A/N: This update actually was not plan. I was working on Troublesome and one of my Vault stories for my Yahoo group, Fox and Cat, and this just happened to pop into my head. Since it is always quite easy for me to do, I decided to get it done first. Anyways, sorry for waiting so long to update my own profile instead of Reaverstar with S-D-K's help. I just been having writer's block on all my Naruto stories due to the way the manga is shaping up. Anyways, enough of me babbling on why I haven't been writing, here is the next chapter to Blood Naruto.
I Do Not Own Naruto or BloodRayne.
"So why exactly are you three coming along with us? I thought Orochimaru-sama only assigned us to the Chunin Exams." Asked the black haired girl wearing an Oto kunoichi uniform with a purple ribbon tied to the back of her hair.
Yugito shook her head lightly as she turned to the girl with a slight smile on her face as she actually had a girl her age to talk to. But before she could answer her, she glance over at the disguised Orochimaru and Itachi who nodded that it was okay to tell her. Seeing this, she turned back to Kin and answered her. "Well, Orochimaru offered our caretaker and trainer an offer she couldn't refuse and all he wanted in return was us to help with the upcoming invasion any way we can, which happens to be quite a lot."
Kin nodded at the cat eared girl, who was convinced to leave her hood off as they would need visual ID anyways and there was no point in hiding the ears anyways as they would end up being shown sooner or later. Of course soon as she showed them to the other group of gennin, it was all that Kin and Zaku could focus on as it was just so weird, or in Zaku's mind, hot. Of course after threatening glares from Naruto, Kin and Yugito, he stopped staring. "Ah I see. The more help the better I guess. Hey, you beat Tayuya and the Sound Four yesterday right?" Getting a nod from the cat hanyou, she continued on a bit more excited. "Then can you train me during the breaks in the exams? I promise I'll work hard!"
A slight smile graced Yugito's lips as she heard Kin say this. For once she could be the one torturing... training someone instead of her, Naruto or Gaara going through hell. As she nodded both Itachi and Orochimaru kept from laughing out loud as they knew exactly what Yugito was thinking, the latter was cackling evilly in his mind while absently wanting to know how they trained as he was slightly interested knowing that it was quite possible that Yugito and Gaara together could beat him. Naruto wasn't even a contest as he had already proved able to defeat two Akatsuki members at once and he knew that he would have had a hard time duplicating the same feat.
On the other side of the group, both Gaara and Dosu were arguing over...
"Making their brain explode with sound waves."
"Crushing their body with sand."
"Exploding dammit!"
"Crushing."
"EXPLODING!"
Over which way of killing their opponent was worse. Needless to say neither was convincing the other very well. Ignoring the one sided fight argument between the two, Naruto and Zaku shook their heads. Naruto sighed lightly as he continued looking down the road, hoping they were close to arriving as he wasn't sure he could contain himself from yelling at the two of them. "I swear when we get to Konoha, we will separate those two so this will never happen again."
Zaku nodded in agreement as he kept stealing looks over at Kin and Yugito. Naruto noticed this and felt slight jealously washing over and thought about beating him into the ground, but he restrained himself from doing so as it wouldn't look good for him to do so. So to keep from doing just that, he pushed a minute amount of his vampiric energy into his blades to have them spring into place and began checking their sharpness by lightly running his finger on them. Just the light touch easily cut his finger so he had them fold back into place as he sucked his finger to stop the blood flow while enjoying his own taste. Zaku shivered lightly as he along with Kin and Dosu were told that he was half vampire with immunity to the sun. "Dude, can you not enjoy that so much? It's really creeping my out."
Naruto smirk hearing this as he pulled his finger out his mouth as the bleeding had stopped and turned towards Zaku. "If you're offering me a pint of blood, I might reconsider it."
The blood drained from Zaku's face as he stepped back in fear along with Dosu and Kin as they heard Naruto saying this and really hoping he was just joking around. A small smirk graced both his and Gaara's lips seeing their reactions as Yugito rolled her eyes at him. "Naruto, stop trying to creep everyone out already. You have entire scroll filled with package blood in your pouch."
"Ah, but that stuff is nasty compared to it coming straight from the body." Naruto countered with a larger grin in on his face making the three sound gennin back up even further from him while using Gaara and Yugito as shields.
"Naruto, enough. Stop playing around since we are almost to Konoha. Save that talk for the Chunin Exams." Itachi sternly spoke as his eyes focused on Naruto while refraining from activating his Sharingan as he was sure they were within ear range of Konoha shinobi now.
Looking forward once more, Naruto noticed the fortified walls of Konoha and nodded his head as now wasn't the time to play around. He could see that there wasn't many people guarding the walls, but the ones that were had an abundance of chakra leaving him to suspect that they were all at least jounin level shinobi. Not that it matter as he probably would be considered a S-class shinobi and the fact that he fought better against stronger opponents then he did against weaker ones as he had a tendency to hold back. Noticing that they had reached the gate, he reverted his eyes to his mother's blues as what seemed to be an Anbu wearing a mask with Ne on it stopped them. "Halt! State your reason for entering the village."
"We're here for the Chunin Exams. These are both teams that my village sent to compete." Orochimaru spoke in an altered voice to keep himself from being instantly recognized.
The root Anbu looked over all of them and nodded lightly as he understood. "Alright then, show me your and your gennin's paperwork and I'll let you through."
Naruto winced at this knowing that they were going to notice who he was right away and stall them from entering the village, but part of him wanted that so he could piss of the council and villagers. The disguised Orochimaru handed the Anbu their paperwork while purposely putting Naruto's on the bottom having the same thoughts of his younger counter part though he wasn't going to be revealing himself. The Anbu quickly went through all the names till her reached the last one and his eyes narrowed dangerously as he read the last one before turning towards Naruto. "The demon. I hereby execute you for your crimes against Konoha!"
He quickly pulled out his ninjato as Naruto sprung both his blades in place ready to defend himself as the Anbu started to charge but was suddenly stopped as a tree root wrapped around his waist while a snake from above wrapped itself around his neck baring its fangs and ready to strike at a moments notice. Suddenly two normal Anbu dropped down, one wearing a dragon mask and the other wearing a snake mask. The dragon masked one was easily a male due to his figure and the snake was easily female due to her bust. Orochimaru instantly recognized the female as Itachi was the same for the male as the dragon Anbu spoke. "If you do, you will start a war with their village and us as well. Now put back your blade and leave."
The said Anbu looked at both of them and growled lightly to himself, but knew he didn't have a choice. The female Anbu took the papers away from them before handing them back to the disguised Orochimaru as the root Anbu growled out at the dragon Anbu. "This isn't over!" With that he shushined away to tell his superiors.
The dragon Anbu only shook his head knowing there would be hell to pay. Turning towards the Oto group, he bowed lightly and apologized. "I apologize for that. A lot of the village has not gotten over the event twelve years ago and is still very bitter."
Naruto nodded along with the disguised Itachi and Orochimaru as they had figured this already. But being himself, Naruto spoke up. "Ah, it really wouldn't have mattered. He couldn't have done anything to me if he tried. In fact I'm kind of looking forward to another riot like the one when I was five so I can finally pay them back, don't you agree?"
Both Anbu flinched at the venom laced in Naruto's voice as he looked over them. He of course said this on purpose to gage their reactions and to sniff out how they felt about him and could detect nothing but sadness, sorrow and anger. Smelling those emotions coming from them, he gave a quick glance at Itachi and Orochimaru and nodded at them. Neither of them needed to be told to as they already knew who they were and the same could be said for them.
Sighing lightly the dragon Anbu looked at Naruto before looking down. "I'm sorry I wasn't there on that day. A lot of us were out on missions that day and I suspect the council had a hand in that as if they were planning on it."
Naruto grunted lightly as he fully suspected that they would do something like that and was about to speak again when Itachi interrupted him. "Is there somewhere more private for us to speak Yamato?"
Yamato nodded as he motioned them to follow before turning to snake Anbu. "Guard the gate till they return to do so. When they do you, return immediately as they'll most likely try to arrest you."
The female Anbu grinned under her mask as she heard this as she absently fingered a kunai in her pouch. "Good, it has been rather boring as of lately. People have been avoiding more and more and I have no one to play with or feed to Manda."
Orochimaru sighed hearing this and shook his head at her. "Now I understand the reason for his absence at times and his lack of asking me for tributes." Shaking his head as he realized he said that out loud, he looked over at her. "Try and cut down on summoning him unless you really need him or offering him food. Other people do have to use him."
"Hai, hai sensei."
Yamato growled lightly at her slight insubordination. "Anko! You know not to say anything as we could be spied on right now! When they come, do not try to confront them, understand." Anko nodded lightly as she looked over at her commander with slight fear as Yamato was dosing her in concentrated killer intent that was enough to catch the former jinchuurikis and Gaara's attention. Seeing that she was listening now, he turned towards the disguised Itachi and Orochimaru. "Alright then, follow me. The rest will have to stay behind for now and you can fill them in later."
Naruto looked a little put out by this, but as long as he knew it wasn't extremely important to him as Itachi and Orochimaru quickly followed Yamato. Shaking his head, he walked through the gates without care, but was quickly grabbed by Yugito who seemed to be glaring at him. "Change your eyes so it will be harder to tell who you are." Seeing Gaara nodding along with her, Naruto refrained from growling at them as he wanted some confrontation. But seeing the look the neko hanyou was giving him, he conceded and changed his eyes to Rayne's emerald. "Thank you. I didn't want to have to deal with too much today."
He couldn't help but blink in a moment of confusion before remembering what he had told her yesterday and nodded lightly. "Alright then. I'll guess I'll show you around. At least what I remember of it as it could have changed."
Hearing this, Kin walked up besides Yugito and looked straight at him. "Excuse me. Seeing that all of us are going to be here for a while, I think it would be courteous that we get to know the village better." The others nodded along with her as they all stood behind Yugito.
Both former vessels growled mentally at this as they were looking forward to some alone time without someone watching them. Glancing at each other, Naruto turned back to the rest of the group. "Didn't you get briefed on the lay out?"
Zaku shook his head at him as he answered. "Nope. We were just told what the three exams were as we won't be doing anything of much importance when the time comes."
Naruto blinked hearing this as he heard this, not knowing what the tests were going to be himself as Itachi didn't tell him. "Alright, I'll take you along with us in exchange for knowing what the exams are going to be." Yugito glared at Naruto as he said this, trying to drill a hole in his head as she didn't want to bring them along for any reason and was even more pissed when all three of the sound gennin nodded in agreement. Gritting her teeth lightly, she turned around and huffed. Naruto could only shake his head as he placed his hand on her back. "Sorry, but you know Gaara would have come with us anyone and they most likely would have followed us anyways."
Yugito growled lightly and even louder when Zaku nodded in agreement before sighing and shaking her head. "Alright. Now what are the exams then?"
"The first one is a written exam. It is fairly basic knowledge for most chunin, but the purpose in the exam is to test or espionage abilities. The second is a survival test. I'm not exactly sure on the details, but we will be up against the rest of the teams. The third exam is a tournament against the ones that passed the second exam, but their might be something before it to cut down the number of gennin in it if there are too many." Dosu answered in his usual, dark monotone voice.
"So nothing we need worry about then. Hm. The second exam sound like the most likely one where we'll be able to recruit anyone. Once we know what the objective is, we'll start working on that." Both Yugito and Gaara nodded in agreement. The sound three looked slightly confused at that, but figured it to be something that Orochimaru or the other guy asked them to do as they had a job to do in the second exam as well. "Alright then, I guess I'll start showing you around, but remember things most likely have changed since I've last been here."
All five nodded as they began to follow Naruto. They noticed some of the looks at them, but most were of confusion after a slight anger as they couldn't recognize Naruto. Yugito was slightly happy at that as she had known if Naruto had used either set of his blue eyes something bad would happen. Not that they couldn't handle it, but they were told to try and stay low by Itachi, Orochimaru and a severely injured Jiraiya in the hospital wing in Oto.
Twenty minutes had passed quickly and Naruto had shown them around the town, but mainly the major sites. They would have continued, but Naruto's stomach interrupted with a large roar. "Well, I guess that ends my little tour. How about we get something to eat?"
"Um, I thought you were a vampire and I thought vampires don't eat regular food. Then again, they aren't supposed to be able to stand day light." Kin said in a thoughtful, yet slightly confused tone.
Naruto just shook his head as he chuckled lightly and decided to answer her as he couldn't sense anyone or see anyone with his aura vision that was nearby. "That would be the case if I was a full fledged vampire. But I'm only a half breed so the sun doesn't really effect me. And add in my other side, I can eat normal food as well. Just I have to have a decent supply of blood otherwise my vampiric instinct will take over and make me feed on the closes creature to me." At this all three of the sound gennin flinch, none more so then Zaku. Seeing this, Naruto decided to continue on. "I haven't let that happen since I was six and don't plan to again, so don't worry. It was like I was a wild animal with no control over what I did and I didn't like it one bit."
All three of them calmed down slightly as they were glad to know he would just go wild on them and try to drain them of all their blood. Yugito could only shake her head lightly as she turned to Naruto. "Say, didn't you say there was a restaurant you use to always go to since they were always nice to you."
Naruto's eyes lit up as he instantly remembered the place as it was his favorite area in Konoha and was hoping they were still there so he could get some ramen. "Oh yeah! Ichiraku's Ramen. It serves all kind of flavors from vegetable to pizza flavored. I'm still wondering how they managed to make that flavor come out so perfect that it tasted like actual pizza..."
Before he could continue on about the wonders of ramen, which he seemed to still be addicted to despite all odds, he noticed the sound of someone panting and a pitter of foot steps. Turning around lightly as he sensed that was were the sound was coming from, a young boy wearing ragged clothing, a frail frame, brown hair and a face that slightly resembled Sarutobi's ran into his thigh and fell straight to the ground with swirly eyes. Naruto refrained from chuckling at the boy as he probably felt like he just ran into an iron wall; he offered his hand to the young boy. "You should be more careful. You could have ran into someone like Gaara here. He probably would have just threatened to crush you if you did it again."
The young boy paled at that and looked over at the red head and nodded lightly as he accepted Naruto's hand and was helped up. "Thanks... OH KAMI! THE PINK HAIRED MONSTER IS HERE!" With that said, he hid behind Naruto as a young girl with bright pink hair ran into the area steaming like a bull. Following her was a boy that seemed a year or two older then her with pitch black hair, a stoic face and was currently painting something on a notebook.
Naruto couldn't help but sweat drop at the young boy's statement and couldn't help but agree if he was in his position he would have said the same damn thing about the girl. Luckily enough, the girl didn't seem stupid enough to continue on as she noticed the six of them. Of course he could only shake his head as he turned to the young boy. "Alright, what did you do to piss her off?"
"Um, I called her a bitch because she was treated me like I didn't exist and for calling me an unlovable outcast since I was orphaned when my grandfather died." The young boy spoke nervously.
In an instant, Naruto's eyes had narrowed and his eyes shifted to his Inu red and emerald, surprising and scaring the young boy as he turned to the pink haired girl before turning back to him seeing that he was telling the truth. "Is that so? Well you had every right to. No one should make fun of for being an orphan." His gaze turned back the girl, who was slightly unnerved by the change of his eye color as it reminded her of her teammate's ability to turn his eyes red. "And you girly should be above calling people names. You're a kunoichi aren't you?"
Seeing her nod lightly, he continued on. "Then start acting like one. Shinobi have better things to do then calling young kids names." With that said, he turned his back on her and put his should on the young boy's shoulder. "Come on. I was about to treat my team and friends for dinner."
The young boy looked ecstatic as he at the thought of food nodded energetically. Naruto smiled lightly at him as Yugito could only shake her head as the others looked confused, not counting Gaara since he shrugged his shoulders uncaringly. Soon as they were about to walk off, the said pink haired girl took a few steps forward and spoke to them in a loud, but not yelling tone. "And why should I listen to you? You aren't even Konoha shinobi only here for the Chunin Exams. You have no right to interfere with our business anyways so get lost."
Finally getting annoyed at the young girl, Naruto was about to turn around when Yugito placed her hand on his shoulder and turned around herself and glared at the pink haired girl. "And you should keep your business out of ours. He ran into us so he has every right to seek out our protection. Now if you would excuse us."
Yugito turned back around and started walking off with the others leaving a fuming Konoha kunoichi. Without thinking twice, she shouted out loud at her. "Hmp! You only say that because you have your friends around bitch! I bet I could take you out in a one on one match! But I bet you're just on you're team for moral support and to be a hole to fill up!"
Before Yugito could whirl around in anger, Naruto had disappeared from behind the young orphan and appeared right in front of the pink haired kunoichi and gripped her throat tightly. Everyone besides Gaara and Yugito were stunned at his speed and the young teen wasn't able to react in time to stop him as he began to lift her up like a rag doll. She quickly gripped his wrist with both of her hands while avoiding touching the blade and tried to crush his wrist only to fail. Naruto narrowed his eyes at this as the pressure on his wrist was much more then he anticipated. 'What the hell? If I didn't know better I would say this girl's strength might match that of Yugito's. Damn, they really are turning their young into weapons!'
Before he could think any further, his left arm struck out to his side and grabbed a rock in mid air and crushed it with ease as he glared at the girl in his grasp. "I'll say this once and only once. If you fail to do so, I will rip out your heart and feast on it in front of you dying eyes. Never insult my friends and teammates. And never, ever insult a child again otherwise if I learn about it, I will hunt you down. Understand!" He emphasized his point as his eyes flashed gold while concentrated a massive amount of killer intent on her.
Her eyes widened in pure fear as his killing intent washed over her. It was nothing she felt before even when they lost their sensei during their trip to the Wave. It felt like he had absolute power over her and would willingly kill her if he needed to and he was making sure she knew it was the truth from his statement. Not only that, the air around her seemed to have frozen as it felt like it was below zero and she began shivering and shuddering under the pressure. She couldn't help it as she tried to cross her legs as she lost control of her blatter.
Naruto sniffed the air a bit and flinched in disgust as he dropped her from his grip and she fell to the ground, shaking and shivering as she wrapped her arms around herself, trying to stay warm. In an instant, the one that threw the rock at him was at her side showing that he had raven colored hair and other features like that of Itachi. In an instant he recognized him as Sasuke and turned around, not wanting to have to deal with him now. Before he could get far enough a way, he heard the icy cold words of the young Uchiha. "That was uncalled for. Just who do you think you are?!"
"It might have been, but my point was made. She should not try to pick fights and go around making orphans feel unwanted. They are already alone enough as it is. And in this exam you will learn who I am Uchiha as we will meet sooner or later and everything you want can come true. Till that time, I bid you farewell." Naruto spoke in a calm, yet deadly voice without turning around to meet his eyes, therefore not noticing that his Sharingan was fully developed.
Before Sasuke could respond, Naruto, Gaara, Yugito and the sound three along with the orphaned boy rounded the corner. He could only sigh and shake his head as he looked down at Sakura. 'Dammit. As much as I hate to have her breaking down like this, she does need to learn. And I wonder what he meant by everything I want can come true? Wait, does he know about my tou-san and aniki!'
As he was about to chase after them, their newly appoint jounin-sensei jumped into the area. "What the hell happened here?"
"Hm. It seems the former Kyuubi vessel is impressive." Spoke a young man wearing a black cloak with a few red clouds spaced around it as he put up a bloody kunai. His hair was dark brown and his face had a slight regal appearance to it. But his eyes were what brought attention to him as the white of his eyes were a dark yellow that were not quite gold and his pupil was a black, four point shuriken with a rather large iris in the middle.
"Yes, but he is not our target. What of the Ichibi vessel?" Came from a young female wearing the same cloak as the man. She had dirty blonde hair with deep blue eyes and a slightly feral look to her face.
The young man could only shake his head as he picked up the dead Konoha shinobi and threw it off the wall and into the forest. "I didn't see anything of value about him. It is obvious he is much stronger then he was two years ago just by appearance alone. Other then that I have nothing. We'll have to wait for the exams to start before I can measure him up before we attempt to go capture him."
"And of the Beliar piece that is suppose to be here?" The teenage kunoichi asked as she threw another two bodies off the wall that seemed that they were impaled by large spikes.
"Seems like one of the gennin coming to his exam has one implanted into him. Which one of the gennin and what part I'm not entirely sure on, but it is one from Kusagakure."
"That's all we needed Rikimaru. Let's get out of here for now and report to Pein."
"Lead the way Rei."
The girl shook her head before jumping off the wall and the young male followed her into the wilderness outside of Konoha.
"So you met up with Sasuke today and the Sandaime's grandson?" Itachi spoke in his light tone as he sipped on his cup of tea while Naruto nodded his head. Both were sitting at the coffee table as the others were asleep in their rooms, except for Orochimaru who was still out. "Well, other then pissing off the council today, which we already knew would happen, I can understand why you did that. The girl stepped out of line and you put her back in place. Now, what was Sasuke like?"
Naruto shook his head as he sipped on his tea lightly. "Can't say much as we didn't stick around lightly. He did seem defensive of his teammate, which is a plus side seeing that Konoha seems to be trying to make the younger generation into weapons. I also gave him what he needed to hear so he'll come seek me out."
Itachi raised his eyebrow at him before nodding his head as he knew Naruto would do so. "Fine with me. You're the best bet to get him onto our side without Orochimaru resorting to the curse seal."
"So that's what he was planning for him. Hn, can't say I'm surprised. I saw it in his eyes that he is becoming unstable, but the same can be said about me as well." Naruto answered as he downed the last of his tea. "So what did Yamato say when you followed him?"
Pulling out two pokey sticks, Itachi threw one to Naruto as he opened his and began to lightly munch on it before answering. "Just like Jiraiya and Orochimaru had told us before. Konoha is on the verge of a civil war. While most are still obeying what the council tells it, for the most part, they are silently rebelling against them. Mostly everyone there agreed with Orochimaru's plan except being allowed to evacuate a good portion of the citizens as some are innocent and don't deserve to be put through this."
Naruto huffed at that as he took a bit out of the pokey stick while Itachi sighed at him. "Naruto I know you disagree with that, but some truly are. Would you like it if Konohamaru to get caught up in the attack." Naruto looked down and shook his head as he swallowed another bite of pokey. "I thought not. That's why we are going to allow them to evacuate some to the safe houses when we attack."
Taking another bite of his pokey and chewing it for a bit, he pulled out a scroll and rolled it over the table at Naruto. Instinctively grabbing it, Naruto looked at Itachi in questioning when the Uchiha took another bite of his pokey before answering him. "It's a scroll an certain green freak took from his old friends apartment and thought you would want it as he was suppose to be one of your god fathers. And don't think about not using it, I know one technique on there and it is very useful in tight situations."
Nodding lightly as he finished the pokey stick Itachi gave him; Naruto stood up and stretched lightly. "Well, time to call it a night seeing as I have to get up in six hours. Damn them for having the exams during the day. I'm still not use to getting up before its night fall."
Itachi nodded in agreement as he finished up his stick of pokey before pulling out another. "Same here, but get use to it. I have a feeling a few of the competitors will be worth the time of day. And if not you can always look forward to fighting Gaara and Yugito."
Naruto nodded in agreement as he walked over to his room before stopping as he turned back to Itachi. "Hey Itachi. Do you think I can bring Konohamaru back to the mansion after this is all over?"
Blinking in surprise at Naruto's question, the Uchiha quickly recovered himself before shrugging. "If he wants to, but you'll have to run it by Rayne first and she won't be here for a few days."
Nodding as he suspected that answer, Naruto opened his door and slid into the room to try and get some sleep.
A/N2: Well here is the eleventh chapter. Read and Review.
