Chapter 6 First Contact of the Hidden Enemy

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Yo, the Cyberkagekitsune is back. Sorry for the long wait these scenes took a while to work out. ATTENTION! Due to technical difficulties the original chapter has been split in half, making chapters five and six. In this chapter there will be info on Reikon/Naruto's past, anything involving his "family" or "birthplace" is total bull crap and is merely a cover story since Reikon/Naruto's identity will be reveled the earliest during the Chunin . For those that skip chapters when reading fanfics Reikon is Naruto. Thank you that is all .

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"Blah"- people talking

"Blah" – people thinking

xxxxxxxxxxx- barriers between flashbacks, new locations (ex. start at the Hokage's office then shift to somewhere in Suna), and time shifts (ex. two hours ago, three hours later etc.)

(blah)- translations or explanations

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Konoha Front Gates 9:00 A.M.

Reikon, Hinata and Sasuke had assembled in front of Konoha's front gate and were waiting for their sensei and the mission client to arrive. It was a few minutes before the three saw Kakashi and Tazuna walking up to them. If you could see under Reikon's mask you'd see his nose scrunch at the heavy smell of liquor on the old man. Sasuke looked unimpressed at their client. Hinata just looked down when she saw that Tazuna was looking at her and her teammates with a scowl.

"So these little brats are supposed to protect me," Tazuna said, then taking a swig of sake," ah... they barely look out of diapers."

"And this one," he said pointing at Reikon," what's this he's blind what good is he."

Tazuna was bout to take another swig of sake when a kunai flew at him and cut cleanly through the neck of the sake bottle and sending the bottle to the ground and shattering on impact while the kunai raced toward a nearby tree and imbedded into it until just the ring end of the kunai remained visible. Tazuna looked pale faced toward a Reikon who was smirking under his mask and was retracting the arm he used to through the kunai back to his side.

"Didn't you ever learn not to judge a book by it's cover," Reikon said amusedly.

"Well if your done playing around Reikon, this Tazuna-san our client" Kakashi said while looking over the top of his new edition of Ichaicha Paradaisu (Make-out Paradise), "alright everyone lets head out then."

"Hm," Sasuke gave his usual almighty response as started walking toward the gate.

"Whatever," Reikon said passively.

"Hai," Hinata said nervously as she feel into step behind Reikon.

"You'd watch out what you say to them Tazuna-san," Kakashi said when the three Genin had walked a few yards ahead, " the most dangerous thing you could ever do is underestimate a shinobi, even a blind shinobi."

With that Kakashi walked ahead and Tazuna feel in behind thinking that the "brats" may get him through this.

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Four hours later. On the road heading west toward Wave Country

The three Genin, Kakashi and Tazuna were walking toward Wave country, so far there were no incidents and everything had been going smoothly since their departure from Konoha. Sasuke was in front of the group followed by Reikon, with Hinata to the right of him, Tazuna behind them and Kakashi behind Tazuna.

"Anou Reikon-kun," Hinata said finally plucking up the courage to talk with Reikon.

"Nan (what) Hinata," Reikon said turning his head toward Hinata.

"Reikon-kun, y-you were b-born in Wave Country r-right," Hinata said to her teammate.

"Hai," Reikon said.

"W-what's it like," Hinata said nervously.

"I don't remember much since I left when I was around four," Reikon said, " but what I do remember is that there are many islands some inhabited with many people while others are merely vacation getaways during the summer. From what remember that around the time I left a man named Gatou said he'd bring more jobs to Wave by moving the headquarters' of Gatou Corp. to Wave."

Kakashi, looking at Tazuna from behind saw Tazuna visibly wince when he heard Reikon say Gatou and wondered what the problem was.

It was another hour when both Reikon and Kakashi noticed a small puddle on the left side of the road as they passed it. Both realizing what it really was decided to see what would happen next.

About thirty seconds after Kakashi passed by the puddle two masked men appeared out of the puddle and jumped into action. The two of them were connected by a chain coming out of their clawed gauntlets. The one on the left grabbed his partners hand and twisted around taking him with him and hurled him at Kakashi when he twisted back around.

Team Seven and Kakashi were apparently taken by surprise when the two ninja's struck. Before they could turn around the two ninja had Kakashi bound in their spiked chain. The two pulled hard on their end ripping Kakashi to pieces saying, "one down" before making their way toward Tazuna. They both leaped into the air and had their clawed hands extended in order to impale Tazuna saying, "two down" when Reikon and Sasuke hit them both with a flying kick to the face sending the two back wards landing on one knee and forced to use their claws to stop from moving backwards. With an angry growl both of them detached the chain of their gauntlet's and running toward Reikon and Sasuke who had gotten into a fighting stance while Hinata had Tazuna behind her and had a kunai in her hand.

"We are the Demon Brothers if you give use Tazuna now we promise to kill you quickly," the smaller of the two said arrogantly.

"Really," Sasuke said with a smirk, "you think we should follow their advice Reikon?"

"Nah, I think we should bet the crap out of them for ruining such a fine and quite day," Reikon said.

Both the ninja's growled again before they ran at Reikon and Sasuke.

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Reikon was hit with an attack first when the smaller demon brother thrust his hand out at Reikons face. Reikon ducked underneath his arm and struck several places on his arm and chest. Seeing as it did nothing the demon brother smirked under his mask and struck his other arm out only for Reikon to dodge it as well and struck his arm and legs. Reikon after striking him jumped back a couple of yards from the Demon Brother.

"Your hits aren't doing anything to me brat," the Demon Brother said to Reikon.

"That's were your wrong," Reikon said turning around and heading toward Hinata and Tazuna.

"Where are you going punk, we aren't done yet," the Demon Brother said, Reikon was still walking away though and that got him angry. He charged at Reikon only to crash to the ground after he ran a few feet toward him.

"You won't be going anywhere for at least a day," Reikon said turning around to the Demon Brother.

"What did you do you little bastard," the Demon Brother yelled.

"I've paralyzed several key muscles in your legs, arms and chest. You won't be going anywhere for at least a day," Reikon said heading back to his teammate as the Demon Brother yelled profanity at his retreating back side.

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The Demon brother thrust his arm out at Sasuke only to have him dropped under his guard and have Sasuke deliver a kick to his chin sending him backwards. The Demon Brother quickly recovered and once more ran toward Sasuke. Sasuke seeing him as an easy opponent began going through hand seals and then shouted, "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style Grand Fireball Technique)" and a huge fireball blasted toward the Demon Brother who was busy with hand seals of his own. With the fire ball in his line of sight Sasuke didn't see the Demon Brother use Kawarimi (Body Substitute) to appear behind him. Sasuke was about to smirk when a powerful kick was delivered to his side sending toward a tree.

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The Demon Brother quickly headed toward his target. He saw Hinata look at him determinedly and smirked at himself. Hinata looked at him as she got into at a defensive stance and redid herself for the attack. The Demon Brother once again jumped into the air and thrust his right arm forward. Hinata managed to block the first attack but saw that she wouldn't be able to block the second attack she saw coming with his other arm. She couldn't stop it but she stepped to her left as the arm came forward and sliced through her clothing on her right shoulder blade and leaving a nasty cut. The Demon Brother brought his arms back for a final strike when he was hit in the throat. Hinata looked up and saw that it was Kakashi, she quickly looked around him and saw that the "remains" of Kakashi was a cut up log.

"Good job Hinata," Kakashi said smirking. Kakashi took the Demon Brother and dragged of the road. Meanwhile Reikon seeing the fight was over dragged his own prize who he had knocked at after he refused to stop cussing at him over to Kakashi's and Sasuke looked mad at Reikon seeing he had beaten his opponent. Kakashi was getting out a length of rope to tie the Demon Brothers up with when Reikon stepped up to him with his opponent.

"Allow me Kakashi-sensei," Reikon said placing his burden next his brother. Reikon stepped up to the unconscious assailant and hit him in the same location as he had struck his opponent earlier.

"He's paralyzed now Reikon," Kakashi said with his usual board tone.

"Hai," Reikon answered.

Sasuke, Hinata and Tazuna walked up to the two to get some answers from Kakashi.

"W-hy d-did you h-have us think y-you had d-died s-sensei," Hinata asked slightly wincing from the cut on her shoulder.

"To see who these two were after," Kakashi said turning around

" I needed to see if this was just shinobi attacking shinobi or something more," Kakashi said looking at paling Tazuna.

It was after a few minutes of nervous silence that Tazuna confessed that he was wanted by Gatou. That Gatou had Wave under his thumb and the bridge that he was building was the only thing that was standing in his way. Also that at the poverty level in Wave he couldn't afford to pay for a B or A classed mission and had his request listed as a C classed instead.

"That was wrong of you to do, because of you Hinata was injured and may need medical attention," Kakashi said," we'll head back. We need to get back to Konoha we don't have the medical supplies to help Hinata and that cut may be poisoned."

"No w-we d-don't K-kashi-sensei, c-can m-make it," Hinata said feeling bad that she would be the reason for the teams failure.

"That's good initiative Hinata but you could die from the poison and I can't allow that," Kakashi said.

"Don't worry Kakashi-sensei," Reikon removing one of the scrolls from his belt and walking over to Hinata.

"What are you talking about dobe," Sasuke said finally getting into the conversation.

"I've been on the road most of life, you can't survive unless if you know how to pack accordingly," Reikon said.

Motioning for Hinata to sit he kneeled down next to her and unrolled the scroll in front him. When Kakashi, Sasuke ,Hinata and Tazuna looked down at it they saw a number of different seals on the scroll. Reikon put his right hand in a seal and placed his left over the scroll as started move it over the paper.

"W-what are y-you d-doing Reikon-kun," Hinata asked.

"I'm trying to find my poison healing balm. With my chakra pulse I can't read but by concentrating chakra to my hand and waving it over something I want to read I can infuse ink with my chakra and see it my mind," Reikon said.

"Ah, here it is," Reikon said taking out a kunai from his holster. He took off his right glove and slashed his hand. Hinata Sasuke and Tazuna looked worriedly at him for cutting himself, while Kakashi looked calmly since he recognized what it was that his student was doing. Reikon placed his cut hand on the seal and there was puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared they could see a medium sized jar of balm along with some needles, thread, gaze, medical tape and bandages.

"Could you all turn around please," Reikon said to hi companions who were about to ask why but simply did as they were told at Reikons next request to Hinata.

"Hinata take off your sweater and shirt so I can take care of that cut," Reikon said to a now blushing Hinata who did as she was told turning around with her back facing Reikon, taking off her sweater and revealing a skin tight black shirt and then taking that off as well revealing black bra underneath that. Reikon blushed under his mask at what he saw and started working on the cut. First taking out any loose threads from the wound then taking a generous amount of the balm and applying it to the wound there was a slight hissing sound and green vapor appeared to exiting the wound while an acrid smell filled the air. Hinata winced at the feeling coming from the wound.

"Don't worry Hinata the balm is forcing all the poison out as well as numbing the wound, don't worry you'll pain will be gone in a moment," Reikon said trying to sooth Hinata.

After a few seconds the last of the vapor disappeared and Reikon was able to sew up the wound and cover it up with the gauze and medical tape and finally wrapping it all up in bandages.

"Alright all done Hinata, you can put your clothing back on," Reikon said turning to Sasuke, Kakashi and Tazuna. After he noticed walking up to him he told the others they could turn around.

"So what do we do with them," Sasuke asked pointing to the two Demon Brothers.

"Once they wake up we'll interrogate them to see who else Gatou has hired and then we head to Wave Country," Kakashi said seeing Tazuna brightening up at the last statement.

"I'll take care of it sensei," Reikon said walking to the two paralyzed brothers before Kakashi could voice a protest. Walking towards them he see a long needle that was still lying on his scroll and scooped it up. Getting to the two brothers he applied pressure to a pressure point on each of their necks to wake them up.

"Your going to tell us everything we want to know," Reikon said to the two brothers.

"Like hell," one of them said.

"Humph," Reikon said," I was hoping you'd say that."

With out warning he removed both their masks and triggered more pressure points.

"I've just eliminated your abilities to move your heads on your own powers as well as close your eyes," said to the two brothers while positioning the larger ones head so he could look at his smaller companion.

"You know, it' amazing what you can do with a needle," Reikon said taking a kunai out and cutting the straps to the smaller brothers chest armor so he could remove it," for example this."

Reikon took the needle and jammed it through the smaller brothers chest and into his heart.

The younger brother could feel a hard feeling in his chest that felt as if it were slowly building.

"What... the hell... did you... do," the brother said wincing at the pain from his heart.

"Simple. I've manipulated your heart so to speak. You see right now your heart is having blood pumped into it but slowly the arteries that let the blood flow out are constricting. I'd say you have about five minutes before your heart goes boom," Reikon said with a smirk while all the people behind him paled at what he had said except Kakashi who had seen this sort of thing before.

"Bastard... I'll... never talk," the smaller brother said.

"Oh, I know," Reikon said," but how about your friend here. Can he watch you die and do nothing. We'll soon see."

They waited, at one minute the smaller brother could feel his heart pounding and his muscles constricting form lack of blood. At the second minute small lines of blood flowed from his mouth as more blood vessels started to burst. By the third minute the pain increased and blood started to flow from his noose, eyes, and hears and his head started to ache. At the fourth minute he felt a tearing sensation near his heart and lungs and stared to cough up blood and what looked like bits off flesh.

"Alright, I'll tell, I'll tell just stop," the older of the Demon Brothers pleaded to Reikon while looking at his brother.

"Tell me and the needle comes out," Reikon said looking down at the older of the Demon Brothers.

"It's the Kirigakure no Kijin (Devil of the Hidden Mist), we work for him that's all we know he didn't tell us anything else I swear. He contacted us but we never meet him, he just sent us a scroll with instructions. Now take the needle out, " the brother pleaded seeing more blood and chunks of flesh fly out his brothers mouth with each cough.

Reikon on the other hand just watched, he slowly held up both of his hands and showed his ten fingers and started counting down on them.

"Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three..."

"Reikon-kun stop!" Hinata said with tears in her eyes at seeing what her teammate was doing.

At the last moment Reikon pulled the needle out of the younger brother and jabbed both of them in the neck making them fall unconscious. Reikon got up and went to his medical scroll, replaced the items and sealed them back up, rolled up the scroll and placed it back around his belt.

"R-reikon-kun... ," Hinata started to mutter out but was interrupted.

"We know what we're up against so lets head out," Reikon said walking by Hinata and the others.

"These kids... ," Tazuna thought, "these lives they live."

Tazuna and the others continued to walk towards Wave Country and their eventual encounter with the Kirigakure no Kijin.

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Tree Base hidden somewhere in the forests in Wave Country

"So the Demon Brothers failed," a large man with his face wrapped in bandages said.

"Yes Zabuza-san," a voice said from the shadows.

"Well then, I may actually get to have some fun then," Zabuza said," GWA-HA-HA-HA-HA."

Throughout the forest birds flew away and ground animals fled as the sound of Kijin's mad laugh echoed the forest.

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Yea, it took awhile but at least now it's out so be happy. I warned you all earlier each new chapter would take one to two weeks to come in. Well please read and review. Tell next chapter then see ya.

-Cyberkagekitsune

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