Going Down in Flames
As Naruto ran out of the hospital he didn't notice that he bumped into Iruka until Iruka grabbed him.
"Naruto, what are you doing running in the hospital when you should be in bed recovering?" asked Naruto's former sensei.
Instead of answering Naruto just wrapped his arms around Iruka's waist as he started to cry. For Iruka this was big surprise. This is the first time he has seen Naruto cry in so long. He can remember the first time he saw Naruto cry. It was during a kunai throwing lesson, Naruto got himself stabbed by his own kunai when it ricocheted from the target and hit his shoulder. The rest of the students stood in shock, fear, and in a few cases amusement. The instructor was trying not to laugh, but was failing. Then Iruka came with a first aid kit and treated Naruto. After Naruto was treated he and Iruka grew very close after that incident. The two of them formed a bond that was like that of a bond between father and son.
"It's okay Naruto, you tell me what's wrong," said Iruka trying to calm the boy down. Sadly it wasn't working this time.
"No Iruka-sensei I can't," muttered the upset blonde.
"Why not Naruto?" asked Iruka.
"I….I just can't!" yelled Naruto as he let go of Iruka and continued to run out of the hospital.
"Naruto! Wait! Come back!" called out Iruka watching the boy run. Just as he was about to chase after him Kin ran right by to catch up with Naruto.
Meanwhile at another side of the village two certain foreigners were causing quite a disturbance. They were arguing once again over another strange incident or more. This time they caught the original Ino-Shika-Chou team. The three fathers were at a restaurant when the two entered very loudly.
"There is no way in Hell am I going to get into a some crazy ass scheme to get some cash if I could just swipe some from some chump Ryoga," said Jigoku as he entered the restaurant.
"Oh come on Jigoku. It's not like I'm talking you into this," said Ryoga as he entered.
"Bullshit! You have talked me into crap like this!" yelled the cat-eyed menace shocking a lot of people.
"Oh yeah, well name em," said Ryoga.
"You talked me into wearing a sumo wrestlers outfit. You talked me into steal from that barnetsfa," Jigoku started.
"It's Bar Mitzvah," corrected Ryoga.
"You talked me into selling my kidney," Jigoku continued ignoring his friend and everyone's reaction to him. "You talked me into gluing myself to that train when we were at the western continent. Remember that?" he asked.
"Oh yeah, you ran pretty fast," answered Ryoga trying to suppress a chuckle.
"I had too, you son of a bitch!" snapped Jigoku.
Once again people could not help but look and listen to these two young men's strange conversation. For the three older men these two were unlike any other pair they've ever seen. The one in dreads called Jigoku was loud almost like Naruto and very rude with his vulgar language. The one called Ryoga on the other hand appears to be more calm and could apparently trick his friend into doing odd things. Their observation of them was cut short when Jigoku grabbed Shikato's sake drink.
"That was my drink, kid," complained Shikato without putting a lot of effort.
"And I care why?" countered Jigoku as he took a gulp of the sake. Then he belched and a small flame appeared from his mouth. "Well I'm set let's get going Ryoga," he added as he started to leave.
"Not until you hear about the stuff I need you to get. I need you to get me some gallons of water, a hot tub, some cheerleaders, and meet me at that mountain with those faces. Come on! Torchy," said Ryoga as he left. "I don't know why I'm calling all these weird names or why they're fire related but oh well," muttered Ryoga.
"What the…. Ryoga! Come on man! Where am I going to get a hot tub and gallons of water. And how am I going to carry that all the up a mountain. Ryoga! I don't want to be in a hot tub with cheerleaders……! Wait a minute…. Yes I do…. Ryoga! Aw God Damn It!!!!!!" yelled Jigoku as he followed his friend.
Meanwhile deep under the Konoha village. Riskoe can be found lying down on examination bed. The reason for this examination is to find out about his strange pause from his battle with Naruto. He was being scan by a CAT scan, where they get the CAT scan will most likely be a mystery.
"Well Riskoe-san we are unable to find the problem, but if I had to guess it could be a side affect from when we recovered you from your frozen encasement," said a doctor with a black blood drop on the back.
"I see so this is only temporary then?" asked Riskoe as he got out off the bed.
"Why should it matter Riskoe? You had your shot now it's my turn," said a cocky muscular man in standard shinobi gear.
"What makes you think you will succeed Zerus?" challenged Riskoe.
"Because unlike you or those weak Blood-Warriors. I am a Hyper-Blood, my powers are beyond the boy's level," boasted Zerus.
"That's enough!" yelled Rio as he entered the area. As he entered he had a grim face. "We cannot afford to have another mishap. As you both know Uzumaki Naruto is the third and final Berserker, but more importantly he is the second first generation as well," he added.
"Yes sir, but why must we focus all of our time on him? He's just a kid," questioned Zerus.
"I never said we were focusing on him only. We've had Blood-Warriors track down the second Berserker, but he has proven to be far too dangerous and unpredictable than any foe we've have ever faced," answered Rio.
"Well then sir let me face the second one and I'll bring him here to you," said Riskoe.
"No you have already failed me, besides you are the only Berserker we have. That makes you are trump card," said Rio. "Zerus. You will track down the Uzumaki boy tomorrow and don't you fail me," he ordered.
"Yes sir," replied Zerus as he left.
Back with Naruto, he finally stopped running when he reached the training ground where he became a genin. He was an ironic sense sitting on top of the same post he was tied to. Anyway he sat there thinking about his nightmare and about what he is. It's still hard for him to believe that he is now fighting someone who could be a relative of his. Then without even looking he called out Kin who was hiding again.
"You can come out now I know your there," said Naruto.
"How did you know I was here?" asked Kin as she moved away from her hiding spot.
"I sensed your chakra signature for quite some time. Your and that old guy's," answered Naruto.
After Naruto said that the weird looking kabuki old man revealed himself. He introduced himself as Jiraiya of the Legendary sannin and sadly his trade of being the author of Ichi Ichi Paradise. After the introduction Naruto tried to leave only to be halted by the old man.
"You know kid you still owe me for saving you two from that were creature," said Jiraiya. That caught Naruto's interest easily and for Kin that was one person she wants to forget about.
"What do you mean you saved us from Riskoe," demanded Naruto as he dashed in front of Jiraiya.
For Kin this was just getting crazier and crazier by the minute. First she follows Naruto since Dosu wants to know if Orochimaru placed the curse mark on him as well. Then she was indirectly attacked by a tentacle freak, had to run and leap great distances to reach her target and see Riskoe freeze up. All in all things were way too interesting to get out of even if it's not her problem.
The next day Naruto can found in his apartment sleeping throughout the morning. He would be sleeping peacefully if it weren't for two things. One Sakura was banging at his door and two his sides were killing him. What Naruto doesn't know is that his sides are growing four bone-like spike much like Riskoe's. Anyway Sakura continues on pounding on Naruto's door, Naruto slowly got out of bed. He was very irritated with the noise, he went to open the door only to get hit in the head after he opened it.
"Ow! What the Hell?!" yelled Naruto holding his head.
"Baka, there's no time for this you need to listen," said Sakura.
"Fine just make it quick," said an aggravated Naruto.
"What is with you? You've been acting Weirder than usual," commented Sakura.
"Well let's see I'm pissed at that bastard Neji for nearly killing Hinata-chan. I've fought two guys who've tried to kill me and I've also been hit on the head by you. How would you feel," said Naruto in a sarcastic tone.
"Well anyway listen Sasuke hasn't been seen and…" started Sakura.
From there Naruto tuned Sakura out only hearing her say that his match is first and that his opponents is Shino. This put a damper in Naruto because he doesn't get to fight Neji first. Still all it does is give time to train since he still has a month before the finals. After Sakura left Naruto decided to go train somewhere he train with his Berserker bloodline. Sadly that was not the case, because he winds up getting some unwanted guest. The set of guest are Root members ordered by Danzo to observe Naruto and to eliminated him if they feel that they should. Another is Kin who decided to meet up with Naruto to discuss about what he is up against and if they should keep this a secret. The last one is Zerus with two other Blood-Warriors with him.
When Naruto reached the area he wanted to train at he saw Kin. After their first meeting the two of them got along pretty well despite the insanity of the battles they've encountered. They quickly became good friends though they have never talked about each others village.
"Hey Kin, so what's final verdict?" asked Naruto as he reached her.
"Well, I think it's best that we let your Hokage know about these guys that are after you," answered Kin in a serious tone.
"Are you crazy?! This isn't some simple invasion from some other village. These guys are attacking me from inside my hometown. There is no way we can get Hokage-jiji involved," explained Naruto.
"Are you listening to yourself. This is a life or death situation. These people will hunt you down and will continue unless we can get some help," argued Kin.
"Okay I get, you don't have to bite my head off," said the verbally defeated Naruto.
"Too bad you both won't be able to do just that," said a mysterious voice.
The two turned toward the source of the voice. They saw two men stand in front of them. They started to change their forms into something similar to Ramo, but their bodies were more ape-like. The two Blood-Warriors charged at the two genin. As that happened Naruto jumped forward and stomped on one's head. The amount of force Naruto applied was enough to smash into that Blood-Warrior's brain. After Naruto landed behind his downed opponent he turned around and summoned a chakra blade and ran to the other one.
The other Blood-Warrior turned to charge at Naruto, but as he ran to the boy Naruto cut him horizontally in half. After defeating the two mutants Naruto walked toward Kin with a bore expression on his face.
"What's wrong? Things becoming to easy now?" asked the sound kunoichi.
Instead of answering Kin, Naruto leaped toward her, grabbed her by the waist and leaped out of the way before some sort or red liquid hit them. When the liquid hit the ground, the ground started dissolving. The two looked for the source and saw another Blood-Warrior. This one was huge, his shoulders were large with spikes on them. His forearms were bulgy and had two gems-like orbs on them. His body was very thick, the kind of thick that could walk away from being hit by a tank if any existed in Naruto's world.
'Damn, this looks a lot tougher than the others I've fought,' though Naruto as he set Kin down and rushed the Blood-Warrior.
Naruto threw a punch at the Blood-Warrior but it had no affect on him. Wasting no time the new opponent swung his right arm, slugging Naruto away from him. This surprised the Root members since they just saw Naruto kill two of these freaks easily, and now he is getting beaten by this one. Naruto got up, leaped into the air and started spinning to drop an ax kick on top of this Blood-Warrior's head. But his attack was caught by his enemy and he was thrown across the area.
"I actually thought you were stronger than this 'Berserker.' You can't beat me, I am the Hyper-Blood Zerus!" boasted Zerus.
"Hyper-Blood? I've never would of though that there were different types of these things," whispered Kin watching from the sides.
Soon enough the fight that was once head-to-head turned into a hit-and-run. Sadly the hit-and-run is not one of Naruto's strong suits. Every quick attack did had no affect on Zerus. Naruto tried to use his chakra blade, but he was caught by Zerus's left hook and spun around and was grabbed of behind.
"Ha ha ha! I can't believe that the Konoha branch couldn't beat a weakling like you. It's pathetic," taunted Zerus as he threw Naruto to the ground.
Kin was about to jump in regardless of knowing she wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell. Oddly thought the Root members jumped in to stop the assault. Sadly for them Zerus wasn't done playing with his prey.
"That's enough you, leave that empty vessel alone now," ordered one of the Roots.
"Why should I?" asked Zerus not really caring.
"Because you are trespassing on our village and therefore you should ah!" started the poor fool before Zerus shot out the same red liquid from his tongue.
The liquid quickly dissolved the Root member. The second member was scared shitless. He turned away and ran, but he wasn't quick enough. Despite Naruto and Kin's pleas for Zerus to stop the other Root member was also dissolved. He screamed in agony as his body dissolved by the liquid.
"You…you son of a bitch!" yelled Naruto as he got up and charged at Zerus and delivered a roundhouse kick to his side. The attack did nothing, then Zerus slugged Naruto into a tree.
"Damn it, none of my attack work. If only I can pierce through his thick body," said Naruto struggling to get up. As he got up he felt the gravity around him get lighter. 'What the? Is this a new power from my bloodline?' questioned Naruto as his arms automatically moved to his waist.
From between his hands the black orb from his nightmare appeared. Naruto can feel the power from within the orb and knew that this will do the job. Kin watched in amazement at this new move that Naruto discovered.
"What the Hell is that?" asked Zerus feeling a little worried. Wasting no time Zerus moved his arms forward and his gems started to glow. "Take this punk!" he yelled as beams of energy fired from his gems.
As the beams reached Naruto, the black orb was shot at Zerus. The beams hit the orb, but they were deflected from the orb and hit the ground. The orb was flying toward Zerus who moved to get away from it, but the black orb pierced his left shoulder easily. Zerus yelled in pain from the wound.
"What the Hell? It's like Naruto fired some sort of ball of air pressure or something," commented Kin in surprise. "Does his bloodline even have any limits?" she asked herself.
"Why you little…" started Zerus.
Enough, retreat now Zerus.
"Huh? Rio-sama, but why I can still take him," whined Zerus.
You were just hit by a gravity weapon. If you continue to fight you will be defeated so return NOW!
"Yes sir," said Zerus as he jumped away from Naruto and disappeared into the forest.
After Zerus left Kin walked up to Naruto. She could tell that he was both tired and upset.
"Still think we should tell Hokage-jiji about this?" asked Naruto in a dark tone.
Preview:
As the days go by and the Chunin Exam finals drawing closer. Naruto faces more challenges as he tries to train for his match, avoid being captured by the Kekkei Kage, and keep those close to him away from his bloodline related problem. Sadly it is not meant to be as two more Hyper-Bloods attack him using powers that disrupt the sound waves around them. How can Naruto face enemies who use sound as a weapon. Next time on Naruto: Bad Blood, Droppin' Plates.
Authors Note:
Sorry for the wait, but I've been having a hard time working on the story. Tech school is great and all, but it's tough to manage your time when your team is a bunch of idiots. Also my instructor have been giving us a lot of homework so I haven't found enough time to type. Another problem is that I can't figure out how to fill up the events in between battles and keeping the story somewhat close to the main story pattern. So I've decided to change the thing altogether. Sadly I still can't come up with stuff to add more development between the characters. So if anyone's got any idea they like to suggest I would like to hear them. Just don't think this means that you get to choose what goes on in the story. I'm just not really good on some areas like drama and romance.