Sora
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Summary: "When I died and came into the Naruto universe, I didn't think that I would be able to change much. I also thought that if I told anyone that they wouldn't believe me and I definitely didn't think that I could get a Kekkei Genkai either. But I was wrong on all accounts and I could not be happier." SEQUEL!
I know I said I wasn't doing fillers in the prequel, but I feel if I don't do the fillers in the Shippuden then Pain's attack is going to happen to early and make the story seemed rushed. I loved the pace of the prequel so I don't want to ruin it now.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke and I were travelling to the Fire Temple and I was still wearing the ugly Chunin vest. I absolutely hated the vest and being forced to wear it made me hate it even more. If it was a different colour I wouldn't have minded. However, Naruto and Sasuke were proudly wearing there's which was slightly annoying. I was counting down the days to which I didn't have to wear the vest. Kakashi seemed to be looking at our vests in pride, I think he was proud of us, even though he would never say it out loud.
If I remember correctly from the anime, this is where we meet Sora, someone who has some of the Nine Tails chakra inside him. Tsunade sent us on this mission to help prevent the other graves being robbed. While we were travelling, I noticed that Naruto looked very distracted. His eyes looked misty. I left him alone for now, but when we stopped for a break, I confronted him.
"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" I ask him. Sasuke was getting fire wood and Kakashi was securing the area for our break so we could relax.
Naruto looks surprised but flashes me a fake smile. "Nothing."
I narrow my eyes at him. "Lie."
Naruto drops his fake smile and sighs deeply. "I've been having these weird dreams."
I nod my head. In the anime he also had the dreams were he saw Sora's arm. Naruto must have a connection to the Nine Tail's chakra that is inside of Sora.
"Let me guess, it's of a guy in a temple. His arm looks deformed and is wrapped in bandaging." I say with a small smirk.
"Yeah! Exactly that!" Naruto exclaims, "But how did you-?" He stops when he sees my smirk and pouts.
"I hate it when you do that sometimes." Naruto grumbles under his breathe.
I laugh at Naruto's pout.
"Do you know why I'm having those dreams?" Naruto asks me.
I stop laughing and think. I cast my mind back to the anime. I didn't really pay much attention to fillers, but I did find this one slightly interesting.
"Jiraya has explained your heritage, right?" I ask Naruto. Before I left with Haku and Yukiko three years ago, I asked Jiraya to explain to Naruto his heritage. It was something that he needed to know, and I would hate to deny Naruto the truth. Naruto had been asking me for ages if I knew who his parents were, but I couldn't tell him, I didn't know how to explain for one. I also felt that Jiraya was the best person for the job, after all Jiraya is like a father to Naruto.
Naruto nods his head. His body relaxes now that he knows the truth about his past. It tormented him for years. To be told was a relief and to be told that his parents didn't abandon was the best feeling in the world. His parents had loved him.
"The Nine Tail's chakra was too much for you to handle as an infant. Some chakra from the Nine Tails was left behind and it's inside another person." I explain to Naruto.
"Does this guy in my dreams have that chakra inside him?" Naruto asks me.
I nod my head. "He does."
Naruto slowly nods his head solemnly. I pat his shoulder in reassurance, when I touched his shoulder, he flinched. He was too deep in thought and didn't realise I had placed a hand on his shoulder. Once he saw it was my hand, he relaxed.
"Any better?" I ask.
Naruto grins. "Much."
After having a break, we set off again. We soon arrived at the meeting point, but there was no one there. Kakashi looks up, it was starting to get dark and they would need to rest or find shelter. He hadn't anticipated that the monks wouldn't be there to greet them. I had informed Kakashi that Chiriku and the monks would be late, but he seemed even later than usual. We had sent them a message changing the meeting point as well.
"So what's this mission about then?" Naruto asks Kakashi, he wasn't really listening when they were getting briefed. But he knew one of us would fill him in.
Kakashi sighs but doesn't scold him, knowing his student well to know that he didn't listen. "We're stopping people from robbing the graves."
Sasuke doesn't look impressed. "What's so important about these graves?"
"They're the graves of the Twelve Guardian Ninja." Kakashi answers them.
This didn't do much but make Sasuke and Naruto confused. "What?" Naruto says.
I cross my arms and try to think back. "They are a group of twelve elite warriors who had left their village and pledged their lives to protect the Fire Daimyō."
Naruto's eyes lit up. "That sounds really cool!"
"Are they strong?" Sasuke questions.
"Of course." Kakashi answers. "We even have an ex-member in Konoha."
Naruto looks at Kakashi with an eager look. "Who?! Who?!"
"Asuma." I say.
Sasuke frowns and looks at me. "How do you know?"
I send him a look, he should know why I know. Sasuke sighs and looks away catching my look. He got the message.
"Each member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja can be identified by the kanji for 'Fire' marked on the waist-sashes they wear." Kakashi says.
"Wow." Naruto marvels, "who knew that Shikamaru's sensei was so cool."
Kakashi looked a little put off.
"You're still cool sensei." I say patting his shoulder.
"So people are trying to steal their bodies?" Sasuke asks getting back to the mission.
Kakashi nods his head.
"What for?" Naruto asks.
"The people taking the bodies plan to resurrect them and attack Konoha. They will also be after someone at the temple." I answer them. I had informed Tsunade and she had been sending ANBU to the villages that they had been attacking. Unlike in the anime, they hadn't had a chance to massacre the villagers because of the protection. But I do not doubt this will make them even more desperate to get the bodies.
"Then we definitely need to stop them!" Naruto exclaims, determination shinning in his cobalt eyes.
Sasuke nods his head, agreeing with Naruto.
Hours passed and still there was no sign of Chiriku and the monks. We were all starting to get annoyed. Even Kakashi was getting agitated with waiting. "Me and Sasuke will go look for them, you two stay here in case they do arrive." Kakashi says standing up. Sasuke follows his example and leaves me and Naruto sitting on the ground waiting.
Naruto groaned. "This is boring!" He was looking around, looking for something to get his attention.
"It is isn't it?" I agree with Naruto.
I and Naruto started to play games to keep ourselves occupied, it seemed that Kakashi and Sasuke were gone for a bit. However, it seemed that Naruto was getting more and more agitated. He was so distracted that he lost 'rock paper scissors'.
Naruto scowls after losing for the fifth time in a row. "I'm going for a walk!"
"Naruto-kun, we have to stay here." I say to him. I was annoyed myself, all I wanted was at this point to go to bed. But it didn't look like it was going to happen any time soon. I wanted Naruto to avoid having a frosty meeting with Sora.
Naruto grumbles. He looks at me with a pleading look. "Come on!"
Looking around, I couldn't sense Kakashi or Sasuke for miles. Who knew how long they were going to be. Sighing, I stand up. "Alright."
"Yes!" Naruto cheers.
Naruto and I walk through the forest. Naruto looks around with a disappointed look. "I was hoping that something interesting would happen." I smile to myself. In the anime he got chased by a warthog, finding the hidden tomb by accident.
We stop suddenly. Since I wasn't paying attention I look to Naruto, who grabbed my arm so I would stop. "What is it Naruto-kun?" I ask him.
"Akemi-chan, isn't that from a barrier jutsu you use?" Naruto asks pointing to the talisman discarded on the floor.
I follow his line of sight. Not too far away lying on the grass was a talisman. It looked beat up and used. The other talismans had been broken too by the looks of this talisman. "It is." I tell Naruto going to pick it up.
"So that means this is a hidden tomb?" Naruto asks looking around.
I nod my head.
Naruto and I walk closer to the hidden tomb. I see an open stairway leading downwards. Pointing it out to my teammate, we head over to the opening. We share a look. "Should we?" Naruto asks with uncertainty on his face.
I sigh, there was no way of avoiding meeting Sora now. So I nod my head. "Might as well,"
Walking down the open stairway, we were met with darkness. Lighting up a glow stick each, we walked further into the tomb. We stopped when we came across a large open space, with a space were the stone tomb should sit, however it was gone.
"The coffin is gone, we're too late." Naruto says.
Hearing footsteps behind us. Naruto and I turn around. "Who's there?!" Naruto asks loudly.
Knowing that it was Sora, I felt no need to worry. He would assume that we stole the coffin and attack us. However, Naruto shut off his light and jumped away. I followed his example and jump next to him.
"He's Sora, he's from the Fire Temple." I whisper over to Naruto.
Naruto relaxes slightly, the shadow wasn't a grave robber.
The shadow stops when he is a few feet away from us. I got a good look at Sora. Sora looked to be sixteen years old, has straight shoulder-length, dull blueish-grey hair in an asymmetrical style with a single lock of hair falling into his face, and brown-coloured eyes. He wears sandals and the standard monk uniform with a long right sleeve, to hide his 'demon arm'.
A gust of wind blew into the tomb. The wind became so strong that I and Naruto flew up and were pushed back into the ceiling. I used my hand to cover my face and grunt in slight pain when my back hit the wall ceiling. I manage to open one eye, but opening the other eye made them water from the powerful wind.
Sora glares at me and Naruto. "Take this, Juuha Shou!"
A burst of a chakra blade came towards me and Naruto, however there was no way of avoiding it. Sora's wind had us trapped against the ceiling.
"Shit!" Naruto shouts as Sora's attack makes contact with both of us. The sheer force of attack broke through the ceiling, breaking the rock that kept the tomb protected. Naruto and I were in the air when we see that Sora had jumped after us.
"We're not the grave robbers!" I try to reason with him.
Sora doesn't look convinced. "I don't believe you!"
We land on the ground, Sora stretches his arm out, revealing his triple blade claw. He runs at us, and when he was near enough, he engulfed his weapon in chakra and swiped. I and Naruto jumped out of the way. I look at the where we just stood, there were claw marks imprinted onto the grass.
"I'm not just going to sit back and let him attack us!" Naruto shouts in frustration. He made a hand seal and made several Shadow Clones.
Sora looks at the sheer number and looks surprised. He jumps into the air. "Juuha Shou!" Using his other arm, he swiped it at us, sending another chakra blade at us. I jumped out of the way this time, but the blade soon annihilated Naruto's Shadow Clones. Sora lands on the ground and smirks when he only sees one Naruto left.
"We're from Konoha, we're on a mission to help the Fire Temple." I step forward, hoping to end the battle.
"Shut up!" Sora yells sending a wind blade at me.
I jump out of the way, faintly hearing Naruto shout my name. The wind blade changed direction and tried to hit me from behind. But as luck would have it, I had activated my chakra shield the minute I was outside the tomb. When the wind blade did nothing to me, I grabbed it and shattered it in my hands.
Sora looks at me in shock. "W-what?! How the hell can someone like you do that?!"
I glare at him. "You know what, you can have him." I walk away, leaving Naruto to deal with Sora. I stand by glaring at Sora. I was done trying to convince him that we weren't the grave robbers, I'm just going to let his ass get beat by Naruto.
Naruto grins and makes more Shadow Clones.
Sora grits his teeth. "Juuha Shou!" The wind blade flew to Naruto and his clones, but Naruto had a plan this time.
Naruto and his Clones jump into the air and out of the way of the wind blade. They attack Sora with Taijutsu, the first Clone aiming for Sora's face. Sora swiped the Clone with his three bladed claw, killing the clone. The second clone tried to attack from the front, but was quickly disposed of, a third clone tried to sneak up behind him, but was also dealt with.
The real Naruto jumped at Sora with a Rasengan in hand. "Take this!"
Sora puts forward his demon arm and aims it at Naruto. Just before Naruto's attack and Sora's fist come into contact, Sora shouts. "Juuha Reppuu Shou!" Blue chakra engulfed Sora's arm and violent winds were emitted from his attack. Rasengan and Sora's attack caused an explosion, sending both parties back. Sora however wasn't standing. He was on the floor struggling to get up while Naruto was standing looking mostly unharmed.
Sora got back onto his feet and went to attack again, but he was stopped. "Stop, Sora!"
I look to where the noise came from. It was Chiriku with Sasuke and Kakashi behind him. They were running over to us. I walk over back to Naruto's side and see if he needed to be healed. I didn't even look at Sora, I'm sure he would be fine.
Kakashi sighed when he sees Naruto look slightly scruffy. "What happened?"
Naruto point at Sora. "He attacked us thinking we were the grave robbers!"
"But they are!" Sora protests hiding his other arm behind his back. "I came to investigate, I was worried that the hidden tomb would get robbed. When investigated, I found the torn down coffin was stolen and they were inside!" Sora points to Naruto and myself.
"We found the barrier broken too." I say handing Chiriku the talisman that we found. "We also went to investigate and Sora found us." Chiriku takes the talisman and nods to the other two monks. The other monks went to investigate for themselves.
"Then he came out of nowhere and attacked us!" Naruto shouts glaring at Sora.
"But you were in the tomb first!" Sora argues leaning into Naruto.
Naruto leans forward and shouts. "And the coffin was already gone when I and Akemi-chan went in!"
"Prove it!" Sora yells.
"You prove it!" Naruto shouts back.
"I'll kick your ass!"
"I'd like to see you try!"
"Shut up!" I yell at the both of them sending Naruto and Sora deathly glares. I was starting to get a migraine with these two. Naruto I could handle, he's my teammate and I've grown used to his loud tendencies. Sora however was really getting on my last nerve. Naruto calms down instantly and sends me an apologetic look.
Sora glares at me. "Why don't you but out?!"
Sasuke smirks from behind me. Naruto laughs slightly while Kakashi looks nervous.
"What did you say?" I ask him again with a sweet smile. But the rage was building behind this sweet smile. Haku told me himself how scary that was.
Sora rolls his eyes, not catching on. "Are you deaf as well as stupid? I said shut up!"
I smile again and reel my arm back. My fist hits him smack bang in the face, hearing his nose crack under the pressure I smirk, satisfied with my work. Sora groans in pain from the floor cradling his face.
Kakashi sighs. "Akemi, heal him."
"I will, soon." I say looking quite happy with myself.
"Is that him?" Sasuke leans into me and asks quietly so only I could hear. He was referring to when I mentioned earlier that the robbers were after a monk member, I should have expected Sasuke to click on so soon.
"Yep." I answer him.
Sasuke nods his head and leans back, satisfied with the answer.
Chiriku speaks up. "Brethren from Konoha, I am Chiriku of the Fire Temple. I apologise for not coming sooner, but an issue was raised that needed my full attention."
Sora groans and stands up, blood falling from his nose. "They're the guests?"
Chiriku sends us an apologetic look. "This is Sora, a monk in training, also from the temple."
"I thought monks were meant to be respectful." Naruto comments glaring at Sora.
Sora scowls and looks ready to argue. But Chiriku sends him a stern look.
"I'm Kakashi Hatake, the team leader. This is Naruto, Akemi and Sasuke." Kakashi introduces us, pointing at us as he says our name.
Sora takes no notice of our names and looks to the Chiriku. "I already said it, we don't need any help from Konoha."
"If you don't need our help then why are the tombs missing." Sasuke comments crossing his arms. Sora sends a glare, but Sasuke returns one back full force. Sora flinches back. No one could beat the Uchiha glare.
The two monks came rushing back. "Chiriku-sama! Kitane-sama's coffin has been stolen, with no traces of forced entry." One monk says breathlessly and with panic laced in his tone.
"Whoever it was needed to be an extremely capable ninja to break the barrier." I say with thought. I already knew who did it, but no one else does. I haven't even told my teammate about then yet. I would need to soon though.
Sora sends me a scathing look. "And how would you know?"
I send him a dark look. "I happen to know that barrier jutsu inside and out. I think I would know."
Sora backs down slightly under my glare.
Chiriku turns to the two monks. "You two head back and make preparations for the other tombs to be protected. Also strengthen the temple's security and start preparations for an emergency situation." Chiriku instructs the other monks. The monks nod their heads and run off.
Chiriku looks to our team. "Let us return to the Fire Temple for now."
Kakashi nods his head. "Understood."
Feeling a glare, I turn my head. Sora was glaring at me and Naruto. I looked away, there was no point in glaring back, and it may only start an argument. I sigh to myself, the filler had only just begun and I couldn't wait for it to be over already.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
We made it back to the Fire Temple within minutes. I had been forced to heal Sora, who was even more reluctant to be healed by me. He seems to have taken an instant disliking to me and Naruto. He tried to act rude to Sasuke, but he soon put Sora in his place. Sora hasn't even tried to bug Sasuke since and has left him alone. Along the way, Naruto tried to make conversation with Sora, but he was met with glares and silence. Naruto eventually gave up and walked back in line with me and Sasuke.
We all sat in a room, with Chiriku on one side and our team on the other. Kakashi sat in front of us, while Sasuke, I and Naruto sat behind him in that order. With us settled, the conversation began.
"What do you believe people would want with the bodies?" Chiriku asks us, wondering what we thought on the matter.
Kakashi went into a thinking pose. "It's possible that the grave robbers want to bring them back. However, I only knew one person who was able to do this, and he is dead. Or, they may want the information within the body."
Sasuke's fists clench and his form becomes tense. I send him a side glance, the hate in his onyx eyes shone brightly.
"So the guys inside these four hidden tombs must've been pretty awesome, huh?" Naruto says with a grin. Not noticing that Sasuke was tense. After a few moments, Sasuke calmed down and relaxed.
Chiriku smiles, "Yes. They were indeed 'awesome'. But more importantly, they were good people. With the Fire Temple in the middle to the east, west, south and north lies the graves of Nauma, Seito, Tau'u and Kitane. They were also members of the Twelve Ninja Guardians. I, myself was all too ready to sacrifice myself to protect the Fire Daimyō. The Twelve Ninja Guardians are people who share the view that the Fire Daimyō must be protected." Chiriku explains to us with a reminiscent smile as though he was thinking about the past.
I look at his sash that as tied around his waist. His word and the sash were the only indication that he was part of the Twelve Ninja Guardians.
Chiriku sighs. "Those four gave their lives to the Fire Country at a young age. A few members of the Twelve tried to stage a coup d'état, and resulting clash resulted in the entire group falling apart. They wanted to dismantle Konoha Village and place all military power under the Fire Daimyō's control."
"So they wanted rid of the Hokage." I say.
Chiriku nods his bald head. "Their plan went as far as preparing to move the Fire Daimyō. And at the same time, they had prepared to attack several other countries."
Naruto's eyes widen slightly, "They what?"
Sasuke sends him a glare to shut up.
Chiriku looks at us grimly. "They didn't care about the fine balance of peace between the Five Great Countries. They believed that true peace would only come if the Fire Country conquered the world and united all nations under its banner."
"They were extremists." Sasuke comments.
Chiriku nods at Sasuke, "Yes. We tried all kinds of negotiations, but in the end, war is war. The Fire Daimyō realised how far they had taken things and the six who staged the coup died. But Kitane, Nauma, Tou'u and Seito were sacrificed too."
"I'm surprised that Asuma wasn't assigned this mission." Naruto says.
Kakashi shakes his head. "There would have been too much emotional involvement. It wouldn't have been wise."
Chiriku perks up at Asuma's name. "Asuma? How is he?"
"He's doing great." Kakashi tells Chiriku.
Chiriku seemed to relax when Kakashi told him this.
Our attention was soon pulled away when we heard shouting. It didn't sound like an argument, it sounded like a bunch of people fighting. Chiriku also takes notice to the noise. "The men are beginning their evening practice." He says explaining the noise to us.
"Can we see?" Sasuke asks.
Chiriku nods his head and stands up. We follow his example and stand up. Walking out the room and to the outside, we see a large group of monks all fighting each other. The moves weren't aggressive though, they were calm and agile.
One person in particular caught Naruto's attention.
It was Sora. He was practicing with another monks, his facial expression passive. The way he fought it was obvious to us that he was holding back a lot. He looked too relaxed and his moves seemed almost lazy.
Naruto's expression was filled with annoyance. He had fought with Sora, and he didn't fight like that with him. "He's pissing me off." Naruto grumbles.
Sasuke rolls his eyes. "What are you talking about dobe?"
Naruto ignores the Uchiha's insult. "He isn't even trying!" Naruto complains. When Naruto sees that the training has stopped, he runs over to Sora and stands there.
"What is the dobe doing?" Sasuke asks me, watching Naruto. He was also watching Sora to make sure he didn't do anything.
"Naruto knows he's holding back and doesn't like that." I explain to him quietly so Chiriku couldn't hear. The last thing I needed was someone else knowing the truth about my knowledge.
We all watched as Naruto approached Sora. When Sora sees Naruto, annoyance flashes in his eyes. It wasn't long before the two started to fight, I could see that Naruto was taunting Sora, to try and get him to fight seriously. It didn't take too long, Sora didn't have that much patience to begin with. Just as Sora was getting serious and actually enjoying the fight with Naruto, his attacks became sloppy and his form tense. Looking around, I could see the other monks staring at Sora with a judging look. They were staring him down, judging him with their gazes.
Sasuke also notices this. "Why are the monks shunning him?" He asks Chiriku looking at the scene intently.
Chiriku closes his eyes and sighs in disappointment. "They fear him."
Looking into the eyes of the monks, you could see fear and hatred. They were looking at Sora, waiting for him to mess up and once he did, they would pounce. Naruto noticed the stares and felt his insides freeze. Those stares were familiar, it looked like the villagers stare in Konoha, and how they used to treat him. Naruto had been wondering why Sora's move became sloppy and that's when he noticed the stares, the horrible stares.
Anger soon became Sora's main emotion. He shouts as he goes to attack Naruto again, but this time he raises his 'demon arm'.
Seeing as it was going to go too far, Chiriku intervenes. "Enough, Sora!" Chiriku orders in a stern tone.
Hearing his voice, Sora stops immediately. However, Naruto wasn't able to stop his attack due to it being too late. Naruto ending up kicking Sora in the chin, kicking him to the floor. Slowly Sora stands up and wipes the blood from his chin away with his sleeve. He turns away with downcast eyes and walks away into the trees.
Chiriku turns to us. "I'll show you your rooms for the time being." He turns around and walks away, with us following him in tow. Kakashi and Chiriku walk a head of us, while I, Naruto and Sasuke hang back.
Naruto soon catches up. His face was solemn, a frown didn't suite him.
"Quit moping." Sasuke tells him, not even looking at Naruto as they walked.
"I'm not moping." Naruto denies while crossing his arms.
"You noticed the stares then?" I ask.
Naruto goes silent, he nods while looking at the ground. He remembers how the villagers used to treat him, how they made him feel. It had been years since he had even looked back on his memories, he didn't like to think about the bad times in his life. But seeing Sora and his reaction brought back unwanted memories.
"They hate him." Naruto mumbles.
I nod my head.
Sasuke turns his head and looks to me. "Do you know why?"
Naruto also looks up, interest shinning in his eyes.
"Yes. But not here." I tell them. I would tell them when we were in a safe location where there was no chance to anyone listening in.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
We had been shown our rooms, Naruto and Sasuke had to share, which they weren't too happy about. I and Kakashi got our own rooms, Kakashi because he was the team leader and I got one because I was the only girl. We all decided to gather in Kakashi's room to not arouse suspicion. If we met in his room it would look like we were focusing on the mission so no one could question us.
Kakashi had placed a silencing jutsu on the room, so we were safe to speak.
"Why do the monks hates Sora?" Naruto asks me as we all sat down. We sat around a low table. Naruto and Sasuke were at my sides while Kakashi sat opposite me.
"Remember what I told you?" I ask Naruto looking at him.
Naruto's eyes lit up. "You mean he has the Nine Tails chakra inside his arm?"
I nod my head, confirming what he just said.
"But I thought it was sealed inside of him." Sasuke says pointing to Naruto. His face was passive but his eyes showed that he was confused.
"It is," I say. "But Naruto-kun was only an infant."
"And that amount of chakra would be too much for an infant to handle. So there was some left over, and it ended up in Sora." Kakashi finishes, putting the pieces together.
"And that's why the grave robbers are after him." Sasuke says, remembering what I said about the grave robbers being after someone at the temple.
Naruto jumps in. "So who are the grave robbers?"
"It's a group of four people. They are Fudō, Fūka, Fuen and Furido. Fudō is quite arrogant, and it's because of that he ends up underestimating his opponent a lot. Fūka is a very dangerous kunoichi, possibly the strongest out of the grave robbers. She has something called the Execution by Kiss technique were she can kill you with one kiss." I explain to them so that if they ever come across any of them, they would be aware.
Naruto looks freaked out. "She kisses people to death?!"
I nod my head.
Kakashi smirks under his mask, that kind of death didn't seem too bad.
"What about the other two?" Sasuke asks getting down to business, ignoring his perverted teacher.
"Fuen is the most intellectual member, however she is very weak when it comes to physically fighting. Furido is the leader, he has no morals and doesn't care who he has to sacrifice." I finish, leaving out the part where Furido is actually Kazuma and Sora's father. There was no reason to inform them yet.
"When do you think we will be facing them?" Kakashi asks.
I opened my mouth to answer him, but there was frantic knocking at the door. "Chiriku has asked for your presence!" A monks explains to us out of breathe.
"My guess is now." I say standing up.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
We were running through the trees. Chiriku and Sora were the only monks with us, recruits would come later if Chiriku sent word for them. Kakashi looks to Chiriku. "Isn't this the opposite direction from where the hidden tombs are?" Kakashi asks jumping from tree to tree.
Chiriku looks to Kakashi. "The thieves are carrying heavy coffins, as well as the corpses inside. With the Fire Temple at the centre, only sheer cliffs lie in the realms of Genbu, Seiryuu and Byakko. So if they wanted to escape these woods, the only route left is Suzaku, to the south."
Kakashi nods his head. "Got it."
It wasn't long before we came to a clearing. There was a slight cliff, but then the rest of a grassy field.
"Whoa, this is a killer view." Naruto says smiling.
Sasuke snorts, of course Naruto would make a comment now. He looks around and see the four coffins travelling at a fast pace. "Over there." He points out. We all follow his line of sight to see the four coffins make a trail in the grassy field.
"Eh? Sora do you see that?!" Naruto exclaims, hitting Sora on the back.
Sora shouts back angrily. "Of course I see them!"
"There's no mistaking it. Those are the stolen coffins." Chiriku says. "But why are they moving them so carelessly?"
"It looks like it a trap." I say.
Sasuke nods his head, agreeing with me. "If we attack were would be no place for us to hide."
"But there wouldn't be a place to hide for them either." Naruto points out.
"However, that's what they may want." Kakashi says.
Sora looks at us with a frustrated look. "Why aren't you doing anything?! We could lose them!"
"And we could be moving into a trap." I say to Sora. We were walking into a trap, but I couldn't say this outright, it would look suspicious. Chiriku and Sora would question how I know and it would be a disaster.
Sora scowls. "Well if you aren't going to do anything then I will." Sora jumps from the cliff and runs after the coffins.
"Sora!" Chiriku shouts out, but Sora ignores him.
Kakashi looks to us. "Naruto, you follow Sora. Sasuke and Akemi you take the other two coffins, I'll cover you." Naruto looked like he was going to complain, but he kept his mouth shut. He could deal with Sora, the mission was more important.
"Hai!" We all say before we ran after Sora and the coffins.
Kakashi looks at Chiriku. "Chiriku, please stay here in case we need to contact the Fire Temple."
Chiriku nods his head. "Understood."
Catching up to Sora was easy. However, the coffins were travelling at a fast pace. But then they stopped suddenly and sat upright in the field. As we got closer to the coffins, I look upwards to the other side of the field where Furido/Kazuma would be. Naruto was about to touch a coffin by leap frogging over Sora, but Sora grabbed Naruto's ankle and made him fall to the ground, inches away from the coffins. Without warning, the coffins started spinning and drilled their way into the ground.
"Are you two okay?" Kakashi asks as we catch up to them.
Naruto stands up and brushes himself off. He offers his hand to Sora so he can stand up, but Sora snubs it and stands on his own. "They just went underground." Naruto says with a confused look on his face.
Sora scowls. "If this goon hadn't got in my way, I could have at least recovered one of them."
"You need to work as a team." I stress to Sora.
"I don't need to!" Sora shouts at me.
"Which is why you failed." Sasuke points out with a glare. When Sora saw this glare, he backed down.
"Somethings off." Kakashi says suddenly getting our attention. "Their presence has completely vanished."
"I said it was a trap, and it is one." I say looking at Sora since he was the one who didn't believe me.
The earth began to shake and large rock pillars started appearing from the ground right in front of me. I hear my teammates yell out in surprise, but I couldn't see them. A rock pillar had separated me from them. I tried jumping around the rock, but more started to appear out of nowhere. The more I jumped up, the higher the pillars became. One rock pillar nearly crushed me, but I managed to jump away in time. By the time the earth stopped moving, I was certain I was alone.
Sighing, I begin to walk around. I took a step and the ground opened up below me, I tried to use my Sais to stop me from falling, but I was already at the bottom by the time I got my Sais out. Looking around I couldn't see anyone. It was dark and there were tunnels.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
Kakashi had just got away from a trap barely. Walking around he didn't see any entrances or exists. He was going to summon his tracker dogs to find his students when he hears someone behind him.
"I'm surprised that you were able to survive that. My technique was perfect. I guess Fuen's blueprint wasn't aggressive enough."
Kakashi turns around and sees a man who he would assume was Fudō. Kakashi studies his opponent. Fudō had short messy black hair and black triangular markings on each of his cheeks. He wore a robe with stripes at the side and grey long pants and sandals for his feet.
"I take it you're here to fight me." Kakashi says.
Fudō grins. "Maybe."
"How about you tell me how to get out of here? I need to find my students." Kakashi says in a relaxed tone.
This seemed to throw Fudō off, he looks at Kakashi with surprise. He didn't seem bothered, but why? Fudō recovers quickly and smirks cockily. "Doesn't matter, you're going to become a corpse soon enough."
"We'll see about that." Kakashi replies. Under his mask he was smirking, Akemi was right, he was very arrogant. But that would be his downfall.
"Why don't we test my power against yours?" Fudō suggests. He makes a hand seal with one hand. "Doton: Ari Jigoku!" The earth beneath Kakashi turned soft and it pulled Kakashi into it. Kakashi struggled, but it was no use, he couldn't get free. Soon his head disappeared and so did Fudō's Jutsu. Fudō smirks, thinking that he had won. But he was soon disappointed when Kakashi jumps down from the ceiling.
"B-but how?" Fudō demands.
"You really think I would just walk into a trap?" Kakashi replies smirking under his mask.
Fudō sneers and this time decides to attack Kakashi with Taijutsu. Jumping into the air, he reeled his arm back and thrust it forward. Kakashi would have met his attack with his own, but he noticed the way the light shinned off Fudō. It looked like his skin was coated with something. Deciding not to take the risk, Kakashi jumped out of the way. A second later, Fudō's fist made contact with the ground, shattering it like glass.
Fudō growls in frustration. "You need to do more than just dodge when you're up against me."
"We'll see about that." Kakashi answers him mockingly.
Fudō casts Kakashi a dark look before attacking again. He runs at Kakashi and reels back his arm, it shines like a rock on the light. Kakashi dodges the attack once more and jumps into the air. He decides to test his theory. He throws three explosive kunai at Fudō, but they bounce off him. They land on the ground and explode in seconds.
Kakashi lands and waits. Once the dusts settles, he sees that the explosive kunai had absolutely no effect on him.
Fudō laughs. "That tickled!"
Kakashi sends clones after him, but they were beaten easily. Fudō jumps after Kakashi and aims a punch at him. Kakashi dodges in time, the wall behind him being destroyed. Fudō jumps after him again, destroying anything that got in his way.
"Jumpy little pest." Fudō sneers at Kakashi jumped away again.
Kakashi lands a little bit away. Once his feet were on the ground, Fudō makes a hand seal. "Doton: Ganban Kyuu!" Rocks appeared from the ground and wrapped itself around Kakashi.
Fudō grins. "That's that."
He jumps down to Kakashi's coffin and laughs mockingly. "I guess I'll at least mark his grave." He places his hand on the grave, making a Leaf Village symbol appear on the grave. Once he was satisfied, he jumped away.
Once Kakashi was certain that Fudō was gone, the real him appeared from the ceiling. His Shadow Clone had been fighting him the whole time while the real him was watching. He was analysing Fudō for the future battle they were more than likely going to have.
"He overestimated his techniques." Kakashi laughs to himself. "You should always confirm your kills."
Now Kakashi could focus on finding his students.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
Walking around I came across a few traps that I managed to dodge. After a few moments of walking, I came across a fork in the road. I look at the two entrances, this seemed very familiar and I didn't know why. I decided to go for the right side when I came across a trap. I jumped away from the pitfall just in time.
"This must be the right way then." I mumble to myself.
"Not quite." A voice echoes.
I freeze, that voice was familiar. No wonder this scene was familiar, I was going against Fūka. In the anime she went against Naruto, but if I'm going against her, who is Naruto going against? I snap back into reality when the ground shakes slightly. I see something round coming out of the right entrance I was going to go down. It was another trap. Before the bolder could crush me, I infused chakra into my right fist and swung at the boulder. It broke into hundreds of smaller pieces.
A feminine laugh echoes behind me. "Fuen's traps aren't terribly imaginative, are they?"
I turn around, standing behind me was Fūka. There was no denying it, Fūka is beautiful. She has long flowing maroon coloured hair, which falls down to her waist. She has blue eyes and fair skin. A notable feature was the beauty-mark under the left side of her lip. Fūka's outfit consisted of a dark-pink gi and disconnected arm warmers that reached down to her light-purple spandex shorts. She wears a pair of black low-heeled boots.
"What do you want?" I ask glaring at her. I needed to be weary of her kiss, not like I'd let her near me anyway.
Fūka groans. "Yuck, manual labour. I was hoping that the trap would work so I wouldn't have to get my hands dirty." She smiles at me. "But I guess there's no avoiding it, let's do this quickly."
"Hopefully you won't take too long to defeat then." I say with a smirk.
Fūka laughs.
Just as I was about to raise my Sais, she disappears. I look around feeling worried. I couldn't let her get too close to me. I was pulled out of my thoughts when I felt a tongue lick my cheek.
"What the hell?!" I shout jumping away, holding my cheek where she had licked.
Fūka looks confused. "You taste strange."
"Oh why thank you." I say sarcastically rolling my eyes.
"You have more than one element nature." Fūka muses with a frown.
"And they are?" I had never bothered to check my nature type. The Justus that I picked up all worked for me, some better than others though.
Fūka looks thoughtful. "The main one I can taste is the water element nature."
"And what of it?" I ask her.
Fūka smirks. "How about you join my collection?"
"How about no!" I shout at her.
Fūka pouts before a smile returns to her beautiful face. "French or soft, which do you prefer?"
I could feel my face becoming warm. "Listen I do not swing that way lady!" I shout at her in embarrassment.
"That doesn't matter to me." Fūka says shrugging her shoulders. "Have you not had your first kiss yet?"
"Of course I have!" I exclaim. I had my first kiss back in my world. It was one of my friends sixteenth birthday party and we played seven minutes in heaven. However, other than that I haven't kissed anyone else. I hadn't really even thought about fancying anyone in this world because it would be too much of a hassle. There's so many things to do, people to save, wars to prevent.
"Well that doesn't matter." Fūka says placing her hands on her hips. "We're going to have lots of fun together."
"I already said that I don't swing that way!" I shout at her. I turn around and run, I try to run away from Fūka hoping that she wouldn't catch me. But I soon ran out of luck, she stood in front of the entrance that I was running to.
Obviously, there was going to be no escape. I stop running and look at her.
"Have you given up?" Fūka asks hopefully.
I shake my head. "If you want my kiss then you're going to have to fight me for it." I say, a smirk appearing on my face.
Fūka sighs. "Fine." She disappears and reappears behind me. Grabbing my face, she places her lips on mine. Only to find that she was kissing a clone.
"Too bad eh lady." I say appearing behind her along with seven of my other clones. When I was running, I had made several clones and hid them away. Using one of my clones as bait
Fūka didn't appreciate being tricked. "If you had just stopped resisting, you could've died happy!" She shouts at me.
"Whatever you say, old lady." I taunt with a smirk.
Her eyes narrow. "Now you've made me angry."
"Like I care." I say.
"Your luck ran out the moment you made me angry, girl!" Fūka says. "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" Fire birds appeared from her mouth, all aiming at my clones. Some clones managed to jump out the way and so did I, but my other clones weren't that lucky.
I jumped away in time and landed in the ceiling upside down. Fūka was dealing with my other clones and was distracted.
She makes more hand seals. "Suiton: Ja no Kuchi!" A burst of water appears beside Fūka and aims towards me.
I try to jump out of the way, but I couldn't get out of the way in time. I was dragged under water. That's when I felt the pain. She had also used her lightning jutsu while I was under water. I had to stop myself from screaming so I didn't drown. I jump out of the water and onto a ledge kneeling down, where I was met with Fūka.
I jump away before she could grab me and healed myself.
Fūka smirks and makes hand seals. "Fuuton: Hanachiri Mai!" Petals appear in a whirlwind and attack me. The force of the wind send me back, but before my back hit the wall, I jumped out of the way and onto a ledge where I was safe for now.
While she was distracted, I made the hand seals. "Suiton: Rekkū Suigeki!" Placing my fingers over my mouth, I blew. Hundreds of water darts are fired at Fūka.
Fūka looks up in time and manages to dodge, however a few did hit her hair, causing it to be cut. She freezes and she immediately looks like a shrivelled old lady. Smirking to myself, I knew her life force was in her hair and I had just destroyed it.
The body decays and falls to the ground like mud. Another Fūka appears with a very unhappy look on her face. "You cut my hair, and now you will pay the price!" Fūka walks over to me, her hair flying everywhere. She reminded me of Medusa with her hair like that. Her eyes were wide and it made me freeze. I was paralysed.
I look down and see that my feet were frozen. Fūka smirks at me and grabs me by my face. She smirks and whispers. "Shikei Seppun." She places her lips on mine. I scream into the kiss and try to struggle, but I felt numb. I could feel the chakra travel to my mouth and to Fūka. It felt disturbing and wrong, I felt like I was being violated. My body sags as all the energy leaves my body and my eyes become dull.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
Naruto was jumping around looking for an exit. He had tried going up, but the rocks would move and trap him in. As he jumped down form a rock ledge, something was thrown onto Naruto's bag, it was a tracker.
"You'll never get out that way hun." Fuen says in the dark. Fuen has long and shiny dark brown hair and wears spherical earrings. Her makeup consists of red lipstick and an orange-based smokey eyes. She has blue eyes and wears a choker around her neck. Her outfit consists of a magenta qípáo, the cloth of which being decorated with black and tan stripes. Underneath, she wears light purple stockings.
Naruto looks around, looking for the voice that had just spoken. He sighs roughly and runs through the tunnels.
Fuen looks down at her prey and smirks, the fun she was going to have. Fuen sat on top of the rocks in the moonlight. She had her scroll out and was looking at the blue prints. With the tracker that she had placed on Naruto, she could see exactly where he was going. With a smirk, she draws on the map, making a trap appear so Naruto couldn't get pass it and get to his friends.
Naruto was running left, hoping to find someone. He was just about to go down a path when rocks started falling, blocking his path. With a growl, Naruto turns back around to find another exit.
Fuen smirks and blocks his path once more by drawing on the blueprints.
More rocks blocked Naruto's path. Shouting in annoyance, he sees an opening upwards and grins.
Fuen looks at her map once more and sees that Naruto his heading south, she decides to ruin his fun again.
"So that's what you've been doing."
Fuen jumps slightly and turns around. Behind her was Naruto, but how? On the map it said he was going south.
Naruto smirks. "Think I wouldn't notice a tracker huh?" He had noticed the tracker on his bag when he took it off to get some water. It was just unfortunate for Fuen that Naruto noticed the tracker or he would have been none the wiser.
Fuen smirks. "Doton: Gansetsukon!" Using her hand, a staff made of rock was craved from the ground. Holding the staff she threw it at Naruto, piercing his shoulder.
However, it was a Shadow Clone. Once hit, the Clone disappeared.
Fuen's eyes widen.
The real Naruto appears behind her with a Rasengan in hand. "Rasengan!" He jumped at her, his attack aiming for Fuen.
Fuen dodged, but the Rasengan had just barley scraped her arm, causing it to burn. When she landed she looked around to see Naruto wasn't there anymore.
"He got away. To mock me like that and to land a hit on me to boot. He might actually be decent." Fuen smirks to herself.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN
Sasuke felt annoyed. His eye was twitching and his hand was itching to hit something. He had been separated from his teammates and he couldn't find them anywhere. After resisting the urge to kill something, he came across a smokey area. It smelt like sulphur. Using his hand to hold his nose, he walked deeper into the smelly cavern, he deduces that it isn't poisonous since he hasn't dropped dead yet, if anything when he found Akemi he would ask her to look over him to make sure. There was a large hole in the middle of the ground, which he decided to ignore and walk around it.
Hearing a creaking noise behind him, he turned around and jumped away when he saw something come at him. Getting a better look at what it is, he sees that it is a large spider. It had attacked him by spitting out webs at him.
"You're pissing me off." Sasuke scowls unsheathing his sword. At least now he could kill something. Sasuke jumped at the spider and landed on top of it. Using his sword he stabbed the arachnid in the back and a few more times for good measure. Green illuminous blood poured from the spider, burning Sasuke slightly.
Only once the creature stopped moving did Sasuke stop his assault. Feeling better for venting his feelings, he climbed off the spider.
"Hey! Sasuke!"
Sasuke turned his head to see Naruto running towards him. Once Naruto was close enough to see the spider, he stopped. "W-what the hell happened?!"
"I killed it." Sasuke says stoically.
"Is it dead?" Naruto asks with an uneasy look on his face. He didn't like bugs, especially large bugs.
"Well I stabbed it enough times." Sasuke says plainly walking away.
Naruto goes to follow, but jumps when he sees the spider twitch. "W-wait for me!" He quickly runs to catch up with the young Uchiha.
Once he catches up, he noticed the burns on Sasuke's hand. "Are you alright?" Naruto asks.
Sasuke looks down at his hands. The spider's blood had burned him, but he was fine. His hands just needed to be healed and they would be good as new.
"Aah." Sasuke says.
Naruto nods his head, understanding what he meant.
As they walked down a dark tunnel, they see a dark shadow walking towards them. Sasuke unsheathed his sword again and got ready. Naruto grabbed a kunai and was about to attack when he saw who it was.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouts.
Kakashi appears on the light. "Yo."
"Akemi's not with you." Sasuke says.
"I was hoping she was going to be with you." Kakashi says. His dogs couldn't find Akemi, so he was hoping she was safe somewhere.