Neglect
Chapter 11
And I am mobile! Yes, I got my truck…finally. Now I just need this book store to hire me. That would be great!
Oh and i fixed the mistakes from last chapter.
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Naruto got up and looked around to see he was pretty far from his team. "Ugh great, now what?"
"How about you die quietly." A muffled voice stated. Naruto turned to the voice to see a genin around his age, but heavily wrapped up in bandages.
"Or don't! I kind of want a good fight!" another teen said as walked onto the scene.
"Zaku…shut up." The mummy said.
"Now now, no need for you to be so aggressive to your teammate Dosu." Kabuto said as he too appeared. "After all, all six of us get to kill him."
"Huh? Kabuto, I thought you were here to help!" Naruto growled.
"Nope, I was hired to kill you…like them." Kabuto said as his team appeared with him and Kin walked up next to Zaku.
"What? Who would hire you kill me?" Naruto asked, on edge.
"My master of course. You would know her as Kushina Uzumaki." Kabuto said with a dark smile.
"I see." Naruto replied calmly with his hair shadowing his eyes. "When did you start following her?"
Kabuto smirked. "When she freed me from my mental bonds with Sasori of the Red Sands. She freed me in exchange for my service and my mission is to kill you. So I set up two teams to do that job."
"Overkill much? After all, I am Nothing." Naruto stated with his hair still covering his eyes.
"Oh please, nothing is overkill in the ninja world." Zaku shouted.
"While that is true, I highly doubt you are as weak as you portray. You may have fooled your mother, you haven't fooled me." Kabuto said seriously. "Still, my master has ordered your death and that is what I plan to do. Still, mommy wanting her weak son dead, a little harsh but who am I to judge. Don't worry, I'll make this quick."
Suddenly, Naruto was put in a lock. If he had looked to see who it was, he would have seen a rather bland genin from Kabuto's team. He wore a high-collared, sleeveless, navy-blue shirt with a short-sleeved, white one underneath, a simple obi around his waist, pants, sandals and fingerless gloves, along with a pair of round framed glasses. He also wore his headband like a bandana and he wore a cloth over his face to conceal it.
Kabuto smirked that Naruto for his teammate's jutsu and because of that, he was now an easy target, making him really think that Naruto was weak. "Heh, well, maybe mommy was right. Oh well, not like many people will miss you." He said as he calmly walked over to Naruto to put his mystical palm technique right through the blond's chest.
As he was a few centimeters away from killing the blond, there was a sudden pulse. Kabuto got a glimpse of the blond's face to see it was full of rage and his eyes were red before the assassin was propelled backwards by a sudden explosion of power.
"AAAAAARGH!" Naruto screamed out in pure rage as his Chaos Drive activated on its own, growing in power the more Naruto's anger rose. Black streaks of power running across his body more violently than before. The explosion of power even put a dent in the earth around him.
It reached to levels that made everyone in the forest feel it and beyond.
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"Uh, this is not the plan!" Menma growled.
"Who cares Jinchuriki!" said a Suna genin as he fought with him. "Still, I think Gaara should have been the one to do this since he is just like you. A fair fight, monster against monster."
"Fuck you!" Menma shouted, Naruto word about how some people viewed Jinchuriki coming to mind. It was then he felt the power of Naruto. "What the fuck is that? That can't be Kaeru!"
"That is not Gaara either." The Suna genin stated in fear.
"Fuck! There are too many unknowns in this damn forest." Menma growled to himself as he killed the distracted Suna Genin. "But, you idiots should never let your guard down." The remaining two leapt at him. Menma just smirked as he brought out his new weapon he had been working on. A bladed chain.
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"Oh we are going to have fun with you girl. I had heard the Hokage's daughter was beautiful, but the rumors don't justifiy how hot you are." A kiri genin said with a dark perverted smile as his teammates chuckled.
"Oh? That's nice, but I am not interested in you idiots, but if you want to play that much, I'll make you sweat." Kaeru said dangerously as she took out both Zabuza and Kisame's old blade, shocking her foes. They were in a stabbing motion and dug into the ground. "Come on boy's, I though you want to play. No? Okay then, I'll come for you!"
"What the hell? Dude, no one ever said anything about her having those blades and being able to weird them at the same time!"
"Unexpected yes, but we can handle this bitch. Yagura-sama wants her and he will have her." The obvious leader of the group said despite his own nervousness. However, there was something that helped his nerves. The way Kaeru held the blades was rather pathetic as it looked like she was dragging them.
"Whatever." Kaeru stated as she applied chakra to her blades, making seals appear around them before they shift to Katanas, the head cleaver blade turning into a white katana while the Samehada turned into a black blade.
Now this made the leader sweat. Maybe Kaeru was capable to wielding both blades after all.
But before she could strike them down, she felt Naruto's power. "What the…that can't be Menma." She said as they were frozen by the hatred in the power hitting them. "Damn, it feels worse than before…what is going on? Hold on brother, I'll be right there!"
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Gaara raised an eyebrow at the feeling of a dark power before shrugging it off. But Temari did see a small crazed smirk on his face. Yes, Gaara knew this power could only be Naruto and he wished to fight the boy. But he would wait until they crossed paths. He had no interest in searching the boy out. For now, he would sate his bloodlust with those rain ninja ahead.
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Outside the forest, people felt the power and thought it was either Kaeru or Menma using their power on some unfortunate soul. However, there were a few who knew and froze in midstep. Tsunade let out a lone tear for Naruto as Shizune was freaking out. After all, they were the first to know about it and analyzed it for the blond.
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At the hot springs, Jiriaya froze mid-giggle and paled. He felt that it could be Naruto since the other two felt different. "Shit….I did mess up. I probably paved the way for the darker ending to the real prophecy! Shit!"
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In the Hokage tower, Minato and Kushina froze for a second as their eyes turned red. Minato frowned while Kushina gained a surprised look before that look turned into a sinister smile. "Oh? So he is infected too!"
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The moment the power hit Misumi, he felt his skin burn worse than anything he had ever felt and quickly let go of Naruto as he writhed on the ground, screaming in pain as his skin melted. Naruto didn't waste a second as he disappeared, only to reappear on Dosu's arm, crushing the melody weapon and his arm. The enraged blond then kicked Dosu's head, snapping it back with a sickening crack, killing him instantly.
A needle managed to hit him, but then just drew his attention to the long, raven haired girl that threw it. Kin gulped hard when the blazing red eyes of her target snapped to her. The blond merely sneered and brought up his hand. It glowed for a moment and then Kin screamed in terror as she held her head in pain. It became so much that her screams died when her heart stopped. She had literally died of fright from the forced images in her mind.
"What the fuck man!?" Zaku shouted in fear. "Dosu? Kin? Ah shit!" Zaku was scared beyond belief, but he was not going to die against this freak without a fight! So he pointed his hands at the blond, his wind tubed ready to shred this guy at a moment's notice. "EXTREME DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!" He shouted, letting out all his power on the blond and the surrounding area.
When it finally died down, Zaku stared in horror as Naruto just stood there glaring at him in the destruction of his jutsu. "No! How can you be alive after that!?" Naruto stayed silent as he walked over to Zaku, his enraged aura increasing with each step he took and with each step, Zaku's fear was rising. "No. NO! Stay away! STAY AWAY YOU MONSTER! NO! AAAARGH!" Zaku shouted and near the end they were both screaming as Naruto formed a blade of pure light from the surrounding area and hit Zaku dead center, but Naruto's jutsu didn't stop with a mere run through. It expanded in his body until parts of it painfully exited the boy's body and then he exploded in light and blood.
For the longest time after that, it was dead silent, but his hate filled aura was getting worse as the surrounding wildlife of the Forest of Death was being scared away from him and teams across the forest were all freaking out.
However, in a second, Naruto's legs were cut from under him as he fell on his back. One of Kabuto's other teammates, who looked just as dull but with sunglasses instead, appeared and made his last mistake. He used his chakra absorbing powers to try and take Naruto's power. As soon as the process started, a black streak of lightning like power arced from Naruto's body onto his attacker. The affect from this was that Yoroi suddenly screamed in pain as Naruto's power had attacked his chakra network directly, burning him from the inside out.
Finally, Naruto snapped his attention back to his first attacker and the blond got back on his feet. When Kabuto had been flung away from him, the boy had landed in a tree branch. Well…it had impaled his chest and his healing power was keeping him alive as he watched the horror in from of him.
"T-this wasn't suppose t-to end like this. I thought you were just a bit stronger than you let on. N-not this strong!" he rasped out as blood dripped from his chin.
"Not everything is as it seems!" Naruto roared as he held out his palm as he menacingly walked over to Kabuto, a rasengan forming in his hands. "Dust Style: Rasengan!"
"NO!" Kabuto freaked, knowing about Dust Style and its properties. It scared it him to death.
The Rasengan hit the branch Kabuto was impaled through and it began to slowly disintegrate the wood until it was dangerously close to Kabuto's chest.
"NARUTO! STOP!" A commanding female voice rang throughout the area, making it go deathly quiet as the blond looked to the speaker and his eyes widened.
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By this time, Gaara had dispatched his would be killers at the hands of Rain Ninja. They were now dead as his feet and his smile was scaring his siblings. Yes, Naruto would be a great opponent to test his existence. Oh yes, he would do well. "Temari, Kankuro, let's go. The Tower awaits."
"Huh? I thought you were going to go after that Naruto kid." Kankuro said.
"Let him come to me. It seems he is done with his fun anyway." Gaara stated simply before walking off to the tower, leaving his sibling concerned. Was that dark power that happy blond?
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Near Gaara's position, team 8 was frozen in horror. Not only did they have to watch Gaara kill rain nins in a horrific way, but they just learned whom that dark power suppopsedly belonged to.
"No way was that Naruto." Kiba shakily said.
Hinata just shook her head, not believing it either.
Shino just stayed quiet.
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Kushina frowned as the dark connection was cut. As her features turned back to normal, she thought on how Naruto got infected as well. This was an interesting development. But there was another question, what stopped the power? Surely Kabuto didn't have the power to do that.
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Kaeru slew her last attacker just as her blades turned back to their bulky forms. "Tsk, stupid timer seal." She knew that wasn't a permanent solution, but with her current body structure, she wouldn't be able to wield both blades very well. That was why she was using those seals to shrink the blades to katanas and then used a timer seal on that because the shrink seals used a continued flow of her chakra.
As soon as they were dead, Kaeru felt dark presence in the forest disappear, making the place eerily quiet. If she wasn't on edge before, she was now. "That is a good thing or a very bad thing. Stay safe Naruto until I get there." She said aloud as she took a scroll of the genin team and left, hopefully in Naruto's direction.
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Menma raised an eyebrow when the power was suddenly gone. Still, since it wasn't coming towards him, he wasn't worried at the moment. He had dealt with his opponents and was walking calmly with two scrolls in his hands. He had kept his team scroll and he acquired a new scroll, however, it was just a duplicate.
"Feh, hopefully they get the other scroll….most likely Kaeru will do it." Menma said to himself before talking off towards the tower. They could meet him there if they survived.
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A few minutes earlier, a team of Iwa Ninja appeared in the trees above what looked like a badly mismatched ambush of one lone genin. There were only two of them but they got permission to enter the exams the way they were since they were strong enough. While they had very good team work, it would be better if their final member was still with them, but he died.
They two watched the show down below them, with the female of the two recognizing the one being ambushed. She really wanted to help him, but at the same time, she wanted to see how far her old friend and come. After all, you can only get some much from letters.
However, she became enraged just as her old friend had when it was revealed that these ninja where here to kill him under orders from his own mother no less! Her grandfather warned her about Naruto's family's condition, but she didn't think it had gotten this bad.
Just she was about to jump in, her teammate, Akatsuchi stopped her, saying it was the blond's battle, not theirs. Even so, she wanted to help her old friend! But it was a good thing that he stopped her because Naruto unleashed his full rage on the six would be assassins.
It scared her that it had gotten so bad that it had changed her old friend to the point that he became a monster like this. No…not a monster, just a person filled with rage and it was quickly consuming him with each kill of the six. Sure their attacks were futile, with one of them surprisingly not killing him with all that high power wind. Hell he looked unharmed!
Still, with each kill, the dark aura that generated from him grew darker and it was changing her friend into this unrecognizable beast. It scared her to the core and she knew if he killed the leader of the group, this Kabuto, then there would be no turning back. She felt he would be lost to his rage. So she did the only thing she could at this point.
"Naruto! STOP!" She called out with a commanding voice, making him look at her, his eyes widening in recognition. He must have seen the fear radiating from her eyes because he subconsciously stopped the flow of that dark chakra.
"Kurotsuchi?" Naruto asked aloud. "You're in these exams too?"
"Yeah, you obviously didn't get my last letter." Kurotsuchi replied as she and her partner walked towards him. "I am in these exams and I just saved your ass from going down a dark path."
Naruto held his head in pain as he finally took a look around at what he did.
Dead, they were all DEAD!
Everyone except Kabuto that is, as he was barely conscious, but healing.
The blond looked around in horror as his mind caught up to him. Kabuto's words about Kushina wanting him dead made him pissed beyond belief and he just acted, something whispering for him to just kill them all.
Before he could contemplate on it much longer, he felt a hand on his shoulder, which lead to Kurotsuchi. She had a sad smile on her face as she leaned in to hug him. "Hey, it's ok, it's over." This made Naruto smile, if not blush just a bit at the close contact. After all, she was a beautifule girl and he was a growing boy. He didn't know it, but she was blushing just a bit as well.
Akatsuchi just smirked at the two, but sweat dropped once Kurotsuchi kicked Naruto's legs out from under him and then plant her foot on his chest. Yeah, that's the Kurotsuchi he knew.
"Wha?"
"Idiot! I sent that letter and you didn't even read it!"
"S-sorry! I-I was t-training for the exams!" Naruto stuttered out.
"I figured that, but I still wanted to hang out with you before the exams started and I would have gone looking for you, but I had no idea where you really lived!" Kurotsuchi shouted. "I stood by Ichiraku's Ramen Stand all day yesterday waiting on your ass to show up, but you never did! Now you are going pay!"
Naruto adopted a truly terrified look. Sure, Kurotsuchi had changed a bit over the years, but he never thought she changed this much! She was really pushy now!
It was kind of hot.
Wait, what?
"C-can't we talk about this?!" Naruto pleaded.
"Dude, just talk it like a man." Her male teammate replied with a sigh, knowing it was futile to argue with Kurotsuchi when she became like this.
"Oh come on!" Naruto cried, forgetting that he could just escape this situation with his seals, but for some reason or another, it completely slipped his mind.
"HA!" Another female voice rang out as she plowed into Kurotsuchi, knocking her off of Naruto.
It took a few seconds for Naruto and Akatsuchi to figure out what happened and when then looked, they saw that Kurotsuchi was wrestling with a red headed girl by the name of Kaeru. When they broke apart, instant recognition came cross their eyes.
"YOU!" they both screamed at each other.
"They know each other? How?" Naruto asked, with Akatsuchi shrugging since he didn't spend the day with her yesterday.
"You're that annoying red head that wouldn't leave me alone at the ramen stand!" Kurotsuchi declared.
"And you're that snarky bitch from Iwa! Did your date finally show up?"
"No, but I am going to kick his ass when I am done with you!"
"Oh and who's ass do you think you're going to kick when you've managed to beat me?!" Kaeru raged.
"Naruto's!" Kurotsuchi as she pointed to said blond, who was watching the cat fight with Akatsuchi.
It took a few seconds for Kaeru's mind to process that bit of information. When it did, more rage and lot of protectiveness filled her eyes. "OH! HELL NO! You of all people are not going to date my brother!"
"BROTHER?" The Iwa Kunoichi replied in shock before she got right in Kearu's face. "Screw you! I'll date who ever I want!"
"Like hell!"
"Hey um…don't I get a say in this?" Naruto asked meekly, while Akatsuchi smacked his face.
"NO!" both girls screamed at him.
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An hour later, after much screaming and hair tearing out, not to mention near deaths, the two girls stopped fighting when Naruto lost his patience with the two and broke up their stupid fight. He then laid down the rules that they couldn't kill each other later when they got out of the damn forest.
So, after calming down and getting the scrolls off the dead genin, made their way to the tower, figuring that Menma would already be there and they were right.
Menma raised an eyebrow at the animosity both Kaeru and Kurotsuchi were showing to each other. "Ok…why are you coming in with an Iwa team and why does it look like Kaeru and the other chick want to kill each other?"
Naruto sighed tiredly, clearly sick and tired of the two already. "It is better you don't know."
Menma stared him for a moment before shrugging. "Whatever. Still you look like shit…well more than usual. I would have thought that dark power would have scared you to death, as it should have been so I don't have to deal with your weak ass. Hell, i should do it myself since i had to wait on your ass to even get here!"
Before Naruto could pull off a retort, both Kaeru and Kurotsuchi knocked Menma on his ass. The two stared at each other before Kaeru muttered, "Temporary truce?"
"Yeah." Kurotsuchi stated before the two of them began to stomp on Menma.
Naruto and Akatsuchi sweat dropped at first but decided to ignore it for now "So…what now?" Naruto asked, completely ignoring the poster on the wall with the riddle.
"Let's try opening the scrolls. That Anko lady told us not to open them until after we get to the tower." Akatsuchi suggested, making Naruto shrug. They both took out a set of scrolls and opened them. After they did, all they saw on them were seals, which started to smoke. When that happened, Naruto ordered to move back.
In a poof of smoke, two jonin appeared on the scene. The first was Kakashi in all his glory as he read his little orange book. The second was a very gruff looking Iwa Jonin, whose features told Naruto that he was Kurotsuchi's father, Kitsuchi.
The moment the two looked up at the two teams, they sweat dropped. Only Naruto and Akatsuchi were standing at attention with Naruto having a bored expression and Akatsuchi have a happy one. However, behind them was chaos in the form of Kaeru and Kurotsuchi stomping out Menma, who was crying for mercy.
"Well…" Kakashi started, little put off by the scene in front of him. "This is interesting."
Kitsuchi just sighed.
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Awesome. I am done with this chapter and I decided to end it on a lighter tone then they beginning.
Kaeru and Kurotuchi finally have met and they will not make it easy for Naruto in the long run.
Now, I left Kabuto's fate undecided because I want you guys to tell me if I should keep him alive for later or not.
Oh and yes, in a way, Naruto is infected as well.
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