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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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“So, what are we going to do now?” Sakura asked as they exited the barrier together.
“How about a little trickery? Orochimaru said he sent his Sound team to attack us. His plan was to curse-mark Sasuke and then use the three to force him to use it to defend himself and us. He can’t go tell them to cancel without suspicion, so we have to do some improvising.” He looked at Sakura “I was hurt by the snake, SASUKE is suffering from the curse mark, YOU are looking after us. As far as Sound knows you are just some fresh-out-of-the-academy bookworm who can’t defend herself against someone like them. The perfect time to attack.”
Sakura grinned “Just watch me.”
An hour later the two males, disguised to make them APPEAR beaten up, were laying inside an hollowed tree, one of Naruto’s stash points, faking unconscious and injured while Sakura tended to them. Both boys would prod her actions through mental suggestions, such as faking tired and preoccupied and Naruto later suggesting she pretend the nod off.
Not long after they started Naruto reported three figures watching them. They didn’t move, preferring to just observe them and so after a while he had her fake nodding off before looking to the sky as the sun came up on an new day. “When will they move?” she asked “we can’t keep waiting. Like this.”
“If we have trouble I’ll call the others....wait, get ready they are moving.”
“Some look-out, you’re half asleep” sneered a voice behind Sakura. Sakura pretended to be startled and scared, spinning around to see the three figures behind her, one-a male-the same who had attacked Kabuto at the written test, continued “at least you don’t have to keep watch anymore. What’s the point after we’ve already found you. Now wake Sasuke up, we want to fight him.”
Sakura looked determined and spoke out, continuing the charade “what do you want here, I mean what do you REALLY want? I know Orochimaru is calling the shots from the shadows....” the speaker looked startled at her knowledge but Sakura was continuing “what’s that strange bruise on the back of Sasuke’s neck? You’re behind this as well aren’t you, and now you want to fight him when he can’t defend himself?!” the speaker looked startled a second time, but the other male spoke smugly “I can’t stay quiet when I hear you talk to us like that. First I’m gonna kill this girl, and then I’m gonna kill Sasuke.”
*Anime guys except skip the Ino-Choji-Shika scene*
Sakura and her teammates mentally rolled their eyes at Lee’s entrance, However when they saw him use the Primary Lotus, Naruto grew concerned. He knew about the jutsu and it’s affects on the human body, Gai had also taught it to him. Sakura looked on helplessly. She had gotten very close to Lee the last few months and even though she sometimes saw him as being to weird, she had a soft spot for the green clad boy. She didn’t want to see him hurt.
“Wait” Naruto said “let him gloat, let THEM gloat, we might just learn something. Besides, Lee is more than he once was, let him find himself. Besides, Shikamaru, Ino and Choji are waiting nearby.”
Reluctantly Sakura did so.
It was the hardest thing Sakura had ever done, watching what was happening, wanting to help the boy she liked. When she couldn’t take anymore she interfered, but only as far as to make them underestimate her.
However when the Sound ninja-Zaku-headed for the hollow to ‘finish off’ Sasuke, he suddenly froze and cried “what the hell!!” he spun around, looking for someone-or something “Where..?!”
The female team member frowned at him “what is it?”
“They’re gone!! Both of them!! Where are they??!!"
Before the could speak again there was a laugh and movement. The female yelled angrily as Sakura spun, slashing out with an kunai, cutting her hair so she could drop from her grasp and roll away “you really are stupid, aren’t you!”
The girl shrieked indignantly but Sakura was gone, gently laying Lee on the ground where ‘her boys’ had been and not even turning from beginning to try and heal the green clad other.
Sasuke and Naruto appeared between them blocking their way, Naruto in all his glory and Sasuke with lightening like energy sparking in his hands and around his body. Naruto spoke with an sardonic grin “which one do you want, Sas’, you chosse this time.”
The Uchiha grinned “I’ll take the idiot. As if an fool like him is any match for an Uchiha, thinking he’s better” he snorted mockingly “don’t make me laugh.”
“I’ll take the freak using sound. Fitting, with MY weapons.”
Sasuke grinned and they moved.
What followed was unfair, Sasuke making short work of his opponent, breaking his arms before moving to guard Sakura. Naruto however seemed to be having fun with his enemy, the waves of sound coming from the weapon on his arm seemed to have no effect on the foxwraith.
“Why doesn’t my sound waves hurt you!!” he yelled at Naruto in frustration.
“Sound? Oh you mean like this?” Naruto said innocently, clapping his hands together. An wave of high-pitched sound waves were released, absolutely bathing the figure in his own type weapon. The male shrieked as the sound wave fed back on him through his gauntlet, collapsing to one knee, followed by another scream and another as Naruto followed with a second and third.
“You bastard!” the female teammate shrieked, moving to attack the Foxwraith from behind, only to scream as well as Sakura appeared in front of her, snarled “don’t you DARE touch my teammates!” and hurtled her across the clearing-unconscious-with an chakra enhanced punch to the face.
“Wait!” the figure Naruto faced, on his hands and knees, coughing up blood cried. He reached into his pouch and held out a scroll “here, take this! Just leave us alone! We were only obeying orders from our Kage!!” Naruto looked at his teammates “what do you think?”
Sasuke shrugged “I don’t care. Your father taught us never leave an enemy alive though.”
“I trust your judgement” Sakura agreed, helping an shaky Lee to his feet. The green clad boy agreed with his crushes opinion.
"You're right" he said to them "Chichi DID teach us that."
"That sounds like The Blood Shadow alright" Sakura grinned, name-dropping on purpose.
The ninja froze, looking at Naruto and murmured "the Blood Shadow."
Naruto bent over in front of him and said "that's right, he DOES exist, he's not made up. He is my adopted father and he raised me and my Skulk brothers and sister. He is training Sakura here as well. All those rumors of his strength, speed, power and immortality and skill are true-not made up. You and your team would do well to avoid him and angering him. Ask your Kage what happens when you face him, he barely escaped with his life."
"He trained us" Sasuke said "I would avoid other Kohona teams if I was you."
The Sound ninja frowned "we beat that freak of yours so easily....."
"He isn't one of us, however Lee is under our protection, as is his team. All that you think you saw was nothing but an act. You saw how Sakura punched out your teammate, do you really think someone training with the Blood Shadow would not only allow you to sneak up and spy on her but would seem helpless by just pulling her hair?" He snorted "think about the rumors of his ruthlessness, you think his son and teammates wouldn't also trained in such a way?"
The other ninja frowned at him "so it was all an act, the rookies being amateurs?"
Naruto chuckled darkly, mimicking Kain "but of course, how else would we get others to underestimate us. Do you truly think the team who took down one of the Seven Swordsmen Of The Mists-Zabuza Momochi-and his assistant, would be THAT easy to beat." The other shook his head dumbly. Naruto took his scroll and stood, moving back to his team and the healed Lee's side, first smirking at the appearance of Tenten and Neji in the tree above them.
Tenten smiled back and waved slightly. She thought of Naruto as a brother, having been practically raised around him in the forge and was one of a trusted few who knew the secret of him being the RANK weapons creator. In fact ALL of her weapons were early creations of his and while he couldn't teach her how he created them, he was currently helping her refine her abilities in the forge, teaching her how to enhance them and refine the detail and features of the blades or such so she was on call for beautifully detailed engravings and such for those customers wanting something special for their loved ones.
In fact Tenten's artwork on the weapons was highly prized, and she had Naruto to thank for it.
Naruto figured it came from his 'uncle' Vorador's soul, after all, he DID create the Soul Reaver's original form-The Blood Reaver-and HAD been chosen by the Original Vampires for a reason.
Neji just frowned as Lee reached their side, looking every bit the disgruntled preteen he was, calling “let’s go” before turning to speed away. Before he left Lee called “I will wait until AFTER the exams for our date, Sakura-kun.”
Sakura blushed and called back “afterwards, I promise!”
Once they were gone Naruto spoke to the enemy ninja “I will allow you and your team to live, but this means no attacking Kohona ninja. If you try any of my Skulk, I WILL kill you. I don’t care about any other teams though, use one of them if you wish. Do you understand?!”
The Sound Ninja nodded, lifting the unconscious female into his arms and over his shoulder while he moved the other on his other side and slowly made his way out of the clearing. Once he was gone the three team 7 members prepared to leave, Naruto ducking into the spectral realm temporarily to refill his glyph energy.
They then headed for the tower. Along the way they stopped at a river for lunch and who else would turn up to ‘help’ them but Kabuto. As they sat discussing the approach to the tower, Naruto connected their thoughts so they could work out a plan, fully intending to continue the masquerade.
Following the ‘older’ boy and with Naruto under the disguise of his blonde klutzy form they made their way towards the tower. Only to be stuck in an illusion technique. Under his disguise Naruto activated the Spirit Eyes, seeing through the illusion “in the trees, they’re waiting, we’ll have to entice them to come out. Act like they expect. Remember, we’re incompetent rookies. Kabuto, do whatever you would normally do.”
The three nodded in agreement.
*I know I’m being lazy here, guys, but again the same as the anime.*
When the group of ninja revealed themselves Sasuke rolled his eyes, it was the three from before that they had taken care of, they hadn’t learned their lesson yet. Naruto smirked while Sasuke spoke “like a mouse in a trap” The three figures looked startled and Sakura spoke this time “it went well, Naruto.”
Naruto grinned and preformed an sign, dispelling his own illusion over his ‘teammates’ and other to reveal three shadow clones.
*Need I say it guys, anime*
“We’ll show you our ninja technique now” the enemy created an sign and cried “ninpou, oboro bunshin no jutsu!”
Immediately Naruto snorted “that only works if your enemy doesn’t have a way to attack more than one. OR sees through your illusion.” He disappeared in a spectral jump and while the enemy was confused he suddenly flickered back, with one move he drove the Soul Reaver into the ground.
The sword flickered, as if feeding and there was a cry of agony before the three launched themselves out of the ground one of them baring an large wound through his left arm. “You bastard!” he snarled at the foxwraith.
“Nope” Naruto grinned “fraid not, my parents were married.”
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
The injured ninja snarled at him “you....”
Sasuke spoke “I thought you would have learnt last time, you are no match for us, idiot.”
The injured ninja frowned at Naruto “what is that weapon? I WANT that weapon.”
One of his companions said “no, you know you can’t take an weapon from it’s owner from Kohona, it’ll kill you.”
The ninja snorted “it’s just a rumor to keep others from taking their weapons."
Naruto suppressed a laugh “really?” he asked, reversing his grip on the Reaver and holding it out to him “show us, prove your theory.”
"No! Don't!" one of his teammates yelled at him.
"Shut up idiot!" he snarled back, "I don't need you or your stupid interference!" and as he slowly reached out to take the hilt, Naruto looked at the other two "let him, he needs to learn a lesson."
Both males looked startled at this and Naruto went on. "I know we are enemies but I'm trying to save your lives here. An ego like his will drag you-as a team into something you won't be able to handle one day and you will die. NOT because of a mission, NOT because your enemy is too powerful, but because his ego was more than common sense and demanded he fight when you shouldn't."
When they blinked at him and one opened his mouth Naruto quickly added "we are weapons, weapons for our village, nothing more or less, ego has no place in our lives, in fact it can prove to be a killer earlier on. EVERYONE in the shinobi world has an better, just as THEY have a better, and THEY have a better and so on and so forth. If you go out into that world thinking you are better than everyone else, you'll get yourself and those around you killed. Do YOU want to be one of those?"
The two ninja didn't want to admit it, but they knew he had a point."What do we do?" one cautiously thought to him.
Instead of answering Naruto asked HIM a question "whose idea was it to attack us of all the other teams?"
"Him."
"And who chose US to attack that first time, despite my change in appearance?"
"Him."
"And who is so egotistic he refuses to believe what everyone else knows it's true-merely because he wishes it so."
"You're right" they sighed "but he is the son of our Kage, what can we do? Every other team he has been on has transferred to other teams, we were the last."
"Let me guess, your Kage convinced you-as his most loyal ninja's-to watch over him as his teammates."
"Yes, but being the Kage's son affords him some...privileges. We can't refuse without looking disloyal."
Naruto snorted "no, it doesn't, or rather it shouldn't. You are loyal ninja to your village, being forced to babysit an spoilt brat is not only an insult to you but your village. Think about it, how can you protect your village and leader by having to constantly curb or control his spoilt son? You are not babysitters-does he pay you as such? How can you possibly earn business for your village if everywhere you go, clients only see a spoilt brat? How is his ego going to earn you and your fellow Shinobi work? Can you imagine him acting like he's bigger and more important to the client, ESPECIALLY if that said client has an ego of his own."
The two realized just what Naruto was saying. How would they ever show clients how good they were, how could their village ever hope to become as big as Hidden Leaf if their leader's son was treating everyone like they were below him, like they were shit on the bottom of his ninja sandles? Even to his own teammates.
"You don't trust him, do you."
"No" the two said in complete union and without hesitation "we never have and he's never proved us wrong."
"And that's a problem" Naruto said "you should ALWAYS trust and be able to trust in your teammates. If you can't trust them to have your back, who CAN you?"
"We trust each other" one said.
"But you should be able to trust BOTH your team mates" he pointed out.
One of them seemed suddenly angry and snapped "how do YOU know all this!"
"First off, my clan, my brothers and mate, are all their clan heirs and THEY aren't spoilt brats. My student is the grandson of the Hokage and he ISN'T a spoilt brat any longer. I am the last of two clans AND one of the previous Hokages children and I think I'm not one. My adopted father is an close friend of the Fire Lords wife and one of his most valued and trusted advisers as well as the most powerful ANBU to exist and even though he was once a spoilt brat, he long since learnt the error of his actions. So you see, I know what I'm talking about. Your parental doesn't make you better than everyone else."
There was a thoughtful pause.
"Don't interfere, allow me to teach him a lesson in humility. It will either teach him to be more... normal, or he will become obsessed with me. If that's the case, as an unstable ninja, you can request him be transferred into some sort of care-away from you."
"What do you gain from helping us?" the other asked suspiciously.
"You are rookies, just like us. With him on your side you have no hope of ever advancing. If you can't accept I want to help because you need it then try this, I help with your teammate problem, you give us any extra scrolls you have. We don't need them, but we have others we can give them to. You get to keep yours, we keep other teams we don't want getting through from gaining them from you, you know with HIM on your team that will happen sooner rather than later."
It sounded to good to be true "we are enemies, even before now."
"I have no reason to hate you-other than our villages being in competition-no personal beef. What about you?"
"No" they admitted "just know, if we reach the next section of the exams we won't give you any favor."
"Understood" Naruto said, all three turning back to the ninja. The two other enemy relaxed and stepped back from their teammate, giving the two a wide berth while Sasuke and Sakura frowned at Naruto and their enemies actions.
Sasuke started to mentally call his Skulk brothers name, but Naruto just said softly, mentally "don't worry, we have an understanding." Trusting their teammate but still worried, both other members watched, ready to defend him if need be.
“You are going to regret this” the ninja grinned, reaching out to grasp the offered weapon by the hilt, slowly drawing it away from the foxwraithboy. “We’ll see” Naruto grinned, watching the enemy ninja grasp the weapon and lift it, the blade pointed at the sky. He moved the sword around in an arch for a while, teasing it’s weight and balance before he suddenly moved, flashing forward in attack. Naruto only grinned and spoke one word “brother.”
Instantly the sword yanked the ninja back in it’s effort to move. “What the...” the ninja stopped, stunned, trying to move the weapon back, but it refused to be manipulated. It started to glow angrily, trembling in the enemy ninja’s grip. Naruto grinned at the other “that weapon you hold is called The Soul Reaver. It is the remade version of an blade eaons years old and created by magic and swordsmithing by far older than anything else on the planet. It was created by an ancient civilization by far more advanced than us far before the Sage Of Six Paths, even older than the Ten Tailed. It is the original RANK weapon, the very sword all those others were based off. The original is an intelligent weapon, the vessel for an ancient soul, it chooses it’s wielder. In the eons it has existed that has been only two beings.” Naruto grinned “and YOU are not one of them.”
The sword began to twist back and forth in the enemies hands as if fighting to escape, struggling to return to its wielder, glowing hotly in anger. The ninja’s hands began to heat and blister, every ninja wincing and wanting to hold their ears as there can an almost metallic shriek of fury that sounded almost like metal vibrating at high frequencies.
“Let it go!” the two other enemy ninja cried to their companion “let it go before it does something!”
“NO!” despite his burning hands, despite the furious weapon the fool still fought to hold it back Naruto shook his head “if you don’t let it go now, it will turn on you and kill you. If that happens it will be your own fault, not Hidden Leaf, not my teams and certainly not your teammates. The Soul Reaver sucks souls, unless you want to die with NO HOPE of being saved, I’d let it go.”
However he was determined and struggled with the sword, trying to force it down towards the ground when it kept moving towards him.
Finally he could hold it no longer and with a yell the weapon flipped and headed for his heart. At the last second Naruto said “brother” firmly and so the weapon diverted, impaling the other right through the right arm. The enemy screamed in pure agony, panicking as he tried to remove it, but the sword refused to budge. He collapsed to his butt in pain, crying out at it, feeling-among the terrible agony, something being pulled out of him.
“Feel that?” Naruto grinned “that’s your soul it’s feeding on. It will take everything you are and was, everything you will ever be and pull it out of your body, do you know where it goes then?”
Naruto began to prowl around the sitting ninja, almost like a predator looking down at him in the same way he looked at his teammates. “It goes to a place called the Land Of The Dead where you are judged for your sins against your fellow man-especially those you are destined to be with-like your teammates. Imagine a world where everything is warped, dark and so cold you can never get warm, so cold you can feel it in your bones-if you had any. You are constantly chased by creatures who want to eat you and you have no way of fighting back, you can only run and hide, but sooner or later they will find you and you will cease to exist.
There you can't tell the difference between seconds and centuries, there is no sense of time, no day or night, no safety.
This is were ALL souls go when they die, but if you are judged as worthy you will not remain" he looked down at him "it doesn't matter who you are or where your from, only the weight of you deeds" he looked at him in contempt "do you REALLY think you have earned that? Do you think your deeds and your actions towards those around you has earned you anything other than being one of those lost rejected souls. Can you feel it, the Realm Of The Dead reaching out to you to take your soul?"
The ninja cried out in fear as the cold began to fill his body and soul, knowing he was right. Deep down he knew his behavior towards everyone else was not right, but he had never had to face the consequences of his actions before-thanks to his parents-so he had continued. Here however he couldn't avoid it, and his 'teammates' had no real reason to help him, he HAD told them to stay out of this and as the son of their Kage, they obeyed orders. Of course they did, if they didn't they would either be seen as traitors or they knew he would tattle to his parents and get them punished. There was no trust at all between them, he was responsible for that. He hadn't cared, only about getting his own way. As long as they obeyed him like every good little slave....
Now he was regretting that, they had no reason to save him now, they could just tell his parents on their return what truly happened and that they tried to help him, but the sword killed him before they could. With all the stories of Hidden Leaf and their weapons, it wouldn't be hard to believe.
"And why should they help me" he thought bitterly "I've done nothing to earn their friendship let alone comradely. All those people in my life who have tried to get to know me or even tried to be my friend and I've pushed them away because they were 'below' me, by kami. I have no good deed to show if I die, no friendships or people I've helped or saved. When I die my soul will be eaten and I'll cease to exist. I have no hope of reincarnation!"
"It's not too late" another voice popped into his head "we can do this, but we have to do it now."
"Who......?"
"I'm you, your conscious. I've tried to talk to you before but you always ignore me. Now you're willing to make up for your wrongs you can hear me again. Thank kami, I'm sick of being ignored." When your conscious starts talking to you like a separate entity you wonder if you lost your mind completely but he had no choice, it was either die now and have his soul eaten, either by a sword or some creature of the Land Of The Dead, or listen to a voice in his head and hope it lead him onto the right path.
He felt himself getting weaker, he wouldn't last much longer. Suddenly he saw an flash of movement on either side and behind him as his two teammates surged forward, one going on attack at the creature in front of him while the second reached his side and without a word his fingers closed around the sword hilt.
"NO! DON'T!" he yelled, at first afraid his teammate would try what he had just done and failed miserably, but he only gripped his arm in one hand and pulling in opposite directions he yanked the blade out, letting it fall to the forest floor once free.
Then he clamped both hands over the gushing wound, trying to stop the blood flow.
But he didn't care about his wound or that he might die of blood loss, his other teammate was attacking the boy, he HAD to stop it! This was all his fault and the other shouldn't suffer for his pride.
"STOP!" he screamed, struggling against the hands trying to keep him down and still "stop it!"
When they continued he did the only thing he could do, he took the pouch that held the extra scrolls they had collected from other teams and with his good arm threw them-directly at the wingedtailed boy.
All action stopped as the creature caught it, looking at him.
"That's all we have, now go, leave us alone." The enemy ninja frowned "why are you giving me this? It was YOU who started it."
"Well now I'm ENDING it. Go, leave us alone, get to the tower."
Naruto glared at him as if resenting being told what to do but Sasuke grabbed his arm and started to drag him away “com’on Naru, it’s about time we join the others.” The wingedtailed boy and the enemy ninja in front him exchanged long glares before Naruto turned back to his team and they moved to leave.
A few steps away he turned back, threw the other ninja an medi-pack and they were gone before the others could speak.
Once they were far enough away Naruto grinned widely “got him.”
“What do you mean, Naruto?” Kabuto asked as the body tendered to his wound.
“That idiot is the son of their villiages Kage-so he was spoilt rotten. I told his teammates not to interfere and I’d teach him some humanity.”
“Why would they let you do that?”
“They have learnt not to trust him. A team needs to trust each other, but he he treated them like slaves. When given the choice of teaching their teammate a lesson without them taking the consequences of it in exchange for their extra scrolls or one day getting killed because of his pride, they thought it an small price to pay.”
Sakura grinned “that’s our Naruto! Only HE can convince two enemy ninja to let him do something like that to an teammate and gain their scrolls in exchange!”
Kabuto looked at Naruto in intrege, like he had never seen or encountered such an person before.
“I have some spare scrolls, let’s go meet the others at the tower.”
With a grin the four moved off together.
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Sorry about the latness of this chapter guys but as it gets colder here my right hand starts to seize up and get more and more painful just to move. THIS time it is my fingers which is unusual since I usually only get it in my wrist which is fixed by using an brace for a day or two. After an particulary painfulled day I went to the doctors to be told I had Carpal Tunnel and was told to wear a full brace for an entire week or two. Since my right hand is my dominant it was difficult typing with my left. However here it is. Next chapter I am almost finished Demons, Snow And Kunai and am halfway through Inheritance.
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