Hello, everyone, here's the newest chapter of the "the Demon and the Ghost" for your enjoyment!
* Review response:
fanficreader71, eclipseX, Hanzo of the Salamander, OBSERVER01, Tristan76, Lycan91, Elemental Dragon Swordman, thank you, folks!
nobother, oh well...
Reishin Amara, ChaosLord SilverLink310, Sarutobi will have ...his way with the council when they will be discussing Sasuke.
Still Not Dead Yet, no, there will be invasion. Ans some ...cool fights there.
Hakkyou no Yami, Sachiko (and Ino, who would join them occasionally. yes, Ino will do that, but rarely and more with Sachiko than with Naruto) will be more than enough for Naruto.
lordamnesia, that won't be a change. It would be an... addition with an activation trigger (Kyuubi's yoki namely).
RE5 forever, no, I'll try to do this one without any crossovers.
T-Naruto, they will find that out in the last chapter. But they will not care about that anymore at that point.
xstofer, she more versatile, but they are roughly equal in terms of the battle strength. Well, that is for as long as Naruto doesn't use Kyuubi's yoki or youton.
* Jutsu list:
Shunshin - (D-rank) Body flicker - 'teleportation' jutsu.
(Raiton) Chidori - (A-rank) (Lightning style) Thousand birds - this is an assassination jutsu utilizing lightning element, using which one can cut almost through anything. Due to the high speed of attack, the jutsu emits a sound like a thousand birds chirping which gave the technique its name. Because of the great amount of chakra needed to utilize the technique, the technique can only be used so many times during the day. Downside of this jutsu is that while user is attacking, he has troubles with dodging enemy's counterattack because of his tunnel vision. So this jutsu is most effective to kill immobilized opponent.
Kai: shougekiha - (D-rank) Release: shock wave - Powerful pulse of chakra, that dispells genjutsu placed on the technique user and those around him.
Chouju giga - (B-rank) Super beast imitation drawing - allows to animate ink drawings.
Doton: toge ryudou - (B-rank) Earth style: spiked land - My original ninjutsu. Does exactly what its name suggests: turn a big patch of land in front of the user into stone spikes.
Fuuton: kaze no yaiba - (A-rank) Wind style: wind sword - A powerful blade of wind.
Chouju giga: tori: bakudan - (B-rank) Super beast imitation drawing: birds: bombs - allows to animate ink drawings, specifically a group of birds, turning them into bombs that explode upon destruction or user's command.
Doton: kyokan no sho osu - (C-rank) Earth style: colossus' crashing palms - My original ninjutsu. Creates two giant stone pals that try to crash anything that happens to be between them.
Jinton: nijuuryuu funkei no seme - (bloodline jutsu) Dust style: twin dragon decapitating strike - Two dust dragons simultaneously attack the target from two directions. Usually used when the target is in the air and has less chances of dodging.
Doton: keisei - (B-rank) Earth style: formation - jutsu of my own creation. Allows user to modify earth in a small area at his will. User need to stand on the ground to do this jutsu.
Mokuton: moku chuu no jutsu - (bloodline jutsu) Wood style: wood pillar technique - Attacks the target with a wooden ram.
Jinchuuriki modu: onite - (special jutsu) Jinchuuriki mode: demon arm - Naruto summon a cloak of Kyuubi's yoki around one of his arms.
Katon: gouryuuka no jutsu - (B-rank) Fire style: great dragon fire technique - User exhales powerful fireball shapes as a dragon head.
Suiton: daibakufu no jutsu - (A-rank) Water style: grand waterfall technique - Creates a column of water that will then erupt towards the target.
Hokage shiki jijun jutsu: kakuan nitten suishu - (bloodline jutsu) Hokage style 60 years retirement technique: sanctuary enlightment enclosing palm - Allows the control over bijuu chakra released by a jinchuuriki.
Fuuton: kaze no kiri - (B-rank) Wind style: wind drill - A drilling wind projectile.
Youton: ansen karyuudou - (special jutsu) Lava style: dark river fire flow - A streaming mass of heated lava that attacks the target.
Kawarimi - (E-rank) Change of body stance - substitutes user with nearby object.
Raiton: hiraishin - (unknown rank) Lightning style: sparking electric needle - Shocks the target with a bolt of electricity upon physical contact.
Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu - (C-rank) Fire style: great fireball technique - User exhales a fireball from his mouth.
Edo tensei - (S-rank) Resurrection to the impure world - Summons a dead soul back to the realm of living by putting it into the body created via the sacrifice of another, living, human. Soul is 'trapped' within this body by a special sealing tag. If the tag is destroyed, the soul is released and the jutsu ends. (Yes, it's not like in the manga, but I think this version of the jutsu is more believable).
Youton: dai-goremu - (special jutsu) Lava style: giant golem - Creates a golem from a mass of lava. User controls the golem, but must keep his hands in the concentration handseal. If the handseal is broken, the jutsu ends. The jutsu (because of the golem's size) requires so much chakra that even jinchuuriki needs to open fifth gate to have enough to keep the technique running for a minute and a half.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own "Naruto" in any shape or form.
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chapter 12: Invasion, part 1
Just a couple of seconds before Sasuke would have been disqualified for being late, Kakashi brought him to the arena via shunshin. And so, the sixth match of the first round, Sasuke vs Gaara, took place... At first Uchiha tried his luck in defeating his opponent using just taijutsu, but it seemed to be useless against sand shield Gaara had. Then Sasuke decided to try fire jutsu on Gaara, but it too seemed to be fruitless... Sand jinchuuriki all this time just stood on the same spot, while his sand protected him and counterattacked Uchiha whenever he was close enough...
While many genins and civilians found the fight to spectacular, Naruto and Sachiko, who, like usual, was in his arms, as well as Sai, so far had only mild interest in the match as neither of the two fighters displayed any skills or tactics worth the attention. At least that was until Sasuke initiated chidori in his left hand, before charging towards Gaara. Neither sand shield, nor sand armor could protect Suna ninja form the lightning blade, so had Gaara not dodged at the last moment, Sasuke would have killed him instead of just cutting his shoulder... There was a moment of silence as nothing happened. Then Ichibi jinchuuriki screamed, unleashing a wave of sand, which Sasuke barely evaded. At the same time an 'ANBU' in white cloak who was stationed in the stadium section for high-profile guests gave a signal. Moment later white feathers started falling, making people fall asleep.
"We're under attack." Naruto stated in a quiet voice so that only his teammates and Ino-Shika-Chou trio could hear him. Temari and Kankuro made movements to initiate their attacks on Konoha genins in the competitors' booth, but very pushed out of it into the arena before they could do anything. As soon as those two landed, their sensei, who at the time was fighting Genma, ordered them to take Gaara and leave... Nodding to themselves, team five rushed to the spectators' tribunes to help Konoha ninja there fight the invaders. As the nearest tribune for them was the one where high-profile guests were, they headed there. Using shurikens they took down five Oto chuunin who were too busy fighting Iruka and a Ebizu to notice the attack from behind.
"Kai: shougekiha!" Three genin cried simultaneously, creating a powerful chakra shock wave that woke up everyone in fifty feet radius from the genjutsu-induced sleep. About the same time a group of two chuunin and five genin arrived to help with the evacuation. Seeing that there now were enough men to safely evacuate various daimyo, vassals and other potential clients to the safe houses, the jounin were about to go help their colleagues on other tribunes and on the arena, when Iruka noticed Genma ordering Sasuke to follow Temari, Kankurou and Gaara.
"Sai, I give you a B-rank mission of stopping Sasuke from his suicide mission. Use aerial approach method. The ground is to be considered hostile territory." The pale boy nodded and, opening one of his scrolls, quickly drew something.
"Chouju giga!" A big bird sprang from the scroll and Sai jumped on its back. "Mission accepted, Iruka-sensei." And he flew away then... Naruto and Sachiko looked at each other and nodded – it was time to go up one level. The two of them went to guard tribune front while chuunin were to attackers away from the tribune's back... Not a minute later two Suna chuunin landed on the tribune railing.
"What do we have here? Two little kids playing ninja?" There were about to do some jutsu, but the duo was faster.
"Doton: tode ryoudo!"
"Fuuton: kaze no yaiba!" Naruto's earth technique forced them to jump into the air, where they were hit by Sachiko's wind blade... For the next couple of minutes there were no shinobi trying to get onto the tribune from their side, so the duo provided Konoha chuunin on the other side with some help by throwing kunai and shuriken at the group of Oto ninjas they were fighting... Suddenly the Kyuubi jinchuuriki felt tingling sensation on the edge of his field of awareness: someone was trying to attack him and his Sachiko-chan from behind.
"Duck!" He shouted. The whitehead next to him knew well enough that if he felt something, it most likely was there, so she immediately followed the suit. Moment later a giant fist soared through the space previously occupied by the heads of the two genin... Not stopping their movements, the duo turned around and simultaneously kneed ridiculously large Oto ninja's gut, sending him down onto the arena floor, where he was finished by a Leaf jounin moments later. Neither of the two members of the team five noticed a small smile that appeared on one of the vassals faces, though, as they were looking the other way at the moment...
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Finding Sasuke was not a very hard task for Sai – Uchiha couldn't spent even a couple of minutes without flaring his chakra like he was trying to impersonate a beacon. It, actually, was a wonder that no one tried to stop him, bar Gaara's teammates. Still, by the time the ink-user reached Sasuke's location, he was already in a fight with the Ichibi container. And Uchiha was losing the fight...
"Chouju giga: tori: bakudan!" Immediately a dozen of animated ink swallows flew out of the scroll and headed towards half-transformed jinchuuriki. Gaara raised his sandy arm to block the incoming attack, but the moment the swallows touched his arm, they exploded, sending him into a tree... Using this distraction, Sai flew down and captured Sasuke who was hiding behind another tree.
"Let me go, peasant!" The sharingan wielder shouted. "How dare you interfere with my mission!" In response Sai just hit a point on other boy's neck. Unfortunately, Uchiha was loud enough for Gaara to hear him and, thus, find their location.
"My prey! You took my prey!" Half-transformed jinchuuriki roared, seeing the ink bird rising up into the sky. "Give... me... my... prey... back!" Gaara thrust his sand-covered arm forward, launching lots of sand projectiles towards his offender. By some miracle Sai's bird managed to maneuver around all of the projectiles, which further enraged Ichibi jinchuuriki. Sand moved to cover the rest of redhead's body, turning him into miniature Shukaku. "I... kill... you!" Multiple mouths opened on the miniature beast's chest, sucking in a lot of air. Then ...it exhaled a strong gust of wind and sand... This attack was something the ink bird could not avoid, and so it was destroyed, leaving Sai, who got his left hand broken by sand projectiles during the previous attack, and unconscious Sasuke falling down towards the unforgiving earth.
"Damn!" Sai swore, as he tried to open the scroll with the 'spare' bird with just one hand. He finally succeeded only on his third attempt. "Chouju giga!" Moment later the ink-user was on the back of a large ink eagle... Not wasting any time, Sai flew towards falling Uchiha. Catching him with just one hand was hard, but nothing impossible, so, once Sasuke was lying on the ink bird's back, Sai headed away from the enraged Ichibi jinchuuriki...
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Once the tribune was secured, Naruto and Sachiko were sent to help with the basements of the stadium. So, following chuunin's order, the duo headed towards the entrance to the nearest basement, that was hidden in the wall of one of the corridors connecting the stadium's atrium and tribunes. As soon as the two genin entered the dimly lit narrow tunnel, they heard sounds of fighting coming from the depths of the building.
"Let's go." The white-haired kunoichi said, encouraging the two of them to go deeper into the basements to help their comrades. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki nodded and the two of them started running faster, soon ending up in the large boiler room that was situated several floors under the Kage booth. There three Konoha jounin were fighting two cells of Oto and Suna ninja, trying to prevent them from destroying the machinery and, possibly, blowing up the whole stadium. Naruto and Sachiko quickly hid behind pipes to think of the plan – just rushing into the fight would be a stupid idea.
"I have an idea." Naruto spoke after several seconds of thinking. "See that rock?" He pointed to the piece of the concrete beam that was lying on the floor. "I will crush it into dust for you to use." The whitehead nodded: this was the best plan they had so far, and it might actually work. Naruto nodded back and did a sequence of handseals. "OK than... Doton: kyokan no sho osu!" Two stone palms rose on each side of the beam, before coming together, crushing concrete between them into a fine dust, but also alerting everyone about duo's presence.
"Jinton: nijuuryuu funkei no seme!" Two dark-gray dust dragons rose into the air, before attacking nearest Oto ninja, who couldn't even blink before he was torn into two by the beasts, who immediately went for their next target. Leaf jounin were the first one to snap from the shock of seeing the attack and they immediately initiated the next round of the fight, sending their most powerful jutsu that could be used in the closed spaces at the remaining invaders...
A minute later and a severe wound on the arm of one of the Leaf jounin, all invaders had been dealt with. One of the jounin, using sign language, ordered the duo to follow his comrade, while he himself will be tending to the wounded. A round of nods later, Naruto ans Sachiko dashed after the jounin into one of the tunnels.
In the next several minutes they had visited three more large rooms, functions of which neither of the team five member would even try to guess, but those were empty, so, they continued further... Some more narrow corridors later, they came up to the closed door.
"OK, behind this door is the arena. I do not know what's the situation there, so be on guard." The jounin said at, at nods of the two genin, kicked the door open. It happened so that they were on the opposite side of the arena from the Kage booth, which was now partially destroyed, and on the roof above it there was a fight going on behind a purple barrier of some kind. The arena by now was more or less cleared from the invaders, so the jounin ordered Naruto and Sachiko to assist Konoha forces in the village, before shunshin'ing somewhere. The two members of the team five looked at the barrier, behind which they saw the Sandaime Hokage fighting someone. Then the duo looked at each other, silent question in their eyes: had the ANBU forgot the simplest way to disrupt the barrier technique?
"Shall we assist them?" Naruto asked. Of course they should for every ninja of Konoha had to protect their Hokage just as much as they had to protect the village itself. The white-haired kunoichi nodded and the two of them shunshin'ed to the roof towards the edge of the barrier, inside which Sandaime was fighting Orochimaru and two of his predecessors that somehow were alive again.
"You can do nothing there, genin." An ANBU in the white cloak snarled, not even turning his head to the newly arrived duo. "This barrier is impenetrable."
"You not need to brake it to destroy." Sachiko replied drawing her stilettos. "Fuuton: kaze no yaiba!" Before her words had completely sank into the heads of ANBU, she had unleashed an arc of cutting wind, that severed a support beam of the roof.
"Doton: keisei!" Just second later Naruto used roof tiles transformed into an earthen maces to crush another support beam. There was a loud cracking sound, and their side of the roof started sinking. Moment later the barrier burst like a bubble for it no longer had a stable base to be placed on.
"Take'em down!" An ANBU cell commander shouted, and his subordinates attacked the six-armed guy and the two-headed one, who were still trying to regain their balance on the careening roof... seeing that his plan for completely destroyed, Orochimaru ordered his two remaining ninja to retreat.
"You may have forced me to fall back, but I'm still leaving you these two..." The pale man gestured towards resurrected Shodai and Nidaime who were fighting both Sarutobi and the ANBU cell. "They won't stop even if I die, so... have fun with them, sensei." The snake sannin said, before disappearing from the roof via shunshin... At his moment, Shodai Hokage finally spotted Naruto and Sachiko, who still were on the roof, and, following his last command – destroy everything of Konoha – attacked them:
"Mokuton: moku chuu no jutsu!" A thick square wooden pillar grew from the roof, before, before twisting around itself and flinging out towards the two teens, taking such a path that dodging it would be ...unfavorable for them, as it would place them on the very edge of the roof...
'Damn... This jutsu is very powerful... Neither I nor Sachiko-chan have any defensive moves that can block this technique. Looks like I will have to resort to using it...' Naruto thought, before doing a concentration handseal with his left hand. "Jinchuuriki modu: onite!" Instantly a dark-orange yoki burst around his right arm, enveloping it in a 'glove'. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki thrust his right hand forward, and the yoki-made clawed 'glove' shot forward towards the fast approaching wooden ram, growing in size as it lengthened. Second later there was a loud crack as the wooden pillar, caught by the demon arm, spanned, leaving the blond shinobi with a sizable part of it in his hand... Unfortunately, the other part continued approaching the two genin as the resurrected Shodai continued his attack... Naruto and Sachiko were saved from Hashirama's jutsu when Sarutobi forced him on a defensive with a well-aimed katon: gouryuuka technique.
"Suiton: daibakufu no jutsu!" The resurrected Nidaime announced, as a great current of water washed the unprepared for such an advanced attack ANBU down, forcing the current Hokage to switch back to fighting his immediate predecessor to keep him from completing his task of destroying Konoha.
"So... You are Mito-chan's legacy..." Hashirama said, his eyes firmly on Naruto and his demon arm. "In this case you will have to be dealt with first. Hokage shiki jijun jutsu: kakuan nitten-..." The man couldn't finish the handseals for the jutsu as a giant fist made of dust and sand slammed into him, sending him flying backwards.
"Don't dare... you..." The white-haired kunoichi hissed angrily, glaring at the first Hokage. Naruto smiled briefly at how much his girlfriend carried about him, before deciding to press the current advantage in the fight by throwing the wood block he still held in his demon arm into the man. Of course, the Shodai Hokage wasn't going down that easy: a thick wooden shell rose around him, protecting him from the 'projectile' without even a dent appearing on it.
"Sachiko-chan, can you send a wind driller at the shield?" The Kyuubi jinchuuriki asked. His girlfriend just nodded and flashed through handseals.
"Fuuton: kaze no kiri!" The moment the white-haired kunoichi blew her jutsu towards Hashirama's wooden shell, her boyfriend finished his own sequence of handseals, unleashing one of his newest jutsu:
"Youton: ansen karyuudou!" Roof tiles around the blond shinobi melted, creating a mass of hot lava that shot towards its target. Wooden shell, behind which the Shodai Hokage was hiding at the moment, was already weakened by the ANBU attacks and Sachiko's wind projectile, and broke when the fire river slammed into it. More, the lava flow went further and burnt Hashirama's arms away, making the resurrected man temporary unable to do any techniques that required handseals – everyone knew that in a matter of seconds his arms will be regenerated because they all have already seen the same happening to Nidaime, who was resurrected the same way...
"Katon: gouryuuka no jutsu!" The ANBU cell commander shouted, unleashing a powerful fireball at the Shodai, but the first Hokage used sealless kawarimi to evade the jutsu. As he reappeared from his substitution, he was faced with two ANBU attacking him with their katana. Skillfully evading their blades while his body was repairing itself, Hashirama still missed the forth ANBU, who attacked him from behind with a raiton: hiraishin, effectively paralyzing him. The two operatives with katana cut the Shodai Hokage's arm at his shoulders, before jumping backwards. They sheathed their blades and simultaneously ran through handseals.
"Katon: goukakyuu no jutsu!" Still under the effects of the lightning jutsu, Hashirama couldn't do anything to dodge two approaching fireballs and his body, and with the seal that bound his soul to the mortal plane, were burnt to ashes... Even normally stoic ANBU let out a sigh of relief when their opponent didn't come back. It seemed that even the Edo tensei jutsu could be canceled without resorting to high-level fuyunjutsu that would most likely cost user his life.
"Hokage-sama, you need to destroy the sealing tags Nidaime-sama has in his head. If you do that, he will not regenerate." The ANBU commander shouted to Sarutobi, who was barely fighting on a par with his predecessor... "Naruto-san, Sachiko-san, we are very thankful for you assisting us in this fight, but it is almost over and your help, is still needed around the village." He said, before joining his cell in assisting the Sandaime Hokage in destroying the resurrected Nidaime... The genin duo turned around get ready to leave the roof, when a loud inhuman scream of anger resounded across the village. Moment later a pillar of dusty-yellow yoki exploded in the forest not far from the village wall. When the pillar died down, those who were looking there, could see a giant tanuki that was Ichibi no Shukaku there, heading towards the village. And if one were to look closer, they could see that the one-tailed beast was trying to follow an ink bird that was flying away from it.
"That's Sai and... who's that? ...Sasuke!" the Kyuubi jinchuuriki said, looking at the bird. "We've got to help them!" His white-haired girlfriend looked at him.
"Are you crazy, Naruto-kun?" She asked. "I'm barely at fifty percent of chakra after the fights. And I can see that you are not much better. We can do nothing against a bijuu even if we were fully rested!"
"It'll be very risky, but I do have something that can slow it down. Plus if we do nothing, the other, who can fight it for real, won't be there fast enough to not let it inside the village. Imagine what devastation fighting a bijuu inside Konoha will cause!" The blond shinobi answered. Sachiko nodded slowly – the Hokage and ANBU were still busy with the Nidaime Hokage who was still 'alive' and fighting them, while jounin and chuunin from the arena had already went into the village to fight the invasion off
"O-OK..." She said unsurely.
"Let's go then." Picking his girlfriend's hand, Naruto shunshin'ed them to what was left from the village wall in the direction the Shukaku was approaching from. "Take this." He said, giving the whitehead a normal soldier's pill, while taking a modified one himself. Moment later a chakra exploded around him into a pyre – the pill forced first five of his inner gates open. He flashed through handseals, finishing with the concentration seal. "Youton: dai-goremu!" The wall, bar the stone the duo was standing on, melted into lava and took a vaguely-humanoid shape, thirty-something meters high. "I need you to protect us from the smaller sand attacks, Sachiko-chan." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki groaned under the strain of all the chakra and yoki he was using. When she nodded, he continued. "I can keep this technique running for about a hundred seconds. Once I run out of chakra, get us away form here."
"OK, Naruto-kun." The white-haired kunoichi said with another nod. Naruto nodded back and had his golem move to intercept the Ichibi.
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