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Well, I gots to say that the only person who reviewed my lovely story was Shang, and he knows he's my number one fan. In all honesty, I don't know why you won't review. It's absolutely free, it takes a total of 45 seconds, and it makes me so happy that I do a dance. I've gotten to where I enjoy the bad reviews too. So I declare, that the next person who isn't Shang that reviews me, I'll post up seven new chapters. I don't like the first part of the story as much as the second part anyway, so I rushed alot of what I did. I admit it's not that great, but now that I'm on my own without lord Kishimoto's help, I must say I'm doin fine. The poll for which babe Junichi gets. So far, only Shang sent in a vote...I'm pretty sure the point of a poll is for OPOSITION to have a chance! Anywaywho, on to the short dialogue between me and a fictional character. THEY review me all the time!
Saotome: What's kickin asshole?
Me: Don't call me an asshole or I'll expose your private life. I might even go so far as to tell them what happened between >>cough cough and >>cough cough while you were strung up in town square for all to see. And I'll also remind them how it didn't happen to you, and probably won't for a looooooooong time. Believe me, I can go into detail.
Saotome: cruel bastard...Just because me and Temari >>mumble mumble Doesn't mean it's my fault! It's all hers because she >>mumble mumble
Me: I know, I wrote it. Don't worry, seeings how you're like my favorite character and you're alot like me in many ways, I won't leave you hangin. You shall be rewarded with >>cough cough.
Temari: OVER MY DEAD BODY! YOU ARE >>while Temari beats us to a pulp, the censor had to cut in and edit ALL of her dialogue.
I don't own Naruto or the right to decide what Temari will or will not do in her free time. I am also here to say that I am not a sexist, and that I would never, ever, EVER, think about putting any of the women in this story in certain situations that certain females would take offense to. But there will be sex. Oooooh boy will there be sex. gets pummeled by Temari again
"Did you see that? He just freaking beat his ass into the ground! And his bloody corpse PUT ITSELF BACK TOGETHER. This guy has some serious issues. Like, no offense, Gaara-sized issues. In fact, he might be beating Gaara." Kankuro ranted on.
"Its true, most humans can't come back from the dead" Gaara stated calmly, not letting on how much even he was creeped out at the event "But some demons can, and I think that's what happened. He mentioned hearing demon voices to me but I thought he was just insane. To see it with my own eyes…this is truly something we need to treat with care."
"No way man." Saotome said with a hand on his head as he got up groggily "I don't know what happened because I was knocked out, but I think Junichi needs us now more than ever. If he truly does have demons messin' with his head, we need to help him keep it under control."
"Come to think of it, before Zabuza knocked me out, you looked a little strange too Saotome kun, your hair got longer and you had claws and you looked a lot like some sort of two legged wolf or something. Maybe Junichi did something to you and you didn't know it." Temari said uneasily. This whole thing was freaky.
"Did I howl? Did it sound like a wolf howling at the moon?" Saotome inquired inquisitively, showing that he wasn't telling everyone something.
"I … don't know. I passed out before I saw anything else. Why would you ask such a weird question?" Temari replied warily.
Saotome leaned up against a rock and rubbed his hand over his face with a sigh. "Sometimes I hear a wolf howling at the moon. I look around but I never find it. He seems to be real close to me but he's well hidden. One time I saw him though… Biggest wolf I've ever seen. He was almost as big as a horse, though not as tall. He looked at me for a second and then walked off. Zabuza said that I had a demon, but I didn't notice anything different, and I thought he was lying. I think that wolf did something to me, and maybe the same thing happened to Junichi!"
"Do you know of an animal with red eyes and pointy teeth?" Kanoe asked sarcastically "Make sure you add in the fact that it's almost too fast to be seen, can walk over water effortlessly, and is much stronger than normal humans."
"I heard a story once of such a creature." Ayane spoke up meekly "I think daddy called it a vampire. He said that it was a foreign creature that lived in distant lands. He said that it was like an evil shinobi, because it could walk on walls and water without using any chakra. It supposedly can turn into bats and mist and do many horrible things."
"What kind of horrible things can it do Ayane?" Gaara asked quite seriously, sure she had found what it was.
"Well, my daddy said they're dead, so they need to drink the blood of the living to survive, thus the fangs. He said they can make fire on command, make things float, and if they bite somebody, they turn into a walking corpse…and the only way to kill them is to stab them in the heart, or just destroy the heart altogether."
"Holy shit…" Kankuro said as he put his hands on his head in frustration "If he can do all that, we need to get the hell out of here! Junichi turning into some sort of…vampire! This is by far the freakiest thing I've ever seen, and I live with Gaara! Junichi is out drinking people's blood! He took Zabuza's sword, and he walked off and disappeared into the dark. I say, we leave him there and abort this mission on account of freakiness."
"No way loser! We don't abandon you because you wear weird make up and play with dolls!" Saotome said sternly as he stood up.
"You wanna take that back creep?" Kankuro threatened dangerously as he waved his fist.
"Shut up, both of you." Kanoe said calmly, causing everyone to get quiet and listen to her "We're going after Junichi. He will need our back up. Kankuro, you're able to leave if you want to but I will tell you right now, if you get caught in the tunnels, we wont help you."
Saotome nodded quietly and Kankuro crossed his arms. It was silently decided that he would go with them. Gathering up their supplies, they trudged on into the darkness after their comrade.
Junichi had to drag his way though the caves because of the weight of the sword. He thought about leaving it, but to leave such a treasure would be like throwing a diamond down a well.
The fight between him and Zabuza had been playing over and over in his head, as if it were some sort of broken record player. The truth was, he was scared. As a demon, he lusted for blood, longed to fight, wished for the kill…it was just all too much too soon.
His biggest fear was that he would lose his teammates trust. After such a sight, could he ever live like he used to? Sure it wasn't the glamour life, but it was human, which was now changed. He didn't want them to fear him anymore. At first he enjoyed toying with their minds, but now it was different. Now they had seen tough battles and bloodshed. Now they were bonded together. And Junichi would give the sword on his back and all the power he had to keep that bond intact.
The tunnel started to become more rounded, better made. In the far distance, he could make out a faint light coming from some unseen source. Junichi walked on with squinted eyes, trying to make out whatever it was. Somewhere along the way though, he found that his hair was standing on end. Something was wrong. Something was waiting for him. But even if he tried to turn around, Junichi knew he couldn't. He had to keep going, no matter what the cost, because something inside him felt compelled to enter this zone of evil.
It was a training dojo. It was roughly cut out of the stone, but it was the most modern thing down here. There were targets on the walls and training dummies on the ground. The source of light came from candles lit in strategic points around the area. Junichi surveyed the area carefully, trying to pinpoint the source of his uneasiness. As he looked, he noticed that the candles were slowly extinguishing themselves one by one in sporadic areas.
All at once, it was completely dark. Then all at once a giant bonfire exploded into flame in front of him. Junichi had to take a step back to shield his eyes and his skin from the blaze. The flames came from a pit dug out of the stone, nearly fourteen feet in diameter.
On the other side of the fire, was a man. He stood facing away from the flames. He was wearing no form of shirt, but around his waist he had what looked like the bottom half of a robe that was plain black, as if he was a samurai who couldn't find all of his clothes. His long white hair fell across his bare shoulder blades, and if not for his muscular build, one would think him a woman if looking from the back. He held his arms slightly out from his sides, his fingers flexed, like he was squeezing the life out of an unseen entity.
"Who are you, and why are you here?" Junichi asked warily. In his gut, he knew that this was the source of the evil that permeated even the rock walls around him. Something in his head was screaming at him to run, to flee, to escape this being forever. Something else hinted at an old familiarity. It was faint, but Junichi was almost certain he had somehow encountered this being, be it man or otherwise, before.
"Why Junichi kun…I'm hurt I truly am…you mean to say that you truly don't recognize me?" the being spoke, its tone noting it to be a human male of common descent.
"I'm sure I might be able to recognize you if you were to turn around so that I may see your face." Junichi said calmly even though his skin crawled.
"Polite, I'll give you that…don't know where you got it from, certainly not me…" the man laughed to himself as he turned around.
Junichi looked upon a man he had wanted to meet for so long, but now that the time was here, he was too scared to move. His jaw was covered by slight stubble, hinting that he was maybe about thirty or so. What was scary were his eyes. They were completely normal. No slits, no dojutsu, and no discolorations of any sort. They were black pools of endless depth. To some extent, they were calming. Just like going underwater and looking around at the tranquility, until you realize that you are sinking, and not coming out ever again and all you will ever know is darkness before you die. This is what his eyes were, and this is how he killed. In complete and utter darkness of the heart.
"I must say, my son, you've grown to be a fine man…and you've trained very hard." The man grinned evilly and open his hands in a sarcastic friendly gesture. "Sorry I had to leave you before I could see to raising you properly. You know how the whole get hunted by an entire village for you slightly unethical research thing is."
"I'm sure I don't understand such things." Junichi said coldly, his heart racing "I am sure that I will kill you for leaving me alone. Because you made the emptiness in my life and never bothered to fix it."
"Geez, I didn't know you would be such a baby about it!" The man exclaimed almost comically "C'mon! Look at how you turned out! You beat that Gaara boy without demons! That's no easy feat for one your age! So why are you whining?"
"Its not about strength! It's about people! It's about you leaving a little kid to fend for himself! It's about you making my life harder than it had to be!" Junichi yelled at him.
"Man, you are looking at this the wrong way. I really thought you would be smarter." The man rubbed his face and sighed, "You know I did what was best for you. Because of me, you are what you are. Sure you might be a little unhappy, but you don't get strength without costs! And you can't blame me because you never got any friends or anything. That was your fault."
Junichi gritted his teeth. His father was right. It had just been so easy to blame him… All his emptiness was his own fault, and he could blame nobody else. He had no reason to kill his father.
"But you should know, before you stop being angry that is, that I sacrificed your mothers soul to enter the demon realm." The man said with an evil grin.
Junichi lunged at him suddenly, pulling the sword off his back and slicing with all his might at his mother's murderer. The man caught the blade with his hand, just as Junichi had done, the attack not fazing him at all.
"I knew that would get the job done." He said with a grin "You know, I'm going to start my own village. The hiddenshadow village. It has a nice ring to it doesn't it. I take in all the nunekins I can, and soon I'll have enough to overrun even the larger villages, starting with the sand."
"I don't care! You gave my mother to demons in order to further your own ambitions! You don't deserve to live!" Junichi snarled at him with the highest form of hatred one can know.
"You are such a crybaby." Junichi's father said as he shook his head. Suddenly he kicked Junichi in the stomach, throwing him into the wall with such force, the entire wall cracked a little.
"Give this to your superiors, to show that you got the job done." The man said as he tossed him a forehead protector "And tell old professor that Kagame Kiske sends his regards to all of Kohona."
And with that he was gone. He merely wasn't there anymore. The last thing that Junichi remembered was hearing somebody shout. He thought he knew the voice, but didn't have time to think of such things as he slowly slipped away into the deadness of sleep.
Well, I hopes you like it. No preview because I'm slightly dissapointed in all of you. Not Shang, he gets candy and explosives. The rest of you get a previewless chapter. Hope you enjoy it NON-REVIEWERS