Chapter shout out!!! animerockerfreak, DarkAgentX, Moon_Light360, and KillerKat45!
I am so sorry that this chapter was so late!!! *does a dogeza flat on ground* ... for those that don't know what a dogeza is it's a Japanese bow where you kneel on the ground.... or you can lie flat on the ground like Kyoko does in skip beat. *Yeah, I'm reading skip beat. It's a good manga.*
I don't own Naruto, only my original characters. (Harmony, Nala, Suteki, Kotori, that bastard rom the academy that I can't remember.... He wasn't important anyways.)
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Chapter 43 -
The calm before the storm... Sorta
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-------Sorry, but because this took so long I put in a recap------
"You're afraid of blood, right? I'll show you some now! I'll scatter just enough blood until you are on the brink of death." Kabuto said as he charged, but just before he reached her a huge amount of smoke appeared, separating the two. When the smoke cleared I glared at him with all my might.
"Have I ever told you how much I despise you? Because I despise you with a passion, all most as much as I despise that cheeky bastard and that snake pedo behind you."
---------Fini le recap-------
Sensei note : Okay, I'll just say this before you guys read any further, this chapter was supposed to hold the whole fight between Harmony and Kotori, but because of me being gone for so long and then having major writer block, I decided to leave that for the next chapter because I'm going to be gone again soon and then at the end of the month, when the next chapter should be up I'm going to be gone to the IPE (a giant fair) for work, for five days, so I won't be able to write much then either. Sorry about the shortness.
Kabuto gave me a fake hurt smile after what I had just said to him.
"Oh come on Harmony, what have I ever done to make you hate me." I gave him look that said you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me and pulled part of my jacket away, revealing the mark/scar that he gave me when we fought in the prelims.
"I think I have plenty of reasons, and that's just off the top of my head." I told him before I adjusted my jacket back to the way it was. He gave me a devil-like smirk before turning his head slightly and nodded it a little.
"Naruto-kun." He said, acknowledging him, even though Naruto was semi-freaking out. 'Right... Naruto doesn't know that Kabuto is a back-stabbing son of a bitch.'
'You would think after seeing him nearly stabbing your sister/teammate in the heart would be enough for even him to realize that he was a bad guy.' Suteki pointed out, and I silently agreed
"Ka...Kabuto-san..?" He said, voicing some of his confusion.
"...I see. So both you and Harmony know who he is." Jiraiya-Ojisan siad and I nodded my head a little.
"Yeah.... But unfortunately, some know him better than others." I said with some venom when I glanced over at Kabuto.
"MOVE!" Tsunade-Obasan yelled as she roughly pushed Ojisan and I away from her as he ran at Kabuto again.
"Gua! Hey..." "Ouch! What the hell?!" Ojisan and I yelled at the same time as we fell, hitting the ground. I tried to quickly got up, but I wasn't quick enough. I had just managed to get to my knees before Obasan got close to Kabuto, and as Kabuto moved his kunia in front of him, slicing his wrist, drenching Obasan with his filthy blood, rendering her paralyzed from her phobia of that red liquid.
"My body has finally started to move." Kabuto said, all most in a gloating way, like he outsmarted her or something before with his other hand he punched he right in the face, sending her right back at us. Luckily Shizune caught her.
"Hey! Hey! What the heck's going one! Why is Kabuto fighting Tsunade!?" Naruto yelled out.
"You are so thick Naruto-kun." Kabuto said. I couldn't help but shiver in disgust when I finally stood up rightfully. 'There he goes again.... saying kun after Naruto's name!! God, can you get any creeper?'
"That's why you can't compare to Sasuke-kun."
'Would it have been creepier if he had just said Sasuke-chan?'
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'Yeah.... It would have.... But even saying Sasuke-kun seems worse than Naruto-kun... Saying Naruto-kun reminds me of Hinata for some reason.'
"Look carefully at his headband carefully! He is Orochimaru's subordinate." Ojisan said, drawing all of our rights to the hidden sound emblem that he wore proudly on his head band.
"That's right... I'm a sound village spy.” He said, saying it just as proudly as he wore that awful emblem.
"Wha... What are you saying. Your lying, right Kabuto-san..?" Naruto said quietly, making me feel a little bit more sorry for him, and making me hate the sound village a LOT more.
"Naruto-kun, I've concluded something from your data. Unlike Sasuke-kun, you have no talent in becoming a shinobi."
'Oh hot damn.... He just hit a nerve... 10 bucks says Naruto ends up beating him senseless!'
'What do you think I am? Stupid? No way would I bet against Naruto after hearing someone say that to him... I would rather be arranging the poor soul's funeral.' I told her, completely serious as I watched Shizune cover Obasan with her jacket and begin wiping of the blood that had fallen onto her face. I kneeled down to get closer and saw that she was visibly shacking, and Shizune looked extremly worried for her.
"...Please don't overdo it..." Shizune told her quietly. "Remember, I'm your accomplice."
"Even if you make such a scary face you are nothing more than an out-of-place genin. You were relying on that monster inside of you, but with the three legendary sannins in front of my eyes you are worthless. You are like a small bug right now... If you try something... I'll kill you." Those last three words must have been the final straw for Naruto because he started to run at Kabuto, a lot like Obasan did.
"Stop!!" "What in the hell are you doing Naruto?!" Ojisan and I yelled at the same time, but neither of us moved. Ojisan stayed because he didn't have complete control over his body yet and I stayed because i was still very weary of Kabuto and the two others, so I didn't want to leave Obasan and Ojisan defenceless in both of their states, even though Tsunade had Shizune to protect her.
I watched as Naruto ran and made a single handsign. "Shadow clone jutsu!! I can't waste all my chakra on making too many clones, so three clones and attack at once!!!" Naruto yelled as three clones appeared before him and quickly surrounded Kabuto and tried to attack him all at the same time, but it took only a second for Kabuto to do something to the first two clones in front of him and step on them, before grabbing another by their collar and throwing him, making him it the last Naruto. I looked at Naruto as he flew in our direction (the real on because his last clone that hit him just poofed away) and saw how Kabuto had defeated him so easily, he had used his bleeding wrist to his advantage, knowing that Naruto would think it would be unable to use to, but ended up getting blinded by Kabuto's blood. 'That sneaky bastard!!!' I yelled in my head as I quickly jumped up and grabbed the still flying Naruto, the real one, as Shizune ran in front of me and began spitting out senbons rom her mouth, which Kabuto unfortunately blocked with his headband. I glared at him as he jumped back to Orochimaru as I let Naruto down back to the ground.
"Thanks Harmony." Naruto said as his wiped the blood from his eyes. I nodded my head and turned to Shizune who was beside us.
"Shizune.... What did Kabuto just eat?" I whispered to her, thinking he ate some solider pill, like the one that Kiba uses.
"It looked like a blood stopping pill... I think he's a medic ninja like me." She whispered back to me and I nodded, looking back to the three men in front of us. I watched as Kotori walked up next to Kabuto and slung his arm around his shoulder, looking down at his still bleeding hand.
"Geez Kabuto, you sure are bleeding a lot... Don't you think you should stop it or something? Can't you bleed to death like that?" He told him, almost jokingly. "Actually, maybe you should bleed to death, then I would get to be Orochimaru-sama's right-hand man." Kabuto looks over at the man and shrugged of his arm.
"I'm ever so sorry to tell you Kotori, but something as meaningless as this would never kill someone as highly skilled as I am, unlike someone." He said, clearly meaning 'No way am I ever going to die and let you be Orochimaru-sama's right hand man. And when I someone unskilled, I mean you.' "Now please, Orochimaru-sama, take off the left bandage."
After Kabuto had said that I fully took notice of the man in front of us. Unlike last time in the forest of death (When part of his face was reveled... But still looked like that creepy grass ninja) he looked pale.... Well, not that he is all ways pale, but this time it was more of a sickly-pale and I could see that he was sweating slightly and breathing and little heavy, just like as if he had caught a bad fever but was trying to supress it and not show it. When i took notice of that I looked down at his arms and saw they were both wrap profusely, but the left one was slowly becoming loose until it fell silently to the ground, reliving the dark purple, corpse-like skin underneath. I could tell right away that there was no way that he could use his arms and I couldn't help and smile evilly at that. 'Looks like Gramps let an ever-lasting impression on the snake-peso.... Good. He fully deserves that and more for when he was done to me, and my village.'
'Aside from that.... Have you notice how ugly-ass he looks with that giant upside-down bow on his back?'
'Are you trying to be some kind of comedic relief or something?'
'... No...'
"That's Orochimaru..." Naruto growled as I had my mini, non-important conversation with Suteki.
"Shizune, you handle the guy with the glasses, Harmony, you provide her back up. I'll take care of Orochimaru." Ojisan said determined. "But... before that, I would like Tsunade to do something about my body..." Shizune stood then.
"This effect will last probably for a few more hours. I myself cannot do anything about it." She said, either talking about the drug in Ojisan's body, or the fact that Tsuande-Obasan was still shivering on the ground.
"...Hmph. Well I guess there's nothing we can do... We have to do it like this..." He said with a soft sigh. "Tsuande... Heal yourself with medic-ninjutsu."
"Ojisan. I don't dis-agree with the plan that you made, but I want to say this. I'll only be back-up until Kotori makes his move, which I know he will do sooner or later. I still have a score to settle with him." I told him, completely serious. He knew that I meant business, and even if he didn't agree with me, I would do it any ways.
"Okay... You take care of him when he decides to fight." He said, giving in, clearly not liking the idea fully.
"Then! What about me! What about me!!" Naruto yelled after a moment of silence.
"You protect Tsunade and her pig." He told him. 'Ohh.... I thought Ton ton was Shizune's...'
"WHAT? I WANNA FIGHT TOO! I CAN-"
"No!" Jiraiya said, cutting Naruto off. "Like the guy with the glasses said, they're on an entirely different level. The enemy is like me one of the three Sannins, plus he killed the 3rd Hokage. An eye for an eye! Only I can take him! And the guy with the glasses has the same power as Kakashi." I couldn't help but scoff.
"I doubt that this roach has as much power as Hatake, no matter of much of an untruthful mutt he is." I said out loud, not really to anyone.
"Then..." Naruto said, getting ready to make more shadow clones, but again, Jiraiya stopped him.
"Hey wait! Shadow clones are useless. With those three as your enemy, you'll only be wasting your chakra."
"Crap." Naruto said, seeing that Ojisan was right. I couldn’t help but agree with him, but not for the same reason. Before when I had seen Orochimaru's arm all I saw was how much it looked like a purple corps’, but I didn't understand why Kabuto asked him to remove his bandages. It became clear to me when I watched as Kabuto placed his other hand on his bloodied wrist, soaking it in blood before running it over part of his master's arm. Instantly a felt like I had been hit by a bucket of ice-cold water, and trying to stop the shivering 'Crap! A summoning tattoo!'
"Summoning Jutsu!" Kabuto held as he slammed his hands to the ground, but I also heard Ojisan's voice, so I felt relieved when I turned around to see smoke in front of me... Not that it lasted when I saw who was sitting there when the smoke dissipated, Gamakichi. I felt even worse when I turned back about and saw two giant ass snakes and Kabuto with Orochimaru standing on the heads of one of them, whereas Kotori was still standing on the ground. I slowly pulled out two kunias out of my weapon pouch.
"Change of plans Ojisan... Because you can't control your chakra fully yet because of the drug... I guess I'll try and hold off Orochimaru until you can, at least a little bit more." I said, trying to keep my voice a little bit steady, and stop my body from shivering, but I knew it was from only one type of coldness, ice-cold fear.
"That's suicide for you Harmony! You wouldn't even be able to match up to the power that Kabuto has, let alone Orochimaru!" Shizune told me. I looked over my shoulder and gave her a strained closed-eye smile. We both knew there weren’t a whole lot of other choices left.
"One dying is better than all of us right? Besides, it's not like I will die right at the start. I'm sure that I'll be able to hold him off at least for a little bit. I'm not as weak as you think I am." I told her before giving the rest of them a strained smile, not that many noticed, seeing as they were freaking out enough about Jiraiya-Ojisan and Naruto's failed summonings, I don't think that they even heard me, not that it really mattered if they did or didn't. I saw Obasan staring right at me. I gave her a small wave before I turned around and slowly took a deep breath and a step forward, mentally preparing myself.
'Well... This sucks.... I didn't even get the chance to see if your stupid seal works or not.'
'You know, if I had my own body, right now I would slap you silly for even thinking about this.' Suteki said as I took another step and being gathering chakra to scale the two giant snakes to get to the two on the ones head. I didn't think that they had noticed me yet because they had done anything yet.
'Right.... That's another thing I now can't do.... Sorry, looks like you're going to end up dying... Again.'
'Cancel my other thought. Why don't I just try and slap you now? Stop thinking you're going to die. What will happen to Rin, Naruto, and Nala if you do?'
"They will probably end up wanting to do the same thing you want to do to me. Telling me how stupid I'm bei-" I said, but stopped when I looked up and say that Kotori was looking straight at me, and what's worse, he had that damn cheeky smile on his face. "What in the hell are you smiling about?" I asked him, not too pleased that now I might have another opponent to fight, even if he was the original target....
"I was thinking how fearless you are right now Harmony. You're willing to fight Orochimaru-sama to spare some time for the useless people behind He said and then shrugged. "Or you could call it pure stupidity. But if you’re just going to go and kill yourself, as much as a shame that would be, I'll make sure that this little bitch gets a front row seat." He them held up one of his hand slightly and showed me that he was holding one end of a piece of wire before he gave it a hard tug, making the thing on the other end of the wire get pulled out roughly from behind the giant boulder that he was standing close too.
"RIN!!!!"
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So i don't have much to say down here, because I pretty much said everything I wanted to say up top, but I will say i am sorry about the shortness and suckyness of this chapter... It isn't even close to what my quota usually is.... but I promise the next chapter is all fight, so look forward to it.
And yes... the picture on the side is what a dogeza...... And I have no reason why I put that for this chapter’s video... I just wanted it there...
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Bonus quote: I'm smiling because you are my father. I'm laughing because there's nothing you can do about it!
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