Terekineshisu Shinobi
Chapter VII
Beginning
Harry glanced around Konoha, immediately noticing the fact that the village was so utterly peaceful, whilst Mizu was wary.
"Harry?" Kita asked, from her position on his shoulder.
"Yes?" The black-haired teen answered, dragging out the syllable needlessly.
"This place is so different from back home..."
"It sure is..."
Saeria immediately heard the two, and interrupted, "Konoha is in a peace phase at the moment and our village is recovering from Yagura's tyranny."
Kita's expressive ears drooped at that. "I know... Yagura wasn't very nice!"
"Saeria, Harry, Kita! Me and Chōjūrō managed to find the hotel!" Haku exclaimed as she bounded over to them, nearly tripping over a rock in the pavement.
"Nice job, Haku." Harry complimented, to which the girl reddened, much to the teen's confusion.
Saeria shook her head at their interactions, wondering how such a hyper-intelligent boy, was so... Dim, in some subjects. "Haku, can you lead us other there?"
"Sure!" And as if resuscitated from her awkwardness, she bound forwards, knocking over a few aggravated villagers.
Many of Konoha's ANBU either chuckled or raised their eyebrows, at the weird Mizu team. It turned many heads at the elfish creature on the tall teenage boy's shoulder, but a lot of them assumed that it was a clan summon contract familiar.
As Harry, Saeria, Kita and Haku arrived in front of the hotel, Harry walked towards the clerk, and asked, "What is our room number?"
The clerk glanced up, and flushed, before stuttering out, "You're roo-m i-s-s-s 428..."
Harry nodded, forcing down his irritation at the reaction at his looks, as he thought, 'Nearly every girl I meet, has that reaction, dammit... I can't even figure out why...'
He calmly walked away, blatantly ignoring the stares from females, and even males... Though he didn't care about which gender watched him, it still creeped him out that people stared at him, so blatantly.
He wasn't too weird, was he?
Saeria fought the urge to facepalm at Harry's stupidity of why people stared at him... And she won, against that urge, after she and her team arrived at the room... To find Chōjūrō gone, with signs of a struggle.
Harry's eyes immediately darkened, as he stretched his senses. He suddenly jumped out of the window, before he ran towards the populated market district. He immediately noticed an ANBU, (with a weird mask) jumping across rooftops, with Chōjūrō on his back.
He ran at the wall, ignoring the cries of surprise, and ran towards the ANBU, managing to catch up, as he jumped at the ANBU operative.
He slammed Zangetsu at the man, who blocked with his tanto. The ANBU threw Chōjūrō aside, as he performed hand seals. "Fire Release: Great Fireball!"
A massive fireball lunged at Harry, to which he rolled to the side, as he lost his trench coat, to the fire. He swung at the man, making him jump up, swing downwards at Harry...
"Repulse." Harry called, as he threw the ANBU at a building making it crack from the force of the blow.
The ANBU immediately turned into a log, as he sprung from behind at Harry slamming his tanto at his back... Which was blocked by Harry, who managed to swing behind him, and kicked behind him. The older and more experienced man grabbed his foot, and threw Harry at a nearby building.
Harry groaned, but lift himself up, and launched him at the ANBU, as he called, "Oburai."
A ball of lightning concentrated itself on Harry's hand, as he struck the ANBU, landing a clean hit on the back, which threw the man off the building, and when he landed, it caused a massive hole in the road. He lunged at the ANBU, snarling, who before Harry could strike, jumped backwards.
"Fire Release: Dragonfire!" The man muttered, as he breathed out a blue fire, which landed on his hand, and morphed into a orb of fire, much similar to his Oburai.
Harry was quite apprehensive of this technique, and got suddenly an idea from Death. "Harry, try and charge chakra into your sword... I may not like chakra, but for Zangetsu, it is used in a special way."
He concentrated on the sword, and intoned, "Slaying Moon: Hollow."
Suddenly, a flow of chakra unleashed from Zangetsu, which turned it into a black curved blade, with a white guard. He swung at the ANBU, and was surprised at the fact that, he felt much more faster then when he used the normal mode on Zangetsu.
The ANBU was as surprised as him, when he noticed how much more faster Harry was, when using the blade in this form, and barely managed to dodge a swing, which would've probably cut him in half. He recognized the blade as a weird mix between chokuto and daito, and countered the attack with a swing.
Harry blocked the attack with Zangetsu in Hollow mode, and somehow managed to cut the small tanto in two. The ANBU jumped back, calling out, "Fire Release: Dragonfire!"
The man launched himself at the teen, and was so fast that he was merely a blur in the eyes of many... Harry attempted to dodge... The technique hit.
The blue fires consumed Harry, as he screamed in agony. His skin was burning, and he fell forwards... As the fires consumed him, a female voice murmured in his mind, 'Don't give up, Harry. You can beat him... Get up. Concentrate your chakra on me...'
Harry reached out towards the voice, and his chakra, immediately knew where to go. He clutched Zangetsu, and immediately felt her chakra soothing his wounds, and the fires eventually gave out to his blade's.
He stood up, ignoring the fact that his entire wardrobe, was burnt to shreds. 'Harry... Say, Tsuhiri.'
"Tsuhiri."
His entire body was consumed with a white light, and his burns, and his clothes were repaired... He felt faster, alive, and happy. A nice voice giggled, in his head, saying, 'I knew that my technique would make you feel better, Harry.'
Harry's technique cancelled out, and many expected him to only be slightly healed... They didn't expect him to be healed to a state, better then before, and his clothes to be repaired as well.
The next thing he knew, was darkness.
Saeria seethed in rage, as she stalked over to the Hokage's office, throwing all caution to the wind. What the fuck happened? Why didn't any of the ANBU intervene? Chōjūrō was injured, Harry was in a critical condition...
"What is the meaning of this interruption, Jounin-san?" asked a woman next to the Hokage. Saeria immediately recognized her as one of the Hokage's advisers.
"I simply want to find out, why my students were attacked by your ANBU." Saeria answered. It was obvious to the three people in the room, that she was itching to kill something Konoha related.
Sarutobi said, "I am sorry, Jounin. It was not under my command, I swear on my position as Hokage. It seems that one man has gone out of his way, to try and gain... Your students as weapons. As a condolence for Kirigakure, who are still recovering, I will provide support for the future years."
"...Will the man that orchestrated this, be brought to justice?" Saeria asked, trying and failing to contain her anger.
"Yes." The Hokage replied, bluntly. "My village has gotten too lax in our long years of peace, and I will work on maintaining a satisfactory level of security."
"I will take my leave." Saeria stated, before she rudely slammed the door.
Hiruzen struggled to stop his sigh... It seemed he failed. 'I am so sorry for Harry-san and Chōjūrō-san... My village has grown to lax.'
"It seems that the Will of Fire has flown over to Kiri, instead of staying over with us." stated Sarutobi. It was sadly true. It had left the day that Naruto first became a Jinchuuriki, he assumed.
"...So, it seems." sounded his two advisers, in apparent agreement with him.
"When do you think it left, Hiruzen?"
"When Minato died, and Naruto became the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi." Hiruzen replied. " And I wish Kiri, good luck with maintaining our legacy."
Saeria stalked back towards the hotel, as she blatantly ignored the lecherous stares on males, and the occasional female.
"Have you heard the news that our own ANBU, attacked that poor kid?"
"I did... He did pretty well, for his age... Did you see the way he matched the ANBU in that sword fight? Kiri is probably gonna win it this year."
"We do have the Uchiha with his Sharingan." One man interrupted.
"What will the Sharingan do against that boy? He seems to be quasi-invulnerable... Especially at the end."
Saeria was slowly getting sick of the way, people spoke of Harry, as if he was simply a tool. He may have his shortcomings, but she had come to think of him with affection.
"Shut up about my student like that! He isn't a thing!" She yelled.
Saeria walked away, as people started to stop murmuring... Before they muttered about how Kiri got all of the hot asses. She seethed in frustration, and walked towards a bar... To try drink in her frustrations.
As she sat down, a grey-haired man walked towards her, and sat down next to her. She immediately recognized the man as Kakashi of the Sharingan. "So, you figured out who I am?" The man asked.
"You are pretty remarkable." She answered.
"And I recognize you as the Wind Goddess." Kakashi remarked.
Saeria groaned at her bingo book name... It wasn't her fault that she had a near god-like affinity to Wind, dammit!
Kakashi smirked at the expression on her face, before he became serious. "Is your student, Terekineshisu Shinobi's twin?"
"Yes... Terekineshisu, or as he was really called, James, was planning to destroy Iwa, for killing his mum and dad... It would have caused the Fourth Shinobi War. Harry killed him so that the unsteady peace could stay. This was how he got his sword." She answered.
It was a lie, but since she had done more Seduction Missions then anyone in Kiri... She was good at lying... She had been tasked to seduce an Uchiha, so she knew away around the Sharingan. It was simple... Don't look them in the eyes.
Kakashi merely played it off as her being nervous. It wasn't every day, you met him, Kakashi of the Sharingan!
"It was nice to see you, Kakashi." Saeria said, as she purposely blushed, to give off the feeling that she liked him. She actually didn't like him... He had stared at her body like a pervert, and was there when Harry was attacked. It was mainly the latter why she didn't like him.
She walked out of the bar, deciding that she would tell Kita and Haku, the news about Chōjūrō and Harry. Saeria walked calmly through an alleyway, as she batted away grimy hands, that attempted to gain her attention.
"Oi! Stop ignoring us!" A man cried, as he ran at her, his fist raised.
There was a reason, she was called "Wind Goddess". She barely turned her head, before the entire alleyway was filled with ferocious winds, that threw the men back in a massive heap.
She was going to protect her students. Even if it meant using... That.
"Hey, Sasuke!? Did you hear about that Kiri genin that fought that rogue ANBU?" exclaimed Naruto as he bound over to Sasuke.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, and answered, "Yes, I did. The genin pretty much decimated him, before he succumbed to chakra exhaustion."
That got the wind out of Naruto's sails, before he jumped. "And that's the twin of that Terekineshisu Shinobi!"
His eyes darkened for a second. "And that he managed to kill him, so that this fake peace could continue."
Naruto faulted for a bit. "So, we're at peace at the moment? Sasuke?"
"Technically. We and the other villages are still spying on each over, and there are still a few political skirmishes for land. But overall we are at a tense peace stage." Sasuke explained, to his blonde friend.
"That's better then a few years back... Remember what it was like, before our births...?"
Sasuke nodded. It was true. Back then, shinobi still died for land, money... Nowadays it was political... Which depending on your point of view, could be worse or better.
Naruto seemed to gaze off at the distance, before he exclaimed, "Hey, that Kiri guy's team is training... Wanna watch?"
The boy shrugged towards his friend. Naruto then leapt, silently towards the training session.
"Haku, Kita... Remember why we are doing this." The woman stated towards her team. She was a tall, blonde haired woman, with an ANBU outfit which hugged her body, but Sasuke could tell that it gave enormous amount of protection.
The small elf (that Sasuke assumed was called Kita) nodded seriously, and out of nowhere, summoned fire to her cheeks, and sent it in a concentrated bolt towards an unfortunate tree. The result was pretty shocking. The tree that had been there previously was now burnt to a crisp, with other trees following after their comrade.
"...You two come out, now." The woman called. It was obviously pointed at them.
Sasuke stood up, and walked out of the bush, his hands raised in a surrender position. Naruto followed suite, much more terrified then his comrade.
"What are you two doing here?"
Sasuke glared towards his teammate for a second, and the blonde loud mouth, quickly closed his mouth.
"Me and my friend were simply walking around, talking, when we heard training sounds. We were curious, so we observed your training. We only saw that fire attack." Sasuke answered, telling a three-quarters truth.
The woman gazed in his eyes, but the avenger stayed resolute. Naruto was starting to sweat, from the outskirts of his vision.
"Next time, don't spy on us, okay." Despite the fact that it was worded like a question, Sasuke knew when something wasn't a question. He nodded quietly, and lead Naruto with him.
When they were outside of the training grounds and were out of the field of hearing of the team, Naruto asked, "Why didn't you say that I was the one that did it?"
"Because we both did it."
When Kakashi arrived for the team meet up, he noticed the fact that his students were talking about Harry, and his exploits against the ANBU.
To be honest, he was impressed as well. Not many people at that age could say that they fought an ANBU, and live to say that they (nearly) defeated them. Not even he could at that age... To be honest, it was because he was drowning in his sorrow about Obito and Rin, but still...
"Yo." He said, as he stood behind them. The sound made Sakura scream, Naruto hold his kunai, and Sasuke to activate his Sharingan. Good... At least two of his team were still combat ready.
"What was that for!" screeched Sakura.
Kakashi ignored her. "I have the forms for the Chunin Exams... Who wants to participate?"
Sakura seemed hesitant. Sasuke seemed determined. Naruto seemed happy.
They were ready, he decided... But they had to decide.
"What about that Kiri ninja who fought that rogue ANBU?" Sakura asked.
"That is why it is in a week, so that he can recuperate from chakra exhaustion." Kakashi answered, truthfully.
"I'm signing it." Naruto said, calmly (for once).
Sasuke nodded in agreement with his teammate, and signed the sheet. Sakura, seemed hesitant, but eventually signed the sheet as well.
"I forgot to mention the fact that it's optional."
They didn't seem to care.
Harry woke up, to find himself in a massive field. "Now where the hell, am I?"
"You are in your mindscape, Harry." answered a voice behind him.
He jumped forwards, and turned around. He saw a pale girl about his age, with bushy brown hair, and a small smile on her face.
"I recognize you... Do you know me?" Harry asked. She seemed so familiar.
"Yes, I do, Harry. My name is Hermione." She answered.
Suddenly, memories flowed in so, so, so suddenly... He remembered.
"Hermione Granger..." He murmured. "What happened to you, Ron... Why are you here?"
She smiled sadly. "Ron sacrificed himself, so that you had the power to defeat Voldemort... And I as a by product, became Zangetsu. Eventually..."
"No... I didn't..."
"You did. The world destroyed itself, when you gave up. Our deaths, became too hard on you..."
Harry struggled with himself. He knew why. He had went into a depression after the two had died. Ron, despite the rockiness, was a good friend.
"Hermione... The only thing, I don't remember is, that why did Ron sacrifice himself... And you, sacrifice yourself into Zangetsu..."
"Ron, always loved us. We were the only things important to him. He wanted us to go forward. Ron was a much better friend then Draco was..."
Harry fought the urge to sneer. He had been so naive to believe Malfoy... Over his best friend.
"And I sacrificed myself into the blade, so that the prophecy could be fulfilled." She continued.
He was enraged. He remembered the lines exactly.
The trio of three,
Two to die,
One to become the cause of their power,
One to create the blade,
And the final one, to wield the blade,
Can push back those darkest of the forces.
AN: Whoa... So many sub-plots in this...
Well, this will make Harry much more... Human, I'd say. No, Ron isn't a selfish bastard in this, unlike most fics portray him as. To be honest, if the Golden Trio was only Harry and Hermione it wouldn't have survived.
Ron was the balance. He was the shield for Harry, and Hermione was the sword.
So, Hermione is Zangetsu. Who, expected that? Nope, sorry, no Bleach elements, part from the name.
See ya, I am tired.