Author Notes.Good morning, I have a few updates as to where I'm going with the series (vaguely) and some changes based on reviews I received over time.
First off I'm going to be making the chapters twice as long. Instead of making every chapter 2k-3k I'll be shooting for 4-6k. Since yall read this I'm assuming it's a good thing to have longer chapters. You get more of what present day Naruto and our favorite vulgar woman has to offer.
Next, I wanted to know your thoughts on the speed of the plot progression, fluidity of my words/ sentence structure. Does the way I write make sense and can you follow each action piece without having to re-read it?
Also, on that note, the reviews I received ever since I started have been phenomenal. I don't mind flaming to be honest, because that means someone still took the time to read and then chose to write incoherent BS. Of course a whole review board full of hate is a sign, but the constructive criticism and the fans who have been sticking around have been noticed. Thank you. Also, I don't own Naruto. (Duh)
J. Kimblee
Otogakure
Kabuto poured over medical records, historical cases of burnt corpses, anything that might ease the suffering of his master. He could not find one single scrap of information pertaining to the strange chakra the kyuubi invaded Orochimaru's body with. It was like it had a mind of its own. A mixture of the Aburame's and Sarutobi's techiniques. A fire that attacks the body at relentlessly burning indiscriminately hours after the attack strikes you. "Where is the logic in any of this?" Kabuto thought to himself, wincing at his master emitting another bloody scream. "More importantly, Where is Sasuke!?"He thought frantically.
"Kabuto, it is time, i need another body. NOW!" Bellowed Orochimaru, livid and in immense pain.
"Yes sir!" Kabuto said hurriedly, running out of the room and almost like a switch went off, he paused for two seconds and walked into a balcony that overlooked a full room of inmates used for experimentation. Looking at all of them with disdain, Kabuto calmly stated his words. "You are to have a deathmatch. The last one alive will be set free. Have fun." Finished Kabuto with a hint of sadistic pleasure.
Orochimaru was nowhere to be found when Kabuto entered his chambers. All according to plan, he ran to the surveillance cameras set up in the inmate containment and watched the slaughter continue. If his master wasn't currently dying from having seventy percent of his body turned to charcoal from the Kyuubi's bullshit fire chakra, he might have found this entertaining. Kabuto watched the heads fly off of each inmate, as one particular prisoner hacked his way through the rest with audible glee. He could faintly hear laughing from both the microphone and strangely enough, down the hall. Kabuto, who in spite of the situation got sucked into the beautiful action and failed to notice something seriously wrong.
In between the forests of Konoha and Otogakure, eight a.m.
Sasuke, for lack of better words, was smoking. Jirobo, Sakon and Kidomaru were still asleep while their captive's curse mark started to burn hot. It woke the boy up with a jolt. Sasuke did not know what was happening, but he knew the curse mark, and he knew the three that kicked his ass before all of this. The curse mark burned hotter with the rising anger the young Uchiha felt. Sasuke busted the webs with ease, which surprised him. His strength had been amplified. His body felt lighter, his vision without the sharingan had been improved, and his chakra was not out of control yet. Sasuke watched his three captors with a certain giddiness. His eyes turned to Jirobo as his mouth stretched to a grin.
Kidomaru, being the ever so light sleeper that he is. Woke up due to the snapping of his threads. He was immediately alarmed at the sight of Sasuke breaking his threads with such indifference, that it scared the sound ninja. Jirobo and Sakon had yet to wake up, so Kidomaru patiently waited to see what the boy was about to do.
His eyes grew wide at the sight of Sasuke turning towards his teammate with a sadistic grin on his face. Kidomaru weighed his options, closing his eyes for a minute breathing hard, and decided his teammate was not going to die tonight. Lady Fate decided to spit in Kidomaru's face. The man got up to warn his teammate, only to see a horrific scene in front of him.
Sasuke Uchiha, half his body covered in bright orange marks, jammed a chirping hand into Jirobo's neck. The unfortunate sound ninja heard the chirping, but his eyes were only half way open when a young boy's hand impaled his neck and paralyzed his body. Jirobo could do nothing but bleed to death as Sasuke Uchiha yanked his hand out, watching the blood fly. The man could not make a sound.
Kidomaru looked horrified as his teammate was brutally murdered in front of him. Sakon, who also heard the chirping, leaped away as fast as he could towards Kidomaru. Looking down at Jirobo, Sakon shook his head sadly, only saying. "Goodbye comrade."
Sasuke gazed over to the both of them, smirking, a small amount of blood across his face, orange marks darkening to pitch black. He let out a small laugh, and leapt at sakon with frightening speed. Sakon had to dodge, lest he get impaled the same way as his fallen teammate. Kidomaru attached multiple threads onto the trees above, transforming into his curse mark state two.
"Sakon, let's kill him now before he can do both of us in. Orochimaru is already past his deadline, and this psychotic brat wont stop after a light slap on the hand." Kidomaru spoke almost timidly, knowing full well what failure means to the sound four, especially if they kill his prized Uchiha.
"Agreed, there is no way Orochimaru-sama would be interested in this brat after what he did to Jirobo." Sakon spoke confidently, transforming into his curse mark two state.
Kidomaru strung himself up high into the trees, summoning a giant spider along with him. Sasuke watched this from below with curiosity. He gathered up chakra to unleash a fireball, when two feet collided with the Uchiha, one on each side. Sasuke winced at the pain, looking at both Sakon and Ukon, who despite their wounds, managed to transform and fight.
Sakon makes another attempt at a brutal kick to Sasuke's head, while Ukon attempts at a hook to the ribcage. Sasuke dodges the high kick, ducking under sakons leg while his brothers fist soars past Sasukes head. Sakon yelled in pain as his quad muscle was abused by Ukons fist. Reeling back, Sakon noticed Sasuke was gone up until his legs stopped working altogether. Sakon watched his own body fall slowly as a Sasuke walked away from him, flecking blood off his fingers.
Kidomaru again just watched this violence happen from afar, not doing anything. He was mad of course, that his teammates were one by one being picked off by the brat they just beat a day ago. Then it dawned on him, way too late to be of any help.
They accelerated his power with the awakening pills, carried him off like they were supposed to. Followed the plan up until the part where they had to seal the brat before his curse mark devoured his body.
While Kidomaru was having an Epiphany in the trees above them, Ukon was having a hard enough time breathing, let alone fight a psychotic brat. His breath grew more ragged as the fight dragged on, while the Uchiha seemed bored with it all. Sasuke was off thinking of his next move while the sound ninja he was playing with bored him tremendously. The Uchiha yawned and enhanced his leg muscles for a quick assassination, pausing only when three arrows plunged into the ground in front of him. Sasuke looked up, smiling at the nervous Kidomaru, who indeed was already sweating gold bullets.
Sasuke asked, "Are you finally done jerking off up there? I was getting bored fighting this loser."
Ukon took immediate offense, jumping above the arrows and aiming a punch at Sasuke's head, when the ninja couldn't feel his arm. Sasuke did not stop looking at Kidomaru, only his fingers were stained with both Ukon's blood and colored bright blue from the lightning chakra. Sasuke lazily peered over to Ukon, who attempted to move his arm and found a finger sized hole that punctured through his shoulder and out his back.
"That arm should be useless now, eh?" Sasuke asked politely to Ukon, who was on the verge of panicking. The sound ninja swung his body around for a roundhouse meant for Sasuke's head. Sasuke sighed and moved swiftly, and decided the battle in two strikes. Ukon detected two blows hitting his body. One strike he felt cleanly above his heart, the other he barely felt at the base of his neck. Ukon did not feel his body hit the ground, as his heart had been long since stopped before then.
Kidomaru watched his last teammate fall, gulping nervously as Sasuke looked back at him with cold eyes. "Were those not your teammates?" The boy asked Kidomaru clearly.
The sound ninja nodded, while detecting two different presences approaching fast, from each side. One of them tripped over a thread, distracting Kidomaru, confusing him for a moment. Sasuke took advantage of that moment.
Naruto's POV
He was running alongside the trees, enjoying the cool summer winds, when all of a sudden, a string attacked him and sent him face first into the ground. Tayuya watched Naruto
faceplant into the ground, and in spite of herself, nearly died of laughing. Kakashi just face palmed, watching his pupil unstick his face from the ground. " Sonofabitch." Muttered Naruto, wiping dirt out of his eyes.
Kakashi was about to scold Naruto when he smelled blood, alot of blood. He tensed up, unvieled his sharingan and viewed towards the scent. He witnessed an odd spectacle of a boy chasing a spider like creature, who itself was swinging from tree branch to tree branch. He paused to confirm this sight, and turned towards his team.
"Okay, so the plan is we take Sasuke Alive... Do you understand Naruto? Tayuya?" He watched carefully for their reactions. Like true ninja, he witnessed two amazing poker faces. Kakashi did know about Naruto hating Sasuke, but was still under the impression the jinchuriki wanted to save his teammate. And with Tayuya, he could not read a damn thing nor make any inferences as to what she might do in this situation.
"Capture Sasuke alive, got it." Tayuya said in a bored tone, while Naruto simply nodded in agreement.
Satisfied, Kakashi turned around, and motioned for his team to follow his lead. Naruto got back up, dusted himself off and the three of them ran forward towards the battle.
Meanwhile with Kidomaru..
Swinging from tree to tree was easy, almost second nature for Kidomaru, what was not easy was dodging the psychopath who was chasing him relentlessly. Kidomaru got fed up with this game and twirled his body around, bow and arrow in hand, firing off two shots point blank at Sasuke, who dodged them with ease. Kidomaru grit his teeth attempting to hit the Uchiha, who dodged them all with ease, due to his sharingan.
Sasuke laughed maliciously as his spins and ducks brought him closer and closer to Kidomaru. The archer whistled, and jumped back fast, as his summon pounced on sasuke, covering the boy in threads too thick to cut. Kidomaru let his guard down and approached sasuke, who make it a point to punch and kick at the flexible walls around him. Kidomaru attached threads to the container, and slung it around his back, walking away from the battlefield. Kidomaru got three steps in as his captive grew frustrated at his bondage. Feeling his chakra threads snap one by one, Kidomaru felt a small prick with a jolt of electricity, as his armor took the brunt of the stab, but left him with minor paralysis. Kidomaru shook his head to clear the dizziness as Sasuke Uchiha cut his way out of the cage with lightning infused Chakra. He halfway considered running, and turned around to do so, colliding with a bare chest in the meantime. Kidomaru looked up to see a pale, white haired man look down at him with cold, almost lifeless eyes.
Kimmimaro surveyed the scene, sadness briefly registering on his face at the sight of his fallen comrades. "Where is Tayuya, Kidomaru?" He asked calmly, looking at the spider.
"She betrayed us, and stayed in Konoha." Was Kidomarus only reply.
"Betrayed.. us.. Betrayed.. Me.." Kimmimaro repeated, looking down morosely. His sight brought his attention to the grinning Sasuke Uchiha, who has been since standing still, watching the two of them.
"Kidomaru, you have alot of explaining to do when this is over. Our primary mission is this boy, then the termination of the traitor." Kimmimaro spoke intensely.
"Well that would be all fine and good, if not for the fact that he murdered all three of them before us, with ease, i might add." Kidomaru replied, still shaking off the jolt he received.
"Wasn't the plan to persuade him to join, accelerate his curse mark, seal him in a container and bring him with no hassle?" Kimmimaro asked, shooting daggers into Kidomaru's eyes.
"Shit happened, man." Kidomaru replied weakly.
"I think I am standing next to a pile right now." Kimmimaro shot back, annoyed.
"Let's just get this over with." Kidomaru said timidly.
Sasuke charged at them with a wide grin, until a explosive tag blew up the ground in between the three of them.
Kakashi and Naruto stood side by side, surveying the chaos in front of them. Kakashi hardly recognized Sasuke with all the blood and dark marks covering his body. Sasuke however, recognized Naruto instantly and let out a hard laugh.
Kimmimaro simply gazed over at Kakashi and Naruto, while Kidomaru sweat bullets. He recognized the guy who dodged his arrows, and took down Sakon while brushing off Ukon like a fly. All the while convincing Tayuya to betray her own team. And then he recognized Sharingan Kakashi, a legendary ninja in his own right. His mind was on the verge of a meltdown.
Kidomaru started backing up, fear etched on his face, while Kimmimaro sighed and faced his palm at Kidomaru.
Kidomaru didn't feel it at first, due to the shock of watching bones fly at him at speeds which Kunai can't achieve.
The first shard of bone pierced his neck, running through his armor like butter. The second shard smashed into his abdomen, tearing through his stomach lining and plunging into his bladder. The third bone shattered Kidomaru's clavicle while the last shard entered through his armpit and rampaged inside Kidomaru's chest.
"Huh?" Kidomaru said before he dropped dead.
Sasuke laughed even harder, before walking towards Kimmimaro, standing much shorter but nonetheless smiling.
"You're pretty interesting fella, Wanna have a go?" Sasuke asked, completely ignoring Naruto and Kakashi.
Kimmimaro stared intensely at Sasuke, noting the marks on his body and the fractured psyche of the boy.
"Why did you kill the people instructed to assist you?" Kimmimaro asked the grinning Uchiha..
Sasuke laughed again, looking at the bodies of the three he slaughtered.
"Why did you kill your team mate when he was instructed to assist you?" Sasuke repeated, gesturing at Kidomaru's corpse.
"The weak will be stomped out. And that man was as cowardly as they came." Kimmimaro stated.
Yawning, Sasuke looked impassively at his new helper, then turned to Kakashi and Naruto.
"So why are you two here?" Don't tell me you are here to stop me? Or bring me back to the village?" He said with obvious cynicism.
"You know goddamn well why-" Naruto began, voice dripping with menace, before getting cut off by Kakashi.
"You are to return to Konoha immediately, Sasuke. The council will only allow so much before marking you as a nuke-nin." Kakashi warned the smirking Uchiha.
"Why would I want to do that Kakashi~" Sasuke began, taking two steps towards the pair. "I won't get any stronger being at th-" He drawled before stopping without warning
Sasuke twitched hard, blood trailing from his mouth. Kimmimaro flinched in realization before falling to one knee, while Kakashi grew nauseous. Naruto seemed to be the only one unaffected. He watched up in the trees with a smile on his face.
A harsh melody, beautiful and lethal, flowed through the air, similar to miasma.
Sasuke struggled to remain in control of his senses, taking another step forward, until a foot greeted his nose in the same fashion a linebacker greets a quarterback.
