Well, another week, another chapter, this one has two parts, one focusing on Tollas\Sasuke and one on Naruto\Kyubi, the first part is quite pointless, the second will be vital for the squeal, so enjoy.
Chapter 12: The #1 Rookie re-education
The night came after a few hours of walking, Tollas was always proud at his physical condition, but he never imagined it was as good enough to keep him walking with ninjas.
As they were getting ready to camp he saw Hinata showing some hand gesture to Karen, "what is this thing?" Tollas asked her, he was confused, it was slow enough for his eyes to follow, but the moves were so perfect that even he could tell she can do them all in less the a second.
"it's called hand seals, this one it the tiger" she crossed her fingers in a odd matter, "it's used to focus chackra into different parts of the body, the one's I showed her were part of my family's Bakyugan" all the strange words made no sense to Tollas, but he figured that with a little help, he could enter his "mind" again, if anything else fails, that seemed to be the place where he felt best, and he could check for sure if his "memories" were real or not.
"Ino, can I ask you something?" he asked, "sure, what's on your mind?" she replied, "when you and Naruto invaded my 'mind', we were in some strange room, what was that place?" he gathered his courage and asked, "oh, that room was a mental image of your brain, it was created the moment someone else other than you entered your mind, and it disappeared when they left" she explained "you won't be able to figure out your memories from there, you'll have to do it the old fashioned way, if that was what you were thinking about" she could read he was disappointed from her answer.
Later that night, while he was supposed to sleep, he snack out of his tent "having hard time sleeping?" he heard Sakura's voice, she was sitting there, her hands were constantly moving into different seals.
"sorta, what are you doing?" he responded, the truth was the he had nightmares keeping him awake, in his dreams, his past was crumbling into nothing, only to reveal to cold stare of the monster inside his new found "friend', Naruto.
"it's my turn today to stand guard, so I'm just putting up a genjutsu" she said, her hands were still moving in high speed, "Genjutsu? What's that?" he heard the word many times, and he was told Sakura was a master in doing it, but he wasn't quite sure what it is.
"I guess someone should explain it to you sooner or later,,, here's how it goes. There are 3 types of jutsus: Tai, Nin, and Gen, Taijutsu is fairly simple, it's basically martial arts and fighting techniques, there are few expectations, but that's what we mostly refer to as Taijutsu.
Next is Ninjutsu, it's much more complicated, it's everything you can refer to as 'supernatural', spitting fireballs, throwing ice, summoning animals and creating clones from dust, it comes in various forms but it is created the same way, chackra and seals.
The last one is genjutsu, illusions, it's what I do best, you can't tell, but for anyone on the outside, the camp doesn't exist, all they see is just the rest of the forest, and if they try to move inside they'll find that they somehow made a complete circle around us, it's not very hard to detect, but we don't need anything better for now" she concluded.
Tollas understood some of it, and missed some as well, but now something else has taken his attention "shouldn't this illusion effect animals as well?" he asked "it does, only animals who were around when the genjutsu was created can see through it" she replied, a hint of stress in her voice, why would he ask it?
"I'm pretty sure that dog wasn't here before…" he pointed at a puppy, which was crawling towards Naruto's tent at a slow but steady pace "wake up, everyone! We might have a situation around!" she shouted in a high pitched voice as she pulled out a kunai and jumped in front of the puppy.
"what's the problem?" Ino said as she squeezed out of her tent, she really liked the nights that Sakura guarded them, it left the whole tent to her.
"What is it?" "what's the matter?" Naruto and Hinata asked almost at the same time, Hinata was holding Karen at her arms, and Naruto was clearly keeping an eye on her. Karen, on the other side, was waving her arms towards a small dog puppy, "how could something pass your genjutsu?" Ino asked, "what's so special about this dog?" Tollas continued, "can it be an enemy attack?" Hinata said.
"this isn't a dog, it's a fox" Naruto added, "Dog, fox, whatever it is, why is it here?" Hinata asked, "it's not possible, he shouldn't have been able to pass my illusion" Sakura said, she was a master of genjutsu, she was able to make an illusion of anything and it would be as real as the original, nothing was supposed to pass her illusion, jounins had problem seeing through her illusions, and even if she hadn't tried real hard this time, it was supposed to be enough.
"if it's an enemy attack, shouldn't they see that they failed to surprise us already?" Tollas asked, ninjas had a strange way of seeing stuff, they would always think that things were more than they really were, but in Tollas's eyes, the enemy should attack the moment they realized their plan failed.
"I checked with my Bakyugan, we are alone here" Hinata said, her eyes returned to normal, only Naruto and Karen were silent, they just looked at the fox "I think we should give him a name" Naruto finally said.
"Who are you talking about?" Ino asked in confusion "the fox, who else can I be talking about?" Naruto said, confused as well from the question, "why do you want to name the fox?" Sakura asked him, why would he ever want to name a fox he just met in the middle of the forest?
"well, just calling fox sounds offensive to someone who lives in your house" he answered simply, "what makes you think he'll be living at our house?" Hinata turned to him with fiery eyes "ah.. he really likes Karen, and she likes him, so I thought it was obvious" he just noticed what he was talking about, he was too busy holding up the fox and watching it leak Karen's face to see they were confused from he previous question.
"you are just impossible, you know? I guess you are right, he is really cute, maybe we can name him Shu-al?" she smiled to him and started petting the fox, he smelled her a bit and submitted himself to her soft hands, "yep, he really is KAWUAII!" Sakura said in a childish voice.
"are we the only ones who still think about the fact this fox crossed the genjutsu?" Ino asked Tollas, "I guess so, weird world" he replied silently.
"I didn't expect that" Naruto heard the dark voice and opened his eyes, he was in his house again, standing beside him was the Kyubi, it was one of those dreams, Naruto convinced the Kyubi to wait with all the talk until he wakes up, but this time the Kyubi insisted on invading Naruto's dream
"what do you mean by that?" he asked, "I had a little talk with Shu-al before, he's still small so I couldn't get a real answer from him, but he says he followed a strange stench from Karen, not from you, from Karen" the Kyubi answered, the situation confused him as well, he knew that foxes would come after Naruto because of the relation they both shared, but Shu-al said clearly that he noticed them only after Naruto picked him up.
"from Karen? How is it possible? Every fox I ever met followed me… wait a minute, are you sealed into Karen as well?" Naruto asked, he never considered the possibility, he didn't know much about how sealed monsters and genetics combined, but he assumed that the seal was just like a scar, and even if it's ever lasting, it wouldn't pass on, would it?
"I'm not sure myself, normal possessed people are usually taken over by the monster inside them sooner or later, you are a different case, the best I ever did was to guide your movements, but I was still bond by you, even when I did manage to act on my own, I could never completed my plans"
Both the Kyubi and Naruto smirked when they heard the words "Normal" and "Possessed" combined, people like Naruto and Gaara were the complete opposite of normality.
"but still the Gaara kid was controlled by a dead sand priest, and he doesn't even count as a real demon, but he still had much more control over him than I do…" the Kyubi said in a disappointed tune
"to hell with your control, how can you not know where you are?" Naruto shouted, "it's more complicated than what you think, let me put it in a way you can understand, when you make battle plans that involve shadow clones, when do you think about the plan?" the Kyubi was restless, his dream about controlling Naruto faded away with the years, as he realized it will never happen.
"I think about the plan and then create the clones, otherwise I would just be wasting my power" Naruto said, he didn't see where it was leading "well, and what happens when something unexpected occurs? How do your clones react then?" the Kyubi asked, Naruto thought back to his first training as a genin, Kakashi has replaced himself with one of Naruto's clones, and Naruto ended up fighting himself.
"what's your point?" he asked the demon "if I'm inside Karen, it's just a part of me, like a clone, but he acts exactly the same as I do, I can guess he is still sleeping now or something like that, but she'll have to confront him, me, someday, just like you did" the demon replied with an evil grin.
"Oh, that's just great, she'll have to suffer the same things I did? And here I was hoping for her to have a normal life" Naruto said in anger and pain, "not really, most of the guys who fought me are somewhere near dead, and most of the people in your age group don't even know about me, so I think she has a decent chance for a normal life, and besides, she has a family" the Kyubi answered.
Family, the word was somewhat new to the demon, for centuries his routine was simple, destroy and kill until someone manages to stop him then wait a while as a soul until enough chackra flows around to create a new body, and start by killing all descendents of the guy who defeated him last time, it was what he done ever since chackra began to flow in this plane.
"wait a second, if you reappear even when killed, wouldn't it be easier to you to have me killed so you can reincarnate yourself at your own body?" Naruto asked, he never understood why the Kyubi helped him…
"hey, how come you can read my thoughts?" the fox demon asked, he was used to reading Naruto's mind, but he never imagined it will go the other way "dunno, but it's cool, now I can make fun of you as well" he answered with a mental evil smile.
"Oh crap, here goes my privacy, anyway, about you question: if I believed that killing you will return me home, then I would have got you killed long ago, but unfortunately, the seal has marked you as my new body. And if my body is destroyed before I took full control over it, I would have to wait much more time until a new body emerges, so I'm helping you to live until I take your body, don't think it something else"
The monster explained quickly, that was what he used to believe, but he had a feeling that he might never control Naruto, and a memory started to form inside the demon's head.
A blonde man walking down the field road, A blond man which wasn't even human, he was walking at a wasteland, which held a primitive auction of some country, for the first time in his life the blond man wasn't interested in destroying, causing havoc and raining destruction, he had something else on his mind, not as 'evil' as killing but thrilling non the less.
it was a different kind of enjoyment, one that he couldn't find anywhere at his home due to the lack of nice females back there, they were loud, annoying and hell-bent with explosions and mass murder, not that it was bad, but he expected more than his dates, just sharing the same hobbies didn't mean they would be good enough for him, he had different expectations from the one who will be the Kyubi's mate.
He kept walking, he looked around, some men with fighting skills passed by him, the weaker ones tried to insult him for his blonde hair and whiskers, the smarter ones tried to hide their presence to slip past his notice, a candle fire suddenly flickered, the road was now full of dead bodies, both of the strong and the weak, pillars of stone pierced their chests.
Only the blonde man wasn't there, he kept walking, checking if there were any blood stains on his hands, of course there weren't any, he laughed to himself, even in this two legged form, he was one of the strongest powers in the planes, he could color the land red with blood before midnight, but he wasn't there for that, he looked around and saw a cave, and inside it was the reason he came there.
Hours later, he was lying besides her, he quite enjoyed it, and she was trying to convince herself that they had a real relationship and what just happened wasn't just two strangers who met and jumped on each other, she asked him for his name. He sighted in response, he knew that humans were obsessed with naming things, and he should have though of a name sooner, but he was too busy thinking about his new form to decide on one, he looked outside and saw a waterfall crush into a lake, it gave him an idea.
Nine months after that night, the woman looked at her new born son, she remembered everything about that man, and even if it meant disownment by her family, she kept the baby, she whispered to the baby the only thing that man ever told her, although she lost everything she had, it didn't matter to her, she said "you, my son, are an Uzumaki".
******Chapter 12 - : The #1 Rookie re-education – End*****
well, I've got no reviews to do shout out's for, so I'll rant and talk about my new fic, Deamon.Naruto.Angel
Ranting: I have to hand over a big English project tomorrow, but I didn't even start it, so I'm pretty much dead, and combined with my test score (73), they'll kick me out of native speakers and I'll have to study English for another whole year. BHAAA!
BTW: I just finished watching Trigun for the third time, it still owns!
Other fic: well, I got some nice reviews on it, so I'll try working on the second chapter tomorrow, I suppose I'll stop using the ultra short lines, and go back to paragraphs, unfortunately, the web page settings are different than the word ones, so I won't be able to start the lines inside the text as I want, but I'll find a way. Anyway, if you're worrying about it's originality, then I'll just say that it won't exactly follow the plot line of D.N.angel, and it will have both Naruto and my original elements while using the skeleton of Daisuke's relationships, the main reason is that I only have 3 volumes of the manga, and I don't want to watch the anime again right now.
On the last subject, this story has only 3 chapters left, two of actual story, and one to close everything down, so if you have any questions about me, the 'shadow of life' story or the true meaning of life, just start sending them!