CHAPTER 13
Look, I'm just going to go with 'Kumo' for spider, since that's majority that are saying it… so, sorry, and you're just going to deal with it if it's wrong… OH, I HAVE GOOD NEWS!... yesterday, I was walking around town with my best mate, and my friend, the one who has cancer - SHE WAS THERE! we talked, and she's so much better now! Oh my god. I'm happy. They got rid of it, but she has to have check-ups, to make sure they got all of it, and just in case it comes back. And thank you guys so much for everything, since it was tough. But it's all good now! :) man, I love you guys xx
P.S sorry it took so long… fighting scenes are really hard for me.. I mean, they don't flow and aren't as easy to write as the rest of it. But, I got there in the end, and I think I'm slowly getting better at them, compared to how I started off. But I think they'll always be a slow thing for me… well, everyone has their faults! :P x
** DEMON COUPLE **
Last time:
"Hinata, check our surroundings with your byakugan." Sasuke said.
Hinata did as he said, but what she saw wasn't a good thing. "Fuck!" Hinata cursed loudly, making Naruto and Sasuke turn to her alarmed. Hinata never swore. Ever. So something was seriously wrong.
"What is it?" Sasuke asked.
"We have to move. Now!" She ordered.
Naruto grabbed onto Hinata, "Hinata! What did you see!"
Hinata took a deep breath. "Orochimaru."
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"Shit! Well, Roki, Misaki, Get Jiraiya. We need backup." Sasuke ordered.
The dogs nodded, and took off in the opposite direction the others were facing, their noses to the ground.
"Hinata, how many are there?" Naruto asked.
"Kabuto and Orochimaru are our only threats. There are some others, but they aren't strong, we could probably get Misaki and Roki to take out the easy ones, I'll take Kabuto, and you two handle Orochimaru." Hinata said thoughtfully.
"That sounds good. But while Misaki and Roki aren't back, we'll need Naruto clones to start to take out the others." Sasuke added.
"Alright. Sounds like a plan. How many are there, Hinata?" Naruto asked.
"Only about 100. They aren't very strong, apart from Orochimaru and Kabuto. I think they think that Sasuke's alone." Hinata guessed.
"Alright, then we use that to our advantage. You two conceal yourselves, and when they are distracted, Hinata you take on Kabuto, and try to get him alone. And Naruto, we'll do the same for Orochimaru. How far away are they?" Sasuke turned back to Hinata.
"800 metres and gaining fast." Hinata said as her and Naruto disappeared into the bushes, using their demon chakra to conceal themselves and watch the spectacle play out.
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"Hello Sasuke-kun. I heard you've been on a little vacation." Orochimaru smiled threateningly as his yellow snake-like eyes followed every movement of the Uchiha.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted, as he usually did when he addressed this criminal.
"Well, well, you got new clothes too. Interesting." Kabuto noticed, "Well, now vacations over, and you need to get your training back on track." Kabuto glared, a little jealous of Sasuke and how he was always Orochimaru's favourite.
"No." Sasuke stated confidently, looking straight into the eyes of his ex-teachers.
"That isn't your decision to make, Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru continued to smile.
All of Orochimaru and Kabuto's henchmen were standing back, waiting for orders, and since they were far back, Naruto and Hinata chose their time to strike. Hinata saw Misaki, Roki and Jiraiya closing in, so she knew the henchmen would be take care of. Pulling out more demon chakra, Naruto and Hinata used it to speed forward at an alarming rate, Hinata delivering a charged palm strike to Kabuto's back, sending him flying into the forest and herself running after him, while Naruto knew his wouldn't be as easy. He charged Orochimaru, and knowing the sannin would block any attack to him, send a Rasengan straight towards the ground at their feet, sending both flying in different directions. Sasuke ran after Orochimaru and Naruto quickly regained his balance and followed, leaving all the henchmen to stand there, as their back up finally made it to the group.
** DEMON COUPLE **
With Hinata…
"Hmm… Hyuuga Hinata." Kabuto stood up, watching the female land right in front of him, in her own modified fighting stance.
"It's just Hinata." She corrected, before charging towards her opponent, activating her byakugan.
Luckily, Hinata could see Kabuto's chakra scalpel he created out of each hand with her Byakugan, giving her a slight advantage, but Kabuto already knew much about Hinata, so he jumped backwards, knowing that she was a close-combat fighter.
"So you're with Sasuke, eh? That's surprising. I was expecting Naruto-kun. But I never would've guessed you were there too." Kabuto smirked, "Well, easier for me. You may be S rank in the bingo book, but I know a lot about you, Hinata."
It was Hinata's turn to smirk, "Trust me, the bingo book knows nothing about me."
Kabuto charged forward this time, "I didn't get my information from the bingo book!" He yelled, charging and attempting to slice the muscle in Hinata's legs with his chakra scalpel. Hinata jumped up and pulled out her blades on her left hand to strike across Kabuto's chest, but he jumped backwards, dodging easily, and Hinata was glad for the space. Hinata knew by the look on his face that he had no idea that she could do that with her gloves, and using his shock to her advantage, threw a couple senbon in his direction, subtly placing one in her mouth before once again charging forward.
Kabuto quickly got out of his shock, and dodged the senbon, throwing his own towards the girl, before doing a leg-sweep, sending her jumping into the air once again. This time, he impaled her leg with a kunai before she could attempt anything, and she couldn't dodge mid-air, so she spat out the senbon in her mouth towards his neck. He wasn't fast enough to dodge it completely, but he did manage to move enough so it would hit anything vital.
Quickly pulling out the kunai from her leg with a grunt, she threw that at him too, hitting him in the shoulder as she hit the ground hard and limped backwards, calling upon Gobi chakra to heal her leg fast.
"Surprising, here you are trying to kill me, when I saved your life." He smirked, pulling the kunai out of his shoulder.
Hinata did a double take, "What?"
"The chunin exams. You were going to die that day. And if it wasn't for me. You'd be dead right now." He grinned at her shocked look, and threw the kunai back at her.
Hinata dodged the kunai, but she was still in shock. She immediately knew that Kabuto was telling the truth, and she dodged his punches, but every time she went for a vital hit, she seemed to hesitate, making Kabuto smile.
He noticed her hesitation, so left himself open, and when Hinata went for it, hesitating on the last second, he pulled his chakra scalpel out and sliced all the muscle on her left arm, making her cringe from the pain and jump away for some distance.
He continued to use Hinata's hesitation to his advantage, waiting for the exact moment to strike when she was vulnerable, and Hinata couldn't find it in herself to kill someone who saved her life. Hinata felt tears in her eyes if she came to a realisation.
I don't know if I can kill him… Hinata thought to herself as she went on the defensive.
** DEMON COUPLE **
With Sasuke and Naruto…
They all were panting heavily, scratched and deep cuts in their skin. "We can't hold back. We need to take this up a notch." Sasuke turned to his brother, seemingly worse off out of the three of them, Orochimaru barely even had a scratch on him, but he was panting too and the ground surrounding them was covered in ditches, fissures and disintegrated ash from trees and grass that had been utterly destroyed.
Naruto nodded, bringing up as much demon chakra as he could, feeling that familiar feeling as the red chakra started to flow around his body. Looking over to Sasuke, he saw the his black marks covering his body, changing his appearance completely as they finally finished with Sasuke growing hand-like wings out of his back.
"Let's do this." Naruto said as he instantly grew two tails.
"I see you've gotten a little bit stronger." Orochimaru smirked, "But I am, one of the Sanin, and you two are no match for me."
"Underestimating your opponent is a bad choice." Sasuke smirked as the long black-haired pale Sanin.
"Naw, man, you're starting to sound like Kakashi-sensei! Seriously! If you start appearing late, I swear I'm going to kick your ass!" Naruto chuckled.
"Naruto, are you forgetting that we are in the middle of a battle, and you shouldn't be making jokes?" Sasuke sighed, getting into his fighting stance.
Naruto followed suit, getting into his own fighting stance, prepared for anything as Orochimaru started doing hand signs, "Summoning Jutsu!"
Sasuke smirked, "You do know that you can't summon a snake to fight another snake summoner? Snakes do have a sense of loyalty and honour, you know?" He sighed as he saw Manda appear, the huge snake staring down at all of them.
"Take out the blonde." Orochimaru ordered, as Naruto made his own hand sign.
"Kage Bushin no jutsu!" and hundreds of Naruto's appeared. "I have a bone to pick with you guys! One of you ate me before! And I didn't do anything to you!" All the Naruto's ran towards the giant purple snake.
"Manda!" Sasuke yelled out, "Don't do it!"
Manda – the giant purple snake, was confused on what to do. His bright yellow eyes watched the blonde close up on him. Quickly deciding this blonde was a threat, he slithered into action, "Then letsss sssee how you like being eaten twice."
Naruto's Kyuubi chakra was stable outside his body, looking as though he had a second skin, but red and transparent, with fox ears and two fox tails, "Well, foxes eat snakes!"
Sasuke sighed, if Naruto hadn't charged the giant poisonous snake, he might have been able to convince him not to attack. "What do you want Orochimaru?" Sasuke glared at his old master.
"I see you do not wish to return. Do you? Pity, I had some information you want to know." His neck stretched to that of a giraffes as he got into battle stance.
"What information?" Sasuke quickly withdrew his sword. He had to stall until Naruto had taken care of Manda, Sasuke knew he was no match for Orochimaru on his own.
"Something you might want to know about the Seven Deadly Sins…" Sasuke raised a brow, he had no idea what Orochimaru was talking about. "Oh, you know quite well, the seven that have targeted Konoha and the Hyuuga friend of yours."
"They're targeting Hinata?" Sasuke's eyes widened.
"Oh, not all of them. One in particular." He decided he had said enough and his body sprang forward, towards the unsuspecting Sasuke.
Sasuke cursed himself for being caught off guard as he smashed into a tree from the body slam and quickly got up and prepared to fight, only to find a long slimy tongue trying to wrap around his legs. Withdrawing his sword, he sliced the tongue and jumped back, a blade in one hand, his prized jutsu – the Chidori – in the other.
"I can't believe you of all people, underestimate me, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke only smirked, "I'm sorry, but I think that you are the one who seems to be underestimating me." He charged, although, deep down, he knew there was no hope. But that didn't mean he wasn't going to go down fighting.
His sharingan was activated, so he used that to his advantage. Watching intently as he charged, he concentrated on the moves he could see Orochimaru about to do, and dodge them to counter. He managed to scrape a shallow cut on Orochimaru's side, but he felt his blade slide out of his hand as Orochimaru grabbed a kunai and disarmed him.
Quickly creating a Chidori, Sasuke slammed it into the ground, he needed to create distance between the two. The force from the attack blew the two away from each other, but Sasuke wasn't expecting the kunai Orochimaru had in his hand to be thrown at him. He had no time to dodge, so he had to pull out the kunai impaled in his stomach when he landed on the ground with a slam.
Luckily, he had landed near where his sword was thrown, so he crawled over and picked it up, getting into a standing position with a bit of trouble. He looked up to Orochimaru, who appeared to be pulling a sword out of his mouth, with disgust. "So you want a sword fight, Sasuke-kun?" He smiled once the sword was out, and charged forward.
Sasuke quickly got into a defensive position, but before either of them could make contact with the other, some landed hard on the ground in between them and the area was covered in dust.
Naruto, who had landed on their field, was bloody and bruised, mumbling to himself about how he hated snakes when Sasuke snapped him out of it, "Naruto! Get your ass over here and help!"
Naruto quickly complied, "I took care of Manda. But I think it would be best if you never summon him around me, Sasuke." He advised as the duo stood back to back, keeping an eye out for the Snake Sanin. That was, until a sword shot out from underground, both boys jumping into the air, Sasuke staying up by flapping his hand-like wings and Naruto gathering chakra into a bright red demonic Rasengan. Locking eyes with Sasuke, Sasuke quickly created a Chidori, and both fell/flew towards Orochimaru with their arms held out, bracing themselves for the impact.
As the jutsu connected, a large burst of power once again threw Naruto and Sasuke back through a couple trees. Panting and unsteady, the duo got up again, and looked towards the clearing dust only to see…
"What the hell he looks the same as before?" Naruto yelled in exhaustion. "Did he dodge it?"
Sasuke's eyes narrowed in realisation, "He retreated underground."
"We need to get him to stay still, and hit with a Chidori and Demonic Rasengan." Naruto guessed.
"Got it." Sasuke pulled out his sword again, while Naruto created ten shadow clones, all pulling out a kunai.
Orochimaru was having a bit of trouble taking on these two at once. He did look in a lot better condition than the other two, but he was worn out and starting to run low on chakra – not that he'd let Naruto and Sasuke figure that out.
"Pin him down!" Naruto yelled as Sasuke and the clones charged. Orochimaru had his sword out, and thankfully for Sasuke, Orochimaru couldn't counterattack since all the clones were parrying him with kunai.
It was pretty even, but the Naruto's were slowly disappearing at times when they accidentally left a spot open. But their luck was changed when an arrow came flying in and hit Orochimaru on the arm he used to hold his sword. Naruto quickly took out another arrow and continued to accurately fire them at the snake sannin. Sasuke took a chance too, staying close to Orochimaru, trying desperately to pin him with his sword and putting all his trust into Naruto not to skewer him with an arrow.
"We want to know all you know about the seven deadly sins." Sasuke ordered, breathlessly, grinning as he disarmed Orochimaru's sword.
"In the Land of Waves is their base. But I'd like to see you get to them." Orochimaru glared, dodging another arrow which gained his attention for a second.
Sasuke grinned, that was all he needed, Orochimaru's distraction and an opening, he thrust his sword straight through the sannins chest, skewering him to the ground.
"Naruto lets do this." Sasuke said as Naruto stood next to him, "Good riddance," Sasuke said, producing a Chidori with the last of his power.
"And have fun in hell." Naruto agreed, taking a deep breath and pulling deep into the last of his demon chakra, creating a larger red rasengan.
"CHIDORI!"
"DEMONIC RASENGAN!"
And with that, a huge burst of power erupted from where all three attacks hit Orochimaru at the exact same time, sending both of the men flying back as Orochimaru exploded and disintegrated in the flash of colours.
Sasuke and Naruto landed on the ground with a thud, their demonic chakra/curse mark chakra fading away from themselves and chakra burns covering most open parts from the sheer force of the attack they had just used. Suddenly, they both froze, sensing another person nearby and heading towards them at an alarming rate. With a sigh of relief, they saw Jiraiya, Misaki and Roki appear in front of them.
Jiraiya looked over to the battlefield, watching as the two brothers got into a standing position, "Did you…? Is Orochimaru.. dead?"
"Once and for all." Sasuke said with conviction.
But their victory was short-lived as Misaki suddenly turned a pale colour, collapsing onto the ground, gaining everyone's attention. "Misaki?" Naruto called out, watching in horror as the wolf literally melted into the forest floor in a burst of chakra. "Hinata?" Naruto called out in realisation, "Something must've happened to Hinata!"
And with that, they all ran as fast as their legs would allow, their exhaustion all but forgotten, to the place they were sure Hinata would be.
** DEMON COUPLE **
With Hinata (a few moments ago.)
Hinata was starting to tire, pulling out all the demon chakra she could handle as she continued to dodge the attacks coming from Kabuto.
But a blast of pure power coming from where Naruto and Sasuke were fighting distracted her for a mere second, giving Kabuto time to sneak behind her and literally destroy the muscle tissue in her upper back. He had been watching her every movement intently, and noticed all her demonic chakra was situated and always flowed out of her upper back. As she hit the ground forcefully, Kabuto wasn't expecting the sudden burst of Gobi chakra that burst out of her petite body. Hinata quickly charged the last two steps; she had to finish him off now, and threw an overcharged palm strike straight at Kabuto's chest killing him instantly.
As soon as she let out that last burst of chakra, Hinata realised that it wasn't such a good idea as she stumbled around the ground, a searing pain in her upped back. The seal! Hinata realised, Kabuto must have messed up my seal somehow! She realised as she slammed onto the ground, her demonic chakra randomly bursting out of her body, and mixing with her natural chakra, a slow and painful process, she knew as the demonic charka was overriding her chakra paths and she lay face first on the ground, breathing heavily, trying desperately to stay in control. (About the time Misaki dies…)
"HINATA-CHAN!" Naruto's frantic voice echoed throughout the forest as he saw his raven-haired kunoichi lying flat on the ground. He could feel the demon chakra practically leaking out of her as he reached his girlfriend with a look of pure horror on his face.
He pulled his girl onto his lap, ignoring the pain from the bursts of demon chakra she would give out randomly, "What's happening to you? Please, please don't die on me… I love you!" Tears were already streaking down his face.
Sasuke watched the spectacle, breaking from his usual 'cool' façade with his own tears trailing down his cheeks. He didn't say anything, but stood there breathing heavily from both exhaustion and shock, silently wishing and praying to anyone that'd listen to help his sister.
"My... Seal." Hinata let out, making Naruto's eyes widen as he looked over to the seal on her upper back, noticing the purple glow it was giving out.
"JIRAIYA!" Naruto yelled as loud as he could, the sannin was the most skilled in the world on seals. And Naruto thanked Kami that Jiraiya happened to be with them.
"What! I heard you yell my name, and you never call me Jiraiya." He had been following slowly, but immediately shut up when he saw the looks on both boys' faces and the trembling Hinata in Naruto's grasp.
"Her seal." Naruto answered stoically, as if already dethatching himself from everything around him. Naruto had been through a lot in his life, but if this happened… If Hinata didn't… didn't make it… That would be it. That would send Naruto over the bridge. And Jiraiya knew it.
Jiraiya ran over the girl, a look of pure determination on his face. He owed a lot to this girl, she loved Naruto. And he was grateful for that. Naruto didn't know it, but he needed love in his life, and she was the one to give it to him. Jiraiya wasn't even sure if Sasuke would make it out of this one okay if Hinata didn't make it. He saw the way him and Hinata acted around each other, like siblings, really, to Sasuke, Hinata and Naruto were both his siblings, the way they acted you would think they were all blood related… apart from the fact that two of them were in a relationship. Which would make Hinata more of a sister-in-law, but you get the drift.
Overall, Jiraiya didn't know Hinata all that well, but she was starting to grow on him. All three of them were. He was even starting to like Sasuke! Quickly dismantling those thoughts from his head, he scanned the seal. Noticing all the muscle tissue in her upped back was snapped, he quickly guessed what might have happened.
Holding out his glowing palm, he ran his hand over the glowing mark, his eyes widening in realisation of what was actually happening to the girl, "This has never happened before…" He mumbled to himself, but, since it had been absolutely dead silent, the other two men heard him clearly.
"W-what?" Sasuke tried to remove the sob out of his voice as he knelt down next to the group, gently ruffling Hinata's hair like he always did, watching Naruto's chakra-burned hand gently caress her cheek, as if it would stop her face from scrunching up in pain.
"They're merging. I think she'll be okay, but I can't be positive. The only way I can even guess this is happening is by the fact that I know that it will happen to you, Naruto. The fourth made your seal so that you and the Kyuubi will merge. And that is what's happening to Hinata here. It is an extremely painful process, where she needs to absorb all of Gobi's chakra and then merge it with her own, but I'm pretty confident she'll be okay," He let out a sigh of relief after hearing his own words, as if he were listening to it instead of being the one saying it. He guessed it felt much better to say it out in the open, making him more confident in his assumption. "But we need someone to heal all her injuries. She needs to get to a hospital." Jiraiya barely finished the sentence before Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke literally vanished into thin air. He would have no idea what happened if he didn't notice the small dust trail heading towards town. Slowly, he followed after them, to make sure Hinata got out of this alive.
** DEMON COUPLE **
END OF CHAPTER 13
I've never been very good at fighting scenes, so… sorry in advance. But, I really think I'm getting better, just… slowly. But, when you look at my other fic. I really think this one is much better with my fights and especially moves… so yeah. Well, I can't be perfect, can i? haha. Thank you again my awesome reviewers.. and then my awesome readers that don't review. I love you guys… in a totally UNsexual way ;) haha lol xx Taz