Hey, long time since I wrote anything, but I felt like restarting now. Thought i'd give this story some more chapters since i'm bored, and for the Bleach readers, I am working now on that story too, so expect a chappy to be up probably some time this week unless things go south for me.
Anyhow, this be the second chapter of my story, hope you enjoy! (It's good to be writting again, forgot how much I enjoyed getting creative!)
EDIT: I'm going to try moving this story into the T catagory since it seem's very few adventure readers are amongst the M catagory readers. However, if any think that this stories content should make it M, please tell me promptly so I can correct my mistake, thankee!
As they approached the camp, the ninja tied up by chains that Yuroi had brought with him, the two lads called out to the rest of the team. The first to make it was the young wolf, who practically bowled his master over in excitement, licking his face roughly with its tongue. "Sasayaku, c'mon enough already!"-Yuroi complained good naturedly, nudging the wolf away. The wolf seemed to get the hint, having spent its limited excitement at it's reunion with its owner. In turn, Akimoto was almost bowled over by the second newcomer, a young kunoichi dressed in an earthen cloak who grabbed onto Akimoto, earning an extremely jealous glance from Yuroi. Akimoto raised his hand in apology to Yuroi, who he knew had a crush on Karen. "Aki-kun, are you alright? You're not injured are you?"-Karen asked, as Akimoto tried to disentangle her arms. "Jeez Karen, I keep telling you to stop that!"-Akimoto complained, trying to make it clear to his comrade he wasn't taking any delight in the contact.
Akimoto had a closer connection with Karen than Yuroi, something the lad had always held against Akimoto since their team was assembled. Karen and Akimoto had grown up as childhood friends, and while they looked close, neither shared any real feelings for the other besides close friendship, something Akimoto was forced to constantly recite to Yuroi. Akimoto didn't know why their team was assembled like this when there would obviously be such emotional problems, but after fighting alongside Yuroi, he wouldn't trade him away for any other gennin. Yuroi always made up for his rash nature by being the brains of the operation, as well as a skilled ninja himself.
Having successfully separated himself from Karen, he asked-"How's our second captor and the real Tono?" The second name seemed to get a weak tug on the chain he and Yuroi were holding onto together, but he doubted the ninja could give any kind of resistance, before they had tied him up they had administered a strong paralytic drug that Karen had given them to make sure he wouldn't cause trouble. Karen pointed over to the new fire she had started, having had to fetch new wood since the nearby wood had been dampened by the earlier technique. Nearby, the real, much more obese Tono was amusing himself by poking the first captive with an incredibly long branch, making sure to keep incredibly far away from the captive. Akimoto sighed quietly at the sight, wishing once again they had never agreed to take this mission.
The mission was supposed to be a C-rank, but even without the weak ninja assault they just got through, the supposed son of the lord was insufferably obnoxious, complaining about everything and causing general problems for the team. More than once Yuroi had been forced to stop Akimoto from pummelling the client, although once they both had to stop Karen from killing him when he had slapped her backside on passing. Originally, Karen had tried to be the liaison between team and brat, but Yuroi had to take her place following that incident. Even now, Akimoto wondered if that was such a great idea, the dangerous look that Yuroi gave their client now that the fat boy was looking the opposite way gave him chills.
However, before anything could spark of between them, a sudden gust of wind announced the arrival of their absent sensei. With reactions fast as lightning itself, a storm of shuriken flew across the air, targeting the disturbance that Yuroi and Akimoto had sensed before they even looked to see their target, both ninja attacking their sensei simultaneously. The fat lord squeaked in surprise as the weapons shrieked through the air, once again diving to the ground as he had done in fear the last two times this had happened. While the absurd look of shurikens flying towards the darker faced ninja that had just appeared within the clearing would have looked to any onlooker as an attack filled with killing intent, to the two young ninja, this was as commonplace a greeting for their sensei as shaking hands.
Even though the sharp killing wheels flew through the forest air straight for him, the older Jounin simply smiled lightly, a loud *shing* of metal upon metal ringing out as he drew a blade from behind his back. "Well, evening to you to."-the jounin said easily as the blade whirled about in his hands at eye blurring speed, every shuriken batted out of the air in turn, flying wildly through the air as the fat client continued to squeal like a stuck pig. In comparison, the only female in the clearing just rolled her eyes at the spectacle, before kneeling before the fire, pulling a small backpack from the pile nearby to herself.
Even as the last shuriken was knocked down, flying straight and true into the heart of the small campfire much to the Tono's upset, a disturbance of dirt behind the taller man was all that announced the end of a ninja's ninpou. Only those with well trained eyes would be able to see the flash of his silver mane as Akimoto finished his Cloud Dance (1) taijutsu movement, a fierce smile covering his features, his eyes gleaming as a silver katana, hidden up the inside of his sleeve and now revealed, pierced the air before him, aiming for the open back of the older ninja. However, much to his chagrin, the taller Jounin easily sidestepped the movement, having predicted this back attack, the blade within his hands already tossed high in the air as his hands moved in a rapid blur, seal after seal formed with insane speed, the man's lazy smile noticeable as he moved in close towards the young gennin, moving around the thrust katana.
"He's using jutsu already!"-Yuroi shouted at his partner dashing straight for the pair, a kunai drawn in one hand as he tried to move to Akimoto's aid. "Tch!"-Akimoto hissed as he tried to move away, even as his sensei moved his right hand up to his move towards him, his jutsu already completed. Akimoto already knew what was to come next, but smiled fiercely at his sensei's lazy expression.
"Nice try… Yuroi!"-the Jounin said unexpectedly as his head suddenly turned away from the silver haired boy. Out of the Jounin's blind spot, the young wolf leapt, already further ahead than his master, fangs bared as he leapt the distance right for the Jounin, no noise coming from its throat as the intelligent wolf followed his master's order to attack silently.
Hm, he noticed Akimoto thought as the wolf suddenly yelped with surprise, the Jounin shouting-"Suiton: Suijinheki!" The wolf ran headfirst into a large wall of water, the Jounin instantly amplifying the water source from his mouth into a formidable barrier of water, the small tidal wave instantly engulfing the young wolf. With a twist of his head, the Jounin went to blow the other ninja back with the same technique, the wave of water continuing to be fired from his mouth. Yuroi was still too far away to help as the wall of water suddenly changed focus, even though Akimoto had leapt back as the water had targeted the wolf, he hadn't gained enough distance from the Jounin.
*Craaackle!* Heh, what do you know? The Jounin thought as in that instant, he realised he had fallen for a trap. Through the wall of water that was spreading before him, he could see the young Gennin, about to be engulfed in the tidal wave. However, the instant he heard the noise, he realised that everything had gone to his students plans. Surrounding the young ninja, his smile as fierce as it was when they began, was almost an aura of electricity. I see, the wolf was the real distraction, not him the Jounin realised as he tried to quickly cut off the source of the water, still connected to his mouth, the only water source he could have used for this technique.
However, the power of his own technique, his most powerful close range defensive skill, and thus religiously trained to almost perfection, backfired. His technique was too lethally fast, and before he could end it, Akimoto was swept up by the tidal wave of water. The effect was instant, the Raiton Jutsu the young ninja had used instantly transferring its full force into the water itself, the entire enclave of tree's lit up as the tidal wave sparked with electricity. There was no way to outrace lightning, and the Jounin was instantly shocked by the conductive jutsu, gritting his teeth strongly.
He knew this technique, Raiton: Kaminari Chōeki (2). Rather than being destructive, this was closer to a medical ninja technique in effect, if not in chakra manipulation. Rather than causing damage, it overloaded the electrical circuits inside the targets body, scrambling the nerve signals temporarily, a technique for capturing enemies. However, it was a limited technique, due to needing direct contact with the ninja to be effective. And I let it happen too… the Jounin thought as he watched his technique successfully send the young Gennin flying away, or at least tried too. His body had lost motor control, and he was falling to the ground.
The effect didn't last long, only a few seconds. The way Akimoto had transferred the charge was weak, the sheer amount of water he had sent the charge through had weakened the technique massively. However, that was all that was needed, in that time Yuroi instantly closed the distance, leaping onto his sensei's prone body. With a swift movement, the ninja was immobilized, even if he had lost control of his body, Yuroi took no chances, pinning his limbs with his knees and forcing his foe's chest down with his free hand as he lay his Kunai over his target's throat, smirking with victory as he declared "Our victory, Sensei."
"Nice try, but I think not."-a voice called from Yuroi's left. Looking up with shock written all over his face, the Gennin looked at the direction the voice called from. Sure enough, leaning there against a tree, his lazy smile ever in place, their squad leader watched his young charge. "Damn."-Yuroi exclaimed as he looked down at what he was pinning… and blanched with shock and possibly fear. Nearby, Akimoto dragged himself out of a bush, his ninja uniform soaked but grinning like a Cheshire cat as he shouted-"Did ya get him, Yuroi?" However, he also froze as he looked upon the scene before him.
"Yuuurooi-kuuuun!"- a female voice said, with anger growing greater with every syllable. Yuroi almost squeaked alike the fat Tono who still hid nearby, his quivering form looking like a fat ball. Below his body, still pinned down with Kunai at her throat, was Karen. Their Sensei had used her as a substitute just as Yuroi had leapt to pin him. Wrenching the Kunai away from her throat, Yuroi quickly gabbled out-"I-I-I'm so sorry Karen! I h-had no idea Sensei would d-do something like that, it wasn't part of the p-plan!" Karen still glared at him with ever growing anger, breathing rapidly in rage as she shouted-"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR TOUCHING YOU BAKA!" All of them, Sensei, Gennin, even the fat Tono who had managed to uncurl himself from his armadillo impression just to see this, looked down.
Sure enough, just as he had planned to force his Sensei to the ground, so he was doing so to Karen now. But his hand wasn't just touching her clothing, Akimoto knew Karen long enough that she wouldn't have been all that upset, even in this situation if all Yuroi was doing was pinning her down following making such a huge mistake. But his hand had picked the worst possible place to force a woman down. Smack under his palm, was Karen's right breast. Akimoto couldn't have believed it possible that Yuroi could have gone more pale than he had before now, but faced with the prospect that not only had he pinned down his love interest, but he was now groping her, he was now whiter than chalk.
With mind blurring speed, faster than even their Sensei could register, the medical/genjutsu kunoichi, who had very limited Taijutsu training in comparison to her two Taijutsu specialist comrades, squarely punched the young Gennin in the face. With force that even had the Jounin raising an eyebrow, Yuroi flew upwards and away, flying quite a distance, before landing with almost a sickening crunch, his body folding backwards on itself as he hit the ground headfirst, before his body joined him in a heap. The enclave was silent, even the blubbering Tono had frozen in fear. Karen easily picked herself off the floor with no person to pin her down, and stormed back to the campfire, but not before giving the heap across the way a scathing look that probably would kill if Yuroi was in any condition to have seen it. By the campfire, the fat Tono edged away as subtly as he could from the killing aura the girl emanated.
Sensei and student continued to stare at the silent heap that represented Yuroi, the Jounin just simply asking-"Do you think he's still alive over there?"
Aaaand that's a wrap, cya next time!
Also, since I am going to start doing this story now, I will point out now for those who have read my bleach story. I am going to try and create unique main charecters, Yoshirou of Bleach and Akimoto of Naruto will hopefully turn out as individuals apiece. Akimoto will be a headstrong and brash charecter, think Naruto like, but more intelligent and powerful, and also despite how i've depicted him with Karen, a womanizer, and a bad one at that. Also, i've hinted in the first chapter, but I have devised quite a dark past for him, suffice to say that he didn't have a very happy childhood, waaaiiiitt, this sounds like the generic formula for all of Naruto charecters... oh well, stick with a formula that works well!
If people think that Yoshirou and Akimoto are starting to sound alike at any time, please tell me! I want to keep their persona's seperate, but I may make mistakes, so don't hesitate to say! Also, please review, the stories lifeblood is reviews! Not only do they give me as the author a buzz to feel the story is read, but it helps me pick up on mistakes and improve my work, so any critical analysis are wanted!
(Also, who wants to guess who our Jounin instructor is? I've dropped several hints, from his attitude to his looks to his techs, so kudos to whomever guesses right!)
(1) Think alike to Lee's Shadow of the Dancing Leaf, that stupidly fast movement that perfectly follows a foe's movements almost like teleportation. Instead, the concept is closer to Shunshin no Jutsu, but more Taijutsu based.
(2) This is a self invented technique, namely Raiton: Thunder Imprisonment, or Thunder Goddess Imprisonment if you want to read it that way.