I'M BACK BABY!
Hey Hey guys and gals!-if ye be here-how have you guys been? Good? Bad? Either way, I hope this chapter will bring a smile 'cross yer face. Oh, and the polls, are in.
You perverted bastards!
I love you.
Yes, there will be a lemon but it will be at the end. With all the girls that shall be.
Also, some of you think that I am streaming far too close to the Naruto story line and am making Naruto too Naruto-like. Well, ye of little faith, do you not know, I will bring forth a wave of awesome crap dreamed only with crack. Why do you think I said something about hell chasing Naruto? Or a 'world after his power' in the summary?
This beast of a tale be but a wee tot, you lot expect too much of an infant, but it shall be like a behemoth, rising from its slumber, out to capture your imagination.
Alright, enough of my jabber, I own nothing, not a thing, so enjoy:^)
It Awakens
Naruto and the others were currently making their way across the wide waters that would lead to the land of waves. Where one might think that they would be ecstatic to be on their mission, nearing its completion, that person would be very misled. In fact, the trio of genin were on edge, having been attacked earlier by two missing nin. Both had a sharp chain gauntlet between them, wrapping that weapon 'round Kakashi, tearing him to a shredded pulp of a mess, staining the ground crimson.
Of course, they failed to account for him being a jounin-a rightly good one at that!-as he easily used a log in place of him and overcame the two. After a rough interrogation, and a message sent back to the village to retrieve the two, they were back on their way.
But that's not was set them all on edge.
Someone of some manner or other had hired the demon brothers of the mist to attack and kill Tazuna, not mere bandits or thugs as this mission was rated. Now, it was a B-rank, possibly an A-rank mission, which according to Kakashi, they were not ready for.
Naruto begged to differ.
He argued that just because some punk nin were trying to kill Tazuna doesn't mean some great lord or emperor was going to come down on them, it wasn't as if entire armies were chasing the man. Plus, Naruto had added after, he and the others had dealt with the nin well just as Kakashi decided to jump right back in and finish it, tying the men up.
Reluctant, but eventually, the Hatake gave into the boys persistence.
Even with all those words, it did not settle this feeling of dread that began to broil up in them, ready to spill at the drop of a pin. Even Naruto thought that something loomed before them, the closer they came towards the shore the more it increased. And, if he didn't have his sword, his zampakto, if he didn't have the strength of Walter White by his side, he'd e too frightened to fight such enemies without falling flat on his butt.
Shortly there after, they arrived in wave country.
It was a forested land at first, large despite what Kakashi had told them, and with the fact it was called wave country. Naruto had assumed that it would have been more or less, well, water. Then again, it was surrounded by the stuff, so there was that, but maybe the farther they got in, the more water they would see.
They got off the boat and headed in, hoping to get back to Tazuna's village before anymore attacks were wrought unto them-though it was likely someone of a higher ranking was going to be waiting for them for another ambush.
As they walked, Naruto heard a rustle in the brush and-without thinking, threw a kunai at the sound.
The rustle stopped.
"Why'd you do that for?" Sakura asked.
Naruto realized that the rest were staring at him expectantly.
"I thought I heard another-"
The rustle was heard once more, and he instantly threw another kunai in its direction, eyes gleaming with a serious stare that Kakashi only recognized.
"There."
His lips moved on their own accord, and so too were his feet as he stepped closer towards the silence of were the rustle was once before. His hand struck out, grasping something beneath the shrub, and he yanked it out.
"Naruto!" Sakura screeched, "you just killed a bunny!"
The boy continued to stare at the dead hare with something bordering interest, sensing something was off about the white rabbit. Despite the glare in Sakura's condescending eyes, and the disbelief in the rests, he continued to look the hare over.
Kakashi watched Naruto with concernment in his gaze, wondering when those eyes began to show. The eyes of someone who's been hardened by battle, the eyes of someone, who now unafflicted by death, could track and feel out a situation as the boy was now. He wore the same gaze as someone who had seen too much.
But that was when things went down.
Just as Naruto's eyes lit up with realization, he heard the high pitched whistle of a sword being swung in the air at a high speed.
"Everyone! Duck!" He shouted out without thought, dropping the hare and leaping and tackling Sakura down while Kakashi tackled Sasuke and Tazuna to the ground. The blade flew past just as they smacked against the dirt, a moment later they heard a loud THUMP as the blade sunk its edge into a tree.
When they got back up, a man stood there atop the handle of the massive blade, facing away from them, dressed in regular sandles with stripped baggy pants, a headband strapped at an odd angle across his spiked black hair.
"So," his chilly voice, filled with malevolent intent began, "the copy cat Kakashi Hatake, guiding a bridge builder across the land, and-oh," his voice hit a chord of intrigue then, as he continued his monologue, "it seems you've taken on a bunch of brats for me to kill, how nice of you."
With fear in her voice, Sakura asked Kakashi why the man had called him that, and who the man himself was, stuttering the whole way.
"That man," Kakashi told, voice turning hard, "is Zabuza Momoichi, a former ninja of the hidden mist, he is of a jonin level, but, he is also known as the Devil of the Mist. He will kill you before you know whats happening."
Shock ran through them, electrifying and dulling them all at once, the words of terror striking them with its harsh whips.
But Naruto, Naruto stared on in the face of that hidden devil, something siring in his gut. He didn't rightly know what it was either. But, his brows were furrowed, and his eyes hard, it being of such a way that Zabuza actually felt it. The devil knew that stare, that feeling, he knew it in his core.
"Killing intent? From one of your students? Well well, you truly do live up to my expectations Kakashi, you've trained them well." Zabuza turned towards where he felt the killing intent, actually having a congratulatory sentence just at the tip of his tongue, when he noticed the sword.
He turned fully.
Eyes glued, wide as dinner plates.
Then, they became gleeful and murderous.
"Someone else with an excessively large blade!? How wonderful!"
The grin behind his face wraps was felt through, even as he leapt out, giant head cleaver in hand, coming down as a wrath filled with blood-lust, Naruto drew his zanpakto back.
SHING!
The Devil of the Mist met a kunai instead of another large sword, and Kakashi was the one who blocked him, half of his headband lifted to reveal the sharingan, three tomes spinning a furious whirl of black and scarlet.
"So you've finally revealed your sharingan eh?" The man shouted as they traded swings and blows.
Kakashi dipped below, evading the swing of that giant blade, then thrusting his kunai forth, gutting Zabuza. The man had a look of surprise on his face then, as if he didn't expect to be so easily defeated. Kakashi thought that that was it, just as crimson spurted out and painted the ground.
Water.
What was red suddenly exploded-along with the rest of the devil-into a splash of water.
"...shit-" The Hatake barely got out before another kunai was lodged into his throat.
First came red.
Satisfaction from Zabuza.
Then another explosion of water.
"What!?" Zabuza gave a curse just as well, and yet as he did so, another kunai was thrust to his own throat.
Red.
Explosion of water.
Another curse.
Far off into a lake, there he stood, breath hitched with hot anger.
"You damn bastard!"
Kakashi wasted no time and sprinted towards the man, kunai drawn.
Zabuza blocked and, with the others momentum still at hand, threw him across to the other side. The Devil of the Mist quickly sheathed his blade and threw up hand signs, hands speeding through the seals until finally landing on the last one.
"Water Dragon Blast no Justsu!"
Eyes all around widened at what happened next, no more so than Zabuza's.
Another dragon of water arose from the lake, meeting that of the missing nin's, nullifying each other in great gouts of water, showering back down on the two.
Shaking himself from what occurred, he threw another speedy bit of signs, ready to summon mist and enshroud the man and keep that eye of his from copying anymore of his moves, when he saw that Kakashi was doing the same signs, at the same time-perfectly in-sink.
"Stop copying me!"
Zabuza's eyes widened.
"Quite saying what I say!"
No...no no! That eye could read both his signs and his voice!
"You bastard!" He shouted, Kakashi bellowing the same thing.
At that moment, a thought occurred in his mind, and despite the battle between them, an ornery side awakened in the man, his mouth had already began speaking for him.
"I'm gay!" He shouted, intending to have Kakashi say the same. Instead, his voice fell silent, alone, even the bird stopped there singing, turning there heads towards the man.
Silence.
No words.
Nothing.
Until.
"That's nice." Was Kakashi's reply.
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"I am going to kill you slowly." Zabuza's voice turned icy cold as he drew his sword.
"Try me."
Kakashi and Zabuza came at one another once more, the fray between them growing ever larger, kunai blocking the head cleaver, spitting sparks between them. Sasuke, Sakura, and Tazuna gazed on at the epic battle with wide trepidation and admiration in there eyes, so thoroughly impressed and terrified by the feats all the same.
But Naruto didn't
Naruto could not see these things.
Naruto couldn't hear.
Naruto couldn't speak.
No.
Something in him, seeing Zabuza fight with that sword, it sparked something in him, something that Walter was speeding up. Scarlet Reishi began pouring out of him, a flame of blood, encircling his form, slowly gathering all around him. And, unbidden, he raised his sword, causing the aura of crimson to radiate and pulsate.
Both Kakashi and Zabuza stopped mid-attack, eyes wide, pressure and fear coming over them both.
Zabuza turned.
"Oh shi-"
And a miasma of crimson came down on him, all coming from the single swing.
A/N Oooo, whats this? Naruto has swung something similar to a getsuga tenshou? Ba! It isn't that, but the technique is about the same. And whats this, with him going all badass? How did he just get a drop on Zabuza?
All will be revealed later.
As for those who see this fiction and read athour notes, please understand, I apologize for the long gap in absence, recently I've had to focus with some school related things, trying to get things together and all, but fear not, I am going to try and send off more chapters.
Anyway, polls are closed, and the winner is lemons, but only near the end.
Have a good day:^)