This chapter includes some characters of my own but don't worry they won't be in it for long, they are just there to inject some comedy. The two Vampires (different specise from Promise) she is Ostintanious they are Cult, appear in my Cal Leandros story Watch Your Neck, don't panic you don't have to have read it to enjoy this chapter. I just hope it's not too confusing.
"Could you tell us about this scroll, I hear it contains a jutsu (the word rolled off his tounge so easily) that could unlease a monster," Cal said casting a glance in Naruto's direction.
Tsunade wasn't sure how much she should tell them but she knew they were hiered thieves so they weren't in possestion of the scroll and according to Kakashi they were after his Sharingan until Naruto said something that made them (or at least the black haired one) changed his mind and consent to help recover the scroll. That was Naruto, always changing people for the better, but these guy surely meant serious bussiness if they could take down a whole experienced ninja team lead by Kakashi without even breaking a sweat an some (she cast a glance at Cal) barley without moving.
"There are nine demons in our world each taking the form of an animal and each with a different number of tails and there is justsu in that scroll that can unlease the nine tail fox demon, the most powerful of them all and if it gets out it will mean chaos for both our worlds and un-matchable power for the one who hiered you to steal it. If you are going to help us we need your help now because you are the only person who can travel back and forth between worlds."
Niko had, had enough, Cal was going to explain himself.
"Excuse us, I need to have a talk with my brother."
Robin made a move as if to ask if he should come and Niko shook his head.
Tsunade was reluctant to let these men out of her sight for one minuet esspecially the black haired one, "How do we know you wont try to run?"
Cal said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "As much as we'd love to make a run for it and leave him here," he said pointing to Robin who growled, "if we wanted to leave then we would hardly ask your permission to exit the room and remember we surrendered to you."
"You, you surrendered," emphasised Robin.
Tsunade sighed and gave then a nod. Niko then took a hold of Cal's leather jacket and practically dragged him out of the room closing the door with the force of a seriously pissed man. The ninja thought it was strange because he didn't look upset but Robin who had developed a small Niko radar in the back of his perverted brain, it wasn't as honed as Cals but it was good enough to keep him from getting himself sliced in half by Niko's Katana.
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On the other side of the door Niko resited the urge to throw his little brother against the wall and reluctantly let go of the jacket.
"What in the name of hell are you doing Cal."
"For perhaps the first time in my life, the right thing."
"What?"
"Come on Nik you heard aswell as I did, if we don't get that scroll back some monsterous demon is going to get loose which will mean trouble for both worlds."
"Come on Cal we don't know if he'll use that jutsu."
Cal was becoming pissed with his brother so he slipped into his customery sarcasm, "Hmm lets do the math shall we Niko, power hunger warlock spends thirty years studying this world and looking for a way to get hear then he finds us. That plus a powerful scroll containing information on controlling monsers for another world plus a red eye that can do god knows what, equals...you tell me Niko what does that equal?"
Niko too was becoming pissed and if you were anyone but Cal you wouldn't notice (expect maybe if you were Robin or Promise), "Cal we already have a deal with that man."
"Who cares, I don't, we know for a fact Robin wont and who's going to be around to judge us, certainly not these people who want the scroll back desperatly enough to trust us," Niko didn't look like he was wavering, "Nik," said Cal trying to soften his tone, "I know you don't like them very much but there's a reason people like the vigil exist," the vigil was an organisation of humans that kept the supernatural world hidden from the human world and Niko didn't like them because their leader (elected last year) betrayed Cal to the auphe before he and Niko defeated them. Samuel did it for his brother so Niko couldn't fault him as a heartless bastard and that is the reason he was still breathing but he was paying for it with a life time of favours concerning the monsters they faced in their daily lives. Cal (due to the brother thing) had forgiven Samuel long ago (still did like the guy though) because he knew for Niko he would have done the same thing and truth Niko would have done it too infinity times over but he just could forgive someone who almost cost him Cal.
Anyway the vigil existed because, "they exists because if humans knew what the world was really like there would be chaos, wide spread panic. There is a reason people like me..."
"Stop it Cal," Niko didn't like anyone descibe Cal as anything less than human, even if it was Cal himself.
Cal ignored him, "There is a reason people like me are kept from the world because people see what they want to see and if they saw me for what I truly am the world would lash out and back to maths how many do you suppose would die," Niko remained silent and his expression was the same as it always was but he was wavering, "people are better in ignorance Nik, I mean look at the life you lead just because..."
Niko dared Cal with his eyes to finish that sentence. Cal sighed, "I'll do what ever you decide Nik. If you think it's right it's good enough for me."
Sometimes Niko hated that, he hated having that kind of responsibility on his shoulder (strong shoulders though they were) but then again he was quite a hypocrite. He had become so use to the resonsibility all his life as he began raising Cal himself at the age of four, he found it easy to forget he never let Cal make any decisions, even for himself.
Niko gave one long sigh, "Ok Cal."
Cal then pushed open the large doors and they re-entered.
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Robin had a large, red, hand shaped slap mark on his cheek. Neither of the brothers asked about it because in truth, neither of them were surprised, while Sakura stood there with her fists clenched, next time it would be a punch and Naruto gave something that was half way between a sigh and a chuckle. This guy was so much like the pervy sage except he was young (or so he thinks) and a lot more handsome and charming.
"I though we warned you," murmered Niko not even looking at the guilty party.
Robin knew any response would be pointless so he just for once in his long, long life kept his mouth shut.
"Have you reached a decision?" asked Lady Tsunade.
"Yes, we're going to get you that scroll back."
"Excellant."
Tsunade was a woman with very large breasts and Robin could keep his eyes of them, "Yes excellant," he thought out loud, "they are the third biggest I've ever seen."
Tsunade wasn't one to tolerate perverts esspecially when the directed their attentions at her Jiriya her old team mate was exactly like that, she quite please when Naruto nicked named him Pervy sage and refused to call him anything else but now the 50 year old woman who used jutsu to look 20 propelled her self over the desk and jumped straight at Robin with a sharp scalple in her hand as she was a medical ninja this was her favourite tool. She grabbed a hold of the expesive looking jacket the man was wearing and lifted him up putting the scalple to his throat.
"Lady Tsunade please," cried Shizune (Tsunade's timid assistant), she knew this was going to happen, it was an accident she was powerless to stop.
Goodfellow wasn't at all phased by the fact that this woman could lift him off the ground or the sharp object pointed at his throat, "Ohh," he said, "I love a woman with a little muscle."
Niko was pissed again though not one muscle in his face had moved "Goodfellow, for the last time, I'm warning you."
"Wont be the last time," Cal said. Like Niko, Cal had kept his eyes front refusing to look at Goodfellow as if ignoring a childs antics.
"I haven't had a woman who played rough in a while."
"Goodfellow," said Niko raising his voice warningly but keeping his even tone which made it all the more un-nerving.
"What'd I tell ya," quppied Cal.
Tsunade pushed the scalple further into the man throat when she drew blood Cal, before anyone could blink, disappeared and reappeared holding Tsunade's arm and putting a hand on her shoulder, "As much as I would love to see you drop him on his ass, if you want that scroll back I'm going to need some information."
Tsunade lowered her arm and then lowered Goodfellow to the ground and returned to her desk, "What information can't you just transport yourself to where the scroll is?"
"No," said Niko, "the man who hiered us is a warlock and he placed a protective barrier around the place, nothing supernatural can get in or out and I'm sure he was smart enough to think up something to keep me out too."
"So," asked Kakashi entering the conversation, "one of his silver circles wouldn't work?"
"No Cal's ability is stronger than the warlocks."
"So he could get in."
"Probebly but not with causing damage to himself if he tried to force his way through so that's out of the question."
"What would happen if he tried to force it?"
"What would happen if you tryed to force a jutsu?"
Kakashi was taken aback but he answered, "Your chakra will stop working sometimes temperarily, sometimes permenantly, you can go unconcious or into a coma, worst cast scenario, you die. What would happen if he tried to force using his ability."
"Blood comes out of his mouth, nose, eyes and ears and he goes unconcious for days, we don't know the worst case scenario and there is no way I'm putting us in a position to find out not for you or anyone."
"So what are you going to do to get this scroll back," asked Lady Tsunade.
Cal answered quickly as to stop Niko from speaking for him again and quite possible them answering and making him angry, "There is always a weak point in a warlocks magic, there is a position in this world where the journy from here to there is easiest and that should be enough for me to get in the office and get this scroll."
"In this world, is that all the narrowing down you can do," cried Kiba.
"It would have to be a place where magic of a similar kind has been easily performed before."
Everyone considered this an impossible task and were about to ask for another way until Naruto said, "I know a place," all the ninjas gaped at him while the three handsome thieves just looked at him with interest, "when I was training with the pervy sage he told me he was once summoned to a place called toad mountain and if we could find the place he was summoned from then that might be the hole you guys are looking for."
Cal smiled which wasn't something he did a lot while the shinobi were frozen in shock Naruto had come up with the soloution yet again.
"I know that place," said Kakashi sensi recovering, "but it's quite far from here, the training grounds have been moved since those times, it's a clearing deep in the leaf forest right next to a waterfall now. It'll take three days to walk there. Could you transport us there?"
"No, I can only travel to places I've been before. It took years of study to trick my brain into thinking I'd been in this world before."
"Then this team better get going Sakura I'm assigning you as medic go with them," ordered Tsunade.
"Right," said Sakura determindly.
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Niko insisted that they wait until morning so Cal could recouperate. The three day it would take them to get there would have been enough recouperation time but he didn't bring this up. The reason being that he needed time to be prepared. Cal was a very lazy person, anything he was asked to do he would bitch about but when he decided he was going to use this ability he realised he had a reasonpsibility. He could never let this thing controle him so if he was going to use it he would have to practice like crazy to make sure he never opened a gate to tumulus, a hellish dimension his hellish family had taken him to when he was 14 he never remembered it (which he was grateful for every day) but he knew well enough never to send anybody enemy or not, evil or good there no matter what. The last time he had sent someone to tumulus was a time when a puck named Hob kidnapped Niko. Also when they defeated the Auphe Cal (while using his ability) has almost lost himself, he began speaking auphe and feeling his humanity fade away but Niko saved him like he always did.
So to make sure neither of these incidents occured again Cal began practicing religiously (Niko was annoyed that Cal never gave so much dedication when he was trying to teach him things like sword play and intelect). Cal thought he could just open and close porthole to places he'd been before but while he practiced he realised he could use it for so much more. He could make portholes around things so once he began to make the porthole there was no escape, he could use his portholes to transport objects by making them around the object, he could use them to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, he could make multiple portholes at the same time, the list went on and he did all this with his mind. Cal needed to perfect his new found gift and he did but he didn't use it trivially he only used it in fights and other times when he most needed to. He wouldn't transport himself home from work, he wouldn't use it to transport things across the room despite how lazy he was. He never flaunted this power he only achknowlaged it because it could come in handy and save the lives of those he cared about (Niko esspecially).
They were given guest houses near the training grounds which was a flat grass land near a clear lake and surrounded by trees. Cal woke up as soon as the sun hit him, he could usually sleep anywhere, (he loved sleep so much) but now he found himself uncomfortable so when the forgien sun tried to wake him up he let it.
When he woke up he went to the training ground and began practicing his ability. He always began by making a porthole as big as he could and then next time try to top it, he just managed to top his last one. He then began transporting himself back and forth (by now this needed very little thought so he did it incredibly fast), then he starting working with objects and so on. In this particular training session a certain person popped into his head and by accident a porthole appeared in front of him and she jumped through it.
Cal's steel eyes widened and he began apologising.
"No, no Cal it's ok accidents happen. It's just nice to know you think about me," she joked.
Cal chuckled at this. He contemplated the Cult vampire that stood before him, a different and more powerful (though endangered) specise of vampire than Niko's Ostintanious vampire girlfriend. He contected with this girl because she was half human like he was she went through similar things he did, she lived feeling like there was two worlds and she didn't quite belong in either, she had even been taken for three years by her vampire side of the family (actually only her stepmother) and been tortured in the form of lust (without blood to satisfy lust cult vampires experience a torture that is unimagienable, indescribable) and the worst part of it is Lucinda remembered her time.
The woman was 465 years old but because of the aging proces of the vampires she only looked 20. She walked over and gave Cal a quick hug (she knew he wasn't into all that sensitive stuff) but she hadn't seen him in a while.
"By the way where are we?"
Cal explained where they were and Lucinda in her lovable scottish accent said, "Wow looks like you got yourself in a situation."
Just then another figure jumped through the porthole and stood there in all his Cult glory as Cal realised he hadn't closed the porthole. It was Lucinda's older half brother Antony who was all Cult and was just as protective of Lucki as he affectionatly called her as Niko was of Cal. Cal was exhausted and Lucinda could see that, he offered to send them home imediately but Lucinda forbade it even threatening him with Niko. He gave in and showed them back to the quaint guest house he was staying in.
What they didn't know is that the shinobi had been told to watch the every move of the three thieves and Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi had been assigned Cal. They watched his entire traning session in awe and heard his conversation with the two unknown people that had come from one of his silver circles. Then as the porthole started to close a third person jumped through and followed them without them knowing.
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Later on the ninja and the thieves had been called back in to see Lady Tsunade.
Kakashi spoke up, "Who were those three people this morning who appeared from one of your circles."
"Oh they were just friends, I summoned them here by accident. Wait a minuet did you say three?"
"Yes," came a voice from outside the window.
Tsunade went to open it to find a man and a woman standing on the building on either side of the window only in wasn't jutsu that was holding them there.
They both jumped through the window and went straight to Cal giving Niko a hi in the form of raised eyebrows, "Red followed us through the porthole just before you closed it."
"Whose Red?" asked Kakashi.
"She's our cousin," replied Antony.
"Ok who are you?"
"I'm Lucinda and this is my brother Antony."
Kakashi was getting impaient and Cal was getting amused, this is what Cults did, they were more than happy to answer a question but the never gave any information unless they were asked for it, "Ok what are you?"
Cal could see this was going to take a while so he decided to step in, "They are cult vampires, beings who feed on blood to survive only these two don't use human blood like most do (Lucinda and Antony were what was know as cattle drinkers even though they drank more than cattle blood, infact they drank the blood of anything that came to hand the reason not many vampires become cattle drinkers was because you had to go through lust to get your body to accept the blood) that is the reason they could walk on the side of the walls and the reason they are wearing heavy cloaks, to block themselves from the sun. As soon as Red gets here I'm sending them home."
"Oh no you don't, we're going to help you," Lucinda declared to Cal unwaveringly.
"Lucinda, honestly what could you do, besides take a considerable bite out of the warlock."
"Still the same old senstive Cal...and Niko," she said turning to his unamused brother, "God help me how I missed that smile."
That was another reason why Cal and Lucki got on so well they were very alike right down to the leather jacket, the snarky sarcastic attitude and the overbearing protective brother.
"Fine when you send us back we'll deal with the warlock you deal with the scroll."
"What are you going to do."
"Improvise," she said and on that word a new set of teeth desended from her gums and covered her human looking teeth and forced her mouth open (they weren't just canines like Ostintanious fangs they covered the whole mouth) they were sharp and leathal looking.
Lucinda retracted her fangs and looked at the shionbi for the first time. Her eyes landed on Naruto and widened, turning to Cal she said, "Ok I think we have a problem here."
She then whispered something in Cal's ear, "Oh, I can see that being a problem."
"What?" asked Kakashi.
Lucinda walked over to Kakashi and pointing at Naruto who was standing near the window out of ear shot, "What's that boys name?"
"Naruto."
There was a knock at the door and Kakashi moved to answer it, "Wait a minuet don't answer it."
"Why?" Another knock
"I never thought I'd need to mention this but Red's...kinda got a thing for human men. That boy Naruto, she's going to go straight for him."
"Naruto? Your being just a little crazy there."
"Please keep him away from her."
"Why?"
"Because he's not a bad looking boy and she'll screw any human guy with working parts."
Kiba while being amused by this conversation got tierd of the knocking and opened the door to reveal a beautiful dark brown haired Cult, she looked a little like Lucinda except Lucinda was more beautiful if your eyes were open to what true beauty was. She was beautiful in the same way Naruto was, beautiful in her strength and purity.
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Lucinda walked over to her brother and murmered, "For God's sake distract her."
"You two, whatever you are, are being irrational."
Lucinda gave a sharp chuckle, "Oh please, one look at his senstive sky blues and you'll have to restrain her from taking a bite out of him."
And as sure as they said, as soon as Red saw Naruto she walked up to him with vampire speed and started to talk to him in her smooth flirtatious voice and poor innocent Naruto was completely oblivious to the fact that she was undressing him with her serpant green eyes.
Antony tolerated this for a very short time and said, "Down Red," surprisingly seriously.
Red knew the consequences of being on Antony's bad side so she grinned and was about to walk away then she said, "Oh I almost forgot..." and she swirled round and kissed Naruto full on the lips.
Sakura had a feeling that felt strangly like jealousy she moved forward to exterminate this creature but Lucinda restrained her and said, "No don't misunderstand that."
"WHAT!"
Cal saw there that if he didn't talk there was going to be blood shed, whether it was to be drunk or not, "That is how Cult vampires gather information about a person, they....sample them. Although I do admit that's more than a sample RED," she took herself away from the near collapsing Naruto and turned to Cal, "like your cousin said down."
Lucinda twitched her head thoughfully, "Oh yeh that reminds me," and with that she pounched on Kakashi as if he was prey and held him to the ground with all her vampire strength. While they were falling she tore through the mask with her fangs then quickly withdrew them and....sampled him. The second Lucinda released him he grabbed the spare mask that hung around his neck with ninja speed perhaps faster than vampires.
Lucinda licked her top lip thoughtfully, "Interesting that one."
Robin huffed.
"Oh are you still sore because Lucki said Cal was a better kisser than you?" Antony giggled and Cal chuckled.
Lady Tsunade had been watching these happenings, she thought she should put a stop to it but these creatures moved so fast she hardly had time to register what was going on she just said to Cal, "I hope they won't be accoumpanying you on this mission."
"No, they'll be going home won't you," he emphasised to the Cults.
"Cal we'll take care of the warlock back home but we need some information."
Lady Tsunade said, "You're team leaves at noon."
Cal decided that would be enough time to tell them what they knew about Raphiel and get Red of the poor boys back, Cal turned to the boy and said, "See you at noon," then in his own lanuage, "you poor cluless bastard."
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Hope I didn't confuse you too much, I also hope it was funny, it's quite hard to write comedy but when you do it's great but it you didn't like this don't worry. Lucinda, Antony and Red are going home (making a quick exit) in the next chapter and the mission can finally begin. For all you Naruto fans out there a note: If Lucinda and Antony weren't there Red would have eaten Naruto alive (Not literally, Red became a cattle drinker too, saying that some humans were just too delicious to eat) not that she isn't going to give it a damn good try before she leaves, arse whopping from Antony or otherwise.