"The Greatest Idea Ever"
By Quick-n-Popular
Disclaimer: "Naruto" and its characters are not mine.
A/N: A lot of Fu's characteristics, persona, and behavior I'm making up from scratch, so I hope she is likable in this chapter. The Flyiing Raijin jutsu in this is explained but probably not to the best it could be. The research I did on the jutsu confused me as it didn't go into exact detail, like you'll see mentioned in this chapter, so I tried to get a little creative to explain it. So, I hope you all will enjoy.
Big Thank You to all my readers.
Now, on with the story.
Chapter Eighteen: The Art of One's Comrades
Before the girl, Fu, could make her plea; Shibi had her wait as he sent a message to Tsunade who, very quickly, arrived with Jiraiya in tow. In addition to the Sannin, some Anbu came to add security to the Aburame Compound.
In the parlor, Fu and Tsunade sat facing one another while Jiraiya and the Aburame Clan Head and his son stood. One of their servants arrived and served Fu some chai tea, which helped her nerves with being surrounded by so many unfamiliar faces.
Tsunade started the meeting, "So, Fu, what is it that you're wanting to tell us?"
Fu looked to the floor, "I was, at first, approached outside my village by a man with long blond hair and a slashed Iwa headband. He was accompanied by a strange...person or creature that was a massive form and talked with a gruff voice. Both of them were wearing red clouds on their clothes."
The riddle of her mutterings before she had lost consciousness was now solved, but her tale didn't stop there.
"They were demanding I come with them. I didn't understand why they wanted me but then the two learned that I…" Here she trailed off.
Tsunade smiled, "Relax. We know you're a Jinchuriki. Everyone in this room isn't going to make an issue out of it."
Fu looked up and blinked in surprise before looking at every face before coming to Shino's where he nodded in confirmation. Fu smiled but dropped it as she continued her story.
"After I told them to leave, that's when they attacked me. The blond sent little white flying things that exploded when they came at me. The other one tried to hit me with poison and needles that I couldn't see where it came from." Fu thought for a moment and then said, "My tailed-beast told me to run, so I did."
Jiraiya's looked interested, "You can communicate with your tailed beast?"
Here Fu beamed happily, "Of course. My lucky seven-tails companion goes wherever I go, so we talk with one another."
'"Lucky"? A tailed beast?' The Toad Sannin thought, surprised.
Tsunade sighed, "We're getting off track here. Fu, how long did it take before
you managed to escape from those two?"
The green-haired girl looked confused, "I'm...not sure. The big thing stopped coming after me a day later. I had been using both my chakra and my tailed-beast's to try and outrun the blond haired one. Though, somehow, even though I couldn't see him, his weird gray creatures kept on finding me and blasting me away whenever wasn't able to avoid them."
She then turned and smiled in Shino's direction, "I finally got some peace as I got closer to your village as that man had stopped the day before. So I guess I finally lost him at some point. Then, I passed out and met Shino-san here." She finished.
Tsunade looked to Jiraiya for some information, "Do either of those two men, sound familiar to you?"
The spy master for the village, shook his head, "Judging by how Fu saw a slashed Iwa headband on that blond makes him one of their missing nins. You know we can't verify it, so it's just guesswork for now, unless he stole the headband and then we're back at square one."
Tsunade nodded, "The other individual is even a greater mystery. However, these clothes they're wearing…"
The Toad Sannin nodded, "They're from the group that our teammate joined and then left from. They call themselves, Akatsuki, and normally just do mercenary work. Now though…" He went quiet in contemplation before he looked at Fu in deep thought and then, looked to Tsunade.
"We need to prepare." Turning his head to Fu, he said, "Can I ask you a favor since you'll be staying with us, Fu-san."
Tsunade was surprised by the serious look in the pervert's eye. But he seemed to be in Sannin mode right now, so she decided to see what he had in mind.
The green haired girl cocked her head to the side in curiosity, "A favor?"
Jiraiya nodded, knowing that one of the boy's former classmates was present he said, "There's someone I want you to talk to and maybe help train. Can you do that?"
Fu smiled cheerfully, "Sure."
Morning had come and Tenten decided she would spend it in the Archives. She half-wondered if the eccentric Jounin was pulling her leg, yesterday; but admittedly she had no proof that he wasn't being truthful in this tip he had given her. Her doubt lay in that something from the Nidaime's jutsu would have been used decades later by the Yondaime who wasn't alive during the man's reign. However, Tenten did admit that records being kept would birth new jutsu by those who study them diligently. The Yondaime was that type of person, having been called a 'once in a generation genius' by practically the entire village.
The Archives of Konoha were in a single-storied building next to the Hokage Tower. Inside was an area much like a library with hundreds of desks, countless books, and file cabinets all along the walls. Tenten walked to the reception desk where a Chuunin on duty pointed her in the direction where the Journal of the Nidaime was; well, in truth, a copy for viewing only.
Opening the drawer with the book inside, which looked as old as the day it was used to copy the original; Tenten searched through it's contents until she got to a page with an illustrated, pencil-sketched, diagram explaining the Flying Raijin Jutsu.
'Ok, let's see..."By using one's chakra to create a "formula"," Wait, what do they mean by "Formula"?' Tenten then noticed another sentence in small writing underneath the Nidaime's notes, it said, "Fuinjutsu users, think of "seals""
The girl's eyes widened. 'Of course! You use chakra in the schematics when you create seals, like the ones for containment and a fire explosion seal! Using the schematics as an empty vein, you fill it with your chakra and THAT is the "formula"!'
Relieved that all that time she had spent learning to use fuinjutsu, after learning she couldn't be a medic-nin; are saving her from being unable to understand this unique jutsu of the Nidaime.
She continued reading. 'Next, applying the formula to anything living or non-living, using the pulse of your chakra with the formula in mind; use your finger tip to direct the pulse to the surface. This can be done multiple times, depending on the chakra capacity of the Shinobi or Kunoichi. Unfortunately it does come undone if the person who uses the formula dies. Such was the case with some of the Shinobi in my units, that had tested this jutsu.'
There was no writing materials or any kind of recording allowed in the Archives but most Shinobi with good memory retention could easily "record" what was in here, thus there was a limit to the actual potentially crucial information on display here, while the most dangerous was secured in the Hokage Tower.
As Tenten got through the entirety of the Nidaime's notes on his jutsu, there was another written-in sentence that was written in the same different person's hand writing: "Ironically, this amazing jutsu has been confused with the Body Flicker Technique on the field of battle and Konoha itself."
Tenten was amazed by that. However, she knew that people seldomly, 'look underneath the "underneath"', which Naruto's Sensei Kakashi said.
Having got what she needed, memorized, she put the journal copy into its drawer and then left the room.
Jiraiya led Fu through the village to the training grounds where he had asked Naruto to meet him at. The young woman looked around in curiosity at the unfamiliar sights and sounds of the village. As soon as they left the commercial area, they came out to the training fields and at the one Jiraiya used. Naruto was there doing the kenjutsu katas that Hayate had taught him, to pass the time, while he waited for Jiraiya.
However, Naruto suddenly went still as the two came nearer. Inside him the Kyuubi was stirring and felt as though it was suddenly in an exhausted, irritated, mood; though it made not comment to Naruto, of course.
Fu in the meantime beamed, "Hello, Mr. Nine! The Lucky Seven says it's been a long time."
Naruto looked confused and looked to Jiraiya for an explanation about this person he had brought here.
While this meeting was taken place, high above them, Deidara was watching them through his scope, grinning in ecstasy.
"Found you two. He's just as that bastard Itachi had described. Well, now, time for my ART to come alive." His hand, which had an open mouth licking it's lips, put it into the bag of clay on his hip.
Back with the two Jinchuriki, Fu was shaking Naruto's hand, talking a mile a minute.
"Wow! So you use a sword! Do you use it with your tailed beast's chakra! What's it like holding Mr. Nine? How old are you? We're you given your tailed beast when you were a baby or when you were a little older?"
Jiraiya looked on in amusement. He was about to stop the girl's over-active questioning when he thought he saw something in the sky that looked odd. They looked like small white bats with overly large heads.
Fu also saw them and her face froze and her expression became anxious.
"Hurry! Run!"
The Toad Sannin quickly caught on and he shouted at the blond hair boy who was clueless as to what was happening, "Naruto! Use the Hair Jizo and cover, Fu!"
The blond teen nodded and soon his and Jiraiya's hair grew with spikes around them. Before Naruto's completely covered him, he pulled Fu to him and then they were cocooned in the shielded hair armor just as they were assaulted by explosions that pushed them almost twenty feet backwards. After sensing there was a pause, the three emerged and saw a strange bird made out of clay with a figure perched on top of it.
"Hey, neat trick with the hair. However if I use enough of my "Art" I'm sure it'll be in pieces soon." Deidara grinned. "Now, Jinchuriki, this is where I would make the lame request to, 'come with me or else', but that's boring. Besides, neither of you two look like you're ready to give up, unlike that chump from Kiri."
Naruto was shocked that there was someone who was after people like him and this girl.
"So, Akatsuki has managed to capture some Jinchuriki already?" Jiraiya asked, frowning.
Deidara grinned conspiratorially, "Wouldn't YOU like to know. Now, let's make this one hell of an exhibit!" Now, several clay birds, larger than the ones he used before, flew down towards them.
Fu got in front of the Toad Sannin and his student and made a handsign before opening her mouth as a blinding light shined and glittering powder came flowing out, blanketing the entire area in front of her, Jiraiya, and Naruto.
Deidara clicked his tongue in irritation as his targets were now not visible and he couldn't direct his clay birds at them.
While hidden, Fu turned to Jiraiya and said, "It'll keep us hidden but not forever, we should escape while we can. His partner might be close by."
Suddenly several Jounin and Chuunin arrived with Kakashi via the body flicker technique.
"Jiraiya-sama, Godaime-sama asked for us to help you when the rest of the village heard those explosions. She's now evacuating all non-Shinobi citizens."
Jiraiya nodded, "I think we'll be fine now," In answer to Fu's worries. He then turned back as Fu's jutsu ended and the area cleared to see Deidara still where he had been before.
"Wow, I'm surprised you all didn't run. Being gutless Konoha nins as most of the people in Iwa would say." Deidara smirked. "Though adding numbers, isn't going to help you. One of my best 'Art Works' is going to make your village into one of my masterpieces." He then pointed up, devilishly.
The Konoha group and Fu looked up to see a huge dragon made out of clay that was higher than Deidara himself, who soon rose to it's level. The dragon opened its mouth and balls the size of human heads came hurtling down toward the village by the hundreds or thousands.
With no prompt or warning given, Jiraiya and Kakashi, and those in the group who could use fire jutsus; sent up fire balls and flames toward the descending destruction.
A loud series of explosions marked the contact of those they connected with, but the ones that still numbered way too high, they missed still reached their random targets.
After the roar of explosions and the sound of collapsing buildings ensued, one destroyed building, the prison which held only Shinobi captives, had suffered greatly. The dead consisting of those both prisoners and Chuunin Guards lay buried under the wreckage.
However, there were some survivors and of course many wounded. One such person, though in a daze, at first, suddenly chuckled to herself for a moment before escaping the structure all together.
Her red hair flew behind her and her rather pleased smile gave her a rather demonic look.
Trying their hardest not to look around them at the destruction this missing nin did to their village, Jiraiya and Kakashi launched their counter attack. While Kakashi uses the Shadow Shuriken jutsu, Jiraiya uses Needle Jizo; Neither hit Deidara as he dodged completely on his clay bird. He then sent some more smaller clay birds at the two. However, a chunk of earth intercepted them, causing them to detonate upon impact.
Naruto looked in amazement to see Fu cloaked in green chakra that probably was her tailed beast's.
Naruto turned his attention back to Deidara and formed a Rasenshuriken in his hand before firing it at Deidara.
The blond Akatsuki member was surprised by the unusual jutsu and dodged but got caught in another Needle Jizo of Jiraiya's causing him to lose control of his mount momentarily. Then, something stabbed him in the shoulder.
Grunting in pain, he looked to see a blue chain with a barb at the end protruding from his arm and leading to the blond hair Jinchuriki, where it was coming out of his arm.
"You...bastard, what the hell is this!" Deidara cursed, trying to dislodge the chain.
"You're about to find out." Naruto scowled. His HOME had been wrecked a SECOND time by some prick, and he was mad. He then pulled and, with the force of gravity, forced Deidara off of his clay bird. Naruto then dispelled the chain and used his speed to run up to the downed bomber and drew his sword. Deidara threw in front of Naruto another clay bomb causing an explosion that threw the Uzumaki teen to the side.
Jiraiya whirled around and used a Ransengan to slam into Deidara's side, who then dodged and sent another clay bomb at the Sannin. Jiraiya deflected it with his geta sandal and just as Deidara was going to try and send out another clay creation, Naruto, using the nodachi form of his sword, cut off the missing nin's arm.
Looking at his now missing appendage in shock and anger, looked up to his still hovering clay creation.
"Shit!, Screw this! I am done!" He yelled, before his clay bird mount came down and grabbed his remaining arm with its mouth and was pulling him up. Then, there was a loud chirping sound and Kakashi's hand was lit in electricity. He then ran and made a move for Deidara's heart.
"Fuck! Get me out of here!" The bird continued to bring up and Kakashi missed him and ended up ripping through Deidara's leg.
Another curse and yell before the Akatsuki member flew high into the sky and then out of sight.
Tayuya, hiding among some of the civilians who had returned as the streets were littered with running Anbu and the ranked Shinobi clearing away rubble, looking for the injured, and on the lookout for the suspicious.
With her Curse Mark unusable and with weapons or a flute; she was defenseless and incredibly outnumbered.
'If those fuckers hadn't torn the shit out of my fingers, I COULD use fucking handsigns for jutsus. Fuck! What the hell am I…?' She paused her inner rant as she saw something she couldn't believe. There among the medic nins assisting the injured was a familiar face.
"Fucking Kabuto?" She said under her breath.
As if he had heard her, he walked up to her grinning, "My, miss, those are some really bd fingers you have. Let's fix them up over here," He soon led the confused and suspicious Kunoichi to an empty room which had seals all around it to muffle sounds and displace sensors.
"Why are you fucking here?" She asked.
"My, suspicious already? I thought you would be welcoming me with open arms, Tayuya." He grinned.
Tayuya didn't react to comment. Instead she came out and said, "Is Orochimaru-sama having you make contact with me? Or is it fucking something else?"
The bespecled man pushed his glasses to his face, "You remember when our Master came here to mark his next body?"
Tayuya nodded, "Yeah, the Uchiha brat."
"He was curious as to how he was progressing." Kabuto then smirked, "He didn't pay you a single thought. You, who got captured by two Genin."
Tayuya barred her teeth, "Well, I'm fucking out. The piss-head and his weapon jerking little cunt are fucking dead next time I see them." She scowled at the the thought of the two and then looked at Kabuto seriously, "I can come back at any time. You fucking know he doesn't let people fucking leave."
Kabuto was silent for a moment and then smiled, plesently, "He DOES value those with Promise. You are one of them, of course. So, in case I did find you here; he has a mission for you so that you can redeem yourself."
He then reached out and healed her hands and fingers while also indicating with his eyes a corner of the room which held a flute and weapons. He then frowned at her, almost scowling.
"Whatever they did to your Curse Mark is beyond my abilities to erase, Orochimaru-sama is the only person who could remove what they did."
Tayuya scowled too.
Kabuto stood back and looked at her in the eyes, "What our Master wants is his new body to be delivered to him and soon. Do this and all is forgiven and forgotten. Remember, he does NOT forgive twice and ALMOST NEVER gives second chances."
To be continued…..
A/N II: Whew! This was a hard chapter to write with characters and dialogue that I was struggling to write. I had more trouble with Deidara than I thought I would. Another short chapter and I'm sorry for the 'out of character' moments but no one is officially a one shot appearance, so I CAN make them better, given time. Also, after the next chapter, I'll be taking a week long break because I won't be able to post any new chapters during that time.
Anyway, thank you for reading this chapter and please review if you can.
Thank you for reading. Till next time.
Q-n-P