Bloodline Radiance

Authors note: I've tortured you guys long enough so here's the update. Enjoy.

Chapter six

"Are you sure?" said the Kazekage.

"It is a matter for the future but one that will serve to strengthen the bond between are villages." said the Hokage.

"She won't take it to well…she's kind of hotheaded."

"As I said it is a matter for the future." said the Hokage. The Kazekage nodded and entered the carriage where his son was waiting for him. The Hokage gave a wave as the carriage retreated from the entrance of the village back the way it came.

"So Hinata will you go out with me?" asked Kiba holding his head high sticking his chest out.

The Hyuuga just looked at her teammate as they made there way towards the Hokages office. "Ummm….I'm sorry Kiba-kun but there is someone I already like." said Hinata.

Kiba hung his head low, but then brought it back up with determination in his eyes. "Its that arrogant Sasuke isn't it." said Kiba. "I swear I'll throttle him."

Hinata began to giggle. "No I'm sorry its not Sasuke." said Hinata with a smile.

Kiba suddenly looked very confused. "Wha- if not Sasuke then who?"

"I'm sorry but at the risk of you attempting to throttle that person, I think I'll keep it a secret." said Hinata.

Kiba once again hung his head and fell back towards his other teammate Shino. "I told you she wouldn't say yes." said the usually stoic boy.

"I know but I couldn't resist…I mean…look at that ass." said Kiba developing a blush and drool at the sight of his teammates behind. He was smacked over the head by his sensei that was currently behind the two of them.

"That's probably the reason she said no." said Kurenai.

The team made its way up the Hokage tower into the mission debriefing room. Inside the room team 7 was waiting. Kiba looked at his female teammate and noticed she had a faint blush on her cheeks.

He followed her gaze and his eyes widened in surprise at what he saw. Apparently Hinata was staring at Haruno Sakura "WHAT! HOLY F$# ! She's gay!" thought Kiba as his mouth hung wide open and a tremendous blush formed on his cheeks. "But of course that is the only logical explanation. I mean why else would she refuse to go out with a stud like me."

However if Kiba had come out of his fantasies and took time to think about the situation logically he would have noticed a few things. The first being the Team 7 was currently standing in a straight line all next to each other. The second being that since she and him were standing in different positions they both had different views from different angles. What he saw as her staring at Sakura, she was actually looking at a certain blonde haired boy with sunglasses.

"Ah, team eight has arrived now we can begin giving you your joint assignment." said the old man Hokage. All people in the room eyes widened. " Team 7 and Team 8 will escort a bridge builder as well as protect him on this C class mission."

As the Hokage began discussing the details, Kiba began whispering to his teammate. "Pssst Shino."

The stoic bug user looked over to him. "what?" he asked quietly.

"I figured out who she likes…look at where she is staring." said the dog boy.

Shino let out a small sigh and looked over at Hinata. She had a blush on her face and was currently staring at someone. He followed her gaze but unfortunately like Kiba he was at a different angle then Hinata. That is why his eyes led him to the figure of Haruno Sakura.

Shino's eyebrow rose an inch and he gave a look of what people could only guess was confusion. "I…I don't understand." he admitted.

"Dude…she's a lesbian."

"WHAT! HOLY F$# !" He shouted out.

In that instance the whole room became silent and all eyes were on him, wide as dinner plates. Many a mouth hung open in sheer surprise.

"uhhh…sorry I just realized something that is rather…surprising." said Shino. If it weren't for his collar everyone would see that he was blushing red.

"Okay…next time don't let it disturb the meeting." said the Hokage. The old man finished his briefing on the mission and an old drunk man walked in.

"Whaaaa?" he said. "These brats are my body guards."

The groups of two teams were walking the path away from Konoha with their charge. Naruto was currently walking beside Shino and Kiba who had just told him what they had discovered.

Naruto gave a small smile. "One can not control the will of the heart." he said.

"What? That's it…we got to do something!" shouted out Kiba.

"What? Why? I mean if she likes another girl then we should be supportive." Said Naruto.

"Its not that idiot!" he shouted. "I mean the problem is Sakura, she is a diehard Sasuke fan girl and poor Hinata will get her heart crushed by her." Kiba had tears running down his face as he said this. However the sad affect was ruined by the fact he had the most perverted blush on his face and was slightly drooling.

"The prospect of hooking those two up is what excites you yes." said Shino.

"Ah, I see that's why he's so dedicated…Kiba-san is a pervert." stated Naruto.

"Shut-up I'm only thinking of there well being…and yes if I can get something out of this it would be nice." said Kiba.

"Count me out." said Naruto walking away.

"I will not help as well." said Shino going with Naruto.

"Fine I'll do it myself…you'll help me right boy." said Kiba to his canine friend. All he got was a bark in response.

Kurenai was currently in step beside Kakashi. She was staring at the back of Uzumaki Naruto as he walked beside her student Shino. "Kakashi…I have to know." she started. "If given the choice…would you let him die."

"…yes." responded Kakashi.

"Then I have no respect for you." said Kurenai as she walked ahead of him Kakashi's face remained passive as he shrugged off her comment. To him it was an unimportant statement.

They arrived in the country the next day but they were still a couple of hours away from where Tazuna lived. They walked the path down the forest on guard. Each of them noticing something wasn't right.

A mist set in over the travelers taking away there ability of sight. "Everyone on guard." ordered Kakashi.

"Well well well Copy-nin Kakashi this is an honor." said a slightly demonic sounding voice from the mist.

Suddenly the sight of several shinobi with there hiate slashed threw appeared before them. On a tree branch another appeared carrying with him a large sword.

"Zabuza…demon of the mist." said Kakashi.

"My my you've heard of me…what an honor." he stated.

Naruto drew the main blade from his back as he and the others surrounded Tazuna. Each of them took on a different defense, Kiba had his nails brandished like claws, Shino had his bugs being scattered threw the air; Hinata was in her families stance waiting. Sakura and Sasuke both had kunai in hand ready for the attack.

"Hahahahaha…how amusing." said Zabuza. The demon tilted his head in the group's direction and several of the missing-nin attacked. Kakashi was about to intercept them when Zabuza blurred into his vision. "Your fight is with me Kakashi."

Kurenai being much slower then Kakashi made it to the group just as they began to scatter. She immediately grabbed hold of the old bridge builder and retreated to a safe distance with him in hand.

The Genjutsu studied the situation and took the best course of action. She used one of her more powerful illusions to incase herself and Tazuna. Being the type of Genjutsu it was she was forced to stand there holding the seal to hide them.

She wasn't worried she was positive that her team and team 7 could take on the missing-nin.

Naruto backpedaled towards the lake while the three nin followed him. He swiftly dodged the blows they threw his way and began walking on water. One of the nin threw a kick near his abdomen. Naruto quickly launched himself backwards several hundred feet towards the middle of the lake.

The nin stared at him for a second then continued towards his form at top speed. He looked at them through shaded eyes as they drew near. He gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and held it in a ready position behind him.

The enemy nin paid no mind to his sword stance focusing solely on attacking him. They were twenty feet away; Naruto tilted his blade only slightly. Ten feet away, a small tint of blue began to appear on the blade. Five feet away, Naruto leaned forward a couple of inches and slashed his blade horizontally in the air. There was no surge of chakra, no huge explosion, no blinding light…nothing.

Still five feet away the forms of the enemy nin lied on the surface of the water. The crystal blue slowly began to turn red underneath them.

He righted himself up and closed his eyes. In the back of his mind he heard the faint whisper of 'Glorious'. He did what he always did and ignored it. This had been his first kill…he felt no pity for the men, or even ashamed at doing it. It was his job, but that didn't mean he had to enjoy it.

He turned to the battles of his comrades to see if he could help.

Sakura dodged as best she could but the blows seemed to only get faster. She was wearing out and she could tell her opponent was just toying with her. He kicked her in the stomach sending her skidding back on the balls of her feet.

He charged again and thrust a claw-covered hand at her face. She managed to dodge but fell on her back. Her opponent took this opportunity to attack again as he sent his claw straight down at her. She rolled as fast as she could to the side and got away. The claw sunk into the ground, the earth itself seemed to crack from the force.

She was scared, very scared. She didn't want to die yet; she didn't want any of this. The nin straightened his posture and leaped at her again. This time she couldn't move. She closed her eyes out of reflex and felt hot warm liquid stain her face.

She was smart; she new the blood wasn't her own. She didn't need to open her eyes to tell herself that. What kept her in her own little world was the thought of what she would see when she opened her eyes. She didn't want to, oh god how she didn't want to. But the fact remained that she had to, and with her being a bookworm, she had to go with the facts.

She slowly opened her eyes and let them adjust to the light. She had been closing them so hard that it was hard for her to see.

She saw the bloodied heap of the enemy nin on the ground. The life giving liquid stained the dirt and seemed to flow towards her. She felt her body begin to shake and a sick feeling well up in her stomach. "I'm not ready for this…" was all she could say to assure herself.

She held herself as her eyes traveled to her blonde teammate who held a bloody sword in his hand. The red substance slid off his blade into the puddle that was its source. With every ripple caused by every drop, her heart hammered in her chest.

She looked at her teammate as he slowly turned towards her. She felt the fear that had been built into her ever since her mother said her words of caution. The sight of him with a bloody blade was far scarier then anything she could have felt from the now dead nin.

He flicked his wrist causing the remaining blood to shoot of off his sword. She was trembling; trembling so hard it was as if the earth was moving. He took a step towards her and she moved her hand back attempting to crawl away.

She couldn't take her eyes off the dark shades that covered his glowing orbs. "Why, why why am I so afraid of him?" she questioned. "He saved me, he doesn't want to harm me so why!"

She began to pant heavily as if gasping for air. His tall form made its way directly in front of her. He shoved his sword into the ground beside him. Sakura flinched as it entered the earth.

Her body remained shaking tears were unconsciously forming in her beautiful green eyes. And then time froze for her as arms clad in black were wrapped around her. Her body remained fixated in a statue like position as her head rested on his shoulder. Her mouth was open only slightly and tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Sakura.." said a warm gentle voice. "I'm sorry…you aren't ready for this."

He pulled back only slightly and stared at her. His hypnotic glowing eyes were now visible to her. She stopped shaking, she stopped panting, and she stopped crying. She just stared out mesmerized by those glowing jewels he called eyes.

And it was the sight of them that brought back the memory of what she felt before she became afraid of him. It was the same feeling of happiness she felt when he saved her from the bullies.

He placed his shades back on and she felt herself shift as if she had moved. "Kurenai-sensei." said Naruto. Sakura looked around wondering when they got to the Genjutsu Jounin and their charge.

The Jounin's red eyes widened at the sight of him. "Please…watch her…She's not ready for something like this." he said as he walked out of her illusion.

Naruto looked straight out at the lake. Kakashi remained unmoving in a glowing water prison. The demon chuckled wildly with one hand on the prison. The copy-nin only moved his head to look at his captor. He looked at the Genin, all still engaged in there own battles. He didn't see Kurenai so he assumed she was covering herself and there charge in a powerful Genjutsu.

His Sharringan eye then rested on the form of the only person he could claim to hate. Naruto stood at the edge of the lake staring out at them. He held his main blade in his right hand as he slowly walked out on the water.

The Jounin's eyes widened at his show of the water walking technique. Zabuza only chuckled, as the boy grew closer. He formed a single seal and a water clone rose to the surface of the lake holding the menacing sword of the demon. The clone walked forward to the blonde showing every bit of arrogance that belonged to its creator.

It slammed it sword in a downward arc straight on Naruto. Naruto brought his sword up at shocking speed. The main blade split open down the center and blocked the edge of the opposing sword with its tip.

The clone appeared to be struggling to move its blade down, while Naruto remained unmoving. He pushed the sword up causing the clone to go off balance, and in the moment it burst back into its element.

Zabuza's eyes were wide; he had just barely caught a glimpse of the boy's slash that had destroyed his clone. He placed himself in the ready position all while keeping Kakashi at bay in his self made prison. "So one of the babies knows how to play the game." He said with every hint of killer inter he could muster.

Naruto's face remained stony as he stared at his opponent. Zabuza stared into the shaded sunglasses trying to get a feel for what the boy was thinking. But it was hopeless the boy betrayed nothing.

Naruto held his sword at his side and began to spin it around in his hand. A blue flame like chakra seemed to envelop it at he continued to rotate the large sword in his hand. The chakra seemed to take on a lighter shade as it shifted towards a whiter scale of chakra.

Zabuza stared at the attack, years of experience told him what to expect. He knew by the amount of chakra being gathered that the techique was a long range one. He reinforced the prison with his chakra and got ready to move.

However he was shocked to see the boy blur right in front of him. His glowing blade held behind him as he brought it down in a swift arc aimed directly at the demons sword. Zabuza put his full guard into the blade as he blocked it, but it was of little use.

The tremendous amount of chakra that the boy had gathered shattered his sword. Zabuza used his speed to jump away as the blade continued downward to where his right arm would have been.

The water of the lake parted as if divided in two as the chakra was released. Zabuza was in a state of shock as he stared at the damage done by the attack. He observed that the bottom of the lake split open and the forest on the other side of the lake was shredded through. He was only further surprised when the copy-nin appeared in front of him. It wasn't hard for the missing-nin to weigh his odds at this point. He kicked off the lake and sent himself rocketing back. He gave a whistle, which was the order to retreat.

His partners looked up from there own battles, very few of them remained. They all left with their master before anyone could say anything.

Kakashi let out a sigh of relief as they left. He turned to see the prone form of Naruto lying on his back unconscious from chakra exhaustion. He stared back at the parted lake seeing that it had yet to take back its original form.

Kakashi threw a look of disgust at his unconscious student. "I guess the Kyuubi would have plenty of chakra to spare to make that attack." He thought to himself with another look of disgust.

The genius Jounin walked passed his form leaving him there in the water. Luckily for Naruto Kurenai came and picked him up before they let for there charges home.

Naruto sat with his legs crossed in the middle of a dank sewer like room in front of a cage. On the other side sat a redheaded girl, who looked around twelve. She lied there sprawled out on a blood red couch. Despite her appearance of age she was fully developed.

"You are a fool…" she said bluntly. "My power will allow you to awake in a matter of seconds but if you continue to keep me cut off it could take days for you to heal on your own."

The Kyuubi was taking great pleasure in him being there. The dark smirk on her beautiful face only showed how truly ugly she was on the inside in Naruto's opinion. Despite that he could see her face, his gaze was actually elsewhere. He was looking at the inside of her cage with glazed eyes as if in deep thought.

The Kyuubi gave out a small huff in annoyance at the fact that he wasn't listening to her. Oh how she longed to make him angry, to show his rage to her to know that she was causing him to suffer. Yes she had a sick sense of what she found enjoyable.

The only thing she actually did find nice was when he had killed those nin. She hadn't seen blood in a long time, not since her vessel had wondered threw the bodies of the Uchiha district in the massacre. Even then this was better because he was the one that caused the blood.

"You humans are such filthy creatures." she said. "The only thing that I enjoy of your kind is that you seem to be good at taking each others lives in glorious displays of blood."

She looked at his still form to see if she could get a reaction, but it appeared he wasn't paying attention to her. This annoyed her, Naruto kept his gaze away from her looking in her cage completely ignoring her.

"Who are you?" he said not taking his gaze away from where ever it was he was looking.

With those words the Kyuubi snapped. Her chakra surged on the other side of the cage, as she took on her true form, her demon form. She glared at him with piercing red eyes growled viciously at him. She grinded her large sharp teeth wanting to tear through him.

Naruto didn't even look at her even though she was right in front of him. His gaze was passed her not making eye contact.

"You insolent mortal scum!" she roared. "You ask who I AM! I am the one who will take great pain in your suffering, the one whose name is feared throughout, and the greatest of ALL DEMON! I AM THE KYUUBI NO KITSUNE!"

"I know that…but that's not what I wanted to know." he said. The Kyuubi just stared at him, and for the first time in her immortal life she was confused. She was about to give a mocking response when the blonde finally looked at her. His glowing blue orbs froze her in place. She had never thought such a trivial thing as a pair of glowing blue eyes could stun a demon of her caliber. His eyes that glowed with such a brilliant radiance, held a heartbreaking wave of sadness.

She didn't know why but for some reason she felt something in the pit of her stomach, she wasn't positive of what it was but perhaps it was something a kin to regret. But then she laughed at the idea.

However anything she could be thinking or feeling remained undetectable behind her rage like exterior. Naruto stopped looking at her and continued to stare in the cage.

"Brat, your question makes know sense." was all she said.

"Then…I guess there is no point in my being here." he said. The Kyuubi's eyes widened in exploding preportions in shear surprise as his body blurred out of existence as he woke up.

"How…is he waking already?" was all she could say.

He slowly opened his eyes and was greeted with the sight of a red-eyed woman. He brought his hand to his face and found that his sunglasses were securely in place.

"Well now this is a surprise. You should have been out for a couple of weeks with all the chakra you used." she said.

"Kurenai-san…how long was I out?" he asked.

"Only a day." was her response. Naruto's eyes widened in surprise. "A lot has happened in that very short amount of time. Kakashi is currently training your other teammates in the tree climbing exercise, since you know water walking it would only be a waste for you though."

"Was…was anybody worried?" he asked. He didn't know why her answer would mean so much; maybe it was the conformation that he had formed at least some sort of bound with these people. However he never expected what came next.

"OF COARSE THEY WERE!" she shouted surprising him. "Hinata stayed by your bedside all night, Sakura was in tears saying something about being sorry, Kiba and Shino visited almost every hour, and Sasuke would have come if…if kakashi didn't take him for privet instruction."

Naruto looked at her thoughtfully for a moment. "Kakashi was worried too." lied Kurenai. She didn't know why she had said it but she didn't want Naruto to know Kakashi hated him.

"Kurenai-san…its okay…I know how he feels." said Naruto quietly. Kurenai looked shocked for a moment then gave a small nod.

"My team is currently guarding Tazuna right now; Zabuza won't be back for a while since you broke his sword." she said. "We estimate it will probably take him around a week or so to fix it."

"Oh I see…anything else interesting happen?"

"Well Kiba snuck some 'adult' pictures of some kounichi into Sakura's backpack." said Kurenai. "I don't know why he did it but Sakura thought Kakashi did it and called him a pervert."

Naruto began laughing rather hardly at hearing that. "He-he is trying to hook up Sakura and Hinata because Hinata has a crush on Sakura." said Naruto doing all he could to hold in the remaining chuckles.

Kurenai raised an eyebrow. "What on earth would give him an idea like that?" she asked.

"He said he saw her blushing like a mad women while looking a Sakura at a mission briefing." said Naruto.

Kurenai brought her hand up to her face and began shaking her head in minor annoyance. "That idiot." Was all she thought. Kurenai had seen the blush to, however unlike both of her young male charges, she had the correct standpoint and thus saw her staring at Naruto. Add that to the fact that she could tell that Hinata had a crush on him, and it proved that Kiba was sorely mistaken with his assessment of the situation.

Sakura was becoming extremely paranoid with Kiba now. First she had found rather inappropriate pictures in her backpack that she had first thought Kakashi put there. However on closer inspection she found white dog hair among them. Next had been when he pushed Hinata on top of her and ran away saying it was an accident.

After that it had been when he told her that they were all going out for a picnic and when she showed up it was only she and Hinata. That one wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the fact that the picnic basket was filled with 'things not meant for children' instead of food. Then there were various other thing where he had forced her to sit with Hinata during the few meals they had had.

They had been at Tazuna's house for about four days now; Naruto had woken up two days ago. And in that short time she came to the conclusion of two things. One: Kiba was a pervert, and two: he wanted something to happen between her and Hinata.

Kurenai walked up to her with Hinata in tow and motioned for her to follow. They came near the river before the Jounin would speak. "Now I'm sure you've noticed the rather odd behavior of Kiba as of late." She stated. Both the girls nodded. "Well now let me explain a few things."

Kiba sat on a tree stump in the woods trying to think of new ways to get Sakura with Hinata. He was brought out of his planning as sed girls walked out of the foliage in front of him. His heart was sent racing at what he saw.

Sakura was standing directly behind Hinata with arms folded around the Hyuuga girl. One arm went over her shoulder and rested on Hinata's chest giving the affect that she was almost holding the other girls breast. Her other arm was wrapped around her stomach and her chin was on Hinata's shoulder with there cheeks touching eachother in an all to comfortable way.

Kiba was blushing insanely and he was doing all he could to keep the blood from coming out of his nose.

"Kiba-kun." said Hinata sweetly letting herself go deeper in Sakura's embrace. "We just wanted to thank you."

"Yes." said Sakura looking at Hinata with a hint of lust in her eyes. "we know that it was because of you that we were able to…experiment." she said the last word in a husky voice.

Kiba was drooling thanking whatever god there was out there. The blush went threw his entire face which put most tomatoes to shame.

"Yes it really is because of him isn't it honey." said Hinata looking at Sakura.

"That's right sweetie if it wasn't for him I never would have learned…" There faces began to draw closer together. Kiba's mouth dropped wide open, and before he knew it he was sent flying back unconscious as a massive nosebleed marked his trail.

He awoke several hours later naked tied to a tree. The word pervert was on his head in ink. A note was hanging on a string in front of him and he read.

Dearest Kiba,

Being a pervert is very unhealthy, and I assure you that there is in fact nothing going on between Sakura and me.

That's right dog boy so don't try any of your little schemes because if you do we'll neuter YOU.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Sakura & Hinata

Authors note: Well there you go. I love YURI, for the simple fact that I am a guy. However I will tell you now there will be no actual Yuri in my stories only jokes like that. I'm doing this since I refuse to write Yaoi it wouldn't be fair if I wrote Yuri. Then again who cares, but I won't have any real Yuri in this story, perhaps in a future story but I'm letting you know the most you are currently going to see is jokes like this.

I personally find them funny. Any who sorry it took so long, don't know when next chapter will be.