Bonus Chapter 9: Tears of a Wolf are drops of vengeance

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Kurenai didn't know why she was running through the forest looking for the hopefully unconscious Shenlong to capture him and bring him back, but she did know that it had to do something with janken. Now she was running through some godforsaken forest with the threat of a presumably psychotic killer who had been beefed up by some woman's sick experiment and then escaped only to be taken captive. He would surely be executed in Konoha for his crimes, even if they were done while being under the influence of an ex-ninja of Konoha. It just sucked to be him, but it wasn't her job to question her orders because she knew that if it were Kakashi going in, Shenlong would be dead. The copy-cat ninja as he was called, was harboring a serious hatred towards Shenlong for the death of one of his original team mates, Rin. Kurenai, herself, had never lost a team mate but knew that she didn't want to lose one any time soon and so kept her distance from such things. When she finally found him laying under a tree, knocked out from the rasengan attack, she jumped for joy at the prospect of an easy capture. It didn't last long as she felt something strange about the whole thing and immediately cast a release to cast away the illusion that had been placed, but found that Shenlong was already so close to her and gaining with each second.

She hadn't had time to throw her kunai, but she did manage to tap her distress caller so that if Asuma and Kakashi were close they could back her up. She was pretty sure he didn't have that much in him even if he had healed himself, but considering how dangerous he was, she wasn't too tempted to take a chance with it. When Shenlong attacked her she tried to kick to fend him off and touched only smoke as the shadow clone was dispelled by Shenlong, who came behind her, wrapping his hand around her neck and lifting her off her feet. She felt helpless at the raw strength that Shenlong displayed and the anger in his eyes that seemed to be a kunai cutting into her. Luckily for her, Kakashi and Asuma came out at this time to the rescue, throwing shuriken and kunai at him, but Shenlong blocked each one thrown with his sword. It was then that his obvious weakness at this was noted for his grip started to get fainter and gave her enough breath to find the strength to kick him in the balls.

Shenlong, having never felt any damage down there, was caught unaware and let go of her while grabbing his privates and crying out in pain. Incidentally, Kurenai felt a little bad that she had done such a low blow, but they were ninja and they were supposed to get the mission accomplished by any means necessary. He felt that all familiar feeling of cold metal against his neck and he felt a mixture of feelings. On one side he would die and be reunited with his departed lover, but at the same time he would have died without being able to avenge her murder, a thing that he could never die proudly without doing. Caught between survival instincts and feelings of despair, Shenlong set himself into autopilot, which meant that he would be controlled by pure instincts, killing any and everything that his mind considered a threat.

Pushing one foot into the ground, Shenlong managed to move himself a bit so that he only received a scratch from the sword that Kakashi swung and then punched Kakashi in the stomach before jumping up to grab Kurenai. The instant he put his hands on her, he forced her into a submissive hold so that he could take her hostage and then put his claw to her neck since he lacked both his sword and his kunai. The two male leaf ninja were caught by surprise at how the circumstances had changed and Kakashi, still harboring a grudge, took a step forward only to have Shenlong press his claws into Kurenai's neck.

"I may be nearly out of chakra but that doesn't take away the speed at which I could carve her wind pipe out," said Shenlong as he started to lead her away from them, his eyes kept on both of them. "If you wish me to show you how fast I can accomplish said task then please by all means take one more step forward and I will be drinking her blood from a large hole in her neck. Please doubt me, I would love to see you doubt m for one second."

"What are you going to do," asked Kakashi as he looked at him with his very cold right eye that might have made any other person, even a regular Shenlong cringe, but this Shenlong was one of pure instinct without the thought and consciousness that all others had.

"I'll answer questions if you don't mind and if you do then I must insist," said Shenlong, pressing his claws into Kurenai's neck to accent his point and smirked when he could see Kakashi falter a bit in his gaze. This man obviously prized team mates more than his mission. "First off, who killed Hoshi-chan?"

"Don't tell me you're thinking of going after the Hokage over the body of a dead whore," said Kakashi and he could see the rage in Shenlong's eyes when he said it. "You do realize that it was the same whore who made you what you are and you're the reason that you are in this situation? She probably told you that she loved you so she could have her own personal sex toy."

"You son of a bitch," shouted Shenlong as he threw Kurenai to the ground and went after Kakashi with his claws extended at a surprising speed that caught Kakashi off guard. Kakashi figured that he could only move his hand fast and when he charged Asuma would be able to pick him off with the kunai, but unfortunately for him, Asuma was left in a daze by Shenlong's speed.

Shenlong knocked Kakashi to the ground and started punching the jonin continuously until Kakashi flipped him off and brought out a kunai to cut Shenlong in the stomach with. Ignoring the pain, Shenlong lashed at the silver haired ninja with his own claws, but his instinct fighting was slowly sapping at his energy and he was slowing down. Soon Asuma was able to slip in the fight and deal Shenlong two serious cuts along his torso before jumping out to prepare for the lethal attack, but before he could jump he was stopped by a hand. The hand belonged to none other than the Minato Namikaze, the Hokage.

"This is something I must do," said Minato as he took a step forward and then broke into a sprint that was so fast that when he was an inch from Shenlong it took the angered ninja all of thirty seconds to realize that someone was there. Before Shenlong could even make a move he felt something hit him hard in the neck and all he could see was an encroaching black and in the center of it was the Hokage's face. The face he wanted to rip down and destroy, but no matter how close it seemed it was still out of his reach.


"I find it odd that this rogue ninja isn't being tortured or executed right now," said Danzo before the counsel to the Hokage as he looked over at the above mentioned ninja. "The people of Konoha are not safe with that monster there being in a low security prison."

"Well isn't that something, a monster calling me a monster," laughed Shenlong as he sat there and he was immediately hit by one of the ROOT members set in guarding who was immediately removed by a very angry Minato.

"The rogue ninja was captured at a young age and was molded into a killer," retorted one of the sympathetic elders and received a glare from Danzo.

"We were weak hearted with Orochimaru and now we have his threat right here," said Danzo pointing his one arm at Shenlong, who only got a depraved look on his face.

"You know that is the best way to lose an arm, but I guess you don't mind," laughed Shenlong before he was shocked to silence by the seal placed on him meant to keep him restraint.

"Well I guess all that is left to do is vote," said Minato as he had a pain in his stomach that he might have to use one of his chips to spare Shenlong' life, but to his surprise, Shenlong saved himself.

"You can't kill me or have me executed," declared Shenlong as he smirked at all of them. "I'm protected by the treaties you signed and by the major political fuck up this is going to cause."

"Those are only for the great ninja villages and you were with a criminal," retorted Danzo who looked a bit angry, especially since a few ROOT missions were spoiled by Shenlong.

"But I had defected and we were officially with the rock ninja until we were illegally attacked in a vicious act of war in which a civilian was killed," replied Shenlong as he sat back in his chair. "I am by right wrongfully imprisoned and the fact that you have stolen me clearly shows that not only do you wish war with the rock village but you are an oppressive village."

"Your contract was to be taken into effect when you reached the village," argued one of the elders.

"But I was in the territory of the wolf clan and you will have to answer to all the wolves then," said Shenlong, who had dropped the smiling kid act and was now on the cold killer mentality. "Either way I cannot be held accountable for being captured and forced to be a killer because then the other villages can call for satisfaction from other villages that have had similar accounts. And the person who kidnapped me was of Konoha and it's your fault that this happened to me."

"He is right and as such he is to be released," said Minato as he pointed at the guards to release him, but they were both stopped by Kakashi.

"Don't forget that he is dangerous and has a grudge against you, Hokage-sama," said Kakashi as he looked at his sensei.

"I don't think he will try to kill me in front of the village and we can only hope to try and come to an understanding," assured Minato, but he was silenced by a maddening fit of laughter from Shenlong who seemed to be thrashing around in his chair as if by pain.

"I'm sorry, Hokage-teme, but from what I understand is that you killed my lover and have put me through a lot," said Shenlong as looked at Minato with dangerous eyes. "I am not the only one who is going to be sorry when this is all over, you can count on that."

"But now I can't guarantee that you will be out to observe the funeral," said Minato a bit angry at the foolish antics of Shenlong.

"Nothing you have can hold me, Hokage, you can bet that you will regret killing her," warned Shenlong as he was dragged out to his cell. Moments later he was running from it without any guards holding him down and revenge in his heart.