Naruto: Dawn of a new era.

Landing on the ground, after the whirling rush she had just been in. As they appeared in the field, she frowned before holding the side of hehr head. The whole thing had probably just brought on a killer headache in the child, looking around she growled. "Where is he!?"
 
Arriving at the field where his classmates were, Hao tried to maintain his balance as he was suddenly out of the whirlwind and back on soil, he failed and landed on his ass.


In a fluid motion he grabbed his pack of cigs and tapped lightly on the bottom to make one cigarette poke its head out, snatching it he quickly lighted it. More to calm his nerves than anything else. Weird things have been happening on the run lately.
 
After being hit by the ball of air, he replied by throwing a kunai as he flew from the impact. He landed on his side and picked himself up from the painful landing. He was surprised to see where he was after the dust cleared.
 
Looking upon all of the kids, all of the men walked close together.


"Listen here kids! I'm not sure what kind of trickery was placed over your cursed village but i will do everything in my power to obliterate you kids and annihilate this wretched village." The men said as they all puffed away as just one man stood looking upon the kids.


Taking in a deep breath, the man clinched his fist and then reached for his giant sword. Pointing it towards the kids, the man did a one handed, hand seal, then placed his hand upon the blade. As his palm hit the blade, it charged and started to glow white.


"All right, I will destroy you with this one strike!" The man yelled as he ran towards the group of children.


"Not even close!" Riyoshi yelled back as he grabbed a hold of a shuriken and charged his chakra in his palm.


This jutsu better work this time. Riyoshi thought as he threw his shuriken towards the man.
 
Hao wasn't one to take threats lightly, especially from obviously dangerous people. It was kill or be killed right now. He had to act, He quickly ran towards a tree and snapped off a relatively thick branch and performed his handseals to make it durable like steel.


Noting his cigarette felt cold and hard on his lips it seemed like it had turned into steel aswell. With the ciggie in his mouth and the branch held tightly with both hands he charged at the man from the side. Once close enough he spat out the cigarette in a manner like a senbon would be shot out, in a straight line.


Hoping it would divert the man's attention enough to get in a strike he leaped up and with a roar swung his steel branch straight down.
 
:: tasuki came into the clearing where they were, just in time to see the strange ninja charging at them with the glowing white blade ::


Tasuki: "NO!!!"


:: she threw 3 shurriken at the man, one at his legs another 2 at his chest ::


:: after this she drew a Kunai and stood where Riyoshi was a second ago ::


Tasuki: {calm down, its going to be alright...}


:: her legs stopped shaking ::


Tasuki: {no i'm not, im gonna die!}


:: her legs began shaking again, and tears became to come out ::
 
neji jumped back making sure that if the man were to hit someone it would be one of the others first he took hold of the belts on his wrist weapons and pulled them to 100 feeling a strong strain on his muscles he winced but took stance and was ready for what ever the man had in store
 
In the Hidden Leaf Village, A group of around 6 men and woman walked through the deathly silent village, masks drawn up tight, black cloaks covering all skin except for around the eyes. As they walked past the sickley bodies that the mysteries disease had spread, they didn't even seem affected.


In fact, they weren't. As if seeing that everyday was common place, they marched towards the hokage's office, knowing they could use the service they were offering.
 
Off in the village in the furthest reaches of the land, lays the village hidden in the rocks. { http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/5/58/Iwagakure.jpg } Standing atop of the kage building, was a shadowy figure, his arms crossed against his chest as he looked over the entire village. Looking slightly to his left, the man spoke.


"Have you gotten any word from Konoha yet?" The man spoke out as he continued to stand on top the kage building. <---- http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs24/f/2007/342/c/9/Saotome_Satoshi_by_osy057.jpg


"not as of yet tsuchikage sama. You want me to dispatch a team of our shinobi?" the man said towards the tsuchikage.


"No, not yet. Let's go ahead and give them a couple more days. If nothing by then, we will send out team alpha." The tsuchikage said as he uncrossed his arms.


Pointing his hands down to the bottom of the village, he looked at the younger man.


"Now, want to race me to the bottom?" The tsuchikage said with a smile on his face.


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Meanwhile in the field that lays just outside the hidden shadow village, there was a man with the intent of killing the village's children.


"RAAAWW!!" The man yelled out as he charged towards the kids.


Noting the kid with the 'steel' branch, the man easily dodged all incoming shuriken, before preforming a front flip and jumping over the 'steel' cig that was spit at him. As his feet hit the ground, he glanced over to see that a girl was shaking slightly.


{Perfect.} The man thought as he turned towards the girl, that was now standing in front of Riyoshi.


As the man approached the girl, the man raised his blade up high and laughed evily as he slashed his blade down vertically. Riyoshi was slightly able to see the man's movements, Seeing the man raise his sword up high, Riyoshi grabbed Tasuki by the shoulder and yanked her out of the way. Just as the man's blade came down, it cut deep into Riyoshi's chest and mid-section.


"AGH!" Riyoshi yelled out as he fell backwards and landed flat against the ground.


"Wind Style, Wind shuriken!" A voice rung out from off in the distance as a large spiral shaped shuriken came rushing at the kids location.


The man's eyes widened as to what he just seen. Raising his white blade up, he did another one handed seal before the blade made contact with the giant wind shuriken.
 
After recovering from the fall he had just suffered, he ascertained where his opponent was. Everything happened in an instant. There was no time to be slow and sluggish. He saw his target once again. As he saw his classmates fight the man, Akatani stood up and waited for the right moment to attack. After seeing the quick exchange between the man and his classmates, he saw the man was busy with the wind shuriken.


"AN OPENING!" he thought to himself as he threw a kunai to the side of the man's head, right to his blindspot. He ran towards the man as the kunai flew and started doing handseals.
 
:: Tasuki landed with a thud, she looked back, seeing Riyoshi with a large cut on his torso ::


Tasuki: "NOOOO!!"


:: seeing how someone got hurt badly defending her, tasuki charged at the man with a kunai in each hand, soon she heard the wind-shurriken being announced, at the last second, she dived down, avoiding the shurriken by milimetres, it even managed rto graze her back a little bit, but she was 99% un-touched ::


Tasuki: "what the..!?"


:: she turned her ehad, loking int he direction of the wind-shurriken ::


Tasuki: {was that aimes at the man witht he sword... or was it aimed at my back?}
 
There was no time to act on her part, despite the extreme need Keiko had at the moment to do something. The fact was that the man was stronger than most of them, and even seven…or eight of them against him wasn’t enough. She wasn’t even trying, though…


"Wind Style, Wind shuriken!"


All thoughts seemed to stop at this call, and she turned her body towards the ‘speaker’ instead, finding the jutsu.
 
Hao's steel branch hit nothing but air as the man leaped over him and slashed one of his classmates.


His eyes were wide with fear and shock as he had never seen someone get wounded like this before, to be fair, he never been in a life-or-death situation like this before.


It was all starting to become too much for Hao to handle and he felt the urge to run for it, but his legs wouldn't budge. He couldn't leave his classmates here to die without even trying to help.


It was then that a voice rang from the distance and a powerful-looking jutsu was launched against the man with the blade.
 
"Riyoshi!" Masa yelled watching her cousin get cut down going to make a move at attacking the man, as a needle snapped into her palm, as the shuriken shot through the air. Not looking, she moved towards Riyoshi, taking that unknown person's appearence as a sent.


At his side, she placed a hand on his shoulder, "Yoshi..." She muttered using an old nick name, trying t o get a sign he was still awake before she was even going to attempt what she was going to do.
 
Laying there on the ground, Riyoshi leaned his head over towards Masa.


"I thought i told you to never use that name again." He replied softly while blood trickled out from between his lips.


Just as he finished his sentence, his chakra started to grow larger and get a darker feel about it. As the shuriken collided with the man's blade, it sent the man sliding backwards across the ground. Leaping from the trees and landing in the field, there stood a tall slender man wearing a dark cloak and a pale mask with only the hole over the left eye.


"Listen here children. Get back and give me distance. I want you to stay here and....." The man was cut off by this evil feeling chakra.


Shuddering from the feeling, the masked man looked at the kid laying there on the ground.


So that is Gari's son, huh? He thought as he lokoed back at the sword wielding man.
 
{RED}


As the man slid back, the kunai cut under the man's left eye and struck over his nose.


"GAGHR!" The man growled as he moved his head back but still focused on the wind shuriken and opponent in front of him.
 
:: Tasuki scampered to her feet, tears were rolling down her face :


Tasuki: "no... no more please... i..."


:: she squatted down and covered her head ::


Tasuki: " i just wanna go home!"
 
A strange man seemed to save their life, wearing a cloak and a mask to save his identity from a bunch of kids like them. Since he seemed to have the other man under control, and Keiko couldn’t really do much else, she approached her crying classmate.


Trying to drill her mind of the information her curiosity gave her; she tried feebly to remember the girls’ name.


“Tasuki?” she ventured, leaning down over her


“Don’t worry, It’ll be okay” she cooed.
 
"Shut up, Don't waste life on words that don't matter." Masa said roughly, being very careful about what she was doing next. Grabing him a way that wouldn't, hopefully, hurt his chest, she started pulling him to the side to get them both out of the way. "Sorry..." She muttered.
 
Neji stayed behind everyone where he was keeping in his offensive stance and watching for when he could be of use. his breathes calm and his muscles on the ready as he kept his eyes among the group and the new comer into this fight.
 
As the fight raged on between the mysterious man and all of the shadow shinobi, the earth beneath them scarred from battle. A few close calls from death, and the man took off, narrowly dodging the last death strike. The older shadow shinobi looked towards the kids and placed his hand upon his mask.


"You kids did good to keep yourselves alive against that man. I am very proud of you guys. Now lets get all of you back to the village." The man said with a relaxed tone.


As he walked over to Riyoshi, his right hand charged with chakra, started to light up. His finger tips illuminated with a bright light as he hit Riyoshi in the stomach.


"Seal." The man said as all the kids could feel the dark chakra that poured from Riyoshi just suddenly vanish.


"Now since that is taken care of, we can proceed to taking this fallen comrade to the healing squad." he continued again towards the kids.
 
Masa blinked a few times, watching what the man did, as she had never once left her cousins side. Despite how much she disliked people, they're were a select few, like Riyoshi, she would stick by till they died. Almost growling as the man came near and did what he did, she tightened her hand on a needle before sighing and looking at everyone else, they had all done something, and what did she do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.


~


As they moved through the almost empty building, the cloaked saviors soon found the Hokage's office. Entering, they offered a last chance, which was, for the sake of the people, accepted. Soon, the whole village was surrounded in darkness.





~


5 weeks later, it was the afternoon of the graduation celebration and the Shadow Village was full of life. People where setting up lanterns and paper demons that where symbols of protection all over. Banners and streamers, laughter and shouts of friendliness took over the normally stagnant place.
 
Keiko was still haunted from the event five weeks prior; she kept looking over her shoulder despite the festive day. She had never been so paranoid and even though she was a full ninja now, she still stole a look behind her every now and again.


The battle had happened so quickly now that she looks back upon it but on that day, the fight seemed to last forever. When it was finally over and she could go home, she made sure to greet her parents and siblings with love. It was events like these that changed a person, and that’s exactly what happened to her.


Instead of working out fun plans for the weekend, all Keiko did was practice the jutsu that would put her up for graduation today. The Prism blockade was a solid move, and in time it would get strong enough to use against the likes of the stranger.


All in due time...
 
Akatani was cut off by a slender figure. He was about to suggest backing him up till he felt something that made him feel sick. It was as if the air around him got thicker. It became harder for him to breathe. Akatani fell to his knees. He had no choice but to leave it all up to the man in the cloak. He almost lost consciousness but made it till the whole thing was over. He felt relieved.


Some five weeks later, it was the day of his graduation. He was finally about to become a real ninja. There were a lot of things that ran through his mind. He was barely ecstatic about the ceremony. Among the things he was thinking of was that incident. He was intrigued by that boy in his class. He has never felt chakra that malevolent and stifling. And then there was the mysterious invader. What could he have achieved by attacking children? At first Akatani thought it was just a part of the test. It was the only reason he was able to muster up all his courage. Was it really an actual attack? Who was he? Questions started running through Akatani's mind.
 
Nejiru thought back on the events leading to the day of graduation and he felt like it was only a small stepping stone on the wide road ahead of him. He had trained harder and harder every day since that fight trying to make himself stronger so that his comrades would not get hurt like they did back then.


Today was a day to rest and celebrate his graduation and his acceptance as a full fledged ninja so he took the day off training. Neji lounged around atop some roofs and tree never to far from his class mates in case he was needed.
 
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