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 27:
The Leaves Surrounded By Sound: The Skeleton Raises, The Spider Falls.
Namiashi Raido sighed as he and Shiranui Genma were closing in on the Sound Four. The Sound Four went in all different directions when the two Konohagakure shinobi landed on the ground near them. Raido looked at Tayuya and Sakon while Genma, in his stance, was looking at Jirobo and Kidomaru. Raido was reaching for his Ebony Blade when the Sound Four began to have their Curse Marks spread on their body in different designs.
Genma acknowledged the Curse Marks on their bodies while Raido pulled out his black blade and looked at them fiercely. "This won't be like the time during the Invasion…"
"Just shut up and die, bitch!" Tayuya growled at the shinobi.
"Orochimaru's play things, eh? Don't take us shinobi of Konohagakure lightly…" Genma said as he saw Sakon threw a kunai at him which he countered with a senbon and the fighting began, blood soon filling the forest air.
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Inuzuka Kiba sniffed the air and looked shocked at what he smelt in the wind. "I can smell the scent of five shinobi including Sasuke. They are getting further from the place where I smell blood so I expect that had a fight with some shinobi, seems like two of them! What's the plan now?"
Shikamaru cursed at the situation. "It looks like people are assisting Sasuke… We could go slowly and proceed with caution and try to find out information from where the blood is coming from since that's where they must have fought these other ninja…"
Neji spoke, "But, then, Sasuke would have been past Fire Country by then."
"Looks like we will just have to pursue Sasuke and watch out for traps they have laying for us since they are already on their guard from fighting shinobi just a little bit earlier." Shikamaru said as Kiba smelt the air and stopped the group.
"Hey! The stench of the enemy is all over this place, guys!" Kiba yelled at them.
"Alright," Shikamaru said to them, "let's venture on with caution as there's already a trap in front of us." Shikamaru pointed to the tag on the tree, shocking Choji and Kiba. "There's others that are in a formation of the barrier seal, right, Neji?" Neji nodded. "This is a ninjutsu seal-type trap that activates when you step in the trap's boundaries. I found it out in one of my dad's books."
They journeyed on to where these wires were set up. They went through them, thinking that they hadn't step on any wire, only to have went through some of Kidomaru's spider web wires that were hidden even more than the second wire.
"If the wires are set up like this and their mission is a rushed one that must mean they are resting or it's a trap." Neji said as he made a handsign. Byakugan!Neji looked through the trees to see the Sound Four injured and resting near a series of trees. "Caught them, guys!"
"Alright, as soon as I make out a plan, we'll go get Sasuke back." Shikamaru said as they all smiled and nodded at him.
"Yeah," they said in unison, ready to get their fellow Leaf shinobi back.
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Shizune was healing Genma and Raido from when they fought the Sound Four.
"They are in a whole other league…" Genma said, breathing heavily as Shizune told him to not speak and started to heal him, unaware of the battles that would happen very soon.
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"We're losing time resting like this…" Sakon cursed as they lay near the trees.
"Yeah, but it can't be helped. We lose too much strength in Curse Level 2." Tayuya said.
"What pisses me of is how we can't use our bodies a lot," Jirobo replied.
Kidomaru was looking at the sky. "There wasn't another way around the situation. I few didn't do what we did, we could have been defeated and maybe even have lost Sasuke-sama." Kidomaru suddenly felt something tugging on his web-like threads, knowing someone or something was there.
Shikamaru looked out from his hiding place, wondering where the hell Sasuke was. "Where's Sasuke?"
Neji used his Byakugan to see Sasuke inside the coffin they carried. "He's inside that coffin, but he is alive. It has sealings on it that I can barely even try to see through. The thing is I doubt they would kill him for all that trouble of getting him."
"Yeah, you're right," Shikamaru said as he suddenly saw Sakon throw a kunai with paper bombs attached to it. His eyes widened as the explosion was when they barely escaped it, landing roughly on the ground.
"So, we caught some rabbits?" Jirobo asked, looking at the young shinobi, getting into stance.
Shikamaru put his hands up, "Wait! We came to negotiate, not to fight!"
Kidomaru glared at the two and moved his arms. "Then, what are these?"
Naruto and the others were revealed as Kiba threw his smoke bomb, covering the area with smoke. Kidomaru smirked and laughed at this attempt. "That smoke bomb was pointless! My strings, thinner than wire, but stronger and harder to detect, are laid out all over the area!" He showed the threads on his fingers, barely even seen like he said.
Shikamaru, then, realized something. "So, those traps were triple-wired, not double-wired. I didn't even know of such a technique."
Neji slightly smiled at the skill and intelligence of this opponent. Kidomaru was about to go into action when he felt his body was not able to move. "My body can't move?"
Shikamaru slightly smiled at the success of his technique. "You should know about techniques like these. Thanks for falling into our trap."
Sakon just looked at them, "Then, I have 'these' techniques…"
Suddenly, a shuriken hit Shikamaru from behind, dispelling his technique as Jirobo smirked and put his hands onto the ground. The ground started to rise around them as a dome began to surround them, trapping them inside.
"You guys go on ahead. I want to recover right now even if it's only a little." Jirobo spoke to them as they began to turn and head off.
"Catch up to us as soon as you're done." Kidomaru said as they left.
Naruto was angry at being trapped as he tried to do a Rasengan, but his chakra ended up vanishing, not even becoming the chakra sphere.
Kiba made a handsign and did a Passing Fang on the dome, only for it to repair itself. Kiba poited this out to Neji. "Hey!"
"I saw it." Neji replied as he did his Byakugan and saw that their chakra was disappearing. "This isn't good. Our chakra is being sucked away."
They began to feel weaker as Kiba got angrier at the situation, giving Akamaru a soldier pill. "I'm going to break this down before all our chakra runs out!" Akamaru and him did Beast Mimicry and did Passing Fang Over Fang repeatedly at the dome. Neji looked carefully at the dome's walls as Kiba cursed. "Dammit, it just keeps regenerating!" Shikamaru, also, looked carefully at the walls and got into his thinking stance as Choji looked serious at his teammate and began to eat chips.
"Why are you eating chips at a time like this?" Kiba yelled at Choji as Naruto began to notice Shikamaru was planning something.
Shikamaru smirked and Choji had stopped eating his chips. "Sorry to ask this, Neji, but use your remaining chakra to examine the walls."
Neji got the plan right away, nodded and examined the dome until he found a place in the dome that wasn't really healing and threw a kunai at the place. "Right there is the place."
"Choji, whenever you are ready." Shikamaru said as Choji made his handsign and replied, "I'm ready!"
He expanded with his technique and rushed at the weakened spot, destroying the dome, shocking Jirobo.
Shikamaru smiled at Choji, "You're the best, Choji." Choji smiled and laughed in happiness at the compliment as Jirobo glared at them.
"Alright, time to get this guy!" Kiba yelled out and charged.
"Stop!" Neji yelled at the eager Inuzuka, who stopped. "Even though it's five against one, we shouldn't underestimate his powers. If we stay here too long, then Sasuke would have already crossed the border."
Shikamaru cursed, "Even though I think we shouldn't, we should split up and some of us go after Sasuke."Shikamaru made the handsign for his technique. "You act as co-leader and go with Kiba and Choji to Sasuke, Neji. Naruto and I will take care of this guy!"
"That shadow bind technique again?" Jirobo laughed at the tensed Shikamaru. "You're just a one-trick pony and you're the leader?" He laughed even more as Choji glared fiercely at the big guy. "Such a foolish leader that thinks he can defeat me by splitting the team up. You'll be so easy to beat if your leader is such a shadow-loving loser."
Kiba was about to strike, getting more furious, but Choji stood still and fierce. "He's mine! I'll take him on!" Shikamaru was shocked by Choji's outburst and looked as Choji gave him a bag of soldier pills. "Those can heal you and the others, Shikamaru. I have my trump card with me, so you don't have to worry. Just go, or we'll be exactly what he said we are if we don't go get Sasuke!"
Shikamaru opened the bag, "Everyone, take some; it's a gift from Choji."
Naruto smiled at Choji, "Thanks, Choji!"
The others began to take some and eat as Naruto approached them and did the same until they put the rest up. Shikamaru looked at Choji, "You better come back to us, Choji."
"Alright," Choji answered back as he stared fiercely at Jirobo and they left.
Jirobo charged at Choji as the Akamichi put a green pill from his Three Colored Pill set and held Jirobo back. Jirobo was slightly shocked when Choji started to push him back and, then, lifted and threw him. Choji smirked as he breathed heavily and felt pain in his chest.
Damn, I didn't think the first pill would hurt this much!
Choji pulled out some stringed kunais and put them around his body as he used his Expansion Technique and rushed toward the rising up Jirobo. Jirobo raised some earth to block the attack as a shield but he was shocked when Choji went right through the shield. He grabbed Choji, becoming slightly scratched by the kunais surrounding the genin. Curse markings began to cover part of Jirobo as he looked angrily at Choji.
"Don't be so confident, you pile of trash!" He pushed Choji back with a very strong palm thrust. "You think you're strong when you're probably the weakest of them all, the one left behind. How can you hope to defeat me when your teammates left you? You're their weakest link!"
Choji pulled out a yellow pill and put it into his mouth as he looked even fiercer at Jirobo. Chakra began to strengthen around Choji as Jirobo merely rushed at him. Choji felt the chakra surround him as he had the fiercest grin on his face.
"Let's go, fatass!" Choji charged as Jirobo did the same.
"That fits you more than me," Jirobo replied as Choji expanded just his arm and pushed Jirobo into the ground. Jirobo growled and punched him into the air. Choji looked down at his opponent and made a handsign.
"Take this!" Choji used his Mega Expansion Technique, becoming as big as a mountain, laying on Jirobo. Choji was totally shocked when Jirobo had lifted him from the ground with one arm, now in Level 2.
"I can't believe I have to use Level 2 on such a piece of trash." Jirobo pushed Choji into the air with his palm and Choji landed on the ground, breathing heavily, staring at Level 2 Jirobo. "Now, I am ten times my original strength. You don't stand a chance against me now!"
Choji looked up weakly as Jirobo picked him up easily and shoved him down fiercely, making him cough out blood. Jirobo chuckled, "I can't even get really any chakra out of you anymore." Choji reached for his bag of chips, but was stopped by Jirobo's foot as Jirobo took the bag of chips. "Ah, your last bite?" He dropped the chip into his open mouth and crushed it with his teeth. "You were just a useless pawn to be sacrificed, but don't worry, I'll take care of those teammates that left you behind. Now, you can die, you worthless fatass!"
Choji pulled out his last pill and put it into his mouth as Jirobo raised his arm.
Sorry, Shikamaru, but I have to defeat this guy even if I lose my life doing exact that!
"It's too late, fat ass!" Jirobo yelled at Choji, his hand about to hit the Akamichi, but it didn't even hit him.
Choji was behind Jirobo, butterfly wings of chakra sprouting out of his back as he transferred all the chakra to his left hand, surrounding it in blue-purple chakra. Jirobo turned, pulling back a fist to punch only for it to be caught by Choji's right hand.
"Useless, I'm 100 times stronger than I was before." Choji said, a serious look in his eyes. He, then, sent an elbow into Jirobo, sending him into the ground. He appeared over Jirobo, looking seriously and fiercely at him. "That blow was for eating the last potato chip in my bag." He raised his chakra-surrounded arm and looked at the slightly scared Jirobo. "This one will be even greater! I can't forgive you at all for calling me a worthless fat ass! But even worse than that! You insulted my best friend and that…" He moved his fist down and crushed Jirobo with the chakra infused punch from hell "… is unforgivable!"
Jirobo's curse markings disappeared as Choji, breathing heavily, fell onto the ground from the pill's effects. He struggled up as he realized he had won, holding onto the tree for support as he looked at the tree before him. He began to smile and tears fell from his face as he remembered his dad talking about him gaining friends.
Dad… I have made a lot of friends…
Choji stood there, looking at the arrow to point him into the direction they went, but felt his chest begin to hurt him extremely and he felt onto the tree for support. Then, he went into sleep.
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Shikamaru saw a butterfly pass them by. Naruto saw how Shikamaru reacted.
"Are you alright?"
Shikamaru looked ahead, "Yeah, and I think I've got a plan to end this since we are being underestimated and they think Jirobo's coming back since there have been no traps at all."
Naruto and the others smiled as Kiba yelled his thoughts, "Well, tell us!"
Shikamaru chuckled slightly, "Alright, here it is…"
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Jirobo appeared before the rest of the Sound Four as Sakon looked at Jirobo, "What took you so long?"
"Sorry… it took some time to take all of those bastards' chakra away." Jirobo replied as Tayuya looked at him.
"Fatty, don't be so fucking slow! Hurry up and carry the coffin! That's your job, you stupid dickhead!" Tayuya said to Jirobo to which he just replied, "Okay," shocking everyone there.
"Are you okay? You seem obedient today. " Kidomaru asked him as Jirobo just said, "Huh?" Kidomaru replied, "That means I'm not giving you the coffin, fake Jirobo!"
The fake Jirobo cursed and pulled out a kunai as Kidomaru threw the coffin at Tayuya, who caught it in her hands. "Go on ahead, you two!"
They went on ahead as Kidomaru started to make his web in his mouth. "Jirobo always warns Tayuya about her language."
The fake turned into Shikamaru, "I see…"
Kidomaru shot a web at Shikamaru, trapping him onto a tree. The others begin to appear as Kidomaru formed a big web and trapped the Naruto clones. Kiba and Akamaru went to strike Kidomaru in mid-air, only for Kidomaru to dodge it by swinging on his string of webbing. Neji went to strike Kidomaru while he was distracted, only for Kidomaru to barely swing out of the way at the last minute. Kidomaru smirked as he began to wrap Neji with his web into a cocoon. One of the Naruto's tried to cut the web but found it didn't do anything.
Kidomaru made weapons from his now spit out web of chakra and spit. He started to attack clone by clone until none of them were left. He was shocked until he heard something from behind and felt a Rasengan knock him onto the ground. Kidomaru got up, surprising Naruto, as a golden shell fell from his body.
His jutsu can be armor as well? Naruto thought, internally cursing, as Kidomaru looked fiercely at Naruto and, then, grinned wickedly.
He pulled one of his threads he placed around Naruto's arms, pulling him down, only for Neji to save him.
"How were you able…" Kidomaru asked.
"Things made by chakra can be destroyed by chakra, so they're useless against my Gentle Fist." Neji looked at them. "You guys… go on and I'll take care of him." He looked at Naruto. "Naruto…" Naruto looked at Neji. "You have better eyes than I do. Sasuke is currently… trapped in the darkness. Hurry up and go!"
Naruto nodded, "See you, Neji!" The others said their goodbyes as Neji had his Byakugan ready and used Gentle Fist to take care of Kidomaru's attacks.
"So, you're the strongest." Kidomaru said as Neji merely stared fiercely at him. "I'll just toy with you and, then, kill you!" Neji glared fiercer at him as Kidomaru launched many shots of chakra webs at him. Neji was caught by one of them and Kidomaru grinned at the situation. "No, you can't use that Gentle Fist of yours. Die!" he launched a spear of chakra web and Neji merely smirked as he sent chakra through his body and dodged the spear.
Neji appeared right in front of him. "I can emit chakra from all of my chakra points on my body. It's game over." He was in his stance for Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palms. He began to send his elegant, swift strikes at Kidomaru as he looked to see him surrounded in the golden skin from earlier.
Kidomaru decided to go into the trees as he sent a kunai down. Only to distract Neji from the shuriken approaching him, but Neji did rotation to not get hit by the shuriken. He, then, threw a kunai in Kidomaru's direction, shocking the spider-like shinobi. Kidomaru grinned as he revealed himself, curse markings surrounding him. "Looks like I have to get serious…"He, then, summoned a spider as little spiders came out of a giant cocoon, surrounding Neji, who was struggling to get them away with his rotation.
Kidomaru laughed as he launched one of his weapons at Neji. "Die!" Neji omitted chakra to allow him to move away from the attack making Kidomaru curse. Neji cut the sticky web threads as Kidomaru hid in the trees and launched attacks in all directions. Neji merely dodged all the attacks except some strikes hit as Kdiomaru grinned, launching more attacks and spiders until Neji fell onto the ground with daggers of Kidomaru's in his back and around him. Kidomaru, then, launched down a giant thing of his sticky chakra webbing and some more daggers as he saw Neji fall and get up again.
"Time for the game to end," Kidomaru spoke as he changed into his Level 2 form and pulled an arrow made of his unique chakra and launched it at Neji. Neji, his hair long and flowing down, was now against a tree shocking Kidomaru. Neji had his teeth clenched from the pain of the arrow as Kidomaru noticed the chakra surrounding Neji and found out Neji was using chakra to deflect the arrow. He smirked and pulled back another arrow as he released it, knocking Neji's headband from his forehead, revealing his Cursed Bird Seal. He saw the thread, catching on to Kidomaru, who cursed at his situation.
Kidomaru rose above the trees, adding spin to his next arrow and released it as his final act to beat Neji. Neji breathed, thinking about how hard it was to beat this shinobi. "I give up. I won't be able to dodge it anyway."
Neji was hit by the arrow and hit his back to a tree as he generated chakra to his palm and grabbed the thread tightly. Kidomaru was shocked as the Gentle Fist attack damaged some of his organs, but he was still able to move. Neji generated chakra into one of his hands, cutting the thread on the arrow, moving away from the tree. Kidomaru kept falling as Neji rushed toward him, hitting him with a Gentle Fist strike, making him revert to his regular state, falling to the ground.
"So, you took that strike…" Kidomaru said weakly, seeing the wound on Neji. "Too bad you're going to die because of it!" Kidomaru laughed
"You think I will, but no one can control destiny!" Neji said, starting to fall onto the ground, badly weakened as Kidomaru chuckled.
"You might die here"
"I won't die so easily…"
Kidomaru smirked, blood streaks went down his mouth to his chin. "Bluff all you want… You can't stop the tides at all. Sasuke-sama… became a part of the Sound on his accord."
Neji smiled, "No… there is someone who can see and find Sasuke in the darkness and save him from within."
Kidomaru looked at him like he was a child. "Sasuke-sama joined with Orochimaru. No one can save-"
"He can!" Neji said as he smiled and coughed blood and fell onto the ground, causing Kidomaru to chuckle; but he ended up coughing blood as well, lying on the ground, dead.
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Orochimaru screamed in horror, blood flooded from his hands that were looking all cut up. "Where's is Sasuke-kun, Kabuto?"
Kabuto looked serious at the shower curtain that separated the two. "We have plenty of bodies, even mine to use."
"It has to be Sasuke-kun! Do you know how long I have waited for this to be in my grasp?" He screamed at Kabuto, angry at what was happening.
Kabuto yelled at Orochimaru, "This is an emergency! The curse the Third gave you was stronger than we thought! If you don't transfer, you could lose everything… even your life!" Kabuto heard Orochimaru puke out blood and started to leave. "Leave everything to me! I'll make sure Sasuke gets here and you have the best host body until you can get Sasuke's."
Orochimaru glared at the wall. Curse you,Third Hokage…
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Kabuto looked at Kimimaro as he rose up and walked out of the compound. "I'll go get the dream vessel, Uchiha Sasuke-san." Kabuto just nodded, hearing the screams of Orochimaru's new host body before he was taken over.
He'll have to wait a few years, but we will be prepared by then…