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A/N-Now, I welcome you to the next fabulous addition of my ever so wonderful story Ramen My Savor! Quick notes and changes I've made concerning visual criteria:
When the Fox or summons are talking I'll still use bold print though there won't be all cap locked. When I went back to read over my story -I'm kind of shocked at all the small grammar errors I made- I found the capitalizing eye straining and hard to follow. I'll be revising the other chapter accordingly.
Now, for the poll…. one winner will be announced next chapter and at the bottom of this one. Remember Naruto's wife has been decided… his flings in between are still up for grabs. So get to it and review your vote!
However, I ramble let the good times begin!
RMS
Last time:
Madara made another call this time from in front of Hiroshima. Time froze as a cut deeply seeded into the cheeks of both Naruto and the Senjuu almost nicking through the layer of muscles masking their cheekbone. Hiroshima and Naruto felt a wintry chilliness roll down their vertebrae. Numb at what had just happened. They hadn't even felt the pierce of their flesh until their own blood rained down their sides.
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Naruto's eyes widened at the sickening sliver that befell his cheeks in unison to the Senjuu. Then he blinked a couple of times as he felt himself fall from his flax binding.
"So fast," Naruto silently alleged aloud. Madara had managed to splice both the he and the brunette. While Naruto suspended 7ft in the air restrained and Hiroshima who was 14ft from Naruto on the ground able bodied. At the exact, same time in the exact same place.
The black haired Uchiha mumbled something incoherently. And began to trudge toward the Hokage at a sedate pace. Closing in on the awe struck Senjuu. The red-eyed warrior plucked, a giant Fuma Shurikan that he had held in his hands back into a storage seal on his body. He then mimicked this action, placing a sharp wire he had coiled around his forearms back into his seals as well.
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Naruto hit the ground silently. He shook his head and wondered how he managed to get loose.
Naruto wobbled and shirked this invading thought. However, curiosity got the better of him and he drove off focus. Carefully, Naruto turned his cranium behind him, to see what it was that happened to the vine that restrained him moments ago.
What he saw was nothing the likes of which he suspected.
The jungle like vine that Hiroshima used, had a rather large indented black colored notch at its tip. As Naruto turned toward it, the small little nick that chopped at the tip not to far away, from where his face was moments ago was rapidly decaying at a frantic pace.
Naruto placed a hand next to his cheek where Madara had cut him not to long ago.
"Holly shit! ... Acid?" Naruto mouthed feeling a tingle on his face. He traced a finger where his whisker marks was held, feeling a new set of grooves on both sides of his cheeks.
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Madara finally within range, knocked Hiroshima out his stupor, delivering a thunderous roundhouse kick, at the Kage with his left leg. He nailed Hiroshima right across the face. The power of the blow caused the fire shadow to spiral ten feet away and hit the dirt. None too gracefully at that either.
"Wake up Senjuu! Face me like the sniveling poor excuse of a leader, I know you to be!" Madara growled still holding his leg used moments ago poised in the air.
Hiroshima worked up to his feet quickly barrel rolling up as hit the ground. The cycloptic Madara grinned daftly and blurred out of sight. Without a hint of movement to even the trained eye. Hiroshima cursed bitterly. He had never been good at calculating that damnable Uchiha's attack patterns.
The shadow slunk his chakra levels to conceal himself slightly. With Madara's at only fifty percent visibility, his fancy foot works perception would be off. His attack, which Hiroshima had faced many times in the past was one of the few Hiroshima was truly pressed to counter.
Madara's speed was inhuman and relied heavily on his Sharigan to keep control of his movements. With only one eye, the Uchiha would need to use some sort of chakra sensory type jutsu in conjunction to his blood limit. If he wished to accurately, foretell Hiroshima's movements and watch his own progress while moving at such speeds. Because, running at such a rate distorted his visual conception making it difficult to see exactly where or when he was going.
"Always with the tricks eh?" Hiroshima said loudly hoping to bait Madara into giving away his position. "What don't you come out and face me like a man traitor! Prove to me that you got cohunes! You rat bastard!"
Silence reigned.
"Shit," Hiroshima elegantly spewed taking a basic guarding stance. His goading had failed. Perhaps he was to direct? But then again it had never been his strong suit. He was always more of an executor than a setter anyway.
An unnatural wind wavered over the tree line. It coated the outside of the trench of the valley, chilling Hiroshima to the bone. The wind died just as fast as it came. In its place, blood red clouds loomed overhead. The clouds strategically floated. At a swift, aberrant rapidity and blocked out the sun, obstructing Hiroshima's line of sight considerably. The shadows of the valley lengthened and covered much of bordering walls in shadowed darkness.
"Back to the basics then," Hiroshima said double taking behind him and placing his hands in the ram. Madara was playing this by the beat of his own drum this time around it seemed. Goading him any further would just give away his position…
Hiroshima sneakily transferred some of his chakra into the ground around him, to make it harder for the Uchiha to pin point his position by dispersing his chakra at a slightly wider radius. That in the kage's own words should be enough get any blows that Madara chucked at him, to be off a couple of degrees.
Having set himself up, the Senjuu began the arduous task of locating the Uchiha.
"Above? No. Behind? No. To my Left? No. Right? No… Then that means BELOW!" Hiroshima roared and quickly changed to a snake seal and called, "Mokuton: Symbiotic earthen guard release!" He murmured and created a temporarily sentient root out soil, and randomly intertwined plant growths. He acted merely on impulse alone.
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Naruto felt an odd ramble at his feet.
"An earthquake?" Naruto asked to himself. He was nippy to strike that deliberation as the ground beneath him overturned at the brink of his muse.
Naruto jumped back and his eyes dilated at what he saw. The Hokage garbed fellow, had conjured up another one of his fetishes. This one however, took the bodily form of serpent.
The blonde-man scratched the back of his nervously at the giant serpent structure.
"Not sure if this guy is worth the hassle anymore…" He said with an estranged grin.
"And what the hell is it with this guys fucking vine fetish? What a kink," he chuckled to himself. At that note, Naruto slowly tiptoed away from the scene in a cartoony fashion. A bloody piano found its way on to the scene skimming through high notes for effect.
Just as Naruto was about to make the final break for it, the fake reptile shifted his head. As its head made its move and finished its' crunchy pause, its shrubby maw opened. In its mouth was the craggy form of Madara Uchiha.
"How the hell did he get in there?" Naruto yelled surprised at the turn of events. Then just like that. Quick as tick, Naruto had redrawn himself into the scrimmage. Using a bit of stealth Naruto took to the shadows and found a nice place he could gaze at the duo behind an odd rock formation.
He no longer felt the need to involve himself. These chakra titans, might very well cost him more than his robe if brushed them both he wrong way. "Come to think of it I already have. Haven't I?" Naruto mused, recollecting the attack that started the affair.
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The first true Uchiha as he would have himself known teetered in place scanning through his deceptively effective jutsu arsenal. His lone eye wormed angrily about the snakes woody innards'.
"H-how," Madara panted. The Nin's body was covered with purple bruises and sickly red-yellow scratches from earlier frays. His raven hair matted down in sweat. It felt uncomfortable and disgusting on the red-eyed man's pale complexion. The wood project had even begun to secrete a sappy fluid that stung and burned his flesh on contact. Greedily it added to the tolled additions wearing down his body.
Hiroshima raised his nose to Madara. The raven haired Nin in returned bared empty fangs at the Senjuu.
"How dare he mock me?" Madara internally raged. "I shall not be vanquished!"
After he fixed his gaze, Hiroshima licked his tired lips and replied in kind.
"You let your guard down!" Hiroshima responded as snarky as possible. He refused to give the Uchiha the satisfaction that he had only caught him on blind luck and impulse alone. And getting an emotional advantage over his opponents was also a plus.
'Best to leave the rancid spoils to rot amongst themselves,' Hiroshima thought to himself without any self-endowed fault. Then he jumped off the ground onto the stationary serpents head.
A shaky voice rang out of the snake's mouth.
"I-It won't e-nd li-li-like thissss," Madara hissed aloud. "I will not be ended. I won't be denied. I won't be slain by the likes of you. I REFUSE TO BECOME A MEMORY!" He roared flaring his chakra hectically. The ethereal blue energy becomes visible lashing out at anything that was to close to him.
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Naruto blinked, in recognition to the massive pools of chakra that man was playing with.
Critically Naruto sighed, "Okay, you're angry…but why the hell are you putting out so much chakra?" Naruto wondered to himself almost benightedly, for unbeknownst to him the odd formation that he had claimed began to glow…
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Hiroshima struggled to stand straight under the enormous pressure that Madara was exerting from his chakra round up alone. "Maybe playing with his emotions was a bad thing…" Hiroshima regretted. Nonetheless, what's done is done. Furthermore, aside murder, he couldn't fix that lapse.
"It will not end like this Senjuu!" He repeated for the umpteenth time.
The plant user relaxed his shoulders and began to form the set of seals that would hopefully conclude things, before they go out of hand. That chakra vented was a variable Hiroshima did not appreciate nor foresee.
Hiroshima placed his hands in the tiger seal. "Mokuton: Hebi retaliation no jutsu!" He yelled out putting in as much chakra as he could. Then like a drunkard. The snake, constructs' mouth grew barbs all along the inside of its form. Its' pikes glistening with its special sap. Then just as fast as the spikes grew the snakes' mouth began to shut.
"I will not become a memory!" Madara screeched as the mouths of the snake hits its mark and drove into the bodyof the traitor.
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The nasty grinding and crunching of wood on bone was as nauseating to the ears as it was the nose. Blood splattered and flew, decorating the valley walls with a fresh coat of crimson. The mixed smells and ironic screams of frustration oddly ringing a sense of harmonic foreboding to Naruto's ears…
A warm sense of belonging seemed to creep into his being at the satanic display he watched with anticipation. Naruto even began to smile. As to why he smiled? He was not sure himself. It just felt right. Naruto's head began to bob to the sweet musical screams, though of whom he wasn't sure. Nor did he really care.
It was as if some force had willed over him. A force that sought to comfort him, by giving him joy at through others suffering and anguish. He didn't comply or resist, only fell deeper in tune with his beckoning, his eyes closed and devoid to his surroundings.
And the runes abroad glowed all the more brighter.
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-Note that I am looking for someone experienced with desirable grammatical presence that is not heavily biased or opinionated. And also willing to comply with my random updating-.
Now for the poll results:
Teen
Ino-2
Sakura-3
Hinata-6
Fem. Haku-3
Nii Yuugito-10
Tenten-2
Adult
Anko-5
Kurenai-7
Princess Yuki-3
The winner of the adult poll was… with 7 votes, Kurenai!
Moreover, the status for the teen poll will be announced next chapter. Along with a final a chapter curtain call, poll…
As always Review, and enjoy the rest of your day!