Leo: Sorry about not leaving an author's note last time, but my computer decided to be a whore and fuck up my system- and I'm too lazy to go back and change it. So live with it.
Naruto: That's mean.
Leo: No, Sasuke's mean.
Naruto: -nods- He took my ramen away!
Leo: And he held a gun to my head until I threw all mine away so you couldn't get it!
Sasuke: Now Naru-chan love me the most!
Naruto: I always did.
Sasuke: Yes, but there was always a chance that ramen could hold more love from you than me.
Leo: Baby. Well, as these two have hot raunchy make-up sex, here's the-
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto... I own... nothing by some strange-whacked-up poker game!
My Other Life
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Chapter 16
Possession and Longing
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Many heads whipped around as they heard the screams coming from the arena. Usagi leaned over the railing, as her eyes nearly popped out of her head at the sight. Seven fallen Suna Shinobi, Seven people standing on the sidelines, One blood covered, towering man, and One bleeding and leg torn Matsuri.
The blood covered figure raised what looked to be a claw and it suddenly came slashing down, ridding Matsuri of her right arm. Then her left. All that was left of the girl was her torso and head. She whimpered when the claw was raised again.
"No!" Usagi shouted as it was brought down and Matsuri's head rolled off to the right of her torso, her torso falling over from gravity. Usagi clenched her teared eyes and turned around with her hands over he mouth, covering a silent scream.
Chibi ran over to his distressed mate and pulled her to his chest, where she released her cry and tightly wrapped her arms around the nature neko. He made a purring sound from deep in his chest in an attempt to calm her.
Chibi watched out as the bloodied figure held up one clawed finger to the area where Yoko was sitting in. "One step closer Aniki-kun."
The brunette tightened his hold on the ice kitsune as he realized exactly who that was.
Usagi choked on a sob and buried her face closer to Chibi's chest. "That damn idiot! Why? Why did she have to die!? I never got to slap her for sowing too much cleavage like the slut she is!" She spoke furiously. "I wanted to slap her. You don't know what she did do you?" When Chibi didn't say anything he continued. "She reprimanded me for retrieving a scroll from the inside of my shirt in the presence of my brother, Gaara and Neji, and then she was all flaunting around with her cleavage showing massively. I just wanted to slap her once and yell at her for being a contradicting bitch." She chuckled dryly.
Karu's face was blank as he watched the brunette comfort his sister.
"That was horrible."
The blue haired kitsune looked over and spotted Temari who was walking towards them. "That's why he can't win- and won't win." He pulled her suddenly to his chest making her squeak in surprise as she collided with the strong chest. "Do not be afraid to use that." He reminded her, plucking the hair band and letting it slap against her wrist.
Temari snatched her hand back from the water kitsune. "I'll be fine on my own." She said stubbornly.
Karu chuckled and pinned her quickly to the wall by her wrists once again. "Oh, and do we want a repeat of the other day's lesson-" The blue kitsune was suddenly struck down as Siya had smacked him upside the head with the book she was reading.
"Bad dog. Not in public. Go rape your mate where eyes of everyone else can't see." The blonde fox growled in a playful tone.
Karu scoffed. "Tch. I wasn't gonna rape her."
Temari, who had stiffened up when Siya had spoken, now relaxed at this fact.
"It's not rape when both sides consent." He finished and Temari whipped her head around to look at him. Karu smiled a lopsided grin at her. "Relax Tema. I was kidding." He calmed her. "Now come on, we're next."
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Riko put on a forced smile as she stepped out again. "Okay, Team Shadow wins. And next up to fight is The Blockade and Team Eight. Would the contestants please come down and have the leader introduce themselves?"
Two blue skinned women walked up and two black cloaked figures joined them, one of them shorter than even the women.
The first blue skinned woman was the first to speak. "My name is Tyuku and this is Kiraki. Our team is made up of different nymphs and we fight to win."
The shortest figure grabbed the microphone from her. "My name is Akayume no Oni, and this is Akayume no Kage. You'll just have to wait to find out who we are!" Oni yipped happily.
Riko took the mike back and laughed as Kage had to suffer a glomping from Oni as they walked back to their teams. "Alright, these fights will be two battles of two on two. Please, pick your first contestants."
The group gathered round and Oni suddenly turned serious. "We have the pairs organized so judging by who was up there they have three water nymphs, two fire nymphs, one nature nymph, one demon nymph, and one shadow nymph. And judging by who just stepped up, we need Karu and Temari to go up there."
Karu nodded and dragged Temari up to the arena. "Karu please don't drag me." She pleaded.
Karu sighed and turned around to face the blonde. "Temari… stay safe. I won't be able to watch you if I'm fighting one of those fire nymphs, so I need you to stay safe yourself." His ice blue eyes searched her blue-green eyes for any signs of retaliation, pleading her to stay safe as he had just voiced.
The blonde nodded and Karu let go of her wrist and let her walk up to the arena by herself.
"Begin."
One of the red skinned women had long brown hair and the other had orange. The brunette looked to her partner. "Taiya, get rid of the girl. Pretty boy's mine." The nymph spoke, licking her lips.
Taiya nodded. "Whatever Yukero. Your funeral." And she turned to the wind mistress. "And shall I learn the name of the one I'm about to make cry or die?"
Temari scowled. "My name is Subaku no Temari, only daughter of Subaku no Nakaro and Kikei, wind mistress. Memorize it because you're going to fear it for the rest of your life."
Suddenly the nymphs hands went up in flames and she charged at Temari. The blonde dashed to the side to avoid the hit, but the nymph's foot lit on fire and swung around to kick her. Temari saw this and jumped up to dodge the heat.
"Die worthless piece of spirit shit!" The nymph screeched, diving at Temari who couldn't react fast enough to move, so her side was scalded.
Temari frowned deeply and heard growling off from Karu. Temari suddenly stood up and whipped her hand out, a blade of air forming in her hand. She split it into three blades and held one in her mouth and one in each hand. She lunged for Taiya and managed to disable the nymph's right arm.
Taiya yelled out some sort of war cry and shot a flame at Temari from a distance. Temari couldn't get away in time and turned to let her back take the bunt of the hit. When the nymph suddenly let out a shrill sound Temari glanced over her shoulder to spot Karu.
But this Karu looked different.
Yes, his hair was still long and blue, but the rest was different. His ice blue eyes were sharper and gleaming in anger. Instead of one single blue tail, there were three and they were swaying back and forth angrily. His nails were sharper almost and digging into the red throat he was grabbing with his hands. And his blue ears were more pointed and leaned forward in anger.
"Don't you dare touch her nymph-trash. What would your ancestors say if they could see what's become of their empire?" He growled.
The nymph scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I-"
Karu's eye's narrowed. "Watch your tongue nymph. Otherwise I will crush your windpipe." He threatened. "And let this be a warning to your partner there who's about to attack her. Do not mess with my mate or I will see to it that you suffer severely. Now give up or you will surely die."
Yukero ran up and pulled on Karu's wrist. "Let her go, we give up, just let her go!" She pleaded.
Karu dropped the fire nymph and went to stand by Temari as Yukero tended to Taiya. "Are you okay Tema?" He asked, lifting her arm up and checking the burn on her side. "We'll have someone look at that for you. Does it hurt?"
Temari shook her head. "I'm fine. You didn't have to go that far though-"
She was cut off as Karu roughly pulled her to him and stared down at her with his sharp eyes. "They've obviously forgotten old times. No one messes with anyone who has any ties to the Mizu clan. And no one, not even other clan members or family harm their mates and get away with it." He growled softly.
Temari nodded numbly, but another question popped into her head. "Why do you look like this now?"
Karu sighed and nuzzled her neck as he pulled her back to the team. "Every demon has this mechanism type thing inside them where if it's triggered, the go through a transformation called Rage. It's more active in kitsune, wolves and a few select other demons than others. It basically is like a last resort power boost or a reaction to something happening around them. It's different for different clans/breeds. Take Obito for example- he reacts most when people are threatening to take his possessions- like Yoru or Oni. You should have seen him tear up Kage when he found out about them two. That's what triggers it for most Uchiha. But like Kage, a different clan of shadow wolves- he reacts most when his mate or family are in danger. Most Rages are triggered by something that has to do with the mate. And sometimes it's also other things."
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"Okay, our next team to go is… Koi and Kumori."
Koi sighed and started to make his way up to the arena when Kage stopped him. "You better fix this or as soon as this is over I'll put you seven feet under. An extra foot for hurting him so bad."
The older wolf shrugged off his hand from his shoulder and continued on his way, Kumori staying behind to say something to Oni and Kage before also going up to the arena.
Before them were a black nymph and a purple one with bat wings on her back. The purple one bowed politely. "My name is Faye, and this I my partner Hiru. And may we ask the names of our opponents?"
This was one thing that made Koi annoyed: All nymphs were very painfully polite upon first meeting their apponents. "My name is Koi of the forest and this is my mate Akayume no Kumori."
The shadow nymph laughed lightly, placing her black hand in front of her mouth. "So the runt survivor of the Forest Wolves and the weakest Akayume brother. My dear Faye, I believe we have an easy win on our hands."
Koi growled as Kumori didn't change at all, just standing there with a dead look in his eyes and Koi was pretty sure he caused that look. "Kumori…"
Kumori glance back to the older wolf. "Come on." He stated.
Riko glanced worriedly from each party. "Okay, begin!"
Without warning, Kumori summoned the large shuriken he had used before and threw them both at the nymphs.
As Faye and Hiru dodged them, they weren't prepared for the small wolf that suddenly lunged at them from behind the shuriken's cover. Kumori skidded to a halt behind them and growled before lunging once more at the nymphs.
This went on and on as Koi stood in shock. That idiot was fighting recklessly and was going to get himself tired out and/or killed. As he watched, he continued to count how many tails Kumori was releasing to give him bursts of energy.
Two.
Three.
Four.
He was at his limit, that's when he collapsed to the ground and reverted back and the two nymphs approached him.
Koi was angry as they started taunting him. It was common knowledge that Kumori had a thing about always being after his brother. Born after. Tails after. Trained after. So many afters and never any befores.
The demon nymph raised her hand up with held a blade in it to strike the Akayume when Koi dove in there and took her out.
Hiru looked to where her partner used to be and to where she was now and saw an extremely large black wolf that had ripped Faye to shreds, who was now dead, and was now glaring intently at her, three tails waving madly behind him. Hiru grabbed her own dual swords and charged after the wolf, who slapped her to the other side of the arena with his paw.
"Don't touch him." He growled, stalking up to her.
The shadow nymph quivered with fear. "I give up, just don't kill me."
Koi scoffed and turned around, lopping back to Kumori. About three steps away he stopped and crouched down to pounce. In mid-pounce he changed back and would up tackling Kumori with a smile on his face. "Kumo-chan!" He called out and then the most unexpected thing (to Kumori anyways) happened.
Koi kissed him.
Not on the cheek, not on the forehead, a full blown-out kiss on the lips.
The younger wolf smiled and melted back into the kiss. Koi's tails wagged back in forth in happiness. When Koi pulled away he smiled gleefully down at the smaller wolf. "Forgive me yet?"
Kumori wrapped his arms around nature wolf's neck. "Forgave you right after I was mad at you."
Riko smiled and stepped up. "And the winner is the Blockade! Congratulations, you may now go back to your room and get all healed up. And our next fight is between Team Nine and The Elders."
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Kushina hid behind Minato as she looked at her team. "We feel so left out of the name loop!" She cried, staring into the faces of six Uchiha. "Minato-kun! Can we change our name to Uchiha?"
The golden fox glanced down and shook his head. "But Shina-chan, your name is so beautiful."
"You're right! Now let's get up there and fight for this tournament and our kids!" She yelled out, charging out into the open arena. She leaped up and grabbed the mike from Riko. "Come on Miko-chan!" She ushered the female Uchiha over.
Mikoto sighed, and followed the spazzy fox. "Give me that you dunce." She said, snatching the microphone from Kushina. "My name is Uchiha Mikoto and this is my stupid friend, Uzumaki Kushina. Our team is made up of siblings, mates, and siblings mate's who are each other's siblings."
Kushina took the mike back and yelled out, "And we're gonna kick some ass!"
Riko received the microphone back and handed it to the other two who were standing up.
The first one was a man with shoulder length brown hair and golden eyes and a woman with fire red hair and rose pink eyes. "My name is Fukima and this is my wife Ryin."
Riko smiled as both leaders left and went back to their teams. "Okay, our fights here will be two four on four fights."
"Alright, let's see, Yoru, Kyuubi, Kushina, and Minato: The foxes, go now." Mikoto ordered, watching as they each changed into foxes and sprinted onto the arena.
One golden fox stepped up, two red foxes with nine tails and red eyes, and one red fox with two tails; but its right ear, tail, and paws were black. Before them stood Fukima and Ryin, a large man with indigo hair and blue eyes and a woman with white hair and black eyes.
Fukima smiled ruefully. "Ah, I would like to intro my sibling Wakuro and his wife Maiya. And which of the royal family do we have here. Wait, let me guess… Uzumaki Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, Uchiha Kyuubi, and Uchiha Yoru." He chuckled as the foxes bristled and Minato stepped slightly in front of Kushina. He could also hear the disapproving growls from two of the other team members. "Well Riko, are you gonna start this or what?"
Riko nodded. "Hai, begin!!"
In a flash, Fukima changed into a grown dragon with golden eyes, Ryin changed into a fire red panther with pink eyes, Wakuro changed into an indigo dragon with blue eyes, and Maiya changed into a white wolf with gleaming black eyes. "And we are the Ryuukiyo family."
Minato began to chuckled deeply as the demons presented themselves. "Ah, I figured that's what you were. But you know… I have a secret of my own. Do you know that there are different families of golden kitsune?" He asked as he and the others began to circle the Ryuukiyo family. "Can you count them? Five. We are ranked in numbers of strength- one is the Ukira family, two is the Uwatara family, three is the Nashiko family, four is the Jirokiwa family, and five is the Namikaze family. Each one has a special ability to hold their own. Ukira were able to change their size, Uwatara were granted with unheard of strength, Nashiko were born given immeasurable speed, the Jirokiwa were born with two tails already- strong enough to hunt at the age of six months, and Namikaze family was given all four abilities plus the ability to heal faster than most demons." He growled, suddenly disappearing from sight.
When Minato finally reappeared he was two times as big as before (which was the size of a very large dog (like a Great Dane)) and he now had five tails. "My name is Uzumaki-Namikaze Minato of the golden kitsune. The only survivor of the great war. And since all of my children have the name Uzumaki, that is the new name of the fifth golden kitsune family." He said before he lunged at Fukima.
Kushina took the signal and leaped at Ryin, Yoru charged at Maiya and Kyuubi ran towards Wakuro with a snarl.
Fumika cried out as Minato sunk his fangs into his sides and his claws pinned to him to keep the golden fox steady. He thrashed about to get rid of the kitsune, but when he didn't get off, he inhaled and blew a white ball of flames at him, forcing Minato to release him or get hit with the white fire.
Minato retaliated by inhaling himself and blowing a ball of lightning towards him.
As this went on, Kushina was fighting only fangs and claws with Ryin. The red panther was proving to be a match for the kitsune. Kushina couldn't see through her right eye as blood proved difficult to see through, and her left hind paw as bloodied up as Ryin had caught it in her jaws. But the panther didn't get away unscratched as well. Ryin's ear was torn, the back of her neck was bloody as Kushina had bitten her there to try and get her down, and right hind leg was immobilized as Kushina had dug her claws thoroughly in it before ripping it out.
They now circled each other as best as they could. Ryin lunged out and bit onto one of Kushina's tails. The female fox growled before taking another tail and wrapping it around the panther's neck. "Ryin, stop this now, release me, give up and you won't die." Ryin refused and tightened her grip on the fox's tail.
Kushina absolutely hated this. It was either kill the panther or continue suffering. "Ryin, think about it, I have more tolerance for pain than you do. I've given birth a total of eight times and they were stubborn as hell, I could do this for 48 hours and more, but I can smell… you're expecting."
The panther's closed eyes snapped open and gazed at the kitsune.
"I can smell it. I don't want to kill you Ryin- you have a mate, and probably have family out there who would be royally pissed at me if I killed you. And if you die, your unborn cub or cubs die."
Ryin slowly released the kitsune's tail and backed away from her.
Meanwhile, Yoru and Maiya were facing off.
"Back down." The larger female said.
Yoru scoffed. "As if, I know how to handle myself."
"Weak fox, it seems like you're the weakest one here." Maiya taunted.
Yoru snarled and bore her teeth. "Yes, because giving up more than half your power to give your mate what they want is so weak." She said sarcastically.
"Bring it."
Yoru dashed towards the white wolf and changed about a foot in front of her and slammed her foot into the wolf's head.
Maiya howled in pain and glared at the spark kitsune. "You bitch!" She screeched. "You're going to pay for that!" The wolf suddenly made a jump for Yoru, but the kitsune ducked and Maiya wound up landing on her own mate- Wakuro.
Kyuubi started to laugh as this happened. "Just quit you two and then you can go fuck on your own time."
Wakuro glared at the red kitsune. "Don't talk about such things out in the open."
Kyuubi glanced towards the indigo dragon. "One must learn to tolerate such things when being the mate of an Uchiha. There are consequences such as possessiveness,"
"Perverted acts and words," Added Yoru.
"And learning how to dodge and run effectively." Both the younger kitsune spoke.
Wakuro growled and lashed out at Kyuubi, using his tail to try and take Yoru by surprise, but Yoru jumped up just high enough to avoid getting hit. He tried to bite at Kyuubi, barely catching one of the nine tails in his grip.
Kyuubi hissed and swiped a clawed paw at Wakuro's face, scratching over his eye, causing him to release his tail. He flipped around and bit sharply into the back of Wakuro's neck, his claws digging into the dragon's back. Wakuro glared as best as he could. "You prissy ass royals don't know how to get your claws dirty. You think that you're invincible just because of your status." He sneered.
Kyuubi released the dragon and backed away from him with a smirk on his face. "We don't know how to get our hands dirty? Oh, you don't know just how fucked up our family is. I've killed plenty of people- two days ago I killed eight people. We have to constantly watch our backs, and kill when someone presents themselves in front of us. We don't have guards, don't have villagers fight for us- it's just us and our strength." He retorted, jumping at the blue eyed dragon, slamming him down to the ground. "Give up now." He growled.
"Just give up Wakuro!"
A single blue eye glanced to the edge of the arena and saw Ryin and Maiya who were helping support Fukima. Maiya was looking at him with worried eyes and he knew if he struggled any further Kyuubi would more than likely kill him. The fox wasn't as kind as his sister. "Fine, I give. Now let me go fox."
Kyuubi let go of the dragon and went over to his sisters.
Leo: This is actually causing me to have a mental breakdown! I've never done fight scenes before- so please, I need some feedback! Good, bad, how do I improve? I would appriciate if you would help!