Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Immortal Bitches ❯ The Bastard (Kabuto, remember?) Returns ( Chapter 7 )

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Hello this is the highly anticipated chapter 7. Just for the future this might be the only update this month. Because the Beta is going to be gone for awhile. Damn but Oh well I�ll get over it. Now in this chapter we get to meet a new charitor named �Random Blond Chick� or if you want to shorten it �RBC�
And a little apology to all Kabuto fangirls out there I fucking hate him thus I will make fun of him throughout this entire fanfic please don�t hate the story because of that.
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Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.09.2005 | Updated On: 08.19.2005 | Pages: 26 | Words: 20.1K | Visits: 269 | Status: Completed

Disclaimer: LunaGoddessOf Foxesand Chibi Rouyakando not own or claim to own Narutoor any characters associated with the series (except for our OC's). We do wish we did, though…

Summary: Rouyakan, Cassie, and Alex are three fairly average girls... Well, as average as a wolf youkai, witch, and the daughter of Death can be! Due to a spell that went wrong, the three supernatural girls have been thrown into the world of Naruto and his friends. Watch as adventure, chaos, and general stupidity occur!

Rated R/NC-17 for language the graphic nature of some chapters.

Some OC pairings (with the villains, of course, 'cause they're hot).

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Chapter 7: The Bastard (Kabuto, remember?) Returns

It was a bright and sunny afternoon, and everyone was getting ready for lunch. Well, mainly Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke. It seemed that Cassie, Rouyakan, and Alex had brought their own food, but when everyone found out… the food was all gone. So naturally, everyone was pissed at the girls for holding out on them. So we begin with the six at a riverbed with Sasuke and Naruto near the water (In Naruto's case, literally in the water) and Sakura setting up a fire. The girls were in bikinis that Cassie magically put on them, tanning. They were greatly entertained at how Naruto had to scare the fish out of the water so that Sasuke could pin them to a tree.

“Move around more. I want some for preservation purposes.” called Sasuke to Naruto. “I need three more, baka.”

Naruto was mad because he had to swim in freezing cold water to make the fish come. He surfaced and snapped back, “This is really tiring! Why don't you do it?!”

“Because you're the one in a swimsuit and he's not.” Rouyakan said, not moving from her spot in the sun.

“Oh shut up. I wouldn't even be doing this if you guys shared your food!” yelled Naruto.

“No way! Besides, you guys are responsible for your own damn food.” spat Alex.

“Nag, nag, nag…” mumbled Naruto.

Rouyakan's acute hearing picked up what Naruto had said. “Oi! Quit your bitching and get back to work!” she yelled.

From somewhere over near the campsite, Sakura's voice called, “Sasuke-kun? I'm ready for the fire; can you use your `Goukakyuu no Jutsu'?”

“I guess three is fine.” said Sasuke as he went to where Sakura was.

Cassie and Rouyakan were crowded around the sticks and stuff, fighting about who got to light it.

“Move over Rouyakan! I need to practice my fire magic!” yelled Cassie.

“No! I'm a better honoo-user than you, so back off!” spat Rouyakan.

Sakura was staring back and forth between them, then looked at Alex and asked, “Are they usually like this?”

“Yeah. Hey, let Rouyakan do it though. She's better with fire.” said Alex.

“Really?” Sakura asked.

“Yeah, she can summon the fires of hell.”

“Wow, she can? She's that powerful?” exclaimed Sakura, amazed.

“Yep.” said Alex. Just then, Sasuke came, rolled his eyes, and did`Goukakyuu no Jutsu'.

“Thanks a lot Sasuke. You ruined all the fun.” pouted Cassie.

“Hm.” said Sasuke absently. Soon three fish were cooking over the fire.

Sasuke said, “It's been four days since the second exam started.”

“Yeah… you're right.” Sakura nodded.

“The second exam began around three P.M.” Sasuke continued.

“A lot of teams have already finished. If that's the case…” Sakura left the end hanging, but they all knew what she meant.

“Stop being so fucking pessimistic; it's really annoying.” spat Rouyakan. “Instead of looking at the glass half empty, look at it half full. We'll probably get the scroll we need from the next team we run in to. I mean, look at Naruto, he's not being negative.” Everyone looked at Naruto and saw he had a stupid smile that suggested he couldn't wait to have his fish, preferably the biggest. Sasuke picked up the `earth' scroll that had been placed between the six and looked deep in thought. Soon the fish were done and everyone was eating, everyone being Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, that is. The girls… well lets just say they found more food and were munching on that. Then Sakura said depressingly, “…It may be possible that there are no more `heaven' scrolls.”

“What do you mean, Sakura?” asked Sasuke, looking up.

“Think about it. Four out of the five days for the second exams have already passed. That mean we used up eighty percent of the time allowed for the exam. Remember, Orochimaru destroyed one of the scrolls. If there were thirteen pairs of scrolls for each of the thirteen teams, and you need a complete set to get into the tower, now there are only twelve complete pairs. Only twelve teams can pass. After we spilt up from the other Konoha guys, we spent two days to rest and heal from our injuries. We're probably behind the other teams since we took so much extra time.” Sakura finished.

“Yep, more or less, Sakura.” interjected Cassie.

Sasuke just looked at her and shook his head. “We'll need to increase the distance we move in a day. The next enemy could be our last chance for a scroll.”

“And if we get our asses semi-kicked again, then we go home and beat up our pillows!” Alex pumped her fist in the air. Everyone looked at her weird, and decided to ignore her.

Rouyakan asked one of the most random questions in the world. “Are you on your period?”

“No, why?”

“What's a `period'?” asked Naruto, confusion written on his face. Sakura flushed in understanding of the `girl's time of the month'.

“We'll tell you when you're thirteen…” said Cassie, not really wanting to explain sexuality right then.

“I'm going to get water for everyone.” announced Sasuke suddenly, not wanting to hear this discussion anymore. So Sasuke left for the water, leaving the girls alone with Sakura and Naruto. Naruto grabbed the `earth' scroll as soon as Sasuke was out of sight.

“Hey, hey!” he said quietly, motioning towards Sakura. Sakura turned her head in his direction.

“I have a good way to pass, and it doesn't require us to fight!” whispered Naruto.

“And just how will you do that, hm?” asked Rouyakan skeptically.

Naruto opened his weapons pouch and dumped out a few blank scrolls.

“Don't tell us that…!” stated Cassie.

“Yep!” said Naruto proudly. “I have lots of scrolls with me. If we can edit these to make it look like the `heaven' scroll…”

“And I thought you couldn't get anymore stupid.” mumbled Alex.

“Wait!” said Sakura suddenly. “Even if you could do that, we don't know what written inside. If the examiner takes a look inside, she'll find out right away. Baka!” Sakura pointed out.

“These probably have some sort of password on them, and you won't know what the password is until you get both scrolls…” Naruto was unfazed by Sakura's crude analysis. “In other words, we need to get the password to pass. It's got to be like that.” said Naruto logically.

“Oh my god, I think the Apocalypse is coming. Naruto is thinking for once in his life.” said Rouyakan, pretending to stagger in amazement. Alex was smirking and Cassie was trying unsuccessfully to hide her laughter.

“Yeah! …Hey, wait a minute, that's an insult! Are you calling me stupid?!”

“You don't miss a thing, do you?” said Rouyakan.

“Why you…! You…!”

“Stop it, all of you!” said Sakura, like she was talking to a bunch of squabbling three-year-olds. She then turned back to Naruto.

“We don't even know what's inside them.” said Sakura, “So there's no point in making a fake.”

Naruto's head drooped in defeat.

“Geez, I thought you were going to say something better since you were so confident. You don't think things through enough.” sighed Sakura.

“But what if we can predict its contents?” Naruto was never deterred for long.

“Again, lets not do anything stupid. I don't want to haul your butts out of trouble two times in a row.” said Rouyakan.

Naruto turned to Rouykan and yelled, “If you don't like my ideas, why don't you come up with something?”

“Because we can't. That's your job.” said Alex matter-of-factly.

“You're just saying that because you can't think of plans like this!” Alex hit him on the head with Tsuuka.

“Alex's right, though.” Rouyakan spoke up.

“I am! …Wait, I am?”

“Yeah, amazingly, you are. We really shouldn't even be here. If you were listening, the whole point of this `Chunin Exam' thing is to test your potential, not ours. You have to think things through; we won't always be here to help you all out. So, as mean or cruel as it sounds, we're going to let you guys do the thinking, and only provide you with some defense and protection as you travel. Whatever you do from now on, it's up to you. Albeit, our opinions on the stupidity of your ideas will probably continue to rain down, but ultimately, the choice is yours.”

The two shinobi thought this over for a minute.

“So… This is the `scroll of earth'…” said Naruto slowly.

“Did you not hear a word of what was just said?! Don't tell me you're going open that!” sighed Rouyakan in defeat.

“Yes. We're going to try opening the scroll.” said Naruto.

“No!” yelled Sakura as Naruto got hit on the head again.

“Did you forget the rule, you idiot?!”

“I think he did.” said Cassie.

“Anko-san told us not to look inside the scrolls until we get to the tower!” yelled Sakura.

“But were in trouble at this rate, right?” asked Naruto, holding his head.

“Yes, but you don't need to do anything stupid!” Alex growled.

Naruto turned to her and yelled, “Who asked you? We're in deep shit here!”

“Yeah we know. I suggest this: why not fail and go home to try again for the next exam?” Said Rouyakan nonchalantly.

“How can you say that?!” Sakura gasped.

“Because we don't even know if we'll make it, that's why. You have to know when you're beat.” Rouyakan said, peeved at their nativity.

Sakura and Naruto began to stare intently at the scrolls.

“Oh, just make up your minds already! You're wasting daylight!” snapped Rouyakan.

Naruto picked up the scroll, and the two teens began to slowly open the scroll cautiously, like they were opening a decree of life and death.

“My god, just fucking open it if you going to!” yelled Alex impatiently.

Naruto then began to slowly tear it open. Suddenly, a hand popped out of nowhere over Naruto's hand, stopping him from ripping it open.

“You really shouldn't do that.” the stranger said. The three girls saw this exchange and thought it was and enemy and got in to fighting position.

“Who are you?” asked Rouyakan as she poised her sword to attack, a light ribbon of black fire already swirling around it.

“I could ask you girls the same thing.” The stranger, a boy about in his mid-teens with white-ish gray hair in a small ponytail and round glasses, clad in a purple outfit, stood up and faced the three girls.

“Yeah, but I don't know if we should let you know who we are.” said Rouyakan. “Especially since you haven't introduced yourself.”

“I see…” the teen said slowly.

“Oh, I'm Cassie!” Cassie called, waving.

“Cassie, you idiot!” snapped Alex.

“What? I like him, Alex. He looks nice to me.” That's Cassie; oblivious.

“Great, now we have to introduce ourselves and what we are to this guy too…” said Alex. “I'll go first. I'm Alexandria Sharhson, the daughter of Death.”

“Rouyakan, a wolf youkai.” Rouyakan didn't waste her breath on him.

“And I'm Cassie! I'm a witch and will you go out with me?” asked Cassie.

Kabuto just dismissed the last comment.

“I see you girls aren't human, so there is no harm in breaking the rules for you.” said Kabuto. Suddenly, a random blond chick ran out and bitch-slapped Kabuto `til he had swirl-y eyes and was unconscious on the ground. She then ran off. The girls, who were totally weirded out by that, decided to dismiss this as some strange thing that went on in this world, and turned back to Kabuto, who had just recovered.

“…Ooo-kay then.” said Alex. “Hey look, Sasuke's back.”

Sasuke ran towards them, dropping the water on the ground.

“Yo, Sasuke.” Alex waved calmly.

Five minutes later, Kabuto was scolding Naruto. “Geez, your such a hopeless guy.” said Kabuto “That was close. You almost opened that scroll.”

“Sorry.” said Naruto sheepishly.

“We told you guys, but no.” said Cassie.

Kabuto began to speak. “Those who break the rules will be forced into a situation were they must retire.”

“You say this as if you broke the rules before.” said Alex curiously.

Kabuto just looked at her. “In previous exams, the scrolls were made so that those who opened the scrolls will see a sleep-inducing inscription.”

“Wow, that sucks.” Rouyakan stated.

“So, they remain in the forest `til the end of the exam.”

“That, I might add, really sucks.” added Alex.

“By the way, you're Kabuto, right?” asked Sasuke. “What are you doing here alone, without your teammates?”

“It's not like I was after your scroll or anything.” said Kabuto convincingly.

“Right…” said Sasuke, disbelieving.

“Yeah, why should we believe a little bastard like you?” said Alex, adding the insult for emphasis.

Kabuto was shocked by that last comment. “I'm not a bastard. Why would you say that?”

“Hmm, well first off, I get a bad vibe from you. And how do we know you're not trying to steal our scroll?” spat Alex.

Kabuto took out the `earth' and the `heaven' scroll and showed it to everyone. “Now that I have showed you these, will you trust me?” asked Kabuto.

“No.” said Rouyakan bluntly.

“Why not?”

“The first part of what Alex said.” replied Rouyakan.

“Oh, I don't get any bad vibes from him. I think he's rather cute!” said Cassie as she looked at Kabuto.

“That's because you think all the evil guys are hot.” Said Rouyakan.

“I do not!” yelled Cassie hotly.

“Do too!”

“Do not!”

“Do too!”

“I think I'll be going now…” Kabuto started to leave.

“Wait!” yelled Sasuke. “Fight us!”

“Oh, just when I thought Naruto was stupid, it turns out Sasuke is the stupid one.” sighed Alex.

Sasuke whirled around to face Alex. “I suggest you keep your mouth shut.” He said with venom in his voice.

“Oh please, you have got to stop blaming me for what happened to your parents, Sasuke. I can tell you this: they're in heaven somewhere doing whatever they want.” said Alex.

Kabuto turned to Alex and asked, “You say that like you've been there.”

“Yeah, god's my Grandfather.” said Alex.

“What?!” yelled everyone in surprise, except for Cassie and Rouyakan.

“Yeah.” said Alex. “Now if you two morons are going to fight, do it now.”

“Fight?” said Kabuto. “Are you serious?”

“I'm sorry, but we don't have time.” Sasuke didn't sound very apologetic.

“Hey Sasuke!” said Naruto, pointing his finger at him. “Kabuto helped us out!”

“Sasuke-kun, I don't think that's appropriate either.” said Sakura.

“Shut up!” yelled Sasuke. Suddenly, Sasuke came in contact with Tsuuka.

“Why don't you listen to what she has to say, jackass?”

“We don't have much of a choice. I told you guys before…” said Sasuke, recovering from being hit. “This is the only way we can survive in this forest.” He then got into a battle stance, and Kabuto smirked.

“That's a lie.”

“How the hell is it lie?” asked Alex.

“You're not as prepared as you say you are.” said Kabuto. Sasuke was just glaring at Kabuto.

“If you wanted to be serious about this exam, why did you need to challenge me?” asked Kabuto “ You could've just attacked me when my guard was down instead of declaring a fight. That's what a ninja's supposed to do.”

“Do you like listening to your own voice or something, bastard?” asked Alex.

“I was just informing him of how a ninja should act.” stated Kabuto, turning to Alex.

“Yeah… whatever. Just get to the point.” Said Rouykan, tired of his know-it-all attitude.

“I don't hate you for challenging me, actually.” said Kabuto. Everyone turned to him. “That's why I'll show you which path to take. But let's walk as we talk. The fire's smoke is carrying the smell of grilled fish; if we stick around, wild animals and enemies will come after us.” Stated Kabuto.

Soon all of them were jumping though the trees, except for Alex and Cassie who flew.

“Are you sure there are even any scrolls left?” asked Sasuke, jumping in time with Kabuto.

“Yeah, I'm sure of it. You just need to think a little to understand.” said Kabuto. “In a forest battle like this, or in an open forest, do you know the cleverest way to fight?”

“Not to trust bastards!” yelled Alex from behind.

“…No, The goal of the exams is the tower in the center of this forest.”

“Yeah, and?” said Rouyakan.

“Yes, yes I'm getting to that. This means on the last day, the easiest place to get a scroll is around the tower, right?” Kabuto finished.

“Wow, you have good ideas, `bastard'.” yelled Alex, still somewhere from behind.

“Would you please refrain from calling me that?” sighed Kabuto, a little irritated.

“No, because I wouldn't trust you even if you were the Buddha himself.” said Alex.

Then Sakura piped up, “I get it. So we're going to lay in wait for someone to ambush. That means we're going after the teams that already have both scrolls and are heading for the tower, right?”

“That's one-third correct.” said Kabuto.

“Huh?” said Sakura, surprised.

“That means you guys aren't the only ones thinking up this plan.” said Rouyakan. “Am I right, `bastard'?”

“Yes, the wolf youkai got it.” said Kabuto cheerfully. “People who thought of the same idea should have set traps up around the tower.”

“I get it. So that means there are a lot of enemies waiting for us.” said Naruto. “It's more exciting when there's a handicap.”

“That's because you wouldn't survive without it!” snickered Alex (from behind still).

“Oh, shut up!” yelled Naruto. “I'm looking forward to it; we just need to beat all those guys up, get the `heaven scroll' and we'll be out of here!”

“Or, did you ever consider the chance they might kick our asses and then we fail?” said Alex (still somewhere back there).

“Hey! Have a little faith in us!” Naruto screamed at her.

Kabuto got everyone's attention back by saying, “No, that's still only two-thirds correct.”

“Really, now? Pray tell what the rest is.” said Rouyakan sarcastically.

“We have to think of the `collectors' who appear in exams like this.” said Kabuto.

“`Collectors'? What the fuck are they?” said Cassie who was flying right beside Kabuto. Kabuto's face looked serious.

“Even if the tower is really close, you're still not safe in this exam. This `special situation' gives birth to them. In other words if they meet an unexpected enemy… they keep extra scrolls and give one to other enemies in exchange for going free.”

“Well, this exam sucks.” said Alex (E/N: *looks back* Where the hell is she?!).

“Or, by giving friends who are in other villages a scroll they need, they can gain information to get though the exam easier.”

“Why, those cheating bastards!” said Cassie.

“Although you've probably figured out by now they're pretty strong. They are the worst enemies you can meet since they are never satisfied.”

“Well they can't beat us” said Cassie. “We have the daughter of Death, a wolf youkai, and me, the witch with kick-ass powers who can kill anyone or anything if need be!”

“I see. I get the reason you came to us.” said Sasuke. “Your afraid of them too, aren't you?”

“Well, I can so see bastard right here being scared of those guys.” stated Alex with a giggle.

“Yes. It is only human to be so.” Said Kabuto, trying to insult Alex.

“Hey, I'm half human, I'll have you know.” said Alex with a shrug. This got her some curious looks, but nobody pursued the matter. At the time, surviving the exam was top priority.

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A few hours later, they had caught sight of the tower. It was now nighttime and crickets were chirping.

“Okay, I think I can safely say that one by one, the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.” Said Alex, annoyed at the crickets.

“Yeah, whatever. At least the tower's in sight and we can get this over with.” said Rouyakan.

“This is where thing's get critical.” said Kabuto.

“Then let's go!” shouted Naruto, right in Rouyakan's sensitive wolf ear. She jumped about three feet in the air, clapping a hand over her ringing ear.

“Mother of---!! I swear, if you do that again I'm going to choke you with your own intestines!!” growled Rouyakan, waving a clawed hand in front of his face for emphasis. “Get it?”

“Er-- Got it.”

“Good.”

Everyone suddenly sensed an ominous presence. “An enemy already?” said Sakura.

Naruto took out a kunai and threw it, yelling, “There!” When everyone turned to see what it was, the responses were varied.

“Aw, that's disgusting!” yelled Cassie, clapping a hand over her mouth.

“Oh, it's just a centipede.” said Naruto, bored because it wasn't an enemy after all.

“Ew, it's huge! Those legs are so creepy.” said Sakura, scared.

“Naruto, I want to avoid careless actions and unnecessary noise from here on out.” said Kabuto seriously.

“Wow, I can't believe I'm saying this, but the bastard's right.” said Rouyakan in disbelief.

“Uh, Rouyakan, are you feeling okay?” asked Alex.

“I don't know Alex, I don't know…” said Rouyakan and all of them stared at Kabuto and Naruto.

“If we go though this jungle making noises like an elephant, it's the same as signaling to everyone that we're here.” said Kabuto. “We won't receive a passionate welcome.”

“I see…” sighed Naruto.

“We will hide and move slowly, as time allows.” said Kabuto.

“Okay!!” yelled Alex and Rouyakan loudly, just to piss Kabuto off.

Kabuto turned to them, horror-struck. “Are you insane?! An enemy could hear us!” Stated Kabuto, waving his arms crazily, much to the girls' amusement. “Don't do that again!”

Rouyakan's eye twitched, signaling she was pissed off.

“Who the fuck are you to tell us what we can and can't do; were not fucking shinobi's and were not in this exam, you bastard!” she yelled, baring her fangs.

“Look, I'm just trying to keep everyone safe.” Kabuto tried to reason with the angry youkai.

“Fine, whatever.” Rouyakan huffed, tucking her hands into her sleeves.

Kabuto took out a compass and looked at it. “Okay, we go… this way.” He pointed in a direction.

They then walked a little ways. Alex looked up and saw a bunch of dead shinobi's caught in a trap.

“Uh guys, whatever you do, don't look up.” said Alex.

“Why?” asked everyone as they looked up and saw the gruesome sight.

“A trap.” observed Kabuto.

“No shit, Sherlock, what was your first clue? The dead people right in front of us?” snapped Alex. She hated him more and more by the minute.

“All right, let's keep moving.” said Kabuto, totally ignoring that last comment.

They then continued walking and Naruto, who was behind, tripped over a wire.

“Okay, am I the only one who saw that coming?” Rouyakan gaped.

“Nope.” said Cassie.

Soon a bunch of kunai were shot at them.

Kabuto jumped in front of Naruto to save him from the onslaught of kunai's. A few stabbed him in the back. Alex, who had stood in front, got hit with all the kunai from the front.

“Kabuto!” yelled Naruto. He then saw that `Kabuto' had turned into a log. Naruto turned and saw Alex with kunai in her. Of course not knowing she's immortal, he thought the worst.

“Alex!” he yelled, horror written all over his face.

Alex then looked down at him and smiled. “Oh, Naruto, thanks for the concern, but I'm fine.” said Alex.

“How can you, you have a kunai in your heart!” stated Naruto.

“Oh, so I do.” Alex said lazily as she began to pull the kunai out with the occasional `ow, this fucking hurts'.

“Damn it Alex, that's disgusting. Please, keep the gore PG.” Rouyakan motioned to the (under thirteen) shinobi's.

Soon they were walking again. Sakura collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion, saying `she couldn't go on anymore'.

“Sakura-chan!” cried Naruto, devoted to Sakura as always.

“This is weird. The tower looks like it's right in front of us!” cried Cassie, confused.

“Yeah, I know.” said a newly-healed Alex.

`Indeed…' thought Sasuke.

“It's seems were already in someone's `passionate welcome'.” said Kabuto.

They all turned there heads and saw the dead centipede that Naruto had killed earlier.

“That's that thing I killed!” shouted Naruto. “What's going on?”

“No way.” groaned Sakura.

“I'll tell you what's going on; we're in an illusion.” Stated Rouyakan.

“It seems we were carefully tricked into walking in circles.” Kabuto said thoughtfully.

“Oh, this is just fucking great.” yelled Alex, flopping down on the ground, exhausted.

“Now Alex, calm down.” said Cassie.

“Well, let me yell this out first.”

“Okay.”

“God fucking damn it!! Why me?! Why did we have to be put though this shit?! It's not fair!! I really didn't ask for this…” screamed Alex.

“Feel better?” asked Cassie, a little wary.

“…Yes.” said Alex with a hint of happiness.

“Okay, who thought that was a little scary?” asked Naruto.

“I did.” Sakura raised her hand.

“Let's agree not to piss any of those girls off, okay?” said Naruto.

“Agreed.” Kabuto, Sasuke, and Sakura nodded.

Suddenly, a bunch of blobby-men-sort-of-things came out of the trees and began to encircle them.

“I've always hated rude people.” stated Rouyakan, as everyone was gasping silently due to surprise. Finally, everyone got into a fighting stance.

“They're here.” smirked Sasuke.

“This is a good handicap.” said Naruto.

“Let's kick some ass!!” yelled Alex as she got her scythe ready for an attack.

“What's going on?” asked Sakura fearfully.

“Nothing much, just we're getting attacked by a bunch of weird guys.” said Cassis as she took out some tarot cards.

“There are a lot of them. And they're all replications.” said Kabuto.

“You mean they're not real? Man, this sucks.” said Rouyakan, disappointed.

Then one of the `blobby-men' stood up and said.

“Like a mouse in a trap.”

Naruto went running at the thing yelling, “Shut up!” He punched the thing… only to go straight through. A look of surprise came upon Naruto as his hand went though the `blobby-man' thing. The problem was the `blobby-man' didn't disappear.

“Okay, this has just gotten a little weird.” said Alex.

“What the hell are these guys?” said Cassie.

Soon another body was forming around the first.

“Oh crap, this isn't good now, is it?” said Rouyakan, looking at the re-forming things.

Sasuke, over somewhere on the sidelines because his cursed seal had started acting up, activated his Sharingan, only to find that they were fighting uselessly. All the `bodies' were just bunshin. Unfortunately, the curse seal apparently didn't mix with the Sharingan, and Sasuke found himself in even more pain than before, which drew Naruto's attention to him, rather than above, where a two bladed kunai was about to be plunged into him.

“Naruto!” yelled Sasuke, as he quick as lighting took out a shuriken and aimed at the arm that was holding the kunai, and he succeed by getting the arm to disappear like water. Naruto yelped in surprise. The `blobby-thing' then turned its attention to the rest of the group.

“Oh great, now we have to fight.” Sighed Alex as she took her scythe off her back.

“What are you talking about? Let's kick these guys asses, girls!” yelled Rouyakan with cheer, as she unsheathed her sword, black fire swirling in thin ribbons around it.

“Oh boy, there she goes again…” sighed Cassie as she took her tarot cards out.

The `blobby-man-thing' tried again, aiming the kunai at Sasuke.

“Sasuke!” yelled Naruto.

Sasuke got ready to dodge it but then the seal on his neck began to act up. He clenched his teeth in pain, and was unable to move. Kabuto grabbed Sasuke and pulled him to the ground as the kunai flew overhead. But the kunai had pierced Kabuto's shoulder, and he began to bleed.

“Sasuke-kun!” screamed Sakura in fright as she turned to face him.

Kabuto got up slowly and walked away from a very shocked Sasuke, who was wondering what the hell was going on with his body.

“Well this is great…” said Alex as she poked him with her scythe. “Sasuke's down for the count, I think.” She then looked at his neck and saw the mark growing a bit. “Oh shit!” groaned Alex as she backed away.

`What could be causing it to act up?' thought Alex.

Sakura came to Sasuke's aid as she helped him sit up. Sasuke didn't look too well.

Kabuto was busy inspecting the kunai thrown at them, discovering it was real.

“Oi `bastard', what are you so shocked about?” asked Rouyakan, peering over his shoulder.

“This knife's not an illusion, its real.”

“…Oh? Lemme see.” Rouyakan snatched the kunai and inspected the smooth metal herself.

The `blobby-men' began to advance on them slowly.

“Since Kabuto-san got hurt, does that mean they're bunshin, or real flesh?” asked Naruto.

“You guys stay put. We'll see to this.” Rouyakan, as the three girls got into fighting positions.

“`Kifu-ken: Kokutan hakumei'!!” yelled Rouyakan, as the flames on her sword disappeared into it, making glow with a black light. She swung her sword sideways, slicing two of the bunshin.

“Ace of Coins!” Yelled Cassie, as a large, sharp discus-looking thing appeared. The discus-shaped thing went spinning and cut down another two.

“Death Slash!” yelled Alex, swinging Tsuuka down as a black blade of sorts came off her scythe and sliced two more of them in half.

“Well it's decided, they're not real.” said Rouyakan, as they fought their way back. “Those things won't die.”

“Damn it!” Naruto aimed a kunai at one of them, only to have two replace the one that was cut down.

“It's useless; stop!” shouted Sasuke.

Naruto lowered his kunai and turned to Sasuke who continued to talk.

“They are illusions. It's an illusionary trick used by the enemy.”

“But Kabuto-san's wound is real!” Sakura exclaimed.

“No, Sasuke-kun's right.” said Kabuto “The enemy must be hiding somewhere and attacking us from somewhere else while matching the bunshin's movements. They're making the bunshin seem like real people.”

“What the fuck?!” interjected Rouyakan.

“Yeah, that's just weird.” said Alex.

“Then I'll find the idiots hiding in the forest throwing kunai's at us, and beat them up!” Three guesses as to who that was.

“Wait Naruto, don't do anything drastic!” said Rouyakan. “In this situation, the real person is hidden, so we can't figure out the enemy's exact location.”

“Yes, that's their tactic.” said Kabuto, happy that someone figured it out.

“According to my data, those who are weak in hand-to-hand and close combat usually attack like this.”

Alex turned to Kabuto. “Okay, first off, no one gives a damn about your `data', which is most likely wrong, and I think we figured it out when we found out those things could hurt us.”

“Well Alex-san, do you know what will happen if we can't move?”

“No.”

“They will attack us!”

“Oh! Heh heh…”

“Kami, you're an idiot, Alex…” said Rouyakan as she slapped her forehead.

“Oh shut up Rouyakan! In case you haven't noticed, we are being attacked by freakin' blobs!” yelled Alex.

“Whatever…”

“Listen up everyone. The only thing we can do right now is dodge the enemy's attacks right now.” said Kabuto, as he informed them of their plan.

“All right, if you plan on doing that…” Naruto readied his kunai.

Suddenly, kunai's came flying at them. Sakura yelped as she deflected a kunai and Naruto, who barely deflected the kunai that everyone else dodged with ease.

“Dear god…” muttered Alex.

“I do suggest we do something.” said Cassie.

“You don't think?” Rouyakan gave her a skeptic look.

Soon the trees were lined with kunai's and everyone was staring intently at the blobs, breathing hard.

“There's no end to this!” panted Sakura with a tinge of fright.

“I'll just--” said Naruto as he started to use `Kage Bunshin no Jutsu'.

“Stop, Naruto-kun!” called Kabuto as he stepped forward. “Don't waste your chakra. There's no point in attacking them.”

“If we get rid of all the illusions at once, the enemy can't attack during the time they return back to normal.” argued Naruto “If they did, they'd reveal their position! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” yelled Naruto as he divided into many `Naruto's', filling the area.

“Wow, that's wicked awesome!” said Alex in surprise. “I didn't know he knew how to replicate himself!”

The clones charged at the blobs, attacking. But the `blobs' just disappeared like water; the problem was that they kept reappearing.

“Well this isn't good.” said Rouyakan as she observed the fight.

Everyone else just stared in shock at what Naruto was (or make that, wasn't) doing.

Alex then got her scythe ready. “Come on girls, we have to help!”

“Fine, nothing better to do.” said Rouyakan as she got her sword ready for another attack.

“Okay with me!” said Cassie as she took out the Five of Staves.

“Wait!” Kabuto reached out to grab the girls. Unfortunately for him, Rouyakan was faster. She grabbed his arm, digging in lightly with her claws.

“If I were you, I wouldn't touch me.” She growled out.

“I was just going to say that you should save your chakra!” said Kabuto.

“Who says we use `chakra'?” said Rouyakan.

“What do you use to do your attacks?” Kabuto was perplexed.

“We use magic. Duh.” explained Alex.

“Yeah.” said Cassie as they charged into battle with Naruto and started attacking.

“Hey, Naruto!” said Alex as she brought one down next to him.

“Alex? Why're you here?” asked Naruto as he brought down another one.

“Me, Rouyakan, and Cassie decided to help you since you were doing most of the work.” said Alex, slicing down another bunshin.

Sasuke didn't look too happy but hey, when does he look happy?

“Sasuke-kun, what should we do?” asked Sakura.

“Those idiots… we have to fight too.” Sasuke's onyx eyes flashed angrily.

“But--” started Sakura, but she was cut off by Kabuto.

“Yeah, they can't handle this situation alone.” He readied a kunai.

“Let's go, Sakura.” said Sasuke as he leaped into battle with everyone. Soon everyone was slashing the `blobs' with kunai's, scythes, swords, tarot cards, and their own bunshin's.

“Oh yeah! This is so much fun!” yelled Alex.

“Keep your head together.” said Rouyakan with a smirk as she sliced through another one. This went on for another hour `til everyone realized they were going to keep on fighting until it was and all-night fight. Naruto got an idea and pushed everyone into a bush, and turned seven of the bunshin's into replicas of them, then kept on fighting.

“Hey guys!” Sakura whispered.

“Hey.”

“Guys, I have a pack of cards that we could play with for a while.” Cassie pulled out a pack of old-looking playing cards.

“…Okay.” Everyone agreed.

“Let's play B.S.!” suggested Alex.

“Hey, how do you play B.S.?” asked Kabuto.

“Well, well, the bastard doesn't know this. I'm surprised.” said Rouyakan. So they taught everyone the rules and played B.S. `til morning.

“Shall we check to see if the enemy showed himself?” asked Kabuto.

“We shall.” said Rouyakan, as poked their heads through the bushes and saw the clones getting their asses kicked. They saw Sasuke's clone fall.

“My god Sasuke, has anyone told you your legs are feministic?” asked Alex.

“Shut up!” Sasuke hissed as he glared at her.

The bunshin's finally started to disappear and/or tire, and the blobs finally started to dissipate.

“Now they disappear.” said Cassie, pissed off.

Looking over, they saw three shinobi's in cream-colored suits. “We're getting our asses kicked by these guys?! I'm afraid to say that this is depressing…” said Rouyakan.

“How… lucky.” said the one in the middle, his mask making his voice sound like he was wearing a filter mask.

“Great. Out of all the villains we get to fight, we get `Darth Shinobi' here.” Alex muttered.

“You.” he said, pointing to `Sasuke-clone'. “You're the one who injured my left shoulder? I finally found you. You wasted our time. ” Said middle-shinobi, holding a kunai.

Then all the clones smirked

(Real) Sasuke yelled out, “Like a mouse in a trap!” The three ninja's looked around in surprise.

“It went well Naruto.” said Sakura.

“Damn straight!” said Alex.

“Yes, who knew you could come up with this?” said Cassie.

“Yeah, I agree.” said Rouyakan.

The three ninja's then turned around and looked the seven. “That can't be! When did they--?!” exclaimed the middle shinobi.

“You idiot's finally showed yourselves, damn it.” said Naruto, as the others turned into Naruto bunshin's.

“What? Did this kid…?” said the ninja in the middle, surprised.

“I used my `Kage Bunshin no Jutsu' to set up this trick,” smirked Naruto. “So that I could pretend to be everyone here.” said Naruto, as all the clones disappeared.

“Once Naruto made his bunshin's, the six of us hid.” said Sasuke as he smirked. “So an illusionary master was fooled.”

“Wow that's just sad.” sighed Alex, as Naruto fell to the ground from lack of energy.

“Naruto!” yelled Cassie, a bit worried.

“Naruto, you used up too much chakra.” said Sasuke indifferently.

“No duh Sasuke, he was up all night!” snapped Alex.

“Shut up!” growled Sasuke as he glared at her.

“Enough you two! Just focus on the fight.” said Rouyakan, irritated.

“Fine. Naruto, you rest. I'll take care of this.” said Sasuke.

“Hey who the hell said you could steal the spotlight?” said Rouyakan.

But of course Naruto wasn't listening, and he went charging, punching one of the shinobi's in the face. The shinobi smacked into all three of them and sent them sprawling in a heap.

“That's just pitiful…” said Cassie, shaking her head.

“You said it.” said Rouyakan, shaking her head too at the sad turn of events.

“Well look on the bright side; Naruto is owning all their asses.” said Alex cheerily.

“Owning? What does that mean?” asked a really confused Kabuto.

“Wow, `bastard' doesn't even know what `owning' means. That's sad.” said Alex.

“Owning is basically kicking major ass. Which you can't do `cause you suck.” said Rouyakan matter-of-factly.

“What a kid.” Said one of the enemy shinobi's. “He can still move after all that.”

“Naruto…” gasped Sakura, amazed. Kabuto was just to stunned to speak.

“Good, but were not in an unlucky situation yet.” said the enemy shinobi. “Time is running out; we'll show you our shinobi techniques now.” Suddenly a lot of shadow replications came into view.

“Great, this is going to get confusing.” muttered Alex.

“Kage Bunshins…?” huffed Naruto.

“No, they just normal replications.” said Sasuke. “But they must have some sort of tactic planned out.”

Alex turned to Sasuke. “No shit Sherlock, why the hell else do you think we would be in a fight?” Sasuke just glared at her.

“You know, I'm getting pretty sick of you being critical of everything I say!” said Sasuke fiercely.

“Well why shouldn't I? You're never nice to me!” said Alex as she crossed her arms.

“Because you took my clan away from me!” seethed Sasuke.

“No, that was my dad, hence why I'm the daughter of Death!” said Alex.

“Same difference.”

They turned their attention back to Naruto, who was now randomly beating up the replications.

“Naruto, don't!” yelled Sakura, but Naruto wasn't listening.

Everyone got into battle stance, but Sasuke's cursed seal began to act up and he got a funny pained look in his eye. The girls took note to this and Cassie was the first one to him.

“Sasuke, what's wrong? You seem in pain.” she asked.

“When I try to use my Sharingan, pain shoots down my neck!” exclaimed Sasuke. “Did I use to much chakra?” Alex was now in front of Sasuke looking at him.

“Well it seems the seal is acting up again. Geez, why couldn't Grandma have made something that I could remove?” sighed Alex.

“What do you mean?” said Sakura suddenly, as she came to their side to see what was wrong.

“You know, the seal on Sasuke's back. My Grandma created it so she could posses people and lead them down the life of sin.” stated Alex.

“And who is your `Grandma'?” asked Sasuke.

“Satan.” said Alex nonchalantly.

“What?!” exclaimed Sakura and Sasuke at the same time.

“Yes, yes I'll discuss all of my family history later. Just watch Naruto fight.” said Alex. Sasuke gave her a look that said `what the fuck?' and Sakura was still in shock about how she could be related to Satan.

Naruto was fighting all the fake ninja's and going through them like shadows, and of course Naruto had to just keep attacking randomly.

`That idiot should use his head for once…' thought Rouyakan as Naruto began to randomly attack all the replications, going through them one after another.

Sasuke was about to use his Sharingan, but Cassie intervened.

“Sasuke, I don't think that using your Sharingan is a smart thing to do right now.” said Alex.

“I told you to shut up!” snapped Sasuke as he activated his Sharingan.

`Well fine, don't listen to reason and do something stupid!' thought Alex as she rolled her eyes.

The seal began to act up again. He screamed in pain this time, clutching his throat.

“Oh shit!” cried Cassie as she ran to help him.

`I told him not to do it.' thought Alex smugly.

“Sasuke-kun!” Sakura called frantically as she also went to help.

“Look Sasuke, stop using the Sharingan. It's acting up because you're weak right now and need rest. Just don't do anything that involves chakra.” ordered Alex.

“Uh Alex. The seal's spreading.” said Rouyakan in her `I just don't care attitude'.

“Thanks Rouyakan.” said Alex, turning to her. “Sasuke, I know a little something to stop it from spreading, and to ease the pain for right now.”

Alex then began to chant something in tongues as she pressed two fingers on the seal, effectively stopping it.

“Well, looks like you didn't mess up this time.” Rouyakan nodded, looking on as the seal stopped and again looked like a harmless tattoo.

Sakura was now utterly confused at what Alex had just done. “What language were you speaking?” asked a confused Sakura.

“Oh, just tongues.” Alex received a blank look. “Language of the devil.” Alex prompted.

“…Uh, is that so?”

During all this Naruto had turned to see what the girls were doing, but as soon as he did that, `Darth Shinobi' appeared out of nowhere and yelled, “Don't let your guard down!” He plunging a double-edged kunai downwards, but Kabuto had pushed Naruto out of the way, consequently getting cut in the leg. They landed on the ground with a thud.

“`Bastard' got what he deserved.” muttered Rouyakan as she observed the battle from the sidelines.

“Kabuto-san!” yelled Naruto, in shock at what happened. “Damn it!”

“Stop Naruto!” yelled Sasuke. Naruto turned to Sasuke. “No matter how much you try, the real one isn't in those replications.”

“Then where's the enemy going to attack from?!” yelled Naurto in frustration.

“Think really hard!” yelled Cassie, as she tried to make her remark sound like a compliment.

“If they are normal replications, the replication's can't attack us!” exclaimed Naruto, snapping his fingers.

“If we knew that, there would be no reason for us to work this hard!” yelled Rouyakan. “This is the enemy's plan. Think!” Naruto kneeled on the ground, looking thoughtful.

“It looks like they reached their limit.” said one of the enemy shinobi's. One of the replication's leaped up and started to attack Naruto.

Sasuke thought since Alex had done her spell he could use his Sharingan. He did, and saw a hand come out of the ground holding a double edge kunai.

Kabuto had finally gotten up, noticing all three of them just as he got slashed on the shoulder again.

“Ooh, that's gotta hurt.” Alex winced. “…But he probably deserved it.” She laughed.

As Kabuto went flying to the ground again, the three shinobi's came out of the ground and started to close in around Kabuto. Kabuto was now staring at them intensely. Everyone else was just shocked, excepted for the girls who just thought it was sort of funny seeing Kabuto being owned by a bunch of kids.

Naruto then caught the three shinobi's off guard, kicking them in the head and sending all three of them flying to the ground.

“Don't… let your… guard down… huh?” huffed Naruto as the bunshins disappeared.

“Woot! Like, damn!! Naruto owned their asses!” yelled Rouyakan, psyched about the win.

“That was great, Naruto!” yelled Sakura.

Kabuto sat up and turned to Naruto. “Arigatou, Naruto. You saved me.”

“He only did that because you suck major ass.” smirked Alex.

Kabuto then turned to Alex and again with the same indifferent smile. “You three fought very well too. Impressive, really.”

“Whatever. Someone go check if the have a `scroll of heaven'.” Ordered Rouyakan, returning to her normal calm self.

~*A few minutes later*~

Naruto was checking through the shinobi's shuriken pouches to see if they had the scroll they needed.

Kabuto had just noticed the seal on Sasuke's neck and began to question it. “How did you get that? Are you injured?”

Sasuke was about to say something when Cassie intervened.

“No, no just a bruise I gave him when we were sparring a week before.” She faked a laugh.

“Is that so? I have never seen a bruise like this.”

“Uh, yeah, it was, um… a ring I was wearing. Yeah, a ring…” said Cassie.

Sasuke then proceeded to cover it up, thankful for Cassie's lie.

“It's just like Cassie said…” said Sasuke, looking away.

Naruto he had just found the scroll and was very happy. “I found it!” He yelled. “Look! It's a `scroll of heaven'!”

“Well it looks like we get to go to round three.” smirked Rouyakan.

“Oh, what fun awaits us there?” Said Alex.

After a little walking, they all found themselves in front of the tower. They walked up the steps to enter when they saw Kabuto's team coming up.

“Hmph. It's just you.” said one with sunglasses.

“You're late, Kabuto.” said the one with regular glasses.

“My, aren't you guys just as freaky as all get-out.” Rouyakan always had something nice to say, didn't she?

“I was caught up in trouble and bit—er, girls.” said Kabuto. The slip-up didn't go unnoticed by the `girls'.

“Hey!!” Kabuto just ignored them.

Naruto said, “You really helped us out getting our scrolls.”

“No, it's because of your hard work.” said Kabuto.

“And the countless times he saved your ass.” said Alex.

“Especially that last move. It was incredible, Naruto!” complimented Kabuto. Naruto smiled proudly.

“We'll go through this door. Good luck to all of us.” said Kabuto as his team went through the door. Naruto's team went though the one next to it, along with the girls.

When Kabuto and his team arrived in the other room, he smirked evilly.

“Got anything?” asked a sinister voice.

“Yes, and more then I thought I would see.” said Kabuto. “I've written down all the data about him during the second exam…You'll need this.” he said, holding up a card.

“So, how was he?” asked the voice as his hand came out of the shadows and took the card.

“Worried… Orochimaru-sama?” said Kabuto.

“I wanted to hear you opinion, that's all… as a spy from the Sound Village.” Orochimaru grinned, the very essence of evil.

“You don't need that…since you're the one will determine everything.” Kabuto replied.

Orochimaru smirked. “Your cunning is what I like.” Then Orochimaru was about to disappear, but Kabuto stopped him.

“Wait, Orochimaru-sama.” Orochimaru turned to him.

“What is it, Kabuto?” he asked, a bit annoyed.

“I'm not sure if you know this, but with Sasuke and his team there are three non-human girls.” said Kabuto. “One's a witch, another is a wolf youkai, and the last, which I would see you finding the most useful; the daughter of Death.”

“Yes, I have seen them but only the witch and the wolf youkai, but the daughter of Death, you say…? Hmm, interesting… they would all seem very useful to us… especially that witch. Wouldn't you agree that she is beautiful?” smirked Orochimaru.

“Yes. I would agree.” said Kabuto. Orochimaru dissipated in a cloud of smoke.

“Good job.” Orochimaru's voice drifted through the empty room.

“Ah… Ah… Choo!” sneezed the girls.

“Oh, someone must be talking about us.” sniffed Cassie.

“Why do I think it's the `bastard'?” said Alex, pulling out a Kleenex.

“If he is, the next time I see him, I'll break his face.” said Rouyakan.

“Ooh, ooh, can I help?”

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Editor's Notes:

Chibi Rouyakan: Welcome to my humble (and long-winded) editors' note!! You might not recognize some of the Japanese words in the story, or some of the weapons used, or even about some of our OC's. Here's a quick guide:

Attacks

Goukakyuu no Jutsu: Usually seen in the anime as “Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu”, it means “Fire Style: Powerful Fireball Technique”.

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu: “Shadow Clone Technique”

Bunshin: “Replication” or “clone”. “Kage bunshin”= “Shadow clone”.

(By the way, “honoo” means “fire” or “flame”)

Weapons

Kunai: Simply put, it's basically a knife-like dagger.

Shuriken: Throwing stars.

Another thing you should know about this fic is the unique weapons and such of the OC's. Let's review the characters, shall we? ;) (Other chapters will discuss the character's origins in further detail)

Alex: The famed `daughter of Death'. Since Death is usually described as a dark, hooded, robed figure with a scythe, Alex is equipped with her own unique scythe, Tsuuka (“cross over”), which can be used for doing anything from sucking out people's souls (Alex does that primarily for laughs, not really to kill anyone) to a weapon in battle. The one (named) attack she uses in this chapter, `Death Slash', is just that: A blade of dark magic that kills on contact. A formidable fighter with no exact style, just a `let's kick their asses' mind-frame. As you can see, she's very… loose with her choice of language.

Cassie: A magic-using witch whose origins aren't that well known, Cassie uses various tarot cards to aid her in battle. Mostly a long-range fighter, her skills don't end on the battlefield. She can summon various items such as food, clothes, and spells as need be. Although at first she comes across as an airhead, she's quite smart and not at all useless. She's a lot like Sakura; she might not do all the fighting, but she excels in strategic planning.

Rouyakan: Probably the `fighter' of the group of girls, Rouyakan is a wolf youkai from Japan's early Muromachi period. One thing you should know about her, she's Japanese, while the other two are not, hence the reason that her attacks are in her native tongue, Japanese. Her swords' name is “Kifu-ken”, quite literally “Exalted Protector sword”. The attack “Kokutan hakumei” is also literally translated as “Ebony Twilight”. A tactical fighter with a quick-witted mouth, her power lies in her demon blood and her centuries-long skill with close-range fighting styles. Rouyakan loves to fight, and has no problem speaking her mind.

A Note of Japanese History

The Muromachi period (also know as the Ashikaga period) lasted from 1336 to 1573. However, The early years (1336 to 1392 AD) is known as the Nanboku-cho. The later years (1467 to the end of the Muromachi period) is known as the Sengoku Period (a.k.a. Sengoku Jidai).

Sneezing: Japanese lore says that if you sneeze once, someone is talking bad about you, and two sneezes mean someone's talking good about you. But I had always heard that it was one sneeze for every comment about you… oh well.

Whew!! That was a lot of editing/writing (I.E. The chapter was originally twenty pages. It's now thirty-six pages long!! Wow.) As usual, if there are and punctuation/spelling mistakes, please forgive me. It was a long chapter for Luna to write, and for me to edit. Thanks to the people who take the time to read our story. Remember, reviews make us happy. ^^