Gravity
Standard Disclaimer still applies
XTakaX27 – No, no, no, unless you've already read Grace (Akira is briefly mentioned in that one) you haven't missed a story. Akira is merely one of the villains in my story, who he is and his past and stuff isn't very relative, seeing as Naruto himself doesn't know why.
GMan – I know he was being hypocritical, hence why he didn't actually wanted to say it. And hence why Obito was giving the 'silent' treatment.
Miako - -hugs back- lol! Thanks. T'was an evil cliffy.
Thank you everyone else for your kind reviews! This chappie
Warning: Slight M content.
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Signing a peace treaty had been easy. Yondaime had done it early first thing in the morning when the others were still asleep. He had a very bad feeling that something was coming, and he didn't want them kids to be bothered by petty politics when pretty soon they were going to have to defend their lives.
His suspicions were never, if anything, wrong. He sighed, normally hanging large spheres of ice cold water above people's heads would be an entertaining form of wakening them up, but he was frowning deep in thought instead. He nearly froze his water and upon realizing this, he quickly released it and the result was very angry, yet awake, students.
"What the hell was that for?" Obito cried, and flung a pillow at their Sensei foolishly lingering at the doorway. Luckily, he ducked the offending object.
"Yo! Don't be laze-a-beds! Get up, get up, get up!" he grabbed the still sleeping Kakashi by the foot and with a push, had him sprawled on the floor. And unfortunately, he was still asleep. Apparently Kakashi was a deep sleeper. Arashi's eyebrow twitched.
"Sensei? Throw something potentially dangerous at him." Rin supplied generously while she and Obito yawned and started to get dressed. Rin went to the washroom with her clothing while Obito stayed in the 'boys' room.
Yondaime raised an eyebrow at the girl before she left, and took her advice. Taking out a kunai, he flung it at Kakashi. The result was very promising.
"AHHHH! We're being attacked! AHHHHH!" Arashi coughed. The usually stoic Kakashi was… having a panic attack. Dear gods. He snickered, watching Kakashi emerge from his cocoon of blankets with a befuddled expression on his face. They all knew he did it for fun, but it was still amusing. Kakashi grinned sheepishly.
"Eh… can't be too paranoid…" he pointed out as his pants landed on his head, curtsey of (a silent) Obito.
"Yes... you can never be too paranoid." Arashi agreed, falling sombre as he remembered just what paranoia's he had.
"Sensei?" Rin spoke out from behind him as she moved to her bed. Good… now that he had everyone's attention…
"Get everything you need together. We're going to go find him." He explained.
"Find who? The mist shinobi?" Arashi paused on the way out of the door and looked back.
"Iie, though we will inevitably find them. No, we're going to go find Naruto."
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He hadn't gotten two steps when arms snaked around him and pinned his small childlike body to a larger imposing figure. He froze.
"Hello… Naruto-kun. Did you miss me?" Naruto started to shake.
"A… Aki… Akira………." Said man chuckled darkly and physically nuzzled Naruto. Naruto felt his eye twitch, his trembles did not cease, when in fact they worsened. He could say he was not afraid, but his body told an entirely different story.
"Isn't it a shame that I cannot play with you?" Naruto felt himself be turned completely around to face the man. He was forced to look into black pools surrounded by pale skin and unnatural red hair. He gulped.
"Take me back you pint sized shrimp." The snarl promised malice, as Akira's face loomed before his own, an inch away from his face.
"I…..Iie……" Naruto gasped out, well aware of those claws like hands were tearing into the skin on his arms and sides as the grip Akira had on him tightening. He had effectively cut off all possible forms of blood circulation. Why was it always like this? Why could he never move? Why couldn't he move?
Akira leaned in close to Naruto, but not before Naruto saw the sick and twisted grin on his face that promised all sorts of forms of macabre.
"You know what I will do if you do not take me back, ne… Naruto-kun?" he asked sweetly.
-Move… Move… Move…-
"I will rape your mother before your father….."
-Move..Move..Move..Move-
"I will cut her open before him…."
-MoveMoveMoveMoveMove-
"I will kill your father, using your mother's corpse…"
-Move!Move! goddamnit! Move!-
"I will upon cut open Kakashi's skull drink wine from it. I will have Rin… become my personal servant, and I will take Obito's eyes and force him to eat them… I will kill them all. Every last one. Every last villager. Every last stay dog. Every last blade of grass. Your pathetic village will be no more. Nothing but a blackened scar…." Akira licked Naruto's ear, as his nails drew more blood from their intensive grip. Naruto shuddered; his akuma henge jutsu had left him with a huge physical disadvantage.
-no…no…no…NO! NO! MOVE! Please! No…-
"Heh… even if you did, I would cease to exist… and so would your ticket home." He caught Akira's bluff, or so he thought.
"You're not that stupid, Naruto-kun….No? Still won't comply?" A fist made contact with the blond boy's stomach as all the air fled from his lungs, leaving him gasping for air. His predator circled him.
"Ne… Naruto-kun?" brought down to his knees, he barely heard Akira's approaching steps. Naruto saw his feet before being gripped by the neck and hulled upwards, unable to feel the ground beneath him.
"Shall I? I wonder how well your mother would scream… ne? ne! Much like the pink haired girl did, you think?" Naruto saw red.
He was dimply aware of being hurled through several trees, of having his ribs broken as Akira trampled him. He was vaguely aware of Kyuubi's encouraging breath in his mind. He was, however, acutely aware of his opponents heart beat. He wanted it. To tear that heart out and kill that man.
Naruto had never wanted to kill someone so bad before. Not like this, not like this pure… animalistic intent. He would kill, and he would enjoy it. For their sakes.
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-Sigh- "This was too troublesome…." Shikamaru looked down on the floor, to see a panting Ino and a slightly ticked off Gaara.
"Way too troublesome…." By now, the young Nara was very much used to being glared at hatefully, especially by Ino.
"Ino?" Shikamaru turned his head barely enough to look at Sakura, who had been waiting patiently beside her 'brother' Sasuke. Trilled as he was to see them, he couldn't get over the changes in them, Their sibling companionship, their new appearances, everything.
"Success…. Shukaku agreed…. On one condition…" Ino breathed out in-between panting breaths. They all looked at her in surprise. They had all, shamefully, thought that this wouldn't work. Even Gaara was surprised.
"What was the condition?" Sasuke asked his voice stony but the worry for his team-mate never far from his mind.
"He wants someone to complete the seal that binds him to the Kazekage… so that he can stop worrying about being assimilated into Kazekage's mind." She explained, getting up with a groan, rubbing her arms and shivering. The experience hadn't been something she would do out of fun, that was for sure.
Silence met her statement as people tried to figure out a means to do that. Unsurprisingly it was Shika who voiced his opinion about the situation.
"It's doable; we have to contact Jiraiya-sama, as he's a seal expert. But it will take more time."
"We don't have that time…" Sasuke hissed at him, as if it was all Shikamaru's fault.
"Naruto doesn't have that time." He snarled at them again, having to be restrained physically by Sakura. He was interrupted however by a new entry into the ANBU guarded room in Suna. Everyone went for their weapons, except for the exhausted Gaara and Ino. They turned to face their intruder, who had managed to get passed the ANBU.
"Speak your purpose." Sakura demanded, as Shika merely looked and calculated the probability that this one man's intentions were not evil.
"I can help you." A low husky voice claimed, as the figure stepped into the light.
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"So you think Naruto is alive, Sensei?" Kakashi asked, running through the trees with the blond haired Hokage.
"Everything about that kid is surrounded in mystery, that's why I had him placed on this team, so I could keep an eye on him. Before I kept thinking this was another escape attempt, but the more I've thought about it, the more I think it's unlikely. If he was an enemy shinobi, why teach you guys?" he asked, turning his head to Kakashi, and then backwards to Obito and Rin behind them. Obito was thinking quietly to himself, but they were listening in.
"I just don't like leaving things unfinished. There was also something strange about the way we were attacked and the formation Naruto put us in. As if he knew before hand what would happen… Besides… Obito being silent is scary." He added with a wry smirk. Earning a glare from the hot headed Uchiha. Kakashi's eye only smiled in agreement to that. They were nearing the blocked pass when something attacked them from the left; or rather, someone.
"Suiton, Suishouha!" A large body of water collided with them, only to reveal 4 logs of a well placed kawarimi jutsu used by the Konoha ninjas. The young kids immediately sprung into action.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Obito called out from his position, creating 5 clones or so. The clones masked the original as Obito turned into a fuuma shuriken. Rin caught Obito and waited to attack. Kakashi went for a direct assault against their opponent with the remaining Obito clones as backup.
"Suiton, Teppoudama!" their attacker fired a large sphere of water at them, like a bullet. Kakashi ducked, and 2 Obito clones were taken out. Kakashi engaged in a taijutsu fight while Rin got into position. Seconds later, a large Shuriken started flying towards the pair, only to be flung off away by more opponents
"Fuuton, Renkuudan!" A sphere of chakra enhanced wind flew Obito off course and dispelled his henge jutsu. Obito crashed into a tree as Rin was forced to defend herself against two opponents that were bigger, and faster than she was. Gritting her teeth she was forced onto the defensive.
"Bunshin Bakuha.." Softly muttered a blond haired man. Arashi left his exploding clone with his opponent and went to ease some pressure off Rin. In terms of numbers, they were even; 4 opponents for the 4 of them. However, in terms of level, they were slightly outmatched. Rin and Obito were low Chuunin, and Kakashi was a low jounin. These people were experienced were easily high Chuunin, low jounin level as well. And their sensei was definitely high jounin. Said women that he had been fighting suddenly came into his line of vision, blocking Rin from his sight.
He gulped, realizing that turning his back had been a really, really stupid move. Exploding clone or not. He winced as he was punched savagely in the face and guts a few times before mounting a counter attack.
Everyone was facing their own battles now, Obito had taken one of Rin's opponents, Kakashi against the missing mist shinobi, Rin against another missing mist shinobi, Obito against a missing suna nin and Arashi himself against an extremely talented missing ninja from the cloud.
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"Oto Denpa no jutsu!" Naruto cupped his hands around his mouth and bellowed an ear piercing scream. The result was multiple shockwaves doing physical damage to the area, trees turns to sawdust; the ground heaved and dented by the sheer force and amount of chakra Naruto put into the attack.
Akira merely smiled, standing there and letting the carnage go past him, as if he was an apparition, and not truly there. Which he wasn't. Naruto gasped as he felt smooth and cold metal slide into his abdomen, Akira's face lingering before his own.
"Tell me, did Takako have fun with you?" Naruto paled at those words, and snarled at the red haired man, grabbing the long crimson strands and with all his might, punched the bastard in the face. It was the first time that Naruto had actually gotten a clean, good hit on Akira, and he was momentarily proud of himself.
"hehehehe…. Kawaii…" Akira came in fast, leaving Naruto no time for block the incoming kick. They had been at if for an hour, this battle between them. And it mostly consisted of Naruto getting his ass whopped. And Akira… Akira was only playing with him.
"Kuso…" he whispered, forcing his weary and badly battered body back on its feet again. None of this was supposed to happen.
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"Damnit! Fine then! Be that way! See if I care!" Huh? What? Was Arashi having a tamper tantrum? No, he was just mentally messing with the women's head as he prepared his Jutsu.
"What… are you on?" The missing nin stared at him in utter bewilderment. However, the Hokage merely smirked. He had already thrown out a few of his specially marked Kunai, and grinned at the women, catching her off guard.
"Hiraishin no jutsu" he said simply, before becoming a yellow flash. In a second the women was dead, But Yondaime didn't stop, he continued on to Obito's opponent, who was near a previously thrown special kunai, and slit the man's throat. He left again in a yellow flash and appeared in front of Rin, a plain kunai jabbed her opponent between the eyes and then he was gone again, this time towards Kakashi and his opponent. And all in a matter of 15 seconds, their opponents were dead or dying on the forest floor.
"Well that was fun! Now, off to search for Naruto-"
"…on't find …'em." Yondaime stopped and turned facing his last opponent who was now bleeding to death.
"And why is that?" he asked coldly.
"That... Akira... person…. Really wanted to… play-" but that was all he got out before the inevitable happened and the man died. Yondaime went pale as a memory of a red haired man slashing Naruto's throat entered his vision.
"Sensei?" Rin's frightened voice interrupted and Arashi shook his head, now wasn't the time.
"St-" a large shriek came from somewhere to the right of Arashi's position, followed by a very strong surge of Chakra and what sounded like various explosions. Yondaime gulped.
"Stay here, dispose of bodies. That's an order." And he left at his highest speed attainable without the hiraishin jutsu to aid him.
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Naruto smelt slat in the air as he realized they were very close to the ocean. Rice country had no beeches, only steep cliff sides. If they got to a Cliffside, hopefully he could lose himself in the water and escape. Unluckily for him, that was a very distant hope.
"Tired already, Naruto-kun? Are you going to obey me now, Naruto-kun? I wonder how your mother's blood would feel on silk…."
"Don't you DARE! I'll fucking kill you, to god I swear upon it." Naruto spat viciously, preparing to attack.
'Clear your head, Baka! Or you'll just end up on the ground again! Sheesh, you make me look bad…' Naruto ignored the Nine-tailed fox's complaints, but did follow his advice.
Naruto settled into a basic stance, earning an eyebrow raise from his opponent. Why such a simple basic, stance? Naruto smirked devilishly and then took off, becoming nothing but a yellow black blur of motion as he charged straight at Akira.
"Katon, Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu" Naruto spoke, taking a huge gulp of air and releasing it in a steam just as an explosive note went off, catching Akira off guard for a split second when the mist Naruto had conjured turned into a raging inferno. Underneath Naruto's feet, the ground suddenly split and Naruto was forced to jump backwards. However, he was grinning from ear to ear. He just thought of a cool jutsu he could test out right now.
"Well, here goes nothing…. Shoukei no jutsu!" he called, after forming the ox, hare and horse hand seals. He was surprised on how well it worked as the area flooded with a blinding light that made looking into the sun like a thousand times worse (exaggerated, of course).
Naruto was not aware that Yondaime had been watching, nor was he aware that when he had created the mist fire, Yondaime had used the opportunity to fling his specially marked kunai into various places. However, Naruto did hear it quite distinctly when Arashi's voice called out from his left.
"Hiraishin no jutsu!" using the blinding light that Naruto had created, with his eyes wide shut, Yondaimne used his advanced chakra senses to pin point Akira's presence, and under the light, went in for an attack.
Naruto landed clutching the knife still lodged in his abdomen while the light faded to reveal Yondaime with a kunai imbedded in Akira's throat. But Akira was grinning.
"Like father, like son. Why am I not surprised that you of all people came? Kukukuku…. Maybe another time, Naruto-kun…" and Akira's formed disappeared in a puff of smoke and was replaced with a log. There was a heavy silence as Yondaime turned back to look at Naruto with a frown.
Naruto however, was not paying attention to that, has he focused on the knife in his abdomen, and then coughed several times, a small trickle of blood making it's way down Naruto's purple and blue and pale white face. It was this display that Yondaime realized how bad the little kid's condition was.
"Shit, Naruto!" the blond haired whisker faced boy looked up at him wearily as if judging the realness of Arashi's presence.
"Yo, didcha miss me?" Naruto collapsed, breathing heavily. If he fell on the knife, it would be very bad… He still had not pulled it out, as he didn't want to bleed to death before Kyuubi got off his lazy ass and healed him. He was lucky that Yondaime had a clear enough head to catch him.
Arashi noticed how Naruto stiffened in his arms, as if unused to the type of contact. Then again, what Shinobi, no matter what age, would be 'used' to being carried bridal style? Arashi mentally grinned. Naruto however, was having different thoughts as he eventually relaxed.
-is this was it feels like to have an actual Father? Admittedly he doesn't know… still.. This is… nice…-
'You know what's nicer? Tsunade's bre-'
-I do NOT want to know thank you!-
"Arigato." Naruto whispered, fainting finally in Yondaime's arms. Arashi frowned and remained staring into the little boy's face. So familiar… why? And what was with the father and son comment?
"Let's get you to Rin." Was all he said, and disappeared in a yellow flash back to the Kunai still in his team's area while complicated and worrisome thoughts went around in his head.
Who was Naruto?
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Oto Denpa no jutsu– Literally means 'sound' and 'radio waves.'
Shoukei no jutsu– Shou means to burn, and Kei means light. So the translation would be something like Burning Light, or blinding light.
Those two were my original Jutsu… so if you wanna use 'em, go ahead just tell me :p