The Kuro Awai
Chapter 2
Human-thinking
Demon/Summon-thinking
Jutsu
Whispery voice
(general POV)
All was peaceful in the village of Konoha, children were playing in the parks and in the streets, birds were resting peacefully in their nests, all was serene in the village hidden in the leaves…well, it won't be when you finish this part.
"What do you mean you can't find him?1" Sarutobi shouted, slamming his fists off the table.
The Anbu there stood motionless, waiting for the Hokage to finish his rant. When he was finished and had to breath, he made his report. "Sir, as you ordered, we tailed Kurenai as she came to and from the hospital, but upon seeing her exit, we were unable to spot the Kyuubi jinchuriki, upon confronting her about this, she said that she had not seen him since the preliminaries." Sarutobi was about to answer, but a voice called out through the morning air
"SARUTOBI!!!" Anbu, veteran Jonin and most especially the Hokage knew that voice, and they all had varied thoughts on their minds. In order that would be : 'Kushina-sempai? What's she doing here?' 'Oh my good lord, is that Kushina? She disappeared after the Kyuubi attacked, and why does she sound pissed at Sandaime-sama.' 'Oh fuck.' In the ninja world, there were three things one must know about Kage class Kunoichi above all else. 1.) Never insult their area of expertise. 2.) you fuck with them, your going to be hanged castrated, run through, smashed into itty bitty pieces, or all of the above. 3.) You lie to them about personal matters, you better make sure you die before they find out, or have a special unit to try counter her, in this case the Sandaime Hokage had neither. There was a Lot of crashing, Chunin, cabbage carts and telephone polls getting flung through the air, and…. Wait…. Was that a herd of flying wide eyed sheep?
(Sasukes' POV)
"Alright Sasuke, take a break, we'll continue with this later, when your chakra replenishes we'll continue, but until then," Kakashi said taking out his trusted Icha-Icha paradise book and let out perverted giggles.
Sasuke for his part was only panting mildly, some of them were sweat drops though at the sheer ludicrousness of what was happening, 'I can't understand how a Shinobi of Kakashi's standards can giggle, we're men. We're not supposed to giggle, we chuckle!', shaking his head, he concentrated on his hands, they were shaking from having so much chakra forced through it. Going back to what he'd been doing before Kakashi had taken him from his hospital room, he got himself into the lotus position, and tried to remember more of what he saw of the hidden layers of the genjutsu Itachi had used on him that fateful night. He had been noticing small things, as he went through, various words and phrases, muting out the sounds of anguish and screams of pain, they were replaced by a sound of Morse code, the walls along the Uchiha compound that once had flags that were smeared with the blood of his Kinsmen, now held Kanji, both had the same things being spelled out.
My brother
It is my deepest regret that I had to put you through the hell world of Tsukuyomi, but I could not tell you what was happening for we were being watched by unfriendly eyes, and frankly your acting skills suck eggs, not pocky, eggs. Contrary to what my brilliant performance, which if I may say, I thought was as good as anything Johnny Depp has done, or what the Sandaime might have fabricated to heighten your hatred, I have not killed off the clan, I killed of Some of the clan who were planning to kill of the rest of us and stop us from helping the Kyuubi jinchuriki, perhaps you know him. Uzumaki Naruto? Ring any bells? Anyway, Tou-san, half the elders, Shusui and more then five dozen of our Chunin and some Jonin were going to kill him, something I reeeeealy couldn't't allow seeing as his mother was my sensei and all, so with the consent of Kaa-san, and you can certainly be assured she will have almost killed me when she found out I put you in Tsukuyomi, I killed those bastards, though, the rest of the clan didn't particularly want to stay in Konoha, so, I had each of them copy the Shigai Bunshin no Jutsu (corpse clone technique) and had them get out using the secret Uchiha catacombs that will lead to Shodai-sama's nasal passage at the Shūmatsu no Tani, so good luck remember I didn't kill anyone innocent, and remember these words, for they will save your life one day……… STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY POCKY STASH! Oh and don't take any marriages that will connect you to Konoha, we don't want those arrogant bastards to ever have the Sharingan again. But I digress, I will be in Konoha a month and a half after your Chunin exam finals, oh, and I have a feeling the Sandaime might give you Hatake-teme, as a Jonin sensei, don't you even think about being late for your match, Kaa-san will be watching the exams on the Ninja Confrontation Viewing Channel, and then she will probably kill you for taking up that closet perverts bad habits. So good bye, so long, and if you actually manage to see through the sticky sweet call of Hatred long enough to read this, like I said before, I will make a count of my Pocky stash when I arrive, STAY AWAY FROM IT!
Your loving (if you have not touched my pocky) brother, Uchiha Fenikkusu Itachi.
Sasuke just opened his eyes and shook his head to clear his mind, thinking about what he had just read, he was overwhelmingly glad he had not gone near his brothers stash, rumoured to have the ever elusive ramen flavoured pocky. Which he made a mental note never to tell Naruto about. Rubbing his neck where the curse seal was, before it was a sticky and abrasive texture to it, now it was smooth and soft to the touch, shaking his head again to get rid of any stray unnecessary thoughts, he looked back over to Kakashi to find him still reading his smut, giggling all the while. Sighing to himself, he looked for a good tree branch, finding one, he leapt up to it and proceeded to lye down and went for a meeting with the back of his eye lids, all the while hearing strange crashing sounds and girly screams coming from Konoha's direction. 'Oh well, not my problem. Wonder how the Dobe is coping with his training.'
(Naruto's POV- one week later)
'Left, back, dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge, jump, flip…why'd I want to come here aga - FUCK ME! AHHH' he thought clutching his arm, glaring daggers at the creature in front of him, his arm was just sliced by it's…thingies. It was easily twelve feet tall, it had the head of a lion, with the mandibles of an insect over it's already large pointy teeth, the body of a praying mantis with two extra … thingies and the lower body of a spider! Totally creepy, would look great in a horror film too.
He felt the black light finish swirling around his arm, flexing it for a few times to get a feeling back into it. 'A bit numb but it'll have to do,' forming his wave breakers he got into a loose fighting stance, fingers clenching and unclenching, issuing a challenge to the beast, nodding it's grotesque head it charged him(I'm just gonna call them Scythes' from now on) scythes drawn back and charged the young Nin, in retaliation, Naruto punched the floor, ripping out a chunk and throwing it at the creature who sliced it into eight pieces with it's scythes, only to get see a grey scaled fist heading for it's throat, blue wave like buzz saws running up the line of his fingers braking off a red studded knuckles, the waves collided with the creatures neck slicing the wind pipe and part of the spinal chord. The creature rubbed at it's neck furiously with the back of it's scythes, but the damage was done, it dropped to down to it's lower body, and slumped to the ground, glowing green blood, flowing from it's neck, Naruto shook his head and dismissed his wave breakers. Stopping dead in his tracks as he heard a menacing growl behind him, he turned very slowly and saw something the made his heart speed up a thousand times faster. Standing there was a large, large, panther like beast, the difference, being six powerful legs, with razor sharp talons on the front and middle pair. It's body was covered in a purplish black armour like fur, it's head had 5 petal like features with two feelers on each, two golden green slitted eyes, staring right at him, saliva dripping off it's jaws menacingly. It just stood there, watching Naruto, he had seen what happened to their prey while running, and he had seen those who had stayed still and waited for some movement of aggression, some indication that it was about to pounce on him………
…but it never came…
The beast stared at him a moment longer before turning to the creature he had just slain and began to dig in, massive jaws ripping through the creatures skin, luminous blood coating it's muzzle. It looked over to Naruto once more, closed it's eyes and gestured with it's head for him to join the feast, which he did, albeit cautiously. He knelt beside the beast and tore off one of the mantis like arms, and began gnawing on it, one of the beasts feelers snaked out and touched Naruto's forehead.
"You have nothing to fear from me, young Ningen," the voice reverberated through his mind. "Killing a chimera is no tall feat for my kind, but for yours, I must say that you have impressed me."
Swallowing the meat he had in his mouth rather slowly, he nodded. "I just did what I needed to survive, nothing more, nothing less," he said being as careful as possible in his wordings, which led the creature to make, weird bellowing sounds.
"Humble, I like that, not many predators would say that after a kill more then twice the size of them, though, many predators here are bigger then our prey" it said to him as he continued feasting on the creatures chest.
"I'm just here to train, I came out this way…I really don't know round here, there's no moon, no stars, no sun. Just those large friggin' crystals above us which are constantly shifting," Naruto said frustrated.
"Ah yes, it must be frustrating to not know the time for one with such a short life span," it said as he finished up by ripping out the heart and swallowing it in one foul swoop. "Come, the lesser chimeras and other scavengers will be here soon, and as much as I enjoy a good slaughter, you are not yet ready for some of the bigger chimeras." and with that the beast turned and padded silently away, Naruto followed in tow coming level with it's head so he could hear it could communicate through those feelers.
"So if that and all the other hybrid creatures I've fought with are chimeras, what are you yourself?" he ask curiously.
"Well, other Ningen have labelled my tribe as Thanator Demons, but our correct name is Palulukan," it spoke wisely. "Now is my question, what is this other presence whispering for an audience with you?"
"Must be the damn fox," Naruto muttered.
"Ah, so you're the one that Ningen sealed that thrice damned Dai Yoko into, are you going to answer her calls anytime soon?."
"Yeah I'm…going…calls……HER?????" Naruto shouted pulling at his hair.
"Yes, her, do you think all the more powerful demons are male?"
"No, it's just whenever she speaks to me, it's a big, booming male voice," he answered shaking his head.
"So Kaikoku is still insecure about her station, can't blame the poor vixen"
"You actually knew the Bijuu?" he asked incredulously.
"Why yes, most of them are nice, maybe not Tayca no Hachibi, but ones tribe doesn't get to three millenniums without being wise in actions or making allies."
"Millenniums?" he asked
"Ah yes, your history only dates back five centuries, a millennium is a thousand years," he said in a teacher like voice
"Soooooo, what, your like a few centuries old?"
"Me? Oh good heavens no, I am coming into my first century in 6 years, provided I live that long," came the reply.
"So, stupid question, but are you a guy or a girl?" he asked.
"Guy, most definitely a guy" came the irritated response.
"Hey, don't take that tone with me, I can't see under there plus I'm only getting words from our conversation,"
"Yeah yeah, we are here, walk slowly and when is say close your eyes, you do it, understood?"
"Yeah yeah," he grinned back.
They entered a dark cave, there was padding sounds deeper in. The Palulukan made some growling noises before he turned to Naruto. "Eyes. Closed. NOW!"
Following instructions, he closed his eyes, the padding grew louder and louder until it stopped feet in front of them.
"What'ssssssss thisssssss Ssssssshomaru, bring usssss a little mid-afternoon ssssssnack?" came a distinctly snake like feminine voice. The newly named Shomaru just growled"What do you mean we can eat him?" she asked again. Another louder growl followed by some gnashing teeth was her answer."Fine fine, hey, Ningen, your going to feel a sssssssslight sssssstinging feeling, jussssst warning you now," came the answer, he felt four fangs dig into his skin and inject, something, into him. There was a burning sensation, before it faded to a dull throb.
"You may open them now," he heard Shomaru say.
Opening his eyes, he felt twin blood streams coming down his nose, standing in front of him was a stunning woman, who was paler then Orochimaru, same eyes as the snake, but one key difference, her hair was made up of various highly poisonous snakes, she looked about 19 and had sea blue lips. But what really caught his attention the most you may find yourself asking? The answer, she had no clothes on.
Wiping his nose quickly, he tore his eyes from her…assets and made sure to glue his eyes to hers.
"Like what you ssssssssee Ningen?" she asked in an amused voice.
"Y-yes m-miss, I me-an N-no miss, I mean, I mean, I mean…I'm just going to shut up now," he said looking away, a blush tingeing his cheeks.
"Oh, that'sssss cute, though, I sssssstill ssssay he'd make a tassssty ssssssnack," she said looking up at Shomaru, who growled menacingly at her."Fine, fine, I'll ssssstop," she said waving her hand dismissively. "Sssssso, you're here to train?"
"Yep."
"Not sssslay 'usssss horrible abominationssssss'? Or take 'that what rightly belongssss to your kind'?" she asked leaning foreword slightly making the twin mounds on her chest bounce.
"Nope, just to train and survive the end of the month, whenever that is…"he said, mumbling the last part while blushing like a madman.
"When did you come?"
"The start of the month, I have to be back there by the end of the month," he said as he thought about what Neji did to Hinata, his bloodline started to swirl. Black and red swirls danced around him, but were son joined by purple snake like creatures.
Maru just stared at Naruto, before bowing his head, the two feelers from the top petal shot out and started intermingling with the swirls, soon, they were, completely together, and Naruto felt dizzy and more then a little weak.
"Are you alright, Naruto?" he heard a deep, baritone voice ask.
"Yeah, fine, who asked that?"
"That, little Ningen, would be Sssshomaru here and it seems you have lord Assssshitaka'ssss curssssssse, and the blacklight virusssssss, sssssseemingly rolled into one fancccccy kekkei genkai, who would of thought after all thessssssse yearssssssss it'd come back to our humble little valley," the snake haired woman said.
"Uh yeah, before my head actually explodes, from new info, or bad thoughts…who are you?" he asked scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
"Me? Oh my, forgive my mannersssss, I am Moui, third heir of the Ya no Oni gorgon tribe, and yourssssself, Young Naruto, who are you?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, genin of Konoha, jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune."
"Oh. Your Kusssssshina-chan'sssss ssssspawn, and Kaikoku-chan'sssss vesssssel, the crazzzzy vixxxxxin wasssssss finally caught wasssssss sssshe?"
"Yep, Our Yondaime got to her when she attacked our village, and HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW MY MOTHER?!" Naruto yelled, still not comfortable knowing the fact the Kyuubi was a girl or the fact this snake, gorgon, thing knew his mother.
"The Yondaime, many of our brethren acknowledged his strength and, we knew your mother because my older brother is her companion, as I am now to you," Shomaru said nodding his head.
"Yeah, Kussssshi-chan'sssss husband wasssssss a MAJOR Foxx in that department, Man would I love to sssssssink my Fangs into him," Moui said with a glazed over look in her eyes and the eyes of all her snake locks.
"To much Info, Moui-san, WAY to much!" he said waving his hands in front of his face rapidly.
"Hmmmn, still Innocent, you think?" Shomaru asked looking to Moui.
"I think," she said motioning Naruto to follow. Which he did so, using every bit of self restraint not to look down. "There are very few demonic tribesssss who can live above the valley wallssss, among them, the vampire, the werewolvessss, and the ssssiren tribesssss," she stated, looking back at Naruto. "Though, Because of that fact, they really don't get many of the treasuressss that come with those more Ningen's attacks, and what Kussssshi-chan left for you if you ever came here," she finished gesturing for Naruto to see the shine in front of her, his eyes widened and a line of drool ran down his grinning face.
(general POV - 3 weeks later - exam day)
The day of the finals was finally here, diplomats, business, Shinobi leaders, potential employers and most importantly, the Daimyo were there to watch the prowess of the elemental countries genin but more over, for the betting pools. Film crews from the Yuki no Kuni owned TV corporation, the N.C.V.C, were there to broadcast the matches to bars and casinos across the continent. Most of the bets were on two people. Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Neji, though, that didn't stop a small number of individuals betting on the Number 1 Underdog. Uzumaki Naruto, Among them, the Ichiraku family, though Teuchi wasn't a betting man, after some persuasion from his wheel chair ridden wife, Ayaika , since the stand they had was small, and the work tops were above her arm level, Ayaika spent her days managing the money, soon, they'd be able to open a real restaurant. Ayaika remembered the day she had met our blond hero. She chuckled, he was so skinny and small back then, she remembered how her little Ayame had walked up to him and picked him up like a small monkey and started calling him her "little fishy", ah good times, right now, she was betting half of her savings on Naruto, even though the bet's were like 15,000 - 1 against him, he had a way of pulling luck out of that happy-go-lucky ass of his. So now, here she was, sitting proud in the stadium in her wheelchair.
The stadium was abuzz with chat, like who they thought was going to win, or how hard the 'demon brat' was gonna get Juuken'd into the ground. 'Idiots.' was her only thought.
--Kage's box--
Sarutobi was sweating bullets, Naruto wasn't here, there was no sign of Orochimaru, and Kushina was sitting right next to him, eyeing him like he was an antelope and she was a lioness, running her hand up and down her twin Katana. Making Sarutobi's bad side come up with thoughts that he blamed a little orange book his student Jiraiya had made that he couldn't stop himself from reading, he REALLY hoped that Naruto would show up, for the sake of the Namikaze clan staying in Konoha, his Icha-Icha collection and mostly, the sake of his Manhood.
"Where's my son Hiruzen," she asked venomously.
"He'll be here Kushina-chan," 'I hope so, if not, Kami help me.' he thought after.
Feeling nine chakra signatures coming up he turned his head to see the three in Kage's robes coming up one light blue, one dark blue, and one a tan yellow. The Yondaime Kazekage Sabuku no Sasori and Raikage Yotsuki A and the Godaime Mizukage Terumi Mei, with their body guards.
"Good day Sandaime-dono," The Mizukage said in heavenly voice, she was a newly appointed Mizukage in her mid twenties , she had long auburn hair styled into a herringbone pattern at the back, a top-knot tied with a dark-blue band, and with four bangs at the front. Two bangs are short, with one covering her right eye, and two were long, crossing each other on her chest, just below her chin, her eyes were the same colour as Kushina though. She dressed in a long-sleeved dark-blue dress, that fell just below the knees. It seemed to be closed at the front with a zip and is kept open on the front-right side from the waist down. The dress only covers up to the upper part of her upper arms and the underside of her breasts. Underneath, she wears a mesh shirt that covers more of her upper body than her dress showing a large amount of cleavage. The Sandaime had to drag his eyes away to inspect the new Raikage.
A was a tall dark-skinned man with a large muscular build, slicked-back white hair with a yellow tint, a few wrinkles, and a small moustache and beard. Unlike other Kage, A seems to wear his Kage cloak and hat on a regular basis, without a shirt underneath which further displays his hulky physique. (you all know the Yondaime Kazekage, so we'll just skip him). The body guards for the Raikage were Nii Yugito and Yotsuki Kirabi. Nii Yugito was a woman of about nineteen, blonde hair tied in a not with purple clothing.(sorry everyone, couldn't find a better way to describe her) Kirabi is very similar in terms of appearance to his older brother, being dark-skinned and possessing a muscular build, as well as white hair and a white beard. On his right shoulder, he has a tattoo that says "iron" and on his left cheek, he has a tattoo of a bull's horn. Killer Bee wears oval-shaped sunglasses and a white-coloured Hitai-ate. He also wears a white-coloured one-strap-over-one-shoulder flak jacket of a Kumogakure Jonin, with a red rope tied around his waist, white hand-bands, and a white scarf around his neck. He carries seven swords on his back. The Mizukage's body guard was a man named Chojuro, he had blue hair, and black eyes with sharp, shark-like teeth, a trait that Momochi Zabuza, also had. He wears black-rimmed glasses connected to what appear to be headphones. He also wears a blue striped shirt and camouflage pattern pants that resemble the clothing Zabuza wore from Kakashi's mission report. Also, he wears his forehead protector like a badge on his chest. He had a double handled sword on his back wrapped around large bandages. He also has one shuriken holder on each leg. Beside Chojuro was a teenager in near the same gear as Chojuro, only bandages covering his face, on his back was a 7' Zanbatou, I'll leave his name out till later though. The "Kazekage's" guards you can all guess.
The Mizukage looked over to the other person in the box and squealed like a fangirl. Next second she was kneeling in front of Kushina.
"Uzumaki Kushina, Aka Shini no Uzu, I'm your biggest fan, would you do me the honour of sparring with me after this exam is done?" Mei asked with stars in her lone visible eye.
"Uh sure, I guess that'd work," Kushina said nervously, she had never been the most popular Kunoichi in the crop, so this just unnerved her. The Sandaime, both Yondaime's and the other male guards had to fight back severe nose bleeds at the thought of both Women sparing with "swords".
--Arena--
Down in the arena, the camera crews were getting shots of the seven in the arena. "You seven ready?" Shiranui Genma asked look at the contestants, but a lingering glance at the three favoured to win, Gaara, Sasuke and Neji, though personally, he'd bet on Uzumaki.
"Oi. Where's Naruto," Sasuke asked making the other rookies look at him in shock.
"Either on his way here, or dead, no 'one's seen him since the day of the preliminaries," he said, 'Kid better make it, or I'm gonna be neck deep in loan sharks' hearing some strange scraping sounds coming from the wall it climbed higher and higher until it was at the top and was crouched there, all eyes and camera's on it, a very large panther like creature with six legs five petals on top of it's head, with two feelers on each. Riding atop it, were two figures, one a tattered, torn and bloodied grey outfit, the other wearing a travelling cloak to block all features. The panther creature let out a mighty roar before leaping down the seven or eight story drop and landing without so much as a sound. Prowling around the contestants, it kept one of it's golden green eyes on the eight in the arena with a critical eye. The lead rider slid down the creature and took off the hood covering his face.
"Good to see you didn't chicken out Naruto!" Sasuke called out extending his fist, which Naruto bumped it without thought and grinned.
"Really Sasuke, I thought you knew me better then that, after all, who am I but a humble Jinchuriki to turn down a rumble of this magnitude … and you with the camera and mike, stop teetering on the edge and get what you need over with already," Naruto looked over at the other rider with the cloak with a sour look. "Your spatial awareness training sucks Moui-chan I can't relax 'cause I got eighty seven point three percent of the crowd giving me cold glares."
"Sssssuck it up Naruto, you'll thank me later, one end or the other," the companion named Moui stated playfully making Naruto go red and started grumbling bout seductive snake women. Moui then jumped to a tree at the far end of the field, shocking most present.
Shaking his head, he turned back to the film crew. "Yes?"
"Naruto-san, I'm Takada Shimei, from the N.C.V.C, and we'd like to ask you a few question on your new…ensemble, and a run down of your skills, and maybe your pet here?" the reporter asked/stated holding a mike up to him. Naruto rolled his eyes but complied.
"Well, I got a couple of Jutsu down solid, some to the point of no handseals. My taijutsu is pretty solid, thanks to that spatial training, *sends a glare a the tree Moui is sitting in* I'm pretty much unaffected by sense and wide area related genjutsu, I can tell that the idiot over there with the gravity defying silver hair and the face mask over there in the stands to my left 8 rows up 3 seats from the edge is glaring at me over his glorified smut," he chuckled when he felt the KI (killing intent) from said idiot. "I've learned how to use both mine, and my tenants KI to the point of where I can use it in many ways possible, here's mine without a target," the genin and the civilians dropped to their knees panting hard Gaara was clutching his head in pain, by the unseen pressure, Genma just smirked, though he wouldn't deny the fact his knees had a slight shake. "And this is how you focus it," he said looking calmly over to Neji. Who gasped suddenly as the pressure that was spread over everyone was now solely directed at him and rising, he started seeing images of his own death. Suddenly, like a light, the KI was gone. "And if I were to use my tenants KI in those two ways, well, you'd probably die.""And who is this tenant of yours," she asked still slightly out of breath from the KI.
"Kaikoku Hana Dai Yoko, the Kyuubi no Kitsune…hence the fox like whisker marks," He said sliding a finger across one of the marks.
"And your alright with that fact, you're the host to a demon," Shimei asked.
"Course, she's been looking after me since the day she was sealed, because somebody decided, 'Hey, he might get to powerful if he goes unchecked, so I'll get a seal master to put a Suppression seal on him to stunt his progress, make him an idiot, he can't concentrate, and power it by using the Kyuubi, it's sure to make him a failure,'" He said shaking his head. "When I find the bastard I'm gonna let Shomaru here chew the bastard out," he said patting Shomaru's side.
"And, this…Shomaru, what is it?"
"I am Sentient Ningen and Male, you'll be wise to remember that," Shomaru growled making all jump.
"Uh-h m-m-mis-t-ter Shomaru, c-can you t-tell us a bit ab-b-bout yourself?" She stuttered in fear.
"Certainly Mrs Takada, I am Palulukan, or to your kind Thanator, and my skills lie in tandem with whatever Naruto here says is … Mildly … appropriate, I am one of Naruto's two companions" Shomaru said lying down.
"Companion?" Shimei asked.
"Friend, Partner, Ally, Companion. Whatever you want to call it. Now Ningen," Shomaru said tilting his head. "Now would you mind getting the hell off the field so we can have our fight?"
--Kage's Booth--
Kushina was laughing her head off, oh the irony of this situation.
"What's so funny Kushina-sama?" Mei asked.
"One of my companions, Taiaian-kun used the same line when I first fought Minato-Koi, ah, Shomaru-chan has grown up well," she said whipping a tear from her eye.
"Is this Taiaian as big as Shomaru?" the Raikage asked, wondering if he could get a partner like that.
"Roughly twice as big, you'd expect it from an older brother, right Raikage-dono" she answered grinning like a maniac, the Raikage, Mizukage and all the guards let out a low whistle, "Kazekage" and Hokage let out a gulp.
--Stadium--
"R-right, now that all parties are here, Uzumaki Naruto Vs. Hyuuga Neji, Hajime!" he said hopping back.
"Give up Uzumaki, fate has declared I wi-" he couldn't finish the sentence because Shomaru shot forward and slashed at him with one of it's monstrous claws, Neji mostly dodged, but got a cut on his cheek.
"Good work Shomaru," he said looking up at the Kage's booth looking at the Mizukage and starting a chain of handseals she knew will. "Kirigakure no jutsu (hidden mist technique)" he called out, the area started getting foggy, then was completely shrouded in a thick mist.
"What is this?!" Neji shouted. The mist was filled with chakra, meaning he could barely see his hand in front of his face.
"Eight points…" Naruto voice sounded out from nowhere and everywhere in an ominous whisper, sending chills down everyone's spine, Neji could feel Naruto's killing intent on him solely, not to the level it was before, but still enough to put him more then on edge. "Larynx, jugular, corroded, heart, brain, abdominal aorta, kidney's, spine… where should I strike … so many choices, " he let out a maniacal laugh, sending chills down everyone's spines.
Neji was almost frantic looking right and left. He was scared, scared of this dobe, scared of his pet, but most of all, scared that he couldn't see. He let out a scream. "WHERE ARE YOU?!"
A voice answered from right behind him. "Here," came the whisper. Neji whipped around only to see a fist in the face, sending him flying. Then, he felt something akin to a freight train slamming into his back.
--Kage's booth--
"Damn, that one had to hurt," Kushina winced.
"What, you know what's happening in there?" Mei asked.
"'Course," she turned her head, her eyes were tinged Orange. "He's putting the silent killing scroll I left to him to good use, he drew blood from Neji first, allowing Shomaru and himself to locate him in the mist, which has so much condensed chakra that it effectively nulls out the Byakugan's advantage. Right now *she turns her head back to the fight* my Naru-chan and Shomaru are right now playing pinball with Neji…hmmmn, why's he making a Chishio Bunshin (blood clone) of Neji?"
--Arena--
A shout of Chishio Bunshin no Jutsu ran through the air as the mist began to clear. There Neji was, back against a tree, huge gashes on his chest, blood dripping them. In front of him, another Neji was lying there. And in front of them, Naruto and Shomaru.
"So, what's it like for a doujutsu user to not see?" he asked nonchalantly. Neji just growled and with a pained grunt slipped back into the Juuken stance. "That bad huh? Oh, your probably wondering why there's another you there instead of one of me. Well you see, the blood clone makes a complete replica of the blood it's formed from, bloodline, attitude, you name it, it's got it. Basically, a perfect clone was made by my clan, but for a far more…sinister reason," He said kneeling down and punching straight through the blood clones back. It started to deform, becoming a mangled version of the original started to swirl around Naruto's arm and be absorbed by it. Then, red chakra exploded from Naruto, it was intense.
Naruto looked up, crimson eyes with two tomo's in each eye with a slit instead of a pupil, Neji in his shock muttered it out.
"Sharingan…"
--done--
So what do you think, do you like it, not like it, want to burn it into itty bitty pieces and light on fire or put it on a high place and watch it shine, in any case, tell me what you think of it, pairings still undecided. Slan lads