Naruto's Next Generation
Chapter 2
Truth
Minato POV
"What the hell" I cursed to myself. My breathing was ragged and I could hardly stand up. Look at me- I'm pathetic. My partner got knocked out and I'm over here getting pushed around like some doll when I'm supposed to be a genius. A child prodigy. So much for humbleness. Though, it's not entirely my fault. This guy, this freak, was, well, he was freaky. He practically shot lasers out of his eyes, er… actually; he shot lasers out of his third eye, in the middle of his forehead! Not to mention he practically blew up part of the forest!
Oh, shut up Minato. Why are you acting like a little kid? This is the big leagues now. You knew exactly what you were getting yourself in from the start. I guess that comes with being a ninja.
"Huh, whattaya know" the bulky man said. He was bald but none the less, bulky- really bulky. I swear he had muscles the size of my head. And if you think those are big, you should see his legs! "Are you still alive?" he mused. Barely, just barely, but of course I don't say that. I sneer at him before spitting some collected blood out of my mouth. Gross.
"You Konoha rats just don't know when to die, do ya" he said.
"You dumb losers just don't know when to give up, do ya" I teased. No matter how bad I looked. I was not gonna lose my pride or, anything of that matter, for this muscle-for-brains. He smirked.
"You talk a lot of stuff for someone who's getting their butt kicked"
"You talk a lot of stuff for someone who's picking on a little kid" I retort. Yes, Minato. Play the 'innocent little boy' trick. It was sure to work. Especially for someone of his nature.
He sneered. "We wouldn't have been in this predicament if you never showed up" he yelled. His face was getting redder. Perfect.
"Technically and logically speaking, we wouldn't have been in this predicament if you never showed up" I responded as I started to stand up. Damn, my body's really taken a toll. I'll have to use one more trick if I have any chance of survival. Besides, Saki couldn't have been doing any better. She needed medical attention. I turned to look at her unconscious body. I couldn't die now, not when I'm so young.
The bulky man's third eye starts glowing red. Damn. He's about to fry me. "Would you just shut up!" he yelled, putting a lot of emphasis on 'shut' and 'up'. He took in a huge breath of air and another laser shot out of his eye. I (barely) jumped to the right and threw one of my Kunais at him. It hit him in his left arm. I cringed in physical and metal pain. Physical because falling on my side really hurt and mental because the kunai was literally sticking out of his arm.
The man gritted his teeth as he pulled at the knife and threw it down. "Mother fu-"
"Watch yo mouth!" I yell. Out of all the words in the book that one was the worst one. Scratch that- the C- word was the worst one. That word was just Taboo. The man growled. He was getting mentally knocked around by the boy and he didn't like it.
"That's it" he yelled. "I'm gonna kill you!" Damn. I'm really going to die, aren't I. He charged up another laser. Goodbye mom. Oh how I love your purple hair. Goodbye dad. Oh how I love your money. Goodbye Saki, Koukata, and Hanabi. Oh how I love your drawings, your lame jokes, and you're fighting skills. But most of all, Goodbye world. How I'll miss you ever beauty. I closed my eyes.
"Die!" the man yelled.
"Wolf Fang over Fang!"
I snap my eyes back open. "Koukata?"
End Minato POV
Koku's attack missed but on the other hand, the man jumped in the air, not even expecting Koukata. The dog-boy rammed into him, cutting up some of his clothes in the process. The man went flying back into a rock.
"Excellent job, Koku" Koukata said to his small black dog who barks before jumping on top of the brunet's head. He runs over to an injured Minato.
"Yo, are you okay?" Koukata asked.
"Just peachy" Minato said with obvious sarcasm. The dog-boy helped the blond up.
"Hey where's Saki?"
"Minato pointed towards the trees. The brunet quickly rushed over to the girl and picked her up.
"Huh?" she mumbled. "Where am I"
"Try not to talk" Koukata said. "Help will be here any second" he assured.
As on cue, Inoyu along with Shikachi, Choju, and an Anbu member jumped out of the trees.
"Who are you" Minato rudely asked, talking to the Anbu person.
"I am unauthorized to give you my real name. But you, like all the others, will refer to me as Feline" the woman said. "What happened here?" she said with authority.
"I'll tell you later but you need to arrest that guy over there" Minato said turning around and pointing to an empty rock. "WHAT! He was here a moment ago" Minato yelled.
"Well he's gone now and there's nothing we can do about it" the Anbu women said. "Let's go!" she said. The seven ninja started heading back towards Konoha.
MEANWHILE
"Naruto" What are we gonna do about this little problem" Sakura asked, knowing little was a major understatement. Naruto sat at his desk, his hands crossed.
"I don't know" he said truthfully.
"Don't you think sending only two Anbu members won't be enough?" She asked, worriedly.
"I couldn't send a squad of Jonin after them. Suspicion would have been raised and we don't need people knowing about our small problem. The more people that know, the more panicked they will be. Let's at least wait until the Chunin exams are over, okay?"
Sakura sighed, worried and squeezed her check board to her chest, which had surprisingly grown a lot. A knock at the door was heard.
"Come in!" Naruto yelled.
A woman with purple hair that flowed down to her waist, walked into the room, a gentle face on her countenance. She wore a lavender jacket and matching pants.
"Hello Sakura" Hinata nodded at the pink haired woman. Sakura smiled and nodded back. "You called me, Lord Hokage?"
Naruto smiled. "You don't have to call me Lord Hokage. We are married ya know"
Hinata smiled and slightly blushed. "When you're in the village, in public, I will address you as Lord Hokage" she said.
Naruto sighed. Once Hinata said something, she stuck to it like glue. "How are your eyes" Naruto asked with worry and concern. Hinata's smile slightly dimmed.
"They're fine although my Byakugan vision range has shrunk"
"Do they hurt when you activate them?" the blond asked.
"No" Hinata replied. She took a deep breath and activated them. Naruto let out a breath of relief. "I can see perfectly fin- NARUTO DUCK!" Hinata screamed.
Sakura jumped, spooked by the woman's unexpected screaming. Naruto ducked like the woman said. Once he got up off of the floor, in his chair was a kunai with a purple liquid dripping from the tip. The three all looked out of the window, noticing a guy wearing all black. Their eyes widened as Hinata jumped out the window in pursuit of the hidden vigilante.
"Hinata come back!" Naruto yelled out of the window.
Hinata kept jumping from roof to roof. "Gale force palm!" she yelled holding her hand out in front of her. Just as the wind was about to hit the intruder, the guy suddenly flew off the building-sideways. Hinata stopped in he tracks. "What the" she looked to her side only to find Neji holding out his hand.
"Thank you, Neji" Hinata said jumping down to the unconscious man. Neji walked up to the man and picked him up.
"I'll help you out anytime you wish, Lady Hinata" he said.
Hinata nodded and the new relatives made their way back to the Hokage's office.
MEANWHILE
"Is Ryou still pursuing the target" Isamu asked. He was in the middle of the group of three. Nina was in the front, leading, while the purple haired AnBu member was in the back, unbeknownst to the two Genin, that he was keeping a close eye on them.
'How much do they know?' he thought.
"He's already fighting the creep" Nina replied.
Isamu sighed and looked back at the masked ally. "What's your name"
"Snake is what they call me"
"Snake…I like it!" Isamu smiled. "How old are you?"
"18"
"Wow, you're young"
"What the hell?" Nina yelled. She stopped abruptly. The others did the same.
"What's wrong?" Snake asked.
"Marro's chakra has increased. The ratings are off the charts!"
"Who's Marro" the purple-haired man wondered.
"The enemy" Isamu responded.
"Something big is about to happen" the Hyuga said. "We need to move. Fast" She said leaping off into the trees even faster than ever. The two males looked at each other before following the brunette.
Ryou stared Marro down while gripping his cut side. His clothes were ragged and his breathing was rough. 'I'm…gonna have to use that if I have any chance of winning.' The teen thought.
"Are you done already?" Marro said. He had bones sticking out the side of his head, making him appear like the devil. He chuckled to himself out loud.
"I'm just getting started" Ryou replied. He could barely stand up. The pink haired boy rushed towards the enemy, his fist readied in the air. Marro side-stepped the attack and swung his bone-sword, ripping Ryou's shirt and cutting his back, leaving a semi-deep gash.
Ryou fell to the ground on all fours. His arms and legs trembled as he struggled to support his weight. Marro slowly walked over to Ryou. He picked him up and threw him across the field and into a tree.
The Genin winced in pain. 'Now or never' Ryou thought. He reached his hand into pouch and pulled out a clear case containing a green pill and a blue pill.
"Still not dead, huh?" Marro smirked. "Why bother?"
Ryou laughed. He opened the case and swallowed both of the colored pills. He stood up.
"You won't win, so you might as well give up!"
"Never! I won't stand down and I certainly won't lose to scum like you!" Ryou shouted. His chakra was increasing by the minute. "I will protect my village and my friends because that is my ninja way!" He sent a wave of chakra throughout the forest.
"What the-" Marro trailed off.
"Let's rumble" Ryou launched himself at Marro at blinding speeds. His fist connected with Marro with a bone cracking sound, sending the bone user across the field, smashing through trees in the process. "Don't play with me!" the boy yelled as he shot towards his opponent.
Nina, Isamu, and Snake stopped in their tracks as a large wave on chakra hit them.
"All that chakra-Impossible!" Snake thought to himself. "Nina, status report"
"It's…Ryou! Oh, no! He must've eaten those pill!" Nina said, his voice rising.
"What pills, what do they do?" Snake asked.
"Let's just say, he'll need medical attention soon" Isamu trailed off. Snake grunted.
"What do the hell are these kids talking about?"
Minato and Saki lay in a hospital bed, Koukata, Inoyu, Shikachi, Choju, and Ino surrounded them.
"You're all patched up! Now stay and rest in bed" Ino said.
"Will my team still be able to participate in the Chunin exams?" Minato asked.
"Hmm…I don't want to make any problems, but at this rate, you should be able too"
Minato and Koukata smiled. "I swear" Ino said, opening the door. "You and your father are both so reckless" With that she closed the door and left the room.
The five talked for a while before they all felt and strong, but familiar energy.
"Huh, that chakra. It was so strong" Shikachi said. Choju nodded.
"Who do you think it was?" Koukata asked.
"If I were to place a bet, it was probably a member of Nina's team" Minato said.
"But that wouldn't make any sense" Shikachi added. "Unless-"
"Unless they have something to enhance their ability, like a pill" Inoyu finally said.
"Would do you know that you're not telling?" Minato asked, sternly.
"Yeah, tell us" Koukata said.
"Well, I'm not sure, as it's just a theory but I think it's all related" Inoyu began. "About a month ago, I overheard my mom talking to Sakura about how one of her Green Spinach pills went missing from the container"
"Green what?" the dog-boy asked.
"A Green Spinach pill-It was invented by the Naras for the Akimichi clan" the Nara replied.
"It was made specifically and only for the Akimichi so how does this relate to your story when the only Akimichi of our generation is standing right here" Minato said. Choju was silently munching on some potato chips.
"Well, as you know, Ryou Haruno is a medical ninja like me, meaning he has experience in the lab. Around the same time the pill went missing, Ryou and I were working in the lab. I was working on this New Moon Flower Perfume that knocked people out of a Genjustu when inhaled"
"There's no way you're smart enough to create that yourself"
"Of course not" Inoyu said. "Nina, Ryou, and I were on a mission to the Village hidden under the moon because Isamu had a sprain. The village head, Tsukimo, gave us an ingredient for a special perfume as her thanks. We were making it in the lab. We analyzed the New Moon Flower and our studies showed that the flower had a weird property that gave a small boost of chakra, thus, breaking someone out of a Genjustu. It was more a reversal than anything"
"Amazing" Minato said. "But creating a pill like that couldn't be easy. It would take an extraordinary amount of time to do it was well"
"It did. We barely finished it last week"
"What!" Shikachi shouted. Choju shushed her and pointed to a stirring Saki. "You mean you didn't test the side-effects out?"
"Correct. We were going to test it out but we got called on a mission so we had to wait. We called it the Blue Moon pill. If he used it with the Green Spinach spill then he would gain extraordinary abilities like Super strength and his chakra would increase by a lot"
"Your point? I'm really not seeing how this is a bad thing. As a matter of fact, it's making we want one!" Koukata said, smiling. Koku barked.
"You still don't get it do you, Minato said. "That pill is like a major energy drink. It's bound to have some major side-effects. Not to mention his body won't be able to withstand a huge surge of charka throughout his body"
"I get it now" Shikachi said. "That means his time is running out!" Shikachi shouted.
Suddenly the door slid open. Standing and in the door way was an angry Ino. Minato acted sleep with a "Good luck"
"Come. With. Me. Now" Ino gritted through her teeth.
"Feline and Rose, Dismissed!" Naruto shouted. The two female Anbu members nodded before disappearing. Naruto sighed and slumped back into his nice leather cushion. It was hard being Hokage, really hard.
Ino burst through the door with Koukata, Inoyu, Shikachi, and Choju, an annoyed expression on her face. Naruto groaned. "What is it?" Naruto asked, sounding a little rude then he meant to be.
"Tell them what you said at the hospital" Ino said, crossing her arms.
Inoyu explained the whole situation and apologized for not telling anyone sooner.
"I…see" Naruto said scratching the back of his head. "And Snake, Nina, and Isamu are the closest one to him… Koukata and Inoyu, you two are to go after them"
Shikachi frowned. "What about me and Choju?"
"I have something for you guys to do as well"
Shikachi stopped at her dad's house. "I can't believe I got stuck doing this lame F-Rank mission" she exaggerated. She knocked on her door, and then mentally scolded herself. 'What am I doing?' she thought. 'It's my house anyway'
She walked in the house calling for her father. She found him outside on the lawn starring at the sky. "Of course" she mumbled.
"Dad, Naruto called for you" Shikachi said.
Shikamaru looked up from his peaceful stated. He groaned. "What a drag" he said, getting up grumpily.
-XMX-
Choju walked into the kitchen and threw his back of chips in the garbage. His dad, Choji, was sitting at the table eating some chicken his mom, Ayame, had prepared him.
"Dad, Lord Naruto wants to see you" Choju said.
"Oh, alright" Choji said, getting up. He grabbed his chicken and walked out the house.
-XMX-
Shikachi walked into her worst nightmare, the library! She walked over to a table where a pale-skinned man sat.
"Can I help you?" he said rudely. Shikachi raised an eyebrow. "Seriously?" she whispered to herself.
The man never looked up from his book. "Umm, Lord Naruto wants to see you" the girl said.
He mumbled something under his breath and stood up and walked out of the building.
"Rude little pri-"
"SHHHHHH"
Shikachi groaned.
-XMX-
Choju walked through the house. It smelt like a barn. The couches were ripped up, there was brown droplets scattered across the ground, and there was hair all over the place. Choju made his way to a back room where a brunet typed away on his typewriter. He looked up with a pen in his mouth.
"Lord Hokage needs you"
"Cool, I'll be there"
Choju made his way back to the front door when he felt something squishy beneath his right foot. He lifted it up, rubbed his nose, then limped out the door.
-XMX-
"Transformation Justu!" Shikachi said as she was engulfed in a puff of smoke. She was now two inches taller, her dark hair was let down and reached her back, and she wore a red knee-high skirt with a matching flak jacket. Her chest was covered up by a fishnet. She now looked older.
"Nicely job, Shikachi, well done" she told herself. She walked into the club. The music was loud and there were strobe lights everywhere. She got whistles from nearby men. "Gross" she mentally barfed. She almost physical barfed when she saw who was on the stage dancing.
The man wore a blue jumpsuit and was dancing on stage. "Rock Lee" she said, amazed and grossed out, once she made it to the front row. Lee's eyes lit like stars once he saw her and pulled her own stage. He started dancing on her like a craze maniac. She got a lot of hoots and hollers. Even a request to strip. She slapped Lee in the face.
"Shut up you pervs!" she yelled. "Lord Naruto wants you, Lee"
"Okay!" he yelled, rubbing his sore pink cheek "I will comply!" the two ninja exited the stage.
-XMX-
Choju walked into the Hyuga household, surprisingly, raising no suspicion. He walked into the living room to see Hinata, Ten-Ten, and Neji discussing.
"How did you get in here?" Neji asked.
"I walked. Lord Hokage needs you three" Choju said as he turned around and left.
The three Jonin shrugged.
-XMX-
Shikachi and Choju both met up at Shino's house.
"So this is his house, huh?" Shikachi asked spooked. There were a lot of rumors about the bug guy. Choju, however, was unfazed. "I heard the bugs lived in his skin! That's so gross" the girl went on. Choju rolled his eyes and rang the doorbell.
About twenty seconds later, a man wearing a hood and a trench coat answered the door.
"How can I help you" he asked.
"Lord Naruto wants you" Choju said.
"Thank you for the message" Shino said before closing the door.
"Wasn't that scary, was it" Choju teased.
"Shut up" Shikachi replied.
heh, heh. The end! (of chapter two that is) Please review as It helps me a lot but just because no reviews doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing. I'm writing because I want to and I like it, and ain't nobody gonna change me because of one little nasty comment. Please go to my profile and vote!
Chapter three will feature ANSWERS! STAY TUNED!
