Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters written here. They are own by their respective owners. Nuff' said.
Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.
Now on with the fourth chapter. Things are kinda' gonna' move a little quickly.
The Black Leaves
Chapter 4
"Congratulations, Sakura on your victory," Mizuki said as the pink haired girl skipped out of the ring with a big smile on her face. The second she was out of the ring, she ran over to her mother and leapt into a bone crushing hug. Kaoru hugged her daughter back and gave words of praise to Sakura.
The two academy nurses came over to the ring and placed the unconscious Kiba on a stretcher and carried him over to the small medical tent that had been set up for such an occasion. Tsume shook her head as her son was carried off.
'Once again, my son had underestimated his opponent and has paid for it,' Tsume thought. 'If he is to ever reach his dream of becoming heir to our clan, then he will have to learn to judge his opponents based on skill and strength. Not judge them based on sex,' She looked up at the sky with a sad expression, 'Why. Why dear Kami did you give me such a sexist bitch of a son?' She mentally screamed to the heavens as she began to walk over to the med tent. She would have to scold her thick-headed son later, after he woke up.
"The next match...," Mizuki began, just as the academy nurses left the sparring ring. "Will be between...," He glanced down at his clipboard. "Hyuuga Hinata vs. Uchiha Sasuke!"
Hinata's eyes widened in fear. Of all the people she had to go against, it just had to be an Uchiha. Hinata really did not like the Uchihas, they were always so mean to Naruto and arrogant to everybody else. The Hyuugas were not much better, but at least they didn't beat up Naruto just for the sake of doing so.
Hinata felt her father let go of her coat sleeve. She looked up at his stoic face and could see the hidden disappointment behind his facial expression. She gulped silently, then turned her head to see Naruto giving her a big thumbs up and a giant foxy grin.
"Give it your all Hinata-chan!" The blond cheered to her. "I know you can beat any Uchiha! You're Hyuuga Hinata, my friend, and future leader of the Hyuugas!"
Hinata's heart swelled as her crush cheered. All feelings of doubt left her as she made her way to the ring. Confidence filled her heart as she entered the ring. Hinata was not going to lose this match. She was going to win and prove herself in front of her father and her object of affection; both would see her true strength.
Hinata straightened her posture and made her way to the sparring ring. The fires of determination burned brightly behind her soft eyes.
Sasuke was grinning like no tomorrow as he ran to the ring. 'Today is the day that I show Father that I am just as good as Itachi,' He thought to himself. 'Maybe if...No...When, I win my match, Father will help me with my training.' Sasuke's grin only got bigger at the thought of his father training with him and not Itachi.
"Good luck, honey!" Mikoto cheered to her youngest child. She glanced at her husband and frowned when she saw a small scowl on his face. Mikoto loved her family more than anything and enjoyed every minute that they were together. Because of Itachi's ninja rank he would not be home for more than a day or so before he would be called out for another mission. So, Mikoto loved the limited amount of time when her whole family was together.
Despite her joy of having Itachi home, her eldest son would horde all the attention away from Sasuke. Fugaku would focus the whole day to training Itachi, completely ignoring his other son. When Itachi was away, the Uchiha clan head would then focus on thinking of new methods to train Itachi, again ignoring Sasuke.
The only time that Mikoto could, honestly, say that her husband paid any real attention to Sasuke, was when her youngest son successfully performed the Great Fireball Jutsu. And Fugaku only gave Sasuke a small smile after witnessing the technique.
Mikoto's only wish was that her husband would give both of their children equal attention. She gave a silent, disappointed sigh.
"Are the two combatants ready?" Mizuki asked as Hinata and Sasuke got into place.
The two young ninja-to-be dropped into their respective families fighting stances and traded glances.
"Alright then," Mizuki raised his arm again, just like before the first match. He was about to bring it down to begin the match when he spotted someone, in fact, several people, entering the academy grounds.
Mizuki was quick to notice that the bandaged man leading a small group of ninja wearing ANBU gear and masks.
"D-Danzo-sama!," The white haired chunin stuttered in surprise. "Wh-What are you doing here?"
Mizuki's sudden outburst drew everyone's' attention to the new arrival and his entourage. Danzo only smiled and said, "I thought that it would be a great idea if I were to come and see the potential that the future ninja of Konoha have to offer."
He then made his way over to where the Uchiha were gathered and sat down next to the head of said clan while his ROOT ninja spread out and slowly made their way closer to Naruto.
"Yes sir," Mizuki said with a respectful bow to the council member then raised his arm high into the air. "Fight!" He quickly dropped his arm and jumped out of the ring as the two students began their match.
"Urk...!" Naruto slowly looked down to see the blade of a large katana sticking out of his chest, along with a growing red spot. His eyes slowly widened in shock before slowly rolling into the back of his head and closing.
No one saw the ROOT ninja behind the young Uzumaki unsheathe his weapon and thrust it into the boy's back. Nor, did they see the other ROOT ninja do the same to the skull, stomach, and several other parts of the little boy's body.
Danzo had a small grin on his face as he watched Naruto die right in front of the whole body of the ninja academy. His grin got slightly bigger as he noticed not a soul either did not see the act or did not care.
One of his followers looked over in his direction, waiting for a command. Danzo gave an unseen twitch with the middle finger of his right hand and the ROOT ninja and Naruto's corpse suddenly vanished.
Hinata quickly dodged a barrage of punches and kicks from the young Uchiha and was able to get in several good hits of her own. Her training with Naruto was starting to pay off. Instead of trying to perfect the same fighting style that her family has used for many years. Hinata tried something different, combining the artistic and precise style of the Hyuuga clan with the unpredictable and brash brawling style of her blond-haired love interest. The end result caused Sasuke to have absolutely no idea how to dodge her attacks or how to strike back.
Every time he tried to hit her, Hinata would first twist and turn using the Hyuuga style of taijutsu, then come straight at him with random strikes. Sasuke could barely get a hit on the girl; and the match had been going on for a good fifteen minutes. Both combatants could feel the disappointed glares coming from their respective fathers'.
THUMP...THUMP...THUMP.
Both combatants and the spectators stopped whatever they were doing as a sound similar to dropping a boulder from the sky could be heard from a distance away.
THUMP...THUMP...THUMP...THUD.
The sound was getting closer and shouting could be heard.
THUD...THUD...THUD.
"Nothing is working on this thing!" A male voice shouted from about two blocks away. "How the Hell are we supposed to kill it!"
"NNNNRRRRAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!" An inhuman roar shook the ground and was quickly followed by the sounds of people screaming and shouting.
"Run!" A woman's screaming voice rang out.
"Evacuate to the academy!"
"What is that thing?"
"Help me!"
The screaming got closer and louder.
"What the Hell is going on?" One of the chunin instructors voiced as he made his way over to the entrance to the academy grounds. His eyes grew wide as the entire civilian population of Konoha was running directly towards the academy. "Shit!"
"GGGGGRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!"
The chunin suddenly sat on the ground hard, his eyes wide with shock. Suddenly the bloody corpse of one of Danzo's ROOT ninja slammed into the ground just a few feet away from the grounded chunin.
"My God!" The chunin whispered as he gazed at the corpse, completely unaware of the approaching danger.
THUD! Something heavy landed hard behind the chunin. Before he could even react; something slammed into the side of his head and sent him through the academy's stone gateway and one of the academy's walls. It happened so fast that not even the mob, who could see what had hit the unfortunate ninja, could give any reaction.
As everyone gazed in awe at the large hole in the wall until another loud crash brought everyone's' attention back to the partially destroyed academy gate.
"NNNNNNNNNNRRRRRRRRAAAAAACCCHHH!" A large, humanoid beast roared as it charged at the ninja families with its mouth wide open and it's long, drool covered tongue trailing behind it. The creature's large eyes locked onto its next target. The young platinum blond, Yamanaka Ino.
Instinctively, all of the experienced shinobi threw whatever weapons that they currently had at the moment, at the monster. Unfortunately the hail of metal did nothing to slow down the quickly approaching creature. All of the weapons that had made contact and had stabbed into it appeared to be pushed out of the body by something underneath its dark skin.
Ino let lose a loud scream as the monstrosity came closer. Its jaws opened wider and it leaned forward a little, just enough to be able to crush the little girl's skull with its powerful maw.
At the last minute, just before the beast could devour the girl, her father, Yamanaka Inoichi, was able to grab her thin arm and yank out of the way.
A loud snap was heard from the strong jaws crunching down, on absolutely nothing. The creature came to a complete stop and turned it's extended face at the blond family; it's slightly parted maw dripped copious amounts of green drool as it eyed its prey with an inhuman amount of hunger.
Suddenly it let loose a loud roar and stumbled forward as a giant shuriken embedded itself into the monster's back. It gave a short hop and turned itself around to face its attacker.
"Hey, freak," Mizuki said, smirking. In his left hand he was twirling another giant shuriken. "Damn, you are one ugly son of a bitch aren't ya'? With those teeth stickin' out of your head and that tongue wavin' around everywhere, what the Hell are you?"
Whether the thing understood him or not, it leaned forward, causing the shuriken to pop out of his spine, and let loose another roar. "NNNNNNNNRRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGGGRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" It then straightened itself, "We. Are. Venom!" The, now recognized as a male, monster bellowed.
'It appears that two years being sealed inside a young child increased His intelligence. Even by just a little bit. Amazing!" Danzo thought as Venom charged at Mizuki.
The silver-haired young man threw his weapon at the walking nightmare. With a swipe of one of his arms, Venom sent the spinning weapon veering off course and embedding itself into the academy's front gate.
Before he could prepare another weapon, Mizuki soon found himself in the grip of two massive, clawed hands. One was grabbing him around the chest and was pinning his arms to his sides. The other was gripping him around the waist. It did not take a genius to figure out his future fate.
But before he could proceed to tear Mizuki apart; Venom suddenly found both of his hands and his prey on the ground. He gave an agonized roar as dark purple blood poured out of the stumps that his wrists had now become. He swerved his head at the direction of the attack and snarled.
There, standing between him and the crowd of parents and their ninja-to-be children, were at least two or three dozen elite ANBU and the Hokage himself. His pipe was missing and his face was twisted into an angry scowl.
"Venom!" The aged warrior spoke with a deadly seriousness. "Stand down...NOW!" The command was backed with enough sheer force that everyone - except for the Hokage himself and Venom - were brought down to their knees.
Before Venom could give a reply, he was suddenly tackled by several of the elite ninja. The force of the tackle caught him by surprise but he was able to remain standing. The ninja latched onto Venom's large form and tried to hold on while he began to roar and thrash about. The remaining ANBU each produced several feet of some kind of black chain.
While Venom struggled to force the shinobi off of him, he was unaware of the other ninja quickly surrounding him.
Suddenly the elite that were holding onto the macabre monster, released him and leapt away just as about twenty thick black chains wrapped around his body. The ends of the chains had been staked into the ground with black metal steaks.
Venom's arms were pulled to his sides and his legs were pulled together, causing him to fall forward. He roared, growled, and bellowed as he tried to break free, yet failed to do so.
"Struggle as much as you want," The Hokage spoke as he walked over to his downed foe, "Both, the chains and steaks are made of reinforced steel and virgin maiden hair. There is absolutely no way that you will be able to break your bonds."
This fact did not detour Venom from at least trying. But as he tried to, movement out of the corner of his vision drew away Venom's attention from his bonds. It was Mizuki trying to crawl away. After he had been dropped, Mizuki had just sat there on the spot in complete terror, until now that is.
Venom snapped his head in the direction of the coward, opened his large maw, and shot out his slimy tongue directly at Mizuki. The prehensile appendage stretched reached its target and quickly wrapped itself around the chunin's right leg. Before he could even registered that something was touching him, Mizuki was suddenly yanked towards Venom's gapping jaws.
The next thing he knew was that there was incredible pain coursing through his lower body. He glanced down to see his entire right leg inside Venom's jaws. Mizuki screamed as Venom began to shake his head back and forth, like a dog with a stuffed teddy bear.
"Damn it." An ANBU cursed as blood flew over him and several others. The ANBU member grabbed a kunai and leapt onto Venom's shoulders. After adjusting the knife in hand, the ninja jabbed the weapon directly into Venom's left eye.
There was a loud tearing sound as Venom tossed his head back and opened his mouth to let loose a pained roar. Mizuki went flying into the air but was caught by a fellow chunin before he could hit the ground. His screaming continued though. His whole right leg was gone and was replaced at the hip with a bloody mess of torn bone and flesh.
The ANBU leapt off of Venom while at the same time pulling his weapon out of Venom's skull.
"Take him to my office. Now! And take Mizuki-san to the hospital." The Hokage ordered his followers before he disappeared in a plume of smoke. He was quickly followed by his subordinates.
'Simply, amazing.' Danzo thought to himself as he calmly walked out of the academy grounds.
"Hokage-sama!" A newly arrived chunin shouted as he landed next to his leader. "There's a message for you." He said as he handed over a single sheet of paper.
The old man took the paper and his eyes slowly widened. Written in big black letters was the single sentence.
WE ARE COMING.
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