Hanging by a Moment
It was a rainy day in Konoha as many villagers headed toward the Sandaime's funeral. Everyone was wearing black formal clothes, except for one person. That person happens to be Jigoku, but he was wearing black clothing though. As the speech about the Sandaime began Naruto was having a hard time understanding if he too was dead as well. Next to him were Kin, Ryoga, and Jigoku who watched the boy in silence or so many thought.
'Why? Why did this have to happen? I should be the one in that damn coffin not Hokage-jiji,' thought Naruto as he looks at the body of the man who was like a grandfather to him.
'Calm down runt, what the Hell is with you today?' said Jigoku through their telepathy.
'Aniki I was killed too, but now I'm right here, alive. I even lost my arm and look at me. I grew a whole new one, I don't even know if this is my real arm. I'm some sort of monster,' responded Naruto in sorrow.
'So what? Just because you cheated death doesn't mean you're a monster,' said Jigoku.
'Really Aniki?' asked Naruto.
'Of course, would I lie to you? And please don't answer that. We both know the answer to that,' answered Jigoku.
Before the two Berserkers could continue it was Ryoga's and Jigoku's turn to pay his respects. Even though they had never met, Ryoga respected the late Hokage for always trying to protect Naruto. Ryoga was the first to speak to the corpse.
"Even though we had never met, I want to thank you for protecting Naruto," said Ryoga loud enough for everyone to hear him. Many of the villagers did not understand why he would be mentioning Naruto until they felt a large wave of killing intent focused at them. The ANBU and other older shinobi found that the source was coming from Jigoku. He looked at all the older shinobi with the desire to brutally murder them and bathe in their blood. "I promise that Jigoku and I will take care of him for now on," added Ryoga as he walked towards his friend. "Don't you have anything to say Jigoku?" he asked.
"Nope, I got nothing," answered Jigoku as he walked away only to be grabbed Ryoga holding his shirt. "Hey!" he yelled.
"Give the dead old man back his stuff," ordered Ryoga. This surprised everyone attending the funeral. They have no idea what was going on with these two.
"What are you talking about man?" complained Jigoku. He got no answer as he was being shaken by his best friend. All sorts of stuff that belonged to the late Hokage dropped onto the ground. Some scrolls, pictures, books, the Forbidden Scroll, and even the old man's robe. Everyone was shocked beyond belief that this outsider who indirectly saved their home would actually steal the belongings of the Sandaime. Ryoga on the other hand was not happy with Jigoku's behavior.
"HOW COULD YOU STEAL ALL OF THE HOKAGE'S STUFF AND FEEL NO REMORSE!!!? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!!!!!!!!!!" yelled an enraged Ryoga.
"Hey the guy's dead. There's no crime against grave robbing," whined Jigoku who tried to justify his action. He doesn't have even a snowball's chance in Hell.
"YES THERE IS YOU GRAVE ROBBING, COMBAT HAPPY, UNSTABLE DUMBASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Ryoga.
"Really?" asked Jigoku looking really surprised, and yes he is truly surprised. Instead of answering Ryoga dropped a law book on his lap. "Hey! I was wondering where my door stop went," said Jigoku. This caused people to be more shocked or in some cases fall on their faces as Ryoga yelled at his buddy.
A week later the village returned somewhat back to normal. It was hard for many to continue on after losing so many love ones again. For Naruto he was trying to come to grips with his apparent resurrection. He walked aimlessly throughout the village not even looking at what's in front of him. Suddenly Naruto bumped into an older Chunin and just kept walking. The Chunin was not going to let Naruto off easily. The Chunin grabbed Naruto's shoulder tightly, but Naruto grabbed his hand and twisted it. The Chunin yelped in pain and pulled out a kunai. The people watching gasped as the Chunin tried to stab the boy only to have the kunai stopped by Naruto's "older brother" Ryoga. The Chunin tried to pull back, but bumped into Jigoku who was right behind him. Without a second thought Jigoku threw the Chunin into a nearby dumpster. Before either of the "brothers" could cause more harm Jiraiya appeared.
"What the fuck do you want you old goat?" demanded Jigoku.
"Simple you rude punk. I'm going on a journey to see an old friend of mine," said the perverted Sannin.
"That's nice, but what does that have to do with us?" asked Ryoga.
"I just want to let you boys know," answered Jiraiya as he grabbed Naruto and ran off. The two warriors stood there in confusion.
"What the Hell just happened?" asked Ryoga.
"A fifty-year old perverted writer who looks like a reject from a kabuki theater just ran off with our RUNT!!!! Where the Fucking Hell were you the last five fucking seconds!?" yelled Jigoku as they ran after the Ero-Sennin.
Meanwhile in training ground #7, Kin, wearing the Konoha forehead protector was practicing her lightning attack she called Rai-Ko-Dan. She got into her stance and started to move her arms in a circular motion. The lightning started to appear as she continued to perform her technique. Off to the sides were Konoha's kunoichi genin watching. Hinata and Tenten watched in amazement while Sakura and Ino hid behind a large rock. As Kin moved her arms to her right side, the lightning bolt followed and stopped between her palms. Kin closed her eyes as she held the lightning bolt in place.
"Rai-Ko-Dan!!!!!!!!" yelled Kin as she threw the lightning bolt at a tree. The lightning bolt hit the tree and left a huge scorch mark on the trunk. Kin opened her eyes and frowned at the damage. "Damn it, still not good enough," muttered Kin.
"What do you mean Kin?" asked Tenten still impressed by the former Sound-nin's attack.
"It's still missing something," answered Kin as she grabbed a bottle of water that Hinata handed to her. "Thanks, so any luck talking to Naruto?" she asked the Hyuga heiress. Hinata blushed after hearing that question.
"Well… Uh not really," answered Hinata twiddling her index fingers.
"Really? Well don't worry about it. He'll come around even if I have to ban him from ramen for life," joked Kin trying to get Hinata to laugh.
"I still don't see what's so special about him," said Ino as she and Sakura left their hiding spot. "I mean come on. Sure he has gotten stronger, but he's still an idiot with too much energy," she added.
"Maybe, but that's why I like about being his friend. He makes life interesting and worth fighting to protect," replied Kin.
"How?" asked Sakura as all four girls leaned in to hear Kin's answer.
"Simple, he's fun to be around with," answered Kin.
Before any of the girls could continue their conversation Jiraiya appeared with Naruto along. The girls took a look at Naruto and noticed a slight change in his clothes. He was wearing the same type of clothes he wore at the Chunin Exams along with a red jacket with a skull design on the back and his forehead protector refitted onto a fingerless glove on his right hand. Hanging from his left pocket were his headphones.
Right when Hinata saw Naruto she immediately hid behind Kin. For Kin this was normal, she could tell that Hinata was practically in love with Naruto. She also knows that Naruto was starting to noticed Hinata just as well. But she was also getting tired of them not even getting closer to each other just because they're scared of Naruto's bloodline. Kin turned her head and saw Ino looking Naruto up and down with what see could tell was lust in her eyes. This was something that Kin didn't plan on to happen. Fearing for anymore unwanted romance obstacles she looked at Tenten was also looking at Naruto the same way.
'Damn it! Are all of Konoha's girls this shallow?' thought Kin not liking her plan to hook up Naruto with Hinata compromised.
"Ah, there you are my second apprentice," said Jiraiya breaking Kin's train of thought.
"What the Hell are babbling about you perverted old goat?" snapped Naruto who finally got out of his daze.
Meanwhile, inside the council chamber the clan heads and the late Sandaime's teammates were discussing about an important issue about a certain out of control bloodline. Among the members are Hyuga Hiashi, the original Ino-Shika-Cho who are still wounded by Jigoku, who landed on two of them. Shino's father Shibi and Kiba's mother Tsume.
"As all of you are aware, not that Jiraiya has left to find Tsunade we can now focus on our other topic," said Koharu.
"Ah yes, this Kekkei Kage organization and the combat bloodline called Berserker," said Hiashi.
"Yes and as all of you know during the Sound and Sand invasion some of our villagers turned into those abominations and have slained many of our shinobi," said Homaru. This caused mumurs within the council.
"Indeed, but I and many others have witnessed a young man face them and defeated them all by himself. Afterwards a man named Riskoe appeared and called himself and the young man Berserkers. As they fought I have seen them use bladed weapons of two different kinds, but they both had them on their arms. The young man used blades made out of chakra, while the other used blades that vibrate," said Hiashi.
"Don't forget about that black orb he shot out of his hand," added Tsume.
"Or how he landed on us," complained Inochi.
"But doesn't the Uzumaki boy use the same attacks?" questioned Shibi.
Back with Jigoku and Ryoga they had no luck finding Jiraiya in the village. They searched for the old man for hours with no luck. So instead they did what they always do. Make other people miserable and wish they had never seen them, especially Jigoku. They found the perfect victims, Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma. That was until they saw two cloaked ninjas in front of the three Jounin. The taller ninja had blue skin, shark like teeth and was carrying a huge sword. The shorter one looked like an older version of Sasuke. They both have purple nail polish on for some bizarre reason and a ring too. Wasting no more time the two warriors jumped in to get in the fight rather than help out. Jigoku jumped in and threw a left hook right at the Sasuke looking ninja. The said ninja was caught off guard by this as well as his partner.
"Itachi!!!" yelled the shark looking man as he was being attacked by Ryoga.
As Itachi recovered he looked at his new opponents and saw Jigoku head straight for him and tried to counter him. Itachi activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and glared at Jigoku. Jigoku being a complete dumbass looked into Itachi's eyes and became trapped in his genjutsu.
In Itachi's genjutsu
Jigoku looked around him only to see that the entire area was in different colors, mostly red and black. He tried to walk, but found that his legs were chained to the ground. He tried to pull the chains off, but they would not budge. Seeing that he couldn't break free Jigoku tried to use his chakra blades, but they did not appear.
"What the fuck?!" shouted Jigoku in disbelief.
"Can break free, not surprising since you're in my Mangekyo. Now you will have the pleasure to suffer the torment of being stabbed by a thousand katana for seventy-two hours," said Itachi as the said katana appeared and thrust itself into Jigoku's gut.
The sword pierced Jigoku's stomach slowly as it went deeper in. To Jigoku it felt like something was trying to take something out of him. The second Berserker yelled in pain as he struggled to break free from his chains, but failed miserably. After what seemed like hours Itachi showed himself to Jigoku holding the katana.
"Now you have seventy-one hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds to go," said Itachi in a monotone voice.
"WHAT!!!!!!!?????" shouted Jigoku as his torture continued.
Back in the real world Ryoga and the Jounin listen to Jigoku yell in agony as they can't do anything but listen. For Ryoga he sensed great evil coming from Itachi that reminded him of Jigoku almost perfectly. Hearing his best friend frightened him, because if Itachi can do this to Jigoku then how can he fight someone with those eyes. As the shouting continued Itachi stopped using his Mangekyo Sharingan and Jigoku fell into the water he was next to. Itachi and his partner looked at the water for a few seconds and moved towards their next opponents.
"Hey Itachi can I have some fun with these guys?" asked the shark-man.
"Fine, but make it quick Kisame," answered Itachi.
"No problem," said Kisame as he moved towards Ryoga and the Jounin.
As the mist nin approaches his targets, Itachi sensed someone coming from below. He leaped away from where he was and saw Jigoku launch himself into the air. Jigoku's body was engulfed by fire and he wasn't getting burned the slightest. The Jounin looked up to see their ally literary burn in the sky.
"BALLISTIC BURNING IMPACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Jigoku as he descended toward Itachi with the intent to kill him.
Preview:
After surviving Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan, Jigoku attacks Itachi with everything he has. They face off in a style that reflects on a question that has never been truly been answered. What would happen when an unstoppable force collides into an unmovable object. Jigoku is about to find out as he faces Itachi in a battle of what might be a foreshadowing of Naruto and Sasuke. Jigoku is completely unaware of what he is up against, but neither is Itachi. Find out next time on Naruto: Bad Blood, Reckless Fire.
Authors note:
Well here's chapter 12 and I'm sorry for the delay, but I have to say my training in Bullis was both fun and a pain in the ass. For one my so-called roommates were total pervs who never shut-up. So I wasn't able to keep my promise of five chapters, but what can I say being in the military doesn't give you time to do your own thing. Other than that I found out that a man who was like an uncle to me passed away a while ago. I was pretty much feeling down, but I will try to finish this story before I am deployed, so I might not be doing those other stories, but I'll try until then, later Bad Blood fan.