Faint

After making sure Hinata was alright, Naruto left the hospital to clear his head or at least try to look like he was. In truth he was trying to ditch someone who has been tailing him. His senses told him that his pursuer is female and that she has a small hostile aura. For about ten minutes Naruto tried to lose her in the village, succeeding only twice, but she manages to find him. Finally he stopped at a river in the forest area.

"Alright, who are you and what do you want?" demanded the blonde. The female shinobi revealed herself to Naruto. "Hey you're that Sound girl with the head injury, aren't ya?" he asked.

"Well you're obviously not as dumb as you look," answered the Sound kunoichi.

Before anything else could be said four tentacles appeared out of the river to attack them. The two genin managed to dodge the tentacles and saw a shinobi dressed similar to Kakashi minus the mask and forehead protector. He also has slick back red hair. He was standing on top of the water surprising the two young shinobi.

"I have to say you are indeed light on your feet boy, maybe that's why Vacore's team couldn't beat you. However…" said the ninja as he got hit by Kin's senbon that she threw at him. The senbon stuck to him, but slowly popped off. "I'm not like them at all. Because I am in a league of my own," he continued as he grew for more tentacles on his back. His fingers started to grow sucken cups with teeth in them and fins on his legs. He grew to about six foot eight in an instant.

"For I, Oct-kill will be the one to defeat you Berserker 3!" declared Oct-kill.

"Well then, come and get me Oct-kill!" challenged Naruto not even wondering about being called Berserker 3 as he ran down beside the river to get some distance away from Kin.

As Oct-kill gave chase, none of them noticed a man watching from a distance. Back with Naruto and Oct-kill they reached the waterfall which leads to the bath-house. Oct-kill spat out ink right into Naruto's face. Naruto tried to shake the ink off, but Oct-kill rushed toward him. Naruto quickly delivered a quick kick to his head, but it did nothing. Then Naruto threw his right fist into Oct-kill's face. Again nothing really happened except Oct-kill's face caved in and moved back into place.

"heh, heh, surprised? My body is soft and pliant. Which means I can absorb any blow that is aimed at me, so your taijutsu is useless," boasted Oct-kill.

After hearing this Naruto tried to jump away from Oct-kill. Sadly Oct-kill used his tentacles to grab Naruto's limbs, his waist, his shoulders, and his neck. Then Oct-kill started to swing Naruto into a tree and then into the ground. As Oct-kill continued his assault, Kin reached them to see Naruto be slammed into the ground again.

"Ah ha ha! I've done it! I've defeated Berserker 3!" shouted Oct-kill pleased with himself for beating Naruto.

'Damn it, if only I could summon my bloodline…' thought Naruto. Then in a sudden red-orange flash, Oct-kill's tentacles were cut into pieces.

"Impossible! How did he?" complained Oct-kill as he looked at the blonde berserker.

When the flash cleared Naruto was seen kneeling with his chakra blades on his forearms. Oct-kill couldn't believe that Naruto had progressed this far. Kin was amazed by this turn of events.

'Unreal, that kid can make swords out of chakra. Is that even possible?' thought Kin as she continued to watch.

"You…you Bastard!" shouted Oct-kill as he ran at Naruto with his sucken cupped hands straight out. "I'll kill you!" he yelled.

Naruto ran towards Oct-kill and delivered a vertical slash with his left arm. They stood still four yards away from each other. Then Oct-kill turned and faced Naruto's back.

"No…this can't be…ah!" whined Oct-kill as split in half. Then the two halves fell to the ground with all his blood and intestines falling out. Naruto's blades stayed on his arms instead of vanishing like last time. He turned and faced Kin who was standing there with a look of amazement on her face.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah, but that was unbelievable. Where did you learn that?" responded Kin completely forgetting about why she was following Naruto.

"Well uh… it's my bloodline but I can't really use it that well," answered Naruto.

"That's because it's being wasted on someone undeserving of our power," said a male voice.

The two nin turned to face a tall man with cyan hair. He wore a black business suit and stood with his hands in his pockets. The two genin could feel no killing intent, but he still made them feel uneasy.

"Who the Hell are you?" demanded Naruto as he got into his stance.

"You've forgotten already? Oh well, it's no surprise, this is our first actual meeting. I am Riskoe, but I am also. BATTLE CLAD!!!" shouted Riskoe.

What the two genin saw shocked them. Riskoe's suit was burned away. His skin peeled off his entire body, his manhood vanished and his toes fused together to form two toed feet. Then two long straight blades popped out of his forearms and went past his elbows. Then dark scale like skin covered his entire body. His chest formed two chest-plates with hinges on the sides. He also has bone-like spikes on the sides of his stomach. Finally a crystal with one point appeared on the center of his forehead.

"A Berserker like you," he finished in a deep almost metallic voice.

Preview

After defeating Oct-kill, Naruto finds himself face another enemy unlike any other he has ever faced before. With powers similar, but more powerful than his own Naruto must fight for his life against Riskoe. Just what is a Berserker and how is Naruto tied into this? Next time on Naruto: Bad Blood "Stricken."

And that's chapter 5 hope you all like it. It may be short, but most of my chapters I'm typing from a notebook which I used before I started typing so the length between them is vastly different. Also I'm surprised no one asked about Jigoku and Ryoga and their roles in the story, but it's okay. Those two don't play a big role right anyway, they're just there for some cruel comedy.