I didn't want to add just the Prologue, as it is so short, without the next chapter so I waited until I had finished. Enjoy my lovelies. XD
Chapter One: Defined as Different
"Oi, Sasuke! Teme! Stop running so fast!" A blonde well-built man of no older than 18 hurtled out of the darkness running after a slightly taller, paler, muscled man of the same looking age, with his dark hair styled spiky at the back, through the silent streets of a downtown suburb. They were currently running for their lives as three black cloaked individuals ran after them, one climbing the walls like an animal. They were on the hunt for the two men in front of them.
"Run faster then, dobe!" The dark-haired male yelled back as he swung around a corner only to hit a dead end. His onyx sweeping side to side, not a single detail escaped his gaze, only to realise that there was no escape.
With a curse he swung back around to face the people who wanted his and his partner's head. Said partner was currently at his side, clutching his side in pain after running so far so fast.
"Looks like we are going to have to battle this one out, Naruto," Sasuke said with a smirk as he lifted his hands, and yelled to the advancing enemy; "you'll all see now why I am called 'The Dragon'!!" With a yell his hands began to glow with the first embers of a fire, his hands emitting such light and heat that one of the enemy cowered away from him with a painful hiss.
The one deemed 'Naruto' just scratched his blonde shaggy head and stepped away slightly from Sasuke and pressed his palms together and shut his eyes in concentration. "And why I am called 'The Replicator'!!" With a yell he ripped his palms apart, making many more copies of himself show up around him, with a burst of smoke, until 20 more of him surrounded the area, all in identical fighting stances.
The three figures stopped their approach as well, two standing forward while the other, smaller, more feminine figure stood back at the sidelines, hugging the wall. Both figures seemed to throw off their cloaks at the same time, revealing two men of about 21, one with a big muscular look, easily towering over all the others in the vicinity, his hair shining orange even in the dimmed lightly of the alley, his dark eyes cast in shadows as he seemed to change shape as Naruto and Sasuke looked on in horror. The other, a man of slender shape, and light blue hair smirked as he took on a fighting stance to match Sasuke's; arms spread wide, feet holding firm on the ground, his inhumanely sharp teeth glittering from behind his lips as he smirked evilly at them both, his intentions promising pain.
With a husky voice he spoke, his voice seeming to echo in their ears, "Maybe you can now find out why we are called 'The Devil Trio'. You will not be getting out of this one, Sasuke!" As he spoke, his arms lifted higher and higher until they reached above him, his body seeming to flicker in the dim of the streetlight, until, finally, his entire body turned to water, the liquid hitting the ground with a light splash before the attack began.
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The big man attacked ruthlessly, his entire form had changed, he now had claws where fingernails used to be, his eyes feral and his teeth monster-like. His entire being seemed to scream bloodlust. He certainly lived up to the name of 'The Beast'. His body hunkered over like an old man, yet his muscles ripping out of his shirt as he ran towards them, the entire ground seeming to shake under each footstep.
Naruto's eyes just widened before three of his clones jumped on him from behind, bringing out weapons of all sorts; small daggers, knives, axes and even a piece of wire. They had no luck as, maybe, 10 seconds after their attack they were thrown off him as wings flew out of his back, the spikes at the top of them catching the clones in the sides as they were thrown. The clones hit the ground and seemed to just melt into the ground, leaving behind only a small amount of a light gas low on the ground, looking a lot like smoke.
With a yell, more Naruto's launched themselves at The Beast, driving him to the ground. Fists flying, legs connecting with flesh; the sounds from the large heap made the young woman against the wall flinch and turn away in disgust.
Flames danced around the walls as Sasuke slowly paced in small circles in his own corner of the alleyway, his eyes moving left to right slowly, trying to see his attacker. His hands alight with the beautiful embers, his body pulsing with the need to use more, to be more with the fire.
His entire body shifted as he heard a sound behind him, as if the rain had started to send its droplets down from above, but as he turned a shape had started to form from the liquid falling from what he could now see was the rooftops, as if something had lay there, and now dripped down from the gutters. Bright blue hair was all he had to see before he jumped away from the oncoming attack, his body feeling the wind from the weapon only an inch away. The man who was called 'The Merman' by others like them, otherwise known as Suigetsu in the human world, had moulded the water to create a weapon that could easily be called a sword.
Sasuke sent a ball of fire at his opponent only for it to be extinguished before it hit anything and then had to immediately dodge the wave of water flying straight for him.
Sweeping his arms side to side in an intricate pattern Sasuke let loose a shout as a dragon erupted from his hands, heading straight for the light blue haired man.
All three of the other onlookers watched on in awe as the fire dragon flew around and around Suigetsu, never touching him, yet keeping him confined in the cocoon of fire it was creating.
Sweat dripped from Sasuke's forehead as he controlled the movement of the dragon, always making sure it stayed out of the way of Suigetsu's swipes trying to extinguish it.
Besides Sasuke, Naruto was the only one to figure out what he was trying to do. With the heat pulsating out of the dragon it was drying out all the moisture in the air, making Suigetsu's attacks limited as he could only move the water that was already in the atmosphere, he could not create the liquid as another like him could.
It didn't take long before the others figured out what was happening, but by then it was too late as three figures appeared from above the dead end wall, one appearing on a fan, floating down, one in a swirl of sand, and the last jumping down and landing with a heavy thump on the ground, the purple paint on his face eerie in the dim light.
"Need a hand, boys?" A sultry voice from atop the fan called down as the figure swept back her white cloak hood, setting free her four dirty blonde pigtails on top of her head, her gray-green eyes locked on the dragon as it flew steadily onwards.
"Nothing we can't handle, Temari," Naruto called lightly as he threw a punch at the large monster-like man whom most of his clones were struggling to keep down.
"Yeah right, idiot, you couldn't handle this even if your life depended on it," a rough, deep voice taunted as the man with the purple make-up on his voice took his own fighting stance, with his fingertips outstretched; blue strings flying from them to attach themselves to the struggling mass on the ground, invisible to all but himself. "You'll see how the pro's do it!"
"How? By playing dolls??" Naruto called back before launching himself, fists flying, at The Beast.
"For the last goddamn time, they're PUPPETS!!" with a cry of fury, the tall, puppet master wiggled his fingers making the man, if he could even be called that at his point, move to his will.
"Yeah yeah, what–" Naruto began, before an icy voice cut across it sharply,
"Shut up, you're giving me a migraine. Let's just finish this, stop playing around." The last figure unaccounted for tugged off his own white hood, revealing blood red short spiky hair, teal eyes rimmed with black rings; a man no older than 21, his statue only slightly smaller than that of the blonde, but his aura just screamed power.
Lifting his hands, his fingers curled, a substance swarmed around his hand, the trail leading from the large gourd sitting upon his back. The substance, a grainy orange colour that with a closer look could be determined as sand, wrapped around the feet of the giant man and with a flick of the red haired man's wrist he went flying.
"Juugo!" With a scream the woman that had been watching the entire fight ran forward to check on her comrade, her long dark hair blending with the shadows as she hissed at them all in anger. The body she was leaning over changed shape, until only a normal man was left, gasping for breath as the scratches and bruises became clearer now that he was no longer in his monster-like form.
"Sui-Suigetsu," came a gasping voice from the man as he struggled to sit up, his left eye already swollen shut. With a curse, Suigetsu turned into water, running across the floor until he reached his other two teammates, and returned to his human shape.
"You're lucky The Sand Siblings came to your aid, Sasuke! Otherwise you wouldn't be the one victorious in this battle!" Suigetsu called over his shoulder before all three of them disappeared into the shadows.
"Heh, what losers, they were so losing the fight," Naruto scoffed before a fist came down onto his head, hard.
"You know, a thankyou is all that was needed," the man, who looked no day over 22, with the purple paint on his face, said as he pulled off his own white hood, leaving scruffy medium brown hair in its place.
"What?! We were handling it ourselves, no thanks to you puppet-boy," Naruto replied as he dispelled the rest of clones in a puff of smoke.
"I'm called 'The Puppet Master' not bloody puppet-boy," the man replied, his brown eyes flashing in anger as he was about to throttle the blonde haired man.
"Now now Kankuro, leave the boy alone," the woman sitting atop the fan jumped down, her stiletto's clicking on the bitumen as she walked towards them, her large fan now attacked at her back by a strap. "It's not his fault the only thing he can do is replicate himself." With a grin she stepped into the light, her eyes glittering with humour at the blonde's expense.
"Remind me again why Shikamaru is going out with someone like this old-hag," Naruto muttered, obviously not for the woman's ears, but she still heard. Her smirk wiped off her face as she gripped her fan as if she were about to bring it out.
"Enough Temari, Naruto, let's just go home," Sasuke said tiredly as he turned to the red head man in expectation. The redhead nodded his head and lifted his hands, sand swirling all around them, until finally, it settled, leaving no hide nor hair of the five figures that had been standing in that dark, damp alleyway only seconds before.
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WOOO!!! Been working on this beauty for a few days now, always deleting some paragraphs as they just didn't sound right. Now, 5 pages long, the first chapter is finally down. After many sleepless nights of course. ;) Hope you like it guys.