Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto anime or manga, or any of the said songs, music tracks or any other merchandise of the series but the Nentuoinai no Sato and any characters from said village, is my idea and belongs to none else. I am not Pheonstar, but thanks to him/her/it anyway.
Pre-Author's Note: Happy Belated New Year:I guess I should consider myself lucky. I never thought I would get this far. I'm going to try something new in this story and see how it works out. First open a new window and type in the address for youtube. Type in the following after the .com/,
watch?v(insert equals sign here)
Then type in the provided video ID. Again, this is just a thing I'm trying so it may not work out. Anyway, this is optional so you don't have to do it. If you do, but don't want to fuss with youtube, then ready these songs.
Songs in order:
Naruto 4th Ending Theme: Alive
Need to be Strong
Glued State
Crisis After Another
Turn Over
Shikamaru's Theme
Nine Tailed Demon Fox
Lyrics taken from 4th Naruto theme. Spelling and grammar errors are the fault of the Nentuo…careful though, they might be behind you…Look Out! Also, yesterday the new Naruto: Shippuden Season started!
PS: I've been a bad (insert what you think I am here, I refute to divulge any personal data). I changed a small fact in Chapter 11 for two reasons: an evil and annoying Sakura fan (You know who you are!), and I also needed it for the ending I have in mind for this story. I can already feel the number of people who stopped reading...Well, for those of you who are still here, enjoy:
The Village Hidden by the Mind
(Nentuoinai No Sato)
Chapter 13
Cue Intro: IxlfACyJZbg
Everyone makes mistakes…
It's nothing to be ashamed of…
Don't let this mistake go to waste…
Be able to smile as you walk…
Yes I breathe in the quiet air,
And raise my face towards the sky and jump in.
If it rains I'll take a breath,
And let the wind decide where I'll go.
I carry along many regrets
But letting these wounds go to waste is stupid.
Carve a medal in your chest and set sail
Your life becomes a 'show time' from there.
Everyone makes mistakes…
It's nothing to be ashamed of…
Don't let this mistake go to waste…
Be able to smile as you walk…
Turn your sadness into wind
And just be able to keep moving forward…
And just be able to keep moving forward…
End Intro
"Higama, do you copy?" There was a moment's silence, "Higama? Dammit! Alright, let's back track and go find his sorry ass. If he's goofing off I'm going to kill him!" Anra announced. She and Rekiru turned on their heels and ran back towards the clearing. The sand along the path they were going had become thicker and more active, leading them to believe they had come close to who or whatever they were tracking.
As they ran past the spot where they found the dead Team 2, Rekiru stopped in his tracks turned and began searching the downed bodies of their former comrades. It took Anra several seconds to realize Rekiru stopped and turned on her heels.
"What's the hold up?"
"We need to find the photo of the kid the team was traveling with."
"Oh…right," Anra felt stupid for having forgotten basics. Several minutes passed as the two of them searched the bodies of the dead team. Eventually Anra gave up and asked, "Find anything?"
"Yep," Rekiru handed her a picture of a boy with thick bags under his eyes and red hair. The look in his eyes screamed; I'll kill you. Another disturbing thing was the kanji on his head which read; "demon only loving himself".
"This kid has definitely got to be an insomniac."
"From the look of the kanji, the insomnia drove him off the deep end a long time ago."
"Think he killed Team 2?"
"Him? Are you joking?"
"No."
"Why? Does he scare you?"
"No."
"Does baby want his bottle?"
"Are we going to find Higama or not?"
"Yeah," the two were off in the general direction Higama had went. No sooner than a half-mile, they found Higama buried neck deep in the ground swatting at something invisible with a stick in his mouth. Rekiru walked over to him and stared at him for a second.
"Genjutsu, thinks he's fighting off a bunch of wolves."
Anra sighed, "Guess it couldn't have been helped."
She strolled over to Higama and punched that part of his head that was exposed. Higama immediately dropped the stick in his mouth and screamed, "Oh come on! How is that fair? A Bear?"
Anra cracked her knuckles, "Get some bandages Rekiru."
She slapped on brass knuckles and hit Higama straight across his face. Higama's first reaction was to scream out in pain. His second was to slowly regain knowledge of his surroundings. The wolves, and the bear, were gone and Anra and Rekiru had appeared from nowhere. His head ached where the bear had hit his head.
"Captain?" Higama asked. Anra crouched down and asked, "Why are you buried neck deep in dirt?"
Higama realized his situation and released himself with an escape technique. He gathered himself together and started, "Captain, there's something wrong. I saw ANBU come by here tryi-"
Anra had hit him across the head, "I think I need to hit you a few more times before that genjutsu wears off."
Higama rubbed the spot where Anra hit him, "I'm serious! I saw ANBU come by here. They said something about a Mind Sweep."
"Anra I think you hit him too hard," Rekiru commented, he knew Anra was kidding about the bandages but her physical strength was not something to joke about. She adjusted her knuckles, "Or maybe not hard enough."
"Are you sure about that Mind Sweep? With a village this size you would need at least an entire division of ninja. That's about a hundred There's no way you can sneak a hundred shinobi into a village without some one noticing."
"They said some people screwed up their techniques and a few them think that the target still exists, so either they had a Mind Sweep in place, or the whole village decided the day we left was a good time to binge drink."
"We left during a festival. Who wasn't binge drinking?"
"That doesn't explain the ANBU."
"Alright, we'll keep that in mind. Let's just focus on finding the kid."
No sooner had they said this but a monstrosity made from head to toe in sand stomped by, covering everything underneath it in its own covering. On its forehead was the upper-half of the boy whose picture Rekiru was holding on to. The boy seemed to be in a trance like sleep. Once it was out of sight, Rekiru turned to his captain and asked, "Did anyone else see that?"
Anra inhaled. It didn't add up. If this was the person Team 2 acquired, then what was that monster he was attached too. Was it a biju...no. probably a genjutsu...but I didn't feel one...a transfomation? It was too big. The only remaining sensible explanation was a kekkei genkai.
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Cue Need to be Strong: 822GcFSTdq8
Almost immediately the wall was knocked down, debris flew everywhere, and villagers were sent screaming in a multitude of directions. The few who were unsuspectingly close to the wall were buried underneath rubble, but no one dared get past the giant monstrosity of sand. The giant raccoon creature gazed around at the village as people ran from him. Some of the village's shinobi had arrived to fight off the creature. They thought that after what had happened over 12 years ago they would have been prepared to fight a weaker biju. Too many hesitated too long and were buried in sand that poured from the creature's body. The sand turned into several cocoons and from within came the screaming of the shinobi. The screaming was cut short and blood sprayed everywhere as the sand dissipated.
Several more shinobi arrived and immediately they barraged the massive beast with kunai and shuriken. The sand covering the Shukaku swallowed each projectile as it made contact. The kunai and shuriken were thrown back at the men and women, slaughtering their numbers and reducing them to less than half.
A few, who had survived, dragged themselves up and began their counter attack. They threw the kunai back at the shukaku, whose skin absorbed it the same way as before. The creature let out a large burp, smoke climbing out of its mouth. A shinobi with a radio spoke into it, "Initial attack, ineffective. It ate the exploding tags!"
"I know, I saw, refocus attack on the boy on the creature's forehead," the radio responded. The man looked up noticing that the upper-half of a boy was visible on the creature's forehead. The man signaled to the survivors of his team and they understood immediately. The man made several hand signs and created several bunshin, which all leaped for the boy on its forehead. They were all stopped by a barrage of kunai. The bunshin vanished in a puff of smoke as the original fell to the ground, covered in kunai with exploding tags attached.
He fell to the ground as several panicking villagers ran past. The tags went off, and the street was marked with dismembered limbs, blood, a smoldering crater and smoke. The rest of the shinobi began to rethink their attack and many tried to bring the crowd under control, and help those who had tripped and were being trampled. This proved fruitless since many of the villagers were to scared to listen to the shinobi as they gave orders.
In the midst of the chaos, the two Hyuga children carry a half dead jonin.
"This way," Neji said, as he carried the limp form of Kakashi through the chaos of the street. A short distance behind them, the monstrosity laid waste to nearby buildings and more shinobi who attempted to hold back the monster.
Neji and Hinata, of course, had to fight the urge to help since they couldn't use any of their jutsus which rendered them useless. As Neji continued to carry the load of the jonin on his back he scanned around for a possible clear path they could take to the hospital. We could try leaping from the buildings, but then that thing will see us, Neji thought. There was a squeal behind him and Neji turned to see his cousin get knocked down by a panicked villager and stepped on by several others.
Neji had no choice, he dropped the jonin on the side of a building and ran towards his cousin, even if she was a member of the main family. He picked up the half trampled kunoichi and looked up in time to see several more shinobi arrive to tackle the biju.
"Hey!" Neji called. The shinobi didn't hear. They were either too busy maintaining crowd control or trying to take the monster down. Realizing he was left to his own devices. He ran back to the jonin in time to sling him on his back. Hinata, who was doing her best to calm the crown, ceased when Neji called her.
"Hinata-sama!"
She dropped what she was doing and followed after Neji who was already running to the village's hospital. As they ran, they were several shouts of astonishment as a figure escorted by four ANBU and one jonin leaped to the monster.
"Gai sensei!" Neji cried. Gai turned in mid leap and landed next to his former student.
"Neji?" he asked. Almost on cue, an explosion shook the ground and what appeared to be the Hokage arrived on the scene.
"Gai sensei, Kakashi sensei," Gai looked at the crumpled heap of his rival. Oh right…Kakashi…almost forgot him. Wait, now's my chance! If I save my rival that has to be worth enough to put me ahead of Kakashi…YES! I'll do it! Gai nodded and took the load of Neji, but not for any noble reason, "Don't worry I'll take care of Kakashi. You and your cousin get to the village's safety zones."
Gai leaped to a roof top and vanished from sight. Leaving both Neji and Hinata in the midst of the panicked crowd.
End Need to be Strong
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Cue Glued State: Ou97ivaJREY
In a manner of moments the medical nin found themselves overwhelmed as a stream of villagers stormed in with wounded civilians and shinobi begging that their loved ones be examined first. Of all the cases they had received that day, none could have been worse than the kunoichi who was dragged in by Yamanaka Ino. She claimed to have found her rival or friend, she had switched between both words, in this state at the training grounds.
The medical nins decided to attend to the kunoichi first. Their diagnosis; hemorrhaging throughout the body, she was in a coma like state, her left arm was bent in the opposite direction, snake bites decorated the whole of her person, internal bleeding, concussion to the head, broken jaw, pulled muscles, her right knee was broken and was bent so her foot and her hip were next to each other. They exchanged nervous glances while speculating who could have possibly been evil enough to do this to anyone, especially a twelve year-old kunoichi.
Several went to work on the kunoichi while the others were left to deal with the many incoming patients. What bothered many of the medical of the staff were the wounds. They came in mass and in somewhat disturbing injuries. The last time they had endured this type of situation, the Kyubi had decided to attack the village. A jounin was dragged in without his lower half. He was announced to have died minutes before entering the hospital. The day was only beginning.
End Glued State
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Cue Crisis After Another: v4QK-nbgah4
Kurenai and Asuma made contact with Kisame at the same time. Asuma used his trench knives to hit him across the face while Kurenai hit his legs causing him to fly forward into Asuma's knives. They thought they had finally gotten him when he vanished into water.
Kurenai and Asuma went back to back again. Kisame was proving more dangerous than described in the bingo book. Asuma was unsure of what Kisame would do next when he felt a sharp pain in his back. He turned to see Kurenai holding a knife half buried in his back.
"Kurenai?" he asked, hurt that she would do this. Then he saw it, her eyes weren't dark blue. He raised his trench knives and made to hit her when he felt a heavy weight drop itself on his shoulders. Behind him, Kisame had his sword on Asuma's shoulder. Kurenai, in a poof of smoke, revealed herself to be Kisame's mizu bunshin.
Kisame shaved off a chunk of Asuma's vest and he could feel his chakra go with it. Dammit, he thought. He pushed away the mizu bunshin and the real Kisame and took a stance to defend himself from both.
Both the mizu bunshin, and Kisame took a swing at Asuma. Kisame's sword hit Asuma on his Adam's apple, while the mizu bunshin jabbed Asuma's back with two kunai. Asuma, in a poof of smoke, revealed himself to be a log, while Kisame's mizu bunshin vanished in a puddle of water.
End Crisis After Another
Cue Turn Over: XP6sZpXe6sw
"What?" Kisame stood in mind numbing confusion. He remembered that he and Itachi were trying to deal with both Itachi's brother and several shinobi, but everything after that was a blur. He then became aware of two unidentified chakra signatures which caused him to raise his guard.
Asuma and Kurenai appeared and continued their attack. Kisame moved his sword frantically to counter any attack made by Asuma, which gave Kurenai the time she needed to apply the genjutsu. Kisame relized this and ran straight for her, striking her straight in the stomach. She vanished in a poof of smoke and Kisame turned to confront Asuma.
The two locked heads in a standoff with their weapons. In the next instant, Kisame found himself neck deep in dirt. Asuma smirked, confident they had won until Kisame transformed into a puddle of water.
End Turn Over
He and Kurenai turned to find Kisame on top of a tree branch, "I don't know what just happened, but I'll be on my way."
He vanished in a poof of smoke. Or at least he tried.
Cue Shikamaru's Theme: v4nhKzlPliI
When the smoke cleared it became evident he was still standing there, wearing a look of shock, and jumped off. Kisame then walked slowly to the two of them and asked, "What's going on?"
Asuma couldn't help but notice Kisame's shadow went all the way past the two of them.
"Am I late?"
Both Kurenai and Asuma turned to see a middle-aged man with his hair fashioned like a pineapple. There was a long scar over his right eye. The glazed look in his eyes suggested he had just woken up from a nap.
"When did you get here Shikaku?" Asuma asked first. Shikaku shrugged, it wasn't normally his style to do anything that caused too much work for him. He made an exception in this case, "Three of my deer got loose. I went to find them, but it became too much of a bother so I took a nap."
The man yawned and rubbed his eye, "You three make so much noise."
"Well, thanks anyway," Asuma nodded to Kurenai, who bound Kisame in ropes and handed his sword to Asuma. The four then started heading back for Konoha. Kisame, sadly, had to walk backwards since Shikaku knew he would try to run if the Kagemane no Jutsu was released.
End Shikamaru's Theme
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Cue Nine Tailed Demon Fox: KCyZrf89gz4
Sasuke had no idea what it was he did wrong, all he knew was he was before the monstruous fox again.
"There's been a change in plans," he…she…it announced. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
"I can feel another chakra presence. It would be in our best interest to eliminate it before it can do any further damage."
"Our best interest?"
"Do you want to get out of this hell hole?"
"What's it to you."
"Well would you like to live long enough to kill your brother and avenge your clan?"
"…"
"Well?"
"How did you know that?"
"I know alot about you, Uchiha Sasuke. Do you wish to avenge your clan?"
"...Yes."
"Then how do you suppose we do that if this chakra presence is allowed to roam freely unchecked?"
"Why didn't you just kill him?"
"I would, if I were not confined in this cage."
"It must be terrible to be you."
"Indeed," the air became tense in the room, "I'm placing it on your shoulders to kill him. Can I trust you?"
There was a moment's silence. Sasuke had been pondering who the fox was and more importantly, why its presence struck several chords of fear in him.
"Answer me subordinate!"
"I am no one's subordinate," Sasuke grew bold at the fox in this instant. It was a mistake.
"YOU DARE TO SPEAK TO KYUBI IN SUCH A MANNER! I, THE DEMON LORD WHO ALMOST DESTROYED YOUR PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A VILLAGE!"
Sasuke flinched. So this was the demon fox that almost wiped out Konoha. Despite being behind the bars his killer intent spoke enough. Still, Sasuke had to enjoy the irony, Oh how the mighty have fallen. It was at this moment that a second thought crossed his mind; If this is Naruto's mind…then…what…He tried to piece the information together.
"DO NOT THINK YOUR MISERABLE LIFE OR CONCERNS ARE OF ANY MATTER TO ME. IF YOU CROSS ME, I WILL KILL YOU. NOW DO AS YOU ARE TOLD."
Without further argument, Sasuke made a break for the door. Before he could, the red chakra of the kyubi blocked the door.
"YOU RATS ARE SO AMUSING UNDER THE CORRECT CIRCUMSTANCES. YOUR TARGET IS NEAR HERE, I AM SURE YOU CAN FEEL HIS PRESENCE BY NOW. PREVENT HIM FROM CAUSING ANY DAMAGE TO THIS VESSEL. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU CONSIDER USING YOUR CHIDORI. DAMAGE ANY MORE OF THIS BOY'S MIND AND YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCE."
Sasuke felt a sense of dread overpower him. Why was he afraid. If he wanted to kill his brother he couldn't afford to be afraid. Then why was he afraid? Maybe it was the demonic fox staring him down. Perhaps it was the sense of dread of not being able to escape. Why? After Sasuke composed himself, Kyubi released his hold on the door and allowed Sasuke to run out.
End Nine Tailed Demon Fox
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A Note from Leonardo1123581321: That poor, poor fox. Also by the time you've read this, I'll probably have watched the first two Naruto Shippuden Episodes. Wee! If your youtube window is still open, you might be able to find it.