Here's the new chapter...so read and review and I'd also be glad if i get some feedback about the character i introduced in it. Again, thanks to my Beta, Daelyn Paolini for the awesome work.
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Kakashi groaned in pain as he pulled the kunai from his abdomen. He replaced the bloody weapon with his hand, keeping pressure on the wound and trying not to loose too much blood. He kept his one uncovered eye on the shrouded enemy at hand. He carefully watched as the clone, which had artfully flung the kunai at him, stepped beside its creator and vanish, fading into a translucent cobalt blue chakra. The energy receded into the original's body. Impossible chakra control, Kakashi thought in shock. From simple analysis, the copy ninja noted important aspects of this adversary. Their enemy had incredible chakra control, being able to manipulate chakra extensively. And to make matters worse, it seemed he could reacquire his used chakra with ease.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura's anxious voice rose from behind him, but he didn't have time for such trivialities.
"Not now, Sakura, I'm fine. Keep your mind on the task at hand," he said to brush Sakura's worries aside.
He had sustained more serious injuries before, some of them nearly fatal. This one might hurt like hell and restrict his physical capabilities, but it would not put him down. And now things were getting more and more complicated. He was certainly sure this mission was higher than a B-rank, as it had originally been assigned. Slowly, he exposed his sharingan and let the blood red eye examine the situation. He had no other choice but to put his all in this confrontation.
"Hmmm, getting serious are we?" The man's brown eyes almost instantly turned as cold as ice.
"Sakura, Hinata, guard the client. Shikamaru, you're with me," Kakashi instructed.
His plan was simple as possible but thoroughly effective. Keeping two close combat shinobi at the rear while a long ranged and a long and short ranged shinobi headed the attack was squarely effective in situations.
"Shikamaru, I'll need you to try and restrict his movements."
With a nod, the Nara genius crouched to the ground. His jutsu would have been more effective if there was a brighter source of light than that of the silvery moon looming overhead. Kakashi took out a kunai. He was ready.
The Akatsuki man merely smiled at the cautious preparation practiced before him. His once handsome facial features seemed to twitch, turning his face into something comparable to an expectant smirk. He had to give it to them; they really did know their tactics. Two at the rear and two in front...basic, but effective. The smile on his face slowly vanished. The thought of blood and gore always seemed to bring a smile to his face.
"It seems you are all ready now. But before I begin to dispose of you, I will give you a once in a lifetime opportunity," he said, bringing back his smile like a lion ready to pounce on its unsuspecting prey.
"And that would be?" Kakashi inquired.
"Give me your charge and I promise to make your deaths swift and painless. Believe me you, I am not normally this charitable, but such an incentive should prove moving for you four in this situation," the Akatsuki said in an eerily genuine voice.
"And what if we refuse?"
As if one cue, the ground around the four belted out three explosions as it shattered, bathing them in dust and debris. Kakashi already had an idea what was going on and charged through the rubble and dusty clouds as it all began to settle at a startling rate. He knew from instinct that the enemy was trying to shake them up and make them easy targets.
"What the?" The sharingan wielder hissed when he was abruptly stopped. He looked down to see a whip made entirely of chakra wrap around his leg. He could not move if he...
"You're mine."
Kakashi looked up, his sharingan flaring to find an escape at what was coming toward him. It looked like a kunai but was made from...
"Replacement?" The enemy whispered in no alarm.
He looked at a piece of log with a hole through it in obvious disappointment. Kakashi had been there moments before, but was presently no where in sight. He tried to turn and assess his situation, but found that he couldn't move. His eyes searched and came to a halt at his feet to see his shadow elongated and connected to a young man crouched on the ground several yards off.
"HELL YEAH!" Sakura roared as she charged the immobilized Akatsuki agent. He was now an easy target. She readied her chakra powered punch.
"Release."
A huge blast of pure chakra exploded from the stranger and blew everything away from him as the epicenter. Moments of piercing silence later, he stepped out of the dust, untouched by Shikamaru's possessive shadow. He was entirely unscathed.
"RAIKIRI."
The sound of popping electricity shattered the quiet night as Kakashi thrust his lightning based attack at the enemy. His eyes widened at what happened next.
"Do you see me as weak?" The Akatsuki man asked in a matter-of-fact tone.
The Konoha shinobi leapt back and stared at something he would have pictured as impossible. His lightning attack had met a dome of chakra that surrounded the enemy. What was this? Kakashi wondered as the chakra began receding back into the body of the man. Usually, chakra released form a body dissipated into the atmosphere, but this man managed to draw his chakra back into his pathways. Kakashi threw a glance over his shoulder to see Shikamaru kneeling beside an unconscious Sakura with Hinata near the...
"WATCH OUT!" He shouted helplessly, unable to help the Hyuga from the nearly invisible Akatsuki behind her. What could he do but stare in horror and hope for the best?
Hinata's eyes activated right when Kakashi shouted at her. She silently cursed herself for being so careless and not activating her doujutsu right when the fight had started. She located the figure behind her and swiveled to face him. There was no way she could survive the kunai in his hand. There was no way she could stop the blood pulsing from her chest. There was no way she could catch her breath, stuck in her lungs filling with sloshing, burning blood. As this scene flashed behind her eyelids and before any of it could happen, she felt arms wrap around her waist with a firm chest securing her, and leap with her out of harms way. When they landed on a thick tree limb, her eyes widened when she recognized the face inches from hers.
There was no way in her most twisted nightmare that she could forget the sharp lines of those whiskers, the tanned skin wrapped around a square jaw, and the beautifully sparkling blue eyes that shone even in the dimness of the gossamer moonlight.
"N...Naruto-kun?" She whispered, and roused a smile from her rescuer.
There was no need to knock, as Jiraiya could easily send the Anbu guards flying and literally kick the door down. Which he did. With a burning gaze, he looked into the room at the man sitting calmly within the office, seemingly unbothered by the splinters of wood scattered around his office that once called themselves a door. Danzo, the Hokage of Konohagakure, was entirely unperturbed by the disturbance, which he viewed as mild at best.
"Jiraiya, to what do I owe the honor of your presence?" Danzo asked, keeping his eyes glued to the stack of papers on his desk. He seemed to be enjoying the title he had so long wished for. This angered Jiraiya.
"Danzo," he spoke out, causing the Hokage to frown at the obvious lack of respect in the way his name was mentioned. "What are you getting Konoha involved in?"
Danzo's eyebrow raised at the question. It looked like there was no expected reaction aggravated from the question. The Hokage knew exactly what Jiraiya was here for, and also knew exactly how to keep it from him, and also to keep his assumed innocence.
"You will need to be a little more specific, Jiraiya," he said as his arms rested calmly on the desk. He kept his eye on Jiraiya, who seemed to Danzo to have a hidden agenda. Jiraiya merely smiled at this, knowing how enjoyable this would end.
"What is the affiliation between Konoha and Iwagakure? And don't tell me that Iwa and Konoha are not connected in any way."
Danzo stiffened. This was the only reaction Jiraiya could notice. Now he knew everything for certain. Kumo, Iwa, and Akatsuki were affiliated, that much he knew from his experiences and investigations on Akatsuki. So if Konoha was involved with Iwa...
"Is Konoha in league with Akatsuki?" The toad sage asked, narrowing his eyes at the Hokage before him. He would give Danzo no choice in giving a believable excuse.
"Konoha doesn't involve itself with criminals like Akatsuki and Iwagakure," Danzo said, trying to act angered by the questions directed to him by the perverted toad sage.
His words and reactions only attracted a deeper smile from Jiraiya. A smile which made his insides flutter with excitement. Now Danzo needed time alone. He needed to think things through and set them out plain and clear before him as to how Jiraiya had gotten such information. He needed to...
"Do you deny sending information to Iwa?"
Danzo nearly bit his tongue off. Had he been that blind and careless as to allow Jiraiya to dig into his plans this fast? Truthfully, he believed it wasn't his fault. He had no other choice, being pushed so hard.
"Jiraiya, if you're here to accuse me of such fallacies, I suggest you leave now and give me my privacy to do my duties as Hokage," Danzo said as he literally cursed himself for ushering such a statement. It would give Jiraiya the notion that he was hiding something. The toad sage just smiled and stepped out. His worse fears were now true...it was confirmed.
Danzo sat in his office letting everything go through his mind. Just a little time and soon he'd be ruler of the entire shinobi world. If everything went according to plan, he would be able to stand proud and supreme as not just a simple Kage but the first of the two real Kages.
Naruto stood up from where he crouched on the tree beside Hinata, his face still covered by the hood of his cloak. He was obviously shaken from the fact that Hinata had whispered his name. He knew his identity was bound to be realized, but not this fast. He reached up and slowly uncovered his gold like blond hair. He revealed his whiskered cheeks and deep blue eyes which seemed to have lost their fire. He let the moon light caress his face as he looked down from his elevated position at the faces below.
He could see obvious recognition and panic in both Kakashi and Shikamaru's eyes. He looked at the unconscious form of Sakura, then looked back to the Akatsuki man they were fighting. Deep inside himself, he could hear two separate thoughts. One voice told him to leave them to fend for themselves, obviously powered by the hate and anger he felt for them because of their betrayal. But the other voice actually wanted to fight, to help them. And no matter how much he wanted to shun that side, he couldn't. He took out a kunai and looked back to Hinata who nodded and stood up beside him. Somehow he was shocked about how easily she was actually trusting him.
"Wow, never thought I would actually get to meet the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi," the Akatsuki agent said, and ripped the tent he stood beside to reveal the shaking figure of the old man. He removed a scroll and before anybody could react he acted.
"SEAL." He shouted, and instantly the man's mouth opened to release black liquid like ink, which floated quickly into the seal and left the man dead.
He returned his attention to the Shinobi around him. Two on three. Three on the ground, one unconscious and the other two battle ready. This would be difficult to fulfill. He would have to make it quick in order not to keep his master waiting and also keep his identity the secret it was. Chakra leaked from his body and instantly, another copy of himself was standing beside him. The two flew through seals faster than the eye could catch. Using nature release was something he really hated but in this care, he'd make an exception.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Earth Release: Earth Corridor!"
"Shit," Kakashi breathed as the earth closed around him, Shikamaru, and Sakura. There was no way he could escape since his stab wound had started bleeding more freely. He fell to one knee from the pain.
Naruto and Hinata leapt from the tree away from the path of the huge fireball. Before Naruto could even land, the man was already upon him, throwing punch after punch which the blond blocked effortlessly.
"Ends here."
Naruto's eyes widened. He'd been so obsessed with fighting this man that he had forgotten that he had created a clone which slashed at his with a blade made solely of chakra. The blade met the flesh of a clone that instantly became smoke.
Just at that moment, the ground shattered and Naruto flew up from the ground with his fist aimed for the jaw of the purple-haired man. His attack was dodged, then the man retaliated with a kick to Naruto's stomach, which sent him crashing to the ground.
"You're mine."
Naruto's eyes widened when he saw a spear made of chakra hurtling toward him.
"Eight Trigrams: Palms Revolving Heaven!" Hinata literally appeared in front of him, spinning rapidly before the path of the chakra spear. Naruto's eyes widened in shock as he saw the two attacks meet. The spear drilled into Hinata's dome shield. The Akatsuki agent just smiled at this. The spear exploded in Hinata's face and sent her tumbling aside. Her defense had helped her, but was not enough to withstand the force of the explosion of chakra.
Naruto stood up, ready to attack, but suddenly met the eyes of the Akatsuki, who threw a quick punch at the boy's face. Naruto got out of its range and grabbed hold of his robe. He smiled.
"GIANT RASENGAN!"
The area was instantaneously covered in dirt at the violent birth of Naruto's titanic rasengan. The attack was so powerful that it even damaged the dome of earth Kakashi, Shikamaru and Sakura were trapped in. The area slowly cleared to reveal a panting Naruto. He wasn't really used to the advanced form of the rasengan.
He stumbled as he walked toward the small crater he had created with his attack. He heard something almost like the wind and turned just to feel something stab him right through the chest. He looked down and saw what it was. A long spear of chakra connected from him to the brown-eyed man who was still alive. Naruto groaned from the pain as the chakra spear receded into its maker. He fell to his knees from the lack of breath and overwhelming pain.
"Pathetic. I didn't even go all out," the man said as he stood beside Naruto.
Naruto closed his eyes. It wasn't supposed to end like this. Not like this. Not to a man like this.
"NOT TO YOU!" Naruto shouted right before a huge blast of red chakra exploded from inside his body, sending the Akatsuki tumbling through the air. The man stood up and wiped the dust from his cloak.
"So, this is what you truly are?" He asked, smiling at the changed figure of the Jinchuriki.
Naruto looked wild now with his eyes slits and his hair even more unruly than usual, his whiskers jagged and outstanding. He watched as a red liquid cloak formed around Naruto with three tails swishing excitedly behind him. He released a huge roar which visibly shook everything, and destroyed the dome of earth to reveal a shaken Kakashi, Shikamaru, and a now conscious Sakura.
Naruto looked at the Akatsuki, his mind now almost completely blinded with white-hot rage. This man was going to die.
"YOU'RE DEAD." He shouted, and dashed forward with terrific speed.
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