I hate it when Open office screws me over and decides to make me restart a chapter...Oh well no choice now.

Could this man Alex met truly be an elemental beast's host? If so will Alex be able to defeat him or even survive?

Chapter 29 Start

"What do you mean the power is the same?"

"It feels a little different since I'm not the one using it but there is no doubt he is an Elemental beast host."

He looks up with red eyes and the elemental beast mark appears on his forehead.

"That proves my point further."

"So your an elemental beast host."

"Is that a problem for you?" something about his voice sounded off.

"I think I can handle you."

"There's no way a weakling like you could take me on."

I do a few hand signs "Fireball jutsu!" I shot a huge fireball towards him and he swings his arm up and a wave of water comes from the ground and extinguishes my flame.

"Looks like jutsu don't work too well." I said

"Your jutsu are weak, too weak to do any real harm to me."

"We'll see."

He runs right at me and before I can react he grabs a kunai and stabs me right in the stomach. I fall in pain and he jumps a little away.

"Didn't see that coming did you?"

"No, but don't think your the only one with power!" I stand my eyes now as red as his.

"Are you an elemental beast's host too?" He asked staring at me

"Yes I am." I said as I drew my sword

He placed bot hands in front of him and then a sword of five colors appeared "This should be a fun fight!" He said

I ran at him and slashed towards his chest, he managed to block but then I went for his leg but his sword stopped my attack again. He took a stab towards mt chest I blocked it but then he managed to kick me in the stomach and hit me back into a wall.

I stand up "Let's see if you can avoid this!" I move my hand in an X shape in front of me "Double Wind Blade!"

He doesn't move. The first one hit and staggered him and the second one hit him to the ground.

"Didn't expect that?"

He stood up and there was no cut!

"How did that not cut you?"

"Doesn't matter." He griped his sword tightly and ran towards me.

I lift my right and left in front of me "Hurricane Blast!" it is just a more powerful version of my gale force move. Stones and dust are flying all around and I can't see him now."

"That should stop him for a bit."

Suddenly I see something move in the dust and before I can dodge, a sword slashes me from my right shoulder down to my left hip.

I jump back.

"Your moves are too weak!"

What the hell is this guy? He stopped my fire with a move of his hand, he got hit directly by my double wind blade hit him and now he just ran through my Hurricane blast, no human-!

I suddenly realized something

"I finally have you figured out!"

"What are you talking about?"

"I know why you are so much stronger then me as well."

"It's because I have had the beast inside me longer then you."

"That's what I thought at first but now realized I was wrong."

He stayed silent

"At first I thought the host was in control, But now I know that, YOU AN ELEMENTAL BEAST IS IN CONTROL!"

He stared at me for a while and then finally said "How the fuck did you figure it out?"

"You made it easy. You were not using Strategy. With my wind blade you should have sensed it and dodged it someone as strong as you should know it is a jonin level technique. A human, with or without an elemental beast, wouldn't stand still when there's two blades of wind flying towards them."

"So that's the way you figured it out?"

"That and the face you ran right through my fireball."

"Since you know I'm in control now that means I can release fully now."

Damn...I didn't think about that part

He let out a roar and the cloak appeared. His eye changed from the color of fire to dark red, the color of blood. His teeth grew into fangs and his nails got longer and sharper.

"This is the third state!" He said He let out another roar, but nothing changed.

"...What did that do?" I asked

"DAMN IT!"

"I get it now."

"I'M IN CONTROL HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!"

"You might be in control, but the host is still somewhere inside and he's preventing you from releasing yourself."

"Who cares this form is enough to defeat you!"

I smile "I have hidden power as well."

"There's no way you can go past the third form without losing control!"

"I never said that was what I was going to do."

"What other powers could a wimp like you have?"

I took a kunai in my left hand and stabbed it into my right palm.

"What the hell are you doing?"

I cut a circle into my hand then stabbed it twice to complete the symbol.

Energy overflowed my body immediately.

"WHAT? WHERE DID THAT ENERGY COME FROM?"

"Looks can be deceiving can't they?"

He let out a growl and ran towards me. He swiped his claws at me, I easily dodged and delivered a kick yo his stomach that sent me backwards. I realized then that I still had the beast's power as well so my power was higher then I thought it would.

"You may have gotten stronger but that won't stop me from defeating you!" He did a few hand signs "Flame Geysers!" A pillar of flame came up from the ground in front of me I jumped back and another pillar appeared behind me and two more appeared on either of my sides, Surrounded. I felt the ground move under my feet and then a pillar of flame broke through the ground and engulfed me.

The pillar that I was in and the others surrounding vanished and I collapsed to the floor. My whole body was burned, every move I made hurt. I tried to stand up but my body couldn't stand the pain and I fell to the ground again.

"You may have gotten stronger but you can't use the power if you can't get up." He raised his sword and brought it down and I felt an intense pain as the skin on my back spilt.

"D-damn it."

He brought his sword down again and this time the sword stabbed right through the back of my right side and out the other side."

"damn..." I said barley audible. I started coughing up blood.

"Not so strong now are you?" He said as he turned and walked away

"J-just finish me..."

"I would rather watch you suffer."

All hope drained from me, I lay there waiting for the peaceful embrace of death.

My thoughts suddenly go to my family. My mom, my dad, my Brothers, I won't ever see them again if I die. I had one last thing I could try. I had no idea if it would work but if it did I might be able to win this fight.

I grabbed a kunai with my right hand and stabbed into my left hand. I cut the same symbol into my left that was on my right. I waited. Nothing happened. At least I tried...I thought as my vision started to fade. Suddenly my body started shaking. I stood up. The pain,the thoughts disappeared all that remained was a desire...To Kill. My left and right palms were bleeding more then they should have been.

"How are you able to stand?"

I appeared in front of him and smashed my fist into his chest, I felt a rib give way under the force of the impact and he got thrown back a bit.

"FUCK! How are you so powerful now?" He asked holding his chest

I stayed silent

"Fine don't talk! Let's see you take this hit!" He held his arm in front of him and it started glowing

"Elemental Blast!" He shot the five colored beam at me, I put my hand a in the way and when it hit it shot off my hand into the roof.

"HOW CAN YOU STOP AN ELEMENTAL BLAST?"

I point both hands towards him and say "Twin Elemental Blast!" To beams shoot from my hands and hit him directly. The explosion created a cloud of smoke. When it cleared I saw him still standing but his arms, legs, chest and pretty much everywhere was was cut and covered in blood and if he was not a host he would have died.

"y-you b-bitch..."

I teleported in front of him grabbed him by his throat and slammed him into the ground, he let out a groan of pain. I took a kunai from my pouch and held it against his neck, I moved it down over his heart and raised the kunai.

"What are you doing?"

Such bad timing "What does it look like? I'm finishing this fight."

"Your not acting yourself."

"I might be acting differently but I'm going to kill him."

"Why do you insist on killing him?"

"He tried to kill me."

"Alex, I can see everything in your mind. Your thoughts, your memories even before I entered your body and I have not seen anything that shows you as someone that would kill to satisfy yourself, and right now all your thinking about is killing this guy."

"Your point?"

"Ever since you used that second symbol it has been like this. You're being consumed by the power of the symbols again."

"I am not I'm still myself."

"If you won't stop it I guess I will."

Searing pain goes through my whole body. I release his throat and the kunai and stagger backwards. I grab my head with my hands.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"You'll see."

"Stop now you fucking jerk!"

"No!"

I fall to the ground and the pain disappears suddenly and the desire to kill goes along with it.

"What the heck happened?" I say out loud

"You were being controlled but it made you think the desire and anger were your own so you wouldn't know and try to stop it."

"So you were right."

"I know. By the way you are still losing blood from the cuts on your hands but the others ones mostly healed they still need medical care but that can wait until we arrive back at the leaf since your not bleeding anymore."

"But I need the symbols to defeat him still."

"He is beat."

"But the beast is still in control."

"...I could seal it with your help."

"Really?"

"Yes just seal the cuts on your hands then place your hand over his mark and I will do the rest."

"All right."

I stand up and wipe some blood from the wounds and seal both. I walk over to him.

"Going to kill me now?"

"No, killing you would also kill the host."

"There's no other way."

"We'll see about that." I place my hand on his forehead.

"Get your hand off me."

"Shut up."

I hear my beast muttering some words. After a while I hear him shout "SEAL!"

A beam of light shoots from the mark and into the sky! The light disappears and the mark does too.

"Wait he's to hurt to live!"

"Watch."

The wounds I inflicted slowly start to heal. Once they are healed the body groans. I jumped back just in case.

He sits up "Huh? Where am I?"

"Your in the hills near Nanamake." I said still standing back

"You...Your the one that saved me from my beast, correct?"

"Yeah."

"Thanks I owe you one. My name's Ishi." He said holding out his hand

"I'm Alex." I said stepping forward and shaking his hand "We can talk more at the town." He nods

When we arrived back at the town the citizens came up to us.

"Why he's the man I saw after the last attack!" One villager said pointing at Ishi

The villagers readied their weapons.

"Calm down" I said "He's a beast slayer and if it wasn't for him I would be dead right now."

"Is that true?" The leader demanded walking to the front of the group

Ishi nodded.

"All right then." and everyone left and we sat on a nearby boulder.

"Before we start to talk I need to ask you one" I started "did you start attacking the village yourself or was that the beast as well? Depending on your answer I might have to tell them the truth

"No that started after he took over."

"All right then. Tell me how did you get an elemental beast?"

"I was on a mission, and I had to do some scouting with my team. It was my turn at watch during the night when I heard a crack. I turned and saw red eyes but couldn't react before it ran at me. When I woke up my teammates were up and they told me I was out for about 3 hours or more. What about you?

"It happened right after I became a Genin. My team had a training session and it attacked me around 6am and then I woke up around 9am."

"Three hours for you as well huh?" I nodded

"How did you find out about?" I asked

"Luckily I found out in a spar with my ally. We were fighting and the mark appeared and he pointed it out and found out in a book what it was."

"My leader the third hokage figured it out just from knowing I had power of the five elements and knowing I got attacked.

"But he could be sure?"

"At the time he told me to be careful just in case."

"When did you find out for sure?"

"About an hour later when he decided to talk to me."

"Talk to you?"

"Yeah he talked from within me and told hear my thoughts."

"Mine has never said a word to me?"

"Really? I thought they might be all talkative."

"Not mine."

"One more question."

"What."

"You said you were on a mission which would imply you were a ninja in a village right?"

"Yeah."

"Then why were you living in that cave and also how did the beast have a chance to take over?"

"I left my village after I heard about the Akatsuki. I thought they might find out about me so I fled and faked my death to get make sure they didn't find me."

"So you were the second last one. I got attacked by them because they thought I was the last one."

"Oh...sorry about that."

"I lived so don't worry."

"Has the beast ever taken you over?"

"Once but never past the first transformation."

"Your that good at holding him back?"

"No he just never gets much of a chance, he has to lend me his power and let me stay in control in almost every battle or we will both die."

"I see."

"Well I should get going."

"All right see ya."

"Oh yeah, I won't tell anyone about you if I can avoid it."

"All right thanks!"

*Back at the village*

"Every. Single. Time." Tsunade said every word slowly to make sure I knew she was annoyed

"I know but it can't be avoided."

I had shown her the cuts that didn't heal fully and they were at risk of getting infested if nothing was done.

"Sit down and I'll heal them."

As she was healing my wounds she asked me "What was the thing attacking the village?"

"N-nothing." Damn it why did I stutter

"Okay. Now tell me the truth."

"Promise you will never tell anyone else."

"Fine."

"Another Elemental beast host."

I felt her chakra intensify.

"Ah! Tsunade!" Her chakra so intense it actually burned me.

"Oh! Sorry."

"You're supposed to heal them not make it worse."

"I said sorry. You surprised me with your answer."

"I was surprised at first too."

"Another elemental beast. How did people figure you had the last one?"

"Because he faked his death to escape the Akatuski."

"That's pretty clever."

"Yeah it was."

She finished healing me.

"Alex, you keep getting hurt on missions so for now I think you should go with others."

"Who would the others be."

"People you are familiar working with."

"Who?"

"First I know you got back but."

"...Another mission?"

"If you want time to rest the other two can handle it. Also I don't think there will be much if any fighting on this one."

"I'll go."

Someone knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Naruto and Sakura walked in.

"These are the others you were talking right?" She nodded

"Hey Alex it's been a while." Naruto said

"I've had non-stop missions."

"Granny Tsunade must really be tiring you out then."

"No I'm fine."

"Lady Tsunade what is our mission." Sakura asked

"We have reports of a cabin in the forest right outside the village."

"What's wrong with a cabin, some hermit probably just lives there." I said

"The thing is it appeared within a day. A village went to the plain where it is one day and there was nothing. The next day there was a cabin."

"Weird." Sakura said

"I want you three to go and investigate it and find out why it appeared. Understood?"

"Yes!" We all said

"Then you may go."

We got ready to go and since it was right outside the village we were all at the gate ten minutes after we left the hokage's office."

"Let's go!" Naruto shouted.

Chapter 29 End