Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Clone ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

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Not much to say this time around except that there is a cliffie at the end!!

 

“Human speech”

“ Demon or summon speech”

“Human thoughts”

“Demon or summon thoughts”

Disclaimer: Jeez this is tedious; I do not own Naruto… short and sweet.

 

Chapter 8: Aftermath

 

“Hold still Naruto!”

Naruto's vision swam; he could make out two teary faced Hinata's looming over him, where had he gone wrong?

 

Previously

 

Naruto paused on the other side of the door at the head of the staircase leasing to the basement. 5 of his bunshin were holding off 23 mercenaries on the other side and two were currently with him. He considered his losses minimal, the mercs had been unprepared for the assault, which of course had been the reasoning behind the early morning attack. They had organized themselves by now however and were pressing his bunshin hard. Luckily because of the small space they could not put their numbers to their advantage only two able to attack his clones at a time. Naruto knew however that it was just a matter of time however before they managed to break through. Creating another 15-batsu bunshin he rushed down the staircase hoping they managed to hold until he completed his objective.

Sasuke blocked another senbon thrust with his stiletto and risked a glance towards the bridge somehow it had become shrouded in mist and he couldn't see Kakashi talk-less of Hinata on the other side. That glance cost him. The she-male kicked him in the groin hard and Sasuke collapsed to the water powerless to stop Haku from shoving his head under. His assailant quickly formed some half seals. “MakyÅ HyÅ Yari (Demonic Ice Spear)” somehow water spiraled up into Haku's free hand forming a frozen spear with a wicked looking barbed head, this wasn't good.

Sasuke brought his elbow back ramming it into Haku's ribs hard the jolt loosened Haku's grip and Sasuke capitalized, stopping the flow of chakra that kept him afloat he dived under the water narrowly dodging the thrust of Haku's newly formed weapon. Haku quickly followed suit diving under to pursue Sasuke, for a time they danced a strange underwater battle, struggling with spear and stiletto to kill each other. Running out of air Sasuke performed a desperate maneuver bringing his Stiletto down hard in a stab he nearly shouted in glee when Haku blocked by holding his ice spear horizontally in both hands, letting go of his stiletto Sasuke also grabbed the spear and bringing his legs up and under like a gymnast booted Haku powerfully in the face, the boy let go of the spear in shock his nose trailing red liquid into the water. Surging up powerfully Sasuke swam upwards spear in tow for the surface.

Hinata in the mean time was leading the demon twins on an intricate dance. She spun backwards as once again they tried to snare her between their chain. Byakugan active she could see how they used their chakra to sharpen the edges of the otherwise dull chain to epic proportions, each channeling chakra through the gauntlet on his arm. If she could cut off that flow…

Acting decisively she swept in on one twin as his brother tried to trip her, she flipped over his leg using one single finger to balance on the water for a crucial second before righting herself. Her target tried a hooking blow with his other hand thinking her unbalanced but she simply leant back; meanwhile his brother went for a reverse sweep so she converted her simple lean into a back flip dodging his attack yet again and kicking his brother in the face for good measure.

He staggered slightly from the blow and she saw her chance. Rushing in with a dive she tapped the tenketsu on his directly above his forearm channeling a considerable amount of chakra to clog up the tenketsu before cart wheeling out of the way to avoid any return hits.

Naruto crept through the dank basement. Hot water boilers a remnant of the buildings days as a spa loomed above him casting their shadows conveniently for him to use his stealth to its fullest potential. He snuck towards a door on the other side of the room behind which he assumed the hostages were being kept captive. He stole up quietly to the door; he could barely hear some people conversing in low tones on the other side.

“What do you think is happening? Zabuza and his people rushed out of here like the building was on fire or something.”

 

“I don't know but seeing how serious they were maybe it was some kind of enemy ninja attack.”

 

“More ninja? My pops was killed by one of those sneaky fucks.”

 

“Both of you shut the fuck up jack go check on those damn hostages, if any ninja get past that bastard Zabuza I'll cut him down with my cleaver.”

 

“Heh you've never talked like that in front of that Zabuza character boss.”

 

“Are you mocking me?!?” Naruto heard a loud crash and the sound of metal being unsheathed; taking this as his chance he burst into the room 5 shurieken in hand. There were three enemies and the hostages were tied and gagged left leaning against the far wall. Brain operating a mile a minute he threw the shurieken at the man checking the hostages, he died instantly three of the deadly projectiles penetrating his skull while the other two embedded themselves an inch above the head of the smallest hostage whose eyes widened in fear. A huge man with a beer belly had been threatening one of his comrades with what looked to be a large meat cleaver. Both men turned on Naruto with varying expressions of shock, the smaller man recovered first flinging a dagger at Naruto which the you genin dodged, he then charged forward drawing his weapon and attacking Naruto with a fast thrusting motion. Naruto slipped to the side of the thrust and back heeled the man in the face breaking his jaw as he pulled a kunai. Slashing him quickly across the throat he leapt to the side as his bigger companion pushed past his now dead comrade to attack Naruto. The huge man swung his axe in a downward arc that was powerful yet too slow against a ninja, Naruto watched as the blade approached dodging at the last second, leaping towards the mountainous man Naruto plunged his already bloodied kunai into the man's gut. Instead of keeling over as expected he released his grip on his axe and wrapped his hairy hands around Naruto and squeezed attempting to put an end to the young nin's life and career by breaking his back.

Panicking Naruto plunged the kunai into the man's gut again and again as he tried to kill him before his back snapped. He could smell the man's stale breath and body odor as he grunted with the effort of maintaining pressure on Naruto while he lost blood. Naruto tasted the tangy iron of his own blood as he bit his tongue to keep from crying out at the pain, his right hand was slick and warm with the man's blood.

It was over almost as suddenly as it started, after about 20 stabs the man groaned one last time before his grip on Naruto loosened and he fell to the floor pinning Naruto under him. Pushing the man off of himself Naruto tried to not dwell on what had just happened no one ever told him being a ninja and killing would be glamorous. Walking over to the hostages and cutting their bonds he was somewhat saddened by the look of pure terror the small boy shot him but was somewhat reassured by the compassionate look he saw on what he assumed was the boy's mother's face. Giving them all including the impassive older man what he hoped were reassuring smiles he led them silently through the boiler room back up the staircase where hopefully his clones had succeeded in taking down the mercs. Signaling the civilians to stay back he passed through the door at the top at the staircase and took in the carnage, there were several bodies lying scattered across the floor leaking various amounts of blood, of his clones only 3 were still active and he could tell from looking at them that their time was almost up, there were 10 bandits still alive all with various small wounds on their bodies. Spotting what looked to be a mace on the floor he picked it up slowly before looking at the bandits with the most menacing smile he could muster.

“Hi”

Sasuke would not admit it but Kakashi's personal training had paid off immensely, Haku was fast but Sasuke was faster he had gotten the better of all their exchanges even managing to injure Haku slightly with his own spear.

 

“You're no ordinary genin.”

 

“Genin? Don't make me laugh, rank means nothing especially when it concerns me, the last Uchiha.”

 

“Uchiha… I guess am lucky you don't have the sharingan, however this has gone on long enough Zabuza-sama needs me.” Haku immediately started a series of seals, curious Sasuke left him unmolested, what did this boy think he could pull out of his ass that would change the inevitable outcome of the fight.

“MakyÅ HyÅ ShÅ (Demonic Ice Mirrors)” Sasuke was surprised by the mirrors made out of ice quickly surrounding him, not willing to risk anymore he decided to react with a jutsu of his own.

“heh lets see how your ice stands up to an Uchiha's fire. Katon: GÅkakyÅ« no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)” Sasuke exhaled a large stream of fire at one of the still forming mirrors. To his shock and consternation however the mirror continued to exist only melting slightly.

 

“Whaa?”

 

“Surprising isn't it?” Sasuke turned to the voice behind him only to see Haku's reflection in a mirror.

 

“The mirrors are reinforced with my chakra, a simple ice jutsu won't break them. This is the beginning of the end… Uchiha.

Sasuke suddenly saw a streak of blood cut across his arm he had been hit? When? Suddenly a senbon was sticking out of his back, he turned throwing a kunai at the attacker behind him but only saw an empty mirror.

 

“Am moving to fast for you to see, I can travel in between my mirrors almost instantaneously one with your speed can never keep up.”

 

“Fuck it can't end like this Itachi is still alive” Straining his eyes Sasuke thought he saw a blur as Haku went from one mirror to the other throwing a senbon that caught Sasuke in the neck “Shit at this rate… at this rate am gonna die.”

 

Hinata on the other hand was handling the demon twins with what seemed to be infinite ease. Over the course of their fight she had restricted the use of their chain by blocking tenketsu on the arms of both twins, she had slowed down their movements significantly by forcing them to over-exert themselves while she herself was still relatively fresh. When all was said and done she was dominating the fight as only a Hyuuga could, now she was searching for closure but the twins had wizened up to her acrobatic antics and knew better than to assault her head on without assistance from the other. As such the fight had degenerated into a stare down neither side willing to risk anything in an offensive.

 

“Hmm am perfectly fine with this arrangement, my team mate will be done soon and with him as backup you don't stand a chance.”

 

It was just one of many particularities of the ninja world that these particular twins were in actuality of the Siamese strain, instead of sharing a conventional body part such as a torso however they shared a telepathic link. This of course the source of their extreme coordination in attack and defense and their subsequent insanity.”

 

“Ke big me do you think she is bluffing?”

 

“No small me maybe we should use that technique.”

 

“That technique I hate that technique.”

 

“It doesn't matter I wanna see her blood.”

 

“I love blood!”

 

“I know small me that's why we're gonna use THAT technique.”

 

“Ok but can I be on top this time?”

 

“No”

 

“Your always on top.”

 

“Shut up.”

Hinata's eyes narrowed as the demon twins started to form seals and their chakra twisted in a way she had never seen before.

 

“Ke little-“

 

“Girl it's time we”

 

“Got serious with you so”

 

“We are gonna”

 

“Show you why”

 

“They call us the”

 

“Demon twins.”

 

“Ninpokyuukyoku oni kaihen (final demon transformation)”

 

Hinata watched, eyes wide in horror as one twin leapt on the others back and they began to… merge. They screamed out in pain as their bodies melded and their bones rearranged what was left when the process was finished could only be described as an incarnation from hell. It stood at over 8 feet with two heads almost as big as its rolling belly; its body was a putrid gray color and its arms bunched with muscles. What was truly horrifying were the thick brown claws it had sprouted on hands and feet, they oozed some kind of vile liquid that even a blind man would identify as poisonous.”

 

“So little girl”

 

“How do you like”

 

“The new us?”

 

Naruto stood outwardly an island of calm in the center of a typhoon but inwardly his gut wreathed with the destruction HIS hand had brought, he had killed these men, untold families were lost just so HE could survive and HE could do Konoha's bidding like the miserable dog he was. He had never hated himself or his profession as much as in that moment. Mikio's words included NOTHING could justify what he had just done. That aside he had a mission; opening the door with one of his blood-streaked hands he motioned for the hostages to follow him.

Tsunami took in the appearance of the boy in front of her barely 3 years older than her own son and yet forced to commit such violent acts. She took in the blood stained mace in his hand and the blood matted into his forehead and hair most of it not his own and she did the unexpected in the eyes of everyone present. She hugged him.

 

“Thank you for saving us, if you had not come who knows what might have happened to us.”

In future years and battles Naruto would look back on the hug and kind words as the actions that saved him from his own personal actions. No matter what others said in Naruto's eyes Tsunami ranked high among his list of precious people because she was the first person to treat him like human being when he was covered with the blood of those he had slaughtered.

“Come this way, if you follow my orders we can get out of this alive.”

 

Naruto led them outside and proceeded to make 8-batsu bunshin and summon a medium sized toad. He had 3 of the bunshin henge into the hostages and had them take an open route to escape on the toad that would be visible to all. He detailed the remaining bunshin to guard the real hostages through the swamp and into the city. Hopefully any men Zabuza still had would go after the obvious target the toad with the hostages on it's back. That was the plan anyway. Pausing for a second he took a self-inventory, he had lost over ¾ of his weaponry and all he had left were 5 shurieken and 2 kunai along with the mace he was still holding. In terms of chakra he was extremely low having summoned a toad and well over 20 bunshin. He also had numerous cuts and scrapes on his body from his last fight with the mercs. While not individually fatal the combined blood loss from them all would eventually become a problem. Running towards the fighting Naruto realized he would be of little use so he had to help the individual that would be able to help the rest fairly easily, Kakashi.

Even the best of plans does not survive contact with the enemy however. Upon arrival Naruto saw a sight that blew all thoughts of helping Kakashi out of his head. From his vantage point he could see Sasuke on one side looking like a pin cushion and worse for wear, on the other Hinata was being restrained by the tongue of all things of some monstrous beast and it was about to smash her to a bloody pulp. Who did he save?

Kakashi felt the power of the Raikiri surging through his arm. The fight with Zabuza had been long and very painful, however after nearly getting caught in a water prison that would have brought the mission to a premature end Kakashi had gotten serious unleashing the power of his lone sharingan on the hapless Zabuza. Once his ace was revealed the tide of the fight changed dramatically, and Zabuza was now being held down, uncomfortably I may add by a dozen Nin dogs while their summoner prepared to run him through. Zabuza's conjured mist had dissipated and Kakashi saw what Naruto had seen moments before, only he only saw Sasuke's plight. Forgetting Zabuza he rushed towards Sasuke hoping he could make the hit in time. Naruto felt a surge of relief when Kakashi took the difficult choice out of his hands. Running onto the lake and towards Hinata he hoped he could make it in time. The monsters arm seemed to be descending in slow motion as Naruto's vision degenerated into tunnel mode with only one goal in sight the space above Hinata. Making an inhuman dive while forming seals he yelled out the name of his only defensive jutsu. “Hari JizÅ!!!” The Monster's face twisted into a caricature of shock as first some unnamed boy leapt infront of it and then said boy became covered in his own hair. Naruto heard the monster's shriek of pain when his hairy spines punctured it's palm. Infuriated the beast forgot all about Hinata even unwinding it's grotesque tongue from around her waist and focused on Naruto. Discounting it's own pain it grabbed him tightly and squeezed Naruto felt his back crack and had a strange sense of déjà vu. The only differences this time were that the opponent was significantlty larger, stronger more resiliant and he was in no position to conduct any offensives.

Kakashi knew he would only get a split second while Zabuza's apprentice was passing between mirrors to take him down. Straining his sharingan he chose his intercept point and leapt.

Hinata was caught in a dilema. With her byakugan active she could see behind her, Zabuza had gotten free of his bindings and was heading after Kakashi. Kakashi may succeed in taking down the other enemy threatning Sasuke but Zabuza would cut him down immediately after. Naruto on the other hand had just saved her life but was in trouble. She would just have to believe that he had not jumped into danger without a plan. Steeling her resolve she performed her most deadly technique just as Kakashi pierced Haku's chest and realized the death looming behind him in the form of Zabuza was unavoidable.

“Byakugan Final Accurate Shot: Crossbow” Aiming at the spot just below Zabuza's skull she fired her near supersonic missile and fell to her knees from the chakra exhaustion. It was an instant death in the second before he sliced the already dead Haku and tired Kakashi in half the bolt of chakra pierced his skull.

Naruto knew there was only one thing that could possibly save him from certain death by ugly monster, the Kyuubi. Focusing on all the anger and rage he felt just as Jiraiya had taught him he gave the beast partial control. He felt renewed as his chakra suddenly flared a deep crimson. Pushing open the wannabe's palm with the sheer strength of his chakra he sneered at the lesser demon. He would show these twins what a true devil was like. Running up the beasts arm and towards its head he readied his mace, it tried to attack with its tongue but he batted the vile thing aside like a baseball. Reaching the goal and using all of his strength he smashed the deadly blunt weapon into the beast forehead. While there was no outward reaction the beast keeled over. The force of the blow while not enough to penetrate its thick skull, had liquidated its brain.

 

“N-Naruto are you all right?”

 

Strangely the demon's power began to recede as Naruto heard the concern in Hinata's voice. “Yea am ok, I guess I just got a bit carried awa-!!”

 

Time seemed to freeze for Hinata as she saw the monster perform one last attack on Naruto moving it's hand one of it's claws punctured her teammates side halfway before flinging him aside like a rag doll.

 

 

AFTERWORD

That's all. This chapter was exceedingly hard to right seeing as every other word is part of a fight. I think I kinda ran out of steam towards the end. Hopefully you can all follow and enjoy the fights, please read and review and tell me what can be improved in future fight scenes. What do you think of Hinata's new move?

As a side note Akatsuki's motive sucks rats ass it is just soooooo cliché

 

 

Used by Hinata creates a crossbow on her hand made from chakra. A one shot or nothing technique leaves her very drained shoots an amplified bolt of her chakra at a tenketsu point of her choice, she practiced this technique long and hard. I could not find a Japanese translation for this if anyone knows tell me please.