Kyuubi/ other demon /Tsubomi in her demon form
Thoughts
Disclaimer: Still don't own Naruto. I do however own Tsubomi, who I prefer anyway, so life isn't all bad.
Chapter 7- Saving the Wave
Kakashi-sensei has been recovering from his chakra exhaustion for a couple of days now, leaving us to our own devices. That's not to say I've been doing nothing. For that time, I've been gathering poisons for my new nail varnish. I need something that dissolves instantly on contact with blood, allowing it to seep into the victims veins and kill them. I am just working on a cyanide/ belladonna compound when Naruto comes bursting in.
Will he ever learn to knock? One spillage of this and I could poison myself! Actually, considering my built up resistance to poisons, there probably isn't that much danger of me dying, but yeah.
"Tsubomi, Kakashi-sensei says we need to meet him for some training! Maybe he's going to teach us some cool new jutsu or something!" I swear, he only has one volume, and that's yelling. Sighing, I get up and pack away my poison kit into my green rucksack. I sling it over one shoulder and zip up my new high-heeled black ankle boots. I know they aren't exactly practical, but they are gorgeous. Besides, I can run in heels as well as I can do in ninja sandals, and I have plans for my shoes later…
"Umm, Tsu?" I raise my head and look at Naruto, glaring at him for using that stupid nickname. "Have you seen the teme? I need to fetch him too." I just point out at the training dummy, where Sasuke is doing his usual training routine. I had offered to spar with him, but he didn't want me to use my poisons. Plus, he sulks when he's beaten.
I go and meet up with my team. Kakashi starts to explain why he dragged us out here into the forest. Something about chakra control and climbing trees.
Why me? I suck at chakra control, although not as much as I suck at genjutsu. At least I'm not quite as bad as Naruto. As for Sasuke, I genuinely have no idea what he's like in this area. Guess I'm about to find out. If he beats me in this I'll never live it down!
I look down at the ground. It seems so far away. I look over at Naruto and Sasuke. I am about 5 foot further up my tree than they are, but I mustn't relax or I'll lose concentration and fall.
There! Made it. Thank Kami-sama. Now I can finally go and do something less painful and more interesting. Don't get me wrong, just walking up a vertical wall is awesome but breaking every Kami -forsaken bone in my body really isn't.
I look over at the others. Naruto has come crashing to the ground yet again. Sucks to be him. He isn't getting any help from me.
I'm a demon, remember?
I sit on the ground, taking a break from my aim target is riddled with kunai, shuriken and throwing knives. I open my rucksack and take out my nail polish. Painting my nails, I idly survey the area. I can only see two weapons that went off target.
If only my genjutsu was as good. Let's face it, my taijutsu is pretty suckish as well, but at least I'm improving. Not by very much though, maybe I should get a specialist teacher… Still, I'd better concentrate on getting my accuracy to 100%. All the poison and sharp edges in the world won't save me if I can't hit my enemy. Perhaps I should do more training with TenTen when I get back.
I lean back. I might as well take a nap while I wait for my nails to dry. Closing my eyes, I drift off to sleep.
Blearily, I open my eyes. I can hear someone approaching me stealthily. This isn't good; if it is an ally, why bother with the stealth? No, an enemy is sneaking up on me. This isn't going to end well.
I stand up, brushing down my black leggings and straightening my knee-length grey silk kimono top. I stare straight at my adversary. I give a start of recognition; it's the hunter-nin from before.
"My name is Haku. I am afraid I am here to kill you, since you killed Zabuza, my one precious person." I shake my head sadly. This child sounds so reasonable, he clearly doesn't know what he's getting into.
"I am Tsubomi, of the Nara clan. Since you are being so polite and everything, I guess I will kill you as painlessly as possible. It's actually quite fortunate for me that you are here: now I can test my new weapon." And with that final exchange, the battle begins.
"Crystal Ice mirrors!" Haku yells. An icy dome springs up around me. He steps into one of the mirrors, and I am suddenly surrounded by reflections of him.
Damn. I didn't plan on him having a kekei-genkai. This complicates things…Well, I don't hear anyone else around, and it's not like he's going to survive long enough to tell anybody, so I guess it would be ok to use my tails.
I close my eyes and let my black fox ears appear, then, one after the other, my tails. As each one springs up, the coating of black chakra swirling around me gets thicker. I love the feeling of having all my chakra back in use, but I stop at three tails. Three is already over-kill; there is no need to draw any more attention to our fight.
Haku is staring at me. He looks like he's about to wet himself. I can't say I blame him: it's not every day that you meet a demon lady in the flesh.
"Hello foolish mortal." I adore scaring people. Time to up the terror. "How would you like to die, fried?" As I say that, a ball of pure white fire momentarily springs up in my left hand. "Or perhaps diced?" I take out my pure black katana with my right hand.
"A Jinchuriki? How is that possible? You have fox ears and fox tails, but the Kyuubi was sealed into a baby boy, and he's the only fox bijuu. What do you contain?"
"I contain nobody. I'm a demon. As to my true name and nature, that's irrelevant." The boy appears to have realized exactly how much trouble he's in. We've wasted enough time talking, it's time to fight. I put away my katana.
"Fire style: Blazing Fox Bonfire!" A huge red fox composed of fire appears and as I pour more youki into it the blaze gets bigger and bigger until it melts straight through the ice. Haku would have also been incinerated, if it wasn't for him escaping his mirrors at the last minute. I quickly use my shadow possession jutsu and we walk towards each other. I bring my hand up and scratch 5 long lines down his cheek and he mimics me. I stand back and release him as my cheek heals.
"Goodbye. You were, quite frankly, a pathetic adversary. For you, it's over." I watch emotionlessly as he pales, bend over and retches. It takes a full minute for his heart to stop. After he dies, I incinerate his body and leave for the house, sucking my chakra and fox attributes back into my body.
That was good training.
When I arrive back at the house, I discover two ninja tied up in front of the house. I go inside and Tsunami, the drunkard's daughter, tells me that Sasuke and Kakashi sensei left for the bridge earlier, leaving Naruto sleeping and me training. In their absence, the ninja had tried to attack her and Inari, but they were saved by Naruto, who had then left for the bridge. I smile, it sounds like my blonde friend isn't a completely incompetent ninja, if he managed to beat two ninja so easily, even if the ninja are pitifully weak. I nod at Tsunami and leave to catch my team.
I look at the scene of absolute destruction before me. Everywhere there is charred corpses, people knocked out and sporting many other injuries. It would appear my team had been busy. Still, no matter how good they are, I could see yet more enemies in front of them.
Gato. He's hired a lot of people this time, too much for my team to handle; especially now they're low on chakra.
"Good morning." I whisper from behind Naruto. He whips around, kunai at the ready, but relaxes when he sees it's just me. "It would appear that you have encountered a spot of… trouble." He nods and starts complaining about how many enemies there are, but I just tune him out. I walk over to Sasuke, who is obviously exhausted. He looks up at me, and I recoil from what I see in his eyes.
"The Sharingan! Impressive, Sasuke. However, you are clearly tired, just rest for a bit. I can handle these bastards." With that I leap into battle for the second time today.
I run towards Gato's thugs, scratching them with my nails with one hand and throwing poisoned senbons and kunai with the other. When I run out of projectiles, I settle into my taijutsu stance. I take out my katana and start hacking my enemies to pieces. Dodging a set of throwing knives, I throw fireballs at the remaining shinobi. Finally, I burst through the last ranks and see Gato, running away. I can't be bothered to chase him, so I pull out the senbons in my hair, sending them flying towards the coward.
Then, I walk over to the corpses, collect my weapons and return to my team.
"Bloody hell." Everyone seems to agree with Kakashi's remark. I shrug and set off back to the training grounds: they obviously don't need me here anymore.
Today has been a good day.
Sorry for the very late update, but I had 2 GCSE's to do, so yeah. Sorry if it's rushed, but I really want to get on to the chuunin exams. I personally thought it was time for Tsubomi to show some more of her demonic nature. She will be getting a demon name later, so if you have any ideas, please tell me. Currently I'm favouring Kyuubasa, it has to start with kyu since she's a kitsune, and I've noticed most summonings like the toads have similar names to their boss, in this case the Kyuubi.
Anyway, pairings are all currently the same, except GaaraXTsubomi is now in the lead with 8 votes, cause that's the one my friends all wanted.