AuroraStarPhoenix: Yeah but by a reincarnation that Kyuubi made
update: well i started going over my stories for the mistakes starting with this story. so, after this is dreams of the heart, mind and body.
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Chapter Six: Winning Is Losing
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They were hopping through the forest, that hid their village, "Okay the people we're looking for are disguised as regular travelers." Kakashi enlightened everyone as they continued to jump.
"That's where you come in Hinata; you are to use your byakugan to see their true appearance." Kurenai added. Hinata nodded.
"What about the rest of us?" Kiba questioned.
"Then EVERYONE... is to lend a hand if there are any ninjas, from the village of snow." Kakashi said with the emphasis on 'everyone'.
The Traitors and The Elite
"Do you sense them?" One of the masked elite questioned.
"Yeah..., should we take them out or set traps for them?" A second asked.
"Well, they are from the Konoha village; they'll be expecting traps and probably have a Hyuuga with them." One of the three traitors responded.
A member without a mask then approached them. The two elite, that were in sight, stood at attention, "Well then, let's see how the snow village's ninja stand against the leaf village's ninja."
"Yes sir!" The elite agreed with firm voices before disappearing off of the dirt road.
Kakashi and Kurenai's Team
"I guess they're inviting us to a fight." Kakashi thought, "They're expecting us!" He said loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone nodded and sped up.
"If we have to fight..., I hope Naruto-kun doesn't change again." Hinata thought.
"This is going to be so troublesome." Shikamaru complained to himself.
Naruto suddenly slowed down and began to have images of him with the appearance of that demon. He was standing on a dirt road while bodies were either dead at his feet or scattered everywhere. "Naruto, keep up!" Kakashi shouted, snapping Naruto out of the trance then he quickly caught up.
When they arrived at the place where Kakashi felt the presences greatest; they all stopped. The place was on a dirt road; it was clear and had a lot of trees and bushes close up and far off but still visible, "Where are they, Kakashi-kun?"
"I'm... not too sure but I think..." Kakashi paused for a second, "...everybody move!" He commanded loudly. Everyone spreaded out into trees or bushes, before a shower of kunais rained down, with exploding tags attached to them. "Hinata where are they?" Kurenai shouted.
Hinata began looking around with her byakugan activated, only to be shocked when she saw a man right up in her face, but then he disappeared.
Then two of the elite appeared in the road. Everyone came out of hiding and regrouped, "Okay, Kurenai-chan and I will take these two and I want you, Shikamaru to take everyone else and find those missing ninjas." Kakashi ordered.
"This is going to be so troublesome but I guess it can't be helped." With that Shikamaru, Lee, Tenten, Naruto, Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru disappeared into the tress.
"You shouldn't underestimate the snow village's elite like that." One of the two people standing in front of them said.
"Well, you shouldn't underestimate Konoha's jounin like this." Kurenai said. "Kakashi-kun, after this mission I hope you don't forget about what you're supposed to tell me." Kakashi nodded.
Kurenai, Kakashi and the elite then charged at each other for battle.
Shikamaru's Team
They were jumping through the trees searching for the missing ninjas. They were stopped by another elite appearing and throwing kunais at them. When they stopped at a clearing, they saw that there was only one elite dressed in grey-colored armor, with black pants, short black boots and a mask, much like the Kakashi's, except it had writing on it, that read, 'snow'.
"Well..., the worse happened." Shikamaru thought. "You guys remember what to do right?"
"Yeah…!" Everyone shouted; then they all ran in different directions.
"Hey...! You aren't supposed to run away!" The elite shouted as he watched them run away.
"Who said anything about running away?" Tenten shouted when she appeared in the sky.
She then pulled out a scroll and released a flurry of weapons. The elite smiled, "Do you think that this is going to work on me." He then avoided every last weapon effortlessly before Tenten landed on the ground. "Well girl, I guess you're the only one with courage around here." He then tried to approach her only to find out that he was unable to move. "What the... What's going on?"
"You were just..." Tenten started only to be cut off by the man turning into snow. "Shikamaru, did you see where he went?"
Shikamaru stood up from behind the bushes with an annoyed face on, "No."
Clap. Clap. Clap.
"That was quite impressive." The elite complimented.
"Stop wasting time! Tell me where you guys have those missing ninjas?" Tenten demanded.
"Don't worry about them, they're not going anywhere, yet; but you are, now!" He shouted before performing some hand seals, 'Water Style: Snow Storm no jutsu!' Then it began to snow fiercely and in a fairly short amount of time there was a short snow storm.
When it was over there was snow, ankle depth, "Don't you just love the snow?" The elite questioned gaily. "It'll be your graveyard!" He shouted before disappearing.
He appeared behind Shikamaru ready to strike with a kunai but was deflected by a well thrown kunai. Shikamaru attempted a kick to the elite's face but it was dodged when the elite did three back flips; as he did the back flips Tenten threw a kunai at the him but he deflected it with his own kunai.
The elite then got angry and tried to attack Shikamaru once again but he was stopped by an explosive uppercut from Naruto, who was hidden underground. This sent him straight up and then another Naruto came out of no where and delivered a straight kick to the elite's stomach. He was sent to the ground by Lee appearing in front of him and giving him a whirlwind kick.
Before he could hit the ground, he was intercepted from two directions by Kiba and Akamaru's 'Gatsuuga'. They swirled into his stomach and back, clawing and scratching at him. They continued their relentless, brutal combination of attacks.
The elite stayed down for a few seconds before stumbling up to his feet, but suddenly Hinata appeared in front of him, 'Jyuken!' she shouted before she began to seal up his tenketsu, with open palms and releasing chakra. Before she could finish sealing them, he tried to kick her making her jump away to dodge it.
The elite's arms were limp and he could barely stand. He then fell backwards after fainting from the pain. The group was shocked to see another man appear from the bushes. He walked over to the defeated elite, picked him up by the head with two hands and cracked his neck; killing him instantly.
Kurenai & Kakashi
"Wow! These two weren't that hard to beat don't you think, Kakashi-kun." Kurenai asked.
"Yeah..." he paused to look around, "...too easy if you ask me." He whispered this time.
Suddenly the defeated snow village ninjas began to twitch; then they both stood up in a very limp manner. Kakashi and Kurenai did not notice they were up because their backs were facing them and also because the snow ninja were now... dead. So, they couldn't sense them. The dead ninjas then attacked them.
Shikamaru's Team
The man that had killed the elite was dressed in black loose pants; wearing a brown, open coat, exposing a firm chest. His face looked like one that was around the age of thirty-five or so, he had short black hair and two hoop earrings in his left ear, along with the same type of boots as the dead elite.
The man showed no respect for his dead comrade and threw the dead body to the ground, dusting off his hands like he just finished touching dirt. The man stood up straight then turned to face them with a strict face, "So..., this is what Konoha has. You kids are strong aren't you?" He spoke with a deep voice.
Kakashi and Kurenai
"Kakashi-kun, no matter how many times we strike them down, they just won't stay down. I'm not one to lose hope in a situation like this one but... what are we going to do?" Kurenai questioned.
"Well Kakashi, what are you going to do? You can't just let someone close to you die again. 'Yeah but I...' Shut up and think you idiot!" Kakashi shouted at himself in his mind, "Wait a second..." Kakashi started after noticing something pretty obvious.
Kakashi jumped away from the snow ninja he was fighting, "Kurenai these are just puppets. Send a fire dragon into that tree over there." He said pointing. Kurenai quickly slashed the puppet in half, leapt into the air, performed some hand seals, 'Fire Style: Fire Dragon!' Kurenai shouted before blowing a dragon of fire into a tree. Then a man fell from the tree and one of the puppets fell, but the other one continued its assault after regenerating.
After a while, the puppet which fell stood back up; "I see, so there are more of who ever these guys are controlling them, and once we find one, shortly after another replaces them." Kakashi discovered. "Kurenai-chan, there could possibly be a hundred of these puppet controllers, so we have to stay alert and attack the controllers when we find them."
"Okay." Kurenai responded as they continued to fight.
Skikamaru's Team
Shortly after introducing himself to be Kakin, 'The snow master'. He made quick work of Shikamaru's team, who were scattered on the ground, including Shikamaru. "Whoa! This guy is a genius in battle. He's way smarter than me." Shikamaru complained in his head. "How am I supposed to beat this guy?"
Shikamaru then saw Naruto struggling to walk over to Kakin. "I'm... (pant)... not going to let you... do this." Naruto got out.
"And just how are you going to do that?" Kakin questioned.
Naruto stood up straight and held his fist out, "I'm going to defeat you!"
"Is that so? You can barely stand and you're talking about beating me." Kakin said before chuckling.
Kakin then charged at Naruto and released a spinning back kick, sent Naruto flying into a tree. "This is too troublesome. I have to think of a plan before something even worse happens." Shikamaru thought before grunting loudly. "Wait... why is their still snow? Since that guy's dead then his jutsu should have failed." Then he crawled over to Hinata, who was close by, painfully watching her love be beaten stupid.
"Come on child, if Konoha sent out children for this kind of mission, then you must be strong." Kakin said as he walked over to Naruto. "Then that must mean that either the other ninjas are extremely powerful or they're in a time of crisis." "Now kid I want to find out!" He shouted then charged at Naruto, who was standing again.
An uppercut to the chin and Naruto flew into the air; Kakin grabbed his ankle and slammed him down to the ground. Kakin then raised his leg high over his head and let it down with a heavy drop into Naruto's stomach. "Naruto-kun..." Hinata thought weakly in her mind.
"Hey Hinata...!" She turned to see Shikamaru laying about five meters away from him. "I need you to focus your byakugan and look around for anything unusual." Hinata nodded, activated her byakugan and struggled to look around.
Kakin was holding Naruto up by his jacket, "This is too pathetic." Kakin whispered, "I think that I'll finish you off first." He then threw Naruto to the ground. "Prepare to die!" He shouted and did some hand seals, 'Water Style: Snow Coffin!' Then snow swirled around Naruto and formed into a large sphere.
"Well Hinata..., what do you see?"
"There are actually eight other people here!" Hinata was a little shocked and then fainted from the overuse of her chakra.
Kurenai & Kakashi
"How many puppet controllers are there?" Kakashi questioned to himself as he was dodging and attacking.
"How long is this going to keep up?" Kurenai thought as she beheaded a puppet, only to have its head grow back seconds later.
Kakashi used his sharingan to trace the chakra strings back to the source and then attacked it, with a kunai. Suddenly, it begun to snow and shortly after there was snow everywhere. "Kurenai-chan, be careful we're fight in their territory now." "Alright I need to end this now."
Shikamaru's Team
"I thought he had too much luck to have been that good." Shikamaru whispered. "What are you going to do now, Shikamaru?" Shikamaru thought. Then he put his brain to work.
Poof
The snow sphere disappeared into the snow on the ground, "So, you managed to escape at the last minute." Kakin said.
Naruto was now panting and barely standing behind Kakin. Kakin disappeared then reappeared in front of Naruto and punched him in the stomach and kicked him into the air; and then he did some quick hand seals, 'Water Style: Ice Spikes'. Then spikes made of ice shot out of the snow.
Right before Naruto hit the killer spikes; they were broken and were now dull enough for a person to survive a fall onto them. "What...?" Kakin questioned as to why he was the one that broke the spikes.
"Did you already forget about me?" Shikamaru questioned.
But before Shikamaru could do anything else; a ninth soldier blasted out of the ground, making him loss his concentration and release his jutsu. "Where'd he come from? This wasn't expected." The person knocked him out before disappearing back into the ground.
"Kid, I've changed my mind I'm going to kill your friends first and make you watch." Then wires came out of the trees and Naruto was pulled against a tree and was now tied up.
First Kakin walked over to the unconscious Hinata. "No! Stop…!" Naruto shouted weakly. Kakin then knelt down next to her, No...! No...! You bastard… stop!" Kakin grabbed a hold of Hinata's neck and lifted her up, which made her conscious, "No...!" Kakin's grip on Hinata's neck only got tighter and tighter as Naruto yelled.
Then as Naruto was yelling he did not notice red chakra flowing out of him, "No... No...!" Then Kakin's grip eased up when he felt Naruto's chakra levels escalading. He turned to see Naruto engulfed in red fiery chakra.
Kakin was a little horrified at the sight and then tried his snow coffin attack again trapping Naruto in the circular formation of the snow. "You... you must die now!" He shouted as he continued to hold Hinata by her neck but without that much force.
He tried to close his extended right hand only to feel some thing stopping it from closing. Suddenly the snow sphere was being punctured by beams of chakra.
Boom
The sphere exploded and Naruto was standing with a vicious look on his face and his appearance had changed. He was still wearing his orange jumpsuit and blue sandals but his face had changed into the one that it had been before. The only thing that was different though, was that his hair was crimson red.
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata whispered. Then slowly everyone else had regained consciousness but were still unable to move.
"What happened to Naruto... he's different?" Shikamaru thought to himself.
"Naruto... you've changed again." Lee said out loud.
"Whoa..." Kiba thought.
"Arp. Arp." Akamaru barked weakly.
"You sense that too, huh... Akamaru? That's not the same Naruto."
"That's the form Naruto changed into on the last mission but his hair." Tenten thought.
"This is your last warning..." Naruto commanded, "...put her DOWN!"
"Yeah…and what if I don't?" Kakin questioned.
'...,' Naruto remained silent.
Kakin then smiled, "What if I were to do this instead?" Then he began to tighten his grip on Hinata's neck.
Naruto growled loudly before disappearing, "What...? He wasn't this fast before."
"Naruto-kun..." Hinata whispered as she was choked.
Suddenly five Narutos appeared and four attacked Kakin, "U... zu...ma..ki!" They kicked him straight up causing him to release Hinata and the fifth one caught her. As Kakin flew up a sixth Naruto appeared and shouted "Na..." before kicking him straight down. Before Kakin could hit the ground, two more Narutos appeared, one from behind him and the other in front and they delivered straight kicks to his back and stomach then they shouted, "Ruto...!" Then a last clone appeared right in front of him in mid-air, holding the red and black resengan. He then shouted, "Deadly Rendan!" Then he stuck the attack into Kakin's stomach.
Kakin began to rotate and then was sent flying through six snow clad trees before stopping by smacking into one last tree. The real Naruto was holding a half conscious Hinata when the clones disappeared. His eyes turned back into the peaceful blue as normal, "Hinata-chan..., are you okay?"
Hinata nodded and Naruto rested her on the ground and turned to where Kakin had left an obvious path. Kakin was now barely alive as he managed to shout, "Attack...! (cough)" Before coughing up blood.
Then eight soldiers appeared in front of the path, "Sorry kid. We can't let you go any further."
"You won't get in my way!" Naruto shouted as his eyes became red with the three black lines again.
Five charged at Naruto, only to stop when he disappeared. "You should have run away, because now I'm going to kill you, all!" Naruto shouted viciously while still unseen.
Kurenai & Kakashi
"Kurenai-chan, cover me for about two minutes!" Kakashi shouted to Kurenai.
"Okay!" She shouted as she jumped in front of him and Kakashi began to mold his chakra, "What's he up to?"
After two minutes Kakashi did some hand seals, 'Forbidden Technique: Water Style: Giant Water Cyclone!" Suddenly all of the snow that had been lying on the ground began to melt, "Kurenai-chan..., get yourself over here, now!" She was a little shocked because she never heard him shout that particular way, let alone at her like that but still, she did as she was told.
The snow that had melted began to swirl around Kakashi and Kurenai. "Wow...! What's this? I've never seen Kakashi-kun, use such a powerful attack." Kurenai thought as she stood next to him. The giant cyclone began spinning in a deadly rotation.
Then the cyclone spread out, in a wide range, killing anyone or destroying almost anything that got in its way. The trees that were in the way found that out the hard way as they were being stripped of the leave; some were losing their branches and bark. When the cyclone faded, it seemed like it was raining and there was a rainbow.
"Kakashi-kun, where did you learn that?"
All she got was a grunt and a thud. "Kakashi-kun...?" She turned to see him face down on the ground. She knelt down and turned him on his back, "Kakashi-kun... why...? Why did you use a jutsu that would do this?"
"Because if that kept up then our chakra levels would have..." He cut himself off, to grunt from the pain. Then he fainted before squeaking out, "Go help Naruto and the others."
"Not yet Kakashi-kun, you can't die, you haven't answered... I haven't told you how I feel. No I won't let you die yet." Then she placed the palms of her hand on his chest and began transferring chakra to him.
After a few minutes of that, Kakashi opened his eyes to see Kurenai smiling at him. "Aright Kakashi-kun, now get off of your lazy butt and let's go help Naruto and the others." Kakashi simply nodded as she helped him up.
Shikamaru's Team
Naruto made short work of the eight soldiers but still managed to slaughter them brutally. Naruto was now walking over to Kakin who was still sitting down looking at Naruto with horror in his eyes. Naruto gave off an evil smile as he approached him, "Are you ready to die?"
Before Naruto could get any closer another soldier emerged out of the ground and then attacked Naruto. First he caught Naruto's legs while coming out of the ground, twirled him around before throw him at a rock. The soldier did a few hand seals, 'Water Style: Snow Tsunami' with that a giant wave of snow was sent in Naruto's direction.
Kurenai and Kakashi arrived at the area, "Shikamaru, what happened?" Kakashi questioned softly.
"Well, some guy named Kakin showed up as you can see we didn't do so well but then something strange happened to Naruto."
"Strange...? What do you mean?"
"His eyes became red and his appearance change."
Kakashi's eyes blasted open, 'I don't think that this is going to end very well.' "Where is he now, Shikamaru?"
"He's over there, being pummeled by the snow wave."
When the wave was gone they saw Naruto but he had changed again. He was now looking like the full demon in Hinata's dream and he seemed to be as tall a Kakashi. Everyone was confused except Hinata; she was afraid, "Naruto-kun..., y... you changed, but you promised me."
Naruto was standing there with his demoniac red chakra flowing and swirling around him. He clenched his fist before disappearing, "Where'd he go?" The ninth soldier asked himself.
A clone of the demon Naruto appeared right in front of him and shouted "Uzumaki...!" before kicking him on the chin; sending him flying fifty feet into the sky. Then another clone appeared and performed a back flip leg-drop sending the soldier hurtling down then shouted "Naruto...!" Before he was able to hit the ground two more clones appeared holding red and black resengan, the two struck at the same time shouting, "Resengan... Rendan…!" The force of both resengans spinning in opposite direction tore the soldier's body into pieces. Then the blood rained over the area the soldier was over.
Everyone's eyes widened at this, "This definitely isn't the same Naruto." Shikamaru thought in astonishment. The Naruto clones disappeared in puffs of smoke and the real one made his way over to Kakin.
"So, you were going to strangle her?"
"What are you talking about, kid-sama?" Kakin added the 'sama' trying to get mercy.
Naruto got a hold of his neck, "I mean her." Naruto pointed at Hinata. He then began to tighten his vice grip causing Kakin to cough up blood. "If anyone so much as touches her... I'll kill them all... and you already touched her." Naruto whispered to Kakin, even though that went for everyone anywhere. His grip got even tighter making Kakin twitch; in a desperate act Kakin tried hitting Naruto's hand. This only made Naruto squeezed even harder causing Kakin's face to turn red and blue.
"Naruto...! Stop that now!" Kakashi demanded.
Naruto turned his head to face him with an angry expression, and simply tightened his grip even more. Hinata could only look on at the demon Naruto, "Naruto-kun, if this continues I think something bad is going to happen to you." Hinata thought as tears began to run down her eyes.
"Hinata, use your byakugan and tell me what you see." Kakashi said.
"...O… okay." She sobbed once more, then wiped her eyes of the tears and then activated her byakugan. She looked at Naruto to see raging red and black chakra, swirling into a fox's head.
"What did you see?"
"A... a... fox demon's h... he... head." Hinata stuttered in fear.
"She saw a fox demon's head? Does this mean...?" Kakashi thought.
The man was now gasping for air as Naruto continued to tighten his grip while looking back at Kakashi.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Naruto had tightened his grip so much that he squished Kakin's neck as narrow as a straw. The blood was oozing out of his neck, and leaking down Narurto's clenched fist. Naruto allowed his body to drop to the ground before he turned completely to face Kakashi. "Are you satisfied now?" Kurenai questioned as she helped Kakashi stand.
Naruto stared at the ground for a few seconds, and then he stared up and began to sniff the air. He then stared at Kurenai, "...No." Then he disappeared.
About an hour later everyone was now able to walk and they were heading to where Naruto rushed off to. When they got there they saw the three missing ninjas torn to shreds and blood was everywhere in the area; there wasn't even anything for wild animals to eat. They continued to look around and saw Naruto sitting down, leaning against a tree, his appearance was now back to normal and he was unconscious.
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