This time it's finally me! Sorry it took me so long to update, but my exams are killing me, along with other things that are on my head. Since my time is limited, I'll make this A/N as short as possible, sorry.
First of, thanks to everyone who reviewed the previous, two chapters. As Shang promised, I'll answer your reviews from both here:
Is Hekireki just playing with Urusai or does he really knows things about him: Hekireki knows about Urusai, probably even more then the blonde himself… it's justified in the current situation, however for the time being I'd prefer to keep the rest a secret.
The battles are too long: yeah, I kinda know, but I wanted everyone to have their own battle… that way I managed to show a little bit more about Ayame and soon you'll see some more details about Urusai (he may get scary)… the whole fight shouldn't take too long now (about three or four chapters) during which you'll know Jun and Urusai's relationship a bit better… along with the fact what was going on with Naruto during the time he became jounin till now.
Who's that Akusai person: he, I can only say that she's a person from Jun's past and at this point I'd prefer not to go deeper into the topic… you'll learn about her later in the story.
Urusai is much alike the old Naruto: yeah, that's how I planned him… actually, Jun was supposed to be a tiny version of Sasuke too, however as time will pass, you'll see both of them developing totally different from the two mentioned above (and Sasuke will show up in the fic too… and he'll play an important part for that matter).
I believe that covers it. Before I go to this chapter, just one warning: you might freak out a little due to some events that will be presented in this one, but you'll know more about Hekireki that way. Now, off to the chapter:
Chapter #17: Family Affair
Chapter Cover: Urusai is exposing a fox tattoo on his left shoulder and is sticking out his tongue
Genko received another punch in the face, which send him flying at another wall. As he crushed hard against it, he felt Naruto unleashing a storm of attacks, landing every one of them on his body. The missing-nin caught out blood as the blonde jounin jumped away.
"How in the world can he do this?" wondered the white-haired man. "Nothing seems to have any effect on him… I can't even land one blow!"
"Why do you want Urusai so badly?" Naruto finally asked, as Genko shaking stood up again. "I doubt it's some sort of a weird reunion… what's Uragiri's objective?"
"That is none of your business, is it?" replied the missing-nin.
"One of my students is involve…" reminded the blonde. "It is my business…"
"Well, you're not getting any information from me…"
"You're useless then…" announced Naruto coldly and charged at him again with a strange, black Rasengan in his right hand.
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"Raiton: Ikazuchi Arashi!" Hekireki called out and in a fracture of a second electricity began surrounding his entire body again. The missing-nin smirked as a shockwave was send straight at the surprised leaf-nin and his clones, making all the bushins disappearing in the cloud of white smoke and the original just barely jumping into the air, avoiding the electric tsunami.
"As you see, you're chances at defeating me, equal zero…" announced Hekireki calmly as he walked towards the blonde, his eyes shining with electricity. "Give up already get this over with…"
"Never!" yelled Urusai as he charged at the missing-nin again and punched him right in the face, just to get hit by tens of volts. The blonde yelled in pain as the shock send him flying against a nearby wall.
"Look, dumbass, at this point even your clones are useless…" stated Hekireki coldly. "Physical attacks won't do anymore and in this weather your fire techniques will be too weak to get me…"
"Maybe…" responded Urusai with his skin burnt here and there and his clothes a total mess, as he got up. "But even so… as I said… I refuse to lose to people who kill their own family!"
"You're still on about that?" the missing-nin let out a bored sigh. "If you don't know the whole story, you're not obligated to judge me…"
"Tell me that story then…" came a response. "I wonder how you'll justify murder!"
"Justify murder?" repeated Hekireki before laughing. "I guess I really should tell you this, coz you're getting the wrong idea completely… to start of, the only one that was murdered… was myself…"
---Six years ago---
"As usual, you got yourself some lame excuse so you won't have to keep your promise…" complained the eight-year-old Hekireki as a boy about ten years older then him, with short, spiky, blue hair and golden eyes, wearing a white robe, put on a headgear with the kanji symbol for 'thunder' on it. "I'm the Raikage and I have my duties… that's what you always say, brother!" and with that he pointed his finger at his sibling.
The Raikage turned around and kneeled before the boy: "Look, Hekireki, I know it's hard for you, but you must understand: after the war with the Hidden Mist, Kumo is weakened… I cannot allow myself to put you before the village in this state… times like this require… drastic measures…"
"Yeah, yeah…" replied the younger boy, turning away from his brother. "I heard it a hundred times already… you and that stupid Raijuu project… that demon was defeated a long time ago and the Jinchuuriki that it was sealed in died because of the Akatsuki… what more there is to it?"
"More then you think…" responded the Raikage with a sad voice. "I even fear that Raijuu is the only way for our village to hold it's position as one of the Great Villages…" his brother still didn't look at him so he just stood up and headed towards exit. "Someday you'll understand… I hope…" and so he went on his way.
xxx Few days later xxx
Hekireki lunched a kick in his brother's face, just to have it blocked. In an instant the Raikage charged forward and attacked the future missing-nin's torso with an opened palm. The young boy was send flying back and came to a sliding stop few meters away.
The boy instantly got back to his feet and reached for his spear. As he charged at the Kumo leader with the weapon held in front. The Raikage simply grabbed his weapon by the stick and threw it away, thus making it miss him by a mile and then landed another blow with an opened palm, this time in the boy's face.
"Dammit, not fair!" yelled Hekireki as he held his face. "You weren't suppose to go all out! This is just a sparring match!"
"I'm not going all out…" replied the Raikage with a tiny smile. "It's you who's just pathetic."
"What, you agreed to finally train with me just to insult me?" yelled the younger boy, pointing a finger at his older brother. "That's mean!"
"Yondaime-sama…" they both heard a voice and a second later an ANBU appeared on the field. "The preparations are complete… we're ready to enter the final stage of the project…"
"I'll be right there…" responded the Raikage, his face turning grim instantly. He then forced a smile as he turned to his sibling: "Sorry Hekireki, but I have to cut out training sessions short… soon we'll be able to spend more time together though…" and with that he was gone along with the ANBU.
xxx That evening xxx
Hekireki was almost asleep when he heard the door to the estate open. Wanting to get his brother from a surprise, he quietly exited his bedroom and headed towards the entrance. He stopped halfway though as he noticed his brother didn't come back alone.
"I was not informed of that condition…" announced the Raikage angrily. "How do you expect me to agree to this?"
"Yondaime-sama, it's for the good of all Kumo…" replied the ANBU, a little scared.
"This is different…" stated Hekireki's brother. "No matter which I choose, I will be betraying the Cloud… there has to be another way…"
"We already tried, Raikage-sama… this is the only outcome…"
The Yondaime went silent for a moment and then asked slowly: "When?"
"The sooner, the better…" replied the ANBU.
The Raikage hesitated for another moment and then slightly nodded his head: "Do it quick then… however if anything goes wrong, I'll have your head…"
The ANBU bowed and instantly appeared right before the surprised Hekireki: "Sorry kid…" and after saying so he stabbed the boy's chest. After that everything went blank.
xxx Some time later xxx
Hekireki's eyes shoot open as he sat up straight. Instinctually he reached for his chest where the kunai was stabbed, only to find that there was no wound there. He looked around confused and saw his brother, along with few ANBU standing around him. From the look of it, they were now in some underground room.
"Where am I?" he managed to say weakly.
"In a secret laboratory…" replied the Raikage, his face emotionless. "How do you feel?"
"Confused…" responded the future missing-nin truthfully. "I remember being stabbed in the chest and… well, that's pretty much it… what's going on, bro?"
"Maybe I should explain, Yondaime-sama…" purposed a man with grey hair and wrinkles all over his face. The Kumo leader nodded, thus he continued: "During our war with the Kiri, we send many spies into the Land of the Mist to know about our enemies actions. Thanks to that we learned about a dangerous experiment the Mizukage allowed his specialists to perform: making Demon Scrolls… their purpose was simple: to make more shinobi like the Jinchuuriki and that way create a special unit that no-one would be a match against… the scrolls, once activated, gave the user the strength of a demon vessel… by fighting such warriors, the one carrying Raijuu died… before the war ended, we managed to copy the incantations on one of such scrolls and were able to copy… but having an artificial, demon chakra wasn't our solution… we decided, that with such knowledge we could make Raijuu be reborn…"
"But what this has to do with me?" demanded Hekireki.
"Everything!" announced the man. "We choose you to be our first Jinchuuriki… for you see, with the use of those scrolls, we can create as many demon vessels as we want… there's just one, minor problem to that… since Raijuu… died, the vessel's body had to be of a similar nature… to put it simply, before we can create a new Jinchuuriki, we would require a dead body of someone who died recently… once the Bijuu would get sealed inside, the wound would regenerate and the person would get reviewed, if we act quickly enough, while the subject is still in clinical death state… for that we choose you…"
"And you agreed to this?" Hekireki turned to his brother with anger in his eyes. A second later electricity shoot out from them. The Raikage backed away a little.
"It was to save the Kumo…" he replied simply with a note of guilt in his voice.
"You…" Hekireki's eyes turn gold as he stood up, electricity surrounding his entire body. "I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you!"
---End flashback---
"I could sworn I heard my brother order all the ANBU gathered there to not fight me…" concluded the missing-nin. "But I didn't care anymore… once this artificial Raijuu took over, I slaughtered every one of them… none fought back…"
Urusai lowered his head as his hands began shaking. "You…" he said quietly, holding back his anger. "And you say you're not the murderer? What they did inhuman, but you think that justifies your actions?" and with that he raised his head, his eyes completely black.
"So, he finally activated it…" Hekireki thought to himself with a smirk.
Jun stopped at a nearby rooftop and looked around. "Where are they?" he asked himself as he looked into the distance and finally spotted the blonde gennin. "Here…" he announced as he ran towards the fighting Urusai and Hekireki.
But as he found himself close to the place the two stood, he stopped in his tracks and looked with horror in his eyes at his teammate. "What the…? Is that… Urusai?"
And this is it… sorry I won't give you the jutsu encyclopedia this time around, but Shang said that he translated the techniques from the previous chapter, so… I should be able to place the encyclopedia next time though… it's also possible I'll be able to update sooner. Have hope.
Cya.