Magnus: Hi, my dear readers, here is the new chapter, with some mysteries revealed, and more added to the mix, hope you enjoy where this is going, and remember, Read and Review!
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Chapter 26
Wave – Part 3
Danzo looked at the report, it seemed that the Harvesters were still hard to control, but that was not of concern to him, what was of his concern, was the fact that they got killed during the test, while not harming the targets, which was not as expected
"It matters not, results will be better once the Crimson Harvesters are complete", Danzo finally stated
Meanwhile, in the Road to Wave...
"Anko... have you turned into a demon?", Kakashi asked in disgust, taking a kunai from his pouch...
"I shouldn't do that, she is my sensei, and I won't tolerate your stupid hatred toward things that none of us are", Naruto stated, while pointing casul to the back of Kakashi's head
"SHUT UP DOBE!, IF HE SAYS SHE IS A DEMON THEN WE MUST...", Sasuke yelled, while reaching for a kunai of his own
"Me thinks you should calm down, or you may hurt yourself", Lee said to Sasuke, while holding his arms in a very harmful way, Neji and Tenten remained quiet, while Arashi and Yukina watched in horror the scene
"I think we all should calm down, Kakashi-sensei, why do you think Anko-sensei is a demon?", Hinata asked
"Why else?!, look at her arm, it got destroyed, yet it grew back, those must be demonic powers!", Kakashi replied
"Kakashi-sensei, not everyone with regenerative skills is a demon...", Hinata stated, but Kakashi wasn't about to give up
"Yes, they are!", Kakashi replied, glaring, soon Hinata's face changed from pretty and forgiving to a murderous one, in his statement, Kakshi just insulted the most important person in her life, Naruto, and Anko shown the same face
'Tell him that then everyone with a blood line should be branded as demons too', Kyuubi suggested to Naruto, and he found the statement quite amusing
"Then everyone with a Blood line should be considered a demon too, Kakashi-sensei, for they also shown inhuman skills, are are you telling me that you alone can decide what is demonic and what not?", Naruto defended, and soon, Kakashi found himself unable to answer
"I think this pretty girl is right, all of us should calm down, in fact, Kakashi, if you feel inclined to leave then do so, I mean, Anko's team looks more capable and ready to fight, and yours more likely will do a better work by going back and reporting, don't you think?", Tazuna asked, while scratching the back of his head, but got the glares of Kakashi and Sasuke in return
"Arashi-koi!", Yukina yelped while hugging Arashi, her face hidden on his neck
"Don't worry, Yukina-hime, I won't let them hurt you, we just need to remain at bay with our skills", Arashi reassured, Neji and Tenten found the scene cute
"Is not that, Arashi-koi...", Yukina muttered quite nervous, earning a warm hug from Arashi, who raised his temperature a little to make her more comfortable
"Then what is it, Yukina-hime?", Arashi whispered to her ear, by now, both Neji and Tenten were imagining perverted things, a welcomed distraction from the current problem with Kakashi and Anko
"I'm hungry...", Yukina muttered, and Arashi's face went in a noticeable state of shock, that's it, until the bite came
CHUUU!!!!
"AARRGHH!!!", Arashi screamed, he has been victim of this for some time now, and it always hurt
"VAMPIRE!!!", Tazuna screamed to the top of his lunges, earning the attention of everyone, Neji tried to leap to the rescue of Arashi, but Hinata stopped him
"No!, wait and see", Hinata stated, and true to her word, what happen next shocked everyone, for Yukina stopped her blood sucking act shortly
"Sorry, Arashi-koi, I'm very sorry...", Yukina said while trying to hid her face in Arashi's chest
"It's ok, Yukina-hime, it's my fault, I knew I had to feed you earlier, but now it doesn't matter anymore", Arashi replied, while lifting her face so they can kiss
"IS HE CRAZY?!, SHE IS A VAMPIRE!!!", Sasuke shouted
"Well, maybe she is not like the horrible vampires we know, I mean, she has walked among us under the sun", Tenten stated, and Neji nodded dumbfounded, for he hasn't noticed that fact before, his mind busy on other things... like Tenten breasts...
"Great, just great, not only we have now a demon lover, but a vampire lover too...", Kakashi muttered, but Anko managed to hear him, so, she smacked him on his head, a little too strong, enough to put him out of commission for a short time
"Hey, Vampires are strong, aren't they?, I guess it would be cool to be one, especially one as you, who can walk under the sunlight", Sasuke taunted
"N-No, being a vampire is not a good thing, you have to fight your own urges, you may hurt those around you, and the ones you love, or worst, you can infect them, and turn them into vampires!", Yukina replied, but this earned another kid of question
"Then how do you manage to not turn Arashi-san into a vampire?", Tenten asked, it was not that it was a malicious question, but the truth will have to surface
"Because only humans can become vampires with the normal bite", Arashi replied
"Are you saying that you are not human?", Tasuna asked, while Neji used his Byakugan on both of them, gasping at what he found
"Of course not, both of them are half demons, well, his wife is one quarter vampire too, but yeah, they aren't humans, which is good, you can trust most humans nowdays", Naruto explained, and Arashi and Yukina nodded in full acceptation, while Neji, Tenten and Sasuke glared at the last comment
Meanwhile, in a hideout, far away in a forest...
Zabuza Momochi, one of the former seven swordmen of the Mist, was not happy, not only his lackeys, the Demon Brothers, had not returned from their simple mission, but now the man paying for that simple mission was standing in front of him, very annoyed, obviously he expected results, not excuses
"Tell me, Demon of the Mist, was this bridge builder such a treat that your Demon Brothers were unable to bring his head in the scheduled time?", The man asked, he was small, fat, dressed in a white business suit, he was a man unable to put a fight against anyone, but he had money, enough to rule a country through the underworld, which made him powerful
"Gato, don't feel secure on my presence, if my lackeys fell on battle, it only means that your bridge builder is being guarded by a powerful group of shinobies, thing that you didn't pay for, to kill an expert bodyguard, but it does not matter, I'll take care of this personally", Zabuza replied, his hand resting on the hilt of his massive Zanbato
"Very well, I'll give you this last chance, and here is some compensation for your dead comrades", Gato stated, while throwing some coins at Zabuza's feet, and then turned to leave, being followed by his special bodyguards
"Shall I kill that bastard?", Asked a masked nin, who was hidden during the meeting
"No, not yet, we shall finish our end of the deal, then we'll kill that bastard and destroy his organization, for the time begin, go and search for the bridge builder, and gather data on his bodyguards, we are expecting a full group of jounins if they managed to obliterate the demon brothers", Zabuza ordered, and the masked nin disappeared
On the road to wave...
Kakashi was fuming, not only because he was in company of demons and a vampire, not, that was the least of his troubles, Arashi and Yukina can be killed swift if he sees fit, or abandoned on wave for all he care, the problem was that Sasuke was very interested on becoming a vampire to gain more power, and that he could not accept
"Come on!, I can live as a vampire!, I don't like sunlight to began with, and I'm sure I'll be able to resist the vampiric urges! I'll be a great Vampire Lord!", Sasuke whined, again, and this was making Yukina very upset
"NO!, I WON'T PUT THE CURSE ON YOU!, THE ONES OF YOUR KIND ARE THE WORST!, YOU ARE ONLY HUNGRY FOR POWER, AND WHEN THE POWER CONSUMES YOU, YOU'LL BE NOTHING BUT A MINDLESS MONSTER THAT WILL BRING SUFFERING TO EVERYONE ELSE!", Yukina shouted, in an attempt to introduce some sense on Sasuke's empty skull
"I can live with that...", Sasuke replied, making everyone sweat drop, 'Besides, I'm tired of waiting for Lee's hot niece...', he mentally added
"Look, you dumbass-chicken-butt-hair-weirdo, stop harassing my dear hime, or I'll make sure to send you on a trip through the most horrible of the fires of hell!", Arashi shouted, really angered by the last Uchiha, Sasuke was about to say something that most surely will send him on said trip, when Neji interjected
"Any more comments, and I'll paralyze you for five hours and then I will throw you in a room filled with fangirls", Neji warning had the desired effect, Sasuke shut up and decided to drone and glare to no important point
"Thank you", both Arashi and Yukina said
"No problem, tell us if he bothers you again, we'll take care of him", Tenten stated, but then dragged Yukina to the said, and then they started to chat on a very unnerving way, stealing glances to Neji and Arashi from time to time, said boys found themselves shivering at the sight
Meanwhile, in a poor town near the Tea Country...
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!", Raiga shouted, while fleeing from the Nightmare-made-flesh that was hunting him down, Raiga tried to use all his lightnings attacks on the guy that was wearing the black outfit and armor, but none had any effect on this... man
"Stop running around, resistance is futile", Minato said calmly, and yet, Raiga heard him as if the Gate of Hell were calling for his soul, and no one in the town will be able to aid him, for he killed everyone there
Meanwhile in one of the houses...
There was a child, a lone and sick child, unable to go outside or do other thing than lay lamenting every day of existence, the sounds of screams out of the house reached the ears of the child, the child wanted the dread enemy to come and end this pitiful life, soon that wish was granted, and a man dressed on a white hooded robe entered the house, he looked intently at the figure of the child, who didn't spoke, just eyed him with hopeful eyes
"Hey child, want to go out of this ugly hatch?, maybe traveling to distant lands?", The man said while getting closer to the child, who nodded furiously, the hopeful look turned into one of pure bliss, happiness, and even love
"Good choice, child, now, why don't you tell me your name?", The man asked while lifting the child on his arms, which held a strength unknown to the child
"Ranmaru...", the child answered, and then the man got out of the house, and started to walk away with the child on arms
Meanwhile...
"Let me... live... please...", Raiga begged, his legs broke, his blades away from him, he was bleeding bad, and he was at the mercy of the walking nightmare
"Serve me, and you'll live", Minato replied, while allowing a golden ring to fall at the reach of Raiga, who understood immediately, it was a simple choice, put the ring on his finger and serve this monster, or refuse and be slaughtered, he decided to serve for some time until he managed to betray him, little he knew, that this was his last day as free willed being
As soon as he slipped the ring on his finger, the world turned black, and he felt his soul being eaten, he clothes changed into a black robe with some armor pieces, a hood formed over his face, forever concealing his human features, soon the figure stood up, and went to gather the twin blades he once wielded as a mortal, and then knelt in front of Minato
"Seven more to go... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!", Minato's evil laughter filled the air, and more than one weak hearted animal died of sheer terror, such is the might of the Nazghul, the Personal Guard of the soon to come Overlord...
Scraps from The Personal Journal of Doctor Marcus Stronghold
First Entry
Ha!, I can't believe it!, she actually did it!, this Sakura Haruno is really a person who desires to become better, when she came to me asking me to teach her my "Art" (yes, she called it Art!), I was about to refuse, but the fire on her eyes told me that she won't take a no for answer, so, I told her to prepare herself for a very harsh test.
I gave her three days to get ready, and I think she trained or something, because she really returned to take her test, of course I had a test, I consulted the spirits about how was I supposed to test her, and their answer didn't appealed to me, but the spirits are wise, testament of that is that she actually passed the test!
Of course it was hilarious, when I told her that she had to spend a entire day with me at the hospital basement, alone, she paled and blushed at the same time (which I deemed impossible until that day), I just can imagine all the things that crossed her young and hormonal mind!, yet, she acceded and went with me downstairs, I still laugh at the memory of all the time she stayed on the floor on knees and hands, yet she didn't give up, she managed to take it all and keep conscious to the end of it, and at the end of the day, I had to take her out of there bridal style, I still remember her words
"I would have preferred you to rape me all day than that... you are mean"
I know it was harsh to take here to the morgue on her first day, but it's for the best, from today, I'll train her into patching corpses, I really hope that she didn't eat breakfast today, it sadden me when she throws up in a so painful way...
Magnus:Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, things are going to become much more dense from here on, so stay tuned, and See ya in next chapter!
Ankiseth: Remember that Sakura's love interest is still undecided, please vote in the poll at the profile to chose her future lover!