Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 6 We are the sands of time part 2 ( Chapter 6 )
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Chapter 6: We are the sands of time part 2
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I’m not going to lie, this next part is just a little bit AU. Not much though, more like one detail. I made the Nine-Tails smaller then it was before for story proposes. I hope you don’t mind to much
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“That was amazing…” Iruka looked around at his new surroundings after Gaara had brought all of them back in time. It was exactly how he remembered it happening 12 years ago only he was never this close to the action. Where Naruto’s house stood in the future, a forest in flames lay now.
“What are we supposed to do now?” Lee asked.
“Stop the fox from mating, then there’s no demons.” Iruka told him, an easier task said then done.
Gaara was the first person to point that out. “How can we do that? It’s not like we can follow the Nine-tails around.”
It would be easy to fine but there was no way they could stay close enough to it to follow. Even if they could, how could they stop it from mating? If they confronted it directly it would most defiantly kill them. “Simple, We take out every other fox around.” Kakashi told them.
Naruto shook his head. “No way! We can’t possibly track down every fox around Konoha.”
“It that or take on the Nine-tail.” Iruka said, making Naruto settle down with his point made.
“Then we’re splitting up, isn‘t that dangerous?” Lee asked, he was mainly unsure if he would be able to find them again in these surroundings.
Iruka nodded. “There’s no alterative in a situation like this. But to be safe we should meet back here in 20 minutes“
It may have been faster but it was much too dangerous for everyone to go off by themselves. So they broke off in teams of 2 and headed in different directions.
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“Shikamaru, what are the chances of us running in to the Nine-tails.” Lee asked, wearily scanning the area for anything living.
“About 16 percent.” Shikamaru told him confidently.
“Oh…I guess we’re pretty safe then.” Lee was clearly nervous, messing around with something this powerful when it was in heat. It would only make it more persistent if it managed to spot them.
“Scared?” Shikamaru asked,
Lee sighed, navigating his way through the thick forest tree tops. “I’m not scared for myself, I just scared to fail. That could mean the end of a lot of innocent people.”.
He wasn’t much for tracking but he could recognize enough for this mission. He could see a pair of footprints in the mud below, they looked like something that might be a fox but he couldn’t be sure. “I think I found something.” Lee said, dropping to the ground next to the prints.
Shikamaru dropped down next to him, looking over them and was easily able to tell what made them. “Yes these are a fox’s tracks, and they were made recently.” Shikamaru said, but he quickly shook his head with a sigh soon after. “But these aren’t from regular foxes, they were made by the Nine-tails. It looked as if it was perusing a female.” He determine this easily because a smaller set of a female tracks were directly in front of the Nine-tails.
“Wha…but how do you know it’s the Nine-tails?” Lee asked, hoping that Shikamaru was wrong. “These prints are larger then a regular fox’s.” Shikamaru said. “And look at these other marks, it’s from wiping tails.”
“…”
“We need to find it.” Shikamaru jumped in to the trees followed closely by Lee.
It wasn’t more then a few feet when they started to see more defendant signs, one was a trail of dead foxes. “Males, they were killed most likely because they were in the Nine-tail’s way.” Shikamaru explained, moving more cautiously, making as little noise as possible.
Then he stopped all together, as if he was waiting for a sign of some type. He got it a few seconds later when a soft breeze blew through the trees making a rustling sound from the leaves. He was checking see if they were up wind or down wind before they proceed any farther, luckily they didn’t have to change course because they were down wind.
No more then a few feet away the Nine-Tails had caught the Female. But this is when it was on the highest alert for anything that could possible be a threat. Which was anything other then another female. But in-spite of that they had to get closer some how.
Shikamaru signaled him to be quite while he waited, getting exactly what he was hoping for when the wind blew again. He moved forward as quickly and as quietly as he could manage with Lee trailing behind. The wind made a substantial amount of noise when blowing through trees, he was using that as cover from the Nine-Tail’s hearing.
It wasn’t long before they were in view of it, and the female that sounding as if it was in a lot of pain. They could easily see why, though I won’t go in details... “So what are we supposed to do now?” Lee whispered.
“We wait.”
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“Damn foxes!” Naruto yelled. He and Gaara had have some trouble finding anything in this forest, let alone a fox. Gaara only shook his head and continued searching, it seemed just about every thing fled from the area. Almost everything.
“It went this way.”
Gaara and Naruto looked down to the left where a team of 5 ninjas were standing near a tree, one of them was knelling down next to seemingly nothing. He apparently had an easier time tracking something then they were. Drawn by curiosity, Naruto stopped and looked at the men. “They must be going after the Nine-Tails.” Naruto said, watching them go in the opposite direction.
He felt sorry for them, knowing that they were going only to die. He could tell they were some of the village’s best just by how easily they were following the demon, he couldn’t even see what they were doing it by. It’s not as if he could stop them if he tried, they would do what they could to protect the village.
“It’s no use worrying about it, their deaths won’t be in vein.” Gaara told him.
“How can you talk about it like that! What is the propose of them dieing? How isn’t it in vein?” Naruto shot back angrily, somehow he felt reasonable for all of this because of what was sealed inside of him.
Gaara wasn’t much on the area of making someone feel better, but for Naruto he could try. “If they and everyone else who did the same hadn’t have died protected Konoha. Think of how many others would have been in their place, if they didn’t, this village probably wouldn’t have survived.”
Naruto looked at Gaara, then shifted his gaze around the forest. “Yeah, your right.” Naruto shrugged. Looking down when he herd a soft rustling sound under him.
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Kakashi and Iruka had been much more successful, they found two Females that the Nine-tails had already…mated with. Though they didn’t like it, it had to be done. “This fox is quite the hormonal one isn’t he.” Kakashi said, resting against the trunk of a tree while Iruka tried to determine weather more foxes were in the area. He found it strange that their were no anywhere around.
Iruka ignored that last comment, jumping in to a tree to get a better look around. “We should get going, there’s nothing else around here.” Iruka told him. Kakashi lazily picked himself up and kept going behind Iruka who seemed to be better at this type of thing.
But he stopped when he saw a group of 5 heading forward on the ground under them.
“It’s definitely been here, we’re getting closer so stay on your guard.” The man in front said. Just barley before he left, Iruka could see his face. It looked just like him, only a little older and some minor differences. That was the man he recognized as….his father.
Iruka had inherited more from his father then just a resemblance, like his natural tracking skills. “What is it?” Kakashi asked.
“That man, he’s my father…” Iruka looked at the men heading toward the demon fox.
Kakashi looked at him and could guess what he was thinking. “Your going to try and save him?”
“No…It’s just that I can hardly even remember what my parents look like, I just want to see what happened…” Iruka knew what it could do to the present of he kept him alive and that wasn’t his intent. He didn’t know why, but he just wanted to know what happened.
Kakashi sighed, “We’re getting off course.”
“If we follow them to the demon then when can follow it and see what it will try and mate with next instead of waiting until it dose it and blindly looking around for the female.” Iruka shouted out, it was clear that he already had that excuse ready, he really wanted to do this.
“Fine.” Kakashi finally agreed and the second he did Iruka sprang after his father’s team.
Under Kakashi’s directions Iruka stayed a safe distance back so that they wouldn’t be detected. Something like that could easily cause a ripple effect. If Iruka’s father’s team stopped because they thought something was following them, Then either they would stop and then ignore it and the fox would have moved on. Or they would investigate until they missed their chance completely and the team would remain alive. There was an infinite number of possibilities that could have happened, not all of them good. It was just too risky.
The men stopped at the body of a dead, male wolf. “It must be just ahead, this was done recently.” Iruka’s father drew a Kunai and continued forward, it made him harder to followed because of how careful they became.
“Sure you want to go though with this?” Kakashi asked, the Nine-tails was in view now, and another female fox that it had just finished mating with. Iruka only nodded, it seemed important that he see his father.
The Nine-Tails was out to move on when it was stuck on the side by a knife with an explosive tag attached. It growl and turned in the direction where it had come from, just as it exploded and erupted a thick cloud of dust obscuring any view.
A strong burst of wind expanded outward from the center of the blast, blowing any dust and debris. It was the Nine-Tail’s Chakra, glowing around the demon in a white aura and rising off it like smoke.
“It’s power is amazing…” One of the men said, standing just a few feet from the demon.
In a quick motion the 5 men surrounded the fox, attacking from all sides. With a whip of it’s tails the demon swatted them all down. “Quickly! Go report back to the village.” Iruka’s Father told one of the men. He nodded and headed back toward Konoha while the other 4 tried to hold it off. He could tell already that they had no chance, and they knew it too.
Iruka’s Father started to use a Jutsu, the hand seals and the name couldn’t be seen herd or seen by Kakashi and Iruka. But the wind started to pick up, it quickly swirled the demon and form a tornado, pulling up the earth surrounding them. With a roar the demon used it’s Charka to easily blow way the winds.
Iruka looked at his father’s face, the look of someone extremely determined man who knew he was destined for death but wouldn‘t give up any way, he wasn‘t scared, he wasn‘t sad, completely resolute. Truly heroic. He turned away, that was how he wanted to remember his father from now on. He didn’t see how he was killed, or what his body looked like afterwords.
“Kakashi-sensei, Iruka-sensei!” Lee called over to them. Iruka didn’t notice that Lee and Shikamaru were right across the clearing from them. Kakashi was surprised with himself that he didn’t notice them earlier, he didn’t realize that he was too busy watching Iruka. Waiting to see what the man’s reaction would be to the fact that the Nine-Tails had just killed his father in front of him.
“Were is Naruto and Gaara?” Kakashi asked.
“We haven’t seen them.” Shikamaru responded.
“We need to leave, now.” Kakashi voice made it very clear that he meant right now.
“Did we get all of the foxes?” Lee asked.
“We’ll know soon enough but--” Iruka was cut off by a loud roar.
They had been found by the Nine-Tails, and it was coming back for them.
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I’m not going to lie, this next part is just a little bit AU. Not much though, more like one detail. I made the Nine-Tails smaller then it was before for story proposes. I hope you don’t mind to much
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“That was amazing…” Iruka looked around at his new surroundings after Gaara had brought all of them back in time. It was exactly how he remembered it happening 12 years ago only he was never this close to the action. Where Naruto’s house stood in the future, a forest in flames lay now.
“What are we supposed to do now?” Lee asked.
“Stop the fox from mating, then there’s no demons.” Iruka told him, an easier task said then done.
Gaara was the first person to point that out. “How can we do that? It’s not like we can follow the Nine-tails around.”
It would be easy to fine but there was no way they could stay close enough to it to follow. Even if they could, how could they stop it from mating? If they confronted it directly it would most defiantly kill them. “Simple, We take out every other fox around.” Kakashi told them.
Naruto shook his head. “No way! We can’t possibly track down every fox around Konoha.”
“It that or take on the Nine-tail.” Iruka said, making Naruto settle down with his point made.
“Then we’re splitting up, isn‘t that dangerous?” Lee asked, he was mainly unsure if he would be able to find them again in these surroundings.
Iruka nodded. “There’s no alterative in a situation like this. But to be safe we should meet back here in 20 minutes“
It may have been faster but it was much too dangerous for everyone to go off by themselves. So they broke off in teams of 2 and headed in different directions.
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“Shikamaru, what are the chances of us running in to the Nine-tails.” Lee asked, wearily scanning the area for anything living.
“About 16 percent.” Shikamaru told him confidently.
“Oh…I guess we’re pretty safe then.” Lee was clearly nervous, messing around with something this powerful when it was in heat. It would only make it more persistent if it managed to spot them.
“Scared?” Shikamaru asked,
Lee sighed, navigating his way through the thick forest tree tops. “I’m not scared for myself, I just scared to fail. That could mean the end of a lot of innocent people.”.
He wasn’t much for tracking but he could recognize enough for this mission. He could see a pair of footprints in the mud below, they looked like something that might be a fox but he couldn’t be sure. “I think I found something.” Lee said, dropping to the ground next to the prints.
Shikamaru dropped down next to him, looking over them and was easily able to tell what made them. “Yes these are a fox’s tracks, and they were made recently.” Shikamaru said, but he quickly shook his head with a sigh soon after. “But these aren’t from regular foxes, they were made by the Nine-tails. It looked as if it was perusing a female.” He determine this easily because a smaller set of a female tracks were directly in front of the Nine-tails.
“Wha…but how do you know it’s the Nine-tails?” Lee asked, hoping that Shikamaru was wrong. “These prints are larger then a regular fox’s.” Shikamaru said. “And look at these other marks, it’s from wiping tails.”
“…”
“We need to find it.” Shikamaru jumped in to the trees followed closely by Lee.
It wasn’t more then a few feet when they started to see more defendant signs, one was a trail of dead foxes. “Males, they were killed most likely because they were in the Nine-tail’s way.” Shikamaru explained, moving more cautiously, making as little noise as possible.
Then he stopped all together, as if he was waiting for a sign of some type. He got it a few seconds later when a soft breeze blew through the trees making a rustling sound from the leaves. He was checking see if they were up wind or down wind before they proceed any farther, luckily they didn’t have to change course because they were down wind.
No more then a few feet away the Nine-Tails had caught the Female. But this is when it was on the highest alert for anything that could possible be a threat. Which was anything other then another female. But in-spite of that they had to get closer some how.
Shikamaru signaled him to be quite while he waited, getting exactly what he was hoping for when the wind blew again. He moved forward as quickly and as quietly as he could manage with Lee trailing behind. The wind made a substantial amount of noise when blowing through trees, he was using that as cover from the Nine-Tail’s hearing.
It wasn’t long before they were in view of it, and the female that sounding as if it was in a lot of pain. They could easily see why, though I won’t go in details... “So what are we supposed to do now?” Lee whispered.
“We wait.”
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“Damn foxes!” Naruto yelled. He and Gaara had have some trouble finding anything in this forest, let alone a fox. Gaara only shook his head and continued searching, it seemed just about every thing fled from the area. Almost everything.
“It went this way.”
Gaara and Naruto looked down to the left where a team of 5 ninjas were standing near a tree, one of them was knelling down next to seemingly nothing. He apparently had an easier time tracking something then they were. Drawn by curiosity, Naruto stopped and looked at the men. “They must be going after the Nine-Tails.” Naruto said, watching them go in the opposite direction.
He felt sorry for them, knowing that they were going only to die. He could tell they were some of the village’s best just by how easily they were following the demon, he couldn’t even see what they were doing it by. It’s not as if he could stop them if he tried, they would do what they could to protect the village.
“It’s no use worrying about it, their deaths won’t be in vein.” Gaara told him.
“How can you talk about it like that! What is the propose of them dieing? How isn’t it in vein?” Naruto shot back angrily, somehow he felt reasonable for all of this because of what was sealed inside of him.
Gaara wasn’t much on the area of making someone feel better, but for Naruto he could try. “If they and everyone else who did the same hadn’t have died protected Konoha. Think of how many others would have been in their place, if they didn’t, this village probably wouldn’t have survived.”
Naruto looked at Gaara, then shifted his gaze around the forest. “Yeah, your right.” Naruto shrugged. Looking down when he herd a soft rustling sound under him.
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Kakashi and Iruka had been much more successful, they found two Females that the Nine-tails had already…mated with. Though they didn’t like it, it had to be done. “This fox is quite the hormonal one isn’t he.” Kakashi said, resting against the trunk of a tree while Iruka tried to determine weather more foxes were in the area. He found it strange that their were no anywhere around.
Iruka ignored that last comment, jumping in to a tree to get a better look around. “We should get going, there’s nothing else around here.” Iruka told him. Kakashi lazily picked himself up and kept going behind Iruka who seemed to be better at this type of thing.
But he stopped when he saw a group of 5 heading forward on the ground under them.
“It’s definitely been here, we’re getting closer so stay on your guard.” The man in front said. Just barley before he left, Iruka could see his face. It looked just like him, only a little older and some minor differences. That was the man he recognized as….his father.
Iruka had inherited more from his father then just a resemblance, like his natural tracking skills. “What is it?” Kakashi asked.
“That man, he’s my father…” Iruka looked at the men heading toward the demon fox.
Kakashi looked at him and could guess what he was thinking. “Your going to try and save him?”
“No…It’s just that I can hardly even remember what my parents look like, I just want to see what happened…” Iruka knew what it could do to the present of he kept him alive and that wasn’t his intent. He didn’t know why, but he just wanted to know what happened.
Kakashi sighed, “We’re getting off course.”
“If we follow them to the demon then when can follow it and see what it will try and mate with next instead of waiting until it dose it and blindly looking around for the female.” Iruka shouted out, it was clear that he already had that excuse ready, he really wanted to do this.
“Fine.” Kakashi finally agreed and the second he did Iruka sprang after his father’s team.
Under Kakashi’s directions Iruka stayed a safe distance back so that they wouldn’t be detected. Something like that could easily cause a ripple effect. If Iruka’s father’s team stopped because they thought something was following them, Then either they would stop and then ignore it and the fox would have moved on. Or they would investigate until they missed their chance completely and the team would remain alive. There was an infinite number of possibilities that could have happened, not all of them good. It was just too risky.
The men stopped at the body of a dead, male wolf. “It must be just ahead, this was done recently.” Iruka’s father drew a Kunai and continued forward, it made him harder to followed because of how careful they became.
“Sure you want to go though with this?” Kakashi asked, the Nine-tails was in view now, and another female fox that it had just finished mating with. Iruka only nodded, it seemed important that he see his father.
The Nine-Tails was out to move on when it was stuck on the side by a knife with an explosive tag attached. It growl and turned in the direction where it had come from, just as it exploded and erupted a thick cloud of dust obscuring any view.
A strong burst of wind expanded outward from the center of the blast, blowing any dust and debris. It was the Nine-Tail’s Chakra, glowing around the demon in a white aura and rising off it like smoke.
“It’s power is amazing…” One of the men said, standing just a few feet from the demon.
In a quick motion the 5 men surrounded the fox, attacking from all sides. With a whip of it’s tails the demon swatted them all down. “Quickly! Go report back to the village.” Iruka’s Father told one of the men. He nodded and headed back toward Konoha while the other 4 tried to hold it off. He could tell already that they had no chance, and they knew it too.
Iruka’s Father started to use a Jutsu, the hand seals and the name couldn’t be seen herd or seen by Kakashi and Iruka. But the wind started to pick up, it quickly swirled the demon and form a tornado, pulling up the earth surrounding them. With a roar the demon used it’s Charka to easily blow way the winds.
Iruka looked at his father’s face, the look of someone extremely determined man who knew he was destined for death but wouldn‘t give up any way, he wasn‘t scared, he wasn‘t sad, completely resolute. Truly heroic. He turned away, that was how he wanted to remember his father from now on. He didn’t see how he was killed, or what his body looked like afterwords.
“Kakashi-sensei, Iruka-sensei!” Lee called over to them. Iruka didn’t notice that Lee and Shikamaru were right across the clearing from them. Kakashi was surprised with himself that he didn’t notice them earlier, he didn’t realize that he was too busy watching Iruka. Waiting to see what the man’s reaction would be to the fact that the Nine-Tails had just killed his father in front of him.
“Were is Naruto and Gaara?” Kakashi asked.
“We haven’t seen them.” Shikamaru responded.
“We need to leave, now.” Kakashi voice made it very clear that he meant right now.
“Did we get all of the foxes?” Lee asked.
“We’ll know soon enough but--” Iruka was cut off by a loud roar.
They had been found by the Nine-Tails, and it was coming back for them.
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