Hey guys, I know it's been forever but after fighting through my writer's block I finally have another Chapter for ya!
Fū was running through the land of fire with her new tream during a reconnosaince mission on what other shinobi had dubbed, 'The Nest'. The Nest was one of the largest known gathering of Zinra to date, and was located inside the ruins of Konoha. The few scouting teams that had survived a mission into the nest had reported multiple thousands on the surface and an uncountable number underneath the village itself. A few things interrupted that mission however. The first of which, was the ridiculous number of Zinra moving across the wasteland in Fire country. The second was the giant spike of chakra, and then an even larger one, and the resultant tornado of flame that shot up afterwards.
Fū's team decided to investigate, and when they arrived, they were shocked. In the middle of a sea of ash and charred Zinra was a boy, not much older than herself, covered in ash and Zinra dust only barely visible to Fū's eyes. His chakra was so low, he should've been dead. Next to him was the remains of an Anbu mask laying on the ground next to him, slowly dissolving into dust. 'Fū, that boy has some Bijuu chakra stored within him, I think he's a jinchuriki.' Chomei said inside Fū's mind, much to her suprise. Even though she'd been much more out and about since the Zinra became a very real threat, she'd never seen another of her kind before.
"There's an S-ranked chakra signature headed our way!" Said Mirika, the team's sensor. "Yahoo! I've been itching for a fight ever since we got out of Taki! This will be fun." A purple haired Kunoichi said. "Anko now is not the time for this, there are multiple Zinra chakra signatures closing in on us now as well. We need to leave, now." Mirika said forcefully.
"What about him?" Fū said pointing towards the boy in the dust. "He's dead, there's no use crying over more dead people. Let's go." Mirika said now with a hint of nervousness. Fū looked at the boy in the dust and saw his chest moving up and down, softly breathing."He's breathing still! and he's a jinchuriki too!" Fū replied sternly.
At this Anko just sighed and ran over to the boy, and picked him up, 'A jinchuriki all the way out here, huh? I wonder which village he came from.' She thought to herself, not even spending the time to remove the dust from the boy's body. "Well, if you say he's a jinchuriki he's worth something to someone, let's take him back to the village. Chinami-sama will want him." Anko said, while motioning the others to leave.
They had been travelling towards Takigakure for a while now, and the S-ranked ninja was still on their tail, and even gaining ground. The Zinra were off of their trail now however, so they decided to double time it to get back to the village in time.
Meanwhile
Hikari had been chasing these 'bitches' for hours now, while she was still physically fine, her anger had grown to an uncontrollable amount. Her KI was probably thick enough to feel. But there was no one left to direct it at, because the Taki kunoichi had disappeared somewhere in the vicinity of what Kakuzu had determined to be Takigakure. 'FUCK' Hikari thought to herself. 'This is only a minor setback! I'll find a way into Taki, kill all of those bitches, and take Naruto-kun back with me, whether he wants to or not!'
In Taki
Anko rushed the boy to the hospital, his armor had been dissolved by the dust, and all that was left were his black shirt and pants. The nurses took him and Anko left. They cleaned him off, and discovered that along with a few minor burns, the biggest problem was his chakra depletion. He needed rest.
Fū, unlike Anko, wanted to see the only person she even had a chance of relating to in terms of her tenant, and was stuck somewhere between nervous and excited that she'd finally get to be around another Jinchuriki. She decided to keep watch over him until he woke up.
Meanwhile
"We need to place a control seal on the boy now! If he's a jinchuriki, we could use him to not only to protect the village, but make it truly great again." Said an old woman, presumably a Takigakure council member.
"We can't just do that, we don't know who he is or which tailed beast he holds just yet, not to mention the fact that he's not going to want to help us if we hold him here against his will." Said Shibuki, the current leader of Takigakure.
"You all can't seriously be considering forcing a jinchuriki, of whom we have no information on, into fighting for us. He could be a Jinchuriki from Kumo for all we know. The last thing we need are more enemies." Shibuki again said with a bit of conviction.
The group of council members just held their heads down. A young, blue haired kunoichi stood up from her council seat and spoke up. "Those... Things are out there, and they've been coming ever closer to discovering our location. It's only a matter of time before they do. What happens when they find the hero's water? We cannot allow ourselves to be pushed back any further. It's time to act and fight once more, to defend our families, no matter the cost." At this, the Taki council looked invigorated.
"Fine then, we take a vote. All in favor of branding the boy with the seal." Shibuki said. All but one council member, Shibuki's personal advisor, raised their hands.
"Fine... Someone will need to fetch Kuyo-sama for the sealing. Chinami-san, since you seem to be the one that wants this the most, you handle it. I need a drink..." Shibuki said, yet again disappointed in his council.
2 days later
Naruto opened his eyes again after spending the last few days resting in his mindscape with Kurama. Naruto couldn't really explain it, but Kurama made him feel something he'd never really felt before. It was weird, but a good weird, in Naruto's opinion. Kurama felt these emotions coming from her host. She was more than relieved, she was elated, ecstatic almost. But she didn't express that to Naruto quite yet. She knew what he was feeling, and decided that it would be for the best not to distract him with it for now, at least until he was safe.
The young man sat up in his bed and began to look around the room. There was a girl with green hair and dark skin laying on the side of the bed, fast asleep. It was dark outside, and moonlight was visible from where he was currently sitting.
His mind immediately moved to finding the scroll and folder that he'd found in Konoha, but he knew he wouldn't find them here. He was about to move when he finally felt a chakra cuff on his arm, connecting him to the bed he was laying in. 'Well that's problematic' Naruto thought to himself. He couldn't access his chakra without alerting whoever put the cuffs on him, and having whatever chakra he would've used absorbed into the cuff.
He sighed and laid back down. 'I knew I should have studied seals when I was training with Oriko-se-... Akatsuki' He mentally corrected. He heard footsteps from outside his room and decided he'd pretend to be asleep in an attempt to find an opportunity to escape.
Outside of Naruto's room
"Why do we have to be the ones to take the Jinchuuriki to the sealing site? They could've given this job to some genin for a D-ranked mission. Tch." Said a rather annoyed Mitarashi Anko, not too pleased with the idea of turning the Jinchuuriki into a slave to begin with. "Because that is what Chinami-sama requested of us. I would remind you not to question Chinami-sama, seeing as you do owe her your life." Answered Mirika, who wasn't too pleased with Anko's seemingly ceaseless complaining.
Mirika opened the door to Naruto's room to see a still asleep Naruto and a just now waking Fuu. "What's going on?" Fuu said fighting down a yawn. "The council has called Fuyo-sama back from his hut on the outskirts of the village. He is to be sealed." Mirika answered. Fuu looked less than pleased. She knew what seal they meant. It was the same seal that was keeping her here now.
Anko looked at the boy intently. She hadn't really looked at him before, but he looked very familiar. 'Is that Anko?' Naruto thought to himself after feeling the chakras in the room. Kurama took this as an opportunity to break down his bond with Anko. 'She's taking you to be turned into a servant for this puny village. I've told you. Humans are trash, they will always betray you.' Naruto was seething. He didn't want to believe what Kurama was saying. But time and time again she had been right. He wasn't going to put up with humans anymore. He really was beginning to change at his core, Kurama could sense it, and she was proud of it. Now he was one step closer to truly only being loyal to her.
Mirika undid the chakra restraints, and was about to pick him up when naruto sent a tiny amount of wind chakra to knock over a vase by the window to his room. The resulting crash made everyone in the room look over at it for a split second. In that split second Naruto had vanished in a shunshin. "Shit! Sound the alarm!" Anko yelled.
Mirika just looked out the window and reached out with her chakra. She shunshined to where she felt the jinchuriki's chakra, only to wind up being immediately knocked out by Naruto as soon as she appeared, and placed in a trash can.
Naruto used a Henge to transform into the kunoichi he had just knocked out, and began to gather intel on his belongings.
Meanwhile
Sealing Site
Akira Chinami was standing next to Shibuki watching their sealmaster, Elder Fuyo, as he slowly began to undo the seals on the items found on the jinchuriki. If they'd been left in the Zinra dust for any longer, they would've disintegrated, but fortunately for them, not too much of the dust had gotten on the boys belongings. After Fuyo had opened the seal on the folder, he handed it to Akira and Shibuki to read, then moved to the scroll. Akira pulled out the file in the folder. It was information on Konoha's missing Jinchuriki. "Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto... The Fourth Hokage sealed the Kyubi into his own son, huh?" Shibuki said contemplatively. "It would seem as though the boy we've found is Konoha's long missing jinchuriki, and the progeny of the Fourth Hokage. It would seem we've hit the jackpot." said Akira.
"Now that is something I can use to get Naruto-kun to come to me." Said a female voice from the shadows of the sealing area. Hikari stepped into the dimly lit sealing area and gave Akira and Shibuki an insane smile. Immediately, six Takigakure ANBU began to circle around their leaders.
"If you hand it over now... I'll make your sacrifice to Jashin-sama painless..." She said slowly and in an almost seductive tone as she traced her pike around her lips..
An ANBU came up behind her and stabbed her in the back, the blade being clearly seen on the other side of her body. At this the Taki shinobi relaxed and Akira even smirked a bit. Until Hikari reached around her body and grabbed the ANBU's arm, picking him up and throwing him into the ground. Followed by a squelch as her pike found itself lodged in the man's neck.
"It's been too long since I've sacrificed anyone anyways!" Hikari said as she began running towards the group of ANBU. She pulled her scythe back and rammed it into the closest ANBU. They weren't ready for such an exotic weapon to be used against them. They were barely able to block, and as a result her scythe ripped into their arm. Hikari dodged a vertical strike from another ANBU and sweeped their feet out from under them. She pulled her scythe out from the first ANBU and beheaded the one that was on the ground, ignoring several strikes from the other ANBU's weapons.
She then jumped into the air and exteded her scythe to cleave into to two unsuspecting ANBU. Just as she reached the peak of her jump, she heard "Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu" as a large dragon made of water barreled towards her. She twisted out of the way of the jutsu, and threw her pike at the ANBU that had just finished the jutsu. It pierced right through their armor and found itself embedded into it's targets stomach.
Hikari landed a decent distance away from the rest of the ANBU. Akira had spent this time analyzing her potential opponent, and Shibuki didn't feel quite prepared to fight an opponent on this level, so he relegated himself to watching the battle. At this point Fuyo had stepped away from the scroll, seeing that he would be needed to help fight whoever this was.
"You guys really are weak aren't you..." Hikari said in the middle of a fake yawn. The ANBU grit their teeth and were about to re-engage when Fuyo stepped in front of them, with his quarterstaff held in a combat position. "Ohoh, are you actually going to prove a worthy opponent old man?" Fuyo smirked and steadied his resolve, "I'll go in first, you wait for an opportunity to strike." He said to the ANBU. "Akira, get Shibuki out of here, you two are too important to be put in danger. Take the scroll and folder with you."
Akira hesitantly agreed and fled with Shibuki. "I will kill them you know?" Hikari said to the bald old man of seventy or eighty years of age. "Not without killing me first." He said sternly before rushing Hikari. They clashed back and forth for a while, even in his advanced state of age he was still very fast, and it proved difficult for Hikari to keep up with him. Eventually though, she landed a strike across his abdomen. She smirked, as she began to draw Jashin's symbol on the ground below her feet. "Now!" said the wounded ANBU as his comrades began flashing through hand signs. Hikari licked the blood on the end of her scythe, and smirked. "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu!" (Water style: Water bullet jutsu) The two ANBU shouted together and fired two high powered water bullets at hikari. The resulting dust cloud after their jutsu hit where their target was, was enough to convince them of victory.
Elder Fuyo smiled at his comrades one last time before he fell over dead, with holes in his chest and bruising all over his body. Hikari's scythe came flying out of the dust cloud, killing the two ANBU that shot the jutsu at her.
Hikari laughed maniacly. She looked down at the now on his knees last ANBU. "It's your lucky day. Normally I'd make you suffer for making my job harder, but I have to go get Naruto-kun's present." She lifted up her scythe and brought it down on his skull, causing a bit of blood to splash onto her smiling face.
She looked at the body of the now dead seal master and came upon the ingredients and instructions on the seal Fuyo had prepared for Naruto. Hikari smiled madly. This was precisely what she was looking for.
Hikari began following the tracks of the two that had her Naruto-kun's present. With any luck on her part, she'd get to take Naruto-kun back home with her willingly. But even if he didn't want to, he would be hers.
Meanwhile
Kusagakure
"Kakashi has agreed to meet you personally to discuss the terms of the arrangment Osa-sama. He said he would come here within a few days." Karin said. Izumi looked pleased. "Then they really are that deperate... Good. You and your squad may take the rest of the day off. You are dismissed." As Karin and her team left Izumi's office. She spoke once more. Seemingly to no one. "Why are you here... Jiraiya?"
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~Howl's Curse