Soul: This is a remake of Rineheart of Konoha, I'm doing it all over and I'm changing the name to Blood and the setting is on the way to wave, right before they meet Zabuza and Haku, they meet the Oni brothers.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Jutsu's: "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."
Kekkei Genkai's: "Byakugan, Ketsuekigan."
Thoughts: 'Oh no!'
Talking: "Run for it!"
Inner beings (Inner Sakura and others): "Shut up!"
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Blood
By
Soul-Girl
Chapter Two
Everyone looked on horrified and Sakura gave a scream as blood splattered everywhere, "Second one." They said as they appeared behind Naruto and charged. Sasuke, thinking quickly, threw a shrunken and kunai at the chain and pined it to a tree and landed on their gauntlets and kicked them both in the face, sending their heads reeling back.
Sakura stood in front of Tazuna with a kunai in her hands, protecting him as best as she could. They disconnected the chain and one kicked Sasuke into Naruto, sending both crashing a few feet back, while the other charged at the remaining three. Sasuke got to his feet as fast as he could and tried to intercept the Nukenin, the thoughts of 'I'm not going to make it!' filled his head as he tried to make his body go faster.
Something collided with their bodies as they were brought to ground and Sakura felt something warm and wet splatter a cross her face; she looked up to see Akai standing over them, the claws of the gauntlet half way in her left shoulder, her left hand holding back the gauntlet keeping it from ripping through the rest of her body.
Her other hand dropped to her side and a kunai dropped into her hand and she brought in up to slash at the Nukenin. He jumped back and went to charge again when he was caught in clothesline by Kakashi.
Naruto looked back to where Kakashi had been shred, only to see a pile of logs. 'Kakashi-sensei used Kawarimi no Jutsu!' Naruto thought amazed as looked back to his teacher. Kakashi held both Nukenins under his arms.
Kakashi turned to Naruto and Akai. "I'm sorry Naruto and Akai, for not helping right away. I got you both hurt." He focused mainly on Naruto now. "I didn't think you wouldn't be able to move." He said as he began to walk over to Tazuna with the two Nukenin still under his arms.
Tazuna let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, 'I'm saved. . .' he thought as relief filled him.
"Anyway, Sasuke and Akai good job you too Sakura." Kakashi congratulated the three ninjas. 'I. . .couldn't do anything. But Sasuke was able to in his first real battle. . .He wasn't afraid at all? Are saying he helped me with that clam face without soiling his clothes at all?' Naruto was having an internal battle with himself as he tried to cope with what just happened.
"Oi!" Naruto snapped out of his thoughts to hear Sasuke calling him. "Are you hurt. . .Mr. Scaredy Cat?" Sasuke smirked as Naruto bristled the nickname. "Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.
"Naruto!" he tensed as Kakashi yelled at him. "There's poison on these guy's nails. We need to take out the poison right away."
"What?" Naruto looked down at his hand.
"We have to open your wound and leech out the poisoned blood. Don't move that much, or the poison will spread through out your body. By the way, Tazuna-san. . ."
Tazuna jumped "W-What is it?" he asked.
"I need to talk to you." Kakashi stated and had Tazuna follow him.
'If Kakashi-sensei says there's poison on their nail and he warned Naruto, why didn't tell Akai-san to be careful too?' Sasuke questioned himself.
"A-A-Akai-san. . .why?" Sakura stuttered out as sat down in front of the taller girl. "You would have died if I didn't." Akai said as dug through her rutsack with her good arm, not looking at Sakura. Pulling out a small white cloth and a small green spray bottle, she sprayed some kind of liquid on the cloth and turned to Sakura, "Could you please lean forward a little, Haruno-san?"
"H-Hai." She replied and was about to wipe her face. "Stop." Akai said and Sakura froze and watch as Akai brought the cloth up and started to clean her face of the blood. When she was done she placed the cloth in a plastic baggy and put it in her rutsack.
"What was that?" Sakura asked. Looking back to the pink haired girl, Akai looked her directly in the eye, "It a type of cleaning solution for the skin." She replied.
"Doesn't you wound need to be leeched out like Naruto's?" Sasuke asked, coming to stand next the two girls. "No." was all she said.
"But you'll die if you don't get the poison out!" Sakura seemed frantic as she grabbed the older girl's uninjured arm. "I just need to have it cleaned, that's all." She replied slowly she pulled her arm out of Sakura's grasps and stood to moved away from them and stand by herself.
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After attempt to interrogate the Nukenins, Kakashi had tied the Nukenins to a tree and came back to get Akai. After many scream later the two came back; Akai was carrying white small bottle. Kakashi turned to his team, "These guys are the Oni Brothers, Chuunin-class ninja from the Hidden Village of Mist. They are ninja known to keep fighting no matter the cost."
"But Sensei, how did you know that were there?" Sakura questioned. "It's sunny and it hasn't rained all week." He chirped. "Then why did you let the kids fight if you knew that?" Tazuna asked scowling at Kakashi.
"If I was up to it, I could have killed these two in the blink of an eye. But. . .I needed to know who the target for these two was." Kakashi said looking out of the corner of his eye at Tazuna as he flinched. "What do you mean?" Tazuna's voice cracked slightly.
"In other words, you were being targeted, or somebody from our ninja group? We have not heard anything about you being targeted by ninja. Your request was to protect you from armed groups like gangs and robbers. This is a mission that's above a B-rank. Our job was to support and guard you until you completed the bridge. If ninja are our enemy, this would have been an expensive B-rank. It looks like you have your reasons, but it only troubles us if you lie in you request details. This wasn't part of the mission."
"This mission is out of league. Let's quit!" Sakura said, shrugging her shoulders. "We need anesthesia to take the poison blood out of Naruto and Akai-san, too." She looked to the injured ninja and priestess. "We need to go back to the village and see a doctor!" Sakura looked back to Kakashi and waited for his approval.
"This sure is a burden. Let's go back to the village to cure Naruto." Again, everyone noticed that he didn't mention Akai. Naruto bristled and began to growl; Kakashi looked back to Naruto as he pulled out a kunai and drove it straight through the back of his hand. Sakura and Tazuna gasped in horror as Sasuke, Kakashi and Akai looked shocked.
'Why am I so different. . .Why am I always. . .Damn it!' Naruto started to have conflicting thoughts. "Naruto, what are you doing?!" Sakura shouted at him, he didn't hear her as he started to have flash backs of his younger years; training in his apartment.
'I should be stronger. . .I've accomplished lots of missions and I've practiced techniques every day. . .I'm never going to do something that will require someone to help me. I'm never going to be frightened and try to back out of things. I'm not going to lose to Sasuke. I vow that this pain in my left hand. I'm going to protect the old man with this kunai!' He turned back to his team with a smirk on his face.
"The mission is still on." Naruto finished as he gave a strained chuckle. "Naruto, it's nice that you took out the poison blood so spiritedly. . .But you're going to die for blood loss if any more comes out." Kakashi said with a bored look on his as he stared Naruto.
There was a long pause before as Naruto began to sweat and shake. "It's not good if you don't stop it right away. Seriously." Kakashi chirped as he stood behind him. Naruto started to flail wildly about. "No, no, no, no, no, no!" He scared still failing. "I can't die like this!"
"Show me your hand." Kakashi order, crouching down in front of Naruto. Naruto stuck his arm out for Kakashi to see, "No! Help!"
"Naruto, you have a self-abusing personality. That's called masochism, you know." Sakura said, ignoring his pleas of help.
Kakashi's eye widened as he noticed Naruto's wound get smaller, 'His wound is already starting to heal.' Kakashi concluded.
Naruto interrupted his train of thoughts. "Ano sa, ano sa. . ."
"Hmm?" Kakashi hummed.
"Am I. . .okay? You have a serious look on your face." Naruto asked, still shaking. "Maa. . .you should be okay." Kakashi said pulling out a roll of bandages from his pack and started to wrap Naruto's hand. 'It must be the Kyuubi's power.'
"Kakashi-sensei?" he turn to Sakura after he was done wrapping Naruto's hand. "What about Akai-san?" she asked as all eyes turned back to the dark haired girl. Akai had move farther away and sat with her back to them as she pulled her top down and began to clean around her wound.
"What are you doing?!" Sakura shouted as her face turned a tomato red as did everyone else, but Kakashi's. "What does it look like I'm doing?" She looked over her shoulder with a scowled before turning back to the task at hand.
"What's that on your back?" Naruto asked and everyone seem to notice this to. On her back were three blades going across each other, starting three inches under her shoulder blades to her lower back, the blades pointed downwards.
On her back were three Eastern black braided blades, a katana, a wakizashi and a tanto. On the right was the wakizashi, on the left was the katana and in the middle was the tanto.
There was small diamond cuts in the fabric of the handle showing a white gold handle with small gold fan accents going up to the hilt, a rectangle a gold and white gold hand guard, the sheaths were blood red with a small black cloth tied in center of each blade and at the end of the sheaths were a thin band of gold with dragons going around them. They almost seemed like real blades.
"Something I inherited from my mother before she died." Was all she said as she continued wipe and clean her wounds No one seemed to want ask any more questions after that.
"Kakashi-senpai." Akai called, Kakashi perked up at his name. "Can you give me a hand?" she asked, gesturing with her good arm, to the blood on the back of her shoulder. With a nod he proceeded to clean the blood off her shoulder.
When they were done she went through a couple of hand sights before her hand gave off a bright acid green glow, holding her hand over the wound it began closing up.
Kakashi moved to help her stand up and Akai packed up her medical supplies. She remove her torn and bloody haori and kimono top, revealing a sky blue tank top underneath and tossed the soiled clothes to the ground, with a spark of fire, set them a flame.
"How did you do that?" Sasuke demanded, Akai looked at him with a blank face before replying, "I have the ability to manipulate fire to my will." Was all Akai said, making Sasuke silently fume at her lack of clarification. He was getting ready to ask (order) her to teach him when Kakashi stepped in.
"Well, let's walk a little longer then we'll setup camp." Kakashi said and pulled out his orange adult novel and started to let out perverted giggles as he started to walk off, his team plus two followed behind him, all absorbed in their thoughts.
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Some where far, deep in the dark forest; a meeting was taking place in some kind of tree house. "Failed?!" a voice roared. "I spent a lot of money to hire all of you because I heard you all were skilled ninja!" shouted a shout pudgy man with a mane of orange hair; he wore sunglasses and a black business suit with a yellow shirt and purple tie. The pudgy man's name was Gatou.
A man with dark hair, eyes and no eyebrows; had a darkish pale skin, bandages around his lower face and neck; sat on a couch with an irked look on his face.
He wasn't wearing shirt, a holster strapped across his torso, blue pinstripe ninja pants, black ninja sandals, a tilted Mist hitai-ate with a slash through it on his forehead, cowhide arm and leg warmers and a sword longer than his body completed the look.
"Stop complaining." he said as he lifted the sword with one arm and pointed it at the stout man's throat, making him flinch. "I'll use my Kubikiri Houcho to kill that guy."
"A-Are you really sure you guys will be okay?" Gatou shuddered slightly, "It looks like the enemy has hired good ninja. . .and since the Oni Brothers failed in the assassination, they'll be more cautious, so it won't be easy. . ."
"Who do you think I' am?" the bandage man asked, interrupting Gatou. "I, Momochi Zabuza, was called the Demon of the Hidden Village of Mist."
TBC
Soul: That's the end of it; I'll start the next chapter soon, so give a little while. Have a happy and safe New Years, everyone! Read and Review. Ja-Ne from: ^, ~ Soul-Girl!