Shinobi Wolf Chronicles
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Chapter 16: Gift and Curse
Last Chapter…
Sakura's face went straight to half sad. Sasuke let Mitsuo down and he ran off into a different room.
"He is a bright child." Said Fang.
"He will accomplish many great things." Said Bane.
"He is and will become very powerful." Said Claw.
"He will be very happy in the future." Said Fury.
"He has inherited grand things from you two." Said Brood.
"I am sorry to cut this short, but we must make one more stop then start to prepare the ceremony. Until next time I bid you farewell, Sasuke and Sakura-samas." Said Yoku walking out with the others following.
Now onto Chapter 16…
Normal P.O.V.
"Sakura! I want you to know that no matter what happens, I will always love you. And promise me that if something happens that you won't leave me!" said Sasuke grasping Sakura's shoulders.
"I will always love you too and no matter what I am yours…" said Sakura.
"Come Sasuke-sama, the ceremony must begin before Nalakaz's troops reach us!" said Yoku.
Sasuke started to walk into the glow circle with symbols. Thoughts ran through everyone's heads.
Naruto's Thoughts…
"Focus Naruto! You can't keep blasting yourself back! Just like the rasengan you have to focus your chakra, but instead of molding it, you set it free." Said Jirayia.
"I know! One more time!" called Naruto. Naruto stuck out his hand and started to let chakra flow. "Trans-!"
There was a large poof of smoke as Naruto shot back. As the smoke cleared, red spirits of Kushina and Minato appeared.
"The dark day is coming." Said Kushina.
"And one may be lost, but not forgotten." Said Minato.
"Yet lives, but not seen nor heard from." Said Kushina.
"When one goes, another is silent for years. As loneliness sweeps the feet and makes fall." Said Minato.
"The howl of a wolf will start the pain, and end the pain." Said Kushina.
"Then one has returned." Said Minato.
"Don't let that one fall!" said both Kushina and Minato as they vanished.
Jirayia and Naruto had shock on their face, but knew it was not a haunting, but of warning. But not of warning, but of notice too.
Present…
Sasuke ever grew closer to the center…
Sakura's Thoughts…
"Mommy, where is daddy going?" asked Mitsuo.
"Don't worry Mitsuo, he'll be back safe and sound as always." Said Sakura with a smile.
"But… sometimes, daddy comes back hurt. Why do people get hurt mommy?" asked Mitsuo.
"I'm not sure myself. But don't worry, daddy is strong and brave! He won't get hurt too bad." Said Sakura.
"Okay mommy!" said Mitsuo running off.
"At least I hope so…" thought Sakura.
That night…
"Good night Mitsuo." Said Sakura pulling the covers over Mitsuo.
"Good night mommy!" said Mitsuo.
Sakura kissed Mitsuo and walked out of the room turning off the lights and went to her room.
Sakura took off her ninja gear and put on a nightgown. But then she heard…
"MOMMMMYY!"
Sakura didn't even stop to think as she dash out of her room and to Mitsuo's. She slid Mitsuo's door open and saw a snake coming in from the window.
"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" yelled Sakura as she leaped toward the snake pulling a kunai off Mitsuo's desk by the door.
Sakura sliced at the snakes neck, the head fell to the floor, but on the other half of the body she saw a rolled up paper in the middle of the snake. She pulled out the paper and read off it.
When one falls, one rises,
One may be deceived as another stalks.
Hunt is the answer, prey is the victim,
When one grows weak, the other grows stronger.
Is it snake chase the wolf,
Or wolf chase the snake?
All will be answered, as the moon cycle completes,
And his howl sounds the time, as his howl ends it.
The plan is simple; the snake is a diversion,
As another wolf hunts the first.
Sakura glared at the letter. "Snakes and wolves…" thought Sakura. "It's ok Mitsuo, go to sleep." Said Sakura looking at Mitsuo shaking.
Mitsuo nodded and went to sleep. Sakura walked out of the room and shut the door.
"Can it be him…?"
Present…
Sasuke sat down in the center and closed his eyes as the elders started the ceremony.
Sasuke's Thoughts…
Sasuke was walking down the path as he heard hissing. He looked at the corner of his eye and saw a snake.
The snake stared at Sasuke, then leaped at him. Sasuke dodged and the snake bit a tree, the tree started to rot. And the snake couldn't get off; Sasuke threw a shuriken at the snake and killed it, only to be ambushed by 3 more snakes. All killed by Sasuke's shuriken, only to have more come.
"What's with all the snakes?" thought Sasuke as he leaped into the air and threw more shuriken.
"What's the matter Sasuke? Don't like snakes anymore?" said a figure behind Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes widened, then he scrowled and took a kunai and try to stab the figure in the neck. But it dodged.
"I swore I killed you!" said Sasuke.
"I swore you did too. But Nalakaz made such a pleasant offer, I just couldn't make my way out of it." Said the figure.
"Well, no matter. I'll kill you again!" said Sasuke and he dashed toward the figure.
The figure dodged and reappeared behind Sasuke, "Boo." Then the figure smacked Sasuke into a few trees.
The figure looked up, and saw a signal, then heard whispers in his head.
"Enough playing with him, return to me… snake."
"I must take my leave…" said the figure.
"Oh no you don't!" said Sasuke dashing toward the figure again, except it was a side attack, not a frontal assault.
Then the figure vanished before Sasuke could strike.
"Grrrr… Nalakaz, why HIM!" yelled Sasuke banging his fist on a tree.
Present…
A green aura started to surround Sasuke, then the part above him started to take shape of a wolf head howling, then running off into the night.
Yoku closed his eyes, Sasuke had pain strike his head.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" exclaimed Sasuke as he sealed his eyes closed and grasped his head.
Then a pack of spirit wolves formed from the aura and started running around the ceremony circle and Sasuke felt relief as the pain lifted.
Then the Council Six started waving their hands in the air like they were casting a spell.
Then they pointed their hands to Sasuke and the pack of wolves shot into his chest like Sasuke was absorbing them. Sasuke opened his eyes and they were glowing green, he had slightly pointed ears and slightly pointed teeth.
"Our grand power has been transferred into you, this will help with our plan. A plan that will work, a dreadful plan as well…" said Yoku.
"What do you mean by, dreadful?" asked Sasuke.
"If we told you, you would refuse to slay Nalakaz. It's better if only a few know of this." Said Yoku glancing at Tsunade who lowered her head a little.
"Lady Hokage!" called a shinobi.
"What is it?" asked Tsunade.
"Nalakaz has arrived, very few numbers." Said the shinobi.
"Nalakaz has more than it appears. He knows of our power and he knows how to mold it into his own creations." Said Yoku.
"Most likely the Spirit Werewolf creation." Said Fang.
"Devilish creatures!" said Claw.
"But they become solid so it will be normal to defeat them." Said Brood.
"But they are more ferocious then normal werewolves." Said Bane.
"But we are more so." Said Fury.
As soon as he said that, the five became werewolves. And Yoku became more buff looking.
"We are the Council 6 for a reason. We must bare the taint that we pass to the worthy others!" said Yoku.
They all walked to the gates. Sasuke wore black armor with a Uchiha symbol on his back.
Nalakaz came into view and in close range.
Nalakaz and the Konoha people stared each other down, until Nalakaz spoke.
"So, this is the final battle. I know someone will fall." Said Nalakaz.
"And that will be you Nalakaz!" said Yoku letting Sasuke come into view.
Nalakaz examined Sasuke. "They gave you it didn't they? I should of known they would go to that resort. Guess I will need to play my part."
Sasuke glared at Nalakaz. "You have done too much, and you don't deserve to live!"
"If you're still upset of that backstabbing snake, you won't have to worry about him. He made a nice pair of shoes." Said Nalakaz twisting his foot revealing snakeskin.
Sasuke looked at Nalakaz with an angered look.
"Anyway, I guess I should use my special technique." Said Nalakaz dropping a scroll and stomping on it, making it latch into the ground. Nalakaz sneered as he scratched his thumb with a claw and placed it on top of the scroll. "Summoning…"
Then several figures took shape as white spirits. Minato, Kushina, Orochimaru, Itachi, Madara, Kenzo, Donzo, Nagato, Sage of Six Paths, and Zabuza.
Everyone but Nalakaz and his forces were shocked.
"You disgrace the dead! Bringing back some of the most powerful beings known to the world!" exclaimed Yoku.
"Well I don't have much of a choice, if you want your plan to succeed then trust me with this fight." Said Nalakaz
"This is getting confusing. Are yo working with him?" said Sasuke looking at Yoku.
"No, not at all. Nalakaz must die!" said Yoku.
"Then it is so, it ends here." Said Nalakaz with a small, sarcastic smirk.
Yoku glared, then appeared behind Nalakaz and smacked him several meters away then stabbed the Sage of Six Paths in the heart, then vanished.
"Take out the spirits now!" said Yoku.
The others dashed up and started taking out the spirits. But Nalakaz got up and made a hand sign before all of them vanished. Leaving Zabuza, Orochimaru, and Kenzo.
"Heh, keep them at bay. Sasuke and Yoku are mine." Said Nalakaz.
Yoku and Sasuke dashed at Nalakaz and they had an all out Tai Jutsu start off!
Kenzo transformed into a werewolf and is getting attacked from all sides by shinobi.
Tsunade and Jirayia are handling Orochimaru while Sakura and Naruto are fighting Zabuza.
Fight: Zabuza!
"Let's get this over with." Said Zabuza.
"Couldn't say it better myself!" said Naruto going into Host Mode and charging to Zabuza while Sakura leaps into the air and focuses on getting Zabuza into the area of effect of Sakura's ground punch.
Sakura slams her fist down as Naruto leaps up and off of Sakura's back and leaps to Zabuza who was shot into the air. Naruto had a rasengan ready and just as it touched Zabuza's chest it grew and Naruto called out, "Giant Rasengan!"
Zabuza was shot into the ground with a giant flesh wound in the middle of his chest.
"You little brats!" said Zabuza pulling out his sword and started to spin on water toward Naruto.
Sakura dash in front of Naruto and punched the ground while Naruto went underground.
Zabuza was caught by the earth and shot up and as soon as he touched the ground Naruto shot up and kicked the sword from his grasps and gets him into a hold.
Zabuza breaks out and throws Naruto into the ground and punches him in the stomach.
"G-gah!" said Naruto with blood flying out of his mouth.
"Naruto!" called Sakura.
Sakura charged toward Zabuza and tried punching him in the face. But Zabuza moved around behind her and kicked her back. Sakura spun around and grabbed his foot and yanked him into the ground over her and did a back flip.
The Zabuza turned out to be a water clone and he appeared behind Sakura. But Naruto shot up out of nowhere and shot the cloak hand at Zabuza who then and pinned onto a tree.
Again the Zabuza was a water clone and Sakura and Naruto were searching all over for him.
"Not up, left, right, behind, in front… so he must be…" said Sakura.
"UNDER!" called Naruto.
"…Water!" completed Sakura walking over to the nearby water flow and punched the edge and all the water shot both directions away from each other and they saw Zabuza.
"Here I go!" said Naruto running up to Zabuza. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" said Naruto as more Narutos appeared and started stacking on each other like stairs for the real Naruto who was preparing a rasengan.
"Uh-oh…" said Zabuza who's leg was caught up in some seaweed and couldn't get out.
"RASENSHURIKEN!" called out Naruto throwing the Rasenshuriken at Zabuza.
"NNNOOOOO!" cried out Zabuza as he was blasted with the jutsu.
BOOM!
"W-we win…" said Naruto panting.
"Yeah…" said Sakura.
Fight: Orochimaru!
"So, this is how it's going to have to be. I'm sorry Orochimaru." Said Tsunade.
"So am I." Said Jirayia. "But you must die, again."
"Save your pity, I am dead. You just have to re-kill me." Said Orochimaru.
Jirayia and Tsunade dashed to Orochimaru as he dashed to them. The battle of the Sannins has begun!
Orochimaru was aiming to delay Jirayia and take our Tsunade. He'd kick him every chance he got and aim with all his might toward Tsunade.
"Oh no you don't!" yelled Tsunade punching Orochimaru's head into the ground.
That Orochimaru turned to be a fake and the real one was like 5 meters behind them and said, "Summoning!" Then he was on top of a giant snake.
Jirayia bit his thumb and summoned the giant toad. Tsunade was on top with him.
The toad and snake launched to each other.
Jirayia used his range jutsus and mid-ranged moves as Tsunade went for a melee assault on top of the snake.
Jirayia shot water and air bullets every chance he got as Tsunade and Orochimaru went out using Tai Jutsu. Tsunade would use a super punch every time it was right.
Tsunade finally hit Orochimaru hard enough he flew off the snake and the snake disappeared. Jirayia caught Tsunade in mid air and they had the toad let them down then the toad disappeared.
"You hag…" said Orochimaru getting up.
"Looks like I'll need to go sage. Sage Mode!" said Jirayia. "You rest Tsunade, my turn."
Jirayia launched toward Orochimaru with two rasengans and hit Orochimaru directly. But he didn't let Orochimaru fly off to far and grabbed his legs and spun him around in circles and let him go into a tree.
Then Jirayia covered the tree in oil then shot fire at it along with a paper bomb.
Orochimaru got back up but severely injured. Jirayia started walking up to Orochimaru and pulled out a kunai.
"No! Wait… let me do it…" said Tsunade getting up with her own kunai.
She started to walk toward Orochimaru and said, "Any last words?"
"End me quickly, Tsunade…" said Orochimaru.
"This is for taking away Sasuke, killing the Third Hokage, destroying the village, and everything else." Said Tsunade stabbing Orochimaru, killing him.
"It's over Tsunade." Said Jirayia walking up.
"It finally is…" replied Tsunade.
Fight: Kenzo!
"I am not that easy, weak mortals." Said Kenzo
"Even if that is so, you're going down again." Said Kakashi.
"You… let's have a little rematch!" said Kenzo with an evil sneer.
Kakashi nodded and the others left to fight off what original forces Nalakaz brought.
Kenzo and Kakashi glared at each other. Kakashi made the first move. He was in one place, threw shuriken – then in another and threw shuriken. He was moving and attacking in all directions of Kenzo.
Kenzo only managed to dodge the first few before getting overwhelmed and hit but most of the rest. He fell to his knees as Kakashi charged up Lightning Blade.
"Lightning Blade!" said Kakashi charging toward Kenzo.
Kenzo dodged and grab Kakashi's wrist and started spinning Kakashi in circles.
Kakashi still had his lightning blade, and before Kenzo could let go Kakashi expanded it through Kenzo, which made him drop Kakashi.
Kakashi took the chance and used Tai Jutsu until he was in the air then used Lightning Blade again.
Kenzo shot down from the air straight into the ground.
Kakashi landed on a tree and leaped down. "This ends now."
Kenzo made a sly smirk then appeared behind Kakashi, grabbed his head, and jumped over him making Kakashi's face latch to the ground.
But that Kakashi became a substitution.
"Crap!" said Kenzo. Then Kakashi appeared on top of Kenzo and gripped his neck with his legs. "G-get off!"
Kakashi was suffocating Kenzo. Kenzo tried ramming Kakashi into trees, but after a few he fell to his knees and to the ground.
Kakashi got off of Kenzo, then Kenzo turned over and tried to grabbed Kakashi, but Kakashi turned faster and stabbed a silver kunai in Kenzo's forehead.
"I'm not that easy to sneak up on, creature…" said Kakashi walking away.
Ending Fight: Nalakaz!
Nalakaz and Sasuke were panting. Yoku was on the side unable to move but awake.
"It's time, *pant *, we end this Nalakaz…" said Sasuke, standing up straight.
"It is, *pant *, isn't it. So be it, let's finish it." Replied Nalakaz also standing up straight.
They charged toward each other. They were struggling out of the hold to try to get into an opening to strike.
Sasuke still looked mystical from the ceremony. Sasuke closed his eyes and started to push harder. A pack of green spirit wolves started to appear, they were circling a werewolf. The closer they got to it, the closer Sasuke got to the end of the fight.
The spirit wolves started attacking the spirit werewolf.
With each bite from the spirit wolves made the werewolf grow weaker, and also made Nalakaz grow weaker.
"The gods have blessed you… my time is near. The pack guides you, as it did me." Said Nalakaz it a soft voice with a semi smile.
The spirit wolves brought down the spirit werewolf, and Nalakaz left an opening. Sasuke saw this and stuck his special silver kunai in Nalakaz's stomach.
Nalakaz coughed out blood. "My…my time has come. Thank you for everything Yoku, and thank you Sasuke… I must reward you… my savior. Take this… consider it my parting gift…"
Nalakaz's hand glowed green and he gripped Sasuke's head.
Then in the green aura above them, the spirit werewolf became a normal wolf and led the spirit wolf pack in circles. They then ran into Sasuke's chest that started to glow green after the new spirit wolf was absorbed into Sasuke. But it ran back out, unlike the others.
That spirit wolf gave a howl then ran into Sasuke's head.
Nalakaz had a smile on his face when his grip left and he fell to the ground. Sasuke had pain shoot through his entire body.
"!" cried out Sasuke in pain.
Yoku was released from Nalakaz's spell and got up. "Nalakaz has now played his part in this plan. For us, we will be back when time is due." Said Yoku who started to disappear.
The other members started to fade as well.
"Wait! What's happening to Sasuke!" called Sakura.
"Its Nalakaz's spirit guide and our grand power morphing, therefore effecting Sasuke. It's all apart of the plan, do not worry." Said Yoku.
Sakura didn't understand and looked over to Sasuke, who wasn't becoming a werewolf… but a wolf.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" yelled Sasuke in pain.
"Sasuke!" cried Sakura running over to Sasuke.
"Sakura… I love you very much, let Mitsuo know that I love him too… AAAAAHHHHHH! The pain! I'm sorry, Sakura…" said Sasuke. He made one last cry of pain before he was a wolf.
Sasuke looked at everyone, then dashed out of the gates… after he came out of view, he let out a howl. A very long depressing howl…
Naruto's memory…
"The dark day is coming." Said Kushina.
"And one may be lost, but not forgotten." Said Minato.
"Yet lives, but not seen nor heard from." Said Kushina.
"When one goes, another is silent for years. As loneliness sweeps the feet and makes fall." Said Minato.
"The howl of a wolf will start the pain, and end the pain." Said Kushina.
"Then one has returned." Said Minato.
"Don't let that one fall!" said both Kushina and Minato as they vanished.
Present…
"Now I know what they meant… Sasuke would leave, as a wolf. And let out a howl, leaving Sakura in deep pain and depression… but will come back." Said Naruto looking at Sakura.
Sakura was sobbing and sobbing, and couldn't hold it in and yelled, "SSSSAAAAASSSSSUUUUUKKKKKEEEEE!"
That's the end of Book 1! WILL be making a book 2 as soon as I have sub-names for this one and Book 2.
Thanks to Max Sanders for the idea of bringing back a few people and for liking my story and encouraging me to make another chapter sooner!
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