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Review Responses:
Antex- The Legendary Zoroark (February 17)- Yep, this had been an idea that I had thought up of a long time ago and I briefly considered making a whole fanfiction off of it but I wasn't into the idea enough to do that. And yes, you did sound a bit like the stereotypical evildoer there. Thank you for the compliments about the last chapter and I personally love writing fights like these. Finally, Project Falcon is the elimination of the main Hyuga branch while also converting most of the Hyuga to Otogakure. The only exception to this will be Hinata Hyuga for reasons explained in this chapter.
Nwandu225 (February 17)- Yep, Neji will be in Akuma's personal squad. I felt like Team Guy as a whole really did not receive enough screen time especially since it was my favorite team. I have a whole different plan for Sasuke however… Finally, as for your request to read your new fanfiction Catastrophe, holy shit. It is an extremely well written and enjoyable fanfiction and that was just the first two chapters. I personally would recommend it to everyone who is currently reading this, I will not improve the word count by talking too much about his story, so you just have to look at it yourself.
Namitthekind (February 19)- Thanks for the compliment and yea I meant to say naginata, but always thought it was nagintina. My mistake, I have fixed it now though.
dbtiger63 (February 23)- Thanks! And yea he really is being treated better in Oto. Also, about the Kage Bunshin flaw, I just figured that since it is made out of chakra, the muscle memory, physical conditioning, and reflexes cannot transport over as well. Everything else can of course but I see what you're saying. You are also right with the fact that he wouldn't be a ninjutsu expert without this ability since those are chakra based attacks.
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Hirashi Hyuga was one of the most esteemed people in all of the Hyuga Clan after 50 years of hard work and careful manipulation. He had been accepted into the main branch on his twentieth birthday after marrying a noblewoman and being on a respected shinobi team that had contributed greatly in both the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars. He was easily jounin level but his true talents laid in deception and manipulation.
He had been the one to convince the previous clan heir to make the law that made the youngest child of any main branch member be forced to have the seal put onto them. He had also helped make the decision to change the seal from one that simply kept the Byakugan from the enemy's hands into one that made all branch members their servants. He also had a son, only one as his wife was not strong enough to survive the birth, who was also high up in the ranks. The two had been trying to sabotage the standing of Hinata Hyuga ever since her birth. The Hyuga Affair had been his best work of art in his personal opinion. Of course, all it did was convince their clan head to have another child but at least he got rid of the branch family's most influential member. Oh well, he could always do something about his dear wife in the future.
As he walked down the halls of the main branch compound to his room he noticed something a bit off in the room next to his. In a flash he was in front of his son's door and slammed the door open with his Byakugan activated. He soon wished that he had not done so as he saw his son and his wife both dead on the ground and could see in vivid detail the states of their internal organs with his eyes. He narrowed his eyes at the men responsible for this, three branch members of all things, and put his hand in a single seal. How dare they ruin all of his hard work! He would have been the father of the clan head and would have had even more influence if they hadn't ruined it all. Oh, he was going to enjoy killing them…
"Pain!" he yelled out in rage but was soon left gasping as one of them moved at high speeds and hit his heart with a jyuken strike to the heart. "How…?" Hirashi gasped out as blood started to flow down from his mouth.
The branch member just smirked and wiped off the curse seal with a smug look. "We aren't your slaves anymore old man, when you meet Taiyo in the afterlife, tell him his old teammate sent ya." Right before Hirashi died, he recognized the smug bastard. Ryuu was the name of the man, one of the best trackers in Hyuga history. Taiyo had been the one who made it to where Ryuu wasn't accepted into the main branch since he was unneeded competition. How disgusting… being defeated by someone lesser than him, Taiyo deserved to rot in hell for that. With that last… positive thought, Hirashi saw nothing but darkness.
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Kabuto smiled as he crept through the halls of the clan head's home with four Hyuga members. They had been haggling over the details of the Oto deal for the past hour, so it was good to have a bit of stress release to seal the deal. In the end they added two new divisions for the new clan as well as change the last name to prevent unwanted memories. They would now be known as the Taka clan with the five divisions being the taijutsu division, the medical division, the assassination division which would train in stealth and archery, the tracking division, and the elites who were trained by each division.
These groups would not train in only these things but would make these skills their priority to learn. They would all be led by a person from the elite group chosen by each division head since five members from each clan are put into the elite division, so there was a diversity. Kabuto sighed as he continued to move silently through the house. Right when he thought the negotiations were over, one crafty bastard had mentioned the new divisions so that he could lead the tracking one, Ryuu or something.
Oh well, it hardly mattered now. Kabuto was finally at Hiashi's room and, not wasting any time, he kicked down the door and the branch members moved out. "What is the meaning of this?!" Hiashi yelled out, standing up from where he was sitting with his family. He tried to activate the seal but did not even get that far as his shoulders were hit with jyuken strikes. He growled and abandoned that tactic to begin spinning. "Kaiten!" he yelled out as he rotated and conjured up a large blue sphere that knocked away the three branch members that surrounded him.
"Hiashi…" he heard to his right. He quickly looked to where his wife had been only to see his eldest knocked out and his wife in the hands of some teenager with a kunai at her neck.
"Let her g- urk!" he yelled as he was struck in the back by the remaining branch member. He could only watch helplessly as his wife's throat was split and a kunai raced towards him. Then all he saw was oblivion…
"Was that really necessary Kabuto-san?" the last branch member asked as he looked down in distaste at Kana Hyuga's unmoving body.
"Orochimaru-sama has already given you all plenty of leeway by allowing Hinata to live. Allowing anyone else of the main branch to is simply a liability. Now then, let's check on your comrades, I did not expect Hiashi to put up this much of a fight…" Kabuto said with a sick smirk. He really enjoyed watching people suffer, it made him feel like he was in control and nothing could be done against him. It was a shame that he couldn't kill that Hinata girl, but since she had been nothing but nice to the branch family and had never used the seal on any of them they demanded that he let her live. Oh well, it would be interesting to see what she would do in the future.
Two of the other branch members were dead from head trauma while the other had a broken arm thanks to their rather violent launch into the wall. Kabuto couldn't wait to get his hands on that Kaiten technique of his, that would prove to be very valuable in the future… Anyway, Kabuto walked out of the room, his stress officially relieved, to begin the next phase of his plan. All of the techniques had already been secured so now all that was left was the evacuation. Who knows, if he was lucky he might be able to cause even more pain… With a laugh that chilled the other person in the room to the bone, the teenager exited the room to begin the next stage of the operation. As the two left, they both failed to notice the crying girl in the corner of the room with her Byakugan active and a look that was so filled with hatred that it put any Uchiha's to shame.
"Orochimaru…" the girl mumbled as that was the first thing she heard when she had woken up. Apparently Kabuto had made it to where she would awaken shortly after being knocked out so she could see his handiwork sooner than later. "I will do everything I can to kill him… Kabuto too, I will kill you all…" she mumbled with hatred as she eventually fell to unconsciousness from both the emotional and physical strain.
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Jiraiya shivered as he looked down at the arena floor, seeing the two fighters who had finally entered the stadium. He had an extremely bad feeling, like something had happened that would weaken Konoha extremely. Oh well, it was probably nothing, besides he wanted to see how this next fight panned out.
"Would you like anything Jiraiya-sama?" a young man asked him as he held up a tray with a few items already on it for others.
"I'd like a soda please," he said with a grin as he gave the man some money to get him a drink. Little did anyone know that this was one of his many spies that would record information for him. Maybe he could find out if this village had anything to do with the bad feeling from earlier…
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Ken was very calm as he walked down to the arena with Naifu beside him. He knew the girl well, how could he not after being on the same squad as her for so long, and knew most of her tricks. Of course, this could be applied vice versa as his cousin knew many of his tricks as well. He couldn't let her think, that was obvious, so with a nod of his head he decided that an immediate assault was his best bet.
The two both looked up to Orochimaru who just pointed a thumb over at Akuma with an amused face. With a serious look on his face, which was entirely negated by his childish body, he raised his arm and let it fall to let them know to begin. Without a single word spoken, Ken threw his arm out at Naifu as many iron senbon shot out from his open palm towards Naifu. She pulled out her new tantos in a flash and deflected all of them before smirking at her cousin. This was an act, she never showed emotion during a fight, she barely showed any in a normal day. She must be stalling for time.
"You shouldn't underestimate me cousin, if you do I will defeat you with less effort than it took for Suika," she said smugly. She was trying to make Ken run out of chakra then… well the solution to that was simple.
"Fine," Ken said just as smugly and a naginata formed in the palm of his hand. He had trained Naifu in the tantos himself and he knew that she was only a chunin level with them. Add that to the better range of his naginata and this fight would be his. He charged forward point first towards Naifu and she barely had time to dodge the strike with a leap to the right. This was what Ken wanted however as he slammed the shaft into her stomach, launching her across the arena. Unfortunately for him, she stood up a moment later and was able to negate most of the damage by a quick block with her tantos.
Naifu hurriedly sheathed her tantos and began using hand seals. She didn't like using ninjutsu thanks to her low chakra reserves but she was left with no choice. She could use both earth style and water style but only knew a few jutsu for both. Unfortunately, this next jutsu would take out a quarter of her chakra reserves but she had to act fast and hesitance was not an option. She quickly went into a strange stance that only a few recognized as the stance for the Hidden Mist Jutsu stance. "Water Style: Hidden Mist Jutsu!" she yelled out as a thick mist began to fill the area.
Ken frowned as the mist began to surround him and he couldn't see anywhere around him. Oh well, time to show another trick of his. He formed a large fan that was reminiscent to Madara's and reared back before swinging it all around him. This was successful as all of the mist faded away to reveal… nothing. Ken sighed at this and deformed his naginata and his gunbai before forming hand seals for another technique. Before he could finish, he had to cover his arm in iron to deflect all of the shuriken thrown at him. He managed to block most of them, but one managed to catch him in the shoulder.
He growled but chuckled as he absorbed the metal into his system, actually replenishing some of the chakra he lost. Naifu saw this and went back underground to try and think of a new strategy. However, before she could do so, Ken once again preformed his hand seals and slammed his hands on the ground. "Iron Style: Tracking Iron Serpents!" he yelled as about 30 iron snakes went out from his palms into the ground.
The way this jutsu worked was that Ken had to recognize the chakra of the other person in his system, in this case the chakra coated shuriken that Naifu threw, and made iron snakes that could effortlessly move through the ground and track down the individual they were sent for. This was an A-rank jutsu and one of his strongest, which was seen when Naifu leapt out of the ground with 25 snakes after her. The problem was, he had to sacrifice defense with movement so it only took one well-placed hit to destroy them. This was also seen when Naifu used her tantos to destroy most of them. The remaining snakes went back underground to await further instruction and would come back when he needed them to.
"I hate those snakes," Naifu gritted out through clenched teeth. They were the reason that she had lost most of their sparring matched after all.
"Well that's a shame," Ken said calmly as he faded into mud.
"What?" Naifu asked intelligently before her eyes widened and she turned around to catch and iron coated fist in the stomach. Before her eyes closed she smirked as a puff of smoke appeared and sizzling was heard. As the smoke faded, Ken saw a block of mud with many exploding tags on it.
"Oh shi-," Ken began to say before a large explosion engulfed his form. Naifu came out of the ground a moment later while the area around Ken was covered with smoke. She had already used up half of her chakra in the fight and had to rip an iron snake off her forearm before preparing some shuriken to throw.
Everyone in the stands were on the edge of their seats, except for Akuma who asked his father to lift him up for a better view, as they saw the smoke start to dissipate. In the middle of it was a man who was completely covered in iron and many cheered at the fact that they got to see the famed Black Steel Jutsu twice in one day. Ken on the other hand, was pissed off. She could have killed him with that last attack if he wasn't so good with this jutsu! Ken decided it was time to end the fight and formed a few hand seals before charging at Naifu.
Naifu recognized those hand seals and smirked before throwing her shuriken. Ken had planned to just deflect them but was surprised to see explosive seals on the insides of the shuriken. He quickly ducked and watched as the shuriken flew over his head…and blew up with a loud BANG! He faceplanted before slowly getting up and forming different hand seals, much to Naifu's relief. The jutsu he was about to use was called the Spinning Iron Drill which had spikes all along it as well as the normal drill that came out of his palm. It come out of his palm and surrounded the rest of his arm and was only usable in his Black Steel form. This was because it was so damaging that it would rip his arm off without the iron protecting it, no matter where a person was hit by it, they would face extreme damage, even a grazing blow as the spiked could elongate. In fact, if Naifu looked closely she saw the iron on his right arm was a bit scraped from even starting the jutsu.
She did not get much time to ponder this as Ken finished his hand seals and threw out both palms towards her. "Iron Style: Iron Vortex!" he yelled as two tips of iron began to come out of his palms. Soon they became two medium sized drills that were completely iron and had small spikes on them. They both shot out at her at high speeds and began spinning. She managed to dodge the first one, but the second one grazed her side, grating into her skin and tearing away a small chunk of it. She cried out in pain and fell to one knee while glaring at her opponent. 'Damn it!' she thought in anger and pain, temporarily throwing all her kunoichi composer to the side. 'Fine, it's time for my strongest jutsu… get ready cousin, because you won't like this one bit.'
Naifu began to slowly stand up while Ken ran towards her. Ignoring this, she began the hand seals required for her final gamble. Throughout the battle she had been to the five corners necessary for this jutsu and had placed a seal in each one, now the entire arena was her territory. "Sealing Art: Five Trigram Paralyze Seal!" she yelled out as each of the five corners glowed blue before blue lightning came from them and wrapped themselves around Ken. Ken screamed in pain at this as iron was a conductor for electricity so it was even worse for him to get caught in it.
Naifu nodded and pulled out her tantos to prepare for a victory as Ken started to release his Black Steel Jutsu. She charged forth and was about to hit Ken in the shoulder before her seal suddenly ended and she felt a large pain in her own shoulder. She slowly looked down to see an iron spike trailing from Ken's chest of all things right into her shoulder. "H-how?" she asked weakly as she was about to go unconscious from blood loss and pain.
Ken simply pointed to one of the seals and her eyes widened when she saw that one of the iron snakes she hadn't killed had pierced it, ruining the seal. "You almost had me, but I have seen this seal too many times to not have a plan for it. Now rest, it was a good fight and I have a feeling you will surpass me one day… But don't get cocky that day is still far off," Ken said with one of his rare smiles. Naifu decided to rewards it with a smile of her own and fell unconscious. It was nice to see her cousin a little happy again…
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As the medics carried Naifu off the field in a stretcher and helped Ken hobble to the medical bay as well for chakra loss Akuma couldn't help but be amazed. He had no idea his sensei was that strong! Sure, he was a master with weapons and he had heard of his Black Steel Jutsu but he was throwing jutsu Akuma had never heard of before like crazy. "Father, you think I can ever learn those jutsu?" Akuma asked excitedly while looking up at his father.
"Kukuku, I am afraid not Akuma-kun, those jutsu can only be performed by a Tetsu. You see they have a kekkai genkai that allows them to produce iron from their skin and use it in ways like that. You will never be able to do those jutsu, but you can always invent your own if you want to use some unique ones," Orochimaru told his son while mentally thinking about making Ken an S-rank shinobi. He had shown exceptional skill in his battles and had been the one to invent most of those Iron Style techniques. The only ones he hadn't invented were the Iron Senbon Jutsu and the Iron Vortex Jutsu, which were invented by the clan head.
"How did he get the kekkai genkai?" Akuma asked curiously.
"Well, that's simple, I gave it to him," Orochimaru said with a little bit of pride in his voice. That had been one of his most successful experiments ever even after all the others he had done. Although there was one involving a potential plasma bloodline that he was currently working on that looked promising. All it did was amplify a fire affinity to a ridiculous degree as well as modify the body to be able to handle it. If it worked, it would be one of his best ever, right on par with the Tetsu Clan.
"Then why can't you give it to me?" Akuma asked a little dejectedly. He was starting to think that maybe his father did not believe he could handle the power. Why else would he not let him have something that could give him more after all? He only wanted to make his father proud and wanted to use every tool at his disposal to do so.
Orochimaru looked at his son and sighed. It seemed like the moment he had been avoiding was finally here… "Akuma-kun, it is something that is very complex and many people actually find it inhumane but it isn't. We are making people as strong as they can be but to do so involves a lot of pain as well as death. However, they all know the price for this kind of strength and are willing to pay it. I don't want to tell you too much about it today as I don't want to ruin the day for you. Instead I will tell you all about it tomorrow and show you one of my more promising experiments, as they are called, tomorrow. Can you wait until then?"
Akuma slowly nodded, suddenly a little afraid about what he might see. Father and son both sat in awkward silence for a while until Orochimaru broke it. "Well, come on. I know you want to go to that ramen stand again so let's." At this Akuma made a happy smile and began to talk excitedly about it among thanks. After seeing that smile, Orochimaru decided that maybe the village going bankrupt was a fair enough price to pay.
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Elsewhere a man sat silently while looking over a raining city. His plan was progressing nicely, all they needed were a few more members to join their ambition as well as the locations of a few more things they were hunting. As he contemplated in silence a strange creature that looked like a combination of a venus fly trap and a human popped out of the ground. Half of it was a sickly white while the other half was pitch black.
"Master we have found the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi as you have asked," the black half of the creature said in a deep, raspy voice.
"Yeah! And we also found two possible new members! One's a bit creepy but he is very strong and the other can actually turn into iron! He is loyal to his village though so that's a bummer…" the white side of the creature said in a bright, light tone.
The man they were talking to hummed before slowly opening his purple, ringed eyes to look upon the city that he recently liberated. "Good work Zetsu… tell Sasori and Kisame they are to find the possible recruits and try to bring them to our side. Also, tell them not to give away too much and not to wear their cloaks, we don't want the villages to know about us just yet…"
"As you wish Master."
"Byeeeeeee," with that the creature dubbed Zetsu disappeared once more into the floor for his new assignment, leaving the man to think once more.
'Soon,' he thought. 'Soon, this world will know true pain, and there will finally be peace.' He began to smile slowly, a rare sight for Nagato Uzumaki, otherwise known as Pein. 'I wonder if this is what you would have wanted… Yahiko…'
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AN: Well that's a wrap! I have been attempting to write this chapter for a long time but I just couldn't find a way to start it off that was even decent, let alone like this. Oh well, I am sorry for not posting in so long but I have been busy with surgery recovery, school, work, and other fanfictions I have started writing, however I no longer have a deadline as I write whenever I really feel like it. Speaking of which, bit of shameless advertising here, I have recently started writing a self-insert fanfiction called The Shinobi Alchemist where the main character is from the human world but died and was reincarnated as a Naruto character, original I know, anyway his presence alone will change many things in the world. I was too lazy to think of an original special power as well so I just gave him alchemy instead which I think will be cool. Anyway, we have covered a ton in this chapter! Akuma will learn about the experiments soon as well as see a character that will make an appearance later on, Hinata seems to have a bit of a grudge now, can't imagine why, and Ken may be promoted to S-rank soon! Also, I know this story is going by slow and I am sorry for that. I actually have pretty good ideas for the future of the story, but it is taking longer than I thought to get to them. After next chapter I am planning on making them longer though so maybe that will help. Anyway, thank you all for reading and please don't forget to rate and review. See ya later!
