Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Villages ❯ Mysterious lost ninja, Kuroudo Inutoriki ( Chapter 1 )

“What is it that makes one good or evil? The truth of the matter is that the difference between right and wrong is completely subjective and can boil down to simply the uniform a person wears. The same can be said for insanity and sanity; it is merely a question of how convenient it is to the people who are writing the story of the battle down. Also what is an enemy? Is there such a thing as a true enemy, or a true friend? The alliances of men shift with the flow of time; yesterday’s foes are today’s allies and there is nothing you can do to change that. The man who was once your mentor or even your hero can one day be your greatest foe and on that day one of you will live and the other shall die.” –Doctor Juubei Kentoko, Paradiseo’s former Master of Murder


Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were waiting for Kakashi to show up, he was late, again.

“Hey isn't it about time for the Chunin exams?” Naruto said cheerfully, he hoped that master Kakashi would sign them up again; this was his year to pass.

“So you all are some of Konoha's genin?” A deep voice said from behind them, Naruto quickly turned in surprise and saw the speaker; a tall, wiry-looking boy with long red hair styled so his bangs extended to his chin and hung over his face the rest extending far down his back, he had an almost girlish face but he wore his head band like Kakashi over his left eye, he had a dog-collar on his neck with a bell on it. The headband had the kanji for `light' written on it, Naruto knew of no village that used that symbol.

“Who the hell are you? Get lost!” Sasuke said in his usual friendly tone.

“When you ask a question normally you want the person to respond not leave.” The boy said calmly, ignoring any possible danger that Naruto or Sasuke posed. Naruto took more of the boy’s appearance in; he wore dark camouflage fatigue pants and a solid black tee-shirt with a dark green sleeveless vest over it, his arms had some bandages in irregular intervals wrapped around them but no more than two bandages wide in any place; basically two sets on his upper arms and two more on his lower arms. He appeared to be in good physical condition, best guess was a slender runner's build; he looked to be about 5’6” or 5’8” and he looked to be around 130 to 140 pounds.

“Where are you from?” Sasuke snapped at the boy, who was probably a little older than they were; he acted very calm around them so he was either very confident in his skills or was very dumb. When Sasuke looked towards the boy’s legs he could tell by the way the boy stood it looked like his legs were in pain, or they’d be badly injured before.

“I don't like your tone Mr. Konoha Raven hair.” The boy’s voice was deeper than one expected but it had a cheerful undertone to it. His eye had a distant look, like he was gazing far off over the horizon but there was also a sadness there; a great sorrow drowned out all looks of youthful energy from the young man’s gaze.

“You kids should play nice, someone might get hurt.” Naruto knew that voice… it was Gaara. Gaara hadn't changed much in two years, he'd gotten taller and his hair was longer almost touching his eye, other than that pretty much exactly what he looked like the first time they meet him.

“So now a red haired spook from the land of Sand? Ah, fuck me sideways.” The boy said sarcastically, even the new arrivals didn’t seem to bother him very much, but Sakura saw that the boy held a Katana in his left hand and looked like his was ready to draw it at any moment.

“Don't count out the other two with him!” Temari said confidently as she and Kankuro entered the alleyway. Temari was wearing a black kimono like outfit and she had her fan on her back, she hadn’t changed too much over the years but her breasts and hips were a little wider and she was taller. Kankuro looked much the same to except he no longer had a huge puppet on his back.

“Shit… I didn't come here for a fight; I came here for a fucking test.” The boy said with a sigh as he brought his Katana up to a more ready position and moved his right hand onto the hilt. The boy looked dully around at the six other people before saying, in a rather disturbingly calm tone, “But if I must, adding six more to the pile shouldn’t be much of a challenge, although I’d rather avoid needing to clean this sword again.”

“Alright I'm Temari, now please Mr. Mysterious lost Ninja, tell use your name and where you are from.” Temari said sarcastically, she was just trying to piss the guy off, instead he smiled.

“Kuroudo Inutoriki, the Fox; but I've gone by Kazuki before as a code name, so you can address me as either Kuroudo or Kazuki I respond to both. I come from the Hidden Light Village; Paradiseo, I'm 18 years old my squad is cell 13 lead by Ryujin Gensoui and my ID number is 666-1327.” Kuroudo said calmly as he lowered the sword and smiled at Temari, “Nice to meet you, Temari.”

“Hey Kuroudo!” Another voice harshly snapped the owner was a tall girl in a red kimono that was missing the left sleeve; she came towards the group walking across a fence with a shorter girl in a tank top and long green skirt following her. “The next time you decide to get lost; please take Momoko with you, she is such a pain.”

“Sorry.” Kuroudo said cheerfully and at that the shorter girl jumped on top of him. Kuroudo smiled and hugged her, “Hello little Momoko!”

“Kuroudo-sama!” Momoko said and she eagerly gave Kuroudo a big kiss, “I found you!”

“That you did,” Kuroudo smiled wider and spun the girl around, “you’re very good at finding me!”

“This is cute and all but you're still here.” Sasuke said as he struggled to calm himself down, he obviously didn't like Kuroudo.

“Aren't you the just the friendly little shit-head today?” The tall girl said as she stared Sasuke down, her right eye was covered with her head band but her other eye was a muddy void of malicious intent and ice cold cruelty, her hair a slivery grey wolf mane. She had a pretty face, not cute; she looked older then she likely was, like mid twenties and her silver hair didn't help much for her youthful looks. She was obviously trim, athletic build likely; and her breasts were full and firm C cups. Her voice was almost a growl; it was definitely confrontational in tone.

“And just who are you?”

“Miho, but on the battlefields of Oh-Ka ridge I earned the nick name the Winter Princess with the Cursed Eye, but I prefer Miho the Beowulf.” Miho said with a cruel smirk as she leapt down from the fence and landed in front of Sasuke. Miho was very intimidating looking and as she continued to leer at Sasuke the fact that she stood an inch or two over him helped her look more frightening. Naruto thought the term `wolf' described her perfectly. Her demeanor was predatory, and her manners were lacking. Miho carried herself with certain arrogance, but she looked skilled none the less.

“I'm…. Momoko Kentoko… nice to meet you.” Momoko said as she hid behind Kuroudo, Kazuki, whatever the hell his name was; she was cute at around 5'0” she was more than a head shorter than the boy, unlike Miho her eyes had no hatred in them, instead they were emerald spheres of curiosity, her dirty blond hair was long almost touching her belt line, her face was kind and soft it was nicely framed by her cut bangs, her breasts were at least full C cups but looked much larger on her small frame, her hands were gloved in black fingerless gloves and her nails painted black, she also had a dog collar with a bell on it. She had a little bit of a figure to her; she had a little bump of a belly, and rounded hips. You couldn't call her fat or heavy, but she was healthy, more or less.

“So you're the ones from one of the new villages that just joined in this little alliance, hmm?” Gaara said as he stared at Kuroudo, he could tell something was odd about him.

“Yes they are and we're from the other the Ninja who hide in the darkness.” A loud and malicious voice howled out as two more people entered the alleyway; led by a short boy wearing striped dogi pants, a white long sleeve shirt with black leather straps it resembled a straight jacket. He also wore a vest like Kakashi's over it, and on his face he had a Hannibal Lector style mask on, his right eye was closed, but the other seemed to radiate bloodlust and insanity a black hole in an endless sea of white. His hair was a shoulder length, tangled mess of white strands that resembled a crazy thorn bush more than it did a regular hairstyle. Naruto knew this guy was bad news as he stared into that eye of his; he was more creeped out by the guy's EYE than he was of Gaara!

“Well if it isn't Toku Akuramma, the White Lightning?” Kuroudo said calmly as he turned to the newcomer. Kuroudo seemed to know and hate the guy he called Toku; his tone was confrontational and he’d brought the katana back to a ready position to draw and strike at Toku, “So to what do I owe the displeasure?”

“And if it isn't Kuroudo Inutoriki; the man who makes the sky cry crimson tears and the waters to run red with blood? Paradiseo's master of murder himself.” Toku said gleefully as he walked forward, his mad smile was visible underneath his mask.

“Yes that's me, you forgot about my kill record.” Kuroudo said as he let a cruel grin snake across his lips; he had an air of predatory bloodlust about him. The look in Kuroudo’s uncovered eye was like that of a wolf on the prowl; he seemed to study Toku as if the boy were a rival wolf or a wounded deer.

“OOOOOHHH, how I crave to smear the sky red with the blood of everyone here!” Toku's eye seemed to glow with more hatred and more insanity as he continued his speech and his advance toward the group. The boy seemed to be a rabid bear, mad in its insane slowly deteriorating nervous system; ready to set upon anything and tear it to shreds.

“This isn't good.” Naruto said as he clapped his hands over his mouth, not wanting to draw this Toku's attention.

“Temari-Chan?” A quiet voice said from behind Temari and when she turned she saw Momoko crouched behind her with a nervous look in her gentle eyes, “We should run, this won't end well.”

“Well so little Miss Kitty-cat Momoko wants to run off with her chubby friend from the Land of Sand? Not surprising, birds of a feather.” Another voice called out from Temari’s right and she quickly turned to see the other person who’d entered the alleyway standing there looking at her. The person was a girl, a very tall and thin girl with a massive spear resting on her shoulder. Her outfit looked to be a regular old tee-shirt and jeans deal and her hair was dark brown but the style was pretty uninspired, her eyes were also dark brown but they were kind of unsettling; just something seemed off about looking into them.

“What did you just call me?” Temari said as she fully turned to face the girl; Temari looked just a little pissed about the girl’s comments on her figure.

“I am Kirara Yotoku, member of Dark Village cell 1 lead by Zhoulong Akubo, called you chubby, but after a closer examination wish to amend that statement to `fatty'. Got a problem fatty?” Kirara said as she readied her spear; a deadly weapon which she wielded quite well.

“NO KIRARA THEY ARE ALL MINE TO KILL!!!” Toku howled, he was practically foaming at the mouth as he began to charge forward and he kept screaming as he ran “ALL MINE!”

Kirara leapt at Temari and swung her spear but Momoko reacted very quickly; she shoved Temari out of the way. She then grabbed the shaft of the spear with a dull look of rage on her youthful face, completely different from the timid demeanor she had before; she was now throwing herself into direct combat and taking charge. Momoko grunted as she used the spear as leverage to throw Kirara against the pavement of the alleyway, the girl’s right shoulder impacted hard against the unyielding pavement and she yelped in surprise.

“Do you have any idea how many spear-wielders I’ve killed?” Momoko said as she quickly ran over to Kirara and easily put the already stunned girl into a choke hold and once she had the girl completely subdued she spoke to her like a teacher lecturing a disobedient student, “You’re nothing new little girl, don’t ever underestimate me again.”

-Bam! - Kakashi connected with one good blow to the white hair's chin, effectively stopping his charge. The boy landed and looked at Kakashi with rage filled eyes; he was more angered than anything else about Kakashi’s arrival.

“I'll kill you!” Toku said in a rage filled and frustrated tone, he was about to make another move, lightning seemed to emanate from his body. Kakashi’s eye widened, it looked like the boy’s body was practically becoming a chidori.

“Let’s dance,” Kuroudo said cheerfully as he suddenly appeared behind Toku and he had the blade of his sword pressed against the boy’s neck. Kuroudo was obviously fast, very fast especially for a genin. “I’ll slit your neck and let your blood fill the gutters of this alleyway.”

“Toku! That's enough get back here or do I have to get involved?” A tall muscular bald man said as he entered the alley, he had a dark village head band on as well, and he looked old almost fifty.

“Please put our token psychopath down, and release little Kirara.” The last of Toku's trio now stood in plain view; he wore a dark grey trench coat, and he wore his headband over his eyes, he had dark black messy hair. He looked to be in charge of the situation; somehow Sasuke knew that even though he'd arrived last, behind his façade he was laughing. That man is a spy

“Okay, fine I will.” Kuroudo said as he grabbed Toku by the collar and threw him down the alley toward his master and teammate.

“Thanks for the save,” Temari said to Momoko as she stood up, letting Kirara go. Momoko smiled up at her and quickly gave her a hug. Temari stood in shock for a few moments before finally saying, “Um, hi?”

“You’re welcome cutie!” Momoko actually purred slightly as she spoke, “I like you, you’re nice Temari.”

“Thanks,” Temari said as she looked around at everyone in the alleyway, she was feeling slightly uncomfortable that everyone was staring at her, which well she did have a girl hugging her passionately in the street. “I like you too, let’s be friends?”

“She really likes you.” Kuroudo said chuckling as he walked over to Temari, “What'd you do, have catnip in your pocket?”

“No.” Temari said, she was confused and angry but more confused, but soon figured out that Kuroudo was joking around.

“Can you show us around?” Miho asked Gaara as she pointed to Kuroudo, “He's lost.”

“I don't see why not, this way you don't have to pry Momoko off Temari.” Gaara said as he started walking and the light ninjas followed him.

“What just happened here?” Naruto was confused very confused about what had just happened…

To be continued

-Kazuki Ferret-