Red Moons Glow

Red Moons Glow

Chapter 2- Ice

A lone blond traveled the snowy mountains by himself. With only a cloak to protect him from the harsh cold he shivered as he walked through snow. He glanced behind him hoping to see the person who led him this far. Shikamaru stayed behind to fend off a demon that had been chasing them. Hopefully the shadow demon was okay. He continued on trying to put it out of his mind. A strong, freezing wind blew head on, it seemed to blow through him, spreading the cold through his body.

“Damn it…” He muttered to himself as he lost his bearings and collapsed. It was too much, he couldn’t go on anymore. Staring up at the cloudy sky he wondered what his friends where doing, the friends he had to abandon in the castle. His vision was suddenly filled with blue, the iciest blue eyes he had ever seen.

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Kiba, the heir to the wolf clan, entered his clans cave. The wolf tribe has been chased from their homes and into the forsaken mountains. His keen nose picked up on an unfamiliar scent. Preparing himself for battle he entered cautiously. He relaxed when he found the source of the scent. On the side of the wall he spotted a white wolf curled up with a blonde.

“Hiko?” Kiba called to his friend as he approached. The wolf looked up at Kiba.

“Your back. Any luck?”

“No. I couldn’t find one scrap of meat. Who’s the blond?”

“No clue.” Hiko looked down at the blond. “Found him in the snow.” The blond cuddled closer to him for warmth. “Isn’t he cute?” Kiba gave him a strange look.

“You should have left him in the snow. We don’t need another mouth to feed.” He took another look around the cave. “Where is my mother?”

“She left a while ago to hunt.” Kiba let out a heavy sigh.

“Kakashi…” Kiba’s head snapped back toward the blond who buried himself even further into hiko’s fur. Both wolves glanced at each other then back at the sleeping blond.

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“How troublesome.” Shikamaru muttered to himself as he glanced over the boulder he was hiding behind. He spotted the weird demon, he was of the water clan. To Shikamaru’s disadvantage ice fell in with water so the demon had the upper hand. He quickly ducked back behind the boulder as the demon looked his way.

“Come out, come out where ever you are…” The demon taunted.

‘Damn’

The demon gripped a large barbed sword that was strapped to his back. “Not coming out, eh?” The demon grinned. Shikamaru glanced up at the sky ‘If only there was a bit of light out to create a shadow.’ The demon imbedded the blade into the snow. “Time to die!” He swung the sword flinging snow at the rock Shikamaru was hiding behind. The snow clung together in mid-air, creating a huge spike of ice. The ice spike drove through the boulder demolishing it. The demon laughed and swung the sword over his shoulder.

“No one can defeat Kisame.” He boasted. Just then the snow shifted and Shikamaru came from under him with a punch. The punch was avoided though. “Finally decided to come out?” Shikamaru came at him with a left. Kisame caught Shikamaru’s fist. “Something as skinny as you can’t compete with me, no wonder you kept hiding.” Kisame grinned. Instead of replying with words Shikamaru replied with a round house kick that landed square on Kisame’s chin. Stumbling back a bit Kisame rubbed his chin. “For something so small you hit hard.” He grinned at Shikamaru, who frowned. Slamming his sword into the ground Kisame sends Icicles jutting up from the ground. Shikamaru nearly escapes by jumping into the air. Thinking quickly he pulled out three Kunai with explosion tap around them. He threw the kunai toward the ground, the impact causing the explosions to go off destroying the ice. As he descended to the ground he pulled another kunai with a paper seal attached to it.

When Shikamaru landed Kisame swung his blade. Fully expecting the attack Shikamaru dodges by diving through Kisame’s legs. ‘Gatta do this now!’ He tossed the kunai up into the air. Shikamaru looked down at the floor while Kisame looked up at the kunai.

“Ahhh!” Kisame yelled in agony as the kunai exploded giving off a blinding light. Performing the necessary seals he created a portal out of the shadow the flash gave off.

“Well it’s been fun but I have to be going now.” Shikamaru looked back over his shoulder before disappearing through his own shadow.

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“Did he say Kakashi?” Kiba questioned looking at the blond.

“I think so…” The sound of someone running caught their attention. Hiko dropped his wolf form. Hiko stood before Kiba white hair that reached the ground and blue eyes. Hiko held the blond in his arms as some one neared the cave. The relaxed as the sent of the intruder hit them. The person entered the cave with a look of distress.

“Mizuki?” Mizuki looked at the two of them and was about to say something but hesitated when his eyes fell on the sleeping blond. “What is it?” Kiba urged.

“Come quickly it’s the rest of the clan!”

“What happened to them?” Mizuki ran out of the cave. Kiba followed along with Hiko. They ran through the snow until they reached a small valley. What Kiba and Hiko saw horrified them. Along the valley floor, he snow was died red and wolf bodies littered the ground.

“How…?”

“Do you like it?” Hiko and Kiba looked to Mizuki. “I did it myself.”

“Mizuki?”

“You bastard!” Kiba charged at him but was quickly sent back from a kick to the chest.

“Why?” Hiko asked

“Don’t take it personally…I did it so that I could live.”

“What do you mean?”

“You see while we were out hunting we encountered a demon. Thinking we could take him down we attacked. Needless to say we were defeated. But he gave us a choice, join him in finding some demon that escaped from his master or die. And like the noble fools they were they chose death.”

“You coward.” Kiba ground out.

“As my first act of loyalty he ordered me to kill them.” He grinned. “Now all I needed to do was to kill you guys of and join the demon on his search, but could you believe my luck when I find you two with the on he’s been searching for.” Hiko looked down at the blond.

“What would he want him for?”

“All I know is that he is needed to make Sabini all powerful.”

“Do you really think you can take both of on at once?”

“Kiba.” Hiko called to the younger wolf.

“What?” Hiko tossed the blond at him. “Go.”

“What!”

“I said go!” Hiko glared at Kiba. “I’ll handle this traitor.”

“But…”

“No ‘but’s go.” Kiba turned into a brown wolf and hoisted the blond on to his back.

“Don’t die.” He said before taking off.

“Do you really think you can take me?”

“I know I can.”

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Shikamaru marched through the snow. He glanced farther ahead and spotted something lying on the ground. Hurrying over to it he notices it’s a wolf. Kneeling beside the wolf he sees that it’s still alive.

“Are you okay.” He gets a groan in response. Shikamaru notices the deep gouges on the wolf’s side. “Who did this?”

“A raven…heading into the mountains…” The wolf groaned.

‘A raven…? Naruto!’

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It was now night fall and had stopped snowing. The blond still hadn’t awoken yet. Kiba stopped dead in his tracks as something with wings dropped in front of them. All Kiba could see in the darkness was two glowing red eyes.

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Well that’s that. Sorry for the long wait for those of you waiting I had a lot of tests to study for.

I’m sorry if this chapter sucked. I don’t think it’s very good.

Thank you my reviewers ( Next chapter ‘Duo of the frozen plain’ Haku and Zabuza make their appearance)