Serenade of the Crimson Rose
Chapter 8: The Nine Tails
"A Few weeks back we had our sources report the Kyubi had entered the border of the country of the flame, we have had some of our squads tracking him, but so far we have yet to hear any activity, he seems to be content for the time being. But from what we know from the past he is a trickster and likes nothing more then to destroy." Announce the leader of the Anbu in his report to the Kage's they nodded their heads.
"He has been a menace to us for far too long, how he was released into this world we still havent confirmed, but he can easily take on a whole village of Shinobi, should he come here, I don't believe we would survive the onslaught" Another Anbu added in.
"Are you suggesting we attack him head on?" questioned the Third Hokage.
"Not at all Hokage-Sama, what we suggest, is, until we have confirmed he has once again left the Flame Country, we evacuate the village to the bunkers" said the Anbu leader
"Hmm.. but they are still being constructed under the cover of the Monument, they wouldn't be sufficent for the us, also, that doesn't rid us of him ever coming back" frowned the Third. "Sooner or later we will have to defeat him, but I suppose, it will have to be later, Untill then, the women and children should be evacuated to the back of Village, we can't use the bunkers at this time. Should the Nine Tails come withing 100 kilometers of this Village under our watch, we shall go out to meet him. If we cant defeat him, we can atleast scare him away from the village to avoid needless deaths and destruction" he announce, his voice was serious, as these were decisions, and orders, they were discussed between both Kage's proir to the meeting. Kakashi and his Sqaud were included in the meeting, because they were the Fourths guard.
"We have still had no more disappearances reported, nor have we been able to apprehind the culprit, also, Lord Hokage, nobody has seen or heard from Orochimaru-Sama for about a week." Reported the Anbu Leader, he was given orders to watch Orochimaru's activities by the Hokage. Sarutobi's face grew grim and he felts Yondaime's hand on his shoulder and he sighed.
"I see, very well, keep monitoring him, and I will arrange to have his premesis searched." He looked around, lost in this thoughts.
"Is that all?" asked Yondaime as he looked at the team captians, they all nodded and disappeared in flurrys of smoke.
"I don't know why I try to trick myself into thinking it isnt possible for Orochimaru to do such a thing, I guess it is because I put so much into him, maybe too much." Sarutobi paused for a second, and then continued "He is the only one of my students that still resides in the Village, Tsunade was gone long ago, out studying the medical field and probably gambling, Jiriaya is too busy with his books. I guess I just hoped one of my student's wouldn't abbandon the Leaf." He shook his head "Oh well, what is done, is done, and I can't ignore the convictions against him, no matter what".
"Sarutobi-Sensei, please don't think of them as gone, they still follow the way of the shinobi, I am sure" Yondaime tried to offer him a word of comfort, but it didn't seem to smooth the situation, Sarutobi had always been taken with Orochimaru, that's part of the reason Jiriaya left in the first place. After it had been announced who would be the next Hokage, Jiriaya had announced that he had always been interested in book writing, and was off doing research for his books. Of course, nobody was surprised that the type of books he wrote were perverted. Tsunade on the other hand had left a long time before that, Figuring she would be the last choice as it was, plus it wasn't her dream to be the Hokage, she was interested in gambling, she also speicialized in the medical field, so it was possible she always was furthering her research. Orochimaru took a different approach, although it wasn't said by him that he loathed the fact that Sarutobi didn't allow him to be successor of the Kage title, he made it very apparent with his actions, he slipped into the darkness and avoided contact with anyone, some say he was given to sorceries, and it was Yondaime's personal opinion that he was working on some jutsu to exsact his revenge and kill Yondaime and Sarutobi. But he wasn't worried, the only thing that scared Yondaime about Orochimaru was his appearance, he looked so ghostlike, and so much like a snake that it made his skin crawl.
"We will be going now, See you later Sarutobi Sensei" said Yondaime as he left with his Anbu guard. The rest of the day was pretty much standard, Information reports from various Anbu Sqauds came about every 45 minutes.
Somewhere off the border of the Village was a remote town that the Konoha used as a routing point for most of their trades. It was approximatley 120 kilometers from the village itself. The day was quiet and the sun was shining bright, the clouds of yesterday was gone. A few jounin had stopped to get their lunch at a popular resturant. Suddenly a strong wind rocked the building. "Ha ha ha ha, time for a snack, you tasty morsels better make it interesting, lots of screaming!" came a mammoth voice from outside, it was deep and full of energy, and suddenly there was a crash, and the shinobi rushed outside. "The Kyubi!!!" yelled a townsfolk as he ran by the Squad, sure enough nine firey red tails rose and fell in the air, creating powerfull tidal waves of air, so much that they seemed to push the shinobi back, though they were a good 100 feet away.
"Try and get some of the Villagers out and into hiding" Said the Squad's captian, two off the ninja jumped forward between blast of air and slowly made their way up the street and jumped into the buildings on the sides, moments later a flood of people came out and screaming, ran towards the opposite end of town "Flee into the forest" the leader called to them.
"Go fast, you have to reach the Konoha, the Kyubi will be there tomorrow at this rate"the captian explained, The man nodded bit into his thumb it started bleeding, he formed a few seals and slammed a seal to the ground (Summoning Technique), a huge bird appeared, and the man was clasped around its neck, the speed off, and just as soon as they had the Kyubi jumped into the air and snapped at the bird, but it was too fast and evaded his grip, speeding off towards the Konohagakure. Kyubi landed on the top of the resturant, and it broke beneath his paws.
"Damn that bird, I wanted to kill it" muttered Kyubi as he looked around at the debris "Now where did all the people go, its no fun if I can't kill anything, neh?" suddenly he spotted the captian, the others had escaped with the villagers
"Hey, hey, little man, how would you like to be a tasty snack? You're not much, but you'll be an appietizer" said Kyubi, letting out a horrific chuckle. Then with a quick swipe of his claw, the man fell, his body chopped into 6 pieces. Kyubi picked up the pieces on his claw and stuck it into his mouth. "Damn, not even worth eating, anyways, were is that village they were talking about, should be plenty of fun there,neh!? Hahaha" and with that he began to walk towards Konohagakure.
Next Chapter: A Hero is born?
Chapter 8: The Nine Tails
"A Few weeks back we had our sources report the Kyubi had entered the border of the country of the flame, we have had some of our squads tracking him, but so far we have yet to hear any activity, he seems to be content for the time being. But from what we know from the past he is a trickster and likes nothing more then to destroy." Announce the leader of the Anbu in his report to the Kage's they nodded their heads.
"He has been a menace to us for far too long, how he was released into this world we still havent confirmed, but he can easily take on a whole village of Shinobi, should he come here, I don't believe we would survive the onslaught" Another Anbu added in.
"Are you suggesting we attack him head on?" questioned the Third Hokage.
"Not at all Hokage-Sama, what we suggest, is, until we have confirmed he has once again left the Flame Country, we evacuate the village to the bunkers" said the Anbu leader
"Hmm.. but they are still being constructed under the cover of the Monument, they wouldn't be sufficent for the us, also, that doesn't rid us of him ever coming back" frowned the Third. "Sooner or later we will have to defeat him, but I suppose, it will have to be later, Untill then, the women and children should be evacuated to the back of Village, we can't use the bunkers at this time. Should the Nine Tails come withing 100 kilometers of this Village under our watch, we shall go out to meet him. If we cant defeat him, we can atleast scare him away from the village to avoid needless deaths and destruction" he announce, his voice was serious, as these were decisions, and orders, they were discussed between both Kage's proir to the meeting. Kakashi and his Sqaud were included in the meeting, because they were the Fourths guard.
"We have still had no more disappearances reported, nor have we been able to apprehind the culprit, also, Lord Hokage, nobody has seen or heard from Orochimaru-Sama for about a week." Reported the Anbu Leader, he was given orders to watch Orochimaru's activities by the Hokage. Sarutobi's face grew grim and he felts Yondaime's hand on his shoulder and he sighed.
"I see, very well, keep monitoring him, and I will arrange to have his premesis searched." He looked around, lost in this thoughts.
"Is that all?" asked Yondaime as he looked at the team captians, they all nodded and disappeared in flurrys of smoke.
"I don't know why I try to trick myself into thinking it isnt possible for Orochimaru to do such a thing, I guess it is because I put so much into him, maybe too much." Sarutobi paused for a second, and then continued "He is the only one of my students that still resides in the Village, Tsunade was gone long ago, out studying the medical field and probably gambling, Jiriaya is too busy with his books. I guess I just hoped one of my student's wouldn't abbandon the Leaf." He shook his head "Oh well, what is done, is done, and I can't ignore the convictions against him, no matter what".
"Sarutobi-Sensei, please don't think of them as gone, they still follow the way of the shinobi, I am sure" Yondaime tried to offer him a word of comfort, but it didn't seem to smooth the situation, Sarutobi had always been taken with Orochimaru, that's part of the reason Jiriaya left in the first place. After it had been announced who would be the next Hokage, Jiriaya had announced that he had always been interested in book writing, and was off doing research for his books. Of course, nobody was surprised that the type of books he wrote were perverted. Tsunade on the other hand had left a long time before that, Figuring she would be the last choice as it was, plus it wasn't her dream to be the Hokage, she was interested in gambling, she also speicialized in the medical field, so it was possible she always was furthering her research. Orochimaru took a different approach, although it wasn't said by him that he loathed the fact that Sarutobi didn't allow him to be successor of the Kage title, he made it very apparent with his actions, he slipped into the darkness and avoided contact with anyone, some say he was given to sorceries, and it was Yondaime's personal opinion that he was working on some jutsu to exsact his revenge and kill Yondaime and Sarutobi. But he wasn't worried, the only thing that scared Yondaime about Orochimaru was his appearance, he looked so ghostlike, and so much like a snake that it made his skin crawl.
"We will be going now, See you later Sarutobi Sensei" said Yondaime as he left with his Anbu guard. The rest of the day was pretty much standard, Information reports from various Anbu Sqauds came about every 45 minutes.
Somewhere off the border of the Village was a remote town that the Konoha used as a routing point for most of their trades. It was approximatley 120 kilometers from the village itself. The day was quiet and the sun was shining bright, the clouds of yesterday was gone. A few jounin had stopped to get their lunch at a popular resturant. Suddenly a strong wind rocked the building. "Ha ha ha ha, time for a snack, you tasty morsels better make it interesting, lots of screaming!" came a mammoth voice from outside, it was deep and full of energy, and suddenly there was a crash, and the shinobi rushed outside. "The Kyubi!!!" yelled a townsfolk as he ran by the Squad, sure enough nine firey red tails rose and fell in the air, creating powerfull tidal waves of air, so much that they seemed to push the shinobi back, though they were a good 100 feet away.
"Try and get some of the Villagers out and into hiding" Said the Squad's captian, two off the ninja jumped forward between blast of air and slowly made their way up the street and jumped into the buildings on the sides, moments later a flood of people came out and screaming, ran towards the opposite end of town "Flee into the forest" the leader called to them.
"Go fast, you have to reach the Konoha, the Kyubi will be there tomorrow at this rate"the captian explained, The man nodded bit into his thumb it started bleeding, he formed a few seals and slammed a seal to the ground (Summoning Technique), a huge bird appeared, and the man was clasped around its neck, the speed off, and just as soon as they had the Kyubi jumped into the air and snapped at the bird, but it was too fast and evaded his grip, speeding off towards the Konohagakure. Kyubi landed on the top of the resturant, and it broke beneath his paws.
"Damn that bird, I wanted to kill it" muttered Kyubi as he looked around at the debris "Now where did all the people go, its no fun if I can't kill anything, neh?" suddenly he spotted the captian, the others had escaped with the villagers
"Hey, hey, little man, how would you like to be a tasty snack? You're not much, but you'll be an appietizer" said Kyubi, letting out a horrific chuckle. Then with a quick swipe of his claw, the man fell, his body chopped into 6 pieces. Kyubi picked up the pieces on his claw and stuck it into his mouth. "Damn, not even worth eating, anyways, were is that village they were talking about, should be plenty of fun there,neh!? Hahaha" and with that he began to walk towards Konohagakure.
Next Chapter: A Hero is born?