Chapter 4: The Suzunami's

I don't own any anime that you watch, not even Naruto; if I did there would've been a lot less fillers than there is.

So there team 7 was in the pit of a fallen tree probably in the middle of the forest with an unknown team from an unknown village, one was meditating near the entrance of the pit, another one was sleeping, and the last one was looking at Naruto's unconscious form while Sakura was taking care of him because as soon as they got near the pit Naruto started to get very hot.

'Hmm, I wonder what's going on inside of Naruto's head right now, nobody suddenly gets that hot in such a little bit of time. I wonder if it has to do with what Orochimaru did to him?' thought Akumi as she was thinking of possibilities as to why this was happening to him. Meanwhile Zanji was meditating while also making scouting for other teams that might come and attack them, and Tailamachi was just sleeping.

With the other members of team 7, Sakura was currently putting a wet rag on Naruto's head to hopefully lower his sudden 'fever' and sasuke was looking at Naruto like he wanted to tear him apart right then but was more concerned about the possible enemies that was in sitting with them in the pit. Wanting to know who exactly they were he decided to asks questions. "So who are you guys, where are you from, and why are you helping us." The one to speak was Akumi, "I am Suzunami Akumi, the guy outside is my teammate, Suzunami Zanji, and the one sleeping here is our other teammate, Nakagi Tailamachi and we are from the village hidden in the spirit." This was when sakura came into the conversation, "The village hidden in the spirit? I've never heard of it before."

"Of course you haven't heard of it, that's because not one of your villages' ninja has actually gotten into it to get any decent information on it." Sakura being the kind of girl that asks questions a lot, "Why not?" "Because the village is constantly moving itself." At this both Sakura and sasuke look both confused and surprised at this, "What do you mean its constantly moving?" asked sakura getting out of her daze. "I mean that every three or so months it rises up from the ground and teleports somewhere else, nobody but our kage knows why it does that so we all just go with it." Akumi finished explaining and looked at their faces which amused her a lot because their were open so much that it looked like a fly could take two laps through both and they wouldn't notice.

"I feel a few people coming this way" said Zanji as he stood up and exited the pit. The rest looked outside as well and when they did three sound ninja jumped out in front of Zanji.

"Move out of the way kid, we're here to kill Uzumaki unless you want to be first to die." Said the sound ninja whose face was wrapped up like a mummy. "Please, like losers like you three could actually kill me, come on ahead and let's see you try it anyways, I'm a little bored just sitting here."

The second boy on the sound team stepped up and pulled out his arms which had holes in the palms of both of them, "Ok then tough guy, have a taste of this Zankuuha!" at the call of his attack two air blast came out of his hands and was shot right at them creating a huge dust cloud.

Thinking he had destroyed them he decided to gloat about it "Ha, that was some big talk that guy had but he was nothing but a weakling, well now its time to pick up their scrolls and" "CROSS SOUL!"

Sakura couldn't help but back up from these sound ninja, she remembers seeing what one of them did to Kabuto in the first part of the exam and that was just one of them and now his full team is here and they don't know what they could do, to mention the fact that one of the ninjas that was there just challenged them all to fight him by himself. Then she saw him bring his arms and saw air blast out of the holes on his palms coming straight at them and put up her arms to cover herself like it would matter. The last thing she heard before she thought she was about to be killed was 'CROSS SOUL!'

When the dust cleared everyone besides Akumi and Tailamachi, who was still sleeping, were speechless by what they were looking at. In front of all of them was Zanji with pitch black bat like wings coming out of his back and on top of his head there were two horns also a pitch black color and his skin had changed to a grey color.

His appearance wasn't the only thing to change, but his clothes changed as well, changing from a crimson shuhakusho with pants of the same color to a purple shirt with two spikes going outwards on both his shoulders with one spike being longer than the other and on his long sleeves were white symbols that looked like arrow heads going upward with lines going down from the ends. His baggy pants changed to black colored jeans with the same symbol on the bottom of his pants legs.

"You thought that you had me huh? Well prepare to feel the power of the Suzunami bloodline and its user." Over at the pit Sakura decided to ask Akumi questions about what that was, but Akumi answered before she even said anything, "This is the male Suzunami's bloodline, Cross Soul, with this ability they can partially fuse their souls with one persons or power that they have absorbed with their first ability, Suitoru, which lets them absorb any person or thing either partially or completely and turns it into theirs which gets stored into an item on their body. Also whenever Cross Soul is used the user gains a form as to look like the being of which they have absorbed." Explained Akumi as the others were stunned.

"And this form is?" asked Sasuke wondering about how there could be such a bloodline that could somehow be greater than the Sharingan.

"This form was absorbed from a dangerous man who had dark powers and control over bats, and because of that Zanji has called this one Cross Soul, Bat Mode." Said Akumi as she was waiting for the fight to start.

As if on cue to their thoughts Zanji sprung into action quickly getting in close on his opponents, before they could even react he started swiping at the mummy faced one got out of his tumor fast enough to dodge a strike the could've sliced his face in half. Jumping back to distance himself he went in for a punch which led Zanji to easily dodge and kick him back into a tree.

Even though the sound ninja was in pain because of the kick that Zanji hit him with he had done what he wanted to do, he had let his punch miss in order to use his amplifiers sound waves to destroy the guys' eardrums.

Too bad for him though because thanks to Zanji being in a form that's like a bat lets him be able to see sound waves so then he started screeching and destroyed the attack, "Your attacks aren't worth jack to me now." Just as he said that other teams were starting to show up like Shikamaru team.

In the bushes with team 10

"Whoa what the heck is that thing?" said Ino getting a little scared at the sight of the figure fighting the sound nin. "It seems as though its one of the ninja from that unknown village judging by the headbands." Answered Shikamaru looking at all of the people there mainly the new three.

"Man, I sure hope we don't have to fight that guy, he looks seriously strong." Said Choji munching on his potato chips. Thanks to him saying this he got yelled at by Ino, "Shut up Choji, that doesn't help anyone talking like that!" "He's right though," said Shikamaru making his two teammates look at him, "Look at him, there's no way we could win against a guy like that and I don't even think my Kage Mane no Jutsu could hold him, besides it'd be too troublesome anyway." With that they turned back to the scene before them.

On the branches with team 9

There on the branches was Maito Guys team watching the fight, "YOSH, the burning flames of youth are in that ninja, youthfulness is simply flowing from him!" "Lee will you quiet down we are trying to not get noticed here." "I am sorry Tenten I will try to be more aloof." The team of Maito Guys was consisted of Rock Lee, Higurashi Tenten, and Hyuga Neji, they had just come in at the end of Akumi's explanation and are now watching one of the new villages shinobi fight.

At the battle scene

After his screech attack, Zanji opened up his wings and out went bats flying straight towards the sound nin, Zaku tried using his Zankuuha but it was only a handed and slow move, were as Zanji's bats were many and very fast, scraping and scratching with their claws and fangs to slowly destroy their targets. "Ha you call yourselves ninja; you can't even beat my little minions. Well I guess I can be glad you gave me some form of entertainment but now its time to end you." Zanji opened up his wings again and all the bats gathered up around him and went into his wings giving them a dark red mixed with black aura that was streaming all over them. After which a huge screech was heard that everyone closed their ears which also made them close their eyes, when they opened them back up they were surprised to see a giant crimson bat with horns that looked like a crown on the top of its head.

The bat started to look around and when it saw Zanji it made everyone go bug-eyed when it started to speak to him, "Hello, little Zanji-kun, its good to see you again." At the notice Zanji bowed to the giant talking bat, "Hello to you as well, Kari-hime. Look, I'm sorry to interrupt whatever you are doing, but I need to finish off some enemies and I want to completely destroy them." "Very well then, let's get started."

With said that she shrank down to a small size and flared a little of her chakra, which was a lot in others opinions, and she started to spin around him creating a wave of dark power while Zanji used that same dark power to create a black scythe that was styled like a bat and had a blue eye looking jewel on the beginning part of it and the pole of the weapon looked thicker than most. Than the bat launched itself towards the sound nin with the dark chakra flowing out in front of it flapping so mush it looked like it didn't even have any.

Getting out of his stupor Zaku jumped out of the way and into the air trying to get to a tree and that was when he saw Zanji running right behind the bat with his scythe ready to kill. Thinking that he had missed, Zaku readied his Zankyokukuuha but then he saw him jump into the air and the bat followed him, right when Zaku was about to fire he felt something and saw that Zanji was gone. He started to look around but when he looked behind he only saw black, the reason he saw that was because he had been chopped up piece by piece and didn't even realize it along with a section of the forest which looked like it had been through a hurricane of knives and other weapons.

"Now that was the end, you should feel lucky to be the first one to be killed by my Koomori no Keshigomu (Eraser of the Bat), buy I guess you can't feel anything now." Said Zanji as he was coming back down to the ground and the bat disappearing but not before Zanji gave it a farewell, "Ok that guy is dead, you wanna be next?" he said pointing at Dosu, "I'll just leave the scroll here and we'll get going ok, lets go Kin!" she nodded and when Dosu put the scroll down they both hightailed it out of there.

Zanji went over and picked up the scroll and saw it was an earth scroll, but seeing as though they already had one he decided to give it to team 7. "So Akumi how was that?" "I think you overdid it a little bit there." "What no way I overdid that, I did it at the exact amount!" "Uh huh."

'yawn' "Hey guys, what's going on?" asked Tailamachi finally getting up from his nap scratching his head. "Ah I just killed a sound nin that's all." Zanji said nonchalantly since it was no big deal to him that he completely destroyed the guy, "Hey Naruto's still out for it." True to what he said Naruto was indeed still knocked out almost unmoving if not for his chest rising and falling, but inside of his mind it was a different story.

Naruto's mind

Inside of Naruto's mind he was sitting at Kyuuhi's side as she was eating the food he brought her from the kitchen which consisted of mostly meat but there was vegetables in it as well, "How are you feeling Kyuuhi-chan?" asked Naruto "I'm feeling a little better now thanks to you Naruto-kun." She said as she gave him a kiss on the lips and started back to finishing off her food, "Oh yeah how are you feeling with the seal on you?" Kyuuhi said between the biting and munching, "It's stinging but not hurting a whole lot, man I can't believe I let this happen to me." Naruto told her rubbing the spot where the curse mark was at, "Don't worry Naruto-kun, I'll find a way to take care of it, something like this obviously can't be good." She told him looking it over as it started to glow, "Naruto-kun something's up with the seal it's,"

'knock, knock, knock'

Both Naruto and Kyuuhi looked up at the sound, "Was that a knock at the door there shouldn't be anybody else here except for us and those spirits of the seal and they only remain in their domain." "Go see who it is and be careful." "I will don't you worry." He said picking up a broad sword that was on the wall just in case he needed it.

He flashed down to the main floor and got ready just in case of an attack when they knocked again and this time he heard a voice "Excuse me, is anyone home?" the voice was feminine, but it also sounded like a little girl. Naruto went to grab the handle until he felt the curse mark beginning to burn for some reason, but he endured it and opened the door to reveal that it was a little girl, but something about the little girl seemed familiar though. She had long black hair with two strands of it hanging over her forehead, paler than normal skin, but not considerately albino pale, and her eyes were shaped strangely like a snake with purple make up around it to enhance the look. She was wearing a white battle kimono that had a green line and a green sash on it to keep the kimono from opening up.

She was looking up at him with a little bit of shyness in her voice, "Um, he-hello, my name is Orochi and I don't know where I am, co-could you help me?"

End

Well that's the end of this chapter I hoped you all like it and I hope that gave some of you a little bit of an explanation to some things.

Also if your still wondering yes that little girl is Orochimaru, you'll get the full story of her in the next chapter when I put it up and please mail me and tell me if you noticed whatever anime/manga thing I mixed into this chapter, I really want to know if you guys know your anime/manga or not.

With the Suzunami clan and their bloodline, there are two separate ones, one for the males and one for the females, the males can absorb anything with physical form to it even another bloodline and the second one lets them take on a physical form of the thing they absorbed. The females, well your gonna have to wait for that one when Akumi goes to fight.

Until next time, ja ne.

The dark winds blow the evil mills.