Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Truths ❯ Massacre ( Chapter 10 )

(A/N) I know it’s been a long while since I updated this but I just would like to set this out before I continue. This chapter and the following chapters will all be first person; it makes it easier on me. Enjoy.



It’s late, that I know, but it isn’t until I hear a faint twig-snap that I begin to become alert to their plans.

“Kay, we have five minutes before they attack, don’t make any attempts to wake the others,” I say casually, as if talking about what happened today.

I’m really tired of that Sasuke, he seems to think that he’s better than he is. Not that I can blame him, he doesn’t have anyone strong enough to put him in check, he’s too obsessed with growing strong enough to beat Itachi. He won’t, not anytime soon because something he obviously doesn’t realize is that he’s not the only one who can train.

“Why are you thinking about Sasuke?” Kay asks me.

I look at her, half-forgetting that we can read minds. “I don’t know to be honest with you,” I answer.

“Stop bullshitting me; we both know that you two have been at each other’s throats since day one. Why don’t we just get over this? What is it that drives you two to hate each other so much?”

“Petty differences I guess. It’s not that I hate him, but that he hates me. I refuse to be around someone so arrogant as him who would turn away his own team for something so stupid as revenge. He tried destroying their entire village just for this purpose. And I’ve tried digging deeper, it’s hard because most of it is about Itachi but apparently the only reason he even stayed around was to kill Naruto.”

“Why?”

“I’m not sure really. Something about his Sharingan. His brother told him that the only way he could beat him was if he could acquire the Mangekyou Sharingan. And according to him, it requires that you kill your closest friend. If he really knew anything about that bloodline, he’d realize it’s easier than that.

“I remember something about it in our history books. They captured an Uchiha spy and interrogated him about the Sharingan--this was on my own time,” I add quickly noticing the confused look on her face. “He was really good or so the book said, he was able to predict everyone’s movement and pretty much beat the crap out of a lot our troops.

“When they finally subdued him, they were able to get a lot out of him, and he mentioned something about the first time he used it, he almost died too. He said he focused all his chakra into his eyes and it just happened. But I wouldn’t suggest doing that right now Sasuke, we have company. Wake everyone up now. They’re going to attack.”

I see him sit up and stare at me before he begins to shake the others. They’re going to attack in a few seconds and me and Kay have to hold them off until they can get ready. I can sense five of them, all in generally the same area. Normally I would just use a Kinjutsu and kill them all but it would attract way too much attention. I knew Drake wasn’t just here to meet us, she was scouting.

“It’s time.”

“We’ll split them, from left to right is A through E. Take A, D, and E attack pattern 209,” Kay commands. It’s quite amazing, all of her strategies, all 3067 of them are completely original and she knows exactly which one to execute so that it will work perfectly. The pain-in-the-ass part is that I have to memorize all of them. And all the variations to each of these plan are a pain too. I swear, if I couldn’t read her mind, I’d be running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

This plan is fairly simple seeing that the enemy is so weak. But there’s something about their formation I can’t pinpoint. I’ve seen it before, that’s obvious, but I just can’t remember what’s so special about this formation.

Well I don’t have much time to think, I’m within striking distance of target D which after four strikes or so to the chest is sent flying into a tree where I quickly pin him with a wired kunai, he’ll be for interrogation.

I check on Kay to make sure I’m not ahead or behind, God knows I’ll get a lecture for that. Luckily I’m not and I can continue with phase two. We begin running towards each other and my target, A, and her target, C, are stupid enough to follow while the other sits back and waits to die.

As we pass, she grabs the rope hidden under my sleeve and I grab it to stop the loosening, the result, me being propelled into the air and kicking target A in the face. I let go of the string and my body swings freely above his tumbling form until gravity finally takes its toll and drops me on his neck, crushing his throat and any hope of air he had.

But my flying days aren’t over yet as I grab the rope once more and feel Kay yank me over to target E. I must say, she is really strong, I weight what? A hundred and forty pounds?

She pulls the string sideways and spins me while, unbeknownst to target C, the string has wrapped around his neck, it won’t strangle or decapitate him, but I think what will happen is worse, at least it looks worse.

The rope has fully unwound itself from my arm and my head collides with target E’s chest, slamming him into a tree as well. But on the rope lies the final stage of the plan, a kunai, and although, my back is to it, I know that the string has been pulled all the way around his neck and the kunai, well let’s just say if he wakes up, he’s going to have one hell of a headache, if.

That would suck to wake up with a kunai rammed in the back of your skull. An image flashes through my head of a man, kinda goofy-looking, feeling the back of his head and saying “Not again!” in a very irritated voice as his finger passes over the ring of the kunai.

But a horrific realization returns me to the present world. They were decoys.

I look over at the campsite and see it in chaos. Kakashi, Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke are all still standing but outnumbered about three to one, not exactly favorable odds. I see about fourteen enemies and on each of their foreheads is an insignia. The four elements, four each with the following insignias, fire, water, wind, and earth. They’re going to combine the elements to finish them all off at once.

I definitely don’t think Kay has a plan for this type of situation.

“What are you waiting for?” she yells to me. “Get your ass moving now!” Okay so I was wrong, but this is going to take more than just what I am capable of normally, these are supposed to be impossible odds and the fact they’re elemental users doesn’t help the situation much either. Tora! A little bit of assistance would be nice, and I don’t mean just a little so don’t get smart with me.

Immediately I feel Tora’s chakra wrapping itself around me and everything is slower than normal, perfect. I dash over to the site which I assume takes a grand total of .4 seconds for the entire twenty-seven meter dash and quickly take out a fire elemental.

“Naruto!” I yell over to where he lies on the floor after taking a kick to the stomach. “Use Kyuubi!”

“No!” he replies. He is one stubborn little boy.

“You have to. These are elemental fighters, if they get us all together, they’ll kill us in a heartbeat, we can’t risk that.” I say while taking out an earth elemental. As a single fighter, these guys aren’t that good, but they’re pushing us closer to each other and if Naruto doesn’t want to use Kyuubi, well it might just end with me and him being the only ones alive.

I look around and try to assess the situation but it’s hard, there are so many people in such a small space that every other second you’ve got two people blocking what you’re looking at. But I see Tenten and Shikamaru have both been knocked out and Sakura is trying to help them.

Someone is sneaking up on her though, trying to take her out before she can successfully heal them. Time for some action. I begin running towards him but out of the corner of my eye I see Neji flying towards me, so now I have to choose between saving him and saving Sakura. Let’s try both.

The only question now is how, I don’t have the string so I’ll lose speed when I go to break Neji’s fall. I’m out of time now so time for something spontaneous, it usually works. I summon chakra into my hands and force it out in Neji’s direction which slows him to a stop.

I grab a few shuriken from my stash and throw them at Neji’s attackers but I do not slow down. That’s another earth and a water, it’s really good to take out a whole element all at once but with all the confusion, it’s a little easier said than done. This next part is going to be hard, there’s a blockage up ahead followed by Sakura and her attacker. Since I won’t have time to run around everyone, I’ll have to jump over them and land at the right distance so as to kill the fire elemental and not Sakura.

There’s no wind and the ground is flat which means all I’ll have to do is jump hard enough. I finally figure out how much energy to put in the jump and right on time. I jump, watch the battle from the air and then come crashing down on the fire elemental who expected it about as much as a fly being hit with a newspaper.

By now, Kakashi has taken out two elementals, both wind. That leaves nine to go, eight, Sasuke just took out a water elemental, two of each group.

They are disengaging, or rather focusing on a single target, Naruto. They want to kill him before he can use Kyuubi.

“Use Kyuubi, you idiot!” I yell at the top of my lungs.

The elementals have encircled themselves around him and are performing their seals. Naruto of course is standing there, half confused, half scared like an idiot.

I quickly dig through his mind, searching for something that would anger him enough to use Kyuubi. I find it easily.

“Naruto, you know they’re right about how weak and stupid you are. You’re nothing but a dropout Ninja not suited to even scrape the dirt from Tsunade’s shoes let alone become the Hokage. What makes you think you can be the Hokage if you‘re too weak to control Kyuubi?”

At once I see the determination in his face, and I can sense Kyuubi. It is ridiculously powerful and I think he isn’t even attempting to restrain Kyuubi.

But it is too late, the last of the hand seals have been cast and the four elements now race towards him. Two walls of rock, two jets of water, two jets of wind and two blasts of fire. All of them collide with him at the same time and after everything finally settles, I see Naruto still standing but he then falls to the ground, lifeless.

Everyone has stopped moving including the elementals. There is a long silence broken only by the crackling of a tree that has been set on fire. After the last of the dust has settled, one of the elementals, a fire one and obviously the leader of the group walks cautiously towards Naruto’s body. He kicks it quickly then steps back to check if he is faking but there is no response.

I am ready to kill these people but right now, that would be unwise and I see Kakashi make a move but I shake my head to try and dissuade his actions. Luckily he is smart enough to realize that I’m not joking.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Sakura with her arms wrapped around herself, tears freely flowing from her eyes. I wish I could comfort her but moving wouldn’t be too smart of an idea, they are still in formation which could be bad news anyway.

The leader pulls off his face guard and turns around to look at me. It is hard to see his face but I know for sure that it’s a man.

“Long time, no see, eh Alek?” he asks. I recognize his voice and it is scarily familiar. I try to search his mind but he has blocked it off.

“You should know better than to try and read my mind, I’m not as easily fooled as others. But I won’t deny you the privilege of seeing my face.”

In truth, I’m not really looking forward to seeing his face. The fact that he knows my name and I know his voice tells me that I already know this person. But when he steps into the light of the burning tree, I see nothing familiar about him, maybe I was just imagining it.

“I know you don’t recognize my face. When I said it’s been a long time, I meant a long time. Let’s say we go back to when you were a little boy, around the time Drake invaded. Surely you should have remembered me from that day? You remember the one, I seem to recall your mom yelling for you to run before you were killed. I must say I was very impressed with your performance and for someone who had never killed before, you were ruthless.

“And I was truly inspired by your power, though the way I showed it wouldn’t be the way you’d assume I would. I joined the other side, became one of Drake’s most loyal servants. I knew that this way, I would one day get to fight the beast that is you. Before that, I was on the same team as your mother and father.”

My mouth drops open and I take several steps backwards but only to conceal my hand moving towards a kunai. I know who he is. “Why did you betray our country, David?”

“Ahh, I see you remember my name. And I do believe I told you that already. It was you, your fight made me want to fight you and I knew that I couldn’t as an ally, but as an enemy, one of the most respected under Drake’s control, I could very easily get to you.”

He smiles, but then the smile fades from his face as he seems to sense something, something powerful and I can feel its energy too.

He turns around and stares deeply at Naruto’s body and something is emanating from it. Chakra, but how? The chakra is glowing brightly, red and very brightly. The body has begun to move and eventually floats into an upward position, his face still turned to the side as he had fallen.

This time it is David who steps backwards and raises his hands, ready to protect himself. “What are you?” he asks.

When Naruto turns his head, it is so fast that an afterimage gives him the of having two heads. His face has changed too, I have already searched Sasuke’s mind and seen this before, but it seems deeper, more feral. I am expecting for him to attack immediately but instead he…growls, really loudly and though it is a bit odd, it’s very intimidating. He isn’t holding Kyuubi back, this could be dangerous.

The others surround him again and begin to use their jutsus again but Naruto makes no move. Once again, the elements race towards him, but something tells me this will be different.

When the dust clears, Naruto has disappeared. But he was there just a second ago, there is no way he could have dodged even with how fast he is now.

I find myself very wrong when a figure crashes down on one of the elementalists. I think it’s safe to say, judging by the gush of blood and the large crater, that this guy is dead. Another runs towards him and is killed by a punch to the face, the next is sent soaring by a kick.

The rest are running towards him at the same time, maybe to collapse on him but it won’t do any good. Before they reach him, he has disappeared and reappeared behind them. Being that they are really close together, he can kill them all with a single blow. He brings his arm across his body and it begins to glow a very deep red before it disappears and reappears on his other side.

The bodies split in half and fall to the ground in opposite directions. It is this that sends a gasp of horror from my lips and though I have seen worse, the shear power of this monster is frightening.

I look around and note the same horrified expression on everyone’s face. But when I turn back, I see David running and for a second I believe he will, but Naruto now stands in his way. He tries to stop and run a different direction but this path is already cut off.

Now Naruto is behind him, which I’m not sure is a good thing or bad. He pulls his fist back and lunges it forward at speeds I can’t keep up with. The next thing I know, this person, this traitor has Naruto’s fist through his chest, but it appears he’s still alive. “No one hurts my friends and gets away with it,” I hear him mutter and then his fist retreats from the body which falls to the ground, undoubtedly dead.

The chakra recedes but Naruto is still red, covered in the blood of eight enemies. It was a massacre and now that it’s over, there is an awkward silence and there is no telling how long it will last.

This was surely an amazing feat even by my standards, but this creature will die. I’ll make sure of it.
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That’s the end of chapter 10. Um…yeah. I was really trying to bring Kyuubi out, not all the way but enough so that I know how to do it in the future. Tell me if it was bad.