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"Shut up and eat," Reiten stuck a makeshifte plate of food under Koga's nose.
"Hmph," Koga mumbled and accepted the dish of hot food. He let the aroma waft up his nose and deeply inhaled the scent.
"Are you gonna eat that or what?" Naruto stared at him quizzically with his mouth full.
"Eat it duh!" Koga wolfed it down as fast as Naruto could inhale ramen, "My first solid meal in days," he moaned happily and held his plate out for another.
"I can tell," Naruto said drily as he piled more food onto the outstretched dish.
"Oh man you guys smell worse than Kisame!" Shikamaru exclaimed and frantically backpedaled away from them only to bump into a pair of legs. Legs? Itachi was sitting by the fire with the other four Jinchuuriki, therefore...Something in Shikamaru's mind clicked and made him look up, straight into the face of a grinning cold blooded Iwa nin.
"SHIT!" he yelled and leapt away. A barrage of kunai nailed the spot where he was moments before.
"Great," Itachi unsheathed his katana and held it loosely in his hand.
"More like OH SHIT," Reiten got up and retorted sarcastically.
"If you want to put it that way," Koga cracked his knuckles joyfully and stretched.
"Mother wants blood," Gaara whispered to himself.
"I'm gonna kick ass! Dattebayo!" Naruto grinned.
"What do we have here? A bunch of midgets and...oh the great Uchiha Itachi," the leader of the group said.
"It's only polite you give your name before you ask for others, but since you know my name there is no need," Itachi stated coldly.
"The Tsuchikage will reward us most handsomely when we return with Uchiha Itachi's head, right guys?" A whole lot of other Jounin stepped out of the trees and many nodded.
"Nearly the entire Jounin population of Iwa is here," Itachi cursed silently.
"You know, I'd tell you to go to hell, all of you, but I work down there, like literally and I really don't want to see you're ugly faces everyday of my afterlife, so you know, is there another place for me to send you to?" Reiten cocked his head at them and grinned his dragonish grin.
"Why you!" one of the Jounin stepped out and launched his fist at him, only to find it trapped by a wall of sand.
"It's rude to attack without giving your name," Gaara shook his head like you would when you've caught a naughty child with their hand in the cookie jar.
"Let go of my hand!" The jounin roared.
Reiten walked up to the sand wall and began crushing the mans fist. The man screamed in pain and howled, "I'll tell you! So let go of my hand!"
"Good," Reiten brought out a pen and a pad of paper. His hand poised to write.
"Juka Togu," the sand shoved the man back and the scritching and scratching of a pen on paper was heard.
"Next!" one by one each Jounin stated their names and Reiten's hand became a blur as he copied them down.
"Now we know who we killed," Naruto grinned crazily.
"If you can kill us," one of the sneered.
"Oh, we will, we will,"
"Hokage-sama, Uzumaki Naruto has gone missing," Kakashi reported.
"Just great, just great, what have you gotten into now Naruto?" Sarutobi sighed.
"Whatever it is it can't be good, we've recieved note that the two Jinchuuriki from Suna has up and gone as well, so has Koga Hoshi, wouldn't be surprised if more Jinchuuriki started dissapearing," Kakashi flipped open his Icha Icha Paradise and began reading with a perverted grin on his face.
"That can not be good, see if you can find out where they're heading and who they're with," the Sandaime filled out the needed documents and handed them to the Copy Nin.
"Hai Hokage-sama!" Kakashi dissapeared with the same old whirl of leaves.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Naruto cursed as he punched another one away from him.
The battle was definetly getting out of hand, they were doing everything they could and yet they were still being pushed back. Itachi was the only one killing like mad, he had took out about ten percent of the nin gathered here. Reiten's wind was blowing people into trees and such. Gaara was having just as much difficulty as the other four, his sand was being interfered by the Earth jutsu's they were throwing at him. Koga wasn't having much luck either, the Tsuchigan gave him control over the earth sure, but he wasn't very well trained in it and the Iwa Nin were throwing the same earth back at him.
"Behind you Koga!" Reiten warned but it was a little late. Acting on pure instinct and adredeline he threw himself at the oncoming blades. The blades sank into his flesh and created two trails of blood in the shape of an 'X' on his back.
Gaara faltered slightly and his sand weakened. Seizing his chance one of the nin slashed at Gaara, leaving a scar on his right eye. His sand went berserk in an attempt to protect it's master from any harm. Naruto ducked and leapt out of the sands way. But in the process kunai whizzed by him and left him a nice zig-zagged gash on his forearm. Koga snarled and heaved the earth at the nin again. Only to have it come back in the form of sharp bits and nail him in the back of his neck
With a savage roar, the Juubi's chakra began manifesting around Reiten. The air seemed to waver as Reiten's transformation seem to affect the others. Koga started glowing an odd hue of blue, and the glow expanded to form three tentacles. Gaara's sand covered him and made him a mini Shukaku minus the yellow star eyes. Naruto's facial features became more feral. His canines lengthened, the whiskers marks darkened and his nails grew longer and stronger.
"What are you?" one of the enemy nin cried.
"Your excutioner you bastard," Reiten growled before decapitating the man swiftly.
"Hell yeah!" Naruto's voice had a slightly demonic edge to it, he gave no notice, nor flinch when he stabbed his extended chakra hand into a man's gut and completely crushed his vital organs and such.
Koga merely sliced through throat after throat with the efficiency of a trained killer. The pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears as he killed one after another in nice clean slashes. He gave no notice to the blood splattering him from head to toes either.
Out of the four of them, Gaara was having the most fun, his sand crushed on after another, all the while, constantly defending him from attacks coming from all directions.
Up in a tree, Shikamaru merely tripped enemies with his shadow and watched as one of the others dispatched him swiftly. He eyed Reiten warily, he was a black blur, a trail of destruction and bloodied bodies showed where he had been, "He's the most ruthless and efficient out there, quick and silent, like an assassin," Shikamaru obseved quietly.
" And Naruto? He's a savage out there, he obliterates every thing in his path," Naruto was simply crushing and annhilating anything infront of him, not even bothering to dodge any oncoming attacks.
"Gaara is insane and Koga, well you don't have a word to describe it, it's more like he's taking his anger out on something," Shikamaru dully noted.
"Stop Naruto!" Itachi flung his hand back to prevent the last guy from any harm.
"Why can't I just kill him and be over with?" Naruto growled.
"I need him to tell the world of our feat," Itachi replied simply.
"I like your thinking Itachi," Reiten grinned evilly.
"Indeed," Itachi bent over and picked a large sack off the ground.
"What is it?" Gaara turned his head.
"Medallions," Itachi anwered as he peered inside, "Here catch, think of it as the spoils of victory besides, you guys earned and deserved it,"
Reiten snatched his out of the air and examined it closely. "A dragon?"
"Seems the fox has influenced you huh Itachi?" Naruto looked at his gleaming new fox accessory.
"Seems so," Itachi shrugged as he tossed a turtle and a dog into the air knowing full well their owners would catch it.
"Going somewhere?" Gaara snarled and his sand snatched the man who was frantically crawling away.
"Tell the world it was us who did the Iwa Jounin Massacre," Itachi directed the man.
"Who are you?" the man whimpered.
"This guy," Shikamaru leapt down and pointed at Reiten, "is the Kuroi Toukai (Black Destruction), this one is Akai Matsatsu (Red Obliteration)," a cheeky Naruto grinned. "Kasshoku Akuma (Brown Devil) and Aoi Sendo (Blue Death)" Shikamaru pointed at Gaara and Koga.
"His name is Shiroi Bikou (White Shadow)" Itachi tossed him a pendent that had the kanji for shadow on it.
"You know my name well enough, now get out of here before I change my mind!" Itachi said, his voice a tone lower than usual.
Shortly after, Itachi raided all the Jounins for anything worth of value and loaded it into the carriage. The demonic chakra receded and they proceed to climb onto the cart and take a long earned rest. Suddenly, Reiten stumbled and hit the ground hard. Everyone rushed to his side, "Bloodloss," Itachi cursed and helped him up.
He was throughly bandaged and was told to rest as they continued to their trip.
"Itachi-sensei, why doesn't his wounds heal like ours?" Naruto gestured at some of the minor cuts and scrapes that were slowly begin to heal.
"Juubi no Ryu wasn't big on healing, instead of taking the hits and then healing them like Kyuubi does, his scales would deflect the attacks. Therefore he wouldn't need such great healing speed, but since Reiten doesn't have scales it makes him a paticularly vunerable at this time right now," Itachi explained calmly.
"Juubi, leave the 'X' on my back, I want it to be a reminder of my first real fight and kill. Also to show why I fight," Reiten wheezed.
"If you want Hatchling," Juubi boomed in his head.
"Thank-you," the others looked on this silently before the other three Jinchuuriki relayed the same message to their guests.
"We fight to protect," Naruto vowed.
"Not for power," Gaara agreed.
"Not because we want to," Koga nodded.
"Zzzz..." they turned to look at the eldest Jinchuuriki who was already in the land of dreams.
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