Sorry to have kept you waiting… Here's chapter 11


{=Immortality=}

Naruto studied the man in front of him. He had to tilt his head upwards at a big angle, since he was still tied up.

'The old man called him Seth…'

Seth was a name for pure evil, and the man looked like it.

He was wearing the Akutsuki robe, but on the sections of his limbs you could see were tattoos covering his whole skin. He was pierced in both ears and his eyes were emotionless.

Seth approached the tied up Jinchuriki and picked him up over his shoulder.

"Put me down!"

Again, Naruto struggled to break free, but to no avail.

"Shut up… Or I'll cut your hands off…"

Naruto, upon hearing Seth's scary, low voice, swallowed and resumed his tries to break the rope.

"Didn't you hear Sigma? This rope was specially made for you… There's no escape".

Seth carried Naruto from roof to roof until they reached the gate. Suddenly, Seth was attacked by a thousand shurikens and kunai. He blocked each easily but was forced to drop Naruto.

"Naruto?"

"Tenten…"

Tenten threw a precise shuriken that cut the rope binding Naruto. Naruto quickly got up and got in battle formation.

"Who is this guy?"

"They're Akutsuki… They are after Neji and I; both for different reasons".

"Wait, there's another one?"

"Yes. He's already gone to Neji. We have to hurry".

"You're not going anywhere…" Seth wasn't kidding.

Both Tenten and Naruto felt a sticky feeling in they're legs. Some kind of mud was emerging from the ground, grabbing they're legs; immobilizing them.

Seth walked forward at a slow pace, his eyes fixed with theirs. Tenten took out a kunai and started cutting the mud but the knife just stuck to the mud.

Seth took out a long, red halberd while still walking towards them. Tenten and her Jinchuriki friend couldn't help but look at Seth.

His murderous eyes were red. Tenten dropped the kunai, her eyes filled with fear. She was shaking now along with her Jinchuriki friend.

'What's happening...? Why am I so scared? Those eyes… What is he?'

Seth was emotionless as he continued forward with a deadly weapon now in his hands.

"Who…Who are you?" Naruto managed to mumble out.

Even Naruto was scared. They didn't know why, but Seth was terrifying enough to scare them to death. Apart from his eyes, He didn't look scary… He just was scary.

"I am the Devil".

Hospital…

Sigma was having a stare down with Neji, Lee and Sakura.

'Fighting Neji was part of my plan, but those two…They're going to get in the way…'

"Who are you?" Lee finally said.

"I'm an old man seeking revenge for my former leader, Sauske".

Sakura was surprised. "What are you talking about?"

Sigma smiled. He found an opening.

"Surely you're friend over there had bragged about how he had killed Sauske…"

Sigma pointed towards Neji. Sakura glanced at Neji.

"Sakura now's not the best time to…"

"You killed Sauske? When? How? Why wasn't I informed?"

"Sakura look out!"

Sakura turned her head to see a lighting staff fly towards her. It was easily deflected by a certain bushy-browed ninja.

"Fight me…"

"I did not travel twenty-two miles just to end up fighting an amateur Tai-jutsu user…"

Lee was really ticked by that last comment.

"Leaf Hurricane!"

Sigma grabbed Lee's left leg and threw him to his right. Lee hit the hospital wall and fell over as it crumbled under the great force.

"Lee!" Sakura yelled.

"I hope now, we can get to business, Ne…"

"Eat this!"

Sigma was punched in the stomach so hard; his body flew outside the hole he had made upon his entry.

Sakura felt proud.

Neji, even though Sigma was here to kill him, felt bad that he had kept secrets from his friends.

He recalled what the Hokage had told him that day he was assigned the assassination mission.

"Remember. This mission is confidential. Only you and Naruto can know…"

He shook his head and returned to reality. "Lee, are you alright?"

"I'm fine. We'd better get you to a safe place; you're in no condition to fight…"

"It's ok. I can fight… I was due out of the hospital today anyway".

Neji stood up, feeling a slight pain.

He could hear his inner voice talking to him. 'You shouldn't have had so much fun with Tenten when you should've been resting…'

'Shut up…'

As Neji got up, Sigma entered through the same hole again.

"I must admit that did feel a bit ticklish…"

Sakura clenched her teeth.

"So full of yourself are you? Well, there's three of us and one of you…"

"I guess you're right… Seth, come in Seth…" Sigma talked into his radio.

The three ninjas took the opportunity to attack; Neji with his air palm, Lee with his Tai-Jutsu and Sakura with her abnormal strength.

Sigma was sent flying back outside the hospital by Neji's jutsu. Sakura and Lee followed him and attacked; the three now fighting in a circle formed by gasping and screaming citizens.

"Yes sir. I'm here at the hospital…"

"Good…"

Neji analyzed Sigma as his friends kept him occupied. He was dodging every attack like it was nothing. He activated Byakugan and looked at Sigma's chakra…

'What? He… Has no chakra?'

Neji was officially confused. And that was really rare.

His enemy had no chakra, but then how was he performing jutsu?

'Maybe they're not jutsu. Maybe they're just…'

Magic?

Suddenly, Neji spotted a thrown kunai behind him using his Byakugan and turned to catch it with his bare hand.

His eyes were full of shock when they saw who had thrown it.

"Tenten...?"

It was Tenten, but this wasn't the same Tenten he had known for twelve years. He certainly would've remembered if her eyes were a murderous red.

She seemed to be under a spell. Seth was standing right next to her with the same red eyes.

"Tenten! Tenten, snap out of it, it's me, Neji!"

She didn't say a word. Instead she threw more kunai along with shuriken this time. Neji dodged each one, of course.

'What am I going to do? I can't hurt her…'

Her face was emotionless, nothing like the original girl he had loved.

"Keep the others busy…" Seth ordered. From behind Seth's back, Naruto revealed himself. He was under the same spell.

'Naruto?'

Tenten and Naruto ignored Neji and leaped above him to land in front of Lee and Sakura. Both were in great confusion to battle their own comrades. "That should keep them occupied…" Sigma noted.

He turned to Neji and put an evil smile on his wrinkled face.

"Ready for Heaven, Hyuga?"


I must say… I enjoyed typing that ^_^

Uh oh… Got to get back to studying…

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