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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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The New House –
"I don't believe how much you ate," Sakura said as she had watched Niamh stuff herself with two giant bowls of ramen.
"Even I never finished one of Ichiraku super size ramen bowls," Choji said as he had never eaten more then half of the super size bowls that are more of a giant stew pot then a bowl. Ichiraku had made the special made bowls to get people to try to finish his super size ramen which cost a whole lot but when people go and try to do it.
"Don't you worry about getting fat?" Ino ask her.
"No I don't have to worry about getting fat it's the opposite with me," Niamh said. "My bloodline uses up a lot of energy so I have to eat lot to fuel my body. I have to eat like a pig just to maintain a healthy body weight."
"Wait you mean you can eat all the fatty food you want and you won't gain a pound?" Kurenai ask blinking as she works hard not to gain too much weight when she eats, not to mention all of the working out she does to maintain her figure.
"Yup I can eat all of the fatty food that I want and not gain weight since my bloodline burns up all of the fat I take in," Niamh explain.
"There are a lot of women in this village who would love to have your bloodline," Shino said as he has heard his mom complaining about getting too fat.
"You can say that again," Ino said as she lets out a sigh as she loves sweets but have to work hard to keep the fat off.
"Niamh you look well," a new voice spoke up.
"What do you want Akira?" Niamh ask in a dry tone as she turns to face a man about her age dress in fine clothes that she has seen only in traditional events when she was in Japan. The man is a son of one of the council members who's been trying to woo her ever since her bloodline became known. She has turned him down numerous of times already but he continues to press himself onto her as all of the clans in the village wants to get their hands on her knowledge of her weapons and her bloodline. All of them knew that the clan that gets her to join their clan will become the most powerful in the village.
"I want to invite you to the dinner my family is throwing for a friend who is visiting from The Land of Snow," Akira said giving her a come on smile.
"There is no way I'm going out with you," Niamh said as she turns and walk away. "After what you said about Naruto you expect me to go out with you? Forget it give up already."
"Now, now you can't just let one bad impression ruin a relationship before it even began," Akira said with a snug smile.
"Stop doing that or I'll show you what my power can really do," Niamh growls as she seen guys like him before who think that they're god's gift to women.
"Come now having someone like me as your boyfriend can be very helpful for you," Akira replies.
Niamh suddenly appears behind him grabbing his right arm and began twisting it making Akira kneel down in pain. "You don't know when to quite do you?"
"Hold it!" two men shouted as they rush in armed with rapid-firer crossbows and pointed them at her.
Niamh smile amuse of their choice of weapons, "I see using rapid-firer crossbows as they're the only weapon that is like mine." She quickly lifted Akira onto his feet and pulls out her gun and knife out. She places her knife at the side of Akira's neck where his main artily is located and a cut there would bleed him to death in minutes. She points her gun at the two crossbowmen. "Knowing how fast I am you knew to arm your lackeys with weapons that can fire lots of projectiles hopping that one of them will hit me. Smart but you know Akira I don't care for men who need to rely on lackeys to beat someone."
"Just let me go and we forget this ever happen," Akira said as he motions his two men not to do anything to provoke her.
"Niamh you should just let him go," Kurenai said.
"Fine," Niamh said as she kicks Akira in the rear sending him stumbling into his two men. "Let this be known to all the only way I'm going to go and go on a date with any guy is if he can beat me one on one."
"You're going to date the first guy who beat you?" Sakura ask.
"It's not like I have anything to worry about," Niamh said. "From what I have seen of the guys around my age, I have nothing to worry about."
"You know you can't just rely on your bloodline you know," Asuma spoke up.
"What you want to make a move on me old man?" Niamh ask.
"Old man?" Asuma said shock as he's only a few years older then she is and isn't that old… yet.
"Well you can forget it the only way you're going to be dating me is if you can beat me," Niamh said. "And once you lose I'm going to hang you up strip naked with only a sign covering you privet part. Like what I do with the one eye pervert here."
"Would you stop calling me that!" Kakashi ask.
"Give up reading that book then we'll talk," she replies. "You're setting a bad example to your students and other young boys into thinking its okay to read dirty books, because they can't get a real woman without paying them."
"She has you there," Kurenai giggles as Kakashi mumbles, while their students laugh.
"When we meet again I hope you will reconsider my offer," Akira said as he leaves.
"Only in your dreams," Niamh said as she waves him off as she turns to the young ninjas she had 'tricked' into helping her in with her new home. "Come on you guys have a house to fix up."
"You do know that his family is powerful in the village right?" Asuma ask as he walks next to her.
"Only if he hires someone to fight for him otherwise he'll be no trouble for me," Niamh said as the others follow her. "But now you guys will help me get the supplies I brought to my new house."
"Be careful she'll end up having us guys lug all of the supplies," Kakashi warns them.
"Like that's going to happen," Kiba said not seeing the smirk on Niamh's face.
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Later –
Niamh went to catalogue the goods in the three carts before they left for her and Naruto's new home. That's located outside of the town while remaining inside the walls of the village. She had brought and took everything that could be fitted onto the two wagons as they needed to repair the house and build it up.
"You were saying how she couldn't get us to lug all of the supplies while she and the other girls don't?" Shino ask Kiba as they pull the cart of supplies behind them. Choji is behind the cart pushing.
"Just pull mules," Ino smirks as she sits on the cart the two boys are pulling.
"Why are you sitting on the cart?" Kiba ask as he could see his 'faithful' dog sitting in the lap of Hinata sitting on the other cart.
"Because we're weak girls while you two are big strong boys," Ino smirk her voice thick with sarcasm.
"So just deal with it," Sakura said sitting next to Ino. Hinata is on the other cart that's being pulled by Shikimaru and Sasuke, behind the cart Naruto was pushing at the back.
"I still don't get how we agreed with this," Shikimaru said as he doesn't get how they got trick into pulling the carts while the girls rode on them.
"Tell me about it," Kakashi said as he pulls the cart Niamh and Kurenai are riding on.
"You just had to egged them on didn't you," Asuma said glancing at Kakashi as they pull the heavy cart as all of the heavy stuff had been place in their cart.
"As if it would have turned out any differently," Niamh said as she and Kurenai smirks at the two men as they pulled the cart through the streets with people staring at them. "At least I'm not having you guys lug the furniture from Naruto's place."
"Better just go with what they want then auguring with them," Asuma said as he know making a woman mad is a dumb thing to do.
"I have been wondering about something Niamh," Kurenai ask her. "What are you planning on doing here in the village for a living?"
"Well I have plenty of money that I took from Gatou when I destroyed his base," Niamh said. "But I guess I should start working besides training Naruto, Sakura and whoever I'm going to train with them."
"What are you planning on doing?" Sakura ask.
"Join us?" Hinata ask.
"Naw I don't want to join this village," Niamh said. "I'm here because I still need to train Naruto and Sakura more and keep them from becoming perverts like the one pulling the cart over here."
"Will you stop that already!" Kakashi grunted.
"No," she replied.
"What are you going to do?" Ino ask as the boys are too busy pulling the carts to ask.
"I can open up a transporter business like Akabane where I go and keep transports safe from harm," Niamh said.
"Who's Akabane?" Kakashi ask.
"He's a transporter from where I'm from," Niamh said. "One of the best in the business."
"Tell us about him," Naruto said as he likes hearing stories from the land where she's from.
"Kuroudo 'The Jackal' Akabane works as a 'Transporter', a person is paid to escort things to a certain location. With his attire (black hat and coat, complete with shirt and black tie) and polite manners, he could be mistaken for a harmless person. But for those who even remotely heard of his name, they know that the Jackal is possibly the most evil Transporter to ply his trade ever. Entertainment is his main goal, not money; he is mainly a hedonist and the jobs he takes are chosen exclusively his own for amusement. He likes to decapitate his enemies while engaging them in battle, a practice that many of the other transporters see as going too far.
"Akabane's primary weapons are 108 razor-sharp surgical scalpels which he can hurl with deadly accuracy. Although many people initially believed that he simply concealed the weapons beneath his flowing clothes, when one of his opponents incinerated them during a battle it became apparent that Akabane actually conceals the scalpels within his own body. The scalpels appear to be an extension of Akabane although he rarely chooses to manipulate their movement once thrown normally, he has displayed the ability to summon them back into his body from a distance. His most spectacular use of his scalpels is in his 'Bloody Rain' attack, where he will launch all of the weapons into the air and direct them to rain down on a single target. Other unique powers include the Bloody Cross, by laying his palm outwards, a cross like pattern will appear, and cause his opponent to be cleaved into 4 quarters as though they were sliced by a cross-shaped knife."
"The precise nature of Akabane's power has yet to be defined, when he battled a man name Kyoji Kagami and inhaled some of his Mirror Dust, a powder made out of diamonds that will tear up a persons inside by breathing it in, he promptly coughed up the deadly mixture and shaped it into a pair of diamond scalpels, noting that anything which mixed with his blood became his weapon. Consequently, it would be safe to assume that Akabane actually generates his weapons out of his own blood, that certainly appears to be the case with his massive 'Bloody Sword,' a weapon he summons only if he feels an opponent is worth it. If nothing else, he would certainly not be able to literally conceal the sword within his flesh, the way his scalpels are originally suggested to be hidden.
All this, combined with a surgical mind and great speed, make him one of the most feared men in Ura Shinjuku. Employing both his knowledge of human anatomy and his occult powers against his victims he makes even the most powerful fighters that I know be wary when they hear his name. Akabane states that his motives in fighting, is to find someone who can test the limits of his power - something he himself has never seen."
"He only fights to see how strong he is and what his limits are?" Sakura ask.
"Yes he does," Niamh said.
"Wow he sounds scary," Naruto said.
"He is and more that that. People have wasted hundreds of bullets trying to shoot him. When they do manage to hit him his wounds heal within seconds. He only lets wounds last longer then that is when he's in battle and wants to test the limits of his body," Niamh said.
"There seems to be lots of powerful fighters where you come from," Kurenai said as the Hokage had told them to gather as much information as they can from her.
"Well where I come from people can travel to many different places faster then around here," Niamh said knowing she has to keep up her act for as long as she can. Just long enough to find out the reason why almost all of the people in this village look down at Naruto. Until then she's going to have to play the part that she had rewritten for herself in the stage of this world she has found herself in.
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Outside of the village –
When they arrived at the old building Niamh had brought everyone could see why she needed all of the hands she could get as it's been abandon since the night the demon fox attack the village. The genins broke out the brooms, mops, buckets, and other things, they started to clean the house, with Niamh and the other adults helping them. As usual Kakashi left them to read while they fend themselves, that's until Niamh shoves a broom into his hands and told him to get to work. When he said no to her, he quickly change his tune once he found himself in a dress. Dusts were swept off, the wooden floor was moped and polished, along with the wooden wall, and the ceiling was freshly painted. When they were finished, the delivery wagons came, and the genins helped the workers to take in the furniture. They also changed the outward appearance of the building making it more defensive and fortified as Niamh put them to work in making an outer wall around the house.
They had set up a perimeter of fifty yards around the building. A ditch fifteen feet across and eight feet deep had been excavated the length of the perimeter, the earth piled up to form a parapet topped with a sentry post. Firing platforms, which were flanked on the four corners by massive salient for artillery, were set so that all approaches could be swept by a deadly hail of fire. As for the outer wall she used the Murus Gallicus as a model, the Gallic Wall of the old continental Celts. It was a crib-cage of horizontal squared logs, each layer at right-angles to the one below, the gaps between the logs were filled with fitted rock and rubble before the next layer of timbers was spiked down, until the wall was as high as you wanted, thirty feet, here and an outer layer of mortared fieldstone concealed the ends of the horizontal logs. There are U-shaped towers half again as tall at the corners, plus a pair facing each way to bracket the gate.
Niamh knew that people would come after her for the weapons and knowledge she has in her head, in using them. She wanted to make sure she would be ready for anything that might come her way. Besides she has someone important to protect now.
She turns to gaze upon Naruto as he helps that girl Hinata with putting up the fence post. She couldn't help but see how Hinata is looking at Naruto while he remain clueless to her, like most boys at his age as well as most guys she knew. Maybe she should play matchmaker as she saw that they would make a cute couple.
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In the Land of Grass –
A long line of people waited in front of the barred windows of a ticket booth. There were young couples, older couples, families with children, and tourists with cameras. Gai and his team joined the line behind two young boys who stood behind their parents, punching each other in the arm. The older boy was hurting the younger boy, who looked as if he would break into tears soon, but the parents paid no attention to either one.
The long line moved slowly. Darkness settled across the field, the moon came out, stars appeared one by one in the purple sky. Gai and his team had finished with a mission and since the village they had did the mission in was close by to the fairground, Gai decided that they should see the show while they were there.
Gai and his team had been the last ones to get in line. When they finally reached the ticket window, they could hear the ringmaster inside the tent already starting the show. "Children of all ages…"
Behind the ticket booth's thin black bars, they saw a short clown, his gloved hands on the counter waiting for the money.
"How much?" Gai ask.
"Sixty ryou," he replies.
"Alright," Gai said as he hands over the money to the clown.
"This is going to be fun," Lee said as he hasn't been to a circus in years.
"Why are we wasting time here for?" Neji ask.
"Seeing a show would be a nice break from that last mission we were on," Tenten said as they had to escort a merchant train to the village they had just left.
"Let's enjoy the show. I heard that the acts of Professor Perry's traveling carnival are top of the line," Gai said as they enter the circus grounds. "You guys might learn something."
"I can't see that happening," Neji said following his teacher.
All around the circus grounds were tents and booths with signs proclaiming the wondrous contents within. From where they were standing, the Leaf ninjas could see a fortune teller's tent, numerous food booths, games of chance and skill and off in the distance was a much larger tent from which echoed applause and gasps of amazement. They looked at the tent they're standing in front of and saw a sign near the front proclaiming it to house Mysterio, the greatest hypnotist alive.
Off to the side at the Freaks tent some of the freaks were showing off their acts. A man dress in yellow was spitting out fire to a crowd of on lookers, the fire taking shapes as they rose into the air as if the person breathing out the flames was controlling them. A poster reading, 'Lightning Larouche' stood behind him. The poster next to his is one that displays the conjoined twin sisters Yami and Aymi. And the conjoined twin stood in front of a crowd of onlookers telling them about themselves.
The left head - Yami, she'd said her name was - had short hair, and Aymi's was long, but otherwise, they were perfect mirror images of each other. They had a really scary way of talking too; they kept finishing each other's sentences.
"So," Yami began. "We're really just like any other identical twins…"
Aymi took over in mid-sentence, "… in that we started from a single egg."
Yami, "Only our egg didn't divide all the way…"
Aymi, "…so we ended up like this."
Yami, "They call us dicephalic twins because we look like one girl with two heads, but…"
"… but we're really two half-girls fused together." Aymi finished for her as they turned back to the crowd.
"Wow," Tenten said. "How can they move with two minds controlling one body."
"They had too," Gai said.
"Hey there's smoke coming from the village," someone in the crowd yelled out.
Everyone in the crowd turned towards the direction of the village and they could see a tall column of smoke raising up into the air.
"Quick we have to see what's happening there," Gai shouted to his students who nodded as they sped off towards the burning village.
In one of the circus tents Professor Perry smiled as he watches the smoke raising into the air. With most of the villagers here Chris Ugly's gang would have an easy time with those people that were left there. "But of course those Leaf ninjas might put a stop to that," he said to himself as he watches the villagers running around like headless chickens as they have no idea what to do as their village burns.
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In the burning village –
A man with all of the finer qualities removed, his hair matted, his brow exaggerated, his skin hairy, sallow, and rough, the large jowls with graying muttonchops and mouth that dripped saliva. The man pointed a strange weapon at a group of people trying to run away, a loud crack echoed as the weapon fired and turn the people it was aiming at into bloody chucks. The man Ugly Chris laugh as he reloads his new toy watching as the rest of his gang had their own brand of fun with the village.
His weapon that was given to him is called 'The Volley Gun' comprised of seven barrels welded together, with small vents drilled through from the central barrel to the other six barrels clustered around it. The central barrel screwed on to a hollow spigot which formed the chamber and was connected to the vent. The gun operated using a standard flintlock mechanism, with the priming gunpowder igniting the central charge via a small vent. When the flash reached the central chamber, all seven charges ignited at once, firing more or less simultaneously. Took awhile to reload the weapon but with the amount of power it packs, made up for the slow reloading time it took.
Gigolo the long haired blonde was busy throwing Molotov cocktails through windows, lighting up the night sky. He also armed with a gun that fires flaming rounds that set fire to the wooden buildings when they hit. Hedgehog who looks like one is armed with a gun made with two barrels that's short but makes up in firepower. He kicked down a door and open fire on the people inside before running in to take what he can. (1) Chicken who always wore a farmer's hat, is armed with a strange looking crossbow firing bolts rapidly at anything that catches his eye. He could fire dozens of bolts before he needed to reload his weapon. He made short work out of the fleeing villagers that made a run for it. Smiley is busy as he uses a circular weapon attach to a small motor like that of a motor boat that causes the blade to spin around at a fast speed. He made short work out of lock doors as the teeth of the circular blade tore through the wood, as well as the flesh of anyone he bumps into as he cuts through into buildings. The last member of the Ugly Chris gang, Whiskey being more of the money type instead of joining his fellow gang members in the slaughter is busy grabbing whatever he could that looks like its valuable and dumping it into their wagon.
Hedgehog was reloading his weapon when a kunai struck his weapon breaking it as the trigger of it got broken off by the throwing weapon. He looks towards where the weapon came from to see a group of ninjas running towards him. The girl of the group threw another kunai at his hand punching through it and making him let go of his gun. The adult of the group once he was close enough strikes out at him and hit him with a spinning kick sending him flying through the air, hitting the side of a building.
"What's that?" Neji ask as Gai picks up the strange weapon that the man was using.
"It looks like a gun," Gai said.
"What you mean like what the woman Niamh has?" Tenten said having heard about the woman who's armed with strange and powerful weapons from the lands across the sea.
"Yes I think it is," Gai said looking it over. "I want all of you to watch yourselves. You seen what Niamh guns can do when she showed what her weapons can do and the power they have even at long rangers."
"We will," his students said.
"Good you three stay together and take out anyone you see but be sure you don't get too close and make sure you have cover," Gai said.
"Teacher behind you!" Lee shouted as a big burly man dress black and has an eye patch over his right eye came out from behind one of the burning buildings. He held a big gun with several barrels on it.
"Get out of here," Gai shouted as he drove for cover as the man fired his weapon punching a hole through wall of the building that was behind Gai. "I'll handle him!" His students nodded and run from the scene heading for the sounds of fighting going on elsewhere in the village.
"You think you can take me on!" Ugly Chris said as he reloads his weapon as he drove for cover behind a building.
"Let's find out shall we," Gai said as he pops out from behind his cover as Ugly Chris did the same. Gai holding three kunais ready to throw, as Ugly Chris aims his gun at Gai. They stood still as their eyes meet with each others. Then within a blink of an eye the stalemate was broken as Ugly Chris fired his gun as Gai threw his kunais.
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Lee, Neji and Tenten race across the roofs of the burning village heading for where the screams of fighting are coming from. When they got there they saw bodies of villagers who were shot down as they tried to flee from the burning village, as a man wearing a farmer's hat armed with a strange crossbow laughed wildly at scene laid out before. They were about to attack when Neji using his bloodline saw some kind of fierily projectile flying straight at them.
"Jump!" Neji shouted as he pulls his two teammates with him as he jump off the roof as the fierily projectile struck where they were standing, making the roof top explode into a fierily blast of flames.
"What was that?" Tenten said as she shakes off the effect of being pulled off a roof in mere moments before it exploded.
"It was like a bomb but it flew through the air like one of Niamh's bullets," Neji said.
"Did you see where it came from?" Lee asked him.
Before Neji could answer a buzzing noise suddenly came from behind a wooden wall of the building they're hiding behind. A circular saw blade suddenly tore its way through the wall and bursting through the weaken wall is a man holding a strange looking machine that had cut through the wall of the building in seconds. The man charge at them and began swing his buzzing weapon at the three kids. Lee jump as the blade of the weapon cut through the air where he was standing at moments ago. Neji was about to leap at him when the man turn facing him and charge at him with the spinning blade in front of him, knowing that he couldn't risk being struck by that weapon without suffering a mortal wound.
"Watch out!" Tenten shouted as she took out a bo and swung it at the man but his weapon easily slice through it. She rolled into a ball and rolled between his legs and using what's left of her staff she pulls his legs out from under him. His weapon fell in front of him the blade still spinning as he fell on top of it, his screams filled the air as his own weapons cut and slice its way into his body. They look away as the man scream as blood spayed from the spinning blades as it deeps into him. The man finally stops screaming and moving, laying still as the weapon he was swinging was the only thing that was still moving.
"What a horrible way to go," Lee said as he sees Tenten look sick as she had never killed anyone before, until now that is.
"There you are!" a man with long blonde hair shouted as he aims a gun at them as he held a Molotov cocktail bottle in his other hand at the end of the street the Leaf ninjas are on.
"I got this!" the man with the crossbow shouted out as he pops up from the other end of the street. He fired a dozen bolts at the three young ninjas, but none of them struck as Neji step in front of the incoming bolts and using his skills deflected every one of them.
"We got to get out of here," Lee shouted as he saw the man with the Molotov cocktail firing his gun at them. Seeing the fierily projectile flying straight at him he opens the lock gate inside of him and grabs the flaming projectile out of the air. Ignoring the pain coming from holding the red hot shell in his hand he throws it at the man with the crossbow.
The shell struck the man engulfing him in fire. As he thrash about he pulls the trigger of his crossbow firing bolts wildly through the air. One of the bolts struck the man who had fired the flame shot through his neck. He grunted and choked as blood poured from his mouth and bleeding neck, before falling flat on his face. The unlit Molotov cocktail rolled from his cooling body as he lied still. The man on fire run around blindly as he tries to put out the flames, rolling on the ground but the flames cling to his body still as the jell that was use in the flame round continue to burn. He ran screaming into one of the burning houses as he was blinded by the fire burning his flesh.
"That handles them," Lee said as he turns to face his two teammates but froze when he saw it.
"I think this is bad," Tenten said as two bolts had struck her chest. One struck her right chest area and the other in her guts. She fell onto her side coughing up blood.
"We got to get her to a doctor," Lee shouted as he runs to her side.
"Lee you go and pull out the arrows out and I get the med kit," Neji said as he reaches into his pack and pulls out his med kit incase something like this happens.
"Right," Lee said as he grips the bolts and pulls them out of Tenten as she screams out in pain as they were removed.
As the two young ninjas helped their injured female teammate, a lone figure came walking towards them holding a multiply barrel gun in his hands. The figure's body was bleeding badly as he breathed haggardly as he came closer to the three young ninjas. The two boys were so focus on their injured teammate that they didn't see the figure until he was upon them.
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Author's Notes
1 – The weapon Hedgehog has is like a sawn-off shotgun. It is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel and often a shorter or deleted stock, compared to a standard shotgun. The sawed-off shotgun has a larger spread and a more limited range, but it has about the same destructive power. Its reduced size makes it easier to conceal.
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