Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. But the ideas and OC's are mine.
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Chap. 3
"Tori, Saru, Uma, Ryu…" Kaida was memorizing a set of hand seals to commence on one of her sensei's forbidden techniques. Upon doing so she recalled a memory of a training session with her sensei.
FLASHBACK
Kaida was seven. She was working on a genjutsu under the supervision of her sensei. Kaida was a scrawny built kid, her chocolate tresses reached her shoulders, and her eyes were emotionless. She was wrapped in a short white kimono, and wore black spandex shorts.
Her sensei was a young man that was in his mid to late twenties. Short ebony locks fluttered past his cheek bones. His eyes were emotionless black tunnels. His garb was of a fishnet shirt, over that was a men's kimono with the sides split; he wore bootlegged pants and black ninja shoes.
"Usagi, O-hitsuji, Nezumi…" Kaida mumbled to herself. Her sensei shook his head. "You're doing the Nezumi seal wrong again." Her sensei called. Kaida popped her eyes open and looked at her tiny hands. "Gomen sensei." She said.
"Do not apologize to me over something so meaningless." He responded. She only nodded and redid her set of hand seals. After the third attempt of doing the set of hand seals, she finally did it right and shouted out. "Kokuangyo no jutsu!"
The entire training area went dark. Her sensei noticed that it got lighter and darker every few seconds. And then everything went back to normal. He smirked at his student who was panting slightly at straining a little too much over making the genjutsu successful. "Do not strain yourself, you'll wear yourself out in combat if you strain." He said. Kaida looked up at her sensei with an emotionless stare. "Relax and do it again."
"Hai."
She cleared her mind of all thoughts and took a deep breath. Once again she did the set of hand seals and called out. "Kokuangyo no jutsu!"
Once more the training area was painted black. It stayed that way for ten seconds straight until her sensei dispelled it. "Well done Kaida, you have completed your first A-ranked genjutsu. Now let's go work on your taijutsus." He congratulated.
She blinked for a few seconds and bowed. "Arigatoo sensei." She said. Another second later she began to feel light in the chest. Confused at this, thinking that something was wrong she called to her teacher. "Sensei, I feel strange." She began, "My chest feels real light. Is this a side affect of successfully executing a high-level jutsu?"
Her teacher stared at her, bewildered that she didn't know what she was feeling. For only having her with him for seven months he thought that she kept her emotions to herself. He almost wanted to laugh. "Kaida that is not a side effect, it is happiness and the feeling of pride and success that you completed a very difficult jutsu." He explained, beginning to smile a little. Kaida cocked her head, confused about what she just heard.
"Happiness?"
"Hmmm, it's like feeling when you get on the day of Christmas. Or doing something that you enjoy or spending time with someone you like."
Kaida thought for a minute and a small smile crept across her face. "I understand sensei. I enjoy spending my time training with you."
END OF FLASHBACK
She shook the memory away from her mind. She began to concentrate on the set of hand seals again. "Inu, Ousu-buta, Tora…"
She was interrupted by a huge eruption from the south. The ground shook a little making her stumble a bit. She looked up to see a large cumulus of smoke rising to the sky. She felt a wave of anger taking her, realizing that people were in her forest home once again. She flew off to her cave to get ready to seek and destroy.
"Oho! Looks like we caught something." Ryuji mused, as he and his sound teammates leaped from branch to branch towards the blast. Smoke begun to clear as they ventured closer to destruction of their traps created. The smoke screen cleared at last when they landed to see what they have caught.
Lying in the midst of the debris were two mangled bodies. They looked like twins but one was obviously much older than the other one. Both wore green and orange leg warmers. Goro walked over to the older limp body and pushed it over with his foot and saw the symbol of leaf on his forehead protector. "Guess they were after us. They didn't know what hit em." Goro stated staring down at the corpse. He gave it a good hard kick.
POOF
"Nani!" Ryuji cried out in surprise as the other corpse disappeared into a puff of smoke as well. They were bushins, they fell into their trap.
Suddenly Boton, Goro and Akio were knocked away a distance by something green and spinning. Ryuji was about to attack the green spinning thing when he heard someone shout out "Dynamic Entry!" and being kicked in the jaw. Ryuji then saw the two people dressed in green, shiny bobbed haircuts, and thick eyebrows. Both were bearing the leaf symbol. "Who the hell are you!" Ryuji raged and shocked at the sight of them.
"We are Konoha's beautiful green beasts, Maito Gai!"
"And Rock Lee!"
FLASHBACK
"RUN!" Gai cried. They flew from tree to tree as they were enveloped in the massive eruption.
Gai grabbed his student and dove behind a giant pile of stones and boulders to shield themselves from the centre of the explosion. Many of the boulders shattered and covered Gai and Lee giving them bumps, bruises, and scratches. When everything seemed to be a standstill they quickly moved surfaced from the rocks.
The enemy did not come yet and there was a lot of smoke from the aftermath of the mass explosion. "Bushin no jutsu." Gai muttered and two replicas appeared and look to the real Gai for orders. "You, do a henge of my cute student and both of you go out there and play dead."
"Hai."
One did a henge no jutsu and turned into a replica of Lee. Both looked they went through a minefield and ran out there to go play dead until the enemy arrived.
END OF FLASHBACK
"More like green freaks if you ask me." Akio grunted as he lifted himself off the ground. Goro and Boton followed the suit.
Gai and Lee stood back to back in their fighting stances ready to take on the oto-nin and Ryuji. Boton leaped at them, throwing shuriken at their vital areas while Akio came at them in another direction. Lee quickly dodged Akio's land kick, landing as many punches as he could.
Gai blocked the shuriken and gave Botan an uppercut, knocking him away. He quickly went after Ryuji, throwing some handless kunai knives at him. Ryuji blocked them all with his own kunai and blocked Gai himself who was coming at him with his own. "Are you the missing nin of the Hidden Cloud village Ryuji?" Gai asked with strain. Ryuji was taken aback a bit, surprised that they heard of him. Gai didn't have time to wait for an answer because he had to pull away to block an attack attempt form Goro. Unfortunately for Gai he felt a searing pain in his side. Ryuji stabbed him.
Lee was fighting Botan and Akio. Botan nearly surprised him earlier from coming up from behind to cut him. He was doing fine taking on the duo until two bushins of a Botan came in and slashed him on both sides with a sword. Lee felt like he was on fire, he cried in pain. But his pain was short lived when he felt a hard tap against the back of his neck and knew no more.
"Lee!" Gai shouted out of shock he tried to run toward his prized student. Ryuji however came I front of him. "Your target is me!" He said coldly, "And if I was the Ryuji from the cloud village what's it to you?" He said all of this while sending a few lightning no jutsus at him.
"Our orders were to take you into custody." He replied in anger, dodging his attacks with a lot of effort. "So the rumors were true."
The oto-nin were about to knock Gai dead when a whole barrage of throwing weapons fell from the sky. Akio, Goro, and Botan were hit by multiple kinds but they turned into logs. Two figures leaped into the scene, male and female.
"Neji! Tenten! You're late!" Gai growled. Tenten smiled until she saw the unconscious Lee. "Oh no Lee!" She cried out running toward hi limp body but was blocked off by the oto-nin trio. She whipped out her collapsible bo staff, beating Akio and Botan mercilessly. They both felt a rib crack from the powerful blows from the staff.
Neji activated hi Byakugan to see the tenketsus. He began tapping away with his juken against Goro. Unfortunately for Goro he felt inside of his chest making him gasp for air.
Meanwhile, Gai has been throwing punches, punches and jutsus to pin Ryuji down while dodging many of Ryuji's powerful lightning attacks and taijutsus.
Finally Ryuji had enough of playing around and was getting low on chakra. He decided to knock them all out in one blow and take them into custody of Orochimaru. "Kokuangyo no jutsu!"
Everything around them went black. "Oh no one of his favorite genjutsus." Gai thought instantly. Before Gai could dispel the powerful genjutsu he felt a tap against hi neck and blacked out.
"Gai!" Tenten cried out. She was trying to sense Ryuji's presence while fighting with two kamas against Akio and Botan. Goro used one of his sound jutsus against Neji, paralyzing him and knocking him unconscious. Only Tenten was left. The oto-nin trio stood back and laughed despite their pain realizing what Ryuji had done. "You're finished." Goro grinned wincing a little bit from the blows of the juken. Tenten decided to use her ultimate attack the Soushouryu. But before she could execute the attack something hit her hard against neck and knew nothing more.
Ryuji dispelled the illusion, seeing all of the unconscious leaf ninja scattered everywhere when everything went back to normal. "Haha Konoha ninjas are weak!" Botan sneered staring down at the kunoichi with disgust. Akio nudged Neji with his foot. "So what're we going to do these guys?" Akio asked.
"Were going to take them into custody." Ryuji answered moving over to take Gai.
"What about him?" Goro asked pointing at Lee who was still unconscious and bloody.
"He'll be dead soon, no use taking him."
"Wait let's heal him quick and use him as a hostage to make the others talk."
Ryuji thought about this for a moment. Knowing perfectly well that the leader will talk because they look incredibly alike, like father and son. "Good idea, they wouldn't let their own comrades suffer." He said finally. Botan smirked, "And since you're the master of genjutsus Ryuji-sama, they're gonna go through hell!"
Ryuji and the other oto-nin began to chuckle lightly. Goro went over towards Lee's limp bloody body to do emergency care. "You're gonna go through it the worst little green freak." He whispered and began to heal him.
Suddenly everything went black. Everything around Ryuji, the oto-nin trio, and the unconscious team Gai disappeared. Ryuji realized that this was the same genjutsu that he used and made an attempt to dispel it but nothing happened. The sound nin tried to dispel it too but were unable to do so. "Did you plan this Ryuji-sama?" Akio asked. Ryuji stared at him like he was an idiot. "Hell no why would I?" He replied and tried to dispel it once again.
"Try dispelling it all you want but only the one who cast it can dispel it." A voice called out. They all grew still, becoming aware of another presence. "Who are you? Show yourself!" Goro shouted going into a defensive stance. Everyone followed suit. Their only response was a chuckle that echoed through out the ancient grounds. "Now why would I do something that foolish? Humans are so…pathetic."
The oto-nin trio paled realizing what it was. "The mysterious voice of Moriko forest." Akio breathed. He remembered what they were here for. To capture whatever that thing was and use it to wipe out Konoha. He dropped his guard some and began to speak. "We have come here to negotiate-" But Ryuji cut him off.
Lee slowly regained consciousness. He couldn't move he felt weak from loss of blood. He noticed that everyone one his team was on the ground not moving. "Nani? We lost?" He thought. He was about to make an attempt to will his body to move when he heard the mysterious voice. He then noticed what was really going on and lay still to listen and to stop his own bleeding.
"Negotiate? Why should I negotiate with weak humans?"
"Our master, Orochimaru-sama sends his greetings and wishes you to join him in his reign of power." Ryuji said formally bowing. There was a moment of silence. "Orochimaru eh? So that's why I kept seeing multiple sound nins entering the forest. And of course I killed every one of them."
There was silence once again, leaving them to be shocked that she killed many of their comrades from before. Lee was surprised to hear this too. Then it spoke again "I have no desire for power. You can tell him that he should look else where."
Ryuji sort of figured that it would say no but he would not give up so easily. "Orochimaru-sama wouldn't be very pleased. This is not a request it's a demand from him-" He was cut off by the voice responding in disgust. "So what? What's he gonna do about it? And what will you do about it? You of all people are the worst. You disgust me. Imposter."
"Imposter?" The sound nin and Lee thought as it processed through their brains. Trying to figure out what was going on. "What does it mean?"
Ryuji was stunned at what it was saying. Insulted and curious he had to ask. "Who are calling an imposter?"
The voice chuckled again. "I'm saying you are not the missing nin Ryuji."
Ryuji paled, enraged that someone would object.
The oto-nin stared in shock of what they just heard. Their Ryuji? An imposter? Then again he joined the Orochimaru brigade not too long ago but he gained the trust of many of the high ranking ninja. Lee was just as shocked. "Could this be true?" He thought. Botan was thinking the same thing so he spoke up. "Um, Ryuji-sama is this true?" He asked in a chirpy way.
Ryuji stared in shock and anger at his team mates. "How dare they question me!" He thought but he had to regain his courage. "Of course I am! I'm the master of genjutsus!"
Before he could go any further he felt something tighten around his neck. He began to struggle along with his team mates that have also began to struggle of the beings grasp. But then they felt something wrap around both of their wrists and ankles. He could not move.
The voice began to speak again. "If you are who you say you are, then you would be able to answer my question. A question only the real Ryuji would know the answer to. If you answer this question correctly I will let you go."
Ryuji was pale and drenched in his own icy sweat of fear. "And if I answer incorrectly?" He asked trying his best to show no fear. The voice chuckled, suddenly he heard the strangled cries of his team mates but they were suddenly cut off. He heard three quiet thuds and all was silent. All three of his team mates were decapitated. What little color that was left in his face was now gone. "Good lord." Lee thought feeling sick to his stomach from watching the entire scene trying not to regurgitate.
"Are you ready to answer your question?" The voice cooed icily. "If you do not answer then you will suffer the same fate as them."
Ryuji cringed at the sight of the headless corpses of his team mates. Not wanting to wind up like them he valued his life so he had no choice and if he got out of this alive then he would go some place very far away from there and start his life anew. He took a deep breath.
"Hai."
"What was your true reason for massacring the boarding school?"
"Uh oh…" He never really thought about this. He always felt that Ryuji was a heartless man, a genius of genjutsus but never really like anyone. It was mentioned that he went on a killing rage because he felt like it. He felt that this was his reason so he took a deep breath.
Lee was also curious about his reason too. He heard that something happened that made become the way he was he was about to find out.
"Because I felt like it." Ryuji answered.
There was a long pause and suddenly he heard the voice chuckle. It grew louder until the voice was laughing like a psycho. But it suddenly stopped. He blinked in confusion, wondered if he answered right or not. He then saw a hunter-nin's mask appear inches in front of his face.
The mask was oval shaped and smooth. It bore no symbol of a village and only two thin slits were shown so the eyes could see. One blue wavy line was painted under each eyehole curling up across the white surface.
Ryuji wasn't what to expect until he one word that decided his fate. "Incorrect."
He suddenly could not breathe. His arms and legs were being pulled in different directions. He couldn't scream he couldn't think except for the pain and that he was going to die.
Lee heard a crack, pop and tearing of limbs. He had to look away. He couldn't bare the sight. He heard a silent thud, telling him it was over. Then all the darkness diminished. He took a peek of what the mysterious being looked like.
The mysterious being was actually a person. A young person at that and giving away the signs of femininity. She was lean and well toned. She wore a men's white kimono that the hem only reached at the top of the knees and a blood red sash was tied around the wiast. The kimono was worn loosely revealing a black shirt with a V neck fishnet (think of Itachi's shirt). The sides of the kimono were split revealing black drawstring pants that reached her calf halfway. Black ninja shoes cover her feet. Her hair was worn up in a bun which was covered by a piece of cloth. She had a bo staff made of bamboo hung against her back.
Lee sudden had a terrible thought. What if she killed them too? She could easily do so. He coughed a little bit and feeling weaker and slipping into darkness.
Neji shifted in his unconscious. He slowly began to open his milky eyes. Everything was blurry at first. "Where am I? What just happened?" He thought. Then he remembered. Everything went black Gai went unconscious, Tenten fighting along side of him, his opponent used a sound based attack on him making him immobile and knew nothing more after that. He looked around seeing he wasn't taken hostage and remained where he dropped.
He was about to get up when he noticed a head looking right at him. He gasped out in surprise sooner realizing that it was one of sound nin's heads. He scanned the area seeing three headless corpses and one that had no limbs. He cringed at the sight. "What happened to them? Did Tenten do this? No she knew we had to bring back Ryuji alive. So who did it? Or what did it?"
He looked around finally noticing that they were missing one more. Lee. "Where did he go? Byakugan!"
Veins popped out on the sides of his eyes scanning three-sixty and fifty feet all around but there was no Lee. Lee disappeared. He switched off his Byakugan and went to wake up Tenten. Before he could something caught his eye. A little notebook was on the ground. It was Lee's. He picked it up and flipped through the pages until he stopped at the last place were he written. There was one set of sentences that was not Lee's chicken scratch writing. Quickly he read them.
A little turtle fell into the path of the little dragon of the forest. He clings to life so, only time will tell if he lives.
-little dragon-
Neji stowed it in pocket and ran over to Tenten to wake her up. He shook her lightly but calling loudly to her. Seconds later she stirred, her eyes slowly blinking and looking at the one who has awoken her. "Neji." She mumbled. Then her eyes flew open. "Oh my god Neji!" She shouted as she threw her arms around him relieved that he was okay. But a millisecond later she realized what she was doing and quickly pushed him away, blushing a tinge of pink.
Neji turned away to hide his blush which soon disappeared when they heard a loud groan. Their sensei was waking up. "Tenten c'mon we need to tell him that Lee is gone." Neji said.
Tenten blinked. "Gone? Whaddaya mean gone?"
"He disappeared now come on Gai needs to know this."
He pulled her up from the ground and ran over to meet Gai. Tenten winced at the sight of dead bodies but thought none of it. "Geez what happened when I went out?" She wondered.
Gai rolled over in his unconsciousness dreaming of being youthful forever. However it ended shortly when he felt himself being shaken violently. "Wha?" He mumbled.
"WAKE UP GAI!"
"Huh?"
"Kakashi burned all of your green jumpsuits!"
"WHAT! KAKASHI! MY ETERNAL RIVAL HOW DARE-"
He was up yelling at the heavens at Kakashi until he heard a squishy crunch sound. He looked down and saw an arm under his foot. He looked around seeing all the corpses and gore. He whirled around to see Neji and Tenten but he could not see any signs what so ever of his cute student. "What happened here? And where's Lee?" He asked full of worry.
"We don't know and Lee's disappeared. Neji couldn't find him with the Byakugan." Tenten answered hoping if that helped. Neji pulled out Lee's notebook from his pocket. "I found this and someone else written in it." Neji said, giving the green beast the notebook. Gai opened it to the spot where Lee's note taking stopped and read the message.
"Neji, Tenten we now commence a rescue mission to find Lee and this little dragon."
End of chapter 3
Whew! This was a long chapter! But well worth it! I really could've gone into detail on the headless corpses and the limbless one but I don't want to rate it Mature and I don't want you to be barfing up what ever you had to eat before you read this. This is the only showing of blood and gore until much later in the series. And as you saw there will be a little bit of Neji x Tenten going on.
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Ja ne!