Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Author's Note: Ano gomen... I'm not too good on fight scenes ne... This chapter will make you question many things...there will be a couple of fight scenes here and there but no that large scale ne...
My chapters will become longer and longer everytime.
Here are the songs that made me write this:
Chapter 1: 'Itoshii Hito'-Miyavi
Chapter 2: 'Dareka No Negai Ga Kanau Koro'-Utada Hikaru
Chapter 3: 'First Love'-Utada Hikaru
Chapter 4: 'Mazohyst of Decadence'-Dir en Grey
Chapter 5: 'Life'-No Regret Life
Chapter 6: 'Soba ni Iru Kara'-Amadori
They are really good songs...
On to the story!
Chapter 6: Deaths and Rebirths
Somewhere in Konohagakure…
A silent figure slowly makes his way to a bathroom. He opened the door to a dimly lit comfort room. It wasn't that large and most would call it a dump. The room was not fit for human use. Blood stains the walls and molds and mildew are growing in every nook and cranny. The figure slowly made his way to the bathroom sink not before looking through the window which was the only source of light. As he reached the spot he noticed the clouds were now getting dark threatening to pour their entire burden. 'It's gonna rain again… ' the figure thought to himself. He turned on the faucet not knowing if the water was clean or not. He took both his palms and cupped up the water and splashed it on his face. He then looked at himself in the mirror. Dull blue eyes stares at dull blue eyes, though it can be seen that it was once a brilliant blue. He had blond spiky hair and whisker marks, three on each cheek. He was wearing a plain white shirt. He then forced a smile on his lips and said "Smile…" he paused for awhile "…Uzumaki
Naruto…"
There was a knock on the door followed by a male voice saying "It's almost time… Ouji (prince)"
At that he completed a couple of seals and whispered "Junsei Hada Henkou (Perfect Body Change)" His face began to change. All his baby fat disappeared leaving a more masculine look, his skin turned pale and whisker marks disappeared. His eyes turned into a bright shade of purple and his hair became black as the night. His bangs grew so that the right half of his face was now covered with his hair. His spikes receded becoming much more tamed. He became a little bit taller and his fingernails were now black, a side-effect of the jutsu. He looked at himself in the mirror again and said "Now smile…" instead of a smile he smirked and saw that it was much more fitting on his new face "… Adauchi Kujo…"
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Hokage's Office…
"THOSE IDIOTS! They are just throwing their lives away!" Tsunade bellowed at the rat masked ANBU that made the report for the ANBU squad that pursued the two nuke-nin.
"Hokage-sama, I wouldn't worry too much. Kakashi and Sasuke both have the sharingan and Kakashi already has the Mangekyou. From what I heard Itachi isn't one of them so it's highly unlikely that Kakashi abd Sasuke will be easily beaten." He made his point.
"You maybe right. But I want you to lead an ANBU squad after them along with Yamato"
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Konoha's Forest…
Sasuke was trying his best to avoid all of Deidara's attacks but was having difficulty…
'Damn, I can't reach him. I didn't bring any kunai or shuriken. Worst of all I can't move very well with these clothes' he thought narrowly avoiding one of Deidara's bird bombs.
"You can't run forever chibi Itachi-wannabe, yeah!" he taunted but his thoughts were 'He's faster than I thought, yeah… at this rate I might run out of clay…Looks like I have to use my 'geijutsu' masterpiece, yeah'
He lowered himself down so that Sasuke could hear him "Oi! Itachi-wannabe! Why don't we end this, yeah?" Sasuke glared at him for calling him 'Itachi-wannabe'.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he saw Deidara go through a couple of one-handed seals. 'Kuso, my sharingan can't copy it… It must be Hijutsu..' At this he mentally cursed and stopped. 'I have to prepare myself, good thing I brought this' taking out his wakizashi he readied himself for what will happen next.
"You're lucky you're going to see one of my best 'geijutstsu'( art ). Hijutsu Kuchiyose: Touji no Kouu!( Secret Technique Summoning: Rain of Clay )" After he finished his clay bird was slowly getting bloated and looks like it's going to blow.
Sasuke was shocked 'what? Is he serious?' he then ran as fast as he could.
After a few seconds of running he didn't hear any explosion, instead he found that there was clay falling all over the place…
'Clay? Shit!' He mentally winced as the clay he was inspecting exploded, though it was small it still packed quite punch.
"Hehe… I found you, yeah" Deidara was sure that he was gonna be triumphant. He sat perched atop a branch looking at the disheveled Sasuke lying on the forest floor.
"That got him more than I thought, yeah" jumping off the branch and slowly walking to Sasuke who turned to a log. "What?"
Sasuke came out of the ground behind Deidara, Chidori Nagashi swirling electric pulses over his body and wakizashi. He quickly stabbed Deidara multiple times in a precision only the most skilled sword master could do. He eyes went wide as he saw that the 'Deidara' in font of him was nothing but clay… 'SHIT!' he cursed quickly making several seals.
Somewhere in the trees…
"Got you now chibi Itachi, yeah…" extending his middle and index figure he whispered "Hijutsu: Touji Bunshin Bakuhatsu…( Secret Technique: Clay Clone Explosion )" The clone exploded and sent Sasuke flying again but not far off it turned to clay... 'Damn Itachi-wannabe, using my clay as kawarimi now are you…'
"Coward, so this is where you were hiding…" Deidara mentally cursed as Sasuke's wakizashi pierced through his right shoulder the electric pulses giving intense pain and disabling his right hand. He snapped through the pain and jumped to the opposite branch whirled to face Sasuke to spit out clay which exploded on contact with the target only to disappear in a puff of smoke. Sasuke then appeared in front of him sending a punch to his face but he was able to block it as he flailed his right hand to his face but failed to notice as Sasuke performed a leg sweep and uses his other foot to kick Deidara launching him to a tree. Deidara was about to move but Sasuke's sword was now on his throat.
"Why are you here? Are you after Naruto?" his tone demanding answers while strengthening his grip on his sword.
"The Kyuubi? Hehe… we already have the Kyuubi, yeah" he answered rather calmly with a smirk.
"Wh-what? You have the Kyuubi?" his voice filled with disbelief.
"Itachi-san and Kisame-san have already captured it, yeah" amusement in his voice much to Sasuke's chagrin.
"When? Two weeks ago?" his anger rising.
"No, that was 4 months ago yeah… By the way Itachi-san sends his regards, hehe—"he was cut off as Sasuke in anger cut his throat. His rage even doubled as the person he cut turned to clay…'When did he switch?' His fit of rage was interrupted as he felt his Ten no Juin( Cursed Seal of Heaven ) acting up to his anger. 'What? It can't be…! Orochimaru…is still alive?' as the realization dawned on him he went to look for Kakashi…
Deidara was to say the least the best when it comes to escaping. 'I am quite the escape artist, yeah' he mentally praised himself. Speeding up to the area where his partner was currently fighting Hatake Kakashi.
As he arrived at a small clearing he could see Kakashi bleeding all over with cuts and wounds on his body panting. He turned to look at Tobi to see that he was unscathed. He was holding a kunai standing a few meters away from his prey. Deidara chose this time to interrupt.
"Tobi! Time to go!" he shouted at the masked nuke-nin.
Tobi turned to look at him "Ano… you failed Deidara-senpai?"
"Of course not! Its best if we leave the audience hanging you know, that way they'll surely want to see us again, yeah!" he said as veins on his head were starting to show "And besides, I don't have enough clay for my 'Sedai Kyuuzou Geijutsu Teiji'( Grand Explosion Art Exhibit ) that I was planning to use on the village, yeah"
"Ok! But let me have just one last hit Deidara-senpai!" he charged at Kakashi at a speed that rivals Itachi's and delivered a powerful punch to Kakashi's abdomen sending him flying to a couple of trees.
'I really really really have to ask Zetsu, yeah…' he thought as he eyed his idiotic partner.
"Shall we get going now, Deidara-senpai?"
"Hai, let's go, yeah"
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A few days later…
"Ugh…" Kakashi was slowly opening his eyes to stare at a blank white ceiling. 'Where am I? Oh yeah… I got my ass kicked'
Flashback
"Only Itachi has ever been able to resist my jutsu. It is used entirely to disable the sharingan. On top of that once affected the sharingan-user can no longer move" Tobi charged at him delivering devastating kicks and blows.
End Flashback
'That's right… He could've killed me then but didn't. Damn, my body hurts' he tried to move but ended up cringing due to the intense pain.
"Looks like he did a number on you"
"Sasuke, you recovered already?"
"I really didn't need to be treated… Kakashi…" Sasuke then proceeded to tell Kakashi everything he found out.
"I see…That means Naruto is…" he trailed off at the end and gave out a sigh.
"It doesn't make sense… Naruto was there with us fighting Orochimaru a few weeks ago, but he said that they extracted the Kyuubi four months ago. It doesn't add up…"
"Have you told the Hokage?"
"Yeah, she already told the news to everyone. Those bastards are celebrating his death…" he scowled in anger.
"How's Sakura taking it?" changing the subject
"Better than I hoped, but she's not really letting on her feelings" his voice with worry.
"You should see Jiraiya with that seal. He'll know how to destroy it…" he grimaced at the thought that the snake was still alive…
"I understand…You shouldn't move too much, Tsunade-sama said that if you force yourself to move you might not be able to move again…" he said smirking
"Why didn't you tell me that sooner?" Kakashi asked, sweating buckets.
"By the way" he paused, placing Kakashi's ANBU mask on the side cabinet "Hokage-sama told me I don't need to be an ANBU anymore. She's making me a chuunin" after he said that, he left.
"You've really changed, Sasuke… But I'm more worried about Sakura… she might end up like you then…" he said to no one.
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A few weeks later…
"Team Kakashi's back in active duty, Tsunade-sama" Shizune said while placing a stack of papers in front of Tsunade. Seeing the look on Tsunade's face made Shizune ask "What's wrong, Tsunade-sama?"
It's been after awhile since the funeral. Tsunade was slowly regaining her old self back, though how much of it was back nobody really knew. But the fact that the one she considered to be her little brother died would change a part of her forever.
"Danzou has pulled some string again, goddamnit!" she said as she crumpled the piece of paper she was reading earlier and threw it away
Shizune picked it up straightened it, "They're placing another member to Team Kakashi?"
"The council favored his request, they've already sent a letter to Kakashi about this" she said clenching her fists.
"Don't worry Tsunade-sama, he might turn out to be like Sai" she said smiling. "His name is A-da-u-chi Ku-jo, I've never heard of him before…"
"I already checked, I can't seem to find any of his records" leaning her two elbows on her table and clasping her two hands in front of her mouth "He must be a part of 'Ne'" she continued gritting her teeth.
"When will they meet?" putting the paper into one of the folders.
"Today, I just hope Kakashi has prepared the two…" she said with sigh looking at a picture of a blond shinobi.
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"WHAT?" Sakura was fuming with anger "IT'S JUST BEEN A FEW WEEKS AND THEY"RE ALREADY REPLACING HIM?" her voice echoed through Konoha's trees.
Kakashi visually cringed at her pitch of voice, "Now, now, calm down Sakura…" his last effort in calming the pink haired powerhouse in failure. If it wasn't enough, Sasuke was glaring at him coldly. 'Man, it's not my fault why do they have to shout at me?'
"CALM DOWN? HOW COULD I CALM DOWN? MY TEAMMATE JUST GOT HIS LIFE SUCKED OUT OF HIM AND ALL THEY CARE ABOUT ARE THE MISSIONS?" her voice raising even more. She was about shout again but stopped as Sasuke placed a hand on her shoulder.
"That's enough, Sakura" he said to her care visible in his eyes.
"But—"
"We'll see who he is then we'll decide, ok?" he said smiling at her.
She just nodded, not believing that Sasuke smiled at her again. She still had that blond teammate on her mind though and still didn't like knowing that they're gonna replace him already.
"When are we meeting him, Kakashi?" Sasuke asked who was now breathing a sigh of relief.
"Today, that's why I called you two" he said calmly receiving a glare from Sakura.
So they waited on the bridge where they usually meet.
A few minutes passed as they waited…
"So, is this Team Kakashi?" all three of them raised their heads to find the speaker.
He had black hair and skin paler that Sasuke which showed some of the veins of his face. The right half of his face was covered with bangs which were tied together with two bells hanging from them. His eyes were a bright shade of purple. He was wearing clothes much like Shino's during the chuunin exams except that it was black and more fitting. Its sleeves reach up to his knuckles and its collar only reached up to his chin. He wore pants much like Kakashi's only black and black shinobi sandals.
"You're Kujo?" Kakashi asked standing up.
"That's right. Adauchi Kujo" walking up to them but stopped seeing the glare from the two chuunins.
"Well, why don't you introduce yourselves to him?" motioning for his team to begin speaking.
"There is no need Hatake-san, I know them already" waving his hand at Kakashi "Let me introduce myself, my name is Adauchi Kujo, former member of Konoha's ANBU Assasination Squad, my hobby… if you could call it that… is killing" the three were surprised when he said that, seeing their reactions he continued "My ambition to kill every name that has appeared on the Bingo Book," he paused and looked at Sasuke " even you, Uchiha Sasuke" Sasuke's eyes went wide.
"But not right now. I can't kill a comrade now can I?" he smirked
There was silence for while.
"Could I ask you something, Kujo?" Kakashi asked breaking the silence.
"What is it, Hatake-san?" smiling at Kakashi.
"Where did you get that ring?" he asked pointing at a ring on Kujo's left hand pinky. It had the kanji for 'kou' (空陳) inscribed on it's gem.
"It was a gift..." raising his left hand showing them the ring "...from a friend"
Sasuke saw the ring and thought that it was somewhat familiar but couldn't place where he saw it.
Sakura was not interested and shrugged the whole thing off. 'I don't care who he is and some stupid ring! He is not Naruto so to hell with you!'
'He looks vain, with those bells he'll reveal his location to the enemy easily, and that ring... I have a bad feeling about it.'
Well then why don't we discuss our mission."
TBC
Author's Note: I'll make the next Chapter longer...
'adauchi' means 'vengeance' and 'kujo' means 'destruction' or 'obliteration'
'kou' means 'sky' but its kanji form is similar to the word 'kouchin' which means 'the void'