[I woke up from sleep at 12am wondering why the fuck my neighbors houses are exploding all over the place. Oh, it's a new year now. stupid fireworks ruining my dream.]

Chapter 34: The Shadow over Insumasu

Part 11: Wow, what a shocker.

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(((Kojima Konami)))

Kojima Konami is very miffed.

When she sobered up from her grass-induced intoxication, she found herself in the custody of a Kumogakure Genin Squad, led by Killer B, a notorious Hanyo from the Gyuuki clan. Perhaps the strongest Hanyo in the world currently.

The gist of it was that Makoto Hotaru had somehow managed to trick her in her drowsy state and bridal kidnapped her. That was on her, alright. She should have known that the insanity-riddled kid would had attempted to kidnap her at some point. Now, she is stuck in a cage, being carried over to Gato City as a hostage by the Cloud-Nin.

Now according to youkai tradition, she is stuck waiting for Sir Zabuza to rescue her away from Makoto's custody. It doesn't matter if she escapes herself. Her own society will send her back to Makoto as that would be not a very traditional thing to do. Only Zabuza, her legal guardian can rescue her away from the clutch of that perverted kid. Such is the way of the youkai.

So welp, Konami shall sulk in her cage for now like the cute lil fox that she is. Stupid Hotaru. If he's gonna kidnap her, he should've make sure she didn't get kidnapped away from him too.

"How are you, young little fox?

Comfortable, not?

Are you uncomfortable?"

Konami just groans as the Master of a Thousand Haiku spoke to her. Or rather Haikued to her. Personally, Konami thinks Haiku is a rather meh poetry form. 7-5-7 syllables format is a rather annoying rule to work with, and it doesn't even rhyme.

"I am fine Lord Killer B,

A bit famished, though,

Please give me some snacks."

Killer B nods, appreciating the Haiku reply which he received, and order Omoi to give some rations to Konami.

Konami shudders as she hold the white-chalk block of ninja ration bar. Full with calories, vitamins and essential minerals, all with the exquisite taste of dirt and mulch. This sucks.

She doesn't know what is worst, Ninja rations, or the food pills they give to disciples in Central Plains.

When she get back to her "husband", she will give him the nagging of his lifetime. If she's going to be stuck with this snotty brat then she sure as hell going to take over the household.

(((Hotaru)))

The Killer B squad arrived sharp at 12pm. Like at the exact second. Gotta say ninjas is very punctual to the dot, unless you're Kakashi.

"So, what's your plan here, Hotaru?", Kakashi asked as he escort me to the seats at the lobby of Gato Tower. The whole city populace had been escorted to Insumasu Town, being led to by Team 7. Its just me and Kakashi facing the strongest Hanyo of the Shinobi World.

"wait. I thought you're the one that's gonna handle things now that it comes to this. This is clearly above my paygrade.", I asked Kakashi back.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "But this whole operation is your idea. Why would I takeover the helm now that it comes to this?"

Oh right, I forgot that Kakashi is a useless deadbeat. "Oi, regardless of how much faith you have in me, don't you think beating the strongest half-youkai in the world is way too much for a mere genin like me?"

"I have faith in you."

Oh for fucks sake. What did I do to warrant this much faith in my superiors? Can't they see I'm just a kid that's completely out of his depth and has to resort to stupid plans just to survive?

"whatever. Now put your game face on."

(((Killer B)))

Killer B, grand champion of the World Haiku Tournament has arrived to the lobby of Gato Tower alongside with his entourage.

There, he recognized one Hatake Kakashi, who was said to have copied over a thousand jutsu. Exaggerations, mostly. Despite one may think, jutsus are not that abundant. One can only throw fireballs in several variations afterall. Rock ball, rock bullet, rock hammer, what's the difference?

Its all just rocks. The difference is just aesthetics at best.

Beside him is perhaps Makoto Hotaru.

Makoto. That's a name he had not heard for a long time.

"Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan.", Killer B greeted him, dropping his Haiku speech pattern for once.

"Killer B of the Eight Stings.", Kakashi greet him in return.

"So this is the fox's mate,

Tell me your name, boy,

Let us be acquainted."

The boy stood, and starts to… err….

"Yo yo yo, wazzup yo!

To the beach, to the gutter, to the ghetto oi!

Makoto Hotaru in da house, bitch!"

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"err… do you know the concept of rap and hip-hop?", the boy asked.

B shakes his head. "What is a rap?"

This kid is weird.

(((Hotaru)))

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!

I had prepared a whole rap battle strategy in preparation to face Killer B and of all things he speaks in Haiku and doesn't know rap? The concept of rap had not to been invented yet?!!

Once again, The Plot throw me a curveball! I wrote in that Haiku as a joke in my just in case Konami Box got intercepted letter but how the hell that ended up having fucking Killer B to be a Haiku Master instead?!!

Karui and Omoi starts to yap something but I immediately mute them out coz they are both irrelevant and a pain in the ass to keep track off. Just assume Karui and Omoi is also here along with B and Samui in the lobby. The Writer is too lazy to emulate their personalities and write in their dialogues.

Haha, what did you say? I cant hear you. Fuck off Karui. You're trash.

"I'll appreciate for you to stop riling Karui up.", Samui asked me.

"Karui who? I only see 3 of you. Octopus dude, oppai blonde and depression nut. Who is this Karui you're talking about?"

Samui look to the empty space to her left and try to pacify some sort of invisible ghost. Man, they accept anything in these days. Even ghosts too apparently. Kumo must be desperate to keep their numbers up with how much kidnappings they're doing. Hell, they even hire a ghost like Karui too.

Poor Karui. Even in death she has to work. Do ghost get taxed in Kumo? Food for thoughts.

"Anyway, hey you there, give me back my fox wife."

Samui seems to take the helm of the discussion as it would be inconvenient to negotiate with B keep Haikuing everything.

"We have her in custody somewhere within the city. Let us negotiate terms. What will you offer in exchange for the Kurama clan girl?"

I fold my arms. And take out some strips of papers and throw it on the table.

"Coupons?", Samui asked me, her eyebrows questions my sanity.

"Yep. 20% discount for Ichiraku Ramen. Valid until June."

"You dare to insult us out of our goodwill? We came here to negotiate honestly, yet clearly you do not love your bride much if coupons are the only thing you can offer for her release."

"oi, that coupons are the most valuable thing I have on hand. Unlike you elite bastards, I am poor. Very, very poor. My job mostly consist of sewer cleaning for fucks sake."

Killer B snorted.

"A mere coupon to us,

Treasure to you,

Value is subjective, yes."

Samui huffed. "Still, we cannot exchange a hostage of such value for mere coupons. Hatake Kakashi, would you like to foot in the price? Clearly your student is out of his depth."

Kakashi waved off his hand. "This negotiation is for Hotaru to settle. I have no value to give here."

I side-eyed the damned deadbeat. Wow, gee, way to throw me under the bus man.

"fine. Oi, Killer B, you're somekind of a poem aficionado right?"

He nodded.

"Haiku makes a dull style to cut,

Try hear this style this time,

May you study this poetry format,

Four lines and the words rhyme."

"Guuggkkk!!!", Killer B looked like he had a stroke. Yea. Wait till he hear 5 paragraph, each 4 lines and all them has the same rhymes. He probably would transcends space-time if he found out the concept of verbal rhyming.

"Samui. Release the hostage.", Killer B, uncharacteristically serious, ordered Samui.

"Master B???", Samui looked at him incredulously.

"Release the girl."

Samui nods reluctantly, and ordered Omoi to go free Konami.

"Tell me boy. What is that poetry form did you just use.", B asked me seriously.

"Dunno."

Heck do I know. I just made that up on the spot. I recall googling some poetry format on earth and figure ABAB pattern to be more Fancy than just regular AAAA pattern. My predecessor must be very bored I guess coz I sure as hell think poetry to be boring.

"I see. I like the way it sounds. You could use some more work though."

I shrugs. "Beats me. I'm not a poet. I am more of an instrument kind of guy."

"hmph. You may not have much resemblance to your father, but I would not mistake the devil-may-care attitude from anyone. You are Makoto Raikou's son, are you?"

If not because I had shutdown my panic response prior to this meeting, I would have fidgeted. Goosebumps and all that. If they want to see me flustered, they aren't getting any.

How the fuck did you know my dad's name?!!

Kakashi play it cool but I can feel he's starting to get tense up. Shit, if even Kakashi is starting to take shit seriously, we're really getting fucked here.

Killer B snorted. "Perfect control over your nervous response. Chakra that constantly circulate as Lightning Nature. And immunity to Genjutsu. I knew it, you are his son."

Killer B began to pace around the lobby casually. "Makoto Raikou used to be a Cloud-nin. Not much of a ninja really, just another brat that Kumo took as a forced conscript to serve at the frontline of the Third Shinobi War as a no-name genin. In the midst of the war, he was captured by Namikaze Minato himself, and for reasons I do not know why, he defected for Konoha."

I then pace around the lobby too. "Well shit, so dad used to be Cloud's? So? I checked his files. Doesn't seem to be much of a ninja really."

Killer B chuckled, as Samui and Omoi stand off in a tense staring contest with Kakashi.

"That he is. You father was nothing special really. That's why we didn't care much about taking him down over his treason.", Killer B then spread his arms, with a huge grin on his face. "But then, he become something special. You see, many things lives on the Human Realm that we reside in. And the most rare of them all are beings from the Naraka and Deva Realms. Prisoners of hell rarely emerged here for obvious reasons, but beings from the heavens? It is rare, but sometimes they do descend to our world."

Killer B looked me dead in the eye. "The Shodaime Raikage had captured a special beast in his rise to power. A Sacred Beast from the Deva Realm. With it's power, Kumogakure was able to stand toe to toe to Konoha which has the Uchiha and Hyuuga clan, whom are descended from the gods. This beast name is,"

Fuck.

"The Raiju."

I pulled out my sheathed katana from my Storage Watch.

"Makoto Hotaru, your father, along with Yondaime Hokage who was the legendary Yellow Flash at the time had killed the Sandaime Raikage, and stole away the Sacred Beast of Kumogakure. The Raiju, who for reason no one understands choose Raikou as its next host after the Sandaime's death. The beast which is now residing in you."

Killer B draw out 2 of his swords.

"It seems fate has lead us to you, son of Raikou. Kumogakure shall have our treasured beast back. And unfortunately for you, that requires you to die."

As B lunged at me, Kakashi had intercepted and engaged into a trading of blades, swords vs kunai. Meanwhile, I engaged Samui, Omoi and Karui, who I have now perceive in reality and holding them back with my swordmanship.

Damnit, this is supposed to be a fucking Wave arc. Why the hell all of sudden it become a revealing point of my OC backstories? OCs are supposed to have not much of character background damnit!

Turn out my super special power is stolen from Kumo! Wow, who didn't see that coming? A Lightning based kekkei genkai comes from Land of Lightning!

What a shocker!

(((Narrator)))

Makoto Hotaru didn't expect he can get out of this situation unscathed. Baiting Killer B to come to him is really just a random curveball among the many random curveballs he had always thrown. He had considered a package sent by a Leaf-nin will be intercepted by whoever responsible over the Shadow over Insumasu, so he included a letter just in case.

Kakashi prove to be far stronger than his canon self, able to withstood 2 Swords worth of Killer B. However, Killer B is the Strongest Hanyo, one who has strength equal to Kage level ninjas. Even with the Sharingan, Kakashi is barely holding up to Killer B's strength.

On the other hand, Hotaru is able to roughly fight against the three Cloud Genin at once. Killer B Squad is a kenjutsu specialist squad. Each of them is proficient enough channeling elemental chakra with their swords.

Samui with Wind Sword.

Karui with Flame Sword

And Omoi with Lightning Sword.

All of them are 13, which was weird coz The Writer made a google search and found that Samui was 29 during her Shippuden debut, so well this is an AU anyway so lets just say she is also 13. Probably. Her, large bosom is too big for her estimated age, which really make estimating her age to be confusing.

Anyway, they are the best genin team of their generation. The strongest genin team that is chuunin in all but rank.

And all three of them are being held back by a single genin who works as a janitor.

The Raiju is a highly guarded secret of Kumogakure. Kirin, Byakko, Suzaku, this are some of the Sacred Beasts that roam the continent. Some of them was captured and become the powersource that make legendary warriors. The previous three Raikage was feared from the overwhelming Lightning they posses through their forced merging with the Raiju.

Makoto Hotaru, now revealed to be the next host of Raiju now show why the old Raikages were force to be reckoned with.

"Damnit! What the hell with his reflex?! Its like he's a cat like Yugito!"

Karui become the vanguard in engaging the duel against Hotaru. Her fierce swordmanship had broke through many with her ferocity. But it was as if Hotaru is an Uchiha. He is able to deflect Karui's strikes as if he is seeing everything in slow motion.

Which he is.

[Time Alter: Double Accel]

Ripping off a certain magus killer, Hotaru doubled the speed of his thought process, allowing him to outpace the more physically superior opponents by thinking at twice faster than normal. Simply doubling the speed of thoughts doesn't make him much of a threat when his baseline was low to begin with. If Hotaru want to match a Jounin, he may need to speed up his thoughts 10 times of his current capability.

And using Time Alter is highly dangerous. Already he feels his body is straining from performing at twice of his current physical spec. He is heating up and it may be a few minutes before he is getting Overclocked.

Samui unleashed several Windfangs, an attack that release crescent energy wave that cuts away anything in its path. Hotaru deftly dodged it, and then then Omoi comes in with a superspeed Iai Slash.

Hotaru ducked with a breadth of his hair and rolled over, and Karui comes in and locked him I over another flurry of blows.

"damnit, can't believe I'm the one get teamworked at! Teamworks is supposed to be a protagonist thing!", Hotaru complains as he is locked in another cycle of combat. He want to avoid revealing his firearms, but at this rate he may need some firepower to keep those three at bay.

Explosions can be heard over a block away as the skirmish began to move to the courtyard of the Gato Tower. Kakashi must have started pulling the big guns, considering how much the ground shook from the explosions.

"Tell me, why are you raising those ink monsters in Insumasu?", Hotaru figured he may as well asked. That was supposed to be the next thing he's going to ask B, but instead he get bamboozled with the revelation that his father defected from Kumo and apparently stole their national treasure.

"Why else? Coz that's the job.", Omoi lazily answers him.

Hotaru goes with his hunch.

"Tazuna hired you guys isn't it?"

Karui had flinched, giving away the crucial identity of their employer.

"hah, I knew it. Hey, mind stopping the whole gig?"

Samui sent another barrage of Windfangs. Unfortunately, all of it were still got dodged by Hotaru.

"There is no stopping the curse."

Once again, Hotaru go with his hunch.

"I bet you used one of those Uzumaki doohickeys right? The one that make automatons, am I right?"

Once again, Karui flinched. Man, she is a shitty ninja. Can't keep a secret for her life.

"Karui! Control yourself!", Samui scolds her from afar.

"How can I? Why the hell he is making super accurate guess?!"

"I bet its up north."

Karui didn't flinch this time.

"hah. So eastward then. Man, don't tell me you're stupid enough to plant it at the old town."

This time, Karui flinched.

"Karui!"

"I'm sorry!"

Getting the information he needed, Hotaru ran over to Kakashi.

The B Squad pursue after him.

Hotaru then found that Konami is holding back Killer B by spamming her Combustion Release over and over again towards B. Kakashi is hastily bandaging his left arm. It didn't look good. A chunk of flesh was gouged out and he can see the bone under it.

"Kakashi!", Hotaru traded glance with him and Kakashi realized they're about to unleash their Plan N.

Kakashi hastily keyed over 50 handseal combinations and then grabbed both Konami and Hotaru.

[Prototype Hiraishin]

Using the crude prototype of Hiraishin, Kakashi along with Hotaru and Konami teleported away back to Insumasu Town.

Killer B is about to give away to a chase when the manholes, no, the sewers across the entire city center began to glow with eerie crimson.

As a contingency, Hotaru had taken a leaf from his playbook and ordered Naruto to write scribbles around 5 block radius of Gato Tower. If Gato complains, he just going to lame Killer B. Anyway, essentially Hotaru had made Naruto turned the city center into a bomb, choked to the brim with 100% pure Naruto chakra by turning the sewer lines as a makeshift bomb.

As Killer B reached over his students, his vision is filled by bright light, and his ears is deafened by the immense roar of shockwave.

(((Hotaru)))

Yep. Art is indeed an explosion.

Lool at that shroom cloud. Plan Nuke is a success. Though I doubt B had died from that. This is fucking Killer B, man. The Strongest Hanyo. As if a 5 block worth of explosive can take that dude down.

It do however, should force him to leave for a bit. B maybe tough, but his kids?

I hope I took out some.

Welp, there goes my plan to be buddy buddy with Killer B. Not that I liked his character that much actually. I just thought he would be easy to bond with but the damn AU plot really screw with my balls.

And he will be even more unfriendly now that I may had taken out some of his kids.

"Good plan, Hotaru." Kakashi patter me on the shoulder to assure me.

"Meh, we just survive round 1. Anyway, we kinda settled the mission parameters here. I had figured out the source of Hyakki Yakou. We should bail."

"That seems about it. Once we report to Gato, our part of the job is done. I think it is imperative to take you out now that we know that Kumo is seeking what's inside of you."

Yea no shit. Apparently after all that shit of turning the canon jinchurikis into half-youkais, somehow The Plot make a fucking plotwist and it turns out I am the "jinchuriki" of the story now, only with Sacred Beast instead of chakra kaijus. What's next, I gonna get Raiju Chakra Mode? Is that what the Raikages used with their whole Lighting Armor thing?

Urrghhh. This fucking AU contents man. Why can't I just be a regular power fantasy Gary Stu of an OC. Get stupid OP powers and somehow become a chick magnet despite having the personality of a pretentious hero wannabe that's cringe as hell. And then has an easy time rehashing canon plot and beat everyone like an all knowing god.

But nooooo. Makoto Hotaru has to suffer. Makoto Hotaru has to stay nerfed even with special OC powers. Makoto Hotaru has no convenient Gary Stu plot armor to charm his way through every bullshit.

"you do that, Kakashi. Anyway, Konami, you're still my wife or what?"

Konami was stretching her legs. Getting cramped into a small cage must be tiring.

"Oh that? Still am. Until Sir Zabuza saves me, I am stuck with you. 6 days to go."

"Now to be clear, I didn't know youkai get married through kidnapping."

Konami just shrugs. "Most of us don't do it anymore. But a law is a law. Even if you didn't know, it still applies."

I tapped my feet on the ground. "drats. I guess I do need to get a better job then."

Konami tilted her head. Then, she has this sheepish look on her face. Oh yea, I forgot. She can read my mind.

"you're surprisingly…. Responsible for a kid."

"please. I'm a goddamn ninja. I lost my right to be a kid the day I got conscripted into the academy. Not that I had much of a good childhood anyway."

I looked toward the sky.

"getting married at 12 is pretty damn ridiculous though. So I do hope Zabuza figure out that I scammed him and get back soon to take you away. But eh, if a week passed, I guess I have to start to work hard for my new wife I guess."

"You're not going to fight Sir Zabuza, do you? There's no way you can beat him. Just let him take me away. It's not like…", before she could say further, she stopped as she looked into my eyes.

"eh.. eeehhhh…"

"Please. As if I let you off that easily. It may be by accident but you're mine now. I'm not letting you go without a fight."

Konami bashfully looked away from me. "Stupid Hotaru. It seems you have a bad habit of fighting above your paygrade."

"Yea, I have terrible luck. The Plot conspire to annoy the crap outta me. But it has it's moments."

I start to walk off as I say this to her. "I'm gonna see Tazuna now. You go check up with Itachi. She worried about you."

"Sure."

I start walking to Tazuna's manor, looking over Kakashi arranging the defenseive formation of our forces.

Naruto had finally retrieved the Rock Golem Seal Scroll that was stored in the Uchiha underground training vault. The clone sent to get it must had some really wild travel as I can see Naruto is having the worst migraine right now after dispelling his clone. Sasuke is checking up the inventory and Hanabi is scouting ahead with her Byakugan.

The Insumasu Town is turning into a fortress in anticipation of Killer B's invasion. He will probably attack tonight. Now that he knows I'm here, his mission priority must have changed to retrieve The Raiju.

You know, when I come here, I had kept this quite. I assume it's because of AU, but I had this bad feeling inside me ever since I got into Tazuna's manor and realized something.

Where is Tsunami and Inari?

Where are they?