Thing to know: I dont write AN chapters, so i cant inform you about anything without causing distress, so please dont be mad at me.
Small forecast quote:
"Here is another bunch of people who should be bound to a chair and castrated with fishing knives. These parents, who thinks its cute to let their children recored the outgoing message. "Himynamesisstasyimfiveyearsoldmommyanddaddycanttalkrightnowsoblalbalbalbablablablabal...DUUUU!!"
"hi stasy, im coming over to your house with a big knife, and then im going to kill mommy and daddy, and then im going to take out my huge ding dong and shove it up your DUUUUUUUU!!"
And that concludes this session in what i hate more than anything. And people im trying to be funny here, okaaay. good then fuck off. Just trying to make you feel at home. Which you are, here on FanFic.
Whispering to myself "god i hope no one takes it on the wrong way, otherwise im sorry, really"
Chapter 10: 1 Month before the storm
It was a perfect day in Konoha. Sun shining birds chirping and it was peace and quiet. Well maybe not quiet, cause it was a huge event going on today, cause today was the third and final part of the chunnin exams. With contestants from at least three villages in the finals, a lot of people from different country's came, to watch the event.
As the spectators started to take their seats, they contestants came out on the field. Neji, Shikamaru, Temari, Kankuro, Garra, and Shino. Standing in front of them was the proctor, Genma with his senbon needle in his mouth. As they stood there he started to wave. (Same as canon, Haku got into a draw, sad, i know, but i didn't know how to make a good match, thats all.)
"Smile and wave boys, just smile and wave" he said in a sing-song sarcastic tone, as he turned his head back to the genins, noticing the two missing contestants. Shaking his head, he turned to the Hokage booth.
There sat the Hokage, puffing his pipe and the Kazekage, with his face hidden.
"I guess that your apprentice is late, Hokage-dono" the Kazekage said humorously in his chair. Shaking his head, the Hokage stood up. "Nah, hes just preparing for some sort of grand entrance" which raised a eyebrow on the Kazekage. "Or maybe hes just overslept" causing his eyebrows to fall down again, in a sarcastic manner, giving him the 'oh-really' look.
"Well I guess we should get things started then, your apprentice knows surely that hes late, and that he would be disqualified by being late" the Kazekage pointed out, which Sarutobi just nodded for.
"Oh well I just hope he's on time by the time it begins" he said as he started his speech.
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After the speech, Genma started his little speech, after which he started the exams.
"For the first round in the Chunnin exams, would Neji Hyuga and Uzumaki Naruto please come to the arena floor" he said, loud enough to be heard in the entire stadium, well it wasn't hard to be heard in it anyway.
As everyone on the arena floor except Neji and Genma walk out of it, Neji had one of his more, as id like to call it 'Stupidity-about-how-fate-works' fits, you know, acting stupid.
"Hey proctor, why don't you just disqualify him, right here and now. He's not going to show up" he mocked to Genma, who looked a bit concerned about how he should proceed. Looking up to the Hokage for some sort of advice he was greeted by said person, shrugging his shoulders. Raising his eyebrow's in disbelief for his apprentice, he just shook his head, all the while Neji's smirk grew wider.
"Ha, see there is no one that can go against fate, and it has declared me winner already. Just call me the winner so that we can get on with..." he kept going, but was interrupted by a loud roaring sound. As they both looked around for the source, it grew louder by the second, until it was a deafening roar, just a something suddenly flew off the outside wall of the stadium. As everyone snapped there heads towards the object there eyes bulged out at the sight.
It was black metal monstrosity, emitting a loud roar as it rewed, with wheels spinning from the sheer speed it launched it self into the air, now spinning sideways.(I took clouds bike from Advent Child as base idea) As it reached its apex in flight, and started to descend, it did a 180 flip backwards, revealing its rider, non other than a black clad tall blond, who was smiling from ear to ear, while letting out a very, very cheerful "JEEEHAAAAA!!".
As he descended he straightened the bike out so it pointed downwards, riding down the inside of the walls. As he got close to the ground he 'jumped' with the bike, landing on the front wheel, pulling the handbrake, then sliding forward with the back end, while kicking up some major serious dust clouds,(don't ask how, to troublesome), obscuring him from view.
Now if you would have been there, and walked in most of the peoples shoes, as of 99,99 of all there, (The Hokage, Jiraya, Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku, and a small amount of people who were the 0.01), you would probably be... slack jawed at the little display. Of course Gai was going about with his 'Youthful' compliments, buuut, nobodycared. Period.
Standing on the edge of his booth, Sarutobi chuckled as he shook his head. 'What am I going to do with you, Minato-JUNIOR' he thought then chuckled even more. The Kazekage raised his eyebrows a bit at the Kages act.
"Would you enlightening me at what is so funny, Hokage-dono" he asked in a weird tone, bordering between irritated and interested. As Sarutobi turned his head to the Kazekage, he shrugged, and turned back. "Well, its just that I understand why he was late now" raising the other Kages brow's higher in interest. "He just wanted to make a stylish entrance... i think" at which his brows fell down, to make him look plain bored. 'Senile old man, i guess its almost to late to kill him to make any difference about when he dies', the 'Kazekage' thought as he turned his attention down onto the field again.
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Standing there both Neji and Genma stood there, waiting for the dust cloud to settle, and as it did enough to see through, they saw the tall blond get of the bike, or 'metal monster' in their eyes, then leaning against it.
Staring at them with his visor down, he raised it up to his forehead, showing he had a bored expression on his face. Looking around the stadium he stopped as he spotted Genma and Neji. Raising his eyebrows, he looked around again before stopping at Genma.
"Eh,.. Am i late, or are you guys just early" he asked while rubbing his back head, smiling dumb funded. Genma just rolled his eyes at the kids attitude, which seemed like a rip off from a certain someone. Shaking his head he waved his hand, signaling the blond that he was on time, who now brightened up, and smiled even more.
"Cool" was all he said as he stood up, after which he touched the bike with his left hand, causing it to spread out on the sides in front of the driver. There was several swords inside the there, all of them different. Pulling out one sword then sealing it away, the sides then went back to normal. (I used the Advent Child Bike Cloud has as a base idea)
Neji, being the usual k-head, got to work ahead of schedule as the match begun, you know, the drill.
Fate this, fate that, destiny here, destiny there, loser up, loser down, winner in, winner out and so on.
At the end of his little 'speech' he was of course expecting some sort of angry retort, but...
Naruto, being an easily bored guy, (who does not recognize this), was standing there snapping his fingers, and tapping his foot, like after a beat. At the end of the rant, he stopped suddenly, and moved his hand, like taking out something from his ear.
"Eh did you kinda say say something, i was actually listening to some tunes, but i guess it wasn't important, you didn't stop, so i guessed it didn't matter" he said in a sort of excusing manner. Well Neji of course got... mad, what else.
"You pathetic loser, you have no chance of winning, just give up and i wont have to do the same thing to you as i did to that worthless loser Hinata". He spat out. This put everyone on edge, especially the Hokage and the rookie eleven and Sensei's.
Okay lets get a few things straightened out. There are a few things you should never, and i MEAN NEVER say in front of Naruto.
One. Never say anything disrespectful about his mother and father, or heritage at all.
Two. Never hurt his friends, or those he deem precious, or everyone that has proven themselves worthy of his respect.
And for the love of god, if you don't want to see the human 'death god', don't call people who work harder than anyone else, just to be respected, anything disrespectful, it might be the last thing you do, period.
Sadly Neji never came to that class, deeming it 'worthless', poor guy. 'Hope he finds peace in hell, or in best case, the hospital, or the morgue' was the thought that ran thought the people, who knew Naruto, enough to know what would happen now.
Down on the floor, Neji stood there waiting for the retort, cause he knew he hit a weak spot, but when the proctor starts to back away in fear, any sane man would know that something bad would happen. And it did.
"Worthless... loser, Neji-chan" Now picture this, bathing in a lake, in the winter, on new years eve, in a snow storm, on top of an iceberg, on the frozen tundra, in north Alaska. Cold isn't it. Well that would be a sauna, or maybe boiling water in comparison to the coldness of Naruto's voice right now.
As the chills went down everyones spines, and i mean everyones, gay-snake freak included, Neji stood there, trying to look cool, as he looked at the lowered head of the blond, he was smacked by a chock wave of KI, sending him to the ground, choking, as the blond closed in on him.
"Tell me then, if i told you that i made a promise that i would not kill you to someone, if you give up, would you do such." he asked as he stopped in front of Neji, looking down on him, with ice cold eyes. Shaking in his boots, eh or sandals, whatever, Neji was scared to death, but still had his stupid Hyuga pride, tried to struggle.
"Why don't you just shut up, you loser, you never had a hard life so just..." he didn't get the chance to finish, seeing as he suddenly flew straight into the wall, courtesy of one, though he didn't 'show it', very angry blond, who hadn't moved at all, or so it seemed to those who couldn't follow his movements, as they were fast enough to make Gai and Kakashi wince at the sheer speed and force he kicked Neji with. 'Ouch man'
Standing there in the middle of the arena, same spot before he kick Neji, (somebody say fast), he started to walk towards the fallen Hyuga.
"So i haven't had a hard life huh. So my life has been a dance on roses. Well ill tell you, it was a dance on roses, roses with thorns the size of nine inch nails, all pointing upwards." he commented dryly as he stopped in front of Neji.
"That is the difference Hyuga scum, you've had everything, even thought you say you have nothing. You are praised as a prodigy, you have been given a gift of the mind, yet you misuse it" he said as he crunched down to the fallen Neji. "Well, i have taken that from you now" Neji of course didn't understand, as did the rest of the spectators.
"I have destroyed every single tenketsu point in your arms, making you worthless in the Hyuga way" at which Neji grew fearful as he understood he wasnt lying. His arms didn't move, they were worthless and to him it was...
"Shameful, isnt it. The prodigy Hyuga, fallen, to never rise again" standing up he continued.
"You have three options right now, Hyuga Neji. Your first option is to give up. After wards you apologies, with all your heart to Hinata, and hope that she forgives you. Then i will heal your arms so they work again. Only i can undo it so there is no cure unless i cure it." he said with no emotion coming from his voice. "But this means that you have to live with the shame that you've hurt your own half-sister of blood" Now Neji's eyes snapped straight into Naruto's.
"Yes she is your sister, from your father, Hisashi Hyuga, twin brother of Hiashi Hyuga's, father of Hinata Hyuga and Hanabi Hyuga." He smirked as he saw the fear in Nejis eyes now. "Yes, it seems karma is true, you reap what you sow, every action has an equal but opposite reaction, and so on."
"Your second option is that you don't apologies, then i will not heal you, and you will become worthless to everyone, as they will only see a shameful bastard who hurt his own sister, who had no part in your fathers death, for hating her without reason." turning around he took a few steps before stopping again, looking into the crowd.
"Your third option is simple. You commit suicide" now this caused gasps with the spectators, and fear in Nejis eyes. "You commit suicide, for the pain you brought upon others, and for the shame that you have brought upon yourself, but know one thing" he said as he held up one finger. "If you chose the third option, you only prov to everyone that you are weak, and worthless for the title shinobi. We are proud people, who fight for what we believe in. Some may have twisted beliefs, but what about the others." he stated as he held out his arms like a preacher.
"We fight to protect those we see worthy of protecting, otherwise we wouldn't exist. We kill to stop others from harming the ones we seek as precious. That is the true ninjas way. We kill to keep what we protect safe from harm. That is who we are, no more, no less" these words struck hard in everyone in the stadium. What he said was true, they were more than killers, they were guardians of peace.
Most shinobis who were against Naruto now saw him in a new ray of light, while the ones who already were on his side, were cheering like crazy. Gai of course was ranting about the 'Youthfulness' of Naruto's speech, lee following, Kakashi being a emotionless dude eye smiling, rookie eleven taking in the words of wisdom (except SasUKE, guess why), the Hokage smiling widely, while the 'kazekage' was sort of irritated, and Garra did not understand his words. While others were on verges of tears, well close at least, the Aburames were static, well they don't count, they are robots, period.
Letting his arms fall to his sides, he turns around to face Neji. "So what is your choice. Will you fight to harm and kill, or will you fight to kill those that harm the people who you protect, Hyuga Neji".
Leaning against the wall, as he couldn't move to much, he went through what he had been hearing. Sighing, he decided upon...
"Proctor I give up." he said, broken to now return. After a while, there was a lonely clapping. Looking up, both saw that it was Hiashi who was standing up, smiling at both of them. Slowly the applauds grew to a massive cheer, as everyone was clapping and whistling for both of them.
Neji was confused. Hearing a snicker, he turned his head to see the blond... smiling at him? "Why are you smiling. Are you proud that you made me worthless to the clan" he asked with anger. But Naruto just smiled more, and turned his head to the crowd.
"You were never worthless Neji, just, misguided. Just like she is being." Almost seeing a question marker over Neji's head, he snickered. "You were in a powerful genjutsu, Neji" he said while snickering "...giving you the impression of being injured beyond cure. Besides, i would never be able to hurt you that much." he said as he walked away. Neji, relived that his arms were still whole, yet pissed that he didn't notice earlier, now not understanding him, asked "why?" which stopped the blond in his tracks.
"Because, Hinata now owns me a favor." he said as he turned his head. "She asked me, no pleaded that i would not kill you for hurting her in the preliminary match's. And of course, i couldn't dismiss a cute girls request." he said grinning while looking up on the bleachers. Spotting Hinata, he saw her smiling back at him. 'you really are to pure for your own good sometimes Hinata' he thought, as he turned his attention first to Hiashi, who looked guilty, then Hanabi, who tried to look indifferent but stunned at the tall blonds little 'show' and then to Neji, who was looking up at Hinata himself 'but sometimes, its necessary to be like that, to make a difference, in the life's around you' he thought proudly to himself.
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As he walked over to the bike, and caused it to poof away, then shushin his way up to the Kages booth, completely aware about the KI coming from Garra (weird tattooed tanuki), Sasuke (Faggy emo king of brooding), and the Kazekage (Snake prick with bad breath), small amounts but still.
"Hey Jiji how is it hanging, still up and kicking, huh" he asked playfully, sweeping his eyes around the booth. As he scanned it, he noticed the Kazekage's guards. 'Definitely soundnins, and by the feel 'cursed seal' one's. Hey rikka, what do you think." he thought calculating the risks of them being here.
'Well i would possibly go for a yes, they definitely have a cursed seal, its almost disgusting how it feels. How can they even survive that seal is beyond my understanding' she thought as she stopped reading her book, a small orange one, with a bad indication. (what... what... even girls can be perverts, and this one is no exception) Sadly for Naruto, no matter how much he tried, he was forced to listen to a constant giggling when she was reading that book, which is 24/7, thank you very much.
Back to reality, the old man just waved his hand in a dismissive manner, smiling lightly at him.
"Nah, its just fine my boy, how has the month been" he asked a bit interested for his student, as he had not been in the village in a long while.
"Ah been good, been good. Been a few places here and there, looking up some stuff, you know the usual" he lied. He didn't want him to know he had been digging beneath Konoha, in his hunt for more ancient gear. Though he had been outside the walls, doing the same thing. He got wind of the bike a few days after the second exam. The clue he found under his estate had pinpointed him to a place about 2 days from Kumo, one place about 4 days from Kiri, (in the depth of the ocean, and lastly something very interesting just outside the border of Ame.
Genjutsu: Flashback No Jutsu
As he pulled over the bike, he checked his map, and coordinates. 'It should be just around here' he thought as he stepped of. 'Rikka can you feel anything, your the most in tune with the things of the past' he joked. Shaking her head, as she appeared next to him, in a red cloud, she looked at him with a bored face. "Haha very funny, its not my fault im a ancient being. I did not ask for it" she said as she began searching, or more like walking around. "Its as precise as holding two sticks and believing they will point at a water supply, Naru-kun, this might just be the wrong place to look" she sighed as six hours passed and nothing was found.
Shaking his head, he sighed in defeat. "Ah well its better to scour the map and not finding anything, then sitting at home, saying you should have done it, and not finding it anyway." he said as he sat down on a tree stump.
Though suddenly he flew up on his feet, and started digging with a doton jutsu. "Hey Naru-kun what are you..." Rikka asked, but stopped when she saw his face. It was the same face he got every time they were above a 'excavation site', as they called the huge hole they left every time.
Crouching down and holding her knees, she watched him go at it for a half hour, when they quiet literally struck gold. As the last of the dirt was removed, they found themselves above a metal door in the ground. As the blond turned his head to her, she saw the smile he always had when something big was found, which caused her to smile as well.
As he started to turn the wheel on the hatch, a clanking sound was heard. When he opened it large amounts of steam and smoke shot out of the man made hole. Looking back at her he gave her the 'what millennium do you think it is' face. Shaking her head in a suggestive manner, they hoped down the hole.
When they landed it was pitch black, darker than dark, and so on. "How about some light, ey Naruto" She asked her friend, lover, kit, whatever. She had adjudicate sight in the dark, but not night vision. "Hn, sure" he said, as he turned on the lights on his visor. Turning around he saw her take out a flashlight, and gave her a deadpanned face. "What, your not the only one who needs light" she said, as he shook his head,
The place was more like a huge maze, with long corridors, stretching on forever with side off corridors going off as well. Scanning the room, it had several huge tubes with some sort of green fluid, he guessed he was somewhere in the middle of the upper complex. Waving his hand in a forward movement, they sneaked down the long corridor. It looked like the corridors at home, but these were mainly steel plate walls, making him frown at it.
'i don't remember any period that had mainly steel houses, and its to large for a smaller research complex, or vehicle on that note' he thought as they slowly crept down the corridors, taking lefts and rights, and marking what way they came from to find there way back. Going through several smaller rooms, they found mostly bedbunks and lockers, nothing of bigger importance. After some time they came upon a large metal door like the hatch at the entrance.
Turning his head to Rikka who stood behind him, she just nodded, so he did as well. Placing one hand on the wheel, he slowly turned the wheel. As it clanked open, he pushed it open,and he entered the room.
He was standing on some sort of scaffolding, that hanged from the roof. Looking around he searched for any clue of where he was, until he saw a huge metal gate at the end of the larger space. "it seems like were either in a airship, a stranded ship or a military base, im not sure with one, but this is clearly some sort of storage area or hanger bay" he heard Rikka say as she walked past him and leaned over the railing, and flashing around with her flashlight and suddenly gasped. Of course, Naruto raised a brow at her antic, and walked over to take a look at what she gasped at, which caused his eyes to slam open at the sight.
The sights that met them was astonishing, and the room seemed to go on for ever. After both got there jaws of the floor, a big grin came upon both faces as they looked at each other. ' Oh Yeah, Jackpot' they both thought as they began sealing the things away, then heading home to Konoha for some research on these things.
Flashback No Jutsu, Kai
(The things they found will come as a important piece in the defense against the enemy. Plus its a big time secret until then, so hold on to your pants until then.)
"Well it would seem like i have to commission a gardening mission on my lawn soon, the grass has grown far to long, and i just don't want to leave it like that, its like a privet hotel for all sorts of animals these days, i wish they would just go hide some were else. I think i will make it a official mission when the exams are over, but i guess more than 80 of the genins would complain about it, while the 20 others would probably not cheer anyway." he said chuckling a bit, at his little covert message.
"Ah indeed you do old man, its not like you could trim it yourself these days, its far to backbreaking for someone at your age" Naruto replied laughing at his senseis antics, but on the inside, he knew what he was talking about. 'So we have a large ninja army getting ready to attack us, and we need to make sure the genins and civilians get to safety. We have the slug-sannin and toad-sannin on standby, 80 of our battle-forces ready, and 20 Anbu's members on standby in the stadium, pitiful odds... for them of course' he thought smugly (not sasuke smugly), as he turned his attention on the arena fights, were Shino and Kankuro's match was won in Shino's favor, as Kankuro forfeited. 'not wanting to show your moves huh' he snickered as Shikas and temaris match was going on.
'Battle of the brains huh, shouldn't take to long, that is, if, and i mean if, he care's' he shook his head in boredom, it would take a while, a long, long while.
As the match came to its culmination, Naruto had already figured out the outcome. Well he knew from the start, so no big point there.
"Hey Jiji, Kazekage-dono, how about a bet, huh for the thrill of the match" he asked excited as he leaned against the rail, pushing up his glasses with his hand. Sarutobi, knowing from old experience that he never won against Naruto's 'bets', waved away the offer. The Kazekage took interest in the bet though. "So what do you want to beat about, gaki" Grinning he had him. 'Hook, line and sinker'
"Well we bet about who wins this match. At the current point, Temari is in lead, with 60 to 40, but we all know deception is key to all ninjas, as it is our most worked skill, right" he asked smiling widely, adding to the scare effect he was after on the 'Kazekage', who was berating about how to escape this trap, as he knew it.
"Well i guess then that the Nara wins. As you say deception is key, so what are we betting about" he asked carefully, but intrigued. But he was soon regretting that. "Information, Kazekage-dono, in your case information about the meeting you had with Orochimaru, three weeks before the start of the chunnin exams, Kazekage-dono" Okay now those who know a few things about snakes know that they don't sweat, they just can't, they cant shudder either, there for cold-blooded animals.
Orochimaru, or Kazekage right now, was wishing for such ability, or lack there of. Cause he was sweating now, for fear of early detection. It didn't help with the blond smiling evilly at him while chuckling. "Kukukuku, what, afraid, Kazekage-dono" he asked emphasizing the name. Okay he was screwed.
"So now that you taken up the bet, who would lose the battle" he asked as he looked at the kage, with a huge grin on his face.
Taking a few moments, the kage grinned behind his mask, (duh). "The Nara will lose, he is not good enough." he said just as the match was finished, with Nara giving up, giving the Kazekage a huge grin. "Seems like you lost, gaki" but the response was not a normal one, laughter. Getting pissed, he nearly roared out for the blond to explain.
"You see, i didn't say 'who would lose the match' i said battle. And in that view, you never go to battle alone. He captured Temari, making her resistible to attack. Plus he gave up when he had no more ways of attacking, there for, a tactical retreat, i win, you lose." he smirked raising a eyebrow for effect. Looking behind him down on the floor the match started between Garra and Sasuke. Ending like the series, Garra went haywire. Turning back his head to the kage, he grinned. Just then there was a huge explosion just outside the walls, meaning one thing. "And the war has begun" he said turning back at the Orochimaru.
"Sorry snake-fag, but times up, you lose, no matter what you got" he said as he leaned backwards, falling, head first down towards the ground, while shocking most, scaring a few, and... entertaining a bunch. As he reached the ground he flipped, landing on his feet and left knee, back against Garra, who was raging around the field, trying to... kill people by crushing them. Wow... how creative.
"Stand down, Sabaku no Garra, or i will be forced to hurt you even more" the blond said in a cold, but calm manner as he stood up in a cool way. Okay maybe a lot to the cold part, but still.
Getting the attention from Garra or the sand morphed one, he turned around and locked eyes with him. Raising his brows at the yellow star eyes, he just put his hand to his head and shook it. "Sheesh, i knew i was right. Sabaku no Garra, host of Sabaku no Shukaku, Ichibi no tanuki" he asked as he let his hand down to his pocket.
After a very short rant about how his mother would drink the blonds blood, sand started to fly all over the place. Knowing what Garra could do, even in his currently injured state, he had already planed for how he would stop him. Twitching his hand, a paper came into his hand, as he rushed towards the crazed sand nin. Just as he got close enough, he stopped. Not on own free will, but by sand, sticking his boot to the ground, just an arms length away.
"Mother... will feast... on your... blood" Garra exclaimed, as he raised his hand, as did Narutos face as revelation came in play. 'Oh shit, not that...' he thought irritated, while showing it with his face. Trying to move away, he was successful in getting his hand free, but it wasnt enough, as sand covered him completely, and two words rang. "Sabaku kyu" (im not sure if its souso or kyu, i forgot, hehe sorry)
As those two words rang, he knew what he had to do, and quick. 'Rikka...'
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To anyone on the outside, it would seem like Naruto was squashed like a bug in a trash-compactor. As most people screamed as the tall blond was crushed, others only winched, getting weird looks from those who screamed. And beretings like "why are you so calm, he just killed Naruto" and "now that hes dead, we wont make it" and so on. Thought one person seemed to like the outcome.
"Huh serves him right, he was anyway nothing in comparison to me, the great uchiha. I at least hurt Garra, while he just ran straight into death" Sasuke ranted, really building up his ego, but was shot down like a bird from the sky by a couple of ladies, as they put cold steel on several points on him.
"Say that again Uchiha" Tenten growled in front, pointing at his trout and 'ding-dong' . "And we will take you down" Ino said from the left, aiming at his hip and arm "You have no right to laugh at him" Hinata said from the right, drawing blood from his shoulder and spine. "Cause only cowards and weaklings do such things." Haku said as her senbons aimed at his heart and lungs. "Besides..." she said in his ear, "he can't die, just as much as you can beat him, which is never, you dog of the council" and as she said that a huge laughter rang throught the battle-filled stadium. And it wasn't Garra or Orochimaru, no it came from the big floating sandbag.
As the laughter died down, as quickly as it started, an arm shot out of the sand, smacking a piece of paper on Garras head. Though it wasn't a normal paper, it was a suppression seal, against bijuu chakra. As the seal snaked it self over Garra, the suna nin lost consciousness, as he fell down on the ground, and with it the sand fell as well, at which many who still were there, and all of the enemy's that were coming through the large hole in the wall, were greeted by a sight for the eye.
Naruto stood there, with his back to the enemy, in the full Nano suit he always wore, but glowing red along the muscles, with the mask and the blood red visor on giving him quiet literally the look of a machine, as he turned his head to the side scaring most of the enemy-nins that had come inside the stadium, were scared to death by the tall monstrosity in front of them. (Take a look at the Crysis trailer, the same pose as in the last scene.
Smiling behind his mask, he pulled out the guns under his arms, still standing with his back against the enemy, and slowly holding them out to the sides like a preacher (Yes i know i use it a lot, but its an cool pose), and spoke, with the distorted voice he got from the mask.
"So gentlemen..." he asked happily as he turned around, chuckling evilly as he did "Who want's the first dance... with the devil... of Konoha" he asked with a dark and amused tone, as the visor flashed an even darker red, and then... he disappeared, no smoke, no leafs, no flames, just gone, while everyone saw the enemy nins get blown to pieces, in less than a moment. And that sparked the it.
The war for Konoha was happening.
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Standing there on the roof, the showdown between Sarutobi and Orochimaru was at full steam. Kunai's and snakes flying all over the place, explosions every were, and... two dead Hokage's fighting against the old man. 'Not my lucky day is it, damn Naruto why do you have all the luck' he berated the blond in his thoughts as he fought against his opponents. Looking to his sides, he suddenly noticed someone outside the dome that held him prisoner.
Orochimaru of course was ecstatic. He was close to killing the geezer, Konoha was falling, and his revenge was almost complete. Though something was a miss. The old man was... smiling. "Oh what is it now, sensei, tired of running away" he asked, while squinting his eyes at the man, who was looking at something outside the dome. Turning his head at the object of interest, his eyes darted open at what he saw.
The blond brat, Uzumaki Naruto, was standing outside the barrier, then suddenly he was walking towards... and through the barrier. This of course scared the shit out of everyone. First the anbus stuck outside the barrier, then the sound 4 who erected it and kept it up, and last Orochimaru "I-impossible, you.. you shouldn't, YOU CAN'T BE ALIVE" he stuttered then screamed, at the red-grey tall man, who only chuckled.
"O-really" he said in a comical tone (you know, that owl with O-RLY) "Its nothing in comparison to what i can do, Orochimaru" he said as he raised one gun at the snake, then snapped it towards the 6 armed sound-nin, who was keeping the barrier up. Shooting one shot, the nin was suddenly bleeding from his cheek, even though he was behind a barrier.
"There is nothing that can stop these bullet's... nothing, Orochimaru. So just lay down and die already" he barked as he snapped the gun at him again, but was interuppted by a huge tree sprouting out of nowhere. Sighing he flashed himself to where the Hokage was. "Great, were facing both the Shodaime, Nidaime and Orochimaru, and i cant use any of my summonings right now" he growled. Getting a weird look from the hokage, he answered the unspoken question.
"The barrier is to small, its like trying to put an elephant in a shoe box, it will get to crowded, to fast, for my taste" he said jokingly, while judging the field.
"Ehm Naruto..." the old man said nervously for what would happen with his words. "At least we don't have to worry about your... father attacking us" this causing the blond to snap his head at him. "What?"he asked very seriously. Getting scared by the blonds mood, he tried to finish i quickly. "Well you see, 'gulp' he tried to summon Minato and use him like a puppet to kill me but i stopped him by negating his summoning coffin " he said sweating and figeting with his fingers and looking for a safe place inside the barrier. Cause, oh boy, it would get messy right now.
As those words came through his ears, Naruto's eyes grew cold, distant... angry. Closing his eyes he did the only thing he could do other than kill right now. He patted the old man on the shoulder. "thanks old man, now, stay out of my way" he said calmly, buuuut you could hear the rage running through his voice, as he turned around, facing the three adversaries.
"So you were trying to use him huh." he asked the confused sannin. "You were trying to use Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze, as a puppet of your little chess game, huh" the tone grew more and more violent by the second. "Did you know that the yondaime had a son, the day that he died" Naruto started to walk forward, as the two hokages ran towards him. "Did you know that when he sealed the Kyubi, he sealed it in his own son" at which the snakes eyes opened up wide in realization. "Do you remember why the kyubi attacked, of course you do." he said as he raised his head, showing as the visors flashed red, and chakra started to form around him.
"CAUSE YOUR THE BASTARD WHO MADE HER ATTACK US IN THE FIRST PLACE" he finally roared as he summoned a very blue hilted beautiful katana in his right hand, with which he attacked the two attacking Hokages with such speed that when he stood behind the now 'frozen' kages, with the blade drawn. Spinning the sword around and sheathing it, he stopped just as it was fully sheated, and when the sword clicked in place, a spray of blood was seen from the necks of the kages, as both heads rolled of and they fell to the ground, just as they crumbled to dust, and in there place were Dosu and Zaku, without heads of course.
Orochimaru, of course was pissing his pants right now. Here a kid just killed two kage powered nins with one strike, and was set on killing him next. And it didn't help when the blond started to chuckle darkly. "Orochimaru, your invasion was doomed from the beginning, and now" he said as he pulled out a circular disc. "its over" he pushed a button on the side as it lightend up, and 8 persons stood on it, who all saluted him. "What are your orders, commander" they all said simultaneously
"Its time. The time of reckoning has come, the time for our enemys deaths is at hand, let them fear our wrath. Open the floodgates to hell, and show no mercy. Release them, soldiers. Release, the swarm" he spoke, as they saluted and seconds later, 8 large orbs of light was seen, as objects started to fly out from them, and started to form small clusters. Chuckling evilly he turned his attention to Orochimaru.
"These, Orochimaru, are my babies. My creations, my, weapons of war." he said as one particularly big swarm suddenly flew up from the edge of the house, scaring the shit out of everyone, as they surrounded them.
The machines that was flying around were, roughly said, like squids. 8 long tentacles, with sharp three pronged claws in each end that opened and closed threatingly, multiple red eyes, and black armor around the body. (For reference, check up the squid robots from matrix, they are awesome, when they aren't trying to kill you that is).
Looking outside the barrier, Orochimaru watched as the squids tore his army to pieces. The squids slammed there tentacles through the nins like nothing, crushing heads like melons and ripping arms and legs, sending blood flying all over the place. They were unstoppable. Even when one went down, it simply detonated, killing everyone in the near vicinity. Luckily every, or most Konoha nins understood that they were on there side, so they tried to stay out of their way as the squids chopped the enemy to mince meat.
Orochimaru was not having a good day, that could be said easily. He was watching his army being killed by machines, that he had never seen before, by a demon kid, who killed two kages without trouble. What could he do, that would even compare to that kind of power. Gritting his teeth he tried to find a way out of this mess. He could sacrifice his guard to stall them enough to get away. Or he could... oh who was he kidding, he was royally screwed. Suddenly he felt a all to familiar feeling. Looking down it was the same seal as in the forest. Gritting his teeth he looked up at the blond.
"What, do you plan for everything or what, you damn brat" he spat, losing his cool attitude. Naruto just shook his head, simply laughing. "Nope, your just easy to lure into a trap, and besides..." he said, just as a girl, shorter that Naruto, but with red hair and red slit eyes appeared next to him. "She wanted to kill you for what you did to her" he said as he stood behind the girl, and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Cause you remember her right, it cant be that hard ,to remember the one you made attack Konoha" he smirked as her eyes flashed redder, and a tail suddenly shot out from the end of her spine, that started to flick all over the place. This caused Orochimaru's eyes to open in fear, as his face got distorted by fear. She just smiled sweetly.
"Hi Orochimaru-teme, remember me, the one whos kits and mate you killed" she smiled sweetly, as she disappeared, sending the snake flying backwards, straight into the huge tree that had sprung from the house, leaving a man shape imprint as he fell down, only to be caught again and started to pound him to dust. By now the sound four had released the barrier, against their own good judgement, in an attempt to save their master, as the octoids, the squids, caught all 4 as soon as they let go of the barrier. Naruto seeing this happen in his peripheral sight, just shook his head.
"Idiots, did you think you could save the traitor, you would only sign your own deathwarrent if you tried, and you will if i want so. So sit down and watch, cause you have no choice" he said unemotionally, as he watched Rikka pummel the snake to a bloody mess. Shaking his head, he disappeared and grabbed her wrist, causing her to snap her eyes on him with rage. "Calm down, Rikka, its okay" he sooted as she did such, letting go of the snake. Thinking he was safe for now, knew nothing.
"I have a better idea, than to kill him" he said as a sadistic smirk grew, and his eyes closed, making him look like a fox, playing with his food. "how about we test that seal on him, i mean its experimental, and he likes experiments, right, Orochi-kun" he sing-songed with a huge grin, and so did Rikka, understanding what he meant. "Oh that is good, i still haven't worked out the bugs but i guess it should work." she said with the same face, scaring the shit out of the snake.
Picking out a small paper, the tall blond stood besides the snakes mangled body, waving through seal after seal, with a constantly rising chakra spike. Finally he stopped, and slammed the seal on the snakes head, whispering a few non hearable words. Then suddenly markings spread out from the center of the paper and wrapped the entire snake in strange markings. Everyone who looked upon the spectacle would think the snake would scream like a girl, but he just hanged limp with his body. Standing up from his prone position, he turned around to the spectators and the sound four.
"What i did can be seen as worst than death. I have sealed him in his own mind, unable to feel, smell, taste, hear or see again. If someone tries to take the seal away, then the person with the seal will die, as it is now intigrated with his body and soul, completely sealing him of" he stated with a nonchalant tone "He isnt anything more than a living vegetable, mindless, and pathetic. This is his punishment, that which he has gathered against himself." he said to the horrified shinobis, the scared sound four, a sighing Sandaime, a remorseful Jiraya and... a purring red little girl, who was being petted on her head, by the tall blond.
"This is why i wanted him alive, Rikka. See it as a present for your birthdays i always forget, but always throw, ne, Riki-chan." he grinned as she hugged him, tears in her eyes. Not giving up good teasing material he saw this. "Oh, are you crying Rikka, its so not like you" he teased, getting a punch in his arm, while hiding her face with the other arm.
He was in a good mood, so he just fake the pain. "Ow, why do you always hit me so hard, Riki-chan. Am i not good enough for you" he asked as he leaned down to her face, smiling. Suddenly, lips met lips. This though, was what he planned for. Not giving it up, he kissed back, while grabbing her around her waist and hoisted her up, so she was hanging with her feet, while he kissed her.
Jiraya, the pervert he was, tried to write it down, but was stopped by a Naruto-clone. "Sorry sensei, but not this one, please. I want it to be private, okay" he said in a clear and steady tone. Shaking his head in dissapointment, Jiraya just opted to asked the clone about the status of the village. Looking around, the clone held one finger to his ear for a few moments, then nodded.
"It seems like most enemy nins have been defeated. The sand-nins gave up as soon as they saw it was Orochimaru in the Kazekage's clothes, plus when Garra fell, they understood what would happen if they went against us, then the swarm came and they fell on there knees when one of the nins got shredded for attacking it." he proclaimed, as he turned around and sat down on the rooftiles.
"Sound continued there attack, even when the swarm came into the picture. Out of 100 only a half survived." Jiraya got confused. "you mean only fifty of a hundred died" he asked. The clone just burst into laughter. "No thats not what i mean. I mean that, only half a nin survived" this making Jiraya back away a bit. Naruto's ways of explaining could be quite graphic sometimes.
"On our own side, we lost most men at the beginning. Between 5 to 10 procent of our battleready forces. On the civilian side we only lost around 5 or 10 people, mostly seniors, and retired shinobi's. No casualties on the academy side, and no more damage on the town, more than a few bomb blasts here and there." he analyzed as he scoured the town, taking in the information from the clones that ran through the town, dispelling themselves when they gathered enough information from one end.
"Gaki, you really defended this village this time. Had it not been for you or those things" Jiraya said as he pointed at one of the squids "things would have turned far more ugly than it is right now" he boomed, proud over his students accomplishments. The clone, not much for taking credit, merly started a little speech about how the village did it together and that he wasnt more than a face among them. Perking his eyebrows up, he turned to the now finished couple, who stood there, with Rikka in front and Naruto behind.
"Boss, done already" he teased, only to disappear the next second. "Dumb questioning clones" the blond chuckled. He then turned his head to the old man. "The squids follows simple commands, so just order them and they will follow. You and Jiraya are the only one's though that can control them, except me and Rikka. We are going to take some rest, then we will announce my promotion" he said as he disappeared in flame's, heading towards the complex to sleep, as he was tired from the information that came to him after the clones dispersed.
Sarutobi just stood there besides the motionless body of Orochimaru, head hanging in shame. 'Things could have ended differently, but i guess i am at fault here, for not stopping you earlier in my days, or helping you away from your path. 'Sigh' May what ever mercy, god has to left to give you, be enough' he thought as he turned to the village, and then the squids. As he looked at them, he suddenly sweatdropped. 'Eh are they staring at me or is it just my nervs' he thought, sighing again as he started to take his roll, giving out orders. This would be one long day indeed.
Chapter 10 complete
Im sorry it took so long, major league problems. Wrote the chapter, decided to alter a few things, then suddenly my computer just upped and died, for the second time. Rule one when writing, make copy's. This IS the third version of the chapter, each one different, but better each time...irritation maximum. Plus school has taken a lot of my time as well, not seriously much though but enough to disturb my concentration about the fic. Ah well ill try to update faster next time, but it just gets harder with each dead enemy, guess ill have to make a whole lot of new ones, who knows.
But as always R&R
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