Hi Guys Chapter 31 Woop Woop! Sorry for the long delay been busy with stuff. Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter. Posted UTC 02.43 30/09/2012.
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A soft wind blow gently through the tree, carrying a warm scent of different wild flowers. The scent twisted and twirled around every obstacle in it's way. Higher it flew, swirling around a lone figure, ruffling brown spiky hair. Taking a deep breath, relishing the calming smell of the forest, umber eyes steadily opened. It was still a few hours until dawn, his ears twitched at a small sound going from behind him. Instinctively his hand went to the kunai pouch, drawing one out in a fluid motion. Poised in a defensive stance, eye's constantly scanning his surroundings, nose and ears twitching for any indication who it was. A slight hint of raman and vanilla drifted up his nostrils, smirking as he outed the teen;
"You can come out Naruto. I know your behind that outcrop so show yourself." he stood there waiting for the teen to show himself. But after a minute, nothing happened, so carefully he crept towards the hiding place. Reaching the corner, he jumped out hoping to scare the blond, but all he could find was his jumpsuit jacket.
"You fell into my trap." stated a low voice right behind him. Kiba stilled as he felt the cold edge of a kunai resting against his throat. "And no sudden movements as I don't want to explain to Baa-chan, why your dead." instructed the blond smugly, pleased with himself for catching the older boy off guard. Or so he thought.
"I was going to say the same thing, Naru-chan." breathed a deep husky voice, spending pleasurable shivers down the teens spine. Smoke exploded in front of the shocked teen, showing it was a kage bunshin, before he could react, a pair of teeth latched onto his earlobe. A moan escaped his parted lips, as his lobe was sucked on, while being pulled at the same time. "Are you enjoying that Naru? Hmm." asked Kiba giving the lobe an extra tug for emphasis, making the Chūnin moan louder.
"Stop...Kiba...ahh...stop." doing as he was told, the older teen reluctantly ceased his ministrations. "I'm still pissed off at you." informed the young Chūnin. Barely refraining from pouting, Kiba mumbled;
"I thought you forgave me?"
"I'm sorry Naruto, I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I was just jealous of how both of you interacted with each other." explained the brunette softly. "I should of thought what I was thinking was stupid, but I just let my jealousy take over." nothing was said. "Please Naruto..I don't want to loose you. I love you." neither moved after the declaration. "Please say something. Anything."
"What do you expect me to say, Kiba? That everything's fine? How you were acting towards Gaara was acceptable? Someone who's been through the same pain and loneliness as me. And all you did was treat him with hostility?" rhetorically asked the blond a hint of disappointment lacing the words. The brunette's head bowed trying to hide the silent tears, fear clenched at his heart.
Without another word the whiskered teen walked away, not even glancing behind. The warmth of the teens hand left Naruto feeling cold. It took him every ounce of control not to turn back and embrace the teen.
Suddenly a warm, hard body collided with him. Strong arms wrapped themselves around his slender waist, pulling the younger teen into the warmth.
"Please Naru, you know how much you mean to me. I gave up everything so I could be with you, and I've never regretted my decision, not once. You mean the world to me Naruto, I don't know what I would do if I lost you again." the statement seemed to hang in the air.
"When we get back, your sleeping on the seti, try and get into bed with me and I'll chop your balls off." lightly joked the blond as he wrapped Kiba's arms around him more. A smile crept onto his whiskered face as Kiba chuckled vibrated through him. "I'm serious about you sleeping on the seti, but if your a good boy I might reconsider." playfully commented the blond, the smile turning into a sly smirk. See the smirk on his mates face, sent a shiver the brunette's spine. The one thing he's learnt about the younger teen is that noone crosses him and gets away scot-free.
"Meh. I might of done, or I might not of have." shrugged the blond half-heartedly. Kiba was about to make a smart-ass remark when the temperture around them dropped drasticlly. An icy chill slithered down their spines, causing every hair to stand on end. Everything around them was silent, not even the wildlife emmitted a noice. An almighty screech pierced the night causing both teens to drop to the floor, trying to shield their ears from the scream. Kiba was rolling around on the floor, his face twisted in pain, his mouth wide open as if a shout of pain was being ripped from him. Naruto wasn't any different everything as he tried to block the sound out but to prevail.
'Fuck...my brain feels like it's going to explode.' thought the blond, every fibre in his body screaming for him to get away from there. Sounds of toppling trees echoed around them accompanied by another ear piercing screech filled the night sky. A cry of pure pain flew out of the brunette's mouth as his ear drums vibrated violantly, threatenning to burst. All he could think was the pain he was in nothing else mattered.
Azure eyes slowly cracked open, scanning the area for what ever made the god forsaken sound. Shakily Naruto stoop up, his ears ringing from the assult it just reseved, cobalt eyes landed on a shaking Kiba. Before he could take a single step towards the fallen teen, every hair stood on end when a hot burst of air hit the back of his neck, slowly he turned around. In front of him stood a terrifying looking beast.
It was a winged creature: its hide black as night. Razor sharp talons the size of a short sword occupied both feet. Its long snake like neck, stretched from its scaly body. Soulless eyes focused on its prey, a beak like mouth filled with pointy teeth.(A/N It's like a fell beast from LOTR's trilogy. The difference will come clear in the chapter.)
Naruto stood there rooted to the spot, sapphire eyes becoming wide as saucers. A deep growl rumbled through the beast, within a blink of an eye it lunged forward snapping its mouth ferociously at the teen. The ninja's trainning kicked in moving himself out of harms way, the black kept advancing on the blond determinded to kill him. No matter where Naruto retreated to, nashing teeth weren't far behind.
Naruto kept jumping and dodging the large enemy, not knowing what the beast was or how to destroy it. No matter how many time he tried to lose it, it seemed to track him down in seconds.
'There's no doubt it's smart. But how can I kill it?!' hastily thought the blond as he yet again dodged the winded demon. Making a sharp turn, he dived into an opening, hoping that he shake off his persurer. Silence fell on the blond as he breathed out a sigh of releif, his heart pounding against his chest.
"That was too close." muttered the whiskered teen, leaning against the cold stone wall. Something caught the corner of his eye, turning in time to see the fell beast slam itself against the ragged stone surrounding the opening. The stone began to creak and grumble under the weight of the reptile, with one more slam, the rock grumbled and cracked as it broke away making the opening bigger. Naruto moved out of the falling rubble, hands instinctively covering his head. A massive dust cloud encompassed everything, making visibility extremly poor. A silhouette formed in the dust cloud, a deep breath could be heard before a stream of fire blasted through the cloud. Seeing the fire streaking towards him, Naruto scrambled into a crack narrowly making it. His tanned skin began to redden and in some cases blistered from the sheer heat of the flames.
'What the hell? I didn't see that happening.' his mind racing to find away out of the tight spot. Glancing over he saw an opening on the opposite side, the only problem was the fire breathing beast, hell bent on killing him. Ignoring the pain from the burns, he drew two shuriken out of his pouch, and waited. As soon as the fire stopped he sprang out and darted towards the opening, everything seemed to slow down. The rhythmic thumping of his heart, the pounding of his feet hitting the floor. Twisting his body to face the deadly enemy, for a split second, azure eyes met coal coloured ones. Upon making eye contact, the beast brought its head back at an angle, read to launch more fire. As it unleashed the flames, Naruto flicked the shuriken at its head hoping to get its eye. A shriek of pain emanated from the fell beast, giving the Chūnin the time he needed to escape.
A shriek of pain emanated from the beasts mouth, as the two shuriken hit it's head. Two long gashes, ran parallel along the side of it's face. One running right through it's left eye, blood slowly dripping from the wound. Recovering from the few minutes of pain, a furious scream ripped through the mountain. Turning its snake like head towards the opening which the blond fled through, black eyes narrowed, with a final roar it chased after him.
Feet pounding against the uneven surface beneath them, short steady breaths passed chapped lips, spiky sun kissed air moving around haphazardly. All five sences were on high alert as the Chūnin navigated the endless tunnels and openings within the mountain. An unholy scream echoed violently off the ragged surfaces, followed by an angry roar. Throwing a glance over his shoulder, sapphire eyes scanning for any sign of the attacker. As he watched his back, his boots caught the edge of a slab of stone protruding from the floor. Tripping over it he stumbled onto the floor.
"Kuso!" exclaimed the teen, as he sat himself up. "Why does this always happen to me?" he mumbled outloud as he checked himself over. Wincing slightly as he moved his right shoulder, but all in all nothing major, just the odd cuts and scraps. "Why does Kami hate me soo much? And where is that mutt when I need him?" leaning his head back, a tired sigh passed his lips. Silence passed as he calmed his racing heart, and enjoying the general peace and quiet. A small noice caught his attention, stealthily he drew out a kunai, then flung it at the sound. Cracking an eye open he saw across from him, a small, brown mouse. Small beady eyes stared at him, its nose twitching side to side. A massive sweat mark dropped down the side of head. "You got to be kidding, all that noice for a mouse..." As if Kami herself was tourmenting the poor teen, the moused snapped it's head to the side staring at something. A sinking feeling entered the teens stomach, turning his head to face the same direction of the mouse. Cobalt eyes grew wider with each passing second, no more than ten meters away stood the black reptile. Shooting a quick look at the mouse, as quietly as he could he got to his feet, stealthily moving along the wall. Fight or flight instincs finally took hold of the rodient, with a squeak it scurried along the floor.
'W-h-y me?' mentally cried Naruto, wanting nothing more than for the ground to open up and swallow him whole. A jet of fire streaked towards him, without thinking he shot of down the path, running away from the stream of fire as if it were a rampaging mob of towel clad women. Nearing the end of that paticular path, was a two options; Turn left or right. After a quick mental debate he decided left, digging his heels into the floor, skidding to a full stop. Stopping only a few centimeters away from the opposite wall, then shooting down his chosen route.
It didn't take long for him to realise that it was a dead end.
"Oh for fuck sake?!" moaned the teen kicking the stone wall. Turning swiftly around to head back, but paused when his only exit was blocked. Drawing a kunia from it's pouch, Naruto stood there facing his enemy. Cool night air whisped around the stand off.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" three identical copies appeared alongside, each in different stances. "Lets go!" all four charged at the creature, hurling shuriken and kunai. Each weapon hitting its mark, causing the beast to howl in pain. Snarling angerly, the winged beast lashed out violently, charging at the clones, shooting fire at all of them. As they weaved in and out of each other, the rocky floor glowed red from the missed shots, shuriken and kunia laid scattered all other the place some embedded in the walls or the floor. Swishing of the tail, snapping on the fanged beak, the shouts of pain, the whistling of shuriken through the air filled the opening as the five battled it out.
One by one , the copies began to dispers, not before weakening their enemy. As soon as the last clone disappeared, Naruto found himself winded from being whack by the tail.
"Ow" moaned out the Chūnin as he skidded across the floor. The sound of heavy footsteps drew closer, regaining his sences danger clentched at his heart telling him to move now. Hastily he scrambled to get to his feet tripping over his own feet in the process. The heavy footsteps got quicker and in a blink of an eye, they were right on top of him. A scaly head knocked him over, as he hit the ground, he managed to turn himself around before being pinned to the ground by it's huge talons. No matter the amount of struggling he tried, his prision tightened to the point where he felt like he was going to burst.
'I refuse to let this over-size liszard get one over Uzumaki Naruto!' fresh determination flooded his body, sapphire eyes scanned the area for anything to help in his escape. Azure eyes looked up and saw the star filled night sky, something cold rested against his hand. Feeling it, he reliesed it was on of his many scattered kunai. Discreetly he tightened his rough hands around the broken weapon, and plunged the broken blade in to the side of its foot repeatedly. Howls of pain came from the beast as it relinquished its iron grip on its prey, taking his chance Naruto ran towards the nearest rock face, focusing chakra to his feet and began sprinting up the mountain side. Recovering from the surprise assualt, phantom eyes locked onto the fleeing teen. One wing after another were stretched out, ignoring the shooting pain, it flapped it's mighty wings. Higher it went, eyes transfixed on the sprinting teen, anticipating where the blond will go, breathing in deeply. The fire inside its body raged as two fire balls streaked towards the mountain face.
Boom...Boom
Chunks of debris sprayed everywhere, chucking up a lot of dust obscuring the impact areas. A shadow leaped out off the dust cloud continuing up the mountian. Having enough, the fell beast dived for the teen, bringing its wings tightly against its body. Higher the teen ran, only focused on getting away from the beast, muscles being pushed to their max, chakra rushing through his body.
Time ceased to exist, the constant threat of death hanged around him, like the stench of rotting flesh.
Hazel eyes slowly opened, ears ringing, his head felt as though it was being split into two. Wincing as he tried to move, everything seemed numb. Biting his lip he pushed himself to get up, every this protesting against the movement. Copper liquid slowly slid down his tattoed cheek, its stomach renching smell and taste assaulted the brunettes scenes. Using the wall as a makeshift crutch, he looked for his mate. All which was there was his orange and black jacket, laying scrunched up where he left it.
"Naruto?!" called out the Chūnin frantically looking for the blond. A soft breeze lazily drifted around him, many different scents filled his nostrils, some foreign, others familiar. Trusting his nose, Kiba followed the scent like a blood hound hunting for a lone fox. As he moved around the mountain, Narutos' scent was mixing with an unknown one. The further he went the stronger the two mixed together as though they were one. A faint coppery smell reached his nostils, his heart sank when he reconided the smell.
'Naruto?!'
Blood pumbed loudly in his ears as he ran towards the smell, feet pounding the uneven floor. Coming to an abrupt halt right infront of a newly formed battlefield. Large chunks of stone spewed everywhere, splatters of blood painted on one side of the wall. Drawing out a kunai, Kiba stepped cautiously, sniffing and listerning for the enemy or his blond. Further in he searched, ecru eyes spotted a patch of scorched stone, still glowing from the heat. Distant explosions echoed around him, looking up he saw two small clouds of smoke. Without a second though he ran towards the smoke, one thing was on his mind.
'Please be safe Naruto?'
Diving towards its target the reptile fired a fire-ball straight in front of the blond. Hearing the roar of fire streaking towards him, Naruto dug his heels into the surface, but it was too late, the impact force of the shot caused him to lose his footing.
It's the strangest sensation to fall, how helpless you feel when you're not in control. Rushing sound of the wind filled the blonds ears as he pummeted hundreds of feet. Above him was the fell beast diving towards him. Thinking quickly, he gathered enough chakra to create a single clone. Once the clone was created he used it to launch himself towards the alp. Time seemed to slow down as he pushed himself off the clone, the winged beast took out the clone in one swell swoop. Gripping hold of a ridge, Naruto heaved himself onto the leadge. Once over the edge, Chūnin collapsed onto the floor, kicking up a lot of dust. Breathing heavily, sweat running down his whiskered cheeks, dripping onto the floor.
Thud..Thud..Thud..Thud..
"Ohhhh" half laughed half cried the teen. "Why can you leave me alone?" reluctantly he dragged himself to the edge and peered over. Below him, climbing up the mountain face was the ever persistent dragon. It's claws digging into the stone face, pulling itself up. Slipping every so often but kept on coming.
Kiba stood at the base of the towering alp, eyes searching for any sign of sun kissed hair. Finding nothing despair started to eat away at him.
"He's never coming back. He's dead." whispered the small voice in the back of his mind.
"NARUTO!" bellowed the teen, refusing to even think of such a thing. Still he scanned the area around him, as his voice echoed throughout the place. The one thing he knew about his blond that Naruto would fight a hundred men and still give some.
Watching as the beast climbed it stopped suddenly and looked down, following its gaze he saw what caught the ove-sized lizards attention. Kiba. The blonds heart thumped against his rib cage, a icy shiver ran down his spine when soulless eyes met sapphire ones. The look in it's eyes unnerved the blond it seemed to know who the brunette was, Naruto's heart dropped when the reptile let go of the mountainside and plummeted towards the unspecting brunette.
"KIBA!" Hearing his name being shouted, the brunette looked up, hazel eyes widened in horror. A black beast was plummeting towards him, never before has encountered a animal like the one coming straight for him.
Without a second thought, Naruto jumped off the ridge, free-falling towards the ground. The wind rushing passed his ears, blood and chakra fueling his body, adrenaline flooding his system. Bringing his arms and legs tightly to his body, as he picked up more speed, drawring ever closer to the enemy.
Closer the ground drew, the pair plummeted to the bottom. Drawring closer to the beast, Naruto reached out and latched onto on of it's small fins running down it's back. Feeling one of its fins being held onto, the demon started to roll in mid air, trying to throw the teen off, but Naruto held on tighter. As the reptile span, the fin started to slip beneath the blonds fingers.
'I'm not going to let you kill Kiba. If I'm going to hell your coming with me!' with his spare hand, he drew his short sword from it's scabbard and plunged it deeply into the dragons side. A screech of pain assulted his ears, as its massive wings snapped open. The sudden movement made Naruto loose his grip on the fin sending him sliding down the beast back. Out of pure instinct he frantically tried to grap hold of something. Slender fingers gripped hold of the wing joint, digging sharp nails into the joint. Looking over at the fastly approaching ground he knew he had to do something, determinded to end this he hauled himself ontp the beast back. Resting on its back between its long snake like neck and body, he hacked at the beast neck over and over again no matter how much the falling beast cried in pain. Blood flowed out of the multiple wounds, with one final chop, its neck was severed from the body.
Ecru eyes watched as Naruto continously plunged his weapon into its neck, the screams of pain filling the night. The god forsaken sound was silenced when it's neck was violently seperated from the rest of the body. Animalistic eyes watched it fall, twisting and turning as it fell, a sence of satifaction filled the teen. Turning in time to watch the rest of the beast and his lover crash into the ground with an almighty thud.
"Naruto!" shouted Kiba as he ran over to the crash site. The stentch of blood made it impossible to find the blond through smell. Movement caught his eye, readying his kunia for anything.
"Kiba?" asked a heavily panting blond, blood splattered all over him. Putting the kunai away, Kiba rushed to the boy enveloping him in a tight embrace, before checking the blond for injuries. A small smile graced the whiskered teens lips at the affection his lover was showing. Satisfied that there were no major injuries, he cupped the teens cheeks and pulled him into a short but passionate kiss.
An undignified squeak escaped as chapped lips met his, a warm feeling filled his slightly numb body. Melting into the kiss, lips moving against each other in perfect unison. As quickly as it started it stop. Azure eyes met hazel ones.
"Don't you dare do something like that again Uzumaki or you'll be sleeping on the sofa." half-heartedly joked the brunette. Naruto chuckled lighly at the threat, resting his head on the brunettes shoulder. The moment was shattered when a screech met their ears, both heads snapped in the direction of the scream.
"We have to get back to camp!" urgently stated the blond, before he could go a warm hand gripped his arm stopping him from going. Looking at the other Chūnin with confusion written across his face. Recognise the look, Kiba elaborated;
"I know we do, but are you able to help take down another one of those things?" pointing to the headless beast.
"Who do you think I am?" stated the blond. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage dattebayo!" exclamined the teen excitedly, punching his fist in the air. With that both headed towards the camp, both with small smiles on their faces.
A cold wind picked up, flowing through the now deserted mountainside. A small mouse scurried across the floor towards the downed animal. Stopping every so often, sniffing to make sure there was no preditors around, it continued until it was right infront of the motionless body. Just as it was about to climb on it, it twitched sending the mouse running. Steam rose from the wound where the neck should be...
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