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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Sorry about the lateness guys but I went to hospital to get my gallbladder removed and haven't felt like typing. Here it is though. Next chapter they return to the village and the beginning of the Chunin exams! How will Naruto react to Gaara?
WARNING! This chapter suggests violence and consumption of raw meat!!
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Naruto grinned, one of his real smiles, the ones reserved for Kyuubi, Raziel and Kain, his special smiles, at the man in front of him. This man had become one of his close friends outside his 'family' and since the day they met he treated Naruto like Naruto, not to fear for the demon he held or his heritage. In fact Naruto was one of the few who knew the truth about him, that he was ANBU, or at least EX-ANBU, how the Hokage had assigned him to be a school teacher to guard and protect the children because the clan heads wanted their children to be protected if something was to happen to the village-like an attack.
After all, an ninja villages most valuable asset was their children, not just because they were the next generation, they were the next generation OF NINJA and so it's main source of income and business. And the clans wanted someone protecting their heirs, and some no-name weakling ninja would never do. Add to that those people from minor clans who wanted someone protecting their children from 'the demon child', in case Naruto ever went nuts and became the Kyuubi (snort of disbelief).
Naruto learned the truth after the 'Mizuki Incident' when the traitor, unable to believe that he was truly other than an 'dumb animal' tried to trick Kiba into stealing the Forbidden Jutsu scroll. After reporting it in secret to The Third, they decided to go along with it to find out the truth of the man. However Iruka had found out and tried to help one of his prized students.
In the end Naruto had seen through the weakling teacher act and Mizuki had been killed after some on the spot interrogation from Kain, a victim of his blood thirst.
They discovered the link between Danzo and the man called Orochimaru, what the man was planning and his sudden interest in the village. Also the fact that the man had an jutsu to allow him the swap bodies with another to prolong his own life. How he had once been part of the criminal group Itachi was spying on but left and had developed an 'interest' in Sasuke after he tried to take Itachi's body during his time there-and failed miserably.
"This means he may make a grab for Sasuke, believing him the easier of the two. I want you both to keep one eye on Sasuke and the other open for my ex-student" the Third ordered.
"Right" the two students and two ex-ANBU, now sensei's nodded, and after Kakashi got the location of the temple the four left.
It took them seventeen days to return due to an encounter with enemy nin who refused to leave them alone, having knowledge of the temple they were convinced they had stolen from them something important and were weaker then them so could take it back easily. Naruto had blinked when Iruka had used the glyph nearly immediately and somehow had full instinctual knowledge of it's use, granting him use of all water in the area, even down to the moisture in the area without signs and instead of using soul energy it used the chakra in the air around them.
The Ancient Vampires had known how to manipulate chakra as well?
What worried the group though was what they had found in the chamber concerning the location and identity of the next temple. Kakashi had identified the clan marking as his own and after checking out the coordinates had sweat-dropped "you'd think your fathers ancestors would have known better" he said with a moan "if they saw us needing these enough to get them, they wouldn't have put it THERE."
Naruto shrugged "who knows how the Ancients thought."
Iruka curiously moved forward to read it over the copy-nin's shoulder. His eyes widened "IWA! Why by kami would they put it there?!"
Naruto shrugged "maybe they thought that since Kakashi sensei recently awoke the full power of his chakra that he didn't need it as much."
"Or maybe they saw Sensei on a mission in that area later on and put it there so he could get it on the way back" Sasuke suggested.
Naruto looked thoughtful "what if it was an combination."
They all looked at him "what do you mean?"
"He's on a mission to or requires him to go through Iwa. However he is injured, maybe even gravely and maybe on the edge of death when he finds the temple. Whatever it does saves his life-whether giving him the ability to defend himself from Iwa nin or it allows him to hide or heals him, I don't know."
"Possible" Kakashi rubbed his chin thoughtfully "in which case, do we get it now, or leave it until such a time I WOULD need it?"
"If you get it early you probably won't get hurt in the first place" Sasuke pointed out "and we need the location of the next temple."
"But the Ancients could travel in time, if they wanted you to get it some time in the future, then it would mean that you will need it THEN." Sasuke frowned at his skulk brother "but if he gets it early he can use it then, instead of getting gravely wounded in the first place." Naruto shook his head at him "if he gets it early it will screw with time and who knows the consequence of a shift in time. Take my word for it, it's never a good thing to try and screw with time." When Sasuke opened his mouth Naruto added "have you forgotten about what happened with Raziel-niisan and chichi?"
Sasuke snapped his mouth shut, looked thoughtful and then nodded. The two turned to look at Kakashi "what do you think? It's your glyph so your decision. Wait until you may desperately need it or get it ASAP?" The silver haired scarecrow looked thoughtful "can we go and get the location of the next temple without actually getting the glyph?"
"No. Once you've opened the temple you risk others being able to get in."
"Others?" Iruka frowned at him "I thought they were coded just for certain people. Isn't that what you said?"
Naruto nodded "but Kakashi-sensei's would be probably coded to his Sharingan as well."
"So?" The winged boy looked back at their team leader "you got your Sharingan eye from Obito Uchiha, but tell me sensei, where's his body now?"
Kakashi's eyes widened, both of them "our enemy is using it."
Sasuke frowned "are you saying there is a chance using his own Sharingan that if this guy was to find sensei's temple, he could get inside and gain the glyph by tricking the test?!"
"Nothing is infallible out there, Sas', and the Ancients have proven they are definitely able to make mistakes, big ones. It's entirely possible. In fact I bet that that's why Itachi is keeping the temples and his own glyph from the group. He realized if this group is where our enemy is, he'd be able to get in and possibly gain Kakashi's one. No telling what advantage it would give him, over us especially. So he's keeping it a secret."
"But that implies he knew Kakashi's was next from the one he located for me" Iruka frowned at the boy.
"No, it's just logical" Naruto pointed out.
"But by your own logic" Sasuke said "this guy could find and access the temple at ANY TIME before sensei could."
"No" Naruto shook his head "if using their time devices they witnessed Kakashi getting it, he gets it. If they witnessed this enemy gaining it they would either use methods to INSURE only sensei gets it, they wouldn't create it at all or they would have put it somewhere only sensei could get it, like his clan grounds."
"So how would me getting it early mean the time-line would change?" Kakashi asked. How much of everything they did or didn't do changed the future? What sort of consequence would there be? "I don't know, sensei. The decision is yours. But I'll tell you something chichi told niisan during their effort to change their destines. Every creature is bound to one predestined path, we are all.....connected to the wheel of fate. " He then muttered something that sounded like "all but one."
"Naruto?" they questioned, concerned about his sadness. He looked up at them, silent for a while, then sighed "it's nothing." Kakashi frowned at this mumble and repeated his name firmly. He only repeated “it’s nothing sensei.” The silver haired cyclops frowned deeper in concern at his student and said firmly in an no-nonsense voice “tell us Naruto, now.”
Naruto looked at him stubbornly for a long while then closed his eyes, hung his head and sighed heavily “while most people are tethered the the wheel, there are a few out there who possess free will, who, by their mere actions can change the course of fate and in a ripple effect change that of those around them, rewriting history as they go.”
“Like you” Kakashi said and the winged boy nodded “and niisan and neesan.”
“And this guy, the one we’re after” Sasuke said “the one that forced Kyuubi neesan to attack the village.” Iruka blinked at them, stunned “the fox didn’t attack us willingly?”
The three other males shook their heads in unison.
“Well tell you about it later” Naruto said to him “but for now...” he looked at his sensei “Well? What’s your decision?” Kakashi hesitated then brought out an scroll and quill, squatted down and began to scribble something down. Once down he summoned Pakkun who saluted with his front paw “yo boss, what do you want me to do?”
“Deliver this to the Hokage as fast as you can, it’s very important. Once you have his answer, return immediately.” The pug nodded, took the scroll in his jowls carefully and bounded off. Once gone Kakashi looked at the group “we may as well stay here for the night.”
Naruto frowned at him “you’re getting Jijisan to decide?” but Kakashi shook his head “his OPINION. In the end the decision is mine. I just thought the Third, Jiriaya-san and Tsunade-hime may have an good and unique view on this.”
“I understand” Naruto nodded and turned to his skulk brother “stay here with sensei and Iruka-san. I’ll hunt dinner.” Sasuke nodded, helping the brown haired teacher set up their tents, campfire and traps around the area while Kakashi went to get water from the nearby stream to boil and deciding to take first watch.
Half an hour later he was worried, Naruto hadn’t returned. He started pacing, what if he had been ambushed, knocked out before he could call for help? Sasuke however wasn’t concerned “I’d know it if he was, I’d sense it sensei.”
“Even if he was unconscious?”
“Even if he was unconscious” he confirmed.
“How can you be so sure?” he asked.
“When he goes to the Spectral Realm all we feel if a hole, A yawning darkness. If we have that reaction to it what makes you think-as control point for us-we wouldn’t feel something similar in that situation?” The youngest Uchiha had a point.
“And even if he was just incapacitated in someway-like tied up or bound with chakra-repressing bonds....” he snorted “not that that would be able to hold him” he went on “he would just contact me. Do you think I’d still be here and this calm if that was so?”
Again he had a point, but... “Where IS he?!”
“Hunting.”
“Hunting?” Kakashi frowned in confusion “but he....”
“Just hunting” there was a tone in the Uchiha’s voice that said ‘don’t ask’ as he turned away, back to the campfire. Kakashi frowned at him but was unable to protest, so turned back to play look-out.
Not long later Sasuke called out “here they come” and Kakashi was about to ask who exactly he meant when a figure stalked out of the surrounding trees and bushes and into their clearing, black and orange clothes, blazing red and white cat-like eyes, thick whisker marks and something huge, furry and heavily slung over one shoulder casually.
Sasuke looked relieved “have fun?”
“Here” the figure said thickly, slinging his burden onto the ground in front of the two brunettes and the campfire.
An huge deadly-looking boar, dead.
It’s rear flanks were torn with five slashes that resembled claw marks, four all in line each other and the fifth slightly apart. The front flanks were also torn but by five deep torn punctures. The chest was torn open, the stomach disemboweled, the heart gone. The mere sight of it made Kakashi sick, like it had gone into a bloody fight with an vicious wild animal, but no animal he could think of had FIVE toes and andor claws.
Except humans.
Or an fox possessed human he corrected himself, looking at Naruto’s wild form, a mix of all three more than before, but Kakashi saw more fox than the others.
So that’s what Sasuke had meant by ‘hunting’. Naruto had let the Kyuubi out long enough to indulge her wild nature and chase and kill her prey. But a fox usually ate their prey themselves, not shared it with others, well, that was unless they were also feeding an family, others in their skulk.
Wait, was it that simple? Naruto and Sasuke called each other skulk brothers all the time, did he and Iruka join that class? Had Naruto hunted down this prey not just to feed his skulk brother but his two other temporary family? Kakashi saw his two students as HIS responsibility, HIS to protect and guide, it was a sensei’s job after all. But it never occurred to him that THEY felt the same way towards HIM.
Family? Kakashi hadn’t had one of those since his father and Obito. Were his students his new family? An younger sister and two younger brothers? The idea appealed to him more than he initially thought it would. All his youth it was just him and his father, by the time he was put on a team he was better now-or at least-more able to communicate and socialize (to an extent).
Certainly Sakura acted like they were family, treating Sasuke and Naruto as trusted brothers and himself as the elder one. Even though being close to your teammates wasn’t encouraged-that could lead to what happened with his father-Kakashi firmly believed that teammates were more important. Yes ninja’s were weapons for their village, but they were LIVING weapons, they had family, lives and loves, futures and pasts.
Naruto had a wife and a future clan to start, just as Sasuke had a loving brother and a clan to restore.
Kakashi’s future musing was interrupted by movement.
Naruto tore a leg off the boar and-ugh-Kakashi looked at Sasuke who had summoned the crows and the ‘three sisters’. both lots of summons happily chewing (or pecking) away on the odd bits of meat and skin he fed them as he busied himself with the carcass, slicing away fairly large strips for them and casually throwing chunks in the pot of boiling water over the fire.
To this Iruka added herbs and vegetables from his pack, making a sweet-smelling stew.
Sasuke looked up at him “why don’t you summon your summons sensei, I’m sure they’ll appreciate the fresh meat and there’s plenty here to last us the next couple of days.”
The cyclops shrugged and did so, all but Pakkun of course, and the group sat down to their meal, Rei demolishing the remains of the meat and bones before sloppily cleaning Naruto’s face with her huge tongue and disappearing-followed by the other summons.
Of course when Pakkun returned he was jealous he had missed out, dropping the returned scroll in Kakashi’s lap in a huff of tantrum. Sasuke called his name as soon as his jowls were empty and when the pug turned to him, the Uchiha tossed him something from behind his back.
Catching it out of mid-air the pug dropped it back to the ground and and began to happily eat the good-sized bone covered in meat they had saved for him. Before he left them, bone protectively clutched in his jaws, he thanked them grudgingly.
The group sat down to their delicious stew while Naruto kept watch, annoying Sasuke when he kept snatching bits of his, Iruka offering the the winged boy his own bowl. Naruto just grinned cheekily at him so Sasuke explained that this was normal behavior between them.
After they had eaten the others retired to their tents while Naruto turned to his teacher and team leader “what did Jijisan, Obbachan and Ero-sanin say?” a grin on his face. Kakashi gave him a disapproving look but answered anyway. “Tsunade-hime suggested waiting, that if the Ancient Vampires deemed it important enough to put THERE, it should remain THERE until needed.”
Naruto nodded “sounds like her. the Senju clan have worshiped the Ancient Vampires as well as chichi and niisan since father saved their ancestor. She knows they all did wrong in one way or the other in their pasts, but the entire clan grew up worshiping or at least believing in their worth.” Naruto grinned suddenly “of course look at me. I’m a relative of the Senju clan AND vampires. Kind of like the gods breeding with the servants, isn’t it.”
When Kakashi looked at him and opened his mouth in protest-or was that shock-Naruto anticipated him “don’t worry, that’s not how I feel. It’s just something chichi would have said in the past before niisan purified him” he waved away the rest “go on.”
With a worried look at him Kakashi went on “your godfather agreed with her. Something about a legend and a toad sage.”
“Heh, I know what he’s talking about” Naruto rolled his eyes at the mention “of course he agrees with her, probably trying to get in her good graces. What did jijichan say?”
“We don’t know when this guy will attack or even move against us next. He suggested going for it. But in the end he says it’s my decision.”
“So it is” Naruto nodded “let me tell you sensei, if we needed it now due to this guy, you-and the others-would have got them earlier. The fact that you haven’t and aren’t expected to means we have time yet. If they don’t expect you to gain it until some time later in the future-do you want to mess with the future by gaining it now? It may be that when you gain yours you set off an whole chain of events with the others and theirs, do you want to mess with that and start it off early?”
This didn’t occur to Kakashi and he looked deep in thought.
“On the other hand, perhaps you are SUPPOSED to get it early” Naruto said as he stood, dusting himself off and starting away to his tent “but inevitably it IS your choice.” He then disappeared inside.
Kakashi was left with more confusion than he started with.
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