Okay, here we are with Mizuki's beating at long last! The fool has taunted the turnips of Jonny the Wood-Boy for the last time! (Turns to Mizuki) GET OFF RAGNOS' PROPERTY, BEFORE RAGNOS GETS HIS BEATING STICK! (Stalks off to get the item in question.)
*I still don't own RWBY or Naruto! Those belong to Rooster Teeth and Kishimoto!*
*Speech Key*
"To be the Hokage! That is my dream!" = Talking
'Where is that pesky light switch?' = Thinking
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu! (Summoning Jutsu!) = Yelling/Demon & Summon Talking
'Stupid humans! Bunch of hairless apes!' = Demon/Summon Thinking
"DO YOU TAKE ME FOR A FOOL?!" = Demon/Summon Yelling
Mizuki's Betrayal - Part 1!
Shikamaru's POV.
"Yes! Jaune's plan is working like a charm!" I heard Kiba whisper/exclaim.
And it may be a drag, but I guess I can agree with him. If this plan works the way I think it will, not only will the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing be safe and back in the Hokage Vault, but we'll have detained Sasuke and the real traitor as well. It's a simple plan, really. Jaune and Naruto would distract Sasuke while myself and the others split off into four groups of three in order to litter most of the forest with traps in order to both humiliate and incapacitate Sasuke in case he tries to run.
Paint balloons, blunt bear traps, oil slicks, pitfalls full of live piranhas, one of which Lee nearly fell into, buckets full of tar, bags of feathers, catapults loaded with rotten fruits and vegetables from a produce stand that was trying to rip people off - and almost tricked my mom if not for her Keen eye for detail - a log swing that was set up like a battering ram, there's a lot more but I think you get the idea.
All we need to do now is wait for Sasuke to confess.
"Hold on a second… Isn't that Mizuki-Sensei over there?" Ino suddenly asked.
I glanced over to follow her line of sight and saw that she's right. Mizuki is right there hiding in the trees and wearing… a Shark ANBU uniform? What's he doing here and wearing that? He's not in the ANBU. But something about that look on his face is setting off a lot of alarm bells in my head. It looks a lot like the looks that the villagers send towards Jaune and Naruto on a daily basis.
And now that I think about it, Mizuki has been sending our friends those looks since the beginning of the Academy. And on multiple occasions, Iruka-Sensei has had to report Mizuki's behavior to the Hokage or to Lady Uchiha before coming back with a substitute assistant teacher who behaved in more of a neutral manner towards our friends. I never really noticed it before, but that's probably because I thought it would be too much of a drag for me to notice.
...That settles it, I'm having mom help me break this laziness streak of mine!
I was broken from my thoughts when I heard Jaune and Naruto begin to talk to Sasuke. Not that it'll do them any good, but I guess they want to try and settle things with diplomacy first.
"So this is where you were hiding, eh? Well, why don't you be a good boy and return the scroll?" Jaune asked.
But you could tell from his tone of voice, it wasn't a request. Not that Sasuke would ever acknowledge such an order from someone who's clearly stronger than he is. His stupid pride and sense of self importance won't let him. It's too bad Iruka-Sensei could never break Sasuke of these traits. Truly it is.
"I don't think so, Deadlast. The techniques are completely useless in the hands of peasants like you, and can only be used by an elite like myself. So I think I'll be keeping the scroll." Sasuke said, his eyes developing a deranged look.
Seriously, how could ANY of those fangirls back in our early days at the academy have been stupid enough to fall for that guy?! I need to know.
"Then you've left us no choice but to take it back by force!" Jaune growled, drawing his lance and without a doubt activating his Sharingan.
Jaune told us on the way here as we were setting up traps that he had a feeling that his foolish and selfish cousin wouldn't come willingly, but had planned accordingly for it. It's a good thing that he and Naruto have been learning several techniques to restrain and immobilize an enemy long enough to knock them out and seal off their Chakra for a certain period of time. And from the look of things, that's what they plan to do to Sasuke.
Knowing Jaune, he's not going to waste his Mangekyō Sharingan on his weakling of a cousin. He may use its base form, but that's about it. Jaune told us that he's trying not to use his bloodline as a crutch like so many other Uchiha before him did. Not that any of us blame him for that. Ino herself said that she's been talking to her mom about learning flower based jutsu and other techniques revolving around plants and poisons so she'll have a more diverse arsenal.
But I digress.
Naruto himself got into a defensive stance as he took out a scroll from his coat. He opened it up to reveal a sealing array, bit his thumb and smeared some blood onto the seal while applying Chakra. In a poof of smoke, Naruto had called upon his own personal weapon. It was a Bo-Staff that looked to be made from a highly durable, yet lightweight metal that's perfect for a ninja's use. I should know. My mom and I gave it to him as a birthday present last year.
Sasuke got ready to retaliate by taking out two kunai knives, crouching down and holding them in a reverse grip. Ch'yeah, like those flimsy things are going to help him at all in a straight out fight. Unless he SOMEHOW learned and mastered the Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu in the time it took us to find him. Which I highly doubt.
But as I looked back towards Mizuki, I saw that evil grin on his face grow bigger and bigger. That's when I caught the gleam of something metal in the moonlight. Crap! Fuma Shuriken!
"Jaune! Naruto! Watch out!" I yelled just as Mizuki threw the first of two shuriken.
Thankfully, it seems my warning reached their ears in time as Jaune pushed Naruto out of the way and used his lance to deflect the bladed ninja throwing weapon.
Normal POV.
Jaune sighed at the close call that he and his brother in all but blood had just experienced. Had Shikamaru not warned them in time, one of them would have surely gotten their head taken off by that thing! Boy, THAT would've been an embarrassing death. Killed because you didn't pay attention.
'Note to me; ALWAYS remain aware of my surroundings.'
Hearing a cruel snicker, I looked up to see Mizuki in a stolen ANBU uniform leap down from his hiding place in the trees with a second shuriken in hand. But this one seems a bit different from most of the other shinobi tools I've seen in my studies and on combat practice. There are these deep lines around the areas of the blades where they connect to the inner ring.
And it seems Naruto took notice of this detail as well. He's always been the weapon nut between the two of us, and can spot the difference between certain weapons with little to no trouble at all. And a good thing too, since that's saved our collective asses more than once during our childhood when some of the bolder civilians would try and attack us with fancy weapons that they didn't know how to use.
One guy who used to run a shop in the center of the village tried to shoot us with a prototype of a weapon called a 'musket', only to be killed himself because he was holding the thing backwards and literally shot himself in the head. Geez, and I never thought brain matter could go flying in so many different directions like it had that time.
And we were right about the shuriken not being a normal one when we saw the blades unfold and relocate themselves until they resembled a jagged sword of some kind. I've never seen anything like it before!
"Good job, Sasuke. You played your part well." Mizuki said.
"So you're the one who gave this walking pile of shit orders to steal the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing from the Hokage Vault, eh Mizuki-Teme?" Naruto asked, pointing a thumb at Sasuke.
"That doesn't matter, demon boy! By the end of tonight, you and your fellow demon brother will be dead and sent back to Hell where your kind belongs! And Jiraiya-Sama will reward me greatly for bringing him the scroll!" Mizuki declared.
Much to the ire of Sasuke.
"What?! That wasn't the deal! We had a deal!" he exclaimed.
Mizuki just casually strolled up to Sasuke, seeming to be acting as if nothing else matters. But Naruto and Jaune know different. They know he's up to something.
"Yeah, well, the deal's expired."
Sasuke gasped as he felt a stabbing pain in his chest, coughing up blood as he glanced down to see the shuriken sword Mizuki held in his hand buried deep in his chest. Mizuki just smirked again, narrowing his eyes in murderous glee.
"Now kindly die for me."
Mizuki yanked the blade from Sasuke's chest, sending blood all over the place but not killing the boy. Not yet at least. But if he doesn't get medical help soon, he WILL die. And Jaune doesn't approve of that! His cousin may be an arrogant, selfish, power obsessed prick most of the time, but he is still family.
And family is the one thing that matters more than anything to Jaune!
"Damn you, Mizukiiiii!" roared Jaune.
He readied his lance as Sakura and the rest of the rookies rushed out of hiding and went to both block off Mizuki's escape and heal Sasuke. Or at the very least keep him alive. Jaune roared and rushed at Mizuki, his Sharingan blazing as he resolved to dismember this traitor before ending his pathetic existence.
Mizuki just smirked even wider and readied his sword. This would be fun for him.
*To Be Continued...*
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