What if Naruto had a hidden power that came to be when he fought Mizuki, a bloodline he never knew of? Then he would be known as the Kaze no Arashi, the Wind Storm!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
Kaze no Arashi
Chapter 12:
The Beginning of the End: The Curse and Bloodline Awaken!
Zaku smirked as Lee and Naruto charged into the battle. "Let me handle, blondie, Dosu. You can handle weirdo right there." Dosu knew he meant Rock Lee. "That means useless is left to you, Kin."
Kin sighed, "I would get her…" She ran fast toward Sakura only for Lee to see this.
Tree Leaf Hurricane! The kick landed right on Kin's cheek, causing her to fly back into a tree. "I won't let you harm Sakura-chan!"
Naruto looked slightly to see the grinning Dosu approaching Lee, fist coiled back. Naruto's eyes widened as he yelled. "Lee, dodge!"
Lee quickly got back to paying attention as he dodged before the punch was thrown and coiled his own fist back to land a fast punch on the sound ninja. Dosu dodged the punch and was about to strike when Lee put his fist on the ground and shoved up a giant part of a tree trunk. This shocked everyone there at how strong Rock Lee was.
"I know there's some trick to your attacks. I know that I can't simply dodge as I did just earlier all the time or you'll hit me with that jutsu you used on the person wearing glasses." Lee said, rocks scattering around him from the force he used to pull the structure from the ground. At least I have Naruto to help me out of trouble if things get very ugly. After all, there's still three of them and two of us excluding Sakura-chan, who looks worse than anybody here besides Sasuke.
"I might have to get serious here…" Lee said, staring fiercely at the Oto ninja, seeing Naruto charge into action.
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"Argh! We can't find any weaklings at all!" yelled a frustrated Ino as Shikamaru sighed, irritated by his female devil-like teammate.
"I told you already; the only team that we could probably be weaker than us is Naruto's team." Shikamaru said as Ino glared at him fiercely in pure anger.
"Baka! Forehead Girl and Naruto are losers, but Sasuke's a genius!" Ino yelled at Shikamaru. "There's no way Sasuke could lose!"
Choji looked shocked at what he saw. "Sasuke's out cold…" This caused Ino to glare at him. "And Sakura is fighting."
This made Ino say a not-very-intelligent "Huh?" as Shikamaru sighed at his teammate.
She's always so troublesome… Shikamaru thought as he looked at the sky, wanting to just see the clouds roll by. He sighed again. I probably won't be able to relax until after the exam is over… More troublesome things…
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"Neji-kun! Lee isn't here! He must have had trouble getting here! You know he's always on time no matter what." Ten-Ten said to her teammate. She gasped as she thought. "Could he have encountered some enemies?"
Neji smiled, trying to make Ten-Ten feel more relaxed. "That's unlikely… Either way, we'll go search for Lee."
Ten-Ten nodded, "Yeah."
The duo raced into the branches of the tree, searching for their teammate.
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Sorry, Gai-sensei… It seems that it has come the time to use that… He looked at Dosu, unraveling the wrappings around his arms a little. I am protecting someone precious to me!
Lee raced with speeds so unknown that Dosu was frozen in shock as the boy kicked Dosu up into the air and appeared behind Dosu. He stared to wrap his bandages around the sound genin in a fast pace before he wrapped his arms around him, sending them both headfirst into the hard ground.
Zaku cursed as he dodged Naruto's punch and started making handsigns. Shit… He can't protect himself at all like that!
Take this. Front Lotus! Lee thought as he and Dosu collided with the hard ground, dust appearing after their collision.
Zaku smiled. "Looks like I made it in time!"
Lee looked confused as he raced back to guard Sakura. Naruto took the time to make a few handsigns and blow in air. Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere! He let the blasts of air loose only for Zaku to pull out both of his hands and smirk as strong slices of wind hit the blasts Naruto made, cancelling them out.
Lee was shocked when Dosu rose out of the pile of dirt Zaku made. "That was a terrifying technique… Still did quite a bit of damage considering I landed on a soft sponge of dirt." He looked at Lee, raising his arm with the metal amplifier on it. "My turn now…"
He rushed at the weakened Lee who couldn't move as Naruto saw this yet he was still exhausted from the battle with Orochimaru. Lee dodged the technique because he had no choice as he would have had the fist collide on its own if he hadn't dodged it. Lee was shocked when he felt disoriented, not being able to see Dosu clearly, merely seeing a smudge-like being in the shape of Dosu.
"My techniques will show you that even if your moves are at high speed, mine are at the speed of sound. I'll show you the wall you can't pass with just hard work!"
Lee was shaking, throwing out bile from his mouth, his ear bleeding, causing Sakura to yell his name in concern. Naruto rushed out to Lee, only to be stopped by Kin and Zaku.
"We won't let you interfere, loser." Zaku said with a smirk.
"You can't dodge my techniques at all," Dosu said with a twisted smile.
"What did…" Sakura said in thought, trying to figure out what he did to Lee.
"It's sound. Even if you dodge my fist, sound will hit you for sure."
Sakura's eyes widened in realization, "You use sound vibrations and chakra to target Lee's ear to disrupt his sense of balance."
"Correct," Dosu said as Zaku smirked.
"Taijutsu is useless against us, even your high powered techniques. I can control air pressure to do things you can only dream of since you seem to only use exceedingly powerful taijutsu." Zaku smirked while Lee shook in anger, frustration and from the sound wave effects.
"Now, your turn," Dosu said racing to Sakura.
Damn it, move! Damn it! Lee thought, forcing his body to move in front of Sakura shocking everyone.
"Hey! Where did that blonde brat go!" Zaku yelled as his eyes widened at the serious looking Naruto approaching Dosu, wind whipping fiercely around his fist. "Dosu!"
Dosu just hit Lee, causing the ninja to scream and fall into unconsciousness as Naruto was right behind him.
"Say goodnight, you filthy son of a bitch!" Naruto yelled out, his teeth forming a dam causing a very surprised Dosu to turn and be hit down to the ground with Naruto's fist of wind.
Naruto pounded the ground in defeat at what he saw when the smoke cleared around him. A bunch of shredded and torn tree stumps. Damn it, he used substitution on me! I wasn't focused at all.
He saw Sakura in front of him, eyes wide at seeing Dosu, angrily approaching Naruto from behind.
"Naruto!" She shrieked before deciding on something as she thought. I have to show them I am strong. I can't rely on Sasuke-kun, Naruto or even Lee. I have to show them I can stand on my own feet! I can be strong! I will be strong! I am… STRONG! Shannaro!
She channeled all of her chakra into her right fist, glaring fiercely at Dosu. She also sent chakra to her feet to increase her speed, rushing past Naruto and landing the hurtful punch right into Dosu's bandaged face. Dosu was knocked back toward Kin and Zaku, shocking everyone there, as they all stared in disbelieve at the smirking, huffing kunoichi with long, pink hair and determined yet weakening emerald eyes, her fist in a stance of victory.
"Shannaro, bastard…" She said, softly in a tone that meant she knew she did good for once. She fell into unknown arms as she felt a prescence that made her shiver. It was the darkest feeling she felt since Zabuza, since that Orochimaru. She looked up, thinking she would see Sasuke, seeing his cargo shorts, only to gasp at the face she saw on the boy's face. It was a wicked face; it was the face of Orochimaru. She only thought of the demented Sennin when she saw that face, twisted dark marks all over his body, causing her life to fall into the abyss.
"Sasuke-kun…" she said in a weak hopeful voice hoping for him to glare at her and tell her he didn't want a date with her and that she was useless to the team. She didn't care what he said, as long as he was Sasuke, the Sasuke she knew.
"Sakura…" A dark voice said looking at her with no expression whatsoever, "who did this to you?"
Sasuke was gone…
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"You always act recklessly, Kisuke," Hikari yelled at the boy ahead of her. "What's so amazing about this Namikaze guy?"
Washimura sighed as he was in the middle of his teammates. I better summon an eagle to scout ahead. He bit his finger and went through the series of handsigns that were needed before he put his hand on a branch as an eagle screeched when it was summoned. "Go ahead, Washima and come back when you see something."
"Very well, Washimura," the eagle spoke as it flew ahead of him and his teammates.
Washimura picked up pace as he was falling behind. He looked to see that Kisuke was going even faster than before and he sighed in reply. Don't get too worked up, Kisuke. You won't be able to fight like that. He heard his eagle caw as it approached and told him about the many ninjas up ahead. This may get really dirty, really fast.
Kisuke approached the area he knew the Namikaze was at as he pulled out a kunai and stared fiercely at a group of ninjas before silently flying down to the ground and putting the kunai to one of their necks.
This person screamed before Kisuke had covered their mouth; his teammates were behind him.
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Ino was frightened. First, she was watching Lee and Sakura face down the Oto shinobi and Naruto had just came out only to have an unknown shinobi grab her from behind and put a kunai to her neck. Her other teammates stared in shock only for Shikamaru to smirk in success.
"Shadow Imitation Technique: Success," Shikamaru said, freezing the unknown shinobi, his teammates watching carefully at the Nara.
"Shadow Imitation, eh," the unknown shinobi said as he looked at Shikamaru with piercing blue eyes. "You guys must be the Ino-Shika-Cho trio's kids since you look a lot like they did in the textbook we had at the academy."
Shikamaru's eyes widened. Dawn it, they know our techniques! They could easily defeat us right now! I have to come out with a plan quickly!
"I wish you shinobi no harm and neither do my teammates." The unknown shinobi spoke in honesty. "I'll even tell you my name and my teammates if you tell me yours and your teammates'."
Shikamaru looked at the shinobi that wore all black and still held Ino. His eyes shown with honesty just like his voice spoke full of it. Shikamaru sighed at this troublesome situation. "Fine, just release our teammate for us."
"That will be a problem since I just don't want to release her." The shinobi spoke seriously, shocking everyone. "After all, she has the beauty of an angel and I can't help but want to keep her in my arms."
This was where everyone face-faulted to the ground as the shinobi released the blushing Ino who stood in shock at the shinobi, forgetting about Sasuke and Sakura for a moment.
"What is your name, hime," the shinobi said, waggling his eyebrow, causing Ino to giggle and his female teammate to get a tick mark.
"Yamanaka Ino, yours?" The blonde girl he once held asked as the shinobi stared at her with mesmerizing blue eyes.
"Bushido Kisuke," the shinobi said, his spikey hair flowing a little in the air.
"Nara Shikamaru," sighed the Nara, hand behind his head.
"Washimura," the shinobi with glasses and a cloak of black said, "I have no last name to speak of."
"Akamichi Choji," Choji said, munching on the little chips he had left.
"Utsukishi Hikari," a kunoichi wearing a short skirt and a short sleeved black shirt said as her long hair flowed from side to side, her silver-grey eyes mesmerizing everyone there.
"Now, what's going on here," Kisuke said as he saw them battle. "We'll take care of the sound ninja." He tossed Team 10 a scroll that they had. "You can have this scroll. I found it on the way here so you can keep it. We don't need it since we already got our two. Now go."
"This is troublesome, but thanks." Shikamaru said as he and his teammates raced toward the tower, luckily holding the scroll they needed.
"Now, this is interesting," Washimura said, looking at the risen Sasuke, marks surrounding his body. "Let's see what happens next, shall we?"
"Lets," Hikari said, looking at the battle about to be finished.
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Neji stood about to say something, when Sasuke stood, an evil aura about him. I'll let the Uchiha and his teammates settle this match between them and the Sound ninja. He looked down at the passed-out Lee. Then we'll grab Lee.
Ten-Ten looked down at the field of battle, silently taking everything in. Lee…
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Power… I can feel it inside me!
Darkness… I can feel it around me!
I was weak… Now I am strong!
Black… Where I will go!
Snake… He gave me this gift, this power!
Mark… This mark is granting my wishes!
Power… It is mine now! Mine now!
Kill… I can kill him now
Nii-san… I can kill Itachi now! I can kill Itachi with this power!
Kill… I will kill Itachi! I will conquer him, destroy him for what he did to me! He deserves it
Power! I have power!
Sasuke was awoken, marks and smoke surrounding his body like a cloak. His eyes were piercing black holes that tore through anyone he stared at. He set Sakura down and looked at Naruto, smirking at Naruto's shocked look. "Dope…"
Naruto shook to reality, hearing Sasuke's voice. But is this really Sasuke… Naruto shook before staring at his rival, forming a fake smile. "Hey, teme, you up?"
Sasuke smirked evilly, "Yes, dope, I am." He raised his hands to look at them, still smirking at the power he felt inside his shell, his body. "He gave it to me." This confused Sakura and Naruto. "I am an avenger. Even if I must eat the Devil's fruit, I must go down this path to gain power." He looked at Zaku and the other Sound shinobi. "You said you did this to her?"
Zaku smirked, answering Sasuke's question as he fiercely looked at the Oto ninja, his mark spreading like a fungus on his body, evil black markings covering his body. Dosu shook at the power Sasuke was sending out as Naruto was shocked at Sasuke, huffing out breaths since he was running out of chakra.
"No need to get scared, Dosu," Zaku grinned as he held his hands together and send his palms out toward Sasuke, causing Dosu to shake even more and his eyes to widen.
"No, Zaku," Dosu yelled only for Zaku to smirk and laugh as a gigantic blast of air went to Sasuke and his teammates.
Extreme Decapitating Airwaves! Dust and rubble filled the air, causing Kin and Dosu to duck from the attack. Zaku smirked even more when he saw no one there, only to see one genin with wind coating his fist.
"Take this!" Naruto yelled, almost his entire chakra supply put into his fist as it hit Zaku, blasting him away when Sasuke caught him with a vicious glare and creepy smile.
"You thought you had me?" Sasuke punched the sound ninja back, spit landing out of his mouth, as he was pushed back toward Kin and Dosu.
Sasuke made handsigns and blew out many things of fire. Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique! Zaku smirked, blowing the fire out as he got up with his air blasts, only to be assaulted by a volley of shuriken throwing stars.
Sasuke zoomed in toward Zaku, causing Dosu to yell out, "Zaku, below!"
Zaku was surprised when Sasuke gripped his arms from behind, tugging them roughly, causing him to cry out in pain. A wicked grin appeared on Sasuke's twisted face; no, it was Orochimaru's face.
That's what Sakura thought. This isn't Sasuke… This can't be Sasuke… No… no, no, no, no, NO!
Naruto pulled up from the ground, wounded and weak, not able to make it in time to stop Sasuke. "Damn it, Sasuke! This isn't you!"
Sasuke ignored his teammate, grinning like an evil villain. "Let's see how you feel when your precious arms you use so much are torn from your body! I'll show you my power!"
"Sasuke-kun! Stop!" Sakura ran which caused Naruto to widen his eyes, fearing Sasuke might lash at Sakura on accident.
"Damn it! I'm so useless!" Naruto cried out getting almost everyone's attention, his hand outstretched like he wanted to get to the finish line. "Why now? Why now? Let me show everyone how strong I can be! Let me stop Sasuke! Let me stop my friend!"
Naruto heard a vicious pop, a scream and, then, his own scream of "Damn it, let me show them my strength!" His cry was rewarded as chakra chains appeared out of his fingers, winding around Sasuke and tearing him away from Zaku.
Sasuke glared with pure intensity at his teammate, "NARUTO! You dumbass, let me finish these bags of trash!" Then, he felt familiar arms around him, the chains fading from him.
"Sasuke, this isn't you," Sakura said, crying into Sasuke's back. "Stop it! Just… stop…"
Sasuke looked at her as Naruto fell like Zaku, smiling sadly at his attempt to help his teammate and confused about why he had sprouted chains from his fingers. His eyes closed, smiling still as he saw Sasuke's marks recede and he and Sakura fall onto the ground.
"Sasuke… We cannot defeat you…" Dosu said, pulling out his scroll and pushing it toward Sasuke and Sakura. "Take this as a gift." He grabbed Zaku and went by Kin. "For now, we will go, but next time, we will face you head on, we won't run."
"Wait," Sakura yelled out, Dosu turning his head to look at her. "Why was this done to Sasuke-kun by Orochimaru? What does he want with Sasuke-kun!"
"I don't know," Dosu said, turning away. "We were merely told to kill him." What are you planning, Orochimaru… Dosu went on his way as Neji dropped down from the tree branch to look at them and approach Lee with Ten-Ten.
Ten-Ten approached Sakura and Sasuke and grabbed Lee as she started to shake him uncontrollably. "Lee, snap out of it!" She yelled as Lee awoke, causing Sakura and Sasuke to sweatdrop at what was happening.
"Ten-Ten, why are you here? Where are those sound ninja?" Lee asked, looking around.
"We came here to save you. Why did you have to do something reckless?" Ten-Ten scolded her teammate as he got up and looked as Sakura and Sasuke approached him.
"Lee, I want to thank you for your help. Thanks to you, I was somehow able to awaken and find a way to get stronger." Lee had tears in his eyes and Naruto started to awaken again, still not strong enough to move very much as he listened to the words spoken.
"It was not me that did in the Sound ninjas; they beat me to a pulp! Sasuke was the one to stop them apparently from what I heard. The Uchiha Clan must be strong…" Sasuke was shocked. How strong were those Sound ninja?
"Sakura…" Sakura looked at Lee who smiled at her, "The lotus blooms twice… The next time you see me I will be a stronger man. I swear!"
"Yeah…" Sakura smiled at him.
Ten-Ten looked at Lee and, then, Sakura as she sighed and went to Neji.
"We better get going Lee. Neji is waiting for us over there." Ten-Ten said, walking to Neji as Lee nodded.
"Right, Ten-Ten!" He said his goodbyes to Sasuke and Sakura and turned to walk only to spot a weak Naruto, trying to rise from the ground, teeth clenched, only to fall onto the ground again, ignored by everyone around like he was a worthless bug. Lee smiled sadly, seeing him in Naruto's place.
"Come on, Lee!"
"I'm coming, Ten-Ten!" He took one more glance at Naruto before going toward Ten-Ten and Neji and taking off.
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"You guys go to the tower with our two scrolls and wait for me. I'll be there when I'm done. I want to talk to this Namikaze." Kisuke said, looking deeply at Naruto.
"Alright," Hikari said as she and Washimura agreed and took off.
Kisuke got out of the bushes, unknown to Sasuke and Sakura, who were turned talking to each other, when Kisuke grabbed Naruto and pulled him up from the ground and covered his mouth from speaking. "I won't harm you or your teammates, Namikaze. I only wish to speak to you and not your teammates Sakura and this Uchiha Sasuke."
Naruto nodded as Kisuke released his grip, only to see a rushing Sakura and Sasuke, ready to hit him. He sighed and yelled, "I'm only here to talk to the blonde!"
Sasuke and Sakura stopped to look at Kisuke as he talked to Naruto.
"How are you the son of the Fourth?" This caused Naruto's eyes to turn into the likeness of Minato Namikaze's. Kisuke looked at him. "I see now…" This caused Naruto to look confused. "Your eyes hold your father and yourself. Sometimes, you seem like what I think the Fourth is, a serious shinobi. I never saw the Fourth Hokage… I only heard stories from the Kage in my village."
"Then, how do you know my father?" Naruto asked, only to see that Kisuke's eyes turned into black holes of sadness and emptiness, like his own.
"Your father killed my clan..."