Lord Pain: Hello once again my reader's and reviewers. Thanks for all the vote's and fav's thus far!
Crow: Boss shut the hell up and get this chapter started...
(Lord Pain grumbles about ungreatful creation's.)
Ino: Crow why are you acting so on edge?
(The masked Civilian simply glares at her and turns his back to her arm's crossed.)
(Ino tear's up as he does so and Naruto comes by.)
Naruto: Crow stop making Ino cry!
Crow: I'm not...
Naruto(Glares at Crow): Yes... Yes you are...
(Crow growls and walks away Lord Pain, Ino, and Naruto all looking after him as he leaves.)
Naruto: Hey... This is the first time Demon's haven't attacked someone since you started doing this...
(Lord Pain blinks to himself then turns grinning at Naruto)
Naruto: ... Ahh shit...(Demon's appear from no ware and dog pile on Naruto before dragging him off to an undisclosed location.)
Lord Pain: Ino if you would please do the Disclaimer...
(Ino nod's her head slowly then smile's to the audience.)
Ino: Lord Pain doesn't own anything from the original Naruto Anime/Manga. He only owns the Oc's in this story, and the new Jutsu's within. If you see anything from another show, game, manga, or any other type of entertainment, it's not Lord Pain's, he's just borrowing it for this story.
(Lord Pain nod's and then grins.)
Lord Pain: And now on with the show...
Naruto Ultimate...
Chapter 5:
The Past of Iyoku Onizuka, Devil of the Hidden Mist reveled: Crow's inner Madness Unleashed!!!
I don't think about the future... It comes soon enough...
... 26LordPain
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Talking "Yo"
Thinking 'Stupid Fox'
Demon/Madness Jutsu Talking "Grrrr..."
Demon/Madness Jutsu Thinking 'Stupid Kit...'
Inner Self Talking "CHAA!!!"
Jutsu "Shadow Clone Jutsu"
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(Outside Tazuna's Village...)
Crow was glowing with a fierce black chakra, the chakra was swirling at his feet then around his body like a mini-typhoon. Naruto looked completely afraid of his brother for once in his life as he stared at the angry, no slash that, the positively FURIOUS expression in Crow's now inverted eye's. But that wasn't exactly what was scaring him, what was, was that he's only HEARD of this Jutsu in rumor...
It was developed in Kiri, yet only a few of it's Ninja ever managed to truly master it. It was designed to forcibly SHOVE all of your good qualities to a back burner and bring out your worst tendency's. When in use it was said that a man who was normally saintly, would become a ravaging beast that wouldn't care if man, woman, or child stood in his way so long as he defeated his enemy. Naruto had only heard of it once from Iruka when they were studying about an old war between them and Kiri when Konoha first came into being.
A man by the name of Onigumo Onizuka was it's creator and the first to use it and gained him the nickname in Konoha, The Mad Schemer of the Hidden Mist. And if Zabuza was correct then Crow was a direct descendant of that same mad-man. Now Naruto knew not to judge a person because of their past or family, that had been done enough to him, but he did know to trust his instinct's, which at the moment were telling him something was seriously wrong with Crow.
Crow meanwhile was glaring angrily at Zabuza, his skin darkening to a dark gray, his hair seemed to fall down around his head, no longer spiking back and took on a chalk white color. As this happened the nail's on his hand's and feet inverted also, now white, and those who looked at him could only bet his teeth had turned black as pitch...
"W-what the hell is this..." Sasuke mumbled shivering as Crow slung Tora over his shoulder's effortlessly lifting the rather large blade almost like it was nothing to him. "This... This isn't power... What kind of monster is he?!" Sasuke demanded with wide eye's Sakura hiding behind him and Naruto growled.
"My brother is NOT a monster Sasuke..." He stated firmly but before the conversation could go any more down hill for the two, Crow finally spoke...
"Well now... It's nice to finally have all those annoying moral's gone... Now there's nothing to hold me back..." Crow said his voice having taken a demonic edge to it as he stretched his arm's and leg's before looking at Zabuza who chuckled but was inwardly cursing his luck. This Jutsu was as feared in Kiri as it was any ware else, mainly because he'd heard that it was used only a few time's in history and every time someone was maimed beyond recognition. They say that only a few outside of the Onizuka ever mastered it, but they go insane when and if they remember some of the thing's they've done, while in a 'madness' state...
"So the Devil's finally awake huh Iyoku?" Zabuza questioned keeping down the tinge of fear and Crow nodded his head silently. He couldn't allow the brat to intimidate him or he was already dead. "Good... Now show me your power... The power that allowed you to defeat the second most powerful of the Shinobi swordsmen and take her sword!" Zabuza yelled rushing forward and swinging his massive Zanbato down at the young man who bowed his head and body, and caught it with Tora.
"Tora is more than enough to deal with the likes of you, and this Jutsu's only main ability are the slight physical changes and the increased aggression and hatred, it does little more... However... Due to the fact my Kekkei-Genkai cannot be activated in the Madness state, due to the chakra in my body being to spread out, I will have to deal with you on my own so I may not go completely full out on you... Whats more seal's that are in place on me, when this is activated also cannot be removed till the end of the Jutsu..." Crow said more to himself and Naruto than anything else as he moved upward knocking the Zabuza clone back, before cracking his neck. "Even then however, I am still more than powerful enough to combat you Momo..." Crow stated without any hint of fear and not even a tiny speck of any type of hate.
"So... Your weakened more than strengthened in this state... How utterly arrogant of you... And your still calling your sword "Tora" that wasn't the name that it's creator gave it kid... AND STOP CALLING ME MOMO!!" Zabuza said then shouted and yet Crow simply moved with his sword and swung upwards knocking Zabuza off balance as he then brought his sword down and Zabuza flipped backwards.
"Come see who is Arrogant Momo... The Demon or the Devil... In fact... Come to me... And I shall show you the Greatest Nightmare!" Crow shouted as he ran forward and swung his sword at a downward angle. Zabuza rolled out of the way and swung his own sword but Crow quickly brought his sword up in between himself and Zabuza's and was knocked back. Zabuza or rather his clone then created more water clone's that lunged at Crow who smirked and jumped up and spun his blade around cutting the clone's and forcing them back into water. Crow then ran at the real Zabuza also running on water and the man growled and sent four water Clone's at the boy who grinned.
"Massacre!" He shouted and swung his sword in a sideway's angle cutting threw the clone's like a hot knife threw butter and spinning low to the ground before bringing his sword upward to cleave off the real Zabuza's hand.
The masked nuke-nin had other idea's in mind however and promptly cursed as he had to release Kakashi and flip back out of the way. Crow's blade went for his hand but connecting with nothing as the teen then grinned insanely and ran forward laughing loudly as though possessed. However Crow stopped abruptly and turned swinging the side of Tora and knocking a kunai into the water. Crow turned to the source of the Kunai and saw that Kakashi was looking at him from behind. "Listen Crow, calm down, I'll handle Zabuza..." Kakashi stated and Crow snarled and ran at him surprising the masked Jounin with his speed as he vanished in a silver flash and reappeared holding him by the neck making his eye's go wide in fright.
"You already had your chance Hatake-san... But... THIS IS MY FIGHT NOW!!" The boy shouted then kneed Kakashi in the stomach before spinning and knocking Kakashi away with the blunt side of his sword. The silver haired Jounin did a mid air flip and landed skidding back but still on his hand's and feet.
"Sensei are you alright?" Sakura questioned worried and Kakashi saw an insane grin break across Crow's face once more as he ran at Zabuza who dodged a slash from the boy's rather large blade.
"Naruto... Did you know that Crow was a member of the Onizuka Clan?" Kakashi asked his voice calm but with a certain edge to it and Naruto quickly shook his head no. "I thought so... No one get near them, if Crow's as serious as this it would be foolish to attempt anything that Crow might consider interference, he's obviously not in the right of mind at the moment..." 'Then again... Considering the Jutsu he used... Who would be?' Kakashi stated then thought to himself and his team nodded as their masked Sensei's mind was going into overdrive at the moment with the revelation of Crow's "Heritage".
The fact of the matter was simple to Kakashi. Crow or Iyoku as Zabuza was calling him, was an Onizuka, one of the more feared Clan's in the Hidden Mist. Add onto that, that the clan was recently dying out and the Council in Konoha would have a fit. They would want the "Bloody Eye" but instead Crow's "Clan" would have the "Blood Cross Eye" something more dangerous than the older version. Kakashi might be a loyal ninja to Konoha, but he wasn't dumb. Crow would be expected to make a clan, have multiple wives (Though obviously Crow wouldn't mind THAT part) and to have multiple heir's. However, seeing as Crow never registered himself as a member of Konoha, and instead lived in a hotel which he repaired for rent, he was technically in the clear of the Council. Kakashi had to admit that the young man was absolutely devious, he'd trained Naruto, kept his secret from everyone for six year's, AND he'd managed to find a way around the Council!
However even while Kakashi was trapped in his thought's Crow continued to attack Zabuza. Who was managing to dodge the shorter swordsman, but the fact was while Zabuza was fast... Crow with his smaller blade was still faster and could get in closer to him. Zabuza jumped back as Crow brought Tora down then raised it up nicking the Nuke-Nin's chest and Zabuza growled annoyed. "Your still the same Iyoku... Never thinking thing's threw..." He muttered then jumped back as Crow swiped at him once more only vertically. "You can't beat me here Iyoku, you don't have enough Chakra to keep yourself above the water for much longer..." Zabuza stated and Crow chuckled darkly before raising his sword into the air above his head. Chakra surrounded the sword, a blue mist coming around the blade with the sound of ice popping filling the air as Crow grinned behind his mask.
"Tora... ROAR!!" Crow shouted bringing down his glowing blade and a powerful icy wind extended from the blade freezing everything in it's path. The wind did in fact sound somewhat like a roar, or maybe some form of icy wail but it didn't matter as the temperature in the area around the Genin and Jounin started to drop as the wind from Crow's sword swirled around them all. Zabuza cursed loudly as he jumped off the water as it was then quickly frozen into a thick pool of ice and fell to the slippery surface barely keeping his footing. "He he... You forget Momo, that like the other Shinobi Swordsman's blade's, my own sword has a few abilities. First by channeling Chakra into it, it cleans and sharpen's itself. Second, I can change it from an attack and defensive form and back again with chakra. And lastly, my sword was made to be able to freeze anything in my path..." Crow said with an evil look in his eye's as Zabuza growled.
"I did forget... Still that won't be enough to stop me... Your sword was the last one the creator of the Shinobi Swordsman's sword's ever made... Mine was the first..." Zabuza growled and ran forward using a small amount of chakra to stick to the ice, then some more was sent to his sword to sharpen it. Zabuza's own sword DID have some abilities that not many were aware of. It's just they were small in comparison to the other Shinobi Swordsmans Blade's. His could be repaired, sharpened, and cleaned by adding a bit of chakra to it. That was all that he could do with it but it was JUST enough to make the sword special. Crow watched as Zabuza came at him and simply took a firmer hold of Tora and the blade's plate's and hilt all started to shift and change as Chakra was added to it.
The blade lengthened to about five to six feet long turning into a mini Zanbato, with the serrated part's down the front dubbling making about ten jagged edges. The hilt shrank into itself as a pair of bone looking growth's reached up from the hilt halfway up both side's of the blade, stopping when a circular hole appeared in the middle of the sword itself. From the circle icy dust formed and swirled, before it turned into into a black eye with a fiery purple iris, blue vein's glowing all around it and a white slitted pupil looking all around it and pulsing slightly almost like it was mimicking a heart beat. The handle of the sword had also changed, the black leather was completely covering the handle now, showing none of the metal on it, and was strapped into a spiral down to the base of the sword ware the blue ties had wrapped themselves around Crow's wrist somehow.
Crow lifted the now massive blade onto his shoulder's and chuckled lightly. "What do you think of Tora now Momo?" Crow questioned and Zabuza growled and then crouched down with his sword and swung at Crow. "Oh well... No more chit chat..." Crow said to himself as he then flipped up into the air over Zabuza's sword and brought Tora in it's "Attack Mode" Down at the Nuke-Nin. Zabuza quickly shoved Crow back and swung at the boy who used his own sword to block sending him sliding along the Ice away from Zabuza. "Not bad Momo, but I was trained to fight in the harsh condition's of Yuki No Kuni, I think I can handle being knocked across some ice... But I wonder... Can you?" Crow questioned grinning as he shifted his weight and flipped to his feet and easily ran across the ice, the small blade's at the soul's of his sandals helping him run.
However, Zabuza nearly screamed in frustration. While he was used to water, the Ice and it's slick surface were more than a minor handicap for Zabuza. You couldn't use Chakra in the same way with the ice that you did with water, it caused it to melt somewhat and become even MORE slippery so you had to run on it unaided unless you had some kind of system of blades or stud's of some kind in the soul's of your sandals... And knowing "Iyoku" Zabuza was sure the teen had, had just that installed. Probably just as a precaution but none the less a good one with his sword's Ice abilities. While Zabuza tried to think of a viable solution to his delima Crow took his distraction as his chance and rushed toward the large Nuke-nin.
Zabuza cursed once more as Crow swung Tora at him, and the large Nuke-nin slid back after the sword's hit. He did however notice that the pulsing "Eye" of the sword seemed to be watching him... He really didn't like that... It was creepy even for him... "So this is the 'Dark Seed's', true form... It is impressive..." He muttered to himself and flipped backwards to the shore and quickly making several hand seal's before finishing once he hit the ground. "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" He shouted and the semi melted ice around them rose into a dragon that roared and shot towards Crow. Crow smirked behind his mask as his sword once more glew with that icy aura, the cracking sound returning also.
"Tora! ROAR!!!" Crow shouted swinging his sword downward at the dragon freezing it solid as he then cut it in half. The attack passed the masked teen in time for him to see Zabuza create more Water Clone's which ran at him before he then started to form more hand seal's. "What are you up too now, Momo?" Crow wondered to himself idly before ducking under an attack from one of the Water Clone's. Crow then spun while he raised Tora and quickly cut one of them in half making it return to water that flowed to the ground. He then jumped over another one and slashed it's brother only for the last one too grab him from behind, as yet another came and grabbed his left arm holding him down.
"Gotcha!" Zabuza shouted and then ended his hand seal's and shoved his sword deep into the ice drawing water out. "Now then! Let's try this one more time! "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" Zabuza shouted firing yet another dragon of water at the boy. Crow promptly cursed then shifted his weight over to the right side hoping to evade the attack. However his arm didn't quite make it due to the weight of the Zabuza clone holding it. As the attack hit, it was snapped back by the dragon breaking it at the elbow, while the clone that was holding that arm was destroyed. Crow hissed in pain as he and the clone landed the clone falling into water on the ground as Crow's sword nicked it. "Not so smug now... Are you Iyoku..." Zabuza stated with a smirk under his bandaged mouth. The water Zabuza had freed was now starting to flow over and cover the top of the ice... This meant that Crow's advantage over Zabuza in terms of mobility were pretty much over. The Nuke-nin then quickly ran forward towards Crow, who glared at his arm then back at Zabuza.
"Cheater..." He mumbled then flipped to his feet grimacing as his arm throbbed falling limply to his side. 'Damnit... Tora's too heavy for one hand to use it properly... This bastard's just gonna start playing with me now...' Crow growled in his mind as he then ducked under Zabuza's sword. He managed to dodge the large blade a few more time's, but at this point it barely mattered. His arm was useless, and Tora was more of a two handed sword while in attack mode due to it's size and weight, also he couldn't release his Restriction Seal with the Madness Awakening Jutsu still in affect and that just made thing's worse for the masked teen. Zabuza however was almost cackling as he swung his sword at Crow again and again without losing as much Chakra as before. He was defeating a member of the Onizuka, not only that but he was beating THE Devil of the Hidden Mist... life was good...
"I knew it..." Zabuza sneered Kicking Crow in the stomach and knocking the teen to the ground. "The only reason you ever beat the second strongest Shinobi Swordsman, was because she was you big sister..." He laughed out and Crow growled one of his eye's twitching. However Crow didn't hear the shocked gasp from Sakura or the looks on the other genin's face's when Zabuza revealed that tidbit of info... Crow only had one thing to say to him really...
"Fuck off, Momo..." Zabuza however simply smirked and kicked him in the stomach once more, sending him skidding along the ice till he hit the shore.
"Humph brat... Sango always was too soft for her own good. But to let you take not only her sword, but her arm, and Hittai-ate also... I'm disgusted she was ever a member of the Seven." Zabuza said while shaking his head and Crow's jutsu finally ended his skin, hair, and eye's all returning back to normal. "But still... I'll finish what she started anyways!!" Zabuza shouted placing his sword onto his back and quickly formed Hand sign's.
Crow attempted to get up only to fall back down to the ground in pain. He growled not quite ready to die as he saw the attack. But then he saw Kakashi suddenly in front of him, doing the same sign's as Zabuza did. However the two somehow finished at the exact same time both shouting. "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" Crow's eye's bolted open as the two technique's collided and sent water spreading every ware.
As the water cleared the three Genin could only look and see that somehow Crow had used his sword to hold himself in place and was breathing heavily. Sasuke after seeing the boy fight then looked at Kakashi with wide eye's and amazement. 'So many sign's performed so quickly... and Master Kakashi mirrored them all flawlessly, instantly...' Sakura was wondering what that last Ninjutsu was and Naruto was running to his brother.
"Niisan are you alright!?" Naruto questioned and Crow groaned while looking at his broken arm then looked to his brother.
"Hold my sword in front of us Naruto... Tora's large enough to stop most attacks in this form..." He told the blond and Naruto spun the sword in front of them, he wasn't able to lift it thanks to the restriction seal on him but wondered how Crow could. Crow then concentrated and looked at his arm. "Shousen Jutsu..." Crow mumbled and a green glow came to his palm as he then rubbed it lightly over his elbow hoping he could help it even slightly with his Medical Ninjutsu.
'Something isn't right...' Zabuza thought to himself as Kakashi had caught his sword with a Kunai. 'He's!' Zabuza's thought's ended abruptly as both he and Kakashi jumped back from one another onto the water that was now covering the ice Crow made. The two then dashed in a half circle at the same time mirroring one another's moves. Once they stopped each made the sign to use the 'KiriGakure Jutsu' causing Zabuza's eye's to widen. 'All of my moves... My gestures... He sees...' Zabuza thought and Kakashi finished aloud for him.
"... Through them all." Zabuza's already wide eye's went further as he stared at the angered look in Kakashi's bi-colored eye's. 'What..?! Is he, reading my mind?!' Zabuza questioned while still looking into Kakashi's Sharingan eye... 'Damn him! He's...'
"Got that sickeningly evil look in his eye... Right?" Kakashi questioned of Zabuza who's eye's strained as he couldn't take this any longer.
"Feh! Your a pale imitation!" Zabuza said and Kakashi then spoke with him at the same time but with a calmer tone.
"I'm the genuine article. No mere copycat stands a chance against me." The two said at the same time and Zabuza finally had enough and began to form hand sign's quickly.
"YOU MIMIK ME LIKE A PARROT! I'LL CLOSE YOUR BEAK FOR GOOD!" Zabuza shouted but saw Kakashi was making the exact same seal's as he was once more. However what stopped Zabuza was when he saw something behind Kakashi... 'I... It's...' He thought then saw the shadow come into focus only to see himself staring back at him. 'ME?But Th-thats impossible!! Is this another one of his illusions?' Zabuza questioned inwardly only to see Kakashi hadn't stopped making seal's and then said.
"Suiton! Daibakufu no Jutsu!" With that Kakashi's Sharingan eye spun rapidly and a monstrous amount of water flooded the area Crow and Naruto hanging onto his large sword and the other to anything they could get their hand's on. 'Wh-what..?! This is absurd!! Before I could even finish my jutsu, he used the exact same technique against me...!' Were Zabuza's thought's as the water formed a massive sphere lifting him up into it and then throwing the Nuke-Nin down into the water's. 'I can't keep up with him!!' Zabuza thought to himself amazed despite himself. Soon Zabuza hit a tree and felt somewhat safe only for four Kunai to connect with his body knocking him back into the tree. "Thats that..." Kakashi said coldly from a branch up in the tree and Zabuza looked up at him with wide eye's.
"What... Can you see the future?!" Zabuza demanded and Kakashi held up a Kunai as he looked at the missing nin with his Sharingan eye.
"Yes... I foresee... Your death..." Kakasi said but several Senbon needle's came from the side and hit Zabuza in the side of his neck. Zabuza then fell slowly down to the ground making a loud thud as he hit. The shocked group all looked to ware the Senbon Needle's came from only to see a person in a mask.
Whoever they were Crow could smell the scent of a female, no matter how much the outfit seemed made for a boy. She had on a Hunter nin mask with the Kiri symble at the forehead and red designs at the side's. She wore a brown outfit under a green robe, a brown obi tied around her waist like a scarf, a pair of wooden sandals. While her long dark brown hair was pulled into a bun at the top of her head, her bang's pulled into a pair of bronze ornament's that reached to her chest. Her skin was pale but not to the extent that it was like Crow's, and she had green polish on her toe and finger nails.
Crow growled when he saw the person who then spoke to Kakashi with a deffinitely feminine voice. "Heh he... Your prediction came true..." She said and Kakashi quickly Shunshined to Zabuza and checked his pulse. 'It's no joke... he's dead... But who is this kid...' Kakashi wondered looking up then saw Crow getting up while using a medical Ninjutsu to slowly heal his arm.
"Kakashi! Don't let her get away! She's working for Zabuza!" Crow suddenly shouted and Kakashi took the advice and jumped into the tree to catch the girl. However she quickly ducked down and rolled under Kakashi landing with a soft plop and then made a bee line for Zabuza. Kakashi threw four Kunai at her but she dodged them and then slid next to Zabuza and taking one arm placing it over her shoulder. She briefly looked at Naruto and the group, but more presicely at Crow.
"Until we meet again... Lord Iyoku..." She said softly and then Shunshined away in a swirl of leaves making Crow growl angrily as she left.
"Haku... You little fool..." Crow mumbled and Naruto looked at him slightly confused. "Naruto could you please give me my goggles back now?" Crow questioned and Naruto nodded his head and reached into his pouch to pull the orange tinted goggles out and hand them to Crow. Kakashi then jumped down to the ground and made his way over to his team and looked directly at Crow.
"Who was that and how do you know her?" Kakashi questioned as Crow replaced his goggles hiding his eye color.
"Her name was Haku, she's a civilian from Kiri who has a Kekkei-Genkai, the Hyouton, Ice Release. Her mother was killed about eight year's ago when they found out she had a Kekkei-Genkai. She was then attacked by her own father when she was little and accidentally killed him and a group of people attempting to murder her. She was latter found by Zabuza who took her in, only to use her as a weapon and has done so ever since..." Crow said then sighed looking to the ground. "Before I left Kiri, I attempted to turn Haku onto the right path in life but she refused and only listens to Zabuza... Which is why I hate him so much... He turned a person into a living weapon, the one thing I can't stand in life..." He mumbled softly and Kakashi nodded slowly.
"Ha ha! You kid's must be humiliated being so weak compared to this guy!" Tazuna shouted clapping a hand onto Crow's back that made the teen fall to the ground face first. Kakashi then swayed for a bit and did the same and Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke looked at the two thoroughly confused.
"Great... My body's shutting down to mend the damage done to it..." Crow mumbled and Kakashi couldn't even make a sound. 'I can't budge... I... Must have used the sharingan eye for too long...' Kakashi mused from the ground then saw Crow fall to sleep entirely. 'Hmmm... His bodies 'Shutting Down'? To mend the damage he sustained? Is that even possible? I've never even heard of a Kekkei-Genkai that did that...' Kakashi mused to himself wondering what exactly Crow was to be able to do these thing's.
"Niisan! Shit! Hey Tazuna ware's your house at!?" Naruto asked frantically and Tazuna pointed down the path. "Sasuke, help me carry Niisan and his sword, Mister Tazuna, please help Sakura with Kakashi Sensei. More of those nin could attack us at any moment and I'd rather not have these two in this condition if were going to fight. They could be captured and used as hostage's or killed..." Naruto said a serious edge to his voice and stern eye's making Kakashi look at him strangely. 'So this is what your truly like Naruto... Calm, serious, and a natural leader... He he... Just like my old sensei...' Kakashi mused to himself as Tazuna and Sakura lifted him off the ground and Sasuke and Naruto rolled Crow onto his sword and strained to lift both.
"Dobe... This must way at least four hundred pounds... It's too much for just the two of us..." Sasuke grumbled and Naruto growled.
"Just think of it as training then! But I am not leaving my Niisan out here for who knows who to catch or kill him!" Naruto growled and Sasuke rolled his eye's and grunted as both he and Naruto had to put chakra into their arm's in order to lift Crow and his massive sword...
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"So will you be alright Mister Sensei?" A pretty blue haired woman asked Kakashi who was laying down on a mat with a pillow and blanket.
"No, but I will be... In about a week..." Kakashi stated and then looked over to the other side of the room ware Crow was laying a sling on his left arm. 'I'm more worried about him personally...' He thought to himself.
When they had reached Tsunami's house she had taken Crow to help him. She put his arm in a sling and then checked him for any more extensive injuries. Besides a couple of nasty cut's which she had to remove his shirt to get at Crow was going to be fine. However they had to remove his mask, Goggles, and Hittai ate to check his face and found he looked somewhat like an older Sasuke. Only with purple tribal tattoo's around his eye's, and paler than healthy skin. She also found his elongated kanine's and questioned Naruto who said they had always been like that, as had his nail's.
"Well at least that Zabuza fellow won't be back, that's good at least... So I bet we can relax for a good while." Tazuna said from beside of Sasuke and Kakashi inwardly frowned but his mind was drawn back to Crow...
Kakashi narrowed his eye's on the boy but couldn't help wonder about those eye mark's, sure he'd heard of a clan with them but he didn't think they would look EXACTLY like that. 'Hmmm... Crow has the same eye's, tribal marking's, and skin tone as Orochimaru... Does that mean that Orochimaru was an Onizuka? And if so why did HE live in Konoha rather than Kiri?' Kakashi wondered to himself with a frown as Crow slept.
"Master Kakashi, what were the Onizuka Clan like? I remember that Iruka Sensei gave us a History lesson about one named Onigumo but other than that I'm completely lost..." Sakura questioned and Kakashi sighed.
"It's not really surprising that you wouldn't remember much about him... That lesson was given near the beginning of the Konoha History class... Onigumo Onizuka was a mad man, he created the 'Awakening of Madness Jutsu', that you all saw Crow using..." Kakashi said with an annoyed look in his eye. "It is unknown how but Onigumo found a way to suppress morality and kindness, only to enhance hatred and anger inside of a human body, hence the Jutsu's name. However, Onigumo was only one of the many famous member's of the Onizuka Clan. The other's were erased from memory..." Kakashi said then closed his eye. "Another one was Raiden Onizuka, who created a special jutsu that allowed him to mold Lightning into any part of his body then release it with a touch. Then there was Yora Onizuka, who found a way to channel chakra into her own or other's hair and use it as a weapon or nearly unbreakable puppet string's."
"Then there was Ryubi Onizuka, he found a way to manipulate Chakra into his Kunai and have them attack from any direction they were thrown from. They would even explode whenever they hit... Besides them Sakura, even more Onizuka existed but all of them were expert's at molding Chakra without hand seal's and into special techniques, thereby making the Sharingan useless against them..." Kakashi explained and Sasuke growled not beleiving that could be true. After all, the Sharingan was supposed to be the ultimate Doujutsu, if it wasn't the Uchiha wouldn't have been as great as they were... Right?
"So Sensei, what else did they invent?" Naruto questioned and Kakashi's eye opened and looked in his direction.
"They were the one's that created a special seal designed to hold in massive amount's of chakra..." He said and Naruto's eye's widened. 'Is he talking about the Shiki Fuujin? And if so... Does that mean Crow knows more about it than he's letting on or...' Before Naruto's thought's could continue with his thoughts Crow suddenly shot up from bed and quickly looked around.
"What?" He asked as he saw Sasuke glare at him and Naruto look at him funny... He then noticed there was no orange tint and felt his face... He then ducked and pulled his mask back up, then put his Hittai-ate back on as well as his goggles. "Okay... So I remember Haku got away..." Crow said and Kakashi nodded.
"I was however wondering Crow... That girl called you "Lord Iyoku" what did she mean by that?" Kakashi questioned and Crow sighed.
"Technically speaking... I am a Lord... My family owned a rather large portion of Kiri, one of the reason's we lasted so much longer than the other Kekkei-Genkai holder's was because if we were overthrown, almost all of Kiri would lose a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money and be driven near to poverty. But Haku called me Lord because... For a short time... She was actually my vassal..." Crow admitted and everyone's jaw's dropped.
"Say what!?" Naruto demanded and Crow rubbed the back of his neck.
"Yeah... You see when I was about five and Haku was on the street's my dad took her in for a while. She lived with us as my "Vassal" for about a year. I at least called her a vassal, my dad said she was a slave a lot..." Crow said with a scowl behind his mask and an edge to his tone. "What happened was that I, along with my sensei helped her escape from my father so she wouldn't be a slave anymore. However, my dad had pretty much mentally broken her, made her think she wasn't anything if she didn't have a master, if she didn't have someone to use her she was nothing..." Crow said angrily his hand's in fist's and blood dripping down from them. "And after that Momo found her and made her into his new "Tool" she didn't even care really, so long as she was useful to a master Haku didn't and still doesn't give a rat's ass whats done to her..." Crow growled angrily and Naruto did likewise.
"Sensei... I REALY want to kill Niisan's father and Zabuza..." He stated and Kakashi couldn't help but inwardly agree but saw a sickaningly evil look cross Crow's feature's at that.
"No need... Dear old dad is already dead..." Crow stated with a somewhat happy tone and Sakura balked.
"FROM THE WAY YOU TALK IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOUR GLAD HE'S DEAD!!" She shouted and Crow nodded his head yes.
"Niisan hates people who do that to other's with a passion... His dad tried to do the same thing to him I'm guessing..." Naruto said evenly and Crow just nodded making Sakura gasp.
"B-but... Your his SON!" She shouted and Crow rolled his eye's. 'What a nice and happy little world she must live in...' Crow thought to himself annoyed by the pink banshee already.
"However were getting off the main topic. After all Zabuza is still alive..." Crow announced and Kakashi sat up and nodded.
"Senbon... Haku was your caretaker, so she healed you when you were sick right?" Kakashi muttered the questioned and Crow nodded. "Then she knows the point's to hit, in order to put Zabuza into a death like trance?" He asked and once more Crow nodded his head once more.
"What does that mean Sensei?" Sakura questioned of Kakashi and Sasuke's eye's widened as he figured it out.
"It means... That more than likely... Zabuza is still alive..." Kakashi stated and everyone but Sasuke, Crow, and Tsunami blanched.
"But Master Kakashi! You said that Zabuza was dead, you even checked him for a pulse!" Sakura yelled and Kakashi nodded.
"Yes, but if she was a caretaker she was probably trained in the healing art's. Kiri is filled with multiple attacker's and children are prone to injury so she probably had to heal Crow quite a bit..." Kakashi said then looked at the stoic form of Crow. "And I take it you Crow, don't want to hurt Haku, only Zabuza?" Kakashi questioned and Crow groweled.
"That's why I was so riled up to fight Momo... He dared to turn her into nothing but a tool... And after I tried to free her of that retchid fate no less..." Crow growled angrily and Kakashi sighed.
"We need to train... Or rather..." He said then turned to Crow. "You need to train them... At the moment I'm a bit indisposed after all..." Kakashi said and Crow sighed in annoyance. He then looked at his arm and rolled his eye's before pulling it out of it's sling and flexing showing a now fully working arm.
"What... But your arm was snapped backward! How is it working again?" Sakura questioned loudly and Crow grimaced. 'What the hell... Does she have some kind of jutsu that makes her voice that loud and annoying?' He wondered to himself then got up and stretched his sore muscle's.
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In the forest outside of Tazuna's village, Haku was looking threw several hunter nin tool's. Finally she choose a pair of sharp scissors and turned to Zabuza. "First I'll remove the wrapping's around his mouth so the blood can drain out, then..." She said and reached forward only for Zabuza to grab her by the wrist.
"Enough! I can do it myself..." Zabuza growled pulling the bandages from his mouth to expose his sharpened teeth.
"Well now... Awake already..." Haku said and Zabuza growled before gripping one of the Senbon Needle's in his throat.
"You have all the finesse... Of a butcher!" Zabuza growled removing the needle and Haku inwardly chuckled to herself.
"Gently please, Zabuza, sama. If you pull those out any which way, you really will kill yourself!" She told him and Zabuza ignored her and did what he wanted.
"How long are you going to be keeping that ghoulish mask on?! Take it off!" He questioned then ordered and Haku nodded to him.
"Old Habit's die hard..." Haku said as she removed her mask slowly. "And it would have been useful to get you away from them... Had Lord Iyoku not been there..." She said placing the mask down on the ground and looked at Zabuza showing a pretty young girl. "If I hadn't managed to get to you, we both would have been killed." She said and Zabuza growled.
"Maybe, but did you have to aim for my neck to put me in a death like trance? There a many other places on the body that would have done..." Zabuza growled and Haku tried her best to look innocent. "Then again... Your a sadistic little brat..." Zabuza growled and Haku chuckled lightly to herself.
"Thank you. But I was making sure I didn't add any scar's to you, Zabuza sama. Besides, the neck is also the least muscled place on the body and I can more precisely hit the target point's... That would normally leave a person paralyzed and apparently dead for a full week..." Haku said as Zabuza glanced at her. "But of course, someone like you will recover much more quickly... Right?" Haku questioned leaving Zabuza to glare out of one eye for a moment.
"... Are you really so innocent, so guileless... No doubt, it's why I like you..." Zabuza said and Haku smiled to her master.
"Heh... I'm only a child." She told him and Zabuza inwardly flinched. That wasn't true... He'd made her into a weapon... She was no child... "Hmmm... Without us even noticing, the mist has lifted..." Haku said as Zabuza became lost in thought. "Next time... Will you be all right?" She asked him softly and yet broke Zabuza out of his thought's and the large man frowned under the bandage's on his face.
"Next time... I'll break the Sharingan spell..." He growled angrily to himself more than Haku who simply nodded to her master...
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"Master Kakashi! How can you make us Train with this total nut!?" Sakura demanded pointing at Crow and Naruto growled.
"My brother is NOT a nut!" He shouted at Sakura who glared at him. Kakashi and Crow both sighed seeing the argument.
"Now now Sakura. Crow isn't a nut, most Nin just don't know the Jutsu he used... I'm sure a few wouldn't anyways but that's not the point. Crow has obviously had training in Chakra manipulation and has Medical Ninutsu at his disposal. While he may not be able to heal me he can help you three with your training while I rest to recover my Chakra sooner..." Kakashi told the three and Crow narrowed his eye's on Kakashi.
'You just want to read Ichi-Icha Paradise while I do your job for you...' He thought annoyed with the Jounin as Sakura then tried to point out that Training would be useless seeing as they had no idea when Zabuza would strike next. "One week..." Crow then said and Sakura blinked before looking at him. "Like Haku, I've had special medical training. However I have more advanced Medical Ninjutsu than her. And judging by the damage he took before the senbon hit he'll be out for exactly one week before then... plenty of time to train you all..." Crow stated and Sakura shut her mouth for once but pouted being outdone by Crow.
"It wont matter..." Came a kid's voice and Crow glanced over to see a kid in a hat with overall's and collared shit standing at the door.
"Who the hell is he!?" Naruto demanded only to be hit by Sakura for his language.
"Inari!!! Ware have you been?!" Tazuna questioned getting up and opening his arm's to the boy whom they figured was his grandson.
"Welcome home Grandpa..." Inari said and walked over to give his grandpa a hug.
"Inari, greet our guests properly! They're the esteemed Ninja who brought our grandfather home!" Tsunami scolded and the boy glanced at Naruto and the group with a frown on his face.
"But mama, they're all gonna die..." Inari said and Naruto growled. 'Kid! You are SOOO lucky I don't attack my client's family right now! But keep it up and I'll make an exception!?' Naruto thought to himself giving a death glare to Inari. "No one can beat Gato and his men." Inari said softly to them and Naruto growled.
"YOU BRAT!" He shouted and Sakura grabbed him to hold him back. 'That's it! Tora the cat was bad, But this kid is WORSE!!' Naruto inwardly growled even as Sakura held him back from the boy.
"HEY YOU LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT! Your looking at a super Ninja, someday I'll even become the hero my dad wanted me to be!" Naruto shouted and Inari's frown deepened.
"Hero? Your dumb... Theres no such thing..." He stated and Naruto tried to jump the little brat but Sakura was still holding him back... Barely... "If you don't wanna die, go home..." Inari dead panned and Sasuke watched him walk to a nearby door way.
"Where are you off to Inari?" Tazuna questioned and Inari sighed.
"I'm going to watch the ocean from my room..." He stated simply and slammed the door behind him leaving them all to listen as he walked up the stair's. Naruto hastily got away from Sakura but Crow put a hand on his shoulder.
"We don't have time for that Otouto..." He said softly and Naruto frowned.
"But that kid needs a good ass kicking Niisan!" He stated and Crow bopped him on the head.
"No Otouto... He doesn't... What we need to do however, is get your friend's as ready as I can for Haku and Momo..." Crow stated and Naruto sighed and nodded his head. "Alright, Kakashi I'll teach Naruto a Jutsu he's been wanting for a while, the other two will get some basic training and if I'm impressed, maybe a Jutsu..." Crow stated and Kakashi shrugged his shoulder's. "Alright, now c'mon you three, no rest for the wicked and all that..." Crow said and walked out of the building barely hearing Sakura mutter about him getting rest and being wicked...
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Team Seven and Crow were in a clearing out in the forest and the three Genin couldn't help feel like Crow could pass for an Inverted version of Kakashi. "Alright, now Sasuke I'm going to start you and Sakura off with a nifty little exercise called, 'Tree Walking'." Crow said and Sakura raised her hand. "Yes?" Crow inquired.
"What do you mean by 'Tree Walking'?" She questioned and Crow sighed. Rather than tell them however he walked over to a tree and focused some Chakra into his feet, a low silver glow coming from them as he then placed his foot on the side of the tree and walked right up for a way's then turned and walked back down.
"That's what I mean." Crow said to the slack jawed Pink haired girl.
"Why isn't the Dobe doing this?" Sasuke asked suddenly. Crow blinked, looked at Naruto, and pointed to a tree. Naruto shrugged and walked to the tree, put his hand's in the Ram seal and his feet glew blue before he also walked up and down the tree. Sakura gaped even more as Sasuke frowned deeply.
"I already taught this to Naruto nearly five year's ago. You two are only just learning it because your 'Academy' Is REALY under par with teaching it's student's anything of real value in terms of skill or practical use." Crow muttered and Sasuke couldn't really find himself able to argue with that last part.
"Excuse me Crow, but why are we even learning this exercise?" Sakura questioned and Crow sighed wondering if she was dropped on her head as a baby or something.
"The purpose of this Exercise is actually very simple Sakura. It's to increase your Chakra control and Stamina. With more Chakra control you Jutsu become easier to use, with more Stamina you last longer than most. Also at the moment, both you and Sasuke, take a good deal more time than I and Naruto when it comes to channeling our Chakra. At the moment Sakura, it would take you far too long to gather your Chakra for it to be of any use to you or your team in a life or death situation." Crow stated then looked around to see if any more question's would be asked, once he was sure there was none he eye smiled.
"Now then to walk on tree's you have to focus Chakra into your feet. This is the hardest area to channel chakra too as it has fewer chakra point's than the rest of your body. Also you have to be careful, too much, you fly off the tree, too little, and you won't stick." Crow stated then tossed a pair of Kunai at Sakura and Sasuke's feet. "Use those to mark your place as you climb... Make sure you mark it the highest you can go, then try and mark it higher than that each time till you can reach the top..." He said then pointed to a pair of tree's. "Now get to work... Also... You might want to get a running start..." Crow added and the two Genin did as told and ran to a tree.
Sasuke and Sakura both focused Chakra into their feet and quickly ran up the side's of the tree's. Sasuke barely made it a quarter of the way up before he had to mark the tree and was shot off the tree, flipping in midair and landing in a crouch. 'I see... Maintaining focus is a lot harder than Naruto makes it look... But I will get this... I'll become strong enough to defeat HIM, no matter what...' Sasuke thought to himself glaring at the tree.
"This is easier than I thought!" Came a voice and everyone looked up to see Sakura was already at the top of the Tree and Naruto and Sasuke gapped while Crow inwardly frowned. 'Yes she did manage to get up higher than the other's, but her reserves of Chakra are just so low that she'd have to be pretty dumb not to... Unlike Naruto who has MONSTROUS levels of Chakra that surpass mine, Momo's and even Kakashi's She barely has any at all... Sasuke has a lot but no ware near the amount of myself...' Crow thought to himself inwardly thankful for his rather large supply of Chakra.
"Wow! Way to go Sakura!" Naruto applauded and Sakura sighed as Sasuke ignored her. 'I wanted to impress Sasuke... But only Naruto even noticed me...' She thought to herself pitifully and Crow looked at Sasuke.
"What are you doing just sitting there. Get back to work..." Crow stated and Sasuke looked at Crow then nodded once and ran back at the tree. Sakura sighed and glumly retreated back down the tree and looked at Naruto and Crow for a second before walking to listen in on their conversation. "Alright Naruto. How would you like to learn the 'Air Hike' Now that we got some extra time?" Crow asked and a large grin came to Naruto's face.
"Would I?!" He exclaimed and Crow chuckled. However Naruto then took a serious look and asked his brother quietly so Sakura wouldn't over hear. "Why didn't you tell me about your clan and sister?" Crow's eye's widened for a second before he sighed and whispered back to his little Otouto.
"Why didn't you tell me about the Orphanage, the other beating's you got before we met, or the time's you were nearly assassinated?" Crow's questioned made Naruto look around then sigh.
"Right... Past is in the past... Now to that Jutsu!" Naruto mumbled then said with a wide grin on his face making Crow smile to his Otouto.
"Okay Otouto, like I said when I first showed you this it is like a Chakra control exercise, however it's a monster of one that's for sure. Unlike 'Tree Walking' or 'Water Walking' there's no visible surface for you to see and thus hold onto with your chakra." Crow said either not noticing or caring that Sakura looked attentively at him from behind. "Now, in order for you to even get ONE 'Air Hike' down you need to remember that Air move's much differently than water..." Crow stated then jumped up and a red platform appeared beneath him letting him stand in the air and Sakura gaped as he did this. "Look at the bottom of this platform quickly Naruto... I can't hold this for long..." Crow groaned out and Naruto quickly did as told.
The bottom of the platform seemed to have moving part's. None of it was simply still it was all moving and Naruto could see that it was basically a 'Chakra Shell' combined with the Chakra Control Exercises them self. Once Naruto was Done Crow crouched down then jumped off the Platform making it vanish into nothing and left Crow panting on the ground. "Alright... You under stand the basic princeable I take it?" Crow asked and Naruto nodded his head. "Then get to work... Just don't use it too long or it's going to tire you out for a while..." Crow said as he walked over to a tree and laid back.
Naruto cracked his knuckle's and then jumped up into the air and concentrated his chakra into a condensed form. However he could find the right pattern and fell to the ground and groaned. "Also, remember to figure out the patter of the air currents, let it guide your chakra..." Crow said then leaned back into the tree and closed his eye's. Naruto charged Chakra into his feet once more and jumped into the air quickly forming a platform. Once more it didn't hold and he fell back to the ground Sakura rolled her eye's as he tried to master what looked like it would at LEAST a C-Rank jutsu...
"Dammit! Why is this so hard?!" Naruto growled getting back up and looking at the sleeping Crow. 'Niisan... What the hell is wrong here? I know how to mold chakra, hell I do it almost everyday when I wake up to use the 'Optical Illusion Shell Jutsu'. But here it's like I have no control... What the hell am I doing Wrong?' Naruto inwardly wondered and turned to see Sasuke was already halfway up his tree. 'Damn... Took me a a day to get that high... No I'm not going to be jealous of the Uchiha... Got to think... C'mon Naruto you've mastered S-Rank Jutsu this should be no problem for you...' Naruto inwardly thought to himself then sat down and took a neutral expression.
'Alright... Crow's 'Air Hike' Relies on wind resistance and chakra flow... I condense the Chakra at my feet into a Platform for some minor wind resistance but my Chakra isn't flowing in the right direction for me to stay in the air...' Naruto inwardly analyzed then put his hand on his chin. 'Hold on... Crow said to let the currents GUIDE my chakra, perhaps he means that I don't DIRECT the chakra, but I instead move it WITH the flow of the wind beneath me... Wait I know that... Maybe he means that I put MORE chakra out to allow it to flow with the air current's so I KNOW ware they are in the first place... Yeah that sound's reasonable... At least as a thought it does...' Naruto thought to himself and quickly got up off the ground to continue training.
Meanwhile Crow's own mind was drifting off, returning to the past... To THAT night so very long ago...
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(AN: Crow will be Called Iyoku in his younger year's from now on. However when it returns to the "Present" he will be called Crow again. Please don't be confused by this...)
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(Flashback no Jutsu... Six year's ago...)
The night was cold, and it was quiet. A single form ran threw the wood's away from the burning Clan house of the Onizuka. Only a few of them had even survived... He, Iyoku Onizuka, Heir to the Onizuka Clan liniage was one of the soul Survivor's. Out of over a hundred member's, barely a dozen had made it out, his father one of the many casualties. He had on an armored blue vest, a somewhat large scroll at his waist, and a large sword for his size strapped to his back.
"Halt!" Came a shout and Iyoku turned his bandaged face to see several hunter nin. He narrowed his Bi-colored eye's and then ran to the left and ducked into the shadow's using his small size as a factor like his sensei had taught him. "Wared he go?" One of them asked unable to sense Iyoku's chakra. The young masked boy simply dropped silently behind the two and unsheathed the blade on his back.
"Tora... ROAR!" He shouted and quickly froze the three hunter nin into icicle's killing them instantly when they shattered. "These hunter nin aren't so tough... Even in defensive mode Tora's stronger than them..." The eight year old boy muttered kicking the side of one of the Hunter nin's and then seeing a scroll. He reached down and took hold of said scroll but it shattered also upon contact. However, he was not dismayed, he could already guess to what the content's were anyways. "So the Mizukage is trying to get me after all... Fool... If I won't bend to my father's will what makes him beleive I would bend to his..." Iyoku said darkly before he walked off into the darkness Tora on his shoulder so he could better manage the blade's weight.
Iyoku hated to admit it, but he was thankful to his older sister for teaching him Kenjutsu, it was the only thing saving him at the moment, and without it he'd be in some deep shit. As he walked threw the forest he stopped when he saw several more ANBU and Hunter Nin in a nearby clearing and almost swore. How the hell was he supposed to get passed all that?! Iyoku shook his head however, it wouldn't due for an Onizuka to let himself be intimidated by number's... Iyoku quickly spat on his damn clan's beleafs however. He wasn't an Onizuka, not if he had to be like that bastard who called himself his father, or that Snake Bastard... Why did he have to use him like that...
However while Iyoku was trapped in his musings one of the ANBU sniffed the air and turned to see him. "There's the boy!" The ANBU shouted and all of them charged at Iyoku who looked up with wide eye's. As the nin all turned a black blur appeared at the side of the clearing and the first of them spoke in a male tone.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Came a shout and several of the men were burned from the side. They all turned but they couldn't see anything in the darkness when they heard someone else's voice from behind them, only it was female.
"Art of Beast Mimicry: Tsuuga!" A spinning tornado of white shot at them tearing threw a few of them and leaving relatively few ANBU and Hunter Nin left when Iyoku took hold of his sword and growled out.
"Tora, ROAR!!" With that he froze the remaining forces and they all shattered into pieces of frozen flesh and gore. With a sigh Iyoku looked to his side's as two Personal Body Guard Nin appeared at his side's. "Sable... Luna... What the hell are you doing here?" He questioned of the White and Black leather bound nin's, Sable answering their master.
"We are sorry Lord Onizuka. But our purpose in life is your protection... Even if we must protect you from you own..." Sable stated and Luna simply nodded the affirmative.
Luna was the polar opposite of Sable in almost every way. She wore nothing but white band's over her entire body with silver ANBU style armor and shin guards. Her head and face were completely covered in white band's with a single purple bolt holding them all down. Purple bolt's were in her armor like Sable's only there were fewer of them and they were all purple. Last it seemed that the finger's of her outfit had silver claw's grafted onto them and only the pale dead skin of her toe's and feet were visible unlike her partner.
"Bah... Very well then Sable, stick to the shadow's. I will call for you when I need you, otherwise stay out of my affairs..." Iyoku growled and Sable and Luna bowed before vanishing into the darkness, how Luna did so with so much white on a mystery. Iyoku however didn't dwell on such thing's and ran back into the forest and hoped he'd find some way out of the mess he was in. As Iyoku ran, he couldn't help wonder what the hell the other remaining Onizuka were doing, he'd seen them all leave, and he KNEW They wouldn't stay in Kiri with the Kekkei-Genkai extermination going on... So what the hell were they going to do now? With no leader, no home, and no money... What would they do...
While he was in his own musings once more Iyoku forgot about watching for possible threat's and a Kunai stopped right in front of him. "Iyoku what the hell are you doing!? The Mizukage wants to see you right now!" The voice of his Sister, Sango Onizuka, questioned then stated and Iyoku grunted as his response taking hold of his blade as his sister dropped down in front of him.
His sister had long dark brown hair pulled into a high ponytail with the bang's framing her face, coming over her Kiri Hittai-ate which had a pair of plate's under it that extended down to her cheek's. She had yellow eye's, but there was no slitted pupil or tribal mark's on her, her skin was a more average color than Crow's and she had a lithe figure. In her left hand she had Suzaku, and wore a pair of purple leather wrist protector's, a black sleeveless shirt that left her midriff exposed with an open chunin vest over that and netting around her waist, she had a pair of purple armored plate's over her hip's and down her thigh's that attached to her black skin tight pants, a red sash around her waist, a kunai holster on her left thigh and purple leg warmer's over her black shinobi sandals.
"Sister..." Iyoku said softly and then glared at her angrily. "Stay out of my way! I am not going to let that fool turn me into a weapon!" He shouted running forward and swinging Tora at her. She blocked with Suzaku and pushed Iyoku back easily.
"What the hell Otouto?! Why are you attacking me? And what do you mean turn you into a weapon? The Mizukage probably just wants to get the Onizuka Estate back in order." She questioned then reasoned and Iyoku frowned.
"It's none of your concern Neechan... But you know very little about our village's leader..." He growls at the girl who's eye's soften.
"Please Otouto... I... I don't want to have to hurt you but..." Sango was silent as she held Suzaku with one hand and Crow took a firm hold of Tora. "If you choose to fight me I will have no choice..." Sango said sadly and Iyoku frowned then closed his eye's and reopened them.
"Blood Cross Eye, First Release: Analysis!" Iyoku stated softly activating his ultimate weapon and watching his sister unblinkingly.
"So you choose to fight me... Very well Otouto..." Sango said with a crack in her voice as she lifted up Suzaku. "I WILL FIGHT YOU THEN!!" She shouted and swung Suzaku as a fiery aura surrounded the blade. "SUZAKU SOAR!!!" She shouted and a torant of flame's shot out at Iyoku who grimaced and swung Tora.
"Tora, ROAR!" He shouted creating the icy beam of wind that collided with Sango's own fiery wind. The two wind's thrashed against one another only to create a maelstrom that sent both Sango and Iyoku flying back into the tree's. Iyoku quickly swung his blade and the serrated edge caught a tree holding him from flying back. Sango wasn't as lucky as she hit a tree hard and held her hand in front of her face to hold back the wind. Soon the maelstrom died down and Iyoku quickly dropped down to the ground landing on his feet and ran forward quickly towards his sister.
Sango shook her head and rolled out of the way as Iyoku cut the tree she hit in half then swung at her from the side. "Why do you bother sister! The Mizukage is a tyrant and a fool!" Iyoku growled and Sango frowned.
"Father's wish was for all of his children to be the strongest... If I cannot use our families Kekkei-Genkai, I will at the least be the strongest Kunoichi I can!" Sango shouted and Iyoku growled swinging his own sword at her. She dodged the blade by jumping back and swung at Iyoku who rolled under it and brought Tora up, the two blade's connecting and their power's flaring against one another.
"Father is nothing but a dead bastard Oneechan! He banished you from our clan, just because you don't bare a Kekkei-Genkai like the rest of us! How the hell can you care for someone who threw you away like you were nothing but a tool?!" Iyoku demanded driving Sango back away from him panting. Sango bowed her head eye's covered in shadow and not looking at Iyoku as she then took hold of Suzaku once more.
"It doesn't matter Otouto... He's still my father... As he is also your own..." Sango told Iyoku tear's flowing down her cheek's as she looked to her brother. However Iyoku's eye's became enraged as she told him this and he roared swinging Tora wildly at her. The older girl easily evaded the clumsy attacks from her little brother but she couldn't truly bring herself to harm him. She instantly remembered the day she met her brother, the time's she helped to train him in Kenjutsu, and the few time's she would simply be there with him to relax and watch the setting sun or make fun of Momo and Fishy-Kun...
However as Sango went deeper into her memories she started to doubt attacking her little brother more and more. However her brother's own anger about there father was making it hard for the dark haired boy to really notice what was going on. It was then that his eye's changed to his Kekkei-Genkai's second release for the first time without him knowing about it. He swung Tora with all his strength managing to knock Suzaku out of the girl's hand's and before he could stop himself he spun around and barely touched the girl with his left hand. However the reaction her arm had to the red chakra encased limb was immediate as her left arm was blown completely off. His sister's eye's widened as her arm fell to the ground and she to her knee's...
"Otouto..." She said softly and Iyoku's eye's widened as he saw what he had done to her. He looked to his arm frightened as the red chakra flared around it before concentrating and ending the chakra flow to his eye's, turning his Kekkei-Genkai off and looking to his sister.
"Oneechan... I... I didn't mean to... And... Your... I mean... Your arm..." He said softly backing away as he looked at his sister, tear's slowly collecting in his eye's. Sango looked at her arm, it was a little way's to her side looking like it had been torn off and bleeding profusely. Sango put a hand on the stub of her left arm and looked at her "Otouto" with soft golden eyes.
"Go Otouto... Just don't let them catch you..." She said and then reached to her thigh and pulled out a Kunai. She then slashed her own Hittai-ate and rose to her feet. "I guess I'll have to get out of here also..." She said softly and dropped her Kunai and looked at Suzaku. Iyoku fell to his knee's and then looked to the ground, his hair shadowing his eye's as he shook, not in rage but with guilt. He'd hurt her... He'd hurt someone close to him... What kind of a man... Errr... Person was he if he went and hurt the one's he loved?
"Uhhh... Sis... I don't think you can wield Suzaku without your good arm..." He muttered softly, barely audible, and Sango nodded. She unlike most was left handed, with the loss of her good arm she wouldn't be able to affectively wield a long bladed weapon like Suzaku... Or almost any weapon really...
"You take it then... I'll lead them away..." Sango said softly to the boy then heard soft sobs. Sango blinked then went and hugged her brother as he cried into her chest muttering I'm sorry over and over again. Both Tora and Suzaku laying on the ground nearby. She only now noticed his mother's Hittai-ate around his forehead and a foreboding feeling entered the pit of her stomach at the sight. "Otouto... What happened to mom?" She asked softly and Iyoku looked up to her and then to the ground once more...
"He killed her..." Was all Iyoku said as Sango's eye's widened...
(Flashback no Jutsu, KAI!)
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Crow's eye's bolted open and he breathed laboredly. He then tried to calm himself down and looked to see that Sasuke was STILL trying to get tree walking down. Naruto looked like he had fallen asleep and Sakura was watching Sasuke attentively. Crow then leaned back and looked at the sky as it turned a brilliant orangish red. 'Memories of the past... Why do they always have to haunt me so...' He wondered to himself as he felt the pain of harming the only family he ever really had hit his heart once more. Crow then looked over at Naruto and his eye's hardened. 'This time... I won't lose my family... No matter what it takes...'
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(Meanwhile at Zabuza's Hideout...)
Haku had placed Zabuza in a bed to rest and was diligently watching her master. However she frowned when she heard the sound of footstep's and looked to the door to see three men walk in. One in the middle with spiky hair, dark glasses, and a black suit. Beside of him on each side was a man with a sword on the apposing side. "I'm surprised you have the nerve to show your face around here after taking a beating like that." Gato the small man said as Waraji and Zouri flanked him on both side's. "Ninja from the land of Mist would appear to be vastly overrated..." Gato had the nerve to say as he walked inside of Zabuza's hideout. "You can't even clean up for your miserable subordinates. "Demon" yeah right... Don't make me laugh." Gato sneered with his body guards staying close by.
As Gato finished his little Tirade Zabuza opened his eye's and looked at the roof blankly. Gato's body guards quickly moved in front of Gato and Zouri started to unsheathe his sword. 'Are they going to attack?' Haku inwardly questioned watching the three with a hawk's eye's. "Wait a minute you two..." Gato said while motioning for the two swordsman to resheath their blade's. "So... Nothing to say for yourself." Gato said moving towards Zabuza and reaching for his neck. "No last words?" He questioned but Haku quickly took hold of his arm.
"Do not defile Zabuza Sama with your touch." She growled breaking Gato's arm as she did.
"How dare you!" Gato growled in pain as Zouri and Waraji both reached for their blade's only for Haku to move quickly. She grabbed both blades from their hand's before the two could notice and held them close to each of their throat's. 'N-no... He didn't even seem to MOVE!' Waraji thought while gulping. "You don't want to do that... When I'm angry..." Haku said her eye's wide, looking for the most part like an angry beast's eye's. 'He's some kind of monster...' Zouri thought while sweating as Haku held the sword to his neck.
"Th-there had better not be any more mistake's!" Gato shouted as Haku tossed the two sword's to the side of the room effortlessly and he ran to his body guards, one of which seemed to want his sword back. "I-if you fail again, don't think you can come back here!" With that Gato and his two lackey's both ran like the coward's they are slamming the door behind them. Haku then sighed as she walked over to Zabuza and sat in front of him once more.
"Haku... There was no need for you too..." Zabuza started lifting up the blanket over him to reveal a Kunai and Haku smiled to her master.
"I know... But it's too soon to finish Gato off. If we cause a commotion where we are, we might find ourselves on the run from THEM again." Haku explained and then smiled closing her eye's. "For now let's be patient..." She said and Zabuza chuckled to himself. 'Haku... I've trained you almost too well... Then again... You could be so much more than a tool...' Zabuza thought to himself with an inward frown but shook the thought away.
"Ahh... Yes!" He said aloud already planning for his next meeting with Team Seven...
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TBC...
NEXT TIME ON NARUTO ULTIMATE!!!
Naruto: S-sasuke!
Haku: Is this the first time a comrade of yours has died...?
Naruto: ... Shut up... I'm never Gonna forgive you for this... I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!! ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Next time on Naruto Ultimate!
The ultimate Ninja Battle:
Land of Waves, finale!
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Current Poll(s)...
Kyuubi Gender Poll:
Extended due to tie: End's during 2nd part of Chunin exam's arc...
Male: 1
Female: 1
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Pairing for Naruto Poll, Eligible girls:
Hinata Hyuuga: 2
Sakura Haruno: 0
Kisara Hatake: 2
Ayame(Ichiraku Shop owner's daughter): 0
Tenten: 1
Temari of the Sand: 1
Tsunade(I've got a way to make this one work): 2
Yugito Ni (Nibi Chick): 1
Haku: 1
Female Uchiha: 0
(Name will be kept confidential till her appearance/She will appear after Tsunade\)
Other: Anyone I forgot or you want (Name them in your review please): 0
Side Note: If the Harem wins the vote, then the girl's with the most vote's will be in it, I'll also extend the voting period till after Naruto's Two-and a half- training trip if it wins.
Harem: 2