THE BLOOD ANGEL
CHAPTER 16: LOVE AND HATE
NOTE: sorry for the wait, I was working on other Fics a little, and I was out of town in the mountains since Sunday, getting back on Thursday night. Hope you enjoy it, interesting twists, and if I'm off or wrong about one of the characters tell me but don't hope for me to change this chapter, I'm taking a suggestion from one of my reviewers
Jin walked into his room and tossed his sheathed sword in the corner before sitting on his bed staring at the wall "yet another day of training, and not even an inch closer to surpassing him.." he thought to himself before gritting his teeth "Damn you Zaikin... how do you gain so much power so fast... it's not fair... what makes YOU so damn special?!" he said looking at the back of his right hand, which had a diagonal scar on it, an injury gained from sparring with his elder brother
Jin stood up and walked over to his desk to the right of the room and sat down before opening a rolled up scroll. He read over it quickly and when he got to the bottom there was still space, he grabbed a brush and opened an ink bottle before dipping the brush in and he continued to finished the scroll "This is the one technique that could get me past him... I just have to perfect it" he said to himself
Just then a knock came at the door "Who is it?" Jin asked coldly
"Me..." he heard Zaikin's voice as he opened the door and walked in
"To what do I owe the honor of the presence of the great Zaikin" he said dryly with a sarcastic tone, never looking away from his scroll as he continued writing
Zaikin sighed "Why are you always like this...?" he asked
"Because I can... now can I help you?" Jin asked
"I just came to show you something..." Zaikin said "You know how I've been developing a technique for the last four years, right?"
"The one you haven't let anyone see or told anyone about? What about it?" Jin asked
"I've mastered it finally" Zaikin said
"Well BANZAI for you... do you want a cookie for your efforts?... or are you just here to rub it in my face...?" Jin snapped
"Jin, I'm not trying to be your enemy... you're my little brother... why is it the only thing you seem to care about is power?" Zaikin asked
"I told you at the tournament... power is the most important thing in this shit-hole world" Jin said
"If that's the world you think you live in... I want no part of it... I'd rather have a pieceful world where war and rampaging demons doesn't exist... and if you hate this world so much.. .I'll use my new technique to change it for the better... then you wont have fight or feel the need for power... power always loses to a greater power"
"You fucking baka... of course I will... I'll just want it MORE if you do something like change the world" Jin thought "Is this technique really all so great??" he snapped turning to his elder brother
"If used the right way..." Zaikin said before holding his hand over his eyes and lowering them
The room lit up with a blue light, and Jin's eyes widened and his jaw went agape
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Daignmone's eye's whipped open and he sat up in his bed, in between Sorayomi and Kumoyomi
He panted a couple of times rubbing the cold sweat from his brow "cursed memories... stop plaguing me" he said silently "The curse of the Blood Angel is to be tormented by the memories of my father... my children may be the same with my memories" he said looking at the females in his bed
Just then Kumoyomi opened her eye's "what's wrong babe?" she asked tiredly
"The memories again... no need to concern yourself..." he said
"You sure?" she asked
"Yes... go back to sleep... you need your rest for the Iwagakure raid tomorrow" Daignmone said
"Okay..." she said before closing her eye's and Daignmone laid back and put his hands behind his head "Now I have a small army... Rock will fall with even greater ease then Cloud..."
Just then banging was heard at the door "Lord Daignmone" It was Neruneia and he opened the door and ran in
"What the hell Neruneia?! It's the middle of the night!" Sorayomi snapped sitting up in bed
"Shut it wench, this is important... when I was going over the dead body count from cloud like you asked me to, and I found the Raikage is GONE!!!"
"WHAT!?!?!?!" Daignmone sat up with an infuriated look "What do you MEAN he's gone?!?!"
"Exactly as it sounds, he's gone, disappeared, vanished, pooffed, as in he's-not-there-anymore!!" Neruneia said, doing gestures with his arms for each word
"So the bastard lived... I had a feeling I killed him to easily" Daignmone said rubbing his chin
"What the hell do we do now?" Kumoyomi asked
"Nothing... let him go... no matter what he tries he wont stop us..." Daignmone said
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The bloodied Raikage walked down a path with his arm around the shoulders of a Kunoichi of the cloud "Are you sure you'll be able to make it to Konoha Raikage-sama?" she asked
"Yes... though it may not seem like it... I've been in worse condition before..." he grunted
"Do you want to rest?" she asked
"No..." he shook his head "we must keep moving"
"Why don't we go to Iwa? It's closer" she said
"You know very damn well Iwa hates every one of the other countries great or small... they'd kill me on sight... you may be able to survive it though, Yugito..."
"I'm not going to abandon you... you were the only person in Kumo to not treat me like some lowly creature and or tool" The blond female said
"Being a Jinchuuriki is a curse..." he said
"I still hate the councils decision to make an artificial Bijuu for the Akatsuki to steal... though she was only my body double, it's still fucked up" Yugito said
"I tried to over write that but the council has more collective power than the Kage... it's the same for every major village" the Raikage said
Yugito smirked "I bet Akatsuki are STILL kicking themselves for that" she chuckled
"More than likely..." He said "Now let me stand on my own... let's get moving" he said taking his arm off her shoulder and she reluctantly let him stand on his own
He took a deep breath "okay... yukazu(1)!" he said and they dashed down the path at full speed
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Naruto and Tenten stood across from each other in the back yard of Tazuna's house, and Tenten pulled out a small scroll ad unraveled it before biting her thumb and smearing the blood on one of the four seal circles on it, and in a poof of smoke a katana appeared and she grabbed the handle "I prefer a staff when it comes to melee combat... but i know my way around a sword to a fair degree" she said
"Thanks... never used a sword, any thing will help" Naruto replied holding up the Angel Reaver, and held it out before focusing his chakra into it and his blue chara creeped up the handle and into the hole for the blade and soon chakra was swirling out of the hole and the green blade shot out and crackled with electricity a few times
"Don't you need a spirit to help you make the blade?" Tenten asked
"Nope... not every spirit is just gonna put their chakra into the hilt for me... I only need to do it once in a while.. kind of like a refill... after that the scroll said I can use it several times before needing another spirit to lend chakra from" he explained
"oh... well... let's get started... now when you swing a sword you have to take in account its weig-hold on a minute... does that thing even fell heavier with the blade out?" she asked
"Nope... only weight is the handles" he said
"Okay... skipping lesson one... moving on to the next; posture... now there are several sword stances and countless sword style's to go with them... I know only a little of Bushido, and typical Kenjutsu, so you're gonna have to deal with those styles until you can find someone else to teach you more" she explained
"That's fine... though I gotta say I'd rather have a sword like Zabuza's" he said "Don't know why"
"What kind did he use?" Tenten asked
"A Really BIG sword that was at least as big as him" he chuckled scratching the back of his head
"That's a Zweihander style... that's gotta be the hardest to learn because of the weight of the sword... besides you don't want a Zweihander... you know what they say about guy's with big swords" she said with a smirk
"What...? what do they say?" he asked
Her jaw dropped and she let her arms limp at her side "it means they're compensating for something else" she said pointing down
"Compensating for what... the ground??" Naruto asked perplexed
Tenten dropped her head "why am I getting feelings for this idiot?" she mumbled under her breath
"Tazuna!!!" they heard a man yell and they turned to see a middle-aged man running up to the house and Tazuna walked out "What's wrong Akira?" he asked "Something didn't happed to the bridge did it?!" he starting wigging out
"no no the bridge is still fine, but look at this" he said holding up a scroll and unrolling letting Tazuna read its contents
Tazuna's eyes widened "What does Kumo mean they're canceling all trades?!? The hell is this shit?!"
"Read the second half" Akira said
He then read the next part of it "By decree of the new master of the Cloud-Daignmone the Blood Angel-all trade's are to cease at once, you're items and weapons are no longer needed" he quoted
"What did you just say?!" Naruto ran up to him "The Blood Angel?? He HAS to be the guy that attacked us and destroyed the bridge!"
Tenten shook her head "You can put two and two together in that situation but you can't put one and one together for the compensation joke?" she said to her self
"What? do you intend to go to Kumo?" Tazuna said "idiot... it's way to far from here not to mention what happened to you last time you fought this 'Blood Angel' guy" he said
"I don't care about me, I can't just sit here while a guy worse than the Akatsuki is doing what ever the hell he pleases!" Naruto said
"We care about you..." he heard Sakura and turned around to see her, Hinata, Ino and Temari
"But this guy obviously is willing to kill anyone who he decides to! and if I understand right, he conquered the cloud village killing who knows how many people! I can't let him do this... if not me, someone has to do something" he said
Quite frankly Sakura was concerned, she already nearly lost him once to the bastard "We wait... we do nothing until Tsunade-sama instructs us to do other wise" she said firmly
"But who knows how many deaths there are gonna be" Naruto said looking down and clinching his fists
Hinata was torn between absolutely loving this side of him that wants to help people, and the fact that she didn't want him hurt, was she being overly protective? Naruto is one resilient son of a bitch after all... but if it weren't for Sakura, Ino and the Kyuubi's chakra he'd be dead "You need to value your own life sometimes too though" she said
"Well... don't worry babe... we'll get te word to move soon enough... then I'll help you kick the snot out of him" Temari said
"Yeah.. we won't let you fight alone again" Sakura said
"Right! What are men without their wives?" Ino said
"Lucky" Tazuna said raising his beer bottle as if to toast before he started drinking from it, Tenten slammed her foot on top of his and the sudden pain caused him to choke on his beer and he spat it out "yeouch!! The hell??" he said to her
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At the front gates of Konoha, the two ANBU now assigned to guard it since the incident, stood at attention until they saw two figures dashing through the tree's towards them and they drew their Katana's from their backs and readied themselves
Yugito and the Raikage landed on the ground as some of the kage's blood landed in front of him
"T-The Raikage?!" one of the ANBU said "Why are you here?!" he asked readying his blade
"You may be bleeding but for all we know it's a trick" the other ANBU said
"You're a good ninja..." The Raikage said "I was hoping you wouldn't be stupid.. .even though I do seek the aid of Konoha prior to the peace treaty agreement"
"He has a point..." one ANBU said
"Okay... you can go in but we're going with you" the other said
"Fair enough..." The Raikage said
"You'd better lower your weapons from the Raikage" Yugito growled
"It's okay Yugito..." the Raikage said
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Soon the ANBU led them to the central building and up to Tsunade's office where they knocked on the door
"Come in" she said, and they walked through the door "Raikage-sama?!"
"yes... hello, but we don't have time for formalities... I can tell by the tightened security of your village you've encountered this Blood Angel as well" he said
"Yes. Sit down, let me heal that wound... you're getting blood all over the place" Tsunade said getting up and walking around the desk as he sat on the couch on the side of the room
"Well I'll just get to telling you the first and foremost important thing..." he said pulling his mask down and taking his hood off
Tsunade stopped as she was about to reach her arms down to his wound when she saw his face. Her eyes widened in absolute shock and her jaw dropped "I-Impossible... y-you... died..." she said
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Naruto and Tenten clashed their Katana's together the only problem is Naruto's Angel Reaver sliced through her blade like it wasn't even there, and the severed metal flipped through the air and stuck into the ground
Tenten had a blank face
Naruto's head sank down into his shoulders "ooops... I'm sorry" he said
"Maybe we should train with metal katana's from now on..." Tenten said
Naruto immediately canceled out the blade of energy "fair enough..."
"I had a feeling this might happen" Tazuna said and they turned to him and he tossed them both a katana in their sheathes
Tenten caught hers and Naruto tried to grab it with his free left hand(his bad hand) and it slammed into his finger dead on he began to fumble it "ouch-ouch-ouch... crapcrapcrapcrapcrap" he said frantically juggling the weapon before gaining control
Tenten began to giggle "careful now" she said pulling her sword out of it's sheath, the bade shined in the light of the sun, perfectly clean, not a scratch on it "Are these brand new?"
"Yep" Tazuna said with a nod
"Their well made" Tenten said as Naruto drew his out and looked at the shining blade
Tazuna turned around and started to go back in side "Just down hack any limb's off... I'd be the one to pay for that... then make you pay for it" he said
"Well, here we go" Tenten said
"Already?" Naruto said putting the sheath and Angel Reaver down
Tenten ran at him and they clashed their blades together and the ringing metal echoed out
Their blades met several time's and though not perfect Tenten's motion was a LOT less sloppier then Naruto's, he was barely managing to block her attacks, maybe attack once or twice every few strikes but he was out matched in this field still
After a powerful clash of metal, Naruto stumbled back and Tenten did as well but regained faster, and just as they were about the charge at each other, a swirling horizontal tornado like burst of wind blasted between them and they skidded to stop and turned towards the house to see Temari with her fan out and open "Sorry to disrupt your training but I suggest a free for all" she grinned
"Sure" Tenten said "Just give me a little warning next time you're going to try and hit us with a tornado"
Temari chuckled "sure..."
"I guess it would help me" Naruto said "Bring it on"
"Great!" Temari said "I've been bored lately" she said before jumping up and swiping her fan blasting out a wave of wind at Tenten who rolled out of the way, but Temari then revealed hidden kunai in her other hand and threw them right where she was gonna land but Tenten wasn't as weak as when they fought in the chunin exams, and she quickly deflect them with her katana but one scraped past her arm and cut the skin, drawing blood
Temari then landed and turned to Naruto who was charging at her and swiped her fan at him sending out a burst of wind which collided with him but he disappeared in a cloud of smoke
"hmph... a clone should have known" she said, just then Naruto jumped from one of the tree's he was near and swiped down with the sword, and Temari quickly folded her fan and blocked his sword as he landed, but them Tenten came in and kicked Temari in the side sending her stumbling away
Naruto instantly swiped at Tenten with the katana and she barely managed to block it, and the force he put into it sent he stumbling back, he then stuck the sword in the ground and formed a familiar hand sign "Kagebushin" he said and ten more Naruto's appeared all with swords and he pulled his out "It helps me learn these kind of things quicker, try not to disperse them to quick
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Tsunade sat down in the chair guest sit on when in a meeting with her, her face showed true shock and bewilderment, the man that sat on the couch before her very eye's died 16 years ago... she knew it... "what the hell is this?" she asked shaking her head
"Calm down please" the Raikage said
"M-M-Minato" Tsunade finally said "Namikaze... Minato..."
TO BE CONTINUED...
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN (insert dramatic effect!!!) wuahahahahahahahahaha what insanity hath I wrought upon yee this day!?!?!?! read the next chapter and you will find out... remember... reviews are my source of powe-ummm glee (grins)(1) Yukazu translates basically into 'lets go!'
-Later