New Lives

Chapter 55

"Okay, brats, today I'm gonna' teach you how to use the terrain to your tactical advantage. You can use just about anything for cover, weaponry, camouflage . . . Did you know, if you use enough force, you can kill a man with an ordinary pencil?" Kidoumaru pulled out a pencil and grinned, then flung it at a tree trunk, driving it about an inch into the wood. "You can kill someone with just about anything outside of . . ." He turned suddenly and held up a hand,

"Someone's watching us."

"Very impressive."

A tall man walked out of the bushes, and Kidoumaru immediately noted the scarred symbol. He automatically positioned himself for combat even as a second man emerged.

"Missing-Nin? I suggest you leave, now."

The first man laughed, showing his rotten teeth, "I think not. We're here for some fun, see, we're gonna' kill all of you."

The other man several senbon at the Spider-Nin, who knocked them out of the air with a burst of webbing and immediately activated his Cursed Seal.

"You're not going to live long enough to regret that."

The men looked on in shock as the black lines began to slither across his skin, and he flung kunai and senbon in their direction even as he changed.

"What the Hell is that?!"

Kidoumaru was now in full Cursed Seal mode, and he was shaking with rage, how dare they attack these kids!

"It's some kind of demon!"

Takada and Goro began making hurried Jutsu as Kidoumaru summoned his bow, "Get out of here! Run!" He drew back his bow and prepared to release, but the men vanished into thin air.

"We're Jonin, Demon-Boy, it's not gonna' be that easy!" He caught a flash from the corner of his eye and dodged just in time to avoid a barrage of senbon. Dosu hurled a kunai in the direction the attack had come from, but hit only air.

"Cowards, show yourselves!" Kidoumaru shouted, searching for his opponents, but they were concealing their Chakra far too well. He took note of his students' Chakra, most were already a good distance away, but . . .

"Dosu, go with the others! The other guy, he's after them!"

A senbon struck him in the second left arm. He turned and began to cover the whole area in webbing. This filth might be invisible, but he has to touch ground sometime. His yellow eyes were glowing with fury, and he was so enraged he couldn't feel the wound, I have to take him down fast and go help the others . . .

He had faith in Dosu's abilities, but he didn't want to leave him without backup.

...

Dosu felt out with his Chakra, he could feel his classmates, but the attacker was well hidden, These guys really are Jonin!

His eyes darted about, and he saw a disturbance among the leaves, and knew who it was. He dodged a kunai and let loose with a full blast of Sonic Fang. There was a scream and the sound of a falling body, and Dosu smiled as he saw the prone form of Goro laying broken on the ground . . .

...

Takada was no fool, he knew that spiders sense the movements of their prey through their webs, but he also realized he couldn't avoid it, so he decided to drown it out, literally. Rain began to pour down upon the area, heavy rain, striking at both web and spider. Takada smiled, That should confuse the brat! He frowned as he saw the boy crouching over a scroll.

That doesn't look good!

He hurled a kunai, hitting the boy in the shoulder and splattering the scroll with blood. It was too late, a massive cloud of smoke entered amidst the rain, and parted to reveal a gigantic orange and black spider.

"You're wounded!" Kyodaigumo's deep, terrible voice rumbled across the forest.

"Never mind that!" Kidoumaru smiled through the rain and his own pain, "I have dinner for you!" He climbed atop the horrific summon like a jockey astride a horse, the kunai still embedded in his shoulder, "Make it slow."

...

Dosu frowned as he saw the fallen ninja move and prepared another blast, but the man jumped out of the way and into the trees. Dosu felt a sudden surge of Chakra coming from behind him even as he blocked a blow with his sonic weapon.

Kidoumaru is using his summon, it must be bad, I'll have to finish this trash quickly.

His eyes narrowed and he blasted the Missing-Nin full force at point blank range, disintegrating the man's head. The headless body fell to the forest floor as he turned to help Kidoumaru.

...

Takada flung several more kunai, but the beast kept coming. They could feel him, they knew exactly where he was. He lost his nerve and tried to flee, tripping and becoming entangled in the gigantic web. As the spider's jaws closed in upon him, he saw the boy's monstrous face twisted in pure rage, "No one attacks my students and lives!"

...

Iruka was concerned when the Genin class came running terrified from the forest, but he assumed Kidoumaru had scared them again.

He was wrong.

"We were attacked! Missing-Nin!" One boy spat out breathlessly, "Kidoumaru-Sensei and Dosu stayed behind to fight them!"

Iruka rushed into the forest, shouting for the other instructors to follow.

...

Dosu emerged from the forest to a horrible sight, the gigantic spider was swiftly wrapping the other attacker's body in a cocoon of webbing, even as the man lay screaming. Kidoumaru had webbing wrapped like bandages around his shoulder and one of his arms, and it was colored red . . .

"Kidoumaru, I got the other one! Everyone got away!"

Kidoumaru lept down from Kyodaigumo as the summon vanished, taking the flailing, screaming prey with it. He reverted to human form, stumbled a bit, light-headed from pain, blood loss... And something else. A distinct burning in his second right arm.

The senbon was poisoned.

"That trash character got me good, Dosu. Get one of his senbon, he poisoned me and we'll need . . ."

He passed out.

...

Kidoumaru opened his eyes to a familiar face, "Hey, Babe."

Sakura couldn't seem to speak, so Tayuya decided to answer from his other side, "You stupid #! Getting yourself #! Poisoned!"

He sat up and saw the other Oto-Nin standing around the room, along with his parents and brother, Obito, and a few others.

"Mmmm, that bad, huh?"

"I-it was a very strong poison, you almost died."

Yoshino leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, causing him to blush with embarrassment. "Everybody was worried about you, you were out for three days"

"I slept three days! God, I'm getting as lazy as Shikamaru!"

Everyone laughed, even Shikamaru. They all turned as a loud commotion was heard at the door, which suddenly burst open, flooding the room with Genin.

...

A few hours later, when everyone but family, Sakura and his fellow Oto-Nin had left, they could finally talk, some.

"I knew you could take that guy, Dosu. They might have been Jonin, but I bet they never faced guys like us!"

Dosu grinned, "I have great news!"

"Naruto finally made Hokage?"

"No, Zaku got adopted! Your clan, The Naraku clan adopted him! They..." He pulled out a letter, "It's all in here."

"That's great! I was wondering when they'd get around to it." Kidoumaru smiled, Yeah, he needs a family, he's been the worst off of all of us, poor brat. He glanced over the letter, then put it on the table to read more thoroughly later.

Sakura was sitting next to him on the edge of the bed, stroking his hair, it was loose, hanging down to his shoulders rather than in the usual pineapple.

"Your hair looks good like this, not that it doesn't look good the other way . . ."

So sexy! Inner Sakura shouted, If his parents weren't here . . .

...

Far, far away, the Gates of Hell opened for two more condemned souls . . .

To be continued . . .