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"Kiba!Kiba!Kiba!"
Kiba groaned and pushed away the dog "le'me 'lone, Aka, 'ired." The dog didn't listen, continuing to bark his name in his ear and push at him, even taking to licking his face.
Kiba curled his fingers, feeling the lush grass under his claws, the life and energy of the earth under him, calling to him, whispering its secrets, telling him how to move it, how to manipulate it to do what he pleased.
He frowned slightly, laying his palms flat on the earth under him and just asking for peace and quiet for a few more minutes, surely mama would let him have that?
The next thing he knew was someone gasped in shock and then all other sound cut off as something warm and soft covered him like a blanket, over his head and body, cutting off all outside sound.
Comfortable and warm he dropped back into sleep.
The next time he became aware was to a voice in his head, authorive, telling him to wake up and move. His alpha-his packs alpha, proven and earned. He had never had the nerve to defy that voice since the first day of training and although reluctant to awake he wasn't about to start. He grumbled as he stirred, trying not to awaken but not wanting to get into trouble for disobedience.
The words confused him though, what did he mean by his shell? What shield?
It wasn't until he opened his eyes that he realised it, he couldn't see, he was surrounded by earth! Who buried him alive?! It wasn't funny! And it took him a few minutes after the voice calmed him down to realise he was inside some air-tight shell of earth and was breathing easily! "What the hell is going on!?" he yelled in frustration and confusion.
"Calm down" Kain's voice said "you did it when Akamaru wouldn't let you sleep. Just will it back to normal."
"Will it back to normal!?" Kiba almost screamed "I don't even remember doing it in the first place!"
"What do you remember of the last few hours?"
"Akamaru trying to wake me up."
“Before that."
"Before that?" he frowned "what do you mean?"
"The chunnin exams?" He hesitated, thinking. What HAD happened? He remembered entering the grounds, Hinata telling them they could meet the others in the chosen spot, fighting another team and taking their scroll easily then...
He remembered pain and fury in his head, not just his but the others too. Shikamaru saying something about Sasuke, catching up with Sakura and an unconscious brother, worry, about both him and Naruto's apparent homicidal rage...
Next finding shelter in the closed off area, resting while they waited-either for Naruto to return or Sasuke to wake-snacking on the supplies from the pack. He had almost dozed off, leaning against the broken stone column when Shikamaru reported Naruto and Kain were headed their way, Sakura bitching in the background.
He knew the others were with him on the platform, but didn't know they were also leaning against the stone columns until Naruto...
Wait a minute, the column!
"What the hell happened?!"
"Calm down, Kiba. You created the shell with your desire for peace and privacy, you can therefore remove it. Reach out to it, feel it and ask it to go back to normal."
Kiba frowned but did so, reaching out with his chakra to the earth surrounding him. To his shock he could FEEL it, as if the planet itself was communicating to him in the only way she knew how, through feelings. He was both surprised and shocked to find she accepted him like her very child, sending him warmth and love, but also so much information. And he took only seconds to know exactly what she was telling him.
He was her child now, they ALL were and through the remaining power in the pillars she had blessed them with gifts to aid them, aid them as ninja's and their new purpose in life, her protection.
HE was her vessel of communication, because of his link to Akamaru he was closer to nature than any other clan-except perhaps Shino-so he was granted powers of nature. The very planet would aid him if needed and he could manipulate anything made from her elements, metals, plants, dirt, so on.
But why had Kyuubi-san been chosen instead of Ino? Wouldn't that had made more sense? Or was it because being a buji and creature of pure chakra the fox was closer to nature than any of them?
When he reached out with his senses he found they could travel through the earth, giving him signals such as how many people were around him, where and how far away.
He even knew who was lying where and could sense the difference in them.
Sasuke was closest to him and felt like heat and smelt of O-zone, the sort of smell Kiba got during a severe storm, a lightning storm when the sky seemed to sizzle.
Choji felt like a battlefield.
Hinata made his head light.
Sakura smelled of metal and chemicals.
Shino felt of his bugs aging then reversing in seconds, a peculiar feel he had never got before.
Shikamaru, he make him wrinkle his nose, he smelt of sulfur and flowers, similar to the sent Naruto wore every time he came back from the Spectral Realm, only three times more powerful.
Akamaru was laying down beside him, he felt like the earth-just like him.
Lastly his senses found Kain and Naruto, together a distance from the others. He frowned, how to describe them?
Kain sama had always smelt of blood and stone, the silent assassin of Hidden Leaf, and something else-something reaching out and silent-like a severed link was the only way to describe it, but now he felt different.
He still smelt of blood and stone, that hadn't changed, but the severed link was gone. No, now it was branching out, like a great tree. The only way Kiba could describe it was it was as if he was that tree he felt like before. He was directly linked to Naruto, as if he was the trunk and roots of a great old tree and Naruto was also the trunk but more higher up, reaching up towards the sky. The eight of them were the branches, spread out in different directions and reaching for the sun, but they were all connected to each other, to the trunk and therefore the roots.
"BALANCE" the word came to Kiba from somewhere deep down, somewhere he couldn't describe. It left him with that sense, that Naruto was their balance and Kain was his.
Kain was once the Scion of Balance, the guardian of that pillar created through ancient vampire magic, but things had changed in an instant.
NOW the earth had claimed him, he was the guardian of the earths' balance, one of the two anyway. Kiba wouldn't be surprised if he had changed physically as well as in power a result.
In fact the more he concentrated on the vampire, the more he had the sense the earth had also branded him her warrior, her defender, as well as guardian.
It seemed appropriate somehow, Kain had done things in his past he regretted, as well as destroying the planet in one version of the earths past, NOW he could make up for it all. He became vastly curious. How else had the vampire changed? He suddenly wanted to see, to be out of his shield where he could see the others. Would THEY have changed too?
He reached out hesitantly with his chakra, touching the earth around him, speaking to it with his mind gently "um, can you let me out? I thank you for shielding me when I didn't want to be disturbed, but I want to return to my brothers and sister now."
As if in answer the earth moved gently beneath him, the shield splitting directly in the center all the way down and drawing back away from him, opening like a flower to the sun and disappearing into the ground around him without leaving a trace in the grass around them.
Kiba slowly sat up, looking around him. Immediately Akamaru was in his lap, desperately licking his face, barking in concern and relief.
The others were laid out on the left of him in a row, but it was Kain seated at the far end, stroking Naruto's hair were he lay with his head on his leg that caught his attention. His top clothing was off, head was back slightly and bathed in sunlight, reminding Kiba of his tree comparison, it was obvious the vampire was drinking it in, enjoying his first true ability at enjoy it since he awoke as a vampire.
Kiba blinked, Kain was a vampire immune to the suns harmful rays now. Even though in his time Kain had developed the hardened skin as both armor and protection against enemy weapons and the sun, the times pollution had blocked most of it off, in THIS time he had been using the clothes he had been given to block it.
Now he was able to go in it with no problems, in fact he seemed to be getting stronger as if nature had turned a handicap into a strength.
His thick 'armored' skin had seemed to soften, as if becoming real skin. However Kiba could still tell it was as tough as before, with thicker patches around his chest, sides and wrists, anywhere really there would be a kill point.
The strange 'crown' of skin above his ears had receded, leaving his long white hair around his face.
Kiba frowned, why did he get the feel of armor from the hair? It felt as though it was long silky strands of Kevlar, not what it was?
When Kain raised his hand to run it through that very thing, Kiba saw them. Kain had gone from the two cloven fingers and thumb to a HUMAN hand, except he bore long claws like his, only the nails were black and looked just like Kiba had seen on Razeil that day years ago when they were seven.
Apart from those few points, Kain was the same as he had always been.
While Kain's appearance had been associated with evolution, Kiba knew now he was the earths warrior, he had become what SHE wished, using them as a template.
Kain lowered his head and looked at him "are you alright, Kiba?"
"Yeah" Kiba nodded, heaving himself to his feet and joining him after checking on the others. It was all for show though, he KNEW they were fine and would awaken soon, he felt it.
He sat besides the vampire, the figure running his spare hand through his hair in a decidedly human gesture of confusion and nervousness. "Kiba" he breathed "do you have ANY IDEA what just happened?"
The Inuzuka nodded as he stroked Akamaru's fur as the dog lay curled up asleep in his lap. He explained what the earth had sent to him.
"So when I touched Naruto the pillars recognised myself and Razeil as guardians and started to reawaken. Knowing that it would be bad news for there just to be two guardians I quickly chose the rest of you, and had Naruto cleanse them before the corruption left in them could affect any of you."
Kiba frowned, he HAD wondered about that "you CHOSE us? Can you do that?" Kain nodded "as balance guardian I was allowed by the pillars, it's why Mortanius chose me after killing Arial. He had some idea that because I was the next born he could turn me into a vampire and then..."
"And you would chose the new guardians after killing them and make THEM vampires, so restoring them to vampire hands. " Kain nodded and Kiba frowned "why didn't you?"
"Who said I didn't" the vampire looked at him. When Kiba opened his mouth to say something Kain put in "Razeil and his brothers."
Kiba closed his mouth, opened it again, closed it and looked thoughtful "but..."
"You are right, there WAS only six of them but I never found anyone else I thought of as worthy. Besides, even though I recognised what Razeil was on some level I had no idea what he was, just as I had no idea I could choose them. I think I did on some instinctual level, but the corruption prevented me from knowing. Just as well, could you imagine if I did? What the world would have become with nine corrupted vampires in charge?"
Kiba shivered.
They continued to talk for the next couple of hours as they waited for the others to awake. First was Shino and Sakura, then Choji, then Hinata.
When Hinata awoke she sat up and put her head in hands, groaning as she rose to her feet and stumbled over to sit with them. The group looked concerned "are you alright, 'Nata?"
"No" she moaned "my head feels way too big for my body. Shouldn't it be falling off?!" she attempted to joke.
"Um,Hinata, you DO realize you aren't talking out loud."
"So? Naruto is..."
"Naruto is still UNCONSCIOUS,'Nata. The link he established when we entered the training grounds cut off when he blacked out."
"Then how did you and Kain speak when you were under the earth?" The group exchanged looks "how did YOU know that, Hinata? You and the others were still unconscious then."
Kain breathed "Mind Guardian."
Hinata didn't speak, just curled up slightly, holding her head harder.
This concerned them more "Hinata, what's wrong?"
"Too many voices" she moaned "all talking at once, one on top of another. Why won't they stop!?"
"Voices?" They looked at each other "what voices?"
Before she could answer-IF she could answer-another voice did in their heads, tired and scratchy "she is picking up thoughts from the ninja around us in the forest. Her mind has been opened to mental abilities and can not block the flow-she doesn't know how. It is difficult to learn to do so but once she knows how it will give her a distinct advantage in battles. If she can learn how to block certain thoughts but pick up others she could pick up an enemies moves before they even start them and be able to stop or counter them before it is even done."
"Kyuubi?" Sakura frowned "are you alright? You sound like you're in some sort of pain." She wished she could help her.
"I have only just regained consciousness, but Razeil is still out. Naruto should awaken shortly. That hurt us both, but mostly from being pulled out against our wishes. Imagine being yanked out of a tree and thrown across a field and into an electric fence and you'll begin to understand."
The group could imagine it and shuddered.
"I can help Hinata, show her how to block outside influence, however temporary it is, but after the exams she will need some heavy training with the Yamanaka's."
"Why them?" Sakura asked.
Ino, who had returned from patrolling their side of the barrier, spoke herself as she sat between Sakura and Choji "since I was little dad taught me to control what I pick up when I use our bloodline."
"The Yamanaka's are mindwalkers" Kyuubi explained "they have to learn when they use their ability to control the flow of images. How to allow and even concentrate on some, block or completely reject others, so forth. Although the girl's father is an expert and the best of his line for generations, the girl herself is adequate enough."
"Gee, thanks" Ino said sarcastically "who are you by the way and WHERE are you" she started looking around them.
They looked at her "how are you hearing her too?"
"Hinata is linking us all" Kyuubi explained "she doesn't realise she is doing it though. Give me a minute." They watched Hinata nod a few times, sit up straighter and close her eyes in concentration.
After a few long seconds she relaxed and looked relieved "they're gone, for now."
Sakura frowned "isn't Naruto telepathic?"
"So?"
"So?! Shouldn't that mean HE can train her to control it instead of Ino?"
The blonde glared at her "are you saying I couldn't teach her to do it as good as my dad, or Naruto!?"
Before Sakura could speak, Kain interrupted them with a glare of his own. Both girl's looked guilty, hunched their shoulders and lowered their heads. Kain was right to do so, now was not the time.
Ino had learnt when she was young to be respectful of the vampire, to have an healthy fear of him. Just after the others started training together under the vampires tutelage, Ino had been jealous, seeing the man as taking her childhood friends from her. She was a spoilt bitch then and when she couldn't get her way she had tried to control him. The next thing she remembered was sitting on the top of an fountain in the middle of the village, singing on the top of her lungs. Humiliated she had demanded her father do something to avenge her, but after finding out what she had done, he had looked panicked and seized her shoulders "how COULD you, Ino?! Do you want to die! Do you know how deadly that man is?! You are SO lucky that's all he did to you!"
Ino had been hurt, tears in her eyes "but father!"
"No buts!" he sighed when he saw the tears and pulled her into his arms "I know you think he's taking them away from you but he's not, he just wants to teach them to defend themselves so that you'll never loose them. If you think he's paying too much attention to them, why don't you go and ask him id he can train you too?"
"Really?" she asked.
"Really." he smiled.
Kyuubi was going on breaking her out of her memory "Naruto isn't telepathic, at least not in the sense Hinata now is. We just use the term because mindreader isn't right."
"What do you mean? He..."
"What he does is he touches your mind with a type of energy much like chakra but different. It can mimic your own minds patterns enough so it can pick up your own. However he can only read surface thoughts, those you think about at the moment or think TO him. He can't pick up memories or say body commands. That is also how he can communicate back to you. By following that same energy and mimic your patterns he can put HIS thoughts into your heads. It also helps that both Naruto and Hinata are empathic. Naruto gained that from me on his birth, a 'gift' all my hosts had."
This made sense. She continued "it is similar to what Kain-sama uses, but his is more developed."
"What do you mean?" this caught their attention, Choji telling Ino whatever was being said.
"Kain-sama's Whisper ability. It is a race trait shared by all vampires, like a bloodline."
"But the vampires aren't genetically related!" Sakura protested.
"In their eyes they are. They die fully as humans, everything they were gone with their death and are then brought back, reborn, or 'born' a vampires. Think of them as like a clan, the Uchiha as an example. While they share similarities-the black hair and eyes and pale skin and sharingan-or in this case the eternal youth, impotence, blood thirst and Whisper ability, they ARE individuals, so have various other unique abilities. That is why Kain's 'dark gifts' didn't pass on to Razeil-niisan or his other brothers. Instead they had their own abilities. Naruto has the Whisper through Razeil, because despite what he had become he still was a vampire. It is like they share the sharingan, but the version of the matured form varies because they are each different to each other.
Now even though they all share the Whisper ability, Kains ability has changed due to environment and other factors.
Charm let his mental signal remember how his mind worked as an human, allowing him to temporarily block the signals of an human-more accurately an civillian-body signals so he can manipulate them himself. There is a time limit to it and afterwards those signals are reestablished.
Control Mind does the same, only it aggressively takes control and lasts as long as his magic does. However this spell means the interruption in the signals and forced control means the host dies afterwards.
Spirit Wrack forces the spirit from the boy and allows him to completely control the boy. Once done, the body dies without a spirit to inhabit it. In other words instead of interrupting the body signals and allowing him to temporarily take over, it completely severe's that link and allows his own to take over."
"So your saying that while Naruto and Kain's abilities are more into just interrupting signals to the body, Hinata has somehow become able to not only READ another's surface and body signal, but control them." This was from Shikamaru as he joined them, sitting between Ino and Choji, also hugging his head.
When they asked how he felt he lowered his head more "I keep getting images, knowledge, it is merging with my own like it belongs there. But it has too...move my own to accommodate the new, it makes my head hurt."
"I can help..." Ino started but the Nara heir shook his head "something or someone tells me only I can handle this or have this knowledge."
Ino was reluctant but took his word for it. Instead Hinata searched through the pack and found some tablets to help them both with the pain.
Before anyone could speak again there was a slight moan and a grunt as Sasuke stirred. Sakura exclaimed his name and ran to his side to exam him, Kiba and Ino by his side. Kiba helped him sit up while Ino gently urged him to swallow some pills, washing them down with some water from a canteen.
Once he looked more awake Sakura asked him how he felt. Sasuke's reply was a moan of pain "where's Naruto?"
"Over there" Sakura motioned in his direction "with Kain sama and the others."
Sasuke looked up at her, eyes blurry, and asked "Kain sama? What do you mean? We were doing the exams ...and..." his eyes suddenly cleared and he stiffened, looking around in panic "the snake! Where is he?!"
Sakura swallowed back what she wanted to say and instead said soothingly "he's gone, Naruto and Kain sama took care of him."
"He's dead?" Sasuke frowned, trying to clarify but Kain spoke out "not exactly, but he won't be hurting any of you ever again."
Sakura spun to looked at him, "what do you mean?"
"That's not my place to tell you, only Naruto can decide that." Sakura frowned but Shikamaru just made a motion that said 'drop it'. Sakura frowned again but obeyed, turning back to her teammate. Before she could speak however, Hinata, who had moved to her mates side to soothingly run her fingers through his feathers, did "hey, my head feels better."
"That's the tablets, they're potent."
"No, they are just taking the edge off it. It still hurts a little. But as long as I touch Naruto I feel more..."
"Balanced?" Kiba grinned and she nodded "yeah."
Shikamaru frowned and stumbled to his feet, moving to her side to touch his Skulk brother's leather wing "she's right."
Kiba explained out loud what the earth had conveyed to him. They frowned "so we each are now linked to the earth through some sort of element of nature and the planet, thanks to the pillars that Kain sama was once linked too?" This was Sakura.
The vampire nodded "I had the ability to choose new guardians, however the magic contained in the pillars was too weak due to their destruction and no more Hylden to contain, so for some reason the earth itself took the opportunity to bond to you. I am STILL the Scion of Balance, only for the planet now, however so is Naruto."
"So we each have been infused with earth chakra in line with a certain element of nature, similar to the original pillars. That is why your appearance has changed, gotten... younger" Shikamaru asked and Kain nodded.
"Except me" Ino said softly, aware now, more than ever, that she didn't fit in with the others, least of all her teammates. She just kept being left behind.
While Choji tried to sooth her, Sakura looked at the vampire "you said we were aligned with certain element of nature. That you and Naruto are both Balance, what else is there?"
Kiba raised his clawed hand and said "Nature", Hinata said "Mind". Kain answered "Razeil is the reaver guardian, that tenth pillar you saw raised."
"What about us?"
Kain spoke again "if I remember the pillar placements and where you were..." he thought about it for a few seconds then answered "Choji is Conflict, Sakura is States, Sasuke is Energy, Kyuubi is Dimensions, Shino is Time and Shikamaru is..." he looked up at the boy and murmured "Death."
Everyone looked at the Nara heir. "What?" he asked in confusion.
Any further talk was cut off when Sasuke murmured "I feel weird" and Sakura yelped as energy, similar to lightning began to crackle around the Uchiha heir.
"Move away from him" Kain warned. Moving from under Naruto's head he looked to Hinata "take my place."
The girl obeyed, moving to sit with her mates head in her lap while Kain moved to the Uchiha. The minute he laid a clawed hand on his shoulder the energy weakened and seemed to draw back inside him.
After a few more minutes the boy seemed able to regain control and they rejoined the rest, leaving only Naruto still out.
After they caught the Uchiha up on what had happened, Shikamaru frowned "what prevented Hinata from just broadcasting everything to the enemies when she has problems when awaking?"
"The barrier" Ino explained "just as it prevented anyone but us getting in and seeing and hearing inside, it contains everything inside. Meaning any uncontrollable outbursts would be unable to get out."
"How do you know?" they asked.
"When Kain sama woke up I went around to check it. I experimented."
"Meaning the other teams don't know where we are or what went on. The Third probably doesn't either."
Speaking of which" Kain moved from Sasuke's side "I am not supposed to be here, I better return to Anko and leave. The Third also needs to be informed of the new situation. Once Naruto is conscious I suggest you rest until you feel able to continue. You still have two days as well as this afternoon to get a scroll if you need one and get to the tower."
"Thanks Kain sama" Ino said.
The vampire's body blurred to mist and he was gone.
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