Chapter 35
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Shino awoke before Emi and got prepared for the day. He hoped that they reached the girl's country by the end of the day. They would have to keep a fast pace, but Shino thought that it was the best solution. He didn't think he could handle another day like the previous one. Emi had a strange infatuation for him and if his intuition was right then she was offering her bed to him last night.
'That will never happen.' Shino thought as he recalled his insects that had been standing guard. Shino stopped when a sudden idea came to him.
'Of course! Why didn't I think about doing this sooner?' Shino thought as Emi began to awaken. Shino quickly moved to put his plan into action. He unleashed a large number of insects onto Emi's bed and simply waited. If she was like all other women, save Hinata and Haku, she would freak out when she awoke to find a large number of insects on her body.
Emi awoke and instantly noticed the number of insects crawling on her.
"Where did all of these insects come from?" Emi asked in her normal calm tone. Her expression was not horrified or even surprised. She simply looked curious and intrigued.
"They came from within me. My clan specializes in insects and they dwell throughout my entire body." Shino said calmly, though he was hoping that her lack of response was simply a delayed reaction due to shock.
"They seem very interesting and must be very valuable for multiple purposes." Emi said calmly as she arose and walked to change in the bathroom.
Shino was stunned. He had never expected such a response. His insects sensed no chemical imbalance that would have revealed that she was lying. She truly was not repulsed by the insects.
'What am I going to do now?' Shino thought with a deep sigh.
"Are you prepared to leave Shino-san?' Emi asked as she emerged. Her clothes were once again very formal. She wore a forest green kimono that brought out her eyes. Shino admitted that she was very attractive, however to Shino her beauty paled in comparison to Haku. To Shino, Haku was a gift from Kami. She knew him, understood him, accepted him, and truly cared for him. Sometimes the depth of emotion Shino held for her scared him.
"I am. If we move quickly then we should be able to reach your country today." Shino replied.
"That is a good point." Emi said as she walked up to Shino with a noticeable sway in her hips.
Shino took a step back for every step that she took towards him. He soon found himself backed into a wall and could only watch as she drew nearer. The look on her face told Shino that he should swiftly find an exit.
"If this is to be our last day together than I would like something to remember you by." Emi said calmly as she closed the distance between them.
"Shino-kun are you…." Haku said as she opened the door and saw Shino's compromising position.
Shino had one thought before Haku's surprised expression transformed into a look of rage that would have made even the toughest ninja run in fear.
'This is not going to end well.' Shino thought as the temperature in the room fell.
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Naruto woke up and instantly knew something was wrong. He was aware that he had gone to bed alone, yet he felt another presence snuggled up into his side. Naruto's mind instantly cleared of any fogginess and he literally leapt out of his bed. Sure enough Ami was resting in the very spot he had just vacated.
'What the heck!' Naruto thought as he attempted to calm his heart rate.
He was glad that Ami was sleeping on her stomach as Naruto had taken the bed sheets with him when he leapt out of bed. He realized that his assumption was correct that she was wearing next to nothing under her shirt last night, which she happened to toss onto him before she went to sleep. Ami was only wearing a bra and panties that were red in color, just like Naruto's face.
"What are you doing in my bed?!" Naruto said harshly, but quietly. He was not stupid enough to shout such an incriminating statement throughout the building.
Ami awoke after hearing Naruto's statement and gave Naruto a seductive smile.
"Oh don't be so boring cutie." Ami said as she stood up, completely unashamed at her state of undress.
"Boring?!" Naruto replied in annoyance as he averted his eyes.
"You need to lighten up. I am very impressed that you turned down my offer last night. It shows that you have self-control as well as a cute face." Ami said as she sauntered over to Naruto.
"Look I think we need to be clear about something. Hinata-chan…" Naruto began.
"Is your girlfriend. I already know that, but what she doesn't know won't hurt her." Ami said with a wicked smile as she closed in on Naruto. Naruto grabbed her by her upper arms to halt her progress.
"What is with you?! Why are you still coming onto me?!" Naruto asked in anger and exasperation. Unfortunately, Naruto forgot to lower his tone and Naruto instantly knew he had made a mistake when he felt a huge killing intent flow over him. He turned and saw that Hinata was at their door. She saw the position they were in as well as the bed that was still in a state of disarray. Her face grew red with rage and a death glare that would have even given Anko pause came across her face. Knowing what conclusion her mind had come to, Naruto attempted to thwart her inevitable explosion of rage.
"Hinata-chan it's not what you think!" Naruto yelled.
However at that very moment, Ami pushed forward and placed a kiss on Naruto's cheek. Naruto turned to Ami with a look of shock and when he looked back at Hinata he knew that he was in trouble.
'Why did I accept this mission?!' Naruto thought as Hinata closed the door and pulled out a kunai.
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The group resumed walking towards their destination, after Shino and Naruto had restrained Haku and Hinata from killing Emi and Ami first. While the boys were very relieved that the girls had not attacked them first, it was obvious from their demeanor that they were not at all happy with having their revenge on the sisters halted and had refrained from speaking to the boys ever since. Currently, Haku and Hinata were walking in front while Naruto and Shino brought up the rear.
"Why did we accept this mission again Shino?" Naruto asked with a sigh of exasperation.
"I am beginning to wonder about that myself." The Aburame responded.
"At least it's almost over." Naruto said in relief. All the drama caused by the sisters aside, the mission had not been dangerous at all.
"One would think." Shino said quietly.
"You got something?" Naruto asked, his senses instantly on alert.
Shino didn't respond as he walked closer to Emi. Naruto did the same for Ami, taking Shino's lead and trusting his friend to know what he was doing.
Haku and Hinata looked back and noticed the boys were closer to Emi and Ami. While this at first caused a brief and intense surge of anger, the emotion was instantly quelled when they saw the expressions on their teammates' faces. Hinata activated her byakugan and looked over to Haku to alert her to the danger. She mouthed the word six to Haku and the chunin commander nodded as they all came to a stop.
"Why are we stopping?" Emi asked
"Because we are surrounded." Shino responded as Haku and HInata backed up and team eight formed a human barrier around their clients.
"I see we have been discovered."
From within the woods emerged six rain ninja. One was behind the group, two were on either sides of them and the leader of the rain ninja was directly in front of them. While the other five wore similar bluish bray garments and ninja masks, the leader stood out as he was easily twice the size as only one of his men. He wore black pants and a sleeveless dark blue shirt. He had two katana blades hanging from his sides and his long hair and eyes were as black as night.
"My name is Kane. My companions and I are loyal ninja of the hidden rain village. We have no quarrel with you leaf ninja. I am sure that we can solve this without violence." Kane said in a light tone, though an obvious threat was held within the words should the leaf ninja not be so willing to listen to him.
"You aren't going to lay a hand on either of them!" Naruto said with a fierce expression.
"Oh? Look around, you are outnumbered." Kane said simply.
"First of all, it's the quality of the fighters that matter in a fight not the quantity, and secondly Naruto if you would." Haku said, her eyes never leaving Kane's.
"Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto yelled as team eight was surrounded by fifty shadow clones.
"We are no longer outnumbered." Haku said simply.
"So many clones, very impressive." Kane said with no hint of concern.
"Slaughter them." Kane added in a nonchalant tone as the five rain ninja attacked.
"Let's go!" Naruto shouted as team eight quickly leapt away and allowed the clones to buy them time to regroup.
Ten of the fifty clones went straight for Kane. Kane simply watched as the clones approached and when the clones were a mere foot away from him, they were shocked to see that Kane had disappeared.
"Where did he go?" One clone asked.
"I'm right here." Kane said from behind the clones. They all turned and saw that he was sheathing his two swords. The clones were perplexed until one by one they were all dispersed.
"Too easy." Kane said as he turned to see how his men were doing. They were just finishing off the last of the clones that had come at them, though two were sporting minor wounds.
"Find them and kill them. Bring the girls to me." Kane said in a calm tone as his men spread out to find the leaf ninja.
'Nothing will stop me. I will complete my mission.' Kane thought as he himself disappeared.
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Naruto, Hinata hid behind a tree with Ami while they discussed their next move. They team had decided to split up so their enemies wouldn't be able to catch them all if they were to be cornered.
"Where are they Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked as he drew his sword.
"They are pretty spread out, but it looks like three of them are heading this way." Hinata said in a grim tone as she observed their pursuers with her byakugan.
"Three are coming towards us, which means that the other three must be going for Shino and Haku." Naruto said.
"That's right, but the leader is heading towards us." Hinata said as she looked at him with a bit of concern.
Naruto winced at that. He had gained the memories of his clones and had a very bad feeling about Kane. That he was able to defeat ten of his clones so quickly that they didn't even recognize their deathblows was cause to worry.
"No chance of them bypassing us if we hide?" Naruto asked.
"Doubtful." Hinata answered as she drew two kunai.
"Then I guess we do this the hard way." Naruto said as he created a shadow clone.
"Stick with Ami." He told the clone.
"What are you planning to do?" Ami asked.
"Fight them, what else?" Hinata said in a harsh tone.
"I hope you come back okay cutie." Ami said as she pointedly ignored Hinata's statement.
"Let's go Hinata-chan." Naruto said as he ignored Ami.
"I'll take on the two subordinates while you take on Kane right?" Hinata said in a knowing tone. Naruto always seemed to take on the strongest of their opponents wither he meant to or not.
"That's always the way it seems to happen." Naruto said with a small smile as they stopped and waited. They were far enough away from Ami that they wouldn't have to worry about her being captured and used as a hostage.
"Here they come!" Hinata said as she held a kunai in each hand. Naruto fell into his kenjutsu stance and prepared himself.
Suddenly it began to rain. This normally wouldn't have mattered except that Hinata's enhanced vision abruptly became hazy.
"Naruto-kun I can't see them anymore!" She cried out.
"What?!" Naruto answered.
"This rain has chakra in it and it's disrupting my byakugan." Hinata replied as the rain began to come down so heavily that they had trouble seeing a few feet in front of them.
"There you are. Tell me where the girls are and I will spare you lives." Kane's voice cried out from somewhere in the rain.
"No chance." Naruto yelled back.
"Very well."
Naruto instantly felt a painful kick land right in his sternum. The blow was strong enough to launch him back, separating him from Hinata.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata yelled as she lost sight of him in the thick rain.
"You have yourself to worry about little girl."
Hinata turned and saw one of the rain ninja in front of her. Hinata jumped back and prepared herself for a fight. Surprisingly, the rain ninja took a step back and Hinata lost track of him in the rain.
'Where is he?' Hinata thought as she looked around so as not to be caught by surprise.
'Behind me!' Hinata thought as she ducked from the kick that had been aimed at the back of her head. She swiftly turned and attempted to attack him, but he jumped back and disappeared into the rain once again.
'This is not good. Even with my byakugan I can only see a few feet in front of me. How can he attack so easily in this rain and where is this rain coming from?' Hinata thought.
Her byakugan showed the enemy coming from her left side and she swiftly turned to block the slash of his kunai. However, she wasn't fast enough to avoid the second in his other hand which he used to deliver a small cut on her left arm. He swiftly jumped back and once again disappeared into the heavy rain.
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"Let's go!" Naruto said as he faced off against Kane. He brought his sword up and was preparing himself for anything.
"Why are you doing this? All you have to do is give up the girl and I won't have to end your life." Kane responded. He didn't even take a defensive stance. His posture was calm and he seemed to be completely relaxed.
"Much as she annoys me, Ami is our client and I won't let you have her." Naruto said as she rushed forward to attack.
"It's been a while since I met someone who could hold their own against me in a sword fight. Let's see if you are up to the challenge." Kane responded as he drew one of his katana.
Kane waited as until Naruto was a few feet in front of him before he made his move. Naruto swung down with an overhead slash that Kane blocked with his blade. He then took Naruto's legs out from underneath him with a swift kick and attempted to skewer the genin before he could recover. However, Naruto was not going to be defeated so easily. He used his right arm to balance himself in the air just long enough to ensure that he was not going to be impaled. He then used his arm to pivot around and kicked Kane in the chest. Kane recovered from the attack instantly with a brief look of surprise on his face. This young ninja seemed to truly know who to fight a kenjutsu battle.
"I am impressed." Kane said simply as he rushed forward to attack Naruto. Naruto suddenly found himself blocking multiple attacks. He was just able to block them but had neither the time nor the room to counter attack.
"This is getting boring." Kane said as he slashed towards Naruto's mid section. Naruto jumped back and decided to take a chance now that he had a little room.
"Dragon Strike!" Naruto yelled as he unleashed his dragon attack.
Kane's eyes widened before he drew his second katana and crossed the blades in defense a mere second before the dragon shaped blast of energy slammed into him. He flew back into the dense rain and Naruto lost sight of him. However, Naruto heard the tell-tale explosion of energy alerting him that his attack had succeeded.
"Let's see him get up from that." Naruto told himself. He suddenly heard Hinata's cry of pain and instantly dropped his guard.
'Hinata-chan!' He thought as he turned in the direction her cry had come from.
"You shouldn't let your guard down."
Naruto turned to look behind him, but couldn't tell where Kane's voice was coming from.
"That was a very strong attack." Kane said as he appeared on Naruto's left side. He slashed down with one of his swords. Naruto blocked but was unable to dodge the second blow from his other katana. Naruto cried out as he jumped back. He had a long slice on his chest from shoulder to hip; however, it wasn't too deep. Naruto looked at Kane and saw that he had taken a bit of damage from his attack. Kane seemed to be favoring his right side a bit and his clothes were torn and smoldering.
"It's a good thing that I don't need to fight fair." Kane said as he stepped back and disappeared into the rain.
'Not good!' Naruto thought.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto yelled out as three clones appeared. All four Naruto's turned back to back so that they couldn't be surprised from any one direction.
"Your mastery of the shadow clone jutsu is interesting and impressive in one so young." Kane said as he appeared suddenly and dispatched one clone with a stab to the chest. Before the other clones could react, Kane had already disappeared into the rain again.
'Darn it, what am I going to do?!' Naruto thought as he and his remaining clones looked around.
"Three left, who shall go next?" Kane said in a taunting tone.
"Come out and fight!" Naruto yelled in anger and a bit of desperation. Thanks to the rain his vision was clear for only a few feet and yet Kane seemed able to see clearly in the rain.
"Very well." Kane said as he appeared again. He kicked one of the remaining clones in the chest as he simultaneously clashed both Naruto and his last clone in the chest. By the time the two clones had dispersed Kane had vanished once again and Naruto was left injured and once again without a plan.
'If I could just see him then I know I could hold my own.' Naruto thought as the previous slash healed slowly. Naruto's chest now had two long scars that formed an X right in the middle of his chest. Naruto normally didn't scar and wondered why this was happening.
"One last time, tell me where the girls are and I will allow you and your little girlfriend to live." Kane said from somewhere in the rain.
"Not going to happen." Naruto said as the shallow slash on his chest healed.
"If that is your final answer, then prepare to die." Kane said ominously.
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Shino and Haku fought together to fight off the three rain ninja coming at them. These three rain ninja attacked en masse and were very quick; However, Haku and Shino were able to stay one step ahead of them. Emi was currently tucked away behind a fallen tree with a horde of Shino's insects keeping watch. They would alert him to any threats.
"I wonder how Hinata and Naruto are doing." Haku said as she ducked underneath a kick sent her way and threw senbon at her attacker. The rain ninja jumped back and allowed his teammate to leap forward and deflect the senbon with his kunai.
"I'm sure that they can handle themselves." Shino said calmly as he jumped back to avoid a shuriken thrown at his chest. What Shino didn't tell Haku was that his insects on Naruto and Hinata were giving off faint warning signals which alerted Shino that his teammates were in danger.
"Let's finish this up and get back to them." Haku said as she began to create hand signs.
"Ninja art: Ice daggers Jutsu!" Haku yelled as she stopped the ground. Unlike with her ice needles attack the water became long daggers of ice that hovered over head, awaiting a target. However, the three rain ninja saw this attack and all three jumped back as a thick rain enveloped Shino and Haku.
"What is this? It's far too thick to be regular rain." Haku said in confusion as her ice daggers technique dissolved under the heavy rain.
"It must be one of their techniques." Shino responded as he concentrated on where the ninja were hiding. However, the rain itself was laced with chakra and he couldn't get a real sense of where they were.
"I believe that they will use this rain as a stealth tactic." Shino said.
"I agree. Do you have an idea of how we should counter this attack?" Haku asked as they moved back to back.
"I can only assume that one of them is solely concentrating on this technique while the other two attack use. If that is the case then I have an idea." Shino said in a low tone so that it wouldn't be over heard. Their conversation was broken when they heard a voice from the rain
"Ninja art: Tidal surge!"
The fallen rain surged up into a wall of water that flowed towards Shino and Haku at an unnaturally fast speed. Haku swiftly pushed Shino aside as she was swept away by the water.
"Haku-chan!" Shino called out as He quickly jumped aside to avoid the kunai that impacted the ground where he had been previously. He turned to see one of the rain ninja looking at him before he simply stepped back and disappeared into the rain once again. Shino had to trust Haku to take care of herself as he was not going to be able to help her yet.
He waited for the ninja to make his move and didn't have to wait for very long. The ninja jumped down in front of Shino and attacked.
"Ninja art: water dragon pistol." He yelled out as a dragon head shape of water appeared before him. It opened its mouth and launched multiple bursts of high velocity water at Shino.
Instead of running away, Shino actually ran towards the rain ninja. Shino focused on what Haku taught him and was able to barely dodge the bursts of water. The rain ninja was shocked that his opponent actually ran towards him when facing such an attack and was a moment to slow in getting out of Shino's way. Shino punched the rain ninja in the face and followed up with a swift kick the chest. The rain ninja regained his composure and disappeared into the rain again. Shino waited in the heavy rain for his opponent.
'Now!' He thought as he made hand signs.
"Aburame Style: spider entrapment!" Shino yelled.
Shino thrust his arm out and a mass of transparent strands of spider silk flew from inside his coat sleeve. The silk flew into the rain until he felt it snag his opponent and Shino hauled back quickly as if he was hauling in a fish. The rain ninja appeared and had a shocked expression on his face.
"H-how?" he asked in shock.
"I placed a single insect onto you. So it really wasn't that hard to find you even in this heavy rain." Shino said as he unleashed his insects onto the screaming ninja. After he was defeated Shino dropped his body and tried to find Haku's signature. He normally wouldn't have been very worried about her in such a situation, but after taking that hard blow earlier he wanted to make sure she was alright. He got his answer when the rain suddenly stopped. He was confused until he saw Haku appeared with both rain ninja tied up behind her.
"Haku-chan!" Shino cried out as he rushed up and wrapped her in a hug.
"I'm fine Shino-kun." Haku said as she smiled and leaned into the hug.
"How?" He asked in relief and confusion.
"Did you forget that my ice ability is dependent on me having control over wind and water? That water squall didn't hurt my nearly as much as he thought and he made the mistake of getting to close. His partner who was hanging back applying the chakra to the rain was easy enough to find with my crystal ice mirrors." Haku said with a smile on her face. Shino simply shook his head with a smile and had to fight back a laugh at Haku's nonchalant explanation of her fight.
Their humor disappeared when they felt a massive chakra signature pop up. Shino and Haku recognized the feel of the chakra from the chunin exams. They both knew the source of the chakra.
Naruto was using Kyuubi's chakra, but there was something different about it. To them it felt more potent and controlled.
Without a word they both ran to where they felt their comrades were fighting.
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Hinata grabbed her arm, trying to halt the profuse bleeding that was coming from the deep slash the enemy ninja had been able to hit her with. She was seething in anger for letting her guard down and had to do something.
'If I could just see him then I know I could take him out.' She thought. However, she knew that knowing what her problem was did not mean she knew how to solve it. She was sure that Naruto was fighting Kane which meant she had two opponents to fight.
'What! Where is the second?' Hinata thought in confusion. So far only one rain ninja was attacking her.
'He must be the one controlling the rain!' Hinata thought. Making a decision, Hinata ripped her coat and tightly wrapped her arm to stop the bleeding. Hinata waited for the rain ninja to make his move. When he appeared, Hinata acted.
"Water Style: Water Geyser Jutsu!" Hinata yelled as a wave of water erupted between the two ninja. Hinata then turned the water against the rain ninja and threw him into a tree. Knowing that he was far from defeated, Hinata focused her byakugan to a limit that she had never attempted before. Her eyes began to hurt badly but she suffered through the pain and searched for the second ninja. She found the ninja a few meters away and swiftly threw a multitude of weapons at the ninja. Hinata saw the ninja attempt to dodge the weapons but the ninja soon fell to his knees and passed out.
'Guess he didn't notice the poison senbon needles that I threw with my kunai and shuriken.' Hinata thought with a pant. Her eyes were throbbing in pain at her overexertion.
Hinata felt a sharp pain in her back and fell onto her face as the rain stopped. She looked behind her to see the remaining rain ninja behind her. He had kicked her when her back was turned and was walking towards her. Hinata was barely able to keep her eyes open from the pain she felt and knew that she was in trouble.
'Naruto-kun.' She thought.
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Naruto was panting in exhaustion. Kane had been attacking him non-stop for a while now and there was only one reason that Naruto was alive. His sword had begun to pulsate a split second before Kane attacked. Naruto was able to use this as an indicator of when and where Kane was coming from. However, Kane was still a better trained kenjutsu fighter then Naruto was and with the rain obscuring Naruto's vision, he couldn't use his other techniques as he would only be wasting chakra.
He felt a pulse from his sword and was able to block a slash that was aimed at his back. He jumped over the follow up slash from Kane and struck out with an attack of his own. Kane blocked the strike and kicked Naruto in the chest. Naruto righted himself in the air and looked around for Kane. The rain jonin had once again disappeared into the rain.
Suddenly the rain stopped. Naruto was stunned for a moment too long and he felt a pulse from his sword too late. Naruto looked down and saw one of Kane's blades sticking through his chest. Naruto coughed up blood and fell to his knees. Naruto dropped his sword as he began to lose feeling in his body.
"You shouldn't have let your guard down. You were a good opponent, thus I will grant you a swift warrior's death." Kane said as he raised his second sword and slashed down towards Naruto's neck.
'Pathetic. Do I have to take care of everything Naruto?' Naruto heard as he felt his control slip.
'No!' Naruto thought as he tried to fight Makaze's control.
'You're too weak! I will handle this now!'
Kane was surprised when Naruto's hand shot up to grab his sword an inch before it sliced into his neck. Kane jumped back when he felt the explosion of chakra come from the genin. He observed Naruto's changed appearance.
The genin's blonde hair was not a dark orange. His nails and teeth had lengthened into claws and fangs. His eyes were blood red and had had a vertical black pupil in them. His whisker marks had lengthened and were blood red in color now. He looked as Kane and in his eyes Kane saw a multitude of emotions. Glee, anger, and satisfaction were on his face.
"Finally I get to stretch my legs again." Makaze said.
"Who are you?" Kane asked in an interested tone.
"My name is of no concern to a dead man." Makaze said with a wicked smile on his face. Makaze looked down at the blade that was still in his chest and pulled it out without as much as a grunt of pain. He looked at the blade and with one hand, snapped it like a twig.
Kane knew that this was not an enemy he wanted to fight right now. The rain had stopped which meant that his mean were probably defeated.
'I will have to gain what I seek another way.' Kane thought as he turned to leave. However, he was shocked to see Makaze right in front of him the minute he turned around.
"I have been watching from within Naruto. You are very fast, but are you fast enough?" Makaze asked with a gleam in his eye that promised pain.
Kane jumped back into a defensive stance as Makaze took a step towards him. Makaze stopped and looked behind him for a moment.
"I will have to deal with you later." Makaze said as he disappeared.
'What an interesting ninja.' Kane thought as he himself disappeared.
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Hinata looked at the ninja in front of her with a wince of pain. Her eyes had yet to recover from the extreme strain she placed on them to see through the chakra rain. Finding that single rain ninja was literally like finding a needle in a haystack. The chakra in the rain made it so that her byakugan only showed her a sheet of chakra all around her. Finding a single chakra signature took all of her concentration. However, the remaining rain ninja was attacking her ruthlessly to quickly get rid of her.
Hinata's eyes widened when she felt a surge of demonic chakra. She knew exactly where it had come from and her eyes went in the direction she felt it from. The rain ninja took advantage and kicked her in the chest. He grabbed her by her coat and lifted her into the air. He was confused as to why her eyes were locked behind him.
"You should really put her down."
The rain ninja turned to see the other genin he had seen his commander attack. He noticed the differences but didn't think too much of them. He was more confused as to how the ninja was alive. Very few people survived a fight with his commander, Kane.
Makaze didn't wait any longer and rushed towards the rain ninja. Surprised by his speed the rain ninja threw Hinata towards Makaze. Makaze caught her and leapt back. He looked down into her face and her wide, shocked expression. A dark smile appeared on his.
"Wait here Hinata-chan. This won't take long." Makaze said as he laid her down and turned towards the rain ninja. He noticed that the rain ninja had completed a jutsu while he had been distracted.
"Ninja art: Water dragon jutsu!" he yelled as the remaining rain on the ground became a massive dragon and flew towards Makaze.
Makaze didn't move and the dragon slammed into the ground around the genin. The rain ninja looked on and was surprised when the water began to turn into steam and float away from the young ninja, who hadn't moved a foot.
"Is that all?" Makaze asked in annoyance as he rushed forward He kicked the rain ninja in the chest, breaking quite a few ribs. He then grabbed his arms and wretched them out of their sockets. He broke both the arms and then slashed the rain ninja's legs with his extended claws. Makaze dropped the severely wounded ninja and looked into his pain filled eyes. Makaze's face showed his absolute glee and pleasure at the painful cries of the rain ninja. It was as if he feed off of the pain.
"Normally I would take my time, but Hinata-chan is waiting for me." Makaze said as he shoved his hand into the rain ninja's chest and crushed his heart. He turned his back on the corpse and slowly walked towards Hinata.
Hinata had seen the entire thing and was truly afraid. She had never before been afraid of Naruto, even when he used Kyuubi's power. However, Makaze's brutal attacks and his enjoyment of the pain he caused scared Hinata. She slowly got to her feet and began to walk away from the demonic genin. She was shocked when Makaze appeared directly in front of her in a burst of speed. She looked into his eyes and saw a multitude of emotions, but the one that truly terrified her the most was the one that was the most noticeable, lust.
"Hello Hinata-chan. I am very glad we are finally able to meet." Makaze said as a wide, wicked smile spread across his face. He felt Naruto attempting to retake control but he was not going to give it up so easily.
"W-where i-is N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked in fear.
"Let's not talk about him right now okay? We have so many other things we can do that are much, much more fun." Makaze said as he backed her up to a tree.
Hinata was shivering in fear and horror as Makaze leaned forward to kiss her.
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Here's chapter 35! Yes I am very evil for ending this now! What will happen next time? What is Hinata going to do? How will Naruto retake control, if he even can? Why is Kane after Emi and Ami? That is a secret! Till next time, Kyuubi123 out!