I do not own Naruto or any other references that someone might see in this fic. What IS mine will probably been seen as someone else's anyway, and I'm not exactly hurt by that.
"Word" = People talking
...Word... = Quotes and past words
'Word' = Key, significant or unknown words
'Word' = People thinking
"Word" = Demon, beasts, monsters and the overpowered talking
WORD = Dramatic or epic occurrences and sounds
WORD = violent or disturbing occurrence and sounds
"Word" = Spiral the plant man.
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The hiatus is...kind of over?
Well 6 months later and you'd think I'd have more but I have my reasons which I will explain.
Currently, I am working on 3 major stories and 2 minor stories. 6 months ago I was on track with my plans for the chapters and was ready to deliver within 2 months. And after all the hard work, I lost all my chapters when they became corrupted, and unrecoverable. It completely killed my drive to continue.
So I stopped for a long while. My new story that I started some time ago was the only thing I could unload because it was an idea I had been working on, on my phone randomly.
So I hope this is an ok chapter even though it is one of my shorter ones.
No Beta either, so you know there be issues there.
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Blood Mist Arc Continues...
Chapter 11. Birth of a Monster
"Ice Style: Cryostasis!"
"Sealing Art: Cripple Reality!"
The two shinobi were enemies but had the same goal.
Save the Girl.
One was saving her because she was a member of his village. The other wanted to save her because of the use the demon inside her had for his village.
One technique froze someone to the point of preventing death. The other technique was level above this, slowing the very world and space the girl occupied.
The girl that hit the ground was covered in thin ice and turned blue. Immediately after the smoke near her moved very slowly, slower than dust and smoke should move. She was not going to die here anytime soon.
Both had their attention on the girl and only girl. They didn't hear the declaration of the monster that was about to be born.
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It made no sense. This couldn't be happening. Nightmares and fears that linger in the back of his mind had small chances of happening. What would the chances have been that this would happen? To him the answer was zero. What had he gone through to deserve this? All his hard work. All he done to survive. It couldn't be in vain. Why had all his hard work to continuing living led to this?!
WHY WAS HE SEEING THIS SCENCE OF LOSSING HIS LOVE OUT OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD?!
WHY ME!?
...
It is a lie. I can't be real. It is a fake. It was a deception. Someone had tricked him and was laughing at him. This crowd of people around him were laughing. The other students were laughing at him like they always had. The Uchiha clan was laughing at his weakness. The Leaf village was mocking his will, dreams and desires as they did. Madara Uchiha was smirking at him wickedly as if proving a point. Kakashi...didn't care about his promise like he did with everything else. All he had cared about was what everyone else TOLD HIM TO CARE ABOUT.
No more.
Kakashi is nothing. Madara was nothing. The village hidden in the Leaves was nothing. They were all nothing. This sham and hoax before him...he wouldn't stand for it. He'd done nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. He was a good person. HE DEVERSED BETTER THAN THIS. He wasn't at fault. Everyone else was. They were the ones that treated him like garbage for no reason. They were the one tricking him. Laughing at him and his dreams and his wants. He wouldn't leave them without making them pay. They were going to pay dearly because they had wrong Obito Uchiha.
Obito mind broke violently as his eye changed and spiral's mask twisted around Obito's face by the young uchiha's will. "I won't...ACEEPT ANY OF THIS!" He shouted getting nearly everyones attention.
"Who's that guy?" One of the hunter-nin questioned.
"Enemy reinforcements." Another said watching this newcomer.
Kizashi Haruno was deep in focus on S-rank sealing art he had just used. Often Homura-Sensei had told him to make his sealing abilities public to the village as to impress lord 3rd Hokage. But Kizashi wasn't about that-
He froze as a cold sweat trembled down his face. He eyes were wide and in shock as the malice that enveloped him. He had seals on his body that allow him to feel the intent of others and sense what they were feeling. He had seen Orochimaru, Kushina and Lord 3rd lose their tempers during before and they scared him. By this was something worse. It a rage like nothing else. It forced and dragged his attention to it like the centre of a cyclone. His head turned to the man cloaked in black.
Cang didn't feel this but he did hear the shouts of the man cloaked in black and wearing a rather strange mask. He thought nothing of it and refocused on Kisashi Haruno.
Spiral panicked. The plant-man was connected to Obito's body and spirit, and he was losing consciousness because of Obito's will trying to assimilate him. Obito internal struggles and violent break was affecting his chakara as Spiral lost his right arm completely to Obito. Spikes exploded from Obito's rightside along with black rods signifying that it no longer was Spiral's arm. If it continued like this...
White Zetsu's eye widen. "Those are Black Rods, the same as Madara's and Nagato's." He said aloud. Madara would definitely want to see this memory.
"Doesn't matter who he is! DIE!" A mist shinobi shouted throwing a barrage of shuriken at Obito. They went straight through him but did nothing to him.
"AAAARRRRHRHHRHAAAHA!"
Obito yelled in anger unable to put any of thoughts into words any longer. His chakara flared in shockwave that blew the wind and rain away from him and created a burning heat around him. His chakara pulsed dense everywhere on him. The ground under him crumbled from the immense charkara and the air became dense and thick. He ran in fury his chakara sticking to the ground tearing it apart with every step plus his new super human strength only making it worse.
"DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE BLOOD MIST!" One of the hunter nin declared drawing his sword at the charging person. He brought his sword above his head about bring it down on Obito but Obito was far faster. Way faster than what was normal amongst shinobi. Kisashi and Cang were the only ones to see it.
What happened next didn't register to the mist shinobi that was next to the one that had drawn his blade. But after a second he was horrorified at the blood soak branches that had erupted from his comrades back killing him instantly. His comrades feet weren't even on the ground been held up by these impaling branches that also killed two others that were to close. But that wasn't worse of it. The branches were cover with more than just blood. His friend's bones and organs were torn, hanging and wrapped within the branches, sprayed all over the ground. His friend who he had met with on many occasions was butchered and shredded in pieces all around him. It was a nightmare to look at.
He hadn't realised he was on the ground in fear and tears, when the spiral masked man loomed over him, the black sky, rain on his back and a murderous red eye staring at him from within a black hold in the mask. There was blood all over this man as a spear formed from his arm and he raised it above his head.
Not like this. He didn't want to die like this. "SOMEONE HELP ME!" He shouted as three shinobi appeared above him, swords draw and pointed at the mask man.
"DIE!" One shouted bringing it down. There was no resistance as his and other two's blades went straight through and stabbed their own comrade killing him.
"We didn't hit hi—" He didn't finished as his neck snapped along with the other two. There was to chakara running through Obito's body making every movement he had extremely strong, stronger then needed. He had jumped in the air and spun kicked with enough strength to kill them, twisting and breaking their necks. Though nothing was registering to him in Obito mind. Not the people he kill or the torn organs and piece of them hanging of the branches he created. At best the world around him was spinning fast with rain and night sky being all he could comprehend. Spinning so much that he felt like vomiting, like he couldn't move. It sickened him and only made him madder.
Cang attention was on the cloaked man no longer focused on the Rin or Kizashi. 7 of his men were dead in a matter of seconds. They hadn't managed to even hit the enemy yet.
"Get the girl! We'll take her back to the village." Another one of the mist shinobi said running to Rin along with another.
"Is-is that? Wood style?"
"Impossible! There aren't any wood style users!"
Obito looked up barely able to see clearly but he saw the shinobi running to Rin's body behind squads staring at him with their weapons drawn. They looked like dark body in the night and rain without any features. They were nothing. He wouldn't let them have her. He bolted, sprinting at them without thought.
The group shouted and swung their weapons trying to cut Obito to pieces trying to kill him. And nothing connected. They hit him but they was not solid feeling, like trying to grab air or fire. Obito just run straight through and even began to create another spear in his arm preparing to throw it.
"We can't hit him! Why!"
"He's running straight through us! How!"
"How do we kill him?"
Obito couldn't understand their words. It all blurred and all he could hear was the rain, the wind, his heartbeat and every step he took on the ground. In a few seconds he was out of the group and faced with the two shinobi approaching Rin.
"RRRAAHH!"
He threw his spear at the enemy closest to Rin stabbing him in the side and sending him flying through the air with the force of it. The spear didn't go through him though him though as Obito slapped his hands together unconsciously in a hand sign. Before the man hit the ground blood covered branches erupted from all over him, through his chest, his ribs, his legs and his neck. One of his arms was even torn of as he rolled across the ground dead.
The other shinobi was completely distracted by the gory kill that as soon as his turned to enemy that was approaching, a fist hit on the top of his head forcing him into the ground. He coughed and choked as all feeling left him. He was brain dead the moment he hit the ground. But that didn't stop Obito from kicking him in the shoulder hard enough to get him standing again. Grabbing by his hair Obito kneed him in the face, shatter the mask, breaking his nose in, smashing his teeth and crushing his eyes. The body of near dead man landed on his knees as Obito stared at his face murderously and not even realising what his actions were and was going to be next. The man's hair covered all of Obito hand in a strange smooth sensation as Obito crushed his skull making what was left squeeze through around Obito's hand and causing his already crushed eyes to slip out of the head of the dead man. But that wasn't enough for Obito as he brought other punch on to his squeezed face and punched it the ground flatting it. Obito didn't stop. He kept punching even with the bone and teeth stabbing into his knuckles.
He didn't stop with the head and with one final punch, he punched straight through his chest and forced more branches to run through the body, forcing it apart until it was once a grown man with a wife and son was meaty red stain in the dirt.
Obito was conscious of the rain and dark night sky. But know he was also conscious of the warm liquid all over him. The dark red colour that was taking his vision as he stood up and looked around. There were dark figures all around him. Were they still tricking him? Obito's hand twitched and his left leg muscle twitched. They were...still laughing at him. They weren't taking him seriously. Like everyone else.
"What the fuck is wrong with this guy?" One shinobi stuttered shaking.
"What is he?"
Captain Cang, leader of the group eyes were focused in a rage that was coated with fear and hesitation. The killing intent of this person stopped. He could sense its chakara. It was disgusting. A clear abomination. This creature, this monster had to die now. Forget the Anbu from the Leaf and girl. Let him run and let the girl die if it meant killing or escaping this man. No, this...thing wasn't from Konoha. Whatever the hell it was it had to die now. Whatever it was, it couldn't be allowed anywhere near the land of water. Screw the other lands. And screw the mission.
Kizashi Haruno gagged. He couldn't smell the blood from the rain but the image was enough. He would compare the sight to the inside of a butchery but that wasn't fair at all. Nothing of any of the people was finely cut or had categories that they fit into. Organs and blood as if destroyed by an explosion were shredded and hanging of anything. He stared at the man who had his eyes and face hidden. The hole on the mask was pitch black. He was silent and slow. Kizashi Haruno wanted to run and see his wife one more time. That was type of feeling he was getting from his situation. The malice that only Kizashi was able to feel, the malice this thing was putting out hadn't stopped. If anything it was getting worse. Was it human? This wasn't some serial killer, mad dog or wild animal anymore. This thing was beyond that. Like a natural disaster this monster intent didn't feel like it would end. It's chakara was disgusting and corrupted. He could feel it had been twisted in way it shouldn't have been. He didn't even care if this was once a human.
The sound of the rain falling was louder than anything to everyone as silence took everyone's breath. Something was about to happen. Something that they didn't want to see. But there was too much shock. Obito appearance had been completely random to all them.
In the shock, no one noticed 3 of mist shinobi sink into the ground, turning white. Zetsu wasn't going to hide amongst these dead men.
Where...am I?
It happened so quickly that Cang could hardly remember when he had starting looking at the moon. But then the memory returned to him. Rough, nightmarish branches everywhere spreading and growing from everywhere. One after the next, the blood mist shinobi were ripped apart in ways that people shouldn't die in. Ways that nobody want to die in. Ways in which a coffin would be pointless and finding every piece of them would be impossible. They dragged and toyed with them until the end like a twisted child killing insects in any way imaginable. They screamed and begged the entire time. Some yelled for their mother and father while others screamed their children's names in their final moments.
Cang had started to use hand signs but the branches had already wrapped themselves around him. He wasn't on the ground anymore. He could hear the wails of a girl next to him. Her name was Mina and she was a chunin. She was being wrapped in roots and branches above him screaming. Below him he could hear the shouts of another man. His name was Yama and he was chunin too. Most of them had been chunin. It was getting tighter and tighter. Cang had been to slow to react. Only a metre from him he saw another of his shinobi yelling. His name was Morque. A branch was forcing its way through his left cheek and out the other side with his teeth now sticking out on it. He had hesitated and was going to be crushed between tree branches for it along with these comrades.
"WIND STYLE: CLOSE DISECTION!"
A small breeze of wind past the twisted branch around the four shinobi and the twisted branch were sliced in off each of them. Within seconds Kizashi grabbed all 4 of them and jumped into a yellow cube barrier he had created to protect them from the massacre going on around them. The barrier even went underground meaning that there was no way the branches could penetrate it.
None of the branches went anywhere near it.
From outside the barrier, as a tree bleeding the blood of his enemy grew from him, Obito took one glance at the barrier.
Kizashi's eyes widen and he turned to Morque. He was squirming on the ground in pain still yelling. Kizashi could see why as something was crawled under his skin.
"Shit!" Kizashi shouted as the man's body was torn apart for 6 branches to emerge, trying to grab everything around them. The branches had already grown inside of him and even when Kizashi had cut them off some wriggled into his wounds.
It happened quickly but they missed. And Kizashi was standing near the ocean's edge with the Cang, Mina and Yama sweating not believing he had stuffed up like that. The barrier dissolved and the branch stretched out into the sky.
Cang was starting up at the moon but then realised he was still alive hearing Mina's screams and sobs next to him. He quickly got up to see what happening and grimaced. Next to Mina was in tears shaking and Yama was gasping at the sight. Kizashi stared in angered at himself for not saving more when he had the chance. No one deserved to die like this and he hadn't done anything to stop it.
The branches that were by themselves, twisted and wrapped around each other in spirals, growing and climbing higher. It wasn't a forest of these because there wasn't enough bodies needed for a forest. The bodies of the blood mist shinobi were within the branches and pieces of the bodies were hanging from them as blood dripped from them and the trees. One bodies was hanging from the tree by his head which had been crush and wedged in between two branches. Arms and legs were twisted and bent from in between other branches that crushed the rest of the bodies. On head was hanging out a tree with a blooded, branch having grown out of his face. The trees were bleeding their blood and causing blood rain to fall and pool at one point. The monster that had caused this stood in the same place he had before with only half his bodies. This wasn't killing for the sake of killing. What remained was on display as if putting on a show.
Kizashi stared and something clicked in his mind. "One to...and one to...No. No. No. I refuse." He mumbled staring at Obito making Cang glance at him.
"IT IS NOT TRUE!" Kizashi shouted and charged at Obito going through hand signs. "Nova Technique: Burning Sentient." He shouted as wind and fire chakara covered his body in blazing white aura and he FLEW to Obito punching him in the face and sending him flying into the sea.
"It connected!" Cang gasped as Kizashi floated to the edge of the beach to look for the enemy.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Ball!" Obito shouted causing a massive fire unlike any he had created before towards the beach.
'He can do more than wood style, I don't care.' Kizashi thought.
"Nova Technique: White Flares." He said as he starting throwing balls of white fire at the fire ball and sea. The first white flare destroyed the fire ball with ease and continued on as they actively sought out Obito chasing him. But then they changed directions going for Kizashi, as said man felt the air behind him distort and he jumped into the air as branches once again burst from Obito's hand. Kizashi frowned wildly and wondering what had happened. How did he get behind him so quickly?
While in mid air, the white aura around Kizashi flashed and he flew around and behind Obito before he realised. The white flares rained down on Obito as Kizashi flashed through hand signs.
"Nova Technique: Roaring Awakening!" Kizashi said blasting white and yellow flames from his mouth in unnatural amounts. It hit Obito and he was sent flying towards the ocean. But it didn't work as he grabbed the ground right before he hit the water. The technique roared unstoppable and unrelenting in its efforts. But Obito stood up in the middle of it, his chakara strong enough to hold him to the melted ground behind him. His mask had grown around the hole so he couldn't see with his eye. But it wasn't like he had been using his eye during most of this. He ran through the blasting fire at Kizashi as his cloak on him burned away. Kizashi could see the approaching shadow in the flames so increased the power but it did little to stop him as he appearing right in front of Kizashi swinging another branch but this time it was on fire.
Kizashi dodged easily but took in the new form in front of him. The man in front of him was a twisted tree itself, was now on fire and was burning the red blood that soaked him. The mask untwisted itself and Kizashi gasped seeing the red eye of an Uchiha. No, it did look like a sharingan but it was differently shaped.
Kizashi's lip trembled. "...This can't be happening." Kizashi said making no sense. The chakara coming from this person was still not running out. He must have had massive pools of chakara. But to have the Sharingan and wood style. Who was this person? Why were they here? His chakara it felt like...
Kizashi eyes widen sensing something he didn't think he would. Something familiar as eyes lost focus. 'No it couldn't be. But that's why those two are...'. The thought left him as he went to glance at Kakashi and Rin but instead saw the girl from the mist, Mina approached Rin's body.
Obito hated this glowing person in front of him. Mocking him and his ability. Trying to defy him. But he did realise that Kizashi's attention had changed. He turned a saw another one of those shinobi approaching Rin!
He was still on fire but he didn't care as he charged at the blood Mist shinobi. "STAY AWAY FROM HER!"
Cang stood up. "MINA! GET OUT OF THERE!"
Kizashi mind was going crazy trying to understand what was going on and if it were that simple. He had nothing to lose at this point in trying. He shouted.
"OBITOOOO!"
And Obito stopped metres from Mina with 5 burning, blood stained, branches inches from impaling the girl. He stood still hearing someone call his name. Obito very slowly straightened himself and turned to the source of the voice.
Kizashi held his breath thinking about everything that had happened. 'No fucking way. These three were...' He brushed aside all those thought. It wasn't true. He slowly approached Obito. Looking at his body Kizashi wondered what happened to him. Then the masked open to reveal Obito's face. And Kizashi froze.
His hair was longer and half of his face was deformed and scale like. The deformed side was covered in the blood of those he killed as his sharingan stared at Kizashi. His other eye was closed but tears were there flowing down his face. He looked nothing like the kind, caring boy who walked into his shop looking for jewellery for a girl.
There was a long silent. "Obito. Do you know who I am?" Kizashi asked swallowing. "I'm Kizashi Haruno, I once talked to you about a gift for someone. You came into my shop looking to get something nice for someone. Do you remember?" He said.
Obito glared at him in disregard but nodded. "I do." He answered as the world around him sudden felt clearer.
"It's ok Obito. It's all fine." Kizashi talked although feeling like it wasn't working. How did this happen? Why was Obito like this? How was he using wood style? There was something clearly wrong with Obito's mind and body. He raised his palms to Obito to try a reason with him for the moment. "Just calm down. You're sick. Don't worry, whatever this is the village can fix it. We'll fix you and you'll get you old life back." Kizashi said although secretly thinking of what to the moment Obito attacked. Kizashi wasn't an idiot, he knew that his words weren't going to work at this point.
Obito stared at him. "My old life?" He said before looking around, the ground and the sky. "Where am I?" He mused thinking about it.
"Obito your-" Kizashi tried but was interrupted.
Obito stared down at Rin's motionless body and not moving an inch. "Rin...that's right. I'm in hel-" He didn't finish as the head of a snake made of wind smashed into him and two wind pierced through his right arm. He was thrown away from Mina and Rin and the fire that was on him went out.
"Wind style: Serpent Fang Breakthrough." Cang muttered charging towards Rin.
"Shit!" Kizashi whispered.
Cang yelled as he grabbed Rin and threw her. "YAMA! Catch girl and run for the village!" Cang said charging for Obito while Yama caught Rin and ran without a second thought. "Mina, support now!" He finished as Mina snapped from her fear and joined him in charging Obito.
Cang drew his hand which had a 3 claw knuckle preparing to stab Obito now that he was on the ground. He charged but couldn't do anything when Obito looked at him. His body froze and he was unable to move.
"Genjutsu? Impossible." He muttered as Mina stood her ground standing in front of Cang to protect him. She stared at Obito knowing this would probably be the end. But as member of the mist village, loyalty was everything.
Obito didn't speak appearing in front of Mina before the girl realised. He grabbed her hand and the next instants she was gone. Cang stared at Obito wondering what had happened. He swore the world had twisted for a second and then she was gone.
"Mina? What did you do?" He shouted still unable to move from the genjutsu.
Obito didn't answer as he looked in the direction Yama had ran and started to follow before a foot smashed into his face and set him flying again. But this time Obito landed on his feet, looking up to see the glowing white man had done it.
"No." Kizashi said. "Enough. You've pushed my hand Obito Uchiha." He said fully knowing what he was about to do was something he had told himself he would never do.
Obito took no heed to his words and charged to kill him. He wouldn't leave Rin to these strangers.
Kizashi frowned and his chakara flared. "Yin-Yang Style..."
Kizashi appeared behind Obito and with a quick chop, struck his neck. Obito's eyes widened as darkness took him and he collapsed unconscious. Kizashi shook his head wondering what he had just stumbled into.
Cang's eyes were just barely able to see Obito hit the ground as silent took both of the shinobi who had survived this fight.
"Kill him..."
Kizashi looked at Cang who still couldn't move but knew that this was the only chance they'd get.
"You said you name is Kizashi Haruno, correct?" Cang questioned struggling. "That thing has the Shariengan and wood style. Your village wouldn't have created that. You saw what it did. It has to be destroyed now!"
Kizashi was silent as he looked down at Obito's body. Cang was right to a degree. Obito had done a monstrous thing. And with the abilities of both the Uchiha and the Senju clans, he would be considered a threat and danger to every nation in the world.
But Kizashi couldn't. "No. I want answers first. Besides I don't kill children, regardless of orders. Its not my way."
"That is no child. That is a monster that with bring chaos. There will be no peace."
"Then you really are shinobi, my enemy. Because only a shinobi would come up with an excuse to murder children for the sake of peace." Kizashi said sighing and yet feeling he would regret that decision. At least he wouldn't throw away his morals. "So much for leaving this fucked up game called shinobi." He muttered before thinking of what to do next.
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Not my most impressive piece and could have a bit more detail.
Next chapter, Kizashi Haruno will confront Obito on what he has done. Chapter 12. The Unknown Omen
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