Chapter 17: Shinobi Of The Shadow
(Italics: Thoughts/Flashbacks/Dream sequence. Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's/Inner Naruto's / Inner Sakura's Speech.)
Naruto and Ino were both awake and had their things packed already as Naruto smiled wide and said: "Alright Ino let's go." Ino looked at his determined face with an admiring grin of her own as she replied: "Sure."
Naruto and Ino began sprinting down a dirt road as they made their way back to the forests that surrounded the borders of the fire country. At their current pact the outskirts of the forests would come into view within half an hour. Ino began to breath heavily for a minute due to exhaustion. Naruto saw this and sighed as he thought:
I forgot Ino doesn't have the amount of stamina I do… I also have the fox too… I should probably take a break for her sake.
Naruto stopped all of the sudden causing Ino to stop alongside him. Naruto turned to her with a wide smile as he said: "Hey Ino how about we take a break?"
Ino raised an eyebrow and gave him a skeptical look as she replied sarcastically: "The inhuman stamina of the legendary Naruto Uzumaki failing? It must be a sign of the apocalypse. The next one will be when you stop eating ramen."
Naruto felt a little annoyed at the comment and even slightly insulted on the ramen comment but nonetheless he ignored it with a sigh as he said: "I guess there's a first time for everything."
Ino sighed and sat down, she smiled and met eye contact with Naruto as she said: "With the number-one hyperactive knucklehead ninja there always is."
Three Shinobi clad in all black jumped from tree branch to tree branch in pursuit of their target, according to their information from a reliable source two Shinobi of the leaf have been spotted at the border of the fire country and from the description they received the information matched their target perfectly.
One of the three members took a good look at the photograph of their target. She grinned as she thought:
Naruto Uzumaki huh… Good thing our orders are to capture and not kill him… He's pretty sexy… Hehe what I'd do to him…
The female member put away the picture and sped up to meet her comrades. An older looking male Shinobi looked behind him and said:
"Narobi don't fall behind."
The female member named Narobi nodded and said:
"Sorry about that Hajuro I'll keep up."
The third member of the group who wore a dark cloak over his clothes glared at Narobi and said:
"If you waste any more of my time Narobi then you will die by my blade. Do you understand?"
The dark cloaked figure pulled out a long slender blade with runes carved into the sides of it. Narobi winced at the sight and dropped to her knees as soon as the bad memory passed and said:
"Forgive me Zero I was careless."
The one referred to as Zero sheathed his blade and looked forward and said: "Don't let it happen again."
And with those words the three Shinobi vanished into the proceeding darkness.
Naruto suddenly felt this bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, he turned to Ino and said: "Ino we have to hurry and get back to the village I have a bad feeling…"
Ino nodded in agreement after scanning his concerned expression. She gave Naruto a concerned look of her own as she said: "I've had the same feeling we should be careful."
Naruto grinned and nodded as they began heading once again in the direction of their home village.
Naruto and Ino were running and a grin appeared on both of their faces as the forests of Konoha came into view.
They were about ten meters away from the border when a barrage of Kunai came raining down. Naruto and Ino immediately instinctively dodged the barrage and even deflected the knives with Kunai of their own.
Naruto made a quick hand sigh and made a small army of about forty shadow clones. Naruto made another shadow clone behind him and began charging up a rasengan in one hand while unsheathing his blade with the other. As his small army of shadow clones unsheathed their blades they all in unison rushed forward to meet their enemies.
The three Shinobi in all black smiled curiously at the sight before them as Narobi said: "So he really can use the shadow clone technique... This kid is something else..."
Zero spat on the ground and said: "He's just another weakling. Let's take care of his clones and break his legs at the very least..."
The three Shinobi vanished as they moved in for close range combat. As they were moving toward their target Zero thought:
I don't know why our Lord wants this mere child captured alive. Why orders assassins to perform a kidnaping? But regardless orders are orders.
The three shinobi of the darkness appeared in sync each with their own unique malicious grin spread across their faces, Narobi in one swift, graceful movement took out twenty shadow clones in the blink of an eye.
Naruto immediately sensed this and performed a set of hand signs and said: "Uzaraghan!" Naruto's eyes glowed a deep neon green and the runes in his eyes began to spin wildly around the pupil.
Naruto scanned the surrounding area and could sense the trails of his enemy's chakra, normally when he used this technique he's see many colored trails of chakra but this time was different...
All the trails were an identical trail of sinister black chakra. Naruto's eyes widened in shock as he thought: Their chakra is like that Demon that tried to capture me!
His thoughts were interrupted however as Narobi appeared behind him, she immediately unsheathed her blade and slashed her sword as she said: "You're mine!"
Ino looked over at Naruto in concern as she ran toward him yelling out: "Naruto!" Zero appeared behind her and swiftly knocked her out.
Naruto's face went blank for a split second and a barrier of chakra suspended Narobi's Blade in mid motion, Naruto's eyes turned a violent blood red and his bloodlust Ego took him over for a split second as the form of Naruto unsheathed his sword out of defense.
Naruto and Narobi glared at each other as they moved into quick close combat, they each moved so fast to the untrained eye it would seem as if flashes of light were appearing all over the battlefield, the sound of clashing metal filling the air. The form of Naruto performed a long series of hand signs as he called out: "Uzumaki Style! Chakra seal release!"
An invisible chain of chakra appeared over Naruto's chest and quickly vanished, Naruto's eyes shot blood red and he roared as black and red chakra erupted from his body, Naruto vanished twice the speed he had been a moment earlier.
Narobi turned around and tried to put her blade up in self defense but failed miserably as she waited helplessly for the oncoming attack. Naruto glared at Narobi and held his blade in front of his eyes as he said:
"You're Mine!"
Naruto slashed his sword down to release a large amount of chakra all at once only to have Zero's blade deflect the attack, causing the chakra to backfire.
There was an explosion of chakra and the unconscious form of Naruto was lying in the ground. Narobi, Zero and Hajuro appeared in a triangle and all in unison performed a long series of hand signs as they all said in sync: "Shadow Style! Trinity Prison Jutsu!" Black chakra erupted from the three Shinobi's fingertips and formed a pyramid prison around Naruto's body. All three Shinobi made eye contact with one another and nodded as they disappeared.
Ino slowly opened her eyes and found herself alone and the enemy gone along with Naruto... A saddened expression filled Ino's face as she found her resolve and knew what she had to do. She stood up and began to race to Konoha with all of her might. As she was running she thought: Hold on Naruto I'm going to get help...
A/N: Well there it is the long awaited installment in my latest fan fiction, Oh and just so we're clear Naruto is strong, in fact he's very strong in the Naruto world because the three Ninja that attacked him were Jounin Level and his attack power matched Narobi's power, Zero is stronger however, I just felt like Naruto was getting a little too strong but I'm already writing the next chapter and I have a great idea of what's going to happen next, I'm never going to run out of good ideas and this story is going to get much better and longer over a paced period of time trust me, REVIEW if you care! Peace! - DemonicLove555