I'M BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!
Hey guys, I know you missed me in my short term of absence, but it seems there were some problems regarding my parents and my computer. You know how it is...At any rate, I plan to answer some, if not all of my reviews from when I was away.
NOTE YOU MIGHT JUST HAPPEN TO BE INTERESTED IN: From now on, my updates will be much further apart, due to some errors with the Sasori v Sakura fight, and another story I've begun writing. The point is, I might not update exactly when you want, which is pretty okay, seeing how most of you don't review when I want. Of course there are those glimmering exceptions that I look forward to so much...but enough of that.
Also know that I pretty much hated this entire chapter. I put it in because I thougth I needed it, but I think it just sucks...be gentle with the reviews please.
I dont' own Naruto...suddenly gets beaten to a pulp by Temari with her head shaved bald
Everybody was working extra hard to help restore Kohona to it's original state. Training was being forsaken for extra missions, except Junichi, who was taking extra missions and keeping up his training. He was a chuunin now, no doubt because of his expertise in ninjutsu. Saotome probably slipped by because he was able to stay calm and he noticed things easily. Shikimaru was just a freakin genius, so he naturally got in.
Junichi was out back training, and didn't even notice Naruto walk up. He wasn't doing flight training this time, but was apparently practicing a new jutsu, or an old one… nobody really knew.
"Hey Junichi! Guess what!" Naruto yelled, startling the crap out of Junichi who was, once again, shirtless.
"Naruto…" Junichi said with a sigh "Don't sneak up on me like that, I'm bound to get startled and accidentally kill you one day."
"Um…ok…" Naruto said, not really understanding what he was saying, but going back to his original point nonetheless "Me and Ero-sennin are going to talk to the next hokage and he's going to train me on the way!"
"That's great." Junichi said, knowing full well who ero-sennin was "Do you think you'll be able to beat me with you get back?"
"That's the great part!" Naruto said, literally bouncing up and down with excitement "Ero-sennin said you could come too! We're gonna get super training!"
"Wow…" said Junichi, not really knowing what to say. Training with the legendary Jiraiya wasn't something one took lightly "When do we leave?"
"We leave tomorrow! I'm gonna get so strong and finally be able to beat Sasuke once and for all!" Naruto yelled.
"Well don't count your chickens before they hatch." Junichi said with a small grin "I'll go ahead and finish up training before I go an pack. I guess I'll see you tomorrow."
Naruto had ran off, overly exited about his new training. Junichi wondered why he was being taken along though. He knew that Jiraiya accepted Naruto as a pupil partly because of the Kyuubi, and partly because of the fact that he was a screw up. Junichi was different though…wasn't he?
"Hey kid." Zabuza grunted as Junichi walked in through the back door "What were you doing today."
"Wondering why you still don't wear a shirt." Junichi said with a grin as he went to his room and packed. He and Zabuza had lived together for about a week. Both of them were on well enough terms, but both were often out. It's not like it mattered anyways. Zabuza was just there until he could get his own place.
The next morning, Junichi met up with Naruto and Jiraiya by the gate with a bag slung over his shoulder. Naruto was bouncing around and Jiraiya was trying to keep him under control, a task that was easier said than done.
"Yo." Junichi said calmly as he walked up "I'm here and I'm on time. Where are we going?"
"We'll be going to a nearby town to search for a woman named Tsunade." Jiraiya said, giving up on calming down Naruto "I expect we'll be gone for two weeks tops. You can thank me later."
"Why would I thank you?" Junichi asked calmly "You wouldn't have invited me if you didn't want me here. Why should I thank you for something you would have done had I wanted to come or not?"
"True." Jiraiya said with a grin "And I also bet you think there's some special reason you're here."
"Yep." Junichi said simply, as he stared at the tall white-haired man in front of him. Of all the people, Jiraiya certainly didn't act like a sennin. He was more like a big kid, which was pretty funny so Junichi didn't mind.
They walked on for a couple of days, going through forests and finally coming to a village. There seemed to be some sort of festival going on as the trio entered, making it harder to find a single person. All around them people were enjoying the festival atmosphere, playing games, and buying things like happy normal people without a care in the world.
"Allright! Now's the time to break out the old life savings!" Naruto yelled excitedly as he took out a frog wallet.
"Just one second Naruto. I should hang on to most of that money for you." Jiraiya said, taking Naruto's money and handing him back thirty dollars. "Spending money is one of the three sins which shinobi must never commit after all."
"Three sins?" Naruto asked questioningly "What are the other two sins and why do you think that allows you to hold my money?"
"The three sins are spending money, chasing women, and drinking. Shinobi must never commit these sins. I can hold your money because I have more self-control than you do. Now Junichi, hand me your money too so I can watch it for you." Jiraiya said informatively.
"I didn't bring any money." Junichi said with a grin and a shrug "I didn't think I would need it considering this IS a mission we're on, not a vacation."
"Ah…very well then. Naruto, you should be more like Junichi, always down to business." Jiraiya said as he wandered off with Naruto's wallet, knowing Junichi was onto him.
"Naruto, don't believe a word he says." Junichi said to Naruto as they began walking along "There are no three sins, he just tricked you into taking your money."
"WHAT!" Naruto yelled, enraged at being tricked "He tricked me! And you let him do it!"
"I thought it would be a good lesson for you." Junichi said with a shrug "If you want, I'll compensate you."
"Wha-" Naruto started before a hundred bucks was pressed into his hand "I thought you said you didn't bring any money."
"I lied so Jiraiya wouldn't get any from me. I'm not compensating all your money because you failed the lesson and lost it of your own stupidity. Call that money pity cash." Junichi said with a grin.
"Don't call me stupid stupid!" Naruto yelled at him. If it was one thing Naruto hated, it was being looked down upon.
"Don't lose all your money to a lying old pervert. Now lets go and have some fun." Junichi said, walking off with a grin.
They walked around for several hours doing a few things here and there. Naruto signed himself and Junichi up to a ramen eating contest without telling Junichi. Naruto won first prize, with Junichi coming in second, to everybody's surprise. Junichi shrugged it off like it was nothing, but both boys knew demon hunger was a powerful thing, even if the demon did have more…exotic tastes.
Naruto walked in with some kalamari for Jiraiya with Junichi behind him to find the pervert sennin laying in a bed with two women hanging all over him. On a table was Naruto's empty wallet.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Naruto yelled at the sennin as he tried to throw a kalamari at him, only to find Jiraiya dodge the food and let it hit a man walking by.
"Hey, this is a designer coat!" The man yelled "In compensation pay 100000 yen and I'll let you guys walk away with your faces arranged properly."
"100000? I wouldn't have even payed 10 for a coat like that. It is quite possibly the most dysfunctional article of clothing I have ever seen in my years." Junichi said as he scratched the back of his head.
Then in a whirl of motion, the man lunged at them. Jiraiya jumped in the way however with something in his hand and sent the man spinning away rapidly straight into a cart of water balloons.
Jiraiya picked up a couple of balloons and beckoned for both boys to follow him. The walked until they reached the outskirts of town. He then stood in front of both boys and held a water balloon out in his hand.
"Allright, did the two of you see the attack I used before? Well we're going to learn that technique." Jiraiya said, sounding very serious and informative.
"WOW! This is gonna be so awesome!" Naruto yelled as he jumped into the air excitedly.
"It was an interesting technique. I hope you understand I'll have to modify it for my own tastes." Junichi said blandly, though on the inside he was just as excited as Naruto.
"First off, we have to make chakra spin in your hand. Watch." Jiraiya said. At that moment the water balloon got all deformed and exploded "If you concentrate your chakra into the water balloon, it'll spin the water around inside and explode."
Naruto and Junichi each took a water balloon and began training. At first, Junichi simply watched Naruto for a time. Then he walked off, preferring to train by himself. Naruto trained constantly, but his chakra was only going in one direction, making the balloon become flat. Junichi was having similar problems. When holding the ball in one hand, it would make the ball turn into an arc instead of deforming like it should.
Two days later, Naruto and Junichi walked into their small rented apartment and woke a sleeping Jiraiya. The sennin didn't seem very happy to be awoken, but he got up anyway. Naruto stepped forward first to show his instructor how much he had progressed. He held the balloon in his left hand and moved his right hand over it repeatedly, causing the balloon to deform and explode.
"I got the idea from a cat. He bounced the ball with his front paws over and over, and I thought, if I moved my hand over it repeatedly, it might achieve the same affect and make the water spin inside!" Naruto said triumphantly.
"Interesting theory. Junichi, I'm sure you wouldn't be here if you hadn't completed the task as well." Jiraiya said thoughtfully.
Junichi stood in front of him and cupped the ball in both hands. In a few second the ball exploded, dripping water all over the place.
"I had the same problem, except my chakra was causing the balloon to turn into an arch." Junichi explained simply "When I put both hand on it and concentrated chakra evenly through both however, the balloon achieved the same affect as you got."
"Good, both of you. You did better than I expected, but the next step is the hard part." Jiraiya said, getting up slowly and handing them both a rubber ball. "This time, you need to do the same thing, except that it's at least a hundred times harder than the water balloon."
Naruto quickly put his hands on the ball and tried. It deformed slightly but resumed its normal shape almost immediately. Both boys looked at Jiraiya and went off to train. Both boys separated almost immediately and didn't see each other at all while training.
The next day, Naruto managed to put a hole in the balloon and deflate it. Jiraiya had happened to be watching and congratulated him accordingly.
"You've come a long way from when you started." Jiraiya said as he drew a small mark on Naruto's hand. "By the way, have you seen Junichi?"
"No I haven't. I thought he would have reported in because he finished already." Naruto said incredulously.
Jiraiya wondered off while Naruto continued to train. Three days later, this was proving to be the hardest training Naruto had ever done. He found that the more chakra he put in, the more his hands felt like they were on fire. He thought back to the time when Iruka had told him about leaf training. With newfound enthusiasm, Naruto pushed all his chakra into the ball suddenly, causing it to explode and send him flying right at Jiraiya's feet with burns on his hand.
Junichi sat a couple of miles away in the same state. He lay against a tree with burns on both hands. They had both discovered the secret but Junichi was going to take it a step further. He knew that individually, each step was useless. He would have to combine them to make an attack. But, true to his word, Junichi already had the alterations in mind. He got up slowly, trying not to use his hands to pick himself up and trained for the next week .
Jiraiya and Naruto had already met up with Tsunade and her assistant Shizune, already gave her the offer, and had just found out that Orochimaru was about, without any word from Junichi. Everybody was frantic, trying to find Tsunade before she could heal the snake sennin's arms for him. Tsunade had a good heart, but couldn't handle loss very well apparently. Tsunade took the opportunity to try and kill Orochimaru, but he got away, and the battle escalated on the outskirts of town.
Junichi stood on a ledge looking down at his friends and their current state. Tsunade was heavily injured, Jiraiya was disoriented, Shizune was trying to do something, Naruto was standing alone against the guy with the cards from the chuunin exam. It was not a good situation. When he saw that Naruto needed help, Junichi jumped down, letting the energy gather in his hands as he landed behind Kabuto. The traitorous shinobi turned around just when Junichi's hands flew open and a beam of energy flew from them, sending Kabuto spinning away madly.
"Junichi! When the hell did you plan on showing up!" Naruto yelled, shocked to find Junichi fall on the ground in front of him, clearly drained.
Junichi crawled over to Tsunade and Naruto with his hands bleeding badly. He ignored Naruto trying to help him and kneeled in front of Tsunade in a strange manner.
"Tsunade…" He panted out, not noticing her trembling and staring at his bleeding hands "I am Junichi…chuunin of Kohona…at your service…"
"What are you doing! Why are your hands like that!" Naruto yelled at him, knowing Tsunade was afraid of blood.
"Training…" Junichi said with a grin as he slowly stood up and faced his opponent "Does anybody have any bandages on them?"
Shizune slowly walked over to him, and looked at his hands. They looked like they had been burned and partially crushed. Blood was seeping out through several holes and the skin that wasn't bleeding was burnt. She tried to cover them the best she could trying to stop Tsunade from trembling. Junichi looked down at her, and then at his hands for a second.
"You're afraid of blood?" He asked slowly, starting to realize why she wasn't speaking. Slowly he bent down to her at eye level. He could tell she was scared. It was part of the predator in him that knew such things. In a flash of motion he took out a kunai and gashed his arm with it. Shizune immediately tried to pull him away but he held firm, holding his arm out to her slowly.
"This is the most precious substance in the world." Junichi said slowly. He was way too much vampire to let somebody afraid of blood go uncured "This is the nectar of life. This is what people shed when they die for a just cause."
Tsunade closed her eyes, her memories of her dead brother and boyfriend coming back freshly, cutting her deep and causing tears to well up in her eyes.
"No!" he yelled suddenly, his voice becoming very stern "Don't shut this out! This is the sign of greatness, this is what gives us honor. Any person who is willing to sacrifice his life for a cause will fight until there is not a drop of this left in his body! We spill blood because of our love of our people and our families! If we fear this, then we fear loss, and if we fear loss, we can never truly gain anything in return!"
Tsunade clenched her eyes closed, still trying her best to block him out. If she saw the blood, she saw her dying loved ones, if she saw them, she felt like dying. She didn't want to remember them. She wanted to forget that they ever existed, letting the blood and the tears go away with them. She heard a noise in front of her and opened her eyes to see the white haired boy walking slowly towards Orochimaru with a kunai in his hand.
"What do you think you're doing!" Naruto yelled at him "We have to attack him together!"
Junichi walked on, straight forward as Orochimaru's snakelike tongue suddenly shot out at him. He dodged to the right and was about plunge the Kunai straight into the man when he felt something pierce his stomach again. It was that demonic tongue that had gone straight through him, now letting a sword out of it's mouth, which Orochimaru used to slash Junichi across the chest in the exact same way he did before, kicking Junichi straight back to his allies.
To everyone's surprise he got up again, his face perfectly serene as he walked at him again. This time Orochimaru made long gashes across his arms and kicked him again, this time right in front of Tsunade. Junichi stood up again, letting blood drip everywhere.
"Foolish boy!" Orochimaru spat as he cut his legs this time "You stand no chance against me, why don't you just give up!"
"I…will never give up you son of a bitch…" Junichi said as he crawled back to Orochimaru, getting stabbed in each hand and his cheeks getting gashed. He was once again kicked back.
"I will never…give up…because I can't…die…" Junichi said slowly as he summoned the last of his strength and stood up as best as his torn body would allow. "As long as…I still have blood…I can never die."
"Stop it! You're going to kill yourself!" Tsunade yelled at him, tears running freely down her face as she saw a boy tear himself apart in front of her.
"That's just it…I can't stop…" he said, turning around to her "If we forsake blood…then we forsake everything we believe in…I don't know who you lost…but being afraid of blood… is being afraid…of them…don't fear that…which you love…"
"I've had enough of this boy!" Orochimaru yelled as his neck extended and bit Junichi right on the neck.
"No!" Tsunade screamed, reaching out for Junichi's body. Naruto ran forward, but was slashed across the chest and stomach, causing him to collapse. Junichi's body was tossed into the air and let to hit the ground with a loud thud.
Junichi didn't get up this time. He didn't move, he didn't talk, he barely breathed. Slowly Tsunade crawled over to him.
"Why are you doing this? Why are you trying to help me?" She asked, letting her tears fall upon his bloody body.
"Because…I cannot…save them…not…strong enough…yet…" He panted, coughing up blood as he did so "You…can…help them…I can….only…help you…"
"But why would you do all this! How is this going to help me! Who the hell are you !" Tsunade cried angrily at him, her tears washing away his face.
"I…Junichi…you…Tsunade…we…shinobi…blood is…our…way of…life…without it…we…become…nothing…" Junichi said slowly as he passed out.
Tsunade cried her last tears before suddenly standing up. She quickly wiped her eyes and stared at Orochimaru with hatred in her eyes. She looked down at the boy who believed in blood and shed his own without thought of consequence. In him she saw the strength of her loved ones she had known. They had died in blood. But this boy said it was because of that, that they were great. Because of their blood, they became more than ordinary humans. They had lived and died like shinobi.
Junichi woke up on a raised platform in the moonlight, totally unharmed. His vampiric demons had taken hold of his body and healed him. He would live again. He vividly remembered the crying woman named Tsunade that had been afraid of blood. His only hope was that she now could look at blood in a different perspective, and rise up to take the title of hokage, which his people needed dearly.
"You're finally awake." A voice said to the side of him. He turned to find Tsunade standing there, watching him intently "Naruto told me about your vampire demon and also told me how to heal you."
"What happened? Where did Orochimaru go?" Junichi said quickly, hoping he wasn't still in danger.
"We defeated him, thanks to you." Tsunade said calmly, still staring at him "You helped me overcome my fear with your strength."
"I did nothing." Junichi said suddenly as he got up and walked past her "You were the one with the mental battle."
"Thank you." She said, suddenly catching him and kissing his forehead and then embracing him "Thank you for saving me from myself."
"You shouldn't thank me." He said as she pulled away from him "It is my duty as a shinobi to help out my comrades, be they a sennin or a gennin. I only did what needed to be done, nothing more and nothing less."
With that he walked off into the apartment, greeted by cheers from everyone. Tsunade sat on the balcony and gazed up at the moon. What an interesting kid he was, she thought. With his strength, he very well might just be immortal for all she knew.
"Hey, Junichi san…" Naruto said as he sat on a stump behind Junichi's house the day they got back "What was that technique you used to take down Kabuto?"
"It was the same technique you use really." Junichi said with a shrug. Everything had been taken care of and now he was back to training "I did all the same steps until the third step, which I found out on my own. Once I completed the regular rasengan, I took the ball of chakra and compressed it greatly, which explains why my hands looked like they were crushed. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, and even longer to release it. I had to make up a whole new technique to do that. I coated my hands with chakra in the instant that the compressed chakra blew and made a shield, forcing it into a one-direction beam. It's really two techniques in one."
"Wow…I would have never thought to do something like that. You really are a ninjutsu genius. I just need help with my demon chakra training and I'll be able to beat you though." Naruto said with a grin.
"You do have the more powerful demon, he just chooses his battles carefully." Junichi said as he leaned against a tree "My demon can only emerge at night or in a dark place. In the night, I could totally own you, Kyuubi demon or not."
"Oh yeah, well it's getting dark right now, why don't we have ourselves a little match to prove who's demon is stronger!" Naruto yelled and pointed his finger at him.
"You would lose." Junichi said simply "I control most aspects of my demon while yours needs a serious situation to come out. I would have to be out for blood to get him to show, unless of course you talked to him and he agreed to it."
"You know what? I don't need a demon to fight you! I'll take you on anyway!" Naruto bellowed at him as he ran forward angrily.
Junichi grinned as he jumped right on top of Naruto's head and from there vaulted himself into the air with chakra on his feet holding him up. Naruto turned around with wide eyes. He quickly jumped up at Junichi to punch the living crap out of him. Junichi dove straight down and landed on his hands just as Naruto was at the position he would have been in. He pushed off with his hands and kept his feet straight, sending him straight into Naruto's stomach. Naruto was caught off guard for a second but that second was all Junichi needed. Junichi flipped over as they started to descend, his feet planted on Naruto's chest as they both slammed into the ground, Junichi being unharmed.
"What the hell was that?" Naruto coughed as he stood up slowly from his imprint in the ground "You call that a hit? I'll murder the crap out of you if you keep pulling stunts like that!"
"Never attack me openly like that. Your only chance is to sneak up on me and catch me off guard." Junichi said with a grin. He knew Naruto was hurt more than he let on, unless the Kyuubi HAD entered the fight.
Naruto suddenly created about fifteen clones that surrounded Junichi before diving in to attack him. Junichi jumped into the air, starting a chain of hand seals as he did so. He came down right in the middle of them again, pressing both of his hands down on the ground.
"EARTH EXPLOSION" He yelled as the ground around him exploded in flames from underground, causing all the clones to poof away. As the flames died down, the real Naruto dive in at Junichi with a kunai in hand. Junichi did a few more quick seals and activated his favorite electric attack.
"ELECTRIC CLAW" He yelled as he grabbed Naruto's leg tightly, not wanting to kill him or anything. To his astonishment, the body suddenly exploded on him, sending him flying into a tree, his hand smoking.
Junichi had no sooner gotten up when he was caught in the Naruto rendan. He couldn't really hear anything but he knew Naruto was saying each syllable of his last name as he was battered into the ground.
"Take some of that Mr. Demon guy!" Naruto yelled at him smugly from the edge of the crater he had created with Junichi's body.
Junichi slowly stood up in the crater, his body starting to heal itself slowly in the darker evening they were experiencing. He couldn't summon Eva yet, he just had to wait until it got really dark, or he won.
Zabuza watched eagerly from a perch on a tree not far away. This boy Junichi intrigued him to no end. He had been defeated by something more than human, but this boy fought like a demon. In his eyes burned something strange, something that wasn't human. It was as if the demons were slowly becoming him. It was certainly something to be wary of. In the mean time, he would watch as the two demon boys fought. He would learn of their demonic powers, and prepare himself should the time come. He didn't trust demons one bit, but who could blame him given his past experiences. All he did now was to watch the fight with utmost amusement.
Saotome and Temari were taking an evening off from training and going on a date. The plan had been to go to a nice restaurant, but both of them were unreasonably poor, so they settled for sitting on a hill overlooking the sunset while Saotome played his guitar for her.
"Something isn't right." Saotome said suddenly as he stopped playing his guitar and looked out at the horizon "Something big is about to happen."
"You know what! I'm tryin my best to have a good time! Just because we're too poor to afford the nice restaurant doesn't mean we can't still have a nice evening! And I'm telling you right now mister, something big will most certainly NOT happen!" Temari yelled at him.
"Geez woman, I wasn't talking about that!" Saotome said seriously "For once I'm not talking about sex and you jump to conclusions and think me of nothing more than a stupid lecherous poor person!"
"That's because I'm normally right! And don't call me 'Woman', it's degrading!" Temari yelled at him, completely forgetting the reason they were yelling.
"It's what you are!" Saotome said assertively "Would you rather have me call you mister and draw a beard on you while you're sleeping."
So Temari started hitting him over the head with his own guitar, as is to be expected. The whole evening continued on for several minutes, ending with Saotome severely bruised up and slightly dazed, but with his head in Temari's lap as she stroked his hair gently.
"Temari, I gotta say, you have never looked so beautiful before when I was one hundred percent conscious." Saotome said as he looked up at her, slurring his words badly.
"I'll let that one go because I beat the crap out of you and I can't expect you to make sense for quite some time." Temari said with a sigh "But what did you mean when you said that something wasn't right."
"Oh that?" Saotome asked stupidly "Well, I thought it had somethin' to do with music…or sound…and uhhh…a guy…well, I've totally forgotten now due to a slight concussion. Now I can't sleep for at least twenty four hours and it's your responsibility to keep me up considering you beat me up."
"Saotome…" Temari said as she breathed deeply, trying to control the fist of doom that was perched ominously above his head. "I'm going to try and ignore all of your little comments and keep you up anyway without sex or removing articles of clothing just to be safe and because I wouldn't want to leave you here alone."
Saotome smiled. It was good enough for him. They both stared deeply into each other's eyes for a long time, Saotome only staring through one eye because the other one had swollen up quite a bit, but the sight he WAS able to see was a good one. Seriously, they must have the weirdest relationship ever.
At that exact moment, Sasuke was offered to go to the sound and join Orochimaru. He had fought the odd group of sound shinobi and now was seriously contemplating going with them to be as powerful as them. He wanted power. Needed power. It was like a thirst that could never be satiated. He returned to his luxurious manor and quietly contemplated his choices.
Naruto and Junichi stood across from each other panting. It was dark now and Junichi was ready to turn the level of this fight up. Slowly his eyes began to change and his teeth got longer. Naruto saw the change and tried to summon Kyuubi.
"Not this time kit." The demon fox said inside his mind "You still have to prove yourself to be strong enough for my power."
"Stupid fox…" Naruto muttered under his breath as he saw Junichi charge at him head on, something that was very strange for him.
Junichi ran up with an outstretched fist. As soon as he got within range, his body turned into mist and spread all over the place. Naruto looked around in confusion, but was unable to detect the mist gathering behind him into Junichi, who kicked him in the back.
"Do you still want to test demons Uzumaki?" Junichi asked with his strange accent, his leg still raised as he balanced there with a smile "I don't think you have what it takes to beat me."
Naruto yelled his battle cry and threw as many kunai and shuriken at him as he could. Junichi dodged them all while still standing there, playfully dancing around them. It was nothing more than a game to him. In a flash, he had a knife at Naruto's throat.
"You're much too slow to fight me." He crowed gleefully at his opponent "Without the Kyuubi demon, you stand no chance. You can either try to call him forth, or give up."
"I'll never give up no matter what!" Naruto yelled at him as he stepped back "That's my ninja way and I'm sticking to it."
Junichi didn't quite see what was happening at first, or hear what was going on, even with his enhanced senses. All he knew was that standing in front of him was Naruto, standing atop a huge toad. Junichi's already pale skin paled even more when he suddenly knew what was going to happen.
"Bunta, give me some oil!" Naruto yelled from atop the toad. Junichi swore he saw an evil glint in his eyes as the oil spewed out of the toad's mouth and Naruto gleefully set it afire.
Junichi stood there, watching the blaze come at him, his features a mixture of worry and determination. Then the fire washed over him. Everything around him was engulfed for about ten seconds and then it all died down like a bad dream, revealing him to be gone.
"Holy crap! I expected him to dodge that!" Naruto exclaimed from atop the toad "He was supposed to dodge! Didn't you think he would dodge!"
"Well kid, when you use that technique against your sparring buddy, you should kind of expect him to get hurt." Bunta said slowly to Naruto "I'm not detecting any life signs or chakra signals anywhere…I think he's…"
"PISSED OFF AT YOU FOR SHOOTING THAT MUCH FIRE AT ME!" Junichi yelled from behind Naruto. He was floating in the air, his chakra now red and his palm was outstretched.
"Junichi! You're alive!" Naruto yelled "But I thought Bunta didn't pick up any life signs."
"Vampires are dead Uzumaki…" Junichi said evilly "I barely managed to get out of the way just in time. You, on the other hand, won't be so lucky."
Junichi's hand started to glow red and chakra crackled all around him. Naruto's eyes went wide as he suddenly jumped off of Bunta and tried to run for cover. Junichi laughed evilly as he let out the largest chakra burst he had ever done. It destroyed Gamabunta and most of the already singed trees and left a huge crater in the surrounding ground.
Naruto lay on the ground, pain shooting through most of his body. He could see, but he could barely breathe or talk. He watched as Junichi stepped over him and looked down at him, his features now human.
"You burnt up my back yard and you paid the price for it." Junichi said with a grin. Naruto would have grinned, but he couldn't move real well. "Here, have some demon chakra. It'll heal you."
Naruto barely paid attention as Junichi's red hand was pressed to his chest. It was almost an instantaneous reaction. His wounds began healing before he even knew what was going on. Vampiric healing powers were nothing to scoff at apparently. He got up and stared at his hands and his torn up clothes.
"Dude…we should put limits on it when we fight next time." Naruto said as he looked from his healed body to Junichi.
"Don't worry my friend, we've both learned our lesson for that one. I guess I'll see you around." Junichi said as he lead Naruto back to the house and saw him off. With that, he finally collapsed on the couch, tired beyond belief at pretending to be completely well.
Shang: Yeah...Junichi got chuunin mostly because I wanted him to...that's all there is to it. It's not like he really needed it, I just wanted it to happen for some reason. The Zabuza helping them thing was kind of like his way of passage into the village. He was showing that he could be trusted enough to stay. Team whateverthehell, in my eyes, isn't all that strong. Had Temari not shown up, they would all have died in a matter of minutes, given torture time. Lee could crush Saotome in a New York minute, but he wouldn't if he thought it was good training. Ibiki asked Junichi to exlpain because he knew that Junichi understood it. He didn't do it right because he knew what was going on from the beginning. So you know, I am VERY Hellsing inspired, but all vampire abilities and techniques are mostly what I got straight from Bram Stoker, which I don't own. I only made minor adjustments. Don't know why team seven knows Lee...just blame radiation like I do. I have to throw some romance in every once in a while to hook in the other readers who can't stand mindless killing. I hope this answers alot of your questions and comments. I really hope you haven't gotten TOO annoyed with me to stop reading or anything...
Yondaime: Wow, I didn't think anybody really liked this story. I figured good old Shang thought it was pretty good and was just being nice...I'll take that too but you...I know it's not four days or anything, but can I still have your children? I could always use a slave. I like to call them 'indentured servants' even though I know that term doesn't fit. I just like the sounds of it. I hope you keep reading and whatnot, and I hope to know whether or not you plan to send the child through the mail.
Allright peeps! Maybe if i get back on work schedule, I'll give back some chapter spoilers, and may even give you a sneek peek at my new story "Altered Perceptions" which I'm not nearly close enough to posting yet. Until then, keep on tranglin!