Naruto : Venom

The Next Morning, At the Harbor

Sasuke and I are standing on a nearby roof to observe the crowd and to find Idate.

"Sasuke, I see him." I call out. Idate is doing some very impressive warm up stretches at the starting line. "We've got to mess with him!"

"We're on a mission, save the antics for later." Sasuke reprimands me. "Besides, how are we even supposed to do that?"

"Hmm... we could pull a Kakashi and pop up out of nowhere?"

"Alright that does sound funny." Perfect! Sasuke is in! "I've always wanted to be on the other side of that."

"Let's go in 3, 2, 1, GO!"

Sasuke and I shunshin to his side. "Hey Idate. How's things?" I greet warmly.

"AH! Don't scare me like that! Where did you two come from?" Idate demands.

I smirk. I know why Kakashi scares us like this so much, it's funny!

"Oh you know, over yonder." I gesture aimlessly. "You ready for the race?"

It's Idate's turn to smirk. "Yes I am. Just make sure to stay out of my way."

"Whatever." I ignore him for now. "So, Sasuke, see any of our competition?"

"I see their runner." Is Sasuke's response.

That means he doesn't see any shinobi that we might have to face. That could be both good and bad. Good, because there might not be shinobi to oppose us, and bad because they might be that good at hiding or already have an ambush planned for us.

"Awesome." I sarcastically say.

"Runners ready?"

Oh dang, I missed the whole intro speech about the race. How terribly unfortunate.

"GO!"

The Wagarashi Family's runner leaps into his boat and sets sail.

Idate runs away from the harbor along the coast.

"Huh. Either he has a plan, or he's running away." I idly say to those around me. "I really hope it's a plan, otherwise this mission just got awkward."

"I have faith in Idate." Jirocho says from behind me. "He will not let me down."

"Well then, what are we waiting for? Sasuke let's go!"

Sasuke and I take off after Idate. We catch up in under thirty seconds.

"So, Idate, you do have a plan right?" I ask him.

"Of course I do! The currents will be better from where I am going. He's going to have to deal with a head wind, I won't."

"Smart." Says Sasuke.

We run in silence from then on. After some time we come across a small pier with a boat docked to it.

"I got her ready just for you!" An elderly man calls out to Idate as all three of us jump on board. "Bring her back in one piece if you can!"

We cast off and start making good time. Say what you will about Idate, the kid knows what he's doing.

"Sasuke, high alert." I say.

This is prime ambush time. Nothing happens to us for hours, we are a meager 100 meters from our landing point when we are attacked.

"Is this rain?" Idate asks.

I wipe my hand across the floor of the boat. It comes away black.

"Oil! In the water now!" I grab Idate and throw him overboard, Sasuke dives off and I am quick to follow. Not a moment too soon.

WHOOSH

"Those assholes lit our boat on fire." I say when I break the surface again.

I see three Ame gennin standing on the water.

"Sasuke, take Idate to shore." I pull myself up to the surface of the water. "I'll clean up."

"You sure? Three on one is not good odds even for you." He asks me.

"Please, I don't need help with this. Go. I'll be fine."

Sasuke starts swimming alongside Idate, they both are going to shore. Too bad Idate can't water walk, that would make this much easier.

"Alright Ame gennin! This is your one chance! Surrender or die." I'll at least try to end this without a fight. Who knows, maybe one day it'll work.

"You sure are cocky." The lead gennin says. "You shouldn't have sent your teammate away. Now you have no chance."

"Really? Because I've already dealt with one of you."

As I say that, one of the gennin in the back is yanked underwater by my water monster. When I dived off the boat, I released it while I was submerged. I planned ahead.

"One down." I cheekily taunt them.

The other two gennin rush towards me, intending on ending the fight quickly to save their comrade. I spark up ten lightning whips and lash out at the approaching shinobi. One dodges, one doesn't. The caught one is electrocuted into unconsciousness. The water monster collects his limp body.

"Two down. I thought this would be harder. Come on, show me something cool!"

The remaining Ame shinobi draws an umbrella off of his back and hurls it into the air.

"Senbon Shower!" True to it's namesake, senbon shoot out of the umbrella at a ridiculous speed and volume.

"That's better!" I manically cackle.

I'm right in my element, I redirect every senbon straight at the last gennin using my chakra strings. He dodges most, okay I say he dodges most but the truth is I'm terrible at aiming senbon. It's not my fault I rarely use them! Thankfully, he is still pelted with a lot of senbon. That hurts, I know from experience. With his now limited movement, it is easy to catch him with a lightning bullet to the chest.

"Three down. This was too easy. Have I really improved that much? These guys seemed scary in the Chunin Exams. Whatever."

My water monster collects the third gennin and brings all of them to the shore. I don't need to kill them and I don't want the to drown. I know they won't challenge me again. Even if they do I can beat them down again, they barely saw any of my skills.

Once I get to the shore I am greeted by a very interesting sight. Sasuke is fighting against someone wielding a sword made of pure electricity.

"Sasuke, is that..."

"Yes Alvarcus." He emotionlessly says. "It is the legendary sword of the Second Hokage, the Sword of the Thunder God."

"I knew it. I knew you jinxed us! You owe me a pair of sunglasses."

"Fine. Can you help me now? The Chidori can't piece the sword. Maybe you have something that can?"

"Fools!" The swordsman says to us, "One more gennin won't change anything! With this sword I'm unstoppable!"

"Yeah, yeah good for you. Who are you again?" I ask nonchalantly.

"Aoi Rokusho, Jonin of Amegakure and missing nin of your precious Konohagakure."

I clap my hands together. "Sweet! Sasuke, we need to keep his head intact."

"What? Why?" Sasuke sounds baffled.

"He just admitted to being a missing nin, there's got to be a bounty on his head. We can cash in on it." I explain to Sasuke.

"There's only one problem with that! You can't do that once I've killed you!" Aoi starts running at me while holding the legendary sword in front of himself as a defense. It doesn't deter me in the slightest.

I extend a chakra string out of my finger and let it stretch perpendicular to his path. It's around twenty centimeters off the ground. He doesn't slow his charge, he must not be a sensor. The instant before he makes contact with my string, I turn it into a wind blade. He doesn't have time to dodge, his momentum carries him straight through my wind blade. He cut off both of his feet. He crumples to the ground and he loses his hold on the sword on the way down. It flies over towards Sasuke.

Aoi is screaming in pain and cursing my very being. "My legs! You cut off my legs! You'll pay for that! I'll skin you alive!"

"Hey Sasuke? You fought him longer. Do you want the kill?"

"No." Sasuke looks angry. Angry at me and angry at himself. That is not good. "You defeated him. I didn't, couldn't. He is yours to kill."

"Alright then." I wrap a wind blade around his neck and pull. Crude and barbaric, yet effective. "This seemed too easy. Is that really a jonin?"

Sasuke tenses. I should not have said that.

"Uh... Sasuke?"

"What?" He regards me coolly.

"I don't have a storage scroll to put the head."

"Then make one." He growls out.

This is awkward. "I don't know how."

"Well I don't either." Sasuke stomps off towards Idate. "Come on. We have a mission to finish. Alvarcus will catch up." They both leave the clearing.

"What the hell was that all about?" I say to myself.

I search through the rest of Aoi's belongings. Kunai, senbon, his mission papers. No storage scroll.

"Maybe the gennin would have one?"

With that thought in mind I go back to the three unconscious gennin. I frisk them down.

"Bingo! One storage scroll! Wow that is lucky."

I unseal the contents and camping supplies pop out.

"Practical. Seal the biggest stuff in a scroll to make it lighter. I should try that."

Humming to myself I go back to Aoi's corpse. I place the head on the scroll and seal it away.

"Black band, I need to add a black band. I don't have any. I don't even have any ink to brush it on. Well, there is blood on the ground. That should work."

I stick my finger in the still warm blood and paint a circle all the way around the scroll.

"There. Not quite right but it should get the message across."

I place the scroll in my kunai pouch.

"Hey Jiongu?"

~Yes, host?~

"What element is he?"

~Lightning. Shall I add it to the collection?~

"Yeah, it isn't doing him any good."

I remove my shirt, no need to ruin it. Black threads extend out of my back and dig into Aoi's body. With a wet sucking sound they pull out his heart.

Pain!

Squelch.

"I'm back at five now. Too bad I don't have a fire."

~One of the others has fire.~

"No. They don't need to die. I will not kill someone just for their heart. There needs to be a reason they die. Aoi here was a missing nin, I have no qualms about his death."

~As the host says.~

"Great. Now I have to catch up to those two jerks." I take off after Sasuke and Idate.

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