Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"

Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking

"I have always been afraid...
always been pretending to follow you closely, always pretending to sharpen my teeth,
when the truth is, I am...
scared to death just treading on your shadow." - Unknown

Arashi was bleeding from the several cuts on his body as he dropped the latest sword that broke from Touki's scimitar. He reached for a sword that had a vicious looking blade with spikes sticking out of it. He swung the blade and caught Touki in the chest with it with enough force to send him skidding backwards, but to the disappointment of Arashi Touki didn't have a scratch on him.

"That blade represents your drive to never give up." Touki said with a smile. "But that still will not do the trick against me. All you can do with that blade is hold me off for a little bit until you find the real Tenro." Touki charged once again and brought his scimitar down while Arashi swung his sword up in front of him as a defense as Touki's blade hit Arashi's blade. The ground below Arashi became a small crater. Arashi was shaking from the strain of keeping of keeping Touki's blade from cutting him in two.

"He's so fucking strong." Arashi thought as he saw his blade begin to develop a crack. "What in the hell am I suppose to do against someone like this." Arashi jumped back and watched as Touki was consumed by a cloud of dust that obscured him from Arashi's view. Suddenly a red object was thrown at him with speed. Arashi brought his sword up just in time to deflect the deadly projectile. The blade was sent spinning in the air until it was caught in the hands of Touki who brought the deadly point of his blade in a dangerous thrust downward.

Arashi saw the danger and jumped out of the way dropping his sword. When the point of Touki's scimitar touched the blade Arashi dropped and it broke in two. Touki stood there looking at the broken remains of Arashi's sword.

"That sword was the best defensive one in this entire area." Touki said with a strange gleam in his eye. "Now with its gone you really have no choice, but to find Tenro." Touki charged once more making Arashi dodged to the side of the deadly scimitar. Arashi dived behind a large rock holding his shoulder from the strain of holding Touki's blade up from his last attack.

"What am I suppose to do?" Arashi asked himself. "There are too many swords to go through and even if I do find Tenro the guy is strong." Then Arashi felt the need to dive to his right and he was wise to listen, because not a second later Touki's sword was sticking out of the ground right where Arashi was a second ago. Touki tilted his head to the side while he was squatting on the hilt of his scimitar.

"You know just standing around with your fucking mouth open isn't going to find Tenro any bit faster." Touki said as he jumped off of the sword while yanking it out of the ground.

Arashi rolled out of the way as he tried to deliver a deadly slash to Arashi's head. Arashi began to think back on the conversation they had so far.

"He said I can only defeat him with the sword that holds my fighting spirit." Arashi thought as he dodged yet another sword slash, but still received a deep gash to his shoulder. "He also said that he was my fighting spirit, but he can't be Tenro since I have to kill him. So the answer must be…" Touki stabbed his blade forward and managed to impale the scimitar through Arashi. Touki raised an eyebrow because he knew that Arashi could have dodged that attack.

"What are you planning?" Touki asked with suspicion.

Arashi looked at him with an evil grin. "Getting my sword back!" Arashi stated as he grabbed the blade. Touki jumped backwards leaving the sword in Arashi as it began to change from a red scimitar to a black nodachi. Arashi yanked Tenro out of his stomach and began to spin the blade around using only two fingers until the hilt came close to his hand. He then stopped spinning his weapon, grabbed Tenro on the hilt, and swung it downward with enough force to make some of the earth raise upwards in a wall.

"Very good you found out where Tenro was." Touki said reaching for another blade as the others began to disintegrate. When his fingers brushed the blade there was a flash of light that made Arashi shield his eyes. When he opened them he saw Touki holding his scimitar once more.

"But you still have to kill me." Touki said with a slight mocking tone. "And just look at you. You can't possible do that now can you."

Touki's eyes widened when he saw an aura of blue surround Arashi. "What the hell you shouldn't be able to use chakra." Touki said as he brought his weapon into a fighting stance.

Arashi looked at him with a fire in his eyes. "I'm not using chakra what you see is my… WILL TO WIN!" Arashi yelled the last part out as he charged the man. Touki brought his blade around, but Arashi easily ducked the blade and brought his own around to try and cut Touki's feet. Touki saw this and managed to jump out of the way just in time.

Touki landed and was immediately forced to bring his blade around in order to stop Tenro. Touki's and Arashi's eyes meet and Touki saw that he was not going to stop.

Touki chuckled. "This is going to be a long fight." Was all he said before pushing Arashi away and charging once more.

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Taigen watched as the pond's final bit of water finally went into Arashi. "It would seem that his tests are almost complete." Taigen said as he looked at his hand to see that it was aging quickly.

"Please hurry Arashi I don't have long left." Taigen thought as Ryuu walked up and gave him a lick on his hand.

XXX

Touki and Arashi jumped away from each other each supporting several cuts and gashes on them.

"You are very good at what you do Arashi." Touki said with a smile.

"Oh, and what is that?" Arashi asked with a smile of his own.

"You're good at fighting with a beast like mentality." Touki said with a sadistic grin. "Now tell me Arashi what will you do?" At that Arashi was confused.

"What do you mean?" Arashi asked with a little bit of fear in his eyes.

"What I mean is what do you think they are going to do to you when they see what you really can do?" Touki said in more in a statement then anything. "What will you do if the world betrays you?"

Arashi was silent for awhile, but when he spoke he had a clear and determined tone. "If the world chooses to become my enemy." Arashi said. "Then I will fight like I've always have." He brought Tenro up in front of him and charged Touki, but in his mind he was troubled.

"What did he mean the world betraying me?" Arashi thought as the two blades clashed together. Arashi and Touki came face to face while their blades began to howl.

"It would seem that our swords want to fight just as much as we do." Arashi said with a grin that would scare even a demon. At this Touki just nodded his head signaling his own excitement. They both pushed off and disappeared from view only to reconnect with such force that it left a crater.

"What's going on?!" Touki thought as he watched Arashi deflect his scimitar with a smile. "He's getting faster, stronger, and his reflexes are increasing. It's almost as if..." Touki was knocked out of his train of thought when Arashi delivered a brutal slash across his chest that sent him backwards.

Arashi smiled even bigger. "It would seem that we are now equally hurt my "friend." Arashi said.

"It would appear so." Touki said as he put his hand to his chest. "I would say we both don't have enough energy to keep this up."

"So what do you suppose we do about that?" Arashi asked with and eyebrow raised as he brought Tenro up.

"I could sit here and wait for you to die on your own." Touki said with an evil tone in his voice. "But I want to finish this in one strike no holding back."

Arashi thought it over and swung his sword to his side. "I accept." Was Arashi response.

"Excellent then let this fight reach its conclusion and see if you are worthy to live again." Touki said as he put his own scimitar to his side. They stood there for awhile and then both disappeared only to reappear a feet away from each other declaring their attack.

"MIZUCHI!" They both said as the swung their blades through each other.

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Taigen backed away from Arashi as the ground around him began to crack and split open.

"What in hell is happening?!" Taigen yelled out. Ryuu tilted his head and kept his place right next too Arashi. "I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but I think the tests are over."

XXX

Arashi and Touki both stood on the opposite side of each other with their own respective blades still drawn. Arashi looked at Touki out of the corner of his eyes before spitting out blood. Tenro snapped in two and his left arm was cut off with several gashes adorning his body. Touki sheathed his blade and walked over to Arashi with a smile.

"It would seem that this fight is over." Touki said as lines appeared all over his body as blood gushed forward. His body disintegrated and sent a blinding light that blinded Arashi. Arashi opened his eyes to see that he was in a black room. Arashi looked around and saw that he had his left arm and Tenro was fully repaired and in it's sheath. Arashi looked around some more and saw four people he thought he would never see again.

Muramasa was standing up with a smile on his face; Taifuu was right next to him with his arms crossed and a smirk, and two people that made Arashi cry: his parents.

"Hello son." Kyouran said while he held Kirisame's hand.

"How have you been?" Kirisame asked with a smile.

"I've been fine." Arashi said with some tears. "So I guess this means I failed the test."

"No it means you passed." Muramasa said. "It's just that your body is waking up so we have a few seconds to talk to you."

Arashi nodded his head and looked at his parents. "How are you two here?" Arashi asked with confusion.

"Well Taigen thought you would like to see your parents at least once." Kyouran said. "So he made a special seal that would transfer all of our memories into the seals on the pond for you to see."

"Why did you seal Houkou in me?" Arashi asked only to have his father and mother look at him strangely. "I'm not complaining it's just that well…"

"Go on son." Kirisame said with a gentle smile.

"Whenever a Jinchuriki is made it's usual for two things." Arashi said. "One is for power either for a village to use as a weapon or two as a way of protecting someone's home, but that's what's bugging me."

"What is son?" Kyouran asked with an amused smile.

"Houkou is too calm headed to go on a rampage." Arashi said as he chuckled at the idea and shuddered at the same time. "And from what I managed to find we never belonged to a village so that was out of the question. So now back to my original question why seal Houkou in me?

Kyouran and Kirisame both gave each other a strange look to one another at the word village. "Listen son the thing is we did belong to a village." Kyouran said, but raised a hand to silence his son. "But I won't tell you the details that is for Taigen to decide. After we left the ninja career we decided to leave and live on our own. Then we had you, but there was a problem. You were born with a very weakened immune system and with no hospitals around we were sure you were going to die, but then Houkou came by. Now some might run scared if they see a giant white dog demon tower above them, but we stood our ground and asked the demon for help. At first people might have called us crazy because we sat there and talked to a demon who probably didn't understand us, but then right as we was about to give up hope and accept the fact we might get killed by this demon two of it's tails reached forward and wrapped around your mom and me."

"We thought we were going to die." Kirisame said with depressed look in her eye. "But instead it spoke inside our minds. It told us that it used it's chakra to see if anything could be done from the outside to help you, but to our dismay it said nothing could be done. Right then we gave up hope, but then it surprised us. He said that if he was to be sealed inside of you it could heal you."

"Natural your mom and I were suspicious so we asked it what it got in return." Kyouran said. "He said he gained a better foothold in using its power to try and better the world. As people have probably told you Houkou is the Demon of Nature and as such it hates to see when the world is in war, but we decided to ask more. We asked if it was so powerful then why couldn't he stop the wars and everything. He said that he didn't have enough chakra to do what needed to be done, but if he had a human vessel then he would have that power. We decided that that we didn't have any other choice, but to go through with the sealing, but before we even got started we made it swore on it's honor and pride that it would never try and take you over. He said that we were an interesting pair of humans and accepted."

Arashi looked down at ground with a strange look in his eyes. "So the reason I'm alive is because Houkou aloud himself to be sealed inside of me." Arashi said with disbelief in his voice.

"Yes, but listen when Taigen tells you about the village we served promise use that you will not seek retribution against them." Kyouran said with authority in his voice that only a father could have.

Arashi nodded his head and looked at Taifuu with sad eyes. "I'm sorry." Arashi said with a sad tone.

Taifuu just shrugged. "I don't blame you." Taifuu said with a smile. "I threw myself in front of Kisame's blade I chose to die." Suddenly Arashi began to fade from view. "Looks like you are ready, but before you go just promise me one thing that you'll protect Unabara, Nami, and the village."

Arashi nodded his head. "I promise." Arashi said, but before he completely faded he said one more thing. "I'll miss all of you." And then he was gone as the realm of black vanished along with the Arashi's family and friend.

XXX

Arashi woke up with Taigen above him with a smile on his face. "Welcome back to the land of the living." Taigen said as he made a signal handsign a glow could be seen coming from Arashi's stomach. Arashi looked down and saw that the seal containing Houkou changed. Instead of being a circle of kanji it now resembled a vortex with kanji at the ends of it.

"You fixed my seal?" Arashi asked with a dry mouth.

"Yeah I couldn't leave my great-great grandson to die now can I." Taigen said as he stood up. That's when Arashi got a good look at him. He looked like he aged forty more years and was continually aging more and more.

"What's happening to you?" Arashi asked as he sat up.

"It's exactly like I told you." Taigen said as he walked towards a chest. "Someone who bathes in that spring almost all the time is forced to bathe in it everyday or else have their body turn into dust." Taigen said as he picked up two scrolls and threw them at Arashi with some effort.

The blue scroll well help you discover what your Genjutsu ability is." Taigen said as he sat down on a stump. "The second is a technique scroll that belonged to your mother."

"My mothers Jutsu scroll." Arashi said as held onto the scroll as if it might break.

"Yes," Taigen said as he aged more and more. "In that chest you will find out what really happened to your family."

At that Arashi's eyes widened. "But Mei-sama already told me that they were killed by two missing ninja." Arashi said with confusion.

"Yes they were, but the real question to know is why?" Taigen said as he stood up and grabbed his cloak. He wrapped himself in his cloak and began to walk away when Arashi called him.

"Taigen where are you going?" Arashi asked already having a feeling where he was going.

"Arashi I've lived a long time too long." Taigen said with a very old voice. "I pass on the title of clan head to you Arashi Tekiatsu. Now before you start expression any type of regret for this old man's death let me just tell you it was an honor to final get to talk to you." After that the bottom of his shoes began to turn into dust as he began to flow into the wind. Taigen said one last thing before he died. "Remember you are the last of us we all believe in you to do the right thing." And with that Taigen Tekiatsu died leaving Arashi alone with Ryuu on top of a hill.

Ryuu let out a mournful howl as he expressed his sadness at seeing his master die. Arashi looked at him and gave him a pet on his head. "I know boy I'll miss him too." Arashi said this as he followed the dust trail until he couldn't anymore. Arashi stood up and walked over to where the chest was.

"Taigen said what really happened to my family." Arashi thought with a thoughtful look on his face as he pulled out a scroll with a symbol showing a mountain with another mountain behind it only faded making it look like a mirage. "What did he mean?"

He unfolded the scroll and in a poof of smoke a cloak was laying at his feet with the same symbol on the back as the scroll. The cloak was white in color with a bright multicolored star on the sides where the shoulders were. On the right side was a metal shoulder pad with kanji standing for "Fear what you can't see." Arashi laughed a little, but then he saw a letter with the cloak and he unfolded it and saw it was written by Taigen.

"Arashi if you got this then that means that you passed the tests and I've giving you the title of clan head. Your father wore this when he was head of the clan I think that he would want you to have it.

The best,

Taigen Tekiatsu

Arashi looked down and smiled even bigger. "I promise to make you all proud." Arashi thought as he looked back at the scroll, but what it said confused Arashi.

"Kyouran and Kirisame Tekiatsu of Kirigakure:

"That's odd Mei-sama never told me my family was from mist." Arashi thought as he had a funny feeling about what was about to happen he kept reading the scroll until he read apart of it that made the air around him buzz like chainsaws.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU FUCKING DO!" Arashi thought with rage. "Why didn't you tell me!" Arashi threw the scroll down and stomped on it until he couldn't see it anymore. He looked down and opened his mother's Jutsu scroll. He looked through, but didn't find anything until he was at the very bottom and what he saw made him grin like a demon.

"This is going to be a FUN day." Arashi thought as he opened the other scroll to see that it had a lot of different Genjutsu that affected a different part of the body. "Well so this is how you find out." He said realizing that it was a trail and error type of solution.

"Hey Ryuu." Arashi said calling the dog to his feet. "I need you to go and stay by Hana and tell by any means necessary other then bringing her here that I'm fine." Ryuu gave a bark and disappeared down the mountain.

"Houkou are you there." Arashi asked the dog demon.

"Yes, you seem to be better." Houkou said with some growl that Arashi could have guessed was laughter.

"Yea, hey Houkou." Arashi said with an embarrassed smile. "I want to thank you for saving my life when I was a baby."

Houkou gave a gentle growl. "Your welcome hey, but I did it for my own reasons as well." Houkou said

"Yea I know use me to stop-." Arashi was interrupted.

"No there was another reason why." Houkou said that caught Arashi interest. "The other reason is that I saw something in you that I never notice in any other human besides two."

"Oh, and what was that?" Arashi asked

"You have the guts to sacrifice your self in order to protect the world." Houkou said. But before you get talking again I know you want to ask me something so ask away."

"Okay, listen I need to train in three things." Arashi thought to the dog. "The first thing is your chakra, the second is my mom's Jutsu, and the third is my Genjutsu type."

Houkou thought about it for a moment and then answered. "Okay I'll help you, but first answer one question." Houkou thought with a serious note in his growl. "What do you plan to do when you get done with your training?"

Arashi chuckled. "Well after this there's a certain man I want you to help me find." Arashi thought, but Houkou gave off annoyed growl.

"Revenge is never a good option Arashi." Houkou thought. "Remember those who seek revenge need to dig two graves."

Arashi laughed a little. "Don't worry Houkou I'm not doing it out of revenge." Arashi thought with confused Houkou.

"Oh, then why are you doing it." Houkou thought.

"Well I figure I need to take care of a few lose ends my village forgot to tie up." Arashi thought.

Houkou gave a sigh. "Alright just be careful with what you are going to do." Houkou thought while Arashi gave a nod of his head and then the training began.

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"Shinra Tensei (Heavenly Subjugation of the Omnipresent God)." Pain stated as he threw his hands downward releasing his technique on Konoha. Konoha was pushed from the center outward by the force of Pain's technique, but then throughout the deselect landscape a giant boom could be heard. As the smoke cleared there were six toads in the surrounding area. Three of them were standing side by side; one was sitting on Gamabunta's, and on top of Gamakichi's head were the two toad sage master standing next too Naruto while in sage mode.

"So the Kyuubi decided to come to us." Deva path pain said while his eyes gleamed.

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