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Spectral Ninja	By : Nescafevh Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 15262 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Five figures stood together in the early morning light, watching the flow of people, excited and happy, enter the 'arena'.
"All is prepared, Hokage-sama" the first figure said "all citizens of Leaf not ninja or retired have been taken from their homes last night and hidden in the secret shelter under the Hokage tower."
"Any ninja-retired or not and not on missions or a spy has been informed of the invasion and has hedged to replace an citizen, prepared for the upcoming battle" Reported the second.
"Orochimaru-san has reported the location of his forces outside the gates and Kain-sama has reported that Manda is aware and willing to go along with it, He is on his way there and will await the signal" the third added.
"Naruto and his group are all ready" the forth continued "they report Kankurõ will forfeit as expected and the others will ensure their battles are distracting enough."
"Good" the Third Hokage nodded, sighing as he looked at the faces of his predecessors and the Forth "you four are my most trusted of all the ANBU, my favorites. I've seen each of you grow from bright faced genin to what you have now become. In a way you are almost like my own children."
The four exchanged looks of concern "Hokage-sama?"
"What happens today may stretch your faith in the sanctity and purpose of this village, but I want you to know that there is a reason and purpose for everything, even if you never understand in your own lifetime, it does not matter, it is still there."
The four grew alarmed, something was wrong here. One, and female with an snake mask opened her mouth to speak, only for the old man to reach down and stroke her hair where she was crouched in front of him. Before a word could be said, the man's head snapped up "it's time."
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In the stadium Hiruzen and an disguised Orochimaru sat beside each other on their VIP seats. As the two contestants moved out onto the grounds, Orochimaru spoke “a pity your Abruhume forfeited. I was interested in how his fighting style would differ against another Leaf.”
“Unfortuntately yes” The Third nodded, frowning mentally at the bug-users refusal to fight his ‘sister’ Skulk member “his clan tells me he is unprepared for this and the possible upgrade in status it would mean and responsibility outside the clan.”
Orochimaru turned his head to look at him, surprised but hiding it “that seems a little practical for an entire clan. You would think they would WANT their heir to do so to prove their clans strength inside the village.”
“Normally you would, but the Abruhume are an logic centered group. It was an logical conclusion and so decided by them that way. They aren’t so worried about status as they are about their people being prepared for ANY contingency.”
“Of course” the snake ninKazakage murmured, looking back at the center stage, as-it-were. “This will be....Interesting” The disguised Sound nin Kage when the first contestants were revealed as Ino and Hinata. “Indeed.”
Hinata and Ino faced each other in the stadium, Ino smirking and Hinata calm and controlled. Ino seemed to be confident in her victory while Hinata was confident in HERSELF. When the fight was called to start, neither moved. Instead the winged teen waited for her ‘enemies’ move, the blonde seemed sure she had it pegged. “I know your moves” she gloated “I’ve been watching you and you’re nothing but an one-hit wonder.”
“Really?” she said unemotionally “you seem sure of yourself.”
“I am” Ino gloated “You’ll regret taking my boys from me. Shikamaru and Choji were supposed to be mine, we were supposed to be together, a team, just like our dad’s, we have been together since we were born. But now all I hear is Hinata-neesan did this, Hinata-neesan did that. That should be ME!”
In the stands Shikamaru moaned and Choji rolled his eyes between handfuls of chips. Naruto frowned “she’s jealous of ‘Nata? Why?” he looked at the two “I thought you guys had been spending time with her, helping her train in the last month” when the two didn’t speak he narrowed his eyes at them “guys....?”
“She said she was fine” Choji said “she said her dad wanted to train her in their bloodline.”
Naruto rolled his eyes “you guys are a team, you work as a TEAM, you should practice as a TEAM, it is essential for surviving missions together. You should have dragged her out if need be to practice. No wonder she’s jealous.”
Down below Hinata remained calm in the face of her fellow Leaf ninja’s jealousy and confidence. Ino may have known about her skills fighting with and against her fellow Skulk members, but she didn’t know EVERYTHING. Even if Ino used her family bloodline on her, Hinata had a defense. She was The Guardian Of The Mind, she could just punish her for an act.
The flower girl and mindwalker suddenly ran to attack the disguised other. After a flurry of punches and kicks that were easily avoided by Hinata-who somehow didn’t seem to move AT ALL but still was able to avoid her-the blonde back flipped to put some distance between them. The entire audience could see her face crease as she looked thoughtful, trying to decide what to do next.
She suddenly smirked and after jumping into the air produced an bouquet of flowers which she threw into the air.
Everyone sweat-dropped until they heard her yell “EXPLOSIVE FLOWER!”
Upon hitting the ground around the other they exploded, causing an almost deafening roar and huge cloud of earth to surround the figure, hiding it. When the smoke cleared there was no sign of the other. Ino smirked.
Looking curiously at Naruto they followed his eyes down to where the huge hole in the ground was.
“Naru?” Choji asked curiously.
“‘Nata and I have been working on different forms of surprise attack, including aerial and another.”
“Underground” Shikamaru said as the earth between his teammates feet exploded outwards and the blonde was sent flying by a fist coming up at her from under her. Naruto nodded.
Ino skidded along the ground, trying to stop her speed until she finally managed to avoid hitting the wall. With an snarl she threw herself forward, suddenly disappearing in a curtain of petals, however as the others watched Hinata suddenly reached over her shoulder and caught something that appeared there, about to strike her-a leg.
“How did you...” Ino shrieked and lashed out with an kunai, trying to trick Hinata into dropping her leg. Instead the other merely used one disguised wing to smack her hand away, the blow from that heavy thick limb forcing the other to release the weapon. However the force of the blow nearly made her hand go numb in the process.
Before Ino knew what was happening Hinata had leaned forwards slightly and with her iron grip had flung the other over her shoulder and at high speed towards the nearest wall.
Remembering what had happened to Neji when HE hit, Ino desperately tried to maneuver herself around and land on her feet on the wall so she could push off it, but just as she got herself into position she raised her head just high enough to see her opponent heading right for her, a few inches from her. Before she could even open her mouth the speed of her flight was increased as the winged other followed up with an bone-rattling blow that threw her into the wall as double her original speed.
Ino cried out in pain as her impact landed her on her left shoulder, sliding down to lay where she had crumbled, clutching her shoulder in pure agony, leaving Hinata to calmly walk back to the center of the ring and look at the only other there.
Just as he was about to call her victory Ino spoke out between gritted teeth, forcing herself to her feet and struggling to raise her hands “I’m not done yet, mind transfer jutsu!” The crowd gasped but Naruto shook his head, Choji leaning over the railing and calling out in a panic “Ino! You know that won’t work! She....!”
“What’s wrong, Choji” the blonde said from between gritted teeth “you don’t believe I can do it? Or is that you don’t WANT me to hurt your little sister?!”
“That’s not it, you know we believe in you! But you forget, ‘Nata is.......”
“Dead!!” the blonde enacted the jutsu.....only for nothing to happen.
“WHAT!?” she cried out in disbelief “Why didn’t it work?!” She tried it again and again and again, trying harder each time and only weakening herself more only to fail each time. Finally she slumped forward, unable to move and moaned “why won’t it work on you?!”
“Oh, you mean this?” Hinata said sweetly, only to forcibly gain control over her body and make her walk out into the middle of the ring, cursing all the way, and raise her hand in defeat.
“Winner, Hinata HyuugaUzumaki!”
Shikamaru moaned “what an idiot" while Hinata freed the blonde of her control long enough for the medics to take her defeated opponent away.
Next up, Shikamaru Vs Temari.
*Guess how this turns out guys. Anime, only insert the tunnel being Hinata’s, not Naruto’s.*
“I don’t get it” Sakura said “he won, why did he give up? He has WAY more chakra than that and, well.....” she shut up when Choji glared at her. However Naruto answered in her mind for her “First by cultivating the ‘lazy ass’ act he will cause the Sound ninja to underestimate him during the invasion. Second by acting like he ran out of chakra......”
“Oh, I get it, they’ll think he’s weak!”
Naruto nodded.
“So who’s next?”
Naruto grinned “well it IS supposed to be Kankuro and me.....” he was interrupted by the Sand sibling loudly proclaiming his withdrawal from the fight and Naruto proclaimed the winner by default “so the only ones left are Sasuke and Gaara.”
Choji frowned “that means.....”
Naruto nodded solemnly and spoke mentally to them “Kabuto will be supposedly enacting the sleep jutsu shortly, get ready, it will begin soon.”
As usual Sasuke and Kakshi were late, the ‘crowd’ getting riled up by the final fight’s delay. When the youngest Uchiha moved down to the ‘ring’ with Gaara (who exchanged a brief look with his siblings), silence filled the stadium, every ninja there aware of what was going to happen in the next few minutes. While on the outskirts of Kohona Kain dropped the last corpse of the Sound ninja who were to summon Manda. After whiping his mouth with the back of one gloved hand he looked at the giant snake “Amateurs” he tapped on the small device in his pointed ear “it’s almost time, are you ready?”
The huge snake grinned “let’s have some fun.”
Sasuke and Gaara faced each other, Gaara glanced at first his siblings then Naruto from the corner of his eyes, both of them nodded seriously slightly. It was time to start the plan, the NEW plan. It was similar to the old, but with the twist of Sand joining Leaf against Orochimarus most fanatical. The snake nin knew he couldn’t save his once forces-except maybe Kimimaro, and knew he had to sacrifice them in order to proceed with the plan. The signal was Gaara’s.
From where he stood watching his student, Kakashi counted the ANBU in the audience, frowning.
Once given the signal Gaara preformed the charade of struggling with the demon inside him, making the watchers think he was unstable. When Sasuke started letting loose and knock Gaara around the entire ‘audience' was distracted enough to be hooked by it. However Kabuto made a motion in his disguise and the key members snapped to attention (or just LOOKED like it) in time to watch Gaara call up his sand sphere to guard for the transformation.
The crowd watched Sasuke dart in and out and defend, sharingan activated, And while Sasuke was preparing chadori the ninja forces outside the gates were slowly being picked off, one at a time by Kain.
Naruto looked to see Kabuto give a slow nod and he broadcast to the others “Get ready, Kabuto said it starts any second. Prepare, we go to war.”
As Gaara supposedly freaked Kabuto touched the shoulder of the ninja-disguise man in front of him who, while pretending to nod off, touched the symbol on the seal on his arm to signal the start.
And everything went hell.
Instead of an summons to destroy the wall, Manda turned on the Sound ninja waiting at the wall, snatching them up and taking great pleasure in eating them. When another group tried to sneak in by killing the two guards, Kain killed two with the Blood Reaver, letting the snake strike the others with his tail and fling them into the wall they left smears of blood and something....else there.
In the VIP box, Orochimaru had already taken The Third ‘prisoner’ and enacted the barrier, Kankuro and Temari with their brother, taking him away ‘to heal’ while Naruto and the others started their fight with the Sound ninja already inside. However, with the ‘asleep’ ninja revealing themselves and the wall still standing, Kain and Manda picking off those outside, those Sand faithful to the disguised Kazakage and Sound were finding themselves sorely outnumbered.
Naruto, Shikamaru and Shino ended up together fighting against a group of Sound nin. Naruto had just impaled one with his Soul Reaver and was turning....in time to see Shikamaru impaled by the enemies katana. Before he could react in his horror and terror he felt an huge surge of chakra, the link trembled inside him and his eyes snapped to Shino.
Shino was frozen in his spot, eyes locked to his Skulk brother’s falling form, his chakra building and Naruto felt it through their guardian link and he knew the others were too. Whatever Shino was doing had something to do with his appointment as Time Guardian. As he watched the Abruhame released his swarm around him. They flew around his body-torso level and Naruto’s eyes widened when he noticed the actual pattern to the bugs. Shino was doing something.....
Before Naruto could speak or even blink with an flash of power the bug-nin released it out.
When Naruto’s eyes cleared he was in time to watch Shino move, lunge forward and with his swarm he cut down the ninja-just before he could impale the Nara on his weapon. Shikamaru glanced behind him and grunted a thanks before dispatching the one he was fighting.
Naruto stood stunned, what had happened? Shino had somehow used his appointment and kikai to rewind time just long enough to save his Skulk brothers life. Is THIS why he had refused to fight in the last part of the exams? Was he....afraid of the ability, or was there something more to it than that?
“He knows about Mobius and how he was corrupted. Perhaps he is afraid if he actually uses the ability, He might be end up the same. I suggest you all talk to him about it after this. Tell him no matter what happens you all will prevent anything like that from happening to him. More-so, both he and Mobius are completely different being. Just because he’s the Guardian of Time, doesn’t mean he’ll go the same way.” Raziel told him.
“He’s the EARTH’S guardian of Time” Kyuubi added “tell him the very planet and its will will NEVER allow that. We are the Guardians of the earth, Our abilities come from what the earth wills us or lets us do. If one of us were corrupted, it would take it away from us-or at least lock it away.”
“Shino has always been the shyer and the one unsure of himself among us, even when he was a child. That’s why Kiba got so protective of him, and so are we. We just need to convince him that he won’t end up being the same as the Guardian before him.”
“Naruto, Gaara!” Shikamaru yelled “we’ll handle this!”
“Right!” He said, moving off to follow where he saw the Uchiha go.
*same as anime*
Once Naruto was sure Gaara had left with his siblings he rose, moving back to the village, meeting his black haired Skulk brother along the way. As they moved back towards where The Third was fighting Orochimaru when they left.
To hear their pale red-headed teammate scream.
Exchanging looks they put on a burst of speed.
What they found when they arrived was nothing short of horrifying.
The third stood, impaled on the bone-weapon of Orochimaru’s most trusted soldier, the snake nin standing in front of him, arms limp by his side and Naruto saw the face of the ‘god of death’ just as he faded away. Before anyone could move the white haired Sound Nin withdrew the weapon, grabbed his master and was speeding away, a group of surviving Sound nin surrounding the two protectively as they escaped. But Naruto frowned when he saw the others face over his shoulder as they moved and caught the end of his thoughts and memories.
This was bad.
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Naruto held a crying Kohonamaru close to him as the boy sobbed for his grandfather. The child-and he WAS just a child after all-was sobbing questions between hiccups, to him, to the kami’s, towards his grandfather and just to vent. “Why?!” he asked between sobs “why did he do it?!”
“Because despite who and what we are, we are ninja and that’s it. We are ninja first and people second.”
“But you could have saved him, brought him back! Why didn’t you?!”
“Because he didn’t want me to. He made me promise not to do so. He was ready to move on, even IF it meant hurting those he cared for.”
“I thought you said Orochimaru-san wasn’t going to hurt my granddad! You said he wasn’t a bad ninja anymore, just pretending!”
“I know” Naruto sighed, holding him closer “it wasn’t his plan.” Kohonamaru drew back to look him in the eyes “what do you mean?”
“I saw them just after it happened and you didn’t. He looked shocked and horrified. Kimimaro did what he did WITHOUT the sannin’s knowledge.”
“Y...you mean he thought granddad was gonna kill Orochimaru-san and so stabbed him to protect him? That he was trying to save his master?”
“I mean I read his thoughts as he stood there. Orochimaru had gone so full-on NOT to make it more real but because he WANTED your grandfather to kill him. He thought his sins were too many and wanted to die by your grandfather’s hands, the last person he remembered in his entire life after his parents died that actually cared for him. Your grandfather either knew or at least suspected and ensured the only way his student would live through the battle, even at the cost of his own life.”
Kohonamaru’s eyes widened “you mean he....”
Naruto nodded “Kimimaro had been secretly coming into Hidden Leaf so Tsunade baachan could treat him. I think your grandfather organized with him what to do, just in case. It makes sense. He was going to give his soul away to supposedly seal the snake sannin, he never planned too in the first place. He had Kimimaro come in and kill him at the right moment so he dies, but his soul is free. And the enemy thinks that the fight was real enough to almost loose Orochimaru.” He looked down at the boy in his arms “think about it. If that jutsu had of completed the affects would be your grandfathers soul would go to the Shirigami and never return or be reborn, trapped forever, no one would see his like again, even me. NOW however he’s still there, waiting in the spectral realm for you and your family when it’s their time.”
After going this over in his head Kohonamaru nodded, face serious “you’re right, he SAVED my granddad. I’m gonna become both a strong and smart ninja, just like him” He looked up at the winged and tailed boy he clutched “thank you, Naru-niisan.”
At the funeral, while everyone else grieved brokenly the loss of their great leader and family member, Kohonamaru stood proud, honoring his grandfathers sacrifice and determined to show him, wherever he watched him from, that he would be just like him.
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Under the cover of darkness four figures secretly left the village of Kohona the next night, a young man with long flowing black hair and an feminine face, and white haired muscular man with pointy elf-like ears and an tall muscular man with an huge sword surrounding another young man, plain looking, with an goatee and short brown hair. Silent and lethal the two muscular men and the feminine other escorted the plain looking one away from the village, heading straight for the home of the Fire Lord.
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