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Orochimaru fled through the trees as if the hounds of hell or death itself was on his scaly ass, and indead it was. What was that weapon? One minor hit, a scratch really, and he had felt as if his soul was being pulled into a place of absolute cold and loneliness, absolute death, the one place he'd avoided for so long, that he'd spent so much to stay away from, done so much to keep out of.
His spies in this village had mentioned nothing about some sword that could affect a person's soul, all he knew about the kid other than him being the demon vessel was he had been adopted by some rich man, an apparent advisor to the Fire Lord and he hung around with some of the current important families or clans heirs as well as the heir to the Hyuuga clan was betrothed to him.
Where had he gotten such power? How had he became this winged and tailed creature? WHEN? Why hadn't he sensed an jutsu about him if the other appearance was an disguise? Was there a way to take such power from him? Screw that, was there a way to STOP IT, to prevent that weapon ever touching him again.
He couldn't let it touch him, he had to quite litterly stay one step ahead of him.
While it was true part of himself went into the curse marks, it had felt nothing like what he had just experienced.
He was nearing the gate, nearing escape, once out the other couldn't follow him without getting his team disqualified and he could disappear into the crowd of civilians of Hidden Leaf.
With a last desperate glance behind him he summoned as many of his snakes as he could to give him the time he needed and sped up.
Hearing the scream of pure fury behind him he managed a weak grin but increased his speed more, hoping to get as much space and time between them as possible.
Suddenly he sensed an familiar chakra up ahead and grinned, oh the irony of timing, at least here was something he could easily handle.
*Again the same as the anime*
He turned to leave, tossing over his shoulder as he walked away "three of my followers are also candidates, I look forward to seeing how they fare. I don't know how you survived my attack two years ago, but this is proving very interesting, but remember this, if anything happens to deprive me of my fun, it means the end of the Leaf village."
A sound caught him before he could use the body flicker, laughing, low, deep, dark laughter. "What?!" he spun in the direction of it to find it came from behind him, the woman crumbled with her head lowered.
As he watched her shoulders began to shake with her laughter, moving more as her dark laughter boarded on hysterica. Finally it settled enough for her to snort out "fun, you want to be amuzed. Well who am I to protest" before he could speak her head slowly raised to look at him.
The first thing he saw was the eyes peaking out of from under the hair, glowing with power. Glowing an yellow so dark it was almost gold, the pupils diluted vertical lines-so much like his own.
Second was a set of fanged canines-top AND bottom poking out of an slightly parted mouth.
The hair changed, going from short brown in an spiked ponytail to jet black and in long bueatiful waves down her shoulders and back, flowing like dark water. Her clothes had changed colour, the ninja mesh jet black with the skirt and jacket and ninja sandles deep red-like blood.
As she smiled, showing her fangs she slowly stood, revealing other differences.
Her figure had gone from basic ninja athletism to volapisious and endowed, noticeable even through the jacket.
Her ears through the hair were high and pointed, her head on either side around the ear and leading downwards along the flesh towards the jaw, underneath it and covering the entire throat and neck was an light almost completely transparent layer of scales, the layer disappearing behind her ears to reappear in an pale red around her temple and hidden behind her hitiate.
The same layer spattered her arms and legs, looking instead of ugly scales seemed to look like some sort of tribal or clan marks.
From her back and out of slashes in her jacket, folded compactly on her jacket, were two huge bone-and-skin wings, identical to those once bore by Razeil except much larger and from between the shoulder blades, not the base of the spine.
With an fanged grin that revealed a tongue like his the woman spoke to her former sensei "you want to be entertained sensei. Well let's try."
The snake nin frowned "how did you survive? How did you change so drastically?"
What was going on!? First Anko survived his attack that he was positive had killed her, his spies never told him the demon vessel had any power and that sword.....
"You want to know how I survived, sensei? You want to know what happened to me, well I'll tell you. After you left me to die I managed to crawl to shelter, thinking I was going to die. I was on a mission, no one would come and save or help me.
But what I didn't know was somehow Naruto knew, somehow he sensed my near death state and decided to do something about it. He spoke to his father-I'm sure you've heard of him, The Blood Shadow, the only true immortal and the most powerful being in the entire planet including all the Elemental Countries-who despite my being on a mission, found me and saved me. He made me like him-with all the powers and abilities of his race-but different, still human."
Orochimaru hissed his disbelief "why would an truly immortal being worry about an useless toy like you."
"Because to him I am not a toy, to him I am his mate. You see sensei we became lovers-of a sort-five years ago and he does NOT take lightly when people try to take what's his, isn't that right, my love?"
"Indeed" an new male voice said, deep and dark, right from next to Anko on the branch and as the snake nin watched mist gathered there, forming an tall stocky figure in red, inhuman in appearance. Anko smiled with fang again and turned sideways, pushing her body against his side, one of the figures arms around her waist the hold her close while the woman laughed sexily and turned her face up to him so she could accept the lips that lowered to hers in an feirce and hungry kiss, a kiss of ownership on each other, lust and power that sizzled between them.
Once done Anko and the inhuman male turned just their heads to look at him together.
The male looked at Orochimaru like he was nothing but a fly, something small and insignificant he could easily crush "so this is the snake, the one who thinks he can claim what belongs to me."
"Yes, my love. He tried to kill me when I was human and wants to take me from you again."
The male looked him up and down, humor and mocking in his eyes "what an foolish notion. Normally mortals don't even deserve my attention, however you DID try too take something that belongs to me and are obviously running from the other, so it appears I'll be teaching you an lesson now."
The snake nin frowned "as much as you want Anko now, she is mine, she bares my mark and belonged to me first. I'd be willing to give her to you-for a price."
"No price, she is mine and never belonged to you-or she would have remained loyal to you."
Anko grinned at her ex-sensei "mark? You mean THIS thing?" her hand touched her neck over the spot "That's only there because I haven't bothered to remove it yet. I can get rid of it any time I want."
Orochimaru looked smug "not without my removing it you can't. You will always belong to me."
"Oh really?" she looked smug "let's see about that, shall we."
The hand covering the mark began to glow. Little whiffs of steam rose from between her fingers and something inside Orochimaru began to burn, making him litterly feel like an snake cooking in the sun.
He fought the pain, the shock, but it increased so much he had to do something. But any attack he sent at them seemed to bounce off some sort of sheild, no matter the direction, even when he moved through the tree and tried to come up underneath.
He had only one choice if he wanted to save that part of his soul, his chakra. Desperate to save himself he used the link through the mark to pull it back in, reabsorbing it, and by the two's joint smile they knew he would.
He hissed in fury when he felt the remains of the curse seal bubble away beneath her palm, INCLUDING any and all link he had to her.
He was about to move at them when he felt it.
The new mark, the one he had attempted to place on the boy and had been attacked for-something was destroying it, EATING IT-and whatever it was both he and the power of the mark wasn't strong enough to defy or fight.
He gasped in agony, dropping first to one knee and then the other, trying to fight it.
"Aww, poor sensei, is that weakling little Uchiha prove too much for your power."
"Tell me" the male said "what side did you chose to place the mark on?"
"Left" he gasped out.
The male chuckled "no wonder you are suffering now and no wonder I sense Naruto heading our way, consumed with fury and a lust for YOUR blood. Sasuke has belonged to him since they were seven, they all have, blood sealed and marked with magic more powerful than you or any other living thing can imagine. Magic so ancient it predates any Genjutsu, Taijutsu, Ninjitsu, Fuuinjutsu or Senjutsu you can think of or imagine."
Anko giggled at her ex-sensei's look, pushing herself against the males side futher, moving seductively, sensually "he doesn't believe you, my mate, perhaps you should show him."
"Indeed" he repeated "what do you suggest, my love, my queen? Should I tear him apart with my wolf? Or feed off him with my bats. Should I use Implode to explode him from the inside out-rupturing his organs and bowels first then his flesh and blood. Or maybe I should use Fout Of Putrescence to decay his body into an puddle of sludge. Or Flay to tear at his body like a thousand kunai. Or perhaps I should use the Blood Reaver" his hand moved to the sword resting against his back.
Suddenly an sardonic grin stretched the fanged mouth "but then perhaps I should leave you to Naruto's tender mercies, after all, in the end the insult you dared enact was worse on him. After all, I should thank you for giving me my mate" both cloven hands and arms wrapped around Anko's waist and pulled her up against his front, her generous breasts pushing up against her ninja mesh armor and his chest.
She giggled girlishly and wrapped her arms around his neck, glancing back at him "yes sensei, after all both our races were once at war, it was our destiny to merge our lines like this, isn't that what you told me years ago when you first marked me?"
The snake nin froze "what did you say?"
"Oh come now sensei, surely you remember those experiments you ran on me when I was still under your control, convincing me you had discovered my heritage going back centuries, how my first ansestors weren't human but another race, how another race victimized them and started a war, how they were slaughtered by that race but retaliated by cursing the entire race with a blood lust, and the byproduct was immortality. How you thought my heritage would allow you to replicate the curse in you."
She smiled at him "my mate and lord, my lover is the last and most powerful of that race, he transferred the curse over to me to save my life, what you see before you now is not only the result of that curse but my awakening heritage. You see, dear sensei, I AM what you've been trying to become AND what you were trying to make me-the perfect combination of both races with and twist of snake for flavor." Anko accepted a kiss from the other to show how aroused she made him.
Stuck at the halfway point between jealousy, anger and disbelief the snake glared at them.
"I don't care what you think" Anko raised her chin and glared at him huantingly "I have a mate, a little brother and sister and you no longer matter to me AT ALL. I just thought you should know." Her lips twitched up "and to create an long enough distraction."
Behind Orochimaru came an low threatening growl.
He froze like a deer in the headlights and began to turn and move at the same time, but whoever was there was faster.
There was an flash of black and red that seemed to flicker out of existence when he released another jutsu and back in as he got within touching distance.
He had a second to realise his death was imminent, both the body he had stolen AND his soul to be thrown in that dark cold place before he was on top of him.
At the very last millisecond something strange happened. The boy's hand-almost against it's will-released the weapon, letting it drop onto the tree branch beside the snake nin. But before he could take advantage of it both hands grabbed his shoulders in an steel grip and white light flashed between them.
And the entire time shock shone in the boy's eyes, like he couldn't believe what he was doing.
Power flowed between them, white light that filled the snake nin's body to overflowing, burning through his body and even his soul when he tried to abandon it, anchoring him inside.
He couldn't help it, all he could do was scream as it filled him, body shaking as he tried to pull away but unable, at the burning. It wasn't that it was hurting him, it was just too much, too much light filling his dark soul, burning it all away from him.
KARNKKARNKKARNKKARNKKARNKKARNKKARNK
"NARUTO!!" Kain had to yell to be heard over the snake nin's screams as he buried his face in his sleeve to sheild his eyes from the light, Anko's face pressed into his chest to hide her own "WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!"
"I'M NOT!" he yelled back helplessly, "NIISAN IS!!"
Kain frowned, why was Razeil using the purified Spirit Reaver on their enemy instead of the Soul Reaver? Why didn't he let Naruto get his revenge instead of taking him over? What was he trying to do? He didn't even know if the Spirit Reaver would work on a human.
The screams reached an crescendo, going from physical pain and fear to anguish and mental pain, changing in pitch and tone, that of a person forced to face his sins, the light increased briefly-forcing Kain to turn away with Anko-before it, and the screams were suddenly ended.
When Kain's vision and hearing cleared (sometimes enhanced sight and hearing sucked!) he slowly turned back towards his adopted son, aware of an low anguished sobs.
There, curled up on the tree limb in a ball, arms wrapped around his head and body shaking with his sobs was the snake nin. He seemed traumatized by what he had experienced, traumatized by his life as between sobs he was saying "I am sorrry, I 'm SO sorry."
Hearing the genuine feeling in the sobs, the incling of the man she USED to admire, Anko turned in her lovers arms and frowned "sensei?"
He didn't seem to hear her, only continued in his torment. Kneeling by his side in concern, not daring to touch him in case it was a trick, she looked up at Naruto, speaking his name softly. In that one word was two questions, 'is this real?' and 'what happened?'
Naruto cocked his head and his eyes went vacant as he looked inside his mind for answers. He was back seconds later and nodded to her. Yes, it was real.
"Niisan said that the purified reaver only works on those who were contaminated or corrupted by outside forces. Like neesan and the other buji, and chichi and the others being tainted by the Elder God and Hylden."
Anko frowned "what outside force contaminated Orochimaru?"
"Niisan said it's obvious. He's been a pawn since he was young. He said earlier when I looked at him through the SpiritEyes he saw something in his chakra and aura. He couldn't tell me because I was so out of control and he couldn't let me kill him if he could do something about it."
Anko frowned at him "obvious? WHAT was obvious?"
"He says think about it a minute. WHO is trying to destroy Hidden Leaf? WHO has been ruining lives since before we were born? WHO was stealing the bodies of Uchiha? WHO would have taught him to be able to jump from one body to another? Itachi and Sasuke are the only Uchiha left, WHO would want Sasuke that much?"
Anko's eyes widened "HIM!"
"Exactly" Naruto nodded. "If Orochimaru had of suddenly gone from the teammate and friend to baa and ero san to some dark and evil soul, they would have known something was wrong and done anything they can to help him. But if the contamination was slow and he pulled away gradually....a slowly spreading stain even HE didn't notice until too late......"
Eyes even wider Anko nodded "it wouldn't have been as surprising. They would think it was the war and the loss of his parents driving him. So all that experimentation on children and Leaf WASN'T, him? This guy wanted immortality and was using Orochimaru-san to do it?"
"It makes sense" Kain said "he jumps from body to body, seeking immortality. He killed all but two of the Uchiha clan, therefore killing his favorite bodies, if he can't get Itachi Sasuke is his best bet, but now he's protected by Hidden Leaf. If he can't get him without revealing himself then HE is the next best thing. The snake is driven by his taint to use Sasuke's body as his next host, but before that he not only had to perfect the boys body physically but find a way to extend his life. He destroyed the rest of the clan, Sasuke is his last chance."
Naruto nodded "even if Sasuke was to find a mate and produce children, they would be only half Uchiha, unless he mated another but female of his clan, which there isn't. The bastard jinxed himself."
"Which explains he desperation to get his hands on Sasuke enough to have sensei actually force Suna to aid in his attack of Leaf. Probably thinks he can snatch Sasuke from either the village during the excitement or that sensai will."
The other two men nodded in agreement.
"I remember" the voice was shaky and emotional "I remember a man, a ninja, with a patch over one eye. He approached me one night, told me he could give me immortality. When I refused-I wanted to fight for Leaf like my parents before me and die with honor like they did-he attacked me. All I remember after that was knowing something was wrong with me, but unable to tell anyone. If I tried my throat seized up and I couldn't breathe." He looked at Naruto "it was some sort of genjutsu, wasn't it."
Naruto nodded "a mixture of a genjutsu and a ninjutsu, one to control your body, the other would your mind slowly over the next few years."
The snake nin uncoiled himself "but now what do I do? I can't come back, not after some of the things it made me do. No one will believe I was being controlled and Sound hates Leaf-HE made sure of that-they won't be able to assimilate into the village even if I do."
Anko spoke "I have an idea. Right now only us four know the truth. The minute sensei turned up I erected an barrier around the area-so it's highly likely HE doesn't know you were purified sensei, unless he's somehow connected to the jutsu's and knows your free. How would you and Sound like to be our spies, our outside source?"
Orochimaru frowned "act like I still want to destroy Leaf and be a spy for the village, pretend I'm still under his control."
"Yes. By doing so you can help us more if you were back in the village."
He stroked his chin "what sort of spy?"
They explained their suspicion about the enemy hiding inside the Akatsuki and their plan to take all the tailed beasts. "Naruto is merging with Kyuubi so they can't take her, but they don't know that. Sooner or later they'll try for him AND the other tailed beasts. YOU as an outside enemy would be expected to compete with them, to try and discover their plans and spoil it. You could ruin their plans, interfere and generally make a nuisance of yourself all without suspected of being in league with us."
Naruto added "you have Kabuto, your spy inside Leaf forces, he could be your way to bring us the information you gain and bring ours back to you. No one would think differently by it since as we apparently don't know about him, it wouldn't seem suspicious him being around us."
Anko nodded "Naruto is telepathic. Instead of Kabuto being seen around them, he can just THINK IT and Naruto can pick it up. He doesn't even have to speak it, just say both of them being in the same restaurant and that's it."
The snake nin nodded hopefully "it could work."
Anko turned to Naruto "return to your team, Naru, they need you. You left Sasuke when he needed you the most. Go help him now while we work out the details here."
Naruto hesitated "Sakura's gonna kill me, isn't she."
Anko nodded gravely "and so she should. You abandoned them in an extremely dangerous situation and left her to defend your injured brother-just because you were pissed off. If I were her, I wouldn't forgive you either."
The snake nin looked at him "I'm glad you did though, thank you."
Naruto nodded.
"I'll go with you" Kain said, knowing Anko would want time alone with her sensei to have a proper reunion and confident in their relationship to know she wouldn't betray him. After centuries of betrayal and minipulation he trusted his instincts and by now he knew how to read people, but Naruto protested "you can't! You're an adult! If any of the other teams see you they could claim Leaf is cheating to ensure we win! It could cause strife between the villages-war at the worse."
"I can help" Orochimaru rose to his feet, one hand raising to tear away the last of the skin mask he wore, revealing his full looks. He looked at Naruto "you are really telepathic?" When he nodded the snake went on "give me an image, something simple he can use as an disguise."
Naruto nodded again and sent him an image. The snake nin enacted an illusion jutsu over the man.
When the smoke cleared and the image became visible Anko rolled her eyes "very funny, Naruto."
He grinned "hey, it was niisan's idea."
In front of them stood an human Razeil Naruto's age, wearing similar to Sasuke but red with an Leaf haitate and Kain's yellow eyes.
Kain blinked at him, confused by their words, until Naruto sent HIM the image. The vampire smirked "that's the Razeil I know."
"Besides" Naruto shrugged "the others know what niisan's human appearance looks like, if I come walking towards them with some strange ninja who looks like niisan, they'll be less likely to act thinking I have an enemy with me."
They knew he was right.
Just before the two left Naruto sent Anko one last message via the Whisper and then they were gone.
KNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKNKN
As they approached the area he sensed his skulk brothers, mate and Sakura, Naruto frowned in concern "I thought they were waiting in an nearby bolt-hole. This is an forbidden area. Even we weren't allowed to go, chichi, remember? Jijisan said the First cordoned it off and forbid anyone from going in, and he asked US never to enter?"
Kain nodded "Either your mate and the others didn't know, or they thought it would provide safety to them while Sasuke is unconscious. How is he?"
"Unconscious but the curse mark is gone. He's just feeling the affects of someone other than his brothers and sister or himself touching the mark right now. He WAS being tormented by the curse mark attacking his mind, but Kyuubi protected him through the link, which was why she couldn't stop me before. Then when I purified Orochimaru the curse mark weakened so much the glyph seal just overpowered it and it was gone in minutes."
Kainthe illusion nodded as they circled the area, boths senses reaching out to examine it-Kain with his vampire senses and magic and Naruto with his chakra. Both exchanged looks when they sensed an flair of magic, seemingly reacting to Kain, humming with strength and protection. It seemed to reach out to examine them, first the vampire then Naruto, then grow satisfied and settle down to an low hum of power and contentment. It felt like the glyphs to Naruto but more, like the earth energy, but whatever it was it was welcoming them inside and hiding those already inside behind a type of sheild of earth chakra.
The others would be safe from ANYTHING back there, no other ninja would be able to see inside or sense those there.
"Call Shikamaru, tell him we're here" Kain ordered and Naruto nodded, reaching out through the sheild with his mind. He found it went through easily and the link was simple. Naruto told him everything that happened and that he would be coming in with Kain, to prepare the others.
The Nara heir answered, giving him the location of the area they had first entered through, warning him that Sakura was still pissed at him and getting even more so the longer he was gone, be prepared for her fury.
"I know she will" Naruto said with sarcastic humor "but thanks, we're coming in."
Walking through the barrier was like going through quicksand but once through Naruto raised an eyebrow at his adopted father when it sealed shut behind them.
The two turned and headed inside, headed for the center where the eight other rookies had found shelter with their unconscious member.
The further they went in they found thick stone blocks that looked like they once came from an wall or at least an stone colomn of some sort, grey and cracked and broken, covered in moss, plants and dirt, but they still seemed alive with power somehow.
Whenever Naruto went passed one it seemed to hum and some of the more cleaner parts would go from grey to white, as if Naruto and the very presence of the Purified Reaver was cleansing them just by his being there.
"Maybe it WAS once an temple" Naruto murmured to himself as he looked at another-turning white as he watched.
"I doubt it" Kain said from his other side, the same thing happening on HIS side-whether from Naruto or he was clensing it somehow, Naruto didn't know, but he felt the purified energy leaping to others around them they couldn't see, as if the more they purified, the more the energy affected the others as well.
By the time they got to the others Naruto wouldn't be surprised if the entire area was clensed.
Kain went on "I have never been to a glyph temple before, and it doesn't feel like an moon temple either. However it IS familiar somehow."
"Shikamaru says they are in the middle, that it looks like it was once some sort of temple. He said there are ruined colomns everywhere and an stone raised platform. He says the roof was long since destroyed but tree branches have grown together over it so thickly it looks like an natural roof."
They soon reached the center of the area to a sight. The group were all sitting together on the raised floor, each with their backs against one of the colomns, resting, even Sasuke, while Ino seemed to be off it, looking for something in an supply pack-obviously from Naruto's bolt hole. They must have gone to get it first, then settled in this area to rest.
Lit flame torches were dimly lighting up the area of the platform which was dark under the cover of the tree limbs acting as a roof and two sets of moss-covered stairs lead up to the platform. Kain hesitated, frowning at the sense of familiarity from the thing but Naruto saw an swirl pattern on the raised stone floor and smiled "it's a temple, chichi" and walked forward.
Kain, however, wasn't so sure and held back.
Naruto moved up the stairs towards his unconscious brother and teammate, Shikamaru greeting him as he did. Sakura's head snapped up and she practically steamed at the ears at the sight of him. But before she could do anything Shikamaru motioned her down "let him check on Sasuke before you do anything."
Sakura nodded, trying to hold her temper, knowing that Sasuke's condition was more important right now.
"He's fine" Naruto said after standing back up "the curse mark never had a chance to do anything, thanks to the Glyph Seal and Kyuubi. He's just suffering the affects of someone else touching it." He looked at Sakura "you did good, I'm proud of you."
Sakura was stuck between being pissed off and pleased. Shikamaru spoke to her "it wasn't just fury that made him chase the snake. He know you could protect Sasuke and care for him, but if he destroyed his body and reaped his soul BEFORE the slim chance of the mark took control, he could destroy the mark before it became fully entrenched in him."
"So your saying" she said slowly "that not only did he believe I could protect and care for Sasuke, but if he killed that guy before the mark fully took hold, he would destroy it?"
Shikamaru nodded.
Sakura's anger immediately deflated "oh. But still....." She cocked her fist back and punched him, sending him into one of the colomns "that's for leaving me alone to defend him! You should have made sure we were safe before running off!"
The others grinned and Kain finally moved up the platform stairs and to his adopted son's side. He held a hand out to help him up. The instant he touched him, the colomn Naruto was leaning against lit up with energy, humming, as if it felt him through Naruto's contact with it, the other eight also lighting up, behind the other six and the two lone ones.
The preteens looked around at them, alarmed "Naruto?"
"I don't know" he said truthfully "even niisan doesn't."
Kain frowned "perhaps we should leave here for now." The others agreed but found while they could stand up, they couldn't leave and any contact with the colomn was as if they were glued there.
And the power was building very fast.
As the group watched, the colomns changed, seemingly growing an spirit form above their heads and through the trees, stretching up and to the sky, the illusion of the destroyed sections restored, complete with an different section in the middle displaying an glowing symbol.
"By the gods!" Kain gasped in awe, stepping back to look but unable to release Naruto's hand, trapped like the rest of them "the pillars! But how?!" Before the others could ask his eyes widened and his head snapped back to his adopted son, the disguise dissolving with the build-up of power "Naruto! The Soul Reaver!"
Not understanding but trusting his father knew, Naruto called out the Reaver, his right palm still pressed to the colomn where he had been trying to get up when it reacted.
The power around the colomns changed tempo immediately, as if recognizing the weapon, humming pleasantly as if happy, but still building. Naruto frowned and as if asked Kain put his spare hand to his shoulder. With the new contact he was able to release Naruto's hand and instead place that also on his shoulder.
Naruto turned fully to the pillar, placing both palms over the stone and changed the Reaver form, flooding it with the energy of the purified form.
The feel of the energy immediately changed tempo and feel, the Reaver flooding it with purifying energy, cleansing the once contaminated items.
Instead now they felt like the earth, an familiar energy any ninja felt when using elemental jutsu. It surrounded them, danced against their senses before filling them.
In the middle of the platform, behind Naruto and Kain, something appeared over the eldirth point, large and familiar but different, stretching for the sky.
A ghost pillar, tall and dark but baring an picture symbol instead of word in an ancient unknown language. A skull with two bat wings underneath, two either side, where the crossed bones usually were.
"What the....." Sakura called out over the noise.
"The Soul Reaver" Kain called back "but I don't understand."
"The Soul Reaver was the key to the pillars." a familiar voice in their heads spoke, tight with strain, "the guardian of the Reaver was the tenth. When Janos died the new guardian was never found since it wasn't known there WAS a tenth. Janos told me the Reaver belonged to me, yet fate was twisted by Morbius' manipulation and Mortanius' interference. I long ago realised it meant I was born to be the new guardian, but by the mess left by the Time and Death guardians and Janos' undeath I was not capable of fufilling my destined path, just like Kain."
"So this is the Reaver pillar" Shikamaru called out.
Before anyone else could speak Naruto suddenly collapsed against the pillar, hands to his head, and started to scream in pain.
"Naruto?" Kain questioned, leaning down to try and see his face but it was lowered and hidden in his coat and Kain was unable to let his shoulders go.
The screams increased in ferocity until Sakura suddenly cried "LOOK!"
At the base of the vacant pillar and the ghost one a light was forming, two shapes soon visible inside it, an red headed woman at the vacant one and an black haired young man, both struggling like they were being forced to appear there.
Two figures the six other Skulk members hadn't seen since they were seven.
Kain frowned, looking at the male "Razeil?"
The appearance of the figures seemed to trigger something, as if without the two needed guardians the process couldn't complete.
The power become unbearable, but it also changed again, becoming more natural-as if the entire planet was joining in, becoming the driving force behind the colomns-Shikamaru swear he SAW the chakra of the planet, flowing around and in them. His sight was changing, letting him see the chakra of his extended family, he could even see the chakra from the pillars flowing into them then back in before it flowed through the air into the one in front, through Naruto into Kain and then back out to them, he saw patterns in them, lines of light around them and in the air as well as darkness, like the shadows he used so easily. It seemed to get stronger, more obvious, he had the feeling he could just reach out and manipulate it.....
Before he could do so, everything burned for a second and then.....
Nothing.
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