Reveries of Life, Love, and Revenge

A/N: Okay, well, I thought I was going to end the little character show-ups in the last chapter, but after I talked to the person who reviewed my fanfiction... I decided that I'll have another character! You'll meet her in a little bit. Also, in this chapter, I'll be sending in people such as Shikamaru to make relationships start. Oh, and Zeo will only be getting together with Shikamaru now, because the new character is going to get together with Gaara. WARNING: This chapter is intended to include blood and gore along with offensive language in it.

To Ana (It's late.... I forgot your whole pen-name): Well, here you go! I'm still trying to figure out what your little word means... Even though it IS part of your own vocabulary.

Legal Stuff/Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto in any way whatsoever. As I have said before, however, I do own Sasuke-kun. Why? Because I like him a lot.

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Chapter 4: The Bloody Battle! Enter! Delana!

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The whole area was silent. Even Naruto, who was always hyper and talkative, stood there without whispering a word. Showing off his stupidity, however, the leader of the medical unit broke the silence. "Now, ya gotta be kidding. There's only one of you and twelve of use. You don't stand a cha–" The miniture shuriken in which Niraku was holding between her fingers before was now lodged into the man's throat, not only causing sticky red blood to trickle out of his mouth, but also an instant death. He coughed continuously as if to trying and force the shuriken out of his mouth, but...

It didn't work. Either he'd die from blood loss or from the cold metal stuck in his throat.

Kakashi and the rest of the group stood there in awe. Mitsarugi, of course, was only slightly surprised. The woman was a hunter-nin, no doubt. Her accuracy was off the charts and the speed in which the weapons flew was amazing. It was almost as if... As if Mitsarugi had someone with the same statistical strengths, and finding someone as such was rare. But, this also didn't surprise Mitsarugi too much. The hunter-nin, after all, had appeared to be in her twenties. Someone around that age would have already had much experience, and probably had killed many missing-nins. This had appeared to be the matter for this woman's case. The eleven year old's fingers switched as she gathered her chakra together to make a bundle of barb-wire needles. Within seconds, she had the small, yet long weapons sitting right in her hands. Well, shall we test how good you are?... Not right now. I need to figure out your weak points....

"Oiiiiiiii!"

Every ninja in the premises were quiet, but their heads shot backwards to see who had suddenly screamed. Behind them was Gai and his students, Lee, Neji, and Ten-Ten. Tagging along with them were Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji. That's when their eyes met. Zeo's chocolate shaded eyes locked onto Shikamaru's dark ones temporarily, but she quickly looked away. There was something a bit different in this ninja than the others... but that was yet to be recognized. "Hehehe... Look! It's Sasuke-kun!" The blonde-haired female pounced onto Sasuke, causing him to twitch. How stupid was she?! Their opponent was standing RIGHT THERE, and she was POUNCING on him? Idiots. The whole lot of them... was all the raven-haired boy could think before he forcefully pushed the twelve year old off him. This took Ino by surprise, but her eyes were then quickly focused on Niraku. At that moment, she shut up, making no more attempts to make any physical contact with Sasuke. It was time to get serious, and so she did. It was time to show Sasuke what Ino could do.

"Well, if you all are done with your little reunion or whatever... come on out everybody."

On cue, a multitude of hunter-nins came out, including one... rather small one. By the size of the ninja, they had to be a girl... "We won't kill you all now." Niraku said in her low, feminine voice. "I want to toy with you all a bit... Especially you, Zeo. Have you told your little friends about your ability yet?" The area went quiet again, and the smallest hunter-nin snuck out of the area. What was she doing...? "I see you haven't. Well, since you're going to die anyway, they might as well know. Kiddos, this teenager over here... Zeo Faust? She has an advanced bloodline... one of the deadliest of them all. She can control natural disasters based on her emotions."

The white-haired Genin twitched a bit, then bit her tongue to the point in which she almost caused blood to flow. She could've told them herself... "Oh well. It's such a pity that her nice little ability will have to go to waste. Go ahead and kill them now." and with that, the woman situated herself onto the tree branch once more and sat, waiting for the slightest melt down to occur. Saying all that information in front of Zeo's friends had most likely plucked her last nerve. Well... if she used her skills... they'd get to see the horror and tragedy she'd caused before they died. "Zeo.." Mitsarugi had whispered to the fifteen year old in a comforting manner. "It doesn't matter about your abilities, now... Don't let her get to you. Right now, we all need to focus on defeating her, okay?" With a nod, the older ninja got into a ready position, a finger in the hole of her kunai. She threw the weapon, hitting one of the ninja guards in the middle of their neck. Now, knowing body parts as well as Mitsa did, she knew this would also cause a sudden death. And it did. The male hunter-nin fell to the ground with blood oozing out of his mouth and the wound. This sickened Alona a bit, but she managed to stay calm when her stomach jumped. She had never really liked violent scenes, anyway...

Nikko pushed up her spectacles and dodged a shuriken which was flying her way. It had cut the cloth of her shirt by a bit, but she didn't really get any injuries. Thank goodness for thick clothes... was all the fourteen year old could manage to think as she retaliated by throwing one of her weapons at the other ninja. As the cold metal got stuck in the hunter-nin's eye, he whelped out in pain. The metallic weapon was lodged deeply into the man's eye, cutting his cornea up pretty well. Had he survived that attack, the man would have been blinded in that eye for life. However, the shuriken Nikko had thrown hit him with too much force, causing him to die from shock. Well, at least he hadn't died from a bad wound. The adolescent smiled as she watched the man fall, then stopped. As she turned around, she was immediately hit by a mixture of shurikens and kunais...

"Um.... Excuse me."

Zeo and Mitsarugi looked downward at the person who was tugging at Zeo's clothing. They had their kunais raised, but she quickly lifted her hand and moved it in a motion as if to signify her saying, "Put them down..." They looked at the girl quizzically, but did so, allowing her to continue on. The hunter-nin took of her mask, revealing a female's face with violet eyes and black hair. "Listen, I'm here to help you. I'm Delana. That woman over there is Niraku... I disguised myself as a hunter-nin to figure out what Niraku and her boss are planning..." This, of course, was a suspicious. But, Delana was risking a lot to do this little 'role-play', so, they believed her. For now. "Alright Delana... We'll trust you for now. What can you do to help us out?" The small ninja smiled, her violet orbs glimmering with happiness. She took off the black cloak she had worn to disguise her curves, then put her jet-black hair into a pony-tail once more. "Okay. Niraku and his boss plan are working with Orochimaru." This last sentence struck both Mitsarugi and Zeo. But.. Wasn't Orochimaru dead?! "They really aren't going to kill you, you know." This comment was not only directed towards Zeo, but Mitsarugi as well. However, the eleven year old didn't notice that. "They're going to kill or knock your comrades out, then take you to see Orochimaru. He'll use you for some reason... probably for power, but I'm not entirely sure.

The two girls had to admit. Delana WAS giving them some vital information.

"F-fuck you, dammit!" A medical ninja cried out in pain as a fire jutsu scorched his skin, blackening the once pink flesh. However, his skin being burnt wasn't the only thing that was happening to him. Four hunter-nins had ganged up on the poor man, using their kunais to cut open his belly and take out organs. They were about to take out his lungs when... "S-stop it!" Just then, everything stopped. Well, at least for Mitsarugi. Zeo, Delana, even the hunter-nins were frozen. With that, the child walked forth and stuck kunais in each other the opposing ninja's heads. It had taken her by surprise, however, when no blood seeped out of their body parts .

...But as if on cue, the backs of the hunter-nins heads turned red as a thick, crimson liquid substance stained their skin.

"Ah, she's a keeper, too." Niraku commented to herself as she watched out in the distance. Gai and his students were stuck in her first trap. Simply put– They fell into a hole... that had poisonous snakes in it. "Gai-sensei! Shouldn't we just step on these snakes? They don't look harmful." With that, Ten-Ten elbowed the child with the thick eyebrows, sighing dramatically. "Of course not! You don't know whether they're poisonous or not! Besides, if we attack one, the others will come for us, and in this confined space... that wouldn't be good." Lee sighed at this knowledge. Always count on Ten-Ten, the weapon master to knock your thoughts out with a logical explanation of her own. Neji smirked, then continued to waddle carefully away from a snake that had been following him. What was he, some kind of chasing toy?! "HEY!" A familiar voice called. It was Kakashi. "Sasuke is going to throw down a rope now! Sakura and Naruto will pull you up one at a time after you tie the rope around yourself! Me and Sasuke will have to keep guard!" As so, they did the little rescue mission, ending up successful. Gai snarled to himself though, taking in the fact that his RIVAL had saved him and his students, along with Ino, Chouji, and Shikamaru. "How annoying..." was all Shikamaru could mutter after he had gotten out of the 'hell hole', which was what he referred it to.

Delana, Mitsarugi, and Zeo made their way over to a body. A body... that was amazingly familiar. Nikko. The fourteen year old was bleeding non-stop, her spectacles broken, glass shards probably stuck in her eyes from how it looked. Her arms were covered with gashes, and the same went for her legs. However, the wounds on her arms were way more serious.

Every single puncture point had been hit.

"N-Ni.... Nikko..." The eleven year old made her way over to her friend, frantically trying to pull out metallic pieces and other foreign bodies that were stuck into Nikko's skin. At this rate, Nikko was going to die from blood loss. "Move, please.." Mitsarugi didn't even turn her head, but she scooted over. She had only heard this voice once, but almost immediately, she knew Alona was there. It was just easy to tell... "...Hm. She's pretty beat up. I'm sure I can help her, but..." The red-haired teenager paused for a second, biting her bottom lip before speaking once more. "... She needs to be put in a hospital right away. The only problem is.... there isn't a hospital in miles. Nikko needs someone who knows advanced medical jutsus, and I know some like—" Mitsarugi grabbed Alona by her shirt collar, shaking her a bit. "Who?! Well, I don't care who they are, just go get them!" The fifteen year old was still a little dizzy from the forceful physical contact the eleven year old had just made. However, she nodded in reply, then took out a flute and began playing a calming melody that had sounded something similar to a lullaby. What is she doing...? It took about fifteen minutes to wait, but a person appeared. The person was a male, that was certain. He had silver hair that was pulled into a pony-tail in the back. But the most attractive thing about the teenager was his onyx-eyes that were gleaming through his circular spectacles. He moved towards the injured girl, but was mainly focused on Alona while he walked forth. "Yes, Alona?" His voice was so nice and sincere sounding that Mitsarugi could have swore it was a fake tone. Nobody could ever to manage a sound such as that. It just wasn't possible.

"This girl's friend is seriously hurt... can you take care of her, Kabuto?"

So, Kabuto is his name... The child of the group tried to smile as Kabuto nodded and made his way over to Nikko, working away at her injuries. However, as hard as those muscles tugged, a smile just couldn't appear on her face. "Can you all go somewhere for a bit?" All four of the girls agreed, then left the Genin to do his work.

"He's really nice." Delana commented, redoing her hair into a better braid. Her violet eyes scanned each one of the girls; Zeo was looking rather content, despite all the things that had happened today, Alona was still wearing her rather cheerful expression, but Mitsarugi had looked depressed. It was understandable, though. Her best friend was slaughtered, and as it seemed, the child didn't exactly have a multitude of friends. God, that had to suck. "Yes," Alona finally said in her kind voice to break the silence. "Kabuto is very nice. He never lets someone get hurt, or keep them hurt, for that matter." This last comment that she had said was mainly intended to calm Mitsarugi a bit, and it did. She felt a little more relieved, knowing Nikko was in good hands. "Why did you call.... Kabuto, was it? Yes, well, why did you call him?" Zeo had finally managed to ask, her semi-high pitched voice ringing through the air. "Well... He knows advanced jutsus. His adoptive father was a doctor and taught him everything he knew." That relieved the child even more. Now that she knew Kabuto's father was a doctor, she could trust him completely. There weren't any doubts about letting him be alone with Nikko now.

"I wonder what happened..." Kabuto muttered to himself, a green light emitting from his hand. As he touched Nikko's skin, the deep cuts immediately turned into superficial ones, allowing him to bandage the girl up afterwards. This wasn't a serious 'life-or-death' case, but had Alona stalled any longer... Just then, the fourteen year old twitched as her eyes slowly fluttered open. But they quickly stopped their frantic movements when her blue pupils scanned Kabuto. He's cute... "W-who are you..?" The silver Genin examined Nikko carefully, then let, "A friend of Alona's. She called me on behalf of one of your friends to help you out." Nikko paused for a moment, then slowly shook her head. "B-but... who ARE you?" The male ninja smiled, then spoke once more. "Call me Kabuto."

"How long have you known Kabuto, Alona? Oh, and how did you meet him?" The red-haired ninja felt a little uncomfortable being bombarded with questions, but she continued to answer. After all, this was helping Mitsarugi calm down. "Um... Ever since I was about... 6? Um, that's about nine years... and I met him while his dad came over to take a look at my mom. She was seriously sick, and Kabuto came over with his dad for some reason. He probably was examining the process of his fathers work to see what to do in a case like that." Delana smiled, imagining a little boy following his father around to learn how to become a doctor. That was cute little thing to think about, for sure. "Well," Zeo began, a smile planted on her face. "Kabuto can be trusted with Nikko, then."

"K-Kabuto, huh?" Nikko made a disgusted face in a playful manner. "And I thought my name was bad..." Kabuto's ears twitched at this last comment. He'd grown a sudden interest in this girl now, considering he HAD saved her from dying. "Well, what's your horrible name?" The Genins both smiled at the same time, and also, as oddly as it seemed, they pushed up their spectacles. "It's Nikko! So, well, I guess I better introduce my self properly... I'm Nikko, at your mercy!" At this, Kabuto began laughing, as did Nikko. They were going to get along well, that was for sure. He bandaged up the remainder of cuts, then put away his medical supplies. The ninjas smiled at each other, and both of them stood, heading towards Alona and her friends whom were huddled in a little area not too far away. Unbeknownst the Nikko, however... The smiles Kabuto were giving to her were fake, along with the facade he wore...

"Hey, look!" Delana pointed happily to Kabuto and Nikko, smiling. God, was she hyper... in a good way. Seeing the two ninjas made Mitsarugi happier than she had felt a little while ago. She stood along with Zeo, Alona, and Delana, then walked over to male and female ninjas. "Feeling better, Nikko?" the eleven year old queried, smiling grandly. Her icy blue eyes were filled with excitement, and that was visible. Just like Delana, her eyes were the place to look if you wanted to figure out her current emotions. There were some good and bad points about that, but when she was happy, Mitsarugi wanted the whole world to know.

And she wouldn't care.

"Yeah, all thanks to Kabuto." Nikko smiled at the silver haired Genin, and he also did so. However, he had to leave sooner or later. "Alona, I have to go finish my work at home. Make sure you get plenty of rest, Nikko, and don't strain yourself too much while fighting. In fact, when you get back, tell your sensei that you'll be unable to do anything for about a week. Just show her your bandages to clear it all out." And with that, Kabuto turned and left the girls on their own. "Ah... He's pretty cool... Hey! Look! It's Kakashi and Gai-sensei!" All five girls ran over to the teachers, explaining what happened to them with details. Of course, the two senseis understood.

"Well, we're glad you're okay, Nikko. Now, let's all go get some ramen!"

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A/N: Yeah, that was kind of icky. Don't blame me, there really wasn't that much to write about... but I promise the next one will be better. Hopefully I can start relationships soon…. Although Alona can't meet Itachi yet, so the couples won't be completed for awhile. Zeo and Shikamaru will most likely get together soon, and the same for Mitsarugi and Sasuke…. But not TOO soon. I mean, we ARE dealing with the famous Sasuke Uchiha here.

To Ana: There's Delana for you! I hope you like her!