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I don own naruto. This is a work of my over active imagination and inspiration from various novel.
"speech"
'Thought'
Disclaimer.
I don own naruto. This is a work of my over active imagination and inspiration from various novel.
"speech"
'Thought'
The bladed mountain is a treasure cove for the skilled and fortunate. There have been story of people finding valuable herb or corpse of lunar beast. Making a huge profit from this.
Yet the one who strike it big are the minority, there are perhaps hundred or thousand other who have either become foods for the lunar beast or fertilizer for the plants.
A figure crawls through the foliage with his attention fix on a goat with horn that glitters in sunlight. He control his breathing slowing it to a steady pace as he draw a knife out of his bag.
He holds the blade by the side of his head aiming at the goat. He is about to throw the blade when a roar sound out. The startled goat raises it head but before it could sprint off.
A shadow swooped down and crimson liquid splash into the air. The goat move forward with blood spraying from it throat.
The shadow is revealed to be a winged tiger. It is one of the strongest predator here with it strength and ability to fly make it almost unbeatable.
It begin to tear into its catch, the figure slowly inch back as he know he have no chance. Even the scrap is out of his reach as scavengers of the mountain would arrive soon.
When he is out of the foliage, he quickly took off. The sunlight reveal the figure to be naruto with torn pants, his upper body is wounds that seem to be badly bandage using scrap of clothes.
He let out a sigh as that is the third target he lost and the sun is setting. It would be harder to spot prey and predator.
'How am I going to take care of yaoyi if I can't get anything for her to eat?'
That was all that naruto think off as he walks toward a wall of stone with vines growing on it. Dropping of lunar beast litters the area giving of a musky smell. Naruto went to the wall parting the vine to reveal a cave.
He went toward a corner where yaoyi rest in silence. It has been two day since they enter bladed mountain.
There was a two headed snake at least ten meter long in the cave which give naruto a shock but upon closer inspection. He found it to be dead, thank to that food is not an issue for the moment. Water was a simpler issue as he collects the dew but most of the water goes to the unconscious yaoyi.
Most people would have given up yaoyi as a lost cause and try to get to asura by themselves. But for naruto a promise is sacred, he has never forgiven his mother for abandoning him.
So there is no way he would break a promise.
The dropping on the ground were place outside by him for two reasons. One to have a better condition for yaoyi and two to ward off other lunar beast.
Thought he have never been to any school, like many people of this era they are educated to identify lunar as such naruto know that the two headed snake is a class two lunar beast.
Human have always adapt to their surrounding as such in the span of six year aided by the sacrifice of thousand they manage to come up with a system to rank how dangerous the wildlife are.
Class one are the animals that manage to survive lunar cry which normal people can stand too.
Class two are the offspring of animal that been corrupted by the lunar cry. They are often mutated and have a short life span. Slightly harder to kill but with an outpost or prepared, class two are not a danger.
Class three is the actual lunar beast and each has a unique ability. It says that within the asura trooper the class three can be further sub divided.
A soft groan shook naruto out of his musing. He turns toward the direction of the sound and is reward by the sight of yaoyi stirring.
He quickly went over and grabbed yaoyi hand as he call out.
"Wake up, yaoyi, wake up."
She raises her head to naruto direction and slowly open her eyes when she sees naruto, her eyes tears up as she recall what happen. Her arms open as she hugged naruto; her soft sobbing is heard as naruto run his hand on her back in an attempt to comfort her.
There is a small smile of naruto face thought the situation did not change for the better as their food supply will run out and they are not getting any closer to asura but with the sight of yaoyi awake. The world seems like a better place.
It took yaoyi half an hour to stop crying and naruto chest is complete wet with her tear. Naruto look at his chest in amazement as he recall a phrase woman are make of water, gentle like stream , unpredictable like the sea and cry like a thunderstorm.
Yaoyi look at him with red puffy eyes as she open her mouth but her expression quickly change as her eyes widen, her hand grab her throat as she make gagging sound.
Naruto swiftly grab her arm as he asks.
"Don't be afraid tell me what is it?"
Yaoyi did not answer but her keeping pointing to her mouth. A feeling of dread rise within naruto heart.
"You can't speak?"
Once again yaoyi eyes begin to tear up as she nodded her head.
"Don't worry. It is nothing serious, it can be taken care of in asura."
In all honesty, naruto have no idea if that is true at all but he is not willing to make yaoyi feel any worse.
It is a sleepless night for the two of them as yaoyi keep crying and naruto is afraid that yaoyi may do something foolish.
The next day, naruto cut out a few chunk of meat from the two headed snake, he warp them up in leave and some skin of the snake as the two of them are on their own,. The skin would enable them to get some money.
Naruto walk in front with the knife in his hand while yaoyi hold on to the meats. Naruto decide that there was no time to waste as the sooner he can get yaoyi to receive medical attention the better.
They trek carefully within the forest whenever they hear the cry of beast, they would hide within the foliage. The time spend in the forest allow naruto to understand the law of the jungle to survive, one must be vicious to survive.
They saw case when a C1 bear was attacked by a C2 saber wolf (a wolf with the size of a bear with extended canine.)
When naruto saw them, the saber wolf was circling the bear slowly wearing it down as with the speed of the bear make unable to catch the wolf.
Each strike of the bear only cause dust and imprint on the ground while the claw and fangs of the saber wolf draw blood. The motion of the bear become slower and slower.
The saber wolf waste no chance as it attempt to close it jaws on the hind leg of the bear. The snapping of bones is heard followed by a roar from the bear as it swipe it paws to the wolf.
The saber wolf swiftly let go and back step as it keep a wary eyes on the bear.
The bear final drop to the ground from the blood losses but the saber wolf keep it guard as it approach once it reach a close distance and torn the throat of the bear.
From naruto view, he saw the bear paw raise in air as it try smash down on to the saber wolf but the saber wolf is faster as it make the final blow.
As the jaws tear into the throat of the bear, the paw smashes into the back of the wolf. A sense of joy rise in naruto as he knows that the pelt of the saber wolf can be sold for a good price.
He have seen sale of the pelt in pretax and even with his standard, he is sure that he can skin the saber wolf.
He grabs the arm of yaoyi and pulls her along as he approach the dying saber wolf. With no hesitation, he slices through the throat of the saber wolf. He did not notice the blood that droplet of blood that fall upon yaoyi turn black as it is absorb into yaoyi body.
Two day later
They finally reach the gate of asura. A huge gate is all that stand in their the gate is at least ten meter tall with a width that is at least five meter with the painting of a flame. Wall extends from the side of the gate with each two meter there is a craving of an asura going against a lunar beast.
Naruto turn his head to yaoyi who is on his back. After the encounter with the saber wolf and bear, yaoyi condition deteriorates. All she could do now is moan, each movement seem to cause her pain.
"Yaoyi, we reach..."
Upon seeing that yaoyi can't even acknowledge him. Naruto rush toward the gate. He bangs his fist on the gate yelling to enter.