Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Fox and The Phoenix ❯ Weeping ( Chapter 20 )

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The Fox and The Phoenix
(Sono Kitsune Oyobi Sono Fenikusu)

Key

S.S = Sick Shit (is more than likely NC-17 and etc.)

*thinking*

"talking"

*thoughts progressing into speech"

'substitute for italics' (Kyuubi or Soriyu at times)

//telepathy//

::scene change:: (more for my reference than anything else)

~POV~
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Summary: Naruto's 6 years old, his caretaker, Iruka, was killed by bandits, and he was left orphaned. Well, until a mysterious wanderer appeared...


A/n: What might possibly be the conclusion...maybe...Omg! Can't believe it! This is my first ever fic to get this many hits and to hit 'twenty' chapters! To all my regular and new reviewers, THANK YOU!!!! Oh yes, I noticed that the last chappie made some of you sick, pissed, and unable to sleep, but all I can say is read carefully and pay attention to the warnings! Also, 'POSSIBLE' CHARACTER DEATH IN THE NEXT CHAPPIE, so don't cry to me if I off a favorite character of yours because it needs to be done. (Oh yeah, and to all who voted 2! Love you guys!)


Chapter Twenty: Weeping


~Author~


::S & N's House::


Naruto sat bolt upright in his bed, covers intwined around his skinny body as his breath escapes his mouth in short panting gasps. The remnants of his horrid nightmare still plaguing him. He glanced at the nearby clock, it read 3:00am, these nightmares had to stop. He gets up, going to get a cup of chamomile tea to calm himself down.


As he stands in front of the microwave, waiting for his water to heat, he hears the soft padding of footsteps behind him.


"Another nightmare Naru-chan?" Sanziya asks, leaning against the doorframe.


He nods mutely in reply as Sanziya crosses the space between them, enveloping him in a loose hug. The boy, having gotten a little more used to human contact now, leans against her, sighing.


*I love you, Kaa-san. If anything ever happened to you...I'd be so lost...*


::Finals Arena::


A senbon-chewing Genma stood in the middle of the arena, a list of names in hand as he skimmed the length of it, frowning as he looks up into the yammering crowd.


"The finals will now begin! Due to circumstances beyond my control, the majority of the matches have been rearranged, so please be silent as I call the first match!" he states as the chatter dulls to silence. "Hyuuga Neji and Uzumaki Naruto!"


A slightly frowning Neji walks down into the arena, while Naruto was apparently nowhere to be seen.


"Uzumaki Naruto, you have 2 minutes to appear or your match is forfeit!" Genma informs the crowd and hopefully Naruto himself. Neji sighs, it was bad enough they felt the need to change the matches, but now his new opponent isn't even showing up, where was that kid?


A flash of blue and green near one of the exits catches their attention, and we soon see Haku dragging a frail-looking blindfolded blonde boy down the stairs to the battlefield.


"Come...on...Naruto!" Haku growls, pushing the boy ahead of him slightly, and the blonde stumbles down the stairs blindly, turning back to glare up at Haku-nii. He frowns, sticking out his tongue before going over to face Neji and the examiner.


"Alright, Hyuuga Neji versus Uzumaki Naruto!" Genma bellows around the senbon in his mouth, looking at the two boys. "Shake hands..." The two grasp hands, Naruto doing so reluctantly, flinching at the contact of Neji's rough hands. "...And begin!"


Genma steps back, Hyuuga and Uzumaki releasing each others hand as if the plague lay there, and both immediately relaxing into attack stances, Naruto summoning Syriffian.


"What manner of odd weapon is that? I've never seen anything of the sort." Hiashi murmurs to himself up in the stands, Hanabi wondering the same as her father. Zabuza, higher up in the stands, watches, his eyes getting a little bigger.


"She actually taught him that dangerous technique? Surprising..."


Neji, however, wasn't too fazed, although he had never seen a weapon like that either before the prelims. No, Neji was more focused on the strip of paper covering the genin's eyes.



*Is it a ploy? Is he truly blind?* he thinks, sinking into his Jyuuken stance more, ready to pounce. "Byakugan!"


Naruto barely has time to block as the Hyuuga rushes him, putting him on a heavy defense. He is hard-pressed to block and dodge the tenketsu strikes, but suddenly, with a strike to the heart, the boy disappears. No poof, no smoke, just gone. Neji closes his eyes quickly, scanning the stadium with his Byakugan, and seeing nothing. He expands his senses, wondering how in the fuck something can get past 'his' eyes.


*There!* he narrowly dodges the sweep of a heavy knotted end on Syriffian, although the blonde is still nowhere to be seen as the assualt grows in power. Neji dodges a downsweep, only to be caught by the backlash of sharpnel from the weapon pounding into the ground. He curses mentally, the boy coming back to sock him in the face and chest. Soon though, Naruto is forced to stop, high chakra levels or not, and he reappears leaning against Syriffian, panting laborously.


*Now's my chance!* Neji thinks, rushing towards the tired boy and putting him on the defense again. The tables have turned this time, now there is only Neji and his attacks, Naruto manages to dodge/block a few, but the majority catch him on the arms and chest.


Neji smirks, shaking his head.


"You are destined to lose by fate. Give up."


The blonde doesn't reply as Syriffian drops from numb fingers, the boy unable to mold chakra for manual handsealing jutsu, but he has an ability Neji doesn't know about.


*Fuuton: Tajyuu Shuriken no Jutsu!*


Many white-sheened shuriken appear from thin air on all sides of Neji, flying towards him at a high speed. The white-eyed Jyuuken master smirks, calling out 'Hakkesho Kaiten!' before going into a high speed spin, infusing the air around him with chakra to knock away the wind shuriken.


Naruto shakes his head as he 'watches' this, knowing the weakness of the Kaiten already, but deciding not to apply this yet as he cannot move his arms.


*Kyuubi-nee? Can you help?*


'Iie. It's too dangerous.'


*I don't care. Just do it please.*


'...Alright, but be careful Naruto.'


Red chakra surges through the boy's coils, breaking down and repairing the blocked ones as he takes on Kyuubi's traits, now able to move his arms again for the red chakra seeping from his pores.


Neji stops his Kaiten soon after, wondering what this fearsome chakra is.


::Stands::


Those in the stands who remember it's wrath from twelve years ago shudder in fear, the other rookie nine wonder just how 'Naruto' is producing this terrible aura of killing intent, but Sarutobi, (higher up in the Kage Seats), is merely intrigued as he takes a puff on his pipe.


::Arena::


A growling Naruto stands in the center of the maelstrom created by Kyuubi's chakra, two of nine red tails flailing wildly as he expands his senses. In truth, he didn't care to fight Neji really, he only wanted to find that Hebi.


*What was that Kabuto-sempai said? Yellow sand snakes right?*


'Hai.'


*Well, from what I can see with your eyes nee-san, the Kazekage has on yellow, and he is from the sand obviously, but what about the Hebi? I can't smell a hint of him in or on the man, and what little I can see of his eyes are normal, not slitted.*


'Perhaps he's done a better job at disguising himself now?'


*He wasn't that proficient at disguising his scent in the beginning, why should he suddenly get better?*


'Possibly that medic?'


*Hm...Kaa-san did say he got away...*


'Kit! Eyes front! Block your chest, duck down, and roll left!'


Naruto, turning his attention back to the battle, notices Neji throwing a palm strike aimed towards his heart. He follows Kyuubi's instructions, not a split second too late, but still manages to get cuffed a heavy blow to the chest area. He hacks up a glob of blood, spitting it off to the side, and grabbing his fallen weapon.


Upon seeing the boy able to move his arms again, Neji freezes.


*How is that possible?!* he thinks, Naruto working the kinks out of his muscles, deciding to send the weapon away. He puts his hands together in one seal, actually going over many in his mind as Neji goes forth again, intent on incapacitating the boy into submission.


*If he's coughing blood, then I can finish it!* the Hyuuga thinks, ready to jab him in the throat as the boy crumples to the earth, unmoving. "Nani?!" (What?!)


Genma steps forth, ready to call the match, when he notices the seal the unconscious boy has his hands together in. It was the Shintenshin seal, possibly meant to give him a message because Inoshi and his daughter Ino in the stands were looking 'very' angry.


"This match will continue, please proceed."


~Naruto~


*Phew, glad he saw the seal. Thanks Kyuubi-nee, I couldn't have done that without your help, I wouldn't have came anywhere close with how depleted 'my' chakra was.*


'If that Hyuuga boy figures out that your soul is no longer in your body, you'll be in trouble.'


*He shouldn't, that bloodline of his isn't 'that' advanced 'yet'.*


'You never know kit, so you should get this done quickly.'


*Hai.*


~Author~


To say everyone was surprised when Hyuuga Neji started fighting with what seemed to be an imaginary enemy was a slightly understandable concept, but to say they were shocked when he took a poisoned kunai from an unconscious Naruto's pouch (only to hold it to his own throat) was a severe understatement. However, unbeknownest to them was the simple fact that Naruto was possessing the boy and making him do these things.


*If you don't surrender I'll kill you.* he tells Neji, smirking somewhat.


*I'm not going to surrender to the likes of you!* the older boy growls, grappling with Naruto in his own mind.


*I think you will, that particular poison is strychnine, and you saw what it did to Kabuto-sempai in the preliminaries.*


Neji mentally rolls his eyes, grimacing.


*Yes, I'm sure we all remember that little display of disgusting fagdom.* he replies stoically, turning away from the other.


Naruto flinches harshly, Neji had no idea how much that hurt him, after all he'd been through he would call him that? Of course, what our blonde had no knowledge of was that Neji knew nothing more than what he was told or found out on his own, not to mention his 'telephone-pole-up-the-ass' family didn't approve of 'anything' homosexual in the least.


However, as stated before, Naruto knew nothing of this, so he got pissed.


*You don't have any right to cast judgement on me you snobby asshole! You don't know what I've suffered through and you have the nerve to call me something so hurtful?!*


Neji, turning back around, glares at the smaller boy with his piercing white eyes.


*Yes, I have the nerve. Fate determines everyone's path, yours just happens to be a dishonorable one. I would say you shouldn't have been born, but that would be trying to go against fate. I can only hope that you will live your path somewhere far away from Konoha sooner or later, so that I will not have to look upon filth such as yourself.*


Naruto stands there, hands clenched, tears running down his whiskered cheeks as his whole body shakes in sorrow and anger.


*You aren't even worth the time I spent letting you live...I can't stand self-absorbed pricks who only think about themselves!* (Sasuke is apparently an exception to that.)


Neji continues to stare him down, uncaring.


*I care not about this petty squabble, get out of my body and finish this fight like a true shinobi. Hmph, if that's what you are anyway...*


Naruto smiles, an unstable smile that doesn't fit his features.


*Fine.*


::Arena::


~Naruto~


I locked his body in place for a good two minutes while returning to my own. It was sadistically fun to watch him struggle to move while I got up, pulling another poisoned kunai from my pouch. Something more vile than strychnine coated this one, but it wouldn't kill him. No, I wanted him to suffer. To feel the pain of never being able to be a shinobi again.


"Release me now! Fight like a true shinobi, you demon!" he growls, glaring at me with those eyes of his, and managing to break free of my spell. "You are within my field of divination! Hakke Rokujuyon Sho!" (Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms)


He took me completely off guard, managing to get a devestating hit just above my collarbone, right into my throat, but his assault didn't stop there. I could feel him hitting, stabbing at numerous points all over my body, but all I could focus on was those first hits. He had closed a vital tenketsu in my throat, and then three others around my lungs.


There was no chakra getting around my lungs.


They weren't contracting.


I couldn't breathe.


*Kyuubi-nee chan...*


'I cannot, there is danger in giving you anymore power. There are already three tails out, it would damage your mind and body further to give you anymore. You'll have to heal yourself Naruto, I'm sorry.'


*C-chikuso.*


I refuse to die here.


If getting out of this meant doing something even more drastic than I intended...then so be it...


I let myself fall to the ground as he finished his assault, making it seem as though I could barely stand, which I actually wasn't far from. Spots were dancing on the edges of my vision. I had to make this quick.


~Author~


::Stands::


"What's wrong? Are you angry because you didn't get to kiss me?" Neji taunts as Sanziya, from her place in the stands, winces.


*That's cold. I wonder what Naru-chan talked to him about while he was in Astral form.*


'Can't have been anything good for that reaction. Hm, Hyuuga were apparently stuck up snobs, yes?' Soriyu replies, frowning.


*Hm. Except for Hinoe, she was such a timid person, and I can see that her daughter is just like her.*


Sanziya's reminiscing is soon cut short as Naruto crashes into the wall below them, making a bloody, lopsided flower on the cracks of the stone as gravity pulls him to the ground.


"Naruto!" a chorus rings out from Sasuke, Sakura, Zabuza, Haku and Sanziya, but they resist running down until Genma has called the match. He doesn't get a chance to however, as the blonde finds purchase by gripping the wall and managing to scramble back to his feet.


"Hmph, you wouldn't give up so easily would you? Trying to look good for your boyfriend?" Neji sneers, and a cat-masked ANBU guarding the Kage Stands winces. That boy had a 'mountain' up his ass, he was so negative. Naruto shakes, the popping of his spine can be heard across the stadium, protesting his brash movements. His mother feels the need to just go down and hug him, anything to stop him, but she knows she must not get any closer than she is now. She must distance herself as much as possible.


*Fuck...it's getting harder to breathe..*


He coughs violently and shakes his head at the older boy, flipping him off as he summons Syriffian yet again. Only to use it as a cane a second later as another coughing fit grips him, his vision was slowly going black, and forcing chakra to break through his sealed tenketsu were only making it worse.


He coughs up blood in the next fit.


'Naruto don't! You'll die! You barely have any chakra left! Don't do this! If I give you anymore you'll die!'


*Have to nee-chan, teach him a lesson.*


'Damn it Naruto, listen to-!'


Naruto severs the link violently, smiling at Kyuubi through the bars of the cage, despite her frantic attempts to break the bars.


*Didn't she understand?* he thought, leeching the neccessary chakra from her cage despite her valiant efforts to stop him. He had to finish this, had to get out of this battle, and find that snake bastard. He knew his limits, this would leave him with a severely small amount of chakra, but it would be worth it to see the smug smile wiped off that Hyuuga's face. He doesn't get a chance however as Neji unleashes another attack on him.


"Hakke Hyaku Nijuhachi Sho!" (Eight Trigrams One-Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms)


Naruto's severe lack of air impairs his reaction time significantly so that all of the attacks hit their marks, forcing the boy to his knees in pain, and he finally falls to the ground, submitting to the darkness.


Genma waits a few minutes to see if Naruto will get back up, chewing his senbon in agitation as he raises his arm.


"Winner: Hyuuga Neji!" he states, turning around to the medics as well as Haku who has appeared and whispers in the boy's ear. "He was hit in the throat, he may have trouble breathing, do something about that before anything else."


Haku nods, hurrying over to help. Sanziya, still up in the stands, sighs heavily.


Zabuza places a hand on her shoulder comfortingly, a small smile making its way onto his features.


::Medical Wing::


Our haughty Hyuuga is being looked over for his wounds in a nearby doctor's office. Meanwhile, Naruto lies deathly still in a small ICU room with numerous machines hooked up to his frail body. Haku stands beside the bed, shaking his head, and, making sure the boy is comfortably stable, he takes his leave.


As soon as he leaves the shadows shift, revealing the sad smiling face of Sanziya when she steps away from the clinging dark.


"Dear child, my little baby boy, but then...you're not so little anymore are you? I'm sorry I couldn't have been here through your childhood, and I'm even sorrier for what took place while I was here. I only hope..." At this she passes her hands over his body, a pure grass green engulfing the boy and fading. "I only hope that you will carry on this legacy. The legacy of your father's techniques...and your mother's."


She lays a thick package on the bed, finishing the blood seal on it so that only her child may open it and no others may touch it. Then the woman drops her henge fully, more than she had ever had. Black wings reveal themselves, keeping close to her back as her aura finally completes the merge with Soriyu's, turning a deep blue. She sighs, opening her now milky white eyes, yet if one looks close enough they can see a faint hint of green.


Upon hearing the explosions go off in the stadium, Sanziya kisses the slumbering boy's forehead softly and whispers 'Aishiteru'. She then grins, stepping into the shadows once more.


"Let's go out in a fiery blaze baby. Because I'm goin' down with you in my arms."


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Anaki: Hm...I dunno.


RC16: What?


Anaki: It seems too short.


RC16: It probably is then.


Anaki: Oh well, they'll live.


RC17: -dances and has a party- YAY!!! 20 CHAPPIES! REVIEW PLZ!