Hey guys! It's me and I'm really sorry that this chapter is really late. Some things came up, like a huge project and I had no time to get the chapter up. I got a couple reviews which was good and I'm really happy with the turnout of this story. So I thank all my readers and reviewers and please enjoy my extremely late chapter!
Naruto was falling, that was all that mattered...other than the fact that he was falling into shark infested waters. He glared up at the guy who got him in this mess in the first place, with some level of difficulty since he was tumbling down head over heels. Laughing noticed the glare and waved cheekily at him, soaring through the air like it was nothing. He pushed some chakra into the air, making him go faster, zooming past Naruto and landing lightly in the waters below without so much as creating a ripple.
"Use chakra to stay on-" Laughing was cut off by the splash of Naruto landing. He had managed to push the chakra out in time, leaving him standing knee deep in the water. "At least you're not completely soaked," Laughing mused and helped him onto the surface of the water. A quick wind jutsu dried them both off.
"Are there always sharks in these parts?" Naruto glanced dryly at the sharks leering at him from below, as if daring him to come and join them.
"Nope," Laughing frowned, and looked around, analyzing the appearance of the sharks. "They were summoned by someone, or it's shark season, and I didn't remember." He began walking, carefully skirting around the shark fins and trying not to disturb the sharks.
Naruto chuckled nervously at one shark who swam close to him and was now examining him, seeing if he was a suitable lunch. Gulping, he hurriedly followed Laughing, eager to be away from the sharks.
"There's a shark swimming directly to us, and at high speed." Laughing paused and gestured to the large blur that was zooming through the water, creating quite a disturbance in the water. There was a sound from above and Laughing looked up, only to see a raven gliding above them. 'A shark and a raven, where have I seen this before?'
"What are we gonna do about it then?" Naruto pointed frantically at the incoming blur that was nearing them rather quickly. A little too quickly for comfort.
"It's a shark, so whack it on the nose, it's quite sensitive there, but watch where you're hitting, not my fault if you lose an arm because you missed." Laughing shrugged, his hands in his pockets, looking as carefree as ever, as if attacking sharks were an every day part of his life.
Naruto gulped and readied himself seeing as Laughing did not make any move to stop the shark so it was up to him. As he was about to spring and hit the shark, the shark suddenly rose out of the waters and stood on two human feet. "T-that's what you call a shark? T-that's Kisame Hoshigaki!"
"It is? Oh it is! I thought a blue shark was weird. Now where's your partner, shark?" Laughing scratched his head sheepishly. Playing dumb was a pretty good way to disguise how strong you were, it didn't always work, but still, it was better than nothing.
Just as Kisame was about reply, the raven flying from above suddenly turned into Itachi, who stood there, calmly assesing the situation. "I'm right here and I believe you know what we want,"
Laughing frowned at that, of course he knew what they were here for, the demons inside of Naruto and himself but there was no way that he would let them get that. "Yes and you'll only get them over my dead body." there was the sharp rasp of a sword being unsheathed and the long nodachi on his back was pointed at the Uchiha.
"Then we'll just take them from you by force. Try not to make such a big commotion Kisame," a pair of Sharingan eyes stared at the pair of jinchuuriki. Kisame simply grinned and unsheathed Samehada, letting it rest on his right shoulder.
"I'll take Uchiha, take fish-breath Naruto," Laughing ordered, his eyes locked on the Uchiha, not meeting the deadly gaze of the Sharingan. Naruto nodded and moved away from the two, creating shadow clones as he went.
"Mangekyo Sharingan, you're a goner," Itachi whispered as he finally was able to lock eyes with Laughing.
The sky turned red and the clouds turned black. Laughing found himself tied to a cross with a multitude of Itachi's all around him, each holding a sword. "Welcome to Tsukiyomi, for the next 72 hours, you will be tortured." One of the Itachi's spoke, presumably the real one. Laughing simply lifted his masked head and laughed, like his name implied. When he finally stopped, it was because he could laugh no more, after a little bit of heavy breathing, he caught his breath.
"Ooh, torture, I'm so scared! I've laughed at the face of death, torture is really going to scare me!" Laughing chuckled. "You may be able to torture me if this was your world, but from where I'm from. My mind is my world!" the scenery changed. The red skies vanished, only to be replaced with black. The black clouds turned red, the multitudes of Itachi vanished, replaced by dragons. And in place of Laughing on the cross, Itachi found himself tied down. Laughing now stood in front of him on the ground, his nodaichi in his hand. "Let the torture begin!"
Naruto grunted and was able to maneuver away from the blade coming centimeters away from his face. Although he did not know Laughing well, he knew him long enough to know that he had quite a sadistic streak. Leaving him alone with Kisame, tch, couldn't he have left him a shadow clone or something to help him out? Lashing out, he kicked Kisame in the gut with a chakra covered foot and managed to get some distance between them. Still, he was at a serious disadvantage, having water and sharks surrounding him was not exactly his strong point.
Creating another dozen shadow clones, he sent them all except one at Kisame, distracting him while he prepared his signature move, the Rasengan. Once the clones were all disspelled, he rushed forward, his remaining clone acting as a screen. "Rasengan!"
Kisame realized what was happening and lifted Samehada to block the attack, it's chakra eating ability was useful in many different stiuations, this one included. But what happened was that the rasengan hit the sword head on, and the sword's chakra eating ability could not eat the chakra fast enough. This resulted in an overload of chakra and a large crack in the sword.
The Kiri nuke-nin pulled away, when he saw what happened to his beloved sword. Samehada was supposed to be unbreakable but this brat had cracked it. Before Kisame could charge again, he was stopped by the blade of your's truly, Laughing.
"Move one more step and I'll be having shark fin soup tonight," Laughing's gaze was cold and hard. All traces of the earlier casual him gone, a battle hardened warrior prepared to kill mercilessly held the blade instead.
"We'll retreat for now," Itachi wheezed, barely able to stand. At his word, Kisame helped his partner up and they vanished in a blur of black, the sharks vanishing as well.
"What now?" Naruto panted and turned to Laughing who stood there, hardly out of breath.
"Now nothing, we simply train, your taijutsu is garbage," Laughing summoned a boat out of a scroll and leapt in it, picking up the oar from the bottom of the boat and chucking it to Naruto. With a sigh, Naruto joined him in the boat and the two began rowing towards the shore of Crescent Moon Island in the distance.
There's the new chapter, it was a quick write up and quick edit so I'm really sorry if it sucks. If there's something wrong with it please let me know and I will re-edit it and fix it up. R&R please!
~AnimeClouds~