Magnus: As promised, I updated sooner, although I thought it would be ready by yesterday, oh well, enjoy, and Remember, Read and Review!
Disclaimer: We don't own Naruto or anything you believe is being mentioned in this fnfic, Reiko Zonbolt, Arashi Uzumaki and Yukina Hyuga belong to Kage Bijuu, the Harvesters are co-owned by Kage Bijuu and me, the rest of the OCs belong to me
Chapter 40
Enter The Undertaker
On the floor of the forest, two groups of genins just met, the two leaders were looking at each others, while their companions were expectant, from one side, the genins were overconfident on a sure win against some short kid, on the other side, the genins were trembling on fear, not for the scarred opponent, but for the possible reaction of their leader, this is the sight that Shino and his team were witnessing
"Hey, Shino, who do you think will win from the two?", Sakura asked, in a very low voice, for she has come to understand the idea of stealth
"I don't know for certain, but, my insects are very unnerved", Shino replied, not lifting his eyes from the two groups
"I see, the guy with the scar and the umbrella seems scary", Sakura stated
"He is not the one you should worry about, is the other kid, he does not only have the smell of blood on him, he has the essence of death all over his being...", Kiba interjected, he looked really unnerved, and Akamru was literally trembling in fear, looking much more paler than usual
"Stay quiet you two, we need to gather data on him as a possible enemy for the future", Shino silenced his companions, so they could watch the fight unfolding before them
"Now, give me that scroll, or I'll take it from your cold and dead fingers", the boy with the umbrella threatened, and then, the other kid, moved his head, so his wide brim black hat would allow his eyes to be seen, to look into the eyes of his adversary, his black trench coat waved into an eerie wind, his hands, covered by fingerless black gloves, started to open and close in a rhythmic motion, his feet, clad in heavy black boots, made the slightest of the moves, as if getting ready, as if getting into a stance to receive his opponent with the arms of the death
"Your challenge is acceptable, now come to me, and face death", Gaara stated, his voice wasn't overconfident, it was ominous, otherworldly
"Insolent brat, you will be the one facing death!, SENBON STORM!!!", the boy with the scar shouted, while sending his umbrella high in the air, where it began to spinning, making senbons rain all over the battlefield...
Meanwhile, on another part of the forest...
"Can you kindly explain what happened to you?", Kabuto asked to a bruised Neji, who was carrying a pained Sasuke, while Tenten just refused to keep touching the Uchiha bastard
"We got attacked by a group of grass nins, one of them was really powerful, we managed to get out alive, but that ninja did something to our companion, a bite on his neck, which seems to be infected", Neji explained
'Ah!, so, Orochimaru has made his move, but this brat don't seems to be of much potential, Kekke Genkai or not... still, those bruises on the face looks like nails...', Kabuto thought
"Those marks on his face looks fresh, are them from that encounter?", Kabuto asked now
"No, I gave them to him, for molesting me!", Tenten replied, would it be Neji, she would have enjoyed her breast being groped, but Sasuke... he was lucky to be required alive... said luck was quickly running dry
'Nay!, not only a spoiled brat!, but a pervert too?!, Orochimaru does not have any taste!', Kabuto shouted on his mind
"Don't worry, we are comrades, for hence, we'll help you, you must be tired of carrying such dead weight, we'll help you carry him for a while, also, we have an spare scroll that we can give you, so you only need to collect the other", Kabuto said with a kind voice, while his two companions got a hold on the last Uchiha
"Thank you very much, your help is greatly appreciated", Neji thanked, while receiving the scroll
"Yeah, we were about to drop him from a cliff, and give up the exam", Tenten suddenly said, making everyone laugh
'And you would have done the best thing to do, but you can't know that, midgardian weapon smith', Kabuto added on his mind soon, the two groups were in their way to the tower, while the seal on Sasuke's neck kept infecting his chakra system
Back with Gaara...
It was worst than a horror movie, Gaara hasn't done anything yet, and he already had everyone terrorized, the countless senbons rained over him, but none could touch him, all of them, stopped by a shifting layer of sand, sand that was coming out of the gourd t his back, it was a perfect shield, and it seemed the he was not even making the slightest effort to use it
"If you are not going to come, then I'll have to go after you, that's something that you are going to regret with every fiber of your being", Gaara stated, and then started to walk forward, the boy made more senbons to rain, but the effect was the same, none
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!", the scarred boy shouted in panic, his companions ran away, throwing the scroll to the ground, in hopes to slow down the monster
"May the gods above will have mercy of your soul, for I'll have none", Gaara stated, his voice cold as the death, the boy was unable to move due to sheer terror, and when Gaara was just in front of him, he raised his hand in the form of a claw, and in a light speed motion, he trapped the boy's neck with it, strangling him with inhuman strength
"H... Hel... p!", the boy tried to scream, but it was futile, the grip only tightened, until the boy stop moving, then, Gaara completed the move, raising the boy a little more, and then slamming his head against the ground, after this, Gaara stuck out his tongue in a strange victory face, when he rose up from the ground, a coffin of sand covered the boy, and in a quick motion, the coffin sunk in the ground, leaving no evidence of the boy, or where to find his body
"Kankuro", Gaara called for his brother, who almost fainted due to his fear
"W-What d-do y-you n-need?", Kankuro asked, with all the valor he could muster
"Look for the scroll... Temari", Gaara ordered, while asking for his sister
"Yes, brother?", Temari shyly asked
"Rise a prayer for my latest victim", Gaara ordered, and Temari quickly obeyed, while in the bushes, Shino and his team were at the verge of a heart attack
"This is bad", Sakura whispered, from the three, she was still the weakest, and this kid, just showed that he will kill whatever it's on his way
"Bad?, this is worst than bad!", Kiba nearly freaked out, the last thing he wanted, was to make the buried boy company
"Stay quiet the two of you, he hasn't seen us yet, now let's crawl our way out of here, least we attract his attention", Shino ordered as a true leader would do, yet the way Sakura and Kiba were lookng at him with pale faces and wide eyes
"He is right behind me, isn't he?", Shino asked, and his companions simply nodded, too afraid to make any sound, so, slowly, Shino turned his head around to face the monster, who looked at him with a bored expression
"Boo!", Gaara said in a sudden move, sending Shino, Sakura and Kiba, running and screaming to the top of their lunges
"Oh, I'll never get tired of this, scaring the crap out of little kids, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!", Gaara expressed his true self in a hearty laugh, of course, that laugh was so scary that even Temari felt like fainted, and she never had any beatings or even harsh words from him
Some time later...
Thanks to Neji, the genjutsu that was in the way to the tower was bypassed with no effort, thanks to Tenten, the ridiculous amount of traps were removed, and Kabuto had to admit, that said couple made a wonderful team work, which saved him the need to use his secret powers, which gave him more time before the inevitable confrontation with his psychopath step brother... of course, not everything was good, because thanks to a now awake Sasuke Uchiha, who was complaining alot due to the pain of the cursed seal, the group was now in the middle of an ambush, by a team from the mist, the three of them were using something that looked like swimming goggles and breathing devices
"Two konoha teams, now this is rich, we'll get more scrolls as well as killing more konoha weaklings", the leader of the mist team voiced
"We are not afraid of you!", Tenten shouted, while getting a naginata from one of her scrolls
"Hey!, look at that, a kunoichi, and a pretty one!, we should keep her around until the exam is over, raping her for the remaining days!", another of the mist nins voiced, earning the wrath of Neji
"No one will touch her, and just for those words, I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!", Neji shouted, getting ready to unleash his wrath on the mist nins, who thought that they had him fooled by the genjutsu
'It seems that age and time does not have done anything to change this annoying cliche, it's always for the love of a maiden, that heroes are born, and for this same reason, are brought to their ultimate demise, although, I have sympathy for the Hyugas and their way to turn their offspring into killing machines, so, good luck, Neji, survive and make more killing machines of your offspring', Kabuto thought, while trying to formulate a way to get out of this situation without revealing his true self, when a sudden sourge of power interrupted them all
"RRRAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!", Sasuke roared as he raised to his feet, his body was being covered by black spots, and his eyes were glowing red
'Ah!, so the seal is taking effect now!, very well then, use it against our enemies, show off, Uchiha brat, and save me the work of saving everyone asses, in the end, I'll take control over your power', Kabuto thought, while Sasuke leaped at the mist nins, tearing them apart with insane delight, clones and clones fell to his power, yet, he didn't seemed to care, he only wanted to destroy
"Hey, boss, we should get out of here, if he catches us, we are done for", one of the mist nins stated, they were hiding in a safe spot, letting their clones to take care of the fight, but it was just a matter of time before the enraged Sasuke could find them
"You are right, this is too much for us, we are leaving", The leader stated, but they will not live up to see another day
"I think you forgot something, NO ONE THREATENS MY BELOVED TENTEN, AND LIVES TO SEE ANOTHER DAY!!!", Neji shouted, he tracked them way too easily with the help of the byakugan, and with the fury of an overprotective boyfriend, he destroyed them, which made their clones disappear, much to the disgust of the possessed Uchiha
"NO! I WANT TO KEEP FIGHTING! I WANT TO KILL! I WANT TO DESTROY!", Sasuke roared, but got no chance of doing anything else, for Kabuto quickly hit him on the stomach with his open palm, although it wasn't a jutsu, but a magical seal
"There, that should help you to calm down", Kabuto said to the now knelt down Sasuke, who was no longer covered in black spots
"What did you do to him?", Tenten asked, for all she knew, that looked like a Juken strike
"Oh?, ah!, that move!, well, is a chakra disruption strike, it's nowhere near to a juken strike, but it helps to calm down patients who are freaking out and building up too much chakra, he will recover soon enough, and hopefully he'll think straight again", Kabuto explained, it was his best, to lie about things and events, and this was no different
"I'm afraid that he will never think straight, he never has", Neji said as soon as he arrived there, Tenten quickly hugged him, and began to check for injuries... or groping him...
'Oh, I know he never have think straight, after all, it was me who killed his mother, and mind raped him, not that any of you will ever know it', Kabuto stated on his mind, manipulating these people has proved to be incredible amusing, but it was too early to reveal himself
Meanwhile, in the ruins of some kind of palace...
Minato and his servants were looking at the statues in the room, winged reptilian creatures, their arms had membrane like wings attached to them, their talons looked so sharp, and their roaring mouths showed countless razor sharp teeth, these statues, unlike any one else of the palace, looked astonishingly real, so real, that one could swear that they would move at any given time...
"It has been a long time, but now, not only we are all together again, now, we'll be able to revive our mounts, the pride of the Nazgul!", Minato exclaimed, and the rest of the wraiths cheered up
"Revive, end bringers, wings of doom, shadows of the destruction!, Revive, and breath Death again!", Minato shouted, and then, the color was restored to the nine creatures, their skin turned pitch black, their eyes gained an ominous red light, and with a mighty roar, they moved to meet their masters, who quickly mounted them
"The reign of terror of the next Overlord, will soon begin!, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!", Minato's laughter was soon accompanied not only by his servant wraiths, but by the roars of the winged creatures, a sound capable of killing an entire army by sheer terror
Magnus: I hope you liked it, the teams will reach the tower in the next chapter, feel free to send suggestions about battles you want to see, they may be taken and posted soon enough, also, your suggestions on more crossovers will be taken seriously too, either for this story, or another one, until then, see ya in next chapter!