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A Naruto Fan-fiction Sequel from 'Hidden Spirits'
By: Climax
Disclaimer for ALL chapters: Do not and never own Naruto. Except this story plot, idea, and my own characters I create on this story.
Scroll 10: The Expectation of Evil
It was a dark forest. So dark until you can't see your fingers. Two people were speaking as if they had made the darkness their friend.
"You are taking so long. Why do you want us to wait the chuunin exam?" came a woman voice.
"Well," the other — this time a man, said, "actually I want to start it now."
"Why not? Don't screw around, I have enough screwing."
"Let's wait till he is alone…"
"My, my, don't want to attract attention, do we?"
"Shut up and wait."
"WHAT KIND OF FOOD IS THIS? YOU DON'T EXPECT A HUMAN WILL EAT THIS, DO YOU?"
And another plate was thrown.
This kind of situation had been repeated over and over in a short time of fifteen minutes. As Tsunade and Shikamaru expected, it was rare to have a shinobi with good cooking skill. Of course, mainly shinobis were thinking that this kind of skill was completely useless in battle. But that was in battle. And this situation was no battle that includes kunai, shuriken, or another weapons. This situation needed a good cooking skill plus poisoning skill.
And so, another one came…
"IDIOT! DON'T INSERT A SOLDIER PILL IN THE FOOD! IT'LL CAUSE A STOMACHACHE IF THE PILL MIXED WITH SOME FOOD ESSENCES THAT WON'T GO WELL WITH IT!"
…and another one thrown…
"What's this?"
For the first time, Shikamaru wasn't shouting. He stared at the weird food but somewhat pleasant smelling in front of him. The room immediately became silence as the maker of the food answered Shikamaru's question.
"It's snake. You've never seen it?" he said coldly.
"Not in this state. I pity it." Shikamaru said mockingly.
"I made this for you to eat and judge it. Not to pity it," said the maker.
"Fine. I'll eat it." Shikamaru shoved a fork of snake meat to his mouth. Everybody watched what was going to be his reaction.
"MY GOODNESS! SO DELICIOUS! THE MEAT IS VEEERRRRYYY SOFT!" sparks could be seen around him. It shocked everybody, including the ones that know that Shikamaru was the type of human that was too lazy to scream.
"I began to wonder if we can pass this test…" said Sakura as she watched how Shikamaru seemed to enjoy himself, both scolding and eating. She didn't notice that Naruto was holding his urge to pee until the blonde said it.
"Sakura, I'm going to the toilet! I'll be right back! I promise!"
"W-wait! NARUTO!" Too late. The blonde was out of the room.
"Hey, that's the fox kid," said a woman in black coat with red clouds excitedly.
His companion, a man, snickered. "Come on, stop joking. I know you are desperate to kidnap him and finished our job as fast as possible."
"I'm serious and you are not an idiot." She stopped for a moment. "Or are you?"
"You should wonder of how I could become an Akatsuki member if I were an idiot," said the man a little bit proudly.
"Whatever…"
"Aaah… how relieving…" said Naruto as he took a sit beside Sakura, "Is Shikamaru already tasted our food?" he asked.
Sakura, who had been grinning proudly, sighed, "You missed a veeerrrrryyy interesting moment, Naruto. You should see his face. How joyful it was to see it…"
Rhaera stared at her. "You are a sick minded bitch…"
Sakura, too happy to be angry, claimed, "And I'm proud of that."
The rest of the tests seemed ridiculous. After cooking test, here it was: battle strategy. Luckily the examiner wasn't Shikamaru. He may look lazy and idiot, but you can't underestimate his intelligence. Even a jounin like Asuma can't beat him (in chess of course). They barely survived the 'you must use your mind to pass this test' from the examiner from the… sand. He learned not to make a person from sand angry, knowing who the new Kazekage was. Too bad the panda eyed Kazekage was not here.
The third and the last (and FINALLY a straight looking test) was the one versus one battle. Wait, I took back my words. Team versus team battle, with no rules except don't kill and… you can't touch your opponents with or without weapon (you did it and your team lost). The thing they can rely on was their long ranged jutsu. And Rhaera was totally helpless since he only master taijutsu and archery skill. But the battle went out of control when they discovered something…
"You are not Naruto, are you?" asked the opponent.
"Huh? What do you mean?" asked Naruto innocently.
"The real Naruto, never has that killing aura you wear. Who are you?"
Naruto chuckled evilly. Now everybody went tense. Something was not right.
"Hmph, as you can expect from an Uchiha. You got good sight." Before anybody could register another shock the fake Naruto gave, the imposter's body exploded back into its original form. The imposter wasn't an Akatsuki member like everybody expected. It was a man with strange clothes. He wore a pair of light blue pleated pants, worn over a dark blue kimono (in short, the clothes called hakama). Of course, the so-called Hakama was never seen in Naruto world so it was foreign in their eyes.
The man tossed his long and dark grey hair cockily. "I don't know if ninjas are so dumb. Didn't notice how the precious Kyuubi was stolen under their nose."
Sakura went furious. "What? Aren't you a ninja too?" she actually very curious about the Kyuubi thing, but she restrained herself from asking for now.
The man chuckled. His brilliant red eyes were looking at Sakura with amusement. "You are a cute girl. But too bad, I'm not a ninja."
"EEHH? So you are an alien?" screamed Sakura with a clear sarcastic tone.
"He is an onmyouji."
Everybody turned to look to the speaker. It was Rhaera.
"A— what?"
"Onmyouji, a person who's training the art of nature and soul, a quack for the rude word," Rhaera explained plainly.
The man chuckled again. "You are right. But how do you know? No mere person could judge me as an onmyouji."
"It's easy. You bring a soul and that soul has been trying to possess me. Too bad for her, I'm an onmyouji too," said Rhaera as he pulled something from his pocket and threw it to his side. There was a yelp then a crash. Everybody turned to see what the cause was. It was a small girl with glowing body. Akaki.
"Ouucchh… it hurts… please take this charm off…" she pleaded. It was clear now of what Rhaera threw. A paper charm. And that charm was stuck on Akaki's forehead.
"I will. But mind if you tell me why you with this guy?" asked Rhaera. Everybody was too stunned to see a 'weird-glowing-girl-that-suddenly-appeared' to take a move.
Akaki began to sob. "He-he-heeee… HE KIDNAPPED ARSUNTA NEE-CHAN! WAAAAHHHH!" and she exploded to a loud crybaby. Everybody almost pitied her, almost because she was a weird living or not thing.
"And he threatened you?" asked Rhaera coldly.
She nodded and cried louder.
"Stop crying. There's no balloon here," said a very annoyed Sasuke coldly.
Akaki immediately stopped crying. She turned to face Sasuke (who didn't bother to cover his identity anymore) with a sour look on her face. "Shut up you little brat. Who do you think you are talking to?" she immediately sounded like an old hag in a sweet child voice.
"A big crybaby kid." Sasuke answered coldly.
Akaki pouted. "Why you— I'M NOT CRYBABY! AND I'M NOT A KID! I'M EIGHTY YEARS OLD!"
Now that was a shock.
Sasuke stared at her as if she had grown fifty legs. "You? Eighty?"
"Yes! Quite young am I?" she asked proudly.
The man tried his best to not to laugh while explaining, "In our terms, an eighty years old soul is equal to an eight years old kid."
"You don't have to explain that," hissed Akaki.
"Well then, the four Akatsuki members here, if you want any aid from us you are more than welcome to contact us," he said as he vanished in a ray of light.
"WAIT! What's with that anticlimactic departure of yours!" Sakura shouted.
"No. our trouble began here."
This is the last chapter of this story. I'm sorry for those who read this till the end. I have to do this again. There will be an AU after this with 'The Reason to Fight' title. It's the sequel. Thank you for the ones who kindly review me.
