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CHAPTER 11:...SURVIVING A SHIT STORM


If you could capture a perfect picture of what true hopelessness in humanity looked like you would get alot of good pics in the land of waterfall in its current state.

Hundreds of people young an old we're all huddled up an cowering in feein the center of the village as their house's we're either being raised or burnt down by the small team of merciless capturers who had a good portion of them on a wooden stage used for speakers during village meetings with nooses tied around their necks ready to be hanged once the rouges leader gave the word.

These poor men an women standing ontop of wooden boxes on display to be publicly executed we're the foolish but brave one's,the few villagers who choose to attempt to fight back against the invaders using anything from knives, pitch forks an hell even a chair out of desperation to defend their home.

They didn't even stand a chance.

What little hope the rest of the village had were crushed as they looked on in horror as seeming effortlessly the rouge ninja slaughtered their bravest braking both body an spirit, no one was speared, even the children who took up arms were beaten horribly an then whipped into submission, many after that lost all will to rise up an fight back, if they were willing to torture children of all things they didn't even want to know the horrors they would inflict on the rest them.

They did however have small moment of hope when the 2 of the 3 konaha ninja's showed up an managed to take out a few of the invaders but that hope too was dashed when their would be saviors were overwhelmed by the rouge leaders power an were swiftly delt with as the monster of a man beat the boys into the ground knocking out one with positivity gruesome looking axe kick to the head slamming the boy into the ground with a bloody head wound an then spin around to most likely shattering the others ribs with a forward kick to the stomach that moved so fast the onlookers could of sworn he telaported over to the frightened child who looked like he lost all hope the moment his comrade went down.

Such a display of raw power terrified all the captives as they all complied with the invaders in fear of punishment of being the next example, the survivors of the slaughter, the ones who fought back along with the still alive konaha ninja we're all tide up on the stage as the leader thought it would be fitting punishment to have them all be executed by morning, this actually got a reaction from the villagers who had family members an friends on said stage an begged an cried for their lives only to get yelled at an whipped for talking without being spoken to. Tho their pleading did give their leader an fun idea, a twisted fun idea.

He wanted a trade, something of equal value to their lives, if the village could give them that they could all live another emediatly there were shouts of people offering their land, homes, money an even for some their bodies if their loved ones could be saved in return, in the end the rouge leader shook his head at all their offers an cut to the chase an gets to what he was really after.

The heros water.

the sacred water of the hidden waterfall an the villages greatest treasure for nearly a hundred years, it's legendary power was said to multiply anyone's chakra levels to a unheard of level an was a key factor in many of the waterfalls Victor's in major conflicts in the past,to even think about giving the location of such a treasure away was near blasphemous to the villagers as many became tight lipped even risk of loosing their fellow villagers lives. Seeing this sudden loyalty to their villages custmes the leader just smirked as if expecting this reaction an with a suttle snap of his fingers he called their bluff.

The wooden box under a little girls feet on stage was kicked over.

She struggled wildly for several seconds but ultimately stopped moving all together an just hung their limply swinging side to side on her noose as the villagers all started beyond shell-shocked as a child that looked not even 7 years old was hanged infront on them, in the crowd a woman sobbed uncontrollably she was being held back by the villagers around her preventing her from rushing to her death trying to get to the girl girl on the stage, all the while she was wailing out sobbed filled howls like 'MY B-BABY, NO GET OFF ME SHE NEEDS ME!',the shame the men felt holding her back instead of helping her save her child would haunt them forever. But it was for the greater good, they no longer held any dolutions of their own strength compared to their capturers, they may have had the numbers on their side but the level of skill their enemies had made them all look like unarmed children in comparison, there was nothing they could do.

letting the hysterical woman charge over to try an save her dying child would just be the same as letting the woman kill herself, she would be butchered before she could even get near her.

They just all gritted their teeth an held their heads down an tried their hardest to egnore their aching Hearts at the gruggling chocking sounds the girl was making as her eyes were starting to roll over to the back of her head as she was loosing contiousness.

Out of nowhere a kunai sailed passed the crowd cutting throw the rope making the uncontious but still alive girl fall to the stage as subconsciously her lungs greedily sucked up as much oxygen as they could.

Everyone stared in shock an tured to where kunai had come from only to gap at the running form of some fat kid who was hauling ass out the scene praying to kami he would live to kick his own ass for being this stupid.

Dispite being thoroughly dumbfounded at this new 'hero's' sudden appearance an aperant exit the rouges some snapped out of their confusion by the bark of there leader as the hunt was on for choji's head on a platter.

The leader sent most of them to find the boy an bring him alive if they could. It's no fun torturing dead bodies after all.

All the while nobody noticed a terrified but brave black heired 8 year old child sneack onto the stage an untying the captives ready for execution.

' onii-san,please don't get hurt',nako thought as he got busy untying the first person he could get to while internally praying for his companions safety.

Shaking his head as if to get rid of any doubt he silently reprimanded himself, 'choji onii-san is a konaha ninja, konaha's one of the strongest', he thought with childlike innocence, 'I'm sure he knows exactly what he's doing '

'I have no freakin idea what I'm doing! ' thought our protagonist as he ran like his life depended on it trow the trees sarounding the outer parts of the inner village witch to his delight was covered in slot of thick tree's perfect for cover as he just barely managing to keep out of sight of his persuiters who were catching up slowly from his rear,if he didn't have years of experience in using forests to stay hidden from both his years in the academy an on the field they would have no doubt found an killed him by now.

Anyone who said playing hide an seek 'ninja style ' all the time with shikamaru as a children was just a stupid waste of time could suck it, he was alive wasn't he!.

Back to reality he was in a bind, he had set up traps somewhere in this area where his trail lead them but in order for it to work he needed to stay completely still in the cover of the thick branches an mask his chakra as best he could,he was not trained for any form of demalision type of combat outside of the basics an life experience but he knew that he needed to get ride of them all at once instead of one at a time if he had any hope of pulling this suicide mission off.

"you see him? " one of the rouges asked as he scouted to the left his group scanning the foliage of the trees for any sign of their target an finding it very irritating that the boy could somehow keep himself well hidden even in an unfamiliar villages terrain,"fucking tree loving konaha ninja's" one grumbled himself.

"no,no sign of him" another in group reported as they walked further into the forest find no trace of the boy as even his foot prints dissapaired the moment they got close to the tree's, "you would think that a fat ass brat like that would be easier to spot" one said chuckling.

"definitely a konaha ninja that's for sure, damn tree fuckers, a Forrest like this is their home turf watch your backs who knows where that little turd could turn up next" he said pushing through some bushes keeping an eye out for even the slightest movements on the trees with a blade ready.

"hah!, what's the matter pussy, you scared of a little leaf prick?, the other 2 we beat didn't even stand a chance so why you acting like this one's any different "a arrogant sounding rouge said as he honestly thought finding an killing the brat would be easy, fuck bringing him on alive he was enjoying the site of watching girl hang an was cackling madly when he watched the girls mother break down over it, then that little shit had to go an ruin it by butting in an cutting the rope, he was gonna enjoy murdering that fat fuc-

*BOOM! *

If they had been paying more attention they would have noticed the trip wire explosives Choji's had triggered the moment they got into position, he didn't bring enough paper bombs to kill most of them but by adding a few kunai next to the paper bombs the metal shrapnel did serious amounts of damage to the rouges as one had his hands covering his bleeding face screaming while another was heavily gushing out blood from his now stump of a leg an an arm, two of the rouges died instantly from being so close to the explosion leaving nothing more than bloody burnt corpses an chunks of meat scattered all over the field, if Choji wasn't so focused on survival right then he would be horrified at the results.

Climbing down from his birds nest position in the top of the tree's Choji made short work of the screaming one who had lost his sight in both his eyes from the metal shrapnels by tackling him an stabbing him in the neck before he could react,the act of killing had never felt right to Choji but he knew he had no choice in the situation, the man's cries would of alerted others to their location faster, he had less than two minute tops before the smoke from the explosion would be easily seen by just looking upwards near the sound of the bombings.

He acted quickly an drew his kunai to in order to look more intimidating as he walked over to the last living enemy, he needed answers,an he was going to get them.

With a bleeding stump for a leg an an left arm an his teammates all dead Choj didn't even need to put on a show of intimidation,the man was terrified, his team were all atlest chonin level an yet this little demon had murdered them all in a explosion of hell fire!, it was probably the rapid blood loss doing this to him but at that moment if the boy had said he was the shinigami coming for his soul he would believe him a beg for forgiveness of his soul before being judged for the afterlife.

He told him everything, who they were an where they came from, turns out most of them were just a bunch of missing nin rejects who's bounties weren't even worth collecting, they called themselves the (dark winds) an traveled around as a group of mercinaries for hire an were relatively quiet in the criminal community up till 3 months earlier they had encountered a man who promised them riches beyond their wildest dreams if they could get him a certain item he's been looking to get his hands on for years.

at first Choji thought this mystery man must of been working with some enemy village who had bad history with the waterfall village but the bleeding man shook his head an through shallow breaths an told him this man wasn't affiliated with any known village as far as the (dark wind) knew, he just appeared one day at their base with a briefcase full of money an promise of fame an fortune, not only that but the man also struck a deal with their leader as a 'deposit' of sorts until he could rewarded for getting the heroes water.

Becoming even more curious choji asked why this 'deposit' was so important, the wounded man explained that it wasn't just money, it was a drug, a drug that could turn a normal man's strength several times its human limitations,he explained, an experimental version of the heroes water but with far too many defects to be considered useful,for one it was highly addictive as their leader would good into a blood thirsty rage if he didn't get his dosage every 12 hours,but the perks could only be called extraordinary as the man had gone from a simple missing nin to monster practically over night.

This worried choji as he had only heard of anything remotely similar to this, a curse mark,but in drug form?.

'did this have anything to do with the hidden sound... Was orochimaru involved!?'

He tried to get the name of their employer ,the man looked sickly pain now showing he didn't have long but he managed to force out an answer as Choji's listened closely.

"h.. Hi-s *huff* n-ame.. Is.. Gat-"

The man didn't get to finish his confession as a hail of extremly fast shuriken descended down apon the two, out of the pure instinctual need to live Choji's body reacted quickly an made his preform the ever life saver substitution jutsu just in time as the field he was just in along with the dying man was covered in hundreds of razor sharp blade's, the site of the one legged man who was just alive a moment ago was now filled head to waist in blade's,the site was horrible but choji just bit his lip at the grim site an filed it away as another gruesome image he would need to repress if he wanted to survival this next obstacle.

Up in the tree's two more rouge ninja's had shown up an neither looked even the tiniest bit regretful about murdering their own Comrad, if anything they looked pleased at him being caught in their attempt on Choji's life.

"well shit guess koga finally ran out ah luck eh gango? " the taller one of the left said smirking at his comrades corpses, "damn with a fucked up body like that we may have just did the poor bastard a favor, you know how the boss-man hates having weaklings or cripples working for him, putting him down now was probably for the best" He laughed not even trying to hide his glee as his partner on the right shook his head at the Corps in disgust, "couldn't even get one child without getting blown up, Tsk, guess that's what we get for taking in rejects from sound an the hidden grass, next time yoma-sama gets replacements I'm asking for the only good quality ninja's in the mist"he said calmly as if the scattered bodies all around the field were just easily replaceable toys the broke due to cheap quality.

Choji felt sick.

"the hell his wrong with both of you, weren't they your comrades!?, why are you acting like they didn't matter! "Choji's shouted angrily, konaha from day one had always preached teamwork an valuing your comrades, even gangs could understand this bond an grow stronger because of it,if the situation was in reverse an it was someone Choji cared about who he caused to die...he would never forgive himself. So for them to just shrug off their teammates like they were nothing more than dead bugs to be whipped away made him sick.

"well gango wanna let me do the honors of skinning this pig or do you wanna do it? " the one on the left asked his partner who just took one look at Choji an frowned as if looking at garbage, "by all means he's yours, but you do know we were ordered to bring him in alive right,if this gets out I'm not vouching for you hikama "

"yeah yeah whatever" the man said rolling his eyes at his partners stiff personality an stared down Choji with glee, "what the boss man doesn't know won't hurt me, now come here kid an I'll make it quick" at that he jumped off his branch to get in a swing of his katana but just barely missed the boys head as he dived out of the way tucking his legs into a ball an rolling behind an tree for cover, this didn't last thing as the man had suddenly appeared next to him with his leg ready for a kick to the ground face, he couldn't dodge but he had enough time to cover his head with his arms as he was kicked hard across the ground onto his back, he wasn't even given a moments rest as he had to roll out of the way to avoid 3 kunai that struck the patch of grass he was just laying on.

cructching on all fours Choji knew he had to think of something fast, explosives took time an strategy to be useful so those were out, plus what was left would only cause mild burns an not real damage like last time, he didn't even have back up to help an aside from wasting his valuable but limited chakra he didn't have much left in options.

Reaching for his putch he pulled out some wire he kept hidden just for emergency moments like this, "oh what's this, ninja wire?, hah what, gonna save us the trubble an hang yourself now haha"the rouge laughed but the stopped as Choji started wrapping the wire around himself.

"holy shit gango I think he's really gonna do it"

What he didn't notice were the kunai subtly attached to each line, an even if he did he wouldn't understand why it would be a treat.

"human bolder! "Choji said surprising both men as he charged at hikama in his tank form causing hikama to have to dodge but to his surprise again the genin seemed to have excellent control of his movements in said form was easily able to turn on a dime spinning in the the other direction mowing down foliage all just to get to the dodging rouge, finally have enough the man swore as he raised his sword infront on the rushing human bolder, "alright I've had fucking enough, die you little shit! " he said slicing his sword down on the boy hoping his swords blade would cut him to pieces, but what he didn't expect was for sparks to shoot out from where his blade connected with him.

"WHAT! "he shouted at the sparks grow more heating up his blade as he was actually being pushed back by the boy who was giving it his all using the kunai net he made as spikes to counter the man's sword, weapon users had always been a bitch to fight in the past, using technique's like this was a excellent idea created by shikamari in the old time line in their first genin days, over the years he would just rely on his spiky hair but until he could grow it long enough this version will has to do.

"damn, I don't know what sort of freaky shit this is but I ain't loosing to some brat !" the rouge's anger drove him as he didn't even think twice in unleashing a barrage of strikes on the spinning spiked ball as the field lite up in sparks with each class, loosing patients the man channelled chakra to his sword making it several times more dangerous an jumped into the air descending down with his weapon pointed downward ready to impale the boy-bolder in this one move.

Or atlest that was the plan.

He was beyond shocked to see that when he launched himself into the air Choji had done the same by bouncing him bolder form on the ground into the air meeting the rouge halfway into his decent but instead of being impaled by his blade Choji had deactivated his human bolder transformation nearily missing being sliced in half an then while they were both still falling grab the man with an out stretched giant arm an use the force of gravity to slam the man's entire body hard into the ground with the pressure of him giant arm crushing him under it's weight an wreaking the soil around the field in the impact kicking up dirt rocks an dust as Choji's arm returned to normal an he tried to catch his breath as the dust hid him from sight.

Choji was exhausted, doing all these techniques at the same time was seriously taxing his bodies stamina, something he didn't have alot of to begin with,worse was he didn't know for sure if that ended the fight an even if it did their was still the man's partner to deal with who by now had seen most of his limited bodies arsenal, he needed to end this quickly but with what?, his chakra had taken a serious dip controlling all those kunai's an turning them into a defensive/Offen shield against the man's blade, to add body expansion to that was just plain draining.

Then much to his horror the crater he had left the sword welding rouge in started to move!, slowly little by little the rocks were pushed away as a bloody hand rose to the surface showing the heavily bleeding man clawing his way out of the rubble with a furious look on his missing toothed face glaring into the dust smoke he could sense Choji in"y-you litt-le fucker! "he crocked out choking on blood an teeth as he looked like the dead coming out of his grave. "yo-u thin-k this s-hit i-s funny! " he screamed into dust cloud as he tripped over himself trying to get his mangled body to work to find the boy but was having difficulty even walking much less ready to continue any sort of fight, "i-ll fuc-king slaughter yo-u" the man slashed randomly in the smoke not even getting anywhere near the boy who was hidden several feet away trying to rest his tired body as the screaming madman raged on in the dust cloud cough an screaming for his blood while constantly tripping over his own battered legs that could not supported him anymore after being crushed, if Choji didn't have his an many others life on the line he would actually feel sorry for the man.

"enough "

That was the only warning the two got as a hail of shuriken even greater than before rained down like a silver hail storm onto the field cutting up trees an stone as they easily cut through flesh an bone spilling blood all over the ground.

But not Choji's blood, once again he had to watch another be killed merciless by his own teammate an just looked up in shock as the perpetrator tsked an shook his head, "how disappointing, why does yoma-sama always pair me up with useless cannon fodder, I should thank you child I've been looking for a reason to kill him for a while now, you breaking him was all I needed,after all what was said before is true"

"the (dark wind) have no need for either the weak or crippled, he just turned out to be both"he said with a look of revolution in his sharp eyes as he turned his eyes to his now dead partners corpse an shrugged away any feelings of regret, that is if he even had any to begin with, he was so use to putting weaklings down like this by now.

What sort of monster was this man, he's already murdered two of his comrades an didn't even seem to care, Choji knew he wasn't an ordinary ninja, not only did he seem more cold hearted than the average but he had a dark feeling about him, even his aperence was different than the rest, the others so far only wore black enough to cover most of their body even their faces an had either swords or staffs as weapons but this man who seemed to be able to pull hundreds of shuriken out of nowhere was wearing mostly silver, an arms similar to his own were covered in bandages but unlike his own was covered in black markings that he could only vaugly recognize.

Seals, dozens of them,from this distance he could see that they were different from the basic packaging seals to hold just one item each, his knowledge on the art was sadly very limited but from just the glances he could get they were definitely not for show.

'is that where all the shuriken are coming from? ' he wondered as it only made sense, just by glancing around him he could see hundreds if no thousands of shuriken on the field, there was no other way for him to have carried them around an the speed of which he sent them was inhuman, it was almost as if they were..

"automatic " he whispered under his breath as a cold sweat started to form on his hiding spot as the realization struck him, this rouge was using seals to make some sort of auto-fire weapons out of his someone as slow as him the thought of fighting an enemy who could attack at such speeds was insanely one-sided.

"there you are "

His eyes didn't even have time to widen in shock as he ducked out of the way from the torrent of deadly blade's hailed down on his position ripping apart the trees he was hiding in easily, the wave of death didn't stop there as the seemingly endless Gatlin chased him all the way to the edge of the small forest cornering him at a river bed while leading a trail of destruction, having no other choice Choji jumped into the river to nearily avoid the torrent with only one shallow cut to the right shoulder as he swam hurriedly under the stream preying his green jacket would help camraflodge him in the water as he traveled down stream, even as his lungs burned for air he kept low in the stream to hide himself as faintly he could hear the sound of the torrent even less.

Finally after feeling like his lung's were about to explode he surfaced to the top an crawled over to land out of the water coughing an choking out water, greedily sucking up air as he laid on one of the river stones trying to get his heart to calm down, once his mind could function properly again he came to the honest to kami conclusion.

He was in WAAAAAY over his head!.

Screw believing in yourself that maniac destroyed the entire forest in a matter of seconds an he didn't even look concerned he would run out of weapons!, how the hell was he suppose to fight that, he was a short range fighter not a long range one, people like that rouge had a huge advantage over people like him from a distance, he would be ripped to shreds before he could get anywhere near him, an he damn well wasn't gonna risk it charging at him in his bolder form, even with the spikes he'd be running into a slaughter, he could feel the high pressured wind chakra coming off those shuriken that cut up the forest like the tree's weren't even there, he had long been taught the dangers of wind users at the academy an even more so under a master of said element,his sensei knew winds main ability was to cut, on its own it's already deadly adding said chakra nature to a ninja weapon was just over kill in his opinion.

The smart thing to do would be to cut his loses, praise kami he managed to survive this long an get the hell out of there while he still could, he had already done far more than thought possible of him, he didn't need to do more, besides by now nako should be done freeing the villagers ready to be hanged an leading the evacuation, all he needed to do was get the flip out of there without being spotted an maybe just maybe he could live to see tomorrow.

"not bad child ",his blood ran cold at the voice an he could practically feel his heart beat stop as heavy foot steps got closer behind him, he couldn't move out of fear, "if you weren't the enemy you would be a useful recruit for the (dark wind) , not many live this long against my metal Rain",his brain was telling him to move but his instincts were screaming any sudden movements would lead to instant death so he was forced to stay still as the silver rouge got closer, "such a shame really, you've already proven just one of you is worth atlest 4 of our men, well 5 if you count that fool hikama but then again I did finish him off myself so maybe that doesn't count " he said with merith as tho he was remembering a fond memory, if Choji ever felt more scared in his life than he did right now he sure as shit didn't remember!.

"oh well" the man said directly behind the genin with both Gatlin seal arms raised ready to fire, "all good things must come to an end it seems " he said channeling a large portion of wind chakra to his bandaged arms about to release his biggest wave apon the boy.

Without even thinking fully about the consequences Choji pulled out his last paper bomb an throw it above his head infront of the surprised rouge who didn't have to to retract his arms as the bomb went off blasting Both of them across the river bank.

The rogue ninja was sent into the gravel with a rough landing while Choji land head first into the water with a huge splash. For a moment it was quiet an their was no response from the downed rouge or any sign of the water logged Choji.

Several seconds later the boy's head surfaced in the river coughing out the water he had inhaled an pulled himself to land again an didn't even bother trying to stand up an just stayed gasping on his hands an knee's, he had several cuts on him an his clothes were slightly singed from the explosion an his ears were still ringing from the blast an his vision was slightly blurry but overall he got off mostly unharmed, which he couldn't say the same for the rouge who had regained consciousness but was screaming bloody murder over the state of his now mangled arms that looked like they just went through a meat grinder as not even one finger remained on the right hand an all that was left on his left was his bloody elbow that had bone an metal shrapnel sticking out out.

It was the explosive that did this damage, Infact if the paper bomb really was that powerful Choji would of lost his head an shoulders Instead of just being launched into the river, no the real cause of all that damage was the wind chakra the rouge was building up in his arms, the bomb made him loose control an over load his seals ,all that deadly chakra had to go somewhere, bursting out of his arms was the only option without a usable exit.

an as a result the man was now armless wiggling helplessly on the ground cursing Choji for even being conceived an he looked at him with hateful pain filled eyes even as Choji finally got to his feet an slowly walked away the man was still screaming for his blood an vowing revenge.

Yeah he had enough, he was done fighting,he just wanted to get to the village exit an leave with evacuating villagers, an probably see a doctor *cough *...yeah definitely a doctor.

*BOOM! *

"oh what the hell now!? " Choji groaned as he looked to his right out in the distance an say green smoke rise into the air. "oh farts.. " he cursed under his breath as he saw it, it was the signal he had given mako to use.

If things had gone horribly wrong.

"can I get a break today? " he said tiredly as sucked his aches an pains up an charged into the smoke signals direction silently preying everything would be OK by the time he got there.

Things were definitely not ok.

Nako couldnt help but think after he set off the smoke signal as things had gone south the moment he had gotten half the villagers through the exit after freeing the prisoners who we're to be executed, Choji had been an excellent diversion an had attracted most of the invaders attention an what was left was fighting the remaining brave villagers who were buying the rest of the village time to escape, nako's father being one of them, specking of which the boy had never seen so much pride in his father's face when he saw his son come to their people's aid, this notion that even a child would be brave enough to try an defend his home revitalized the freed brave ones to fight even harder than even before an actually push then invaders back!.

At first it seemed like they were winning especially when one of the two captured konaha ninja's joined in the fight an managed even with his head wound to take out another (dark wind) grunt with his tai jutsu skills but before they could start cheering for victory the crowd was blasted away by a huge gale of wind that injured many an knocked the rest the ground, even nako himself was sent flying a smacked into a wall with the wind knocked out of him.

As everyone moaned in pain but managed to get up they all become quite as they heard a slow auminious clapping.

Stepping out of the shadows of where the wind came from was a beast of a man, twice the size of the average man with rippling vainy muscles that looked like they were used for breaking rocks into powdered dust,he wore like his cohorts mostly black but unlike the rest his face was clearly being shown along with a ugly jagged scare running down the top of his bald head to his bottom lip the just plain looked freakish when he smirked darkly at them an damn near gave nako a heart attack when he turned his ugly mug to him as his smirk grew bigger. This was the invaders leader.

Yoma yokami

"congratulations young man",he said as nako honest to kami saw images of his short life flash with every word the man said to him.

"you've done the difficult task of pissing me off to the point of astonishment, truly your punishment will be legendary "

No one would blame the boy for the urine that was now streaming steadily down his pants leg.

Dispite being consumed by fear the braves charged at the mountain of a man with pitch forks an knives raised thinking that if they all attacked at once they could take the man down.

They were sorly mistaken.

Even with his size the man moved like the wind itself as he easily dodged all their pitiful attacks that came at him in all directions with a calm look on his face as he continued speaking while dodging, "it was just supposed to be a simple mission, just get the heros water for us an most of you would be speared " he ducked back as a rock was thrown to his face an a cutlass to the back was effortlessly missed.

"but now..you all die" ,with just a simple raise of his right hand the chill of deaths cold embrace was all anyone could feel in that one moment.

Suddenly the first 5 people sarounding the rouge leader frooze as if stund stiff,then all of them dropped their weapons to the dirt as they stood like statues.

a brave one right behind the 5 reached out to his frozen friend to shake him out of his sudden freeze.

Only to back away in horror as his friends body fell apart into chunks of diced meat landing on the ground like freshly cut stake. The man vomited at the site an he wasn't alone as some others felt a wave of revolution an weak stomachs seeing a human being become for the lack of better words minced meat before their very eyes.

Their shock only grew more as the other 4 frozen men fell apart the same way an became bloody chunks.

Nako didn't even hesitate when he pulled the cord on his signal smoke bomb an trow it at the monster in human form, it landed right infront on the man right under his feet, even still he had a smirk on his twisted face even as it exploded sending green smoke all over the area.

"everyone to the exit! " shouted a panicked villager who saw this as a good opportunity to flee, too bad he was too slow to follow his own command as before he could move a gust of wind blow over to his position an slicing the man in half splashing trow the abdomen exposing his entrails ,the crowd screamed even louder as they all stampeded towards the lake dive for the villages secret exit,but unfortunately for some only halfway in the winds began to pick up above the surface of the water trowing the people either out of the water or just plain ripping people limb from limb an quickly turning the once crystal clear waters into a literal blood bath of body part, noka fell to his knee shell-shocked that anything this gruesome could even be possible much less happen infront of him to his own people.

"well then" a dark voice said as the green smoke started to fade away as the man-no demon! came forward above the cowering boy who just witnessed the butchering of his friends an neighbors right before his eyes.

"looks like I'm all warmed up"

That was him warming up!

"it's been a while since I last pealed the skin off a child with my wind",nako didn't even try to run this man wouldnt even register him fleeing as a obstacle an just turn him into a stain on the ground where ever he tried to go, he could feel his tears pouring down heavily as the rouge leader placed one of his giant hands over his shaking his as the wind started kicking up around them, "let's see if I haven't lost my touch shall we" he said as nako closed his eyes not wanting to see his end happened. An just counted the precious last few moments he had left on this earth.

...

...

Apparently he had alot of moments left?

Finally opening his eyes mako was shocked to see he was several yards away from where he was before as he could clearly see a huge wind created creator where he was sitting before under the noe furious rouge leader who stared up at him with contempt... Wait.. Up?.

It only now accured to the boy that he was severely stories in the air floating in the sky, an now that he thought about it there was this odd buzzing sound that he couldn't quite place but it sounded familiar.

"you OK nako? " an soft voice said surprising the child even more as he now realized his sudden flight was due to the winged green haired girl carrying him in her arms.

His response was to be expected.

He screamed .

Rikimaru was usually head strong about him always having most situations under control as his teams leader, but even he could atmit this entire mission had gone well passed bad to worse now had become nothing short of a first class shit storm, not only was he an Shinji captured but Shinji was so badly injured to the point he couldn't even fight an had to be carried off with the fleeing civilians to the other side of the villages underwater exit while he an the bravest of the bunch fended off against a man who made monsters seem like butterflies, specking of butterflies he still hadn't seen hide nor tail of that akamichi Bastard who went missing last night, dispite his loathing of the boy he would rather not explaining to his jonin sensei why he let him die on His first mission with them, plus chances are Shinji would just cry about it like he always does when people get hurt, big fricken baby, but all that didn't matter now, he an the villagers left to fight were being slaughtered left an right, the only reason he himself was still standing was because he used the basic tree climbing technique to stick his feet firmly on the ground as the deadly winds kept blowing them away or ripped people apart, he was one of the few left, only a handful of the 50 brave souls who stood there ground to fight remained, even he himself was in rough shape, the head wound he suffered from the man's killer axe kick definitely gave him a concussion, he was thanking his lucky stars he was still lucid enough to stay in control of himself an dodge the man's wind attacks, his head kept throbbing ever 10 seconds an his movements were slowing down, he was running on fumes as it was an didn't know how much more he could take, a part of him was actually relived the man stopped hounding them an turned his attention on a new target, a boy, the one who freed them, he knew he could do nothing especially after seeing the lake of blood the man created almost effortlessly with his wind's sharp blade's chopping up the villagers still I'm the water, he silently preying Shinji's group got to the other side in time, the thought of his teammate possibly being caught in that butchering genuinely scared him.

When the man placed his hand on nako's head Rikimaru knew the boy was as good as dead, just getting glanced by his blasts even with his chakra put up to help shield him he was still injured by the wind,it didn't matter that technically he had the advantage of having the highly common fire chakra that was supposed to trump wind, he was still left with cuts marking his arms an legs, just thinking about them made them along with his head burn in pain, he had no other choice.

He needed to run.

Forget the mission an the villagers this was the type of sinerios jonin delt with not genin, if he somehow managed to get out of this with all his limbs he would count it as a blessing, tho it pained him to give up an run with his tail between his legs he saw no other option.

"sorry kid" he whispered under his breath as finally made up his mind to abandon the boy in favour of living to fight another day.

Almost the very moment he moved to run a fast moving green blur shot towards the rouge an grabbed the boy just in time avoiding the utterly demonic blast of wind that trilled a huge trench in the ground where the boy just was, Rikimaru had to blink twice at the site of the screaming child in a green haired dark skinned girls arm in the air,wait was she wearing akamichi's scarf?.

Oh an did he mention she had wings

That concussion must be worst than he thought for him to be seeing shit like this.

Fu managed to egnore the flailing screaming boy in her arms long enough to assess the situation, no time for her childish idiot mask she normally carried around with years of practice, she needed to be serious especially if the enemy could cause the... Frenzy displayed all around her on the ground level, she had never seen such carnage in her life, her usual scorn towards her fellow villagers was for the first time overwhelmed with pitty an remorse, in the deepest darkest parts of her mind she thought this was the universe finally answering her preyers an delivering the bad karma they all built up from mistreating an dispizing her for just being born sealed with her 'prisoner',but still dispite her personal feelings towards them as people, even vermin deserved a better end than this slaughter.

Which is why she didn't hesitate in saving the boy in her arms as she definitely couldn't justify letting a child die as a form of retribution for their mistreatment of her ,she was better than that.. She tried to be.

"well we'll well what we have here",the giant said looking at fu's wings in wonder for a moment before realization struck him making him bark out in laughter as if he just got the punch line in a good joke, "isn't this a surprise, I didn't think I'd run into one of you mongrels here,I guess the rumors are true " his words just made Fu angrier by the minute but she couldn't risk anything rash with the boy in her hands, besides, she had already heard much worse insults this was nothing new.

"so let me guess, number 7 right the bug? " he asked her seeming less furious an more curious at her 'prisoners ' identity, "figure's with those wings of your's it's kind of a dead give away "

"what's your business here outsider"she said going into her interrogation mode, if there was one thing she was greatfull to the village for it was to develop her acting skills, with a will placed scowl an hard threatening eyes she passed off the impression she wasn't in anyway intimidated by this man but underneath it all she was petrified, she knew from talking to lord shibuki's accounts that these were some extremely dangerous enemies with more power than they could handle but she couldn't fathom the sort of monsters these people were to have practically covered the village in it people's blood in the span of a few hours, it wasn't just that either, as untrained in the area as she was Fu was still a sensor, she could easy feel the bloodlust an rage wofting off the muscle gaint like a foul stench poisoning the air itself, she didn't want to get anywhere near him.

"answer me outsider! " she shouted again with more force making the man smirk an her sweat slightly as he intimidation tactic wasn't even phasing him.

"huh?, an what a attitude it has, no doubt this village hasn't trained their weapon properly "he said as if she wasn't there an was more of a thing than a person causing her wings to buzz louder to indicate her dislike of being called an 'it'.all the while she didn't notice the way the soft wind around her start to pickup slowly.

"I wonder" he said eyeing her up an down. As if look at her for the first time which caused Fu to want to run as a cold chill went down her spine.

"how much... Could I get for something like you if I sell you to my employer along with the hero's water, probably a even more than that, after all even though you're both nothing more than instruments of war, you can't fuck a bottle of water now can you"

Fu didn't even have time to get enraged as the very air itself felt like it was constricting her body as with just a forward movement of his hand she was pulled in the air an launched at a fast speed to hit hard on the ground several yards away from the lake into the more rocky rivers terrains thinking quickly she held the screaming nako infront of her at her stomach an balled up to protect him from the impact into a stone slab that caused her to retract her chakra wings an groan in pain from the coalition that would of kill most people.

Normal people that is.

"hmm, still can move huh?" yoma said appearing to there location in s burst of wind based speed slightly intrigued as even after falling for what most of been 10 stories in the sky into the hard river rocks Fu still managed to pull herself out of the rubble with a now petrified nako who's already had far more near death situations in one day than a most civilians do in their entire lives, luckily Fu managed to complety tank all the damage leaving the boy unharmed, "hmm, those other rumors about the 7's hosts all having mental hard skin must also be true too,"

Fu could barely hear him over the stinging pain covering her back from the impact, she may be solid but the fall could of easily snapped her neck if she didn't angel herself right, if she managed to survive this she'd be sore for day's.

"I intended to make that quick an easy there by knocking you out from that crash but it seems I'm gonna have to really mess you up first before I can load you up with rest of the loot we took,dont worry,I won't touch your face though, ugly girls don't even get looked at on the market"

Even in pain she still managed to growl in contempt at his words.

"hell depending on how much your worth I won't have to work with that midget billionaire anymore ,a female jinkuriki?, you'll definitely fetch a damn good price, plus those features will definitely get buyers attention, exotic green hair an land of lightning dark skin, i can already see a line of sick rich fucks just clammering over one another to add you to their whore collection's "

If it was possible to despise another living creature to the point they died from just you glaring at them, the rouge leader would be dead 5 times over.

Fu was more furious than she's ever been in her life, her blood boiled at the very thought of the horrible sickening things the bastard in front of her described, subconsciously she let go of nako who wasted no time in scurrying off out of the the rubble they were laying in especially when he noticed the pebbles an rocks start to shake an even float away around Fu as bubbles started forming around her.

Red bubbles.

"i...what.. What the hell is this? " Rikimaru mumbled to himself in awe as a surge of menevolent red chakra practically exploded off the green haired girl facing off against the rouge, even from his hidding spot several yards away on top of the higher waterfalls cliffs he could practically feel the presence of something new entering the stage.

something dark, something vicious, something definitely NOT human. he was by no means skilled at reading chakra signatures but the mear fact that this almost.. Evil! form of chakra was even visible was all the proof of its power , an it was all coming from that girl, could he even call her that anymore?.

While he was deep in thought things on the lake were turning from bad to worse.

Even the rouge leaders relaxed state shifted into concern as the girl infront of him raged on with a wave of demonic chakra bubbled around her causing the gravel an rocks to scatter underneath her as her body slowly went through a shift in her physical form,a horn of pure bone coated black formed at the top of her head morfing into a makeshift crown that covered her green hair leaving only a few locks out at the side an the crown encompassesed most of her temple.

Her orange pupils had faded out leaving her glaring eyes completely white giving off a ery glow,her nails grow longer an sharper, her tan skin slowly became darker to the point of almost being pitch black ,it also now had a glossy shine to it almost like she had form a exoskeleton armour over her flesh.

Her wings had returned, but instead of being their yellow an red for they were now twisted into black tattered wings with jagged crimson edges at the tips the buzzed to life with a force the caused a small shock wave blowing away dust at dirt as the red bubbles covered her new form like a clock with three swinging tails behind her.

Crouching on all fours like wild beast she roared loudly filling the entire village with the sound of her animalistic cry.

It was the most terrifying moment in Rikimaru's life.

He was having alot of those today

"you know, this village just keeps on surprising me more an more, I didn't think I'd actually get a proper work out today" the gaint man said smiling at the face of the transformed jinchuriki infront of him who stared him down with her pale eyes of broiling hatred.

"well then" the man said raising his arms in a 'come at me bro' position to egg her on, "I'm waiting mongrel "

He didn't even see her move as the next second she was Infront of him ramming her beetle horned crown into his chest using her wings to maximize the force behind the assault launching them both into the sky, destroying the tree tops they crashed into.

Her asult didn't last long though as she was struck with a powerful chakra infused elbow to the back of the head knocking her down giving the giant time to gather a ball of wind chakra into his hand aimed right at her an fired a huge tunnel of wind slamming into her left arm both spinning her out of the sky into the side of a waterfall collapsing it but not even a moment later she was shooting out of the water even make reservations furious with the black armour on her left arm slightly cracked but aside from that no real damage was done as she roared once more.

Realizing he needed step up his game he pulled out put up one arm doing a hand sign an channelled more chakra into this technique than he had for anything else, suddenly his decent to the ground stopped keeping him floating in the air sarounded by a ball of wind keeping him hovering.

When Fu finally reached him he clapped both hands together sending dozens of blades of wind at the girl while maneuvering trough the sky backwards as the jinchuriki chased him down at a extremely fast speed.

The wind blade's were bearly an obstacle for her as she dodge each an every one of them with a level of acrobatic skill only years of practice could produce as she opened her mouth that drooled with bloodlust a ball of chakra started to form infront of her face made up of blue an red chakra particles.

Alarmed at the sight of seeing the new an very possibly fatal attack forming the rouge leader knew he couldn't alow her time to follow trow with it so at the last moment when she was about to launch it he reversed his air balls movement to forward an close lined the speeding girl in the neck slamming the two into the ground an making her miss her target causing her incomplete tail beast bomb to collide with the lake completely recking the it in the explosion causing the lake's blood tainted water to rain down on the battlefield covering the place a musty pink mist that stank of blood an sulfur, but that didn't seem to matter to the two titans as the clashed on the land an sky with the rouge taking to the sky in his air bubble bombarding the girl with multiple wind slashes as she dodged on land an firing tail beast bombs that although missed caused huge powerful explosions In the sky's the disrupted the man's concentration making controlling the wind difficult was starting to slow down from constantly having his focus disrupted by each blast.

Seeing an opening in his slowed speed Fu ascended to the sky an once again tried ram him with her horn again only to be grabbed by the horn instead an ended up taking a full powered wind tunnel to the chest at point blank range ripping through the exoskeleton protecting her stomach as her entire body was drilled into the ground like a screw as the gaint man stood over the hole with booth hands held out with a look of intense concentration on his scared face at the wind all around him seemed to shimmer as he used summon one last technique.

"let's see you walk off this one mongrel!" he shouted into the hole as the wind suddenly slammed into the ground around him crouching at the rocks an stones into dirt an dust.

"wind OBLITERATION! " he shouted as the crushed erupted into a giant burst of wind an smoke at the wind sliced trough the soil under his feet on an atomic level to the point there was nothing but fine sand an dust underneath him as he breathed tiredly out of breath as his ultimate attack took more chakra than he ever planned on using.

But as the dust cleared an he could see the frozen boy who was hidden in the cracks of the river fearing for his life as he saw his last hope most likely get diced into bits under the sand the rouge was walking on to make his way over to him.

"well kid whatever deal you made with the God of luck seems to have ran it's course " yoma said working out a kink in his sore neck as he raised his arm at nako ready to chop him in half, "it's a shame too, I wouldn't of minded having a turn with that demon girl too,its a shame she had to be so stubborn an not obey, oh well I kill every last one of you will make up for it"he said as he aimed at the boys chest.

"so goodbye you litt-" he was cut off by a black hand popping out of the sand below him gripping deep into his cafe shocking him as he looked down to see the gapping mouth of a hornless white eyed Fu who's head was sticking out of the sand an had a tail beast bomb floating above her mouth an pointed dirrected at him .

"oh no"

The was all he managed to get out before she blasted him point blank blasting him full force with a beam of demonic energy.

The blast rocketed the man up an burnt into a hole on the side of a hill collapsing the entire landmass ironically burring the man under thousands of pounds of rocks trees an bolders ending the fight.

Pulling herself up from the sand fu revealed the full extent of how damaged she was, her armor was ripped to shreds leaving just small black patches of the exoskeleton left of her hands an feet, half her horn crown was ripped off an cracked an she was covered in cuts from head to two in places the armour was present, her black wings were completely destroyed leaving just tattered pieces of it left on the back of her waist, her cloak of red chakra still remained tho which was probably another major factor in her survival from the rouges attack that dices the Rocky ground she was intombed in into the site of her victory the beast let out one last inhuman roar showing dominance over all else who would try challenging her next.

"f-f-fu? "

Glowing white eyes snapped to the sound of the timid voice an locked on to the shacking form of nako who looked at her with fear in his big brown eyes. "you-r s-till in th-ere right" he stammered out as the beast girl started stalking over to him growling as drool leaked from her jagged tooth mouth like a staved predator who just found fresh easy meat making the boy crawl backwards on the ground desperately trying to keep a distance between the two as the jinchuriki got closer to him on her hands an feet ready to pounce on him at any moment.

"p-lease fu your got t-o stop! "he begged as the demon possessed girl growled louder in excitement as if she was enjoying the scent of his fear.

"d-ont you remember me? " he said pointing to himself as she only a foot away with her claw raised to rip off his head.

"it's me nak-o!, the boy Choji onii-san left with to save the village dont you remember!? "

Her claws froze just as she was about to swing down as something in the boys word's stopped her dead in her tracks, blinking twice at the miracle of still being alive nako keep talking, "he said he save us, Choji onii-san I mean, he'll be here soon so you don't need to do this anymore th-this thing isn't you" he croaked out as the glow of the female jinkuriki's white easy started to slowly dim down as she lowered her arm to her said.

"Cho...choji.. " the beast grumbled out in a rough time as if she was finally starting to remember her humanity, seeing this nako searched for anything he could use to help jog her clearly jumbled memories an spotted the white cloth hanging around the beast womans neck reached for it, only to his arm grabbed as the beast hissed at him for making sudden movements towards her person, I fear of her snapping his arm like twig he screamed the first thing that came to his mind, "it's his scarf! "

Her crushing grip lessened as if he stroke another cord.

He luck was at a all time high it seemed.

"he was wearing it when his team first got here, he gave it to you didn't he?!" he continued as the beast woman other clawed hand reached down an held the tattered dirty white cloth as flashes of blurry images of a cold cave went through her head causing head aches to ravage her mind as the images became clearer.

"remember fu you have to remember! "

Clutching her skull with a pained will a huge wave of suppressed memories flooded the female jinkuriki's mind as nako kept chanting for her to remember him, remember

"cho-choji" she groaned out sounding more human as the red chakra started to return back inside of her an her black armour started to fall off bit by bit.

"choj-i.. " she groaned again as another pulse of pain burst in her head along with more memories.

{'so..if we're not enemies...and were alise...does that make us..friends?'}

She wailed in agony as she remembered her asking someone that question but her hazy mind couldn't make a clear picture of to who.

{`'i did it!,I did it! I finally made a friend!'}

Another wave of pain hit but she didn't care an gritted her jagged teeth.

Another more clear image speared as she could see her hands from her point of view hold out rice balls to someone, but was still too blurred to see their face.

{'I know it's not much and I made these myself so they might not be all that good,but they're better than nothing so if you want to you can have some'}

She doubled over as another pulse caused both a new memory to appear as her beattle horn crown fell off. It was her being given the scarf, she could finally see the person she was talking to but his face was still blurred.

{'you really should take it,it's getting far too cold,you need some sort of protection from it or you'll get sick`}

all she knew is dispite the pain she wanted to know who was talking to more than anything even if it felt like her head was being crushed.

{`choji`,a image of her saying to the boy in the cave said.}

{`yeah?`}

{`were really best friends now right?`,she asked as she could finally see his face as he looked ready to fall asleep.}

{`sure,whatever`,he said simply as he wished her goodnight an her with small tears in her eyes with a wide smile wished him the same.}

All traices of the red chakra left her as the remaining black armour fell an desintergrated on the ground leaving her in her ripped up white clothing that looked like they went through hell an back an were bearly hanging on her, but she didn't seem to care as she cried into the scarf cherishing all the memories it brought back.

"f-fu,you OK now"

Innocent orange eyes snapped up to a concern nako who looked like he too had been to hell an didn't even bother answering an just pulled the startled boy into a hug along with the scarf making him sigh deeply feeling a huge weight had been lifted now that his life was no longer in constant danger on being ended an hugged her back.

"it's... OK,its over it's finally over "he said soothing her as the hellish nightmare was finally over.

"oh I wouldn't say that just yet boy"

Nako's heart must of been the hardest working heart on the planet for not shutting down entirely as that gruff voice entered his ears as his entire body that was just feeling relief a moment ago returned to the horrible feeling of doom an gloom. Standing right above them with a huge nasty burn mark on his now bare chest was the rouge leader staring down at the both of them with a look that could probably kill gods with its intensity.

"but it will be soon"

Before she could even react the gaint grabbed Fu around her throat lifting her up into the air chocking her as she clawed at his hand trying in vain to free herself as she was running out of air an her vision become darker by the second under his monsterious grip.

"you know you did a real fucking good job fuck me up with that blast of yours mongrel, if I haddent put up a wall of wind up in time this scare you put on me would be a gapping gaint hole, you little shit damn near killed me!, I'm already almost tapped out of chakra an feel like im gonna keel over if I don't see a medic soon, but I don't need any chakra to choke you out then quash that meddlesome brat afterwards before I leave " he said intensifying his strangle making her choke out gurggles an spit.

"I'm gonna fuck enjoy cutting your head off an taking it with me as a trophy you little -ahh! " he screamed looking down to see nako stabbing the back of his shin with a sharp edged rock he picked up off the ground, it didn't do much damage but it made the man let go of fu as he sent a weak kick to the child who tumbled in the dirt from the force of it an vomited on the ground while curling up in extreme pain.

"some people are just fucking eager to die today " the man gripped pulling out the stone an marched over to the boy ready to finally stomp him into a stain on the ground only to be halted by an exhausted an out of breath fu running infront of the boy with her arms out stretched protectively covering the boy from the giants view.

Shaking his head at the insanity this village must of breed into all it villagers the man smirked "you just don't know when to give up do you mongrel"

"my name isn't mongrel it's fu you bastered!,an I'm not letting you get another step near him! " she said with the resolve of a woman ready to die.

"not like it matters " he said raising his giant foot above her head finally having enough of her nonsense an was going to stomp her into paste first, "cause after today no one will remember your name anyway!" he said putting his foot down with an insane amount of force behind it down on the girl... Only it didn't hit her?,Infact his foot didn't even touch the ground but felt it was being held up by something. .

"I'd remember "

a voice said under the man's giant foot as the rouge was actually toppled over being unbalanced on his injured leg.

Fu's eyes widened but not because the gaint fell but because of the fluttering green jacket with a bold black an white clan symbol pasted broadly on it infront of her.

"fu,nako you both alright?, sorry I couldn't get here sooner ,hah you wouldn't believe the traffic " the stranger spoke dispite the seriousness of the situation.

"c-choji.. " she said stupefied the stranger turned his head around with a thumbs up an a small smile, "Choji?, is that anyway to speak to your boss sidekick " he said good heartedly making her eyes glicen from joy then whip away her tears an with huge goofy smile on her face, "sorry boss I let it slip, think you could let it slide this time " she said hugging his back confirming he was really infront of her an not just another image.

Turning his head back to the giant who slowly rose back to his feet he answered, "if we can beat this guy a live to tell about it I think I can, just this once"

She giggled, even under threat of possible death, this boy, no her boss could somehow make her laugh.

'is this what having a friend feels like? ' she thought as they faced off against the monster of a man side by side, she the first time didn't feel scared.

Choji was scared out of his mind!

After seeing green smoke signal he had given mako as a last resort to he had quiking tried to hurry over to the area it was coming from as fast as possible, which was very challenging to do condering his entire body was already bruised an battered from dodging blades shuriken an being blasted into a river,ge could seriously use a break, his journey got even more difficult as huge gales of wind kept blowing at him coming from the direction he was going along with thunderious bombs that made any paper bomb he used that very day sound silent as the shock wave from each boom along with intense wind blow away the very trees he was jumping on as the all got up rooted from the force both anomalies combining into a destructive force making it hard for him to even get close without having to dodge branches an floating pieces of the villages house's coming at him more an more as he got closer to the source.

'the hell is going on over there!?' ,he shouted in his mind an a particularly loud explosion damn near defend him showing that it had been close by, looking to the sky his eyes widened as he saw a huge red an blue colored ball shooting up towards the sky followed by 3 more all simultaneously implode at the same time in the sky causing a blinding flash of white light to form as the created a the biggest blast yet sending even more high pressured wind down an the ground level blowing away rivers an up rooting tree's around him.

if someone had told him kami-sama had choose today come down from heaven to judge humanity for all its sin's he would honestly to goodness believe them!.

Was he really gonna run TOWARDS whatever angry gods were most likely concocting the end of man just to save one boy?, even it was to save the future this amount of effort was beyond bullshit!.

Sigh.

But he knew he was gonna try anyway.

Damn it!.

After what felt like an eternity of Hoppin an dodging trees the wind an blasts finally stopped an he could finally stop panicking long enough to focus an find mako, with the weather no longer being a dick to him for once it didn't take long for him to get back to the lake that held the village entrance where he had left mako to free the a hard thing to miss a huge crystal blue lake with plantenty of fish an body parts swimming around it was pretty memorable... Wait..

"what" was all the boy could say as he finally got to the valley in which the great lake was held only to recoil in complete disgust at the stat the water was in, the once crystal clear waters were now tainted dark pink with blood an people's body parts floating along the surface turning the once beautiful natural resource Into a morbid watery grave.

He felt sick.

An had to cover his mouth as the smell of blood an guts finally reached his nose, one body he could handle, an even stomach seeing up close without much hesitation from years of being trained to be desensitized by the site of gore in the academy with monthly field trips to the morgue for students to help dampen their fear of being a man with 4 years of experience on the field he was already use to tragites.

But this...

This wasn't a fight or even a one sided struggle...

This was a mass butchering...

A skull floated steadily ontop of the water floating closer to the shell shocked choji who turned even paler as he took in its details,it was completely ripped to shreds,the skin an face mangled an cut into unrecognizable flesh an bone no eyes or jaw could be seen, even the back of said skull was cracked exposing bits of brain matter an the most heart clenching thing was...

It was far too small to be an the skull of an adult.

He tainted the bloody lake with his vomit.

After unloading another undigested right ball into the hellish horror that was the lake, choji scuttled away from the water as if it had become acidic an stared at the entire blood pool in disgust as he wondered what sort of human being could have done this mascara, not even the hidden mist was this brutal!

Well atlest unless they weren't being paid a high price to do something this inhumane.

He had long since realized that other village's on average were much more blood thirsty than konaha shinobi ever were.

An the hidden mist was one of the worse.

But still he looked at the carnage he noticed that despite the hellish display that,along with a few other imagine that would haunt his dreams, their was no trace of chakara itself meaning two things.

One, the monster that did this wasn't s water user,elemental chakara users required infusing their chakara with said element to do any jutsu, their felt like nothing was here besides him an the lifeless corpses.

Second, this monster was Undiniably at a much higher level than chunin,probbaby a jonin ranked ninja an judging from both his terrible luck an the way the people in the water literally looked diced up into slabs of meat an bone ,the rouge was probably a extremely proficient wind chakra master,not even asuma-sensei could do something like this an up to today he legitimately though his were the sharpest blades on earth dew to his powerful wind chakra.

He had literally seen the man cut a steel wall in half!.

But whoever did this could somehow do even more damage than his teacher.

Now that he was paying more attention to his surroundings he finally noticed the state everything else around him in the valley was in, it was a disaster!.

The earth was scorched with fire an blood, the air smelt of acid an copper, the land was bare of all life,an all the trees an vegetation was ripped out mostly by the hurricane level winds from before, even the animals seemed to be whipped out of the warzone the valley had become. If choji had watched more cheesy horror movies as a child would compare the site to a horror movie that became real, all that was left was for the dead to rise up an try to eat his flesh.

Funny choice of words as he was suddenly tackled to the ground from behind.

'holy shit !' he screamed in his head as his assailant sat on his back an was probably aiming eat him slowly like the cannibal undead monster it most likely was.

"akamichi!"

Huh, guess zombie could talk.

"the hell have you been akamichi!?" the supposed "undead " said angrily as he turned the boy over to show his normal not rotting pale skin an glasses as the person untop of him glared down at chojis both relived an embarrassed face.

It was rikimaru!

An boy did choji feel stupid for confusing him for a fictional undead monster.

"rikimaru?,what are you still doing here?, you were supposed to get out of here through the exit with the civilians, that's what I planned with mako while I was playing distraction " he questioned his comrade as a look of irritation spared on the older boys face as he bopped him on the head with just enough force to show his frustration, still hurt though.

"ow!, the heck was that for?! " the time traveler whined as he rubbed his sore forehead where a small bump was forming. Only to be struck again.

"will you stop that! "

"that was for dissapairing on me an Shinji yesterday ",the boy ontop of him said egnoring the boys complaints.

"an the first one was for making me have to wait even longer in this hellhole to look for your fat ass,staying here longer to search for you nearly got me killed more times today than I even want to think about! "

"what?!, wait you know what happened here?, the kid, there was a boy who I left here to free you guys, he's about 8 or 7,where is he?, did he make it to the other side with the villagers? "

Raising a brow rikimaru tried to make sense of his reluctant substitute teammates babbling an remember the very same boy he was describing being picked up by some flying witch that got thrown over to the other side of the valley carrying the boy with her in her crash, from his vantage point then he could clearly see that the boy was alive up to that point somehow surviving the fall but then got the hell out of the after the green haired witch started turning into the nightmatish black bug creature that ripped apart the landscape with balls of chakra that had enough power to end army's, yeah needless to say rikimaru did not think a civilian child had any hope of surviving that battle of gods... Or was demons more accurate.

Later in life rikimaru would one day be shocked at how much he hit the hammer on the head with that description.

He explained everything that happened to choji as he got off him pulling the boy up with him as he dusted himself of an walked over to the blood pool ready to dive in.

"your reeeal lucky I found you akamichi, another minute an I would of cut my losses an left"he said over his shoulder as he looked on with disgust an guilt at the minced corpses of the few villagers who layed down their lives to let their friends an family except, he bowed his head for their sacrifices as he hardend his resolve to jump in an swim to the other side, "but now we can just get the hell out of here an head back to konaha all in one piece " he said in relief ,but turned around in confusion as he turned around to see choji was facing the opposite direction with his hands clenched.

"hey akamichi, what's the matter we have to leave ?" he said as he tried to figure out why he wasn't hopping in with him sure the lake was beyond disgusting an he would have to burn his eventually blood soaked clothes after this but it was the only known way out an they had no other option.

"I'm not going..."

"look if it's the state of the exit bothering you, your gonna have to suck it up,i don't like the thought of diving into body parts too but we have just deal with it now an then go hom-"

"I'm not leaving... Yet" the time traveler said again.

"what? "

"if... There is a small chance he still.. Nako I mean... If he's still alive I can't just abandon him"he said as rikimaru blinked then responded accordingly.

"akamichi, ...ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND! " he shouted as he pointed to the direction the Titans clashed.

"it's probably hell on earth other that side of the valley an instead of just rubbing two brain cells together an diside to follow me out of here, you want to take a risk on the tiny chance some civilian's still alive in all that madness I just ran for my life from! "

"rikimaru I can't leave him! " choji pleaded.

"yes, you can dumbass, an he's probably a corpse by now all your doing is trying to get yourself killed! "

"he's only s child! "

"so are we!, which is exactly why this is suicide!, we bearly survived fighting chonin an those two monsters that fought were so above our level its insane!"

"were trained ninja!"

"no training in the world could make stand anywhere near those monsters!,the green haired girl alone damn near cut the village in half with her blasts! ".

" green haired girl? "

"was.. Was she dressed in mostly white an had dark skin? "

"the hell did you.., wait why the hell does it matter? "

"because if it who I think it is I've got to go find her too"

"...nope nope nope, screw this screw your bleeding heart were leaving come on"he said having enough of this.

"I told you I'm not leaving till i-"

*SMACK!*

He was cut off by the frustration fulled fist smashing into his jaw almost knocking him off his feat but he caught himself an regained balance staring as a steaming rikimaru in shock.

"wake up!, do you have any idea how completely dilutional you sound right now!?"

"there is probably monstrosities from hell itself waiting over there an out of some ludicrous mentally ill form of heroism your planning of charging in blind an completely powerless, do you even have a plan!? "

"...",choji was silent.

"that's what I thought, I'm not gonna say this again akamichi... We're leaving "

For a moment neither of them said anything, knowing the other was just one more argument away from fighting each other choji waited atlest a minute before he compiled his answer.

He signed finally letting his aching body sag as tired stress lines on his face became more apparent than they were before surprising rikimaru.

"I ...really really more than anything right now wish I could except that idea rikimaru,honestly my body feels like its been eaten up an spit out especially now that my injuries have had time to swell an sting,an after dodging falling tree's an houses it feels like I'm completely tapped out of chakra an only have enough strength to crawl into a bed somewhere an pass out for a month" he said with his hand covering his eyes as he told his complaints to the now calmer boy who was listening intently.

"this really is a crazy idea" he admitted , "trying to save anyone from whatever caused this, to play the hero who saves the damsel in distress, if you had asked me if I would do any of this yesterday I would probably of just called you nuts an laugh "

"then if you know I'm right why act so stubborn?"the other boy cut in, glad to see choji was finally talking sense,"just come with me an we can go back to our normal lives, you safe with your team an me with mine,just give up before you get killed " he reasoned as he saw the look of contemplation on choji's tired race as he knew his off inticed him.

Sigh, "I can't "

"why?! "

"I already told you i-"

"bullshit!",the older boy shouted having enough of the sharade, "tell me the real reason an non of that 'it's the right thing to do crap'!"

"I promised" choji answered simply.

"wha-? "

"I promised I would protect them,nako,fu the hidden waterfall from this threat,my word is my bond an the base of my nindo, to always follow through with my decisions especially if it's what my guts telling me to do, that's my ninja way an the reason I can't leave " he explained as silence once again passed between the two boys as they just started at each other as if matching each others wills.

"...your crazy " rikimaru said cutting eye contact first giving in.

"I know "

"your probably gonna die even if you do find the boy alive,you know that right? "

"I know "

"yet your still going"this didn't even sound like a question, more of a statement as the boy finally realized this wasn't something he could convince him to not do..

"yeah"

"akamichi... Don't die yet Cause after this,I wanna fight you, one on one winner gets bragging rights", Rikimaru said with a small forced smile as he watched choji turn around to take off.

"deal" choji said with a smile of his own.

"I gotta go now"

"you can always change your mind, you don't have to-"

"my ninja way" he reminded cutting him off.

"right... Good luck aka-.., good luck choji"

This actually made the boy freeze for a moment as he had never once used his given name before, turning around for a moment choji flashed a confident smirk he didn't even know he could fake with his right hand raised in a thumbs up.

"thanks I'll need it"

An then he ran off.

He really wished he could say he still had that spark of confidence right now as the scared rouge rose to his feet an glared down with barely contained animosity ready to bring vengeance down apon him like he had just stolen his last piece of chicken.

Odd analogy to most but to an akamichi that's next to murdering your children.

"that actually hurt... I'm gonna have to return the favor "

Out of nowhere with a blast of speed that seemed extremely unnatural for a man his size as choji bearly had the time to cover his chest with his arms pumping what little chakra he had left as he was struck with the crushing force on the man's kick, thought much weaker than any kick he had done that day was still more than powefull enough to launch choji over 30 meters away an hit the ground with deadly speeds.

"BOSS! ",fu screamed watching this as her heart sank watching her savior be taken out of the battle so easily, the budding feeling of hope she was feeling was snuffed out the moment the dust in crash cleared show his unmovong body, his mangled dead wooden log body.

What?

"human bolder jutsu! " was all the warning the Goliath got before a giant ball of 3 tone flesh slammed ontop of him crushing him with full force as choji gave the technique ever last drop of power he had as he flattend the weekend man into the ground with all his might egnoring the feeling of light headedness he was feeling from over exerting his chakra the while this was happening fu couldn't help but gab at him turning the tide of the battle seemingly easily as he crushed the man she couldn't even stop while fulled by demonic chakra.

'boss Your.. Amazing ' she thought as the ground under the two broke down under their combined weight putting a bolder sized creator in the soil.

Eventually the spinning ball stopped an bounced out of the creator landing right next to a awestruck fu who was about to shout praises of joy towards her savior but was cut off by the ball immediately shrinking in front of her leaving a unmoving boy laying faced down in the dirt behind.

Out of fear for his safety she rushed down next to him an delicately lifted him up praying he was OK, she was no medic-nin but even she knew it wasn't normal for someone with nomaly even skin to suddenly go pale white, she panicked when she didn't see him breath for 4 seconds but thanked kami when his chest suddenly raised up an down showing he was atlest still alive.

'i-ts OK!, w-we can fix this, wh-whatever this is we can get you to a doctor boss just hold on! ' she begged the unconscious boy frantically worrying over him as his bearly noticeable breaths were getting farther apart, she didn't know what to do!, nothing like this had ever happen before she didn't even know CPR much less how to heal chakra exhaust!.

He stopped breathing.

Sweat ran down her head as her eyes dilated,she didn't know what she was doing before she already did it, she pulled his head up an kissed him on the lips.

Blowing fresh hair into his lungs, she sat there doing this for over 10 seconds not caring that it was making zero progress with each blow but she egnored it, she egnored the feeling of dread creepy in her stomach, egnored the tears falling out of her eyes as he just seemed to get paler an she egnored her own heart burning with pain at the thought of loosing him after she just found him again. Her best friend, her only friend.

"b-oss" she crocked out over him letting all her sarrow go free as she baled over him hold him close to her as she cried for him, "don't.. Don't leave me! " she wailed as unknowingly released a wave of green energy that covered the two of them an grew stronger as she cried for her fallen friend.

"you know it's always a shame when a promising young ninja dies" ,a jagged voice said startling fu out of her wails an causing the weird green glow around her to dissapair,as the voice sent tingles up her spine.

"It truly is sad, if he wasn't already dead I may have even given him the opportunity to join me, kami knows we could have use a rookie like him in the (dark wind) "

'no.. No that's.. After everything.. That's impossible ',she thought as she slowly turned an froze.

"I can practically see it now, he would eventually raise up in my ranks an grow into one of my most powerful tools, an since he hasn't arrived here yet I can only guess he's somehow managed to take out my second in command gango before getting here,oh well, probably his own fault for depending on his toys so much in battle, the bastered's useless up close "

Fu tears returned she stared hopelessly at the hulking man crawl out of the pit caughting up blood an dirt looking more ragged an an worn out than before.

"it truly is a damned fucking shame ",he said again reaching into his own ninja pouch pulling up a curved kunai that gleamed with the reflection of girls resigned face as she excepted her face.

"when you see him on the other side send him my regards ! " he shouted lining up to throw the kunai, only to missed his mark due to a green boot slammed down his head making him loose his aim along with his front teeth.

"Ahhh!, what is wrong with you little shits! "he roared clutching his face as a new face arrived on the scene in a basic konaha academy fighting stance that seemed well practiced from years of constant fine-tuning an discipline while passing a pained glance at the fallen boy in fu's arms.

"choji... I'm sorry I came too late, but I swear I'll avenge you! " declared the new contender as he squared off against the wounded giant surprising him by aiming for his legs with a kick which failed as the man hopped out of the way still holding his bleeding mouth an then spritented infront of him with kunai in hand ready to stab him in the head, out of panic the scared rouge tilted his head back at the last second a instead ended up with a jagged slice on his faces left side blinding his eye an Putting another ugly scare on his face.

"I'LL KILL YOU, ALL OF YOU! ",he ragged startling the new comer who hesitated for s moment at the outburst which proved to be a fatal mistake as the man's only good eye zeroed in on the opportunity an grabbed him by the arm an used all the force in his muscular body to slam him over an over again on the Rocky ground under them.

*THOD* THOD*THOD!*

Each slam sounded more painful than the last as the new comer just hang in the air limply by his clearly broken arm.

Growling the rouges tossed the new comer over to to were his other 3 victims were as he preferred to kill them all at the same time with the tiny bit if chakra he had managed to recover,raising his bloody arm forward a rush of wind covered it.

A simple wind sword,a weak one at that, but it would do to end 1 curled up twitching 8 year old boy,a now crippled boy who could bearly stay contious,a girl an another boy already at deaths doors. Walking slowly he savered the pitiful looks they had as he got closer with his wind blade.

Fu didn't know why she didn't feel the erdge to run, she was the only one capable of fleeing with how badly the man was injured she knew she could get away easily an evacuate,she could live, survive another day...but she didn't want to run..she didn't want to go back to that life.. . She would rather be..

She clutched the boy in her arms.

With him...she was his sidekick, She wouldn't abandon him just to save herself, how could she ever look him in the face in the next life is she did.

Even as he got up an stepped up infront of her with chakra covering him head to toe as he stared down the flabbergasted rouge she still refused to move an stick by him til-

Wait...

"b-oss? " ,she grabbed eyes wide at the possible zombie infront of her who practically glowed blue with spiked chakra as it all started popping into his left arm that he clenched into a tight fist.

Just what the fucks going on here!?

Pain, so much pain.

That sadly was the first thing his mind could register as he regained consciousness an realized 2 things, 1 he wasn't in his bed at home an 2 he was in some skinny guys arms being held up by some seriously strong feeling man hands, hold on he knew these man hand!.

He was tickled to near death by them that very morning.

Cracking open his sore eyes he confirmed his suspicion's an saw green hair an dark skin.

Yep knew it.

It was either fu or mint chocolate chip ice cream come to life in human form, didn't he use to love eating that?, he should get back to eating that, it was flipping awesome.

Oh look she was now turning behind her.

She looked scared, did we run out of mint chocolate chip ice cream?.

Now he heard loud screaming on the he liked ice cream too but panicking over it was a little much don't you think?

An now the screaming got louder. He was starting to get the sneaking suspicion that this was more than just about ice cream.

If you hadn't already noticed choji's head was more than a little groggy right now, he felt like he just got up from a deep sleep an it was taking a while to clear his mind, one thing's for certain, he could really use some ice cream right now.

He felt like he was supposed to be doing something important right then but he forgot what, wasn't he fighting someone?,tora the cat maybe?, nah doesn't sound right.

Ino on her period?.

Nah,he'd be dead by now if that was the case.

maybe shikamaru would know he always knew what was going on.

*THOD*THOD*THOD!*

The hell was that?

*CRASH! *

this time choji's mind wasn't too fogged to not notice rikimaru's body land infront of him, in that moment it all clicked an suddenly his mind was functioning normally again. It didn't take a genius to figure out what happened as he his eyes rolled over to the still alive rouge who was walking over to them with a blade of wind raised.

Why was it always wind chakra with these guys.

He felt around his pants pocket an felt relieved to know they were still there, his last resort.

In his hands was a container with 3 colored pills inside.

'this is bizarre, I don't remember the first pill being this intense ' choji though as the rush of chakra just swallowing the green pill gave him immediately flooding his bone dry chakra coils with more power than he was use to having at this current age, it was as it the affects of the pill were being increased by something outside his knowledge, whatever it was he hopped it last, cause if he was gonna pull off what he planned next he needed all the power he could muster from the green pill. He clenched his left hand tighter as the blue glow around is got brighter.

"damn boy, You funking came back from the dead just to fight me one last time, what i wouldn't give for an army of grunts half as determined as you ,konaha must really be making monsters this generation "

Why do bad guys always love talking so much?.

"but this is the end! " an with a mighty swing of his giant arm the rouge sliced in a slanted arc aim to cut off choji's head, egnoring the shouts from a terrified fu choji finally managed to pore most of his boosted chakra into is now blazing blue left arm an just as the wind blade was about to connect with his head he ducked surprising everyone.

The came back up with his blazing fist raised impacting the rouges stomach with sound breaking forced as it looked as though the chakra he had gathered was now Exploding into the man's insides ripping him apart internally as the force lifted the Goliath off the ground as choji raised his fist higher .

"BUTTERFLY BOMB! "

I'm that one moment rikimaru an fu witnessed choji's true potential an remembered this moment for the rest of their lives.

The rouges body blew apart.

Standing there covered in blood with his steaming arm still raised in the air in a damn near heroic pose was choji huffing in exhaustion as the angle he was standing in put a epic shading on his face as he was facing away from the sun.

Then he fainted.

"boss! "

"akamichi! "

AUTHER'S NOTE:

Well now it defiantly been a long time,ive been thinking an suddenly I wanted to write fanfic again,as you can already tell this ain't some humble family fanfic any more,i now see why I lost interest the first time because I limited myself by making this T raited but after watch dead pool I see that M rated work is something people enjoy more,M FOR GORE AN VIOLENCE.