D-Claimer: Nope
The coliseum shook yet again as another portion of the crowd was blown to bits, blood and ligaments flying every which way. Not caring about the torn body parts flying everywhere, the crowd broke into chaos.Humans and demons alike started to shout and scream in fright as they all tried running to the nearest next. In all their hast many of the slower and weaker beings either got attacked by enemy Shadow Spirits, that had ran through the newly formed entrances, or trampled to death.
Through all of the confusion and chaos, many of the weaker fighters had disappeared into the crowd to get away from the threat, while the some of the others started to battle off the Shadow Spirits. The other fighters helped get the crowd out of the coliseum and into safety. Some of the judges had started to help, too. However there was one team that didn't even try to help out or run. They just stood impassively in front of one of the entrances, not letting anyone through.
The team, not surprisingly, was Gaki's Team. Well, what was left of Gaki's Team. It would seem that two of the demons on the team went to go help the crowd and were killed. By their own teammates. The only demons still alive were Tatsu Brumko, a man in a cloak, and a male demon. The male demon didn't look like much, but looks are almost, if not always, deceiving. He looked like a scrawny human and would be considered one too, if he didn't have purple skin and no ears at all. His name was, Nazak Moki, a psychic demon that only wore a, way too big of a, shirt for him. In the middle of the two demons was the last and final member of Gaki's Team was Gaki himself. The hood of his cloak had long since fallen down in all the madness, showing his face. The guy wasn't a real looker, but he wasn't ugly either; he had long dull grey hair that went down to the middle of his back. His eyes were, not surprisingly, snake-like and yellow which were looking for something in all of the chaos.
"Fools," Tatsu spook up, "all of them. Don't they realize that they are demons and can take care of these little pests?"
"Fear and chaos all around will bring out the best in one or the worst in one," Nazak spook cryptically and Tatsu just glared at her teammate.
"Could you for once in your life speak like any normal demon?" the fiery beauty growled out.
"Shut up," Gaki spoke suddenly, gaining his followers attention. The two looked at their leader, and hopefully soon to be King, when they both saw the anger displayed on his features both felt a chill travel up their spines. Following the direction to where Gaki was looking, the duo saw that he was looking at the Three Realms Team finishing of another one of the Shadow Spirits, which they had sent in a distraction, to find the prince.
"The whelp hasn't even gained a new tail in the two moths he has trained none stop," Gaki said with a hint of amusement in his voice.
As soon as the attack hit the coliseum, the Spirit Prince had been on high alert. Since he promised to keep everyone safe, he quickly gathered the group up and had Botan make a portal to outside of the coliseum. That was the plan, until Botan informed him that for some reason she couldn't make any portals at all. That sent the Spirit World's Prince into an even bigger fright, thinking what would happen to him if he had a Nature Spirit, a Darkness Wolf, a Scarecrow, a Baka, a Forbidden Child, a Demon Lord, and a Demon Prince all breathing down his neck for letting anything to happen to their friends and family.
So in conclusion he had to risk his own life to get them out of there. If he didn't, his life would be a living hell, literally. That's why at the moment he was running in front of the group, leading the group to the nearest exit, as fast as his teenage legs could carry him. Turning corners and running through corridors the group seemed to take for ever in trying to find the exit.
"Are you sure you know where we're going Koenma-sama?" Botan called form behind him as they all continued running.
"Do you doubt my judgment?" was his reply in between raged intakes of air.
"No sir, it's jus-" though the grim reaper was cut off.
"Shadow Spirits!" Koenma yelped as he stopped dead in his tracks and the others almost ran into him from the sudden stop. The two Shadow Spirits stood in front of them guarding a door that clearly had 'EXIT' written above it. Turning around the group went to run in the direction they had just come from, but it was closed off by four more Shadow Spirits coming towards them slowly, as if they were stalking them as their prey.
"Shit," was the only thing that was heard throughout the whole corridor. Once the final syllable rung off the walls, the six shadows made for their prey, with an amazing jump towards them ready to devour them. As the Shadows were right on top of them an orange see through dog looking animal tackled two of the shadows down out of mid air and another two orange dogs hand taken care of the other Shadow Spirits. The orange dogs then bit down of the scarfs of the Shadow Spirit's neck causing them to burst into a bright light. Once the light died down and the group could see properly once again, most of them, the shinobi part, was greeted with a very odd sight.
"Yo," Kakashi said casually as he walked towards the group as if he had only seen them just yesterday and hadn't been missing for two months. Strangely, Kakashi wasn't wearing his jounin vest, but something very similar. The vest was as black as night and was the same design as the jounin vest, but the only visible difference was that Konoha's symbol was on the right side of his chest and there wasn't a spiral on the back of the vest. However, there was a giant looking red paw print with 'Copycat Kakashi of the Imperial Guard' arched above the paw print in white.
"Where the HELL have you been Kakashi?" Koenma screamed in frustration, the anxiety of the situation still upon him. "We could've been killed and all you have to say for yourself is 'yo'?"
"Calm down Baby, and let's get going, the little princeling thought that something like this would happen and ordered me to help evacuate the coliseum," Kakashi said calmly as if it wasn't a big deal. Koenma was fuming at the baby comment and didn't notice Kakashi and the others start to make their way down stairs. He was almost left behind if it weren't for the orange dogs that brushed up against him as they followed the group.
"HEY! WAIT FOR ME!" Koenma exclaimed as he ran to catch up with the group.
Running down the stairs following Kakashi, the group soon came to a door and found themselves outside of the coliseum. Once outside Kakashi lead them into the crowd that was forming in the clearing around the coliseum, since demons and humans alike had no idea what to do, except for a select few. Coming to a group of demons that were all relaxed, but suddenly tensed up and the shinobis of the group wondered what was going on, but didn't ask.
"General Hatake!" the group said coming to attention.
"At ease," Kakashi said automatically as the demons relaxed, but Kakashi went straight to business before they could fully come to ease. "Rinku, you and your group make sure everyone's out of the coliseum, who isn't fighting,
before, Touya seals all the entrances and exits with his ice. Also, Rinku, take Chi Dogs with you to help out if anything should go wrong and Shishiwakamaru, you need to calm down these demons and humans alike. We don't need anymore fighting than what is already going on, got that?"
"Yes Sir," the group said saluting Kakashi before heading out and to do their given task. After they were gone Kakashi turn to face the shinobis, only to be bombarded with questions from all sides about what was going on and where the hell he had been.
"Where have you been?"
"What happened to you and the others?"
"What they hell is going on?"
"Where's Naruto?"
"Why are the others demons?"
"What are those dog things?"
"Who were those demons that were calling you general?"
"Why were they calling you general?"
"SHUT UP!" yelled Tsunade effectively quieting the rest of the group at the shear emotion put into the yell. Walking forward the Godaime used her amazing strength to hoist Kakashi up by the collar of his shirt. Looking the scarecrow in the eye with an undetermined look, as if she couldn't decide to be mad at him or happy that he was alright which meant that Naruto was fine too, and all but took her pent up emotions out on him. "Now, Hatake-san why don't you tell me where the hell you've been for the last three months."
"Love to Hokage-sama," Kakashi said with is usual cheerful voice and curved eye, "but I can't."
The Hokage's grip on the copy-cat ninja tightened to a point that no mere human could stand, but Kakashi didn't seem to be affected by it and was still grinning.
"You can't?" the Hokage said angrily, "Or you won't?"
"Both," the scarecrow said condemning his life to the wroth of an angry woman. However, before the Hokage was about to seriously hurt the ninja, he stopped her with a few simple words. "Though I can tell you other tidbits of information that you'll find very interesting."
"And what would that be?" the Hokage asked releasing her hold on the scarecrow.
"How about the reason why we are participating in the tournament and what happened to the others?" Kakashi asked causally as he straightened out his uniform. When the others looked at him curiously and the copy-cat nin just took his sweet time in answering them "Did you know that Itachi and Sasuke were only half-brothers?"
"What the hell does that have to do with anything?" Kiba yelled finally letting his impatience get to him.
"Everything," Kakashi said getting serious all of a sudden, "it would seem that Sasuke's mother and Sakura's father were sent to Konoha to look after the heir to the Demon King. The Kyuubi no Kitsune's daughter, which is why we are in this tournament. We're in this tournament because the duties of Sasuke's and Sakura's parents have been passed down to them. They now have to take up the duty of protecting Makai's rightful ruler and it would seem that they are from prestigious noble clans in the Demon Realm, as well as the heirs of the clans. Quite interesting, isn't it?"
"But if the Kyuubi's daughter was in Konoha, then why did he attack us?" Jiraiya asked as he easily followed his former student's student and what he was saying as the others were somewhat confused about the whole situation.
"Can't answer that under the direct orders of the Demon King's Heir," Kakashi said sharply, to make a point that was were the discussion should end, but it wasn't quite clear to some of the Jounins. It would seem that the only other Konoha citizen, civilian or shinobi, that came to the tournament and got in, had saw that group of Konoha Shinobis and decided to join them. This citizen, a shinobi, had heard that one of his fellow shinobis had taken orders for a demon and was fuming. He thought that all demons were horrible rotten creatures that should be killed and was one of the people who took pleasure in berating and hurting the 'Kyuubi-Brat' at every chance he could get.
"So you're betraying our village, our Hokage, to help those damn demons?" the angry ninja asked.
"No I'm not, I'm keeping my promise to the Hokage that I've long since put off," Kakashi told the shinobi in front of him.
"Tsunade-hime just all but ordered you to tell her and you say your keeping a promise to her? That's a load of bullshit!" the Konoha shinobi told Kakashi.
"I'm not talking about the Godaime Hokage that I made a promise to, but the Yondaime Hokage," Kakashi said with narrowed eyes. "I made a promise to look after something very important to him and I am."
"What were you suppose to protect?" Iruka asked, but before Kakashi could answer a giant bombing noise roared across the whole area and the sky turned to a nasty black storm like cover.
"Oh, SHIT!" Kakashi said with wide eyes.
The whole area was barren and there wasn't another innocent bystander in theway, causing the fight to be kicked up a notch or five. By that time all the Shadow Demons were destroyed, but lesser demons had come out and started to fight the contestants of the tournament. Throughout all the chaos and destruction a few of the fighters found themselves facing Gaki's team. Sasuke was up against Tatsu, Sakura and Gaara up against Nazak, Yusuke, Fujin, and Raijin were up against a class S demon that had appeared during the chaos, and Yoko Kurama, Banka, and the little kitsune up against Gaki himself.
"Who the hell would bring an S class demon into the human world without a brain?" Yusuke cursed in his demon form as he dodged another attack aimed at him. The demon didn't have any Spirit Energy for crying out loud! All the beast was doing was trying to punch him and the others into the ground with its fist. The worst part about it was that, the DAMN thing keep going after only him! It didn't help that the demon was about as all as a two story building and looked like a baby. "Get this thing away from me!" Yusuke yelled at his fellow Demon Lords who were rolling on the floor laughing at him. "I don't even like babies!"
That did it. The Water Sprite Demon, heard the comment, sat down on its bottom and started to cry! Tears formed around the baby's eyes and started to fall down like really big rain drops and the longer the baby seemed to cry the darker the clouds above them got. When the clouds came in, none of the fighters knew being so busy fighting the lesser demons. When the baby's tears started to fall faster than before, the baby fell on to its back with a loud boom and started to throw a temper tantrum, as if it understood what Yusuke had just said.
"Now you've done it, Yusuke," Fujin commented.
Sakura and Gaara weren't having such a lovely time either. For one thing Nazak talked in riddles and really weirdly that they couldn't understand what the hell he was saying. Secondly, everything they threw at him he stopped, which was getting Gaara really angry and Sakura annoyed.
"Gaara watch out!" the cherry blossom warned her fighting partner as a tree was thrown towards him. With his partners warning, Gaara had enough time to form a barrier of sand around his being and protect himself from the rather large tree that would've defiantly hurt him if it came in contact with him. Letting his barrier fall, the Sand Demon watched the Nature Spirit firing arrow after arrow at the demon in front of her with no luck what so ever of hitting him. So in to trying to defeat the demon in front of her Sakura didn't see the cluster of vast trees flying towards her from behind, but
Gaara had.
Acting on its own, Gaara's body ran towards Sakura and dove at her. Covering her body with his and his body with a protective layer of sand, the trees fell on top of the duo, throwing dust and sand into the air. When the dust and sand cleared up, Nazak smirk at the mound of sand and trees that would have defiantly killed the two from the weight on top of them and if they were still alive, they would soon be dead form the lack of oxygen. Though it soon left his face when the sand started to slightly shake before blowing up and out all over the place, like a volcano, also throwing the trees every where. In the middle of it all stood Gaara, standing above Sakura, with a look of pure contempt on his face.
"How dare you try and hurt my mate," Gaara roared as Sakura looked at him with pure shock on her face. Since when had she become Gaara's mate? She had no idea what so ever.
Tatsu was getting very aggravated, which wasn't good for her complexion, and it was pissing her off. This…this…this demon…NO, this teen, wasn't falling under her charm like the other male fools would. It was the first time someone had ever done that, she could even get Gaki under her charm, but this boy, it didn't work. What was wrong? Was it something with her? Her looks? No, it couldn't be that. She looked to perfect, a goddess in many eyes. So what was wrong? How could this boy resisted her when so many others couldn't?
Throughout all of her vain thoughts, Tatsu was battling the wolf with many problems. He keep landing hits on her and drawing blood and she barely had hit him twice, once drawing blood. It looked like she had been using her charms for too long, her fighting abilities had gone sour and lacking very much. She had been a fool for relying on her charm for so long that she forgot what she worked so hard to become. She used to be a great fighter, some said that she was on par with Lord Yusuke and when she found out about her charm, she abandoned her fighting skills for what? A charm that failed her when she most needed it. It failed her when she was so close to winning her love over without her charm and now Gaki would never love her for failing him.
Finally she had to ask,"How can you be immune to my charms? So many others have fallen for it before you, yet you don't. Please tell me, how you are not affected by it?"
"Because," the wolf said calmly as he kept on attacking, "because I fight for my precious people, I fight for the one that saved me from myself, I fight for the one I love and nothing will get in my way from completing that. People fall for your charms because they are weak minded, they don't know what they fight for or why, and they haven't felt true love like I have. That's why I'm not affected by your charms."
"I see," Tatsu said as a light had finally been turned on in her head that she hadn't known was there. "You fight for what you believe in so hard that you don't care about looks or charms, that's why you're not affected."
"That's right," Sasuke told his opponent, "and besides I'm gay and not really in to girls."
Yoko Kurama dodged another one of Gaki's attacks swearing up a storm. Banka had made an ice dome around them to keep other fighters form joining in on the fight and to keep Gaki from hurting anyone who wasn't involved in the fight. Though that wasn't what Yoko was cursing at, no he was cursing for the fact that Gaki was intentionally trying to make him mad and it was working quite well.
"Where is the Prince?" Gaki growled out as he sent a wave of dark energy inside the doom that the three foxes jump away from.
"Kiss my ass, we'd never tell you where the heir is," Banka said as he threw a barge of ice draggers at the demon.
"I see, you're finally trying to save your friends for once Yoko," Gaki said innocently as Yoko flinched knowing exactly what was coming. "You didn't when Kyuubi was killed. You let me inject him with that poison as you stood at the sidelines watching in fear. He even took an attack meant for you before that and in return you let him die. You even let his only kit die. What are you going to let happen to his grandchild? Death? No, that's too soon for such a young kit, maybe I'll make him my personal servant?"
"SHUT UP!" Yoko Kurama yelled as a bright light surrounded the enraged Silver Kitsune and his true form was revealed for the first time in centuries. A five tail silver fox stood before Gaki ready to pounce at any given moment. It was as big as a horse, maybe even bigger, with fangs to match. For once, instead of plants reacting happily to his presences and growing bigger, the foliage fought to get away, withering away to nothing. A long howl came from the Silver Kitsune as if it were a battle cry and war had been declared.
"Nice trick," Gaki said smugly, "but now it's my turn." With that the demon transformed into his true form as well. His form was of a snake, surprise surprise, but it also looked very much like the snake they fought at the Festival of Demons. However, there were some differences, like the fact that it was twice as big as that snake and had purple scales scattered about its body, telling others that it was a poisonous.
Sorry, sorry, I'M SO SORRY for not up dating in so long. I feel so ashamed and it's not fair, because my parents signed me up for summer school.
And to of all my faithful readers who have been waiting for this chapter...I'M SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG!
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