Sleepless D: Here's the next chapter, please review, I'm working hard on college and this, question, anything think I should update the Chunin exams a little? For grammar or more intense fight scenes? Peace out.
Sasuke floats in the air, looking as the flames cover the area, soon seeing the flames vanish and the ground red from the heat, even some of the ground melted. He looks in shock as Naruto stands up, his body healing rapidly and a red aura of chakra appearing around Naruto, almost like a cloak and Naruto becomes more fox like, yet his eyes were still white and slitted.
The air is almost like a poison, thick and dark, getting darker the closer it got to, Sasuke could ignore it since his chakra is nearly as dark and toxic as his. 'What is going on...' Sasuke wonders, feeling the sense of death.
Naruto looks up, his eyes white with black slits, a hint of red around the edge. Sasuke feels fear and Naruto pulls his right arm back, launching it forward and sending a red chakra hand towards him, making him look in shock and yells in pain when the hand grabs him tightly. Naruto pushes his arm down, causing Sasuke to fly down, seeing the ground getting closer and soon collides with it.
Sasuke feels pain going down the right side of his body, soon followed by a burning sensation from the red chakra on his skin and the heat of the floor. Naruto soon pulls his arm, dragging Sasuke across the ground towards him, his head occasionally hitting a rock before Naruto pulls his left leg back. Once Sasuke is in reach, Naruto smashes his shin into Sasuke, hearing a cracking sound and launching Sasuke flying, rolling across the hot ground and skids to a stop near the edge.
Naruto grins darkly, soon tilting his head in confusion when something shoots out of Sasuke's shoulder, soon showing a giant hand with webbing, quickly having another one come from his other shoulder. Sasuke soon rises, his skin is a dark grey and his hair grows longer and turns lighter, he turns to his former teammate, showing a star like mark on the bridge of his nose and his lips blue.
Sasuke cracks his body, healing rapidly, but the pain increases and Sasuke feels his body breaking down by the poisonous mark. Naruto smirks, feeling his rival's power increase and bends down, watching Sasuke like a hunter does its pray.
He shoots forward, aiming to slice through Sasuke, but he quickly rolls away, narrowly dodging Naruto's attack. Naruto skids to a stop, nearly falling off the edge of the rock level he raised, seeing the water below move rapidly by the power the two were giving off. Sasuke continues to move backwards, not noticing the hot ground and feels rain drops falling, looking up and seeing lightning and hearing thunder.
The world around them is soon being drenched by the rain, lightning hitting the ground and water rapidly, being unstable because of the Kyuubi/Naruto's and Sasuke's chakra. The world is nothing but black, occasionally lighting the area with the flashes of lightning, the water becoming electrified by the bolts.
Naruto rips his bloodstained, white t-shirt off, his veins popping out, the strange sight of his skin burning and healing at the same time. Naruto smirks and vanishes again, reappearing in front of Sasuke and launches his fist at him, but Sasuke blocks it with his giant wing/hand. Sasuke quickly pushes Naruto back, smashing his fist into Naruto's chest, ignoring the burning sensation, quickly sending a swift kick to the side of Naruto's knee, causing him to land on his knee. Sasuke quickly took his opportunity and smashes his knee into Naruto's face, sending him flying away and roll across the ground before stabbing his hand into the ground, dragging across the ground until he stops.
Sasuke bends down, feeling his chakra frail up and down by his constant use and coughing up blood, which lands on his hand. Sasuke focuses all his chakra into his hand, soon hearing the sound of birds chitterling, his hand soon becoming covered in lightning. Sasuke breathes deeply, seeing Naruto looking at him, his hand still in the ground and soon spots a smirk, becoming confused but he realises what he is doing.
Sasuke launches to the side, soon having the ground that he was at explode, smoke covering the area and the red chakra arm flying toward him. Sasuke gets angry and takes as much chakra from his Curse Mark as he could, but managing to do something he didn't plan on. The lightning from the sky shoots down, hitting and powering up his Chidori greatly, nearly blinding him in the process as he feels his skin peel. The arm flies towards him still, getting angry and launches forward, slicing through the chakra arm and seeing the severed part disintegrate. However, from the stump, another arm shoots out, grabbing Sasuke's arm, but the lightning hits the Chidori again, vaporising the chakra arm. Sasuke looks at his arm, smirking because his Chidori is getting even more powerful with each lightning strike, but his skin is being burnt away in the process.
Naruto rips his arm from the ground, looking at his right arm in confusion, feeling his arm going numb as well as certain areas of his own body. He catches Sasuke moving, watching him charging towards him, he watches him carefully and seeing that Sasuke is planning to kill him. This makes Naruto smirk as he just walks forward, raising his numb hand as Sasuke is no more than a few feet away and launches his Chidori at Naruto.
Naruto moves a little to the opposite side of Sasuke, feeling Sasuke's Chidori rip through the side of Naruto's arm, having blood splatter across the area. Naruto however ignores it and manages to grabs Sasuke's throat and grabbing it tightly, causing him to drop his Chidori as he couldn't breathe. Blood runs down Sasuke's throat and pour on the ground, but it lessens since the Kyuubi heals Naruto's wound rapidly.
They stay like that for a few seconds, Sasuke fighting to breathe and hitting Naruto's arm, but soon, Naruto smashes Sasuke into the ground, cracking the ground. Sasuke's eyes seem to bulge from his sockets, his face darkening while Naruto keeps hold, smirking as he smashes his fist into Sasuke's face, releasing his grip and smashing every part of Sasuke as fast as he could.
Sasuke gets imbedded into the ground and gets deeper with every hit, seeing Sasuke cough up more blood before Naruto stood there, smirking at the sight of Sasuke in pain. Naruto bends his knees and shoots into the sky, vanishing and after a few seconds, Sasuke begins to get out, but Naruto reappears, smashing his knee into Sasuke's chest, feeling his ribs break, spitting out blood while the entire platform of rocks shatters.
The ground crumbles and falls into the water, the Curse Mark recedes as he and Naruto fall to the lake, soon vanishing in the rocks as the rocks. A few minutes pass, leaving nothing but a small pile of rocks from the lake water.
Naruto is seen standing on the edge, the Kyuubi's chakra vanishing and leaving just Wild Naruto, looking down at the deeply breathing Sasuke, floating in the water, finding it difficult to breathe with his ribs broken. Naruto walks onto the water, standing with Sasuke between his legs and bends down, grabbing Sasuke's throat, squeezing it as he pushes Sasuke under the water. He smirks as he watches Sasuke fight weakly, but couldn't do anything, slowly dying as Naruto watches him struggle to breathe.
Naruto loses his attention, looking at the woods and sniffs the air, smelling something that makes him smirk as he sees movement, he smirks and releases Sasuke and rushes towards the newcomer.
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Half an hour passes and Kakashi appears at the scene, looking around and seeing the aftermath of Naruto and Sasuke's fight, becoming confused and jumps down. He starts searching and finally spots Sasuke on the coast, becoming worried since he didn't see Sasuke breathing, he rushes forward and quickly presses his ear to Sasuke's chest, listening carefully and sighs in slight relief, hearing a heartbeat, even though it's weak.
He looks around, seeing nothing of Naruto, he couldn't even sense him and wonders if Naruto is somewhere else or not here at all. A few seconds later, three medical ninja appear, spotting Sasuke and quickly going to him, making sure he's okay and starts healing him up. "Is Naruto anywhere?" One of the medics asks, looking around, but Kakashi shrugs, unsure where he is.
"I don't know, I'll begin searching immediately, you, come with me!" Kakashi orders one of the medics, soon began searching for Naruto.
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At the chasm where the teams fought against each other, the rocks at the bottom shift and a boulder rolls off, soon having an armless, part of his ribs missing rolling out. He vomits up some blood, having several broken bones and breathing hard, looking around and seeing some more movement from below and hearing someone coming from behind.
"For fuck sake Neko...you sure know how...to take a wound." Tayuya's voice comes, he looks and sees Tayuya there, several deep gashes across her body and her arm dislocated.
"Yeah..." Neko says, thinking for a second and smirks, sniffing the air and recognising Ukon and Sakon's smell. "Come..." He says, getting up painfully and starts moving downwards.
After a minute and watery ground at the bottom, they see Ukon, shaking backwards and forwards, next to a bloody body of Sakon. "We'll be alright Sakon...we're alright..." Ukon says, deathly pale and tears running down his face.
Tayuya looks in shock, never having seen Ukon cry and in this kind of a state. "This can't be good..." Tayuya says to herself.
Ukon looks up, scared. "Please...Neko...bring my brother back..." Ukon says in sadness.
Neko sighs, reaching into his pouch and takes out a small ball. "Sorry, I can...save him...by bringing...him back...but right now...I'd die...and I plan...to replace...my missing...parts." Neko says, dropping the ball and causes it to explode, sending a purple smoke to surround them.
"What the...fuck..." Tayuya began, but she hits the ground as Ukon follows, both passed out.
The smoke clears after a minute, having a pale, weak looking Neko hitting the ground and vomiting, trying to stay conscious as he pushes himself up. He breathes deeply as he removes his pouch and places it near the two. "Time to...replace blood...good thing...you're both...compatible..." Neko says, taking out a few tubes with needles.
Neko plunges the needles into Tayuya's arteries, having blood pour into them and into the pouch. Neko then takes out a small, dented machine that the blood pours into the machine, he takes out a couple more tubes and stabs them into his veins, replacing the blood he lost and he's going to lose.
Neko pulls out a scalpel with his right hand and moves over to Ukon, cutting into him and seeing the blood pouring out, ignoring it as he cuts deeper. 'This is going to be a strange adjustment, but after a few months, it'll look like mine.' Neko says to himself, his vision getting blurry, but he ignores it and keeps on going.
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The groups start moving back with the injured while the more capable are now searching for Naruto, not really thinking that they'd find the bodies of the remaining Sound ninja. They couldn't find anyone, but some still searched, even though they're running low on chakra and Tsunade received word of this and begins to worry, but couldn't spare anyone else and needed to prepare for the wounded.
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The sun starts to rise and several hundred miles away from the Fire Nation, in a dark, overgrown part of a forest where hardly any normal, sane person has ever gone. Naruto opens his eyes, seeing that he's standing, blood covering his fists and his body, becoming confused and getting worried since he has no memory from now to getting plunged by a Chidori by Sasuke. Something collides with Naruto, making him yell in pain as something starts smashing into his face, recognising it as a fist and manages to grab it.
Naruto's vision is adjusting to the concussion he just received and looks, he becomes scared and confused when he sees a creature. The creature is human shaped, its body if very masculine, naked, but its legs are surprisingly hairy and its fingers are sharp and broken. Its head is nearly covered in hair, being a dirty blond, twigs and dirt in it, its face makes Naruto nervous, seeing its teeth sharp, jagged and yellow, its eyes white with pupil, but its right eye is bloodshot. Its face is human enough, but a purple triangle on its forehead and Naruto looks under the dirt, seeing someone that looks similar to Tsunade if she was older and male.
The man stabs its other hand into Naruto's chest, making him yell in shock and pain, quickly smashing his fist into the man's throat. This causes the man to fall back, coughing hard as he tries to breathe.
Naruto gets more worried and looks around quickly, trying to figure out what's going on, seeing nothing but dark woods, seeing it damaged from a battle, wondering if it was him. Naruto stands up, rubbing his chest in pain, soon realising that there's several white eyes watching him, becoming scared and wondered where he is.
The man smashes his leg into Naruto's back, making him yell in pain as he flies and hits a nearby tree. 'What the fuck is happening?' Naruto wonders, still unsure how he got here and why he's fighting a naked man that seems to remind him of something, not able to place it, worrying.
The eyes slowly vanish while he hears movement from behind, he looks and sees the person he was fighting gone and is even more confused. Naruto has no idea where he is or where to go, getting sudden flashes of what happened before.
Flashback
"You know what, I may even go back to Hinata and finish that kiss of ours...Yeah, that kiss was great, she even kissed back and I could tell she wanted it."
End flashback
Naruto feels rage going through his mind, wanting to kill Sasuke, soon wondering what Hinata did, feeling anger and betrayal towards her. A tear runs down his cheek, but he clenches his fists and smashes a nearby tree, destroying a large section of it and watches it fall. 'I need to find the village...I have to find out if he was telling the truth...Hinata...why?' He wonders, falling to his knees, crying hard as he hits the ground.
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It's been over a day, Tsunade is tired from getting everyone patched up again, saving Chouji with the antidote, repairing Kazue's organs, Shino's muscle tissue and everyone else. Everyone is getting better and everyone that was free from their Shinobi duty was searching for Naruto, unsure where the boy is.
Tsunade found herself worrying even more and looking for any signs of Naruto from neighbouring villages, but they haven't seen anyone. She has even ignored the failed missions since she's worrying about Naruto, not even caring about the few deaths and the stress is getting to her.
Hinata worries greatly for Naruto, staying at the village wall with her Byakugan active every minute, waiting for Naruto and feeling alone and her heart hurting. Right now, Sasuke is in hospital, having his ribs healed up before he is punished for trying to go rouge, Tsunade is planning on placing him in the Konoha Strict Correctional Facility for a few months. The elders and a few other were fighting to say that he was kidnapped, not wanting the last of the Uchiha in prison, but Tsunade is ignoring them
Kakashi is searching constantly for his missing student, getting worried since his Ninja hounds can't find his scent with the recent rain.
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Just outside the gates, a cart is waiting near the entrance and the driver was an old woman with several cats moving around in the cart. "Can I please get in? I got lost and my husband must be getting worried." The old woman tells the two guards as they try to calm down the dog with them.
"Are you sure that you haven't seen this boy?" One of the guards asks, showing Naruto's ninja profile picture.
"No, the last I saw him was a month ago outside my apartment window, oh how I remember him forgetting to put on pyjamas again." The old woman giggles, gaining a sigh and a horrified look from the other one.
"Fine...I've taken enough of your time for that...and I've seen you enough times to let you through lady." The closest one says.
"...And I'll see you...for supper tomorrow...grandma!" The second guard says, still having a horrified look as the old woman smiles and waves at her grandson.
After a couple of minutes of the cart going down the street, a small bundle fell from the bottom of the cart and quickly ran to the nearest alley. "Damn bastards, I've got to get some rest, now I've got to keep tabs on this village...this shithole out...I need to make sure Orochimaru doesn't end up killing me..." The thing says and looks out of the alley, showing glowing yellow eyes that seemed to get higher while clicking sounds are heard.
The thing walks out of the alley and a person around their late teens looked around, glowing yellow, cat like eyes and messy hair. The person is wearing only bloody trousers, several scars are seen throughout his body as well as tiger stripes, but his right side is stitched up and pale compared to the rest of his tanned body, even being a few inches longer arm than the other and no tiger like marks on it.
The man looks at his arm and sighs. "Just got to wait a few months before my chakra turns it into something similar to my original..." He says aloud, looking around to see no one and starts scratching like mad. "And that damn lady has to get rid of those damn fleas from her cats!" The person complains as he walks down the street for anything he can steal clothes from.
Sleepless D: Hope you're all getting interested, Neko is still alive and killed his two comrades in order to live, hope for more reviews, because all I've been getting is a few each chapter, I like reading reviews, but it's okay. Also, I'm busy with work and I've had several basic or detailed ideas that I know I won't be able to get into or create, so if anyone's interested, send me a message and I can give you an idea if you're good at writing, but at a writer's block. Peace out.
