A/N: Alright people I'm holding off on the poll FOR NOW, until I either deem it nearly impossible for me to pair Naruto with Anko eventually, or you all flood me with reviews for who you want Naruto paired with, which I will not be excepting requests for Hinata or Haku, they already have their places set in my head. Now I must also say that I apologize to those of you who found the last few paragraphs of chapter nine crammed together in that abomination of bold and non-bold print. It would seem that FF didn't like me using those dash marks when I separated the training scenes, but that's all fixed up now so if you didn't read the end of the last chapter go do it now before reading on. So now let's get going with the tenth chapter! Also it will be the next chapter or the one following that when Tayuya is introduced, unless I go out of my mind and write a ten thousand word+ chapter. (I only own what is non-canon and the computer on which I right this!)
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Chapter 10: In Sync
It's slightly past noon on Monday and we find our five shinobi in training sitting on a few fallen logs that they've moved into an awkward circle, outside a dango shop. The previous day, the group began to move north towards the Land of Grass, which was the closest country the group had access to, bar the Land of Wind since Gaara and Temari were now officially defected from Sunagakure by order of their father, the Yondaime Kazekage. He currently had all shinobi along the borders to kill the sandy on sight and bring Gaara back through the border before killing him, in order to ensure the survival and retrieval of the Ichibi no Shukaku.
The group had managed to come across a small village some twenty kilometers north of where they had been the previous day, but they were still roughly seventy or so kilometers from the northern border. They were able to get some supplies including all the necessary food stuffs they would be needing, since they couldn't go on living off of fish and berries the entire way to Kumo. Kimimaro also had Tsunade purchase around forty boxes of pocky, which the slug mistress noticed the pale jade eyed boy had taken a strong, almost obsessive liking to. This only reminded Anko of Uchiha Itachi who had been addicted to the chocolate covered snack since she first met the boy when he was five. Though she noticed him often eating the vanilla flavored sticks as opposed to the original chocolate flavored ones whenever she saw him.
As they now sat in the forest only five kilometers away from where they had spent the previous night, the five trainees ate their lunch of grilled rabbit and some fruit on the side; apples for Kimimaro and Temari, a banana for Hinata and oranges for Gaara and Naruto. The lanky, pale skinned boy had also managed to sneak a box of pocky from the cooled pack that Anko had them locked and sealed in. The snake mistress knew just by observing how the bone user slowly ate each stick in order to savor the flavor as long as possible, he would end up going through between three and five boxes of the uniquely tasting stuff a day. She secretly cursed whatever Kami made the snack so addicting and Kimimaro and the young Sharingan master for unknowingly worshiping it.
They were completely silent apart from a small crunch from one of them eating a sticky of pocky, or struggling to tear the grilled meat when they bit into it. Before they even knew it, it was time for the hour of meditation which would closely be followed by the all purpose training session with Kyuubi, who decided to let the kits and kittens, as he called the trainees now, have a chase to show what they knew to him just so he could evaluate their progress.
As the group followed the kage bunshin of the demon fox to the clearing where they would be spending the next six hours, the five kids talked amongst themselves in hopes of trying to form some desperate strategy that would help them live long enough to see the end of the training session.
"Ok," Temari began, "We know Kyuubi-san has an affinity for katon jutsu, so we would be best of avoiding those and focusing-"
"On suiton jutsu, which we have none of," Kimimaro interrupted in a monotone voice, barely masking that he was almost as nervous as Hinata about this since he was the only one to not have trained with Kyuubi.
"Fuuton is out of the question to," the golden blonde boy added as they grew closer to the place that spelled disaster for the five of them. "That is unless you want to deal with oversized fire attacks that could burn us and the forest to the ground."
"So my sand and pathetic Yomi Numa are the only jutsu we have against Kyuubi-san?!" Gaara snapped questioningly, and quickly receiving small nods from his companions. The pale green eyed boy quickly had the sand in his gourd release his teddy bear which he began squeezing with enough force to make some of the stuffing come out.
"We could try using the super strength Tsunade-sama uses," the dark blue haired girl quietly suggested. The idea seemed possible to all of them, apart from the fact that Naruto and Gaara didn't have the chakra control necessary for it; Kimimaro knowing he while his chakra control was good, he could achieve the same devastating results, though on a smaller scale, by hardening the bones in his arms and hands. This however, took an immense toll on his chakra reserves and that after fifteen minutes or so he'd be spent and even between all the soldier pills between them, there weren't enough to keep the silver haired boy going for six hours; maybe two or three but definitely not six. Temari and Hinata in contrast had the chakra control needed and decent chakra reserves, but one more problem remained, Kyuubi himself
It was clear from the other day that Kyuubi was highly skilled at genjutsu and no doubt ninjutsu as well, but the fox's skills with taijutsu were an enigma, since he was a fox and not a human. Eventually, the group decided on having Gaara and Kimimaro work together to test the millenniums old demon's taijutsu skills by having them protected by the Tate no Suna while Kimimaro used his bone swords to attack Kyuubi. If they could discover any weakness at all, they'd at least have the slimmest of chances of winning with the five of them working together.
It was then that just as the clearing came into view that Kyuubi stopped and turned towards the five trainees and said, "I honestly hate seeing valuable time wasted through over training you kits, so I'm going to do you five a favor and boost your abilities a notch, and none of you better tell Tsunade or Anko about this; I enjoy what little time I get to see the sun, far too much for one of them to have Jiraiya seal me as Shukaku is."
"You know Kyuubi," came a slightly seductive voice as with a poof of smoke, Anko appeared behind said demon continuing, "If you want this little secret kept one, you better give me a little boost to, unless you want what you fear to come true."
"You can be a very manipulative woman, Anko-chan," Kyuubi said, annoyance heavy in his voice, "Yet you remind me oh, so much of myself; too bad you weren't born a demon fox," the demon finished as he began to muse to himself. At the same time, he raised six of his tails and pressed the tip of one to one of the present humans' forehands. Immediately, a surge of chakra streamed from the area they were at, as the kids and Anko's chakra reserves grew larger, but only enough so not to put terminal stress on their bodies.
"Anko, you should now be at least with the range of strength of an experienced ANBU member," Kyuubi began explaining, "My and Shukaku's container should be towards that of veteran Chuunin in strength, and on the border for what a Jounin may have as far as chakra reserves go. The other kit and the two kittens should have both the strength and chakra of an experienced Chuunin. I ask you three and Anko to keep an eye open for any side effects of this, mostly change in hair or eye color." With that, the fox walked into the clearing and calmly sat in the center before bellowing, "Shall we be training or not?!" at the five children, who ran or in Temari's case jumped and lightly floated down into the clearing to join their sensei.
From where they were watching on the other side of the clearing, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune were all speechless when they saw the teal eyed girl practically fly from where she'd been standing to the center of the clearing which was a good thirty meters in distance. That's when they heard the sandy blonde shout, "And I thought I could only do that when riding on my fan; having an affinity for wind kicks ass!"
Tsunade quickly made a mental note of this to make sure that she questioned Kyuubi on Temari's newfound ability along with any others that she found suspicious that the other kids happened to produce during this little training regimen. Thant's when Anko landed on the branch next to her and said, "I have a good feeling that the runts are gonna surprise us; maybe they'll even give Kyuubi a run for his money."
The slug Sannin eyed the snake mistress with a curious glint in her eyes, questioning, "You know something don't you, Anko-chan," the 'chan' suffix being clearly stressed.
The teenage kunoichi only cocked an eyebrow and shot back as politely as possible, "I only know what I know and whatever your pretty little head can imagine, Tsunade-sama," raising the already high tension between the two females, causing Jiraiya to dash to a tree several meters away for safety.
That's when a shout came from the golden blonde boy, who had walked closer to the trees where those not participating in this little training session were observing, "Oi, Tsunade-sama, can I make a bet with you?!"
The female Sannin momentarily forgot her anger towards Anko, who was still seething and putting of a fair amount of killing intent, and looked down at the fox-boy and replied, "That depends what you want to bet on, Naruto-kun."
"If we can beat Kyuubi, then can we train for only three days a week instead of six?" the ocean blue eyed kid questioned, much hope in his eyes, though more seemed apparent in all the other kids' eyes bar Temari, who like Naruto, thoroughly enjoyed training, though not enough to train for six out of seven days of the week.
The slug mistress contemplated on this for a moment before retorting, "Alright, but if you five should lose, then you five will train for seven days a week, three of those being solely with Kyuubi-san, who can use any form of training he wants on you." Tsunade, though she honestly meant what she said, was merely using it as a ruse to get the young shinobi to back down from his bet and just get on with training with the fire red fox that sat patiently in the center of the clearing, simply listening to the conversation.
This had lumps forming in all of the kids throats as their imaginations ran wild picturing just what Kyuubi would be able to do with no restrictions on training methods. It was Kimimaro who then blurted out, "Forget it, Naruto-kun; I'd rather be training six days a week, then have to train everyday and spend three of those days with Kyuubi-san!"
"He's right Naruto-kun," the lavender eyed girl said sheepishly, completely agreeing with her older companion. "Kyuubi-san already is really harsh with what training he's done with us; I don't want him to almost k-kill us," she finished with a nervous stutter, mostly due to the fact that she hated using the word and not so much that she was scared enough to wet herself if they went along with the bet.
"I say we do it," Naruto's fellow blonde input, "Training's fun and all, but six days a week is insane." She then looked up towards Tsunade and asked, "Can I add one more thing to the bet Tsunade-sama?"
The busty gambling addict looked at the pigtailed sandy blonde curiously and replied, "Sure Temari-chan, what is it?"
She then pointed her right index finger at the older blonde's chest, "The one of us who gets the last blow on Kyuubi-sama, can they get that necklace you're wearing?"
This request made Jiraiya, Shizune, and Tsunade freeze as the slug mistress's eyes grew wide and she started to shake and sweat. Then quickly, her eyes became cold, hard, and distant and she snapped, "Absolutely not!"
The wind mistress flinched at the female Sannin's quick and very harsh answer. Naruto was quick to snap back at her, "You don't have to be so harsh, Tsunade-sama; Temari-chan only asked a question. You could've-"
"Drop it, Naruto," Jiraiya interrupted coolly, "That necklace, is something that none of you kids want, unless you want to end up dead."
All five of them physically flinched at the white haired Sannin's words, while Kyuubi curiously cocked an eyebrow hidden among all his fur. "D-dead?" Gaara asked curiously.
"It's another story for another time, gaki; you all have some training to do anyway so get to it," Jiraiya said, trying to get the five kids' minds back to training and off of the mystery behind Tsunade's necklace. Then as the five trainees began to turn around and get ready to fight Kyuubi, a sharp cry was heard.
"Wait!" the slug Sannin quickly shouted, "I'll except the whole bet, but, whoever gets this necklace is never to go anywhere without, Jiraiya, Anko or myself, until I see fit; understood?"
Both the toad master and the black haired medic were shocked at this, while Anko, who had lost her anger a good five minutes ago, said, "You also gotta tell us the story behind that necklace of yours Tsunade-sama."
The blonde medic only nodded and jumped down to the ground below and shook Naruto's small hand, saying, "Just be ready for hell when you all lose you smart mouth brat."
Then, in unison, the two blonde kids said, "We're not gonna lose to some kitsune-baka!" This earned a small laugh or chuckle from everyone, pardon, Kyuubi, who now couldn't wait to show these kits and kittens why exactly he was the strongest of all nine Biju.
As the five kids took their positions opposite the fox there was another shout as Anko threw five black objects from her perch, one at each of the kids. They each grabbed the object thrown at them and quickly discovered they were radio receives. "You're probably gonna need those if you don't want Kyuubi to know what you're planning!" the teenage kunoichi shouted.
It took another five minutes or so for the five to get their radios set up since only Temari seemed to know exactly who to set them up. She spent three of those five minutes helping Naruto as he kept insisting that he could set up his radio himself, which was clearly not the case when he couldn't even figure out what the earpiece was or where it went.
The second the sandy blonde finished setting the golden blonde up, Kyuubi barked, "Can we please get this done and over with? I smell rain coming and I'm not going to help the Kit keep this kage bunshin maintained once it starts."
All five trainees nodded swiftly as Temari quickly opened her fan and hopped on it along with Hinata; and by quickly pumping chakra into the oversized paper instrument, she flew up about ten meters and spoke into the radio to her companions, "I'm gonna watch what Kyuubi does from up here, guys, I'll keep Hinata out of harm's way. Hopefully I can come up with a way for us to win, 'cause I'm not really looking forward to training every single day.
"Hai!" was the reply she got from the three grounded boys, who then charged Kyuubi, Kimimaro with a blade of bone coming from each palm, and Gaara and Naruto each pulling out a kunai from a holster.
Then something unexpected happened, Kyuubi jumped up and above the three boys a moment before they got to him and towards the flying Temari. Just as the demon fox was about to claw the sandy blonde who sat in front of the young Hyuuga girl, a wall of sand rose up and not only blocked Kyuubi's attack but literally punched him away.
He flipped in mid air and landed a meter or two back from where he'd jumped and saw the sand master smirking. Kyuubi looked around and then noticed something, there was sand not only shifting around the redhead's feet, but the other boys as well. Looking up, he say a fair amount of sand clinging to the bottom of Temari's fan.
Kyuubi only had one thing to say, "Very impressive, kit; I'm going to guess that even while everyone was talking you were slowly using your own sand to make more from the dirt and rocks around us."
Gaara only nodded before unplugging his gourd and sending a stream of sand at the fox who dodged quickly, but only found that Kimimaro was now in the air above him and he could see his container going through a series of hand signs from just behind the Shukaku container. "Shit," the demon cursed to himself as he kawarimi'd just as the bone wielder landed on him.
When the smoke cleared, the silver haired boy was hunched ever a log that was not only impaled by the bones emitting from his palms, but several others that came from where his ribs should be. "What in the?" Kimimaro questioned himself.
Over where the adults were watching, Anko let out a low whistle and said, "That sure is interesting," keenly taking a mental note that if Kimimaro were her enemy, she most definitely wouldn't want a hug from him.
"He must be capable of manipulating every single bone in his body," Tsunade said analytically, "Though how his muscles and skin regenerate so fast; that bloodline limit isn't suited for long fights."
"What do you mean?" Anko asked not entirely sure what the blonde medic was getting at.
"Cells in a human body are only capable of dividing a set number of times, when they reach that limit, they die, thus, there is a set limit for how long one person is capable of living," she quickly explained. "Since Kimimaro-kun's bones pierce through his muscle and skin, when he retract those bones, his cells must divide at a rapid rate to close up the holes. My point is that the more he uses his bloodline, the shorter his life will be."
"Damn," Anko cursed as she watched the bones retract into the bones chest and the holes the created quickly sealed themselves.
Back on the battlefield, Gaara was intently watching where Kyuubi had disappeared to, as were Temari and Naruto. "Behind you, Naruto-kun!" Hinata shouted through the radio. She'd barely seen the fox from the distance they were at, but the dark blue haired girl's Byakugan had caught sight of the fox just in time for Naruto to toss his kunai and graze Kyuubi's right shoulder while Gaara's sand rose to his fellow Jinchuuriki's defense.
It was then the fire red fox realized that his left claw was stuck in the wall of sand and it was slowly inching up his arm. He tried to pull out his claw a second time as he watched his contained back off to a safe distance near where Kimimaro stood. That's when Kyuubi saw more sand heading his way from Gaara. Just as he was about to be flattened between the two walls of sand, the fox jumped and had most of his left arm incased by the sand. He then roared, "Katon: Karyu Endan no Jutsu!" and spewed a stream of flames all over the sand, causing it to melt together. During this brief moment when the sand was now liquid glass and out of the redhead's control, Kyuubi pulled a slightly scorched left arm out.
The ancient demon now realized he was caught between the three separated teams of shinobi, Temari and Hinata at his six o'clock, Gaara and his sand at ten, and Naruto and Kimimaro at his two. "Not good; the kits are working in perfect sync and it's worthless hiding because of the Hyuuga. The sand girl is telling them all exactly how to move and with all this sand I can't scratch them. Now I'm starting to wonder if they really needed that power boost," Kyuubi mused over his situation. "I could use that jutsu but I'd be putting the forest at risk and there's no way a portion of charred forest without explanation will do unnoticed by that shithole."
Before the fox had time to do anything, the golden blonde and silver haired boys were on him. The lanky, paled skin one was holding a much longer bone sword now, made up of two bones. Obviously by the way his left arm was slightly limp, he had ripped out his own bones to form a weapon. Naruto meanwhile, now had crimson red eyes and his pupils were becoming more slit-like by the second. Kyuubi hadn't even felt the golden blonde tap into his chakra.
As he ducked under the Kimimaro's slicing bone the fox's container nailed him square in the jaw and sent him skyward, "He's using Tsunade's tricks now?! Damn, the Kit's got one surprise after another."
When Kyuubi flew up past where Temari and Hinata were hovering on the fan, the sandy blonde cried out, "Now!" Immediately, all five of them were going through hand signs as fast as they could. The redhead, his sister, and the young Hyuuga finished their jutsu in unison and cried out, "Fuuton: Daitoppa!" and each of them spat a heavy stream of wind and kept going as Naruto and Kimimaro finished their seals.
The impact from the fierce winds assaulting the kage bunshin body he was using continued to strain the demon fox as he barely kept it from disintegrating. That's when he heard the end for his temporary body, in the cry of two boys shouting, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"
Kyuubi was barely able to turn his head as he saw two rather large fireballs soaring towards him, all he thought was, "Just how strong will these kits and kittens become?" The fire red fox wasn't hit with two balls of fire in the end; instead it was a single one that could probably kill even a skilled Jounin if hit dead on, as the two balls merged into one when they came in contact with the three streams of wind.
Because of the roaring flames, no one heard the poof of the kage bunshin disappearing, but it was clear that the five kids and just done something that only Anko had believed they could do. As the kids ended their jutsu and Temari floated to the ground with Hinata, the snake mistress turned to the perverted novelist next to her and said, "Pay up, Ero-Sennin."
Reluctantly, Jiraiya reached into his yukata and pulled out his checkbook and wrote something down in it before tearing a check out and handing it to the manipulative teenager. A second later she tapped him on the shoulder and said, "You're missing two zeros."
Cursing himself and rewrote the check thinking, "How could I be so stupid as to bet that much?! And all for a stupid three second peek."
Anko took the check and lovingly caressed it against her cheek thinking about everything she could be with all this wonderful cash.
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Sometime later that day, in the Akatsuki headquarters in the Land of the Waterfall, Pein and his blue haired partner were standing on a balcony with Zetsu and a slightly annoyed Kisame. "Thank you for this information Zetsu, it is very," the organization's leader thought for a brief moment, "interesting."
As Zetsu disappeared, Kisame snapped, "So now he's going to get the funds alone and I have to wait here why?"
Pein turned to the blue skinned man and said, "Zetsu is capable of traveling far greater distances on his own. He'll probably be back tomorrow if he does stop for one of his snacks."
Kisame only raised an eyebrow at this and before he could say anything, the woman next to the auburn haired man said, "You honest don't want to know, but if you're so curious, find a dead animal and leave it near the base and watch what happens tomorrow."
Now Kisame was probably the least imaginative out of the Seven Swordsmen of Kirigakure, but he was able vaguely picture the two minded man finding a dead animal and devouring it without so much as to think of cooking it. "I get the picture," he said nauseously as his skin seemed to become a paler shade of blue, almost so it was a sickly grey.
In another section of the base, Sasori was at work tinkering with Hiruko, his most often used puppet, but no longer his favorite. As he worked on the new armor for his puppet's back, which was an extremely awkward face in appearance, he glanced up at the Sandaime Kazekage who hung on the wall by the back of his robe. The puppet's head and arms were on a table below it with several tools lying around them. He sighed heavily and thought, "If only had bothered to learn kage bunshin, I could get this done far quicker and not waste so much time." Silently he went back to work hating the fact that Kakuzu insisted he return to base to keep an eye on the snake that relentlessly prowled the bases halls.
Sasori didn't mind this since he had performed three exhausting missions in the past few months and hated being made to retrieve funds for the organization when Zetsu could easily collect all the funds himself in a few days. But Sasori knew why the leader never let Zetsu retrieve the larger funds from the organizations contacts, and that was because of the yellow eyed man's rather unsightly taste for human flesh. If the flytrap resembling shinobi were to ever get enough ryo on hand, he'd manage to find some underground slave trade and by a few to quench his sick desires.
But he digressed on his musings, everyone in this organization had something unsavory about them, he made people into puppets sometimes while their hearts were still beating and were fully conscious. His partner had his sick obsession with children and obtaining as many jutsu as inhumanly possible. Kakuzu, being the organization's treasurer, was only because he loved money and no one else wanted such an irritating position. That blue haired woman spoke so little and he rarely saw her so he wasn't sure what was going on in her head, but he knew that there must be something. As for Pein, or as all but the woman called him, Leader, he wanted power, not in the obsessive way Orochimaru did but more that he just wanted the power to control the tides of war and battle on the planet.
He knew that Uchiha Itachi most likely had that arrogance that he heard all Uchiha of the head household had, but he couldn't tell. He only met the boy once and even in the presence of someone superior to him, the raven haired boy had remained calm, cool, and calculating. Even when he spoke, the boy neither frowned nor did he smile, he only kept that slightly irritating, and unreadable line on his face much in the way Pein did. "Well, he'll probably be more entertaining than that Kisame is," the puppet master thought as he stood up and went in search of Pein.
A minute later Orochimaru appeared and just when he was about to enter Sasori's room having heard him leave when he say the hunched man standing there, and glaring at him with those puppet like eyes of his. Without warning his mouth opened and he shot a few poison dipped senbon at the snake Sannin, sending him running for his life.
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The evening after the training session with Kyuubi, each of the five kids had on Tsunade's necklace, Kimimaro having skillfully broken the crystal pendent that hung from the blonde Sannin's neck into five equal pieces with the bone from his palm. They had all listened to the slug mistress's story about how she'd given the necklace to her younger brother, Nawaki, as a birthday gift and that he was dead the next day and how eventually she met Dan, whom she also gave the necklace to and was killed when she failed to be able to heal his wounds.
This was shortly before Orochimaru left the village and the Yondaime had been elected. Her ex-partner had coldly taunted her about the necklace being cursed and eventually after the snake had left, so did she along with Shizune who was Dan's niece.
All five of the kids had promised Tsunade that they'd never die, at least until they were old and had all found a place where they belonged in this world.
It was as they were all preparing for bed when Tsunade said they would put off training till they reached grass in a few days and that she knew of a hot spring village just past the border. To say the five kids were happy with the news would be an understatement, they were completely ecstatic, especially since not one of them had ever been to a hot spring.
As soon as all the kids fell asleep, Tsunade whipped out a scroll and released to reveal several bottles of sake from around the continent. As she poured some for herself, her apprentice, the toad master, and the snake mistress, she said, "This is my special stock and I say we make a toast to something special."
Then the four of them looked at the five kids sleeping together. From left to right it was Kimimaro, Temari, Naruto, Hinata, and Gaara. Anko was the first to raise her cup, soon followed by the other three. "To these kids who one day are gonna kick our asses for all the crap we put them through!" the teenager shouted. The others shrugged lightly clanged their cups together and drank. As the two Sannin downed their sake, they unfortunately knew that the snake mistress was right and that one day the five sleeping youths would get back at them one way or another.
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Kyuubi laughed inside his container's mind as he watched the four shinobi drink to his Jinchuuriki and his companions. "Though that bunshin they fought didn't even have a thousandth of my strength, these five managed to best it and it was really only three of them fighting it. When they're older, these kits and kittens, along with anyone else who joins this ever growing band vagabonds, are going to be monsters among shinobi. Speaking of monsters, I wonder what that neko Nibi's going to do when we meet," the fox mused to himself. Then for some odd reason he felt every last one of his hair's stand on end. "I think I'd rather not know."
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In Kumogakure no Sato the most isolated of the five major hidden as it was surrounded by treacherous mountains, a girl of about fourteen was standing in the Yondaime Raikage's office. Both women had identical golden blonde hair done in a low ponytail that almost went down to their knees. The girl was dressed in a bright purple top that only covered the upper part of her torso, leaving her stomach exposed, while her pants where slightly baggy and of a dark purple. If you looked at the faces of the two women only one difference would be their eyes. The teenager's were extremely cat-like in shape and the black slit pupils surrounded by gold was very different from the normal eyes of her mother who had very dark, almost black, eyes.
"Did you need something Yugito?" the Raikage, Yukoto asked seeing her daughter looked slightly distressed.
"I-It's Nibi, mother, she said that she's sensing two Biju or Jinchuuriki traveling towards the village, one she knows is weaker, meaning the Ichibi and the other is strong enough that she fears it might be the Kyuubi," Yugito explained.
"I see," Yukoto replied looking her daughter in the eye. Then she asked, "Yugito-chan, do you remember a man named Kazama Arashi?"
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A/N: And I think I'll stop there just to mess with you guys for once. I hope you enjoyed Kyuubi getting his nine tailed ass whooped for once in his life and how I started to add that unpredictability in Naruto that we love so much. Also, Itachi will have a heavy pocky addiction by the time he's heavily involved in the story. Well I'm still debating on the poll but I will definitely decide by the time I post the next chapter on Monday or Tuesday so hang tough.
Translations:
Katon: Karyu Endan no Jutsu – Fire Release: Fire Dragon Missile Technique
