Team 7's 4th member
Chapter 11
First mission
The next day...
Seth and Naruto had arrived early at the training ground they were supposed to meet at for some training. The rest arrived about an hour later and Crash showed up an hour late dragging an unconscious Kakashi behind him he didn't have his dog with him today. "Sorry about being late I had to drag him here." Crash said pointing to what appeared to be a knocked out Kakashi. But something tells me that he is awake. He then twitch and made the tiger hand sign "Leaf Village Secret-Finger Justu...1,000 Years of Death!" Kakashi had yelled before he attempted to shoves his fingers up Crash's butt. He almost succeeded but Crash had caught his hands by the wrist. "Nice try I knew you weren't out. It takes a lot more to knock you out." you could see Kakashi make a frown from under that mask he was wearing.
"Okay then anyway I have gotten your first mission." "Oh what is it. Is it to find a missing ninja, gathering information, or maybe an escort?" Crash face palmed. "Your mission is to... capture a cat." Naruto just hit the dirt with disappointment. "You'll be wearing these." he held out his hand exposing what appeared to be ear piece communicators. We each took one. "Crash where the hell are you." You could hear someone yell through the ear piece he had on his ear. This caused Crash to freeze. "You were supposed to be giving the tour to the new recruits today. Then you had the rest of the day to teach your students." Kakashi heard the whole thing. "You still work with them?" "Yeah it's not full time though. I have to go I trust you can handle the rest by yourself until I get back." "Yeah go on. Go do what you need to do."
A few hours later…
A shadowy creature quickly rushes from the opening into a bush. "This is the Hawk how many meters to the target." Kakashi said over the earpiece. "5 meters." "G...ys...I'...ge...i.. ." They could barely make out Seth's voice before it turned to static before his entire signal was dropped. "Crap. That wasn't supposed to happen. I'll go check on him."
Seth's P.O.V.
What the fuck is going on with my ear piece. Then it let out high pitched squeal then my vision went all weird before I blacked out.
In the mindscape
"What the..." "Where am I now?" I then heard music coming from somewhere I soon followed it without thinking. It led me to a waterfall within these woods the water flowed freely and looked so clear, almost like it wasn't there. I kept listening to the music to hear it coming from behind the falls. I then jumped recklessly through the falls. Landing in cave behind it with a thud. I wound up scaring the shit out of some body. "Holy crap! Don't do that kid you scared the living hell out of me." "Sorry, I was just following the music." I said as I turned to see a purple dragon thing looking right at me. It had a humanoid shape but it head was that of a dragon without horns its nose was really shinny and reflective. Its eyes were like a snakes but more human if you could say that and blue. On its arms were what appeared to be orange fins triangle things but they were swept in a way that appeared to be able to clash and cut clean through a steel blade. He was wearing what appeared to armor more high tech than I was familiar with it was blue and hand gold trimming there was a multi colored glow coming from the heart of the chest piece. I could see orange wings protruding from the back of the chest piece (yes Rex does have wings he just chooses to keep them hidden mainly because they can get in the way at times and they take a long time to heal even though he does have accelerated healing capabilities. This is one of the few times they do show.)
On his hip was mounted a fancy looking sword. At the end of the sword was a fancy looking gemstone mounted to appear to be stabbing tool but at the same to have the ability to cut glass the guard of the blade was designed to block an attack from any angle. There were two smaller blades that split out designed to catch another sword and break it. "Who are you!?" "I am Rex, lieutenant Rex to be specific." "Oh okay I'm." "I know who you are I've been with you for the past 7 years." "What?" "Yeah It's a very,very,very long story. But right now I think it's time for you to wake up. I hear then calling for you. I'm just glad that I got to see you after all this time." "But wait..." I never got to finish saying that before a slap from Sakura brought me back to light. "OWWWWWWW!" "Hey guys I finally woke him up." she said while still sitting on me. "Get the hell off." I yelled before I threw her off with a sudden burst of strength. "And that's for slapping me! So what happened? Did the mission go well?" "Yeah it did we got the cat. And we returned it to its owners." Naruto answered my question.
"Why you little how dare you!" I heard an angry Sakura. She was charging at me with her fist cocked back. But when she got closed and tried to hit me with that punch I had ducked and threw her over my shoulder. She landed on her back. "Sorry Sakura I hope I didn't hurt you by accident."
Kakashi's P.O.V.
Fascinating this kid has more skill than I thought. He could have easily punched her but he didn't. It's like this kid is a different person.
"Here let me help you up." Seth had said as he offered his hand out to Sakura. She accepted his help but once she was on her feet she punched him in the head knocking him out. "Well that was short lived." "So Kakashi what did I miss while I was gone? And why is Sakura slapping him?" I heard my old team mate say. "We completed the mission. And Sakura had knocked Seth out after awakening him." "Sakura stop slapping him do you want to give him brain damage?" That got her to stop trying to wake him up. "Here let me try." Crash had reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of smelling salts. He pulled out the plug and placed the bottle below Seth's nose. A few seconds later the kid came jolting upward coughing. He put the plug back in bottle and put it away. "Always works."
Seth's P.O.V.
I was coughing quit hard from whatever he used on me. Then I noticed my vision was really gooey it was like a rainbow was melting and threw up all over everything. "Why is everything so trippy?" Then some nausea hit me. "I don't feel so good." I said before I blacked out into a void. I was alone but, then images started to appear and I was hearing sound coming from them. It felt like these images were memories of some sort. I even saw my memories of when I first met Naruto. I saw us growing up together. He was like a brother to me. "Am I dead?" "No." was the response I had received it came from a voice that sounded a lot like mine but a bit deeper and older. I looked around to where it was coming from. I know I hadn't said anything. I eventually spotted where it came from. It looked like me but he was too old to be me. "Who are you?" I yelled terrified.
He just stood their shaking his head before laughing a laugh identical to mine. "I'm you." "No you're not I'm not as old as you." But then Rex had stepped out next to him. "Kid he is speaking the truth. You remember about that story I mentioned?" "Rex. Who is this guy?" I asked hoping he might shed some light. "Like he said he is you apart of you that was lost during that accident." Rex had finished. I was just left confused. "When you turn 18 everything will be explained." The guy that says he was me said. "Look I know you don't like this. Hell I don't even like doing it this way but it's the only way it can be done without causing us to go into a coma." The strange man said. "Stop saying that I am not you and you are not me. We are to different people." "Fine my you go ahead and believe that. My job here is done for now and now you have to go back." But before that happened I felt the images and memories flood my mind.
Strange man's P.O.V.
I watched myself fade from the room me and Rex are in until he was completely gone. "Rex, make sure I don't get myself killed. You should be able to talk to him more freely and he should start to be able to use some of your form. At least the ability to breath fire without the requiring those hands signs. Well I got to go back with the remaining to make sure they remain intact." I say as I faded away to back where I needed to be. I'm just surprised Jumba's machine had split my soul in two. But it left the younger cocky side in control. When he becomes my age our souls should fuse back into one but I have no guarantees. (I know this one is obvious on whom it is but the younger one has no idea and well I don't want to be switching between young and old.)
Crash's P.O.V.
I was trying to get the kid to wake up but then his stomach started to glow. Before it revealed the seals I've seen once before. The 13 and the 7 seals were the only ones showing but then I saw that those seals started to warp and then break before merging into the 9, 3 and 1 seals. Then a weird smoke started to come off of him it was a light blue before it rushed towards his throat mouth and chest. But at the same time I felt major instability in his chakra signature I felt like it was mutating I felt something adding to its Yin and Yang chakra signatures. (Pronounced yong). Something tells me whatever is causing this doing it when he can handle it. Then the kid jolted upward coughing before he coughed out bits of smoke but it was a different color this was a very light grey. "What did that bastard do to me?" "Who?" "I don't know who he was. But he did I can't even describe. But what it left me with is this killer head ache it's like something is trying... ACK." He yelped out of pain as he gripped his head before he blacked out once more.
"I'll take him to hospital. Naruto you should come they might need to ask a few questions. I can't answer." Naruto gave a nod in agreement. Before I picked up the kid and put him on my shoulder to carry him to the hospital.