I'll start, I won't make excuses. I haven't updated, im not going to use the pathetic 'writers block' routine, I just didn't write. Soz.
The three leaf ninja sat quietly. Soon after arriving at the cave complex, they had been whisked through several hallways, and were now in a sort of meeting room.The floor was covered in a sparse white carpet, and Naruto likened it to the fur of some sort of dog.All four of them slouched in rigid steel chairs, except for Shikamaru. He was asleep in the corner.They were immediately startled by the door opening, and a short hooded figure walking in.He was definitely a member of Dawn, his hood showed that. Bit he looked to skinny, too wiry to be a fighter.He pulled a chair from the side and sat quickly in front of them, flipping out a small notepad."You are the leaf ninja, yes?" He said in a small voice. Everyone else nodded."You gonna tell us what we're doing here, egghead?" Shikamaru snapped, eyes still closed. He wasn't as asleep as he made out to be."Thats what I'm here for," He said, a little flustered by Shika's blunt words. "The name's Digit. I'm in charge of intelligence and information."Sakira leaned in. "So you can tell us why we're here?""Its a long story.""We've got alot of time."Digit sighed. "No, you don't. Nonetheless, I should start from the beginning. Listen up, Pineapple." The wiry boy said, gesturing for Shikamaru to wake up."Call me that again and I'll rip your digit off." The lazy nin said grumpily, climbing to his feet and plonking down into a chair."Okay, here we go."
Twenty-three years ago, a fuedal lord went completely murderous. He abused his power, and turned everything on everyone to preserve himself.As you can imagine, this didn't fly well. So an ANBU from the hidden lead village, codenamed Seppuku, was sent out to eradicate him.Seppuku was successful, bit was immediately hunted for the murder of a fuedal lord by the other villages.So, he ran. Nobody ever saw or heard from him again.Incidentally, several ANBU agents went AWOL a week later, and reports of hooded figures, matching descriptions of these agents appeared.This group had started a chain of assassinations, but only corrupt members of people in power. Nobody knew who was running the show, but it was obvious; Seppuku wasn't dead.Even though none of the Kage's had a problem with this group, after all, they were knocking out people who abused their power, they had to act. The people were in an uproar. They demanded blood, payment for these assassinations.So, the numerous villages organized a special group, dedicated to eradicating the assassins.It was one of the greatest paradox's of all time; the 'criminals' were killing he corrupt to save the pure, while the' lawbringers' were defending the impure, and somehow this saved lives.Years passed, people forgot about the two factions. On the side of the 'lawbringers', time had changed rulesThey were no longer playin by them. They had completely disregarded their duty of protection, changing their objectives to hunting down the 'criminals', and ripping their faces off.Their opponents, on the other hand, had a much wierder challenge. They were seen as some of the most dangerous killers on earth, yet without them the other orginazation would no longer protect but destroy.They were forced into an unending struggle between the other faction, and everytime civilian lives were lost, it was always blamed on the 'criminals'.It seemed that those that had slit the throats of the most corrupt people in the world, had brought around a group that made the Akatsuki look like fucking girl scouts.But then it happened. The 'lawbringers', which changed the name of their orginazation to Dusk, had come across the most intriguing individual.This man had a Kekkei Genkai which was specially proficient for the use of dispatching members of Dawn.An incident had ocurred a year ago involving this jutsu, and it is because of it that the current problem has arised.
The room was silent. "So you guys... Are terrorists?" Naruto asked cluelessly. In a way, you could say that. But we never killed an innocent. Only the corrupt. Our record was, and still is clean." Digit claimed firmly."You still haven't explained why we're here." Shikamaru said.Digit sighed heavily. "You'll become painfully aware of the full details soon. All ou need to know is that if we didn't have you, Dusk would. And that's not healthy." He finished, looking away from them.Suddenly, there was a distant rumble. The whole room trembled slightly, as the ground began to shake under them. The tremors rose, until they were thrown to the floor by the violence of the shakes.The door flew open and Bear was there, clinging to the doorframe with a white-knuckle grip. "DIGIT. IT'S HAPPENING!" He yelled, his voice barely rising above the roar of the quake.Digit clawed his way to the door, and scrambled to his feet next to the massive boy. "BUT THEY DONT HAVE THE FOX! WHY WOULD THEY USE HIM!"Naruto, who was laid flat out on the floor, looked over to Shikamaru, who was trying to prise himself off of the floor without falling over."EARTHQUAKE?" Naruto yelled questioningly.Shikamaru shook his head as much as he could, the quake shaking him like a bobblehead. "TOO SEVERE! JUTSU MAYBE?"Naruto looked at the girls, who were facedown on the ground, hands over their heads. What the hell was going on?Several agonizingly slow minutes later, the quake ceased, as suddenly as it had begun. Wolf, Cat and Bear strode through the door purposefully, and pulled the leaf nin to their feet."We gotta make tracks." Wolf said calmly, heading for the door."Im not going anywhere!" Sakura shouted, more than peeved. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"Wolf turned around, and spoke icily. "That was the start of the destruction of your village." He said, gloom dripping from his words.Naruto stepped up, cracking his knuckles. "Not if I have anything to say about it." He uttered angrily, rage starting to boil in his stomach.Lets get moving then." Wolf stated, and with that they left, to save Konoha.Shikamaru thought quietly to himself. [So we're off to Save Konoha. But from what?]
They had gotten on the move pretty fast. They sprinted along the treetops of the lush green treetops.Wolf and Bear were with them, Cat was chasing up a backup option. Wolf flashed four hand signs, signalling to the other nin.>Five metre spread. No sound Hinata glanced over to Naruto. He had a steely look on his face, he obviously didn't like not knowing what was going on.Hinata noticed a lightning quick flash below her. She just had time to flick her eyes down, and process the masked figure flying at her, a knife poised to slash her torso open and spill her organs all over the forest in nasty ways.She flinched, expecting the searing pain.Before she knew, Naruto flashed into focus, smashing a foot across the Dusk members face, resulting in a sickening crack as he fell to the forest floor.Naruto flipped back up onto a branch and back into formation. He flashed Hinata a grin. She smiled back, about to thank him, when she heard a scream.She glanced back in time to see Sakura clutched around the ankle, dragging her below the canopy."Sakura!" She gasped."Shit!" Wolf cursed. "We've been compromised! Bear, get to the village, stop Yozaji at all costs. Another Dusk popped up in front of him, and he kindly sunk a kunai into his stomach."Where are you going?" Bear asked, smacking another member in the face."She's one of us now. We look after our own." Wolf said seriously as he jumped down under the canopy.Bear turned back to the squad, who were looking at him, awaiting instructions. "What are you staring at? Move!"They licked into gear, rocketing through the treetops, dodging Dusk cultists as they sprung up into the treetops.Naruto sped up as they grew closer to the village, fear deep in his gut. As he broke out of the forest, and dropped to the ground, he stood there, gobsmacked.There was a group of five people, Four in a square, the fifth in the middle. All were decked out in Dusk regalia, resplendant in a bloody crimson. Above them was a great ball of warping purple energy, and Naruto could feel heat prickling his skin. That wasn't what made him sick though.Where Konoha, his loved hometown used to be, there was barren earth, as if it had been ripped from the ground."No...Nononononono, this isn't happening, how have they done it this fast." Bear uttered fearfully, the colour drained from his face.Naruto raced forwards, but was held back. He turned around, and found Hinata, Byakugan activated."The one in the centre... that ball is his chakra... I'm sensing some sort of place inside there. Like... Some sort of portal." She said, confusedly."You can't go out there." Bear said. "The warp will rip you to pieces if you get within ten metres of it."The four of them stood there, watching helplessly, as the warp descended into the ground, boring a fifteen foot wide hole into the ground. A light emanated from the hole, growing in power, until it was blinding.They shielded their eyes, and once the light had receded, they looked at what as left.The figures were gone, even the few cultists that had been following them. In place of the hole that the warp left, a spinning vortex of thick pzurple liquid spun, sucking anything that got caught in it into the abyss."K-Konoha..." Naruto said vacantly. He couldn't believe it."It's... Gone."Bear stood up, deathly silent. "We have to return to Dawn." He said, emotionless."DID YOU EVEN SEE WHAT JUST HAPPENED!" Shikamaru spat angrily. "OUR VILLAGE IS GONE!""The only way to get your village back is through that vortex." Bear said, gesturing to the racing whirlpool. "And unless you really, REALLY wanna die, were going to have to go find Cat. She should have tracked down our other option by now."The rest of the nin were silent. Then, one by one, they stood and walked back the way they came. They didn't really have a choice, they had just become homeless.
Wolf rolled as he landed, quickly scanning around. There, a flash of pink.He tore through the forestry, and found Sakura being held hostage-style, a knife against her throat. Sakura winked at wolf, then her eyes went strangely lifeless."Lie down on the ground, or ill slit this bitch's throat!" The cultist urged in a gravelly voice."Are you deaf? I said on the ground!" He spat, pressing down a little harder on Sakura's neck for emphasis.Wolf pulled out a small mettallic cylinder, his weapon, and presses a button. The cylinder sprung out to a length of one and a half metres, and a half meter blade popped out of the top end."One step and I'll kill her!" The cultist tried, fear rising in his gut. He wouldn't let his teammate die, would he?Wolf raised his spear and took a step forward.The cultist backed up to a tree, so he was protected from all sides. "You gonna have to go through the girl to get me." He smirked, sadistic pleasure on his face under his mask.Wolf raised his spear to belly button height. "Fine by me." He fling the spear forward powerfully, and it scythes straight through Sakura's stomach.She let out a scream, and coughed up blood, as her wound spilled the sickly red liquid onto her feet. The cultist behind her was suffering the same fate.After a minute of coughing and writhing, both the cultist and Sakura stopped moving.Dead.A figure leaped down from the trees and landed softly next to Wolf, as he prised the spear from the bodies, which slumped horribly to the floor."Funny." The figure said. "He didn't even notice.""Well, your'e on this team for skill, so it shouldn't be a problem." He said, his weapon retracting back into a cylinder as he stowed it.He turned back, and looked at the pink haired kunoichi. "He didn't even realize you had swapped with a shadow clone.""Gotta admit though, it was kinda wierd watching me die.""We should start heading back to the complex, or you may get to feel yourself die as well." Wold said, turning in the direction of the complex."And by the way, Rose Thorn?" He said, turning around slightly. "Good job."Sakura felt a surge of pride, and strode over next to wolf. She couldn't wait to get back and hear how the others went with saving Konoha.
Ive been a total ass for not updating, I know. As some of you may know, my computer died a while back, so I am forced to type all of my stories up on my Ipod, and it's starting to get to me. Nonetheless, expect the next chapter alot sooner than this one took.ByesSS-60 SiX
The three leaf ninja sat quietly. Soon after arriving at the cave complex, they had been whisked through several hallways, and were now in a sort of meeting room.The floor was covered in a sparse white carpet, and Naruto likened it to the fur of some sort of dog.All four of them slouched in rigid steel chairs, except for Shikamaru. He was asleep in the corner.They were immediately startled by the door opening, and a short hooded figure walking in.He was definitely a member of Dawn, his hood showed that. Bit he looked to skinny, too wiry to be a fighter.He pulled a chair from the side and sat quickly in front of them, flipping out a small notepad."You are the leaf ninja, yes?" He said in a small voice. Everyone else nodded."You gonna tell us what we're doing here, egghead?" Shikamaru snapped, eyes still closed. He wasn't as asleep as he made out to be."Thats what I'm here for," He said, a little flustered by Shika's blunt words. "The name's Digit. I'm in charge of intelligence and information."Sakira leaned in. "So you can tell us why we're here?""Its a long story.""We've got alot of time."Digit sighed. "No, you don't. Nonetheless, I should start from the beginning. Listen up, Pineapple." The wiry boy said, gesturing for Shikamaru to wake up."Call me that again and I'll rip your digit off." The lazy nin said grumpily, climbing to his feet and plonking down into a chair."Okay, here we go."
Twenty-three years ago, a fuedal lord went completely murderous. He abused his power, and turned everything on everyone to preserve himself.As you can imagine, this didn't fly well. So an ANBU from the hidden lead village, codenamed Seppuku, was sent out to eradicate him.Seppuku was successful, bit was immediately hunted for the murder of a fuedal lord by the other villages.So, he ran. Nobody ever saw or heard from him again.Incidentally, several ANBU agents went AWOL a week later, and reports of hooded figures, matching descriptions of these agents appeared.This group had started a chain of assassinations, but only corrupt members of people in power. Nobody knew who was running the show, but it was obvious; Seppuku wasn't dead.Even though none of the Kage's had a problem with this group, after all, they were knocking out people who abused their power, they had to act. The people were in an uproar. They demanded blood, payment for these assassinations.So, the numerous villages organized a special group, dedicated to eradicating the assassins.It was one of the greatest paradox's of all time; the 'criminals' were killing he corrupt to save the pure, while the' lawbringers' were defending the impure, and somehow this saved lives.Years passed, people forgot about the two factions. On the side of the 'lawbringers', time had changed rulesThey were no longer playin by them. They had completely disregarded their duty of protection, changing their objectives to hunting down the 'criminals', and ripping their faces off.Their opponents, on the other hand, had a much wierder challenge. They were seen as some of the most dangerous killers on earth, yet without them the other orginazation would no longer protect but destroy.They were forced into an unending struggle between the other faction, and everytime civilian lives were lost, it was always blamed on the 'criminals'.It seemed that those that had slit the throats of the most corrupt people in the world, had brought around a group that made the Akatsuki look like fucking girl scouts.But then it happened. The 'lawbringers', which changed the name of their orginazation to Dusk, had come across the most intriguing individual.This man had a Kekkei Genkai which was specially proficient for the use of dispatching members of Dawn.An incident had ocurred a year ago involving this jutsu, and it is because of it that the current problem has arised.
The room was silent. "So you guys... Are terrorists?" Naruto asked cluelessly. In a way, you could say that. But we never killed an innocent. Only the corrupt. Our record was, and still is clean." Digit claimed firmly."You still haven't explained why we're here." Shikamaru said.Digit sighed heavily. "You'll become painfully aware of the full details soon. All ou need to know is that if we didn't have you, Dusk would. And that's not healthy." He finished, looking away from them.Suddenly, there was a distant rumble. The whole room trembled slightly, as the ground began to shake under them. The tremors rose, until they were thrown to the floor by the violence of the shakes.The door flew open and Bear was there, clinging to the doorframe with a white-knuckle grip. "DIGIT. IT'S HAPPENING!" He yelled, his voice barely rising above the roar of the quake.Digit clawed his way to the door, and scrambled to his feet next to the massive boy. "BUT THEY DONT HAVE THE FOX! WHY WOULD THEY USE HIM!"Naruto, who was laid flat out on the floor, looked over to Shikamaru, who was trying to prise himself off of the floor without falling over."EARTHQUAKE?" Naruto yelled questioningly.Shikamaru shook his head as much as he could, the quake shaking him like a bobblehead. "TOO SEVERE! JUTSU MAYBE?"Naruto looked at the girls, who were facedown on the ground, hands over their heads. What the hell was going on?Several agonizingly slow minutes later, the quake ceased, as suddenly as it had begun. Wolf, Cat and Bear strode through the door purposefully, and pulled the leaf nin to their feet."We gotta make tracks." Wolf said calmly, heading for the door."Im not going anywhere!" Sakura shouted, more than peeved. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"Wolf turned around, and spoke icily. "That was the start of the destruction of your village." He said, gloom dripping from his words.Naruto stepped up, cracking his knuckles. "Not if I have anything to say about it." He uttered angrily, rage starting to boil in his stomach.Lets get moving then." Wolf stated, and with that they left, to save Konoha.Shikamaru thought quietly to himself. [So we're off to Save Konoha. But from what?]
They had gotten on the move pretty fast. They sprinted along the treetops of the lush green treetops.Wolf and Bear were with them, Cat was chasing up a backup option. Wolf flashed four hand signs, signalling to the other nin.>Five metre spread. No sound Hinata glanced over to Naruto. He had a steely look on his face, he obviously didn't like not knowing what was going on.Hinata noticed a lightning quick flash below her. She just had time to flick her eyes down, and process the masked figure flying at her, a knife poised to slash her torso open and spill her organs all over the forest in nasty ways.She flinched, expecting the searing pain.Before she knew, Naruto flashed into focus, smashing a foot across the Dusk members face, resulting in a sickening crack as he fell to the forest floor.Naruto flipped back up onto a branch and back into formation. He flashed Hinata a grin. She smiled back, about to thank him, when she heard a scream.She glanced back in time to see Sakura clutched around the ankle, dragging her below the canopy."Sakura!" She gasped."Shit!" Wolf cursed. "We've been compromised! Bear, get to the village, stop Yozaji at all costs. Another Dusk popped up in front of him, and he kindly sunk a kunai into his stomach."Where are you going?" Bear asked, smacking another member in the face."She's one of us now. We look after our own." Wolf said seriously as he jumped down under the canopy.Bear turned back to the squad, who were looking at him, awaiting instructions. "What are you staring at? Move!"They licked into gear, rocketing through the treetops, dodging Dusk cultists as they sprung up into the treetops.Naruto sped up as they grew closer to the village, fear deep in his gut. As he broke out of the forest, and dropped to the ground, he stood there, gobsmacked.There was a group of five people, Four in a square, the fifth in the middle. All were decked out in Dusk regalia, resplendant in a bloody crimson. Above them was a great ball of warping purple energy, and Naruto could feel heat prickling his skin. That wasn't what made him sick though.Where Konoha, his loved hometown used to be, there was barren earth, as if it had been ripped from the ground."No...Nononononono, this isn't happening, how have they done it this fast." Bear uttered fearfully, the colour drained from his face.Naruto raced forwards, but was held back. He turned around, and found Hinata, Byakugan activated."The one in the centre... that ball is his chakra... I'm sensing some sort of place inside there. Like... Some sort of portal." She said, confusedly."You can't go out there." Bear said. "The warp will rip you to pieces if you get within ten metres of it."The four of them stood there, watching helplessly, as the warp descended into the ground, boring a fifteen foot wide hole into the ground. A light emanated from the hole, growing in power, until it was blinding.They shielded their eyes, and once the light had receded, they looked at what as left.The figures were gone, even the few cultists that had been following them. In place of the hole that the warp left, a spinning vortex of thick pzurple liquid spun, sucking anything that got caught in it into the abyss."K-Konoha..." Naruto said vacantly. He couldn't believe it."It's... Gone."Bear stood up, deathly silent. "We have to return to Dawn." He said, emotionless."DID YOU EVEN SEE WHAT JUST HAPPENED!" Shikamaru spat angrily. "OUR VILLAGE IS GONE!""The only way to get your village back is through that vortex." Bear said, gesturing to the racing whirlpool. "And unless you really, REALLY wanna die, were going to have to go find Cat. She should have tracked down our other option by now."The rest of the nin were silent. Then, one by one, they stood and walked back the way they came. They didn't really have a choice, they had just become homeless.
Wolf rolled as he landed, quickly scanning around. There, a flash of pink.He tore through the forestry, and found Sakura being held hostage-style, a knife against her throat. Sakura winked at wolf, then her eyes went strangely lifeless."Lie down on the ground, or ill slit this bitch's throat!" The cultist urged in a gravelly voice."Are you deaf? I said on the ground!" He spat, pressing down a little harder on Sakura's neck for emphasis.Wolf pulled out a small mettallic cylinder, his weapon, and presses a button. The cylinder sprung out to a length of one and a half metres, and a half meter blade popped out of the top end."One step and I'll kill her!" The cultist tried, fear rising in his gut. He wouldn't let his teammate die, would he?Wolf raised his spear and took a step forward.The cultist backed up to a tree, so he was protected from all sides. "You gonna have to go through the girl to get me." He smirked, sadistic pleasure on his face under his mask.Wolf raised his spear to belly button height. "Fine by me." He fling the spear forward powerfully, and it scythes straight through Sakura's stomach.She let out a scream, and coughed up blood, as her wound spilled the sickly red liquid onto her feet. The cultist behind her was suffering the same fate.After a minute of coughing and writhing, both the cultist and Sakura stopped moving.Dead.A figure leaped down from the trees and landed softly next to Wolf, as he prised the spear from the bodies, which slumped horribly to the floor."Funny." The figure said. "He didn't even notice.""Well, your'e on this team for skill, so it shouldn't be a problem." He said, his weapon retracting back into a cylinder as he stowed it.He turned back, and looked at the pink haired kunoichi. "He didn't even realize you had swapped with a shadow clone.""Gotta admit though, it was kinda wierd watching me die.""We should start heading back to the complex, or you may get to feel yourself die as well." Wold said, turning in the direction of the complex."And by the way, Rose Thorn?" He said, turning around slightly. "Good job."Sakura felt a surge of pride, and strode over next to wolf. She couldn't wait to get back and hear how the others went with saving Konoha.
Ive been a total ass for not updating, I know. As some of you may know, my computer died a while back, so I am forced to type all of my stories up on my Ipod, and it's starting to get to me. Nonetheless, expect the next chapter alot sooner than this one took.ByesSS-60 SiX
