HIIIIIIDY HO! It's me, your beloved and incredibly good looking fanfiction author!
First of- REVIEW MORTALS! Second off-If you did review, thank you. You make me more whole.
ANNOUNCEMENT THING- Allright people, I have most of the pairings hammered out already except for none other than good old Junichi! I'm going to let you choose between three, count 'em, three choices.You can either pair him up with another Oc, which I already have made up just in case, Ayane, or Sakura! That's right, nowyour reviews can have even more meaning than they already do! I also hope you liked the little preview I gave you. It's hard to find previews that don't give away too much of the story. I'll keep hammerin away at it though.
Saotome: I'd like to say that the author isn't that good looking. He lies a lot. He also doesn't own Naruto, contrary to popular belief. In fact, you should send all your hate mail straight to our lying author, because there aren't enough incredibly hot babes that are interested in me in this story.
Temari: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?
Saotome: I was talking about...how pretty you are?
Me: And so Saotome ended up strung up in town square for all to see. It wasn't for the first time either mind you. Well, on to the story. REVIEW!
"I would rethink if I were you." Zabuza cackled as he motioned towards Saotome and Temari who were stuck to the wall behind him with kunai "You see, if you make one wrong move, your friends die."
"Damn you Zabuza, damn you to hell" Junichi murmured through gritted teeth "To think you would stoop to such cowardly tactics as to take captives like this. I had pegged you as higher, but I guess I was wrong."
"I am Shinobi boy." Zabuza laughed wickedly "In our world, the mission getting done is first hand. And my mission is to kill you and your little friends!"
Zabuza rushed forward with incredible speed. Junichi threw a chakra blast at him and dodged to the side, pulling out his fuuma shuriken. Zabuza flipped around and swung across at him. Junichi caught the blade with one fuuma shuriken and guided it away from his body while the other was aimed at cutting off Zabuza's head. Zabuza chuckled as he dodged the swing and kicked Junichi in the stomach, sending him flying into a stalagmite before falling to the ground.
"Damn…" Junichi muttered as he slowly got up. As he did so, Zabuza stood over him and looked down with killing intent shining in his eyes. The jounin picked up Junichi and threw him into another rock formation. And thus, continued this cycle for a long time, until Junichi was bloody and bruised beyond measure.
Junichi stood up weakly and looked at his opponent. He had overestimated his own abilities and had gone right into his enemy's clutches. Looking back he knew he was a fool for coming. The speech he had given Eva was nothing but his own stupidity showing. Even as he knew this, he looked at Zabuza and, deciding his number was up anyway, ran at the laughing mist nin with his useable arm holding a fuuma shuriken.
Zabuza grinned under the bandages over his mouth. This kid had real potential, but he would never make it. As Junichi neared, Zabuza sliced his right arm off and stepped to the side, only to slice Junichi's left arm off using the momentum from the first swing. Then using one quick swipe, he cut Junichi's torso from his legs, making a bloody mess on the ground.
"It appears you were nothing more than an average genin after all" Zabuza crowed at his fallen opponent. He began walking toward the tunnels to finish off the rest when his sword was yanked from his grasp all of the sudden. He wheeled around and saw a very serious looking Kanoe standing, seemingly, in midair holding his sword.
"You killed my genin" Kanoe said simply, her quiet tone dripping with malice "For this, I will kill you now Momochi Zabuza, demon of the mist."
"You're the fool who sent these children in here." Zabuza said as he pointed at her "You should know better. You risked the lives of your students and you paid the price for one. Now, if you think you can take me, come and try your luck."
Kanoe jumped down and rushed him. Zabuza expected such brashness from a genin, but a jounin? No. She was using some sort of illusion. He guessed right as he felt wires start to move around his feet. He leapt over the clone Kanoe and landed neatly on the water, similar to his fight with Kakashi, causing the mist to rolled in.
Kanoe used the mist to her advantage and began setting up traps, making sure Zabuza's sword was still attached to the string on her left ring finger. She moved about the mist with a jounin's grace. She began to leap back into her hiding place when something punched her in the face and sent a numbing sensation all throughout her head due to the power.
As if some ancient form of evil were attacking her, Zabuza stepped through the mist, which parted enough for her to see him. He stood there smugly, so sure of victory. He took one step forward, which was a fatal mistake though, and a barrage of kunai flew at him.
Zabuza jumped backward and in the process, set off a stalagmite to fall on him. Zabuza had to jump to the side quickly, this time having to avoid cutting wires that were dangerously close to turning him into a much shorter assassin. He managed to catch his breath for a second when he felt something punch him in the face. He stepped back and almost immediately felt the kunai and shuriken dig into his back and arms.
"And so ends the demon Zabuza." Kanoe said with a grin as she began to pull wires around his body "Like I said, I will take your life, and you will pay for Junichi's death."
Just as she cut him apart, the body turned to water and splashed onto the ground. Then, all of her wires went slack at once. Then she saw him, shrugging off the blades in his back and wielding his behemoth sword like a katana.
"How were you able to escape and get your sword without me knowing?" Kanoe demanded shakily. She hadn't seen this one coming at all.
"You got me with that last trap and I'll give you credit for that" Zabuza explained "But before I let the mist up, I created a clone and meanwhile used my real self to switch out my sword with a rock in henge as my sword so there would be no chance of you catching it. After that, it was simple to eliminate all of your strings with one single sword swing. Oh, and did I mention that I'm just a clone, and the real Zabuza is behind you."
The Zabuza in front of her turned into water and fell on the ground. Kanoe looked behind her just in time to see what looked like a water tornado rush at her and hit her squarely into the hard cave wall. Her last sight was Zabuza cackling in laughter before she fainted.
Zabuza was having a good day. He had expected there to be heavier opposition but was terribly mistaken. He would have to trust his employer's judgement more often. He put his sword on his back and was about to walk into the tunnels when a chill shot up his spine, something very foreign to him.
Zabuza turned around slowly and saw the bloody pile of Junichi. At first it looked normal but then the pile started to put itself back together. In the order that he separated them, the appendages attached themselves back to the torso. Zabuza could only stare on in horror as the body picked itself back up and looked at him with deep red eyes and enlarged canines.
"Aaahhh….Zabuza…" Junichi said with a foreign accent as his wounds healed themselves "You did good, but when dealing with ancient demons, you need to know more about what you're doing. That was a fine job for humans, but a vampire…well, lets just say you came up short."
Zabuza pulled his sword off his back and quickly sliced off Junichi's arm above the elbow. Junichi stood there calmly and watched as his severed limb didn't even hit the ground, but turned into a reddish substance that reattached itself to his body. Junichi looked up at Zabuza and grinned evilly. Suddenly he punched him in the chest. Zabuza was sent across the cave and into a wall, leaving a small crater.
Zabuza got up slowly, knowing that he had several broken limbs and a dislocated shoulder. He quickly snapped the shoulder back into place without even thinking about it and went back to his assault on Junichi. The boy elegantly danced around the mist jounin's blade, laughing the entire time. Finally, Zabuza yelled in anger and brought the sword down on the laughing demon child. Junichi caught the sword with his bare hand and looked Zabuza in the eyes.
"There are demons inside us all Zabuza," Junichi said with an eerie calm about him "But yours haven't awakened enough to destroy me yet."
Junichi wrenched took his free hand and punched Zabuza in the chest again, sending him sailing. This time, it was all Zabuza could do to lean up on his sword as he coughed up blood. He looked up with fear in his eyes. The same fear he saw in all of his prey before he died. He saw the boy walking towards him, not making ripples in the water as he did so, nor making a reflection in the same water he walked over effortlessly.
"Go ahead and kill me" Zabuza said weakly, knowing that one more punch to the chest would almost completely destroy his rib cage "Just get it over with. I would do the same for you, and did in fact, if I do so recall."
Junichi stared at him for a second, then the red hue left his eyes and his teeth returned to normal on the spot, leaving him once again, the master ninjutsu specialist genin of Kohona. With a sudden movement, he grabbed Zabuza's sword out from under him
"This sword will do." Junichi said as he worked to lift the blade and examine it "I think with proper training, I should be able to use it proficiently."
With that said, Junichi preformed a quick healing jutsu he had picked up because he thought it might be useful…and he had nothing better to do at the time, and used it to heal up Zabuza's wounds the best he could, which wasn't great. With rest though, Zabuza would be back to normal.
"What the hell are you doing kid?" Zabuza inquired almost angrily "You're supposed to kill me and send my corpse to my master to show that you beat me, take my hitae-ate and continue your mission."
"I'll take this sword." Junichi said simply as he stared down at the man unemotionally "I read somewhere that a warrior's sword is his soul. I am taking your soul, and with it, I shall become more powerful. You can keep your life. I have no use for it."
Junichi looked at the tunnels as Kankuro, Gaara, and Ayane came out slowly. They had seen the entire battle while hiding. He looked from their stares, or actually Kankuro and Ayane's stares because Gaara looked on blankly as always, and then looked at the unconscious Temari and Saotome. Without a second look, he walked on into the only exit from this room and left everyone behind him to recuperate. He knew they wouldn't want him around after such a display.
"I am now a monster. There is no way anyone will ever except me again after seeing that." Junichi told himself as he walked down the dark corridor heaving the soul of his enemy on his back awkwardly. He truly believe that nothing would ever be the same with himself and his teammates ever again, but the only thing left to do was to plunge into the darkness he had opened.
Allright, review responses and a preview:
Shang: Don't even go there with me because I have sooo many chances where I could give you even worse cliffhangers and didn't. You should be thanking me for my kindness really. Hope you like the story.
VarianFAWKES: Allright dude, I gotta say that had you gone past the first chapter you would have seen them interact with the other "real charectures" and conflict with them as well. Of course I hope you kept on reading and whatnot, and if you didn't, I hope you enjoyed the first "chaeptar".
THE FREAKIN PREVIEW!
"Stand down Lee, fighting now would be foolish" Saotome said with a grin "you can kick his ass later dude. You got all the time in the world."
"BUT I MUST SEE IF THE FIRE OF YOUTH BURNS WITHIN HIM!" The creature called Lee shouted.
"Dude I told you to cut that crap out. I also told you that youth doesn't burn, it lightly chills if you're any good at it." Saotome said, though few people knew what he was talking about "You know what Gai sensei would do if he caught you trying to kick everybody's ass? He would deck you. Lay you out flat man, he could snatch your ass in a bear trap for all we know, that guy is crazy."
"GAI SENSEI IS THE GREATEST! IF HE WERE TO DECK ME I'M SURE I WOULD DESERVE IT!" Lee yelled crazily.
"If you don't stop being annoying I'LL deck you." Saotome said, "Don't make me pull out my skills on you, cause you know I will. Like that one time I tied you up and messed with your hair. You looked like an electroshock victim."
"AS ALWAYS YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM RING TRUE!" Lee continued yelling, and now tears were streaming down his face "ONE DAY I WISH TO BE AS WISE AS YOU SAOTOME!"
Then there was hugging. It was by far the strangest thing anybody had seen. Junichi was seriously thinking about taking a kunai to the temple and just forget everything. Many other people had the same thought.
Rock on and review. I'm out!