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Chapter 35:
"weird kids." They grumbled out, walking on their way before rumbling stomachs echoed among the forest.
Akira was grumbling about creepy forests and annoying snakes when they came upon the valley. Misaki said softly "maybe you should put those away." Gesturing the akiras wings and akira blinked. "why?" kenta chuckled "because im sure you don't want to see what lives in the valley." Akira gulped and nodded. Her wings dimishing before going out all together and they were plunged into darkness, the moon lighting there way with its dim rays.
Kagome sighed when she went down and looked oer her genins, they were starting to feel the effects of this system, a sort of poisoning that sort of leaks into the blood stream and makes moving almost painful as fatigue sets in more quickly than it should. Even for her people.
She looked around and blinked when her sharp eyes saw other teams leaning against the valley walls with vacant looks as they clutched their arms, no doubt sustaining some sort of injury while in this dimension, she almost cursed herself for letting hidan take charge of the second exams. Than she shrugged as she hoved among the valley, going ahead of her genins who were looking around scared.
They didn't like not being able to see what was around them, kenta growled out "you know, we sort of have gear for a reason." He put his goggles in place and blinked at the auras that flared up around him, he concentrated and it formed into the outline of humans.
The other genins did the same and yelped when they saw they were surrounded. Their outcries cased the other teams to look up weakly and get up slowly as they turned to the kids that walked into the valley, misaki gulped, seeing that the other teams were drawing weapons.
Kohaku and miroku glared around them, their sharingans activated and ready to fight as akira pulled out her sythe, she swung it around herself in a show of marksmanship and snickered when the people around her took a step back to save themselves from getting impaled by her.
Kenta growled out "we are searching for a heaven scroll." Kagome slapped her face when all the teams charged at her genins, their movements were slow as kohaku took out his sicle and stared incapitating people who came too close with his blade and knocking people aside with the weight on the end.
Akira was giggling as she twirled among the crowb, drawing blood from those around her before taking a girls ponytail and slamming her face into the ground, her nose making a sick crunch as it broke. Blood started to pool below the shinobi as akira picked her up by her hair and threw her to the side, knocking her into a crowd as akira used the blood to make her ritual symbol.
Souta and misaki sat back onto a boulder, swinging their legs as they watched the others fight, akira let out a snicker as her skin turned black with white markings, she took out a baton and flicked it out, seeing that the end tapered out into a fine point.
Misaki opened her mouth "they told us not to kill anyone." Akira froze, the tip close to the point on her chest that is above her heart and glared up at misaki "buzz kill." Akira said as she changed the spot she was going to stab into her side and snickered when the shinobi around her fell to the ground, blood staining there shirt as they clutched there side.
Akira walked out of the circle, wiping the end of her weapon on a shinobis shirt and dusted herself off. Kohaku glared at akira and giggled "what? There alive." She said, satisfied and miroku snorted "for now." He was watching akira, seeing that her form was still transformed. Misaki shook her head at akira "considering who your father is akira, your awfully smart."
Kagome rolled her eyes down at her genins as they went among the shinobi in search of the heaven scroll. This battle of theirs cost them a couple hours.
Souta held up a hand and screamed in triumph "found one!" he said as he threw the scroll at misaki who caught it before it can hit her in the face. They looked around and shrugged "well leave them." They said as they walked down the valley, akira sweat dropped when her stomach took that time to rumble. "maybe… its time we stopped for a bit."
Everyone nodded as misaki took out their food and water, while they were eating ice chunks were going off kenta whos guardian formed behind him.
Once they finished they stretched and lay down to sleep, kenta hugging his moko moko again. Kagome felt her eyes soften as the guardian went up to join her on the ledge, she tilted her head at the guardian and said softly "why do you always join me?" the guardian tilted its head back at her and said slowly "because im not so stupid as not to be able to recognize the wyvern." Kagome growled at the guardian.
"why do people keep calling me that!" she said, only a selec few called her the wyvern but it was enough to annoy her. she watched as the guardian turned down to the genins and she huffed "well than, nice to see your able to talk." Only silence met her as she glared at the guardian, wishing it would just melt already.
A couple hours later the genins got up and stretched before taking out food again and they went behind some boulders to relieve themselves before setting out.
Akira rolled her shoulders and pouted at misaki "I cant wait to go back, its been a while since ive actually had a decent shower. I feel like I reek" souta snickered "you do reek" he yelped as akiras sythe went swining at him, kohaku and miroku slapped their foreheads when the cable caused the sythe to come swinging back and impaling itself across soutas shoulders.
"im sorry, what did you say? I didn't hear you" souta let out a pained sound as he shook his head "that's what I thought." Akira said, jerking her hand so the sythe tore into soutas shoulder before gong back. kenta sweat dropped. 'and they wonder why we are always getting attacked by things here…' he thought, staring at the blood trail souta was leaving.
Misaki looked at souta 'why does he always have to provoke her?' she thought as she slapped her hand around soutas shoulder making him scream out at the burning pain. He slumped forward with a sigh when the wound on his shoulder closed up and he looked at misaki "hey, is there any more food?" akira huffed at him "you know if you keep this up, you might just eat all our food!"
Souta pointed at akira "well sorry! But something about loosing a lot of blood makes someone hungry!" misaki burst out laughing as kohaku held out a bento and miroku held out a water bottle.
Souta took the offered stuff and sat down to eat making akira huff at him, kenta rolled his eyes as an ice platform formed underneath souta and lifted him up into the air. Souta leaned over the ledge and down at kenta "thanks!" he said with a mouthful of sushi.
Kagome chuckled and sat onto the platform, her arms and legs crossed as she looked ahead, they were nearing the end of the valley. Kenta blinked up at the platform noticing that there was suddenly more weight on it than there was before.
"hey souta?" souta peeked down again, mouth full of onigiri as he looked at kenta "hn?" "is there someone up there with you?" souta got up and looked around. "no? why?" kenta shook his head "no reason." Kagome chuckled and felt like snagging a rice ball from souta but felt that that would be an easy way to get detected by her genins.
She sighed and resigned herself to having a food pill and some water as they slowly walked ahead, the genins limbs feeling heavy and kagome felt guilty. Since they are younger than all the rest, this dimension affects them a lot quicker. It would be a good idea for the genins to get out of here quickly, her wings flared out and she hovered when the ice platform dissolved quickly.
Souta fell to the ground on his face, he got up grumbling as he dusted himself off. Glaring at kenta "asshole." He grumbled out as kenta stuck his nose up at souta and misaki felt a smile tugging at her lips. Akira turned back "come on, this valley gives me the creeps" she dashed forward, running with all her might. For some reason she found that she wasn't able to use her demonic speed.
The others ran after her and sighed in relief when they made it to the end and dashed forward, they stopped suddenly, at the edge of a cliff as rocks fell down the ledge and caused a little avalanche to fall down to the forest floor below them. They looked among the cliff and saw that there were cave openings littering it with glowing blue and green light inside of it.
They looked at each other "I say we just fly down. I don't want to risk accidently falling into a cave…" kenta said quietly and everyone nodded in agreement. They turned to akira and misaki as they struggled to take there wings out, sweat was beading on their brow as they cried put in frustration "we cant transform." Misaki called out panting and kenta sighed, he made ice platforms down the cliff and into the forest below.
The platforms served as stairs as they jumped onto it, kohaku and miroku were not happy with the fact that they had to accept help from KENTA of anyone in the group it had to be KENTA.
They glared at kenta who was jumping ahead of everydown down the platform. Once they touched the forest floor they gulped when lizard like beings turned to them "uh…. Does the information scroll have anything on this forest?" misaki said quietly and kohaku nodded.
"its run solely by venomous reptillians…. Those things over there are their half breeds…" they jumped into the treetops to avoid a stream of corrosive acid, it hit the bark and they blinked when it sizzled before dissolving away.
"how bout… we get out of here quickly" souta said with a gulp, if that stuff was anything like kagome-samas acid than it would be a bitch to get hit by. They jumped along the treetops.
"BLOODY FUCK!" akira screamed out as she threw a snake off her shoulder again and glared at souta who was struggling not to laugh "say anything and im turning you into a girl." Akira said sweetly, souta gulped and the other males of the group put their hands over their crotches.
Misaki shook her head as she yelped and dodged a swinging vine. "did the scroll have anything on carnivorous trees?" misaki said as she swung another vine. "yep, that's what this whole forest is made of." Akira said proudly as they continued to dodge vines.
Misaki yelped when her ankle was snagged and she was left dangling upside down, her arms crossed as she glared at a huge purple flower in front of her. the vine was bringing her closer to the flower. Misaki can smell the sickly sweet aroma coming from the flower and wrinkled her nose when she smelt decay soon afterwards.
Souta threw up clay birds as kenta used an ice senbon to cut the vine holding misaki, the birds flew to the flower and souta watched in fascination when the explosion went up. Dissintigrating the flower instantly, more vines shot out and akira swore.
"I think you made it fucking mad." She bit out between clenched teeth as she brought out her sythe. "maybe we should leave…" souta said quietly, seeing humanoid plant like beings slithering their way from the tree tops. Kenta looked up and swore as miroku said quietly "I agree with the dobe…" souta glared at the uchiha.
Misaki grabbed soutas arm and they started to run forward. They were running in the direction of the tower and they left behind a struggling kagome who was making sure that the worst of the beings didn't go after her genins.
She sighed when vines fell to the forest floor, harmless and shook her head at her genins. Sometimes they are downright careless, she took to the skies and cried in relief when they broke through the forest and were in the huge clearing with the tower on the far side.
Akira held up a hand and said "wait, there may be traps." Soutas hand started barfing up white liquid as clones appeared. Everyone put there hands to their mouths, trying to keep them from gagging at the sight of it as akira sent souta an exasperated look.
Souta chuckled and shrugged as his clones ran forward, they would set off all the traps before exploding and leaving smoking crators behind "its clear." He said smugly as he started walking forward. Akira rolled her eyes at the blond "sometimes I worry about you." Kohaku growled out, seeing soutas delighted look at having witnessed soo many explosions go off all at once.
Souta was walking among the wreckage that used to be a field, the shinobi that was watching from the shadows around them backed off, having witnessed the blond haired child dispatch all there traps easily and with a huge explosion. They stared at each other and wondered if they should attack the children.
A huge brute like being ran from the trees, attracted by the explosion, it turned burning red eyes in the direction of the genins and akira swore "damnit souta! Your fucking bombs attracted this thing!" she drew her sythe "why don't you go back to the fucking hole you crawled up from" akira said as her sythe was engulfed in her flames, she swung it and the sythe rushed towards the brute.
Kenta was glaring at souta as kohaku and miroku leaned against each others shoulders, hiding their faces with their hands as they shook their heads. "souta…" everyone all groaned out as the brute knocked akiras sythe away.
She cried in indignation before swinging her sythe back around and watched with a smirk as it inbeded itself into the things arm, with a jerk it tore into its arm below the shoulder. When the sythe came swinging towards akira, she caught it as the brutes arm was torn from its body and fell onto the ground with a huge crash that sent up dust and leaves.
The thing let out an anguished cry as it turned and fled from the scene. Akira glared down at her sythe, she didn't get to sacrifice it… she cleaned off the blood with an enchanted rag and put the rag away, not worried about the fact that it was now blood stained with that brownish shit that flowed through the brutes veins.
Akira shrugged and turned to the tower "oh well, at least I didn't have to taste it" she chirped out and everyone took a step back from her as they walked, she looked around "what?" she cried out and misaki huffed out "theres something wrong with you…" everyone else agreed as akira puffed out her cheeks, they walked to the tower slowly, feeling like their limbs were filled with lead that was starting to harden.
After what felt like forever they finally made it to the tower and opened the door, collapsing onto the ground inside and they didn't notice the swirl of pink and purple lights that lit up around them.
Their mothers rushed forward and held their babies as they cooed. "you guys made it!" they breathed out. Madara, Gaara and Kakashi were looking at the door. Expecting to see kagome come through now that her genin team made it through. They looked at each other, the same questions in each of their eyes 'where is she?'
Kagome watched as her genins made there way through the door. It slammed shut behind them, blocking them from her sight as she turned around 'its been a couple days… wheres Naruto?' she asked as she flew towards the pulse of his aura.
She slapped her forehead when it was coming from one of the many caves in the valley cliff and flew into the opening of one, she dodged stalagtites and stalagmites. She was sure to bitch Naruto out for going into these caves, she flew lower to avoid the swipe of a blured white being. She flew past narutos aura, wind stiring up in her wake.
She blink and doubled back and looked over, she sighed. Sakura and ino were using medical jutsu to try to heal a catatonic Naruto. She went forward and poured her healing chakra into Naruto and he woke up screaming. "DAMNIT KAASAN!" he growled out as he looked around at the caves in fear.
He turned to sakura and ino wide eyed "WE CANT BE IN HERE!" he screamed out and sakura blinked "why not?" her and ino asked dumbly and Naruto slapped his forehead "DON'T JUST SIT THERE! LETS GET OUT OF HERE!" he got up running as ino and sakura trailed after him.
The eyeless snakes were following narutos movement and it creeped him out severely, he looked among the cave ceiling and sighed in relief when he didn't see those blurs. Sakura and ino were running along side him "why are we going?" they asked and Naruto gave them an evil glare "DON'T YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THIS PLACE IS!" came an outraged yell.
A white blur fell down on them and they screamed, a "CHA!" echoed among the caves as behind them the ceiling collapsed in after a huge rumble.
They looked back at Naruto who was watching deer in headlights look in his eyes as sakura grabbed Naruto and ran "what do you know about this place." Naruto burst out laughing and threw the information scroll on them, opened to the passage about the caves.
They looked down and gasped in horror as they doubled there efforts. They were soo close to the entrance…
A white blur with bright green worms wriggling out of its flesh tackled the genins to the ground, it leaned down and they felt something wet trail along the back of their necks. Sakura whimpered and inos eyes widened.
The nine tails cloak appeared as he turned around and used rasengan. He took a rag and poured water on it, scrubbing furiously at the back of his neck. He threw a rag at ino and sakura "don't just fucking stand there, wash up!" they jerked and did the same thing Naruto did. It felt like the back of their necks were burning.
Naruto gave them a look, he knows they took too long. He turned around "we have to get back as fast as possible." he said as he jumped out of the entrance, sakura and ino heard yelling and ran forward only to stop at a cliff. They sweat dropped when they saw Naruto dive into the trees below. They looked at each other and jumped.
Kagome rubbed her temple and sighed, at least Naruto wasn't stupid enough to go into the caves. She flew after them and she was glaring murderously at the females of narutos group 'which one of the bimbos decided on this oh so bright idea?' she asked and her gaze settled on sakura.
'shes never been useful' she thought, concluding that it was sakura that pressured them to go into the caves obviously after Naruto was injured.
She put her hand to her neck 'guardian of team 48, what happened?' she growled out. And she felt on the other line the person stiffen 'they got the scrolls and were going to make way to the tower… Naruto was in a fight with the brutes. In his weakened state the trees were able to inject him with their… sap… they were going to devour him but the blonde took him out while the pinkette destroyed the tree.'
Kagome growled 'doesn't explain why they were in the caves.' 'uh… after being injected Naruto… collapsed… the pinkette didn't know what to do and the blond was panicking about what to do. The pinkette directed them into the caves so that they can heal him…' kagome rolled her eyes, she was right.
She was sure to pay sakura a visit about putting her kit in unnecessary danger just before her brain didn't match her forehead.
She was hovering about Naruto and his team as they looked around cautiously and they gulped when the bushes rustled, holding out kunais. Ready to attack whatever it may be. A reptilian thing came scurrying out and they sighed in relief. Until trees started falling.
They jumped into the trees and started to run in direction of the tower and looked back when there was a roar behind them. "oh god, it may have found us…" sakura gasped out as Naruto charged ahead. "come on, im sick of this place!" he snarled out as they rushed among the treetops.
They broke the treeline and jumped back, facing the forest as the brute crashed through the trees and faced them. Sakura looked between it and them, they were still weak and Naruto was just waking up from the injuries he got. She grabbed them and turned, running towards the tower.
Naruto yelled out "whats the big idea!" ino was running along as they looked back. sakura hissed out "we cant go against it again!" they were soo close to the tower…
There was a crash at their heels when the thing threw its fists down, the rock beneath them broke up and they were thrown into the air. Naruto groaned when they were flipping in air, he had his arms crossed as he glared at the thing before them. He summoned two clones and they worked on his rasen shuriken. Naruto rushed forwards and hit the thing.
He watched in satisfaction when it crashed in the forest, breaking a line of trees behind them. Naruto and sakura relaxed when the thing didn't move after the explosion of light. They stiffened when there were more trees breaking in all direction. They turned towards the tower as ino growled out "fuck this, were going back." they dashed to the tower and opened the door, they fell in. slamming the door behind them, the brutes so close.
Kagome watched as the brutes attempted to tackle the tower and black lightning crackled, throwing them up into the skies as they let out agonized screams. Kagome grinned and walked to the nearest port. She stepped onto it, looking around at things and sighed in relief when she was on the port behind her desk in her office.
She blinked when Madara, Kakashi and Gaara tackled her "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!" Madara screamed out and kagome chuckled "I needed to make sure Naruto made it out." She said with a pointed look.
They blinked "why?" kagome let out a string of bubbly laughter and looked at Kakashi "because your fucking useless banshee led them into the caves." They all froze and blinked at her in horror. "are you guys okay?" kagome shrugged "ino and sakura may pay for that mistake with their lives." She said with a satisfied smile and they looked at each other.
"are they going to be quarantined?" Gaara said slowly and kagome nodded. "upon arrival im sure they were put aside and put into quarantined, so things should be good. I don't care if sakura makes it out but inos clan is still loyal to me so I will have them work on her first." They sweat dropped.
Kagome still never liked the harunos after that accident all those years ago…