Blood Lines and Fox Demons
Declaimer: Don't own Naruto.
A/N: I'm finally back on after who knows how long. Anyways sorry for getting grounded, so here's the next chap on DLFD. This chapter has a slight songfic to it because the music goes with where I put it in. Read the song part if you want, it adds flavor to the scene if you ask me. The song is in "". R&R please.
"Talking out loud." 'Written things/Reading.' Thinking aloud/Talking to inner demon. Thinking silently/To self. "Demon talking/Demon talking to carrier in real world." Demon thinking.
Chapter 5
Three months passed quickly, with team 7 taking a ton of D ranked missions while Naruto would send a darkness clone, a demonic bunshin similar to the kage bunshin used by humans, but it could take more then one blow. It just would disappear if it ran out of chakra or took a fatal blow. A simple stab wouldn't make it disperse. Best of all, it wouldn't leave a trace, as it really was just made out of real shadow. The body would just fade to darkness and flatten out before disappearing, all of which happened with in a second.
During this time he would train under Kyuubi, learning a ton of jutsu, both human and demon. He had gone for the first day though to see how Kakashi was after the bomb last time. He had yet another book and now he kept looking around. A few weeks after that he had had the clone put a new note on the back of his head. A quick 'Hair dye is so annoying.' later found Kakashi sporting neon pink and puke green hair with glowing purple sparkles in it in the middle of a debriefing with the Hokage. Today he finally got a shadow letter from his clone, saying that they got a C ranked mission. He quickly sent a reply, asking what the mission was.
'Protect a bridge builder from attempts on his life. Chance of hired bandit attack. Possibility of hired nin assassins by Gatou.' What do you think Kyuubi?
"Sounds like something that will be fun. Ask the clone why he thinks there will be nin involved in a C. That would really be a B."
Naruto relayed the message to his clone and waited a minute for him to answer. He read it mentally to Kyuubi.
'Tazuna is from Wave country. He tries to hide it, but I can sense his unease.'
"Let's do this one."
He quickly caught up to the group. Naruto smirked at seeing that Kakashi's hair still had a pink and green tint to it and every now and then there was a flash of purple, showing that there were still sparkles in it as well. A quick sign to the clone and he dropped back from the rest, using the excuse of taking a piss. Naruto did some quick hand seals.
"Human clone replacement no jutsu." He said and he was replaced with his clone. He quickly put up the henge and genjutsu to make him look like he did in the academy. He picked up his pace while making shadow clones behind his back. He also told the darkness clone to make a few of himself before dispersing, so that he could have the full memory of the incidents up until now.
He looked at the bridge maker. Yes, he could already see the unease, and the clone was still making more to go up ahead and fan out.
He walked ahead slightly for a bit, just keeping silent, like his clone had been before they switched. Anyone else would just think that a higher ranked mission sobered him up. But, of course, he still had to acting up in some way. He chose to use one of his own past times when jogging when ever Kyuubi took a nap.
He turned around, walking backwards, and pulled out a CD player and a CD. He put the CD player on his belt and put the CD in. Hitting play he started bobbing his head to the music while continuing to walk backwards.
Now this caused several thoughts to occur in those traveling with him.
What the hell is that dobe doing goofing off on a mission like this.
What is that idiot doing listening to music when we're supposed to be working… Like Sasuke-kun.
This moron is going to get me fired if he keeps this up.
This brat should pay attention more. He'll get us killed if he doesn't get serious. Not with Gatou and his hired killers.
This continued with little to no interruptions aside from when Sakura yelled at Naruto to watch where he was going and stop listening to his stupid music. Naruto had ignored her and turned up his music a little.
That had been five hours ago. Now they were nearing Wave country. Up ahead Sasuke spotted a puddle in the middle of the road, when it hadn't rained for a week. He glanced at Kakashi and they both nodded. Kakashi signaled for Sakura and Naruto to stop as he put his hand on Tazuna's shoulder. But Naruto had his eyes closed and bobbing his head to the music slightly.
"NARUTO, KAKASHI-SENSEI SAID IT'S TIME TO TAKE A BREAK!" Sakura yelled, trying to get him to hear her over his music. He cracked an eye, looked at them, closed his eye again and turned his music up to a point that they could hear it. Loud bitch. Kyuubi snickered at this.
""The flinch in your eye calls your bluff
Feel free to die when you've had enough
Useless cause is breaking your back
Your life will end when you attack""
((A/N: This is 'Taste the Blood' off of DMC3. I got the lyrics off was about to go up and hit him when she saw two nins come out of the puddle up ahead. She gasped and yelled for him to turn around. The Demon Brothers rushed at him, preparing to use their chain to kill Naruto, as their cover had been blown.
""Make your move
Make your stand
Make the win
Ha, like you can""
Just as they were about to reach him Naruto jumped up and swung a kick into one of their faces.
""See the war
See me rule
See the mirror
You'll see a fool""
Using another kick to spin himself in air, he brought his heel into the other's chest.
""To take me out you must fight like a man
You've yet to prove that you can
You've yet to prove me that you can
I see your might and it compares to something
That is if something is nothing""
He landed and stood up straight, nodding to his music once more, with a hand on one of the headphones. The two brothers leapt up and swung their chain at his face.
""Time to figure
Time to sin
Your time is done
When you begin""
He did a front flip with the music and slammed his heel down on it, yanking their arms down. A split kick on the rebound of the heel kick nailed them in the face.
""Live for suffer
Live for revenge
Now your life
Comes to an end""
They spring back up onto their feet and swing punches at him.
""Taste the blood
Taste your fate
Swallow your pride
With your hate""
He ducks and does a sweep kick, knocking their legs out from under them. As they fall he brings his head up into one of their chins, knocking him out.
""Your last breathe
your last stance
The last of all
In your command""
The other one goes to punch him in the back of the head when Naruto flips forward, dodging the hit, and brings his heel up into the last Demon Brother's lower chest cavity, winding him.
""Knee in the blood with your crying pleas
Wade in your sorrow, bathe in your fear
Clear the mind from righteousness suffer
Witness the moment of your failures prosper""
The nin bends over, trying to catch his breath, missing Naruto's back flip that brings his foot into the brother's back, and slamming him to the ground.
His music ended, he takes off his head phones and fishes out a new CD, still not opening his eyes.
"Naruto, how the hell did you do that?" Sakura asked. He looked at them, opening his eyes.
"What? Those were just the dance moves to that song that I decided fitted the music. You never seen a guy dance before?"
"You were dancing dobe?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah though I placed my chakra cushions a little off for my spring boards, why?" He looked confused at why they were asking obvious questions.
Sakura just pointed behind him. He turned to see the Demon Brothers on the ground unconscious. He jumps.
"HOLY HELL! Where'd they come from?" He shouts. Everyone else sweat drops. "I know I'm a bad dancer, but to faint from how bad it is, is really insulting." He says, seeming to catch his shock. Everyone sweat drops badly, even the Demon Brothers sweat drop, and their unconscious.
Man I love my acting skills. Can you believe that even those two fools are sweat dropping at that, Kyuubi?
"Kit, you were convincing enough that me and your clones sweat dropped. They actually sent me shadow letters asking if you had gotten drunk or something. I haven't answered because I was trying to figure it out myself." Kyuubi let out a laugh. Naruto joined in mentally, while being chewed out by Sakura in the real world. At the same time Tazuna was being talked to by Kakashi about information and payment.
Four hours later found them in wave country and walking through the woods towards the city that Tazuna lives in.
Suddenly Kakashi shouted duck as he yanked Tazuna down. A large sword spun over head and cut through a tree before slamming into another and stopping. The cut tree fell to the ground, giving them clear sight of the sword, which now had a man with bandages over his lower face standing on it.
"Impressive. But it should be but a little feat for the great Copycat Kakashi."
"Zabuza, the Demon of the Mist." Kakashi said, his one eye narrowing. "Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, keep Tazuna safe, this guy is out of your league." He says as he lifts his FP.
Zabuza chuckles. "The mighty Sharinan so soon? I'm flattered." He did several quick hand seals and created a thick mist. "But it won't help you here." He then started listing off critical hit targets.
"The only one of that list of his that would be fatal to you would be decapitation. Anything else I could heal by flooding chakra to that area and healing it. I can even replace full body parts if I put a whole store into it. Just don't do that because it would still hurt like a major hell just to replace the limb. And that isn't including the pain of getting it cut off in the first place."
Naruto mentally smirked at the thought of having a hole in his chest and getting up from it. Anyone would jump out of their skin seeing it.
Kakashi and Zabuza started fighting. Naruto watched, memorizing all of the moves he saw via his photographic memory when it came to battle. Finally Kakashi got stuck in a water sphere and Zabuza sent fifteen water clones after them.
"Run! You're no match for him or his clones! Take Tazuna and run. His clones can't go too far and he can't move while he keeps me trapped." Kakashi yelled at them.
"HELL no Kakashi. You may be a pervert with those books of yours but you're still on this team. I am not making my self lower then trash by abandoning a team member." Naruto shouted over to him. Kakashi was a little dumbstruck.
That was just like what Obitto said.
As the water clones approached on the genin and the bridge builder thirty Naruto clones burst from the trees, bushes, and ground, tag teaming the mizu bunshin. Soon there were twenty eight Naruto clones, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Tazuna, and fifteen puddles of water. The clones rushed at Zabuza but he quickly destroyed them with his sword. Kunai soon follow the clones and he dodges or blocks them. Suddenly he felt three extra presences behind him. He turned just in time to jump up out of the way of the two clones attempting to ram into him from behind, having been thrown by a third. The first clone keeps going but the second stops short using water friction on his feet and jumps up using a strong blast of chakra from his feet, kicking him to the land.
As Zabuza started to get up two needles stabbed into his neck causing him to fall over. Kakashi stumbled over to where Zabuza was and checked for his pulse. He didn't find one. A hunter nin appeared.
"Sorry about that. I have been trying to catch him for a while now. I apologize for not getting him sooner." The nin said from behind his mask. He walked over to Zabuza's body and picked him up before disappearing.
Hmm. Looks like we get to have fun with those two later. I am surprised that Kakashi didn't notice that that hunter nin carried him off instead of cutting off his head and burning the body?
"He's dumb and careless like most humans. There are only a few that I know that are smart enough to bring a big shine to the human race and I'm in one thanks to another." Kyuubi said.
Thanks Kyu, you made this monkey real happy to know that a demon lord thinks him a higher life form. Naruto said while wiping away fake mental tears as Kyuubi sniffled. A scene of a sun rising started to raise up into the background as corny inspirational music started to play.
Suddenly they burst out laughing, causing the sun rise sheet to shatter with the sound of glass breaking as Kyuubi brought one of his tails down on the record player behind him, smashing it and making it make a dieing scratching sound.
Naruto wiped away a jovial tear in his mindscape. That was too funny. Anyone that saw that would think we were about to start yelling 'Kyuubi!' and 'Kit!' and hug while crying!
"Like we would really lower ourselves to that level of self humiliation. That is lower then monkey! It is the level of bowl cut, fuzzily thick eye browed freaks in spandex."
Thank the deities that there aren't any such things.
"Yeah, we would have trouble deciding rather to die laughing at them, or die choking on our own vomit at the revulsion of them."
I hope we do the former, choking on vomit would be bad. We should know as I nearly did one of the first times I had to barf up a ton of ramen.
"And thank the deities that you can barf up that large amount of food with out problem now. It would be bad to die choking. I think that is the only way we can die aside from decapitation because if the obstacle stays there we can't breathe and that would eventually lead to brain death. And that is something that takes a lot of chakra to regrow. Two of my stores to be exact. So if you start letting your brain die from something like that, we will be out of chakra after five brain deaths and after that there is no more."
Like I would let myself die from choking? That is as big of a laugh as saying that you are a bowl cut fuzzy eye browed spandex clad freak on alcohol.
Kyuubi gave him a growl that Naruto had learned translated down to 'That is as likely as me turning into a worm that could die by being blown on by a mouse half that size'.
In the real world Naruto looked over in time to see Kakashi pass out with a smiling eye. He shook his head. If Kakashi had been the best of Hidden Leaf, then they would have fallen a long time ago. They soon found themselves at Tazuna's house with a Kakashi suffering from chakra exhaustion. Not like he was complaining. He spent the rest of the trip smiling as he read his dirty minded book and now he was doing the same on the couch in the living room. Sakura was helping Tazuna's daughter cook dinner. Sasuke, as always, was being the brooding bastard sitting off to the side some place. Tazuna was looking over the work reports. And Naruto was running around, after excusing himself for 'an extremely long walk so I don't die of boredom' or at least that is what he had told them. What he really was doing was running all over, training, posting look out clones in hidden areas, and searching for threats.
Now it was two hours later and he was walking back to the house. He had already found two thugs heading to Tazuna's place to kill him, as they were drunk they had been talking about it in whispers. They were now two nice smears of blood all over the forest thirty miles south of the village thanks to a batch of clones that had become very bored with watching the same area for an hour. After that the clones had returned to the patch of forest and had no other problems as they took turns turning into game boards that the others played on.
He walked in just as dinner was about to be served.
"Ah Naruto, nice of you to finally join us. How was your walk?" Kakashi said from his seat at the table.
"Long and boring. I found a nice place to pee three miles that way, though." He said as he pointed in some direction. Sakura promptly let his face become intimate with the floor. Sasuke just 'Hmph'ed at the table in his brooding pose. Inari came in and dinner began. Fifteen minutes later Inari slammed his plate down.
"Why the hell do you even bother coming? Gatou will still kill you!"
"Shut the fuck up brat. Unlike you, I don't quite and let some fat ass weakling walk over me. Now show some respect to me because I'm going to be better than all the past Hokage!"
I really will be soon too, but I hate acting like this idiot.
"Stop wining."
Naruto was about to remark when Kakashi said it was time for bed. He got up, thanked the family for the dinner and went into one of the spare bedrooms, shutting the door behind him. He then went out side through a window and went to sleep up in one of the trees right next to the house.