(A/N) And I'm back from the dentist's! I figured I would write another fight, and make up one of the chapters I owe you for not getting them done daily. Not much to say, although there is one review I would like to go over.
Junior the Wolf: I never knew that "twin fox fists" could be translated to Soukoken. I had been individually translating the words into Japanese before last chapter and putting them together, but I started using Google translate to translate phrases so that I could come up with the word for Warping white eye, Sorishirome, last chapter. While Soukoken is shorter and has a nice ring to it, I think that Tsuinkitsuneken sounds cooler, yet it still is pretty easy on the tounge. So I will keep her jutsu as Tsuinkitsuneken, as it is uniquely mine.
Also, I would be happy if someone would create some art based on my story. Like pictures of what I have Naruto and Hinata look like in their Hanyou forms, and the weapons that they use. If someone could make those, I would be extremely happy if you shared them with me. In particular, if you made a good picture of Naruto and Hinata in their Hanyou forms doing something (kissing, hugging, standing with their weapons at the ready, whatever), then I could use it as the story picture with your permission of course.
Anyways, on with the show!
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Chapter 22: The Fight for Gato part 3
Naruto and Hinata had just finished sealing all of the bodies with bounties into scrolls, when Haku walked in. Hinata activated her Byakugan to check for injuries, and she saw that her right shoulder had been dislocated and a few of her ribs were cracked. She also had a few pinpoint holes in her right arm. Overall, her condition was much better than what Naruto's was, even if he had only been hit once (A few cracks is much better than completely shattered with a few pieces piercing a lung). She was also completely soaked to the bone, but she wasn't shivering. She also looked completely exhausted.
"Haku-chan, come over here and I'll start healing you." Said Hinata.
"Thank you, Hinata-chan, I appreciate it." Replied Haku as she walked over to Hinata.
Hinata got to work with her lavender foxfire, and in no time at all, she was fine. It also had the side effect of drying Haku's clothes.
Naruto spoke up and said "So how did your fight with that Kiri nin go?"
"Well it certainly was interesting, to say the least. She really deserved that title of "The Human Floodgate". Never would I have expected for water to be able to be effectively used against my ice. Here is how it went…"
(Flashback no Jutsu)
Haku and Puchame were walking silently through the tunnel to their destination. Puchame was a small framed girl with fair skin who had light blue hair hung down to her shoulders. She wore a light blue dress (similar to Mei Terumi's) that showed off a little cleavage (C-cup). She had black knee high boots, and had black gloves that extended to her elbows. Her eyes were purple, and she had two light blue earrings.
Puchame spoke up and said "Haku, right? Why do you want to be known as "The Frozen Wasteland?"
Haku replied, saying "Two reasons. The first is that I am the last living user of Hyoton. I won't tell you the second, but you might see it during our fight."
With that, they reached their dome. They stood a ways from each other before Puchame made the first move. She flew through some hand signs and said "Suiton: Assaku Sentakki!" (Water Release: Pressure Washer)
Puchame shot a highly pressured stream of water out of her mouth at Haku, who responded with a "Hyoton: Shomen Kabe!" (Frontal Wall) creating a meter thick wall of ice in front of her. The jet of water met the ice, and to Haku's surprise, the ice started to crack. Puchame was still releasing the jutsu from her mouth, so the wall started to crack even more. Haku then said "Hyoton: Jihatsu Koo!" (Instant Freeze) and the wall repaired itself, as well as the ice started creeping up Puchame's stream towards her. Seeing her jutsu being frozen, Puchame cut off the stream. She then took advantage of Haku not being able to see her from behind the wall and said "Suiton: Mizuhari!" (Water Needles), spitting out five extremely focused needles of water at the figure behind the wall. The needles pierced straight through the wall, and found their marks in Haku's right arm. They went straight through her arm, and continued, piercing the dome, which started to leak a little water. Haku realized that the wall was doing no good, and melted it back into water, which splashed to the ground.
Puchame smirked and said "Looks like first blood goes to me. I wonder if you will be able to use that arm of yours."
Haku let out a grim smile and said "I can still use it. You missed all of my tendons, and only made minor cuts to my muscles." Haku then said "Hyoton: Makyo Hyosho!" (Demonic Ice Mirrors), creating a set of mirrors all around Puchame, before stepping into them. She reflected herself upon all of the mirrors and said "Let's see how you handle this!"
The mirrors reflected her going through hand signs, and she said "Hyoton: Kakomi Koori Hari!" (Encircling Ice Needles), before hundreds of ice needles shot out of each of the mirrors.
Puchame went as quickly as she could through hand signs, and just before she was going to become a human pincushion, she shouted "Suiton: Kozui Nami!" (Flood Wave), and a massive amount of water surged off her entire body, pushing away the needles, and when it met the mirrors, it shattered them. Haku jumped out of the mirror she was in to avoid being shattered herself, but the force of the water continued, and it swept her into the side of the dome with such force that it cracked not only the dome, but a few of her ribs as well.
Haku groaned in pain, but she saw that Puchame was panting as well. Apparently Kozui Nami was a very chakra extensive technique. Pushing through her pain to take advantage of her opponent's tired state, Haku got up and walked towards Puchame. Taking out some senbon, she let them fly. Puchame barely dodged the senbon, but Haku sent a second wave of senbon, which hit key points in her legs, causing them to become immobile. Haku continued walking towards Puchame, but Puchame had a better idea.
Puchame flew through hand signs, causing Haku to take a defensive stance, and start making handsigns of her own, but she was too late. Puchame shouted "Suiton: Seki!" (Floodgate), and unleashed her strongest jutsu out of her mouth. The sheer amount of water that came out of her mouth was ridiculous.
Seeing the practical tsunami surge towards herself, Haku braced herself and switched up the handsigns that she was making. Taking the full impact of Puchame's jutsu, Haku felt her right arm dislocate. However she had just finished her hand signs, and said "Hyoton: Jihatsu Koo", sending her instant freeze up the torrent of water. However, the sheer amount of water was too much for Haku to freeze, and it pushed through what little was frozen, so the water continued to take Haku towards the side of the dome. She crashed into it, causing huge cracks to appear in the glass, but the flood woudn't stop. Haku started to panic a little, as she heard the glass groan against the pressure.
"I have to use that jutsu, or else I'll die!" thought Haku, as she started going through one handed hand signs.
Just as the glass to the dome shattered, causing the rest of the dome to shatter as well, Haku finished her strongest jutsu. She screamed out "HYOTON: REITO ARECHI!" (Frozen Wasteland). The glass of the dome fell to the ground, but no water got in. In place of the dome of glass, was a thickening dome of ice, and the floor became coated in a thick sheet of ice. Puchame's jutsu quickly became frozen, and the ice traveled along the floodgate and froze Puchame's insides, turning her into a human Popsicle.
Haku let out a huge sigh of relief, as she had not expected her jutsu to actually replace the dome, as she was hoping she could pull it off before the dome shattered. She then skated over to Puchame's frozen body, and broke her off of the frozen floodgate. She then sealed Puchame's body in a scroll, before starting to walk back to the entrance.
(Flashback no Jutsu KAI!)
"…and that's how it went." Finished Haku.
Hinata said "You did great Haku-chan", while Naruto was thinking "Here is another girl that I really don't want to piss off. While she is not as scary as Hina-chan, I think that her Reito Arechi jutsu could hold out against my foxfire, after hearing how it stopped that floodgate jutsu. That alone is a very scary thought, as I can't think of to much else that could hold my foxfire back."
It was then that an extremely bloody Zabuza made his presense known to everyone by saying "Well it looks like I am the last to get here, who would have thought?" before he collapsed on the ground.
Hinata immediately rushed to him and started healing him, while an extremely worried Haku looked on. His body had an immeasurable amount of cuts on it, some deep while others shallow.
While healing him, Hinata looked over him with her Byakugan and said "He has no internal injuries of any sort, or any broken bones. It just looks like he went through a blender."
A few tense minutes later, Zabuza woke up. He groaned and said to Hinata "Thanks missy. That guy was better than I thought he would be. I bet you guys are wondering why I look like I've been through a blender. Here's how it went…"
(Flashback no Jutsu)
Zabuza and Jack were walking together towards their destination. Jack was around the same height as Zabuza, and of the same complexion too. However, that is where the similarities between the two ended. He had short, messy blond hair and light green eyes. He wore a scratched out Kiri headband around his neck. He wore a dark blue long sleeved shirt with extremely wide sleeves. He had black ninja pants with a shuriken pouch tied to his right leg, and wore black ninja shoes. The most peculiar thing about his outfit was the large scroll he had on his back. He held it vertical like a backpack via two straps that he had connected to the scroll.
Zabuza said gruffly "I take it that that scroll is where you hold all of your weapons?"
Jack chuckled and said "Yes. Well most of them anyways. But you'll see during our fight. And how about we make our fight a weapons only fight? No jutsus."
Zabuza chuckled and said "Very well, that ought to be fun. We will prove who is the better weaponsmaster.
They finished walking in silence.
When they got to their dome, they stood aways from each other and Zabuza said "I'll let you take out your first weapon. Make a good choice."
Jack chuckled and reached an arm back and unrolled part of the scroll. With a poof, he held a wakazashi in his hand.
Zabuza charged while thinking "A wakazashi, eh? That means that he will most likely try to outspeed me." He slashed at Jack with kurikiribocho, fully expecting Jack to dodge, but to his surprise, Jack blocked with his wakazashi. Jack slid a little across the ground, but he managed to hold his own. He then surprised Zabuza by releasing one of his hands from his wakazashi, and making another wakazashi slide into his other hand from within his shirt. While Zabuza's blade was preoccupied with the first wakazashi, Jack took a slash at Zabuza with the other. Zabuza tried to dodge, but he got hit with the tip of these blade in the chest, causing a light slash to appear.
Zabuza backed away and said "I went in fully expecting you to try and outspeed me. That little maneuver with the wakazashi in your shirt was unexected."
Jack grinned and said "I aim to please," before making a slashing motion with his arms, causing a dozen kunai to fly at Zabuza. Zabuza blocked with the flat edge of Kurikiribocho, but Jack quickly closed in the distance with his wakazashis. They danced in a flurry of slashes, but the speed of Jack's blade fully outclassed Zabuza's, resulting in Zabuza beginning to get sliced up. Finally, Zabuza saw an opening and unleashed a mighty slash, which Jack blocked with both blades. However the force behind the slash was to strong, and Jack noticed cracks appearing in both wakazashis. He quickly leapt back as both blades shattered.
Dropping the broken blades to the ground, Jack pulled out a double edged Kusarigama, whirled it around for a moment, and then hurled it at Zabuza. Zabuza dodged the incoming Kusarigama, and was expecting Jack to pull it back, when Jack made another slashing motion with his free arm, sending in more kunai. Zabuza again blocked with Kurikiribocho, and looked to see Jack charging at him with a katana, kusarigama completely forgotten. They clashed, and this time the weapons matchup was more even, resulting in both combatants taking a few hits. The clash ended with the same result as the last one, with Zabuza's superior blade causing Jack's to shatter.
Jack stepped back again and this time summoned a naginata from his scroll. Zabuza charged again and was met with Jack skillfully keeping him from coming close with the range of the naginata. However, this did not last long, as Zabuza decided to take a hit in exchange for giving one to Jack. Zabuza timed it so that Jack's naginata impaled his chest in a non-vital spot. He then slashed down with Kurikiribocho, causing a huge laceration to appear down Jack's chest. Zabuza then grabbed the handle of the naginata that was still in him and jumped back, wrenching it out of Jack's grip. He then removed the blade from his chest with a grunt. Tossing it to the ground, he charged Jack once more.
Jack barely had time to pull out another katana before Zabuza was on him. They clashed once more with Zabuza having the advantage this time, as the huge wound from earlier slowed Jack down. Jack received many more cuts than Zabuza in this exchange, and he was forced back into a corner. Feeling the glass dome against his back, and seeing Zabuza's blade coming down to slice him in half, Jack did something desperate. He collapsed to the ground on purpose, and Zabuza's blade was stopped by it cutting into the thick glass dome, but not cutting all the way through. Seeing that his plan worked, Jack leapt back up and delivered a huge slash to Zabuza's back. Zabuza just grunted at the blow, and yanked Kurikiribocho out of the glass dome. He turned to face Jack and saw him taking the scroll off of his back.
Jack then unrolled the scroll part way and held it in front of Zabuza. He then channeled a huge amount of chakra into the scroll. The scroll responded by sending a huge amount of weapons flying at Zabuza extremely quickly.
Zabuza didn't even have time to dodge or block. He was hit by the barrage of various weapons full on. When the barrage subsided, Jack was amazed to see Zabuza still standing, even if he looked like a human pincushion.
Zabuza started laughing and said "Is that all you got?" as he started picking the weapons out of his body. "Let me show you why they call me "The demon of the hidden mist!"
Zabuza flared his chakra and he was covered in his demon shroud. He started charging at Jack at a speed that was faster than previously. Jack barely pulled out a blade to block Zabuza's oncoming slash in time, but it made no difference, as Kurikiribocho cleaved straight through the blade, carving a huge mark across Jack's chest. Defenseless, Jack could do nothing to stop the match's final slash. Zabuza's made a huge horizontal slash, cleaving through Jack's body like it was butter, cutting him in half.
Satisfied with his fight, Zabuza sealed Jack's two halves in a scroll, and he muttered "I guess my mastery won." Before he headed back towards the center.
(Flashback no Jutsu KAI!)
"…and then I came back here." Finished Zabuza.
Naruto chuckled and said "I'm really glad that you are on our side. You seem to just be too stubborn to die. Anyways, if you are ready, let's get that slimy shrimp."
Zabuza cracked his neck with a few satisfying pops, and said "I'm ready as I'll ever be, let's get the bastard."
The group headed towards the solid iron dome that they saw the shrimp scurry to. When they got to it, they found a solid iron door blocking their way. Naruto was completely unphased, and he took out Soshi Kiba and lit them with sear. Using sear, he carved through the iron like it was butter, and created a door for them.
They all stepped in to find Gato standing there in shock. The shrimp stuttered out "How…how…did you beat my guards? They were elite! And you are uninjured! This is impossible!"
Naruto chuckled and said "Yes we beat them, but we did not escape uninjured. It's only because Hina-chan is one of the best healers in the world that Zabuza and I are still alive. But now your time is up, Gato. You will pay for what you have done to the wave."
Naruto slowly advanced towards Gato with sear still activated on Soshi Kiba, and the shrimp started begging "No! No! Please don't kill me! I'll give you money! I'll make you rich beyond your wildest dreams! I'll-"
Gato was silenced permanently by Naruto beheading him with one of his fangs. Naruto looked down at Gato's headless body and said "Money doesn't make the man. Besides, I am already rich beyond my wildest dreams."
With that said, he sealed up Gato's body in a scroll, and turned to the group and said "Well now that that's over with, how about we take a look around for what Gato was keeping?"
They looked around the iron dome and found an extremely secure looking vault. Well, secure to most people. Sear cut through the vault like it was nothing. Inside, they found a huge amount of riches. They also found a list containing evidence of all of the underhanded deals that Gato had made. Sealing the riches inside a scroll, they headed back out to the entrance dome. Following the path once more, they arrived outside to where the abandoned shack had once been.
Once out, they found Kakashi running towards them. They stopped him and Naruto said "Kakashi-san, why are you here?"
The out of breath Kakashi responded "I came here as backup. You were taking a while and I just couldn't sit there, so I came. But I see that you have apparently finished, so I came for nothing. How did it go down?"
Walking back to Tazuna's house, Naruto recounted their tale.
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And that's a wrap! I put both Haku and Zabuza's fights into one chapter, as well as Gato's fate. We are just about done with the land of waves! Just next chapter, and I think we will be back in Konoha. Then I can start telling the stories of what happens before the chunin exams, and then we have the chunin exams! I can't wait to get there! They are going to be awesome.
Anyways, on with the omake!
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Wheel of torture chapter 13
The root members really never learn their lesson. One would think that they would have by now, but obviously, Danzo never taught them how to learn from their mistakes.
So today the wheel stopped on "Metroids".
The root members were absolutely horrified at the gelatinous jellyfish like creatures that appeared.
With good reason.
The metroids latched onto the root members and proceeded to suck their energy dry.
They left their lifeless husks to rot as the metroids poofed back to Tallon IV.
Apparently, root had never developed the morph ball bomb either (go figure).
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And that's the omake. Not as funny as my other ones, and quite violent, but I can't get Metroid Prime out of my head as I listen to the game's soundtrack as I type these chapters. I absolutely love the Metroid Prime games, and the games' soundtrack is my all-time favorite in video game music.
Until next time,
Slice N Dicer