A/N: So let's get under way, I've been itching for my go now to this chapter. Four more left and then back to digital adventure... Man, people really want me to go on with it. But, I have my priorities, so I must do as I must as planned. This one should be an easy one for me, since it's more my own chapter than a follow of the anime. Goodie!
Chapter 24
'Cool...' Naruto flicked through the pages as he looked at his magazine. Unaware of the being watching from the door.
"What's happening this week? Anything interesting?" Naruto glanced up to Genpaku who was leaned by the door as Naruto looked over wondering why he was asking. The older teen shrugged knowing the unasked question as he walked in. "Been busy lately, so I haven't read anything new in the manga section. So, what you reading?" Naruto looked back down.
"Fairy tail." Genpaku raised an eyebrow and Naruto eyed his brother as he waved the magazine, "You know... It's the one made by the same person who did Rave master." Genpaku looked on surprised, when did that man...
"Give me it for a second..." Naruto let the paper go, knowing that he wouldn't be able to keep it if he tried to fight back. Having had several times where he's lost this sort of confrontation. "Heh," Naruto watched his brother grin as he paced about the room, slowly flicking the pages. "I can't believe I didn't know he'd started a new one..." Throwing the paper back to Naruto, Genpaku eyed him for a second as he turned to leave. "As your learning magic, Fairy tail looks like a good aid..." Naruto nods.
"True... But until I've mastered the 5 element weapons, I can't freely use elements on their own... I can only use it in conjunction with my katana... Which is annoying as I can't be of full aid to Sakura-chan..." Genpaku stopped at the door.
"Just because you can't use something properly, doesn't mean anything Naruto. You're both getting stronger with every clow card... I was never as strong as you guys when I was that young. I would never have survived an encounter with that ninja at your age... You guys are gifted with something that will have you surpass me in the following years. So don't worry, if I'm not worried about you, you guys shouldn't be worrying about hindering the other. You guys will go the distance, beyond anything I will ever reach..." With that he left the room, leaving Naruto to think.
'Maybe...'
X X
A new week begins for Naruto and school was way beyond his focus point. Fairy tail had really made him think. Once he got to that skill level... Could he do the same skills he'd been reading? This had made him curious, what could he do once he could use all 7 elements of the seal? Kyuubi sensei had been very quiet about it, but he guessed he wasn't going to be told what he could really do, till it was time. The earth palms were but a taster maybe?
"You okay Naruto-kun?" Naruto had been sitting under a tree all lunch and he looked up to see Sakura looking down worried. "You've been very quiet all day..." She sat down beside him with her back to the tree. "Something troubling you?" Sakura glanced over slightly as Naruto shook his head. He smiled back at her.
"Nothing to worry about this time. Just me being curious of my own skills that's all." Naruto looked over to see her confused face and he looked forward. "Just wondered when the time came, what I could be capable of once I've mastered my elements," Naruto looked up to the sky from there as he continued. "What I could truly do if I tried... Like doing moves from the guys in my stories I read... To be able to breathe fire like Natsu or use a kamehameha like Son Goku... That would be awesome." Sakura smiled as she chuckled. "What?" Naruto asked curiously as she looked down.
"You're so free with your ability to think of things... I'm limited to the clow cards. It shows who the better of the two of us is." Naruto nods.
"Well of course you are Sakura-chan," Sakura glanced up at that. "True, my powers are free to control better. But you've got the powerful clow cards. I'm never going to be as strong as you are..." Sakura smiled slightly as she rested her back against the tree. Her head landing onto his shoulder as she did without thought. Naruto smiled, he to like Sakura, just sat lost in each other's presence. "Sakura, you've sensed the clow card right?" Sakura sighed at that.
"No..." Naruto frowned as Sakura lay there still. "When did you sense it?" Naruto glanced down a bit, guess saying Sakura was better than to mention a clow card she hadn't sensed... What an idiot...
"Just now..." Naruto stated, thought he had sensed it this morning on route to school. "My mind wondered when I was talking and I sensed it then."
"You don't have to lie, Naruto-kun..." Naruto frowned more so, was he that easy to read? "It's okay... I'll get better..." Naruto rested his head down beside hers, his hand landing on hers where they held their support.
"We both will..." Naruto muttered as both sat there with small smiles.
It wasn't till a small group of giggles that both realised where they were. "Aw..." Both pairs of eyes snapped open as they looked to Sakura's friends from Chiharu's little noise. "You guys look happy together..."
"Is there something your not telling us Sakura-chan?" Naoko asked curiously looking to the girl, then to her left. "Naruto-kun?"
Both were up pretty quickly, both red faced from the fact they had been caught like so. "N-no!" Both called out. The girls chuckled as Rika poked her finger out and waved it from Sakura to Naruto.
"Then are you both red in the face? Did we catch you out, maybe?" Both shook their heads.
"W-we've been friends for so long Rika-chan..." Sakura spoke up quickly, she didn't want to keep her friends outside of this, they should know. But explaining it was something she didn't want to start with as finding a full proof setting was not available yet.
"We've been over each other's places to also," Naruto spoke up. "We're just very close, there's nothing going on you guys..." Naruto stated as he tried to think of something to get round this.
"I think influence of Naruto's older sibling with his girlfirend who lives with them," Tomoyo spoke up from the back. "Might be why they act as they do..." Naruto and Sakura sighed as all three girls looked to Tomoyo.
'Thanks Tomoyo-chan...'
"But that doesn't mean they won't get together..." Tomoyo stated as she hushed down to speak only to the three. "Just give them time, they'll get there..." There was a small nod as Naruto and Sakura glanced to each other confused, what has she just said? Tomoyo looked on with a smile; it was amusing slightly to watch her two best friends.
"Anyway..." Naruto started as he walked off slightly. "I'm going to head to class... Later Sakura-chan! Everyone..." With that he walked off as Sakura turned her back to everyone, they couldn't see the frown. She was enjoying that closure...
X X
Having had a slightly disinteresting day at school, the evening air was a nice thing for Naruto as he walked quietly behind Sakura and her friends to the book store. He was busy trying to locate the location of the clow card and what sort of aura it gave off as they walked. But from the playful aura he could pick up. He doubted there was any danger, so it was okay to relax for now.
He was so focused he didn't see someone come out the shop door as he followed behind the group. Falling back from whatever force knocked him down, Naruto grumbled and apologised before looking up. "O," Genpaku stood over looking his little brother. "Onii-san!" Quickly standing as he glanced to the group going in, Naruto looked to his brother. "What you doing?" Genpaku pulled out a volume of manga.
"Thought I'd get myself something to read... Oh, and I picked up something interesting, you know how I like to write every now and then..." Naruto nods. "Picked up something cool, it's a bit different for my style, but I'm going to mix it up." With that said, he walked passed Naruto. "I'll let you read it after I finish. You might get a kick out of it. I'm going to be putting in a strong enemy... Later!" Naruto watched his brother leave.
Why... Why did the air feel so uneasy at that very moment?
Naruto walked in and glanced along the books, not really paying any attention, he didn't like book without pictures... It helped more when you can see the characters... He felt a hand on his shoulder and glanced over to Sakura. "I sensed it... The clow card." Naruto nods as he looked back to the shelves.
"What do you want to do?" Sakura glanced down the row then back to Naruto.
"Be best to go for it tonight, we can't do anything with so many people nearby." Naruto nods in agreement.
"Agreed, plus the card isn't very dangerous from what I sensed. So we should be good for tonight, add another to our list of clow cards." Sakura nods with a smile as both went back to what they were doing.
X X
But Naruto was excited, because it was his turn for the clothing choice and it as a good one also as he and Sakura stood atop the building that Tomoyo had her camera up on. He'd even gone so far as to get a setting for the event. Much to Sakura's embarrassment, but Naruto didn't care, it fitted the characters.
"When you're ready Naruto-kun..." Tomoyo called out as Shizune stood beside her.
"Hehe, let get started." Naruto said grinning as Sakura smiled behind nervously.
"N-naruto-kun... Are you sure you want to do this?" Naruto glanced back and gave a thumbs up.
"Of course, this is all part of the role... Now let's show what we can do." Sakura continued to smile nervously guess she shouldn't mind about letting Naruto having his fun... But to drag her in... Naruto stepped to the ledge and pointed to the sky. "Clow card! You've kept the spot light long enough!" Sakura sighed slightly before walking up stood beside him. "We are the number ones in this show! Sakura and Naruto!" Naruto hoped Sakura remembered her part as he leaned backwards; he was met with Sakura's back like expected. "The clow card," Both pushed forward and grabbed each other's hand as they did and balanced on the others weight. "Capturing team!" Both released and Sakura gulped, she should be able to do this.
Tomoyo followed with her camera as both jumped forward and flipped as they did and landed in crouch. Both stood side on with their fingers pointing forward to Tomoyo as both calling out together. "The cardcaptors!" Tomoyo clapped at the pair as she lowered her camera.
"That was really good Sakura-chan, Naruto-kun... To think you could pull it off so quickly!" Naruto grinned as he rubbed under his nose.
"Of course we could..." Naruto stated as he pumped his fist. "And awesome work on the outfits!" Tomoyo smiled as Sakura walked over curiously as she had yet to ask as she poked the star on Naruto's right arm.
"How did you get that star printed on your arm?" Sakura asked as Naruto glanced over, Sakura stood in the outfit of Tsubaki from soul eater. Though it didn't look like the manga based one Naruto showed Tomoyo. The upper torso was covered by a black v-shaped collar and the skirt was closed at the sides and open at the front and back and she wore a full black body suit from the waist down.
"Yuki can use some of my stored magic to make material items. I asked for Blackstar's pattern to match up." Naruto stated as he stood in the exact copy to Blackstars uniform. No changes like Sakura's were made to his.
"I didn't like how Tsubaki was portrayed," Tomoyo stated. "So I changed some of it for Sakura-chan's modesty." Naruto nods.
"That's okay, I was hoping you would." Naruto stated as he glanced over to Sakura. 'What would Sakura look like with a pony tail?' Naruto mused as Kero floated down. His outfit... Felt demeaning... Dressed like the sword Excalibur. (If you've seen it, feel sorry for Kero-chan XP)
'Never again...' Kero grumbled to himself. "Now that you've had your fun Naruto..." Kero spoke up. "It's time for this clow card."
"Not so fast!" The group glanced up at that to see Li and Meiling before they jumped down from the building to right of the one Naruto jumped from. "This card," Meiling started. "Is Syaorans, got it!"
"Hold up, we're here first!" Kero retorted and Meiling smiled.
"Oh really? Well Li sensed the clow card at lunch time today, so really, we're the first!" Kero pointed to Sakura.
"Well Sakura sensed it way before that! Right Sakura?" Sakura smiled nervously, if only she did like Naruto...
"Um... I sort of sensed it this afternoon..." Kero grumbled as Meiling laughed at the defeated Kero.
"You know where it is though right?" Kero asked as Meiling asked Li the same thing and both nod and point to Kero's right.
"That way." Both stated as they pointed to the dark. Both teams moved forward together in search. Meiling glanced to Naruto and Sakura curiously.
"So what's with the strange outfits? It's not your sort of style Kinomoto..." Sakura smiled nervously.
"W-well..." Naruto glanced over.
"It's my idea for today's outfit... So I picked a favourite character pair of mine." Meiling glanced to Naruto.
"Oh really, who?" The next answer didn't leave Naruto's or any of his team's mouth. It was someone unexpected.
"It's from Soul Eater Meiling," Li spoke up as he walked. "He's dressed as Blackstar and Kinomoto is dressed closely to Tsubaki." He glanced back and stopped as he noticed the confused stares. "What?"
"Y," Sakura didn't get to finish as Naruto cheered.
"Another one! Yes!" Naruto called running over excited. "You read Soul eater! Why didn't you say you liked manga!" Shizune and Sakura sighed slightly as they realised they'd lost Naruto.
"You never asked," Li responded. "But I also like bleach, Shaman King, Dragon ball series and a few others." Naruto hopped up and down excited. To think their rival for the clow cards was an anime/manga fan.
There was a growl and Naruto stopped and blinked as the group looked to him. He waved his hands and shook his head. "That wasn't my stomach." Another growl echoed and Naruto turned to the dark. Glancing to Sakura, both summoned their weapons out. Li followed suit as Shizune stood close to Tomoyo encase something happens. Slowly something came into view as two reflecting orbs shone at them. "Here it comes..." Naruto commented as the three waited. But slowly they looked on stunned as a cat walked up.
But this can't wasn't any normal cat as Meiling decided to yell out. "What do you people feed your cats?" For this cat was at least three time their height or more so. The cat walked passed then turned to them, it made a low growl.
"Naruto-kun..." Sakura muttered. Naruto nods, talk about a repeat... "What should we do?" Naruto glanced over.
"We can't harm it... But this must be the work of a clow card." Shizune glanced over.
"So then?" Naruto nods.
"Run!" With that the four turned on their heel and quickly followed by Li and Meiling. The cat eyed all 6 of them before playing with them and giving chase. "This is no time to be cat food!" Naruto stated. "Let's find the cause."
"It's got to be Big." Kero called.
"Big?" Sakura asked as they ran. Kero nods.
"It's Littles twin card. The reverse effect, so let's hurry and find it..." Shizune glanced back. As she did, she caught an uneven floor tile and tripped. Naruto and Sakura turned to her.
"You go on!" Naruto called as he turned to help. "You get the card." Li stopped also and looked to Shizune.
"Syoaran! Come on!" Li glanced to Meiling, but, he quickly turn to help. "Syoaran! Leave her, come on!" Meiling called before growling at his lack to go after the card and go help Shizune. Even if she was a friend, they had a card to get.
"You okay?" Naruto asked getting beside Shizune.
"Clutz huh? I've twisted my ankle, so talk about bad timing." Shizune stated as the cat got close. Naruto moved round and held his blade up to hopefully scare the cat off. He was surprised to see Li there.
"Li?" Li glanced over slightly.
"Repaying a debt..." Naruto raised a curious eyebrow as the cat walked up slowly. Both stepped back slightly, not wanting to hurt the cat. The large white feline eyed both as both looked at their reflections in the eyes.
But the cat didn't attack, as it more licked Li as its first target, said male was stunned by the action he didn't have time to act as the cat moved the paw to get him. "Look out!" Li felt a hand push him back and he hit the ground hard.
"Shizune-nee-chan!" Li sat up as he looked to see the girl trapped under paw. "You idiot, you trying to hurt yourself more?" Naruto stated as his blade glowed and flicked into a makeshift sheath on his back as he tried to lift the paw. "Oi fur ball! Get your mitts off her!" Naruto growled before looking to Li. "Oi! Help me here! You know what cats do if they stretch right?" Li took a moment to register.
If did, the full weight could come down on that one point and the claws also. He's seen a few cats do it during his time. So it was clear that Shizune could get hurt allot if so. Li and Meiling were quick to help as all three tugged on the paw. "Whoa... It's heavier than expected..." Li muttered.
"Hurry up Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled as Meiling grumbled.
"You should have gone Syoaran, you could be more help to Shizune if you got to the clow card first..." Meiling called as the cat's paw seemed to get heavier, not wanting its toy to be taken.
"This... thing..." Shizune gasped. "It's crushing my ribs!" Naruto glanced down.
"Can't you do something Shizune!" Naruto called Shizune growled.
"You try concentrating your chakra when you have this puss bag resting its weight on you! Then you ask me that again Uzumaki!" Shizune roared and Naruto shut up.
Luckily, aid was at hand as the cat's weight began to fade as the cats body glowed and its size was reduced, showing the fact that Sakura had sealed Big. Naruto cheered as Shizune sighed with relief. Meiling picked the cat up and gave it a telling off for its interference. "You need some help?" Shizune glanced to Li, then to his hand.
"Thanks..." Meiling glanced over as Li pulled the ninja medic up. The cat hissed as she pinched unaware and it lashed out. With a startled yell, Meiling released the cat as it ran off. "Meiling, let's see..." Meiling whimpered as she showed the strong cut to Shizune. "Stay still..." Shizune formed seals and her hands glowed green. Putting one below and one above the wounded area, the cuts began to heal as Meiling looked on amazed and more relaxed, it felt like some kind of healing gel.
"You should be more careful with the cat's Meiing..." Li stated as the wounds faded. Shizune finished there and then moved onto herself. Working on the centre of the chest out, this got Li's attention, was she hurt? "You okay Shizune?" Meiling frowned slightly at Li's attention to the medic.
"I'm just winded, but I need to check. I can't take a chance it didn't push my rib into the lung." Naruto looked on worried.
"You shouldn't have healed Meiling first; you should make sure your okay." Shizune shook her head as she looked to Naruto.
"As a medic, everyone is more important. If I'm okay, I can deal with myself last..." Shizune stated as she exhaled slightly as she finished the glow. "I was worried for a bit, but, seems that pressure from the cat wasn't as bad as I thought..." Her gaze drifted up and the others followed to see Sakura land with Tomoyo and Kero. "So... Get your card?" Sakura nods as she held it up.
"Yep, this is the Big card..." Naruto chuckled as he walked up.
"That's great! That's another to the list!" Li huffed slightly, he only had loop and shot... Would he ever get more clow cards at his rate?
"Syoaran will get the next one for sure! Just you wait!" Meiling called out from the back. Shizune glanced about.
"Let's start the walk back... It's been a long night and we could all do with sleep." Each nod in agreement and all walk off together.
But, none were ready for what was about to come...
X X
"Still reading?" Sakura asked Genpaku as he sat at his desk. The Uzumaki gave a short nod as he glanced back.
"Hai, I'm getting a feel of the story before I go on... I'm going to take a shot at this... Sorry for skipping out on a quiet night to ourselves." Sakura shook her head.
"That's okay, I had homework anyway, and there are some good shows on tonight... Don't be late to bed okay... We've got a lot tomorrow for school." Genpaku nods as he flipped the page to the blank one.
"Hai... Night..." As the door shut, Genpaku sat back. "Not bad... Now," Reaching for the pen, he pondered a moment. A smirk formed as he leaned over the book. "Time to bring this story to another level..." With that he began from the end of the scene. 'With the hero's rested from their grand battle, they were unprepared for what was to come... For the underworld was not going to let them rest, as a new kind of foe appeared...'
Meanwhile, the young group were walking through the park. Meiling still wouldn't let this go for sure. "If it hadn't been for that cat, we would be holding Big right now! You tripped on purpose Shizune!" The older girl rubbed her forehead as she stopped.
"Meiling... I'm warning you, I'm tired and I can break a boulder with one punch, so if continue to irritate me... So help you..." Sakura quickly stepped in.
"C-come on Meiling-chan. Everyone trips up now and then..." Meiling huffed as she turned her back to them.
"If Syoaran didn't stop to help and left your boyfriend to deal with it... I wouldn't be complaining! Why did you even help Syoaran?" Li sighed as he crossed his arms.
"I was had a debt to repay with Shizune-san... That was the reason I turned back to help." Meiling moved up close as Li stepped back. "What?"
"What debt? What did she do for you that you had to repay?" Li sighed as he reached into his pocket and showed Shot.
"Shizune gave me this card; she found it and offered it to me..." Naruto and Sakura looked to Shizune.
"Nani?" Shizune gazed at the pair with a tired look, she really didn't need this right now.
"Quiet, I did it because Li was being left out... You guys have so many cards already... It was only fair." Naruto and Sakura glanced to each other, guess they shouldn't complain.
But before anyone else could mutter another word, there was a howl, a blood chilling howl. Naruto and Sakura picked it up, but not anyone else. Slowly they glanced about, and Tomoyo was the next to notice their worried gazes. "Sakura-chan... Naruto-kun..." Everyone glanced across. "What's wrong?"
"You didn't hear that?" Narut asked as glanced about.
"What?" Meiling asked annoyed. Sakura spoke next as she looked about.
"That howl..." There was another and both looked about quicker. Now Li was slightly edgy, this wasn't normal, they were wigging out.
"What howl? Why are you so nervous...?" Kero floated over curiously.
"Sakura?" Sakura glanced up.
"You don't feel that?" Kero shook his head. There was one more howl and both Naruto and Sakura located where it was coming from. A cold sweat formed as both looked on down the path behind everyone. "That feeling..."
"What feeling?" Shizune asked the pair.
"Blood lust... This, this dark aura... It's... It can't be right." Naruto stated as he put his hand over the pendent, it began to glow and Yuki landed on his shoulder.
"What aura?" Meiling asked them as each looked down the path. "What you guys feeling?" Li's eyes widen, he could feel something now as did Kero.
"It's a clow card..." Kero muttered. But he couldn't sense something wrong, why was Sakura so panicked with Naruto. "What's wrong?"
"Normally," Sakura started. "The clow cards are more playful or positive in nature no matter to what they're doing... But..." Naruto nods as he gulped.
"This feeling, it's not good intentions... I can feel such a dark aura to this one... It's hunting, and it's searching blood." Kero crossed his arms.
"There shouldn't be clow cards out there like that..." The bushes rustled and thuds began to echo out. Meiling slowly moved closer to Li as Shizune moved a protective arm to Tomoyo as Naruto and Sakura tensed.
"Here it comes..." Naruto muttered to everyone as the pavement shattered and everyone's eyes widened as the dark hunchback figure with bulky body parts growled. The beast stepped out into the light and all but Naruto and Sakura blinked as they looked at the spirals in the masks eyes.
"What the... H-hollow?" Li asked confused... "What's a thing like that doing here? And what's with the eyes?" Kero pondered for a moment.
"I've got it! Create card!" Kero stated, "This clow card allows whatever the user writes to become reality... There's no way this card can be," The hollow creature let out a roar, this time the full effect struck them, Kero himself was stunned, this couldn't be right, not even cards like Thunder and watery were this bad... But this thing...
"Run..." Yuki muttered to Naruto. But not one moved. The beast crouched. "Run now..." Naruto glanced to Sakura, her eyes had widened having been hit like that... The beast roared.
"Let's get out of here!" Naruto roared as he grabbed Sakura. Li grabbed Meiling as Shizune grabbed onto Tomoyo. All sprinting off as the beast gave chase.
"How can a hollow be here? They're only in books!" Shizune yelled.
"Create made it... So who ever wrote it must have a powerful imagination to give off this effect." Kero called out and Yuki nods.
"I'll agree to that... Plus, your 'hollow' were demons back in the time of the 9 great clans... But were wiped out in the final battle. If we can get an opening, we can take it down. It's only a small fry... Naruto." Naruto nods.
"Li," Li glanced back. "Take Sakura and get somewhere!" Naruto stated as he released Sakura and turned round. "Yuki!" There was a flash of brown light and Naruto held his sword up as the beast attacked with its mouth open. The shield took the force as Naruto crouched under the pressure.
"Naruto-kun!" Sakura called, but Li and Shizune had hold.
"Leave him; we've got to get somewhere safe." Sakura yelled out in protest but she couldn't get out the medics grip and Li's.
But it wasn't enough as Naruto couldn't break free and attack as it held the blade. But his eyes widened as he saw a bright glow from behind. 'No...'
"Look out!" Sakura called as she saw a red glow. All moved to the open field as a red beam went over their spot. It tore the ground up and lights the area up in a fiery red glow. Naruto's blade landed in the ground near them smoking. "Naruto!" Sakura called out in panic. There was a blur and Sakura was struck down as Naruto slammed into her. Both bounced away from the group and slid to Naruto's Katana.
"Naruto!" Shizune called out in panic.
"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo called in unison.
"Sakura!" Kero called out but the group stopped from getting to them, as something crashed in the ground behind Naruto and Sakura. A larger being was standing there, standing in an outfit all familiar to Li.
"That's an... A...arrancar..." The group beside him glanced over.
"A what?" As Li muttered his explanation, Naruto and Sakura slowly got to their feet.
"This guy... It's not going to be easy..." Naruto took a slow breath as he held his right hand out and the blade tugged out the ground and into his grip. Sakura glanced over worried, Naruto had a cut forehead.
"You're bleeding Naruto-kun..." Naruto rubbed his head.
"Scratch is all Sakura-chan... Be careful..." The bulky body dug into the ground as it brought its head back. "Oh no... Sakura..." Sakura could feel the panic in Naruto and acted.
"Release!" A red light formed.
"It's a cero!" Naruto yelled out as Sakura threw out her card as it fired.
"Shield!" Instantly all 7 were encased in the shield barrier as it was hit. Naruto and Sakura stood closest to the blast and for a moment they thought it would pass. But the second it cracked. "N," Sakura saw red from then on.
"Sakura!" Sakura wasn't sure whose yell that was as everything went by so quickly. And the red glow was gone instantly. But the smoke clouded everyone but Sakura's vision to Naruto. "T-to think a replica would hurt so much..." Sakura's eyes widened as she saw the results of the damage.
Even with the earth shield Naruto had used. It hadn't been enought. "Naruto..." Naruto grinned slightly as his form shook, he couldn't hold himself up as Sakura looked from the blood on Naruto's face, to the blood dripping from where his left arm had been, the body landed onto the ground and Sakura quickly acted. "Naruto-kun!" Sakura called as she held him. "Please, hang on..." Naruto smiled as Sakura looked on in panic and horror.
"Don't worry; I can recover from this..." Sakura blinked surprised as Yuki appeared by Naruto and a glowing seal formed. "Sorry you had to see this..." Naruto stated with a low grunt as he his eyes turned white with slit pupils. "I had to use it before to heal the wounds from the ninja..." Slowly Naruto began to push himself up. Sakura put a hand over her mouth in horror as she watched the earth take shape and form an arm, the bone, then muscle and then the skin. It all reformed as Naruto slowly sat up. He flexed his arm as he glanced to Sakura. "At a cost for my original state, I can heal my body by using the earth itself. It works like a normal body and just like a normal body will grow with me in age... But it means I lose the ability to use chakra, I know Sakura and Obaa-chan noticed. They would have felt nothing there... Because it's nothing but dirt in disguise..." Sakura put a hand on his arm.
"How much..." Sakura muttered as Naruto glance away.
"This is the first full reform... Like I said, the last time was back then with the ninja..." Sakura's eyes widened, she remembered all the points Naruto was struck. Naruto glanced up and his eyes widen as they turned blue and he grabbed Sakura and jumped. The ground exploded as Naruto flipped out of attack range as the force knocked the dust away and everything became visible.
"Naruto! Sakura you okay?" Kero called out as everyone watched from a distance.
"Sakura-chan... Please, don't say anything to anyone... Promise me..." Naruto muttered as he held her close. Sakura glanced over worried, but nodded.
"Hai... I promise..." Naruto slowly stood and pulled Sakura to her feet. She gripped her staff as she looked on to the large being. "That's one of your story villains right? How do we win?" Naruto turned slowly as his sword came to his grasp.
"Sadly, I have yet to really know who I'm facing... But I don't recognise the arrancar, so it must be Oc..." Sakura glanced to Naruto.
"Then I'll fight, you've done enough." Sakura stated walking forward. Naruto didn't anything as Sakura prepared herself.
'Kyuubi... Is it safe?' Naruto asked worried.
'Yes... With Yuki you can use this technique, if you both trust one another with no hesitation.' Naruto glanced up.
"Sakura-chan..." Sakura glanced back. "I think we can win, but..." Naruto muttered as he held his gaze. "You need one hundred percent faith in me..." Sakura stared for a moment before nodding.
"Okay..." Naruto smiled as he closed his eyes.
"Arigato... Yuki..." Yuki nods and landed on Sakura's shoulder.
"Yuki-chan?" Sakura asked confused as the fox glanced up.
"This move can only be used by fox clan's folk, since Naruto uses the seal of the fox and you have fox chakra, I can act as a bridge." Sakura gasped, as below Naruto and Sakura two element seals formed. Sakura stood over fire and Naruto over earth.
Within the seal, Kyuubi held out his hands. "Focus you two, let your energies bounce off one another and combined the power Yuki holds... Let your minds go, and become one."
'Naruto-kun...' Sakura mused.
'Sakura-chan...' Sakura's eyes widen and Naruto chuckled, 'Let's teach this guy a lesson... You ready...' Sakura smiled as she calmed.
'This feeling... It's like Naruto's presence is right within my soul...' The area round them began to ripple as their energies exploded. Two domes of power appeared round them. Yuki faded into Sakura as both closed their eyes.
The two seals in Kyuubi's realm formed and began to spark and form a new seal to combine the two. "When you're ready..."
'We're...' Sakura mused with amusement as she could feel what Naruto wanted to do, very well.
'Ready...' Naruto finished as everyone watched on.
"What's going on?" Meiling questioned. "They looked beaten, then..." Li growled, what was going to happen?
"Let's go!" Both Naruto and Sakura called out together. Both opened their eyes, Sakura's eyes were orange with a slit pupil and Naruto was red with the same, beast like style. "Soul resonance!" The pair called out.
"Soul what?" Shizune asked confused.
"From soul eater?" Li growled confused. "What on earth?"
The beast roared and a shockwave rippled out but Naruto and Sakura didn't move this time while everyone flinched under the roar. Naruto held out his sword and it glowed instantly and turned into red light as it took form into a staff as Naruto began to spin it in his grasp, as he did, the area round him began to release ripples of dust and dirt from the speed. The large being rushed forward, its arms and legs causing the ground to explode as it moved on Sakura's spot. Its right arm pulled back and ready to deal a crushing blow.
"Sakura!"
But within the seal the two smaller ones glowed as a seal for fire appeared on Naruto's at the top. While on Sakura's two cards appeared. Kyuubi was amazed, even the best of the fox clan, couldn't even reach a bond this powerful... It was... "Amazing..."
The beast's fist connected with Sakura's sword card as it appeared round the seal and the ground behind Sakura's exploded as power appeared on the next point of the seal. The orange eyes flickered up as fight appeared and Sakura's knee connected with the large beings chin and with a drop kick, the beast bounced against the ground as it exploded.
But it recovered quickly as Sakura landed and the beast turned with a roar. Dash appeared as Sakura vanished in a blur as it swung and the sword rested on the right bicep of the beast and in one swing, the arm was separated and sent flying. It roared out and behind it, Naruto appeared spinning his staff, well, more like spear, it form like a trident at the top and a smaller version at the base. Li's eyes recognised it instantly. 'Burning lance... What?'
The spear rested onto the beasts left arm, and it cut through like butter as an arch of fire appeared and the arm burned up. The beast collapsed as Naruto landed as the tip of the spear touched the ground and Sakura stepped beside him, both pairs of eyes locked with the roaring, struggling form. But both were unaware of the focus on them from Tomoyo's camera. Said girls eyes widened as she lowered he camera slightly. Had she seen their eyes correctly?
Kyuubi lowered his arms slightly, it was over. 'They're magical auras are moulding well together... But they're still young, but this just shows how far they'll come in the future for them... Where they're powers will reach and surpass... Guess I can cancel the technique now...'
But before he could the beast glowed and its form grew smaller. Its form more nimble as both watched on as a new foe took its place. It summoned a blade out its old cut off arm and spiral eyes locked with the pair as it crouched and dashed forward. Naruto and Sakura rushed forward also as it did.
"This can't be right... This can't be..." Kero muttered, he'd never predicted a clow card could become this powerful... Simply by one's own imagination.
Both Naruto and Sakura skidded back into sight having moved to fast for everyone's eyes. The beast was on Naruto and his spear glowed as the beast swung down as he brought it up to block with his right. But it stopped above the spear, and slowly the shield appeared as an earth seal formed on Naruto's seal. The blade flickered and slashed across the beast's chest and it stumbled back.
That was all they needed as Naruto and Sakura were on it, their blades at its neck on both side and both passed as the head came off. It wasn't pleasant for everyone watching. But as both landed and stared on forward as the body stumbled, but didn't fall. The head glowed and reattached and the beast roared to the heavens.
'It's too strong... They can't beat this thing, and this rate, someone's bound to turn up...' Shizune mused as she wondered when people would be drawn to the battle? They couldn't keep this up for much longer.
Sakura's feet turned and she rushed forward, she'd finish this as her form took a murky orange glow.
This was a bad sign...
Within the seal, red and orange chakra shot out unnoticed till it was too late and mixed with the seal. Kyuubi's eyes widened. 'No...' He snapped his hands together. 'I must cancel the connection; the chakras are trying to merge!' The seal faded and the chakra's lost connection as Kyuubi sealed the red chakra away.
But in doing so, Sakura's aura vanished and the sword turned back into the staff as her eyes turned green. She blinked surprised as the beast swung... The force that impacted Sakura's gut was too much as it sent her flying.
"Sakura!" Shizune and Tomoyo yelled as Naruto flickered from sight and behind Sakura as he caught her. He glanced back at the trees; this was going to hurt...
Trees were uprooted as Naruto and Sakura collided and flew through, Shizune, Tomoyo and Meiling sprinted off to help as Kero went ahead, Li looked to the figure walking after the two. He can't match what was there, so he could only hope to hold out. Li summoned his sword and withdrew his element attack seal. "Raitei," The blade pressed against the paper seal as a yellow glow formed above the clow card creature. "Shourai!" The bolt came down and shocked the form, but it didn't do anything but make it stop. And have its gaze turned to Li itself. Li gulped, he had to be careful.
The figure was on Li in an instant, its hand pressed against Li's face and with a shove, sent him flying. The water broke apart as he flew across and Meiling stopped with the others and looked on. "Syoaran!" Shizune turned to the tree's then Li.
'This is bad...' Shizune turned to Tomoyo. "Take Meiling and get to Naruto and Sakura, I doubt Naruto would let this end here, I'm going to help Li... I can still fight even with my limited combat skills." Tomoyo nods slowly as she pulled Meiling along.
"We can't just leave them to fight; even Kinomoto and Uzumaki couldn't handle that thing." Tomoyo glanced back to Meiling.
"I know, but if we need to check on those two first, Shizune is trained for something like this... I hope..." She muttered at the end to herself as she ran. Meiling glanced back before hurrying with Tomoyo to catch up with Kero.
Li gasped as he lay on his back, this is what it was like to fight it? What kind of training did Kinomoto and Naruto do? The large beast stood over him as Li glanced up. 'Damn,' His eyes widened slightly as a figure appeared in the moon light with their fist cocked back. 'What!' With a swing the fist connected and sent the clow card made creature flying over head by the behind attack. Li watched it land as Shizune landed beyond his form. Her form ready for combat.
"Get ready Li... That punch was everything in one; we've got to keep our ground till back up arrives..." Li grunted as he slowly got to his feet, his arm was bruise from the landing as Shizune glanced over slightly. "You okay?" Li nods slowly.
"Yeah... Let's go..." With that both faced down their foe.
'Hurry you guys...'
Over in the forest, Kero was following the destruction. "Sakura! Naruto!" As Kero flew over the next set of tree's he could see a red glow. "I found them!" Kero called out to Tomoyo and Meiling. As both climbed over the tree's they watched as the logs where blown away as a shield the looked like nine tails uncurled. Naruto was crouched there was Sakura held in his grasp.
'Kyuubi... What happened?' Naruto growled as he wanted an answer to what had become of the battle.
'Gomen Naruto-chan... I didn't expect something and I had to terminate connection before it was too dangerous... I'm sorry Sakura had to be the one to take the hit...' Naruto clenched his palm slightly but didn't grip into Sakura as he clenched his teeth. He thought this would be a safe move... He didn't expect for Sakura...
"Naruto?" Tomoyo muttered as Naruto picked Sakura up and moved from the broken tree's as Tomoyo and Meiling ran over.
"Yuki..." Naruto muttered in a low growl, his hair had become slightly wild as his whiskers expanded under his anger at his choices... "How much mana you still got stored?" The small fox appeared and glanced up.
"At least double you full power..." Naruto clenched his fist.
"Keroberos..." Naruto muttered as the small guardian looked to Naruto. "Is it possible to break the solid form of that creature to make it able to be sealed? Like disorientate the magic?" Kero shrugged.
"After what I saw, anything's possible right now." Naruto closed his eyes.
"Tomoyo-chan... Meiling... Get Sakura safe somewhere with Kero... And take these..." Naruto called as he threw the cards he had to Kero. "I might not need them after this..." Naruto muttered.
"Why?" Meiling asked curiously as Tomoyo looked at Sakura sadly as Kero looked on confused.
"Yuki, you'll overload my spirit with all that mana, don't leave out a drop..." Yuki looked at the young blond stunned.
"Are you mad? This is even more dangerous! You know what will happen? You're body may never be the same again!"
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked worried as the fox turned to the girl.
"Normally if one uses too much mana or forces to much, they get an internal damage to the body, normally the brain. But he's going to over load his mana... His atoms could break apart and never form together and he'll die." Naruto didn't say anything.
"You can't be that insane can you?" Meiling called out.
"You can't do this Naruto... Think of Sakura..." Naruto opened his eyes at that.
"Tell her I'm sorry, that's if I don't come back... Yuki... Let's go, you have no say in this, nor does that fox... It's time to finish this..." Yuki looked down, before turning a bright white.
"Okay... but in doing so, you're stuck with the basic katana..." Naruto nods as Yuki flowed into him.
"This will be enough, and give me some moulding magic; I need something to keep me focused..." Naruto glanced back as his left hand held a glowing white orb. "Sakura... I'll be back..." With that he walked off.
The group watched as in an instant, the energy round Naruto exploded, they could see it, his form was melting under the energy he was giving off.
X X
Li breathed in sharply, his body was too tired now and Shizune wasn't any better, to think that a clow card could be this strong... "Shizune..." Li muttered as the girl dropped to her knees.
"Damn it... This can't be it... God damn it... Naruto! Where the hell are you?" There was a sudden shock wave, this felt unreal and her eyes widen as the beast turned. Naruto stood, his form glowing bright white as he rested the sword on his shoulder. His form seemed like a blur stood there holding his left hand up to his face and in an instant pulled it away, a white mask appeared as red slit eyes focused on the clow card. The creature growled before it rushed Naruto. It swung it's sword that formed out of the air and down on Naruto.
But, it connected with nothing and melted away under the intense magical aura. Naruto moved like a blur and his fist impacted with the monster and it stumbled back, Naruto raised his blade out to his side. Naruto was gone in an instant; he appeared to the left of the monster and white line melted into the beast's body several times as he swung once and vanished again and did it from the other side. He attacked a third time from the front and a fourth from the back.
"Star dust..." Naruto roared as he appeared in a rush from the front again and was gone and past in an instant. "Road!" The beast growled as it turned to Naruto and rushed him, Naruto stood slowly and caught the fist that was cocked to knock him one. Naruto's eyes remained calm and unfocused as the large body cracked and shattered into white particles.
Genpaku's eyes widen as the book glowed and exploded into particles. "What?"
Naruto held his blade out and it turned into the staff, "Return to the guise you were meant to be in... Clow card..." Naruto muttered as the particles shot at the tip. It formed a card and dropped to the floor. And in a sonic boom, the aura on Naruto was gone.
"Naruto..." Li muttered stunned that... Was pretty cool. Naruto's form dropped to his knees as the blade shattered and vanished, his body landed flat on the front over the card.
"Naruto!" Shizune called as she rushed over. "Naruto!" There was no response, no sign of life, "Naruto!"
There was a horn, but that couldn't be right... Looking up, Shizune and Li saw a van driving their way and it skidded to a stop near them. The doors opened and it showed Tomoyo waiting. "Tomoyo? What the hell?" Meiling jumped out quickly as two of Tomoyo's bodyguards followed to Naruto. "What's going on? Why are you even near here?" The woman closest glanced to her as they moved Naruto to the van with her and Li in toe.
"There was a reason why we were picked, being known to the family and of our past. It was only right that we would be Daidoji-sama's body guards." Shizune blinked, so they weren't just normal every day body guards. "Let's go... We'll take them to the Namimaki residence." Shizune nods and hopped in. Sakura lay on a bed beside Naruto as the door shut. Sakura seemed to have a fever forming. Shizune moved over as the van began to move.
"Let me see Sakura please... I'm a trained medical ninja." Getting beside Sakura she got to work as Naruto slept. Li glanced over.
"What about police? They'll be here by now; no way will we get passed them." One woman glanced back from the passenger seat.
"Who do you think you're talking too?" That's when the van glowed round them and in a puff of smoke it was gone. It bounced off the floor seconds later as it skidded to a stop by a small car before it followed behind it as it started off again.
"Thank you for being so fast to help." Tomoyo spoke as she gave a short bow of gratitude and the guard nodded back with a small smile.
"We couldn't stand by forever, that explosion had to be seen too... So let's hope this is a onetime thing." Kero stayed quiet as he lay on the bed, how could he have been so unprepared for something like this... If only he had his powers back, this wouldn't have happened to Sakura.
"Sakura's running a high temperature... But all her vitals are fine... I can't make head or tail of it..." Glancing to the driver Shizune asked for them to hurry and inform Genpaku and Sakura of their return and for aid quickly. She then turned to Naruto, his breathing was shallow, "Naruto... What's happened to you too?" As her hands moved along as she checked Naruto's body, her gaze worried, she could find several missing spots where there was no life force... She reached his left arm and froze nothing... Nothing all the way... 'What... This can't be right?'
It didn't make sense, none at all... The van came to a stop and Genpaku and Sakura came running out, Sakura in robes though having just got out of bed. They opened the door and Sakura's eyes widened as her gaze looked the group over.
"What happened to you lot?"
X X
"How they doing?" Sakura shut the door to Naruto's room as she looked at Ray, Genpaku and Fujitaka. Her gaze drifted to the floor.
"Let's get seated down stairs..." As she walked passed she stopped a second. "You don't have to worry, they're in no danger." With that she walked on, the rest followed to the lounge, Tomoyo, Li and Meiling had gone home while Kero lay on Sakura's pillow upstairs.
"So..." Ray muttered as they sat down. Both jonin ninja had their hands laced together, Genpaku was staring at the floor, his hands resting on his lap. "What can you tell us?" Sakura stood gazing out the window. She glanced down, before turning to face the group.
"It's... Going to be difficult... I'm not sure if my findings are all 100 percent correct..." Genpaku looked up.
"What is it Sakura-chan?" The Haruno girl closed her eyes for a moment, "Well?" Sakura gazed at Genpaku.
"I have a reason to believe that Sakura is a second jinchurriki of the kyuubi..." Ray froze as his eyes widened slowy as Fujitaka slowly looked away to the floor. Genpaku was the only too quickly stand with a look of shock, his mouth open as he tried to form his words.
"N...nani..." Sakura's gaze didn't meet Genpaku's. "Are you fucking kidding me!" Sakura closed her eyes as Genpaku roared out as he looked up. "God damn you... Damn you, you old bastard..." Genpaku growled as Ray looked up.
"Genpaku... Calm down..." The young male clenched his fist.
"Calm down..." Genpaku growled. He turned and walked past the jonin.
"Where you going?" Genpaku stopped, his hand sparked with lightning. "What you going to do?" Genpaku glanced back, his pupils white.
"I'm going somewhere, somewhere far away so I can let my rage out without harming others..." Genpaku looked down for a moment, his voice calmer. "He... He's causing so many people harm for his deed... Don't come looking for me... I'll return when I'm good and ready too..." With that the gate on the wall opened and he walked through. Sakura didn't look at Genpaku as he left. After it closed, Fujitaka stood with his gaze on the gate before looking to the floor.
"Is she..." Sakura looked to Fujitaka slowly. The older male looked calmly, but she could see the worry behind the glasses. "Will she be okay? Is she in any danger?" Sakura shook her head.
"Not that I can tell... I only noticed it more so after what I saw from Tomoyo's camera... And with Sakura's chakra back then... It explained the slight pink; it must have changed after her first use of chakra from blue..." Sakura looked to Ray. "I'm sorry about Genpaku-kun..." Ray held up his hand.
"Don't worry; he's never liked Minato since that day you know that... Till he comes to accept his father's choice, there is no point even seeing to him... He's an adult almost, he needs to start acting like one and not flip out." Sakura looked down, she felt really bad. "He'll be back; he just needs to let his anger out."
"First he loses his father and mother to the nine tails... And had his baby brother become its container..." Sakura looked to Fujitaka. "He can't forgive Minato for taking his life away from him. And not choose him for the sealing... I think it was only a matter of time... He was angry too back then, when Nadeshiko passed on... The event at the lake was the next time he flipped out, and," He pushed his glassed up. "Tonight I think has not helped. It leads back to the fox and then to his father..." Ray nods. 'I fear that he'll do something stupid one day...' As Fujitaka sat down, Ray turned to Sakura.
"Sakura... What are both Naruto and Sakura's current state?" Sakura glanced between the two men.
"Sakura's running a fever... And Naruto's been unresponsive... I..." Ray rested a hand on the girls shoulder.
"Is there anything else?" Sakura nods. "You think you can tell us?" Sakura looked up.
"I can... Just that I don't think I should mention this to Genpaku anymore... And please, don't tell Toya... It might not be good to hear this..." Fujitaka looked on unsure to keep this out.
"I'll think about it..." Sakura nods slowly in gratitude as she took a breath.
"Okay, this is what I know, but please don't throw speculations in till I can find the reasons or they explain." Both men nod and sit down. "Naruto... Every medical examination had never had been a problem, but, since the day with the ninja. There's been something wrong. Naruto, parts of his body aren't..." Sakura glanced aside as she tried to explain. "Normal..." Ray raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean? Not normal?" Sakura pondered a moment before looking back forward.
"To simply put," Sakura stated as she held her arms out. "Naruto's missing parts of his body."
"What?" Fujitaka asked confused. "What do you mean?" Sakura glanced over.
"The holes Naruto had that were covered in blood were healed, remember? There were wounds, but when I scanned over them, there was no life force, no cells, no blood, no life or chakra... Yet, it all functioned normally. But today... It's worse than before... His..." Sakura stopped; she didn't want to say it.
"What?" Ray asked, but Sakura didn't say.
"Please say Sakura," Fujitaka requested. "We need to know Naruto's full condition." Sakura nods slowly.
"Naruto... His whole left arm is gone, like the wounds... There's nothing there, yet the arm is like any normal... But..." Sakura closed her eyes. "I had to see the effect, so I pricked his finger... There was something not normal also..." Sakura hated the thought of what she saw. "His blood... It was black... Like it had dried up after a while, but it was bleeding like normal... I'm, I'm scared for Naruto's safety..." Ray put his hand on her shoulder again, he didn't like seeing this girl like that.
"Sakura, please go on, we need to know if there's more to know about Naruto and Sakura... I know you don't like it when you explain it. But in order for us to make a full decision, we must hear out everything." The girl nods slowly.
"Sakura..." The Haruno started again. "I think Sakura has the short end of the stick with this whole Kyuubi thing." Ray stepped back as Fujitaka looked on. "See... Naruto has never once been sick in his life... At first, we could all have just assumed it was due to the kyuubi." Sakura looked on as both men nod slowly as her gaze moved away. "But, I think it's being passed on... Think about it, before the clow cards, how much more was Sakura off sick?" There was a slight gaze to one another between both men before they looked back to Sakura. "And sometimes she gets a worse cold than most children do... Just look at many of instances..."
"Yeah... I think I'm beginning to see the total effect now." Ray stated. "Sakura's suffers what Naruto would..." Sakura nods again.
"I had wondered what they meant that night... How deep their bond was..." Sakura muttered. "I didn't think anything of it before I went to bed... I wish I had paid more attention at the time. Maybe I could have got Genpaku to talk to Naruto. We should have expected this from the start..." Sakura rubbed her eyes. "All those times when they were younger, we never thought anything of it... And now, it's too late to do anything... What kind of sister am I to those two, if I can't do anything to help them!" Ray looked on sadly as she cried; Sakura had no family and treated those two like her own siblings, and to see them like this.
"Sakura..." Fujitaka spoke as her walked up. Sakura glanced up as the male gave her a hug. "Don't blame yourself, we all didn't notice, you don't have to cry okay..." Sakura rubbed the tears out as the male smiled slightly. "It is me and Ray at fault; we didn't see this coming and should have... Don't feel it was your lack to notice that caused this... You are not to blame." Sakura looked on sadly as he stepped back. "Go rest, you're tired, me and Ray have something's to talk about." With a nod, she walks passed and headed up the stairs. Once sure she was gone, both sat down.
They didn't say a word, only the ticking of the small clock echoed out in their silence. Both men going over what had happened and heard.
"What do we do Fujitaka?" Ray muttered as he held his gaze on the ceiling. The male near him sighed as he kept his focus on the ceiling also.
"What can we do Ray? My little girl contains part of the kyuubi in her... This must have happened due to her age, while she was so close to Naruto, she must have absorbed it into her system without any trouble. I should have thought of something because of what happened to my wife... And yet I didn't." Ray gave a tired sigh.
"Minato... You don't know just how much trouble your good deed has put everyone close to you." Ray leaned forward, his gaze falling to the ground, as his mind moved to the picture sitting in the office of him, Minato and Fujitaka. "If you knew this would have happened... Would you have gone another way about it? What would you do now? Fourth hokage..."
Upstairs Naruto's form and Sakura's remained unmoving, but in the darkness on another plane of vision, a white strand of energy connected the two to one another, coiled in red chakra.
Within Sakura, behind a layer of magic, orange chakra swirled round as strong layers of red mixed in, and slowly, a grin formed as red dots appeared in the murky orange chakra.
"It's only a matter of time... Before I'm whole once more..."
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Doesn't that just sent chills down your spine... Once again, Naruto and Sakura have been downed and more secrets are revealed... And Genpaku's hate to Minato doesn't help everyone at all...
So Big and Create... Let me know what you think of the battle and what I did with the clow card. Also, for those not sure what burning lance is, it's from beet the vandel buster. A fire based weapon.
Also, I'm thinking of letting Sakura grow her hair out more... Give her more style to this series... since I think she would look more interesting with a pony tail... Yeah...
Anyway, next chapter will continue on from this, so what will happen? Also, 4 more chapters to go... So let's keep the train moving people!