Dragon of Konoha
Hey guys. Long time since I updated and sorry if its shorter than expected but I had projects to do and I'm practically failing college and on the borderline on losing my scholarship right now so... yeah... you guys might see the problem I'm having here. Well here's the new chapter so enjoy!
Chapter 25: Akatsuki
We reached our first town. It wasn't as big as Konoha but it was still considerably large compared to some other civilian towns in fire country. I looked over to see Naru-nii look around excited as he has never seen a flourishing town outside of Konoha before.
"Stay together you two and follow close behind because I'm not going to run around searching for you if you get lost." Jiraiya told us. I knew the trouble of getting lost and the pain in the ass it is to go looking for the lost because it happened to me once.
"I'm more worried about Naruto over here." I looked over to see him gone. I looked around to see him staring into a window of a store almost drooling. I walked over to see he was actually looking at a poster on the window and decided to read it myself.
It read:
Iron stomach contest:
Do you think you have an iron stomach? If you are man enough, sign up and prove it by eating as many bowls of ramen as you possibly can! It will be held today at noon in the town square. So sign up and prove your worth!
"…" I stared at it for a while then I looked down to see some extra written at the bottom which was where Naruto was staring at apparently:
The winner will get a life time supply of any and every type of ramen of their choosing and 30,000 ryo certificate to our jewelry shop. Second place will receive a lesser 15,000 ryo certificate and Third place will receive a 7,500 ryo certificate.
I sighed as I looked at who was funding this and I looked to see it was being funded by the fire daimyo's wife and her privately owned jewelry store.
"Naruto, do you want to sign up?" I looked over to see him gone yet again. I looked around to see he was already signing up for it. I shrugged and decided the prize would let me get something for Temari and Kugitsune so I signed up as well. Inside I looked at the clock.
"Hey Naru-nii, the contest starts in thirty minutes." As soon as I finished my sentence, all I saw was a big cloud of dust going straight towards the town square. I sighed and created a clone who I ordered to lead Jiraiya to us and I ran after my ramen obsessed brother.
It took me a few minutes before finding Naruto sitting near the end of one of the many tables. I shunshin-ed over to his position and sat across from him. As soon as I sat I felt Jiraiya arrive in the crowd. I looked around to see many of the towns people gathered to see this event.
"Hey Sou-nii," I looked over to Naruto, "Let's show these amateurs how outclassed they are!"
I smiled and nodded and prepared myself for what is to be, at least to Naruto, A feast of a lifetime.
30 minutes later…
"First place for the most ramen eaten goes to… Uzumaki Naruto-san with a hundred and thirty-two bowls!" The announcer said as he awarded him with the certificate and a picture to commemorate the moment. I got second with a hundred and five bowls. We met up with Jiraiya afterwards and continued on to the next city.
The next city… we, as in Naruto and I, hated the place. It was a major red light town that made its money mostly in… well, you can guess what just by the name. Finding hotels that will take in young customers were numerous and Jiraiya wanted to get in those places with the excuse of giving us some "experience" before we married since we don't read his books. We eventually settled into a hotel close to the gambling district because more information on the where about of the legendary sucker would be. Just like in the anime, a cute girl comes by and Jiraiya blasts off leaving me and Naruto to be in the room.
In the room…
"So do you think they'll come?" Naruto asked balancing the pointed end of a kunai on each digit with chakra.
"Yeah, that girl Jiraiya's with is under a genjutsu to distract him from you." I said from the doing push-ups from the ceiling, "plus they will think of something to kill me off with too."
"So what are we going to do?" he asked as he joined me on the ceiling.
"Easy, we create clones now and have them answer while we escape through the windows while they wait for 'us' to answer the door." I replied.
"…"
"What?"
"You just thought that up on the fly didn't you?"
"Yeah… so? That's pretty much the only way we can even have the slim chance of surviving because the gap in our strength and theirs is like comparing a lake to the ocean right now at least."
Then the knock came. We created clones and made a break towards the window. But before we could run the door was blasted down with the clones behind it. We turned around to see Kisame and Itachi.
"…"
"Shit." We turned around to see the two Akatsuki members shunshin to intercept us. They now stood in front of us. Kisame was snickering.
"Uzumaki Naruto, our leader wants you. Stop such stupid actions and come with us peacefully." Itach said as his sharingan eyes stared down at us. I started to fill my lung with a mixture of chakra and air while I breathed in deeply.
"I won't let you have him!" I yelled as the chakra hardened the air to a concentrated blast. The two dodged and I grabbed Naruto and I started to pump chakra into my legs and ran. We ran through the hallways and into the streets until we finally ran into a dead end.
"What are we going to do?" My brother asked me.
"You go over this and run." I said as I threw him over the wall, "I'll hold them off and you go find Jiraiya."
"But…"
"Just GO!" I created a nikutai bunshin and waited for the two. It didn't take long for them to find me.
"Where is your brother?" Itachi asked in his usual tone. I fell into my fighting stance and brought out Krakken.
"Heh heh heh… Looks like he's foolish enough to try and fight us Itachi-san." Kisame said as he unsheathed Samehada.
"I won't tell you because you two will fall before me!" I yelled as I charged towards them, "For the future of my brother, I won't let you touch him!"
"Very well." Itachi quietly said as he charged forward.
Naruto POV
I needed to hurry. Nii-san is in trouble. If what he told me is true, he's weasel and shark bait. I ran faster, I needed to find ero-sennin and fast.
"Shit! This is taking too long. Kage bunshin no jutsu!" I created atleast a thousand of me.
"Alright you guys! Go find Ero-sennin!" I commanded and they quickly rushed out to find him when I heard an explosion in the area nii-san saved me. I then went double time to find ero-sennin.
"Where the hell are you when we need you ero-sennin?" I whispered to my self when I saw him running towards me.
"Naruto!" I punched him in the face.
"Where the hell were you!" I yelled as he caught my second punch.
"Where's Souryu?" He asked me.
"He's stalling the two Akatsuki members while I ran and got you." I said. Ero-sennin then ran towards the street where nii-san is.
My POV
"Shit." I said as I dodged a bone crushing blow by Samehada. It hasn't been more than ten minutes and I'm already a mess. Damn. My vision's blurring. I can't fail now. I need to continue living until I make Naruto Hokage. For now though, I need to stall them till Jiraiya can handle them. Well, I'm still proud that the other two didn't go unharmed either. They had cuts and bruises from my attacks that will take a while to heal in the least.
"You're one stubborn bastard kid," Kisame mocked as he dodged aKrakken again, "And damn well persistent to."
I smirked, "I've taken worse beatings by a hundered year old hag."
That was when I saw Sasuke. Apparently so did the other two.
(You know the details of the fight in the anime so I'm not going through with it again. just imagine the scene except it was out in the street.)
After that minor annoyance was dealt with, they retargeted me. I was starting to run low on chakra at this point. I put Krakken away as it ate my chakra. I needed to conserve my chakra just to stay conscious. I needed to get away. I sent whatever amount of chakra I could spare to run when Itachi grabbed me by the the neck and slammed me into the closest wall while Kisame kept me there by nailing my arms and legs with some kunai to the wall. Itachi then pulled out a scroll and put some blood on it to release a katana.
"I won't waste my chakra on you," he said as he slashed the muscles on my left and right arms before I could blink, "You are a threat to our organization and you will be eliminated as such."
The katana was about to be shoved into my heart when I saw Jiraiya and Naruto come and I lost consciousness. Oh the action I was going to miss.
Naruto POV
I saw Itachi and Kisame ready to kill aniki when I four figures on horse back each wearing a cloak that marched their horses come riding through. They rode until they came right up to the two Akatuski members.
"Move." I heard voice of the one if the black cloak that sent a chill down my spine and even more, it scared Kyuubi who was currently shivering while hiding in the farthest corner of the small seal space.
"Holy shit." I said aloud getting noticed by the others involved.
"What is it Naruto." Ero-sennin asked me as he stood in front of me for when the Two S-class criminals might do something.
"It's Kyuubi. He's scared shitless from those four." Apparently that was surprising even to one of the sannin as his eyes became wide and sweat started to run down his face. The two Akatsuki members then got into a defensive stance while the four cloaked interlopers just sat and watched. The tension around was so thick that it could make even the toughest men scream like a girl. That was until the stranger in the red cloak started to cackle.
"Foolish mortals. Doth thou think that you could even harm me? Let alone fight me?" the others followed and started to laugh angering Kisame.
"I'll show you foolish!" he yelled as he jumped into the air and slammed his Samehada down on the red cloaked figure's head only to be blasted back by an unknown source.
"Foolish you are." The one in the black cloak said, "Now, we only came for the boy over there. We can't have our 'beneficiary' die on us now can we? What do you think War?"
"No we can't" the one in red now known as War said cackling, "After all, we can't have our host and entertainment die."
Itachi stared on, "Kisame, we leave."
"But Itachi-san..." Kisametried to complain until he looked into the Uchiha's eyes. Kisame growled in anger and sheathed Samehada when they both shunshi-ed away.
"Now," War said turning to my brother, "What to do with you."
He reached towards my brother. I ran as fast as I could to stop whatever this guy was trying to do but was pushed back at the amount of chakra he started to emit.
"Shiniganmi Iyashi no ho: shin tenchi sozo. (Death god healing technique: new heaven and earth revealed.)" he said as black ooze started to run out of his arm and as soon as he touched my brother, he started to convulse as the body was being swallowed by the black ooze. Once the goo covered him entirely, the goo started to move and sickening crunch could be heard. Soon four bulges formed in the ooze. I looked on to see the bulges pop and four kunai fell to the floor along with the rest of the ooze covered body. And soon after the ooze receded and retreated back to the one now known as War who reached down and let the ooze go back under his cloak. Where the ooze has been was a completely cured Souryu. I ran to him and held him in my arms. I was about to yell at the guys to see what they did to him but when I raised my head the one with a white cloak was right in my face.
"ku ku ku.When he wakes up, tell this fool to keep us entertained." The one in white said as the four disappeared in to thin air. Just then I felt stir in my arms and I looked down to see brother's eyes slowly open.
To be continued...