Naruto Fanfiction

Disclaimer: Kishimoto is the one who owns all of Naruto. I only own the OCs in this fic… And even that not entirely, since most of them and their Techniques are based on Kishimoto's Characters.

Author's Note: Uh, fast update!! Prepare yourself for some action and some good conversations here and there… Oh, I also write poetry and sometimes I use lines form my own poems in this fic, because I think it fits… Oh, well, I guess that was pretty useless to mention.. I will soon put in a new Jutsu List, also with the new Characters, and I'll show you a list of the new Akatsuki Members.

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Review Reply Corner:

CurlsofSerenity: Heh, actually, I often update faster than once a week, I had this one finished one day after I got chapter 6 finished. But sometimes I wait with posting the chapter, when certain stuff still need to be done. Thanks for reading!

Hattuteline: Hey, man with the master plan! Actually, there are more than nine new recruits… excluding one particular one, you'd have nine… But you forgot Mishu Usadi, the woman who could summon more than one summon and taught Neji, Gaara and Naruto how to summon (more than one summon).

Misu no Hikaru: You don't have to wait any longer! Here's the next Chappie! Enjoy! And thanks for reading!

Luikang (Loon_Luu): Next chapter is right here! Thanks for the review! Well, I'm kind of nervous to write about a 'long-time-no-see' encounter… But it'll be soon.

Ccs_lover: Well yeah, I lost more than 4000 words.. But all that's in the past now.. Gotta learn how to control my anger now… Don't worry about Hinata, she's an important part of the story…. I think… She could be killed off, though…

DocDragon: And thank you for the creation of Hiraga Matsu! He's a good fighter and it's fun writing about him. Thanks for following the story!

Sirus183: Well, no need to worry any longer, new Chappie is up! Thanks for the review and thanks for reading again!!

Per: I'm guessing it might take a long time. Surely, the Leaf couldn't think bad thoughts about little innocent Naruto and the dedicated Neji? However…. Well, read and find out! :P Thanks for reading!

RuByMoOn17: O_O, talented?! Me!? You must be crazy! Oh well, thanks for the compliment!! *Hands over the next chapter* Thanks for reading!

Dark Nemesis 7: My apologies! Here's a next chapter to make  it up ^_^..

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There Where When is Now

- Chapter 7

She was never motivated to try anything after she failed in what others expected her to do right. Forced to prove something you were not ready for yet made her sense of embarrassment grow. She already knew she would not live up to the expectations. The losses she had while she was just trudging with her head down through her life were too much for her insecurity and forced her to open the gates of her true potential. It was then that she showed everyone she was far beyond the expectations, it was then…

The knowledge of the Hyuga Curse Seal really surprised her and she felt really sorry for the Hyuga Branch Family. If she could, she would definitely change it. She had already begun by refusing to learn the Secret Hand Seal that could activate the Hyuga Curse Seal. Although Hyuga Hinata was known for her lower developed Byakugan, she still was able to read the human emotions with it. When she saw Hyuga Neji and the pain he carried with him, she understood. She also understood the grudge he held against her. It was just meant to be. Feelings like that simply can not be discarded.

But Neji had come to terms with it one day. Hyuga Hinata was thankful for that day. She felt a great weight being pulled off of her shoulders at that time. Hyuga Neji even took the time to advice her about her advancements of her Hyuga abilities. She took his advice to her heart and forced them out.

The massacre of the Hyuga clan really fell hard on her… She, her father and her little sister Hyuga Hanabi had survived just by not being in their local village of the Leaf. A few Hyuga Jounins had also survived. But most Hyuga Chuunins and all Hyuga Genins were killed.. Strange was, that the entire Branch Family wasn't attacked at all… Only the Main Family.. Hinata had lost aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces… She had no friends in the Hyuga Clan, because all saw her as a failure, so she had not lost any friends..

It was then, that Hinata was completely motivated to thrive for a rightful place in her own existence. She saw people race beyond her in skill, power and speed. But from then on, that would be no more. Hyuga Hinata was ready to avenge the Hyuga Main Family, she was ready to prove her worth and she was ready…. To bring back Neji and Naruto…

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Sinobi narrowed his eyes at Hiraga's strange right arm. He was no longer in his Berserker Status, but could resort to it when necessarily. Right now, he wanted control of his body. Sinobi frowned at the many headbands the man wore on his body, his neck, left arm and legs. Bur right now he felt like he should focus his attention on the peculiar arm.

Sinobi watched with amazement as Hiraga's left hand dislocated itself from the arm. He saw him target the black hole at him. Sinobi didn't see any blood from the hole where once his right hand was. Suddenly, dozens of small black balls were shot at Sinobi. Sinobi jumped away, to avoid them.

"Keep avoiding them… They carry a deadly poison within… Also, they move at a high speed and will remain in your body, find a way in your blood and paralyze your movements…" Hiraga said with insanely wide eyes and a sneaky smirk.

Sinobi snorted. "Looks like I'll have to cut that arm off, then…" He said as he made several hand seals. As the seals stopped, his hands were suddenly surrounded by many small lightning bolts. "Rakurai no Jutsu!"

Hiraga dodged all lightning bolts Sinobi shot at him and between bolts shot back with his Arm Cannon. Sinobi and Hiraga were jumping around and shooting each other.

During the shooting and dodging, Hiraga spoke. "You should quit… It is obvious your attack drains Chakra!"

Sinobi who jumped to the left, right and left again, screamed back. "Well, not before you run out of little bullets!"

Hiraga smirked as he duck under a lightning bolt and rolled left, only to jump back again from another lightning bolt. "Not possible, my blood is the fuel of my Arm Cannon…"

Sinobi gritted his teeth as he performed a new set of seals… "Is that so?" Suddenly, the sky grew darker and Hiraga paused his shooting to look up at the sky. Sinobi uttered the words. "Dendou Bouffuu!!"

Hiraga swallowed as he saw a gigantic Electrical showdown high in the clouds, descend towards him and Sinobi… 'Oh shit…'

Sinobi smirked. "Electricity is my game, poison is yours… Let's see how you can handle my game…"

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"Naruto, would you just kill them already?" Neji said in whiny voice, which was very rare for him. "I'm getting tired of seeing three rabbits fly around the sky the entire time.. Yes, you can juggle, big deal…"

Naruto pouted after letting all three rabbits land on three Kunais. "Jeez, why are you stressed out?"

Gaara sat on the ground and was already eating his food as he watched the exchange between Naruto and Neji. Neji spoke. "Well, I'm just aggravated because that stupid Stone Village disappointed me so much… I've heard so many great stories about it. To think we made it crumble so easily. Such a weak Village…"

It was really strange to see Neji act like this. Usually it was Naruto who whined of not having a challenge… Neji only occasionally whined. Then again, it had been a long time since they had a challenge…

Naruto grinned. "Well, we are kind of strong, Neji… I think even the entire Leaf Village would have problems defeating us…"

Gaara snorted. "We would have had problems with the Stone Village too if I had not used my Dome of Sand… We must finish the job quickly, remember? No time to let an entire Village attack us, anyway."

Neji snorted back. "They should feel ashamed… They weren't even able to get passed your Dome of Sand…"

Naruto chuckled. "Well, there were about a hundred of my clones guarding it.. and the Dome isn't that easily breached either."

Neji sighed. "Alright, alright… I just hope the next village is better…"

Gaara and Naruto nodded, agreeing with Neji. "Which Village are we heading for next, anyway?" Naruto asked.

"I suggest we head for the Thunder Country, the Hidden Scroll is most likely in their biggest Village, the Cloud." Neji explained. "For tonight, we stay here."

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So far, this was not her day. She couldn't get any hit in, it seemed her opponent was someone who was immune to TaiJutsu. Mokito was definitely not good in any other thing. Thankfully Baeda's punches weren't that hard. Mokito, for the first time in a very long time, performed a few hand seals… "Ninpou; Katon TaiJutsu!!"

Baeda frowned behind her silk cloth as Mokito got surrounded by fire-like Chakra. As Mokito threw a punch at Baeda from a distance, Baeda's eyes widened and she was forced to jump out of the way as a wave of fire soared below her. As she jumped however, Mokito appeared above and performed a roundhouse kick to send Baeda back to the ground. Mokito's eyes widened as her foot went straight through Baeda's body. Her attacking foot got grabbed by Baeda, but was released very quickly as Baeda was about to burn her hands.

Both of them landed on the ground again. "What kind of strange body do you have?!" Mokito yelled, flaring a bit of her fire-like Chakra.

Baeda smirked. "As you can might have noticed.. you can not touch me when I am on the ground. Nor can you touch me when I am in the air. And with those two, I have different defensive methods.. When I'm standing, a constant Chakra flow dances around me, ready to move my hands or feet to block any physical attack. In the air, the Chakra lets me blend with 'nothing.' Or to put it in other words… I can faze through things…"

Mokito snarled. 'Physical attacks won't work against her at all… And my Katon TaiJutsu is the only Ninjutsu I have and even that is partly physical…'

Meanwhile, Kisame and Sukumi were staring each other down. "Hand over the scroll, Tachi.."

Sukumi grinned. "So you know of the mission? Sorry, I can not give you the Scroll… you'll have to take it from us."

"With pleasure." Kisame finished as he gripped his sword and performed a single-handed seal and then put both his hands on his Katana. "Itsuha Chakra no Katana!"

Sukumi slightly jumped back as Kisame's sword began to emanate a weird Chakra. Kisame chuckled. "Do you remember that my sword eats Chakra? Well, what is eaten, must also come out…" Kisame said. 'I hope this will be enough for this guy… I'm using a part of Gaara's Chakra when we last trained together.' Kisame thought as the weird Chakra the sword radiated, suddenly appeared around the sword and began to surround Kisame. "Let's go!!" Kisame screamed as he disappeared.

Hiraga gritted his teeth as the Electric Storm Sinobi created was slowly approaching him. 'Shit… there's only one thing I can do…' Hiraga quickly grabbed the backpack on his back and opened it, revealing dozens of drawings.. Sinobi frowned as he put one drawing on the ground, bit in his finger for blood and put his hand on the drawing. The drawing was very strange, Sinobi noted. A four headed bird…

"Kage Henkei no Jutsu!!" Hiraga screamed and smoke surrounded him. Sinobi's eyes widened as before him, from out of the smoke, a four-headed bird flew and was just barely able to fly away from the Electric Storm. Sinobi couldn't believe his eyes.. 'What the hell?' Before he could reason with himself that four-headed birds didn't exist, said bird attacked him from behind with its vicious claws slashing at Sinobi's back. Sinobi screamed in pain. He crouched and threw Kunais at the bird, which simply dodged it by flying up.

Sinobi rose on his feet and shot a lightning bolt at the bird. "Rakurai no Jutsu!" The bird got hit and where once was a bird, now there was Hiraga again. He landed on the ground several feet before Sinobi and smiled as he aimed his Arm Cannon at him again and began to fire.

Sinobi dodged and shot lightning bolts again, repeating the previous attack styles..

Baeda suddenly moved behind Mokito, but Mokito was way faster than her and jumped away. "I may not be able to attack you, old woman, but your attacks aren't effective against me either!! You're simply too weak to actually hurt me!"

Baeda chuckled. "Is that so? Now that you're standing there… you're surrounded by dozens of exploding tags… Prepare for a lot of pain.."

Mokito simply vanished before the exploding tags exploded and appeared a few feet behind Baeda. "You underestimate my speed, old woman."

Baeda suddenly rushed towards Mokito. She jumped, while Mokito guarded herself with her hands. Baeda suddenly fazed through Mokito and jumped forward. Mokito turned and saw that Baeda had the Hidden scroll that was strapped on her belt. 'S-shit!' Mokito quickly turned to Kisame and Sinobi. "You guys!! She has our Hidden Scroll!! One of you two should be fighting her!! She's immune to physical attacks!!"

Hiraga chuckled as he heard that, but frowned as Sukumi landed next to him. "As much as I would like to finish the fight between us, Hoshigaki, We have to get going…" Hiraga nodded his head in a weird way, while Baeda chuckled. "Thanks for another Hidden Scroll, by the way!"

Mokito rushed forward, but was stopped by Baeda, who used her Chakra to negate Mokito's physical movements. When Mokito saw her attack failed, she wanted to turn towards Sukumi, but was rammed in her stomach by Baeda and then punched on a sensitive spot in her neck by Sukumi, who knocked her out.

"She was probably the only one who could have stopped us from moving away… You two are too slow…" Sukumi smiled. "Goodbye." He uttered as the three leaped away.

Kisame cursed as he let the Chakra that was surrounding him back into the sword..

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Dareda was walking amongst the guards of the Wind Country. Itachi was watching from afar how Dareda succeeded in killing one of the guards underground and quickly jump up, without anyone noticing anything. Impressive, really, since you, at most, had a second to do that. But Dareda succeeded nonetheless. Right now, he slowly walked forward and let the guards see him. He gazed at Dareda, who was rushing at him and he smiled inwardly as most guards followed. Dareda, in his Henge form, screamed that only 8 should come with him. Itachi immediately turned around and jumped away.

Dareda and 8 other Wind guards followed in hot pursuit. As the came into a clearing past the trees, Itachi was standing still with his back towards them. Dareda watched as he turned around and had his Sharingan activated. Dareda quickly closed his eyes, while the others looked straight into his eyes…

Within all of the guards' minds, Itachi spoke in a cruel voice… "For the next 72 hours, you will all know who your true master is… and face pain by my hands…" And then, all eight of them were ruthlessly tortured inside their selves.

What for them felt like 72 hours, was just one minute in the real world. Before the last minute was over, Itachi spoke one last thing in their minds. "Obey me or I will repeat the process all too…. happily.."

Itachi actually made sort of zombies of them, they all nodded as they all lay on the ground in great pain… Dareda watched on as Itachi cruelly smiled. 'That Mange Sharingan is truly dangerous… He can use it four times a day.. and that's when he doesn't use anything else… So, it's safe to say, today he'll be using it three times..'

They repeated the same attack several times, getting a total of thirty guard on their side. Itachi had used the Mange Sharingan three times and Dareda advised to attack the Village now. It would be easy, there were several real guards left now and those would easily be killed in silence.

When Itachi's controlled Wind Guards destroyed everything in the Village and got all attention from the other Shinobis, Itachi and Dareda quickly jumped towards the Kazekage Tower in the Sand Village..

It took them several minutes to reach the gates of the SAND Village and they easily got past it, with Dareda killing the guards Hyuga style. In was almost no time Itachi and Dareda were up against the Kazekage's personal guards, but Itachi and Dareda simply revealed their Byakugan and Sharingan and an unfair battle ensued.

Jumping up and entering the tower, Itachi and Dareda stood face to face with the Kazekage…

"Akatsuki, right?" the Kazekage stated. "You two are good… to be able to get past the two gates…But this is where it ends for you two…"

Itachi and Dareda looked at each other, before looking back at the Kazekage again to see he had already finished a set of hand seals. 'He's fast at Jutsus..' Both Itachi and Dareda thought..

"Maikiri!!" Kazekage screamed.

Itachi and Dareda felt the sudden wave of Chakra pass them and surround them, but also the Kazekage. "I can assume I won't be able to defeat the two of you.. To save everyone, I have developed this skill… It's a whirling motion that also slices. Right now it's around us, whirling and whirling, but in the meantime, it's growing smaller and it will eventually rip all of us apart."

"You'll kill yourself?" Dareda questioned.

The Kazekage nodded. "Yes, to prevent you from getting the our Hidden Scroll…"

Itachi shook his head. "How foolish… We will kill you here anyway and… we will get the Scroll as well.."

The Kazekage snorted. "You'll have to kill me and get passed my special Jutsu for that…"

"Senshin-Byakugan!!" Dareda suddenly yelled and looked straight at and through the Kazekage. "Damn, it's a shame you can't use the Mange Sharingan again, Itachi… This guy is pretty good.."

Itachi almost shrugged as he activated his Sharingan. "No matter.."

The Kazekage swallowed nervously. 'A Sharingan?! And a… weird looking Byakugan… Both are from Leaf Village, then. That must be Uchiha Itachi…'

Dareda suddenly began to sum up. "Ok, he's nervous now, clearly he now knows that we're pretty good.. A weakness of his… He does not have the body to be good in TaiJutsu. Which means this guy is probably very good at Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. The way for us to beat this guy is… for me to fight him.. Hyuga Style.. There won't be any openings to attack me, but with him there could very well be.. Attack when you can from a distance, Itachi."

Itachi nodded. This battle will not take long. The only problem was the surge of the deadly whirling Chakra around them. Would they have enough time after they defeat the Kazekage to be able to escape this whirl?

The Kazekage dodged all attacks Dareda threw at him and suddenly ran circles around Dareda very quickly, making Dareda spin and being lifted up in the air slightly. Dareda gritted his teeth as he tried to regain control of his body. With the way he was turning now, he had to spin the different direction to get out of it. "Kaiten!!"

Dareda landed on the ground again and immediately had to dodge the Kazekage's "Kaze Hejin!!" or Wind Blade. The wind and the Chakra that was put into the attack was meant to shred Dareda's body. A person without a Byakugan would not have been able to escape it, but Dareda had a Senshin-Byakugan and had made it look easy to evade it. He quickly yelled "Chakra Chuubu!!" as the Kazekage tried another Wind Blade. The Kazekage got punched in the stomach and grabbed by the neck by Dareda as soon as the Wind Blade got negated by Dareda's Chakra Paralysis. Dareda smirked as he yelled. "It's over… Tenketsu-Kaiten!!"

As the Kazekage fell at Dareda's feet, he got picked up again and Dareda did a combo using Gentle Fist, totally affecting the Kazekage's body. Itachi suddenly spoke up. "Dareda, his Maikiri is nearing…"

Dareda nodded and turned towards the Kazekage.. "Look good now, Kazekage, I'll show you a move that can deflect your special Jutsu…"

Itachi slowly walked towards Dareda, stepped up next to him and nodded. Dareda did a few hand seals. "Kaunta-Kaiten!!"

The Kazekage stared at Dareda's Jutsu with wide eyes. He was spinning, just like with the normal Kaiten, but he was actually pushing his deadly Chakra in his Maikiri back.. 'What.. That's impossible…'

Dareda stopped spinning as soon as the Maikiri faded away. "Heh, you underestimated us, even though you knew you would lose against us. That's pathetic.. My Kaunta-Kaiten uses with a counter-effect, while the user does not get any damage in. It uses up a lot of Chakra, but it gets the job done. I used the Chakra you used in your attack against your attack. Devious, is it not?"

"You will tell us where the Hidden Scroll is…" Itachi whispered as he began to walk towards the Kazekage…

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What a great mission it was. It was nothing compared to what he came to hear as he returned back in Leaf Village. He came back at the same time Jiraiya-sama, Gai Maito-san and Hatake Kakashi-san came back. Immediately, he came to know every Jounin, Chuunin and Genins weren't sent on missions anymore. It seems there was very important meeting in the Hokage Tower. So he followed Jiraiya, Kakashi and Gai to the Hokage Tower.

His own mission was nothing compared to this, Shigeru Sarutobi thought as the Hokage explained to all of them that the Akatsuki was making a great move and were collecting all of the Hidden Scrolls of all Countries… The Third Hokage, his uncle, who had deceased, told him about the Hidden Scrolls once and the myth it entailed. Surely, that story couldn't be a truth. At that time, he considered a story told by an old man, who once in a while spoke gibberish..

Yet here he came and saw the Fifth Hokage take the story serious. Her orders, grow stronger and prepare for the greatest battle ever… How odd, all she told us to do was… "Go train!"

Tsunade-sama stopped speaking and stared at all of us, I don't know how she does that. I looked everywhere in the room of the meeting and was amazed by all those serious looks. Even Jiraiya-sama, who was usually so aloof, was serious now. I saw Kakashi wasn't grabbing for Jiraiya-sama's book, which he always did on moments of silence. Well, what's a Jounin like me to do? I am a Sarutobi… and when this Village is in danger, I shall protect it with everything I can… I am a Genjutsu specialist, know my Ninjutsu well and have a few Kinjutsus to add to my collection. The first thing to do is make the biggest Genjutsu ever to surround our Village… Man, that will be so tiring…

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"Ne… what do you guys think about your old Village?" Naruto suddenly asked after a very long silence… "I know for a fact I hate mine, for hating me. Just to say, Neji, I will destroy the Leaf when the time comes…"

Gaara nodded. "The feeling is similar… My Village should pay for its ignorance. The only penalty is a stop to its existence."

Neji smiled. "I hold only a grudge against the Main Family of the Hyuga Clan… And since Dareda and Itachi almost killed all of them, as they stated, I don't really have a goal.. except to kill the remaining members of the Hyuga Main Family."

For some reason, Naruto thought about Hinata. "Hyuga.. Hinata.."

Neji looked from the corners of his eyes at Naruto. "Indeed… Hyuga Hinata.. She's probably the only one of the Main Family…."

Naruto gazed curiously at Neji, while Gaara trudged forward with his arms folded.

"I won't kill…" Neji said, finishing his previous sentence.

Gaara stopped walking. "I too will probably spare a few…"

Naruto grinned. 'Precious people?'

"My sister and my brother… they do not deserve to die…" Gaara stated as he resumed his walking again. Neji followed him. Naruto waited for a little while. "Who are my precious people?"

Sadly, the only image that flickered through his mind was.. Iruka-sensei..

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"We're here… Thunder Country.." Teri spat. "Seems like they have no idea what's going on. It's…. too… peaceful."

Orochimaru nodded his head with a grin plastered on his face. "Let's destroy its peace…"

Suddenly, they all felt two Shinobis approach them from behind. Sasuke, Kimimaro, Orochimaru, Hatsu and Teri turned around. To stand face to face with a male and a female…

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the headbands. 'Both are missing-nins from the Stone Village, it seems.'

"Hey there… Name's Takabashi Serra. Nice to meet you. All of you don't seem to carry headbands… Are you just regular villagers from the Cloud Village?" Serra said, but paused as she saw several weapons on Sasuke's leg and musical instruments tied behind Teri's belt.

"I am Takabashi Nakao.. Seems to me you are Shinobis… State your names and we'll fight." Nakao proposed. "Let's see if you guys can fight.. It's been a while since we had a good fight, ey, Serra?"

Serra shook her head. "We came for a specific reason… We don't have time to waste on these guys.."

Orochimaru chuckled. "Akatsuki, huh? You came for the Hidden Scroll, right?"

Both Serra and Nakao looked puzzled for a moment, but nodded.

Sasuke braced himself as did the others. "Well, let's see who'll get it…"

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TBC

Author's Note: I'll be posting the Jutsu List soon after I posted this one. Next chapter is an all out battle between Sasuke, Orochimaru and the others and the two new Characters! And it's a little more focused on Hinata's Chuunin team, Sakura, Ino, Kiba, Chouji and of course Hinata herself…