all four of you have some sort of ties to Kirigakure and have met Naruto at one point." Now it was Zabuza's turn to look surprised.
"You two have met that blonde boy and his siblings?" Kin timidly nods while clinging to Kimimaro's arm.
"I see. Things just got more interesting."
"Indeed it has. Now I suggest you four get to know each other. You have three years before your genin exams."
The group nods and Zabuza turns to his two new students. "Well, first things first. We're getting you two weights and a large zanbatou. Its time for a new generation of swordsmen." Kimimaro and Kin could only nod. They were nervous. They follow Zabuza out of the room and Sarutobi smiles. The last members of three powerful clans had moved into Konoha. Even if it was only for a few years…
(Time skip one week)
Tayuya's eyes slowly open and she yawns loudly against the mass of warmth against her face. She smiles and snuggles in closer to it, causing it to move and adjust. Wait… She bolts upright and looks around with wide eyes.
"Where the hell am I? Where's Reiven-kun?" She says as her glowing green eyes adjust to the darkness. She nearly screams in fear when she sees the massive form of Shadow who was asleep with his tails around the group of children in a protective circle.
"W-what's goin on?" She gets to her feet, ignoring the pain racking her body. She looks around and notices that she was previously asleep in Reiven's arms. She smiles affectionately as the memories of the winged boy's valiant rescue of her. She notices that the boy and his siblings for that matter are still caked in dried blood in places and that their stolen items had been recovered. Suddenly she gasps as more memories flood through her and she darts toward the nearest reflective item she could find, namely a glass ball sitting near Reiven's scythe. She peers into it and examines her reflection. The first thing she notices is that her eyes had done a complete 360 in terms of color. She glares. She liked having brown eyes. There was also her hair. It was transparent grey with pink/red streaks. Her hair kind of looked like pink and grey wispy smoke. She sighs and goes to rub her temples in annoyance only to freeze when she sees her transparent grey forearms and hands with the kanji for smoke on the backs. "God damn it what else did they do to me!?" She drops the medical cloak and examines her body further. Everything was normal except the purple tattoo-like lines that snaked around her neck, underneath her arms down her sides and stopped in an incomplete v around her naval.
"Those stupid grownups experimented on you by giving you an unnatural bloodline limit."
Tayuya whirls around and sees Akira who was getting to her feet and trying to wipe some of the dried blood off of her face. Tayuya looks on in confusion. "Bloodline limit?" she asks.
Akira nods. "Yeah. Reiven Nii-San told me that when he came for you they told him they changed your chakra and blood by combining it with an element of nature. I'm guessing they used the element called smoke.
"S-so what does that mean?"
Akira looks at Tayuya with her own eyes swimming in confusion. She didn't really know how to explain this. Luckily someone else decides to speak up.
"It means girl that you have exclusive power over smoke. That includes, Making smoke shields, weapons turning completely into smoke. Those are just some of the possibilities."
Tayuya freezes, as she looks Shadow in his big golden eye. She had forgotten all about the huge fox. Then her mind takes in what he has just told her. "S-so…I'm some kind of smoke freak?" she asks a little sadly. Akira walks up to and hugs the other girl.
"Tayuya don't call yourself a freak. You're just different now. We all are in some way. Tayuya relaxes and shoves Akira off of her. "Yeah you're right but keep the sappy hugs to yourself."
Akira giggles.
"Anyway what's going on? Who's the giant fox and how did we get away from Iwa? All I remember is Reiven-kun going psycho on the people that had me chained up. I think he even killed the Tsuchikage."
This time a fourth person speaks up. It was Naturo. His voice sounding as emotionless as ever as he speaks. All of us were captured in Iwa. Nii-san and us three because we are related to some guy named Kyokoto Uzumaki. They took you somewhere else and Reiven got angry. He started channeling Kyuubi-San's chakra and went into a rage. He destroyed half of the village. All he cared about was rescuing you."
Tayuya casts another smile in Reiven's direction. She then realizes that she is still naked and turns violet before quickly snatching up the white robe and wrapping herself up. Naturo chuckles.
"It ain't funny jackass!" she screams.
Naturo quiets down and continues. "Anyway, The giant fox is Shadow. He's the boss summon of the kitsunes. Kyuubi had Akira sign the summoning contract and taught her the seals. She can summon help in a pinch. We escaped Iwa a couple of weeks ago because of Shadow I think. I can't really tell how long it's been. I've been asleep.
Shadow gets to his feet and yawns loudly. This causes Naruto and Reiven to wake up.
"Ugh what hit me?" asks Reiven. Naruto shakily gets to his feet, groaning loudly as his joints protest to the movement.
"So you're finally awake, holder of Kyuubi-Sama."
Naruto looks up at Shadow with wide eyes. "W-what? Y-you're that huge fox!"
Shadow chuckles. A sound that causes more fear then joy in the children as they gazed up at his gleaming white and considerably huge fangs.
"That's right human. My name is Shadow no Hachibi kitsune. I saved the five of you from that pathetic human village after your sister called for my help."
Naruto looks over at Akira then the memories come back to him in a rush. He falls to one knee and takes a few long and strong breaths. "That's right," he says quietly. He then looks around and sees Reiven and Tayuya smiling at each other. "So… We really did kill all those people…"
"That's right. I was quite impressed. By the time my assistance was needed the village was already in ruin and blanketed in panic. You should be proud."
Naruto looks down, as do his siblings.
"We have nothing to be proud of. We destroyed an entire village. We… We…"
"You did what was necessary to protect your companions. Heh. Those stupid humans just chose the wrong group of brats to fuck with."
Naruto to nods but it does nothing to quell how he felt. Shadow feels the boy's doubt but ignores it. He had more pressing issues to assess. He lowers his head and peers into Naruto's eyes with a full calculating stare.
"You five travel alone?"
Naruto raises an eyebrow at such a sudden question but answers anyway.
"If you mean do we travel with any grown ups then no. We have each other and that's it. Grown ups have been nothing but trouble for us."
"I see…""What made you ask such a question?"
"First answer me this. Why is it… No, how is it you hold Kyuubi-Sama within your naval and why do the other three smell like you and Kyuubi-Sama? The girl has already told me that she is a part of the queen. But how?"
Tayuya looks a bit confused but stays quiet. She gives Reiven a sideways glance but does nothing else.
Naruto looks down and kicks his feet a couple of times. Six years ago Kyuubi attacked Konoha, my home village. She was sealed in my belly by the fourth to keep her from destroying Konoha. It killed him as well. Because of that, the people of Konoha treated me badly. They starved me. Called me names and tried to kill me on several occasions. I eventually left the village in order to find some friends…"
Shadow raises and eyebrow at the pause then widens his eyes as the realization dawns on him.
"Your siblings… They're a human jutsu correct?"Naruto nods and Tayuya gasps.
"Yes… Reiven Akira and Naturo…are modified Kage Bunshins."
Tayuya looks at Reiven and the others with disbelieving eyes. "S-shadow clones?"
Reiven gives Tayuya a hug and says, "We're all different in some way…"
Tayuya's eyes widen even further. She now knew why they were always saying that. She now knew why they sounded unsure of the world when something that could lead up to their origins came up. She now knew why…they treated Naruto like the boss…
She does the only thing she can think of when something like this is told to her. She relays her thoughts on the situation.
"Well shit."
She returns Reiven's hug and says, "I knew comin with you buncha blonde Bakas was gonna be better then stayin in Oto."
Reiven smiles.
Shadow looks over at Akira and Naturo who both had emotionless expressions on their faces while Reiven stood next to Tayuya. He mulls through all of his thoughts then speaks again.
"Let me speak to Her."
Naruto just looks dumbfounded until the massive fox walks up to him and touches his forehead with his nose.
(Mindscape)
Naruto found himself standing in between a huge red fox with nine crimson tails and an equally huge eight-tailed black and gold fox. Quite an odd feeling.
"Shadow-San. What a pleasant surprise," says Kyuubi.
"Likewise Kyuubi-Sama. I am greatly honored to make your acquaintance."
Kyuubi smiles then transforms into her humanoid form. She gets as close to the cage bars as she can and looks up at the large fox.
"Why don't you transform? It would be a lot easier to converse no?"
Shadow bows his head and says, "As you wish Kyuubi-Sama."
Shadow instantly begins to shrink down. Fur receding to the top of his head Legs becoming straight ect. In a few seconds Shadow had transformed into a rather young looking man. He looked even Younger then Kyuubi did. He was wearing a black battle yakuta with a golden chest plate and sash. His left shoulder also sported a golden shoulder protector and his hair was shoulder length and slicked back. His golden fox ears were facing forward at attention and his eight golden tipped tails were dancing around behind him like they had minds of their own.
Kyuubi take one look at him and grins. "You've grown handsome."
Shadow smiles slightly and bows his head. "And you still radiate with an unmatched beauty."
"Ugh I think I'm gonna be sick," says Naruto.
"Shut it brat!"
"You shut it baka fox!"
"You will watch your tone with Kyuubi-sama," says Shadow.
Naruto glares and says, "I'll talk to her however I want! I'm not gonna stop just cause some other fox comes in and thinks he's all that. This is MY mind. If ya don't like it then get out."
Shadow growls.
"Enough Shadow. The brat is too stupid to know who his superiors are so don't waste your breath."
"Heh superior my ass. I've eaten fox before."
"WHY YOU INSOLENT LITTLE…!"
"Enough Shadow! What is your purpose for coming to this brat's mind?"
Shadow casts one more glare in Naruto's direction before saying, "I came for answers."
"I see. No doubt you have questions about the brat's so called siblings and why I gave the girl the summon contract for our clan."
"Yes Kyuubi-Sama. I do not understand. I thought you despised all humans. And clearly this little insect isn't worthy of your help."
"That's not what you were saying when you took us out of that village!"
"Shut it brat!" yells Shadow.
Kyuubi smirks and says, "Believe it or not I have no reasons for helping this brat and his siblings other then the fact that I refuse to have a miserable vessel."
"Is that all Kyuubi-Sama?"
Kyuubi touches her chin in a thinking pose.
"Well I guess you could say I hold a feint amount of respect for the brat. He has the drive of kitsune and a stronger will then most others. He is also unafraid of us as I'm sure you have noticed."
Shadow scoffs at Naruto who merely gives him the finger.
"Yeah I'll admit the brat's got guts."
"Also. He has great potential."
Shadow smirks and says, "Heh doesn't look all that impressive."
"Shut it Fox!"
Kyuubi grins and says, "He may not look like much and he isn't much compared to us demons but he does have the potential to get there. As do his siblings and that other girl the humans experimented on. They just need the proper guidance and they refuse to associate with Human adults due to his past."
Shadow mulls it over for a second before saying, "If it is your wish that me and the other members of our clan train them then I'll gladly comply. Even if he is an insolent brat."
Naruto freezes. This was not something he expected o hear. Training? From demons? For some reason this revelation scared him a little but excited him at the same time.
Shadow looks at Naruto and then bows to Kyuubi. "It's good to know that you're still alive Kyuubi-Hime."
He then vanishes leaving a smirking Naruto. "So… He your boyfriend?" Kyuubi glares and pushes him out with chakra.
"Stupid brat," she says with the faintest of smiles.
Naruto awakens in the real world just in time to here Shadow say, "And that's why I've decide to get you brats trained."
"Really?!" asks Reiven with a huge grin.
Akira, Naturo and Tayuya look over at Naruto with questioning looks.
"The foxes respect us," says Naruto with a cocky grin.
Shadow scoffs but instead says, "Get ready. Because you five aren't leaving this place for a while. We have a whole lot to cover."
Tayuya smirks as a bit of smoke escapes her mouth. She links and arm with Reiven and says, "After all the shit we've been through I say do what you have to in order to make us strong."
Shadow grins. And says, "Alright then," He then does a jutsu that seals up the entrance making it so no one can get in. Or out.
"Prepare brats. For hell."
None of them liked the way Shadow was grinning.
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AN: Well there you have it. The children have finally found some decent training. Next chapter is Five years later. Hope you enjoyed it. Peace until next time ya'll!