Doc: sit's there listening to ICP and thinking of ideas.
Woi: is playing Doc's XBOX, "okay people we are in the process of actually updating the story and what not, but at the moment were having difficulties finding our sources for this idea we had."
Doc: Yeah so, please review with some ideas is for once…PLEASE!!!
Woi: in the mean time I'm gonna go get something to eat laterz
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Chapter 3: Chains of Fate
As Yoh and Len went and woke up the others and quickly left the boat, they started exploring their surroundings unsure of where they were. The trees the sky and even the land look completely different from the area they had just recently left, dazed and confused they gathered together to try to formulate a plan of action. Len looked around a bit and then said. "Ok we don't know where we are, so lets look for some civilization. Ok guys." The rest of the group nod agreeing with the idea. Then Horohoro spoke. "Len are you sure it's safe to split up u never know what might happen." Len thought for a bit. Then Bason spoke up "Master Len permission to speak?" Len nodded to go ahead. "Are you positive it is a good idea to split up in an unknown land?" Len thought again for a second. "You're right Bason." He said as they walked towards where they saw the bridge.
As the group enters the town, they look around and notice the state of the town and shudder at the conditions until they hear there stomachs growl.
"Man I'm hungry." Horohoro says, "You're not the only one." Ryo answers.
As they walk, they see a ramen stand and Yoh grins and says. "Well at lest we found a place to eat." the group sits down to order and they go to pay up front as they hand the money the cook looks at it. "What are you four trying to pull?" Len looks at the cook "What do you mean where paying." "Yeah right and I'm the Lord of Fire country. I don't take play money now get out of here or pay up." The cook walks off and grumbles. The group looks at each other. "Sir what can you show me what the currency of this country looks like cause all we have is yen." Len said politely though everyone could tell he was getting frustrated. The cook shows them the amount needed for what they want to get. Yoh got and idea. "Hey sir anyway we could work for our meal?" the cook thinks for a bit. "Yeah sure I just need to go see if I can the ingredients I ordered have come in yet anyways." he said as he showed them what to do before he walked off.
Ryo and Horohoro went in back to wash and make sure the ingredients they had where ready and chilled as needed as a small child walked up to the counter Yoh asked the small boy. "Hello how can I help you today?" he asked with a grin. The small boy answered "one normal sized miso beef ramen." Len said "Ok that will be 1,000 ryou(sp?)." The boy winces a bit as he hears the price. "I guess Gatou's upped the import tax again." Yoh shrugs. "I don't know. I'm new to this town my names Yoh. Yoh Asakura." he said as he shook the boy's hand the boy said "Hi I'm Inari." the boy said with a smile as four men walked in looking ready to fight as Yoh and Len noticed the swords and spears and other assorted weaponry. Len asked the four men. "Hello what can I do for you?" he asked as politely as he could muster at the moment. The biggest of them said. "Yeah you could fork over the money for your protection fee." the crew looked at the man, "our…protection fee?" Len asked raising an eyebrow. "Yeah your protection fee brat…or do you want something bad to happen to your little stand huh?" the man said throwing a table that had some food on it.
Len looked over at Yoh…Yoh looked at Len then waved his head over to Ryo and the Horohoro who were eagerly cracking their knuckles. Len then smiled at the men, "I'm sorry gentle men but I'm afraid you will not be getting any money from this stand." the man grew angry, "why you little piece of shit!" as he went to throw a punch two fists flew past Len and Yoh and slammed into the man's face. As he fell to the ground, the other men drew their weapons and were ready to fight but as the men went to swing Yoh pulled out his sword as Len pulled out his collapsible kwan-dao. As Yoh stood, there a spirit of a samurai from the feudal era formed over Yoh. "Ready Amidamaru?" "Yes master Yoh." Amidamaru replied. Amidamaru turned into a little flame ball that Yoh grabbed and brought to his chest as he said. "Spirit Unity" as the Flaming spirit ball vanished into him, as Len did the same thing with Bason. As there stances change into something more experienced. As the men charge at them Yoh strikes at two of them with one swing as he yell's "Amida-ryu: Vacuous Buddha Slash!" as Len Strikes at the other two yelling. "Vorpal Dance!" as the attacks hit the men go flying and land in a heap outside of the booth.
Yoh goes to check on Inari. "You ok Inari?" the boy nods as the Ramen stand owner comes back and see's the knocked over table and the thugs out cold in front of the stand and he said. "What the hell happened?"
Yoh told him what happened and the cook prepared there meal and told them to leave as they left Inari followed them as Horohoro asked Yoh "Hey Yoh where are we gonna spend tonight?" Yoh answered "Guess where gonna spend it in the boat again unless it sank already." as four walked they heard more people rushing towards them Yoh and Len ignored it as they felt Horohoro and Ryo getting tense and ready as they all turned to see a rather large group of men approach them. "What's up with them?" Yoh asked as the group seemed to be running at them in a mob of angry people. "Who cares what they want if there coming at us with spears and swords I say we kick some ass!" "I agree with you my little blue haired compadre." Ryo agreed drawing his wooden sword, as the men finally reached the group Ryo and Horohoro attacked the group more than quickly beating them to a pulp.
A few of the men managed to get up and started to run away, "Oh no you don't! Get back here!" "It's alright let em go Horohoro." Yoh said stopping his friend…reluctantly Horohoro stopped, he gave a disappointed sigh and turned to walk back to his friends, "Ah they were weak anyway…isn't no fun in beating the shit out of em' anyway." he said with a smile, "indeed little comrade they are most certainly not strong enough for our amazing skills." Ryo said laughing, as the boys looked at each other they once again were trying to think of a where to sleep at, that's when they saw a woman running towards them. "INARI!!! WHERE ARE YOU INARI!!" the woman called out. She instantly caught Ryo's attention as he ran over to her and got down on one knee, "Excuse me my darling little rose, but whatever might you be searching for??? You can tell me for I shall assist such a lovely woman in need." he said kissing her hand. "Oh brother what a ham." Horohoro said with a sweat drop. As Ryo was trying to woo the woman, she noticed Inari standing with the group closer to Yoh. "INARI!!!!!" she rushed over to the boy and held him close. As she does she backhands Ryo off her hand and into a tree smashing his pompadour or would have if a limb of the same tree hadn't split it in two. "Oh Inari thank goodness your safe." "Mom…your embarrassing me." Inari said trying to hide his face.
The woman looked up at Yoh, "Thank you for saving my boy…my name is Tsunami…however can I repay you." "Mom we don't need to repay them for doing anything I could have taken care of myself." Inari said angry that his mom was offering help to these strangers. "Hush now Inari…please forgive my son…I haven't seen you around here before are you travelers?"
Tsunami asked looking at their strange clothing. "Uhhhh…yeah…you could say that…our boat crashed on your shore and now were looking for a place to stay." "Oh you can stay at my place…we have plenty of room, right now it's just me, my son, and my father." Inari finally got loose from Tsunami's grip and yelled. "Mom…we don't need to help these strangers…there just a bunch of lowlifes who just need to go away." "Inari." at this point Horohoro had had enough of the kid and walked up to him and looked him dead in the eye. "What'd you say punk?" Inari looked at him darkly. "You heard me." why I outta knock some sense into you."
"Horohoro that's enough." Yoh said sounding serious for once. "Thank you ma'am…we appreciate your hospitality…wed be honored to stay with you." Yoh said with a smile as Tsunami lead them to her house.
(Naruto POV)
Naruto wakes up and goes to do his usual morning routine. After he had his breakfast, which included about 10 cups of instant ramen, he packed his ninja gear and just to make sure he didn't seem that smart he packed all of what was left of his ramen stash. As he did not want the villagers to steal or possibly poison it while he was away. And hid some extra kunai and shuriken on him in his jacket he grabbed his bags and headed towards the west gate to meet the client. As he arrived there, he saw the client Tazuna there already with Sakura and the emo revenge machine as he kept turning her down. As he saw this, he sighed as he prepared himself to be hit my lightly using barely any chakra to make his hair gather to cushion the blows. As he walks in and looks at Sakura and tells her. "Hey Sakura…your looking really pretty today…ehehe, did you sleep well? Of course you did I mean you're beautiful as you always are and uh yeah ehehe…"
Sakura Turned bright red with embarrassment and yelled out. "NARUTO NO BAKA!!!!!" and then proceeded to pummeled him into the ground with the power of female fury. As Naruto got up and dusted, himself off Kakashi showed up and all three genin went pale. Kakashi saw there reaction and said. "What?! You all look like you have seen a ghost." Sakura then manages to stutter out and answer. "Y….Yo….Your…..Your on.......Your on time for once." As she finishes her sentence Naruto yells out. "IT'S A SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE!!!!" Kakashi sweat drops at Naruto's statement and thought to himself. 'If it hadn't been for the Hokage threatening my precious I would still be asleep right now.' As he said that he signaled the people on gate patrol to open the village gate for them as Naruto smiled whooped and hollered as they walked out. Tazuna thought this was strange and asked Sakura. "Why is he so happy for hasn't he been outside of the village before?" Sakura again turns bright red. ""No actually neither have I or Sasuke this will be our first time out of the village." As she finished that statement one thought went though Tazuna's head right at that second 'Crap I am soooooo…dead.'
As they walked there sat a puddle in the middle of the road both Kakashi and Naruto noticed it but no one noticed that Naruto had. He looked at his teammates trying to decide which one to tell decided not to tell either of them seeing as they wouldn't believe him anyways. So as they continued to walk Two men slowly crept out of the puddle as it vanished and rushed at Kakashi and wrapped him in a chain that connect form one of the two men's left hand to the others right hand as one spoke in a Gruff voice. "One down." After that was said they pulled the chain taut and tore Kakashi apart. Naruto and Sasuke growled and tensed as Sakura stood there next to Tazuna in stark terror of watching her teacher killed before her eyes. As she stood there frozen in shock the man spoke again. "Two down." As he said that the two rushed towards Sakura and Tazuna. As the two men rushed at them, Naruto ran at them from behind as Sasuke threw a shuriken at the chain and pinned it to a tree before the two men could pull it out Naruto threw a kunai and completely pinned the chain down with the kunai.
As Sasuke leapt up he did a mule kick to knock both men away from the tree as they went away from it rather then have a dislocated shoulder they both released the chain from there gauntlets. As Sasuke dealt with one of the two the other rushed towards Tazuna. Naruto saw the way the man was rushing as he saw the razor claws Naruto quickly made a Kagebushin and used it to hurl himself in front of them as in flight he pulled out a kunai and stopped himself in time. As he caught the mans blades straight through his right hand as he yowled in pain he kicked the man back hard in the solar lexis. The man went back to run away he got caught in a close line by Kakashi. As the rest of the group wasn't looking Naruto fell and passed out. A red mist rose off of Naruto and mixed with some off the blood that fell and another Naruto formed and moved into place as the mist made the first Naruto Run off into the woods.
(With the original Naruto POV)
The body of Naruto ran and ran deep into the woods once it reached a clearing the body laid down and the mist seeped back into the body. As Naruto kept on running his feet began running on what seemed like metal, however his feet now were ankle deep in cold water. As he kept running he noticed that the trees were now strangely metal walls. He didn't know where he was but he just kept on running unaware that the Kyuubi inside him was now calling out to him. "Where the heck am I? Where did these walls come from." when Naruto finally stopped he was in a rather large room. As his eyes looked over the surrounding area his eyes came upon a large cage door near the end of the room. It had a seal on it, but since Naruto wasn't the smartest when it came to seals, As he walked closer. He could feel his heart beat slowly, time seemed to slow down. Naruto got closer and closer his blood began pumping faster, he felt strange as if he was getting closer to something he shouldn't.
As he was about to touch the door a gigantic set of claws came out from in-between the bars. As they came down Naruto jumped back and saw a gigantic fox behind the cage. Naruto shouted at the fox. "EY!!! Lay Off the claws before I decide it's time to clip them." Kyuubi growled and said. "Stupid mortal if it wasn't for me you would be dead by that poison on the claws that pierced your hand if not the blood loss." Naruto growled because he knew Kyuubi was right. "So what am I here for cause I doubt it was just to say hi." The Kyuubi sat there and stared. "I'm tired of you hiding your damn intelligence!!!! So either take off the damn emotional mask or I'll give you such a migraine."
Naruto took a deep breath and spoke as his smile turned to a serious expression. "It's not an emotional mask. It is a survival defense." the Kyuubi thought for a second. "So….If your smart enough you can show it and keep from being killed I can help with that it'll keep you out for a couple of days but it's better than nothing." Naruto thought about it to himself. 'Pro I get the Kyuubi to teach me. Con he might lie to me and lead me to a painful death. But that will also lead him to a painful death.' Naruto then spoke "Ok on the condition that you don't take advantage of this and try to take over my body." The Kyuubi nodded then out of nowhere a black board appeared and he started to teach Naruto.
(Back with team 7 and the Naruto clone)
(From the demon brothers till they stand in front of Tazuna's house things where just like the manga so if u want to go ahead and reread that part.) As Sakura Knocks on the door Tsunami answered the door with Yoh looking out behind her. "Hello who are you?" she asked as she could not see Tazuna. Before Sakura could answer Tazuna said. "These are the ninja that brought me home Tsunami. Can we come into relax?" She let them in Yoh waved as Tsunami told her father what happened that day and Yoh gathered Ryo and the others as they introduced themselves to Tazuna and team 7 or the part of team 7 that is conscious. Yoh started. "Hi I'm Yoh Asakura." the Naruto bushin answered back. "Hi I'm Naruto Uzumaki." and continue as so until it was Len's turn to speak. "Hi my name is Len Tao and I could care less about who you are as long as you don't get in my way cause I don't trust you." after he finished that statement Sakura went off on a random Sasuke is the greatest rant. As the others slowly backed away.
Omake!!!!!!
Yoh gathered Ryo and the others as they introduced themselves to Tazuna and team 7 or the part of team 7 that is conscious. Yoh started. "Hi I'm Yoh Asakura." the Naruto bushin answered back. "Hi I'm Naruto Uzumaki." and continue as so until it was Len's turn to speak. "Hi my name is Len Tao and I could care less about who you are as long as u don't get in my way cause I don't trust you." As he finished that statement Sakura Went psycho and leapt at Len and started to pummel him as he fought back. As they fought Tsunami stepped in to try and stop it and Sakura's hand caught Tsunami's Blouse and ripped it clean off as the others watched they all hand one thought goes though there heads. 'Aaaaaawwweeeesssoooommmmeeeee!!!' And after that Len grabbed Sakura's hair and she punched him and sent him skidding into the wall and the rest saw that in Len's hand was a pink wig. They looked at Sakura all they saw was blonde hair Yoh felt a shiver go down his spine as he stuttered one name. "A….Ann….Anna?" The girl that everyone thought was Sakura turned and looked at him and answered. "Yes where you expecting someone else?" she said as she got the same uber wicked look on her face. And all that was heard though waves was screams of terror as Gato and Zabuza felt a shiver go down there spines.
Sorry it took so long to get the chapter up I was trying to make the chapter up to what seems to be the average on fan fiction. XP sorry if it aggravated you. But it would be easier going if I had more ideas. So please R&R until my fingers meet the keyboard again Ja Ne!