I do not own Naruto Shippuden or any of the characters. Shut up complainers. I like the Jofuku dust.
Dust Allergy
Ryuu stepped out of the row boat and glanced over at Guy. Ever since Ryuu had fought the ninja, Guy had been violently sea sick. Ryuu didn't really care about Guy being sea sick, so long as he could still fight. Ryuu looked out at the island and froze. Sasuke was standing a short distance away, staring at him in confusion.
"How the hell did you beat us here?" Ryuu demanded.
"Fuck if I know," Sasuke shrugged. "While you're here, want to help us get some herbs? Ino and Sakura are the only two here that know anything about it and they expect me to find it all."
"I guess we can help," Ryuu shrugged. "How about it Yamato?"
"Sure," Yamato nodded. "We'll give Guy a break so he can recover. Just be careful. There are Jofuku flowers on this island."
"I thought those were only in the Jofuku Forest," Ryuu called back, stopping just before the trees as the others went on ahead.
"A few were brought here as a peace offering and they spread," Yamato stated. "Just be careful."
Ryuu nodded and turned, following the others with the Body Flicker Technique. He stopped beside Naruto who was walking a ways behind Sasuke, allowing him to watch, and silently laugh, as Sasuke's Sharingan remained glued to Sakura's rear. Sakura, who was talking about one herb or another, had no idea what was going on and Ryuu had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing at Sasuke. Finally, they left the trees and came to a field. Sakura turned around, Sasuke's eyes snapping up to her face before she noticed where he had been looking, and pulled out a flower for them to hunt for. When she walked off, Ryuu and Naruto burst into fits of laughter, leaning on each other for support.
"What's so funny?" Sasuke snarled. "You didn't look away from her ass once that entire walk did you?"
Sasuke's face darkened a bit and both of the others began to laugh even harder.
"Were...were the sharingan for you to be able to walk or to be able to see her ass better?" Naruto laughed, clutching his stomach.
Sasuke blinked and deactivated his Sharingan, turning pink at having not noticed they were active. Ryuu keeled over, laughing too hard to breathe at that since he had had the same problem a few times. Sasuke finally turned to walk away and Ryuu caught his leg, pushing himself up and forcing himself to stop laughing.
"Relax Sasuke," Ryuu sighed. "I'mma help you win her over."
"I don't need help," Sasuke growled.
"Alright fine," Ryuu grinned. "Go ask her out."
Sasuke glared at him a moment then turned and walked toward Sakura. She was facing away from him and Sasuke's eyes never missed a beat, once again glued to her behind. At the last minute, she turned around and his eyes again flashed up to her head.
"Did you find anything?" Sakura asked.
"Uh, no," Sasuke began, Ryuu covering his grin with his left hand and supporting the arm on his right, which he wrapped around his diaphragm. "I was wondering if-"
"Ino, what the hell are you doing!" Sakura suddenly shouted, looking past Sasuke at Ino who was waving a flower that looked like the one they were looking for, but apparently wasn't. "Put that down!"
Sakura stormed over to Ino and Sasuke just stood there, staring after her, or part of her.
"This is one," Ino stated.
"No it's not!" Sakura stated.
"Yes it is Billboard Brow!" Ino argued.
"No it's not Pig!" Sakura returned.
Ryuu shook his head walking over to Sasuke and grinned widely.
"You shut the fuck up," Sasuke snapped. "If it wasn't for Ino-"
"You'd have caved," Ryuu finished grinning. "I'll go distract Ino, you go for it."
Ryuu walked over to Ino, offering to help her look since he knew what the flower looked like. Ino agreed and they began to search, Ryuu actually watching and listening to Sasuke while Ino searched.
"Sakura?" Sasuke spoke up.
"Find one yet?" Sakura asked.
"No-"
"Well look harder," Sakura said turning away.
"I actually wanted to ask you something," Sasuke said.
"Oh, really?" Sakura blinked. "Sorry. What was it?"
"I was wondering if...maybe...you wouldn't mind...showing me the flower again," Sasuke caved and Ryuu collapsed in a fit of laughter that Naruto mirrored.
Sakura blinked and handed him the only one they had before turning and continuing her search. Sasuke stormed off, resisting the urge to use Amaterasu on the flower as he did. Ryuu caught up to him, still laughing.
"Not funny," Sasuke snarled.
"Told you," Ryuu laughed. "Want my help now?"
"Fine," Sasuke growled.
"You're used to her being a mindless fangirl," Ryuu stated. "Believe it or not, I barely do, she actually has matured a little. Now, she's a medical ninja before she's a fangirl. If you want her undivided attention, lose the shirt."
Sasuke stared at him for a moment then threw a punch at him. Ryuu ducked under the punch and jumped away, laughing. Sasuke threw the flower at him and stormed off. A few minutes later, Naruto found a small group of the flowers and they all moved to the next item on the list, which was across a rickety old bridge with thorn vines wrapped around the rope. Ryuu went first, Naruto behind him, Ino and Sakura after him, and Sasuke bringing up the rear. Just as Ryuu reached the other side, with was about ten feet of open rock before a dense forest, a very cold wind whistled out of the trees, making them all shiver. Ryuu sneezed and covered his nose and mouth.
"Dust," Ryuu grumbled. "Or Pollen."
A moment later, gold dust, not quite pollen, began to drift out of the trees. At first there wasn't much but then it began to thicken until they were standing in a cloud of it. Ryuu was sneezing almost constantly and the others were all struggling not to. Ryuu finally leapt over the cloud and used a Wind Style jutsu to blow it away from them then landed and sneezed again. The dust suddenly stopped blowing and began to spiral like it was caught in a tornado. It touched the ground and instantly began to form a pair of feet from the ground up, the tornado shrinking as the dust formed a golden replica of Aeron holding a ninjato in each hand. Ryuu blinked then spun around to see a gold replica of the leader of Nagato's puppet bodies, Tendo Pein, complete with gold Rinnegan, standing opposite Aeron. Then, a gold replica of Killer B stepped out of the trees and threw seven short gold swords into the air, catching them as the real Killer B had had.
"Damn," Naruto growled, watching Pein, who was watching Hinata. "What is this?"
"Jofuku Pollen," Ryuu stated. "It defends itself by forming the worst fears of anything that comes near it. In this case, Sasuke's, mine, and Hinata."
"Your worst fear is that guy?" Sasuke snorted.
"If those swords are what I think, then yes," Ryuu stated eyeing not only the swords, but the armor the Aeron replica was wearing. "I see you're afraid of fighting B again. That's very smart."
"Why didn't it create my fear?" Naruto asked. "I'm closer to the flowers than Hinata is."
"Because," Ryuu smirked. "Your fear is losing Hinata. It's going to use her fear to accomplish that."
Ryuu sprinted forward, using his left eyes to fire a bolt of lightning at Aeron. Aeron held a sword out and the lightning bolt shattered against it. They were exactly what Ryuu thought, Dragon Scale Swords. Ryuu formed a pair of Lightning Sword and leapt over Aeron, slashing at him only for the Lightning Sword to be cut in half easily by the sword. Ryuu spun, slashing with the other with a similar result.
"That armor fucking sucks," Ryuu growled backing away.
"Wanna switch?" Sasuke shouted, barely able to keep up with B using his Mangekyo Sharingan, his chokuto, and a Chidori Spear all at once.
"I'll trade!" Naruto shouted, trying to fight Pein with a pair of kunai while a clone gathered Nature Energy.
Hinata was suspended in the air over the chasm by Pein's Rinnegan abilities. Sakura and Ino were ready to jump to catch her but instead, Ryuu formed a large trampoline below her with his left eye. Then, Ryuu turned back to Aeron as Aeron moved to stab him. Ryuu sidestepped the attack then slashed the armor's sides but found they were plated, which he couldn't tell before because it was hard to make any fine details about the replicas out. Aeron slashed at Ryuu and Ryuu leapt away, sliding to a stop as Naruto and Sasuke did the same.
"How much longer can the replica hold her up?" Naruto asked.
"Could be seconds, could be hours," Ryuu stated. "Naruto, enter Sage Mode then break the armor mine is wearing. I can get him from there. I'll handle Pein for a bit. Sasuke, show B your Susanoo."
Sasuke nodded, forming his Susanoo's upper body and making it slash a sword at the B replica. Ryuu spun around Naruto, charging at the Pein replica only for Pein to drop Hinata into the trampoline, allowing Sakura to save her, and swipe his hand in front of himself, Ryuu flying through the air and into a tree. A swipe in the other direction and Ryuu smashed through the bridge, destroying it, and crashed into the cliff on the other side.
"Damn," Ryuu growled pushing himself up in his crater. "That hurt. Okay. You won't be needing those powers of yours."
Ryuu's left Mangekyo Sharingan spun and Pein's Rinnegan turned into regular eyes. Ryuu leapt at him but just as he cleared his arc, Aeron appeared, kicking him into the ground and breaking his Genjutsu, allowing Pein to have his Rinnegan back. Ryuu stood and growled in frustration, looking up at Aeron.
"Finally," Naruto growled as his clone released itself and an orange pigmentation appeared around his eyes. "Goodbye armor."
He formed a clone who helped him form a Rasengan the size of a house. Then, he leapt at Aeron and smashed the Rasengan into his back. The explosion shattered his armor and sent him crashing to the ground. A moment later, he sprinted out of it at Ryuu. Ryuu smirked and formed a Lightning Sword, charging at Aeron. Aeron slashed and Ryuu ducked under it, slashing Aeron upward across the chest. At the same time, B suddenly lit with Amaterasu and fell off the edge of the cliff. Both exploded into clouds of dust just as four Narutos hurled another into Pein, Rasengan first. The explosion launched Pein away from them but that replica also turned into dust.
"Okay," Naruto smirked. "We're done. Now, would you mind making a bridge for Hinata and Sakura, Ryuu?"
Ryuu looked at the pit and a large stone bridge formed. The two women hurried across it and back to the others before Ryuu let it fade and turned toward Sakura.
"Alright, we only have to get the one we were looking for before the Jofuku interrupted," Sakura stated. "It's this way."
They walked along the ledge for a ways before coming to a field full of Jofuku Flowers. They all stopped, seeing the pollen rising up from the flowers and beginning to spiral around in numerous cyclones. They all turned wordlessly and sprinted away from the field, along the cliff in the other direction before coming to the shore. Ryuu glanced back and saw an army of replicas watching them leave. From the distance, even his Sharingan had trouble telling who they were but he definitely was able to make out a large cylinder tied to the back of one's waist. Then, the replicas all blew away as pollen and they all finally slowed to a stop.
"That could have gotten bloody," Sasuke panted.
"Yep," Naruto agreed. "We need to go."
Ryuu nodded and he, Hinata, and Naruto began to leave, Ryuu using his left eye to make them all invisible to the others and tapped Naruto, stopping him as Sasuke walked over to Sakura, looking annoyed and impatient. He tapped her on the should and when she turned, she was met with a kiss. She blinked in surprise, eyes the size of saucers before kissing him back as Ino rolled her eyes and began heading in the same direction as Ryuu and the others. As she passed, she grinned, sensing Ryuu's chakra. Then, she continued and Ryuu and the others followed, Ryuu allowing them to be visible again, since Sasuke was distracted.
When they got to Yamato, Aoba, and Guy, they got back into the row boats and returned to the ship then continued on their way.
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