The Fox, The Badger and the Vampire

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto and company, Rox, Mirage and Elisa are mine, but that and a buck will get me a cup of coffee.

Chapter 11

Naruto and Elisa looked around the Forest. They weren't concerned about getting a scroll they had both minutes after entering the forest when a group from Iwa tried to ambush them. Rox buried them under the ground killing them, then brought the bodies up and they were stripped of their gear and the scroll they needed.

"Ah, its good to be home." Naruto said lacing his fingers behind his head as he walked. The predators of the forest feared these three more than any being that crossed the border of their lands.

"Anyone else nearby Rox?" Naruto asked.

The big man touched the ground. "No. the nearest team now would be that Suna team."

Naruto shook his head.

"Are we going to do as ordered?" Elisa said. Her voice remained flat, but Naruto knew his mate well enough to know that she was not pleased.

"We need to remove the Suna team." Naruto said with a hint of distaste. "And what about the Uchiha?" Elisa asked, venom in her voice.

"Fuck 'em." Rox rumbled.

Naruto nodded. "If the boy who is called a "prodigy" can't do what he hypes up then he deserves whatever trouble he gets into."

Team Mystique chuckled. They moved into the forest, perfectly at ease in search of the Suna team and their task of removing them.

XX

They found the Suna team on approach to the tower. Look like they got their scroll as quickly as we did. Naruto thought. The red head "Gaara" as the file they'd gotten was walking with an umbrella. Looks like a Rain team is dead. Naruto thought and smirked at the thought of the battle between him the one tailed Jinchuriki would be like.

"Do we attack now?" Rox asked.

Naruto looked at the distance and nodded. "Should they cross the tree line we disengage."

Rox smirked at this and stomped his foot. A wall of rock exploded before the Suna team and blocking their path.

The blond "Temari" turned to try to go around and Rox smirked bringing up another wall of earth.

By this time the red head "Gaara" was looking back at them, the gourd on his back opened and sand poured out.

The boy with make up and carrying a wrapped puppet "Kankuro" looked around wildly and he could be muttering "Someone's dumb enough to attack us with Gaara."

Naruto smiled as Elisa became mist and summoned up her bat swarm. Naruto released the restrictions and leapt high into the air, chakra tails forming and his features becoming more feral.

He landed in a crouch before Gaara, the two stared at one another, words weren't needed.

Elisa arrived before Temari and Kankuro, the siblings looking shocked as the bat swarm moved together and vanished to show a pale girl with her eyes blood red.

"Hello children." Elisa hissed baring her fangs.

Rox arrived riding a mound of dirt and rock. He landed behind Naruto and lifted a hand. "Yo."

"Gaara of the desert?" Naruto said, his voice having a deeper timber as he looked at the sand user.

Gaara nodded.

"Good, hate when I kill the wrong person." Naruto said and lunged. All hell broke loose.

XX

(Elsewhere)

Mirage let her morph slip and she sighed. I hope the kids are having a better time than me. She thought. Who knew killing Kabuto would be so troublesome. She thought and hearing a sound returned to the form of the silver haired medic with glasses.

Turning she saw a very battered Orochimaru. "Lord Orochimaru? What happened?"

The Snake Sannin looked at his second and growled. "The Uchiha brat was easy, unfortunately I ran into my former apprentice and she wanted to have words."

Mirage-Kabuto shook her head. "She did this? Should we cancel the plan?"

"No need. Anko is dead. She tried a suicide jutsu and blew herself up. I managed to switch out at the last second."

Mirage-Kabuto nodded as she went to work on healing the Sannin's wounds. "So you succeeded in marking Sasuke? No one stopped you?"

Orochimaru laughed. "Oh, concerned Kabuto? No. his teammates were to scared and couldn't even move."

Orochimaru shifted his healed shoulder. "I wish I didn't have to kill Anko, but it seems I'll need to find someone else to give the old man my message."

Mirage-Kabuto got a look and smirked. "Why not use the boy's sensei?"

Orochimaru chuckled. "Very good Kabuto. I think I'll have words with Kakashi. Now then, I want you to watch over Sasuke, make sure he makes it through the forest."

"Um, Lord Orochimaru, didn't you order our own Oto nin to eliminate Sasuke?"

"Did I? Oh well."

Mirage waited until Orochimaru vanished with a shushin before the words "Fuck" slipped from her mouth.

XX

(Near the Tower)

Naruto back flipped away from the sand while Rox sent stone projectiles at Gaara, his sand formed a shield that blocked it.

Across the way, Temari and Kankuro were facing Elisa, and they were finding their attacks useless. Elisa used her bats to distract Kankuro while she stalked Temari. Shame I have to kill her, she has the potential to become very strong. She thought as she vanished as Temari tried desperately to hit her with a wind attack with her fan.

"Where did she go?"

"AGH! GET 'EM OFF! GET 'EM OFF!!" Kankuro screamed as the bats had taken his puppet and dropped it from high above while swarming around him attack.

"Hello." Eilsa hissed and Temar found her arms bound by an unseen force. "Don't mind me, I'm peckish."

Elisa's fangs elongated and she bit down on Teamari's neck, the girls scream dying in her throat as her blood was drained from her.

Back with Naruto he smacked the sand aside with a chakra tail. "You're the container for Shukaku?"

Gaara didn't respond as he was getting desperate. The strange blond was abusing his sand that attacked him and the other one was ripping his sand away from him.

Gaara tried a "Desert Coffin" on the bigger man and found him laughing and then escaping it only to stomp the ground and Gaara barely avoided a series of spikes to the stomach.

But with that he walked right into the attack from the blond and he stared in shock as his hand went to his neck. The tail had sliced across his neck and Gaara dropped to his knees, his eyes wide.

Naruto smirked. "Nothing personal, I had my orders…"

Naruto got no further as behind him Rox exploded, literally.

He turned and saw a nin wearing the Root symbol and his hand was glowing. "That was a blast."

"What the…" Naruto took several steps forward.

"PAIN!" a voice said and Naruto went to his knees as his body was being wracked by levels of pain he never knew of.

The voice was one he knew. "O-Ojii-san?"

The Hokage on a branch above sighed as he watched the boy in pain. I'm sorry Naruto, but the village needs your sacrifice once more. The Hokage did several more seals and uttered the words he never wanted to use. "DIE!"

Naruto's brain and heart exploded.

Across the field Elisa had been attacked while feeding off of Temari. She found her self ripped away from her meal and pinned to a tree with silver spikes in her shoulders.

Another Root nin with a garrote made of silver and blessed by the sages choked her while a third one rammed a stake of pure holly into her heart.

As Elisa felt her life leaving her she looked shocked.

The Hokage landed on the ground and looked at the team. "Remove the Root gear and destroy it…along with the bodies."

The group of his personal guards did as ordered. Hiruzen Sarutobi knew Mirage was out there still, but the time released poison he'd given her would kill her by sunset.

"Milord, your orders?"

"Tell Orochimaru he is to continue."

Hiruzen waited until he was alone in the clearing. The Suna nin had been killed and their bodies left for the carrion. Of Team Mystique there would never be a trace found.

It was for the good of the village. The Hokage thought. He'd killed Team Mystique and was using his former student to destroy the corrupt village.

Soon my own death will be added and the end of Konoha will be my funeral pyre.

What the council had never learned was that The Hokage was dying, he had another two months, three max before he died. I'm taking you all with me. He thought, his one regret was that in order to do it he had to kill Naruto. He knew that if the blond hadn't had the seals on him it would be nearly impossible.

He looked at where the vampire had been and sighed. She was pretty, but her devotion to Naruto would have made killing him something more difficult.

The spot where Rox had been murdered was scorched. The nin he'd found in Danzo's organization has the ability to make things explode by forcing his chakra into them. He hated doing what he did, but Team Mystique would have fought tooth and nail and this attack had been planned out the moment the Hokage learned of Danzo's actions.

The Hokage used Naruto's belief in him to kill the container.

He pulled his pipe and walked towards the tower.

Soon, Konoha burns and I will dead. I can't wait.

END

AN: And thus ends my black sheep of a story. The ending was a M. Night whatever his last name is twist. This came to be at 3am while I was watching my father. Sorry to those who wanted something different, maybe when my life calms I'll remake this story better. My notes on this one are a mess. When I have more time I'll do this one better and give it the proper story it deserves. Enjoy it for what it was, a stopover on the road between sanity and insanity. And to those who like this, I will make it better. We have the technology. I can make it bigger, badder, uncut…

To those who hated this from the start, but kept reading to bitch…I have nothing to say to you.