Tsk, another short chapter, forgive me...oh, and I guess you could say this chapter has spoilers in it, but then again my whole story is full of spoilers...
Naruto: The 10th Jinchuuriki
Chapter 3: The Ritual
"Ok Gai-sensei, im right behind you!" Lee cried, just as the silver-haired Akatsuki launched himself towards them. Hidan's first swing of his deadly weapon was easily dodged as the leaf nin lept sideways with amazing speed. Jumping backwards just in time, Hidan watched as the ground infront of him was smashed to bits as Gai kicked downwards with an amazing show of strength. Baring his teeth in a snarl, Hidan feinted with his scythe, acting as if he was going to go for the neck, but just as Gai crouched, he curved downwards. The leaf-nin fell backwards as his shoulder was clipped by one of the scythe's blades, and Hidan suddenly retreated with a triumpent grin apone his face. Gai was hardly wounded by such a blow, but none the less he realized how close a call it had been.
"Well, looks like I underestimated you. I can promise that wont happen again!" Gai proclaimed as he ran foreward, chasing after Hidan, who lept retreating backwards out of reach.
"Whats the matter, you suddenly realize how great I am, and now your scared?"
"Hell no! I just have no need for close combat now!" Hidan shot back, and as he spoke he turned his own weapon apone himself, cutting deeply into his left arm. I gasped as I watched the blood spill from the wound, but I saw no pain in Hidan's face, only a defiant grin. While his opponent stood shocked, Hidan knelt, and using his own blood he drew a strange symbol composed of a triangle inside a circle. Standing within this blood symbol, he withdrew from his robes a small spear that elongated to almost three feet. It looked quite deadly, but like the leaf ninja, I was totally confused as to its purpose. Bringing his scythe to his face, I watched in eerie facination as Hidan licked up the blood from its tip, and slowly his skin began to change color. In a few seconds the process was complete, and his whole body looked as if it had been painted black and white.
"Hah! Now you shall feel my pain, and become a sacrifice to Jashin!" Hidan whirled the spear around so it was pointing towards himself, then he drove it down uneeringly into his stomach. Gasping in suprise, I watched as Hidan barly twitched, but yet Gai collapsed grasping his own stomach. Lee, who had been standing off to the side, immedietly acted. With just as much speed as his sensei, the young ninja lept foreward and kicked Hidan in the face, hard enough to cause him to fly backwards and dislodging the spear. Suddenly the other two leaf ninja were behind me, and I watched as Kakuzu whirled around at the same moment, but he was too late. Neji and Tenten each grabbed one of my arms, and hauled me into the forest before the Akatsuki member could even react.
Suprised, I didn't resist, just let them carry me off. I was too weak anyway, but my mind turned to questioning their actions. Why would they want to save a Jinchukii such as myself? As far as I knew, all of my kind were hated and despised, and the only reason I could think of that they would save me is so that the Akatsuki organization wouldnt become more powerful. Feeling that this had to be true, I felt some resentment towards these Konoha ninja, even as they took me further and further from Hidan and Kakuzu. Held there between two ninja, I suddenly felt as if the world was spinning, then I blackened out and knew no more.
Kakuzu watched as the two leaf ninja carried off his Jinchuuriki, and he was about to pursue when another one of the pests barred his way. He would have killed the kid there and then, but he sensed the presence of other ninja heading their way, and Kakuzu knew he shouldn't waste time.
"Come on Hidan. Let's get going." Lee attempted to attack Kakuzu as he spoke, but the man easily knocked him sideways into a tree.
"What the hell! I was just getting started! Shit!" This last oath was uttered as Hidan picked himself up from the ground, rubbing his bruised cheek.
"We don't have the time. This once you have to skip your dam ritual, so shut up and lets go!" Kakuzu demanded, dashing off into the forest and out of sight. Clearly unhappy, Hidan allowed his skin to turn back to its normal color, then he too disappeared. The other Konoha ninjas arrived then, and Gai was instantly tended to by the medical ninja.
"Can you tell me what happened? Where are those Akatsuki guys?" One of the jounins asked of Gai while the man was placed on a stretcher.
"They got away." He managed to say in an almost normal voice, trying not to show the pain he felt.
"Gai-sensei! Are you ok?" Lee asked he ran to his masters side, very much worried.
"Don't worry, im fine. You go after Neji and Tenten, and make sure their ok."
"Right sir!" Lee ran off right away, following the path into the forest he had seen his fellow ninja take.
Neji and Tenten had gone deep into the forest, then turned west and started heading back the way the village was. Stopping to take a quick break, they laid the girl they had been carrying up against a tree.
"You think she's ok?" Tenten asked worriedly, taking in the strangers ragged appearence.
"There's no major injuries. Aside from some cuts and bruises, her shoulder is the only wound, though it looks fairly old and is just about healed." Neji said, Byakugan activated as he scruitinized the girls chakra. Even as he watched, he could see the swirling red chakra within her focusing itself on her injuries, healing them at an extrordinary rate. Now where have I seen this before? Neji asked himself as he watched the chakra swirl around as if alive, then knew at once this girl was just like Naruto. Turning his Byakugan 'off ', Neji stood up just as Lee came running.
"Hey Neji! Gai-sensei told me to check up on you three." His gaze at once dropped to the girl, and he frowned.
"So she's a Jinchuuriki?"
"Yes. I haven't been told much on the matter, just that the organization called Akatsuki is going around and capturing these Jinchuuriki, and she's one of them." Tenten looked back at the girl while Neji spoke, wondering how such a person could contain an all-powerful beast like a Bijuu.
"Well, we better get going then, the faster we get to the village, the better."
"Let me carry her!" Lee volenteered eagerly, and Tenten groaned but said nothing.
"Fuck!" Hidan cursed as he and Kakuzu lept from tree branch to branch, heading in the direction of Konoha.
"How the hell did we lose her so easily?! And I didn't even get to make a sacrifice to Jashin!" Kakuzu remained silent on the matter, trying to plan on what to do next. If the Leader found out about this failure, he'd make such a fuss. Not to mention that Kakuzu wasn't even sure which Jinchuuriki this one was. So far the one, two, three, six, and seven had been captured. That just left the four, five, eight, and nine-tailed beasts. The Kyuubi belonged to Itachi, and he himself had been assigned the five-tailed, but so far he had no idea where his Jinchuuriki was. For all he knew, this girl could the five-tailed, or it could be one of the other's. Didn't really matter in the long-run, since as long as he got a Jinchuuriki the Leader would be happy.
"Hey Kakuzu! What do we do now?" Hidan asked out of frustration, not exactly the type who plans ahead, leaving such things to his partner.
"We go to Konoha and take the Jinchuuriki back, of course." Hidan's frown instantly turned into a wicked grin as he thought of all the people he could sacrifice in that village.
"Assemble at once."
The two Akatsuki members instantly stopped where they were, and Hidan became angry.
"Fuck! You always call us back at the worst of times!" He yelled, seemingly to no one.
"Quiet Hidan. We know where to find the Jinchuuriki, so we can just retrieve it once the ritual is done."
"Tsk, fine!" Hidan lept from the tree, sitting down and falling into a trance at once; Kakuzu did the same.
Opening his eyes, Hidan found himself in a vast cavern, standing on one of the fingertips of a huge statue. Of course he wasn't really there, just a ghostly projection of himself that he could use to see and communicate over vast distances. Nearby and standing on another of the statue's digits was Kakuzu, as well as the rest of the Akatsuki members.
"So which one is it this time?" Hidan called out, violet eyes piercing the darkness as he looked down at the motionless form of the Jinchuuriki.
"Zetsu's, the eight-tailed." The Leader of the organization awnsered from where he stood, hands flying to make the neccesary hand signs.
"Now then, let's begin." At once the statue began to glow, and all the Akatsuki members put their hands up to form the same sign, heads bowed. Nine twisting dragons of light decended from the statue to strike the Jinchuuriki, and cries of agony echoed through the cavern.
Boo, that was too short, and not enough detail...may redo it later...