Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Tail of Two Bijus ❯ A Rumble in the Jungle ( Chapter 3 )

A/N: Yo! Sorry I'm late, a black cat crossed my path just now and I was afraid to move until it had gotten off the path....

 

Yeah.... Anyways, I'll get right into the third chapter. I still haven't recived any votes yet! Come on people! Making the story up myself is no fun and no challenge! I want you guys to feel as if you are shaping Naruto's and Yukiko's destiny! Now, I've got my first review, so I hope more are coming! Anyways, I hope that my creativity gives you some semblance of pleasure to read.

 

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Now, on with the show!

 

Legend:

 

'...Thoughts...'

 

“...Speaking...”

 

'...Biju Thoughts...'

 

“...Biju Talking...”

 

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A Tail of Two Bijus:

 

Chapter 3:

 

A Rumble in the Jungle:

 

Yukiko used her hightened senses gained from Nibi to track Naruto. When she was about halfway to her destination, her stomach gave a sudden lurch and a feeling of dread washed over her.

 

'This is really not good. I've felt this feeling before... It was when you took over my body...'

 

Yukiko felt the demon queen stiffen suddenly as the wave of chakra caused feelings washed over her.

 

'This... This Chakra! That's Kyubi's chakra! No wonder I sensed he had dissapeared when I was sealed! He was sealed too! Yukiko, get to him immedaitedly! I have to talk to Kyu-chan again...'

 

This shocked Yukiko greatly. A demon queen, calling a demon king Kyu-chan? She never let any signs of affection show, let alone call someone something so endearing as Kyu-chan!

 

'Kyu....chan?'

 

Nibi sighed as there was no use hiding it any more. She would have to tell her the truth. All of it. She took a deep breath and began.

'Millenia before both of us were sealed, we were friends. Possibly more than just friends. The other demon lords were jelous of our budding relationship, as I was known amongst the demons as 'Queen of Ice'. No one was able to melt my heart and I snubbed all the other demon lords. That was until I met Kyubi. He was such a mischivous guy, full of cunning and daring. I don't know what it was exactly that began attracting me to him, but I was no longer the Queen of Ice, because I had found a potential mate. The other demon lords were stunned, but soon, they began to become very envious of Kyubi and I. The other 7 tailed demon lords got together and plotted our demise. First, they decided to hold me hostage and demanded that Kyubi banish himself from the demon realm to the mortal world. Reluctantly, he aaditted defeat, and left his throne and a giant power vaccume in the demon realm. The other 7 tailed demons began a massive struggle for supremacy, of which I had no intrest in. I managed to sneak away and I then decided to banish myself to the mortal realm in hopes of finding my beloved. When I arrived, I immmiately felt the presence of Kyu-chan. I stopped and ran towards his location, only to be stopped as I ran through the Hidden Village of Snow. Their leader managed to stop me and rip my soul from my body, sealing it inside a crying little baby girl. That girl was you. Just as I was being prised from my body, I felt the same thing happening to Kyu-chan. So this is the first time I have been allowed to meet my mate in 12 years. Now you know. I want you to make me a promise.'

 

Shocked by this story, Yukiko dumbly agreed.

 

'You must promise me to protect that boy AT ALL COSTS. Kyu-chan has obviously neglected the fact that if his container dies, then so does he. You and I are going to train them to be able to protect themselves. I can't risk losing Kyu-chan again...'

 

Yukiko admitted that was a resonable request. After all, she finally found someone who could understand the torment of being a Jinchuriki. She accepted the vow, and swiftly made her way towards Naruto.

 

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At the Hokage Tower:

 

Once Yukiko arrived at her destination, she saw guards everywhere, all obviously beaten by something they had no chance of success against. She rushed to the nearest guard and inspected him, before using some of her medical jutsu's to ease his pain. Slowly, the Chunin opened his eyes and looked up at his saviour.

 

“What happened here?”

 

“That demon bastard, Naruto came charging in here and totally kicked our asses. He ran inside and took the first's sacred scroll of forbidden jutsus. This time he's gone too far. He has to be killed-”

 

Yukiko had heard enough. No one deserved to be talked about like that. She growled angrily and surrounded her hand with a stream of green chakra.

 

“Chakra Scalpel!”

 

With that she severed the tendons in his legs and arms, making him completely immobile. She listened with delight to his howls of pain.

 

“Next time you talk about Naruto-Kun like that, I may decide to use my chakra scalpel around your heart and lungs. Don't you EVER talk about Naruto-Kun like that again do you understand me? Think over your views of him while you're in pain and then you might begin to understand what it feels like to be in his position.”

 

The Chunin looked at her in horror. This girl was protecting that... that demon bastard?! He'd had enough, he tried to crawl back up and attack this girl, but quickly found that the girl had dissapeared from infront of him and had appeared behind him.

 

“Wrong move, human.”

 

He stopped. He knew that voice anywhere. That was a demon's voice alright. He risked a look behind him and immediately regretted it. Standing before him was the girl, but she was different. VERY different. Her body was giving off an aura of decay. Her eyes were now green with gold rims and slits for pupils instead of the peaceful violet ones from before. He also noticed her nails had grown into claws and most shockingly of all her cainines were now quite long. He now knew he had forfieted his life. So he accepted defeat.

 

“Awww, the little human accepts defeat? That's no fun at all! Well, I'll give you a swift death for realising the futility of defying the Queen of the Damned.”

 

All this time, Yukiko had been rapidly going through a set of handseals foreign to her, but she knew the result. This wasn't going to be pretty.

 

“This is it! Goodbye! Your soul.... is mine! (Crap! I stole another line from Shang Tsung...) Death Element: Soul Siphon!”

 

The Chunin looked on in horror as the demon girl raised her hand and an disturbingly evil purple stream of chakra emerged from her hand and struck him in the stomach. He immedaitely clutched his stomach as an excruciating pain racked his body and he felt like a core part of him was being ripped from his body. The last thing he saw was a ghostly outline of himself being taken out of his body and being absorbed into that demon girl. He saw that the end had come, and begrudgingly accepted defeat before embracing the end.

 

Now that her hunger had been saited, the Queen of the Damned turned back to the task at hand.

 

'Ah what a satisfying meal. Now, to go find my precious Kyu-chan. Let's go, kitten.'

 

Without a second thought, they moved off following the trail of demonic chakra into the surrounding woods.

 

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The woods just outside Konoha:

 

Naruto had stolen the scroll as per his sensei's instructions. He'd been waiting for over an hour, and he'd just about had it with waiting, so doing the first thing that came naturally to his mind, he opened the scroll and started reading.

 

'Let's see.... A Wood Element jutsu? Sounds boring..... A Fire Element justu? Now THAT's what I'm talking about! Let's see... to successfully use Katon: Karyuu Endan no Jutsu you have to draw your chakra to your innermost coils and take a deep breath, and then unwind the chakra stored in your coils and focus it towards your mouth along with expelling the air at the same time...... I don't get it... Oh well.... Next one...'

 

Naruto went through the scroll until he found one of particular intrest.

 

'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu? I could really use this! Let's see... Kage Bunshin no Jutsu creates clones, however unlike regular Bunshins, these are actual flesh and blood Bunshins who have their own chakra circlitaory system. To successfully accomplish Kage Bunshin, you must split your chakra equally amoungst each of the clones, giving them form and shape. This is a special Jounin level technique that requires an abhorrent amount of chakra but allows the bunshin to confuse the enemy as they can actually take physical damange, fooling the opponent into thinking they have killed you only to find they have attacked a clone.'

 

Naruto whistled. This was a powerful technique alright. And what shocked him more was that he actually understood it! Naruto snickered to himself and began to perform the jutsu for an hour until he had successfully mastered it. He sat down and leaned back against a tree regaining his breath when he heard a twig snap and was instantly back on guard. He looked in the direction it had come from and was just about to let loose a kunai when he felt a familiar chakra signature and he relaxed. Out of the bushes sprung Yukiko. She was obviously not too happy with Naruto's act, and she went and tackled him to the ground.

 

“Naruto-Kun, you BAKA!”

 

What happened next, he could never prepare himself for. She hugged him. His eyes flew wide in shock at the gentle physical contact and he instictively put his arms around Yukiko.

 

“Yukiko...chan?”

 

Yukiko opened her eyes and gasped. 'Yukiko-Chan'? No one had ever attached that endearing suffix to her name. She then looked down at Naruto and smiled. 'He's actually kind of cute with that facial expressio...'

 

'Oh? My little kitten is developing feelings for my mate's container?'

 

'No I'm not! I just thought that he was kind of cute with that facial expression. Nothing more.'

 

'Very well. On another note, I would recommend that since this is the perfect opportunity for it, that you study that scroll. There are some techniques in there that I'm sure we could both make use of.'

 

Shaking her head, Yukiko turned back to Naruto and smiled. Naruto in turn smiled back and then started blushing profusely. Wondering what the problem was, she noticed her bust was pressing into his chest. She then rectified the situation by removing herself from him, breaking the moment and started blushing as well. They just stared at each other for a bit, simmilar thoughts going through each of their minds.

 

She's really cute... Actually, beautiful might be a better word for it. Even more so than Sakura-Chan.'

 

'I never noticed how hansom he was. Those wisker marks make him really attractive...'

 

Snapping out of her line of thought, she looked at the scroll on the ground.

 

“Is that the First's sacred scroll Naruto-Kun?”

 

“Yeah! I've already learnt a technique off it! You should try learning some things off it too! They're really powerful jutsus!”

 

Smiling, Yukiko went to the scroll and brought it up to her lap, looking up at Naruto for some sort of sign that she was allowed to read it. Recognising this look, Naruto just smiled and said “Go for it!”

 

Yukiko gave one of her biggest smiles and began browsing through the scroll.

 

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Hokage Tower:

 

Out the front of the Hokage Tower, a large mob of ninja had arrived, yelling things like 'demon kids' and the like.

 

“Hokage-Sama! This time he crossed the line! He stole the sacred scroll! Although the scroll itself is useless to him, if someone was to take it from him, we would be in serious trouble! Not only that, he's sucked someone else into his little scheme as well! Give us the word and we'll go hunt that bastard down!”

 

The Hokage realised he was at a loss. He'd protected Naruto for as long as he possibly could, but even he could not protect Naruto from a crime this bad. Sighing, the Hokage took a puff from his pipe, and accepted defeat.

 

“Fine. I want all persons Chunin and above to search for him. If you encounter him, I want you to do as little damage as possible. Bring him back alive. If he is harmed, you will have me to answer to, understood?”

 

The croud chorused a single word: “Hai!” before dispersing. Little did they know that this had all been planned by one very corrupt Chunin by the name of Mizuki, who gave a sadistic smile and grunt before heading for the place he had agreed to meet with Naruto.

 

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Back in the Forest:

 

Naruto and Yukiko were now exhausted. They had each gone through the entire scroll learning everything they could. Most people would be surprised at how much these ninjas who were not even Genin had learnt from the scroll. They heard a person land on a branch of the tree they were leaning against and looked up to find one very ticked off Chunin.

 

“NA-RU-TO!!!!”

 

“Ah! I found you Iruka-Sensei!”

 

Iruka sometimes wondered if this boy had anything except Ramen Noodles for brains. His eye visably twitched before he mesured his voice to reply.

 

“You found me? BAKA! I was the one who found you!”

 

Naruto just smiled and scratched the back of his head.

“Yeah I guess you did...”

 

Iruka looked at the pair who were obviously exauhsted. Were they... training? He then saw that the scared scroll was laying next to Naruto half open.

 

“Did you two...”

 

“Learn from the scroll? Yup! Sure did! I learnt 3 Jutsus!” Naruto said with a huge grin plastered to his face.

 

“I... I learnt 5 Justus...” This came from the girl who was sitting next to Naruto.

 

Iruka had heard about this girl from the Hokage. This was going to be his new student. Not only had the dead last of the class learnt 3 jutsus from this scroll, this girl had learnt 5! He could tell that they were both going to be incredible ninja. He smiled and dropped to the ground before walking over to them.

 

“That's great guys, but Hokage-Sama asked me to return you and the scroll to-”

 

Iruka didn't get to finish what he was saying before a hail of kunai came out of the bushes to his right. Iruka knew he didn't have time to dodge, so he did the only thing he could, he tried to lessen the impact. The kunais ripped through him and stabbed into his shoulder, legs and sides, blasting him against the trunk of a tree and pinning him there. Iruka slowly raised his head to see who his assailent was.

 

“I'm sorry Iruka, but that will not be happening. The scroll is coming with me.”

 

Iruka opened his eyes in shock. This couldn't be! His childhood friend who had been with him through thick and thin.... Was betraying him? He refused to believe it.

 

“M.... MIZUKI?!”

 

Now it was Naruto's turn to be shocked. The one who had told him about the scroll was attacking Iruka-Sensei?

 

“Ha ha ha ha! You were always the naïve one weren't you, Iruka?”

 

Coming out of the bushes was none other than Mizuki. He was in full battle dress, with his Chunin flak jaket and 2 giant shuriken strapped to his back. He looked at his former comrade and then turned to the two children.

 

“Well well well, what do we have here? The two demon children? Awww, look at that, they're huddling together like a couple, how cute. Looks like demons attract each other, hmm Well, no matter, I'll finish you both off one by one. Starting with the boy!”

 

Iruka looked on in horror as Mizuki took one of the giant shuriken off his back and began spinning it.

 

“However before I kill you boy, I must thank you for going to the trouble of taking the scroll for me. It saved me a lot of effort. For that I will grant you a quick death. Now, die you scum!”

 

Mizuki realeased the shuriken at Naruto at blinding speed. Iruka looked on in horror as he was about to lose his favorite student. He desperately struggled against the kunai holding him in place, but by the time he got free, he knew he was far too late. He did the only thing that came to his mind.

He screamed the name of his student.

 

“NARUTO!”

 

Naruto looked on in horror as the shuriken approached his face. He accepted fate and closed his eyes waiting for the end.

 

SPLAT

 

Drip. Drip. Drip.

 

Naruto thought to himself. 'There was no pain... does that mean that I'm...'

 

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and looked at the horrible scene before him. Yukiko was bent over Naruto, blood dripping off her back and down her sides with Mizuki's shiruken stuck in her back. She was trying to hold back tears and pain, and she smiled weakly at him.

 

“Naruto...Kun. What's with that look? It doesn't suit your face.”

 

Yukiko held up a hand and gently brushed it over Naruto's cheek. Naruto started to tear up.

 

“Yukiko-Chan... Why? Why do this for me?”

 

Yukiko smiled at him before whispering her reply.

 

“Because it was the right thing to do.”

 

Mizuki had been watching this the whole time and couldn't contain himself any longer. He burst out laughing and started rolling on the floor holding his sides.

 

“This... This is just too funny! Stop! No more! I'll die laughing from this play!”

 

Iruka was disgusted by his former teammate's actions. How could something this charming be considered funny?

 

“MIZUKI! How could you! This is the exact reason you didn't pass that exam! Because you lack the will to put your life on the line to save your friends!”

 

Muzuki suddenly became deadly serious. He didn't seem to mind that Naruto had taken Yukiko and fled. Right now he had more important matters to attend to.

 

“Is that so Iruka? I put my life on the line for you plenty of times. Where did it get me? A job looking over all those snotty nosed kids who call themselves NINJA? Some good that did me! And now you are teaching that damn demon fox! Even if he had the scroll, it's powers would be useless to him!”

 

“You're right. It would be useless to the demon fox.”

 

Yukiko looked up at Naruto with sorrow and understanding. Naruto was now very very pissed off. 'So, even Iruka-Sensei thinks I'm that monster...' What came next though was nothing like what Naruto or Yukiko expected.

 

“But then again, the demon fox and Naruto are two very different separate entities. I hate the demon fox within him, but I treasure Naruto as one of my most precious students. Because I have acknowledged his existence.”

 

With this, Naruto let his tears flow down his face in understanding. He now had 2 people who acknowledged his existance. He thought the world couldn't possibly get any better than this.

 

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Iruka, I congratulate you on the world's corniest speech ever. But frankly, I've had enough. It's time to die, Iruka.”

 

Iruka now lowered his head and accepted that he was finished. 'So this is the end, huh?' With a sad smile, he closed his eyes and waited. What happened next was totally unexpected. Just as Mizuki was about to release the shuriken, he felt two sandals kick him in the chin, knocking him to the ground.

 

“Don't. You. DARE. Touch Iruka-Sensei. OR I'LL KILL YOU!”

 

Standing in front of him were Naruto and Yukiko. Muzuki got up and gave an manic laugh. “Oh come on, what could you two wannabe ninjas possibly do to me? I'll kill you both in one shot!”

 

“Try it trash. I'll return the favour one thousand fold.”

 

“THEN DO IT YOU DEMON FOX!”

 

“Naruto you BAKA! Take Yukiko and run! You don't stand a chance! Save yourselves...”

 

“Kage Bunshin no Jutsu.”

 

Iruka lost the will to scream at the spectacle before him. No wonder he had found them so beat up. They really HAD been training. Before him were a thousand Naruto and a thousand Yukiko shadow clones. Mizuki was obviously in the same position as Iruka.

 

“Wha... what's going on?”

 

“What's wrong? Weren't you going to to kill us in one shot? Ha! Very well, I'll start things off then.”

 

The Naruto and Yukiko clones cracked their joints and then turned back to Mizuki.

 

“Now, shall we?”

 

All thoughout the forest, a scream could be heard that could only be described as a tourtured scream of a man being beaten sensless. The clones poofed out of existance leaving only the real Naruto and Yukiko grinning sheepishly over the distorted body of one very badly beaten Mizuki.

 

“Heh heh! I guess we overdid it... A little?”

 

Iruka looked at his new students with pride and awe. He wasn't wrong when he thought they were ging to be great ninjas.

 

“That was... astounding! Great job guys! I hope to see you both at the academy tomorrow for the Genin induction exam! Now, let's get back to town, ok?”

Both of the students turned to eachother and gave a big smile before nodding to Iruka and taking Mizuki and the scroll back to town.

 

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A/N: Yosh! Another one down for the count! As always, please keep the reviews and votes coming. And if you're wondering why I made Naruto learn 3 of the techniques from the scroll instead of one, let's just say I have my reasons and they suit the story line. Want to know what the other 2 techniques were? Hmmmm, I think I'll save one of them for the next chapter. The other? I'll use it when they go on their first big mission. Sorry if you don't like the idea of me deviating as much as I have from the official storyline, but it is my fic, and I wish to play it out as I like. Anyways, R&R and vote please. Otherwise, I may have to scrap the entire voting system and do it all myself (aww that's no fun!) Anyways, until next time my avid readers!!

 

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