Here is the next chapter of A Demon's Freedom
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Phase 2 - Part 1
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Naruto whispered as he made a cross with his fingers. As he wanted, five exact replicas of himself appeared in a poof of smoke.
"Alright guys you know the plan, scatter in every direction and cause as much chaos as you can to draw attention from me. You are essential to my escape, so don't get dispelled."
'Yes boss." the clones said in unison as they all nodded. They then ran off on their own, to cause a ruckus elsewhere in the village.
'That's step one,'the original Naruto thought, 'now for step 2...' He crossed his fingers once more.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."
The clone appeared in its signature cloud of smoke and immediately focused on its creator, ready to receive orders.
"You will find me some money and chakra papers by any means necessary. Don't bother with Jutsu scrolls, if I want to be renowned someday, it will be by my own creativeness and efforts."
The clone nodded its consent and disappeared into the night.
Naruto groaned a bit as he cracked his neck, this had taken a very large chunk of his chakra. He stretched his arms and let them fall to his side; it didn't matter anyway if everything went according to plan.
Once he felt ready he took a deep breath, calmed his raging heart and made a handseal. He was just about to initiate the process of gathering chakra, but was interrupted by his partner.
"Remember kit, the less suspicious the better..."
"I know! Just shut up for now, I'm trying to concentrate." the blonde responded in an annoyed tone, he clearly didn't appreciate the interruption.
Kurama was a bit offended by this and started muttering quietly. "I, the great Kyuubi tries to help him and that brat had the nerve to..."
The blonde gained a tick mark on his forehead but otherwise ignored the ranting fox. He quickly regained his serious expression and started to gather the necessary chakra. A light blue hue soon surrounded his body has he whispered in determination.
"Here we go..."
Xxxxxx
With clone A - 5 minutes after creation
The clone didn't know how he ended up in this situation, but he was quite certain that his current predicament was anything but positive.
Indeed, the 20 something snarling and growling dogs, very large dogs, didn't look friendly at all, nor did their equally terrifying owners.
The murderous aura emanating from them was wild and suffocating for the poor clone. The clone looked behind him and noticed that he was surrounded. He turned his head back towards the front and offered them a weak, trembling smile. "Uhhh... Can't we solve this situation without violence? I don't think that eating me will be good for any of you..."
Apparently, both the dogs and their Shinobi didn't find his joke funny as their rage filled faces contorted into sneers and angry scowls. If looks could kill, then the blonde clone was sure he would already be six feet under.
One feral looking woman stepped forward, her large black dog beside her. She had brown spiky hair, red fang-like markings on her cheeks and eyes of a predator. This was Inuzuka Tsume, the clan head and matriarch of the Inuzuka clan, a clan know for fighting with their canine companions. 9 years ago their current clan head, Tsume's husband, was killed by the Kyuubi, as well as about half of their clan.
"You won't get out of here you monster! We will avenge all the people and the pups you killed!" she yelled at him ferociously while her companion barked loudly in agreement. The other members of her pack roared in agreement as they shouted profanities.
Clone A started sweating profusely, he was done for! 'Shit! Sorry boss, looks like this miserable clone of yourself won't be able to help you anymore.'
His resignation however didn't last long as an idea came to his mind. His eyes gained a mischievous glint and he smirked. Perhaps there was still something he could do after all.
The matriarch caught his smirk and saw red, this monster was mocking them!
"I've had enough of you!" she yelled, "Kuromaru, attack!"
"Gatsuga!"
The two launched themselves forward and towards the clone, spinning rapidly on themselves as they did so. The name of the technique surely came from the fact that their rotation was so fast that it could easily pierce the earth and make tunnels in it.
In a second, the two rotating tunneling fangs were upon the clone, ready to shred him to pieces. The clone hurried and made a handsign.
"Bunshin Daibakuha!" he shouted as he exploded. This was the second technique which Naruto had learned in the past two weeks, to make exploding shadow clones.
Smoke covered the area as small debris fell off of some damaged buildings, it was completely silent. A second later, the matriarch came clawing out of the smoke, snarling. She had suffered little damage from the explosion as her technique's rotation protected her body. The same thing could not be said about the rest of the clan as many of them were on the ground moaning in pain or clutching their injuries.
This enraged Tsume even further as she went berserk and went to take out her anger on a poor, innocent wooden post that was nearby. It was utterly and completely annihilated in a second. (No! Post-Kun!)
The matriarch fell to her knees, tears falling freely from her eyes. "Damn you Kyuubi! Even in death you cause us pain!"
She wasn't the only one that let loose her emotions as many others begin to cry in sadness and relief, relief at finally being rid of the Kyuubi. Unfortunately they were wrong about that, but they didn't know that.
"Kaa-San..." a small voice asked the clan head, "Kaa-San... Is it gone now?"
The woman looked to her side and saw her 15 year old daughter, Inuzuka Hana. The girl was currently rubbing her sleeve over her eyes to remove the tears she had shed.
The woman offered her a genuine smile. "H-Hana... Yes, yes it's gone..."
The girl smiled back and embraced her mother, both happy that it was over.
Yes for them it was over, but not for a certain blond and the rest of this village.
Xxxxxx
With Clone B - 7 minutes after creation
'Get the attention away from boss, success.' the clone thought smugly as he ran away from an angry mob, ducking and evading the various weapons thrown at him. However, his expression soon morphed into an annoyed frown as he looked over his shoulder. 'But why! Why is there so fucking much of them!"
He had a very good reason to be annoyed as the mob chasing him, which strangely seemed to be composed entirely of civilians and no Shinobi, was very large. There was at least one if not two hundred angry villagers carrying pitchforks, swords which he doubted they knew how to use and even spears.
He found it hilarious that they carried such weapons as they weren't fast enough to get close enough to strike. He also took great joy in reminding them of this little fact and mocking them at each chance he got, which enraged them even further.
The clone ducked under a Kunai and turned right at the corner. He kept the same speed and didn't try to lose them as it was his job to lead them away. The civilians didn't realize this has they continued to charge after him, glaring at his back.
One man threw a bunch of shuriken that sailed high in the air and went straight for the blonde. The clone was surprised, perhaps not all civilians were skill-less trash after all. He guessed that the man had been training with weapons to defend himself, a wise choice considering that this was the most powerful ninja village in the world.
"Heh... Looks like there's only one of you who can throw..." the blond told them as he looked over his shoulder, a mocking smirk adorning his face. "But I shouldn't be surprised; you dumbasses are just a bunch of stupid civilians."
This of course pissed all of them off so they doubled their efforts to catch up to him, so that they could make him suffer. The blond, who was still looking over his shoulder as he ran, snickered at seeing their red, angry visages.
"You should stop trying already, I told you it's impossible for a bunch of weaklings like you to ever catch up to-"
"We've got you now demon!" a loud screeching voice came from about a 100 meters in front of him. The blonde winced as his eardrums rang and whipped his head back around. Much to his displeasure, there was another huge mob oozing out of a side street. The most noticeable person was obviously Haruno Sakuya with her obnoxiously pink hair and heavy makeup. She was currently at the head of the mob and wielding some kind of metal staff.
If he had the time to do so, the clone would have sweatdropped and laughed at her without shame. In his opinion, she looked more like a clown than anything.
Ignorant of the clone's thoughts, the pink haired banshee smirked sadistically, thinking that they finally had trapped the little fucker. Another woman from behind him was more than eager of reminding him of it.
"Your trapped you demon! You can't escape!"
The clone, who was now only about 10 meters from being impaled by the front mobs' weapons merely laughed out loud in mirth. These people were hilarious!
"I don't know who you think you are you fucking banshee..." he jumped slightly, moved his head to the right to avoid said banshee's raised weapon and lifted his right foot, which impacted with the woman's enraged face."But know that it's impossible for fools like you to ever catch me!"
He used the woman's face as a spring board and flipped himself high above the mob and onto a rooftop. With a chuckle, he turned to face them as they came to a stop. He smirked at them.
"Come down here you demon so that we can kill you!"
"Yeah! Come down here you bastard!"
"Coward!"
The blonde raised an eyebrow and chuckled once again in amusement, were they so stupid that they really believed he would come back down?
He reached into his pouch on his right hip (stolen from his father of course) and took out a few purple smoke bombs. He grinned as he raised his hand high in the air, displaying the purple spheres to all people there.
"Rejoice my friends! Because today is the day you'll remember as the day you almost caught the great Naruto!"
And with that clone B threw the smoke pellets at his feet, creating a large cloud of purple smoke. Hidden from view, he dashed in a random direction, hoping that the next people he saw would be as amusing as these ones.
Once the smoke cleared, the villagers were outraged to see that the so called demon vanished, but none more so than one Haruno Sakuya, who still had a very noticeable foot imprint right smack down the middle of her face.
"He went in that direction!" she screeched while pointing at the complete opposite direction than where the blonde clone was heading. The civilians roared and stomped off, shouting profanities along the way.
Xxxxxx
With Clone C - 10 minutes after creation
Clone C cursed inwardly as he gazed at the man in front of him. The man was the weirdest thing he had ever seen in his entire short life. He had a bowl-shaped haircut, a manly visage and was wearing a green spandex suit and orange leg warmers. However, his most prominent features were definitely his humongous eyebrows. Naruto could've sworn that he saw them move and that seriously creeped him out.
The two were currently staring at each other with Naruto having his back against a wall and the strange man smiling with his hands on his hips. A minute ago the man had appeared in front of him screaming about unyouthful beasts, which had freaked out the blond enough to make him scream like a little girl.
The man suddenly raised his left hand in front of him with the fingers pointing up and the palm facing him. He placed his other hand behind his back with the palm facing up and bent his back forward a little. This was the Goken taijustu stance, a taijutsu that aimed to break bones and deal massive damage.
"Take your stance Kyuubi, for I Maito Gai will be your opponent!"
The clone sweatdropped. 'Fuck... why do I have the feeling that this guy is the worst opponent I could have?'
The clone readied himself and lifted his fists in a boxing stance. "All right I'll fight you."
The man nodded and disappeared from view. The clone didn't even have time to wonder where he was as the man kicked the wall right beside his face.
"Dynamic entry!" Gai shouted as the blonde looked like he was about to be hit by a car (Rin's face from Ao no Exorcist opening 1). The clone turned his head robotically towards the foot a mere inch from his face and promptly let himself slide down the wall and land roughly on his behind. Gai took his feet off of the wall and got back into his stance.
'Fuck!' the clone thought, 'he may be weird as hell but he's super strong!'
The poor sap didn't even know that this wasn't even a fraction of the green-clad man's true strength.
The clone got back up, resigned to his fate. He knew he wouldn't last long at all but the longer the man was away from the original the better.
Xxxxxx
With clone D- 10 minutes after creation
Naruto had always hated birds. He was incredibly jealous that they could roam free in the world, not bound by anything, while he was caged to the ground like some circus animal.
Naturally, that hate transferred to all his clones, including clone D.
That was why said clone was pissed off when he heard the loud sound of chirping birds behind him.
He glanced back, ready to yell at them and scare them off, but soon noticed that the source of the noise was not birds. No, it was a man with gravity defying silver hair, a cloth mask that covered his neck and the lower half of his face and the standard Konoha Jounin garb. His left hand held his right wrist up as blue lightning crackled in his right hand. This man was Hatake Kakashi, the copy ninja (it didn't feel right saying Shinobi).
The clone didn't even have time to reacts as Kakashi ran forward and tried to ram his lightning covered hand in the blonde's chest. Let's just say that the clone had no chance at all.
"This for Sensei you demon! Chidori!" he exclaimed as he pierced the clone's chest, making him poof out of existence. The last thing the clone saw was a red eye with three tomoes that circled the pupil angrily.
Kakashi stopped his technique and cursed. "Shit, it was a diversion!". He looked around him and tried to pinpoint Naruto's chakra signature, but failed as the boy was nowhere near his location.
The Jounin cursed once again, looks like he would have to use 'that'.
He took out a small scroll from his pouch and smeared his blood across it.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
In a poof of smoke, a single small pug appeared before him. This was Pakkun, the smallest of Kakashi's ninken. However, despite his small size, he was the one summoned the most by Kakashi as he was the best at tracking.
"Sup." Pakkun said as he raised his paw in greeting. Ah yes, this dog could talk too.
Kakashi didn't bother to return the greeting as he asked the dog to track down the, in his own words, Kyuubi brat.
The small pug merely raised an eyebrow and sighed. "Kakashi, you know that I can't track someone without their smell."
"I know that, and I know the perfect place to find it." Kakashi replied as he gazed in the direction of a very familiar place. A very very familiar place.
Xxxxxxxx
With Naruto - Same time as clone 4 dispelled
Ryuuzuki Hatsu was an unimpressive man. He was 5 foot 10', was fairly built and had a common combination of short brown hair and brown eyes.
He was common, normal and that was exactly what he wanted. Why you might ask, why exactly would someone want to remain just another face in the crowd, just another unimportant person?
Well that was because Ryuuzuki Hatsu didn't really exist, he was in fact a fake persona created by Naruto to escape the village unnoticed.
Hatsu's pissed off expression didn't do his appearance justice as many civilians stopped to give him odd looks. He didn't know if it was because of his expression or because they wondered why he wasn't chasing the demon, or in another word, him.
He wasn't really pissed off at that however, his anger was directed to two very different and more important things. One, three of his diversions were currently dead, meaning that his escape would be harder and even compromised depending on the level of security at the village gate. He just didn't have enough chakra left for any more clones, no; he was saving it for 'that' technique. Two, he was completely and utterly lost, much to his and Kurama's dismay.
'Fuck...' the brunette/blonde thought as he tried to remember anything from conversations he had overheard or any books he had read, but nothing came to mind. He was hardly at fault for this, since he had stayed imprisoned in his family's compound for all his life, never seeing a glimpse of the outside world. So, the blame went to his inexperience with large crowds, which made him feel paranoid, and his father... Mostly the latter of you asked him.
Looking around, the Henged Naruto saw that he was right next to the entrance of a clan compound. Thankfully, it wasn't the one he just came from as god knows the boy would have cursed the heavens for such misfortune. Instead of the Namikaze's Kanji symbol, this clan's symbol, which was painted above the large green doors, was a circle with wave like patterns in it. Naruto remembered seeing this symbol in one of the Shinobi profiles he had peaked at in his father's library. It was the symbol of the Nara clan, a clan full of lazy geniuses that could potentially discover his true identity in a heartbeat.
The transformed Naruto started sweating bullets as he quickly backed away from the entrance and hurried down the street. Once at the intersection, he sighed in relief as he leaned on a white fence.
"Kit, you need to get out of there. It's about time they started falling back to the main gate so that they can insure you are trapped inside."Kurama said. Naruto nodded seriously.
'And that's not all,' the boy thought as he looked around, spotting many Shinobi jumping on the rooftops and some running full speed in the streets. He strongly suspected that the ANBU which weren't on a mission were also after him, hiding in the shadows.
He needed to know which way the gate was right now. He couldn't simply jump on a roof to have a better view since that would completely destroy his fake persona.
He supposed that finding a ladder could help him, but he really didn't have the time for that.
"Hey hang on! I'll get you to the hospital so just calm down!" one young Shinobi said to another. If Naruto's guess was right, these two were both Gennin, and terrible ones at that if the 4 shuriken embedded in one's behind was any indication.
As they passed by, Naruto had a small flashback:
"How did he even survive?" Kushina asked Minato as he told her about one of his Jounins coming back from a mission with one of his arms and one eye missing. It had been a miracle, he said. The man was on a mission in the land of swamps and he managed to come back to the village without dying.
"I don't know dear, I still find it unbelievable. I mean, after he collapsed at the village's gates we were all certain he wouldn't make it judging by the trail of blood that preceded him. We were lucky that the hospital is on the same road because I don't think the guy would have survived jumping on rooftops."
That was it! The hospital was on the same fucking road as the damned gate! Now he just had to follow these guys and ditch them once he was on the right path.
"Hey you guys! Let me help you out, I'm sure we'll get there quicker if we're two!" the transformed Naruto called out in fake concern. He was getting good at acting if he did say so himself. After all, he did manage to fool his damnable sister.
"Your sister is just a little spoiled brat, you shouldn't be taking any pride in fooling someone like her..."Kurama chuckled darkly as Naruto ran to the two awaiting Gennin. This pissed off Naruto a lot, but he still managed to keep his calm and kind expression (fake of course). There would be plenty of time to yell at stupid giant furballs when he was out of Konoha.
"Ahh thank you, your help would be appreciated." the one carrying the injured one smiled kindly at him, which caught him off guard as sincere smiles and kindness were alien to him. He didn't show it however as he slung the skeptical looking injured guy's arm over his shoulder and started walking through what seemed like a maze. Naruto thanked whatever deity that was watching over him that he had stumbled upon these guys, he certainly wouldn't have been able to find his way to the front gate of he didn't.
Once they arrived in front of the large hospital, the two thanked him and hurried inside where a nurse immediately took them to a separate room.
Happy to be free of the two idiots (he thought they talked way too much), the still disguised Naruto walked back to the road and glanced to the large gate the loomed in the distance.
Seeing that many people were running everywhere like headless chickens, no doubt looking for him, Naruto took the initiative and started running as well. However, he knew exactly where he was going, unlike the villagers.
Naruto ran past several stores and restaurants at a moderate speed. He zig-zagged through the crowds, mindful of not touching any of the people there; he really didn't want them to notice him and decide to strike a conversation.
As he passed in front of a large grocery store, something red caught his eye. He shifted his attention to the entrance of said store and his eyes widened a bit at what he saw. It was his mother, no doubt just having finished her shift at the hospital, coming out with a huge bag of groceries that she carried like a bag pack. She stepped out and onto the street, making her way to the middle. She was getting close to him now; he had better pass by quickly and pay her no mind, lest she recognized him.
The moment that they passed by each other, they locked eyes. Time seemed to stop, her stare was really unnerving, it was as if she looked right through him, uncovering all his lies and plans. He gulped, a bead of sweat dripping from his eyebrow.
Finally, right when Naruto was starting to feel uneasy, the red-haired woman broke eye contact and continued her way to god bows where, probably the compound to make a late night snack for her beloved husband.
Naruto didn't dare looking back as he accelerated his pace. He shuddered and made a face, this certainly had been an unpleasant experience.
'No.' he chastised himself and shook his head, 'I don't have time to get distracted.'
"That's right." Kurama told him through their link. "You don't have the time to wander around. You have stayed here way too long already. You better get to the escaping part now because of you miss this chance it will be all over. There will be no second chances."
The fox's voice had an edge in it telling him that he really really had to hurry and Naruto knew that trusting Kurama was the best thing to do in this situation. Besides, the fox was right, being lost had cost him a lot of time and staying here any longer wouldn't do him any good.
The transformed blond looked up at the gate that was growing larger by the second and frowned. It certainly wouldn't be easy, but he was ready to die trying. No, he wouldn't try. He would succeed.
Yes, he would succeed. Definitely.
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