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.
The Black Leaves
Chapter 13
When the symbiotes, Baby and Naruto met to say their goodbyes. It took the combined strength of Naruto, Revenge, and even Empress herself to pry off the bawling Samus and clingy Baby from Naruto's torso. Eventually, both were pulled off him and dragged away while both cried. Konoha's construction team was very pleased with the fact that the symbiotes decided to leave without bringing Kraid back. Well, Baby cried, Samus shouted out a number of lewd things that she promised to do to the boy the next time they would meet. Naruto had absolutely no doubt in his mind that Samus would do every single lewd act imaginable, and more.
Over the course of the month, while the exams were taking place, Naruto introduced Hinata to Nightmare and The Prayer. While Nightmare refused to let Hinata see her true body, The Prayer spoke for her. Naruto was amazed at how fast the Otherworld creature and the Hyuuga heiress hit it off. He could have sworn Hinata was talking to an old friend or something with how calm and casual she conversed with The Prayer. Not to mention the fact that they both completely ignored the boy as the talked about random subjects.
When Naruto asked Hinata later why she was not as freaked out by The Prayer's appearance as everyone else in class was. She simply replied, "Anyone who is a friend of Naruto-kun's can't be all bad. Also, you once told me that you don't like it when people judge others for things that are beyond their control." To say Naruto was surprised was an understatement. For one, Hinata did not stutter once when she spoke, and Naruto was surprised that Hinata remembered something he had said nearly four years ago, and word for word.
During lunch, Naruto and Hinata would sit under the big oak tree on the academy grounds and eat the lunches that Hinata always made; like they did every school day. Only now, Nightmare and The Prayer joined them. Neither of them ate, but The Prayer stated that they both enjoyed the company of the two young ninja to be. This had the added side effect of most, if not all, occupants of the academy giving the little group as much distance as possible; but only as long as The Prayer was around.
Every day Naruto walked Hinata home, or as close to her home as the guards of the clan compound would allow; especially with The Prayer following the blond and blue-nette. After dropping Hinata off one day, Naruto, Nightmare and her stead made their way to his apartment; where he learned that that would be where she would be staying. Out of boredom, Naruto asked The Prayer to tell him a little bit about herself. He felt foolish right after asking that since it was most likely that she was just a random creature Nightmare created. What she told him was not what he was expecting.
The Prayer told him that she was once a human girl around Alessa's age. She and two others were Alessa's only friends during her horrible childhood. They did not believe what the towns people said about the girl being a devil and became her friends anyway. Unfortunately the towns folk did not approve of such a thing and murdered the children the day before Alessa's burning. What was unique was the way that the four children were murdered. Before her death The Prayer overheard one of the villagers speaking about an ancient ritual that was meant to bring about the rise of the Order's God.
The ritual was composed of drawing a large, elaborate design encircling the town; painted with virgins blood. Then four innocent souls were meant to be sacrificed by four different methods. Death by drowning, death by dismemberment, death by suffocation, and death by fire. Unfortunately for the Order, the ritual was not performed correctly; all four children were meant to be sacrificed on the same day. Instead of bringing God into the world, the Order brought Hell to Earth. Luckily, because of the combined Alessa and Nightmare's new psychic abilities, the Otherworld was prevented from spreading and the whole town disappeared from the Realworld. Most of the Order members were able to escape the devastation and their twisted beliefs had been passed down and have become even more horrific with every generation.
The Prayer was the girl sacrificed by suffocation. A noose was placed around the girls neck and she was slowly lowered down from a tall tower until she reached the halfway mark. The girl was then left to struggle and slowly suffocate to death. After the girl's slow demise, to add insult to injury, the Order placed weights on the child's feet, thus causing her head and spine to detach from her body. That explained her extended neck.
After Nightmare had absorbed Otherworld and gained control over the evil dimension, the crippled symbiote started to take the corpses of her old friends and reconstruct them into forms that would both represent what her friends were fond of and instill fear into any Order member that got trapped in the living Hell. So far, The Prayer was the only one of Nightmare's old friends that has been able to exit Otherworld.
When asked about why she used rusty barbwire instead of something less painful. She somehow shrugged her deformed shoulders and said that they did not bother her. He would escort Nightmare and her stead to his apartment then rush to meet up with Lee and Guy for his special after school training.
The most awkward adjustment Naruto had to make with his new residents, was that Nightmare insisted that she and The Prayer sleep in the same room as Naruto. He was amazed at how perfectly both, Nightmare's bed and The Prayer fit inside his tiny bedroom. Obviously, Naruto was confined to his bed and had one Hell of a time getting to his bathroom without disturbing either occupant. He was also lucky that Revenge's explosive fluids turned into a harmless bile after a few hours and that he was able to clean it up.
The Prayer informed Naruto that his closet was now a direct portal to Otherworld. Nightmare made the portal so that she and Naruto would have a safe place to hide if any of the villagers tried to act smart. It also doubled as an excellent place for Naruto to train with his symbiotic powers. The monsters that Nightmare was able to conjure up were near perfect training partners; especially this one monster that looked like a large man wearing a bloody butchers smock, wielding a large meat cleaver and with half of his deformed face covered in a metal mask. Naruto learned that the monster went by the name The Butcher. A fitting name considering it had a tendency to lash out and slaughter whatever was near him, whether it was from the Realworld or Otherworld.
The last week of class quickly approached and Naruto was as prepared as possible. Which means he was as panicy and nervous as a virgin in a whorehouse. Even with the extra training from Guy and the denizens of Otherworld, Naruto felt that his examinations would still be difficult because of his lack of chakra. In his Otherworld training, Naruto was able to figure out how to control some of his symbiotic abilities, like his ability to stick to any surface.
While in Otherworld, and getting his butt handed to him by The Butcher, Naruto nearly transformed against his will once again but was able to repress it, dispite the incredable pain it caused.
Most of the exam week was written tests and the like; because of Naruto's lak in almost everything related to ninja, the one thing he could do was take a test. If he couldn't make three clones of himself, then least he could do was get the correct answers on a test or wright an essay. Though half the time, he had no idea what the Hell the questions asked; the important thing was that he tried. Or, at least he thought so.
Then on the finale day was the most work done.
"Today class, we will be seeing your abilities in stealth and agility. There will also be a surprise test at the end." Iruka spoke out to his class. He smiled at all of the excited and hopeful faces. It was just for the reason of seeing such joy that Iruka enjoyed his job. Many times he declined the offer of a promotion, not because of the increase in dangerous missions he knew he would be receiving but because he believed he would not find anything more enjoyable or fullfilling as seeing a group of freshly graduated ninja jump into their parents' arms with a giant smile.
If Naruto graduated, Iruka swore to himself that he himself would be that parent to Naruto. Ever since Iruka met the child, he had wanted to adopt him but the damn council would not allow it. Every single time Iruka requested to adopt the blonde, the council would fine some sort of excuse for why they would not allow it. They claimed that since Naruto was not a ninja yet he was considered a civilian and was under the rule of the civilian council.
The giant loophole in that plan was that the second Naruto received his headband, Naruto would be seen as an adult in the village. Meaning that he could kill, drink, have sex and all the responsibilities that went along with such actions. It also meant that Iruka could sign the adoption papers and become Naruto's legal guardian without the asswipes in the council saying a goddamn thing.
"Now, everyone, we shall head out to the courtyard for this test," Mizuki said. "Please follow, for the first half of your final examination."
Iruka and the students all filed out of the room and outside, where the two teachers were standing in front of the academy's small combat arena.
"First, is the test of your abilities in stealth and agility," Iruka lectured while Mizuki made his way into the arena. "All you are going to have to do is, one: use any method you know to hide and stay hidden from Mizuki-sensei for at least five minutes; and two: you must be able to perform a replacement jutsu of your choosing to dodge a kunai thrown by Mizuki-sensei. Any questions." Getting none, Iruka called out a random students name. Said student entered the arena and performed the test to the best of his ability.
The same was for the next student and so on until Iruka called Hinata. Unlike most of the other students that used smoke bombs and jutsu to hide, the Hyuuga heiress took a page out of Naruto's book and had brought one of the many camouflage blankets that she had purchased when she first started hanging out with the idiot. So all Hinata did was use one of the camo blankets after jumping into the tree closest to the arena. For the second part of the stealth test, Hinata did what all the other students did, used a replacement jutsu with a random object.
When it was Nightmare's turn, Mizuki was a little cautious with her mount. The Prayer crawled over the low wooden fence that surrounded the small arena and took her position.
"Are you ready Nightmare?" Iruka asked the bed-ridden girl. The Prayer's head turned to the instructor and nodded her scared head. "Alright then. Begin!"
Mizuki focused all of his power on this one target. His extra training with both Orochimaru and Danzo had made him nearly at the same level as the Hokage himself. He trained with Danzo's illegal ROOT teams and was Orochimaru's enhancement lab rat. His enhanced senses all focused on The Prayer and every little move that was made.
For a moment nothing happened. Then Mizuki's eyes focused on a light fluttering around the edges of the curtain around Nightmare's hospital bed. A light fog slowly flowed out from under neath the fluttering fabric. The silver-haired chunin watched as the fog thickened around The Prayer and her cargo. The sound of many voices whispering began to fill the courtyard. No words could be made out of what the many different voices were saying.
The whole class watched as the gray fog centered around The Prayer and became so thick that nobody could see into the cloud. Slowly, The Prayer's twisted head pushed through the fog and looked at Mizuki. Both of the torn halves of her mouth curled up into devilish smirks. "Bye...bye," Her unique voice spoke out. In a sudden flash of white, accompanied with a woman's shrill scream, they dissapeared.
Everyone had been temporarily blinded by the flash and dazed from the sudden scream. Once Mizuki got his senses back in order, he instantly was on the offensive. His years of illegal training were not going to go to waste be undermined because of some freak. He sent all of the chakra he could to every single sense his body possessed then the chunin began his search of the academy's grounds.
For the next five minutes, Mizuki searched every nook and cranny of the academy for the Otherworldly beings. He could not find a single trace of the females and his time quickly ran out.
Iruka looked down at the watch instructors used for exams and shouted out, "Nightmare, the first half of the stealth test is over. Please come out so that we may begin the second portion."
A small cloud of fog appeared behind one of the trees in the courtyard and out came The Prayer with the same smirk on her face. She walked back into the arena and raised her right arm up to her head. She gripped it with her clawed hand and violently began pulling on it. With a series of loud cracks, The Prayer forced her head into a complete 360 degree spin. All while smiling that unnerving grin of hers.
Naruto could tell from her smile that the whole purpose of that display was just to scare the crap out of Mizuki, and judging from the expression on his face; it worked.
"Okay then," Said an equally unnerved Iruka, "You may begin the second portion of the test, now."
Without warning, Mizuki threw one of his kunai at the abomination. With pin-point accuracy, the kunai sailed through the air and hit its target. At the very instant of impact, The Prayer erupted into an explosion of ash. This was something new that none of the students had never seen before. The only replacement jutsu that they have ever seen, or performed, usually involved a white cloud of smoke or fog or a flutter of leaves, but never ash.
As the ash fell to the ground the form of The Prayer, with Nightmare's bed on her back, became visible; the kunai stabbed into her chest.
Iruka was quick to get to the female creature. A monster she may be, but she was still Iruka's student and Naruto's friend. The scared chunin could not possibly imagine what Naruto would be like if one of his friends died. Fortunately, he did not have to worry about that problem.
Just as Iruka jumped over the short wooden fence; a piece of The Prayer's skin started to peel away. Or, at least he thought it was skin. As he approached the figure, a thought forced itself into his head, 'Mizuki-sensei's kunai should have pierced her heart. She should be dead, but she's still standing and hasn't moved an inch since the attack.' Iruka picked up the flake of skin that had peeled off and could tell instantly from the feel of it that it was some kind of synthetic material. He looked up at the place that the material once covered and saw rusted metal.
Suddenly, the rest of the fake skin started to peel away. As it peeled, a statue composed of rusty twisted metal slowly appeared. As the last of the material peeled away, it was revealed that Mizuki's kunai had pierced a fake Prayer caring a large wooden crate in place of Nightmare's bed. After a minute or so, the statue and crate slowly fell apart and were reduced to a pile of rubble.
The real Nightmare and her ride walked out from behind the same tree she had appeared from earlier. The Prayer was still smiling that same sick smile.
Iruka, along with everyone else that just witnessed the most impressive replacement technique seen in the academy, was speechless. For a full minute nobody said a word.
The Iruka brought himself outof his shock. "V-very good, Nightmare. Next is..." And Iruka called the name of some random student thats not going to play any part in this story.
The Prayer made her way over to where Naruto and Hinata were standing. As she approached, Naruto decided to give his opinion on Nightmare's performance.
"That was awesome! I didn't know you could do stuff like that!" He shouted. A soft groan from inside the curtains told Naruto that Nightmare had heard him and was pleased with his reaction. Naruto leaned into The Prayer and whispered, "You used Otherworld didn't you?" To which The Prayer gave a slight nod.
Several more students were called up and took their test. Some students did better than others, while others used techniques that some could not. None of the students, however, were able to create a spectacle like Nightmare. Eventually, Naruto's name was called up by Iruka, as the last student to take the test.
As Naruto entered the arena, Mizuki had a disgusting smile on his face. It was not missed by Iruka, who felt a paternal bite of anger at his fellow instructor. Iruka made a note to himself to talk to Mizuki after class was over.
"You ready there, Naruto?" Iruka spoke nonchalantly.
Naruto took a big, calming breath. 'I just need to remain calm and remember all of my training and I'll pass.' He thought to himself. As he tried to calm down, Naruto felt a familiar feeling course through his young body. Our protagonist's eye widened slightly.
The feeling was like a strange warmth slowly traveling through his veins. It was strong and gave off the feeling of safety and protection. He recalled Revenge telling him that all symbiotes love their hosts, regardless of their hosts sex. The love a symbiote has for its host is not a parental love, but the love of a true lover. Since all symbiotes are genderless, they automatically take on the same sex as their host. But they have also been know to forcibly change their own gender to be more appealing to their host.
There had been tales of symbiotes forcibly tearing themselves from their current hosts just for the chance to have a passion filled sex fest with the host. Unfortunately, the trauma of having their symbiote removed can, and has, caused many hosts along with their symbiotes to die a very slow and painful death.
So Naruto could expect for Venom to take a female form after it has gained its old consciousness. That does not mean that he wants a parasite living inside of him to turn into a woman and rape him. Payback made it perfectly clear that Venom was already smitten with her and that he would not dream of sexing Naruto. Not much of relief, but it was probably better than waking up from having sex with something that was attached to your gut.
The Venom symbiote could feel Naruto's nervous behaviour, and its basic instincts told it to protect its host. As the feeling coursed through him, his anxiety slowly faded away and was quickly replaced with extreme determination. Naruto nodded his head.
Iruka nodded his head as well, "Begin!"
Suddenly, Naruto's body stiffened and became completely rigid. His entire body suddenly shimmered, then suddenly disappeared. Mizuki's eyes widened as the boy's body rippled for a moment, then he was gone. Not even the most advanced transparency jutsu was able to activate without a cloud of smoke forming.
Mizuki'a face twisted into a nasty little scowl. This was the last straw! That happy demeanor that the Kyuubi brat always had despite the sins he had commented, was just one of the many reasons Mizuki hated the child. Add that to his brainwashing of the Hyuuga heiress and that demon-monster from God know where that he brought into this world, and the demon child deserved to die. And Mizuki had been given that very order from the true leader of the village, Danzo.
He had to complete his mission by the end of the day or else Danzo would have him killed. Mizuki had a fail-safe to this condition though; if he were to somehow fail his assigned task he would run to Orochimaru for help. Mizuki was positive that the old traitor would take him since he knew a large number of the villages secrets.
The chunin drew another kunai then leaped off to search for his target. The very second Mizuki was out of sight, the exact same spot Naruto had disappeared from rippled and shimmered and Naruto appeared.
Seeing the knucklehead suddenly reappear, Kiba ran over to the fence, "Psst, Naruto. What the Hell are you doing moron?" He whispered. "If you don't hide, Mizuki-sensei is gonna' find ya'."
Naruto looked over to the young Inuzuka and smiled his famous foxy grin. The blonde calmly walked over to the edge of the ring and sat down. He leaned against a wooden fence post with his arms behind his head and his legs out stretched. His body was in a completely relaxed position. His entire body shimmered and rippled before disappearing once again; just as Mizuki landed back into the center of the arena.
Mizuki grit his teeth in frustration. "Where the Hell is that brat?" He shouted out in fury.
Haruno Sakura, being the teacher's pet she has always been, was about to shout out Naruto's location. When something warm and slimy wrapped itself around her left leg and suddenly pulled said leg out from under the pink-haired girl. Caught unguarded, Sakura fell flat on her face thus interrupting her attempt at informing Mizuki.
She raised her head with a dazed expression gracing her face. The thing around her leg quickly let go just as she turned her head to gaze at what had attacked her. All she saw was a slight fluttering of Nightmare's curtain. Sakura instantly had the notion that the girl was the cause of her embarrassing position. But that possibility quickly left her mind when The Prayer was not even looking in the pink-ette's general direction. Sakura got up off the ground and dusted herself off. By the time she got the last possible speck of dirt off her red battle dress, Naruto's time was up.
Mizuki was still trying to find Naruto when said student reappeared behind the ninja and tapped him in the shoulder. Mizuki nearly jumped out of his skin when Naruto tapped him. That prospect was not holy unwanted, especially from one Nightmare. She could always use a new creature to guard her Otherworld.
Iruka chuckled at his fellow instructor's reaction, "Good job, Naruto. Because of your condition, you are exempt from the second half of the test. But you will have to make it up with surviving for five minutes against Mizuki-sensei. Okay?" Iruka finished.
Naruto nodded his head and dropped into an unusual stance. His legs were spread till they were shoulder length apart. Naruto's back hunched just ever so slightly and his arms were held out with one hand at stomach level and his other was near his chest. His fingers curled themselves to resemble claws and his entire body flexed. Naruto took another deep inhale, but his exhale had the faintest sign of a low growl.
Smirking at the child's pathetic attempt at intimidation. Before Iruka could say for the fight to begin; Mizuki reached around for one of the massive shuriken he always kept on his back and released the strap. He pulled the weapon from its holster and began to spin it on his right hand index finger. He leaped onto a tree branch and kept his eyes locked on his bright colored target. Just as Iruka started to announce the beginning of the battle; Mizuki launched the shuriken.
The weapon sailed through the and was aiming directly for Naruto's neck.
00:00- Mizuki launched weapon.
00:01- Weapon reaches Naruto.
00:01.1- Naruto jumps into the air over the weapon.
Mizuki was quick to follow his failed murder attempt with a barrage of kunai and shuriken. Every single weapon tossed at the blonde kid missed and whizzed by harmlessly. Naruto dodged each weapon with such precision and flexibility one would think he had trained under the Hyuuga clan head. As the chunin instructor's arsenal quickly diminissed; his frustration and anger grew.
Just as Naruto bent his spine at an unimaginable angle to dodge one last kunai, the chunin jumped down from his pearch and attacked Naruto with his own form of taijutsu. The hail of punches and kicks were almost too fast for most of the students to be able to see. But Naruto's symbioticaly enhanced reflexes were able to force his body to automatically dodge every incoming blow.
Naruto was quick to learn that even with the Venom symbiote augmenting his abilities, an attack could still make contact. A cut and a near decapitation from The Butcher proved that. So, the only reason that Naruto was able too dodge most of Mizuki's punches was because of both his symbiotic reflexes and the fact that he could see his opponent's body prepare for every strike.
With every jab dodged, Mizuki's ire rose past the danger level. 'This fucking brat is gonna' die!' He shouted in his head. He reached into his chunin vest and pulled out an explosive tag and was about to attach it to his last kunai when Iruka called time.
Mizuki stopped his attack and put on a fake smile and put the tag away before anyone could see the explosive. Naruto walked out of the arena and over to his two friends, who both congradulated him for 'surviving' Mizuki's onslaught. The boy was quickly overtaken, however, when a large portion of the class stampeded over and questioned him on how he was able to dodge a chunin's attacks so well.
"Everybody, calm down! Now get inside for the surprise test." Iruka shouted over the excited chatter. The class walked back inside the academy and followed Iruka to the room reserved for students awaiting to take their final exam.
The room was like a normal classroom, except without a teachers desk or a blackboard. The desks filled the room with the only other exit being a door on the other side of the room. Said door lead to the actual exam room.
The students all sat in whatever seat they felt like while the two chunin walked across the room to the other door.
"We will be calling you in here one by one to perform the final exam. Don't bother asking what the exam is, it'll be different for every one of you." Iruka said while Mizuki walked into the room, "First will be..." And the students were called in to perform the final task that seperated them from ninja-hood.
Every student that went through the door exited a few minutes later with a konoha headband on their person. All the new genin would then take a seat with their friend who would congradualate the child.
Naruto was talking with Hinata while The Prayer stood near the pair and contributed to the conversation whenever she felt it was nessisary. Just like the last test, Hinata was called in. She walked out a three minutes later with a headband around her neck and a amll smile on her face.
"Awesome, Hinata! You passed!" Naruto shouted as he bolted over to the shy girl. Without thinking, he wrapped his arms around Hinata and pulled her into a giant hug. The closet pervert's face turned a lobster red and her nose dripped a little bit of blood when she felt the warmth radiate of the blonde. Her mind went straight into the gutter with images of Naruto's warm, naked body ontop of her equelly naked form.
Relizing what he had done, Naruto quickly released his friend with a pink tint to his cheecks. "He he, sorry Hinata," He chuckled nerviously while scratching the back of his head. "I got a little too excited, he."
Relizing the way they were standing, the setting, and the event that just took place. Hinata stealed her nerves and tried to recall a paragraph from her most current perverted form of literature. With her cheecks still a tad pink, Hinata lowered her head a little, raised her hand up to her mouth and lightly bit down on her index finger.
She shyly gazed up at the still embaressed Naruto. His eyes were still closed as he nerviously chuckled. "N-Naruto-kun?" She spoke almost silently.
Naruto stopped his laughing and ensestent scratching and opened his eyes at hearing his name spoken. Seeing the hopeful and shy gaze Hinata threw at him nearly knocked him flat on his back. 'When did Hinata become cute?'
Luckly, his symbiotic reflexes were able to counter Hinata's 'shy girl' gaze with an 'oblivious friend' smile. "Y-yes, Hinata?" He replied.
Hinata gulped silently and averted he gaze slightly. "You c-can do th-that again if you w-want," The question combined with Hinata's 'shy and hopeful' face almost made Naruto swoop her up into his arms. Yet, his symbiote was able to counter this with 'idiotic confusion'.
"What?"
Hinata gulped again and slowly raised her eyes to meet his. "N-Naruto-kun can h-hug H-Hinata wh-whenever he w-wants to," Inside, Hinata was mauling her shy personallity to pieces because of the stuttering that probably ruined her simple plan.
This time, Naruto was unable to counter Hinata's attack and submite to the girl. "R-really?" Naruto asked unsure if he had heard the girl correctly.
Even though the two had been friends for a good long time, Naruto never tried to hug the girl or anything else physical. He was much too scared that if he were to attempt something as simple as a hug Hinata wouldshove him away and not be his friend any more. The hug that had just happened was a spure-of-the-moment accident.
"Hinata nodded her head so fast that Naruto was afraid that her neck might snap. Naruto's response to the frantic head movement was his traditional giant, foxy grin.
The three friends continued to talk when The Prayer was called in for her test. Naruto and Hinata waited for about half a minute when the door leading to the exam room appeared to peel like paint. As the flakes of the door fell away, underneath was a blood soaked metal door with a small square window that was too rusted to be able to see through. All of the falling flakes dissapeared before they hit the floor.
A minute or two later, the door bagan to peel again. This time, however, underneath the peeling pieces was the normal door. Any trace of the bloody door was gone and nothing showed that it had even existed. Minutes later The Prayer calmly walked out of the room with a headband wrapped around her left front leg.
Once again, Naruto was the last of the students to be called in. All of the other students had been called in and had recieved their own Konoha headband. Not a single student had failed.
Naruto calmly walked into the room and saw Iruka and Mizuki sitting at a large desk on the opposite side of the wall with the door. The room was prettylarge compared to most of the academy's classrooms; but besides the single desk in the room, it was bare.
As Naruto walked into the center of the room, Mizuki turned to Iruka and spoke up, "Iruka-sensei, why don't you go and check on the students while I give Naruto his exam. We need to make sure that none of the new genin have left early. We still need to remind them to return tomarrow"
Iruka nodded his head, seeing the logic in the silver-haired man's words. Iruka got out of his seat and walked past Naruto, giving a short 'good luck' to the child before closing the door behind him.
Iruka turned to face the new genin and performed a quick head count. Nobody had left yet. Iruka clapped his hands to gain the childrens' attention and prepared to make his announcement when the muffled sound of a small explosion was heard from behind.
Iruka pivoted on his heels and grabbed the door handle. It would not budge. "Mizuki? What the Hell was that? Naruto?" He shouted while banging on the door. Muffled shouts and crashing was heard from the other side.
The other students had stopped whatever it was they had been doing and were now preparing for a fight. Suddenly, Mizuki's unmistakable scream was heard mixed in with a monsterious roar. "WHAT THE FUCK?" His shouting was heard.
More crashing, Mizuki's shouts and yelling, and growls and roars were now heard from the other side of the blocked door. Iruka keptsome distance between him and the door. Whatever was on the other side, Mizuki was fighting on his own. The second that door opened, Iruka would come bolting in there kunai sailing.
Mizuki suddenly came flying throught the wall and sailed across the room before slamming into the wall and slumping down onto the floor. His auto-mail leg was missing and he was bleeding from the head and had a small trail of blood leaking from his mouth. Several of the students ran over to help the pained man, who was still somehow conscious.
"What the Hell happened, Mizuki-sensei?" Iruka yelled while keeping his eyes glued at the new hole in the wall.
"Th-the demon child!" Mizuki shouted, "He's a real monster!" He pointed in the general direction of the room he was just forced out of.
Something large and black smashed its way through the wall, ccausing the hole Mizuki created to become larger.
Venom stood tall, with the auto-mail leg clenched between his mighty jaws. His large white eyes were glued on the silver-haired guy and a low, angry growl rumbled out of his chest.
Iruka and the other students, sans The Prayer and Nightmare, were shocked and terrified by the beast that had once been pronounced dead. Its eyes were still focused on Mizuki as one child screamed loudly, followed by more screams.
Venom ignored the children and began to put pressure on the metal limb in his jaws. Witha might crunch, the auto-mail was reduced to scrap metal as the symbiote crushed and bit clean through the auto-mail. Venom reared his head back and released a mighty roar that drowned out the whimpers, shouts, and screams of the children.
His head snapped back down and his eyes locked onto Mizuki. He took one threatneing stop towards the downed chunin, who had now grabbed a girl and was trying to use her as a human shield.
"You...Die!" Venom roared before diving at the academy instructor.
Haha, first cliffhanger. Okay, chaptor 13 here folks. Read, review and for the love of God talk to me. This 'great chapter' or 'please update soon' review do absolutly nothing for me. Give me ideas, opinions, whatever.
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