Chapter 8: Redux
Look, I know that some of you weren't happy with the happenings of last chapter so I'll make a second chapter 8. it will start after the exam though, everything being the same before were I start off at.
I don't own halo or Naruto.
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Location: Hyuuga compound
Date: June 4, 12 A.K. afternoon
After leaving the academy the group had gone to Kushina's library to discuss what they should do.
"It's obvious that he's trying to trick us into giving him a very powerful scroll, so I say that we trick him and deliver him to Iruka-sensei, because then you two might be able to pass. We'll only have one chance to get this right, so we should go prepare the field of battle to give us as big of an advantage as possible." Cortana stated.
"Cortana don't you think that we should ask someone older to help. Mizuki is a chunin and we're just two genins an academy student and a drop-out, he might be two strong." Hinata replied
Kushina looked confused for a second, its how she looks when thinking, and said, "Hinata's right, I don't think we'll be able to defeat him by ourselves. We're just not strong enough."
Hinata blushed at Kushina's comment and thought, "She agreed. Yahoo, I think."
Cortana said, "That's very out of character for you Kushina, anyway I don't think we'll be at any shortage of strength John show them a basic punch on that rock."
John walked over to the rock she was pointing at, though it was more like a boulder, and did one small punch to it. Kushina and Hinata were surprised to say the least when the large rock crumbled into gravel.
John said, "That, my friends, is why we have no lack of strength."
Cortana said to the two awed kunoichi, "Now that the demonstration is over. Here's what we're going to do…"
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Location: Forest training ground, just outside Konoha.
Date: June 4, 12 A.K. night.
"Spartan ready."
"Blue one ready"
"Foxy ready."
"White eyes ready. Remember, Foxy, you have to act helpless. I'll stay hidden and supply long range back up, and incase we need it I have a summoning scroll for Dad ready, thanks for that Blue one," Hinata said.
"I know, I know, you don't have to remind me White eyes." Kushina replied.
"Hostile coming in at 6 o' clock," John shouted over the radios they were using while spinning around and throwing a bubble shield down. The shield blocked a storm of shuriken and kunai.
"Mizuki came out of the shadows and said, "You have good reflexes demon."
"What the hell makes you say that I'm a demon?" John shouted at Mizuki.
"You have too much Chakra to be human, just like those other two demons." Mizuki spat.
John deadpanned, "Well I would expect us three to have abnormal qualities, Cortana and I are from a different universe and Kushina is the Yondaime's daughter. So it would make sense for her to have a lot of chakra, and I'm not sure as to why Cortana and I do, aside form me being mechanically and genetically altered and Cortana being an A.I. turned human."
"Don't try to trick me demon, The Yondaime's daughter died during birth, the Kyuubi is just trying to trick me." Mizuki ranted.
"Uh, I'm not the Kyuubi, she's just sealed inside me," Kushina said.
"Enough of these lies. You will die, I will get that scroll, and I'll be seen as a hero!" Mizuki shouted before charging at Kushina, only to have Hinata jump in the way at the last moment to block the attack.
Unfortunately, Hinata wasn't fast enough and got hit instead of parrying the attack. Looking at Mizuki with killing intent laced into her gaze Hinata said, "I won't allow you to harm Kushina-chan," before falling backwards, passed out from the pain, with a large hole in her shoulder and her bleeding out.
Kushina caught Hinata and placed her on the ground. Kushina, being who she was, thought that Hinata had been killed. Kushina's eyes changed from the sky blue that the usually were to a deep crimson red with a slit for a pupil. Her nails became long and sharp her she gained fangs and her whisker marks grew more exaggerated. Over all she became more feral. She growled, "May God have mercy on you, for I will not." Kushina put her hands in the Kage Bunshin seal and suddenly the entire forest was full of her clones. All of them were giving off Kyuubi's killing intent, with little refinement. Mizuki was frozen in place from it all; it was as if he could feel his soul slipping out before she had done anything.
While all this was happening and Mizuki was distracted John went to the passed out kunoichi and pulled out his med-kit. He used some bio-foam and placed it into her wound to keep it from bleeding and placed a bandage over it. After all of that had happened and giving a little time for the pain meds in the med pack to take effect John used some smelling salts to wake her up, just in time to see the demise of the one who hurt her.
Kushina let out a primal roar and all of her clones charged at the traitor. He screamed and wet him self before being assaulted. Kushina and her clones charged at him each one punching, kicking or stabbing him and dispelling to make room fore the next attack. After all of the attacks Mizuki was little more that a blob of paste on the forest floor. After that Hinata had woken up and calmed Kushina down.
The Hokage arrived with a fearful look on his face. By the time he got there Kushina had reverted to her normal form and shouted, "Oi, Jiji why are you here, I already took care of the traitor."
Sarutobi looked surprised for a moment and asked, "What traitor?"
Cortana spoke up at that and said, "Mizuki-sensei laid a trap to steal the scroll of sealing from either you or Kushina and tried to kill me, John, and Kushina, but with a quick movement John was able to block all of the shuriken and kunai that were thrown at us. After complementing John, and calling us demons, he tried to hit Kushina with a large shuriken before Hinata got into the way of a blow, this created a rather large wound making Hinata pass-out from pain. Kushina, being her usual 'jump-to-conclusions' self thought that Hinata died and tapped into a red chakra source and created 1000 Kage Bunshin, each one focusing a very powerful killing intent on Mizuki. After he wet himself Kushina had each one use an attack, after attacking it dispelled and the next one attacked. The mound of goo on the ground back there is all that's left of him."
Sarutobi calmed down a little after that seeing as how Kushina was back to normal, and hadn't tried to kill anyone after Mizuki. Sarutobi said, "That's quite a tale, but I believe you, I have been suspecting Mizuki would try something like this for a while. I suppose the appearance of John and Cortana sent him over the edge; you two do look, and are, rather abnormal."
Cortana grinned and said, "I take that as a compliment, it just means I'm better than normal," Sarutobi just sweat-dropped at that.
Sarutobi got a look at the wound that Mizuki had inflected onto Hinata and was impressed by the first aid skills that were shown. Because he didn't want Hinata to get a scar Sarutobi used a healing jutsu on the wound. It healed very quickly and required practically no chakra; the Bio-foam helping speed up the process.
John cleared his throat and said, "Sarutobi-sama I was wondering why he was so adamant about Kushina being a demon. I can under stand Cortana and myself, but why did he think that that she was, and why did he say he'd be a hero for killing a small girl."
Kushina said, "I can answer that." When she said that Sarutobi blanched. She continued obliviously, "I think I can tell you guy's seeing as how were siblings now, and she is pressing me to tell you, John and Cortana. I have the Kyuubi no Kitsune sealed into me; she isn't actually as mean as you'd expect a demon to be. She has a lot of chakra that I tap into subconsciously when ever I am enraged. She heals me when ever I get hurt and she has actually helped me keep sane. Oh, and Jiji I know about her because she won't shut up. She also says to tell you her real name is Yoko 113."
Cortana's eyes widened drastically and Johns jaw would have hit the ground had his helmet not held it in. John stuttered, "Y-Y-Yoko!?!"
Kushina, and everyone else, just stared. Kushina asked John, "Do you know her, was she from your universe?"
Cortana replied, "Yes, she was listed M.I.A. about 13 years ago, everyone thought her to be dead. She was listed when she went into slipspace and never came out; I never thought that what happened to us could have happened to anyone else."
Kushina relayed, "Yoko wants me to tell you that the reason she attacked Konoha was because a snake bastard attacked the village she was staying in, and killed the old man that was teaching her how to be a ninja. The only thing she new about him was that he was a Konoha shinobi. She says she activated her hologram system to the Kyuubi and attacked. You guy's pretty much know everything else, except that Yondaime is actually the seal, instead of being sealed into the stomach of Shinigami his soul was used for the seal. So theoretically if I were to release the seal Yoko and Dad would come back to the physical world." She then added, "I don't know if she's telling the truth, but she seems like she is."
Cortana was the next to speak up. She said, "Ask her which planet she grew up on, if she is Yoko she will answer correctly."
Kushina said, "She say's that she grew up on the planet Reach, and that her rank, just incase you still don't believe her, was Chief."
John said, "I don't believe it I found another human from my universe, I thought I was the last one."
Sarutobi finally came out of his daze and said, "I don't think that we would be able to extract them even if we wanted to though it would probably kill you Kushina and that wouldn't be worth it."
Cortana chimed in, "I think I might be able to, I remember reading something about a safety release in the seal, I think I might just be able to release them both and give them a physical body, though it will take a lot of chakra."
Sarutobi asked, "I'll help you, it would probably be best is I did. How long do you think it will take?"
Cortana replied, "Well, because I already have the scroll I need, it shouldn't take long. If you and John funnel chakra into me to perform the unsealing I should have enough chakra to perform it."
Sarutobi and John nodded in agreement. Cortana said, "All right, Kushina I need you to lift up your shirt," and opened up the scroll of sealing. She had a look of concentration for a moment and then pulled out a bottle of ink and a brush. Cortana wrote a complex diagram over top of the existing seal on Kushina's abdomen. Cortana said to Sarutobi and John, "I'm done with the prep; I'll need you to funnel as much chakra into me as you can for the next step."
John and Sarutobi placed their hands onto Cortana's back and started pushing chakra into her. As they were doing this Cortana ran through a long series of hand seals, when she finished she shouted, "Hakke no Fuuin Shiki kaiin! Shishou Fuuin Kaiin! Shiki Fuujin Kaiin!" when the echo of her words faded Kushina was enveloped in smoke as the chakra was being forcibly pulled out of Cortana, and therefore John and Sarutobi as well. The entire group was panting very hard, with Cortana almost collapsed. When the smoke cleared on Kushina's right was a man with blond hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a basic shinobi gear with a long whit trench coat with flames licking the bottom. On her left was a woman with long fiery red hair and wearing red armor that was similar to John's.
The woman, who looked to be about 25, said, "What's up John, And Cortana it's good to see you again, though I must say you are rather more opaque than last time I saw you."
The man said, "It's good to see you again Sarutobi-san, and Kushina, my daughter, I am so sorry for what I put you through, please don't hate me for it, but it was the only way to save the village, and what kind of leader would I be if I used some one else's child.
Sarutobi was elated and Kushina was just shocked to see her father, who she thought to be dead. There were just good feelings all around.
Sarutobi then said, "Well it looks like I'll be able to retire again, and seeing as how you four worked together to defeat a Chunin and a traitor I override the previous score and allow both Uzumaki Kushina and John to pass the genin exams and you will be placed on a team tomorrow. Know seeing as how it's late and I'm sure you want to be well rested for your placement we shall head back. I will alert Hiashi of his two new guests and then be off for the night, see you tomorrow Minato-san."
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Location: Hyuuga Compound
Date: June 4, 12 A.K. very late night.
Hiashi was incensed to say the least, he only knew where 1 of his five children was, and it was already past midnight. He was just about to go out to look for them, think that they were just at Ichiraku celebrating, when a person knocked on the door. Hiashi opened it to see Sarutobi, his four children, a woman in armor similar to John's, and… Minato!
That was the only time anyone had ever seen Hiashi faint. After he woke up he said, "Is that really you Minato, old friend?"
"Yes, it's me. It's great to see you Hiashi." Replied Minato
Sarutobi, said, "Well now, we need to get to business."
Hiashi replied, "Right, kids go to bed, now."
Reluctantly all of them went off to their respective rooms and into bed. All of them were exhausted from the ordeal and fell asleep almost as soon as they hit the covers.
Hiashi said, "Now that all the underage people are away how about we discus this over some sake?"
Minato replied, "That sounds great, and boy are you in for a story."
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Ending A/N: Sorry for not updating soon enough, I'm going to try to get out a chapter a week.
I will let you vote, if you like this one better than the last then I'll delete the previous chap. 8 and make this one official to the story line, but if you like the previous better, then this will be a "filler" and will be outside of continuity.
And as always please review, it lets me write better and gives me a reason to write more.